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Hi, everyone. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action now. And of course, yesterday I was lucky enough to be covering the World Cup. Was able to do hits in the morning for the Fox and Friends and then interview the president of FIFA after we'll bring you some of that.

This hour, Lawrence Jones is in the studio. That's always great. Michael Makovsky will be here from, as you know, he's president and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, a leading Washington, D.C. base policy and educational organization.

Now under scrutiny like they all are because we're wondering where this anti-Semitism, anti-Israel attitude came from with mostly Democrats, but some Republicans too. We will talk about that as well as cover. We know Marco Rubio's in action.

Now he's in Alaska en route to the Philippines. There's going to be a big regional conference that includes China. And we got to talk to them about the frequency of their ships going through the Taiwan Strait. Is that related to what's happening to the Strait of Hermuz? Before we get to Lawrence, let's get to the big three.

Number four. Yeah. Landlords in New York have been making a 12% return on their investment for on average. What should they make? What's fair for the landlord to make if you don't like 12?

We don't think that anyone should have a constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment. No one's giving you a constitutional right, you idiot. It's called a good investment, and everyone should gun to make double-digit profit of an investment. Pushback on socialists beginning to organize. Yes, as some Dems try to take back their party before it's too late.

The primary season is upon us, almost wrapped up, because they're worried about November if they have the wrong candidates this summer. Number two.

Well, I watched this started with Scotland, and all of a sudden they're doing things that nobody's ever seen with the bagpipes. And it was beautiful, and it just went to every country. And they're realizing what a great country this is. Welcome. We're the hottest country in the world right now for this helped.

World Cup complete. The biggest, most successful sports tournament in history, 78 games in the U.S., 104 overall. Overall, cities flooded with tourists, and dare I say, soccer fans created here in America and beyond. Number one. I think we're always open to diplomacy.

It has to be real. It has to be a deal that they're willing to live by.

So. I mean, their behavior has to change in order for ours to change. That's a very simple idea, Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The ninth consecutive night of bombing in Iran amped up after two killed on Friday, bringing the total to 17. Iran is hitting Gulf states and are about to lose the strait, I hope.

Uh that's next and so will be power plants.

So, Lawrence, first things first, let's just talk about what's happened in Iran. We did not bring this up on TV, but the IRGC command just got blown to some of the Reines. We finally aimed for their compound, destroyed them. Hopefully, they were all in there. My hope is we took that huge tower down.

There was an observatory and communication center for the strait. We're taking that country apart.

Well, there had to be a proportion of a strike. that would hit them hard after three of our guys. Or yeah. And so after we lose, you know, that's the red line for the president.

So that's one thing. But Brian, we still have not taken over the straight like we need to. And that's the one thing. And the reason why I say that the straight is important is because of the gas prices. That's the one thing that is controlling a portion of our response.

The president has still been able to keep the prices lower than the initial start of the war. But as the Iranians increase their threats and aggression, he's going to have to increase our aggression toward them. And that is going to impact the oil prices. The Wall Street Journal had today that Iran's moved $8 billion of oil amid the war's truce. It shipped 70 million barrels of oil worth as much as $8 billion between mid-June.

In mid-July, when the U.S. lifted its blockade in the Strait, to get around the to get around US sanctions, Iran sent its oil to an uh to an area known as the Eastern Outer Port Limits. outside the territorial waters of Malaysia, a midpoint between Russia and China. There, vessels would use hoses to transfer the oil to the tankers. Typically, the tankers who receive the oil would head would head towards private refineries in China, now known known as teapots, who buy the oil at a discount.

Now What happened is when they were able to trade their oil at full rate, they tried to charge China. And China goes, no. We're going to take it at a discount. And then nobody stepped up to buy it, but still they were able to get $70 billion. That MOU was a huge risk.

Well, it wasn't just a risk, it was a disaster. And everything that we said that was in the MOU before it actually came out publicly turned out to be in the MOU.

So I think the President has made it very clear, there's no MOU anymore. There's no talk of the MOU at this point. The things that we have questions about is why do we even allow that to happen? And I understand they wanted to get control of the oil prices. But this is a regime that's never going to stop.

But the one way they're able to continue is they have fuel to make their products, make their weapons. And it looks like we're hitting factories, Brian. That's another part of this that concerns me. Factories in places where we had already hit before.

So that they're rebuilding. They're rebuilding.

So that tells you when you take your feet off the gas, you leave. Room in time for them to regroup. And Iranians, they were they regrouped pretty fast. This is not Venezuela.

Well, we gotta make sure they can't get the material to regroup. That's part of it.

So Admiral James Jarvides, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, amongst his many titles, said this about Iran's offense, cut six. The Pentagon is going to tear apart every single one of these strikes. Here, I'm confident they will do whatever it takes to increase the protection. What I'm a little bit worried about, Jake, is not so much in the Middle East, but it is attacks against our bases and our troops elsewhere in the world where there might be less alert presence.

So think Europe, where we have 100,000 US troops. Think Korea. Think Japan or Okinawa part of Japan. Those are vulnerabilities that I think the Iranians would not. uh pause at exploiting One thing that I would like to see us do, Brian, and it looks like the relationship between the United States and Ukraine is a little bit back on track now.

Get the drones. Yo, why don't we do that deal? They're offered to do that. Do the deal. I thought there was talk about the deal already being done, but apparently it's not done.

Get the deal is cheap and is highly effective. Get the drones and drone the hell out of them at this point. We're worried about our munitions. That's still the problem. You could fix that.

On the back end and get these drones from the Ukrainians, and it's cheap and extremely effective and hit all these targets. The other thing is get Israel back in the game. I understand the dynamics and the reason. Got it. You didn't want to turn this into a sectarian war.

I got it. Israel was being a little bit too aggressive. Got it. But since the deal is now over and you have different partners of the Iranians talking about getting involved, let Israel back in the game. Yeah, Brian Mast, chairman of foreign relations, talked about the need to get the fighting back on track and to finish these guys.

President Trump had no choice. What we're seeing is an escalation of the status quo. Iran has been attacking us for years. People forget they killed three Americans at Tower 22 in Jordan, or that they put 11 Americans on their knees on a boat when they were attacking that boat at gunpoint. And the day-to-day harassment, there was over 350 attacks on vessels in the 30 months prior to Epic Fury every beginning.

This is the status quo. President Trump had the choice. Do we let the status quo continue and they get a nuclear weapon, or do we deal with the problem once and for all? And he said, yeah, we're going to do the hard thing. We're going to deal with the problem.

Didn't he make his case brilliantly? Yeah. I mean, look, one thing I am confident, Brian, because we sometimes hyperventilate about the strategy and how this thing, that at the end of the day, I always know, at least with this president, that he's not going to project weakness, that he's always going to answer the call. That's the one thing that we have going for. We got a military that has been successful.

I've said it from the very beginning. We're on a five-yard line. And the Iranians are going to be the Iranians. I also am very hopeful, Brian, because this is the first time I've heard the president talk about this recently, at least. He's starting to talk about the Iranian people and the suffering that they're going through.

We promised them that we're going to have their back. This is not a globalist policy. 30,000 of their people. got up in protest and we said we were gonna have their back. We got to follow through with it.

Not because we want some new regime and we want to be the policeman of the world, but because that is a direct threat to our country. We got to support those people. We got to take out the besieged because they're the ones who dress in plain clothes and just kill protesters. They hung four more over the weekend in January. By the way, Brian, to your point before we go.

There are no moderates, okay, in the government. They don't exist from the supreme leader to the parliament to the assembly of experts that is a combination of the clerics as well as doctors and philosophers. There's no matter, they play good cop, bad cop. I agree.

So Gianni Infantino is the president of FIFA. He's going to run for re-election, too. I was able to talk to him after the final game, which Spain won 1-0 in overtime. Here's what he said about what soccer's legacy. They left behind enough money in 94 to launch the MLS in 96.

What about now? Cut 16. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. behind because we stayed here.

We are staying here, we are here to stay, we are here to make soccer the number one sport. 100%. You think you can beat the NFL? We will be executing co-number ones with the NFL maybe, I don't know, no, but Roger Cotel is a great friend. There's so many friends in the NFL.

But there is space for everyone and and you know, the NFL is a great sport, it's an American sport. Helper of football, our football is the laws for the first time.

So do you think he's going to move up the rankings? I think he has the right message saying there's room for everyone. Uh room for every sport. It'll move up the ranking, but it'll never be like American football. But I do think some of the marketing, that's part of the problem.

Our best, you know, it's just a fact. Our best athletes aren't playing soccer because of exposure. They're just not playing.

So you got to market to those people. That means scholarships, telling them to know about them. There's got to be NIL deals as well. You get that, and then you'll grow it nationally. Use an example.

You look at Holland in Norway, the big center forward, right? He's 6'5. 6'5. To twenty? He would be a tight end in America.

So he would have been pushed into football or power forward. But I point out this. That for the longest times, if you were a certain build, you'd be a boxer. And after a while, boxing stopped being, you know, after Muhammad Ali retired and Tyson was, you know, there was a dead period and then Tyson came back and made it cool again. And now it's to a dead period.

Right. Those boxers are power forwards. Right. So and they're just moving to or linebackers.

So it's a when a sport gets hot, you make your decision. For example, Antonio Freeman's son, he was Freeman was unbelievable in this World Cup. He's twenty three years old.

So his dad and his mom weren't living together. They separated, and that's when he found soccer. And I'm wondering if he lived with his dad, when his dad said, No, you're playing football. Walter Payton's son was unbelievable. And they they thought he was national team caliber.

And then senior year, he says, I'm playing football. Right. And then he gets the full scholarship to Miami, Eddie Page. If I could make one suggestion, just from my perspective, as, you know. Play sports my whole life.

The branding of soccer has to change a little bit. They have to market it as being a physical, they have to make it more of a physical. Because it is. It is. But they have to brand it that way because that's what the young men gravitate to.

Like, for example, soccer was never an option in my household. It was basketball, football, and maybe, maybe give baseball a shot, right? That Soccer is not marketed as that being that way. You know, it's huge in Dallas and in house. It is.

We got FC Dallas, which is. Oh, yeah, but I mean, youth. Like, one of the elite tournaments. They have the youth team, too, as well. But one of the elite youth tournaments is in Dallas.

