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And we're back in action on this Monday. Dr. Ophir Falk will be joining us. He's a foreign policy advisor to President Benjo Netanyahu, who sat down with 60 Minutes with an impactful interview on Sunday. We'll review some of that.

And don't forget to get our YouTube channel, youtube.com/slash at the Brian Kilmead Show. It's all everybody is talking about. Let's get to the big three. Number three, this is about reversing some of the progress we made in the civil rights movement. I never thought I would see today that the United States Supreme Court would be so openly partisan with what it's been doing.

Well, remember, there's a corrupt shadow hanging over the Supreme Court. These people are out of control. Democrats go after the Supreme Court because they don't like the verdicts. Gerrymandering and more on all sides posture in politic for a midterm advantage and a presidential run. We'll discuss it.

Number two. I think it's going to be a much broader conversation. You have the number one, number two economies and militaries in the world. I think you will see conversations around a board of investment, a board of trade, Boeing deals. Yes, Ambassador Michael Waltz weighing in on the president's big China trip this week.

What are the goals and who has the upper hand? We'll discuss and debate. Number one. I mean, at the end of the day, he wants to get the straight open back up. He wants to have some sort of agreement on the nuclear enrichment of the uranium.

And he has one ability, his real one leverage point, is this blockade. And the blockade has been working. The blockade has been, Admiral McCraven, unacceptable and insulting. That's the reaction of President Trump over the last proposal from Iran to end the war. We have the details as we are slowly marching right back to a full-scale battle, I think, but I don't think he would do it.

The President of the United States. I don't think he would do it. With the trip in China right there. And why? I'm not saying he wouldn't.

I would think one thing he would do is. Operation Freedom. And that would be open up the strait on the side of the O the Oman part of the strait, and you go back to that, and that really upset. The Iranians and the Pakistani went up to the president and said, look, we We can get the guys to the table if you just stop Operation Freedom. And the Saudis didn't like it either, so they didn't.

So, what's in the counterproposal that? Aram put out. Here you go. They want sanctions lifted. They want the blockade ended.

They want to get paid for the damage done to their country during the war. They say they will. I'll get the some uranium out of the country and they'll downblend the rest.

So that was pointed to by a colonel I had on this morning, who used to be the communications director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at CENTCOM. And he said, look, that shows progress, but it's way too slow. And it doesn't show a country that's flat on its back. They can't pay their troops. They can't pay the IRGC that has nowhere to put their oil because we've sealed that off.

None of that seems evident. Also, a big story in the New York Times on Sunday: mass layoffs in Iran. His business buckle under the wartime pressures. And they get into detail about the layoffs that have spread across all industries. Yes, and they were already doing bad before the war started.

So There's a lot going on. Obviously, a lot of things have yet to be finished off when it comes to the war with Iran. Benjamin Netanyahu weighs in, cut five. I think it accomplished a great deal, but it's not over because there's still nuclear material. enrich uranium that has to be taken out of Iran.

Uh there is still uh enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce.

Now we've degraded a lot of it. But all that is still there. And there's work to be done. Yes, and the President he'll wait to see what they're going to come across and do, how close and how much they really want to fight again, and how much China through the Caspian Sea rearming them. What kind of intelligence has Russian given Russia given them?

So, how do you get the uranium out? That's a precursor to any of this. We leave that there. I think we're pretty much going to say that we didn't accomplish our goals. Cut six.

How do you envision The highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran. You go in and you take it out. With what? Special forces from Israel, special forces from the United States?

Well, I'm not going to talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me. I want to go in there. And I think it can be done physically. That's not the problem. If you have an agreement, And you go in and you take it out, why not?

That's the best way. It is the best way. And I think we go back to the elimination program with the Mossad and not the IDF, and then we focus on reopening the Strait, and then we focus on defending the Gulf states. And I love what General Keene said. You tell them Carg Island slowly disappears.

Into oblivion if you hit any of the Gulf states like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar. That's it. And you blow that up, they'll have no way to generate oil production. You don't have oil. Iran doesn't have it has zero economy.

You think it's bad now? It is over.

Now, Admiral McCraben also had an idea, and as you know, Former Seal Team Commander, this is what he said, cut to. If I were the President, I would go to the Iranians and say, look, I will lift the blockade if you will open the straits and come to the negotiating table. By doing that, one, he can always put the blockade back in place. This is something with a flip of a switch, he can put the blockade back in place if the Iranians don't come to the negotiating table or if they don't open the straits. But you're not going to get any further along and where we are right now unless they come to the table and we begin to have these discussions about some of the hard and serious issues.

Yeah, and we've got to go back face-to-face. No more going through intermediaries. It takes forever. We do not have forever. They do.

Because they don't care that their people starve. They don't care that their industry collapses. These people just want to stay in their fanatical garb and continue to exist because by living, they're winning. That's how they view it. That's important.

Now, you talk about the height of irresponsibility. Once again, Senator Mark Kelly, astronaut, fighter pilot, you would think smart as anybody in the Senate. Why does he not understand why that spot that he cut telling people in the military you don't have to obey illegal orders? Totally irresponsible. That's like saying, we know you're getting illegal orders.

You don't have to obey them. Are you trying to undermine our military commanders? To me, the answer is absolutely yes. And that's why he was taken to court. Would I have sued him?

No. But Trump doesn't back up, and the Secretary of War is very aggressive.

So This is what I can't believe. He gets briefed at the highest level. At the same time, he wants to be president and hates Trump. And he takes it.

So listen to this cut through. We've been briefed by the Pentagon on specific munitions. Actually, it's been pretty detailed. On tomahawks, Attack'ems, SM3s, THAD rounds, Patriot rounds, those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves. And the numbers are, I think it's fair to say it's shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines because this president got our country into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline.

Because of that, we've expended a lot of munitions. And that means the American people are less safe. Whether it's a conflict in the Western Pacific, with China, or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted. You may have seen me ask the Secretary of Defense this question about how long it's going to take to replenish. We're talking about years.

So You just got briefed. You're on armed services. I know you don't like Trump, but do you like the United States of America? How is it in you in any Way, shape, or form, is that in our country's interest for a senator to tell the world we're out of munitions? Number one.

We have them, we move them. We had them in other places. We moved them over to help in theater. If you want to say we've taken assets from other areas to bulk up what we're doing here and I'm concerned about what's left, I wouldn't say it. But if you want to say that, go ahead.

But you're telling our enemy we don't have enough munitions to protect you or fight you. This is top secret information, intelligence briefing, and just use common sense. Do you really hate Trump that much to want Iran to win? Or to give them less. Motivation To come to the table?

And on top of that, I talked to Uh a guy at CINCOM today. This morning, is this true? He goes to Satra. It says, yeah, we had to move things around and we've purchased all of them.

Now, has manufacturing been a problem? Yes, it's been a problem for 10 years. You know why? Fundamentally, there's not enough competition in the stream, in the defense sector of our country. Remember, we were worried about the industrial, the military-industrial complex.

Those are the good old days compared to now.

Now we can't get stuff built. A lot of it has to do with the sophistication level in which we do it. It makes it harder and harder to reproduce. We're not just building a tank and saying, here's some basic munitions like in World War II.

Now these are high-tech systems, which takes more time.

However, they could do it much better, they could do it much quicker with 3D printing and all these other things, and that has to be addressed. But we got plenty for this theater, and we got a lot of one thing, and we don't have enough of another thing. Together, we're fine. You always adapt. But that's how ridiculous this senator is.

This guy thinks he's going to be president. And what has he demonstrated to you? He's juvenile. Immature. No rationale.

Horrible judgment. and a pure politician. Everything I didn't expect a veteran to do. Just crazy. Senator Mark Kelly, biggest disappointment in politics.

I thought he'd be more like Fetterman, more like McCain. You know, McCain went after his own party, went after President Bush when he didn't think he was being aggressive enough, would support any time that another Democrat would be doing something he thought was in our best interest and it drove Republicans crazy. That's who I thought Mark Kelly would be. Because of course, I think he actually took McCain's seat, by the way. Just because when you're in the military, And I see it a lot with the military experts on other channels.

They want them to get political, but they know what the problem Iran has been. They know at CENCOM, they've been strategizing against Iran for decades. They know that this is something that they wanted to do, and now we're doing it. And if you could say, I would have opened up the straight of removes, I never would have let him close it. Good, game on.

Tell me how you would have done that. I'm interested. How would you reopen it? Tell me what you'd be doing, what they're not doing it. I'm interested.

But when you say we're out of munitions and you're telling the world that, You've lost my respect. Not that he cares, but he lost it. What do you think? 1-866-408-7669. I'm also going to talk about what Virginia is doing, too.

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They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, but. Single payer healthcare is forever.

It's Huh. A living wage is forever, workers' rights are forever, women's rights, all of that.

So, try to wrap your head around her school of thought. First off, we found out there's no such thing as a billionaire. Then she says, The Revolutionary War was fought over billionaires. We try to get rid of billionaires. Fascinating.

Uh It was for freedom and liberty. Most of the founding fathers were rich in their day. Jefferson, rich, Washington, rich, Madison, rich, Monroe, wealthy. I mean, we can go through it. John Quincy Adams, John Adams, extremely well-to-do for those in that age.

They were not fighting against the wealthy. They were fighting for freedom and liberty and oppression from a, we didn't want to be a colony any longer because of what the British were doing.

Okay, so those are two things.

