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Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmee Show moving your direction. We're going to have with us the Commissioner of the Social Security Commission, Frank Bizidano. He's going to be in the studio talking about the changes that are coming your way with the new year and also of you getting set to retire. Also, how you get the money and when's it indeed going to be funded to the point where we can stop worrying about it not being funded?

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West at the bottom of the hour. And of course, the president's got a big day today. He's got a Secretary of Education meeting over in Austin, Texas, talking about something brand new. Also, whistleblowers on Capitol Hill with Meta say they suppressed child safety research and we'll have a briefing from Caroline Levitt at one o'clock.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. The President obviously tried to broker an agreement back in August. Putin has failed to respond. And so I think the President needs to move expeditiously, certainly by the end of the month.

That is Michael Lauher. Mr. President, Russia has to be confronted right here, right now. The evidence is in. It's overwhelming.

Their war machine is growing as their economy collapses. We're at an inflection point, and hopefully, we're going to step up.

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We bring you the blue city problem, which a lot of red states are trying to handle themselves. If not, the president will step in. One of the big things the president talked about is no tax on tips and no tax on social security. To a degree, he delivered on both. And with me right now is Frank Pisignano.

He's the Social Security Committee, Social Security Commissioner, and with us in the studio. Commissioner, so great to see you. Good to see you. Yeah, you take a seat. Yeah.

Thanks for having me. First off, well, with your job right now, when people say no tax on Social Security, you couldn't do that. That's unconstitutional because it comes out. But what you're doing is giving people a tax break when their taxes come in. $6,000 really, really Eighty eight percent of Social Security recipients will benefit from that.

It puts money in their pocket at tax time, and really it's the President's way to meet what he can do. You also have different ways to get this money. You want people to direct deposit if they're not doing it right now, correct? We have 99 plus percent of people receiving direct deposit. We're on the elimination of the last.

Few hundred thousand checks and we're working closely. Obviously, if somebody has no other way but a check, they will receive it. But most of the people we can see can get it through d direct deposit.

So we'll be we'll be eliminating. What are you doing about that salt mine that's stor that's storing all the records?

Well, you know, uh we're eliminating Digitizing the whole agency. from front to back. And so, you know, many of those have already been digitized and it will be completely overwhelmed. They were just backup where you've already done it. Yeah, we're in the process, in the process.

What did Doge do for you guys?

Well, you know, uh. How did it help? How did it hurt? Doge, Doge, you know, I've said from the start, I've run my whole career. On improving quality, improving efficiency, delivering service, and better returns.

So I come in with an efficiency mentality, and I have, you know, there's no longer Doge, everyone's an SSA employee, but I have people that started with the Doge movement. I have a great engineer who was in my office yesterday who had been one of the first applicants. And so I find the technology Doge applicants? Yes.

Okay. Yeah. And now you convert them to your department. Yeah, they're all SSA employees. They're strictly engineers.

We're on a digital first journey, and we have a commitment to have 200 million Americans have a MySocial Security account.

So, what would that do?

Well, what that will do is eliminate a lot of the work people have to do on the phones or in the field offices. We do 1.5 million transactions via the web right now. 75 million Americans have a My Social Security account. We want to take that to 200 million Americans, and that journey will happen in a year. And what that actually does is allow one-third of people who come in the field office need a replacement card.

They can do it online in this manner. Wow. And they can do their whole process online with just a few exceptions. We will always have field offices. What did you find when you walked in there?

I found too many layers of management. We went from thirteen layers to seven. We reorganized the place. Did you let go of some people? No, we reallocated all the resource.

Our idea was let's provide the highest possible service. And then we will figure out what we really need. There were backlogs in the department. We took disability from 1.2 million, 1.25 million. 0 million outstanding claims to under 900,000 right now and going to get down to 600,000.

So clean up the backlogs that got Created before us. Take the wait time on the phone from it was 40 minutes in the last administration. It's single digits right now. And bring just a technical. You have human beings answering this?

Yeah, we have 4,000 people on the phone.

So, do you use the machines at all? Oh, yeah. I mean, that was a big change. We brought in a technology system. If you started the year, there was no phone system or IVR interactive voice response for field offices, 1,250 of them.

We took out 30% of the phone calls through technology, and then we greatly enhanced the technology for the reps. It's a whole new system. What about fraud? Fraud, waste and abuse is the daily bread for us. The Inspector General in my second week, which was in May, sent us what was $18 billion of fraudulent Payments or erroneous payments, if you want to call it that.

We cut nine billion of that out already. And so, did you find it was fake people from outside sources? Was it double billing? It's errors. It's errors.

We've built in some AI now to allow us to see the payments that could be wrong before they occur. People talk about we pay 73 million Americans, but the thing to recognize is we have over 330 million. Americans With Social Security numbers. And that's who we're really serving. Right.

And so the age you're eligible is? I'm sorry. The age you're eligible for.

Well, it starts at 62 and goes all the way north. Are you, when you look at the solvency of Social Security? Yeah. Um what are some of the things you could do to incentivize people, I guess, to wait longer where it might be financially well, it would help Social Security survive?

Well, I mean, uh I think ultimately the way to think about solvency is, you know Right now, when's it supposed to run out? Say thirty-three. And that would be, it wouldn't run out. You'd get paid out if nothing changed, and the actuarial. Uh numbers were accurate.

You'd get eighty three percent of a payment. Right, but the reality is, there's four trustees in a trust fund. Myself, Treasury Secretary, Labor Secretary, HHS, there's Congress and the White House. It will get solved. I think my job, one, was to get the operation to work right and then go study all the opportunities to change the outcome.

Frank Bisignano, is that the Samuel?

So, Frank, give everybody an idea of your background before we talk about different things that concern you. Yeah. I am a 12-year, two-time public company chairman and CEO, largest payment company and financial services companies. Ran first data for KKR and then took it public, turned it into PhiServe, which was largest FinTech in the world. When I left, it was a $120 billion market cap company, a top 100 in the world market cap.

And before that, I was the chief operating officer for JPMorgan Chase. Reported to Jamie Dimon, who I worked with for a long time.

So, this for you is pure service. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. My dad spent 44 years in the federal government. He would be ICE today.

It was in the treasury back when he did it. And he was a World War II veteran. My grandfather came to America and joined World War I and became a citizen. And I had the opportunity. I always felt bad.

I never served. And I got the opportunity to serve and I I left my job running a SP 100. How did you get the President's attention? And let them know that you'd be eligible to do this, that you're willing to do this. You know, Howard Luttnick called me.

Howard and I are both 9-11 veterans, both founders of the memorial. Uh he he knew my technical expertise, he knew my operating capability and said, uh, would you come talk to the President about running Social Security? What did he say when you went up there? Uh the president? Uh oh, it was kind of just an amazing meeting.

You know, you're meeting with the President or the President elect.

Well, you probably knew, you probably crossed in his circles before Judgment. I had, I had, but um, you know, the kind of the reality was I'd never thought about anything like this in my life. Uh I was fully committed to what I was doing. But the chance to serve the country, work for this great administration, I think it's the best team ever assembled in the White House. Frank, that's what you need.

You need people with an expertise that want to give back to the country. And you seem to have it. And you certainly have the resume for it. But can you describe what you notice from the private sector, the public sector? For example, you're with people that are motivated.

Yeah, they want to be successful. Got it. But finance isn't any reason. If I'm successful, I'm going to make a lot of money. My family's going to be able to go on great vacations, get bigger houses.

I'll be able to help out my extended family. I get it.

So how do you get that same incentives to people that are probably not going to be wealthy off the salary that they make? No, you know, I think they're, I say it with the engineer who was in my office just say, the passion in SSA, and I've attracted, I brought in a bunch of people who, you know, left project. private sector careers. It is a moment in time. You're never going to capture this moment in time.

And then we have fabulous, what we call career employees who really do it for public service.

So, this you see what percentage? Because you didn't know what you were walking into. No, and of course, you know, diversity comes in all shapes and sizes, meaning people who want to crush it. At Social Security and been there forever and see this opportunity, and then there's other people you have to drag along. Because we you know, some of it like my image would be you're going a hundred miles an hour, you're competing against the most successful, brightest, motivated people in the world, and then you walk in and it's motor vehicle.

And you notice how miserable the people are in motor vehicle. When you get somebody that's actually motivated with a smile, you can't believe what you see. Did you see motor vehicles?

Well, what I've been in a field office. Every week. Owl field office personnel are off the charts. The management I was in Kansas with the Ron Estes, Congressman, Ways and Means Committee, on Friday. And our field office leadership and what they do.

So I'll be with the Congressman from New Jersey this Friday in office. Those people are highly motivated, serving the public. Our technology people have a shot in the arm now. Good. They got technologists in there.

I got two co-CIOs who are public sector people. And we're building stuff at a rate we never built. Do you have time for another segment? Of course. All right, so Frank's going to stick around because we have some more.

Some fundamental things I'd like to ask him to see how they keep this solid that I think we could do right now, but people don't want to do it because it's politically tough. But it's not for people who want to balance the books. Back in a moment with Frank Bisignano. He is the Commissioner of Social Security. Don't.

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So, Frank Fisignano is with us right now. He's the Social Security Commissioner. Probably going to the most important jobs. And what we have to do is, no matter who the next president is, got to fix Social Security. But it's a political hot potato.

I know you're from the business world. You probably. don't want to get into that, but you have to. Because if we are living longer, number one, and you cap the amount you take out from people at one hundred seventy five thousand dollars.

So if you're a billionaire, and if you're getting a paycheck, you probably do the one payment.

So can you raise the cap on people that can't afford it? And will that solve the problem?

Well, I think I think, first of all, you know, my approach has been my approach in every time I had a turnaround business, is we have to get the operations of it working right. We pay out 1.5 trillion. We'd say, you know, we have a 1% error rate. I like to say a payment company should have five decimal points to the right of that.

So we will get that there. Then we need to study what's actually going on. All of that's happening, right? We're getting older, not enough revenue. Right.

And so, you know, as young people say, that was what the uh Charity Ways and Means Committee in Kansas the other day. We talked about it. He's like, you're doing the perfect thing. We got to fix everything we do. We've got to be really, really good at this.

And that's happening right now. And then it's Congress. plus the trustees. The president's got a deep commitment. To protect and preserve, we have till 33, we will not take till 33.

