Aftermath of China visit has results coming in

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Brian Kilmeet here. Thanks so much for listening. I hope you had a fantastic weekend.

I know you did. If you're in the Northeast, we finally had a weekend that was reminiscent of the springs last summer. Gonna be a big hour. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, will be joining me. Farley Weiss, president of the Israeli Justice Organization, man, do we need that?

And the great Lawrence Jones is in the studio. Right, show up his big weekend. We don't really know exactly what Lawrence does over the weekend. We tried to put great. Right.

We are beginning to tap his phones. We're getting some trumped-up charges in order for us to be able to follow you around. Right. It wouldn't be the first time someone went after me. What is it?

What is he? 702. Right. The 702 form.

So before we get to Lawrence, let's get to the big three. Number three. If you look at what happened in Louisiana, I believe that Senator Cassidy is an honorable man. I'm sure there are some Republicans who disagree with him on several votes, but overall, I think he's a good person. But he came in third in that race, which shows that at least for now, still, that is a Donald Trump-controlled Republican Party still at the moment.

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At the end of that visit, the scorecard shows Xi getting what he wanted and Trump generally not getting what he wanted. And that should be concerning for people who want a strong America that can deter a rising China rather than simply accede to its power. I'm really surprised, David Ignatius, to say that. We'll go over what actually took place, the aftermath of the China visit. It has results coming in.

We review the impact and what it means for our ally, Taiwan. Number one. No, I don't think he can walk away, and no, I don't think the Israelis can settle it. I don't think, as powerful as they are, they don't have the kind of power the United States has. Back to war with no talks on tap, in my view.

Time to start smashing Iran again while opening up the strait and grabbing the uranium. Let's end this and watch gas prices fall. And that's pretty much where we're at, Lawrence. We can't do them all. I've got told by the military.

We don't have our assets, enough assets in the region to get the uranium, open up the straight, take out, do the elimination game in Iran at the same time. But we do have enough to do it in sequence. Yeah, it would be hard, even if we had the assets to do. All at once and coordinate all that at once, that's a lot of power that's going on. And we do have a lot.

I would say this. And I've said this for the last couple weeks now. The President realizes what he needs to do. He's not a fool. He understands who he's been negotiating with.

But he's waiting for something. We're not privy to it. It's probably classified, but he's waiting for the right moment. He didn't bring us all the way to the five-yard line to just stop and do some nonsense.

Well, he thought it would be enough to get them to the table, say, Give me the uranium and just go. I did ask him. I said, Look, what about ballistic missiles? He says, Brian, it's a tough neighborhood. I can't ask for them to give me all their ballistic missiles.

I go, Okay, understood. I agree. Yeah, I agree with that. But in terms of ballistic missiles, a limitation? He goes, Yeah, absolutely.

So, of course, that wouldn't charge in terms of don't fund your proxies.

Well, how are we going to do that?

Well, I'm pretty sure our guys are pretty, we know how they're getting their arms. Israel knows how they're getting their arms. And they do have a Hezbollah has rearmed. Not to the extent they were. Yeah, but To that extent, Brian, they're still supporting the proxies at this point.

I think that part of the negotiation, and then I think also is what type of range do the missiles have?

Okay, if we're talking about short, okay, yeah, they can keep those. I mean, it's still a country. They have the right to defend themselves. But the notion that they could have missiles that could attack Europe, I think it's just nonsense right there.

So I think what the president is doing, he tried to give them. An opportunity to negotiate. Our guys were tired. They needed to restock. They needed to get some rest.

And I think now you're going to see us do like we did in the first phase of things, rearm. And hit some sites. And, you know, I think the one thing that the president has been afraid of, and we just got to be honest with the American people, is casualties. What could happen if we go get the uranium? And also, our bases.

Are the bases going to be defended? Evidently, I haven't heard pushback on it. They got hit 220 times.

So, you know, in terms of THAD against the drone, we're not doing that anymore.

So, have we gotten the anti-drone defense that the Ukrainians have perfected? And by the way, that's going to be the story very soon. They're beginning to take the balance of the fight from Putin.

So they're hitting Moscow. But I don't want to divest. I want you to hear what Robert Gates said. In case you do not know, he's held every defense position in multiple administrations, from Bush 1 to Bush 2 to Reagan 1. But he was Obama, he was Bush's defense minister, so good, defense secretary.

He stayed with Obama, he asked him to stay. Cut 14.

Well, I think some of the justifications have changed over time. But one thing I think there have been a few things that have been consistent from the very beginning. One is um to eliminate r Iran's ability to have a nuclear weapon. Another is to eliminate their military capabilities to attack their neighbors. Third is to eliminate the capability to support their surrogates, the Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis.

Uh To sink their Navy. I think those are all, those have all been articulated as objectives of this operation. And although the nuclear program Has been dramatically damaged and set back a long time. I think those other things, a lot has been accomplished. And I think she was, Margaret Brennan was shocked by that.

I don't know why. I mean, some of the things, pretty much everything that he said was not debatable. And look, I'm all for debating different tactical moves. I think that's fair game when you're looking at the landscape of everything. And I appreciate different tactical minds.

I think the president does. That's why he has people that disagree around the table. But if you can't agree that we have disabled their nuclear program and set it back, if you can't agree that we've disabled the missile and destroyed their Navy, I don't see how you call yourself a general, a national security expert. I just don't think that's reasonable. It's partisan.

So one thing I did on One Nation on Sunday, I just struck me how these extreme candidates are rising up the ranks in the Democratic Party. And one of them is Graham Plattner.

So he served in the military, give him credit, Marines and Army. But he is, I listened to him for an hour being interviewed in the New York Times, the week before they did another expansive interview. And you really get a chance to see how extreme this guy is. Oh, yeah. And his extreme left.

You know, it's hard to imagine the guy saying, they pointed out some things where he was in Fallujah, writing back to his parents and saying, don't let anybody tell you we're not doing great things here. And they asked him, justify that. I thought you said there was a bad operation. Oh, I was just trying to rationalize my service.

So he's. He's trying to walk back. His military service. Who listened to how crazy this guy is. Cut 20.

I don't know anybody who thinks the war in Iran is a good idea. Republicans, independents. Democrats, friends of mine who just don't even care about politics because they're so jaded, everybody knows that this is stupid. They know it's stupid because they see it for exactly what it is. It's a war that has started because Donald Trump is in the Epstein files and he doesn't want us reading them.

It's a war that's been started because Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to get it going for 30 years, and he finally found an American president stupid enough to do it. It's a war that's been started because it fills a deep hole in Pete Hegseth's masculine insecurity. And because every single time we hit a girls' school with a Tomahawk missile, a Raytheon executive makes a profit. Wow. That's why.

We are back at war. Wow. And that last part, I mean, how egregious to say that.

So you're saying that the one accident that we had that is still under investigation. Where we hit civilians, which no one wanted. No one wanted. And the Pentagon has made very clear they're going to investigate. You're using the Iranians, which they have said we've hit like 20 plus of schools and everything, which is nonsense.

And you're going to believe them over our guys. And then you're going to say they're doing it for profit. How dare you, as someone that served this country, do you think the soldiers would sign up for the? It is, you know, Brent, there is this growing sentiment. I don't know where it came.

I don't know if because we stopped, you know, educating our young people and stopped teaching them about 9-11 and letting them know to love our country, but they really hate America. They really just hate the country, don't believe in our value system. You typically don't see that from people that serve the country, though. I know. It's unusual and it's Nazi tattoo and his communist beliefs.

Well, that was PTSD. All right. I don't really know people that go Nazis because the battle, because what happened in battle. I know guys that have served 16 terms, they have don't even have PTSD, or they don't say, I need a Nazi tattoo. I don't get it.

Yeah, so Brian, under Joe Biden, the U.S. military said that white supremacy was a problem. They did this whole investigation. uh trying to expose that and they didn't find anything anything So They decided to run the one guy that was in the military with the Nazi tattoo on. I mean, and it's totally fine.

Totally. Totally. Calling Trump a fascist. Calling him a fascist, a Nazi, Hitler. I mean, it just really doesn't make sense.

So I hope that we can re-jigger this, Brian. I think the president is doing the right thing when it comes to this conflict right now. The interesting point is. As as a man that's always looking at polling and everything. The president seems unfazed, at least with my conversation, I know you talked to the president, by the polling on this.

He knows it's the right thing to do.

So I'm looking at this China deal. This is what we walk away with.

Now, originally, we put stuff out and they didn't. And they said, well, Donald Trump's making things up. No. And Jameson Career was great over the weekend. George Stephanopoulos, did he lie?

He didn't lie. There were things that were brought up with us. Prior to his meeting, that he did not bring up one-on-one with President Xi. China's going to buy 200 Boeing jets, they confirmed it. They're also going to buy the jet engines from General Electric, they confirmed it.

They're going to resume imports of the poultry from certain U.S. states, which had stopped. China will buy 17 billion agricultural products in 26, 27, and 28. I thought that could be a little bit higher, but the most important thing that I find interesting. potentially could be great.

Establish bilateral boards of trade and investment.

So immediately, you got a problem with something they're not delivering on, there's an immediate communication, scheduled meetings. And instead of we would like to have a meeting, meet in Brussels at this sun, now it's going to be they're on schedule. As long as nothing melts away.

Well, because Brian, before this meeting, everything as it relates to China continued to escalate, especially when as it relates to trade. They did something that we didn't like as a country, and at least under this president, he just slapped the tariff on them.

So we were just going back and forth, back and forth.

So what the president has acknowledged, look. He's a strong leader. I'm a strong leader. He's advocating for his country. I'm advocating for my country.

Let's have some mediation here. And he doesn't want to talk about Taiwan. He goes, look, I don't talk. I don't have those conversations. I'm just not going to do it.

Yeah, so the president usually, when they bring up. to any president. Most presidents, and they say, Hey, are you gonna sell weapons to stop selling weapons to Taiwan? The answer is routinely is, I don't talk about that. But the president said, Listen further.

And he said, Let me think about that.

So that somewhat puts it on the table and he said, I'm going to think about it. I'm not going to deliver right away, which makes Taiwan nervous. Here's what Robert Gates said: in case people fear that there's going to be an immediate invasion while we wait, cut six. There isn't one single Chinese general or admiral today that has one day of combat experience. The last time these guys fought was 1979 in the North Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese gave him a bloody nose. He's fired, she has fired all these generals. There are now no generals left on the Central Military Commission that kind of oversees the whole thing.

So Margaret Brennan didn't know what to say. In fact, she cut it off. You could tell they edited. And they said, oh, by the way, the rest of the interview you could see online. Right.

