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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmead Show coming to you on a beautiful Wednesday, beautiful at least in the Northeast. Rich Lowry is amongst my guests. Britt Yoom is going to kick us off. It's going to be a big show.

A lot is happening today, and we'll cover it all. And of course, Maria Bardaromo had an interview on Fox with the president, second one in four days. And here he's going to update us and we'll have some of those sound bites. He'll update us on where he thinks the war is at. I had a chance to talk to him this morning, the president, and he basically has no voice because he was up yelling at certain people throughout the night, and it wasn't his staff.

So, before we get to Britt, let's get to the big three. Number three. New York City, it is time for a grand experiment once again. During our campaign, we promised New Yorkers that we would create a network of city-owned grocery stores. And we are here today to celebrate the site of the Manhattan store, La Marqueta.

Yes, keep in mind, a Manhattan store that'll be done. In three years and cost 30 million dollars. This is going to fail. And guess what? It's not even going to be discounted outside some pennies off eggs and milk.

It's going to be like any other store. And it's going to fail, I guarantee you. But let's find out together. Number two.

Some Republicans and others are saying that Democrats turned kind of a blind eye, that they knew what he was up to over what the allegations were. That is absolutely positive. The rumors are heard. were that he was just a flirty social guy. That's it.

Really?

Okay, Democrats running for the Hills as the scandal plague Washington, D.C. is now overrun, but nobody has it worse than Eric Swalwell with five separate accusers, already criminal investigations. He's resigning from Congress. What it means for the balance of power and more. Number one, I think it's close to over.

Yeah, I mean, I view it as very close to over. You know what? If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country, and we're not finished. That is the president of the United States closer to the end than the beginning. That's the indication from President Trump today as he turns up the leverage on Iran with a massive blockade and a freezing of funds with the special help from the Gulf states.

Britt Hume joins us now. Britt, not much going on. Yes, very quiet news week. It really is. I mean, let's start with the President.

I know that he likes to work the refs and also likes to keep the Iranians off balance. Do you think it's closer to the end than the beginning? It may well be, but he says that all the time. You know, he's been saying since very early in the proceedings here that it was almost over. And in a military sense, I he's had a point, but we're still over there and we've still got warships active.

And he has also said today, we're not done yet, so you never quite know with him what exactly is going to happen. I love the sealing off of the Strait. I love the fact that now all countries that were getting you know, certain countries like China was getting in and out, they're not getting in and out anymore. And the President said that they were making announcements to everyone in the Gulf. Don't even try to come in and out.

And that stops, they say, the Iranians from making as much as $430 million each day. You know, that establishes to me something I've thought all along, which is that this the closing of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran was never the h the great hold card that a lot of people seem to think and that the Iranians seem to think, simply be for this reason. I mean, it was easy for us, once our military was in place and their navy had been destroyed, to impose this blockade. And Iran, of all nations in the world, needs the Strait of Hormuz to be open. And it can't really survive economically if it's closed.

And we've closed it without apparently any problems at all.

So I'm amazed. And I remember, and you were working every day during the Iraq war. And I remember Senator Luger and some Republicans were not supporting it at the end, and they did not support the surge. I understand it. But I can't believe how many Democrats never actually seem to be cheering for China.

I mean, Chuck Schumer yesterday basically outlining what he says is failure after failure. Senator Warner, who should know better, says there's no reason for this blockade. He can't figure it out. I mean Do you feel this this is a change in Washington when it comes to war? You know, this is driven by one thing, Brian, and it is one of the facts of life of this era, which is that the opposition resistance to Donald Trump, indeed the loathing of Donald Trump among Democrats and their friends in the media is as intense as anything I've ever seen in politics.

It is a very potent force.

So no matter what this President does, no matter what, they're going to fight him, resist him, criticize him, oppose him, and find ways to be critical. for someone uh as seasoned as Senator Warner is to say he doesn't understand the reason for it is ridiculous. Um but there they all are.

So they say China is affected. They say they're playing a role in this. They said they made 26 calls back and forth between Iran and the U.S. I also think if the President wanted to get and get a hold of the Gulf states and say, guys, Call up China. They want to do business with you.

Make China make a decision. Us or Iran? They're trying to destroy their energy sector. They're trying to destroy their oil and gas reserves by blowing up desalinization plants. It seems the Gulf states understand the danger.

Maybe they should let China know, because China is their chief supplier. You think that's plausible?

Well, I think China is interesting here because China depends heavily on oil coming out of that region and oil from Iran in particular. And that is a s that shows you that for all the talk about China's ten feet tall in AI and the threat from China is grave and we're vulnerable and China could do whatever it wants with Taiwan and all that, China has real vulnerabilities. And this is one example of that. And China can't afford to have this go on. It is very much in China's interest to help us to reopen the strait and to get the Iranians to cool it.

And I think that's what the President is working on with them. And it's just why I think, and one of the reasons why while he postponed, he did not cancel that summit with Xi, which I think he expects will be will be a favorable event for him and for the U.S. Trevor Burrus I want to give people an example.

Somebody you know, Thomas Friedman, he's a deep thinker, big connections, and he Has learned to really despise Trump. How do I know? Listen to what he said over the weekend, Cut 15. I really don't want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are two awful human beings. They're both engaged in anti-democratic projects in their own countries.

They're both alleged crooks. They are terrible, terrible people doing terrible things to America's standing in the world and Israel standing in the world. And so I really find myself torn. I want to see Iran militarily defeated, but I do not want to see these two terrible people strengthened. That is, I saw it think so over the top, I find nauseating.

But do you?

Well, I think it's a wonderful example of the the force I was just talking about of the sentiment against Donald Trump. These people, these people cannot overcome, cannot see past Donald Trump's personal failings as they see them to judge what he has done in any accurate or objective way. I mean, to say that the U.S. standing in the world is being damaged by Donald Trump oh, yes, European leaders are angry at him and a lot of people don't like him personally. But you look at what's been happening around the world, it has not been that the United States is less respected now.

I think particularly militarily, we're probably more respected than we've been in many years.

So, I want to talk about what's happening on Capitol Hill. We've seen just different scandal cycles, but man, this is a busy one. First, on Eric Swalwell, I mean, he's got five different accusers, got to investigate. He's being investigated now criminally in Los Angeles and New York City. And then these women that go on the record yesterday, a former model was on there accusing Eric Swalwell of horrific things, including drugging her.

And now, the question is: who on the Democratic side? And he had the most powerful people. Adam Schiff over in California had the support of Nancy Pelosi as he's running for governor, who knew about Eric Swalwell's ways. I think. That must be pretty obvious going back to the time when we all heard about his affair with a Chinese spy, that something was wrong with this guy, uh that he lacked judgment, uh that he had didn't have good self control.

And for people like Nancy Pelosi to say, as she has been saying for a couple of days now, that she didn't know anything about this, never heard of it, absolutely false, she said. I don't buy that, and I don't think very many people should buy that. I want you to hear one of the accusers yesterday, cut 27, Lana Drews. On the third occasion. I believe he drugged my drink.

I only had one glass of wine.

Okay. He We were supposed to go to a political event and he said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room. When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated and I couldn't. With My arms are my body. He raped me.

And he choked me. And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness. Yeah. And I thought I died. Yeah, I mean, we're not talking about no longer a governor candidate, no longer a congressman.

This guy is heading down the Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein Road. He is, uh, Brian, and he could end up in jail. And this is something that this is a a a very big scandal because this guy was a prominent f uh figure and critic Of the president. And he was, and the idea that all this was going on with him. And nobody knew.

is really not credible. And the the Republicans uh didn't really do this. The Democrats uh l looked at the race out in California And he and a lot of them thought Swalwell would be their guy to to be the to be governor. uh suddenly, uh, in that weird primary system they have out there where, you know, it's a free for all, it's not done party by party, it's it's an open primary, uh, two Republicans were leading. which meant that you could end up with a race between two Republicans in the fall and a Republican governor guaranteed.

And the the Democrats didn't want to look at that and thought, my God, we can't have this. We've gotta we've gotta we we've gotta uh narrow our field. We've got too many too many candidates splitting splitting the vote and allowing the Republicans to lead.

So, the next thing you know, they made very swift business of getting rid of Swalwell, aided by this scandal which broke at a very bad time for him and a very bad time for the Democratic Party.

So, you don't think this was an organic thing, or Swarwell's mistakes have caught up with him? You think someone was engineering this, not saying the stories aren't true?

Well, I'm not saying the stories aren't true. I'm s uh I suspect they are true. Um, but the timing was interesting. Yeah. And it did ha as it happened, his his uh losing his place in the race and then his seat Ended up being useful for the Democrats trying to narrow the field in the race for governor.

So, this battle between the Pope and the President, it seems like a political battle by a guy from Chicago and a guy from New York, less than it does the President and the Pope. He did take his first shots to the Pope in January, saying that war is coming back in vogue and the zeal for war is now spreading. Made a comment the other day. It's ironic, the name of Donald Trump's site, website, is TruthSocial. I'd call that ironic.

It says you can never justify war. Called it the madness of war, enough of the idolatry of war. Um And somebody's self of money. And he goes on to talk about enough of the display of power. The Pope was taking shots at Trump.

And Trump, I think you've heard, doesn't really he returns every shot. What do you think about this?

Well, I think there are people worth fighting with. and people are not worth fighting with. Uh the the the Pope doesn't have any votes in Congress. Uh the Pope isn't somebody who's a who's a threat to Donald Trump's ability to govern. Um I don't think it's a smart move to to to uh attack the Pope or or respond to the Pope with uh in kind.

Um the things the Pope said were relative I think you know they're critical, but they're relatively mild. And they it's it's the kind of thing you'd expect clerics to say. Opposing the war, you don't want to be um mil militarily aggressive and all the rest of that sort of thing. We've heard all that kind of thing before. I think Trump, as he does, rose to the bait.

I don't think he needed to. I don't think it was wise for him to do so. I think tactically you're right, but do you find it odd that he would not bring up the That President Trump's the only one to take action in Nigeria were Christians who were being massacred, including 30 on Palm Sunday. They'll bring up the 1,500. 1,639 people were executed inside Iran, a high from 1989.

They just killed some say 41,000 innocent people in cold blood. We've seen the body bags, but yet it's President Trump that gets called out by the Pope.

