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It's the Brian Kilmey Show. We have a lot going on today. This hour, Josh Kroshauer, will bring us inside the primary results and what it means in Washington when they finally get back to work there. These are Fox News Radio Political Analyst. Brett Baer is standing by, fresh off his show last night.

It was chocked full of information. We got new polls in Maine for the first time, really, since Troy Jackson became the nominee over Graham Plattner. We'll share that with you, but let's get to the big three. Number three. I'm glad they arrested him.

It won't bring Todd back. I don't understand why he was on the street. Those are the stories we keep hearing, but certain people let out and then they go and commit more heinous crimes. And that is Galena Pasternak, whose husband was killed. Blood on Gavin Newsom's hands as the Sanctuary State let an illegal with a long rap sheet run wild and a 68-year-old is dead as ICE gets another tool in their belt and the critics are outraged.

Number 10. We do know this. That MAGA extremism is not the way that we want to go. It's not where our state wants to go, and it's not the way that our country should be going. We need to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump's legacy.

Okay, there you go. David Crowley is the last minute nominee. To stop a panic attack in Wisconsin. Politics are plenty as we look at the new polls and examine new matchups in key Senate and governor's races around the country. Don't move.

Number one. They see the midterms coming. My gut feel is that they're likely going to get more aggressive because they don't believe the president will do much prior to the midterms in terms of military reaction. And they're wrong. General Jack Keene with Brett Baer last night.

The standoff and the straightest, both the U.S. and Iran think they have the advantage. Why I think the military card is the only one we can possibly play right now. And I want to continue that conversation that Brett had with General Keene last night by four of the best on Iran, probably in the country. Brett, welcome back.

Hey, Brett. And by the way, his book is still available. You got the Brett Bear podcast, but also the Case for America, an argument on behalf of our nation, and host of a brand new Fox Nation special on Spy Nation on Fox. And also, you have the other about the Havana syndrome, right, Brett? Yeah, and it's really fascinating.

Getting a lot of pickup on Fox Nation about the Havana syndrome, immaculate concussion is what it's called. I I tell you what, you look at this and you look at all of the the pain that some of these people have gone through and uh how the government handled it, uh it's worth a watch. Absolutely.

So I want to talk about yesterday where we go with Iran, because it's a fascinating point we're at. With people, I think the munitions, everyone's running with this munition story. We don't have enough TADS, we don't have enough Patriots, and perhaps that's true long term. We need to address that. But we have other stuff.

That we just wait we don't necessarily need tomahawks. There are glide bombs and other things that we have, and we're more armed up now than we were before the war actually started in February.

So it's not that we can't hit. It's that we are more concerned, I think, with the complaints of the Gulf allies, which caught, and the generals reaffirmed this last night. It did catch even Iran by surprise, that the Gulf allies are urging us Not the bomb. They didn't even predict that, which means it was an effective tool they used. Yeah.

And that's where the real push for You know, the Patriots, the Thads. Yeah. Coming from both the Gulf allies and Ukraine, frankly, they're out, they're tapped for the most part.

Some of those countries don't have any, Kuwait. Couple of others, but the others are running low. And that's where they feel like if there's this big attack, that Iran is going to attack them. And that's where the pushback has come. And numerous times, at least three leaders in the Gulf Arab allies, have pressured and called the president to not do another big attack.

Meanwhile, each time, obviously, Iran is kind of running out the clock. And while they may be weakened, they still have this core that doesn't really care about its people and economically, or that they would face bombings if they don't really negotiate at the negotiating table. And here's the expansive: here's exactly what Jaqueen said, cut seven. I don't think the munitions are having an impact on what we're going to do with Iran. And I think it's well known that for Multiple years now, we have been sacrificing rebuilding our arsenal because of budget cuts backs.

And where do you take those cuts? And those were easy places to cut, and you were deferring problems. And those problems are coming home to roost. I think we're fully capable in my discussions with IDF and our military leaders. They have what they need to execute the President's mission.

This is more about replenishing the stockpiles. and how fast can we replenish them to deal with the potential of other threats. I think that is really the central issue. And one of the things she's talking about is these CRs.

So we can't come together with a budget.

So, in order to avoid a shutdown, sometimes we don't. They have a CR, continuing to fund, but we can't fund long term. Really? You want to build a new Patriot? I'm going to need an investment, not just a month-to-month.

I just don't need six months. They need six years. How are we going to get past this, Brett? You know the election cycle. You know the fact that we have to get 12 different committees to approve their budgets, go to the House, approve a budget ideally, and then we can finance.

But currently, the way things are, it really hurting the Pentagon. Yeah. And um you know, these companies have been dealing in this in this environment for a long time, getting month to month, six months. but not long term planning for promised funding because each new Congress comes in and does something different. And you're right, they do continuing resolutions, which go off of the last budget passed and We've been trying to get back to regular order forever.

It's a little bit in the weeds inside Washington, but it really hurts the ability to capitalize on and monetize some of these efforts to get missiles and defense. I think they're going to have a real problem on Capitol Hill in the short term. And with the midterms coming, there's not a lot of big things happening before November.

So I talked to the President on Sunday, and I talked to him the week I was off at the week before. And both times he sought it with Brian. I don't care about the midterms. I don't believe that he believes that. I mean, one thing, it's a great thing to say that.

Because it keeps Iran off balance, because they think we're obsessed with the interns, the midterms. But you think the President really wants to be successful in the midterms, and he sees this rise of socialism along with the redistricting as a legitimate opportunity. What do you think? Because you know him better than anybody.

Well, yes, one hundred percent. And we've all talked to him in recent weeks, and I think he does say that, but he cares. Of course, he cares about the midterms because You know, he may be saying that about his decisions on Iran, that. Worrying about gas prices, he has some advisors inside the White House and inside his orbit that have pushed for these negotiations, but they haven't been fruitful at all. And I agree with you, and I agree with Jack Keene.

I mean, I think that there is a real possibility that it goes back to Connecticut action before you get to the midterms. Whether it's in the fall, it's not Iran's not suspecting it. I think that's where he doesn't care about the midterms, is that push. But if you look at a Democratic House and if you look at a Democratic Senate, which is increasingly possible if you look at polls, You're talking about an ugly two years for this administration. Investigations, indictments, probably impeachment.

you know, I think that's a bumpy ride that he's trying to avoid.

So I want to bring you to something else that I find maddening. Is that we? I sat on the couch and you sat on your desk, and we watched some of the crazy things being brought forward with. Um A DEI And Black Lives Matter. And to fund the police.

And all the crazy proposals that were put out there and accepted and people ran on them. And now that people are sobered up and looking back at those past tweets and their past positions, they're trying to run from them. Many of them, whether it's the governor's race in Wisconsin, whether it's the Uh whether it was Um AOC. Talking about now, we say woke one as if everyone was drunk when they first put those proposals out there. We were getting ostracized by pointing out that your anti-police, the fund the police is one of the stupidest things you ever heard in our life, but it did tremendous damage.

Remember, no cash bail did tremendous damage. The Fund the Pentagon's the new one, which is just farcical. And then when AOC comes out and admits it, well, that was just woke one. Listen to what she said on Sunday when asked about Francesca Hung. The socialist candidate in Wisconsin who said things like: defund the police.

To fund the Pentagon, let everybody in on the border and disband the Senate. Cut 18. I mean, I think that a lot of these races. Even right now, they'll have a tendency to be nationalized. But These races ultimately are local, and all politics are local.

My understanding is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her local council. Yeah, she's moved away from local. Right, she's moved away from it. And I have a local city councilman that has this. Uh saying woke one was crazy.

Really? Woke One was crazy. It dominated the political landscape and your panels, Brett, for about three years. Yeah. I mean, she was a big proponent of Woke One.

She was at the heart of Woke One. You know, uh the pronouns, uh, everybody's using pronouns, all the the the police defunding. Yes, a and you can't Look, if you're going to run for national office, and I do believe that you're getting ready to see an AOC presidential run in 28, and I think she's... Laying the groundwork for that, and you know, you can laugh it off, but there's a lot of videotape that shows. Her saying some and proposing some really wacky things.

So. All of the Democratic Socialist agenda items, if you look at the DSA website, Middle America is not buying that.

However, when these candidates are running, they're touching on something else, and that is the cost of living, affordability, health care costs, child care costs, and there is a big frustration about that. And there is, and there are independents that throw their hands up and say, I'm sick of this. I'm trying something else. And even vote that way, far left.

So, which is interesting, now that most of the primaries are over, we got a big one in Florida. But Rahm Emanuel said this about socialism: he said: if you were trying to be a party that Recruits people, working class people, who go who live paycheck to paycheck.

Socialists repulse them. Because if you look at who's voting socialist, it's not the working class. And it's certainly not minorities. It is overeducated white people and really overk and older rich white people.

So they're beginning to understand that socialism doesn't help the working class, even if you're vilifying the upper class. Is Rahm Emanuel running point on this? Could we expect more statements like this? Because all we've been getting is from maybe James Carvo and maybe Van Jones. Yeah, I think Ron Emmanuel is trying to stake out his own presidential run, and he's running, trying to attack this and rally the traditional Democratic base.

