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From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're here. It's the Brian Kill Me Show coming your way. Don't forget, we got the Patriot Awards coming up November 6th.

Tickets are going quick. You don't want to miss out. There are surprises I cannot tell you, but I'm getting worried about them. You don't want to miss it. Tilla Center is the place, Foxnation.com/slash Patriot Awards, or you can go to Ticketmaster, wherever.

We'll be there too. Also, the Fox and Friends crew will be there, special times to go watch the show, The Five. And we'll tell you there's a lot of other exciting things happening. Coming up this hour, Doran Spielman will be with us, the IDF spokesperson, former VP of City of David, and author of When the Stones Speak.

So, before we get to Doran, let's get to the big three. Number three. We have a commitment from them, and I assume they're going to honor that commitment. I hope they do. But uh they also uh Said they're going to behave.

We're going to find out if they behave. If they behave good. If they don't behave, we'll take care of it. That is the President of the United States making it clear that Gaza Phase 2 has challenges and needs quick, decisive leadership at this critical time, as Hamas won't put down their guns and deliver the bodies of the Israelis they murdered. We have the insight.

Number two. There's no indication that Vladimir Putin wants to pursue peace. The United States historically has been the arsenal for democracy, and what Putin wants to do is ensure that. As little military assistance to Ukraine is provided from the United States as possible. That is Daniel Hoffman, former CIA guy, talking about Vladimir Putin's Hail Mary phone call.

I hope it is not enough to stop the president going all in for Ukraine as Zelensky comes to the White House. Number one. And you're also gonna hear from my opponent. about text messages that I sent that I deeply, deeply regret. I am ashamed.

I am embarrassed. He keeps saying that he is sorry. Jay, if you're really sorry, you wouldn't be running. That is true. Jay Jones and Jason Miaris at stake, the AG spot in Virginia.

Jason Miaris is the Republican. Jay Jones is the Democrat with horrific text messages.

Meanwhile, impactful debates in New York City, too. Big Apple had one last chance, Cuomo and Sleewa, that is, to stop Mem Dami. Did they do it? It doesn't look like it, but I'll let you be the call be the judge as we play those sound bites. But first, I want to bring back bring you to the Middle East, where Doran Spielman is waiting.

Doran, thanks so much for being with us. Thank you for having me, Brian. First off, how would you characterize Phase two after the hostage release, how has it gone to I actually don't think you could say it's Phase two yet. Phase one is yet to be complete as nineteen bodies still are in Gaza and Hamas coming out saying, well, we need special equipment to get them out. What do you think?

You know, all of our intelligence, Brian says that they have at least double-digit bodies they can reach. We've even provided them with the intelligence and the locations of the bodies, they don't want us there. But you know why this is happening? It's precisely because what you said, Brian, they do not want phase two to begin. Phase two calls for Hamas to immediately demilitarize and give up their weapons, leave the country.

And so they'll do anything in order to avoid that. And what they're doing right now is keeping our bodies, the precious bodies of men and women, underneath the ground as their final bargaining chip. And that, you know, we see it clearly. They're the same Hamas that raided on October 7th, same Hamas that doesn't want to give up the body so they can do it again. And I did speak to an Israeli official last night who told me 10.

They've given the location of 10 bodies to Hamas. And if they go ahead and follow through, you should have them within 24 hours. I mean, that's very simple. Go get them and deliver them.

So the other thing is, Hamas is out there to execute their enemies, some of the clans that the IDF has helped. How many executions? Do we witness before we do something, the President says this is going to stop? You understand maybe look into the future, what what's going to stop them? You know, the only thing it's very interesting when before the deal was signed.

These clans were fighting Hamas. The Gazans are sick of Hamas. Hamas made their life hell. Hamas ruined Gaza, created a war in which tens of thousands of them have died. And these clans bravely stood up.

I mean, what are these clans? These are these are people that are part of tribes. They stood up, they fought Hamas. As soon as the deal was inked on paper and people started getting a feeling maybe Hamas is going to survive, they immediately sent diplomacy diplomats to Hamas asking for a sulka, asking for an agreement. Hamas said, We're not going to give you an agreement.

As soon as the deal went into effect, Hamas took them into the central square. We're talking about children. Brian, we're talking about young people, mothers and families, and have been shooting them. Dozens and dozens of people have died. And if we don't act with an iron fist, the President Trump doesn't stand up to those words that they'll be held to pay.

And like he said today, stop killing Gazans. Otherwise, we'll have no choice but to go in and kill you. If that doesn't happen, Brian, they're just going to wipe out any type of competition they have. It's a typical dictator. It's a typical Stalin-Hitler-esque type of strategy.

If they see a window, Brian, they're going to walk through it and they're going to take out anyone that resists them. No question. And I saw that there was one clan that stood up and said, look, bring it on. We're ready. But I think that you guys are doing what we did with the surge in Iraq.

And we looked at the tribes that we could work with. We didn't tell them how to run their region, but the work we could work with, they had a con and common enemy. It was Al Qaeda in Iraq, and they made sure they took back their own region. Their own area. And it worked, and the surge worked.

And sadly, Obama left too quick. But that's similar to the game plan that you guys are running. Identify clans that you can work with. And arm them, but now if they're being overwhelmed, the American military would step in. The IDF is still on its line.

waiting for an international force to show up. In the interim, they're seeing these executions. I think I saw 33 on camera, and they want you to see this. Absolutely. This is a message not only to them, it's actually a message to the world saying Hamas is not going anywhere.

We can walk into the middle of Gaza in the middle of a square where the IDF. Was completely holding that position and in front of everyone's eyes, your eyes, United States citizens, Europe, UN, and Israel. We can slaughter people there. That is our power. We're still surviving.

Now, we know, Brian, that we've eliminated them. They're maybe 10% of what they used to be. But if we don't immediately, they're testing President Trump. They're testing. If we don't go in there and immediately make them pay a price, they're going to build on that.

The Gaza people will not resist and they're just going to get stronger. This is truly a line in the sand, whether this is going to move forward or whether this is going to move backwards. It's like when a mob moves into the neighborhood, you know, you can't get mad at the restaurant owner for paying to the mob. They don't have the guns, the weapons. They don't have the syndicate.

So now The Hamas has been knocked back. There's about 7,000 fighters left, if you agree with those numbers. Here's what Jack Keene just told me on Fox and Friends, Cut 41. But I think the Israelis are right that there is some delay tactics going on here. Why is that?

Well, because Hamas stays in control as long as this is going on. And they are telegraphed that they won, are not going to disarm. What does that mean? That means that they're not going to give up control. They they want those weapons to be able to maintain control over the population itself.

So it looks like we're on a collision course here. Not for certain. But it seems to be heading towards that. they were likely going to have to use force. to disarm Hamas if they stay in the mindset they're currently in.

And now if you if it happens like that, it's the IDF truly not the US that'll be doing that, maybe helping with intelligence. And the IDF fighting Hamas Without worrying about the survival of the hostages. It's a brand new ballgame. Absolutely. Brian, we have the plans to do it.

I mean, had we not had this deal, which is a miracle, I mean, truly, everyone in Israel is pinching themselves that we have these people home. We have the plans to destroy Hamas. It's probably a matter of two more months of fighting. We know where they're hiding. We've always known where they're hiding.

We didn't go after them because they had living hostages around them. We can clear this out and end this. And what this would bring is not just a 20-point deal. It would truly bring a new life for Gaza. I don't see, Brian, I don't know about you, how these Gazan people can begin a new life if there's even an element of Hamas that survives.

It's like an infection that will just grow. And I think this deal may be making it obvious that that's the only choice: eliminate Hamas completely. All right, so let's just look at an international force. It's not going to be the UN, although in the region they want the UN stamp on it, according to people I know at the UN. But.

We know Indonesia has committed thousands of troops. You need about thirty thousand international forces if the IDF is to step out, and they got to be the type of forces that Hamas is afraid to injure or kill.

So Egyptian, Qataris, UAE. That that that has to be the international force, don't you agree? You know, Brian, I'll tell you. I think it's not only the type of force that Hamas doesn't want to kill, it has to be the type of force that's willing to kill Hamas. At the end of the day, If they are not willing to kill and destroy Hamas.

And this is not easy. For many of them, these countries like Turkey, like Qatar, have passed money to Hamas. Over the years, there's a financial network there. They share Muslim beliefs. This is the challenge.

If they are not willing to take the life of a Hamas terrorist, Then they're not going to succeed because Hamas will find ways to go around them underneath the ground and they'll say, Oh, he's underneath the ground. And they won't want to step in there because they know they're going to have to fight them. The true element of keeping this deal is going to be a force that's similar to Israel that is going to be committed to destroying Hamas. Otherwise, they're going to outsmart them, Brian, and they're just going to keep fighting. Hey, where's the worldwide condemnation of the execution of innocent people?

Uh is that genocide? I'm uh because you can't blame Israel, we don't hear any outrage. This is what every Israeli is asking. I mean, we've been accused, we fought the most just war possible. I was there on the ground looking at, I mean, no other army has ever been responsible for moving the civilians of their enemy out of the way so we could kill them.

And what are they doing? As soon as we leave, they take the same civilians we moved out of the way, they call them traitors. Yeah. Bring them into the central square and kill them, and we hear nothing. There's no ships with Greta.

There's no one breaking the blockade to try to protect the innocent civilians of Gaza. At the end of the day, Brian, the only people, truly the only people that have ever looked out for those people in Gaza is Israel. We supply water, we supply electricity, we tried moving them out of the way of fighting, and we tried taking on their major enemy. And the world, not everyone, but people like the UN were trying to hold this back. And now we see their true colors.

It's absurd and it's sad because the people that are suffering are the people in Gaza.

So, Doran, The president really knows these and respects these Gulf states, and the feeling seems to be mutual.

So, having said everything you said, that'd be 100% correct. Could the leverage that the Saudis and Egyptians, UAE and Qatar, have and the respect they have for this deal, that that's God that had them gather in Egypt to greet the President after he was intell after he greeted the hostages and spoke to the Knesset, could they simply say, look, we're going to have this conversation, who's going to fix this? It does, you know, in the past, they've all walked away and left Yasser Arafat on his own, and he walked away from deals. And we can go over that to Innauseum, but it's all well written. But now that's a little bit different because I think a lot of these Arab countries want to move on economically.

They don't like this non-stop conflict either. They don't have great love for the Palestinians, whatever they are. And. Do you think that they will do something? a little bit more than lip service now as I see the Saudis are running a push ahead with a defense pact with the US similar to the one the US signed with Qatar.

Well, why would we do that if if no one's helping in Gaza. You know, absolutely. And the test here is really on the shoulders of one man, it's President Trump. Israel's not even a part of this discussion. If they feel, I mean, President Trump made a $1.2 billion trillion, sorry, trillion dollar deal with Qatar in the last few months.

If they feel that that deal is going to be threatened, that US base might pack up and leave, if Saudis are not going to get F-35s, but you know, President Trump has to be willing to not only put pressure, he's going to have to put his money where his mouth is, and also be willing to walk away from the table. And I know he doesn't want to, but I think that this is really what's up. If they can avoid being in Gaza, they've always avoided Gaza, like you said. Egypt was in control of Gaza. They didn't want it.

They gave it to Israel. None of these Arab countries want Palestinians in there because historically, the Palestinians, once you allow them in, try taking over your government. The only reason they'll carry out the job, and like I say, be willing to go on the ground, face Hamas face to face, destroy Hamas if they don't willingly carry out the second phase, which is what the agreement says if they don't willingly give up their guns, is going to be if they think there's going to be a massive financial price to pay because the U.S. is going to reneg on its commitments. If that happens, if the president does that, I think they'll shape up and carry out the job.