Well, you know, if he'd said something like that, Brian, you know, if he'd simply cited other examples of of that are worthy of att uh, criticism by the Pope, that that would have been different. Um, but he made it personal. You mean the way he went back at him? Yeah, I mean, um, you know, there there are ways and ways to do these things and and uh and, you know, you got the the danger that c Catholics who revere the Pope will be alienated by this. It'll be to many of them an example of Trump's crudeness and vulgarity and and mean spiritedness and all the rest of it.

There's no reason to there's no reason to get into that fight. Media question for you. 60 minutes. Sunday Nor O'Donnell does an interview with three cardinals and try to get some counsel sound bites from the Pope just about is this a justified war or not. And they picked three I would never know this, but three liberal cardinals to basically call out Trump.

I thought Sixty Minutes was trying to be a little bit more fair and balanced. I just thought that was such a they went out of their way and a different story to be balanced. Why would they go this way?

Well, Barry Weiss who is now the, you know, the the editor at at CBS, has a institutional challenge on her hands of trying to turn that ship around and aim it in a more neutral direction. And She's had some successes, she's had some controversies, and on this particular one, she probably had a failure. Breaking, thanks for breaking it down for us. Interesting time, Spirit. Thank you.

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However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make. That is a clerk reading Eric Swalwell's resignation letter after five separate accusers have come forward and talking about horrific things he's accused of doing. Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, joins us now. Rich, the only reason we know Eric Swalwell, because he didn't make his name through innovative legislation, showing great leadership qualities, or doing yeoman's work. He did it by fighting Trump, going after Kavanaugh, doing sensationalistic things, not substantive things, but yet they still Democratic power base was still behind him to be the next governor.

This is a familiar story, isn't it? Yeah, and we only learned about what he was like, which was an open secret among Democrats apparently in California and on Capitol Hill, is because it became inconvenient to the party. That he was in that jungle primary that may have favored Republicans and they needed to get him out.

So all of a sudden everyone started telling the truth about him, you know, years and years and years too late. And the press to take credit. Oh, this is great investigative reporting. No, it's just it was finally convenient for everyone. To tell the truth.

So, you know, he deserves his day in court. We'll see what his defense is. But at the very least, he's a dirtbag and perhaps a criminal. But the way the impunity that he thought he had, he thought he was in. He thought he was impervious, that nothing could ever happen to him.

Listen to, just for people to understand how bad this is, here's an example of two of his accusers cut 26. Ultimately, it reached a point where. She invited me to a hotel to meet him. Um It was very clear what the connotation was. Um At that point I completely stopped responding.

What I keep thinking back to is How lucky I am that I didn't go to that hotel. It started out as professional and platonic, and then slowly they became more and more explicit. asking me what I was wearing. Then one night he was on a trip And he was laying in his hotel room bed, and then he sent me a photo of his penis. I mean, and the other woman talked about drug, she felt like she was drugged by him.

So this is Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby pathway, right? Yeah, and he had these vulnerabilities, knew he had these vulnerabilities, and decided to run for governor anyway. Ghost of a rebel of impunity he thought he had. Hey, he ran for president. Yeah, oh yeah, exactly.

It's easy to forget, right? It ran for president about two weeks. Yeah, but he just thought the rules didn't apply to him. And he's one of these guys, not all congressmen are like this, but uh a a neuro sociopath who's in it for fame and power and to wield his power in corrupt and cruel ways.

So good riddance.

So let let's just uh there's a Democrat also, McCormick, Sheila McCormick that took $5 million in COVID money. Even AOC wants her out. And then now Corey Mills and you have uh Gonzales over on the border. And that border, the Texas border area, which is very much a purple area.

So he's resigned for ethics reasons. Corey Mills is now being pushed to resign.

So this could be two and two. Yeah. Yeah, kinda even out evens out. Bo both sides have their very bad apples.

So looking forward, when we talk about legislation, they're talking about a reconciliation bill. Senator Thune's getting pushed to put a lot in there. including uh elements of So Where he says, I got to keep this thin, I got to keep it skinny in order to fund the whole DHS. Your thoughts.

Well, it's a process that has rules around it. And if you put stuff in there that doesn't have a direct fiscal effect, the Senate parliamentarian, who I know a lot of people might think, why do we care what the parliamentarian thinks that he or she does matter in these rulings? We'll just say you can't do it through reconciliation and the whole effort will fail.

So I know people are very frustrated, but there are just limits to how the Senate can operate. And if we get the DHS funding plus up defense fund spending and a couple of other things, I think that's a W and we should be happy. Yeah, see if he can get that done and somehow find a way to get people paid. I just think it's a total odd play for Democrats who had a chance to declare victory with reforms that are already in place. Sure, the president would even have agreed to extending the academy time in ICE.

To make people feel as though that they're getting additional training. But instead, Democrats just want to make sure ICE isn't funded.

So I want to fast forward to the war. Here's the ambassador to the UN, Mike Walt, cut five. The other interesting thing was they brought their central banker. And I don't think President Trump gets enough credit for the second national security policy memorandum he put in place in his second term was to reinstitute Maximum pressure. Their economy is in free fall at the UN.

We drove snapback sanctions, so the rest of the world has joined us.

So time is not on their side here. And as President Trump says, we have the cards, not Iran. We'll see if they come back for a reasonable deal. The president does think they're coming back, and he had conversations with them yesterday. He thinks we're going to have a second round in Pakistan.

Would you like to see the ceasefire extended? Where would you like this to go?

Well, I I idea. I'd like to see the government collapse. I don't think that's going to h happen on the time faith. Table that's convenient to us. I think once you've slaughtered 30,000 of your own people, or whatever it is, you're willing to pay any price in the suffering of your own people to maintain yourself and power.

So I don't think they're going to collapse because of the blockade. I just think it's more pressure. I think it's pressure towards. a deal. I I think if you can reopen the straight and they're not tolling it and I I I think probably the standard brine is if you can get that highly rich uranium, then I think that's a huge win.

I I'm not sure that they're going to uh agree to that. But I think the the bare minimum now is reopening the straight. If you can do that and just just walk away with the damage you've done to the regime and their military capacity and their missile and nuclear programs, I think that's made us safer. I don't think so. I think you have to uh zero enrichment.

Uh and with no time line, you got to get the uranium and the strait obviously is is going to have to be reopened. But I I just think getting that uranium excavation, pulling it out in a non-war zone Setting I think that's doable. You don't think it's gettable? You mean uh to get them to agree? Yeah.

I don't know. They they've just been so committed. They've been so committed to their nuclear program, which is supposed to be just medical research.

So we're supposed to believe this theoc theocratic or terroristic regime just really cares about medical research. It'd be a huge win if we can get them to agree and we just go and take it in a peaceful setting. That would be fantastic. I love the blockade. It was a total reversal.

It caught everybody by surprise, especially the Democrats on Sunday, who did that. Senator Warner at one point said, I don't know why he's doing this. I'm really confused. Here's General Jack Keene, cut 12. Clearly, what we have achieved here is we're shutting down Iran's source of income, period.

That is what has taken place before our eyes. That's economic warfare. And what has it given? It's given the administration considerably more leverage going into these negotiations than what they had the first time. That's the reality of what took place.

So This has been a total reversal. It's put all the pressure on them and now nobody gets in or out. Yeah, I think it's creative. It flips the script. It's sustainable, right?

It's not as though there's zero risk of this, but it's relatively low risk, and you're really squeezing the regime. I mean, it might just flatly run out of money, totally run out of money. And then it'd be very interesting to see where that ball bounces.

So I think it's been great. And I've been very disturbed by what Trump said at various points.

Now, he may have just been blowing off steam or trying to jawbone the Europeans to helping more. You know, oh, we don't care about the strait. Our oil doesn't come through there and let someone else take care of it. No, this is a core aspect of our national security policy going back decades, free navigation of the sea.

So we need to reopen the strait. And this is creating pressure to do it.

So Europe, we understand, is preparing for a possible U.S. shift out of NATO. They're accelerating a NATO fallback plan should the U.S. withdraw. Is there a NATO without the U.S.

and should they be preparing for something like that? There is effectively not a NATO. Everything they do militarily really depends on us, logistics and other things, and us to take the lead. There'll still be a European pack, but it won't be nearly as powerful. I think it'd be a mistake to withdraw.

I understand why Trump is very annoyed with them at the moment, but I think this is, from the perspective of world history, a huge boon to us to basically have control, effective control of the defense of Western Europe. There are so many people who, with statesmen over world history, if you told them that they could control Europe and Europe would be happy to be controlled by them, they'd say, yes, let's do it. And they do add capacities to us. They do have small militaries, but it's additive and they have other capacities, intelligence, and other things that are helpful to us.

So I think it'd be very bad if the alliance blew up. I do too. And I do think I love that Orban lost. I also think the president, the only thing I can never agree with him on, is not 100% backing the Ukrainians who are telling everyone how to innovate and fight. And they're destroying our number one or number two enemy, grinding them to in a way not many people thought possible.

And now they're making 60% of their own weapons, which is pretty amazing in the middle of a war. But, Rich, I want to bring you to the other fight we're having, and that's with the president and the pope. Here's the president yesterday talking about the pope. A Pope that's going to say that it's okay to have a nuclear weapon. We don't want a Pope that says crime is okay in our cities.

I don't like it. I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo. He's a very liberal person, and he's a man that doesn't believe in stopping crime. He's a man that doesn't think that we should be toying with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world. I'm not a fan of Pope Leo.

And the Pope, obviously not a fan of the president, took two shots of him last year, excuse me, in January, and then said this the other day when he prays for peace. Holy Father, can I ask what your hopes are for the Middle East? I'm praying for peace. I hope that ceasefire would be the most effective way to work together to find peace for all parties, to respect all parties, and to come to a solution, which is too many years in creating problems for everyone.

So work for peace. He calls it the madness of war. No cause can justify the shedding of blood. I'm pretty sure the Bible might push back on that. They also went off Trump and said it's kind of ironic that the name of his social media site is Truth Social.

I mean, this doesn't sound like a pope. Yeah, no, I don't think it was a good look for either of these guys. I don't think Trump needs to be in this feud. And I think Pope Leo, ironically, given his role, is really distorting what the Bible says about warfare. He said that, right, during Palm Sunday, that God doesn't listen to the prayers of people who wage war.

What are you talking about? Just look at all the biblical figures from David on who are great warriors, and God listened to them. Did God not listen to Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Did he not listen to the scared 21-year-old kid in a trench fighting a war that he didn't start? That's crazy.