Sound billionaire. Then we find out Her policy on Taiwan was inexplicable and unexplainable in her mind. I still have no idea if she has an idea of what our policy with China and Taiwan is. And then we find out that being a president is not big enough for her. She wants to change the country.

So If you're not president, how are you going to change the country? A hostile coup and becoming a dictator? I thought that's what Trump was.

So these are the politics of today. This is AOC. And people keep saying: well, she's a legitimate candidate. On for what reason is she a legitimate candidate? Because she's attractive?

And she's good on social media. Listen to her talk about our history, Cut 27. We look at Thomas Jefferson writing to Madison. In revolt. of British aristocracy.

The American Revolution Was against the billionaires of their time. And so it's actually. the most American thing in the world. Uh for us to be fighting for the working class. And it's actually patently un-American.

to try to aspire to transform our country into a place of kings. Those at the University of Chicago, people say that it is a place for really intelligent people to go. I assume it is. I assume they're very left wing because either they're befuddled and too stunned to react, but if a Republican was up there saying things that were just obscuring history in a way that maybe Uh Adam Sandler was doing in Billy Madison. Or maybe Bill Murray in stripes.

You would think they'd either be laughing or objecting, but no. Ted Cruz put it perfectly. He said, Saying a ninth grader would get an F for writing that on a history test.

So that's really what Democrats are doing. And you know, Victor Davis Hanson writes about that in this column today. There was a time where Democrats talked about workers. They were pro-union, pro-workers, rising wages. They were for less defense, more social spending programs.

That's kind of usual. That's the way Bill Clinton got elected. I understand, and for raising minimum wage, I understood that.

Now they're just anti-American.

Now you have Hassan Piker driving around in a Porsche, rich guy with millions of followers who wanted the Soviet Union to win the Cold War. Hassan Piker is somebody that says Hamas is better than any Republican, that Rick Scott should die. He's the guy anointing. Up-and-coming Democrats who are all efforting, most of them efforting to get on his podcast, like RoConna, I want to hear all sides. I mean, so you think, oh, that's just niche, Brian.

You're blowing up one person. Not really. Look in Maine. Look at the senator that has emerged with the nomination. Excuse me.

The candidate that has emerged from the nomination who says he grew up poor, served in the military at PTSD, so we got a Nazi tattoo. Talks about calling himself a communist. He says, I'm a full-blown communist socialist. All right. Says women are responsible when they're raped, okay.

In writing, well, you had PTSD, really? That's an insult to everyone who has PTSD. And he's getting the nomination, and in some polls, he's beating Susan Collins.

So, everyone's afraid to say anything bad about him. He went through a rough time.

Now he's doing better. No, he's not. And he pretends this clown. Uh Palanter. Um Uh McKeek says That he uh He says that he is a working-class guy, oyster farmer.

This guy went to a private school that costs $75,000 a year. $75,000 a year. His dad was a very successful lawyer. His grandfather was a world-renowned architect. Just don't pretend to be someone you're not.

One thing about Trump: he says, I'm a billionaire. He goes to the Iowa State Fair and says, You want to try my helicopter? Here's Corey Booker, another phony, cut28. Yeah, release the autopsy, but we're six months before an election. If there's not enough reason to vote, President stripping away our health care for millions of Americans, seeing rural hospitals close, if there's not enough reason to vote, your prices skyrocketing, interest rates up, if there's not enough reason to vote, prioritizing ballrooms over people's child care and health care.

This is six months before an election. We need to be mobilizing and organizing in this election. Fine, DNC release it. They should do that. But the most important thing is for people to get out and vote in record numbers.

So they're talking about the autopsy. This is a big debate. They did everything that went wrong. They wrote a whole report. They won't release it.

And Goncamo Harris says, release it too. It's going to make her look terrible. They blew $4 billion and lost every branch of government. They lost the Supreme Court because you can't win anything. And they lost every branch of government.

They wanted to find out how. They wanted to publish it. They were afraid. Not sure what. A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

So this could go on. Yeah, but even if Iran is solved. I hope, well, no, if Iran, if this regime is indeed weakened or possibly toppled, I think it's the end of Hezbollah. It's the end of Hamas. probably the end of the Houthis because the whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses.

That's why we got to take them down. David Menser joins us now, spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Minister you just heard, who is on 60 Minutes. On Sunday. David, welcome. First off, I thought your Prime Minister was very blunt, very to the point, very relaxed.

Um I think he really wants to finish the job. And I think that the military is going to be the answer, especially when I look at the proposal, the counter-proposal, the Iran came back with. Do you have the same feeling? Thank you, Brian. This is Ophir.

Absolutely. I agree 100%. And you have to know always. I'm sorry, this is Ophir. They always lie and they always play for time.

I'm sorry, is it who is this? This is Ophir Falk, Foreign Policy Advisor.

Okay. I'm sorry, they said you were in a meeting and they went to with this spokesperson, my fault.

So, Ophir Falk.

So, my sense is the Prime Minister, I've never seen him so relaxed in knowing that so much is at stake. But one of the things that the Iranians put in that. Counterproposal? No more hitting Lebanon. And I'm pretty sure you guys are going to, you need that freedom to be able to hit back at Hezbollah, who are located in Lebanon.

Right.

Well, we're not getting into all the points, but I think the proposal that Iran put on the table to nonstarter. The President was very clear they have to give up the material. And we went out for this operation to remove the nuclear capabilities of Iran. That's the objective, and that's what we'll reach. And again, what Iran does all the time in the course of negotiations.

But that's what they've done for forty seven years, is that they've lied and they play for time. Thankfully, this President understands that very well, and he won't let him do that. I want you to hear the exchange with Major Garrett, used to work at Fox, has a great job, and your Prime Minister Kutnine. Do you believe it's time for the State of Israel to reexamine And possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States, meaning what the United States provides to Israel. On an annual basis?

Absolutely. And I've said this to President Trump, I've said it to our own people. Their jaws dropped, but I said, Look, But what do you mean? What do you say? I want to Draw down to zero.

The American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I think that it's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support. Can you give me a timetable? I said, let's start now.

And do it over the next decade, over the next 10 years, but I want to start now. I don't want to wait. For the next Congress, I want to start now. Doctor Falk, what brought that on? Sure.

Um Ryan, what we want to do is to move from aid to partnership. We certainly appreciate all the assistance, aid that the United States has provided Israel over the years. But we see ourselves and actually I think the U. S. sees Israel as America's model ally.

We're partners in peace, we're partners in war. We're fighting this war against Iran together. And we want to move from part from aid to partnership. We're going to do that over the next ten years, over the next decade. But as the Prime Minister said, we want to start that immediately.

And uh and have a full partnership with the United States. You know what? I think it's almost necessary because I hate to say I'm embarrassed. The Democrats are running about cutting off aid to you guys. They're running.

about Israel being the problem. And there's some on the extreme right who also keep saying Israel is a problem. We know that's not true. Every sober-minded people, a person who puts an ounce of effort into researching it and doesn't rely on the Internet or social media knows that's not true. But that is the state of things today, isn't it?

Oh. Um I have to agree with Steve, Brian, on that. I think anybody who looks into it sees that Israel is the first of all, of course, we're the only democracy in the Middle East, and we're the only ally that actually fights. We're actually fight with the United States. We have the same interests, we have the same values, we fight together, we win together, and we're going to make peace in the Middle East.

We're going to change we already have changed the Middle East together. And we're going to expand the Abram Horizon Not all comes after winning the war against Iran.

So I just don't see any way the way Iran's currently constituted. That there's any type of outcome that would be Acceptable. without going back and finishing off the targets that you guys had sketched out and maybe go through more elimination of some of these horrific leaders who spent a lot of their free time hanging Iranian citizens. And I think there's got to be a component where we somehow arm And support The Iranian people against this horrible death cult of a government.

So there's got to be a multifaceted situation. They have to. feel the pressure on every level. And do you think there's a plan in place to do that?

Well, Brian, I think you need to understand. Everybody needs to understand that Iran is weaker than it's ever been, and Israel and obviously the United States is stronger than it's ever been. We've taken out the first tier of this genocidal regime's leadership. We've taken out most of the second tier The U. S.

is currently negotiating with the D League leadership in Iran. And if need be, we'll go back to war and take out the needed targets that need to be taken out. But we have a clear objective. The President said that very clearly. Prime Minister Netanyahu said that very clearly, that we have to make sure that Iran does not have nuclear capabilities.

We're going to take out their ballistic missile capabilities. And we're creating the conditions for the Iranian people to do the right thing, to take their freedom in their own hands. They deserve freedom. They don't want to change one Ayatollah with another Ayatollah, have an Ayatollah senior be replaced with an Ayatollah Junior. That's not what the Iranian people want.

And I think the conditions are being created for them to take free live in their own hands.

So When you say that, I'm wondering what role Ukraine can play. Because their anti-drone technology is off the charts great. And they've offered to help the Arab, the Gulf states. Have you talked have you guys spoken to them? I think that American and Israeli technology is second to none.

We obviously talk to other countries, but we've proven that our technology and our military capabilities and the bravery of our soldiers and pilots is second to none. And I'm sure we will be able to face any threat that is posed to us. How do you explain that Iran was able to survive that campaign from both you guys, both the US and Israel? Hello everybody, I'm going to go to the next one been hit like never before. We've taken again, we've taken out most of their leadership.

We've taken out plenty of their nuclear bomb scientists. We've taken out thousands of their missiles. We've taken out their launchers. And I would say they're inching towards being a failed state. That's the situation right now.

