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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Killmeat Show. We have a lot on tap today. Senator Joni Ernst is going to call at Quiz in the Senate in November. How does she feel about what they can get done in the incoming time?

Also, as a member of Armed Services, Homeland Security, and chairing the emerging threats and capabilities, are we going to finally go back to war with Iran? I don't think there's any other choice. And keep in mind, we got a great YouTube channel, youtube.com/slash at the Brian Killmeat Show.

So, should you miss anything else? Also, this hour, country music legend Clint Black and Rich Lowry will be joining us, who cannot sing country music but knows a lot about the news.

So, let's get to the big three. Number three. Mark endorsed Kamala Harris back in 2021.

Well, he made a mistake. It was a big mistake. We're going to get drugs out. And Mark wanted to be a part of it. And I think Mark was very gracious.

He said, this is something that really works. First time you've seen it. Working together, the Shark and the Apprentice, Cuban combines with President Trump to get the nation cheaper prescription drugs, which is a winner for everyone and shows Trump doesn't hold a grudge, but not the view. They're not happy. Number two, Baga.

Is the last dying breath of the Confederacy. And it could not be more true. But in response to the Confederacy, we have this moment here. of liberation. What a jerk.

Primary aftermath. Trump flexes and AOC gets a win over Shapiro. That's Democratic Governor Shapiro. On the left, the G Says Confederacy. Really?

It's the Democratic Party that brought us Jim Crow's segregation and yes, all that. And how dare they categorize the South as just that? Number one. I'm not doing this politically. I'm doing, look, everyone tells me it's unpopular, but I think it's very popular because I'm not going to let the world be blown up with my watch.

It's not going to happen. Donald Trump weighing in. Clock is ticking on a resumption of the war in Iran. But perhaps Trump's secret weapon is Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. I'll explain.

Let's bring in Senator Joni Ernst. Senator Ernst, there's a financial way to crack down on Iran right now, and Scott Besson's making great progress. Do you think they're beginning to feel the blockade and the pressure financially? Yeah, absolutely, Brian. Iran is feeling the pressure right now, economically, as we see the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

Most certainly militarily, if we strike back at them as well, which I would support the president if he decides to take that measure. Do you think we're at that part now? I don't see any promise with these negotiations. Where in the past you've heard that they said they want to let us take the uranium and we'll talk about 15 to 20 years with no enrichment.

Now they're not even talking that. They're talking reparations that we'll pay them back. Yeah, absolutely not, Brian. No way in heck are we going to do that? But I do believe that the president is on to something here.

God bless our president because he does believe in negotiations towards peace, and that's so important. But we have to realize at one point or another that this side of the equation, the Iranians, they don't want to see peace. They are not negotiating in good faith. And so they need a good, hard punch again to bring them either back to the table in good faith or we just take out the regime once and for all. Here's Admiral Bradley Cooper, who's CENCOM commander, who's put together this battle plan and might be putting another one together now.

Cut six. The ceasefire continues, and consistent with the president's direction, we've established a highly effective maritime blockade of Iran. To date, we've turned away 88 ships. There has been zero trade into Iranian ports and zero trade out of Iranian ports, squeezing Iran economically and creating powerful leverage for the ongoing negotiations.

So, I mean, that's where we're at right now. But are you surprised when Bradley Cooper, when Brad Cooper was in front of the Armed Services Committee House side yesterday? I don't know if you've seen some of the clips. But they were je every Democrat was saying we're losing, we lost, and trying to make this political. Yeah, they are trying to make it political.

And yes, I have watched some of those clips. And I actually sent Admiral Cooper a message and told him thank you for his rightful indignation about how this war was being characterized. It is not a U.S. loss. It's not over.

We are doing the right thing. And I know that this might be perceived as unpopular across the United States, but Thank God we have the president we do. Because sometimes you have to take actions that may not be the popular choice, but it is the right choice. And he is doing this to protect our great United States of America.

So I was talking to him yesterday, and he says most of the military want to go back and finish the job. He says the people we're talking to want to go back. He just feels as though he's doing the right thing. And we also know that Iran's been, you've been on those intelligence meetings. I'm not qualified to get in there, not security cleared.

So you know the danger of Iran for decades. And so does every CENTCOM commander. Senator, you're also working on another front. When it comes to the fraud front in Minnesota, you've had whistleblowers come forward and they're being cracked down on. Can you tell us more?

Absolutely. Today, I will hold a hearing in the Small Business Committee at 2:30 Eastern Time. We will have two of those Minnesota whistleblowers in front of our committee. These are whistleblowers who brought to the supervisors of various programs what they detected as fraud within those programs, and yet they were punished. For raising the alarm on these programs.

They were punished. We also have Luke Roziak, who is with Daily Wire. He has been doing a lot of investigation on the fraud in Ohio when it comes to home health care. It's a billion dollars that's been scammed from American taxpayers.

So we are going to talk about all of these issues of fraud within federal government programs and then what we can do to recover those dollars and hold people accountable. But again, so many whistleblowers have been shut down. By the supervisors within these programs that we're entrusted to protect.

So, a lot of these fraudsters are actually federal government employees.

So disheartening, Brian. My gut feeling: Governor Wilson knew everything about it. Elon Omar is going to be found to be complicit with it on the Feeding America, the Feeding Program, the Food Program, Feeding the Future, as well as the Autism Program. That whole community was feeding off and making millions of dollars off it. And the governor's acting as if, oh, I want to get to the bottom of this.

He looked the other way. And lastly, when it comes to the reconciliation package to fully fund the DHS. The President wants the ballroom security money put into that. There's Republicans that don't want to buy into it. Tillis doesn't want to do it.

It looks like Cassidy doesn't want to do it. Murkowski doesn't want to do it. And it looks like Collins doesn't want to do it. Will you get the votes to pass this? And the parliamentarians that push back a little bit, too.

Well, I really do hope so. This is $1 billion. It is not going towards the construction of the ballroom, but as you said, Brian, it is about the security. Anyone that has had the great opportunity and privilege to visit the White House, whenever you are checking onto the grounds, you're going through these temporary makeshift tents and the Secret Service are standing out there under tents and they're checking IDs. We need more permanent structures.

We need to ensure that the White House grounds are secured. It's incredibly important, not only for the safety of this president and every other future president, but our cabinet members and just general visitors that are going onto those White House grounds. This is about security. It is not about the ballroom.

So you, right. And you would vote for it, but it's up to you. I would support it because I do. Think it's incredibly important again to safeguard our president and every visitor entering those grounds. And by the way, he probably, for the record, the president probably not even got a chance to use it.

It's for the future other presidents.

So I don't get it. But here we go. It's the same thing with the wall back in the first term. And people wanted it until the president said he wanted it.

So Joni Ernst, appreciate it. Thanks so much. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Brian.

You got it. We come back. Clint Black, country music superstar, author of a brand new book, Killing Time, My Life and Music. He'll be in studio. Don't move.

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From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmade. Time to Kill the queen, the cradle and the grave Father, time still takes a toll on every that you say Lego tenders. Never gonna change the number on your day, the highest cost of living's dying. Yeah, who is that guy? He just said it.

Clint Flack, country music superstar, author of a brand new book, Killin' Time: My Life and Music. Clint, what could you tell us about that song? Actually, Killin' Time came out of just can't wait for things to start happening. But you came up with a second line off Killin' Time, and you knew it was a killer. Tell me about that.

No word from the record company. Two years from my big break till the record came out, and there's no word. We don't know when it's coming out. Hayden and I are driving to my guitar player driving to a gig on the north side of Houston talking about that. And he said, Well, the big wheels in Nashville just turn slowly.

And I said, I just hope they start turning soon because this killing time is killing me. And we both knew it was a song. The album was finished. Yeah, the album was finished, and we demoed that song and sent it to the record company, and they said, Hold the presses, this one needs to go on the album. And it went number one.

Yeah. How many number ones did you have off that first album? Five. And you went from nowhere to everywhere. Yeah, it was uh the the first thing was the video, uh, because the video outpaced the single, and all of us rav uh rav country fans just had CMT and the National Network and devoured it.

And so uh um so you know my image, my name, and that that that song, A Better Man, preceded me, and we were just. Pack in the the Country nightclubs.

So I'm reading your story. It's an excellent book. You really got to read it, especially if you want inspiration. You're a college graduate and you say to yourself, What am I going to be doing? You watched your friends graduate college and you watched them doing so well.

And here you are playing in bars, and most people aren't even looking up at you while you're playing, and it's smoky, and you're wondering if I'm ever going to make it. And you're thinking to myself, is my whole life passing me by?

So. You are a grinder. That's what I was. When I closed the book, I go, wow, this guy grinds. Like, you were going to find a way to make it, but no one gave you anything.

You had to, you literally earned it. There was no friend in the business. There was help along the way, but no, nobody in the business. I read all the books: Platinum Rainbow, this business of music, all that. It wasn't until I read a book, and I had dropped out of high school, terrible student, and I started trying to make up for that by reading nonfiction and self-help books and history books like yours I've read later in life.

But I found this book called Time Management: Work Smarter, Not Harder. And one of the exercises. Who wrote that? Was it Tracy? Brian Tracy?

I can't remember. But I read all those books to you. Yeah, I did the exercise, goal setting, activities to reach the goals. And that's what turned the corner for me. And you just said, okay, every day I'm going to do something else to further my career.

Always check and call.

Something off. And it's so important to have those other jobs to find out what job you wanted. Number one, and number two, you said the key was your sales job. Because you had to sell yourself. Right, and sell your music.

And you learn to sell by selling subscriptions to newspapers. Yeah, and having doors slammed in my face. One time I knocked on the door after it had been slammed in my face and a very, very angry man opened the door for a second time, and I had to think fast and give him a reason why he shouldn't be mad at me. And you gave him. You calmed him down.

He didn't buy the paper. Right. But what you got used to was rejection. Yeah. Right.

Okay. Life goes on. I've knocked on 10 doors. I didn't get any sales. All right.

Move on. Yeah. Had to be assertive and learn to reason with people.

So you write this music, you get five number ones, but you sign with RCA, you have a manager, the same manager as EZ Top. And when did you first feel like you arrived? Because I know in your book you describe hearing yourself on the radio for the first time. Is that when you thought you arrived? Yeah, being on the radio is a big deal.

You know, going around doing the TV shows, that's, you know, you're making your way. I think... You know, what I said when I won the Horizon Award, which was what they called the New Artist Award back then.

So it was my first year out. I won the New Artist Award for the Country Music Association. I stepped up on stage, and now I'm looking out at all my jukebox heroes. And, you know, the audience in front of me is filled with everyone I grew up listening to. Give me an idea.