This administration will have a set of solutions. It's not this week, though. But they say, well, you know, if you take $175,000 a cap, if you, let's say, lift it to $300,000, they go, you raise taxes. You're a Republican, you raise taxes. That's the third rail.

But practically, there's got to be something done.

Well, I just know it's always. I can remember when I was first started working, it was probably $50,000 was the cap.

So that cap has always moved.

Now, the question is: how much do you move that cap? If that's what you're doing, is it overdrawn? Right now, you're Social Security. Are you. Taking in less than you're putting out.

This year we took in what would be the equivalent of. you know, billions of dollars less on a two and change trillion trust fund.

Okay. So I think, you know, we got to watch how people are working longer. People actually people wanted to tell people, people are rushing to get their money out because they're scared of it breaking. That just wasn't true. And you're not going to have it.

It wasn't the truth. Americans can be highly confident That This problem will get solved. We just celebrated the 90th anniversary. There will be another 90 years of Social Security. Sadly, we only have a minute, but you were there on 9-11 and you are chairman of the 9-11 Memorial, the Memorial.

I was a founder, yes.

So, your thoughts on year 24.

Well, you know, I've watched the change. I was down there on year one, and there was nothing. And we had lots of tears. First of all, you know, I watched two planes hit two buildings. It was.

Unbelievably. And you know what, Frank? I want to see if I can get you back Thursday. I know you're going to be in the city. That'd be great.

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A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Here we go. Uh this just in and it is big news.

So You know Qatar has been the place that they go to where Hamas has been headquartered. And the Israelis have not, you know, off the record, you know, they don't make a big deal of it. They liked having someone to talk to over the years, even if they were a terror group, because the terror group was running the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, portions of the West Bank, and Gaza. And that's where a lot of the negotiations had taken place with Steve Witkoff and others. We know two of the Doha higher-ups who are not in Gaza in the rubble were assassinated when they went to the dead president of Iran's funeral.

But they haven't been targeted in Qatar. That changed in Doha. The IDF and ISA conducted a precise strike targeting the senior leadership of the Hamas terrorist organization. For years, the members of Hamas have led the terror organization and are directly responsible for the brutal Seventh Massacre, and then been orchestrating and managing the war against the State of Israel, the Scoring Israelis. Prior to the strike, measures were taken in order to mitigate the harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and additional intelligence.

The IDF and ISA will continue to operate with the determination orders to defeat Hamas. No word if they got the guys. That's key. And now we understand that if anyone thought that. Cutter was complicit, they have condemned this.

In the strongest way possible. And so they have condemned this strike. Showing that they were not they were not uh complicit in it.

So that's important. And we'll see.

Now where do you conduct these negotiations? The Israelis have done with this. You saw what they did to Hezbollah. You saw that they took out the leadership with the Houthis. You saw what they did with the Iranians, everything from blowing up their prison to targeting their generals.

And they could have killed the president. And the Ayatollah, they didn't. But now, with these guys, they're just saying, We're done. We're done with this. We're going to finish you off.

We told you to give the last deal was you give back all the hostages. And you'll get some prisoners back, which are all terrorists, but we want them all out.

So this is the answer. As the Prime Minister thought about it, this is also the action they took in the midterm in the interim. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West joins us now, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, former Florida Congressman. Colonel, your thoughts.

Well, my thoughts are that you have to realize that there are two things that some people understand very clearly. and that's strength and might. Uh compromise, negotiation, appeasement, acquiescence, that's just a sign of weakness to folks there in the Middle East. And so I think it's important that you take a hard stance. And again, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, these are terrorist organizations.

Iran sponsors terrorist organizations. And you cannot think that you're going to be able to deal frankly and truthfully and matter of factly with terrorist organizations. And I think it's also important that we do shine a spotlight on Qatar because they have been harboring many of these Hamas leaders and let them know that they need to cut ties as well.

So the fact is, they were doing negotiations there and they let these higher-ups live there. They killed the two leaders when they went to the Iranian funeral. In Iran, we have Which was an amazing operation. It's never been exposed to details. It's just fascinating.

But they've never went after him in Qatar. What do you think this does for the last peace deal that was released all 45 hostages, 20 of which we think are alive? And. And There'll be no invasion of Gaza City. What do you think that does to those talks?

Well I've think the whole point is that it's the time for talking is over. Uh this is a terrorist organization, Hamas. That has in its charter the elimination of the state of Israel and to kill Jews worldwide. And guess what, Colonel? Let me just stop you there.

For those people who say that October 7th was bad, but the response has been worse, the Hamas made it clear. We want more October 7th.

So if Israel lets Hamas survive, they are saying they cannot be surprised when it happens again. Yeah, I mean, I don't understand why anyone would make an argument to let Hamas continue on. Hamas is the governing authority in Gaza. Hamas cannot be the governing authority in Gaza. Hamas is a designated terrorist organization.

There's a reason why Hamas took these hostages so that they could slow walk and stonewall all of these efforts to try to resolve this situation. They don't want this situation to be resolved. And shame on Western media, Qatar, whomever, that are coming down and condemning Israel for doing what a sovereign nation state is supposed to do. If this was the United States of America, we would not have any pity on a terrorist organization that struck us. And that's exactly what we did when we responded after 9-11.

So, by the way, just to give more results, I'm still seeing it was a successful operation. I mean, I hope it was. A strike on its, this is what I could tell you, it seems to have been an airstrike. I know we're learning this in real time, so you weren't expected to know this. This just happened.

So they say Hamas's exile leadership has based in Qatar, served as a mediator. And this is this, a strike on its top leadership. An explosion rang out in Doha. It was immediately clear what exploded. It wasn't immediately clear what exploded.

Smoke could be seen in social media footage in the horizon. And we have don't know if they were able to kill the guys.

So they've killed everybody that publicly was of the faith, Sinoir and others. They killed the guy that was screaming on his phone the other day that, Mom, look how proud you are that I massacred all these Jews. They killed that guy. They killed the spokesperson. And the rest are hiding amongst the population, but then they wipe out the two leaders, Haniah and others.

After killing their kids, and they killed him. And let's just see who survived this. My hope is: if you take such a risk, the Israelis are so good, they were successful. Here's the deal, Brian. Think about it.

If you in your house were harboring a murderer. you're complicit. You are an accomplice to everything that they have done.

So why is it that Qatar believes that they can be not responsible, they cannot be held accountable for holding these terrorist organization leaders who are carrying out, issuing orders to attack and kill the sovereign nation of Israel, kill its citizens. It just is uncomfortable for us to believe that they're not culpable, that they're not complicit. This is the same cutter where the five Taliban leaders They were allowed to stay there after Barack Obama released them from Gitmo. And guess where they are now? They're back in charge of Afghanistan.

So again, Qatar has to come clean. And I think the President needs to put that pressure on them to say, look, You need to choose which side you're on. If you're on the side of the terrorists, there's going to be second and third order effects for being in that position.

Well, I can tell you this. Israeli sources told Fox the U.S. was informed ahead of the strike. And the target was the Hamas negotiating team, we targeted.

So I tell you what, no love loss there. We're done. We're done with the games. They're done with the games. Survival's at stake.

Prime Minister Netanyahu says, Look, if we leave anything in place, I'm just going to be dealing with this for and Israel's going to be dealing with this for the next hundred years. Saudi Arabia is not the problem. Saudi Arabia is that the UAE is not the problem. Egypt is not the problem. Jordan is not the problem.

Bahrain is not the problem. They want to do peace deals. These terror groups that want to destroy Israel are stopping all this on the anniversary. of the day uh of the of the Abraham Accords. Yeah, these are non-state, non-uniformed belligerents on the battlefield.

They don't don't have rights. It's just the same as. The United States of America taking out that drug boat because fentanyl is a chemical war, chemical element that has killed some hundreds of thousands of Americans.

So, yes. You have to take action against these terrorist organizations, being it narco-terrorists or being Islamic terrorists. That's the only message they will understand. And Israel realizes that they have to contend with this enemy. They've done a great job with Hezbollah, but if they don't keep the pressure on, they will regenerate and they will reconstitute, and they'll be right back to the same antics.

I want to switch now gears and move to Russia. Listen, it's not even. It's not even arguable. Russia wants complete control of Eastern Europe. They're going after Ukraine for the win.

They are manufacturing drones at a record pace. They're building these rockets at a record pace. They are now threatening Finland with the same rhetoric. They threaten Ukraine, saying they have areas and regions that don't belong to them. That's the same crap they were spewing about Ukraine when they made up their own history of saving Russian-speaking people.

We know they're about to take over Moldova. And now, even after the letter that Melania wrote saying to Vladimir Putin, return the children. Days later, they bombed a Ukrainian kindergarten. Colonel. What more evidence does the witness need?

Well, we have plenty of evidence, and we don't need to continue to prosecute this case, except for the point that we have to put complete and total economic pressure first and foremost on Russia, and then, with our European allies, get them into a position where they can stand against this threat from Vladimir Putin and Russia. He's not going away. He said that the greatest regret he had from the 20th century was the collapse of the Soviet Union. He's trying to reestablish that. best as we possibly can.

You just talk about Moldova, we know about Belarus. We know about Georgia, all of these places that he's trying to go into, and now Ukraine as well, which they have always considered the great breadbasket. And the Finnish people understand the threat of Russia. The Baltic states, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, they understand that threat. And so I think it's time for the world community of peace.

the world community that wants to see freedom and liberty come together and put the pressure on China, Russia, Iran and North Korea to break up this twenty first century axis of evil. I would uh I have heard dist some disturbing things and And uh that that we're cut off. when we're bringing our troops out of Lithuania and two other Baltic countries. I think that's terrible. I also saw a Financial Times report that said we're slow walking or not delivering on the air defense.

That NATO's paying for. Come on, Colonel. I don't care where you stand. Zelensky is not perfect in some people's mind. I think he's a fantastic leader in my mind, but I don't care where you stand.

Ukraine is not Is not getting what they deserve. They didn't ask for this war. They were unjustly invaded. They fight like real warriors. They're the finest pound-for-pound force in Eastern Europe.

No question about it. Maybe all Western Europe, too. And they just want to be able to defend themselves, and they're paying for it. What is the problem?

