Trump: Gaza ceasefire holds... for now

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We're back in action today.

So is the President. President's going to be meeting with the President of the Prime Minister of Australia. They're going to have a bilateral lunch together and talk about nuclear submarines and some other things. For example, Australia could divorce themselves a little bit more from China. That would certainly help us and alert us to the dangers that Taiwan is facing.

That should be newsworthy, and of course, they'll meet with the press as usual. And that always makes news. And, of course, we'll take your calls today. This hour, we're going to be joined by Steve Hilton, the Republican gubernatorial candidate. The Katie Porter revelations, the fact that.

You know, he's among the top three now, and he's got to be in the top two if he wants to get to the finals. The fact that he's the top three as a MAGA Republican, kind of interesting.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. We're going to go to San Francisco. The difference is, I think they want us in San Francisco. San Francisco was.

truly one of the great cities of the world. And then 15 years ago it went wrong. It went woke.

Next stop, San Francisco. Trump has decided after the success in Memphis, NDC, Chicago, and Portland to a degree, he'll bring his law enforcement team to San Fran. Will it finally clean up the city? Will they open up their arms or fold them? We're going to look at how these major cities seem to be.

Hooking the books though on the crime stats they say are going down. Number two. He has a very narrow path to winning this race because what New Yorkers saw. is the fact that It's more of the same with Andrew Cuomo. It's more of the same with the affordability crisis.

It's more of the same with the style of politics. That's it. Mayor Momdani, should we get used to that word, that phrase, that title? I hope not. Cuomo and Seliwa have just two weeks to massively change things, and they can't do it with both in the race.

Plus, which New Jersey and Virginia, New Jersey and Virginia, both the Our blue states are tightening for the Republicans. Number one. I heard the President asked you what the chances were for success. Yes. And you said 100%.

And he said, why do you feel so confident? And I said, well, we can't afford to fail. That is Steve Woodkoff and Jared Coach around 60 Minutes last night, mysteriously sitting down with Leslie Stahl, who lit up the president, remember, and just flat out treated him terribly while not even acknowledging that the laptop was real and the Russian hoax was a hoax.

Well, they sat down and they had a revealing interview, told the president when he asked if they could get a deal done. He actually says yes. But meanwhile, we'll give you the latest on Gaza today as well as Ukraine. They're both their path to peace and the stakes and absolute latest in both war zones. I'll give you my take on the path to peace.

First off, when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, this is what the president should do. He should say, hey, Senate, Eighty-five of you want massive sanctions and secretary sanctions in place on Russia. Get me that signed piece of legislation. And I want to leave it on my desk. And then I want the Tomahawks.

I want them delivered to Ukraine. But Ukraine, Zelensky, do not touch them. Unless we get something out of the Budapest meeting.

So if the Budapest meeting goes like Alaska, where Vladimir Putin wants to give the history of Russia and how Ukraine is not a real country, stop it, get up and leave. Sign that piece of legislation, massive sanctions on Russia, and tell them to launch the Tomahawks when they're ready. And that's what I would do. And the only thing that they understand. In the ug with Rush understands.

is pressure and military pressure especially. The sanctions will work even more, but I think their economy is sucking wind. I think their energy sector has been really hurt. And I think the people buying gas and oil from them need to pay a price, including China. And the other thing is the President thinks the According to reports, he thinks the Ukrainians are losing.

And I just don't think that's the case. Everything I read, the people I talk to, they're not losing this war. The Financial Times writes this the meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended on Friday many times into a shouting match, with Trump cursing all the time, people familiar with the matter said, according to the report.

Now what Putin wants is Donetsk. But they haven't won Donesk. They had fourteen years they can't. And if you give up Donesk, there's a pathway right to Kiev.

So one day, a few years or three years after Trump leaves, the new person gets in there, they take their eye off the ball and goodbye, Kiev. Then what's it all worth it for? Here's President Trump, cut to. I've been asked by Ukraine if they could have Tomahawks and I'm looking at it. I spoke with Vladimir Putin about it.

Not that he would be thrilled. It's a violent, vicious weapon. But we have to remember one thing. We need them for ourselves too. You know, we can't give all of our weapons to Ukraine.

We just can't do that. And I've been Very good to President Zelensky and to Ukraine, but we can't We can't give, you know, if we're going to be short, I don't want to do that. I can't jeopardize the United States. We could give a dozen, no problem. We know that.

And it's not a matter of being short, and we could just mass produce them. I didn't even know they were land-based. I always thought they had to be shot off uh a ship, but I I guess that's wrong. But the one thing the President I think has wrong is if Vladimir Putin can win this war, they're not. They can't win the war.

If they could have won the war, they would have done it three years ago. Cup four. We are not losing this war. And uh Putin is not winning. And uh really the his his army now in the weak Hey.

Wig uh position I think so, because they really From the beginning of this war, they could occupy one percent of our land. Look, but they The president Had done an incredible job bringing the Republicans and Democrats to compliment on what him and his team have done in Gaza. Even as you work your way forward, and we'll go over that, that there's obviously two IDF soldiers died yesterday, and in return, the IDF hit back and wiped out at least 14 Palestinian militants and blew up some tunnels where they popped out of over in the Rafah area. But clearly, the other thing that would bring Republicans and Democrats together, majority of Republicans and Democrats believe the president should do everything. Not to Rand Pauls and the Bernie Sanders, they never believe it.

Here's Mark Kelly, cut ten. Putin does not want Ukraine to get a longer-range missile that could go after targets deep into Russia, beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg, by the way. It can range targets much further. It's very accurate.

It's very survivable. Weapon. And Putin has a conversation with them, and those weapons are now off the table. Hey, I think Ukraine can handle. If we can give them enough rounds, if we have them in our inventory and enough launchers, ground launchers are rather new to this system, something we got rid of for a long period of time.

They've demonstrated their ability. To operate a sophisticated weapon system like the F-16, they could handle this and it would help.

So that Senator Mark Kelly would fully back him. The guy is, he's got this great military background. He's more of a politician than I ever thought. But here I think he would honestly say, I have to sign on to this. I mean, I just, it would definitely work.

And the bottom line is, every day that Russia is gummed up and pays a price, it works for us because Russia is our enemy. Uh an enemy that has no interest in working with us unless they're forced to. And when China backing them up and being they're willing to admit they're the junior partner, they have an ally there.

So, whether you like it or not, every day that Russia fights and Ukraine holds them account. It works for us because they get weaker. As well as we've tied out our West Hom systems, what they've developed in drone technology. Evidently, by December, January, they're going to be able to start taking down on a regular basis most of that Shaid drone program that the Iranians gave the patent to the Russians so they could make their own.

Well, soon that force field is going to go up.

Now, they always make adjustments in this, but you'll be able to stop the. Most of the drones from getting through. as well as what they're losing on the ground. And if we amp it up and we sprint when the other guy's gassed, you could actually win this race.

Meanwhile, going over to Gaza over the weekend, two IDF soldiers were killed, sadly, just by standing on their posts during the ceasefire.

So, why? The soldiers were killed when these Palestinian militants attacked the forces operating in the area. The idea of it's allowed to be under the ceasefire agreement. The deaths prompted a strong response. They lost 14, as I mentioned.

Israel still controls about half of Gaza, as you know. They've accused Hamas fighters of operating out of the tunnels beneath the areas.

Now, Hamas said, Yeah, we lost contact with Hamas fighters in Rafah. Who knows if you believe it? I don't believe anything they say. J.D. Vance is going in the area.

If this is going to work, there's got to be vigilance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It can't be the president, maybe even not the vice president. Put Michael Waltz in there. But immediately after both sides took aim at each other, They went right back to the ceasefire, and I love that. They don't want to disappoint the President because they know there's nothing good about that.

Here's Michael Leiter, an Israeli ambassador to the U.S., cut twenty-one. They committed to turning over our hostages.

Now we still have 16 bodies. I mean they're keeping bodies of the people they killed. Even the mafia remembers where they keep the bodies of the people they bump off. These people have 16 of our citizens that they're holding on to, and they're not releasing them. And under the agreement, they were supposed to give us all the living and dead hostages in 72 hours.

That's long gone.

So we're waiting for that to happen. We cannot move into the second phase until all of our hostages are released. We have great faith. In the negotiating capabilities of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they're doing an incredible job, and there's a lot of hope here. But again, we are dealing with a very, very bloody terrorist organization that has no moral scruples whatsoever.

We understand that, and that's why you've got to get an international force in there, a force that they're afraid to kill and that's willing to do things. Evidently, there's training going on with in Jordan and in Egypt. It's going to be a mix of those countries' MPs, their version of MPs, and Palestinians that are training with them. And let's see. You know, we recognized the tribes during the surge and we armed them and backed them.

Now they w they use the term clans over in Gaza. We uh the IDF armed them. And we assume to a degree back them. Are they going to do that now? Are they going to say, look, We'll give you control of Gaza.

We're going to give you the armaments. We need you to no longer be an enemy of the Israeli State. And Maybe we reckon so these clans got to survive. Evidently, they've taken over one area and they told Tomas basically: you could try coming in here, we're going to kill you.

So I think that that's going to be the key. You train up the security forces and then recognize the groups within the Palestinian territories that they can work with. At the same time, be able to get big earth movers in there and approach the rebuilding of Gaza like it was an earthquake, a hurricane, and a tsunami all at once. But you can't do that while they're shooting at you. We'll talk about that, the New York City mayor's race, which is happening over in Virginia with that race.

All of them are tightening up. Very intriguing. Bottom of the hour, Steve Hilton. You'll listen to the Brian Kill Me Show on a Monday. Diving deep into today's top stories.

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There's an interdependence between the U.S. economy and China, so something's going to have to get worked out. But there's also outstanding issues since 2000 that China has not resolved. They don't abide by the rules of the World Trade Organization that they're a member of. There's all kinds of trade disputes in Germany, France, United States, Canada of IP theft.

There's the TikTok deal. Let's not forget about that. That's probably going to go sideways for a while. It's one big package, Trey. One big package.

And you know, when you throw out the rare earth stuff, And you start with that. That's just the beginning. It's the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. There's so much work to be done here. Yeah.

Both leaders have to do this dance and that's the nature of it. There will be a deal, I guarantee you that. Maybe, if China wants it. I mean, I thought we were on the path to doing that. I saw that we showed up in London with a delegation of maybe 10.

They showed up with about 30. They were getting into the technical parts of a trade deal with us, and then I thought we would debate the wisdom of it. And then President Xi, I think Trump is going to meet with President Xi on the sidelines of a conference next week.

