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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmead Show, 1866-408-7669. We got Lieutenant Colonel Alan West and Dylan Nealis this hour. Kelly McAnani could be joining us from Fox and Friends. We had a bit of an incident this morning on the 21st floor.

See if she wants to explain it to you, but she's still traumatized by it.

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Meanwhile, the President of the United States has arrived in Turkey where he's doing a bylat and meeting with the press, taking questions with President Erdogan, taking a lot of questions with President Erdogan. And they don't have an interpreter now for the Turkey. They had an interpreter, but I think he just left.

So, and when he talks, we couldn't really hear anything on Fox and Friends, so we had to fill that time. But I don't know what he's saying, but the President's being very candid about the tensions with. uh are allies. Uh he said France, Germany. Hang on.

They weren't there for us, and I didn't really need any help in Iran, but they made it clear they weren't going to help.

Now you ask us to protect Europe?

Okay, I'll do that. But you don't want to help us out at all in Iran where you really need Iran, that Iran straightened out more than we need him, straightened out.

So, and it's got to affect you more to have a nuclear weapon than us have a nuclear weapon. And then he trumpeted his relationship with Turkey, saying, Everything I've asked him to do, he has done.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. He sent a message back indicating that he would come over, and I said, No, don't come over. Like, I'm not in the mood. Don't come over.

He came in. He just came into my house. It was unlocked. I live in an area where you don't usually have to lock your doors. I do now.

Yeah, that is the accuser, Jenny Rikoy, of on CNN last night, talking about Graham Plattner, one of the worst human beings you could ever meet.

Now we find out he's so embarrassing, is inexcusable, and this is easily foreseeable.

Now there's a push to push him out. Graham Plattner, the phony oyster farmer with a history of abuse in everyone's one scandal after another. The Dems didn't care, but now they're going to toss him overboard. The only person I want to hear from is John Fetterman, because he said ahead of time, this guy is a piece of garbage, and now Susan Collins will probably have a more formidable foe because he'll be kicked out within five days, because that is the deadline. Number two.

You've been a great leader and a respected leader all over the world. And we really do. We've had right from the beginning good chemistry. We've had a very special relationship. Turkey has become under the President a very powerful country militarily.

Yup, President NATO, President off to NATO. He has landed. Looming possible, looming issues. Got Ukraine, of course, the Iran. Are the Allies going to do anything?

And they want to know if we're going to be taking our troops out of Europe or where we're placing them. It'll be a very interesting summit. I promise you, news will emerge. Number one. From the beginning we didn't connect with the game.

It was really tough from the beginning to congratulate Virtium. They were better than us. We didn't show what normally that team can show. And that is the reality. That is the coach of the U.S.

national team. Down goes the U.S. A woeful display in Seattle as U.S. hopes of a final eight appearance or a final four appearance or a finals appearance goes up in flames. We look at the run and where the team goes from here.

First off, absolutely terrible if you watch some of that game. And again, we're monitoring what's going on with the ERTA1 Bilat, and the President's speaking right now. If anything comes out of this big, it's, and before we go back to the World Cup, just let me tell you: the major issue right now is selling the F-35s and that jet engine to Turkey.

Now, normally we would do that with a NATO ally, but we didn't when they went ahead and bought the missile defense system of Russia. We said, you can't buy this stuff from Russia. Those are the people we're protecting you against. That's the whole purpose of NATO.

Soviet Union, Russia, same thing.

So they went ahead and bought it anyway.

So we said, we're cutting off the F-35s because we don't want to see our equipment mix and match with their equipment.

So They in turn, we've been in a standoffs. The president takes over again and says, look, they still want the F thirty five. I think I'm going to sell it to them. I think that's the announcement that's going to be made. And one thing they're going to come back with and say, I never really took the S three hundred system out of the boxes.

I bought it. But I haven't used it. Maybe that would be the compromise. Israel's Prime Minister told me yesterday on Fox and Friends, whatever you do, do not sell the F thirty five to Turkey. Turkey's a great country.

Erdogan's a terrible guy. That's where Bibi Netanyahu and Erdogan disagree. And President Trump disagree when it comes to Erdogan. Most people see Erdogan as a thug. And I think the President likes the fact that he's strong and has been loyal to him.

But Turkey's also very loyal to Iran. And by staying out of it, that's as loyal as you can get.

Now, back to the U.S. team, much less consequential, but just so disturbing. The U.S. is on this run, takes two or three games in the group session, knocks out Bosnia, man down. You would think against Belgium, a team they were favored to beat, they would at least stand up and fight.

They didn't. They came out flat. Their goalie was awful, made one big save, Matt Frees. Hard to believe he's the best going in our country, but he is, I guess. But U.S.

Belgium, it was a matter of minutes before Belgium got on the board first. Cut one. Shot was blocked, a second follow up. Just tapped away by Matt Frees. That might be the best save Matt Freeze is made alternate.

It comes from Freeman, blocks the cross. Prevents the corner. It's infield. The U.S. has hesitated.

Getting a bouncing ball picked up in the box, and that's the opening ball for Belgium. It was to Ketzala first to react in there in the cross. The U.S. players froze defensively, and now they are in an early hole against Belgium.

So it's a clearing header to about the 20-yard line, at which time you got to run through the ball. That's it. I don't care if you're a great player, you're slow, you're fast. You see the ball, you run through it with your body. Instead, these guys just looked up, watched the ball bounce.

Turkey gets it, serves it back in, shot goal, and that changed the complexion of the game. But they would answer back, believe it or not. USA, Belgium, Malik Tillman on the free kick, cut two. There's a man line down behind the wall, which means the wall can jump. Tillman, Okinawa!

So that was that was pretty cool. Tied at 1-1, not playing well. You thought, okay, that's going to wake him up. But five minutes later, Belgium answers with another goal. This guy was just outjumped every American defender.

When actually The goalie in retrospect should have owned that box. You can use your hands, you go to the ball, you let the bodies fly, cut three. Roger. up and Belgium retake the lead. Moments later, Char de Quetzalara climbs the ladder.

His second goal. Freeman is backing off. You've got support. Be more aggressive. They're both taking the same angle there.

And Truss Argus is able to get down to the line. They're both making the same play, and that comes down to community. But even at that point, Tim. Reem gets beat at the back post. Yeah, he just got beat to the ball, 38 years old.

That'll be it for him. Captain, play well, but he was really exposed last night. Kelly McNae is front base, more of a baseball family. But she's always in combat, especially when you were a press secretary, verbal combat. Yes, verbal combat.

And you said that this team, you look at it in the positive. Yes. You say, hey, they're well represented, very patriotic. They seem to really love the country, and that's a relief compared to what we've been dealing with with Megan Rapino and her other teammates.

Now, I wouldn't put Carly Lloyd in that spot because Carly Lloyd never bought into that, but teammates have done on the world stage in the past. Totally. Look, you're the soccer fan. You care about the sport play by play, and that is fair, and you want to win, and we as Americans want to win. I'm watching this from more of a cultural, political standpoint, and I don't think sports should be political.

Megan Rapino made them political, but this team stood for the anthem. They talked about their fate. They were a great representation of America up until the end where Brian, look, in fairness, I didn't watch the game, but I've heard from more than just you that it was not the best showing for the USA. Yeah, and I think. More people will tell you that, Kaylee.

By the time you get to outnumbered today, I think you will change your tune.

Okay. But I put it this way: I don't care about losing. I know this sounds un-American. If you give your best, you leave it out in the field, you hit a post, you lose two. I get it.

Sometimes you give your role and you lose by three goals. And I go, the other team was better. You let us know you were better than these guys, and then you let us know you're not going to beat these guys because you didn't show up. The only thing I care about in life is effort. Yeah, that's all I care about.

And the other stuff, you know, you build skills along the way, and whatever you do, what we're doing now. But if you give it all, and sometimes you have a bad show, it happens. But if you don't prepare for that show, that's on you. And so I'm not going to say, well, you had a bad day. You didn't prepare for your show.

Well, I didn't really have the good questions.

Well, why didn't you?

Well, I didn't prepare for the show. I'm not going to make excuse for you. You blew it. But if you prepare for the show, and sometimes you don't feel like sometimes you don't feel great. And you go, wow, I didn't do a good job on that show, but I tried.

Let me figure out what I did wrong. But you can't say you didn't put the effort in. You put the effort into everything. You're the most well-researched person I've ever seen. Even when you were on the press secretary, when you were on CNN as a pundit, you were ready for nine arguments.

Everybody was against you. Good training for Trump land. Indeed.

So, no one ever questions your effort. That's the only thing. That's why I put winning and losing below effort. Yes. My dad has a quote, and it's a great one.

It's from a high school basketball coach. I don't know his name. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. And I was trying to tell my daughter that this week. You got to work hard no matter what you do because you can beat the most talented person if you just put in the hard work.

So I get that. But here's a question: I saw some people saying this on X. Do you think they showed up? And think about you're in your home country. Everyone's so excited.

You're winning all these matches. You show up and you don't realize how much you underestimated this Belgian team. I think they've read that they had had 18, they've won their last 18 games.

So they beat them 5'2 last time. But listen, that same team. Was down 2-0 to Senegal with five minutes left, a team they were supposed to beat, and they rally got two fortunate goals and ended up surviving. I should have thought Senegal was going to give the U.S. a harder time.

But yeah, I mean, there's sometimes you do, but that's why I'm saying if you, if that team is better than you and you get stripped to the ball, do you hustle back? You know, so with, you know, they're tall in the middle, they're aggressive in the middle. Does that mean you don't go for the ball? Yeah.

So I watched that second goal. Was it the first goal?

Well, the ball goes up in the air, gets clearing head by the U.S. The ball drops down around the 20, and I'm watching two American players. All you do is run through the ball. You could be a 16-year-old Division II player. whatever you know uh you could be a club player You just run through the ball.

And then you bodies fly, but the ball's there, you're never going to get a penalty. But to sit there and watch it land in the Dutch, excuse me, the Danish player just goes, wait, Denmark? No, Belgium. The Belgian player one times it over the middle, outheads a guy where the goalie sits on his line. Harvard grad.

He's too smart to sit on his line at that moment. Go take, you know, you take him in. You can use your hands. I hear you trying to talk down Harvard as I sport my Harvard ring sitting here at this microphone. Another reason to resent the Ivys.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. Look, they didn't pull it off. It wasn't a miracle on ice moment, if you will. But yeah, I hear you. You got to hustle.

Lawrence Jones was saying at points, they were just slightly jogging places.

So I got you. No A for effort for the team. Understood.

