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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmey Show moving forward. A lot of balls in the air as we get closer and closer to Christmas. Michael Watley is going to be with us. Not only am I going to find out about his North Carolina run is going, I want to get his expertise on the RNC, who are getting a series of wake-up calls, I think, in some off-year elections that are not going their way, special elections that are not going their way.

We'll talk about all that. And of course, take your calls.

So, before I open up and tell you what's actually happening today, as we try to. Keep a few things going on, including the prayer. We also know that Christy Noam is going to be on Capitol Hill. The HHS secretary always creates some controversy, especially with her aggressive immigration tactics that really have ticked off Democrats. They'll use that opportunity to go after her, go after Trump through her, and more.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Immigration among Latinos. He is 38 points underwater. That is a 36-point shift essentially from where we were a year ago on immigration.

In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration. Wow, Harry Enton of CNN. Are the sweeping immigration crackdowns hurting the GOP and the Hispanic community? Judging by the recent elections, the answer is yes. A prominent GOP peers are starting to see major warning signs for the midterm elections and trying to get the president's attention.

Number two. As you probably know, we've just uh seized A tanker. On the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large. Maybe the biggest. Largest one ever seized, actually.

Maybe the biggest ever. It was seized for very good reason. Yes, it should have been sanctioned, should have been stopped, and it was going to Iran. We will take the tanker. Thank you very much.

That's what the U.S. forces did yesterday off the coast of Venezuela to amp up the pressure on the illegitimate dictator Nicolas Maduro, who must soon realize he's got to go. Number one. If they want a plan with a cheaper premium on the Obamacare Exchange, we're just saying you want a lower premium and money for your healthcare up front? Choose ours.

You want a $6,000 premium? Choose theirs. That's really what you're talking about. $6,000 deductible, Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, healthcare crunch, an array of fixes from both parties, but no one plan to pass on the countdown to Christmas looms. Why I think the GOP has to get something done.

And President Trump, just pick a plan, get behind it, and I think you'll get the momentum to get it done. Personally, in fact, a couple of Democrats have said that.

Now, do I think the Democrats want this issue next year? Yeah, but it's a year away, and there's other people that are not that worried about the election, like Josh Gottheimer trying to work out things with Brian Fitzpatrick, who are in the problem solvers caucus.

So, roughly, there's a couple of things happening. which I don't understand if Democrats are against. I've never heard a Democrat go, I really want to get insurance companies richer. I believe their stock prices on the major insurance companies are up one thousand percent since Obamacare came into fray.

So right now, the money goes directly to insurance companies, with Bill Cassidy saying. is why don't we put it to a health care sharing uh health savings account? And they can only spend it on health. And there's ways to regulate that. You could set these up, and it would go.

It affects 28 million people. It's a lot. It's not everybody, but it's a lot. But most people, doctors included, don't love Obamacare. Why?

The major companies have bowed out of it. Cigna, out, Aetna, out, U.S. Healthcare, out. They don't want a part of it. They're losing billions of dollars.

So they said we're off the exchanges.

So there's no competition. And there's $6,000 deductibles.

So the other one. Uh that was uh brought up. is let's extend the subsidies for a year. And Brian Fitzpatrick and Josh Gotthamer brought that up. And if you extend the subsidies for a year, they will curtail the amount of people eligible because they were expanded during the pandemic.

They'll crack down on fraud, which has been identified by the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post over the last few days. And in turn, they they were promised to get something worked up for n next year. In order to get something bipartisan going.

Now, why did I say bipartisan? Because you can't get anything done. Nothing's going to stick. Republicans could have a plan that you and I think is brilliant. But as soon as Democrats take an element of the power, whether it's a House or it's a White House or Senate, they're going to start tearing it up.

And we saw that with Obamacare. Over and over again. But I think both sides agree they got to get something done. It would be a mistake to not. Ben Shapiro even brought that up.

Is there anyone more conservative than Ben Shapiro? Here's what he said: cut ten. If Republicans are going to try to do a solve, what they actually should do. Is they should probably boost those ACA subsidies for another couple of years, but include a bunch of riders that transition it out. and make way for larger HSAs.

In other words, provide people some sort of glide path toward a new future as opposed to a hard stop. Hard stops in American politics typically create massive political blowback, and 2026 looks like it's going to be pretty ugly for Republicans anyway.

So, on a principle level, I totally understand why Republicans are saying don't continue the ACA subsidies. But I also understand that the political blowback is going to lead to Democrats in power in 2028. And Republicans who are pretending away the vulnerability that they have electorally here. are missing the point.

So, is there anyone more conservative than him? Did you ever hear him say anything good about Obamacare? I have never seen any Republican say anything good about Obamacare except for originally Mitt Romney, then went against it. But what he's saying, it's got to be practical. And so many people aren't political.

And they just say, wait a second, who's president? I voted for this guy, and now my subsidies are going away, and I got to double the amount I'm paying.

So they didn't get into this. They were forced into it. They had to take it. Their company doesn't offer it.

So they're on Obamacare and now the premiums go up. But the deductible stays the same.

So just extending the premiums is what Democrats want. But to try to fix it. What the Republicans want and some Democrats want. Pete Aguiar came out and says. He signaled that Wednesday that Democrats could be flexible if the three year extension fails.

He says we're willing to have conversations, and members are having conversations right now. Susan Collins, Roger Marshall and Senator John Houston are also having conversations about coming with some type of Uh cooperation.

So see, John Thune likes the Cassidy plan. I think so too. And I just don't know. Usually, you know, when it comes to abortion and things like that, you know where every Democrat stands, you know where every Republican stands. When it comes to the border, same thing.

Well, when it comes to insurance companies, I don't think they're for it. I want to get your take on this. I think Republicans have to make a deal, and I think Democrats, there's enough of them that would. 60 votes in the Senate you need in some type of agreement. In the House.

And I think you got two weeks to do it.

So, in immigration, we know the administration feels very prideful of what they did in the border. I do too. I love the fact that they've gotten 630,000 illegal immigrants out of this country. I love it. But knowing that 8 million came in during the Biden administration and many more during, you know, over the last few administrations, but especially Biden and Obama.

that there's a long way to go. But because the optics are so terrible and because in many cases they're coming off way too aggressive, the Hispanic community is getting really turned off. And if you want any proof of it, look at the polls. And if you want further proof, look at Miami. First time in thirty years, A Democrat was elected mayor of Miami?

Really? Then you saw how the Republican got trounced for the governor's race. In New Jersey and Virginia. Howard Enton says the numbers don't lie. He's on CNN, CUD23.

Minus 38 points. That is a shift of 36 points in the wrong direction, the completely wrong direction for Donald Trump. And what the race in Miami illustrates, I was looking at the localities, locality by locality by locality. What you see is these huge shifts in these heavily Hispanic neighborhoods of Miami against the Republican nominee. That's CNN.

I get it. But Howard Enton, just going by the numbers, he's right. Cut twenty-four. Immigration among Latinos. He is 38 points underwater.

That is a 36-point shift, essentially, from where we were a year ago on immigration. Connell Harris and Donald Trump are basically tied on the issue of immigration. And now on the issue of immigration, Latinos despise, hate Donald Trump 38 points underwater. In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration. So that's the numbers.

So the president knows numbers. He's not an ideal log, has to realize that the stuff is not working for him. Even though the objective is right and the mission is clear, the way they're going at it, and the reports are people just being grabbed off landscape trucks in some cases and out of Home Depot parking lots, is not what the Hispanic community wants to see. It might be what you want to see, but the ones that want people here legally just don't like the way some of these families are being broken up.

So that's the problem why it's so much more difficult to get him out once somebody irresponsible like Joe Biden let him in. And I saw the mayor of Dallas. He's African American. He got elected as a Democrat immediately.

So he was so fed up with the party with Joe Biden in charge, he became a Republican. And now he made it his effort, he's head of the Mayors' Association, to get more Republican mayors across the country. Mayors usually do in cities, a lot of cities. It's extremely tough.

So he came out and he basically says this is a warning sign. It's a warning sign that things are about to get worse. He calls Eric Johnson does that this is a Wake-up call. He said, the wake-up call to all Republicans beyond the Latino majority Florida City, which by the way, they lost. He says no sugarcanating it, no sugarcoating it.

They had a really bad they they're really bad for the party. A lot of what's going on with the rounding up of his of his mostly Hispanics. He said this, the Democrats got very involved in the Miami Mayor's race very early and put a ton of money into it, particularly the ones the primary was determined. I think we got outspent nineteen to one. Republican candidates run differently in this environment when Trump's on the ballot.

And as opposed to when he's not. And we've got to figure out as Republicans how to win. When he's not on the ballot, when we come back, I'll take some of your calls. 1-866-408-7669. I do want to tell you about Venezuela as well as Ukraine.

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How? Could this escalate the conflict with Venezuela?

Well, you know, we've had sanctions on Venezuelan oil since the first Trump administration. And Biden kept them. Kept them.

So to me, this is absolutely. Normal. I mean, seizing an oil tanker? Yeah, yeah. We've been seizing Iranian oil tankers in the past.

We also, according to the law that I've read, we can, that oil is up for forfeiture.

So we could keep that. We've kept Iranian oil in the past. I think this is actually a pretty, you know, check the box case. Love it. I love it.

So, the sanctions are there. We all admit, as a country, Venezuela is a huge problem in their government. They're a poison. They're a cancer in the region because they're keeping their own people hostage. Eight million have left that population.

The guy is an illegitimate leader, and he allows communists to run wild like Cubans, like Russians, like the Chinese, like the Iranians, and specifically Hezbollah. And he puts it throughout the region. Why would we tolerate this?

Now, I was talking to Senator Sheehi on television, and he didn't say regime change was the goal, it's smart about it. But He's the type of guy that would Understand fully what it would mean for US security. And I know after Libya and Iraq, and people know regime change, it's never that smooth. No one's going to say it's going to be easy. But nobody thinks that this guy is legitimately leading.

My hope is he leads with his golden parachute and goes somewhere else. Annie Winski. From World T from the A Wall Street Journal. I'll have a special report from the Wall Street Journal. Weighed in on where Venezuela is going, CUD 15.

Absolutely is ratcheting up the pressure on Maduro, and that is the underlying result of this. Extraordinary action today. You know, the timing is no coincidence. You saw that Nobel laureate, the woman who has stood up so strongly to Maduro, left the country yesterday, and that gave the United States a little bit room to do this. But this is a moment where the United States government is getting stronger and stronger on Venezuela, but has not really made a case yet to the American people about exactly why these types of things are happening.

Right, that's Annie Glinski.