Well, not just that, Brian. I mean, did you see all these defensive weapons that they sold to Iran not working too well? Not working too. Missile defense.

So it's like, you know, we talk about all the technology that they're stealing. Let's talk about if it's. If it's actually any good. Right. So, I mean, and I told you about the ship.

Right, exactly. They had a security ship that was escorting a lot of their merchant vessels back and forth, and the Iranians pulled it over, boarded it, and took it. Right. They took the ship of their only ally. By the way, why didn't China shoot back and sink it?

That just shows you. Don't listen to the media reports. It's. In total disarray. And I talked about this Friday as well.

And maybe we'll talk about this tomorrow, Brian. You can't like forget the Cuba story as well. While the President is doing all of this, he's socking China in the mouth by what he's doing since Johnny Ratcliffe took Cuba and essentially is cutting China off. And Russia, which makes Putin weaker as well. Simultaneously, while the matter is happening.

So I just want to tell you, this just came across Reuters exclusive. Pakistan is deploying a jet squadron of thousands of troops into Saudi Arabia.

Now, why is that? They have a defense pact. Pakistan is Saudi Arabia. It's a financial one for Saudi Arabia. It's defense for Pakistan.

So they say, should you be attacked, we will defend you. And guess what? They put 8,000 troops into Saudi Arabia.

So if there is going to be an attack, which indications are with talks falling apart.

So Pakistan mediating talks at the same time, a treaty obligated to help Saudi Arabia. UAE is ready to attack. They've attacked. Saudi Arabia has attacked also back quietly. And now they're ready to defend.

And the Ukrainians have come in and the Iran, excuse me, the Israelis have come in with the Iron Dome.

So now they're better. We have more assets. They have more defense weapons.

So here we go, buckle up. And this goes back to the question I asked Trey this morning. Because you know I know about the pact. But Pakistan continues to say that they want peace here. They want to mediate this thing.

And he said Pakistan is still mediating this. But what They're doing sending those troops there tells me They're prepared for something else. That means we're coming to the end of the road for Iran. We've tried peace. The Gulf states have completely turned against Iran because they just.

Attack them like maniacs.

Now they're going to have the assets.

So we have the United States assets, Israel assets, and now the Gulf states are going to have the assets they need. I'm still worried about some of the defense mechanisms in Bahrain and Kuwait. But if they can shear that up, Then it's over. It's over. Right.

And then all these Democrats saying that it's a war he can't get out of, and we're stuck there. They'll have their answer. The blood of people owe him an apology. Let's see what happens. Like Chris Van Hollen, the worst.

Lawrence, thanks so much for coming. See you tomorrow. You got to do Jiu-Jitsu now? I really do. Are you really?

All right. You never know. Lawrence might be in the UFC fight in the White House if we can get him in a poll. Nobody wants a sponsor. Nobody wants to sponsor.

Yeah, Lawrence will wear any sponsorship to get a tattoo, too. But whatever. Back in a moment. In a world of noise, get the signal. Sharp, informative, and always on point.

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. I think he should. I think we should go forward with what we've agreed with Taiwan. One of the concerns that I have.

is even with respect to previous arms sales, there is a huge backlog of weapons that we have sold to Taiwan that we have not been able to deliver because we don't have the supplies. Yeah, and it takes a while to deliver that. And it takes a while to the Middle East. We have a production problem. We have to address it.

But he went on to say this administration is addressing it in a very proactive way. It's just not quick enough. I mean, for example, we had a few companies in here that do 3D printing. Why are we not doing 3D printing on interceptors and other things?

So maybe the big three, the big three weapons manufacturers, should start working with Silicon Valley, who thankfully You know, Android as well as Palantir are just some of the companies that are working with our manufacturers to get them quicker because that's going to be the key, especially when it comes to drones in the short term. Have South Korea build our ships, have Ukraine build our drones, and do everything possible to pick up the pace here in America.

Alright, when we come back, we go inside Israel with Barley White. Still Moose, Brian King. Yeah. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, welcome back, everybody.

So, we have a busy hour coming your way. We talked to Lawrence Jones about all the breaking news, and it looks like we're going back to war with Iran. They are unable to have a dialogue and keep the same story two days in a row, and we're done with it. Joining us now is Farley Weiss, president of the Israeli Justice Organization, and we'll talk about that and the anti-Semitism raging in this country. But, Farley, welcome back.

Appreciate it. Good to be back, Brian. Thank you. All right, first off, when you talk about what's going to happen, I think that Israel is more than ready to finish the job. The President talked to the Prime Minister yesterday, and I think that they've gone to school about what they've done and didn't do and what Iran's been doing since the ceasefire started.

And the firepower in the region, at least on the American side, is greater. And now the Gulf allies know they're going to be targeted. And that I think they're more ready now. What are you hearing? I I agree with you.

I think that President Trump Constantly tries to see if there's a way, a diplomatic way out. He sees the Renians, as Henry Kissinger once said, if someone is a murderer, they could also be a liar. The Iranians don't keep to their word and they keep changing what they say. And he sees there's no diplomatic way to end this crisis and he has to go and finish the job with Israel. Right.

And what's the feeling amongst the Israelis? 'Cause they know they're going to be targeted. Look at they're nervous. I have a son there, a daughter there, and I have a brother there. And they're nervous about it, but Israel has bombed shelters and they're prepared.

uh to what needs to be done. They want to be living a safer world in the future, and that means I Iran uh not having a nuclear bomb, not firing ballistic missiles, and uh the regime really hopefully, God willing, uh be destroyed. Yes, we think now did you see the story about Pakistan send 8,000 troops into Saudi Arabia, basically an Air Force unit over there. They're treaty obligated to defend Saudi Arabia, and I think they're showing up to do that. At the same time, allegedly mediating.

And according to one report, accepting Iranian aircraft.

So what do you make of Pakistan? I mean, Pakistan has really, you know, if anything, they've tried to be theoretically be a mediator, but all they've done is delayed the attacks by the United States continuing the attacks, saying that they think the Iranians want to make a deal when everything has shown they don't want to make a deal. And so, I mean, Pakistan is really not a country that you would look to as a friendly U.S. ally. And they're and and so I just I think it's not surprising that it's not worked with them as a mediator.

So when you talk about the anti Semitism, anti Israeli attitude in the Democratic Party, but yet most most Democrats Most Israel American Jews vote for Democrats. Is that going to be different this time? Yeah, it's already gone through a significant change. In the 2016 election, President Trump got 23, 24% of the Jewish votes. In the 2024 election, he got 41% of the Jewish votes.

The biggest change of any ethnic group. And it's only going up from there. And so I think that in Australia, the Labor Party used to get the majority of the Jewish votes. And now 80% of the Australian Jews are now not voting for the Labor Party anymore because of the anti-Semitism in Australia. There is going to be a massive shift of Jewish votes moving to the Republican Party in America as the Democratic Party has condoned anti-Semitism within their party and embraced people like Hassan Piker.

Farley, you say that one of the things you have to do now, it used to be, you used to have a green litmus test, right? You used to have a Roe v. Wade litmus test. You know what the new litmus test on the left is? Do you promise to not sell arms to Israel?

It's an amazing thing that the number one issue for them is your view of Israel, like as if this is the most important issue in America. And yet for the Democratic Party, that has become the most important issue. You have an anti-Semitic mayor of New York who celebrates Nakba Day, the day that the Arabs failed to destroy the Jewish state and doesn't march in the Israeli Day Parade and the first mayor not doing that. And you have, in essence, a legitimization of anti-Semitism within the Democratic Party. While on the Republican side, President Trump has spoken out against Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Megan Kelly and all these people and is pushing, trying to push.

Hopefully Massey gets eliminated today and has done everything to try to eliminate him. All the anti-Semitism within the Republican Party, Trump has spoken out against and moved against, while the Democrats are condoning it and it's only increasing in the party. And more and more Democrats are embracing anti-Semitism.

Well, tell me about Tom Massey and anti-Semitism. Mm-hmm.

Well, no, he's always been, you know, it used to always be they would have these votes against aid to Israel, and it'd be 12 Democrats and one Republican, Thomas Massey. He always was an outlier among all the Republicans in the entire House. He decided now to join the Democrats on pretty much all of the major issues, including he didn't vote for the Build Back Better legislation, pretty much everything he has voted against President Trump on and joined the Democrats. And so he's been a major problem. And unfortunately, because President Trump has stepped in and said this guy needs to be removed from Congress and to support his opponent, I think there's a good chance he'll get thrown out tomorrow.

And I mean, today, I guess. Tomorrow, yeah, tomorrow. And I think that's an important thing. And he's been a problem all along. I know.

I have a huge problem with him. I don't care. You're a Libertarian. I understand you're going to be voting against some Republican causes and be very frustrating, like Rand Paul. I have no use for him either.

But one thing about Rand Paul, he understands that what is pure politics. You know what's pure politics? The Epstein files. For Thomas Massey, all of a sudden to get interested in the Epstein files, like he's got to go with Roe Conna and get to the bottom of something. He thoroughly ignored his entire career.

That shows. He's just anti-Trump. And the whole thing, the Epstein file, the absurdity of it, is that if there was one person who knew Epstein and spoke out against Epstein, it was Donald Trump, who banned him from Mar-a-Lago, who told the police that he was graded that they took action against Epstein and disassociated from Epstein. And while everybody else didn't care to dissociate from him after he had the arrest, Bonald Trump did do that. And the whole thing of making out like there's some issue with Trump about Epstein is an absurdity.

It is. Bill Moore, again, right on the money with his monologue, Going After Democrats and Anti-Semitism, Cut 36. There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of this one group. And Democrats? Where are you?

If any other minority group was being talked about this way, you'd break out the kenta cloth and have 10 benefit concerts. But because you see that so many of your brainwashed by TikTok constituents now have an unfavorable view of Israel. You indulge them. when you should be correcting them. You don't tell your woke idiots Israel isn't a colonizer or an apartheid state or committing genocide and that if you brats had to spend a week anywhere in the Middle East other than Israel, you would understand what liberalism is not.

And he went on, but he's right in the money, isn't he? He is, and it's great that he speaks out. I mean, you're talking about a person who gave a million dollars at one time to the Democratic Party. And he's one of the few people who has had the courage to speak out about this issue, is that they are supporting when you compare Israel to the Palestinian Authority. Israel, 100 companies on NASDAQ, a top military power, the best Air Force outside the United States in the world.