So I don't understand how someone would on their side goes, we are going to limit rare earth deliveries to America.

Now I talked to people last week who would know and said that within eighteen months between going around the world mining and refining the rare earth and the metals that we need, we could be out of the woods and not dependent in eighteen months. But they might have known that and said, why don't we act now? There's another theory. Believe it or not. The president she didn't know.

That they were going to come out last week and say we're going to slow down deliveries or cut off deliveries of rare earth.

Well, buying, not buying our Our soybeans, which matter so much to our farmers in North Dakota, farmers in Iowa. They even brought up in Oklahoma.

So here's Tom Cotton. On what else we're doing, and that is. He's noticing the research and development at our colleges. There's a huge Chinese presence, and they're stealing. They almost have to.

In 2018, they passed a law in China that said that you basically have to work for the government or your family's gonna pay the price.

So if you're a 26-year-old. lab technician, and you're working over in Harvard. doing innovative things with biotech. And China goes, Yeah, we need to bring some of that stuff back. You gotta say yes, because you know who's back there?

China. Here's Tom Cotton, what he told me on One Nation over the weekend, Cut 45. We don't want Chinese nationals coming to our universities and then taking technology back that's going to help. them in their competition against the United States. Whether they do so willingly or whether they do so because the Chinese Communist Party coerces them through force or through pressure on their families, I think it's time to cut off this pipeline to our universities.

There's other things that we need to do as well, Brian. You know, our national laboratories, places like Los Alamos or Sandia that are doing critical work on nuclear weapons or quantum computing, still have Chinese, Russian, and even Iranian nationals visiting them. We need to cut that off as well. A lot of these scientific institutions at our universities, at our national labs, have great science. They frankly don't have a lot of hard-nosed common sense about security.

All right, the other thing, KJP has a book coming out.

Now, we're not going to buy it. I am curious about what's in it. And evidently, the reason she's leaving the Democratic Party is because of loyalty to Joe Biden, and she's mad at the party for abandoning Joe Biden. I sadly, over the weekend, I saw Joe Biden. We all did.

And he looks 111 years old. He's going through chemo treatment. It beats up a 22-year-old has trouble after chemo. This guy is so beat up in particular. There's no way he could have gotten through it.

We find out he had mass prostate cancer. Maybe it was kept from her, but obviously if you've seen Joe Biden and then you blame the party for the fact that they abandoned him, instead of using your head and saying there's no way this guy can do the job. Because you must have seen him up close, but instead she says she can't stomach being a Democrat after the party's treatment of Joe Biden. And my goodness, what is wrong with you? Are you that blindly loyal to him?

I've no I can understand that. But you know that he wasn't briefing you. You know he wasn't doing the job more than four hours. You know nobody said he's done even more. You know the reason one of the main reasons that you did at your press conference were absolutely useless to any member of the press, because you had nothing to say.

And now we find out one of the reasons you had nothing to say is because there was nothing going on. You weren't being briefed by the president. You didn't have one-on-one time with the president. You heard about some of the advisors who said they met with him once every six months. One guy was there for two years, met with him one time.

So now, an excerpt from her book. She says Biden seemed to be at total peace with his decision to drop out. She said, I was stunned. My feelings were blur. I was angry and sad.

I was enraged and heartbroken that this man had given more than 50 years of his life to serve the American people, and in the end, he'd be treated so poorly by members of his own party. It was horrible. What do you think about that? 1866-408-7669. I'm going to talk a little about California's governor's race and San Francisco and putting the security forces in there.

That's where Trump's going next. But I do want to hear what you have to say. I mean, how do you feel about somebody up close? Actually met at the party. For stepping in on Joe Biden, knowing he hadn't been able to do the job for at least two, maybe three years, if at all.

And uh she actually she's taking a heroic stand. I I don't know how. She expects to do a book tour. But then again, I was a little surprised. I don't know how Kama Harris was gonna do a book tour.

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The difference is, I think they want us in San Francisco. San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then 15 years ago it went wrong. It went woke.

Uh That is true. But the challenge is in San Francisco is going to be the mayor is actually better doing a lot of positive things. Then uh Then what's the name well London breed And they're actually making some gains. It's a modder in the San Jose Mayor. They say as a moderate, I mean, that could have hope.

Now, my hope is that this mayor in San Francisco will go, okay, I'll take the help, I'll take the FBI, I'll take more, and I'll take more National Guard, anything to help me crack down federal troops or federal officers, that would help. ATF, Border Patrol, we know the border has been wide open. I doubt it, though, because of Gavin Newsom running for president. He wants to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't make any gains in California, which means California doesn't make any gains. He says if Donald Trump sends troops.

or forces into San Francisco, he will ruin the city. If anybody knows how to ruin San Francisco, it would be the former mayor. Who knows how to ruin a state? It would be the soon-to-be former governor. Steve Hilton joins us now, Republican gubernatorial candidate, and serves as Director of Strategy for the British Prime Minister David Cameron, and author of Cala Failure: Reversing the Ruin of America's Worst-Run State.

Steve, welcome. Great to be with you, Brian. I mean, it's a it's a serious situation. And you're right about um Daniel Leary, the mayor of San Francisco. to a certain extent.

He's a friend of mine, by the way. I've known him for over ten years. Um he's doing his best. but he's not confronting the structural issues that are a disaster in San Francisco. And so you still have a very, very serious problem, which is that San Francisco is overrun.

with international drug gangs. That is the key point people have to understand. You have between at any particular time And this is coming directly from a guy called Tom Wolfe. I spent a lot of time with, who's a recovering addict, who's now an incredibly effective voice For what's going on on the streets of San Francisco. I was on the second day of my campaign.

I was there with him. And he was showing me around and I keep in touch with him on this. Up to a Between five hundred and a thousand organized international drug Fentanyl dealers. on the streets. unimpeded open air drug markets.

And this has been going on for A decade or more. And by the way, they're nearly all from Honduras. There's even a town. in Honduras. In the Syria Valley, it's called.

Syria Valley in Honduras. Which is basically funded by the drug profits from San Francisco to the extent that the houses there, they will have forty nine as flags up and they will love San Francisco. This is a situation that is not being got under control. And it's true that the current mayor is doing a little bit better. You've got a bit of cleanup going on.

But even there with the move with the homelessness, For example, I was there on the street. And the candeloin. Um and say, yeah, this is better than it used to be a few weeks ago. police come in, move move the homeless people on. They send them to the cities.

uh triage center And I said, what happens after that? Oh, that closes at 7 p.m. They're back on the streets. You come here at night, it's a war zone again. They're not really dealing with the problem.

Final point: I would add that Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose. Um who I also know. Less well as a friend, but I know him. He really is. the one who's stepping up and challenging Gavin Newsom.

constantly calling him out. But in San Francisco, the mayor is not looking not welcoming. any federal help at all. He's he's literally saying nothing. He's trying to avoid the issue.

And then you've got others in San Francisco, the DA, Brooke Jenkins. She has threatened to arrest federal law enforcement, arrest them. That's that's her response. And then you've got A uh well the board of supervisors. United against the Okay.

So there's no sense. in which San Francisco is welcoming help or support, which is exactly what they should do. Here's Gavin Newsom. Here's Gavin Newsome, cut 34. This President appears Unhinged.

Unmoored. by reality and facts. Seems listless. He seems Dare I say in decline? cognitively and these are just rantings of someone.

That uh needs an intervention. Needs some help.

So a couple of things. Um If there's anyone. who is not listless on the planet, it is Donald Trump. 20 hours a day, every moment, every issue, as a micromanager. In the Washington Post today, it is working.

So for him to say that is like saying he's not 6'3. I mean, what what's he doing there? Like, why is it and Pritzka says the same thing. Is this a concerted effort to make people think that Joe Biden didn't lose? I don't know what their approach to this is.

Brian, it's so pathetic, honestly. Um I mean he could have been talking about himself, the person who's unhinged. And and just Really losing it and seems. I mean, you look at it, you can see it in his eyes. There's something wrong with Gavin Newsome.

There really is. And I don't say that with any Joy is again someone I know. there's something seriously wrong. Um, look at him with the with the way he looks. The constant hand gestures, there is something wrong there.

And the sad truth is that we don't have a governor of California right now. We have a social media manager. Who's spending his time Putting out Don't be means. and social media attacks and posts on X. That seems to be his only focus.

and saying these ridiculous things that are obviously untrue.

Meanwhile, the state continues to be the worst performer in America on everything that matters. Obviously crime and homelessness we've discussed, but we have the highest unemployment rate in the country, the highest poverty rate, the worst business climate. On and on. It's just a design highest cost for everything that matters, gas. electric housing, rent, everything.

They're disaster. And this is what he's spending his time doing. I've said it before, and I'm going to repeat it today. He should just resign. He should resign.

in actually doing his job. and only interested in his next job, which is what this is all about, running for President. then Gavin Newsome should resign. We have a perfectly good Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kunilakis. who's at least she cares about California, she's Democrat.

Yeah. Republican would do better. Obviously, that's why I'm running. But we can't go on like this. Embarrassing.

Look at what he did over the weekend. Gavin Ewsome now is that he has his own version of Bridgegate. We shut down the I-53, disrupting life for millions of Southern Californians. purely to troll President Trump over the Camp Pendleton Marines celebration. And he lied about it, totally lied, barefaced lying, Gavin Newsom, over the weekend.

So tell everyone what happened. And at which time there was some um there was a uh rocket that almost went over the freeway that stopped things?

So the cut. It's just it's light that Absolute line.

So The Camp Pendleton. The Marine Base. is all along the southern California coast. Huge, huge base. One of our greatest military installations that we're so proud of in the country.

Been there for over eighty years. Anyone, if you drive from Orange County, from LA from Southern Cal California down to San Diego, The main way to get there is the I-5 freeway, and it goes right alongside Camp Pendleton. And for decades, People drive there perfectly safely. I've done it many times up and down the coast there. Um they're l they're literally using live fire.

I've spoken to only people involved. directly every single day. It's a training. It's a huge m marine base. They're training every single day with live Munitions.

This was a celebration, the 250th anniversary of the Marines, on Saturday. and they were doing exercises. part of the celebration, including using live fire munitions in the way that they always have. For days leading up to it, Gavin Newsom tried to use it as another opportunity for one of his pathetic Social media stance. And he started hyping it up about how there's going to be rockets fired over the freeway, it's not safe for people, whatever.