So let's talk about stuff that really matters. And the President of the United States, the tone that you got, Kaylee, when he landed, met with Erdogan, the body language, and then what we were able to pick up on Fox and Friends into our show on the byland. Yeah, it's interesting because there's this American media view used this through the prism of strongmen countries and Western European democracies, and they're correct on that. But President Trump said, look, weak or strong, whatever, I get along with people who deliver. And we've seen that with the Turkish president.

Is he a perfect guy? Absolutely not. Does he have all sorts of problems domestically with personal freedoms? Yes, he does. That being said, he's delivered for the United States when the president has asked, and it will be really interesting to see if that friendship can translate, because it is in Turkey, into kind of a conduit between the president and the European powers, who he is more hostile with, having Erdogan right there in the middle.

It'll be fascinating 48 hours. You know, I was thinking, too, he's the bridge to Iran because he has relationship with Iran. He's also a bridge to Russia because he's got a relationship with Russia. And at one point, you got to think Erdogan is telling Putin.

Someone's got to tell him he has no way out right now. It doesn't seem like he has any way out while keeping his fragile ego intact. Is there an off ramp where he has somewhat of uh saves face? In this situation, and we ended here. We're all spending, every nation is spending money for Ukraine, costing us money with Russia.

And you know, Russia is Really terrible economically right now. Yeah, this will be something to watch too. Erdogan kind of sees himself, I was reading, as this bridge between the East and the West. And you think about it, he's the only real representative of the Eastern Hemisphere in NATO.

So he is in this unique position where he has these relationships, let's say, with Putin, that can be this kind of bridge building between the Western European powers, the United States, and the East, and as a representative of the Middle East.

So it will be really something to see how that's utilized. It's a big opportunity for Erdogan to be a bridge builder, and we'll see if he takes on that role. Before you go, and I know you get ready for outnumbers, is that the only other show you're doing today? Only outnumbered. They're back with you guys on Fox and Friends tomorrow.

That's awesome. And outnumbered again, I'm sure. And Angeli's out of weeks. Always love when you fill in. Graham Plattner on the new allegations of rape.

Adding to everything else about this horrible candidate over in Maine that got the Democratic nomination already, cut 30. I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me. Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false. Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality it will inflict. We are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love.

the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins. Those were the goals when we launched this campaign. And they remain my goals today. He's got six days to drop out, Kaylee, so they can put somebody else in there. Will he?

I'm going to make a prediction that by the time we finish Fox and Friends tomorrow, I think he will have dropped out. Party leaders told Punch Bowl that they think he will drop out as soon as today. Look, maybe it's later tomorrow, maybe the next day, but you've got Chuck Schumer standing against you. You've got your allies like RoConna, Elizabeth Warren. I don't think we've heard from Hakeem Jeffries yet, but you have the state party saying we're not going to throw money into this race.

At a certain point, the political pressure is too hot. And I think he sent us a big signal yesterday when he postponed his rally. I think he's thinking long and hard about this. He's trying to broker to get a progressive in the spot if he steps aside. But I do think he ends up stepping aside.

Right. And there's a bunch of names. We probably don't know if you're in Maine politics. Maybe you do. Stay politics, the Attorney General, somebody's going to step in there, but not the 78-year-old, 79-year-old governor who was running and Schumer wanted her to.

Yep, Schumer wanted. Look, this is a big kind of look what you did moment for Chuck Schumer because he wanted the governor. He warned. Against Platiner. He didn't get his way.

And look what happened. It came full circle. Chuck Schumer was right after all. And I think it's a big moment for kind of the moderate wing of the party. But why did it take this long to dismiss the guy?

The Nazi tattoo wasn't enough.

Socialists in Maine goes up in flames. Kaylee McEnie, we'll see you at 12. Thanks so much. I'll see you tomorrow morning. Back in a moment.

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, turning into international incident, I don't know. Maybe we'll bring it up at NATO tomorrow over there with the developments and everybody else. But I just hope the match will go on.

Everyone will be at full strength. And the winner will be the winner. That is Marco Rubio before the game last night. By the way, classlessly, Belgium came out and did the Trump dance after they won and said, appeal this at the end of the win, which was a convincing 4-1 win for Belgium. I am big into when you get the win, you never put it in people's faces.

And that is just classless. And I hope people remember that too, because most of these Belgium players had great careers, but they're aging out. And I think we have a team that's aging up. In a good way, like coming into their own, except for. Certain players are in their late thirties, they're gone.

But I think the future of that team is Sebastian Berhalter. This guy's going to be captain for ten years. He's going to be Michael Bradley, a little bit bigger and faster. I just think he was so impressive coming off the bench last night, taking control and did this thing called shooting. which for some reason the team forgot to do.

Oh, listen, we come back. I'm going to talk to Lieutenant Colonel Alan West about the decision by Jon Thune to finally give some money to Ken Paxon and get behind him at a fundraiser because they have to hold that seat. Even though they wanted John Cornin, as did I, you got to get behind whoever the people pick. I think we agree on that. Do this for the Brand Kill Me Chill.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Look, we're gonna win one way or the other. We're either going to make a deal or we're going to finish the job.

Okay? and it won't be tough to finish the job. I'd rather make a deal. Because I don't want to affect 91 million people. We can knock down their bridges in one hour.

We can knock out the air. Energy supply, all of those big plants that they built, big, beautiful, modern plants, they had a lot of money. They don't have any money now. We haven't given him any money. But we can knock out there.

electricity and power generating plants and I would say uh small part of an afternoon, every plant will be gone. And they know that. Yeah, but then they rocket our bases, which got a lot more damage than we were let on, and they hit our allies. And the allies like Saudi Arabia are so timid. And allies like Qatar are so worried, they have basically stopped returning our phone calls, not working with us at all.

Saudi Arabia didn't show up at the G7, even though they were invited. We were using their bases and they stopped letting us use their bases for Operation Freedom, which is why it stopped. And then they go and attend, send a delegation to the Ayatollah's funeral because they realize we couldn't wipe them out thoroughly in two weeks, so therefore they were worrying hedging their bets. Joining us now is Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. Colonel, do you want to give us an idea of what we should be doing now?

The Ayatollah's funeral is not even quite done, and they already rocketed another merchant ship, droned another merchant ship in the strait. Yeah, I mean, this is, and it's good to be with you, Brian. Hopefully you had a great Independence Day celebration. This is the tough part when you fight half measures in warfare, when you think more so about negotiation and deal making and things of that nature than putting the pressure on your adversary. This should have been done back in, you know, March and even into early April.

We should have been making sure that their military capability capacity for ballistic missiles and drones should have been neutralized at least. And maybe it's hard to eradicate it, but you can definitely neutralize it. And then you have to, as I've continually said, you have to cut off the means by which they can control the straits of Hormuz. They can get their oil and gas revenues and things of that nature. That's how you defeat this regime, which they may be weakened, like we've discussed before, but they are not defeated.

And that's what you continue to see happening.

So now, if you try to ramp things back up, in the middle of summer, when you're talking about gasoline prices going down, what happens when gasoline is going to be going down? Gasoline prices shoot right back up.

So, you know, we should have never been sitting and talking about making deals, negotiations, compromise appeasement with Iran. They cannot be trusted. They can never be trusted. And in the Middle East, this is what they understand and respect: the strength and might. And so, what you just brought out is about Saudi Arabia and some of the others saying, oh, you know, time to hedge our bets.

Because when we were going in hard after Iran, they were fully behind us. But when they saw us take our foot off the gas pedal, then they became a little questionable of what our true intentions were. I think it's because they are bases were rocketed too. And their their oil field, like the cutter natural gas field. the UAE natural gas field.

I think that freaked them out. But you would eat double down. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, UAE doubled down, and I think the UAE, when you saw them pull out of OPEC, they understand that maybe we need to be focusing on our own energy independence and how we can make sure we sustain ourselves and not be a slave to this cartel organization. But again, they're looking for the United States of America to be strong in this. And, you know, sitting down and having discussions, you're giving Iran an opportunity to be on par with you. And they should not be seen as being on par with us. And, you know, how they're trying to leverage things in Lebanon with Hezbollah and continue to try to prop up Hezbollah, that's another point of concern.

I want you to hear what General Jack Keene said, Cut 16. You know the President. He's going to put up with this. And he already has a healthy dose of skepticism whether we're going to make a deal or not. And it's likely we're going to return to combat operations.

That is the path that we're on, because I don't believe for a minute. that they're going to meet all of the President's major objections major objectives dealing with the entire nuclear enterprise, restriction on ballistic missiles and support for proxies. I doubt seriously they're going to meet those objectives. And then he's already told us what the alternative is.

So I mean it's going to get laid or early, as as they say. Yeah, you're right. And I think we should have gone in this knowing that they weren't going to meet any of the objectives because they don't see themselves as being in a weakened, I mean, a horrible position. They still see themselves understanding the economic aspect here in the United States of America, understanding the political landscape here in the United States of America. That's what they're playing for.

And that's why back when we began this on the 28th of February, we should have really sat down and broken this down by phases. And each one of the phases of this operation should have had measures of effectiveness. They should have had objectives. And we should have transitioned to the next phase based upon the 80% or 85% completion of those objectives. I just don't think that we were able to do that or we did that.

And too soon we start talking about, you know, we say unconditional surrender at one point. Then we come back and we say let's make a deal. And now we just continue to go back and forth like we're playing ping pong with these guys. And that's to their advantage. Yeah, and we'll see what the resolve is.

If they get to Fed in November, they'll play in these games, but they know our election cycle, too. Yesterday, to the surprise of nobody, a woman came out. Instead of just saying he harassed me, I guess that's okay in the Democratic world, now this woman came out and says, I was his girlfriend and he raped me. Her name is Jenny. Uh Jake Tapper on CNN and starts telling her story about.

Graham Plattner, one of the worst people, let alone candidates, you'll ever hear. This is her story, Cut 31. It was at the end of twenty twenty one. It was a night where him and I were texting back and forth, and he had taken something that I said as an invitation. And that's not how he meant it, and I quickly clarified.

And he sent a message back indicating that he Would come over, and I said, No, don't come over. Like, I'm not in the mood, don't come over. And I was more stern with that message. And then. I didn't hear back from him, so I thought that that meant he got the message or Gave up on it or whatnot.

And so. Um, like half an hour later, I heard a noise outside my door, and um Then he came in. He just came into my house. It was unlocked. I live in an area where you don't usually have to lock your doors.

I do now. Cut thirty-four? Is there any way that he thought this was consensual or no? Just because I don't believe that you can think that. that scenario is consensual.

you have to You have to understand that that wasn't when somebody is repeatedly, I mean, when somebody in the middle of it says, don't touch me, like that's obviously not.

So she wanted to make it clear the New York Times didn't take her story because she said it off the record, but they characterized her story differently than it actually was.

