DC Mayor defiant as Trump deploys National Guard

This show proudly sponsored by Real American Freestyle Wrestling. Hi everyone, it's Brian Kilmead here. Are you tired of those uncomfortable dress shirts, especially when they bunch up under a sweater? If so, then you must check out Collars Co., makers of the dress collar polo. Listen up: these shirts are four-way stretch, buttery soft polos with firm dress collars on them, so they give you the dress shirt look, but extremely comfortable polo feel.

You can wear them with anything under a sweater, with a blazer, or by themselves as an elevated polo. They work for any occasion. These polos are perfect, whether it's in the office, on a golf course, or a night out. Collars and Co is exploding and have gone viral on social media thanks to the 1 million investment they received on Shark Tank from Mark Cuban and Peter Jones. You don't have to worry about collars that flop down and spread out.

They stay firm and sharp all day. It's an amazing array of sweaters, quarter zips, pants, and outerwear. If you're looking for the performance dress shirt, a polo that looks great all day, check out collarsandco.com. Use promo code Brian for 15% off. of any purchase of a hundred dollars or more that's promo code BRIAN.

From Hia Tom, Fox. News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. I'm on Brian Kilmead here, like the guy with the deep voice said.

It's going to be an exciting show, big hour. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, always great to have him on, but especially today with all the attention on Texas and the gerrymandering madness, Dallas County Republican Party chair will bring us up close and personal. What's happening in that state and the push to. To gerrymander the city and try to get some more Republican seats out of it. No doubt about it.

It's something Democrats have been doing. Both sides have been doing, but Democrats, especially over the last 30 years, are doing the best they can to get as many illegal immigrants counted in the census, most of them in sanctuary cities. Logic would lead you there, and that means they get more people representing them in the House. But now, as you look at Texas blossoming and people leaving California, that's not good news for Democrats. And Trump is saying, let's get some more Republican seats.

So the Democrats left the city. What is the reaction, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West?

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Because we see far too many parallels. Between Donald Trump and Andrew Cuom, both administrations have been characterized by corruption. by a sense of impunity.

Right, good job. Zoran Mandani, the commie, has another socialist making major gains in a West Coast city while he spends a day going after not Cuomo, but Donald Trump. Question, where's the current mayor, Adams? Does he want the job? As Sliegewood gets a key financial boost.

Number two. Even the Europeans, even that has been fighting alongside the Ukrainians just as we have been, they can see too this needs to come to an end. And President Trump is the perfect person at the perfect time to bring this war to a resolution. And he would know because he was his former Secretary of State. Three days and counting until Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska.

And two days and counting until President Trump joins us on this show yes Thursday morning. We preview the stakes, likely outcomes, and Europe's desperate plea to play a role. Number I want to read you a text from, we'll just say they're very liberal. He says, this may sound controversial, but I'm not totally opposed to Trump's National Guard move in D.C. I know he's doing it for politics, but crime remains rampant.

I've had too many friends carjacked, shot at. None of us will walk more than three blocks after 8 p.m. 13-year-olds are committing many of these crimes. Thank you.

Somebody being honest, almost everyone in the press corps has to know the president's doing the right thing. Crackdown. Keep your stats. We live in reality. And the Trump smackdown in crime and filth in major cities begins with his quest to clean up the Capitol.

Already, there is a pushback, and why no one is taking the backlash seriously. Look, I just watched Jamie Raskin a soundbite from a network I don't usually watch, and he just says, Totally unnecessary. It's a trumped-up emergency. Really? You live in the city.

You know the stories with Joe Scarborough just went over. The press room was packed because it affects everyone in the press room. As President Trump said, I know most of you are liberal, but you know the true story that says rampant danger in that city. And also, do you remember when Admiral McCraven wrote the book, Make Your Bed? It was off a.

It was off a keynote speech he made at graduation where he was a keynote speaker there. What's the right term for it? Um Commencement address. I don't know where that word went out of my head.

So he said, make your bed.

Now, why do you make your bed? He said, you want to start your day accomplishing things.

So you make your bed, you start off neat, you do things the right way.

So when the president of the United States says, clean up the crime and clean up the city, everyone said, what kind of turn is that? Who cares about cleaning up? Just worry about the crime. Don't worry about the dirt and filth. But it's hand in hand.

You clean up the city, you take personal responsibility, you back up the cops. I think they're about 5,000 people short of capacity for DC.

So you have National Guard for a month, you have 121 FBI agents for a while. You could possibly extend that. And hopefully, you'll get the city with the 10th highest crime rate in the country under control. Homicide, fourth highest in the country. What you have is people saying, well, total crime is down 35%.

Well, as I read that, crime is down 35%, I look at this showing of murder rates in major capital cities around the world, and Washington is the craziest. Out of 100,000 people, 27.5 are killed. In Bogotats, 15, to Mexico City, 10. Islamabad Pakistan Under ten. Uh, let alone London and everything.

So I read this other story. The Metropolitan Police Department.

Now, everyone's saying, you know, you don't need this crackdown. You go out, the numbers are going down. We heard about Big Balls, the Doge operator, who's been mentored by Elon Musk, get beat up, almost killed. uh because he tried to stick up and stop a carjacking.

So the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed that Mike Pullion was placed on paid administrative leave. I'm thinking, what's this about?

Well, this happened just a week after Pulliaman filed an equal opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and a police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data. Really? The former commander of the Third District that patrols Columbia Heights was placed on leave with pay and told he was under investigation.

Now, could they be messing with the numbers? Even though you live it and don't feel safe, but the numbers say you are safe, it's hard to get people to show you, to prove to people that you're not safe. Here's the Mayor, cut six. My message to residents is this. We know that access to our democracy is tenuous.

That is why you have heard me and many, many Washingtonians before me advocate for full statehood for the District of Columbia. We are American citizens. Our families go to war. We pay taxes and we uphold the responsibilities of citizenship. And while this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can't say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we're totally surprised.

She's straddling the line. We know what it's like to have, you know, you watch the Attorney General in New York and the mayor of New York, not the mayor anymore of New York, he settled down, but you have other mayors like the mayor of Boston just going against Trump. But she's not doing that. Why is she? Because she knows what I just said.

It's a dangerous city. You have an intern that gets shot in June just at 10:30 at night, just walking home. but by multiple gunshots and killed at the age of 19. Here's more. Cut seven.

It is also true that we experienced a crime spike post-COVID. But We worked quickly to put laws in place and tactics that got violent offenders off our streets and gave our police officers more tools, which is why we have seen a huge decrease in crime because of those efforts. And we're at a 30-year violent crime low. All right.

So we have 800 Army National Guard. Police Department will now be under federal control. It's the only state that can happen. There's no governor, only a mayor. And they're prepared to use specialized units.

And if this is the template that works, if you're able to see a different tactic and belief, and I know that the National Guard has not been trained in law enforcement, so to speak, and they're not going to go hunt down crimes or investigate criminal activity, they will back up and provide a force, just their presence. They could do this. I expect it in Boston, not in Boston. I don't think crime's a major problem in Boston that I've seen, but I think in Philadelphia and Baltimore, absolutely. We could expect it there.

I think you could expect it in Los Angeles, despite the pushback and pullback in San Francisco, too. But Judge Janine Piro nailed it. What they're doing is a lot of these gang members, reportedly, are using young teens and they're letting them perpetrate the carjackings and the crimes because they don't get prosecuted. And now U.S. Attorney Janine Piro said this yesterday, cut nine.

I see too much violent crime being committed by young punks who think that they can get together in gangs and crews and beat the hell out of you or anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can be in DuPont Circle, but they know that we can't touch them. Why? Because the laws are weak.

I can't touch you if you're 14, 15, 16, 17 years old and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting another person with an illegal gun on a public bus in the chest. Intent to kill. I convict him, and you know what the judge gives him? Probation.

By the way, isn't it great not only to have competent people that can communicate? Judge Shanine just nailed it. I mean, emblematic. Instead of saying, I can't prosecute teens, let me give you an example of what just happened.

So I last night, I filled in for Jesse. I'm doing that again tonight, and I interviewed the sister of the murdered congressional intern that the President referenced. She's speaking out about her brother. And I think it's just important to hear a real life story. Cut 14.

I honestly still can't believe it. It's like a living nightmare that we just can't get out of. I mean, 10:30 at night, you should be able to go out and get dinner and go to a McDonald's and get your dinner and come home and be safe. 10:30 is still a normal hour for a lot of young people. It's not like he was out at three o'clock in the morning.

It was early. It's hard to wrap my head around this could happen not only to it happened to my brother, but it could happen to any other intern or any other person, and it's continuing to happen.

So, you know, we need to step up as a nation. It's not a Republican-Democratic situation. We need to. Take on this as a nation. Eric was a great, great, great human being.

He was a very, very humbled person, and the nation is sad to have lost him. We miss him so much.

So look. If you want to debate using the money from the defense budget to do that, I think that's a worthy debate to have. Should we be using it for special forces in Africa to stop al-Qaeda enclaves or the spread of the Russian special forces? You want to do that. But if you say I want to try to make cities safer, Especially our nation's capital, a tourist Mecca with more museums and memorials than anywhere else in the country.

How could you be critical of that? Especially because you know the reality if you're a press member there, even if you didn't vote for Trump and most of you didn't. But then Kira Phillips on ABC. One of the questioners, too, I was listening in the break yesterday. And one of the reporters said, I was assaulted a few months ago.

and then went in to tell the President where he had a question. And then Kira Phillips on ABC, maybe they wouldn't welcome that on that network, but she said it anyway. She married John Roberts. I know her. She's a great person.

Said this, cut twenty one. We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah, usually that's how you play devil's advocate: you talk about, oh, well, stats say crime is down.

However, I can tell you firsthand here in downtown DC, where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot. One person died literally two blocks down here from the bureau. It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And then just this morning, one of my coworkers said her car was stolen a block away from the bureau.

So we can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single day because we're all experiencing it firsthand while working and living down here.

So he's trying to clean up the cities who didn't vote for him.

So let me ask you something: what do you think he's doing? I mean, you guys always think the worst: the Jimmy Kimmels of the world, the Jamie Raskins of the world, the Adam Schiffs. What do you think he's doing? I mean, uh with the cameras not there, why do you think he's doing this? Do you think that he's going to get a thumbs up or help his party or the MAGA movement if DC gets cleaner?

No. Percentage points, perhaps. But he's going to clean up Chicago and these other cities because he wanted to the first time, he got stopped, and now he knows exactly how to go about it. If this is the plan that works, and hopefully, they worked out the details. They're not just standing around in camouflage uniforms in the middle of the city, I think you're going to see this template all across the country, and the benefit will be the people of that city, and especially working class areas, will feel better about their kids going to school and them going to work.

How about that? and their kids playing on the playground. I'll come back and take some calls on this. You think the president's grandstanding? It's okay.

Call up. Just say you think it's unnecessary. 1-866-408-7669. You know where I stand. I'm exactly what Kira Phillips just said.