So it's true that we should have just wars. The Catholics believe in just war theory, the very standards you have to meet. I think that they've been met by the Iran war, and it's very irritating that he's talking about peace now, which is great, but where is this very public stand against the Iranians flawing their own people? I'm sure he opposed that, but why did he make a big stink about that? I couldn't find Rich.

We're speaking from the same hymn. Sheet. I went and looked it up. He said nothing. Between 30 and 41,000 people were killed in cold blood.

We could see the body bags. They charged the parents for the money, for the bullets they used to kill their loved ones to get the bodies back.

So they just murdered this year. 1,639 people have been executed. Even for the Iranians, that's a high since 1989. And you're talking about a regime. That's as ugly as it gets now at what point How many people Iranians have to be killed?

before the action is just.

So I don't get it. Or how big of a nuclear bomb do they need before it's no longer a war of choice? Yeah, so let's say Trump totally succeeds in this war, and there's a new regime that respects the rights of the Iranian people, be a huge boon for the Iranians, and a huge boon for safety and peace in the region, right?

So that's what he's aiming for.

So I can understand your Pope. You know, you pray for peace. That's your job description. Do it. I'm very happy about that.

But don't betray it as though the Bible opposes absolutely every single war. And don't pretend there's not a case to be made for this war on the basis of morality alone, let alone the safety and security of the United States of America. You know, I guess I just was looking it up, Pope Pius XII. was Pope during the World War II. At which time the papers have revealed that they knew about the execution of millions of Jews.

They said nothing. They also signed a pact with the Third Reich, basically to protect Catholics in Germany. And are you going to tell me before the Battle of the Bulge, they said the pr the uh the Pope says whoever wins wins, there's no justifying.

So let the Nazis prevail? I mean, is we supposed to assume there's no good and evil in the world? Yeah, no, it's it's crazy. And the Bible clearly tells us that evil exists in the world and war is an inevitability, right? A tragic inevitability.

But the question in the Bible really isn't between war and peace. It's whether the war is righteous or not and whether it's being waged by a righteous people or not.

So you'd think the Pope of all people would understand that.

So yeah, it's just a crazy time. Obviously, the Trump years are a whole different animal, no doubt about it. And for those people who say that Trump's price is on the gas, they're going to make him pay the price at the polls in November, all I say is keep your powder dry. What's happening now is not going to be the case in November. And if you're a Democrat, you probably don't want to be talking about gas prices in the fall because I sense that things are going to get back to normal pretty quickly because this guy wants to drill.

Everywhere.

So the price is going to come down, Rich.

So thanks so much. You talk about this in your column. Pope Leo needs to brush up on his Bible. Rich Larry, thanks so much. Talking.

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It's Brian Kilmead, Mr. Chairman. And uh Chancellor elect Dean. And by the way, uh I you always want to turn around one guy and say, uh Barack, what are you doing? Yeah.

Come here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come here.

Yeah. Hmm. I feel like he should be standing on the right and I should be standing on the left. Hey, did you guys look at Brock? Anyway.

As they say, you've done good for you.

Well, you know, it's right.

So that Syracuse University, where President Biden was caught plagiarizing and finished at the bottom of his class, where he's being honored at the Syracuse Law School, at which point, I guess, I haven't seen the video yet, Allison. Have you seen it? I guess this does he look like Barack Obama or I mean, he's an African-American man with a haircut very similar, and he did have a very nice smile.

Okay. I mean, yeah.

So that's just another awkward moment on the stage. Another example is if like a Republican did that, it would be headlines all over, I imagine. Yeah. So, but as usual, he did, by the way, everything at Syracuse was a lie. He said he went to Syracuse Law School on a sports scholarship.

Since when do you go to law school to play sports? Number one. Number two, he said he went on a scholarship. That's a lie, too. And then he said he was at the top of his class.

He was the bottom of his class. And he got caught plagiarizing, which he would later do in the 80s. Where Johnny Carson famously is mocking them because he stole someone's entire speech. That's him. Hey, I have a there's an email that just came in that you were just telling me about.

I did. It is from Natalie, and she said her 14-year-old had a great idea when they were discussing withdrawing from NATO. Basically, he said we should invade Greenland, and then NATO would kick us out, so it would be two problem-solved. Right, because it looks like Trump wants to get out, but he can't. But they could always kick us out, which would make us happy.

I don't think we should leave NATO. I think we should make NATO pull their own weight. Kind of like that. Rich Lowry had a good way to turn that around. He said, look, if you have control over Western Europe and they gave you control, why would you ever give it up?

That's another way to look at it. 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 Killmead coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, where we just found out the good news that in three years we're going to have a city-run grocery store for $30 million.

Now, if you don't want to move to New York City yet, now you have a reason. Oh, unless it's a second home, because our governor just said we are going to raise taxes on people who have New York as a second home residence.

So are you shaking your head too? Why would anybody decide to get a second home if they know that they're going to be taxed higher when you could have forty nine or let's say thirty states that aren't Democratic that will welcome you, like Florida or Texas, and not punish you for living there? Big three. Number three. New York City, it is time for a grand experiment once again.

During our campaign, we promised New Yorkers that we would create a network of city-owned grocery stores. And we are here today to celebrate the site of the Manhattan store, La Marqueta. Yes, La Marquetta. It's an empty. warehouse that's going to take three years to convert.

City-run grocery stores, a bad idea in theory, now we have it in reality. Exactly what the mayor in New York City is doing with 30 million, I can't tell you. Why this is a socialist project that will fail and we need it to fail? I can tell you that. Number two.

Some Republicans and others are saying that Democrats turned kind of a blind eye, that they knew what he was up to. No, it wasn't the allegation. That is absolutely positive. So, rumors are heard. Or that he was just a flirty social guy.

That's it. Right. Who drugs his women? Scandal plague Washington, and no one has it worse and done more bad things or accused of that than Eric Swalwell, now thou former congressman. What it means for the balance of power and more.

Number one. I think it's close to over, yeah. I mean, I view it as very close to over. You know what? If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country, and we're not finished.

That is the President of the United States closer to the end than the beginning. That's the indication from President Trump today as he turns up the leverage and the heat on Iran with a massive blockade that is very, very effective. It has sealed everything off. With 15 ships, and we've already gone through there with minesweepers. Man, you talk about a reversal.

So now nobody gets through. You don't get anything. And anything that Iran has at sea, when they're ghost ships or real ships, stays. Go sell it, but that's it. They say on average Four hundred and thirty million dollars a day they are losing.

Now look, we're paying a price too. This week. Gas is 411. Last week was $4.14. Last month it was $3.67.

We're going to get it down. I thought Brett Stevens had a great column today in the New York Times. He said Trump should put Iran's regime, give him a fundamental choice. It can have an economy where the regime can attempt to have a nuclear program while trying to control the strait. You can't have both.

Iran's central bank has warned their president, Iran's president, that rebuilding the country's war damage economy could take more than 10 years. That's the central bank of Iran talking to the president of Iran. Not me, not you. Not an American expert, not the IMF. That's Iran to Iran, and we weren't supposed to know that.

The bank anticipates up to 2 million in additional people will be left jobless. Because of the war, inflation. At 180%. It was 40% before the war. They couldn't get water, so they had a riot.

Now think about it, 180%, they don't even have a country. As for the effects of the blockade, as I mentioned, 435 million, I was wrong, in daily economic activity is just done. Not only that, helium and the oil and the gas and the iron that goes through there on a daily basis. I also I know it's not good to talk about regime change. You can't do it.

People don't want to hear it. I understand it. But we have to do something for the people. They got to know if they try to kill their own people again that we will do something. Personally, I would love that.

And Brett writes about that. Israel. Had an important step. They face to face with the Lebanon leader. We went face to face with the Iranians.

First time in. Almost fifty years. Because even when they did the JCPOA, do you know that we didn't weren't even meeting with them? We had to go through Oman and other intermediaries to do just that. We'd go to Oman, we'd meet with an emissary, back in the Obama days, to start setting up a dialogue in order to get them to reduce enrichment.

But what Mike Waltz does, who's a key advisor to the President, UN Ambassador, he almost said what the President did over the weekend, and no Democrat will give him credit for it, don't expect it. Ambassador Mike Waltz, cut six. That's this latest action from the president that says you cannot hold the entire world hostage. You cannot, even though this Iranian regime started its existence by trying to hold, by holding Americans hostage, you can't hold the world's economies hostage. He has flipped the script.

You have tremendous naval assets there, and the Central Command just put out its statistics in the sense of it is turning Iranian ships around. Iran doesn't get to choose the winners and losers on the global economy. The United States will do that until all ships are open.

So no ships come out or all ships come out. And by the way, the goal is to put pressure on China, Japan, Russia, not Russia. They're not going to feel any pressure. They just want you know if the price goes up oil, Russia kinda likes it. But now Iran can't sell it.

And China needs to buy it. They can't get it. Japan can't get it.

South Korea can't get it.

So it's got to put pressure on Iran. We're not going to feel the pressure. Look, a dollar of gas is a problem. But it's all temporary, and we're going to get it right back down. And the reason why we know that for sure is not that we have a big checkbook, but we have great production.

Victoria Coates, she used a she was a DNI for the president in the first term, cut ten. The President's reverse blockade, this idea that it's not Iran who controls the strait, it's the United States, is having the intended effect. And what we're seeing from the folks that track the ships around the Gulf, all those ships are heading to non-Iranian ports to take on cargoes. Nobody's going to the Iranian ports.

So if the Americans do let up and let anybody out, it's going to be partnered and allied ships going to our friends who are going to get those cargoes, not the Iranians. They're not going to get the profits from that.

So, this is why it was a great move over the weekend. And I think the enemies of this country, and I think most of them are Democratic, you have all these guys and these women. They're suddenly saying, wait a second, what's going on here? Because they find themselves rooting against the country, against an enemy we universally thought was Iran, until President Trump decides to take him on. Do you notice the other thing, for example, the president, everyone knew we should have tough border security?

The president gets elected in 2016, being tough on the border. All the Democrats wanted to do was deny him the wall.

Now we're getting the wall. Five miles a day, something like five miles a day we're building. We're going to get filled that whole thing up 500 miles. And now all of a sudden with Iran, you have Senator Chuck Schumer, who's desperate to hold on to his job by saying horrible things like this: cut 12, cut 13. Let's call Trump's Iran policy for what it is.

not Trump's Operation Epic Fury. Trump's operation epic failure. That's just what it is. It's an epic failure. Forty-five days into this war, things are worse.