So she came out and says this. They got six days to replace him. But this is just a horrible person who used PTSD as an excuse to act in an abhorrent way in many different ways. Your response, Colonel West.

Well, my response is that this is the Democrat Party understanding that they've got to get rid of this guy. And, you know, they knew all of this stuff. If they had done their own opposition research on him, they knew that these things would come out eventually, but they thought they could get away with it. And now you see people like RoConna and others retracting their endorsement.

So I don't think he survives the next 48 hours, and then they'll come up with a new rule or a new means by which whoever finished second to him in the primary will get to come in. Just the same as they just automatically replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris. They just create these things, even though everyone was telling them the whole time that Joe Biden had cognitive issues, and they went after you for that.

So now, all of a sudden, they realize how much in trouble they are. And I'll tell you something, Brian. I believe that they're going to start looking at some of these Marxist candidates that are winning these primaries. they're going to start figuring out how they can undermine them as well. Maybe if they can organize themselves, but right now the ones with the power are the Hassan Pikers and the AOCs.

They're not going to be able to do that.

Well, they got the platform. And that's the thing. But, you know, w when you think about that that party, the Democratic Party, it's not about what they do that is visible. It's what the they the things that they do that are covert and invisible. And uh Graham Plattner is the uh is the uh victim of that right now.

So here is what Fetterman said, Cut 39. I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize for pushing this kind of predator more than anyone he helped him elect. And now apologize to the victims, especially the woman that she claimed that he. Raped her.

So I don't know why you want to keep pushing these kinds of people. Where's Bernie Sanders, real quick, Colonel? I don't think Bernie Sanders is going to come out and say anything like that. I mean, Bernie Sanders is the guy that says, you know, we need to go after the rich, but yet I have three houses.

So he is not going to claim any responsibility whatsoever. Go get him. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, thanks so much. When we come back, we try to unwind what went wrong against Belgium with a guy that probably could have even been on the team, Dylan Nealis of the Red Bulls, talks about what happened with their back line and their front, their starting 11 after their 4-1 thrashing last night in Seattle. Yeah.

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Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Richard, speed that is the air free. Jesus got to get there and deal with it. He takes it down off the chest. De Quetzalar knocks it away.

Tim Reem can't block it. And a last video review says this is. It's a foul. From behind. It is a disaster goal.

Takes a touch, hesitates on the left foot, doesn't want to hit it. And then Reen's trying to backtrack, do what he can to block the goal. Just an absolute disaster in the United States. And a backbreaker. They were 2-1 down.

They were starting to control the play. Belgium had not figured out what they were doing with an extra midfielder, I think it was. And they were starting to control Belgium, who was happy maybe to hold on to that one goal advantage. And then that disaster when Matt Frees comes out, gets stripped to the ball. When the shot goes in, Tim Reem had a shot on it, but fell down.

I know it's not easy, but I just really looked at the effort there and was stunned to see. The U.S. team mail it in. What does Dylan Nealis feel? Longtime player in the MLS, drafted number one overall by David Beckham over in Miami and now starring as centerback over with the Red Bulls in the MLS.

Dylan Nillis joins us now. Hey, Dylan, welcome back. Hey, Brian, thanks for having me on. Hey, Dylan, I saw effort as a main problem. I don't think they went down on their shield last night.

I think they just went down. What is what was wrong? Yeah, I agree. I think that was kind of the biggest takeaway. I think some of those players are going to be a bit disappointed in how that game went.

You know, maybe they're going to feel some regret. In what you said, that effort that they put out there. You know, it's one thing if they went out with. I wouldn't say pride, but it just it looked like they were lacking a little bit. Um, you know, just the the whole game, they couldn't really get going.

So when that hap uh a couple of times, looking at that second goal, like on the cross, do you feel that the isn't it usually the goalie coming out, owning that area at the time when that cross comes in, when it ends up being a header between the two backs in which Tim Reem got the short end of the stick? Yeah, I think Mefries got caught on the ear post, but I think his positioning was fine. I think they could have dealt with the cross better. You know, it was a 2v1 out wide. And they let the attacker kind of just serve up a very good ball.

And then yeah, you you'd also ask the center back to maybe deal with the header too.

So Again, it's just those types of plays that that really didn't go our way. And you were you were waiting for a turnaround and it just never really came. Is there anything anything Belgium was doing that caused the US to look good and to look bad? I think they just matched the United States athleticism and physicality. There were a lot of talks before the game with the lineup Belgium put out, and they had some superstars on the bench.

So, everyone was kind of questioning that decision, but it turns out it kind of worked for them. You know, they put their strong, fast, athletic guys in. to kind of manage that and I think they did it well. Um here's the coach after the game, cut five. From the beginning we didn't we didn't connect with the game.

We know we're on. the game even when we score and we They scored the goal, 1-1. We considered the next action was really tough from the beginning. To congratulate Bethium, they were better than us. I see Wasn't Western our day our day, that is is not to find Excuses are not defined.

Uh argument because we we didn't show what normally we that thing can show and that that is that is a reality. I think spot on. I think the first sentence he said, they never really grew into that game. I think there were a lot of times where. I don't know if it was nerves or what, but players thought they were under pressure.

They took less touches than they could have, and just some sloppy turnovers throughout the whole game. And they never really grew into it. I think the crowd obviously tried to help, but. I think the players just were in their heads too much. I don't know if the occasion was too big, but we have some players that play in big leagues and on a big team.

It was just a little surprising.

So When you uh overlaw when you look at this game Is there something about anybody who came off the bench that impressed you. But to me, I think that Burholter is going to be the leader of this team in the future. He comes on, he just asserts himself. He's willing to make a mistake. He's willing to take a shot.

He's trying to make his presence felt. Was there something about the way he approached the game? It showed me that there was a way to approach that game that they weren't doing. that it was less Belgium, more what the US wasn't, when Berhalter seemed to make such an impact. Yeah, I agree.

I think all the subs did well coming out. Especially Bert Halter. You could just tell just from seeing him on T V just the passion he brings. You know, after one of his shots that almost went in, just him pumping up the crowd, trying to get things going. He seems to be kind of the energizer bunny for for the team.

And yeah, I mean, I agree. He he could be a could be a strong player for the national team going forward.

So what are you guys doing now? Like you guys are practicing now, right? The league is going on is dormant, but you're still practicing? Yes, so we took a big break kind of right before the World Cup started, but we're back training and then our games don't start until end of July. I think July twenty second is our first game.

So, yeah, so you guys are back out with the 22nd. The finals on the 19th, and you guys will be back playing on the 22nd. How, I know you're not a marketing guy, you're just playing, I get it, but is there anything the MLS could do to build on the attention? I mean, you got 18 million, 22 million, 26 million people watching this team play. You watch all these other countries play, non-soccer fans getting to know non-American players, and American players.

Is there anything out there you could build on with this? Yeah, I know, it's tough, but I certainly hope MOS does. You know, I think it would have helped if the US maybe put on a little better showing. I think there's a lot of fans that maybe just watch this tournament every four years and don't bother. Looking into, oh, where can I watch more American soccer and all that?

So I hope they can do a pretty good job of putting MLS on the map and gaining more fans because there were certainly tons of fans. Not only in America, but outside. And I think this could be a popular, very popular league, especially the amount of superstars that are coming over here from Europe. And uh lastly, Dylan, have you been able to check on any games? I have not.

I stayed away from MetLife, but I know my family went to a few.

So they said awesome things about it. It was an awesome experience. I took a little break. I had enough soccer so far.

So it was a nice little vacation. I watched plenty on TV. Yeah, you're going to play right through the fall. Dylan Nealis with the Red Bulls. Thanks so much, Dylan.

Appreciate it. Got to go out and practice. Thanks, Brian. Pleasure, guys. You got it.

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So glad you're there. It's Brian Killmead back in New York, 48th and 6th, Midtown Manhattan. This hour, I'll do a simulcast on FBN with Stuart Varney and be joined by Nate Soros, the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, AI Research, and New York Times best-selling author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. The worries they have about AI, whose stocks are going through the roof right now. We're also monitoring events at NATO where it looks like President Zelensky is speaking right now.

We did see on Fox and Friends today as I was going through it. On the air. We watched the President Lad be greeted one-on-one by President Erdogan of Turkey. They get along great. At which time, after they did the ceremonial greetings, they went inside and answered questions from the press.

So we do have some substance because the President likes to talk to the press, even though he's offended a lot of times by the tone of the questions, but he's just honest. And now President Selensky is going to be there. That's going to be a big thing, Ukraine. We'll talk about that.

So before we get to your calls, which we will, Let's get to the big three. Number three. He sent a message back indicating that he would come over, and I said, No, don't come over. Like, I'm not in the mood, don't come over. He came in, he just came into my house.

It was unlocked. I live in an area where you don't usually have to lock your doors. I do now. I can't imagine not locking your doors at night. I don't know if there's any area in the country I would not lock my doors with, but that's the story.

Jenny, his ex-girlfriend, embarrassing, inexcusable, and easily foreseeable. Graham Plattner, the phony oyster farmer and history of abuse in every way, has won scandal too many, and Demsdow toss him overboard. But he has not left the race yet. What does it mean for Susan Collins' chances re-election? Number two.

You've been a great leader and a respected leader all over the world and we really do. We've had right from the beginning good chemistry. We've had a very special relationship. Turkey has become under the president a very powerful country militarily. Yeah, President off to NATO, as I saw, looming possible.

We'll talk about Ukraine. We'll talk about Iran. Are we going to get any help there? And the moving of our bases to maybe forward places like the Baltics and Poland and begin to get out of Germany. But the good news is everybody is spending more on their missile on their defense overall, and they're buying a lot of the stuff from us.

Number one. From the beginning, we didn't connect with the game. It was really tough from the beginning. To congratulate Vetium, they were better than us. We didn't show what normally that team can show.

And that is a reality. Down goes the U.S. A woeful display in Seattle as the U.S. hope of a final eight appearance, a final four appearance, or a finals appearance go up in flames. And it didn't as if they played hard and got were unlucky.

They didn't play hard and they didn't deserve any luck. Final score was 4-1. If you want to know how it sounded, how it started.

Well, here's the goal that I think broke everybody's back. They scored nine minutes in. The U.S. answered on a direct kick, Malik Tillman. But uh Belgium went up nine minutes later.

Right here, cut three. Push on to the bar line, gets a cross indicator. Quetzalara's rising up and Belgium retake the lead. Moments later, Char de Quetzalara climbs the ladder. His second goal.

Freeman is backing off. You've got support. Be more aggressive. taking the same angle there and Truss Arms is able to get down to the line. They're both making the same play, and that comes down to communication.