It is. And you have a lot of kids that are playing more so than before. And I think this World Cup was hugely. You know, successful and helps the branding. I will say this: the way the USA played, that made it take a hit.

Right. Going out that way. Yes, because you got us there. And as a new fan, And then you get all the way there. And I'm not saying for them, I'm not saying they had to win, Brian.

I understand that they were going uphill, but the no effort at all, the jogging. That leaves a bad taste in Americans. Yeah, we'll see what happens. And this week, Mauricio Punchinchino will decide if he's staying. Right.

I hope he stays. The coach. Yeah. Um I'm hearing a lot of people saying he may not be there. Yeah, they said depending on Alexei Lawis, who's just in our green room, he said it depends what kind of offer he gets because it's a good gig.

Right. But so many people want this guy. Right. So he's a hot coaching commodity. But I would love to see him build this.

He has great spirit, and he seems shocked with some of the performance after they had such a great run. It would be a disaster if we lost him. All right, so listen, uh Lawrence, uh when do we see you again? I'll be on the show tomorrow. Right.

Are you hosting it all this weekend, Iran? Of the weekend? No. I'm going to have a surgery coming up. Bye-bye.

And then we'll get through that. Another one. That's Wednesday.

So prayers appreciated. And then, yeah, we'll go from there. Should be quick. All right, in and out, get some of that some of that you have some liquid buildup. That's right, exactly.

So I've been telling people about retina tear, and then you have some liquid and all that.

So just getting rid of the, it should be quick. Lawrence Jones will be back in a week. But you will be tomorrow. And you'll give us updates. And you'll be in tomorrow.

I'll be in tomorrow. Wear makeup. I mean, I need it. Back in a moment. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

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My Mr. Netanyahu, who belongs in The Hague, he's a war criminal. Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that's what we will do, but we won't be writing our own laws to that end. That's an active conversation with our legal department in seeing what the prospects are we have here in our municipality.

So, that is our idiot mayor, Momdani, talking about his need to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. Why? Because he's anti-Semitic. We know that. He hates Israel.

We understand that. His wife hates him even more, no question about that. But now, Prime Minister Netanyahu is blasting Mondami after Mondami says he's exploring opportunities to enforce the ICC arrest warrant. He essentially says his office called the warrant bogus and accused Mondami of attacking Israel to distract from problems in New York. Legal experts say a New York mayor.

Has no clear authority to arrest a visiting foreign leader, and the U.S. does not recognize the ICC's jurisdiction. I'll bring something else. The UN Ambassador weighed in. Michael Waltz.

And he said, what the hell are you talking about? We don't even subscribe to the ICC, and anything that he's done is not genocide. And I've totally told you that John Spencer, he's at the War College at West Point, who has been there four times during the height of the war against Hamas and says that they've been more surgical And humanitarian in their strikes than even we were in Ramadi and Fallujah over in Iraq. No one was calling for President Bush's arrest. One thing, not one civilian is targeted by Israel.

In Hamas, that's the goal. Who, by the way, just elected a new leader.

So we got to put more pressure on them. We got to get these other nations putting pressure on them. I do get the sense that Gaza is further along. Then Hezbollah And that Lebanon's relationship with Israel is great. With Hezbollah, I feel as though they're still getting supplied.

And I think that's why at the hub of it all, at the nexus of it all, is Iran. The less power they have, the less weapons they have, the less money they have, the less money all these proxies have. And guess who's the latest one who wants them defang Syria? Wants them defanged. Lebanon is standing up, something they haven't done in 25 years.

And nobody. likes what's happening right now in Gaza.

So there could be a situation where Gaza starts calling their own shots, Palestinians. Not happening right now. Hamas still's got the guns. Less guns, but still have the guns. A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Kill Mead Show. I think we're always open to diplomacy. It has to be real. It has to be a deal that they're willing to live by.

Look, Iran a week ago was supposed to put out a statement saying that the straits of Amuz would be open, that they would no longer attack shipping. And instead of doing that, They attacked three ships. I think that was last Friday or Saturday.

So I mean, their behavior has to change in order for ours to change. It just makes so much sense. Mark Arubia, taking you a few questions yesterday. The ninth consecutive night of bombing in Iran ramped up, ramped up big time. Two, sadly, Americans have lost their lives, three overall on something unrelated.

So bringing the total to 17.

So it's not without costs. but we are putting a tremendous damage. We're wielding tremendous damage on one of our premier enemies. I still look at China as a competitor and Russia, I think, is an enemy. But Iran is front and center and they've killed Americans.

They try to keep the blood off their hands, but we know it's on there, and so does Marco Rubio. He has very little trust in any MOU. Marco Rubio gets it. I can't say the same thing about the vice president. With us right now is Michael Makovsky, President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, and it's a leading Washington, D.C.-based policy and educational organization focused on U.S.

defenses and national security issues in the military, in the Middle East. Micah, welcome back. Thank you, Brian. Great to see you again. Michael, from your sources, do you have a sense of how much damage this nine days of bombing has done on the infrastruct military infrastructure of Iran?

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Well, I think there'd been obviously significant damage. And I think what's also interesting, obviously initially, the attacks seemed to focus along the coastal area of the Persian Gulf. But what we've seen, I think, in recent days is an expansion of the target list. To also more southwest and just generally more western Iran. And I think that suggests.

What might be coming going forward. Plus, of course, the whole moving of all these refueling tankers and perhaps other assets to Israel.

So there might be more U.S. planes coming from the West, and therefore, there might be that the signal suggests. You know, more action on western Iran, too.

So, so far, why don't you think they're hitting Israel?

Well, you know, that's a great question. I think there's a couple of reasons. One, because the Iranians know that Israel will hit back hard. And I think from, I was recently in Israel right before we last spoke. And I think the Israelis are itching to get in.

And I think the Iranians know it.

So they're just, they don't want to hit Israel if they could avoid it.

Well They must not, I mean, at the same time, if that is indeed the case, and people think that, and you, and maybe I'm inclined to think that too. Why would they break an MOU that was so Tilted in their favor, allowed them to trade oil at full price, potentially, allowed them to begin to maybe do the things necessary to get $300 billion in relief funds from their Arab neighbors and investment. All these things would have allowed them to to rebuild. Hopefully not their nuclear program, but they would have from their perspective. But yet they just said, well, I'm going to shoot the chips and blow the whole thing up.

Do they don't they know that was the best deal ever? And aren't those the same people that are being pragmatic, evidently, when it comes to Israel? They're not when it comes to us? Right. No, it's a great question, and logic would suggest exactly what you're saying.

But unfortunately, I think the fundamental problem here, and the MOU reinforce it, is the Iranians think they won the war. And they felt that way since the ceasefire on April 8th, and they saw a desperate America wanting to come to a deal. And the MOU, as you point out, was a tremendous. Agreement for the Iranians. And yet it was an abject failure because the Iranians wanted more.

They wanted to push. They saw America on the run and they wanted to exert their dominance on the Strait of Hamuz.

Now, they did sell a lot of oil. My office, my organization, Jinsa, reported, I think, two weeks ago that they got already like five billion over at least five billion dollars in oil revenue within the first few weeks of the MOU. And as you point out, they could have gotten a lot more. But they can't help themselves, and it's more important to the regime to try to exert their dominance of the strait of Hermuzan to push the United States out than the oil revenue they would have gotten.

So we've got to put our plan is definitely to take back that straight, I think, kinetically. Here's General Jack Keene on the progress we're making. He said this 40 minutes ago. Cut 32. We're doing what we couldn't get done diplomatically.

We removed our blockade as part of the deal, but they maintained control.

So now we're conducting the Battle of the Straits of Amuse to forcibly open the Straits, secure it, and eventually control it. That is what has taken place, and huge progress is being made. And as we are taking casualties in doing this, Casualties are a part of war and our heart goes out to the loss of life here. and three losses of life is uh has taken place, one non-combatant and potentially a fourth. Add that to the list of thousands that the Iranians have killed, Americans, since 1983.

And that's what we're dealing with in this barbaric regime.

So The physically taking the straight back. Is key. We have that one pathway through the Oman side, and those would we refuse to go through the other side, they were getting shot at. And it looked you know, the is the Iranians claim they shot another ship over the weekend. We can't confirm that.

Right. And I agree, obviously, with what General Keen just said, and obviously my condolences to the families of these American soldiers that were unfortunately and tragically lost in the last few days. But I think the general is, of course, right. This is a battle for the Strait of Hormuz. And I think it might be even broader than that, because it's not just about what the Hermuz is.

Yes, the Hermuz is important, but it's about making sure, I think, to convince the Iranians that they've lost. And they haven't won. And that's very important. And I think President Trump seems to understand that. With all these violations, the threats to assassinate him.

The MOU failed, not because of the conspiracy theories of Vice President Vance, but because the Iranians violated all the time, and they were mocking the United States and the President of the United States and threatening to kill him.

So I think we have to show the Iranians. They can't control the Straits of Vermuz, and that they've lost this war. And then I think there might be an expansion. We don't know yet what President Trump is thinking, but I think he's already hinted that he might use this as an opportunity to also go after the nuclear facilities because I thought it was very interesting that he raised Pickaxe Mountain, this nuclear facility that was not hit last year or this year. And it suggests that maybe we might be going after that also.

Time will tell. That would be great. But I think the other thing I want to bring you to, even though you're in Washington, As the Vice President said with Joe Rogan, That there are elements of the Israeli government that wants perpetual war. And I thought to myself, yes, I mean, for every government, there's an Elon Omar, who are fringe, right, who who they don't speak for the country, but they have a constituency. I can't tell you the names of people in the Knesset.

But I don't know anyone in Israel in a country the size of New Jersey that would think it would be great for us to always be at war. Yeah. Look, I was in Israel a couple weeks ago, and or a few weeks ago, I met with every senior security leader in the military and the security, including Prime Minister Nathaniel. I can tell you, I don't think any of them want indefinite war. You see, today, I was reading today that you had the head of IDF manpower talking about how there's a shortage of IDF troops.

They're not looking for war. Israelis have been, especially the reservists, have been serving a lot of time since October 7th. But what they do want is safety. And I think that's that's what the Israelis want. But I don't know where the And by the way, Senator Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he has no such intelligence.

