Decapitating the Iran Regime? Trump's High-Stakes Military Plan

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. Brian Kilmicho coming your way. We're going to go to a special Iranian insider from the MEK, the author of The Threat and Deputy, the author of The Iran Threat and Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance. He'll be with him shortly because I think Iran is a huge story, so is the weather. I'm not going to hit you with the weather.

If it's not in your area, you don't want to hear it. And if it is in your area, what could I tell you? I'm not a weatherman. It's totally debilitating in the Northeast is why If nothing else, you know, if it's cold, it's cold. You just you go to work.

But if you are now Living anywhere in the South, you're saying to yourself, I can go about my day and get accomplished what I need to get accomplished. When people say, You want four seasons?

Okay, I'd like two or three days when I can do absolutely nothing productive. That's what's happening right now, unless you have multiple IDs and want to be able to show, snovel, show for the city temporarily. Believe it or not, you need a social security card and a birth certificate. But to vote, just show. Let's get to the big three.

Number three. You've only played not bad. We're giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. I could send a military plan or something. If you would like to, we're out there.

There you go. The President of the United States calling into Team USA's locker room. They close out the winter games with the second most medals and the two Titanic hockey golds as the Canadians get their heart broken for the women. And now with the men, why the women and men played for much more than just first place. Number two.

I think he's got two jobs ahead of him. One is to ring that patriotic bell, bring our country together on the themes of patriotism the way only a president can in that grand forum. Two, Don't over brag. Don't tell the American people that you hit a home run when you hit a double. That is Ari Fleischer giving advice on One Nation last night this fantastic show, Sundays at 10, on the state of the union advice.

What we can expect. What do you think the president will say? What antics will Dems try to pull off? And the stakes, for me, have never been higher. Number one.

Since we were looking at this and the possibility of having this tool removed, we had to look at backup plans and we found ways to really reconstruct what we're doing, but it gives us very durable tools. That is Jamison Greer. He is a fantastic asset to this administration. He's a trade ambassador, chaos, confusion, and a plan B for trade after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's emergency authority to issue global tariffs. What's the new plan, and how is the world reacting?

So, so far. They're taking it all in. No word yet on the EU deal, which was on hold after the whole uprising with the Greenland acquisition and all the controversy around that. Number one, number two is India was about to finalize their trade deal with us. I think it was roughly 15% across the board, and they have cut off and decided to delay.

They want to study the Supreme Court decision. They want to see if the president actually had the leverage to cut the deals he cut. But there are deals off the top of my head: South Korea, Indonesia, Japan.

Now India, the EU, the UK. These are all deals that have been cut already. I know there's some smaller deals too.

So, my hope is that they're all immune to this. And they will understand if you're going to open this up and try to get a few more percentage points here or there. There's going to be ramifications to that too, like it or not. Have you met Donald Trump? He's not going to forget about it.

So, what actually. is going to happen. when it comes to trade.

So the Supreme Court decides on a 6-3 decision that the President did not have the right to use IEPA, which is an emergency lever, in order to enact Tariffs on various countries at various levels. But they have other things that they can do under the different statutes. There's a 122, a 232, a 301. I'm not going to bore you with that. You and I are not going to audition to be the next trade rep.

I will say this: it looks like they're going to sign off on 15% across the board, but this will be a three-month situation. I think it's a 1974 ruling that allows them until July, and then at which time, These will dissipate or they're going to be asked Congress to renew it. Here's Jamison Greer cut for.

Well, that's just not true at all. Coming into this administration, the president detected immediately that there was an emergency. The trade deficit, which is more stuff coming in from overseas versus being made here, that trade deficit blew up by 40 percent under Biden.

So he took emergency action. Immediately, all of our trade partners around the world came to the table to negotiate market opening deals with us, and we protected our industries right away.

So it's exactly the right thing to do. In the wake of this case, we can use other authorities that are, frankly, very sound and very strong.

So we're very confident that we'll be able to continue reconstructing this program.

So Scott Bessing came out and said that there were nothing changes on the trade deals. He said during this time, it's very likely that the studies will result in higher Tariffs than were in existence. But my hope is that if you took the time to cut a deal with the UK, That you would Honor that deal. And this with the Supreme Court would not. get involved and they wouldn't want to tear it up.

That's my hope. Here's more from Jamison Greer cut nine It's clear that neither of these two guys has ever worked in import-export business because that's just not how it works. These are people who sued the president. Their state sued the president. They wanted to overturn these tariffs.

And if they knew anything about it, they would know that the returns just go to companies, often foreign companies with a subsidiary here in the U.S. I mean, if they want to change this, they need to talk to their Democratic members of Congress and say, here's how we want the refunds to work. They should have known full well that if this case were overturned, it would really redound to the benefit of foreigners, foreign workers, foreign companies who have subsidiaries here in the U.S. who might get any refunds. We'll let the court figure out how that's going to happen.

If these guys want to have a different outcome than what they tried to get from the case, then they'll have to go to Congress.

Well, a couple of things. I should have led that sound bite in better, and it was everybody wants a refund, the small toy manufacturer, the small toy business in Wyoming. Everybody wants to, you're not going to get a refund.

So, what happens is these products are sold, you paid for this.

So it's not gonna, it's either passed through, you either absorb it or pass it through on prices to consumers. And I'm telling you, let's debate the merits of tariffs another time because it's not clearly black and white. All the experts who told us on Liberation Day in April that the economy would bottom out, they were not correct. They were not, even the Wall Street Journal admitted they were not correct. But I do know for the most part, and it has a lot to do with how the media looks at tariffs, and that's negatively, that.

70% of, I think it's tariffs are not popular with the American people. Here's ABC just did a poll. 64% look at tariffs negatively. 57% say it's negative on the economy.

So that's what the president is up against. He's up against something in the big picture that's going to bring manufacturing home and let us make things again, which we all should have learned when the pandemic, when we realized we made no medicines, we made no masks, we made no clothing. And they said, this can't happen. How did we let this happen? We don't mine rare earth.

We don't refine rare earth. How did this happen? This president came in to handle all of it at once. And this is the way he chose to do it.

Now, the court said 6-3, I don't think so. I think you should get Congress to do their job. Problem is, Congress never would have passed this.

Now, has. Trade Helped. In some places it has, in some places it hasn't. One place it has helped. is in Indiana.

Here's Governor Mike Braun cut 12. Indiana's, along with Wisconsin, the two biggest states per capita manufacturing.

So tariffs would have been a plus due to the industries that have been kind of hollowed out. You look at Gary, Indiana. That was the second largest city in Indiana. Steel goes overseas. I think the key is, is trade has to be fair and free.

And from the Marshall Plan through rebuilding the global economy, we did some things that got that out of balance. I mean, we were in a trillion-dollar give or take annual deficit in trade, $2 trillion on our fiscal account. That turns you into a debtor nation.

So ideally, through reciprocity, you get things down and even, free and fair, and get back on an even playing field. Over those 40, 50 years, it got imbalanced, and I think that's where Trump was coming from.

So that's what he was trying to do, rapidly do it. Not to make Trump Mar-a-Lago bigger, not to make the Trump Tower higher. It was to bring manufacturing here. And to do that, it no longer made it cost-prohibitive to make it happen. If you build it here, no tariffs.

That's why Japan and all these other countries are starting to invest in our country so they can build stuff here and avoid all the tariffs. And in theory, after they train us, then it becomes our jobs. And what happens is that company benefits, publicly traded, you own stock, or just overall, the company benefits. That's what his goal was. And he knows we can't waste any more time.

We can't keep saying we don't make anything anymore. The USMCA was redone. Canada, whose best friend is now China, let them go with their unequal, unfair, stealing all your intellectual property relationship. We don't do that. What we want is a fair level playing field.

We don't even want to tilt it in our direction. That's what Trump's focus really was.

So when we come back, I want to talk about what happened with the Olympic team, Team USA's dramatic victory. I think the rating is going to be through the roof, even though it was at eight in the morning on a Sunday. I think a lot of people watched it. I love these guys. I never, I knew of them, but I don't know them.

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A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. This game, in a lot of ways, was an inspiration to our country.

And I can't tell you how many texts I've received over the last day or so about watch parties at 8 o'clock in the morning. And I think from a viewership standpoint in the United States, there were a lot of people paying attention, the President included.

So that was Mike Sullivan, the coach of the USA team that won in dramatic fashion, the semifinals against Sweden, and then advanced to the finals against Canada, went up 1-0, gave up another goal, made it 1-1. And Connor Hellenbach was just unbelievable, the Winnipeg Jets goalie, 31 years old, three-time Vesna Trophy winner. That means best goalie for the season three separate times, but no one saw him play like that. At least I don't know anybody that said that they knew he was great. Nobody thought he could be that great, and he was.

It's just amazing what took place. And I can't believe how many people who aren't hockey fans, I expect hockey fans to love it. Just like, for example, if the U.S. gets by, they'll be watching the World Cup and non-soccer fans will be thrilled. I think it's the same thing with hockey, although hockey is more popular than soccer in the U.S., I think.

But imagine being the family of the the Hughes family. Who has Quinn scoring overtime to beat Sweden, and then Jack beats Canada? Here's Jack after the game, cut 35. Over time, anything can happen. I mean they have very skilled players, we have very skilled players.

It's just up and down the rank, you know. Kinda like a a little grudge match, like who's going to make the first mistake, who's going to give up the first odd man rush and um just a good play by Larks and Z getting up the ice and then obviously Z found me. Obviously, and he scores it. And what I loved about the overtime is go three on three instead of five on five. It is just awesome.

Why? It shows endurance. Who's better in the open ice? If you are extremely creative, but you can't play defense, you can't be one of the three. More than likely.

So unless you can go both ways quickly, so speed matters.

So that takes a lot of coaching from Mike Sullivan to put the right pairings together, the right trios together. It's just awesome. And I think soccer should do the same thing. 11 on 11, go into overtime, it's 9 on 9. Go into the second overtime, it's 7 on 7.

You get endurance, and then you find out who's got the better ball skills, and then who's better in the open field. And there's nothing more exciting than open field soccer play at the highest level. But I digress. Back to hockey. More Jack Hughes, cut 36.

It's not even so much like the injuries or anything. It's like your whole life you're going up against things. There's always new adversity, new challenges. And you know, every single player in that game tonight, Canada, US, When they were like six, seven, eight years old, man, every single player went through so many things and like you're just grinding and you're grinding and you're working your way up.