And what would the Palestinian Authority do? They give money to people. They have a law. that pays people money, incentive money. If you murder Americans, you murder Jews, you get paid money and rewarded money like Taylor Force.

And so that's why there is a Taylor Force law in the United States that I helped push for. And it's an outrageous thing that why would you pick one side for the other? In the Democratic Party, the polls show there are more Democrats who support Iran than Israel. Sickening. Farley Weiss, thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Thank you, Brian. You got it. When we come back, the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, will be with us. Don't move.

The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them only on the Brian Kill Meet Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Welcome back, everybody. It's my privilege to bring the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, the 13th of her kind, and she might be the last.

Secretary, welcome back. Thank you, Brian. Good to be with you this morning. Yeah, we were having a great time at the White House Correspondence Didn't until the shooting happened. Great to see your son.

Until we were both diving under tables. Yeah, crazy times. But for you in particular, this has been very intense. I don't remember a Secretary of Education being more in the news than you just because people care so much about turning around our educational system, but at the same time, turning it over to the states to make it better. How close are we, what would school choice do for the grade point average of our kids in our country right now?

Well, Brian, first of all, thank you. And I believe that You know Education has to be a nonpartisan issue. This is about our kids. This is about what we're doing in our country, and we have failed. You know, this this generation of students who cannot read 30% of eighth graders can read, 40% of it 30% of fourth graders can read and do math.

I mean, it's just we really have to do something. And so under the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill, One of the things that the president has done is really provided the first national school choice policy. And it's really a great program because It's being funded by private dollars. Excuse me. That will be donated to scholarship granting organizations.

So that and those private donors will get $1,700 tax credit on their federal return, and there's no cap. as to how much uh money they can donate.

So in those states, and governors have to opt into those programs. But in those states, then parents can apply for scholarships to take their children out of failing schools, put them in private schools or public schools. Parents can use those funds to get after-school tutoring or more tutoring that may be necessary for their children. And with parents that have children with disabilities, they can also utilize these dollars for more services for their children.

So it's a wonderful program.

So that part of school choice, I think, is just absolutely something we haven't seen before. And it's a wonderful part of the new tax bill. Yeah, so you're talking about doing a change to Pell Grants. Everybody knows you apply to college, if you are economically disadvantaged. I got a Pell Grant for four years.

It was only like $900 compared to the student loan. I think mine was $2,200. That's when a top-level school would be about $10,000 a year.

So I'm about from $82,000 to $86.

So now we're talking about. NYU $110,000.

So they want to uh I understand that you want to limit the amount you can take out in terms of a loan. And when it comes to Pell Grants, you want to be able to give people the access to go into one of those trade to one of the trade schools, correct? Correct.

So it's you know the short-term PEL program is just really something that hasn't been available before. And You know, we have such a workforce shortage in our country. We, for every five people that leave the workforce, only two come back in. And if we don't change this program by 2030, we'll have about 2.1 million. More of a gap in the workforce program or the workforce needs.

And so what we're really trying to do is to make sure that we are having a, that we offer a program. That students can go in for eight to 15 weeks. They can go in and get into the workforce sooner.

Now, governors are approving these programs, and so that's why it's very important to the states. The governor can say, hey, I need to focus a lot of these short-term workforce programs towards electricians or towards brickmasons or carpentry or HVAC or data analytics. But whatever those monies are, governors then can take a look at that and help fulfill the workforce shortages in their state. But it's up to the state, even though it's a federal program, each state has to accept the money. and accept this redirect?

So let's be sure we're talking about the same thing. The first program that I Uh that I was describing. about um you know states uh taking the money for these Scholarship granting organizations, the governors do have to opt into those programs. And, you know, almost every red state governor has opted in, and we're getting a couple of the blue state governors to come in. But I can't imagine why any governor wouldn't adopt this program for their state and make it possible for private donations to go to these scholarship-granting organizations and expand school choice, you know, in their state.

The president certainly believes that no child should be kept into. A failing public school, and this allows parents the right to enforce school choice. Yeah, and uh There was just a story today in the Washington Post, and I'm pretty sure you saw it. Why so many states are leaving free money on the table for education, and it's mostly blue states. And Kathy Hochl broke the deadlock.

She's like, no, this is too good to be true. I can't turn this down.

So this gives an opportunity for kids to benefit. But is it unions that are pressuring them not to do this? Sure. You know, I'm really pleased to see that Governor Hochl has said that she is going to. Um, you know, she's going to greenlight this program.

She kind of had a foot in both camps there for a while. She wanted to appear that she was going to opt into the program, but then she said, You know, well, I want to make sure there aren't, you know, any loopholes or anything that I need to investigate.

So she kind of said yes, and then she kind of hedged her bets.

So I hope that she will, you know, come in full force because it is such an incredible program. We expect. That if this program is allowed to flourish in all the states, there will probably be a few billion dollars raised from the private sector. to promote this school choice expansion. And that would just be incredible for students in states who want to change schools or get extra money for programs or tutoring, et cetera, as I was explaining.

You know, it's just it's just an interesting time depending on you want the school to perform. If it's not performing, you want to be able to put that school up against another school and let them compete. And the theory is if they compete, both get better, right? Yes, I think so.

So when you look at your job. Every day you're making consequential decisions. But yet, one of the goals was, and we've heard this from Republicans for a long time: we've got to get rid of the Department of Education. But you're proving the value of the department every day by the decisions you're making, aren't you? Wouldn't you hate to give up that type of.

Uh the type of impact you're making. What we are proving is the impact of the policy that is being passed by the President and by Congress. And any of the agencies that we've signed agreements with, the interagency agreements, we've signed them with labor, with state, with interior. And with HHS, a lot of these agencies can better implement these programs.

So we just want to make sure, I mean, we're getting the policy right, I think, through Congress. But many of these agencies will be able to take this policy and implement it as well or better than the Department of Education with less bureaucracy, with fewer strings, and with less red tape. And so that's really the goal. Yeah, so I I guess we'll we'll we'll see how this goes. The other thing is what I've noticed in a couple of state studies.

Even though we've begun seeing a nationwide push to put phones into a locker and not have mid-school, it hasn't affected the grades much. It affected sos the way they socialize. Everyone sees improvement, but it hasn't affected the grades. Do you think that's just a delay? Do you think grades are going to start coming up as more and more people put the phones down?

Well, I certainly hope so. I mean, you know, it takes a while. to change grades. And this is most of these phone programs were just implemented with this school year, and we're just, we're not even, you know, we're not even halfway through.

Well, I guess we're about. Coming to the end of the first school year, that's for sure. But it takes a while, even when we've changed. reading programs in many states like to the science of reading. For instance, when Mississippi adopted that program, it took almost 15 years to start to see real changes because you're changing household service.

Thanks so much, Madam Secretary. Yeah, we're up against a hard break, but always appreciate it. You're doing a fantastic job. Thanks so much for joining us today. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City.

Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone, from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is Brian Kilmead Show. This hour, we're going to be joined by Congressman Chip Roy.

He wants to be the Attorney General in Texas. We'll talk about what's happening in terms of getting DHS fully funded. That would be an interesting Swiss. Molly Hemingway is here, editor-in-chief of the Federalist author of. Author of Alito, the justice who reshaped the Supreme Court and restored the Constitution.

And before we get to Molly, let's get to the big three. Number three. If you look at what happened in Louisiana, I believe that Senator Cassidy is an honorable man. I'm sure there are some Republicans who disagree with him on several votes, but overall, I think he's a good person. But he came in third in that race, which shows that at least for now still, that is a Donald Trump-controlled Republican Party still at the moment.

Politics are plenty. As time is running out to fully fund the DHS, got to be this week. And the ballroom, we review the primaries, the gerrymandering mania, which could keep the House in GOP hands. Number two. At the end of that visit, a scorecard shows Xi getting what he wanted and Trump generally not getting what he wanted.

And that should be concerning for people who want a strong America that can deter a rising China rather than simply accede to its power. I think that was an overwhelmingly unbalanced review from Dave Ignatius. Aftermath of China visit has results coming in to review the impact and what it means for our ally, Taiwan. Power. Number one.

No, I don't think he can walk away. And no, I don't think the Israelis can settle it. I don't think, as powerful as they are, they don't have the kind of power the United States has. Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense for not only Bush, but Obama, back to war with no talks on tap. Time to start smashing Iran again while opening up the strait and grabbing the uranium.

Let's end this and watch gas prices fall. Molly Hemingway joins us now. Molly, first off, congratulations on your book. It's doing well, right? It's doing great on the New York Times bestseller list and about Justice Alito, who is this powerful person on the Supreme Court, but nobody knows much about him.

Right, but we know he's a very consistent voice. Very consistent, very conservative, and a leader without being really someone who draws attention to him. Would you also say that do you think he feels the pressure with some of the consequential decisions and the way Democrats have been basically going after the Supreme Court? He feels very strongly that the court should not be subjected to the political pressure that it's currently being subjected to. This is a violation of the separation of powers.

The whole point of the courts is that they aren't political, that you don't campaign to be put there. You can't be kicked off. You can't have your pay cut. You shouldn't pack the court. And he's been sounding the alarm about that for many years since Chuck Schumer was on the steps of the Supreme Court threatening violence against Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch if they didn't go the way that he wanted.

So this is something that's been rising for a while, and there's a major left-wing political campaign there. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: And there is. And I mean, to pack the Supreme Court, would you need just a simple majority in the Senate? Yeah, you don't. And a president.

The number is not set by the Constitution, so you can pass a Judicial Reform Act and change the number. Packing doesn't refer to changing the number per se, but the idea that you're changing the number to achieve a particular political outcome. And Democrats have been very open that that's what they want. They're trying to pressure the court to vote the way they want, or they will make it suffer by forcing some new numbers on there that will make it less of a court. Back to what they liked, which was a legislature.

Right. And they are very frustrated because they're unable to put anyone on there. Trump's done it. Nothing for Biden had won, just to rotate one Democrat for another. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: And conservatives should probably think back on how it really was not going to be this way, even a few short years ago.

When Justice Scalia died, everyone thought that Hillary Clinton would be president. She would replace him. To replace a Scalia with a Hillary Clinton appointee would have meant that you had a dramatically More liberal court. And if she had gotten then those three nominees to replace total, it would just be a very powerful left-wing court. Democrats know that, and they're frustrated.

And they're frustrated by the hardball that Mitch McConnell played, holding that seat open when Scalia died, but then putting Amy Coney Barrett on very quickly when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. I understand that. I think that has got to be frustrating, but they're not handling it well. Conservatives had to deal with a left-wing court for generations, for decades, and they never lost their mind. They never tried to resort.