Well, yeah, actually, his comments were not about Israel anymore, but he said there was no intelligence of any campaign by the Israeli government to try to kill the MOU. Yes, that's another accusation from the vice president with Joe Rogan over the weekend. I mean, I don't think he understands that he's not a senator in Ohio. That would be controversial if he was a senator in Ohio. But now he's vice president and made it clear I was a little ambivalent when it came to this war, wasn't enthusiastic, and now he's been asked to come up with an MOU to settle it, and it was.

I thought it was absolutely terrible, but it's almost in our rearview mirror now. It's almost not worthy of talking about because it's been nine straight days of bombing.

So if Iran says, well, we beat America, really, we're amping up the amount of pressure on them. And we'll see how much damage that can be done. And I'm wondering, also, I do worry about the Gulf states and if they have the interceptors that you guys, that Israel has in terms of three different levels of missile defense. Kuwait doesn't seem to have it. Jordan doesn't seem to have it.

Well, right. I think it's very interesting what you just point out: about Jordan. Obviously, these two, and perhaps more unfortunately, soldiers, U.S.

soldiers were killed in Jordan. I think what the Iranians are trying to do, they're not only trying to hit all U.S. bases in the region that they see as vulnerable, but also, in Jordan's case, they might be hoping also to destabilize. The regime. And there are a lot of Syrians and Iraqis that have flooded into that country over the last couple of decades.

Most of the country is Palestinians. We support the king there. But they might think that these attacks could also attack. And I think it's a just to bring it back, it's a real contrast. We're building up our forces in Israel, in the Ovdah Air Force Base in southern Israel, and other bases, because we see them as more secure.

And we have complete freedom of action, which is, as we talked about last time, you know, I think that we need to have a permanent base there in Israel. But they've shied away from that because it's more protected. They, the Iranians, have shied away because it's more protected.

Well, I guess we're going to see what's going to happen. Lastly, it looks like you're going to have an election in September. Is that correct? That's when the Prime Minister is going to be the Knesset was broken. Did you guys end the break up the government?

And you're going to have a new one in September? Not you, but I mean Israel is? It's going to be the end of October. Oh, yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Which is what I think Netanyahu wanted it. I think the opposition wanted it, as you said, in September before the October 7th anniversary, but he wanted it at the end of the month, which is where it's going to be. If I could just say one more thing to look out for of what we're going to be doing going forward. And again, I don't know exactly, but I thought it was very interesting, besides President Trump's comments about Pickaxe Mountain.

And by the way, the Wall Street Journal reported that we didn't hit Pickaxe Mountain because we didn't think it was important. My understanding from Israeli sources, that's not the case. It was because. It was because it was so deeply buried that we or the Israelis could not effectively hit it. But there was another attack by CENTCOM that I think is interesting.

We hit Abadan.

Now, I don't know why, what exactly we hit, but whether it was just the air defense, but that's the site of Iran's biggest refinery. And the president has talked about in the past about hitting their energy facilities to really cripple the hurt the regime and to undermine their ability to execute a war. I think that's something to watch. I think what we might be seeing, I don't know, but what these other strikes beyond just about the Strait of Hermuz might be preparing for something larger. Uh in the coming days and weeks, we'll have to.

Well, I think if we hit some of the energy facilities, for instance, as the president has talked about, we did hit this nuclear facility, the civilian nuclear facility. If we decided, for instance, to hit the major refinery, that would really hurt the regime. I'm not talking about export. I'm talking about because it would make the regime less able to provide fuel for the people. What if we wanted to hit some of their natural gas facilities?

By the way, I heard that from Israel. There's been a lament. That we didn't hit some of their more of their energy facilities because that would really hurt the regime internally. And I think that's something to watch. I don't know if we're going to go that route, but President Trump has referred to that as a possibility.

Yeah, we don't want this to go on endlessly. Nobody does, and not even an obscure Israeli politician that may not exist. Michael Makofsky, thanks so much. Always appreciate your insight, especially now, nine days into a major bombing campaign in Iran. Thank you.

Thank you. You got it. Thank you. Have a good day. You too.

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It's Andy Burnham. And in case you think it's going to be a new bright day, think again. He's a far left-left socialist. Yeah. Back in a moment.

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Yeah. They're cowardly. Their party is being taken over now. by, you know, every day I hear about a new very radical, I feel very good about Uh 10 whenever years ago. Like I did lose fans because, you know.

Uh I wasn't going to go along with some of this crazy stuff on the left too. I didn't change really on what I thought about the right, but just I can't sit and just not notice stuff, which people seem to want to do because it's all about my team or your team. But yeah, there's some crazy stuff. Yeah, there is some crazy stuff on the left. Don't you think?

Vetterman, Bill Maher, Van Jones speaking out against it. Don't you think it's a little disturbing? People go, oh, gives Republicans a shot at the midterms, but this is too big. The mayor of New York City is one thing. Then you got two other congressional leaders who believe abolish prisons, abolish borders, hate America.

The Democrat Socialists of America saying abolish the Supreme Court, abolish the Senate, abolish the presidency. You might go, wow, great, let me run against that individual. But then you realize young, educated people are voting, and if they get inspired to go out there, they start winning elections, you're not going to recognize this country. And among the people that thought that and were alarmed by that, was Van Jones. He said something interesting over the weekend.

He kind of spoke out about it and essentially says, you know, this is not the Republican Party, the Democratic Party I remember, Cut 26. But what does that have to do with supporting Hamas? What does it have to do with putting up candidates who say we should have no police? No prisons. We can't deport anybody, even if they commit rape or murder.

Israel shouldn't exist. These are terrible ideas. These are awful ideas. Where did these ideas even come from? I don't know.

And that's why if you don't know, then I'll never know.

So I even wrote him over the weekend. He wrote me back, and he says, Is he really concerned? You know, who's concerned about it too? Guys like James Carville are concerned about it. Not that they really like Republicans, cut 27.

If we lived in a world where people could literally get elected to office with the only qualification being that they went and celebrated a mass murder of Israelis, if all elected officials celebrated mass murders, is that a better world or a worse world? These are not progressive ideas. These are regressive ideas. And should I just bring up too that I didn't bring this up, but I'm sure you know it by now. Part of this.

Platform is anti Israel anti-Semitism. Oh, it uh you know, Israel shouldn't exist. But I don't want to talk about that now. That's what uh that's what Abdul Abdul El Syed, who's running for said the Democratic Senate seat. Over in Michigan.

It's so concerning that Gary Peters, who has a seat, decided that I'm going to go endorse Another questionable character, but the more mainstream Democrat over there. And sort of the Congressional Black Caucus backed off because this is not a minority movement. I don't know anybody. People, if you believe in the American dream, you cannot go for socialism, it doesn't make any sense. I mean, it caps on what you earn and Tells you, I'm going to nationalize industries that would allow for a free market to allow you to sell.

Instead, it takes incentives out of everything, and it's not worked anywhere. I wish people would understand that. There are different things that could go on, but giving people other people's money. never is worked out. And people point to the Nordic countries.

Norway and Sweden have backed off all those policies because they've fallen flat in their face. You listen to the Brian Kilmey Show.

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Hi, everyone. So glad you're there. We're at 40th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan. Last night I was at Met Light looking at the World Cup finals.

So I had a quick turnaround, but happy to be with you today and talk a little bit of soccer and so much more. Michael Goodwin, New York Post columnist this hour, Julian Epstein, makes sense of the Democratic Party of this hour, if that's possible. We'll do a simulcast on Fox News channel with America's Newsroom. We'll share each other's audiences. Hope you don't mind.

And of course, we'll take all your feedback at BrianKillMe.com. On Sunday, I did a story about data centers and talked to Mike Rowe about the need to build them, that people should stop being reluctant. And I've gotten people all over the map.

Some angry, some saying, thank goodness you said that. David Sachs said if we don't build these data centers, we're going to fall way behind China. Are they working behind the scenes to make sure that the public sentiment turns against data centers, saying it's bad for the environment? We'll discuss that at some point, but first let's get to our big three. Number three.

Landlords in New York have been making a 12% return on their investment for on average. What should they make? What's fair for the landlord to make if you don't like 12%? We don't think that anyone should have a constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment. Why?

Push back on socialists beginning to organize as some dams try to take back their party. Let's talk about that and Maine and them scrambling to replace Graham Plattner. Number two.

Well, I watched it started with Scotland. And all of a sudden, they're doing things that nobody's ever seen with the bagpipes. And it was beautiful. And it just went to every country. And they're realizing what a great country this is.

And we're the hottest country in the world right now for this help. It certainly did. That is Donald Trump. World Cup complete, the biggest, most successful sports tournament in history. 78 games in the U.S., 104 overall, most sold out.

Cities flooded with tourists. And dare I say, soccer fans created. We'll discuss it. Number one: I think we're always open to diplomacy. It has to be real.

It has to be a deal that they're willing to live by.

So. I mean, their behavior has to change in order for ours to change. That is Marco Rubio. Ninth consecutive night of intense bombing in Iran amped up after two killed on Friday in Jordan. Iran is hitting our Gulf states and are about to lose the strait.

We'll discuss it and a lot more. And Marco Rubio always making sense on foreign policy, but for some reason, when it comes to negotiations on Ukraine, when it comes to negotiations with Iran, or even Hamas, he's not involved. It makes no sense. I'd feel a lot better if he was. Do you agree with me, Michael Goodwin?

Is he not there?

Okay, we just dropped him, we lost. We lost him on that. Here is more from Marco Rubio Cut Two.

Well, they're not complying with it. I mean the the the streets are supposed to be open. Free of tolls, free of attack. free of uh all the things they're doing against these ships.

So they're they've they've You can't have an MOU that's alive if they're violating the terms of it. What I will say is that the United States always remains open to a diplomatic solution. We've tried multiple times with Iran and will continue to try every Yeah, we'll continue to try, but I think it's all a waste of time until you get to the point where they have no choice. In terms of what our choices are, Admiral Stiervidas, one of the most knowledgeable military minds in our country, had this to say over the weekend, cut three. Gatsi has three options, and none of them are good.

One, he can simply do Pontius Pilot and walk away from this. That would be a terrible outcome for the United States, for the Gulf, for global trade. I don't think he's going to do it, but that certainly is an option. More. Cut cut four.

