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It's about to get better. Look at the lineup we put together for you. Senator Kirsten Sinemera, once I wondered what happened to her party, the Democratic Party. She left it, became an independent, but what she left behind is carnage. That's what we're seeing now in the primary season.
Elise Stephonik, she wrote about how bad schools were getting. I see some signs of hope. I'll play some tapes for her. We'll see if we can convert her and make her feel that same feeling. And Billy Bush, what happened to the movie and TV industry in Los Angeles and why can't they count ballots?
He comes to us from Hollywood. But first, the fastest, most impactful monologue in America. We begin. With the radical class. Yep, a new group of lawmakers seems to be heading to Capitol Hill.
And if you thought the last few years were polarizing, just wait. Because some of the loudest voices coming in aren't running away from the left, they are actually running more left. We're talking about candidates who openly embrace socialism, who want to fundamentally reorder the country. Pack the Supreme Court, blow up the filibuster, kill the Electoral College. They believe the Democratic Party problem is they're not progressive enough.
Yeah, it's so bad that some reasonable Democrats are sounding the alarm. The polls show Democrats aren't doing that well. We earned their anger. We did things that were really ridiculous. We let a border get out of control.
When it came to public safety, we talked about defunding the police. When it came to an ethnic group, we called them Latinx. Rather than worry about classroom excellence, we were walk worried about bathroom and locker room access. Look at all the focus groups out there. Democrats tell you Stop talking about these cultural issues.
Yeah, that's Rah Emmanuel. He's not a Republican. He's not a Fox News host. He's a former Chicago mayor, chief of staff to President Obama, worked in the Clinton administration. And his message is simple: voters didn't turn away from Democrats by accident, they were pushed away.
But now they're doubling down, in my view, on crazy. You got people sympathizing with terrorists regularly, out in the open. Case in point, New Jersey, Dr. Adam Hamilley walking away with a win in the 12th district. He was a defense witness for the blind shake.
Yeah, the terrorist during the 1995 trial. They palled around. He was like a mentor to them.
Now, meanwhile, you got an anti-Israel squad member named Chris Rapp over in Pennsylvania. He is a proud socialist, and he won big. An AOC disciple. Fast forward over to Michigan. Abdul El Saeed is battling for a Senate seat there with a Democratic nomination to be the next Senator.
He's for Medicare for all, free college, abolish ICE, wants to deny Israel any military aid. Look at this guy. At a campaign event, he actually suggested that terrorists act out of pain and frustration caused by U.S. policies. Isn't that something to think about?
25 years since 9-11? He hangs with his disciple. He's a disciple of a guy named Hassan Piker. And American hating, Israel hating, Hamas-loving podcaster who's got millions of followers.
So, what's happening right now in this primary season with Democrats to me is astounding and also, I think, alarming. I want the political parties to be different. They have to be different. We need a spirited debate. But it seems Democrats want a different country.
A stark contrast to not long ago, when powerful Democrats said things like this. It is time to break the bad habit. of expecting something for nothing. from our government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibilities.
not only for ourselves and our families. But for our communities and our country. If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, How about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that. Right?
Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, We reward that child with U.S. citizenship.
So he's actually speaking against birthright citizenship, just like President Trump. And you have President Clinton talking about welfare reform. What happened to those Democrats? Gone forever or are they just gone for now? Because today the candidates raising the most money, generating the most enthusiasm, and winning the most attention are not moderates.
They are radical, in my view, anti-Semitic, anti-American, anti-capitalist. And that has some Democrats asking: did the party learn anything from 2024? Or is it doubling down? With me right now is a good friend of the show, someone who used to work across party lines, a Democrat and Independent, Senator Kirsten Sinema. Thanks so much.
Great to see you, Senator. It's great to see you. My head is a lot bigger than yours in this shot, though, Brian. I know. At home, they probably think the same thing, so you're saying it out loud.
And you have a great sense of humor. I have found that out up close and personal. But, Senator, let me ask you: when I was playing the Bill Clinton tapes and the Harry Reid tapes, is that more the Democratic Party you got involved with? And do you think that could ever come back?
Well, you know, I was a Democrat for a number of years when I served in the state legislature, in the U.S. House of Representatives in the U.S. Senate. And as folks will probably remember, I left the Democratic Party and declared my independence while I was still serving the United States Senate. And it wasn't because I had changed at all.
