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From ISIS. Top Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, Buddha.

So glad you're there. Brian Kilmecho coming your way. Going to be joined by Majority Whip Tom Emmer at the bottom of the hour. And of course, take your phone calls too. We'll have some time.

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And a lot of big decisions need to be made.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. And this is an announcement that does three key things. It builds 200,000 new affordable homes, preserves 200,000 affordable homes alongside it. And then, additionally, it invests in tenants across the city.

Don't be surprised when you elect a socialist when he puts socialist policies in place. City's in crisis as Mohamdami unveils the failed plan on housing. Because we look at the past, Spencer Pratt tries to save Los Angeles, and Seattle residents try to save their own lives. We'll discuss. Number two.

The Iranians are being defiant right now. They're laying mines with speed boats in the Strait of Hormuz while the Iranians are claiming to negotiate with the Americans in good faith.

So I'm not very optimistic. Either my major meeting in the Oval Office, as all players assemble to examine all options with Iran, I think it's back to the battle. We'll see. Number one. Donald Trump is in charge of this party.

There is no question about it. He is nine for nine in Senate endorsements. He is across the board in the House. He's running away with it. The question is: does it carry as much weight in the midterms as it does in the primaries?

Well, we'll see, because certain these are red seats. Texas front and center. As the Dems avoid an anti-Semitic disaster and oust the insane Al Green, Republicans pick Paxson to run versus Tallarico and will cost them about $100 million to save the seat that John Cornyn has had for years. I think John Corner was a much better choice. And the way he lost was about 30 points.

And I think it would have been five points either way without President Trump weighing in, who said some really nice things about John Cornyn, unlike when he ousted Bill Cassidy. Here's John Cornyn showing nothing but class yesterday, cut two. There's a simple rule in elections. You've heard me say it before, and that is the candidate who gets the most votes wins. The party in the majority gets to govern.

And my hope is to keep My party in power. For generations. I am an optimist. By nature. which is just another way of saying I am a Texan.

Well, the one thing is the president likes Paxson better. I guess with Cornyn, he didn't endorse him quick enough. I don't know what it is, but Cornyn is extremely popular in the Senate. Bill Cassidy, extremely popular in the Senate. Tom Tillis, extremely popular in the Senate.

So the Republicans, all three Republicans, and they're dead senators walking.

So you got them, and Dicey votes with Murkowski and Collins.

So the president's going to have a really tough time getting things through the Senate. For example, unless you have the ideal nominee, you would never get a Pete Hagseth or a Cash Patel. As much as I like both of them, they would never get through the Senate right now. And the president's got a labor secretary position to fill and a DNI position to fill. And Until those elections are over.

The president made things difficult on himself by showing his power, but he wants the right people in there, and he's got. Just as much power as he's ever had.

However, the Wall Street Journal believes they'll have to spend $100 million to keep that Senate seat against Tallarico, even though he's a whack job and he's an extreme lefty, pretending to be somebody else that mainstream publications are hailing again, just like they did Beto O'Rourke. But the attack plan is clear for Ken Paxson and everybody else. Use Tallarico's words and beliefs against him. Cut for. My opponent is the most extreme radical the Democrats have ever nominated.

He's even running a vegan campaign, whatever that is. He goes by a few names that you may all have heard of.

Some people know him as Tofu Tallarico.

Some people call him six gender Jimmy. Ah! I've even heard some people call him James Telefrico. And others refer to him simply as Low Tellerica. But no matter what you call them, let me tell you this: James Teller goes a threat to everything we hold dear in this state and in this country.

He's a threat to our security and our safety. Yeah, hey, listen, he'd be terrible. He went to Massachusetts where he'd probably win. You know, like Elizabeth Warren. But he's not a moderate.

And don't let anyone pretend that he is a moderate. He'll try to change his stance and say he eats meat or say that God's a man. But remember when he said this, cut eight. God. Is non-binary.

In Genesis 1:26, God speaks of God's self. In the plural, Saying Let us make human beings in our image. to be like us. Good luck with that. That'll go far.

So we'll see. They did dodge a bullet to the Democrats by not nominating this Maureen Galindo, who made some horrible comments about Zionists should be put in jail. Essentially, it upset I gotta give credit. To a couple of Democrats for standing up. To crazy candidates like Galindo.

Like, for example, when it looked like Galindo was winning before she made her comments and it became public, Congressman Jared Moskowitz said this: CUD13. This is not just an anti-Semitic comment. This is literally wanting to do what the Nazis did in Germany. Let's start rounding up Jews and put them in camps. She doesn't belong in the Democratic Party.

She doesn't belong in politics. This sort of stuff does not belong in America. And I want to be abundantly clear. Should she wind up here, okay, as soon as she is sworn in, I will vote, I will force a vote to expel her. And I will force a vote to expel her every single solitary day until we achieve that objective.

She is not going to be a member of the House if she gets here for long. But here's the problem: Moskowitz and Gottheimer are. Unique. They're standing up. They're pro-Israel.

I'm not sure they agree with Bibi Nenyao, but they're pro-Israel. That's not a problem. You like a prime minister, you don't like a prime minister. That's not a problem. Never has been.

You like Ariel Sharon, you didn't like him. It's not a problem. You know, you wish. Uh you know, That Naftali Bennett was still there, that's fine. Whatever you think.

But you got to be pro-Israel, just don't lose an ally. Because you think it's not politically advantageous. Dan Goldman is not against Israel. I won't even say he's. Very pro-Israel, but he's a congressman from New York, hates Trump, as vicious against Trump as any Adam Schiff comment is, and he's losing by thirty points to a socialist in New York who is, I think, Jewish and has abandoned Israel.

That's what the party is. I think it's extremely scary. They're boycotting Israeli. Food stores in New York City. They're going after Muslims that aren't anti-Israel in New York City.

Which Sadly, is the capital Is the unofficial capital of the country, finest city in the land, most diverse. Most successful businesses are Israeli-owned, the majority, and I think they're going to end up pulling out if this continues. But that's the scary part about where the party's going. But the good thing is, I think for the country that Galindo did not win. Al Green is out.

That's the guy who shook his cane at President Trump. He lost his primary. He got trounced. He's an embarrassment to Texas. Texas is too good for that.

When we come back, by the way, yesterday I covered the announcement of the 26-man roster for the U.S. men's national soccer team.

So I'm going to have an interview, a couple interviews there.

So I'm not going to be too long here. But I do want to go to Iran where the presidents have a meeting that was supposed to be at Camp David.

Now it'll be a cabinet meeting. I don't think he's going to open up to the press. I hope he doesn't. I hope he just gets to work because he's got a lot of major decisions to make. He wants to open up the strait.

No tolls. He wants the thousand pounds of uranium, no funding of proxies, and no enrichment. What do they want in return? They want freeing up of some funds? They still want to control this trade along with Oman.

And they want to enrich to 3% the way they had it in the past. And I'm not too sure that they even want a limit on their ballistic missile capacity.

So, unless they give the president, unless they give the president what he wants, he's not going to cut a deal. He just won't do it. And every day they do suffer economically, but so does a lot of the world and a lot of our allies. I want the president to go back and fight it out. I think we got the military to do it.

We got rearmament to get through it, and they got to be cut down to size. Cut seventeen is General Jack Keene, Cut 17. Phase one, we're trying to get a an agreement. A memorandum of understanding on what the framework will be for the next 60 days of negotiations.

So the words here will matter. Straits of a moose number one. We know it's likely going to be open, and the leverage for that is our own economic naval blockade. They opened straits, we remove the blockade. Yeah.

Yeah, as soon as they do that, they will do it, then we'll see, I think 100 chips a day go through there. We'll see. All right, when we come back, my interviews with some of the newest members of the World Cup team as they start full practicing today, two friendlies, and then it's June 12th, game one. Don't move. Big guests, bold opinions, better information, this is the Brian Kilmead Show.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back. Yesterday, I had a chance to be at the unveiling of the 26-man roster for the U.S. men's national team, and it was just a perfect setting on the rooftop on the South Street seaport in New York City, overlooking the Brooklyn.

In the backdrop, it was the Brooklyn Bridge, iconic, obviously, big stage setup. Weather couldn't have been better. About 75 degrees and sunny. I was out of New York, I was in Florida, but evidently, you guys in the Northeast, nothing but rain for four straight days. That was fortuitous.

And then they had a press conference, had a chance to do one-on-ones after.

So I had a chance to talk to Sebastian Berhalter. Remember, his dad was the coach of the team in the last World Cup. Then also Christian Pulisik, he is the captain, and Tim Ream, the 38-year-old center back. And I want you to hear my interview with one of the surprising picks. Not that he didn't deserve it, not many people were expecting it.

Sebastian Berhalter, cut 49. Sebastian, what was it like when you heard earlier than today that you made the roster? Today was a really surreal moment, you know, just being up there with all the guys and seeing all the fans in the stands. That's something that I think was one of the best days of my life, you know, like really having that moment where like, wow, like I'm on the team and yeah, it's something that I'll think about the rest of my life. Four years ago, where were you?

Well, your dad was coaching. Yeah. Where was his son? In the stands, you know, being the biggest fan that I possibly could be. And that's, I was wishing I was out there, but the first and foremost is that I could just support and be there for the guys and just cheer as loud as I can.

And, you know, I think that gave me that much desire to go out there and in four years' time to go and hopefully be on the team. Where do you see yourself? Interior midfield? Yeah, yeah, somewhere in the midfield, but honestly, anywhere. I think he's put me out wide before and wherever, you know, on the field is amazing.

Right. And what did your dad say about all this? He must have been more nervous leading up to this? My mom was more. Of a wreck, yeah.

My dad was just super proud, and you know, he just said, I love you, man. I'm so proud of you, and everything you've accomplished. And my mom was a wreck crying, and my sister, so yeah, it was nice, though. And when did you realize you could play at this level? I mean, you're playing in the MLS now, and you're very young.

When did you realize I can rise to this level? I think I always had the belief, but I wasn't sure. You know, I always believed in myself I could, but until I, you know, I got here and then kind of, you know, I haven't been on the team even a year yet, you know, so it's still trying to find myself and what I'm good at. But yeah, I always had the belief, and then being with this group, you know, having Mauricio's trust and him, you know, instilling that in me kind of led me to realizing I can do this.

So the red, white, and blue, it's probably all over your house. What does it mean to play for your country? Yeah, I know, I think my family bleeds it, you know, it's something that has been instilled in us since day one. There's no greater feeling than playing for a country, and I mean that honestly. Like, it's the best thing that I'll ever do professionally.

So, it's something that I just am so excited.

So, it's one thing about it's not necessarily the best players, it's how they play together. That's what a coach is saying. What do you think is about what has he told you about your game that he wants you to work on? And what do you think got you on the team? Yeah, for me, I think it's just being myself.

