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We're watching the memorial now for Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away at the age of 69. At 71, excuse me, his dad passed away at 69. Senator Tim Scott is leading off the ceremonies. What a great guy he was. And his sister will be taking over and made it clear yesterday that she wants to be run for six years in that slot and is extremely qualified.

We didn't know much about her, but now we do.

So we'll follow that. Mike Waltz is going to be testifying Capitol Hill today, the Ambassador to the United Nations on our way forward in Iran.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. The most important is the quality of the candidate because the quality of the candidate will affect all those other things. A good candidate will tend to raise more money. A good candidate will tend to run ahead of their party.

They will tend to be able to dominate the messaging. Midterms coming up faster than you think. We have the first Fox Power Ratings. We're going to review and preview with Brett Baer shortly. Number two.

I'm calling on Pete Hekseth, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump to tell the entire Congress everything they're telling Republicans about the Iran war. They never came and asked. They never came and briefed us. He has not come to Congress at all. Scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

And all spac on all aspects of the Iran war, including the necessary financing needed to replenish our coffers and finish off the Iranians. Number one, this stuff is going too far. I am a progressive Democrat. I've been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it's doing, but it's being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas. It is so true, Van Jones.

Socialists set back in Arizona as liberal Democrats prevail. But are the socialists surging elsewhere? Absolutely. We break down the Democratic Party, take over, and who makes up the DSA.

So some fascinating look. Nate Silver, you know, the pollster who's got a lot of respect, 538. He runs it. Started to look into who is in the DSA. There are about 125 to 150,000 people.

And now we know the success they had with the mayor of New York. We know the success they had with three congressional seats, including upsetting Dan Goldman, who was a firebrand liberal, hates Trump, impeachment manager, lost by 20 points to a raging socialist. Graham Plattner might not have been a member of DSA, but supported all their Policies. Abdul Syed says, I'm not a member at DSA, but he supports all their policies. The anti-Israel is also mysteriously a part of their policy.

But when you look at who they are, it's fascinating because you would think it's a group of people who feel disenfranchised of America. They don't have their piece of the pie, but it's just not the case. Nate Silver identifies the core of the DSA as highly educated but downwardly mobile voters, those with college or postgraduate degrees, but middle to lower household incomes of $60,000 or less. The group stands out because of education and income usually correlates strongly with higher income and higher education, but not them. 80% of members age 25 and up are college educated.

45% have household incomes over 60%, roughly double the rate. For college grads nationally, members are predominantly white. How about 85% of them? For those people thinking, well, the socialists are just trying to give minorities and those out of power a slot. Forget it.

Most of the people are in their 20s that vote put Mondame in office, or rich from the Upper East Side that put him in office. And one thing they all have in common: they despise Israel. And I think borderline, most of them are anti-Semitic. With this right now, is Brett Baer. Brett, last night, I know it wasn't a time in which you do special programming for primary results, but it's significant because we didn't really have a socialist prevail.

Uh over in Arizona. Yeah, it's a different format than we've seen over recent primaries. Democrats are worried, really worried. Publicly, you hear Van Jones and Bill Maher and James Carville. Privately, you hear a lot of people talking about how they're worried about the Democratic Socialist agenda.

This was one where it didn't transpire. Here's an example. In Arizona, Stanton holds on to the seat, the nomination, rather, 68-31 over Newkirk, who was. Who was the socialist, the raging socialist in Arizona, the governor's lot. The Arizona governor slide, no surprise really, that Biggs won.

He's going to run against Hobbes. Jay Feely was able to prevail on the Republican side, I guess, in Arizona, too.

So that was he was endorsed. He was endorsed by President Trump. We'll see what's going to happen in Michigan, where Haley Stevens, definitely a left-winger, got the backing of. The Congressional Black Caucus. as opposed to Elizabeth Warren, who's going with Abdul El Saeed along with AOC and Bernie Sanders.

Obviously, Stevens, I think, would have a better slot shot at beating Mike Rogers El Saeed does have momentum and he's got the young vote and he's got the socialist vote. Yeah, and he has Elizabeth Warren. But, you know, it's all this populist anger and passion, but the Democratic Socialist agenda is something that's not going to fly in the middle of the country. Yeah, I guess some people say it will, but I have not seen it yet. It's not going to be in a national election.

I want you guys to hear what Van Jones had to say, cut for. This stuff is going too far. I am a progressive Democrat. You want to talk about prison reform? I've done it as well as anybody, Republican Democrats in the South with Trump.

I've done prison reform. I never said have no prisons. Where are you going to put the Klan? I've done police reform. I've never said no police.

Where are you going to put the pedophiles? Who's going to grab the pedophiles? This stuff is going too far. I've been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it's doing. But it's being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas supporting terrorists.

Nutty idea saying that we don't need cops in prison. We can't deport anybody, even if they rape somebody. Who said this? Chevalier. Who got elected?

So, and was endorsed by Mondami and praised and supported by Bernie Sanders.

So, this is almost a surreal moment for people in the Democratic Party. Brett, the big mistake was letting Bernie Sanders in 20 years ago. He's not a Democrat. He came into the primary system, abused it, and now he's taking over it. Yeah, you're right.

And he's he's um You know, he had success. I mean, look at those presidential runs. We did town halls with him. He speaks his mind. You got to give Bernie credit.

He is who he is, and he's not changing. And, you know, for a segment of the population, when you're talking about all the things he's promising, it sounds good. If you're in a tough economics situation, the problem is, in the big picture, it hasn't worked in one place around the world effectively. You know, pure socialism, even though they call it democratic socialism. I want you to hear what Mondami said Saturday over the weekend, I should say, on the New York Times podcast.

You would think whatever it is. You know what the problem is. You think that the rich people have too much money and aren't taxed enough.

So, the question is: what about the working class? How do you categorize working class? If you did the math and you figured out a way to balance the budget and have free everything, where are you getting the money from? What's the threshold? This should be an easy answer.

Listen. I think if you have to work to pay your bills. I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class.

So that's everyone with a W-2? Is that kind of 1099s too? I think it's. I'm less interested in.

So someone making $250,000 a year is working class. I mean, I I haven't sat at home and asked myself where it starts and stops. Really? That's his definition. He does not know where the ceiling is, the bottom line is?

Yeah, I mean, there are some answers where he's, listen, he's an accomplished politician. He is somebody that can speak the talk. He can, a lot of times, say what people want to hear. But every once in a while, you get in a QA where you say, wait a second, what about this policy idea? Or how does this end up?

And there aren't a lot of answers. And I think that's what Democrats inside the Democratic Party are worried about. Because just like MAGA did in 2016, It's like a takeover.

Now, MAGA was a different animal. This is completely different. If you look at the Democratic Socialist list of agenda items, it's, again, I mean, I'm just telling you, in Washington right now, in circles, Democratic circles, there's a major fear. And Van Jones and Bill Maher and James Carville are the guys. firing up the flare guns.

But the power of maybe Bill Clinton, whatever power he has left, he has no problem with this. And Barack Obama, who has no problem telling Joe Biden to get out or working behind the scenes to make sure, and he was unsuccessful, that Kamala Harris isn't the nominee. Reports came out and all these books that are written, they never thought she was that good. Michelle Obama. George Cooney, nobody's speaking up now.

They're not saying anything, the ones that had shown their power in the past. I want to get you on Iran and also talk about your special. But I thought this was significant yesterday. I think we're much better off taking military action against Iran than sitting in Switzerland and pretending to get a deal or writing a terrible memorandum of understanding, which I think pushes everybody backwards and scares our allies. But when Speaker Johnson said this, I thought it was significant, but I want to get Brett Baer's view: Cut 22.

My view is that everybody needs to play a role.

So we'll see how that develops. I think we have to allow the space to do that. And I know that this administration is working around the clock to resolve that in a way so that we don't suffer any more troop losses. This is a great tragedy. Right, Cut 23.

It is a very important, very important objective that I believe we've achieved to ensure that the largest sponsor of state, of terrorism, does not have a nuclear weapon. That would be a disaster for everybody, and everybody around the world understands that.

Now we've got to wrap it up. Wants to wrap it up. You know, he doesn't say well, the President will know when it's time to end. He's definitely an ally of the President. But what is he seeing as he tries to keep power in the House and Senate?

He's seen polls that are upside down, that are frustrated, that are looking at gas prices going up again. He sees not a lot of support overall, independents particularly. And, you know, he's making a political calculation and trying to help Republicans who can't really speak out like he can. That said, I agree with you. I mean, the only way that the Iranians Are going to actually come to the table meaningfully, it seems, is to get hit hard enough.

that they see the benefit in trying to do that. And I think that that's the path and the mindset the President's on now after probably five attempts to get Iran to sit down and unsuccessful.

So I talked to Senator Tom Cotton on and off the air, and he today on Fox and Friends, and he basically says: I want him to ramp it up. I want to, you know, don't even have to be surgical about it. Open up the straight. Take out these sights. and keep the straight open.

And don't even have talks because they're useless. Is that a sentiment that other conservatives have? Yeah, and there's a growing let's Finish the job caucus. And I think uh more and more you're going to hear that as the prospects of of negotiating seem dim. You know, every time if if the Iranians say, Yes, we're in the deal, yes, it's going to happen um and then they step away or they fire the missile at the uh cargo ship, you know, it's fruitless.

I think you saw Pete Hegzeth and General Kane essentially say that yesterday, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. But there's a lot of pushback, and Democrats are definitely using this issue as a political cudgel. Yeah, we'll see. And everything's close. I saw the power rankings go over that Fox that put out.

But everything's still close. I think the game is yet to be played. Brett, you have another series on Fox Nation. You have your book out, The Case for America, still a bestseller, an argument on behalf of our nation. But you have a series called Spy Nation.

Tell us about it. Yeah, it's really amazing if you look at some of the spy stories. These are modern day things, not just back in the old days, where there are bad guys that are trying to get stuff into our country, including biological agents. And Okay. And we essentially have this amazing system to try to track it down.

And that goes into the secret stuff that hasn't been out before. Proud of it, it looks it's really interesting.

So it's the first the first one is it is it available now? It's available now. You could get it on Fox Nation as of a couple of days ago. Yes, we'll have Spy Nation, the first one's out. The next one is Spies on the Inside, and then you have another one called The Invisible Enemy.

So we'll see what happens.

So we know this, Senator Windsor Graham. Could you tell everybody out there that didn't have a chance to meet him how unique he was?

Okay. He was one of a kind. You know, I had amazing sense of humor. Everything he could make uh funny in some way, shape or form. Uh but he was passionate, especially about foreign policy, Ukraine and Iran.