So he's right. I don't think to the American people they just said, hey, by the way, this is why we're blowing up the drug boats and Maduro is a problem. But there hasn't been an Oval Office address because I think the President on some level just hopes to do this covertly, transparently, but covertly. And the thing is, I think behind the scenes, I hope the CIA is working it out so they recognize the military leaders and who controls the military controls the country.

So here's more from Aniwensky, Cut 17. This is sort of opening up another front on this pressure campaign against Maduro and really hitting him in his pocketbook.

So you have this sort of military threat, but also cutting off this sort of oil pathway of funds is going to make it even more difficult for him to hold on to power. And that is absolutely what the administration, in my sense, is what they're trying to do. Yeah, and that is the plan. But do you want to make a plan and tell the the gang of eight, for example, that Maduro is getting him out of the option, here's our plan to do it, and maybe they keep their mouth shut? Or are you going to just continue to talk about the September 2nd, second strike needed to kill off that boat and blow up that boat that was full of drugs?

I love this now. Oh, it's just Coke. It's not fantinal. Just coke. Since when is it just Coke?

I mean, pours out of Colombia, goes through illicit means of Venezuela, off the coast it goes, out to the Caribbean, up the coast and our up the American coast, the East Coast with us, and then over to Europe. I thought Europe was an ally. They make money. In the case of many of these regimes, the terrorist regimes, they target the West whenever they can and use that money to do it. We've seen that before.

There's a ton of Democratic Criticism on this. And then there's MAGA right who say, well, the President promises not to get involved in other long-term endless wars. He's the ones getting involved in a war. But I do think the next thing will be, if Medora doesn't leave, blowing up. The drug sites.

And is someone against that? Cut seventeen.

Okay, let's go with cut 18. This is the way if you want to put pressure on Maduro. I mean, this is the way to do it. If you're killing the drug dealers and then you're cutting off sanctioned oil and not allowing them to use these ghost tankers to get oil out of Venezuela to China or somewhere, that will do big damage. And Iran.

Iran is remember, they heavily sanctioned their oil, but if they're able to go back and forth with Venezuela in it using the same tankers to eat the two of the evil alliance, that hurts America's credibility.

So it all works together. I love that we're making a move. First time, really, since I've been at Fox, are we really showing interest and sustained interest in what's going on in Venezuela? For the most part, the American people just say, well, that's a problem. They send their gangsters here.

Well, that's an issue. I love it. Pam Bondi said, she kind of oversaw the whole operation. According to Donald Trump, and after talking to Pam Bondi, he thinks we're keeping the oil. He goes, I assume we're going to keep the oil.

For a country with the world's biggest oil reserves, losing a tanker only tightens the squeeze, they say. That on top of 20 plus strikes and a controversial follow-on hit that was Congress demanding the tape, all amid the narcoterrorism fight that Trump is putting additional pressure on Maduro. You know what else I think helps? And I think the message is getting to Mexico. Because you know, we're supposed to re-up the USMCA, fix it, make it better, and we're not really talking to Mexico and Canada these days extensively, a little bit of frustration from the Trump administration on our side.

Yesterday Scheinbaum The President of Mexico said we're putting a 50% tariff on Chinese imports and on specific goods on top of that. You know who also has that policy? Us. And you know, if you want to do a deal with the U.S., that's what you do. You show you're tough on China.

My hope is that Shine Baum calls up. And then we'll also help our business because we do so much trade between them. We get Canada together, we get this done, you put it through Congress while it's still in Republican hands. Not many people are against the USMCA, against NAFTA. There might be some changes for Democrats to get the 60 votes.

We'll see. When we come back, former RNC chair, turn. Republican candidate for the new North Carolina Senate seat, Michael Watley. With the holidays coming, that means more gift buying and more deliveries to the front door. It made me think about how I should upgrade my security to keep away the porch pirates and keep my deliveries safe.

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Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. And I'm not the ones giving Donald Trump a grade, it's the people themselves. Last night While Donald Trump was mocking affordability in Pennsylvania, voters in Georgia and Florida gave him a big fat F. In Georgia, just one year ago, Democrats lost that state House district by 22 points. Last night they won it.

We've had the first Democratic mayor in Miami in 30 years, what used to be a Republican readout. Those elections Or another warning shot from the ballot box. That's nice of you, Chuck Schumer, look out for Republicans and make sure they understand that they're not having good off-year elections. I do think Miami, they put a lot of money into Miami. They put a lot of big name Democratic names into Miami and for the first time in 30 years.

there's a change in party leadership in the mayor's race. Michael Watley joins us now. He ran the GOP for a while. He's now running for the Republican nomination for the North Carolina Senate seat and wants to get that seat and flip it. Michael Wiley, welcome back.

It's good to be on with you, sir.

So Michael, your thoughts about what you picked up on the Miami election. You know, look, I think the fact is we've got to go back to basics and we've got to talk about what the voters care about. We've got to talk about the issues that they care about. We've got to put solutions on the table. The Democrats are riding, you know, the typical special election and midterm election wave that always happens where the party that has the White House has to deal with the support that comes to the other side.

But I'm not worried at all about where we are with the midterms because the fact is that Republicans right now are digging out of this trench. President Trump is digging out of the ditch that Joe Biden put us in and the Democrats put us in. But there's the one difference I would have, and I just played this. I played this for our audience, but I'd like you to hear it. The CBS did a poll, and the one thing that's pretty consistent is you guys, you worked so hard to gain in the Hispanic community in a way that Mitt Romney, John McKinnon, even George W.

Bush didn't think was possible. To the point where I think Democrats are saying, man, we took them for granted, we kind of blew it. But now you see that the numbers are suffering for Republicans, and a lot of people are pointing back to the aggressive immigration policies, not at the border but elsewhere. I want you to hear Harry Enton on CNN talking about the CBS poll, Cut twenty four. Immigration among Latinos.

He is 38 points underwater. That is a 36-point shift essentially from where we were a year ago on immigration. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are basically tied on the issue of immigration. And now on the issue of immigration, Latinos despise, hate Donald Trump, 38 points underwater. In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration.

So Your thoughts.

Well, President Trump is doing what he said he was going to do. President Trump said throughout the course of the election last year that he was going to shut down the border and he was going to remove violent criminal illegal aliens from the United States. That is exactly what he has done and exactly what he is doing. I can tell you in Charlotte, North Carolina, we just had a stabbing this last weekend with a violent criminal illegal alien who stabbed another man who's trying to protect a elderly woman. We don't want these people on the streets.

We don't want them in our cities. And the President is fighting to be able to remove the violent criminal, illegal aliens from the country just like he said he was going to do. Right. But do you think that if people are being picked up off the back of landscaping trucks that really are here illegally but haven't committed a crime, do you think in the Hispanic community that's interpreted as going too far? Look, I think the biggest thing that we've seen is that President Trump shut down that border.

Joe Biden allowed 15 plus million illegal immigrants to come into the United States, hundreds of thousands of them captured at the border. They were determined that they were felons, and they were still allowed into the United States. These are people that absolutely, positively have got to be removed. You know, the highest priority for the government, for any government, federal, state, or local, is protecting its citizens. Right?

My opponent, Roy Cooper, is absolutely got an F when it comes to protecting the citizens of North Carolina. He has vetoed bills to force sheriffs to honor ICE detainers and move people out of the state, which is why we have to have ICE come into Charlotte through Operation Charlotte's Web and be able to remove these types of criminal, illegal aliens.

So, look, we need to keep our kids in our communities safe. That's what the president is doing right now across the country.

So with Charlotte, how is that being received by the people of Charlotte? Mostly a blue area, and we have the horrible record of this guy with dozens and dozens of criminal activity, some convicted, some not. Lenient judge lets him out, and then he basically throws lights a woman on fire randomly.

So when we talk about that, the crime issue in Charlotte and frankly in all of North Carolina is the number one issue of the day right now. And obviously the economy is going to continue to be a top issue. But the fact is that Roy Cooper signed an executive order in 2020 when he was marching around the block with Antifa, with BLM during the 2020 riots. He signed an executive order to reimagine law enforcement in North Carolina. We don't need to reimagine law enforcement.

We need to enforce the law. You know, he set up cashless bail. He set up pre-trial release. And he set up a revolving door that has allowed these criminals to be back on the streets despite the fact that they've been arrested 20 times, 30 times, 50 times or more, and it poses a direct threat to the community. The people of Charlotte, the people of North Carolina, want their kids and their communities to be safe.

So what issue is the number, let's say, what are the top three issues to the people of North Carolina? I think right now the top two issues are going to be the economy and they're going to be community safety. And my opponent, Roy Cooper, has an F on both of those, right? Donald Trump is fighting to rebuild our economy. It was absolutely in the ditch after Joe Biden.

We had 34 percent inflation over the course of four years. Housing prices doubled in four years. Health insurance costs skyrocketed. Insurance rates skyrocketed under his watch. And so it's going to take a while for us to get our economy back on track.

President Trump is fighting all day, every day to make sure that that's happening. And then the crime issues, which are extraordinarily real, because my opponent, Roy Cooper, has made North Carolina a haven for criminals, a haven for illegal aliens. And we need to move back on that.

So yeah, we'll continue going forward. Michael, do you think the RNC is in good hands? Yes, Joe Gruyers is doing a fantastic job. You know, and he has really focused on the same things that I was focused on, which is making sure we're in a position, the RNC is in a position, to get out the vote and protect the ballot. He was a winner in Florida.

He did a fantastic job turning that state from purple to red, and he's going to do a great job managing here at the RNC.

So I want you to hear the big debate on Capitol Hill: health care, and they want to see if they get something done before the end of the year. Here's Mike Johnson, Chuck Schumer, Thune, and company going back and forth. Cut two. There are two parties in this town. One has no intention and no plan and no desire.

To lower your health care costs. I want to be very clear about what this Republican bill represents: junk insurance. A tour of fantasyland narrated by the Democrat leader. The Republican Party, on the other hand, is already demonstrating that we know how to do this. We're going to have another.

couple of votes tomorrow where we're gonna see chaos and no plan On healthcare. Drill that down and bring that conversation to North Carolina. How close are the people of North Carolina watching this? How many roughly are affected by the subsidies put in place during the pandemic? Look, health care costs in North Carolina are the highest in the country, and we've seen them explode during the eight years that Roy Cooper was governor.

We also have seen them go up dramatically since Obamacare was passed. You know, the Democrats said you could keep your doctor under Obamacare. They lied. They said that health insurance costs would go down under Obamacare. They lied.

The fact is that during Joe Biden's tenure, during Roy Cooper's tenure, health care costs have absolutely gone through the roof. We need to bring health care costs down. Got it. Michael Wiley, thanks so much. I think a lot of people would feel better if you run the RNC, but I thoroughly understand that you want to make sure you're the next Republican to win the North Carolina Senate seat.