All right, Doran, thanks so much. And by the way, he's got a great book out, When the Stones Speak. Doran Spielman, thank you. Thank you so much, Brian. You got it.

Gonna come back, take your phone calls. We're gonna play some highlights from the debates last night: 1-866-408-2646. Seven six six nine. Don't move. It's Brian Kilmead.

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That is Mamdami trying to say that he worked with the President, but meanwhile, he's going to keep the Sanctuary City status. He's not going to allow ICE to ICE actist to access to Rikers Island, and he's not going to cooperate.

So he's going to be a terrible partner if he does win this race. And that was set up last night. As Curtis Leew pointed out, why would you make an enemy with the President? He goes, I've had differences with the President, but he controls billions of dollars that flows to your city. It's your obligation to make things work.

And and why are you out there? Creating an an argument with a guy.

So here's what Andrew Cuomo's argument was. He says Mandami doesn't have any experience. And he's right, by the way. Thirty three years old. If Andrew Cuomo maybe was aggressive, During the primary, It might have been a different story cut for the first time.

And this is not a job for someone who has no management experience to run 300,000 people, no financial experience to run a $115 billion budget. He literally has never had a job. On his resume it says he interned for his mother. This is not a job for a first-timer. Any day you could have a hurricane, you have, God forbid, a 9-11, a health pandemic.

If you don't know what you're doing, people are not going to be able to do it. And here's what Cuomo said: how he would handle. how he would handle Andrew Como cut too. I would say to the President in the first conversation, look. We have had many, many battles.

We fought together every day during COVID. And The battles were bloody. And I'd like to avoid them. You know, if you come after New York, you know what I'm going to do. You know it's going to be ugly.

And you know, my chances are almost 50-50, even though you're the president. I'd like to work with you. I think we can do good things together, but number one, I will fight you every step of the way if you try to hurt New York. But no cash bow, that was him. You know, of knocking down every charge, criminal charge, that was him.

I mean, this is a guy that oversaw all this craziness in New York City.

So he's closing Rikers Island along the way. No fracking. That is Governor Cuomo.

So I think he's a better choice than Mandami. But the question is, I mean, don't pretend that you're a Law and Order guy. You're not a Law and Order guy. Compared to Mendami, who will not renew the very successful police commissioner in New York, he won't lock it in. He wants to have a community-based program to handle domestic disputes.

He doesn't expand on any of that. Here's Curtis Sleewa on the experience that he brings, cut seven. First of all, I created the Guardian Angels to provide public safety in the subways and streets. When government was incapable of doing so, I didn't do it to get a title or a paycheck. Secondarily.

I don't declare myself to be all knowing. I will hire the very brightest and best in their fields who have dedicated their lives to trying to improve the city of New York or the state Or the federal government or the private sector. But what I will say is: thank God I'm not a professional politician. But he is a broadcaster. He's been on the air for about 30 years.

He's at WABC, does a great job there. When he's not running for mayor, a lot of people want him to step aside. and just get out of the way and let it be a one-on-one. And he says, Tell Andrew Cuomo to get out of the way. and let it be a one-on-one.

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The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. Hi, everyone, welcome back. Let's take a break from what's breaking in the news, and I'll take your calls in about 12 minutes. But I want to talk about our history.

We're coming up on year 250. And when you think about founding fathers and impactful families, Really, among the tops ever, the most who's contributed more, very few than the Adams family. I'm talking about John Adams, John Quincy Adams. You think about Henry Adams, you think about Abigail Adams.

Well, that has not slipped. The mind of the Gingrich family.

Now, Jackie Gingrich Cushman. She is chair of the Adams Memorial Commission and President of the Adams Memorial Foundation, and she wants to make sure our second president is recognized. Jackie, welcome. Thank you so much for having me on, Brian. I really appreciate it.

I can't believe it's come to this. Like, I did not know we have not sectioned anything off in Washington for John Adams, you know, for what he's done, and even going back to the Boston massacre and who he represented, the British soldiers, and what he's done, and his wife, and the letters back and forth during the Declaration of Independence.

So, what alerted you to this, and what made this a mission for you?

Well, they're such an interesting family. You're exactly right.

So, the Adams Memorial Commission was passed by Congress years ago. And the way it's structured is: we have four congressmen, four senators, and four presidential appointees. And President Trump appointed me to the Adams Memorial Commission. And quite frankly, I was as surprised as you are, as many people are, to find out there is nothing in Washington, D.C. For John Abigail, John Quincy, any of the Adams family.

So that is the mission of the commission.

So I'm so grateful. for President Trump appointing me to this commission. And I know your dad's in a story, and you couldn't grow up in your house and not have a sense of what this country's come from and the people that made such a difference. I mean, John Adams, okay, we got it: second president, uh, first vice president, and then what he's contributed to the country. But I also think it's interesting that uh, John Quincy Adams, I think he's an underappreciated president.

And basically, his mentor was more Thomas Jefferson than even his dad. Think about the impact he had. What a scholar this kid was. Oh, you're exactly right. I think he's one of the more interesting figures in the family.

I mean, so he was born, right, a subject, a British subject in the colonies before the Revolutionary War. He then watched the Battle of Bunker Hill with his mother when he was a child, then served overseas, to your point. I mean, you mentioned he served overseas, the country with his father as his own ambassador. He knew all of these founding fathers, like Thomas Jefferson. Secretary of State.

President and then went back to Congress and fought against slavery. I mean, he spans. decades of our history. It made an enormous impact. Right.

And Abigail Adams was uh was uh our first impa one of our first impactful women, right? Don't forget the women was uh what she would say to her husband in letters. when you when you're negotiating the con writing the constitution and the declaration.

So she's fascinated because, in a time when women were not really educated, she was self-educated. And her husband, John Adams, really viewed her. As an intellectual equal.

So when he was president, she was his cabinet of one. She really was there for him in all the thought processes and decision makings. And when she wasn't there, He would write her letters. We have these wonderful letters about: please, can't you come and be with me? I need you with me.

He was uh went over to be ambassador to England, right?

So he had to interact with the king after their victory and their independence, not easy. Uh also, I believe he was on the uh the treaty to end the war of eighteen twelve, right? The Treaty of Ghent. Yes, you're correct. But he did so much.

And the interesting thing is, if you look at John Adams, he's right between Washington and Jefferson, he nominated George Washington. To be our commander-in-chief. And he nominated Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.

So, John Adams, even though he was between the two, he really was always thinking strategically: what do we need to do as a country? To secure our freedom. And just to give a, I do not know much about Henry Adams and Charles Adams. Is there anything you could enlighten us on?

So, interestingly enough, Charles, especially, I think, is very fascinating because he was our ambassador to the court of St. James. Just like John Adams, right? But obviously, decades later, during the Civil War under Abraham Lincoln, and kept. Great Britain from recognizing the Confederacy.

So that clearly could change the course of history. Yes, absolutely. You're right. And then you have Henry Adams in there and Louisa Catherine Adams.

So together, you would like to have the whole family represented. What does this memorial look like? Roughly, where do you want it located?

So where we're going in the process is it's a very long process to get a memorial built. We have legislation in front of Congress. It's been out of committee. It would give us a very, very prominent spot, which clearly the Adams deserve. I mean, he was our second president.

He and Abigail were the first ones to live in the White House.

So it would be on the, on the. Ellipse on the south on the south lawn of the White House. to the right.

So it would be a great connection between the White House. The new Adams Memorial. Then the Washington Memorial, Washington Monument, and then the Jefferson Memorial. It'd be a great way to have all three north to south. The first time I realized how special John Adams was was the David McCullough book.

As he brought him to life. And he talked about John Adams quoting him as he pulled into New York, I guess, on a horse. And he said, What's it with these people? They are so rude and everyone's in a rush. I'm like, Really?

In 1770, New Yorkers were already rude and in a rush? Absolutely. But he's such an interesting person because he didn't come for money, right? He went to Harvard on a scholarship. He became a lawyer.

He then defended.

So John Adams defended the British soldiers at the Boston Massacre because he believed in the rule of law. He knew it hurt his practice, it did for a while, but John Adams always did what he thought was right. Regardless of the consequences, which is why he's so interesting.

So what you're talking about in seventeen seventy, right, uh, was when this took place. British soldiers were accused of murdering townspeople and They were, they said that they didn't shoot anyone that died, it wasn't from them, or wasn't done on purpose. And he represented the British soldiers in a time in which this country was about to overflow into a revolution.

So he said, because it's the right thing to do. But then you have to really think about it.

Okay, before we have a constitution, before we have a declaration, before we have a set of laws, he said instinctively, as I was raised, everyone deserves innocent to proven guilty and deserves representation. I mean, that to me is values and ethics. Who believes absolutely. I mean, it's really interesting because even to your point, even before that we actually declared our freedom, he was thinking about how we should be structured.

So it took a long time.

Now it looks like obviously, you know, we became a free nation, but it took time, it took thought, it took effort, and it took founding families like the Adams to make it happen. And we should be so grateful to them.

Now, is there a reason why Sam Adams is not in this?

Well, Sam Adams is a cousin, so he's separate, but he was very influential even with John and kind of pulled John in very early on. But he was Sons of Liberty.

So they looked at Sam Adams as a kind of an aggressive guy, but they still got along and they still respected the fact that John was representing the British soldiers, and yet Sam Adams was organizing the townspeople and putting together militias. He was a fascinating man, but the thing I love about this project is: first of all, it's based on our founding families, and secondly, it's actually a family that. Believe in God. believed in our nation and believed in passing down family values. And that's so important for us to remember.

Today.

So, what could we do if people are listening to this and saying, I'd like to help? What do we do?

So go we have a website. You can go to theadamsmemorial.org. And we have a place to sign up for our newsletters and information. Obviously, we would love to have you write your congressmen and senators and say, we want this memorial in DC, pass this law, please. And then, of course, we're always looking for private donations on the foundation because it will be a public-private.

Partnership.

So let me ask you, there's some people in the establishment Republican Party that never bought into Trump.

Well, you know, I don't know how he won, and then now he wins again. And that, you know, it's even the ones that aren't critics, they sit on the sidelines. You know, we know about the famous ones that Republicans that are anti-Trump, but that number is shrinking. Why is it that your dad, a conservative Republican from a traditional conservative background, can adjust to this Maverick businessman who came new to the Republican Party after being a Democrat? Why is it that, in your opinion, there's no wrong answer, in your opinion, why is it that the Gingriches and Trumps get along?

I think a lot of that is because they know them personally, right?

So he knows Trump personally. He knows he has a good heart. He knows he wants what's best for this country. I mean, no one's going to agree with any elected figure 100% unless they're that person themselves.

So you have to really think about do you trust the person and are they headed the right way? And they have a very great relationship. They talk quite frequently. And I know my dad's a huge supporter. Yeah, no doubt about it.

Jackie Gingrich Cushman, chair of the Adams Memorial Commission and president of the Adams Memorial Foundation. Best of luck. I can't see anybody standing in your way, Democrat or Republican, before there was really Democrat or Republican Party.

So don't tell me this is partisan. Jackie, thank you. Thank you so much for having me on. I appreciate it. You got it.

1-866-408-7669. We're going to be going over the debates and what took place last night. I know people are saying, well, I'm not in Virginia. I'm not in New York. What's the big deal?