Then the day Trump started his choice. into his choice of putting us in war.

Okay. What do you say to him? You knew that Iran has been the problem. He's been in Congress the entire time.

Now he's in the Senate, now he's among leadership. What is worse? They are worse. They are beat up. If you want to say that we got to restock our weapons arsenal, I mean, that's something you could worry about, a legitimate worry.

Got to find out a way to mass-produce our weaponry and interceptors, especially, sure. But to say things are worse is As you see, Iran at the table, we're diet at zero enrichment. They already said we'll give you five years of zero enrichment, and we say no. No more enrichment.

So good luck with that. We're going to take a timeout shortly because I got Congressman Jim Jordan coming up. But we have a situation in the House right now. We're trying to get funded. The rest of the DHS, they're talking about putting together some type of skinny bill.

On reconciliation and getting it passed, what's going to be in that bill? We'll discuss it. Also, we're going to discuss the Pope and the President: a battle for it all. You'll listen to the Brian Killmeat Show. He just doesn't read the headlines, he breaks them down.

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Hey, welcome back. Bottom of the hour, we talk a little soccer, the CEO of the New York, New Jersey host committee of the FIFA World Cup. Coming up before you know it, starts in June, ends in July. Alex Lassery is going to be with us shortly. And also, Congressman Jim Jordan, Chairman Jim Jordan, is going to be here, Judiciary Committee Chair, and Oversight Committee.

He's got a lot on his plate. And people say if they go into minority and Speaker Johnson doesn't want to stick around, he would be the logical replacement.

Meanwhile, let's bring in Congressman Jim Jordan now. Congressman, thanks for the time. You bet, Brian. Good to be with you. Hey, first off, tell me what you think what you're looking into in terms of Act Blue.

This is something that we have found out even independently. They were taking perhaps the accusation is taking foreign money to support their left-wing cause and their site. You know, that's what it looks like. And I think it's important to just back up for a second and think, this is the machine that raises the money for the Democratic Party. It's like billions every cycle.

Every two years, they're raising $3, $4 billion. That all goes to left-wing Democrats. And so after the 24 election, we started investigating. And ActBlue let go. One of their key members, fired one of their general counsel, and then gave him this special severance package.

And four other members of their fraud prevention team resigned as well.

So we brought all five of those in for depositions. And we're not allowed to talk about that yet, but I will just say they didn't say a whole lot when we brought them in. And that's on top of the fact that we had documents that show during the 24 election cycle, they lowered their fraud standards and then didn't even follow those. And then, of course, the final one is we now learn that a letter sent by my colleague, chairman of the House Administration Committee, Brian Style, He sent a letter to ActBlue, and their CEO, Ms. Wallace Jones, she responded in a way that her own law firm said, the law firm working for her said, We don't know if you're exactly representing things in the appropriate way in the letter, in the way you respond to Congress.

So that's a big concern because now. Act Blues actually fired that law firm, and it was Dana Remus who was the lawyer, and she worked in the Biden administration.

So it's not like she's some Republican lawyer, for goodness sake.

So that's the lay of the land here, and it sure looks like They were taking foreign contributions. We don't know for sure, but that's what it appears to be, and we're going to continue our investigation. As someone who does the investigating, we had Todd Blanche in yesterday, the acting attorney general, and I said to him: these foreign entities that keep funding a lot of these left-wing protests, whether it's pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli, pro-Hamas, or now we have the situation where they're anti-ICE. Why don't we find out who is funding them? He says, when it comes to international funding, it is extremely difficult.

Do you back him up on that? Yeah, it is. And we're looking at some of that same stuff too because we think there's money that goes from USIAD potentially to these not-for-profits, these NGOs, that then is used for all kinds of things. It gets laundered a few times.

So we're trying to track that too. It's not easy, but we're looking at it. But back to the Act Blue Brian, think about this. Here's the irony of it all. The Democrats, it looks like, were taking foreign contributions, and all we've heard about for the last 10 years is all foreign influence in our election process with President Trump, which was all garbage.

But now it looks like it may, in fact, have been them who were doing it. Again, it's one of the things we want to find out if that's actually happening. I hear the walls are closing on the investigation one way or another with John Brennan, who's sounding off calling for the 25th Amendment on this president, which is a joke.

So, your thoughts about the case building on John Brennan, where were you going to go with it? No, I do think it's there. As you know, last fall we sent a referral to the Justice Department, a criminal referral of Mr. Brennan, because we know, and we don't do many of these referrals, Brian. We only do it if the facts are there.

But if they're there, then we're going to do that.

So we referred him to the Justice Department for prosecution because we know without a shadow of a doubt that he lied to us. And he lied to us last Congress when we were deposing him on the 51 former Intel letter that he was a part of. But he lied to us about the dossier from Clearback 10 years ago. And we know he lied because Tulsi Gabbard and Mr. Ratcliffe last summer released, declassified, and released.

A report that shows Brennan changed, was the key player in changing the intelligence community assessment clear back in December 2016, January 2017, right before President Trump started his first term. And he used the dossier as the basis to say, to change the intelligence community assessment and say Russia and President Trump were working together, which was all garbage.

So, yeah, I think it's all part of this conspiracy that the Justice Department is looking into. And the other good news is, this is not happening in the Eastern District of Virginia or in the DC Circuit or the Southern District of New York. This is taking place in the Southern District of Florida, where I think you're much more likely to get a fair reading of all this and look at all this.

So I do think Brennan is, I'm hopeful. Because I think he deserves it, and hopefully, he's going to be prosecuted. Chairman, how much harder is your job with gas prices up $1 a gallon? Yeah, I mean, look, we all know the situation with midterms. It's tough for the party in power in the White House, for their party, to keep control of the Congress during the midterms.

I think we can overcome that because I think we've got a president who has done exactly what he told the American people he was going to do, cut their taxes, secured the border, make sure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. He's keeping his word, doing what he said he was going to do. And we've got to go take that message to the American people. And frankly, I think also, I think this is really important. Remind the American people that You know, the Democrats in every position they now take, because the left controls their party, every position they take is crazy.

Crazy to defund the police, crazy to abolish ICE, crazy to have men compete against women in sports, crazy to shut down the government for 40-some days in the fall and 50-some days there in the spring. I mean, just every position they take. Crazy to have sanctuary jurisdictions all over our country for almost representing almost a third of the population lives in one of these sanctuary cities or states. I mean, all their policies are goofy.

So remind the voters: you want to go back to the crazy policies, the open border, everything else? Elect Democrats. You want to keep your taxes low and have a secure border and have a Congress and President do what they said they're going to do? Elect Republicans. That would be a key message, I think, over the next few months.

So Eric Swalwell is now out, although he still gets a pension. Are you one of those caught by surprise by his personal life? I mean, look, I always say these situations, obviously this sounds very serious, and you feel for the victims here, of course, but I always say these situations, ethics committees should handle this stuff. And this is a question between the member and their constituents, their voters. And I always think that's the better way to do it instead of having Congress do all the things that they we sometimes try to do here.

So it looks like that's exactly what's happened here, both with him and And Representative Gonzalez, their voters have I think spoken and they've recognized what their voters are saying, and that's why they took the actions that they took yesterday. And where is the investigation with Corey Mills? Has he gotten through the other side?

Well, that's in front of the Ethics Committee. There is also the other member from Florida, and her investigation has already been through the Ethics Committee. They're going to, I think, issue a final recommendation next week.

So I think that's the right way to do it. The Ethics Committee is equal, you know, Republicans and Democrats. They look at this stuff. They make a decision after gathering all the facts and doing the kind of due diligence and process that I think you would want a committee to do. All right, Chairman.

Thanks so much for the quality time. I appreciate it. I'll talk to you again soon. Thank you. All right, we come back.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. It's going to be an event like you've never seen before. I know people know about Super Bowl Week and there's build up, and I get it. But how about a tournament that lasts weeks upon weeks and goes through the beginning of the summer, June and July? And in the middle of it, we're celebrating our 250th birthday.

Of course, I'm talking about the World Cup, and it's coming, and America's got a good team. I think we're 14 in the world right now. Alex Lazry is running things in the New York, New Jersey area. He's running the stadium at MetLife, which is where the finals are going to be. Alex joins us in the studio now.

Great to see you. Thanks so much for having me.

So, when you got this job, did you know it was going to be this engrossing, this encompassing? You always have a sense of what something like this is going to be. This is going to be the biggest sporting event that the world has ever seen.

So, you know that this is going to be very time-consuming and full-time, but you can never put into perspective or think about what this is going to be leading up to it. It just kind of takes on a life of its own. What did you learn from watching the club championships here? I think we got a really good sense of just how to work with FIFA, getting a good rapport for how FIFA and the agencies and everyone needs to work together. But at the end of the day, while club was great and I think a huge success, the scale and scope of it is nowhere near what the World Cup is going to be.

Club was similar to putting on a Taylor Swift show, which is massive and enormous. But the World Cup is just the scale and scope of it is just that much larger. And for New York, New Jersey, it's not only got the final, but how many. How many games are you going to have here?

So we've got eight games total. We're expecting millions of people to be coming here over $3 billion of economic impact. To put into perspective what the final is going to be like, the last World Cup final was viewed by the same amount of people as the last 13 Super Bowls combined. Wow.

So this is the world sport. This is going to be the largest sports entertainment event in human history, and we get to have it right here in New York, New Jersey. But yet it's turf. What are you going to do about that?

So we are actually growing grass in Tuckahoe Farms, New Jersey. No, that's a big area for the club soccer.

So we are going to be bringing in grass from Tuckahoe, New Jersey into MetLife Stadium. It should be coming in in the next few weeks, and then it'll be ready for the top of the turf or is it tiles? Is it going to be like a puzzle piece? No, they'll be laying it on top of, so they've kind of taken the turf out. We put a little ground something on top of it.

But the turf will be taken out.

So they'll be putting the grass on top of. They've put some stuff down to help make sure that the turf is going to be able to be implanted and kept. What group is here?

So we've got the teams that we have, I can't remember the group, the specific group letters, but we've got Brazil, Morocco, that's going to be kicking off, then France, Senegal, Senegal, Norway, Ecuador, Germany, and then England, Panama.

