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Mark Thiessen's here in the studio, and we have a lot to go over. The president of the United States has got to be happy. His World Cup is going great, and he, along with Johnny Infantino, is going to be giving away the World Cup trophy together. That usually doesn't happen, but there's not usually a Donald Trump leader of the free world that's president of the United States.

So things are always a little bit different.

So we have a lot to discuss today. Just got to remind you too: if you ever missed the show, you want to get supplements for the show, youtube.com slash at the Brian Kilmeet Show. We have our own channel.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. They might well win the World Cup. I think after their two wins in the first two games, they have a real chance to go for it. They play at home, the crowd is behind them, the public is emotional.

I mean, they're looking really great. Yep, World Cup FIFA running very high. That was the president of FIFA. He doesn't just say that to anybody. The greatest supporters didn't predict this type of success for the game of the country.

I talked to the FIFA president, as you just heard. We're going to bring you some of those highlights and the chance for the U.S. going all the way because one of their greatest players has said they will not win. Number two. We're fascists in the White House.

You're a climate denier of the U.S. Why do you have We are reasons. The chance over the White House. Mm. Are we going to let them win?

Right, that's Claire Valdez, somebody that you would never think would run for office, but the socialist is. It's a hot topic, and it's hot on the ballot this year as the Dem Civil War is playing out in real time. As the godfather of them all, Bernie Sanders cannot be happier. We examine the races and what it means in June, how it'll affect November. Number one, we're beginning to move forward on some of the big issues, beginning to address some of the technical details.

But I think it's important for people to understand there is a long way to go in this. No kidding, General Botel. Iran, talks have begun and news is pouring out all over the talks. We examine it all and what it means for security in the region and why Israel's interests are our interests. Mark, I think you agree with that, right?

I do, absolutely. Just, you know, just like the NATO alliances is an ally and we have shared interests. Not all the interests are the same, but we broadly have, you know, we are both, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. It shares our values, and it's important that we stand together.

So, just as usual, we watched the vice president come out of the meeting and said, good news. We made progress. Weapons inspectors, the IEEA, are going back into inspect and evaluate their nuclear program. We tried to call the inspectors at 2 o'clock in the morning. We weren't able to get anybody.

So we're going to. work on that today. And then a representative from Iran says we never agreed to that. Yeah. Part of me doesn't want to nitpick everything that happens, and I'm sort of holding back and like watching to see how this process plays out.

But the problem we have is that we've lifted sanctions on Iranian oil, right?

So Iran is selling oil right now. We've lifted the blockade, we've lifted the sanctions, and so they are getting hundreds of millions, possibly billions of dollars in revenue that's going to pour into the regime that is helping them lift them up off the mat when they haven't given us anything. They haven't done anything yet to deserve it. I mean, you know, they've opened the strait. First of all, they shouldn't have the say whether the strait is open or not.

It shouldn't be a weapon that they can wield to close or open at their will. And second of all, they haven't made any concessions. You know, I mean, they do say in the memorandum of understanding that they will not have or build or procure a nuclear weapon, but they've been denied. That they want a nuclear weapon to begin with. I mean, you know, one of the things that we should do once we have a deal is they should have to admit that they were pursuing a nuclear weapon and give us all the details, all the bomb plans, and everything else as part of a deal.

So, you know, I don't, I just, I look, President Trump has done more than any president in 47 years to set back the Iranian nuclear program and to fight, frankly, set back the Iranian regime. This is a country that's been waging war on us for 47 years. Terrorist attacks from the taking of the hostages to the marine barracks bombing all the way through the Khobar Towers, the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. You go through it to the assassination attempt in Washington, D.C., where they're going to blow up Cafe Milano. They've been killing Americans, launching attacks on Americans, and America didn't fight back until Donald Trump became president.

So he deserves enormous credit for that. Here's General Jack Keen on what the president should think about Cut 9. The nuclear enterprise has got to go. We don't need to get into the details of the specifics. And to do that, I believe he's got to have the United States.

Military and civilian nuclear experts on the ground executing his goals and objectives here, and the IAEA supporting that. They should be there because they have so much experience there. But we have to make certain that the President's goals are being achieved here. Not somebody that's not related to the United States' objectives and goals here, and that's going to try to work between Iran and the United States. No.

It's got to be exactly what we're talking about here. And it has to be anywhere. And any time.

So that's true. These are all conditions. But now we have Iran denying that we're even allowing inspectors in. Yes. I mean, Jackine is right as always.

You're always safe to say Jack Keene is right. That sentence is almost always correct. And look, if the what we've accomplished In Operation Between Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury, we have absolutely decimated the Iranian nuclear program. Their nuclear dust is so deeply buried that the Iranians have actually told our negotiators they can't reach it. We would have to come in and excavate it to get it, right?

Their centrifuges have been destroyed. Their conversion facilities have been destroyed. The nuclear scientists are dead. All the rest of it.

So the goal now, having done all that, is to lock in those gains and make sure that they're irreversible. There are two ways to do that. You can do that at the negotiating table, or you could do that through military action. The president obviously wants to do it through negotiations. The problem is, as weakened as the Iranian regime is, they're not chastened.

Just look at their behavior. This is not the behavior of a government that feels like it's been defeated and that it's weak. And so they are defiant still. They're doing the minimum they need to do in order to get the ceasefire. But I don't see them behaving in a way that they are good.

This is not the Japanese on the deck of the USS Missouri signing the surrender document. And so we're going to have a hard time getting these concessions from them. Right. Talks reportedly now talking about the region, Lebanon ceasefire arrangements, communication channels to prevent escalation, maritime security in the Strait of Hermuz, and deconfliction mechanisms among the parties operating in the region. Among the people who think that's a good thing I like to play your Jaken bites, is General Jack Keene.

He thinks that this is. Uh a good move to have in deconfliction. Why don't you just have Jack on instead of me?

Well, it's a good idea. I was thinking about it. The legislature could not get his number. There you go. Here's cut 11.

It's likely a step in the right direction. A couple of things we have to recognize, though. Iran doesn't have a claim here, Larry. This is Lebanese citizens under the guise of a terrorist organization, Hezbollah, that Iran resources. and the country of Lebanon.

So it's it's the Israel Who is being attacked? right on their border. Hezbollah, who's doing the attacking, and Lebanon, the country from which it's coming from. And they have to be the principles involved here. Yes.

So here's the problem with what we've done.

So apparently, Israel is not part of this deconfliction group, right? And what's fundamentally problematic about that is that the way they're negotiating this It's like Hamas is Iran's proxy, and Israel is an American proxy. And we're the two states that negotiate and we control our proxies. Israel is not our proxy. Israel is a sovereign democratic state that is trying to defend itself.

The only proxy here is Hezbollah, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Iranian regime that is attacking Israel and using it, and quite frankly, illegally occupying parts of Lebanon. Lebanon wants them out. Right? Israel wants them out.

So Whose sovereignty is being violated here? Hezbollah has no business being in Lebanon, period, full stop. And they should be if Iran wants to have a peace deal and wants to make Lebanon part of the process, their role is to pull Hezbollah out and disarm Hezbollah.

So the President loves that oil is going down, and who wouldn't? To 70-something in the 70s, okay? And 65 is the threshold where the oil and gas companies say can't go any further or else it doesn't pay for us to drill and sell.

So, okay, we're getting close to that threshold. But do you believe the 60, once we get to 60 days, it starts working more and more towards Iran because of the midterms?

So I think the problem is I think Iran certainly feels that way. The president says he doesn't care about the midterms. And truth be told, if the midterms were driving his thinking, then he would have never started Operation Epic Fury to begin with. I think it's one of the most courageous decisions any American president has made in my lifetime. It didn't help him politically in any way.

He just did it because he believes Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon. But as you get closer and closer to the midterms, it becomes less and less likely that we're going to be taking military action. And Iran knows that, so they're trying to extend the negotiations as long as they can. But then that ends. There are going to be midterm elections, and after that, the president has a completely free hand.

So I think they may be misplaying their hand because they think they have more runway than they do. I talked to Senator Tim Sheehy on Fox and Friends yesterday. Such a great interview. Thank you. He said there's two things I don't like about the, and there's a lot, but two main things.

He goes, I don't like the Pakistan's involved. I don't like the Qatar's involved. Because I see Qatar, I see a country that plays both sides. Financing terror. And when I see Pakistan, I think of a country that housed bin Laden that allowed terrorists to stage in Pakistan and go and kill people in Afghanistan.

Do you think it's wrong to think that way? No, I agree with him 1,000%. I mean, Pakistan, you know, AQ Khan was like selling weapons, nuclear technology all around the world. You know, if we're going to bring in all the bad players, why don't we bring North Korea into the negotiations, too? You know, so yes, and I believe that.

Because Trump loves this guy, because Trump has said great things about the. Field marshal. He loves a field marshal. Look, Trump is somebody who likes to deal with, he likes to deal with the bad actors and befriend them and to influence them. And so he's not afraid to talk to anybody.

So I think that it doesn't surprise me that he wants to work with them. And if he thinks that they're useful to the process, then he's going to engage them.

So, you know, he's looking for a neutral arbiter.

Well, we come back. I want to talk socialism. I want to find out where you stand. I don't know. Like, you might be for it.

Don't give it away. This is a tease. Mark Tsa. Is he for socialism? Will he be voting in the Democratic primary today in New York City?

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Um Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Alistair is on the battlefield. You're on the ballot. Abolishing ice is on the ballot.

And we have a world to win. Because when we fight, we win. That is Claire Valdez, and she wants to win because she wants to abolish ICE. And she also wants to defund Israel, does not want any support for Israel. This is some of the people that are on the ballot.

It is Mondami against Hakeem Jeffries Marquise, and it's significant because these are established Democrats. You're not going against, I don't, I'm not bringing up Republicans. Yeah. They got three. Jeffrey's got three.

Mondami's got three. They do not fear this would be maybe this next speaker. Yeah. From Brooklyn.

So, my favorite mayor growing up in New York City was Ed Koch. And Ed Koch famously said when he lost the mayoral primary, they said, Mr. Mayor, will you ever run again? And he said, No, the people have spoken and they must be punished. Right.