These are bellwethers for what's going to happen in the midterms and the off-year election is going to be big, especially if what's happening in New Jersey continues. You know, people talk about Glenn Young and that major win in Virginia beating Terry McAuliffe. But if Jack Chitterelli. Can upset Mikey Sherrill in a blue state. What the President did very well in last time, but still lost, that would be a huge story coming up to the midterm election.

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And you're also going to hear from my opponent. about text messages that I sent that I deeply, deeply regret. Let me be very clear. I am ashamed. I am embarrassed.

And I'm sorry. I am sorry to Speaker Gilbert. I'm sorry to his family. I'm sorry to my family. And I'm sorry to every single Virginian.

Was that good enough? What do you think? That is Jay Jones, who got caught saying that if I had three bullets, I'd put two in a Republican's head, and then I'd wipe out the rest of his family, including the wife and the children. It's as bad as it gets, especially because the Jay Jones reportedly knows these guys. I mean, these aren't arbitrary people.

I'm going to kill you and your family. Oh, that's terrible. But w don't you think it's worse if you actually know who they are? And that's what you say, and you text message, and on the text message chain, they're basically like, well, that's pretty hideous.

Well, I still believe it. 'Cause they disagree on gun rules and gun laws. And the question is, Jay Jones is about a point or two off Jason Millares, and Jay Jones is the Democrat. Why did he drop out? Why did Abigail Spamberger say I can't endorse him anymore?

Didn't say you could say drop out. That would be the right thing to do. You could say, I can't obviously don't endorse him. If you say drop out, but what if you just came out and said, I'm going to let the Virginia people make the decision, but I'm not going to endorse them. Whatever happens, happens.

So when you have one and only debate, there was no time for Jason Mierez to sit back, cut 16. He keeps saying that he is sorry. Jay, if you're really sorry, you wouldn't be running. If you really understood the ramifications of what you said about an innocent mom, and her children. You know Todd Gilbert.

You served with him. This is a flesh and blood real husband. Jennifer is a real mom. These are real kids. How in the world?

Could you ever show compassion and comfort a grieving mother? that has ever lost a child to violence.

So It didn't stop there. Cut seventeen.

Now we know something else. We have seen a window to who Jay Jones is and the way he thinks of people that disagree with him. Abraham Lincoln said that character is what you do in the dark when no one is watching. but now we know what he was doing in the dark. Jay Jones was angry at Todd Gilbert Y.

Because Todd Gilbert said kind words about a Democrat that had passed away. Joe Johnson. Jay Jones had said that he wanted to piss on the grave of his political opponents. And what did he want to do to Todd Gilbert? Two bullets to the head.

Why? Because he didn't like his politics.

So, listen, he's not exaggerating.

Sometimes you have to go back.

Well, I didn't really say that. No, he said that. And Jay Jones had to go answer that. He's tried to say that. You know, he came out and said.

Uh, he imagined killing a GOP Lomrik and his fascist kids. He says, I'm ashamed that I did it, but do you really believe it? And then he came back in Mieres and said, Why don't you condemn Donald Trump for Charlottesville? Really? You want to go there again?

Oh, January 6th. We haven't gone over January 6th enough.

So, meanwhile, the president's kind of kept a low profile in Virginia. He has not endorsed Lieutenant Governor Winston Sears as the next governor.

Now, this time. She wants him to, but there's a risk to that, just like there was a risk if Obama endorses you when he was president, because there are a lot of people in Virginia that don't like president, might be mad at him for the Doge cuts and the cuts that could be coming through the lockout that we're experiencing right now.

So I don't think it's that, you know, it's disqualifying. But before I told you, before I'm done with the segment, I do want to go over New Jersey.

So you know this Mikey Sherrill. She came out originally, and she is the, she served in the military, went to an academy, Annapolis Academy. She served in the military, and everyone said, well, she's going to use that background as a congressman, a congresswoman, and she's going to risk roll to be the next governor. What a great story. She might even be a vice presidential candidate.

Not really. Upon further review, she can explain how she got fined for insider stock trading and she made $7 million. She actually said, I don't know if that's true or not. Do you know anyone that makes seven million dollars and is not sure if it's true or not?

Meanwhile, the polls are reflecting the fact that she has not come clean and being trustworthy when it comes to why she was not allowed to walk at her graduation, because at her graduation there was a cheating scandal. She said, Well, I wasn't allowed to walk because I wouldn't give up my friends. And then upon further review, she said I, like hundreds of others, have Was asked questions about the cheating scandal, and I answered every question I was asked. Excuse me? Then why were you not allowed to walk?

If you didn't cheat, And you weren't involved. And you Came clean to investigators. I'm pretty sure there's nothing else you could do. That's your graduating class. But you won't open up your record.

So there goes the trustworthy thing.

So, according to Fox News polling, it went from 50-42 in September and now, middle of October, 50 to 45. Other as you break down this race, who's got the enthusiasm? Uh Cheryl supporters 64%. Uh is 69% for Chittarelli. What do people care about?

In New Jersey, 34% said the number one issue is taxes. Second is inflation. Third is housing, which is which is amazing to me that New Jersey hates their tax system and what taxes cost them. And you have a mayor of New York who's going to be pushing the governor of New York to raise taxes to New Jersey level.

Meanwhile, when it comes to honesty and trustworthiness, In September, she had 56% trustworthy. She's lost four points there. Chittarelli's at 49%, a little less trustworthy. Not really sure why and what's behind that.

So, the Al Smith dinner last night, also flat-out phenomenal. It's like the rich, the famous, the well-to-do, the impactful bank CEOs and commissioner of the NFL and the NBA all show up. And the two guests, Robert Kraft was honored, but the two guests were Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Anthony Blinken. Look at how funny Mike Pompeo was. Listen to this, cut 56.

We are also here at The Waldorf, an iconic American landmark that has hosted presidents. and kings and world leaders and is now known by the Chi owned by the Chinese Communist Party.

Soon it's going to host Zoron Mom Danny's Low Income Section 8 waiting list. And I think that's okay for the Waldorf because nothing goes better with chandeliers and marble floors. and impeccable artworks Better than 400 mattresses and MF's 13 gang leaders making shivs out of toothbrushes. Look, you don't. You don't you don't have to guess the The hottest The absolute hottest amenity at the Waldorf will be charging stations for ankle monitors.

How great is that? It is cutting. And you have to see John Bon Jovi's face. If you remember a year ago, Mike Bloomberg, while Donald Trump was speaking, just stared straight ahead, so bitter that Donald Trump. Was going to be president again, and he wasn't.

Couldn't get out of the blocks. And now, Mike Pompeo is making this speech, and John Bon Jovi was there, a famed Democrat Obama supporter. And even though he introduced Robert Kraft, who clearly is a Trump supporter, he just sat there stone-faced, as if being tortured when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke. I'll play some more of that throughout the show on this Friday, but a lot going on. Can't wait to see you in person, History of Liberty, and Laughs, coming up November 1st in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

It's going to be a great show. Don't miss a minute, and it's the last one of this year. And it's going to be streamed on Fox Nation. Brian Kill Michelle. From the Fox News Radio.

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It's Trump World, nine months in, every day is a blizzard of information and big stories. A lot of it's surprising. All good. I mean, for example, you anti-IBF? I'm not.

And President Trump is trying to tell everyone he wasn't. And yesterday he proved it by expanding it and subsidizing it to make people in, I guess, working-class situations get it subsidized by some of the makers that implement IVF.

So that comes up on the president's agenda and HHS and the Maha movement on top of international relations. This hour, we're going to be joined by Governor Chris Nunu, the 82nd governor of New Hampshire. Is his brother in New Hampshire? Is his brother going to run for the open senate seat in New Hampshire? Or is he going to compete against Scott Brown, who's raised a lot of money and thinks is looked to have a legitimate shot of winning over that seat?

Seth Baron's going to be here, New York Post Board, author of Last Days of New York. I want to get his take. On the debate last night, which brings us to the big three. Number three. We have a commitment from them, and I assume they're going to honor that commitment.

I hope they do. But uh they also uh Said they're going to behave. We're going to find out if they behave good. If they don't behave, we'll take care of it. Gaza Phase 2 has challenges and needs a quick, decisive leader at this critical time as Hamas won't put down their guns and deliver the bodies of the Israelis they murdered.

We have the insight. Number two. There's no indication that Vladimir Putin wants to pursue peace. The United States historically has been the arsenal for democracy, and what Putin wants to do is ensure that. As little military assistance to Ukraine is provided from the United States as possible.

And he's trying to head off a big delivery as President Zelensky comes into town today. I think his Hail Mary phone call, Vladimir Putin, might get him a meeting in Hungary, but it's all about to blow up if he's not going to produce. We'll talk about it. Number one. And you're also gonna hear from my opponent about text messages that I sent that I deeply, deeply regret.

I am ashamed. I am embarrassed. He keeps saying that he is sorry. Jay, if you're really sorry, you wouldn't be running. True, impactful debates in Virginia and New York City for the Big Apple, and one last chance to see if Cuomo or Sleewa could stop the inexperienced socialist Mom Dani and a Virginia the AG race of national importance.

And the New Jersey race with polls showing Jack Chitterelli is continuing to close on Mikey Sherrill. Quick note before I bring in Seth. We got the Fox Nation Patriot Awards coming up. It's going to be streamed on Fox Nation. We're going to have so many big stars there.

Sean Hannity hosts. Go to foxnation.com/slash Patriot Awards. Let's bring in Seth Barron, New York Post editorial, board member, and author of The Last Days of New York. Seth, Your reaction to the debate last night, and I'll play some clips. First off, what's your takeaway?

Uh hi, Brian. Um well my takeaway is that You know, Mom Donnie. All he needed to do was skate through, and I think he did. Uh you know he's a smug Self-satisfied liar. Uh he proved that last night.

When he said that he had never called for the decriminalization or the legalization of prostitution, he did, and not only did he do it, he did it on the floor of the assembly. He said sex work is work. He heartily believes in the legalization of prostitution.

So, I mean, this is a guy who'll say anything. I I mean, who goes up on on T V and and brags about their own integrity? I mean, I think that's up to to other people to decide if you have integrity or not. True. And I saw Rosanna Scott, just who I tried to get him to say, I'm against prostitution.

And he never did. We'll see. When I get in there, so yeah. Go ahead.

Well, he won't say he's against prostitution. He won't say he's against Hamas. Uh he won't say a lot of things. He just uh smiles his smile. And uh You know, gets away with it.

He's going to raise taxes on corporations to New Jersey levels, which is abhorrent. New Jerseyans all think their taxes are too high, but now New York wants to do it. He's going to raise taxes on millionaires. He says rich people, he obviously resents. That means people who make over a million dollars have to give over 50% of their income.

So make a million, give up $560,000 of that. Who wants to work eighty hours a week and give away more than half?

So he doesn't think that successful people work hard. He got things we're cheating the system or are white. Here is him, and he's here and here he is sparring with Andrew Cuomo over Israel's right to exist. Cut nine. I've said time and again that I recognize Israel's right to exist.

I've said that I will not recognize any state's right if I would be allowed to finish that I would not recognize any state's right to exist with a system of hierarchy on the basis of race or religion. I have made that very clear. And part of that is because I'm an American who believes in the importance of equal rights being enshrined in every single country, whether we're speaking about Israel or whether we're speaking about Saudi Arabia. You can stand here and you can lie all you want, but New Yorkers are not.

So, I mean He doesn't like the way Israel is set up, so he says, I like Israel as a right to exist, but not the way it is.

Well, he doesn't. He claims that Israel operates on a hierarchy of race and religion.