They're inching towards being a failed state. The blockade that the President has put on or the U. S. has put on has been br has been brilliant, and they're on their knees. They're on their knees, but as they always do in negotiations, what they've always done for forty seven years, they lie and play for time.

Thankfully, the President of the United States knows that, and he knows how to make a deal. Does he think the President does not want to follow through? Does he think the President is reluctant to go through?

Now, it's true. The Strada Formuzz has put financial pressure on the world. And we'll raise our gas prices basically 100%. But they feel as though there is more pressure on Us, mean the US, not not Israel. Right.

So one, I would never underestimate the resolve of the President. I would never underestimate or bet against the Prime Minister of Israel. That's one. Two, the world sees how Iran, this lunatic genocidal regime, is trying to blackmail the world with the hormones race, with the oil. And you can only imagine actually you don't need to imagine.

You would know, you know what they would do and how they would blackmail the world if they had nuclear bombs. Everybody understands, even the Europeans understand that Iran cannot have nuclear bombs. We're doing the dirty work for Europe. We, the United States and Israel, are doing the dirty work Uh for the world. We're fighting on the right side of civilization against these barbarians.

And look in the wood. Yep. Unfortunately, I think we have to go back to finish them off, and we'll see. Dr. Ophir Falk, thanks so much.

Working so close to the Prime Minister, who has put together a heck of a career, but it's not over yet. When do you guys think you're looking at elections? Elections in Israel? Yep. End of October.

That may, it might change more or less, but that's the due date. And that's plenty of time to finish the job. I hear you. Thanks so much. Dr.

Falk, appreciate it.

Okay, we're going to take a short time out and come back. 1-866-408-7669. We'll line up with your calls. I'm going to go through some of your emails too at BriankilMe.com. Mm-hmm.

From the Oval Office to the front lines, he talks to the people making history. This is the Brian Killmeat Show. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmead. And this is really striking.

This is what the congressional delegations in the South look like after 2024. You see some big blue areas. Those are usually majority-minority districts, often majority-black districts that, because of the Voting Rights Act, even if you were in a Republican state, you had to leave space for that.

Now, we don't know what's going to happen in 2028, but this is the New York Times analysis of one scenario. You can see all of those big blue areas just squeezed down into tiny specks. And there's almost an erasing of political power for black voters potentially in the South. You're talking about more than a dozen seats that could be lost. And in the immediate term and maybe even a longer term, you're talking about a situation where Democrats might be essentially shut out of representation in Congress through much of the South.

So there you go. I mean, that is the ABC breakdown, Rick Klein breaking down what's going to be happening, if not in 26, by 28. The South is really going to belong to Republicans. And they've gerrymandering not on race, they're gerrymandering on Location. And they're saying these are the new, this is a new deal.

It started with the New York. When they try to get rid of Nicole Maliatakis' seat, that was into Staten Island. Staten Island's as Republican as it gets, but the rest, you know, New York City is not. And because New York City is not so dense, everybody always loses if you're a Republican. But you have representation of somebody that represents your party, Nicole Maliatakis.

And they were trying to get rid of her.

So Texas answered on the urgency of the president, answered by California. Those are fine. And those maps have been okay. They went through the the rigors.

Now It looks like enacted with pending legal action, Florida and Tennessee and Missouri. Florida could deliver four seats, Tennessee won, and Missouri won. A new map in Louisiana could get three or four. We know that's happening. They already delayed the primary.

Possible redistricting, South Carolina, that's what they were talking about. Rick Klein was talking about. Alabama will get another seat, and Mississippi possibly get another seat.

Now, the other thing is, too, they got to get oil and gas down. And of course, interest rates being down is a possibility with this new Fed share. And that would certainly help. But now it went from, okay, the House is gone, try to hold the Senate to the House is back in play. And even if it's not in 26, man, is it going to be in 28?

And they are so angry in Virginia. Guess what they're trying to do? They are trying to pass, they're looking at two things. firing every member of the Supreme Court in Virginia Or putting a fake 65-year-old timeline saying you got to retire, immediately opening up seats for people that are past that age. And for those people saying that what the Supreme Court did was illegitimate and racist, Byron Donalds was on with me on One Nation.

Because of the gerrymander in Louisiana, the Supreme Court says you can no longer gerrymander on race. Don't say Hispanics are here. Don't say blacks are here. Don't say Asians are here. And I'll bracket it that way.

That is racist.

So is it racist? Talk to Democrats, they say yes. 22. This isn't about winning the House. We're going to win back the House anyway.

This is about reversing some of the progress we made in the civil rights movement. I never thought I would see the day. that the United States Supreme Court would be so openly partisan with what it's been doing. I think that Justice Roberts is going to take his place. Alongside some other infamous justices like Taney, who gave us the Dresd Scott decision.

Well, remember, there's a corrupt shadow hanging over the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court desperately needs reform. It is a corrupt court. Yes, if you don't agree with it, look, President Trump's been critical of the court, too. He was very mad.

He put it out on Truth Social on Sunday about tariffs. Why didn't they, if you didn't like tariffs and you don't think I had the ability to wield my tariff authority, why did you say, put a blind in there that says the previous deals. should be laid intact and not be paid back. Because you now you've cost the country $159 billion. But Byron Donaldson African American.

Likely to be the next governor of Florida, now a congressman. Republican, cut twenty-four. Supreme Court did the absolute right thing. Racial gerrymandering should not be allowed in the United States of America. There was a time when the 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed where black Americans were systematically discriminated against by Democrats in the South of the United States of America.

That's a fact. That's what happened. And so you needed the 65 Voting Rights Act because of the systematic discrimination against black Americans. But if you look at the last 30 years in America, there is no systematic discrimination. The court looked at that, looked at all the evidence, looked at all the information, and they ruled correctly that you do not need racial gerrymandering today.

So they are stuck. The Virginia put the referendum out there. It won by just one and a half points, knowing that. They had a governor, Spamberger, win by about 15.

So this gerrymander was not popular.

So it remains 4-3 in the city, 4-5-4 in Virginia.

So keep in mind, too, a couple of those seats could flip. If the Democrats have momentum anyway.

So Hakeem Jeffrey says he'll pursue all options to overturn the state Supreme Court, including going up to the Supreme Court. Why would the Supreme Court get involved? This is a state issue. Why would the Supreme Court get involved? And you just said it's corrupt.

So why are you bringing it up to the Supreme Court? Jeff Landry defended the suspending the primaries after the Supreme Court decision, saying Louisiana needs a valid map before voters cast ballots. He said already returned ballots would be discarded and voters would have to vote again in November. Democrats in Virginia, there was supposed to be a plus four that gets blocked.

So here we go. Game on. We're going to see what happens. Last thing I saw in terms of projections was it looks like 14-4. It looks like Republicans could pick up 14 seats.

It looks like Democrats through Jerry Mendering could pick up four.

So this is going to be interesting. This is game on. As Jonathan Martin pointed out at Meet the Press, this was a really good week for the president, Cup 32. On the broader question of who is, I think, better for this fall in terms of the political environment, Democrats still have an advantage. I think you have an environment right now in which a sitting president is in the 30s in terms of his approval rating.

That bodes well for the party out of power. That said, I think this climb got a little steeper this past week for the Democratic Party because of the combination of what happened in Virginia and obviously the Supreme Court ruling on the VRA. It's going to be harder for them to get back the majority. I still think the odds are that it happens. But make no mistake, this was the best week Donald Trump has had in months.

Yeah, it was a really good week. There's no question. And I think he could use it as he hits some momentum going into China. We'll see how that goes. You end this war, right?

See how that goes. Then you will watch a steady decline of gas and oil prices, along with the convention in August. Anyone who tells you that the die has been cast It's just wishful thinking. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead.

Hi, everyone, from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Michael Makofsky is going to be joining me at the bottom of the hour, president and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, a leading Washington, D.C.-based bureau, based policy and educational organization. How does he feel about Bibi Netanyahu saying last night that it's necessary for us to wean ourselves off American aid? Why? They see what the Democrats are saying. They are actually running against defunding Israel.

The one democracy in the Middle East, the one country that actually fights with us, doesn't talk about fighting with us, that hasn't abandoned us in this time, it always has our back. If it's not pure intelligence, it's actually physically fighting with us. And the Democrats said want to walk away. Michael Goodwin standing by too. How about this maniac mayo we have?

This tacto-rich philosophy, which is permeating and going right through. Everybody on the Democratic Party, I find it scary. And hopefully, it's a dead-end philosophy that America will not fall victim to. Let's go to the big three. Number three.

This is about reversing some of the progress we made in the civil rights movement. I never thought I would see today that the United States Supreme Court would be so openly partisan with what it's been doing.

Well, remember, there's a corrupt shadow hanging over the Supreme Court. You believe this? Gerrymandering and more as all sides posture in politic for a midterm advantage and always finding somebody to complain about, if not Trump, the Supreme Court that Trump helped put in place. Number two. I think it's going to be a much broader conversation.

You have the number one, number two economies and militaries in the world. I think you will see conversations around abortive investment, abortive trade, Boeing deals. Yep, there's a lot going on. President Trump's big China Week. What are the goals and who has the upper hand?

We'll discuss it. Number one. I mean, at the end of the day, he wants to get the straight open back up. He wants to have some sort of agreement on the nuclear enrichment of the uranium. And he has one ability, his real one leverage point, is this blockade.

And the blockade has been working. Admiral McCaravin weighing in. Unacceptable and insulting. That's the reaction of President Trump over the last proposal from Iran to end the war. We have the details.