So, I don't understand the problem. And furthermore, if you go back, I believe, what, 1996? When Ukraine decided they'd give up their nuclear weapons in 94, Bill Clinton was the president. 94. Bill Clinton, we said that we provide the security for Ukraine.

So we need to honor our commitments and our agreements. And all of these people that talk about warmongering and neoconservatism, that's not what this is about. This is about making sure that. despots, dictators, theocrats, autocrats. don't get to have their way in going and attacking sovereign nations.

And uh just the same as some livestock. Attack the sovereign nation of Israel. We cannot sit back and allow Vladimir Putin to do what he is doing. And if you are manufacturing these drones that you're using there, that drone manufacturing facility becomes a target. China is providing it.

They're doing it. And look, we're targeting China. We interdicted a boat from China full of drugs, precursors. Let's just admit it. They're all over South and Central America.

We're confronting them. We've got to confront them here. No doubt about it. Yes, we do. The Monroe Doctrine is still valid.

The Monroe Doctrine is still valid, and we need to protect our hemisphere. I want you to hear what Dave Ignatius said. I don't know if you've been listening, but he's been reading. I think he's been very fair to Trump, and he's very frustrated with the Joe Biden policy. But listen, Cut 19.

President Trump had hoped, I think, admirably, that he might be able to settle this war, but the Alaska summit was a bust. And although he talked yesterday about being willing to impose economic sanctions against Russia, I think most people are guessing right now, that's simply not going to be enough to alter the course of this war. People are going to have to think seriously about more weapons, a more decisive posture for Ukraine's supporters, especially the European countries. But yesterday was a chilling day for anybody who hopes this terrible war can come to an end anytime soon. The feeling is it's going to continue a long while.

The death and destruction are only going to get worse. Right. And they targeted government building, parliament building.

So that's you know where they stand. Then they killed a child and a mom, who they were aiming for.

So come on, please, guys. I get it.

I don't want a world war either. But you have to show you're willing to fight it and you're able to win it in order to avoid it. You know, Adolf Hitler exploited the desire for peace. of Neverland Chamberlain, and we saw what happened.

So again, I think that you look at the peace through strength mantra of Ronald Reagan. You have to have that credible deterrence. You have to have that strong arm that you're willing to use. Uh and also I think that now it's time for President Trump to Put down that book, The Art of the Deal, and pick up the book by Sun Tzu, The Art of War. I hear you.

Colonel, it's going to be interesting. I just know, real quick, I'm up against it, but the Secretary of War, Pete Hagseth, is in Puerto Rico. We know Marco Rubio is in Ecuador and Mexico. We know we got destroyers off the coast of Venezuela. I think we're looking to do something big right now.

Don't you see these signs, same signs?

Well, I see first and foremost we're showing a deterrence. We're showing that we're very serious. We're showing a presence down in that hemisphere, that area, that we have not shown previously. And I think that's the first step. And I believe it will continue to be escalated if Maduro and the narco terrorists don't get the memo.

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, thanks so much. God bless. Thank you, Brian. Back in a moment. It's Brian Kilmead.

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That's not going to win you a general election. I don't think it's going to win you the midterm. It might win him New York City. You might have a shot of winning California. But the vast majority of Americans ain't going to flow with that.

Yes, you have some Democrats out there that are centrists that believe in government involvement a bit more so than conservatives. But in the same breath, we ain't about defunding the police. We know we're going to dial 911 when there's trouble that's on the horizon.

So again, Stephen A. Smith making sense in the political realm. He just says this radical stuff that was happening with this mayor, this soft-on-crime stuff, he's a Democrat. He said, I don't subscribe to that. And he doesn't care.

He's in sports. He doesn't want to get reelected or elected at all. And he said, of course, that's not going to work. 'Cause he travels the country. He, you know, went to school in North Carolina, lived in New York City, understands what it's like in Staten Island, travels the country constantly and knows what California and New York don't represent the whole country.

Understands Texas, Dallas, and understands where they're coming from.

So he's not buying it. But he remains a Democrat, critical of the president in certain areas, but understands what's going on better than most.

So I'm very curious to see if he's going to start going into the political fray. I don't think with the momentum he has now, he's now got a show on Sirius. On top of that, he's got all these ESPN obligations. He does his own podcast. I don't know how he could possibly go pivot over to politics.

And he just signed a huge contract. I think like almost $100, something like $100 million. But that's what he's saying. This guy, I mean, nobody likes this stuff. And also, if you are somebody I started off with nothing.

You know, he talked about, and I remember in his book very well, his dad really wasn't much of an earner, big gambler. And his mom was working two jobs in order to keep his kids in school, you know, in Hollis, Queens, to keep everybody in school and on the straight and narrow. He had no money, he was in college. This guy knows what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck. And now he's a capitalist.

He's doing the best he can to get the most money he can. Do you think for a second he wants to start giving sixty, seventy percent of it while he's working eighty hours a week?

So, I just think when people like socialism, that's because they don't have the grit, they don't have the drive, they don't understand they have to compete at whatever level it is. Whether your goal is security, I get it. Or your goal is outlandish success, I understand it. That's called billionaire-millionaire aspirations. But if someone resent you, because you have the drive and they don't.

I'm not talking about the results, the drive. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan. It's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

Welcome to the Brian Killmead Show at 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This hour, we're going to be joined by Michael Aroza, former special assistant to President Biden, chief spokesman for the First Lady, former First Lady Jill Biden. And also, this hour, we're going to be talking to Senator John Cornyn. He's in a fight to keep that Senate seat. He also Is part of the group that is really pushing to crack down on crime in America.

And it's even happening in Texas. And then we'll do a simulcast on the Fox Business Channel with Stuart Varney.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. The president obviously tried to broker an agreement back in August. Putin has failed to respond. And so I think the president needs to move expeditiously, certainly by the end of the month.

And he's got bipartisan support to do it. And how often have I said that? How about never? Mr. President, Russia has to be confronted right here, right now.

The evidence is overwhelming and the war machine growing. As their economy does collapse in Russia, we're at an inflection point.

Now they're threatening not only Moldova, but Finland. Let's muscle up now. Number two. Despite billions in federal spending and countless well-intentioned programs, The achievement gap between students is widening, not shrinking. And this trend did not begin with COVID, it goes back a decade.

It is, but it really accelerated during COVID. Education Secretary Linda McMahon weighing in front and center as more data shows high schoolers are falling further behind as their pandemic pause has shown to cause catastrophic learning loss. When are we going to catch up or fix this? Number one. There's no question that we have to take gangs extremely seriously.

Yet, I find that a database that includes New Yorkers on such bases is one that. It doesn't actually do exactly. What an idiot. You don't think keeping gang members' names? On a database is going to lead to success in crime fighting.

The American people think crime is a problem with big cities. Republicans are taking action on it, even when they have blue cities in their Republican states. But Dems remain on the side of the criminal, and that's really the case. Because especially when you see what this Charlotte Mayer came out and said, really astounding. Did you see the story of the 23-year-old Ukrainian?

So she's on a bus after working in a pizzeria. She came here. She came here to avoid the Ukraine war and the strife that was available, and she tried to not get killed there. Were civilians are being targeted? And she basically gets.

gets knifed to death. Why? She was just riding on a bus.

So when asked about this, The Mayor came out and said the most extraordinary thing. We can arrest our way out of it. If a lunatic wants to randomly stab somebody on a train, what can you do? When that lunatic's been arrested 15 times, when that lunatic's mom and lawyer said that he needs to be locked up, that he's mentally deranged, and a judge lets him out, and he's allowed out. When the judge asks him for a written promise that he will show up in court, please don't tell me there's nothing you can do.

And that's a Democratic-run city in a Democratic-run state that is majority Republican. Donald Trump has won it multiple times. But you know who won it? Barack Obama. Michael Lerosi joins us now.

Michael, when it comes to crime, How do you think Democrats should be handling this? Do you like the way they're handling it to this point? I don't. I was reading the reaction or the statement made by Governor Stein, who I really like. But it lacked the outrage and emotion that I would just expect from.

From like a human being level. Right, so they're setting up a great paradox for the midterms if Republicans are smart. And I don't know if they are, but they're setting up a really good paradox showing that Democrats put criminals out on the street. You're seeing that with the concern that some of DOJ had on the people that President Biden, my former boss, granted clemency to or let free. There's a really disturbing pattern and a narrative is forming about Democrats.

And if you can't show that disgust and outrage for something like this, then it's going to be Okay. It's going to be really hard to come back from. I wouldn't vote for that mayor again, first of all. I don't know who he is, but I wouldn't vote for him. Yeah, she, um, a couple of things.

In Republican states, you have Republican Governor Landry says, I'm going to start sending in state troopers into New Orleans and Baton Rouge, problematic areas. And then the same thing with Missouri, same thing with Mississippi, same thing with the same thing they're doing in Texas. They're going to send them into Houston.

So, in one way, I love what Gavin Newsom's doing, and I love what Wes Moore's doing. Wes Moore goes, I'm going to stay in state police. The mayor of Baltimore is now requesting state police to help out. The narrative he's saying is crime's getting better, but obviously, they're the third leading. City on a list they don't want to be on top of, and that's murder.

Number one is Chicago. Baltimore's third.

So the state's taking action. Aren't they in taking action, acknowledging that Trump's right? Absolutely. Absolutely. I think this particular part of the argument is where there's a lot of disagreement, even amongst Democrats.

Like I personally, personally, being in DC, I could care less if the National Guard is there. I could care less. And as the mayor said, it's working. But the president has so much more federal latitude in Washington, D.C. Um now the the troops themselves um I think I'm a Clinton Democrat, so I would prefer us hiring more cops.

And I would like Democrats to say we need to hire more cops. I would love to see Democrats in the minority right now offer up hiring legislation or cops on the streets legislation to start help improving the image we have about being soft on crime and things like that. But I don't see any of it.

So I don't know. Look, troops won't solve the problem. At the same time, it goes back to sort of what the brilliant strategist and news executive once said, Roger Ailes. People don't always necessarily. Want to be informed or overwhelmed with stats, but they do want to feel informed.

And in this case, people want to feel protected by. By getting in the way of that, by be by opposing President Trump on the troops or Things like that, you're getting in the way of change that he's offering up. And that is the first rule of thumb on James Carville's messaging list. Don't Change versus more of the same. He's offering up change.