Option two, he can go big. And I mean, back to the level of strikes we were at at the start. Hundreds of strikes a day and amping up going after targets that put pressure on the Iranian economy. Would be a big military move, and that could include boots on the ground. That's a bad option because it's expensive.

And no one wants boots on the ground, and it just doesn't kind of add up for the American public. And by the way, I don't think all three are bad options. When you're trying to take down a nemesis of this country for nearly 50 years, That is an option. We just got to do it the right way. Cut five.

And then, third and finally, so, okay, Admiral, where does he land? Probably with option three, which is what you're seeing. Increasing to some degree the kinetic activity, the bombs, increasing economic sanction pain, hopefully getting our allies on side. And above all, keeping the door open for negotiation.

Some have called this, and I think it's accurate, escalate to de-escalate, to force them back to the table. And that you know, over the weekend, I had conversations with people very close to the negotiations. There might be people that we're talking to that nobody knows. They might be in the some some so-called deep state of Iran. Then I'll be I don't know.

I've never heard of that before yesterday Let's bring in Michael Goodwin in the New York Post. Michael, the one thing we've learned over the years, I think. Is that there are no moderates in Iran? They play the good cop, bad cop game like we do. They were like, Oh, well, I'm the reasonable one.

You got it you don't want any part of the IRGC but they're always speaking out of the same the same hymn book. Yeah, that's been a a game they've played for decades. And Brian, I think that we may have fallen for some of that too when we talk about a moderate wing of the Ayatollah's command structure. I'm among those who doubt that such a moderate wing actually has any power or any say. Ultimately, that may be just simply another window dressing effort.

But I have to say also, Brian, that I think the thing when I look at the whole Six months or so nearly now, not quite, but since the end of February, when this began. Um The thing that surprises me most is how much pain Iran has been willing to absorb without surrendering, without really surrendering anything other than willing to meet and negotiate. That has to be a surprise also, I think, to some in the Pentagon and maybe even the White House. Here's Brian Mast on that, Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee. President Trump had no choice.

What we're seeing is an escalation of the status quo. Iran has been attacking us for years. People forget they killed three Americans at Tower 22 in Jordan, or that they put 11 Americans on their knees on a boat when they were attacking that boat at gunpoint. And the day-to-day harassment, there was over 350 attacks on vessels in the 30 months prior to Epic Fury every beginning. This is the status quo.

President Trump had the choice. Do we let the status quo continue and they get a nuclear weapon, or do we deal with the problem once and for all? And he said, yeah, we're going to do the hard thing. We're going to deal with the problem. I do.

And I see something. I mean, we got to, I think he's going to intensify. Over the next few days, and get back that straight. When they get back to straight, that's like snapping their Achilles heel. Yeah, I mean, that's an important factor, Brian, and it makes you do wonder.

were we surprised that the strait became so much part of their arsenal to hold us back? And it succeeded in the exit to the extent that we we could not watch the world's energy market run dry.

So we are responsible to the world. They are not. They are only responsible to themselves. And their terrorist affiliates. We have a much bigger obligation, and that's why we are the United States of America.

Yeah, so we were watching our mayor, Mayor Mum Donnie, take on. Prime Minister Netanyahu says he wants to see what his options are to have him arrested. This guy benefits from this. He wants to make himself a national figure, don't you think? Absolutely.

This is simply an opportunity. It's not a necessity, right? There's no basis of this. This indictment is from a court that America doesn't recognize. For obvious reasons.

They could indict American soldiers in Iran right now or somewhere else if they chose to. It's a corrupt. Court, just like most of the UN is corrupt, which is why the United States never ratified it and agreed to abide by it.

So Mandani doing that is embracing not the United States, he's embracing sort of a foreign operation on American soil. I mean, there's something really wrong with this guy's values. Yeah, he's kind of ridiculous. Real quick, J.D. Vance, as disappointing to you with his podcast appearance with Joe Rogan as he is to me?

Yeah, I was stunned by it, Brian, and not in a good way. I thought his comments about Israel were reprehensible. He seems to have a bug to attack the Jewish state. He seems not to understand what has happened in Lebanon and why it has happened. He says basically, Hezbollah and Israel, it's a chicken and egg thing.

What? Hezbollah is a terrorist offshoot planted in Lebanon by Iran to try to further the goal of eliminating Israel. How can you begrudge Israel's right to defend itself against an enemy swearing to destroy it? And I think also on other things on the Epstein was high up in American intelligence and in Israeli intelligence. He called himself a conspiracy theorist on Epstein issues.

It was a very strange thing. I think he was pretty maybe too relaxed and just sort of talking without thinking. That's giving him the benefit of the doubt. I get worried that he is thinking. I find it necessary to count it that up to now I think he's been a pretty good Vice President.

I think it was a good choice, Trump, in 2024. But this is very, very disappointing. And it's out of step. with the core Republican primary voters, whom I mentioned in a poll, that they are much more savoring Israel, saving American troops in power than he is. Thanks so much, Michael Goodwin, appreciate it.

Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmeat. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. The problem we're facing in our housing system is that we talk about tenants and we say they have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

They have to be responsible financially. But when we look at the landlords, we don't use those same standards. Landlords in New York have been making a 12% return on their investment for on average. What should they make? What's fair for the landlord to make if you don't like 12%?

They're complaining that 12 is not enough. And we don't think that anyone should have a constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment. That's the former executive director of the Socialist, Democratic Socialists of America. Nobody should make a double-digit profit.

Okay. Julian Epstein joins us now, served as Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee, and Staff Director of the House Oversight Committee for Democrats. Julian, do you agree that you should not make double-digit returns on an investment? I think this is insanity, Brian. I mean, these are.

These are guys, if you look at all of the people running on the Democratic Socialist flank, they have almost one thing in common, which is they've never built anything. And they don't know how to build or anything. It's the same with left-wing academics. Uh they don't teach in the universities how to build for the future. uh because they don't know how and therefore if you don't know how to build anything The Only alternative you're left is how to tear things down.

And that's what the democratic socialist ideology is about. How do we Take You know, $500 from one productive person and give $100 to five unproductive people. It's a pyramid scheme. There's a simple answer to the housing problem in New York and elsewhere, which is build more housing. And create the environment to build more housing and let the market.

Impose on landlords market pressures for them to improve housing. We know that works. And we know when the government gets involved and controls housing, it doesn't work. But I think these fools on the far left and in the Democratic Socialist wing As I say, they have no, none of them have any experience building anything. AOC was a bartender.

Bernie Sanders has been living on the government teeth his entire career. All of these other folks that sort of won the election in New York and elsewhere. None of them have ever done anything productive in their lives.

So they don't know how to build. They don't know how to tear things down. And I think this pyramid scheme goes on for a couple of years until people start realizing it's a con job.

Well, do you think if you're a Democrat, don't you want to jump out there and stop the car? And before November?

Well, there's this, you know, there's this old saying I think that Churchill used to use, which is. The fool is the socialist is the Guy who feeds the alligator. Um with the hopes that the alligator will eat him last. Um The Democratic Party, this is really a test of Um not only of their courage, but of their competence. I mean the fact that you see such Um Uh These candidates winning is an expression of the fact that the Democrats like Schumer and Jeffries don't want to stand up and say this is bad for the party because it is.

This isn't just socialism, Brian. This is third worldism.

So when you say socialism, you're talking about government control of the economy. When you talk about third worldism, you're talking about things like open borders, defunding the police, critical gender theory. Same at radical critical race theory. You have a whole host of ideologies that go along with the DSA agenda. I don't think Trump and the Republicans have effectively made the case on that, but for the Democrats, There's a lack of courage in standing up and saying this is bad politics.

There's also a lack of confidence. This is a story of incompetence because the party used to be able to have the apparatus. to put the guardrails around these kind of candidates. It no longer does. They're backing Bernie Sanders AOC over the weekend was with Abdul El-Syed.

And now Gary Peters. And is is uh is actually supporting Stevens.

So there's a, and the Congressional Black Caucus is supporting Haley Stevens, who's hardly an ideal candidate. But is a Democrat, I think. is a Democrat. Yeah, she keeps calling me asking me for for money. And I I've avoided her phone calls a number of times.

Very distinctive. She's w she's also very far left. Um um and This is a pipe dream that Democrat. What's happening in these elections, Brian, is you're getting. 10% of the electorate who the DSA has figured out how to activate in these primary elections, 10%, maybe 15% of the electorate who are going out and voting for these.

Extremist candidates and extremist agendas. And that's again an expression of incompetence on the part of the party who can't turn out. the more moderate votes and I think they'll pay a price for it and In um in November. But, you know, Cyan along with A lot of these other candidates are are are People that are expressing not just third worldism and socialism, but support for. Nazi terrorists in the Middle East.

Hamas. You know, Syed was coddled the pro-Iranian vote, and Dearborn did not want to. When Khomeini was was was was was killed by in the early strikes in early March. Uh he didn't want to say anything in support of that. Because he was scared he would upset the pro Khomeini electorate in Dearborn, Michigan.

Well, I mean. You know, Houston, we have a problem. Do we have a do we really have a big Bro Khomeini. Uh, electorate, I hope this is like Michigan. Yeah, thanks so much.

It sounds like he believes that we do. You have a big Muslim population, he doesn't want to offend them. Go get him, Julian Epstein. Thanks so much. We come back, we'll take your calls, and then America's newsroom will do a simulcast there.

Don't move, Brian Kill Meat Show, beautiful Monday. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. What is the fuss all about with the Straits of Removes, Bill and Dana? From Iran's perspective, this is a strategic asset that exceeds the nuclear deal in terms of their enterprise.

Why? Because their enterprise is largely under a mountain of rubble. But this is a means for them to have influence in the region and control the distribution of oil, something they have always wanted to have. And look, they're willing to fight for it.

So that is the straight of our muzz and General Jack Keene talking about the need to take it back. And they can't do it. It's more valuable to them than the nuclear weapon, I think. Even though they're not going to give up on either one of them, they said they've wasted too much time and spilled too much blood because Israel's been out there assassinating would-be nuclear scientists, too. Because you can't have a renegade regime with a nuclear missile.

