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This hour will be joined by Sean Duffy as well as Rachel Campos Duffy. They just were hiding this from me. They're married. And this is, we got more breaking news on top of that. He is the 20th Secretary of Transportation.

At the bottom of the hour, we go talk to the CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. They have some stunning stats. They're not going to make you happy, but you need to know it. Jonathan Greenblatt will be here in the studio. And keep in mind, you always go to my YouTube page.

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But before we get to the Duffies, let's get to the big three. Number three. I don't take wilder threats. They're going to find that out. I'm deeply intimidated now.

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This puts the House back in play. Number one. Washington Post's story was kind of extraordinary. I mean, 75% of their missile program is still intact. What they've been doing is taking stuff out of storage, basically.

They still have about 70% of their missile. If we believe the Washington Post, General Jack Keene doesn't. Iran's latest. U.S. and Iran trade fire in the strait, and each claim the other shot first.

I'll bring you the latest, and there's a lot of moving parts, including: guess what? A Chinese tanker was just hit by drumroll please, Iran. The gang that can't shoot straight sometimes hits China at a big meeting next week. Sean and Rachel, great always to see you guys together. What you're about to announce is stunning, and I've seen some of the clips.

First off, do you want to say something nice about me? Yes, I was going to say happy birthday, and I'm really glad you were born.

Well, thank you very much. And I feel bad. I didn't go on Instagram, but you left me a message. I did. Everybody on the team did a happy birthday message.

And then at the end of the message, I told you, I said that you had forgotten your notes. And then I held up your note and it said, I love Zelensky. Hi, heart Zelensky. You got to stay out of this, Sean. This is between me and Rachel.

This is where we have our thing. Right. Yeah, so it's kind of exciting. Would the president give you an assignment when you're in the cabinet? The president gives everybody an assignment.

What was that assignment, Sean?

So first, he wants the cabinet and the country to celebrate our 250th birthday, right? He said, go out there and celebrate it, find your ways. Your department to celebrate. And so we've done a lot of things at DOT. We're wrapping, we got all the airlines to wrap a plane.

We got trains and the Class One railroads to wrap rail cars. With America 250. It was America 250 a celebration. That's right. Amtrak wrapped one yesterday.

Bus companies are wrapping buses. We're going to have a Grand Prix IndyCar race in Washington, D.C., August 22nd and 23rd. The first time that we'll have had a race in D.C. since 1801. The last race in 1801 was horses.

Now it's going to be IndyCars 185, 190 miles an hour. They did a horse race in 1801. They did. And now we're going to come back with Indy Cars. Oh, no, he's going to write a book about it.

Isn't it fascinating? Wow. It is. It's fascinating, actually.

So, and by the way, Fox is going to televise that, I think. Fox Sports is going to televise it. It's with their IndyCars. But again, you've got to come, it's going to be honest. It is, I mean, you haven't seen this around the mall.

Of the Capitol. It's going to be wild. It's going to be hot, but wild. It's going to be free to the public, right?

So everyone's going to come in for that. The president has just thought, he's going to have a fight on his birthday, UFC fight, on the grounds of the White House. That's going to be amazing. We're all thinking outside the box: how do we lean in and celebrate? And one of the other things that we're doing at DOT is Rachel and I, along with a smattering of some kids one time, other kids the next time, we've done the Great American.

Some other members of the cabinet have joined us at different points as well. Seven members of Congress have joined us, cabinet members. And so what we've done is over seven months, because I'm busy, and I've tried to, you know, so is Rachel. I'm busier sometimes than Rachel's. Maybe not.

I don't know. That's a debate. That's a debate. Nine kids, everybody's busy, and running two networks: Fox, as well as. Noticius.

Yeah, I did that. But I launched that. I finished that in December. I helped launch it. But you will launch the Great American Road Trip.

Yep. And it starts with your family. That's right. And so our motto is: to love America is to see America. This is the most beautiful country on the face of the earth.

There's so much to see. And again, it fits any budget, which is great. Like you can take a two-day road trip. You could do a two-hour road trip. You can go to the beach.

You can go to a park. You can camp. I don't know about you, Brian. When I travel, Rachel and I have had this conversation a lot. My parents took us on road trips when I was growing up, and we packed a cooler.

We drove from Wisconsin to Florida. One time we drove to the Grand Canyon. It was the most horrific trip of a lifetime. And my mother passed away almost two years ago. And when we just, you know, we had months to talk to her, but we talked about the road trips.

Well, you should say why it was horrific. We hiked 12 miles down into the Grand Canyon to Phantom Ranch. And then we had to turn around the same day and walk back up.

So it was a 24, I was like 12 years old. Brutal. And she's like, that's a great idea. And it was like, wow. It was so great.

But in hindsight, the trip was so great. Wonderful memories.

So you can plan in your budget any kind of road trip. And we just, we thought, well, let's start at the White House, which we did. We went to the White House. We went, our first stop was going to be in Philadelphia, where the magic all began 250 years ago. The Liberty Bell, the Declaration of Independence.

I mean, the whole. Oh, that was the Brian part of it. Started with the history, though. I mean, it's a in Philadelphia, it's so rich with history.

Some good food, too. We had some chili Philly cheesesteaks. And then from there, we went on, and it was just, it was a great series. It's going to be a reality. It's a reality show.

It's a series. It's going to be on YouTube. It's going to be on your YouTube channel. It's going to drop on June 8th. It's going to drop on June 8th.

It's going to drop on June 8th. You can go to the DOT website right now just to see the trailer, which gives you an idea of what you're going to see. Listen, can we hear a little bit of it? Yeah, sure. We have a little bit of a short video.

Okay, sure. This is Duffy's on the Road: The Great American Road Trip. Here's a sample. I think Mud's kinda mad. I know.

You're mad. We're not going to play on this trip. Put your seatbelts on.

So we're inviting you along with our family on the Great American Road Trip. Stop scrolling and hit the road mile by mile. Window down and hearts wide open. Welcome to Montana. The Duffies, they've got tons of kids.

I think they have like 11 kids. Nine. Nine or eleven something. Is there a difference?

So John Rich wrote the theme song too? Yeah, so we actually stopped. One of the stops was in Nashville, and we asked John Rich, because he loved road trips too. I mean, everybody has a road trip story. Kid Rock, we met up with him as well.

Everybody has childhood road trip memories, and he loved it. We said, what do you think about making a theme song? He's like, I gotcha. And he did a theme song for us. And it's an amazing song.

And look, we were busy, as you said, as we all know, but we love America. We think we love family. We love our family. We know everybody in America loves their family. This is a great way to get everyone off the couch, get in the car, go see America, especially on 250.

And the first stop was in Philadelphia. It was amazing. And I remember, Brian, when I was a kid. On the 200th anniversary. Of our country in 1976, my family took a road trip to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell, to see Independence Hall.

So it was, you know, we were sort of reliving our memories and seeing America through the eyes of our kids. And we were able to, you know, the park rangers in America who oversee Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, the Grand Canyon, all the Yellowstone. They do not get enough credit. These are, they're informed, they're professional, they are excited about our country and our sites, and they want to tell kids about it.

So take your kids and have them meet these people and go out and do it. I love your books. If you haven't read Brian Killamine's books, they're amazing. I wasn't sure what to expect. You gave me one and I was on an airplane and I started reading.

I'm like, oh my, this is amazing. Like, I've read the walls. All of us have read them. And we love history. And if you look at kids, if they get a dose of history, it's through the screens on their phone.

Yeah. Or something like that. Or seeing some TikTok video that they're talking about. They're going to watch on TV. Like, put the screens away.

Roll the window down, and like go to your phone. That's right. Yeah, see, or the window of your car is so much better than a screen. And what happens with families? The phones are disconnecting us in America, and our families are getting disconnected.

But the kids can't go to the neighbor's house, they can't go to their room, they're in the car with you. If you can put the phones away, it's a hostages. They're hostages. Exactly, parents. Take them hostage, make them go with you, and they'll complain and then they'll love it.

Yeah, and that's what we notice: within 24 hours of doing this, Brian. The kids were immersed. You know, it takes a while for everybody to sort of get used to like not being plugged in. And then once you're all together, the stories that are told, the conversations that are had, the music that they want to share with you in the car. I've seen the jokes.

It's amazing. Right. And there is, it's real because I heard you say, there's not going to be fighting on this trip. Here's another cup. As we celebrate 250, think about who convened here.

They were willing to give their life for this country. I had no idea this place existed. Wow. We literally have everything here, and there's not even enough time in a lifetime to see it all.

So guess at the car, pack up the kids, get behind the wheel, and get out and see America. Those Secretary Doug Bergam who met us at the Liberty Bell. Again, so I like to think I have the best department at DOT. He says, well, I'm the department of everything, which actually he has all the parks, all the rangers. He does have a pretty cool department.

Like, really, everything falls under his department. But again, what we want to do is encourage people to go out, again, see the country. It is beautiful. And again, it does fit any budget. It's good for families.

It's good for the country. And so we had a really good time doing this together. And Rachel mentioned this on the show this morning. We've been at, we met on a road trip on reality TV. Actually, we had a road trip.

I started carrying Rachel's bags when I first met her, and I haven't stopped carrying them since, Brian. I carry his babies, he carries the bags. I think it's a good switch. Yeah, but I mean, we met on a road trip, and again, I think that unique history, but we've been asked as a reality TV couple to do, people have offered to pay us over the course of the last 20 plus years to do a dozen different productions with our families. We said no every time.

We never did it. Never did it for that. But for America 250, we said, you know, let's do this. Let's do a road trip and give something back to the country. And we'll film it and we'll show our experience and we'll do these different stops because history is great.

America's great. Families are wonderful. And a strong America comes from really strong families. And this does all of that together. And I think too, I mean, this is why I also wrote, by the way, All American Patriotism, this book by Fox, that I did with Fox, and you're in it.

You have a chapter. The whole purpose of this, and I think the road trip is very, it's very It's very harmonious what we're doing on the road trip and what's happening with this book because a lot of these chapters by all my different Fox people talk about their road trips because they're very formative in their minds. We've had 25, at least 25, 30 years of. Slowly but surely, and then getting really intensified narratives being told to our kids that we should be ashamed of our history, that we should be ashamed of our founding, that our founding fathers were bad racists, bad people. It's a lie.

And it's really, we can try and clean out the curriculums. And God bless everybody on a school board trying to get rid of that narrative. But you also have. A lot of autonomy as a parent. You have a lot of.