Yeah, they never did threats. Right. The one thing, does Mitch McConnell deserve credit for that? I actually am kind of balanced on it. I think it's understandable that Democrats are frustrated.

T to have endured a lengthy Opening for that Scalia seat, and then had, and then McConnell turns around and says, We're putting, we're replacing Ruz Bader Ginsburg within a matter of weeks.

Now, technically, he never contradicted himself. His view was: if the Senate is controlled by a party other than the president, that's when you hold it open. That was true with the Scalia opening. It wasn't true with the Ruz Bader Ginsburg opening, but it's got to be frustrating.

So if you don't. get a if if the Republicans lose the Senate. And there is an opening in the Supreme Court. Let's say Clarence Thomas says, I've had enough. How are you ever going to get anybody confirmed?

It will be very difficult. to to do that. And I'm sure that the three Republican nominated Justices on the court, which would be Thomas Alito and Chief Justice Roberts, that they all are aware of that situation. They think about what happened with Ruth Bader-Ginsburg and how much she devastated her own legacy by dying at the end of Trump's term instead of stepping down earlier. Yeah, so I guess we're going to see what's going to happen.

But I guess right now people are focused on the China trip, or a little bit. They're going to focus on the war, but the China trip. When people say there's no tangibles, no deliverables, I think people should understand it was a little bit delayed, but China has agreed that they bought 200 jets from Boeing. They wanted maybe more, but they remember, they make their own jets. They also said we are going to buy the General Electric engines, all right?

They're going to renew the expired listings to help farmers and ranchers of 400 USB facilities and added new ones. They're going to resume imports of poultry from certain U.S. states because that had stopped.

So all these things do help the agrarian part of our economy. And they're going to set up a board where they're going to meet regularly about different arms of trade. I don't have any visions of what China really is, but this shows there are tangible gains from that meeting.

Well, Brian, you earlier played that quote from David Ignatius of the Washington Post. I was surprised by that.

Well, I'm not totally surprised. You might remember that's the reporter who got the entire Russia collusion hoax going when he said that Trump's national security advisor had had an inappropriate phone call with his Russian counterpart and may have violated the Logan Act. He always operates as an agent, I think, of other forces. If you look if you pull back on the China situation and I'm not I am much more skeptical of the war in Iran than you are. But I think if you think back to when Trump starts, he thinks China is a threat, and he's working systematically to make it less of a threat.

Look at where we are from 2016 right now. All of China's major allies are either off the table or severely constrained from Venezuela to Iran. They're not on the march in Russia. They're not on the march in the global south like they had been for a very long time before Trump took them on. Economically, they are weak right now.

And so all of this about deliverables and who got what, I think, misses a little bit of the bigger story, which is they're much more constrained than when Trump started. And also, when Trump started this, nobody agreed with him that China was a threat. And now everybody kind of takes it as a given that they are. It's a great point. And I also think that keeping communication lines open, China is not, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

The president's always believed it's better to talk, and he does have respect for strength and power, but he likes to know exactly what's going on. Don't you think it's important more than symbolism that while they're meeting in China in Beijing, John Radcliffe goes to Cuba and meets with the leadership? We didn't send a diplomat down there. We sent the CIA director to basically say, look, There's going to be some charges against Ruel Castro, something from 1996. And we hear you got 300 drones.

And that's a threat to our security. He's lying and it's a threat to our base over in Kitmo. As if to say, We know China's got the main influence there. It used to be Russia, and it's a listening post 90 miles from Miami. It's kind of crazy that we have just allowed Cuba to operate as a satellite of its communist brethren.

Since the 60s, since the 60s. And they're right there. It does seem like action is being taken there. But that's another thing that relates to the strength of China. China was able to do a lot because of its close alliance with Cuba right off our shore.

You have to think that all of these countries to our south are thinking a little differently post-Venezuela about how much they want to poke the bear. Like Raul Castro, does he want to be where Maduro is? We're already setting up the case, the same with Noriega, the same with Maduro, a legal case. And then we simply say there's a place for you to go, whether it's Haiti or Turkey. I don't know.

And they leave. And it might be too late for Raul Castro to decide much of anything, but all the other people in power in Cuba too should be thinking what's it going to look like going forward. And the way I understand it, I can't do the definitive background on Cuba, but the military is an economic power. Like they do their own investing. They own all the gas stations.

So the military was empowered, I guess, twenty years ago, and now they they seem to have their own entity.

So that might be something we have to deal with. But I'm I'm not saying that we want we don't want military action there. But also, there's a lot we're dealing with globally, and there are major issues domestically that the Republican Party should be thinking about. Should they want to win, keep the Senate, and have a chance of keeping the House in the midterms. People are very concerned about the gas prices, about how hard it is to get a job right out of college with the AI boom that's going on, how hard it is to buy a house.

And people need to understand. I think voters in general need to understand how salient those issues can be when it comes to election time, and the Trump administration should be thinking about that as well.

So the Jerry Mannering madness, the Jerry Manoring madness, according to the Cook report. It went from Democrats only need to flip three seats. Two, now they have to flip nine. And that, with a place where most political experts say there's really 15 seats in play, maybe 20. Then you look at this and say, okay, well, nine likely to go Republican when they were going to go Democrat.

It makes the hill harder to climb.

Well, Democrats have done a much better job, not that I'm a fan of gerrymandering, but they've done a much better job squeezing districts out of states that they control than Republicans have. That's why you have the whole Northeast with barely a Republican representing any of the Northeast, even though probably 40% of the electorate is Republican. Republicans kind of have gotten late to the game, but they're starting to do it. I think this decision written by Justice Alito, the Clay decision out of Louisiana, saying we're no longer going to give these affirmative action districts to Democrats where they were just being given because federal judges had said that they had to do this, they're being given districts that they really had no right to have. And losing that automatic, unfair districting, that is going to be a major game changer for Congress.

You can't base it on race. And now they're saying, well, it's Jim Crow 2.0. And first off, Democrats were the ones who did Jim Crow 2.0 and did segregation.

So this is not that. This is saying don't do anything by race. The Constitution explicitly prohibits in the 15th Amendment making race a determination for anything election related. The fact that we had decades where race was a mandated election district requirement, that is so unconstitutional. It's kind of crazy it took this long for the Supreme Court to say, yeah, that understanding is in conflict with the Constitution.

So now the Republicans getting accused of because James Clyburn could lose his seat and in a predominantly black seat in Tennessee. Steve Cohen, white guy according to reports, represents that district. They're like protesting like crazy over there. This shows that it's just about political power. They're saying a white guy representing a majority black district is a man, is like a major, wonderful thing if he's a Democrat.

But if a black person represents a majority white state or more majority white district, like happens frequently in the Republican Party, that's a bad thing and that doesn't count in any way. It shows it's about power. They don't even, no, they claim they care about. The needs or desires of black people, but really they just care about political power. I want you to hear Speaker Johnson yesterday, Cut 26.

The Supreme Court issued a long-awaited opinion, and I think it was long overdue, and they stated the obvious that drawing congressional lines must be fair. You cannot draw lines on the basis of race, and that's what was done in Louisiana.

So they declared it to be an unconstitutional gerrymander, and it was. This brings back fairness and certainty to the system, and I think a lot of states are looking to make sure that their maps are not unconstitutional, like Louisiana's was.

So, I just have to say, I actually think the release of this decision had something to do with what I reported in Alito, my new book. I showed how the liberal justices were slow walking their dissent in the Dobbs decision, even after they were asked not to by their conservative colleagues on the court. At the same time, I reported that someone else reported that they were slow-walking that Louisiana redistricting case. They did finally get it out. They were slow walking it because they knew the later in the term that the Supreme Court goes, that they release it, then it will be more difficult for legislatures to correct this constitutional problem.

They finally got it out, got it out late, got it out way late. This was a thing heard in October, and they didn't get it out until May. But that gave these states enough time to remove their unconstitutional, race-based, gerrymandered districts. And it's just, you know, it's just an interesting little side note about how the Supreme Court, how the liberals on the Supreme Court kind of played games there. Right.

And, you know, I just think that, too, we're going to get to a point in this country where we're just going to elect the best person. I think Republicans are going to make inroads with the black vote. I hope they don't give that up, continue to try to do that. And number two is I think we are in America. We're past the point where we'll say, yeah, I live in a mostly white district, so I want a white representative.

I don't know anybody that says that. It's not true. And I actually totally agree with you. Less gerrymandered districts will make for better representation. When you have to appeal to different types of groups instead of just being like, Oh, I've got the black vote and they'll just vote for me no matter what.

I don't really have to deliver anything for them. And they don't. That's not as healthy as having a more natural, you know, just regional. congressional district where you have to work with different people.

South Carolina is going to decide if James Carburn's district's going to be wiped out. But I would say this to James Carburn: I'm like, what has he actually done? And speaking of he's already 90 years old. There's also no kings, right? You don't have a.

birthright to a congressional seat no matter what, even if it's an unconstitutional district.

So, Molly Hemingway, congratulations on the success of your book. Pick it up. It's called Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution. Are you an outnumber today? I am.

Looks like I am, too. Oh, great. All right, unless you decide differently. I was going to be, but not now. Not anymore.

Okay, Molly, I understand. It had to be one of us. Back in a moment. Yeah. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmead. U The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. It's hard to be America's friend and ally, and that it's easier to be a strong and sometimes belligerent adversary like China.

There's a lively debate taking on among people I respect about just how to think about President Trump's China trip.

Some people, prominent commentators, Frid Zakaria of CNN is one. Graham Allison, who teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School, is another, who say that this produced, because Trump was so deferential, flattering, produced a degree of stability and cooperation in the relationship that's necessary. There's another group, and I would put myself in that camp, that would say, no, this really ratified China's rise, Xi's rise to a position of real parity with the United States, what people call a G2, the two great superpowers, and it also ratified a America's decline. See, I usually agree a lot with Dave Ignatius. I forgot that Molly Hemingway part that he really started the Russia hoax.

But I just disagree. I think it's obvious that China rose. Are you kidding me? It's the second biggest economy. It's the third biggest nuclear arsenal.

It's one of the most populated countries in the world. I don't think there's any doubt about it. They were I didn't think that was even in doubt. But I do think they're number two. And if it's a G2, there's two countries there.

You think Russia belongs in that? Absolutely not. Remember Russia at the time? Of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union fell, Russia's economy, even though that vast land mass, was the size of Italy's.

It was never an economic power. It was outweighed by its military prowess or the numbers of people in the military.

