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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Killmead Show, and I am here. We have a lot to discuss. Just came up with a Pentagon briefing to give us an update on, well, I'll tell you what, the ceasefire I thought was over. It is not over, but there is skirmish after skirmish right now happening because the president is determined to open up the strait.

This hour, I'm going to be joined by Joe Gruyters, chairman of the RNC, and best in the business when it comes to the Middle East and knowing every country inside and out, as well as the players, Dennis Ross. The ambassador will be with us shortly. As I remind you, you can always catch the show on YouTube. We got great clips there, not just here, but everything I do during the day: youtube.com at the Brian Kilmead Show.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. And I want to start by saying... The power is the point. In fact, we are so not powerless that they are trying to legalize the restoration of Jim Crow.

That's what's happening here. Stacey Abrams, all she does is market the race world, dividing to conquer. More redistricting, a partisan effort to win the midterms as Tennessee and Alabama join the fight since the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana that says you cannot redistrict on the basis of race.

Meanwhile, Florida has certified their map that could give them four more Republican seats. Number two. Honestly, before this, I had never heard of Spencer Brad. I feel like he's exploiting the greed of people at the Palisades, and I think that's possible. I think he is about his own celebrity.

Right. If you've never heard of him, he can't possibly be mayor. Mayor Karen Bass, an embarrassment to this country as a congresswoman, and she's lived up to the lack of hype as a mayor. California Nightmare Maybe dream come true for mayoral candidate Spencer Bratt, as two Republicans remain frontrunners to be the next governor with the debate tonight. Number one.

Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships. And they've attacked U.S. forces more than 10 times, all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Kane, a former Hormuz hostilities flare up in ceasefire continues. Could full-scare war be just hours away?

If Iran does not try to unblock the release of the blockade, it's no problem. If Iran continues to shoot its ships, our ships, even though we blow the smaller ones out of the water, blew up six. And even though that we knocked them all, all the threats down, including drones and a cruise missile. It was yet as long as they're shooting. They're not going to get tankers to go through there.

Now, today has been quieter, but until it's totally quiet, you have hundreds of ships backed up in the Gulf. And you need when the straight is flowing, it's about 110 a day. Let's bring in Ambassador Dennis Ross. Ambassador, I guess you call it. I guess you call it a Umbrella, not an escort service.

It's going to be a protection umbrella for tanker trucks. For tankers. Do you think how long do you think it'll take until we find out if it's going to be effective or not? Look, as you put it well, Brian, it's only effective if the ship owners are prepared. To feel confident enough to go ahead and send their ships.

Right now, The vast majority don't feel confident enough. I think you're going to have to see At least but close to a week where ships could go through without being with basically being unscathed, being safe. With some certainty that we can block all the attacks.

Now, the problem, of course, is each ship is like $100 million. And Let's say we can stop 90% of the cruise missiles or drones, or 95%. If you're a ship owner, you're prepared to run that risk. And if you're providing insurance, are you prepared to provide the insurance?

So I think it takes some sustained period of time for there to be a level of confidence, okay, either the Iranians have stopped shooting. or the US has proven itself so effective Uh in preventing and and blocking any attacks, that the level of confidence goes Up to the point where the ship owners and those providing the Lloyds of London and others who provide the insurance are doing it at Not charging such a premium that it becomes impossible for the ship's owners to say, gee, we don't really want to afford that cost. It's going to take some demonstration. I would say at least a week. uh where you feel like okay Um The Iranians have decided it's too costly to them to do this.

You said it's true it's quieter today. It doesn't mean it's going to remain quieter for the rest of the day. True.

So the thing is, if we know it's going to escalate, for example, we know where the drones came from, we know where the launcher came from. If this was full-scale war prior to the ceasefire, we would go for both. We haven't. How much longer are we going to not look for the origin of these rockets, of the rocket fire? And What does Iran have any reservations knowing that their armaments are finite and what America has actually bulked up in the region?

The problem I think at this point is the Iranian leadership, which is dominated by the Revolutionary Guard right now, is convinced that it can outlast. Uh We have to be able to change that calculus. Opening the straits to everybody but them. would absolutely change the calculus. because then they would have lost all their leverage.

They're not there yet. And the question is. Do they do they fear a resumption? uh of our strikes. At this point, they're acting like they don't.

But I think it's also they're just testing. Milk, the President is clearly sending a signal that he prefers not to resume the military strikes. And they, look, I think they also They, to be fair, they've also been reconstituting their forces during this ceasefire.

So they don't see themselves on the brink of running out. of the arms they have. And they're willing to run some risk for another reason. They understand the leverage they have over the straits right now. This is the greatest single form of leverage they've ever had.

It's a much bigger threat over the long term. Even than their possibility of having nuclear weapons. Not because that wouldn't be huge, but because they want nuclear weapons. As is so they don't they can use their other Means of forces to coerce others. They want, if they want nuclear weapons, it's to be a shield.

The argument that, you know, the The ballistic missiles are a shield for the nuclear weapons. No, the nuclear weapons would be a shield that prevents escalation against them. That's why they would want it. in the as we look at where we are today. If they maintain leverage over the strait of Hormuz, Which I think, even if this war ends and there's an international regime, I am convinced they will deploy it from time to time.

They'll suddenly say ships are carrying. You know, hazardous material or it's a threat to the environment, they'll come up with all sorts of excuses. Why are they going to prevent some ships? And unless there is A serious international will. It can't just be us.

To say unacceptable international waterway, you're not going to be permitted to do that. Unless that's the case, we're going to live with this for a long time. See, my thing is, there's no way we can allow that. By everything you said, if that's accurate, and it is, there's no way we can allow that. Here's where General Jack Keene says where we're heading: Cut 13.

And as you recorded here, they have fired 12 ballistic missiles into the UAE and three cruise missiles, as just announced by the Defense Minister. In my judgment, that's a major violation of the ceasefire, and I think we're going back into a campaign, big and powerful, to bring down the other targets that we have not brought down. It was predictable that they would do something quickly here out of frustration.

So listen, if President Trump has called their bluff here. And he puts out a marker. And we're going to open up the straits. And that is the only card these guys are holding. And he's about to take it away from them.

So and he believes and General Keene saw the plan and he says it's going to work.

So if it gets quiet the rest of the week and they begin to take control on the Oman side of the strait and you start getting fifty, sixty ships going through there on the en route to being one hundred, Uh that would reduce their leverage in any talks, right? Yeah. You know, you and I had this conversation where I was before, where I, A, I was in favor of the blockade, but then I also said to you, even though I said there's a risk. We have to open up the straits. Once you open up the straits, they have no leverage.

The one thing that changes the calculus of the Iranian leadership, including the Revolutionary Guard, is the point at which they lose all their leverage. Right now they haven't lost it. In their minds they haven't lost it.

So we will have to be able to demonstrate that we really can open it up. And I think General Keene is right. It's hard to imagine that if you open it up They don't. Try harder to resist it, and at some point, we have to go after what are the sources. You touched on it earlier, Briar.

We know where they launched the missiles from, we know where they launched the drones from. You're going to have to go after that target set. By the way, you can't guarantee you're going to get all of it because there are places where these are buried and then they pop up, and we don't always know where they are. This is not a small country. Their cruise missiles, by the way, can have a range of up to a thousand kilometers.

So it's really hard to get all of this. But the fact is, You know, if you're going to open up the Straits, you have to prepare for that contingency because they won't simply allow that to happen.

So, what's happening on the ground? Have you heard, Ambassador Ross? In terms of discussion, in Iran. Yeah. Amongst the people.

Have we heard anything about a roiling among the masses? Not yet. And I think part of it is Right now it's kind of a struggle for survival there. And I think there still is the war has to end before we really see changes. I say that because A, the population at this point is still, I think, struck by what happened when they killed could have been as many as 40,000 in two days.

So there A, there's that, B, Just surviving right now is difficult. The money is worthless. Uh inflation is out of sight. The cost of food has gone up dramatically.

So people are focused more just on survival right now, and that will be the case until this is over. When this ends, then the regime is going to have a very hard time dealing with all the fundamental contradictions that are there. One of the reasons they're so intent on wanting to get sanctions relief is because they need an economic lifeline. And they look when this if this ends with the deal, they will get An economic lifeline of sorts. I just hope that our approach to sanctions relief is highly tailored and narrow.

I hope the approach is one where you only lift certain sanctions. if there's demonstration over time that they are fulfilling what are their obligations under the terms of any deal that eventually happens. What is the downside of just taking out Carug Island, wiping out the oil production? The main downside will be that uh you're going to drive the price of oil up. Pretty high.

Stay the reason. Uh And they will certainly go after all the energy facilities that maybe they haven't gone after. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. They have greatly reduced offensive capabilities, but even if they can't do barrages of 100 or 150, they can still do. barrages of ten to twelve missiles, and these are generally soft targets They're not all equally defended.

They get 10% of the missiles or the drones through. Uh and that could cause If if you hit These facilities are right facilities. the right way, you take a Rasanura out.

Some of these facilities could take months to rebuild.

So the price of oil, it wouldn't be shocking if the price of oil were to go up over $200 a barrel. But is it true there's only a few million barrels of Iranian oil on the market, most of them are illicitly traded, 80% of which goes to China.

So we would not miss the Iranian oil? Yeah. Well, but they you still only have one global market. And so you're still going to bid it up. And it's also the question is: the net effect of taking out the Iranian oil is not as great.

as you're pointing out, as it might be If at the same time you don't see any real reduction coming out of the Gulf states, the other Gulf states, but if the Iranians succeed, in taking out some of the the big refineries or production facilities in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere. then you're going to have a huge, then you run the risk of having a huge surge in oil prices. It won't immediately come down. Ambassador Ross is with us for a couple more minutes. Here we go.

First off, they went after the UAE. They didn't go after Israel. They went after the UAE more than Israel throughout the entire war.

So Syria and Saudi Arabia. Among the Arab states coming to their aid, India, condemning Iran and supporting UAE. Don't you think that's significant? It is significant. It is.

Look. You have we have to ask the question, why do they go after DOA and no one else? partly because they're making a point. Partly because they see the UA, I think, as being more prepared to strike them than others. and as kind of a signal to others.

Don't even think about it because look, what we're doing is a UAE.