So as much as I've been dealing with stuff and you you guys like to talk about it, that doesn't phase me 'cause when I was I was twelve years old I was dealing with stuff. When I was fourteen I was dealing with stuff and just like every single player in that game tonight, there's a reason every single player in that game was in the game tonight and it's a journey, it's the whole lifetime of work and You know, I'm just a part of that. Yeah, and look, this is all Canada has. Obviously, in terms of shots on goal, they outshot him, I think, almost by a two to one margin. But you had Hellenbach stop 41 of 42 shots.

I mean, that's the difference. I just want you to hear also about the other theme is Johnny Goudreau, and he sadly, him and his brother Matthew were killed biking the day before their sister's wedding in New Jersey. And he would have made Johnny would have made that team. Matthew was in Bridgeport, still in the minor leagues. But two great guys.

Everybody knew the family. And they brought his jersey out on the ice, and then they brought his kids out on the ice. Uh 43 is Austin Matthews, the team captain. Yeah, I think he's had a a big impact on a lot of guys in our room. A lot of guys uh grew up with him.

Um Played with him, spent a lot of time with him, and whether that's the NHL or World Championships, different settings like that. And we've had his jersey in our room last year at the Four Nations. We had his jersey in the room here at the Olympics. And just a subtle reminder that him and his brother, they're kind of with us in spirit. And to be able to get it done like that, to win, to have his jersey out there in the team.

in the team photo and have his kids come out and be with us. We're obviously thinking of him and we just felt like the impact that he's had on so many guys in our room was special and he was with us here in spirit the whole tournament.

So we'll talk more about that in a little while too. Because I love the fact, you know, what kills me is what the NBC does with the Olympic footage. They don't let anything available. You almost never see video. And that's why these people don't live on forever.

If I see Bruce Jenner, I see this one last leg of him winning the decathlon. I mean, why I don't see more of this video? Like you're able to see the NFL and Major League Baseball. I think it's counterproductive. Katie Goudreau is the sister who got married a year later, who obviously postponed the wedding with her childhood sweetheart a year until last July.

Here's what she said to us this morning about what she saw here at home, Cut 40. Team USA really good went above and beyond. Um, it meant the world, even just having his jersey out when um Matthew went out the first uh round around with the jersey really meant a lot, and we thought it was just gonna end there. And then I remember watching and seeing the jersey while they were giving out the gold medals and thinking, Wow, it's still there. And as the celebration went on, when they went to do the picture, they stopped for a little bit, and then we were like, What are they doing?

What are they doing? And I thought I heard him earlier say, There's Mayor in the audience, in the crowd. And then when they went and got Johnny on his second birthday and Noah, it truly meant the world to us.

So that was pretty great, right?

So, listen, when we come back, I want to talk about what's happening. more serious stuff in the Middle East. As the U. S. has I think tomorrow, the Gerald R.

Ford pulls into right in the Mediterranean, right off the coast of Israel. And I think we'll have everything in place. We also have just got an alert that all U.S. personnel is told to evacuate from Beirut. Why?

Because if Iran's hit, they're going to look to hit all our assets and they're going to do in there the thing they do best, and that's terror. Since they control Hezbollah, and they've basically taken over Hezbollah to try to buck up and rebuild that decimated terror group over in Lebanon.

So we must have got intelligence to pull everybody out. That would be smart. Let's pull everybody out that we can, protect the bases that we do. And then if you ever want to pivot to China, we can't do it as long as Iran's in place. We watched them beat up protesters again this weekend.

We got to take action. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. I cannot judge, but one fact is there. That uh If they want to find a resolution for Iran's peaceful nuclear programme, the only way is diplomacy.

And we have proved this in the past and I believe that still there is a good chance to have a diplomatic solution which is based on a win-win game and a solution is at our reach.

So there is no need for any military build up and military build up cannot help it and cannot pressurize us.

So that's the foreign minister of Iran speaking yesterday on Face the Nation, joining us now. He's saying, hey, I have a peace for the nuclear program. We'll talk about it, see what happens. No reason to fight. They don't have a peace for nuclear program.

And by the way, I don't know what Steve Witkoff's talking about, saying they're a week away from getting a nuclear weapon. What does that even mean? Of course they're not. It's been obliterated, but they're rebuilding it is the answer because that makes Trump look terrible. He says they hit it.

Everyone agrees they hit it. The IAEA agrees they hit it. And now all of a sudden, it's a week away from I mean, don't make stuff up. Personally, I actually don't know what Steve Witkoff has produced. I hear he's a great guy.

I hear he's a fantastic salesperson, but it doesn't mean you can deal with the Iranians. Joining us now, Ali Reza Jafarsada joins us now. He is the author of Iran Threat and the Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance on Iran. Ali Reza, are they nervous? Good day, Brian.

Great to be on your show. Definitely the Molas are nervous to the death. They are so concerned about both the domestic situation, but also what's really happening around them. This is the first time that everything is just going south for the molas, internally, in the region, internationally, all of that. Nothing is actually working for them.

So do you believe that these negotiations will produce anything?

Well, if you look at the history of the past two, three decades. And starting from the time that we first exposed the nuclear site in Natanz in August of 2002 and a whole host of other revelations we made, the world had a chance to end the nuclear weapons program of the regime. But the rush at that time was led by Europe. The EU3, they rushed to negotiate with Tehran, give him what they wanted. And the outcome was that the expansion of the nuclear weapons program of the Iran regime, expansion of their terror operation, it further emboldened the regime.

And the outcome was all those underground facilities and enrichment over 60%. Uh I know uh Arafji's business is to just talk uh explain away uh the behavior of the Iran regime, but the reality speaks otherwise. I think at the end of the day, the world has realized there's only one solution Uh to the nuclear threat of Iran or the terror threat or the human rights violation in Iran, and that's the change of the Iranian regime by the people of Iran. It seems there's a lot of ethnic groups in Iran. What are they consolidated around?

Is there any figure they're consolidated around? Is there any group they're consolidated around? Are you worried about ethnic infighting?

Well, one thing that the ethnic groups of Iran, which is actually very significant, you have the Azeris, you have the Kurds, you have the Baluchis, you have the Arabs down south, the Loors, a whole host of them. It's about close to 40% of the Iranian population are these nationalities. And one thing they all have in common, they're vehemently opposed to the monarchical dictatorship. They were badly suppressed under the Shah. They are badly suppressed now.

Most recently, just a couple of days ago, the Kurd, various Kurdish groups united and had a common platform. They're also very close to the National Council of Resistance of Iran headed by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. There was a big rally in Berlin. About 100,000 Iranians showed up there.

Mrs. Rajavi in person was there. She spoke and a lot of others spoke. A lot of these Kurdish groups, Baluchis, and minorities were there. They fell for the first time.

Time that they do have a future in Iran because the 10-point platform of Mrs. Rajavi, item number seven, specifically talks about the minorities in Iran as opposed to the son of the Shah, who basically says that they are separatists. He's already going after them. He's a divider, and they're not. You're not for him.

You're not for Pahlavi. Oh, absolutely not. He's totally irrelevant. The only connection to Iran he has is his deposed father, a dictator that was swept out of power by a genuine popular revolution in Iran. He keeps posting about building relationship with the revolutionary guards.

Yet when the time came, the guards were the ones who were slaughtering people by the thousands.

So he has nothing to rely on. And of course, I know the regime has an interest to try to boost him because that way they can take away momentum from those forces who truly want change in Iran.

So right now there's a worry, there's concern in Europe that Hezbollah sleeper cells, even al-Qaeda affiliates, could be ordered to attack American bases or anybody in the West. One senior U.S. official said the government analysts were tracking a lot of activity and planning, but it was unclear of what would trigger an attack. Iran could work through proxies, they say, to conduct terrorist attacks that will raise costs for any U.S. military campaign.

We know that we've just said everybody out of Beirut for sure. And it looks like the IRGC has taken over Hezbollah to try to get that terror group up and running again.

So they are physically there more than ever before, right on the doorstep of Israel.

Well, definitely, you know, put yourself in the shoes of the Ayatollah. What else can you do? They have to go back to the only thing that they can rely on, their proxies, their development of nuclear weapons, their missile program, their drone program, and also repression inside the country. But keep in mind that this is not the same regime that it was a year ago or two years ago. They're far weaker.

Much of the cloud that they had among the proxies in the region is gone. Their biggest ally in Syria, Assad, is gone. Even their ally in Venezuela, Maduro, is gone. And so they are in a weak situation. They have never been so vulnerable.

But most importantly, I think. The situation inside Iran is very telling. You know, in December when the protests started, the regime responded with sheer force, slaughtering thousands of people, arresting over 50,000 people, hoping that this will put an end to everything. But Just two days ago on Saturday and Sunday, when the new semester of the universities in Iran started, major universities in Tehran, including Sharif University of Technology, which is equivalent to MIT, and that's the school that Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president of NCRI, went to.

A lot of top leaders of the opposition went to. I was also, that was my school too. People were chanting death to the dictator, death to Khamenei, death to the oppressor, be the Shah or the supreme leader. Neither monarchy nor theocracy. We want democracy and equality.

So no matter what the regime does, it's not working for them. And the people, which is the biggest ally the West has in Iran, they are the ones who are on the momentum again and they're going to fight back. And those forces who are known as the resistance units, they are the ones who are going to determine the future of the country. Yes, I guess we're going to find out shortly. I just saw the New York Times report that said the President on Wednesday had all his advisers there, and they're leaving over the possibility of a military assault that would be at first Directed at a certain location to see if they could just break the regime with almost a preemptive strike and then come in with a sustained attack afterwards.

Do you think that like going after their ballistic missiles or going after what's left of their nuclear program, would that be enough to change their behavior?

Well, you know, the reality is that there's only one solution and that's ending the rule of the clerics. And of course, that's not asked for, you know, from the United States or anybody else. That's a responsibility of the people of Iran.

So the world has a good chance now to side with those forces on the ground because no matter what is done, at the end of the day, you need those forces on the ground that are confronting revolutionary guards, those resistance units. They need their right need to be recognized to confront the guards, to push back, to fight them, and end the rule of the clerics. This is something that has never been happened. And I think that this is what needs to be done. I want you to hear what the Foreign Minister continues to say about enrichment, Cut twenty five.

Well, first of all, enrichment is our right. We are a member of NPT and we have every right to enjoy a peaceful nuclear energy, including enrichment. How we use this this right is something related to us only. The enrichment is a sensitive part of our negotiation. The American team know about the ente knows our position, we know their position, and we have already exchanged our concerns.

And I think a solution is achievable. Yeah, it's not. And the foreign minister doesn't really have the power. The president doesn't have the power. The Ayatollah has the power.

And he basically is setting up a succession order to make sure that if these officials are killed, there's three or four other people that would take over.