So, I don't think they needed this thing to be told. They're in our category. We're still bigger. We're obviously better. We're better innovators.

We don't steal in order to survive. They do. But you're dealing with them. Coherently is something for ease Acaria, a big critic of the president, is in support of. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. We want to prevent a war from happening. I think it's best that Taiwan is strong, able to defend itself. Therefore, we should be able to acquire, to buy the arms that we need. To have a stronger defense.

We believe in peace through strength.

So actually, it makes. more sense for the United States to sell us the armor so we can defend ourselves and so you don't have to send your army nine thousand five miles five hundred miles away to defend us. They wrote a $14 million check and they want some arms in exchange. And the president says, I'm holding on to it for now. Robert Gates weighed in on Face the Nation, former Secretary of Defense for Democrats and Republicans, cut three.

The Chinese rhetoric has often been strong in the past when it comes to Taiwan. Whenever we've made an arms sales to Taiwan in the past, the Bush administration, Obama administration and so on, the Chinese rhetoric gets very Very strong.

So I think she was reiterating the Chinese position on that. I think it would be a mistake. To change the carefully worded position of the United States with respect to Taiwan. Any change at all. the nuances, this is one of those things where the experts parse these things down to the tense of the verbs and so on.

So I think keeping things the U. S. position as it has been was important and I think everything I've read so far indicates that the President did that. See, he did that. And Margaret Brennan was like, wait, wait, what?

Wait a second. I came here for you to tell everybody how bad Trump is. And it didn't work out that way. Bob Gates just being pragmatic, he knows the problems. Iran is the problem.

They've always been a problem. We negotiated for the longest time. And this president came in, took out Salamani, then hit him in 2025 to blow up their program, and then looking to finish him off, possibly now.

So Bob Gates knew the frustration before. He was actually Secretary of Defense when the insurgency started in Iraq. And he had to, excuse me, when it was raging in Iraq, and he helped fix it, and Iran was behind it.

So to ask him, even though he's years removed from his position, to go take Iran's side is something he's not going to do. And I give him great credit for it. Joining us now is Congressman Chip Roy, and the Congressman wants to be the next Attorney General of Texas, but he joins us now. Congressman Bob Gates would not rip the president on his approach. to to any of that on Taiwan.

Okay.

Well, look, I mean, I think what the president, what I heard the president say in departing China about Taiwan was he was taking all this under advisement and consideration on how to proceed and how best to manage dealing with protecting Taiwan and making sure that our interests, our national security interests are represented, while he's hitch checking China all day long. I mean, that's the distinction between what President Trump has done and what previous administrations have done. Whether it's Maduro and Venezuela, you just went through the whole litany of things and going after Iran. What we've been doing with the Straits of Hormuz, those have implications for China and Russia. And then now going over to China and being willing to, frankly, you know, the president went out of his way to try to be hospitable and have engagement with the Chinese in order to give us the maximum leverage.

But he is using the leverage to force geopolitical changes that go well beyond the near term. Brian, you and I both know that if he was listening to nothing but political advisors, he would have probably taken some different positions this year to ensure that we have a glide path to victory in the fall. But he's looking a hundred years out about what we need to do to defend American interests in the Western Hemisphere and against China and to reset that entire relationship and geopolitical forces. Yeah, I know that. And you know, it's just amazing how many people are basically open on our side, hoping for him to fail and almost praising Iran.

I mean, listen to Chris Van Hollen, CUT 18. The president got dragged into this war. Uh Prime Minister Netanyahu said that he'd been waiting 40 years for somebody to go to war with him in Iran. He found a president stupid enough to do it. I blame Donald Trump for that decision, but here we are.

Your reaction?

Well, I loved, you know, I saw on Maria's show this morning, I saw them trying to say that somehow the JC, Gro Khana, was saying the JCPOA was so successful in stopping Iran. And it's so laughable, it's offensive, that, you know, we have, we're now having to deal with the empowerment of Iran because of the incompetence and the, frankly, willful disregard for the interests of America by Obama and Biden and their regimes. The Iranians were able to build their enriched uranium, build their conventional capacity to shoot missiles much farther than our Democratic leadership was acknowledging. And now you've got the president calling them out and knocking the knees out from under Iran. Finally, we've got someone who's trying to stop Iran from having such an outsized impact on our national security interests.

Everybody wants to make this about Israel. It is. They are our strong ally and important. Important factor, but it is not. It's about our national security interests, and the president knows that.

So we're talking to Chip Roy. Congressman, it looks like, according to the Cook Report, with all this gerrymandering back and forth, Texas was successful, California was successful, Virginia was not, and now New York was not, Maryland was not, but it looks like South Carolina, it looks like Louisiana, Florida. Uh Tennessee. Alabama, seat here, seat there. You guys have made it harder to flip the house.

And they say now Democrats have to flip nine seats instead of three. As Jed, do you support gerrymandering? Number one, and number two is Is that enough to keep the house, do you think? Thank you. Well, first of all, let's remember what we're dealing with.

Democrats who are saying that somehow we've started this, when you look at New England, there's literally not a single Republican representative in all of New England. Yet they're about a 60-40 Democrat popular vote.

So I'm sorry the tears from Democrats about Texas moving to something that might be closer to 29 to 9 or 30 to 8 or whatever it'll be is somehow offensive when California is almost all Democrat, the entire state, even though it's more like a 60-40 state, Illinois.

So Republicans are just finally giving Democrats a dose of their own medicine. The Supreme Court then comes in and rightly ends race-based gerrymandering, which is offensive to the Constitution. It was wrong, and Justice Thomas said it best when he said it shouldn't even have anything to do with districting. And now we're getting the numbers. I mean, the current numbers, I think, are 14 to 6, meaning we get 14, they get 6, net eight.

But as you note, we've got Louisiana, we've got South Carolina, we've got a number of states that are looking at trying to pick up a seat or two.

So we can get 10, 11, 12 seats out of this, and then we've just got a Hold firm and make sure that we give people a reason to show up in November. And I'll give you one really good reason, and that's the obvious one. If Democrats control the House, They will stonewall President Trump every single day. We have got to show up to the polls. And by the way, be loud and proud.

Be proud of what we did with the big, beautiful bill and cutting taxes and repealing green news scam subsidies and reforming Medicaid and stopping illegal aliens from getting food stamps and Medicaid. Be proud of the fact that we have high enlistments in our military because people are proud to be in the military again. Be proud that we've stopped the flow at the border. Be proud that we're removing illegal aliens from our country who have no right to be here and are endangering our citizens. I am super proud of what we're accomplishing, but we've got to finish the job.

I hear you.

So, Congressman, I was talking to a high-ranking FBI official, and I asked him that conversation that Cash Patel had with China, his counterpart, about stopping the precursors from coming to our shores. Have they done anything? And the answer was yes. I said, Really? He goes, Yeah, how do you know?

I go, they're working with us. To stop the precursors, they are coming from the south of that country. Have you seen some of the effects at the border? Is the amount of fentanyl dropping? Yes, to the best of my understanding, and we're still trying to get briefings on this and giving the administration the flexibility they need to continue to do what they're doing.

But all of this is related. Our engagement with the Chinese, our engagement in Venezuela, knocking their knees out, taking Maduro out, and basically making every leader in the Western Hemisphere, you know, crap their pants. That's changing the entire dynamic.

So, of course, China, of course, Mexico, of course, they're all working with us now, and we're having some positive effects.

Now, we've still got to finish the job. The president rightly declared cartels as terrorists, something I called on in 2019 as a lowly freshman member of Congress. And I got laughed at. They're not terrorists, Chip. You don't understand.

All of the naysayers in Congress. The president knew it. He got it. I remember in 2019, he wanted to do it. But he finally did it in his very first week when he got back in and got reelected.

And it was fantastic.

Now we've reached. Set the entire geopolitical forces with respect to the Western Hemisphere.

So now what we're seeing is China working with us because they know they have to. The tariffs, all of those things are all related. People try to distill these simple sound bites. Tariffs, bad, driving up prices. Yeah, but understand what we're trying to do to build jobs in America.

Make sure we're not relying on China. Try to make sure we have more ship manufacturing here so we're not still relying on Taiwan. Make sure we control oil and gas supply. Those are all things that matter in the aggregate. It's why we need to help President Trump finish the job.

So you have a bill out, the deal death, face death, the deal death. Face Death Act. Tell me about it. Yeah. Well, I've found it offensive that we've allowed people to be in our country and to sell narcotics purposely laced with fentanyl that has resulted directly and knowingly and foreseeably in the deaths of Americans, particularly our children.

I've had so many parents who have lost their children and loved ones in the Austin area, in central Texas, San Antonio area. And this bill would make clear that the death penalty under federal law would apply if you're convicted of distributing fentanyl and it resulting in the death of an American. And we believe that that's critically important. I can tell you since I introduced that bill, I've had multiple people in law enforcement, multiple moms and parents who have lost their loved ones to fentanyl, reach out and thank me because they want to see us have strong rule of law bills to put bad guys in jail and/or convict them and sentence them to death. Dealing death should result.

In death, if you're doing it with total willful disregard and with intent to profit while you're endangering, and not just endangering, knowing that you are likely going to kill Americans, then I think you should have the ultimate penalty. No doubt about it. And you got to have more dissuasion. Do you have any Democratic support? Not yet.

I don't have Democrat support on our PAUSE Act to pause immigration. I don't have Democrat support on a bill to ensure that we can You know, reject and deport people who are pushing Islamic takeover of our country. I don't have Democrats support. I did have some Democrats support the Save America Act. Ultimately, we only got one when we sent it over to the House.

I mean, sent it over to the Senate, but we did get Henry Queyar on our bill. But, you know, most Democrats don't want to do the important work. It's why, Brian, look, as you know, I'm in Texas campaigning for Attorney General, crisscrossing the state. I'm driving to San Antonio right now. And I'm going to have to fly back to D.C.

probably Thursday, I think, to get the bill back from the Senate so we can fund ICE and Border Patrol through reconciliation because Democrats literally refuse to fund security at our border. You can't even make this stuff up. That's how crazy they are. And we've got to go do this to deliver for the people and alongside President Trump. Yeah, I just don't people understand that ICE is law enforcement.

Now they realize the folly of saying defund the police. They realize that. But they don't understand the folly of saying defund ICE is the same thing. They are American. They're your neighbors.

We're not flown in from another planet. I mean, what don't they understand? I don't get it. Well, they do understand because for them, everything is about power. You know, you saw that on display last week when I chaired a hearing that I called on the spread of radical Islam in the state of Texas and how much Islam is incompatible with Western civilization.