But even at that point, Tim Reim gets beat at the back post. Yeah.

And then they gave up a disastrous third goal and they would go on to lose. It's just such a shame because they played so hard against the odds and with the great crowd support. This time they had a great crowd support again, unbelievable momentum, but they absolutely were the flattest of flat on the field, cut six coach. I think we need to learn. I think it's a process to learn.

We need to assess that game and we need to see why we didn't approach the game in the same way that the the rest of the World Cup. Uh different reason. Maybe the explanation is so easy, wasn't our day. Uh in a collective and individual uh Of course the principal, you know, uh responsible is myself. And yes, we need to to see and to check what we did because it wasn't the the performance of the or the the way that normally we knew we we play.

Okay, a couple of things. Pacino, they got to try to keep him. They offer him a contract. I don't know if he stays. But as usual, when President Trump brought up to President FIFA about Balcon playing in this game and the red card being at least analyzed, then all of a sudden it was all about Trump.

He didn't say reinstate him. He said, what's the rule? It doesn't look like a foul to me and my friends are telling me that it wasn't a foul. Can you reinstate him?

Well, he ends up getting reinstated. The appeal by Belgium goes by the boards. They didn't look at Belgium's appeal of our appeal being valid.

So Belgium was ticked off. Maybe they got an edge. But as usual, people blame Trump. The latest, Will Leach of The Washington Post, cut eleven. Was this a momentum killer?

I mean, after the whole Trump Knicks thing, I sort of, Elden Urkers got it in my head that Trump's a cooler. And did he basically hurt the vibes? The vibes definitely shifted very quickly. This was an upstart team. You know, this is always, the U.S.

men's soccer team is not generally like most U.S. national teams. They're not the overwhelming favorite. They're the plucky underdog. They're the way that Americans generally think we are, but aren't.

They usually are that upstart team that you can get excited about. That switched so much on them. And certainly, you know, this was a team that everyone was behind, knew that everyone was behind, suddenly felt was getting tough questions from all across the board. Certainly these people, the United States soccer players, they play internationally. They know what everyone is saying about this decision and everyone was saying about their team.

And they knew instantly they had gone from this fun underdog that everyone was cheering for and having these street parties cheering for to taking really tough questions and having the entire soccer world outside the United States furious with them and rooting against them. They can feel that whether it's a lot of people. Whether they will admit that or not, whether they'll say there was outside noise, they are part of the soccer world. They know they play with the people. A lot of these people are teammates with their club teams with the people that were trying to beat them.

And they know how angry everybody is.

So certainly there was a clear shift in the way that U.S.

soccer was seen both before this and very much afterward, after kind of what Trump did. Number one. There was hours for them to answer. They maybe answered four questions. Hop on the bus, your best friend, best scorer is on the team.

That far outstrips any negativity that you might feel from the world. You got it forward, the best player, your best scorer, who had multiple opportunities unable to convert, but you did have three or four great opportunities. But now you have full strength and you're able to play. I just want to let you know there's so many psychos out there that said, I'm not watching the game now that Donald Trump got involved. He didn't get involved, all he did was ask.

So let's talk about Syria stuff now. You talk about the president landing over in Turkey. He said, I'm only there. Because Erdogan's here. I was going to blow this thing off, but I know what goes into one of these events, and I didn't want to show him disrespect.

So he showed up and he went to NATO, and they're going to be talking about letting Ukraine get missile defense because basically they are left, Kyiv is left wide open. They don't have enough Patriot missiles. And Russians are beginning to lose in every way. Over 30,000 a month. For every six Russians who are dead, only one Ukrainian is lost.

So he wants them to start mass-producing patriots. He's like, we will pay for them. Cut 26. It is simply absurd that in the modern world production has still not been scaled up to the level actually required to protect people from ballistic terror. Look, it's a lot harder now than back in World War II because everything's much more sophisticated.

There's a lot of parts, there's so much smart weapons and AI involved. It's harder. But what he's saying is And I think this is General Jack Keene's idea originally. He said, give the Ukrainians the contract. The patent to build temporarily Patriots or Thad missile systems, and the extra ones we built will give it back to you guys.

Give them back.

So hopefully they do it.

So the president's going to clash on that. And he made it clear. I saw at this press conference, I was just taking notes before I came up here. He said, look. Mm-hmm.

Turkey's done everything I've asked them to do. And people have a problem with Turkey, but they've been a good ally for us. You know who hasn't been? Germany, France, and Italy. They all turned us down for help in Iran before we even asked.

And they denied us base access to our own bases.

So that's the issue. He said, Yeah, we're going to talk trade, we're going to talk Iran. And he's going to say that he's going to meet with Zelensky. You know, he's going to get Putin on the phone.

Now, Turkey is a valuable player in this way. Yeah, they suppress free speech and it's terrible. They suppress the press, and that's awful. He probably should have been ousted through a coup. But he found a way to stay in power.

But he talks to Russia and he talks to Iran.

So if you have somebody that you know that knows the person you're dealing with and you're not speaking to them. It's an advantage.

So that's why. The people that he is speaking to, he's disappointed because they haven't stepped up. And just because we have a historic alliance, it doesn't mean we're just going to just say, well, that's the way things are. Here's Mark Rutte, Cut twenty seven, NATO General Secretary. As you claim.

continues. to defend its sovereignty. Allies and NATO partners must continue To ensure Ukraine gets what it needs. Yeah.

Can we do that? Everyone's paying now. We should be able to do that. French Sadler Cut 29 on how bad this is going for Russia. It's no secret, the last few months the Russians have been taking significant losses on the battlefield as the Ukrainians have changed their tactics.

And I think this is providing an opportunity, an opening, maybe fleeting, but in the next month or two to try to get the Russians to agree to a ceasefire that's acceptable to the United States and also Ukraine. Yeah.

Ukraine is not going to give up any more land. The Donbass, forget it. They have by Russia waiting, they've weakened their hand. And they know it. They've lost dozens.

of refineries. Gas is going through the roof. They're running out of people. They're in Africa, basically duping people to fight for them. In Africa, even though they're a land of 150 million, they don't want to ask their elites to give their sons.

Because they know that that's where the money is. And then it becomes their war too.

Well, I have news for you. Your refineries are blowing up in major cities, they know they're in a war.

So look at that. The other thing with Graham Plattner is it's an absolute joke. Here he is denying the allegations. uh this woman Jenny had of her gumming over drunk and raping her cut thirty. I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me.

Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false. Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality it will inflict. we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the State that I love, The people that I love. The movement I belong to. All right, I can't even hear it.

Just a joke. Your movement is a socialist movement. You are a terrible person. You're lying about being an oyster farmer. You're lying about owning your own house.

You're lying about being a working class guy. You're rich and you went to a prep school. Nothing about this guy is real. Does anyone Google anyone? And the guy that should apologize is Bernie Sanders, who has yet to run from that sinking ship.

And you know who has run? Just about every sitting senator and congressman, Roe Conna, who saw in that New York Times article that he was physical with women. Then it comes out that he's online with a teens on a dating site known mostly for teenagers. up until like a month ago. And yet, Rokan is like, seems like a good guy to me.

Elizabeth Warren, he's a real man. We're lucky to have him. Forget it. John Fetterman. Knows it.

Cut forty. Even those pods save America, people that pushed. That dirtbag, you know, and they dismiss those things in the New York Times article. Maybe they ought to apologize to the women that clearly they didn't believe or they dismissed that. I know I know Democrats that have You know, back to back endorsed and got all in on Swawill, and we're On the Plattner train as well, too.

So maybe stop. you know, getting on bed with absolute dirt bags, someone like Platiner. Listen. You don't, you know, no one's playing the perfect game in life. Nobody.

I remember Barack Obama when he got in, they go, what a great record.

Well, there was one land deal that he couldn't escape from. You got Joe Biden has his son running wild all over the place.

So everybody's got something. You look at George W. Bush, they try to get him.

Well, he was born in look at the Bush family. Was he really accomplished on his own? Everyone has some type of weakness. But I'm not talking, this is unbelievable. A Nazi tattoo?

That should have been the, we're out of here.

So it's just crazy. This is going to give the Republicans new life to hold the Senate and House, I think. What do you think? 1866-408-7669. I'm outraged they put this guy forward.

And I'm outraged that they're now jumping off ship and doing it as if we're doing the right thing. If you were doing the right thing, you never would have allowed him to be your nominee. And because he was willing to be a communist, the DSA got behind him. You listen to the Brian Kill Meat Show. Don't move.

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Adam, what's going on? Thank you. Yeah, I want to talk a little bit about um the Graham Platiner situation It seems like the Democratic Party saw him as some great Savior to save the Senate or on the windowside. But Man, he's got dirt all over him. One of the worst candidates I've ever seen, Adam.

As soon as you hear about the tattoo, we should have been done. And then he's on a communist. He's calling himself a communist. He's talking about a Purple Heart recipient that should be dead. Uh talk about the army full of fat slobs.

Uh you know, the horrible thing that the guy was saying about women. In fact, he's on a website that's mostly for single teens. I mean, how many things can go wrong with any one candidate? That's pretty sick. But let me ask you this.

Right now, are Hakeem Jeffries and Corey Booker, are they standing behind him? Still? You know what? I don't think Corey Booker ever was there to his defense. I think about three weeks ago he was asked and he said, Look, I haven't evaluated yet whether I'm going to endorse him or not.

Now, Akeem Jeffries, I don't think has jumped off the bandwagon yet. I think he's still there. You know what's sickening at him? The guy that threw this guy at us is Bernie Sanders. And he is still, as far as we know, standing by him.

I mean, does this guy have any integrity at all? No, not at all. Terrible. Yep. Uh, thanks so much for the call.

I want you to hear a little of her story. Um, when she this woman, Jenny, who dated him for a while, says, My thing is, I like his politics. I just don't like him as a person having dated him. By the way, I don't know who you are to ever date a clown like this who can't take a shower. Uh has a Nazi tattoo.

and doesn't seem to have a job. Cut thirty-four. Is there any way that he thought this was consensual or no? Just because I don't believe that you can think that. that scenario is consensual.

You have to you have to understand that that wasn't when somebody is repeatedly I mean, when somebody in the middle of it says, Don't touch me, like, that's obviously not consensual. Drunk. Broke into her house. The doors were open. and said basically raped her.

Why she waited so long, that's up to her. I'm not going to get into that. That's way over my pay grade, my expertise. But they have six days to replace him. If she waited six days, it couldn't replace him.

Susan Collins was up already on him, So, I don't know. I also wonder about these forces. I knew Eric Swalwell is just a terrible person. I had no idea the degree. But why does it all come out right before the primary?