So there's no, I guess, vacuum up top. But he lost a lot of his military generals, didn't he? Oh, absolutely. I mean, this regime, and it's not about individuals, it's about the whole system. This is a theocracy that is built.

Around a supreme leader, around a cleric that has the absolute authority over everything. The guards are there, the rebush guards, to protect them. And as a whole, this regime is a lot weaker than they were. And the fact that Arafi says that, oh, enrichment is a right. Why in the world the regime would spend two trillion dollars On a program that they could easily get enriched uranium for the fuel for their nuclear reactors from everywhere else.

And that cost is extensive. There's no way in the world you can explain it other than building the bomb. You know, that revenue is, uh, that cost is higher than all the oil revenue that Iran generated since the Ayatollahs came to power in 1979. That's the toll on the nation. And the outcome has been nothing but destruction, making people poorer.

So there's nothing else out there except the nuclear weapons program of the regime. The regime has a lot of resources. They're burning gas. The gas and oil industry of Iran is the most underdeveloped industry in the country. And then yet they're putting a lot of money and resources on the nuclear program, claiming that this is for peaceful purposes.

It's a joke. It's not. The people of Iran reject it. That's why we expose all the major nuclear sites. And the people of Iran not only reject that, they reject the entirety of this regime.

And I just think the President needs to explain it. Come out and say, look, these students are rising up. They've been killed by between 6,000 and 30,000. They've been murdered in cold blood, run over by cars, killed in hospital beds. People are tortured.

The Nobel, I think their Nobel Prize winner is now in jail under extreme conditions. The only reason they're holding on is because they have the guns and weapons. And we're the only nation that can help them. And I believe the American people know they've been an enemy of ours for 47 years. And they've killed Americans.

We could even list their names. Of the people that they killed during the Iraq war and the hostages they took and the Beirut bombing that took place. This goes all back to them. And if you ever want to pivot to China, you have to handle Iran. And they've never been more vulnerable.

The President will regret not going for this opportunity. Ali Reza Jeharsavar, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you so much, Brian. Always a pleasure to be on the show. I appreciate that.

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I think he's got two jobs ahead of him. One is to ring that patriotic bell, bring our country together on the themes of patriotism the way only a president can in that grand forum. Two, Don't overbrag. Don't tell the American people that you hit a home run when you hit a double. The American people know the difference.

Prices are down in many areas, but they're up in some areas. There's a sense of unease still. As much as there is room, legitimate economic room, for optimism and growth in 2026. Don't tell everybody it's a home run, it's a grand slam. Don't spike the ball until the ball is across the end zone.

Right.

So that's why Ari Fleischer is who he is. I mean, he was with through the Bush years, knows what it's like to be successful in the midterms after 9/11. They were able to hold the House and Senate, and then it fell, and then he was able to win re-election, even though the war was anything but easy in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ari Fleischer says you got to go up and just be more candid. Trump's always selling.

I got it. But you could talk about areas, I thoroughly believe you have to talk about areas that are lagging. He's going to talk about historic success at the border. He's going to talk about largest one year decline in homicides in U. S.

history, signed working families' tax cut, created Trump accounts, imposed ceasefire in Iran with Israel and Hamas and meta and, of course, obliterated Iran's nuclear program met or exceeded all military recruitment goals. That's a fact, and you know what's going on with Venezuela. I would bring that up. But right now, you have a situation where ABC did a poll. Let's say it's even skewed left.

But the economy, 57% disapprove. Immigration, 58% disapprove. Tariff 64% disapproved, inflation 65%. Overall, his approval is about 40%. I don't think that any president's going to get over 48% unless that figure is extremely moderate and bipartisan and meets with as many Democrats as they do Republicans.

And I don't know what candidate would ever get elected that way. Um so Uh you know, like it or not, that's a fact. By the way, 70% of Dems support abolishing ICE. And then, meanwhile, 70% of Republicans Support regime change in Iran. But 45% of Democrats do.

Why? Because Donald Trump's president. If it was somebody, it would be just reversed. if it was somebody else.

So what could the president say? I would come out and just say, look. Beef prices are high, but you know why? There was a drought going on. And for the longest time, our country was de-emphasizing meat.

So cattle population dropped. We gotta build it up. It's gonna take some time. I did not know there was a drought in Central and South America. That's why fruit is so high.

But I would explain that and say, look, I'm going to lessen the prices in order to get them in and be somewhat affordable, but coffee is really tough. Here's James Blair. He is the deputy Deputy Chief of Staff, Cut 20. I think the American people want to hear about the progress we've made, and I expect the President will give a progress report, but also hear about the agenda going forward, what else the President and the Republicans in Congress want to accomplish. And I think the President will lay that out very clearly, which will frame the midterms.

The midterms are really going to come down to a choice, Trey. It's a choice of going back to the time when Democrats were in charge with Joe Biden, when we had $5 an average gallon of gas, now it's under $3, when we had interest rates to buy a new home at a 30-year mortgage at almost 8%, now you can get them under 6%. All of these things are going in the right direction. Right.

But we really hurt this economy. It is that three-month shutdown, 41 days, unprecedentedly long. It was absolutely ridiculous. You don't even hear the Democrats bring up. Insurance, health insurance that they, you know, once in a while they'll bring it up, but they know the subsidies were unsustainable.

Hakeem Jeffries came out and kind of warns his other Democrats, stop with the antics. Remember the popstick signs? Remember Congressman Greene of Texas shaking his cane at the President. It was absolutely insane. Where Nancy Pelosi was asked by someone in the security there, would you quiet these guys down?

They embarrassed themselves to no end. They didn't actually clap for the family of Lake and Riley. Remember all that?

So Nakeem Jeffries just said to them: if you can't sit there defiantly, Stay home. I think it really helps the country. I think it's a bad look around the country. I thought it was bad when Joe Wilson, who I really like, screamed out, you lie. Marjorie Taylor Greene always embarrassed herself.

I said at the time, don't scream at Joe Biden while he's talking. By the way, you bailed him out because he was losing himself in his copy. Brian King. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kill Me.

Phil Medger there, it's the Brian Kill Me show coming your way. Rock Ron Schutz is going to be with us, the GOP Attorney General candidate against Keith Ellison over in Minnesota. That's the bottom of the hour. And now we are going to be discussing a lot has to do with the weather. I'm not going to bring it up here.

My theory is this. If you're in the middle of the weather, you don't mean me telling you about it. If you're not, she's saying, why are you bothering me with it?

So it is very inconvenient, it is big. And let's talk about other stuff that's really going to matter, including the state of the union and so much more.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. You've only played not bad. We're giving the state of the Union speech on Tuesday night. I could send a military plane or something.

If you would like to, yeah, we're not. Yes, that sounds really good. Team USA closes out the winter games with the second most medals, by the way, the whole team, and two Titanic hockey victories with the women and with the men. What do they have in common? They beat the Canadians, China's new trading partner.

Why the women and men played for much more than just first place? Number two. I think he's got two jobs ahead of him. One is to ring that patriotic bell. Bring our country together on the themes of patriotism the way only a president can in that grand forum.

Two, Don't over brag. Don't tell the American people that you hit a home run when you hit a double. Yes, there you go. State of the Union a day away. And Ari Feisher with some stellar advice.

What can we expect the president to say? What antics will Dems try to pull off? And the stakes for me in the midterms, well, they're pretty high. Number one. Since we were looking at this and the possibility of having this tool removed, we had to look at backup plans and we found ways to really reconstruct what we're doing, but it gives us very durable tools.

And that is one of the best in the business, Harrison Greer, calmly, Jameson Greer, kindly describing what the Trump administration wants to do after the Supreme Court decision. Chaos and confusion. And a Plan B for trade after the Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency authority is now in play. What's the new plan? And how is the world reacting?

Think about this. I could hit you with what's a 302 and a 232 and a 122. You don't care. Just know this. They're tapping into 122 authority, and it's good for 100.

In 50 days, at which time there's going to be a blanket 15% tariff.

Now, The UK, the EU, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea. All the people at Indonesia. Um India. All the people we did trade deals with go, wait a second. I'm getting screwed here.

I already signed off a deal to have less tariffs than that individually, different areas which are going to be exempt. Why did I negotiate with you? And the answer is you negotiated because everything's done. You should not this should not affect any of those trade deals. That's the key.

So everybody's saying, give me my money back for on tariffs. It's not going to happen.

So, all the critics who didn't like the tariffs, you do like the tariffs. This stays in place for now. But it is creating confusion. The markets don't like it. They're down five hundred and twenty five points already.

Here is cut six. And the President addressed this in his press conference on Friday. And he said that since we were looking at this and the possibility of having this tool removed, we had to look at backup plans. And we found ways to really reconstruct what we're doing.

Now it doesn't have the same flexibility that the President had under the previous authority that he was using, but it gives us very durable tools. It allows us to do investigations, implement tariffs where needed, and provides a lot of leverage and a lot of protection for American industry.

So 300,000 businesses have already been paid out in tariffs.

Some of them they sucked up, some of them they put on the consumers, and then some of them decide not to. Uh you know, not to do anything about it.

So They used IEPA, which is emergency authority, because they said it was in our national interest. The Supreme Court said I don't think so. Congress should have a role in that. And that's why. It's not a good time to do this.

Never a good time to destroy the president's. Premier economic provision. But now especially And the midterm election is just nine months away, ten months away.

So the Democrats look at this according to politico as a political gift. He goes, this is the gift of how this the gift of it is how politically inept it is. Doug Herman writes, he's a Democratic strategist in California. He said, Trump's renewed tariff saber-rattling provides tailor-made messaging on affordability for Democrats. Every American has become born the cost of the Trump tariffs.

It's the kind of thing that everybody needs to take advantage of in their campaigns.

Now you could say that, but it's just not the case. Because there were people that benefited. I mean, you have steel workers. You don't think they're happy? You don't think auto workers are happy to not have to.

Not have to give watch their jobs go over to Mexico. You think that Japan bringing over more industry here is not going to make pipe fitters? And plumbers? And electricians, more money. These are all things that were leveraged to get tariffs here.

And when you think about fentanyl and the decrease, President said, I'm going to hit China and Mexico with tariffs because. They're exporting fentanyl to our country. It's killing Americans. I think it's down something like forty about 40 to 50 percent fentanyl deaths, as well as how much fentanyl is at the border.

So it's a mixed bag, but the confusion is always bad. For markets. They just want predictability, and you as an investor want predictability. That's key. Also something else happened.

I'm sure you don't watch CNN. But I like Farid Zaccario. Never met him. I met him, at him once when the 9-11 first started. He was editor of Newsweek.