And Jamie Raskin, you might have seen it, you know, one of the most notorious liberals on the Judiciary Committee, tried to go after and challenge this young kid, Marco Hunter Lopez, for being willing to talk about his school and how they're being discriminated against. And then you had Representative Cohen, you know, who represents Memphis. He's an older white guy who is now being redistributed out since the racial gerrymandering stuff was thrown out. And he was incredulous about how terrible this was. And guess what?

It's all about power. For them, they don't care that it's an old white guy representing a district that they were bemoaning or somehow it was racist. They care that they lose power. They want to import people, regardless of their danger to our citizenry, because they want power. That's why I labeled the people who were.

Jacob Riley was murdered. That's why Jocelyn Nungare was murdered because Democrats care more about power than protecting the people of America. Yeah, I just don't know.

Some of them, not all of them, some of them don't like the country. I looked at AOC and what they're saying, what this Graham Plattner is saying over in Maine. I mean, their vision of changing the country is: you pick another country. You're not happy with our system of government.

So leave. I mean, that's my worldview. I mean, and you import people here who very much want to change America into something else. Yeah. Seeing in London and in Paris, there's a reason Tommy Robinson and a bunch of folks in the United Kingdom were rallying on the streets in London because they're tired of losing their country.

And honestly, go to Plano, Texas. You know, you've got the same thing. Dearborn, Minneapolis. Obviously, you guys have Mom Donnie, you know, was elected in New York City. Like, that's a major problem about the future of America.

It's why I'm speaking up now. It's why people who are in leadership positions have got to speak up now. It's all related, Brian. All of the nonprofits, all of the NGOs, all of the people pushing open borders, all of the Soros-funded groups putting criminals on our streets and trying to take DAs and trying to take judges and infiltrate them with Marxists. All of the funding for Islamists that are coming to America to Islamify America.

It's all a part of the Red-Green Alliance to destroy what we all know is great and good about Western civilization, capitalism, freedom, and our Republican form of government. We've got to stand. Up and fight for it, or we'll lose it. And you can't win a war you don't acknowledge exists. It's why the last conversation I had with Charlie Kirk was on this topic: it was on that we're losing our country, we're losing the soul.

We've got to remember who we are as a people and defend her. Absolutely. And that's where you're going to make a great attorney general. Best of luck, Congressman Chip Royd. Thanks for your time.

Thanks, Brian. All right. And we'll see you back in Washington this week. Back in a moment. From breaking news to big name guests, Brian brings you insight you won't hear anywhere else.

You're listening to the Brian Kill Meat Show. Uh He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. Welcome back, everybody. You know, there's some commencement addresses.

This commencement address season, I'm so ticked, tired of hearing about the protest, and people are upset when a brilliant NYU professor is a commencement speaker because it says Gen Z are coddled and that they're. They've had it too good for too long. I want you to hear something positive. Tom Brady, advice to students at Georgetown. The one thing I've learned through sports is the only time you're sure to lose is when you quit.

In life and work, You guys are going to get knocked down a lot. How are you going to navigate those moments? Are you going to push through the self-doubt? And you do it the same way you overcome a 25-point deficit, one decision at a time, one play at a time. Understanding this served me well on every step of my journey, including that step into the huddle.

So we had to cut him off there because we're up against it, but he just talked about it coming back against the Falcons. And believe me, if they had lost that game and got blown out, they would have broken up that team. I was at that Super Bowl, and the thought was: well, Brady had his run. Let him go.

Meanwhile, he got that Super Bowl and another Super Bowl, and they let him go. He won it on at Tampa. Great message. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmeek Show. I hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action now. And everyone, watch One Nation on Sunday.

Keep in mind, too, I got this YouTube channel. Everyone's talking about it: youtube.com/slash at the Brian Killmeat Show. It's hard to believe that there's even other channels on YouTube ever since mine launched. But you always get some original stuff. You get some of the interviews.

You get this whole show and other things I'm doing on the channel. I'm going to be on outnumbered in about an hour or so, so that'll be great. Lippy Sternheim will be with us. She is the founder and chief executive officers of. Real alloys, which is real earth.

Real real Rare earth, and what we need to do to possibly have control of our weaponry, control of our phones. Control of our space program. Right now, China's basically locked it up. We spent the last year and a half trying to push back in other areas of the world, from Argentina to Indonesia to Malaysia to Australia, working on all these rare earth deals, including mining in our own backyard.

So she'll be with us too. And Julian Epstein is going to be standing by. He's talking about the changing Democratic Party. I'll tell you, this guy, Graham Plattner, really scary. Really, really scary.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. If you look at what happened in Louisiana, I believe that Senator Cassidy is an honorable man. I'm sure there are some Republicans who disagree with him on several votes, but overall, I think he's a good person. But he came in third in that race, which shows that at least for now still, that is a Donald Trump-controlled Republican Party still at the moment.

Politics are plenty. As time is running out on the full to fully fund the DHS, the ballroom, we review the primaries, the gerrymandering mania, which could keep the house in GOP hands. Number two. At the end of that visit, the scorecard shows Xi getting what he wanted and Trump generally not getting what he wanted. And that should be concerning for people who want a strong America that can deter a rising China rather than simply accede to its power.

Yeah, I don't agree at all right there with Dave Ignatius. After Math to China visit as results coming in, we review the impact and what it means for our ally in Taiwan. Number one. No, I don't think he can walk away. And no, I don't think the Israelis can settle it.

I don't think, as powerful as they are, they don't have the kind of power the United States has. Absolutely. That is Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense. I got to give him credit. Back to war with no talks on tap.

Time to start smashing Iran again. While the opening up of the strait and grabbing uranium is going to be top priority, let's end this and watch gas prices fall.

Now, there's a thought that maybe we do all that at once at the same time.

So We can lower the music.

So there was a thought that we could do this all at the same time. And I don't think we have the assets in the region to do it, open up the straight. Grab the uranium. Uh and take out uh and take out the army and the missile sites.

So we got sites to get to. We've also went to school over the last few weeks when the ceasefire was happening. We're seeing what's moving, what launchers have been resurrected, been dug out of the tunnels.

So we're seeing that and we're seeing what they still have left. And we have actually got more armaments and more force. I'll add this to it. A report came out on Reuters exclusively that Pakistan, who's got a military alliance with Saudi Arabia, has sent an Air Force unit, about 8,000 people, including air assets, into Saudi Arabia. Why?

The same reason why Israel gave the UAE. A piece of the Iron Dome. Why? Because it looks like Iran is intent on alienating. All the Gulf states, and they're going to go for the jugular because it can't reach America and go for our bases.

I hope we've armed up and gotten our bases more ready and hardened up those sites.

So we're going to go to school, we're going to open up that straight, but maybe not all at once. First, we're going to start hitting the sites. And now we have these new leaders who have emerged and been in transient, and I think they're going to pay the price for that. Here's the President of the United States. President of the United States was talking earlier and put out on Truth Social that time is running out for them to talk and come clean.

And here is Bob Gates on Iran.

Now, why do I think? Why do I bring Bob Gates? Because he's a more strict Republican, you know, typical Republican, more classic. I wouldn't say neocon, that's a lazy topic. Uh a lazy label.

But Bob Gates was able to serve under President Obama, was able to serve under Bush after he was on the Iraqi study group and decided that the war was lost. And President Trump Bush said, thanks. How would you like to work for me? And he replaced Donald Rumsfeld, did a heck of a job, cut 13. Is it possible for the President of the United States to walk away.

and leave this for the Israelis to settle? No, I don't think he can walk away, and no, I don't think the Israelis can settle it. Um I don't think, as powerful as they are, they don't have the kind of power the United States has. And I think the President seems to have been very consistent and very clear that under no circumstances can Iran ever have a nuclear bomb.

Well, the only way you get to that Objective. Uh is Resolving this issue of the enriched uranium and any future plans for enrichment. I mean, I think I don't think that the nuclear program in Iran poses an imminent threat. After all, we bombed it twice.

So I thought he was very effective and he went on cut fourteen.

Well, I think some of the justifications have changed over time, but one thing, I think there have been a few things that have been consistent from the very beginning. One is, to eliminate Iran's ability to have a nuclear weapon. Another is to eliminate their military capabilities to attack their neighbors. The third is to eliminate the capability to support their surrogates, the Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis. Uh To sink their Navy.

I think those have all been articulated as objectives of this operation. And although the nuclear program Has been dramatically damaged and set back a long time. I think those other things, a lot has been accomplished. So Margaret Bran goes quickly, interrupted him there and said: if you want to see more, go to the Face of the Nation website. And you can see the rest.

Let's bring in Julian Epstein. He served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee and Staff Director of the House Oversight Committee for Democrats from 96 to 2001.

So far, you see outside John Fetterman, it seems like the senator from Pennsylvania, Julian, it seems like everybody over the weekend, Democrat, is hoping that Iran wins this war and outlasts Trump. Because they see rising gas prices benefit them politically. I think that's right, Brian. And we saw the same thing with the Chinese coverage last week as well, where it seemed to be that the left Democrats and the left wing media were Sort of repeating and parroting a lot of the framing of the Chinese. China is a country that I think is in plateau.

I think it will never overtake the United States, but you never hear that from the coverage. Similarly, On Iran, it seems to be that the left is almost rooting for Trump to fail because if Trump succeeds, I think then they are exposed. As having um completely unreal and failed policies of appeasement.

So I think it sounds like at every turn, you hear the left rooting for Rooting for failure and sort of parroting all the lines that Iran wants them to parrot, which is. The short-sighted view that because gas prices are high, we should mortgage our future to a nuclear Iran. And it's a shame. The party would have never done this a generation ago. I know.

And the thing is, too, the anti-Semitism is running through your party pretty rampant. And it's pretty much, I think, the thing we're going to see on the debate stage, and we're seeing already is that you're going to have a show of hands if you promise not to take money from APAC, which is a lobbying group. It's a Jewish lobbying group. Can you believe that? There would be times in which people would speak in front of groups like that, and now you want to pledge that you won't take money from groups like that.

Yeah. Yeah, APAC is an American group. It's not an Israeli group. It's a group of Americans that support Israel because it's the only progressive democracy in the region. It's the only democracy that respects human rights.

It's the only r democracy that respects plurality. It is the only army that operates on a Humane and lawful way. In fact, no other army in the Mideast even competes with Israel. But what you're seeing in the Democratic Party. Is they have been calling Republicans Nazis so long that they don't realize what Nazis are when they come up against them.