And um You know, it's really sad. He was a lion in the Senate. He was a consequential senator, and sometimes you can't say that, but he could move the needle on both sides of the aisle. And, you know, I think his memorial service will be quite something. I plan to be there Tuesday.

The other thing about him, people that don't know say, how could he be very good friends with John McCain and very good friends with President Trump? when they both didn't get along. How could he be tight with President Bush and tight with President Trump when, for the most part, those two really have no relationship? Can you tell me? Can I tell you how they don't have a relationship?

No. Can you tell me how Senator Graham can bridge all these other personalities? How could he be tight with McCain and Trump? How could he the people that didn't get along, they got along with him? Because he figured it out.

He said, listen, there are some things I don't like about him. Remember, we ran against Trump for president, and Trump put out his cell phone number. I mean, they got heated at times. But I think Lindsey Graham calculated that the power was shifting. He wanted to make good on making deals.

And, you know, that's what he did with Democrats, too, is he figured out where you could meet halfway or 70% of the way and get. Heading towards what he wanted. And he was really, really good at that. I mean, I moderated a debate between Bernie Sanders and Lindsey Graham. And they were ideologically so far apart, but were friends in the Senate and figured out how to get some big pieces of legislation through, much like Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch did.

Yeah, he wanted to get things done. He wasn't there to collect the money. And you can see as he left this world, he was not a billionaire. He basically lived off his salary, which is refreshing, isn't it? It is.

Brad, thanks so much. We'll see you at 6 o'clock Eastern Time on special report. I will be there. Thanks so much, the Great Red Bear. Back in a moment.

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Yeah, we are back, and when we come back, I'm going to continue to expand this conversation on what we've been discussing. But I haven't really talked much about Iran at this point in detail. I'm going to get into that too. And also, Um when you Uh when you talk about What's happening on Capitol Hill? They're trying to get another reconciliation package done.

I think it's going to be $93 or $95 billion. And they're also trying to do something else, which I think is great. I want to ban all government shutdowns. I don't care who the president is. I don't care who the speaker is.

I don't care the majority leader. The government shutdowns. Only hurt people. And it's a standoff that nobody wins. You know, technically, Barack Obama got scrutiny away from Obamacare because we're in the middle of a government shutdown.

Sometimes it looks like Democrats got a short-term gain, but it hurt the economy. It hurt their people, mostly in blue states. When they shut down the economy, it made it look like Donald Trump economy was failing when they just shut everything down and weren't paying people.

So it hurts people living paycheck to paycheck. You saw that with TSA workers.

So now, The Republicans are trying to finance the government through December because what Democrats want to do is in September, shut the government down.

So when November comes around, people say, wow, man, I haven't gotten a paycheck. Whose fault is it?

Well, look who's in power.

So that's not going to happen. I do think we have to find a way to get our defense up to $1.5 trillion. I'll explain why when we get back. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead.

In the Republican seats that are up for grads, three of the four seats were won by Donald Trump in 2024 by double digits, Alaska, Iowa, and Ohio. Maine was won by Kamala Harris and is a historically Democrat. The Republican there, Susan Collins, is enormously strong. Last time around, she didn't lead in any significant polls. She was down by six in the average going into the election and won by eight.

So that is Call Rove Yesterday, talking about where we're at right now in July. Even if there was no war, you can't say either side is a lock for a red wave or a blue wave. No red wave is never going to happen, but a blue wave that everyone predicted a red wave in the midterms didn't happen. I think that had a lot to do with You know, Roe v. Wade being overturned and things happen like that, and that got a lot of momentum for Joe Biden.

It gave him a false sense that he was very popular and allowed him to run for office. And we know what happened afterwards. It's the anniversary of him being forced to drop out. We know against his will, and he's still bitter what he can remember of it. Rich Lowry joins us now, editor of National Review.

Hey, Rich. Your thoughts about how this is all shaking out for the Democrats. They have history on their side, for Republicans. They have a Democratic Party that's extremely unpopular, that's get that's facing an insurgency with socialists. And also a redistricting that put them in play.

Yeah, so I think for Republicans prior to redistricting that they could afford to lose three seats net in the House, that's an extremely thin margin in any circumstance, especially in this kind of midterm. But now I think they made the plus six after the redistricting, so they could afford to lose nine. I still think they'll lose the House. But that's at least a little bit more doable. And the Senate map is just very favorable to Republicans.

Even if you say Susan Collins is going to lose, and I think there's no guarantee of that, the Democrats will still have to win two out of those four red states that Carl was talking about, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, to win a Senate majority. And that's not going to be easy. And if you don't pick up, if you're a Democrat and you don't pick up Maine or you lose something else, you know, Michigan or something, then it's even harder. You know, you have to win three of those seats or sweep those seats.

So I put the odds on Republicans holding the Senate.

So a couple of things, Rich. I'm not sure. I mean, with Susan Collins, I think she's got to be favored. I mean, this guy, Troy Jackson, seems like a real clown. I mean, Graham Platinum without the sex thing and Nazi tattoo.

Uh he he's an extremist, don't you think? Yeah, I I think you see the survivor as Carl Pointed out in that clip, she's defied the polls before. Obviously, this is not ideal circumstances for the Democrats falling in love with this total jerk platiner and then having to quit on him. We all saw evidence all along that this guy was totally unsuited to run for office or be in the Senate. But you know, i if you're uh i you're you're Maine, it's not it's not a red state, you know, uh it's uh if there's a big wave, I think she's Chief in jeopardy.

The question is whether there'll be a wave.

So let's talk about the power rankings. And say it's 48, 48.

So here are the seats that are up. There's the Osoff seat in Georgia. The one thing about Osoff, he's got name recognition. His recognition is good on his feet, but he's very liberal in a red state, which I think is more red these days. And then you have Mike Collins, who doesn't have the name recognition, but man, he is a congressman and he is rich.

He can self-finance. Yeah, I have just come to the conclusion reluctantly that both of these Democrats in Georgia Warnock and Osoth are pretty good politicians.

So I favor Osoff and that race. Hate to say it, and he may end up running for president.

So when you talk about New Hampshire, John Sununu, I have Chris led a little bit later. John Sununu comes out of retirement to give another shot at that Senate seat. If it was Chris, I think he actually might be favored. What about John Orr? Or Scott Brown.

I think it's hard in this kind of year to win a purplish state like New Hampshire, even if you have the best candidate.

So I'm just putting my mind, Brian, Republicans aren't going to pick up any Senate seats, and it's going to be holding those red states we're talking about. I think you're wrong about Michigan. Mike Rogers lost by 19,000 votes this time, and now he's going to go against Haley Stevens or Abdul El-Syed. You don't think that Rodgers is more favored now than he was against Alyssa Slotnick? Yeah, no, that's true.

I think Stevens would be obviously the safer choice. Total goofball. We've all seen that video of her, like, you know, let's go out and sock him. But she's better than El Syed, who's one of these. He's not formally a member of the DSA, but is of that ilk.

And that would create a really competitive race if they nominate him.

So I take your point. I wouldn't necessarily favor Rogers, but that could be more like a coin toss. And again, if Republicans pick up anything, it just makes the map almost totally impossible for Democrats. What about Gerard Brown against sitting Senator Houston? It's basically a dead heat right now, but we know Ohio has been a solid red state for a while.

That's good. It has, yeah.

Now, Brown is a good fit for that state. Obviously, he lost, though, and I don't think he's going to get over the top there. Again, if there's a wave, though, a lot of these close races, you know, you think kind of normally, oh, a lot of close races, some will fall one way, some will fall the other. In a wave, you have every race that's tied, you know, falling to one party.

So if they get a wave, That uh some place like Ohio is doable, but I wouldn't uh I wouldn't count on it for Democrats. Do you give uh Tancredo, Tancredo, Tellerico, a better chance than Beto O'Rourke of taking the Senate seat, uh than Beto O'Rourke had against Ted Cruz, as opposed to Ken Paxson holding off Tellerico, who's got, yeah, he's good on his feet, but what he believes and says is the problem for me, but I'm not in Texas. Yeah, so the advantage Beto had at least the first time around is that no one knew anything about him. He felt new and fresh and kind of cool, and he didn't have this kind of baggage that Tell Rico does.

Now, Tell Rico is running against a much more flawed candidate and Ken Paxton than Beto had in Ted Cruz the first time around. I still favor Paxton in that race. I just think it's hard. You know, some of these maybe there's some of these red states will fall, but I just think it's an uphill battle for Democrats. Yeah, and that'll be an uphill battle for them.

And are you surprised that Alaska's in play? I am. A red state, Senator Sullivan is a great guy, a very good senator, but he has a real race in his hands, no doubt about it.

So, yeah, we'll see. I mean, he's a competent senator, too, loves the state, and he's got the Bush experience in the cabinet. He's a veteran and a sitting senator who understands the military.

So, he's got to work hard to make sure because it looks like Chuck Schumer's got his guy.

So, we were talking about socialism before and how ridiculous it is that. We have a mayor who's running on the socialist platform and got elected on the socialist platform and can't really tell you the threshold of what a working person is. Anyone who has to work to pay their bills, he says, is working. Really? So Megan Romer, the national co-chair, can define it.

I'm going to let her say it and then let you comment, cut one. We have a very specific definition of working class that comes from socialist history and socialist theory. And the definition is: if you work for your paycheck or you have to sell your labor, you are part of the working class. Versus if you make your money by owning something, whether it's owning an apartment building, owning a business, owning what we'd call the means of production.

So when we are criticized for not being working class enough, often that's using this sort of American definition of working class being blue collar wage labor jobs, but but actually it's any wage labor job, anytime you're selling your labor.

So Any way you have to hear your thoughts about this? I guess that's one definition, right? That's not what we typically think of as working class, but we're almost all of us are workers.

So I guess in that sense it's true. But look, this is a problem socialism and communism had at the beginning. It was all kind of disaffected intellectuals and activists. That was the core of the socialist movement. And they look around in the room and like, where are the workers?

And it's the same thing as the DSA now. We've seen it in these primaries over and over again. And I saw in a poll yesterday, the most left-wing people in the country, they're not people we think of as workers. They're not blue-collar guys out on the assembly line. They're people with a high level of education who aren't making a lot of money.

It's an associate professor of sociology at CUNY who thinks he or she should deserve more because he or she is so smart and has so many credentials, but is stuck, you know, this job paying $60,000 a year in a bad apartment in Brooklyn or whatever. That's the base of the DSA. That's who they're representing. All the membership surveys show that's that's The people who are animated by this and part of the movement, and that's who their voters are as well. Downward.

They call it working class broadly as anyone in a wage labor job, and they call it downwardly mobile.

So, mostly white.

So, 80% are white, 80% plus percent are white, and whose career is going in the wrong direction.