Influence over your kids more than the teachers. You can tell that story, and you can tell that story. In real time, in real life, at Gettysburg, at Independence Hall, at the Grand Canyon, you know, at Route 66, take them there. Yeah, I know, I hear you. And by the way, uh look at Netflix.

Netflix did something really cool. They're doing a different president. They're rolling out like 25 presidents, and they're doing a series. And I thought, okay, there's got to be a twist to this. Very positive about the country.

And I just see a lot of people getting on board. I also love the fact that in your series, you open up the White House. Yeah. We start it. We start.

Do you see? And by the way, can I just say this? Washington DC is safe again. You can the crime has dropped. The murder rate has dropped.

It's clean. Thank you to Sean, Judge Janine, all these people who have been working in the present, especially for saying, we're going to, you know, some people saying, you're doing the war, you have a war. Why are you cleaning up the reflecting pool? And why are you doing all these big projects? Because we can do it all.

We're Americans. We can have a beautiful capital.

So if you want to take your kids to see the nation's capital, Now's the time. It's never been safer or cleaner.

So I have Uniting the States coming out in October, first week in October or 2nd. And I did a shoot at the Smithsonian. Is this a new book? Yeah. I had a shoot at the Smithsonian two weeks ago.

It was amazing. And they say only 1% Whatever you see, it's only on 1% on display, 90% in the basement. They got to rotate it through. There's so much stuff.

Well, the archives, by the way, had trigger warnings on our documents because they said that they were, you know, right up. Did you take them away? Yeah, I think they got taken away. But those kinds of moments are impactful for young people.

So we got to go. This is a way to retell the narrative. U.S. DOT. U.S.

DOT on YouTube. On YouTube. And the greatamericanroadtrip.org.org. And this is all going to be on YouTube. It's all free.

No one's making anything on this. This is our give back to the country to try to inspire us. First week in October, it's all out. Second week in June, we're going to drop all of the rest of the episodes. But this is the trailer that we've dropped now, and again, our trailer now to celebrate the country.

Okay. A little chaos, a little bit of house. You pulled it off. Nine kids, nine jobs each, and you still did this. Brian, I've worked along the way, too.

We both were working and doing a road trip along with us. Do you know what I call Brian? What's that? He's the Marco Rubio of Fox News. I'd love every single job, Brian Kill me.

He does them all. He was actually doing his own lighting and recording yesterday. That is true. For a segment, he did. No joke.

He did. If I'm Marco Rubio, I guess I'm going to meet with the Pope. It's going to be great. Fantastic. Could you bring us all together?

Is going to be the harmonizing? I don't know. I heard the announcement: I will not be visiting America with Donald Trump as president. Is that necessary? No, not necessary.

Maybe Marco can change that. Yeah, we'll see. He clearly loves Catholics. He has a lot of Catholics in his cabinet. We have a few red-hot topics.

Sabrina's going to kill us if I don't let you go now. Guys, thanks so much for the quality time. It's awesome. Did this and we and I love you back. Back in a moment.

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A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmead. Yeah, I went a little long. I apologize about that. But having them both up, he said, think about what they did.

So they are idea, Secretary of Transportation. Every secretary had to do something.

So they said, let's do a road trip.

Now, that's the easy part. The hard part is getting nine kids together and then going, you know, I mean, they are age three through college, and I think two of them are in the real world. Get them all together, get them in a van, and go to... I think eight or nine separate legs of a journey where they had to meet up with people. And then, of course, you got to produce some content.

You can't just drive. Guys, what's going on? And you got to make sure the conversation's there in order to produce this series. And they're finally done. And everything that they're doing, and Rachel's got her own show on the weekends.

During the week, she's also contributing. She also launched the Spanish Fox Network. And they were able to pull that off. Anyone who says, I'm too busy, I point you to the family of nine who just did a road trip.

So I cannot wait for the greatamericanroadtrip.org because the other thing is, everybody's savvy on camera, it's just in that family.

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Download today. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. He trifled with us today. We blew him away.

They trifle. They call that a trifle. I'll let you know when there's no ceasefire. You won't have to know. If there's no ceasefire, you're not going to have to know.

You're just going to have to look at one big... Glow coming out of Iran. And they better sign their agreement fast. That is President of the United States on the lawn yesterday talking about a 14-point deal that we gave to Iran. And in turn, there's up to their hijinks over in the strait.

We had a destroyer go through international waters. They went at it. We blew that attack. We stopped that attack and blew the smaller boats out of the water, the swift boats. And then we bombed the launchers that launched the attack.

So that's not really how you act if you think as though you need a peace agreement, which makes me think we're going to be ramping things up very shortly. With me in studio is Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, who's got some staggering stats about what is going on in this country with anti-Semitism. Jonathan, great to see you. It is always good to be here, Brian. Thanks for having me.

Before we go over your stats, I just want to bring you to the Middle East. I get the sense that there's a plan in place, roughly, that would have Israel start going over the sites that we stopped when the CSFR started and the U.S. focusing on reopening the Strait and protecting the Gulf states. I hate to say it because I would love for these guys to agree to give us back the uranium, agree not to do nuclear weapons, level off their ballistic missile production, and open up the strait. But I don't see them doing any of that.

Look, this is a tyrannical, despotic regime. People forget that just a few months ago, they murdered 40,000 of their own people in the strait. 10 people. I mean, yeah.

So I don't believe this is a regime. This is a fanatical messianic regime. I don't believe it's a regime you can quote unquote negotiate with. You know, there's this ridiculous line that Iran enthusiasts here, if you will, are pushing. That, oh, since President Trump and the Israelis took out their leadership.

if you will, like they're more hardcore now. That's a lie. Like the IRGC and the fanatical clerics are all cut from the same cloth. They're not pragmatic. They're revolutionaries.

So I'm glad the blockade is in place. What the Saudis and the Emiratis announced about allowing us to use their airspace seems to be setting up the ability to do the kind of kinetic action to put these guys back in the box where they belong. Look, I didn't think they were going to be going off to the Gulf states either, did they? And also, did they? And I don't think maybe we're using what the Ukraine did with the shithead drones.

We probably could have been better at not using Patriots to knock them down because of the TAD missile system, too expensive.

So some of those things. But I've been in awe of the Gulf states, the way they have not turned and not panicked. Incredible. Again, our friends in Abu Dhabi, our friends in Riyadh, they're showing tremendous fortitude and strength. Imagine this: the Iranians are bombing their allies in Doha.

The Iranians are bombing their allies in Oman. Again, it's a desperate regime last. Lashing out across the region. They cannot be trusted. And by the way, what I've always said at ADL, you know, I came out against the nuclear deal way back in 2015 because it was a bad deal.

So did Chuck Schumer, so did Ben Cardin, so did Senator Mernendez. It was not popular. It was not popular because it was bad. It was bad policy. Flash forward to today, the reality is if that deal had been in place, they would have been legitimately building nuclear weapons.

They would have been building up all of their missile capability. You know, it was a bad deal.

So now we need to do what needs to be done and prevent these guys not just from getting a nuclear weapon, although there's that, not just from continuing to expand their missile capability, although there's that, not just, if you will, funding these proxies that threaten Americans and Israelis and Emiratis and Saudis all over the region. Although there's that, we need to stop this tyrannical regime from endangering the West. That's what people seem to forget. This is not just America versus Iran. This is Iran versus the West versus our Judeo-Christian values.

That's their goal.

So you work with the Obama administration. I did. So, and I worked with the Obama administration. I came out against the deal. And look, I lost a lot of friends, quote unquote.

But my obligation is not to the Democratic Party. My obligation is to America. My obligations to the Jewish people And so I didn't think you could look at this deal knowing what we know about Iran, the largest state sponsor terror in the world. The largest exporter of anti-semitism in the world. Again, a regime is a very important thing.

Financing Hezbollah Hamas trying to have Hamas making sure their main goal was to eliminate Israel. 100%, yeah. And we say it like you and I say it appropriately. Their goal is to eliminate Israel. But we know, we saw it on October the 7th, genocide, murdering, raping, butchering, slaughtering babies and women and the elderly.

So this is not a regime nor its proxies that you can negotiate with.

So my problem with that deal, what do I know about the half-life of uranium? I'm not a nuclear physicist, but what I know is this is an evil regime that needs to be confronted like we confronted the Soviet Union. Like, you know, we didn't like sit down and have tea with them and think we need a new world order with, you know, Khrushchev at the center of it.

So this notion that you can negotiate with fanatical clerics who think, again, they're waiting for the Messiah. And they want to destroy the Jewish state, and they want to destroy America. And by the way, I'm not making that up. Khomeini said it, Khameni believed it. We need to end them once and for all.

All right, so let's talk about what the ADL came up with: some staggering stats when it comes to anti-Semitism in America. The good news is it's decreased on the campuses. Yeah. Like, look, we're not here to exaggerate the numbers, we just tell it like it is. We've been tracking this data for almost 50 years and 2025.

Indeed, there was a 33% drop year over year, in large part because of the campuses.

Now why did it fall? The number of incidents falls 66% in campuses year over year? Three things. Number one, President Trump. And the US Congress.

People like Elise Stefanik, like literally Secretary McMahon, absolutely. The kind of oversight and government pressure that I couldn't get out of my Former friends of the Biden administration, the Trump administration brought down heat. And look, whether you agree with them or don't agree with them, this isn't about politics. I can tell you because I've talked to the presidents of the universities. Who weren't doing things before President Trump, and then after he said, we're pulling the funding.

And after people got grilled on the hill, suddenly they said, Oh, suddenly I found my courage. I can do these things. Again, that's not a partisan statement. It's fact.

So, number one, pressure from the government. Number two, pressure from groups like ADL with our report card. You know, we graded all these universities, we held them publicly accountable, and we gave Fs to Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, and they deserved them, Columbia. And then things got better because they wanted to improve their grade. That's the second thing.

And the third thing is the end of the war. You know, when hostilities started to slow down, then the lunatics kind of went back, you know, retreated back to the shadows where they belonged. Because they're all getting paid to do something. Totally, they were right. Whether it's the green mania, that's how it all began with green energy and the fossil fuels.

Yeah. And then all of a sudden they were pro-Hamas, where they got all this Yasser Arafat paraphernalia. I don't know, but it's popping up everywhere. And what happened in New York this week? Look, we had, by the way, we had like union, we had like Teamsters in the encampments at these universities.