Graham Plattner has a. has a Nazi tattoo. Abdul Al-Sayyad is coddling pro-Iranian voters. Mandami, Mandami's New York, Mandami's wife, as we know, reportedly liked pro-Hamas. Oh, yeah.

Social media posts after October 7th. You even saw the other day Islamists, Islamist men outside a Jewish woman's school. Doing their prayers, I mean, what is that about? Outside a woman, a Jewish woman, a Jewish girls' school. Doing query.

I mean, we see Jewish attacks every day, almost every day, in Mondamis, New York. And This This movement, this anti-Semitic movement, is the closest thing to Nazism we've actually seen in the United States. And the Democrats and the left are building alliances. With the people that support this.

So I want you to hear what Bill Morris said over the weekend: Cut 37. All the people likely running for president now on the Democratic side want it known. They don't take money from APAC, the Israeli lobby. A stanch which gives permission to actual anti-Semites to say, see, We're right about Israel. That's a dirty money from a dirty country.

Oh please, you take money from crypto and factory farmers and big tech. From Diddy and Weinstein and Epstein, but APAC is too far? Let me just say this to all who ask me. Why are you harder on the Democrats than you used to be? Until you fix this whole issue, stop asking me.

He's right. This is what you've been saying, Julian. 100%. And, you know, where I think he also went on to say, if I. Got the clip right.

You know, where are these protests about the mass murders that are going going on in Syria? The hundreds of thousands, if not millions, that have happened in Sudan. All of the folks that have been killed by Hezbollah and southern Lebanon. Christians in Nigeria. Christians in Nigeria over 125,000 since 2009.

Where are all these protests? And it's the whole thing. No Jews, no news. You could have the greatest atrocities going on against Muslims all throughout the Middle East, and none of these groups will pipe up and say a word. But when Israel is doing this.

When Israel is defending itself. In an arm, in a war that was a seven-front war, and when it is abiding by all of the laws of international warfare, and when the sort of the civilian-militant ratio has been lower than any other. Urban war ratio of casualties that we've ever seen, all of a sudden. Israel is a apartheid genocidal state. You're either really, really stupid and uninformed.

That's one option. Or the other option is you are a complete Nazi anti-Semite. And I am sorry to say that my party, the Democratic Party, is increasingly aligning. With the hard left, that I think is unarguably anti-Semitic at this point. I don't think there's any doubt about it.

I think there's a few other things going on and I think Democrats are flipping out on the gerrymandering thing. It looks like the Republicans now would have a nine seat advantage.

So overall, the Cook report says Democrats are going to need to flip nine seats. It's going to be much harder, especially if this war gets to a positive end and gas and oil goes down. I think that's probably right. I think we're moving closer and closer to a toss up in the House. Democrats have a three point advantage.

At this point in the midterms in twenty eighteen, Brian, Democrats had a twelve point advantage in the generics. Um People keep talking about Trump's approval rating. It's about 40%, hovering at about 40%. Democrats probably at 25%.

So when you hear the left complaining about Trump's ratings, they never complete the sentence. What are the Democrats' ratings? And Democrats are increasingly viewed as having a toxic brand, in part because of what we were just talking about, the alliance with extremists, extreme anti-Semites, but extremists on a lot of other issues as well. And because they don't really have any meaningful plan. But I think more importantly, Brian.

while it's a nine point while it's a nine seat margin right now probably with redistricting, what we're looking at in the next four years is a shift that could be as high as thirty to forty seats. And that's because you have the voting rights case And then you're going to have the 1930 census 2030 census. And you probably in the read in the voting rights case, you could have 12, 13 seats flip. In the census, you could have another twenty, I think, as many as twenty flip. And that's because people are leaving high tax blue states and going to low tax red states.

So I think you're looking at after The 28 Uh election. I think you're looking at a massive realignment in American politics towards the GOP. The other thing, what would you how would you redistrict? I would love to go independent a true independent panel redistricting forget and making race impossible to redistrict, make that unconstitutional which it should be.

So having said that, how would you do it, Julian? What could work for all 50 states? I agree with you because I think this redistricting is a race to the bottom. I think it disenfranchises forty five percent of the electorate in any state, whether it's Republican or Democrat. And that's bad because it makes people go to war with one another when they feel like they're disenfranchised.

I would get, I would try to do something on a state by state. You can develop a compact, which would sort of require, create a lot of incentives for states to do this on a consistent basis and to make districts as compact and contiguous as possible without regard to either party, race, or anything else. And I think what you want to do is you want to have you want to keep communities, local communities, as much as possible represented in one district so that there is a healthy debate inside that community about what policy ought to be. But I think what we're seeing right now is the opposite of that. I think that when Democrats complain.

about redistricting. I think it's a fair response from Republicans that the Democrats did at first look at the Northeast states, look at much of the Midwest. I think they sort of they have been redistricting for decades.

Sorry, they have been gerrymandering for decades.

So, I don't think it's a fair complaint from the Democrats, but I agree there ought to be a national solution to this problem that enfranchises people in one state. That may not be 50%, they may be 45%, as we see in the United States. Like you said, the whole Northeast has shut out the Republicans, even though they make up 40% of almost every state you just mentioned.

So, that's important. Julian, thanks so much. Always great to get your insight. Back in a moment. Uh Strong opinions backed by hard facts.

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It's not the sexiest topic, but it's most important topic, probably outside the war in Iran, and that is the race for our rare earth, natural minerals, start mining in this country and they stop doing it and don't worry about it. It's not going to be a problem.

Well, for China, just grab 90%, I believe, of rare earth. And now, if you want your phone, if you want your phone made, if you want your weapons done, you need to go to China. We found that out the hard way. The President basically got handed a grenade with the pinpole when he took office. He spent the rest of the time after China threatened to withhold rare earth sales sales, not gifts, sales to us.

They had ultimate leverage. We're working hard to change that. And so is my next guest when we get back, the founder and chief executive officer of Real Alloys, Lippi Sternheim. And she's working hard to get this done for defense manufacturing and everything else, how much progress we're making. We'll find out shortly how effective it's going to be.

Also, just a quick reminder: you can always check out the YouTube page to find out more of this. If you're going to miss the interview just coming up, youtube.com/slash at the Brian Kilme show. And don't forget, go to BrianKilme.com for my Fox Nation stage shows. May 30th is going to be arena, Nevada, July 11th over in Pensacola, Florida. Then we've got big dates in the fall with my new book, Uniting the States.

Gonna be in, gonna be, well, just about everywhere, including Jacksonville. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Joining us now is Lippy Sternheim. He is the founder of and CEO of Quartz Lake Mining, a Nevada-based integrated gold mining company that has spent more than two decades de-risking and developing mining and oil and gas projects.

And man, do we need that expertise now? Lippy, first off, where are we at now with domestic mining? Have we all gotten a wake-up call as a country, cut the red tape, allow people like you to do your job? In the space of rare earths, I think, which was the main focus of. of the administration right now.

I think that's the case. In my previous company, as you just mentioned, Coast Lake Mining, which was a gold mining company that I was running before this rare earth company, which is Realoys now, there's I I don't think anything in government moves at the speed of light as it is working when there's an issue as the Chinese problem that you have now with rare earths. But there is things being done to make domestic mining easier and better from a permitting side. I mean, there are certain states you saw. Where would you if you had your drothers, where is the most rare earth and what is the most where is the most untapped potential?

Yeah. So rare earths, just a little background, rare earths is obviously, as you know, the China problem because they control most of the supply chain of rare earths from mine to magnet. You can't come up with a new mine wherever you want. It's called rare for a reason. But the actual bottlenecks that are the problem facing the country is more on the processing side.

processing, refining, metallizing and making magnets, which is the ultimate end product of the rare earth, which goes into everything that we everything that we have, whether it's an iPhone or a F thirty five, a missile, anything that's techno tech that's technological today. And everything in between works on rare earth magnets, and that today is a major problem. The the Focus of Realloys, which is the rarest company that I run today, is for the defense sector, because there's a law coming into effect in January which bans any company with a Chinese nexus. from being used in the defense supply.

So not only everything currently is made in China, but the government is saying we not only cannot make it there anymore, but we can't use it in other defense supplies.

So we're mostly focused on that, which is the heavy rare earth segments of rare earths.

So now, okay, refining is the challenge. Got it.

So mining, we know where to find it.

Now we have to refine it. What's the problem with building a refinery? Yeah. So, a couple of I'll take you through it in the steps.

So, first, the mine.

So, we happen to own a mine in western Saskatchewan, which is called Huetus Lake, which has heavies and lights. You know, Mountain Pass, which is in California, has lights. And then you have a few other mines, and we've seen some of the potential with other companies that have coal mines that potentially have rare earths.

So, the mining is not the rarest part. Trump said it in Davos. There's nothing rare. The rare earths is not the rare part, it's the processing that's rare. Elon Musk tweeted it, I think, two years ago.

So, the mining were passed. The refining and processing is a bit of a problem because you have all rare earths. Had for the most part uranium and thorium, which is radioactive components.

So, to just set up a processing facility in the middle of the States is not so easy. As you know, Alinus had a, which is an Australian or Malaysian company, sorry, with processing in Malaysia, had a grant from the government in 2001, I think they got it, 2001, for a couple of hundred million to build a processing facility in Texas. But they actually never got the EPA permits, and this year they canceled it.

So building a processing facility here is not as simple as just let's set one up on the I ten and you're up and running. We actually partnered with the Canadian provincial government in Saskatchewan, which had built and is currently finishing building a North American processing facility. Which has zero ties to anything Chinese, no components, no parts, no chemicals, nothing in the party. It's completely devoid of any Chinese nexus. And we signed a deal with them for an offtake from that, from what they make.

Once we get that, we can metallize it, which is our company in Ohio, which we own. We have the technology to metallize or the expertise to metallize rare earths. Once you metallize it, so think about it this way: it goes from ground rocks to powder oxides to metal. to then magnets.

So there's different stages. The metallizing and the magnet making, that they're building the supply chain we're building, and one or two other companies are building up the capacity for that in the States. But it's a forty year old problem. It's not going to be built in an hour and a half. You say seventy percent China controls ninety percent of the rare earth processing and seventy percent of the rare earth resources.

I know we've dealt with other countries. I think Argentina, Australia. I'm pretty sure it's Indonesia or Malaysia. What other countries are we working deals with? And can American company profit from that?

The answer is yes. Not just profit. I'll get back to that in a second. First, let me answer your question. But the answer is yes.