You know, I think he's seen that I'm my best version when I'm myself, and when I'm scrapping, I'm working hard, and I'm using my quality on set pieces and my crosses and pass-through lines, stuff like that, to just be who I am, you know, and bring that competitive fighting spirit. Right, so you got Paraguay Game One. You've seen any of them on video? Did you were you there for the last game last year? Yeah, I know.

I played in that game last year, and honestly, one of my best friends and my sentiment partner in Vancouver is a sentiment for Paraguay.

So, I know a lot about him, and gonna try to get the best of him for sure. Right, and then you have game two would be Australia. What could you tell us about that? They're also a good team. You know, they gave us a tough game.

I heard they're really physical.

So that's gonna be another fun game. Right, and playing out in the West Coast, you're used to that? Yeah, I live in Vancouver and play all my games out there, so yeah, no problem. All right, and lastly, when the national anthem plays and you're out there, what's gonna be going through your mind? I can't believe I'm here, honestly.

I'll be s I'll hopefully I don't cry. because it's so close to the game, but... I can see myself shedding a couple of tears 100% for him. Zoe's into it. Obviously, he's very much into it.

And I think he's 22 years old. I think you guys are going to get to know him. He'll be on the team for the next 15 years.

So I think someone's going to emerge off the bench. I think all 26 are capable of starting. But the crazy thing is, not crazy, but the thing that's noteworthy is 10, 10 defenders, three forwards. And they seem a little bit light at midfield, but they got three great goalies, so I think that could make up for a lot. Just like in hockey, just like in lacrosse.

If you have a hot goalie, it all changes. because they make a good team great and they make a great team unbeatable. And this is a good team that needs a goalie to be great. But traditionally, Americans have always had great goalies. I think it's just because of the type of sports we play.

If you look at Tony Miola, if you look at Brad Friedel, if you look at Casey Keller, you look at Tim Howard, these are the best these are some of the best in the world when they were at the top of their game.

So it would not surprise me to see a goalie get really hot.

So that was what just happened yesterday. I'll bring back some more of those.

Some more throughout the Wednesday edition of the show. But the other thing I want to talk about is happening in the game's going to be played in Los Angeles. And people are going to be talking about the homelessness situation. They're going to be talking about the high taxes. They're going to talk about the way Pacific Palisades has not been rebuilt.

But most of all, they'll be talking, I think, about Spencer Pratt. He has gotten everybody's attention because not only is he different, he is gaining on an incompetent Karen Bass, who's actually thinks she's doing a good job and thought she was just going to float to this. She's not. And Spencer Pratt is all over better ads, better answers, Better answers on homelessness, talking about the waste that she has pointed out. And also, yesterday, she was campaigning way too close to a.

a polling location and he slammed her with a lawsuit. And said is going to sue him. And now she's got to go answer and got to get her attorneys together in order to answer this lawsuit. I mean, the guy is for real. I'm telling you, it will be one of the hottest stories in America.

If it was a Democrat running in a Republican area like Tylerico, he'd be on the cover of every newspaper. But he's not. But people are noticing that he's got a real shot, including Harvey Levin. Listen to what Harvey Lemon said on the Two Angry Men podcast, Cut38. When Spencer and Karen Bass face off in the general election, Do you think That she is going to debate him because I think if she does, he will kick her.

She is not good at this because it's really hard to say Who are you going to believe, me or your lion eyes? Because I Harvey Levin knows, even though he's surrounded by liberal organizations and radicals like Robert De Niro. Who lives in New York, but you know, the Hollywood crowd where there is no Hollywood anymore? There literally is no. There is almost no Hollywood there's no T V industry there.

There's no movie industry there. The lots are basically empty. They've made it cost prohibitive to do anything in California, where Hollywood is. And Hollywood is and most of Hollywood Boulevard is too seedy to bring tourists to. It's crazy.

You almost don't want a star in Hollywood Boulevard because it gets destroyed and it's almost insulting.

So there is so there is such an opportunity. For a normal person to become mayor and begin to fix things. I mean, they should have hired Rick Caruso years ago.

Now they got a shot with Spencer Pratt. And he's going to sound himself, and from what I can tell, he's going to surround himself with good, confident people. Majority with Tom Emery. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, we are back, and with me in the studio is Majority Whip, Congressman Tom Emmer out of Minnesota. Great to see you, Congressman. I see you've got a bad ankle, a bad Achilles, but you're playing hurt. Hey, we'll be fine. I am a one-legged man in a kicking contest right now, but we're winning.

Right, yeah, absolutely.

So, for example, I think the thing that comes to mind now is what a great job the vice president's doing cracking down on fraud. I think 16 have been arrested in Minnesota. Yeah, that was just last week. There were 15, and this one is separate from the Feeding Our Future scandal, which is $250 million, largest pandemic fraud case in the country. This is now health care fraud.

Brian, it's $90 million in health care fraud. They defrauded, took money away from the disabled, from elderly, I mean children. And it's pathetic. Yeah, congratulations to the Vice President. He's doing an amazing job.

And really got to commend President Trump for unleashing the task force, a strike task force on Minnesota. See, the other thing that's interesting is they're getting the money back. In his press conference yesterday, he said, I'm bringing this money back and putting it back into the Treasury. And the thing is, what stuck out with me is when Stephen Miller said, you know, when these programs were put out there for people, whether it's food stamps or Medicaid, Medicare, it was kind of a mutual trust thing. You say you need the money, we'll give it to you.

But the follow-up, there was no follow-up because that bond was broken. In fact, people took advantage of it, especially during the pandemic.

Well, they've been taking advantage of it forever. And we've known that there are these state-run scams, right? They charge the federal government back for more than they actually incur, so they get more federal funds on some of these programs. But this is a lot more egregious than just playing on the edges, Brian. These people were making millions, and in some cases, billions off of the American taxpayer.

And that is just wrong, and it's time that it ended. And thank God for President Trump. Did you hear about this when Walsh was being vetted as Vice President? Not from them, but I'll tell you what. We've been writing letters and trying to sound the alarm on this since at least 2000.

In fact, when Donald Trump tweeted out that Friday night, Somali fraudsters, and he got attacked for the, you know, it's racist, it's whatever. Guess what? I thanked him because what he did was he finally got the press interested in this, which is a national story now. Without him doing that, we probably would still be fighting this uphill. And now people are starting to see just how serious it is.

So here's what the vice president said yesterday: Cut 56. We've referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We've deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements that were coming from various states, particularly California. We put a six-month hold on enrollments for new hospice and home health care providers because so many of the newer hospice providers were not actually providing hospice services, but were just focused on fraud.

So we're going to cut that out for a little bit and try to get to a place where we can actually certify that the people providing hospice services are actually providing those very necessary and important services. Yeah, I mean, because they can't verify it. Can you imagine this? Taking child programs, autism in your state, and autistic specifically, I'm sure it's other places, and then hospice care.

So the last lap of life, you have a bunch of empty hulks of buildings with no one's there, and there was a hospice on every block, on basically every corner.

Well, I think you're still just scratching the tip of the iceberg. He's talking about billions across the country. You talked about my state. There was autism center fraud. There's daycare fraud.

I mean, literally, where one Somali fraudster would allege that they have your kids in their daycare. Your kids aren't in their daycare, and they collect money for them. And by the way, you apparently have their kids, and you're defrauding the government. But the Medicaid program, they had a housing stabilization fund, which is supposed to cost a couple million bucks when they started it five years ago. They shut it down last October because it was like $400 million had been built out of that system.

This was housing stabilization for homeless et al. This goes way beyond what we've even seen so far, as far as I'm concerned.

So we're seeing that now in New York because I'm sure you can't follow it with everything going on. But Mayor Mondani yesterday basically says the landlords are the problem.

Okay, really landlords are the problem.

So we're going to freeze rent. And for those who can't do it, if they can't make it, we will have the city take over those buildings. In the big picture, Congressman, isn't that the goal? If they are too socialist, they want to take these buildings over, They want to rent them to people or give them away, charge taxpayer dollars to subsidize them. And you know how that's done in the past?

Just going back to the 70s, 80s, and 90s. All this stuff goes into disrepair, becomes a haven for crime because government can't run this stuff. This is the projects, is what they do. When they subsidize this stuff and people don't have an ownership interest, you're right, Brian, then you don't take care of it. In this case, your mayor is reflective of a small slice of our population, but a very loud slice of the population that we need to be listening to.

They need to be reminded what made this country great. By the way, St. Paul, Minnesota, I think, passed a rent control. And within months after the local news was like celebrating this big movement, within months they started reporting: you know what? These projects are stopping.

The contractors are not moving forward. You will find it's not just that these buildings will go into disrepair and they'll become just cesspools, but you will lose new opportunities, new buildings, because people are going to want to invest if Mayor Momdami the Kami is going to take over their project. Right. And the thing is, too, it's just blaming landlords and you're subsidizing the buildings. And then you build these supermarkets.

They go, isn't that great? Three supermarkets subsidized by the city.

Well, that's taxpayer dollars. And then you turn around and say, well, we're getting the taxes. I got to raise them. Who are you going to raise them on? The rich people?

Oh, the ones you vilified? Because they're leaving. They are leaving. If I can play this out, and I'm not an economist. When you sit down and there's doors closed, and you do this all the time in budget meetings, there's things you say on camera, not you, but people say on camera, and then they get in the room, the door closes, and go, how do we balance this budget?

Why are they getting behind closed doors and still not understanding that their budget's not going to balance? Because it's your money and mine, Brian. They don't care. They're going to spend whatever they've got and they're going to take more. Remember, I think it was your state, New York, that was one of the first to do the millionaires tax under the elder Cuomo when he was governor.

I think it lasted like 10 years.

Somebody should go check it. But they found that most of that money moved to New Jersey. And they let it expire after that.

Now it's all moving to Miami and Boca and all kinds of places in Florida.

So here is Mondami talking about Bezos. I like the fact a lot of times, and I wouldn't know what this is like, but billionaires, and I think Musk is going to be the first trillionaire, they don't want to say I'm a billionaire. Because it's vilified these days. Ken Griffin's a billionaire a million times over, but he puts hundreds of millions of dollars into charity too. You hire 9,000 people.

They got to get apartments. They go out to dinner. They have kids. They're going to go into sports. The ripple effect on down.

So far, you have a situation where Bezos sat down last week on CNBC to talk about how ridiculous this vilification is. And Mondami answered yesterday, cut 37. You know, I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ. And I think that if I was worth as much money as he was, that I would probably say the same thing. The fact of the matter is that we are talking about a city where one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty.