Now, it's true that it is the Jewish state. Same way, America is the United States of America. But Israel has 20% of Israel's population are Arab citizens. They have the full rights and the same rights as the Jewish citizens.

So yes, there's a Jewish character to the state, but there is not a hierarchy. of the citizens. Basically Go to Czech Republic. If you're like a German and you want to move back to Czech, they won't let you, even if your grandparents were from there, because they prioritize. Czech nationalism and Czech blood.

This is all over the place. And he's basically pretending like he doesn't know what w What the real question is. Palestine is not going to have Jews in it. No, if they want to survive, no kidding. And we know that's got certain hurdles too.

So Mondami Cuomo went out of two on Governor Hoko.

Now Governor Hokul He has said in the past made New York unaffordable. And that's why he has not endorsed her. And now that she came and appeared with him, even though he still has not endorsed her, she's endorsed him, even though she says I disagree with him on some things. And now she's suddenly going to be open to raising taxes, Governor Hokkulk. And we originally said she isn't.

So I want people at home to hear this exchange with the moderator, Cuomo, and Mom Donnie. Cut 12. Who supports Kathy Hokkul for re-election? It's a decision that should be made after this general election.

So, no decision. Mr. Cuomo. You hand picture as your lieutenant governor. No thought.

You have to know who's running. Yeah. Okay.

So. And I would add that I do think that Kathy Hochle, our governor, has been doing a good job in not only delivering delivering for New Yorkers, but also standing up to Donald Trump. Just what? Do you support her for re-election? I'm going to endorse her.

I'm focusing on November. Why don't you endorse it? I appreciate her support and I appreciate her work. But you don't endorse her. Yeah, that was an endorser.

It's unbelievable. And by the way, what terrible politician K Hochl is. She goes she goes and endorses him and doesn't get guaranteed of her redorce an endorsement back. She's running so scared that she's going to get primaried from the left. I mean, she is by Delgado.

And she doesn't know I mean, she she she's a sucker and he's a snake. Um couple of things. Governor Hochul, the theory is, and I was speaking to people last night at the Al Smith dinner about this. She's running against Elise Stefanic. She's going to get the nomination for the Republicans.

I saw a poll recently. She's within five points already with low name recognition throughout the state. And we know what a great politician she is and how smart she is. They say, and I wonder if Seth Barron agrees with this That if Mamdami was to win, it helps to Foddik against Hokul. Do you agree?

Oh, certainly it helps him upstate on Long Island. I mean, the problem is, is to win a statewide race, a Republican needs to get 33% of New York City. You know, look, Elise is a great. Politician, I think she's like very personable. I think she is a shot.

But you know, it is a it is a steep hill. Uh no doubt about it. Uh here's Curtis Sleewa. On uh on public safety. What he would do Uh cut 11.

Seven thousand cops. You already have a plan in Boston where you pay for taxes in the future. This is a great plan. In which universities and others who have bought up properties that are now taken from the real estate market and taken from property tax paid, we could raise a billion dollars from Columbia University, NYU, that are in the real estate business, and Madison Square Garden, your friends, Andrew Cornwall, Jimmy Dolan, who pays no property taxes. That's how you raise a billion dollars to get 700 police officers trained, vetted, and out into the streets in the five boroughs.

And then the police will be on the subways and they will be patrolling the old-fashioned way where they're needed. He knows law enforcement, no doubt about it, Seth, right? Oh, listen, I I love Curtis, and I think Curtis really actually made a lot of sense talking about the police and especially this whole idea of how social workers can go out and do the job that police shouldn't be doing. He's a hundred percent right that Mamdani doesn't know what he's talking about. I don't really think that the idea of taxing Colombia.

I mean, I think those people already pay like payments in lieu of taxes. But Listen, I mean, maybe he's not the big the greatest financial guy, but he certainly knows what he's talking about with public safety. Right. Uh so what about the pressure that he says he's gotten offered millions of dollars to step out? If he did step out, what would affect uh how would the race be affected?

Or is it too late now anyway? I think it's a little late. I think, yes, there are people, there may be some people who are. On his side, who would jump to Cuomo. But listen, he ran last time and won 28% of the city.

There's a lot of Republicans, there's a lot of people who really don't like Cuomo and are not going to vote for him. I mean, I know people who are. Steadfast that they were voting for Curtis and Curtis only.

So maybe it would help, but you know, honestly. Look, he's the Republican. He's on the Republican line, and at least he's honest about that, and that's what he's doing. Right. So, Seth, there's another debate, and then you got a couple of weeks, and we're going to actually have the election.

The last poll looks pretty bleak for the rest of the field. 52% among likely voters for Momdami, 14% for Sleewa, 28% for Cuomo.

Now, Eric Adams won with 70% of the vote.

So, this guy just got over 50%.

So does anything change? Could their polls be this far off? There's nothing to really now that Momdami's been really found out and I think failed with Rosanna Escoto and Martha McCallum. Do you think that there's anything that could derail him? like a million people who who never vote decide to come to the polls and vote for Cuomo.

But uh that doesn't seem very likely. I don't really think so, unless some massive scandal emerges. You know, it it seems like it's pretty much a done deal.

So the last thing is, we've seen these mayors and governors clash with Donald Trump in Chicago, in Illinois, and in Portland, Oregon, mayors and governors. And then we see. In Tennessee, it's working, you know, to get to fix Memphis, the Democratic mayor and governor. The question is, if Donald Trump comes in and tries to help you with crime, are you going to take the aid? Are you going to fight him like Governor Pritzker?

Here's what Cuomo said, cut to. I would say to the President in the first conversation, look. We have had many, many battles. I fought with we fought together every day during COVID. And the The battles were bloody.

And I'd like to avoid them. You know if you come after New York, you know what I'm going to do. You know it's going to be ugly. And you know, my chances are almost 50-50, even though you're the president. I'd like to work with you.

I think we can do good things together, but number one, I will fight you every step of the way if you try to hurt New York. Right. So that's Cuomo's approach. We also know that Cuomo, when it comes to being tough on crime, he's the one with no-cash bail. And when it comes to energy, he's the one who got rid of the nuclear power plant and refused to frack, even though an environmental study says you can frack no problem.

So that hurt everybody in upstate New York. I mean, it clearly President Trump. What rather work with Cuomo? Mm-hmm. Sure.

And, you know, Mom Dani, I think, has been very foolish. Coming out and saying, I'm going to fight Trump every step of the way. I am Trump's worst nightmare. I mean, is he kidding? Does he think the mayor of New York City?

Can it that's like Orders of magnitude under the type of power that the president has. He's fooling himself and he's fooling his base because. If he if he becomes mayor, Trump will just like stomp him. The other thing is, just real quick on these free buses, it's going to cost the city $800 million. This city was so bootstrapped, the MTA, that they have that congestion pricing.

So they're demanding that just to drive across the city. I think it's the first one of the country. But then we're going to make buses for free. It's going to be a haven for the homeless, for the drug-infused. And it's no longer going to be okay for kids to join, excuse me, jump on a bus because they're going to be fast and free and dangerous.

And as he pointed out, one great reason to do this is because it'll decrease assaults on bus drivers. It's like, well, why not make everything free? Right. If I'm on for free, there's no reason to punch a bus driver. Which, by the way, there was always, I guess he's saying at one point there's rationalization for doing that.

Unbelievable. Said that, I mean, I found people, I traveled, traveled in two different states over the last two weeks. Everyone says, what is New York City doing? What are they thinking? When you get that, since you have been here forever and you've been writing forever here, and now you're with the Post, what do you say to people?

I mean, New York is its own little bubble. The Democrats seem to think that Getting Mom Dani making Mom Dani win a Democrat primary is like a national phenomenon. But outside of New York, even Democrats don't want to become like socialists. Not to mention Republicans.

So, look, people in New York are off in la-la land, as far as I can tell. I don't know what they're thinking, but. You know, I'm stuck here, sorta, so I mean, that's kind of what that's kind of what we're dealing with. Yes, I got the worst of both worlds. I live on Long Island, which Nassau County could relate, but I work here.

So I pay the taxes and I can't vote.

So, Seth, thanks so much. I'll tell you what, it does make good copy and does bring a lot of interest to something that's usually not a national story. This sadly is a national story because I'm afraid it's going to be a national trend, at least on the left. Seth, thank you. Thank you, Brian.

All right, bottom of the hour. We go inside the Senate, the House, the shutdown with Governor Chris Nuno, always a voice of reason in and out of office. Don't go anywhere. Brian Killmead will be right back. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Joe. What do you think he's gonna say? Please sell tomahawks? Is he gonna say, please sell those tomahawks? I really appreciate it.

I did actually say, would you mind if I gave a couple of thousand tomahawks to? Your opposition. I did say that to him. I said it just that way. He didn't like the idea.

He really didn't like the idea. No, I said it that way. Uh you have to be a little bit lighthearted sometimes, but uh no, he doesn't want tomahawk is a vicious weapon.

So that is the President of the United States is usually taking questions. First, he's talking about IDF, IVF, not the IDF, IVF, and then takes questions. And it's about the Russia-Ukraine and the meeting today with Zelensky this afternoon. And at which time, I think we've had a series of meetings, NATO meetings, to talk about how long term Ukraine can survive and maybe thrive because they begin to get some momentum back against the Russians. Because Tomahawks are on the table, Vladimir Putin, in my view, picks up the phone, calls the president.

They speak for two and a half hours, probably an hour and a half because they have to wait for the interpreter, even though he can understand English pretty well. Donald Trump comes off saying, we're going to meet in Hungary. At which time you gotta think there's gonna be some type of concession and guarantee going in. That's what General Keene was saying. You can't just say, let's go meet again like Alaska and then have them say, No, I don't think so.

Let me think about it. Because what you do is delay even further. I'm not sure with two weeks with buys Vladimir Putin, but I agree with the President. Hey, you wanna talk? We'll talk.

But you ought to just say this, this is what I would do. I'd pass the Senate sanctions. I say, I'm going to sign them if this doesn't go well in Hungary. And I would say the Tomahawks. are on their way.

And if he I'm gonna tell them do not use them Until after hungry, but I'm gonna deliver them. And you'll use them. And if we get a settlement, we're going to take them back. But most of all, in the end of this agreement, which the president wants to land, I know Putin wants the president to think he can land a deal, at the very least. If not, there's got to be a plan B.

Not like Alaska. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I was held accountable by my party, and I deeply, deeply respect that. But what about when Donald Trump used incendiary language to incite a riot to try to overturn an election here in this country?

What about when Winsom Sears used violent language about people who disagree with you and her and your extreme position on abortion? What about when John Reed shared Nazi porn? You haven't said a word. I've taken accountability for my mistakes. It's time you take accountability, too.

Okay, really? That's the parry? Is that a good political move? Say, yeah, I made a mistake saying, I'd like to shoot my Republican speaker's family, who you knew, but what about January 6th? Will that fly?

Chris Sanunu knows all about politics, grew up in it. His dad, former chief of staff for the President of the United States. Hey, a two-term governor. Was it just two? No, four.

Four terms. It was eight years. Yeah, it's two year terms. And they really wanted him to run for Senate. The problem was, I forgot.

Oh, you didn't want to run for the Senate. I needed a paycheck. The 82nd governor of New Hampshire. But you really know, you have a passion for politics. I love it.

So you know what's going on with the AG race in Virginia. Oh, it's crazy. Right. So Jay Cross from 2022, these text messages come out, and they said, bow out. And he said, no.

And the governors and Abigail Spamberger, the gubernatorial nominee on the left, says, well, I'm not going to withdraw my endorsement. I unfortunately apologize.

