This show proudly sponsored by Real American Freestyle Wrestling. The biggest issue right now, and an issue that's really taken hold, is crime, stopping crime in the cities and the Democrats. are fighting the stopping of crime.
So I think that's like Uh men Playing in women's sports is okay, or transgender for everybody okay. But this is a bigger issue. This is the biggest of all issues. And the president's taking action.
Now he put his own person in charge of the city. Their city is suing back. The mayor left for Narragansett to pick up her daughter at work, but she's coming back. And now the president's in charge. I mean, you see them taking out the homeless encampments.
You see them getting rid of the graffiti on the streets. You see the patrol, the men and women in camouflage throughout the area. And I understand the cops are able to go into the more economically challenged areas of Washington, D.C. And now they're challenging the numbers, the crime numbers. Is it true that all the murders and assaults are all down?
Now, the America First Legal is making a FOIA request on a lot of this information because there is some accusations flying around. Trey Gowdy used to work in Washington full-time. He escaped. He now is the host of Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy, but he kept his law degree. And therefore, also, I should mention too, Sunday at 9 o'clock, but he's got a book coming out shortly called The Color of Death.
It's a novel. It's coming out in, I think, in the next two weeks. Trey, welcome back. Hey Brian, how are you? I'm doing great.
Your thoughts about the fact that the city of Washington, DC, I should say, District of Columbia, is suing to get control of the police back. What do you think? Yeah, you know, actually Brian Pam was in South Carolina Wednesday and Thursday, so I had a chance to talk to her Attorney General Pambatti. She also brought the new head of the DEA. Look, the District of Columbia belongs to all of us.
I mean, this notion they should be a new state, if you really want senators, then you should retrofit yourself back into Maryland or Virginia. But you cannot run the city. Brian, I'm not there that often, but the last time I was there, I was literally going to the Department of Justice. That is a nice section of DC. And I watched this person.
Pushing, harassing people walking to work, pulling flowers out of a planter, pushing over electric bicycles, basically terrorizing people. Clearly, she had mental health issues, but you should not go through that walking to work.
So if Muriel Bowser and the DC City Council can't fix it, and clearly they cannot. Then public safety is the number one Function of government. And the Capitol belongs to all of us. It does not belong to just the people who happen to live in that zip code.
So, what do you think the governor of Maryland, Westmore, when he came out and told us on Fox and Friends two days ago, that he says, Yeah, I used to be in the military. The National Guard is not trained to do law enforcement, and they're not allowed to. It's all show. What do you think about that? Let's assume he's right.
What do you think the effect is if you park a cop car outside a nightclub establishment? What what do you think happens to crime rate when you do that? What happens when you put even cop cars that don't have cops in it on the highway? People slow down.
So, what if part of it is perception? I mean, life is perception. These soldiers don't have to do a single thing, they don't have to mirandize people, they don't have to arrest people. Their mere presence. deters the criminal element.
So even if that Progressive governor of Maryland is correct. I still say do it. Because it frees the cops up to do what they want to do. They don't have to create the presence. And good luck.
committing a crime in front of a National Guardsman.
So, by the way, good point. America First Legal is suing to find out what these crime stat numbers really are. Are they being manipulated? Because there is a problem with this guy, Michael Pullion. He was suspended by Quest for after questioning, reportedly, his commanding officer recording of stats when it comes to assaults and other things.
And now they want his emails and records. They want to find out about the communication. Was there a formal effort to affect the stats? Because anecdotally, things don't seem better, but statistically, they do.
So, what do you think they're going to find there? Brian, with the possible exception of weight and height, People lie more about crime stats than anything else in the world. Maybe, maybe possibly their weight might be higher. We had a city in South Carolina that recorded zero DUIs for the year, not a one.
Now do you really think no one in that city drove impaired for an entire year? Or do you think the cops were just lousy at catching them? And the other thing, the game that DC plays is their crime stats were at historic highs two years ago.
So, they have no place to go but down.
So, it is true. Both things can be true. Crime numbers are going down, and they're still astronomically high. Both of those things can coexist, and guess what? They do in the District of Columbia.
So, you went from record-high homicides, and now you will have. Slightly fewer, and you want us to pat you on the back?