And we're hearing from one of the richest men that our world has ever seen about how he and others who make that kind of money shouldn't have to pay their fair share. And frankly, what New Yorkers want to see is a tax system that recognizes the scale of this affordability crisis and actually provides a way for city government to be able to invest in those same New Yorkers in the manner that we used to decades ago. Fair share? These are buzzwords of the far left. They want to invest your money.

Remember, if anybody wants to know how this really works, go and find a book that everybody should have read at least as early as their freshman year of college called The Road to Serfdom, written by an economist named Hayek back during World War II. He ran it to his elitist, he wrote it for his elitist buddies. He was an Austrian economist who was exiled to Great Britain during the war. And he wrote it to his Marxist, communist, socialist friends who believe that the state, and this is Mondami, that the state can distribute scarce resources better than human effort, right? Because the idea was you have a central authority that will decide where all these resources go, as opposed to people with their own hard work and talents making that happen.

The free hand that Adam Smith talks about. And guess what? It works as long as you're part of that central group making the decisions. When you're not, Majority of time Emma, I guess. Congressman, when you look at a situation where you have the top one percent paying, I think, forty percent of the taxes, top ten percent paying sixty percent to seventy percent of the taxes.

I saw I think it was Mark Andreessen yesterday with Joe Rogan, said that he's paying sixty percent.

So for every $10 you make, you give away six. That's what Europe did with the whole wealth tax. Could you describe for our audience how damaging the wealth tax is? On the surface, you might go, okay, what's 1% more? What's the big deal?

But why so many wealthy are making sure they're not in a state that has a wealth tax and they're running out of California even before the referendum goes in? Because they can. I mean, this is why. If you've got the resources, money will go to where it's going to be treated most fairly under any circumstance. And by the way, there's a book, about a 200-page book, called The Myths of Inequality.

Do you know that in this country, it is the U.S. Census Bureau that defines wealth and poverty. They define wealth in this country as pre-tax income. They define poverty as pre-tax. Pre Government transfer income.

They then divide us up into quintiles in this book. They show you that a very small slice is the richest of the rich, but they include a huge number to pull up other people into that top quintile. In the bottom quintile, they show you this: that if you are making pre-government transfer income of, say, $4,000, $4,500 this year. And you qualify for every government program that's out there, you will actually be taking home between $40,000 and $45,000, which will put you in the bottom end of the third quintile with people who are double incomes, husbands, wives, working their tails off just to make ends meet. There's your problem.

So here's the thing: when you have investors and they have stocks, so they hold NVIDIA, let's say the top five. They want to have unrealized taxes on unrealized gains.

So I didn't cash in. You and I, let's say we're lucky enough to hold those big five stocks, Meta, and we had a good year. Right? They want a tax on that year.

Now, even though you haven't cashed out on that, you haven't even made me take dividends on that. And then if it's a bad year, you don't get any money back.

So what are your thoughts about that?

Well, you remember the cartoon Popeye where the guy would say, I'll gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Well, now our government is saying, I'll gladly give you your hard-earned gain after you pay today. I mean, literally, they're saying, you give us the money before you earn anything. That's like completely, forgive me, but it's a scientific term. That's backass backwards. I understand it.

So just looking at your fortunes, you did every seat matters. I think most people think between, what do you see, 15 and 20 seats up for grabs? Do you see more than that? Do you think it's 30?

Well, there are over 20 Democrats who won by five points or less in the last presidential election.

So those would be considered swing seats of that. But realistically, I think you're in the ball when you go. It's 20 to 25.

So if you look at that, knowing yesterday, it looks as though South Carolina says we're not going to get rid of the one seat.

So the Clyburn Steed stands for the midterms. And I believe Alabama, the same thing. You're not going to get that extra seat. Yeah. But you did have big gains.

It looks like Florida will stand, just as by people tell me about the courts. We know Virginia was halted, so that's not going to happen. And we know Texas was sustained and Louisiana, we're still waiting, but it looks like Louisiana.

So your thoughts about holding the house With gas up so high and an unpopular war going on right now, somewhat in hyperspace. Yeah, well, first, it is going to be about the economy. Affordability is a made-up term. It is another term for the economy. One Democrat commentator years ago said it's about the economy, stupid.

It will be again when we get to next fall. But we've never lost an election in May. The economy right now is doing better than people even know. The focus has been on gas prices. A lot of people traveling in Memorial Day.

It's a big deal, right? I mean, most people that will decide this election are trying to pay a mortgage, put food on the table, clothes on the kids. They're thinking about the family vacation they're going to take this summer. And if it's at $4.50 to $6 a gallon, it's going to affect what they do. It'll be the end of the summer, though, when hopefully this all comes together.

And I like our chances, Brian. After redistricting, we've got a two-to-one advantage. We've got 10 new seats. They've got five. Four of those are in California.

They've got one of our seats, California 22, Dave. Valadeo, that is a Trump plus 1.7, that is a swing seat. We've got five of theirs. I like our chances. It's about the economy.

If the president concludes this thing, things start to settle down so people can focus on the good news to the economy, and you start to see gas prices come down, which they will. I like our chances. So, I mean, but if you talk to, do Democrats have as much confidence behind the scenes as they have in front of the camera? Keem Jeffries basically is fitting himself for the gavel every day. The man's never going to be the leader.

He's not a leader. They are deluded. Ask yourself: who is the Democrats' leader nationally? They don't have one. Is it Tim Walls?

Absolutely not. He's got to go to Spain now to get somebody to listen to him. And what is their message? They don't have one other than we hate Trump. Right.

It doesn't work. Yeah, I don't know what they would do different. I mean, they are talking about raising taxes, which is usually not a popular thing to do.

Well, just go to Virginia, where you now have Tim Walls in a dress in the governor's office, Abigail. Spanberger, that is what they will do to this country if you let them run it. But unlike what's happening with Platiner and what's happening with Mondami and the Seattle mayor. They said they were socialists. The scary thing with her, she said she was moderate.

So that's what I find really worrisome as an American. Majority with Tom Ember, thanks so much for coming in, all right? Thank you. Great to see you. Talk to you.

Talk to you again soon. Back in a moment. The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them only on the Brian Kill Meat Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

Senator Andy Kim called me and said he wanted access to the facility because they were claimed that there were hunger strikes, but there is not hunger strikes going on. I said, Andy, give me a little bit. Let me get somebody in there for you. And we ended up allowing him to have access to it. But we said, you know, you can't go in there with your staff and film and cause a big show.

And then you had the Governor Cheryl jumped in. Then you had the other representatives and then Senator Corey Booker that was posting. And it's like it was all for show. And at the same time, they were trying to tell me they were trying to de-escalate the situation when he had Antifa flags flying out there.

So Mark Waymohan tries to solve problems.

So, Andy Kim is a Democrat, and Andy Kim says there are people in New Jersey at an ice facility who are on hunger strikes because the conditions are so bad.

So, Mark Wayne Mollen said, Let me look into it. And before they could even get to the bottom of it, there's protests in front of the facility. He's down there complaining of being pepper sprayed. What are you doing there? What are you doing?

You're trying to get a Minneapolis where ice looks bad, and what also is like Minneapolis. What also is like Minneapolis? Was the fact that state cops and local cops were told do not help ICE. When cops can't help other cops, No matter your specialty, I just think it's sickening and it's sad. Because if I am a state cop in New Jersey and I break protocol and I go down and help ICE, I get fired.

So I got a family, I got kids, I'm working towards my pension, I'm in year 17 of 20 years stay. I really can't risk it.

So it's just a terrible situation to put in. And I think it's all anti-American.

So you have a bunch of protesters, I'm pure paid. who are blocking the entrance for Officials coming in and out. You think that's going to stand? Of course not.

So ice comes out. What are they wearing masks? Why? Because you're doxing them. They go out and they knock them around.

Oh, wait a second. They're knocking them around. That's the video you need.

So he looked into it and said there's no hunger strike going on, and the conditions are fine. And you saw the inside conditions before in the past, they got turf fields and things as recreation. Also, A lot of these guys are criminals. All of them have overstayed their visas. There's about 300.

Uh uh about uh there's about 300 in there. Houses up to a thousand. It's privately run. And all these guys show. I just hope if you are against this, I hope you just don't fall for the chaos that's on the outside because it's one person causing the chaos.

It's like they're starting a fight in a bar, and the bar gets a bad reputation, not the guy that started the fight. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're there. Brian Kilney Show coming your way this hour.

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So let's get to the big three. Number three. And this is an announcement that does three key things. It builds 200,000 new affordable homes, preserves 200,000 affordable homes alongside it. And then additionally, it invests in tenants across the city.

Cities in crisis as Socialist Mayor Mamdani unveils his failed plan on housing. Spencer Pratt tries to save Los Angeles and Seattle residents try to save their own lives. We discuss it all. Number two. The Iranians are being defiant right now.

They're laying mines with speed boats in the Strait of Hormuz while the Iranians are claiming to negotiate with the Americans in good faith.

So I'm not very optimistic. Neither am I. Rebecca Heinrichs isn't, and she's an expert. Major meeting in the Oval as the players assemble to examine all options with Iran. I'm talking about getting gas prices down and fertilizer prices down while still in this conflict.

I think it's back to the battle, but we'll see. Number one. Donald Trump is in charge of this party. There is no question about it. He is nine for nine in Senate endorsements.

He is across the board in the House. He's running away with it. The question is: does it carry as much weight in the midterms as it does in the primaries?

Well, we'll see. Lee Carter weighs in. She's an expert, a polling expert. Texas front and center as the Dems avoid an anti-Semitic disaster and oust an insane Congressman Al Green. And Republicans pick Paxson to run against Tallarico.

It'll cost them, according to the Wall Street Journal, about $100 million to keep John Cornin's seat. And with us right now, discuss that is Rich Lowry, editor of National Review. Hey, Rich, I thought Senator John Cornyn would have been a much better pick. But it looks like the President felt differently, and then he gets a decisive win. Your thoughts.

Yeah, he's getting decisive wins across the landscape. There's never been a president who's had a more iron grip on his party than Donald Trump. It's truly. Extraordinary. I don't think it's a choice that well, I don't think it's a good choice regardless, but it's certainly not a choice that matches the political environment this year, where you don't want to make any unnecessary, take any unnecessary risks when Trump's approval raised about 40%, maybe a little lower, and probably going to lose the House and just don't want to risk losing the Senate.

And it certainly puts that seat at play. I think Paxton will probably prevail, but it's going to be an expensive and ugly race. Here's what Ken Paxton said yesterday, immediately pivoting. To Tellerico, cut four. My opponent is the most extreme radical the Democrats have ever nominated.

He's even running a vegan campaign, whatever that is. He goes by a few names that you may all have heard of.