And then They s they said that the freeway is going to have to be closed. and that they blamed the White House, which said the White House And the Secret Service and so on. None of that was true. It was denied by every single part of the operation there, White House, Secret Service, the Marines, the Department of War. No one requested the closure of the freeway.

Gavin Newsom ordered the freeway to be closed on Saturday morning. And it was closed. For hours. And I've spoken to people who've been disa wedding disrupted. Parents who couldn't go and see their kids play football.

Just mass disruption. And then he blamed it on Trump. And so the whole thing was staged. It really is Bridgegate. This is Gavin Newsom's Bridgegate.

I mean, it's a sick. Political stunt. There's no limit. It seems to how pathetic Gavin Newsome is being at the moment and for one reason. And you asked earlier, why is he doing it?

Because unfortunately, it seems to be working for him in the narrow focus he has right now, which is pandering to the democratic base and the online people who are You're driving the conversation. I mean, he's such a phony, though. You watch him on these podcasts and he's cursing gratuitously. His hands don't match his words, which shows you that's an awkward nervousness thing that he does. The other thing is, the frontrunner right now is Katie Porter.

If you've seen a more embarrassing politician outside a member of the squad, I haven't met him yet. Maybe Crockett. But listen to some of what the frontrunner is like, Cut 49. How would I need them in order to wed a man?

Well unless you think you're gonna get 60% of the vote. You think you'll get 60%? Everybody who did not vote for Trump will vote for you. That's what you're thinking about. In a general election?

Yes. If it is me versus a Republican, I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump. What if it's you versus another Democrat? I don't intend that to be the case.

So How do you not intend that to be the case? Are you going to ask them not to run? No, no, I'm saying I'm gonna build the support. I have the support already in terms of name recognition. And so I'm gonna do the very best I can to make sure that we get through this primary in a really strong position.

But let me be clear with you. I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I have stood on my own two feet and won Republican votes before. That's not something every candidate in this race can say.

If you're from a deep blue area, if you're from LA, or you're from Oakland, you don't have an experience. And you just said you don't need those Trump voters. But you asked me if I needed them to win.

So I wanted to put have the build up because you always hear the blow up. I wanted people to hear the blew up. Didn't film one. What an idiot. She doesn't control who's in.

If she wins and comes in first, she doesn't control who's in second. The second could be you. Right?

So, if you're in second, you'll get all the Republican votes. You have to be somewhat appealing to. Republicans. And if you are going against a Democrat, you have to find a way to win over the 40% of Republicans. What is wrong with those questions?

Of course. I mean, it's ridiculous. But this is the attitude, Brian. I mean, I've been, this is now over a week, nearly two, I think it's nearly two weeks. since this has been out there on Katie Porter.

And the reason it's so devastating um is that it's not just her actually. The attitude you heard there is the attitude of California Democrats generally, this arrogance The entitlement. They've had 15 years of one-party rule. They think it's going to go on forever. They assume that there's going to be no change.

Check. accountability for their massive failures, and they're just going to go on and on getting reelected. And that's not going to happen this time, because right now I am the other candidate. I mean, in all the polls, I'm in the top two with her. And look, she may go down now.

Who knows? It's still a bit early. But I'll be in the top two. I'll be the champion for change we need. And here's another number.

People talk about the Republican percentage vote. in California, fine. It's it's the it's actually higher than people think. for the last 10 years or so, 20 years actually, it's been pretty stable at around just under 42%. It's not fifty, but it's not twenty either.

That gap is bridgeable. And here's another number, very important. Sixty five percent. That's the latest Public Policy Institute California poll. They do it all the time, asking is the state going in the right direction or the wrong direction?

65% wrong direction. That is a big number for change. And actually, that's been steady over 60% or over for the last two years. People are sick of this in California. I really feel strongly.

People need to understand. I've got a very, very good shot next year. I'm not saying it's easy. Of course not. It's going to be difficult, but I'm fighting Like no one's fought for this state for a long time.

And I'm very confident we can pull it off.

Well, I want you to hear so the second half. If this is the frontrunner, there is absolutely nobody of worth in this field. The other guy was a joke, Xavier Becerra. I mean, what a terrible HHS secretary.

So they want to make him governor? Are you kidding? Cut fifty. I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?

Do you think you need any of those forty Percent of California voters to win, and you're saying, no, you don't. No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is that Well to those voters.

Okay, so so you I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it. Thank you. You're not going to do the interview with us. Nope, not like this.

I'm not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask. Every other candidate has answers. I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation with you ask me about every issue on this list.

And if every question, you're going to make up a follow-up question, then we're never going to get there. And we're just going to circle around. I mean, where do you start? You're a communications expert even before you started running for office. What would you say if that was your client?

Look, she's she's just got a completely um you know go out there and say This is a disaster for me and I messed it up and I'm really sorry. And who better she hasn't done that, she's been out Um kind of apologizing, not really. Because the arrogance is there. All of them. And so I think I don't think she comes back from this, honestly.

Um and we are hearing very strongly That the Democrat machine in California, which has been pulling the strings. for all these years. Very powerful machine, the unions, of course. Um and Nancy Pelosi. still runs that machine.

they are trying to uh draft into the race. Alex Padilla. The current U.S. Senator. He's the one, if you remember, who made a fool of himself by barging into Christy Noam's.

press conference and creating that another one who just obsessed with these stunts. He was appointed to the Senate, by the way. Like Gavin Newsom when Carmela Harris Rep Vice President, became Vice President, and um And then That's how we got there. He's a not he's just a crony of Newsom's. Completely complete mediocrity.

No um leadership in a new direction, which is what we need in California. We've got to do better. We're the biggest state in America. We're the fourth biggest economy in the world. We cannot go on like this with these pathetic Excuses.

For leadership, when actually we need to go in a new direction to deal with the problems here. It's just outrageous.

Well, keep running hard, Steve. You definitely have open field. There's not a lot of talent in front of you. You just got to go uphill because you're a Republican in a Democratic state. Steve Hildon, keep.

Continue success. Thank you, Brian. Good to be with you. All right, back in a moment with your calls. I know it's been a busy weekend.

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So that was uh did you watch the uh weekend update? Yes, I watched it. There wasn't much, but we got to see. Did you see the cold open? Yeah.

I've watched some of it. It was so bad I turned it off. It's hideous. I mean, you would think maybe a high school play. If you came over to high school, they go, well, nice try.

At least they're trying to do something live on stage. It was so unrehearsed, so not funny, not more than anything political that you could say, wow, that reminds me of something in the headlines. I mean, that's the way they've been grabbing people, trying to do something that creates news. No, they tried to highlight Sab I knew Sabrina Carpenter was the host and then they were they basically changed the words to the popular Taylor Swift song. I turned it off halfway.

I'm like, this.

Well, I also thought, we're not using this for our show at all this morning. It's not helpful. They should be using Amy Pohler Where somebody Warren Michaels must be just shot. Because he's done it for 50 years. Obviously, he's not hands-on.

He used to know more than anything else what was funny. Even cutting edge. But now, how could you ever sign off on these acts? One was stupider than the next. But I am curious, though.

Were they trying, since it wasn't a political cold open, to see how that's gonna rate as opposed to always going political? But you gotta make it funny. Right. Or make it recognizable. Do something.

I mean, you. Was like a bad, it was just a bad skit. But between Sabrina Carpenter in it and singing a Taylor Swift song, maybe that'll be enough. I think America has higher standards. That's why they're going to come November 1st.

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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmey Show coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan. Heard around the country, around the world. And of course, the whole country is looking at our mayor's race, we'll get to that. Also, a bombshell pole is now out.

So if you put the AARP, put together this pole. Um the Gotham Polling Company and said if you want Cuomo against Mondami It would be within the margin of error: 44% for Mondami, 40% for Cuomo. That's if Curtis Liwa quit the race. Klosewa now has 19.4% of the vote, Cuomo 28 and 43% for Mondami, which is pathetic considering that Eric Adams won with 70% of the vote.

So there's a lot going on because people are really concerned, like me, that if Socialist wins in New York City, they're going to start popping up all over the place and knowing that Democrats have the biggest crowds with AOC and Bernie Sanders. Is the other party, instead of being center left, Way left? Let's get to the big three. Number three. We're going to go to San Francisco.

The difference is I think they want us in San Francisco. San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then 15 years ago, it went wrong. It went woke.

Next stop, San Fran. Trump has decided after the success in Memphis and D.C. and a minor success in Chicago and Portland, thanks to the courts that hasn't been full-blown yet, he'll bring his law enforcement team to San Fran. Will it finally clean up that city? Will they open up their arms or fold them and cross them?

We're going to look at how all these major cities seem to be cooking the books on crime stats to make it seem like it's going down. Number two. He has a very narrow path to winning this race because what New Yorkers saw. is the fact that It's more of the same with Andrew Cuomo. It's more of the same with the affordability crisis.

It's more of the same with the style of politics. Yeah, I will say one thing. Mondami would not be more the same. Mayor Mondami, should we get used to saying that? I hope not, but Cuomo and Sleewe have just two weeks to massively change things.

If they both stay in the race, they will both lose. New Jersey and Virginia elections also tighten in blue states. Number one. I heard the President asked you what the chances were for success. Yes.

And you said. 100%. And he said, why do you feel so confident? And I said, well, we can't afford to fail. Gaza and Ukraine, the path to peace, the stakes and the absolute latest in both war zones.

I'll give you my take on their paths to peace. Number one, when it comes to Gaza, It's going to be tenuous every single day, but I love the fact that after two IDF soldiers were killed, and what a tragedy just for standing on the line that they were given, the yellow line, they were killed by two Hamas members. Then they just came back and they wiped out 14, and they hope blew up the tunnels in which they popped out of. Both sides went right back to the ceasefire.

So that means we don't want to blow it. They don't want to blow it. Hamas said we have nothing to do with the Rafah section. We lost touch with them. I don't believe that.

Neither do you. On the Ukraine side, it is very simple. The President should ask the Senate to pass that sanctions bill that got 85 votes, put it on his desk. And then he should say, Tomahawks, I'm going to deliver it to Zelensky, but don't use him until I tell you. Go to Hungary and see if.

Vladimir Putin really wants to deal. And if he doesn't, like he did in Alaska, if he wants to give us his Russian. History speech? You say, okay, I got to run. You go back, you sign that, massive sanctions.

And then you Let them use the tomahawks. Jeffrey Lacks joins us now, CUNY Professor of Law, not talking about those two conflicts, but talking about a huge conflict, and that is, in my view, the Mayor Mom Dami in New York. Jeff, should we get used to saying that? Jeff is a CUNY professor of law. Should we get used to saying it?