So, let's screw everybody else's life up. Wrong country, pal. You double down and you work harder, and if your job doesn't pay enough, you get another job along with that job. Yeah, exactly.

So a a lot of these people it's kind of a lifestyle choice. Again, in my hypothetical, the associate professor of sociology, that that person's, you know, a smart person, but he or she could have done anything else and gone into a more lucrative line of work, but instead shows this and is angry about it. All right, Rich Lowry. They could have been editor of National Review. That pays extremely well.

You could be an electrician. Yeah, yeah. You're upperly mobile, Rich Lowry. Thanks so much, Rich. Appreciate it.

And not a socialist. When we come back, Senator Capito will be with us from West Virginia. Don't move. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Gilmead.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind. Yeah. We cannot afford to leave Kentucky behind.

Alabama behind. Mississippi behind. Georgia behind.

South Carolina behind. There is no country where we are split apart. What is with the accent? I mean, AOC running for president or exploring it. We know her two forays overseas were an epic disaster.

So defensive about it, too. You could tell she was rattled to the core, but now she's got people saying that you are a kingmaker and you could be a presidential candidate. And she says flat out: I am thinking about it. But the person that is leading the pack, according to New Yorker polls, The person that is leading the pack is Kamala Harris. Second in most polls is Gavin Newsome.

Other people with single digits, you have. Senator Governor Shapiro, Governor Bashir, Sir Narun, and Mayor P. He's had the unique Ability to fail at everything he's done. He has been a Terrible mayor. Was an awful transportation secretary, so we thought he'd take a couple of years off and then run for president.

Usually, not how it works, but who knows? Senator Shelley Moore Capito joins us now. Senator, first off, how's the flooding affecting you guys in West Virginia? Wow, we really got hit last night, Brian. Through the middle of the state, the storm just stood there.

We've got places flooded, we've got interstates flooded, we've got 33 water rescues.

So keep everybody in your prayers here.

So far, a lot of structures are damaged. It's just been overwhelming. That storm came through very quickly and then followed by a tornado.

So West Virginia is under duress right now.

So, all right, we will definitely have the thoughts there. We know that it is ringing through a few states, and today New Orleans is on the lookout, especially. We know they have always had a problem with flooding. Senator and your job in particular, they moved in the House. to move the budget and fund the government to December.

Passed the election. When that legislation reached the Senate, is that something you guys would sign off on? I think so. I think that we have to. We cannot have another government shutdown.

It's funny, I saw Secretary Besant on a show the other day, and he was talking about somebody said, Well, your predictions of growth last year were not what we thought they were going to be. And his response is, You shut the government down. I mean, you know, you can't calculate, of course, it's going to have an effect on the entire economy. And we cannot do that for a lot of different reasons, and national security being one, but also our economic benefit.

So, yes, I think the Senate will consider this. I think the President has sent over what we call anomalies. In other words, things that need to be included.

So, ours may look a little different than what the House is, but we can iron those differences out. Obviously, we have to have bipartisans before we think we have it.

So, where are we at with another reconciliation package that they wanted to have elements of the Save America Act in? I believe it's at $95 billion. I'm reading some things that it's in peril. In the House first, because a lot of people say, where's the pay force? Which is good.

People point to fraud and Doge and things like that. But they just think you have a window now because you have a midterm election, you have no idea how it's going to go. Where do you stand?

Well, I mean, I'm very supportive of it. It has military spending, particularly for munitions, to replenish munitions. We know we've been using them and also selling them to other friendly countries and allies.

So that is critical. Also, on the ag side, there's some help. Our farmers are really hurting. And there's some ag support in there in that reconciliation package, which then could include, and I'm very much of a supporter of the Save America Act.

So I think that we need to pass probably if I was going to sequence them. I think we have to make sure that we're going to avoid a government shutdown. That's a top priority, and then deal with the reconciliation bill maybe after we have solidification that we can fund the government through until the end of December. But are you is this the last week for the summer? This is the last week for the House.

The Senate will be in another week. And so, you know, I don't know that we're going to get certainty of any of this, but I do think we'll be able to reach by laying the groundwork here when we come back in September, we can do it quite quickly. And I think that's very encouraging.

So there's both of those. Obviously, when it comes to defense spending, I don't know how much time you have to wait because they need the money. Here's Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, with Dick Durbin, cut 24. Do you have a new estimate about what the war has cost us so far in this, the fifth month of the first year of this war in Iran? Senator, the estimate we have as of today is $37.5 billion.

Through what period of time? Through now for certain aspects of it, but also mill pay, OM, other anticipated costs through September 30th, Senator. Your reaction to that cost and the Defense Department needs more money to replenish those costs. Right, I'm on appropriations and I was actually in that meeting.

Well, first of all, let's look at the transparency aspect of what the Secretary has said. He very plainly and very clearly answered that question. And I had to listen to a lot of the Democrats on the other side say, Nobody knows, nobody says. He said very clearly, that's a lot of money. Obviously, we need to fund our troops, we need to pay our troops, we need to make sure that they have the technologies.

We've lost.

Now, for most recently, four service members, very sadly, young people with lots of life that wanted to work. And protect our country. And so we want to give them the best protections. Disarming Iran, I believe in the mission. I believe that we need to make sure that we can wrap it as soon as we can, but we have to wrap it in the right way.

And so funding it is a fundamental part of that. I would be in favor of that and have always voted to fund our military.

So people say, wow, you're looking to double the amount of spending at $1.5 trillion. And if you look at the percentage of the GDP, it'll be at 5%, which is exactly what President Trump is asking our NATO allies to do. And it's about where Reagan was.

Now Carter was at 4%. of the GDP. Reagan was at five percent.

So It looks like Trump wants to be at 5%. Will you support that? I would support that. And I think that it's in our best interest, not just today, but we have other situations around the world, the Taiwan-China issue, certainly the region of the country where we are, or the world where all the disruption is now. We see that the acts of terrorism and the goals of the terrorists are still very, very vitally alive.

And so I think that we can't just say, oh, we could ride with what we've got. I think we have to modernize and we have to make sure that we're funding that. But, you know, Brian, you and I know, and I think we've talked about this, we've got an issue with our debt. And so when you hear some people say the spending has not been offset, I think that's something to listen to. Senator Capito, you're always somebody to listen to.

Thanks so much. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. It's the Brand Kill Me Show. We have a lot coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, who are out of the country around the world. I'm trying to accomplish my goal of reading my book on tape, that's Uniting the States, and not losing my voice. Yesterday got through two chapters where two down, four to go, and then, of course, the epilogue coming your way.

This hour is going to be big. We just had a big opener, but we're also going to have Carl Robe standing by. Julie Benderis is coming up after, and Frank Siller will be with us too.

So it's going to be great. Don't miss a minute. And before we get to Carl, let's get to the big three. Number three. The most important is the quality of the candidate because the quality of the candidate will affect all those other things.

A good candidate will tend to raise more money. A good candidate will tend to run ahead of their party. They will tend to be able to dominate the messaging. And that's what Carl wants. And he got really worried.

I remember him talking about some of the Tea Party candidates that were blowing opportunities to take the Senate earlier than they did. Midterm's coming up faster than you think. We got the Fox power rankings. We'll talk about what it means. I'll give you one hint.

Both chambers are still in play. Number 10. I'm calling on Pete Hekseth, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump to tell the entire Congress everything they're telling Republicans about the Iran War. They never came and asked. They never came and briefed us.

He has not come to Congress at all. That is not true, but we'll have them, let them say it, scrutiny on Capitol Hill on all aspects of the Iran war. Yeah. Number one. This stuff is going too far.

I am a progressive Democrat. I've been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it's doing, but it's being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas. Nutty and crazy socialists set back in Arizona as liberal Democrats prevail, but are the socialists still surging elsewhere? The answer is yes. We're going to break down the Democratic Party, take over, and talk about that power play.

So, with us right now is Carl Rove. Carl, always great to have you on. First off, your takeaway, both chambers, would you say it's honest, are still in play, both the Senate and the House? Yeah, I think the House more than the Senate, the Democrats can take the Senate, but only if they run the table. They have to win North Carolina, and then they have to knock off three incumbents.

They have to have Susan Collins in Maine. Ken Paxton in Texas, Ohio, Houston, Alaska, Dan Sullivan, take the open Iowa seat. They have to take three more of those and not lose another seat like New Hampshire or Michigan. And Michigan is very much in play, particularly if they put El Said up as their nominee. Remember, Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, came within two-tenths of 1% last time around.

He had a tough primary and had to spend a lot of money in it last time, but this time he's the party's nominee and watching the Democrats tear each other up.

So, with Mike Rogers in particular, you have Haley Stevens. I think that Alyssa Slotnick is a lot more formidable than what I see from Haley Stevens. Do you agree? I agree. I agree.

The difference will be: it was a presidential election year. Joe Biden was on the ballot. This time around, it's a midterm election, and Donald Trump will be on the ballot.

So that's the countervailing. But yeah, Haley Stevens, you know, I saw a tape of her the other day, and I mean, I felt embarrassed for her. I mean, it was like the junior high cheerleader tryouts. I mean, it was really sort of sad. And she didn't make the team.

So as you used to further you fill that side, I don't want to reflect on that because it was bad enough just watching it. I understand that.

So. In Arizona, the Socialists did not win. Stanton held off Newkirk 63 to 31.

So for people who are panicking amongst the Democratic Party about this Bernie Sanders amoeba that's growing inside their body, what should they take away from that?

Well, stand up to them. In fact, there's a piece tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal on this very topic, and I think it is deeply researched, well-written, insightful, sort of witty at points. I think I did a hell of a job with it. But I've written about this for the journal tomorrow. And my closing line is: the Democrats better wake up and realize that this is the fight for the future of the party.

Now, I didn't put this in the piece because I'm limited to 750 words, but we've seen this drama before, and it worked out all right for the Democrats. They were in the danger in the late 1940s of being taken over by Henry Wallace and the progressives, who were literally pro-Moscow. And people like Hubert Humphrey stood up, the young mayor of Minneapolis, and took them on. And the Democratic Party avoided falling off the left side of the earth.

So uh but when you see what's happening in New Hampshire, Excuse me, in Maine, this new candidate, Troy Jackson, is like platinum without the sexting.

Well, I don't know. We don't know about that yet. All we know is he doesn't have the tattoo.

Okay. But he does have an anger problem like Platiner. But yeah, but look, it is well worth reading this manifesto of the Democratic Socialist entitled Workers Deserve More, because it is clearly a statement of what they intend to do and what they're going to advocate. Democrats would be smart to stand up to it and call it out for what it is, which is socialism and Don't call them names. I think the president's making a mistake by tossing out labels like communist and Democrat.