Some people know him as Tofu Tallarico.

Everything else.

Some people call him six gender Jimmy. I've even heard some people call him James Telefrico. And others refer to him simply as low-tea Tellerica. But no matter what you call them, let me tell you this: James Teller is a threat to everything we hold dear in this state and in this country. He's a threat to our security and our safety.

So your thoughts about Paxson, who's popular in Texas, but man, does he have a lot in his past, including getting impeached by a Republican majority in the state, but keeping his job? Yeah, has more baggage than you get in the belly of a 747, and there might be more where that came from. But Tellarico, as that clip shows, is so vulnerable. I think there's a chance Jasmine Crockett might have been a better candidate, actually, because Tellarico is the worst of both worlds. He's a crazy lefty at the same time, he's preachy about it and wants to portray it as all mandated by the gospel, which is the approach best suited to annoying people.

So I think Tellarico goes down, but he's going to make it competitive. And it could be a one- or two-point race and a real nail-biter of a night.

So we have to move now to the President's meeting in the Oval Office, where he's going to say, okay. Uh I need all the uranium out thousand pounds. I need the straight open Oh, I need a limit when it comes to ballistic missiles, some type of end. I got to make sure they have zero enrichment. In turn, I think the one thing that they would have to do is maybe unfreeze some funds.

Your thoughts about how this deal will shake out that the President would find acceptable and politically palatable.

Well, I think kind of the thing to focus on is what happens to the uranium, and not the most high not just the most highly rich, but Enrich, but all of it. And I'd be willing to pay for that. I'd unfreeze assets to get the uranium. I think that'd be a big. a big win and and really put pay to their nuclear program for a very long time to come.

But my fear is that we'll end up basically trading our blockade for a reopening of the strait in some form or another. And then the nuclear stuff is is put off to a future negotiation. It's complicated. Iranians don't wanna give, want to string us along. Trump wants to reopen the strait and kinda get on with it.

So we don't get what we want on the nuclear because we've kind of given up our leverage in the course of strung-out negotiations. That's the potential downside here.

Well, we've already seen violations. violations of the ceasefire by them trying to put Minds in the strait. Uh by them attacking, you know, UAE. They've been doing that all along.

So we fired back and they say there's going to be retribution. I think the best asset for Americans that want justification in the end of this regime is the Iranians RARGC. Because I don't think they'll sign on to any deal their president and foreign minister sign on to themselves. Yes, it's factionalized and they have more power. Look, the Ceasefire has basically been a sham from the beginning because they said they'd reopen the street and it they haven't.

And in fact, they've done the opposite, right? They're continuing to try to mine it.

So The question is, will Trump bomb them again, or could we undertake a real serious operation to reopen the Strait? He seems very hesitant to start the bombing again. The politics aren't great. We're kind of running low on key precision munitions, question whether we can protect the Gulf Arab states from retaliation, and they don't want us to do it anymore.

So all that kind of weighs against them. And then reopening the Strait, I just assume, is a very complex, protracted, and risky operation they're also reluctant to undertake.

So that's why we're a little bit stuck at the moment, I think.

Well, I do think I've been reassured and gotten to people that would know that the munition situation is fine. Could be a little bit better, but it's not going to hinder our attack plan, alter it somewhat, but it's not crisis. I want you to hear Vice Admiral Mark Fox, Cut 21. I just don't see how this, quote, deal is going to materialize with the intransigence and the unwillingness of the Iranian regime to work with us.

Now, here's an Iranian government spokesperson, Cut 22. It is not the first time we are witnessing these contradictions from the United States. In fact, one of the problems in our negotiations is these inconsistencies and contradictions in their behavior. This is not a new issue. Right.

It's our behavior. It's been the problem. We've been saying that all along.

So, I mean, that's the way they view it, though. Yeah, no, of course.

So look, I think Trump's reluctant to bomb, and I don't think the Iranians at the end of the day want to get bombed again.

So if they really believe the the threats or we started again, then you might shake something. Loose, but at the moment, I think both sides kind of won a deal, but the gap is so large, and no one wants to overpay for it.

So, how long do we wait? I don't know. I don't know. I do think the click is t the clock is ticking in that We're going to get in the summer driving season in a major way here, and Trump should want Gas prices to come down, and they're not going to come down immediately if there's a peace deal, but the upward pressure will stop. And I think he wants that to happen sometime soon.

It's just that if the Iranians won't move, what are you going to do? And then that might force his hand to start bombing them again. I just think that we got to go back. I wish it was another case. I wish they understood the damage that was done and how much more damage could be coming.

But they feel as though by bombing the Arab states, the other Gulf states, that'll be the legend they need to get us to stop. Hey, it already altered our behavior when it came to Operation Freedom. And when the Saudi said can't use our bases and we're afraid we're going to get rocketed in our desalinization plans. I want to get the socialist mayor of New York. In case you weren't convinced that he's going to try to put those policies in place that will make this place a socialist haven, you weren't listening yesterday.

Uh here he is, cut thirty one. Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the City. We will focus on the worst landlords in New York City. Right. When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers.

And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Really? You're going to take buildings away and give it to other people? That's interesting. City-owned grocery stores, free public buses, high taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

That's the formula he sees for success and is confident he can pull it off. How do you see it, Rich Larry? Any real estate developer who listened to that speech yesterday is like, I'm not going to build units in New York City. I can build them in Nashville or anywhere else around the country. Why would I take the risk?

Developers and landlords aren't the problem. The problem In terms of the price of housing in New York City, it's constrained supply.

So you want to encourage private actors to build more and make it easier for them to build. He, of course, wants to do the opposite.

So this will be, if he gets his way, a grotesque failure. We tried it in the city in the 70s and 80s. It was a debacle. Yeah, and the thing is, it becomes an area of high crime. Looking back at those days, there was 20% more crime in that area of the projects than before.

So Reagan came in and straightened it out. He's literally mentioning Reagan's name to say Reagan undid it, and we're trying to fix it.

So they're talking about $22 billion, a five-year housing funding commitment, plus a $40 an hour wage requirement for city-funded housing construction labor. Really? Small property owners and real estate groups are upset about it. They're criticizing the plan as too one-sided, too pro-tenant, warning it could hurt small landlords and discourage investments.

Now, I know there's probably bad landlords out there. Let's say there are. But when you were a landlord, And they say, We're freezing your rent. And at the same time, the tenant says, I need this fixed. Where are they getting the money?

A lot of times they have to raise rents, so they leave the apartments empty. There are so many empty apartments because they're on rent freezes. Yeah, this is exactly what happened in the 70s. We all know that famous phrase: ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning from I think it was the 1977 World Series. A huge warehouse was on fire behind Yankee Stadium.

But landlords let the stuff go decrepit because it wasn't worth it anymore, and they just burned it down for the insurance money because it wasn't worth it anymore.

So, again, this is doubling down on a failed policy. It's the exact opposite of what cities have pursued that have actually seen some relief in terms of rent because they have encouraged private actors to increase the supply, build more units. But you don't do that by browbeating landlords and developers and making their life harder. All right. Rich, thanks so much.

Rich Lowry, National Review, appreciate it. All right, when we come back, we'll be able to squeeze in some calls, 1-866-408-766. I also got some emails I'm going to go through. And yesterday I had a chance to be at the unveiling of the U.S. Men's World Cup team.

The roster is 26 men strong. I talked to some of those players, a lot of the fans. You'll have that tour when we come back. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmead Show. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back. And yesterday I had a chance to catch up with the New York men's in New York City, catch up with the U.S. men's soccer team. They released their 26-man roster.

Remember, they're not the best players in the country, they're the best players that work best in the country. They want to be the best team.

So there's a few players that soccer heads will look at and say, why are they not on the team? Regardless, these are the guys. One of the guys. is talking about Mauricio Panchatino from Argentina, always speaking red, white and blue with a thick accent, I got you. But he really has his team thinking national pride, which is important.

Tyler Adams from Tyler Adams is actually from New York. Had this to say, Wabanchus Falls, he's the midfielder. He'll play almost every second of every game in center midfield, cut 47, about the coach's impact. I think he's changed the culture of the way that we approach things. And I think having someone that's a foreigner to our country but not a foreigner to the game of football, because he's been around it, played it at such a high level, coached at such a high level, we really lean on him for his experiences.

So I think it's been a very positive assignment. Uh yeah, and here he is the coach, Cup 44. Yes, I put I put the trust and the confidence in and really believe in all the the players that are in that made that roster It's not only Taylor. I I trust in everyone. That is why we select them.

We really believe that we can do a fantastic job, that we can perform and I trust in Teller, but I trust in the whole roster. And the one thing they need is Christian Pulissic to score. And he's going to get opportunities. And if not, he's going to bring two defenders with him, and other people get those opportunities. Cut 45.

I'm really grateful to be in this position. It's exactly what I want. I have a chance to help my country to perform at a World Cup, and I'm lucky. And that's pretty much what we discussed at the game. I did have a chance to talk to Polistic a little bit longer.

We'll see how much of that interview we can get in before the break. Cut 48.

So Christian, what's your thoughts about being out there with those 26 guys today on that stage? I mean it's incredible, yeah. Seeing the fans support and you know it's starting to feel real and having these guys by my side, it's an exciting time going into a World Cup. How would you characterize the talent on this team? I mean there's just endless talent.

I mean there's guys playing at some of the highest levels in the world and putting in good performances every week and I think it's definitely a really exciting team. How healthy are you? I feel great. You feel great. Christina, in the big picture.

When you saw the USA hockey team did what they did and the whole country, I don't know if you saw it from Italy, like rally around them that weren't hockey fans, does that give you any motivation, additional motivation of what could happen? Yeah, absolutely. I got to see one of their games over there as well, supporting them and just to see what they do and to see the love from the American fans. And just, yeah, the way they fought and the way they, you know, they were able to have gold at the end. It was really special, and that gives us a lot of motivation for sure.

I was talking to Landon. He always felt like there was pressure on him to score when he was out there. Do you feel that pressure? I mean, I think it's the normal amount. Yeah, I mean, it's our job as attacking players, so I feel it, but not too much, not like an overly crazy pressure, I guess.

But I feel like in many ways, did you grow up with a lot of these guys? Like, playing the U.S. national team on the 15s, on the 17s? Do you feel like you know a lot of your teammates almost your entire life almost? Yeah, I mean, so many of the guys I've played.

played with in the last World Cup and then a lot of them even going back into youth days for sure.

So it's definitely a team that I know very well. I have some really close friends and guys that I on the field that we have a really good connection with as well. First game against Paraguay. Last time you played him it was 2-1. What could you tell us about that game going in?