Why does this come out right before the primary? I mean, they knew this guy was running for about eight months now.

So, I do wonder about the timing. Not that I doubt her. I have no reason not to believe her. But I'm wondering why she just didn't give the story to the New York Times when the New York Times asked or the New York Times squashed the story because this would have killed his candidacy. Using the brain came with you.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. The administration's concerns are not frivolous. Anthropic appears to have made real mistakes. A Washington Post report suggested that it expanded access to Mythos beyond what officials believed had been approved and moved too slowly in responding to concerns about who was being allowed to use it.

Intelligence agencies reportedly favored a tougher approach. But that is precisely why process matters. When a technology becomes this consequential, decisions cannot be made ad hoc by whatever faction wins a weekend bureaucratic battle, which might then get reversed the next weekend.

So that is Fried Zakaria talking about what Anthropic's doing is one of the major AI companies that's do that's killing in a good way on in the stock market. But people are getting worried that some of these guys are going to combine and also that some of these evolutions are getting smarter than man, like Mythos. Is smarter and can think on its own, and is scaring a lot of people, including possibly my next guest, Nate Sorrows is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and they are a researcher and best-selling author of the book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Nate, are you worried about where we're heading right now when it comes to AI in these companies? You know, I don't think my book title made it very subtle.

We're not to the dangerous stuff yet, but we're definitely on a dangerous track. Why? Why do you say so? You know, these AI companies did not set out to make chatbots. Chatbots are a stepping stone along the way.

If you talk to these guys or if you read what they say, they say we're trying to make super intelligence. We're trying to make machines that exceed humans in every capacity. Right now, Anthropic has figured out how to make super hacker AIs, and that has sort of woken the national security community up to what this technology can do. But this is not the end of the line. This is, in some sense, just the first step.

So they were just trying what if they say, hey, I'm just trying to develop things the best we can, and this is the next step. Do you think they have intentions? of uh of bad intentions, or are they just trying to get the best product possible? Done. I think they often have good intentions, but if you listen to these guys, they say this technology can be very dangerous, and the reason why I need to race to do it is that if I don't, the next guy will race and I'm better than the next guy.

And a lot of these companies were founded when a team in one company left because they didn't trust the CEO and then they formed another company. And this happened a couple of times.

So they don't really trust each other with this tech. They're worried about where this tech is going. And I think the rest of the world is just starting to notice that this tech can have some real power and that we're going to need to be careful. Here is more from Vareed Zakari on what the problem was with Anthropic. As you know, they lost their contract with the Pentagon.

Now they're trying to get it back, Cup forty six. The U.S. government did something extraordinary. It effectively forced one of America's leading artificial intelligence companies to withdraw its most advanced product from the market. Anthropic, the maker of the frontier AI model Mythos and its commercially available cousin Fable, have been given little warning and, according to reports, roughly 90 minutes to comply.

The fight between Washington and Anthropic is not really about one company. It is the first visible battle over who governs artificial intelligence and whether that governance will happen through rules and institutions or improvisation and raw power. That's where we're at right now.

So your thought, Natsor, is about that? what he just said, about what where Anthropic was and what they did. Yeah, you know, I think uh that The White House has had factions that think AI can get seriously dangerous and factions that think it never will. And I think Claude Mythos sort of showed that, at least on hacking, these AIs can get pretty dangerous. And that was a bit of a wake-up call.

I also think another big wake-up call here, I believe the way things went down, is that someone from Amazon reported that the commercially available Fable could be jailbroken to have some of the capabilities of Mythos. And Anthropic is not able to stop that. The people making these AIs are not designing their AIs like old school computer programs. They're sort of growing these things, and they have certain capabilities, and they can sort of ask the AI not to display those capabilities. But it's true that people can jailbreak and get past those guardrails, and that these AI companies don't have a good answer to it.

And so, you know, I think the national security community is responding by sort of saying, What the heck? No, you're not allowed to have that be a consumer product. If bad guys figure out how to jailbreak this, they can bring down the entire Internet. That's a valid concern. And the fact that that's a valid concern shows what sort of crazy territory we're entering.

How would you describe mythos for people at home who aren't experts like you, Nate? Turn it. I don't know the exact numbers, but my guess is that in January of this year, there were roughly two entities that could make a website, where if you just look at the website, they can take over your entire phone or computer. and those two entities were Mossad and the NSA. In March, there were three entities.

Massade, the NSA and Claude Mythos. Wow.

So We're okay if we have that ability and with the intelligence, but if everyone has that ability, And if China has that ability and Iran has that ability, This is the world's going to get pretty out of control. That's sure how it looks. And I think Anthropic did a pretty good thing when they said we're going to release this to the good guys first, and we're going to release this to people who can find the flaws in our software and our critical infrastructure and try to fix them. And they're like, we're going to try and fix all these issues before all these other people get access to a similarly capable model, because other people are trying to build AIs that are similarly capable. But also, I think they're definitely being somewhat reckless in creating these tools in the first place.

And frankly, like I said earlier, the super hacking abilities are just the beginning. Right? What happens when we have AIs with super biotech capabilities? What happens when we have AIs that are that are superhuman at doing AI research? And then we have AIs that make smarter AIs that make smarter AIs.

This is just the beginning of the train. But yeah, we're not running the train alone.

So if we're doing this, do we have any idea what China's doing? It's absolutely a concern. And in my book, we talk about how any solution to this needs to be global. Uh If the US stops and other people continue, that's not a real solution. I think there's a number of reasons why we probably could stop this with China that range from right now, China is sort of cheating off of our homework on AI in a lot of ways.

So trying to outrun them is a little bit like trying to outrun our own shadow, because they're just sort of they make capable models, but they make it by a process called distillation on American models. And then separately, we absolutely need some supply chain controls. The dangerous part of AI, the AIs that can really do a lot of damage are not today's AIs, they're ones that don't exist yet. And trending the next generation of AIs takes 10,000 of the most highly advanced computer chips assembled in an enormous data center that sucks down as much electricity as a city and that you can see from space. That's the sort of thing that we could do arms control on.

That's the sort of thing that we could do something like a nuclear control treaty on, and where we could enforce both by diplomacy and by sabotage if necessary. We could enforce that on China if the administration realizes just how dangerous this technology could get. But, Nate, what do you think the - how do you convince our adversaries, our allies? To work with us. What would make you think that they would cooperate and say, listen, this is powerful.

Let's try to set up some regulations together. What makes you think that would be the motivation for them to ever collaborate with us? Yeah.

The first step is realizing how dangerous the technology is. And the example of the White House slapping on these export controls is actually a good example of how these things can change fast. A few months ago, the White House was saying there should never be any AI regulations. They were saying we're just going to let this industry rip. We don't want to curtail the good parts of this technology.

And then Cloud Mythos happened, and the national security community sort of realized that the super hackers are really possible. And they said, hold on, there's actually a tech here we need to not let get out of control. And then the administration, I think rightly, Did this about face. I think rightly they said, hey, actually, you, you. Like, we're going to need to do something about this.

And we can talk about how it would be better if it wasn't sort of a slapdash regulation and if we had something in place where it wouldn't be as much of a surprise. But I think the national security community realized, like, oh, we actually really need to do something. And then everything moved fast. If the rest of the world realizes how dangerous this technology can get, I think it can become a lot like uh like Nuclear. uh power and nuclear weapons where We sort of shouldn't regulate the nuclear power maybe as much because we want to make sure we can get access to the energy, but at the same time, we can all realize no one wants a thermonuclear exchange.

And so you can have arms strategies that say, hey, we're not going to build the nuclear weapon stockpiles. Globally, we're going to try globally to avoid nuclear arm again in World War III, even if we still let the nuclear energy power plants be built. With AI should be the same way, we can keep going with all of this technology that's going to be the good parts. We can't keep racing towards out-of-control superintelligence that would kill everybody, no matter who builds it. Nate Soros, it's scary stuff, but really important stuff.

There's nothing more important, you could argue. Nate Soros, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the best-selling author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Nate, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Gonna have trouble sleeping tonight, but it's all good.

It's important we know it. When we come back, we do a sample cast on FBN with David Asmond filling in for Stuart Varney. Brian Kilmichio, do not move. Yeah.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney. Live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Wow, what a wonderful introduction. I'm going to talk a little about the World Cup.

It drives me a little crazy because of not that we lost last night to Belgium 4-1. But the way they play, they just played awful. Played indifferent. Uh play dumb. And maybe this is At one point, look at the best World Cup team we ever had.

And sometimes you just don't have it, the ball bounces off your chest and goes out of bounds, and then you go to shoot and it goes off the side of your foot. But that wasn't it. Let's listen in. Advanced micro, et cetera, all down. It is 1051.

That means it is time for Mr. Brian Kilmead. Brian, thank you so much for being here. Good to see you again. The U.S.

men's national team has been eliminated from the World Cup after a crushing loss to Belgium last night. I could only stand to watch an hour of it because it didn't seem to be the same team that was on fire earlier. Am I wrong? Yeah, people say, well, you lost, you're disappointed. Nothing better.

Number one, I didn't play. I'm disappointed because they didn't show up. I mean, they literally started off flat and got flatter. There was a time in which they started to come back in the second half. They changed their formation.

And then they give up the worst goal that I have seen in the World Cup so far. Matt Frees came way out of the box, missed the ball, and then he had a chance to clear it out, and they made it 3-1. And after that, he basically emptied the bench.

So I don't know what happened, but it was embarrassing, and the fact that Belgium went and taunted and said, basically, overturn this. or appeal this and then did a mock the Trump dance. Which was classless, but you get to expect it from the Europeans. It's the same attitude they bring to NATO.

So it just bothered me more than anything else. You lose 2-1, it's no problem. Could it be that all this talk back and forth on the red card got into their head and really screwed with them psychologically? Maybe it was just that they were tired. Who knows?

Can't be tired. Five days? Five days between games? God, come on. You can't be tired.

And they got 26 players on the roster. If anyone showed any fatigue, that would have been different. And they got plenty of time to prepare. This is a team they played last month in Atlanta and lost 5-2.

So they had a tape to look at. And also, Belgium wanted to overtime against Senegal, had to score two goals in five minutes to force the extra session and then get the victory.

So the U.S. hasn't had to do that. In fact, they even took game three off. Because they had won the group so quickly.

So it was just disappointing overall, a disappointing way to end.

Well, it's a mystery. It did attract a lot of followers, though, the whole U.S. component of the World Cup.

So let's hope that continues.

Next one, Brian. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is facing backlash from her city's residents. They're accusing her of abandoning their communities during the World Cup, causing rampant crime and homelessness in the city's Chinatown international district. Is this another reason to worry about socialists in our country? They just don't seem to care about law and order.