Is it gonna happen?

Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. Um I'm very encouraged by the poll you just mentioned, which says 44 to 40 in favor of. Bomdani in a two-way race. Look at the margin of people though. Look at the number of votes that are still out there.

I find that very interesting. If you look back to the last time Sliwa ran, he only got twenty-seven percent of the vote against. Uh against Eric Adams. But he's only getting 12 now.

So, where are those 15 other percent of Republicans? They're sitting it out because they don't like that he's running.

So I think there's actually a lot of vote out there. For Cuomo, who you and I have been discussing for a long time. Neither one of us thinks he's exactly the most qualified and best guy for this job, but we all now are in DEF CON one, I think, and trying to avoid a disaster that Mondani would no doubt be.

So that is encouraging to me. Yeah, so here's the story. He's got so many forces working for him, including left-wing academics, including the one place you work at. They say that there's a few professors who are using their college email, the email, to try to recruit voters and raise money for Mondami. Can you expand on that?

Violates New York City law, violates New York state law, violates COLIG. which is the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying and Government. These people are not just union delegates or union members. There was an article in the Post the other day by Rich Calder, which exposed this story. They're union leaders, a chapter chair and a chapter vice chair.

These are union heads, leaders at campuses who are sending out emails using government Taxpayer email systems. To promote Mamdani, which is illegal. They should be investigated by COLIG, this commission. They should be at least fined. And this actually could be a misdemeanor, and they could serve prison time for doing this.

But this is not in the least bit surprising. Even a Democratic councilman came out the other day and said, I think it was Robert Holden. Came out the other day and said, he's not surprised by this. This is Democrat. He said the party's become so radicalized, and the unions specifically are so radicalized that he saw this happening and it has to change.

And he actually used the word clean. House that the Democrats need to clean. House with these union representatives. Oh, by the way, most unions are against illegal immigrants because they're taking a lot of their jobs and driving the price of wages down. That's why so many went to Trump.

So, as you pick them up and you straighten out these businesses and try to enforce E-Verify, it actually helps the American worker.

So, that's something to think about when it comes to unions. But when it comes to the teachers' union, they're off the charts bad. If you want to get an idea of why New Yorkers are voting for Mondami, let's take a listen, Cut 23. Do you know who you're voting for? Uh I'm gonna vote for Mom Donny's.

Why? Because Cuomo is a fascist. Mamdani, honestly. I don't know if he's got good ideas. I don't think a lot of ideas are going to work, but he's got optimism.

It's everything they're not. and he has a lot of good talking points. And yeah, we just need, I mean, we don't need the same status quo there.

So he's got talking points, his ideas aren't going to work, but I'm going to vote for him. I mean, how scary is that? Yeah, and somebody taught him. I really wonder who it was. To smile all the time, never stop smiling.

You know what? Always smiling. And 'cause he wants to come off as this likable, casual, guy you can talk to And you know, the master of this of all time was Obama. His policies were horrible, but he was the kind of guy you wanted to hang out with. I knew a lot of Republicans that said that to me, even.

That he's the kind of president I would so Mandani is trying to get away with Avoiding his policies, because you see, he's actually not talking about his policies. He's running away right now from his policies. He's trying to make himself seem like the likable candidate and avoid. You saw with Martha McCallum, he avoided answering all of her questions, which were so on point. And he's trying to run away from that.

Also, Rosanna Scotto too on channel five. He doesn't have any answers. He won't apologize to cops. Then, all of a sudden, the next day, he apologizes to cops.

So, he's gonna say, I'm not really gonna get rid of the gifted program. Just in just in kindergarten, I'm getting rid of it.

Well, you know, that's not true. And you'd also know the charter schools he's gonna take aim at because the tea he sold his soul to the teachers' unions, and he probably believes it. It's why Democratic leadership won't endorse him. Listen to the Schumer, Gillibrand, Keith Jeffries. They don't want to answer to Swazi's credit, Lord Gillens.

These are New York. Politicians, they both said we're out.

So show some guts and be out. But listen to Jeffreys again yesterday, cut 24.

Well, as I've indicated, I expect to have a conversation with him at some point this week in advance. Of early voting, which begins next weekend in New York City. And we'll certainly have more to say. about the mayor's race and about our Democratic nominee. Prior to early voting beginning.

So he's not saying, hey, Cuomo's my friend. He's still having conversations. They had good conversations a month ago. And they're having conversations last week. And they're going to have another conversation this week.

Jeff, what's the big deal? Just support the guy. What what what is the fallout? Yeah, well Kathleen you know, Kathy Hochle. Endorsed him.

And I think that's going to come back to haunt her whether he wins or not. Why are they scared? Why is Schumer scared? Schumer is a disgrace. Schumer is afraid of his own shadow.

He's obviously afraid of AOC. Primarying him, which she's going to do anyway. His career is done. Shura's not winning another Senate race.

So that's why he's not doing it. He wants to see all he is. Schumer has always been about Schumer. It's always ever been about winning races. All he cares about.

Um Hochl, I think, made a huge miscalculation. Because Mamdani is going to do things that directly conflict with the interests of New York State. And Andrew Cuomo for all his faults. He is fully aware of that. He knows that better than he bumped heads plenty of times with Bill de Blasio.

And usually, between de Blasio and Cuomo, Cuomo was the much more level-headed person. Which is about the nicest thing I could say about him. Hokul's putting herself in a really strange position because she's, for example, Israel. She's come out very strongly in support of Israel. And now she's going to have a mayor who not only said he's going to get rid of Mayor Adams' executive order that does not allow BDS in New York City, he said he wants to put in place an executive order to support.

Boycotting is real. The opposite.

So what's she going to say about that? Right, it's absolutely.

So in terms of what Democrats are fearing, Sarah Isgar, who's become a critic of Trump, who used to work for Trump, said this, cut twenty-five. They are terrified that this guy is going to be an anchor on the party heading into the midterms. The second he gets into office, he moves to the far left and that he is the poster child for Republicans, that the midterms don't become a referendum on Trump, that they become a referendum on the mayor of New York, a Democratic socialist, who then becomes the face of the Democratic Party, the message of the Democratic Party, because they haven't had anyone else except Joe Biden. Right. And on top of that, the other person that they could have is AOC, also a socialist leftist, or Crockett, also a socialist leftist, incompetent, who just is a flamethrower.

So that'll be the face of the party. I don't know who else. You know, Governor Bashir, I don't know. Does he look like the face of the party? They love it, but he doesn't stand up and do anything.

Governor Shapiro has a speech once in a while. Wes Moore, I don't know. These other ones get the heat, get the interest. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think we know yet who it's.

It could very well be AOC. Uh I have no idea who the f right now they don't really have a face of the party. But historically, if you look at the mayors of New York, there's a long and rich history of mayors not necessarily doing very well for many decades, but running for president. Obviously, we know de Blasio failed miserably in his bid. Giuliani was doing well for a while.

Back in the Hillary Center Florida strategy. All right, so real quick, on education, this is deadline day for colleges to sign on to President Trump's preferential funding deal. The deadline is today. It's going to be a contact for higher education to agree to suppress campus criticism of conservatives in their credit, and not suppress. I think it's open a line of credit.

This is a biased reporting. Of conservatives and abandon DEI efforts in exchange for preferential treatment in federal funding. People that are against it, USC, Penn, Brown, MIT, have rejected the proposal.

So we'll see where this goes. Because there's no outside guys like you, Jeff, in these cities, there's almost no conservative presence among the faculty, and anti-Israel, anti-Semitism raging. The President's trying to tackle all this at once. What percentage of universities will be compliant on this do you think off the top of your head? And how many in New York?

Boy, that's a tough question, but I think what the clip you played from Katie Porter a few minutes ago is instructive. when she was asked, do you need the 40% even in California? of Republicans, the Trump voters. And I think universities are at least starting to realize That a huge percentage it may not be the majority. But it might be thirty, forty percent, even in New York City.

are lean conservative. And I can tell you that in the years that I've been doing this, Brian, More and more people are being comfortable for the first time coming forward and saying. These people are yeah.

So, Jeff, how many people at CUNY, for example, are conservative? How many professors, teachers? Yeah, I I am sh I I will have to tell you, this is something that shocks me. Because I would have agreed with the poll, the public polling we've seen over the years that like 10% is conservative. I don't think that's true, I think it's probably closer.

To what New York City's actual vote is in general elections. I think it's closer to 35, 40%. Good. I'll love to see you with the curriculum and in the schools, because City College is basically a you with a bulwark trying to keep some balance there. Jeff, thanks so much.

Appreciate it.

So thanks for telling us. And of course, the original story is Cooney Professor is using their email on campus to raise money and raise awareness for Zohran Mamdani. Against the law. Back in a moment. Don't go anywhere.

Brian Killmead will be right back. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. President Trump announced that another alleged drug-smuggling boat from Venezuela has been blown out of the water without warning. And you may not think that's a big deal right now, but one day soon, you'll look at yourself in the mirror and realize.

You're out of cocaine. It's pretty funny. Yeah, that was pretty funny, right? That was a good one. You know, so Senator Kelly said over the weekend, well, that's a pathway for cocaine where we're blowing people up to the UK or to Europe.

I never heard that.

So Venezuela, he knows the pathway to bocaine.

So the cocaine from Venezuela goes to the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, en route to Europe.

So, Senator Kelly, once again, you might not like it in Rand Paul and company, and there might be something people say, well, I don't you know, we're not reading the Memiranda rights. But when you have a boat that hits all these different characteristics that's heading in that direction, and you desperately want to stop the drug trade from blitzing and killing people in America, you take your shot. And I love the pressure that's brought.

Now, when it comes to regime change, the other thing they're confused about with Venezuela is we're not looking to Alice Maturo. The people, Al Smaduro. They did already. 70% went to this other, to the other leader who's in exile right now, who just got the Nobel Peace Prize. She would take over.

Now we're not placing her there. The Venezuelan people are placing her there. But since she doesn't have any guns or an army, she's never going to take power. Maduro is always going to be a nest. It's going to be a nest for Iran, Russia and China and Cuba.

Why would we Continue to tolerate this in our area.

So instead of going in there and invading, by the way, they got like 125,000 troops, none of which even had uniforms to try to intimidate us back.

So We are looking at Venezuela as a real problem in our hemisphere. We looked at Panama as a real problem in our hemisphere. We're looking at Colombia, a cocaine mecca with this leader as a problem in our hemisphere. And we have a president not only trying to win trade wars and real wars for our allies, but also trying to clean up our hemisphere. Exactly what he was doing.