They'll just, they've shown they've tried to hit. Uh They try to hit every they could hit in the middle right of Europe. They are aiming for civilians. You see what they're doing to Gulf states who are supposedly semi-friendly with.

So they can't have a nuclear weapon. That's pretty clear. That is General Jack Keene a short time ago.

Now, in about ten minutes. In about four minutes, I should say, we're going to be with Bill Hammer and Dana Prino. But here's more from General Jack Keene, Cut 34. What I have been told is that in the time that obviously there's 90 days we've been conducting a diplomatic effort, that we've come to full magazine depth again, and the Israelis are at full magazine depth as well. That is what I know.

So I think we've got to ask the administration about it. I'm confident we can execute the mission the president has given us in front of us. And the reason why I say that is because we're fully prepared to go back to major combat operations, which would be two weeks with a different set of targets than what we're pursuing right now, along with the Israelis. And if we're prepared to do that, where the targets are considerably more exhaustive than what we're dealing with with the Straits of Amuz, I think we're in good shape. And it is.

And the President was able to put that aside and go to the game last night to see the finals of the World Cup. We had everything to do with in 2018 when he made sure we got it and we had to partner with two other nations. But for the most part, it was centralized, 74 games. The 104 with us afterwards, the president was extremely happy. Cut 10.

Well, I think my first meeting with Johnny, he's fantastic, the job he's done, and he had this idea, and I said, that's crazy. We're not a soccer country, and it turns out we are a soccer country. We're a football country, but we don't want to get it confused. But I don't think there's ever been anything like what's happened. with the whole World Cup.

It's been beautiful. It's a beautiful thing to watch and I really give Johnny the credit. Right. He organized it with FIFA. It cost a lot of money.

You didn't have the maximum profit that everybody wanted, but they did get profit. People benefited. And man, did America look good? Gianni Mfatino was somebody who gave me some time after the game, and I went on the field and we talked, cut twelve.

Well, indeed, it's my first welcome from bid to completion. It has been a long journey. And it has been made right. It has been fantastic, it has been a great journey, but the World Cup itself has exceeded all Expectations grow up. just broke it up correct It's a match for the record.

What reward? Just hardly lose. Excited, we had a celebration of 39 days, we had 140 Super Bowls, we had full stadiums, we had great atmospheres, fantastic bowls. World champions like Spain, I mean Yeah Yeah, we could have used a little bit more scoring, but that's where the game went. You can't do anything about it.

Best defense in the world against the clutch offense. And Argentina, believe it or not, had a chance to tie twice in the closing minutes, down a man, having been dominated almost double the possession on the Spanish side. But they're younger. They were better. But a lot of times, the best team doesn't win.

It's opportunities, which you make the most of it. And they had a hot goal. He did Argentina. Martinez had, I think, 11 or 12 saves with a broken finger. That's pretty amazing.

But overall, when it came to the game itself, some people would be critical of the scoring. I asked him that. Cut 13. This final game. People like 0-0, no action.

They didn't want to see Kill that one. What would you think? Last year high scoring, this year not much scoring. Yeah, well, not much scoring, but such an intensity in the game. You could literally feel it in the air.

You could cut the air with a knife. It's so tense. Stain played very very well when Argentina is Argentina the reigning world champion and It was a very tough game, a very difficult game. That's what football or soccer is about as well. And it was a real, real final.

The world, I mean Yeah. A couple two billion people are watching this game and uh I'm sure they are uh disappointed about the the game. And, you know, we're going to talk to Dana shortly. I don't know if we should play another sound by it, maybe on the back end. But I talked to him about a lot of things, including.

Where the US goes from here.

So, including, do I have enough time to roll another clip? Good.

So, here is Johnny Inventino talking about U.S.

soccer and what they're leaving behind, Cut 16. Yeah. behind because we stay here. We are staying here. We are here to stay.

We are here to make soccer the number one Boarding the world 100%. No. We will be executing with the NFL maybe, I don't know, Norman Roger Cozel is a great friend, so many friends with the NFL. But there is space for everyone and and you know the NFL is a great sport, it's an American sport.

Soccer or football, our football is the world sport. Yeah, so he believes they're gonna be his his office in Miami.

So he's staying here. FIFA's got to be his office here.

Now, next, it's going to open up. The next World Cup is going to open up in South America. And then for three games, because it's 100 years and that's where the World Cup started. And then they're going over to Morocco and Spain. I think there's another country involved, too.

And Spain's interesting because it's going to be the first time a host country is the reigning world champions. And they're young. And if they're going to be favored, just like France was this year, especially they win the European Championships, they win the World Cup, they won the Women's World Championships, they won the Under-23, which is basically the Olympic team. It's hard to imagine that people aren't going to try to emulate what Spain is doing, even Messi. He's somebody that played the bulk of his career from 16 on at Barcelona, Spain.

And the coach of Argentina trained At the coaching academy under the current Spanish coach. In Spain.

So, you gotta go where the great coaching is, and you can take your own, you learn, go to those academies, you come back and you put your own stamp on it. I mean, in the NFL, it's very simple. You go work for a guy. In in US soccer, you'll just you take eight, ten weeks off and you go to an academy and you you see where they coach, you observe, and then you do and you pay money and do it. When I was playing, everybody wanted to go to the Netherlands and find out how they were training.

So-called total soccer. I think now, obviously, you're going to go with Spain. and we're going to see what's going to happen there. But the game itself, I thought was okay. I think it was kind of exciting.

Obviously, I don't know if you noticed, if you did watch the game last night, it was mostly Argentinian fans.

So when Spain won, it was almost felt like you won a championship on the road. But they were extremely happy, worthy. I don't understand the fighting at the end. It made no sense to me. I don't, you know, you lost.

You're used to playing at the highest level. The fighting? Yeah. I mean, I know tempers get hot and people get disappointed, but for the most part, I think you learn you got to keep your tempers under control. Really?

So that's really a successful summer. People are going to talk about this being a soccer summer. There's no doubt about it. And here's more from President Trump, Cut 11.

Well, I watched it started with Scotland and all of a sudden they're doing things that nobody's ever seen with the bagpipes and it was beautiful and it just went to every country. Then they're realizing what a great country this is. We're the hottest country in the world right now for this helped. but for a lot of other reasons. But I'll tell you the World Cup, this is your deal, right?

The World Cup. But the World Cup has really helped. It's been tremendous. It's gotten the word out. And nobody thought it was possible.

I heard numbers that it's many times what's ever been done before.

So that's great. Yeah, so the president really was really happy last night. I had a chance to say hello to him real quick, talked a little bit. He thought the game was okay, but he thought the tournament was unbelievably successful and people were enjoying the fact. He enjoyed the fact that people were coming here and liking the country.

And there was no big press to like the country. There was no, hey, check out this red carpet. Check out this ballroom. Check out the no, it was: hey, go ahead, make yourself comfortable. Hope it works out for you.

Hope your hotel has your reservation. Hope the people are nice to you on the street. And the answer is yes, yes, and yes. The other thing to keep in mind, too, we're just following this breaking story. There was an incendiary device that exploded in New York City outside FBI headquarters.

They obviously have cameras everywhere. They'll probably find the guy or person in charge and see what goes on. But it goes to show you the danger that's out there and how the FBI is targeted. Even while we're trying to secure other things, that's one thing you've got to be vigilant about, too. You got to be vigilant about Uh security.

I mean when I went to the game yesterday It was unbelievable what they've already gone through just to give you a pass. Then they go every piece of equipment that you have, every bag that you went through, more than any airport, thorough investigation, clampdown. And then before you go in, every single alleyway, every single corridor, there's a guy set up to make sure you belong in that corridor. And that's how separated s really and I compare it to a few things. I compare it to Super Bowls.

And this was much more clamped down than the Super Bowl. A lot to do with the president being there. Secret Service was everywhere. They're mixed in with the FBI. You have local cops.

You have state cops in New Jersey. You have normal people. Then you got the FIFA security on top of that.

So it was redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. Why? Because if you can't secure the World Cup, how are you going to keep the World Cup? Number one, number two, how you're going to get people to the games. And you don't want to give your enemy.

The hallmark. Not only do people get hurt when there's an attack, People get killed when there's attack. But they begin to say, we broke through at the World Cup. We have our signature at the World Cup for Evil. Everyone has got to pay attention to me.

So I mean, I know Iran didn't love the way they were treated. We said if you're going to play in the United States, you can do that, but you better stay in Mexico. And we made sure of that because a couple of their guys had some some dicey Alliances.

So let's listen into America's Newsroom now. Let's listen to my introduction. Nice to see you. You bet. Dana.

Well, the World Cup comes to a close with Spain bringing home the gold trophy yesterday, but it is not just about what happened on the field. The tournament creating a lasting cultural impact on the United States and the world from bagpipes to the Viking Row, and we have some highlights for you here. Brian Kilmein, co-host of Fox and Friends and host of the Brian Kilmein Show on Fox News Radio. I think you had a blast watching it all, Brian. I did.

I was able to cover it yesterday over the first game for the U.S. in Los Angeles. Went to three games just as a guy with tickets and just saw it because out of all the things I've done in sports, I never covered a World Cup game. I've never been to a World Cup game. All the Super Bowls, it just never was here.

In 94, I was doing something a little bit different.

So this time I wanted to make sure to see it. I never went to a game where I didn't care about the outcome. I really didn't. I just wanted to see the spectacle and I was pretty amazed at a couple of things. The passion people had, how integrated everything was, no violence, no anger.

They're selling beer, they're selling hard liquor, didn't matter. Walking the streets here, Dana, we see it across the street, Longacre, 48th Street, places that had to sell tickets at a sports bar to watch a game with Cutter in Saudi Arabia.

So, I mean, it was just incredible. I think everyone was just in the right spirit through this summer. It's going to be known as the soccer summer. Yeah. I think it's a great way to put it, actually, the right spirit.

Again, I felt that the whole way, too. Listen, here's the commander-in-chief. He wants it again, Brian. No shock here. Give it a listen.

We'll be requesting it again immediately. But I said to take out the shock, you could announce us and maybe then for the next one, another and even another. But we have to do this again. And we have to do it while I'm around. Do you hear that, Johnny?

I think FIFA might like that. 2030 is split between three countries: Morocco, Portugal, Spain, 2034, Saudi Arabia, so maybe 2038. I want to know from you and Dana. You guys both went to the game. I mean, Dana.

