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It's Brian Killmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're here. I usually say I'm from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, but the guy with the deep voice says I'm on Long Island, and I'm to believe it. And little did you know, I actually went here for college and graduated, and this place has even gotten nicer since. The Tilla Center is fantastic since that time. The pioneers, I don't know if they're being politically correct or not, we were the pioneers, but I guess that insulted somebody.

Now we're the sharks. Right, I mean, what is wrong with a pioneer? The pioneer community gets angry. Right, and how big is that community? It's all large.

In fact, see, I think you can learn a lot from my experience here. A lot of people introduce their guests, especially on radio. They think it's important, but I don't. No. Just keep talking.

Don't need. Josh Holmes and Comfortably Smug are two of the four people involved, one of the most successful political podcasts in the country. They are co-hosts of the Ruthless podcast. And I was lucky enough to be a guest, and now you're part of the Fox family. Welcome to both of you.

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The left has a reason to celebrate for now, but how long as the divide emerges between the Bernie bros and the liberals on the left, and what the GOP takeaway should be from their terrible Tuesday? Keep in mind with the Patriot Awards tonight, Sean Hannity is going to be hosting. Jason Aldean's going to be here. His lovely wife Brittany's going to be here. Melania Trump is going to be getting an award, and there's a lot, a lot of surprises.

Josh and Smug, welcome. Hey, Bishop. Good to be here. First off, on the civil war that's already happening on the left, and I'll play some clips. I mean, Chuck Schumer yesterday was supposed to do a press conference.

He's late. Bernie's in the audience. Why? And instead, he says, Well, what do you think? The reporters start questioning him.

He said, They go, why don't you go ask just a few questions? And he hopped behind the microphone and he started saying, Everybody knows nobody wanted Mondami to win, and the establishment didn't want Mondame to win, and they didn't want me to win. Wow, this is an open family fight. It couldn't happen to a better group of people from my perspective. But you're not surprised.

I'm not surprised. I mean, look, Chuck Schumer's been trying to avoid this entire discussion basically all year. I mean, the reason that the government is shut down in addition to election shenanigans is because Chuck Schumer is deathly afraid of AOC, New York Democrats, who've just chosen Mom Dani. He thinks he's not only going to lose his job as a minority leader in the Senate, but maybe his job altogether as a senator as a result of all that.

So he's just been running scared from the very beginning. I think Bernie and everybody else know it. Smung?

Well, that's the thing: the whole reason that Chuck Schumer is in this tough spot is AOC is going to primary him. He's terrified of that. She's been fundraising like nobody's business, and they've shown that the grassroots of that party is energized behind communism. It's just straight-up communism. And I don't think Chuck is, Governor Shapiro probably isn't, Governor Bashir probably isn't, but they feel disrespected because Bernie had that nomination twice.

Oh, yeah. And now it's revealed that Hillary took it one time, and then they sidelined everybody else and put Biden in air the next time. But now he's too old this time, but he's angry. He is angry. And honestly, he has a right to be at some level.

I mean, they've done more at the top of the Democratic Party to try to set. I mean, look, we had a primary without a primary. The Democratic voters didn't even get to choose last time around who. They haven't chosen since Obama and Hillary. Right, since 2008.

I mean, they've just been moving cards around on the table to try to set the will of the voters. And at some point, that boils over. By the way, this just in, not that much of a surprise, but the former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, will not seek reelection. Yeah, primary there too, by the way. Yep.

I mean, that's one of the factors. I think if nobody was running against her, she probably would just continue in perpetuity, but she's not at a point where she can run a serious election from the left. Or smug, she smashed her hip overseas. And at her age, even though she's in good shape, that makes it probably brutal to go 3,000 miles every other day. But also at the same time, they did not wait for her to say this announcement that she's not going to run.

She got a primary challenge. That wiener jumped in there and said, I am running. And she's this created title of Speaker Woman Emeritus. She's making up a title. They know they don't have their hands on the reins anymore.

It's AOC. It really is indicative of that larger thing that we were talking about. I mean, she's on basically the liberal Democrat Mount Rushmore for her career. And they didn't even have the courtesy. She got pushed out the door.

Yeah, exactly. I think you lived it, you with Mitch McConnell at the time. But the only reason Obamacare passed, Obama had thrown in the towel. She said, no, simple majority, we can do it, jam it down their throats, and it passed. And it destroyed Obama's rest of his four years, and he got trashed in the midterms, and we're still trying to bail out that health care plan.

That's what this is still over. Yes, no, it's true. And you get, you know, that clip that you played of Hakeem Jeffries is a perfect example of why Americans are paying so much for their health care. I mean, this guy has no concept of a market-based health insurance system. They've broken it, and then they've re-broken it.

And like everything that they do, when prices start coming up, they throw more tax dollars at it, and they're like, oh, wow, it's surprise, surprise, there's an inflationary effect. Smug, do you think the Republicans have done a good enough job in explaining their position here? When it comes to the health care situation? The health care situation, which led to the shutdown. They're saying that's the reason.

I think it's very clear. I mean, this morning when I was watching Fox and Friends, they were talking to the audience. The audience understands that the Democrats are responsible. This is a Schumer shutdown. But for the Democrats to try to make this about a health care thing, listen, you guys passed what you called the Affordable Care Act.

We warned you it wasn't affordable. You passed it anyways.

Now we're living with the results of that, and the blame needs to go to the Democrats for what they've done.

So we have this stat from the Media Research Center. In terms of this shutdown, in terms of what the news, the mainstream news, is covering, if they looked at ABC and all the major networks in CNN and MSNBC, statements favoring Democrats, 83. Statements favoring Republicans, 12. Incredible. Come on.

Just not surprised. Do you know that the 93%, they also did this great study. They asked to look at the late night shows and say, how many people have taken shots in Mondami? I mean, there's so many things you can do and have fun with, and even with respect. Do you know that 93% of the people are going to be able to do Of the late night references on their monologues were against Mondami's opponents.

I mean, come on, this guy's a avowed socialist from Uganda whose mom says he's more of an Indian Ugandan than he is an American. It's unbelievable. His dad thinks we're all colonists, right?

Well, his dad even said that he sympathizes with suicide bombers. And then this guy still gets elected. The fact of the matter is, the first job this kid has ever had is mayor of New York, and that's a serious job. And I feel bad for the people living in New York City because he's not up to the task. I don't want to correct you guys on air, but I have to for our audience.

His first job was camp counselor. I'm being serious. He was a camp counselor. That was his first job. Then he became an assemblyman.

And then it's the job of New York. That's the resume that the New Yorkers wanted. I didn't know that. A camp counselor? Yeah, that certainly prepares you to run the largest city in the world, no question about it.

We're about to find out.

So, the shutdown, the story today is that Gene Shaheen, Mark Peters, and others. Got together and they were ready to, after the election, which went their way, they were going to cross the aisle and just vote for the continuing resolution with the new end date. And work on get some type of commitments, and they were stopped because the election went their way and they said the shutdown's working for us, Josh. Yeah, I mean, I think that they've shown that they're willing to try to leverage every bit out of the American people, no matter what the pain, right? I mean, they've said that they are, if it works politically, It doesn't matter whether you can pay for your groceries or your health insurance as long as they're the beneficiary of the politics of it.

And that is the leadership of the Democratic Party right now. It's an absolutely vacant home. Hollow ideology that unfortunately, as you mentioned, the media is not covering like it should. I thought it would be pretty cool to impress you with our list of sound bites. I thought I'd go to Jamie Dimon.

He was on another network, but he basically said Mondami is not really a socialist. And I go, here we go. He's a Marxist. And he said, just listen to him. He will tell you.

And he said, I reached out to him once and we exchanged messages. I'll meet with him. And if it doesn't go well, if I don't think I'm going to bail out, but he just put together a $20 billion building right by Grand Central, so I don't know where he's going. Here's what he said has already happened in New York, Cut 16. Flag.

First of all, people have left New York City. You've seen hedge funds and certain banks and Ken Griffin. And I think it's a bad idea. I mean, you want to have a very competitive city. And I don't want to use labels.

The important thing to me is policies that actually work. Do you make crime better? Do you make the schools better? Do you make the health system better? I want to lift up all citizens, too.

I've seen a lot of mayors and governors say things like that, and they fail to do it because their policies may not be so bad, but the implementation stinks.

So, to me, get this stuff right. You know, learn. He's a young man. You know, will he get good at it? I see a lot of people in big jobs, including political jobs, they grow into it.

They're learning, they're trusting people, they're figuring out, they'll make mistakes, they adjust. I've seen a lot of people, they kind of swell into the job. They get worse. It all becomes about them or something like that. I'm hoping he's the good one.

And that will be important for the future in New York. Smoke? Yeah, well, so Jamie Dimon has had a great history of Partnering with the U.S. government, you know, really trying to work through issues. You saw it in TV, he talks to Trump all the time.

He wants the best for the country, he wants the best for that city. He's got 50,000 employees in New York City. I think, I hope his optimism is well-grounded, but I don't expect the best from New York City of Lamdani. Yeah, it reminds me of that old saying: hope in one hand, do something else in the other. We'll see what fills up first.

Yeah, so he said if he shows potential and shows an openness, but I think on some level, he wants these guys to leave. Because if you don't believe in capitalism, you think capitalism is the problem, you look to the bankers as the problem. But when you do find out how your cities run, it's by successful people giving up. If you take the city and state and federal taxes, over 50% of their success is written off to all those places. And they're the bad guys.

Yeah.

So, I mean.

Well, I mean, just find me a Democrat any time in the last 20 years where the learning process conveys policies that actually make sense. Right. If you can find one, I'm willing to be optimistic about it. I haven't been able to. And I saw it up close for a lot of years.

The ideology, the energy, and a grassroots that has absolutely no connection to the economy whatsoever has always driven what their policy process. Prescriptions are. All right, and lastly, you remember and you lived through the Tea Party, the rise of the Tea Party, and the candidates that came in and were primaried and got rid of a lot of establishment. You were with the establishment as chief of staff with Mitch McCama.

So now, this is what's happening on the left. But on the right, first off, how would you characterize how galvanized are they on the right? In terms of the pressure, I think so. Yeah, I think Republicans are remarkably unified. Very few anti-Trumpers.

Yeah, it's remarkably unified. I think the whole anti-Trump movement just became Democrats, basically, right? But on the left, it's very interesting. I mean, the way that we handled it in the early 20 teens with all these primaries and everything else is that you had a responsibility to govern, and we talked about that very specifically. Didn't apologize for it at all and knew people were going to come at you, but you had a responsibility to answer that forcefully with your perspective.

You see the exact opposite out of Chuck Schumer. Instead of doing the responsible thing, he knows better than to shut the government down. He knows the pain that that's going to cause, but he is more concerned about his politically left flank than he is about the health and well-being of the American people. That's a hell of a thing. I think the Democrats are in a terrible place.

They can't decide who's the leader of the party. Hakeem Jeffries is not in control. Chuck Schumer is not in control. Gavin thinks it could be him, but everyone's just talking about Mamdani. See, everyone keeps saying Trump's not on the ballot.

He wasn't in all your elections, a few teleconferences, but he's going to take the midterms like he's on the ballot. He's even talking about doing a convention leading up to the midterms in the summer. That's a great idea.

So, to get momentum.

So, he's going to put himself everywhere and he's going to make it his agenda. And I think that that's the mistake people keep saying he's not on the ballot. Get over it. Not yet. I agree.