People don't realize that. Like the unions were putting people on these campuses. To drive these protests, they couldn't get enough students to show up, Ryan. Like, literally. And yet, protests were being paid on campus and off campus.

So look, the data is there's encouraging news. And at the same time, though, I'll tell you about New York because it's relevant. The violent acts year over year went up. The highest number of assaults, of arsons, of physical attacks we've ever tracked in 46 years. Take us now to New York City.

Take us now to Park. East Synagogue, a place where there were there was ugly demonstrations last December. Protesters got right up in the face of people walking into a synagogue, spit at them, threatened them, cursed them. I'm telling you, closer than you and I are sitting here. It was insane.

So there was another said such incident on Tuesday night. Again, people were so violent at this time, they broke the barriers that the police set up. I mean, you can see the scuffles and the fist fight with you with NYPD's finest, okay?

So what did our mayor say here in New York? He said, yes, everyone should have the right to worship in a to walk into a house of worship, but. It is the Sanchrosect right to protest. That we really cherish, all of us here in New York City. Let me tell you something.

There is the right to freedom of assembly as enshrined in the First Amendment, but freedom of assembly isn't the freedom to assemble outside of a synagogue or a church or a mosque and threaten people with violence. That is not protected speech. That is not some sacrosanct value. And it's blisteringly obvious to me when the mayor, if you remember, there was that protest in front of Gracie Mansion.

Some conservative activists showed up. He called them white supremacists, right? They may have been provocateurs, but But these weren't members of the KKK. He went after them and their right to protest. But when they're Hamas supporters, people were flying Hezbollah flags, Ryan.

It's in New York City. The mayor actually cherishes their right to protest, as he put it. Right. And he says, well, they shouldn't be talking about a real estate deal in the synagogue, making up some, having some that they were talking about buying land in the West Bank. Wait, how do you even know what's going on?

What do you get at? Honestly. I mean, like, he can concoct these stories. His kind of boosters can contrive these fictions. But the reality is, again, when it happened in front of Gracie Mansion, he didn't hesitate to call them out because he disagreed with their ideology.

What happens in front of a synagogue, he equivocates. But, like, this is what we've seen again and again and again. And that's why New York was the state with the highest number of anti-Semitic incidents last year. New York City is the city with the most number of anti-Jewish incidents. And in a world where the violence is intensifying, we need a mayor who actually stands up for all New Yorkers, not just the ones that he likes, and not who doesn't gaslight us, Brian.

He doesn't gaslight us and say, I'm against anti-Semitism. But I cherish the sacrosanct right to protest. I'm sorry. The hypocrisy is stunning.

Well, I think there's a few things going on. How do you also feel? How do you also feel about the perimeter being secured? Finally, you agreed to allow the perimeter to be secured on all houses of worship. That enabled it for being a whole lot worse.

Let's talk about that. He pushed back on that and then he finally caved. Yes and no.

So there were two bills in front of the New York City Council. There was a bill to create a perimeter around houses of worship and then a bill to create a perimeter around buffer zone, if you will, around educational institutions. The bill around creative so he was opposed to both. Post publicly posted both. Then the bill on buffer zones around houses of worship passed with an overwhelming majority, a super majority, that he could not veto.

And so, what he did was not sign it, he allowed it to go through.

Okay, so he didn't say I support this, he let it go through. Then there was a second bill on educational institutions, which he refused to sign. He claimed the unions don't want this, but no union showed up and spoke out against it, teachers' unions. The reality is, if you think it's reasonable for, again, lunatics hiding their faces behind masks, screaming, threatening violence against children walking into their elementary school, or again, co-eds walking into a college classroom, like, I'm sorry, that's not the world that I want to live in. And we saw what happened.

Again, you pointed out correctly that the incidents were down last year in large part because the college campuses were better. If we go back to that baseline, I mean, it's bedlam in the city that we love. And whether it's Columbia or Hunter or NYU or Queens College, I don't care where it is. Kids should not be harassed and hated, intimidated, and threatened because of their ethnicity or their faith, whether they're Jewish kids, Asian kids, Muslim kids, Christians. Like, this is not the world that we should be bequeathing to the next generation.

So, a couple of things. How do you feel about The big push now is Israel is to blame that America is in this war. The Netanyahu just pushed Donald Trump to do this. And he didn't want to do it. Iran has American blood on their hands.

Iran threatens America's interests every day. Iranians have said for years, Margbam Amrika, right? Death to America. They say it's not a slogan, it's a policy. Exactly.

That's what they say. That's what Dietova said himself. 100%. These aren't just words. This is the plan.

So, look, I can tell you one thing about again, whether you like it. You think President Trump is going to be bullied by anybody? Don't we know that at the very least? Like, whether you like him or don't like him, let me tell you something. He does exactly what he wants to do.

President Trump has the courage of his convictions. Even if you people don't agree with them, does anybody really think anybody bullies President Trump? I mean, so it's a farce. But here's the challenge: we know the other side, like the Hamas industrial complex. Churns the Iran boosters in the interest section of Washington, D.C.

They churn out this myth to blame the Jews. They churn out this myth to try to divide America and Israel. They turn out this myth to foment hate, and it's wrong.

Well, how about the fact that now some people are pushing the story that the the Jews had Israel had Charlie Kirk killed? Have you thought of a bigger farcical thing that Erica was involved? This is the stuff that's what they're saying. They're saying Erica Kirk was involved in killing her husband at the behest of Mossad. And you know, but to be honest with you, there are people who tell us that the earth is flat.

There are people who tell us that no one walked on the moon, right? There are people who tell us that down is up and up is down. And social media has scrambled so many people's brains, they believe these conspiracies. And it's a conspiracy as well. Look, Israel is doing a land grab in Lebanon.

As if they don't understand this is a military move to push back the line of attack to allow the northern part of your country to populate again. Yeah. So it's not a land grab. The opposite. I have been to that northern border.

I have walked in the town of Metullah that has been completely abandoned because it was so rained up. Is it still abandoned?

Well, I thought they were coming back. It might be different now. When I was there a year, year and a half ago, it was empty because they were shelled and bombed every day by Hezbollah. Look at it remember, the Israelis pulled back from Lebanon. They don't want to be in Lebanon.

They have no interest. You're totally right. There is no land grab. What they're trying to do is what the Lebanese government can't do. Why?

Because Hezbollah is an arm of the IRGC and the Iranian theocracy, and it's got to be stopped.

So, Jonathan, before we leave, what's the message you want from the ADL? What do you want everyone to take away from your study? And your stats. Anti-Semitism remains a clear and present danger in this country. While it's good that some numbers are coming down, the violence remains up.

We're at literally five times the number of incidents we saw a decade ago. Number two, we can learn the why do they come down, government engagement. Public pressure, this works.

So we need our leaders to lead, Democrats and Republicans, to keep the pressure on at the federal, state, and local level. We need people like our mayor to keep the pressure on. Again, Jews don't deserve quote-unquote special treatment. All we want is equal treatment. How many Jewish businesses are in the city?

Do you know of hand? I don't know. A lot. I had the number to a previous guest. They are the most successful businesses in New York City, provide a huge, huge tax base for the city.

You keep acting and not protecting them. They'll pick up and go somewhere else with their success. I've talked to those people. I've talked to people moving to Florida and leaving the city because they're afraid. Because again, like I understand you can have strong feelings about the Middle East, but breaking windows, vandalizing stores, that's not protest.

That's prejudice and it's wrong. Jonathan Greenblatt, you're right. And I appreciate you doing the study and keep the fight up. The CEO and National Director of the ADL. Thanks, John.

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There's a huge field for those of you that remember that race, it was quite contentious, but um. Literally, I looked around and said, which one do I think can win and is legitimately a disruptor? And I think we all agree that President Trump was that person. Susie Wau's got some outstanding awards. She's a fantastic person, great chief of staff, selfless, and can keep the lid on some craziness even in the most dire times.

And now she has cancer on top of that. She got a big award in Baltimore. And she just talked about how she was led there. She said she was going to be an English teacher. And next thing you know, she got involved in politics a little bit, and next thing you know, she's full-bore into it, and getting people like Marco Rubio elected, and Byron Donalds elected, and Ron DeSantis elected, and most of all, when Donald Trump was down in between presidencies, he called for her, he went to visit and said, I'd like you to work with my campaign.

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So glad you're here. It's the Brian Kill Me Chow. I come to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, where billionaires aren't welcome and it doesn't seem like capitalists are at all. And the good news is they're not going to stay if it continues like this. And I'm talking about the CEO of Apollo, the CEO of Citadel, being called out by a mayor that is way over his head, but the sad part is he doesn't realize it.

Gad Sat is going to be joining us today, deep thinker, professor of marketing at Concordia University, best-selling author, scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi. His latest book is called Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind. We'll talk about that. And the senator that did so much to save America during the Biden administration, we don't have two more states. We don't have a PAC court, and we still have a filibuster.

Thanks to Joe Manchin and Senator Kirsten Sinema. Always appreciate her. She's going to be joining us now with a special focus on something probably the most talked about thing on Kitchen tables around the country, and that's AI, as well as the infrastructure to make it fly and beat China. Which, by the way, where the president's going next week.

So let's get to the big three first. Number three. I don't take wilder threats. They're going to find that out. I'm deeply intimidated now.

When we arrested an illegal Amin state in New York, rather than detain them in the local community in the local jail, now she's going to force us to fly him out of the state to either Texas, Arizona, or a state where we have defense facilities. It's on Hoko v. Holman as New York tries to implement radical sanctuary laws icing out ICE. Holman has a plan. He's not going to back off.

We'll bring you the latest. Number 10. These maps are racist tools of white supremacy at the behest of the most powerful white supremacist in the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. It is a form of Jim Crotier.

You know what you're doing. It's shameful. By the way, Jim Crow is a Democratic program. Up to 14. Those are Tennessee Democrats.

That's how many seats Republicans could not, could net in the midterms as Jerry Manduring Mania, easy for me to say, takes over both parties. We'll discuss it. Number one. Washington Post's story was kind of extraordinary. I mean, 75% of their missile program is still intact.

What they've been doing is taking stuff out of storage, basically. They still have about 70% of their missiles. That is Michael Weiss, the editor of The Insider, who says he's got a report that there's a lot more of the. Iranian arsenal that was buried and survived. Iran's latest U.S.

and Iran trade fire again in the strait, even today and yesterday. Each claim the ceasefire stays in play as they supposedly are looking over our 14-point plan. Senator Sinema joins us now. Senator, great to see you or great to hear from you.