He might have come in, Fox and Friends, I seem to remember. But now he's very well connected internationally. And for a while he just was everything was anti-Trump.

So I kind of stopped watching the show. And now I think, in many ways, after watching Joe Biden thrash around on mistakes that are being made, and seeing that Trump has had major foreign policy successes, including the including the Abraham Accords. He's looking around in American cities and he's noticing The people are moving out of all these blue cities and these blue states. Where are they going? To red states.

So if. We're a 50-50 country, and we're going back and forth on economic principles. Why is everyone leaving the states in which Democrats have control? Cut forty four. 44.

New York is really a prime example of a problem Democrats seem unwilling to confront. Blue cities are out of control. Promising more, spending more, delivering less, and pushing off the fiscal problems to some future day. Take Los Angeles, another one-party metropolis wrestling with affordability and disorder. The city's homelessness budget for fiscal year 2025-26 totals about $950 million.

The LA Homelessness Services Authority reported that in 2023, homelessness was up 9% countywide and 10% in the city. All this amid public frustration despite billions spent.

So he's pointing out what we all say. that these cities Really, their principles are just continue to tax. And then Mondami comes in there and says, I want to make things more affordable. And everyone goes, wow, that's such a great campaign. And he does such a great TikTok ass.

Well, how's he going to do it?

Well, I'm in a deficit, so I'm raising property taxes. Are you kidding me?

Well, I don't want to, but I have to.

So you're going to raise taxes on the second highest tax. state and city in the country. And you wonder why more businesses are moving out than coming in? You're about to lose two more congressional seats after the next census? Cut 45.

Take Chicago with a mayor whose approval rating is deep underwater, where the pension promises are so large that they will surely bankrupt the city at some point. What is the theory of good government here? If the answer is keep adding programs, the city will keep producing on affordability. Because unaffordability is what happens when government becomes a machine that grows faster than the society it governs. Yes.

So, when you come in and talk about these programs and tighten your fiscal belt, you don't like poor people. You don't like minorities. You just, you don't, oh, you only care about yourself. You want. These other programs, the DEI, the right, these LGBTQ XYZ programs that the city's running, they don't want to cut them.

What they want to do is they want to vilify successful people. Those successful people go elsewhere. I'm looking at the billionaires' tax, which hasn't even been ratified yet, that the governor, Gavin Newsome, knows is kryptonite for him. They have had more Billionaires move out in California at any time in my lifetime. David Sachs is gone, Mark Zuckerberg is gone.

All these guys going, I'm not paying extra money. Oh, it's a one-time tax. You know, it's not a one-time tax. And finally this. He talked about This ridiculous 34-year-old mayor cut 46 in New York City.

Zoram Namdani's basic instinct is correct. Focus on affordability, especially housing. but not by providing government subsidies. These only seem to have driven up the cost of rent, as subsidies naturally do. The city's rental assistance spending rose from $263 million in fiscal year 2020 to $1.34 billion in the most recently reported fiscal year.

That is a five times increase in a handful of years, and housing costs only got worse. They talked about Michael Bloomberg having an $80 billion budget.

Now he's up to $122 billion.

So that's more than Florida. And Florida's got twice the size and twice the population. And we're just talking about a city, not a state.

So instead of people saying these programs are too big and unwieldy, and I'm a Democrat and I have to do this, instead they say I'm a Democrat and the problem is rich people. And those rich people are not the problem. They're about to find out. It's never worked in the past. It won't work in the future.

And that's just it. I noticed I didn't bring up Faritza Caria. If anything, I'm sure he leans all Democrats. He loved Joe Biden. And then admitted the border collapsed, and then admitted his foreign policy in Afghanistan was ridiculous.

And of course, he despised Donald Trump. He's unworthy and great. And now they say: well, you know, look at the Venezuela situation, look at how he's taking control of the border, look at what's going on in Central and South America. You know, I don't love the way he's harassing our allies, but man, I love the way we're now spending money on NATO and they realize they got to start defending themselves.

So he's seeing some of the light. while also pointing out that New York is wrapped with scaffolding. We never build anything. Permits take forever. I don't even know why this scaffolding is even around.

I never even see work being done. We have blocks just around us here in New York City that never seem to get done.

So you walk into these other cities, these newer cities, I don't want to be them. But there is a more there's an efficiency there. Do you really think this thirty four year old whose last job before he was an assembly win was working in a summer camp is going to deliver us that type of organization or anybody around him? The answer is not. We come back.

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Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmead Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Joe. You can have your shovels ready, but you should not say, okay, I'm going to go out and be a hero, because it's about the most cardiac expenditure of energy that you can have.

So if you've been sedentary, don't go and shovel. Get a younger person or somebody that's in much better shape to do it. And don't go to Russian shovel. Don't go to, what's that?

Well, Dr. Siegel, don't go to Russian. Give me just one second. Brian was telling me during the commercial break, he read an article how if you don't exercise regularly, do not send that person out to shovel snow because it's one of the number one reasons for heart attacks. Completely.

Now, Brian, I clear to shovel. If you look at Brian's upper body, he's ready to shovel. Or Lawrence, or you. But for some people, I would say, really take it easy.

So that is a reference to me that Angela used me as a source in her interview on Fox and Friends.

So I do provide a lot of information for people, and they should roll the credits at the end of Fox and Friends and just have my name. When it comes to contributing editor, I mean, for segments that I'm not on, I don't think I'm getting enough credit. Do you agree, Eric and Pete? Yeah, but do you also get like best boy key grip? Do you get all those?

None of that. I shouldn't get that. Although I would be the best boy. There's no question. Lighting.

Yes.

I don't do the lighting. I can't reach. Um So, a couple of things on the snow shoveling.

So, I know you think I'm kidding when I read this, and I'm going to get to the calls, I promise. Cesora Amadani asked for people to go shovel the snow.

Okay. And that's what he said he didn't do last time. He didn't ask for volunteers. They make some extra money to go shovel the snow, help people out. If you want to shovel the snow in New York City, Two original forms of ID plus copy.

Social security card. Need to be done.

So some of those things and a picture ID. Got it. If you want to vote, ID only when you register. That's it.

So all those people, is this Jim as Jimmy Phalo put on Twitter? Is this Jim Snow 2.0? Because it's which is a great line. This is how crazy it is. And we got Senator Schumer, you know, back in the 90s saying, of course you need ID to vote.

We want to find out who you are. And now in 2026, it's Jim Crow, segregation. Howard, listening on COIL in Omaha, Nebraska. Hey, Howard. Hey, Brian.

In State of the Union, instead of rattling off his accomplishments, the President must speak to the voters' point of view, make the case. Quick example, Iran, a forty seven year active shooter, killing thousands. When the police show up as a midnight hammer and the active shooter doesn't get the message, you take them down. Like it. I would say this too.

This is what I'm doing. This is what I plan to do. And what I want to do, Howard, is make the Democrats say what would they do? What would they do? Name one policy that grows the economy.

All they say is: let's raise taxes and then give the money to other people. They don't talk about working for a living. They don't talk about an occupation. They don't talk about jobs. They talk about job numbers.

They talk about federal jobs. Do they talk about careers? Do they talk about is there any comprehensive blue-collar program to get tradesmen into play? Please show me. I mean, please show me what you would do.

Except for criticize Trump, who gets up every day and tries to grow the economy. John, listen to the Fox News Radio app. Hey, John, you're over in California. Good morning, Brian. How you doing?

Great. I want to, you were bringing up about the delays and problems within New York about building stuff. Due to the climate policies here in California, I had been forced with $800 electric bills to go buy a solar system that cost about twenty-five grand out of my own pocket.

Now that's a year and a half ago. I'm still waiting for permits and authorization for the state. Over a year and a half.

So I got 25 grand tied up of my own money, and I can't use a system because of state of delay.

So I'm just bringing this up because if New York wants to emulate what's going on in California, get ready. I hear you. John, that's just it. How could any governor of California consider themselves a presidential candidate? If you look at almost every metric, he's an epic failure.

He's made your life worse. homelessness, the spending, the illegal immigrants getting health care instead of legal residents and citizens of California. When you think about how much money they're trained to nowhere, Please tell me where things have gotten better. The best example is they're trying to expedite the rebuilding of the Pacific Palisades. These are some of the richest people per capita in the country.

They still can't get through it.

So the administration has to send Lee Zeldon out there to try to fix it.

So I I don't I don't get it. John, I mean, to me, I lived out there for three years. I thought it was a destination. I said, I'm going to always look to live in both places. I wouldn't even dream about living out there right now, which has more to offer in the size and scope than any other state.

I mean, you could be in the beach in one minute, and in an hour and a half, you could be in the mountains skiing. I mean, that they offer so much. But they also have the worst it's it's a one party It's a one-party state. Here's the good news. is that Steve Hilton is leading the governor's race, seventeen fourteen.

Over Eric Swalwell, And I think Porter is third. Katie Porter, that despicable human being with a filthy mouth who treats people like crap. I mean, how she's even in the public service is beyond me.

Now, if you could get the other Republican to be number two, you could be guaranteed a Republican in office.

Now, they won't be able to do much with the legislation there, but they won't be able to hurt like these other people really hurt. Can you imagine Eric Swalwell, a governor? All right, when we come back, we expand this conversation. We talk about Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ron Schutz is running against him.

We'll talk about the chances of a Republican being successful in that state that has lost its way and is going to be known as Fraud USA. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. I can tell you, Keith Ellison, this attorney general, he told those fraudsters when they came to meet with him, Sean. He said, Waltz is with me.

Waltz agrees with me. Waltz thinks that we shouldn't be investigating essentially people like you.

So he invoked the governor and said the governor agreed that investigators shouldn't be looking into these fraudsters. Sean, these were the people who committed the single greatest act of COVID fraud in the history of the United States. Total fraud, $9 billion. And people like Keith Ellison and ultimately Waltz were protecting them. These guys ought to be ashamed.

And Waltz, I say it again, Waltz ought to be indicted for his role in this. I hope it ends up like that, but it doesn't ever seem to. Ron Schutz joins us now. He wants to be the attorney general, replace Keith Ellison, and do real investigations. Ron, welcome.

Thank you for having me on, Brian.

So, do you think that Governor Waltz knew what was going on from what you know?

Well, I think that it's pretty clear that he had to know what's going on. With that much money floating around and. High profile of what was going on. I'm sure he knew what was going on. And what do you think about, you know, he's not going to run again?

What do you think about following up that? Where are these investigations? I understand there's been 74 people charged. I think there have been well more than that charged in defeating our future scandal, but that's just one of many scandals that have happened under Keith Ellison's. watch and under under the administration of Tim Walls.