Third year. It's pretty much all going to be at the primaries. I don't agree now. No, I agree. Because people understand what happens to an agenda becomes Impeachment City.

Yeah, yeah. Exactly.

So that's just it. And it's so. It's so agonizing either side. The Clinton stuff boomeranged on the Republicans. And I think the other stuff went after on Ukraine.

His ratings went up afterwards. It's not going to stop him, I think, from if they get the House. And I think it's still a coin flip. from going after him and just trying to do investigations on Venezuela and ships and everything.

Well that's the thing that President Trump and his team understand is that their first term was short-circuited by all of us, right? The midterm in 2018 turned into constant investigations, impeachments, all of this. The ability to execute an agenda is nearly impossible. That's why he's all in. Quick question as we're with Josh and Smunk.

The Ruthless Podcast, what it's become, how it's telling everyone how it started, and tell me what you thought about when you started getting some success and momentum. Smug, you want to start?

Well, it started during COVID. I mean, we had lockdowns going on, but we wanted to still hang out, so we would get on Zoom, we'd pour a couple of horses. You were all friends. All of his friends, and we'd bet on the ponies, because that was still open. And we said, you know what?

We're having a good time with this. This could be a show. We literally just, at the end of every day, we'd get on a Zoom call, pour a glass and bourbon, and bet on some horses because it was the only sporting event that was on television, and we would just talk. And at some point, it would be. I don't even remember that.

Are you guys betters by, were you betting on horses anyway? Not really. Who would think to do that? It's a COVID hobby, it's the only sport that's open. Yeah, that's literally what it was.

And then, you know, we started this thing, and I think initially it was basically a road test to see how this whole thing works. And we weren't experts by any stretch of the imagination. We started getting some listeners. It started with a niche audience of political operatives and people on Capitol Hill and things like that, where we thought the whole niche. In the marketplace, nobody was laughing about anything.

And in that era, really nobody was laughing about stuff.

So we wanted to tell some jokes, try to lighten it up. Turns out, you know, other people wanted to do that.

Well, it ended up working out. And it is. And, Smoke, you still like each other? Oh, could not be better friends. I mean, the thing is, we can go, we can visit our friends in Congress.

Every member of Congress listens to our show. We go across this country, we meet our fans, we take photos. It's incredible. It's a great community.

Well, you deserve it. It's a very different line of work for it. It's a great show. Using your expertise on air and having a great time, and you got a chance to really get to know me, which is really underneath where you can't overspread.

Well, that was the best part of it. That's what some say. Yeah, some are saying. Guys, great to see you. Look up the Ruthless Podcast, get it everywhere, watch it on YouTube.

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So obviously you're willing to meet with him anytime. If I find I will, then if I find it productive, I'll continue to do it.

So that is Jamie Diamond, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. He was obviously upset that, but in perspective, he's got a lot on his plate, including 28,000. Employees right here in New York City alone, let alone around the country, and they're really spreading out in Texas, especially. But he just talked about the fact that he met with Mondami and he's read a lot about him. He missed the one meeting actually, they were supposed to meet together.

He had to meet it, he was out of the country, but he said the guy's a Marxist. And he said, but I'm still going to meet with him. And basically, this is what I take. If he's coachable, if he's open to it and say, hey, listen, I was mischaracterized a few times, or I have a speech, and sometimes I might have overstated what I actually believe in. I understand what JPMorgan Chase means to this city.

This is what I was hoping. How would that 2% corporate increase tax affect you guys? You know, that building that you built has already brought in a ton of revenue for this city when I was in the 70mm. I know that if he does that, You can have an ally because these men and women that run these corporations, they want to be successful. And they go out of their way more than ever to not be, especially after they came out against Trump, to not be right or left.

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This is a president who ran a campaign on the promise of cheaper groceries and now, as was said by one of our co-chairs, has gone so far as to cut snap benefits for close to 2 million New Yorkers.

Someone who is literally making it harder to afford those same groceries whose price he was decrying not that long ago. And what Scares Republicans across the country is the fact that we will actually deliver on this agenda. And the contrast is something that they cannot bear to witness.

Well, that's wishful thinking.

So it's so interesting that the president, Carly Shemkiss, could learn from Momdami.

So maybe I can play that clip for him if he has a chance to learn. He says you shouldn't promise things you can't deliver on. He's got the job nine months. Already prices are coming down, but not all around. Your thoughts?

Well, yeah, I don't know if President Trump's going to learn anything from a 34-year-old who has had one Assemblyman position and has now been elevated to the mayoral position of the capital, the capitalist The biggest capitalist country and greatest city in the country. But here we are, and we knew this was going to happen. I mean, the polling shows that this was what was going to come down, and it has, and now we have to live with the consequences. And we're already seeing them transpire with police officers already saying that they're going to leave, and other cities courting police, really worried about safety. Yeah, and he wants to do free buses, which means, I mean, those places are going to become homeless shelters, and there's going to be a lot of concerns, and it's going to all unfold starting in January.

So I want you to hear what Speaker Johnson said, Cut 13. Zoron Mandami is, without a doubt, the biggest win for socialism in the history of the country, and it is the biggest loss for the American people. He is truly a committed Marxist. And the results of that race tell you everything you need to know about where the Democrats and their party are headed. And I think they know it.

Don't you think that's why Senator Schumer doesn't say anything after the win? 100%, yeah, that's exactly right.

So, I guess one of the big narratives to come out of this off-year election is that it was a big night for Democrats, and it was. I mean, the New Jersey race was, the polls showed that it was supposed to be much closer than it is. Virginia, we pretty much knew that that was going to happen, and then Mom Dami in New York. But is it really long-term a big night for Democrats when now they have to. There's a socialist as a mayor in New York under the Democratic Party.

So now the whole Democratic Party has to answer for that. I mean, they had to answer for what could be an epic failure. And we're talking not just financially, I mean, there could be real loss of life here, too. With his wanting to do this. This community safety where there's healthcare workers that are going to be responding to crimes.

I mean, how's that going to go? See, I remember when the president had his first 100 days and people were saying, not successful. Guys, there's nothing about Trump that's built for 100 days. Because most of the stuff he had to put into play, he didn't even put together the big beautiful. This is the first term, yeah?

Yeah, in the first term. No, no, this year, when he had his first 100 days, the people are like, well, his ratings are going down. Watch. What he's done in the Palestinian situation, what he's done with the Gulf states, the international business deals they've done to bring things back, the trade, which is very much on. The border being shut down.

The border being shut down. So things are getting better.

Now they say price has got to come down. All right, if that's your issue, all I'm going to say is you haven't seen them play because the bill has not been enacted, the tax cuts, the no tax on tips, bringing back, in terms of energy, there's no way the price of energy isn't going to go down. We have so much energy now, we're refilling the emergency fund. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Much better, yeah, the Strategic Oil Reserve, which was emptied as artificially.

Joe Biden cut a deal with Venezuela in order not to drill, and then he sucked it out of our emergency fund. To do well during the midterm elections.

So that was a mister Morton move. It sure did. You know what? I've been thinking about this.

So a lot of people are saying that, and this is something that President Trump talked to Brett Baer about yesterday: about, you know, this is because Mom Dami talked about affordability, and that's what Democrats are doing. They're honing in on this message of affordability. I really don't think that that's what this was. I think that this was. a mayoral race with horrible candidates all around.

And then you have Zora Mamdami, who is young. He got a lot of energy out of Twitter. And there's a lot of young New Yorkers who are Just going to vote for the young guy that's promising a lot and flashy and was a former rapper. That's really, I mean, he got the youth vote out. I don't think it has to do a lot with the message of affordability.

I think it was just really bad candidate choices. Fun fact, I never lived in the city. I've been going to the city since I was like whatever I can remember. You live in the city. Yes, I do.

So the perception has never been, it's always, oh, I can't afford to live in the city. I remember in the 20s, almost none of my friends even had parents that would supplement them to live in the city. Right. So you're at a different point in your career, you got a great job, but coming out of college, did you think I have enough to go live in the city? Absolutely not, and you don't.

So do you think that's Trump's fault that you're not now this generation in your 20s? Yeah, and you really can't live in the city without help. Go to Astoria. Exactly.

You go to Queens. You go to Long Island City.

So what, you know, something else that Mom Domi talks about a lot is he's not just talking about taxing billionaires, increasing taxes on billionaires. He's talking about increasing taxes on millionaires, which so far, since I believe it's been over the course of 10 years, 30% fewer millionaires live in New York City, which means that the tax base that they would have been putting into New York City has decreased exponentially. That's going to happen even more. And when you're talking about millionaires, that is a lot of money, but in New York City, it doesn't go. That far, right?

But those are people who are employing people. If they leave, so will the people that they're employing, and there's going to be a lot fewer. You're already seeing it. You're seeing people that are already saying, I'm out of here. I was talking to a real estate agent recently.

Well, you heard the fire commissioner quit. Yep, he quit. He quit yesterday. He quit yesterday. He's out in December.

And then there are. I'll tell you a personal story. I just wanted people to know.

Well, yeah. I was thinking about. Switching apartments, moving to another one. And he was like, Do you want to buy in New York City? And I said, Absolutely not.

I just don't want to buy in New York. And he said, Is it because of the mayoral race? This was a couple months ago. I was like, No, I just don't want to, I don't want to get tied down. And he said, Okay.

I was like, interesting. What are you hearing? He's like, No one's buying in New York right now because of that. Everybody's afraid. Everybody's a he's it's just he's seeing it firsthand.

So I had a real estate expert on the other day on radio and he told me that the whole thing about freezing rents. The reason why there are empty apartments in New York City already because of rent restrictions. Because they say it is easier for us to keep it empty than deal with a tenant that I'm going to have to maintenance that apartment or have an unhappiness or get sued so we're leaving it empty. I go, how many? He goes, over 100,000.

Empty, now he says if you freeze the rents, business people take out loans to pay back those loans, their business plan says our building's going to be filled up. Everybody finances. Even if you have the cash, they finance.

Now the banks are on the hook with the buildings while you freeze the rents, you cut the revenue, people walk away. Exactly.

So why don't, and I am not an economic major or genius, but just logical. My hope was he was going to sit down with accounts, economics people go, oh yeah, you can't do that. You know, just like when Donald Trump says, no more Middle East wars, and no, all right, but then every once in a while Iran tries to get a nuclear weapon. And they're in the Middle East. Yes.

What are you going to do? I know. Are you going to say, well, I promise, but then it becomes reality when you're in the Oval Office, when it comes to reality that he's in City Hall. Yeah, yeah, and then you have to ask yourself: so, Mom Dami, relatively unknown. Is he Does he really believe what he's saying?

And I think he does. He does. I think that he is very, he really, really believes he's a total ideologue. This is, it's not just a fake and phony act, although he has fake and phony in other ways.

So I think he will, I don't think he's going to moderate any of his positions. Another one is he wants to decriminalize prostitution. Yeah, he wouldn't want. Why would you ever want to decriminalize prostitution? I mean, the message that that sends to young girls, it's okay, sure, go ahead.

That's so, I mean, and that is a safety issue as well. Right, absolutely. No wonder you're not buying in the city.

So leave her alone. She's going to move to Long Island.

Well, I was just having that conversation with my husband.

Well, tell him in a neighborhood. I will get you the best realtor and at least look around.

Okay.

That's all I ask. Because we're from Long Island University. Yes. Final thought about the Patriot Award. Oh, I look forward to this every year.