Well, it's great to talk with you, Brian. I understand birthday, a birthday celebration is in order. Happy birthday yesterday, right? Yes, and the party never stopped. You know me, Senator.

You always do a morning show host can't really party.

So I acknowledge it and get some rest. Uh but thank you very much. Uh for you personally I am one and I know Republicans are having short-term memory loss. I always appreciated the way you tried to keep the filibuster. Republicans are starting to get, and the president wants to shake it.

It will be a problem, don't you think? Yeah, you know, Brian, this is not un this is not unsurprising, right? Like, this is this is like. We expected this. During Trump's first term, he advocated to eliminate the filibuster, and then Senator McConnell, who was the majority leader, said no.

When Biden became president and Schumer was the leader, they decided to advocate for the filibuster, even though President Biden had long supported it during his entire tenure. They changed their mind when they were in power because they wanted certain things short term. And, you know, they did what I thought was the unthinkable, which is actually hold a vote on it. And as you will recall, I voted no, as did Joe Manchin, and the filibuster remained intact.

Now that the President Trump is back in charge and he's having trouble with Senate and House Democrats, with some you know refusal to fund agencies, et cetera, he's back on track wanting to eliminate it. And I think that that's short-sighted and a mistake. Folks who try to eliminate the filibuster because they want short-term gain only need to look down the road two years. and see how the tables turn.

So it's better to try and find the solutions legislatively and if needed, elect better people to these offices. But you don't eliminate. a crucial tool like the filibuster that protects the country from the vagaries of short-term desires.

So I worried without you there, without Joe Manchin there, Fetterman's the only one that takes, you know, he deals most votes most of the time with Democrats, but he's the only one standing in the way.

So when Schumer, if Schumer gets back in power, wherever the leader is, they're going to look to get rid of it. And that's what the Republicans' best argument is. And I can't really push back on that level of the argument because no one on the left said, well, you know, that was a mistake. We won't even try that again.

Well, I will tell you, Brian, that in the first round of Trump, the argument was the Democrats are going to eliminate the filibuster as soon as they take power. And of course, there was an attempt to do it, and I and Joe Manchin voted no, as you recall. And so the argument that it will happen again is not an empty threat. It's possible that that could happen again. But Brian, I have to believe.

that there are certain people who are serving in the United States Senate today who regret their vote. And some of them have actually come to me privately afterwards and said, I regret that vote. I should not have voted to eliminate the filibuster. You were right. And I don't get a lot of those, you know, because Washington's not a town where people run around telling other people you were right, I was wrong.

There are people in the United States Senate right now who regret their vote. And so I have to believe when power changes, as it will again someday, it will, right, it always does, that there will be people who step forward into that breach to protect this institution, just like I did, just like John Fun is doing now, McConnell before, and there are other Republicans and Democrats. Who understands that removing the filibuster is dangerous?

So, Senator, one thing that is the hottest topic in the country and now around the world is AI. People are adjusting, trying to adapt, they try to get ahead of it, trying to work with it. You can't run from it. And that's someone who's been an area of your expertise and you're passion about a few things.

Some states are pushing back, especially Democratic states, saying, Look, I don't want my utility bills going up because you're building a data center so you have an AI hub. And places like Maine and Vermont, they're rejecting it. And the president signed an executive order saying if you're going to build a data center, you've got to build a power center. Where do you stand with all this?

Well, the president is right on track by saying that the data center companies and the hyperscalers who use them have to provide their own power or pay their fair share, right?

So they just they can't push the cost on to consumers. And that was the right step. And as we've seen, the companies are stepping up to the plate. Microsoft, Google, they've all supported and said, yes, we will cover the cost of our own energy. We will invest in energy infrastructure.

And that's really critical. But I got to tell you, Brian, I have growing concern over the NIMBYism of folks who want to end the construction of data centers. And I think it's because Americans have trouble understanding the link between a data center and their own life. But Brian, the average American pings a data center 100 times a day. 100 times a day.

And they use their phone as the remote control to ping that data center.

Some people also use their cars.

Some people you know, obviously your laptops and your and your desktop computers. But We use data centers 100 times a day per person in this country.

So it it doesn't make sense. for our own interests, for our own lives. to stop data centers. Instead, the better thing to do is to think about how to do this On electricity and helping build out the grid, that they're covering the cost of their own water. They're not building next to an elementary school or a church.

Like just reasonable, reasonable solutions. Because we rely on these data centers. You know, Brian, I remind people that when they say, oh, I keep my stuff in the cloud, you know, like I keep all my data and my storage in the cloud.

Well, the data center is the cloud. That's what a data center is. It's the repository that holds all of the information that is important in your life. And it's the tool that transmits. your information back and forth on your phone, your laptop, your car, any kind of technology that you're using.

So I think we've got to do a better job of teaching Americans the value that these clouds have in our community so that everyone recognizes that we need to figure out how to Grow with them rather than try and shut them down, because that'd be shutting down our own future.

So, Senator Sinema, you would say that the data centers do need water, right? They they uh are and there is there are they they do make noise, right?

Well, the new data centers actually use less water than a traditional office building.

Now, a lot of people don't realize that, but less water than a traditional office building.

Now, you know. I've talked to folks who said, well, I just want more office buildings with more staff and more jobs.

Well, that is what the new data centers bring. They bring jobs and they use less water than a traditional office system.

Now on noise, yeah, I mean, some they do make less noise than they used to, but they make some noise, which is why you don't put them next to your church or your school. And that's why you put them in these industrial zoned areas. And if you don't build your own energy center, wherever it is, the your price your utilities in the state would go up, right? No, no, because what utilities are doing now is they're increasing the grid, increasing their capacity. And in places like Arizona, the utility companies negotiate separately with data centers and microchip companies and TSMC and Intel.

They negotiate separately with them for pricing and availability of energy.

So it has nothing to do with consumer energy availability or cost. And that's the way things are shifting now.

So you've got companies like Georgia Power, for instance. They're adding dramatic amounts of megawatts and gigawatts to their electricity grid, it's actually going to decrease costs for consumers.

So we're not seeing that costs are going up for consumers because of data centers. There's actually a lot of research that shows that's not the reason. And it's because they're having to buy their power separately from these power companies. And we're increasing power production in our own country. And Brian, I want to give a shout out to the National Energy Dominance Council.

So the National Energy Dominance Council is a project inside the White House that's focused on increasing American energy production. And that's good for our innovation future. But as you and I both know, Brian, that's important for our national security future.

So they're working really hard to help spread this growth of energy production across our country. I hear you. The other thing is I noticed about the administration, they hired Dave Sachs to go ahead and push forward AI responsibly and cryptocurrency. They made him a czar, and I think his time's up, but he's still working with the administration. But over the last few weeks, I noticed they are very into taking a little bit of control from the AI companies that there was a sense that possibly they're seeing the danger of AI used irresponsibly more than before.

Have you noticed that, too? You know, the White House is doing its due diligence to work with companies like Anthropic and Meta and Google and XAI and OpenAI.

So as these models become more and more powerful and have the ability to operate fairly independently, we do need to have some guardrails to separate the white hats from the black hats. And the White House is leaning into this. You know, I know that Vice President Vance just held a convening with these leaders to talk about how to ensure that there's protection. For companies and consumers around the country, because that's what folks are worried about. They use AI every single day, an average of 100 times a day, right?

But they are worried about AI kind of taking on a life of its own. And so that's the work that's happening now. And I've got to say, Brian, the companies are also engaging in responsible activity by talking with the administration about how they want to manage it themselves as well to make sure that some of these models don't get too far ahead of the guardrails that are in place for companies and for average Americans.

So, Senator, when you look at what's going on now as we go back to, and we'll keep an eye on AI because that's going to be a big focus on this China trip. I, on the surface, I am not for these NVIDIA chips being sold to China, but people have told me: look, if we don't give it, they'll engineer their own. We'll have absolutely no control. At least we could say that we're in somewhat control of the chips. That would be a lever on them.

Where do you fall in this?

Well, I got to tell you, you know, China rips off over like billions of dollars of patent-protected material from the U.S. every single year. Billions of dollars. And they just rip off our patents, and then they use their state resources to replicate our hard-worked innovation. And they do it at no cost to their consumers, right?

Because the state pays for everything. And as we know, China doesn't have any environmental protections. They don't have any rules. They just do whatever they want. And so they do it cheaper and faster and using child labor.

So if there's an opportunity for us to have American products, In China? Where they're using our technology and innovation and we control that, that is much safer for us from a national security perspective. Much, much safer for us. And remember, our goal here, Brian, is we want American AI to be the global dominant AI. We want American products to be the global dominant products.

And so if China's going to rely on us, that's better than us relying on them. And also, where would you feel about these electric cars that are looking to dump here? I hear they're fine cars and they're cheaper, but they're done really federally financed with labor laws that we can't compete with. And they would destroy our car market. People say they're turning up in it, and it looks like Canada is going to accept them.

Yeah, so the U.S. has a great car market right now. Our electric market is booming, right? The work that Tesla has done, there's other companies, Lumen, they're Lucid. There are others that are doing good work on on and even Ford, Chevy.

We all we know this. We don't need cheap Chinese electric vehicles that are going to break down and not be able to be repaired. And so I think Canada's making a mistake by letting it in. But I hope that the U. S., especially because of our auto tariffs, I hope we'll stay strong and focus on American made cars.

All right, Senator Kirsten Seneva, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Always like when you check in. Wonderful to talk to you, and I hope you have a great birthday weekend, Brian. You got it, Kirsten.

Thank you. She's the co-chair of the AI Infrastructure Coalition.

So she's Kirsten. My daughter's Kirsten. And sometimes I get that messed up. Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions.

It's Brian Killmead. I'm gonna go. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kilmy Show. Hey, you're not going to believe this, but this is bad news for Democrats.

The Supreme Court was looking whether they were going to invalidate the referendum that will allow the gerrymandering in Virginia to knock out every seat except one and make it all Democratic, 9-1 Democratic districts for the House.

Well, in the case of the Kamalith, they submitted a proposed constitutional amendment. Virginia voters, in an unprecedented manner, they say, violated the intervening election requirement in Article 12, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia. The violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void.

