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It's Brian Kill Me. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. This is Brian Kill Me Chow. Thanks for being here all week long. Mike Tobin at the bottom of the hour talk about Operation.

Midway, that they're actually in the middle of now with ICE over in Chicago, trying to straighten out that place. He's Fox News senior correspondent there: crime, gangs, immigration. It's called Midway Blitz. Congressman Jason Smith is around, the chairman of House Ways and Means. Man, does he have a lot of pressure on his shoulders?

There's a vote today to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government while they negotiate the rest of the budget for the year. Democrats want to make their stand. They've actually been able to accomplish almost nothing. Frustrations through the roof. They think by shutting the government down, Republicans will get blamed.

Will they? Let's get to the big three. Number three. I think he's a very fine guy. more liberal than me.

Uh I think he should take a very strong stand on the immigration. It's really hurting him badly. Trump's three days at the UK. The jaunt was a spectacular success as today the big talk. Impactful talk with President Xi.

Huge stakes, including the TikTok trade and a possible summit we review. Number two. I haven't read the former vice president's book, and she's going to have to answer to how she was in the room. And yet, never said anything publicly. I was extremely vocal with his staff about my concerns about his fitness to be able to run for another term.

And what about to be president, period, Governor Josh Shapiro? A family fracture. Kamala's book could do more damage than she thought possible. As the release date nears, now in the crosshairs, Josh Shapiro, Mayor Pete, Joe Biden. As Joe Biden's chief of staff lets Congress know, Joe wasn't all there.

Or actually, they are possibly ever. Number one. We as entrepreneurs, everyone in this room, I think it's one of the things that makes this country so exceptional and important, I agree, because it creates new wealth, it's new risk in the marketplace, and it's that constant competition is always refining us towards a better version of success. Absolutely, that's capitalism. Charlie Kirk's memorial just two days away.

It looks like the stadium will be sold out as we find out more about the assassination, his partner, the assassin's partner, and the chances others. are involved.

So, there's a lot of action in Congress, and of course, there's a lot of heat and rhetoric in Congress. If anybody thought things were going to calm down because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I think just the opposite has happened. I'm not kidding. If you look at what Omar said, the Talib brawl yesterday with Byron Donalds, what was going on with the way Cash Patel was treated by the House and the Senate and the Oversight Committee, there is nothing but anger and hatred between the parties. Chairman Jason Smith joins us now of Missouri.

Congressman, welcome back. It's great to be with you, Brian.

So I can't say that from what I see, the temperature's down at all since Charlie's assassination. Not at all. If anything, Brian, in my opinion, just by how I've seen. It's actually Yeah. even increased, which is very disappointing.

You know, I I was looking at something this morning that I thought was so amazing and it was a video of President Trump getting off of Air Force One and talking to reporters and being notified for the very first time of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing, someone who was a huge critic of him. And the compassion and humanity that President Trump did in response to finding out for the very first time that one of his most liberal opponents had just passed. That is what All of my colleagues should be doing instead of saying some of the most horrendous things I've ever heard. It tells a lot about their character. Listen to this: Rashida Tlaib and Byron Donalds, Cut 33.

And I think it's really important we need to stand up against this. Fascist takeover, that's not a bad word, it's a fact. Will the gentlelady yield to a question? Yeah, I think it's really important. I don't yield.

I don't even have time. I can tell you. I think your time is expired. It is expired. But, Mr.

Chair, but you all live here, and you're not telling people the beautiful parts that you do see in our nation's capital. And no, no, no, it's just wrong how we're doing. Chairman, I think it's insane that the gentlelady doesn't have an argument, but she's going to refer to me and some of my colleagues. Mr. Donald, we were from the Third Reich.

This is the game. It's insane. And I could play it another five minutes. I mean, all she ever does to leave is scream. I mean, every time we see her, she's screaming at a podium, she's screaming at Trump, she's screaming, we're going to impeach him.

I mean, why she's even in Congress, I don't get. I mean, what service she's doing, but can you explain this attitude? I can never see you in a situation like that, no matter what the issue is. Brian, it's so unfortunate when Democrats tend to be losing public debates. The way that they respond is by yelling and screaming and pulling out various Accusations and false statements.

It's just been a constant process. especially in the House of Representatives. The leave has been one that has led the way there. I mean, this is a member of Congress who embraces terrorists. and terrorist organizations.

That is That is gonna hurt. Like And so I It's so insane to me that There's 750,000 people in this country that thinks that she's a good, duly elected member. of Congress. Yeah, I mean, it's part of maybe our area of the country that's let a lot of immigration in, and maybe they have a different idea of where our country is heading and where we've been.

So let's talk about dollars and cents and talk about a shutdown. Here is Mike Speaker Johnson on the agenda today. Cut 43. All this is working well, but we're coming up on the end of the fiscal year, September 30th.

So we need a few more weeks to finish this good work.

So what we did in a responsible manner as Republicans in charge is we offered a totally clean short-term CR to get that job done. Chuck Schumer saw that. He returned a counteroffer that is filled with partisan wish lists and poison pills and demands. It includes, for example, Brett, what Chuck Schumer is arguing for. He wants to reinstate free health care for illegal aliens.

He wants to add $500 million to prop up liberal media outlets. And he wants to add a massive $1.4 trillion spending hike. to what should be a simple seven-week stopgap funding measure. We can't do that. We're not going to do it.

So, where do you go from here? I think he laid it out perfectly.

So, if it gets past the House, and that's not going to be a layup, there's a lot of people in the ideologies in the House on the right that don't want to do any CRs. But if it does get past your chamber, I think that Chuck Schumer wants to take a stand here. You know, you're exactly right. It's not going to be a layup in passing this continuing funding today. We can only lose two at the most of Republicans because the Democrats have said crystal clear, they're not going to be supportive.

They want to shut down government. But we're going to get it passed. But it's definitely not going to be easy. Brian, I'm completely hopeful that The Democrats will not stand in the way of government funding over in the Senate. They're sending those signals that they're going to.

The Democrats counterproposal, just like the Speaker said. will cost nearly $1.5 trillion. It erases all the savings. that we had in the one bit beautiful bill. Democrats are once again They're once again.

including their wealthy friends and illegal immigrants Ahead of what's best for the American people. And we're not going to stand for it.

So you guys did all your bills, right? Didn't it get through the committee process? We did. Yes, we did one of the funding bills through the approach committee.

So they've only done three in the Senate.

So, why do they go take an August break? They're not done with their work. I don't go on vacation if I'm not done, I don't leave the office if I'm not finished.

So why is it okay to finish three appropriations bills and take August off and then say, oops, I can't hit the deadline? It's not okay. I mean, Brian, you're one of the hardest working reporters. uh in the business and so your your way of thinking is how it should be. Congress Has a very broken process in the appropriation system.

Let's fix it. Get it done. We know that funding ends September 30th every year. Why don't we do this and get it done earlier? It's beyond me.

So I like to talk about something as it relates to the China and trade. The President's going to be speaking to the Chinese President today. In speaking with Senator Thune and Senator Joni Ernst, soybeans. I'm not a farmer, no background, but I know what it means to the farmers. They've had an incredible crop.

China will not buy any. Will not buy any.

Soybeans, even though our our product is better by almost all accounts. That is That's just being vindictive? I mean, is that on the. Is that. And I know you care a lot about this.

Do you think that's on the agenda to talk about today? And how do we break this cycle? And are there other customers out there so our farmers aren't forced to eat this crop and we have to pay them out? You actually absolutely can guarantee that this is part of the discussions that the president will have today with the Chinese president because That No. Mm-hmm.

China is the largest of purchaser of U. S.

soybeans than any other country. And like you said, they have stopped that. And it's to make our farmers hurt. And our farmers are hurting with some of the lowest commodity prices that we've seen in decades. The input cost have only went up.

But They're they're prices for a bushel of soybeans are now lower today than they were decades ago. the problem and it's because You have two billion dollars worth of soybeans being refused to be purchased by the Chinese.

So this is a very important position. I'm glad Senator Thuon and Senator Ernst is also pushing it. I've been pushing it with the president. If there's a China agreement, they're going to have to come to the table on following through on their agriculture purchases.

So you said 80% of the farm bill was in the Big Beautiful Bill, and you stood there at the State Fair in Missouri, and you were telling people that. Why was that important? It's absolutely. Absolutely important because the Democrats wouldn't come to the table, Brian, to renew the expiring farm bill. And so that's why we had an agriculture title within the Big Beautiful bill, and 80% of it was in it.

For the first time in nearly a decade, we actually. Actually, readjusted the preference prices for all the commodities like rice, cotton, corn, soybeans. This is extremely important. To our farmers and our ranchers, and it's all delivered within the one big beautiful bill because the Democrats would not come to the table.

So, what I one thing about Republicans, they do understand that without the farmers, there's probably not President Trump. I mean, he he knows that the the farmers really support This president and what he wants to do, but they're worried about the trade deals and what's it going to cost him.

So, what are farmers worried about? We know we talked about the soybeans. What else are they worried about? You know, farmers are extremely important. Uh we would all starve.

If it wasn't for farmers, grass would grow up in the streets if it wasn't for farmers. They're the backbone of our economy. What they are concerned with is those commodity prices. They are so thankful for the tax certainty that they got out of the one big beautiful bill that will help their businesses because every farm. is a small business.

And But Um are a huge impact. The eight Agreements that we have, whether it's the United Kingdom, whether it's the European Union, or Japan, or the Philippines. Those have Been very promising for opening up more agriculture markets. But think about this. When Trump left, The Oval Office, and Joe Biden came in.

We had a $5 billion agriculture trade surplus. When he came back into office, On january twentieth, we had a fifty billion dollar agriculture deficit because the prior administration was out to lunch and did nothing on trade policy.

So when you look at the tariff revenue, we all worry about the thirty seven trillion dollar debt. We think, how are we going to grow our way out of it?

Well, we can debate the tariffs, where we're getting the money, but we are getting hundreds of billions of dollars. Are we literally, just for the layman here, and you're the Ways and Means chair, so please d indulge me. When this money comes in, can we actually go to our mountain of debt and pay that down? Are we doing it like is that the way it happens? Right now, it goes into the general revenue fund.

And I give the example of just the month of June. In the month of June, that was the first time since June of twenty sixteen That we actually had more revenues come into the U.S. government than we had expenditures. We, in fact, had a $26. Billion dollar surplus.

It never happened in the Biden presidency, and it never happened in the prior Trump presidency, and it's because of those tariffs. That we had more revenues and expenses. It's only one month. We need 12 months like that, but it is moving in the right direction.

So and The impact of tariffs on the budget. Are you concerned? I mean, not every Republican is on board with the tariffs. And I know some business people and some auto manufacturers are a little uneasy about it as we try to work at the details of these trade deals. How does Jason Smith feel?

You know the terror? are an important tool to make sure that our friends and allies and trading partners are treating us. Fairly. That hasn't always been the case. Even with our good friends, Mexico and Canada, they have not honored.

Free trade agreements under USMCA for the longest time until President Trump. Came into office, Mexico refused to purchase our U.S. corn, saying that it was poisoning their people. And then you have Canada that has been really not abiding the terms of the USMCA over dairy.