We're getting in the way of people feeling safe, and we need to be on the other side of it.

So there's Operation Midway going on right now to scoop up some of the gangsters, the worst of the worst, because the ICE is beginning to expand in the area. They can't get any cooperation in the prisons. They can't get any cooperation with the cops. Even if they wanted to, they're forbidden to do it. It's Sanctuary City.

But what they're doing is they're going for gang members. And now you have people, you have the governor come out and basically fight the president on this. Pritzker's saying there's been no coordination, there's been no effort because they said that they don't want any troops in there.

So the president hasn't reached out. If Governor Brashir, for example, who many people think is a presidential candidate. Why doesn't he try to be perhaps the first governor to reach out and go? I got a problem in two or three separate cities. Mr.

President, what could you do? Because it's free money, right? It's free resources.

So do you think that that would be the within Democratic circles? Would That be bad for him if he's looking to consolidate donors and support running in 2028? It's a great question because what you're saying is, and it's true, that there's going to be all these sort of litmus tests for Democrats in a Democratic primary. And go back to 2019 and 2020. Our former Vice President Kamala Harris, when she was running in that primary, Was pushed to answer questions and answer questionnaires and interviews went so far to the left, it demonstrated these sort of excesses that we've embraced in the culture of the progressive movement and everything like that.

And her own words were used against her in the 2024 election.

So Look, Governor Prashiger. I think all candidates need to be on the side. You know, all potential candidates, anyway, need to be on the side of not just law enforcement, but actively. Um Trying to solve the problem, even if it means working with the president. If it's free resources for your state and your cities and your constituents need it.

And that makes them feel safe. I don't think that will hurt anyone. And I wouldn't vote for anybody who. Who He ignored a request for help simply because it's a Republican president doing it. You got a mayor of D.C.

who says, Listen, I know you're being critical, but my goal is to make the city safer and this is helping. But she doesn't go so far to say, I wanted another 30 days. That was misreported.

So as over M. Amdani came out, and you know, the problem with it, he's been on record as saying he is not a fan of law enforcement. I wouldn't say defund the police, although that was an earlier statement that he made. He said, how he feels now, but this is what he says he wants to do. Cut four.

There would be no cuts to create this department. This is a department that would have a budget of about $1 billion, 605 existing programs, programs like BeHERD, for example. The other $400 million would be from new revenue. And so if you look at our Policy proposal, we we Put forward over the course of the primary a belief that the two most productive ways in which to raise that revenue would be: one, by raising the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey, and two, by raising New York City's personal income tax rate on the top 1% by 2%. Right.

He doesn't have that power as a mayor, and I think matching New Jersey in taxes shouldn't be a goal for anyone. And he's talking about a department he's called the Department of Community Safety. Can we please let the police be the police and give them an expertise in different areas where it's gangs or homeless? Or seniors or or Projects, whatever. I mean, this guy seems to be just the gift that keeps on giving to national Republicans if they want it.

And we've got to be careful that he doesn't become a foil for every candidate in every congressional race or in the two governor's races that are up this year. I mean, if I'm a reporter, I used to work in TV, be it as a TV producer, but if I was a reporter, I'd be going around asking every Democratic candidate, do you agree with Zoran Mondani? Do you agree with the new mayor, the new potential mayor of New York? And be turning him into a foil. That's why Democrats need to start doing the work on the front end and actually have the guts to say.

He may have won a Democratic primary, but he didn't necessarily run as a Democrat. I don't know what this Democratic socialism thing is, but just look at how he's talking about crime compared to the way President Trump and Republicans talk about crime. He's talking about raising taxes and creating more bureaucracy. And Republican governors and the president want to put troops on the street. What makes you feel safer?

That's a pretty fairly easy human question to answer.

So the big crowds are going to Bernie Sanders and AOC, who, by the way, go on the road on a private jet and have these luxurious hotel rooms that include extensive spa treatments, which is not pretty much how I envision Lennon and Karl Marx. But I want you to hear what AOC said yesterday on Capitol Hill Cut 20. I'm certainly being asked every day why isn't our party coming together? Why aren't Democrats endorsing a nominee and I think um I personally would love for us to be able to say that Democrats are supporting the Democratic nominee. But she's upset that Hakeem Jeffries Uh she's upset that uh Senator Schumer, Dan Goldman, No party leader outside Senator Elizabeth Warren is endorsing him.

And she wanted to use this as an example. She said, look, I don't agree with President Biden, but he was my nominee and I supported him. What do you think, Michael? Yeah, well, President Biden also ran as a Democrat in the Democratic primary and embraced the Democratic platform. I can't tell whether this guy wants to be a Democrat or is a Democratic socialist.

I don't know what he says he is.

So there's a little bit of a difference, I would argue, with her. And I think the fact that our leadership in Congress, Schumer and Jeffries, who happen to be from New York, the fact that they won't endorse is such a huge Red flag to the voters in the city. And to Democrats everywhere, that this guy is problematic for the Democratic brand. Who is your top who would you who do you think has the most talent, whether you know them personally or not, the most talent that you would like to see emerge as a leader and a presidential contender in twenty twenty eight on the left? Yeah, it's a good question.

Look, there's a couple of people I like. I think. Newsome I know he gets a lot of pop, he gets a lot of the chatter, but what he's doing is very It's good for the party. He's running into the fire as opposed to running away from it. He's running towards the news.

He's running towards the things people are talking about. I think that's a good step in what Democrats need to start doing. And he's aggressive. He's not willing to, he's willing to go to uncomfortable places. He'll go to talk to anybody.

And that's important to me in our next candidate. I don't want another candidate who ducks in covers and hides from the tough questions. I saw an interview you did with a former colleague of mine earlier today, I think, about the governor's race in Virginia. And how she's not answering the quest or how she Not answering her the question on whether boys should compete in girls' sports. It is not that hard.

It is it is not that hard to answer the question. And by saying, you want to keep politics out of schools, that's a rhetorical device that. Democrats, I'm telling you, if They need to move away from it. It's a bad habit that we've gotten into when we want to duck and cover from these sensitive issues. Even the trans member of Congress, Sarah McBride, said: give people space and grace.

If they're not there, they're not there. That's okay. These elections are. I asked Jason Crow, who's a great, seems like a great guy, great American, fights wars. I just said.

Jason. You just agree that there shouldn't be guys and girls' sports, trans guys and girls' sports. And he said, it rarely happens. What do you mean it rarely happens? But it happens.

And it happens again. It's happened in the Olympics. Just answer the question. Of course, you know. That it should not be allowed because it's not fair to the girls, not to Republicans or Democrats.

It's not fair to the women. Correct. Yeah, I'm a former college swimmer, and there's no way that even my male teammates, no matter how progressive they are, or female teammates, would have ever. Would have ever agreed to anything like this. But the point is that she.

All you have to do is say, no, I'm not there. I'm not. It's a fairness thing for me. I'm not there yet. And that's going to be really hurtful to Democrats if they keep ducking in cover from these issues.

They're not going to trust us on the economy if we can't answer these simple questions. I know. On culture. It's very interesting, Michael. I love the analysis.

Thanks so much. Talk to you again soon. Talk soon. All right. 1866-408-7669.

Back in a moment. You're with Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. How you doing, sir?

Can we talk to you? Where are you from? You live in New York? Who are you? Don, Lemon.

You're a fing tomorrow, dude. Thank you, so are you. That's very nice you just say except you've never heard anything I've had to say and I've had a whole bunch of what you said. I'm glad you watched me. No, I don't.

Why? But you just get clipped everywhere. I know, but why don't you... You said you don't watch me, but yet you know who I am and I get clipped. Before I realized that CNN and MSNBC were full of s ⁇ , every once in a while I just watch.

I watch all sorts of stuff. Yeah, but why do you say CNN and MSNBC are full of s ⁇ ? Because we lie.

So I give Don Lemon credit for posting this. He'd have to post it. It's not like it's live, right? No, he It was in the middle of like an hour plus long. podcast of him talking to people on the street.

Right, but was it live? I don't know if it was. I give him credit for posting it because he does not look good. But he doesn't look good. But this is the thing that's actually getting him traction.

We're playing him. Otherwise, where is he? He's talking to strangers on the street. You're right, but. Do you want would you show footage of yourself getting punched in the face?

Even if it got a lot of clicks. Nope, I was desperate. Yeah. I mean, not meat, but like, that's how people are. If they're desperate and they're going to get clicks, they're going to post anything.

Because he also posted the stuff about the National Guard. He wanted to put him down. He said, no, I'm proud to be. I'm not talking to you. Yeah.

But it made him look like an idiot, which he is. I know, but he says he's making more money now than he did at CNN. And he wasn't making a lot. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Senator John Corny joins us now and Senator I gotta bring you from Texas. Always great to hear from you, especially now. I just want to get your instant reaction from something that happened or reported 20 minutes ago. The IDF in Shin Bed on Tuesday confirmed an attack on Hamas leadership right in Doha, where, according to an Egyptian official, a meeting was going to take place about the new proposal that the U.S. and UK and Israel put forward that would say, give up all the hostages, get some prisoners back, and there'll be a ceasefire, including the bodies.

And it looks like there was an assassination attempt from, and fighter jets came out and just took out the building. What are your thoughts about it happening in Doha?

Well, the As you know, Brian, uh Hamas is a terrorist organization. Sponsored by Iran. One of several, including the Houthis in Yemen, and of course, in the Hezbollah and Lebanon. And Hamas has been acting with virtual impunity uh in its uh headquarters in Qatar. And I think they simply are unwilling to negotiate a peaceful outcome in Gaza Israel seems to get all the blame because obviously there's a humanitarian cost to be paid there, but Hamas is the one that's responsible.

And so more power to the Israelis Um for Taking care of business. The state of Qatar strongly condemns the cowardly Israeli attack that targeted residential buildings housing several members of the Political Bureau of Hamas in Doha. The criminal assault continues in a blatant violation of all international laws and norms.

Now Uh Your thoughts about Cutter. Are they an ally, Senator?

Well, they they are opportunistic. Friends.