And I just think it's almost hysterically stupid that Governor Newsome and Governor Pritzker have one theme. Oh, the President's losing it. Losing it. What what person losing it? is literally doing 35 things at one time.

I could name 35 different operations that he's running, big and small. And He's on top of all of it. Calling people at three in the morning, seven in the morning. Was Joe Biden doing that? I'm Robert Mueller, they say is losing it, sadly.

Right?

Do you think he was doing that? Losing it. I mean Out of everything you want to say about Trump. I would not say that would fit the description of what we've been seeing. At all.

Coming up next, Miranda Devine is going to be with us. She's doing a special on cocaine at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Not with Trump, of course. Not drugs. You know who's there.

This is about The cocaine and the Biden administration. She does an investigation. She works for the New York Post, got her own podcast. She's going to be with us shortly, and we'll talk about everything, including Jack Smith.

Now he's under the spotlight. I'll tell you why. You listen to the brain, kill me, Joe. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

When I learned, That the cocaine was destroyed, the evidence. In this Crime. was destroyed. In 11 days.

Something wasn't right. It just wasn't right. I didn't understand why they would do that. I mean, in Washington, no investigations open and close within 11 days. That's virtually unheard of.

So what happened? That was Frank. Leverage on the cocaine found at the White House. Frank's a secret former Secret Service officer. All of a sudden, you hear this cocaine at the White House, and then the whole thing's buried.

No big deal. We know it's a big deal, but Donald Trump's not in the presidency. Joe Biden was barely there. Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor, host of Pod Force One, and now she's hosting the special Cocaine at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, available right now on Fox Nation.

So, Miranda. What attracted you to this story?

Well, hi, Brian. Obviously, it's because the Hunter Biden laptop I'd been covering for so long. And we'd been reporting that Hunter Biden at the time had been pretty much living off and on at the White House with his wife and his child in the residence. And he, you know, then suddenly this cocaine is found and he's the most famous person in the White House who, at least previously, had a big cocaine problem. And it was all very strange.

You know, there was a little baggie with cocaine found in the area near the situation room in the West Wing where there are these little cubby holes to put your mobile, your cell phones. And the door was unlocked. And we were told initially that it was found elsewhere in the West Wing. And then we're told, oh, no, it was found oddly in this little, at the very edge of this little cubby hole. And then they closed the investigation.

Within 11 days. They said there were no fingerprints, there was no DNA evidence. None of it, as Donald Trump said at the time, passed the SNF test. Right, here's Tim Burchett also on the special. Cut 47.

I could read. the agents' faces. and they knew they were going to get blistered by members of Congress. To me, it just reeked of a setup. And And they knew it, and we knew it.

I mean, it was comical almost that they were. Forced to Say all this to us. Say what?

Well, tell them that there was nothing, no evidence, that they it was impossible to find out who it was. I mean, at one point, the White House even blamed construction workers who had been in the White House at the time. It was a desperate scramble to avoid culpability. And, you know, I don't know if it was Hunter, it could have been someone else. But Susan Crabtree did some good reporting from her sources in the Secret Service, many of whom were not happy about the way this was handled, and found that actually they did find enough DNA to run a check through the criminal database and that there was a partial match to someone in the White House.

So, someone working at the West Wing, anyway, working or there. What do you mean? Who they don't know. I mean, it could be. How did you know there was a match?

Who told you there was a match? No, Susan Crabtree, who's a reporter for Real Clearly Politics, reported this from her sources in the Secret Service. She has very good sources. And look, this has been terrible for the Secret Service. And of course, after that, we had the Butler rally when they did not protect Donald Trump adequately.

And so there have been problems with the Secret Service. And I would say they stem from the fact that Joe Biden politicized it from the get-go. He put in one of his favourites to head it, who had been on his personal detail when he was vice president. And then they covered up this dramatic story. And, you know, it is unheard of, as any law enforcement people will tell you, to destroy the evidence within a couple of weeks of this crime being discovered.

And it is a crime in DC to have people. This amount of cocaine.

So, why they destroyed it? And apparently, the Secret Service. Personnel that were instructed to destroy it didn't want to do that.

So there is mystery upon mystery, which is why Cash Patel and the FBI have decided to reopen this case. And they should have enough evidence from the investigation that hasn't been destroyed to put two and two together and at least be transparent with the American public. Because we all knew it was a cover-up. And if it wasn't Hunter, I think this was incredibly unfair to him. Because, as the most famous, you know, former crackhead in the White House, obviously all fingers pointed to him.

He has since claimed it wasn't him, and how preposterous that he would leave it in that cubbyhole. But that's a pretty weird denial because the evidence is that it was actually found elsewhere and put in the cubbyhole. That part of the Transcript that's been Retained from FOI, from the Secret Service investigation, that was redacted.

So the FBI and Cash Patel ought to have access to that and know where exactly in the White House was that cocaine baggie first found. And the other thing was that Corinne Jean-Pierre, who was the White House press, Spokesman at the time just raised more suspicions with her abject denials that, oh no, the first family wasn't even there.

Well, yes, they were there when the baggie was found. And she said, oh, they were gone all of, you know, July 2nd or the Friday, whatever it was. And in fact, they were there until 6 p.m.

So it was all very dishonest. And that was why it became a bigger story than it might have. It's amazing that it went away. It's just amazing that, and there wasn't a lot of curiosity. Just the same thing, there's not a lot of curiosity about his diminished mental ability.

Just lastly, just one more cut from your special. As Tim Burchett, the congressman from Tennessee, said this sounds like a setup, CUP 48. That cocaine had a pair of legs. Originally it was it was told to be in one area. And then...

Um Many sources had said that. And then, in fact, no, it was found in another area, the one area where there weren't any cameras. They had to move the cocaine and get it somewhere in a hurry. Yeah. So obviously, they looked into it.

They knew it was a problem with it, but they just closed the investigation. And now, where does it stand?

Well, it stands with the FBI. They're doing an investigation. I can't imagine that it should take them very long. Maybe they're interviewing people who were at the White House at the time. They could be doing that.

They really ought to. But we were told by the Secret Service when they wrapped up in record time their initial investigation that, oh, no, there were just too many people in that area to investigate, which is ridiculous. I mean, the White House would have to be the most secure location on the planet.

So, I want to bring you to KJP's book that's coming out. I don't want to sell her books, but I'm just fascinated by her take. She basically has left the Democratic Party because they left Joe Biden. She said that she talks about this being surreal. Biden seemed to be totally at peace after he made his decision, but I was stunned.

My feelings are a blur. I was angry and sad. I was enraged and heartbroken. This man had given 50 years of his life to serving the American people, and in the end, he's been treated so poorly by the members of his own party. It was horrible.

The Democratic Party defined my life, my career. Everything I've done to make people's lives better had been connected to it. The party was a vehicle that allowed me to have a front seat on history, working first on Obama's presidential campaign, but also making history, as usual, as a black woman, openly queer person to ever be at the White House press secretary. Your thoughts about the outrage she feels that Joe Biden couldn't finish out his doddering term, where he basically was a blank slate for four years. years.

I mean, that is so typical of her. She was the most self-engrossed person, I think, ever to have stood on a podium. And she was terrible. Terrible at her job. Just, you know, you see Carolyn Levitt now and how she commands that room, how calm she is, how full of information she is.

What a contrast to Corine Jean-Pierre. And Donald Trump jokes all the time about pretty low bar, he said for him and Caroline, considering their predecessors. But I guess she has to be loyal to Joe Biden because there's no way she would ever have had a job like that if it weren't for the fact that Joe Biden cared about nothing else but identity politics.

So she owes him big time. Miranda, they tried to get her out. Then they try to set it up with Angie's list, anything to get her out. She was terrible at her job and she wouldn't do it. And then we know, too, that Joe Biden couldn't have meetings because he was incapable.

She hid that, and she thinks that we don't know it yet. She doesn't understand the auto pen and the story is real. That Jake Tapper, of all people, wrote a book that he wasn't basically there. We know that she is not only vacuous as an individual, but she had no information from the chief executive, which is why she wasted everyone's time in the press room every single day. And now she says the mistake was not standing by Joe Biden.

Did you see Joe Biden? I feel terrible because he's got cancer, but he had cancer then, too, by the way. I don't know if she knew it. And now he looks like a shell of himself, and he was a shell of himself last time we saw him.

Well, I mean, he was a shell of himself throughout his presidency. We have to be honest about that. You know, back in 2020, when he was. campaigning in New Hampshire and uh Iowa in January, he was a shell.

So it was just outrageous that the Democratic Party foisted someone with so little cognitive ability on the American people, and they got away with it. For almost four years. And then they tried to foist his understudy on us, Kamala Harris, who's, I mean, just as cognitively challenged, it seems, from her. Bizarre public utterances and her terrible book launch. I think, look, Corine Jean-Pierre, unlike Carolyn Levitt, who sits with President Trump.

Through all his meetings, she is very smart, but she also has the ear of the president. She asks him questions, he respects her, and she's there. She sees things unfold, and she is very good at delivering a message.

So she goes out to the press corps and she gives them real information that they can use in real stories. They are inundated with information. And yet, for the four years of Joe Biden, they never complained really. They all stuck up for him. You know, I went to one of those White House Press Association dinners.

And they were all sucking up to Joe Biden up on the stage. It was quite shameful. And I mean, if the fourth estate. cares about freedom of speech, et cetera, you know, like they do now, then walking out of the Pentagon and so on. Where were they during the Biden years when they were just fed complete and utter garbage, horse manure and nothing?

And the two people who have come out should be disqualified immediately, Kamala Harris and KJP, because they knew about it. They knew how cognitively challenged he was, how much jeopardy our country was in with two hot wars at the time and China growing more aggressive by the day. And all they did try to do was cover up for him. And to this day, they still don't admit it. I mean, that's why this is, I hope at one stop that she gets legitimately grilled, because she does stay in the one excerpt I read in Newsweek that she went to the view and everyone told her what a great job she was doing.

Ha ha. Isn't that incredible? I think she that's part of her problem, is she has quite a fragile ego. And so she surrounds herself with people who, like her sister, And her brother-in-law, who pump her up, who tell her how wonderful she is. And I mean, her book is incredible.

There are so many insights into her, I guess, inadvertently into who she is. There's one where she's talking about how she was upset because Dougie, her husband, was dispatched by her staff to her hotel in Philadelphia so they could have a special birthday evening. And he'd been busy traveling around the country stumping for her, and he hadn't organized a special night. And she was so disappointed. And then he gave her a present that she said was repurposed from a wedding anniversary present with the wrong date on the back.