There are scandals in what's known as the child care assistance program, which is basically daycare centers. There's a scandal and in fact Nick Shirley. I did had got a lot of publicity for Um The films and investigation that he did about the daycare centers. We've got non-emergency medical transportation, we've got autism centers. You can go on and on with all the fraud programs that we have here in Minnesota.

I think that Ellison and Wall should be called the fraud bros.

So why why why was this why is this so susceptible? Why was Minneapolis so susceptible to all this fraud? Lack of oversight, lack of Accountability and too much money floating around.

So, one of the problems that we've got here in Minnesota is that our one-party controlled state government. spends too much money. They basically see a social problem that they want to fix, and they don't take a smart or surgical approach to the problem. They just throw money at it. And when they do that, you've got people that see all that money and say, I want some of that and they're more than willing to commit fraud.

We also need to remember that this happened during COVID and nobody was in the office. And nobody got out of there. They were all working from home, and nobody left their offices to go out and check these. centers that were supposedly feeding thousands of children a day. They just stayed in their homes and nobody checked.

What could you do different, Ron? The Attorney General of Minnesota has very broad investigatory powers, and one of the things that I will do when I become Attorney General is I'll take a look at all these programs. where the state has money. And they are implementing the programs by giving grants out to organizations. We'll look at the ones that have the most money and will start doing some spot audits.

The Attorney General has the ability to do that. The Attorney General has the ability to issue subpoenas, call people in to testify. And what we'll do is, we'll look at the largest programs. We'll start doing some of our own checking. hoping then that everybody else looks over their shoulders and says, I don't want the Attorney General looking into my operations, or they'll decide that they're not going to commit fraud in the first place.

Here's Keith Ellison talking about how he's cracked down on fraud CUP 48. Scammers think Minnesotans are easy targets. They are wrong. When scammers go after our seniors, students, or families, I step in fast and we shut them down. If you plan to scam Minnesotans, think again.

You're stepping into the wrong ring.

So, I mean, if he has music underneath it, he seems so determined. What do you know?

Well, first of all, for Keith Ellison to say that he's a Fraud Fighter is a joke. Keith Ellison has a couple of lawyers in his office in a fraud, a Medicaid fraud unit. That's kind of standard. And he has prosecuted a few one-off fraud cases here and there, but he has not prosecuted a system. I'm sorry, he has not prosecuted a single systematic fraud case like Feeding Our Future.

And the reason he hasn't done that is he doesn't want to offend his power base. If you. Look at the transcript of the meeting that he had in December 2021. with uh several People from the East African community who came into his office to complain about how they were being treated. One of the things that jumps out is the transcript and that hasn't.

gotten a lot of press right now and I can I can read it to you here. Because I've got it. And it's a statement made by somebody who's a political operative and fundraiser. And he says, if you are secure in your donor base. And if you are secure in your power base, you can act the way you want.

And that's one of the reasons Keith Ellison is as arrogant as he is, because he thinks he's secure in his donor base. He thinks he's secure in his power base, and he's really not answerable to the people. How do you think he did in his testimony on Capitol Hill? I'm sorry, Brian. How do you think he did in his testimony on Capitol Hill?

Well Did you watch it? Yep.

So there are four words that come to mind. When I looked at that testimony. The first is Disrespectful. The second is arrogant. He's evasive and he's dishonest.

I don't think that testimony did him any good, and I would expect that there will be several clips of that testimony that will be played as this election season heats up. Wow. And do you think that the whole ICE controversy and all the things, the storming of the church, the two people shot and killed, has that made it harder or easier for Republicans to be successful in Minnesota?

Well, it's a long way between now and the election. As you know from following politics, 10 months is an eternity in politics. The news cycle changes. And what happened with the Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. That will fade.

Some other issue will. Dominate the news cycle. And so, in the short term, I don't think that necessarily did Republicans any good, but I think in the long term that. That's not going to be the issue that's going to drive the election in November. How do you get the narrative, Ron Schutz, into being more about the corruption?

How do you change the narrative?

Well, they've MetroSurge changed the narrative, but that's down now. Tom Holman has said they've pulled everybody out. I mean, I think there may only be 500 ICE agents in the Twin Cities metro area right now.

So, again, that's going to fade. Fraud is not. And the reason fraud's not going to fade is because we have a legislative session undergoing right now. And The legislature continues to investigate fraud. We would expect the U.S.

Attorney's Office to continue prosecuting fraud cases.

So I think fraud is going to continue to be front and center as we move forward. And Ron, give us an idea of your background as you want to be the next Attorney General. Uh yeah, so I mean I Typical Minnesota background. I grew up on a dairy farm, so I've got that. I went to college on an Army scholarship.

I then went to law school, and after law school, served four years in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. where I was a military prosecutor. When I left the military, I went into private practice in Minneapolis, where I spent most of my time. At a 200-lawyer law firm, a national litigation firm. And for five years, from 2019 to 2024, I was the chairman of that law firm.

So I've got substantial trial experience. In fact, I don't think Keith Ellison has tried a criminal case. From jury selection to closing argument ever in his career. I think that he has showed up once in a while, but he's a. He's a politician.

Okay, he's not a lawyer. He's not a real lawyer. And I've seen his legal.

Well, best of luck, Ron. We know that that state needs to be cleaned up, but it's up to the people of Minneapolis to realize how poorly they're being served. I'm not convinced they will be. I hope you are able to step in there and help them out. Ron Schutz, appreciate it.

He's running for the GOP nomination, the attorney general. He's the attorney general candidate going against Keith Ellison. An embarrassment to the country. Thanks so much, Ron. Back at a moment with Mike Aruzzioni.

It's been 47 years since the miracle on ice. And guess what? We have another gold medal winning hockey team. He knows what it's like then and is celebrating in Italy now. Don't move.

Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Killmead Show. Uh The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. He was a hero tonight for our team, without a doubt.

He made a lot of timely saves throughout the course of the game. Connor was part of the foundation of this group from the get-go, dating back to the Four Nations and throughout the course of this tournament. Just a high-stakes player in a high-stakes environment. I think that's when players build their legacy, and Connor certainly did that tonight. Like Jim Craig in 1980, and he's talking about Connor Hellenbach, the goalie for the USA national team, who's topped 41 of 42 shots to win the final, but it's been brilliant all tournament long.

And let's bring in Mike Aruzzioni, who saw all the action up close and personal in Milan. Mike, thanks so much for joining us. Remember, you captain of the 1980 USA hockey team. You said before, said, win this so they can stop asking me all these questions about 1980, but they're still going to ask you those questions. But maybe you can give us a thought for a guy that rose to that challenge and met it.

What was it like watching? these this group come together like this and win the gold. But I was so happy for these players. I said this earlier, this is the best United States team we've ever put on the ice. And they clearly showed that, yes, it was a hard game.

I mean, if they played Canada again tomorrow, there'd probably be another overtime game. Two great countries, two great teams. Cona Halebuck was spectacular when he needed to be. And the U. S.

just found a way to win, and that's a tribute to them Uh and and and how how much they played together and They clearly showed they're the best team that we've ever put on the ice. And I'm going to just jump away for one second and let's not forget about our women. They're the best women's team we've ever put on the ice. And they came forward and they won a gold medal as well. And just great for the players, the men and the ladies that played the game and a tribute to how far hockey's come in our country.

Really is. And I think there's nobody there's a little bit different, I guess, with the national team, right? They only played together for a few weeks, and I guess they played in other tournaments. But you guys played for a while together. You were amateurs, correct?

So when you're done with your college season, you you came together. Yeah, we you know, we had a tryout in Colorado Springs in the su during the summer, and then from that tryout they selected six uh they selected 26 players. And 26 players embarked on six months of training and traveling, getting ready for You know, making an Olympic team. And unfortunately, only 20 players were selected.

Now, I think the U.S. team does carry 25 or 26 players.

So it was a little different time. We were college players, amateurs, pros weren't allowed in the Olympic Games. And I'm glad the pros are there now because we want to see the best players in the world compete against each other. And clearly, our men's team showed why they're the best men's team we've ever put on the ice. You know, what's interesting is that they managed to bind together in two weeks.

I'm listening, I'm seeing these clips of them singing in the locker room through the tournament, and then they're singing together the Toby Keith song at the end. I mean, that's the difference. Everybody's great, right? But what's going to be the difference? And that type of thing matters.

Yeah, but you know, a lot of these guys have played together too in the World Junior Championships. I'm I'm not I don't have the list in front of me, but a bunch of them have won gold medals at the World Junior.

So a lot of these guys have been together. They they know each other very well, and yet And here's the funny thing, they're leaving here in Milan. They're going back to their NHL teams and they're going to stop competing against each other for a Stanley Cup, for a Stanley Cup.

So I think part of the reason they were so successful as a team was what you saw after the celebration, the camaraderie, camaraderie that they have, the respect that they have for each other. It's a tight-knit group. And I think Mike Sullivan and Billy Guerin, the general manager, put together not only the best players, but the right players who understood what it meant to be on an Olympic team and what it meant to play together. And I think clearly you saw that. The joy and the singing and the pride that they showed You know what's what makes this country so great?

And I've, you know, people are tired of hearing me say this, but other than being a police officer or a firefighter in the military, when you protect and serve our country, there's no greater feeling than putting on a USA jersey. You're not playing for Boston or Chicago, you're not playing for a Super Bowl or a Stanley Cup, you're playing for your country. And I think those players showed that. And I think that's what made the the moment and the victory so great for them, was the pride that they had in representing our country and accomplishing what they did. Mike, so you didn't really get a chance to appreciate what the fans afterwards.

You you got to reflect, you you see you did it and everyone's commenting about what they thought.

So now you're with the fans. And you're seeing it through their eyes, and you're pulling for them, but you're now on the outside too. What's the biggest difference? Like, you see the elation that fans have who never picked up a stick, or maybe some of which don't watch much hockey. What do you think from the fan's perspective people get from watching a team come together and win like this.

I just think the pride, the sitting in the stands, knowing that they represent you. You know, they represent your country, they don't represent our city or town, and I think people see that, and they saw that. And that's as a fan standpoint. You know, you go to a Super Bowl and you're rooting for one team and one, you know, somebody's rooting for the other team. But when you're a s a spectator at an Olympic Games or at a hockey game like that, Your mindset is on them.

They represent you. They represent your country. And I think that's the difference between an Olympic event than a normal sporting event. You know, it's also, that's why I think that you made your comment you put on social media about Hunter Hess when he came out and goes, I'm a little indifferent about playing for the U.S. I don't like everything going on there.