Michael, thank you. Absolutely. Thank you, sir. All right. And at Michael Wiley to help him out on his campaign.

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Now he wants us to read his backstory and pretend he didn't grow up rich. I mean, that's like Mitt Romney coming out and going, I really didn't, I only had a few million dollars. I mean, imagine if Donald Trump came out and said, I really struggled as a child to make ends meet. You laugh. Oh, I'm laughing at this guy.

I just don't I don't get I do not get how he's leading. Look. I always thought That if you wanna be successful in politics or anything else, you gotta do good at your current job. You know, you don't become president if you weren't a good vice president of a company. Just logic goes to tell you.

So, I mean, look at other people in time. You know, you have somebody who hasn't been president. Most people have never been president before.

So, General Eisenhower in the 50s. Why did I think he'd be a good president?

Well, why wouldn't he? Supreme Allied commander marshals all our nations together in order to win the most decisive war in the biggest war in world history. Good enough for me. Harry Truman. From a vice president to president, shows himself with the courage to drop the atomic bomb, bring our country back, stand up to Korea and fight back and push back against the rise of communism.

Probably would have gotten elected again. Go back to. Let's say If you look back in history, even Richard Nixon, what did he do?

Well, you might not have voted for him. You might not like him. But man, he was experienced. He was governor of California. Remember that?

Vice President of the United States. Hey, I'm going to run for president. And he wins.

Okay, qualified. Look at George W. Bush. You might not have voted for him. I did.

But George W. Bush was a successful businessman, didn't win every race he entered, But they'd win twice in. In Texas, And by the time he ran for president, I think he had a 56% approval rating in the state. It makes sense. Why would anyone look at Gavin Newsome?

and say that's the future of my party. I know he looks the part. But think about how all over the place he is. He says, I'm going to start a podcast and show, I want to listen to the other side. And next thing you know, he's on social media pretending to be the anti-Donald Trump character online.

Which one is it? Want to bring the country together, here the other side. We just want to be a typical Anti-Donald Trump guy.

So I'm not getting that book. But if Kamala Harris is going to put out a book, Who's one of the worst candidates in history? And looks like she's going to be brawling with Gavin Newsom for the nomination. She's got nowhere else to go. We'll see.

Now Um Here's a few other things going on. in politics. And I love this. Ted Cruz came out and says, I got a problem with the Republican nomination in Texas. Love Wesley Hunt.

I've uh voted for and campaigned for Senator John Cornyn. And he's even friendly with Paxton, the Attorney General. Cut forty. That I don't know. They're both friends of mine, all three.

Wesley Hunt, all three of them are friends of mine. I've endorsed all in the past. I've campaigned with all in the past. And I'm going to trust the voters of Texas because I have terrific supporters who are Who are backing each of the three, and the voters will decide. But whoever wins the primary, they're going to beat Jasmine Crockett.

Yeah, we'll see if they beat Jasmine Crockett, who now is going to be using her money that's pouring in in order to become a Senate candidate. And there's reports that maybe some of the polls that were out that showed Crockett has a chance of winning were put up by Republicans hoping that she would throw her hat in the ring because Colin Allred was a lot more formidable to Ted Cruz than Crockett will be to whoever emerges on the right in Texas.

So they've got to fight for everything. They're going to fight for Watley's seat. That'll be big. They're going to fight with Scott Brown and With Scott Brown and Sununu's brother, John Sununu, up in New Hampshire. I think these are going to be big fights.

I think to keep the Senate seat Republican, Joni Earns Republican seat in Iowa is not going to be easy. Flipping, the most vulnerable seat in Georgia will not be easy if they don't pick the right candidate.

So this is going to be tough all the way around.

So I think it's going to be quite interesting. For the midterms, things aren't trending the Republicans' way. But that's usual. Remember, 63 seats Barack Obama lost after his big win over John McCain, and he was never really able to get Congress back. Remember, he jammed this all down our throats when he had just about 60 votes in the Senate.

Think about that. And then they lost Ted Kennedy's seat to Scott Brown, got to 59. And they had to just get one Demo Republican. They couldn't do it. But the midterms traditionally outside 2002 after the 9-11 attacks go to the other party.

Donald Trump knows it. He was asked about it yesterday, Cut 39. When you win the presidency, you seem to lose the Midterms, even if you win the presidency by a lot and you do a great job as president, you know, some presidents have done good. And they've lost I think it's like two times in the last many, many years it's been one. I don't know why, it doesn't make sense.

Usually I can figure things out, but I don't know why, but that seems to be, but. Other than that, we should win because we're doing great. Yeah.

Well, it's all about producing in the second half of the year. And finally, I want to talk about Ukraine. The President of the United States is getting fed up with Ukraine, calling for elections. I don't know why he's fed up with Ukraine. I know he and Zelensky don't see eye to eye in a lot, but it's really not their fault.

I mean, they're sitting down talking about giving up land and talking about giving up land that Russia hasn't won, talking about having elections, not having any security guarantees with NATO troops or allies on the ground. I mean, it seems like the only thing that Zelensky is doing is playing ball, but the President of the United States doesn't feel like that. I personally feel like Russia has shown no ability, no willingness to give on any portion of this. Here's the president yesterday, cut 42. They would like us to go to a meeting.

Over the weekend. In Europe. and uh we'll make a determination depending on what they come back with. We don't want to be wasting time.

Sometimes you have to let people find it out and sometimes you don't. But the problem with letting people fight it out is you you're losing thousands of people a week.

So you lose about $7,000 a week, and the Russians are losing a lot of it. Do you know what they're also losing? They're ghost ships that are allowing them to illegally ship oil around the world. These. Ukrainians are brilliant.

Now they have these underwater devices, mini-submarines, they're blowing up the tankers before they know them.

So the Russia's shadow fleet is in the crosshairs. And Lavrov came out yesterday, praised Donald Trump's approach to potential settlement. He says the only Western leader who understands him.

However, he does point out that he's increasing the sanctions on Russia. That, according to Reuters, yesterday. He also threatened Europe if you continue to give them weapons. He's going to go after you with nukes. I got news for you, Lavrov.

You know who also has nukes? Most of Europe. UK, France. They'll use them if you use them. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

Welcome to 40th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan. We're two blocks away from the Rockefeller Center Tree. We've got our own tree right here at 1211. It's become a big destination for tourists around the country, around the world, with the number one news network on the planet. Josh Hammers, Croshauer, is going to be with us.

In about 35 minutes, he's going to bring us inside politics and the electoral reality over in Texas, what they should learn from Miami and the mayor's race. They went to a Democrat. And we're following Christy Noam's testimony. Of course, they're going to look to light her up because they don't like her aggressive immigration policies. I'm talking about Democrats and maybe some Republicans, but she's always been a lightning rod.

And of course, if you want to get to the president, you go through the cabinet members. We'll follow that. And if things pop up, we'll be sure to bring it back. Michael Aroza, former special assistant to the President Joe Biden, chief spokesperson for the First Lady, former First Lady Jill Biden, House Democratic Leadership, and U.S. Senate Communications Director will be with us shortly.

But first, let's get to the big three. Number three. Immigration among Latinos. He is 38 points underwater. That is a 36-point shift, essentially, from where we were a year ago on immigration.

In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration. Well, are the sweeping immigration crackdowns hurting the GOP and the Hispanic community? Judging by Howard Enton of CNN, the answer is yes. Judging by the recent election, the answer is yes. And one prominent GOPer in Dallas, Texas, says these are warning signs and a wake-up call, Republicans.

Number two. As you probably know, we've just seized. A tanker. On the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large. Largest one ever seized actually.

It was seized for a very good reason. That is President Donald Trump. We will take that tanker. Thank you very much. That's what the U.S.

forces did yesterday off the coast of Venezuela to amp up the pressure on the illegitimate dictator, Nicolas Maduro. Where's this heading? I'll weigh in. Number one. If they want a plan with a cheaper premium on the Obamacare Exchange, we're just saying you want a lower premium and money for your healthcare up front.

Choose ours. You want a $6,000 premium? Choose theirs. That is Senator Bill Cassidy, former doctor, healthcare crunch, an array of fixes from both parties, but no one planned to pass as Christmas deadline looms. Why I think their GOP has to do something.

And Michael LaRosi joins us now. Michael, welcome back. Thanks for having me, Brian. No problem. Don't you believe that Republicans have to do something on health care?

I think they do. I think the problem, though, is that none of them voted for Obamacare in the first place, 15 years ago. And so they're not ideologically inclined to want to do anything. And that's okay, except. They're going to have to answer for the subsidies expiring, and you're seeing nervousness.

Under people like Josh Hawley, who wasn't there 15 years ago, saying, We need to do something, we need to do something. 20 million people, I think, get their insurance from the Obamacare exchanges, but the majority, vast majority of Americans actually get their. Healthcare from uh and their employer Uh But it does affect a certain population of people who will feel some pain. I'm not somebody, I don't believe either. Party really has clean hands here because nobody really did anything about the expiration until about a couple of months ago.

And the whole thing is all news was going to happen. And the whole thing is, too, with Obamacare, nobody, everybody knows Republicans are trying to get rid of it forever. And Barack Obama had a lot of fun with that and just said, oh, you guys just. Yeah, elections have consequences, right? We have to win elections if we want to be able to dictate how we want to govern.

We shouldn't expect them to do the things that we want them to do from the minority.

So a couple of things. Senator Peter Welch, Democrat from Vermont, he says. He believes that the president has to get involved. He has to pick a plan, get behind it. He says, because right now both sides just have like rival plans.

Senator, here's a little of the back and forth. You got Chuck Schumer, Thune, and Johnson. Cut to. There are two parties in this town. One has no intention and no plan and no desire.

To lower your health care costs. I want to be very clear about what this Republican bill represents: junk insurance. The tour of fantasyland narrated by the Democrat leader. The Republican Party, on the other hand, is already demonstrating that we know how to do this. We're going to have another.

couple of votes tomorrow where we're gonna see chaos and no plan On healthcare. So the Republicans will have a first, the Democrats are going to vote on theirs, which is just extend the subsidies for three years, which were put in place during the pandemic. And the Republican is going to say, yeah, take that money. We'll put it into healthcare savings accounts. And let's talk about getting rid of fraud and changing the eligibility requirements.

So I don't know like what do you th I th they're both gonna fail, right? They'll fail. Yeah, they'll be side-by-side bills today. They're both going to fail. I mean, and then on the other side in the House, I think that's where the politics is more interesting because you have.

Two discharge petitions going to the floor, which is where the minority can essentially force the Congress to vote on something. One's led by a Republican from Bucks County, Brian Patrick, Brian Fitzpatrick. From Pennsylvania, the other, Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat from New Jersey. But if you look at all the co-sponsors, Brian, they're all moderates. They're all Republicans or Democrats in vulnerable seats.