So she flounces off to take a long bath and then she calls for a towel. But Doug is listening, he's in the other room and he's watching the baseball and he doesn't hear her.

So she texts him. Or she calls him and she's very angry with him. And he says, What? What's the problem? And so she said, They got into it and had a big fight.

She said, like every couple does. No, I don't call for my husband to bring me a towel. He's not my servant. She's, she, it's, it's insane. I mean, she's like a princess.

But let me tell you something. This guy dropped the bo I'm also looking at him. He couldn't care less. She's upset. He doesn't have a birthday present.

He watches again. I mean, I'm looking at him and saying that's terrible. And looking at her, how would you ever in a million years put that in a book? As if why would you? I mean, if that was a story, I would deny it, even if it was true.

So it's just so clueless. It's crazy. And then she keeps telling people that it was the closest election in a century. We know it's not true. I mean, it's numbers.

It's not opinion. It's a numbers game. I mean, she lost every single metric possible. She lost, obviously, the Electoral College. She lost the popular vote.

She lost every swing seat. And Donald Trump won practically every county. It was a comprehensive victory for her to turn around at every stop on her book tour and tell these gullible audiences who seem to love her. They're called the K-Hive, these people, and they're mostly women. And they just think she's wonderful.

And I think it's because they've been all their lives from school brainwashed into thinking there's going to be a female president and has to be a Democrat because only the Democrats aren't sexists. And it's going to happen in my lifetime. And if it doesn't happen, I'm not validated as a woman. And the only reason that a woman doesn't win, like Hillary and Kamala, is because of sexism in the country. It's ridiculous.

But that's, I guess. The way they feel. Miranda, we have so much in common. We could talk for three hours. But in the meantime, I appreciate the minutes you gave me.

Watch the full special on Fox Nation America's favorite streaming service. It's called Cocaine at 1600. And always check out Pod Force One. That is Miranda's podcast and reader columns. Miranda, thanks so much.

Thanks so much, Brian. And the special, the cocaine special is unbelievable, mind-blowing. Yeah, absolutely. And whatever you do, do not buy any of the books we talked about back in the moment. It's Brian Killmeade.

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So I hope to see everybody there in Fort Myers in February and in November 1st in Potts Town, Pennsylvania.

So we'll make sure of that. A quick note, the President of the United States is going to be with the Australian Prime Minister today. You never know what's going to be happening. I think it's going to be in about 15 minutes. He's going to be pulling up to the White House.

Look, we have issues with them. Number one, we're late giving them nuclear submarines. That's a deal that Joe Biden cut without telling France.

So they dropped the France French deal and they went with us. We haven't delivered them. What's going on, guys? But for the rest, they got some dicey relationships. They're not buying our agricultural products.

They have been way too nice to China. They've been flooded with Chinese immigrants there.

So the influence has been spreading. They got the same issue as us. When they come to town, China tries to take over.

So we have to let them know that China's not our friend, even though they're their neighbors.

So we'll see what happens. All right, keep it here, Brian. Kill me, Joe. Don't move. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown, Manhattan.

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President of the United States is about to greet the Prime Minister of Australia. They'll have some substantive things to talk about. And Australia's got to be complaining, too. We have not gotten the nuclear submarines we promised, or Joe Biden promised. We're trying to figure that out.

Meanwhile, Congressman Andy Barr is with us in the studio. He's with the Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, Foreign Affairs. We'll talk to him about where he really wants to be, and that's in Washington because we're in a shutdown right now. We're in day 20, believe it or not. And before we get to the Congressman from Kentucky, let's get to the big three.

Number three. We're going to go to San Francisco. The difference is, I think they want us in San Francisco. San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then 15 years ago, it went wrong.

Yeah. It went woke.

Next stop, San Francisco. Trump has decided after the success in Memphis and D.C., Chicago and Portland to a degree, he'll bring his law enforcement team to San Fran. The problem is, they got a governor there that's not going to be welcoming. He'll put a lot of pressure on them, but they got to make sure that actually they're getting the type of stats in these major cities that show crime's going down. It turns out they might be cooking the books.

Number two. He has a very narrow path to winning this race because what New Yorkers saw. is the fact that It's more of the same with Andrew Cuomo. It's more of the same with the affordability crisis. It's more of the same with the style of politics.

But a new poll shows that without Curtis Lee win the race, Cuomo would be within the margin of error. Should we get used to saying Mayor Mondani, we'll talk about that in the Virginia races, as well as New Jersey. Everything is tightening up. Number one. I heard the president asked you what the chances were for success.

Yes. And you said 100%. And he said, why do you feel so confident? Yeah. And I said, well, we can't afford to fail.

Gaza in Ukraine, their path to peace, the stakes, and the absolute latest in both war zones. We'll go over that now with the Congressman from Kentucky. Congressman, welcome. Hey, Brian, good to be with you. How frustrating is it for you not to be in Washington?

Well, it's frustrating for all Americans. It's frustrating for me, but I really feel for the TSA agents, the air traffic controllers, the essential federal workers. You know, what you do find out in government shutdowns is that there's quite a bit of non-essential government activity, but for those essential workers, this is totally. Totally unnecessary, uncalled for. And the TSA agents in my hometown, when I walk through, Security this morning.

They know that I did my job, and House Republicans did our job. We voted to fund the government over 20 days ago, and we still are dealing with these antics from the far left. And you thought the No Kings rally would get it out of their system? Any signs that Democrats are looking to break and go back to work? I don't think so.

I think this has kind of evolved into their fighting for. Uh defending their broken Obamacare. Legislation. The fact that Democrats are now admitting that they shut down the government over ACA subsidies is proof that and an acknowledgment of the failure of their signature health care legislation, Obamacare. Because the supplements put in there, the tax breaks and the money was put there during the pandemic.

Whether you like it or not, that's what Joe Biden did, but never meant to be permanent. I'm quoting Senator Fetterman on that. And Fetterman's right, that they actually created these, designed these supplemental ACA subsidies to expire. They built in the expiration into the fix. And the reason why they had to fix it is because the Affordable Care Act, as it turns out, was unaffordable.

Um if you look at premium escalation in imp Purely private commercial insurance and compare it to premium inflation under the ACA exchanges. It's like 60% more under the exchanges. The AC the architecture of the ACA was Completely inadequate, and it has produced a totally unaffordable health care system. The only way that Democrats can fix that is to try to mask the true cost of Obamacare with these. They want to get rid of private insurance.

And you heard Roe Connett on Sunday tell Shannon Bream: well, we want to get rid of private insurance altogether. They're the problems. That's a lot of jobs, and that's a free market. I'm not saying that we can't examine where they're getting their premiums from. And let's see if they are gouging the American people.

But if that's cheaper than Obamacare, I think they should look in the mirror. They really should. I mean, that's exactly right. I mean, there are problems in the private commercial health insurance marketplace, but it's because it's a dysfunctional market, because Obamacare and the government payers have crowded out private health insurance, and so it's a much smaller cost. A piece of the overall healthcare ecosystem.

And when you have a smaller, less competitive private marketplace, you're going to get higher costs.

So for you personally, Mitch McConnell is clearly going to retire. Sadly, he's barely I mean, he fell down the other day just walking.

So your thoughts about replacing him?

So, look, I mean, it's been an honor of my lifetime to represent the Central Kentucky District in Congress these last 13 years. I think I could do that statewide with greater impact and reach. And let's face it, Kentucky has punched above its weight. Kentucky is a relatively small state, and yet we're losing influence in the United States Senate. I can hit the ground running.

I have existing relationships in Washington. I know the job. And I can do the job well. And as the chairman of President Trump's campaign in 2024 in Kentucky, he knows that I've been fighting with him alongside of him as an effective advocate for the president's agenda. This year, next year.

2026. And I can be a strong America first voice for the president in Kentucky. Formally entered into the president. Oh, yes. We're off and running.

This will be my last term in the U.S. House, and I will be - and I am a candidate for U.S. Senate in the Republican primary. It looks like the Democratic nominee in this U.S. Senate race may very well be my former opponent, Amy McGrath, who raised, by the way, after I defeated her in 2018, held a presidential.

Purple District in Kentucky against Amy McGrath and $20 million that came in against me from Nancy Pelosi. She then ran against McConnell, raised almost $100 million in 2020. She's now running for a third time. I've beat her once, I can beat her again.

So, Governor Pashier, they always point out to a Democrat who does well in a red state. What is Governor Pashir's record? His record is taking credit for the Republican legislature's accomplishments. That's effectively his record. Look, Governor Bashi.

Obviously, he's got a family of Republicans. He's the only Democrat in there. And people like to say on the outside that he's a moderate. But every time I say that, Let's say that people they say so-called moderate, I get blitzed by people in Kentucky and say he is not a moderate. Don't be fooled.

That's right. I mean, I think he was the architect of some of the most draconian shutdowns we saw during COVID, where he actually sent law enforcement into church parking lots to get the license plates of churchgoers cars to punish them for actually going to church and worship. He totally mismanaged the unemployment insurance issue during that. And then when he was in his attempt to become Kamala Harris's running mate, he really exposed himself for the liberal that he actually is.

So I want to bring it over to Ukraine because the president's going to be going there in a couple of weeks to Hungary to talk to Vladimir Putin. I really believe the president should do two things. Deliver the tomahawks to Ukraine and say, Zelensky, don't touch me unless I tell you again. and they should get that legislation from the Senate. 85 signatures at minimum.

Put it on my desk, guys. I'm not going to sign it until I get back. And if he tries to pull Vladimir Putin, we did in Alaska and give us a speech on the history of how Ukraine's not a real country and the history of Russia, you sign he signs out legislation and tells him to use the tomahawks.

Well, I agree with you 100%. It just goes to show this president has restored peace through strength. If you think about the failed Biden record on Ukraine and Russia, it was unilateral withdrawal of the sanctions on Nord Stream 2. It was the chaotic and disastrous retreat from Afghanistan which invited aggression. It was months of Russian soldiers.

Assembling at the border and not doing anything about it. And then, after the further invasion of Ukraine, what did Biden do? He put sanctions on Russian banks. Yes, of course he did, but he issued a license that allowed Russian banks to process energy exports.

Well, that's the whole economy of Russia. The record of Biden on Russia and Ukraine is one of weakness. What this president has done, especially by obliterating Iran's nuclear capacity, is to reassert peace through strength. He closed that loophole on sanctions. He's putting secondary sanctions on not only China but also India for buying Russian energy.