Just talk about what they say they want to do. They want to open borders. They want to end funding for police. They want to end what they call the police and prison system. They want a 32-hour work week with full benefits.

I mean, what kind of company has 20% profit margins that allow them to replace all those? You had a 40-hour week at the store, but no, now you get to work for 32 hours and get paid for 40.

So where are they going to come up with the money to fill all those available jobs? I mean, they're going to take over housing. You get assigned an apartment in the Mao block or the Trotsky block of housing in the Queens. I don't know. It just sounds, you read this thing and you say, these people are living in Lolla.

Well, the Congressional Black Caucus is endorsing Haley Stevens, and you find out guys like Richie Torre. Who's African American and liberal, but he is pro-Israel. They say that one of the goals of Hassan Piker is to take him out. And then remember, they took out a Hispanic leader in New York City.

So then you look at who these socialists are. They're mostly white people, they're overeducated white people. Yeah. This is going to be an unusual person to quote on your program, but I thought he had a great insight. James Carville, I was recently with him at a program, and James was talking about this problem.

And he said, look, the most conservative, culturally and economically, the most pro-market and culturally conservative voters are black voters in the South, particularly older black women. And he said, you know, they don't like socialism and they're not going for it. And I think that's absolutely right. This is a movement that is dominated. There was an interesting poll of the membership of the Democratic Socialists of America, and it is overwhelmingly white.

Well educated. Um affluent. Went to really nice schools and are professionals. It's not working-class people, it's the sort of the overeducated college elites. Underachieving.

Most of them are underachieving and they're frustrated, so they want to subscribe to another government. Yeah. Well, they got a degree in creative dance from Hampshire College, and they just don't feel that they're, you know, that they're being properly rewarded. And in fact, if you read this thing, it really is funny. It says, you know, you in the new socialist world, you will work, quote, you will work as much as you are able and no more than needed.

You have no debt. You don't need health insurance. You don't pay a mortgage or have a landlord because it's all that those are actual quotes from this. You'll be given all this by the beneficent state and you will love it. And when you're finished with it, you'll be able to.

Quote, you can live without worrying about cost or dreading going back to work.

So, Carl, if I went to Al Gore or Barack Obama when they were running, they wanted to raise taxes. You know, they would go from 37 to 39% on the bracket. You ask them about the middle class, this is what's going to happen, Mitt Romney, whatever you agree, they knew the answers.

So Mayor Mom Dani comes to office and says, The problem is the billionaires, and the problem is American working class are everything's unaffordable.

So he was asked a simple question. Let's listen. I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class.

So that's everyone with a W-2? Is that kind of 1099s, too? I think it's. I'm less interested in that.

So someone making $250,000 a year is working class. I mean, I I haven't sat at home and asked myself where it starts and stops. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

What do you say? Yeah. Yeah. Listen, let me read you this. Would we labor?

For our common good instead of private profit, we can all have a secure and dignified life and use our time and talents as we wish. That's in there. That's the platform. And it's because the billionaire class is making us the billionaires and quote the bosses. And they're responsible for everything bad in this world.

I mean, this is just lunacy. You know, the Republicans are in on it. The Democratic Party is asleep at the wheel. And both are funded by the same criminal class of billionaires and war profiteers. Really?

Democrats and Republicans got the same group of people funding their campaigns? What world does this guy live in? I agree. I thoroughly agree. And we're going to see what's going to happen in those various seats.

Next, I just know you notice like. When things are going good economically, but everybody's talking about the war. Remember, your economy was going well in the middle of the Iraq war, but nobody was talking about it. And now we have a situation where, unlike people gradually turned on the Iraq war, remember Harry Reid said before the surge: everybody knows the war is lost. Which I still can't get over.

So Pete Hakeseth, the Secretary of War and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went in front of Congress yesterday. They need more money. That's one of the reasons. But listen to what the Democrats are essentially their tone, cut 27. I'm calling on Pete Hekseth, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump.

To tell the entire Congress everything they're telling Republicans about the Iran war. Where are we headed? Mike. They never came and asked. They never came and briefed us.

This President has to tell us what those resources are going to be used for and why. He has not come to Congress at all. They did answer those questions throughout the hearing, but go ahead. What are your thoughts about this sentiment?

Well, they're reduced to just grumbling. You know, it's not really all that important. I mean, they can get answers to their questions, and they got answers yesterday to the questions that they asked. But it's just, you know, that's, I mean, you grumble. And I mean, it's sad that we're in a place where we're dealing with a country that has been since 1979 denouncing the United States and calling death for America, and which is trying to get a nuclear weapon and an intercontinental ballistic missile so they can deliver it to the United States of America.

And we don't have serious Democrats talking about this.

Now, it is incumbent upon the administration to go overboard in terms of consulting with and advising members, but don't do it, you know, don't hold back and do it only in these public hearings. Make certain that people are reaching out and sharing information so there are no excuses. There are no excuses. You had questions, Senator Reed of Rhode Island. Here are the answers for your questions.

And do it one-on-one so that they get the answers they want. And behind the, when they're not preening for the cameras, they might be more serious. You know what kills me, Carl, is guys like Reed, people that have been there a while, have been briefed at the highest level about what Iran's been up to, the assassination attempts in Washington, D.C. They tried to everything that they've done during the Iraq war, the EFPs, which are roadside bombs on steroids, the guys that they've killed, the hostages that they've taken. The people, the rocketing of our neighbors, you might say, hey, I don't agree with the tactics, but man, Iran has been a problem.

They don't even admit what they know. And there was with a military background, like Jack Reed. The ones I always expect more from, like Senator Mark Kelly, those are the ones I expect more from.

Well, in Kelly's situation, he may be thinking about running for president, but you're right. But look, again, I don't want to, that was a clown show yesterday from the Democrats. But I just want to say it is really incumbent upon the administration to find ways behind the scenes to be briefing people and talking with people. And if they continue this kind of behavior, just ignore it. Just do the job, which is don't for history will make a judgment about it.

And the judgment will be good for the administration if they're saying, okay, who can reach out to Reed and sit down with him? Who at State or the Defense Department does he have a good relationship with and confidence with and send him over there? And do that with all of the key players. And history will be kind to the administration and not kind to the Democrats. Carl, that's where Republicans are really going to miss Lindsey Graham.

'Cause the center had a lot of friends on the left. Yeah. Well, and look, he also was fearless. I mean, he, you know, he would, he would go in and say, well, here's what, what, here's what's going on. And he would do that.

You know, he was fearless in dealing with the administration, too. I mean, yeah, hard to dislike that guy and easy to love him. And but we're going to really miss him. I want you to hear what House Speaker Johnson said yesterday and see how it relates to the election in the last minute we have, CUT 23. It is a very important, very important objective that I believe we have achieved to ensure that the largest sponsor of State of terrorism does not have a nuclear weapon.

That would be a disaster for everybody, and everybody around the world understands that.

Now we have to wrap it up. He says now we got to wrap it up. That's a little diversion from the president. The president says, I'm going to do the things on my timeline. I'm not going to let the midterms run it.

So he's seen polls, isn't he? Yeah, he is. And look, the key is to be guided by what's in the long-term best interest of the United States, and that is not only the inability of Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, but open and free transit of the Strait of Hormuz. Because if the Iranians are allowed to dominate that international waterway, first of all, it sets a bad precedent, but second of all, it enriches them and gives them the resources to rebuild their nuclear program and their missile programs. And so we've got to stand for a principle that has been sort of global for going on 500 years, and that is the freedom of the seas.

And outside of their territorial waters, they have no right to control the passage of ships from Kuwait and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and Oman and Qatar to the international energy markets because it will have an adverse effect on our economies and the world economy. And more importantly, them being able to charge a toll on all those ships. Is the money that they would need to reconstitute these programs? Can't wait for the Wall Street Journal column. I got an exclusive preview that you work very hard on and spell checks.

You don't even need an editor. Carl Rove, thanks so much. I desperately need an editor, and he did a damn good job of tightening it up. But just remember, just remember: if we lived in a classless society and governed ourselves, we would freely build a world without war or poverty. Right.

That's what the Democratic Socialists believe. And nobody's upset with us. That is a world that they're in, and I want no part of. Carl Rove, thanks so much. Real talk, real guests, real insight, where curiosity meets conversation is the Brian Killmeat Show.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I would hope it makes you think. Carl Rove, of course, breaking down all that's going on with the power plays. As you see, right now, if you look at the Fox polls, power polls, it looks like the Senate is a toss-up.

But in the toss-up lane, they put Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Ohio. Lean R is Texas.

Now, in the toss-up lane, leaning D, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. I don't agree with Michigan. Mike Rogers not only knows how to run, former chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, FBI, and Military, who lost by 19,000 votes last time, whoever it is, Haley Stevens or Al Said, give him the favorite. Your name's Sununu, you got a shot in New Hampshire. North Carolina, as much as I like Mike Watley, he's trailing by seven or eight points against a popular governor.

In Georgia, Mike Collins has got to really get aggressive. But I agree with all that, except Michigan and New Hampshire. On the House side, it's still an uphill battle, but not nearly as much of an uphill battle. battle in the house. It really depends when the Iran war ends.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we are back. And I know you're pleased about that because we were in a break for a while. We are now back and coming up in about 15 minutes.

We have Frank Siller, but right now we have Julie Vanderas, Fox News anchor and author of A Monumental Mistake. Is that true? Yeah, it's true. Yep. I never make mistakes, but I did write about them.

Right. And whose mistakes?

Well, I don't write about my mistakes, but I do write about a monumental mistake, meaning that parents not teaching their kids about respect. That's the monumental mistake. How do you feel about that video that everybody saw about this guy at a Cubs game just sitting here on the national anthem? And then the guy just slaps him in the back of the head and says, stand in the middle. That kid, first of all, I don't believe in violence and I don't believe in hitting, and I would never encourage my children to ever do that or anyone to do that.

But that young person that was standing in front of him, first of all, God bless this guy for taking the national anthem that seriously, as we all should. But that young person sitting in front of him is exactly the problem that is with America's youth, because they are taught that being pro-American somehow is a bad thing. The American flag, which it symbolizes, our freedom and all those who died for our country, that that's not something to be proud of. That's the youth that we have. 2020.

That was okay, they're kneeling again, so let's just not play the national anthem. That's how things have changed. Exactly. But remember 9-11 and how pro-America, what happened since 9-11? It's really awful.

It is. Now we're electing some of the crazy anti-Semitic idiots. We're now in office. The people that we didn't want in our country are now in power. No, it's disgusting.