And I think. As sometimes, when you take a step back, that's where the deals tend to be made. I think Democrats are going to go with the Gottheimer bill, which is. A one-year extension, but cracking down on fraud and fake accounts.

Now, Look. It's Gotheimer Fitzpatrick, right? It's the problem solvers people.

So they have the same plan.

Okay. Fitzpatrick's is three or two years or three years. Gotheimer's is one.

Okay. But Democrats are probably going to sign on to Gottheimer in the House. Or force that. If you get that out of the House and go to the Senate. The thing that Democrats there's cert there's certain times when Democrats and Republicans vote, you know exactly what's going to happen.

When it talks about abortion, funding abortion, Republicans will never vote for it, and Democrats will never vote for something that You know, we know we know the stereotypes that they usually go, but I don't know that Democrats were really pro. Insurance companies.

So, what Cassidy seems to be saying is, you know, the money we're going to give to insurance companies? Can we just give it directly to the people into healthcare savings accounts? I don't think that would be. A problem with Democrats on the surface because, unless they're for insurance companies, this might be an alternative they can get behind. But I have not seen one speak out about it.

You're right. Nobody wants to because they want to try to save the subsidies first. And look, I'm for saving the subsidies. I think we should, but that won't ever solve the problem. Democrats are going to have to get to a place where they use Obamacare as a.

Messaging tool, but in reality, we all kind of know we have to move on. From the actual legislation 15 years ago, if we're still subsidizing it to make it work. I know. Yeah, but the one thing you earn, Michael, is there's no way that either side will ever have a health care plan that's gonna stick unless they work on it together. And I don't know when that's going to happen.

But look, it's the same with immigration, right? We're still operating under a 1986 law. You can't executive action your way to a safe border and an immigration system. You have to make a new law. In what way?

You mean a pathway to citizenship law?

Well, if we're still look, I have empathy for the ICE agents and law enforcement in a way because they're just. Complying with the law on the books as it's written, as it's written from 1986. And Biden ignored the problem and delegated it to Congress, but he's an institutionalist at its core. He believed that the only way to change that, the change to the law was to make a new law. and an update the law.

Republicans are more intent on putting band-aids on this larger problem with the border. But it's never going to be fixed through executive action. You have to Well, the border is fixed, Michael. It is fixed. I mean, it's sealed.

What you got to do now is how are we going to get the illegals? And then what our board of policies be for what it looks like with asylum. You know, that type of thing. But right now it is sealed. I didn't think that was possible in my lifetime.

He did it in like five months. Right, but what happens when a Democrat, another Democrat, becomes president? They can just reverse everything he's already done. That's my point. Same thing with healthcare, this has to be done.

Through law, not through executive action, if we want to see permanent change to the system.

So I want you to let's talk politics, and I think you'll probably like this topic. No doubt about it. Democrats have done better in the off-year elections and the special elections. And a lot of it is because of the Hispanic vote. And I think it was front and center in Miami.

Howard Enton said this looking at a CBSUGov poll from CNN, Cut 21. Immigration among Latinos. He is 38 points underwater. That is a 36-point shift, essentially, from where we were a year ago on immigration. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were basically tied on the issue of immigration.

And now on the issue of immigration, Latinos despise, hate Donald Trump, 38 points underwater. In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration. So it's not the border, it's the way you're picking up the worst first. And I think there's getting muddled. Are you really going for the worst first?

Do you think that's what's happening? Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. I think because nobody understands imagery and storytelling better than the president.

So I'm kind of surprised. He hasn't taken his foot off the gas a little bit when it comes to Sort of the the Or maybe it's just the amplification of the bad stories that we hear versus the good stories that the ICE is catching really bad predators, really bad people. But we're hearing more about the stories of people who are doing the right thing and here for the right reasons and discompassionately being hauled off by ICE. And it's that compassion. Part of the policy that I think is going to hurt the Republicans.

They'll be seen as less compassionate. And that will be a problem for them for sure. But We don't know if Latinos were ever, look, they swung towards Trump, but that doesn't mean they're part of the Trump coalition forever. It takes trends. You have to see where Latinos are going.

And we don't know based on one election what coalition they're actually part loyal to.

So let's talk about if we so we have the Miami election, we know that we know Virginia and New Jersey want the Went the Democrat way. We know they'll won the election in Nashville reasonably, a nine-point win for the Republican. But for the most part, the party in power usually pays the price. Trump was asked about that yesterday, and he responded: he knows history.

So here's what he said when he was asked in the Oval Office about that. And Here's how it won. Do you have that number? When you win the presidency, you seem to lose the. Midterms, even if you win the presidency by a lot and you do a great job as president, you know, some presidents have done good.

And they've lost I think it's like two times in the last many, many years it's been one. I don't know why. It doesn't make sense. Usually I can figure things out, but I don't know why, but that seems to be. Other than that, we should win because we're doing great.

So, I mean, he knows what history says, but he's going to try to buck that. And it's all going to come down to is the big, beautiful bill going to pay off for putting jet fuel on the economy? By the way, the market's up 317 points. It's near another record, basically because of the rate cut. Yeah, so look.

Um and 2022 during the Biden midterms. It was record high inflation. I'm talking Jimmy Carter level. You remember this, right?

So we were prepared to lose a ton of seats and. The Supreme Court and the Roe thing changed everything a couple months before. Events can shape. Midterms, they're a little bit more unpredictable. But this is a different electorate.

And so the way Democrats approached it in 2022 was. We have to make sure they know, the voters know that the Republicans are worse than we are. And that is how we approached. We didn't really, we weren't always defending the Biden record. Nobody ran away from the Biden record in 2022.

But we certainly made candidate quality the issue by going after the. The Ozes and the Cary Lakes and the Herschel Walkers by making them look worse or more ridiculous or more fearful of them than us. That's the way you have to kind of do that. Yeah, it's in the seat. I assume they'll follow that strategy.

They say there's about 39 seats up for grabs between empty seats and disputed seats.

So they feel like in the House, you're going for 39 seats. See if that number stands. Lastly, Gavin Newsom's numbers have been up six to eight points. Uh over the last month, they just did a poll in California. When I look at his track record in California, I don't get it.

I mean, we know the deficit's never been higher. More people are leaving than ever before. Gas is extremely high, especially compared to the rest of the country. You know, he's got that huge deficit. Nothing's been done at Pacific Palisades.

Contrast that with Shapiro. He's in his high 50s, 60s approval. Governor Bashir, I hear his numbers are around 68% approval.

So, why is it that Newsome would be on the top? Why is that, Michael? Because he's doing the best out of all the potential 2028ers at All right. Doing playing the TV game better, playing the media game better. He's out front more often than they are.

He's going, you know, he went on Charlie Kirk's show. He goes, he debated DeSantis. He has put himself out front as this leader of the resistance. And it's really, he's done it the best out of all of them so far. I don't know if he's going to be the nominee, but he.

That's why I think. And with the mood of the country. You know, you see Jasmine Crockett, right, in Texas, running a campaign totally on just fighting Trump. That's sort of what Gavin Newsom is seen as nationally, the guy who's taking on Trump. And that's where the mood of the country can intersect with the one voice you hear the loudest.

So, like in New Jersey, You know, if affordability was the real issue in that election. Why didn't they blame Democrats? They've ran the state for the last eight years. But they voted for the Democrat and for the governor overwhelmingly for Mikey Sherrill. They didn't punish the party in power there.

It's that mood of the country thing that you can do everything right and say everything right. Um but in the end sometimes Uh Optics mood of the country, waves or whatever. I don't know if there's going to be a wave, it's too early to tell. Democrats haven't fixed all their problems, but they're certainly their voters are certainly Turning out our voters are certainly turning out in these Very off, off year elections at a higher rate than the other side. No doubt about it.

A lot has to be at play, but as we come to the end of the year, it's important to know where everybody is. Michael AROSA, thanks so much. Have a great day. You too. Thanks, Brian.

You got it. 1866-408-7669. Calls in a moment. Bottom of the air, we go inside politics again, but I want to bring in the international side of it as well. And I want to get your opinions.

Don't move. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. As you probably know, we've just seized A tanker.

On the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large. Largest one ever seized actually. and other things are happening. You'll be seeing that later. It was used for a very good reason.

So that was the President of the United States amping up what was going on in Venezuela, first breaching their airspace with our fighter jets, and yesterday taking a tanker because they're violating sanctions. Fran, you're in Florida. Hey, Fran? Hey, good morning. How are you?

Good. What did you what did you learn from the mayor's race that was won by the Democrat?

Well, again, my opinion, but I live in South Florida. What happened is that the president. His his attitude is just so in general So Uh Aggressive and just so cavalier with anybody who doesn't look at the stock market. Number one. And I do look at the stock market.

Number two. Again, yet again, Republicans stayed home. And yet again, Democrats poured all kinds of money into the race, which you noted, and Republicans didn't. Republicans, I don't know what they do with their money. They stockpile it.

They certainly don't give it where it needs to be. They were outspent in Nashville, and they were outspent here 19 to 1 over in Miami. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. Does the former administration deserve at least some of the criticism?

Well, the former administration was attempting to build the economy of tomorrow, investing in really important industries like EVs and chips in areas for our national security that we've got to catch up with the rest of the world. Were they successful at that? He was telling us all how to do it. The Biden administration was building the economy of tomorrow. Focused on EVs, chips, and other areas that we have to catch up in for our own national security.

But our families were saying we need the economy of right now.

So that is Governor Bashir, who fancies himself a presidential candidate. Number one, he's got to learn to blink. He looks like Jim Harbaugh right after a big loss.

So he has got 60% approval rating costs.

So that's nothing to be there's nothing to ignore. But he also said something totally ridiculous. He went on to say that since Donald Trump became President, he's closed thirty rural hospitals. I looked that up. Zero.

In fact, I think since Over the last 20 years, only two rural hospitals have opened up. There's about 70 labeled as rural hospitals, 72, and I think 70 are still there. And even if Donald Trump did the worst rural hospital. Medicaid cut ever. You're not going to cut 70 hospitals in 10 months.

How do you do that? They say ten. were in danger of collapsing, and 20 were critical.

Okay, life different.

So not even telling the truth. Josh Krashauer joins us on Fox News Radio's political analyst, editor-in-chief of Jewish Insider. Josh, welcome back.

So Governor Bashir, obviously playing politics, saying Donald Trump had a great economy. He just didn't realize it. Yeah.