He's requiring more of our NATO allies, 5% of defense to GDP.

So, this president is actually taking this seriously. And I agree with you that the Tomahawks would be further assistance to get the peace that the president wants. Vladimir Putin wants Donesk. He suggests he's not backing away from that. He wants all of it, even though after 14 years or 11 years, he's not gotten it.

He can't win it on the battlefield. He's losing 1,000 a day, sometimes maybe a week. He's listened to over a million people. Listen to Zelensky on Meet the Press, cut four. We are not losing this war.

And uh Putin is not winning. And uh really this his army now in the weak Okay. Wig uh position I think so, because they really From the beginning of this war, they could occupy one percent of our land. But they spend one million three hundred thousand people. And I think this is a very good thing.

High price. And it looks like Ukraine is actually gaining land in certain areas. They are. And they're not getting.

So this is, you know, they're saying, well, give you Kearsan. What, readily?

So you steal my stuff and then you give me half of it back. I mean, this is crazy. It is. And I think the. Agreement that the president negotiated, President Trump, to get American.

Investors and mining companies into Ukraine to develop critical minerals.

Well, this was an agreement that they negotiated. I think that needs to come to fruition because it would do two things. Number one, it would help reimburse American taxpayers for the investment that we have made there with weapons and material to defend the freedom fighters in Ukraine. And secondly, it would create additional deterrence because it would have an American and NATO presence, economic interest in Ukraine going forward. I think drones, too.

I mean, drones are on the cutting edge. And word is within two months, they're going to have enough for a drone shield that could be knocking those shaheeds out of the sky in a way that Russians aren't going to be able to adjust to for a while.

So that could be up and running December, January. I mean, I'm sure the President gets this information. I just hope that Vladimir Putin is not convinced that he's going to be able to manipulate us. You know, and I agree with you. This is larger than just Vladimir Putin.

This is also about Beijing. Beijing has been watching the West in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. NATO needs to show resolve to send a message to Beijing with respect to Taiwan. And I think. One of the most Consequential actions taken by the current Trump administration and foreign policy.

Was obliterating Iran's nuclear capacity and capability because as our B-2 bombers were exiting Iranian airspace, Um all of our adversaries, not just Vladimir Putin, they recognized the exquisite capability of the United States Air Force and the fact that they were able to carry out that successful mission without anyone knowing about it. Yeah, I mean, they they'll show we'll take action and that that leads to in the region, but no one deserves more credit even than Israel. What Israel has done with Hezbollah is up for spy novels, to destroying Hamas the best possible, and then minimizing Syria, thankfully, because Russia took their eye off the ball, it allowed Assad to be vulnerable, they get overturned, Iran loses an ally, and then they take direct action against Iran and show that Iran was totally infiltrated by Iranian forces. By Israeli forces. Yeah, Israel obviously showed great courage and Capability and what they've been able to do to defend their freedom and defend their democracy in the aftermath of October 7th.

But it does show that this fool's errand of seeking sanctions relief, which is what Obama and Biden did with Iran, that was the wrong strategy. The right strategy to actually achieve peace and to diminish the terrorist threat from Gaza was to cut Off the head of the snake, which were the mullahs in Iran and their ability to fund Hamas and Hezbollah. Congressman Andy Barr is our guest. He's going to be running for the Senate in Kentucky. I want to bring you to Christine Lagarde.

You know, she's the president of European Central Bank. First off, she admitted that people overreacted to the impact of the tariffs, that they said it was going to rock the world economy, and it hasn't to a degree. We're still trying to find out, but she admitted that they did overreact to that. But then she said this about the dollar on Face the Nation, cut 40. I see signs that the the the attraction of the dollar is slightly Eroded.

And future will tell whether there is more erosion of that. But when you look at the rise of cryptos, number one, when you look at the price of gold, gold is typically in any situation the ultimate destination for safe heaven. The price of gold has increased by more than 50%. since the beginning of the year.

So you were on financial services, Congressman. What do you thought about what she said? Are you worried about the dollar eroding as the world currency?

So I'm not. Worried in the short term. What I will say is that if we continue the spending spree in Washington and we don't get our fiscal house in order, that's the greatest threat to the dollar's dominance and to our treasury markets. The reason why we have elevated treasuries, 10-year treasuries, is primarily because our debt is out of control. We've got to start living within our means, and then investors will invest more in treasuries.

I've met Lagarde and I was actually visited the European Central Bank. I do agree, generally speaking, that the rise of crypto, the rise of cryptocurrencies could potentially pose a threat to the dollar's dominance. But what I would say is this, we are taking care of that in Congress. And with the President's leadership, we passed the Genius Act, which creates a regulatory framework for dollar-backed stablecoins.

So we're not following Christine Lagarde's lead. What she wants is a central bank digital currency in Europe for the Euro. We're not doing that. That's a surveillance tool. That's like copying what the Chinese are doing.

What we are doing is we are creating the ability for dollar-backed stablecoins to get out into the global ecosystem and the global economy. That will solidify the dollar coins.

So you can invest in the dollar. That's right. Dollar-backed stablecoins. Yes. All right.

Thanks so much. Congressman Andy Barr, best of luck with getting back to work, ending this locked out, ending with your Senate run. Yeah, let's get the Democrats to start behaving responsibly, open up the government. We can negotiate all these issues after the government is open. Back in a moment.

Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Here at first on the Brian Killmeat Show. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. He aged and he poked fun at it.

We always owned up and with age comes what happens when you get older. Which is what I, what I, but when we talk about the mental acuity, and again, I take this very, very seriously. I never saw anyone who wasn't there. I saw someone who was always engaged. I saw someone who understood policy, pushed us on the policy, and also understood history.

And there were times, I'll tell you the story, there were times where he would call me into the Oval office and I would be like, oh no, oh no, because I knew whatever he was going to ask me was going to be direct, was going to be about a story he read or about how we're pushing back, how we're pushing a message forward.

So that is KJP. She wants us to believe he was so engaged and so detailed that you would be nervous when you got called into the Ov Oval office. You can't have Jay Tapper's book, the other accounts, the testimony, and have her account. And she's listed as one of his key advisors at the end. That's how scary it is with absolutely almost no qualifications.

She's his key advisor. And now she swears as she has a book out that he was engaged and I left the party because of the way he's been treated. Crazy insane. All right, we come back. Bear Grylls joins us, famed survivalist, best known for his Discovery Channel show.

Man vs. Wild, also running wild with Bear Grylls, author of a best-selling books in the past. He's got a new one: greatest story ever told, an eyewitness account, which was released in July, it's released again. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody.

With me in the studio is a guy that can't be contained, but he has to stay in this studio just for today. Famed survival experts, best known for its discovery channel, Man vs. Wild. Also, running wild with Bear Grylls, author of several best-selling books, including the greatest story ever told, an eyewitness account, which was released back in July, but now it's getting the attention it deserves. And now you're in studio, Bear.

Great to see you. Nice to be with you.

Now, there's a lot of people who think they have the greatest story ever told. What is the greatest story that you are telling in this book? Yeah, so this is so first of all, I still have my day job. Right. Survivalist.

Yeah. Season nine running wild. Love all of that. That is kind of my day job. But I've always, through it all, had like a quiet Christian faith that has helped me through my life through many jungles, deserts, mountains, and that's always been there.

And I just kind of. Realize that so few people know The real story. Of Christ, you know, and and myself included, we kind of grow up on stories like we might have heard in the Nativity. Or the crucifixion or the Good Samaritan, you know. But The actual whole story is so mind-blowing and so revolutionary.

That we know of, it's only two and a half years. Three and a half years, super short. But I realize out of all the millions of books written over the centuries, over the millennium, nobody's ever written the story of Christ start to finish as a like a thriller. Theologically accurate, but written as a thriller. You have the Bible, But People struggle to read the Bible.

I struggle to read the Bible. And if you're not someone of faith, you're definitely going to not. probably read the Bible.

So I thought, let's do it, you know. And it's like, I've done lots of things in my life that people respond to, but I've never done anything that's come close to. This is the response I get to this, I get people writing to me from every country, every culture, every faith, from Muslims to Hindus to write to me going, I had no idea of the real story.

Well, how do you know you have the real story? What were your sources? The eyewitness accounts.

So, the greatest story ever told. And by the way, it's not, the title isn't maybe the greatest story. You know, this if it's true, it changes everything because it affects how we live our lives, how we interact, our relationships, our confidence, our aspirations.

So we went back to the sources and I write it from the five people The new Mbess from his mother. To Thomas to Peter, to John and then eventually Mary Magdalene. Very broken. girl at the end and and write their responses. Why?

Why to the People who knew him best, every day people, fight just to be close to him, why would they wash his feet with tears of joy? Why would they fight to get through the crowd just to touch his cloak? And yet the religious elite, the Fear this guy so much. And I went to Israel. I took a I took a tent, a motorbike, and a parachute, and a couple of buddies.

And we travel through this was like um a few weeks before October the seventh. Took a parachute because it's not an adventure without a paraglider and a parachute. Actually, I got to That was a dream come true, you know. when I I have to skydive a lot for my job and I always get really nervous doing it. Ever since I broke my back in the military in a free fall accident, I get uh if it's a hard thing for me to do.

and I always want to go out the door. of that plane. I'm always like I just quietly cross myself and go, Be with me, you know, like help. Yeah. Just 'cause I've like it's for me it's hard to do.

And then point one thing, you've got to be saluted for doing something you fear and doing it anyway.

Well, it's the only way in life. It's like the otherwise if you run the other way, the green monkey gets bigger on our back, you know. Anyway, the point of the story is I did get to do this of looking at from a little play and open the door and I see the Sea of Galilee underneath me. And that was the dream come true.

So I'm always saying, when I go out that door, be with me.

So I actually kind of. Got to do that moment over the Sea of Galilee, which was quite cool. Wow. But my point is, that journey. Like, change me in so many ways, you know.

And I think we all grew up with such a sanitized. Version of Christianity. It's it's It's nice and smiley, and Jesus is meek and mild, in white robes. It's there to teach you the lessons of life, to give you rules to live by in order to have order in society. And yet, here was this guy who came.

to get rid of religion and to break so many rules and to bring life and talked about living water and the bread of life and was freeing people everywhere and healing people. And it's like, hold on, that guy is so different to what I grew up learning about kind of religion as such. And that's why You know, we were chatting beforehand, you know, and you say, You are sort of religious person, a Christian.