And are we slowly marching back to a full-scale war? I really think so. Because I don't think we have a choice. I don't think it's going to happen with the president in Japan, but I could see him doing Operation Freedom, putting that back in place, which says we're going to open up the strait ourselves. With me right now is Michael Goodwin, New York Post columnist.

Michael, I don't know. I saw your column this weekend. It was very similar to the theme I had on my One Nation show on Sunday night. Is essentially this tax the rich. Let's villainize, vilify the rich and the successful, and tax success.

theme that most Democratic candidates are using these days. Right, Brian. I think it's a I guess great minds think alike here, but uh your show and my column. But I do think it's it's beyond tax the rich. It's using the tax system to punish success.

It is it is uh designed to kind of hold them up to ridicule while you turn them upside down and try to empty their pockets. I mean, it is the most crazy idea because it's what The rich. for whatever fault you may want to assign them, they spend a lot of money. And when you have a a fair number of people spending a lot of money on houses, on education, on philanthropy, it lifts the entire city. I mean, and they pay the most taxes already under our progressive tax code.

So it is really about killing the golden geese. I mean, it makes no sense in terms of the city's own welfare. It is a purely political message aimed at the far, far left, but it has no basis in reality and it is completely ignorant of the city's complex financial situation. It's crazy. I just thought when a socialist gets to see the books and realizes the rallies are over, the TikTok videos don't matter.

I'm looking there, the doors are closed, I'm looking at my checkbook, I'd say, okay. I got to get more revenue. How do I do it?

Well, I could raise tax, or I could start meeting with these business people, find out what ideas they have, find out if they would build another building, rent another skyscraper, and maybe expand opportunities, invest in certain schools, whatever. Instead, He pumps out a TikTok video when he needs $5.4 billion and tries to vilify a guy that rents, excuse me, bought a $230 million. Uh condo. Listen to this. It was creepy and weird.

Agree. I mean, like, knock, knock, knock on the window. Like, huh. Yeah. Mayor of New York City.

On the screen, yeah. Yeah, on the screen. How many times have you watched that video? Three. Like, you literally look at the first time, and you're like, You gotta be kidding me.

Okay? And then the second time, you're like, you know what, this is actually. This has gone from creepy to actually not really creepy. This has gone to frightening because the CEO of United Healthcare was killed just a few blocks from my house. And anything that creates like an agitation in the extremist.

Okay. On either side of the aisle is a frightening dynamic. I mean, if we look at what happened in DC. He's right. And we're talking about Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, who says he's now, he doesn't know if he's going to abandon his Park Avenue.

Complex, which is worth six billion. But he's moving all his attention to Miami now. Right.

And you see Brian, the whole financial services industry is so fundamental to the New York economy. I mean, there's one study that estimates one in ten private jobs are related to the financial services industry, the kind of company Ken Griffin has. And so the spin-off of these people, what they spend in the city, and how they are taxed.

So this idea that you want to ridicule them, you want to scare them, you want to drive them away. I mean, this to me shows that Mom Dani is financially illiterate. He will destroy the city. You would think he would want good paying jobs so that he can provide more of the free giveaways that he promises. But the less money he has and the More people who need it, the less he will succeed in his socialist ideas.

So it just makes no sense no matter how you slice his actions.

So the other thing is, I would just spend all my time with Mike Bloomberg. I would say, Mike, how did you do it? He has classes for mayors. How'd he do it for three terms? Even though he didn't end up with strong approval ratings, he was a very good mayor.

Very good mayor. And he also is a Democrat.

So you don't have to give up your Democratic principles as a liberal Democrat guy. But he also knows that he outworked everyone to be successful. He knew no one. He didn't come from money. He's a self-made billionaire.

Yes, you can be a billionaire. Listen to this genius from Queens who wants to be president of the world. Listen to this. 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. Can you I I listened to this maybe 10 times. What the hell is she talking about?

She makes you dumber. She really does. Yeah, because she doesn't understand anything about economics, although supposedly she got an economics degree, an undergraduate at Boston University, which I would think that BU would disavow her as alumnus because she's an embarrassment every time she opens her mouth about the economy. No question. I mean, between that, her statement about the revolution, did you hear this?

Cut 27. You look at Thomas Jefferson writing to Madison. In revolt. of British aristocracy. The American Revolution Was against the billionaires of their time.

And so it's actually. the most American thing in the world. Uh for us to be fighting for the working class. And it's actually patently un-American. to try to aspire to transform our country into a place of kings.

So I mean, as Ted Cruz said, if she was in ninth grade and said that's her answer and why we had a revolution, she would get an F. Right.

Because Freedom doesn't really interest her, right? She wants more and more government control. If she were alive during the Revolution, she would have been on the British side. No question. And by the way, how rich were our founding fathers?

All of them. Jefferson was rich. Washington was rich. Madison was rich. Monroe was rich.

These were people all Adams was a self-made successful lawyer. See, these were well-to-do people. They put it all on the line for freedom and autonomy and liberty. It wasn't about fighting billionaires. It was fight it's not wanting to be a colony anymore and about taxation without representation.

They had no say, and these taxes were coming fast and furious, and that led to the rebellion. How does she not know that? And why is she so confident in her ignorance? I wonder how she explains the Boston Tea Party. What's that in revolt against tea because billionaires shrink tea was advertised about?

I don't know. You're playing it out more than I could.

So it's just crazy what's happening.

So let me ask some: do you think that we're going to look at Democrats running separately? For example, will the guys like Governor Shapiro and Bashir? Uh and Will will they run as moderates and will the AOCs and the Westmore And run as radicals, or do they, oh, and Pete Boonerjudge run as radicals? What what are we witnessing? Are we witnessing a fracture?

I Brent, yes, I believe it is a fracturing of the party. And I think right now, the far left is dominating. But The good news is that The far left cannot yet, on its own, win a national election. It can't even carry most states in the Senate.

So it's going to have to compromise with the more traditional Democrats.

Now that's a smaller wing, but the Democrats and far left, they cannot have a majority without uniting the party.

So that's what this election, the midterms will be the first sign of that. But then I think for the Democrats in the national election in 28, it's going to be about can they unite their party. I do not at this point see a single candidate who can come anywhere close to that.

So that's going to be interesting.

So before we go, I asked Ben Shapiro last night. I ask who's the heir apparent on the right? And everyone's talking about Rubio and the vice president. Before I get your take, here's his: Cut 31. But if you are looking at, for example, the Calciods right now, Marco Rubio is climbing.

There's a reason for that. He's incredibly competent. There's some governors out there who are incredibly competent.

So, no, I don't think that it's a clear field for the vice president. Again, I think he has the advantage going in, but things change, and we'll see who the president decides to get behind.

So, what do you think? No, look, I think J.D. Vance is being counted out too early. I think he's formidable candidate. I also think Ron DeSantis has to be considered along with Rubio.

So to me, those are three people to keep an eye on: DeSantis, Rubio, and J.D. Vance. Interesting because J.D., I don't think Rubio runs if J.D. runs. And J.D.'s 99% there, but he did say, you know, I got another kid on the way.

I'm young. I might not want to do this, it's become more and more dangerous to be a politician. And if the, you know, what happens at the end of the second term? Usually that. That president, no matter who it is, runs out of gas a little bit, and people want to change.

So if he feels that way, maybe he doesn't. But the one thing about Rubio, he would have to resign. Because he g because of the Because of the law that says you can't talk politics if you're in the State Department, you know, if you work for the government, where the vice president can go around and talk about all the policies he wants, and he can do it on Air Force, too.

So, Rubio resigning to run for president against the sitting vice president, I don't think that makes any sense.

Well He would have to do it sometime presumably next year in 2027 so that he would have enough time.

So let's say a year from now, if he's running for president, he would probably start making noises about giving up. I mean, that's a good rule. He can't do both. And so I think it's a good idea that if he's going to run, he will resign. But I would predict that's more like next year.

I hear you. Thanks so much. Michael Goodwin, we appreciate it. My pleasure, Brian. Thank you.

1-866-408-7669. Back with you in a moment. It's Brian Kilmade. Uh The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead.

I do so too. And Richard Haas knows I think he and I hope he's right. And it's been one of the most phenomenal comeback stories Ukraine withstanding. They adapted, they innovated, and now they're leading the world in drone technology and robot robotic attack. I guess attack robots.

I mean, it's unbelievable what's taking place there.

Meanwhile, back to what's happening locally here, Mandami, like the Seattle mayor, doing the best they can to put their socialist policies in place and ruining their respective cities. Ted, You're in Pennsylvania. Hey, Ted. Yes, sir. How are you today, Brian?

Can you believe what we're dealing with here in New York? I can, but for a few other reasons, I appreciate your show, your brilliance and your ability to listen and learn from callers and other like minded individuals. But I listen to a lot of radio shows, many out of New York City, And my point being that all the discussions regarding Mandami and how he's failing. Are in our eyes only. In his eyes, he is succeeding to destroy New York.

Yeah. That's his goal. That's his goal, man. And I don't think there's another way to put it more plainly or clearly that it's not his attempt to give something for free without knowing the consequences. But, Ted, how do you explain this?

You know that he wants another four years after this, and then you know he wants higher office. You don't do that at 34 years old and put this type of effort in if you just want to be four and done.

Okay. Uh I understand that, but I think his His goal in the long term, if he can destroy New York City in less than four years, you'll have enough people that have only lived there less than three years to vote for him again. I've got people in my store telling me directly that the people who voted for him have lived in New York City for less than three years.