And that's how I feel about New York today. Go for it. You want to just elect a socialist slate? You know, have at it. It's terrible for New York.

I feel badly for all my friends who still live here, but great for the Republican Party because you're going to drive more and more people out of New York. They're going to take their money, they're going to take their capital, they're going to go to red states, and you know what they're going to do? They're going to take their congressional seats and their electoral votes with them. After the 2030 census, there's going to be a hemorrhaging of electoral college votes and congressional seats from New York and California and Illinois to Florida and Texas and other red states.

So, you know, she may get elected to Congress, but then they're going to have to have redistricting, and she might lose her seat because so many people have left New York.

So, yeah, because it's just not going to have as many seats.

So, what about Brad Lander, this guy who ran for mayor and says, okay, I don't have to run for mayor. I'll just step over if you'll support me running against Dan Goldman. By the way, Goldman, pretty much as left as it gets, a brutal Trump critic. Just doesn't hate Jews. He just doesn't hate Jews because he is one.

One of the reasons probably doesn't like that in Yahoo. But listen to what Brad Lander believes in Brooklyn, Cut 26. And our solidarity, it doesn't end at the Hudson or at the Potomac. Our solidarity stretches out to Cuba and Venezuela, and it stretches to Gaza, where we're. Shot to show solidarity with Palestinian kids who can't go to school because our taxpayer dollars paid for the bombs that destroy them all.

That's why everyone on this slate is committed to signing on to the Block the Bombs Act. And not to send one more dime for Netanyahu's wars. Alex solidarity. All right.

So he's a clown. But can you believe he's reaching out to Venezuela?

Well, so this is so fascinating. And Cuba? This is how you know he's a moron. Is that the line in the Democratic Socialists is that we're democratic socialists. We're not like Cuba.

We're not like Venezuela. We're not like the communists. Like we're different than them. And so, you know, he just said the quiet part out loud, which is that all these people are just communists. You know, from each according to his ability to each according to his needs, that's Mondami's economic philosophy.

That's straight out of Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto. These people are communists.

So Jeffries is supporting Dan Goldman, and Mondami's back candidate, that guy, that clown Brad Lander, has got almost a double-digit lead.

So he's got to unseat this guy because he likes Israel. And then he was denied coffee by a barista that doesn't like Jews. And says that he's genocide supporting.

So I mean, this is unbelievable that I mean, I'm not going to bat for Dan Goldman. I think he's I think he's a senator that's just a partisan senator, but wait nobody thought he wasn't liberal enough.

So, this is Jeffries losing. He told him not to do this, and he did it anyway.

So, this is, again, this is what I would call the Momdani fallacy, which is taking over the Democratic Party, which is: look at the energy Momdani and the Democratic Socialists are bringing to the party. We need to replicate that energy all across America. Like, yeah, that works in New York, which is possibly the bluest city in America. It certainly works in Los Angeles, where you've got like, you know, left fighting far left for the mayor's race over there. But it doesn't work in, it doesn't work in Minnesota.

It doesn't work in Wisconsin. It doesn't work in Georgia. It doesn't work in North Carolina. It doesn't work in Nevada. You're not going to win swing states by going outlefting.

I want you to bring it to Maine because Susan Collins finally did an interview yesterday and talked about Plattner who's one of the most despicable candidates I've seen in my lifetime, CUP 32. The number of scandals keep going on each day. To me, one of the most appalling is his making fun of a Purple Heart recipient who had been wounded by the Taliban, is lying on the war field, and he ridicules this individual. Another example is his treatment of women in general, and also his opposition to law enforcement. On all those.

Just weigh in. I mean, what kind of opponent is this for Susan Collins?

So first of all, it's the greatest opponent she could possibly pull. She must be very happy that Grant Plattner is her opponent. But also, think of it. In Texas, they were just telling us we have to vote against Paxton because he's an adulterer. And now they're saying we have to vote for the adulterer because Susan Collins is such a threat to democracy that we have to do what we have to do to get rid of her.

She doesn't even barely votes with Donald Trump. Thanks a lot, Marquise. You seem very nice. Thank you. History isn't just in textbooks.

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And corn, soybeans, all of the things they need are going to be bought From our farmers.

So our farmers are very happy. I've had a lot of calls. They were very happy about that.

Well, we'll see. That's what was brought up in the meeting, and it's not saying it was accepted or rejected. But if you're going to have unfrozen funds, I would like our bases repaired with those unfrozen funds. And what about, as Mark Thiessen brought up on the show today, what about those families that lost their lives and they're suing Iran? For that, and hostages that have lost their freedom for years and are suing Iran.

What about if we satisfy them with Iran's money? Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director, former Congressman from Florida, joins us now. Colonel, how do you think these talks are going? Yeah, it's good to be with you, Brian. And again, what I see with when I listen to these talks, when I listen to some of the rhetoric from Iran, they're not a defeated enemy.

And as a matter of fact, they don't want to even be referred to as an enemy now. They want to see themselves as equal to the United States. And so, as you talked about and alluded to in your discussion with Mark Deason, yes, let's take some of these unfrozen funds and let's do what is necessary to restock our armaments. Let's repair our bases. Let's make sure that those people that have suffered because of the Iranian Islamic terrorism, they get reparations for that.

That's the right place for reparations. But when I hear this talk about selling food over there, it reminds me of all of the humanitarian aid and food that we tried to send into Gaza. And what did Hamas do? Hamas just claimed it and made the people in Gaza suffer even more so because they kept it for themselves.

So what's the guarantee that Any type of food stuff or agriculture that we send over to Iran will go down to the people and not just go to the cronies of the regime. Yeah, I mean, that's a big deal, too. And now they're denying the progress that they thought they made in day one. They're rejecting it.

So the president said, look, I'm not taking the military. uh the military uh off the f off the table cut for. I think the blockade was more impactful than dropping bombs. If we could set that up again in about 15 minutes I would say, Pete, one phone call would how long would it take? Maybe half hour?

And they set up the blockade again if they mess with the straight, but evidently they're making some rules. 48 hours' notice before you pass. If you're going to need insurance, we will issue the insurance. Uh they think they're taking control with a straight. Yeah, I think the important thing with that, again, is, you know, this is an international seaway, and we should not have them constraining an international sea line of commerce, an S-LOC.

And I think that's the real lesson learned from here: is that, again, when I talk about them not being defeated, they should not be dictating terms about the flow going through the Strait of Hormuz. And so if there was anything that I would have kept in place until I saw more movement in a positive direction from the Iranian regime, I would have kept the blockade in place. I would have taken control of the Strait of Hormuz because those are key centers of gravity for them. And that puts the type of pressure, the economic pressure, and maybe some diplomatic pressure on the Iranian regime that right now they feel has been alleviated. Right.

I want you to hear what Britt Hume had to say, CUT 13. Judged against the standard that the President set basically when early going when he spoke of unconditional surrender, this is not a particularly good deal for the United States. On the other hand, it's worth remembering and not setting aside, I think, the extraordinary amount of damage that has been done to Iran militarily-you know, the loss of their Navy, their Air Force, much of their missile capacity, their radar systems, and so on, have left Iran a much less important power in the world than it was before all this. It's still as evil and determined as ever, perhaps, but I think greatly weakened. I think that's important to keep that in mind as a backdrop for this.

Yeah, but we don't see a lot of it, so people forget it, right? We don't see the remnants of the 13,000-plus strikes. No, you're absolutely right. Without a doubt, there can be no debate about Iran being a weakened state. But again, I come back to another adjective: they're not a defeated state.

And so when you talk about defeating them, you have to think about, again, as we term it in the military, what is the center of gravity? What are the key things for this regime to maintain control, to stay in power? And I think that's where they still think that they have a strength. But right now, without a doubt, yes, we have air dominance over Iran. We have naval dominance.

But the key things that would really put the most immense amount of pressure on them, we've taken off the table. Like I said, controlling the straits and the blockade. And I think that, yeah, we need to be able to, if I can use the term snap back, like we had with Sangsters, we need to snap back those blockades as soon as we possibly can if we see them flustering.

So let's talk about Texas. James Tallarico and some of his odd beliefs. Where do they come from? Maybe we have a clue. This story's out today: that Tell Rico has described Drew Daniel Henderson Espinoza as a major source of inspiration for his political and religious philosophy.

He is pretty out there. He believes, he says that he's. Autistic, non-bin, he's pro-autist. What does it say? It says his inspiration is for his political and religious philosophy because he identifies as mixed race, non-binary, transgender, Latinx.

He uses his he, they pronouns and says he's autistic. The book referenced Taurico as Henderson Espinoza's 2019 work, An Activist Theology. The book presents a progressive theology framework focusing on challenging what it describes as interlocking supremacies.

So is Texas going to embrace the man of many genders? No, I really don't think so. And again, it reminds me of how Barack Obama embraced black liberation theology. And so, again, you have Mr. Tallarico who is really embracing this woke Christianity, woke Jesus, some people call it.

And I don't think that's going to play very well. Texas is the belt, the buckle of the Bible belt. And when you think about the Hispanic community and even the black community, very strong Christian communities, a lot of these things that he believes in and his quote-unquote religiosity is not going to fly there. And right now, you have a spat going on between him and Jasmine Crockett. She's saying she's not going to come and speak at the Texas Democrat Convention.

Why? Because she lost?

Well, because she lost and she's still pondering whether or not she wants to support Mr. Tallarico.

So you have a schism there. And I think it's very important that that's recognized. And that could hurt Tallarico.

So when people look at Beto Rook and see he got 2.5 within 2.5 percentage points to Ted Cruz, you know, you can say what you want. That's close. And Ted Cruz is a conservative. I look at Texas as a conservative state outside places like Austin.

So do you if you are in Texas, this is why the RNC has to pour money in to make sure Paxson wins, right? Where they probably wouldn't have if Cornyn had won.