Throw some names out. It would have been Reba. It would have been George Strait, Merle Haggard. Roy Clark. Roy Clark and Holly Parton, and on and on and on.

And you're there with a trophy, looking at them and saying, Is this happening? And what I said was, This feels like I'm stepping into a picture I've been looking at all my life. Wow. And that's the best way to describe it. I've just stepped into the painting.

So, do you think visualization in retrospect had a lot to do with your breakthrough, besides your talent, your work ethic? Did you visualize that moment? And did it almost feel familiar? No, I was careful not to try to imagine and dream too much. I just knew I needed to find a manager, get a record deal, get on the radio and just try to get up in front of audiences and play.

Right. And do you remember the first time you didn't have to worry about money? Oh, there's a thing in the book about the first check, and it took a while before any money came in. And I I think it was for $130,000. And I thought I was Elvis.

Buying everyone a car. When you had no money. Yeah. $130,000. Just hand them out.

And the guy at the music store, Kevin Perry, had been selling me strings the cheapest he could. He sold me a guitar on layaway, which he wasn't supposed to do. I would have to run down early Saturday mornings and hang it on the wall so that when the Martin guitars rep came around, he didn't have to account for it. It was there. And then I could come back and get it and go about my gigs.

And when I got that check, I went in and I bought three Martin guitars from him. Paid cash, and he started calculating my normal discount. I said, No, thanks. I can pay full price. It makes me emotional now because this guy saved me so many times by.

You know, selling me strings I could afford and that guitar. And now I proudly walked in as a full-paying customer. But Clint Black, do you know how good he probably feels? Because he played a real straight. I called him to see if I could tell that story in the book because I didn't want to get him in trouble with the Martin guitar.

So I called him. He was thrilled. Yeah. And it started with: you know, you dropped out of school, right? It was a very blue-collar neighborhood.

It wasn't unusual for kids in your neighborhood to drop out of school. Right. I'm the youngest of four boys, and only one of us graduated. And why would that? You just never thought homework was a big deal because you're obviously extremely bright.

Oh, thank you. I just was a terrible student. I didn't know how to process what I was being taught. I didn't know how to take notes and listen to the next thing that was being said. I was overwhelmed.

And by the time I reached a certain point, there was no getting past that. And then, as Clint Black decides to become a musician, the first instrument was? Harmonica. Who gave it to you? A guy named Leslie Stofford, who was great harmonica players, tootling down the street.

I'm moping on the porch with my arm in a cast from falling out of a tree. And I asked him to play Whammer Jammer by Jay Giles band, one of the greatest harmonica songs ever. He played it. I told him I wanted to be a harmonica player, and he gave me that harmonica. Started me on my way.

And I started making tens of cents in front of the pool hall out there. And selling subscriptions. And then who knew? Clint Black ended up becoming Clint Black. It's all in your brand new book.

It is out this week. It is called Killing Time: My Life and Music. More with Clint Black in just a moment. You have a segment you could say for the other time? Yeah, I'll use it.

All right. It's not as good as Carson, which you've on many times, but I'm having more fun with you now. I'm not having to throw any cats through my falsetto, though. Oh, yeah. That was what he said.

More on that later. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

So, the great Clint Black is in the studio today, and he is very excited, and he should be because his memoir is out, Killing Time, My Life, and Music. And Clint, we were talking before you, and thanks for coming in. And you got to go grab the book. Even if you're not into music, just talking about if you have a goal and you want to accomplish that goal, you only see the finished product, Clint Black. But he lets you know how Clint Black became Clint Black.

So, when you were going over the journey and recounting this, How did you remember it all? Was it clear to you? Do you remember the 19-year-old, the 22-year-old, the 27-year-old? I remember a lot, and I had helped. Craig Shelburne helped me with the book, and he had just finished the Opry 100 book.

Great researcher. He went and found out a lot of stuff, interviewed me, ad nauseum, transcribed it for me and put it in documents so I could digest and rewrite. And just a lot of timeline stuff and sat with me and my wife and daughter, sat with me and the band guys who were still around.

So I'm watching this and I'm like feeling your struggle and then you break out and the whole time during the book you're letting it be clear there's something going wrong with your money. And your manager really screwed you. And he took 100% of your publishing. Why don't you describe the other two contracts?

Well, it's interesting. He had me sign them in a particular order. First, the publishing contract, which it's unusual. To sign over 100% of the publishing. No, I didn't, but especially without an advance.

I mean, a publisher can take half of your publishing and give you, you know, $30,000, $40,000. Usually you're an emerging artist and you need money. And then the next contract was the production contract, and he took half of all of my production royalties. And then the third contract he had me sign was the management contract. And the reason he had me sign that last is because had I signed it first, he would have had a fiduciary duty to advise me to not sign the other two.

Wow. And so I had testimony from the guy who worked for him sent him and told him the order to do it in, and he testified. Who's this guy? The guy who told me that. No, no, who's your manager?

Oh, the manager, Bill Hamm. Whose big group was EZ Top? ZZ Top, yeah. Did ZZ Top get screwed too?

Well, I don't know exactly. But more than likely, he didn't just learn under you. But you're here, you're an artist, you get your big break, and you are getting a big break. And he does know people.

So at the same time, you have no money.

So you think you're not worried that much about a dollar here, a dollar there. Little do you know.

So he saw something to you. And you begin to emerge as a talent. When did you start to realize that your appearances, your album sales, your number ones, your awards are not resulting in? Renumeration that's adequate with that success. Yeah, I had uh um I told you that story where I'm in Nashville and I'm I don't have any money.

I'm already broke and now I'm in Nashville in a hotel. With an RCA contract, you think. Yeah, I'm recording overdubbing stuff for the album, and I'm out of money now, and I'm sitting in a hotel. Hungry. And uh And I called the management office and couldn't reach anyone.

And now I'm going to call my producer, James Stroud. And now shame is building in me because I have to call and tell him I don't have any money for food. I'm twenty-six. 27, maybe. But I've been living hand to mouth working in the clubs.

So I can't do that when I'm away. And so there's, you know, there's just the mouth, no hand.

So I call him. He says, meet me across the street. And he buys me a pizza. And the next day, he calls the manager. When I get back to town, the manager asked me to bring in my receipts for all my expenses for a month, and it was two thousand one hundred sixty dollars.

So from that point on, I got exactly that amount and a stipend. And only that amount, never a penny over. He didn't even round it up. And so it would be years and the lawsuit before I found out that RCA had given him a million-dollar advance. Which was supposed to go to you.

Yeah, I saw none of that.

Well, he had his contract, so he was just going to get half of it. And then when I realized things didn't feel great. But when I told him I was working on the third album and asked if he could meet with me, and I had fallen in love with Lisa Hartman, and we were going to get married. From Knott's Landing? Yep, and he didn't like that.

And he told other people that he can't let that marriage happen. And so now I'm on the phone with him, asking him if he can come out and meet with me for picking which songs I've written will go on the album. And no, no, he can't come out. No, he can't come out. And then he explodes at me, you know, cussing me out and telling me he can't just jump up and come wherever I want.

And when he yelled at me, that was the point where I said, I have to get another lawyer and look at what sort of power I have in this relationship. Because he thought if you got married, you wouldn't be this the women wouldn't be pursuing you because you're married and off the market. It was under the guise of that, but he told someone else that would offer us some insight that he used the term we can't let the camel get its nose under the tent. You know what that means. And it was and it so happened that Lisa asked me a couple of questions after that.

And I realized that I was like, where's your money? Like, who's this? Yeah, how's this w how does this work? And you know, she'd been in the business a while, had, you know, record deals and uh and then I realized I didn't know the answer and I had better find out. And that's what he was afraid of.

And you found out and you end up suing him for a while. And RCA says, You don't have a contract with me. I have a contract with your manager. They sued me. And they sued you too.

It's so weird. I know. I know Billy Joel has an even worse story than you when his brother-in-law took all his money. But I just think with boxers and artists, I always see boxers literally fight their way up the ladder. And nine out of ten have a situation where their promoter's taking their money, the manager's taking their money, or both of them taking their money.

And you guys are the reason. It's good to have a good team around you. But you don't have a team without the artist or the athlete. Yeah, and we we we don't uh you know, uh uh as a young man I didn't know I needed to know my banker better than I know my manager. You know, uh, I I needed to uh and they keep you so busy, by the way, that you can't go and find things out.

You know, whenever I have time to do that, yeah.

So I was talking to Stormy Warren, who's a huge country music personality, and he broke down to me he broke down to me how little artists make, writers and singers, that you have to make your money in concerts, so you're constantly playing. Who cut this deal? Because you only get like a penny. You're writing the music, you're performing the music, we're listening to the music.

So we think you're getting rich off this, but in reality, you're not. I'm making tens of dollars off Spotify.

So let's say you're you're you go number one. Right? It's a number one in the charts. How are you getting paid? Only downloads now?

Yeah, if you're topping the charts at radio, you're going to get a performance royalty and you will see that. Good. I don't know how that breaks out these days. But if you have tons of streams, you can make a little bit of money off of that too. I own all my own publishing, and so I get to see the numbers and how that translates.

So Merle Haggard was the one you write in your book that people always compared you to, and then you get a chance to meet him, and then you helped him with a song. What is that like when you get to meet the person you looked up to and get to know them?

Well, you know, it wasn't one of the things you dream about. You want to get in the business, get on the radio, you know, and play for big audiences. And then you start meeting these guys. First guy I met was Mel Tillis, and then Whalen, and then Haggard opening for me, special guest on my first headline tour. And he would stop by the bus on his way to the stage.

Just about every show. And tell me things half of which I'm sure were true. And just fun stuff. And it it's it's you're just sitting there pinching yourself, I can't believe watching him on stage every night, singing all the songs we sang in the bars.

So, Clint, with everything that you've accomplished and all the number ones, you're still performing. Is there a goal out there still for you? Yes, I want to be really good at the guitar. You still want to get back? I still practice all the time.

I think I'm a better performer, entertainer now.

Songwriting, I'm getting better. I fill the reservoir. I fill up the well so that I can keep going back to it to write songs. And how proud is your family of you, of what you did? Oh, they think I'm great.

You're being sarcastic. But they were very, I mean, they believed in you when you had no money. You were going nowhere. They thought you had something, right? Yeah, they've told me that they're proud of me.

But we're, you know, we're four men who pick on each other. And sincerity is overrated. We love each other. And that's, you know. Also, four stay in your own neighborhood, a rough neighborhood.

Your mom had to pick up and leave because it was so rough.

So nothing was easy, and nobody could... could be more appreciative. It's a great story. Clint Black, thanks so much for writing it and thanks for living it. Thank you.