It was because the party that I had been affiliated with didn't match my values any longer. You know, as you'll recall, I stood up for the filibuster to ensure that minority rights were protected in the Senate. And my colleagues felt like. They no longer valued minority rights. We know, Brian, now that things have changed, now that the Democrats are back in the minority, they're using the filibuster to protect minority rights against their views about Donald Trump's policies.
So, you know, times change, things change, but. What I think we can all agree on is that we're seeing much more radicalized candidates running for office and winning. in contested primaries and ultimately in general elections. And that's not good for democracy overall. It isn't.
And I think the conservative of the Republicans are running more on common sense because of that than they are on to typical conservative principles. Do you see that? Because it seems to me a lot of what Democrats want to do just lack common sense. I worry that the country changes width with their spouting. I worry that they're going to be successful in the general.
Well, many of these candidates will be successful in the general because of the lopsided nature of our congressional districts. And so you will see some of these folks, once they get through a primary, they will win the general election. You know, Brian, we're seeing this kind of polarization on the edges of both parties. But right now in the Democratic Party, you're seeing kind of the candidates who used to run on bread and butter issues, like, you know, minimum wage and making sure that working class people could have a better life for their kids. And those are issues that are not front and center as much anymore.
You're seeing candidates that run on cultural issues much, much farther to the left and are less in touch with what matters to regular people. And I think that's why many Americans just feel disaffected and removed from political process. They don't feel like they're candidates who are actually talking about what matters to them. You work in the AI field right now. And these college graduates, I thought this was a spontaneous unscripted reaction, caught me by surprise during some commencement addresses when AI was brought up.
This was the reaction. Listen. There is a fear There is a fear. in your generation Yet that the future has already been written. That the machines are coming.
The rise of artificial intelligence. Is the next industrial revolution. AI is rewriting production as we sit here. I know it. Deal with it.
Like I said, it's a tool. Hey, like I said. You can you can hear me now or you can pay me later. See, I fundamentally, I thought the 65-year-olds would be booing change, but instead we got the 22-year-olds booing change. What should are they right to be worried?
And what would you like to tell them?
So, Brian, it's really interesting because the data shows that 65 and older are a group of Americans who are most comfortable with the rise of AI because they've lived through technological advancements their whole entire life. It's ironic that young people are upset about AI because, Brian, they are the greatest utilizers of AI. The average American uses their phone 100 times a day to access an AI data center.
So the challenge we face is that young people are using AI over 100 times a day, accessing a data center, and they don't even realize it.
So the reality is that this is the generation that will benefit the most from AI. And all it takes is a little bit of time to learn to use the tools and then find amazing growth careers that will help them maximize these tools.
So we have an executive order coming out for the president. It looks like it's going to be 30 days.
So when you have something innovative, really Titanic, like mythos, which thinks on its own and people are afraid could take over the world. You got to tell the White House.
So now there's an EO out there by David Sachs, and he's the advisor to the president on this. He says it creates a process for Frontier Labs to voluntarily share cutting-edge cyber models in order to secure critical infrastructure and strengthen governments' own cyber defenses. We are not conducting oversight on new models.
So we want the free market to be the free market, but it also is national security. We also got to beat China. Is this an executive order you can get behind? You know, you hit the nail on the head of why it's important that we keep moving forward. We've got to beat China.
We've got to protect our national security. And the reality of a 30-day period that's more workable than the previous proposed 90 days is we've got to recognize how fast this technology is advancing. You know, 90 days was just not reasonable, Brian. New models come out every 30 days. And so a 30-day discussion period that's voluntary with the government makes a lot more sense.
It allows the government to have time to kind of integrate it into their own cyber defenses, but it also ensures that we're not going to lose this battle to China. And I can't emphasize how important that is. We don't want to wake up one day, Brian, and see that the values of the Chinese Communist Party are running the world. We want American values running the world. And we got to explain.
That's why it's so true. Got to explain the data centers. Yeah, got to explain the data centers to people, how they're going to benefit and the jobs they're going to get. Senator, thanks so much. We started and you were a lot bigger than me on the flat screen and we ended up the same size.
That's the magic of it all. That's great. Senator Sinova, thanks so much. Before I leave the stage, I have one last thing to say. Says.