It's one of my favorite things that Fox does because so many other award shows, all of them, they highlight the people who play the heroes on TV. We highlight the real heroes. And the stories that come out of this, they're always creative. I think this is going to be, and I'm not just saying this, the best, most impactful award show that Fox has ever put on, and it's an honor to be here. Just promise me tonight you'll stay within yourself, no matter what happens.

I can't promise that because I'm so excited. I will stay within myself and then explode outwards. Is that good enough, Eric? I think it is. Back in a moment.

Thanks, Carly Shimkis. Thanks. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmead.

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A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Welcome back everybody. If you're wondering why it sounds a little bit louder than usual, we're lucky enough to be in the pregame shoot. That is Ainsley Earhart.

I'm very unprofessionally interrupting me. Wow, I welcome everybody back. Along Lawrence Jones for the Patriot Awards at Long Island University. Have you had a chance to see my school? I mean, Ainsley, have you?

This is your second year doing this. It is a beautiful school. It is a pretty school. Did you have a chance to go around? Yeah, we love that monument of you when you first drive in.

We love the trophy room and all the pictures of you. Oh, I am in the Hall of Fame, by the way. I know. Really? I know.

Yeah, I am. You're very celebrated here. Right. You're going to give us tours afterwards, right?

So here's something else: I just realized. My brother got the contract to do the soccer fields here. He does turf, A-Turf. Right. So he's building two more fields in this area.

This is incredible. This is how crazy the world is. They will not allow Post, which is now Long Island University, to host a game unless they're on artificial turf. Really? Because they're afraid of weather.

Affecting the game, and they never cancel things unless it's hard to get. What is it like to play on turf? Is it harder? It's much better than the Astro Turf, there's a cushion-built command. Yeah, you can imagine it.

I mean, it feels like grass, but it's very practical because you could plow and play in any weather. Football players play in any weather, but it's much better. to play. Gosh, that helps your brother's business then too. You should do all the fields across the country.

Wouldn't that be a good idea? Pull A turf and find out made it in America.

So so what is your sense of this is our seventh Patriot Awards, Ainsley. What do you think? I love it because Growing up, we all used to watch the Grammys and the Oscars and see what the celebrities were saying and what they were wearing.

Well, now they've gotten so liberal and so woke. I don't even watch anymore. And I really don't know half of the crowd anymore. I don't know all the celebrities anymore. Even the movie people don't know the movies.

I know. I know, I know. And so I love the Patriot Awards because these are people that they're not making millions in Hollywood. Movies aren't being made about them. But we hear their stories.

We find out how they are heroes, how they're patriots, how they love country, family, faith, and we're able to give them awards. Right, Lawrence, what are we going to be doing today? You went to rehearsal. Oh. We're going to be, I don't know if we can announce the award, but first responders, that's going to be our award.

But you know what I like about this is, Angela and I, we were talking about this the other day. It's been so much negativity. I'm over the negativity. And we have to cover it because it's news value.

So now I'm glad we got something to smile about. Amen. You know, it's just been so thick with the assassination and some of the news coming out there, crashes and all that. Mom, Donnie. That is depressing.

So. We need something, some light. And I think Tonight will be the name of the. I love that. You know what I can't get over?

That these moderate Democrats were ready to end the shutdown. All the people not getting paid, the flights that have all been canceled. I know whether it was related to Sean getting here last night, but if I was on a commercial airline, I would not be confident I would get anywhere.

So listen to Senator Fetterman, Cut 24. This thing would expire on the 21st, and now here that's, so I'm not sure, but I just wanna remind everybody: you know, we are waiting on five, five of our colleagues to reopen this government. And this was a Biden CR. You know, this this isn't a Um very partisan CR. Actually, you know, we've all voted on this many times to ratify it.

So and he went on to say Blank his party is screwing everything up. And I just thought they made their statement. They think, do you think they've benefited from the shutdown, Lawrence? 100% they benefited. And I don't understand it because when you look at it, it's just clear.

There's no ambiguity. They're responsible for it. They refuse to vote for it. But I think I said this this morning on air. I feel like it's demented.

I think it's evil to cause pain on people for political purposes when you know. I mean, we're talking about air travel now. Right. So, sorry, Brian, but remember, they admitted that this was just leverage. This was all the leverage they had.

So, we've heard that from a few Democrats. We know what's happening behind the scenes. They're saying, let's run with this. We don't have anything else. We don't have the House, we don't have the Senate, we don't have the presidency.

So, this is the one thing, the one way we can stick it to Donald Trump and to the Republicans. But we aired this morning the story about ABC, NBC, and CBS, all their nightly news are not covering it. And if they do, it's negative toward Republicans. What was it? It was like 80-something percent of their stories was bashing Republicans for allegedly causing the shutdown.

So, yesterday they had the tariff argument. I won't bore people. Supreme Court, I find it fascinating when we hear the audio. But basically, they were saying that Justice Amy Comey Barrett, as well as Um Justice Gordon. John Roberts, too.

John Roberts, extremely skeptical about the presidential power when it comes to tariffs, but all agreeing. Amy Cody Barrett said this to the plaintiff. said, you know, how do we do this? How do you pay people back? And they all agree, it will be a mess.

You know, it's interesting because it's typically not a question. that a justice would propose and she's One of the most Significant legal minds of this time, they normally don't think about the implications of it. They think about what the law says. But it is true, it's going to open up a Pandora's box if we get rid of it.

So, Amy, do you remember when John Roberts basically gave his soft lending to Obamacare? They were debating whether it was going to be constitutional. But one of the reasons why he did that is. Healthcare becomes an abomination if I cancel it.

So he did play politics, but he did not do it for the conservative movement. He did it because I don't want to be responsible for everyone losing this health care plan. And I'm wondering why don't they feel the same responsibility here? Maybe they will in the end.

Well, they're all going to interpret the law differently, but if the tariffs are working, how else are we supposed to? force another country to do what we want them to do without doing something like putting boots on the ground or nuclear attacks, anything like that. How are we supposed to do that? Terrorists are, that's our leverage as a country.

Well, also, I would equate it to taking the authority of the president when it comes to military action. The president is using tariffs now as a defensive tool. Correct. And so just imagine telling the president that he can't use his arsenal, that he has to go to Congress every single time.

Now, of course, Congress does declare war. I get that. In the later set. But you can't say that the president has not used it in the defensive posture against China. Look about the international conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Look at what happened with Israel as well as the Palestinians as well. He used terrorism as a result of India as well. And incentives, but overall the reason why he did what he did in April, he said in the 80s, America is being ripped off internationally. Because we're a behemoth in a great economy, we're okay with trade imbalances. He said, no.

First it was Japan.

Now it's China. I will say this, Brian, just for some context of the audience. If the Supreme Court rules against this, that doesn't mean that tariffs are over. They're only ruling against one statute.

So the president, in theory, could use another statue to To why he's using the tariff. But it does make things more complicated. The problem is, the courts are tying up so much that he could be doing that could benefit Americans. He wants to blow up the filibuster. I don't think he should.

What do you think, Ainsley? That's a tough one. I was watching over the weekend, or no, yesterday, because I wasn't at work yesterday. My daughter had something at school. I was watching last night the panels and how they were asking them.

Oh, that's tough because this is my fear, that if they do abolish the filibuster, how's that going to affect us as Republicans or as conservatives in the next election? And let's say the Democrats take over, then they're going to use it to pack the court. I don't know.

It depends on every day you ask me.

Sometimes I feel like we should. Not take the bait on bait. And then sometimes I feel like, you know what? They're going to get rid of it anyway. I could probably name 20 Republicans that aren't going to sign on to it.

Democrats only had Joe Manchin and Chris. But then there's the other argument having the majority. Right. You know? Hey, did you enjoy being on here in the lobby of the Patriot Awards?

You got me two days this week. It's unbelievable. What a thrill. I got. Uh From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan.

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I'm Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for listening. I normally say I'm coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, but I'm still in New York on Long Island in Nassau County. Long Island University is here. For the second straight year, the Patriot Awards are going to be here.

They're going to start at 8 o'clock tonight. It's going to be streaming on Fox Nation only amongst the great people that are going to be up there. And most of this is going to be a surprise. But we will tell you this: First Lady Melania Trump will be there. She'll be getting an award, much deserved.

We'll give you details. Jason Aldean and wife Brittany, along with Jesse Waters, is going to be giving a special presentation to Erica with the first ever Charlie Kirk Legacy Award. And there's going to be, as usual, great surprises for a great show.

Now, not every Republican had a bad night, especially not the guy to my left, a good friend of the president of the United States. If you're watching on the stream, you could see him and recognize him. He is Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County executive, and there's a very good reason why he's wearing that pullover today. And we'll get to that shortly, but first, let's get to the big three. Number three: if it doesn't go the way, That President Trump wants, he loses a lot of the flexibility that we believe Congress granted him to deal with these emergencies we're facing, right?

Of the trade deficit, the loss of manufacturing, et cetera. Tariff's in trouble. Perhaps as we try to read between the lines that the Supreme Court says, the Supreme Court justices pokes and prods both sides. If they are struck down, all sides admit to one thing. It'll be pure global chaos.

Day two of testimony is now. Number 10. And now, because my Republican colleagues refused to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, we know that for tens of millions of Americans who are now in the open enrollment period, They are experiencing dramatically increased premiums, copays, and deductibles. That is the very boring, redundant Hakeem Jeffries. And by the way, inaccurate.

Shutdown not over yet. As moderate Dems were stopped on their way to ending it all, they just needed five. What will it take to end this standoff?

Well, a lot more because Dems think they're winning it while we're all feeling the pain. Number one. On November 5th, 2024, the American people reclaimed our government. We restored our sovereignty. We lost a little bit of sovereignty last night in New York, but We'll take care of it.

Don't worry about it. The GOP is off-beat, off-year elections. The left has reason to celebrate, but for now, but there seems to be a civil war as the divide emerges between the Bernie Bros and their traditional liberals and what the GOP takeaway should be from their terrible Tuesday.

Now, that's in general, but the guy that did exceedingly well as he won for re-election. A stunning victory four years ago, beating Laura Kern, and this year he did so well. And believe me, this is consensus opinion. You walk around Nassau County, Democrats will tell you things are going well, safest county in the country. That's not a slogan, that's the truth.

And a police force with maybe the best pound-for-pound in the country and has been ongoing for years. Bruce, you won by over 10 points last time I checked, right? We won by 36,000 votes plus, which is amazing considering there's 110,000 more registered Democrats in Nassau County. It was a midterm election, and this is the first time in 33 years. that a county executive won a race where the president was in the same party as he was.

So we broke that trend. We broke the midterm malaise, and we had a stunning victory here in Nassau County.

So people should understand, Nassau County is no small place. People are listening around the country. Where does Nassau County rank according to density in the country? Yeah, so we're larger than 10 states in population. We have almost 1.5 million people.

We have every race, religion, ethnic group, people of all abilities and lifestyles. And basically, we have a wonderful, wonderful county of great people. And they are trending conservative. They are pro-Trump. They like my policies because they know that I trust the president and I support the president.

You always have. You're for long-term friends. We're together. I mean, look, President Trump has done an amazing job. If he did nothing else but seal our borders, we were able, working in cooperation with ICE, to So you eliminate and removed from our county 47 illegal migrants with criminal records, 27 of which We're in gang activities, attempted murder, selling drugs to our kids.

They're gone because I chose to be with the President on ICE. We have the most comprehensive agreement with ICE in the nation. Are you defying the governor in doing that? Absolutely. She runs a sanctuary state.