I mean it's the opening game of a World Cup. There's going to be a lot of energy out there. It's going to be two teams that are ready to battle. We have to be ready, we have to perform, we have to be there physically, mentally and in the right place and ready to compete. Australia, the second game, very, very physical team, but it's a team that you have had success with before.

Is there any way to describe them? No, I mean, same thing. Same thing. When it comes to a World Cup game, you have to take it very seriously. We know what kind of players they have.

We played them recently, and we have to be ready. We have to be ready. We have to play at the very best of our level if we want to go and win that game. And basically, they have one more game after that, and that would be Turkey. Many people think that Turkey will be the best team of the three.

Australia, as predicted, is the character of their country. They'll be very physical, but actually, the U.S. team will be much more technical, and they could be physical when you have a guy like Tim Ream in the back, and they have better goalies. And then the first game will be key. The last time they played Paraguay, it was 2-1, and I think the last time before that was 2-1.

They haven't lost to them since 2016.

So getting that first win just be huge. That'll mean they're probably going forward. And getting three wins will be even bigger. All right, listen to Brian Kill Me Show. When we come back, Michael Makovsky will be here going to break down this anti-Semitism raging in this country and the need for the IDF to be able to hit back to Hezbollah when we finally get out of this truce phase with Iran.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. I think there's strong alignment and agreement on what a preliminary draft should look like. I think, like anything with something like this, and it's going to take a couple days to settle on even down to the. disagreements over a word.

Sentence.

So we'll have to work through that. If there's going to be a deal, we're going to have to work through that. But this is a, you know, it's either going to be a good deal or there isn't going to be one. Yeah, that is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who actually is having his assistant become the assistant. National Security Advisor, I think the position Mike Waltz held, and I think you find it's almost impossible to just have one person doing everything, which everyone's had fun with, but they really have to spread it out a little bit.

And And we're talking about what's happening with Iran, and we can't forget what's happening with Lebanon and Israel, where Hezbollah is located. That as long as that cancer is allowed to exist in Lebanon, Israel is not going to let up, even though they're told to hold back. Michael Makofsky joins us now, president and CEO of the Jewish Institute for the National Security of America. Michael, welcome back. Great.

Thanks for having me back, Brian.

So what do you what do you hear went on between the Prime Minister and President yesterday in their conversation? And what do you think the tone of the Cabinet meeting today is going to be about from the American perspective? Yeah, it was a good question. I don't know. I think obviously the focus is still going to be on a deal.

And Israel, obviously, I think they. Uh they don't want a deal, or they've been obviously very concerned about where the talks have been going.

So I think the Israelis are hoping that these talks collapse. And right now they've been told to hold back on Hezbollah, but Hezbollah has not held back on them, have they? That's correct. In fact, I think there was just an Israeli soldier that was just killed by a drone that kind of went deep into Israel. And I saw a note by the Israeli ambassador how they're going to hit back hard.

I think the Israelis have been frustrated on the Lebanon front because they feel President Trump is trying to work out a deal, which they perfectly understand with the Iranians. But they feel like they're kind of fighting in Lebanon against the terrorist proxy of Iran, Hezbollah, with one hand tied behind their back, and they're not able to do enough. And it's also, I should say, that politically for Netanyahu is challenging because he's being criticized in Israel by opposition leaders for not being tough enough and protecting Israel's north. you So I understand there's been 900 rocket and missile attacks. and 1200 drone attacks in southern Israel.

Meanwhile, the IDF is restrained to defensive operations only and makes them even more vulnerable. And they have these new drones run by from Russia, run with fiber optics that you guys right now do not have the technology to stop, right?

Well, I'm I mean, I'm I'm American, but yeah, but the Israelis they're they they they're working on solutions. I think they have some ideas, but yes, they have not been able to solve that problem.

So now you have talks with Lebanon, but how much power does Lebanon have over Hezbollah? First they had none. And now they feel as though they've been empowered some, but to what degree do they? I think you described it exactly right. They had none.

Now they had a little. But I think the Israelis were very frustrated that the Lebanese did not rein in Uh, Hezbollah, so unfortunately, Israel has to. I mean, it's a kind of an interesting thing, the war between The fighting between Israel It's not a fight between Israel and Lebanon. It's a fight between Israel and Hezbollah. And really, the Israelis and the Lebanese government are really on the same side.

They want to get rid of Hezbollah. But they're too weak, the Lebanese military, or they're too afraid.

So the Israelis have had to step in and do it and protect their own people this way. Yeah, it's a little crazy.

So when you talk about what Iran and the dangers that they bring, I'm astounded how Democrats are pretending as if we don't realize that they want to create a nuclear weapon, that we don't understand that you don't build a nuclear facility in the size of a mountain, lie about it, and especially the pickaxe mountain, which is almost impenetrable, if you have a peaceful nuclear program. But yet that's some of the crap we hear. And now some of these Democrats are actually singing the praises of the JCPOA, which was Barack Obama's idea of controlling Iran. COT 19. The reason that Donald Trump pulled us out of the JCPOA, of Obama's Iran deal, is because he said it was not a good deal.

What it did was it at least put Iran years from nuclear breakout. And him pulling us out. Left them weeks from nuclear breakouts.

So 10 years. First, they said there's no nuclear waste. And now they're saying they admit it. But the whole thing would have expired already if it was put in place. And there were no inspectors there.

And there was no limit on ballistic missiles. And there was absolutely no limit on funding proxies, Michael. Admirably has been trying to clean up the mess. From the JCPOA, both with the twelve-day war last year with Israel and with this recent military operation. I mean, it's, I mean, we without relitigating the whole thing, basically, the JCPOA at best.

Only delayed things, but granted Iran the right to enrich, which is what they were doing. And President Trump, by the way, it should be clear that the Iranians did not really start surging, didn't really start enriching at a higher level until President Biden.

So it is true that President Trump withdrew in 2018 from the deal, something I think I give him a lot of credit for. But it wasn't until the Biden administration were they because they were afraid of Trump, the Iranians, but it wasn't until Biden that they really started really advancing their nuclear program at a whole new level.

So you heard the congresswoman say they were about to get a nuclear weapon. Jim Himes didn't get the message, cut 20. At no point in the last decade have they been weeks away from having the nuclear weapon. The intelligence community has never assessed that to be a case.

Now, that doesn't mean that they weren't some months away. Let's not underappreciate the fact that Iran, had they wanted to, probably could have assembled a nuclear device at any point in the last decade or so in a matter of some months, right?

So which one is it? First said they're not. David Albright said, who's the president of the Institute of Science and International Security, And a leading independent expert on nuclear proliferation says that Tehran went from near certainty of the ability to build a nuclear weapon within months to facing far longer time lines with substantially lower odds of success since the bombing twenty twenty five and the ones from a month ago. Right. I would go with David Albright.

He's a highly respected expert on this. I also would note that today the chief of staff of the IDF of the Israeli military, Eyal Zamir, said the military campaigns have set back Iran's nuclear programs by years. I think the challenge for President Trump. Which I think he fully appreciates is that he not only needs to make sure that Iran doesn't have nukes. Under his watch, Which I think I feel more confident that that will be the case, not just because of what he'll do, but because I think the Iranians are afraid of him.

The challenge for President Trump is to make sure that the Iranians don't have nukes for many years during his successors, because I think they're afraid of Trump. But we don't know who's going to be president next. And uh h his job, uh the President is to make sure that they never have nukes ever.

So what's going to reopen the strait? Do you think if that that's got to be part of this deal? The zero enrichment has to be part of this deal, and the thousand. Uh the thousand pounds of uranium has to be part of any deal, right, Michael? Yes, and also as you point out, you mentioned Pickaxe Mountain.

Pickaxe Mountain and other nuclear facilities have to be completely made inoperable. That also has to be part. As we've talked about before, I think the chances of the Iranians agreeing to this are close to nil. Uh I think that especially once we stop fighting them. once we started this ceasefire back in early April, our leverage has gone down a lot.

So I don't think if they wouldn't agree to it while we're during combat operations, I think it's even more or less likely that they would do it now.

So why do you think the support for military action is in the 40s?

Well, uh I think President Trump, it wouldn't hurt if, because I think Iran is a very unpopular country here. I think most Americans, by the way, most Americans oppose a JCPOA. I think most Americans don't like this regime. But I think you could do the president, could do a better job explaining the war, giving more Oval Office conversations, better just interviews here and there. I think laying it out would be very useful.

And it's been unfortunate. That the mainstream media has been very critical of him. The Democrats, I think, even moderate, responsible Democrats, I think, have acted irresponsibly here. By anything Trump does, they're against, even when he's doing something really good. like trying to uh deny the Iranians Nuclear weapons, which Democrats and Republicans supposedly support, they still criticize them.

So I think that's part of it all. And, real quick, what do you think? What do you think about the putting on the internet even in a limited way in Iran? Why did they do that, Michael? 30 seconds.

I don't know. Actually, I don't know what happened right there. But I think that you bring it up tells you there hasn't been internet in this country since the beginning of, you know, for months, since there were demonstrations. They keep executing people. We don't know fully what's going on inside that country.

But I do think one thing that President Trump needs to do no matter what we do with the Iranians is to support people in Iran that oppose this regime in every way possible, including weapons. I know. That'll be great. Also, the e-commerce has just fallen through the roof, through the floor, and they need some type of revenue in that country. That's possibly it.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. We're back. I'm going to do a simulcast, as you just heard, with Stuart Varney in a matter of moments. We're going to talk about what's happening here in New York City.

I know we're a national show, but we have to keep an eye on what's happening here. You have a guy that knows how to speak, making socialism sounds palatable, plausible, and practical. And it's just not on any of those things. And now you have. Uh people you have a mayor The first one in modern history is not going to show up at the Israel Parade on Sunday.

Can you imagine that? You're already known as anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and then you don't show up at the parade. Are you crazy? But that's he doesn't care about perceptions. He has no interest in what you think or what you worry about.

And yesterday there were a few Muslims that protested alongside, moderate Muslims who protested alongside Israelis against the mayor, and the Muslims were condemned. Not The president, excuse me, not the mayor. And not the other Israelis, but the Jewish New Yorkers that showed up. It's 10:51 Eastern. It's Kilmead time.

All right, Brian. Last night, protesters gathered outside the mayor's house, Gracie Mansion, in New York. They accused the mayor of failing to protect Jewish New Yorkers. You better watch this. When your first act in office was to rip up anti-Semitism protections, tear up the IRA definition of anti-Semitism, and gut the executive order that were keeping our community safer, we noticed.

is outside of places of worship.

So And we will not be Silent when Jewish New Yorkers are targeted for just being Jewish. Jews in New York are being attacked. The root of this massive and growing and spreading problem lies right here with Mayor Mamdani. Brian, one more point. I understand Mandaumi will not attend Israel Day in New York City this weekend.