So yesterday was the one and only debate. From what you know, was that a good parry, Jay Jones?

Well, what about you? What about January 6th? It wasn't bad, but I mean, I think the Democrats in that state right now are digging their heels in. They're kind of trying to run out the clock, right? They know they have a lot of things, bad things they have to answer to.

They got two weeks left. They're hoping that their poll margins are big enough. I think you got to go back to understanding most voters don't make up their mind until the last couple of weeks, right? The poll numbers on October 6th are not the results on November 6th.

So I think they're making a mistake. I think folks in Virginia, integrity matters, and these things are real issues.

So I understand if you say you don't want them to get off the ballot because you can't put anybody else on, right? But for Spamberger not to withdraw her endorsement, wouldn't you withdraw your endorsement of a Republican? Of course. But again, because integrity should matter, but on that side, look, I know how this stuff works. I've been there.

You have a couple big-time Democrat political consultants telling them, dig your heels in, say nothing, do your best to move on. There's a federal government shutdown. There's all these other things that will push this off the headlines in the next couple of days. And that's why I go back to they're just trying to run the clock out. Is Virginia harder for Republicans because of the shutdown and the Dogecots because they do live in the vicinity in Northern Virginia?

Does that matter? I think, no, I think it's harder for anyone that's elected. I think Warner will have trouble trying to, you know, a lot of his constituents, Senator Warner, his constituents in Northern Virginia are going, what's going on here, buddy? I got to get paid. You know, so I think any political entity in Virginia has a tough time explaining government shutdown and things of that nature.

Even though they could blame Republicans?

Well, yeah, because they know they're just not working. At the end of the day, they know that they're not getting a paycheck. When you look at the national poll numbers on the shutdown, I think initially you saw a lot there was some negativity towards Republicans because the average person says, look, who's in charge? It's not working. It must be your fault, right?

That's as deep as the thought process goes. As this conversation has gone on, as people realize, wait a minute. We the Republicans just want to keep this thing open. The Democrats are trying to Have a giant national rebuild discussion over health care, that's not clearly not the right process. You've seen all the AOC comments and the Schumer comments from a few years ago saying, you know, you never shut down the government over, you know, renegotiating a policy.

Yeah, when Trump was president.

So they're trying to have it both ways. That message is getting out there. People are realizing enough is enough. Get this thing going. Miamiaris right now is a one-point lead in Virginia.

That's significant. That's prior to that debate. Yeah. So, and what about the gubernatorial race? It's about a six-point spam burger, right?

Yeah. But the lieutenant governor does not have the endorsement of the president. She's asked for it repeatedly. But you know it's a double-edged sword in purple states sometimes.

Sometimes it is. Whether the president's endorsement in the general election would matter too much at this point, it would probably be a wash. I got to tell you, I think the negative ads the Democrats are putting out against the lieutenant governor, they're effective. That negative advertising they have against her, I've seen a couple of them. It's tough.

It's really good. On abortion, on look, they, you know. We've all seen those ads where they do the thing where they make you the candidate, the opposing candidate, looks as bad as possible, and they grab one sound bite out of context. I got to tell you, they've done a good job of manipulating her message, what she's really about. I think she's terrific myself, but I think the Democrats have done a good job manipulating that message, which has driven this five or six points.

Do you see Spamberger's performance in the debate as she robotically anted had no answer for anything? Nothing about girls in men's bathrooms and men in girls' bathrooms. She couldn't wait to get off that show. She stared straight ahead. Please just stop asking me questions.

Can we go now? Can we go now? What are the worst things ever? You're in New York City now. You know, you don't like to spend too.

Oh, you like New York. I like New York. I like to visit New York and, you know. I don't spend much money here because I can't afford anything because of your taxes. Which is why you want to release the communist, because he's going to make everything affordable.

I mean, did you watch the Mamdani? I watched a lot of it. I was at the Alsmith dinner last year. I mean, he really is a socialist dream, right? He's done absolutely nothing in his life, but he's got a great manicured beard, and he's going to be running a $115 billion budget pretty soon.

And with no that, not only that, 33 with not says flat out, I don't like capitalism. I don't like capitalism. And he, you know, g give Cuomo credit. Cuomo's like, look, I saw your resume. The the most important thing you've ever done is you were an intern for your mom at one point.

And Mom Dani doesn't even deny it. Yeah. He's just like, Yeah, but I have integrity. Like that's his answer. Right.

And which, by the way. And that means I'm good to run a $115 billion budget and dig New York out of the crisis that it's in. And the way you cross-check if someone has integrity is ask them. Everybody knows. Exactly.

Here is Mom Dani speaking yesterday on how you're going to pay for free buses, how you're going to pay for free health care for everybody, not excuse me, free daycare cutting. I believe we will see the same thing with our push to ensure that we are taxing the wealthiest and the most profitable corporations the fair amount that they should pay. But again, Mr. McGahni, I know Governor Hochland this week there may be some.

Some open windows, but more or less income tax on millionaires is off the table, according to the governor. If you raise the state's top corporate tax rate, To match that of New Jersey, you'd be raising $5 billion in and of itself. Zoron, boy, your fantasies. Are never going to come about in terms of funding everything you want that's going to be free, free, free. It's a fantasy.

Let's deal with the reality. The Assemblyman's whole plan is based on a myth. He said he's going to raise the taxes the same as New Jersey, corporate tax. No, it would be double the tax. You would see New Yorkers on $995 fleeing to Florida.

To some of the exchanges you watched. Hey, look, they're right, right? They're absolutely right. But this lead that he's built up in this city is I don't know if it's surmountable. I really don't.

Even if Slewa or whatever his name is gets out of the race, I don't know if Andrew can overcome that at this point. But look, New York, you're going to get what you voted for. I'm all about democracy, and you're going to get it. And this is going to be a socialist disaster.

Well, when you see AOC and Bernie Sanders get these big crowds, you see this guy get this big lead, and that's the Democratic Party, just put you in an analyst hat for a second. Why? Why is this taking over? They feared Bernie was going to be too strong.

Now he's got disciples. Yeah, it's populism, right? All of politics, and you can even make the argument on the right as well, has kind of divulged down to its lowest common denominator, which is if I have a nice soundbite and I look good, people will pay attention to me. And how people consume information is just it's barely an inch thick anymore. They don't look at policy, they don't look at really what matters, they look at kind of what's showy.

Now, the net result is you are going to have, Andrew Cuomo is right, massive amounts of businesses walking out of New York. I'm now the president of Airlines for America. I was here yesterday with Jeff.

So I represent the nine largest airlines in Washington, D.C.

So, one of the airlines we represent is JetBlue, hometown airline right here in New York City. Joanna Garrity is turning that airline around, but they're based here in New York and they know that politically no one is willing to help them and just driving not just them out, but their satellite businesses and ancillary opportunities. Their workers can't live in the city anymore.

So they love New York and they're committed here. But they were explaining how hard it is to be in a place that is so anti-business. Regulation just crushed it, just like Buttigiegs did with transportation, the airline industry, crushed the airline industry, absolutely crushed it for four years until Trump and Secretary Terry Duffy came in saying, hey, what do we do to make this work? A couple of things. The word affordability is right.

I mean, New York City, for people who are twenty three years old without their parents helping them significantly, if you have an entry-level job of fifty thousand dollars, sixty thousand dollars, you can't live.

So but how do you do that and within the capitalistic framework?

So, if I was to put that issue in front of you, Mayor Sununu of New York, how do you handle that?

So, you let the free market work. Just like and I know New Hampshire is different than New York, but it's exactly what we do in New Hampshire: we don't over-regulate because every regulation costs you as a consumer money. It costs housing money. You have empty apartments because your system is so over-regulated here. Empty apartments that won't go filled right here in New York City because it doesn't make economic sense to actually do it because of all the regulations and stipulations that kind of come with that.

It's a completely backward system. People on the, at least on the left, they try to get a lot of credit for look at how much money I'm spending, but they never want you to look at the results. Just walk the streets of New York. This is a great city that is just being held back with all this regulation.

So, as a governor or as a mayor, you open up the free markets, you put dollars exactly where they need to be, which is in law enforcement, public safety, health and safety of the community. You get rid of all these NGOs and ancillary programs. We talk about NGOs at a national level, but the non-government organizations. They're not just nonprofits. They're like these quasi-government things that get Living Hundreds of millions of dollars from the city of New York and produce virtually nothing to show for it, but they're political friends of those in power.

That's a colossal waste of money.

So you just got to focus the resources where they are, support businesses, incentivize them, don't over-regulate them, create opportunity. Everything starts to flourish, right? Everything starts to work. People want to build more housing. The costs go down because of competition.

At the end of the day, the consumer wins big. And the most idiotic thing you probably ever heard was: let's freeze rents. That's the problem. I mean, the ripple effect from freezing rents is: I'm not going to be a landlord. I'm not going to hold on to that building.

I'm not going to keep that building up for the prices that you rent it. That's right. And then they keep talking about. Jacking up minimum wage. If we just raise minimum wage, you did that massively over the last 10 years, and it just made all these cities worse.

I would argue the raising, the illogical raising of minimum wage to unbearable amounts for these businesses results in more people getting fired because a business only has so much money they can put. their labor. If I only have But if I have to pay everyone forty percent more or double, that means I have to have half the people, right?

So people end up getting fired. In New Hampshire, we have the lowest minimum wage in the country, right? Yet we have the lowest poverty rate in the country. Isn't that what you're trying to fix with Minimum wage? Let the free market work.

It works. Forget Momdani. None of those three on the stage really even understand that concept. But Momdani, especially, you know, it's a great city, and it's just, it's a shame. You don't want it to be this experiment of socialistic disaster because the people of this great city deserve so much more than that.

But this is democracy. You vote for it, you're going to get it. When we come back, Governor Kristenunu tells us how the president's doing. Will his brother run for the Senate seat in New Hampshire in the primary against Scott Brown? And nine months in, what about the velocity and the speed in which Trump is doing things?

Has he seen anything like it? He's seen the White House up close for years. Back in a moment. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. Virginia, you just saw that debate tonight. Goodness, that guy's dragging everybody down on the Democratic side in Virginia. And in New Jersey, there's been a shift in politics in New Jersey. The northern portion of New Jersey that used to be big-time Democrat is now more Republican.

It's all flipped.

So these states are very competitive. I happen to think New Jersey is exceptionally competitive. I think that race is closing very fast. And the candidates, the Democratic candidates for governor in both of those states, they have had very bad debates. They've had bad responses.

They're just not putting on a good show. Matt Towery, the pollster, weighing in, but Chris Nunu, you know the reality. Did you used to be chairman of the National Government Association? I wasn't chairman. I was like of the RGA.

I was not chairman. I was like Judy on the love boat. I kept everyone entertained and told them where the great talking points were and brought everyone out for a drink.

So I kept all the donors happy. Is there a chance outside Chris Christie who did it? Jack has an absolute shot at winning that race in the future. Oh, absolutely.

So a few years ago, he ran. He was 10 points down a few weeks before. The race he lost by barely a point or something like that. He's running this time. I think that's the same flawed polls.

I think New Jersey is ending up in Republican hands. It's going to be great. And the governor is now currently the president and CEO of Airlines for America. But, Governor, your brother, 10 years older, you just informed me. He's much older and doesn't have nearly as good hair, but he'll make a great senator.

So, do you think he's going to go? I think he's going to do it. I'm not 100% sure. You made him want to do it when you said you wouldn't, number one.

Well, you know, so we grew up in a family. Obviously, there's politicians in my family, right? Everyone knows that. But we were always taught it's service. It's not a career.