Thanks for having me on. Great to see you. Absolutely. We'll do it again and I can't wait to see what's next. Back in a moment, we'll have to talk politics.

No more fun music stuff. Rich Lowry's next. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kill Meat Show. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead.

Why did I go to Islamabad, Pakistan? Why did I spend, I think, probably 22 hours on a plane going there, 24 hours coming back, and then 21 hours on the ground negotiating with the Iranians, is because we wanted to show a sign of good faith. The Vice President of the United States is willing to cut a deal so long as the Iranians are willing to meet us again on that core issue of never having a nuclear weapon. We think that we've made a lot of progress. We think the Iranians want to make a deal.

And that is the Vice President yesterday playing the role of Caroline Levitt, who gave birth and is going to be out for three months, probably less. And he held ran the press conference.

So they talked about why the President's talking. He says, I want to give Negotiations every chance possible, but my sense is there's no way. To avoid another military confrontation from what we've seen coming out of that ridiculous regime. Joining us now is Rich Lowry, who's Seen It All, editor of National Review. Rich, welcome back.

Hey, how's it going? They basically said, I want reparations for the war. I want sanctions relief. And then we'll open up the straight, but we still want to control it and take tolls. Please.

I mean, they're wasting everybody's time. Yes. That offer is garbage, as Trump said when they offered it just a couple of weeks ago, and he rejected it.

So a couple of options here, restarting the bombing campaign and or reopening the strait By force. I think the latter would be the one that would have the most the best effect and gets where we we want to be, or just swap the boycott for the straight if they're open to that, or just walk away. And I'm not entirely sure what the President's going to do. I don't think he's going to walk away. I don't think there's any chance he'll walk away.

But I do think that the Saudis asked for him to delay. Um and I maybe the Talks were something he used to give a additional reason, but evidently, UAE said, no, we're ready. And Israel has always been ready.

So, I'm not saying it's going to be easy, and I'm not saying they're not going to aim for the detalinization plants. But when Irondome gets delivered to the UAE and Pakistan puts 8,000 troops into Saudi Arabia, I think they know what's coming. And I also think we went to school during the ceasefire on what we did and didn't do. Yes. So my worry is if you start the bombing campaign again and we start hitting missiles again, what we eliminated made thirty percent of them.

So say we eliminate another thirty percent or whatever it is, Is that really going to get them to buckle? I think you'd have to go after economic targets, you know, bridges and power stations and oil refineries. You know, who did that? Bill Clinton in Kosovo. Yeah, I know he did, but Trump seems a little reluctant to do that.

I think that the biggest thing would be taking away their leverage of the strait. It's just that that is obviously a complex military operation and might be riskier than just operating from the air.

Now, there's been talk about a NATO operation to reopen the straight, which I think would be great. But again, I just think it's hard.

So I think we're a little stuck here. Maybe a bombing campaign will get things moving again and we'll get a deal. Trump clearly wants a deal, but I think the options aren't that great at the moment. Here is Scott Besson, because he has done a great job with the operation, the economic part of the economic fury. And they say that if you look at an MVP who's been working during the ceasefire, I was told by an administration official last night that Scott Bessins, the guy, cut nine.

As the United States targets the financial networks that enemy actors use to perpetrate terror, We trust that your participation here today reflects a readiness to stand with us in full. That will require, for example, our European partners to join the United States in taking action against Iran by designated financiers and unmasking its shell-in-front companies, shuttering its bank branches, and dismantling its proxies. It will require those of you from the Middle East. And Asia to root out Iran's shadow banking networks and networks of ship transportation obfuscation. Stop the ghost fleets.

And they've already stopped $500 million worth of crypto. Your thoughts on Scott Besson? Oh, I mean, he's been great. Besides Marco Rubio, I think he is the most valuable player in the administration. He's been terrific, has more attitude than you would have thought, more clapback against his Critics, and there's no doubt we're squeezing Iran.

And if we had all the time in the world, the regime eventually would collapse. Just the question is, how long can you sustain the economic pressure they are imposing on mostly the rest of the world more than us, but although we feel it here too.

So it's a game of chicken in that regard. Last night was the primary and big primary day. Tom Massey is now out. Your thoughts about the libertarian from Kentucky getting trounced. Yeah, so I have a lot of time for go-it-alone libertarians, but he'd become so much more than that.

He was so kooky. He was so viciously anti-Israel, believed in all sorts of conspiracy theories, and his district clearly wasn't into that. Donald Trump wasn't into that. And I just think Trump has an unbelievable grip on the party. We see evidence of it all over the map, Indiana a couple weeks ago with the state senators, Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, and now this.

So that's the key thing. You just can't cross him. He has a huge grip on the party, unlike anything we've seen since FDR or Andrew Jackson, and maybe even more. Than those presidents, because he's more willing to get directly involved. And if he doesn't like you, he'll just go and end your career.

And Massey is another scalp on the wall. Yeah, it is. And so here is Massey yesterday, vehemently anti-Israel. And listen to what he says about Ed Gallery, who is a former Navy SEAL, Cut 21. I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gowrine in Tel Aviv.

Intell what was he saying? He's in bed. With uh Israel? And that's the only reason why he won? Is that what he's saying?

Yeah, that's a suggestion of it. Totally graceless. Maybe he just imagined it was kind of a light-hearted joke, but it shows where he is on this stuff. And if you want to survive in the Republican Party, it's a bad idea to mobilize a coalition against yourself that consists of Donald Trump and a lot of pro-Israel donors. And they went after him for a reason, because he was so hateful towards Israel.

And while you have the center holding in the Republican Party and the Republican Party rejecting this sort of vicious conspiracy-minded anti-Zionism, it's taking over in the Democratic Party. You have mafia-like candidates winning these contests on the other side. like this guy, Rab, who won in Philadelphia, who was an AOC pick, who is a nemesis to Governor Shapiro, a Democratic successful governor with sixty percent approval rating. There's a there's a mini Civil War going on over there. Completely, completely.

And Trump can kind of impose rules the way the incumbent president does. And again, he has more power to do it than any other president I think we've ever had. Whereas there's no one in charge on the Democratic side. And so that's why you have someone like Hassan Piker, this radical pro-violence streamer, and small donors are running the show over there, and they can boost these candidates over the finish line. The next one might be the Michigan Senate primary up there where you have a radical in the race.

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It's the Brian Killmead show. I come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, where the trains are finally running again, allowing me to go home. Edward Lawrence at the bottom of the hour from FBN, White House correspondent. You see him asking a lot of questions in Capitol Hill. Yesterday, J.D.

Vance, and today, the President of the United States will make himself available. But he will also speak at the Coast Guard Academy graduation. Coast Guard really tested this year because of Venezuela and those boats, and of course, policing all the fentanyl and all the illegal drugs coming into our border because this president is doing a lot to stop it. Michael Goodwin is also standing by. And keep in mind, Michael knows this.

We have a YouTube page, youtube.com/slash at the Brian Killmeat Show.

So, before we get to Michael, let's get to the big three. Number three. Mark endorsed Kamala Harris back in 2020.

Well, he made a mistake. It was a big mistake. We're going to get drugs out. And Mark wanted to be a part of it. And I think Mark was very gracious.

He said, this is something that really works. First time you've seen it. Working together, The Shark and the Apprentice, Cuban combines with President Trump to get the nation cheaper prescription drugs, which is a winner for everyone. I'll give you the prices and how much we're going to save. The grudge is over, but guess what?

The view is not happy. Number two. MAGA is the last dying breath of the Confederacy. And it could not be more true. But in response to a Confederacy, we have this moment here.

of liberation. Yeah, AOC, she finds herself very exciting, and somebody who she fancies herself a big-time personality. And she might even be a power broker on the left, which is scary. Primary aftermath: Trump flexes, and AOC gets a win over Shapiro on the left. We'll review the results and what it means for both parties.

Number one. I'm not doing this politically. I'm doing it. Look, everyone tells me it's unpopular, but I think it's very popular. Because I'm not going to let the world be blown up at my watch.

It's not going to happen. Yep, it's not going to happen. Clock is ticking on a resumption of the war in Iran, but perhaps Trump's secret weapon is Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. I'll explain. Because Scott Besson has been given a quest to find out where Iran's money is and stop it.

Find out how they're making it and curtail it. They already stopped the crypto, $500 million.

Now they're asking the Arab states to freeze the funds that are not kept in their currency, which is virtually worthless. Stop the ghost ships being delivered. And he's making huge progress while calling on NATO to do the same thing with anybody holding these accounts in their countries. Is that too much to ask? Because NATO has been a no-show so far in this operation.

Michael Goodwin joins us now from the New York Post. Michael, it looks like our only option is to head back and finish the job. What do you think?

Well, look, Brian, I think the President has given Iran lots of time and lots of room to come to a conclusion without returning to war, and they've spurned every effort. You know, in my column, I write about how the President has been rock-solid consistent on this issue of nuclear weapons and that Iran may never get one. And he has been talking about this for 10 years, and he has acted on it in his first term. He made it a campaign issue in his second term for a second term, this time as well as the one he lost, but this time. And he has been consistent.

So this idea that it's just a war of choice, that he's flip-flopping around and setting different timetables, the underlying issue that he has stressed over and over. Over again is that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And his reasoning, I think, is very sound. They have said they would use it. And so we cannot have that.

And so I think for all his flaws and maybe talking too much and talking, you know, contradicting himself on other aspects of it, that part has been the backbone of his policy, and it remains so until this day. Yeah, so posting on the on X. As if his people have the internet and as if X wasn't banned in Iran, and it is. The supreme leader Khomeini, who's the son of the dead Ayatollah, who was killed, who is, I assume, too banged up to talk, but let's say it's him. He used his X post to frame Iran's conflict with the United States as a jihad, calling it to be a holy war, casting it as a religious duty to destroy us.

How many more examples does Iran have to give America before they understand this is not a war by Donald Trump that wasn't necessary? They're actually making it a holy war, and everybody in the Middle East knows what a menace they are right now. CENCOM goes on to say. They've stopped and turned around about 80 ships in our blockade. They picked up 10 mines yesterday in the strait itself and coached different ships to get through, including South Korea, as well as letting China get through.

But Scott Besson is the one tidying the squeeze on Iran. And we'll see what happens. But look, Michael, do you think that if this what ending do you foresee if we go back to a military operation, knowing that they will hit the Gulf states and our bases in return? I think, Brian, that's a key question. And I don't have a crystal ball today, but I do think that.

Iran at some point will have to concede because I think militarily they will be effectively bankrupt. And I think that their damage to the Gulf allies could be significant. But I think the more damage they do, the more damage they will suffer.