What's your comment? I believe he's the first mayor to not show up.

So let me see. He's saying he's not anti-Semitic. And he's saying he has nothing against Jews, but he's all for He's all for the infitata. Remember what he said? He never really denied it.

He goes, people say it for different reasons.

So, in other words, to. To further those people who believe he's anti-Semitic, he doesn't show up for Israel at parade.

Okay, that adds to it. And then yesterday, in the protests that you outlined, you had some moderate Muslims, so-called moderate Muslims, or you could say clear-thinking Muslims, who showed up in support of Israel because of his anti-Semitic policies and beliefs, and they were condemned for showing up as if they sold out their religion.

So, what does that tell you? He's also a Mandami, support of BDS, the investment movement. The Vest Movement to get people to stop investing in Israel. He's basically in support of that.

Some of the most successful companies in New York City are Israeli-owned. They should get together and just say, listen. We'll even. You don't appreciate us here. You want to go ahead and tax everyone to the hilt and be anti-Semitic and not protect worshipers who go in and out of synagogues.

And you want to boycott different food places that might be Israeli-owned?

Well, maybe you're going to just start pulling businesses out. And you talk about, if you talk about a crater in his budget, he doesn't understand what's about to hit him while he's upping taxes, taking over buildings, vilifying landlords. and rich people.

So it's a horrible combination. Of economic principles that only promise to destroy an economy. But he does it with a smile and he does it with charisma. People should look out. Watch what he's doing.

It's not just a New York story, Stuart. This is a national story. It is, and it's not going away either. Look, with just over, what, two weeks until the first match, the roster for Team USA in the World Cup just revealed you spoke to some of the players. Uh quick a few clips, please.

Starting to feel real and having these guys by my side, it's an exciting time going into a World Cup. Proud, you know, all the hard work, all the sacrifice, all the things that you've done. Haven't been for nothing. Today was a really surreal moment, you know, just being up there with all the guys and seeing all the fans in the stands. What does it mean to play for your country?

It's the best. All right, Brian, does our team, Team USA, does it have a shot at the World Cup?

Well, look, if you look at the rankings, we're about 15 in the world right now. But if you look at the groups, you need breaks. We're watching with the Knicks. They took the three seed in the East. Many people perceive the West being stronger.

And they said, well, you know, the Knicks have a 50-50 shot again through. They look like the best team in basketball, one of the best teams ever. Who thought they could ever get this hot? Look at what happened with the USA hockey team who just lost to Canada in the final and then they walk away with the gold medal first since 1980.

So now they come in with a very weak group. They should beat Paraguay, should beat Australia, they should beat Turkey. If they emerge number one, they'll play the third-placed team in another group. These are the type of scenarios that have to happen. Then you get to the knockout round 32.

You go win a game you're most likely going to be favored in. Then you get to the round of 16. When you get to the round of 16 in any sport at any time, you could say that all bets are off. Plus, you know the way we play, Stuart. If you feel as though you're playing against a more talented team, you could play in a defensive posture and you have enough offensive firepower.

10 of those players play internationally in the top five leagues in the world. We've never had that before. And when you got a world-class scorer in Pulisik up top, Along with Pepe, who also learned to convert on the clutch, and a team that can compete at this level with a coach that's done it. There's a right combination of upsets that have to happen. With the women, you expect it, with the men, you say, get to the knockout round.

I say, playing at home with this much talent, arguably as much talent as we've ever had, why not expect more? We do hope. We're out of time.

Sorry, Brian. More Vanny after this. All right, I do have some more time.

Now, Stewart ran out of time on FBN. But I did not realize that, but we do have a few more minutes.

So, yesterday, I had a chance to talk to him. They're extremely confident. But what you have, too, is this: first, you make the team, and that's great, and it was about 20 players they knew they were on the team. The last six were up in the air.

Now it's I gotta start. I got to play. And that's where the competition still takes place. It starts with workouts today, different combinations of players. You don't want to get hurt.

They play Senegal. Let me see. They played Germany on June 8th. And they play Senegal on There's very few Senegals on my calendar, They play Senegal next week. It'll be Sunday the thirty first.

So that'll be in Charlotte. And then it's Germany, eight days later, nine days later, and they'll have their first game four days later, and that'll be in Los Angeles.

So that'll be fantastic. It'll be on Friday night.

So that'll be great, and it's going to be sold out, and it's going to be a lot of fun. You listen to the Brian Kill Me Show, keep it here. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kill Me Joe. Hello everybody there is the Brian Killmejo coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, where we clearly have a socialist mayor, not one that prefers socialism, is doing everything possible.

I'm talking about three supermarkets, government subsidized. Good luck with that. Remember, we're everywhere, you know, all across.

So how much money are you going to spend to get a dollar off bread? We'll see. Now they're saying landlords are the problem. We're going to take over buildings with bad landlords. Great.

Nobody can run things worse than a city who now runs a building.

So if you're having trouble running things, go give yourself something else to run. Makes absolutely no sense because they're against the free market. And we're seeing that over and over again.

So this hour, we've got a great roster of guests, but first let's get to the big three. Number three. And this is an announcement that does three key things. It builds 200,000 new affordable homes, preserves 200,000 affordable homes alongside it. And then additionally, it invests in tenants across the city.

Oh, is that sickening to watch? City in crisis as socialist Mom Dami unveils his failed plan on housing. Spencer Pat tries to save Los Angeles. And Seattle residents try to save their own lives. We'll discuss it all.

Number two. The Iranians are being defiant right now. They're laying mines with speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz while the Iranians are claiming to negotiate with the Americans in good faith.

So I'm not very optimistic. A major meeting in the Oval as all players assemble to examine all options with Iran. We'll talk to Michael Duran from the Hudson Institute in a moment about that. Number one. Donald Trump is in charge of this party.

There is no question about it. He is nine for nine in Senate endorsements. He is across the board in the House. He's running away with it. The question is: does it carry as much weight in the midterms as it does in the primaries?

That is something to think about, but I think with the nine straight wins, you don't really have extreme candidates except for what happened in Texas. They are front and center. The Dems avoided an anti-Semitic disaster to oust, then they oust insane Al Green, and Republicans picked Paxson to run against Tallarico. I think that was a mistake, but we'll see how that goes. Tylerico is a tough out, but he has some wacky views, and we'll go through that.

In many ways, he's more radical than Beta O'Rourke, and you wouldn't think palatable to the people of Texas. Martha McCallum, by the way, at the bottom of the hour. Let's bring in Michael Durand now from the Hudson Institute, Senior Fellow and Director of Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. Michael, I'm getting some reports now. about what this deal would look like.

Iran State T V says the U.S. committed to ending the naval blockade in a draft deal, and of course they would end their blockade of this trade of Hermuz. But are they still going to be charging tolls? And the IRGC, the IRG says, as a spokesperson, say, low possibility of return to war with the U.S. What are you hearing?

I'm hearing something similar, although not tolls. What the administration is trying to do is open up the straits with an it with an MOU. There'll be limited trade for the Iranians, and they get some of the oil out on our side. And then the administration wants in that MOU a commitment by the Iranians on the nuclear file. Not a detailed commitment, but a commitment in principle.

And then in stage two, they'll negotiate on the nuclear file. If you have to ask me what's most likely to happen, what's most likely to happen is that there will be mutual easing of the blockades on the strait to get some of the oil trading. But then there'll be no agreement on the nuclear, and we'll be stuck there in that kind of situation. Right. What about the thousand?

What are you hearing about the thousand pounds of uranium? They have to negotiate that, and the administration is trying to get a commitment from the Iranians. My own assessment is that they probably won't get that. There's still some optimism in some quarters in the administration. What do you think their options are?

I think that they'll probably if they can ease the tension, the military tension and they can get some of the oil out of the Gulf and stabilize global oil markets, they'll go for that. And then we'll be in a situation, Brian, like the United States versus Saddam Hussein in 1991. A weakened regime that is weakened but not chastened, in a state of friction with the United States. That to me is the most likely outcome.

So what role did Saudi Arabia have in this decision, unlike the UAE? I think Saudi Arabia played a very big role in this decision. They were against an escalation. They fear that their own desalinization plants could be hit. And they use their influence to move Donald Trump toward a more moderate position.

But the Uh The the options are the Iranians clearly think that they that the advantage is working and that the situation is working to their advantage and that there's no chance of a military escalation, and that has emboldened them somewhat. And they're testing Trump on this.

So we I don't think the the story on the MOU is written yet.

So me um Uh what is that called? Me of understanding, a measure of understanding? A memorandum of understanding, meaning o opening up the opening up the straight to some trade on both sides.

So, a couple of things. Was yesterday, in your mind, Michael Dorana, a test? But when they came out and started mining the strait, Yeah. Absolutely. And they were blown up.

Absolutely. And I like the way we test it. I do too. I do too. And it's not as if we're not confident we could finish them.

But it might take months, and where will oil and gas be in months? And it's not our, just our gas pump, a lot of our allies' gas pumps.

So that's the thing that's weighing, but I think they understand our election cycle. If we get into a holding pattern and they start breaching it, After November There's nothing holding back Trump. And it the other thing is that they're in a terrible economic situation. The leadership in Iran is fractured. They're going to face massive unemployment.

Their petrochemical industry, their steel industry has been severely harmed, and we can continue to put the economic screws to them. That's where I think. The greatest amount of U.S. leverage is. And I think it's important that the administration not cut a deal that gives up that leverage, because that I think will be determinant over the long term.

I want you to hear what Alex Gray said about their decision. He was the former NSC chief of staff for Trump last time for Iran to start lifting to a degree the Internet. And letting people communicate again online, cut 30. The uh blackout that the Iranian regime imposed uh did a tremendous amount to damage their own people, to damage the economy that was already suffering from their own mismanagement. Is that just e-commerce?

They say it costs 40 million a day to not allow Iranians to communicate? Yes. I mean, in every country today, you can't do business without the Internet. Think about how hard it is just to do basic transactions.

So there's been a huge suppression of business internally as a result of this.

So that's why lifting that up, but that could also allow some of the opposition to galvanize and organize, couldn't it?

Well, I think what the administration is hoping is that the once the Once the emergency is lifted, And people begin talking to each other. uh then the IRGC will have to explain to some extent to the Iranian people why they have suffered so much uh for this for the proxies That they are supporting externally and for the nuclear and for the nuclear program. They'll have to govern this broken country. Who knows? The IRGC has shown itself as totally willing to ride roughshod over the populace, and its concerns be damned.

But the level of problems that they have just in managing that country now has increased exponentially.