So the biggest teams on the biggest stage are going to be coming right here. And then you're going to get to the knockout round.

So then we've got a round of 32, a round of 16, and then we'll have two weeks to prepare for the final on July 19th. And why do you think New York got it? Because it's New York City. Is it something about MetLife? I think both.

I think, like, look, we're the capital of the world. And so if you're looking to have the biggest stars on the biggest stage, you're going to do it right here. MetLife Stadium, one of the biggest stadiums in the world. It's seen everything. I think the transportation network, you know, being able to get people to the game is one of the most intricate.

So I think that is why.

So I think you kind of look at everything. It just makes sense. And I think if you talk to anyone around the world, where should the world, like if you're doing the World Cup in the U.S., where would the final be? I think everyone would say New York.

So, Alex, the one thing I would say is that I was at the Super Bowl in New York, which, by the way, don't do it in a cold climate, but decide my decision. They could not when the when the game ended. The train showed up, and people must have been there for hours to 4-1. You could not get on the trains. Did we make any adjustments to that?

Because this is going to be bigger. The scars from the Super Bowl is probably the thing that I've heard the most. I was also at that game. The lessons learned from that, and again, that was 12 years ago.

So everything has kind of changed. I think what we're really focused on right now is how do you fix the egress, right? Ingress, you're going to have three, four hours to get to the game, a lot of excitement and everything going on. After the game is obviously going to be, is everyone's trying to leave. At the same time, I think a number of differences from the Super Bowl.

One, the Super Bowl ends at like midnight.

So everyone just wants to get home right away. The World Cup is going to end around 6 o'clock.

So the fan village is going to be open. The teams are still going to be celebrating everyone, the trophy ceremony.

So I think that'll help the egress, and you won't have everyone kind of rushing to the train. We're announcing the mobility plan on Friday, but we will have also a bus network that'll be there. We're going to have rideshare.

So I think we've learned a lot of lessons, and I think we are all ready and prepared for what this is going to be.

So raising headlines today, in that Metla, it's no reflection on you, but New Jersey Transit is going to be charging $100 for round-trip tickets. That's up 775% from what the average person usually pays.

So, from my understanding, the price hasn't been finalized yet, and that will all be revealed on Friday. But what I can say is, for these events, there are a lot of extra costs that get put on to ensure that these things can run smoothly. And I think the governor is making a decision that this isn't going to just be borne by the taxpayers of New Jersey. We have written letters and asked the Federal Government for help on these costs. I think a few months ago, we wrote one asking for a little over $400 million across all the host cities.

You want the Federal Government to pay $40 million? The Fed stepped up across all the host cities, similar to the security funding, the Fed stepped up and did $100, which was incredible and helpful and is going to be a big boost in making sure that our transportation network is going to be sufficient to bring people to the final. But these things are big events. This is kind of the cost of having. Having this.

And I think when we reveal the mobility plan on Friday, I think everyone's going to be really excited about kind of all the options that we're going to have to get people to the stadium.

So, are all the venues sold out? Yeah. I can't speak to all the other vendors. I can tell for ours the demand for it is through the roof. All the tickets haven't been released yet, but we've had no issue and have seen no issue on sales and demand has been through the roof.

So the one thing too, could you go into the ticket prices? Because one of the big controversies is how much it does cost.

So 94 World Cup is considered the most successful World Cup ever. And I'll talk about that and compare the two. But what could you tell us about the ticket prices?

So FIFA sets the ticket pricing. And I think what we've seen, I think what they would say from demand is that the market kind of speaks. And people, they've had, especially for our region, I think our region is the top demand for tickets. Because you just kind of look at the teams that are here. I think then what the host committee is trying to do is also make sure that we're providing affordable and accessible spaces to participate in the World Cup.

So when you talk about the fan engagement places that we've announced, so the Jersey Fan Hub at Sports Illustrated or the event that we're doing at the U.S. Tennis Center, watch parties at Rock Center.

Well, by the way, we don't expand on that, by the way. Can you tell us about what you just said? You're doing. Yeah, so we're going to be throwing kind of official New York, New Jersey FIFA fan festivals all across the region.

So we've got the Jersey Fan Hub at Sports Illustrated for selecting. Dates that we'll be announcing in the coming weeks where you'll be able to go and watch the games and participate in the World Cup experience. Same thing at the U.S. Tennis Center, same thing at Rock Center.

So the tennis center will be during the group stage, and Rock Center from July 5th to July 19th.

So interesting. It's a city decision. We don't want large groups. Maybe you can help me with this. They don't want large groups getting together.

Are they worried about that? Because when the ball drops on July 4th to announce our 250th birthday, they were saying, well, World Cup rules say we can't have large groups getting together, so there won't be that Times Square feeling when the ball drops for July 4th, commemorating our birthday. What is the city rules for large gatherings?

So for us, we've been working with the city to make sure that we're able to put on successful spaces and affordable and accessible areas for World Cup watch parties, right? This is stuff that we've been working with FIFA on, the city, the state, and state of New Jersey to provide these spaces. The tennis center should be around 10,000 people. Rock Center, obviously. Rock Center.

People will be able to walk freely around. Right where the tree was? Yeah. The tree is there? Yep.

We'll have some screens right there. We announced the Rock Center in, I believe it was November or December of last year for the fan village with Telemundo. It's going to be really exciting and fun, and this is a way for fans from all over the world to participate and be part of the World Cup, whether you're going to the game or not. Alex Lazaries in studio, CEO of the New York, New Jersey host committee for the FIFA World Cup, which is getting here faster than you know it. This is what I feel.

So I grew up playing soccer since I was five.

So everyone would say, why are you playing? You know, in the beginning, like, why are you playing that sport? But once you start playing, you become like your own community, but it was a niche sport. Then people that liked the World Cup played soccer.

Okay, got it.

Now, for the first time in my lifetime, I have non-soccer players, American, obviously around the world, they don't know what I'm talking about. Non-soccer players interested in this, like non-baseball players interested in baseball. Have you noticed it? Yes. I actually think the Premier League being shown now in NBC and being so much more available in the U.S., same thing with UEFA and kind of all of the global football around the world.

I think that's led to even more excitement and knowledge about the game. And I think my hope for this World Cup is that this World Cup will do what the Dream Team did for basketball around the world, right? The Dream Team directly led to Giannis, Jokic, Dirk, et cetera. This World Cup having Mbappe, Leminyamal, Pulisic, Ronaldo, Messi playing on our shores and competing. Competitive games, not friendlies, competitive games, hopefully will lead the next generation of U.F.

athletes to say, I want to go play on this stage and I want to help lift the trophy for the U.S. Trevor Burrus So let me tell you, because anything I think I could do to promote soccer, I think, is a positive. But the best thing that could happen. Is for the men to be as dominant as the women. We're 14 in the world, lost 5-2 to Belgium, I think 2-1 against two days later.

I forgot who they just lost to in Atlanta. But and I understand they're still formulating the roster at nine subs in a game. But You got to be somewhat let down over the last two performances because if you can't compete with Belgium. That's a problem. Belgium's one of the top teams in the world.

Dude, if you want to be one of the top teams, you can't lose 5'2. And I think. When you kind of look at where the US is, I think we've got some of our top players playing around the world in some of the top leagues. I know, we've got our players playing in the top leagues, and this is kind of what the growth is. I mean, we've never gone past the first, you know, we've got a lot of the money.

I don't think we got to the quarters, did we? No, I think we've gotten past the first round once. And this is South Korea. Yeah, and this is kind of the next stage for the U.S. men's national team, is to now we've got, I think, the talent.

It's now we've got to put it together on the field and show that we can compete. And again, my hope. Look, you saw what the 99 World Cup did, I think, for the women's national team. The images. Yeah, the images of that game led to probably the next generation of women's athletes all saying, I want to play soccer.

And it's why the women's national team is one of the most dominant national teams. Ever in like sports history. Hopefully, this World Cup, seeing some of the greatest players around the world, feeling the excitement of what the World Cup is, right, going to these watch parties and just being a part of everything that something like this can do. Right. Like, you know, as a kid, what kind of effect that can have on you and what sport you want to play?

Hopefully, this taking center stage, especially here, will lead kids to wanting to say, instead of playing basketball and football, I want to go play football. Right. Exactly. And one of the things they did for us in our area is watching the Cosmos and Pele and Canalia and Beckenbauer and Carlos Alberto and all these guys. And you said, in the middle of that, an American goalkeeper, and Ricky Davis, an American player.

So you have the American and the image and what it's like, and the best players in 54,000 on a Wednesday, 77,000 on a Saturday. To me, it was totally logical. In fact, Howard Kosell in his book said, I guarantee one thing: the soccer is the next great game, the next major sport. It dipped, NASL folded, and now the MLS is here with 30-plus teams at values that are in the millions. Valuations are skyrocketing.

You've got the new NYCFC stadium that's going to be opening in 2027. That will hopefully. Right next to City Field. Yeah, right next to City Field. That's going to hopefully, I mean, you're almost building a kind of a nice little sports park right in Queens, which is going to kind of become like a center of sports in New York.

But I think, you know, Etiad Stadium kind of opening is also going to lead to more just more ways to participate and be a part of soccer. And I think more. Access to being able to watch the top players and the top leagues in the world has been incredible for the growth of the game here. We now just have to take our team to the next level. And, you know, look, we can have all the warm-ups we want.

It's all going to be about what happens on the biggest stage come June. And hopefully our team is able to do it. What's your, you're in your family's background in sports?

So, I mean, I grew up obviously playing a bunch of, you know, I played a lot of basketball and tennis growing up. Got into golf as my athleticism, the little athleticism I had waned. Our family used to own the Milwaukee Bucks.

So I had been living in Milwaukee for 10, 12 years helping run the team. Had a great time, won a championship. And then this opportunity came up. My dad currently is now, after we sold, he's running a sports fund.

So a lot of investments in sports.

So this has kind of become like a real center of our life.

So doing that with the Bucks, how'd that set you up for here? I think getting a sense of how, like, look, this is sports and entertainment at the end of the day.

So, how do you, you know, how are you selling to sponsors? What type of things are fans looking for? And how are you engaging and creating experiences and authentic experiences that fans want? And I think that's a lot of what we have to do. Knowing what our partners are looking for and how we can activate and make sure that they're getting what they need, because these things do have to be paid for.