Well, I think the key thing on the Republican side is will Senator Coren come out and endorse and support Attorney General Paxton? Because again, just the same as you see a schism on the Democrat side between the Crockett camp and Tallarico, you don't want to have that schism as well. You don't want to have Republicans sitting out and not showing up because it's all going to be about turnout. If you have that big turnout in the major urban population centers, then you put a lot of pressure on West Texas to save the day. And that's what happened with the Ted Cruz Beto O'Rourke race, was that O'Rourke was ahead initially, but then West Texas saved Ted Cruz.

Very interesting.

So I want to talk about Graham Platinum because Susan Collins does not give many interviews or on Fox. And she sat down with Martha McCallum. And here's what Susan Collins said about her opponent, Graham Plattner, who's got more scandals than I can even list in the time I have remaining with you. Cut 33. I would have said in a different time that any one of these would have been disqualifying for someone to be a candidate to serve our country and the state of Maine in the United States Senate, whether they were a Democrat or a Republican.

And it's very interesting that Graham Plattner was recruited by people from out of state, from New York, who also recruited the mayor of New York, Mondami, and other candidates from the far left around the country. I don't think that's a coincidence.

So, what do you read into that? Just the spreading of the socialist movement. I'll identify a fake oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo who doesn't put a shirt on, who has a military record, could be a real man. But then you find out he's not even a real oyster farmer. Then you find out that he's nowhere.

Working-class kids grew up with great wealth and went to a private school.

So, what kind of backroom check did they do? And it's very noted that Susan Collins goes, This guy's from the outside. He was recruited from the outside. Yeah, and I think that's what you see right now is the casting call because in the aftermath of 2024, what did you hear? The Democrats, the left, they weren't connecting with quote-unquote young men and real men.

So what they do, they go out and put out the casting call, and this is who we got. And it's the same casting call that gave us Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

So what they're trying to do is, you know, quote-unquote, find people that fit a certain image because their message is horrible.

So they're running on image and image only. And the same thing with Mom Donnie. But what we have to do on our side is we've got to continue to talk about what we're for, not just what we're against, and how we're providing policies. And they're just providing hatred. What's interesting is they don't know how to identify a man.

I mean, Governor Walsh is a real man. He pretends to work on a car and then waves his hands around. He's got a shotgun. Remember the shotgun? Yeah.

And then you have this guy. They go, we need a man. We've got to get the man vote back. and they get a fake man, a guy that is a belligerent, angry guy. With dicey relationships with women who's online, who's on a website that's known mostly for teen hookups up until recently.

So they're asked about what's going on, what else is going to come out from deleted Reddit accounts. Morris Katz is a friend of his who works on his campaign, he's his campaign strategist. Cup 34. All of the allegations it hasn't been negated by all of the allegations against Platiner. Which There may be more coming.

Can you say that there are not going to be more women coming forward with similar unflattering allegations against Graham Plattner? What I can say is that Graham Plattner has Addressed his past repeatedly, more than I've ever seen any candidate have to talk about their past. And he's been honest. That might be, because he has a lot of problems. I mean, do you believe that's his spin?

He's addressed his past more than anybody else, and he can't say that there's not more coming out. Yeah, and the interesting thing is where are the misogynist voices? Where are the believe the women voices? Where are the feminist voices? Because you can be guaranteed that when you look at how people are coming after Ken Paxton because of some of his escapades.

But it's not the same thing with the left. They're just concerned about one thing, by any means necessary. They want to win. They want power. They want control.

We don't care who we run. We just want you to vote for them so that we get rid of the Republican that's in this seat. It's just so interesting that Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, they've totally been sidelined. I don't hear from Hillary or Bill Clinton. Obama loves the socialists.

He showed up, and right away, Mondami helped him unpack his stuff. And he's been mentoring since he won the primary against another Democrat, by the way, Governor Cuomo. More of an establishment, terrible person, but more of an establishment guy.

So, it's just so interesting what's happening. And I guess we're going to see what's going to be next. All right, Colonel. Thanks so much. Appreciate you joining us.

My pleasure. God bless. Take care, Brian. You got it. 1-866-408-7669.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. 60 million people was here at home here around the world. It was like a billion people. And they were all impressed by how the US team played. Not just winning, it's the way they play.

Exactly, exactly. I mean, Paraguay is a pretty strong team, right? And the U.S. just dominated and played and attacked football. It was great to see and really, really impressive.

So, Tim Howard, maybe the finest goalkeeper, sorry, Tony Miola, in American history, on a podcast with Landon Donovan, came out and said, Hey guys, the U.S. is playing great, but they will not win the World Cup. What do you say?

Well, I would say they might well win the World Cup. I think after their two wins in the first two games, they have a real chance to go for it. They play at home, the crowd is behind them, the public is emotional. I mean, they're looking really great. And that's a guy that knows soccer.

He's the president of FIFA. He joined me an hour ago on the set of Fox and Friends. I think I'm going to spend a day with him just to see what it's like. He says he's constantly. I said, listen, if I spend a day with you, is this all ceremonial?

Is your job easy? He goes, no. I'm constantly putting out fires, dealing with problems and complaints. I go, great. That would be a pretty cool day.

Maybe I'll catch up with him on a Saturday. He goes to multiple venues, maybe in the knockout round.

So, remember, I told you in that question that Tim Howard didn't think the U.S. could win, guys, sober up. You remember how great he was in Brazil for the World Cup? Here's Landon Donovan, great, maybe the greatest forward we've ever had with Tim Howard. He has a different opinion, but listen to Tim too.

Cut 46. Can we? Yes. Has this group proven it that they can beat a top team? No.

I'll tell you this, Tim. And I mean this: if they play the way they're playing, they can absolutely compete against any team in this World Cup for sure. Yeah. Can you do it? I've said this over and over.

Can you do it four times in a row? Can you do it in a round of 16, a quarter, a semi, and a final? That is where it gets really hard. But momentum gets going. You never know.

Is it likely? No. It's not likely. The U.S. cannot unequivocally win the World Cup.

The U.S. will have to play the greatest game they've ever played three times in a row.

Sorry, four games in a row. Round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals, finals. It is literally impossible for the U.S. to win the World Cup. That's going to come across crazy.

People are going to say, I'm whatever. That's just the reality. But we're super excited for this ride, Ryan.

Well, I feel great now. I would never say that. I'm really shocked. Look, he's honest. When you're asked to be a commentator, when you have a podcast, you've got to be honest.

If that's his honest opinion, and I assume it is, that's fine. I'm disappointed that he has that opinion. Especially because if you watch this guy play goal, he's in such extraordinary things. In gold that defied logic. Why can't a team do that?

They've already done it. Whoever thought they'd win two games outright, give up one goal and not even have to play their starters in the third game. In terms of great players, Leono Messi, 38, 39 years old, when they went to the MLS, they said it was 34. He goes to the MLS and they say, well, you're just basically giving up a chance to ever play at the top level again. You're just cashing in in America.

You're playing in the MLS. That league's not good. Your game's going to drop. All he's done is score five goals in two games. Listen to yesterday, cut 45.

Applauding whenever they slow down an Argentina attack. Here's Almada on the move for the world champions.

Now, Medina. Pull back here, let's it run, nice eye! Yeah. History. Damn.

Forty years to the day. Since Diego Mm. Melon Donner scored the hand gift. Real El Messi scores the goal to make him the World Cup's all-time leading scorer. Wonderful moment.

And you think for a second he's done? No. And I think a lot of players will say: look. If I come to the MLS, you can no longer say I am giving up on me playing at the top of my game. He is showing everybody you can maintain your quality of play and play in this league and be happy in America.

Where it is, this guy loves Miami. From Argentina, where he's worshiped. He loves being in Miami. You know, he played everywhere, could have gone anywhere. And now he's gonna stay, and I think that.

You know, his dad, I think, is basically the general manager of the team.

So he's having a great time. He gets the players he wants, and they just won a championship there. But I cannot wait. I'm going to be at the Germany-Morocco game. I'm going to be at two board games, but I'm going to be working the final and others with that media pass.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmey Show from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, just four blocks where the Norwegians pretend to be rowing like Vikings in the middle of Times Square. It is a phenomenal scene, just so many phenomenal scenes we've seen with the World Cup here.

Present United States going to Pennsylvania today in that campaign mode. He's going to meet with the Mac truck people. But the president's got to do a lot of work because he's got to shore up. He has to shore up. His support in those battleground states.

I mean, people just take Iowa for granted. They shouldn't. They take Ohio for granted. They shouldn't. They take Pennsylvania.

They know it's going to be a battle, but the president's been so strong in Pennsylvania, maybe they feel as though they'll be okay there, being that they say there's only about 18 seats in play in the House. I don't think they can take anything for granted. This hour being joined by Farley Weiss. He's the president of the Israeli Justice Organization. And Steve Moore is standing by in 15 minutes.

He's a former chief of staff of the U.S. House of Representatives and founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Project. Ukraine is bulletsing Moscow with long-range missiles that they pioneered, they engineered. Man, I would not want to be Russian today. Let's get to the big three.

Number three. They might well win the World Cup. I think after their two wins in the first two games, they have a real chance to offer it. They play at home, the crowd is behind them, the public is emotional. I mean, they're looking really great.

Yeah, the FIFA president on with me an hour ago on Fox and Friends. World Cup fever running as high as ever.

Soccer's greatest supporters did not predict this type of success of the World Cup and the game's most and the world's most popular sport.

So I talked to the FIFA president about it and look at the action on and off the field. Number two. We have fascists in the White House. We need climate change. denier Why it happens?

For the racist and trans folk in the White House, are we going to be a very important Let them win. Clara Valdez, a left-wing socialist, angry, angry squad member to be.

Socialism is a hot topic on the ballot in New York City today as Dem Civil War is playing out in real time in front of all of us. And the godfather of it all, Bernie Sanders, could not be happier. We examine the races in June that are going to affect the balance of power in November. Number one. We're beginning to move forward on some of the big issues, beginning to address some of the technical details.

But I think it's important for people to understand there is a long way to go in this. There is. General Joseph Fotel, Iran. Talks have begun and news is pouring out all over the talks and contradictions everywhere. We examine it all and what it means for the security of the region and why.