So the administration is hoping that that will put pressure on them and move them toward make them more inclined to cut a deal on the nuclear file. Michael, I know you're a Middle East expert, not necessarily a military expert, but if someone gave me 45 days to protect a desalinization plant and I'm the United States of America, I would think we'd be able to do it.

So, during the ceasefire, nothing would stop us from getting defensive rockets or drones in place, be able to protect some of the oil and gas. Energy sectors of the Gulf states.

So I wonder why they still feel as though they're vulnerable unless we didn't do anything to protect Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait. and the UAE, which I know the UAE has taken measures. Yeah, I think it is possible, but I think it's hard, very hard. These desalinization facilities, they're small in number, and the consequences of getting it wrong will be catastrophic. You think all of the oil, all of the water of Riyadh is coming from across desalinization pipelines.

So it's a serious concern. But I think that the real answer is through The real answer to it is by offensive countermeasures. We explained to the Iranians that we're going to take their entire oil industry away from them. And Donald Trump doesn't want to do that. If he doesn't have to, because that means then this country is going to be a total basket case for years.

There's going to be refugee flows. He doesn't want the complete mess that basically a regime change war is what we're talking about would entail. And in that sense, I think the Iranians have an escalation option, or they have exercised an escalation option that has made us restrict ourselves in some regard. I don't believe that this is - there's a lot of catastrophizing going on about this. I think that we have shifted the balance of power significantly to our advantage.

And over the long term, time is on our side, not on their side, provided we keep up the leverage against them, the economic leverage.

So, Michael, do you think we're going to unfreeze some funds? Oh, yes, absolutely. There will be some on there's no way to negotiate with them. That's the thing that they want most. The question is, in doing so, do we give up the long term leverage or not?

And I think the administration is alive to this dilemma.

So you got a hundred billion frozen, is that a good number? Is that right? It depends on how you add it up because you have, like, you know, so there's between $6 and $10 billion in Qatar. What is it? $2 billion in Luxembourg.

I don't know what the number is in Iraq, but maybe $60 billion in Iraq. But don't quote me on that because I didn't have the numbers here ready. But you have an enormous amount of money, I mean, maybe as much as $60 billion in Shadow banking institutions in Dubai. And the status of that is unclear to me. If I were the administration, I would be talking to the UAE right now about freezing all of that money that's in those institutions.

I think that one of the MVPs of this might be Scott Besson. Evidently, he's been extremely aggressive, tracking down the cryptocurrency and tracking down some of the funds. Have you heard the same thing? Absolutely. I think he is one of the most trusted people talking to Donald Trump.

And I think that the economic dimension of this conflict is the center of gravity today. Where does Israel stand? I imagine Netanyahu wants to go back to finishing off Iran. I couldn't blame him either. I'm sure that that's what they would like to do, but they are very much aware that they are the junior partner here, that it is Donald Trump who will make the decision, and they will line up behind Trump depending upon what he decides to do.

So the market believes that things are settled to a degree. They were up 250 in points. We're over 50,000, getting close to 51,000. We want to see oil drop below 90. It started the day at 97, was as low as 91 yesterday.

Where do you think we're going to be at the end of the week? I guess this is a consequential meeting, too, just so the President knows all his options ahead of time. Yeah, they're meeting today, as far as I understand. And you can never tell. I mean, one of the things that's very characteristic of Donald Trump is he keeps all of his options open.

And even the people, even his closest advisers, don't always know what he's going to decide. I'm sure that after the Iranian behavior yesterday, maybe he's thinking that he needs to be a little bit tougher with them. But there's no one around him who wants to escalate right now. Maybe. Yeah, I guess there's no one in his cabinet, certainly not his vice president.

Do you think the Secretary of War does? I don't know about that. I don't know. I don't have good information about that. All right, because I think he would be the one most pro for this operation.

And I was f struck that The Senator Roger Wicker, Senator Lindsey Graham, doesn't not a surprise. Ted Cruz. Weighing in saying, Finish the job. I want to see the president finish the job. And I thought that was interesting because they've been quiet when Corey Booker and Van Hollen and Schiff have spoken up condemning the president for doing this operation.

Yeah, there's a lot of unease in the, let's call it the hawkish Republican camp. It's a camp that I'm usually aligned with. But I've been saying all along, translating these military victories into lasting political advantage is a real art. It's very difficult. And I don't know that Donald Trump really wants to face all of the consequences of an escalation.

We can absolutely win this. We can. The question is, what does the world look like afterwards? And he's hesitating. And clearly, the Iranians understand that.

But they're under a lot of pressure. We shouldn't, the fact that they're putting on a good face, looking tough, testing Trump, that shouldn't convince us that we're somehow losing this. I don't think that's true at all. Michael Duran, always great. Appreciate it.

These are perilous times, and it's always good to stay ahead of the curve. And you always are. Michael, thank you. Thank you. You got it, 1866-408-7669.

Martha McCallum, next. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because man, do you need to know? It's Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hey, Martha, I went a little long, Martha McCallum, with Michael Doran, but I just want to get the latest on this deal. That's really going to be in the middle of your show today, right? You're going to see that opening to the cabinet meeting before the doors shut and they really get stuff done. Yeah, we're waiting for that meeting to get underway now. It's a little bit delayed, which tells you that they're still perhaps working on some of the talking points that they want to make in this cabinet meeting.

I think these cabinet meetings are incredibly enlightening in terms of where the president stands. He's going to have all of his, you know, Hexeth and Rubio talking about where this deal is right now with Iran. But obviously, I think you've got a lot of people who are, you know, it depends on what camp you're in. Either you're looking for a short-term solution that's going to help gas prices before the midterm, or You're looking for essentially a new leadership in Iran that you can deal with.

So I don't see how we get anywhere with this current leadership. I just, every time I go back around and I'm like, well, maybe, you know, maybe in this scenario, maybe in that scenario, and obviously you've got people who are working on this who are really good and really understand the dynamics here well. But that being said, these folks have been in charge for 47 years. And if they open up the street, As part of this initial stage of this deal, I guess they can just shut it down again anytime they feel like it, if they don't like the way things are going, right? Emma Craven said to us last week: he said, if you open it up, he goes, I'm for.

Opening up our blockade. He goes, it's very easy to put it back together.

So he said, I would just open it. He said I would open it before talking, but he probably wasn't for this anyway. But did you notice a lot of military people are the last to criticize this? Because anyone that sat there and looked at the Iran problem, Can't pretend as if they're not a problem. And still wear, still say I used to be in charge.

Yeah. I mean, you see this dynamic. You see what's happening with Israel's offensive in Lebanon. You see them trying to sort of push through as many results as they can get before this deal sets in because they want to finish the job in Lebanon and not have that threat on their border going forward.

So, you know, as it. As advanced and as capable as the early stages of this was starting on February 28th, and the incredible achievements that were made in taking out leadership, there's still some more technical places to go here. Yep. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, welcome back. Martha McCallum is here, anchor of the story at 3 o'clock today. Martha, first off, one of the many intriguing stories of what's going on in Los Angeles is Spencer Pratt. The last poll we saw, 30, 22, 19. And they're going to have their primary, 30 for Bass, 22 for Pratt, and then 19 for the extreme socialist, who was supposed to be the Mondami to beat Cuomo and Bass being the establishment candidate.

Other theories are get in the race to try to take some away from Pratt, but they just are so different. But his ads have been phenomenal. His understanding of the issues has been strong. He's got opinions and research on all of it. I think I told you last time I listened to three and a half hours with Rogan.

And he went over you know, Rogan used to live there and he lives there.

So they were going deep into things on homelessness and all the major issues, the taxes and with the problem with the rebuild and everything else and all the money and waste. And now you have Harvey Levin, who basically on the record thinks that Not only will he get past the primary, he thinks he's going to win.

So, Mr. TMZ out in Los Angeles, because people are that fed up. What do you think?

Well, I think a couple of things. You know, I think obviously in California's DNA, they have had very strong Republican governors and mayors in the past. I also think you look at Rick Caruso from Los Angeles, who had a pretty good showing and got some celebrity support in the last round. He's, you know, not getting support anymore, but like it showed that you had that sort of interest by celebrities. You've got this former Lakers player who is betting in the betting markets a lot of money that Pratt is going to win.

So we'll see. I see so many parallels between the way he campaigns and the way Trump campaigned in 2015, 2016. He's very authentic. He's fresh. He says what a lot of other people are thinking.

So when he answers, he's good at answering questions on his feet. And he just goes to sort of clearly cutting to the heart of the matter. When he was asked about the. 30,000 homeless people in Los Angeles. He's like, you know, they're not homeless, they're drug addicts.

And we're going to send them back to Seattle. The mayor there will welcome them. And yeah, that's it.

Now you can debate it, you can say it's not accurate, whatever. But it you know, if you're coming up with your through line, it seems to come incredibly naturally to him that The clear line between right and wrong. And I just think you're going to get a lot of people who are either filling out that ballot because they've been voting for a month already, right? Filling out that ballot either in your kitchen or in the voting booth. And you're going to say to yourself, you know what?

No one's going to know who I voted for, and I want to give this a shot. Obviously what we're doing is not working. Which is how Trump got elected. Right. Kevin McCarthy really made a lot of sense last night.

California, yes, Republican, I understand it. But listen to this, Cut 39. I had had to call a friend of mine, and he's a very big Democrat. I mean one of the most connected. And as I'm talking to him, he tells me this other big Democrat that's with him at his house.

And you know who else they invited over? Spencer Pratt, because they said we are so sick of what happened to LA. We invited him over and we're going to write him a check. We are impressed about what he's doing and what he's talking about.

So that, you know, I guess money's not an issue for him. I go say he's getting funding. But also, yesterday, I love what he did. He found out, saw Karen Bass was too close to a voting station, a polling station, and he's suing her. He's saying she violated election law, said his campaign filed a complaint to protect our democracy.

He basically said, now good luck with the conference call with your lawyers today.

So he is all over her. And she is totally inept. Totally. She is totally inept.

So he is an absolute fighter, and he looks at every looking for every possible avenue to poke holes in her story and in her support. And there's another one. He's just saying, look, and honestly, by even bringing up that issue of her electioneering too close to a voter box, they'll figure out whether or not she was too close to that box. And, you know, good luck in your conference call, as he says. But it makes people start to think: wait a minute, you know what?

How are elections run in our state? What are we doing with all of these boxes? What are we doing with they have blanket Blanket distribution of voting, a voting record, a voting, what am I trying to say, of votes, right?

So every single apartment building of ballots, thank you. Every apartment building in Los Angeles, like there's one in every single post office box, right? They're just putting them in every single box. There is no such thing as initiating your vote, making sure that you have a photo for your vote, or even saying, I would like to request an early absentee ballot, which makes sense.