Now, the UAE was able to intercept most of what was shot in them, although there was one oil facility that was hit yesterday. But I think part of this is They're trying to signal us. You try to open the straits. You see we have these options. to hurt you.

You're not just going to be hurting us. That's why the risk of this from the Iranian standpoint is they will feel they'll have to do more. Unless they, again, they think that, okay, we won't be able to really succeed. in convincing all the ship owners to risk the ships. And so maybe the only reason this would stay relatively quiet is if they believe that you're not going to see a lot testing.

uh what we're trying to do. Meaning that Meaning in the end, all these ship owners aren't prepared to run the risk. We have to be able to demonstrate, look, this is manageable and it's manageable from your standpoint. You have reason to be confident that you can see it's working.

So I'm looking forward to two or three days going through. There's no more shooting. Then some tankers get some confidence. Maybe we get 10 through today, 20 through tomorrow, and we start alleving the glut. We'll see what happens.

If that happens, this all changes. And also, I was told: forget the foreign minister, forget the speaker, demand to deal with the IRGC because they're really calling all the shots, right? I think they are calling those shots, although I wouldn't completely downplay. The speaker's role, just because he is connected to them, those who are trying to say. you know, there were rumors he had resigned from the negotiating team.

I don't believe that at all. I believe he still is connected to them, but I only because of his own background in the IRTC. But I do think the people mainly calling the shots are Bahidi, who is the head of the RGC. And I even go back, I mentioned this to you before, Bosen Rezai. I think he was.

I think you have a core of the IRGC that is still calling shots, and somehow it's their calculus that has to change. Ambassador Dennis Ross, always great. Dennis, thank you very much. Appreciate it. William Davidson, fellow, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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All right, I went really long, but Dennis Ross has so much information and knowledge of this region over the last 40 years. And remember what he said, and he continues to say this: you're not going to see this thing overturn or all hell break loose in Iran until the war is over. Why? These people already on their own survival mode. You know, you have inflation at something like 110%.

Their money is actually worthless. They've lost at least 2 million jobs. How many people have been, you know, have their job blown out? They're people worried about their own welfare. I don't know if you saw, but they executed over the weekend 10 more people who were part of unrest that could be taking place right now.

We do not know everything going on there, and we don't know how many people are actually dead. And Who's getting paid? Is the IRGC getting paid? Maybe. Is the regular army getting paid?

Not likely. Are the police getting paid? From what? Are you gonna pay me in a real? that is just being inflated into oblivion.

And people that make some money in crypto, it's been frozen, a lot of it. Money's in the Gulf states, just about all of them froze the money, especially the UAE, where you have most of it. Joe Gruder's next. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, we are back, and we're talking a lot about the war. And it's a lot to do with the war, it's a lot to do with politics in the midterms. But RNC Chairman Joe Bruders joins us now. Joe, great to see you. Hey, Brian, so great to be here.

All right, so we're in the middle of gerrymandering madness. Yesterday, Governor Ron DeSantis said, done deal. It was 2820, 28 representatives for a Republican, 28 Democrats, 20 Democrats. And now with the new redistricting there, potentially it could be four more seats. Do I have that right?

Yeah, exactly right. We're going to have four more seats. DeSantis led the way, and of course the legislature followed him. But listen, what you have to remember is the Democrats started this three decades ago. They've been working on gerrymandering.

They've been basically cheating their way to these seats all across. That's why Northeast, we don't have a single Republican representative. And so what the vice president said a couple of months ago is Republicans are trying to even out the scales. But this is only after New York tried this two years ago. But now, with the VRA coming down, you're going to have Florida, you're going to have Louisiana, you're going to have Alabama, you're going to have Mississippi, possibly Tennessee.

And then, of course, you have Georgia and South Carolina who have come out and said no. But my guess is at the end of the day, they may also look at this as well. Yeah, so it's interesting because yesterday we heard about Alabama and we heard about Tennessee, right?

So here is. Here is Tennessee rep Justin Pearson, Fighting to stop what she says is racist. Joe, what he says is racist. Cut 38. We're preserving and fighting to preserve our congressional representation and stop the racist gerrymander that's being proposed.

You're calling it racist. Help me understand why this is viewed as racist in your eyes. This is the only black majority district in the state of Tennessee after the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. This is where the state of Tennessee decided to attack first black representation. And we know that's happening in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and it's going to be happening all across our country.

We have to defend our right to representation and our voices in Congress, in the state house, and in elected office. But the Supreme Court said you can't district on basis of race. And that's the only that's racist. It's racist to say you're going to create a district that's primarily based off of race. And so they did the right thing.

It should have been rejected a long time ago. Stacy Abrams on Georgia, cut thirty-seven. And I want to start by saying The power is the point. We're not hackles. In fact, we are so not powerless that they are trying to legalize the restoration of Jim Crow.

That's what's happening here because our power was working. We had laws across this country that allowed black and brown citizens to be fully realized as members of this society. We were on the way to a multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, pluralistic democracy and the racist, fascist leadership that starts in the White House, but extends to the Supreme Court, members of Congress, and to the state and local level. They're angry about that. Stacey Abrams, your thoughts on what you just said.

Listen, I think she's a wackadoo. Obviously, they're trying to fight for the continuation of these racial policies, you know, racist-type policies that they've been pushing for three decades, not only these, but others, because it's their attempt to control and use whatever means possible to. Continue their grasp on power. That's what it comes down to: control and power. And it's good that this is, like I said, these districts at the end of the day are racist.

People get elected based on who they are, and that's what they shouldn't be based on race. And the Supreme Court made the right decision. And yes, it will have implications across the South. But listen, look at the Republican Party. Look at two of our leaders, John James of Michigan on the cuffs of winning the potentially a primary there and being the governor of Michigan.

And Byron Donalds, I would give a 99.9% chance of winning the next governor of Florida, 23 million people, heavily Republican. And so, listen, at the end of the day, they can't use race to determine these districts, but they could use other means. See, we're assuming. People assume that the black vote's always going to be Democrat and the Hispanic vote's always going to be Democrat. Aren't we seeing already that what President Trump and your party has done to get the Hispanic vote is changing that?

Haven't we seen not enough, but there are gains now where 15 to 17 percent of the black vote is now Republican, and now only 59 percent of the country is white. And when they passed these laws in 1965, it was 80 percent of the country was white.

So everything is flattening out. I think that just assume that black people will never be elected by a white community, that wouldn't put Tim Scott in power. No, that's exactly right. And it's racism. Wesley Hunt in power.

100%. And like go back to John James and Byron Donalds, two of our national leaders now. And so it's a flawed thought. This president has done more to appeal to the average American, regardless of racial background, regardless of religion. And he's trying to fight every day for the average American to live the American dream.

And that's what appeals to people across colors and creeds.

So, what is the message from the Republicans? Because right now, they were doing great on oil and gas because they want to drill, they want to explore, they want to get more power. The war starts, the straits shut, and now gas is up 110 percent.

So, what is the message? How do you message that? I know why, you know why. Listen, the president has empathy for others, and he's fighting every single day for the average American out there. This conflict is temporary.

We will get over it. And the question you've got to ask yourself is: first off, how soon do people forget the fact that gas prices were higher under Biden's presidency? Highest prices ever for gas, inflation at 9%. This conflict is temporary. I talked to the president.

He's going to pull the nose up. But at the end of the day, why did the president do it in the first place? High political risk, low political rewards? He did it because he's going to bat for America and to make sure we live in a country that's safe, not only our country, but the world. He's doing the right thing.

We've got to finish a job, and we're going to get in and out of there. We're winning this conflict, and we'll be much better off as a result.

So, this is a temporary thing, and we'll get back on track soon. And so, for example, Democrats seem to be electing some interesting candidates. They're about to nominate a guy in Maine that. It says World people are dumb. uh says that you know uh cops are bastards He came out negative.

He came out negative towards women. He came out and says that, you know, rape, basically, you're responsible for women. If they get raped, they're responsible for it. And we know about the Nazi tattoo. He says, I'm basically a communist.

All these individual things would eliminate a candidate. Instead, it has him getting the nomination in Maine. How do you fight that with Susan Collins?

Well, listen, Susan Collins is a great candidate. I'm so glad she's on the ballot. But what it shows you is how far from the mainstream the Democrats have gone. The fact they're putting this guy as their nominee in one of the most continuous inner races. Yeah.

And he is a Nazi. And he only covered that tattoo up once it was exposed, but he had it for 18 years. And yes, every single one of those comments is a disqualifying comment. But yet, yes, he gets support. And they're, you know, oyster farmer.

And, but, you know, he's a, but that this is the type of candidate the Democrats are pushing. Mondami, AOC, they're responsible for giving these candidates on the far left extreme a platform. And the courage to go out there and run. But it's also going to make it easier for us to hold some of these seats. Because at the end of the day, I don't think America is ready for a Nazi to get elected to the United States Senate.

The RNC chair is with us, Joe Gruyter's Joe.

However, right now in the polls, and even if they're off a point or two. He is leading Susan Collins. What does that tell you about About the opposition party. What does it tell you about this race? Listen, politics is strange.

And what's happened is the mainstream media has beat up the president so much that, and listen, people are angry, right? They're angry with the high prices, high cost of living, but that's why the president has been focused so much. What we have to do is we have to get the president into Maine. We have to do a better job of messaging and making sure that people know all the incredible things. That's why we're going to do things that's never happened before, like the midterm convention.

That's why the president's going to go barnstorm the country. But the fact that he is leading in polls, first off, I don't necessarily believe all polls because the president never shows a trend. Let's say a trend. But at the end of the day, Susan Collins is the right candidate for Maine. I think that the fact that his background is disqualifying, there's no way that the voters of Maine elect him to the United States.

I mean, he acts like somebody from the rural community up from your bootstraps. Guys, when he went to a prep school that cost $75,000 a year, his dad was an elite professor. His grandfather was a legendary architect. Came from money. I appreciate his service, but blaming PTSD is an insult for people to PTSD.

Oh, I went to war, I'm suffering, so therefore I'm going to be a Nazi, therefore I'm going to be a communist. Oh, sorry, I was going through a rough time. I think that's an insult to people who serve. 100%. And all those things are disqualifiers.