Yeah, look, Steve Bashir, or the governor of Kentucky, is trying to kind of burnish his national credentials. He is someone who, look, I think Republic the Democrats could use someone more moderate to speak for them, but I think that he is also getting into the game of being anti-Trump viscerally and not offering necessarily a national agenda that is going to capture the imagination of a lot of Democratic voters and beyond. Look, there are a lot of candidates historically that are popular in their home states. And being a red state Democrat is almost like you're extinct these days.

So the fact that you do have a Democrat who's a two-term governor in Kentucky is going to get a lot of attention. I'm not sure if his ideas or if his charisma is going to translate very effectively on the national stage, but he certainly is interested in running for president. I mean, yeah, when you're in a purple state or a blue state, excuse me, a red state and you're a Democrat and your ratings are high, I think those are the types of things that qualifies you to be a serious candidate. Let's see what you got. Let's see what you did, right?

I look at Gavin Newsom and I see that everything he did is touch wrong. I mean, the border broke down during his reign. You see the deficit rise. He had this crazy insurance policy where he wanted the state to insure everybody, including illegal immigrants. That fell on its face.

He wanted to stop homelessness. It grew at a dizzying rate. No one sees anything like it. He describes that oil and gas have no future. He shut down all but eight refineries.

And now you have gas, it's maybe highest in the country or second highest. He's importing 65% of it from Iraq.

So I mean this is failure, failure, failure. Like why is he doing well?

Well, Brian, this is the dilemma the Democrats face, which is the voters, the Democratic voters, all they care about is style. All they care about is whether you can go on a podcast or go viral. The people who go viral are usually the ones who are less electable.

So, yeah, like Governor Bashir can talk about his recovery from tornadoes, which I think he got a lot of good grades on, back home in Kentucky. Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, can talk about rebuilding the stretch of highway that collapsed in effective time. But that's not what the Democratic base cares about these days. They don't care about competence. They don't care about having good ideas for issues.

They care about who can kind of just attack Trump more or who can go viral with kind of ridiculous comments. That's why Jasmine Crockett, by the way, is now the front runner to be the Texas Senate nominee in the race that Democrats have been hoping to put in play. Doesn't look like it anymore. But the dilemma that Democrats are facing is the competent candidates, the ones who are better candidates, period, don't sell with the base. The base wants anger.

They want anti-Trump. They want kind of the far left. Momdani was another example in New York City where, like, the more competent candidates couldn't get any attention compared to someone like a socialist like Momdani, and then he has gets elected in a deep blue city.

So, you know, that's the dilemma. Democrats are, I mean, I talk to a lot of Democratic strategists on a daily basis, and they are panicked because the candidates that sell in primaries, the ones who go viral, who kind of sound the most extreme, are the ones who win the nominations and then they can't win a general election. And that's going to be a problem going forward for the party. But you know what it sounds like? It sounds like me interviewing you 10 years ago with the Tea Party.

Yep, yep. I mean, it's growing. I mean, look at it. And look, I mean, the environment, we've talked about this. Like, any time you're.

A president in the first midterm of your administration, you're going to face challenges yourself.

So it's sort of like, who wants to win this? It's like that Casey Stengel quote back in the 60s. Can anyone win this game? There's an opportunity for both sides to appeal to voters who want solutions, but neither part, you know, the Democrats haven't really filled that vacuum right now. I want you to Gavin Newsom, I guess, is putting out his biography that's going to show him more likable.

Cut 41. This is not the book you'd expect me to write. Nobody's story is tidy, and I'm no different. A lot of people look at me, the stark white shirt, the blue suit, and yeah, the gelled hair, and they think, oh, I know this guy. I know this guy better than I'd ever want to know him.

I get it. This is a story of a kid who always felt like he wasn't quite enough. This is a truly vulnerable book. It was incredibly hard, even painful to write. What's the point here?

So like number the PR strategy, Brian, is look, the biggest one of the bigger vulnerabilities among others that Gavin Newsome is going to have is that he's too slick, he's inauthentic, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. And so he's trying to, you know, play act that he's actually a much different person than may come across on television. I'm not sure if that's going to be effective, but he's trying to do that with the book and obviously with the PR campaign. Look, I think the other issue for Newsom, and we've talked about this a lot on the show, Brian, but how much can style overcome the problems with major cities in California that he kind of overlooked for a long time? The homelessness issues that are still very present, the crime issues, especially in LA and other parts of the state, the immigration issue, which is very much a hot potato right now for the Democrats.

And those are the challenges that he's, I mean, you just have to speak, I mean, that's going to be the challenge for any California Democrat that wants to run nationally. Like their record is eventually going to get scrutinized. And how do you defend a lot of the challenges that so many cities and parts of the state have faced? And by the way, the fire, the recovery from the fires in Los Angeles. That's a big challenge.

It's a huge, you know, huge challenge. It's a big challenge. A year and three months later. You have no permits, nobody's building. And I'm talking about really rich people who were insured.

They're telling me nothing can get done. People that went and bought the land and thought they could build and just strong on their way, that can't get done because all the environmental stuff's there. The red tape he promised to cut is still very much there.

So, I mean, where's that? He had a chance. Every time there's a catastrophe, there's a chance to prove yourself as a leader. He's failed again. He's pointed fingers at the mayor.

It's nothing to do with me. I'm angry too, he says. I mean, do the American people, I just think the American people have a standard at some point. You can afford to fool some of the American people some of the time, but there's a lot of. Vulnerabilities that Newsom is going to have to overcome.

Look, if you told me a year ago that Newsom was running, and I would have said he had a lot of problems, and there are more moderate Democrats that are also charismatic that can really do well. But what I'm hearing more and more is that if you can't go viral, if you can't attack Trump in the most visceral ways, then it's hard to make pay in the Democratic Party these days. And I will say the one thing Newsome has going for him is that he is made for T V, he is made for social media, but he's not quite as far to the left as AOC or Bernie Sanders.

So if the party's gone so far left that they're looking for someone who isn't as far left as Momdani and AOC, maybe Newsom looks better by comparison, but that doesn't mean his record has still got a whole lot of red flag.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, the other story is Kamala Harris, big story a couple of days ago, talking about how if everyone don't forget about her, she sold 600,000 books. She's got a super PAC that's out there. She just sold her mailing list for $7 million back to the DNC so they can go raise money off it. And she's out there.

She says I sell out everywhere I go, and she's already a historical figure. They're making a bust of her, like they do every vice president, but I don't want to slow her down. At 61 years old, she should be hitting her peak. She thinks she's hitting her peak. Do Democrats feel as though she's hitting her peak or is she done?

I mean, those comments sound like someone who's quite insecure about their kind of what they're going to do with their lives. I mean, you're a vice president. You shouldn't have to tell a New York Times reporter that I was vice president and they have a statue of me in Statuary Hall. I don't think that it is a sign of a confident leader and an effective leader. And it's why Democrats really had a lot of issues with her campaign and still have issues with the fact that she could be a political figure going forward.

Everything, I'd be skeptical if she runs in 2028. I just think that maybe she wants to, but they're just.

So many hurdles, including the fact that Newsom is now passing her in the polls and seems like a much more formidable figure within California Democratic politics.

So I really think her time has passed her by. If you read that interview with the New York Times, there's so many cringeworthy quotes in there that remind you why she was an ineffective candidate in the first place. And she's, by the way, also pandering to the far left again, you know, talking about how she really wanted to be more anti-Israel, for instance, in that interview, and she couldn't because she was tamed in by the Biden administration. I don't know how, again, maybe that plays in a primary, but it doesn't play with swing voters in general election states that she would need to compete in again.

So I don't think the Democrats are going to be looking to Kamala Harris. She may want to get back in the game, but I don't think there's going to be much of a pathway. And finally, when you talk about Congresswoman Crockett, Jasmine Crockett, she's coming out full blast. Ted Cruz says he loves the idea of Crockett running. And it says he never even met her.

Let's listen, cut 40. That I don't know. They're both friends of mine, all three. Wesley Hunt, all three of them are friends of mine. I've endorsed all in the past, I've campaigned with all in the past, and I'm going to trust the voters of Texas because I have terrific supporters who are.

Who are backing each of the three, and the voters will decide. But whoever wins the ballary, they're going to beat Jasmine Crockett. Right, Jasmine Crockett. And guess who backed out? Colin Allred, who ran against Ted Cruz, backed out to make room for her, I guess.

So, what's going on with Jasmine Crockett? She doesn't seem to have the skill set for a statewide win. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of insane. I mean, I always say, look at the back of a politician's baseball cart to see how they can perform in a big political race. And look, Colin Allred has his issues, but he ran better than Kamala Harris in Texas.

He halved the margin in Texas when he ran last time.

So, you know, he can actually win over some independent voters. I said this on special report this week, but Jasmine Caracat has never won a Republican or independent vote in her life. She's in a deep blue district. She speaks to the far-left base or the anti-Trump base. And I have not found a Democrat who has said she has any chance of winning if she's a nominee.

So, I mean, Texas is hard enough for Democrats. The Democratic Party hasn't won a Senate seat in Texas since the 1980s, Lloyd Benson.

So, I mean, it's been a long time.

So, it's not like this was a very winnable race, anyways. But there were hopes among Democrats that with a better candidate like an allred, that Republicans would have to at least spend some money, have to actually make it a, you know, pay attention to the race and spend some money. And it's not going to happen if the rockets are not. Real quick, Josh, I'm just struck by how many experts keep talking about Trump. When they talk about Democrats, at one point, People are gonna realize he's gonna be gone.

You're running against a past candidate. I mean, I don't remember Republicans targeting Obama, when it was, as I guess, when he was term limited out and it was Trump against Hillary, I really felt like Trump was going after Hillary. At one point, did they leave Trump behind and talk about what they're going to do or what their likely Republican opponent will do? I mean, that was what bedeviled the Democratic Party in the last few elections. They didn't focus on the issues.

They didn't focus on what they would do. It was strictly keeping the coalition together against Trump. And then it only can go so far, especially when you look at the Senate map, by the way. If the Democrats do want to win the Senate, which I think is very unlikely, but you'd have to win Ohio. You'd have to win a state like Texas, right, to get the 50 seats.

And they're nowhere close right now because of the way the party's moved. And then you look at the Electoral College map in 2028, and beyond that, the Democrats are going to have to sweep the blue wall states. They're going to have to actually win a state like Georgia after 2028 to actually win the presidency.

So this is not a formula, this kind of base-first, activist-first. Playbook is not a formula for winning elections. It's a way to win over the base and win in cities like New York City and far left parts of the country, but to win an actual majority in the country, they're still not shown that they can make that movement. Yeah, we'll see. They do have something on the left to worry about, and the right has something to worry about.

You know, the podcast crew seems to be really divided on Israel, are really divided on Venezuela, are really divided on spending it all. You know, when it comes to, you know, they're not rallying around. They're not rallying around not paying for Obamacare. It just seems like there's a fracture on the right, too. I just don't know what's deeper.