I mean, I was just literally talking about this with Mamdani in office and what he has become, considering we're a city filled with Jews and they elected because they're so anti-Trump, they had to get the most liberal socialist in office here in New York City, despite the fact that he's an anti-Semite, despite the fact that he wants to ban and have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested. I mean, come on. You're the mayor of New York. You're not the president of the United States.

So, a couple of things. Did you watch World Cup at all? Yes, I did. Did you? And you know, I'm not a sports fan.

But I did. My kids got me into it.

So it was very exciting.

So for 39 days. I mean, do you feel almost like what happened? Why do we miss it? Actually, no, in all seriousness, because this was my kid, and my kids were never even into soccer. This World Cup was the first World Cup, honestly, that my family was ever really into.

I don't know what it was about this World Cup, but it was so much more exciting to me. Yeah, and it was, and the games were exciting. Here, 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 7 o'clock.

Okay, got it. Yeah. The other thing, even the final was great. At 3 o'clock, you have to wait till 8 o'clock to have it or 9 o'clock as you have it. And also had the Knicks.

So the Knicks were a national story. Not only are they playing for the world title, but they became a national story because nobody expected it.

So we won from that to this. Yeah, no, it was a very exciting day in sports. And again, not a sports fan. Like, I wasn't even sure who made it to the finals until the day of the final.

So you know Argentina lost, right? They were in the final. Oh. Yeah, too bad. Yeah, no, I knew all about it.

But I mean, my son, who's 10, he's my sports advisor, and he told me Spain was number one ranked.

So it was expected, and he was rooting for Spain.

So who were you rooting for? I was kind of ambivalent because I want the U.S. team to do as well as possible. Possible.

Okay, but they weren't in it, Brian, so get over it.

So, who were you rooting for? Probably no, but I went to the game and was not rooting. Are you kidding? Why? How could you go to a sporting event and not root for a team?

That's what I'm saying. Because it's got to be real. I can't pretend to care. Oh, okay. Unless somebody, personally, if one of the players offended me or cut me off, then I'd want the other team.

Okay. But I'll give you an example.

So I don't have anything against Argentina or Spain. I did not think Argentina was great sports. Evidently, I didn't even notice this. I'm embarrassed not to have noticed it. Do you know they turned their back on Spain during the medal ceremony?

I did not know that, all except one player, which is Redeemer. Then they started fights at the end when they lost. which was ridiculous, but listen to Congressman Jasmine Crockett. when talking about this game and who she was rooting for. Cut forty six.

If you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain, and it seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting for Argentina, or actually against Argentina, right? And why was that? Just give me an explanation if you could guess. If you'll just let them finish the answer. Spain had the best team.

Maybe that's why they were rooting for them. There's also a racist history that exists related to the city. Thank you. Why does she have to bring race into everything? Even the World Cup, for God's sakes.

I mean, what does two steens from different countries have to do with racism? I don't understand because they're Spanish-speaking. Yeah, I have I don't even understand. I'm not gonna, I did not, I just said I gotta cut. When I saw this sound bite, I said, I gotta bring it in here because she's dying to be relevant.

Exactly. That's how she makes her name. Yep. And she found, I guess, Argentina. I thought they would have known more if you're going to be negative about them for housing Nazis.

I thought that was a bigger deal. Yeah, I would say that that is true, but not racist. Racist against who? I can't understand, but she invokes racism into anything. And you're right, because she wants the attention and she'll bring it up.

And, of course, the World Cup is what we're talking about this week.

So why not throw racism into that?

So are you hosting Harris Faulkner at 11? I'm doing that on. No, not this week. Not this week.

Okay. So we have another bite that might make a show, whatever you're on today.

Okay. And that is. Yeah. Of Sonny Hostin. It turns out her son, I don't think the way I read it, he didn't do really much wrong, just was running in an area by the railroad tax.

And you would think she just let this play out. Right. But she didn't. Tell you, tell him I'm a prosecutor. Tell him I'm on the view.

Let's listen. Reachers moved here as it was like so we're new into the area. Which is why he's stronger. Right. making mistakes.

I'm a former federal prosecutor. He knows he's a Harvard grad who teaches fourth grade geometry to his kids. God bless us. He's not a kid who's trouble. It's an innocent mistake.

I understand it's a violation. I don't even understand. You'd think he was accused of something much more difficult. He was just running on the track. He was supposed to.

No, but was she covering for something else? Because I'm sorry, I can't imagine a mother going out on a limb to such an extent where because her son just accidentally ran over some property.

Well, you got to be really smart about how you use your name, don't you? Right. Well, this is not it. I mean, if you get arrested for something or jogging by the railroad tracks in a provincial area. Criminal, then perhaps I would invoke some kind of authority to try to get away from them.

I would throw, I would be like, do you know Brian Kilmead? I know him. Because your kids, do you think your kids will be eventually in trouble with the law? Oh, 100%. I mean, you mean how many times have they already been?

Right. No, they have not, unlike their mother. No, but you are a disciplinarian. I am a disciplinarian. My kids are well-behaved.

They will never be in trouble with the law. Just be candid. You could easily skirt this.

Okay. But when it comes to social media, do you have limitations? I do. I do have limitations. And I think that it is the parents' job to have limitations.

It's nobody else's job but the parents'. And I think having or insinuating that the government should have any say on your parents or your parenting is pathetic. And you know your kids' ages, right? And their names. I'm pretty sure.

I don't remember their names, but I think I get them. You know their ages, though, right? I get them confused. There's three of them. Right.

I have almost as many kids as you have dogs. And what bothers you is... Do you remember all their ages? Not really. Exactly.

But does it bother you when they get out of order? Like when they get out of age order, it gets confusing. Yeah, I call them by the wrong name all the time. Like I call Harrison Addison all the time.

So I even mix up their genders.

So now we have Australia banning social media for kids under 16. Right, 16. They're finding a way around it. Yeah. And the same thing that's happening in Norway and Sweden.

First European country, France did it. I want you to hear Jonathan Haight was on with us the other day about what is taking America so long, because I would like to see the ban Cut 47.

Well, of course, we generally think parents should have the first right. Parents should be in charge of their kids, how they choose to raise their kids. But here's the thing, Lawrence. We parents are not able to raise the kids the way that we want. Imagine if alcohol companies inserted vodka dispensers in every school, every playground, all over the world.

And you could say, well, you know, it's the parents' job to keep them off of the vodka dispensers. Or you might say, what the hell are we doing putting vodka dispensers everywhere? And so since our kids are drowning in social media, they're trapped. They can't, the kids themselves say, I have to be on because everyone else is on. And so sometimes we do need governments to set a minimum floor for things and say, okay, social media is all kinds of bad things to kids.

The current law says that you have to be 13 or you have to say you're 13. And nobody's objecting to that. And Australia is saying, no, let's make it 16. And let's actually have the companies enforce their own rules.

So good analogy, right? Yeah, you want to say you're a parent, but the kids can't be with you 24 hours a day.

Okay, but the enforcement is the problem because whether you make it 13 or 16, kids are still going to be on social media. But they've got to find a way to do that. There's no way to enforce it.

So do you think there's a way technologically where it's impossible for their facial recognition over the years?

Okay, so the facial recognition, that does work. But you know what sometimes my kids do? I'm not even joking. They walk up to me with their phone. They go, mom, look at my phone.

And they put my face in the phone. They've actually done this. And I don't know what I'm doing.

So I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm looking. And then they're like, oh, yep, you look like you're over 21. I had facial recognition the other day, by the way, say I looked 42.

So I actually love the technology of facial recognition. But the real story is the real story is there should be vodka dispensers in schools. No, is that not the real story? That is the takeaway. That is the takeaway.

If you're not paying attention, so your kids are going to go around it.

So right now, I just think kids are going to find a way to go around it, to be honest. What about in schools? I think in schools they definitely need to regulate it because a lot of inappropriate stuff is put up on computers in schools. I think everyone has got to go into a phone locker. It's very easy.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, phones have been a lot of fun. Don't even put them into a basket. Right. Just like when you come in, phone locks.

Well, that's a nationwide ban now.

So cell phones are not allowed. But guess what? I think it's state to state. I think some states still allow cell phones in schools.

Well, yeah, it's state to state, but most states have banned them in schools. But guess what? Kids have figured out a way around that. I'm getting text messages from my daughter on her Mac laptop because they're required to have Mac laptops, and that syncs up to your phone.

So they're able to text me from school. Julia Bay, I understand. Thanks so much. We have to get a hold of your kids. Oh, yes.

Thank you. Well, they're probably home drinking alcohol. If you have that dispenser.

Well, I have the vodka dispenser in every bathroom. Yeah, and you make money off your kids because they put money. Back in a moment. Increasing your intelligence quotient. What the hell did you say?

It's Brian Killmead. Yeah. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. If you're watching on the stream, you need no introduction.

Frank Siller, chairman and CEO of Tunnel to Towers Foundation, joins us now. He's got a book coming out in September, September, of course, September 1st. It's called Let Us Do Good and All Building Towards September 11th, which would be 25 years since the 9-11 attacks when Frank Siller was forced against his will to start one of the most successful charitable organizations in the country when your brother Stephen ran through the tunnel in order to get to the towers and Tunnel to Towers was formed. Frank Siller, welcome back. Thank you, Brian, for having me.

So what made you want to write this book that's out next month?

Well, There's so many stories that has culminated from my brother's sacrifice on 9-11. That I felt like America should know the goodness of America. I mean, you know the goodness, I know the goodness, most certainly because I see it every day with the foundation. But a lot of people don't know how the foundation started. uh the struggles in the beginning Uh raise some money in the beginning.

How it changed after a certain amount of years when we decided we're going to start building smart homes for catastrophically injured service members. Up to that point, we didn't have to raise a lot of money.

So we were doing some small acts of kindness. I mean, small acts of kindness. But it's all changed when the first quadruple amputee ever survived any war was from Staten Island, and I went down to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. And I visited him. And while I was there, I said, Can we build you a home?

I didn't know I was going to build a smart home. I just said, you know, you're from Staten Island. Can we, you know, meaning Staten Island, build you a home, you know, tunnel to towers. And he accepted. And while we were building it Um We started to have this guy, John Ponty, who owned a smart home technology business.

And he started to come around. He said, let's put this in a house, you know, make his life more, give him some independence. And all this high technology we put in was incredible. And he ends up working for us. He sold his own business and came work for peanuts.

Maybe not for a lot of money. It was one of the many miracles that happened. But I write about that story, and about those stories, the things that changed the foundation in such a dramatic way where we never thought in a million years that we'd be doing some of the stuff we're doing. Where did you get your experience at Be Able? You were a business guy before this, right?

Did that set you up? Did you have the skill set to do this?