So it's it's short-sightedness. I agree with what you're saying. But I think he would be darn proud to do it in three years, whether it took that or seven. I think Adams wants his job back. He'll give it another run.

I think Cuomo is shot. He's a flawed candidate. We'd like to see someone come in there like a Bloomberg who just wants to get things done. When you're a mayor, Ted, it really doesn't matter what party you're in. It's because it's so much of an X's and O's job.

It's about performing and getting business moving and making everything efficient, picking up the garbage. The 34-year-old Academic doesn't want to do that. And it's clearly showing. He'll be vulnerable, but sadly, it won't be from a Republican. It'll be from another Democrat.

He was in the brain killed me trail. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. We're at this impasse, and if I were advising the president, I would tell him to look towards your strategic goals. I mean, at the end of the day, he wants to get the straight open back up.

He wants to have some sort of agreement on the nuclear enrichment of the uranium. So if you want to do that, you're going to have to get the Iranians to the negotiating table. And he has one ability, as really one leverage point, is this blockade. And the blockade has been working. And that is Admiral McCraven saying, you know, lift the blockade if they lift their blockade and they go into talks.

But I think we're past that point in one respect. They gave a counterproposal, and it's a joke. The counterproposal says pay us for reparations for the war, really? Unlock the sanctions.

Okay, not a chance. And how about Are we gradually open up the straighter for moves, but we retain control over it? Really?

Okay. And they also want us off our bases in the Gulf region. Never going to happen.

So it's not serious. The only thing that was somewhat intriguing is that they said that they would move some uranium out of the country and downblend the rest. But they'll mostly talk about the nuclear program thirty days after a deal is signed. Michael Makovsky joins us now. He's the President and CEO.

of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, a leading Washington DC based policy and educational organization focused on U.S. defense and national security issues in the Middle East. Michael, you are American based. But your thoughts about the counterproposal, the President basically said, this is a non-starter.

Now it doesn't even didn't even somewhat find it intriguing.

Well, thanks for having me again, Brian. Good to see you. Look, I agree with you, it's a joke. And as President Trump said, it's completely unacceptable. And with all due respect to Admiral McCraven, I don't think the blockade is working.

I think this is the kind of response we got from the Iranians early on in the war, right before the war.

So I think we need to put a lot more pressure on the Iranians.

So you don't like the blockade? Do you think they're getting around it? No, I like the blockade. The mistake is, and my organization, we called for it in January, it's a blockade-only approach. I think it's clearly squeezing the Iranians, but it's not working in the sense of leading to the Iranians to make major concessions.

So I think we need to add more pressure on them, and that means resuming military action. There's mass layoffs right now, according to the New York Times, inside Iran. Businesses are buckling. They were buckling before the war. They were getting destroyed now.

Layoffs are spread across every Iranian company just about. Wartime damages, industrial sites, raw material production, all going by the boards. No one can afford to buy anything. It's heavily inflation is just through 150%. The real is almost worthless, was worthless even before this war started.

So and now we understand. If the oil is n they have nowhere to store their oil. I don't really have a good person inside Iran. But the New York Times seems to think they do, so things are really tough there. They are.

The problem is. Is what does the regime care about? They don't really care about the people, they care about regime survival.

Now, economic. Problems like we saw already before the Iranian uprising in late December could lead the Iranian people to rise up. And that's what the regime does care about. But I think after they massacred tens of thousands of their own people in January, they're feeling better that they could weather this out, they could weather this, and that they could weather whatever the United States throws at them.

So I think it's our job. To set the conditions even more so for the Iranian regime, for the Iranian people to rise up.

So we have to get them some guns. And the uh Balooks. And the Kurds, whatever. We gotta get some unrest. Royaling an IRGC, many of which aren't getting paid.

The regular army's not getting paid. I don't know if the besiege is getting paid. I'm just going by what people are writing in the Middle East.

So they got to get some pressure internally, at which time they have to mobilize, which would make them ripe targets, wouldn't they? Yes, so I agree with you. We should be arming the Kurds and any other ethnic group there in Iran that wants to, or any other group of any kind that wants to go against the regime. We are on that way to doing that. President Trump was intending to do it.

The Israelis were helping out on this. But then I think President Erdogan of Turkey kind of intervened and dissuaded President Trump. I think President Trump has to go tell Erdogan, basically, we're going ahead. I think that's the number one point. Michael, is that the case, or did we give Kurds weapons and they kept them?

Okay. Yes, there have been reports about that. And that's possible that that actually did happen. I don't really have a lot of. Understanding of what exactly happened, but there's certainly been reports.

But it is my understanding that we didn't do as much as at least we could have because of Turkish opposition. But I think that's one issue. I think the other issue is do no harm, which that means do no deal with the Iranian regime, because I think we do any deal with the Iranians means going to involve some economic lifeline to the regime, some legitimation of this murderous regime. And that's going to demoralize the Iranian people. And I think one of the levers we haven't really employed here is the Iranian people.

So I want you to talk about, for me, this is so irresponsible. Senator Mark Kelly, cut three. We've been briefed by the Pentagon on specific munitions, actually. It's been pretty detailed on tomahawks, attack'ems, SM-3s, THAT rounds, Patriot rounds, those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves. And the numbers are, I think it's fair to say it's shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines because this president got our country into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline.

Because of that, we've expended a lot of munitions. And that means the American people are less safe. Whether it's a conflict in the Western Pacific with China or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted. You may have seen me ask the Secretary of Defense this question about how long it's going to take to replenish. We're talking about years.

So why would he reveal that? I don't know. I don't know how true that is. Obviously, I don't know how true it is either, but he says he got briefed on it.

So that gives it credibility. It weakens our position. Number one, if he got briefed, is that something he should be keeping secret? I think so. But look, the Democrats want to criticize anything Trump does, and they want to undermine this war, which is ridiculous, obviously, because, by the way, they never say what they would do to prevent a nuclear Iran.

President Trump, in initiating this war and what he did in Midnight Hammer last June, has done more to hurt, set back the Iranian nuclear program than five JCPOAs by the Obama administration, which legalized their program. Not according to Jack Reed and not according to Mark Kelly. Those were great deals, he said. What was wrong with those deals, Michael Makofsky, as you see them?

Well, they legalized Iran's nuclear program. They did nothing to get rid of their nuclear facilities. All they did was try to sort of cap their nuclear enrichment and buy time, and did nothing about the missiles, did nothing about the ballistic missiles, which we have seen to be one of the most potent threats the Iranians have. And they're developing ballistic missiles that could eventually reach the eastern seaboard of the United States.

So at most, it bought time, but it paved the way to a nuclear Iran.

So I thought those deals were the JCPOA was disastrous. Of course it was disastrous. And you know who knew it? Chuck Schumer, Ben Cardin, Senator Menendez, a lot of Democrats knew it was disastrous, but they're falling back on it now. It would have expired by now.

And they were able to enrich. And the bottom line is, we got January 7th. That's what we got from the JCPOA. Right.

And now I think President Trump deserved a lot of credit for trying to clean up the mess that those deals really kind of enabled. First with Midnight Hammer and now with this war. I think, though, he got a little sidetracked with the ceasefire, with reduced our leverage, and we got to go back and enhance our leverage. Not because I think we should do a deal with the Iranian regime, but because I think we have to weaken the regime more. And then we got to do what we can on the nuclear program.

Then we have to turn it over, I think, to the people of Iran. We don't know if they're going to rise up, but if they do, we got to say we're going to protect them. And that if you have regime collapse in Tehran, Then it will take care of all the problems with the nuclear industry of Hermuzza. I want you to hear what Benjamin Netanyahu said about the future of the relationship with the U.S., Cut Nine. Do you believe it's time for the State of Israel to re-examine And possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States, meaning what the United States provides to Israel.

On an annual basis? Absolutely. And I've said this to President Trump. I've said it to our own people. Their jaws dropped, but I said, Look, Well, what do you mean?

What do you say? I want to Draw down to zero. The American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I I think that it's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.

Can you give me a timetable? I said, let's start now. And do it over the next decade, over the next 10 years, but I want to start now. I don't want to wait. For the next Congress, I want to start now.

Michael, I think he's saying that because he sees what Democrats are running on. Defunding Israel. And they seize what the extreme right, the podcast world is running on. Blame Israel, right? Yeah, and I think he thought he'd want to get ahead of that and then offer this before.

This didn't come from the Trump administration. This came from Netanyahu. Whether he did the right thing or not, I'm not sure whether he regretted it, I should say. I don't know. But he thought he'd get ahead of it.

And he basically, what I think they're looking for is, you know, 10 more years, as he said, the current MOU, the current MOU for military aid to Israel expires in 2028.

So they want to maybe have a new MOU that at least goes for another 10 years. It zeroes out at the end. I'm actually ambivalent about it. I actually see Israel as a tremendous investment for the United States. I do think we need to, because they've been a partner with us, like we have an ally with them, like we have nowhere else.

I think at a minimum, we're going to have to, well, we don't have, I think what we should do is try to replenish their stocks. uh uh because we see what Israel could do really saves our troops from having to do. But uh I think that's what the that's Israeli policy right now. Basically in twelve years, uh zero down. See the thing is.

You have a partner in Israel that fights. I'm looking at NATO allies that want to not even talk to us right now. They are devising a strategy to reopen the strait without even. Uh Folding us into the talks. let alone having us participate.

Yeah, we don't have an ally with the, like, like Israel. Imagine if we had an ally like them in Asia. That could help weaken the Chinese for us. We don't have one ally. By the way, this is a statistic that just throws me.