What was your impression? Spark. Uh it was electric and it was great and an amazing play. I thought that Spain I'm not obviously I'm not a sports analyst, but they obviously dominated. But the goalie for the Argentinians probably earned all of his pennies yesterday.

Martinez. Yeah, I would agree with that. Brian, what did you think? I thought it was great. If I was to think about all the games that I saw, I think Norway beating Brazil stood out to me and the spirit in which they had.

I think also, I know it's in-house, but the Fox Sports coverage was amazing because you got a global feel. It wasn't like, hey, this is the American perspective. You got that with Lollis and Carly Lloyd. I got it. But you also had the international perspective and you got a real sense of where we're at in the big picture.

Spain, the right team won. The one thing about soccer, a lot of people say, you know, the team can dominate, have 60% of the play and possession, but lose. That almost happened. Down a man, dominated really in the second half. Argentina had two great chances to tie it up.

And man, if it goes to penalty kicks, which is the worst way ever to describe to end a sport, a major sport, they should forget it. It's like ending basketball on three throws. It's ridiculous. But if they had to do that, it would be terrible. I think terrible for the sport that's happened before.

But Argentina, Almost came back and did what they did. Remember, they almost lost to Egypt. They almost lost to Cape Verde. They had to come back to do it. And Spain opened up tying a small island off Africa, Cape Verde.

This is, it's really amazing. Yeah, I have one last question. A halftime performance, Perino. Scale of one to ten, how did you score it? Ms.

Dana.

Yeah. It's too small. Yeah. But they're gonna do it again, and maybe they blow it up in a big way. Brian, thank you.

Back to radio, you run. All right. Thank you very much, Caleb. See you soon. See you in the building.

Absolutely, Caleb. Or any other shows. Or the lunchroom. Yeah, I'll be hosting Jesse Waters tonight, if you are curious. Listen, I'm way over time, so I'll take a short time out so I have something on the other side.

I got a lot of emails from Sunday Show on data centers. Back in a moment. From breaking news to big name guests, Brian brings you insight you won't hear anywhere else. You're listening to the Brian Kill Me Show. Yeah.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Yes, my vote is in play because it can't be Trump running.

So I'm not living in communist America. I mean, I know. The talking point is, well, it's not communism, it's socialism.

Okay, I've read the quotes. from the DSA platform, from their own mouths. Don't tell me I'm not seeing what I am seeing. And DSA, again, they say things like, you know, takeover of key industries, government. That's communism.

You know, there is a definition. Yes, Bill Maher is saying exactly the right thing. And this guy, Gustafio Gordillo, was on the story over the weekend. I mean, just listen to some of his philosophies, Cut 19. The House of Representatives, which is population driven.

And then you've got the Senate.

So every state, if you're a small state, you still get two senators, even though you only get maybe one congressman, in order to make all of the states have fair representation.

So When you ask normal Americans if Congress and the Senate and our political system is working for them, most people are very unhappy with the political system and they say it's not working for them. When we think about the 250th anniversary of the United States, and we think about our proudest moments in US history, I think of times like when. Ordinary people rose up and they changed the Constitution to abolish slavery, to give women the right to vote. Everyone's proud of that. Right.

I just want to ask you. Those are amendments, as opposed to getting rid of a body, a constitutional body on the foundation of the checks and balances system. You compare it to getting rid of slavery. Unbelievable. I mean, this is what this guy said.

The crazy thing is, they don't sound crazy. They sound intellectual, but believe me, they've not thought this out and they're not to be followed. I hope you explain that to a young person in your house. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmead. All right, everybody from 48 and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, Brian Kill Meet Joe coming your way. We're watching a lot of different stories. There's an incendiary device that was found outside an FBI office in New York City.

Well, we're going to look at that. We're looking at Marco Rubio has stopped in Alaska en route to Philippines to have a major, I think it's an APAC meeting with people in the southern rim, southeastern rim. And that includes China, so we'll have that going on as well. Standing by is Senator Jim Banks, Roger Zachheim, a little bit later, and Jonathan Hunt wraps up with the World Cup. But let's start with Senator Jim Banks of armed services, banking, housing, urban affairs, health, education, labor, and pensions.

In other words, when he went to the Senate, he came there to work. Senator, welcome. Hey, Brian, good to be with you.

So, this is the last week before you guys go off again. And I'm just wondering what you thought the chances are Of passing legislation on some form of the Save America Act, whether it's voter or something simpler. Then uh uh as voter ID. Yeah. Well, President Trump's message last week to the American people about what the Chinese did to hack into our voter rolls and what foreign countries are doing to our election system should be motivation enough to get the Senate To finally move forward on the Save America Act.

We're waiting on the House is crafting the next reconciliation bill, the Reconciliation 3.0 bill that's $350 billion for our military to replenish our military stockpiles. We need that to keep up the pressure on Iran. And then it's also a spark plug to the defense industrial base in places like Indiana.

So we need that, but it's also tied to the Save America Act. Speaker Johnson has made it very clear that much of or most of the meat of the Save America Act can be baked into the reconciliation bill that only requires 50 votes, Brian, and the Senate instead of 60. And that's why the reconciliation pathway is a good one for moving forward with Save America.

So we're waiting on that to come over from the House. I hope that will Sail through the Senate. Obviously, we still have some challenges in the Republican-led Senate with a few. Collins Murkowski and Tillis, right? Yeah, but but but Mike Lee did put the save uh an amendment with the Save America Act on the floor in our last vote of Ramana.

It got 50 votes with Susan Collins voting for it.

So we know that we can pass it. We just have to have the guts to do it. And the House passing the reconciliation bill over to the Senate unlocks an opportunity for us to pass most of, not all, but most of what matters most, the parts of the Save America Act and pass it ASAP. Because you got transgender things in there, which I like, but I just like to see it pass. 80% of the country wants to see it pass.

And then you just if I was to make a choice of we can put off j you know banning women in uh men's sp men and women's sports and then the trans surgeries. If you could put that out in a separate bill. Would that make it more amenable to a Mitch McConnell and maybe get a Democrat or two across? Maybe, but when we use reconciliation legislative tactic, it can only be budgetary, not policy.

So you immediately lose. Issues like saving girls' sports or so it has to be budgetary. And the reason that that works for Save America Act is we tie federal budgets to the states related to election security and election integrity to the outline, the confines of Save America Act. And that's why it works. I mean, Lindsey Graham talked about this on the last reconciliation bill.

And he was chairman of the budget committee, and he oversaw this reconciliation process. And he was frustrated because we missed an opportunity to do this the last time, to tie Save America Act to a lot of these grants that go to the states. But don't you worry about the parliamentarian center? You know so much more than I'll ever know. But don't you worry about the parliamentarian.

Go, excuse me, that's not financial oriented.

Well, in this case, it is because it's tied to federal grants and which would be funding through federal grants and would be budgetary related. And Speaker Johnson, who's so smart about all this, He's writing the reconciliation bill in the House to meet the Senate parliamentarian musker. And he said last week, we're going to write a bill that's going to be so irresistible. He used the word irresistible to Senate Republicans that we're going to immediately pass it. And I think I take Speaker Johnson at his word on that, and I'm looking forward to seeing that bill soon so we can vote on it.

Absolutely. So now, I understand there's a clause in one of the, in what Justice Kavanaugh wrote on the birthright citizenship decision, which he voted to leave it. Like Judge Roberts, Justice Roberts.

So let's leave birthright citizenship as part of the Constitution. Let's leave it there.

Now, the problem is, it's not that if you have a kid, you should be obviously you and I have a kid, they should be Americans. We got that. But we're worried about birth tourism, worried about illegals having kids here just for that reason. And then making them citizens. That's not what it intended.

And I understand by the dissent in Kavanaugh's statement, there might be an opening for birthright citizenship to be some legislation to be offered. Yeah, absolutely. And I introduced this last week because Kavanaugh was on the wrong side of what I think is maybe the worst Supreme Court decision of my lifetime. President Trump tried to block birthright citizenship for illegals through an executive order. The Supreme Court struck it down, 6-3 decision.

Kavanaugh was on the wrong side of that decision, but in his concurrent opinion, he tips his hat to the bill to doing what I just did and introducing a bill last week that declares an invasion at our southern border. Because all nine Supreme Court justices are on the record in their ruling, they all agree, those on the right and the left, that the babies of invaders into our country should not be granted citizenship through birthright citizenship. But that's not what the Supreme Court ruled on. They just ruled on President Trump blocking birthright citizenship through his executive order.

So Kavanaugh wrote in his separate Separate ruling that if Congress stepped up to the plate and passed a bill that declared the invasion and said that illegals coming into our country, that they are invaders and that their babies aren't subject to birthright citizenship, that that would meet constitutional muster.

So that's the bill that I introduced. I mean, this is insane. 250,000 babies of illegals a year are born in our country, immediately granted citizenship. They'll be eligible to vote in 18 years. They get all of the welfare benefits.

And this is about the sovereignty of our country. And it's wrong. It shouldn't stand. You had a Chinese billionaire pay a surrogate to have 100 babies in America who are immediately granted birthright citizenship. It shouldn't happen.

It shouldn't stand. My bill blocks it and stops it from happening anytime again in the future. Do you think you might get Democratic supported on that?

Well, I can't imagine a Democrat explaining with a straight face. To their constituents or to the American people, that babies of illegals should automatically get birthright. But then again, these Democrats are so crazy and radical that maybe they do believe that. But let's force them to vote on it. Let's force them to explain it and defend it.

It's a total loser for them politically, especially in this midterm election. I don't know if they'll come on board or not. But you need 60.

Well, unless we do something to change the Senate rules, which I'm all for, to protect our country on important issues like these, and we'll see. I would hope there'd be 10 Democrats or more or seven to join us and vote to save our country and blocking this from happening, because it's a magnet. Anyone with common sense knows this is a magnet into our country for more illegals to come. And if you do something to stop it and block it, that's another way to solve illegal immigration into America.

Now, if I went into a Democratic room, in a top-secret room with sound protection, people left their phones outside, I think Democrats would say they've been pretty strong for the most part on China, Chuck Schumer and these guys.