Every single person here has a voice, and we are privileged to have the freedom to use it when so many people around the world are struggling and suffering to be struggling and. They're suffering to be heard. Whether it's the million sub Whether it's the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan, and so many other countries around the world, these are the families being torn apart by ICE. These are not distant issues. They are happening.
Right now, as I speak, my point is we're not given the voice to stay silent and to go. Unbelievable, right? Schools may be finally coming around. You see, she was stopped when she was ad-libbing. That was the valedictorian of a high school over in North Carolina being yanked from the stage after she used a graduation speech to rant against Israel and ICE.
That doesn't usually happen. And it does not seem to be a one-off. You got UC Berkeley. The school refused to give a kid his diploma until he got rid of his Palestinian flag. Watch.
America. Let them go. Nice, right? Across the country, academic institutions are following suit. You got Rutgers, for example, canceling a graduation speaker over anti-Israel social media posts.
NYU recently standing by author and their own professor, Jonathan Haidt, author of Anxious Generation, as the commencement speaker. Evidently, they took offense to the title and the content of his book. Despite the backlash, NYU said deliver the speech. And the University of Michigan apologizing after a professor hailed Gaza protesters in a graduation speech.
So is the tide turning? Let's ask Congresswoman Elise Devonik, author of a new book, Poison Ivies. And as you know, she made her point of view known when she took on the presidents of those universities.
So, Elise, you wrote the book, you chronicle what you went through. I think I'm seeing some success. With what you were saying, am I right in that? I think you are, Brian. I mean, that hearing set off an earthquake in higher education that's reverberating today, and it's reverberating even in the commencement speeches.
Jonathan Heidt is an exceptional commencement speecher. He wrote the seminal book, The Anxious Generation, and focuses on this really challenge that this generation is facing with screens and overly reliant upon digital mobile devices and making sure that we have the attention span and capability of learning of the next generation. It's a speech focused on leadership and human values versus what do we see at some of these radicalized far-left institutions, a strain of anti-Semitism. When you have these higher ed or K-12 embracing anti-Semitism, the result is going to be anti-Semitic speakers.
So, of course, you laid out the negative examples, but there are positive bright points because of this earthquake in higher education. And I can tell you, Brian, as a parent, although my son is very young, I don't want to hear politicization from a speaker at a commencement. I want to hear leadership and Life advice at this important chapter in these young people's lives. They're living through an extraordinary opportunity time as Americans, and that's what the speakers should focus on: not this radical anti-Semitism that has rotted out our educational values and academic excellence. Remember, after your hearings, all the disruption at Columbia University, and the only people to show up to push back.
Was the Speaker of the House or the minority leader at that time, Mike Johnson? Speaker Johnson. He showed up. Democrats weren't on board with this, even though the most powerful Jewish leader in the history of this country, Chuck Schumer, is the majority leader, he just goes silent on this. How do you explain that when it comes to anti-Semitism?
Not only silent, Brian, but we found in our investigation that Chuck Schumer actually encouraged Columbia to ignore the congressional investigation that the Education Committee launched that I was very much a leader on. And Chuck Schumer, it was found, said to the president of Columbia, don't take that seriously.
So they tried to brush this anti-Semitism under the rug. That's one of the reasons I wrote my book, Poisoned Ivies, because it's important to not allow this chapter in education to be brushed under the rug. We need to save American higher education. President Trump is working to do that. The executive orders he's put in place, working with Congress, working with my office.
It's been tremendously important. And parents' role in this is critical, which is why you're seeing parents have a wake-up call asking these tough questions of these educational institutions.
So, this week, I'm watching so much testimony on Capitol Hill, what you do on a regular basis. I never remember it so much as a circus. Mark Wayne Mullens, Homeland Security Secretary, told to shut up multiple times. Scott Besson pushing back on other congresspeople because they got their facts wrong. But no one got hit harder and hit back harder as well than Marco Rubio.
Listen to some of the things he had to deal with, including references to his shoes. It seems like you have an issue admitting facts. You won't admit President Trump is losing this reckless war of choice. And just like you couldn't admit that the shoes the president bought you were too big. We're talking about shoes.
Are you guys kidding me? I mean, is this the Foreign Affairs Committee or is this like a circus? If you can't call out corruption in this country, then how can you call it out in another country?
Well, I can't say anything because you won't let me speak to you. Why is she leaving? I'm going to answer her questions. I will Oh, she's got.