Some people have to do that, and then it gets mailed to you. It gets mailed to everyone, everyone. I mean, there's a lot of fishy stuff going on in that entire process in California. And I think just pointing out this by Pratt makes people maybe think, hmm. I wonder if there's something to do that.

Yeah, so I think he's going to be pretty intriguing. Just before we move on to talk about what's happening in Seattle, Alicia Finley was on from the Wall Street Journal and said this about why Spencer Pratt is resonating, Cup 42. Right. And I think it draws attention to some of the problems in the city, which are the dinginess and the dirt, right? And especially in the lower income communities, you hear about these small business owners who walk outside or who have homeless people sitting outside their streets, or the city just isn't actually keeping them clean.

And I think it really that's why his ads resonate, is because they are actually show or highlighting real problems in the city. They don't even have a movie industry. I mean, they don't have a movie industry in Hollywood. Hollywood is a place, there's certain sections you can't go as a tourist. That's right.

Don't even give them a horror. People are going to do horrible things to your store in the Walk of Fame. I mean, every one of these cities has to fight hard to hang on to their core industry, right? Here in the United States, in New York, it's finance. We've already seen the migration of enormous financial companies from New York.

You've got more JP Morgan workers in Texas than in New York City now.

So they have lost so much of their Hollywood production capability as a business. You've got people moving all over the place. They're going to Vegas, they're going to Reno, they're going all over to shoot movies.

So they need to fight to get that core business back to make sure that people understand that it's so key to the functioning and the economy of Los Angeles. But this issue of dirt and grime, you know, I was just in London, and obviously London has their own issues, right? We all know that. UK has its own issues. But it is so clean, that city.

And it makes me just wonder: why is this?

So hard for us to have cities that look clean, that are taken care of, that people take pride in. There's no one sleeping on the street there. It's not happening like it is here. It doesn't matter the mayors, and therefore it doesn't empower the rest of the city. That's right.

So look at what's happened in Seattle. This horrible mayor, this woman that lives with her parents, who never had a job, becomes the socialist mayor and they have no interest in the police. For a while, sold Starbucks, good riddance.

Now he says, I misspoke. I shouldn't have said that. And now they say residents near Seattle's Aurora Avenue say they are fed up with the repeated shootings and prostitution, trafficking concerns, and illegal activity spilling into their neighborhood.

So some neighbors have built makeshift barricades using dirt, concrete, metal, and other materials to block residential streets near Aurora Avenue. What are we talking about? The Vikings? I think so. It's like Mad Max.

I mean, what has happened? You've got to, I guess these people really, really love living in Seattle, which I can understand because I really love it. Love New York. And it takes a lot to pull people out of that environment. But can you imagine if places in New York City, people were barricading themselves into their apartment buildings to prevent theft, to prevent people sleeping on their steps?

And he's right. This is a problem of mental illness and drug addiction. And until you treat it like that, these people do not, many of them should not be on the street. They should be in an institution where they can be taken care of. They're a danger to themselves.

And they're a danger to other people.

So this system is not working. You mean giving them needles doesn't work? No, I yeah, yes. Giving them needles does not work. No idea.

It really caught me by surprise. Uh so let's talk about New York. I thought Jeff Bezos took some courage. He used to be in the business uh business world and business channel. He sat down with CNBC and he basically defended being a billionaire.

I paid a ton of taxes, billions of dollars of taxes, and I gave a lot to, as does Ken Griffin, to charity. And by the way, I employ a lot of people. Here is Jeff Bezos, and I want to follow up on how Montami answered yesterday, Cut 36. These people Sometimes say that uh that you know uh I don't pay taxes. It's not true.

I pay billions of dollars in taxes. And it's a perfect, again, if people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate. But don't pretend that that's going to solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens. And here's Azohamandani begs to differ.

Cut 37. You know, I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ. And I think that if I was worth as much money as he was, that I would probably say the same thing. The fact of the matter is that we are talking about a city where one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty, and we're hearing from one of the richest men that our world has ever seen about how he and others who make that kind of money shouldn't have to pay their fair share. And frankly, what New Yorkers want to see is a tax system that recognizes the scale of this affordability crisis and actually provides a way for city government to be able to invest in those same New Yorkers in the manner that we used to decades ago.

You have a problem with that? I do. I have a huge problem with that. And I think Jeff Bezos is right.

Okay. Are there certain tax shelters that maybe are advantageous to billionaires? Yes. Besides that point, he's talking about what he has built. He built from nothing.

He built Amazon. He took losses for years. Absolutely. So here's a person who was willing to take an enormous amount of risk and to build this huge company that employs people across the entire country.

Now, you can, you know, Look at the Look at the benefit of philanthropy. We're talking about New York City here, right? You look around, what is fantastic and amazing about New York? The public library, the parks, the hospital system. All of these great things are driven, the museums, the Metropolitan Museum, the ballet, all of these wonderful things that make New York so unique and special.

The people of New York are able to enjoy these parks, they're able to enjoy the zoos. They're driven like. 90%, 80% by philanthropy. You're going to drive these people out of the city. You're going to piss them off, excuse me, and you're going to make them leave the city.

That is something that is so overlooked by Mondani. Does he not understand the generosity that these people have? Bestowed on this entire city that makes it livable and makes it nice. It's like, what isn't run by these philanthropists? Public schools.

You're one of the few that are. Public schools. Okay. And by the way, the public schools are failing. Absolutely.

And we spend more per pupils. And we spend more per pupils. No, I think it's as high as $70,000 in some cases on public school students.

So he's saying he wants more money thrown into the public school system, which has only proven that it is failing students miserably. Throwing more money at this problem, we have proven time and time again, is not the problem because you've got Catholic schools that are $20,000 per student. The family pays $5,000 in most cases. The rest is covered by philanthropists and by fundraising. And those students' outcomes are so much better.

I will say this. Mandami yesterday put together a plan, a 111-page housing plan called Block by Block, aimed at cracking down on negligent landlords and expanding tenant power in New York City. And if the landlords didn't like it, the city would take the building, refurbish it, and run the building. Really? How is that going to go?

How is that going to go? I mean, look at the things that are run by the city. They are the things that are the weakest in the city.

So now they want to take over the buildings. You're going to look at people who we need more inventory in New York. We could use some more buildings in the city. I know Adams had a plan to convert some of the existing buildings that are empty into housing, all of those ideas, which we've seen happen in lower Manhattan. But, you know, you have to, it's just so incredibly unrealistic.

It's collectivism. It's Marxism to say you have failed and trump up reasons around why in most cases. Not to say there aren't bad landlords out there who maybe shouldn't be doing what they're doing, but then we're going to take away your process. Property, and we're going to run it for you, and the tenants are going to get together and run it.

So, good luck when your toilet doesn't work or your stove doesn't work. Can you imagine what that's going to be like to try to get it? Fixed in a building like that?

Well, already I heard that there were so many empty apartments because if you're not going to let me raise my rent and rent control apartments, then if you're not going to let who's paying for those repairs, I will do better leaving that empty. Putting somebody in there to say, why does my shower not work? And you can't, you know, and you can't evict someone. People can live in these apartments as it is right now and not pay their rent. It is incredibly difficult to kick someone out for not paying their rent.

Can you imagine? I mean, I lived in a rent apartment with like three other people when I was in my 20s in New York City. The rent got paid before we did anything. Like, I would never in a million years have tried to stay in my apartment without paying the rent. And if you can't afford it, you don't live in the city.

That's right. That's the way it is. It's not a right of every American. It's not a right, exactly. Back with Maura Martha in just a moment.

She gave an exclusive look into her three o'clock show. Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeet Show. Yeah. I'm sorry.

From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. Sponsored by Previgen. Previgen made for your brain. Retired Navy Vice Admiral Robert Harward spoke with Bill and Dana about the ongoing situation in Iran, but it was his neck that caused many viewers to suspect he was actually using a hyper realistic disguise. Of course, Fox released a statement denying the conspiracy, saying it was a quote mobile camera operated by an outside vendor.

And lighting conditions in the van, where apparently he was, contrasted with the Vice Admiral's jacket, which caused a shadow to appear on his neck. Right, right on, Fox. And we reached out to Robert for comment and he said, I'm a U.S. Navy frogman, not a lizard. I did think, like, I wish, right?

Like, I wish it were that interesting to work here. Pyrus and I have been talking about this. We never see Sean Hannity in the bathroom. Bill Hammer has his own private, like, little green room. God knows what he's doing there.

And they often bring in just buckets of Sergeant. How does Hammer just appear places too? Yeah. He never got on a plane to go to China. Yeah, no, he didn't.

He just showed up there. That's a guy in a mask.

So that was some of the fierce debate that Martha McCallum hopes to replicate on your show today after 8 o'clock. That was one big conspiracy thing about Robert Harwood, because he looked like he had a fold in his neck like he was wearing a mask. Right. And that's when crazy for a while. No, it's crazy.

It's crazy. I'm with Kat. I wish that there were that many conspiracies and intriguing stories behind all of it. I do wonder about how today.

Well, we're going to talk to Jack Keen, and we just see that this cabinet meeting has now begun. President Trump is holding an open cabinet meeting. Just always keep in mind that you never saw this with any president ever before in your life, but you're going to hear from Hexets, you're going to hear from Rubio, and obviously there's going to be a lot of attention to what's going on in Iran, what this deal looks like, whether or not it's a good deal, and where this is all going.

So we'll talk to General Jack Keene, who better to discuss it with. He will be with us in the show. We're also going to have Masi Alinajad on the show today on Iran, as well as General Joseph Votal. That is a lot of international stuff, which is right up my alley. The other thing is, people are talking about how the Russians are beginning to lose the balance of this war.

And even though they're besieging Kyiv with rockets and drones, But their reaction might be is counterintuitive to me. to expand it. That they're going to start eyeing the Baltic nations and they said some provocative things about Latvia. That would be an interesting reaction because that's a NATO member. This is an associate member or a friend of NATO.

Yeah, I mean, it sort of goes against what looked like their strategy. Obviously, Ukraine is not a member of NATO. It is a former part of the Soviet Union, as are most of those countries along that border, but they want to stay independent.

So, if they do start messing around with these Baltic states, I think it's going to obviously provoke a lot of questions about NATO. We would see what really happens when NATO is pushed. You know, President Trump is not happy about the fact that they didn't. I really, you think, you look back, it's like, would this whole situation be different in Iran if we had a huge gathering of allied ships and who held the strait open and made it perfectly clear that this is an international waterway? It is not an Iranian-owned space.

That could have been very different. Tay, I cannot wait to see your show today at 3 o'clock. We're going to see a lot of things to do with you. You're the same here, bouncing off today's. Cabinet meeting.