Don't move. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. Real American Freestyle is the first ever unscripted pro wrestling league created by Hulk Hogan, Chad Bronstein, Israel Martinez, and Eric Bischoff to give elite wrestlers a real shot at a professional career. Real American Freestyle is where Olympians, world champions, and NCAA legends come to compete, not in a cage, not in a script, but on the mat in front of fans around the world.

This is Real Wrestling. Reimagine for today. The first event kicks off August 30th in Cleveland, featuring matchups with some of the best wrestlers on the planet. You've never seen wrestling like this. Learn more at realamericanfreestyle.com.

A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we are back.

So, I talked a lot about the law and order, but it's just amazing how much many things Trump is doing at one time. And of course, this builds up to Friday. And we hope to be the last formal interview before he goes to Alaska. It would be kind of great. It would be great if we can Zoom with him, but he doesn't like to do that.

He likes to call in, and that's fine. But just to talk about what's at stake with Alaska, and the European Union's getting a little nervous because they want to make sure the president, who likes to be unorthodox, that's where he's had success. Understands there's got to be a ceasefire and security guarantees first. He believes that has to be the order. General Jack Keene weighed in yesterday, cut twenty-six.

The part that Putin wants is the co so-called fortified belt. Five Ukrainian cities all fortified along a 50-mile route. If Putin could get this conciliatory, not having to fight for it, go to a ceasefire. You know he's going to violate a ceasefire. He has always violated them in the past.

And he would be in a much better position to really grab off some territory inside of Ukraine.

So that would be I mean the five belts, I never heard that expression before, but Zaporizha, give back, take Donesque. I've heard that. He did talk about swapping. I mean, swapping is when you get wheeling and dealing rather than I stole and I'm keeping. And that's just it.

Parliament's got to okay it. And what you could do with this thing, the nuanced thing that they did in the Cold War, we knew that Lithuania and Don uh and We knew that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were their own countries, but they got swallowed up in the Soviet Empire. We never acknowledged, we acknowledged what the reality was, but we never said legally we'll acknowledge that they've been annexed by the Soviet Union. And sure enough, they emerge as their own nation. A lot of things could happen in Russia.

I mean, Yeltin was somebody compliant with the West, even though he was a drunk. Gorbachev was compliant with the West through the transition. Extraordinary guy. But you have Putin come in, he changed everything back. Could the next person do what Khrushchev did in the 60s and say, hey, Ukraine, You know what?

Take Crimea. And that's how they got Crimea in the 60s. Putin says, I read a history book, it's ours, so I'm taking it back. Here's Mike Pompeo, cut twenty-eight. Even the Europeans, even that have been fighting alongside the Ukrainians, just as we have been, putting resources in there, they can see too this needs to come to an end.

And Secretary General Ruta nailed it. President Trump is the perfect person at the perfect time to bring this war to a resolution on terms that are really good for Europe and good for America. And the one thing the President. could easily do. He loves leverage.

And just say, look. If you're not sincere. If you don't want to do swapping, bring this to a ceasefire, and understand there's got to be security guarantees for Ukraine in exchange for no membership to NATO for 15 years, whatever it is. Then You have to understand: if you don't want to do a deal and you want to stick to your hardcore principles that got us nowhere for three years, then I'm coming in with massive sanctions. And maybe part of the reason that Vladimir Putin was open to meeting with Steve Witkoff and expressed an interest in coming to some with these talks happening and coming to a ceasefire is because India knows they're going to be hit with a one hundred percent tariff for buying cheap Russian oil.

And India picks up the phone and says it's no longer Uh economically v Reasonable for me to buy your oil. I might as well just buy it off the open market because I'm getting hit by sanctions because of you guys.

Now, they're going to wait on China, but Brazil and Turkey also buying the oil? Absolutely.

So should the President say that before going to the meeting? That if if Vladimir Putin is tapping me along, that's the president's expression. Then I am going to hit him with tan.

So we're not going to just go no harm, no foul. There's going to be a foul. If you wasted my time, you brought the cameras around, you walked away without any type of deal. You brought me to Alaska. Then I'm out.

And you're gonna be hit with some serious sanctions. It's not gonna be the same. And we're gonna flood the zone with a lot more artillery. for Ukraine. It's Will Kane Country.

Watch it live at noon Eastern Monday through Thursday at FoxNews.com or on the Fox News YouTube channel. And don't miss the show. Listen and follow the podcast five days a week at FoxnewsPodcasts.com or wherever you download your favorite podcasts. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead.

We have Texas law enforcement scouring the state to find out if there's any Democrat in the state of Texas that can be taken in the Capitol. Second, we are working with law enforcement and taking other actions in other parts of the country to see if we can uncover any Democrat who can be brought back to the state.

So that's what they're looking at. They'll have another 30-day extension if he needs it. It doesn't matter how long can part-time workers stay in another state. Do they want to give up their entire summer? They have other jobs, I imagine.

Someone's got to pay the mortgage. That's true. Does any kid need a ride to soccer practice? We'll think about that.

Well, you could have thought about that before you left, but that's what they're doing in Texas. They're saying, lawmakers, we're going to change the congressional map. People think that's cheating. It's called gerrymandering. But Gavin Newsom sees this as an opportunity.

I guess he's out of conservatives to interview on his podcast.

So he's doing this now. He's making himself the protagonist against Governor Abbott and Donald Trump, Cut 37. Hey, President Trump, it's time to stand down. It's time to, dare I say, do the right thing. Actually, see, see how that.

Feels for you doing the right thing. If you don't, California will neutralize anything you do in the state of Texas. We're not going to sit back and watch you light democracy on fire. We will fight fire with fire. Right.

Democracy using a mechanism that's been in play for 200-plus years. But here's Governor Greg Abbott's answer to Newsom after he posted that in his backyard, Cut 38. If California thinks they're going to move their needle to the extreme and eliminate five Republican members of the United States Congress there, Texas is not going to do five. We'll add 10 more Republican seats using the same procedure they're using in California. We have more Democrat seats that can turn into Republican seats than they have Republican seats in California that they can turn into Democrat seats.

But he's all a show horse. He's not an action horse. And he just wants to look like the one standing up to Greg Abbott and President Trump. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, the Dallas County Republican Party chairman, American Congress. Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director joins us now.

Colonel, what's it like in Texas with the exit of these Democratic lawmakers stopping a quorum that would have allowed the redistricting?

Well, good to be with you, Brian.

Sorry, I'm late. I'm catching the airplane. But you have to understand that this is something that happened in 2011 when Democrats left and went to Oklahoma. It happened four years ago in 2021 with the issue of election integrity legislation.

Now it's happened again.

So the people here in Texas, we're fed up. We've had enough of it. And when you look at the breakdown of our congressional delegation, you have 25 Republicans, 12 Democrats, and one seat that is vacant because Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, passed away. you're still going to have at least, you know, anywhere between seven to nine Democrat seats here. When you look at California and what Governor Newsome is threatening here, that's an empty threat because there is no place for them to go, especially when they have forty three percent of their Republican electorate and only seventeen percent in their delegation.

So again, you know, you don't want to get into a back and forth. And furthermore, constitutionally, Gavin Newsom can't do what he's threatening to do. He's got to put a referendum out there and hope it passes. I think two-thirds of the vote of the California people to do this one time, correct? Yes, that's absolutely correct.

And that's the exact difference from what we can do here in Texas. I mean, we, constitutionally, we're on the right side. And furthermore, we don't want to see misrepresentation by the counting of illegals. We know that's something that the left pushed for back in 2022. And also, think about the incredible population shift.

He's bleeding population out of California to Texas. Here is Governor Abbott on what he's going to do to find the Democrats. I mean, yesterday he shut it down for a day, comes back. I don't know who's going to come back again, but cut 39. Quite.

We will either find these missing Democrats over the course of this week and have votes on all these very important matters, or at the end of this week, this current 30-day special session will be gaveled out. And the nanosecond after that happens, I'm going to be calling another special session. And we're going to be making sure that any Democrat who services in the state of Texas in that intervening time is going to be apprehended by the Texas Department of Public Safety and taken to the Texas Capitol and held there to make sure that we are able to meet quorum.

So, this is not going to stop. Colonel, I'm not sure. Were you in Texas both times when they did this walkout? And how did it end?

Well, I did I was not here in twenty eleven. That was Governor Rick Perry, and they actually had warrants and they brought them back from Oklahoma to Texas.

So I guess that's why they decided in twenty twenty one. I was here for that. That's when they fled to Washington, DC, and they were treated like kings and queens up there by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But this time, I think that another thing that we have on the table is to vacate their seats. I know that the Attorney General has already referred that to the Texas Supreme Court.

That's another issue, which means that changes the quorum number. There's 150 members of the Texas State House, 88 Republicans, 62 Democrats, 56 of them left and went to a state that has worse redistricting, as you saw with Governor Prisker's interview. He has an F rating.

So this is not a win-win situation for the Democrats. I don't know why they're doing it, and especially why are they fleeing to states like the Texas state senators who went to Massachusetts that had zero Republicans in their congressional delegation? What do you make as a part-time lawmaker in Texas for the state? $600 a month, but then you also get the per diem. And that's the other thing that is happening is that they have been told that their pay would not be sent direct deposit.

They have to actually come and pick up their check. And then the per diem is being cut off. And now their administrative costs... are being taken away, and that affects their staff.

So their staff are not getting paid either. All right, we'll see how this ends. But after it happens, the Democrats say we're going to revisit New York. I don't think they can do New York, right?

Okay. No, I don't think they can, but they're going to try to do these things. But again, I say it does not end up well for them at all. And I believe that they're going to end up losing this battle. And as the governor said, we can continue to go on ad nauseum ad infinitum because Texas is a state that Donald Trump won by fifteen percentage points.

They don't have wiggle room in California, Illinois, any of these other blue states where they've already redistricted out Republicans. And Colonel, just real quick, I know it's a bit of a left turn, but just over to what's happening with Israel and Gaza, they're going to go to take all the Gaza Strip. Very few people are in support of that outside. President Trump says they have to do what they have to do. Do you know of an alternative?

There is no alternative unless Hamas surrenders and they exit Gaza Strip because they cannot be left as the governing authority in Gaza. They're a terrorist organization. All right.

And Colonel, what are the chances of me seeing you? What are the chances of me seeing you on the 23rd? Oh, well you're gonna see me on the twenty side. I'm sorry I'm boring the flight, but Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing you there at the Windsor Opera House. We're going to have a great time.

All right, I'm factoring into the show. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, thanks so much. Have a great fight. My pleasure. Take care.

See you around. All right, absolutely.

So we're talking about that and the gerrymandering. It's ongoing. But you know, Texas, they're not going to give in. They're the ones. And I think Governor Abbott's going to be looked at in terms of the immigration crackdown and the victory for President Trump.

Governor Abbott is going to play a huge role in that. When he said our border city problem is going to be America's sanctuary city problem, he meant it. And as the buses flooded in, I was on the air the first time Governor Abbott sent a bus. Do you know where he sent it? The first or second went to the vice president's house at the naval laboratory.