Okay, I got it.
Well, thank you for coming. It's a joke. There's so many important things to go over, but you just saw many speeches, Congresswoman. Is it getting worse in Capitol Hill? You know, I think it's getting worse, but what is getting better and what was exceptional is you saw a masterclass by Secretary Marco Rubio, by Secretary Scott Vesant, by Todd Blanche, all who testified just this week and answered these questions.
And it was, frankly, it lowered the stature of the members of Congress, the Democrat members, who were asking really embarrassing questions. And remember, when it comes to Marco Rubio, he served in the Senate. He understands these committee hearings. And when you have a non-serious question on the Foreign Affairs Committee or the Armed Services Committee or Foreign Relations, he is going to say, is this what you're spending your time asking?
So the administration cabinet officials did an exceptional job focusing on the important issues and really showing that Democrats are turning it into a clown show on Capitol Hill when there are so many more important issues that the American people want to hear answers on and want to continue to hear from our cabinet officials on. I mean, you got your Secretary of State there. Don't you have a serious question? Or as the Marco Rubio Are you just trying to put out a TikTok video? Congresswoman, thanks so much.
Appreciate you joining us. Congratulations on the success of Poison Ivies. Go pick it up, everybody.
Next on this show, Hollywood is in crisis mode. But can new lawmakers in California save it? We're going to ask a guy that knows Billy Bush, and it's Nick's Mania. Can the city handle it? Are they going to burn it down if they actually win?
We're going to ask the number one fan, the top talk show host in New York, sports talk show host, Craig Carton. And be sure to catch me on tour. Good news. Back again, July 11th, History Liberty, and Laughs on stage. It's going to be streamed on Fox Nation.
And look at those other dates in Red Bank, New Jersey in the fall, Westbury, New York, that's Long Island, Clearwater, Florida, Jacksonville, and Chesterfield, Missouri. Go to BrianKilmead.com. Don't move. No. Uh So Hollywood is facing a production crisis that's shutting down sets, shifting jobs, raising big questions about the future of the business, of show business that was created actually in Hollywood.
TMZ's Harvey Levin joined me last week on One Nation to talk about a dire warning. You hear politicians both at the state and local level here saying, Yeah, we can do it. We're going to do this with tax incentives. I think the ship has sailed. There are like four or five states.
Nashville is a big hub right now, where the tax incentives are better, there's less regulation.
So people have already started flocking there, and these cities are developing their own little Hollywood.
So if you want to shoot a movie in Nashville, there is now a supporting operation there with camera people and grips and all the other stuff because they're getting so much work that even if we change the tax incentives in LA, you know, now it's getting them back when they've already moved there.
So I think we're in trouble. You know, the numbers are stark. 42,000 jobs lost between 2022 and 2024. In recent years, it's faced labor strikes, rising production costs, streaming industry cutbacks, media consolidation, and now an entertainment exodus to states and countries with more generous tax structures.
So, can Hollywood write its own comeback story, or is it too late, like Harvey was talking about? Joining me now to expand on that is Billy Bush. He's the host of Hot Mics with Billy Bush and knows all about Hollywood. Come to us from Santa Monica. Billy, do you agree with Harvey that Hollywood is the show business has left Hollywood for good?
Well, I obviously, it's incumbent upon anybody who comes into office to fulfill Gavin Newsom's promise of doubling the tax credit budget from three hundred thirty to seven hundred fifty. There are signs in the first quarter here of twenty six that production is increasing, especially on the motion picture side. There's a little bit of movement up. It was devastated, so it's a little bit of movement up. There's still still places like Georgia and and the UK and New Jersey, you know, are all More attractive still, but there are signs that it's gone up the other way.
Couldn't get any worse. Let's be positive on that, I guess. Me, Brian, I do my show in my mom's basement now, so I'm I'm good. Right, but you you still are not far from Hollywood, but Hollywood Boulevard doesn't have the feel it used to have, right? No, I mean, look, if you walk around first of all, this is why we're we have a mayor's election where someone like Spencer Pratt has been able to make some inroads because, you know, If you walk down Hollywood Boulevard, it's disgusting.
I mean, it's there's always been, you know, weird people in Superman suits, but.
Now there's filth on the streets. It's dilapidated. The romance that you, the romantic qualities of Hollywood are gone. There's nothing about it that would draw people.