I was stunned by that comment. And I think he kind of walked it back. But it really bothered you too, right? Yeah, you know what? There's a lot of different things going on in our country, a lot of difficult times for a lot of people in a lot of areas and a lot of situations, but we still live in the greatest country in the world.

And the Olympic Games for me is not about politics. It's not about saying this is what I think and what you know, you're representing your country to play in an athletic event. It's not political. It's not a political climate. It's not a place to talk about that.

We have enough issues and enough things we're dealing with as it is. And I just look at the Olympic Games as something different. You're not there to talk about your political policies. Hey, everybody's got a free speech and say what you want to say, but I don't think the Olympic Games is that platform for that. And I think our team showed this men's and women's team showed how much pride they get in representing our country and playing in our country.

So I get, you know, I get maybe sometimes athletes like Hunter have their opinion, but you know what? If you ski, ski. If you play hockey, play hockey. I don't need to hear what you think about what's wrong with our country. We all have a lot of issues.

But yet, when we see our hockey team celebrate and the pride that they showed and singing the Star Spangled Banner, That's special. And all politics aside, that's got nothing to do. We'll figure out what's wrong in our country. We've got people that do that. Our athletes performed, and it was great to see them represent our country the way they did with our men's and women's team.

Would you like to have seen the Russians in the tournament? Yes, I would. Absolutely. I feel bad for the Russian athletes. They have no control over what's happening in their country and what their government's doing.

Do I like what their government's doing? Absolutely not. But it shouldn't affect the athlete. That athlete's trained. They worked hard for the opportunity to play in the Olympic Games.

So I don't like it when it gets political from that standpoint. I would have loved to have seen the Russian players here. And I bet you if you ask any of the Canadian or American players, they would feel the same way. You know, a lot of our players play with Soviet Russians on their team.

So it wasn't good. I didn't like it. I don't like seeing them not here. You know, that's the issues they have to deal with. But I think the Americans would have beat them anyway.

Mike Aruzzioni, thanks so much on reflecting and giving the play-by-play. Always great to talk to you, Mike. Thank you. All right, thank you very much. You got it.

Called us from Italy. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're here. We come to you from midtown Manhattan, which is blanketed in snow and still really windy, about 33 degrees.

It's a lot better than the last snowstorm we had, but most of you in the northeast, feeling it. Boston, 30 inches out in Suffolk County and Long Island, about 15 inches. And we're here in New York City, where very few cars are on the road. There is a total shutdown. They said only emergency vehicles, but I know some, I guess they consider taxis and Ubers because they're running.

Uh, and there's a lot of hysterical things.

So, Rosora Mdani has called for volunteer, not volunteers, but people to come in and say, if you want to make some extra money, we need snow shovelers. But you have to show up with two original forms of ID: that's a social security number or a birth certificate, and then you have to have a picture ID on top of that. But to vote, all you need is. Registration. You only have to show ID to register to vote.

So who knows who will show up? Remember Jim Crow 2.0? I mean, people don't, and there's just being endlessly mocked because of it, and he deserves that.

So, before we get. To our first guest, Tom Kirsting. Let's get to the big three. Number three. You've only played not bad.

We're giving the State of the Union. speech on Tuesday night. I could send a military plan or something. If you would like to I don't know. Can they come?

I'm not sure because I know they got an NHO contract to honor. But Team USA, men's team and women's team, close out the winter games with golds. Overall, we had the second most medals overall and 12 gold in the tournament.

So everyone's happy with the Winter Olympics. We'll talk about what makes these hockey men and women so special. Number two. I think he's got two jobs ahead of him. One is to ring that patriotic bell.

Bring our country together on the themes of patriotism the way only a president can in that grand forum. Two. Don't over brag. Don't tell the American people that you hit a home run when you hit a double. Right, get to that home run.

Say what it's going to take to get there. State of the Union, day away. What do you expect to hear the president to say? What antics will Dems try to pull on this as the stakes get higher and higher closer to the midterms? Remember last time what an embarrassment that was for them.

Number one. Since we were looking at this and the possibility of having this tool removed, we had to look at backup plans and we found ways to really reconstruct what we're doing, but it gives us very durable tools. But right now, the market's not happy. We've lost 800 points as Jamison Greer goes to Plan B. Chaos and confusion.

The Supreme Court strikes down the president's emergency authority on tariffs. And now he's going to a plan B.

So for three months, everybody gets 15% charges.

So that's one thing. The other thing that's happening, resuming today in Los Angeles, is a social media trial where these women and men, these parents, are explaining what social media has done, addicted their kids, and in many cases, cost them their lives, let alone the quality of life across the country. You have nations now banning social media until their kids are 14, 15 years old. Australia, France is getting there. Should the U.S.

I think Donald Trump is really looking at it.

So let's bring in Tom Kirsting, family therapist, author of. raising healthy teens. He has been talking about the poison of social media. Even though we like the communication, the social media is totally out of control. Tom, do you think people are coming over to your point of view?

I do, Brian. I mean, as you know, I've been giving lectures on this topic for 17 years. Wrote the book Disconnected, very popular book on the topic of mental health and screen time. And I think. You know, other countries now jumping on this, banning social media is opening up the eyes of the decision makers here.

In our country. And if you would uh go ask any parent I'm telling you right now, probably nine out of ten are going to say, yes, I would love it if there was a ban on social media for kids under the age of sixteen. From what you noticed, is it are these these devices excuse me these social media platforms designed to addict you? They are. I mean, and they had internal documents, whistleblowers in this trial, showing that that's what has happened.

I mean, obviously, I know this. I see it on a daily basis at my private practice, written stuff about this.

So it's extraordinarily addictive. And as we've talked about in the past, these products are designed intentionally to target the pleasure-seeking part of the brain that produces dopamine, right? And dopamine overload is associated with every form of addiction, whether it's drugs, alcohol, grand. And in this case, the modern day weapons of mass destruction to smartphones.

So here is Matthew Bergman. He's doing the press conference after Mark Zuckerberg testified. And essentially, he was confronted with some memos that talked about how they got to get user time extended another 13% this year and how to do it.

So cut fifty. This was a momentous period of time. This was a momentous event in the history of American law and American jurisprudence because it was something that for years. A social media company never thought would happen. They never thought that they would ever have to face a jury.

They never thought that they would have to stand up and explain themselves under oath because they thought that through Section 230 they could avoid the liability and avoid the responsibility that every other company in America bears witness to and operates under.

So they believe that they got exposed. From what you see at the trial, what do you think we've learned and what do you think the jury's hearing? Yeah, I think number one, they're hearing from individuals I think there's one six hundred sixteen hundred plaintiffs. I mean, obviously, they're not all there. But I think it's it kind of reminds me of the we've seen this, the tobacco Industry many years ago.

And I saw a clip, I think it was on Fox a couple weeks ago, where they had, you know, where these executives had to answer questions, and each and every one of them said, I do not believe that tobacco or nicotine is addictive. I do not believe it is addictive. And that's what you're going to hear from these executives. I don't believe it's addictive. I don't think we intentionally did it.

And were they going to come out and say, yes, we did. And now you're sort of like, you know, making yourself guilty.

So I think you're going to see a lot of. a lot more questioning, a lot more answers coming out and a lot more evidence showing that yes, duh, you know, this is the the biggest problem. And the only answer would be to to ban it for kids under fifteen, right? In my opinion, yeah, I think we got to get particularly social media. I mean, the phone, you know, there's something called the gab wireless, right?

It's a phone, you can text. There's no Internet access.

Something like that's fine. But with the, you know, you're talking about young kids whose brains are still developing, you know, getting sucked into this vortex of social media where they're exposed to the stuff that no parent would want them to be exposed to. And on top of it, you know, it's designed to be addictive. Yeah, I want this stuff banned for kids under 16.

So I want you to hear Maureen Malik. She says this shows the addiction is real. Uh CUD 52.

Well, when we knew it was really serious was when David started lying about completing his homework. He was sneaking around using his devices when they were supposed to be locked up down in the kitchen. He would get angry and aggressive when we would try to get him to stop using the devices. And then there, towards the end, he started stealing from us in order to purchase virtual assets to increase his player power through some of these gaming platforms. It was nothing more than just a nightmare in our home.

Sound familiar?

Sounds to me almost sounds like you could replace that with heroin or crack cocaine. Yep.

In the sentence of that moment, that's exactly Drug addicts. Yeah, no question. And Tom, I guess the whole thing is, what if I told like we know if you're putting together a T V series, I want you looking forward to American Idol. I want you to look forward to my next episode of Stranger Things.

So, I'm a social media platform. I want you on there.

So what's the difference? Like how would you characterize the difference? Remember soap operas were huge, big were big for about 50 years. People felt addicted to All My Children and Another World. Tell me the difference.

In general hospital. Yeah. You know, the difference is that back then you'd watch one of those half-hour soap operas and you have to wait. To the following week to see the next one.

Now you can binge watch on Netflix anything you want over and over again, right? You know, TV doesn't have the same lore, in my opinion, as these little phones do. No, social media, they use these short form clips. They have AI algorithms that are pumping stuff that it knows you're interested in over and over against you. And it's just like click, click, click, click.

So a little bit different. You know, from television, I tell families, sit down and watch TV together. You know, it's more peripheral. You know, it's got going on around you. You don't get sucked into it as much as you would these little phones.

Yeah, at least you can talk about some commonality because you go into your own world when you stare at your own screen, which is choreographed just for you. I actually, what bothers me most is TikTok is the most insidious, and they settled out of court. I wanted them, but I don't even know what the face of TikTok is these days. Tom Kirsting, thanks so much. You've always been ahead of the curve on this, and hopefully, the president will embrace a national ban under 16.

It would be great. I don't know anybody pushing back against it except the media companies. Tom, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me, bro.

All right.

So, listen, we come back. Sid Rosenberg is going to join us and tell us what's going on here in New York City, especially with this mayor trying to get it right in his second snowstorm. And also, you heard Farid Zakaria call out Bomdami yesterday. Not somebody that usually would take on a 34-year-old Democratic mayor. You'll find out why in a moment.

Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeet Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. So State of the Union, this is what I would do.

I would keep it moving, number one. Number two is talk about the improvements that have been made. Talk about the trade deals that have been done. Talk about the neutralizing an enemy in Venezuela, the conversion in Central and South America. I'm talking about Bolivia switches governments.

Argentina has kicked out China. Panama has kicked out China. Cuba is about to blow. You talk about this foreign policy, and then you come in and talk about the plant that's going to be built. And in In for example, in New Orleans, they're building this huge data center.

They're doing another one over in Arizona. These are going to be planned, these are going to be jobs that are going to come on into line shortly. And talk about everything that's going to be lining up. And what the overall goal was. And I would take a step back and go, Do you know why I'm putting on tariffs?