So I kind of struggle with those words sometimes because. I don't know. For me faith is kneeling down humbly, Asking for Christ helping in our lives to give us strength for the everyday. You know, that to me is. Is church.

You know, I actually don't go to church very much. You know, that for me is my faith. And I try and keep it simple and and the The goal of this book is to introduce people to the actual person of Jesus rather than just the religion around it.

So you talk to the people that talk to him. Is Paul one of the people? No. No. So this is just the closest possible.

Eyewitness accounts. And, you know, it says on the back of the book: there is more, as it's a great Billy Graham quote: He said, there's more evidence that this story is true. than there is that Julius Caesar ever even lived. You know, so we go right back to the sources, strip away all the religion. I don't change a single word that Jesus said through the sources of the New Testament.

We then we write it as a As a as a thriller. I mean, somebody wrote to me the other day and said, this is like Tom Clancy has been tasked with writing the Jesus story. And actually, it's. I feel that's kind of Well you can't do that. Why was it so radical?

And here you go. For sure. I mean, like, you know, his first miracle. Was I At a wedding with some friends in a little village. and they were parting and having a great time.

And they run out of booze. and as mum sees a problem, And, you know, bear in mind Jesus is thirty at this stage. And Mary's been told from the beginning that her son is gonna be the son of god, you know, and she's kind of waiting. And she's the one nudging him, going, Jesus, they run out of booze. And he's kinda like.

He says, It's not my time. You can almost imagine that's a line. Mom is not me. Leave me alone. There's not my time.

She goes, Just do it. He goes, again, it's not my time. And then eventually, it's a great interaction. People don't know about it.

Well, how did you know about it? Because I read the Bible like four or five times. And we work with these incredible theologians from the chosen. And we stripped everything back and down. But eventually, Mary just turns, she ignores Jesus.

She turns to the service and just says, Do whatever he says. And he then uh And he transforms like, I think it's like 260 gallons of well water, boom, into wine. You know, so in terms of like, I never realized Jesus was a. That sort of guy. You know, the Pharisees, the main accusation they had against him.

as if he was a glutton and a drunkard. That's not the Jesus I kinda like you know, I thought I thought it's because they say that he claimed to be the Son of God and that was blasphemy. This became that became ultimately why they wanted to kill him. But what they were so upset against initially is that he was hanging out with the low life and the everyday and the the prostitutes and the tax collectors, the the despised and the outcast, and they're going What are you doing? Why are you washing these people's feet?

And what's your answer to that? What did you find out? Because he came to turn all of that stuff on his head and to say the kingdom of God belongs to everybody. Not just the religious elite. There's nothing you can do to earn this.

That's like why I say My faith is on my knees Head bowed, going Forgive me and help me today. And my struggles be with me. Amen. You know, that is what I mean, that's what Jesus means. It literally means he.

Who saves? And That's a journey because a lot of us like to do the earning in life. You know, we like to do our best and earn our way.

So why didn't he save himself? Because he took our place, that's the beautiful bit. You know, of course he can. I mean, surely that's one of the great miracles. Why not?

That's a thief on the cross next to him saying, mocking him. Going, you saved others, you can't even save yourself. You know if you god. Surely you can save yourself. But he was taking our place and The guy I relate to most in all of the Bible, having read this thing, was a other thief on the cross on the other side, who says do you have no respect?

This guy has done nothing. We deserve to die. He's done nothing. And then he looks at Jesus and says, Just remember me. And there's a beautiful bit where you can just imagine Jesus lifting his head up through the blood and spit and pain and suffocation of crucifixion.

looks at him. And says, Today you will be with me in paradise. And that's That's us on the c I like that because I'm I don't know a lot of the religious stuff. I feel a little bit like the thief on the cross who just knows like. Like, just remember me.

Be with me today.

Well, not anymore.

Now you have to be one of the world's experts. I don't know. Because you put that. I don't feel like I really don't. I feel like I still feel it day one.

Well, for example, who who chronicled that dialogue? Wh which dialogue? The dialogue. That's straight out of the Bible. That's straight out of eyewitness accounts.

Multiple eyewitness accounts.

Okay. But like multiple people. Was m was Mary there? Yeah, for sure. She was one of the two women at the foot of the cross.

In fact, everyone else had fled. You know, so he's closest. weren't even there. How does that fit into the story as you researched it? If they really believed who he was, why would they do that?

Because they were scared and I love that and it's like their humanness. I mean, I always again again, I'm coming at this fresh, so I'm no like expert, but what I learned is that Like They were j these disciples who fled, they were terrified and they they all but couldn't understand. He kept saying, We're going to go out to Jerusalem. And I will be handed over, and I will be tortured, and then I will be killed. For you.

And it's like they kept thinking maybe he's talking riddles. Maybe he's like and then when it did happen, you're right, they fled. They're like terrified. And I kept thinking the you I always had this image of all the apostles and You know, these bearded wise. Great men.

They were aged fifteen. 15 to 24, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Peter, you know, 15 to 23, they reckon is their average age. They were scared kids with little education from a backwater town up in the north. But what I've also told by people is that if you want to be convinced, if you want to prove, is how they changed after the resurrection. Because what they see three days later.

Change them because then they realize This story is real, and we're going to spend the rest of our life talking about it. Into now the greatest movement the world's ever seen in terms of a revolution of love that shaped our world for 2,000 years. But something.

Something happened. I mean, the interesting bit at the end of the book that people seem to really respond to is then I take through what happened to each of those disciples. And every single one of them apart from the book. Don't give it away. Don't give it away.

We're going to have more with Bear Grylls. His book is now out. It's called The Greatest Story Ever Told: An Eyewitness Account, which is the life of Jesus really encompassing those three and a half years. Don't move. You're with Brian Kilmead A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. There's plenty of potassium in a goat's testicle and about 135 unadulterated calories. Oh.

Well that's definitely a first for me. Jesus. Got it. And these are just fine to eat, absolutely raw. If I just grab the.

tail of this. Give it a twist one way. Twist the other way. should then just be able to Pull out Escape. That's the stuff I don't want to eat.

But then the rest of this... It's fine to eat. Not the head. But body's nice. Better cut, but nice raw.

So set the scene bear grills. What was that about?

Well, I couldn't see it. All I can hear, of which my memory is there've been an awful lot of those moments with a twist and a pull and out come the guts and in go the rest of the crunch for some protein.

So I dunno, that could have been I I can see the pictures. Was it a cricket or grasshopper or it was a shrimp?

Okay. Oh shit.

Well that was one of the good ones. Right. You don't care what you eat. You'll do anything. You gotta survive.

Like I'm not I'm not like that in everyday life. But survival's not pretty. You need energy. You you gotta You know, you gotta eat, you gotta told you this? Who taught you how to do that?

Well, my dad was a great he was a former Royal Marines commando. I mean, he died sadly too young, but he was just such a lovely dad and always. Taking me out, taught me to climb at a young age, loved the outdoor stuff. And then in the British Special Forces, after I left school, I joined the army, spent Four years there, and my job there was a combat survival and all the climbing and the skydiving.

So That's sort of where I refined it, and then ever since then, you know, we've been We've been traveling and doing this job, you know, multi. I mean, we've done hundreds and hundreds now of these adventures and episodes. When did you realize this could be a great T V show? I think that's probably still a work in progress. I don't think I necessarily feel it's that brilliant.

I love my job. I love the crew we work with. It gets. Great recognition, and people are so kind about it. Um I don't know, it's just been it's been a privilege.

If I could have Yeah, if you could speak the seven-year-old me and say you can have a job that involves getting muddy and falling out of trees and jumping off stuff. I would have thought bring it on. When you parachuted What was the situ situation where you landed on the ground? Did the shoot just not open? did open but it had a had a tear in it and I just came down really fast and Brought my back in three places and had to leave the military, spent months in rehabilitation and.

try to rebuild my life from the ground up, you know, and Uh got a chance to I mean what I wanted to Do again was to climb. You know, that became the whole focus of my recovery in hospital. I was going to I was gonna be able to reach the bathroom across the room and then I was gonna reach a bathroom on the floor above and I'd start smaller and I'd start to walk and then run and then climb and the dream one day was to try and climb Everest. And I got to eventually be part of a small team of of soldiers on that mountain. We had Four climbers who lose their lives tragically up there, but Two of us reached the top.

And Changed my life. On your trip, four people died on your trip in Mount Arrows. Yeah, two died of the cold, two fell. Because we just had a whole group trapped on Mount Asphore Everest, like last week, I think. Yeah, I mean, it's a big old dangerous mountain, you know.

Obviously more people climb it nowadays and Technology gets better and forecasting gets better and gear gets better, but it's still It's Mother Nature, and I think I've learnt over a lifetime of that When Mother Nature turns, it doesn't matter how big or brave or strong you are, you gotta respect it, otherwise it's gonna. Kick you hard. How's your back today? Like, always pretty sore, but you know what? I kinda like.

I don't want to arrive at the end of my life in a perfectly preserved body. What a waste.

So like these are just reminders that life has been a great adventure and you got to keep living it, facing forward, front foot forward, all in. Be a never give up a And a few scrapes and scratches, scars and backaches part of the journey.

So Bear Grills had this project. He wanted to tell the story of Jesus and he wanted to see it through the people that knew him. And it's all in this book called The Greatest Story Ever Told.

So how long did it take you? Until you put it into writing into a book. And what was the publisher's reaction when you told them that you wanted to do this?

Well, it was it was quite a long process because you gotta get it right. This one you can't screw up. You know, you're telling the story of of our Lord. You just have to be earnest. You gotta yeah, and you gotta y so We worked with an incredible team of theologians on this and Actually ended up like Rewriting it about four or five times over, but at the end it stands up and I get Even theologian professors writing to me from around the world, and I'm always like nervous to open their mail.

But every time they go, they go, good job. It's um And at the end of the day, the story is timeless. The story was cha he was changing lives. Every day around him 2,000 years ago. And the story when people encounter the real story.

Today it changes lives left, right and centre, and I see it and I feel I feel this book is actually no longer my book. I feel it's like got a life of its own, there is out there now and And like I said, the response has been unlike anything I've ever had before. I'd give up every ME and every summit and all these sort of things in a heartbeat. Just to have done this one. All right, Bear, I'm sure it's going to continue to sell incredibly well.

Pick it up, greatest story ever told, especially with Christmas just around the corner. What better story to tell, right? And I win this account. Bear, thanks so much. Appreciate it.

You can follow him at Bear Grills, D-R-Y-L-A-G. LS. Thanks, Bear. Great to see you. Brian Killmeat Show.