You've heard voices like Van Jones, you've heard Chris Matthews, you've heard Bill Maher, but this would be like a candidate that's running on this. His other platform is education, which is unique for a national platform to tackle that. But I think he's taking out ground. And if Democrats were smart, the traditional Democrats think that there is a big group there that's expanding. I think Republicans could pluck off some of that too.

I would think so. And it's going to be very interesting. I think a big bellwether would be Mike Rogers against El Saeed, because Mike Rogers is traditional conservative. You can't say, well, he's MAGA through and through, he's not. You know, he's more of a George Bush type conservative with tremendous.

you know, with tremendous national security credentials. And let's see how he does. I mean, he's competent, he's experienced. He's got FBI military background. He's well known in Michigan.

You know, what's one last time? And that could be a seat flip. Yes, so that could be a seat that's flipped. I think that's going to be very interesting. Brett, thanks so much.

I don't know if you've sometimes I put you in an awkward spot when I ask you if you've named your panel yet, because I know most of the panelists listen to see if their name Is going to be on the bulletin board. Yeah, I heard you weren't available, so I've decided to put off the choice.

So you're going to put off the choice or put off the panel entirely? I'm going to make that decision later today.

Okay, good. Understand. Brett, thanks so much. Brett Baer, Watchman 6, 1-866-408-7669. Back in a moment.

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This agency is completely out of control. I think we have to rip it apart.

So that's Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor who wants to be governor, right? Wants to be senator. All right.

So she's going to go against Michelle Tafoya.

So she is not the pick. of Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and Ansi Pelosi. And to CNN's credit, They asked her what do you mean by out of control and I want to rip ice apart Cut 13.

So you say you want to rip ice apart, do you mean you want to abolish it? I want to rip ice apart.

So, you want to get rid of it? You want to get rid of ice completely. I think we need immigration and we need an immigration system, but this immigration system is completely broken.

Okay.

So she never answered the question. What does she mean by that? This is the same thing when they say Medicare for all.

Okay, how does that work? How much going to cost? Who's going to pay? We're going to get rid of all private insurance, all those people out of a job, okay? Millions of people out of a job.

Private insurance. And tell me what country we're going to look like: Canada? England? No, thank you. What do the doctors say?

They don't want to live off Medicare. What do people on Medicare say? They say they need to be a supplement.

So they always say, defund ICE, Medicare for all. All right, so let's go back to Medicare for all. Peggy Fonnegan is asked again. Cut 14. If there is a criminal in the country illegally, in your state, for example.

Who would be the agent? Do you think that person should be arrested and deported? What agency would be would facilitate that? Just help us better understand how this would play out if ICE was actually abolished.

So I don't believe in that. I think that we need to rip ice apart and make sure that this agency is held to account. I don't believe that people should be able these agents should be able to kill with impunity. Um no one should be okay with that. No, but I'm talking about if they were abolished, how would it work practically for like a criminal in your state who's here illegally?

How would that work practically? Would you think would that person be arrested and deported? And wh what agency would do it? I'm just wondering how that would work. We need violent criminals to be held to account, and we need an immigration system.

Donald Trump's ice is completely broken, and it is not the answer. Their record number of deportations, they're picking up more criminals than ever before. Crime across the country is down. You see this Sanctuary State called California. Know the name Marcos Arante Valdez.

Multiple arrests. He kills a 68-year-old guy because they refused to put him in jail and call ice that they got him apprehended. He's been breaking the law in America since 2007. He finally killed on August 7th. Because it's a sanctuary state and cops get in trouble if they call ICE.

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And no, we don't agree on all of those different positions that you just named off, but we do know this. That MAGA extremism is not the way that we want to go. It's not where our state wants to go, and it's not the way that our country should be going. And at the end of the day, we need to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump's legacy and make sure that Tom Tiffany doesn't become our governor. That is David Crowley, who had resigned for the race in July, and then Mandela Barnes dropped out of the race.

And we saw the rise of Francesca Hung, and that panicked because she's a flat-out crazy socialist. And then she was winning by double digits. Crowley gets back in the race. The sitting governor comes back from his overseas vacation and race and campaigns frantically. Money pours in, and Crowley reeks out, squeaks out.

A slight victory, and everyone says, Who is this guy? He's the gubernatorial candidate, yeah. And you know, he was known to Wisconsinites.

Okay, we're about to find out. They want to run against Donald Trump.

Now they're no longer talking socialism. But I'll tell you, the fact that he barely won, I think, says a lot. It looks like, in many ways, they dodged a bullet. But it's only because, in my view, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, nobody endorsed the guy. The only thing they got is that radical Hassan Pike who was out there.

Campaigning with him. And I'm going to play some of what he has said after the loss. But first, I want to bring in Josh Crash Harrow, Fox News radio political analyst and editor of The Jewish Insider. Josh, your thoughts about what's your takeaway from the Wisconsin governors Uh primary. Yeah, I mean, A, it was a stunning upset and it proves that the polls are Fundamentally broken, and it was a unique type of race, but Within a week before the election, have Hong up by 20 points and have her lose by.

But, Josh, can I stop you there? Do you think there's a chance that she did have that lead and then people put the spotlight on her? Oh yeah, yeah, I remember that. And that's what happened? Part of it is that this is a fast-moving race and everyone threw the kitchen sink, whether it was the governor Tony Evers to endorse and campaign against Hong and support Crowley, to AOC's prominent interview on Sunday where she would not endorse Hong's candidacy.

So there was a lot of things going on behind the scenes that was a fast-moving race. But there's also this issue where the people who respond to polls are usually the most progressive, like highly college educated people who want to answer any poll they get, where people who are working class, who tend to vote for the more moderate candidates, don't answer the phone or are hard to reach when it comes to political polling.

So I think there's a little bit of that as well. But to your big picture question, what does it mean? I mean, look, I think it's important to note that even despite every Democrat throwing the kitchen sink to stop Francesca Hong and stop a socialist from being the nominee, she still came within 0.5%, 0.5% of winning the nomination.

So it really took everyone on the same page. Page from Bernie Sanders to the most moderate Democrats, including the governor, to really stop the socialists. And you look at the results in some of the other Wisconsin and Minnesota races, and even some of the local races across the board, you're still seeing DSA candidates, socialist candidates that are winning nominations. Minnesota's Senate race didn't get as much attention, but the moderate swing district battleground tested candidate Angie Craig lost by 20 points to the very far left, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan.

So if Democrats unite and actually show leadership for the more moderate candidates, I think it shows that they can get the candidates across the finish line. But if they don't do anything or if they're divided, as they are in so many of these races, it's going to be harder to do. Right. And because Tom Tiffany's solid. You know, you're not asking to go an extremist or or a know Michael and Dell.

You're you're saying Tyler, you know, you a kid. The two Republicans. Tom Tiffany is a solid Republican, Don Extremist. Not extreme conservative. He's not Steve Bannon.

You know, it's not any of the radical podcasters. And then you look at Mike Rogers, he's more of a traditional Mike Pence. George Bush type Republican who's not anti-MAGA.

So you can't blame the quality of the opponent. You're going to have a solid Republican. In a battleground state in Michigan for the Senate seat. And for the governor's seat in Wisconsin, don't you think? Yeah, I think one of the underreported stories of this election cycle is that Republicans have actually nominated some of their strongest candidates in quite a while.

I remember we were talking about the candidates in 2022 and to some extent in 2024. I mean, that was when the Republicans pushed Herschel Walker and Dr. Oz and other folks who were the Blake Fasters candidacy in Arizona, candidates that underperformed badly and were not ready for prime time. Mike Rogers is a really well-regarded former member of Congress, FBI agent, national security expert. He's probably about the strongest candidate Republicans could put up in Michigan.

Tom Tiffany, obviously veteran member of Congress who knows how to win competitive races. I mean, you even go to Maine. I know she's an incumbent, but Susan Collins is the most battle-tested Republican politician out there in Congress.

So Republicans have the challenge for Republicans is the political environment, the state of the economy, Trump's job approval ratings, the war in Iran. those are the headwinds that Republicans are facing. But it's a lot different than in the past when they had the good environment, but the candidates weren't there. Th this year is going to be a case where they have some really good candidates, but the national environment is going against them. Currently, but there are some things going on right now.

If they could find a way to successfully end this war in Iran. Whether it's extensive military action in August to make a smooth fall, but wading this way and out and extending the Iran. War, I think, will do nothing but challenge those candidates. The one weakness is Ken Paxson in Texas. They made a huge mistake there.

Oh, yeah. I mean, look, whoever wins the Texas Senate race, Republicans are. Going to be spending tens of millions of dollars to bail Paxton out. He's actually not been a good fundraiser, but he's also trailing in. Almost every poll that's been done in the last couple of weeks, including the Fox News poll.

So this is going to be a heavy lift for Republicans. I think once the campaign gets underway and people kind of turn to their partisan instincts, you could easily see Paxton moving ahead of Tall Rico given Texas's conservative bent. But At the same time, this should not be hard. John Cornyn would be up if he was the nominee, and instead Republicans are going to be having to spend a lot of money in Texas and paying a lot of attention to Texas when they would rather be spending helping go on offense in other states and playing defense in other important states.

So, the big problem, the Wall Street Journal had this story today, that Democrats have is Hassan Piker. And I think it's a problem. Maybe they think it's an asset. I think it's a problem. And what he's doing on social media platforms, going to bat in the most radical situations, the things he said in the past about 9-11, the thing he believes that Israel's worth is in Hamas, and you should kill Rick Scott, Rick Scott should be killed.