It seems to me that I'm looking at a lot of these polls. And I don't think you understand. I maybe haven't done a good enough job explaining it. And I would say, we have a situation when the 2020 pandemic hit, we realized suddenly as a country, we make zero. I knew it in 2016, tried to get people's attention.

They weren't listening. And now we realize that China's making masks. China's making our drugs. China's got our rare earth. When it comes to making cars, we're shipping them to different countries.

They might be American, but they're not made, but they're not made in America. And he said, we got to reconfigure right away. And it looked at these unbalanced trade deals and said, look, World War II is over. These countries have been rebuilt. Let's start leveling the playing field.

And the way Trump does it, he goes in there, creates some leverage, and then comes back and cuts a deal. And in that time, you've cut nine deals. That is the whole approach to tariffs. And the goal would be: yes. There are tariffs for clothing.

And the reason why? Because we don't make them here. And the reason why we don't make them here is because international trade deals really leverage a lower price made overseas. But the problem is when you do things like that, it gets rid of manufacturing in our country and it hollows us out and leaves us susceptible and vulnerable to other nations. And then I would just talk about how we're moving in the right direction, getting everything going, and talk about the reduction in crime, talk about the ceasefire which was happening over in the Middle East.

I know people don't love talking about what's happening in Israel. I think we should. I think it's got to be the party that is pro-Israel. Let the rest of the world catch up. And then you talk about how our military has been called upon to bomb out the Houthis, take out the Syrian terrorists.

of take out the nuclear program of Iran. And then Venezuela and capture Maduro in his bed, bring him back, kill 30 Cubans, and then get that country back onto line into a market economy. That's the process that's going underway. Our military has never been stronger, I would argue, and this, because we're not staying in trench wars. Go in a military operation in our interest and get out.

That's the same thing that will happen with Iran. I know it. I think there's no doubt about it. We're going to get there. And when Mark Thiessen comes in, I'm going to talk more about that.

I don't want to get too into it now. But here is what the President plans on doing now that Now that the Supreme Court voted 6-3. That he's no longer allowed to use IEPA, an emergency authority, to. Put tariffs. On any country he wants.

So now there's going to be a Plan B. And here it is, cut 8. The strategy didn't change because the problem remains the same. And frankly, as the President and his advisors reviewed this action, this authority allows the President to go up to 15 percent. And considering the severity of the issue we're dealing with, which is a huge unfairness, huge disparity, huge imbalance between the United States and its trading partners, just the urgency of the situation demands that he use his full authority, which is to impose a 15% for about five months.

And then we're going to be right back at it in July, and then you're going to see if we're going to extend it. My hope is. In theory, that all these trade deals get done, you're not going to need them 15% across the board to even extend them because the trade deals would be done with the major countries that we want to do it with. And I could hit you with the Section 122 authority or Section 232 by the Commerce Department and what the Section 301 would do. But I don't think you care.

I think you just want to know if the markets are going to be settled and they're not. And I think you want to know what's going to happen with the products that you get. And I think you're seeing a lot of them come down, and some of them need to get up. But Democrats are using, looking at what's going on now with tariffs, and if I can quote him exactly, as a political gift. He says the gift is politically, it's politically perfect because they're going to go to bat for some businesses that were affected and say, look at how they're abandoning this toy company in Wisconsin.

Look at how they're hurting this factory, excuse me, this shirt company over in New Jersey. And they're going to point to those stories. But then the president could turn around and point to other success stories and other states where they do manufacturing and it's helped substantially. Like for example, in Indiana, listen to Governor Mike Braun Cut 12. Indiana's, along with Wisconsin, the two biggest states per capita manufacturing.

So tariffs would have been a plus due to the industries that have been kind of hobbled out. You look at Gary, Indiana. That was the second largest city in Indiana. Steel goes overseas. I think the key is trade has to be fair and free.

And from the Marshall Plan through rebuilding the global economy, we did some things that got that out of balance. I mean, we were in a trillion-dollar give or take annual deficit in trade, $2 trillion on our fiscal account. That turns you into a debtor nation.

So ideally, through reciprocity, you get things down and even, free and fair, and get back on an even playing field. Over those 40, 50 years, it got imbalanced, and I think that's where Trump was coming from.

Yeah, um That's what definitely helps Indiana. In a state like Illinois doesn't make anything. They want to know why their products are more expensive.

Well, some of which they've not adjusted from the tariff, some of which have nothing to do with it. But this is an opportunity for governors who run for president like Newsom. as well as Pritzker to go off on that, as well as Shapiro real disappointing, especially because he should be a little concerned because Pennsylvania is very much Trump territory. I want you to hear Sarah Isker break this whole down, cut sixteen. This is the most consequential case on presidential power that we've probably had in decades, but it also is in line with what they've said before.

Presidents trying to use vague emergency powers delegated by Congress simply are going to lose at the court. Biden, student loan debt forgiveness, Trump trying to send the National Guard to Chicago, and now tariffs. The court saying Congress needs to get in the game. Presidents cannot do the job of Congress by themselves.

Well, say an emergency authority would. For example, if there's an attack, we hit back. You don't really need a war delegation confirmation. For example, if there's an Iran, I want the president to explain to everybody what's going on with Iran, why we need to go in there. I get it.

You get it. Maybe the rest of the country doesn't see the urgency like certain right-wing podcasters. I don't feel that way, but he explains it. But after that, you don't need Congress to play politics with. Did you see Rogana and Tom Massey making a move in the House to stop the president from taking action in Iran?

Really? I mean, it's just pure politics. Trocano thinks he's going to be a presidential candidate, and Tom Cassie and Massey has no friends or nothing to do. We come back. Mark Thiessen joins us.

You listen to the Brand Kill Meet Show. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back. Mark Thiessen's in studio.

Mark is a multi-dimensional. In many ways. And it's a challenge for me because you can do so many things so well. Where do you go? Where do you start?

A lot of people throw up their hands and just say, go to break. But I'm not going to do that. You are a challenge. Your speech writer. We have the State of the Union tomorrow.

How do I? That is the big story.

So you understand with the hand that Trump has and what he needs to do in nine months. I'll tell you what, Ari Fleisch had some good input, but what is yours? How would you frame out the speech? First of all, the State of the Union is the hardest speech to write and to give. Because it's essentially a laundry list of policies that the whole government fights about.

But it's also the most watched speech that the president delivers because 30 to 50 million people tune in.

So you have a built-in audience without a filter to the American people in a way that the president doesn't have almost on any other occasion, save for maybe Inauguration Day, right?

So it's a great opportunity, but it's a very hard speech to deliver. Trump's State of the Union addresses have been among the best of any president in my lifetime. I mean, they've been really very effective. He has, what is the big question everybody is asking every time there's a State of the Union? Is the State of the Union strong?

Every president has to say, literally, what is the State of the Union? And the problem Trump faces right now is that most Americans don't think the State of the Union is strong, even though he keeps saying we're the hottest country in the world. Most Americans don't agree with that. They think things are bad. Their economy is bad.

And he needs to recognize that he inherited one of the worst. Situations at home abroad of any president since Ronald Reagan came in, Jimmy Carter. Biden spent $7 trillion. Yeah. But it takes more than a year for it to be mourning in America again.

So he has put in place a lot of policies that are going to have a great effect. The tax cuts, regulations being lifted, the no tax on tips, the whole one big, beautiful bill, a lot of the trade deals he's gotten, a lot of the investment he's brought in.

So there's a lot of things that are going to. Unleash the economy and make things better, but people aren't feeling it yet. And the problem is Biden went out and said, don't believe your lion eyes. The economy is great, right? And everybody, and just everybody shuts you out because it's not your lived reality.

You know, they were saying, but he was saying, Bidenomics, you know, it's awesome. Don't believe what they're telling.

So if Trump does that, it's not going to be effective because people are just going to say, I'm sorry, but I'm not feeling it.

So what he has to do is thread the needle of we inherited a bad situation. We're fixing it. It's going to take some time. A lot of things are better now than they were. Prices are lower.

Gas prices are lower. Cite all the good things, but acknowledge that it's not where we want it to be. My pastor has an, you know, when it comes to Christian theology, my pastor has a saying: I'm not who I want to be, but I'm not who I used to be. And that's where we are in the economy. Yeah, we're not where we want to be, but we're not where we used to be.

And we're getting to the right direction. And so Trump has to sort of channel that, or else people will just not listen. The MAGA world will love it, the Democrats will hate it, and Middle America will just look at it and just shug. Will there be antics? I mean, last time I was actually in the chamber watching the popsticks and seeing Al Green storm with his cane, I mean, it was crazy.

Here's what Hakeem Jeffries said: cut 21. My view remains the same. which is that The two options that are in front of us in our house is to either a 10 With silent defiance, Or To not attend and send a message to Donald Trump in that fashion. which will include participation in a variety of different alternate programming that is going to take place in and around the Capitol complex.

So, your thoughts. I mean, he's right. There's no excuse for a lack of decorum because you're not disrespecting Donald Trump. You're disrespecting the office. It's embarrassing.

And it's embarrassing. And so, I mean, to the extent that it happens, it's good for Trump because if he is delivering a strong address and a thoughtful address and a presidential address and they're behaving poorly, it reflects badly on them. And so, you know, if they want to disrupt and behave like children, let them do it. Yeah. But the whole world's watching, and you just wonder.

And by the way, sit there in defiance? They're just assuming that everyone's defiant against Trump. I guess that's what he expects of his chamber. Yeah, of his caucus for sure. Right.

So let's talk about Iran, if we can.

So basically, list stuff that you still want to do. What about foreign policy before we move on and talk specifics? I mean, he's had so many victories on foreign policy. He's got blowing up the Midnight Hammer, blowing up the nuclear program, yet the Venezuelan situation, neutralizing the Houthis, bringing the hostages out. But yet every old stats and polls Don't really Seem indifferent about all this success.

You know what? It's funny because most Americans don't vote on foreign policy, but they care about foreign policy. Like, if you look at the polls and they say, you know, there's this thing on the isolationist right that's like he's spending too much time on foreign policy and should be focusing on the economy. Most Americans expect you to walk and chew gum at the same time. You're commander-in-chief.

And the polls don't show that. And polls show that he's spending about the right time on foreign policy or should be spending more time on foreign policy outweighs people saying he spends too little.

So you have to address it. And he's got a lot of successes to highlight. I hope that he has the families of the Abbey gate bombing in the gallery because he got after Biden said, We will hunt you down, we will make you pay, he did nothing in six weeks into his second term. He blew up somebody loading up a water bottle. Yeah, exactly.