And they let him off there. He said, good luck with that. And all of a sudden, all these people started fighting around how these people need some help. And then the rest went to New York City. And the beginning.

Mayor Eric Adams would meet them, meet the buses, and give them gifts and blankets and fanny packs, and they all went inside. Billions of dollars later. Maybe two dozen hotels took over Reynolds Island Field. It was a disaster. And it was expedited and pushed forward by Governor Abbott, and he's doing it again.

Look, gerrymandering has been part of the process. This House is going to decide. Who's going to be whether the president's going to be impeached or he's going to have a successful final two years? And it's going to be four or five seats. I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat.

I think everybody agrees. There's only about 15 seats in contention, and you figure it's going to be done by four or five.

So they feel they've got to get Texas, Florida, Indiana more representative of the Republican states they're in.

So he's going ahead and he's pushing for it. And I think it's great. At first, I thought, wow, is it really necessary? But the President's got a strategy and a game plan with everything he did. The same way Eric Holder and Barack Obama, once they left their eight years in the White House, decided that they want to focus on redistricting after the President got shellacked in his first midterm and lost sixty three seats.

They thought that was the answer.

Well was it? because they went in and made some changes, they made a lot of money, but then Republicans got really ticked off because things were tilting like in Massachusetts and other Democratic cities in Illinois, way away from them.

So when we come back, I want to tell you why the story in New York and the mayor's race matters to the country. Also, some new developments on the Russia situation.

Some reports now from Zelensky just made a statement that it looks like the Russians are planning a major offensive. Is that the way you get ready for peace? Don't move. It's Brian Killmead. This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason and the House podcast.

Join me every Monday to dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests. Listen and follow now at FoxnewsPodcast.com or wherever you download podcasts. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. Because we see far too many parallels. between Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

Far too many stories. that make clear that both administrations have been characterized by corruption. by a sense of impunity. By an inability of an executive to understand that no means no. A prioritization of the interests of billionaires over working people.

And an agenda that is driven by little else beyond the retention and accumulation of power.

So, this 33-year-old is out there, the assemblyman who's worked a handful of jobs in his life, including rapper, and by almost all accounts, he sucks. But he's a good politician, even though his beliefs are terrible.

So, he decides instead of talking about how globalized the infantada is a really great thing to say, and that billionaires should be banned in democracy, and capitalism doesn't work. And We should defund the police and get rid of special forces within the police force instead of getting more social workers out there. Um And raise taxes on the rich. He just wants to go after Trump. And that's what he was doing yesterday.

But he's got people coming after him now because of everything I just said. But standing up to Trump is a popular thing to do in most areas of New York outside Staten Island.

So he was asked about why he is in a race stabilized a rent stabilized apartment In a very nice area, even though he makes six figures, his mom and dad are extremely rich, and his wife is loaded to the point where they had three weddings on three separate continents. Cut thirty-two. Former Governor Cuomo's proposal for what he's calling the Zoran's law. More specifically, he's talking about whether someone with your income level should be allowed to stay in a rent-stabilized apartment. As a policy proposal, what do you think of that stance?

What do we know about this policy proposal beyond the fact that it seeks to evict me for my apartment? Like so much of Andrew Cuomo's politics. It is characterized by a petty vindictiveness. It leaves far more questions than it has answers. How many New Yorkers would this apply to?

How many New Yorkers would be evicted from their apartments? You idiot, you don't deserve that apartment. Maybe you did when you were a student graduated, but that's not what it was meant for. It wasn't meant for really rich people, especially people who came out and condemned the rich people and talked about a lack of affordable housing in New York City. You're taking a valuable apartment from somebody in a working class area who makes less income, maybe a two-parent family with a couple of kids.

You're keeping that apartment, but you want to go after Cuomo for calling you out? Cut thirty-five. He's not looking to reflect on the fact that he Eliminated more affordable housing than he created. He's not looking to reckon with his cutting of a voucher program that was then followed by a significant increase in homelessness in New York City. He's not looking to reckon with any of that.

He's just looking to answer the question of how he lost. In Jim. He did lose, and I think he's got a bigger lead now than he had Uh does Mom Donnie than he had then? But this is the first time they Cuomo shown any energy. And I don't know what Eric Adams is doing.

If I was Eric Adams, I'd be sleeping two hours a night. I'd be working 20 hours a day doing my job and going out there and explaining to people how detrimental Mondami would be, what you've done, and what you plan on correcting the second term.

So this guy is now going against the problem. Is that Mondani is skilled, so he's going to be hard to beat. He didn't just go out there and because he's young, youthful, like Peter O'Rourke can jump on a couple of tables and get some headlines. He goes out there and he's dug up a lot of voters and he's very strong on social media.

So you got to go beat the guy. But what I think is scary Me is that there are other people out there like him. You got the Minnesota mayor who's just about to win the Democratic primary. I think that's a little crazy, but it's true. The Minnesota mayor from Somalia, and now you have one over in Seattle.

Same thing. You have a socialist, proud socialist. Everything I just said about not liking billionaires and thinking capitalism is bad. That mayor is she is now winning. Her name is Kate Wilson.

She tops. the Democratic primary with fifty percent against the incumbent in the mayoral race over in Seattle.

So the progressive so-called air quotes organizer challenged Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, now has widened her lead and now holds more than fifty percent of the vote with the August fifth primary of the August fifth primary. While both candidates will advance to the November general election, Wilson winning an outright majority of the top two primaries signals serious trouble for Harold's reelection bid, and I think bad for the country. What does she stand for? This is why Momdami is not a New York story. The combat federal policies targeting immigrants.

That means sanctuary cities. Use progressive revenue to fund services cut by the Federal Government. Yeah, that stop. Charter schools. By the way, Montami hates charter schools.

That's another reason. That helps more. Minority disadvantaged kids than anything else, charter schools, he's looking to stop it. Why? Because the teachers union backs him.

Expansion of non-police alternatives. They want social workers. They're going to gradually defund the police. They just don't use the term. Create.

Green union jobs, fantastic. Put down the pipe fitter, pick up the solar panel, and they want to install. City owned solar panels and a one billion dollar bond for Affordable housing. That's going to straighten out Seattle?

Well, the people of Seattle think so because they're supporting it.

Socialism is big. Look, Bernie Sanders in West Virginia with a big crowd, socialists. That's where the party's at right now. That's where the energy's at. Joe Borrelli, a former New York City councilman.

A GOP leader, very frustrated, decided to leave the business, but knows Mom Dami. Cut 36. I don't think his policies are going to work out any better than his fledgling rap career, which didn't take off too well, least not in Staten Island, the borough that overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump and is overwhelmingly cheering on the stuff that Donald Trump is announcing, not just in Washington, D.C., but his executive order on July 24th, basically talking about how he's going to take back America's streets, starting with Washington and going into New York and maybe even Chicago.

So I don't think it's going to go well here for him in Staten Island. And I think you're going to see a lot of his momentum really start to peter out as people start to peel back the onion that is this Chloe bag communist, this Mykonos Marxist Orin Mamdani. But maybe not in New York, maybe in the country. You know, if AOC goes to run, she'll do well in certain areas, but and not nationally.

So there's a reason why Keem Jeffries and Senator Schumer and Amy Klobucher, everyone except Elizabeth Warren that I could think of has not endorsed him. I think, believe it or not, that loser, Nadler, a horrible person up on the Upper West Side, how he's still in Congress is ridiculous. I think he endorsed him. But Democrats are scared to death of him because it's not where America is. But Democrats have to admit, every time they have a primary, Bernie Sanders wins, unless they stop him and cheat, like Hillary Clinton did.

They made Joe anointed Joe Biden in South Carolina. See what that got us. And every time there's a hot politician, it's a socialist. The good news for us, right now, the country will not embrace that. As George Will said, maybe you should get elected and see it fail.

But they already had de Blasio. He failed, and they want to go get this guy. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian. In Kill Mead.

Hi everyone, Brian Kilmead here, like the guy with the deep voice says. Congressman Tony Gonzalez is going to be joining me from Texas. Man, a lot going on in Texas. Simulcast with Stuart Varney. We know this.

Inflation basically came in a little bit less than expected at 1.7, excuse me, 2.7%. They expected 2.8%. But the ideal, it's not, it was nine when Joe Biden was here at the high point, but the ideal would be around two. But they expect the Fed cut, and that explains why the market is surging 377 points. If you can follow that analysis, Jamie Metzel is standing by, dressed down for the first time.

He's the former NSC and State Department staffer under President Clinton, Senate Foreign Relations staffer under President Biden, and former UN official and author of Super Convergence. Before we get to Jamie, his take on what's going on, the high-stakes summit on Friday, let's get to the big three. Number three. Because we see far too many parallels. Between Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo, both administrations have been characterized.

By corruption. By a sense of impunity. That is O'Rem Landani the commie. He had another socialist making major gains over on the West Coast, over in Seattle.

Well, he spends a day going after not Cuomo, not Adams, not Sliwa, but Trump. Number two. Even the Europeans, even that have been fighting. alongside the Ukrainians, just as we have been, they can see too this needs to come to an end and President Trump is the perfect person at the perfect time to bring this war to a resolution. Mr.

Secretary of State, he was there the first time. Mike Pompeo weighs in this time. Three days in counting until Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska. Two days until Donald Trump joins our show on Thursday at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.

We preview the stakes, likely outcomes, and Europe's desperate plea to play a role. Number Wrong. I want to read you a text from, we'll just say they're very liberal. He says, this may sound controversial, but I'm not totally opposed to Trump's National Guard move in D.C. I know he's doing it for politics, but crime remains rampant.

I've had too many friends carjacked, shot at. None of us will walk more than three blocks after 8 p.m. 13-year-olds are committing many of these crimes. And that is Joe Scarborough's liberal friend, Crackdown. Keep your stats.

We live in a reality with the Trump administration smackdown on crime, and fifth in major cities began his quest in the nation's capital. Already, there is pushback, and why no one is taking the backlash seriously because people who live in DC know the danger. You just heard it. Jamie Metzel joins us now. Jamie, have you lived in D.C.?

I have. And your thoughts about the state of crime and your worry. If just Jamie Metzel, your well-built guy, prime of your life, walking down the street a few blocks from the White House, are you worried? Crime in DC is a problem. I live in New York City now.

Crime in New York is a problem. They tell us it's down in both places.

Well, you live in the outer boroughs. I live in New York City.

So ride the 456 train anytime at night. Literally in every car, there's some kind of scary person. And the scary person's on one side of the car, and everybody else is on the other side. And at the stop, everybody gets out and they go to the next car. And it turns out it's the same situation in the next car.

We in the United States, we have a problem with crime and we have a problem with homelessness. They have to be addressed. As I was talking to you in the break, I don't think this is the optimal way of addressing it. I think we have a systemic problem and we need a systemic response. But there's no doubt about it.

We heard it today that President Trump is raising the profile of this issue and raising the pressure on solving it.

So what do you think it is, Jamie, when he's dressing the press court? Did you see the size of that crowd yesterday? Yeah. Right? And I think all of them live in the area.