These are some of the crazy things he said.

So afterwards, since he was the lone power player with Hung. He's he was ranting. about what this loss means, Cut 17. The media will do everything in its power to try to discourage you. They will tell you you're a loser.

They'll say, oh, DSA. Your candidate was Yeah. Oh, Francesca Hong was bad. She was a bad candidate. Oh, she didn't like Thanksgiving.

Come. Really? Cut sixteen. Versus where we are now. And then think two years from now, There's a general election.

It's going to be a presidential election. Every victory, and even every single defeat. Is a very valuable data point, very valuable lesson to learn.

So I like to say, look, being a leftist is about taking a lot of L's. And we have taken a lot of L's for the last 10 years. And look at us now. Look at where we're at now. And what he believes has got a lot of people worried because I don't think people want to elect any socialist in 28, do you?

Well, yeah, I mean, this is the guy who Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, campaigned with the final day of the campaign and has still kind of had trouble distancing himself from. The guy who says America deserved 9-11. I mean, we're going to be hearing a lot more of that.

So the fact that he, you know, it is notable which candidates he's campaigned with, which candidates he's liked, because this is a kind of strain of deep-seated anti-Americanism and extremism that we've never seen in the Democratic Party. This is something that would never have been accepted in the Democratic Party until this year. And you can see the candidates that are comfortable campaigning with him and associated with that brand of radicalism. I'm just curious because El Saeed will not back off saying he's going to campaign with him. He's got hours of podcast time with him and stuff that just emerged of El Saeed not liking fireworks, says they suck.

And he says he doesn't like football as toxic masculinity, even though he played, talked about racist in the locker room in high school. I'm sure his high school classmates will love that. I'm not sure any of that's true, being that he was captain of the team according to his staff. And then he panics because it became clear that he doesn't like football in Michigan, where they got this team called the Lions, and then it's Michigan State, Eastern Michigan, and this place called the University of Michigan.

So I'm pretty sure that's a negative thing to come out. And his response to the criticism is to challenge Mike Rogers to a one-on-one football game, which by the way, you don't do in life. You don't play one-on-one football ever, unless you may be four, playing with your parent.

So That was an overreaction and a panic reaction to I will challenge Mike Rogers to a one-on-one football game, even though you got 30 years on him.

So here's Mike Rogers on these two things, Cut 22. You can almost hear a collective gasp across Michigan for all the things he spends time hating on. I mean, when I go back, I want to make sure we're protecting our faith and our families and our factories and our freedoms while he's advocating doing away with our fireworks, football, the 4th of July. This guy spent hours hating on what most Michiganders would enjoy in their pastimes, and he should be held to account for that.

So they got a lot of ads that can run. Yeah, they do. I like the alliteration there from Mike Rogers. But, you know, El Syed is giving them a lot of material to work with. I actually don't understand I'm very confused with the tweet that El Syed sent yesterday because you're right, he he said he was captain captain, I believe, of his high school football team, and he does come across as someone who would like, or at least understand football, and then he.

It sounded like he was trying to challenge Rogers to a fight. I'll read you exactly what he says. Since you're too afraid to debate me, which, by the way, I never heard him say he doesn't want to debate him. How about you hold me accountable on football field instead? Tackle, no pads, like we used to play when we were kids.

I'd be happy to show you how much I love football. By the way, nobody plays one-on-one football as a kid. What is he even talking about? It's weird because he's almost underscoring the sense that he doesn't know anything about football when supposedly he does. It is very bizarre.

Usually, he would say, oh, you know, show how much you love the Lions and take a picture of yourself in a Lions jersey and do something along those lines. He sounded really defensive and almost like he's actually giving the argument a lot of credence.

So I don't understand. Look, it's a reminder that primary politics are a whole lot different than general election politics. This is going to be a real test of whether that radical brand of politics can play in a general election. The primary electorate is a lot smaller and a lot more to the left than your average swing voter in Michigan. I think a lot of the things that Rogers was talking about in that clip are going to resonate with those independent voters that are going to decide this race.

But that's why they play the games, as they say. And this is going to pull. I'm very interested to see the first wave for polling and seeing who's up and what should be a state that should go Dem. I mean, it's a swing state. Dems have won a lot of, I think the last time Republicans won a Senate race in Michigan goes back a couple decades.

But Rogers looks like he has a really good chance to win this thing.

So I got a little PTSD on two things. The pandemic, I was just ma and you could look back and I wasn't the only one, but I was just gone crazy about Fauci. I watched him change policies per interview. I watched him go back and uh condemn people on For different things. I watched him rally against people that wouldn't get vaccinated and demand people get three vaccinations, and his cohorts telling people to wear goggles.

And now we're seeing that he had real doubts about everything, including the origin in those emails. At the same time, we're being told by radical Democrats with a squad. who are now gone Socialists, That, oh, that's woke 1.0, the whole DSI, the political correctness, the use of pronouns, all the way. America's a terrible place. We should apologize, tear down our statues.

Oops, sorry. That was woke one. Josh, you covered it on an hourly basis.

Now they're telling us, oh, don't take me serious like I was in 2020, 2021, 2023.

Now in 2026, We're going to go to woke two because woke one was crazy. Really? You're admitting now that all that crap was just o off the charts crazy? Yeah, yeah. It's kind of remarkable to see someone like AOC, who led the charge.

She was the captain of the football team for Woke 1.0 and the College of College and Defund the Police. She's on the record saying Defund the Police. Oh, yeah. I mean, this is all NVIDIA. I mean, this is not a secret.

She was the leader of a lot of the most unpopular, progressive, if not far-left views on policing, on crime, on redistribution, on foreign policy. You know, so now they're trying to pivot. I think they feel like there's some issues like data. I mean, they're trying to change the set of issues, which, by the way, includes a tolerance of anti-Semitism and certainly hostility towards Israel. That is what 2.0 is even more radical views on foreign policy that they're trying to really mainstream out there.

But there are a lot of other things like Medicare. You heard Abdul Al-Sayyed. Even in his current campaign slogan, wants socialized medicine, uh, government-run health care, Medicare Medicare for all. Um that is very you know, that's the kind of thing that's always been politically toxic in in in in in American politics.

So, you know, I I don't really I mean, I think they're trying to downplay the defund the police stuff because that was so unpopular and and and you mentioned some of the pandemic stuff that that people are trying to blot that out of their memory from from five or six years ago. But the the new things that they're running on are equally as unpopular. And if you look at the DSA platform, I mean, the the thing that I think is new this time around is you actually have a party institution, the Democratic Socialists of America, who have their platform listed online and you can actually see what they believe in. And it's actually uh the same, if not more extreme, as it was back in 2020.

So it it is very confusing what AOC is saying and what what they do what they think was crazy and what they think is still still something they want to campaign on. Yeah, by the way, Medicare for all. Not one Republican should let anyone get away with that. It is impossible, unaffordable. It gives bad insurance that needs to be supplemented.

It destroys seniors getting Medicare. They'll no longer be the priority. Nobody wants Medicare for all. If a Republican wants to win, Make them do the math. The math you what medic healthcare legitimate issue.

Medicare for all is not plausible, feasible, affordable. And if a Republican continues to let that go by, that's just laziness. Josh, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. Back in a moment.

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Secretary Bessard and I worked very closely with Congress to get the big, beautiful bill passed, and it had pretty much everything the president wanted in it in the end. And the thing about the president is that he says, as we're going into the midterms, that he doesn't want to just sort of say how great it is what we've done in the past. He wants to hit people with the things that are promises that we're going to do if the Republicans have power in the future. And so you can expect a lot more policy between now and the midterm. And that is Kevin Hassett.

Uh who Heard about some new ideas the president have in terms of tax cuts and a way to incentivize when it comes to capital gains. They're trying to unfreeze the housing market, they're trying to do it creatively. And I heard Howard Luttnick on with Larry Kudlow yesterday. And I'll play some of them a little in a different hour in the show. And he's got some interesting things out there to unstick the market.

You got to incentivize people to be able to sell, even if they want to sell. But if you're on a mortgage at 2.7% and the current rate is not unseemly, but it's higher at about 5.8% or 6%. You just can't say, well. If I have to carry a mortgage to my next house, how does it make sense to sell?

So everything's kind of stuck. Because the rates went so low for so long And now they're going up to a more plausible level. But until inflation is under control, you're not going to see a considerable drop, although. And the inflation numbers were so strong, they're saying that it could drop again in September. Even though they say it's more adhered to the 10-year yield than interest rates overall from the Fed.

But we'll see if that can happen.

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So I got to like that, get his perception on what's happening over in Iran. Also, it looks like the Russians are targeting grain shipments coming out of Ukraine. Not only hurting Ukraine, obviously, but hurting places like Africa, who need this thing called food. But that should not bother the Russians. That's how they roll.

Go to youtube.com/slash at the Brian Killmeat Show. You got to get highlights. Everybody's talking about my brand new YouTube channel. But before we get to Daniel Hoffman, former CIA station chief in Moscow, Iraq, Pakistan, South Asia, let's get to the big three. Number three.