So they got to get that back. And that first means cleaning up the streets and making it more attractive. Billy, you got Hollywood, you also have politics in your blood. And let's talk about what's happening over in California. This is the question I'm getting asked over and over again.
How come it takes two or three weeks to count 100% of the votes when it takes other states just a day? Florida gets it done in a day. We still have going into this weekend, we had 40% of the votes uncounted. And yet, as we put up the rankings so far, you have the governor's race, you got Steve Hilton on top, Spencer Pratt breathing down the neck, and Karen Bass.
So what's taken so long to count the ballots? They just this is this is this is their voter regis this is their voter laws. It's unbelievable. It's deeply entrenched, as you know. They want to give everybody and it's always left leaning.
So all the left leaning ballots come in. You know, for Nithya Rahman to actually close All the way in on Spencer Pratt and surpass him would really be, you know, if you look at just a few days ago on Friday, right, you've got about 280,000, 290,000 ballots out there, whatever that is, significant amount. But with Nithya Rahman's gap at that point, she's going to have to. really win over about twelve percent. If you just took 290,000 ballots and you said, that's all we have, and then she would have to beat Spencer Pratt by 12.5%.
In the general, she lost by eight points.
So it would really be hard. And already, as you saw, Trump is mobilizing. The FBI to come in and take a look. It would be. It would be a tough hurdle.
It would be a tough hurdle. So I think Pratt is Should be comfortable.
So we get to the general. in November. Who has a better shot at victory, Steve Hilton in the governor's race or Spencer Pratt in the mayor's race? Look, in LA, you know, it's four to one, Democrats to Republicans. Across the state of California, it's two to one.
So they're both underdogs, no question. But you can definitely feel that there is a thirst and an appetite for change, literally doing something else than we've done repeatedly over and over again. Very entrenched state. I think Spencer Pratt, because of his ability to communicate and connect and his charisma and his ability to communicate on social media, I don't think Karen Bass can handle him. I think it's too much for her.
She doesn't know how to respond to him. She's never seen anything like this. Steve Hilton is one of the most exciting candidates this state has ever seen. I mean, the guy is literally, he is sharp, he is charming, he is organized, he is very clear. His programs, Calaffordability, the first $100,000 untaxed.
He has really laid out, he called out the abominations of the high-speed rail and all the waste. He has communicated very well too. I think they're both very well positioned to finish off some kind of change in California. It's how many Democrats. Yeah, it's how many Democrats they can get in their column.
And they should almost feel like they're running as independents. Billy Bush, thanks so much. I appreciate it. We tapped into both your areas of expertise: entertainment. as well as politics.
Appreciate it. All right, Brian, thank you very much and watch out on this Tuesday. You got Jonathan Bush for governor, my brother for governor on June 9th, Tuesday. Let's go, Maine. All right, don't move.
Next, only on One Nation, Joe Kotcha is here with the media moments that really matter. And check out my YouTube channel, youtube.com at the BrianKillmeat Show. Put a slash in between. How would it If anyone leaves, just leave these alive with the codes. I mean, this is a Fox News alert.
I'm Ashley Stromeyer live in New York. Israel's military says its Air Force struck military targets in western and central Iran within the last hour. Iranian state media confirms explosions in at least three cities. Those two include Ifsfan and Tehran. This comes hours after Iran launched at least four waves of missiles at Israel.
Israel says all were intercepted and vowed a powerful response. Tehran claims the attack was in retaliation for Israel's deadly strike in Beirut on Sunday. Israel insists it's going after Hezbollah in Lebanon because the Iran-backed groups keep firing missiles into northern Israel. President Trump says Iran's strikes are certainly not going to help negotiations in the war, and he told Tehran to get back to the table and make a deal. He also reportedly spoke with Israel's prime minister after Iran's attacks in an effort to discourage further strikes.
I'm Ashley Stromeier and I'm back to One Nation with Brian Kilmead. Media moments that matter. All right, time now for everyone's favorite segment. I'm talking the whole country. This week I gave my only VCR, my TV guide subscription, all my cords, and my tape stock to Fox's contributor Joe Concha, who knows exactly what a VCR is.
Joe, don't pretend you don't know. Video, cassette, recorder. There you go.