He had so many, but the fact that, again, I go back to that shows you where the Democrats are today. But don't forget, they elected Mondami in New York City, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Pritzker, on and on and on. All these candidates that have left the mainstream center of the country to go to these wacko left extremist views.

So you see, Bernie Sanders is the Senate bearer in the party. He seems to be putting his disciples in places of power. And the guy winning in New New Michigan is extreme left. And he's running for the Senate against Mike Rogers, who's basically unopposed there. And this guy wants to defund the police.

He wants to defund ICE. He said the Republican Party is really equal to Hamas and he's best friends in appearing with Hassan Piker, who says the most vile anti-American things I've ever heard from somebody who's not in jail.

So But yet you look at the polls and it's so close. How do you strategize against that? Listen, it's tough because you would think that most normal Americans would say they're going to reject this line of thought. They're going to reject these socialist trends and the fact that they want to tax you, tax. If you have making any money, they want to tax you to death.

Don't forget, just a couple of months ago, every single Democrat voted for the largest tax increase in the history of our country. These guys, they don't want it's not Trump derangement syndrome. It's America derangement syndrome. They don't want Americans to succeed. That's why they want to allow millions of illegals across our border.

That's why they want to give them voting rights. They're fundamentally trying to change our country, and it's our job to stop them. That's why we can't lose. We have to win these midterms. We saw what happened in the shutdown.

They held the government hostage for 43 days. They're going to investigate, obstruct, impeach. Their whole mission is to create chaos and to stop all momentum to the president because they know they lost middle America. The Democrat Party used to be the party of work, the working class. But for five decades, The elitists in D.C.

have sold the average American down the river. This president has put him first and foremost. He's gone to batform every single day, and he's trying to make sure America and Americans could all go out there and live the American dream. And it drives these guys crazy. The president is staying out of the Texas race, so Cornyn and Paxson are going to go at it, but he's not staying out of the Kentucky race.

What did he do? He and well, he endorsed Congressman Andy Barr because he probably provides the best opportunity to win. Yeah, I think Nate Morris, who was supported by he's been on here and he's he was asked to drop out. Yes, and I think that maybe he ends up with some type of position in the administration. I'm glad he's in that.

He's a brilliant businessman. But listen, we got to win these seats. And the president, listen, the president endorsed in Sununu in New Hampshire. He endorsed Rogers in Michigan. I think he endorsed Collins in Maine, but obviously the support's there for Collins in Maine.

And we're doing that because, listen, at the end of the day, you got to remember midterms. We don't need to win a national popular vote. We have 35 races. If you look at Congress as 435 seats, Republicans start with 200, Democrats start with 200. There's 35 seats up for grabs.

There's five U.S. Senate seats up for grabs. We have superior candidates, a lot of them endorsed by the president. We have the financial resource superiority. We're crushing the Democrats in terms of fundraising.

We're going to do things that have never been done like the midterm convention, Trump of Palooza, to highlight all the great things this president's done. And the president's going to burnstorm the country. We've never had a better messenger than President Trump going out there. He's already delivered the low-propensity voters three times. We're going to do it again.

That's how we defy history. We've got to follow, we've got to execute the plan and following the lead of this president. And this conflict in Iran is going to be over. I think the economy is going to be humming. I talked to Secretary Bessett.

He thinks by the time of November, we're going to be on a roll. All right. It looks like the market's up 150 points already, despite the increased hostilities in the Middle East, where we could be going back to full-scale war. How much money do you guys have? Publicly, you have to declare it.

Yeah. Well, I think we reported a week or two ago. We're sitting on about $125 million. The Democrat DNC has minus $4 million. They've raised a lot, but they spend a lot.

We understand what's at stake. We have to win the midterm.

So we're raising it, but we're also trying to hold as much as we can. We're running a tight ship because when the elections come around, we're going to have to obliterate our opponents and we have to make sure that we win. Do you want Personally A full-blown debate or a coronation of J.D. Vance out of the gates, or do you want to see this? Every Republican fight it out for the nomination after we get through the midterms and we're looking at 28.

I always tell people that the Republican National Committee does not choose candidates, but I tell you who does, the president of the United States. And if the president weighs in, the president, I think if he makes an endorsement, I think that's he gets like a fast pass at Disney World. You go right to the front of the lines, and it's like having a golden ticket. I think it's going to be hard to beat. I think that what's happening now is the ultimate apprentice.

And a lot of things can happen over the next year, but this president is, I think that the. The negative is you lose the news cycle for you. The drama leaves your side and it goes all the Democrats who will have about 15 candidates.

Well, I would say. That's the risk, right? Yeah, but I tell you, well, you could also save a billion dollars, right? That's good, too. From a primary standpoint, so we could use it in the general election.

But I've talked to numerous Republicans that want to run for president. And so we will have a primary season. You know, even though it was. I think Ted Cruz is running. Who else could you take?

Yeah, I would say Ted Cruz is probably definitely running. It's a Josh Hawley? Maybe Josh Hawley, maybe Ron DeSantis. He hasn't ruled it out. J.D.

Vance, Marco Rubio is still out there. What about Glenn Young? By the way, Glenn Young's on our speaking circuit. You talk about a home run. And I'm speaking with him next Monday at an event down in Florida.

And I always tell people, I hate, I tell my team, please don't put me next to Glenn Yunken. The guy is such a, he's like a dynamic, the best speaker that I've ever heard on stage. And so he is a, I know the president likes him because he's on our speaking circuit. We bring him, we had an event with the president a couple weeks ago with our donors, and Governor Yunken was there and he spoke and did an amazing job. He's well received, well liked by the administration.

So yes, he could definitely put him in there. I think that the administration is going to get him something that would be warrant of his skills. But he's somebody who jumped from the business world and loves politics.

Sometimes they go, Yeah, I want to serve. I know he wants to serve. Look at a state like Virginia's, he crushed it and he left with approval ratings of like plus 10. I mean, so he proved his word. If they'd have their ridiculous one tournament, it's so dumb.

Joe Gruders, thanks so much. Best of luck the rest of the way in the RNC. The drama continues in nothing but build. Thank you. Thank you, Brian.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. Instead of having meeting down the block or in a boardroom or at a Hamptons Inn, they go to Ireland to a Hooters to go over to the Hamptons Inn. You just call it the Hamptons Inn? Don't you mean Hampton Inn? I've tried to give it a little bit more prestige.

The sense of royalty. But all I say is, he's got a bunch of buddies. He won't stay there unless there's a force. He's got a bunch of buddies that he ran with. Kill me, it's so weird that Tyrus brings this all up because you were in the green room saying that light-skinned people steal to you.

Right. I didn't know because he was on the five. I thought it was okay. He was on the five. He couldn't hear me.

But now you told everybody. All right, so. Can you give me a five-minute head start before you end this one? That was just some of the antics. Kat did a great job on Gutfeld last night.

It was very funny. She did, and at another part point in the show, we have the epic A montage of how the show turned on you throughout. I know. It's crazy. We don't have enough time here.

But they really started nice, and you blew it. You blew it. They were so nice to me, I couldn't accept it. And they had a nice introduction with the voiceover guy, even to the crowd. And then Kat's like, I like you, I don't have a problem with you, I'm introducing you nice.

And that was a problem. That's not how the show ended. It's not really. Hey, by the way, if you want to see how nice I am in person and how wrong Eriana Guttfeld is, I want to see you May 30th in Reno, Nevada, and then July 11th in Pensacola, History, Liberty, and Laps. And then we switch to Uniting the States.

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It's Brian Kilmey Joe coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, around the country, around the world. This is the show that everybody's talking about. Michael Goodwin is standing by from the New York Post, a lot going on there. The President of the United States is going to be busy today. He's going to be out and about.

He kept his schedule open until this afternoon. And by the way, a little bit later, Andrew Markov is going to be joining, a former Marine Special Forces officer who now runs SMAC Technologies. In case you don't know it, Ukraine has done so well of late in Russia. Big stories this morning that Vladimir Putin is feeling the pressure and they're bulking up security around him. The draft is getting to the point where they're starting to draft people that don't want to be drafted.

They're not going to the enclaves and getting some minorities who have no power. A lot of people don't want to do it because about, you know, you're talking about a thousand people dying a week. You are talking about over 1.5 million dead already. It has just been crazy. And then we'll do a simulcast with Stuart Varney.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Yeah. And I want to start by saying The power is the point. In fact, we are so not powerless that they are trying to legalize the restoration of Jim Crow.

That's what's happening here. That is the ridiculous, irrelevant Stacey Abrams dividing to conquer. More redistricting in a partisan effort to win midterms as Tennessee and Alabama, both red states, join in the fight since the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana, as Florida has now seemingly added four more seats potentially as Ron DeSantis redraws it all. Number two. Honestly, before this, I had never heard of Spencer Brad.

I feel like he's exploiting the grief of people in the Palisades, and I think that's too reprehensible. I think he is about his own celebrity. What is wrong with her? A lot. Karen Bass.

I'm concerned and feel that things are bad. California's nightmare might be dream come true for mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt. As two Republicans remain frontrunners to be the next governor, is California sobering up? Number one. Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships.

And they've attacked U.S. forces more than 10 times, all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point. General Denkan, Hormuz, hostilities flare up and ceasefire could end and a full-scale war could start. We'll talk about the blockade that America is put in place. And opening up the strait, which is now the objective.

And that's going to be key. We wait for the next move. And you heard the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff say the attacks that we saw in the UAE and on our ships, all defeated, are not enough to restart formal. full-scale retaliation. They're going to go after the Gulf states.

We'll go after them. Michael Goodwin standing by. Michael is New York Post columnist. Michael, first off, are you surprised that when they d go for retaliation, Iran, they go for the UAE, not Israel? Good morning, Brandon.

That's a very strange one. I think what they're trying to do is assert that no matter what happens with the U. S. Iran still intends to control the Gulf.

So I think it's a real, literally a warning shot to the Arab states that don't get too comfortable in this situation. We are still here, and we're not going anywhere, and we can damage you anytime we please. Uh here is j uh Dan Kane, cut four. Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships. And they've attacked U.S.

forces more than 10 times, all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point. You can also see the group of tankers and cargo vessels in the U.S. blockade line, as I mentioned. As a result of Iran's indiscriminate attacks across the region, there are currently 22,500 mariners embarked on more than 1,550 commercial vessels trapped in the Arabian Gulf, unable to transit. got to untrap them.