So they know that China is the main offender here. And if they also realize too, just because someone's Hispanic... If they do this, because an illegal comes here, most of them are from South and Central America, it doesn't mean they're voting Democrat anymore. You saw how much of the Democratic vote Donald Trump got the last two times.

So there might be some sober people outside John Fetterman who go, you know what, this is. I could probably get behind this. Yeah, you would hope so. You would think so. And if any Democrat had the courage to step up and say this is wrong, you know.

Someone who is voting like Federman on some of these issues, they would immediately be a contender for president. The problem is they would have to get through the wacky radical left wing of their party in a primary.

So that's the box that they find themselves in. This isn't my grandpa's Democrat party anymore. They really believe in this stuff.

So I think we've got to put them on the spot and force them to vote on it. And maybe some will come to their senses and vote to block birthright citizenship for illegals by declaring an invasion and declaring that invaders in our country, their babies aren't eligible for birthright citizenship. On reconciliation, that we get our financing done as a country for the Pentagon and other things? Do you think that you have the votes? Because I understand people like, and I can understand this too, Chip Roy, are saying, where's the pay for?

We're writing another check on the deficit. Yeah, you just had Ron Johnson become the new chair of the Senate Budget Committee, taking Lindsey Graham's place. Jody Arrington chairs the House Budget Committee, and they're working through this debate. I mean, there probably are ways that we can pay for it, but at the end of the day, we've got to support our troops. This isn't Donald Trump asking for a supplemental to support the military.

This is each of the branches of our military saying we need this much money to make up for what we've done in Iran and around the world and to keep our troops safe.

So that's priority number one, and we can get that done, I think. I mean, there's also a CR that's been baked and moving its way through the process to avoid a government shutdown on October 1 that would be disastrous. Because they felt as though they benefited. Every Democrat wants to do because they felt as though they benefited politically when the government shut down, right? Yeah, that's right.

They want our country to suffer for their political benefits. Benefit in November. I think most people see through it, and hopefully, we can pass the CR, fund the government, and then pass this defense bill with the Save America Act attached to it that keeps our troops safe and keeps America strong.

So, General Jack Keene was just on talking about our ninth straight day of bombing Iran, and I think it's going to only heat up. He says this is about getting the straight back, Cut 32. We're doing what we couldn't get done diplomatically. We removed our blockade as part of the deal, but they maintained control.

So now we're conducting the Battle of the Straits of Amuse to forcibly open the Straits, secure it, and eventually control it. That is what has taken place, and huge progress is being made. And as we are taking casualties in doing this, Casualties are a part of war, and our heart goes out to the loss of life here. and three losses of life is uh has taken place, one non-combatant and potentially a fourth. Add that to the list of thousands that the Iranians have killed, Americans, since 1983.

And that's what we're dealing with in this barbaric regime.

So your thoughts about where we're at now. Yeah, we have to keep up the pressure. The only thing these evil people respond to is the strength of our American military. The general's right.

So we got to reenact the blockade and block their oil from flowing out that has an economic impact on Iran, but we got to keep up the strikes. And keeping up the strikes Uh by the way means that we have to keep replenishing our military uh uh uh munitions And that's a big part of the supplemental defense bill that we need to keep we got to keep building them. If we're going to keep striking the Iranians and keep up the pressure, we've got to keep building munitions.

So you're a veteran. Absolutely. So you're a veteran, and I think your statements have a lot of weight. And I know Tom Cotton understands why we're there. I know that Um The Senate Roger Wicker does.

I could know Tim Sheehy does. I don't really know too many Republicans, not name. Rand Paul, who says, What are we doing in Iran? Even though it's politically it you know it Is politically, it could be detrimental. For national security, it had to be done.

And if you feel that way, how come I don't see more people On other channels and our channel going about. I only see Trump, you know, only see. You know, Rubio, talk about this. People on the Trump team, do you think that you guys in the Senate and House, if you feel that way, like Brian Mass did with me Saturday night, Sunday night? Would be speaking out more so the president doesn't feel like an island because he does have more support.

Yeah, he does. And you look at what's happening right now, Brian, and you realize that these people can never have a nuclear weapon because we know what they'll do with it. They'll use it for evil purposes. And this is in America's best interest. This is America first to prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon.

President Trump understands that. He's clear-eyed about who he's dealing with. I mean, he understands that you can't negotiate with people who, in the same breath, are calling for his assassination. But the only thing that they respond to Is the toughness of the American military in striking all of their important military targets? And there is room here to turn up the pressure.

And President Trump has hinted at this to take out their critical infrastructure in their country, take out their bridges and their ports. And there are many things that we haven't done yet. I don't know that negotiations mean much at this point. I mean, there was a brief pause with the MOU. None of us, I don't think any of us thought that the MOU would stand, but we had to give it a chance.

And now that they're doing what they're doing, President Trump has informed General Kaine and the military to give them holy hell, make them feel it, bring them to their knees. And I imagine these, as the general said, these strikes are only going to ratchet up and they're going to feel it. But you're right, we have to go out and explain it to the American people. Gas prices are going back up, and we're losing troops, and we don't want. That, but we got to finish the job, or the devastation is going to be something that we're going to feel for a long time to come.

Absolutely. So we'll see what happens this week. Hopefully, you'll get stuff done. People come to work tomorrow, right? I'm on my way to Washington right now, and we go back into session tonight.

We have a few more weeks left in the Senate. The House has one more week. We got a lot to do before the August recess. Senator Jim Banks. Thanks so much, Senator.

Have a good day. All right, and hope you get the Bears. When we come back, your call is 1-866-408-7669. Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeat Show.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Coach, I gotta say, the first half of halftime knocked my darn socks off. Spectacular, bit. I mean, how the heck they want to be able to fall out?

Gonna be tough. Yep, yeah, you know what I think we need? We need some heart, you know, someone that has some soul, someone who can bring the love. Meat. You think of what I'm thinking?

One step ahead of your coach. You always are. All right, young man, let's go. It's your big shot.

Okay. Now listen to me. Go out there. Don't be nervous. Nobody's watching.

All right? Make us proud.

So there you go. That was the introduction to Justin Bieber, the halftime show at the World Cup game. Kind of interesting. That was. Of course.

Ted Lasso, Jason Sudekis. Jason Sudeikis was there with, I forgot his co-star's name, but he's the assistant coach. I thought it was so brilliant. You thought it was good? It was like my favorite part of the halftime show.

And then they subbed in Justin Bieber, JB, Justin Bieber, instead of Believe. They put Believe. It was the little touches that made some people smile. Right, and they thought it was interesting because I asked him about halftime, he says, we didn't have one artist, we had five artists.

So you had that Korean crew. What's that? BTS? Yeah. And then you had Madonna.

Madonna, Shakira. Shakira. The orchestra, the Muppets. Not bad. See, there's something for everybody.

It's entertaining enough. A lot of people thought Justin Bieber picked the wrong song. Is it true he doesn't have control of his library? But he seemed like he was the only one who was actually singing. Everybody else's lip singing?

Yeah, that's what it seems like. Don't burst the bubble. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Are you in favor of abolishing Article 1 of the Constitution?

No. We support a democratic route to transformative change in the United States. We think that we need to put the working class before the billionaire class.

So you don't want to abolish the Senate? United States Senate, because that's what Article I is. The United States Senate is a non-democratic institution. It gives more representation to people in smaller states than to the thirty million people in California.

So does he get that's what's called the House of Representatives.

So that's an example. of the Socialists of America. They're not unthought out. I just don't agree with anything they say. Gustavo Gordiello was on with Martha McCallum, and he used to lead that organization, the DSA co-chair.

He is not anymore, but he still has got the same beliefs and he's pushing for the same candidates. Rogers Ackheim couldn't be in a more Uh A more in-burse organization, the Washington Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Roger, these people want to have an intellectual argument about socialism versus Capitalism Well, part of them wants to have this intellectual argument, as we just heard with Martha, and we'll take that debate any day of the week. We are a democratic republic. And our founders knew exactly what they were doing: that they didn't want to have the tyranny of a majority, that we had a Senate.

That we had a Republican form of government to ensure the protection of minorities, even. Democratic socialists, I suppose, should be included in that. But you heard in that clip just a deep misunderstanding. of the Democratic Socialists of what this Democratic Republic is about. Shocking that on our 250th year celebrating the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution that came after it, that you'd have people somehow suggesting that we are undemocratic.

We are the longest surviving democratic country in the world. And that's because of the genius of our founders balancing all the interests. You know, the other thing, Brian, that didn't come up in that clip. but it's not just intellectual arguments they pursue. They pursue Elements within democratic socialism, alleyway tactics, intimidation, and the like, which is impacting democratic members of Congress today.

And I'm happy to talk about some of those examples, but don't separate their tactics that are are Using violence and intimidation from sort of the intellectual arguments that some of these smiling faces are making in national media. Listen to this Gustavo Cordello talk about the problem with landlords, cut 20. The problem we're facing in our housing system is that we talk about tenants and we say, They have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. They have to be responsible financially. But when we look at the landlords, we don't use those same standards.

Landlords in New York have been making a 12% return on their investment for on average. What should they make? What's fair for the landlord to make if you don't like 12%? They're complaining that 12 is not enough. And we don't think that anyone should have a constitutional right to double digit returns on their investment.

Right. Do you believe that? Nobody should have a double digit return on your investment. You know what I think people should have the opportunity to build, Brian? And if you look at what just went through the U.S.

Congress. Our friend, French Hill, the chairman of the Financial Services Committee, they passed a housing bill. And fundamental housing bill was to get after the problem by what? Increasing supply. That's what the landlords actually can't do.

The reason why the prices are high, as you know, you live in that city, is because there's so much red tape, so many limitations on the ability to build. And we gotta think about what policies actually drive more housing. And I'm telling you this: it ain't capping. Rents or rent control, because ultimately, what that means is that people get out of the business, people don't want to build, right? And so these guys just have it upside down.

Also, it's not just Mondami and the DSA people. There are people that aren't members of the DSA that act like it, like AOC, like Abdul El-Saeed. You know, this guy's confronted about how he envisions the country. You're not debating anymore my vision for the country. You're debating why we have a country.

He is, of course, running for the Senate seat in Michigan, COP21. And as we think about that 250th anniversary, it behooves us. to think honestly and critically. about the complicated history of our country. A country that was built.