I'm glad they arrested him. It won't bring that back. I don't understand why he was on the street. Those are the stories we keep hearing, but certain people are let out and then they go and commit more heinous crimes. Yep, that's Galena Pasternak, whose husband was killed.

Blood on Gavin Newsom's hands. And a sanctuary state lets another illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet run wild, not tell ICE that he's there, and now a 68-year-old is dead trying to stop another burglary in his neighborhood. It is maddening. We will talk about it. Number two.

We do know this, that MAGA extremism is not the way that we want to go. It's not where our state wants to go, and it's not the way that our country should be going. We need to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump's legacy.

All right, that is David Crowley. Wants to be the next governor of Wisconsin. Politics are plenty as we look at the new polls and examine new matchups in the key Senate and governor races. Number one. They see the midterms coming.

My gut feel is that they're likely going to get more aggressive because they don't believe the President will do much prior to the midterms in terms of military reaction. That is General Jack Keen weighing in. He might be right, standing off in the strait as both U.S. and Iran think they have the advantage. Why I think the military card is the only one we can possibly play right now, and the munitions depletion has been way overplayed and overblown.

Well, let's go to the guy who's known for his intelligence and knowledge about countries that really hate us. He's worked in the worst, hoping for the best. Daniel Hoffman, welcome back. Thanks for having me on the program, Brian.

So you heard General Keene. He says he thinks military action really is where we're going to go. I think it's going to be before Labor Day. And he thinks they're going to amp up the attacks to maybe try to put Trump in a box. What do you think, Dan?

Well, I think that's certainly the question the President is going to be asking our intelligence community. After all, that's what they do. I know from my experience at CIA, what we would be doing is pulsing our. Human sources Uh to determine what Iran's plans and intentions are. And if Iran has plans to launch additional strikes against us and our bases in the region and our Gulf partners, obviously, that's something that we should be able to collect intelligence on, advise the President so that the President can have an array of policy options to respond.

But I would emphasize in that case, if that does happen, we are responding to Iran. It's not that we're taking the initiative ourselves. And that is also a factor to consider in our relationship here as we're in this sort of I don't know, I guess I would call it an economic war of attrition right now between the United States and Iran. What do you think is happening in the Red Sea, on the other side? And the other straight.

Well, Iran's proxy terrorists, the Houthis, have seen an opportunity. To interfere with with maritime shipping in the Red Sea, and they've launched strikes on Saudi shipping, and they're doing that to disrupt the global trade in oil, drive up prices. And make the United States and our allies and the rest of the world pay a price. And what they're hoping is that by doing that, The United States will not take the fight to the finish against Iran. That's what this is all about.

It's about reducing or eliminating altogether U.S. influence in the region and degrading our support for our allies so that Iran can exercise some kind of dominance in their own self-designated sphere of influence. Should we be targeting Houda Houthis?

Well, we have in the past. And then we Eased off and uh kind of emerged. There was a ceasefire that emerged between us and the Houthis. I think we need to have a plan, and I think we need to involve our allies in the region, specifically the UAE and Saudi Arabia, to deal with that threat. But for sure, Waiting and watching and allowing the Houthis to launch strikes should not be an option.

I want you to hear what General Jack Keene said about the reality of our munitions. Cut seven. I don't think the munitions are having an impact on what we're going to do with Iran. And I think it's well known that for multiple years now, we have been sacrificing rebuilding our arsenal because of budget cuts backs. And where do you take those cuts?

And those were easy places to cut, and you were deferring problems. And those problems are coming home to roost. I think we're fully capable in my discussions with IDF and our military leaders. They have what they need to execute the President's mission. This is more about replenishing the stockpiles and how fast can we replenish them to deal with the potential of other threats.

I think that is really the central issue. So what do you hear, Dan? Look, I don't know how many tomahawks, attack'ems, and Patriot missiles we have in the inventory, that's all classified. But for sure, our defense industrial base has been a major issue going back administrations. And it's not like a water faucet.

You could just turn it on and off. It takes years, even decades, to build out. But the other point that I would consider here, in addition to however our munition stocks have been, I wouldn't say depleted, maybe degraded. Is the question of whether our military strikes actually achieved any strategic objective? Our goal from the beginning was to induce Iran to negotiate in good faith.

That's why we deployed our military assets to the region. It was designed to produce something better than the JCPOA.

So no sunset clauses on Iran's nuclear program, deal with Iran's ballistic missiles and their support to proxy terrorists. All the reasons why Democrats, including Senator Chuck Schumer, wouldn't vote for the JCPOA, that was what we were supposed to fix. And as successful as every one of our military strikes has been, we have not achieved that strategic objective. And so I think the President has to go back to his team and say, hey, how do we achieve this objective of inducing Iran to negotiate in good faith? More military strikes?

Is that going to do it or not? And if it's not, then we better have another way to do it. And maybe it's decapitation strikes. Maybe if these guys don't want to negotiate. The next round of Iranian leaders will.

I don't know the answer to that question, but I do know that we took a lot of strikes and Iran still didn't show any interest in negotiating. They have a lot of resilience because they don't care how much we pummel their economy. And that's the challenge we face. How much information intelligence have we gotten, do you think, or capable of gotten from the satellite images we've had since the strikes stopped? I think we have a lot of really exquisite intelligence, human intelligence and geospatial overhead reconnaissance intelligence, signals intelligence.

I think that our analysts are able to put together a pretty good picture for the President, coupled with whatever we receive from our allies and partners in the region, especially Israel, about the extent to which Iran is seeking to rearm and reconstitute their ballistic missiles, their drones and their nuclear program. I think we have probably some pretty good fidelity. We'd still like to get inspectors on the ground. That's part of a longer-term solution, but there is zero indication that Iran is interested in doing that. I want to talk about Russia if we can.

Another area you've worked in. It looks like they're going to be bringing, if we're to believe the reports from ISW, and they're great. Uh as many as 50,000 North Korean troops into Russia. As well as Russia has a new target. It's merchant ships full of grain heading to places like Africa to try to hurt the Ukrainian economy or get the world's attention.

What do you think about these new tactics? What do they tell you? Mm-hmm. A little bit of desperation on the part of Vladimir Putin. War on Ukraine was supposed to be over in three days, and it's still going.

Into with a fifth year. Over a million casualties. And so he's relying on North Korea not just for artillery, but now troops. And not just they previously sent reportedly 10,000 troops, now it's up to 50,000 troops. The North Koreans will do anything because in return they're receiving much-needed economic support and commercial deals, and their soldiers are getting a chance, if they're not killed at least, to train and get wartime battlefield experience on the front lines that they can bring back to Pyongyang and used to train their new recruits.

So that, coupled with Putin's ballistic missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, continuing to kill Ukrainian civilians and, as you pointed out, trying to Trying to destroy what's left of Ukraine's economy, all I think are indications of Vladimir Putin's desperation. He knows there's a tipping point here. At some point, that war will have gone on too long. And not the Russian people so much, because they really don't have the capability to stand up to Putin, just like the Iranian people can't stand up to their evil regime. But the regime in Russia, the national security officials who know very well the cost in terms of spilled blood and treasure of this war, they're the ones who could potentially rise up and remove Vladimir Putin when they've had enough of it.

And Daniel Hoffman's our guest now, former CIA station chief, and we're talking about his Moscow expertise. But Dan, and by the way, if you're lucky enough to see the stream, you can see him on Fox Nation, you can see on a Fox News app. And then, of course, catch a lot of this all on YouTube later.

So Dan, They just disbanded another opposition party in Russia, not allowing them to run for any position within the government. Does that show you another level of paranoia for Vladimir Putin?

Well, the party they they won't allow to participate in the election, Jablika, which means apple in Russian, they haven't met the threshold in decades.

So it's less about that party's potential threat. To Vladimir Putin's dictatorial rule, but more about Putin continuing to demonstrate that he's in charge. That's what he needs to show his own security people that No one can step out of line, no one can criticize him or his policies. If they do, then they will face serious disciplinary action or potentially worse, death.

So that's what this is about. That's why Putin relentlessly pursues those whom he calls traitors. It's why he tried to poison military intelligence defector Sergei Skiripal with a banned chemical nerve agent in Salisbury back in 2018. It's not that Skiripal presented any threat to Vladimir Putin. It's just that Putin has to demonstrate to his own guys that he's still in charge and he won't tolerate any dissent from anyone.

So why do we get this statement from German officials that the Russians are going to be looking to get and are consistently testing NATO? They have found you with a drone on an airport in Germany. They say they continue to probe the borders. How could a country struggling so much with Ukraine want to widen the conflict and spread out their assets? Why does that work for them?

Well, that's what Vladimir Putin does, remember he's the K G B guy, that's his formative experience. I would say that and his black belt in judo, which, if you ever, anybody who practiced judo or jiu-jitsu, you know that you want to use your opponent's strength against them.

So a smaller, weaker opponent can take on a stronger one. And what Vladimir Putin is doing is running these clandestine operations in Europe, subterfuge, the sort of thing that he would have done in the KGB, designed to show European nations that Russia has some capability to make them feel some pain. And the goal is to influence Europe not to give Ukraine what they need. Europe has really taken over from the United States, giving Ukraine the financial and military support that Ukraine so desperately needs. Vladimir Putin wants that to stop.