You don't make a career out of this.

So he did some time in Congress and did one term in the U.S. Senate, then left, went to the private sector, made money, took care of his family because it's a service, and he's more of a business guy. He's 60. He's made some money. His kids are out of the house.

He wants to serve again.

So I think it's great. And if he does it, I think it'll be wonderful, not just for New Hampshire, but for the entire country. I think it'll get people very, very excited. What hasn't been the most competitive race in New Hampshire, where it really should be competitive, will be. A coin tosser better for Republicans, and that's a huge win right there.

So you think your brother, Bias stated, obviously, is a better candidate than Scott Brown? Yes. Yes. Look, I love Scott Brown. Scott's a great friend of mine.

But yeah, if my brother were to get in the race, he definitely has a far better chance of not just winning the race. But, you know, he's from New Hampshire, connects with folks. Scott is wonderful, don't get me wrong, but if I had to choose between the two, as much as I was a woman, I was Of a temptation it is to give my brother a hard time because I'm number seven of eight, he's number four of eight, and we like to pick on each other quite a bit.

Now, he would be a phenomenal asset to the U.S. Senate company. Any regrets? About you not jumping in. Do you ever say, wow, you know, I could have done it.

I love my new job. This Airlines for America thing that I'm doing right now, rebuilding air traffic control, dealing with the government shutdown in a smart, positive way, understanding, yeah, there's, we always say we sacrifice a little bit of speed for a lot of safety. But airplanes are taking off. They're landing. This new team with Brian Bedford at the FAA and Sean Duffy, they're mitigating.

We thought the delays would be so much worse right now. But behind the scenes, they don't get much credit for it. But when Burbank, all of a sudden, they had no air traffic controllers a couple weeks ago, you know what they did? They mitigated and made sure San Diego was landing those planes. Happened in Nashville.

Memphis jumped in and was landing those planes. They're getting really creative behind the scenes, making sure that everyone is safe and the system works.

Okay, but if I want to land in Memphis, I don't want to be in Nashville. If I want to land in Nashville, the Memphis controllers were landing you in Nashville. No, no, no, no. No, no, you were landing in New York. They were landing in Nashville on time.

Maybe a slight delay here or there, but it wasn't. You can't land, but here's a parachute. Is that what you're saying? Maybe on some of those smaller airlines, but not the ones I represent. President Trump, nine months in, you know, famously, we went back and forth, and we didn't think that Trump could actually mount and become the nominee, and he did.

And then, can he win the general? And he did, and he becomes a president. You were one of the first calls he made because he wants to keep the Senate and expand it.

So, nine months in, have you ever seen anything like this? 80 years old, the fastest moving president in history. I mean, I don't, you might disagree with what he's doing, but you cannot deny that he's completely shaken up that town. Engaged. Engaged, super transparent.

Like, even the liberals in the media love him because he actually says what he's doing. He doesn't hide anything. He's almost overly transparent about it. He owns the good and the bad. He's going hard and fast.

And this is the amazing thing. I've kind of gone down to D.C. in the last month or so to start this new job. It's not just him saying, no more remote work. The whole town is moving faster.

Every association, every lobbyist, all the politicos running the agencies are moving at his pace, and everyone has to keep up. And that's a really healthy thing for the people. But the shutdown is not healthy. How do you see it happening? Yeah.

Six years ago, the shutdown really ended because there was a gridlock with airlines, right? On January 25th, right here in the Northeast Corridor, there's a huge gridlock. That's not going to happen this time. I think what you're going to see is SNAP benefits at the state level in the next week or so really drive a lot of need for the folks in Washington to come back in and hopefully just pass a clean CR. He is the current Currently, the president and CEO of Airlines for America.

Congratulations, Governor Kristen. You bet, man. Anytime. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killer.

Welcome to 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, but we're heard around the country and around the world. Excited for this hour, final hour of the week. John Reed's going to be with us. He's Lieutenant Governor nominee and leading right now in Virginia, as well as the Attorney General, Republican winning in Virginia. John Reed's Republican.

John Reed was WRBA's morning show host for a long time and put it all on the line to serve in public office.

So it's a great story. Sandra Smith, co-anchor of America Reports, will be on at the bottom of the hour. And Shannon Bream is standing by. We're talking about the debates and so much more. Shannon, first off, We got to get out of the way.

This is a huge week for the Sunday shows, especially yours. President put a lot out there. And of course, he's got big meetings today with President Zelensky of Ukraine. And this is the last leg of previous meetings with defense ministers and NATO. What do you think's going to come out of today's meeting in lieu of the call with Vladimir Putin yesterday?

Yeah, well I mean that discussion of tomahawks yesterday I think maybe got the attention of Vladimir Putin. Nothing really seems to get his attention as Zelensky said in his social media postings the last 24 hours. Guy's got a lot of words, but his actions are doing things like still hitting our critical infrastructure, still hitting civilian targets.

So, you know, he has no real faith that there's any real movement there. One thing I'm going to watch for after this meeting today is to see if the president moves forward on that. Measure in the Senate. It's got more than 80 sponsors. You can't get them to 80 on anything.

But it's got bipartisan sponsorship on not only sanctioning Russia, but countries that do business with Russia. They've been holding it, waiting for the President's signal, and I wonder if he'll give them the green light. It would give him another tool to try to get Putin to actually act.

So here's what Dave Ignatius said about somehow the Tomahawks got to Putin, Cut 31. The question of sending tomahawks, which are long-range cruise missiles, that could strike Moscow and many other targets deep in Russia. President Trump has sort of bandied about how much Ukraine would like them, and gee, we have a lot of them, and yeah, suggesting, well, maybe we'll send some over. The response from Russia has been unusually sharp, with Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, saying this would be a new level of escalation. Former President Dmitry Medvedev saying we don't know whether these cruise missiles are going to have nuclear warheads or not, implying they might respond to an attack by tomahawks with some kind of nuclear response because they don't know what's coming.

So it was quite a tense showdown. And at the conclusion of that, Trump picks up the phone and calls Putin. And we now have this new meeting. I think it was the other way around. I think it was prudent to call Trump.

And now he wanted to, in my view, trip him up before the Zelensky meeting and maybe hinder the President going forward full bore. How do you think this comes out, Shannon?

Well, I think we all know that President Trump is very decisive. He's got his own ideas about how this thing should go. He talked about it all during the campaign. This is one we're going to wrap up quickly. Putin has not been playing by that script.

But the President is often open to the last argument that he's heard.

So Zelensky may feel like he's in a good closer position today. It's got to be a better meeting than went down with them in February. This is their fourth face-to-face meeting today. Presidents Putin, or excuse me, Trump and Zelensky. What does it say about, like you said, what we may get from today, knowing that President Trump's talking about this meeting he's probably going to have in Budapest in the next couple of weeks with Putin?

I mean, it just feels like ping-pong back and forth with promises, with threats, and then, as Zelensky said, nothing changes. The bombs are still raining down on Ukraine, and Putin seems no more energized about actually wrapping this thing up or motivated to do that. You know, there's a headline today, does NATO have to get involved? I mean, what is it going to take for Putin to say, okay, this thing is over, we're done? Yeah, we'll see.

What I like personally is Steve Witkoff, a great guy, but has had, I think he's been used by the Russians. And now Rubio is going to meet with Lavrov, which is more appropriate. Cut 33. Listen to General Keene and why he thinks, what he thinks his takes are, Cut 33. I think it's helpful that Rubio and Lavrov are going to meet first next week.

And certainly, if Lavrov isn't putting something real on the table there, I don't think we should get the president involved in another meeting that leads to. Empty promises. And that's just it. The president could say, you know, if Vladimir Putin goes there, I want Zelensky there too. He's got to be in an adjoining room or something.

And if they don't want to talk face to face, there's got to be literally an office shuttle diplomacy. Because everything that's happened to this point, these big meetings, the get togethers, the Alaska meeting and Al Dina this Budapest meeting, these meetings at the White House, it doesn't feel like we are marching any closer to a real conclusion. And you mentioned Steve Wickoff. Pooh is getting tons of praise for the work that they did in the Middle East, but Russia has been a problem. There are people who feel like.

He's been too easy on Putin when they've been to face-to-face. He's taken too much at face value from this KGB operative who has been playing the West for decades and is very comfortable doing it. and has not really gotten in line with President Trump's tough talk, threats, and all these other things.

So whether Steve Witkoff, who was wildly successful with the Middle East, is making progress in Ukraine. You know, remains to be seen. But I think the fact that Rubio is going in with Lavrov suggests a different level of engagement. I hope. Yeah, on Gaza, we know Hamas is still executing people and they have to have not dropped their guns and delivered the bodies.

Here's Donald Trump, cut 38. We have a commitment from them, and I assume they're going to honor that commitment. I hope they do. And uh I know I understand they brought back some additional bodies today, but uh they also uh Said they're going to behave, we're going to find out if they behave. If they behave good, if they don't behave, we'll take care of it.

I guess take care of it. The IDF could go back in, but it would be great if the Arab world started putting international troops in there: troops that would take action and troops that Hamas is afraid to kill. Yeah, and this gets us to the whole what happens next in this meeting that President Trump had in Egypt, and all those key players in the region are going to have to make concrete steps towards those things that you mentioned. I mean, there's got to be a security perimeter. You know, a lot of the folks in Gaza will say, well, it can't be Israel.

We don't want them on our borders. Israel is going to have to be on their borders, but there are going to have to be other countries. You're right, that step in and get involved and are willing to put skin in the game for there to be real long-lasting change there. You know, all of the skeptics of this say Hamas is going to continue to fester under the percolate under the surface, and they are going to do everything that they can to reconstitute, whether it's quietly and then loudly at some point. But I think there's a good, healthy amount of skepticism about how willing they are to actually drop all claims to the area, drop their weapons and just simply walk away.

Uh, yeah, uh, so they can arm the clans and make it like the Surge, where we know Petraeus and company would arm the tribes to fight against. The ISIS, you know, or Al-Qaeda in Iraq, or whatever they were called, and the multiple of terror organizations. And then he ultimately would won by turning the country back over to them.

Well, turn the region back over to the Palestinians that aren't this brutal bunch of thugs like Hamas.

So we'll see how that goes. It would be great if they could start putting international troops in, but in the meantime, the IDF is not going anywhere.

So, who do you putting on the show this week, or what are you thinking about tackling?

So we're going to have Senator Shelley Moore Capital with us, GOP leadership, to talk about all his foreign policy stuff, whether that sanctions bill moves in the Senate, but also the shutdown. What are the off-ramps? What conversations are they having with Democrats at this point? She is going to fill us in on some of these conversations we're hearing about offering them a deal on, you know, you'll have a separate debate and vote on these ACA subsidies being extended, although they were supposed to be temporary and get us through COVID, which they did. We'll talk to her about that.

We're also going to focus in on the New Jersey race. Jack Chitterelli is going to be with us. We're going to talk about new polling, what it means looking ahead to the midterms. And we're going to talk about the Bolton indictment, all the legal news of the week. And we've also got a couple with us.

Her father is one of the pastors that was rounded up and jailed in China. They are cracking down on Christians over there. We're going to try to shine a spotlight on that. And Secretary Rubio is waiting on that as well.

Well, so yeah, so we'll see how that goes. That's going to be great. Sunday, retrograde. Sunday night, we're going to have Tom Cotton and Eric Trump are going to kick us off. We're going to do a New York panel with John Castamatidis and Sid Rosenberg.