We're working with companies from Kazakhstan, Brazil, and we're talking to some companies in Africa. There's companies all across countries all across the world that potentially could supply the rare earths, call it the raw ingredients to make this stuff. That is definitely possible. And there's again a few mines in North America, as well as Greenland. We're very much, we signed an LOI or an MOU months ago with Critical Metals out of Greenland with their Tan Breeze project, which is one of the largest heavy rare earths projects in the world.

And as you know, Trump is a fan of Greenland and mining rare earths there. The second part of whether and again, whichever mine comes online, one of the most important parts is the processing facilities that we're currently finishing being built with the SRC and our next plant, which is our Phase II, are agnostic to whatever feedstock you have.

So going back to mining, typically a mine, if you have a gold mine or any other mine, you build a mine. you have your rock, so you say, okay, how can I process this? And you build your mill on site and you go kind of mine and then make your way to the end product. We kind of work backwards. We said the bottleneck is refining and processing.

We're going to build a refining and processing facility that can take anybody's feedstock Anybody's rocks And process it, which is complicated because you have different versions. You have the Brazilian stuff, which is what they call ionic clays, and then you have bastazite, you have manazite, you have eutalite, you have all kinds of, and it's not, you know, separating them is not like putting gold into a mill. You know, you take a mill, you wash it through, and you got your gold. This is a very 21 different rare earths usually coming together, all very, very. Complicated on how to separate them.

Separation is a big part of it.

So we're agnostic to that, and it definitely could be done. Wow. So, is this an area of investment? Do you sense? That there's a lot of people, a lot of entrepreneurs like yourself that want to get involved in this, see opportunity.

It's not an entrepreneurial business. You have to own the mines. You have to have the technology for the processing. There's a reason why it's still rare and why there's a handful, literally a handful of companies that are doing it. You need to own a mine or you have to have a processing facility and the technology for these things.

China is ahead by 40 years. They have all the technology. They built it up. What we're doing is we're building it with today's technologies, AI, where we had 80 people in China doing something. We can do it with 2NAI, but you still have to have the know-how and the technology to actually do that.

Each step of the process, as I mentioned, is very technical, very complicated, and takes years. We've been doing through a company in Ohio that we originally bought, but it's part of the company PMT. They were doing stuff for the government for many years and metallizing the different specialty metals, whether you call them rare or exotics, different categories of rare earths.

So you have that. But it's not something you can just start tomorrow and say, okay, I'm going to go into the rare earth business. It's a lot more complicated than that. You asked me before about profiting for American companies. Obviously, we're American companies.

We're building for the defense. Our main focus is the defense to make sure the defense has defense, Department of War. The men and women of uniform, they have everything they need, and that is a sole focus. In rear earth, you have lights and heavies. Lights go into your EVs, into everything, every magnet you make.

Think defense of high performance, high temperature, those kind of things.

So we're more focused on that. But you have to have been blessed with that stuff, you know, have it in the rocks in your mind too, or have the offtakes to get that.

So it's going to be it's a bit of a process. But man, how many do you get the sense that the government is in support of this? Is there any type of anybody you can lean on from Doug Bergham to the Secretary of Energy to help you with this process?

Okay.

So the administration has many pockets. And if you look at the other myself and the other four or five companies in the space that are American that have gotten help from the government, it's from many avenues. We got a letter of intent from Exxon Bank for $200 million towards our next facility, which we're building. There's the Department of War, there's the Pentagon, there's the DFC, the OFC, the administration itself. They've taken investment in some companies so far.

They plan to take more. It's not a matter of kind of streamlining permitting for environmental at this point. It's actually the administration backing the space in a general, you know, backing the space, pouring money into it. Because the problem with the Chinese, the Chinese problem is that the dumping and the prices, they made it Unprofitable for American companies. We are in a niche of defense, so it's a little different for us personally because of our focus.

But any company in rare earth today would have a problem competing with the prices of China. China, you know, they build it up every few years for themselves, they dump pricing, they play with it so that it becomes unaffordable and not of interest to American companies to do it. That ship has sailed, I think, because of this administration and what Trump has done for the rare earth problem. He realized the significant problem of way of life can be affected by it at every single step we take and everything we do and made sure to say no more. We're now going to fund this and we're going to push this industry forward.

And the administration is doing that from every From every part of the administration. And there's many doors open there to support us. That's great. I think people understand it. I think the country has been educated on it.

I think that's great. Thanks so much for sharing your story, Lippy. I just really wish you all the luck because we need people like you willing to take the risk or understand the business because there's an urgency. I can't believe we allowed this to happen over the years. I mean, it's astounding to me.

This is astounding to you. It's astounding in the sense of It's what you give money.

Sometimes things are cheap.

Well, the whole you know, in general, the China for all the years, what what the reasons, what why the people go there for business. It was much cheaper, or maybe environmental reasons, or all of these other reasons. But when you realize one day that it affects every single thing you do, we cannot be the most advanced country. We cannot be the most defense in defense or technologically country. If you don't have this, and I think at this point they realize that.

It is astounding that they let it go that far. Remember, we used to be the leader in this as well, years ago, and then it all went off short for, again, whether it's environmental or cheaper or many other reasons involved. But with today's technologies and with this administration's backing, I think we'll be back there, I think, by 2030, which is our time frame for our mega plant.

Some of the other companies as well. I think by 2030, the United States will be at the forefront, the leader, and much cleaner, much better. We've invented processes, I'll just throw one thing in there, we've invented processes where it's cleaner as well, because it is a dirty business in processing any minerals. You know, you have hydrofluoric acid, we've invented a hydrofluoric acid freeway.

So we're technologically advancing it, getting better. I'm doing it the American way. Absolutely. Lippy Sternheim, thanks so much. Appreciate it.

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Well, you know, Shaquille O'Neal went back and got his degree after he left early at LSU. Then he went back and got his master's at the Phoenix School and then went at Barry University, got a PhD. He went back to LSU to be the commencement speaker. He had a great message and had some fun.

So, I'm going to leave you with five things: one, never stop learning. I am proud of you all today, but this is not the end of your journey. Make sure you continue, continue to strive. Continue to learn, continue to have fun. And continue to eat shackalicious gummies at your local 7-Eleven tomorrow.

Number two, youngsters. Before you succeed, you must first learn to fail. But in the words of the great Shaquille O'Neill, use failure as motivation. Yes, and he went on to say, Charles Barkley, one minute he's fat, the next minute he's skinny. Life is weird.

Now, Tom Brady also spoke at Georgetown University. You know, his career, sixth-round draft pick, 199th overall. You know, he was sixth on the depth chart, maybe seventh when he went to University of Michigan. Even his senior year, he had to split time with Brian Greasy and Drew Henson. His junior year, Brian Greasy, and senior year with Drew Henson, who ended up not panning out as baseball or football player.

Here's Tom Brady's message to the Georgetown graduates. The odds are your 28-3 moment won't end with a trophy or a parade. It may not even end in victory. These are all just momentary tests. where failure isn't final.

Only quitting is. I want you to challenge yourself with ideas that are uncomfortable and people who push you to be your very best. Even if one of those people is a cranky old coach who cuts the sleeves off his sweatshirt and screams at you all day, do your job.

Okay, that's too specific. In my experience, you guys get the point. Yes, I do get the point. And he is a great messenger. And I just pointed this out, Allison.

He is better looking every year. I don't point that out with many men, but it's unbelievable. Then they have him walking the runway a little bit later that day, looking like the Terminator guy, wearing all leather. He is a very good-looking man, but he was never this good looking. Look at him when he went into the Patriots as a draft pick.

But I feel like he's gotten a little too pretty. Like, I feel like he's injecting too much into his face. But it doesn't, does it look like he's doing stuff work? Because usually, faces, you know, you see the bow tie, like, I see it's getting thinner. I don't know, I feel like it's different for men, but I feel like he's trying too hard to be pretty now.

Really? I mean, he's still a good-looking man, don't get me wrong. And he's available. Apparently.

Next. Today's teens are more sober and less social generation. Axios reports say researchers show there's no single cause but point to a mix of factors, including post-COVID, social disruption, and heavy reliance on digital communication.

Some experts suggest the shift isn't just about health consciousness, but also a reduced in-person socializing, fewer real-world peer gatherings. In other words, Gen Z has very few friends to go party with and drink with. Do you believe that? I do believe that and I do think it's sad. They should, you know, go out and have the keg parties.

And I mean, that's when you grow up a little bit. Yep. I listened. I mean, I think there was a famous professor that just came out and said that.

Next. Pickle parties are the latest Gen Z summer trend. A new cultural trend called pickle parties gaining traction. Featuring theme parties centered around pickle-flavored food, drinks, and entertainment. Events like the Big Brine and Pickle Fest are promoting immersive food experience parties combining music, novelty snacks, and social gatherings.

Former reality TV personality Nicole Palazzi. Oh, from Jersey Shore. We don't call her Nicole, do we? She's Snooky, no? Yeah, Snooky, yeah.

Once joked about pickle juice chats on Jersey Shore, highlighting how pickle culture has appeared in pop culture. I remember Vito Interfermo, a middleweight champion, Brooklyn. was a bleeder. And the only thing that toughened up his skin is to put his face in pickle water. And the brine, the pickled brine, toughened up his face.

Really? Am I right, Pelix? Pete doesn't remember. That means like sticking it in vinegar, basically, that tighten up your skin. It worked.

He ended up beating Marvin Hadlin. Because of the pickle juice. Pickle juice.

Next. Brian did that, too. He would use picklebrian because he used to constantly get blisters.

So early in his career, he used to put picklebrian. But you probably don't want it in your face if you want to be attractive. It's the opposite of a moisturizer. That's true. But if it stopped him from bleeding so much, I mean, that was the best.

It was it wasn't to look like Tom Brady. It was to stop bleeding. Yes, that's true. The 61st Academy Award Country Music Awards took place in Las Vegas, honoring the biggest names in country music. Ella Langley dominated the night, winning five major awards, including Female Artist of the Year.

Her wins include Song of the Year and Single of the Year for the breakout Choose in Texas plus Music Event of the Year, plus Music Event of the Year with Riley Green. Cody Johnson won Entertainer of the Year and Male Artist of the Year, marking one of the biggest honors of the night. The ceremony was also hosted by country music star Shania Twain. And streamed live on Prime Video. Megan Marooney led nominations going into the show.

Well, other major winners include Brooks and Dunn and the Red Clay Strays. Country Music Award, something I used to not appreciate, now I do, although I didn't watch. I was watching replays on FaceTime and Meet the Press. That's how exciting my life is. Many of the Chat and Bridge.

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