Israel deployed in the first day of this war, I think, 200 combat aircraft. That's more than the Royal Air Force, the British Air Force has in all its arsenal.

So Israel deployed in the first day against the Iranians more warplanes than the British have. This is the state of our West European allies.

So I think whatever we could do to invest in Israel to strengthen them is a big plus for us and reduces the pressure for us going forward to act as much in the Middle East because Israel could do a lot on our behalf as it's doing things on its own behalf. All right. So Michael Bukovsky with us from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. But keep in mind, if you're watching the stream, you know that already because the Chiron's been up full time. But Michael, why don't you tell people?

I already know some of the most successful businesses in New York City are Jewish-owned businesses. And Mondami's going to lose them soon at this keep.

Now in terms of the partnership. Tell the American, and you're American, but tell the audience. What we get, what America gets from this relationship.

Well, we get a lot of things. There's AI, there's technology, there's medical technology. A lot of components in your iPhone come from Israel. I mean, there's a whole list of economic benefits, there's no question. My job is to focus more on the strategic and the security benefits.

And that I think is under, I think this war, it's an irony here that Israel become more politically controversial here in the United States when I think in this war and in the war, the 12-day war last year, it has shown itself to be such an invaluable ally, more so than it's ever demonstrated itself before.

So look, the Iranians are a major threat to the United States. They're a major threat to our other allies, non-Israeli allies in the region as well. They're building ballistic missiles to hit the eastern seaboard. They are one of our, they have killed hundreds of The US soldiers over the years, as President Trump is talking about, their biggest sponsor of terror in the world. You keep going on and on.

Uh and it's the Israelis that are Are equal partners. I think it's really something I'd have, I'd welcome any of your viewers to remind me of something else, but I'm trying to remember another time in American history where we've had an ally effectively be an equal partner of ours in a major military campaign since World War II. I'm really not sure what it is. And I think, you know, Israel right now, at least on the military side, is the one with the special relationship with the United States right now. You know, the thing is, too, we let you guys handle Iran proper.

We go to open up the strait. We also say if you hit the Arab, the Gulf states, we'll start to take Karg Island apart with every target that you do on UAE or Bahrain or Oman or Saudi Arabia. And that's what we got to do. We're going to have to finish this off. I was hoping this could end a negotiation, but I just don't see any other way but going back and finishing it off.

And it's probably going to happen, Michael, after the China trip. Yeah, that's probably right. Look, people prefer a diplomatic solution. Again, I'm wary of one, even if we could get one. But the Iranians have pretty much, if I may, pretty much given us the middle finger with their response here.

It's not that different than we've heard from them in the past. This regime, I think the only way we're going to succeed here is if we resume military action. It doesn't mean that it's going to lead them to capitulate, but I think we set the conditions on the energy facilities, whether it's Kark Island. If we can do anything on the nuclear facilities, we set the conditions for the regime to be even weaker. And then we turn it over to the Iranian people.

And let them take it. Michael Makovsky, thanks so much. Let's hope. Let's hope the good guys win. Thank you, Michael.

Back in a moment. You got it. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Mm-hmm.

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Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor. Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it's time for the homeless to get help or get out. Pratt thinks LA needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers, and Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more. LA is on the right track and needs to stay the course. Vote no on Republican Spencer Pratt.

That is the best ad for Spencer Pratt. Ever. I've never heard an attack ad actually hit every note. This is exactly why he's running. And if he doesn't get elected, have that at Los Angeles, because it is not working.

You're not on the right track. You need more cops. The unions do have way too much power, and the homeless, nobody has put more billions of dollars into the homeless. It's all failed because it's a drug problem. You don't need more social workers to go knock on doors and say, Why are you throwing a, why is this domestic abuse thing happening?

Let me talk it out with you.

So to me, I've never seen a better ad meant to attack That actually is making the case for Spenter Pratt. Am I crazy, Allison? Not at all. Completely accurate. I mean, I couldn't believe the ad, it's so perfect.

I know, and he has a bunch of other great ads to him. Just Google Spencer Pratt ads. I know, that's not for him, that's against him.

Well, that one's for him, but yeah, it's against him. But overall, the whole topic's great. You're right. Those are all the things that'll happen if you don't elect him. From high atop.

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We are continuing to count down the days to the World Cup. In a matter of moments, the man that brought the 94 World Cup here, Alan Rothenberg, he was also, they launched the MLS. The trophy was named after him. He has more to do with the success of U.S.

soccer than anyone I've met or you will meet in your lifetime. And I got to get his projections on some of the turbulence the 2026 campaign is getting. Doug Schoen at the bottom of the hour, former Clinton advisor, Democratic strategist, former Polster, as well as a Bloomberg confidant.

So, before we get to Alan Rothenberg, let's get to the big three. Number three. This is about reversing some of the progress we made in the civil rights movement. I never thought I would see today that the United States Supreme Court would be so openly partisan with what it's been doing.

Well, remember, there's a corrupt shadow hanging over the Supreme Court. Yeah, that is the Democrats upset about what happened in Virginia, where the Virginia Supreme Court overturned their referendum that would have given them four or five more seats. Gerrymandering mania continues. We'll talk about what all sides are trying to do and how the Republicans are beginning to gain from it. Number two.

I think it's going to be a much broader conversation. You have the number one, number two economies and militaries in the world. I think you will see conversations around abortive investment, abortive trade, Boeing deals. Yep, that is Mike Waltz weighing in President Trump's Big China Week. What are the goals and who has the upper hand?

Number one. I mean, at the end of the day, he wants to get the straight open back up. He wants to have some sort of agreement on the nuclear enrichment of the uranium. And he has one ability, one leverage point: this blockade. And the blockade has been working.

That has been working, Admiral McCraven. Unacceptable and insulting. That's the reaction of President Trump over the last proposal that Iran gave him. The bigger question is, too, or another question is. What's next?

And will Iran even come to the World Cup? As you know, one of the biggest events, the biggest events in the world, it makes the Super Bowl look like a small event, is the World Cup. And it lasts for weeks, and they'll be culminating in July. And of course, right in the middle of it, we're celebrating a 250th birthday. But what's caught me by surprise is ticket sales are not as great.

So far, there hasn't been this huge influx of reservations, especially in places like Kansas and others. And people are wondering, have they priced it too high?

Well, let's bring in the man that would know, Alan Rotherberg, former president of U.S.

soccer and author of The Big Bounce, a fantastic book, The Surge That Shaped the Future of U.S.

Soccer. Alan, welcome to the Brian Kilmey Show. Great to see you again. Great to see you, and I'm happy to be on the show. Yes, of course, your book is everywhere.

Just saw in the bookstore the other day, and it's fantastic for anybody who wants to know how we got here. Alan, is there some panic with you with FIFA that we're not seeing better ticket sales right now? I don't know that it's panic, but I think there's concern. And in some ways, the concern is more on the local host cities because they were expecting A flush. Of hotel reservations because of a huge incoming.

Uh From huge incoming from around the world, and that seems to be going much slower than anticipated.

So there is concern everywhere. It's compounded. By several things. One is the ticket prices, which you mentioned, which has Discouraged some of your regular fans, not the high rollers, because the high rollers don't care about that, but the regular fans.

So it's made them hesitant. Obviously, what's going on with our immigration situation has also frightened some of these people into thinking that it may be difficult to get in or they may face some hostility. Excuse me. And Excuse me, lastly, obviously. Uh since the beginning of the Iran war Hug.

Greater concern about security and safety everywhere and higher prices. The airlines are now charging so much more because of the extra fuel costs.

So those are all coming together, I think, to slow down what had been expected. I guess I'm always the cockeyed optimist, but I think as it gets closer and closer, those fans are so rapid. They love following their country so much that they're going to start showing up one way or another. But it certainly is a lot slower and a lot less than everybody expected.

So who sets the prices? Alan, who sets the prices? Is it FIFA? Is it the host country? No, no, no, no.

This is all FIFA. You know, in 1994, when we ran it, we ran it. FIFA basically kept. the international marketing and TV rights and just turn the rest of the tournament over to us. to run.

Now, did we have to go by, you know, pass through to them and look at what our ticket prices and other plans were? And they I guess ultimately they had veto power, but by and large, they just let us do what we wanted to do. And so this time FIFA has taken over the entire uh running of the World Cup, the host cities basically have to Provide the logistics locally, but all the decisions on pricing, particularly, are made by FIFA. And that's another thing I think that's happened is that We in the United States are pretty accustomed to dynamic pricing. And so we understand that there's a hot event, the ticket prices go soaring.

Um it's a little bit Less acceptable and less known in various parts of the world. And so when they see these. Prices, they get a little bit scared off. I think one of the other things is that. Mm.

FIFA had the prices high because they wanted to scare off the secondary market. But in fact, if they had been able technologically to Limit the access to the secondary market, then they could have. Price the tickets at a lower level, and to the extent it would go up, it would be because of. demand by the public as opposed to because of an edict by FIFA.

So their PR is horrible. And then you get incidents like the New York, New Jersey uh uh fair trade fair to to to get uh from Manhattan over to the matches at $150. That kind of completes. On a train. On a train that goes 10 miles to $150 for a round-trip ticket.

It's horrible. Yeah, and so again, if you're sitting there somewhere else in the world and you're trying to budget your trip and you're already a little wary about what the costs are, and then you reach something like that, and it just scares you even more. And then obviously, we all know the broad impact of what's going on in the Middle East right now, and it makes people leery about traveling anywhere, actually. I mean, Saturday night here in actually Northern California, they had a great 1994 reunion. And Bora Militinovich, the coach of the 9014, was supposed to be there.