So, Joe, I know where you're going to start. The number one media story of the week. Maybe of the year. Yeah. Scott Pelly being fired at CBS News and 60 Minutes.
Here's what happened, Brian. He was invited to dinner with his new executive producer, Nick Bilton. Bilton says, Let's talk about the future of the show. I want to get your input on that. Pelly rejects that invitation, waits to ambush the first staff meeting that Bilton was holding with the entire staff.
Pelly goes in there, guns blazing, says that. Nick Bilton, you are murdering 60 Minutes. In fact, I don't even think you're qualified to be in this room or to have this job. Ask anybody in the country, go do that at your next staff meeting. Can't do it.
And see what happens because you will be fired.
So, do you think he wanted to be fired? Suicide by cop. Perhaps. To be martyred, he's made a lot of money at this point. Maybe he doesn't like the fact that he's going to have to do stories that he doesn't want to do because it may look bad for Democrats.
Absolutely.
So, what's the reaction in the media and the media realm? Oh, well, that's been very interesting because, as we know, the media, of course, is coming to Scott Pelley's defense. This was as automatic as the Jets not winning a Super Bowl. Watch this. I don't know where Scott Pelley will land.
Frankly, I hope he lands right here. I hope that everybody in journalism and everybody who values a free press figures out ways to outmaneuver the people who are trying to take the free press from us. Good for you. That's the way you leave a job with your back straight and your heart full. This is incredibly powerful.
Boycott every f. Thing on CBS News. From the morning all the way through to the evening, these people are the biggest. Bunch of p. That masquerade with these grandstanding letters like they're such badasses.
She seems nice. Yeah, she's usually delightful, and she's always in a good mood. I think it's also interesting that Rachel Maddow knows that Scott Pelley belongs in her lineup. That's the problem. If you belong in MS Now, you should not be on 60 Minutes.
Precisely. And remember what happened at MS Now just two years ago. They hired Rona McDaniel and she was the head of the RNC. She was going to be the one lone pro-Trump voice on that network. She was fired within 48 hours because Rachel Maddow demanded it.
Meanwhile, I love the fact that Terry Moran, he's from ABC, says that's the way you leave a job. He got fired for doing the same thing at ABC. He did. And now they get there in the podcast world. Best of luck to them.
CBS, in terms of ratings, what have you found out about 60 Minutes?
Well, 60 Minutes is very interesting. They used to have 9 million viewers just. One year ago. I'm sorry, they used to have nine million viewers in 2025, okay? That used to be 12 million viewers in 2015.
In other words, they've lost more than 3 million viewers. Despite having the NFL as a lead in, also on the nightly news, there's Suck and Wind. You have ABC winning big, followed by NBC, and they're getting less than half the audience. Yeah, look at that. I mean, 8.6 million, 6.3 million for NBC, and then you got to go all the way down to below 4 million for the CBS Evening News.
So if a team is losing over and over again, you've got to change the general manager and even the owner, and that's what CBS has done.
So, Joseph, people have come up to me and say, Well, I didn't see the bias at 60 Minutes. You went out of your way to find to notice it and then maybe put a collage together, a montage for the audience. A mixtape, as it were.
So we're talking VCRs at this point. Watch this. But I understand, Mr. President, this was your idea. Why did you want to do this?
There's no political tea leaves to be read here. How would you characterize your relationship right now? I have to ask you, what's the date of the expiration on this endorsement? Oh, Steve, I have to ask that question. I mean, come on.
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. We'll build The work that we have done. You start with me. You're president. Excuse me, Leslie.
You started with me. Your first statement was. Are you ready for tough questions? That's no way to talk. I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're.
You're horrible people. Horrible people. You should be ashamed of yourself reading that, because I'm not any of those things. Mr. President, I was never, excuse me, excuse me.
You shouldn't be reading that in 60 minutes. You're a disgrace. But go ahead, let's finish the interview. The other thing that he wrote: reading the exact words from the would-be assassin as if to give the assassin 60 minutes' time. Precisely, which Mike Wallace would have never done back in the day, no question about that.
I'm glad they played the Kamala Harris interview in that montage because obviously they edited that video, remember, to make her look better. Two different answers to the same question. Then wouldn't release the video, then wouldn't release the transcript. 2020, Trump is begging Leslie Stahl 60 minutes, please look into this Hunter Biden laptop. She's like, we can't do that here at 60 minutes.