I run a Sanctuary County. We don't have a migrant program here in Nassau County. And listen, Brian. I got over 60% of the vote from Hispanic Americans because they support what I'm doing. They don't want the crime in their neighborhoods.

They don't want overcrowded schools. They came here the right way.

So Hispanic Americans have overwhelmingly supported me. Have you benefited from the chaos in New York City and we've just elected a Democrat Socialist, he calls himself. He can be characterized as at least a Marxist who says, I don't like capitalism. Do you think that's going to cause people to leave, who can't leave New York? You think they'll come your direction?

They've been moving to Nassau County for the last six months because they're afraid of having a communist, a virulent anti-Semite, someone who doesn't share American values, who takes pictures with terrorists. They want to come to Nassau County. They know we're safe. We have an amazing housing stock. We've got the best restaurants in America.

We've got the best shopping. We've got the beautiful beaches and parks, museums. We've got everything here in Nassau County.

So Bruce Blakeman's with us now, Nassau County Executive. Are you still considering, the word is you're considering running for governor? And one thing you wanted to make sure, I wanted to make sure I win this election. You don't want to look past anything. It's like looking past the semifinals.

You're going to lose and not get to the final.

So, don't tell me about the Super Bowl if you're still in the conference championships.

Now, what can you tell us?

So, I've been getting calls from all around the state, from business leaders, from political leaders, from community leaders, from big donors to Republican causes. They want me to run for governor. I told them I would look into it, I would meet with them, I'll travel around the state, and I'll make a decision in three or four weeks after I get to talk to everybody. I've been a little busy running for re-election and running a county that's bigger than 10 states, so I haven't focused on that. But now I am because so many people have told me that they think I'm the best person to win to be Kathy Hochul, who has terrible policies, cashless bail.

She's hated on the sanctuary state. Did you see the way she was booed at the Ryder Cup? Listen, I got to tell you, I don't think she's liked anywhere.

So, I think we're going to take the game to New York City, to central New York, to the Capital District, to the Southern Tier, to the Western New York, and the North Country, the Hudson Valley, and, of course, New York City. Yeah.

And Long Island is the The dominant factor in Republican politics in this state, and I have a tremendous base in Nassau and Suffolk County, so we're looking into it.

Now, Elise Stefanik has basically said, After the election, I'm going to declare. Would that affect you? No, I think, listen, I think that's great. I think that competition is a very good thing. I think Elise is terrific.

But Republicans and conservatives have to nominate somebody who has the best chance to be Kathy Hochul. I think I might be that person, but if people choose Elise Stefanik, then I'll support her. My job is to make sure that we do everything we can to defeat Kathy Hochul.

So if I'm the best person, I'm going to run. And so, you know, it's interesting as I first got to know Brad when he was with Bush 43. He was with Bush 41, too, your brother.

So, you guys always cared about politics. Where does that come from?

Well, both my parents were World War II veterans. My mother joined the Army. I don't think there's many people that can say that both their parents were World War II veterans.

So, they instilled in the whole family public service. My father was in the state legislature. He basically uh gave me the uh the desire and the passion to do good things uh and uh Being an elected official gives you an opportunity to help a lot of people. This is a state that really needs to get back to the principles of American values and. Instead of giving people things for free, we should be trying to create prosperity, create jobs, make people prosperous.

So I think for the first time. You really have to go out of your way if you're a Republican. You tell me if I'm wrong, you're the pro. and talk about capitalism and what it does and what it's meant to do. And then compare it.

I think you're going to have to do it in a simple way, non-collegial, political science, master's degree way to explain to people. Because you have a guy who says, I got huge problems with capitalism, and he went out and won. And then, so do you think I'm wrong? I think you're absolutely right, and I think it's something that we haven't done in our schools and universities. People don't understand what communism is.

They don't understand what capitalism is. Capitalism has created the most prosperous country in the world. And people say it's not fair. It's not fair. To me, capitalism is opportunity to be successful, no guarantees on outcomes.

And the most successful, just by being successful, will help others because they hire people, they go on vacation, they build buildings, and there are jobs that come off of that. Winston Churchill said it best.

Socialism and communism is shared misery. If you want to be miserable, if you want to live a life where there's no value in achievement, there's no value in trying to get ahead, then you should be a socialist. But if you want better for your families, if you want higher wages, if you want better benefits, if you want to have prosperity and live in a nice neighborhood, then it's capitalism. Capitalism is creating wealth. And we've done that exceedingly well here in the United States.

And everybody wants to come here. Why does everybody want to come here? Because of capitalism.

So, quick thing. Kathy Hochl, whatever you want to say, she's not a socialist, and yet she endorsed a socialist who didn't endorse her back. Um How vulnerable, if at all, does this make her as a candidate? You can honestly say that's your judgment. You think a guy.

The mom who says he's more of a Ugandan and Indian than an American. Who comes out against Israel every chance he gets, who won't say, Hamas is a terrorist organization, that's my guy.

So you astounded? I am astounded. Listen. Either she supports the policies of Mandami or She's a phony. I think it's a little bit of each.

I want you to hear. I don't know if you had a chance to hear Mondami's speech.

Well delivered? It was angry. It was a tone that he did not have when he was running.

So listen to President Trump when asked about it yesterday with Brett Baer, Cut 10. At one point, he says, turn the volume up. How do you respond to that? Does that affect anything you're going to do as anyone? It's a very dangerous statement for him to make, actually.

And you talk about danger. I think it's a very dangerous statement for him to make. He has to be a little bit respectful of Washington. Because if he's not, he doesn't have a chance of succeeding. And I want to make him succeed.

I want to make the city succeed. I don't want to make him succeed. I want to make the city succeed. And we'll see what happens. Did you see reaching out to him?

I would say he should reach out to us, really. I think he should reach out. I'm here. We'll see what happens, but I would think that it would be more appropriate for him to reach out to us. Your thoughts about a politician that would use his victory speech to take on the President of the United States, he's a mayor.

and you know the president's got some power, Republican or Democrat, when you're in the White House.

Well, it just shows that he doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't care about the people of New York City. He's got a pro-Marxist, communist philosophy. He's anti-cop. He's pro-criminal.

Doesn't he need federal funding? And he's an anti-Semite. Yeah, listen, you got to be smart. And he's not smart. The fact of the matter is, he's very slick.

He's very polished. He's got what we would say if we came from Brooklyn, he's got good shtick. But the fact of the matter is that You have to govern, and he has no idea how to govern. He has no experience, and his policies are just crazy. Would Bruce Blakeman?

Nassau County executive, would you run against that? Even though you're technically running for a governor's fight, would you run against New York's mayor? Absolutely. Listen, he's a virulent anti-Semite, so let's start there. He stands with terrorists.

I lost my nephew on 9-11, who was a first responder, and he died in the line of duty. And this guy's standing with terrorists that applauded the collapse of the World Trade Center.

So the fact of the matter is, yes, I am going to campaign against him, and I'm going to hold Kathy Hochl responsible for the fact that she endorsed a guy who's a communist, a Marxist.

Someone who's anti-cop and somebody who's an anti-Semite.

So, a couple of things before I go. Um You're very tight with President Trump. He has a lot of respect for you. He's told me that. And so was Elise Stefanik, who was the UN ambassador nominee until they pulled it back because they couldn't lose a seat.

Do you call up the President before you make a decision and say, this is what I'm thinking? And do you ask for his endorsement?

Well, I think anybody that's running for office in the Republican Party would be foolish not to ask for President Trump's endorsement. But I think President Trump is very, very smart. He's very sophisticated. And he's going to probably wait and see. Let's see how this plays out.

If I decide to jump in, He'll probably want to see who's the best person to win. Because we know one thing about President Trump. He likes to win. And if people think that I have the best chance of winning, he's going to go with me. All right.

The pullover you're wearing now means.

So I'm wearing our motorcycle hoodie. And we're seeing you on the stream right now. I'm wearing my motorcycle hoodie. from our police department. Police officer Michael Hyland was Critically injured in the line of duty.

He was a guy who had done Presidential motorcades, and he was hit by a truck and very, very seriously injured. And I'm wearing the hoodie today for the motorcycle police unit because he's getting out of the hospital today. He's going to rehab.

So, this is a very happy day for our Nassau County police family. I'm literally sitting, standing next to the one Republican who is happy about the results Tuesday in his race. It is Bruce Blakeman, who has got a big decision in two weeks whether to run for governor or not.

Well, thank you, Brian. I appreciate the opportunity to be on your show, and I'm very proud that you are a Massapequa Chief and that you are a resident of Nassau County. And you're going to bat for our high school that just wants to keep the nickname they've had since the 50s, and that means a lot. And the president cares about it too. If I become governor, it will be the Massapequa Chiefs and the Wanteau Warriors.

That's all you are. You can bet on that. And maybe the Brentonwood Indians can get their name back. 1,000%. All right, Bruce.

Thanks so much. You better watch the Patriot Awards tonight. It's awesome. I'm going to be here. You're going to be a great person.

It's going to be all red, white, and blue. I love it. Yeah, back in a moment. Thank you. Giving you everything you need to know.

You're with Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. I think the lesson for the president is that it's not enough to diagnose the crisis in working-class Americans' lives, you have to deliver. on addressing that crisis.

It's a president who ran a campaign on the promise of cheaper groceries and now, as was said by one of our co-chairs, has gone so far as to cut SNAP benefits for close to two million New Yorkers, someone who is literally making it harder to afford those same groceries whose price he was decrying not that long ago. And what Scares Republicans across the country is the fact that we will actually deliver on this agenda. And the contrast is something that they cannot bear to witness.

So, this is unbelievable that this clown actually thinks that Donald Trump is taking away SNAP benefits when he knows that the shutdown has everything to do with the pandemic-level spending that was going on from Obamacare that was supposed to sunset in the rescue plan that we didn't need, side note, that Joe Biden passed.

Now that we're out of the pandemic, it's gone.

Now, Democrats are holding out because they want it to continue.

Well, we are 37 trillion in debt. Obamacare is already ridiculously over budget. We cannot afford to subsidize to that level. And because of this, this shutdown, all government spending is slowly condensing. And one of the things that's happening is SNAP benefits are not going out.

So when a judge ruled that, there was a lot of doubt in what he meant to, where we're supposed to get the money to fund SNAP. to fund the air traffic control is to fund the military. And the judge says, well, you got to put the SNAP program out.

Well, please tell the president, where is he getting that money? What's the emergency funding?

So for Zoe Ramdani that thinks he can teach Donald Trump a lesson when he's been in the, he hasn't even taken the job yet. And his other job, he had all of five staffers. And his previous job, he was a camp counselor. And he's going to take his first day as go mayor-elect. to tell the President how to do his job.

It's absolutely insane. It just shows the arrogance and a lack of humility for a job, which usually means you're set up for a big fall. You listen to the Brian Kill Me show. We're coming to you for the Patriot Awards, the show you're going to watch tonight at 8 o'clock Eastern Time. We're standing right by the red carpet.

If you're at Long Island University, come by, say hi. Don't move. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. On day one, I signed an executive order to designate the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

We had a big Strong positive number come out just recently. The drugs coming into our country are way down. I'll tell you where they're really way down is drugs coming in through water. People are saying no thanks. I don't think I want to ride in that boat today, please.

We want you to take these drugs into the United States. You know what? I think I'll take a passage. Right over there. Why don't you just move your chair over there?

That is the President of the United States yesterday. Talking economics and a little Venezuelan drug boats, but he's also talking about what's affecting our country, and that is drugs coming in.