So Tariff is a way to Hold accountable when people are not following through with what they agreed to and treating us fairly. But they needed be strategic. They need to be smart. And that's what the President's attempting to do. President had an extremely successful two or three day trip.

Any clear-headed person who isn't biased would understand that, the respect he was shown. I want you to hear what Trump said about Putin, Cut 28. You know, I'm disappointed in Putin, I'll tell you. I'm very disappointed in him. I settled Seven wars at least, but I settled seven wars, all of which they said were not settleable.

The one I thought was going to be easiest was going to be Russia-Ukraine, because of my relationship with President Putin.

So I'm disappointed.

So, where do we go from here? 20 to 30 seconds, Congressman. You know, the president is virtually the parent of the world. He's trying to create peace. He has been working very aggressively to eliminate the war in Ukraine, but his his his partners in a negotiation such as Putin are not easy people to deal with.

But you know what? I wouldn't I would Trust that President Trump will be able to get it done. It may take more time, but he'll get it done. This seems to be bipartisan sport for Ukraine. Congressman Jason Smith, thanks for all you do.

You make it to make it easy. I know you're dealing with hard numbers and just trying to balance the country's budget. He's chairman of Voiser Means. Jason Smith, thanks. We'll be back in a moment.

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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Killmead Show. Hey, we are back. Mike Tobin's going to be joining us now, talking about Operation Midway Blitz. He's finally in the studio.

You know, he's always in Chicago or traveling to Israel.

So I wanna get a perspective on Gaza too. He also, by the way, Mike. Uh climb Mount Everest. Um That is something I've really never met anybody that client mine ever. But if you see Mike, you see what an athlete he is and what kind of fitness level he has, which should not really surprise you.

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And you know, I'm privileged to have with me in studio, if you're smart enough to get the stream, Mike Tobin. Fox News is senior correspondent. Usually see him out of Chicago or over in Gaza, wherever there's turbulence, if there's a disaster. Send Mike Tobin, you know he's going to be okay. Also, if you want to go to Mount Everest, you might see him on the top because he did that too.

So, Mike Tobin, welcome to the show. This is the first time I think you're in studio, is it? At least in this floor. I think so. No, I did a radio hit maybe with you about, I don't know, 15, 20 years ago.

Wow. That's a long time.

So, first off, how's everything going? You're a married guy now? Yeah, married guy. Busy. All the time.

Married. Got a new house, so I'm always behind in the house. And Whenever I think I'm going to get caught up, uh Guys in Hamas get to dictate my schedule. Are you handy?

So you do your own stuff? I make multiple runs in Home Depot. I start a project and realize I bought the wrong size screw. I got to go back. But the fact that you'll be hands-on has me jealous.

Because I look at that, I look at how it's so complex. There's always a problem I think I need an expert for. You don't feel that way. No, I try to fix it myself. And step one is screwing it up.

Right. And then realize what you did wrong and fix it and fix it the second time. Oh, you mean try, try, and try again? Yeah.

So, Mike, what's going on? Operation Midway Blitz is on in Chicago. How would you describe it? And do you think it's working?

Well, is it working? That's a tough one. Because if you're trying to just combat The violence in Chicago.

Well, most of the violence in Chicago is black on black. The uh the the gangs are all fractured and splintered. The big gangs, you know, the uh gangster disciples, black disciples. They used to have strong central leadership. And now they're just a bunch of clicks.

It's not uncommon to have a click from the Black Disciples fighting another click from the Black Disciples. And then they go and they shoot them, they shoot the wrong guys, and you get a bunch of new vendettas. That's where most of the crime is.

Now, Operation Midway Blitz is targeting illegals and picking them up one by one, as they promised. They find a guy. The other day they got one guy who had been released from prison. Uh For murder? He was in for murder.

He was released. And Because of the sanctuary policies, the Illinois Department of Corrections didn't tell ICE that they had this guy.

Well, this guy had an order for removal.

So they went and got him.

So you're seeing a lot of operations like that. There was one guy who was a U.S. citizen who got picked up by Border Patrol. And as soon as they found out that he was a citizen, they let him go. But that was front page in the trib.

Right. And then we find out with Governor Pritzker standing next to a Magawan vast, and he's like a hardworking guy. It turns out the guy is resided as criminal, right, and illegal. Right. He was wanted in a few different states.

He posed with the governor, and then he was also involved. I don't know that he was illegal. But I know that he was allegedly involved in that smash and grab at the Louis Vuitton store that ended with one innocent person being killed. And he was posing with the governor just days before. Is there any doubt that the governor's acting like a guy run for president?

No, no, he's and and the f frankly, this immigration, you know, stepped up immigration in Chicago is the best thing that ever happened, his campaign. He's loving it and he's in the fight every day and He tried to politicize a Kirk assassination. Uh to his own gain. And it's all quite obvious what Governor Pritzker is doing. In a way, so you want to say you're standing up to Trump for illegal immigrant criminals.

So you're standing up to Trump, who is giving you free law enforcement, whether it's more FBI, more ICE agents, or National Guard, which evidently is a terrible thing.

Well, he's all anti-Trump all the time. And that's how he's banging the drums.

So if Trump comes in heavy, it gives him an opportunity to turn up the volume and do more pressers every day. Do you do you feel is just from what you know? Do you feel as though there's um You could walk around Chicago. Are you more concerned about crime than you were five years ago, less concerned? Yeah.

And I don't let my wife ride the L. I don't have many rules in my house. One is that she can't ride the L, and she says, fine, pay for the Ubers, so that works out fine. But it's not usually like that. If I told you that 15 years ago, to take mass transportation is that dangerous, you would have said, Brian, of course.

Of course it's not. You know, there's always danger in everything, but you'd still do it. Right. Right. And uh The criminal creep is real.

The bad parts of town have always been the bad parts of town. The south and west side of people, you know, Jim Croce wrote about it, you know, south side of Chicago, bad baddest part of town. Um but they they The gunfire there is part of every weekend. in the bad parts of town. But the criminal creep is also real.

What you see a lot of these uh crews, they'll um they'll steal a car. And then they go around mugging people. And you can watch them on the Citizen app as they just go from one place to the other, hitting people, and you can see them pop up on your phone. And uh body of mine. got mugged and he said the um He was going to work early in the morning.

They'll steal the car about midnight. and then go around mugging people. And he was going to work about seven in the morning. He said the only thing he noticed was a car pull up alongside of him abruptly, and then he got hit in the head. That's it.

And that was it. That's it. Yeah, he's okay. Um here's Brandon Johnson on his view. of cops.

Jail? Listen. The fact of the matter is, no one has asked me to send federal troops into this city to make it safe. It has never come up. It never came up during the campaign.

It's never come up in the first two years. The fact of the matter is, we are driving violence down in this city and we're using every single resource that's available to us. Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities. I'm going to work hard every single day to protect the people who are caught up in violence in this city. Guess why?

You wanna know why? Because the vast majority of them look like me. S law enforcement's a sickness. That is an interesting uh perspective. He he bangs on the uh uh on the uh statistic that Violent crime is down in Chicago, and it is.

but down from dramatic highs. 800 I think were k were killed at the hunt. And so you still have um A lot of violence. I was talking with Gary McCarthy, and he pointed out the fact that. Gary McCarthy is a former police superintendent in Chicago.

He's on our air quite a bit. And he says the real barometer for crime. is not Murder. Because murder i it 75% of the time someone who gets killed gets killed by someone they know. There's some kind of connection with them.

The real barometer for crime is burglary. Or not burglary, but uh robbery. These muggings and whatnot. It just shows that there's anarchy in the city. It's random.

Yeah.

And when Brandon Johnson makes a point that. Uh I'm I'm trying to remember the exact wording there that uh That uh policing and and jailing people is a sickness. Is is a sickness or it doesn't make anything better.

Well, it prevents anarchy. It hasn't gotten better, but it hasn't been worse. Right. When you have numbers, when 45 people get shot in a weekend and 16 die, and you say there's no problem, I mean. Politically in reality, what what world are you in?

Well, it's not sixty five and it's not twenty two. Yeah, you're right, but why do you accept that? Help's coming in.

Well, and the the people paying the highest price for that is the people in the poor communities. Yeah.

You know, you don't it it the areas where I live. It's not as bad, but it is creeping out. River North used to be an area with the it still has all the nice restaurants, et cetera, but there's shootings at River North now. Here's more from one of the most unpopular mayors in the country. He doesn't talk to black mayors about what it's like to live in communities that have been disinvested in.

So no, we're not going to Succumb to the sickness and the evil that Dr. Teen warned us about a generation ago. This is a group project, but we're not going to allow the President of the United States of America or any of his ilk. Look at the work that we're doing across this country, and then now we're experiencing some level of reprieve, and now he wants to put his name on our paper. Wow, that's an interesting scenario that I don't think Donald Trump can get his head around.

Do you really think Donald Trump's looking to put his name on the success of Chicago crime? We'll put his name on our paper too, a kind of a throwback to his only experience, which is being a teacher.

Now he's the mayor of a marriage. And he's remarkably unpopular, Mike. How would you explain that? 22% approval writing. How do you do that?

I'm surprised he's up to 20, 20. 22%. I saw as low as 18. Yeah, he was.

Well, I thought he was single digits for a while there.

So how what happened? I mean, how could no I mean, he did get more votes than the other guy who was a moderate Democrat. It was interesting. Paul Vallis, and I know Paul pretty well. And I think that.

Two things happen in Chicago is one, Everyone underestimated the power of the teachers' union. And they've got a They've got an amazing ground game, the Teachers Union. They had the teachers out knocking on doors, canvassing for. Uh Brandon Johnson's. Where Yeah, we've just gotten through Chicago just gotten through Laurie Lifewood as mayor.

And I think the pragmatists and the conservatives in Chicago. got comfortable and they said, Well, they're not gonna elect another wokey. And Chicago just went a state a step deeper. To someone who just sees everything through the prism of race. It's craz crazy.

Right. I mean, because I looked at it as r like a spectacular failure, but compared to what happened next, he thinks he could run for president.

Well, and it's interesting. I got to give Rom credit for a couple of things.

Well, one, Ron was a triathlete. And so I use the same cycling paths that he had built.

So I'm kind of grateful for that. The Riverwalk in Chicago. Oh, he's a triathlete. I didn't know that. Yeah, he does.

And by the way, I beat him. You did? You do triathlons too? I don't really train for them. I just kind of rock up to triathlons every now and then.

Wow. And it was a thing to beat Rahm. Not that it's important, but I beat him. Yeah.

And it sounds like it's important. Yeah.

But yeah, he did a great job with that. The Riverwalk, he did a great job. But Laquan McDonald. He can't escape that. The city paid $5 million to the family of Chicago.

Yeah, LaQuan McDonald was killed by a Chicago police officer. It was brutal when you look at the videotape. We didn't get the tape for a while. Yeah.

And Rahm Emmanuel paid $5 million to the family.