You have to. You can't do that. If you tell them crime's down, there's no worry. I didn't get that from any of those questions. I was doing the show at the same time.

Right. Now, one of those questions was like, Ms. President, there's really no crime problem in D.C., even though the stats say it's at a going down.

Well, if you don't arrest anybody for crimes, the stats will go down. In New York, we have this issue where there are all kinds of petty crimes that are happening. And if you don't arrest anybody, or if the police are feeling, well, I'm going to arrest somebody for some relatively minor theft, and then they're just going to be let go, people don't bother.

So, definitely, people living in New York, people in Washington recognize there's a problem. That problem needs to be addressed. But I just think we need to address this problem as optimally as possible. But do you think, and I think what Trump is saying is my analogy would be an EMT.

So, the guy's bleeding, there's being shot at. I got to put the, I got to stop the bleeding. And then you go, well, where's the gunshots come from? We'll get to the gunshots. First, I got to stop the bleeding.

So, what he's saying is, let's stop the crime the best we can, whether it's Men and women in camouflage, working in coordination with cops who are depleted, the numbers are down. And then we could say, hey, we got a problem with the homeless. Most of these people have psychological problems, not financial problems. And then we start. Yeah, so as I was mentioning to you in the break, I don't think putting a few hundred uniformed military officers on the street is going to make much of a dent in this problem, unless we have a China-style approach of just going around in trucks and rounding everybody up and putting them in camps.

What we need is a systemic, systematic response.

So another way that Trump could have done this is to say, we have a problem starting in D.C., where the president has unique authority, and to say that if we don't have a plan led by local authorities that can make a major dent in the problems of homelessness and lawlessness within three months, I'm going to move in with the National Guard. And I think that would have been more empowering because, as you say, exactly right, there are all kinds of issues. Economic issues, mental health issues. Yes, people need to be protected, and we need to make sure that we're fully supporting and funding our police. And yes, there's a problem with recruitment.

But again, the question is: how can we best address this problem? Right. I think that he said, I was here four years ago. We had the same problem with crime. It's a little worse with George Floyd and stuff.

Got it. I went to put national troops in. You saw you're making everything worse. But then it got worse once we left. And he had people in his own administration pushing back.

Now he goes, No, I gave you four and a half years. I gave you four years off. And now I'm coming back, and the problem's still here. Here's what he said. And by the way, are you for eliminating no cash bail?

Well, I just think we have a problem with bail. I mean, I was telling you in the break that I live in the Upper East Side of New York. I mean, my now-closed local drugstore, I asked them, how often are you robbed? And they said about every 30 minutes, every single day they're being robbed. It's just crazy that we have these people who are repeat offenders who are putting back out onto the streets.

It's a mental health issue, it's an economic issue, it's a crime issue, and these issues must be solved. It's great that President Trump is trying to catalyze things, but we need a whole of society to go to the business. But don't you agree that the problem is you can't prosecute people?

So you prosecute people and they're out because it's not the so-called a serious crime. That's why these the right aid by media is closed, the CVS is closing, they go for stores. Here's what Janine Pirro says as the U.S. Attorney, Cut 11. We need to go after the DC Council and their absurd laws.

We need to get rid of this concept of a no cash pail. We need to recognize that the people who matter are the law-abiding citizens, and it starts today, but it's not going to end today. Because the president is going to do everything we need to do to make sure that these emboldened criminals understand, we see you, we're watching you, and we're going to change the law to catch you. And that's what's got to happen, but not just in D.C. It's got to happen in Chicago.

It's got to happen in New York. It's got to happen in Boston. It's got to happen in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. I agree. I think everybody matters in our democracy.

A lot of the people who are committing these crimes are repeat offenders with mental health issues, with homelessness issues, or their teens. 16-year-olds. Exactly. And so what we need to do is, again, have a systemic, systematic response to this problem that is much bigger and broader than putting military forces on our streets. I just don't think that is going to solve the fundamental underlying problem.

Is this a catalyst? Yes, we're having this conversation right now. But if President Trump wants to take the lead on a national systemic effort to address these critical problems that are really undermining our society, I think that's great.

So, you have something you're going to be taking part of, and we're talking about designer babies. Is China ahead of us here designing the perfect baby? I don't know about perfect, but certainly China has fewer ethical constraints than we do in just messing with biology.

Well, they will, I mean, China, not now, actually. That was in the past they were doing this selective abortion, essentially. But right now, we are on the verge. I write about this in my last two books, Super Convergence and Hacking Darwin. We're in the verge of a new phase of human habitation on Earth.

And in this new phase, humans uniquely will be able to engineer novel intelligence and re-engineer all of life, including our own. And it's this massive godlike power. And the question is, how can we apply that most responsibly? And there's a debate on human genome editing, what I wrote about in Hacking Darwin. And we're having this debate with Barry Weiss as the moderator in Pittsburgh on September 10th.

And I will be arguing that we need to be open-minded about the possibility in the future of making relatively small edits to the genomes of future children, not to create super soldiers, but to change the lives of young children who might be born. With deadly genetic diseases that would cause them to die in just a few years and allow them to live long and healthy lives. And so this is a very serious capability and it needs to be dealt with responsibly and ethically. Aren't we doing something already with that?

So being able to spot problems in utero? Oh, yeah, absolutely.

So there's a whole transformation in how we're thinking about the application of advanced technologies to reproduction, and whether it's the tools of assisted reproduction like IVF and embryo screening, whether it's fetal surgeries, which are now relatively commonplace. And then we have a whole new era of gene therapies, both for children and for adults, which aren't heritable, but are a whole new way of treating and ultimately preventing diseases. Right. I guess we're heading there. People are worried about this.

I remember when the stem cell research debate popped up. Wow, we can't do that. People are going to have abortions just to get the stem cells. We ameliorated that, didn't we? Because now we realize that stem cells can be effective.

You could use the umbilical cord, and then you could have humans have store your own stem cells, right? Yeah, and so that was a big debate. And if you'll remember, it was actually just before 9-11. There were some people who were saying that we shouldn't have any stem cell technology, any stem cell research. That's still the position of the capitalists.

Nancy Reagan. Yeah, no, but all kinds of people. And again, this is why I'm always so happy to come on with you, Brian. You're a Republican. I'm a Democrat.

But what we're trying to do is find just common sense answers to common problems.

So stem cells represent a tremendous opportunity for humans to treat and prevent terrible, deadly diseases. That doesn't mean that we should go crazy and think about every imaginary application of this technology, but it means that we can come together and find sensible, smart, thoughtful ways of deploying these technologies in ways that both respect the individual and allow for the kinds of breakthroughs that can save people's lives. I want to save some time on the second segment, but real quick, are you optimistic something will emerge positive from Alaska? I'm not optimistic for a number of reasons. One, I don't like what Trump said about doing land swaps, especially if the Ukrainians aren't on board.

That has echoes of Yalta, and I just don't think that will prove feasible. We gave up the Eastern Eastern Europe on behalf of the Eastern Europeans without consulting them. Second thing is, President Trump hasn't mentioned anything about security guarantees for Ukraine. And for Ukraine to remain viable, they're going to need those kinds of security guarantees. You've been a tremendous advocate for the Ukrainian people, and the heroics of the Ukrainians standing up against impossible odds and defending their families and their countries is really incredible.

So I certainly have a fear that they may be undermined by what happens in Alaska. But I will be the first person nominating President Trump for a Nobel Prize if he can negotiate a Russian withdrawal from Ukrainian territory and Ukraine joining NATO. I have um if it was George Bush or Bill Clinton. I would have said what you said. I worry about it.

But it's the unorthodox presidency of Donald Trump.

Well, we'll find out. I should say, I would say, okay, this is, you know, Kissinger is your Secretary of State, and this is what has to be done by the time the leaders show up, it's just signing paperwork. It's much different now. Right. You lead with your chief executive.

Well, the proof will be in the pudding. I mean, let's see what happens. But I'm cautious. I'm not guaranteeing any. Yeah.

Because remember, he walked away from North Korea. Yeah, but we thought that was on the case. But he walked away from North Korea after giving a huge gift to the North Koreans and under legitimacy. And so our policy since the beginning has been trying to isolate President Putin.

Now, not only is he meeting with President Putin, but he is inviting him to U.S. territory, which he is calling Russian territory. I'm sure that was just a slip of tongue yesterday.

So I just have cautions. If you are right, nobody will be happier than me. Back in a moment. Learning something new every day on The Brian Killmead Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmead. How did things go so wrong? Sidetracked off the main road, which is what people vote for us, which is to help them in their lives. save money so they can buy a home. save money so they can uh educate their kids.

Take a holiday. Healthcare, safer retirement. I've made a central point. The American dream is unaffordable. It's inaccessible to the American people, and that is just totally unacceptable to us.

I think the reason Democrats are where they are is. We started talking about Basically, transgender issue, Latinx, defunding the police, a whole host of cultural topics, and others, climate change, which is existential and important. But the public was telling you one thing, and we were talking another thing.

So, that is Rahm Emanuel is clearly running for president. You probably know him. Do you know him? I've met him before.

So, is that the attitude, the approach? Because Mark Penn said last week, I don't think that Bill Clinton could get the nomination of the Democratic Party right now. Rahm Emmanuel's trying to. Yeah. Well, I love Rahm Emmanuel.

I'm a liberal centrist Democrat, so I'm fully aligned with most of what Rahm Emmanuel says. And unfortunately, we have this crazy far-left wing of the Democratic Party, exemplified here in New York by Zoran Mamdani, who wants to globalize the intifada and control the means of production and do all of these things that speak to a small sliver of the American electorate. And so, if the Democratic Party wants to be a perpetual minority party rejected by most Americans, they should go to the left. But if we want to return to a space of supporting the aspirations of most Americans, we need to go where most Americans are, not where the primary, a small slate of primary voters are. And that means we need to embrace these ideals of the common good that are part of the history of the Democratic Party.

We are the party of FDR. We are the party of Bill Clinton, people who found ways of bringing people together. We need to be that again. All right.

You also were upset about the dismissal of a friend of yours from West Point. Tell me about it. Jen Easterly, who I've been friends with her for over 20 years. Her name used to be Jenny Cook, is one of the smartest, most patriotic Americans I've ever met in my life. She is a brilliant Rhodes Scholar, graduate of West Point.

She served honorably in the United States military. She was the head of cybersecurity. She is the absolute most incredible person in the world. She was appointed to a professorship at West Point. West Point.

And nobody embodies the best of American values more than Jen Easterly. And she was on her way to assume that role when Laura Loomer attacked her. For not being sufficiently loyal to Donald Trump. And there's no record of that being the case. Jen is so careful and so thoughtful.

And her appointment, she was dismissed by the Secretary of the Army. This is an absolutely, an absolute travesty. We've seen an official attack by Laura Loomer, who lost their jobs, recently being reinstated. That is Vinay Prasad, who was the FDA vaccine person.