So we thought building the wall was as far as he was going to go and maybe pressure Mexico with trade. But this president feels differently, and I think the Secretary of State has a lot to do with that. Marco Rubio, he had a real sensibility about Central and South America, and of course, Cuba, his family fled communism, came to America, and you couldn't see a more grateful person. But the operations in Venezuela are now under scrutiny because Democrats feel as though the president doesn't have the right to just take out random boats. They're not random boats, number one.

Intelligence should be shared and is being shared as of yesterday, and I imagine today, too. It hasn't stopped Congress from taking action. But on the other hand, do you remember this president name? It's on the tip of my tongue. Oh, that's right.

President Obama, when he identified a terrorist target, whether it's ISIS, al-Shabaab, wherever they were, he would commission to drone him. One of the main reasons, he didn't want to bring him to gitmo because he. He promised to close Gitmo, which, by the way, is still open.

Well, a perfect person to talk about this: operations here and overseas, and some of the concerns as we try to build up an international force to work in Gaza and keep peace in that region is retired Marine Corps Colonel C.J. Douglas. Five combat tours of duty, 31 years of service, now serving in a different capacity in the civilian world, but could jump right back in should America need him. Colonel, welcome back. Hey, Brian, it's great to see you again.

So, first time in your lifetime, or my lifetime that I can remember. That we're so focused on Central and South America, which is something that Americans really want. Say, can we focus on our own backyard for a change militarily? Is this overdue? Or are you surprised by it and you think this could be very tough for us down the line?

I agree, it is the first time, and it's a little bit of surprise, but frankly, it's with excitement. And the reason why is we've heard for how many years about the war on drugs and what's that really entailed? I mean, you know, law enforcement trying to stop it here. We're, you know, literally, you know, our president has decided to go at it at the source. And let's think about that.

What has America gotten really good at in the war on terror and rocket Afghanistan? Identifying targets and striking them. And so, as you mentioned, he just gave that, outlined that to Congress. I hope they do what's right and stand behind him because these boats that they're being identified and struck as legitimate targets. Our military and our analysts are really good at what they do.

And I would support it. I was 100% for President Obama doing what he did. Absolutely. You know, Alawaki, for example, an American citizen, they said, well, you shouldn't be killing an American citizen.

Well, look, he declared war on us, left and was plotting and planning and inspiring.

So I'm not being a hypocrite and saying that you kind of trust that I don't know who else was in that car, but if you've got a terrorist in that car, it's not my problem. And now I feel the same way about these drug boats. They're not fishing rods. You know, they're going to a certain location that we've already outlined how it works through the Caribbean.

Some of that drug ends up in Europe. Get it?

So we're helping everybody. Right. And how many people a year will have died from fentanyl? And it's only increased. And so, you know, with that, he's doing what he needs to do as far as trying to work with China and other.

countries as far as to reduce the supply. You know, now this is like this is like you know, make the bad decision to try and transport it to the United States and you're going to face consequences.

So you're a Navy guy, but a Marine. When you talk about Uh eight. warships in the area, including an air traffic carrier, what does that show you in proportion to the muscle that we're revealing off the co to Venezuela's leader, to Colombia's leader, to drug cartels in Mexico?

So what that is, is that that's a forward deployed force in readiness. And that shows that we're capable of executing Any mission from the sea, and the whole idea being that it's your rapid insertion, execution, and withdrawal.

Now, you know, he said the CIA is, I never heard this before. Yeah, I put the CIA into Nicaragua into Venezuela. Which talk about ambiguity and deception. Right now, in Venezuela, everybody's looking at it like, is that guy CIA? Like, probably people that aren't, you know, are getting identified as like, that guy's probably a bad guy.

Meaning, you know, one of us, which is a good guy. But the point is, is, you know, is. He keeps all the options on the table. Like how many times, and you and I have talked about this in the past, like we've had people that are elected officials that say, this is as far as we'll go. He's just said like, you know, hey, look, we're going to defend America, period.

I'm not taking any options off the table. I don't know if you've looked at this because you were Central Command, not Southern Command. But when we want to take on the cartels in Mexico, even if we get a wink and a nod from the leadership. How difficult is that? Do you have any idea what we'd be up against then?

Have you had a chance to ever work up any game plans for that? I mean, I'm going to say it's going to be a challenge, but you translate that to how did we work with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, even further. And so, with this, having done the one border mission where we were identifying targets that were coming across illegally with drugs into the United States, this taking it, actually taking it into Mexico, I think what it's going to require is working with the Mexican government, working with the Mexican police and military.

Now, that's a challenge as well because there's been infiltrating. Yes, and but the end state is, you know, while it's going to be a challenge, it's what our You know, our interagencies and our military are really good at, and so I don't think it's insurmountable. When the guys are on the ships and they're going to the region, do they know? Do the ensigns, does everyone know what the mission is? And is it important that they either do or don't?

For example, if you tell everybody, they make a phone call home, it could get out, or what lines could be tapped. Is it just the commit because I imagine serving, you like to know what you're doing. Why am I exactly in Trinidad, Tobago today? Why am I going through the Caribbean when I thought I'd be in San Diego? What is it like being on those ships and those missions where maybe you weren't in command?

I know you've been in command for a long time. Right. And so going back to when I was a lieutenant on ship, and I'll say throughout my career, the one thing that my leadership was always very good about was translating the why and the why being, so as the strategic focus that comes from our leadership at the highest levels translates down to the tactical leadership. They give the why it's important to our country and then why it's important to us and how what it is that we do operationally ties back to our national security priorities. Lastly, Mike Waltz was the UN ambassador.

If you look in the region, they really respect the Middle East has more respect for the UN than maybe the US does, even though they're tier.

So they want a UN presence. But Mike Waltz is a Green Beret. He was a national security advisor and a congressman and used to work for Dick Cheney as well.

So I'm just wondering, wouldn't he be the perfect one to help put together an international coalition to take over for the IDF in Gaza?

Well, he would be because you look at he's got to have relations with these other countries. He does, and that's and relationships are all about what Green Berets do as far as they work with indigenous people, they work with small elements, and transform tactical actions into strategic priorities. And so, you know, with that, there's a couple other people that I would probably name that I would say, hey, this person, you know, as far as an expert in the region, would be greatly beneficial, but nobody better than Mike Waltz. If I was to tell you, name a couple of countries that we could count on to act like true peacekeepers in the area, not UNIFIL like they screwed up Lebanon, that was a UN force. Yeah.

The Israelis have Nick's cutter. They don't want. They seem to be open to Egypt and Jordan sending troops. Who else might send troops?

So Egypt and Jordan were two that I would have said right off the bat. What about UAE? Do they have anything? They do. And they have provided people in the past.

So they as well are a viable option. And you can't discount Saudi Arabia. And because they're a key player in the area, as far as financing, as far as credibility, as far as let's call it WASTA. And so those partners together, because and again, you and I have talked about this in the past. It can't be people that look like you and I.

It's got to be people from the region. Because you knew what it was like in Iraq when it looked like you're controlling their cities and towns. Even if they say, I hated Saddam, they looked at you, you become the new enemy. You become an occupier. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

And so in this case, you were. You're now part of the problem. The solution needs to be people from their region. I think personally, if we can get a credible force in there and get the IDF out, we could start talking about the next day. But right now, it's still an active war zone, but not as active since Donald Trump put that all in play.

CJ, great to see you. Thanks for your service. Enjoy the show tonight. Thank you. All right.

And stay out of trouble. You've got six to seven hours. I know it's going to be hard. Thanks, CJ. I appreciate it.

When we come back, Jim Trustee breaks down the Supreme Court hearing day number two. It is extremely weighty. It is extremely impactful. The President has to find a way to sustain his tariff power. Let's see if he can.

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The Solicitor General presented a strong case for the President's use of the IEPA, the emergency tariff powers, that President Trump has used to balance trade, to negotiate with the Chinese on fentanyl, to secure rare earth magnets, to get the Indians to stop buying Russian oil. And the Solicitor General made a fantastic case that the purpose of the tariffs is to rebalance. Global trade. We were in an economic emergency. We were near a tipping point.

And you and I know exactly what that looks like. And President Trump has brought the U.S. back. On the other side, I thought that the plaintiffs almost embarrassed themselves. They clearly didn't understand foundational economics.

They didn't understand the trade policy they were talking about. And I'm very optimistic after listening to the questions at SCOTUS that The IEPA ruling is going to come President Trump in this administration's way.

So that is the Treasury Secretary who sat in on the proceedings, and I would love that. That would have been fascinating. But yesterday was day one. Today there's going to be day two at least before the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the President using tariff power.

Solicitor General John Sauer represented Trump. And then you had the plaintiffs, which were many, representing a lot of blue states and individuals who were affected by tariffs. Who had the better argument? I want to bring in a great expert, Jim Trustee. One of his many titles was he was Donald Trump's attorney for a while, and Jim Trustee now has his hands full of his big gambling case.

He's got a client in Terry Rozier, but he still found time for us. I don't know how much you had to read, Jim, or you've seen the analysis of who made the stronger case yesterday, in your estimation? Yes. Here's the thing. I don't really disagree with anything you just heard from the Treasury Secretary that there are compelling success stories that come out of these tariffs.

But the problem is that the separation of powers issue, and I don't think the court's necessarily buying the concern about practical reality over a constitutional issue.

So at the end of the day, it's always risky to judge success from how the justices ask questions. They're pretty good poker players, a lot of them. Silence doesn't mean anything you can figure out. And sometimes the questions are rhetorical. But I actually am pretty fearful for the administration that this is going to break the wrong way.

So they have this. Amy Coney Barrett was pretty aggressive, and Justice Gorsuch, usually a pretty secure conservative vote, posed perhaps they said the most vociferous challenge to the Solicitor General, contending that the President's position, in essence, could cover anything, including the power to declare war specifically given to Congress in the Constitution. What he is trying to say, and I think simply is: it is an emergency. The President, the executive has a chance to act. They wanted to show how it was an emergency.

The retort was: well, what if the next President says we are in a climate emergency? Could they put emergency climate act rules into place? Is that an argument that you would have a tough time batting down?

Well, I mean, it goes to the heart of whether a typical congressional core power, how limited is the permission slip that they give a president? That's really a lot of what we're fighting about. And so, yeah, I think it's kind of a horrifying proposition that another administration could come in with all the questionable data and maybe Greta Thornberg testifying as an expert witness that the world's about to end tomorrow. We have to do these things. I mean, look, you have to also remember that the context, the original factual setting of this, makes a difference.

And what I mean is the president, I think quite properly, when he was talking about Mexico, Canada, China in particular, said the emergency that we're dealing with is the emergency of fentanyl killing Americans. And I think that that is the type of thing that you can say is on all fours with IEPA, with this law. But it very quickly became a great leveler. You know, it became, and again, quite successfully, became something where you're negotiating with Australia and Trinidad, Tobago, and countries all over. The world that really there's no conversation about fentanyl when you talk about those countries.

And so having to pivot to a new definition of emergency is not a great moment of advocacy. It might be the right thing to do, but it gets seen as a bit of a hollow retreat. And I think when you have Justice Roberts asking questions like, are you telling me that he can have unlimited power to put in tariffs, unlimited a number of countries, unlimited duration? That type of phrasing tells me that he's honing in on it as a separation of powers issue that's going to be really hard for the President's folks to win. Wow, I don't like to hear that.