Israel's interests are our interests, and we should stop letting We should stop letting Iran tell us they're different. It's a little problem with that. You're not going to budge here. It's easy to get caught up in that podcast world, listen to these men and women rant when they're going for clicks and think to yourself, wow, you know, maybe Israel is the problem. Maybe we would have no problem in the Middle East if it wasn't for Israel.

Just take a sense and take a step back at history and understand who the good guy is and understand what they do with us as a partner. I don't think it'd be replicated anywhere. Used to be Britain, it's not anymore. I used to be NATO, not anymore. What they can do pound for pound as a military can't be duplicated except with the American military.

And what they do in terms of intelligence and innovation for the economy cannot be duplicated anywhere else. I think it's about time you realize that.

So anytime you hear I think J.D. Vance or anybody else coming out condemning Israel, I think they got to take a step back and understand they are entering Hezbollah, Hezbollah bombs and rockets, only because Iran tells them to. Here's a president of the United States. On I thought about temporary lifting. They're allowed to sell oil at market rates using dollars.

and lifting of sanctions while they continue to talk cut to.

Well, I'm going to have to find out exactly the status. But if the sanctions go out, money is going to be put into this country. All that money is coming back in the form of purchases of food, which they desperately need. They have 91 million people, they can't feed them.

So the money that we lift is going to go to our farmers, largely to our farmers. I mean, it's a great idea that Jerry came up with. If you give them cornmeal, you give them soybeans, how are they going to do it? Are they going to hoard it and keep with the IRGC? That's on them.

I actually don't even think they would deny food to their 90 million population. I wouldn't think intentionally because the unrest is something that doesn't work for them. For example, part of the unrest that happened in January was because they had no water. And because inflation, the real is like a thousand reals for every dollar.

So inflation, you think it's bad now at 2.4%. Could you imagine 1000%?

So I've decided to, I'm not going to ride this. Throughout the 60 days, Iran says this, we say this. Iran says this, we say this. I take our men and women at their word. J.D.

Vance came out after the meeting of hours and said they've agreed to let the inspectors in. As I hopped on the air today, time shifting Iran's officials came out and go, we never agreed to that. I'm not going to get involved. Of course, they agreed to it. The Vice President of the United States is not a liar.

It doesn't work to his advantage to spin. You know, market, it doesn't matter. Because if he comes out and says stuff that's blatantly not true, it doesn't work to his advantage. They would come out and say it's been very frustrating, nothing got done. That's called typical dealing with Iran.

Instead, they said we agreed. We tried to call weapons, and we tried to call the nuclear inspectors at two in the morning. We couldn't get anybody to pick up. It's hard to imagine him making up that story. Am I correct?

And then saying, Jared brought up that we'll take the money, we'll unfreeze the money, but you're going to buy farm goods from us. I don't know what they said to that, but I'll take them at their word. But I'm not going to get into the day by day because I am not into spinning things that the IRGC finds palatable. There is a belief amongst the negotiators And it's usually been wrong. That there are moderates among the crazy Iranians.

President said that, and the negotiators believe it. I'm shaking my head if you're not watching the stream. But I am glad the oil is flowing. I want the Uh the economy to roll. I would like to move this into the backdrop.

And I would like just to see how this plays out. And let's see if both parties can go out and go win a midterm election. It's not going to be easy regardless. The best hope the Republicans have. Is for the Democrats to continue to back these socialists, for all the energy to go with the Mondamis, the Bernie Sanders, the AOCs.

It works out because I just don't believe traveling like I do, knowing our audience like we do, knowing that we got a good New York audience, but I know the Midwest really supports this network and down south especially. You talk to people and they think we're crazy up here, even entertaining the thought of having a socialist.

Now, Austin's a little crazy and a little left in Texas, but that's for Texas. You just want clear thinking people that are going to be open to law and order, like what happened with the mayor. I keep citing this, the mayor in San Francisco. A guy comes in, he's a Democrat, nobody thinks he's a Republican, but he's just trying to get some sense of law and order and get rid of the lawlessness. the massive break ins with cars and the crime and the homelessness in San Francisco, you hope some of that comes in.

But if you elect these Mondami like figures that want to blame society for society's ills, and say the problem is billionaires I think you're going to have nothing but failed cities. Here's O Ram M Donnie. Talking about immigration. Listen to what he actually says proudly, cut 22. I've been clear that I'm proud of our sanctuary city status.

We are not going to allow this city to become the civil immigration enforcement arm of a federal government that is hellbent on a deportation regime that would rip families apart across the city. Right. Or get criminals out. Tell us who's in your prisons that broke the law, came here as a criminal, and became a and continue to be a criminal. We're going to do that.

Deportation arm. Yeah, if you're overstaying your visa, if you've committed a crime, you're gone. But what these people are running on is absolutely crazy. Listen to the first two lines from Brad Lander. This is a despicable former New York City controller, Democratic candidate, tried to run for mayor, fell flat in his face.

Listen to this guy, Cut26. And our solidarity, it doesn't end at the Hudson or at the Potomac. Our solidarity stretches out to Cuba and Venezuela and Ukraine. And it stretches to Gaza. Really?

It stretches. These are the people that you're running on. Are you insane? Gaza run by Hamas? The socialist power of Venezuela?

Do you know that their president's in a Brooklyn jail? And do you know that Cuba is about to fall on itself? But that's the philosophy you're selling.

So Jamal Bowman is a Democrat. I didn't think he was a socialist. I can't do his bio, but he keeps losing. To Mike Lawr.

So he doesn't run anymore. Remember, he's the guy who pulled the fire alarm when he was in Congress and then denied doing it, but we have video of him doing it.

So here he is talking about. One of these extremists who's running for office, who's a flat-out socialist, does not like the country, saying horrible things that she does with the flag, calls Israel a genocide power.

So listen to this question and his answer: Cut 25. I mean, listen, it's their right to be concerned. It's important to have the conversation, right? That's why. we have a democracy and so she's Well Look at pros.

versus cons or you know no concerns versus things you're excited about. It's like a hundred to one. Like she's there. An exciting, incredible organizer and person fighting for immigrant rights, fighting for Palestinian rights, fighting. anti-Semitism, fighting for workers' rights.

She's done it all. Like, she's exactly the kind of person we need in Congress and in elected office.

So, you know, but everyone can have their predecessor. You're not going to get 100% of the vote. Yeah, it sounds like a party I don't want to be at, just judging by the music. But I will say that she does not fight anti-Semitism. There is nothing but anti-Semitism in her background.

She's not fighting against it. This is an extremist candidate going against an established Hispanic leader in the Democratic leader. I wouldn't vote for Ispalette. But he's somebody that is known as a Keem Jeffries partner. And Jeffries is really running against her and people like Jamal Bowman.

All right.

When we come back, I'm going to be joined by Steve Moore, former Chief of Staff of the U. S. House of Representatives and founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Project, which raises money to aid Ukrainians who, ladies and gentlemen, are on a roll. It's Brian Kilmade. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Something has to follow after rage. It can't just be rage after rage, again and again. And all of us, if we have only rage and nothing else, they must feel it. And that's why, even in our addresses, we always say the war must return to Russia, to the territory of the country that started this aggression.

Otherwise, these people, their society as a whole, which does not see or feel the war at all, and that's why I believe that in the end, this year we have started to hurt them badly.

So after rage, there must be a response. And why President Zelensky is right about that is because they've engineered and pioneered their own long-range missiles, and now they're beginning to penetrate repeatedly inside Moscow. They are feeling this war. Joining us now, a man that knows this, goes back and forth consistently. Steve Moore, good friend of the show, founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Project, would raise his money to aid Ukrainians.

Steve, we've been here before when things look dark. Man, things are looking better. I know it's not easy. No. But things are looking better.

Could you tell us what it's like?

Well, I just got back from Kyiv. And, you know, we did, we brought a group of conservative journalists all around the country. And, you know, the Russians are hitting. Ukraine with drones and missiles. That's an old story.

The new story is that in May, for the first time, the Ukrainians shot more drones into Russia than Russia shot into Ukraine. Yeah. And so, you know, you might have seen Candace Owens show up at this Russian Davos thing last month, and there's a bunch of D-list celebrities like Steven Seagal was there. But they were greeted by black plumes of smoke over the St. Petersburg skyline.

You know, that is. How great is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is not a good look if you're having a, you know, we're a great economic power conference. And, you know, I want you to hear more from Zelensky, Cut 44.

We responded to them by striking their oil refinery in Tiyumen, in the Tiumen region. That was already well if you measure directly it's 2070 kilometers our FP drones They reach that far the new ones yes 5.2 Hit their target, but actually their route was two and a half thousand kilometers They will be able to go over three thousand these are new drones really good drones The plan is for them to reach over three thousand more than three thousand individual targets. Yes, we will continue to keep moving forward because we know exactly where all their strategic military manufacturing factories are located as well as other critical oil storage depots, gas storage facilities and so on. How great is that? It's amazing.

You know, one of the things we did this last time, I live in Kiev, but we brought a bunch of people over, and so we toured some of these drone factories, land drones, air drones, and this stuff is amazing. Yeah, well, it's, you know, they've got all these factories hidden, and it's just that's something else to see as well. You see this like crappy old building, you go in there, and it's Tony Stark's lab inside, you know?

So, Steve, I understand that in an effort to hit back. They blew up their own building, the Russians, the other day. Yeah. I mean, these guys can't, you know, the Russians have this sense of unearned arrogance where they think they're so great. But, you know, they're trying to fire back at Ukrainian drones, and they shot at their own fuel depot and blew it up.

Big, big explosion.

So they can't protect themselves from Ukrainian drones.

So how's that changed things in Ukraine? I know it's brutal, and when they send their drones over in waves, they blow up buildings. They're not aiming for military systems. No. They're aiming for people.

Well, you know, the Ukrainians have taken out like 40 or 50 percent of Russia's refining capacity, whereas the Russians are aiming at hospitals, at schools, at apartment buildings.