And even though he's close to the government of Qatar, 'cause that's where he's based, he couldn't get a flight. Uh, and I had another colleague who does a lot of business with the Qataris. He said he gets it. Getting on a plane, and there's almost nobody there. Everybody's just.

Leary about traveling. And so all those things are coming to bear. right now that have put a little damper on the pre-tournament plans.

So, Alan Rothenberg, our guest, former president of U.S.

soccer, one who really brought 94 World Cup here also. Also, he has been involved in soccer for decades and was never his intent. In his book, The Big Bounce, you know, he's working with the Lakers. And the owner says, hey, I got this soccer team, the Wolves, and he takes the soccer team that was a precursor to the NASL, has some success. He's like, okay, we're making them the Aztecs.

Alan, you keep running the team. And you did in Los Angeles, great success. You had Johan Cruyff and George Best, and you had a fantastic group when the NASL in the 70s thought that was going to be the sport of the future at that time.

So, Alan, you were there every step of the way, but it was never your intention, right? No, I you know, I grew up in the Midwest. In the 50s and early 60s. And I was aware that there was something called soccer over there, somewhere across the pond, if you will. But I grew up on baseball, football, basketball, and having grown up in Detroit, particularly hockey.

And so soccer was brand new to me. I'd never seen a soccer match. When you talk about being asked by Jack Edcook, then the owner of the Lakers to oversee his LA Wolves. I'd seen all of three soccer matches at that time in my life. And I'm managing a professional soccer team.

Right.

So I just want to bring you back.

So one of the big problems at Landon Donovan, who's, I think, one of the greatest players we'll ever have, especially at the time in which he played and had one of the greatest goals ever. But here's what he said is another problem he's finding with soccer today and why so many people come up to me and maybe you and said, why is the U.S. not in contention to win it all? Listen to what he said. Youth soccer in this country is a disaster.

And so you have all these youth clubs. I don't know if kids ever played, but or youth sports. Yes. Charge you Crazy fees. All about winning.

The kids get left behind because the clubs want to make money, the coaches want to make money, they want to win, they want to win, and the kids don't develop. And now we're seeing sort of the fruits of that.

Soccer, it's different because that age group is actually where we do lose a lot of players. They go into from 17, 18, 19, 20. Our college system isn't competitive enough to feed into professional soccer.

So basically, if you're 16, 17, you haven't made it, you're not on an MLS roster, a first-team roster, you kind of fall into this abyss. Is what he said correct? I mean, I think it is 100% correct. Is that what you found too, Alan Rothenberg? Absolutely.

All the youth soccer that we see so prevalent everywhere is a pay-to-play system, which by definition excludes people who are from underserved areas of our community. In all professional sports, including soccer, Uh Generally speaking, the top players come from poor neighborhoods. They're not suburban kids because they don't go to music lessons after school and they don't have tutors to get them through to the next level. They're kids that learn how to do it in the streets. And we have totally overlooked that mass of people.

And also, let's face it, a substantial number of those people today are of Hispanic descent.

Well, soccer is their passion. That's their sport. And we're not grabbing them. And so, I think a big turning point, one thing I would add on to what Landon just said. One of the problems we also have is our best players are scattered all over the world.

So we don't have A system, if you will. You know, when the Spaniards are playing, they have a system. When the French are playing, they have a style. Our players are scattered all over the world. They get together for a week of trading before a match, or if it's a World Cup for several weeks before, but they're not cohesive.

I think one of the big changes last week U.S.

Soccer opened a $250 million training center outside of Atlanta. Uh it is the equal if not. superior to every other country's national training center. And I'm hoping that That means that we can emulate what the French have done because everybody from youth on up. Comes through that system.

And so even between seasons, they come back down there.

So they actually grow. Teams, they draw players that know each other.

So even if they're scattered in other parts of the world, They come home, if you will. And so I'm really, really hopeful. I mean, it's going to be great for the sport in general, but I think it ultimately is going to be a big difference in terms of our. Of our national team's ability to compete at the highest level. Right, so what you had when you were there.

You really didn't have a pro option outside the USISL. There was no MLS. And so the Palalas and Balboa and Kobe Jones and Amiola and Brad Friedel.

So they used to play all the time together. Every one or two would be overseas.

So they played all the time.

So they were really good and they knew each other. And you knew if they added a player, not only that, they're easy to sell. I mean, Letterman was booking them and they were booking on the Tonight Show. But now we have players that have accomplished more, but they've done it in other countries and they don't really know and they can't get back and forth easier.

So in a way, We are a little bit of a victim of our success, right? Correct. We have talent. The problem is Soccer is a team sport. We don't have a team.

We have individual talented players.

So that is a difficulty. Necessity is the mother of invention. And what happened before 94 was Our players could not get.

soccer jobs around the world. We were totally disrespected.

So we of necessity created a residential camp.

So the players that you mentioned, plus others, were together for 16 months. Played more friendlies. I lost count about friendlies. But by the time they hit the World Cup in 94, they were truly a team. And therefore, we were able to upset a pre tournament favorite Colombia, go head to head with the ultimate champion Brazil.

And we were very competitive and certainly very credible. But as I say, that really only happened because our players didn't have a home otherwise, so we had to create it. Alan Rothenberg, Pick Up the Big Bounce. It's a great book. It chronicles his incredible career, and he's not done yet.

Alan, I hope they call you up to help propel this World Cup to heights that you had it in 94, because it seems like it's borderlining on somewhat of a crisis because of a lot of events. That some of them they are related to, some of them unrelated to what they can control. Alan, thanks so much for your time and your insight. Always appreciate it. And I always appreciate being out with you, Brian.

And if you keep talking about the World Cup, you're going to fill the seats yourself. You got it. I will do it. And I'll be out there covering as many games as possible, including the first USA game out in Los Angeles.

So I'm going to look you up. Thanks so much, Alan. Back in a moment. The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them only on the Brian Kill Meet Show. Breaking news, unique opinions.

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You have heard former Vice President Harris has said she's thinking about running again in 2028. Do you think that Vice President Harris is the strongest person to represent Democrats in 2028? It was a disservice to Kamala Harris that we did not have. A primary in the last election. I hope we have the most robust 28 primary there is with a lot of great leaders involved in that primary so that the Democratic Party can choose who's going to be their standard bearer.

Wow, he had no courage to say that back then.

Now it is, in retrospect, it was a disservice for her not to lose to six other people like she did originally in 2016. I mean, come on. In 2020, rather. Senator Corey Booker's got to be sincere about something in his life. Just say she didn't run a good campaign.

She blew $4 billion and ended up leaving the DNC in debt in 100 days. She didn't give interviews for weeks on end. And when she did, Her first, it was with Tim Maltz, at which time she complained that he talked too much and his chair was taller. Joining us now is Doug Schoen. He's seen great Democratic candidates.

He's worked with a lot of them. Bill Clinton's one of them. He has some that were very experienced, like Hillary Clinton. And then you have Mike Bloomberg, who. pretty much apolitical, I guess more to the left, but unbelievable efficient and effective.

Doug Shoan, your thoughts about Kamala Harris saying she's the frontrunner and she's looking to run again. Is that the best move for the Democratic Party?

Well, I'll answer the question, Brian. No, it isn't. It's the wrong move. She would be a bad nominee. I suspect she'd lose.

Again. Um And Indeed, the polling shows Some polls where she's the head, others where she's Tied for the leader thereabouts, but she doesn't have an overwhelming lead based on name recognition, based on the $4 billion you correctly said was spent on her behalf. She's, you know, maybe in the mid twenties and other candidates. Our prospective candidates are between the mid teens and the low twenties.

So she's not in a strong position. And I guess she can run, but I would bet that she doesn't get the nomination. And I would also bet That she is ultimately not going to be elected president.

So, Doug, you know, in the past, with Nixon, for example, You know, he would lose and go, okay, the people didn't want that message, you know, whatever it was, you know, whether it's Donald Trump. If Donald Trump lost, I could tell you exactly why. They didn't want to build the wall. They didn't want to find all of the immigrants. They didn't want everything that Donald Trump stood for.

I don't know what she stands for. I really don't. You know, she said, well, I was vice president, it's up to his policy. What are your policies? It's like she wants the job, but I don't know what she would do in the job.

Brian, I don't think there's A person alive. Who knows the answer to those questions? I certainly don't know what she stands for. I don't know what her platform will be, nor will she acknowledge. Um Oh, whether she made mistakes.

in the campaign. and did things she might uh regret. I don't think we have any answers to that. And if we don't know and the American people don't know, how then can she be a compelling candidate?

So let's hear another compelling candidate. How about this? Cut 26. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that.

Uh My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, but. Single payer healthcare is forever. It's been Huh. A living wage is forever, workers' rights are forever, women's rights, all of that.

So does that sound like a winning message? It's at least a message. It's not one that I share, but for the Democratic left. Brian, that is a compelling message. And what we've seen is that the Democratic left has a disproportionate impact in primaries.

So not for me, not for the electorate, but for a primary electorate. Certainly, it is a message and it cuts through.

So yes.