Now Vinay Prasad is back. I certainly hope that the administration will take a close look at the Jen Easterly case, because if people like Laura Loomer are determining our future, we're really in trouble. Let's say there's a great person. She is a great person. Does she against Trump?

Like Mattis is another great general, not for Trump.

So is that a record? There's no record. No, she hasn't spoken up. She hasn't done the kind of things like many people have speaking up against Trump. I hope because I am not a Laura Loomer fan.

She's blowing up way too many people. I think she's a hindrance, and I do not know the allure there. I hope if she's the person you are, I hope she gets back. You are awesome. Brian, thank you.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, President Trump, it's time to stand down. It's time to, dare I say, do the right thing. Actually, see, see how that.

Feels for you doing the right thing. If you don't, California will neutralize anything you do in the state of Texas. We're not going to sit back and watch you light democracy on fire. We will fight fire with fire. That is the always tough Governor Gavin Newsom says he's going to open up all the districts and try to.

Gerrymander. All the Republicans, I guess, out of California like they did in Massachusetts. That's the threat to Donald Trump. He's looking past Governor Abbott in Texas. Whereas you know, because they want to, they fear a quorum to allow them to redistrict in Texas, the Democrats have left the state.

I don't know how long they can possibly hold out. Congressman Tony Gonzalez joins us now of Texas. Congressman, welcome back. What's your thought about Gavin Newsom's warning to Texas and to Trump? Brian, thanks for having me back on.

I think it's comical because there's a couple of things. The part he's leaving out is the members of Congress that we have from California are amazing members. You're not going to beat Young Kim. You're not going to beat David Valadeo. You're not going to beat the chairman of Defense Appropes.

You're not going to beat Calvert, Ken Calvert. Like, you're not going to beat these people.

Now, the folks on the Texas side are some of the worst candidates.

So, yeah, they're easily able to pick off.

So, it's not, you're not, these are apples and oranges that you're doing. I also think it's funny, they're trying to use an independent commission as cover. Clearly, that commission is not independent if he can just do this at a win. And he's going to put a referendum down with referendums. I know it's state to state.

Is it two-thirds? I think it is. Yeah, that that sounds right. Yeah, it has to be it's over a majority.

So that's hardly a layup, especially Gavin Newsome's got 36% approval rating. No one's rallying to Gavin Newsom's side. You bring up an interesting point. I think a lot of this is saber-rattling on their side. On the Republican side, we're going, no, wait a second here.

We have data that shows that, you know, more and more Hispanic Americans are coming over to the Republican Party and the representation isn't fair. Like, that is our argument. Their argument is, well, we just want to do what the Republicans are doing. And he's not going to be able to pull this off. And another thing on the Texas State reps that have fled the area.

What people don't realize. In the House of Representatives, you know, Republicans are the majority. Every single chairman is a Republican. While in the Texas state house, we have 42 chairmen and subcommittees chairman. Six of those are Democrats, Brian.

So if those Democrats don't come back, the governor could play, Governor Abbott could play a card that says, all right, you don't want to do your job. I'm going to pull your subcommittee chairmanship. They have a lot to lose and not very much to gain. I've never heard that before, so we'll see how that comes out.

Now, I know you're more of a traditionalist, and when President Trump goes in there within 10 years and says, I want to gerrymander, maybe your instincts are like, should we be doing this? But the House is going to flip on four or five seats. I think only about 15 to 20 are in contention.

So this could make the difference on who controls the House and whether this country is in the middle of impeachment for two years or improvement. Oh, everything's on the table. And you know, from a pure politics standpoint, President Trump is running a genius play here. And I fully agree that Governor Abbott is going to be able to execute this flawlessly. And then ultimately, the people deserve to have representation that reflect their values.

And frankly, in Texas, that's not what occurring. You're having Democrats that are not, you know, that are in Republican seats, basically. I don't want, but I also do not want our map to look like Illinois. My goodness. I mean, if that's like the poster child for don't do this, I hope Texas doesn't, you know, get to that point.

I understand.

So, first off, tell me what the board is. You're in a border city. Um you were in the 23rd District over in Texas. Congressman, what's the border like today? Yeah, I'm actually at the border right now.

I left my district so big, Brian, it takes me 10 hours to get from one end to the other. I left the house at 5 a.m. I'm here in Del Rio, Texas, right now, right along the border, Laughlin Air Force Base. You remember where the Haitians under the bridge were several years ago? It is night and day difference.

And from here, I'll go to Sanderson, Texas, about two hours from here, very remote part of the district, where there's still some traffic, but it's nothing like it used to be. People's lives. Have slowly come back together. And a lot of that is due to President Trump's policy change. Is it appreciated?

Oh, it's 100% appreciated. Across the board, that's the part that Democrats don't understand. When it was chaotic, everybody's life was chaotic. It wasn't a political deal. You know, you're driving, and then all of a sudden, you know, DPS agents are there's a high-speed chase and you have to pull over.

That was common. Every time I came out to this part of the district, two or three of these chases would happen. It's nine-day difference, and people are very grateful for it.

So now that everyone's talking, it gets a little bit more difficult as we try to pick up the people that are here already. And now we've got detention facilities that got to be constructed. And what's it going to be like?

Now, you are going to a new detention facility, or you've been there already in Texas. The largest one is at Fort Bliss in Texas, so in your congressional district.

So tell me about these detention facilities because I know in the past, if my memory serves me correct, that you just ran some tape on your iPhone. and give us an idea how bad things were during the Biden years inside these facilities. I did, and I have visited dozens of these facilities. And you know what, Brian? I recently visited a facility in Dilley, Texas, also in my district.

It happens to be the only facility that houses family units. And I did this probably maybe about six, eight weeks ago.

So, under the Trump administration, and guess what? I had never had any problems. I gained access to it. I was cordial. I gave them plenty of heads' notice, aheadtime notice.

I was able to take pictures, do video, talk to different folks. That's the difference between the Trump administration and the Biden administration. Biden would hide everything. He didn't want anyone to see it. Trump administration, I mean, you see this.

The president will take questions for an hour if there's time. And so, transparency of our government is key. What I have seen so far under the Trump administration is a very humane. streamlined process, but there is the difference is Instead of flying folks to different parts of the United States, We're flying folks to their home country. That's the difference, and that's how we solve this problem.

So, I want you to hear Senator Kelly's accusations over the weekend that he goes into these facilities and he's seen grandmas that are picked up. I want you to hear this. Oh, we don't have it.

So essentially He's saying that he's going in and seeing everyday Americans who have been here for decades, they're being scooped up. Um have you seen that? You know what, I have. Immigration is a very emotional topic. There's very sad stories, heartbreaking in some cases.

But it boils down to a lot. I mean, the folks are here illegally, and their due process has been occurred. They did not qualify for asylum. I've been shouting this at the rooftops for years that Biden was letting all these people in, knowing full well nine out of ten of them weren't going to qualify for asylum.

So now here we are. The check is due. You've had your day in court. You don't qualify for asylum. You know, just because you fled poverty doesn't, that doesn't, you don't qualify.

And so, you know, you can share those stories, but what I find funny is. I couldn't get one Democrat to take a trip with me to the border or visit some of these facilities under Biden. And they'll never talk about the Americans that have lost their lives or have had their lives turned upside down. It's always just a one side of the story. You got to see all sides in order to understand it and ultimately fix it.

Absolutely.

So how do you feel about the president putting a $50 million bounty on Maduro's head in Venezuela? You know how evil he is. You know that he ran an election, that he promised to be free and fair. He lost by about 50 points and stayed in power. And now we're putting a bounty on his head.

Your thought about this tactic? How amazing. I think President Trump over and over again, he's not just using words in just a very short period of time. I feel like we've been under 47 for a few years now, and I got to take a step back and go, it's only been a few months. He is not playing around.

I mean, his actions are immediately follow-up his words. And that's what you have to do. And to me, it just goes: America is back, right? On a national security standfront, we are back. It's not just words, it's actions.

I do a lot of foreign travel. I just got back from Europe. I visited some military bases, and over there, they're saying NATO is strong because President Trump is pushing us to be strong. Real quick, because you do a lot of travel, we have 45 seconds. Can you tell me what you think of us targeting cartels?

What that means? Are we going to have veterans like you? I mean, do we have troops going after cartel members in Mexico? I hope it doesn't get to that point, but Mexico has to do their part. And right now they're not.

And if anyone can get MetScuill to do their part, it's going to be President Trump. It's basically an ultimatum. Either you handle this or you're going to force us to handle it. They might not have the power to do it. They might need us to, but they've got to pretend as if they're pushing back on it because they are doing a great job at the border.

Congressman Tony Gonzalez, you're a consequential lawmaker. Thanks so much. Thank you for having me. You got it. Barney and company next.

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

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Hey, we're back, and I'll be joining on the Varney Company very shortly, the number one show, number one or number two show on FBN, along with the great Larry Kudlow, which is an FBN is killing CNBC, by the way.

So you could always watch on FBN and you could always get the stream. You go to Brian Kilmead Show and you just go to the Fox News app and you just hit on watch and you go over until you see me. And you just where you go watch on Fox News Radio, you'll get a chance to see the show as well as listen to the show. And now most of our guests, or I'd say 50% of our guests, are on. On Zoom.

So let's listen in. It is 10:51 Eastern. You know what that means? Time for Brian Kill Me. I'm just the guy with another English accent, but Brian, you're always there.

A reporter, I want to get into this story, Brian. A reporter for the New York Times recently applauded President Trump for accomplishments in his second term. Oh my, listen to this. He is way more effective at accomplishing his agenda with having that time out of office because a lot of his aides, Russ Vaughan, those sorts of officials, spent their time out of government planning for this term. And so, what they've done is an onslaught of executive orders in the first six months that accomplished a lot of their goals very quickly because he knew what they wanted to do.

He's being affected. By the way, New York Times, let's face it, is a Democrats' Bible. Brian, what's going on here? It's been the most successful six months, and certainly efficient and effective and transformational six months.

Now, some people don't like the transformation, but he literally is taking bullet points off what he promised to do and that and just checking them off. And he's doing it in a very organized fashion. I mean, one minute he's telling America this is your new fitness plan. The next minute he's telling Washington, D.C., this is your new security plan. And then he's telling Ukraine, this is going to be your next peace plan, while having five or six major conflicts solved.

But you don't do that unless you have people working with you who understand you and buy in. I think what's underappreciated is that he had good people around him, but they weren't buying into the rookie president with a great personality, a lot of fame, but no political experience. And they thought, in many ways, I'm here to temper him. I'm here to rein him in. Right.

The president, after four years of watching. Not only does he turn over his staff, but he had four years to sit back and watch. And now he's the most experienced president from being the most least experienced president. And you do this every day. You talk to businessmen and women, and you watch they can be really smart, but can they lead?

Yeah, he's a quick learner and he's dogged with his approach. He doesn't give up. But I want to get to this one, Brian. Back in May, Bruce Springsteen, as you may remember, paused his concert in order to rant about Trump.