And he thinks that maybe by running these sorts of hybrid operations, he can influence public opinion in Europe. He's absolutely wrong about that. If anything, it's resulted in Europe being awakened from their post-Cold War slumber. Look at Finland and Sweden, now NATO members. Poland with a stronger army and spending over 4% of their GDP on defense.

So, look, none of this has worked out for Vladimir Putin, but he's just going back to the old KGB playbook. Yeah, I guess so.

So, right now, you don't think he's any closer to coming to the table and having to land this Uh plane with Ukraine? No. I I'm sorry. From the very beginning of this, and go back over what I've said on Fox News and with you, I've never said I've never once felt like Vladimir Putin wanted to negotiate a deal. I'm sorry to say that, but it's true.

This war will end when Vladimir Putin is either dead Or removed from the Kremlin or leaves on his own volition. But it's not going to end otherwise, in my estimation. I've seen no evidence whatsoever that he's interested in ending this war. He's had lots of opportunities. When President Trump was elected and the president said he would end the war in a day, Putin had the best chance of all to reset Russia's commercial relationship with the West, and that could have happened.

And it would have been better for Russia if he'd done it. But Ukraine represents an existential threat to Putin, not because it's threatening Russia in any military way, but because Ukraine is pursuing economic ties and strategic ties with Europe, and they're trying to build a democratic foundation in their country. That's what scares Vladimir Putin the most: democracy, especially from a neighbor with a sizable Russian-speaking population. Do you think South Korea should answer? If North Korea is going to help Russia, shouldn't South Korea help Ukraine?

Yeah, I think South Korea certainly should uh do more to help Ukraine. They can provide military equipment. And absolutely agree with you that there's opportunities for them to do that. But Europe really needs to continue to take the lead on this. And of course, the United States should be providing assistance.

We want Ukraine. To be able to win this war. And the way they win it is by demonstrating, not just to Putin, but to the rest of Russia's ruling elite, that this war is a loser and that at some point Russia will have spilled too much blood and too much treasure, and they'll have to stop fighting. Yeah, I guess winning is the only answer. Daniel Hoffman, former CIA station chief, Moscow, Iraq, Pakistan, South Asia, and Europe.

Last question, real quick, 20 seconds. It looks like Iraq is going to push to oust the Iranian militias in Iraq. Is it are they capable of doing that? The current Iraqi force Uh I think that's aspirational. Good on them for wanting to do that.

And I'm not that sanguine that they'll achieve success, but just the fact that they're talking about it is good news for us and the rest of the region. Our Gulf State partners, particularly Saudi Arabia, UAE should take notice and should provide Iraq the assistance they need financially to make that happen. Go get him. Dan Hoffman, thanks so much. Great conversation.

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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we are back. In bottom of the hour, John Hanna is going to be joining us, former National Security Advisor to Dick Cheney and a senior policy practitioner for both Democrats and Republicans. I do want to talk more about the Iranian situation, some of our challenges overseas, and how it relates to what we do next in Cuba.

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So when they look at this phase here. They see the midterms coming, my gut feel is that they're likely going to get more aggressive because they don't believe the president will do much. prior to the midterms. in terms of military reaction. And they're wrong.

They've always miscalculated the present. That's one thing they're good at: getting that wrong. Whatever you think of the president's strategy, and I think most of it's really good. They have not predicted is nothing that they predict has come out correct because he's the only president to take direct action against Iran. John Hanna joins us now, former National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and senior foreign policy practitioner to both Democratic and Republican administrations.

John, where do you think we're at with this minute right now with this conflict? The one thing I would like to add is we had our Secretary of Energy come out and say we're getting like 30 ships full through the Strait, even though it registers nine. We're doing with something with shutting off the transponders or whatever. And the Defense of Democracies did confirm it, that they believe from their source with the Navy that it's happening.

So let's say it's 30, not 100. Where do we go from here if the President was to ask you for advice?

Well, I mean, it all depends on his risk tolerance, Brian, and the plans he's presented with. It's so far, it seems like the president doesn't believe at an acceptable cost he's got a military solution on Hormuz or that he's got an option to dramatically escalate and devastate Iranian society because he's worried about what happens in response, retaliation in the Gulf against critical energy infrastructure that takes this energy crisis over a cliff.

So I'd say if he's in that position before the midterms, worried about markets, if there is this worry about munitions, depth, and stockpiles, that if you can maintain the current strategy of oil in a band of $85, $95, strangulation of the Iranian economy, increasing sanctions, getting countries on Iran's borders to further shut down the smuggling. And engaging in whatever tit-for-tat strikes you have to whenever the Iranians raise their heads, I'd say that might be the acceptable solution for President Trump if. The Iranians let you do it, and they don't follow Keene's strategy of believing they've now got the whip hand and they can embarrass and humiliate Trump before the midterms by taking this up the escalation ladder and forcing him to engage in major combat again. If they're going to do major combat, It would pr probably behoove the President to get it done in August. Right.

Now's the time. Yeah, no. If you're going to do it, if you're going to resolve this militarily in a definitive way, the sooner you can do it, the sooner you can get past the shock to oil markets, the sooner that kind of victory can seep in to the American people. Again, if it's possible, if it can be done at acceptable cost to the global economy, to American forces, American casualties, yes, you do it as soon as possible. But there's been no evidence for several months now since April 7th that the president believes he has any of those options available to him, again, at acceptable cost and risk that he's willing to pay.

They say three separate times the Gulf states have contacted him and said, look. I don't know if we can handle the retaliation. Please don't go ahead. He wanted to go ahead offensively. And of course, our bases are the main target, but he felt as though our bases could be accurately protected.

But it's the infrastructure that I think our Gulf states are worried about. What would you say if you were the President, if the Gulf States are calling you saying they're worried? I take it seriously. I certainly go to my intel community. I go to my military.

Can we protect these guys? Or are we looking at a real global depression? The president said months ago, I don't want to be Herbert Hoover. And if you destroy on a permanent basis, critical Gulf oil infrastructure that hasn't been destroyed yet, you're facing a real crisis. Then $100 oil looks like a walk in the park.

We're going much, much higher than that. And again, it may be worth it not to lose the war, to take down the Iranian regime, to get them to capitulate, to achieve a military victory and liberate Hormuz. But the enemy gets a vote, and this could be a very, very costly and tough fight. And now, John, tell me feasibly, militarily, is one of the plans hit them so hard from so many different ways, being that we've gone to school on what we did and didn't do in the first with Epic Fury 1? And to hit him so hard in so ways to diminish the chances that they have to hit our Gulf states.

Yeah, no, absolutely. Reducing that magazine depth has been a, of their missiles and drones has been the obvious top target along with the nuclear program for four months since the beginning of this war. I don't know if we underestimated, if our intel wasn't adequate on the magazine depth, on the missile cities buried deep under those mountains and what kind of production capabilities they've had for drones. But at every turn, the Iranians have managed to fire these things off despite the enormous damage we've done to them and continue to hold at risk. Not only U.S.

military targets, witness the soldiers that were killed in Jordan only a few weeks ago, but obviously also they've got the Gulf state scared to death that this could become an existential battle for them and their ability to sustain life if those desalination plants in the Gulf go. I mean, Riyadh's got to be evacuated. I mean, if you have I mean, if you focus on your desalinization plan, there's only a few of them that do a tremendous amount of work. I imagine you could defend them and maybe that there's a plan there. I would not know it.

I don't have the satellite images. I don't. see the missile capabilities in front of me, but I'm just looking overall. Do you think it's time to urge the Gulf states to have a offensive plan themselves? I mean, the UAE and Saudi Arabia at different times have taken action on a low-key base.

But in basis, but would you think they could have signific be a significant help? I mean, I don't know. They obviously have significant air capabilities, whether they're sufficiently interoperable with the United States U.S. plans. I think they feel, again, Incredibly nervous.

They want to establish some level of deterrence, which is why they've quietly hit back on occasion. And yet, at the same time, I think they have deep doubts about where this. The end state of this conflict is going to be. They have some concerns about the president. The president has been back and forth a number of times on ending Iranian civilization on power plant day, on taking, you know, turning the lights off in Iran only to pull back to get an MOU that was completely unsatisfactory.

Terrible. And now to have their economic lifeline having been put at risk in the Strait of Hormuz. Almost all of their sea-based trade obviously goes out through Hormuz.

Now Babel Mendebah is threatened, and the United States hasn't had a definitive answer to liberate it and keep it liberated. That raises a lot of questions in their minds, I think, about how far they can go on their own to go after the Iranians.

So would you do a joint hit, according to General Jack Keene, would involve the IDF? Cut seven. I don't think the munitions are having an impact on what we're going to do with Iran. And I think it's well known that for Multiple years now, we have been sacrificing rebuilding our arsenal because of budget cuts backs. And where do you take those cuts?

And those were easy places to cut, and you were deferring problems. And those problems are coming home to roost. I think we're fully capable in my discussions with IDF and our military leaders. They have what they need to execute the President's mission. This is more about replenishing the stockpiles.

and how fast can we replenish them to deal with the potential of other threats. I think that is really the central issue. But he feels like the IDF is ready to go. Would you have them in on any comprehensive military action? Yeah, if you're going to go up the escalation ladder on this, I think there's so much the IDF could do.