So at some point, you would think the reality would hit the leaders, whoever they are, and that they would raise their hands and give up on the nuclear quest. It seems to be a holy issue for them. And they twinned it with the Islamist revolution. It may take the United States to break that twin. All right, let's talk about politics.

Big primary day yesterday, Tom Massey's out, thank goodness. We know the president's pick to be the next senator in Kentucky got through.

So look forward to seeing how that lines up in Kentucky because they also elected a socialist on the left, an extremist, and bypassed a military veteran. But the other story is happening in Philadelphia where AOC endorsed this guy named Chris Robb. Of Philadelphia. And he essentially is a socialist, like the mayor of Seattle, like the mayor of New York City. And she defied the Democratic governor in doing this.

Listen to this, cut sixteen. This is Chris Rapp. When we come together, we are indomitable. And to the billionaire class, the Epstein class. We're coming for you.

You're not safe. Your money will not protect you. We're coming for you. See, we're worried that they're coming for us. But they've always been coming for us.

As we're turning the tables, we're coming for you. Nice, inspiring message, right? Yeah, right. Really uplifting, unifying, right? I mean, let's just have a civil war again.

The first one was so much fun. Look, you know, you mentioned Brian AOC earlier talking about battling the Confederacy. Yeah, you want to hear that? I want you to hear that at home. Cut 20.

MAGA is the last dying breath of the Confederacy. And it could not be more true. But in response to the Confederacy, We have this moment here. of liberation, abolition, and revival of the values that make this country actually great, actually aspirational, and actually audacious as an example for the world. Really?

Do you like how like those words, Confederacy? She doesn't know anything, right? She doesn't know her history. The Democrats were the Confederates. Abraham Lincoln was the Republican.

So this I sh and the Dixiecrats ruled the South. Yes. They were Joe Biden's best friends in the Senate.

So her ignorance is appalling. And yet, I'm afraid that people aren't listening to the details. They're just kind of enthusiastic about the message of revolution against. You know, who, wealth, I guess, but it just makes no sense in in the real world. And she is their leader.

Take us through your leader, who, her? Yes, I think she looks at herself as that. I think she looks at this platinum as hers. I think she looks at this guy, Rab as hers. Bernie Sanders is the kingmaker in that party.

And they continue to put that forward. There's a war on wealth. And we're watching in this city some panic as Mandami goes after Ken Griffin, who in turn says, okay, yeah, I'm rich and I have a $230 million apartment. Do you want me to sell it? Oh, you know that $6 billion building?

I'm going to hire thousands of Citadel workers there? I think I might take it to Miami. And now they're beginning to look at their checkbook and say, wait. This socialism thing might not be great. Yeah, you would hope that they would run into the wall of reality because if the rich Take their money and their companies and all their employees to other states.

This city and the state would be poor by billions of dollars. They are the ones who pay taxes. Poor people pay a very small portion of the total tax hike that government has set. And so they better be careful about who's aux their core, Goring. I tell you what, the one thing that I am surprised.

That the president won for Ken Paxson in Texas over John Cornyn. I know John Cornyn's an old school Republican, but he's a fantastic guy. He votes with the President 99% of the time. He's a prolific fundraiser and a leader, and Ken Paxson isn't. Ken Paxson has really got a problematic background, and I hear the worst is yet to come.

They've got to drop more scandal on this guy. I'm really surprised the president would put himself out there and give Tallerico a chance. That's the Democratic nominee. Yeah, Democrats have been working like the devil in Texas for years. Every election, whether it's governor or senate, is going to be the new leader than to break the red wall in Texas.

We shall see if this is the time. But I agree with you, Brian. There are issues in Paxon and Spass that could make the d difference in this race. Absolutely. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much.

Appreciate you joining us. It's going to be an interesting time, and have a fantastic Memorial Day. Thank you, Brian. You too. You got it.

In 10 minutes, we're going to go to Edward Lawrence at the White House. We're going to get the latest. Look, there's a lot of things going right with the country and the economy right now. You know, what's not going right is energy, which is causing inflation to rise to a degree. But the President has done a good job at outlining why.

Because we have a problem in this country. There's a terroristic nation who's been targeting us for almost 50 years. And it's up to this President to fix it. It's not easy. Short-term pain for long-term security.

You listen to the brain kill me, Cha. In a world of noise, get the signal. Sharp, informative, and always on point. You're listening to Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Kilmead. I'm on Figueroa Street, known as the heart of the Los Angeles ho economy. And the working women of this district have something to say about the candidates that are running for the 2026 mayor of Los Angeles. What's your name and who are you voting for? My name is Mia.

I'm voting for Spencer Pratt because I want to run my entrepreneurial business without drug-addicted zombies running me off the block. I'm voting for Spencer Pratt because I'm tired of putting out fires that aren't my dreams. Pose for Spencer Pratt! That is um those are hoes. And they are voting for Spencer Pratt.

And if you see it visually, they are. I mean, I think they are, right?

Well, I mean, they're self-declared. They're in bikinis. I'm not saying that. Yes. But yes, they're calling themselves that while addressed provocatively.

We're assuming they're registered. I'm assuming they register to vote too. Right. Or they're just getting some good publicity. Right.

So Spencer Pratt is just taking this election by storm, capturing international attention, including the president of the United States. Said I might endorse him, but I don't think that's going to help in Los Angeles. In fact, it might hurt.

So if I'm the president, lay out. He says: look, I voted for Trump the last time, but I'm an independent. And now he's the last poll I saw. It was 30% for the sitting mayor, Karen Bass. He's got 22%.

Right behind him is the left winger with 19%. And they're trying desperately. Do you have the first principal air one? Because they're trying desperately To marginalize Spencer Pratt's candidacy. And what he is doing, and I'm not sure he's doing this, but they put out AI videos as him as a villain with everybody that's screwing up Los Angeles.

I mean, no, is this guy, I think, Charlie? Is that allowed? Which is putting it out. Yeah, I mean, why? I mean, why not?

Because let's say they're taking other people that exist. It's like satire though. I mean, he also, though, that guy, Charlie Critton, he like did this after we bombed Iran. He put together a video like within 24 hours, like Lego guys reenacting it. Wow.

It was really good. Yeah, so that's pretty impressive. But I think he's got a legitimate shot. But you know what? I think the key is he's not out there going, this has got to change, and homeless is bad, and money's been wasted, and fraud runs rampant, and we're trying to be politically correct.

He actually has opinions on what went wrong with the firefighting, what's going wrong with the reservoirs, why are homelessness, why are we putting so much money into homelessness? Why is it only getting worse? What is the wrong approach? What is the right approach?

Now, you might challenge him on issues, but he wants you to. Listen, I know nothing about him. I haven't interviewed him yet. But his background is a reality star. And people know him from that, the Hills.

So now he gets his house burned out, his mom gets his house burned out, and he says he's critical. And he says, I'm getting in.

Now, Rick Caruso would have been a much better choice as mayor. Rick Caruso, who we had a chance to meet, seems to be a Republican, but he knows in Los Angeles he can't be a Republican.

So the successful businessman loses to the inept congresswoman without accomplishments named Karen Bass, who spends so much of her time in love with Castro. She's basically a communist. There is so much rhetoric about her in Venezuela with Maduro and Chavez. And then, of course, with Fidel Castro.

Somehow that gets her lined up to be the next mayor. And she's performed horrifically.

So, this will be the biggest story in the country if you can overturn Los Angeles and get an independent running. And then the thing would be success. Having success That would be it. Start making things better. He said, look, if I do not win.

I'm going to Texas. With everybody else. I'm not going to raise my kids here. Though my hope is I win. And I make things better.

And that would be key.

Now, a lot of people are saying what he says is a lot of these people need forced rehab, a lot of the homeless need forced rehab, and there might be some legal issues with that. Good. Get a lawyer. And get some city lawyers and figure out how to do it. And then you first get volunteers to go in there and see them get better.

And maybe some ex-meth addicts become go out in the stump with them and talk about Karen Bass. Karen Bass's way is get the meth addicts new teeth so they can interview for a job. He's saying get them rehab so they can get off the streets. Don't give them a hotel room. They will wreck it and go back to the streets.

So I love what's happening there. And then we're going to see what's happening in the governorship. Governor races. Steve Hilton's got to finish one or two and then go to the finals. And when the finals happen, that'll be in November.

And I believe it's January second is the Los Angeles primary, pretty sure it's the second, and then we'll see what happens from there. This hour, I'm going to tell you, first, Ed Lawrence, I'm going to get the latest from Washington, what the President's likely to do, how he feels about the Department of Homeland Security getting fully funded. And with that fully funded reconciliation bill, they want to put ballroom security money in there. I think a lot of Republicans who are mad they were primarily by the President are not going to go along with it. By Tillis Who was kind of pushed out?

Cassidy. And now maybe Cornyn. They already lost Murkowski and Collins.

So, I do think we need a ballroom. And I do think people should stop saying it's Donald Trump's vanity project because what vanity project is made without you living there? He's not going to live there. And if a Democrat wins, he's not going to be there for four years at least. At Lawrence next, Lewis Hill Bryan Kill Me Show.

So glad you're there. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. As the United States targets the financial networks that enemy actors use to perpetrate terror, We trust that your participation here today reflects a readiness to stand with us in full. That will require, for example, our European partners to join the United States in taking action against Iran by designated financiers and unmasking its shell-and-front companies, shuttering its bank branches, and dismantling its proxies.

It will require those of you from the Middle East. And Asia to root out Iran's shadow banking networks and networks of ship transportation obfuscation. And that is the Secretary of Treasury talking about Operation Economic Fury. And they say, and I was talking to a high-ranking official last night with the Trump administration, that Besson quietly has become the MVP of this fight, especially during the ceasefire, because they're hunting down and locking up the cryptocurrency, $500 million strong and growing, as well as their ghost ships and their supply, as well as freezing funds in the Gulf states when they get cooperation.

Now we're asking for NATO countries and EU countries who have already seen the cheating that was going on and the nuclear program going on with Iran and put in snapback sanctions to step up and unmask and find and track down the streams of money that allows the IRGC to still have money and profit despite the massive sanction in their terroristic ways. Ed Lawrence knows all about the fight in Iran and what might be next. He works at the White House every day from FDA. Ed, welcome back. Yeah, hey, Brian, how you doing?

Yeah, and there's frustration. I mean, I've heard the growing frustration within the Treasury Department but also in the administration that Europe isn't doing enough. We can talk about those sanctions. They want them to match what the U. S.

is doing. Yeah, it is strange. And I'll tell you, the NATO countries have said yesterday in a joint statement that they're not in a joint statement, but according to reports, that they're thinking about helping us with the escorting through the Strait of Hermuz and get this Ed. They're going to help us in July. Thanks.