And you do need to make sure that the partners that you have feel like they're getting the value. That will then also lead to partners wanting to be a part of the next big event that we're doing, right? You don't want them to feel like they were dissatisfied from working on this one.

So I think the 10 years at you know, the 10, 11 plus years that I had at the Bucks really helped me kind of get a sense of how the world works, what we can do. But nothing really prepares you for something like this. I know. And Alan Rothenberg was in. He wrote the book and he brought in the 94 World Cup here.

And that was a big success. Do you think this will be bigger? I do. I do. Sports and entertainment right now is so much, so much larger than it was in 94.

Just media rights, the fandom. This is going to be the largest World Cup, right? 48 teams now.

So I think this World Cup has the chance to be, again, the biggest sporting event that human history has ever seen. We have a big responsibility to put on an experience that is worthy of New York and New Jersey. And I think we're on path to be able to do that. And they picked the right guy to pull it off, Alex Lazry, CEO of the New York, New Jersey Host Committee for the FIFA World Cup, which is going to be here before you know it. Thanks so much, Alex.

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But we will not be ashamed of using government to fight for the many, not simply the few. I think that's one of the scariest series of statements that I could hear. Because that is the cheering of socialism. The elected mayor of the top city. In a most famous city in the world, people could say top, that's up for your personal opinion.

Certainly biggest. And then you have the mayor of that city say it's about socialism. He's happy. And that should be stunning. If you're in a debate stage and someone says you're a socialist, that's usually an attack line.

Now, for the first time, if you're not Bernie Sanders, people are welcoming it. I mean, AOC and the Quad, they don't say I'm socialist, even though we listen to what they stand for.

Now you have a guy saying I'm socialist, and he turns around and says, for $30 million, yes, you could have a grocery store. And people cheer. I mean, this is so backwards. I hope we see an epic fail. And then we understand.

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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Killmead Show. We have a lot happening. 1-866-408-7669. Carl Robe is standing by.

I don't want to keep him waiting too long. Martha McCallum, right after that. Keep in mind, guys, we got a YouTube channel now. Everybody's talking about it. Everyone's got to have it almost as much as the Trump Watch.

YouTube.com/slash at the Brian Killmead Show. Do you think people want to see me on YouTube more than people want a Trump watch, Allison? Do you know? I mean 100%. Right, because everyone's talking about it.

Everyone and no one can get enough of you. I know, that's true. I know that the Trump Bibles, he doesn't talk about the Bible, but he still talks about the watches. I always see those ads. I haven't heard sneakers in a while.

No, I think they're out. I think when he said limited edition, I think he actually meant it. He meant it. Everyone says limited edition, but they don't really mean it. I think he actually means it.

Um so it's too late. They probably don't have your size.

So, listen, I'm going to be talking about the ridiculous $30 million grocery stores. I'm going to be talking about the scandals in Washington, and I'm also going to be talking about the war in Iran. But first, let's bring in Carl Roh, former Deputy Chief of Staff, serve advisor to President George W. Bush, Fox News contributor. Carl, welcome back.

Thanks for having me. I mean, even for you and everything you've experienced in Washington, do you ever remember a situation where we're looking at a Democratic congresswoman, $5 million of COVID-aid ethics committee investigates, guilty? And then we have a situation with the congressman from Texas. Who I always enjoyed interviewing him, made a bad personal decision. Tragedy, the woman he allegedly had an affair with kills herself, so he is resigning.

And then Eric Swalwell, somebody who made his living going after Trump, now has five separate women and criminal investigations in Los Angeles and New York City. That's a lot. Yeah, yeah. In fact, my column tomorrow for the Wall Street Journal is about this very subject. It starts with Swalwell, who was not a serious legislator.

This guy was a professional artist masquerading as a legislator. And all he cared about was getting more clicks and more MSNBC, MS It Now interviews and repeats of his repostings of his various sundry social media items. He was a terrible human being. And he started this off and by first withdrawing from the governor's race in California, good for him. That was going nowhere.

Even though he was leading the Democratic field with 12%, it wasn't going to go any further. And then he resigned. And then that gave Tony Gonzalez a chance to sort of get in the slipstream and resign as well. I got to tell you, that hurts me enormously. I knew him.

He was my friend. We hosted him. I'm sitting here in my home. We hosted fundraisers for him here. I asked friends to contribute to him.

He was a serious legislator. It was a great American story. You know, grew up in modest circumstances, joins the Navy, becomes a chief petty officer, gets made a congressional fellow, a Navy congressional fellow, assigned to the office of Senator Marco Rubio, father of six, goes home to West Texas, runs. Runs for Congress in a swing district and wins. And the district is bigger than 26 states.

It's bigger than the state of Pennsylvania, the district is. And he did a wonderful job, and he was a serious legislator, and he was on appropriations and homeland security and worked hard to secure the border. And not only that, but to fix a broken immigration system. But the demons inside him caused him to do bad things, and he's gone now and good riddens. But I'm just, you know, we're at a moment where trust in government and trust in our leaders is so low.

We don't need more. We don't need more examples like the gal from Florida who's stealing money from taxpayers in order to fund her campaign for Congress. You know, that's just pathetic. And the Democrat leadership is now saying, well, we need to let the process move forward.

Okay, fine. But she needs to be gone. And we need leaders today who will inspire us, who will stand up in the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and make us proud of our country and proud of our leaders.

So I know it's the least important thing about this story, but just going back to the politics of it, because it's going to go to the November election. There's going to be a special election and a November election. That's a tough district for Republicans to win, isn't it? That's not a layup. Yeah, and particularly since we have a guy from New Jersey who moved down to the district who has videos of him displaying his latest gun acquisition, which is a German World War II submachine gun.

And I mean, he's not a serious guy, and the Democrats fortunately don't have their most serious candidate put up, but there's a good likelihood that the Republicans will either lose the district or win it by having to spend an enormous amount of money that could be spent well elsewhere. And it's a tough district. It runs from San Antonio to El Paso. And I'm serious, 26 states are smaller in area than the 58,000 square miles of the 23rd Congressional District. And we got a guy from New Jersey, not a guy who grew up in that part of the world and had friendships and alliances throughout the district.

We got a guy who's a transplant.

So, I want you to hear what I think is one of the scariest statements, which I think is going to become part. of what we're used to now, and it is the mayor of New York City. Proudly, after 100 days, saying what he is, Cut 38. That is the change that government can deliver. And it is the change that democratic socialism can deliver.

I know there are many who use socialist as a dirty word, something to be ashamed of. They can try all they want. But we will not be ashamed of using government to fight for the many, not simply the few. Proud to be a socialist. The crowd roars afterwards.

That used to be a dirty word that a Democrat told a Democrat, or a Republican went after a Democrat with, but now they're embracing it. Are we going to have to get used to this? Is this not jarring to you to hear that? And will at one point this not be jarring? Yeah, of course it's jarring, but I welcome it.

They're out in the open. They're admitting it. and let them live up to the consequences of their actions. You know, Apollo, one of the biggie financial institutions in New York, is leaving. going to Florida or Texas and taking with it thousands of jobs and enormous amounts of income that is now going to be not taxed by the city of New York and the state of New York, but they're going to two states with no state income tax.

And uh As a result, really bright, smart people who are capable of doing great things are leaving the metropolitan area of New York. And this nutty idea that he has of a $30 million grocery store that is going to be located in a neighborhood that is within seven-tenths of a mile of what is it, five or six other grocery stores. He's got a Costco that's within seven-tenths of a mile, a 15-minute walk. And this guy is going to take taxpayer money. And you know, and create this thing, which doesn't have to pay taxes like all the other private businesses around it.

And we'll see how long this experiment lasts. And remember, he doesn't want just one such store for New York, he wants hundreds of these things throughout New York. Just do the math: $30 million to create a new grocery store. Crazy! Crazy, nutty, insane.

And the Democrats across the country are going to have to say whether they're with him on not only these nutty ideas of his, but these statements of he and his wife excoriating the state of Israel and welcoming terrorists into the governor's, excuse me, into the mayor's mansion. I mean, how disgusting is that? This is the city that was struck by Islamic terrorists on 9-11, and this guy is parading around, and his wife is writing positive postings about a guy who welcomed October 7th, the slaughter of innocents in Israel. 100%. And I will say a couple of things are happening.

$30 million to open up a grocery store that will take three years. Can you imagine this? Three years to open up a grocery store. You definitely don't understand capitalism and understand a deadline. And they're making it clear: the prices of goods might not be that much cheaper.

And then people are telling me they might have to use a union.

So they might have to hire unions. Those wages are not going to be cheaper.

So, what is going to be the benefit to have it look drab like the motor vehicle or look like the post office? I mean, that's going to be the advantage.

Well, the advantage is that it puts more power in the hands of the government. It puts more power in the hands of the mayor. It puts more hands in the set, more power in the hands of the city council, not more power in the hands of the people. Look, HEB or Randall's or you name it can build a grocery store faster than three years, and it ain't going to cost $30 million. And they build their own building.

They're even taking over a building. Carl, I don't want to talk too much about New York, but I do want to say this. The governor of New York, looking for revenue, has decided to raise taxes on people who have homes here as a second home worth more than $5 million. If you're going to leave it vacant, you should pay more. If there's anybody, if there is so much wrong with that statement, they're telling people who have a second home here, we will punish you.

So guess what those people are going to say? I will not have a second home here. What is wrong with these people?

Well, obviously, she's, you know, she's not a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist. She's just a misguided liberal. I mean, talk about pathetic. This is the Empire State. We're talking about the fourth largest state in the Union by population and probably the second or third by wealth.

And yet it has been badly mismanaged under her leadership and, frankly, the leadership of her predecessor. The last good governor the state had was George Pataki, in my opinion. And he was sitting there fighting at the gate, fighting. The people were coming over the walls trying to tax more and spend more and regulate more. And he was doing his best to keep that from happening.

But she is clueless. I'm so glad. I am glad that she is the governor of New York because the businesses that she is driving out of the state, many of them are going to relocate in Texas.

So, Bruce Blakeman, as you know, has done a fantastic job in Nassau County, welcoming ICE, welcoming the cops. The law enforcement's the number one of the country. And he wants to be the next governor. You know, he's got plenty of experience. He understands New York.