Again, I think it's enormously risky. It's the chances of retaliation are great and significant damage are great. But if you're going to go, I think you go with the IDF. They hit at least half the targets in the first 40 days of this war, did enormous damage to Iranian leadership, to security targets in the IRGC and the besiege. There's an enormous amount the IDF is able to do.

They're the best military in the Middle East, head and shoulders above everybody else, not to mention their intel capacity and things they can do internally to cause havoc within the regime itself. I remember Donald Rumsfeld was always talking about production and efficiency. How hard is it to be a product, to arm up this country on CRs, on continuing resolutions, when we're trying to figure out what to build next and the Pentagon wants to use their budget, but we just get CR after CR because we can't get together on a budget. How much does that hurt procurement? It's a disaster.

It's a disaster that's 20, 25 years in the making. Your inability to have multi-year contracts to give suppliers the confidence and predictability they need to invest in plants, have factory space into the workforce that would be required to build these modern advanced weapons. It's a huge detriment. And you only hope. that facing this crisis now against such a brutal adversary like the Iranians, if there are issues with the stockpile that are constraining and limiting and increasing risk to our forces faced with this problem, you hope that a group of people in the center, both left and right, can get together and realize we need a solution to this problem that lasts the next decade or two decades.

So Iran had a plan. Their plan was to build enough rockets, ballistic missiles, to build up their nuclear program, at the same time make them impenetrable, at the same time wipe out Israel. And by using their proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad. And they thought for a while Syria, when they had an ally there, They thought that that was the way to strangle Israel and finally get rid of that country. Number one, do you believe that was their plan?

And where do you think that plan is now? Yeah, there's no question that was their plan, Brian. And I'd add one thing. I mean, it was a bit of the North Korea model, you know, that you build up such a force of mortars, missiles, artillery on that border that you would incinerate Seoul. and 5 million, 10 million, 12 million people, including a huge number of U.S.

Citizens hold it hostage, and therefore, your nuclear programs are impenetrable. Nobody's going to go after you. That's what the Iranians have done in the Gulf. They are essentially holding the Gulf hostage as America's soft underbelly, that they will incinerate the Gulf and global energy markets if you come after them. That they've got a depth of magazine in terms of the missile and drone force that they built up that is substantial and poses now a significant problem in spite.

on a military purely military operational level, the enormous damage we've done not only to their military, but their entire economy, their production capacity to reconstitute both their nuclear and missile programs in the future. They still got enough to cause extreme havoc, and they're pursuing that strategy with a vengeance now. And I think Keene is right. They believe they've got a boot in the American neck. You see it in their recent crazy demands they've made of President Trump.

And I believe that whether they're right or wrong, we'll see in that calculation, but they're hoping to really humiliate him. And I can see them doing some things before the midterms to make sure that he suffers a defeat, that he's not going to want to go back for another round with them after the elections. He's got to be and so many people have said that, experts like you, John Hanna, that I think the president's got to realize that inaction, it shouldn't be an option. Yeah, and then let's give him credit. He is strangling the Iranian economy right now, slowly but surely.

We'll see if that matters to the Iranians, how long they can last. You've got to believe that even a society as brutal and totalitarian and zealot as theirs is, has some. Breaking point at some point where the people will go back into the streets. But that's a long-term bet. And the Iranians are betting that their paying threshold is a heck of a lot higher than an American Democratic government that faces midterms in three months and potential shortages in munitions and obviously the markets that are putting pressure on the American consumer.

Yeah, and lastly just with Russia right now. I was just talking with Dan Hoffman, CIA guy, and he says he doesn't think they're close. They have any interest in any type of peace talks. What do you think? Yeah, I agree as well.

I'm not sure Putin's got an acceptable diplomatic off-ramp that he could take, even in the best of circumstances. I think he's so deep and committed into this war and has led the Russian population and elite to believe that victory is at hand that I see no signs of it, both in terms of the punishment of the missile forces. He believes Ukraine is running out of obviously air defenses and patriots. And now recently he's going back after Ukrainian cargo, trying to leave the Black Sea and was filled up with grain to feed the world.

So he's trying to create his own pressure points and crisis to get the world to cave on this. Yeah, but he's not had a good year. And now the general population is feeling it. You can't be losing 20, 30,000 people a month and think that things are going well. I can remember back in the day when Gorbachev got out of Afghanistan because a bunch of military mobs got upset when 15,000 Soviet troops had been killed.

Yeah, now he doesn't tolerate that. John Hanna, thanks so much. It's going to be an interesting time. We'll talk to you again, hopefully. Terrific, Brian.

Thanks for having me. Good to see you again. The same here. Back in a moment. Real talk, real guests, real insight, where curiosity meets conversation.

It's the Brian Killmeat Show. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. All these positions can be denied by any regular Democrat. All you have to do is go out there and say, thank you, DSA, for telling us what you believe in.

I don't believe in that stuff. And discriminants, because you can't follow AOC. I like AOC generally, but she came out and said, we're just a big tent party.

Well, the problem with the big tent defense is every Democrat has to defend all this crap coming from the left. They've got to say, I believe in all this crazy stuff, and that makes me a Democrat. You've got to say, no, no, I'm not a member of the DSA, and here's why. And make it very clear.

So it's going to require politicians to be good politicians and say, here's where I stand. This is what I am. I'm a regular Democrat. I'm for labor unions. I'm for opportunity for everybody.

I'm for civil rights. I'm for all the things I believe in as a Democrat. But I'm not with this crowd.

Well, we'll see. We'll see. If they're ever going to say that, but it's hard to say a big tent, but I'm not there. That's what he's saying. Chuck Schumer came out and said, I'm a big tent.

All right, he's the leader. Hakeem Jeffries, we're not going to judge people. We liked everyone. Ron Emmanuel came out and said, No, this is bad. Working people don't like this.

Blue-collar people don't like this. People living paycheck to paycheck don't want to be socialists. And they don't think defunding the police is a good idea, the Senate, the Presidency. They don't think getting rid of prisons really is a strong thought. It leads to a strong country.

You know, redoing the Constitution. They're going to also talk about this. I think mainstream Democrats are going to say we want to pack the court, that we want to add two states, we want to blow up the filibuster, and we want to get rid of. The Electoral College. I mean, that I also think is radical stuff, but I think most Democrats.

Agree with that. The ones that would have stopped it outside John Fetterman with Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema.

Now, the other ones, about the other things, I agree with Chris Matthews, but Chris Matthews is openly trying to coach Democrats. He's trying to coach Democrats. If he was actually trying to analyze. He would have said for Republicans, this is what they should do. They should make them come out.

and should make them disavow. And if they don't disavow, consider them in. I mean, that's what Mike Rogers got to do. Mike Rodgers got to go into L S Aid's background when he says I'm not a socialist and say, look at all the things you believe, including Medicare for all, that's socialized medicine. But of course, you are.

And stop lying about being a doctor, because you're not a doctor. That is a talent-rich environment. Brain comment. From high atop. Fox News headquarters in New York City.

Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. It's been a big show, big week, a lot going on. Your primary season could kind of sleep in the summer. Not this time. There's so much intrigue happening, the rise of socialism, the pushback on the Democratic side, the solid Republican candidates outside Ken Paxson, who's problematic because of personal behavior, not because MAGA doesn't like him, because they absolutely do.

But But, you know, because he's on an establishment, somebody that. I guess Democrats can possibly vote for in Texas. It makes it a little bit more difficult.

So, besides that, there's a lot of quality candidates on the right. This hour, we're going to be joined by, we're going to do a little break from all this and talk a little sports, brand new series starting on Fox Nation. It is called God, Family, and Football. This is a brand new season, second season of it. And we're going to have the coach in the studio.

So that will be great. He's actually the quarterback. He signed to play for the LSU in 2027.

So he's going to be talking about that. Mark Thiessen is standing by.

So, Mark, let's get to you right away. First off, when it comes to the results on Tuesday that came in on Wednesday, what is your takeaway? I think that what we're seeing here, I mean, I think, first of all, the Wisconsin Democrats walked up to the edge and looked and didn't like what they saw and turned away. But they didn't do that in Michigan. They didn't do that in other places, certainly not in Maine.

And so I'm getting reverse 2022 vibes, Brian.

So in 2022, remember, this was like two years into the Biden presidency. We had the Afghan withdrawal. We have the worst inflation in 40 years, crime wave, border crisis, all the rest of it. We were all expecting a red wave, right? And it never materialized.

And the reason it didn't is because, in fact, what happened was Biden had the best performance, almost the best, except for Bush after 9-11, the best performance of any president in a first year, midterm since JFK. How could that be? He was an absolute unmitigated disaster, right? It was because Republicans put up a bunch of really bad, unelectable candidates in states where we should have won. And so we sacrificed Senate seats in Georgia with Herschel Walker and in Arizona with Blake Masters and Dan Balduck in New Hampshire and all the rest of it.

And I think you're starting to see a little bit of the reverse.

Now, where Abdul Al-Saeed is running as their candidate, and put away the Islamic radicalism, put away the socialism. How do you run? on a platform of football is is racist and homophobic in the state where you got the Lions, Michigan, Michigan State. I hope Rogers puts an ad up on every one of every game between now and Election Day with with it with his own words. And so they've got to get a net gain of four seats.

to take back the Senate. They can't afford to lose Michigan, which is a Democratic seat right now. It's an open seat, but it's a Democrat-held seat. And then they've got to knock off Susan Collins if they're going to have any hope of taking back the Senate. And look what they put.