That's just a conspiracy theory. Turned out to be entirely true. And remember, Dan Ratherbrian, 2004, tried to change the outcome of that particular election. George W. Bush, National Guard, and used fake documents in order to try to get Bush beaten by John Kerry.
Those documents obviously turned out to be fake.
So this has been going on for many, many years. It really has. And I just noticed there was change, and I knew it was coming. When they didn't have Leslie Stahl interview Bib Netanyahu, they said, Over Major Garrett. Yeah.
And they were all upset. He said, well, she basically wanted a fair and balanced interview, not a hatchet job by someone who wants to scream genocide. Joe, thanks so much. Truly appreciate it. Always a pleasure.
The one major moment that really mattered.
Now it's time for your sneak peek of the week. This is what to look forward to this week. Look at this. The Maine Senate primary. I never have highlighted that as one of the bullet points, but with Graham Plattner involved, I think we should, don't you?
How about this? There's going to be a hearing scheduled to examine the role that the Southern Poverty Law Center has played in distorting civil rights policy. How about paying for the hoods for the Ku Kucks Klan as well as the Burning Crosses? Just some of the things that will come out. Also, it's going to be a big sports week.
Game three with the president in attendance between the Knicks and Spurs. We'll see how that's going to go. Stanley Cup Game 3 will be Tuesday. It'll be Vegas and North Carolina and the Carolina Hurricanes.
Soccer World Cup is finally upon us. First game is Thursday. The USA team plays Paraguay on Friday. I will be there.
Next, the NBA. Finals, skyrocketing ticket prices in two of the most talented teams we have seen in quite some time. Fans are losing their minds, especially in New York. Craig Carton is one of them. He's here.
Don't move. I got a tin point blinding. And the shotgun. I got a thing, gotta bang for the final things. Yeah, I do.
Yeah, they're not in the game. They are watching the game and they're that pumped up. New York is starving for a championship. From pack bars to overflowing watch parties to record demand for tickets. By the way, they're priced very high.
Nick's Mania has completely taken over New York City. The Liberty won a title in 2024. I'm still buzzing about that. And before that, the New York Giants won in 2012. And for the next, the last NBA title, 1973, the last trip to the finals, 99.
Against the same San Antonio Spurs, they lost in five games.
Now, more than 25 years later, it's a rematch, and the Knicks are back. The city is buzzing, and for the first time in a long time, New York fans believe this could finally be the year. But the Knicks need to stay the course because they are facing one of the youngest, most talented teams that we have seen in decades, and led by this guy who's 7'4, the alien, Victor Wemenyama. With three games coming back, with game three coming back to the Mecca in New York City, the president being in attendance, MSG is set to be the center of the world once again. And joining us now, the man in the center of New York Sports on WFAN, the Craig Carton podcast as well.
He is the host of the number one sports show in New York, the Craig Carton Show. Craig Carton, welcome. Great to see you. Yes, sir. Fantastic.
New York is a buzz right now with Nick Fever. I've gotten them sweating right now. Absolutely.
Now, you don't get caught up in this mania easily. And I don't want to put that on the spurs because we've got a huge Texas viewership. But Can you describe what's happening with all these wins in a row and how no one was really expecting this type of run?
Well, because it's unprecedented. Regular season, postseason, no NBA team in the history of the sport has ever had a 12-game run of this type of dominance. And remember, the Knicks have only lost two playoff games by a combined total of one two points.
So the Kobe Shaq Lakers didn't do it. The Jordan Pippen Bulls didn't do it. The Russell Celtics didn't do it. The Steph Curry-Katy Warriors didn't do it. This Knicks team is special, and this Knicks team is now doing things we have never seen before on the hardwood.
So you grew up here. Yes, I did. And everybody wants to go to these games. And they're asking, Craig, can you get me tickets?
So look at this comparison. In 99, where were you in 99? 1999, I was in Denver, Colorado, about to come back to do mornings at WNEW here in New York City.
So in 99, if you want to go to the Knicks game to the finals, between $15 and $50 for the Chiefs. I'll pay that right now. A few hundred. That's a Knicks in the finals.
So now the Knicks are in the finals between and now it's between 3,500 and 4,300. I don't know where those tickets are. And now they're listing tickets between $40,000 and $100,000 just to watch the game. Yeah, and I think those numbers are even out of date now because I think you can double those right now. I think it's like $7,000 just to walk into the building.