Well, Rahm Emmanuel didn't, the city of Chicago paid $5 million to the family. And and that's when Ram Emanuel Fired Gary McCarthy who was police superintendent. Which g Gary McCarthy's fingerprints just weren't on that. And it was it was political so But we'll see, Ron was a and Ron was a strong man. And the Chica city of Chicago has always had you know, the dailies, strong mayors.

Yeah.

And uh now we've got Brandon Johnson just He sees race in everything. He seems in he he's in over his head, I think. I don't offer my opinion much, but there.

So let's tell me how did you end up on Mount Enverst? Tell me about that challenge.

Well, it's kind of a long story. I've been climbing for a long time, just keeping myself busy. And when I was in the Middle East, I used to zip over to the Alps. To get away from the Middle East and climb the Eiger and the Matterhorn. Bunch of the mountains out there.

And I just kept going. And when I got back to the States, I started going down to South America, knocking off the big peaks. And then I climbed the sixth highest mountain in the world, Ch'o Yu. is what it is. And uh it went well.

And everybody on the team turned around and climbed Everest. You're not climbing by yourself? It's always with a team? Yeah, always with a team. Yeah.

It would be so lonely to be up there without. It was a month on the mountain. Really? You'd go crazy. And uh And the the the team from Cho OU turned around and knocked out Everest.

and I had to get back to work. And then I uh was intending to come back the next year and climb Everest. But then COVID happened. China got shut down. And so it was a long time.

Last October, the guys at Alpenglow is the company. By the way, they just put out a video. I haven't seen it yet of our Everest club. Oh, really? Yeah.

So we don't know how to get it? For people. Yeah, if you look at the Alpen Glow website or Alpenglow social media, they'll have links.

Okay. And you can look at it. And then on October, a guy named Griffin Mims called me and said, We got a spot on the team. And it was great. And I climbed with the same sherp I climbed Cho OU with.

And so he and I have been in the death zone, death zone together twice. How wh wh how much What does it take to climb that? I mean, it's not just time. I mean, you need to be an athlete. You're pulling your body weight up through cliffs, right?

I mean, it's. Preparation and stubbornness.

Well, you get a lot of prep. I went out to the course in Chicago, we don't have any mountains. I got a place in Utah, so I went back and forth there to train a lot. But in Chicago, I would drive out to the Indiana sand dunes on the shores of Lake Michigan. And I take the same sandbags that the cameramen use.

And put them in a backpack and run up and down the dunes for six hours. What is wrong with you? I mean, dude, were you an athlete in high school? Yeah.

I was a gymnast. Oh, really? Well, gymnastics w and wrestling and I box too.

So, all the short guy sports. For some reason, I gravitated to sports in which a short guy could be. You must be loving real American wrestling on Fox Nation. Did you see the first episode? No.

Freestyle Wrestling. Really? Yeah, we are the official carrier of Fox Nation. It was supposed to be Hulk Hogan's freestyle wrestling, but sadly he passed away. But his whole group is doing it.

So is it real wrestling? It's wrestling, freestyle wrestling, collegiate wrestling, USA wrestling. It's real. Are the wrestlers getting paid? Yeah.

And they have one-on-one in champions instead of teams.

So I'm surprised you haven't seen this. You will love the next events coming up at Penn State.

Okay. They'll sell the place out. And the wrestlers, you could be a 35-year-old U.S. Olympic champ against a 22-year-old NCAA champ. Is it collegiate wrestling?

Is it Greco? Is it what? Pro, it is freestyle. That means you're on your feet. The whole time.

So how do you win? Points. Points. Okay. Points and pins.

Can you pin a guy? Oh, yeah. Points and pins. And you get additional points for throws, and they're trying to make it a little bit more dynamic.

Okay. So they're adding some incentives there. Very successful. I love wrestlers are the hardest workers. They get no fame except for a handful.

So this is their moment. There's a bunch of people who want to give them that moment. That's absolutely. Mike Tobin, you have to watch. I'll do it.

For all the short guys out there with big necks. Real quick, where do you think Gaz is going? It's a quagmire, I think. I think this is gonna I'm not very optimistic. I think that the Israeli forces are going to get in there.

I think that the Palestinians are going to take pot shots at the guys. I think you're going to lose some soldiers, and then they're going to have to. They're going to have to respond. to the violence there and that's when you get into the quagmire. Uh my hope is they kill enough of them to get those hostages out uh because they're they seem to be in those tunnels.

Yeah, they're they're spread out around Gaza. At least that's the latest threat from Hamas is that they're spread out and Unfortunately, the hostage will always be vulnerable until you get him out. Mike Tobin, doing a fantastic job. Thank you, buddy. And the fitness stuff is just beyond explanation.

I cannot wrap my head around it. It is incredible. Back in a moment, that was Mike Tobin. Back with your calls and just around the bend. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

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So that was the premise. I knew he was hosting, but my DBR, I only tape Mondays because I just want to hear what Jon Stewart has to say. Obviously, I do think he's funny, even though we're also he's got his point of view. But so instead of just saying an expletive full filled song when Stephen Colbert was told he was being fired slowly, this time he just kind of mocked it. And I think it's smart.

And you know why? They all have the same agent. Stephen Colbert is the same agent as Uh as uh Jimmy Kimmel. As I I think Adam Carolla. as well as Carson Daly.

They all have the same age. I don't know who represents Jimmy Fallon. I'm not sure he's in that clique. But Jimmy Kimmel is not fired. Right now he's suspended.

For further notice.

So the question is, if he wants to keep his job, what does he have to do? Does he want to do that? Does ABC see the blowback happening right now and thought, okay, it's as bad as it is, we'll suck it up and just going to move on? Last time when they got rid of Stephen Colbert, they say he's losing forty million dollars a year.

So I'm not sure if Jimmy Kimmel's losing money. I know he gets paid $17 million, the ratings are down, but there's other ways to make revenue with these shows online, on YouTube, but those clips go viral. I never see them anywhere. I mean I don't. I mean, there's certain shows you miss and you go, wow, that's a good show.

I saw that on Instagram. That's a good show. I saw it on Facebook. I don't get TikTok. But We'll see what will happen.

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Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, it's going to be a big hour. Welcome to you to 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, but we're around the world, not just in New York. Pierre DeBos is going to be with us, managing partner of Romer DeBos. He's going to give us an idea where this housing market can get out frozen with the rate cut.

Can we start getting houses at a different rate? Can we start getting mortgages at a rate in which we're not going to feel as if we're leaving money on the table? Uh, with our interest rates, so many people are not moving because they have three percent interest rates on their mortgage. Why would I do that and have a six percent on the house? Maybe I don't necessarily have to move into.

So, why it keeps everything frozen? We have that rate cut. We're supposed to get two more. What is it doing for the housing market? What could they actually do to unfreeze it?

And what about this New York City mayoral race when he talks about freezing rents? What's that going to do for landlords? Andrew K. Smith is going to be with us today. He's got 500 restaurants.

He's the ultimate entrepreneur, and he was the last man to interview Charlie Kirk. Within an hour of their interview, Charlie Kirk would be dead. His reflections on that. It'll be a special on Fox Nation. Also, we have some cuts from that interview.

Josh Trashauer is standing by from Fox News Radio, his political analyst.

So, let's get to the big three. Number three. I think he's a very fine guy. uh more liberal than me. Uh I think he should take a very strong stand on the immigration.

It's really hurting him badly. Yep, day three, that three-day journey in the UK, the jaunt was a spectacular success.

Now today, pressure on the president as he talks with President Xi, TikTok. Is this going to be a done deal? And if the deal gets done, will the algorithm be sold with it? Because if it stays in China, you might as well have just left it intact. Number two.

I haven't read the former vice president's book, and she's gonna have to answer to how she was in the room. And yet, never said anything publicly. I was extremely vocal with his staff about my concerns about his fitness to be able to run for another term. Yeah, what about his fitness to run the country, Governor Shapiro? Family fracture.

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Now in the crosshairs, Josh Shapiro, Mayor Pete, Joe Biden, and the chief of staff of President Biden speaks out, didn't take the fifth. And Job's not going to like what he hears if he in fact can understand it. Number one. We, as entrepreneurs, everyone in this room, I think it's one of the things that makes this country so exceptional and important, I agree, because it creates new wealth, it's new risk in the marketplace, and it's that constant competition is always refining us towards a better version of success. And that is the voice of Charlie Kirk in his last interview.

By the way, the memorial for Charlie is two days away. We're going to look at the stadium sold out. We will find out more about the assassin, his partner, and the chances that others are involved. We know this about the investigation. The transgender roommate of Kirk's assassin was previously kicked out of his parents' house over issues surrounding substance abuse, gender identity, and persistent video game addiction.

Lance Twigs, what a delight. And Josh Krashauer joins us now. Josh, welcome. Hey, bro. Brian, good to be back with you.

Hey, Josh, could you put in perspective what these last two weeks have been like, last week and a half have been like? as more people like Elon Omar Uh Jasmine Crockett. In the entertainment world, Jimmy Kimmel. are being skewered by the way they they're handling this assassination. Yeah.

it it goes to show that like the information ecosystem that a lot of the the left wing the blue sky uh progressives are consuming is filled with lots of misinformation and Yeah, and it's just a total disconnect from from just the political violence that that that that that that Charlie Kirk fell to. You know, the the the the it's it's kind of depressing, frankly, bro. to see some of the reactions. uh and and and and not have the kind of empathy and compassion you would normally expect. But um look I I I uh The bar has gotten very low these days and and so nothing very little surprises me anymore.

I just want people to hear Elon Omar, who didn't get censured for Democrat, for Republicans, decided not to do it. They were going to remove her from her committee assignments, cut five. Charlie was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd. There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate. Complete rewriting of a complete rewriting of history.

Yeah, there is nothing um more effed up. These people are full of s. And it's important for us to call them out. I mean, everything she says is astoundingly naive and ignorant and anti-American, and that's just another one.

Well, and it's taxing. And it's not by the way, Brian, as you as you You know, well, no, it's not the first time. Ilhan Omar has gotten in trouble and has basically Possible censure for her comments, anti-Semitic comments, all about the Benjamins early on in her congressional career. And it's been a pattern with her rhetoric. across her tenure in Congress.

So I mean again, low bar. This is someone who has made a habit of saying the most sensitive and and uh sense of things. And yet, um, you know, it it actually was a handful of Republican uh members of Congress who ended up preventing uh Omar from being censured.

Some of the the the folks that have been uh more on the the the kind of the right wing side. Uh but that that That ended up preventing that center from actually happening. I want to get to things that are important, like not shutting down the government. But instead of talking about that yesterday, maybe working on some bipartisan agreement of a continuing resolution until they can fully fund it in November, all we heard about was Jimmy Kimmel, the martyr. How dare Donald Trump, who is basically tied up in the UK, we pretty much saw him on camera for the last three days, not affecting Jimmy Kimmel directly.

Jimmy Kimmel, who since 2022 had had 61 Democratic guests, two Conservatives, 97% of all his guests are liberal.

So it clearly is basically a show that belongs on MSNBC, but so what? It's done. And among the people that said. Start talking about things that matter is Senator Fetterman. He just came out and said, stop talking about Jimmy Kimmel.