They put up Graham Plattner first, and then they put up a guy who's like had two children with his cousin. And who came in third in the gubernatorial primary?

So they are sort of the DSA stuff is going to hurt them because they're picking races that are winnable for them and making and possibly losing them because of bad candidate choice.

So here's the Maine Senate race. The first time we have this matchup from the Fox News poll, registered voters.

So that's different, not likely, registered. Troy Jackson with a two-point lead over Susan Collins.

Meanwhile, Susan Collins, before Plattner dropped out, was leading Plattner by four points. If you're the Collins camp, how do you digest that? Susan Collins has never won a poll or lost an election. There are just some candidates like that who, like, you know, Maine is a sort of a center-left state. It's a purple state.

It's got a red part of it, and then it's got the coastal cities and where all the out-of-staters come in and spend their summers, and that it's more liberal. But Susan Collins seems to be uniquely, you know, tied in with those voters. And everyone thought last time around six years ago, she was supposed to lose by six or eight points, and she won.

So, you know, I think that I think she's, you know, she's a, she, you never count Susan Collins out.

So I want you to hear about going back to Michigan now for what Abdul El Saeed said.

Now, he was caught saying how much he hates football. He has a toxic masculinity. He played it and he said it was a racist locker room, good on the field, didn't like the locker room.

Meanwhile, he was captain of the team. Go make sense of that. And then he came out and just basically talked about how it's bad that they teach you, if you get hit hard, to gut it out and stay in there, that that's a bad lesson. I don't even know what he's even talking about. And So he wanted coaches to tell you, okay, you got hit hard.

You should quit or you should run to the sideline.

So when this came out and the blowback's there and Rogers calls him out, El Saeed puts on X, this. Since you're too afraid to debate me, let me just pause there. Rogers wants to debate him, so I don't know where they got that from. How about you hold me accountable on a football field instead? Tackle football, no pads, like we used to play when we were kids.

I'd be happy to show you how much I love football. Number one, nobody plays one-on-one football as a kid. Not one person plays one-on-one football. That's not how you play football. That's no fun.

That's not football.

So I don't know what childhood he had, but he played a game he hated. and now despises that as much as fireworks. Yeah, I you know, so this is this is the uh Leninist tactics of the far left, right? Meet me on the meet me in the schoolyard after after class. If you want to debate, right?

I don't think that's going to fly. I think he's lashing out because he knows he says something that's incredibly damaging to him. I mean, of course. Michigan football, Michigan State football, the Detroit Lions. This is a football state.

If there was a football state in America, it's Michigan. And, you know, elected a president who played Michigan football with Gerald Ford, right? It's like in the DNA of the state. And if I was Rogers, I'd just ignore that and just put up an ad with his own words. every football game between now and election day.

So that's your takeaway. And then in Maine, if you're a Republican, you're not worried because it's Susan Collins. You can't say she votes with Trump. She's voting against him. Trump is worried.

I'm always, first of all, I'm in Maine right now. And I'm always worried about Susan Collins. But again, she was down in the last election by eight or nine points going into election day. All the polls had her down.

So the fact that she's down by two makes me pretty happy. It could be a lot worse. It's been a lot worse, and she's overcome a lot worse than that. And again, you know, this is this is this is the guy didn't, he didn't even come in. Was the second place person not available in the Gubernator primary?

He came in third. He came in third, literally. And by the way, the second place guy actually won because they have ranked choice voting.

So the guy who came in first ended up coming in second and losing. And the third place guy gets the Senate. I mean, if the guy who came in first got nothing. Right? The second place guy got the governor general nomination.

The third place guy got the senate nomination. Talk about democracy. Only with Democrats. They have an interesting way of approaching the primary season. I want you to hear from General Mohamed Ressa Nakai.

He's the advisor to the IRGC commander. And this is what he said on PBS about America's next move in Iran. Cut eight. Look, we have to attain deterrence so that the enemy never dares to attack us, so we can live with security. One way is to prolong this war until we get to the next term of the presidency and cause attrition so that if anyone else wants to attack Iran, they will know there is a cost.

So are they achieving their goal? You know, Brian, it's interesting. Obviously, from those comments, they're very aware of our political cycles here, right? Jack Keene talked about this all the time. And I'm very worried that there's a lot of hesitancy in the White House right now of doing military action of any kind before the midterms because they think it could raise oil prices, it could hurt us in the midterms and all the rest of it.

I think the Iranians are aware that the midterms are coming as well. What I'm worried about is an October surprise from the Iranians. I think that it's very likely that the Iranians are going to do something before the election to attack oil shipping, to attack our Gulf allies, to do something to try and kill some Americans beforehand because they want to create the impression that they won, Trump lost, and that there's chaos, and he's unleashed chaos in the Middle East and hurt him in the midterms.

So I think one of the things that Trump understood going into this conflict is when he was deciding whether to do it in the first place was he understood that there was risks to taking military action, but there's risks to not taking military action, right? And the risk was that they could get a nuclear weapon and have a ballistic missile shield to protect them, right? And so he decided that the risks of inaction were greater than the risks of action. I think it's true politically, too, going into these midterms, where the risks of not doing something actually outweigh the risks of doing something because he could, in a matter of a week, a week and a half, deliver a decisive blow to this regime. And it could be done before August recess is done.

We could go into the fall campaign with a decisive end to this conflict. And instead, we're going in with this muddled situation where all of us who follow foreign policy know how much damage he's done to the Iranian nuclear program and how much he set them back. But because they're sort of taking pot shots at ships in the strait, it looks like they emerged from it with some sort of credibility. And it looks unfinished. And then they could try something against us right before the election, and it could be devastating.

So here's what General Jack Keene said, similar, something the same as you. Cup four.

So, when they look at this phase here, they see the midterms come in. My gut feel is that they're likely going to get more aggressive because they don't believe the President will do much. prior to the midterms. in terms of military reaction. So here we go.

And the thing is, you know, we're not in the military strategy meetings, but I think that the Gulf states have a lot of push more than the vice president or anybody else. The Gulf states calling the president three separate times and saying, please don't have this massive attack. I feel unprotected, has more to do than anything else. What do you think, Mark? I think it's both.

I think he's getting advised by, he's got some doves in his inner circle who are advising him against taking military action. And the Gulf states are pushing back on it.

Now, the answer to the Gulf states, I take this directly from Jack Keene. The answer to the Gulf states is: you've been hiding under our nuclear umbrella for five decades.

Now it's time to man up and stand with America. Like, we shouldn't be taking our direction from the Gulf states. I mean, can you imagine if. The NATO allies told Donald Trump they didn't want him to take military action, what his reaction to that would be. I hear you.

Why do we listen to our Gulf allies, but we wouldn't listen to our NATO allies? They are the junior partner. We always hear that Israel is the junior partner in this conflict. The Gulf allies are the junior partner. We're the United States of America.

You hide under our military umbrella. We protect you. And when we decide that we've got to take care of this threat that's going to protect you decisively, then you man up and back us up. You know what I would love to see, Mark? I would like to see the military plan that has overwhelming strength.

To give them, let them know, we're going to hit them harder than they've ever been hit from more angles than they could possibly imagine. We went to school. That doesn't exist, Brian. That plan's been signed. That plan's been developed.

It exists. And by the way, haven't we gone to school over the last five months about where the rockets are coming from? Oh yeah. We know I mean, so it was a mistake to pause. Yeah.

I think But the period between April and today, we've got so much intell more intelligence and we have also so much more pi firepower that if the President decided to fire to return to major combat briefly, The blow would be so much more decisive and so much more powerful than it would have been if we had continued and finished the last 14 days of the campaign. We stopped at the 20-yard line.

Now, I'm happy to be 80 yards down the line. That's 80 yards more than any other president has taken us. But I want to be in the end zone. That's how you win a football game, right? Abdul Saeed may not understand that, but Donald Trump does.

So let's get in the end zone. All right.

I can't wait to play more one-on-one football after school today. It's going to be fantastic. Absolutely.

And then we'll go for a butterfly refresher. Absolutely.

Just me and you. What are you, 6'7? Ah! Me against you. That's where the real fun of football is one.

6-4 and shrinking. I'm 6'4 and shrinking, Brian.

Well, here's the thing, Mark.

So there's no fun in football when you play 11-on-11. It's so much more fun one-on-one. It is. It's just great. And then I could call my own play every time.

Kinda like pickleball. Yes, similar. If pickleball was tackle. Yes. I well, everything would be well, the the there's those old ESPN ads, you ever saw those, which were like, you know, every sport would be better if it was hockey.

Like the bowlers throwing the b bowling ball and then the other bowler comes in and like cra checks them. I mean uh contact makes everything better, I agree. I agree. No, not in no, not in America. It's maxi ma uh masculine toxic toxicity.

So there you go. Exactly. Exactly. Mark Teeson. Which, by the way, is very good.

Mark Thiessen, thanks so much. Back in a moment. From breaking news to big name guests, Brian brings you insight you won't hear anywhere else. You're listening to the Brian Kill Meat Show. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. You yourself have walked back, defund the police. Do you think Woke One was crazy? Look, I think that each person has a responsibility to tell New Yorkers, to tell Americans when they're running for office what they believe. And sometimes what you believe can change.