What advice would you have for Bruce if he wants to win, which he does? Yeah, well, look, I think he's doing it. I mean, you know, do what he did in Nassau County, which is hold the line on the spending, look out for the taxpayer, economize in government, reform, think about doing new things in a more efficient, better way, or leaving them up to the people to do. And he ought to starkly compare an agenda of progress for the state of New York with Hochul's agenda. Where she wants to raise taxes, he wants to cut taxes.

When she wants to regulate more, he wants to regulate less. And have a positive agenda that's going to make a difference in the lives of people of New York. Because look, people are voting with their feet. Poor New York is losing people. I mean, a lot of them heading to Florida, a lot of them heading to Texas, a lot of them heading outside the state to more reasonable tax environments and business environments.

And that can't go on forever without the state of New York suffering mightily. You spend twice as much money per capita as the state of Florida, the government of the state of Florida, spends per capita. And there's a message there.

So now we know what's going to be happening. Democrats are going to be running that the wealthy are not paying enough. Yesterday, Corey Booker and Chris Van Howen, both with presidential aspirations in my view, say they're advocating to raise taxes on high earners. Let me just share this with you, which you know. For people at home, for those people who think the rich aren't paying enough, the top 1% pay 40% of all income taxes.

The top 10% pay 72% of all income taxes. The top 25% pay 87% of all income taxes. That's federal, let alone what they do in the state. What are they talking about? I mean, this is what they're going to run on.

Now, statistically, are they smart by this? doing this because 75% are not part of the uh top 25%, obviously. Yeah, maybe maybe they're politically smart and and and but it's a s it's assumed people are dumb. And they're not dumb and then ultimately figure things out and try to do the right thing. Are you sitting down?

I can see you that you're sitting down, but I want to make sure that you're and you're leaning back. Lean back in your chair, because I don't want you to fall over when I say this. Do you know who wrote an editorial yesterday saying the income tax system in America is truly progressive? The Washington Post editorial board, and it said many of the same numbers that you were talking about. They've spelled out how they said, Look, everybody keeps talking about making it more progressive, but we have one of the most progressive tax structures in the world because a small group of people are paying the bulk of the tax burden.

That is incidentally not a recipe for success. Everybody ought to have a little skin in the game called America. And if we keep passing the burden onto the people at the top, the people who have been successful and have created industry and created business and invented things and helped bring prosperity for all Americans, we're going to start driving those people abroad. And we're going to have people saying, you know what? It's not worth it for me to work harder and work smarter.

I got enough. Let me move to France and live a lovely life. Let me move to someplace in the Caribbean. We are a great country because we encourage And enterprise and entrepreneurship and compassion and creativity, and doing what we were doing in New York. Is proven that if you do too much of that, if you do too much taxes and regulation and red tape, you'll drive people to more hospitable climes.

And in that instance, they can go to another state. But if you do it nationwide, we're going to be driving them to other countries. All right, so let me drill down. Scott Besson used to come on the show before he got this prestigious job. And he said, I said, What do you want to focus on most?

You know what he said? income inequality. He said, I'm worried about the distance between the the wealthy and the working class. He says I think it's getting too great.

So recognizing that, what would your answer be? I know you're not an economist, but you know this stuff. Yeah, look, my my answer would be to help people uh uh pull up uh move up the ladder. You know, for example, we ought to have more technical training. We're doing a renovation.

We've got some people who are skilled electricians working on the house. They make a good living. And you know what they tell me? There are not enough of us. You know, these companies that employ electricians and welders.

You know, we have a ranch. We sponsored our ranch foreman's grandson to go to welding school. The kid is 19, about ready to turn 20 years old. He is graduating from Texas State Technical College as a master welder, and he is being offered. He has no debt.

And he is being offered jobs about $100,000 a year to start. And he's 20 years old, high school graduated, went to a technical school. We ought to be focused on what we can do as a country, as a state, and as a society to help people move up the ladder of prosperity by giving them skills to succeed. I thought I booked Carl Roe. I got Mike Rowe.

Who knew? Cole, thanks so much. I appreciate it. Thanks, buddy. All the best.

Hey, Martha McCallumson, coming in. Don't move. Brian, kill me, Joe. Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeet Show.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show, Mr. Chairman. Yeah. And uh Chancellor Electine.

And by the way, uh I always want to turn around one guy and say uh Barack, what are you doing? Hmm. Come in. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Come here. Cool. I feel like he should be standing on the right and I should be standing on the left. Hey, did you tell us a look at Barack?

Anyway. As I say, you've done good, though.

Well, you know, I'll try.

So the former president was at Syracuse University getting some type of honor where he was at the bottom of his class and actually got caught plagiarizing. But they forgot about that. Martha McCallum in studio show starts at 3 o'clock. We just have a minute there. Kind of interesting.

He noticed that there was another person on stage. I didn't see this video, so I'm not sure what was happening. Honestly. Did you see it, Allison? You saw it, right?

So do you think the person looked like Barack Obama? Yeah, so Biden was on stage and he called up the trustee behind him because he sort of resembled Barack Obama, an African-American man with similar haircut and a nice smile. But. That was sort of it. Wow.

Okay. That's Joe Biden being Joe Biden. That sure is. That sure is. God love you.

God love you. What am I talking about? What am I talking about? So, listen, more and more of the McCallum in a moment. That's hard to explain, but you got to be seen.

It's tough on radio, but you'll have a chance to see it and make your own judgment. Remember, he said you could not go to a 7-Eleven without seeing somebody with an Indian accent. All right, don't move. We come back. We're talking about a run.

A lot going on. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Okay, we are back. Martha McCallum's here, set to host her show at 3 o'clock.

Before we get all cut up, and there's so much to talk about, Martha, do you know who you're focusing on yet?

Well, John Thune's going to be on today, so we're going to spend a fair amount of time with him as we talk about a number of things. I mean, I feel like people forgot that DHS still isn't funded. They're still working on that. As soon as the president started cutting checks to TSA, it was like everybody forgot about the story. That is one of the things we're going to touch on with him.

We're also going to talk about the war because basically Democrats in the Senate are doing a weekly vote to shut the president's ability to orchestrate the war down.

So that's also happening today.

So we have a lot of things talking about. There's also some new Cook polling that shows that Cook has, and they're, you know, for anyone who doesn't know, they watch like all the Senate races and the House races way in advance to sort of get a sense for where they're going. And they've shifted like one step to the left for four Senate races.

So if it was like a Republican in Nebraska, they're now saying likely Republican.

So it's a little worrisome for Republicans who have a four-seat advantage right now, and you've got four states that are looking like they might be shifting a little bit.

So we're going to talk to him about that as well. I will say, just breaking down this, that's great. And by the way, he's one of the great people. He's great. When you think about somebody that wants, I don't care if it was a Democrat or Republican, that you want legislating, no ego, just wants to get things done.

Yes. Doesn't want to be on camera. Yes. But he needs to be on camera because you need a voice out there. No, he's a good integration.

And just breaking down the Senate a little bit, I think what people underappreciate, I think Sununa's got a real shot in New Hampshire. Could be. And I also think Rogers has got a legitimate shot in Michigan. I do. So, I mean, he lasted by a half a point.

It reminds me very much of McCormick, who didn't get out of the primary. He lost to Oz by just 10,000 or 20,000 votes in general. No, I think that's a good model. And I think that it is a very good state to watch. I know that Rogers has been concerned about the impact of the war.

He thinks it's. Not in terms of gas prices in Michigan. He's a little bit concerned about that. He wants to see the president focus back on the U.S. economy.

So we'll see how that goes. Um you gotta watch slock slot uh Elise as well, because she's considering running for president, I think, from Michigan as well. Elise Tottenham. No question. The question is: would Whitner run?

Mm-hmm. It seems like people want her to run more than she does. Yeah, it does seem like that, doesn't it? We'll see. Yeah.

And the other thing would be crowded Democrat primary. RoConna pictures himself up there. The only one who ma might have thought about running is Eric Swalwell, but now he's not running for anything. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

He's going to be running to try to stay out of prison. Exactly. So just before we leave the Senate, the place for Democrats' best flip would be probably North Carolina. Wiley's got the machine, the knowledge, but Cooper seems to resonate with the people of North Carolina. Cooper has a lot of credibility with the people in North Carolina, and I think that's going to be a very tight race.

I think that's going to be one to watch very closely.

So I think the president's master stroke was. The The blockade. And I think by him, two things. When he sent that ship. Through the stray.

On Saturday, Sunday, in the middle of the talks, when everyone was like, wow, Iran has Trump carded us, he took the straight of our moves, we sent the minesweeper and didn't pick two of them. And then we blockade with 15 ships, and now it's complete.

Now we've turned around boat ship after ship. I just think it's a total change. Here's Mike Walsh talking about the leverage, cut seven. What President Trump has done is taken that leverage, taken Iran trying to hold the entire world's economies hostage, has taken that off the table now with this action. I mean, we cannot, I can tell you from the United Nations standpoint, live in a world where two parties have a conflict, regardless of whether you agree with the conflict or not, and you have, I don't know, a country trying to shut down the Strait of Gibraltar or the Bering Strait or any other international waterway as leverage in a conflict.

We've taken that off the table and that isolates the whole issue to what President Trump has been consistent on since the 1980s, even since before he was in politics. We cannot have a genocidal regime with its finger on a nuclear button, period. And he's taken action on that now significantly with Salamani, with Midnight Hammer, and now this.

So your thoughts are where we're at right now, President speaking optimistically today. Yeah, you know, I think that's his way. You know, I think he always wants to keep thinking about the diplomatic. Prescription for what could happen. He's been wanting to do what's happening now in the Gulf, I think, since the beginning of this exchange.

I remember I did a phone interview with him several weeks ago, and he wanted a presence in the waterway. To me, this is an indisputable issue, right? Anyone who believes in the free passage of transit and cargo and economies around the world, as Mike Waltz was just saying, should be able to support this, right? No matter how you feel about anything else related to the war, I cannot understand how. France and England can look themselves in the eye because that's what he wanted.

He wanted presence and numbers of ships in the strait to prove and in the Gulf of Oman to prove that whatever else is going on, you cannot use this area. You know, Iran. Has one side of the strait, right? This strait does not exist inside the country of Iran. There's like twelve other countries that go around the Horn of the Persian Gulf and then through the Strait of Hormuz out into Oman.

So protecting that waterway I think is something that many countries should be on the side of. And I think it's laughable that now you've got the UK and France saying, oh, after the war is over, we want to put together a group to preserve this waterway as an international causeway. And we don't want the U.S. to be part of it. We're going to do it on our own with other countries.