So Trey What's the difference now? He goes into Washington, D.C., and even though he's being sued, it looks like constitutionally he could do what he's doing. He puts his own police chief in charge. The DEA director is going to be in charge at least for 30 days, and they're going to start cracking down on the city. They're cleaning up, getting rid of graffiti, small things, and also cracking down on crime.
Got it.
So, let's say he sees, identifies a bad situation in Chicago. Could he move in without the permission of the governor and city and mayor? Yeah. because we have dual sovereigns, we have dual jurisdictions.
So Yeah. Illinois has its own state crimes, but there are federal crimes that are committed in Illinois. And those would be Prisker has nothing to do with that. Those are U. S.
Attorney's offices, FBI agents, DA agents, So I I mean I Politically, I can't wait to hear the argument that cracking down on crime is unfair to criminals. Good luck running for office on that. Because the crime is actually not a political issue to me. You know who it impacts the worst? You alluded to it in your opening.
You and I are not impacted by it. We live in neighborhoods where, first of all, we can move if we wanted to. It is a tax on poor people because they don't have the mobility. And I'm sitting here thinking of this 80-year-old grandmother who has worked her entire life, who goes to bed at night to the sound of gunshots. And you want to run for Authy telling me that that's just as good as it's going to get for her?
So, no, Trump. Look, will there be litigation? Of course, there will be. Everything is litigated now. But the United States government has certain criminal statutes: kidnappings, carjackings, drugs.
Rico, and the President is the chief executive over that, and that includes states like Illinois and even my little state of South Carolina if he wanted to do it.
So the other big issue legally before we get to the big summit Trey, is what Gavin Newsom's doing. In an answer to Texas, he says he's going to put a referendum out to allow a suspension of an independent evaluator to district. And he's going to redistrict California and try to squeeze out five more seats because Texas is doing that and he thinks the president's behind it. Here's the governor with 38% approval rating in California, cut 47. Here we are in open and plain sight before one vote is cast in the 2026 midterm election.
And here he is once again trying to rig the system. He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. And as a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves. of the way things have been done.
So the governor thinks he's going to do this, it's going to pass. The stats say it won't pass. The people wanted to have independent. And also, didn't they squeeze out Trey Gowdy? Most of the Republicans?
Yeah, I don't know who's left. This is the same guy that went to the French laundry during the COVID lockdown, right? I want to make okay, all right. I want to make sure I got the right guy.
Okay, and he also was the mayor of San Francisco when they had historically high crime, I think, if we're talking about the other news one.
So I would look, I would tell even my independent and left-leaning friends, look at the number, look at the percentage of vote that President Trump got in California. And then juxtapose that with the number of Republicans that are actually representing that state. I mean, there are so many lawmakers that come from California. I mean, I think it's more than like three or other pretty significant states combined. There are a ton of House members that come from California.
So what you have to start with is the twenty twenty census was wrong. It was wrong, Brian.
So, why would you use wrong numbers and unfairly treated red states? There's been much more movement to Texas and to South Carolina and to Florida than there has been to California.
So why would you use wrong numbers for a decade?
So if you're redistricting to reflect the anomalies of the twenty twenty census, more power to you. If you're redistricting because, as Gavin Newsom said, he wants to be the end of the Trump presidency, He sounds like Adam Schiff with slightly more hairspray. I just don't find anything about him trustworthy or promising, but he's clearly running for president with all these, with all this grandstanding.
So, in New York City, a place you try to avoid, I understand that, and more than you, but more than you understand it, because I come here every day. I'm from Long Island, though, for if everyone's keeping records, you have Azoran Momdani, who's got a 20-point lead after winning the Democratic primary, but he does not have endorsements from Makeem Jeffries, Senator Schumer, Senator Jillebran, almost any of the leaders outside Elizabeth Warren. But it turns out he did get an important phone call and a lot of advice. And the phone call lasted over an hour from Barack Obama. Listen to Mom Dani, cut 36.
We spoke about The importance In a moment such as this, where politics is often characterized by a language of darkness. Just Yesterday. We had a press conference. Staten Island. I had to walk through a number of New Yorkers who told me to go back where I came from.
And I know that those New Yorkers are representative just of themselves. And yet, sadly, that is what politics has become for far too many. Right. New York City. How about Manhattan?
Zohrim Amdani of Uganda birth.