Sometimes they're our friends, sometimes they're not. But when you harbor terrorist organizations like Hamas, You put yourself In the crosshairs, and that's what they did, and hopefully, they'll learn something from this. But um You know, we need to We need to end this crisis in Gaza, and the sooner that Hamas realizes that they have to give up all the hostages And abstain from their terrorist attacks on Israel, which is literally an existential threat. The sooner they do that, the sooner that uh that war command.

So I understand this just also came across the Uh the BLS The nonfarm payrolls benchmark had a huge revision. They overestimated how many jobs were added by nine hundred eleven thousand since April of twenty twenty four up until March of twenty twenty five.

So what fundamentally is wrong with this with this with this group that has so much to do with our economy, projections, investments as well as the Fed deciding not to reduce rates? Would they have reduced rates if they knew the job loss was that great, dating back to the previous administration? These are the questions that got to be answered. Absolutely. And it's past time for the Federal Reserve to cut rates.

And I know inflation has has been a concern for a long time, primarily prompted by all the extravagant spending of the previous administration which is like pouring gasoline on the fire. But um But I think it's past time. We need to get the economy propped up again and lower interest rates by the Federal Reserve would be a good step in that direction.

So let's talk about what's happening in a lot of these red states with blue cities are getting fed up. and Missouri, Mississippi. Uh Indiana And now Louisiana, and I understand Texas. Governor Abbott is making moves to start reigning in some crime over in Houston. I imagine he's going to end up in Austin.

So, where do you look at crime in our country? We know if you ask the American people, 86% say it's a serious problem. But if you ask the Democrats, the people over 60% say it's a serious problem, but not the Democratic lawmakers or the Democratic, especially the Democratic mayors. Explain the difference.

Well, I think some of the some of the Democratic Party leadership lives in gated communities where they're not Threatened. by street violence that that plagues so many of our Um so many of our minority communities and uh cities, major cities, Crime is you got you got two choices. One, you can be on the side of law enforcement and public safety And the other side is you can be on the side of less public safety and more crime. I think the choice is pretty get pretty obvious. But I also remember someone saying one time that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.

I think President Trump has realized that that wasn't working, particularly in some of these cities. And we needed to do something different. And I tell you the the Difference in the District of Columbia. And thanks to Jeanine Pirow and her aggressive efforts at the U.S. Attorney's Office, things have changed dramatically.

And I don't know who wouldn't want more of that.

So you used to be a judge, you know crime, and I think a lot of the problem are these judges. You have this guy, DeCarlos Brown, who we now see the video in Charlotte on a bus. He decides to get up and with a knife stab an innocent woman working in a pizzeria as a refugee from Ukraine at 23 years old to death. What's his background? 15 arrests.

What more can you know? His mom and his lawyer say he's a danger. What else can I tell you? A judge says, sign this document promising you'll come back to court. Are you so the he's allowed out?

And then the mayor says, We can't arrest our way out of this problem. If a lunatic wants to randomly attack people, what can you do? My goodness, Senator Cornyn. I'm telling you what you could do: arrest criminals and keep them in jail. And if you want to get them psychological help, that's another conversation.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, get them off the streets is is the first order of business. But then I think we would all know that we are having a mental health crisis in America and many of the people like this particular individual or ticking time bombs, we know. are going to be either either harm themselves or harm others or both. And um There are tools that are available in communities across the across the country, things like mental health courts where judges Can basically compel the compliance of individuals with their medications and the like, which may help with their mental illness. But first it's get them off the streets.

And if you if you can't uh do anything else, that's a start.

So, for you, I know you're going to have to work hard for your Zenency. Ken Paxson, the Attorney General, wants to run. What could you tell me about that fight and how you're approaching it?

Well, we need to do two things. One is we need to remind people what I've done and my Support for President Trump and his policies during the previous term, and now in the current term. I have a good relationship with the President. and talk to him frequently. But um The second thing is we need to also then remind people about the Attorney General.

who seems to be no matter where he goes, no matter what he does, it seems to be scandal associated with him. Do those two things, tell remind people what I've done and my support for President Trump and his policies, and secondly, remind people what he's done. And here's the here's the rubber Uh Brian, if Republicans, which I've been part of building the Republican Party in Texas for a long time now. If if Republicans want to give up, a Senate seat to Democrats, the best way to do that is to nominate a guy like Kim Paxton with all the problems he brings with him. And so, Senator, do you know for sure if he's getting in?

I'm sorry, yeah again? Do you know for sure if he's getting in? To the race? Yeah, but all indications are that he is. He.

Um Of course, you've seen the polls. The polls are closing But it's going to be a competitive race, and it's one of the earliest primaries in the country. It's on March the 3rd. All indications are you still in and Undeterred. Are you worried at all about the majority in the Senate being that You have a popular Democratic governor running in North Carolina.

You don't have John Sununu running in New Hampshire. Senator Scott Brown is going to be a harder, a harder to flip that seat. I know Michigan's always going to be tough. And they got you got a tough race in Ohio. going on.

So are you worried about this? Yes, always. We've got 53 Republicans in the Senate right now. And another one of the byproducts to a Paxton candidacy would be it would drain hundreds of millions of dollars in resources. trying to salvage So a primary.

Senator John Coonan, thanks. 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.

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Uh afterwards. We have to squeeze in some calls, and I know some people are writing, and I'll try to get to them too at briankilmead.com, where you could also get tickets to Fox Nation Big Show on the 27th at Richmond, Virginia. And then November 1st, we'll take about a month, one month later, take a drive over to Potts Town, Pennsylvania, and have some fun there. Patriotic, inspirational, motivational. You'll see some highlight tapes online, which should be good.

Also, we're following this story about. Uh Israel, the IDF. Shinbat. Taking out or at least targeting. Uh two of the leaders of Hamas in Qatar.

Let's listen. And that is a departure for them. It's 10:51. Time to bring in Brian Kilmead. Brian, I need your comment on this.

Israel appears to be in the final phase of the war to destroy Hamas. They're targeting this leadership in Qatar. They're demanding the evacuation of Gaza.

Now, my question relates to New York. Where does that leave Hamas supporter Mandami? He wants to be the mayor here. What do you think? Number one, I want to ask him about it because if you've been watching him lately, he's got very few answers.

How many times can you say I want the buses to go fast and free? How many times are you going to say I'm going to freeze the rents? Then, when people ask him about what they're going to eliminate, like cops and gang units and homeless units, he has no answers. He says, I'm going to raise taxes. You can't raise taxes.

I'm going to make it like New Jersey. Does anybody want to emulate New Jersey taxes, including New Jersey people? Are you crazy? I want to be like New Jersey. Good.

Go to New Jersey. They would love you. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't, but it sounds nice. But what happened with what you're just talking about with the IDF? They basically used a fighter jet to take out those higher-ups in exile, these Hamas leaderships who were part of the negotiating team to try to end this endless war.

The problem is, Hamas wants to survive. And they can't survive. Their way of surviving, if they wanted to survive, would be to leave, go to Iran, where you can feel totally at home with your terrorist government, or you stay and fight. If you stay in fight, you're going to die, which we're seeing, and you're going to let other people die, which you like, that support you, or that are Palestinian, they seem to like that. Where Israel is dropping flyers so they don't kill civilians.

Hamas hopes for that in order to the public sentiment to turn against Israel, who only reason they're in Gaza is because of October 7th. And for those people to say, well, you've overdone it. They promise more October 7th if they survive.

Now, come on. Why would you let them survive? And I suspect that the Israelis want to destroy Hamas before the second anniversary of October 7th. That's what they've started now, big time. I think they want to end it quickly.

You think? I think there was an offer given. This is what Trump said. Through Steve Witkoff. Give all forty plus hostages back, twenty of which are alive, bodies included.

You'll get some prisoners back who terrorists who probably should be in for life. And we have a ceasefire. They said it is a surrender document, but we'll consider it. Israel says, enough. Boom.

Takes him out right in their building. What does it say about Cutter? What does it say about Qatar? They've killed two of their higher ups living a luxurious life in four seasons. They killed him when they went to a funeral in Iran.

And now the negotiating team has been targeted there.

So you let your terrorists go fight in Gaza while you lived a luxurious life in one of the richest countries per capita in the world, Qatar, and it's not okay for them to do what they're doing. Why was Qatar not pressuring Hamas to come to the table and do a deal? They wanted the pressure to get on Israel to look like the bad guys. And believe me, the world loves making Israel look bad. And they don't want to think about, and they don't want to think about the big picture.

Israel took out the, by the way, they took out the. Houthi higher ups a couple of days ago. We know what they did to Hezbollah. Iran still doesn't know what hit him. And Hamas, they're about to see their final get final f see their final curtain, I hope.

Yes, it looks like it. Change the subject. I'm sure you saw Brett Baer's interview last night with the Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. She's responding to criticism that the court is on Trump's side. Watch this.

We're not deciding cases just for today. And we're not deciding cases based on the president, as in the current occupant of the office. We're deciding cases about the presidency.

So we're taking each case and we're looking at the question of presidential power as it comes. And the cases that we decide today are going to matter four presidencies from now, six presidencies from now, and so on. Each of these cases that we're getting, you know, well, I mean, some of them overlap, but many present different constitutional issues. Thirty seconds, Brian. She says they don't wear red, they don't wear blue, they wear black.

Look, it's a conservative leaning court. They have conservative thought. It doesn't mean they're being converted or kowtowing. You have a conservative president and conservative thinking justices who are constitutionalists and they go by the letter of the law, think Scalia. But she is one person that Democrats have always targeted that could be converted.

I saw Senator Blumenthal this morning come up and say she's somebody that has not gone with the typical conservative thought that many people accuse the Justice Scalia of doing, for example, not Scalia Alito for doing, for example. But I think that she's extremely impressive. I can't wait to read her book. Yeah, and it comes out soon, I believe. Brian, thank you very much indeed.

Still ahead. All right. Let's go to the phones right now in North Carolina. Alton, you're on the Brian Killmeat Show. Hey Brian, how you doing?

Great. What's in your mind? Man, I'm just I just wish we would go ahead and give Ukraine the weapons they need to go ahead and finish Russia. I mean, they've had so much problem with Ukraine, and we've given Ukraine nothing. They've only been able to defend themselves.

Well you just let 'em let them let the looshaw let 'em go. I think so too. And then I see this Financial Times story saying that we are slow in delivering missile defense. Come on. Air defense, which NATO's paying for, just give it to 'em, put the shrink wrap on and send it.