What do you think? Yeah, no, look, I mean, and then look, J.D. Vance is not Donald Trump either. Donald Trump has immense loyalty and immense support from across the Republican spectrum. I don't think Vance has the charisma and the natural engagement that his boss does.

And I think he's going to have the, you know, the other Republicans also that may look to run in 2028, including Ted Cruz, who we just heard from.

So, you know, there is, I mean, like, I almost feel like looking at the state of our politics, does anyone know how to play this game? There's a wide open middle. There's an opportunity for one party to actually take the advantage. And I think Trump has shown some signs that, you know, the 2024 election was a sign of being able to do that. I don't know if he's capitalized on that.

I think there's been some mistakes made in the first year in his presidency, but Democrats are also keeping him in the game because they can't play the game either.

So it's a race to the bottom. All right. Thanks so much. Appreciate it, Josh. Always interesting.

It's a fun time. Josh Kashauer, thank you. Thanks, Brian. All right. So when we come back, I'll be able to take some more of your calls 1-866-408-7669.

And the decision Sylvester Salone has made that made Philadelphia very happy. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Yeah.

Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. You're not why you can? Don't get a suck of no statue. Give them guts.

I told you I wasn't going away. You got your shot.

Now give me mine. Why don't you get the hell out of here? Shut up, boy, man. I ain't going nowhere. And that, of course, is live outside our studio where Mr.

T and Sylvester alone. No, I'm only kidding. Rocky III classic moment. And what he's doing is standing in front of the Rocky statue. Good job, Pete.

And it's the Rocky statue that's at the Philadelphia Steps. It's the original. And they unveil it, they take down the veil. And Rocky, who's going to retire, and announces retirement right there, but he's avoiding Mr. T.

Mr. T is the number one contender, but Mick is keeping him away from him because he does not think he can beat Mr. T. You know what that storyline's from? That storyline is Floyd Patterson, who is 185, 190-pound heavyweight champion, too light to be a champion, but very skilled.

And he was trying to avoid Sonny Liston. And you know who the manager was? Customato. To me, Since Stallone, I never talked to him about this. Stallone's such a student of history, boxing history.

This seems like a page taken from that because Liston was trying to hunt down Patterson and dare him to fight. Patterson wasn't really afraid, but wasn't aware that, you know, what's the problem with this guy? He got in the ring and he got really knocked unconscious. And I think they had a rematch and went and it was up to Ali to stop Listen. They thought Listen would be a champion for the next fifteen years, and Ali beat him twice.

He was Cassius Clay, and then he beat him as Ali. But the bigger story is Sebastian Stallone. He said, You guys can keep that statue, but I want the original back in my place. And you get the other one. He decided after meeting with leaders, the Philadelphia Museum gets to keep the original.

And that's the point. That's the point. There was controversy for years because they had moved it initially. It was kept by using then they moved it off-site. Even in the, I think it was Rocky Six, Rocky Balboa, they show you the statue, but it's off-site.

And Paulie makes a joke saying, Are you still upset they moved your statue? And he's like, No, yeah, no. You could see they wove that into the storyline. Yeah, they moved the statue, and I don't know if he was politically correct or not.

Now that he's clearly a Trump supporter, they probably want to take it out again in Philadelphia, but I think they left it. Iconic status. By the way, he got honored at the Kennedy Center. Sylvester Lone has come back for another season of Tulsa King, another success story for him, which is unbelievable. Think about it.

He's got The Expendables, he's got Rambo, he's got Rocky, a series of good movies that produce over and over again. I mean, why wait this long to get his honor on? It blows me away. But the next one to get the honor, clearly. uh should be gary sinis should absolutely be another one And another one that they tried to give Tom Cruise the honor, but he wouldn't accept it.

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It's the Brian Kilmeat Show coming here from Midtown Manhattan, where I'll tell you what.

Somebody's here. The tourists are flooding in here. I don't know what the numbers say. I'm not sure what everybody's buying, but they are flooding the streets. They are full of Christmas-like ornaments.

So across the street from Radio City, we're about one block away, two blocks away from the Roxville Center tree. We got our own tree here on Fox. Both have become big tourist attractions. This hour are going to be joined by Wall Street Journal's own Marian Atanasio O'Grady. She writes the Americas column, which is always interesting, but now it's really important to read.

She has made herself one of this nation's premier journalists when it comes to Central and South America and this place called Venezuela.

So before we get to Seth Barron from the New York Posters in studio, author of Last Days of New York, let's get to the big three. Number three. Immigration among Latinos. He is 38 points underwater. That is a 36-point shift, essentially, from where we were a year ago on immigration.

In their mind, he is doing something absolutely wrong when it comes to immigration. Howard Harry Enton of CNN: Are the sweeping immigration crackdowns hurting the GOP and the Hispanic community? Judging by recent elections, the answer is yes. And one prominent GOPer is starting to see warning signs and tells everyone this has been your wake-up call. We're talking about Miami.

Number two. As you probably know, we've just seized. A tanker. On the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large. Maybe the biggest one.

Largest one ever seized, actually. It was seized for very good reasons. Biggest ever. Biggest tanker ever seized. We will take that tanker.

Thank you very much. That's what the U.S. forces did yesterday off the coast of Venezuela to amp up the pressure on the illegitimate dictator. Will it result in a change of leadership? Number one.

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Seth Barron, welcome back. Oh, thank you, Brian. It's great to be here.

So let's keep this New York. We just note that Christy Noam is getting grilled by the left and praised by the right as she sits on Capitol Hill and they're trying to impeach. I think it's RFK and Pete Hakeseth. Right. Which gives you an idea, by the way, what it'll be like if the house flips.

Oh, absolutely. I think we're. Primed for Trump 1 part 2. Do you think. that Democrats are in danger.

Focusing on Trump too much because he is term limited. And after a while, they're going to say, wait a second, that guy has left the ring? I think that's partially why they're really into war crimes now and talking about bringing Pete Hegseth up on war crimes, J.D. Vance maybe up on war crimes. I think they really want to expand the scope of who they focus.

Well, just to seed that in the mind of the public.

So, Seth, were you surprised a couple of weeks ago when Mandami goes to the White House and the president says, I'm going to give him a shout. We both want to make New York great. And the tone and tenor, it still has some people in the MAGA base upset. Yeah, but I thought it was very clever of Trump because I feel like Momdani went in there. Praying that Trump was going to come at him.

And Momdani must have had a whole bunch of lines memorized, like, oh, Mr. President, this Oval Office is the people's office, blah, blah, blah.

So when Trump just kind of glazed him and was like, Oh, yeah, you're a great kid. Uh it totally took the wind out of his sails. I think and then he was just standing there kind of grinning. I think Trump played him very well. And then, you know, when he becomes mayor and starts in with his crazy stuff, you know, fighting ICE and whatnot, Trump can say, oh, you know, I thought he was a nice guy, but he's not so nice.

And then he'll get to owe out Gavin Newsome like war and Pritzker, maybe the battle. But he gave it to him. He looked to him. He's this young guy who means well. You know what?

I also think he appreciated that he won. They came out of nowhere to win. Trump likes those stories. That's true. But what we've seen so far in the transition team.

What's your take?

Well, it's it's It's about as bad as one could imagine. You know, he comes in, he He makes noises to try to you know, mollify the the business community and the the the Jewish community and the public safety people. But if you look at his transition team, I mean, he has this Alex Vitale guy who wrote a big book called The End of Policing. He's got all kinds of former criminals, anti-Semites. Uh you know, Muslim radicals.

All over, you know, threaded throughout the entire team.

So it's clear, and these are the people who are going to vet. Not They're not necessarily going to choose the top commissioners, but certainly the second and third. Tier and those are personnel's policies.

So he's getting calls from Kamala Harris, he's getting support from Barack Obama. Is he not listening? Or did Obama go, yeah, go full socialist, go full radical? You know, or I'm going to buck what they're telling me. Bill Clinton has praised him, but that's not what those are not selections Bill Clinton would make.

No, not at all. You know, they see that this is where the momentum, this is where the energy is in the party right now. And they're willing to accept that uh as far as it goes. Everybody's talking about affordability now. I mean, he's clearly, he clearly struck a chord with that.

I mean, Needless to say, a mayor can't really do anything about making things affordable. I mean, it's not clear what that means. They say rents are at an all-time high, by the way. They just came across in New York City. Rents are high.

A lot of people want to live here. I mean, that's why. Look, A lot of the reason why you can't build more is because of regulations. And he's not going to change any of that. You know, he told him and the president, that's one thing the president said.

You know, I see scaffolding everywhere. It's so hard to build. The president knows how hard it is to build. It can make it easy. He probably goes, yeah, I'll do that.

But he's not. No. I mean, what he wants to build is more public housing. And there's about 100,000 empty apartments or more because it pays it actually saves you money rather than live under, if you're a landlord, rather than open up those apartments and deal with the maintenance in those apartments and people's complaints, I'd rather just leave them empty because you're not letting me raise the rent. Absolutely.

I mean, it costs a lot of money to rehab an apartment that's been rented for the last 30 or 40 years to one person, but the city will not permit you to. cover your costs. And they keep imposing new mandates.

So, for a lot of people, it's cheaper just to keep it off the market. All right, so let's listen to Mondami.

So, if you're looking to see if he's going to moderate his transition team, you would leave you offended. They got a guy who's been seven years in prison who's going to talk about prison reform. They have a woman that worships a terrorist, a cop-killing terrorist, who escaped prison and went to Cuba. That's the idol. She's going to be handling schools.

So, there's just one kicked to the groin after another. And then there's this: a tape that he just caught for illegal immigrants to listen. ICE is legally allowed to lie to you, but you have the right to remain silent. If you're being detained, you may always ask, am I free to go? repeatedly until they answer you.

You are legally allowed to film ICE as long as you do not interfere. It is important to remain calm during any interaction with ICE or law enforcement. Do not impede their investigation, resist arrest, or run. One last thing. New Yorkers have a constitutional right to protest.

And when I'm making Here, we will protect that right. New York will always welcome immigrants and I will fight each and every day to protect, support, and celebrate. He forgot to say illegal immigrants. Right. So why why cut that tape, Seth Barron?

I mean, he's telling his base. I mean, this is a key thing for the Democrat Party in New York City and for the DSA and the whole radical pro-illegal immigrant lobby here that You know, ICE, as we've heard, ICE is Gestapo, ICE are Nazis. We need to resist ICE, that it's that they're kidnapping people, they're disappearing people. Resistance against this. This is a winning point among the left in New York City.