So, you know, the... Do you see a fracture yet among the Russian is it hard to I know it's hard to tell but we're in the Russian government that Putin's isolated Oh, you know the the the communists the communist party there's still a communist party in Russia and they are criticizing Putin they are criticizing So, a political party is criticizing Putin. That doesn't happen. Or if you look at the polling, and the polling's for real, Putin looks at the polling, polling for Putin's favorability is down as low as it has been since the beginning of the war. You know, it's super fun if you're a Russian looking at the, you know, on Telegram channels at Ukrainian buildings being blown up.

But when your own buildings are being blown up, it ain't that cool. But I also saw a Parliament member say we got to end this war. The other thing that's interesting is that for the first time I understand, you could correct me, that they're not able to replenish their soldiers. One for one anymore. That's happened all this year, every month this year, that they are losing more people in Ukraine than they can recruit to fill those ranks.

And it's just because it's a death trap, man. The Ukrainians have built 7 million drones so far this year. And now think about that. 7 million drones. We're about halfway through the year.

What is that? That's like 180 days.

So 7 million divided by 180, that's a lot of drones every day that are in this, that are being directed towards Russian society.

So people want to help. What do they do?

Well, you can go to our website, ukrainefreedomproject.org. We're, you know, again, Ukraine Freedom Project. And what we do is we give non-lethal aid to some of these military units. We help people at the front. We give Starlinks.

We give generators, that sort of stuff. And we get the word out about what's happening. Starlink being shut up from Russia really helped. Yeah. You know, Elon Musk, man, that was a great move on his part.

That really made it. Made a difference. Right. And is there a situation where they don't want talks now because it's doing so well or they still want talks?

Well, you know, the Ukrainians have wanted talks for years. And the problem is that the Russians have this, you know, they just say, we want it all. We not only want the territory that we've taken in Donbass, we want the rest of the provinces of Donbass. And so none of these are, these are all non-starters for Ukrainians. And Zelensky's not the last word on this.

He has to convince the Ukrainian people. And Ukrainian people said, you know, you ask them, are you ready for peace? Yes, I'm ready for peace. Do you want to give up Donbass? No, I don't want to give up Donbass.

And why would they give up areas that they have not lost in battle?

Well, you know, and the occupied part of Ukraine is 3.5 million Ukrainians, and the worst things in the world are happening there. You know, we've talked about this. You know, Putin has shut down every church in occupied Ukraine. He doesn't control. He's murdered 80 pastors and priests.

So it is the worst place in the world. And you want to free those people. Those are your people. You want to free them. I understand that.

More, thanks for what you're doing, and uh, every time you come back, they're closer and closer to outright victory. And that justice I hope is going to be done. Thanks, Steve. Great to be here, man. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Kilmead. The president doesn't take his options on the table. Off the table, when he goes into a negotiation, he leaves them all on the table. And that's where we are. This is the beginning of a process.

And even after the first round, we have Iran now allowing inspectors back in. The other flaw from Obama's Iran deal was that the inspectors, Iran got to dictate where the inspectors went. It's like a criminal dictating when the parole officer comes in. And I have every confidence that this team will drive anytime, anywhere inspections.

So that is Ambassador Michael Waltz, and he's saying that we're going to make progress. Don't get caught up in the play-by-play of it. And there's certain criteria that only the president will accept. He knows him well. Farley Weiss joins us now, President of the Israeli Justice Organization.

Welcome back, Farley. It's good to be here, Brian. Thank you. First off, I think things have settled down now. I thought I saw the President ripping Hezbollah and not Israel.

And I think things have reconfigured. Me, like many other people, really concerned about some of the tone that was coming out of the White House. over the last few days. Yeah, look at that. I think that we've learned with President Trump that we don't have to look at some of the statements he made.

Concerning Israel, he made the statements that Israel at the end of the 12-day war, he made some harsh statements. And then eight months later, he was out there joining Israel and going against Iran. He hasn't changed the fundamental principles of the big picture: Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, Hezbollah needs to be destroyed. He hasn't changed those fundamentals. He is a person who wants to try to see if peace can work.

But he's. He now understands that it likely won't. And if it doesn't work, he's ready to take military action. And I think you were right when you said earlier on Fox that you think after the election, the midterms, that he'll take action. I think right now it doesn't work to anybody who Who thinks that you have to act strongly against Iran?

It doesn't help if the President loses the House and Senate. Because you have a bunch of people who don't want to go out of their way to make sure that the Republican Party or the President does not. have any victories.

So which means even if they cost the U. S., that's just the nature of politics today, and especially if we need another eighty billion dollars for the Pentagon, you lose the Senate. You're not going to get much for the next two years.

So if you could get control of the economy, get gas, In a palatable way, three dollars fifty cents. Then make people say who's got a better track record. He not only can keep the Senate, he can keep the House.

So I think the president has a lot to think about. Israel, absolutely. Military, sure. Diplomatically, yes. The negotiations, true.

And then there's a political reality of what he has to deal with for House members in Pennsylvania who walk up to him and say, if we can't get gas down, I'm going to lose. And then those seats that could make or break, whether he's investigated or supported, are in the balance.

So he's got a lot of plates in the air. I agree. Look, I think that when you pointed out on the last time I was on, that the Democratic Party has become, that anti-Israel has become the most important issue to them. And so for Israel, it's also important that the Republicans keep the Senate and keep the House. There has only been one Democrat, John Fetterman, has been the only one supporting President Trump's decision to go to take action against Iran, military action against Iran.

It's unbelievable. You could have counted 100, 200 Democrats who were pro-Israel 10 years ago. And now you can count them on one hand. It's an extraordinary situation what's happened. And so it's very, very important that Republicans keep control in the midterms.

And I understand that I know President Trump is very concerned about that.

So, you have Democrat Dan Goldman, who's just a really hates Trump as much and goes against Trump and Republicans as much as possible. He's really a very liberal Democrat. He's going to lose by double digits. You know why? Because he's not anti-Israel.

Of course, he could say things about Bibi Netanyahu, but he's not anti-Israel. Because he's not anti-Israel, you have an insurgent candidate socialist who's going to pound him today in the election. To me, the message for other Borderline Democrat says, whatever you do, don't be pro-Israel. Oh, it's unbelievable. Brad Lander, the candidate, he went into a mosque and said, I'm going to align with Rashida Talib and El Khan Omer, the most anti-Semitic, anti-Israel people in the United States House of Representatives.

It's not that he's just going to be not as pro-Israel or not as supportive as Goldman. It's that he is going to align with the most visceral anti-Israel elements of the anti-Semitic elements of the Democratic Party. And this is what he's done with Mamdani's endorsement. And so I hope Goldman wins. And even though he's not good on a lot of issues, but it's a massive difference between him and Lander in that race.

Yeah, that's true.

So Farley, bring me inside Israeli politics. We hear the Prime Minister there's going to be an election in September. And the people of Israel, do they want to see strong action against Hezbollah or would they like to see some type of detente there? No, there is actually, it's kind of unusual in Israel compared to other places. The people on the opposition to Netanyahu, who are considered to be on the left, are actually s being more hawkish in some ways in some of their statements than the Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose policies have been.

Now Taliban, who is considered to be one of the main challengers to Netanyahu, who is saying, oh, we should have done more to try to get rid of the Armenian regime. They're not, Bennett used to run as a candidate for the Knesset. He ran as being more to the right of Netanyahu. Everybody is a consensus that they want to get rid of Hezbollah. There's not really any candidates that are running that don't agree with getting rid of Hezbollah.

So it's not like a left-wing opposition in the sense of what it is in the United States. They actually are running similar policies to Netanyahu, though clearly what Netanyahu has done since October 7, 2023 has been extraordinary. Of the accomplishments he's done, which none of these opposition people would have had the ability to do in the sense of taking out the Sraalah of Hezbollah and Hamas and crushing Hamas and getting the hostages back. It's unbelievable the amount of ability what he's done despite worldwide opposition and especially by administration opposition to him. And yet he's made all these amazing accomplishments.

And he knows how to work with President Trump and he has shown that repeatedly since President Trump got into office.

So what do you think? What do you take of the way the President and he have clashed of late.

Well, I think that this is, look, this is how President Trump is. I always think back to the 2016 primary where President Trump was going back and forth with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and blasting them. And those are some of his closest allies today. President Trump talks, a very tough talk at times, but he is still a very strong supporter of Israel. Has said, told Israel, if Hamas doesn't comply, you can take out Hamas.

If Hezbollah doesn't come, you know, he said, oh, he wants to get rid of Hezbollah. He's been consistent on that issue. Just how it's done and what he still wants to see it done. He wants Lebanon to have their own sovereignty and not Hezbollah there.

So sometimes he says things and Prime Minister Netanyahu knows not to attack back. President Trump of his comments, and he keeps a big picture in mind and knows how to work with President Trump.

So, when the president came out a couple of days ago and says, you know, why is Israel not finishing off Hezbollah? Maybe I'll have Syria do it. What do you say to that? The only reason why Jalani is the head of Syria is because Israel was fighting Hezbollah, and Hezbollah couldn't go into Syria and try to keep the Assad regime up and running. Jelani has said he's not going to get involved.

He doesn't have an army to get involved and defeat Hezbollah. No one else has, just like there's no one else who would defeat Hamas but Israel. Israel has to do things in a very careful way. They're making great, great progress, but you have to fight in a way to protect your soldiers and protect them from being killed. And at the same time, you're dealing with a whole world that attacks you whatever you do.

Israel did an attack on a building in Beirut. They killed two Hezbollah people, and people made it out like as if Israel knocked down buildings and killed hundreds of people when two people were killed and everyone was went ballistic against Israel for it. It was ridiculous. Israel has the most pinpointed strikes. John Spencer from West Point has said that there is no one who's had a lower civilian to military casualty ratio in urban warfare than what Israel's done.

And against Hezbollah, Prime Minister Netanyahu just said that they're getting killing five Hezbollah fighters for every civilian in Lebanon. They're doing an unbelievable job in pinpoint striking. No one else has ever done this in history.

So is it true that since Daser El. Hezbollah, instead of advising, they actually run it? Or are there Hezbollah leaders that are part of the Lebanese government? The Jack Keene, General Jack Keene has said there's RIGC people embedded with Hezbollah throughout. They've been running Hezbollah even with Nostrala, and they're running Hezbollah, and that is why why does why does what does Iran have to do with Lebanon?