And if you could get a steady stream of tankers flowing through the Homu Strait is blockade is broken, and that gives a lot more leverage at the table and maybe forever.

So The chances of that happening, as long as they're still shooting rockets, Michael, I think the tankers want to stay away because they've got insurers to worry about and they got multi-million dollar vessels to conserve. Absolutely. I think the number of people on those ships, as you said, the cargo, the insurance costs of the ships themselves, I mean, it's a huge undertaking. And it's all because Iran is threatening. It's not so much what they're actually doing, it's just they haven't agreed to open the strait.

And the United States, I think, is being cautious because it's pretty clear that the President does not want to start a full-scale war again. He's been extremely patient, I would say, in giving Iran an opportunity to find some grounds to make some promises that he can have confidence in. But so far, Iran looks like it wants to keep pushing, pushing, pushing as far as it can without getting the Americans and the Israelis back attacking again.

So I don't see an easy Here is Ismail Baghadi, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Qat 11, through translator. Their owners and shipping companies know well that to ensure their security and safety, they need to coordinate with relevant bodies in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

So that's they continue to say. We have to break that. And then we have to wonder who we're dealing with on the other side. As General Keene says, you don't even listen to the Foreign Minister. And speaker, the IRGC is running things.

So what do you do if they keep sending those guys forward? Yes, it's a very difficult situation because Iran realizes that President Trump is facing the midterm elections and that the President popularity I mean, they're reading the polls too, and they see his popularity is low and that the most Americans are not crazy about the war and the effect that it's having on gasoline prices, fertilizer prices, food costs.

So all kinds of things, I think the Iranians are not sitting up there unaware of what's going on i in our own country and the political clock is ticking.

So you wrote your column about the British Ambassador. Last week was British Week. I talked to the Ambassador too, but off my, he talked about the special relationship is over between us and that the U.S. only seems to have a special relationship with Israel. And you said, you know what?

He's telling the truth. Yeah, look, I mean, look at how the Europeans, but the Brits included, have said no thank you to President Trump's request that they help in the war against Iran. And this follows, I think, a long-term decline in the sense of how they have not paid their dues on NATO, all the full dues. And so you have this sense that the West, the Western European countries, are not really allies in the sense of with us. They have a very different agenda.

They've gutted their military in many cases. They were buying foreign oil from Russia until that stopped. But this sense that they are They're defaulting on their agreement to be full members of NATO, which is a defense bag, not a social club. And I think that's a big difference. And so, when the ambassador says his special relationship is backwards looking, that if America has a special relationship today, it is with Israel.

I think that's absolutely right. And it's an extraordinary statement about Israel's emergence as a powerful ally. And the two countries together are perhaps more powerful than any other two countries or any other single country America could team up with. Absolutely. And so far, Britain has teamed up, you mentioned, with France, and they're just sending up a coalition to talk about what happens when the war ends without us.

So they're not even talking to us about how to coordinate and how to escort. They're meeting around us, and they're also restricting our use of our bases. In their countries. And I'm talking about Britain. Spain doesn't want us to fly over their country.

Italy hasn't been much better. And Germany's chancellor came out and said that America basically is being humiliated by the Iranians, and Trump is just infuriated by this. Yes, and I do think it is consistent with what's been happening in Western Europe, especially for the last couple of generations. A decline, as J.D. Vance said in that memorable speech, about you're losing the freedom of speech.

You're doing all kinds of things. You're backtracking on the Western, not just a Western alliance, but Western civilization, the foundations of what made the West the incubator of freedom, of speech, of religion. All of these things, women's rights, all of these things that came from the West, and you now see parts of Europe backtracking as though they are afraid to offend their new immigrants, most of whom are Muslim. The Wall Street Journal has this story about faculty, the children of faculty. They're both running major cities.

Seattle and New York, Mom Donnie and this Wilson over in Seattle, because it's not saying that they're not smart, but they're insulated in a bubble and they have these ideas that came from the campuses, most of which are left-wing. Do you agree with that? I do, Brian. I think faculty brats, they're called. Yeah, I think what has come out of The elite college campuses for sure and probably many others across the country is something more like indoctrination than education.

And it has indoctrinated them in many ways to downgrade the Western canon, the things that we all used to read, the things we all understood and proud of America, of the West, of whether it was World War II or the Cold War. All of these things are now being reinterpreted in a way to make America and the West the villains of the world. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much, Michael. Best of luck. His new column's out.

The British ambassador was right. The special relationship is in tatters, and it's up to them to fix it. We know who we are. We know what we can do. They have to find out what they can do without us.

If they don't snap out of it, that might indeed be the case, even after Trump. Thanks so much, Michael. Appreciate it. My pleasure, Brian. When we come back, line up for the calls: 1-866-408-7669.

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Hey, we are back in um Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Andy Markov, former Marine and former Special Forces officer who runs SMAC Technologies.

So we'll talk about what's happening with this drone advancement. We're also keeping up to date with what's happening over in the war as we try to open up the strait, the Oman side, and we form an umbrella to do just that.

Meanwhile, last night, if you were looking for me, 10 o'clock Eastern Time, I was on Gutfeld, and Kat was filling in, did a great job.

Now we started off. She did something very odd for that show. They were extremely nice to me. And then, and what clips do you have, Allison?

So we just, we just see the evolution of how she started off nice and you caused it all to turn.

Okay, let's listen. Welcome tonight's guest. He's a nice guy who writes terrific Books, it is a real asset to the company. Most of Fox and Friends in One Nation. Brian, kill me.

I mean, Brian, it's kind of crazy what's going on here. You were nice to me. No, I was. What is going on here? Are you sure this is gut belt?

No, I wrote that one. That's between you guys.

Okay, all right. That's between you guys.

You're right. There's no tension or stress. Right, absolutely. It's early. Yes, it's true.

The other thing is, in the stories you submitted to me, and you demand I do research in a way that Greg never does, he says. Hey, I was Nice to you. No, I know.

So far. But I know everyone turns on me at the end. Even in my own personal life, I'm very hard. I know. That's why you spend so much time with me, Alfred.

Especially you, Tyrus.

So, a couple of things. All right, one thing. Brian, what do you think? A couple of things. Oh, what do you know?

He has a couple of things. I know. No matter what the topic is, he's always got a couple of things. Can I just say this? Remember, it always starts out nice.

How it starts out, it always gets out like this. I get it all. You can't say I didn't try. You can't say I didn't try. Like, here he comes again with a couple of things.

Stay out of this, Tyrus. All right. Couple of things. Kill me? Do you have a couple things on this one?

Couple of things. So We're all done. And there was no more tension.

So you thought. Let's listen. And this blows up this whole study. In the beginning of Rocky II, he needs speed. And Mick puts a pigeon in a pen, and he can't find that pigeon.

And he's a man. But by the end of Rocky II, right before he goes into the ring to fight Apollo, I'm going to blow the cover, he wins. He gets the pigeon. And it shows you the best. It's a chicken, Brian.

Damn it, man. It was a chicken. Oh, right. And you had the. This is why they hate you.

No, he does. This is why. This is why Greg. I will never pick on Greg again for making jokes about you. I know.

I know. You put a pigeon in your right away.

So you wouldn't chase a pigeon. Oh, now I get it.

Okay. Bye. I wanna see. All right. Okay, I want to see.

So And then me and Tyrus had a fight at the end of the show. They didn't give you that five minutes to get away. I cannot believe actually you did mess up the pigeon and the chicken. You were the Rocky provider. I know.

I just said, wow, I got the perfect analogy. I forgot, man. I just didn't know. Do all pigeons able to fly? I mean, unless they're not.

If they're eating fly, why are they always walking on the ground? I think that's where they're finding food. Oh. But don't other f don't other birds want to find food? They fly.

I mean, they do, but I think in New York, they find a lot more food on the ground. People drop everything. It's true. And it was brought up later, and it's totally true with the attitude of the city. When you go up to a pigeon in other places, they fly away.

And here, they're like, get out of my way.

So pigeons really have an attitude here. Which it was, I tell you, it was the name of that segment was basically a dumb things. They did a study on if you walk up to a bird as a man or a woman. How close do you get before they fly away? Will they fly away and give men a chance to get closer to them, or will they give women?

So they do this study in Italy at the University of Turin, and it turns out men can get three feet closer to women before the bird flies away. Have you ever heard of a dumber, more useless study in your life? But I mean, people are getting paid to do these studies. It's sort of amazing. Right.

And to put it on a national show, which is a hit show. But then the real tragedy of it all is that you got the pigeon and chicken wrong, and now this is why we're talking about it. If you never would have gotten that wrong, it would be like a bad tough. But in a way, am I not giving back? I'm s trying to s I am saving I'm saving a pointless talking point.

Well, you are, and I also think you saved Gutfeld last night because it really was a dramatic turn. How they started nice and then cat turned, Tyrus turned, so do you foreshadow it? When we're out, what do we hear all the time? People love you and Greg. But maybe they'll be saying you and Kat now.

No, this is the other thing they say. Do you guys really hate each other?

Well, that's true, but they love the tension in the relationship, is what I meant. Right. I don't know how healthy it is for the company. Do you think it hurts the company?

Well, I actually think it's very healthy for you. I think it hurts the company whether it's healthy for you. I don't know. Have you seen Greg's game show? I haven't, but it's out.

Is it out now on Fox Stations? Should he come in and do the radio show? Wouldn't that be good? I think you should ask him. We'll see what he says.

He doesn't get in, he gets in around one or two. He goes into his office, which is interesting. He keeps the door open. And you would think a guy that writes like that wants it close. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Killmeade. The cruise missiles were going after both U.S. Navy ships, but mostly after commercial shipping. We defended both ourselves, and consistent with our commitment, we defended all the commercial ships. Uh we've had uh drone launches of again commercial ships, all of which were defended against consistent with our commitment.

So uh that is The guy in charge, that is Admiral Cooper, Admiral Cooper going over from the Pentagon, from CENTCOM, going over what they received yesterday as they put their ships through the strait, the Oman side. They got hit with cruise missiles. They didn't get hit, but they were targeted by cruise missiles and some drones and they knocked them all out. Then the fast boats came out, the so-called Mosquito Navy, and they blew all the ships up. But what you need is, you got to give people confidence, the tankers, the multi-million dollar tankers, to know they can go through there and not get attacked.