Now the President in June is going to go to the uh G7. At which time I'm sure this is going to come up because he's called a lot of our allies. I expect that to be. formidable, and I think it's going to be substantive, don't you? It'll be a tough and very frank conversation from the President.

And we saw February of last year. And you'll get it back. Right, right. February of last year the Vice President went to Europe and and dressed them down about uh the actions and and that the threat from from to Europe is within.

Well now you have Besant going over there to the G seven in Paris saying yet too often this is from Besant we seem to be alone in our resolve to thwart it when he's talking about terrorism around the globe. And we know that Iran is the the largest state sponsor of terrorism.

So the the Security Secretary they need Europe to step up and help. They are talking about being up to help for the ships. They are talking about stepping up to help with the sanctions. There's a lot of talking going on. From the US standpoint, they want to see some more action.

And it's been very slow moving to get Europe to act on this. They just recently moved towards their trade agreement, finalizing the trade agreement with the United States that they had made last year.

So it's been very slow moving for them and the administration would like them to move faster and at least match the the sanctions that we're putting on Iran because it only Helps Europe is their point. I think the president, a lot of people on both sides, are getting antsy to find out what's next because it only hurts the president's economy. Even though I'm fully in support of this operation, I don't think delay helps anyone unless I'm not briefed on the high intelligence level. Maybe some of the Gulf states just give me a little bit more time to get more interceptors in place. But tell me if you agree with Ben Dominich in his analysis in the possible collision between Trump and other Republicans.

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Now he's in a position where there are a lot of Republicans who are in his ears saying, you got to wind this up. But I think that they're saying that because they're thinking about their future career. President may not be thinking about that. He's thinking about his legacy and about the fact that he doesn't want Iran to ever get close to a nuclear weapon.

So that's something that I think is a collision of interests that's happening in Washington today. Do you think there's a growing collision? Or are we talking about the Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, and now Cassidy and Cornyn who might want to defy the president? I think a collision is a strong word. I think it's definitely going to come to a head in some way.

There are clearly Republicans that are nervous about the poll numbers and what's happening with the economy here. There are also those that look at what's happening globally. I mean, if you go back to President Reagan, former President Reagan, it was the economy. It was crashing the USSR economically is what brought them down. And that is what's going to happen with Iran, it seems.

This is why Operation Economic Theory is going forward. But this is a game of economic chicken. Iran is trying to make it very uncomfortable in the United States financially, and we are trying to make it very uncomfortable in Iran financially. And we'll have to see which country breaks.

Now, the President believes that it's going to be Iran that breaks. And, you know, if you look at the fundamentals of the economy here, they are very strong. We're still growing at a very good rate. The consumer is still spending at a good rate. And we're not seeing a massive amount of delinquencies on debt.

So we are in a good financial place being the United States. States.

So it does appear, if you look at the data, the U.S. can outlast Iran. It's just how much political pressure does the president and Republicans want to face related to this. You know, a week is a year these days.

So, I mean, we forget things so quickly. We see a big race, we see a mistake, we see a summit, and it's a two-day news cycle, and then something else pops up.

So, when it comes to oil and gas, if we end this the right way, and that's with the strait being wide open and Iran being neutralized and the uranium taken out. This would be a 40-60, 40% approval, 60% disapproval. That will flip. And then, as oil prices come down, That'll be a positive story come August when the president has his midterm I guess convention that we're talking about, right, Ed? I think you're exactly right here.

There is a short memory among voters. And in fact, the statement that I got from the White House today on gas prices, it says the president continues to exert maximum leverage over Iran and the ongoing successful blockade will bring this conflict to an end. Then it goes on to say that once the market stabilizes, gas prices will plummet back to multi-year lows that Americans enjoyed before the start of Operation Epic Fury. And I have heard from a number of oil traders that they expect the moment the Strait of Hormuz is open, the price of oil drops about 40 percent. That puts it back in the $650 to $60 range, which puts gas prices back to $3 a gallon.

And this will all be in the rearview mirror. The problem is for the administration, getting to that point, how do you get the Strait of Hormuz now open? And technically, it is open. It's that the insurance companies will not insure the ships going through the Strait of Hormuz because the ships could try and make the run. But again, insurance companies are.

Holding back on that.

So once the Strait of Formuzza is open, I've heard from almost everybody that, yes, gas prices will come down and this will all be in the rearview mirror. And I think you're exactly right. By the way, why shouldn't you? Why is the market up 280 points right now?

Well, this is on, there was strong retail sales today, and a number of other things came into it. Plus, you know, looking forward to a possible deal or an end to this conflict, but this is more on what financial factors are going on here within the United States is one of the reasons that the markets are up. But there is a hope by the markets that this is all going to be dealt with rather quickly. And again, the markets are believing this narrative that, yes, once the straight reform was open, everything goes back to that pro-growth policy that we saw before President Trump had the operations in Iran. And then we're going to have a massive global push to not depend on that straight again, like to the degree it depends on now.

We got the message, and now Saudi Arabia got the message, and now UAE's gave the message, and I think the rest of the world's got to get that message. Ed Lawrence, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thanks, Brad. Back in a moment.

Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Killmead Show. Picks were down by 22 with 7.5 to play.

And Anobi floats it over to Shaman. Shaman, a three-pointer. Damn! Tiger. With 44 seconds.

Don't want to give up the dreams. Brunston was hardened on him. Brunston on the drive, the floater bank shot. It's good. Tie game again with 19 seconds remaining.

Merrill, three-pointer. And then and out, that one the hair plate. Bridges fires away. What a wild finish for next down. 22 and the fans dancing with joy.

They have watched one of the greatest comebacks in NBA playoff history. Knicks take game run behind the brilliance of Jalen Brunson.

So that's fascinating. By Mike Breen on the call last night, I went to the game for three quarters, but I had to get up at 2:30, so I had to leave and go back to Long Island. And the Knicks Cavs.

Now, you might not be the biggest basketball fan, and certainly maybe your team's not in it. Unless you're in uh unless you're in Texas or Cle excuse me, New York or Cleveland. Of course, Oklahoma is playing a huge Oklahoma City is a huge series against the upstart San Antonio Spurs. But it was pretty amazing. And what happened is you watch a team down by 22, they go on a 44-11 run, almost went in regulation, and then over time they just steamroll the Cavs in game one in front of a capacity celebrity-strewn crowd, which is pretty amazing, too, considering it's their.

Ninth straight. Their eighth straight playoff victory. And we'll see because in the audience was like the alumni at a college game. You have Patrick Ewing. Larry Johnson.

John Starks Uh La Trilespreewell, all Acting like fans. Along with Michael J. Fox. And of course that idiot Spike Lee. And all these celebrities there were there, Ben Stiller.

They're all there, mixed in with regular people, treated like regular people. And then you have other play like Daryl Strawberry and John Franco in the audience. It's been so long since New York has had any type of major victory. This could be it. But there's a lot long way to go still.

So I thought that was pretty cool. I feel terrible I had to leave in the fourth quarter, but I would have been out of my mind to stay till 11 o'clock and then drive an hour home at 12 and then sleep for 90 minutes.

So that's the choice I made. The other choice, another basketball guy that made his name in basketball but made his money elsewhere is Mark Cuban.

So Mark Cuban came up with this discount pharmaceutical plan. And it took him a while to put it together, and now it starts rolling. and he has a way to buy drugs in bulk from different s from different sources and sell it for a slight uh profit but still substantially below market rates. It is beginning to flourish. And then Donald Trump rolls out Trump RX.

And then people say, hey, Mark Cuban, you campaigned for Kamala Harris. You voted for Kamala Harris. You're very critical of Donald Trump. And now Donald Trump has Trump RX. Is it a scam?

And Mark Cuban said, no, it looks really good. What do you mean? He praised it. They kept trying to have him rip Trump RX, but he kept praising him.

So the White House seems to have reached out. And the guess what, Mark Cuban. Came together with Donald Trump. And now he's helping and going profit. Good, I'm glad.

Profit off Trump RX. But the substantial discounts are winners for everybody in America. First, here are the two men, cut 27. It's pretty remarkable seeing you and Mark Hubin up there and the fact that obviously Mark endorsed Kamala Harris back in 2020.

Well, he made a mistake. It was a big mistake. What does this say about what you two are building here?

Well, it says we love people, we love our country. He's got a good company and he's going to do a lot of business with this. And I'm going to get drugs out through Amazon, through the whole group, and we're going to get drugs out. And Mark wanted to be a part of it. And I think Mark was very gracious.

He said, this is something that really works. First time you've seen it. He had to believe that if he said it about me, you have to understand. But look, I think I have a lot of respect for Mark Franklin, and I always have. And the whole thing is, when Shark Tank came out, Apprentice was established and they were kind of battling it then.

So Mark Cuban and Donald Trump are on opposite sides. In my view, knowing both guys, I think in one way, Mark Cuban looked at Donald Trump and said, could have been me.

Now, his family didn't want him to do it, didn't want him to run. But he said, a businessman who made his name on reality television, who got known before he owned the Mavericks, it could have been me.

Now, he's a lot younger than Donald Trump. It could still be him, but he is also somebody who thinks out of the box, thinks about innovation, thinks about breaking the mold and making things better. And I don't find him arrogant at all. People do, I don't.

So here is Mark Cuban on why he joined CUD 28. Thank you for having me, Mr. President. I think other than you, I've been the biggest proponent of TrumpRX.com. And the reason for that is Republicans want cheaper drugs, Independents want cheaper drugs, Democrats want cheaper drugs, and together I think we're going to do something special.

What makes Cost Plus Drugs different is that when you click through TrumpRX to our site, not only will you see a great price, but you'll see our actual cost and that we only mark it up 15%.

So this is And by the way, if you have a fair way to get cheaper drugs and still build in a profit, I'm loving that. Because you're helping people making a profit that means you're going to make more. He went on to say: if I'm successful here with Trump RX and with my company, I'll be able to buy more and bring the prices down more.

So, for example, some of these.

Some of these drugs are hard to pronounce, but just know one's for eye pressure, Come Again, it's called. It costs $204 if you need it. On Trump Rx, it costs 10. That's 95% off. There's a multiple sclerosis drug called mazent.

It's $623.

Now it's $42. Centroid for IBF, $316. You buy it on Trump RX down 93%, $22.

So I just told you the facts. I'm not. Making anything up, I'm not exaggerating, that's the fact.

So the d the view took on this debate. Alyssa Farrah Griffin is the Republican. 50% she's anti-Trump. Joy Behar 100% they're anti-Trump. Everybody else is anti-Trump.

So listen to this debate, Cut 33. No, I literally pushed it. The medication that I had to take for IVF is a tenth of the price on Trump RX. I don't, whatever, it's tacky that his name is on it. Mark Cuban has dedicated his life to bringing down prescription drug costs.