How about giving somebody a job they have displayed no skills to have? I mean, she lived with her parents. She's supported by her parents, which is fine. But then you put her in charge of a major city and go, wow, she seems unorganized. She seems ill-equipped to handle the world's biggest event.

I don't know where that came from. Seattle is an unbelievable sports city despite all the problems they have. They support the women's team, the NPSL team, the Sounders. Everybody knows what they do for the Seahawks. They show up for the Mariners.

They know how to do something. Sports. All she has to do is dispatch it to the police. But I sense they're about 30% understaffed right now.

So you bring in people from other places. Not if you have no experience, not if you have nobody experience giving you any advice. Not if you understand that the job is different from just having a philosophy. And a few quips, and that's how she got the job. Hey, Seattle, this is what you elected.

Good luck with it. Her counterpoint over on the East Coast, Mayor Mamdani, he's done pretty well, I think, with the World Cup, but it wasn't the same with the basketball playoffs. Even though we won, a lot of fans trashed the place because of the inattentiveness of the mayor.

So I give him 50-50 on his sports handling. A couple of things. The game's in Jersey, so you don't have to worry about it. All you have to do is make sure the sports bars stay open. Good luck with that.

And then you disband. The next academy class, you desperately need cops in New York City. There are about 4,000 understaffed. He has disbanded it because it's too expensive.

So now he's asking these men and women to work overtime for the Knicks, for the big wedding we weren't invited to, David.

So now they're asking him to work overtime. Speak for yourself. How do you know I wasn't there? I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure you were on the air during the wedding.

So we weren't invited.

So to do that, little by little, he's basically breaking our police force with overtime. And the Knicks, you know, that's a good problem to have.

Well, speaking of overtime, we are overtime. Brian, great to see you. Thank you so much. Go ahead and take the rest of your radio show. Thank you.

We share audiences for a little while, so that's the way it went. But in terms of what about the game and putting in perspective, Kobe Jones, who joined us yesterday after the game, was asked by James Corden about why they lost and what the overall takeaway is, here's cut eight. It feels like we've been saying for quite a long time: our America's going to turn a corner on soccer. They're going to turn a corner on soccer. Do you think that has happened, or do you think this is something that's going to be fleeting and then we'll just go back to basketball and football and baseball and all those things?

We're always going to love those sports, but I think this really took it to another level, you know, here within the United States for a variety of different reasons. The American fan. Got into this like I haven't seen it in decades. And usually it would take us to get to further rounds before we saw what was happening before the tournament even started. And I think that was fantastic.

That's a tribute to everybody here, really coming together and celebrating what this. what this sport is about.

So, James Corden has done a great job doing late night television. Talked about that with Kobe Jones, who, if you don't know, is one of the finest players we had outstanding forward for not only for not only for the national team but for the MLS for years. He might even play overseas.

So, we'll see what happens from here. I know one thing: if I'm to look at the teams that are left, Spain and Belgium will be a good game, but Spain will win. And number two, the greatest game probably we will see because they're so similar in my view, is Norway-England. When England went in in front of a hostile crowd in Mexico City, this is a team we tied in Qatar four years ago. They go in front of a hostile crowd in Mexico City and do to Mexico, which hadn't been done, I think, in five, ten years, and beat them thoroughly 3-2.

But Mexico played. If you're in Mexico, on Mexico's team. And you're out the same round as New York, uh as the same round as us. Doesn't matter. You gave a draw.

You lost to a great team and you barely lost 3-2. This was different. We'll see what they can do, see if the MLS can build off this in the long run. But that'll be great. And of course, everybody thinks France is going to win it all.

It's still going to be fun the rest of the way, for sure. Brian killed me, Joe. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi one, so glad you're there.

Brian Kilmey coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, where I understand in certain portions of Manhattan, the Legionnaires disease is here. 23 cases.

So if you're running a fever and you want to stay home from school or work, Say you got it. Ned Ryan's going to be with us, American Majority Founded, new documentary, The Threat, The Threat of Liberty, Keeping Our Republic. Of course, looking at 250, totally appropriate. And Daniel Hoffman standing by, former CIA station chief, served in Moscow, Iraq, Pakistan, South Asia, and all of Europe.

So, before we get to our favorite Fox News contributor, let's get to the big three. Number three. He sent a message back indicating that he would come over, and I said, No, don't come over. Like, I'm not in the mood, don't come over. He came in.

He just came into my house. It was unlocked. I live in an area where you don't usually have to lock your doors. I do now. By the way, always lock your doors.

I don't care which area you're in. Jenny accuses Graham Plattner of rape. Embarrassing, inexcusable, and easily foreseeable, Plattner, the phony oyster farmer with a history of abuse in every way, has one scandal too many.

Now the Dems are tossing him overboard. But he might not even go. See what it means for Susan Collins and a chance for re-election. Number two. You've been a great leader and a respected leader all over the world and we really do.

We've had right from the beginning good chemistry. We've had a very special relationship. Turkey has become under the president a very powerful country militarily. Donald Trump, about an hour ago, off to NATO. He has landed.

Possible meeting with the Ukrainian president, likely. He's already spoke to Vladimir Putin over the weekend. He says peace is a lot closer than you think.

Now he's got to push our allies to do something when it comes to Iran, or they might just push him right out of the organization. Number one. From the beginning, we didn't connect with the game. It was really tough from the beginning to congratulate Virtuum. They were better than us.

We didn't show what normally that team can show. And that is a reality. And he also said it's his responsibility. Down goes the U.S., a woeful display in Seattle as U.S. hopes of a final aid appearance goes up in flames.

We look at the run and where this team goes from here, but not with Daniel Hoffman. Daniel, you know the president's objectives with NATO. Try to get our allies involved. On number one and number two, try to end the U.S. through the Ukrainian war with Russia.

Do you think he'll be successful on either front?

Well, I think Both of those conflict, certainly there's a lot hinging on what we do, but also we have to take into account that when it comes, for example, to the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, there's never been any evidence whatsoever that he wants to negotiate an end to that war.

So I'm really not that sanguine that we're going to see an end to the war until Putin is removed from the Kremlin. When it comes to Iran, I think there's a lot to be done there. The President has offered Iran some incentives. to negotiate in good faith on their nuclear program. Obviously, right now, they're allowed to export oil at market prices, but there are frozen funds and sanctions potentially to be lifted.

But we need to hold out the threat of military strikes, and that's where this NATO summit, I think, is so important. for the United States and our NATO allies to demonstrate a united and strong front, together emphasizing that if Iran doesn't negotiate in good faith, that together we will be prepared to launch kinetic strikes, that they will support us in doing that.

So you think a joint address would be ideal? I think we want to give President Trump and his negotiating team maximum leverage. Yeah.

A negotiating period. It's really been on pause because of the lengthy funeral for Ayatollah Khamenei. Once the funeral is over on the ninth of July, potentially, we could get into some negotiations, and we need to ensure that we have carrots and sticks waiting for Iran, depending upon how they behave. You know, Israel is not optimistic at all that Iran will behave any differently. And basically, with the Ayatollah dead, nothing really has changed.

Do you think anything has changed?

Well, I think what we're seeing right now, at least, is that the IRGC is very much in control of Iran, and the technocrats and clerics have been kind of pushed to the side. I'm sure that the CIA has prepared an analysis, a deep assessment of the changes in Iran's leadership structure as a result of some of those phonetic strikes that we took that decapitated the regime multiple times over. But there hasn't been any indication that Iran is willing to budge when it comes to their nuclear program, their ballistic missile program, which they seek to reconstitute, and their support to proxy terrorists, especially Hezbollah. That's what their effort to include Lebanon in the MOU was all about, to show that they were continuing to support Hezbollah. And really that has nothing whatsoever to do with why we went to war against Iran.

The war was a result of the fact that Iran didn't ever negotiate in good faith, and we wanted to induce them to come to the table and negotiate a deal that would be better than the JCPOA, from which, of course, we all know the Trump administration withdrew back in twenty seventeen.

So I want you to hear Zelensky and what he's asking. Cut 26. It is simply absurd that in the modern world production has still not been scaled up to the level actually required to protect people from ballistic terror. Yeah.

That's look, the United States needs to be the arsenal of democracy. We're not talking about sending U.S. troops anywhere. Yeah.

Sending our munitions so that our allies, our closest allies, can fight on the front lines and defend themselves. And Ukraine is defending Europe, with which we enjoy over a trillion dollars worth of trade.

So that's obviously in our national security interests for a whole host of reasons. I know that the Department of Defense, Steve Feinberg, Deputy Secretary of Defense, is doing his best to energize the U.S. defense industrial base so we can more effectively produce munitions and drones, the things that we need to fight this century's wars and to support our allies. And that's an ongoing challenge.

So what is the state of the war in Ukraine? Here's what General Keene said. Uh uh cut twenty-eight. Ukraine strategically is imposing themselves on Russia's major source of supply, one to sustain its own economy, oil. And they're hitting refineries.

It's a great tactic. They've finished they've damaged extensively Russia's navy without a navy. They have also made Crimea uninhabitable, so the vacation spot is not it's not coming to fruition.

So could you describe the gains that Ukraine is making? I mean, first of all, Putin never achieved his strategic objective of conquering Kyiv and installing a puppet regime loyal to the Kremlin.

So It That alone is just an example of how effective Ukraine has been at defending their own territory. But they've taken the fight to the enemy and forced Russia to pay a massive price in terms of spilled blood and treasure, which is going to have an impact on whether Putin can carry on the war. And perhaps. Most importantly, and this is what we're not going to see here, the CIA might be seeing it with their sensitive sources, the extent to which Putin's own military and security senior officials take a look at what's happening and decide maybe this isn't the right guy to be leading our country. And if past is prologue, there's going to be a lot of pressure.

to remove Putin over this war. Over a million casualties in an unbalanced wartime economy, which is seriously struggling. And Ukraine the Biden administration never wanted Ukraine to take the fight inside Russian territory. But they're doing it, and they're doing it effectively with their drones. And it's having a really significant impact on the course of the war.

And they're doing long-range missiles, aren't they? Didn't they hit Siberia? Yeah.

Yeah, and they've got the intelligence that they need.

So they know where these sites are, they're conducting intelligence. And then they're launching precision strikes on military targets.

So, Russia, as you pointed out today on Fox and Friends, Russia is targeting Ukrainian schools and hospitals and maternity wards, raining down hell on Ukrainian civilians, while Ukraine is targeting Russian infrastructure and military targets with an eye towards just stopping the war. That's all Ukraine wants, is for Russia to pull back from the territory that they've illegally annexed in Crimea, in Donetsk, in the Donbas, and end the war. And I, again, see no indication Putin's going to do it, but Putin is going to force Russia. I mean, Zelensky is going to force Russia to make a decision at some point down the road when this war becomes just too costly for them.