They're not asking for much, they're paying for it. We make money from it and we're the best at it, the Patriots. And then you get the ATAC'ems, you get the long-range rockets from the UK as well as Germany, and say have at it. They're killing your children. They're wiping out your Parliament buildings.

They're targeting your lawmakers on the streets with assassinations. It's time for them to feel more pain. Right now, they've targeted the energy sector. They wiped out the Russian Navy without a Navy.

So, and they've also gained two cities back in Donetsk, in that province in the Donbas.

So, if you give Ukraine a little bit. It'll help a lot. I'm Brian Kilmead. Keep it here at the Brian Kilmead Show. I'm Janistine.

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It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, one, Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for listening. I come to you from Midtown Manhattan, but you know you're listening to me from around the world. Rachel Bade's going to be with us shortly from Politico.

Gary Myers wrote a book, Brady to Belichick: The Dynasty Debate. We'll talk about who's more important, but how much they hate each other, really. I mean, not Brady and Belichick, but the Patriots and Belichick, too. Brady seems to be in good stead. They make a statue for him.

You know, the statue looks pretty terrible. But we'll talk about that shortly. And of course, what a great game last night, Minnesota comes back to beat the Bears. We know that Caroline Levitt's going to have. Two hours.

She's going to have her press conference. That'll be explosive as usual, and she'll be very direct, as is commonplace.

So, before we get to Rachel, let's get to the big three. Number three. The president obviously tried to broker an agreement back in August. Putin has failed to respond. And so I think the president needs to move expeditiously, certainly by the end of the month.

Ah, there you go. Michael Lohler saying, Mr. President, Russia has got to be confronted right here, right now. The evidence is overwhelming. Their war machine is growing and their economy needs to be pressured.

We are at the inflection point. Let's muscle up now. Finland is now in the crosshairs. Number two. Despite billions in federal spending and countless well-intentioned programs, the achievement gap between students is widening, not shrinking.

And this trend did not begin with COVID. It goes back a decade. That is Linda McMahon, the Education Secretary.

Now she is front and center. More data shows high schoolers are falling further and further behind since the pandemic pause. Has shown there's been no improvement. There's been no plan to catch people up, and the results of the shutdown have been catastrophic. What can be done?

We discuss it. Number There's no question that we have to take gangs extremely seriously. Yet, I find that a database that includes New Yorkers on such bases is one that. It doesn't actually do exactly that. What am I what a what he is so over His head is Unexplainable.

The American people think crime is a problem in the big cities. Republicans are taking action on it, but Dems remain on the sideline. I don't get it. When will the woke wake up? We're going to bring you the blue city problem that Dems cannot see.

That was ORM Abdomini, who just heard from. Rachel Bay joins us now. Rachel, a lot to discuss, including what just happened in Qatar, but just your take. Great to see you. Your take on where we're at now with crime, because now this Charlotte murder is front and center on their transit system.

And the Democratic mayor came out and said, I'm really in deference to the family. I don't want to make a big deal of it, which is the most bizarre approach I've ever heard. Absolutely, Brian. First of all, thanks for having me on the show. Happy to be here.

Yeah, I mean, that murder just absolutely horrific, and obviously symbolizes why a lot of people across the country are concerned about crime, why it consistently is one of the top issues people list as things that they're concerned about in polls. On video, an innocent woman just walking, looking like potentially home from work. uh on her phone and she gets stabbed to death like The shocking nature of it, and just the thought that it could be anyone. That is, it's obviously really moved people. And Republicans, they're pointing to this.

As a reason for why Donald Trump needs to be doing what he's doing in terms of cracking down on crime. I mean, I've written about this before in my column, I've talked about it on TV. I feel like Democrats are just completely walking into a trap with this issue and just The fact that they haven't had a response on crime other than to say, Trump doesn't have authority to do what he's doing with the National Guard. It's not going to cut it with the American people. I mean, there's a lot of.

Polling out there that shows Republicans are way more trusted on crime than Democrats, and that's because they take it seriously. And while President Trump's actions with the National Guard, there has been some polling showing that a majority do not support that. When it comes to people's safety, That's what they care most about.

So I I think this is a a problem for Democrats. It continues to be in the headlines, and this murder is just. Once again, bringing it to the fore. Especially in North Carolina, where you know there's going to be so much political at stake because you got the open Senate seat, and so you have there's going to be a big battle. The popular Democratic governor against Mike Wadley, who did a great job for the RNC.

So they're going to come out hard and they're going to go after this because Donald Trump has won North Carolina every time, right, Rachel? Yeah, absolutely. One scene is more of a purple state, but definitely leaning red these days. And we're already seeing that with Watley, he's already come out. And slammed Roy Cooper, the popular governor there, Democrat, who's gonna be running against him, saying that this is a Democratic problem.

What are you gonna do to respond? And look, there's a playbook for this with Democrats. Go back to Clinton years. Clinton was accused of being soft on crime, and you know what he did? He came out swinging and said, No, I'm going to find 100,000 more police officers.

Right. Where is the commentary like that with Democrats? You're just not seeing it. And it is going to be a political problem for them. We know we got about 2,000 short in New York, maybe more.

And then we have 1,000 short in Chicago compared to where they were in 2019. And we know that they have not been empowered to really do their job. What I couldn't believe is the mayor who came out and said, the mayor of Charlotte. We cannot arrest our way out of this. We can't uh arrest away we can't stop some lunatic from randomly getting up And stabbing people on trains.

Well, you can if that lunatic's been arrested 15 times. And whose mom and lawyer say he's a danger? It's the judge that said. He wasn't. There is a number of issues.

Like policy issues and criminal justice issues that are problematic with this murder. The first one being that he was a repeat offender. How many times had he been arrested? I mean, how does that happen? And that's beyond the crime issue and people feeling like safe or not safe on, you know, metro rail or when they're going out and walking around in big cities, there's the issue of accountability and justice.

And that there was this sort of like, Movement after the George Floyd murder and the riots and the protests, where there were a lot of cities across the country, democratic-leaning cities that sort of decriminalized and sort of changed thresholds for putting people in jail and prosecuting and that sort of thing. There's been a holistic rejection of that experiment, even in blue cities like Portland. But you're still, this is still a problem, right, with repeat offenders. There's the issue of crime, as we talked about, people not feeling safe. Like, do you need more police officers?

Do you need the National Guard? That question. And then there is a complicating factor with this murder, and that is mental health. Um this guy clearly sick Um, clearly had. I don't know what schizophrenia or what it was, but Wasn't getting the help he needed, wasn't being put into some sort of, you know.

Hospital or asylum of some sort where clearly he should have been. And so that brings up another more complicated question about mental health and that's where it's also pretty sticky in terms of people's rights and what do you do with them. And that's just a very complicated issue. This is what I'd love to see the president's team do. I want them to go in with the team.

You know, how much National Guard, how much ICE, how much federal troops, how much FBI and investigators? You know how many people in these towns say, and cops say, I don't have enough people to investigate these crimes, big and small. Find a way to reduce the wait time for 911. You come in with the teams, you leave some people behind to help with investigations and maybe teach people how to do it expeditiously, and then go.

So, for example, when they finally pull everybody out of DC, is the crime going to come back?

So instead of you could just say my residual group will stay. And stand something up in its wake, and also massive recruiting for that month, whether it's federal funds that incentivize people to join the force in that state and that city, something to do with. longer lasting than the thirty days. Yeah. You bring up uh you bring up a This question of following through when a crime is committed.

I mean, I've talked about this before. My house was robbed, my car was stolen when I lived in Washington. It was one of the reasons I left. The thing that's most upsetting about that is actually not the crime itself, it was how it was handled. Um, you know, we were told right away, my husband and I, my then my fiancé and I, that.

There wasn't going to be anyone arrested. Like, we shouldn't count on it. And this was even after we realized that the person had stolen a device that was my husband's, and he had entered in a phone number and an emoji and a name. And we had the name and the phone number that had come up on my husband's phone, like through the cloud or something. We'd given that to the cops.

We'd said, look. This guy is putting stuff in his phone. We have it. Go find that person, go find that number. Have no idea if they ever did it.

No. Like, never got any follow up. It's that sort of stuff that people really care about. And clearly, in cities like DC, it's just not happening.

So, Rachel, in one of your columns, you wrote about this story about Scott Besson going at it in Georgetown with Bill Pulte, who he wanted to physically fight him because he allegedly was bad-mouthing. Bessett to President Trump, you expand on this very specifically, and you had very few people pushing back on it. I didn't see anybody push back on it. This happened. Absolutely it happened.

I mean, um the only thing Sort of people on both sides of this fight disagreed on was who started it. Did Bill Pulte, the housing finance chief, come up and start talking to the Treasury Secretary, or was it vice versa? I mean, look, this was. A long time coming, it seems like. I mean, back in May, President Trump tweeted that these two guys were supposed to be working together to privatize Danny Mae, Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants.

And yet, there's been this sort of fight brewing between them, both in terms of personality, in terms of turf, and then in terms of who's talking about who behind their back. I mean, they're very different types of, you know, top Trump officials. Besson sort of seen as very cautious. He has warned President Trump against firing Jay Powell, the Fed chair, because he worries it could destabilize markets. You've got Pulte, who's on the opposite side, super pugnacious, tweeting hundreds of times against Jay Powell, saying he's got to go, drafting a firing letter for Donald Trump to say, like, if you want to fire him, here you go.

So, opposite ends on that. And then, you know, Besson, I'm told from people close to him, has sort of felt that Pulte was sort of using his sort of newfound fame with the White House and with MAGA, the MAGA movement that he has right now to try to weigh in on issues that are very much in Besson's turf. And Besson doesn't like that. And Fulty has felt like Besson is being dismissive of him. But I think the final straw.

Before Besant went up and threatened to punch Pulte in the face at this private cocktail hour the other day, was that he had heard from people that Pulte had been badmouthing him to Trump, and he wasn't about to act like, oh, nothing's wrong, we're just going to chit-chat at this cocktail party. He was going to address it to his face. I mean, I don't have to tell you that it wasn't too long ago when When Howard Luttnick tried to become Treasury Secretary with the backing of Elon Musk. And that Scott Besson had to go there and go back and push back and fight for that job. And maybe.