So the referendum that was won by just two percentage points by the yes votes to the no votes was unconstitutional, rushed through, and it was not it was not worded in a way that was uh that could cohabitate with With the Virginia Constitution. Therefore, when it comes to gerrymandering, Texas went through, California went through, and Virginia doesn't. Florida added four seats. They're being sued. That's going to go to the court.

We'll see how it goes. They say playing this out, being the Tennessee, Alabama, possibly Indiana, Louisiana, all red states. are looking to gerrymander. The Republicans could get 14 more seats. Anybody who says Republicans aren't in play to keep the House is just wishful thinking and a partisan Democrat.

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So, that Virginia decision nullifies the advantages. They would have picked up four more seats in Virginia, the Democrats, and it's nullified now. And I think that's the last plague, the Virginia Supreme Court. And I think the Supreme Court in Florida has already indicated they're going to uphold that.

So, they say a net. Prior to this, the net was a fourteen seat game for Republicans. I'm going to figure out that this could be another four. Gad Sad joins us now, Unrelated, best-selling author, professor of marketing at Concordia University, scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi. He's got his latest book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind.

Gad, welcome back.

So good to be with you. Would you say some of that suicidal empathy is, for example, let's get the homeless. Let's make give the homeless needles. Let's find a way. Let's let society take the blame for a lot of the ills of society.

Exactly. So when you ascribe responsibility, you can either ascribe internally, I did well on the exam or I did poorly on the exam because of me, or it's something that happened outside of me. Right. So typically, the Democrats. Ascribe all ills that happen to marginalized people as not coming from their personal agency.

So, why are you putting the felon away in prison when he's only been arrested 186 previous times? He lives in a waterfall. Have a heart. Have a heart, be kind, be empathetic. Be kind to the homeless, even though the taxpaying folks can't take their children there.

Be kind to all people who want to come in illegally to the United States. They deserve to be part of the American experience.

So, empathy is a wonderful thing, but suicidal empathy is the dysregulation of a noble virtue. I was going to say, how do you know the difference? I feel for that person. Let me help them. And let's say their intentions are good.

We're assuming their intentions are good.

Some people maybe have evil intentions and will pretend they have empathy because they think it'll hurt the country. How do you know the difference? How do you know if you're going over?

Well, so. Aristotle explained to us two thousand years ago that the golden mean is that too little of something is not good, too much of something is not good, you have to find the sweet spot.

So little to no empathy makes you a psychopath. too much empathy.

So if it hyperfires if it is invoked in the wrong situations, and if it's Targets the wrong targets, you get suicidal empathy.

So, for example, it'll be nice if all Guatemalan immigrants could come in and be part of the American experience, but not. When you have to instead give them the resources rather than American vets who've lost their limbs.

So it's about a calculus, right? When I give gifts to my loved ones, I'm more likely to give a gift to my brother than to a second cousin.

So it has to be an evolutionary based calculus. Empathy is the same way. It can't orgiastically fire to every possible potential recipient of your empathy. Wow. So this is really what we're dealing with now.

And I could see it on the debate stage in Los Angeles. Exactly. Right. And we Maybe we even have the sound bite. You have a soundbite yesterday from Spencer Pratt when he was on the stage talking about going, talking about the homeless.

How do you help the homeless?

Well, no one spent more money on the homeless than Los Angeles. And the reaction has been more homeless than any place else in the country. It is the capital of homelessness. And a guy like Spencer Pratt is coming out saying this is not working. And then you have a liberal come out and say, no, we just got to get more homes for them.

Listen to this. The reality is no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth. They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistics says 93% of this is a drug addiction problem. Nithya Councilwoman Robbins plan for treatment first.

I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her and we can find some of these people she's going to offer treatment for. She's going to get stabbed in the neck. These people do not want a bed. They want fentanyl or super meth. This is exactly what you're talking about, right?

Exactly right. But it can apply to so many other cases. I mean, people tell me that once they see the framework of suicidal empathy, they see it everywhere, right?

So take, for example, A woman who is raped. In this case, I'm going to give some examples from Europe. She's raped by Middle Eastern men, but she tells the police, this was in Germany, but she tells the police that they were speaking in German because she didn't want to say that they were speaking in Arabic and Farsi, because then that would marginalize those communities. I'm here to tell you, as an evolutionary psychologist, that our emotional system did not evolve to empathize with our rapists. But they are.

But they are yes, we're seeing that. You also put on I think it's Twitter, that there have been and it's in response to a podcaster that came out that seems to be very pro open to Islam and them having a point And say there's been 48,000 Islamic terror attacks in nearly 70 countries since 9/11. The fact is that vertically independently independently of Israel. Islam has eradicated Christianity in countless societies, and there has been the reality prior to the existence of modern-day Israel. Don't blame Israel for everything, and there's a problem here when it comes to Islam.

So, this is what I call six degrees of Jew. I give you any calamity in the world, and you have up to six illusory causal mechanisms to blame the Jews for it. And sometimes, when we want to be a bit more politically correct, instead of blaming the Jews, we blame Israel. I love the Jews. I just hate the Zionists.

That's how they say. In this case, I think I was responding to Megan Kelly, who I have had a very warm relationship with, but apparently she recently came out and said, Well, you know, I guess I was wrong about Islam. It's really the Israeli lobby that's making me think that Islam is bad. In the fourteen hundred years that Islam has existed, no data could be any more convincing that Islam's foundational tenets are incongruent with our Western values in general and the American ethos in particular. And I 100% agree with you.

And really, I can't believe she. I'm good friends with her too. But I noticed that there's other people who have that. That point of view and the anti-Israel, anti-democracy attitude is concerning. Is it concerning to you?

Of course it is. I mean, you know, look, it usually takes immigrants such as myself, such as Ayan Hirsi Ali, that have sampled from the buffet of available societies to then come to the United States and say, please don't take your freedoms for granted. Most Americans think. That the freedoms that you have here is somehow the default values value across societies. It isn't.

We have to defend those values. And it oftentimes takes the Canadian to defend American freedoms. Right. So tell everybody your background.

So I'm born in Lebanon. I was part of the last minuscule remaining group of Lebanese Jews. We they tolerate you until they don't tolerate you. And the problem is you don't know when that intolerance is going to kick in.

So when the Civil War broke out in the mid seventies, It became unfortunately impossible to be Jewish. We left Lebanon, emigrated to Canada. My parents, on one of their return trips to Beirut, were kidnapped by Abu Nidal's group, Fatah. They were tortured.

So, all the stuff that we see on October 7th is basically called my childhood. And for the next 25 years or so, I was pretty, you know, Islam was in the rearview mirror, never to be seen again. But over the past 25 years, the Islamophilia. That the West has been exhibiting towards Islam has been just breathtaking to see.

So, why do you think that is? Because Islam is the religion of the noble other. It's the religion of brown people, even though Albanian Muslims are about as white as can be. There are Asian Muslims, there are African Muslims, there are white Muslims. And so You romanticize, you mythologize Islam as being that of the other.

And so, because of the reflex of suicidal empathy, all cultures are equal except the West, which is really not equal. Clearly inferior because we live on stolen land. We are transphobic. We're Islamophobic. We're misogynistic, self-flagellation, self-flagellation.

It's not a good reflex to have. If you go to see a clinical psychologist and you have a bad sense of self, he or she will help you. But somehow, if you internalize that at the collective level and say, I am an awful society, you're a progressive.

Well, yeah, so that is interesting, the way you play that all out.

So, when you talk about what's happening in Lebanon in particular, I'm listening to someone explain to me. About what's happening in Lebanon. They said, isn't Israel just expanding their power, using this as an excuse to grab Lebanese land? No, of course not. It would take probably less time than we have on this show for Israel to completely take over Lebanon if they wanted to.

From a military perspective, they can easily do it, right? The fact that they don't do it, despite the fact that they could easily achieve those goals, suggests that they just wish to live in peace. In 1978, when they signed the Camp David Accord with Anwar Sadat and the Americans, Menachem Begum. And Menachem Begum, they gave up the entire Sinai in order to have peace.

So if it were about land grab, you wouldn't give up a land that quadruple even more the size of Israel if all you didn't want was to just live in peace, right? Look, Judaism is not an expansionist religion. As a matter of fact, it is illegal to proselytize in Judaism. That's why Judaism as a marketing endeavor really sucks, frankly, because we still have only 15 million Jews. On the other hand, Islam, in the past 1,400 years, one-fourth of humanity is Islamic.

They're very good at marketing. The Jews are not as good at marketing. And procreating. And procreating. Yeah, so there's a lot of them.

So we really are watching your book, Suicidal Empathy, play out on the political side. On the political front, because almost all of our, you know, we've got to save the planet, so we have to destroy our oil and gas industry. Because I have empathy for those, and those people in developing areas are the ones who pay the great price because of our use of fossil fuels. I even have a more direct anti-Darwinian perspective regarding Mother Earth. How about all of the sort of pro-climate movements that say do not reproduce in order to save Mother Earth?

If you reproduce, you're creating more carbon footprint. And so one of the most fundamental drivers of our human existence, which is to reproduce and propagate our genes, becomes a form of rape of Mother Earth.

So stop reproducing, be empathetic to Mother Earth. And now, Dizzy, do you also think tax the rich and vilify the rich is an unhealthy approach to what we're seeing from Democrats right now?

So communism is very much rooted in an appeal to empathy. It is unfair and non-empathetic to have some people have a lot more money than other people. Let me, the benevolent overlord, come in and create equality amongst everyone. Therefore, we can all be equally miserable, but at least there'll be no differences between us. I want you to hear AOC said something really astounding on the podcast, Cut25.

You can't earn. A billion dollars. That's right. You just can't earn that. That's exactly correct.

You can. You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws.

You can pay people less than what they're worth. But you can't earn that, right? Since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.

So, can you wrap your head around that? It's unbelievable. Let me tell you, I mean, this relates to her because she's a socialist/slash communist. E.O. Wilson, who's a very famous Harvard biologist who recently passed away, was an entomologist.

He studied social ants. Ants happen to be communistic because there's a reproductive queen, and then there are worker ants and soldier ants that are indistinguishable from each other.

So, when he was asked, Professor Wilson, what are your views on communism? He gave one of the greatest short answers ever. He said, great idea, wrong species. It is not within our evolutionary history to ever be a communist species because some of us are taller, shorter, harder working, less harder working.

So to impose the dictums of equality of outcomes on a hierarchical species is literally anti-Darwinian. Right. So that's part of it.