We're going to air the Tim Green Modernize package about Tim Green's dealing with ALS and still writing books with his eyes. It's an amazing story. And we'll have other exciting exchanges that are happening in the season. I'm still waiting for your dance interpretive dance segment, but you can tell me, wait one more week. It's always in the rundown, and I just go long.

And it's sad. I'm going to have to come up there and police the times. You mean just run the clock? Just be line producer. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure your line producer is much more fabulous for line producers than I am, but maybe I could just sit with them and encourage them to get that dance segment in.

Right. Somehow you think me dancing helps my show?

Well, I mean, people would not be able to look away without agreeing to that. All right. Chad and have a great weekend. I look forward to your show on Sunday. See you Sunday.

All right. Meanwhile, coming up at the bottom of the hour, excuse me, next, John Reed. He's running for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Then Sandra Smith at the bottom of the hour while covering all the other breaking news. The President of the United States is meeting with President Zielinski today, and then he's off to Mar-a-Lago to maybe play some golf.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. And you're also going to hear from my opponent, about text messages that I sent that I deeply, deeply regret. Let me be very clear. I am ashamed. I am embarrassed.

And I'm sorry. I'm sorry to Speaker Gilbert. I'm sorry to his family. I'm sorry to my family. And I'm sorry to every single Virginian.

So, was that effective? Was that apology accepted? That is Jay Jones, candidate for Virginia Attorney General, who had horrific text messages a couple of years ago that became public about how he wanted to take a Republican's opponent and shoot him twice in the head and then kill his family. Why he's still in the race befuddles me, but he's not going anywhere. The debate took place with Jason Moraes, who basically has a one-point lead going in, I think, right before the scandal.

John Reed joins us now, Lieutenant Governor on the Republican side, a candidate of Virginia. John Reed, a fantastic morning show, host of WRVA, an affiliate that we're lucky to have in our family. John, we saw you a couple of weeks ago at the big show. History, Liberty, and Laughs. Your campaign was on a roll.

What has Jay Jones' comments, even though it's a different position, done for you and your ticket?

Well, it's exposed to the problem with the violence in the Democrat Party in case people weren't paying attention. I mean, these guys really hate conservatives, and they'll use that hatred to try to motivate some people in their party to take action, violent action, against us. And I think there are a lot of conservatives who are waking up to that. We didn't want to believe it was true, even with what happened with President Trump and what happened with Charlie Kirk. And now these text messages confirm that somebody who wants to be the top cop in the state of Virginia is thinking about slaughtering one of his political opponents and their family.

It's not acceptable.

So, no, the apology from last night and the apology from a week ago, not accepted. We do not accept that apology. And he should drop out. I mean, he continues to make inflammatory. uh comments constantly and I just think people aren't going to accept it.

Yes. So we'll see because the Trafalgar poll just came out and everything is really tightening up. Even Winsom Sears, I think, is now by just a couple of points. Yours is to in the within the margin of error both ways. What's going to be the difference down the stretch?

Hopefully it's hard work. You know, the Democrats have have been funneled so much money nationally that it's unbelievable. I'm being outspent probably 10 to 1, which is crushing to me. I wish my friends in D. C.

would cough up some cash so I could be on television and radio. But I do think Virginia is still a state where the voter appreciates Someone who will get up every morning and go shake hands and actually reach across the aisle and go. Go talk to different voters. I'm hoping that. Thank goodness for social media where you don't have to pay.

To show the work you're doing.

So I'm hoping that's going to count. Then it also helps that we're right on the issues. And if we're able to explain that, I think that's going to tip it in our favor. If I asked Abigail Spamberger or your opponent about is it okay to have trans boys in girls' locker rooms in high schools, what would they say? Oh, well, you wouldn't understand the answer, which is by design.

They don't want to tell you the truth, which is they have been pushing. for the trans radical agenda. They want boys in girls' sports. They are pushing for men in the locker room. Even when we find out that the men in question are mentally ill and have been accused of You know, inappropriate, illegal behavior with children.

They still don't have the guts to stand up and say, let's draw the line and not allow this.

So they kind of tap, dance around, answer a question for four minutes, and you're scratching your head, like, what did they say? That's by design. I'm willing to tell you right now, even as a gay man myself, heck no. Boys do not belong in girls' sports. Men do not belong in the women's bathroom or locker room.

Somebody's got to be bold enough to say that. Winsom will do it. I will do it. And I think Jason will too. Ghazala Hashimi is your opponent.

And it looks like it is too close to call right now. I want you to hear Abigail Spamberger, who came out and was asked about this issue. Let's listen to her wrestler, stare straight ahead catatonically at this debate. Listen. Once again, the question was, should transgender girls who are biological males be allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play on girls' sports teams in K through 12?

You have 15 seconds to clarify. In cases across Virginia, I think it's incumbent upon Parents. And educators and administrators in each local community to make decisions locally. That's what this is about. Ms.

Earl Sears. And my goodness, we finally have her saying that, but you voted for that. Ms. Earl Sears. You find intruding on time here.

So that th this type of thing has tightened up a race. It's affected yours too, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm right there tied with Ghazalah Hashmi, and I'm working every day. She's still hiding in her basement.

I mean, she's running the Joe Biden plan of let's overwhelm the opponent with money and hope that that's going to work. The difference is that people in Virginia have known me my entire life. I'm a native Virginian. I've been on television for 10 years, radio for almost 10 years, worked for a U.S. Senator.

So, you know, a lot of people around the state know me and know I'm pretty solid on the issues they care about. And Ghazalahashmi is refusing to do any debates. And to me, that's a disqualifier. I think most people, whether they agree with you or not, think you should stand on stage and defend your ideas and your votes. And she refuses to do that.

So I'm making sure everybody knows you got somebody like me who's totally transparent and upfront, will take every press interview and talk to anybody. And somebody like her who stays hiding in the basement is going to use $5 million to try to overwhelm me. I don't think it's going to work. John Reed's with us now. He's running for lieutenant governor in the Republican tickets.

John, how's the government shutdown going to affect you? You had to figure people in Northern Virginia aren't getting paid. Yeah. Well, Northern Virginia has been very, very frustrated with a lot of the decisions that have come down since January. I mean, I was up there when the Doge cut started, and I tried to be empathetic.

I've lost my job.

So there are people Before, and there are people who are suffering, and there are people who are really worried.

So, I think it's important for us to talk through that and not be. uh dismissive of those concerns. But I will tell you, we're $37 trillion in debt. That's a reality. My partner lost his job with the Navy as a civilian, so I'm living through it.

I tell that story so people don't think I'm being a snob about it. It's impacting me very personally. And I think if we grow the economy of Virginia over the course of the next 12 months, there are going to be a lot more opportunities for people who are transitioning out of the federal workforce. That's why I put together a plan. It's the Read Real Agenda.

You can find it on Substack. The Reed Revolution. I'm trying to come up with solutions while everybody else just complains. And I think that's the mark of a leader: let's come up with some real solutions. We're folks who are.

Transitioning out. You know, he's losing the money race, but he's a dead heat in the real race. John Reed, lieutenant governor, candidate for Virginia, the Republican side. John, best of luck down the stretch.

Okay.

Thank you, Brian. I always appreciate seeing you on TV, on the radio, and when I get a chance in person. I appreciate it. And if you didn't notice, we are streaming this.

So if you had your little app or you had your app, we're always streaming on Fox Nation, but now we're streaming on BrianKilmicho.com and on digital. You got it. Always looking good, John. He's always camera ready, and he's ready to be behind the microphone. Sandra Smith is next.

Brian Kilmeecho. Don't move. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. Well, they promised they would, but you know, with terrorist groups, the promises they make typically aren't worth the paper that they're written on.

And that's why the president's deal was structured the way it is. Israel's obligations to withdraw from Gaza are conditions-based. They don't have to pull out just because Hamas promises they're going to play nice. Israel will withdraw and turn over territory based on Hamas's compliance with its obligations to surrender its weapons and to turn over governance to a neutral technocratic committee.

So far, it doesn't look like Hamas is prepared to play ball. They're also stalling on handing over the bodies of the hostages that they murdered in captivity.

So I wouldn't look for Netanyahu to be making any move soon until Hamas lives up to its end of the deal.

So that means A doesn't get in and phase one doesn't move forward. Nathan Sales, former State Department official under President Trump first term, speaking out now. Sandra Smith, co-anchor of America Report. Said to host her show with John Roberts between 1 and 3, who hosted with Bill Hemmer this morning between 9 and 11. Great to see you.

Yeah, good to see you, too. Thanks for having me. Your thoughts about how phase one is progressing and not progressing. I mean, when you consider how we all started this week with President Trump declaring the historic dawn of a new Middle East, we knew this was coming. We knew we were going to have to see how the deal actually.

played out In the way that we understood the deal. I think to the point about the stalling of the returning of the hostages' bodies, that is something that's very public in nature for all of us. We are awaiting the return of those. That is on the president's radar. During our program yesterday, Brian, we saw that true social message go out.

It was a firm message to Hamas from Donald Trump in that he would go in, we would go in and kill these Hamas militants if they continue the attacks. That we are hearing are happening in Gaza. He said: if Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter. There is video emerging of Hamas on the streets there.

Conducting these attacks.

So the president had no choice but to send this firm message. But I think we're in the wait and see phase of all this right now, Brian. Yeah, so he says: if you if they kill, if you kill people in Gaza, We're gonna kill you.

So that means through the IDF, he doesn't plan on putting our troops in there. But he also says international troops have to step up with those Arab nations.

So who's dedicated troops?

So far, according to people I've talked to, Indonesia. I also asked, what's the threshold? How many troops you need? They say 30,000.

So I'm like, okay, that's a lot.

So is the IDF going to move out and who's going to move in? Indonesia says you can count me in. But the UAE and Qatar have not said you can put my guys in. And here's the problem with that: those guys, Hamas would be afraid to kill. And would they be on the offensive to say, give me your guns?

So we know that any UN-helmeted guys, they have no residence. They have nothing but allegiance they've proven to Hamas.

So that won't work. And meanwhile, okay, while you do that, AIDS not going to get in.

So now it's up to see if the Arab world will step up and push, or does Trump have to get back in there and demand people act? Fair enough. And I think the question over the hostages is a big one. It was the Israeli foreign minister that said, and that is leading us to believe that they are stalling and withholding the returning of those dead hostage bodies. We know, as a matter of fact, he said that they can easily bring a significant number of dead hostages and give them back.

This was sort of the first warning sign that they were not following through on the terms of this deal. And that leaves us with a lot of questions.

So I talked to an Israeli ambassador last night, and I said, is it true? Do you think that they really can't find these 19 bodies? He said, they need special equipment. He said, we told him where to find 10. We told them exactly where they are.

So now, within 24 hours, we need to see them.

Now, if there are, sadly, hostages trapped under rubble because of some you know, because of an explosion they did or somebody else did, that's another thing. But then we can go in there. And they say Egypt has said we're going to give you some equipment. Obviously, through the Rafa crossing, they could come in and do it. But this is a really important time.

Israelis aren't getting killed. And I'm wondering, Sandra, where's the outrage now? Because I'm watching that video of the execution of people that evidently weren't loyal to Hamas with their hands behind their backs, masks on their face, bullets in the back of their head. Are they blaming the Israelis for that? You can bring this right back to what's happening here in New York City in that Zohar M.

Donny interview with Martha McCallum here on Fox News Channel midweek. I mean, he was asked point blank if Hamas should lay down their weapons and could not answer that question or did not say that they should. That's where we are with rhetoric, with some of these anti-Israel, the anti-Israel rhetoric and the anti-Israel sentiment that we're still seeing play out right here in the United States of America. Let's keep it on foreign policy if we can. The President of the United States has a phone call of Vladimir Putin yesterday on the eve of his meeting in Amada.