That distrust has never rekindled, never repaired itself. Yeah, I can tell you've been talking to people in the format there, Brian. You're right. There's. Another complicating factor factor that's very inside baseball, but Bill Pulte is very close with Howard Luttnick.

And that That sort of rivalry between the Commerce Secretary and the Treasury Secretary, who were sort of duking it out during the transition to try to get that Treasury job, it's just continued to fester. And so, you know, in terms of them working together, there's just this layer of distrust. That continues to sort of cause issues in terms of when they're trying to work together. But just to put a finer point on what happened in terms of this brawl or this threat, I mean, this was a A huge opening night for a new nightclub in Washington, D.C., for sort of the MAGA rich and famous, owned by Don Jr., Ahmed Malik, who is very close to Don Jr. and very a wealthy businessman and financer who's close to Donald Trump.

Everybody, like it was like the who's who of Trump World who was there. Cabinet officials, top aides, like the most powerful CEOs and You know, everybody's just having a grand old time chit-chatting and then This starts to happen, and the club owner, Malik, actually had to try to. Separate them. He ended up trying separating them. And at one point, Besson said to him, You need to decide: it's me or Pulte who's going to stay.

And then he looks at Pulty and says, Or do you want to go outside? And Pulte's like, to talk? And he's like, no, I'm going to beat your.

So, like, it was an ugly fight at like the most. A sought-after dinner invitation in town.

So quite the gossip here in Washington. And the Treasury Secretary also didn't he now, didn't he push Elon Musk into the wall? I don't know that if that ever got physical. I know there was reporting in April, obviously, about the two of them coming to blows right, not coming to blows, almost coming to blows right outside the Oval Office, such that President Trump actually heard. The altercation, right?

And that also, by the way, was about a turf war, right? It was about who. Who was choosing to be the acting IRS commissioner? And IRS is under Treasury's jurisdiction. And yet, Elon had sort of found a way to convince President Trump to pick a guy that he was backing over a guy that Besant was backing.

Now, Besant won that fight. And I don't mean the physical fight, he actually got his guy in at Treasury or at the IRS. But, you know, it's just so funny because he comes across as so like measured and soothing on television. And yet the man has some sharp elbows and a temper. Rachel Bader, yes.

And my last question to you, Rachel, is your reporting. Does it show that he's being well respected on both sides, the Treasury Secretary? He seems to be a voice of calm, even for Democrats. Rather, hear from him mostly. I know he does very well on the Sunday shows.

Oh, yeah. I think there's no doubt that in terms of if you pick who Democrats would would say they're most comfortable with, he's one of them. And not just them. I mean, like, it's Wall Street, it's business CEOs. It's more traditional Republicans on Capitol Hill.

There's just sort of a comfort and a belief that he knows what he's doing. I mean, there's a reason he became so wealthy and he is very successful and that he knows economic issues and that he's gonna be a good counsel to the president. And I think that's why President Trump keeps him around. He's sort of Trump's Wall Street whisperer. Yeah, he does listen to, they listen to each other.

How about that? Rachel Bate, always great. It's an exciting time to have your job, right? It's never stopped. I don't care what you think, it never stops, correct?

I have said to people, I don't know what we're going to do when President Trump isn't the president anymore. Like, are we going to go back to Biden days? Because it's going to be a lot less exciting. Absolutely. Yeah, a lot going on.

So, thank you for having me on, Brian. Go get him, Rachel. Thanks. When we come back, we'll open up the phones, bottom of the hour, talk a little football: 1-866-408-7669. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

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We know that the crime needs to be addressed. We know that the economy needs to flourish. We know that we need national security. We know that we need strong borders. That doesn't mean that you can't be a Democrat if you believe in those things.

It means that the party has changed because it's been taken over by folks on the extreme left, and others need to stand up and say, Hell with that. Hell no, we're not going down like that because they will go down on a national scale if that's the vision for America from their seat. There's no way it's going to work. That was Stephen A. Smith doing some great analysis, just saying that he's a Democrat.

He cannot go along with what's going on in New York with that mayor's race. He can't go along with what Bernie Sanders is saying. He can't go along with not coming down on crime. This guy's from Hollis, Queens. He knows what crime is.

He also knows the victims of crimes are often people in working class, middle class areas. The other people in gated communities, yes, they can be victims, but not nearly as often. And they can get in a car. You see, this woman gets stabbed after working in a pizzeria at 23 years old. You know, if she had a choice to hop her in the car, I'm sure she would have done it.

But you don't have a choice.

So you're the most susceptible, and all these people are.

So when you're sitting in a mayor's a governor's mansion or a mayor's house and you say, I don't want any help from the federal government, how dare you? If you could make streets safer. for fed with using federal dollars. And you just show an interest in working with the president. You get that done.

You know, he's only in charge of DC. He's not in charge of the other states. He's really got to be asked to get in, although he's sending ICE in. Right now. uh in a midway surge.

In Chicago, to try it because they just left four TDA members, gang members, out of jail. And they didn't even tell, give a heads up to ICE. They all got to be deported. Why is that hard? Gary Myers is next.

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Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Tom understood his role on and off the field, how to help the team. He prepared extremely hard individually on his fundamentals, his techniques. Tom, I feel like, got the best out of me because he was so well prepared that I felt like I had to keep up with his preparation. I think Coach saw something in me that he could work with.

We had quarterback school, and there was me and Coach Belichick. We'd sit in there and we just were football junkies from morning, noon, night. That's all we did was talk about football. That is Tom Brady and Bill Belichick going back and forth, talking about what they meant to each other.

Now they're in good terms. I think when Belichick left, I don't think, excuse me, when Brady left, I don't think they were really speaking. It was Brady. I know we had the pandemic going on, who just basically went and saw the owner and said, okay, I'm going to get out of here. And he said, fine, we understand.

Gary Myers is here. He's the author of a brand new book called Brady vs. Belichick: The Dynasty Debate. Gary, welcome. Brian, it's great to see you.

How many years in the NFL now did have you been? Writing for the end of the year. It's 1978. Pretty amazing. Yeah, I can't add up anymore.

So, how many? I don't know. It's like 47 years. What intrigues you about this debate? Probably between Belichick, Kraft, and Brady.

People want to know who's most responsible for the most dominant dynasty in football history.

Well, I exactly. I mean, I think it's the greatest unanswered question in NFL history when you evaluate the 20 years that the three of them were together before Tom left. it's easier to say, Well, look, you know, Brady won a Super Bowl when he left. And Belichick struggled. without Brady, so it's got to be Brady, but The argument I make in the book is it's a lot closer, and I do think it's Brady, but it's a lot closer than people think because I judge it on Brian what they did together.

I think what they did apart is irrelevant because the circumstances were different. you know, Belichick and Cleveland. It was a tough circumstance when Model announced in the middle of his last season he was moving the team to Baltimore. And then when Brady left New England, Belichick did a bad job because he didn't have a successor in place. Tom picked a ready-made situation in Tampa to go win a Super Bowl, because the team was good.

Just needed pandemic year, too, was bizarre year. They just needed a quarterback who wasn't going to throw 30 interceptions like Jameis Winston. But to me, that's irrelevant to what how you evaluate. The nine championships, I mean, the nine Super Bowls and the six championships, the 17 AFC East Championships. That's what they did together.

So that's what I evaluated before I came to my conclusion.

So when you look at the 49ers and you look at Cowboys, you see stars everywhere. You know, you know, the big three, the triplets, I understand it. But you saw stars everywhere. And they were without the salary cap.

So you can go grab everybody you want, grab a 32-year-old, pay him too much money, and get him for a season. But now with this, you saw Belichick just picking people out of the scrap heap. You're like, where's the big running back? You barely had it. Randy Moss, a big wide receiver.

Okay. It didn't matter the pieces around. You just needed those three. Yeah, I mean because uh Tom was able to make up for any deficiencies around him, And Uh Belichick took advantage of that.

Now Part of the downfall in their relationship is Belichick, I mean, Tom always took under market contracts to give Belichick more maneuverability under the salary cap. And everybody always thought Tom was this great team player. He wasn't worried about the money. He was just worried about winning. But when Belichick didn't make good use of that cap money and his drafts were terrible, his free agent signings were bad, and it became more and more on Tom.

It became a struggle. On the other, I mean, the second point was: Belichick never changed the way he treated Brady. He always treated him like he was a sixth-round pick. And by that, I mean he was always really critical of him. He knew Tom was thick-skinned, and that, like, if my quarterback, who's won a bunch of Super Bowls, can take to criticism.

then the 40th guy in the roster is not going to complain. But the last five or six years, you know, Brady was just saying uh Enough already, okay? Uh you don't need to pick on me for throwing interception and again we won by thirty points. And he Bella checks just kind of wore him out and then he didn't want to pay him. And Tom said, you know, he redid his contract.

He says, I'm out of here after 2019. Nobody was going to believe he he was going to leave until he actually did. I actually thought that if I was at that Atlanta Super Bowl when they came back against Atlanta, they're down 28-3. Yeah. I thought.

Jason, by the way, they were going. If they had lost that Super Bowl, Brady was gone. That's just my gut feeling. I just thought that they were going to use it as an opportunity to say: look, our best days are gone. He's not as good.

And we're going to make a change.

Well, if you remember, Brian, I think it was the second quarter of that game when he threw the pick six. It was a terrible throw, and I can't remember who took it back, but it was like seventy five yards. And like I thought the lasting vision of Tom's career in New England was him lying flat on his face Making a not a half-hearted, but a weak attempt at trying to tackle. um the guy who was running with the interception and he just looked old and he looked done. And I thought that picture was going to be like why I tit YA Tittle with the blood running down his and Willie Mays in in center field for the Mets.

That was going to be like the the last image we had of Brady. And then All hell broke loose, starting with 18 minutes to go in the game. Greatest comeback ever. Here's Bill Belichick announcing. Oh, here's Bill Belichick announcing that he's leaving the team with Robert Kraft at his side.

Cut one. Robert and I, after a series of discussions, have mutually agreed to. Um part ways. And uh for me this is a day of um you know, gratitude and celebration. Yeah, the fans here are amazing.

Um There's so many memories of the fans, the send-offs, the parades. It's with just so many fond memories and thoughts that I think about the Patriots and I'll always be a Patriot. What really happened that led to that press conference? I mean, was the ineffectiveness of Belichick after Brady left? Yeah, he got fired.