And I think we're attempting to do that. We're forcing. The forcing the Iranians' hand. And we'll see, they rocketed the UAE, not Israel, which is odd, but noteworthy. Andy Markov joins us now, former Marine Special Forces officer who now runs SMAC Technologies.

We talk about AI with him. Andy, first off, what about this move by the President, by his commanders, to try to take back the Strait?

Well, Brian, I think that the straight and trying to open a corridor is an important bridge, and it's a bridge back to leveraging around at the negotiating table. I mean, I think the point you were making earlier, at the end of the day, we need to make The blockade feels like safe to commercial shipping, that well, the court are safe to commercial shipping, that they will use it. And we need to show Iran that we can do this really across four key metrics effectively, efficiently, at acceptable risk levels, and with the endurance to do it for as long as it takes. And ultimately, that provides leverage of the negotiating table: like, we can do this all day. Um, like, let's put an end to this.

So, here's what they did yesterday: uh, cut six. Over the last twelve hours, Iran has interfered. The IRGC has launched multiple cruise missiles, drones and small boats. at ships we are protecting. we have defeated each and every one of those threats through the clinical application of defensive munitions.

And so far, I have not heard much from today. And what the President's made it clear, hey, South Korea, your ship got hit. Why don't you get involved? Do you think the would you like to see that? Would you like to see other countries get involved?

I think it's really important when we talk about like two of those metrics, the kind of efficiency and really the endurance piece, but the ability to demonstrate that we can keep this corridor open. We need a coalition. We can obviously do it as a U.S., we're doing it right now. But to be able to do it for a long time, incredibly in a way that's resource efficient, we need a coalition. And I absolutely think it would be great to see the coalition participating.

But Brian, the bar to participating is high right now. I mean, unfortunately, a lot of coalition integration still looks like phone calls and sticky notes. And we don't really have machine-to-machine integration with our coalition partners in Alice. And I think the technology and really the promise of part of the promise of AI is lowering that bar to coalition integration so that it is easier to say, yes, we are going to work together as a partner. Partnered Group to keep this trade open.

So yesterday, the UAE was targeted by nineteen separate missiles and drones, and they did go for the pipeline, intentionally, the pipeline that they've been UAE has been using to circumvent the strait. Why do you think they go for UAE and not Israel? Um To be honest, Brian, I'm not really sure what they're thinking as far as why UA are not Israel. And I think, you know, I think at the end of the day, everyone's trying to keep tensions low. I don't know how they think about that from an escalation perspective, but I think we're kind of in this space where.

I think we need to get back to the negotiating table without having a major escalation, but I'm not sure why Iran picked the UAE over Israel on that front. I mean, put it this way. Then, Saudi Arabia, who's had tension with the UAE, called up to offer their support. Pakistan offered their support. The Syrian government offered their support.

And what they're saying is, and they condemned Iran.

So I know they're not in the make-a-friend business, but I didn't know they were in the make-an-enemy business. They're making it easy, instead of America against Iran, they're making it easier for America to say, do you see the problem? And I think that is really like an opening for. This whole like coalition peace, right? Where like they are creating enemies that, you know.

Dad. We can take advantage of, like, let's work together, but we need to make it easier to work together. And I think that's the hard piece on the coalition front: it's still difficult, like at a very mechanical level, for us to do these complex multi-domain operations, which is what keeping the straight open is. I mean, it is not an easy job to take a bunch of commercial shipping, not trained in military operations, and safely help them maneuver the same patrol route. I mean, you know, what we used to always say in the Marine Corps, right, is never take the same patrol route twice.

We don't have a choice. And straight up remotes. And so, like, we're doing this complex thing over and over and over again. It's gonna take, you know, it's gonna take a village, it's gonna take a group. And I think, again, like, you know, we are doing it.

But technology could widen the margins with which we could do it so that we have more leverage. Right. So when you see their malign behavior in Iraq when the Iraq war was happening, and they're still there financing and supporting militias in Iraq, and then you see the fact that they rocketed Jordan. Jordan a couple of years ago. And we had to go respond and we had Joe Biden had to take his time in responding.

I think he blew up an empty shed. But they never stopped targeting us for the last forty plus years. No, I mean, like, like, like, I think we talked a bit about last time. I mean, that's, you know, my experience, you know, the Marines I served with. I mean, Iran was.

Interfering with everything that we were doing, whether it was in Afghanistan or in Iraq. I want you to hear what Jack Keene says, what he thinks we should do when it goes back to the talks, Cut 14.

Well, I think we know who's in power. It's certainly not the President. He's been sidelined some time ago. It's certainly not the Foreign Minister who's been sidelined some time ago. The IRGC is in charge.

There's just no doubt about it. They've got the guns and they have the access to the Supreme Leader. Obviously, Multambay Khamenei, who's the son of the Ayatollah, he doesn't have the power that his father had, and there's a power vacuum here being filled by the IRGC leadership. And they are calling the shots. I don't think we should pay much attention to what the foreign minister says, or frankly, to what the president of Iran said.

The guys in charge here is I'm and the principal person in charge is Ahmed Vahidi. And he and his cohorts, they are as hardline as anybody that has been in control of Iran. We've got to understand that.

So that guy is the IRGC, the head of the IRGC, and he's closer to the Supreme Leader, who's all banged up, and he's the only one communicating with him.

So that guy's taking a hard line. Andy, would you characterize leadership as suicidal? that they don't care about living and dying or They just know that More than likely, it's other people that do the living and dying. I think that I don't think that they're suicidal. I mean, I don't think that they're suicidal.

I think that they understand that. Time is probably on their side, right? Like, because this is a resource-expensive operation for us. There's pressure for it to be resolved. And they don't need to defeat the U.S.

Navy, right? Like the bar for them to win is not defeat our Navy, it's create enough ambiguity in the strait for long enough that the pain on the global energy markets, insurers, on commercial shipping is high enough that, like, the everyone just has enough. And so, like, I think that bar is low, and they know that they have time. And that's kind of where I kind of come back to: like, we need to show that this military action that we're taking that is tactical, but that it's easy and that we can do it over and over again, and we can do it for a really long time, that we can outweight them. But, like, the time trade-off and our credibility to be able to wait it out and do this efficiently and resource-effectively over time is what we need to do.

And I think that and they think probably that they can wait it out on time is like is what I would say.

So I understand right now that this is the first time we've used AI for targeting and for practical purposes. How about the integration of the new drone technology, much of which comes from Ukraine these days, right? There's a lot of really, really interesting tech coming out of Ukraine. I mean, I think there are really two fundamentally very important and related technologies, right? You have like autonomous systems, drone technology, and the ability to kind of.

Autonomously maneuver the battlefield and create effects. But then there's an additional aspect to fully realize that capability where you need to be able to orchestrate it, right? You need to be able to integrate not just a drone, not just in a drone swarm to do a thing. You need that drone swarm to be able to do things with other swarms, with manned platforms, with some of the more exquisite systems that we have. And that's where I think, you know, it is this kind of, I always call it like an AI village, but there's a variety of different technologies that have to come together.

But to fully realize the autonomous technology coming out of Ukraine or that we're building, you know, inside the U.S., you need to be able to orchestrate it effectively to achieve effects. I think there's. Yeah. Let's see real quick. Anthropic looks like it's out, but other AI companies could be in.

Do we lose a lot without Anthropic in the military? I mean, I think at the end of the day, there's a lot of capability in the Frontier Labs that just signed on. And I think that, you know, large language models, to a degree, very powerful, very useful, but like somewhat commoditized. And so I think that you have enough capability across. The firms that are inside.

I think it's a huge win. The Department of War has taken a step towards being AI first, which I think is great. Andy, always great to talk to you. Thanks so much. Thanks, Brian, for having me.

I really appreciate it. You got it. Stuart Varney's next. We'll do a signal cash. Listen to Brian Kill Mecho.

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So let's listen in. Gulf front at this moment, and that's encouraging the price of oil to come down just a little, but it's still above $100 a barrel. 1051 Kill Mead Time. Here he is. Brian, California Governor Newsome is criticizing Trump for his response to the White House correspondent's dinner shooting.

You gotta watch this. Roll it. A hell of a way to bring the country together and used it to not only exploit the ballroom and to direct Brendan Carr to try to f suppress, continue to suppress free speech, but also to indict Comey. for a beach photo. That was the aftermath.

Of that moment, this evil act at the White House correspondence dinner that needs to be condemned. It goes in both directions, which means the solution to this also. goes with accountability in both directions. You know, that it was the third attempt on the President's life. Is this really something that Newsom wants to indulge himself by going after Trump on?

The third attempt on his life? Stuart, do you know how Gavin Newsom got additional publicity? The same way Eric Swalwell did, the same way Adam Schiff did. The same way. Uh the squad does.

Uh they go after Trump and and they want to get famous. They want to get famous. They go after Trump. You're sparring with the president. Then you go up a few wait classes.

So Gavin Newsom doesn't want anybody looking at what he did in California, how he ruined that state, buried it in debt. He doesn't want anybody to say what happened to the price of oil. Why is whatever we're charging being paid for gas at another $2. He does not want anyone to talk about not being able to bring water to a fire.

So he says, I'm going to attack the president on his response. For one thing, I don't know anyone, Stuart, you might know better, that thought the president's remarks at the White House hours after the attempt with the killer and so many questions still out there having the press conference. I didn't see anybody critical. What he brought up before in the ballroom, if you don't like that, he brought up the ballroom, it kind of made sense. He's like, look, I could secure that location.

I can't secure the Hilton. But that's not aggressive. That's not anti-unification. I mean, what's wrong with that? It's not.

It was. Not exactly passive, but it was a few nice things to say in a very difficult moment, that's my opinion. But don't you think, Stuart, just to follow up on that, if you look at his Twitter account, and I know he's not smart enough to do that, he's got his 20-somethings doing that, all the little chippy attitude that he has. But that inflames people. That inflames people on the left.

It gets to hate Donald Trump even more. He doesn't want people talking about his tone and tenor leading up to the third shooting. And you bring up the fourth because it was a guy caught at Mar-a-Lago. They didn't know that Trump wasn't there.