The average family, one-third of Americans, cut back on essential foods and utilities to be able to cover their prescription drug costs. You're not going to convince me that just because Trump's involved, we should be like, screw it, don't bring down prescription drugs. He is going to make a profit out of it. Don't take it. I completely agree with you.

No, Americans. I agree with you. No. He is a failed businessman. And if you heard what he said, he said, we both want to make people wealthy.

He didn't say that. He said wealthy, which means to me that there's something in it for him. This is not a well-intentioned president. Yeah. There is so much wrong with this argument, but it's sadly it's the argument on a different level that we're having for the mayor of Seattle, the mayor of New York City, the congressman from Philadelphia.

These are all left wingers who are not running as liberals, they're running as socialists and communists.

So Alyssa Farragin says, I don't care if you make a profit, I'm getting 93% off. It's the same drugs.

So they're saying, I want you to make a profit. You idiot. Trump RX does not go to Donald Trump. It goes to the country.

So if the country is able to Has set up Trump RX, and if they're able to buy this and maybe make a profit off, it goes into the Treasury. Not him. If Don Jr. set it up, Trump RX, and Don Jr. was making money, that would be a problem.

But in comes the government, work with Mark Cuban, and together they have the same objective, achieving it. People got to understand it. And it's unbelievable. It shows how sick these people are to not understand. Discount name drugs are discount-name drugs, but they just can't get their head around it.

So that's the battle that went on between Joy Behar and Alyssa Farrah Griffin. And I'm reluctant to play. You know, reluctant to play these clips from The View because the show was such a piece of crap. And if you want to talk about different issues, but they talk about politics, and it's just a joke. And they take people.

That are allegedly Republican, and they go in who hate Trump. And they act surprised when these so-called Republicans agree with the Democrats. They hate Trump. You can't book somebody that hates Trump and say, well, and is a Republican and have them weigh in because they're not objective. Everything Trump does, they're going to be against.

In this case, Alyssa Farragriffin was like, no, no, this works. And she gets ripped by four other hosts. And looking at it back, Whoopi Goldberg deserves credit because she stayed kind of neutral because she understands the stupidity of the argument. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead.

All right, from 40th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is the Brian Killmee Chow. Locally, big news: the largest commuter rail. System in the country went on strike, first time in 30 years. It lasted three days.

So it screwed up my life, but almost everybody in the New York area's life. But things are back to normal now, at least yesterday as of noon.

So that's pretty cool. Jeff Lacks is joining us at the bottom of the hour, Cooney Professor, sees anti-Semitism up close and personal, fights it on a daily basis on the campus, but it's spread just about everywhere. And we're seeing it now. You could even say it was with Tom Massey after his big loss last night as he mocks his opponent who beat him, saying, Well, I tried to reach him, but he was in Tel Aviv. Yes.

He's pro-Israel. It doesn't mean he's in Tel Aviv. And I'm pretty sure a few years ago that wouldn't have been an insult, but now it is.

So before we get to Mark Malkoff, talking about one of the most interesting things in media today, and that is The really d the d the end of the Stephen Colbert show. And the lack of ratings in all of late night television, where it used to be a bellwether for the country, more and more people are deciding there's just more options or the the talent that we see in the shows that we have a chance to look at aren't our cup of tea. Let's get to the big three. Number three. Mark endorsed Kamala Harris back in 2021.

Well, he made a mistake. It was a big mistake. We're going to get drugs out. And Mark wanted to be a part of it. And I think Mark was very gracious.

He said, this is something that really works. First time you've seen it. Working together, the shark and the apprentice, Cubig combines with the president to get the nation cheaper prescription drugs, which is a winner for everyone, except for the hosts of the view. I'll explain. Number 10.

NAGA is the last dying breath of the Confederacy. And it could not be more true, but in response to the Confederacy, we have this moment here. A liberation. AOC, the historical genius, doesn't realize that the Republicans were read by Lincoln in the North. And it was the Confederacy run by the Dixiecrats in the South.

And she is an extreme leftist. Primary aftermath. Trump flexes and AOC gets a win over Shapiro on the left. We'll view the results and review. Number one.

I'm not doing this politically. I'm just looking, everyone tells me it's unpopular, but I think it's very popular because I'm not going to let the world be blown up at my watch. It's not going to happen. Clock is ticking for a resumption of the war in Iran, but perhaps Trump's secret weapon is Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, and that is Operation Economic Fury making great progress. It would help if our allies would help.

But one of the great things I have great interest in is late night television. Definitely, when I was growing up, Carson was the best. And by the time I got to college, a Letterman was everything. And now you have a situation where on average They if you take Kimmel, if you take Fallon, and you take Colbert, they get about a two. Where Carson, and I know it was a different time, Cable Vision, cable was just emerging, was getting about seven million.

And Letterman ended up when he was leaving, was getting about three million. And this week is the last week of the Colbert Show. And believe it or not, he was winning The ratings race. But the show is losing millions of dollars. What has happened to late night television?

A man that knows joins us now, Mark Malkoff. He's a comedian and author of Love Johnny Carson, One Obsessive Fans' Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend. And Mark, first off, thanks so much for joining us. Congratulations on the book.

Now, first off, for you. You have a personal up-close experience in late night television. I mean, who did you work for? Brian, so I worked for David Letterman on The Late Show. It was working for Comedy Royalty, and then I had a day job where I worked for Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report when we were on Comedy Central.

So, you know, I was there actually for the very first late show, 34-year-old franchise. I was in the second row as a teenager, so I have a history with The Late Show.

So, you always a Letterman fan? I was. I mean, I love Johnny Carson. I've interviewed over 400 people about him. But yeah, after Carson, I think Dave probably did the show better than anyone.

And all the late night hosts worship Dave and Johnny Carson, certainly.

So the thing is, Mark, I can remember like yesterday, everybody was talking about who is going to be Carson's successor. Is he going to retire? And Bette Midler sings him off, and then Leno gets named and Letterman gets hurt. His feelings get hurt and he spins off. Bring us back to that moment.

So August 30th, 1993, 23 million people tuned into David Letterman's debut. CBS stock went up. It was, he got, he owned this show. There had never been a late-night show on CBS, and Dave really set the standard for this. But there was a lot of drama.

Johnny Carson wanted it to be David Letterman. Jay Leno politic to all the NBC affiliates and got the gig. They both did pretty well for themselves. But one thing with both of them, like Johnny Carson, is that we didn't know their personal politics. That was considered a staple.

The shows that really had the most longevity and the most profitable traditionally have been the ones where we did not know the politics of the host. See, it's interesting because the first time I thought David Letterman weighed in on politics. was when John McCain was running. And he did non-stop McCain old jokes. And I thought, okay, this is not stopping.

This is continuing. It's when Jon Stewart the the Daily Show Letterman uh pointed to Jon Stewart having some political leanings that they felt he could do that. But certainly when he was on NBC for He looked at Jon Stewart, who was younger than him, saw him doing that and said, Well, I guess I can let it out. That's exactly what happened. And he started putting a little of his politics.

You know, he at this point wasn't going to rehearsal anymore. Jay, he pretty much gave up that Jay was going to be number one. And he just, you know, just really let it all out. And yeah, so that's what happened with that. And between Jon Stewart and Dave Letterman, both amazing broadcasters.

That was really one of the first times in late night that that really happened with the host putting their personal opinions in politically. Right. And, you know, Carson, you say in the book that he was a Democrat? But you didn't really know it. Yes, we did not know his politics.

Now, he absolutely 100% voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Herbert Walker Bush and him were very friendly, actually. Talked on the phone. Carson was at the White House. It really just depended on the person, but he 100% believed I am doing an entertainment show.

America does not care about my politics. And why would I want to alienate half of my audience? And I remember he gave that interview with Mike Wallace, and Mike Wallace said, why don't you weigh in? And he said, why would I? Then we've lost, basically, you lost the narrative if I do that.

I lost what my objective is. He hammered everyone. I mean, Joe Biden during the plagiarism scandal, it was something like 12 jokes that Carson did on him. I mean, Nancy Reagan called up Carson twice upset with jokes about Ronald Reagan. Jimmy Carter, his mom was upset with Johnny.

Gerald Ford was upset with Carson with jokes about Ford being a stumbler.

So there is a history of presidents getting a little bit out of shape with the... with jokes but at the same time carson just hammered everyone and at the end of the day it was it was fun and everybody tuned in for carson he didn't alienate anybody so of course stephen colbert would be named to take over for david letterman right and they just had this exchange when's this exchange from uh eric when was this from just recently Yeah, so here, you know, Letterman, obviously, very critical of the president and critical of CBS's decision to let Stephen Colbert go. Here they are. We are on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater Building, and I couldn't be happier. It's a beautiful view from up here.

Would you share with the people why we are on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater? Oh, right.

Now, I thought maybe tonight's occasion would be a little sad, being the end of your run here, but this brings true joy to my heart. We are up here for the wanton destruction of CBS property.

Now, I know for many years I enjoyed this as a viewer. You throw things off the Ed Sullivan building. This is a true story. When I first got this gig, one of the first things they told me before we even moved into the offices was that I would not be allowed to throw anything off of the roof of the Ed Sullivan building because evidently there was a problem with a previous tenant. Yes, I'm so excited about this.

So am I.

Well, Dave, Dave, thanks so much for creating the Late Show 33 years ago. It's been a pleasure having you back to the show. Oh, destroying some stuff. The pleasure is all mine. I enjoyed destroying stuff.

It's great, great fun. Thank you for everything you've done for our country. Felius Mitchell, Dave, thank you. Anything you'd like to say to the audience before we go?

Well, not necessarily to the audience, but to the folks at CBS, in the words of the great Ed Murrow. Good night and good luck, mother.

So, Mark, talk about that. That the letterman that we knew in the 80s, 90s, he used to do the afternoon show, happy to have a chance. To do the show following Carson to that attitude. It's definitely different. I mean, I remember Madonna went on Dave Letterman show and said the F-bomb 23 times, and it was national news.

It was just a lift, a different Dave Letterman, different times. I think it's great that Dave Letterman did go back. I do want to point out two things. One, for Stephen Colbert's late show with The Legacy, the first year he had on Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Elon Musk. It was a very different show.

We didn't know his politics. He was last in the ratings, and he did the unheard of, which was he picked a political side, and it really did turn up his ratings. The one thing I do want to also mention is Colbert's a Catholic, practicing Catholic, teaches Sunday school, knows more scripture than anybody I probably have ever met. There is a decent chance that they're going to have the Pope on for the last show. If anybody's going to get it, it's going to be him.