What is it that they even care about Lebanon? Why do they care about Israel? They're far away, thousands of miles away. It's a hatred, an unbelievable hatred of a preoccupation. The prime minister, former prime minister of Spain, Aznar, said that they met with the Ayatollah, and he said he wakes up every day thinking about how to destroy Israel.

They're preoccupied with destroying Israel and they put all their resources not to their people, but how to destroy Israel. And that's with Hezbollah, with Hamas, with the Houthis, everything it is about destroying to destroy Israel. Destroy Hezbollah, you're hurting Iran, and that's what needs to be done. Barley Weiss, thanks so much. He's president of the Israeli Justice Organization.

Very tenuous time. But at least I see the rhetoric getting a little bit better on our side, knowing that Israel is not the problem, they're an asset. Thanks so much, Varley. Thank you, Brian. All right, we come back.

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No politics, just fun.

Soccer's great. Stadiums are full. Fantastic David and Goliath stories with. uh with uh Pala Viverdi uh off of the coast of Africa and Curaçao, that small island in the Caribbean. I think I'm not great in terms of where these islands are, but they're doing extremely well.

Let's listen in Stuart. Plain even. 1051, here's Kill Mead. All right, Brian, soccer fans, foreigners, they've traveled to America for the World Cup. They seem to be liking what they see.

Now you spoke with FIFA President Infantino this morning on Fox and Friends. Here's what he had to say. Roll it. We see an incredible enthusiasm everywhere in every host city. The cities are full.

The stadiums are full.

Sold out 99.6% attendance. The fan zones are more than three million people in the fan zones already, in the official ones, but the cities are full. We see the Norwegians, the Brazilians, the Argentinians are everywhere. The fans, the Scots, they were in Boston, now they are in Miami. I mean, it's fantastic.

The atmosphere is great. People are coming and they want to come to America. Brian, as you know, I'm a soccer fan and I've been, you know, just eating up the great quality of soccer that we've been seeing. But I've also really enjoyed the foreigners, the fans who come to America and they appear to love it. I thought they hated us.

Yeah, I mean, we kept reading these things. No one's booking the hotels. Tourism is down and the seats are too expensive. The stadium is going to be empty. And it's all proven not to be true.

And what is so great, Stuart, is people are coming here that maybe perhaps can't afford the tickets, but they're having a great times in the bars. They're having a great times with their other countrymen. They're coming in here on vacation, and they're loving it. And the thing is, you always worry when people drink. Are they going to have like a violence side, end up being, you know, getting in fights?

It's just not happening. You ask the people of Boston. You see New York City. You're seeing this video right now. These guys are rehearsing synchronized.

They have their national pride, but they want to discover the country. You know, in 94, I covered it, but I didn't get to a game. I would always just go to the post-game interviews. In 94, And I heard how happy everybody was, but we had no league. There was no Messi.

There was no Beckham. There was no, there was the U.S. national team wasn't considered a threat. They were just emerging, great athletes, great guys, but they had nowhere to play. They would just play with each other and train together all the time.

The 98 team was, the 94 team was fine. But this real story is what's happening now. The subplot is something that's really catching me by surprise. You have a U.S. team that was ranked 15, they're playing like a top.

A top eight team. And if you can get to the quarterfinals, don't tell me if you watch this sport enough that you can't get to the finals.

So I think that that's adding to the excitement because America wants to know Americans have a shot. We see the women winning or getting close every time. I always get this: why not the guys? And I go, well, there's a lot of tradition. Very few countries really win the World Cup.

You know, England invented the sport, they only got one.

So I love this journey. The fact that they're playing game three without worrying about knowing they're already through after winning the group is something no one ever expected. But I'm looking forward to Thursday. This World Cup is a wild success, and that's a fact at the moment. Brian, I've got to change the subject today.

Today is New York's primary election. Is today going to be the domino that builds socialist power across the country? Because if the socialists win in New York, just a couple of the races, they vastly expand their power within the Democrat Party. Last word to you. Yeah, I mean, it's Hakeem Jeffries against Mayor Mamdani.

Don't kid yourself. This is not Republicans. There's no Spencer Pratt. This is, hey, you want to be liberal or you want to be really out there, anti-American, anti-Israel. It's not an economic philosophy.

It's an anti-American philosophy. And if they are going to resonate in New York City, and if they're going to overrun and stampede over Hakeem Jeffries, that should be a big day for Republicans because it opens up more opportunities. Opportunities because people look at this and say, this is just too extreme for me.

However, it's bad for the country. There's nothing American about socialism. It's never worked anywhere. And when I saw Brad Lander say, this is going to be a great race for me and for Venezuela and Cuba, I mean, are you kidding me? Even Venezuela and Cuba know socialism is terrible.

Oh, God. Thanks, Brian. All good stuff today. Got it. Big day at the World.

Absolutely. And yesterday was huge. M Pape, and you have Messi both scoring on the world stage in front of capacity crowds. And both France and Argentina look great. I mean, Argentina looks like a they've favored to win a I think favored to win another World Championship.

But I was talking to the FIFA president, and there's a few things going on. The play of the U.S. team, as I just discussed, but there's other stuff there's other stuff that he has that he was talking about. And um what he was saying what he was saying for us Is that he expects the crowds to continue to be big and the knockout rounds to be complete continue to be dramatic? And he actually said that he believes that the U.S.

has a chance. 60 million people watching at home here around the world. It was like a billion people. And they were all impressed by how the US team played. Not just winning, it's the way they played.

Exactly, exactly. I mean, Paraguay is a pretty strong team, right? And the US just dominated and played and attacking football. It was great to see and really, really impressive.

So Tim Howard, maybe the finest goalkeeper, sorry, Tony Mioa, in American history, on a podcast where Landon Donovan came out and said, hey guys, the US is playing great, but they will not win the World Cup. What do you say?

Well, I would say they might well win the World Cup. I think after their two wins in the first two games, they have a real chance to go for it. They play at home, the crowd is behind them, the public is emotional. I mean, they're looking really great. And that is a guy here.

You have room for anyone. Giovanni. He can't re uh root for anybody, but he does infantile Infante, he came out and he said, Look, they have a real shot. And he went on to say, Look. They're winning, but they're winning by playing soccer with these guys.

They're no longer, hey, they're in better shape. They're very physical. They're very determined. They got the crowd, they got the style of play. I'm very interested if they empty the bench.

and play maybe eight players off the bench. I mean, why not? And yo, give the guys an extra week off. Many of them are coming out of club seasons where they just play 32, 34 games, and maybe they could take that week off and heal up and be better. And I would not play, obviously, wouldn't play a ballistic today.

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All right, from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is going to be a big hour as we come your way. Kelsey Graham, our active comedian, great friend of the show, he's hosting the Patriot War and is talking about episodes one through three, available right now on Fox Nation, your favorite streaming movie app and everything else app. We also have great live programming there, and they're actually streaming this. During the American Revolution, George Washington and others closest to him struggle through the brutal war of independence.

If you think about what happened in the Battle of New York, think about the struggles to survive Valley Forge, think about the struggle at Bunker Hill, even though they fought gallantly, they paid a huge price for it. And then think about their victories that ultimately ended up in a victory and how many people thought these guys are never going to make it. And they did, and changed the world because of the independence that they had and the king, which we wouldn't subscribe to. But then the adjustments we had to make along the way. Plus, you know, he's in Young Washington 2, which is coming out hitting theaters, which, by the way, are on a huge comeback right now.

Standing by is Osra Nomani, senior editor and investigation for Fox News Digital, author of Woke Army: The Left Green Alliance that is undermining America's freedom. Osra, welcome back. Hey, thank you so much, Brian. It's a great week to celebrate America, but I'm going to tell you about the people who don't want to celebrate America. What do you mean?

Well, I call them the party poopers because, Brian, there is this entire network, as you know, you've seen them for years now, that have been. Down on America, and they have been trashing America. And it's been my mission to understand who they are. And Brian, they are a vast network. It's two words that I want everyone to know: which is malign, foreign, and then the third word is.

Influence, malign foreign influence, three words that is really going to play out over the next week also as a lot of organizations that you're familiar with, like Indivisible, 50501, Party for Socialism and Liberation, try to Basically, put a damper on America celebrations. Intentionally and well financed? Oh, a hundred percent.

So I have right here, just printed out fresh off the um printing press, you know, one of the uh toolkits they are very professionalized they are a multi-million dollar in their collective revenues Two donors that you know very well. One is George Soros, who is funding A lot of Democratic politicians, and he has funded a lot of the Democratic nonprofit machine that has been basically an apparatus of the Democratic National Party. And then a lesser-known name is this man named Neville Roy Singham, who is a self-described Marxist. He made his millions in America as a great capitalist, but he renounced all of that to move to Shanghai and acclaim Marxism as the way of the future. I have a video of him from last fall at this hotel, Brian.

I love to mention it called the Golden Tulip Hotel.

Next time you go to Shanghai, hang out with the communists there. And so Neville Roy Singham stood there, Brian, and he espoused support for the new world order of. The People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party. And so he is funding another network that is even further left than the Soros Network. And it is groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, People's Forum, Code Pink, which many people might have heard of.

Um this this uh Toolkit. Has got the talking points. Enough is enough. And in here, Brian, it's really fun. I love how they have the.

You know, might not be able to see it, and I know our listeners can't see it, but they have bracket, your organization's name, and bracket, and a coalition of national grassroots organizations across the country are calling for mobilizations on June 27th.

So that's Saturday, Brian, where they're going to try to be party poopers. And then this is going to be an entire week of activity that they're going to be rolling out. And it's clearly partisan because you can see here, you know, they have the bracket sign up button. It's all like, it's a template. And then they go after the quote MAGA regime.

So again, it's the no-kings, protesters, and all the rest that are part of this party.

So, how could they be unwound? Ashra, is there some investigation, justice allowed that? I mean, are you allowed to come in here from outside the country and foment unrest in an organization that seems to look to cause so much angst? You're allowed to. do that?