Let's just talk about what things are going to help the country. But listen to what the Democrats did yesterday, Cut 17. This is just the latest chapter in Donald Trump's ongoing campaign. To crack down on free speech. We saw the government step up and give a hard shove, and then we saw a compliant.

company turn around and I suspend. Mr. Kimmel. This is so serious, Aaron. America is a less free place if late-night comedians cannot do and say what they want.

When I see you are wearing a hat, what does that hat say? You're damn right I am, John. I was a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel show. This moment know that our democracy is on the line. By the way, what a great booking.

Give that booker a race. You got Swalwell. On a late night show? Wow, so he's going to wear a silvenir hat on television.

So that's it. I looked at what Senator Fetterman said. He said, everything is just a national freak out. If um If a late night host got put on hiatus, that's a national freak out. If we shut down the government, there's a serious national freak out.

I don't think we need a shutdown right now. It's wrong. But at least we should work on that.

So, what was it like? I mean, look at what Washington was doing yesterday. It's like there are no other issues in the world. Jimmy Kimmel's future. Yeah, that yeah, you know, that's an interesting juxtaposition, Brian, that we are at the verge perhaps of a government shutdown.

Uh later this month and And the conversation in a lot of media circles has been the shutdown of Jimmy Kimmel's TV show.

Now, look, I. I think I think you know, but look, the the Democrats They're definitely thinking that they have an issue here. And look, I think a lot of folks in the administration from Tamboni, who normally has been pretty on message, but Her comment that the Trump administration may be going after hate speech, she ended up walking that back, and then you had the FCC commissioner sounded like he was threatening the market is going to fix. The stuff, I mean, the audiences, we've talked about this before. You know, Colbert was losing on CVS was losing $40 million, I believe, tens of millions of dollars.

And there's a market aspect to this where a lot of these shows are losing audience. They're not getting conservative viewers. And that's gonna work itself out. I I think the the overt government, you know, FCC Commissioner, Attorney General kind of making threats about speech or what what what what what what broadcasters can can put on their on their airwaves. That's not I mean I think that's giving Democrats uh an opportunity indeed.

And I expect you're not going to be hearing the last of it in the coming days. No doubt about it. Just real quick, before we go, the chance of a shutdown? I I think it's uh pretty high. Uh Chuck Schumer, I think may have uh gotten burned by his base after after deciding not to shut down the government that the laughter passed.

It was interesting. John Fetterman was on Fox earlier this week, and he said he was a. He was going against many of his Democratic colleagues. He wants to make sure the government stays open. But I don't think many other Democrats in his party are Following suit, and if you don't have the 60 votes, it's going to be very difficult.

So I think we're going to have a grinded-out process. And we may end up having a shutdown. And then who gets blamed? Who's gonna get the pain? Why would I it only helps the Democratic base, it doesn't help the Democratic Party.

We we've seen this before in government shutdowns past, that if you're in the minority, you don't have the power, you don't have the influence.

So I I do think if this gets gets drawn out, I look, I I think the Trump administration is is is perfectly fine to to see the consequences of what would happen if the Democrats don't give Representative. Republicans who vote to keep the government open. Yeah.

Yeah.

Consequences.

So I and this could could get drawn out for some time if we end up not not going through this process. Yep, and you'll be chronicling it all. Josh Crash Hour, thanks so much. Coming up next, Andrew K. Smith.

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The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. The point being is that we as entrepreneurs, everyone in this room, I think it's one of the things that makes this country so exceptional and important, I agree, because it creates new wealth, it's new risk in the marketplace, and it delivers for the consumer, the customer, and the citizen. New ideas, better products, and it's that constant competition is always refining us towards a better version of success.

So that is, of course, Charlie Kirk. But he's speaking to Andrew K. Smith, Ronstaurantur, co-founder and managing director of the Savory Fund, and the last person to interview Charlie Kirk, a man he got introduced to through, because he knows Charlie Kirk's cousin. And Charlie Kirk was coming at the tenants, why don't you do an interview with me first? He does it at the Entrepreneurial Conference that Charlie Kirk is really an entrepreneur too as he grew up turning point.

And Andrew, you had no idea that day would be Charlie's last interview. What's it like hearing that just now? Yeah, it it's still surreal. I mean, you're I'm still kind of grappling with it. I think that my team is too.

I think that the people that were in the audience, we had five hundred 50 people in the audience listening to this interview. I don't think any of us knew. How to I think we're still trying to figure out how to process it, but. It's hard to hear when you say that, too, because it was just a week ago. I mean, it's hard to understand.

The last interview is available now on Fox Nation, right? It is, yes. It lasts how long? 34 minutes. And I honestly, I could have talked to him for hours.

It was that easy to talk to that guy. And I'm sure he's very interested in you and how you did it. You got 500 plus restaurants in your fund and the people in the audience and how they did it. And he talked about the risk that they took. In what way was he like you guys?

Yeah, I think that entrepreneurial endeavors is really kind of the great equilibrium, right? For all backgrounds, political backgrounds, opinions, ethnicities, doesn't really matter. Entrepreneurship is in all segments of the industry, right? For us, when we were talking to him, it was easy to talk to him about his entrepreneurial journey because it all applied to everybody that was in the audience as well. And you didn't really know anything about him, but the more you learned about him, the more you liked him.

Because you maybe had some preconceived notions. Sure, I did. Another conservative guy that thinks that Trump is great, and I don't know how many in my audience is not going to like that.

So it's a risk for you when you have a conference to bring in any idea logic. It was a total risk. And initially, when Brian is his cousin, Brian is the president of one of our companies, Houston Hot Chicken, around the country. And he said, Hey, listen, why don't you talk to Charlie? And I'm like, Isn't he kind of divisive?

It's like, well, You know, maybe, but you should talk to him because you really built a great business. I had a Zoom call with him. We talked for 45 minutes. And at the end of it, I said, man, I'm really impressed with your entrepreneurial mind. Your business mind is fascinating to me.

And what you've built, too. You have a thousand employees. That's a good-sized business in America, right? And 100-plus million in revenue and all the different things he's doing. He wasn't doing just TP USA, Turning Point USA.

He was doing so many other things. And I didn't know that. Either did I. What was he doing? He was doing real estate.

He was making investments into... crypto and crypto companies. He's made investments into funds. He was telling me he was investing into a bunch of different things. And then he had a couple new projects he was going to be launching later this year that were new business initiatives too that I will let his team talk about.

But at the end of the day, I'm like, well, your mind is like any other entrepreneur. And that is, you're gritty, you're passionate, you're excited. That was what I was really impressed with. And I said, you need to come tell that story at my conference because we all learn from each other as entrepreneurs. And he said, I would love to.

And when people heard him, At the end of it, they're like, I had no idea. And that's why with Fox Nation having it right now, You can see the real Charlie Kirk like I did, and everyone should watch it. Yeah, here's another clip. Let's try Eric Cut 8. The more I spend in the economy, both as an analyst and actually as a participant, The more I realize that so much of this is psychological, that if people believe things will be better, they will be better.

You guys are the top. Like the biggest one-to-one correlation of that statement that I could imagine. I agree with that. Either people eat out because they think things are good or they do not think things are good, right? And so.

I would say that the more that we can cheerlead the economy, the better. And the more that we can say that it's good, the more that it will be good. I would much rather be the United States than continental Europe right now. I would much rather be the United States than a lot of these other countries.

So That's true, right? It's incredible, right? It's a mindset. It's a mindset. And I think that it's all about optimism, though, right?

If we can be optimistic and we can push that off into others that are in the economy, the economy will start turning around because people will feel like, you know, things are actually not too bad here. It's a mindset. And he's way beyond his years to even say that because it's true. It's a momentum thing right now. If you think it's bad, it's going to be bad.

back to real life. His his team had to go. And they go out the back door and they're gone. How did you get word that he's been shot? How did you find out that he died?

Yeah, he and I took a picture in the back and he said, you know, it was a lot of fun. I would love to do this again. I love the entrepreneurial journey that I was able to share, but I also liked the vibe that I got in that room with the other entrepreneurs. It was very unifying in there. And it was not polit it was apolitical, the whole conversation.

And so as he was standing back there, he said, Hey, let's let's snap a pic. We took a pic together and he said, Let's talk after my event, walked out the back stairwell, got into the suburban and left. It was a forty minute drive down to Utah Valley University. I know that he was shot at 12:23, I think is what it was. He left me at 11:21 a.m.

So it was under an hour. And did you have to tell your audience? We did. We walked out and we actually announced it just because we knew that people would find out the wrong way. And so we announced it.

And yeah, it was a deafening silence and some gasps. And I think everybody was just like, he was just here on our stage, laughing and having fun and sharing wisdom that he had. It was wild, Brian. What about for you, knowing you're the last person he interviewed with? Yeah, it.

I think I'm still a little bit in shock, and I think that I'm going to have to figure out how to get through some of those feelings. But I'm reeling a little bit, and I keep telling my wife and some of my team members that I'm just trying to understand how. How close we all are to death if we're not careful, and how. We really do judge each other in America for the wrong things. Because if people would have really known what we saw at that conference and what we heard for those 34 minutes, I think people's opinion would have changed of them.

You know what I also feel part of me? What a waste. What a waste. Like the world needed him to live. Yeah, we need people like him across the board, people that are going to be bullish like him and optimistic.

And he was all that. I mean, the whole time we talk, and you'll see it in the interview that Fox is releasing. He is so optimistic and forward-thinking and I I don't think that He really wanted to just make everyone feel the optimism he had, and he did. Right. And by talking to people, it just removes a lot of the obstacles where people just say, I don't want to talk to him.

He's a Republican. I don't want to Democrat. And all of a sudden, but no, I want to talk to you. And then you engage and they listen. And if you listen, you could actually try to win people over.

That was his goal. That was his whole goal, and he accomplished it. Andrew K. Smith, the restaurateur, entrepreneur, but it's going to be known for a long time as Charlie Kirk's last interview. It is on Fox Nation right now.

Andrew, it's great to get to know you. And thanks so much for sharing the interview with us and our audience. Thank you, Brian. Don't move. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Kilmead. See what? Putting you over the top? Uh was this discussion about Donald Trump. Inserting himself into our local election.

That's probably what. Baby. Even more committed to work with to know that I could work with an individual who will stand up to Donald Trump. Shoulder to shoulder with me? What what an idiotic rationalization for deciding to endorse The frontrunner right now in the mayoral election, Zohram Mamdani, an avowed socialist that people listen to what he says, he sounds more like a Marxist, and he's not running from the socialist platform to the point where he's got the Democratic, the chairman of the Democratic Committee in New York, says, I will not endorse the guy.

So even if he wins, the Democratic Party is not going to be behind him, and he doesn't seem to care. If you do care if you're an investor in the city, if you live in the city, if you know his anti-cop attitude, anti-law enforcement beliefs, Pierre DeBas feels that way. He's managing partner of Romer DeBas. And Pierre, your real estate experts can really understand how it's going to affect us here financially. First off, the governor just basically acquiesced.

I don't agree with him in a lot of things, but since he's going to fight against President Trump, I'll be for him. It makes no sense. It makes zero sense. And the problem is that you're having local politicians more fixated on the White House and the issues that we have in our state and city.