So what do you hope people get away from suicidal empathy? That hopefully they find an inoculation against it. It's nice to be empathetic, but in a way that makes evolutionary rational sense. You know, when you were talking before, I was thinking about the fight that President Trump was having with the Pope. The Pope is saying, I want peace.

So, why are you starting a war in Iran? And behind his very high Vatican walls, so I can exhibit all of the virtue while being protected from all the consequences of my ideas. Yeah, immigration.

So, when you talk about why would you attack, well, they have a nuclear weapon, they are hanging their own people. They just killed 41,000 in cold blood, but I don't want to see innocent people get hurt.

Well, you should have worried about the 41,000 and the 10 that just got hung today.

So, there's a, how does religion? And the theoretical world of let's just say really good people, how does that function in our world? The practical world. It has to, empathy has to be well modulated, right?

So it can't be that you grant greater empathy to felons than to their victims, to illegal immigrants than to natural, you know, born citizens. Everything in life is rooted in a rational evolutionary calculus. And now, whether that calculus comes from religion or from Darwinian theory, it has to be rooted in a rational calculus. Suicidal empathy says, by definition, I'm not going to adhere to those because I want to be stroking my hair in the mirror of moral preening and demonstrate to the world that I'm a good person. Right.

And you get it. You see through it all. I do see through it all. Gad sad. Thanks so much for coming in.

Suicidal Empathy in the name of the book, Dying to Be Kind. And it is out this week, right?

Next Tuesday. Oh, next Tuesday. Yeah. Pre-order it now. Please.

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It's just a total decline. Dear Bryant, happy birthday to you. Aria one. Aria three. Happy birthday.

Aria three. All right, we're now 15 seconds into my show. Thank you, Jesse. Good evening.

So that was something at the end of the five. And that's the number one show in the country. And I fill in there. But I don't know how they ended up singing me happy birthday. I don't know how this happened.

Did you watch Eric? Do you have cable at home? Uh Eric repeat. Does anyone know? I did not see it live, unfortunately.

Okay. So that was the first you heard of it? It was kind of flattering. But I mean, you just did you just for the first time see it in the e-packet this morning, or did you hear about it yesterday? No, I I started getting text messages and Kennedy wrote me and go, We sang to you, and I taped a special report every night.

Mm-hmm. Uh for this show. And I tape it and I'm going, I she they did. They broke into song. It's really different if I was on the set.

It's amazing. It's actually better because you were not on the set. Because it's completely unexpected. I feel like it's hard to get you on your birthday because you don't love celebrating you. The country loves celebrating you.

But when you heard this, you were really taken aback. I was flattered. I'm flattered. Even though I think they did it because I don't like celebrating my birthday. I completely agree.

That's why Greg did it. I don't think they were looking to flatter me. I think they were looking to annoy me. I think, Greg, yeah, just get under your skin, make you a little uncomfortable. Right.

By the way, the Hollywood Reporter, I think, voted them a most influential show or something to that nature. That's fair. Yeah. So they have a whole bunch of stuff. I'm curious to see when that comes out.

But I think that's going to be ranked soon. We'll see. Just a quick announcement. Coming up on May 30th, Reader, Nevada. I heard in Reno, Allison, Tom Shalou is going to be about 20 miles away.

Uh Is uh Jimmy Phale is going to be there the week before. For some reason, May is Fox month. Or May 30th is Fox Day.

So, Tom Shaloux in Reno for a different show? Yeah. No way. Yeah. Epic planning.

Right, and he's great stand-up. I mean, I feel like we need to have a really great after-party with our show and Tom's show. That would be interesting, but we do have to get up the next day and get our butts home to the ESP. Our plane's at 5:30 in the morning, so I say we just don't go to the market. Wait, we're on the plane at 5:30?

Are they allowed to fly that early? Apparently so. Wow. So go May 30 at Briankillme.com. Then July 11th, they're going to be in Pensacola, Florida.

And then the show switches to my new book, Uniting the States. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. One of the final hours of the week, and what a week we've had. We're watching some developments now.

Number one, job numbers came in. It's unbelievable. They're virtually double what the experts projected. Market liked it, but they don't love it because it's countered by Stripe is popping up in Iran again because they're absolute maniacs. They're maniacs.

So they have a 14-point plan in their lap, and we see some battlings going on right now. We disabled another ship that tried to beat the blockade. That's not going to happen. And Well those people think that Trump doesn't want war. Yeah, you're right.

But do you think he's really going to knuckle under and let Iran get the best of us? Not going to happen. Andrew Weiss joins us at the bottom of the hour. He is the Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, James Family Chair there. Shannon Bream is standing by.

I just got to remind you, the YouTube page is all anybody's talking about. It's almost, I wouldn't say may soon it'll be better, but almost as talked about as the Trump watch. YouTube.com slash at the Brian Killmeat Show. Let's get to the big three. Number three.

I don't take Valda threats. They're going to find that out. I'm deeply intimidated now. We arrested an illegal ambient state in New York. Rather than detaining them in the local community, in the local jail, now she's going to force us to fly them out of the state to either Texas, Arizona, or a state where we have detention facilities.

So it's just going to cost everybody more money. And by the way, money's not going to stop at this point of money there. It is on Hoko versus Holman. New York tries to implement radical new sanctuary laws, icing out ICE. Homan has a plan B, so look out.

Number two. These maps are racist tools of white supremacy at the behest of the most powerful white supremacist in the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. It is a form of Jim Crow terror. You know what you're doing, it's shameful.

Don't you ever get tired of the false racial claims when you lose a vote? Tennessee votes to redistrict. Up to 14. Up to 14 seats could be netted by Republicans since the Supreme Court justice ruling and the movement that was okayed over in Texas, countered by California. But now there's breaking news on Virginia.

The Supreme Court said, uh-uh. Back to the old maps. Number one. Washington Post's story was kind of extraordinary. I mean, 75% of their missile program is still intact.

What they've been doing is taking stuff out of storage, basically. They still have about 70% of their missiles. Yep, Iran's latest. U.S. and Iran trade fire at the Strait of Hermuz, and each claim the other shot first.

We bring you the latest. Shannon, a lot of action in the Strait of Hermuz as we await an Iran reaction to our proposal. It looks like giving peace a chance, they're not taking it. Back and forth yesterday, the president called our action a love tap, but it just keeps begging the question: who are we negotiating with? Is there a group at the table with our negotiators, the Steve Wickoff, Jared Kushner plan?

Is that separate from the people who continue to fire on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and try to gum that situation up? I'm sure the administration knows much more than we do. They've got deep inside intel, they know who they're talking to. But is it still so fractured within Iran that any peace deal would be very tenuous at best? Yeah, I mean, who are we dealing with?

And then you got to judge people by their actions, not by what they say anyway.

So the President has got more to deal with. But I talked to General Jack Keene today, and he is not for he wasn't for the ceasefire. He says we would have been done with our targets by now. And he says that they do not think they're losing. Uh they think if they can survive they'll rebuild and be back stronger.

Cut for. Give President Trump the credit for starting this operation after October the 7th, when the Israelis were obviously devastatingly attacked. It was a recognition that This region, it's got to change and we're going to have to force that change. And Iran is behind everything that's happening there. And this President acted on that.

Other Presidents, admittedly, the threat wasn't quite as bad as it is now, but largely ignored.

So, and he says you'd have Carg Island as hostage. If they hit our Gulf State neighbors, you blow it up. And then you take out the targets and finish them off. Do you see that Washington Post report that says that they still have 70% of their launchers and missiles? Yeah, and then you've got Iran's foreign minister out there on X saying, no, we've got even more than that and saying, listen, every time we try to get to a diplomatic solution, the U.S.

takes, quote, reckless military action against us as if they're the victims and they want to try to get something done and we're the aggressors and the ones in the ceasefire that are creating the problems. And so when I see that and I see, you know, just a very defiant tone from them, it makes me wonder how much closer we are to actually settling this thing. I actually think we took a few steps back, but I think you have to escalate to de-escalate. I think that's where we're going to be heading. Let's talk about something a little bit closer to home, the gerrymandering madness.

We know that Tennessee, a little bit of unrest yesterday as they vote to. Uh as they vote to redistrict. And we also know Virginia had a major decision. Do you want to inform us? Yeah, they did.

The Virginia Supreme Court, we've been waiting on this because remember their House delegation was essentially viewed as 6-5 with one seat advantage to Democrats. They passed this referendum that they said was to, quote, restore fairness in voting and flip that map to 10-1.

So taking away four seats that would have been red or viewed as Republican seats. And we knew that there from the beginning, there were big challenges to the procedural way that they did this. And the Virginia Supreme Court just dropped this opinion a short time ago saying it's null and void. You did not comply with the state constitution or state law. You knew you were doing that.

And so even though this thing got passed, it doesn't matter. It's not legally valid. And so the old maps will be what have to rule for the midterm elections.

So big win for Republicans there. All right.

So there was a New York Post estimated, if you go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, the court upholds Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana, and Florida. The Republicans, this is before the Virginia decision. The Republicans pick up 14 seats. I mean, you talk about a change in projection. I don't care what tradition says it.

This really has to make the experts take a step back. It's really critical for Republicans. The big win for them, essentially, at the Supreme Court last week when they dropped that racially drawn race is the primary factor House district down in Louisiana. It then triggered all these other states, like you said, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, all of them, and many others taking a look now at potentially undoing seats there.

So the momentum has really shifted for Republicans just over the past week and a half or so with that decision now, the Supreme Court and the Virginia Supreme Court. Those numbers add up.

Now, a lot of prognosticators out there will say, Republicans still have, you know, history is against you. You've got polling showing people are very upset about the economy. They don't support what's going on with Iran.

So there's a lot of work to be done other than just changing, redistricting. You've got to work on messaging too. All right.

Here's Howard Enton on the Republicans and if Donald Trump is like losing them because he's a lame duck making controversial decisions, which I'm fully in support of, whatever that means, of Iran, but controversial in that it's not politically. Uh clearly advantageous to do an operation like this six months before an election. Cut 21. I think there's this myth that's going on right now that oh, Trump is really losing support among Republicans. Right now, nationally, we're talking about an approval rating on average of 84%.

In 2022, his popularity rating was 76%, actually lower right when he wasn't in the presidency. In 2018, the last time he was president, 85%. That 85% looks a whole heck of a lot like this 84%.