On the accommodation of slavery.

Okay. On free. Where for most of that 250 years, women struggled to have any participation in our system. A country that, even after we abolished slavery, We still contend with the legacy of Jim Crow and segregation and structural racism even today. Yeah.

A country that was built on Indian removal. that has never made Native Americans whole.

So, nice uplifting remarks on her 250th birthday. Anything good about the country that you want to run on? Yeah. I mean, he's really competing Mamdani. It's like the race to the bottom for these guys in terms of what they want to do.

You know, actually, it's not even the most disturbing thing I've heard from this candidate for U.S. Senate. I saw over the weekend that He was saying how people in Dearborn, Michigan. We're lamenting, we're mourning the loss of life when Uh We targeted and only killed. The leader of Iran.

Unbelievable. I mean, this is what they mourn. I know. This is, by the way, he was confronted with that statement on CNN, CUD22. Cut twenty-two.

Twenty weeks ago, when Iran's supreme leader was killed, you told your staff, according to audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, quote, there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today, so like I just don't want to comment on Khamenei at all, unquote. I thought that quote was interesting. Because the Ayatollah has killed tens of thousands of innocent Iranians, not to mention the proxies that Iran has funded that have killed innocent civilians all over the Middle East. Why were you worried about offending people who support the Ayatollah? Jake, on a day where we're mourning the loss of two more service members in a war we never should have fought.

I think all of us ought to step back and ask whether or not everybody in Michigan, frankly, everybody in America, shouldn't be sad about the fact that this president, backed by the prime minister of a foreign government, took us to a war we had no business fighting in.

So yeah, I didn't want to comment on it then because it's a ridiculous pretext. He just does not want to answer the question because he knows it's 100% true. And the pretext is called a quote. He was on tape. It's It's so absurd.

Uh The Democratic Socialists. This candidate. The enemy is their ally. I mean, there's no question, you look at 80 plus percent of the American people, for good reason, view the Islamic Republic of Iran. as an adversary.

Because from the beginning of that regime, they kidnapped. And held hostage for our diplomats for 444 days. And every day since they have sought to kill Americans to undermine American interests. And the fact that he can't connect those dots to this operation that the president is carrying out right now with our forces means that he has an entirely different conception of what is in America's interest, what is in our national security interests. And that's the heart of the Democratic Socialists.

I mean, their platform is to remove sanctions against Iran, to remove sanctions against Cuba, and to sanction Israel. It is entirely upside down. It is. And lastly, Roger, do you think there should be an open primary in 28? Or should just uh better off rallying behind J.D.

Vance. Look, I think we should follow the process that the Republican Party has. followed Uh, year after year. I mean, I go back to 1976, Brian, you know this well. Right.

Ultimately, the issue around President the Vice President Advance is whether or not the policies that he's advocating, the approach he's taking, the controversy right now over his support and backing of the memorandum and understanding is a policy question, Brian. Right? It's a question of whether or not his outlook is one that Republicans will support and nominate. The vice president almost always. I mean, gets the nomination.

I think we could expect as much. But In 1976, you had a sitting Republican president seeking the Republican nomination, and someone named Governor Ronald Reagan challenged him. He didn't win. But he redefined the debate. He wanted to bring morality and foreign policy back in 1976.

He didn't win in 76. He ultimately won in 1980. And I think the Republican Party should continue to live up to that standard by having a vibrant. Debate in the nominating contest and ultimately at the convention. Yeah, if the president doesn't weigh in, it's going to be game on.

If he does weigh in, it probably won't be. Roger Zarkey, always great. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. You bet.

All right, we come back. We recap the World Cup and the World Cup final with Jonathan Hunted. All the coverage from Fox News, his chief correspondent. Back in a moment. Big guests, bold opinions, better information.

This is the Brian Killmead Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Well, indeed, it's my first work from bit to completion. It has been a long journey.

Pete has been named Fred. It has been fantastic, it has been a great journey, but the workup itself has exceeded. All expectation growth, not just growth of the records, national records. The world Was part of it, was excited. He had a celebration of 39 days.

We had 104 Super Bowls, we have full stadiums, we have great atmospheres, fantastic goals. A world champion like Spain, I mean He was pretty happy. Johnny Infantino, am I right, Jonathan Hunt? Yeah, really happy. $15 billion of revenue makes anybody happy.

Right. How much do we keep? Not mean you, but America. Like, does U.S.

soccer eat any of that, Dino? I think it goes to, some of it goes to each of the soccer federations. What our slice of that is, I don't know, but I hope they use it wisely. Right. So we look at that game yesterday.

What do you think the quality? It wasn't the most thrilling game. I thought the quality of the soccer Spain played for soccer purists was pretty incredible. The way they kept possession, the way they stood up to some of the, I don't want to use the word bullying tactics of Argentina, but getting very close to the line tactics of some of the Argentinian players was great. But not a classic game, but World Cup finals often are because every one of the 22 on that pitch at any one time are terrified of being the player that makes the mistake that gives the World Cup away.

So I think everybody's always a little nervous in those games. But by far, the best team in the tournament ended up winning the tournament. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And they'll be the first one to host at least a portion of a World Cup as champions. Yeah, it's going to be really interesting.

2030, they host along with Portugal and Morocco. And they're going to do a couple of games, I believe, FIFA, early on in Uruguay and Argentina, which is where the first World Cup took place in 1930. Marking the 100 years with that. But it'll be great. You can imagine the support Spain is going to have.

And that's a young team. They are still going to be there. Most of those players are still going to be there in 2030. They'll be hard to beat at home.

So I'm very curious to see if America will start sending some of their coaches to the Spanish academies. Right. And start learning some of their tactics and training techniques. I do, because you and I have talked about the players learning, but yeah, you're absolutely right. The coaches learning from that kind of quality of coaching would be amazing.

And I think you mentioned before when we were talking about Scaloni, the Argentinian coach, being a student at one point of Luis de Lafuente, the Spanish coach.

So if you could get that kind of coaching expertise into the American system, we're all going to benefit.

So I wonder what you're going to benefit, what's going to change? Are they still going to have the. They're still going to have the water breaks every half. Are they still going to have a half-hour? Halftime show.

And are they going to do anything with videotape replay? First off, on the new on the water breaks. I hope not. I understand the water breaks if the conditions are extreme. I don't think it should become a part of the game.

Even if they're making $200 million. Right. Obviously, there's a financial element to that. But I think soccer traditionally has been played 45 minutes non-stop, pretty much. I think they should go back to that unless it's extreme, which it will in Saudi Arabia in 2034.

Yeah, they might need water breaks. But other than that, no. I get the sense. That they're going to continue with the halftime show. I think he liked the feedback he got.

But I asked him also, the president of FIFA, about VAR. Are you going to change anything? Cut 17. Are you going to look to refine the VAR?

So always, always we need to refine everything that we have. We need to refine our laws, our rules, VAR, the off-site rule for example, this was one of the I think of the learnings as well of this world at this Marginal offside. It's offside because the law says it's offside, but we should maybe look into it and make it more. spectacular for offensive game. We are testing it right now.

That's one example. Always looking to improve.

Sorry? Always looking to improve, always looking to make it more exciting, always looking to bring more people Yeah, I don't know what happened with the audio on that, but he very basically he knows he has to change it. I would love I don't know w you know, the whole thing would happen in the U.S. It turns out you should not be watching back fouls in slow motion. They did.

That was the biggest mistake of VAR throughout the whole tournament, the Balogun situation. Yeah, the referee didn't even award a foul at all in real time. And then they caught, then VAR got involved. They called him over. And you freeze that.

With Balogan's foot on top of the other player's ankle. And yeah, it looks bad, but it's in you have to have common sense in these things. It was a terrible decision.

So it was. And then when you look at what should be done.

So, for example, a red card happens, should you watch it back and say, well, I overreacted to that, or I don't think he could have stopped. And when it comes to the offside. If it's just literally by an eighth of a yard, do you stay up? Technically, yes, but. You're removing the human element from it.

Well, that's the point of the videotape replay. It would be no doubt. If you're out of bounds, you're out of bounds. But if you're barely off on, if you're barely off something, and notice they change it, even is on. Yeah.

Used to be even is off.

So do you want that? I, you know, I think the offside one is a really difficult one. But when you see somebody who has literally like the width of a toenail in front or even an elbow leaning in front, it doesn't make sense to me. I think those are really tough decisions, though, because where do you draw the line? Do you say, okay, if he's three inches or if he's two inches?

There's a line that has to be drawn.

So literally, I don't know. But they need to have discussions about the use of it. And yeah, and just about. And just about, I see the goal line every single time. Was the ball in?

Absolutely. Let me know if it's in. Like tennis. But I just also think referees are looking over their shoulder going, well, it doesn't matter. If I don't see a penalty, they'll call me in my ear and tell me to go look at it.

So I don't think it's good for the refs either. Yeah, you're absolutely right. I don't think the refs want to be second guest all the time. And the refereeing generally is very, very good. And they call it as they see it.

Yeah, I think you have to think. Egregious error is the only time that VAR comes in. But I don't know. It's obviously a very complex question that they're going to have to look at with every one of the federations involved. And everybody's going to have a different view, I think.

So, how is the LA Post doing in Los Angeles? It's doing pretty well, I think. In California, they're digging up some good stories. They're doing stories that you're not going to see in the LA Times, for instance. And I think they are making a difference to the media landscape there.

And I think that does that help Steve Hilton maybe have at least an outlet? Oh, well, it's one of the few outlets, certainly, that's going to give Steve Hilton a fair shake in the run-up to the election.

So I don't think it certainly doesn't hurt him. We'll see. But, you know, he's out there. He's talking a lot of common sense that I think a lot of Californians would agree with. His problem is that there's not a bluer state in the country.

So it's hard to win a statewide race as a Republican. Republican there, but I think there's a good, there's a real grand swell of support for him. Whether it's enough to get him across the line, I don't know. Yeah, you know, what's interesting is. As people look at the voting process in Los Angeles, does anyone not embarrass by that?

Anyone embarrassed that it taken forever to count votes? 10? I think they're going to really look at that as well because they've got to change it, obviously. Would they listen to you if you told them to? Nobody listens to me, Brian, not even in my own family.

Which, that's another story.