So let's say there's a minimum four.

So he doesn't want people focusing on that.

So he said, oh, the president doesn't bring people together. He's not the one who brought the suit on James Comey. He had nothing to do with it. Right, well, now listen to this. Listen to what one is a Tennessee state representative.

His name is Justin Pearson. Here's what he had to say about the president. Donald Trump is a white supremacist domestic terrorist who is seeking to destroy our democracy by any means necessary, including by usurping democracy itself and the voices of the people. And Governor Bill Lee, Cameron Sexton, and Lieutenant Governor McNally have all decided to join him in this effort to destroy our democracy, to take away our voice, and to attack black people and black representation. And that's wrong.

Uh Brian, will any senior Democrat step in and say, hey, cut this out? That's not going to win us elections. And besides, you're totally wrong. No. In fact, Stacey Abrams said something very similar to that, and Hakeem Jeffries brought up race and brought up the Supreme Court into that.

And if you see the candidate, Stewart, in Maine and Michigan, Those are radical candidates totally embraced. Totally embraced by the Bernie Sanders wing of the party, which is ascendant. He is the kingmaker, Bernie Sanders. And Schumer lost almost everyone that this guy endorsed, Schumer endorsed, has not been successful. He hopes to have success in Ohio, but I highly doubt it.

So now the mainstream Democrats are the Bernie Sanders socialist wing.

So who's there to condemn? I mean, any Democrat would stand up and say, hey, you know, I support the governor of New Jersey. I love that the governor of Virginia. But man, Elon Omeyer better come clean on her text messages. She better not have anything to do with taking money from autistic people or that food program for the people in need in Minnesota.

But they have no interest. There's only one guy that does that. It's Federman. Two people used to do that: Cinema and Mansion. Yep, yeah, John Fennerman, he's saying it.

Brian, out of time, unfortunately. See you again real soon. Go get him, Steward. Thank you. So, yeah, we'll follow up on those things.

But I am a little stunned that Gavin Newsom is weighing in again because he thinks the best way for him to be successful is to insult Donald Trump. But that's going to change. And you know what's going to change? After the midterms, because everyone's going to be running for president on the left. I mean, think about who thinks that they're going to be president.

Governor Pritzker thinks he's going to be president. Gavin Newsom thinks he's going to be president. Kamala Harris, I'm sure, will run to be president. Governor Bashir, Governor Shapiro. These people are all going to line up.

And sooner or later, Gavin Newsom insulting Trump. is going to look i look hollow because If those other people want to win. They are going to compare their track records to Newsom's track records, and his answer is going to be: Donald Trump's a bad guy? Or Donald Trump's losing popularity? Or I don't like the war in Iran.

No, he's going to have to turn around. He's going to fight back. I looked at the Wall Street Journal today, and you're not going to believe it. In most polls, the frontrunner is drumroll, please, which is great news for Republicans. Kamala Harris.

Crazy. Kamala Harris. Do you realize One thing about Bernie Sanders, I know what he stood for. I could tell you about Hillary Clinton. She went a little bit to the left when she ran, but I knew what she stood for.

I knew what John Kerry stood for. Can you know any program or anything that Kamala Harris does or what she means, what she would do, except for I don't like Donald Trump and Joe Biden, kept me from making any decisions? Yeah. So, this would be pure, I know who she is, I'll vote for her, as opposed to I love what she's done, I'll vote for her. I love the promises she'll make.

I mean, she'd be absolutely awful. The least experienced president with the best resume, the best-looking resume, but the least experienced when it comes to accomplishments.

So, sooner or later, and I like that time. In 26, 20, 27? Yeah, 27 and 28. It's going to be intramural fighting. And then, you know, you heard earlier, an earlier hour, RNC chair say, it's not going to be Donald, it's not going to be VP Vance running alone.

It'll be other people on that stage. And I think that's good because if you're a Republican, you don't want to give up the stage to Democrats for two years. From high atop. Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. Mark Wallace is coming up shortly, former ambassador to the United Nations for President George W. Bush. Really cued in. And by the way, he's also United Against Nuclear Iran, CEO and founder there.

He's going to be joining us on Zoom, so check out the stream. And Sean Trendy is going to be with us too, the senior election analyst for Real Queer Politics, visiting scholar at AEI. When I think it's so important, I listened to Sean the other day when that Louisiana decision came by, came down from the Supreme Court that said you cannot gerrymander on the basis of race. And people say, well, that's racist. In what way is it racist?

I don't want a white neighborhood, don't want a black neighborhood. They want to redistrict on whether it's occupation or the size or whatever. Go back to that. But you can't say, oh, those Hispanics, they're going to vote one party and blacks are going to vote another party. Can't do that.

Well, what that does is open up a lot of red states to add more red districts. And blue too, but they've gerrymandered themselves so much to this point, they've almost maxed out. And keep in mind, go to our YouTube page, go to youtube.com at the BrianKillmeat Show. Let's get to the big three. Number three.

And I want to start by saying The power is the point. In fact, we are so not powerless that they are trying to legalize the restoration of Jim Crow. That's what's happening here. What are you talking about? Dividing to conquer more rejecting and partisan effort to win the midterms as Tennessee and Alabama join the fight, and Florida says, I found a way to get four more seats to the right.

Number two. Honestly, before this, I had never heard of Spencer Brad. I feel like he's exploiting the grief of people in the Palisades, and I think that's and simple. I think he is about his own celebrity. That is Mayor Karen Bass talking about running against Spencer Pratt, whose house was burned to the ground, unable to rebuild, and now she says he's exploiting other people's grief.

How about his grief? What she is gonna lose. And also, when it comes to the governor's race, looks like right now two Republicans are leading. Number one. Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships.

And they've attacked U.S. forces more than 10 times, all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point. Well, that's the golden sentence. No reason to go full on with combat. And so far, it's been a relatively quiet day after yesterday's hostilities flare up.

As the U.S. says, we're going to open the strait, we're tired of waiting. And that's going to be key. So, what's going on yesterday, we decided on the Oman side of the Hormuz Strait, we were going to start policing it and setting up a A uh security umbrella. And in turn, there's been some shooting.

We're trying to get 150 oil tankers through a day. That's the way it used to be. We got hundreds of tankers out there in the Gulf waiting to come through. The crew is somewhat stranded. I'm serious.

It's a serious situation. But yesterday, we blew up six of those small mosquito ships that they have for their Navy. We also watched as they try to hit the UAE with 19 separate missiles and drones. They might have been successful in one of the oil fields. We'll see about that.

And the president, for the most part, was proud of this Navy, and he should have been. But as long as they're shooting in the Gulf, It's going to be tough to get them through the straight. Even if we could protect them. But we're about to basically call their bluff and show them our power. Let's bring in Mark Wallace, former ambassador to the UN.

Mark, welcome back. Great to see you, Ambassador. Your thoughts about the President's move that really was in place on Sunday, and we saw it in action on Monday. Good to see you, Brian, and thanks for having me on. As always, you and I spent a lot of time talking about this.

And I think that the president really has done an extraordinary job in a key area. For so many years, the playbook in dealing with Iran was Iran would flirt with negotiations, not meet with us, delay, while at the same time harassing vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, sometimes seizing, sometimes firing. And over 47 years, the global economy has been taxed, the Strait of Hormuz tax, because of Iran, the number one state sponsor of terrorism, controlling that strait. The president has now said, look, we're going to escort vessels through there. We think there's a ceasefire.

There should be a ceasefire. But if you're going to try to stop us and shoot at us, our Navy is going to blow you out of the water every time that you do that.

So the onus is now on the Iranians to engage in hostilities. And the Iranians don't like doing that because they like blaming everyone else for their actions. And I think our Navy is quite capable of defending. And at some point, the chokehold that is on the Iranian economy and their decimated military infrastructure is really starting to set in and on their oil infrastructure.

So I think the time is on our side right now. And I think the onus is on the Iranians to do something, and they don't have a lot they can do. The speaker just came out with a statement saying the current situation is unbearable for the United States. Is that the perception they should be getting?

Well, I think that the reality is that it's been unbearable that the number one state sponsor of terrorism has controlled the Strait of Hormuz and has been in a hot war effectively with the United States, Israel, and the West for 47 years. We've called for the internationalization of the Strait of Hormuz for a long time now. We recently renewed that call, and it's high time for that.

So I think when he says it's unbearable, I think it's unbearable for Iran to control the strait. And I think you're seeing the president take the first steps to internationalize transit through that strait and to begin the opening of that strait. Iran does not militarily have the ability to harm us significantly. I don't want to diminish our brave military members that are in theater, but they cannot harm us in a significant manner. It doesn't mean there isn't risk, but they cannot harm us in that way.

Ambassador Wallace, I want you to hear some ideas. Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who's close to the president, said that he could be wearing a lot of people. Could be doing right now, Cut 12? I think we need to go further. There's three things I think we should do.

Number one is: I do believe there are strategic targets we can take by land. We don't have to go downtown Tehran. We can take those and just eliminate their ability economically to continue to operate. Carg Island, the islands, and the Strait of Hormuz as well. And also, I'd say go after the Revolutionary Guards because they control the Bashi's.

What's the Basije do? They're the paramilitary group that keeps the population under control.

So you break that command and control link you've got with them. And the third is on negotiations. I would say we're not going to negotiate. We're done. We're just going to keep going on this until we finish it.

You apply maximum pressure to it, and you make sure that they pay a price that they cannot handle. Uh how do you feel about that? Look, I think General Kellogg has some good wisdom there. The reality is that we don't need to take Karg Island. If they can't transit oil and transship oil, they're going to have to flare their wells and their wells will no longer be operational in short order.

So, blockading Karg is almost the same as taking it. But certainly, we could take Karg Island if we wanted to. His reference to the other islands, the Altoums, Kesham Island, Hormuz Island, is a very good point. And you saw glimpses that our military was taking action to strike Iranian positions there. I think what you're seeing with the deployment of the Marine Expeditionary Units is to ready the potential taking of some of those islands that are key, strategically located in the Strait of Hormuz.

I think that's a real possibility. In terms of the IRGC, I think that's very wise. Anything we can do to continue striking the IRGC, we should, every time they launch a misguided effort to attack shipping, we should take out an IRGC remaining target. There aren't that many. Big IRGC targets left, but there are some.