They've met before. They're both from spent lots of time in Chicago. And, you know, when Ricky Gervais and Bill Maher talked about religion, Stephen defended it. I mean, he would really defend Christianity and religion. I do think that that is something that.

People don't really talk about. And I think that's important for his legacy.

So, Mark, you were projecting Friday. It's got to be tomorrow, right? Don't they usually tape two shows on Thursday? Um, Thursday's going to be the last episode of the light show. Tonight we have Springsteen.

Last night was Steven Spielberg and Jon Stewart and David Byrne. CBS is not denying the Pope. Steven's wish list is Beyoncé and the Pope. We don't know if it's going to happen. Jimmy Kimmel, a bunch of years ago, rather, Jimmy Fallon, almost got the Pope.

This was very under wraps. It almost happened. But I think that Colbert, if anybody, is going to have the closest chance to getting the Pope. And wouldn't that be world news if that happens? Wait, Mark, you know what it also would be?

It's a total F you to uh Donald Trump. Because this is his nemesis, and this is a guy saying, I'm not coming to America. For your 250th birthday, even though I'm an American, according to reports, I will come to Stephen Colbert's show. Who many people feel, and it's being canceled for either money loss or because Letterman wants him out.

So, this would be that would be just like him taking on Trump again. It really would. I mean, it would just be on so many different levels. This would be the media frenzy if we have the Pope show up on a late night show, a complete unheard of thing, and he'll go down in history if that happens.

So we'll see. CPS is keeping very tight wraps, but as someone that teaches Sunday school like Stephen does and goes to church and is very open about his religion, I think that he definitely has a good chance of this happening.

So he made a statement. I'll just paraphrase it recently. He says, you know, I didn't want to be so political, but my producer told me that's what gets ratings. Do you think Stephen Colbert didn't want to be political? He also gave a statement lately saying, hey, you know what?

I'm an actor, singer. When I first got this job, I didn't know I could do it. I'm not really a talk show host. I was playing a Bill O'Reilly-like character on the Colbert report. Nobody thought it was possible to pick a political aside and be number one and survive doing a late night show.

That's the first year we didn't know his politics, and people only knew him doing this character on Comedy Central, so people didn't know who he was.

So it took him about a year to really figure out what he wanted to do with the show. And yeah, I mean, we're looking at history right now, 11 years. Can you believe that? Number one in the ratings is still being studying Carson, you're studying Letterman, you know his numbers are at 2.1 or a 2. Letterman left and he was low at 3.

Right. And then you have Greg Guttfeld, who has 35% less possible homes, and he's getting a 3-4.

So I mean he's winning in a in a bad league. The digital numbers, they do very well, the late night hosts, like Colbert and some of the others digitally, but the YouTube views just do not translate to the TV dollar.

So, yeah, I mean, it is very, very different with the metrics. I don't know with Johnny Carson. I mean, I just really, really miss having a presence like that. And just the 45 million people when Johnny Carson at the Tiny Tim wedding in 1969, second to the moonland in the power of Carson. All the late night hosts still talk about Carson.

He's been off the air for 30 years. And my book, Love Johnny Carson, is just evident that we really do miss Carson. And it looks like, Brian, that late night is going away. I think if late night survives, we're going to see, you know, this current cast of the late show, 20 writers. I think probably we're going to probably have 10 writers less.

I think it's no ban. Seth Meyers, they got rid of his ban for a call.

So I think we're going to see a very scaled-down late night if it still exists.

So Byron Allen bought the time. And he's going to be on now. I want you to hear this. This is what he said his show is going to do. I think it's impossible.

Listen. A lot of eyes are going to be on your programming to see, well, what are the political leanings? What can they read into it? What I'm doing with Comics Unleashed. We don't talk about politics.

We don't talk about anything that's topical. We don't talk about anything. We don't do anything that's racist or sexist or anti-Semitic or homophobic. Just be funny and don't offend. I don't care who you vote for.

I don't care. I'm here to make people laugh. You're going to vote who you're going to vote for no matter what I say. It doesn't matter. It's not my business.

It's not my business. Do what you do.

So I'm here to make you laugh. Mark. I don't think it's possible. To I think he got the wrong message. It's not to avoid politics.

There's too much material there. Just be an equal opportunity offender. I think that's the takeaway from what we're seeing. And see how that goes. Byron Allen is a mogul.

You know, he started when he was 18 years old, making his debut on Johnny Carson. He's a student of late night. But with Comics Unleashed, it's basically an assembly line. They do five shows in a day. They do evergreen material on purpose with no politics.

So they can rerun these shows for 10 years because they're not topical.

So that is why he is going in that direction without doing politics. I see what you're saying, but he wants these episodes to run in Affinity. And we'll see if he can pull it off. I mean, Brian, he doesn't even only have the 11:30 slot. He has the 12:30 slot.

He basically, yeah, is buying his way into late night with a two-hour block on CBS. And we'll see if it projects it's going to be profitable. Certainly, CBS is for it for at least a year.

So it's an experiment. We'll see what happens. Mark, my senior thesis in college was the history of late night television. Yeah, and I interviewed Letterman for it. Because I interned at NBC and I was able to get him and I have a quote when he said to me, I said, do you want to substitute for, do you want to be the next host if Johnny Carson retires?

And he says, no, we're a basement operation. Who would ever want to fill his shoes? That's why I was flipping out years later when Carson retires and he says, I can't believe I'm not getting it.

So clearly with me, he was being somewhat insincere, but I think having Leno get it really. bothered him. That is a hard interview to get Dave Letterman. And, you know, whenever Johnny Carson was still in the seat, he never wanted to say it out loud that he wanted the gig because he just loved Johnny Carson so much and he meant so much to him that he just never wanted to say the words out loud. And it did end up hurting him at the end.

He didn't say at NBC, I want this in my contract. I get the tonight show. And that's what Jay took over for him. But that's so cool. You got to sit down with Dave.

I mean, he's out of the late night host, him and Carson, I think, did it best. Yeah, I looked up to him big time. He was great. Mark, too, great job. I love the topic of your book.

You're a great broadcaster, too. Mark Malkoff, a community. Comedian and author of Love Johnny Corson: One Obsessive Fans Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend. Mark, thanks so much. Brian, thank you.

It was really good talking to you. I appreciate it. You got it. Back in a moment. Real talk, real guests, real insight, where curiosity meets conversation.

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So And that problem also goes to Mr Trump, Mr Putin, and Mr Netanyehu. The big balls of man saying, My big my is bigger than yours. And I'm gonna bomb the out of you. It's a male toxic behavior that is creating thousands of death people.

So first off, that is a Spanish actor and people know him, I never heard of him. What is it? Javier Arburta, you've never heard of him? No. But think about what he's saying.

Donald Trump's a wife beater. He beats his wife. And that's what he's saying. And then he says, Donald Trump is forcing himself at Netanyahu as if October 7th never happened and if Iran has never attacked us, and you put him in Vladimir Putin, who invaded a country unsolicited because of some fantasy there were Nazis there? Crazy guy.

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We're coming for you. You're not safe. Your money will not protect you. We're coming for you. See, we're worried that they're coming for us.

But they've always been coming for us. As we're turning the tables, we're coming for you. That is Chris Rabb, who won in Philadelphia. Very blue city, obviously, candidate from Pennsylvania. But what's key about him is he's a radical socialist.

And he's fully backed by AOC, and she fancies herself a kingmaker along with Bernie Sanders. And it's really hard to argue. And it's a big pushback and a middle finger to the so called moderate liberal Democratic Governor of the state of Pennsylvania. Jeff Lacks joins us now, a professor over law at Cooney, Red City College here in New York City, where he fights against anti Semitism on a daily basis. Hey, Jeff, what's your reaction to this socialism pro anti Israel attitude that's rising up in the left?

Yeah, I mean You know, Shapiro, we were talking right before the show about how he got a lot of moderates elected in these primaries, but Rab is the one exception. I mean, I think the Democrats are not listening to what the country wants right now. I hope and I think it will backfire, although we thought that about Mamdani, too, and we saw what happened there. The bottom line is socialism is a real threat right now around the country. People think of it as this little fringe movement.

That is no longer the case. There are now 250 elected officials nationwide who are Democratic Socialists of America candidates. You know who campaigned for him? Hassan Piker. You know, Hassan Piker could not be more anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.

He says I'd rather vote for someone from us than vote for a Republican. He said he wants Rick Scott to be dead. He looks at obviously what happened in Gaza. He believes genocide. He spouts that crap every single day.

And he's campaigning with a lot of leading Democrats right now. Why would they take that risk and be with someone like that? Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting to associate with him, let alone to push his agenda. But you know what's crazy?

Hakeem Jeffries himself is going in this direction. When he comes out today and he talks about that black athletes now in these places where there have been now gerrymandering by the Republicans, I mean, give me a break. This is a purely political move. Democrats and Republicans are going at it. And now Jeffries comes out, to me, one of the most radical statements any House minority leader has ever made to tell black athletes now not to go to schools in a gerrymander district.

That is insane. Insane. It's crazy.

So we're talking about Ole Miss. We're talking about Clemson. We're talking about Georgia. Picture every major college, SEC. He wants them all to sit out a year.

The portal's closed.

So even if they were listening to him as if he had some power and some prestige, they can't go anywhere. You're asking a 19-year-old to sit out. You're asking a 21-year-old not to count cash in a $1 million check or a $5 million check. Here is Jeffrey's yesterday, cut 36. This is really not a complicated proposition.

In the absence of fairness as it relates to black political representation. There should be no athletic participation. As it relates to institutions, that are housed in states that are experiencing a dramatic return to racially oppressive Jim Crow-like tactics. These universities should feel compelled to speak up, not because of their athletic programs, because it's the right thing to do.

So here in the United States, of America I wish you'd talk slower. Jeff, so here he is. He's calling on a boycott because of the gerrymandering ruling from the Supreme Court that said you cannot gerrymander a district by anyone's race or gender. That is not racism. It's the opposite of racism.

Yeah, I'm so sick of the Jim Crow. Joe Biden constantly said the Jim Crow line. First of all, Jim Crow is the Democrats' invention. That's number one. Segregation, everything.

Right. Number two, let's not forget what happened in Georgia just a couple of years back when they moved the Major League Baseball All-Star game out of Georgia because of supposedly unfair voting rules. By the way, if that's true, how come in all the years since then, they've never been protesting the voting rules, voting laws because they're not. They've enjoyed that through the roof and they elected Democrats. They have two Democratic senators.

And, you know, Brian Kemp won again as a Republican as governor because Stacey Abramson is an abomination.

So, I mean, that's just some of the things that are happening.

So Democrats, I sense, want to go back to talking about. Race. Yeah. Because they feel as though that's their victory speech. But I think America has said, no, this isn't racism.