Well, it certainly was. Uh it it prepared me. For this, no question about it. I didn't go into starting a foundation saying, oh, we want to be one of the largest, if not we are the largest non-for-profit in, you know, for veterans and first responders. You know, nobody's doing what we're doing.

Some do some of what we're doing, but nobody does what we do. I didn't go into it like that. But Looking back, all my experience for all my life, being an entrepreneur, having my own business, produced my own commercials when I had my, I was in a fur business. I had the first fur commercial I produced. It was Elizabeth Taylor lookalike, and she got out of the car and had one of my fur coats signed.

She says, I'm not Elizabeth Taylor, but this luxurious fur coat from the Staten Island Furrier show brings a superstar out of me. And, you know, so I produced that commercial and stuff.

So I knew about marketing. I knew about, and then I was a builder. I built homes. You know, I was not a big builder, but I knew I could, you know, read plans. I knew I was a contractor.

I could get all those stuff done.

So, yes, in many ways, it prepared me. For my role. To be the CEO and the chairman is CEO for the last 25 years. And so it went from helping those people who are victims of 9-11 to first responders to those wounded coming back, those who lost their lives, Gold Star families coming back from war. you're at the point now where you're doing so many different things.

How do you keep it all straight? I have great staff, and I have tens of and tens of thousands of volunteers. We have over one hundred runs and climbs around the country. You know, it's incredible. We have 300 golf outings, which I try to get you to quite a few, but you're great.

You m seed some for me. You know the gala, how powerful that is. You did that as well. You know, so we have a staff that are so Qualified, so qualified and professional. How does that make you feel?

I mean, as you try to, you never, as you said to me yesterday on Fox and Friends, you never get over the loss of a loved one. But you learn to live with it. Does this help? It does. It does to do good in Stephen's name and all those who perished on 9-11.

One of the reasons why Tunnel to Towers is so successful, the first year, I had American flags for every first responder who died on 9/11. It was spout Steven for me, but other families lost their loved ones on that day. We had the names of all 2,977 souls that perished that day at the first run. The second year, I made banners up, pictures of them held by other firefighters and police officers and Port Authority police officers. When you come out of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, that's what you see, these pictures.

And now I have the names of all 7,000-plus men and women who died in the global war on terror. They're being held by ROTC cadets. It's like a mile long of names that people perish to protect our country. You know, today we had the dignified transfer over at Dover, and one of those four that just came back, one of them has a wife and two children, Sergeant Swindle. We're going to take care of that family.

Wow. We're not only going to pay off their mortgage, when that kid's old enough, those two children are old enough, we're going to make sure they get a college education named after my mom and dad, the Mayhem George Siller college scholarship fund.

So it's all in the book. It's called Let Us Do Good. And Tunnel to Towers is going to be building up towards 9-11. It's going to be 25 years since the attack.

So, Frank, we'll have you back building up to the book, and of course, building up to the big events. And if we want to find an event near us, where do we go? Just go to tunnelt2t.org and you can pre-order the book now. You know that. You missed the book.

Yeah. Yeah, go ahead and pre-order it. This way, either it lands in your inbox or lands in your doorstep on September 1st. Exactly right. That'll be right.

All right, and do that. Frank Siller, thanks so much. Tunnelted Towers T2T.org. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmead.

Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kill Mead Joe coming to you from Midtown Manhattan. We're just blocks away. The ICE facility was attacked by some lunatic who sadly was in our military, got some training and thought, what a great idea. He actually had a manifesto and talked to the FBI.

Good job with that. We also have a place called the Intrepid where a lot of tourists go. What a perfect place to have now a strip of homeless people setting up encampments, now tapping into our Uh to our light switches in order to power their their uh lifestyle that was never allowed before. Even under Eric Adams, uh, De Basio was starting to clean it up, zero under Uh you know obviously under Bloomberg. And now is everything is just going in the wrong direction.

We got the worst mayor in America. Jason Chaffetz is with us right now, Fox News contributor, former Utah Congressman, former House Oversight Committee Chair and host of Jason in the House podcast. Congressman, can you believe? That this mayor considers himself a power player when he can't even, he's about to lose this city. He took over a city that was in control.

He's about to lose it. And at the same time, he's focused on arresting Benjamin Netanyahu. He's trying to push himself as an international figure. Is it working? No, it's not working.

Look, he hasn't been on the job that long. He hasn't solved. And I think at some point the people in New York are going to say, wait a second. Things are getting a lot worse. They're not getting better.

I mean, I don't see his mandate as something that's going to last into the fall because people, I think, get fed up. He promised everything. He wanted a root beer in all the drinking fountains, for goodness sake. And he's not going to be able to deliver on that. Cut 33.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. As I've said, I agree with the ICC. The Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes. as I do for anyone else charged by the ICC. My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here.

It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does. And I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant. And I want to be equally clear. Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City.

nor is any other war criminal at large.

Okay. Number one, the music. I didn't pick up on the music when we rolled it on Fox and Friends. Can you imagine producing a statement of that gravity and putting bed music? Come on.

You didn't really notice it until you're like, wait a second, what is going on? Is he producing a movie? He's playing the role of a competent mayor.

Well, look, he got his job. I mean, his original job was, you know, Mr. Instagram.

So, you know, I guess in that vein, he's following through on it. Every time he goes out and does one of these stupid things on a jurisdiction that he doesn't have, it reminds the people of New York and this country that he has no plan to execute to do any of the things he promises. Any of the things. And look at all the things that are going on with the police and safety and security and education. When do we ever get to talking about education?

Things like that. This is where he's spending his time on international. He's a globalist, and that's who he wants to be. And very anti-Israel. As anti-as you get.

See, I always thought if you were savvy, you'd go, well, I have to condemn Iran's assassination of 52,000 members of whatever it is, 40,000, 52,000 of his citizens. And then, by the way, I also hate Israel. But they don't even couch it. Doesn't show up for the Puerto Rican Day parade. Primaries in Hispanic leader.

Richie Torres, a fellow Democrat, he basically was threatened by Hassan Piker. I'm going to get you next time.

So he is not consolidating minority votes in Manhattan. He is supported by mostly overeducated white people. Think about that. I think of what he's going to start to do: start to travel the country.

Now he's going to be able to say, hey, I'm the draw. I'm the one that can raise the money. I can help lead this part. I think he has dreams and aspirations far beyond New York.

Well, I think for the Senate, Schumer's done, right? And if AOC is. He's like a dead man walking, yes. And he's extremely unpopular, and he shouldn't be. I mean, for example, if you stand for something, at least go out on what you believe in.

You see the anti-Semitism raging in this country. You see Josh Gottheimer, who you know, Moscow, Congressman Moskowitz, come out and go, what's going on with my party? This would be the time for Senator Schumer to say, what's going on with my party?

Well, why isn't he? No, I've made this point a couple times, but when Nancy Pelosi left. She was really the epicenter of the money raising and the message. And I think Democrats are really missing Nancy Pelosi because they followed like Lemmings. Chuck Schumer didn't pick up that mantle.

Certainly Hakeem Jeffries didn't pick up the mantle. She raised the message. She raised the money. She did the message and she kept everybody in line. And the national Democrats followed her lead as well.

Now that she's out of the picture and no longer day-to-day doing this, Democrats are rudderless. And Kamala Harris is the leader of their party. Mom Donnie has the microphone with AOC. Chuck Schumer is politically just silent. Nobody pays attention other than when he toots on, you know, decides to let one rip there on the floor of the Senate.

That's the news that he generates at this point.

So, who are socialists and what do they want?

Well, we have three in New York right now. You have one that's really running in Maine, the best I can tell. Maybe not be a member of TSA, but this guy, was it Troy Parker? I'm not sure who his last name is. Troy Jackson, excuse me.

Me.

So he is going to run against Susan Collins. This guy's way, way out to the left.

So, what do they believe in?

So, mostly over 80% are white. 60% have a master's, one or two master's degrees, or PhDs, many of which are on the downward spiral, making less money every year because they can't achieve anything. Here's Megan Romer, the national co-chair of DSA, talking about. What makes up her party? We are socialist communists, cut three.

What do you respond to the criticism that some of the members many of the members according to that survey at least May lack some of the lived experience requisite for commenting on the conditions of the working class. You know, we take it seriously that our demographics do not map as closely to the working class writ large as we would like them to be. And we have specifically identified leaders of color and gave them. Extra training, extra support, trying to make sure that they felt at home in our organization and were able to. Help make sure that we were meeting the needs of broader constituencies.

We've seen increased numbers of non-white folks join. Our gender ratio is almost equal now.

Now, there's very few. Multirace. Yeah, we used less than 20%.

So things are changing rapidly.

So Bernie Sanders, they let into his party.

Now he's trying to take over the party. And this guy, Abdul. LL seed over in Michigan. What do you think is going to happen there? Yeah, I was going to mention Michigan.

I think, you know, they say there's four toss-ups for Democrats. I really think they're down to one. In Iowa, Ashley Hintson is an incredibly good candidate. But this primary coming up in Michigan, this is the test. Is it outside of Ashley Hintson running in Iowa?

In Iowa, that's kind of a separate issue. I don't think that's a toss-up. I think she's going to win and win by a good margin there. But in Maine, she is trailing. I don't believe it.

I do not buy it. Because those polls are bad in Iowa. I mean, come on, they were the ones that predicted that Donald Trump was going to lose by, what, 30 or something? Trump sued him. Exactly.

Exactly. In Maine, Susan Collins always outperforms. She's a well-known Connody, and she's not. You know, just lockstep with Donald Trump. You're not going to be able to make that case against her.

So you go down to Michigan. And Michigan, are they really going to elect and nominate on the Democratic side of the aisle this radical socialist? I mean, he has a lot of problems, but we're going to find out because this socialist movement, if you will, yeah, New York, Boston, some of the things on the West Coast, but it is, I mean, look at what happened in Arizona last night. You know, you had people like Andy Biggs dominate, but some of these other races, the socialists were on the ballot and they got creamed. Yeah, Stanton beat Newkirk 68 to 31.

Newkirk is the crazy socialist.

So in the purple areas, I guess you can call Arizona that they don't do well. But in those other areas, they're maxing out.

Well, look, you have a lot of Hispanics voting in Arizona. You have a black population in Arizona. They're not gravitating towards them. They're gravitating towards remarkably towards the Republican Party, who offers them freedom, liberty, and traditional. Values, which they are actually seeking.

Here's Robert Kalali. He was on Fox News at night talking about the power rankings. And just let me give you an idea. The power rankings on the Fox News poll say it's a dead heat of 4747 when it comes to the Senate.

Now, keep in mind, too, the toss-ups they have: Lean D, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire. Why is Michigan in there? New Hampshire and North Carolina, the great hope with New Hampshire is Hanuna, the name. And then the toss-up, Alaska. Dan Sullivan actually in trouble in Alaska.