So that's something to keep in mind. You might say independents are key and you're right. And you might say Democrats are dug in more than ever, and you're correct. But to say Republicans I've checked out because some podcasters are mad at him Uh that is they are they don't even register. Yeah, the evidence doesn't seem to be there.

And if you think about who's calling the shots, you look at that Indiana election this week, those primaries, and he had told those lawmakers, if you go against me on this redistricting idea, I'm coming after you, and flipped almost every one of those seats away from incumbents to people that were more supportive of and endorsed by President Trump.

So folks will say he's still definitely the leader of this party and calling the shots. And you misunderestimate him, as another president said, at your own risk. All right.

So what are you going to be doing this weekend, Shannon? We're going to definitely do a ran, but we're also going to preview the president's visit to China. And there are a lot of things at stake potentially in that visit. We've also got Grace Drexel with us. We had her with us last fall.

She's an American citizen. Her dad is a pastor in China and was among those who were swept up with a number of religious leaders. She came on the show last fall asking for the president's help. They're reiterating that call. The president did indicate that he intends to bring up those human rights issues.

And so she's going to be with us this weekend to talk about that. We've got the ruthless guys to talk about this Virginia ruling and the midterms more broadly. And we'll have you all covered. You will. You'll definitely have a soul covered.

I'm going to be very curious to see. Um to see if you're going to cover If you're going to be covering what's going on now in the house. As the House comes back, it's going to be police week on Tuesday. We know that. Yeah, they've got work to do.

Yeah, they've got work to do. And the reconciliation package that the President says he wants by the first week in June, which is coming sooner than later. And my thought is: do you think they would get that done to fund the rest of DHS?

Well, listen, there's agreement among Republicans for funding DHS and ICE, all of those things that got left out of the other deal that came together. But the problem is who wants to add on what to these provisions. You've got to talk about this $1 billion for security now related to the White House ballroom. And are Republicans going to be willing to go back to bat for that? This Save America Act, that keeps falling through the cracks.

And a lot of the base is very angry about that. And it doesn't seem like the Senate is willing to try to go to the wall on that. one.

So they got a lot of things to figure out, whether they can tuck them into reconciliation, who's going to demand what, and whether you can get something passed in both the House and Senate. It's not just D versus R at this point. It's Senate versus House Republicans at this point.

So I'll tell you what, I've been fascinated by what's going on in California from the governor's race to the mayor's race. You know what I get the sin, Shannon? It's a bigger story. I think the bigger story is that the jungle primary process has these guys against each other, a runoff to an actual election. And we're getting to see.

The philosophies of both parties shoulder to shoulder, instead of here's my ad, here's my speech, here's my interview. They're able to debate it. Things like that. Yeah, and the debates have been fascinating. They've been fascinating.

And the answer is. If this is working, stay with your person. If it's not working, maybe you wanna open up your eyes. Oh, well, this is supposed to be a democratic state. Really?

Well, how's that going? The report card is bad.

So why would you put someone in that job that would continue to do a bad job? And Spencer Pratt sees that, and Steve Hill needs a legitimate alternative. Yeah, but we see it over and over again. We cover these things, and then people do keep voting for stuff they say that they don't like or that they, or it isn't working.

So you're cynical. There's also cynical.

Okay, well, I don't know. I think there's a possibility because I think those guys are hitting on very big cultural themes and moments where people are super frustrated. I think the ads that the Spencer Pratt team have put together are really, really well done and they really dial into, you know, he's not running around like, oh, I love Trump, but I'm MAGA. He might be, but he is not emphasizing that. He's emphasizing, was your house burned down and now you have nowhere to live?

And these guys are out here, you know, being sort of let them eat cake. Moms and dads saying, oh my gosh, these people are shooting up drugs in front of my kids' school. Please don't make my kids walk through this stuff. I mean, very everyday real stuff that people are encountering in LA and beyond. The problem, I think, for California more broadly, for the conservative there, is that a lot of them have left.

They've had a conservative flight over the last few years, especially during COVID.

So has enough of a Republican base stuck around to make a difference in these statewide elections? I don't know. True. Unless somebody's just going to vote for their welfare. As opposed to their party.

But man, the debates are, they have been fun to watch. And I think you're right flying under the radar a little bit. Right. Because I think the blue states, and if I'm with the Republican Party, I say, listen, don't tell me over and over again, we're going to lose Chicago. You're not going to win New York.

So there's no reason to really put any money behind it. I think you have an obligation to get your point across.

So even if you get your 15, 25, 35, 40 percent and you lose an election, it shows you care enough about a city to try to win it. You can't keep on throwing the towel. Yeah. And it wasn't that long ago, I'm old enough to remember when New York had a Republican mayor. Yes.

A Republican governor. And so those things can happen with the right candidates, the right influx of, you know, all the events happening and the frustrations, and having a party or a candidate that can effectively speak to those things. I mean, you shouldn't see the ground if you feel like you want conservatives to show up and fight. Channel, I think you're right. I also think these studies of people moving to South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Tennessee might, and they're leaving the states you just talked about.

That might make it harder and harder. It might make it harder and harder for a Republican to break through because there's less Republicans than there were in that city from 20 years ago. Yeah, and so it makes red places redder, blue places bluer. And, you know, what it ends up doing more broadly when you're talking about representatives coming here to D.C. to be in the House and Senate, they're much more aligned with the harder base in those districts, many of them.

And it makes them unwilling to meet in the middle on anything here. As you could see, the gridlock. And, you know, the Speaker, he can only lose a vote or two on these really, really critical issues. And it makes it feel like there's nothing here but gridlock. And so the president ends up taking a lot of executive action, which he knows is going straight to court, but it's the tool that he has that he can use.

Now, so your guest list is solidified. You got everybody? No, and that's why I can't tell you the rest of I mean, we're 90% of the way there. But why don't you tell me about your guest list?

Well, you know what's so interesting? Chris Wallace used to come on on Fridays. You had him on last week, right? Yes. And he used to sometimes be like, don't ask me about guests.

Kevin Bream doesn't do that. She's like, you know, you asked me, because you know what? It's fluid. Number one, it is me. It's not till Sunday.

We have a Dem senator that's pretty much on board and locked in. But we're trying to figure out whether our GOP voice is from the White House this week or is a GOP senator. And so once we lock one of those down, we can tell you.

Okay, great. I'm going to have. Iron Donalds. I'm going to have Jameson Career. He's going to be joining us.

I'm going to have Ben Shapiro. And Sage Steel. Did I forget anything, Allison? I love all uh listen, my Sage deal and I go way back. Way back.

Really?

My very first TV job where I got fired and they told me it was terrible and I would never make it in this business. Sage was my friend that helped me, you know, like pack up my stuff. Wow. I didn't know that. She is a friend from the way back, the OGs.

Well, you both showed them. How dare you? I think that happens to all of us at one point, Shannon. Listen, not everybody sees your appeal. By the way, I didn't get to say happy birthday to you this week.

I hope you are just going to continue celebrating and that your celebration on Sunday night will include a dance party on the show. I will say this. My my celebration ends Sunday with Mother's Day.

So, I'm going to really have a lot of people have that sucker. Yeah, but you better have a good day planned. All right, I will. Shannon, thanks so much. Have a great show on Sunday.

Back in a moment. Don't go anywhere. Brian Killmead will be right back. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

You can't earn. A billion dollars. That's right. You just can't earn that. That's exactly correct.

You can. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can do all sorts of things, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they're worth, but you can't earn that, right? Since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.

Okay. There's so much crazy in that statement. To think that she is even going to in Congress and then think she's going to run for Senate, let alone President. You already saw her foreign policy chops full flat on her face.

So we should tell Jerry Seinfeld, he cheated and abused labor laws. when he became a billionaire. We should tell Michael Jordan He is not really worth a billion dollars, even though he engineered those sneakers as his own Jordan brand. We know that he couldn't possibly lose all his money. He's a billionaire.

I got to tell Oprah she's a fake and a fraud. She is not a billionaire because AOC says it's impossible. You can earn that money. See, these people believe any, and that was so key what she said at the end. You can abuse labor laws.

and think you're worth that much money.

Okay. No, in America, you got the right idea, you're lucky enough to get the talent, you maximize that talent, you make the most of that talent, and you hire other people. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. We did a story at The Insider right after Yevgeny Purgozhin's mutiny a few years ago.

Remember that, of the Wagner operative. And we canvassed the opinion of FSB, GRU, SBR, Interior Ministry, expecting to hear, oh, this treasonous act, you know, we must kill and we must put this down. In fact, we found two different responses. Number one, indifference. We don't care.

It's this guy or the other guy, whatever. Things are terrible here in Russia. This war is going horribly. Or, enthusiasm. We'd much rather Progozhin than Putin.

So Putin has a real crisis on his hands because I'm not saying there's going to be a coup tomorrow, but what he has in the ranks, including of his security apparatus, the Siloviki, disaffection and demoralization. And any intelligence officer can tell you, when that's starting to hit, you become a leaky ship, and you become very susceptible to foreign recruitment and to, frankly, penetration, which is how the Ukrainians are going in there and blowing up Russian generals all the time, which is making Putin very paranoid about a possible coup.

So, Michael Weiss, weighing in, he's header of The Insider, and he joins us now about what's happening. We don't really know what. Yeah. Yeah. Andrew Weiss.

Andrew Weiss joins us now. Andrew, we don't really know what's going on inside Russia. But we get the sense that he's bulking up security because he knows his security is an issue, and he's losing. He lost 35,000 troops last month. Hey, Brian.

So it's Michael Weiss's namesake, Andrew Weiss. It's great to be with you. I would be a little cautious about the flurry of reports. Like, there's no doubt that things are not going well on the battlefield for Russia. But we have to be really cautious that we frankly don't have great information or insight into what's happening in the Kremlin these days.

It's a black box. This is not a leaky organization. There's very little information that sort of trickles out into the public realm. It's a security state, it's run by. guys who were hardcore KGB veterans or FSB officers, they fight with each other all the time.

That's not new. And last point is they're fighting against a very formidable foe, Ukraine. And the Ukrainians are great at getting inside the Russians' heads and making them feel miserable. And so this hubbub about whether Putin's sleeping in a bunker or whether he's too scared to have a parade on Red Square. That's just a great illustration, I think, of how the Ukrainians are masters at rattling Vladimir Putin's cage.