So, this was an interesting question for me as a non-lawyer. Justice Barrett said, if you win, this is to the plaintiff. If you win, tell me how the reimbursement will work. You said before the government promised reimbursement. Tell me, it seems to me like it could be a mess.

And the lawyer said there will be a variety of options. And Barrett said, so a mess. What's the significance of that exchange?

Well, you know, it's recognizing as the Supreme Court. It shows they care, right? It shows they care. Yeah, it shows that they know the consequences in practical terms are devastating. And frankly, I feel the same way.

I mean, look, I don't know how you calculate refunds from the Department of Treasury when a tariff is something that's essentially imposed on a foreign country by an importer and then passed on down the chain. Like, does my retailer store get a refund? Do I get a refund? The whole thing is really hard to calculate. Do we undo trade deals?

Right. Well, and look, just the fact that we're at this position where we're talking about it as a potential loss. If you're a country that hasn't cut a trade deal yet, you're thinking, I'm holding out. You know, I'm two months away from a complete victory.

So it's a devastating moment if it plays out this way, and it's got really thorny practical consequences that I don't think any of us has a fix on. But again, when the Supreme Court is. I heard there was no problem with Jim. Jim, he was dealing with this. He did this four years ago.

I mean, he did this in his first four years. Why is it a problem now? Yeah, well, because it's bubbled up to the Supreme Court. I mean, because you have everything that the chief executive does get becomes the subject of a lawsuit somewhere. And look, all I'm telling you, Brian, I mean, I dread the day that they come out with a negative opinion here because I think it's very devastating in terms of our foreign policy.

And I'm kind of a free trade guy, but I think the tariffs have been handled really, really well to date. And the economy seems to be surviving quite fine with these new fair play tariffs in place. But I just don't know that that's going to be enough to sway. Before I go, we only have thirty seconds. Do you remember how they landed Obamacare?

Roberts got involved and kind of choreographed the argument to make it constitutional. Could he get involved like that again for tariffs? 20 seconds. Yeah, he could. And if he does, he was playing some great poker yesterday because the way he asked questions made me think he wasn't going to go out on a limb and redefine taxes or tariffs.

Jim Trustee, thanks for breaking it down for us now. The Brian Killmee. Thanks so much, Jim. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hi everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmey Show where, as the guy said with a very deep voice, we call him Frank. We're at LRU. It's right in Nassau County, kind of in the middle on the North Shore. Very successful university, which, by the way, I attended when it was CW Post, more known for that. And we're having a great time here.

The Patriot Awards are coming up in about 10 hours. I hope everyone's going to watch on Fox Nation Walked Inside. And Sean Hannity, the host, is rehearsing, going through his motions. It's going to be whatever you think. And we have some great people on the roster.

I mean, we have Jason Aldean's going to be here. His lovely wife Brittany is going to be here. We've got all the cast of Fox News is going to be here. And then you're going to have Melania Trump get the Patriot of the Year Award, the phenomenal thing she did that go under the radar, but not here.

So that'll be great.

So we'll be talking about all those things. This hour, we're going to be joined by Will Kane and Jimmy Phala. Jimmy Phala is also, they're both fantastic radio guys and TV guys. And then we are also going to be discussing what's happening here on Long Island. The election.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. If it doesn't go the way that President Trump wants, he loses a lot of the flexibility that we believe Congress granted him to deal with these emergencies we're facing, right? Of the trade deficit, the loss of manufacturing, et cetera. That is the trade rep, Jamison Greer, who's done such a phenomenal job bringing these trade deals.

Tariffs trouble. Perhaps they're in trouble. We may be. We're going to find out with day two of testimony in front of the Supreme Court justices as they poke and prod both sides to see if what the president's been doing is constitutional. Number two.

And now because my Republican colleagues refused to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, we know that for tens of millions of Americans who are now in the open enrollment period, They are experiencing dramatically increased premiums, copays, and deductibles. And that is Hakeem Jeffries, who wants to be Speaker, and he could be. Shut down unover yet as moderate Dems get stopped on their way to end it all. I'm not kidding. What will it take to end the standoff now, and how the media shows once again they're committed to selling the Democrats' narrative?

Number one. On November 5th, 2024, the American people reclaimed our government. We restored our sovereignty. We lost a little bit of sovereignty last night in New York, but... We'll take care of it.

Don't worry about it. That is the President of the United States referring to the election of socialists. Zohan Mondami, the GOP's off-beat, off-year elections. They were not good. The left has reason to celebrate, no doubt about it.

But now it's the day after, and emerging right now. A civil war. No shooting, just disagreements. The Bernie Bros who are socialists. And the traditional Liberals, and what the GOP takeaway should be from their terrible Tuesday.

There's a lot going on. I'll talk to Jimmy and Will about that. But in terms of what happened, I think they lost the youth vote in blue states. I think they lost some gains. They made If you were to look at these made or lost on an off-year election, float on blue territory with Hispanics, and man, they got slammed with the female vote.

They didn't like it.

Now, if you ask Glenn Youngkin, part of the reason why he lost Everything. The governor's mansion flipped, the lieutenant governor's mansion, the lieutenant governor's position flipped, as well as the attorney general, despite Jay Cross, I'm sorry, I just dropped something, despite Jay Cross's terrible text that shows he wants to just kill a Republican's family. Governor Glenn Youngkin says it's all about the shutdown. Cut four. As I said, I firmly believe that particularly the government shutdown was a very, very big challenge as we ran into this election.

We have 330,000 government workers here that weren't getting paid. That is a real challenge heading into an election. And therefore, I again encourage the Senate to please open the government because Virginians are hurting. And it's time for the government to get back open and then for you all to do your work. I mean that's true.

But that just also shows something That's also bad, and that Republicans really have put in a situation where the Democrats in the past have been in power, and it was many times Republicans who would just hold out, whether it's Obamacare or some type of spending, they wanted some. And uh I'm sorry, I have my I brought my crane here and I put it down by mistake.

So soon it'll be lower and then the beeping will stop. Right now, the majority of the country blame more Republicans for the shutdown than the Democrats, which I don't think is right. Because in the past, a continuing CR to continue to negotiate on what we're going to spend for the following year is relatively traditional, but not when you're trying to get momentum back, and that's what they have made their stand. The other story is that moderate Dems led by Janine Shaheen and Gary Peters, who's retiring, were ready to cross the aisle now that the election is over and open up the government and have another six, seven weeks right before Christmas to get a budget done, which you've got to assume they would. But they were told not to because Democrats feel like they're gaining.

Think about that. How many flights have been cut, how many people have been furloughed, how many millions have been affected, how many people are not getting paid because Democrats feel Republicans are being blamed. The other thing that happened yesterday is pricing. When it comes down to it, the grocery prices, the cost of living. Had people vote a certain way.

Donald Trump says I'm going to fix it. He's in the process of doing that. The Big Beautiful Bill is not even in play yet. With the no taxes on tips and the tax cuts being permanent, and we're seeing a lot of progress, but not enough in the grocery stores. Vivek Ramaswamy made it clear that Republicans shouldn't brush under, just brush over these results.

Cut six.

So, a lot of those young Americans are cynical of that American dream, Laura. But our job isn't just to preach at them. It's to provide them that economic empowerment. Because at the end of the day, my message to them is: you still can't be cynical about this country. We're the last best hope on planet Earth where you're going to be able to pursue that opportunity.

We just got to convince those young people to come along with us. Right. The youth vote is trending the Republicans' way. And you don't throw out the results at 24 about what because of what happened in 25. And these were blue states.

So these are the type of states that usually have college campuses. They will be very reluctant to allow a turning point to put a chapter in. I mean, that's going to change and they'll fight.

Now, this isn't the whole country weighing in. It is Virginia, New Jersey, and certain state houses and positions in Georgia and in Mississippi. None of it, really, outside Bruce Blakeman and Nassau County Republicans, almost nobody had success on the right. And that did not elude Senator Ted Cruz, who was in a tough fight a year ago to get six more years as senator. Cut away.

We have an actual communist Jihad has said it's important to note. Mandami is not a socialist. He is a full-on communist. He has called for seizing the means of production in our economy. He is a Marxist.

That is profoundly dangerous. And look, I know there's some Republicans who are saying, well, gosh, this will be good politically because it'll be the face of the Democrat Party. I think it's terrible for America. I think, you know, New York is the largest city in America. It is the financial capital of the world.

It is the media capital of the world. And New York, we are going to see New Yorkers die. It's true. But he also thinks that they have to do a better job talking about prices. And I actually think this is what I would add.

This would be on my agenda. My agenda would be to tell all these Republicans when you go out on the stump. You have to say, look, we have to have this conversation about capitalism, about socialism, and communism. And you can't just think that everybody got a master's degree in political science. You can't just assume that people have the same 11th grade social studies or their 7th grade social studies classes where they understand what the Cold War was, when the wall came down, and the significance.

There's a difference between East and West Germany. It's called success and failure. There's a difference between North and South Korea, success and failure. Guess it's on the failure side, socialism, communism. Almost everywhere you look.

And people point to, well, look at Norway, look at Sweden. They've moved away from any of these democratic socialist movements. They find out that individual incentives is one of the best governments that you can have. There are always downsides. There are people going to feel like they're left out.

But for the most part, It's the sense that if you rise to the top, just in while you make your way to the top, you're going to help a whole bunch of people, whether you're buying buildings or going on vacation with the money that you have, you help other people below who want to perhaps take that opportunity and continue to grow it.

Meanwhile, we can't even get our government opened up, and then we find out part of the reason we can't get the government opened up is because the Democrats feel as though they're winning with this. There's no way, there's no pathway for President Trump to give in and say, Well, you know what, let's talk about subsidizing Obamacare, which is failing even more the pandemic levels. And it's not a matter of pride. I mean, what a terrible precedent. If you hold out for 36 days and do well in an election, you can get whatever you want.

And I would say the same thing when Democrats eventually get into power, and I don't think it's going to be in two years or next year, but when they eventually get into power, if I see Republicans standing up in the minority and not doing a continuing resolution, you know what the best thing to do is go into your individual committees. and then make your case for a certain amount of spending. And then you could always go up to Republicans and go, Do you want to be the one to destroy Obamacare and take insurance away from people?

Well, how do we fix it? That's how you fix things. You negotiate. And most of it is not going to be on our show, and it's not going to even be on C-SPAN. It's going to be with the door closed if you really want to fix things.

And that's what you use as leverage, especially if you feel as though you have a chance. Especially if you feel as though you have a chance to take the majority. We'll talk about that. We'll also talk about the people leaving New York City, whether they come here to Nassau County or going to Florida. And doing what the police the fire commissioners did yesterday, just quit.

Because of who was just named mayor. You'll listen to the Brian Kill Me Joe, back with Jimmy Phaler, and more in just a moment. The fastest growing talk show in America. You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. But the communists, Marxists, socialists, and globalists had their chance, and they. delivered nothing but disaster. And now let's see how a communist does in New York. We're going to see how that works out.

And we'll help him. We'll help him. We want New York to be successful. We'll help him a little bit, maybe. I doubt it.

That is the President of the United States yesterday in Miami giving a speech to the most powerful people in the world about our economic future. And a lot of people are talking about how the cost of living is, but those guys don't have to worry about that. But they are in charge of a lot and do want to help out. Jimmy Phaler joins us now. Not a communist, not a Marxist.

Jimmy, how would you characterize your economic principles? I mean, listen, I spent in my 20s probably 90% of my salary on adult dancers and blackjack. The rest of it I wasted completely. That money well spent. Good to see you.