A humanitarian aid worker. I hope he has the families of the Abbey Gate bomber because he's got the guy who behind it. I hope he has the families of the Benghazi victims because he got that guy too. It's a great idea. He should.

To have all those people sitting in the gallery and call them out because he did that. I think he needs to call out the successes he had and the fact that we had America's reputation on the world stage was an absolute disaster when he came in. And he's restored American deterrence. We're respected in the world again. We're feared in the world again like we weren't under Biden.

And, you know, again, work in progress, but he has a lot of accomplishments to cite.

So we have our assets, Gerald R. Ford, is virtually in place right now. And it looks like two aircraft carriers, significant amount of firepower, about 40,000 troops into Iran.

So a third of our entire Navy is in the region. That takes money. That takes effort. Then the Gerald R. Ford was going home.

It turned around.

So these are real people. But the president's got to worry. According to the New York Times, not denied by the White House, he was meeting on Wednesday, at which time from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he wanted to know, what are the chances of success? He goes, this is going to be a much harder operation than Venezuela. He told him, I have a great deal of optimism we're going to have success.

He didn't have that. Same thing, same with the CIA. He wouldn't recommend or not recommend. He said, these are the things that could happen. They're concerned about.

Sponsored terror activity on assets in Europe and in the Middle East. But obviously You look at Iran, they've never been more vulnerable. No. They've never been more vulnerable.

So first of all, I think one of the things the President has to do with the State of the Union address is prepare the American people for this operation. First of all, everyone takes for granted that Venezuela went so smoothly. A helicopter could have gone down like in Desert One. We could have not gotten Maduro. We could have had Americans killed.

That was a very risky, bold operation. And he made that decision anyway.

So he doesn't shy away from tough decisions. But this is, you know, also the other thing that's changed is that if he had done this four or five weeks ago when he was first talking about it, it probably would have been a couple of days of strikes that would have been mostly symbolic, would have taken out some regime targets. What we're talking about now is something much more comprehensive and much more. Do you like that decision to do something more comprehensive? I do.

I think we should decapitate the regime. I think that we have a chance to do that. And the Iranian people will rise up. They're ready. They're waiting.

Will they rise up against each other? No, I think they're going to rise up against the regime. I think right now the factions in Iran, even the ones that hate each other, hate the regime a lot more. I was at a conference in London. London, this security conference in London with an Iranian this week.

And she said that she spoke to somebody in Tehran and she said, You just drop the bombs, we'll tell the mullahs limb from limb ourselves. That's the tone. That's the feeling of the Iranian people. But he has an opportunity to end this regime. And even if it doesn't completely decapitate the regime, the remnants of the regime will be completely dependent on us, just like Del C.

Rodriguez is completely dependent on the United States. They will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump. Couple of things that are going on. The Army, Navy, and Air Force officials raised concerns going to the New York Times about the impact that a protracted war with Iran or just remaining poised for such a conflict could have on our readiness of Navy ships. We have scarce Patriot anti-missile defenses.

I can't believe we still have that. And overstretched transport and surveillance planes. Times said if diplomacy or limited strike fails to make Terror unfold, a broader attack in the coming months is under consideration. But they might immediately start with a smaller attack to send a message and say the worst is yet to come. Yeah, a smaller attack is a stupid idea.

You either do it or you don't do it. And not doing it after the President put his name on the line, drew a red line, told the Iranian regime: if you kill tens of thousands of people, I'm going to take you out, told the Iranian people to rise up and help us on the way. It would be a repeat of Barack Obama in Syria after when he said don't use chemical weapons and instead didn't follow through on his red line. I don't think Donald Trump is anything like Barack Obama. I don't think he's not going to deliver on his promise.

I think so.

So, do you think that there are people in the administration trying to talk him out of it? Oh, I'm sure there are. Or maybe not trying to talk him out of it, but highlighting all the risks. And one of the things that I think the President understands is he's right, there are risks to acting. And this is why he needs to start with the State of the Union address, but eventually give an address to the Nation where he explains.

What the risks are of acting, but also that there are risks of inaction, right? And that has to be explained. And he needs to tell the American, tell them, remind the American people the facts about the Iranian regime. This is a regime that's killed more Americans, bedeviled seven American presidents. It's killed more Americans than any terrorist regime in the history of the world.

It's spreading terror and funding terrorist proxies all across the world. They tried to carry out terrorist attacks on our soil. They tried to kill, they had a plot to kill President Trump in 2024. They were going to kill the Saudi ambassador by blowing up Cafe Milano in downtown D.C. They had a plot against Mike Pompeo.

So they're carrying out terrorist operations. And so this is a destabilizing regime. Why do we have so many military assets and spend so much time in the Middle East? It's because of Iran. If you decapitate this regime and remove it from the battle space, guess what?

We can move all those assets to the Pacific. Why do you think China doesn't want us to do this? Do they really care that much? About Iran? No, because it frees us up to deal with them.

And it frees us up to deal with our hemisphere. We can finally extricate ourselves from the Middle East. And they also want cheap oil. Yeah. Here's what Brian Mass said, cut 27.

So I expect number one that diplomacy continues. You have Kushner, you have Witkoff meeting in Geneva, trying to offer, here's the off-ramp. You have to end nuclear enrichment. You have to end ballistic missile program. Stop having the Ayatollah kill your people.

Stop threatening the United States of America. I don't think they'll take that off ramp. I think we end up using the capabilities of our two carrier battle groups that are in the region when that timeline hits to say the threat to America comes to an end. It's destruction or diplomacy. It's one or the other.

And I think they choose destruction. He's 100% correct. And at this point, I don't think a deal was. I mean, I think it's good that the president is going through the motions of giving them an off-ramp, but I think if they took the off-ramp, I don't think they're going to take the off-ramp, it would be terrible. Because if you do a deal, let's say they agree to everything he wants, right?

No enrichment, get rid of our ballistic missiles, stop funding terror, but we get to survive. What do they get in return? Billions of dollars in frozen assets, all the sanctions lifted. It gives them a lifeline to restore the regime, and they'll do that for a few years. And as soon as Donald Trump is gone and we have some weak Democratic president back in office, they'll cheat on the deal and start all over again.

Absolutely. And, you know, how can after they after they killed tens of thousands of people, how could we reward them financially with sanctions from the US? Mark, you've got to help the president put together a speech that explains to the American people its priority because already in Congress, Tom Massey, Rocana, Tim Kaine, Senate, we're going to look to put together legislation to stop the president from taking action in Iran. They don't have the authority to do that. He's the commander-in-chief.

True, but he won't. They can cut off the funding, but they can't block him from using 70%, 70% of. The Republicans went asked are for a regime change in Iran. Yeah. Back in a moment.

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I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy.

Yeah. And you know And I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940.

Okay. But literally, a 960 SAT guy, I cannot, you've never seen me. Read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech. This may be the wrong business to be in.

Yeah. So in front of a mostly black audience Gavin Newsom says I'm just like you. I'm dumb? Right, I'm 96 SATs. I can't read, just like you.

Thanks.

Well, I mean, is he? Is this going to be impossible for him to outrun this? Yeah, he's. He's the most overrated politician I've ever seen. There's nothing authentic about him.

There's nothing authentic about him. He just puts his finger in the wind. He tries to please everybody. And I'll tell you the other thing is that he's sort of the problem that the Democrats have, which is that all of their leading contenders are people who are running, disastrously running blue states. You know, I mean, so think about California.

California. For one hundred and seventy five years people moved to California. Then Gavin Newson came along for the first time one point four people million left. Right? I mean, he there they ran out of U-Hauls at one point.

There were so many people leaving. It's an absolute disaster. And what's le and it's interesting because he said now, well, nine we've got a net gain of nineteen thousand last year. You know what that was? Illegal aliens.

That came in under Biden. All the Americans have left and gone to Nevada and gone to Arizona and gone to Texas, gone to Florida, and they brought in illegal migrants, which is fine for the census, but they're not, you know.

So he's one of the most. And by the way, Palisades fire, 16,000 homes destroyed. You know how many have been rebuilt? Less than a dozen. Right.

I mean, it's incompetence. It's sheer incompetence. He's the worst governor in the country. And his explanation is ridiculous. Yeah, I'm going to get, I don't know what's going on with that mayor.

Like he has negative responsibility.

So let's talk about USA hockey. I mean, your thoughts about the victory, the magnitude of it, outshot by two to one, sudden death, three on three. You're a big hockey fan. Yeah, this was so awesome. And what I love so much is.

And the women won. And both the men and the women won the gold medal. And this was such a gutsy game because they were so outplayed by the by and it was just, it was, we had better defense. We had better penalty kill. The U.S.

penalty kill. Was not scored on the entire Olympic tournament, not once, the entire tournament. It was just awesome. And what I love, Jack Hughes is my new hero. This kid just loves America, loves his country.

You know, this kid, I mean, think about what he said.

So did Quinn, his brother. Yeah, I mean, so Quinn got the game-winning goal in the semifinal. He got the game-winning goal in the goal. And so, this kid, he goes the last period, he gets a stick in the teeth, loses three teams. Oh, you want to hear him?

He comes back out on the ice, scores the game-winning goal, then credits his goalie for winning the game, and just says, I love America. I mean, you want to hear him talk about that? Yeah, yeah, cut 36. It's not even so much like the injuries or anything. It's like your whole life, you're going up against things.

There's always new adversity, new challenges. And you know, every single player in that game tonight, Canada, US, When they were like six, seven, eight years old, man, every single player went through so many things and like you're just grinding and you're grinding and you're working your way up.

So, as much as I've been dealing with stuff and you guys like to talk about it, that doesn't phase me because when I was 12 years old, I was dealing with stuff when I was 12 years old.

So, I want you to hear him talk about the actual teeth being knocked out. Cut 37. I mean Like, my first thought was to draw the penalty. Actually, my first thought was: I looked down the ice and saw my teeth. I was like.

Like here we go again.

So I know the last time that happened it wasn't very fun. You think so? And he still played? Are you kidding me?

He said, We have the best gentle care in America. I'll be fine. They'll fix me up. I mean, what a, what a, you know, hockey players are so awesome. Do you think they'll be at the State of the Union?

I hope so. They invited, you know, if the NHL lets them, I bet the NHL ought to let them because they got to start playing on Wednesday night. Right.

And better bring the women, though. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that wasn't good. But maybe, maybe they still will go. I hope.

Mark, thanks so much. Mark Teason. Watch them all over the channel, and you'll be in D.C. tomorrow. I will.

All right.

Hopefully, you'll be with me. Tuesday, Wednesday. Brian Killmeat.