Hello. Yeah. What are they thinking? I don't know. That's what if they came up with their 40 Nation Summit.

Yeah. Well, number one, no aggressors.

So basically, it's like the suggestion is they don't want the United States to be part of it. Good luck. They don't have any ships, first of all. Yeah, they don't have any ships. England has to borrow one from Germany.

We talked about that last week in order to send a ship down. They don't even send their minesweepers down.

So they have a few. And they have a few. Right. We're low on minesweepers. They have a few.

We could have really used them. Absolutely. And it takes forever for them to go because they move so slow.

So if they were on their way two weeks ago, certainly would have been helpful. But if they're not shooting, you don't need any escorts.

So what are you providing escorts for?

So if it's not dangerous, the only way we're moving out is if it's not dangerous. If it's not dangerous, you don't need to be in there.

So you're just wasting your time anyway.

So, um Either this trade is going to be open or not going to be open. If you don't want to be part of the shooting, you shouldn't be there.

So, NATO evidently is beginning to meet on what NATO would look like without the U.S. That's going to be exciting, isn't it?

So, they're beginning to try to imagine NATO without our presence or the diminished presence. Do you think that's a smart move on their part? Yeah, I do, actually. I think they better start figuring out what it looks like. I think they've already sort of opened that door as they talked about increasing their expenditures of their GDP from 2% to 5%.

Some of them have done it, some of them haven't. How much do they care about security? I don't know, because I think you, you know, where you put your money and your effort as a country shows what your priorities are. And for the past decade and a half at least, they've put their money and their priority into green energy and really open borders and changing completely the complexion. I mean, that sort of melting pot way of their Communities and their population, and they've allowed that to change the priorities of the country on foreign policy as well.

So I think they better figure out what it looks like without them because we see a strengthening relationship between the United States and the Gulf states and Israel and Saudi Arabia. And world history shifts over time. It's been 50 years plus since these agreements were made after World War II. But the world shifts. It happens all throughout the course of history.

You know that better than anybody. And I think it's shifting right now. I don't think there's any doubt about it. They're shifting right now. And immediately you say, well, President Trump could have tipped them off and let them know.

Well, you had a shot at the Ayatollah, you took it. And even if you would, let's say there's, I'll make that case.

Okay, you're right. But did you notice the build up? Do you think you they pick up the phone and you don't think President Trump's accessible? Hey, guys. Pre-series, all I'm going to tell you is because I don't know who's listening.

You know, you don't know what Macron's going to say. You don't know if Macron's going to pick up the phone and call Lebanon. 100%. So, but. You guys, you notice what we're doing.

I don't do it's expensive. Don't usually do it for no reason. That's it. And then when it happens. You could be bent out of shape and then just have the meeting.

Have the meeting. This is what we need. This is what we're doing. This is what we don't know. This is what we're gonna and instead, they're all ticked off.

They're outraged, unnecessary war. When if you look in the past, if anybody's responsible for the mess that is Iran, it's France. They took Ayatollah Khomeini in. They allowed him to live and hold it. They brought him in on a plane and walked him down the staircase.

Yes, and then they put him on an Air France jet and they put him back in Iran. And now it's the world's problem, and you're mad at us for cracking down on the world's problem.

Well, they just wiped out 41,000 people. You know, just going a couple of quick things. Just going back to that morning, right? Because the intelligence indicated that they were all at a breakfast, the leadership of the IRGC and the Ayatollah and his group. Does anyone think that they would have stayed in that building for 30 seconds longer if anyone had tipped them off?

And so obviously, intelligence and the timing of it had to do with that, with this clear signal that you have all of these people in this building right now. You can't tip off other countries for this. And as you point out, the larger picture was set. The table was set. The military presence was in the region in a huge way, just like it had been off Venezuela.

They can read the tea leaves. I think it's like. Ridiculous for these countries in Europe to say, oh, well, you didn't tell us what you were going to do. I just think it's preposterous. And they need to grow up.

So one thing is not unusual for people to be critical of Donald Trump on the left, but the incessant way they've done it is so over the top. For example, when you have Jason Crowe, who served in the military, Special Forces guy, when you have people like Senator Mark Kelly, I notice when CNN and MS now, I don't know how much you watch. But when they hit the military people on, who have dealt with Iran. Unless they're really politically driven, they have a hard time being critical of the operation and the needs of the city. Absolutely.

And I know, believe me. They're trying. They're trying to get them to throw Trump under the bus. And when he does a tweet or something, he'll jump on that. But then, when the Democrats come out right away, knee-jerk reaction, everything he does is wrong.

Listen to Chuck Schumer and compare this to Iraq or Afghanistan. Cut 14. Starting this week. We will bring a war powers resolution to the floor. And if Republicans block it, We will vote again.

And again, And again. Until this war ends.

Well, Congress does its job and holds the administration accountable. We will bring these resolutions to the floor every week. I believe ten of them have been filed.

Okay, why do we do this? Because our troops deserve a mission. Not a mess. And he says Epic Fury should be named Epic Failure.

So when the Iranians see that, they go, oh, America's coming apart. I mean, Trump's acting different, acting like it doesn't matter, but that's what they want.

So I'm just stunned by it. I think it's thoroughly irresponsible. This guy's desperate to hold on to his job, but you could be critical. But to say epic mess in the middle of a war, are you kidding? It's not at all surprising because absolutely everything that the President does, they're against.

I always wonder, you know, if you put another person in that in these actions, if Barack Obama had decided, you know what, it's time, of course you'd be hearing something completely different from them. But I'm also trying to figure out what it is.

So he wants it to he wants the war to end, he said.

So I guess he wants to create an environment where the Moas and the New Ayatollah can thrive. Is that the point?

So, after 47 years of killing Americans, acts of terrorism, supporting terrorist proxies all over the world, essentially. Chuck Schumer is saying he wants it to stop so that they can stay in control, apparently.

Now, I know we're saying regime change is not the goal. I have a Issue with that really because I don't see how any of this dynamic changes if this leadership stays in place.

So, either you have to, like Israel keeps saying, create the environment where it falls, but one way or the other, nothing's ultimately going to change until that happens. By the way, the JCPOA, now everyone's saying Barack Obama had it right. Look at how great it was. We watched Blinken and Sullivan and Kerry come out and hail it. They don't remember what a disaster it was, allowed in Richmond.

And guess who else thought it was a disaster? The year is 2015. You'll recognize the voice. Under this agreement, Iran would receive at least $50 billion in the future and would undoubtedly use some of that money to create even more trouble in the Middle East and perhaps beyond. Current autocratic regime views this deal as a way to get relief from onerous sanctions while still retaining their designs on nuclear arms and regional hegemony.

To me, The very real risk that Iran will not moderate and will instead use the agreement to pursue its nefarious goals is too great. Therefore. I will vote. To disapprove the agreement. Right.

So, and then if the pallets of cash arrive, and what does Saudi Arabia say? They use the pallets of cash to buy missiles, not anything for their people. That is Chuck Schumer 2015. Yeah, and if you ask the Iranian leadership why their people have suffered so much, given the fact that they've had this influx of money, they just always blame the sanctions.

Well, we just can't do anything to fix our economy. We have a 97 percent inflation rate. We have a currency that's completely devalued. It's worth absolutely nothing on the world stage. And what do they have to show for it?

Except what we're learning is a lot of missiles that they buried in the ground, like Iwo Jima, and that's what they're surviving on right now. But, Chuck Schumer, you know, you have to have a through line as a human being. You have to have a moral compass that doesn't allow you to make this kind of tremendous swing in the way that you look at things. I find it very difficult to believe. But it's like he just has an on-off switch.

You know, if it's anything that Trump is doing, then it must be horrible, even if he thought it was a great idea for you. Two more minutes with Martha Cowell, an exclusive interview about what she's going to be talking about at 3 o'clock, besides Senator John Thune. She'll give up more in a moment. Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. So, Martha McCallum, at 3 o'clock today, you're going to have Senator John Thu. That's enough. But is there anything else?

We're also going to talk to Mike Pompeo, who I want to dig in, obviously, as former Secretary of State, but also in terms of his CIA role, because one of the things that does concern me, I can imagine at the CIA right now, they're looking at. The possibility of asymmetric warfare from Iran because what Iran has always been good at is terrorism. If they feel boxed in by these sort of conventional warfare that has been going on in terms of taking out military sites, blockading, all of this, my gut tells me that we need to be very concerned about cyber warfare, potentially biological warfare. And also, I want to talk to him about the link of China. China is a huge part of this story of what's playing out in Iran.

And so we'll talk to Mike Pompeo about that. All right.

So you have a book coming out in November, right? I do. I'm going to hit you with some dates and you tell me where you want to join.

Well, first off, March 30th, I'm in Reno, Nevada with History of Liberty and Laughs. And then July 11th, Pensacola, Florida. I'm going to start weaving in the new show for Uniting the States, my new book that comes out October 16th.

So I'm going to throw out these dates, you tell me. Redback, New Jersey. Uh, Count Facey Center, have you been there? Yes. October 16th, the 17th in Westbury, New York.

You've already committed to me. I like both of these, actually.

Okay, great. Clearwater, Florida, November 7th. Your book will be out when?

So my book is planning to come out the week of November 9th. And what's the name? And these books are such great companion pieces in so many ways. We touch on some of the things that you're totally focused on. My book is called The Book of Valor, and it's American Tales of Survival and Gallantry and Grace.

And it goes all the way from the Mayflower women who basically pulled it together to help. get people through that first winter because everybody was dying after they got off the ship. They all made it across and fine, and most of them died that first winter, all the way through the war in Afghanistan. And it's told in the narrative voices of 12 different individuals who tell the story of America through the era that they lived in. What date is that?

Going to come out. Do you know yet? We're looking at November 9th. November 9th. November 9th.

All right, so Clearwood of Florida, you'll have enough. You could do that one. Absolutely. Jacksonville, Florida, November 8th. And then Chesterfield, Missouri, which is right outside St.

Louis at the factory where Jimmy Phalo was just.

So go to BrianKilmey.com for details, but we're also going to try to weave Martha in the future. That would be super fun. I'd love to join you. All right.

Quick prediction. When's this were end? Mmm, that's a tough one. I think it's gonna be a little while. I'm gonna give it another few months.