Now, Credence Clearwater Revival's John Fogarty praises Springsteen for his comments on the president. Bottom line, Brian, do concert goers really want to be lectured about politics? If they want to lose 50% of their voters, sure. I mean, I was just saying this, Taylor Swift has a brand new album out. You know, the first thing I'm thinking about is she, as talented as she is, and I know she's going to fill up every arena, is how disappointed is she that Kamala Harris didn't win?

And I was at the Super Bowl when they booed her, when they announced her.

So that's a big change in a year.

So, why would John Fogarty? I guess he's at his age, you know, he's got enough sales. I mean, why would it be certain artists came out against Joe Rogan? They didn't like his stance on the vaccine. How did that work out for them?

You know, Neil Young. Yeah. So, you got to make your stance. We got to deal with the blowback.

So, maybe it means so much to you to speak out against the president. that has never been more popular with a very polarized America. You just flipped a coin and said to all the business people around you, you just now people are going to be making sure they don't get it. and making sure they don't make the purchase or download.

Okay. Well, the next question then, Brian, is do endorsements from entertainers make a difference?

Well, I think for number one, Hulk Hogan made a huge difference. He said something very the late Hulk Hogan said, you know, I was afraid to come out and endorse Trump, even though we've been friends since the 80s. And then I just said, I don't care who likes me or not. This is what I stand for. And at one point, if it matters to you, but just know this: it's not going to work to your commercial benefit to do it.

It's got to be your personal convictions to come out for it. And if you just look at what he's doing, you can't say I'm a Democrat or Republican. The president is actually making Hollywood more equitable again. Nobody in Hollywood voted for the president except for Brian Grazer admitted it. There's a big story in the New York Times: how white people can now do commercials now.

Can you believe it? Do you mean Americans might be able to get into Harvard now?

So, how is that a Democrat or Republican thing? If it's me, I'm. I'm standing back and saying, I'm going to just do my job and I'm going to let everybody else decide what politics works and doesn't. It's a crazy world, but we have you, Brian Kilmead, to make some sense of it. Thank you so much, Brian.

Go get it. Have a great day. Thank you.

And by the way, just a quick announcement for more of me and who can't get more of me, your chance to see me on the 23rd, a week from this Saturday. We're going to be at the ATC Wind Spear Theater over in Dallas, Texas. The VIP numbers have already hit a record, but I'm still, the theater is so huge, we'll have room for you.

So that's before the show. Go to BrianKillmead.com. And now the floor is almost sold out. The second tier is sold out, but we have two more tiers to sell out. Will Kane's going to be there?

Lieutenant Colonel Allen West is going to show up. We'll have other surprises, but most of all, it's going to be fun and streamed on Fox Nation. And people that go will get a chance to find out what's coming up on Fox Nation and get specials, which is pretty cool. And then on September 27th in Richmond, Virginia, I'll be going. And for the first time, I'm telling you this for the first time, we just got this.

November 1st in Potstown, Pennsylvania. This is drivable for us, right? It's very drivable, yep.

Okay, we're going to go to a theater November 1st at 5 o'clock. We're going to do the VIP. No, the show's going to start at 5. It's actually an earlier show.

So the VIP will be an early show. Have I signed off on this? I don't peak at 5. I don't know if I could perform it. We're going to have a lot of five-hour energies, and you're going to be great.

All right, doors open at four at five. We'll probably end up doing it at three o'clock. We're just going to bring history to life. I got seven history books, and I don't just say this is what happened in America's past. I kind of do an interesting, entertaining way, and we bring certain scenes to life.

It'll be at the Sunny Brook Ballroom, and this just went live now. Tickets between $35 and $100. It's VIP seats available.

So just go to BrianKilme.com. Be the first to order. Don't be last. VIP will be kind of early, but it's going to be fun.

So I look forward to finding out what Potts Town, Pennsylvania, is like in person. First stop, Dallas on the 23rd, Richmond on the 27th, and now November 1st. How am I going to fit it all in? I don't know. Briankilme.com.

And don't forget, I'm I'm hosting Jesse tonight at 8 o'clock. It's the Will Kane Show. Watch it live at noon Eastern Monday through Thursday on FoxNews.com or on the Fox News YouTube channel. And don't miss a show. Get the podcast five days a week at FoxnewsPodcasts.com or wherever you download your favorite podcasts.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. All right, everyone, so glad you're there. Don't forget, I'll be on tonight with Jesse, hosting for Jesse tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern Time Primetime.

This hour, I'm going to go inside New York politics, which is really national politics, with Seth Barron, New York Post editorial editor and author of Last Days of New York. He knows all the players, knows every Cuomo, all of them. Standing by is Andrew Weiss, James Family Chair, Vice President. President for Studies at Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. You know what we're going to talk about, all about Alaska.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Because we see far too many parallels. Between Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. Both administrations have been characterized.

By corruption. By a sense of impunity. Right. That is the Kame Mondami has another socialist making another major gain over in Seattle on the West Coast, who's running on the same policies he's running on. What does that mean for the party and for the country?

Where is Mayor Adams pushing back and Cuomo just beginning to fight and Curtis Slewa a financial boost? We'll talk about it. Number two. Even the Europeans, even that have been fighting alongside the Ukrainians, just as we have been, they can see too this needs to come to an end. And President Trump is the perfect person at the perfect time to bring this war to a resolution.

Isn't that interesting? Three days in counting until Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska. Two days until President Trump joins us. What's going to be a bigger move for him?

Okay, I'll give it to Putin this time. We preview the stakes. Number Wrong. I want to read you a text from, we'll just say they're very liberal. He says, this may sound controversial, but I'm not totally opposed to Trump's National Guard move in D.C.

I know he's doing it for politics, but crime remains rampant. I've had too many friends carjacked, shot at. None of us will walk more than three blocks after 8 p.m. 13-year-olds are committing many of these crimes. Yep, that is Joe Scarborough admitting that even liberals say the president has to take action to control the crime in Washington, D.C.

It's a crackdown. Keep your stats. In reality, everyone knows there's a danger. There's too much going on in that city and our nation's capital to let it go anymore. And if this is successful with the federal troops, with the National Guard, look for it in other major cities.

And we'll talk about that. The president's got a lot to focus on leading up till Friday. European Union wants to play a role and give the president a protocol to ask for a ceasefire, then ask for security guarantees before you talk about any land swaps. You got to get the buy-in from the Ukrainians. And that needs Parliament.

So, Andrew Weiss joins us now. Andrew, what are your thoughts? And what do you think the stakes are on Friday?

Well, the President has, once again, done something that surprised everybody, right? He announced this meeting just last Friday, leaves himself very little time to prepare. He's created big waves, a lot of attention, media attention and political attention. But these are not necessarily the right ways to prepare for a meeting with someone like Vladimir Putin, right? Who's been in his job for a quarter century.

He knows these issues backwards and forwards. And what we've seen is much more on the U.S. side kind of doing stuff on the fly. And I think that is the problem for Friday: Vladimir Putin knows what he's doing. He's got a very methodical approach to things, which is to grind down the Ukrainians on the battlefield and then to try to create division between the United States and Ukraine and Europe on the other hand.

And so far, he's being rather successful on both of those strategies. The U.S. approach, I'd say, is still a work in progress.

Well, a couple of things. You know, he could, if they're going to meet face to face, I would love for Trump to say: if you're not sincere about doing something that's a substantial peace, the Senate sanctions are coming right down the pike and in come more arms immediately. And Europe's already committed more. I've never seen Europe. More committed.

He could honestly say that. Europe is more in today than I think they were two years ago.

So, how important would it be for him to say the sanctions are coming if you're not sincere? No, I think you've got the elements there of a broad plan, Brian. I think those are the elements. The one that I would say is also there's about $300 billion in frozen Russian money sitting in bank accounts in Europe. It would be a good move for the United States and Europe to say we're going to seize those funds And we're going to use that to bankroll these purchases of U.S.

weapons going forward to keep Ukraine in the fight. The problem for the strategy you're outlining just now is that economic sanctions don't scare Vladimir Putin, right? He's seen the biggest economic sanctions over the last nearly four years, and they have not slowed down Russia's war.

So just saying we're going to do more of that doesn't change his calculus. It's really got to be about a longer-term commitment to Ukraine and to showing that the United States and Europe are not going to walk away. That's what will change him to think maybe he's not going to get what he wants. The other thing I would say is different about these sanctions are the secondary sanctions. And there is some reports that India picked up the phone and said, hey, they're going to tariff me 100%.

So I don't even know if I'll buy any royal.

So they're going to have a sustained relationship and they'll probably make the purchases. But that really would affect them. The next would be Turkey in Brazil. And the last one would probably be China.

So that would be a little bit of start hurting your friends. Yeah, no, you're right. But the question is, can we do things that hurt Russia without hurting ourselves and hurting our economic well-being? And because Russia is such a big crude oil producer, it's either the second or the third largest crude oil producer in the world, if you do something that makes it really costly for people, including China and India, who are the two biggest purchasers of Russian oil, if you make it really, really expensive for them, ultimately that price is going to get passed on to American and European consumers, and that's going to hurt our economic vitality. And so far, I don't think President Trump's been willing to go there.

So right now, it looks like just by two years of an offensive from Moscow, they've only taken 1% of the land.

So, and they've lost over a million casualties by all accounts. They're using prisoners, North Korean soldiers, and they're still not punching through. But there are reports, Andrew, I don't know if you've seen them, that there's a major Russian offensive right now. Uh on the eve of this meeting, have you heard that? Yeah, so there's some gains.

Russia is pushing across a pretty long front, but there's only a handful of areas where there's really heavy fighting going on. And now Russia is punching through in one of those pockets. It's not good. It's not a breakthrough in the sense that Ukraine is a house of cards that's going to come apart, but it definitely puts pressure on Ukraine ahead of Friday's meeting. And it gives Putin a stronger hand to say to the president, look, Ukraine's on the back foot here.

I'm going to get what I want eventually, so why not give it to me? And that's where I think the real danger is for Friday with President Trump and his strategy. This is not a war about territory. And if the president approaches it simply as a question of, here, let's chop off pieces of Ukraine and hand them to Russia, thinking that that might cause Vladimir Putin to stop, that's not what's going to make Putin stop, unfortunately. Yeah.

Well, do you think from your reports, Andrew, that Steve Witkoff got Something different last week from Vladimir Putin that had him contact the president and say there's some movement here because we did hear about some discrepancy between some type of land swaps. Yeah, so the details are fuzzy, but there have been some reports in the Wall Street Journal and other places describing what the president's envoy and Vladimir Putin talked about last week. It seems like what Putin put on the table was: hey, if Ukraine withdraws from the entire region, which is called the Donbass, plus the other areas of Ukraine that Russia has laid claim to, then Putin would agree to a ceasefire.

So he's flipping the sequencing. The original plan that Trump and Witkoff had put on the table with the Russians was: let's get the ceasefire in place now, and then let's talk about a peace settlement.