I mean, they they can phrase it any way they want. And Kraft has since come out and said, you know, when I let Bill Go, you know, he's never used the word fired, but he was fired. He just finished four and thirteen. Three non-playoff years and four years. The one year we made the playoffs, you remember they lost by like 30 points in Buffalo.

It was just enough. Brian, after Belichick won a couple of Super Bowls, the gratitude that he had. Uh towards craft for hiring them had dissipated And he went, instead of having Kraft in his inner circle like he did at the beginning, he went to treat him. Like he treated everybody else like You know, stay away. You know, this is my business.

And your son, too. Yeah, I mean Jonathan too. Jonathan was I mean, Jonathan and Belichick never got along. I think Bill just completely resented him. Um Maybe you thought of one of those guys, you know, was born on third base, you know, that kind of situation.

And So at the end. Um Bill wasn't getting along with Brady. And Bill wasn't getting along with Kraft. Kraft, after they beat the Rams in that Super Bowl 13-3 after the 2018 season. If that didn't happen, He was going to fire Belchek.

and sign Tom to a new contract. But then he's you know Belichick keeps telling him, you know, Tom's at the very end, and then Belichick just had an incredible game plan to hold that Rams team to three points. Kraft is thinking, well... You know, this guy's got something left in the tank. He can still coach, and he's telling me my quarterback is just about done.

So after the next season, they let Brady go. Kraft has since said he regrets that decision. The wrong guy. Right. So Belichick now says no patriot is allowed to scout at North Carolina.

He goes, I'm not invited in that building.

So you're not in, so they're not invited to me. And then Vrabel, his former player, now coach, came out and said, I think he's invited here. He's always welcome here.

So what's the reality? Yeah, I mean, I don't know where Bill is getting that from because I was there a year ago, June, when they had the Brady Hall of Fame. uh thing at at at the stadium. They had sixty thousand people there and Belichick was there. The fans gave him a two-minute ovation.

He spoke for a prolonged period of time. I don't know that since then he's had an occasion to want to go back to Foxborough. Anyway, now he's in Nantucket. And now he's in Chapel Hill. When is he going to Foxborough?

True or not. Brady, Arthur Blank was ready to hire Belichick. Arthur Blank speaks to Kraft, and Kraft basically says you're going to lose control of your team.

Well, I mean, I don't know that firsthand. But you've heard this, right? Oh, absolutely. Kraft did speak to Blank, and the two of them are close, and at that point. Kraft wanted to know part of Belichick, so I'm sure he's not telling all of the things.

author, go out and bring them in.

Now, whether you're to don't hire them. Again, I don't know that firsthand, but I have read that and I can't say I would be surprised if that happened.

So in terms of whatever problems Belichick and Brady have, they're over it. Here's Belichick talking about Tom. Cut too. After every game, Tom always was, we left a lot of points on the field, we can be better. We might win by 30 and it'll be like, you know, we could have won by another 20.

You know, I missed this pass, we missed that play. You know, he's always striving for perfection. And think about Tom, you think about improvement. That's really what football's about. You play once a week, you got six days to prepare, six days to improve and get ready for the game.

You know, Tom Brady was a fourth-string quarterback. I mean, who has a fourth string quarterback? and ended up being the greatest player of all time. And so that's a lot of work, that's a lot of dedication, and that's a lot of commitment and discipline.

So he's really the poster boy for improvement and consistency. Do you think he means it? From all I can tell, I think that the time away has healed a lot of the wounds that were there, and they've come to appreciate what they meant to each other. It's almost like Mike and the Mad Dog in broadcasting, right? They hated each other, and then when they get away, they go, Wow, I can't reply to you.

But this is on a little larger scale than Mike. I hear you. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, when you think about it.

Brady needed Belichick. He might not have been drafted. As Bill just said, he kept him as a four-string quarterback. He kept him after Blitz, so he was healthy. Bill was telling people before the second game of the 0-1 season, which was the first game after 9-11, he was telling Jets coaches on the field, if I don't get this thing turned around, I'm getting fired here, even though it was only his second year and Kraft had given up a first-round pick for him.

And then Bledsoe, who he didn't like him, and then he suffers a life-threatening injury.

Now, obviously, no coach wants this player to get hurt. But that was the turning point and probably the best thing that ever happened to Belichick because Kraft, I mean, Brady saved Belichick's career like two years earlier. Belichick saved Brady's career.

So early on, as they won those Super Bowls, they really appreciated each other. But they started having this success and who gets the credit. And Tom became, you know. larger than life in New England. That's when the problem starts.

You know what's so interesting is if you want to be great, he's okay, he did it. Shocked everybody as a six-round pick. I understand a part-time player in college.

Okay. But maybe you needed that extreme lack of gratitude and the dismay from Brady every day to go, I can't believe this guy treats me like I'm a backup wide receiver or third-string running back. And maybe you needed that to have that greatness to say, I'll show you. Here is Brady. By the way, we're talking with Gary Myers, who wrote a great book, Brady vs.

Belichick, the Dynasty Debate. Here is Brady roasting Bill Belichick at his famous roast cut three. Everybody asks me which ring is my favorite. I used to say the next one, but now that I'm retired, my favorite ring is the camera that caught Coach Belichick slinking out of that poor girl's house at 6 a.m. a few months ago.

Hey! You still got it. Respect, baby. But we've been through so much, and after two decades, I finally had to admit that all along it was you. You're the reason for the Patriots dynasty because you, Bill Belichick, you are a true coaching genius.

I mean, you had to choose between an aging, injured, overpaid Drew Bledsoe and a young, healthy, minimum-wage superstar. I could have gotten a f. Coach from Foxborough fucking high school to make that decision. Run it again, Belichick! I've been out of the game for a minute, so I'm curious.

How many Super Bowl rings have you won since I left? Maybe it's not just the guy on the sideline. When I go to the Indy 500, I don't ask the winning driver, hey, who gassed up your car? Great. Great stuff.

I want to know who his writer was. I mean, Tom's got a good sense of humor, but that was pretty good. Right. But in reality, I think they respect him. But right now, Kraft, I always felt was an underappreciated peacemaker.

He had to deal with both and keep his mouth shut, and he did. And you're did Kraft help you with the book? You know what? Would you rather not tell me? No, no, I'll I'll say.

After that Apple Tenport series documentary. Which craft I mean, I think he had a part in putting that together. His name was at the end of it. But they felt. The Patriots as an organization felt burned.

that And so when I approached the Patriots about talking to Kraft about this subject, they just said: if it wasn't for that documentary, he would talk to you. But I had spoken to Kraft.

So many times over the years, I had a lot of material. Great for business. Yeah, I really liked him a lot.

So I didn't, you know, it would have been nice to talk to him, but I talked to so many other players. One thing I want to tell you.

So Jimmy Garoppolo. Who was a backup quarterback? Who was supposed to be the heir apparent? Right, and Tom kind of pushed him out. I asked him, okay, is it Brady or Belichick?

And he said, Kraft. I go, really? He goes. He put out a lot of fires. And he's the one that kept it together.

And there is some truth to that.

So interesting. Anything else, even Gary, you're the most experienced, well connected person arguably in the NFL. Is there anything else that you found in researching that really caught you by surprise?

Well You know, I've always felt, Brian, that Tom Brady Sr., who I really like a lot, He says What's Tom the qu what's on the Tom the quarterback's mind, but Tom can't say it himself.

So the the things he told me for the book. I just envisioned that at some point his son was telling him, and then Tom Sr., who didn't like Belichick at all. was just uh verbalizing and If my theory is correct, The animosity that Tom Sr. has for Belichick, if Brady shared that. during his playing career.

then it was much worse. Did anybody could have possibly imagined. And that was so interesting. They're really over it. For his dad to hate him, it shows a lack of appreciation.

It must be something else because he knows what it's like to have a tough coach in football.

Well, yeah, I mean. The thing with Tom Sr. is he understood what Belichick was doing by picking on his son and all that, but he thought there was just a point it should have ended. And he felt there was just a lack of appreciation. All the nice things on those clips that you played that Belichick said about.

Brady, if he said, Fifteen per cent of that to Tom when he was with him They probably would have gone off into the sunset together.

Well, Belichick's got some personality issues. And real quick, on his girlfriend, this is really changing the way he's perceived in a bad way, I think. I I couldn't agree with you more. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and pass judgment on a man's life. But when he's going out with a girl who's He is younger than his three children and is young enough to be his granddaughter.

I don't know. I just don't get it. And how about taking orders from her and letting her control the shoots and Practices and Uh Brian I mean, I I've known him since 1979. And um I have to say, I'm really shocked. I mean, she's 50 years younger.

And do you think he's going to have success in North Carolina? It was one-on-one. I think that he will. It's going to take a little bit. He's got 70 new players this year.

He's got to turn the roster over one more time. I think so, too. It's just going to be interesting seeing the whole NIL game. Congratulations on the book, Brady versus Belichick. Everything you do, Gary, is worth reading, even for people who think they know everything.

You're going to learn a lot in it. The dynasty debate continues. It'll be a long-lasting debate, but this will help fill in the gaps. Gary, congratulations.

Well, thanks a lot. It comes out next Tuesday, the 16th, and it's available to be pre-ordered wherever you like to pre-order it. Awesome.

So go do it. Gary Myers, thank you. Thanks a lot, Brian. It's Brian Killmade. The fastest three hours in radio.

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A shot to left field, seats away from the family. Drew Feltwell grabbed it and handed it to his grinning son. A perfect moment until a woman in their section came over. I don't mind that she grabbed me and was standing there, but. She was leaning over me as I was leaning back and just screaming in my face.

Like vulgar curse words in front of my kids. And that is just one of the controversies that just happened with the Phillies fan. This woman had a ball in her vicinity. The man picked it up, gave it to his son, and this woman comes over who looks a lot like Elizabeth Warren and just steals it, but just shocked him, right, Allison? I mean, he was totally shocked, but then what happens now is this company blowout cards is offered this unknown woman $5,000 if she turns the ball over, but writes, I'm sorry on it.

She should probably do it. Also, I think, does the kid get a ball? The kid got a whole bunch of stuff from the Phillies. He got a bat signed, and now, yeah, a whole gift bag got to be the player. It's just insane.

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