So for Hokul to have that as such a factor in backing him, and the irony is, Brian, that he didn't reciprocate and back her for a rate. Because he did not endorse him. Hysterical, right? I mean, karma, and it's well deserved. But the mere fact that that's the impetus for why you're backing him, you should be backing the mayor because you believe they're going to be great for the greatest city on the planet.

That's why you should be backing the mayor because you believe in them. We're riddled with issues in this city. For that to be the predominant reason you're backing him is absolutely ridiculous. All right. Here's Mundami when asked about endorsing Hokul.

Are you supporting Hope for re-election? And if so, are you worried that her supporting you is actually going to hurt her among swing voters next year? You know, I tease you about being an immigrant father. about asking me about the thing beyond the thing. My focus is on November.

And I'm excited to have the governor's support in that fight. for November as we make it clear that we can put the days of City Hall and Albany being at war in the past. Right. Uh what the hell did that mean? Uh I'm an immigrant father.

I look forward to November. I am not endorsing Governor Hokkaid. Why? Because the person primaring her is to the left, the lieutenant governor. And That's what he is, way to the left.

So, Gillibrand, nothing, Schumer, nothing, Akeem Jeffries, nothing. Why? Because they understand your job. Your jobs are going to be affected. Have they already been affected with people projecting what it's going to be like with him as mayor?

You know, I wouldn't say they've been affected just yet, but everybody, the level of anxiety is an all-time high. And you're seeing this because right now, you know, unfortunately, the radical left has gone from socialism to communism. This guy's a communist. You know, like, let's just put it out there. He's a flat-out communist.

He doesn't like capitalism. He doesn't like capitalism. Doesn't like the police. I don't know how he thinks he's going to work with the billionaires, which he claims. He doesn't believe billionaires should exist.

But I'm going to work with the billionaires to help improve the city. It's completely illogical and belligerent.

Now, the problem is socialism is a seventh grade experiment, right? In seventh grade class, we take social studies and we talk about socialism. You don't apply socialism to the most important city in the world. You just don't do that. This city is based on the hardest working people.

It's based on capitalism. It's based on the fruits of your labor. You come here, every immigrant came to New York City in the 70s and 80s. They worked their butts off. I'm a prime example of that.

My parents were immigrants that came here in the 70s. They worked tremendously hard and gave me a phenomenal opportunity. And that's the American dream. And that's the beauty of New York City. This place is a melting pot.

It's not a place for having a socialist regime. And I joke and I call it democratic communism, right? There is a democratic communist.

So I just think that this is, I am befuddled how New Yorkers could actually be supporting this. And I'm praying that people go out there and vote in November and the younger generation doesn't dominate the election and get this guy in power.

So if someone says, by the way, can you tell the audience where you made your name in real estate? Like what do you buy? Where have you found your success?

So I co-founded a law firm in 2011 when I was about 30 years old, a real estate law firm. I'm a real estate attorney. I've been doing this for 20 years. I partnered up with my dear friend, Michael Romer, and we started a business as two attorneys, two kids that, you know, were. Dumb enough not to know what we didn't know.

And we worked tremendously hard. We worked tirelessly for the last 14 years and built one of the largest real estate practices in America. Today, we're sitting about 28 attorneys, close to 50 people total. We're annually ranked in the top five in New York City based on the volume of real estate transactions handled in the city. And our practice expanded nationally, and it's a great story to the testament of hard work and the fruits and benefits of capitalism.

Commercial or residential? Both. Both. And what do you think, for example, how's the market right now? The President knows and everyone acknowledges, Republicans and Democrats, that it seems like the housing market's frozen.

We watched the Chairman of the Fed come out and say, we don't have enough houses.

So what do you think? I mean, you look at the stats in the last two years, you had back-to-back years, a 30-year low in transaction volume in the housing market in America.

So it's a crisis. It's not a problem. It's a flat-out crisis because I always say, majority of Americans, they buy a home. Buying a home is an American dream, right? Buying a home is the predominant way for your average American to build wealth in their lives.

The barrier to entry is so high right now that it is completely impossible for your average American to afford a home. You had home prices go up over 50% during the pandemic until today. You've had now mortgage rates triple. Low rates fueled a lot of the appreciation of the housing market, a lot of the demand.

Now these rates, who's transacting? The affluent, right?

So if you really care about income inequality and the divide in society, why don't you help bring down rates to help the affordability issue to help your average American build some wealth? Because if you don't do that, What's the future going to look like for these people? It's not a bright future.

So, how do you jar the market? How do you rattle the market in a positive way?

So, you said if Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, middle-class America, they just say it's time for me to buy my first house or move to a bigger house. They walked into the bank right now and they have a great credit rating. What kind of interest rate could they expect to pay?

I mean, right now, the 30-year fix was in the low sixes yesterday, which is, again, a three-year low. And that's a testament to rates coming down. You know, the Fed funds rate doesn't directly impact mortgage rates. It's more tied to the 10-year treasury. But it does have an indirect correlation between the two.

And you saw that yesterday, Brian. Like, you saw a quarter-point reduction by the Fed, which is really nominal reality. That brought down mortgage rates to a three-year low. We need to get those rates down. You know, like, if they're in the 6% range, it's not enough.

Like, you need a 100-basis point reduction to improve affordability. And they said there'll be another one in December and then another one maybe earlier in the year. Would that be the type of schedule that you You entrepreneurs, you real estate people will be liking? Yeah, I mean, look, I would have liked to have seen 50 basis points yesterday. I wasn't holding my breath because, you know, inflation is not where they want it to be in quite a bit.

They're worried about the labor market. They're worried about the labor market, which is not good, right? You know, but Jerome Powell is scared of his own shadow. He's not going to take any aggressive move that could increase inflation. But you're right, the impetus for this was the poor labor stats.

But if you have a world where you can get to a rate environment of four and a half to five percent, you improve employment. Stock markets at a record high every day breaks another record high. That's three factors: lowering debt service, increasing employment, and job stability. Record highs of liquidity, that's a perfect storm for the housing market, right? That will help get that will help free up inventory, that'll get people off the sidelines, that will help people transact again.

The problem is the competition. That's my fear: is that your average Americans competing with affluent second home buyers and investors. You have to help create federal programs that. Great development in supply limited to first-time home buyer demographic and certain income demographics to help these people not have to compete against conglomerates.

Well, that's so interesting because are you someone I think is Blackstone or BlackRock that keeps buying up all these houses? They all are. They both are all of Wall Street.

So they're buying neighborhoods, they're redoing the houses, and they're selling them, they're in control of them, but it wipes out me selling my house, right? Yeah, I mean, think about it. If you're going in and you're saying, okay, I have 10% to put down, I need to get a mortgage for 90%, I'm going to live with a 5.5% interest rate, and then all of a sudden an institutional bank comes in and says, okay, we'll pay 5% above this guy, we'll pay cash. Who are you going with? They've acquired millions of homes.

I mean, I do. Do you think there should be some type of federal law against that? I think that they should be forced to sell all the homes that they bought within the next two years. You think it's unethical? Yes, absolutely.

I don't think housing should be considered. You wouldn't do that. No. And you could. Absolutely.

I do not think housing, especially for your average American, if they're buying homes $300,000, $400,000. You're only letting me lease them.

So if I go to a Blackstone or BlackRock home and I go in there and I go like to buy, they go, no, we're not looking for you to buy. You can rent. We want to get an ROI on you every single day, and we're going to have our price homes appreciated on an annual basis. I say, do you want to live in a world in 10 years from now when everybody's renting a home from Goldman Sachs? That's not the society we want to create.

So I definitely do think, I mean, look, I'm all for capitalism within reason, right? I do think that you have an existential crisis when it comes to housing if this is not addressed now. It needs to be addressed today. If you have reasonable regulation that limits Wall Street's ability to acquire single-family homes and you free up and you allow the American people to have the ability to enter the market, I think that's phenomenal for society.

something that's beyond reasonable.

So, okay, you're in New York City where the real estate's the most expensive in the country perhaps per capita, but there's people listening to us right now around the country who want maybe a work, you know, want a house worth maybe $300,000 or a $500,000 home, but they don't exist. Would you be for any, Kamala Harris talked about this, we're for building 200,000 homes with this type of government. Should the government play a role in any way, whether it's tax breaks or actually investment in some building of homes to give people an opportunity to get that house? Yeah, absolutely.

So I wrote a great op-ed on this, basically talking about government programs incentivize developers to develop housing for the medium income level in their needs. What kind of incentive incentivize developers? Tax breaks. Tax breaks. That's it.

Waive half of capital gains for that demographic and then have deed restrictions.

So my theory was that if you incentivize developers saying, okay, instead of selling to an institution, instead of building, say the average median price of a home in that neighborhood, take any neighborhood is $450,000. Don't go build a million-dollar home. Go build $450,000 homes, and we'll cut half your gains tax bill if you do that. And in conjunction, put a deed restriction that whoever buys this home has to be a primary occupant for the next 20 years.

So that way, you can't have somebody going in there and flipping these properties and taking advantage of these programs.

So you solidify the stability that this house can only be owned by a primary occupant for two decades. You provide a developer with a tax, a significant tax break to incentivize them to do this. And furthermore, I think that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should be offering preferential programs and loan products to borrowers below certain income levels. Right. They do an incredible job of supporting affordable housing.

Their initiative of affordable housing is great. It could be better. We can improve it. Uh so We have this mayor comes in and says I'm going to freeze the rents because I think New Yorker's got to be affordable for all New Yorkers.

Now play this out. Play out this.

So if you freeze rents, now Where are you going to have anybody have the desire to invest a dollar in New York City in terms of development of properties? Forget, I'm not talking about single townhouses, co-ops, or condos. I mean apartment buildings. You're going to create, you've already created dilapidated housing. Brian, you know, we have about 100,000 units of rent-stabilized properties that are not on the market.

They're just sitting there vacant and completely dilapidated because the economics don't make sense for the landlords to put them out on the market at the horrifically low rents that the city's requiring them to put them out on. It makes no sense. The landlord's saving money by keeping them empty. If you had a reasonably There are buildings out there with empty apartments. Why would you keep that?

Why why is it better for them financially to keep those apartments empty. Because it could be a rent of like six hundred dollars.

Okay. And six hundred dollars a month does not cover the cost of or the landlord of operating that apartment. You have to improve it, right? You have to improve the property. That's $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, $50,000, right?

You have to pay electric on it. You have to pay utilities. I mean, just insurance. It doesn't make sense. We're already dealing with this now before he gets in.

This is rent for yourself.

Well, this is a ripple effect of, you know, like I always say, we've already had a socialist mayor in New York City. Let's make no joke about it. Bill de Blasio is a raging socialist. I mean, we had eight years of this, and I'm still baffled today how he got elected twice. He created this mess by changing the rent regulations in 2019.

It was the most sweeping change in rent regs we've had in New York City history. And what it did is that it completely disincentivized landlords to improve properties because they could never get an ROI on the improvement given how the city changed the amortization of the rent increases in conjunction with improvement.

Now, this guy comes in and freezes rents, right? The problem is it's gonna take whatever issue you have today and compound it by 10.