Iowa, you don't think is a problem. Maine, you think is going Susan Collins' way. And what Ohio used it against Brown. You know Brown. Do you think that they're going to go against Houston?

I don't know. Brown's got a good name there in Ohio. And in Alaska, really hard to tell what's going on in Alaska. I mean, that's such a rural, local driven issue. But Really hard to tell, but this is.

Here's what we're not talking about. We're not talking about a blowout. You know, when I first came to Congress in 2008, they blew out the Republicans. 2010, that pendulum swung way back and Republicans came sweeping into power. We're talking about a handful of seats now, both House and the Senate.

And so, this whole idea that they're going to blow out the Republicans, nobody but nobody is predicting that. The most important factors for voters: 46% say cost of living, 25% say Democratic values. 13% say immigration. The president's kind of guilty of that. He moved it out of the way.

And then 5% say crime, because crime has gone down. Trump's handling of the economy, only 31% approval in June. And that's the last one. MAGA. Mega-based Republicans' enthusiasm is down.

They don't understand when we have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, why you can't pass the Save Act. They want gas at $2 a gallon, not four. They don't want to be in a forever war. I don't think it is a forever war. I think the President is doing the necessity that he has to have.

And they want more mass. Deportations. Those are the big ones that the base, the far right of the party that is all in for Trump, they're a little frustrated those things aren't happening. Dems have the party affiliation edge just by four though.

So that's changing. In the Intermountain West, Arizona, other places, Nevada, Nevada has really changed to become much more to the Republican side of the aisle. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't even close before Trump got there.

So we'll see what happens.

I also think that when it comes to the quality candidates, Mike Rogers is probably the best quality candidate out there. He's run multiple times. He was a member of Congress. He only lost once. Yeah, and so you've got that.

You've got a good gubernatorial race. Arizona, we got a good quality candidate in Andy Biggs. That is going to be a good race. I think he was the only one that could take on Hobbes. I'm excited about that race in Arizona as well.

Right. I guess we're going to see what happens. What about this whole J.D. Vance blaming Israel for. Everything for saying there's elements of that the Joe Rogan podcast.

There's elements of the Israeli government that wants a forever war. I don't think that's going to play well. I think he needs to clarify it. I think. I don't understand it.

That's not the J.D. Vance that I thought we were going to get and where we were going to go. But we will see. I'd like to hear him expand on some of that. But boy, he's taking it from a lot of people on the Republican side of the aisle at this point.

I didn't see him slip at the tongue. When you were on for three hours, it's hard to say I was misquoting. I know. Right. I mean, or does he feel that way?

Like, you talk to a lot of people in the Republican Party. They don't want anything to do with Ukraine. They don't want anything to do with anything in the Middle East. They think Russia's got a point. You know, you have.

I don't even think they're into defense spending, where you could always count on Republicans to rally around the Pentagon. Right. I I I don't understand it. I don't relate to it. I don't understand where they're coming from.

I don't know why this is such a difficult issue for them. But You know, I It's hard to explain, but I'd like to hear him explain more because you're right. When you're doing a three-hour interview, you're starting to hear like the nitty-gritty. And Joe Rogan doesn't cut you off. He lets you keep doing it and talking about it.

But a lot of people believe that, you know, Marco Rubio is probably much more of the. The candidate of the future than anybody else. The word is, if President Trump doesn't say I'm keeping my hands off. I'm going to let it play out. The money's not flowing anywhere except JD.

If the president says JD is my guy, that's where no one wants to waste money. Like the big donors, that's the word.

So you're much more tapped into political circles. Do you believe that we're going to see multiple people on the stage or fringe candidates in JD Vance? I think you're gonna I it'll be fascinating to see because I don't think you're gonna see Marco Rubio.

Okay. If J D's in J no, no.

So which is after he's on as Secretary of State. You'd have to do one or the other. And so I think they'll sort that out ahead of time. And a lot of people, I think, that conventional wisdom was, okay, JD gets to be run for president, Marco gets to run for vice president. And maybe that's the direction it goes.

But I'm just saying on the political calculus, here today in July, Marco, I think, is. Probably the best suited within that Trump world. I watched his press conference today. I'm sure nobody else was up. It was at five in the morning.

Yes. He literally took questions all over the map. Probably 20 questions, Trump style. 45 minutes. There was not one time where you thought, uh-oh, he has no idea what he's talking about.

You're saying, How much should he say? And that's what you want. You want a guy or a woman. That just understands everything 180 degrees. Aaron Ross Powell, Jr.: His competence, his mastery of the issues, his time as the intelligence chairman there in the Senate, his time as Secretary of State, he knows this stuff.

Plus, domestic policy, I mean, he's one of the best in the business. The only person better would be me, but I'm not running. Yeah, and you agree. There's still a recruitment. I think the big money would flow to kill me directly.

And then they'll see some of the stuff I said over the last 30 years. I don't think so. Yeah, yeah. And the money would stop. The research people would just go to town on that.

Jason Chapman's congressman, thanks so much. Always great to see you. When's the next time we see you on air? I don't know. Not today.

I'm getting on a plane.

Okay, goodbye. See you later. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

I learned of this last Wednesday, and I immediately ordered my chief counsel to launch a comprehensive investigation. Currently, the Division of Elections is working to ensure anyone who is illegally registered is removed from the voter rolls.

So that is Mikey Sheryl explaining that by mistake, a bunch of illegals. Got their names put into the voter rolls from motor vehicle, 6,000, 400 of which voted. And I thought James Blair had a great tweet and response. He said, no, this can't be true. It's impossible.

Get it? Tongue firmly in cheek. That's what they've been saying. Clean up your voter rolls. Why is that a problem?

I look at the fraud, Medicaid, foreign entities stealing money from our social programs. Why can Democrats not get on board with that? And then domestically, when hospices get set up that aren't hospices and daycares, that aren't daycares, and they get to the bottom of it because the FBI and HHS investigated. Why is that partisan? And then when Mikey Sherrill as a Democrat comes forward and says what she says, do you know what she said afterwards?

Well, Donald Trump has no credibility when it comes to elections. Excuse me. What are you talking about? No credibility. This is exactly what was brought out.

And Democratic Governor Phil Murphy let it happen. She blamed her predecessor. All I would say, the only messaging I would do differently with the President of the United States, who wants elections cleaned up. is I don't care who wins. I just want the right person to win.

Of course, I'm a Republican. I want Republicans to be successful. I want my friends to win. The people I donate to, I want to prevail. But I just want everyone to know that their vote's going to count.

It's not going to get canceled out. There's going to be no shenanigans going on. At the very least, can you clean up your voter rolls? Not to get rid of people. But to get rid of dead people, people that have moved, clean it up.

Straighten it out. Make people feel good about the process, even if your guy loses. Tyrus is next. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade.

All right, Tyrus is here. He's getting ready for his podcast and, of course, doing Gutfell today and whatever they ask him to. He always says the same refrain: Hey, Tyrus, we watch on your show, and you always say how much. And we reach your money demands every time. Yeah, a free $99 is a tough rate.

Right. Hey, personal. Hey, thanks for always giving me the shot on a radio show. I have a lot of fun. You take over, man.

Yeah, it's a blast. And I appreciate the artist rendering photo that you left on the desk for me. Do we have that somewhere? It's hiding around here somewhere. Yes, yes.

It was an artistic rendition that was left on my desk. Yeah, so apparently. Is it this? Yeah, so you were in spirit. Yeah, it was right there on my desk for me when I came in.

Do you want this for your house? Because if you're not. My walls are full right now, but if you'll autograph it, I'll definitely put it on my office so Gutfell can see it.

Okay, absolutely. It'll kill it. But yeah, that was nice of you to leave that. It doesn't speak at all of insecurity. It's not really flattering.

Let me see. The smile's a little joker-ish, but other than that, it's dead on.

Okay. Um So we'll put it right there so we know it's not going to go anywhere.

So you had Gutfeld tonight. Yeah. I got Guttfeld at Kennedy on my podcast. And We're going to talk about all things Kennedy today.

So, what's the main difference between the podcast and the radio show? This becomes a podcast, you know. Right. You can always see the show on YouTube, too. The thing I love about the radio show is that you have time for discussion, especially with guests and stuff.

Like, there's a lot more time, and there's a pressure is different. You know, because you want to get it right. And you got a really great, great team, by the way. Like, inf when you need something, information stuff. Alice and Pete now.

Oh, the fellas are phenomenal. But, like, you call a number. You know, when you walk in at 8 a.m. and they're like, they just got so much stuff, and you basically, a lot of people don't know. Like, you're the clock's ticking, and you got to come up with three hours.

And during that time, there's you can get an audible here and there, but you got to, it's got to be laid out.

So, absolutely. Your team makes it easy. Couple of things. How do you just tap into your wrestling background? I was watching ESPN.

I forgot they got the contract for wrestling.

So you're watching baseball and they go, Come on, next WWE event. How do you feel about that? You know I always felt that wrestling was kind of a separate thing. But the sports side of it, I love that it's getting that kind of recognition. The downside of it is that to protect the magic show that it is, I kind of always think it should stay within.

But go to it to see it. Right. But at the same time, it's giving wrestlers an opportunity to really step out the box and show how talent they are and the interviews and stuff like that and getting their influences on other all-thing sports. But let's talk about baseball. I mean, my Red Sox, you know, 14 straight, we got rained out yesterday, so I don't know if that puts a damper on things or not.

Pardon the pun. They are your Red Sox. Yeah, oh, diehard. Diehard. Great young team.

We were dead last. I mean, we were awful. Bad as the Mets. Worse than the Mets. We lost a series to Colorado.

Right. And we stopped trying two years ago. Yeah. So I literally was like, the season's over, but I always show up. And then we swept the Yankees.

Swept the Mets. And that changed everything. And everything. And we're in a tough series with the Orioles right now. The Orioles were seven, they had one seven straight going into our game.

A last question about wrestling. How'd you feel? How do you guys feel? You're professional wrestlers, you're doing this all the time. And all of a sudden they go, hey, we're in Madison Square Garden.

We're going to have Carl Anthony Towns. We're going to have Jalen Brunson come down. How do you guys feel about that?

Well, first of all, that's tradition. Like uh Muhammad Ali and Gorilla Monsoon. When he airplanes been celebrities, uh everybody wants to be a wrestler. And they think they can. And they think they can.

And the only thing that is different now is back in the day when you came down. You got your ass handed to you. Guerrilla Monsoon put Muhammad Ali in an airplane spin and told him he didn't know wrist watch from wrist lock, you know, and get out of my ring. And it was a certain you protected it.