Well, it's crazy that you have they have been given free rein, obviously, through the Biden administration. But what is wonderful to report upon as a journalist is that there are lawmakers in House Ways and Means Committee, Judiciary, and other oversight committees that are looking at the tax laws that many of these nonprofits could be violating.

So that's one way. I call it the Al Capone strategy, which is the strategy in which you go after the low-hanging fruit of tax violations. And Brian, you've seen this play out with the indictments that have come out against the Southern Poverty Law Center, because what they have been prosecuting them for is conspiracy on money laundering, wire fraud, and bank fraud. And that's the kind of strategy that put Al Capone, a notorious alleged murder. Murderer behind bars instead of actual crimes of murder.

So that's one strategy: the tax laws. And the second one, Brian, is that. We all enjoy free speech rights in America, but we do have this law called the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which requires that, yeah, its nickname is FARA, and it requires that you register as a lobbyist for a foreign Entity: If you are doing their influence peddling in the United States, and so the lawmakers, along with Justice Department, Treasury Department, and State Department, are investigating this network of organizations on both fronts. But where are they making progress? I hear about investigating George Soros.

I don't hear he's still doing it. You know, this guy's sing'em, still doing it.

So you can't really touch him, but you could stop the money at least.

Well, stay tuned because I believe that they are going to just get their ducks in a row, all these investigators, and we will see. The court proceedings over the next year.

So, Brian, one of the templates that we can look at is the SPLC case, which has been moving through the courts since April when an indictment dropped. And in that case, I mean, I have a spreadsheet, Brian, of all of the informants that the SPLC allegedly used donor money to pay. The informants, the money trail. It's a classic money laundering scheme, allegedly, of layering and hiding the money and all of these other actions. And so I know the investigators are trying to make sure that they have the best cases that they possibly can have in all of these fronts.

But you've seen that, for example, Vice President J.D. Vance has been doing the anti-fraud investigations. And so I'm really putting my heads around this idea, Brian, that this is all going to be pursued as white collar. Crime. And that's what we can look to see over the next two years, I think.

Yeah, and we'll see if they can crack down. What about Jane Fonda and the link to her? I think she's about and about again with her, you know, her revamped body. Yeah, so Jane Fonda, if people don't remember, you know, notoriously went to Vietnam and was alas hanging out with the communists. And, Brian, you know, I reported on this last week at Fox News Digital and reported about the network that Jane Fonda, you know, supported for this protest called No Kings, where she had a little show in New York City.

I'm sure you were there, front row. What they were doing, I did a sentiment analysis of every word that was spoken at that. At that event, Brian, and it was so anti-American. And I went to some of the events, and what they're doing is they're rebranding America with replacing the C with a KKK in the middle. And one of the actions I printed out, I wore America's red for our interview, but you know, I printed out the American flag as we know it.

And what these folks are planning, along with the Jane Fonda network, is to turn the American flag upside down next week in their act of protest. And that is what Jane Fonda is now manifesting as in her protest against the Trump administration. But, Brian, I got to tell you, I have never heard from so many Vietnam vets as I have this past week because they are still torn apart and angry about what she did decades ago and is now doing today to oppose the United States of America. Yeah, she's still at it. I watched her on the daily show, and she doesn't even get how much he is despised by most of America.

And I'm one of them too.

So I only wish her the worst. And when we had the women's march, we had the women's march, you talk about what's behind that. The women's march was all organized, right? I always wondered when Trump took office, he was there a day. Why are women marching against what was that about?

What have you found out about these code pinks and these women's marches? Oh, yeah, Brian. That's when I really started following the money because in 2016, I saw very clearly the emergence of the Islamists or those Muslims that believe in political Islam aligning with the socialists. And I saw it in the form of this activist that I had long been following named Linda Sarsour. She's a New York native, lives in Brooklyn.

The New York Times famously called her, you know, homegirl in a hijab. And what Linda Sarsour did with a couple other activists was basically hijack the women's march and make it a vehicle for their own agenda, anti-Israel, anti-America. And I started following the money. They got millions of dollars from the Soros network. And what they did is they became the so-called resistance throughout the entire four years, well-funded, well-coordinated, well-organized.

And that's why now, 10 years later, Brian, I call it a protest industry. And that's when I first saw it really happening. The day the election results were announced, Linda Sarsour was on social media calling for these protests. And that's how this machine that we saw resist Donald Trump from before day one of his administration unfolded and continues to this day. With the Women's March, one of the leading organizers for the protest on Saturday against the United States of America and through the rest of the week.

All right.

Thanks, Osra. Where can we read your stuff? Read our stuff at Fox News Digital. We have a great team of reporters that are going into the streets for all of America. And we're going to be out there this weekend and all through next week, bringing you back the receipts.

All right.

Thanks so much, Ashro. It was great to have you on. 1-866-408-7669. We'll get some calls. I'll get to your emails.

Also, Kelsey Graham are coming up in 15 minutes. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmead Show. Don't move. Don't go anywhere. Brian Kilmead will be right back.

Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. If I am Lauricio Pochitino for this game Thursday, I'm playing a completely different 11 players. I'm resting all of my guys who have played these two games because there's no need to play them. You don't want to risk an injury.

You don't want to risk someone getting another yellow card and getting suspended or getting a red card and getting suspended. It's just not worth it.

So for me, I play an entirely new 11. And you know what else that does, Kirk, is it brings all those other 11 into the fold and feel like they are participating and a part of it, which is a really important part because in the first game, Pochitino played the exact same lineup minus Christian Pulisic because he couldn't play because he was injured. He played the exact same lineup. And most of those guys played a lot of minutes.

So they now have continuity. They've been part of it.

Now you bring the other guys in and let them be a part of it too. I think it, I think it. It makes perfect sense. It does. You just worry about the team not keeping the momentum going because they aren't playing together for a game, but is it worth the risk?

You certainly, these guys on a yellow card, you got to sit them because if you get two, you don't get thrown out of that game, you get thrown out of the next game. And that's the knockout game.

So that would be a starter. You don't want that.

So that will knock out, I think, three or four players. Do you start the other goalie? Maybe. Perhaps you do.

So it's going to be interesting because there's a lot of people feel there's five starters on the bench.

So you get a chance to see what they have to do in order to be successful. I think the big I'm gonna, if the U.S. ever gets eliminated, I'm not eliminating them and getting to the finals. It'll be really sad. I think it'll change the perspective for me because I still have the hope that they could bring everybody along.

Because if you wanna bring up the general sports fan, the U.S. has to be successful in America. You can't just watch great soccer and when they leave, they think great soccer has left. And then all of a sudden these owners of these 30 plus MLS teams have to decide are we going to spend? Are we going to spend to be a premier league?

Because you're very close. You have the foundation. But the FIFA president told me something interesting. He said if you want to be huge, you got to be in bigger stadiums. And I thought 25,000 is about right.

It's one of the most attended leagues around. But he says, no, you got to be in bigger stadiums. In terms of what people are doing when they're out and about and not at the game, I think that's the other big story. We had some Norway fans on Fox and Friends weekend, cut 47.

So, what do you think of America? What's been your experience? It's really nice. It's a good country to visit, and it's. Yeah, big difference for uh us Norwegians.

What's the biggest difference? Every fi everything is like ten times bigger than in Norway.

So What's your favorite thing? Uh the Bass Pro Shop. I love that. Why? Uh it's uh really American with all the science with the shooting science and the and they have like uh cool T shirts and stuff, so Hey, Bass Pro Shop, that's good.

That's a big sponsor, too. That's an interesting answer.

So the Australian World Cup fans are interesting. They can't be happy with us because the U.S. beat them, Cup 48. Yeah, I don't normally go to fancy restaurants, but like I'm in America with my son, so I'm like, let's go to Texas Roadhouse. It's unbelievable.

They first of all, they give you these peanuts. You can eat as many as you want. She's like, yeah, just take a bag. Then they come out and they put this bread on the table and I'm like, I didn't order the bread. It's like, oh, that's free.

And and th it's like and and she goes, And if you want more bread, we'll just give you more. And this bread is... it's as nice as bread can possibly be. If you're an Australian, try and picture the most unbelievable bread. Like Subway bread.

Got this fancy butter. Yeah. And they give you the Coke. Of course, it's America, so it's unlimited refill. I can't believe they got bread.

Hey, I didn't order this. Take it back. Nice try. Trying to up the bill. Here's more Cup 49.

It was all like ribs and steak and chips. There was an onion that had been deep fried and you dip it in the sauce. It's you just leave there so happy. And then Australians are all like, yeah, but in America you've got to tip. No, you don't have to tip.

You want a tip? These people are the most wonderful people in the world. I don't even know why you Americans are so angry all the time. You guys have Texas Roadhouse in your country. I loved what he started.

He goes, we don't usually go out to formal places. And I thought he was going to say, I went to a steakhouse, Del Frisco's or something. I went to the Texas Roadhouse where they give you peanuts and you throw the chips and you throw the shelves on the floor, don't you? Not your body throwing the shelves. You get peanuts, you get bread.

Cheap fried onions, the most amazing bread you've ever had. I mean, I would love people to say, I went to a tourist attraction. I can't believe George Washington lived there. But. Like the Peanuts of Texas Roadhouse.

So, and I do, we do have this reputation of eating too much. And that's why.

Well, and that's why you get unlimited refills of whatever soda you want because you're in a certain amount of time. Yeah, I just, it's uh, it's strange, but. I just think that people should not look at the Texas Roadhouse. No offense. No, Brian, if Texas Roadhouse doesn't use this as an ad somewhere, they're missing out.

Okay. All right.

I think it's thematic. more. Like especially if it's Texas Roadhouse in New York. Can't be authentic unless you brought Texas with you. And you'd feel like you're in Texas and New York.

Unless that urban cowboy bull riding thing that they often put around with some floor pads. When we come back, Kelsey Grammer, he doesn't need a World Cup to love America. He's talking about the Patriot War on Fox Nation. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everyone.

It's the Brian Killmee Show.