So, I mean, he did say you can't. you know, do things violently, but You know, we'll see what happens. I mean, and when he says he's pro the First Amendment, well, everybody is, but the First Amendment, First Amendment protest doesn't mean you can block traffic. It doesn't mean you can, you know, march in the streets. It doesn't mean you can occupy buildings.

How about harass Jews leaving a synagogue? You can't do that. That happened last week. Yes, yes. And he said, well, I'm against harassing people, but the synagogue shouldn't be in favor of violating international law, which is nonsense.

His whole obsession with international law. It's essentially an out. He can say anything that he likes is pro-international law, and everything else is violating it.

So, Seth Baroner, yeah, Seth, the other thing that's happening, and I'm in an odd spot, Elise, I am really impressed with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. I think she's a firebrand, buzzsaw. I think she knows exactly what she's doing running for governor. And I'm also really good friends with Bruce Blake, but I think he's done a phenomenal job in Nassau County, mostly Democrat. He got 56% of the Hispanic vote.

He goes to areas, not just Manhasset, which, by the way, if you're listening around the country, really nice, or Brookville, unbelievably nice. He goes to Hempstead and run down areas that need help.

So he's really done a good job. Your thoughts about both candidates running for the Republican nomination in a Democratic state who President Trump openly says, I'm not picking sides. Yeah, I mean, look, this probably wasn't what Elise Stefanik wanted to happen. But at the same time. You know, they're going to be facing a tough race.

Whoever wins is going to be facing a tough race against Kathy Hochul. And maybe they need to get themselves sharpened against each other a little bit.

So I think maybe you don't know this, and don't blame yourself if you don't, but before they have a convention or a primary, there's a mini conference or something in February.

So I thought this is the reason why the president's staying out of it, because they're going to resolve and find out who's got the momentum in February, I guess.

So if that happens, you'll have a clear winner. And it's what do they look for? Donors, number one, money, number two, number three, viability. Absolutely. And, you know, I think you're right.

I think both of them are are strong candidates in different ways. I mean, she's upstate, he's downstate. Look. What it comes down to is the Republican nominee has to win 35% of New York City to win statewide. And that's going to be tough.

I don't know if Either of them have the Yeah. Are going to have it. And it's going to be a very tough climate from everything we've heard about the Democrats. How would you characterize Coco's run? And since she's gotten her five years, six years.

I mean, Hokul is terrible. I mean, she was just chosen to be, she was picked by Cuomo just to be a woman who was unthreatening. That could get Buffalo. Yeah, to win Buffalo. I don't see her as a particular.

I mean, she's not a strong candidate.

So that's what they see. They see a Zeldon loss by six and they think that they can do better. I love Lee Zeldin. Maybe they feel they can do better. Are they right, or did Zeldin.

Topic a wave. I think, you know, Lee Zeldon's great. You know, he kind of maybe didn't have a lot. He was maybe a little lacking in the charisma department, which, you know, that's not a bad thing necessarily. I think I don't know a lot about Blakeman and like what how he comes off personally.

I think Stefanik has a lot of energy. She's a buzzsaw. I mean, you saw her take apart those Ivy League presidents. For sure. And I think Hokul is weak.

It's going to depend a lot on what the national mood is at that moment. I think the Mondami election helps whatever Republican, a good Republican candidate emerge.

Well, sure. And we'll see what kind of stuff he gets up to in the next year. But look, Hokul married. Mom Donnie, she came out and supported him, and then You know, he didn't back her. Because the lieutenant governor primarily her is a socialist.

Yes, Delgado.

So she's, you know, she's she's weak and she's gonna have trouble. She's she's gonna be tied to Mom Donnie. Any crazy stuff he comes up with. Any crime spike that happens. She's responsible for the money.

Right. Have you heard anything about the cops? I mean, are we going to see masked retirements? Have you like there's about 35,000 now? He says that's enough.

Most people say, no, no, no, you need another 4,000. Right. Um, it sounds like there are going to be people leaving. I mean, if you've got your 20 years, why wouldn't you? Right.

Um. And I I mean he's he's keeping Jessica Tish in for now. I just Can't imagine that that's going to hold up. She, her whole philosophy of policing seems like to be in contradiction with what he's got. I think he's keeping her around to Like I said before, to pacify his opposition and calm down the business community.

No, we're not going to let crime go rot wild. But I just don't see how that how that Relationship continues. And finally, can you make sense of the Mets? Do they want to make sure no one goes to the games? Yeah.

Pete Alonzo is now gone. They lost Diaz, their stopper. They traded Nemo, their popular player, homegrown. Yeah, I saw Mr. Met is moving over to the Todgers.

The Dodgers, yeah, I don't blame him. I don't either. The weather's better. Right. I can't really fill you in on that, but it seems like, you know, this is what Mets fans live and die over, this type of thing.

All right. Thanks, Seth Baron. Thanks so much. Check out the editorial section of the New York Post. He wrote The Last Days of New York, and New York remains really intriguing.

And by the way, it's a good sign for the city. You can't walk anywhere in Midtown. It is packed. Uh Brian Kilmichao. Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead.

It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Inflation has eased significantly from its highs in mid-2022, but remains somewhat elevated relative to our 2% longer run goal. Total PCE prices rose 2.8% over the 12 months ending in September.

and excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core PCE prices also rose 2.8%. These readings are higher than earlier in the year as inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs. He loves just adding that. We'll see about the tariffs. People go back and forth on the tariffs are really going to kick in and kick out in the new year.

But that is Jared Jerome Powell yesterday, who has the. I'm looking right now. Was the market rocketing up today at all-time highs because the cut rates at 0.25%? But the president's not happy with that. He's like, we should have done more than that.

So, this is the third meeting in a row. They shifted interest rates to a new range at 3.5% to 3.75%. It was a 9-3 decision. Stephen Myron, a member of the Board of Governors, just added, opposed the decision. He wanted the half-point reduction.

I imagine when the President's interviewing Fed chiefs, he's saying, will you lower rates?

Well, you promised to lower rates. The Fed's rate cut is the news heard around the world right now. The SP ended just yesterday, just shy of a fresh record. They passed it today. We'll see how long it lasts.

I think that this is another thing that people bring up. Because there was a government shutdown, they don't have complete data on jobs or on anything.

So a lot of people thought they would punt, not a lot, some thought they would punt. Because they don't have the data and use it as an excuse and just wait for the new year. But when the data comes in, what will it show? It'll show job loss, but also show job gains.

So they expect it'll be at the unemployment will be 4.4%, which is dealable. What they say Is that if you think inflation is under control, you can cut rates. If it's not, you bring the rates up in order to get people to stop spending to bring the to bring the inflation rate down. Got it. However, if you feel as though Uh jobs are in jeopardy.

You might not cut rates. If you feel as though you want to stimulate the economy, that's what you do. Remember, we were at zero for a while, so people got. Kind of spoilt. But now we're getting to the point Where I think if the if the banks respond And they don't wait for the 10-year yield.

If they respond to this like they used to, Rates are going to drop again.

So if rates for you and me to go get a mortgage to buy a house. Or To improve my house, to go take out a loan, an equity loan, if the rates are decent. Then it's going to affect me. Also, if it does it affects credit cards that are like 20, 25% credit cards.

So, can you get that credit card number down? That helps people on every level.

So, gas prices help people at every level, as well as interest rates. It hurts people, it helps people at every level. But the bank's got to play the game. This is where the president could come in. He knows all these bankers.

He has them over all the time. Constant dialogue. He gave him a seat at the table. Guys. I need you to lower rates.

I hate, guys, I need people to be able to take out an auto loan so they can write it off, but they won't take it out if it's 7%, 8%. You get him five or six percent, I could open up the floodgates here. And he'll work with everybody. He takes something in the macro and he makes it personal like nobody else. Why?

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How Could this escalate the conflict with Venezuela?

Well, you know, we've had sanctions on Venezuelan oil since the first Trump administration. And Biden kept them. Kept them.

So to me, this is absolutely. Normal. I mean seizing an oil tanker? Yeah, we've been seizing Iranian oil tankers in the past. We also, according to the law that I've read, we can, that oil is up for forfeiture.

So we could keep that. We've kept Iranian oil in the past. I think this is actually a pretty, you know, check the box case. So that's an astonished Jake Tapper talking to his own national security analyst on the, I guess, the taking of a Venezuelan-Iranian tanker yesterday. And we saw the video, it's out there and available.

Mary Antadatio O'Grady joins us now. She writes the Americas column, a weekly column on the Well Street Journal. It talks about politics, economics, but focuses on Latin America and Canada. And of course, it's always important stories, but now more than ever, the world is watching what's next in Venezuela, and Mary's all over this. Mary, welcome back.

Thank you, Brian. It's Anastasia. Anastasia. Famous Irish name, a very Irish name.

So very Irish.

So Mary, in particular, what do you think this taking of the tanker does for the tensions in the region?

Well, I think it's an excellent move by the President. You know, the President wants to I mean, he starts out talking about drugs, but I think it's pretty apparent that what he wants to do is he wants to see Maduro gone. There's a legitimately elected president of Venezuela. He's in exile in Spain right now. And President Trump wants to see him return and the democracy to be restored.

And when it comes to that agenda, I think the President is trying to avoid bombing Venezuela or any harsh military action. And one of the best ways to make life more difficult for the dictatorship is cutting off the money.

So I think it's a good move, and I think it's a legitimate move. I mean, apparently, the flag that it was flying was not authentic. It was flying a Guianese flag, which is not Which Guyana says is the ship was not registered there.

So follow the money and cut off the money. That's what we do with when sanctioned oil is being shipped around the globe. How much support does Maduro? Where is Maduro support?

Well It's a military dictatorship, right?

So he has control of the weapons and the military. particularly at the top, they are beneficiaries of all the gangster businesses that the government that the dictatorship is in, mostly drug trafficking, but all kinds of other businesses. And those generals are beneficiaries of that.

So that's where he has control. And then they have a very effective counterintelligence network That basically is assigned to the barracks and to watch over mid-level officers and make sure that nobody steps out of line. You know, they have about 850, I think, political prisoners in Venezuela, and more than 170 of them are members of the military.

So, this very repressive counterintelligence network. Uh basically um surveils the barracks and all the different military installations constantly looking for anybody who might be stepping out of line.

So that's how they control the lower ranks of the military. And the upper ranks of the military are on the payroll of the regime.

So they stay in line. And that's basically his support. I don't think among the You know, but among the public, he has much support at all at this point. Right. He's surrounded by Cubans?

There's a lot of Cubans who do intelligence. I mean, that's the strongest. Cuba is really bad at everything, which is why the country has fallen apart. But they're very good at intelligence and spying and that sort of thing. And so they have a pretty strong network inside the country that is either actively working or has trained The Venezuelans who are working for Mazuro.