Nice to be here. Have you patriot awards? She was just bringing up, and I'm not being sarcastic or facetious or I'm not exaggerating. This guy wants to legalize prostitution. He couldn't answer the question: do you want to legalize prostitution?

He's like, okay. I mean, listen, somebody's got to get the Elliott Spitzer endorsement. You know what I mean? All of these politicians require a different level of outrage. But he was sneaking around.

Yes. Right? This guy says, no, I'd like to let these people get paid. But what's interesting is that we can tax them? Yeah, that's why that doesn't end good.

I mean, it's not good. There's no dignity in that. And if you've ever been to AOC's district, you'd assume it's already legal.

Okay.

Have you ever read the reporting in the New York Post about how AOC's district is called the Boulevard or sweethearts? And I do want to say some of these women are charging way too much. Like, I should be getting some type of repeat. Yeah, that's from what I've told in my research. They should have some kind of a punch card or something.

Right. See, also, it's a goal. Yeah, yeah. You want to get to that card to get to the free sauce. But make no mistake about it.

Once Mom Donnie won.

Okay.

You know, you got the demo, but then you got the real thing. That acceptance speech the other night was, you know, very evocative of Trump's inauguration. You know how he was doing it, like, we're doing it my way now. Mom Donnie did do that. I mean, he looked a lot more like Mom Donnie the Twitter feed.

Then Mom Donnie, the candidate. Did he not? I thought he was as a Have kind of a fun guy on TikTok. That's what I mean. Yeah.

So I thought it was relatively, then talking to people like Martha McCallum and saying, yeah, do you want me to apologize to cops? I'll apologize to cops. It wasn't the same guy. No. And you see that Van Jones and David Axerod said the same thing you just said.

Man, that's not the right tone. You had a chance to unify.

Now, do you feel duped as someone who voted for him? Are you? Jimmy, can I tell you anything in private? But I bring it up. But I bring it up about dupes because I don't know.

You know, we can't vote. Do you live in the city? No, no, it's Strong Island.

Okay.

Although, okay, the way my night went last night, Jenny might be throwing me out. I might be going to the city. I'm kidding, it's fine. What I was going to tell you is the Momdani thing, I don't know if you saw this, he had a cash bar. At his victory party.

Wow.

So, everybody who thinks they're getting like four years of free stuff showed up, and it was a $22 Red Bull and Vodka. I actually have, because someone responded to one of my tweets about it. I didn't know that. With the actual, I have real researchers.

Okay, I knew this is really funny, okay? Because I am the furthest thing from a journal. You know what I mean? You're Fox News. I'm like Samantha Fox News.

You know what I mean? I'm a totally different strategy. Who, by the way, runs Laura Ingram. Does she ever?

Okay.

Yeah, there was a Sam Fox. She doesn't have the same British accent, though. It's not the same one.

Okay, but stick with me.

Okay.

I literally ran into a reporter friend yesterday. Who just told me, I'm like, wow, you sound worse than me. He's like, yeah, I was at the Mom Donnie victory celebration. It was so loud. And somehow a journalism light bulb went off in my head.

And I was like, by the way, do you have a cash bar? And he goes, Yeah, they charged us for everything. It was expensive.

So I ran with that. I'm like, I got a scoop here. I tweeted it, and then someone jumped onto Community Noted Me on Twitter and grokked it and said, Yeah, it was true. And they actually gave us the menu for drinks. Like it was all champagne and high-end cocktails.

Yeah, I was scoping. Did you say Grokt it? Yeah, you know, Grok meaning the AI on it. But in other words, if they want to make sure it's true, community notes is this guy might be lying. Yeah, you can say Grok at Grok, is this true?

Right. And then Grok will come back with TV super hunk. Jimmy Phalo was telling the truth when he said. I don't think super hunk is, that doesn't sound accurate.

Some go with heart throb.

Okay, you're right. Many my heart is throbbing just from standing here. I'm that out of shape.

Well, how about this? Do you believe that Elon Musk personally?

Okay, that? You don't think he's putting it? No, I believe somebody who had their hand on the menu probably fed it or a previous post had found it online. But the point is, it's a scam. It is.

So we have a situation where this guy is going to come into power, and right away, we're back to woke. He says, for the first time, our transition team will be all women. Yeah.

Yeah, I thought we were out of that. Yeah, me too. And that's another concern: everybody he's aligned himself on. There it is. You got to keep up with it.

You got to keep off. Come on, man. The guy's fast. He doesn't even know he's spitting him out. That's how many of them he's got.

He's just dropping them. See, some of your funniest stuff, you're unaware you're just. You don't even know it. But stick with me. Because he is kind of going backwards to a pre-2024 playbook in a lot of ways.

And I think that's what his win represents, to a lesser extent, maybe Spanberger and even Mikey Sherrill. Is the Democrats have not abandoned anything that cost them the 2024 election. You know, they're still trying to outsource it to some type of discrimination or bigotry, but policy-wise, there's been no pivot, man. Spamberger or Mikey Sherrill would not comment on do you think That you should let a trans man go into a locker room. Didn't we?

That ship has sailed. It is so bananas. But I mean, really think about that as a policy. Ten years ago, if you had a young daughter and there was a grown man in the women's room, they were trained to go get an authority figure. There was no elected official being like, hey, chill out, ladies.

So, yeah, that's bananas. And I don't think the country is clearly on board with it. We know it's an 80-20 issue, maybe a 90-10, but it doesn't mean they're going to walk away from it because, in a lot of instances, like that ideology to them is a longer game. Maybe it cost them 2024, but maybe they can beat up enough people and kind of social pressure them into supporting it in 2028. You know, I don't know.

So, the New York City election fears have driven $100 million to Florida real estate. They have $100 million Florida real estate surge since the election. But that's just Hannity's house. I know. That's his backup here.

I want to overstate this stuff.

Well, he said, I think the election accelerated how many people make decisions. I think people are nervous of what's coming, how it's going to affect their lifestyle. The other thing is, people that can't even afford it are. Because rich people didn't get rich by throwing money out the window. Amen.

When you see a government that's the, it's the richest government in the world, and it's $37 trillion in debt, we live as a country like that NBA player that got the $100 million contract and you see him on the Daily Mail three years later, you're like, look who's broke. We actually live like that guy. And that's the problem with Mom Dani, is the people who voted for him are the ones who can afford to leave. It's what they leave behind for the people who can't leave, whose jobs are not portable, that actually get the bill for this. You have to stay, you realize that.

I'm here. You know what I mean? The TV, the modeling. Let's not, you know, a before model. But the point is, it's lucrative.

It's lucrative, you know. But I'll be here. Dave Portnay came out and said, Um If this is what the people of New York City want, then so be it. Thank God I didn't, I don't live there anymore. Which is the Ivan Drago equivalent of if he dies, he dies.

New York's gonna go through a pocket right now. Can I just build on that? Yeah.

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Jimmy, thanks so much for stopping by. You're the best. All right. It's an honor to class up the show. Really?

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Subplot time.

So I don't want to go over what happened on Tuesday. We know what happened on Tuesday. But now it's subplot time. And what is the subplot? The subplot is...

when you have Bernie Sanders show up at a press conference with Chuck Schumer. And he was just going to sit there and watch, because that's his leader. And Chuck Schumer's Late. And the reporter started asking Bernie Sanders questions. Couldn't catch him by surprise.

The guy's been doing this for 50 years.

Now he knows it was a good night for Mondami, who he personally endorsed. And he watched as Schumer didn't. Akeem Jeffries waited until the last week. By the way, Senator Schumer doesn't even say he voted for him.

So, Bernie Sanders has a chance to maybe speak out like you and I would have done five years ago. And said, I still have resentment. From having Hillary Clinton work with the DNC to make sure I did not get the nomination, I still have resentment to say the party collapsed because Barack Obama told him to, and he was winning and went behind. Joe Biden. Along with Jim Clyburn, to make sure that he won South Carolina and everybody else would drop out and back Joe Biden to become president.

So Bernie Sanders now has his movement getting big crowds. The Democrats find themselves iced out of all power. And now he says, now I got a big winner in New York City. Are you going to pay attention to me? Cut 11.

Well, the party leadership did not support Mamdani in New York and he won. The party leadership was not supporting Plattner in Maine, and I think he's going to win.

So I think it is, you know, I think there is a growing understanding that leadership. and defending the status quo and the inequalities that exist in America. It's not where the American people are. Inequalities, fully funded, nationalized health care, that's the guy who's getting the biggest crowds. That's the guy who has the most momentum.

That's a guy that young people, even though he's 111 years old, are still backing. By the way, side note: Nancy Pelosi decided I'm not running again.

So that means she's out of here for the first time. I guess we're going to be rid of her, thank goodness, for the next 60 years. Although I will not say bad things about her personally when she just called the President of the United States one of the most vi the most vile human being on earth. In the middle of a shutdown, as you know, that he walked around and you wouldn't point out different things that he's done, but that's how she considers it. Think about that.

She's somebody who probably in private cannot believe he went back more than anybody else and won an election. But I think the Civil War starts right now. And then I'm wondering what's going to happen. There's a Westmore leader party that has momentum behind Mom Dani and behind a, there was a mayor's race in Minneapolis that almost went to the socialists and one and one still go. to uh one might still go to a socialist over in Seattle.

So these are candidates who are bound by that situation and bound by a philosophy that capitalism doesn't work, it only works for the few. And this is Jacob Fry, who I think is a terrible theatrical. Mayor of Minneapolis, remember, he was the guy that gave up the police station and took a knee and did all his crap during the George Floyd stuff.

Well, he won re-election. after second choice votes were tabulated and he beat Omar Fatah. Who has absolutely no experience, but he represents a growing faction in Minneapolis, and that's his huge Somali population. Who this guy was campaigning with a Somali flag. I mean, we never had anything like this before.

We used to analyze statements and see if it was somewhat un-American or too critical of America.

Now you guys are running for office who don't even like America. Thank goodness Minneapolis stopped and maybe they'll make the next step and make sure their governor flips over yesterday. Yesterday I got to give New York City Fire Chief credit. He said, Robert Tucker, he's going to leave his post next month after announcing his resignation the day after Zohram M. Dami was elected.

This is what I hope. If you don't know, around the country, Jessica Tisch has done a phenomenal job. As Commissioner, Eric Adams has empowered her, backed off, and let her do her job.

Now They said before, everybody said, we're going to keep Jessica.

Well uh Jessica Tesch.

Now, Mondami says, yeah, she stays. But has anyone asked her? I would love to see in a day or two her just say, even though it's probably worse for me personally and everyone at Fox, because we have a beautiful building right in the middle of Midtown Manhattan. I'd love to see her walk away. Why should he benefit from her competence?

Because he has a certain view of the NYPD. Racist. How do we know? He wrote it. How about this?

Houston Police Union is trying to recruit the NYPD cops who are disgusted with Mendami.

So that's why some cops are not going to leave, number one. They can't. They're year 17 of their service. They can't get mad and be unhappy about an election. But when they're not backed up, By the city government, it could get really bad for them should they be in a controversial situation.

So they might have to look for that. All right, so we'll talk about that.

Well, we'll talk about what another shoe could be dropping in New York City. But for anyone who thought he ran as a communist, excuse me, he ran as a Marxist socialist, he'll probably be mellow once gotten the job. You didn't listen to his speech, his victory speech, and you haven't been watching him today. You listen to the Brian Killmead Show. We come back.