But they are helping out the Iranians, aren't they? Yeah, that is definitely true. I think Vladimir Putin, there's, you know, there was a report overnight in The Economist magazine that indicated that Russia has potentially been offering the Ukrainians a more advanced type of drone that we've seen be very effective on the battlefield in Ukraine.

So, but at the same time, Vladimir Putin does not want to alienate Donald Trump. He sees that Donald Trump is a mercurial person, that he can flip from one position to the other, just from hour to hour. And he thinks that he can use Donald Trump to get what he wants, which is for us to kind of force the Ukrainians to surrender and to give up their independence. I think. Putin's wrong about that.

I think he's not likely to be able to instrumentalize the White House to get what he wants, but he's not going to give that up as a possibility. Right. So the economist pointed out that they got about 5,000, they have short-range fiber optic drones that are tough to counter that they would be giving to Iran. And I'll tell you what, the one thing is pretty clear. They were able to do some damage to our bases because of the satellite information the Russians were able to give.

Don't you think that is a fact? Yeah, so we've seen, I think, disturbing reports of both Russia and China providing limited support to Iran. It's something that the administration has tried to downplay. I think in a rather clumsy way, you've seen Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and other senior figures in the White House team keep saying, oh, it hasn't really made a big difference because we continue to be very successful on the battlefield. But the short reality is that Russia is trying to help Iran kill American soldiers.

That's completely unacceptable. And I think it's a mistake for the White House to downplay it. You know what's interesting, the president goes, well, aren't we doing that with Ukraine? The president's almost rationalizing Russia's role. Yeah, no, he's using Vladimir Putin's talking points.

And then, you know, the Russians have, you know, in their, you know, clever way, have said, well, if you just stopped helping Ukraine, I'm sure we can work this out.

So, you know, the United States is helping Ukraine because it's in our interest, it's in our national interest. And, you know, that's not because it's a favor. And we're not doing it because we're cynical. You know, we're doing it because Russia invaded without any reason and has been essentially conducting a genocidal war. for more than four years.

Like Americans should be angry about that. And the United States should not be in the business of helping Russia be victorious in Ukraine. And unfortunately, this administration's policy has given Putin confidence that he can wait out Ukraine, that time's on his side, and that it's just a matter of time between the U.S. either stop supporting Ukraine, that the Europeans don't have the schlitz to help them in terms of their military requirements. And it's just fostered a sense of confidence.

Among Vladimir Putin and his top advisors. Which we know is not the case because they've already generated and engineered their own long-range missiles. They've already gotten Starlink to stop providing any service to the Russians. That allowed them to make great progress. And now they've engineered robots that have entire Russian units surrendering to them.

They're not going anywhere, Ukraine. Yeah, 100%, Brian. And I think that the administration pretty early on bought into the argument that it was just a matter of time before Ukraine was forced to surrender. We've seen that Russia has now created its own worst nightmare right on its doorstep. It's got a permanently aggrieved Ukraine that's going to be well armed and determined never to let this happen again.

It's reanimated NATO and the European partners of the United States and allies to rearm. And Russia has lost hundreds of thousands of people in a senseless war.

So Vladimir Putin is not invincible. And the president keeps saying things like Ukraine doesn't have the cards. And then every day we see things get blown up due to these, as you say, remarkable defense technological advancements that Ukraine has pioneered. And we have a lot to learn from them. And we've seen in the war in Iran that there's a lot of new technology out there on the battlefield, and we're not ready for it.

And Ukraine is the place where a lot of those innovations are being seen every day. And they're, you know, they're, they want to be our friend. They want to be a partner. Russia just doesn't fit in that category. Russia's a, you know, a longtime adversary of the United States, and there's just not a prospect for the U.S.

and Russia to suddenly become partners on the world stage, unfortunately. Yeah, it isn't. And they had every opportunity to do it, and they don't seem to understand that, or they don't want to understand that.

So let's talk about Iran. It looks like the skirmishes show me that they're not close to signing any type of deal that would be acceptable to the Trump team. I want you to hear Mike Pompeo. I think he's on the money cut 10. It wouldn't surprise me if they can figure out a way to keep their economy running for months and months.

We've seen Chairman Kim do it in North Korea. We've seen they'll put their own people in absolute poverty and protect themselves at any cost, and they'll kill people if they have to do it.

So that doesn't surprise me terribly. They're looking to outlast us, and the CIA says, as bad as things are, they could outlast us through the midterms by just holding out. Yeah, it's a similar situation that we've seen the Russians facing, which is Ukraine wins by not losing. And I hope that people look at the situation in the Middle East and are asking some tough questions. Like, what's the strategy here?

And is there a timeline and a price that's worth paying? We've been in a very difficult relationship with Iran now since the late 1970s. It's not a pushover country. And I think the administration needs to be able to explain to the American people how they got us into this mess and if they have a credible plan for getting us out.

Well, degrading one of America's premier enemies is a good objective, degrading and destroying a regime that just killed about between 30 and 40,000 of their people. Here's General Keen on what should be next, Cut 6. In my judgment, I think we've got to see reality for what it is. We should go back and execute Project Freedom, take the straight home moose away from the Iranians, secure it and open it for navigation, and also at some point get some assistance in doing that. And then we have to unleash the Israelis.

They have a very comprehensive bombing campaign that they're going to conduct that deals with leadership, it deals with energy, it deals with all the weapon systems we still have to go through.

So he says you keep Carg Island as a asset, cut seven. We have an ace here up our sleeve, so to speak. It's Karg Island. And we're obviously blocking it now from any transport coming out of there. And that represents 90% of their oil resources.

So we can hold Karg Island hostage. If you're going to attack Qatar's natural gas or the Saudis or the UAE's oil fields, we're going to begin to take Karg Island away from you in terms of physical destruction. And we communicate that to them very, very clearly and unequivocally, what the intent is here. He says there is an arms program in the process of getting the people some arms. What are your thoughts about that, Andrew Weiss?

Brian, I think we're hearing a repeat of the kind of magical thinking that prompted President Trump to make this. Impulsive decision to launch a war against Iran at the end of February. You know, there was a presumption in the wake of the successful abduction of Venezuelan leader Maduro that we would see Iran be very easily sort of toppled, the Iranian regime toppled. And that clearly didn't happen. And I think it's unfortunate that people are continuing to suggest that there's a silver bullet or a quick fix to this problem.

Previous presidents have all been prepared to go to war. And fight Iran, but they've also always been very cautious about the limitations of U.S. power in the region and be careful not to expose the limitations of our power. I think unfortunately the strategy that this administration is pursuing has done exactly that. It's created huge tensions between the United States and our longtime allies and partners in the region, countries like Saudi Arabia and others that are really worried that the United States is creating more problems than it's solving.

And I think this is going to be an open-ended problem, unfortunately. I don't expect it to end anytime soon, despite the continued indications from the president and others that it's just another day or two and we're going to have this thing fixed. That's just, I think, patently misleading. Yeah, I think it's a day or two. I think maybe the ceasefire was probably a mistake.

I think with the thing that's different, I think, is they've already eliminated about between 40 and 80. It's hard to get a number of their leaders. And the other thing is, the Israelis are involved, and their intelligence has shown over the last three years is impeccable. And I think that their air power could handle it and we could reopen the strait and then bring them to the table. I think it'd be much more appliable to something that we can deal with.

Yeah, it just comes back to the we're in a pain contest, and I'm not sure that the United States can absorb the kind of pain that Iran seems to be willing to dish out, as well as the impact it's having on the global economy by keeping the strait closed. What do you see next with Cuba? You know, I think the administration has done a lot of work to try to rattle longtime foes of the United States and to suggest that the U.S. is prepared to unleash all the attributes of our national power against them. There was a period in the first year of the administration, you know, sort of culminating in the operation to seize Maduro, where I think all of that was creating a lot of worry in places like Havana.

But the results of the Iran war, I think, now are sort of making countries that are, you know, breathe a sigh of relief that the United States might not be able to push on so many fronts at the same time. And that it really is, you know, there's a real risk of overextension. And that's been something, again, that just gets back to the sort of spur of the moment, seat of the pants approach that this administration has adopted in its foreign policy. And then, frankly, the process of having an administration where the senior most advisors see themselves. As being limited to providing options to the president as opposed to providing candid advice and disagreeing with him and sort of restraining him when they think he's getting ahead of where U.S.

capabilities and ambitions actually end up with. But if you believe the report, Kane was providing options, but also said, you know, this is going to be tough. And vice president. The Vice President wasn't aboard, and I don't think he even denies that he was aboard on going after Iran, where it looks like Secretary of Defense Pete Hagseth was, as well as Cooper, thought he had a good plan for that, as did almost every CENTCOM commander for the last 40 years.

So that is the push and pull you expect on an effective administration, isn't it? Yeah, I'm not so sure that describes how these meetings are going. I think the president has really been, in this administration, unlike the first time he was at the White House, he really is resistant to people who don't agree with him. And I think the incentive structure of how to stay on the president's good side is to be as agreeable and supportive as possible. And we've seen him basically staff senior positions with people who either far less experience or far less political stature than he did the first time around.

I had people who really didn't like him the first time around. I think I liked General Kelly, but he was not a Trump fan, and he was his chief of staff. And the first Secretary of Defense. Not a fan.

Well, I mean, it's up to you to compare General Mattis and Pete Hagseth in terms of experience and the caliber of their ability to be serious advisers to the President. It seems to be pretty stark. Yeah, Mattis had much more experience. I think that also, you know, it's just Mattis was not on board. I think the President did a better job staffing with people that understand what he wanted them to do.

And he does get pushback. And, you know, even though he doesn't love it, but he made it clear with J.D. Vance, made it clear in the meeting this could be tough. And he did not want to do Maduro. Either did J.D.

Vance. Yeah, I mean, these are tough calls. And I think that, you know, anytime, you know, President of the United States is, you know, is putting our men and women in harm's way, like that's that's the weightiest responsibility that any, you know, commander-in-chief can have. And, you know, the United States is not, you know, we're not a soda machine where we simply just push a button and things happen around the world. And I think that, as I said, the first year of this administration's tenure sort of gave, I think, a degree of, fostered a degree of overconfidence about the ability to solve tough problems overnight.

And, you know, Iran is one of the toughest problems any president has ever faced. And he's certainly addressing it. Andrew Weiss, thanks so much.

Okay, thank you, Brian. Great to be with you. Yeah, back in a moment. It's Brian Killmead. Information you want, truth you demand.

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