What would get his attention to get him out? Where and what are his likely landing spots? But people tell me Turkey. Yeah, Turkey's one. I mean, I think first of all, to get him out, I don't know what's going on there, but I would suppose That he wants safe passage and he wants safe passage for, say, 20 people around him.

It's not enough just for him. And then he also. Has a problem because he would be subject to law enforcement actions from the International Criminal Court. And Donald Trump, I don't think, can give him any guarantees about that.

So he'd have to go to a country that would protect him from the ICC. Turkey would be one of them. Moscow, Tehran, those kinds of places that don't aren't going to turn him over because the ICC comes after him. And where he would go is I mean, think about it for yourself. If you wanted to if you were going to go into exile from your country, I don't think you'd want to go to Tehran or Or Moscow, but maybe Turkey's not such a bad choice.

Edward Sowden seems to be happy. Assad, I don't hear from him much anymore. Mary Ogre's right. Yeah, Mary O'Grady, I guess.

So, Mary, So we've been watching this before him pushed to the brink and he ends up staying or we get frustrated and we do a deal with him. But I don't think the President can afford just this guy to stay in power. I know we can't go out and say that. We don't do regime change. But what do you think could be the thing that ousts him, that shows him he has no choice, besides losing control of the Army, which the way you're stating it, he has not lost yet, even though the CIA is on the ground there.

What's the thing that would push him over? Yeah.

Well, you know, that's just very tough to know. I have a better question then. What would it look like? What would the region look like without him? With the exile leader in power.

Tell me what it means. That's easy. I mean, I think that if Venezuela falls, the region would look fantastic because. it's been such a destabilizing effect throughout the region. I mean, starting with the migration.

If you talk to Venezuelans, I wrote my column about the Chilean election. There's a lot of Venezuelans in Chile. They all want to go home. These people want to go home. This idea that they are migrating in some kind of Protest against the United States or somehow coming here to destabilize us.

They're coming here because they have no options. And, you know, we talk a lot, I think it was Giorgio Maloney, the Italian prime minister, who says, you know, we talk a lot about the right to immigrate, but what about the right to stay home? And this would give Venezuelans the right to live in their own country again.

So that's really important. As far as what would push him over, I think. The President is trying to avoid any kind of kinetic strike inside Venezuela, but that may turn out to be necessary because I agree with you. I mean, there's no way at this point that Donald Trump can back off. He's made a commitment, and if he says all of a sudden, you know, we're going home, that's going to be seen as a big victory for Maduro, and it'll empower him.

So I think we have to finish the job. Exactly how we finish the job is Is hard to say. But that's why coming back to this oil tanker, they don't pump as much oil as they used to, but they still rely a lot on their Venezuelan exports through the black market. And if we start cutting those options off as their sanctions oil traveling around the globe, that's going to hurt a lot. And I think the administration's hope is that pushing a little bit further, a little bit further all the time with moves like this.

Will eventually convince him that there's no way that he can stay and be stable.

So he's better off going.

So people say, Mary, and we don't do regime change well. Look at Iraq, look at Libya. But some say this is different. I mean, this guy lost an election and won't leave.

So you can't say they're ousting a legitimate leader. And he's been in power, and you've already outlined the upside of him going. But do you think That this has a chance to get really messy, should they get him out? Ow.

Well, I totally agree with you that you know it It On the surface, it appears That it would have a good outcome because the majority of the people in the country want him gone. The majority of the intelligence tells us that the majority of the military want him gone. They want to return to the democracy. Not the leadership, not the spies that Cuban has sent over there, but the majority of the rank and file would be happy to basically stand up a military that defends the democracy.

However, I do think that when you're going down a path like this, you have to think about the worst case scenarios. You know, you have to think about what if we're wrong. And you know, it it's not as clean as that. There are some problems, including a lot of illegal groups that operate there that may not back off so easily. That would be like the ELN, which is a Colombian narco-terrorist group.

It would include the Cartel de Soles, which is the group that is accused of being linked to the regime. It would include Trendaagua. There's a lot of people with they're irregulars and they have weapons.

So any Move to where he actually leaves, has to contemplate. A certain amount of chaos on day one. But we've heard from, and we had a piece in the journal last week. from members of the of Maria Corina Machado's group, who say that they think that the concern about chaos is overrated, that there is a much stronger support For A free Venezuela than anyone anticipates, and that that's not a good reason to back off.

So I think while I think we have to anticipate Um problems. And I think the U. S. has to kind of help without committing troops, obviously, but help as an adviser with intelligence and so forth to get them stabilized. But I think it's a gamble worth taking because The alternative is the mess that we have all over South America, and Venezuela is at the heart of it.

Yeah, and maybe finally Cuba will be dislodged from that brutal regime because they'll have almost no allies in the region then, right? Good point. Yeah, excellent point. Mary, you got to go. Thanks so much for the quality time.

We look forward to your columns now more than ever. Thanks for having me, Brian. Have a great weekend. You too. That is the Wall Street Journal.

I want to go to the phone, see if I can squeeze in some calls before we get to more to know after the break. Hank in Virginia. Hey, Hank. Hey Brian, how you doing? Merry Christmas.

Same to you. Listen, I'm a big Trump supporter, but this whole thing about Ukraine and the war, it's really a Russian invasion, and words do matter. I understand Ukraine's corrupt, but they need to set up something like the Marshall Plan. They call it the Trump Plan, and then release that money from the Belgian banks. And don't worry about the saber-rattling it.

What is Russia going to do? Invade Belgium? And then release some of these tomahawk missiles, and then you put the screws to Putin. Thank you, Hank. You're singing my song exactly.

Absolutely. And, you know, we're asking for Zelensky to cave, nothing of Putin. And you saw Lavrov came out and he says, I appreciate President Trump, but I really don't like the sanctions he put on me. Oh, really?

So they also want land they haven't won yet? Oh, are you kidding me? And the Donbass? How many people have died to make sure they kept that portion of the Donbass? There's no way they're going to do that.

However, there's certain things they will give, they're not going to get back, and they have to be able to put an international force in there, join the EU next year.

So that'll be important. But it is important to point out the good guys have to win once in a while, even if they're imperfect. And they got to win now. And Russia cannot walk away with anything but a loss. They should be embarrassed by their performance, their invasion, and their decisions.

Barry in Los Angeles. Barry. Yes, Brian. First of all, the LA fires were eleven months ago, not a year and three months ago. My bad.

You know what else is eleven months ago? What? Or eleven months from us? The midterms. Please stop talking about the midterms.

The only the only poll polls mean nothing right now. For the midterms 11 months away. The only thing that matters in the next between now and the August recess is that Republicans. govern conservatively as they were elected to do. Yep.

But see, Barry, I think you're right. Performance is everything. But I think it's wrong to just say, off your elections, that was odd. No one showed up. Oh, Miami, what can you do?

I think that's wrong, too. I think you look at the numbers, you see the turnout, you find out what's bothering people, what's not. And then you go. The affordability thing, Barry, snuck up on the president. And what they did in New York maybe resonated with the country.

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So I know we've been talking a lot about the headlines, and I get it. I love it as much as anyone. Iraq and excuse me, Iraq, Ukraine, and Venezuela, and what's going on with this political process, the president, and the economy, affordability. There's a raging fight right now in Capitol Hill with Christy Noam going against Democrats when it comes to illegal immigrants. But I just think you need to know more.

And here we go. Sylvester Lone has decided, decided to let Philadelphia keep the original Rocky statue. This was controversy. At first, they moved it. He was upset about it.

Then he said, okay, you can keep it now, and now you put it back, but I'm going to eventually want it back. He's in his 80s now, but now he made a decision after meeting with Philadelphia leaders. That decision is, you know what? You can keep it. Keep the original.

My hope is they never move it. I mean, he's clearly said that Donald Trump is like George Washington. Pretty sure that every Democrat in America threw up in their mouth when they heard that. Yeah, but I always thought it was a bad move by the museum for moving it because they said it wasn't a true artistic type of a thing that's worthy. But it would bring people into your museum, knowing that a lot of people visit the statue.

Hey, there's a museum there. Maybe I'll go in and check out what's in there. It would bring in customers, so to speak. I mean, get people who are boxing fans to look at ancient art. Yeah.

Yes. Or Benjamin Franklin's novel.

Well, if you're there, it's right. I mean, literally, it's a step away.

Next, well get this. This is huge. He's now the ex-Michigan football coach, and he's in jail after firing, after getting fired over an allegation of inappropriate relationship.

So he gets fired after an investigation for an inappropriate relationship.

Okay, hours later, and there's some problems here that we can't fill in the blanks yet, Sharon Moore. then is a charge with uh alleged assault. It's so clear, they first detain him and then they send him to jail. He's in jail right now.

So from. Coaching in a bowl game, making the playoffs, right? And I'll go to Citrus Bowl, excuse me, playing against Texas. Uh To go in there, to finishing a 9-3 season, had a good half against Ohio State and then got crushed, beat Ohio State the year before, an up-and-coming star coach. He is now in jail.

I've never seen a fall like this. Of course, he's got three kids, a family, and everything. Yep. I mean, that's the thing with the family. And not that it's a different situation, but it reminded me of what happened with the gambling.

You're coaching in the NBA. And then all of a sudden, you're in jail for John T. Phillips. Yeah.

Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Good point. There you go.

Next. Taylor Swift is firing back with four-word messages to critics who tell her to go away. The singer calls 2025 a good year after getting engaged in reclaiming her master's, I mean, master's tapes, not a master's degree. She was on with Stephen Colbert last night and talked about her career, talked about her marriage. She's 35 years old.

She seems to be in a great relationship, but let's be honest. I mean, since they got engaged. The Chiefs have gone from Super Bowl winners to Super Bowl finalists. To not making the playoffs, let alone getting in as a wild card. This more than likely not making the playoffs.

Do you think that's linked at all? Have they done tests on this? I mean, with Kelsey getting older and some key players getting older, it could just be a massive coincidence. But you know what? She's got the attitude: you know what?

You got to let the critics just roll off your back. Who cares what they say? Just, you know what, you're successful. That's the ultimate sticking point. Oh, yeah, I mean, come on, please.

She's fantastic. I'm never going to go see a concert, but I appreciate the success and the work ethic.

Next, the NFL makes massive time-saving change to the 2022 six draft, 2026 draft. That's the headline. No, they did? The time in between making a draft pick is from 10 minutes to 8 minutes. And they think it's going to save, it's a four-hour show.

They think it's going to save a lot of time in the four-hour show. They will shave off an hour off the festivities, just by making people make a decision in eight minutes. Yeah, exactly. Brian Killmeat show. This is Ainsley Earhart.

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