So you think that he has no way out? He doesn't think of a way out. I mean, if there is, so is there a tactic that they could use? To where he saves face. And maybe saves his job.

Or the only way you see the stopping is if the Russians remove Putin. I don't see Vladimir Putin stopping the war, I'm sorry to say. I remember Winston Churchill in World War II said, a hunt alive is a war in progress.

Well, it's kind of a derisive term there. But as long as Putin is alive and in the Kremlin, this war is going on. Ukraine is an existential threat, not to Russia, but to Putin. Putin could never allow a country on Russia's border with a sizable Russian-speaking population to enjoy commercial, economic, diplomatic, strategic relationships with the West. That's just not something that he would ever want because it just shows how poorly he has mismanaged Russia's own economy.

And deprived its citizens of basic human rights to which Ukrainians enjoy and Europeans enjoy. And that that's just not where Ukrainians want to live, and it's not where lots of Russians want to live either. They don't like that form of government, but they've been forced into it. I don't see Putin giving that up. I think Putin understands if he were to make a deal right now, even though he likes to talk about making deals, but that's just to try to show distrust between the United States and Ukraine and our European allies.

If he were to make a deal, I think any deal would be a bad deal for him. That's why he launched the war in the first place. Yeah, I I guess, but if you're losing They say 32,000 a month, and you lose six Russians to every one Ukrainian, and now you're running out of people, so you send your guys into Africa to dupe people into fighting for you. This seems, I mean, the utter definition of desperate, but you're the CIA guy. I mean, you gotta see the world through Putin's eyes.

He doesn't care.

So if I were. President Trump cares. President Trump talks about those human losses all the time and says it doesn't make sense. You're right, President Trump. It doesn't make sense.

For us. But Vladimir Putin doesn't care how many Russians die. either at home or overseas. in order for his regime to stay in power. Absolutely doesn't care.

Kill A million Russians doesn't matter. He's a descendant of Stalin. And we all know the way Stalin behaved. killed millions and millions of of Soviets. and forced Ukrainians to die of hunger, massive numbers of them.

So I just don't think Vladimir Putin cares. That's who he is, KGB guy, I'm sorry to say. The key thing that the CIA could do for President Trump is help the president see the world through Vladimir Putin's eyes, because Putin is about as different. Really? in terms of how he sees himself and the world then anyone could ever imagine compared to a U.

S. politician like President Trump. Wow.

So I just got to report this. At least three tankers were hit and transited the strait today. It's the route that Iran has warned ships against using. That's the one that we have on the other side of the strait. They appeared to come under attack on Tuesday.

Iran did not claim that they did the attacks, but its state TV network said at least one vessel ignored warnings from Iran.

So that maybe is why the market's reacting down 200 and something points. The Iranians are going to continue to pulse The Strait of Hormuz. They don't want to close it because they need it to export their oil, and they're giving China kind of most favored nation status, transiting the Strait of Hormuz. But they want to try to exercise some command and control. They want oil prices to be high.

They want insurance rates to be high. And they want to demonstrate to the Gulf states and the United States that they control the strait. This is going to be an ongoing issue for us. And if this is an indication of Iran's strategy going forward, I don't hold out a whole lot of hope that they're going to want to negotiate on the nuclear program.

So I just want to test you in a moment in Cuba. It looks like the whole island is out of power. The whole island. It's oil, it's gas, it's their grid. Man, what would be a proactive thing we can do right now, knowing that we got to get rid of that government, but also we don't want to invade.

Right. I mean, that's what what the CIA Has done before and is continuing to do, I'm sure, provide the President with the intelligence on who in Cuba could we potentially work with. Along the lines of a Delphi Rodriguez, somebody who could ensure a stable transition. But you've got to get rid of the Castro-led. communist regime.

If you have any hope for the future in Cuba. And we shouldn't be making any investments there or pulling them out of economic distress. Absent that, in my estimation. And we're lucky to have somebody like Secretary Rubio. Leading our efforts on this because he is deeply, deeply knowledgeable.

I can tell you back to my CIA days when I was running the CIA's Near East division and testified on Capitol Hill. The Senate and House intelligence committees. When Secretary Rubio was on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he was considered one of the most astute observers of the world and someone who really incorporated intelligence into his assessment of how U.S. foreign policy should play out.

So I'm pretty confident that he's going to arrive at the right place here and give the President the right advice that we need. I mean, that's the impression I got for a guy like you to say that. His reputation on the inside is like that. He's got a passion for it. Number two, I actually think that he loves the fact that Trump, even despite their rivalry that they had briefly in 2016, when he was in office and Trump was, when he was on the Foreign Policy Committee, But Trump basically let him control and take to the device on Central and South America.

So he couldn't believe the amount of latitude and influence he was able to have with the administration, not by trying. They would solicit him.

So that's pretty much why he got the job he got. Yeah, I agree. He's a steady hand. Extremely sophisticated understanding of the world. And we're Incredibly fortunate to have him in this senior government position that he's in right now.

Dan Hoffman, thanks so much, Dan. Appreciate it. All right, my pleasure. Have a good rest of the day. You too.

We'll be back with some phone calls in a moment. Then, at the bottom of the air, we talk to Ned Ryan about what Republicans' chances are now in Maine to hold that seat now that Graham Plattner is blowing up before our eyes. He just doesn't read the headlines. He breaks them down. Real talk, real news.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Uh He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. I had a few tears, but look, it was a difficult matchup. I think maybe we got a little overexcited and exuberant from those previous matchups that we had and thinking, okay, we're gonna come out here, we're gonna smash Belgium.

They're a top 10 team. I think they went 17, 18, now 18 games undefeated. They're a very good team. And when it comes down to it, they outplayed us in a variety of different spots on the field. And that's a team that barely held on against Senegal, a team that many people thought the U.S.

could beat, that might be tougher. But right now, you went into that game against Belgium where the U.S., you know, everything's betting now. You went into that game. Thinking that the U.S. would win, unless, of course, you know, it's a one-goal game, anything could happen.

Not many people thought it would be a 4-1 win. And does it wipe out all the gains they made? No. Does it wipe out the fact that 27 million people at the high 32 million people wanted to watch the last game. This game, I imagine, got closer, I think closer to 35 million probably watched.

Now Mike sadly, I've told more people to watch this game, and it was such a horrific game and they were so outplayed, it just reinforces what a lot of people think. When it comes to soccer, Americans still have a long way to go. I don't think we actually have a long way to go. Because I look more in the last four games. or five games Than I do the last game.

I just don't get it. My fear is the coach is gonna leave. Because I really believe he is a quality coach, quality guy that gets our culture, especially a guy from Argentina. that understands America, but some of the most productive Ethnic classes in our country from Argentina. Cubans are probably one of the most successful.

We come back, Ned Ryan breaks down what the platinum implosion means for the party in Maine. Also, what's going on in Michigan as a key Democrat drops out of the race for Senate. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. And it got to the point where I was like, okay, I feel like I've said this enough times.

Like, he's not listening to me or he's not hearing me. I looked at him and I remember this very specific look in his eyes and I could smell alcohol and I was like. This is different. He is heavily intoxicated. Like And that blank stare was kind of like a photographic memory that that I still have of that night and his Yeah.

That was me recognizing what the situation was. And this wasn't just like, oh, hey, somebody showed up and I'm going to tell him to go home. Like, he was heavily intoxicated, had intentions with me, and wasn't. And I said, no.

So that is Jenny, his former girlfriend, and he, she is accusing him basically of rape. I mean, why it even came to this, the worst candidate I've ever seen in my life. is amazing, but now it's beyond contro beyond anybody's imagination. Jula Brandt Schumer says I'm we're not going to finance it. Every senator just about not named Bernie Sanders has an Akeem Jeffries in Congress.

In the House has rejected him, but he's not even dropping out yet. That is Graham Platiner over in Maine. Ned Ryan's joins us now, American Majority Founder. He's got a new documentary, The Threat of Liberty, Keeping Our Republic. Ned, why is this guy not gone yet?

I want to even know why he was here in the first place. I mean, this, like you said, I totally agree. I've been around politics for a very long time. This has to be one of the worst candidates I've ever seen anywhere at any time, regardless of party. And I guess I've got a couple questions.

I don't mean to sound overly cynical, but been around DC for a long time, have seen games that are played. You're telling me you just found this out. I know. You're telling me that somehow opposition research hadn't found this out months ago. And conveniently, the week before someone can be forced out by July 13th, this pressure campaign has begun to get him out to then reinstall somebody else.

I think they were looking at poll numbers. I'm sorry. The DC establishment looks at poll numbers and realizes this guy can't beat Collins. Collins just released a poll. She's up by four.

So I'm not saying I disbelieve some of these accusations. I just find the timing of this extremely convenient for the Democrats in DC. Let's also look at Swalwell. When Swellwell, everybody knew that this guy had huge problems, personal frailties. But all of a sudden, when he started being a frontrunner, they all came out at once.

And then we haven't heard anything since. It closed for it. That's right. They know how to, if it's not convenient for them, it's going to put them in a bad situation where it might cost them political power. Because let's remember, this is their obsession.

Democrats are absolutely obsessed with political power. If anything that happens that might endanger that, they're going to take you out in a hot second because they find you wildly inconvenient.

So by the way, on the side of his personal behavior, he's also a socialist. He called himself a communist. Exactly.

So by the way, Zo Ram Mdani, evidently, he's got a threshold. He now calls on Platinum to drop out of the main race.

So he finally hit his threshold. You know, who hasn't Bernie Sanders? Bernie Sanders. The thing that we're seeing become pretty evident, and this has been 50 years in the making, Brian, where the socialists, the communists have been slowly eating the Democratic Party from within. I think we're watching in real time where they are going to, if they haven't already, become the power brokers inside the Democratic Party.

And I think we're just at the beginning stages of it. I mean, you're going to see more AOCs, Bernie Sanders, Blattners, Mondanis. I mean, we just saw this massive upset in Colorado in a Democrat primary with a longtime Democrat incumbent in the House being beaten rather handily by a socialist.

So I think we're into a new stage where you're going to see the rapid. transformation into full-blown Socialist Party with the Democrats.

So, I guess we're going to have to see. I guess some people are not giving up. Mika Brzezinski on MS Now. Uh cut forty-three. Is there evidence between her and him?

Evidence of a crime? Because he's being. He's being accused of rape.