So one thing I heard, Mark, since you're focused on nuclear, as is the President, is that they said that for 15 years, evidently, they said we will not enrich. and we'll take the current uranium and down blend. But after that, we want to go to point three. If that was offered to you and you were in that room negotiating, what would you tell them? I would say you sit on the largest supplies of hydro, one of the largest supplies of hydrocarbons in the world.

And the vast majority of countries that are members of the NPT, they don't have the need or right to enrich uranium. You only need to enrich uranium if you want a path to a nuclear weapon. Iran is not a responsible state. If they truly wanted a civilian nuclear program, they could do like 19 other countries and import enriched uranium from a consortium and export it once it was used in that manner. There is no rational basis or legitimate civilian basis for Iran to enrich uranium.

So I want you to hear Jason Rowley, the Wall Street Journal, and I tend to believe him. I tend to agree with him on this, CUT 19. They are pushing back. I think they're trying to call the President's bluff here. And it's an indication that this war isn't over.

And I don't think it's going to be over until we resume military operations, frankly. And I hate to be pessimistic, but the pattern here with Iran is that they want to wait you out. They want to negotiate. They don't want to give an inch. And I think that's what it will take.

So I'm leaning that way too. It's up to the President. He told me yesterday he thinks there's a 35% chance we go back to war. What does Mark Wallace think? I think that there's a combination of things that we're doing.

The blockade is choking them economically and really stifling their ability to continue exporting hydrocarbons, an essential element of that. We're stifling them economically. We're responding to their attacks, and we should be ready to continue going to take military action where needed. The reality is Iran can't agree. To the three things that are necessary to stop their nuclear program, to stop supporting proxies, and to stop building ballistic missiles to threaten their allies.

At the end of the day, those three core principles, which I think the president could even lay out more definitively to the American people, I think they cannot agree to it. Because at the end of the day, Iran is a revolutionary ideology, and death to America, death to Israel is what they live by and how they rally their folks. And once they make an agreement with us, they lose that narrative and their rationale for existence is over.

So I think we're seeing a regime, frankly, in its death rows. Those death rows could be over an extended period of time or a shorter period of time, but it is a regime in death rows. Yeah, I was talking to Dennis Ross and a few others who said that once the war stops, that's when the government's going to be in the most danger. That's when people are going to realize our currency is worthless. Our country is destroyed.

I don't have a job. They've lost between 1 and 2 million jobs already.

So then we don't have water. They didn't have water in Tehran. That's when they're most in danger. And we don't know what kind of damage Israel and the U.S. have done to their paramilitary force.

Do you think so too? Dennis is a great friend and very wise. He's been part of United Against Nuclear En for many, many years. Look, the reality is that hyperinflation to an extraordinary level, over 100% year on year, is setting in. There's no jobs.

There's no currency. People are struggling. But the reality is what the President said yesterday, I believe, on UUIT, where he said. If they don't have guns, they can't run into the fire of an IRGC that has hundreds of thousands of AK-47s pointed in their direction. But certainly, the Iranian people hate this regime, and it is a tempest that is building in that economy, in that demography.

And the people won't stand for it much longer. But you can't underestimate the fact that the bad guys have guns, and they're willing to turn it on their own people. When are we going to know if the new umbrella is working? Say that again. I'm sorry.

When are we going to know if the new umbrella, the new protection umbrella, is working in the straight? I mean, I think we're seeing it already. I mean, I think you're starting to see, it's interesting that the president and our team characterize it as escorting rather than convoying. Escorting is escorting individual ships. Convoying is taking groups of ships.

And there's an entire naval art to convoying and a mechanism to do that. And I think you're seeing these escorting of initial vessels being the first foray into the broader convoying of more vessels that are departing the Strait of Hormuz. With every passing day, when Iran tries to lash out, they're showing their techniques, their capacity. We're degrading that capacity. And once they fire those shots, they don't get to do it again.

What do you say to people who say, well, we're tired of these foreign wars? You hear it all the time now, Mark. We're tired of you guys are trying to waste our money in foreign wars and we need it at home. And it has not yielded much for us in the past. What do you say to that?

You know, who likes wars? I mean, you know, I hear that. And because I'm an Iran expert in doing this, somehow there's a belief that I like war. I've been trying to use economic power and other coercive power to stop the number one state sponsor of terrorism that's killed more American troops and harmed the United States for so many decades. And at some point, the danger, the national security interests of Iran's ballistic missile program, a nuclear program, gets too great where we have to confront it.

And if we continue to kick the can down the road, which is a term used in diplomacy by successive presidents, we end up with North Korea. Kim Jong-un has a nuclear weapon and is completely unstable. It cannot be the case that Iran can have a ballistic missile program, one that can reach the United States, and a nuclear weapon, you know, very close to a nuclear weapon. It's too dangerous for the United States. And if we don't deal with these issues, they become greater down the road.

Nobody wants wars. Nobody wants. And visions, but sometimes they are brought to us, Brian, and we don't bring them to our opponents. I know. You can't ignore it.

I guess the enemy has a vote too. Mark Wallace, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Good seeing you, Brian. You got a 1866-408-7669.

The president is at the White House right now, announcing the new fitness test will be in all schools. RFK is there, Bryson D. Chambau is there. Gary Players, leading the charge, University of Florida basketball coach on the president's. Also, Linda McBann, Secretary of Education, and Secretary of Housing and Human Development.

HUD, Secretary, is there, as well as the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.

So, big day at the White House. Don't move. From the Oval Office to the front lines, he talks to the people making history. This is the Brian Killmeat Show. Yeah.

Uh Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Yeah, I'm not sure if Karen Bass forgot that she let my house burn down and my parents' house burn down. And I had actual neighbors burn alive across the street from my childhood home. The only grief is my grief, my community's grief that I initially started this fight on behalf of.

And she forgets I have received two community advocate awards from the Pacific Palisades community.

So it's the most insane, psycho, diabolical thing I've heard in a minute. And that's his Spencer Pratt. And I think this guy's going to end up winning the mayor. Karen Bass is so useless. Yeah, crime has gone down all across the country.

But you know what's happened? More people have left California than ever before. 54,000 last year, and more people left Los Angeles County than any other county in California. And add to this: homeless went down, but it was already an all-time high for the entire country. I think a third of all homeless are in California because they opened the door, they give facilities, and they just everything from the needles on down.

It's been an epic fail. And Spencer Pratt knows his stuff. I'm listening to this guy go deep. And what they're saying is, and he's responding to the fact that Karen Bass said, well, you're trying to. You're trying to cash in off people's grief.

Does she not understand that his house burned, that he's living in a trailer in Pacific Palisades? It's crazy. Sandra, New Jersey. Hey, Sandra. Good morning to you.

Good morning. I was thinking about Cole Allen a lot. He reminds me of Luigi number two. He goes to jail. He did a terrible, terrible thing, and he almost succeeded.

Thank God he didn't. He's in jail. The nurse at the jail is the one who said He has to be under suicidal watch.

So his lawyer complains, he gets the uh sentence downgraded to suicidal prevention. All the restrictions remain the same. That's the way it goes. You know, when he goes to take a shower, he has to be stripped down and it's not fun what he's going through. I hear I hear that, but It's not fun what he almost put us through.

And then the judge is another judge, you know, l leaning towards the wrong side. What about our rights? I know he has rights too, but it just bothers me that he's going to make a lot of noise, I think. Yeah, he's a pain in the neck. It's going to be with these killers get their defense attorneys and they try to just delay, delay, delay would-be killers and suspects technically.

So we know they did it. He wrote that he did it. I mean, he is the best witness against him. But the thing is, this judge came out and it stunned everyone to say, I apologize to you for your conditions in prison. Really?

A would-be presidential assassin? You think they said that to John Wilkes Booth? From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. There's no allegedly unfair maps. What the Democrats have done in Virginia is blatantly unfair, unconstitutional, and violates every ounce of the process that was laid out, not just in our Constitution, but in Virginia code.

And I think it's because the referendum vote was so close that it opens up the space for our state Supreme Court to do the right thing, which is to declare this unconstitutional. The Democrats violated every single procedure step that's laid out in our Constitution, and I'm hopeful that the Supreme Court this week does the exact right thing, which I've been asking them to do all along, which is declare this unconstitutional. And that is former Governor Glenn Young of Virginia talking about the maps that were redrawn on a vote, and then a court said, no, this doesn't, it put a stay on it. And now they're reevaluating the Supreme Court of Virginia whether they can. can redo the district maps to cut out Republican seats.

Districts and make them Democratic seats. It would be a dramatic change in the electorate, but Florida is answered. It looks like they've drawn in four seats.

Now in comes Tennessee, it could potentially get one in Alabama another. And we'll see if Louisiana, who's postponed their primary to redirect a focus and maybe get different people in different places, put a new map out there because of the Supreme Court decision that says you cannot gerrymander. And redistrict on the basis of race. And that's exactly what happened in Louisiana, and that's what this lawsuit was about.

So, man, it's really the balance of power is at stake in the House. That's how close it's going to be. Let's bring in Sean Trendy as the senior elections analyst for real career politics and visiting scholar at AEI. Sean, put in perspective what that Louisiana court case did. It was an absolute earthquake.

For years, states have thought that if you could draw a district in certain circumstances that could elect a black candidate or minority candidate a choice, that you had to do it. Supreme Court said, no, no, the circumstances are much more narrow than this. And so a lot of states are looking at their maps and saying, I don't know if these passed muster under the court's decision. We probably have to redraw.

So we have Alabama and Tennessee lining up, and we have Louisiana postponing, as I mentioned before, and Florida's map is now finished. Do you think Florida gets the green light? I'm sure they're going to be challenged by Democrats. Are we going to go to the courts there? Oh, definitely.

Everything goes to the courts these days. But it's going to be up to the state Supreme Court. From what I understand from reading Governor DeSantis' proclamation, it's going to be a question of whether the use of race mandated in the Florida redistricting amendment is too much and renders the entire thing unworkable or not. It's a court with all Republican appointees, but it's an independent court, so we'll see what it does. Yeah, so how do you feel about what this is going to do, for example, just another seat, it looks like, in Alabama and just one over in Tennessee?