So do you are you worry? worried about what's happening in Michigan and Maine. Graham Plattner, who looked about to get the nomination in Maine, and you have this other Saeed guy who really doesn't like the country, campaigning with Hassan Piker, who was hoping the Soviets would win the Cold War. Yeah, of course I'm worried. I mean, I'm a mainstream Democrat, or what used to be called a mainstream Democrat, and I look at these people and I say to myself, They do not represent the worldview that I have traditionally held, or that which most Democrats that I know.

hold. I'm not a believer in redistribution. I do support Israel. I do support our goals of eliminating terrorism around the world and especially and specifically with Iran. But Graham Plattner and Abdul Saeed do not appear in my mind to stand for what I stand for and what I think most mainstream Democrats have traditionally represented.

So I wonder too, Netanyahu came out yesterday and said, I told everybody, we have to get used to Living without American aid. That we want to get we get $3.8 billion, I think, from America. We'd like to forget about that. They have to, because you see, everybody is running on stopping and voting to Curb aid to Israel. on the left and some on the right.

Ryan? I see the same thing. I happened last week to have gotten a text message. From Graham Platiner seeking funds, you know, one of those mass solicitations. He was very explicit.

In opposing the war in Iran. In making it clear he supported Palestinian rights And that he said explicitly what Israel did in Gaza was genocide. I mean, these views are at variance with everything I believe and everything I think is right. And that's getting traction. And APAC is used as the boogeyman.

Absolutely. And he also said he's not taking money from APAC or anyone who's given to AIPAC. I mean, this is. the demonization of the state of Israel. and using APAC as a way to do it.

I think it's horrific and horrendous.

So tell me who you think will be on that Democratic stage right now, right after the midterm, since coming up six months, we're going to be talking about 28 full-time. Who who does Doug Shoan think will be on that stage on the first debate?

Well, I think we'll have AOC on that stage. Uh I understood. Uh what she was saying correctly. I think we might have Kamala Harris. On the stage?

I am virtually certain. We'll have Gavin Newsom. We may have Cory Booker. We may have Pete Buttigieg. Um we may have uh Uh Andy Bashir.

Uh Josh Shapiro. Those are some of the people who I think might, and I say might. uh the candidates. We're gonna have a big field. And it's going to be a Impossible race to predict at the outset.

Right.

2016 with Hillary.

So I thought it was great when Hillary and Barack Obama were at it. It was a substantive debate back and forth. It got really personal, but that's the way it should be. Do you think we're going to see that again? Are we going to see Pete Booty Judge go after Gavin New York?

And RoConna was going to run, obviously. And Shapiro, as you mentioned. But do you think Shapiro will turn around until Gavin Newsom more people have left your state than have come to your state first time in history? They're going to point out to have they're buried in debt despite all the revenue that comes in. Your decision to stop oil and gas in refineries have cost the average Californian an extra $2 per gallon of gas on average.

Do you think they'll do this to each other like they have in the past? I think they're more likely initially to compete with one another to move to the left. to try to demonstrate to progressives that everybody endorses a far left view. I hope Josh Shapiro, and I believe if he's on that stage, he would say to Gavin Newsome, how could you call Israel an apartheid state? That to me was an abomination.

You kind of try to walk that back, but doesn't he always try to walk it back? Even when he says the right thing, he tries to say the right thing. You know, we both know what an apartheid state is. We both know that Palestinians do a lot better when Israel is involved in their lives than when it isn't. Sure, there are abuses.

I'm not going to sit here and be Pollyanna. But there are the Arab population, the Palestinian population in Israel does a lot better financially and socially than the Palestinian population on the West Bank. But to say that Israel is some sort of an apartheid nation is But just a a complete distortion of the truth.

So I I'm fascinated with what's going on in Los Angeles. First on the mayor's race. Because I just think it's important, Republicans, to run as a Republican and just say what you stand for and have it shoulder to shoulder to someone who vehemently feels differently. Here's an example. As you know, Spencer Pratt is now running and he's just so effective.

Karen Bass has backed out of the last debate, says she has to be in Sacramento fighting for the people of Los Angeles. She's scared to death. But listen to this attack ed. Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor. Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it's time for the homeless to get help or get out.

Pratt thinks L.A. needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers, and Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more. L.A. is on the right track and needs to stay the course. Vote no on Republican Spencer Pratt.

Doug, I would love that to be a tack ad on me. I embrace, yes, I want cops over social workers. Yes, your homeless program is a joke. And Los Angeles is not on the right track. Of course.

I mean, I was listening to that and I was waiting to hear something that I would find disqualifying. But it sounds like Spencer Pratt has a pretty good common sense Agenda. The only problem he has, which we'll see probably in the runoff. would be my guess, is whether a Republican can win in very heavily Democratic Los Angeles. But the level of antipathy to Karen Bass As you know, Brian, is very, very high.

She's terrible. She's a terrible mayor. She doesn't she doesn't hustle. These people just want the job. They don't want to do the job.

And you see the numbers on the rebuild on the fire. I mean, there's only like 30 homes have been rebuilt out of 5,000. And this is exactly what Trump was saying. No one could get permits to build because they're environmental or red tape that is just it exemplifies what's wrong with these states.

Something's got to change in these cities.

Well, the It is sad to me to have to report that, but I know you know it. and your listeners know it. that in state in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York. With left-wing maters, there is no progress. There is a much greater focus on redistribution.

of wealth And taxation than there is on economic growth and policies to create. an enhanced initiative. I don't think there's any doubt about it.

So this is the stat. Listen to this. Thirty homes completely rebuilt. 2,135 rebuild permits are approved. 4,157 permit applications have been submitted.

And it's been a year and a half.

Now I gotta tell you, in New York with Sandy, There were tents set up, whatever you want to say about New York. You knew exactly what was going on. All my friends, and I got four feet of water and everything. You knew exactly what was going on. You really did.

And when I lost everything in a fire in 92 out in Los Angeles, There was a place down my block where I would be able to go and permits and discounts, where to buy clothes and things to that nature. They seem to have lost all of that. And my and most of the people I know that got their homes burned have money. and had decent insurance. The insurance is not adding up.

And even though they have money and influence, they still can't get anything done. That's an indictment on the process. It it's an indictment on the process, but it's also an indictment on the political leadership. Because we Democrats have to recognize we need to cut through red tape to encourage building economic development and the like. You can't just focus on environmental protection and permitting and rules and regulations.

Otherwise, nothing happens. And that's the story of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago very, very sadly. And Doug showing our guest, Doug, my last question to you. Work so tight with Mike Bloomberg. Mondami has, I had low expectations and he's actually going lower.

The guy does not seem to know how to balance his own checkbook, let alone New York City's checkbook. How would you rate his success? It's been very disappointing and there's a considerable lack of success. that I see His tax plans, his free rent, his free groceries. I guess the only thing I could say charitably for him is he's trying to do some of the things he said he would, but the city is not responding positively.

And I think he is going to face real troubles as people get to see his administration. Yeah, the whole tax the wealthy, vilify the wealthy, it worries me because I want to reward success. Like Mike Bloomberg, self-made success story. You have to embrace that, not resent the fact that he's a billionaire. That's the way we've always done it.

I hope Democrats don't run on that. Final thought? My final thought is Mike Bloomberg, as mayor emphasized initiative as a private citizen, is an extraordinary philanthropist. He believes in what you're articulating. I don't mean everything, but certainly initiative, pulling yourself up, working hard.

But he also is a philanthropic, charitable man. And those are the kind of Democrats we need, not people who believe in radical redistribution of wealth and no progress. And he likes the police. He understands they have an important role to play. He likes the police and supported the police.

Yes. Doug Shon. Thanks so much. Appreciate it, Doug. Thank you.

Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Killmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Sponsored by Previgen.

Previgen made for your brain. Hey, we are back. And just to wrap up, we've been going on with Doug Shon, he's 100% right. I don't understand. First, I don't understand the whole socialism thing and why people think it's going to get.

Traction and Bernie Sanders was considered somewhat of a joke 15 years ago, and now he is. The Kingmaker. I mean, he did it ma he did it with Mondami. He's a mayor here, he's with Graham Plattner, he beat Chuck Schumer, who endorsed the governor, and then you have he loves this guy, Saeed, over in over in Michigan. And he's finding the the woman over this inexperienced woman who's mayor of Seattle.

Good luck with that. And then the th the The mantra is now tax the wealthy. you know, um make the wealthy pay their fair share. That that's what you're running on? I don't even get it.

So you're going to run on making the wealthy the bad guys?

Okay, so if you run out of Trump. you're going to just make the wealthy the bad guys. Instead of saying how to be successful, how to be inspirational, you're going to just say the problem with you is the rich have too much and they're not spreading around as opposed to they they might be outworking you. Yeah, there are some people that fight out just smarter than you. As we all know, if you went to one day of school, you have to look at that person and go, How the heck did he or she pick it up so quick?

And you go, Well, it comes down to it. By the time you get to college, you can be smart, but it's all going to come down to how much you're going to study and how much you're going to work and how much effort you're going to put in, and then it all balances out. But there are always people that are going to be smarter, taller, faster. How are you going to react to that? Used to be key.

That's what I thought was going to be the inspiration. But if it's taxed to the rich, it's going to be, that's what Governor Bashir is going to say? Is that what Governor Shapiro is going to say? I'd be shocked at that. But meanwhile, as the president gets ready for his trip to China this week on Thursday, a lot's going to be at stake.

mostly with business. I do think Taiwan's gonna come up. President's not gonna bring it up. He's got a $14 billion aid package, a weapons package on his desk. I hope he signs it and say it's really not in play.

We gotta do it. When it comes to Boeing and other companies, cut your deals, be smart about it. Be smart about it. We have to deal with China. We have to understand China.

And the Suwante were rare earth, we're beginning to Take out their piece of leverage.