So think about it this way, right? I always say: to create 100,000 affordable housing units, how long will that take? That would take a long time. How many buildings do you have to build to get 100,000 units? You can free it up in a year or two years if you change this regulatory environment to something that actually makes sense.

But if you have this communist coming in and he comes in and he compounds the problem by saying, you know what, this isn't enough. I'm gonna freeze rents, right? Which is really all false nonsense to go garner votes with all of the free stuff he's promising people that has no reality of actually happening. I'm gonna go freeze rents, then okay, fine. Number one, you just took the value of these buildings from already declined by 50%.

You completely started the valuation of them. Completely started a valuation. You've disincentivized every developer and investor of properties in America for wanting to put a dollar in New York City. And then what happens? Actually, I was in one of your Fox News articles talking about how this is actually intentional.

It's destruction by design. They want to bring down the value to peanuts, to pennies on the dollar, so the government can acquire these properties and create socialized housing. That's his goal. He refers to this the Vienna model. He's gone, he's had interviews about this before he was running.

But his goal is to create socialized housing. The way to do it is to take over these buildings. The only way the government can take over these buildings is by destroying the valuation.

So that's why I say it's communist and absolute Marxist rhetoric. And anything that we could do to stop it is going to work in everyone's behalf. Not Democrats or Republicans. Republicans, you got Curtis Lee, we're still fighting it out. Adams in single digits, and Cuomo, still 20 points down.

But people should understand exactly what we're buying into. Pierre DeBos, thanks so much for your expertise. We'll look forward to talking to you along the way. Thanks, Brian. Thanks for watching.

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And yet, never said anything publicly. I was very vocal with him privately and extremely vocal with his staff about my concerns about his fitness to be able to run for another term. But see, Governor Shapiro should have said fitness to actually run the country. Because if you really were speaking up about four more years, you had to be concerned about the current year. That is Governor Shapiro talking to Stephen A.

Smith. And when he was asked about how would come out, what you think about Kamala Harris coming out in a book and saying that when you interviewed to be the vice president, she thought you were too ambitious and asked for too many things. And she thought that he thought that was ridiculous. Pete Buttigieg came out and said, what about was forced to comment on the fact that she wanted to choose him, but she didn't think America would elect a woman, a black woman, a black woman with a Jewish husband, and a gay man. Thank you.

Appreciate how low how little you think of America.

So I thought it was pretty terrible personally. Let's go out to Ben in Texas. I don't know if this is helping up politically either. Ben, what's on your mind?

Okay. Brian, listen. You mentioned earlier the one of your guests. Um about the death of Charlie Kirk being what you you said, what a waste. And I would just like to beg to differ on that, if you would.

I know it sounds kind of crass. But it's nothing else. His death. Has created such a multitude of an awakening in this country as to who he was and to what he stood for. I mean, I knew Charlie Kirk just by looking at the different reels on him, but there were people who had never even heard of him.

And now, all of a sudden, bingo, look what's happened. And we, just by the testimony, I think there's like been over 37,000. applications on college campuses for Turning Point USA. I mean, this is a phenomenal increase. On just who he stood for and what he was all about.

What a great mindset, Ben. You're right. That is a great mindset. If you're going to die, you would love that to be how you be remembered with action and change and clips rolling of you and 70,000 people showing up to give tribute to you. But the He would have done a lot more alive.

I mean, literally, I said it to him on the show, and you'll hear it this weekend, Sunday at 10. After listening to him going back and forth, I'm like, Charlie, you're going to run for president one day. And then the president came out and said that he told him that too, directly. He just understood the issues, understood the people. And I'm not sure if that was one of his ambitions.

And then I hear how diverse he was in terms of what he was investing in. In terms of real estate, so the guy understood business on top of that. Not bad for not going to college. Listen to the all-new Brett Baer podcast, featuring common ground, in-depth talks with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle, along with all your Brett Baer favorites like his all-star panel and much more. Available now at FoxnewsPodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

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This is the Brian Killmeat Show. It's already been a busy morning, a lot going on. The House has just passed a continuing resolution not to shut down the government.

Now it goes just till November. If it's up to the Senate to get 60 votes and just continue to fund the government at the current rate while they finish out the appropriations bills, will they be able to do it? It sounds logical to do it, but Chuck Schumer got such blowback last time when he realized Democrats would be blamed and got some votes and passed it through the Senate. And next thing you know, every Democrat wanted to oust him and they talked about his time passing him by. And I'm thinking to myself, well, he actually did the right thing for once.

And he's getting the wrong message back. Tommy Laron at the bottom of the hour, Shannon. Bream, now. Let's get to the big three. Number three.

I think he's a very fine guy. more liberal than me. Uh I think he should take a very strong stand on the immigration. It's really hurting them badly. That is the President of the United States with the Prime Minister of England.

Very successful three days in the UK, spectacular business success and pomp and circumstance. But now, a phone call today with President Xi of China, the first official call poll between the two, and a lot on the checklist, including selling TikTok, getting farmers, getting a deal with the farmers, and let's bring an end to this Ukraine war. They're providing almost all the funding. We'll talk about it. Number two.

I haven't read the former vice president's book, and she's going to have to answer to how she was in the room. And yet, never said anything publicly. I was extremely vocal with his staff about my concerns about his fitness to be able to run for another term. Man, can't you see that Democratic debate stage after the midterms? They really take an aim at each other.

Now, Kamala Harris, family fracture. Kamala's book could do more damage to her political fortunes than I even thought possible.

Now in the crosshairs, Josh Shapiro, Mayor Pete, and Joe Biden. Number one. We, as entrepreneurs, everyone in this room, I think it's one of the things that makes this country so exceptional and important, I agree, because it creates new wealth, it's new risk in the marketplace, and it's that constant competition is always refining us towards a better version of success. You would think the Charlie Kirk Memorial, and that was an excerpt from his last interview. His memorial is two days away.

Looks like the stadium will be sold out over in Arizona, and we're going to have all the live coverage, the pregame, with the pregame with the Fox and Friends crew, with weekend crew just assembled. Griff Jenkins officially gets the job. And then there's going to be Lawrence Jones and Kayla McInani going to be doing the coverage leading up and through the event. There's going to be a number of very well known speakers that are going to be there. I think it's going to last hours.

It's going to be extremely important and hopefully Cathartic to witness. And then I'll be on at 10 o'clock that night and I'll recap it all and we'll put the whole two-week saga since the assassination in perspective. Let's bring in Shannon Bream, anchor of Fox News Sunday, Fox News chief legal correspondent. Shannon, there's so much going on in the play-by-play and the big picture. First off, it looks like the House got 215 votes, every Republican, no Democrats, to continue to fund the government.

But the House is going to be a big stop sign, isn't it? Excuse me, the Senate. Oh yeah, the Senate is going to be where the trouble comes because there's really no unity on a plan over there. I think they're going to have votes today on both Democrat and Republican-backed plans. We expect both of them to fail and then for everybody to go home for a recess.

So September 30th, the money runs out, and there's not talk of getting everybody back until like the 29th, 28th, 29th.

So I'm not sure what the long-term plan is, but I got to tell you, here in Washington, it feels like both sides are actually pretty open to a shutdown, feeling like they're going to effectively be able to blame the opposing side.

Well, tell everybody what happened to Schumer after he agreed to continue to fund the government last year. Yeah, he had a lot of pushback within his own party and from people like Congresswoman AOC, who a lot of people think is going to run for his Senate seat. There were a lot of folks who went off on him last time. He says this time around is different. There's no way he's cooperating with Republicans.

And so it's going to be a different vote from Mr. Schumer this time. Interesting. Kamala Harris put a book out 107 Days, and I thought, well, there's nothing going to come out of that. She's going to make it look like a political launching pad.

And instead, she makes it clear some controversial things. She got a call from President Biden right before the debate against Donald Trump, at which time he says, My brother says you've been trash talking me to others. She says he wasn't, and I don't know if she was or not. And then they said, by the way, you know, go win. I beat him bad last time in the debate.

Joe Biden actually told Kamala Harris that he'd be Donald Trump in the debate. And when it came to Josh Shapiro, was and the Josh Shapiro was on with Stephen A. Smith, and he was told in the book that in the book that they said that she Talked to him, and he was way too ambitious for the number two slot. And here's what Josh Shapiro said back, cut 18. I haven't read the former vice president's book, and she's going to have to answer to how she was in the room.

and yet never said anything publicly. I was very vocal with him privately and extremely vocal with his staff about my concerns about his fitness to be able to run for another term. So, Governor, can't you just see that debate stage already formulating now? What did you know about Joe Biden's decline? But the bigger question is: why was he president?

But go ahead, your response. Right, I think that man, she does call some people out, which I thought was very interesting. Like you said, I thought it would just be sort of a book like, hey, these are my ideas, this is what I fought for. I didn't really have the timing, but if I could, this is where we would have gone.

So I'm kind of pleasantly surprised, because who doesn't love a good Washington book with some inside scoop? I mean, she talks about all different kinds of Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats said she's going to have to face potentially on a 2028 stage, and she's already firing shots. Interesting to see the back and forth at a time when I don't think the party knows who's currently leading them. how they unify over some really difficult topics.

This book's only gonna, at least in the short term, create a little bit more division within the party. Shannon Bremar, guess. Shannon, also a Pete Buddha judge, was called out. They said he she said, I'd love to have run with him, but I'm a black woman married to a Jewish man. If I had a gay male, it would be too much for the people, which is, I think, is a bad thing to say about Which is a bad thing to say about the country.

Here is Pete Buttajudge in response to that when he got to him. He should not have run. And if he had made that decision sooner, we might have been better off. But it literally was his decision. Nobody else was able to make that decision.

And now in front of us, we're confronted with the decisions that come next, whether that's inside of a political party or movement, or as we're all weighing right now, in our own lives as Americans, as a country. And that's where we've got to focus.

So He is also making it clear. I don't agree with that. I think more of the American people, that's also a political answer. I think he clearly wants to run. Oh, 100%.

I think he's always running. I think that he has actually been one of the most effective messengers for the Democrat Party out there. But I do think we're at a moment where I don't know that most Americans care about the sexuality prong or the identity stuff. I think they care more about policy and ideas and whether they connect with you on your ideology. Maybe I'm ahead of the curve on that.

I don't know. I think that people are more concerned about where you are in politics than they are the rest of it. But I agree with the vice president. I think it would have been a lot at once. I mean, she would already be sort of a history-making individual and was as vice president.

You know, you don't want it to become a ticket that's viewed strictly on identity. But, you know, that's the Democrats' creation in many ways. It is in every way. Because, for example, we have a gay Secretary of Treasury. We have Rick Gridel, who is omnipresence in the Trump term one and Trump term two.

No one cares. We it just not an issue.

So Why is it such an obsession? On the left, because they're supposed to be the party that's liberal and more tolerant, more understanding, more forward-leaning on these social issues. But they're the ones saying, Oh, America would never vote for that. I think a Republican I mean, I think a Republican tick would more likely have somebody who is gay. I might, I mean, you know, you're right about Secretary Beset and others, and Rick Rinnell from ages ago.