Well, Tennessee only has got one more seat to give as an 8-1 Republican delegation. Alabama, I don't know if they'll go for one or two seats. I think they're probably getting a lot of pressure to try to eliminate both of the minority-majority seats there. But I don't know. I don't know.

One seat is still in a tight battle for the House can be a difference maker. Sean, what else, what other states do you think will get involved here? I know New York is revisiting it. Joel Morelli was told go up to Albany by Hakeem Jeffries and tell them we want to redistrict. They're going for the Cole Mali Atakas' seat again in Staten Island, which is as red as Alabama.

Yeah, you can actually draw a seat in Brooklyn and Staten Island that's redder than Alabama anymore. But it's an ongoing battle in New York. The Republicans got a ruling early in the cycle saying, no, you can't gerrymander here. And Democrats have been trying to nibble away at that ever since. We'll see if they manage to pull it off this time.

So when we look at what's happening, who's doing better? Have you looked at the numbers or is it dead heat between Texas goes right? Virginia is up in the air right now. Uh and then California was the answer to Texas. Yeah.

Yeah, I think a lot depends on what the Supreme Court of Virginia does. If it strikes down that map, that's a pretty substantial blow to Democrats trying to even the playing field with Republicans. If that map stands, maybe, depending what happens in some of these other states, maybe Republicans come out with a bit of an edge for this cycle. But if that map gets struck down, I think you have to say, at least for now, Republicans have won that fight.

So when people say, and when the Supreme Court says you can't. A redistrict on the basis of race. People say, well, you're undoing the 1964 voters' rights law. Are they? They're certainly paring it back.

I mean, that law is still on the books, and it's still, for example, if you intentionally discriminate on the basis of race, drawing your maps, you can still trigger action under the Voting Rights Act. But the kind of broad interpretation that courts have gone with over the past 30 or 40 years is over, and it really is going to be limited circumstances. Most likely, you can invoke that law. Range Priebus told me two weeks ago, he said, in the House, war aside, assume the war is over in the next couple of weeks. War aside, it's really 15 he thinks 15 seats, it's going to be 15 seats either way, are in play.

Now, that was before this redistricting and the decision. What does Sean Trendy think? I agree. One thing that happened in the last redistricting is that both. Parties kind of gutted the number of truly competitive seats when they drew their maps.

And so there's only a handful of seats up for grabs either way. It's why these moves can be so consequential. Yeah, it's a closely divided house, but if you succeed in giving yourself an edge of four or five seats, that can absolutely make a difference in this election.

So I want to talk about California, all right, with that? Yep, yeah.

Okay, great.

So, Spencer Pratt's running a very interesting race, and I heard him interviewed at length with Joe Rogan. This guy isn't just in there and angry because his house burned down, he's really diving into the issues that have been plaguing California from the ridiculous train and the $234 billion spent and not a mile of track laid, to what's happening with the homeless situation that seems to be chronic and probably arguably the worst in the country. Here's a little of what Spencer Bratt did, taking on Karen Bass, who got mad at him for doing an ad he says that mocks those people who suffered from the Palisades fires. Cut 26. Yeah, I'm not sure if Karen Bass forgot that she let my house burn down and my parents' house burn down and I had actual neighbors burn alive across the street from my childhood home.

The only grief is my grief, my community's grief that I initially started this fight on behalf of. And she forgets I have received two community advocate awards from the Pacific Palisades community.

So it's the most insane, psycho, diabolical thing I've heard in a minute. So I hear he's got a real shot. What do you think, Sean? I think in a different year he might. I mean, right now, it's just a really tough time to be a Republican in general.

And in a Democratic place like Los Angeles, it's hard to break through. But he's got the issues, the right issues to be hitting. And a lot of people in California are frustrated over how difficult it is to build things, except apparently a high-speed rail train that might never be finished.

So I don't know. I think in a different year he would probably get more traction. It's just going to be hard to sell yourself. To that electorate this year. I mean, it's hard to believe that they don't have regret of not hiring Rick Caruso, judging by the way the two acted under fire, and one with the business experience, and the other one who's really been somebody she got caught changing the after action report about her ineptness.

in uh uh after the fire. Uh before and after the fire. She got caught manipulating it. Her own staffers turned her in. How was she even on the ballot?

Yeah. You know, these cities these days are so deep blue, it is just hard, hard to lose, and it's hard to get accountability. And at the end of the day, you know, the people get what they vote for. And if the people of Los Angeles decide to return her to office, you know, that'll be the verdict that they've rendered, I guess. All right, a couple of things.

I want to go to the governor's race. Are you surprised no one of prominence like Governor Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris has endorsed anyone as we get close to primary day? Yeah. You know, it's a tough position because if you're a prominent person, especially if you're running, thinking of running for president, you don't want to endorse the wrong person, someone who loses and it makes you look weak.

So, given how bunched up things have been on the Democratic side, I think that's deterred a lot of people who don't want to guess wrong.

Now, if one candidate starts to break out, I think what you're going to see is kind of an avalanche of endorsements as people try to look at least like they're getting ahead of things.

So, right now, it looks like in most polls, both Republicans are one and two in this jungle primary process. They have another debate. But where is this heading, Sean? Both have done pretty good for themselves, but you just mentioned in these blue states, it's harder and harder to be a Republican. Yeah, it's a unique situation or a unique system got in California where the top two candidates in the primary, regardless of their party, make it to the runoff.

And when you have the situation of like a dozen Democrats running, none of whom is the clear frontrunner, it is possible for them to split their votes so badly that the two Republicans sneak through. They're the only options in the fall. It's what everyone's watching here. Katie Porter is a flawed candidate. The other definition of a flawed candidate, how she's still in, is amazing.

Xavier Bashere has been a terrible cabinet member. I mean, he was awful. His track record's terrible. And now he looks as people might be rallying around him.

So And then you got Villa Garosa, who was a moderately successful mayor in Los Angeles. Who's the most attractive candidate right now, Sean Trendy? You know, Porter has some pretty high negatives. There's that video of her screaming at the reporter. There's the story, I don't know if it's true or not, that she dumped scalding mashed potatoes on her now ex-husband's head.

So, yeah, it's like I said, there's no clear frontrunner. I think someone like Sarah, who at least has several decades of experience, if you're going to pick a Democrat, maybe Villa Garosa, but he doesn't seem to be getting any traction, it's just a really, really tough. A group of Democrats for the Democrats to pick from. As you know, Gavin Newsom considers himself the frontrunner, definitely running for president. Kamala Harris, the Wall Street Journal, says she's the frontrunner.

Here's him, here he's doing his book tour still. Bill Maher talks to him about what's going on in the city that they're both in, CUP 31. Many people would say that you are imitating him. Among all the people who may or may not be running, you are the one who kind of imitates his style with the trolling. You are suing Fox now, I understand.

You are saying that he is a very good person. That's a different point.

Well, then don't defame, don't lie.

Well, here's the point. I'm trying to put a mirror up to Donald Trump. Yeah. And I think it's important with the sense of humor as well. The deviation of normalcy is off the chart.

This is a guy cosplaying as the Pope, dressing up as Jesus, this guy putting his face on Mount Rushmore, doing it in all cap. None of this is normal. And you may recall when I first started doing this, the folks on Fox said, oh, this is so unbecoming of the governor of California. He should wash out his mouth with soap and water with no situational awareness that their dear leader has been doing this for years and years and years. He's a man-child.

And so I think it's important to call that out.

So at one point, he just runs against Trump. At one point, does he have to run as himself? Yeah, I think the trolling gets you name recognition, gets you started in a primary, but at the end of the day, it's an actual appeal to the voters that he has to do.

So it's not enough to say, I should be your nominee, Democrats, because I make fun of Donald Trump. He's going to have to defend a record and come up with a positive message for that party. Why is Kamala Harris a frontrunner? Name recognition? Because I can't think of a single thing she's done.

At this point in 2003, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination was Joe Lieberman. Right now, it's all name recognition. Things are going to get hot and heated next year as we gear up for the primary season. That said, she has a huge lead among black voters in the way that the primary schedule is set up. It's front-loaded.

That vote is front-loaded.

So she does start out with some real structural advantages.

So let's talk about some of the candidates. For example, the main candidate, Graham Plattner, here's a guy. Ultimately, he said some things. I'm a communist. He said before.

I'm a socialist. He said before. He's horrible thing about women and rape. I don't even want to say it again. And she also has a Nazi tattoo.

And he said some real radical things as well. That was then, this is now. But yet head to head with Susan Collins, how's he doing?

So probably not as well as he would be without those things, but still pretty well. He leads her by like four points, but we should also remember that in 2020, Susan Collins trailed in just about every poll taken and ended up winning by nine. She's a proven quantity in Maine. She has great retail politics skills, and we'll see how this race looks after she dumps $100 million in ads on Plantner's Add. What about the Senate race over in Michigan?

Who's likely to emerge as the Democratic nominee?

Well, Democrats have two nominees that I think would be in okay shape in a year like this, and then they have El Said, who is, you know, kind of lining up in the Hassan Piker lane. If he's the nominee, that could give them real, real problems that could make that race competitive. Republicans have Mike Rogers, kind of a normal establishment Republican candidate. Right. And who almost won last time?

Absolutely, absolutely, against a much more formidable candidate, I think, than any of the three Democrats in this time. And El Said, somebody who's very comfortable on the stage, no doubt about it. Hassan Piker, extreme radical podcaster with a lot of followers, says Rick Scott should be killed. He came out and said Republicans are worse than Hamas, and it gets worse from there. And they're appearing together almost like they're barnstorming.

So usually that would be an elimination. It's almost like appearing with David Duke if the Republicans were doing that in the 80s or 90s whenever he was relevant. I forgot. But it doesn't seem to matter now when Democrats aren't outraged by these fringe candidates because, I don't know, does he think that they can win? Are they afraid to?

Well, I think in that race you have to acknowledge it's a three-way race and so kind of the normy Democratic vote is split. But yeah, at the end of the day, Democrats have kind of gone down a path, they'll say Republicans went down, of endorsing the candidate regardless of what they say, just because holding power has become that critical. Got it. Sean Trendy, thanks so much. Senior elections analyst for Real Cruel Politics.

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