Worst seat in the house. But when your team is about to win a championship for the first time in 53 years, is there really a price tag, Brian, that we can put on that? Right, especially you, because you could remortgage your house and you could probably get a line of credit. You could probably go. Banks love that.
They do love that. What are you going to use the money for, Mr. Cardin? Wow, the Knicks are in the finals. Yeah.
You never know. The ratings, San Antonio, a great market. It is. And New York, a big market. Ratings were slightly up from last year, but they haven't been booming.
I think when it's all said and done, if the series goes past four, and that's the key to this, then I think it has a chance to be the most watched final of all time for two reasons. One, you have New York, the mecca, biggest media market in the world, and we've been stopping. Starving for a championship, and then you can't discount the international appeal of Victor Wamba Yamamama. We never discount the international appeal. PSG, when they won the Champions League, they wrecked the city of Paris.
Are they going to wreck New York if they won? Yes. Not that it's not already wrecked with our current mayor, but that's a political conversation for you guys this morning. I'm more than happy to do that. Look, you know, we're starved for it, right?
No disrespect to the Liberty, nobody cared. The New York Giants have won multiple Super Bowls. The New York Yankees have 27 championships. The New York Knicks have two. And while I know your audience runs the gamut from newborns to 100-year-old people, the reality is that a good portion of New York has never seen it.
And the one thing that separates the Knicks from all the other teams in New York is that we're all Knick fans. The other sports compete with one another, Jets, Giants, Yankees, Mets, et cetera. You are a soccer player, soccer fan, long soccer coach. The World Cup is coming here.
Now, you're from the mainstream, for the most part, it's very hard to find a mainstream sports guy that understands soccer. You do. What's the World Cup going to be like for the general audience? We know the soccer fan. Do you think it's spanning across the general sports audience?
Not as much as the Knicks are in New York, absolutely. Because we own the New York Knicks. 140 games. Yeah, I think. 140.
I think we're going to have this kind of fall interest in soccer. And it happens every four years. Obviously, we've had the World Cup on the United States soil before. And there's always the thought process of this is going to be the impetus to make American kids want to play soccer. It's never really happened, but I do think we're going to embrace the fact that the world's greatest players are here.
Fox is doing this World Cup, so we know it's going to be big. It's going to be great. Rob Stone and his guys are going to be awesome. Absolutely.
Lollis and company and Holden. But a couple of things. It is the number two participant sport in the country. It just hasn't translated to our national team men's side. I think that we're going to get out of the group.
Of the group in first place. How many calls are you going to get in FAN about what are the chances of the U.S. team to do? I mean, a lot of you should keep our relationship based on honesty. I like when you lie.
I can never do that. There are thousands of people that have got a call. It's not going to resonate to the point unless something significant happens. If there's something that we can understand, non-soccer fans, that we can kind of wrap our hands around. Remember USA hockey?
Yeah, but USA hockey in the Olympics became a big deal because we were the underdogs and we're playing against Canada, a team that owns the sport, a country that owns the sport of hockey, right? This is not our sport. If we could upset I don't even know what to do. Get out of the group in first. Get out of the group and then beat France, beat Germany, beat Argentina, beat Brazil.
Then you have soccer-friendly countries. Then I'm going to put on a USA soccer hat and come back. And then I come on your show. I'm a small combination. You never returned my calls.
That says true. Today you've heard that Brian's book is going to be made into a movie now. Right. I know what's going on with you. He does know my news.
Superstar, multimedia. Absolutely.
You want to continue, or should I lock it up? Am I allowed to? Not really. I got to go. Let him go.
All right, thank you. I can't wait to listen to you today and throughout this whole time because between the Knicks and World Cup, Craig Carton, one-stop shopping in terms of what you can listen to online.
Meanwhile, you can pre-order my book, Uniting the States. You can get this at a discount, Craig, because you know me. Six Crucial Moments that Forged the American Miracle, Six Founders Who Shaped America's Revolutionary Democracy Coming Your Way. Be sure to catch my radio show from 9 to noon. Don't forget to watch Fox and Friends, which Craig watches to get ready for his sports show.
As always, two messages: stay within yourself. And keep our keep it right here in Pakistan.
Alright, bring up the music. If you never And we can live.