I mean, was, you know. An ambassador, and he's held all kinds of positions in Trump World for a long time. I don't think that it's been an issue for Trump World. And so you may you're right, maybe Republicans are the one. They've got a much bigger tent than they used to have.

And for now, it feels bigger, at least by polling, too, the way that American people view the party, that it's the party now of the working class. Of all kinds of different factions of various racial and ethnic minorities have come together. And polling shows us that most Americans look at the Democrat Party and think of it as the elitist ivory tower, super educated. High-dollar party, which is, man, such an evolution of where things stood even 20 years ago.

So interesting.

So The Daily Show had an interesting take. Remember when Stephen Colbert got told that he was not going to be renewed, Jon Stewart just sang a song, and every other word was an expletive. Just be for his friend, who have they have the same agent.

So he decided he's going to host the Daily Show after news about Jimmy Kimmel came out. Again, the same agent. They're probably really good friends, I imagine.

So listen to his take, knowing that Jimmy Kimmel is suspended. He's not fired.

So I think that maybe they said don't poison the well too much, but listen to his take, cut 11. From Comedy Central, it's the all-new government approval. Daily show with your patriotically obedient. Jon Stewart. My name is Jon Stewart, and welcome to The Daily Show on.

I'm going to guess. Monday. I don't know. We have another fun, hilarious administration-compliant show.

So we're we're coming here tonight from from a real sh The crime-ridden. cesspool that is New York City. It is a tremendous disaster. Like no one's ever seen before.

Someone's National Guard should invade this place, am I right? Shut the f? If you felt a little off these past couple of days, it's probably because our great father has not been home. For father has been gracing England. with his legendary Warmth and radiance.

So I thought that was a humorous take on what's going on, don't you think? Yeah.

I mean Obviously, Trump has nothing to do with him being let go, but Trump doesn't like him, and he spends 97% of his monologue ripping Trump. But go ahead.

Well, and the thing is, listen, Nextar and Sinclair, which I'm sure you've talked about, I mean, these are private businesses and entities that can make their own decisions. And if they feel like a show is not serving their viewership or the markets that they represent and where they have products, You know, there's no ban or bar on them doing this. And you know, there's a lot of speculation, too, that ABC and Disney were in negotiations with, allegedly, with Jimmy Kimmel over his next contract. And maybe this provides them an offering, but they were looking for one, tag it on Trump. I mean, make it that it's, you know, he's a cancel culture victim, whatever.

And like you said, he may be coming back. I don't know that this thing is over over. Yeah, uh let's listen to a little more. The dismissal of a very well-known chat show host in America last night, Mr. Kimmel.

Is free speech more under attack in Britain or America? How dare you, sir! How dare you, sir! What outfit are you with, sir? The Antifa Herald Tribune?

Why I wouldn't even line my parents cage with your rag. There's a very reasonable explanation for what befell this scallywag Kimball.

Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago.

So, you know, you can call that free speech or not. Shut the f up! You may call it free speech in jolly old England, but in America we have a little something called the First Amendment. And let me tell you how it works: there's something called a talent-ometer. It's a completely scientific instrument that is kept on the president's desk, and it tells the president when a performer's TQ, talent quotient, Yeah.

Measured mostly by niceness to the president. Goes below a certain level, at which point the FCC must be notified to threaten the acquisition prospects for billion-dollar mergers of networks.

So there you go. I thought that was a humorous way to do it rather than just screaming curses. I agree. I mean, have some fun with it. I enjoy humor on whether it's Saturday Night Live or anywhere else.

As long as it's funny, I don't even care who they're going after, and sometimes it's one of us. But I mean if it's good, if it's well written, if it's well executed, then you know, why not? I think that let's of what people want from late night television, what it used to be, was entertaining. And remember Donnie Carson, I mean, one of the OGs of all time, said, I'm not going to get out there and talk politics because that's not what people want. They need a break from all of that stuff.

And I don't want to alienate half of my audience.

So I think that's kind of gotten lost over the last few years, fair to say. All right, so who's going to be on your shelf Sunday? It is going to be a roundup of talent from across the aisle. We have got Senators Tim Kaine and Roger Marshall to talk about this booming shutdown. We've also got Governors Stitt and Polis from a Democrat from Colorado, Republican from Oklahoma.

They've agreed to come on together to talk about how we turn down the temperature, have respect Where we go from here. And then we've got the guys from Ruthless, one of your favorite podcasts. And we're going to talk about this Kimmel stuff and cancel culture and where we go from here. Actually, you have all of them in? Do you book the whole cast?

Yeah.

They're all here. That's great. Gang's all here.

Now, what about you? We got Patrick. Yeah, we're going to be live for most of the show and because of the Charlie Kirk Memorial. And we're still working on some guests up top. We're also working, we have Robin Drake to unwind some of the assassination investigation, where we're finding out now about the roommate of the alleged assassin.

And we're going to have Patrick Batt David. He has interviewed him before, good friends with Charlie Kirk to put in perspective where we go from here, what you learn from here, and how to bring down the temperature. But no one's bringing down the temperature, Shannon. Who are we kidding? I could have played 20 cuts from they're just screaming at each other.

Yeah, no, no. I mean, definitely here in D.C. And you just saw the vote they just had on the resolution just to honor Charlie's life and to speak out against the assassination. Yeah, dozens of Democrats who voted no, dozens who voted present.

So listen, they've been at each other's throats here, still in DC all week calling, you know, the the Rasheeda Slaib and others, Congress members calling, you know, the right fascist and Yeah, the the the temperature has not been turned down. I can confirm. Shannon Bream, we're going to watch on Fox News Sunday repeated on the Fox News channel. Is that okay? And then I'm going to watch you.

That's all I ask. Chairman Bream, thanks so much. Stay safe. Back in a moment. Increasing your intelligence quotient.

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From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Gilmead. You know, I'm disappointed in Putin. I'll tell you, I'm very disappointed in him. Uh I settled Seven wars at least, but I settled seven wars, all of which they said were not settleable. The one I thought was going to be easiest was going to be Russia-Ukraine, because of my relationship with President Putin.

So I'm disappointed.

That is President Yesterday sitting down with Martha McCallum, and he says, I'm really disappointed he let me down. He's not telling me the truth. But what are they going to do with Vladimir Putin? I'd love to see some hard action. Hank, you're in Virginia.

What do you think should happen next in Ukraine, Hank? I think they need to rip the band-aid off the Putin because everybody knows he's just a liar. He's always been a liar. And that's just, you know, just who he is.

So we need to get Tough. He's not your buddy, Mr. Trump. Like like he says, he's tapping you along, but we feel like we're being tapped along. My fiancé is from Ukraine.

We all voted for Trump. We want to see some action. That's all. Um, and we'll see what happens next because it's one way or another, because the fighting has not stopped over there. They were losing thousand, you know, they're losing two or three thousand a week.

Can you imagine that? I mean, we had 25 years in war and people were wounded, and I understand that, but we never had close to these casualties numbers over the course of 20 years. It's incredible the way Ukraine has no choice, but the way the Russian people are digesting this. I mean, I just can't picture it. These are men in their prime being told they got to go to war.

Now, I understand these prisoners have no choice. They say, Oh, God, I'm going to get out of there. Maybe they think they're going to escape, but they're cannon fodder. And now. To the point where they're actually grabbing people out of Africa, Middle East, and North Korea.

But in North Korea, they pulled them back and they said they have enough Russian fighters.

So, until they, I guess, if they drafted the elite in Russia, it would be a different story. They said they learned that from Afghanistan: that a lot of rich people got drafted, died, and in a quagmire there.

So this time, They say they have no choice. I just think the Russian people have to be smarter than this. We'll see. The President thinks one of the things he could do is get everybody else to hit sanctions. On this on Russia, and then drive the price of oil down.

That is fueling their economy. We'll come back with more. You listen to the Brian, kill me, Cho. Don't move. I'm Guy Benson in for Dana Pareno.

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They file a censure resolution. And we're here. As grown adults. here to legislate. the material needs.

I'm not here to be fighting over whatever people's like schoolyard thing is.

So that is AOC, who is saying it looks like Elen Omar evaded being censured. It will be pulled off committees. About four Republicans voted against doing that, even though she had a despicable thing to say from the church yesterday and then a few days ago about Charlie Kirk and his legacy. Tommy Laren's here. Are you going to do outnumbered today?

I sure am.

So you outnumbered at the top of the hour. Congratulations to your show. This week it'll be 6 until 9 p.m. on Sunday. Yep.

But normally will be. 5 to 8, 5 to 8 tomorrow as well. The big weekend show. Yes. All right.

Then you're a permanent host on that. I sure am.

So you're going to get a lot of time, too.

So you can three hours. That's Fox and Friends like. That's a lot to work with, Brian. We've got a lot to discuss. And you also have Johnny Joey Jones.

Yes. Yes, as one of your anchors.

So what's your thought about AOC? Are the Republicans being petty? Are you disappointed that they didn't vote for censure? Listen. I don't like most things that Ilhan Omar says.

I think she said some really awful things over the years. And if we document them, you know, if we had AI make us a list, it would be a plentiful choosing for us to decide the nasty things that she said.

However, the back and forth, the censure, it's really more performative, it feels like. And I get the need for Republicans to want to make a statement. But for me, it's more the voters in her district. Are they going to keep voting for this woman who says these things? I would sure hope not.

I would sure hope that they would look at her as she represents them and think, you know, this person who has an awful lot of hate in her heart and really hasn't done anything for us, by the way, I can't really think of any legislative accomplishments of Ilhan Omar. Nothing. I don't know if you can. Does she even try? I'm not even sure.

I don't even know if she's put up any real legislation. And the same could be said with a lot of the squad members. They're really performative.

So I would hope that the voters would understand that, that she's not doing much for them. I understand the message that they want to send. But at the end of the day, I wish Congress would just maybe get something done. I know. And they voted today to pass a continuing resolution in the House.

Now it goes to the Senate, where I think we're going to look at a non-starter because it looks like Chuck Schumer wants basically the undoing of the Big Beautiful bill, which is not going to happen, in order to sign on to a CER. That gets us to November, where if the Senate did their job, all the committees would have passed their budgets and therefore we would have been at a conference because the House did their job with all 12 committees, appropriations bills. But I want to talk about AOC for a second. Axios has this story today where she's absolutely putting together a team to run for president, not sure if she wants to run for senator. And what she's doing to try it out is to go to places like Plattsburgh, New York, a conservative area in New York.

And giving a speech saying all areas of New York need to be addressed to see how she's going to be received, because we know that she can get socialists to show up, big crowds to show up. Do you think she's a viable candidate?

Well, New York's a different place.

So a center of the- Yeah, yeah. Oh, for the presidency? No, no, not at all. No, no, no, no, no. And again, the same thing with Ilhan Omar.

What has AOC legislatively, what has she ever done? Even if I disagreed with it, I still can't think of one thing that she's put forward legislatively that's gotten anybody else to really sign on to it or advance it. I know that she's a socialist. I know that she hates President Trump. I know that she loves the illegal aliens.

Loves Bernie Sanders. And Bernie Sanders. But beyond that, what has she done even to advance her own prerogatives? I haven't seen it. Most of these people are performative.