Now celebrities get a little more Opportunities, you know, putting guys, you know, towns who's got spaghetti for arms and snatching guys up. That wouldn't have happened back in the day. No, it happened. Andre wouldn't have allowed that. That wouldn't have gone down on Andre or Hogan's watch.

So, do you remember Muhammad Ali, I'm older than you, Antonio Anoki, who did tremendous damage because I guess there was a contract that said he couldn't hit Ali. There was a lot of rumors and stuff like that. And the thing about wrestling is you never know what's what. He stayed on his back the whole time to avoid being hit. I don't think.

Uh Muhammad Ali knowing who he was was would have had a problem with being hit. I don't think he ever would have got close to him. I mean, if you're going to try to box Muhammad Ali, you're going to have a bad day. He went to his back because that was the only defense and offense he could muster, was hoping that Muhammad Ali would make a mistake. And let's not forget, Muhammad Ali had gloves on.

So there was, I don't believe that story. I think that's just part of the lore that, you know, to make, because in wrestling, you have to be bigger than life.

So, but again, that was a different time.

Now, you know, and then we have guys like, you know, Brock Lesnar who went over to UFC and dominated, became a world champ.

So the legitimacy of wrestling was more prevalent back then, where they would protect themselves at all times.

Now you would have a wrestler go in there. It was more of an entertainment side and get knocked out. Because it would look good it would be good for ratings, but back in the day wrestlers would not allow that. Dr. D.

David Schultz was fired because he was too rough with Mr. T. Is it true they pounded he pa Noki pounded Ali's leg so bad that it really hurt him? And a kick from a Nokia would be more dangerous than a strike. And like I said, he is one of my all-time favorites.

When I left the WWE, the first phone call I got was from his people. And I got the chance to go over into Japan and wrestle in the Tokyo Dome and all that. And he came out with his classic red scarf and their rules, their traditions. No, he's passed, but his traditions. were still respected.

You know, you didn't know that you didn't speak to your opponent.

So you walked out there, which I thought was great, which means you had to know it all was in the ring. And the Japanese crowd, it's an art form.

So it's completely different. You'll do an amazing move, you'll hit a guy with some power, and you won't hear anything. Or you'll hear some, oh, and the whole, oh, and then all of a sudden, You get this rounding standing ovation at the end of it. Like it's absolutely it's the it's a respected art form. It's very cool.

I'll bring you something else. You get me excited. I want to come out of retirement now. Do you remember when Buster Douglas Ford fought Tyson? And where it was, Tokyo.

Absolutely. And blue, blue, see, what was surreal is. We're watching Tyson get hit for the first time, and then we watch him go down, and you don't hear any noise. I'm saying to myself, is this real? But it's the Japanese audience.

Instead of the build and the noise that you would normally have, until he actually went down and was out looking for his mouthpiece, I go to myself, but there's something surreal happening right now. That fight. Buster Douglas fought above his pay grade. The loss of his mother inspired him to be the best version of himself. The sad part was, Buster wasn't able to maintain that.

He had the ability to be a world-class fighter, and then his first title defense against Evander Holyfield, he just got demolished. You know, and he struggled with weight problems and things like that. But that was the right night, the right place. And Mike was dealing with nothing but sharks around him and wasn't preparing like he normally would or should have. With Don King and Holloway.

And all those guys just. Ju they were just parasites just draining off him, you know, and then you know, uh, being in a really bad marriage, you know, and just he was a lot of bad things going on for Mike. I I think the best thing about Mike is that who would have thought he would have became a philosopher? You know, and now I think he's bigger than his boxing career, which is saying a lot because he was the baddest man on the planet for a long time.

Well, he seems to get the right woman now. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I've met her. I've met the, and she is absolutely phenomenal.

He's in a great place. And, you know, his battles with mental health, the loss of a child, like he has probably been the most polarized, humble person who's been through so much, but he's just become a beacon of enlightenment. And I think that's an amazing, amazing thing. You know what's also amazing is he was in debt, right? Taxes.

He paid it back. He earned it back. Like you watched him do his one-man show. You watched everything he was doing. And he just said, okay, I'm not blaming anybody.

He never did. He never has. You know, a lot of people just uh That ridiculous court case, that uh going to prison for the way he did. Um that Dershowitz always said he was 100% innocent. Here's the thing.

A lot of people don't men don't come back from that. You know, it takes a certain amount of integrity and redemption and faith in yourself to come back from that. Because in a lot of cases, society won't let you come back from that. You know, and he's reinvented himself. He's never backed away from any situation.

So he is the epitome of the American dream.

So I want to on a different note just for a moment. I watched you last night. You talk about socialism over the last few days.

So people have trouble defining socialism. And one thing is, if you believe what you believe, if Bernie Status believes what he believes, okay, fine. But imagine if you're just saying it, you don't know what you believe. And I think the thirty four-year-old mayor of New York City exposed himself when asked, just tell me what working class is. Listen to this.

I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class.

So that's everyone with a W-2? Is that kind of 1099s, too? I think it's. I'm less interested.

So someone making $250,000 a year is working class. I mean, I I haven't sat at home and asked myself where it starts and stops. Why not? You kids. He's the mayor.

This dude is, he auditioned, he's an actor. He's auditioned. He's a anti-Semitic. Crony. He has no base.

I mean, he sat there and I want to arrest Netanyahu, but didn't understand his job. He couldn't do that. And then his answer was: hey, federal government, help me out. This is the problem. I don't live in New York, but there was no way in hell that I was here.

I work here. I work here. But I'm a 1099. Uh based out of Florida. Brilliant.

You catch my drift. Got it.

So, um. But th New Yorkers to be asleep at the wheel, the voters to be asleep at the wheel. I think this should be, and this shouldn't, you shouldn't have to be Jewish to be shocked about this. But you allowed a completely unqualified hack, a mama's boy, if you will, with no real skill set, to come in, and he is just running the agenda of an anti-Semitic, anti-he just. He has no basis.

AOC, same thing. She was, whenever they're caught on a hot mic, asked a question, the ignorance is overwhelming. Remember what you did over here? What kind of a bartender? I mean, was she?

Jim Crow started the Senate. I mean, these used to be things that you would say that there would be a meeting about whether you were fit to serve.

Now it's just part of the news thing that unqualified actors who can't make it in Hollywood or a rap career. Or a bartender, now they audition, and the organization of the left. Puts them in, gets them the votes, they put the money into them, and then they tell them what to say. This is what the American voter has to smarten up. You have to stop electing people based on how they look or how fancy their ads are.

And you know why you're right? And there's many reasons why you're right. Number one, you said you were, so that's good enough for me. But number two is. When AOC was there for about two weeks, You know, she was a bartender before, came out of nowhere, beats Joe Crowley.

She comes out and goes, Oh, yeah, I got the new Green Deal. It's like 300 pages. Yeah. Number one. I don't care if you're for the environment or not.

Where'd that come from? Exactly. You know, it'd be different if you pulled Glenn Yunken. And you tell me he's got an economic plan? Yeah, no kidding.

You spent your life in finance. But this is a 30-something-year-old person who goes, by the way, new Green Deal, totally revamped the economy. What do you talk about? Where did that come from? Who are you working for?

Exactly. And that's the question that people need to be asking for whom. Like, again, and we see it, Tim Waltz. Makes that disgusting speech about being upset that a pedophile was deported. And he's like, our children safer.

Are their lives better? Yeah, absolutely. A thousand percent. But people then be like, he's stupid. He's not stupid.

You're either Part of the team. or a sympathizer because only a only a pedophile That would be their mindset, trying to say, oh, it was a bad day because he got caught. That was the day. And what people should know is that there's been a pedophile that abuses 10-year-old for years. One that you know of.

For two years, usually it's not one off. It's never one. They graduate. They get, you know, and then his answer was not remorseful, not I'm sorry. It was, it's a cultural thing.

But you know, if you do that over there, you get murdered in certain societies.

So, again, we have to start asking ourselves when they make these speeches. We need to stop bringing in other Democratic strategists to say, oh, that doesn't represent us. No, they do. The question is, who's you need to find who's cutting those checks.

So I want you to so Van Jones, your thoughts about him being outraged, cut four? This stuff is going too far. I am a progressive Democrat. You want to talk about prison reform? I've done it as well as anybody, Republican Democrats in the South with Trump.

I've done prison reform. I never said have no prisons. Where are you going to put the Klan? I've done police reform. I never said no police.

Where are you going to put the pedophiles? Who's going to grab the pedophiles? This stuff is going too far. I've been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it's doing. But it's being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas supporting terrorists.

Nutty idea saying that we don't need cops in prison. We can't deport anybody, even if they rape somebody. Who said this? Chevalier. And she won the election easily.

All of the Democrats that were okay. With saying Russia, Russia, Russia, and Trump is Hitler, and all these things. They. Yeah. Open the doors to a certain part of a creepy society.

And now it's come to roost, and now he doesn't like it. But it's too late. They allow these guys to come in. We need to start looking at They went after our children. They took away education.

They don't want you to read. They don't want you to have thought. They want you just to follow. They groom. If you look at, and what is the basis of the identity, the color of your skin and who you sleep with.

That is the entire basis of what you've allowed in. And then they get in, and now they're socialist democrats. No, no, no. These are, this is a monstrous. group of people that have Didn't have numbers, couldn't openly come in and say, hey, I support pedophilia.

I I support those things. I support no one going to jail. Because if I'm a pedophile and I want to get ri I would want to get rid of jails. Also, if I was a pedophile, I would want us not to know what a woman is anymore. I would want children to be sexually Educated at a young age.

But you believe that Van Jones is being sincere. A thousand percent. I don't think he realized, and Van, I think, is a brilliant guy. I don't agree with him on much, but I could have dinner with him. He seems like a great guy.

I could have a conversation with him. If I got to know him, I probably could be friends with him. My friends and I, Kevin Nash and I, I consider him like a brother. He's about as Democrat as it could possibly be. Dave Batiste, about as Democrat as.

And I love those guys. I don't care what they are politically because I know who they are as men.

So. But him coming forward now, when he had the ability to say, hey, this isn't right what's going on in our colleges. Hey, this isn't right. Instead, they were so forced on making a false narrative about President Trump that they created the monster that they were trying to convince us was in the White House. And now that's who they are.

Look at who they're running. Like Tim Waltz should have never been allowed to public speak again after those comments. They were disgusting. If you take that in any, there's no context way to swing it. And the worst part was, he's making these statements while he has this new backdrop of a bunch of children hugging him.

We need to wake up. You know, those people that you like so much, they're telling me to take a break. Because they know their clocks, as they should. Tyrus, thanks so much. Appreciate you, man.

Go get them. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. Yeah. Information you want, truth you demand.

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