Do you know what time exactly Zelensky's going to be? Zelensky, one o'clock today. One o'clock. Right, right. Right when you're.

So, Delensi is going to be in the Oval Office, and we know that can go anyway. But this is what's interesting to me. NATO's already had meetings about what they want. The Secretary of Defense was there, the Secretary of War was there, Pete Hagseth. Here's what they're asking for.

Not hodgepodge, give me what you got.

Now they're saying this is exactly what we need. This is what we have. We're making our own long-range weapons. We're making our own drones. This is what we'd like to buy from you.

This is a long-term missile defense. And all of a sudden, something about the Tomahawks seems to have gotten their attention. Distance. Yeah, the distance and what they're aiming for. They're not aiming to kill people, they're aiming to blow up infrastructure leading into the winter.

So here's what President Trump said yesterday about what has developed since that meeting, CUP 27.

So we may do Something where we're separate, but Separate but equal. We'll uh Meat and Talk. parties, but uh this is a This is a terrible relationship the two of them have and it's One of those things. I've seen things that nobody would believe, but this is one of them. And that is what he says, we're going to maybe have a meeting in Hungary where Zelensky's in one room.

And Vladimir Putin's in the other, and maybe they go back they do shuttle diplomacy indoors. I was speaking to General Jaquin the second that we heard President Trump talking about sending in over these Tomahawk missiles. Obvious reasons why Zelensky would want this. Distance is one of them. Accuracy is another.

Cost is another. I mean, you're talking about far less expensive than manned warplanes, right? But as far as the Zelensky meeting today, that's one o'clock today, Britt Hume pointing out that this Trump Putin call. While initially we just knew that the phone call was happening, it was initiated by Vladimir Putin. It went on for two hours.

Apparently, on that phone call, President Putin made it very clear to President Trump that sending in these long-range Tomach missiles to Ukraine would. said quote, it would inflict, quote, significant damage to the relations between our countries. What was the current status? Yeah. I hope the Pr the President's not going to get intimidated, but he's saying to myself, okay, well, if that really bothers you this much, Then why don't you stop the war?

So use it as a hedge. You know what I would do, Sandra? I would say, hey, Senate. Put the vote to a test. Pass the massive sanctions bill.

Put it on my desk. And I'm going to tell Putin, we're going to meet in Hungary and we don't move forward like Alaska. I sign it and I would say the Tomahawks, I would deliver them to Ukraine. And I would tell Zelensky, don't use them. But if hungry goes r uh awry and you waste my time again, I'm letting them use them.

This meeting with Marco Rubio and Lavrov.

So important. Whoa, that's going to be the deciding factor, I truly believe. Yeah. So we'll see what happens with that. Can I add why?

Sure. The main for me, I love Steve Woodkoff. But it's Rubio that should be different than Lavrov. I see Witkoff said dealmaker, that's fine. But Rubio's got depth in relationships.

He said the same thing to our colleague Bill Hemmer this morning. I truly believe that as well.

So the President of the United States is making it clear we need those tomahawks. But hey, if Ukraine needs them, we're willing to send them. That's a strong message to Vladimir Putin. The Zelensky meeting at the White House, not just a plug to watch our show at 1 o'clock, Brian, but you know this is the people to watch your show. No, no, no, no, I'm just teasing.

But this could go, as we now know and we have seen in the Oval Office with Zelensky meetings. President Trump will tell him exactly like it is. I really very much look forward to it. The transparency that President Trump has provided the American public through this process has been awesome.

So we'll see what happens. We'll be watching that. How about this? He's on the phone with Putin. For over an hour.

And in the middle of it, he's like, I'm on the phone with Privilege Putin. This is how it's going. And his press secretary, Caroline Levitt, was with us on the air at one o'clock as that was either concluding or it was still ongoing.

So this is real time, and it's just respect. For example, I was able to put a call in this morning to try to get clarity before my Jack Keene interview because Jack Keene's on the cutting edge and we were going to speculate. And I go, why don't I just try him? And I missed him, and he calls me back two minutes before. He goes, What do you need?

He goes, No, you're about to go on. And he answers two of my questions. It made my segment better. You know what my goal is? Mike, and yours is the same one.

I just want to get the best information to ask the best questions.

So, why not go to the people that have the answers and find out what they're thinking about? Because I see so many people just say, well, this, this, and this. And I'm thinking to myself, where'd you get that from? And now in the podcast world, I see stuff that people with people I know saying things that can't be more than anything substantial.

So I just think you have an obligation. Not everything you say is right, but at least go to the newsmakers to find out what they're thinking about what they want to do. And then you can make a judgment if you think it's on the right track. Amen to that. It's got to say something, though, that President Trump says, Tomach missiles, we can send in Tommach missiles.

We've got a lot of them. We need them. It would be something for us to give those up. But if we determine that Ukraine and Vladimir Zelensky need these, we're willing to send them. What does Vladimir Putin do?

Picks up the phone call and calls the President of the United States and has a two-hour chat.

So, yes, I agree. I think the Lavrov meeting, the Marco Rubio meeting, this is going to be the next big step in all of that. They said, you know what? I said, what else? What did you talk about?

I go, Don't you think he's slow walking you to delay the delivery of all this? And he goes, He may be, but it's only going to delay so long. And if he thinks he's embarrassing me, it's only going to be temporary. And he said, Brian. Trade.

I go, What do you mean? He goes, We talk substantially about economics.

So he's saying if I stop this, All I have is war-making warehouses. I'm going to have to warehouse my artillery. And what do my guys do when I don't need tanks anymore? You know, so And that's what I think if he's thinking rationally. But every time I say that to people that Know him to go, do not think like yourself.

You got to think like Vladimir Putin, who really doesn't care about his people, or else he wouldn't be putting them through a meat grinder and losing $2,000 a week. Yeah. And when you look, and this is the conversation I had with Keen yesterday, the general was just pointing out the sheer distance that these Tomahawk missiles would reach far deeper into Russia than anything they currently have. And if you're somebody who believes that we have to continue to ramp up the pressure on Russia to Not Escalate this war, this might be one reason or one way how.

So I want you to hear what Dave Ignatius said on another network who's been on here a lot. Also, I find that he's very experienced, but he's open to Donald Trump's unorthodox ways. Unlike, let's say, Thomas Friedman, who thinks he knows more and writes like that. Cut 31. The question of sending tomahawks, which are long-range cruise missiles, that could strike Moscow and many other targets deep in Russia.

President Trump has sort of bandied about how much Ukraine would like them, and gee, we have a lot of them, and yeah, you know, suggesting, well, maybe we'll send some over. The response from Russia has been unusually sharp, with Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, saying this would be a new level of escalation. Former President Dmitry Medvedev saying we don't know whether these cruise missiles are going to have nuclear warheads or not, implying they might respond to an attack by tomahawks with some kind of nuclear response because they don't know what's coming.

So it was quite a tense showdown. And at the conclusion of that, Trump picks up the phone and calls Putin. And we now have this new meeting. I think you guys are reversed, as Putin had called. Just in perspective, there's something that got their attention.

The Tomahawks got their attention. No, I think there was actually some misreporting on that initially, and then it was left out. And I think it's a major point that Vladimir Putin did call the White House. Let's not forget the economic possibilities as well. While there has been a significant decrease in the amount of energy being purchased.

There's still more that can be done. And there is some reporting that behind the scenes, the White House is still weighing some options as far as Russia sanctions and stopping those, or at least maybe even imposing tariffs on those countries that are still buying oil and gas. Aside from Russia. Yeah. I mean, well, why not?

If you really want to cripple Moscow economically, I mean, that's what they have left, energy. Yeah, Turkey, Brazil, and China, the big ones. Sandra Smith is going to tell us who's on her show for the next two hours, when her two-hour show takes off. And we'll come back and talk about that debate last night in New York City. Don't move.

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Sponsored by Previgen. Previgen made for your brain. I would make it clear to the president that I am willing to not only speak to him but to work with him if it means delivering on lowering the cost of living for New Yorkers. That's something that he ran his presidential campaign on, and yet all he's been able to deliver thus far has been prosecuting his political enemies and trying to enact. the largest deportation program in American history.

That is Mom Dani last night. He had to just survive. He's up by about 20 points on Cuomo and Slee. Did he do enough? Not according to the New York Post, but Andrew Cuomo was attacked, and I don't really think he shined.

I guess he's just not a great debater. I haven't really paid much attention because he really hasn't had much competition in New York. Sandra Smith, co-anchor of America Reports from one to three. Sandra, before you comment on this, can you tell me who's on your show? Oh, well, we've got the Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Maiaris coming on.

He's going to talk about the quote-unquote apology from his Democrat challenger, Jay Jones, last night.

So we'll have that. And obviously, the New York City mayoral race will be a big discussion as well. But top of the hour, the Ukrainian president visiting the White House. There will be a bilat lunch happening. We've got Martha McCallum, Bill Hemmer, Trey Gowdy, Dan Hoffman, and more on to react to what comes out of the White House.

Okay, and Sandra, to Mom Dami last night, from what you saw, did he look like the frontrunner? Did he look like the guy up 20 points? Smiled right through it. And, you know, Andrew Cuomo. Yeah.

I'd give you that he's not a good debater, you just said, if I thought that he prepared for the debate, he seemed ill-prepared. It should have been a slam dunk to respond to socialist policies in New York City. I mean, we need capitalism to survive. I mean, this is the financial capital of the world. But he didn't seem prepared.

He looked like he was on defense for a lot of that debate. I'm not sure a whole lot changed last night. It would appear that Mamdani may maintain his lead in this race. Here is Curtis Slera last night. He thinks he's the right guy.

Cut seven. First of all, I created the Guardian Angels to provide public safety in the subways and streets. When government was incapable of doing so, I didn't do it to get a title or a paycheck. Secondarily. I don't declare myself to be all-knowing.

I will hire the very brightest and best in their fields. And there's pressure on Sliwa to get out. He said he turned down millions of dollars to step out. I talked to people that really like him, but think that Cuomo will be a much better choice than Mamdami and Sleewa can't win. Do you think that he'll get blamed, perhaps, if Mondami wins?

I think it's a fair question. We had him on the program this morning.

So Bill and I had a chat with him. He was joining us on set here in New York City. And he believes, if you ask him, that Cuomo is the bad candidate and that he needs to get out of the race and let this be a Mamdani-Sliwa race. I'm not so sure that that's going to happen. He wants to make, and as his message has been, it's about New York City and it's about making people safe, ensuring people's safety.

Mamdani's making this about affordability. But when. When pulled The one area where it appears, and Bill and I were chatting about this this morning, it appears the one area where Cuomo continues to lead when asked. Is they see him as the better leader of the three. And he could have owned that on the stage last night.

I don't know that he did.

Well, yeah, I mean the cry of his leadership led us into uh A really terrible spot in the pandemic, and his decision to have a five-minute game. And he got slammed for that on the stage. Yeah, and when you're hitting Andrew Cuomo, it was Mom Donnie's winning. And that's it. He's very open and with no Eric.

Can't play Merrick Adams. Sandra Smith, thanks so much. On One Nation, don't forget Sunday night, 10 o'clock. I got Tom Cotton, Eric Trump, and many more surprises.

So do not miss a minute of it. Sandra, thanks so much. We'll be back on your show from 1 to 3 today, America Reports. Keep it here. Brian Kilmicho.