So what is the what put this over the edge? Because he says he didn't, and he has people on his side who say he didn't. She says he did, and there are people but not none there's I'm trying what's the through line? What ties this together and gives you the evidence? to bring this story to the point of publishable.

Yeah, you know, we interviewed her three separate times. Her story stayed consistent across those times. You know, we talked to people who she had spoken with contemporaneously about these attacks, and all of those stories lined up and checked out. And ultimately, Politico stands by our reporting. Wow, she's really pursuing this story.

He really wants to hold on to this gem. That's Adam Redd, who wrote the story at Politico. Let's just make sure because he's running such a great race up until now. It doesn't seem like the Graham Plattner, not the man that has a Nazi tattoo. Why would he ever do that?

He talks in such a disparaging way about all women. How could he get caught up like this? The thing that sticks out to me, Brian, is just again the political reality of everything. Collins was down massively in polls in 2020, still pulls out the win. He's up four right now.

I think it was going to get worse for Platiner. I think they realized if we don't pull the plug on this pretty quick, and by that I mean the Democrats in D.C., Collins is assured of re-election.

So they're scrambling again to try and replace a candidate. I want to make this point, Brian. One of the most undemocratic political processes in our country is a Democrat primary. Like the people voted for this guy. They made him a nominee.

And now the DC establishment is pulling another one, like they did with Biden in 24. Like, ah, you know what? We've had a change of heart. We think this is a terrible candidate.

So, very nice of you to go out and express your voting and all that stuff. We'll be making the decisions from here on out.

So, now let's take a look at Michigan, where Mike Rogers is going to be a formal candidate, right?

So, we won against somebody that's center-left, and Alyssa Slotkin, whether she is center-left, that's how she ran.

So Abdul El Saeed, Hassan, Abdul El Saeed, is now the leading contender on the Democratic side to run against him, who basically believes that we deserve 9-11. He has been endorsed and pushed by Bernie Sanders, even though he says he's not an avowed socialist. Everything about him and his programs are a socialist. AOC has now backed him, too, against who Chuck Schumer endorsed this Stevens.

So if this emerges as the candidate. What changed so much in Michigan in two years that someone on the extreme left? would be polling equal with Mike Rogers, who's a traditional conservative. I just think it's a snowball effect. Again, I want to point out, like, The Communist Party, there were people in the Communist Party in the 1970s.

Who made it very clear that we have to go inside the Democrat Party and run in primaries and show up at conventions because running as a third party is ridiculous.

So let's make a let's say a party is what people say it is. I mean, I'm literally quoting G. William Domhoff in Ramparts magazine from the 1970s. And so it's been a long process, but it's almost like a snowball effect. And so I think you're going to see this accelerating in the next few years, where, yeah, you see this rapid change, even in a couple of years.

I think it's going to become even more rapid as we move forward, where. The socialists, not only because they started doing this years ago, running inside the Democratic Party, but now you've got younger generations who've gone through indoctrination centers who actually think these are legitimate ideas.

So I don't think this is a problem that's going away anytime soon. In fact, I think we're going to see it accelerate inside the Democratic Party, like I said earlier, until it becomes a full-blown socialist party. And then I think the American people have to decide which path will be choosing. Are we going to stay with those that love this country, that believe in a free and prosperous America, or are we going to go down this path of socialism?

So, I don't want to dismiss this as something that's going to go away. I think we're going to be confronting even more of this in the next couple of years. What do you think is going to happen? We're right now in July, early July. Do you think Republicans have a better than 50% chance of holding the House and better than 50% chance of holding the Senate?

I like our chances in the Senate. I really do. I think it's going to be almost impossible for us to lose the Senate. I've seen some turn, like some positive turns in our poll numbers in some of these Senate races that were a little too tight for comfort a few months ago. I like our chances there.

In the House, the redistricting wars we have won, not by as much as I thought we would, but you look at some of these numbers where I think we've got 215 what are considered relatively strong seats compared to I think they've got 209, whatever it is, with a certain amount of, I think it's 15 toss-ups, something like that. I I like Let's just say it's 50-50. It's going to be a dogfight. I mean, we're running up against history, Brian. We're running up against a lot of different things that, you know, normally we're not going to keep the House, but I think there's been a lot of good work put in.

I think we're going to have a lot of money. We might have more money in a midterm than Democrats, which is an unusual dynamic. I think we're going to have better candidates. They're going to be putting up the socialists. We're going to be putting up pretty good, strong conservatives.

So, some of the dynamics are definitely in our favor. I don't want us to underestimate Democrats also shooting themselves in the foot. But at the same time, I don't want people being in any way overconfident. I put our chances at 50-50. It's going to be a dogfight.

I'd like the chances of us pulling it off. At the same time, we're up against a lot of historical empirical evidence that says we won't. Yeah, the president should realize, too. I think he's not focused as much on the midterms because he's got his hands full with life. He's got to look at Ohio.

If you lose Ohio, Iowa is not a layup like everyone thought it would be with Jamie Ernst if she was to run again. People are hoping for an upset in New Hampshire. With John Sununu, I don't know how real that is. Chris would have done it. I think one of the things that I'd really like to see, and I thought we were going to see more of this by now.

That Trump would be doing more rallies. He'd be doing more barnstorming through key states, through key congressional districts. Obviously, there's a lot going on on the international stage, but we need to start focusing a lot on the domestic agenda in these midterms because I want to point this out, Brian. 26 is key that we keep the house even by one seat for a whole host of reasons. Puts us on a good trajectory for the 28 elections.

I like our chances to keep the White House. That's a whole nother conversation. We need to keep political power for the 2030 census. If we actually are running the census and do it correctly, You might see 25 to 40 seats and electoral votes move into red states. At that point, you lead to a decade of political dominance, which I think is desperately needed to send the un-American left into the political wilderness and set things right.

So, I want to talk about your documentary, The Threat of Liberty. What was your approach? The approach was to share the story and really compress over the course of 250 years using Alexis de Tocqueville, this young French nobleman who wrote Democracy in America as kind of the backdrop to tell the story. And really just remind people what an incredible nation we are. You know, I think we too often take for granted how important the American Republic is to world history.

I think of Ken Burns' quote in which he said: the most important event in world history since the birth of Christ is the American Revolution. And I think we should celebrate that. Have we been perfect? No. And we actually take an honest look at slavery and some of these other things that the founders dealt with, but we should celebrate.

The fact that we were the first ever in world history a rights-based republic in which the people were sovereign. We have been an enormous force for good to the world over the last 250 years in regards to economic prosperity and freedom and human dignity. And the point I'm making, this, Brian, is we call it the threat of liberty because each generation. Has to decide: are we going to take that thread up? Our obligations to those that came before us and those that come after us?

Are we going to hold that thread of liberty and pass it on to the next generation? And all the moments and the inflection points in our history where it could have failed. But that generation at that moment felt an obligation to the experiment and found deep within them the political courage and will to pass it on.

So I would encourage people's 85-minute documentary, threadofliberty.com, give it a watch. Yeah, let's take a listen. Cut 48. The founding of America makes you believe in providence if you don't already. Nearly 5,000 years of recorded experience said free people could not sustain self-government for long.

Every republic had failed. The framers of the Constitution took a trip through the graveyard of past constitutions, the 12 tablets of Rome, the Athenian Constitution, what we have of it. They looked at everything. Their aim is to outdo the glory of Greece, outdo the glory of Rome. And if they failed, what would happen?

they would be hung as traitors.

So You try to put in perspective where this government came from. You have a moment in history, Brian. We're a collection of intellectual giants at the height of their powers in the right place at the right time. put together something that had never been seen before. in in world history.

And I believe in divine providence. That wasn't chance. They created something that never could have happened in the old world, but they were in the new world, so it had a chance of succeeding. And we talk about the Constitutional Convention. And if you had been a betting man in May of 1787, with all the different self-interests that were taking place.

You would have said there's no way this will ever succeed. And yet, four months later, They took the declaration's promises and hammered them into institutions and formed one of the most exquisite, if not the most exquisite political document ever seen. in a period of four months is nothing short of a miracle. And put in place this rights-based government that the whole point of government was not to give rights. But to skew those natural inherent rights that our creator gave us.

And then, how do you build that machinery of the republic that they did? It's an incredible story and we should be proud of it. I mean, this is the one thing where you look at the left that wants to destroy us, and they have their motives, right? They're coming from a completely different worldview and a different approach to governing. But you think about what we have been given.

And the responsibility of stewardship that we have. One of the things that I want to do with this documentary, Brian, is have a rebirth of instinctive patriotism. And that's an inborn love of country, but you cannot love what you do not know. And I think that's a thing that we've got to address with the younger generations, but also just with the current generation. We should have an honest conversation about our founding, where we came from.

And look at it and go, yeah, we've had flaws. One of the observations that Tocqueville made was the ability of America to repair faults. We've had a little bit of a zigzag path. We've had our share of faults. We've had our share of shortcomings.

But what an incredible story this has been. And I want people to watch this and celebrate and go. What an amazing story. And I want to pass this on to future teachers. And where do we get it?

Threadofliberty.com. It's free. Go watch it. It's about 85 minutes. Have a complete blast.

Victor Davis Hansen's in it. Larry Arn, some other great people from Hillsdale. Great list of commentators.

So I think people will enjoy it. Ned Ryan. I'm sure we will. I cannot wait to watch it. Thanks so much, Ned.

Thanks, Brian. I appreciate it. You got it.

Back in a moment to wrap up the hour. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. Uh From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. Sponsored by Previgen. Previgion made for your brain.

There are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy. What is she even talking about? I I guess I'm playing it, so maybe that's what she wanted. But do you really think people look at the American flag as white supremacy on year two hundred fifty? She said she feels that's Sonny Hawson of the View.

She feels when she walks in her neighborhood and sees the flag, it triggers her, feels unsafe. That's like being to me, if you live in America, that's like having a front door of a house making you feel unsafe. Wherever you go, you're going to see a flag. And it's because you're in this country. And if the flag makes you uncomfortable, Especially with her resources.

You could go somewhere else. I mean, it doesn't seem to have treated her bad. I think she's a lawyer, had a career, now she's on a successful talk show. Please tell me how bad America has been for her. Finally, just to end where we started: USA against Belgium.

Belgium now moves on to play against Spain on Friday night. And all I can tell you is I have no big deal that they lost. What bothers me most is how they lost. They came out flat, they never adjusted. I saw so many guys walking around on midfield, and then to think that first or second goal that they had.

Where the ball is up in the air, and I see two players just stand there, and then you just see the Belgian player just knock it into the goal, let alone the third goal, which was just a major screw-up by the goalie.

So they lost 4-1 to Belgium. It's just how they lost is the problem. Brian Kilmicho.