Most of these people want attention. They want to speak in front of crowds. They want to be on social media. They want to go on Instagram live. But if you ask them what they've actually done to advance anything, the list is pretty bare.

Right. So we also know a couple of things. Jeff Zeitz goes behind closed doors and basically says, you know, I asked Dr. O'Connor to give President Trump, excuse President Biden, a cognitive test. He said, I'll take it under consideration.

He's the one who took the fifth.

So Believe me, I'm sure Jeff Sey is saying as little as possible while still trying to save any credibility, but he's the chief of staff. And then we have a couple of people who said, I'm his cabinet secretary, and I was his spokesperson, I never met with him, Ian Sams. This is unbelievable. And then we said that Jeff Zeit said, Jill came in and said, You got to lighten up his schedule. You got to make things simpler.

Don't give him so much to read. He can't walk as much and don't do as many stairs. Yet they were still deciding whether he should run again, let alone continue to serve in that position. This James Comer's committee is uncovering things. People want a rest or anything.

That's not going to happen. But it's really showing a president that was exactly what his critics have been saying, skeptics have been saying.

Well I'll tell you what I think is more important than even the revelations or possible undoing of the auto pen and the pardons and all that, which I think is still important, but a lot of it is still performative 'cause it's probably not going to get done. What I think is important is this. What it does is disqualify anybody that was on that team, including Kambala. Anybody else that served on that team, that was around that team in that administration, that watched this go down and didn't blow the whistle, they should all be done in politics because they lied to the American people. They put our national security at risk.

So, to me, what's more important, it will actually be a result from all of this, is disqualifying people that should no longer be voices in politics.

So, in Kamala Harris's book, an excerpt shows that when asked about Governor Shapiro, when she put in a book about Governor Shapiro why he wasn't the running mate, he said, Well, he seemed overly ambitious.

So, I guess he had a big demand, you know, the word was he had a big demand of things he wanted to do if they were to win and he was to serve.

So, listen to Shapiro gets word of that, goes on with Stephen A. Smith, and said this, cut 18. I haven't read the former vice president's book, and she's going to have to, she's going to have to answer to how she was in the room. and yet never said anything publicly. I was very vocal with him privately and extremely vocal with his staff about my concerns about his fitness to be able to run for another term.

So He's trying to keep himself viable. Do you have any questions, Tommy Laron? I have a lot of questions for Kamala. How about for Josh Shapiro? Because you just don't want him to run again.

But if you really cared about the country, you should have said something flat out. Why didn't you tell the press? You don't even leak anything to the press that you had your team. I expressed my concern to the team about him running again. What about him running the country?

Right. Well, there were many Democrats that should have said something, but I will say this: in terms of him being too ambitious for Kamala, what that really means is he sounds better and is much smarter than Kamala. We can't have him at the bottom of the ticket because he will outshine her. And that was their concern.

So when I hear that overly ambitious, why wouldn't you want a vice president who's ambitious, right? You want somebody who's going to do something for the country. You'd think Kamala didn't want somebody who was smarter than her making her look worse because that's exactly what he would have done. Because the comparison there, that would have been bad. You never want somebody beneath you that's better than you.

So this whole thing with Kamala's book. She's not going to do herself any political favors. I think that this is her attempting to rewrite the narrative. It's only going to make her look worse. You know, my theory, I told you about it last night, would be if she wanted to legitimately be a contender, give up on 28, run for governor, there's really not much competition on the left unless that rich guy gets in, but Caruso, Rick Caruso, gets in.

And if she does actually a good job, if she goes and becomes a governor, I'd love taking over a mess because everything you do shows like an improvement. If she runs for governor and wins in California, in 2032, if J.D. Vance wins, you'd be set to run again because you could say, look what I did. But right now, what could she turn around and say, look at my accomplishments? She's gotten big jobs, but she hasn't got a lot done.

Well, that's not capable of being a good one. No, and I don't think she wanted to run for governor because I think she knows she would lose, and then she'd really be done, right?

So, if you lose the presidency and then you lose a gubernatorial race after that, she is done, then you're not even going to get the speaking gigs anymore. Right now, she'll cash in on the book tour and the speaking gigs, and maybe someone will give her a job somewhere. The thing about Kamala is she doesn't like to work for things, and you see that from all of her staff turnover and what they've said about her. That you know, she's not really confident in herself, and she really wants things to be kind of done for her. And she's uncomfortable in a lot of situations.

Why you have the cackling and the weird responses and the weird word salads that she gave, it's because she didn't put in the work. And it takes a lot of work to be a governor, even if you're a bad one. I don't think she wants to work, right? I think that's key. I mean, I just said if she was going to show she could be good, you don't think she's capable, and she has not shown me either that she's capable.

First thing she could have done is gone and. fix the border. And she just decided I'm going to make it root causes and do almost nothing on it and had to be coaxed to go to the border. Lastly, Comment real quick on the fact that Joe Biden called her right before the debate to say, my brother called me to say, you are trashing me behind the scenes. He calls her right before the debate to say that.

What do you think about this? I think they hate each other. I really do. And I know that they try to seem like, oh, they were so close, they had lunches. I think Jill hates Kamala and has.

I don't think Joe likes Kamala. I don't think Kamala likes Joe. I think there's a lot more infighting here. It's going to play out like a Bravo reality show. And that, Brian, I am here for.

Good. And that's why you need a three-hour show to go through all of it. We could only discuss my Bravo takes. Maybe in the three hours we'll get a chance one. I'm pretty sure reality television will be a no-go zone because there's enough go in Bravo.

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We've talked about it a lot, Ellen I talked about a lot, kiddo talked about it a lot and um I'm at peace with it. I think it's the right time. And It's been a it's been such a fun year. I've had such a blast with this group. I've had such a blast with Um all you guys.

So um Yeah, I can't think of a better season to go out. And we still have a lot to accomplish, obviously, this month. And the last thing I want to do is. be a distraction to anybody. For accomplishing our ultimate goal to win in the last game of the season.

So we're going to get through this today and then we're going to go win the rest of the games and be good.

So that's Clayton Kirchhoff. He is. He is retiring the Dodgers after 18 seasons. Congratulations to him. Dodgers got the biggest payroll.

And actually, they're making a profit, so they deserve credit. They got the business plan that works.

So they built young players, they bought new players, and they're probably favorites in the National League. Let's see if the Yankees can get back. The Yankees might be the hottest team in the league. I think Detroit has had a tremendous year. But baseball has been not a big year for baseball.

There's just not a lot going on. If you ask me, in the terms of major sports, I think people are more pumped up about football. I think more college as well as pros. Real quick, one thing I wanted to go over is what's going on at the CDC and the Maha movement. It looks like they're asking RFK to come back again and explain the firing of Susan Menares, who claims that Kennedy wants to get rid of all vaccines and wanted to do everything his way.

Well, he was in charge. And then yesterday, the give and take back and forth. I think both are to a degree at fault. But when you have to go now get somebody else confirmed to run the CDC, which is so important, as we try to find out what the vaccine schedule, which matters to everybody, Republican, Democrat, you got a former Democrat and RFK running it who is not anti-vaccine but thinks kids get too much vaccines too early. Here is Dr.

Susan Menares. As they try to get to the bottom of why she was fired, Kennedy says she can't be trusted. Cut 50. Did you tell the Secretary you were untrustworthy? He asked me.

He didn't ask me. He told me he could not trust me. He told me he could not trust me. Because I had shared information related to our conversation. beyond his staff.

Um I told him If you cannot trust me. Then you can fire me. And she got fired. And then she sued to get her job back. And then people quit for her, but she had already sued to get her job back.

So she's trying to get her job back. Bottom line is, people aren't doing their work. They've got to go testify.

Now, Dr. Bill Cassidy, Senator Bill Cassidy wants to talk to RFK again.

Meanwhile, people want to find out what the recommendation is when it comes to vaccines. A member and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the CDC, Dr. Martin Koldorf, if you're parents, this matters. Listen, cut 46. I hereby invite each of the nine former C D C Directors.

to have a live public debate with me concerning vaccines. They are. Doctors Besser, Cohen. Vogel. Frieden, Copland, Roper, Thatcher, Shuchat and Walensky.

If they are unwilling to engage in an open and honest debate with the chair of a committee, of this committee. But they are so severely criticising Then I advise that you should not trust them. I also make the same invitation to the recently departed C D C leaders.

So, they want a debate on what vaccines we should use. They should be vaccines. But one thing I found interesting needs to be addressed is that one of the reasons why babies get vaccines all at once, you know why? Because they get it paid for right at birth. If they wait a while, they have to pull money out of their pocket.

I'm not sure why that is. I'm not a health insurance expert, but can't we fix that? I mean, can we just do what's best for the baby, for the family, and just say, okay, we're going to get these, we're going to spread these out. It is just too much too early. And I don't think anybody should be getting any baby should be getting the COVID-19 shot.

But look for as we get back to school, and there's some schools that don't let you in unless you're fully vaccinated. Then you have the CDC saying you don't, and now you have going to have parents suing each other. Hopefully, they're going to get on the same page shortly, and Trump might have to whip them into shape to make that happen. We're also going to be looking at a shutdown. Yesterday, Ukraine came up, and the President of the United States was pretty transparent in saying he's disappointed in Vladimir Putin.

I'm more than disappointed. The guy's a cold-blooded killer. And what he did is he embarrassed the president and took tremendous political risk in order to. Tell everybody, let's not hit him with a million sanctions. Let me try to land this plane and bring this back.

So with Stormer he sat there and then was with Martha McCallum he answered the question about Vladimir Putin, Cut 27. But we've solved seven wars, seven wars. Wars that were unsolvable, wars that couldn't be negotiated or done. We've done The U.S. has done seven of them.

The one that I thought would be easiest would be because of my relationship with President Putin, but he's let me down. He's really let me down. was going to be Russia and Ukraine. But we'll see how that turns out.

So he wants to drive the price of oil down. I understand now this just in Ukraine is now sending drones over airspace in Estonia. Lithuania, Estonia, We know that's the problem. They know they want to take back the Baltics. They think they could do it quickly.

They have never breached a NATO nation. They've already sent a bunch of drones over Romania, landed in Poland.

Now you have Estonia. The President of the United States is unhappy. I think we got to take some action. And I think it's got to be pretty clear. It's got to be massive sanctions action.

And I tell you, I agree with the President when he came out and said it's up to Europe too to back this push on sanctions, Cut 29. We'll see what happens. I think we're going to Get a solution. Uh I was unhappy with the European Union or let's say NATO when I saw that they were buying oil from Russia. I mean I'm supposed to be coming in with the United States and you know I took a tough stand on on, as you know, India, because they were buying oil.

And ultimately, if oil prices go down or if Russia is not selling oil, they have no choice but to settle. And when the European Union nations or the NATO nations, because they're similar, very similar. when they're buying oil from Russia, that's not the greatest thing, that's not the deal. Great point. And I think it's well taken.

And I think Europe's got to respond. Mr. President. I think we got to respond too. Ukraine's fighting with everything they got, and Russia's got to know that they can't keep doing this.

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