So, why would Obama? Pick up the phone call, pick up the phone, and call Mom Donnie when most experts agree he's bad for the Democratic brand. And Hakeem Jeffries reportedly said: if he gets elected, we will not get back the House. What does Obama see that other Democrats don't? That he's.
Can speak on, he's good on his feet, but what he stands for to me is scary to other Democrats, let alone us. What does Obama see himself in the mirror like narcissists did? He's just having a hard time leaving exiting stage left. Amazing. He's weighing in on the Texas redistricting.
He weighed in on Russia Gate. He's coming out of whatever five hundred thousand dollar speech Cavey's been inside. Look, he was present when he was really young, so it's tough to be irrelevant. But look, Barack Obama led to Donald Trump. You can draw a straight line from Barack Obama to Donald Trump.
Momdani is not Obama. I don't think he has his charisma. I don't think he has his oratorical skills. But Momdani is going to hurt the Democrat Party.
So my vote is to buy him more airtime so he can continue talking about taxing based on race. How well do you think that goes over in Main Street America?
Well, it would be easy if white people just would voluntarily give us more money and tax money. That would help the country.
So we wouldn't have to mandate it. But it is crazy that he's doing this, still has this lead. But I didn't think that Barack Obama would identify him as. And by the way, David Axelrod went and visited their headquarters. Dan Pfeiffer.
And Jon Favreau, two staffers for Obama, have been in contact to try to help them. I just don't understand he's one thing about Mamdani, he tells you what he's about. He's about to fund the police. He's about banning billionaires. He's about taxing the rich more.
Right out of the city, it seems.
So, if I was not calling Roy Cooper, Andy Bashir, some of the red state Democrat governors. Because that should be the future of the Democrat Party, as long as it's AOC and Gadlin Newsome and Mom Donnie. then Republicans will continue to be a majority party.
So today, and I know you'll be talking about it on Sunday, we'll see where it stands in Alaska in about five, six hours. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will go behind closed doors, but not talk necessarily about US-Russian relations. They're going to be talking about ending a war the President has nothing to do with except for some degree we're financing and supporting Ukraine. And I wish we were doing more. I'm on the record of saying that over and over again.
But having said that, I like where the Presidents go right now. We're getting drones. They're getting more military equipment, getting patriot batteries. Europe has stepped up. But this is a grinding war that most everybody wants to see end.
Trey, how do you think this plays out? Uh I had the pleasure of being with the President all day Saturday. uh we play golf at you know, obviously eight before and after and got to got to hear him out. Um he does not like war because it is such a senseless waste of life. That's what he keeps focusing on.
The Senseless loss of life. And if you don't have life, nothing else really matters. I am thankful. I think Ratcliffe is going on this trip with him. Marco will be there.
So he's got really, really skilled people. And I think. Trump people who there's a difference between understanding someone and liking someone. I think he understands Putin because he's dealt with bullies in the past. But Putin, I don't think, understands Krump because he just launched another offensive against Ukraine.
In the past, he's talked about ceasefires and then hit civilian targets. I think Trump's going to say this: look, if you do not agree to a ceasefire, which is number one, Then there are going to be sanctions not only on you, but on every country that deals with you. And then you come squealing and crawling back to the negotiating table. Russia is a war-loving nation. You look at their history, they love to wage war, even against the Finns.
I mean, who wants to fight the Finns? They're they're wonderful, nice people, except Russia.
So, can he change that historical mindset? No. Can he say there are going to be serious sanctions if you do not stop your invasion? I don't even call it a war, Bryant. It was a Russian invasion of another sovereign country, and they took land.
And also, by the way, they took about 20,000 children.
So I hope the President says, look, Stop the killing, return the kids to their parents. And then Europe Zelensky, and if you need me, I'll come and we'll negotiate. territorial boundaries. But number one, stop the killing. Trey Gowdy, we're going to make sure to watch your show at 9 o'clock on Sunday and also pre-order your book.
It's called The Color of Death. It comes out August 26th. Thanks so much, Trey. It's going to be an interesting time. Great time to have a weekend show, right?
It's a great time to analyze all this. The lead-in to Brian Killmey. That's the name of my show. The lead-in to Brian Kilmey.
Well, I just want to touch your ratings. That's all that matters. Trey, thanks so much. This is Jimmy Phala, 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.
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