Will Kane join us. Don't move. It's Brian Killmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Not gonna make quick decisions about New York, not New York right now. I know New York has some great things going for it, as you know, like the human capital, the brain power, the financial industry.

So it's a center for us. But my caution would be really saying is New York has to compete. No city has divine rights and success. There are great cities everywhere. We now have more people in Texas than we have in New York.

That didn't have to be that way. And so if I was any mayor of any city, I'd be thinking about what do I need to do to build a great city, to help all of my citizens, and all the things that create good competition. JPMorgan Chase Chairman, CEO Jamie Dimon, speaking yesterday on the impact of Zoe Rum on Donnie's win. And of course, he has a building about two blocks from Fox headquarters. It is a mammoth building, billions of dollars of investment.

It's hard to believe that he would be able to leave even if he wanted to. Will Kane, you did leave before the election. Thanks so much for joining us. What's up? Did you know that?

More JPMorgan Chase employees in Texas than in New York City? I did. And I knew that fact, and last night driving through the streets of New York was the first time I saw that new building in New York City. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.

And to think that huge rocks at the bottom. And to think they built that. And yet they still have more employees in Texas than in New York. And they're not alone. Goldman Sachs is putting a huge office in New York.

They'll have more employees. I mean, in Texas, they'll have more employees in Dallas than they have in New York. And I've heard rumors there's some other ones, big ones coming to Dallas.

So the first thing I would do as mayor is meet with all these guys and say, listen, what do I need to stay? These are my philosophies. How do we work together? But so far, Jamie Dimon says, I haven't heard much. I was invited to one meeting.

I was out of the country. I haven't heard anything since. What does that tell you about how you think he might govern?

Well, what we know so far is two things about Zora Mamdani and how he'll govern. Number one is what he said. I mean, you have to take that the most seriously. What he said, and what his philosophy is, and his ideology, I mean. The guy is a self-avowed Democrat socialist.

He quotes Eugene Debs, as you pointed out, I think, this morning on Fox and Friends. Who was a famous socialist, ran for president five times on the socialist ticket in the 1920s in America. And who he staffed himself with around on his transition team, and the people that contributed to his election, and the people that he's already staffed on his transition team. There's a lot of de Blasio holdovers. And here's the thing.

As much as we talk about Montani, de Blasio was a communist. There was, I mean, that's also not a controversial. Change his name, change everything. Exactly.

Didn't he honeymoon in Cuba or Soviet Union or whatever? Bernie Sanders did in Russia. Yeah.

Soviet Union. Right. So the de Blasio continuation. is a part of what we'll see with Mamdani. I lived in New York during the the Blasio years.

It's a mess. He was a mess, the city was a mess. It was hard to break New York because Giuliani and then three terms, Giuliani twice, and then three terms of Bloomberg, who, even if you don't agree with him on the big gulps or whatever, and she limits size. Guy was unbelievably competent, and I also heard that he took money out of his pocket a lot and just fixed things. Just said, fixed it.

You don't do that job to be rich, you do it as service, and he set up almost a school for mayors where he brings them through the X's and O's and how to do it. This guy's not interested in even doing that. Bloomberg's interesting because yeah, I complained as well about the big gulps and the micromanagement of life, but if you are going to have a leader that micromanages life in some way, it's best done at the city level, not at the state, not at the national level. And he was competent, to your point. Um You're going to have no incompetence in there.

I think you had incompetence with De Blasio.

Well, we'll see with Mamdani. We have an ideological guy. Will we have competence to go along with it? Meaning, can he actually make the trains run on time? Can he clean up the subway?

Is he interested in cleaning up the subway? Is he interested in keeping safe streets and so forth? But you what I'm going towards with the Bloomberg thing is you'll have to to bring this full circle back to You know, all of this business moving to Texas and notably Dallas, that is not how that city is run. That is not how that state is run. It is a minimal impact on life government.

And it flourishes. It's a clean, easy, nice. Great city.

Now, Florida's almost stopped recruiting at this point. Has Texas?

Well, I think we should. Right. I really do. Because you're getting everyone's, you know, a lot of people that don't want to come over there and be capitalists. I'm highly concerned about cultural shift.

Highly concerned about the thing that made...

Okay, let's talk about Texas, but let's also, for everyone listening, understand we're also talking about America.

So this is one in the same. What am I worried about with Texas? There are things that made it great. And most of what made it great is a culture. And it's a law, that culture was bred over time.

Like over 150 years, with the people that first came to Texas, that spirit, that risk tolerance, that pushing the edge, that frontiers mission. America wasn't new enough. They went to Texas for something new, new. And they were edgy people. They weren't safe, rich, happy people.

They were like, I need something better, and I'm going to go fight the Comanche people.

Some were running from the law.

Some ran from the law. But they built a culture that has sustained over time. If you bring people in that don't buy into that culture, even if you buy into the politics, it does highly concern me. Let's bring that back over to America. President Trump says, let's bring the best and the brightest.

Well, I like that to a degree, but I want to preserve American culture. As much as I want us to be a transactional corporation that works great and everybody makes a good living, more than that, I want the culture that got us here over time, and I want to preserve that. And for me, that's not just a conversation about illegal immigration. That's a conversation about legal immigration. That's a conversation about H-1B visas.

That's a conversation about assimilation. And I think those are, actually, Brian, I think that's the most important thing. That should be focused on America. I think everything else is subsidiary to that. And I I one person that I do think shares that belief with me is the vice president.

So you want people that want to be Americans? And I want them to buy into being Americans and to become Americans.

So that's why they put them through tests before you become an American. You get a green card, that's a non-stop test. You get a DWI with a green card, you get in a bar fight, you've lost your green card.

So you're on trial, number one. And number two is you're going to have to pass a test in order to do it. But not just civics, Brian. I'm going to be blunt with you. I want you to leave behind the majority of your culture.

The place that you're leaving is a product of your culture.

Now you assimilate and adopt our culture.

Now you bring some parts of it, and this is the part of America where we've taken from Italian, we've taken from Mexican-American, we've taken from any. I mean, there's a little Italy for a reason. I mean, there is a Brazil, like that Brazil street that's right, which is a diamond district. But that's not ideal. Ideal is assimilation.

Yeah.

And you come to America because you like. Friday Night Football, because you like the way we go about life. Like the Cubans did in that generation when Castro. Oh, by the way, there's a ton of successful examples of this. It's not ethnically or racially tied, it's about.

Culture, do you buy into culture?

So let me ask you on immigration, not quite on the topic, but immigration is the headline. Real quick on this, did you know who Jennifer Welch is? Is that her name, Jennifer Welch? Yeah.

I don't know why she's somebody. She was a Bravo star of some type, and now she's an angry leftist.

So she's the other night when Mom Donnie wins, she's over there on one of the networks she's on. She's got Mehdi Hassan, who is a multiculturalist that hates American culture. She's got the dude that looks like he's from the Invincibles or the Incredibles with the hair that goes up. I don't know who's going to be. I know who you're talking about.

And she says, the problem in America is crusty white people. And that America, there's no such thing as culture. There is no American culture. And the culture of America is multicultural. And she's very popular.

Yeah.

How crazy is that? That's my enemy. What would you do with the immigrants? A lot in Texas. They've been working on farms for 20, 20 years, working in meatpacking for 20 years.

What would you do with them? Do they need to be round up and tossed out?

Well, that's a really, okay, that's supposed to be a really hard question. And in some ways, it is. Like, do I personally know people that fit the description? Yeah, I do. And they're good people.

Especially if you're a soccer fan. And they're friends. Yeah.

I don't want you to narrow down my mind, but yeah. But we also are a nation of laws. And if Being a good person. You know, last night, I don't know if you saw his story. Defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys, second-round pick a year ago, scored a touchdown on Monday night when they blocked the punt.

Marshawn Nealon. He died last night. It's breaking news this morning. And everybody's like, he's such a great guy. And we don't know what happened, but there are some chatter out there that it wasn't good.

And I was just talking to some guys over there, I'm like, Man, everybody says he's a good guy, but being a good guy does not absolve you of having to obey the rules, obey the laws. And so you take it back to the immigration thing. And I'm sorry, we are a nation of laws, and there's a path to citizenship that is required of people. And being a good person, even somebody that I like or even that I love, does not change the necessity to follow the law.

Okay.

So you're saying it's a black and white issue? I think I okay, if it's not black and white, where is the gray line? Case by case? What are we going to do?

Well, I have a great idea. You want to know? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. You're about to solve something big. Do you have a pen handy? You want to jot this down for your show? It's okay.

You have a great mark. I'm D and a Sharpie somewhere. Right down, somewhere. All right, ready? Fifteen years.

15 years over with a sponsor, never get citizenship. But you basically have to register, we'll get a hold of you, and you're never going to be a citizen. But if you have somebody sponsor you in meatpacking, farming, whatever it is, You have an opportunity to stay. On something like an extended work visa. For example, there are work visas where people come in seasonally and can work officially.

I would expand that, number one, legally, legally be a seasonal work visa. And I would also. Seasonal, though? Because the people you're describing aren't here seasonal. No, true.

Two separate things. I would just say work visas to attract people because we need manual labor, it seems, almost everywhere. If you talk especially in the farming community, how would you feel about people who have been here before that have that sponsorship?

So you're going to be able to speak on the worst to worst. 15 years. Yep. Sponsorship. No citizenship.

What are we doing? Basically an extended work visa. And then you get on the books, you're paying taxes, you're going to have to work for a person that's going to pay you what everyone else is getting paid. And if you hire that person in order to get around the system, you're not going to sponsor that person. How do you prove you've been here for 15 years?

Well, that's on them. And I think you could prove it from various things that maybe you got to. how you're getting paid, if there are bank records have you walking into? Uh you know, uh your favorite bank in uh depositing money here? I mean, I think.

So, I think your idea is interesting. I'd be open to it. You know what you have to do then? You have to sit down and think about the. Hospitality.

Well, you've got to think about. All the things that we're not thinking about. You gotta take them at what, how does that get exploited? How does that get, you know? cheated Even beyond that, what is that net effect on America?

I'm not close to your idea. I just. But I'm not ready to co-sign either just yet. What about if I was to tell you that so many people who voted for Trump in business and in the farming community? are asking for that.

They need to say, you can't gut my entire workforce. I had nobody working here. I was hired to leave, and it was really no problem. If all my guys leave, I'm done. First of all, I don't even think we're on pace for that, Brian.

Like we're not on pace to be deporting everybody that we're describing. Like we're having a debate about something that is theoretical. I know that the other networks I'll talk about it like we're deporting every single person that's in this country illegally. The numbers don't support that. It's only been a couple of million.

that have left so far. That have left, and none of that's self-deported. Yeah.

Over a million have self-deported.

So they're squeezing out anyway. Other people say: listen, I want to stay. And I think there's something to be said for that. And if you look at these industries, like with the e-Verify, you put E-Verify in, and right away you're going to be able to get a lot of people. They just, Democrats lobbied to get that out because it was actually revealing who was here illegally.

Yeah.

So I just think there's got to be some type of break here, also in Texas. I think a lot of people in Texas feel the same way. Like Well, Texas, I can tell you, Texas has changed over my lifetime. It has changed dramatically. And so Yes, a lot of people are here that are good people, are working and doing valuable jobs, but...

Is it what's My only question is: the greatest political prison of our time, does it serve America first? Right. Does it keep our economy going? Thanks so much, Wilkain. We'll see you on Wilkain Country and the Wilkain Show.

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