So, what Putin has sort of put on the table here is a reverse sequence, and that has caused a lot of panic in Ukraine. It's caused a lot of panic in Europe because they're worried that we're going to be giving away stuff to the Russians and in exchange for a pretty flimsy offer for a possible ceasefire.

So, not enough. Yeah, it said Russia would be ready to withdraw from the southern. Region of Zapariza and Kersan in exchange for a full control of Doncic, that according to the Europeans. And then Witkoff walked it back. He claimed the next day in a call with his chief aides and European leaders, suggesting Russia would both withdraw and freeze the front line.

So it's important to get some clarification on something like that, but that would be something new.

So if I'm Witkoff walking into the same meeting, I'd say, okay, there is something going on here. Yeah, it's just the question is: is there an actual Russian concession?

So far, there's no indication there's a concession. And the Russians have this very funny expression, which is the only free cheese is in a mousetrap. And so I think that is a bit of what's going on here. And then the part which I think Secretary Rubio has put his finger on is that you want to bring in the president as a closer. You don't want to bring the president in as the person who just kind of tests the waters, takes Putin's temperature.

And unfortunately, that's kind of where we're going on Friday. And the president himself said this in his press conference yesterday. He wants to feel Putin out, I think was the phrase he used, and then make a judgment on whether the Russians are serious. I think the record over the past six months is that Putin is not serious and that he's been diddling the president. And the president has complained about this on multiple occasions, but now he seems eager to kind of do something that's dramatic.

It's similar, if you remember, Brian. To the meetings he had with the North Korean leader during his first term in office, where there were two sort of high-level meetings and not a ton of sort of ground was laid in advance. And ultimately, those two meetings with Kim Jong-un did not lead to a breakthrough in U.S.-North Korean relations. I suspect we're going to follow that script on Friday. Here's what Jack Keene said: cut 26.

The part that Putin wants is the co so-called fortified belt. Five Ukrainian cities all fortified along a 50-mile route. If Putin could get this conciliatory, not having to fight for it, go to a ceasefire. You know he's going to violate a ceasefire. He has always violated them in the past.

And he would be in a much better position to really grab off some territory inside of Ukraine.

So, if you have a ceasefire without security guarantees, they could keep moving, right? Yes and no. I think there's another good possibility for Friday, which would be a partial ceasefire. What President Trump had demanded up to this point was comprehensive. But let's imagine that Putin and Trump agree that there should be a break, a moratorium on Russian and Ukrainian attacks from the air, and that that would lead to a break in attacks on Ukrainian cities, which have been rather devastating throughout Trump's time in office since January.

Something like that would not be all bad. The question is: how long would it persist? Would it go past, say, 30 days? And at that point, would it break down? And who would be blamed for any breakdown?

I think something like that would give the Ukrainians a sort of a breather, which they seriously need. It would allow Putin to look like a reasonable guy who's willing to wheel and deal, and it would give the president a big accomplishment. That would not be the worst of all worlds by any stretch. What comes out of Friday?

So, do you think a no-fly zone, if they just said nothing flying, no drones, no jets, does that hurt Ukraine more than Russia? A no fly zone is different than what I'm talking about. I think jets and drones are going to continue to be flying around. They're particularly drones are absolutely central to how this war is being fought. I think it's a question of whether they're used to launch attacks or not.

And so, a no-fly zone would suggest, you know, everything is grounded, nothing's flying around, which I think would be bad for Ukraine because they rely on these systems to monitor what Russia's up to and have also bastard the ability to hit Russian forces using these kinds of systems. The problem for the Ukrainians is they are a very big country, and defending it against Russian missile attacks and drone attacks relies on a lot of advanced technology that the United States, for example, the Patriot missiles that President Trump has offered Ukraine in recent weeks. There's a finite number of those systems in U.S. and Western inventories. And so, there just isn't a lot of that stuff to give away.

Whereas Russia is ramping up its production of missiles.

So, over time, there's a gap that's inevitably opening up where Russia is able to get more stuff in and hit Ukraine harder, and Ukraine is less capable of defending itself. Two last points. Number one, I worry about 45%, they say, Russian economy is military. And if they stop fighting, what do they do with all those people? That's their job.

They could start stockpiling, which does not good for the world, but what do they do? Right now they're in a war footing, and that's how they're employing people. Number two is, do you think Vladimir Putin cares about embarrassing Trump knowing that three and a half years he's got to deal with this guy? And if they go to Alaska and Trump walks out with nothing, He's poisoned that relationship. I think you're right, Brian.

I think the Russians here don't have a totally free hand, and we shouldn't pretend that they're 10 feet tall and that they're going to march all the way to Kyiv. Those kinds of perceptions are not accurate. And I think you're right that Trump is unpredictable, and the Russians don't want to get on his bad side. The problem is that Vladimir Putin has some very broad goals, and he cares about them, I think, more than he cares about his relationship with Donald Trump. And those goals essentially mean subjugating Ukraine.

And if that's what he's at, you know, the other second set of goals is put a wedge between the United States and Ukraine and Europe and kind of create enough ill will and mistrust that the relationship starts to fall apart. We saw some of that, a preview of that, after the disastrous Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office back in February.

So those are the kinds of sort of tricks that Putin has up his sleeve. And the challenge for the president is like making sure you don't get pulled into any of those Russian machinations. And it really just Made clear to Putin that A, you can't wait us out, B, we're going to keep Allowing Ukraine and the Europeans to buy our weapons and see, you need to stop this. And we're not going to sort of fold our tent and stop supporting the Ukrainians. Like they're the victims here, they're defending themselves against a Russian invasion.

Yeah, Andrew, one thing is NATO's never been stronger. I think they're over the fact that they understand Trump much better this time. And I think they're more united. Even the Germans are going to start putting money into their military. Two more countries are now involved in NATO.

They're formidable, big assets.

So a lot of the Russian strategy has already blown up in their face. Andrew, thanks. Absolutely.

Yeah. Andrew, thanks so much. Dynamic times. I look forward to talking to you again. Hey, thanks, Brian.

Really great to be with you. You got it. Back in a moment. You're with Brian Kilmead. I'm Janice Deen.

Join me every Sunday as I focus on stories of hope and people who are truly rays of sunshine in their community and across the world. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. You know, we're seeing some images now of the National Guard being distributed throughout D.C. in an organized fashion to supplement the police officers that are there, but are undermined.

There's got to be some enforcement changes. We know with the DET, the best they can. We heard Judge Janine. You let yesterday talk about that.

Now the mayor has spoken again, impromptu on the microphones. Bowser. She doesn't know quite what to make of this. She seems the crime is under control, but people that live there don't feel that way. And Donald Trump doesn't feel that way.

Now, keep in mind, this is the same mayor that told the National Guard, you're not allowed to stay in the Federal Capitol building, kind of kicked them out. You know why I know that? Because Pete Hagseth was here as a host who's also in the National Guard, and he was called to Washington, D.C. because they were trying to storm the White House. Remember, and the president came out the next day with the Bible to be defiant because they burned St.

John's church?

So now we're seeing brand new video of the National Guard fanning out.

Now, if you are a 16, 17 year old would-be carjacker, now's not the time, right?

So if you are now walking home at 10 o'clock at night, If you're leaving work at 7 o'clock in the evening, or if you're getting up at 5 o'clock in order to get to work on time or go to the gym, you're going to feel a lot more secure today, aren't you? Because there's more chance for security. There's less chance for criminals to pull off their events. They're probably going to take weighted out when there's going to be less risk. And I think that if they can get the coordination down, this is going to be replicated in every major troubled city in the country.

One troubled city I'm in the middle of right now in New York City. Seth Baron is now coming to the building, now with the New York Post. He's going to bring us inside Mom Donnie's big tour yesterday through all the boroughs to do one thing. And that was to make sure that everybody knows he's running against Trump. Listen to the all-new Brett Baer podcast, featuring common ground, in-depth talks with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle, along with all your Brett Baer favorites like his all-star panel and much more.

Available now at FoxnewsPodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Because we see far too many parallels. between Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

Far too many stories. that make clear that both administrations have been characterized By corruption. By a sense of impunity. By an inability of an executive to understand that no means no. A prioritization of the interests of billionaires over working people.

And an agenda that is driven by little else beyond the retention and accumulation of power.

Yeah, I mean, when you talk about Cuomo, that's why he left his governor. No means no. Also, he is an authoritarian. You know how he handled the pandemic, the ego that roared. You know, the huge $5 million advance I think he got in order to write a book about the pandemic.

Well, American, excuse me, New Yorkers were dying. He actually declared, I guess, the pandemic over. Seth Barron lived it. He's been all over the New York scene forever. And now he's joined the New York Post editorial board, very successful author.

Seth first off, Ben Dami decided to spend yesterday going to all the boroughs, telling everybody Trump is my enemy. Yes. Had that go? Why is he doing that?

Well, I mean, it's obvious why he's doing it. He's doing it because he wants to distract from all of the other issues that that you know he's got he's got uh he's Resolutely against the police. He has this long, like, anti-cop record. It's a big list you're going to go through. A terrible record on Israel-Palestine.

I mean, he basically. He has a b you know, one of his big bills is to find synagogues for in being involved in like support for Israel. Like, he's really cracked down on that. Crack down. He's hard core on this.

Um, he, you know, he he took off for you for his Third wedding celebration on a third continent in Uganda on like a private compound armed with armed guards. You know, which looks kind of weird. He's got this. Rent stabilized apartment that he brags about.

Well, what is rate stabilization? You guys got it wrong. Rate stabilization is a rent-stabilized. Which means?

Well, it means that they can't raise the rent, or they can only raise it a tiny bit. Can you and I get that? Sure. I mean, anyone can get it. Doesn't matter how much you make?

No, no, not at all. What's it intended for? It's in the rent stabilization, rent control, rent regulation was put in after World War II when it seemed like there was a rent there was an emergency 'cause there was housing was so tight. And it's never gone away. The problem with with what you get is you have people Staying like they don't leave their apartments 'cause they get a good deal.

So you wind up with like older people who Are living in an apartment that's maybe more room than they need, but they don't leave because why should they? Um, it just kind of look all economists, left and right, agree that rent control is not a good thing for. The rental market. Except for Mendame, who's not an economist. That's right.

But here he was asked about it: Cut 32. Former Governor Cuomo's proposal for what he's calling the Zoran's law. More specifically, he's talking about whether someone with your income level should be allowed to stay in a rent-stabilized apartment. As a policy proposal, what do you think of that stance? What do we know about this policy proposal beyond the fact that it seeks to evict me for my apartment?

Like so much of Andrew Cuomo's politics. It is characterized by a petty vindictiveness. It leaves far more questions than it has answers. How many New Yorkers would this apply to? How many New Yorkers would be evicted from their apartments?

So is that a good answer? Um not really. I mean if you were to apply it, a l a lot of them would be evicted because a lot of people, you know, make enough money that That it's not clear, make above what Cuomo says should be the limit.

Now, on the other hand, we have to remember: Cuomo is the one who signed into law the. the new restrictions on rent regulation, which basically make it impo like th there used to be an income Cutoff, where once you made a certain amount of money for a certain amount of years, like your apartment was taken out of rent regulation and you had to pay the market price. Cuomo got rid of that.