So glad you're there. It's my privilege to bring to the show Kelsey Grammer, one of our all-time favorite guests, actor, comedian, fantastic guy, historian who also could do Shakespeare if he was pressed, host of the Patriot War on Fox Nation. Kelsey, welcome back. Before we get into this project, first off, who got you so interested in history? Or when did that happen when you started resonating so well with America's past?

Right, and to think it comes to life in 250. Do you remember, what do you remember about 76 and looking at our bicentennial? You know, it's interesting. I think that.

Some of this stuff is coming from the outside. And I think we're finding more and more that China knows how to bring us apart. And they absolutely know: hey, Trump wins, we're going to have anti-Trump protests. The other side wins, we're going to do it. And we find out the money goes right back to China and Russia and some of America's enemies.

And these groups are more than happy to take the money to go outside an ice facility or show up at a rally for an opponent. Look. Victory, a lot of it has to do with uh being in power. Power is a very heady thing. But uh, you know, when we started to Those are usually the people who are stealing the most.

Yeah, we're catching them too.

So, The Patriot War hosted by Kelsey Grammar. You got three episodes.

Now, one to three, two to three, one to three are available now on Fox Nation. Four to six will premiere on this 28th of June. Here's a cut from your episode, The Patriot War, The Cannons, Cut 52. Yeah. On March 2nd, 1776, Washington's army begins firing cannons.

But not the heavy cannons that Knox has retrieved from Fort Ticonderoga. We will strike in two phases. Um We've already started phase one. who continue the night-time bombardment for two more nights. targeting the fortifications at Roxbury and the Neck.

Loud enough to make them nervous, but not enough to make them panic.

So we fire off what little powder we have. make Hal think this is all we've got. Such a great story, and to see them unwind and these people come to life. And that's Kelsey, it's hard enough to get people to read in 11th grade, ninth grade these days. Everyone's on Instagram, they short bites.

But if you could go show them the story, and then you say, These are the words that they use that were recorded in books, I am not, you know, I'm not taking liberties here. This is what they did, and this is what they said. If you could bring them to that battlefield, and you could bring these stories to life, like the mix of documentary and acting, I think that's what tells the story. That's what sells people on our story. Yeah, me too.

I I What's funny is if you can get somebody Living the day to understand the living sentiment that was in the heart. of a man two hundred and fifty years ago. They know him. They are in his shoes. They understand the predicament and they understand the sacrifice.

Once you have that kind of human connection. You can't really ever forget it. You can try to dismiss it if you don't think it's true. But We all know in our hearts what's true, and we know that these guys had hearts that beat with the same Impulse for freedom that we have.

So, I have a book coming out October 13th, United States. And yesterday, I'm going to bring it to life and we'll do a 45-minute documentary on it. I yesterday was at the Battle of Princeton, the Battle of Trenton, the exact places where the battle took place. And if you want to talk about America's darkest days, it's the Battle of New York. But you want to talk about a resiliency among Washington and the men that fought underneath them, you talk about Princeton and Trenton.

Okay, it's not going well. Our tactics didn't work. But what do Americans do? They find a way. They have resilience and resourcefulness, and best emulated in Princeton.

You bring school kids there and you tell them the story, they'll get on that bus and they'll remember the story, right? That's what happened with you. Yeah, exactly. And we stopped doing that. I mean, our schools stopped doing it, stopped being important to us.

Well, you listen to the education system in our country, for whoever's reasoned or whatever's responsible, they've missed a real big point. They started to focus on making sure that everybody had. Um High self-esteem, but they also told them at the same time that they came from a crap country. And that was uh. That was a diabolical thing to do, because this is a This is the best place in the world.

It's fun to see the soccer fans and stuff from around the world coming and saying, hey, wow, America's great. We had no idea. The sad thing is, so few of us seem to have the same idea. But I don't buy it. I believe most of us are aware that we're in.

a pretty great situation. And don't you have Will Young Washington coming out too, the movie? Uh yeah, I'm uh I play Lord Fairfax. He was pretty much the colony's largest landowner at the time, and he wants to know a little bit more about what's going on in Ohio. And uh because he's got some interest out there.

Uh it's a it's a fun scene in the movie. But you know, there's there's an extraordinary thing in it, this young man, Will, who plays George Washington, Young Washington. It's sort of circular narrative. They start out at the end of a battle where a colonel is retreating and he says to Washington, he says, Where are you going? You've got to turn around.

We've lost this battle. It's lost. And he poses the question: why would you do that? Why would you go back in? And Washington looks at him and says, For them.

And that's Yeah. That's the key. He did it for us. He did it for them. He did it.

He's still doing it. That's an amazing thing. You know, it's amazing because you look into Washington. Yeah, he made mistakes. But the more you study him, the more he lives up to the hype.

I almost feared diving into his background because I start to see elements that they wanted hidden. And I go, no, this guy made mistakes, but he was the first one to own up to it and the leadership he showed. And you could see it by the words others used to describe him who knew him. That's what's so amazing: the leadership, the bullets stuck in his clothes, the white horse in front of the middle of a battle, and they'd see him survive. That's amazing.

Yeah. Yeah, I want people to.

So that obelisk that stands in the Washington Mall there for George Washington. It's the right size. It's amazing what he did. And we can just point at it and say, I know who that's about. That achievement is far more towering than that monument.

Here is episode three. This is Alexander Hamilton, and another historian I've worked with before, Douglas Bradburn. He's fantastic. He runs Washington over at Mount Vernon, Cut 53. Hamilton wants that glory and fame, but the reality is he's learning a lot at the elbow of George Washington.

How many men? A storming party of 33. Hamilton helps to set policy at war councils, putting himself at the center of the major decisions being made for the cause. He was doing such a marvelous job that Washington didn't want him to leave the position ever if it was up to him. Despite his success.

Hamilton is restless.

So we got to know Hamilton from the play, but that's another purely American story because back then you lived the lot you were born in. Hey, you're a vagrant, you got no parents, you're not going to make anything in your artwork. Not in America, go for it. No. That's why I always have these arguments with friends of mine about like you know they say, Oh, yeah, you're middle class, lower class, upper class.

I say, listen, there's no such thing in America. We don't come from that culture. That was the English. That's what they were. We're all one class.

And we can go from what may appear to be economically a lower class. And shoot. all the way to the top in a har in a s a span of a decade. It's the land of opportunity. It is the land of the possible.

There's no place like this.

So I always say there's no class. It's a rise out of people, you know, and they go, what do you mean?

So.

So you know what's interesting is in your business is acting. It is pure American, almost like boxing. You know, yeah, it helps if your parents knew somebody, but if you can't act, you're not going to get the job. Simple as that. You know, your parents might have been a New York Knick, but if you can't play, you're not going to be on the Knicks.

Acting is like that. It is pure performance. Yeah, I don't know who this Kelsey Grammar is, but man, he nailed the audition. He's got the job. And he's going to keep the job if you act well and show up and show to be.

And you can prove yourself. And I think that's the way it is, especially stand-up comedians, too. If you're not funny, it doesn't matter who you've kid, you know, if you know the owner. You know, so okay. Having said that, why is it that so few few in your profession Uh tend to lean conservative free enterprise like you do.

And like others, yet, because they knew how hard it was to get where you got. There's a kind of um Community disparagement of those who are successful. There's a there's this there's this hail fellow. Oh, we all suffer for our art. Yeah.

And that kind of Um I'm trying to think of what the word is. It's a kind of um Heritage that they point to that says, We all suffer together. We'll never be big like those people. And of course, when you get to be big, you feel like you have a responsibility to say, Oh, I well, I'm always with the little guy.

Well, we're not actually, you know, we're. We're doing our best to Do the job we're given. And that is inherently American. It's just, I think there's some alignment that took place out in California some time ago. Honestly, I think it was at the McCarthy hearings.

That had a lot to do with it. That started to chip away at what was once a sort of conservative stronghold out here. Uh We tend to think people in power Or square. That's an old. Old-fashioned way of looking at it.

But uh And we think we have to fight for recognition and do it as a group. And you know, whatever. I mean, it's, you know, we've been doing this Workers of the World Reunite thing for a long time. You address unions, you know, we are a little wrapped up in all that stuff as well. And I support the union, I support, you know, good conditions.

But I also say. My version of why a union exists is to be able to say to somebody who's willing to pay you for a job, well, we'll do the job. and no one will do it better. We promise you that. And I think maybe the unions have kind of Lost sight of that a little bit.

Yeah, I I is hope because now that now Hollywood's moving out of the country because of so many because how cost-prohibitive it is, yeah, the tax deductions. But Kelsey, also I hear this good news. And that is the box office is back. You have had the best year in movies, they say, so far since pre-pandemic. Do you still have hope for the theater to be part of American society still?

Yeah, well, there's no theater as well as a theater. Yeah, it's as close to Greek. uh theater is we we get you know, the Greeks, it was part of their religion. You know, you went for catharsis, you went to the theater for catharsis or for comedy, but you to have a group experience, to have group worship, and that's what a lot of our congregationists are in America. But Yeah, I mean, those moments of when you watch a great film together with somebody else, and you're in a room full of people who are strangers, but you're all witnessing something extraordinary.

That's almost a religious experience. it uh it makes you feel fresh and new. That's the the object of catharsis. And I think I think this George Washington movie is going to do it, this young George Washington thing. That's uh 'cause 'cause he's that fascinating.

I mean The story of George Washington is so compelling and so inspiring. That I don't think you can sit in that theater and not come out pretty happy. And I'll give you another indication that patriotism is back. And that is George Washington's Secret Six, a book I wrote eight years ago, just got sold as a movie. And Christian Wallace is writing it.

Wow, congratulations. And that's been around forever. But now, all of a sudden, there's a sense in Hollywood that people care about our past. And that's why The Patriot War, hosted by Kelsey Grammer, multiple episodes. The first two, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, are available right now.

Kelsey, you don't do a lot of shows. We really appreciate you choosing us. And we always love having you on. And thanks so much for doing this series. It's a pleasure.

You got it. And check it out on Fox Nation. Kelsey Grammar, thank you. Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmead Show.

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Listening to me right now.

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