I don't think it should be bracketed. What if you say, okay, let's just bracket that out? There's a lot of Christians there, so let's bracket out that district. No. There's a lot of Jews there, so let's bracket out that district.

No. Hey, that's mostly women. You can't do that. That's mostly Hispanic. You're not going to do that.

You will district according to that state's rules, but not on race. That is not racism, even if Katanji Brown thinks so. But the Supreme Court is under attack regularly. I want to go back to AOC for a second because she brought up the Confederacy, too, because this guy Rab won, and she feels as though she wants something greater in her life, even than the presidency. Listen to this: cut 20.

MAGA is the last dying breath of the Confederacy. And it could not be more true. But in response to a Confederacy We have this moment here. of liberation, abolition, and revival of the values that make this country actually great, actually aspirational and actually audacious as an example for the world. Yeah, actually, I love her theme.

So we go elected socialist in NC the American Dream?

Someone's gonna get shot again. You can't talk like this. What are they gonna learn? When are they gonna start caring? That they endanger people when they speak like the Confederacy really.

Yeah. I mean, it's so insane. They're gonna get someone hurt again. This type of rhetoric, we're seeing it every day now. All you need is somebody who's slightly off mentally.

We're seeing somebody in court today. I mean You need someone just slightly off, and they're going to go out on a rampage and kill people, and it doesn't take much to rile them up nowadays.

So Tom Massey loses his race. He won against Trump over and over again, but not just because, okay, the big, beautiful bill, you might differ when it comes to the Iran War.

Okay. You only have two or three votes. You would seem to be representing Kentucky, which went to Trump by about 30 points, three elections in a row.

So you decide to ignore that. Then you go and go condemn Israel as if they're the basis of all problems. And then you go on and combine with Rokana and go into the Epstein files.

So Trump's had it with him. He primarily him and he lost. Thomas Massey blames APAC, who put fifteen million in the race to defeat him. Cut twenty one. Listen to this.

I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gowrain in Tel Aviv. What does he mean by that? I was so angry when I saw it. It's anti-Semitic. All it is is Jew hate.

That's all it is. I mean, let's be honest. I want to thank the good people of Israel for coming out to Kentucky and voting last night and getting Gal Ryan nominated.

So, congratulations to them. Thomas Massey Has been talking this way since the beginning. Marjorie Taylor Green has come out now as if she's still relevant, and they're all talking this way. And you know what's sick about it is though, the coalition that's being put together, not just by the left, the left is now working with radical Islamist Hassan Piker, as you just mentioned, but on the right, you started to mention the people that he was working with.

So you had, yeah, Sank Ugar, who was supporting Massey. You had the New York Times wrote a positive op-ed about Massey. Because he's with Rokana and Rokana. Right, exactly. And so you have this horseshoe.

Situation, right? You've all heard everyone's about the horseshoe theory. When you go too far left, too far right, you go into like insanity. And that's what's going on. It's a terrible thing to see.

There are rational people right now on both sides of the aisle who are just rolling their eyes in the air saying, Enough of this. We want Our cost of living to go down, our wages to go up, and everyday things that people worry about, not this garbage. Right. So, what is your sense of how this mayor has done on anti-Semitism since he took over? This mayor is an abundance.

He's even worse than I thought. You asked me right before the election, I was here if you think things are going to get better, and I said no. And the main reason I said no was Mamdani. And what he has done now with this Park East Synagogue, he goes out there and they're under attack, and there are barriers being knocked down in front of their synagogue, and people are trying to get in. And there was a woman, I don't know if you saw the video, of a Jewish woman who was actually rammed by some of these protesters and knocked down, helpless woman.

And then you have Mamdani goes out and says, well, they're having an event that violates international law. The congregants, right?

So he's condemning the victims in this case, which is beyond disgusting. First of all, he doesn't understand international law or American law. International law does not apply to U.S. citizens. You know what does?

The Constitution and American laws. Not international law.

So evidently they were talking about real estate deal in the West Bank, right? Yeah, but you're allowed to talk about whatever you want. It's the United States of America. You can talk about whatever the hell you want in this country. That's why we're the United States.

Do you think this is organized? The protests. Oh, of course. Yeah. Who's funding it?

Well, it's all Marxist groups. It's the Answer Coalition. It's the Progressive PSL. It's what's the guy's name in China? I forgot the guy's name.

But obviously, Soros, we know is behind a lot of this. All you need to do is look at the signs. Look at the signs they're holding up the protesters. Every time you have one of these protests, the bottom of the sign has a link to a website. It's always a communist website.

Always. It's just crazy. I'll give you an example. The big difference is we see these protests, not protests, but you see the AI. I'm watching these commencement speakers, and they're teaching, and they talk about AI in the future, and you hear the reaction from the students.

The graduates. And they're upset.

Some of them say, you know, they booed because they're worried about AI taking their jobs in the future. They find it scary, whatever. That's called a real protest. Let's say they were out there and they were protesting, I'm worried about not having a job because of AI. We've got to get this under control.

I understand it. I'm not saying I agree with it or don't. It doesn't matter. It's a legitimate reason. But if now anti-AI forces or green technology doesn't want to green green lobbyist groups, Decide to hire people in order to stop the building of data centers because they feel it's bad for the environment, and then people do it for the money.

That's when I have no patience for it. If you have a legitimate grievance, Form a group, get an action plan, react like you just reacted. If you want to organize off that and push back against AI, that's pretty much what we're about. But when outside groups are pushing an outside agenda in America that's, to me, anti-Americanism, I mean, what's the foundation of Palestinian support in America? Where do you get that?

Right. My friend Mark Olfetter, who I think you've had on your show, and Mark Levin just had him on last week. You should keep having him on. He's amazing. He brought a lawsuit against some of the schools for working with Hamas.

Hamas was bragging about having operatives here in the United States on campuses. To the hostages. To the hostages, right. Right. To these poor victims who were being murdered and raped and all these horrible things.

And he's got an active lawsuit about that. It is unbelievable. What about Nicholas Kristoff, the editorial writer for the New York Times? Tell everyone what he wrote and what the problem is and the backlash he's receiving. That Israeli dogs were raping Palestinians.

And what's most outrageous about that to me is not that you have this. Anti-Semitic, low life. I wish I could use stronger language on here. But the fact that the New York Times not only ran this, but now has doubled and tripled down. On this story, they're saying it's fact-checked, it's true.

We have our sources. Kingsbury is the name of the people should know her name. What is it? Christine Klingsbury? I may be getting it a little wrong, but something like that.

She is the op-ed editor of the New York Times. She should be fired today, yesterday, or she should have been fired. For running this op-ed and then standing by the op-ed. Again, people didn't hear me wrong. Israeli dogs were trained to rape Palestinians.

Let alone genocide and everything. Right. Yeah, Nicholas Christoph's been around forever. Yeah, yeah. I mean, but the crazy gets crazier somehow.

Right. It's crazy.

It's amazing. Jeff Lax, thanks so much for coming by. And how'd your semester go so far? Do you see a lot of backlash from the students? Yeah, you know, I tell everybody half the people like me for what I'm doing and half of them hate me.

It's just how it is. Right. But they all know you're taking action, so we appreciate that. Jeff Lax, a professor over at City College, thanks so much for joining us. When we come back, we'll wrap things up.

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Let's look for you. As long as he's here, he can't write another book. Co-host a Fox of Friends at host of One Nation, Brian Kilner. Brian, are you aware of Byron Allen? Are you a fan?

He's been around almost as long as you have. He's obviously way more accomplished, wealthier, and more successful than you. But you must have crossed paths. I have never met him, but I mean, he's one of the richest guys in the country. He's bought a whole bunch of stations.

He bought the weather channel.

So he must know where the wind blows. Absolutely. Well, these high school kids in great numbers put you in great jeopardy. I would say a few things. I'll be right back.

They heckle you, Brian.

Well, no, no, I live in New York. This is not one of those things. We talk about that in the break. Are you heckled by children all the way to West? Listen, do you want me to seriously answer you?

I don't like it, and I'm often on the bus and I can't get off. And I yell at them. They're on the corner. They're the walkers. I'm black, so I don't have to follow the same rules as Jim.

Yeah. But also social media, become a star. Oh, shut up. I don't know why I said that. Because I had to go to a tease.

Oh, don't turn on me. Yeah. Don't you dare. I'll crush you like a bug. Come over there, and I will crush you like a bug.

And that, of course, he was talking to the audience last night, right before I went to the Knick game. I did Greg's show. We tape it early. But one of the lead stories was what we were just talking about earlier. With Mark Malkoff about late night television, Greg gets a 3-3.

Letterman got a 3-1 when he was leaving.

Now Gray can only get 30% less homes.

So every day he starts off down 30%. All right. And then you have Stephen Colbert. They go, he left his number one, yeah, with a 2-1. We get a 2-1 at 2 I I get a 2-1 on Sunday nights.

Thankfully, thank you for that. And we get a 2-1 at 3 in the afternoon. Late night television. Does not I it's never going to be what it was with Carson and Jack Poor and Steve Allen when television was distorting, and Jack Poor, who followed up with that, who. That format actually might work.

But Johnny Corson, where it's mostly entertainment, sometimes it was insightful interviews, politically relevant candidates on both sides would go on. But what it's become right now is just a version of MSNBC. It just is. It's not entertaining. Jimmy Fallon is entertaining, does some musical stuff, and he gets one seven.

So there's something really wrong. The Americans are up. Believe me, don't say it's too late. They're up. I mean, Trace Gallo gets ratings.

So they're up. They're choosing not to listen to that.

Now, as I see. Seth Meyers Stephen Colbert. Jon Stewart. Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Fallon. And then she uh um sold six of them.

I think it's six. And you wonder as they all go to salute Stephen Colbert in his final day, who's going to be the one left standing? I think it will be Jon Stewart. Only because I think he's working part-time. He might decide to go back full-time.

I think that format format with the daily show works for him. Remember, he was on the the HBO. He had his own show on HBO. It didn't work.

So they canceled it.

So he's not perfect. You gotta have the right venue and you've got the right vehicle. And the right vehicle for him is the daily show. The other shows are just Elizabeth Warren? Johnny Carson would have put Elizabeth Warren.

You have Elizabeth Warren on one of your final shows, a nondescript. unaccomplished senator from Massachusetts? Who pretended to be someone she's not? That's your final show? And by the way, Mark's prediction that he's gonna get the Pope on?

If that is true, that's more about Donald Trump and not liking Donald Trump. Then it is about the Pope. We'll see what happens. Thanks so much for listening, everyone. Don't forget One Nation on Sunday at 10 o'clock.

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