So, you know, I don't really know where Cuomo comes off talking like this. But he doesn't know if he can go back at Cuomo that way because the thing is, this guy is the one who doesn't like billionaires, doesn't like capitalism, and says everything's unaffordable.

Well, one of the reasons is you make $150,000, your wife's rich, and you're holding on to a rent-stabilized apartment. Sure. No, I mean, he's a hypocrite. There's no question. He's a rich kid, he's a hypocrite.

He. Wants to, I mean, he has this idea that they're going to freeze the rent. But all that's going to do is Make the housing stock like less like appealing because it's gonna fall apart. They're making it impossible for people who own these buildings to repair them, rehabilitate them. We had John Casamatidis raise money for Curtis Sleeway.

He seems to be endorsing Eric Adams, but he's friendly with Cuomo, too.

So we have this race now. And after Labor Day, it's really going to heat up. Sure. So he's got about a 20-point lead right now. What changes in the fall?

Being that he's so vulnerable, it seems to clear-thinking Democrats, let alone Republicans. Listen, I Right now, he seems like he's got it lined up. I mean, here's the problem in politics: you can't beat somebody with nobody. And Cuomo and Adams, I'm not going to say they're nobody, but they're not very popular right now. Curtis is great, but Curtis has his own baggage, and he's a Republican, so people aren't necessarily going to.

Cross over to vote for him. Right now, Mom Donnie has all the momentum. I I don't know what could I mean, look, things can come out. He's not an experienced politician. He could say something really.

Dumb dumber than he's already said? I mean, it's not he has a A cult following, and they will not. Listen to anything against him. And this goes for virtually the entire New York City political media. Does this surprise you?

The rank and file and Google employees donated nearly $40,000 to Mondami's campaign. Meta chipped in $10,500. Bloomberg, about $10,000. Spotify, Block, Squarespace. They all gave money to the socialists.

Columbia University system ranked second overall with nearly $33,000 in donations. The CUNY system donated to NYU.

So it seems a lot of these tech workers who should be probably working, you know, if the stereotype is correct, 60 hours a week when you're breaking in that business, they prefer to give most of their money away. Listen. This is a reality about socialist movements, they're no longer. uh based around working class concerns. They appeal to Um Mid or higher level.

Professional, the professional class, like people who, you know, they're not quite like. billionaires or millionaires even, but they do very well. This is kind of a contradiction, but it's kind of like the. It's not really the haves versus the have-nots. It's like the That have some versus that have a lot.

So, what's the big deal with Keem Jeffries and Senator Schumer and Dan Goldman and Governor Hoko just endorsing him? Hey, we're a big Ted. I don't agree with him. Why haven't they endorsed him yet? Exeth Barron?

What's the risk? Because, I mean, here's the thing: the Democrat Party. has like a lot of donors who are Pro-Israel And are not keen to just turn everything over. To you know, pro-Israel and also pro you know, pro-business. Look, the Democrat Party is a trillion-dollar institution.

They're not just going to turn it over to the Democratic Socialists of America and say, okay, you want a primary. It's all yours. You're the leaders. You take the party. I mean, that would be crazy.

So, you know, they're going to fight back. But how are they? They're not fighting, they're just sitting. They're not saying anything. Schumer, the gutless, the most gutless Democrat ever, doesn't stand up for Israel, but writes a book about anti-Semitism, doesn't stand up at Columbia, doesn't stand up against NYU, at City College.

Look, they don't stand for anything. For 10 years, all they've done is oppose Trump. They have no program.

So, people listening around the country, you know, more than in New York. We have people listening around the country, and this is why it's a national story. Because you got the Somali who won the Democratic primary or about to in Minneapolis. This Katie Wilson is a far-left progressive over in Seattle. She has got 50% of the vote, so she won and beat the incumbent in a primary, but they're both going to compete in November.

The sitting mayor is Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell. But she ran on, tell me if this sounds familiar, combating federal policies targeting immigrants and refugees. In other words, she's pro-Sanctuary City. Use progressive revenue funds as service to cut by the federal government.

So she's pro- all those social programs. Expansion of the non-police alternative response to crises, cue the social worker, create green union jobs, installing city-owned solar panels, $1 billion for affordable housing. This is. She's a socialist. Yes, absolutely.

This is where. Spreading.

Well, look. What happened over the last five, ten years? A lot of conservatives left the cities. or people who are not even conservatives, but maybe they're family oriented. They want the better things for their children.

They want more space.

So who does that leave? It leaves the people who like the dysfunction of the cities. And naturally, that's what they're going to vote for. This kind of so more than 20 years ago when Giuliani was running, you're saying there are less Republicans in these cities? Absolutely.

Absolutely.

There's been a huge change. I mean, just look at the demographics. Yes, but look at just look at the demographics of New York City in the last twenty-five years. They've completely shifted. You don't have the Giuliani bass anymore.

It would be impossible for someone like him to be elected. Look at Brooklyn and Queens. You don't have the same kind of like white ethnic. But the only place left is Staten Island that still maintains that kind of. You know.

con really conservative uh point of view. The rest of the city is completely Flipped. And she famously made sure Amazon didn't flourish here and people didn't have jobs.

So somehow she thinks that's a good move. But she's kind of distancing herself from the squad while being the key endorser of Mondami. Is there a plan here? to make her a national figure. I mean, I I I imagine she'll run for President.

And I don't know. Who Plausibly could stop her, or is a better candidate. She has, you know, charisma of a sort. Um she can talk a good game. And she seems fairly popular.

I don't think she could necessarily win a national election, but I don't see why she couldn't become the nominee. The Democrat Party is kind of. Look, they lost with Hillary. Biden was a disaster. Harris was a disaster.

The center of the party is gone. Like they don't have any Leaders.

Well, I'll give you an example. Governor Shapiro is going to couch himself that way. I know that Rahm Emmanuel. was on with Megan Kelly. He says, look, I'm against men playing women's sports.

I'm against locker rooms. I want locker rooms for men and women.

So he's saying things, I'm going to be excommunicated tongue in cheek, but he's saying I'm running in the middle. And I'm wondering, Seth, does that have Residents in the Democratic Party. I don't think so, not now. I think that, and for one thing, both Shapiro and Emmanuel. Bashir.

They're, yeah, but well, Bashir. But sheer, you know, being like from a Red State, they're gonna they're gonna push that, but You know, Shapiro and Emmanuel are too untrustworthy on Israel and on the teachers' unions. For you. No well, yeah, for me. But oh, no, no, not for me.

What do you mean what do you mean untrustworthy?

Well, for the Democrats, for the left, for the hard left, they're they're gonna look at Shapiro and Emmanuel and be like, these guys aren't gonna stand with Hamas. These guys are too pro-Israel. These guys also. Don't have the trust of the teachers' union. See, I'm still idealistic.

I think that most Democrats are. Uh not pro Hamas, you know, not pro al-Qaeda. Not anti-American, and I just don't think they say anything. Look, that may be. But right now the momentum in the party.

The momentum among the Democratic base is Hard left. Yeah, it's hard to argue except for to say this. if the momentum was there and these spineless Democrats like Schumer and Keen Jeffries and Kathy Hochl and Nancy Pelosi, if they were that sure of it, they would jump on. But there's some hesitancy there outside Elizabeth Warren. They know there's no future in Mamdami in America.

Don't you think that? The way the party system works. Is they will get savaged if they come out. Hard against these insurgents. Like they have to play this game very.

carefully You know, Schumer. I don't know why he's sticking around, but somebody's going to primary him eventually. Hochl could face a primary challenge from the left. Do you give Eliz Elise Stefanik a chance in the general? Oh, absolutely, I do.

I think she's got a very good chance. I mean, right now, I think the latest polls show her, okay, down 12 or 14. But, you know, she doesn't have to. She hasn't started yet. Yeah, I mean there's there's name recognition issues.

I mean Zeldon came very close to beating Hokul and I think Elise is a stronger candidate. I think she's a better like speaker. I mean, I think Zelda was great, but just in terms of I agree with you. I think she's she's a lethal weapon to debate. You I mean, this whole college thing doesn't happen if she doesn't have that conference and take apart these presidents that's reforming the whole elite college system before our eyes.

We never thought this was going to happen. And I think Trump is going to come out for her big time. And I I think Hoko is a is we Hoko only got this job because Cuomo needed like a someone Female to stay. Didn't he think he needed buffalo?

Well, and he was up against Zephyr Teach out that year, so he wanted a woman. But I mean, she doesn't even know her. This accidental governor. Right. So, Seth Barron, I'm so glad you're in the building.

It's so great for you to come down. If you're listening around the country, Seth, there's very few people that know more about New York politics than Seth and what it means to the nation. And he's here now. Seth Barron, thanks so much. Oh, you're too kind.

Thank you, Brian. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead from the Fox News Podcasts Network. Hey there, it's me, Kennedy.

Make sure to check out my podcast. Kennedy Saves the World. It is five days a week. Every week, download and listen at FoxNewsPodcast.com or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Sponsored by Previgen. Previgen made for your brain. I have everyone on my show, Republicans, Democrats, comedians, and even guys who call themselves comedians. But late night shows fawn over hundreds of liberal guests.

Yet having one right leaning guest on sends them into a frenzy. But are people really turning on Fallon for having me on the show? Yes, in fact, people did turn on Fallon. The tonight show's ratings jumped by double-digit percentage when I was on. It's gotta hurt the haters instead of being outraged, though.

Maybe they should learn something. You don't have to villainize someone because they might talk to someone you don't like. I mean, maybe that's why people don't want to be around Democrats. It's why comedians and podcasts on the right do so well, yet, these dirtbags can only talk to themselves.

So that was a part of the monologue last night with Gary Guttfeld after the ratings came in from his Thursday night appearance on The Tonight Show, where they averaged 1.71 million viewers, which is about half of Greg's audience at 10 o'clock, but it added 36% to his ratings. And the second half of the show is when Greg was on, that usually dips. They came on stronger.

So keep in mind, too, they still lost to Stephen Colbert. He had 2.1 million to the 1.71, but he went and beat Jimmy Kimmel. Bill Carter, who was a late-night expert, wrote the book about whole Letterman and Leno stuff. Said those tuning in, hoping to see fireworks between the two, would have been disappointed. Both parties played well and nice together.

So it was kind of cool. I think it's different. I think that they could have just addressed it and say, listen, I'm going to broaden out my audience and see what happens because Jimmy Fallon's got nothing to lose. He's buried in second.

So listen, go to BrianKillmee.com. I've got a brand new event to announce. Just went online, Potsdam, Pennsylvania. That'll be November 1st, but. August 23rd in Dallas, Texas.

History, Liberty, and Laughs on stage. BrianKillme.com. Also, September 27th, Richmond, Virginia. I'll be hosting Jesse tonight at 8. I hope to see everybody there and stay within yourself, America.

Hey, I'm Trey Gaddy, host of the Trey Gaddy 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.