It can develop. It can grow. And I know that there are some for whom they still believe in that. I've made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police, that I will not be defunding the police. And that to me, delivering critical public safety also looks like working with our police department alongside many other partners.

So that's what you want and kind of hope for the good of the city for a mayor to come in with the craziest ideas and realize all of them are crazy and then try to get things done.

So when it comes to defunding the police, I think he rapped about it.

So that's why nobody thought that they wouldn't be a cop from now.

So he is kind of defunding the police by not having two academies coming up this year.

So don't let anyone kid you. But he also knows if crime goes south, which means goes up, he can't get re-elected.

So he got to that reality quick.

Now, would he also consider rolling back the tax for people with second homes worth more than $5 million, which he just decided to roll out everywhere, CUD 20? I think we've been clear that the actions of the prior administration made it nearly impossible to proceed on that vision and proceed on it in a way that would be realistic. And when it comes to your first question, we continue to be confident not only in the importance of a tax on secondary homes worth more than $5 million, in the necessity of the half a billion dollars it would raise towards the home. Making sure that our streets are safer, making sure that our schools are stronger, that our city is more affordable. And also, our law department has informed Mr.

Mastro that it will appear before the appellate division second department on Thursday morning to address the stay and any other related matters.

So he wants to leave it because he said the budget's so bad we have to tax people with second homes. I'm under the belief that if you're a free market and someone wants to who's really rich enough to say, for a second home, I'd like an apartment in New York City. I want to incentivize that behavior, especially if they might need financing. Maybe they're going to use a New York bank. And then when they get here and they do decide to come here, they actually use the subway system.

They go out to restaurants. They usually can afford it. If you can afford a $5 million apartment, you could probably go to the best restaurant around. You probably can hop in a car service. You could probably g go out to Uh join a gym.

So instead, hey, you're only here part-time. We're going to tax you to the terms of another $90,000 a year.

Now, what they did, in case you don't know, and why I think it matters, because all these socialists are getting elected in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. They put it out to everybody.

So, people I work with that are in homes under, well under $5 million. And this is their number one home. They got letters saying you owe this much money unless you can prove you live here.

So what do they have to do? Call their lawyers, call their accountants, try to find the form, get somebody on the phone, and go out and try to prove a negative. Prove that they live here predominantly most of the time.

So you got to go get bills and I guess show school receipts or work receipts to prove you live there. And hopefully you have a human being on the other side that understands it. If not, you got a tax bill. And then you're going to be in that tornado of an IRS telling the IRS you don't owe money, which usually doesn't work out. We take a break, talk football next.

Grand, great, great series on Fox Nation. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. It's every year, it seems like every year.

Well, it's for the second straight year. We have a brand new series coming back for the second year on Fox Nation, God Family Football. It premieres tonight, and you can get it now, August 13th, on Fox Nation. You might want to wait till the end of the day if you're at work. With me right now is a quarterback of that team, a senior that's already signed with LSU for the 2027 season.

It's Peyton Pops Houston. And Peyton, good to see you doing the publicity tour. Do you feel like a veteran now? This should be your second season in a reality show, which is your football season. Yeah, I feel like a little bit of a vet, no doubt.

Right. What was it like last year having your whole life on camera? Just a little closer to the microphone. Yes, yeah. Yeah, it was a little different.

Not really used to a camera being right in front of my face, but over the couple of months, the days that they were there, I got used to it. Right. And the main thing with your team, not only is it about football, but it's God-family football. Talk about that order of those three things and how it plays into the series. Yeah, Pastor Denny tells us every day that our foundation is in Christ.

Knowing that, that's our backbone.

So we got to build our faith up. And then the more we put him first, the more trust we put in him, the more he'll give back.

So when you put your faith in him, he multiplies the things around you, the things you love.

So that's for us, it would be family and football. And you get better relationships with your family. You get better opportunities in football and better things. How does that receive by the players? Because some family is very religious.

That's awesome. Others say, well, you know, we're not very religious. Why are you bringing up God and football? How does that go over? Yeah, for a couple of guys, a couple of years, it's been kind of hard for them to kind of grasp that.

And then since I've been back from the Christian conference camp or Christian conference, the guys have really bought into it. I can see a different change in how we worship, how we practice, and it's like a different level we're going to for sure. Do you pray to win? Yeah, I do. I pray to win.

But I also pray for pretty much everything that can go on the game. I pray for perfection when you know that's not possible as a human. We're not perfect, but through God, I can do anything through Christ who strengthens me.

So if I pray for it, I ask for it and believe in my heart, he'll give it to us.

So, Peyton, you've been getting offers since eighth grade. Yes, sir. First one was grambling, right? Yep.

So that must have been.

So playing college football has always been reality for you, right? Yes, sir. You have some other schools that come after you? Yeah, I had, I think, either 38, 40 offers before I committed.

So after grambling, after all the hard work, God really. They shot me, shot me up, and now I have an opportunity to display the talents God has blessed me with on at the next level in college.

So, wait, you threw 68 passes in a game? I believe so. 53 of 68 passes in a game, no interceptions. Your total offense, you added 102 yards rushing. Two touchdowns accounted for 10 total touchdowns on the night.

So You were calling your own. Does your coach let you call your own plays? No, sir. I'll see. Yeah, it was over 800 yards you threw?

Yes. Right. Do you remember this that game would you say that you were in the zone October tenth? No doubt, no doubt. That was probably the most likely I was in the game.

Right. And the next year is when we came with the cameras, right? I know they were there then. They were there then.

Okay.

So People, did this help you get the word out about you? Or When we started televising doing this reality show? My name was pretty much already out there, but no doubt the show definitely amplified it a little bit more than what it would. It gave me a different. Um, I guess people.

Um, he gave me a different area of people to hit.

So, uh, not everybody that just watches football. Um, so the family football show uh gave me a little bit more publicity. One thing is clear: you probably don't need the media training that LSU gives the players, you're probably pretty savvy already.

So, I want people at home to get an idea of the season. Um, you're about two weeks at we're about two weeks behind you, right? The first one, first episode today, haven't played a game yet, yes, sir. Correct.

So, here's your coach, Coach Duran, at a halftime speech. Just give you an idea of what to expect. Cut 37. Let me just tell you this: you're playing against a great football team. This is the way championship football looks.

You understand? He didn't call it championship football because there's only one good team. We can play, they can play. Here's what I will tell you, however, we can't afford fatigue. And I know you want this back.

Y'all go take these guys out.

So, it is about winning. He wants you guys to play hard. What's it like playing for him? It's huge. He's really hard on us.

He wants everything to be perfect. It's not to the point where the guys can't handle it. We understand that we all have a common goal in this. That's a state championship.

So Pastor Denny understands that.

So he pushes us to our limits to where we can be the best players we can be. And then on Friday nights, you see all the excitement, all the work you put in, and all the work that he's put in. This played on Friday nights, and this is big. Wow. And you do have other players that are going to play in college, correct?

Yes, sir. Right. But his goal is to form character. Here he is talking about that, Cut 38. More than anything in the world.

I want these boys to be men of character. Nation is divided. I guess everybody knows that by now, right?

Now, I want you guys to understand this. There is a spirit of anger in the world today, and there is no reason for you ever to be angry and to commit a sin. If Jesus forgave you for everything he forgave you for and forgave me for, then you cannot hold anything against anybody for any reason. You understand that? That's what Christianity is all about.

What I want you to understand about this whole political thing is that. It is important, but in our lifetime, it's changed about every four years, hasn't it? You need to place your convictions, your faith, and your hope in the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, Jesus of Nazareth. Let me tell you something: his administration hadn't changed in 2,000 years. How does that go over?

Yeah, that's another big thing he preaches to us. It's not really about football. The reason we come to Evangelist is to be better men and grow in our faith.

So now we're examples in businesses, and we can lead people to Christ through whatever God has called us to. And it's not always football for some people can be in business or whatever they're doing in life. Peyton Pops Houston is our guest. He signed to play at LSU next year, but this year he is still now he's a senior year at high school and he's part of a series we have on Fox Nation God Family Football. And we're going to chronicle his second straight season on the series on Fox Nation.

So this year, as I guess as much as any year, politics is everywhere. I don't remember ever talking about politics in high school. I can't tell you who voted for who, what family was Republican or Democrat, but people tell me now it's everywhere. People are always talking politics, if not the nuts and bolts on primary results, just about where you stand. Could you talk about that?

What about your high school? What about your friends? Because he's talking about it. Eddie Vangel, I know I can't speak for everybody else, but I know at Evangel, politics is like one thing that we definitely don't talk about. We kind of stay out of it.

And I don't think it's on purpose. It's just like it's not that important to us. We got school to worry about, football, and then. You got the faith part, everything.

So just trusting in God that everything will be all right, knowing that that's our Lord and Savior. And anything done on this earth can't really affect me much because I know where I'm going if I am to die or. Anything, so I know where I'm going. Bigger than politics. All right, so let's talk football.

Who do you watch on Sundays? And you think that's my style, that's the way I want to play. Yeah, I watch a few guys. Aaron Rodgers, Pat Mahomes, Dane Daniels, CJ Stroud, and Bryce Young. Those are the main guys that I watch.

Why? What do they have in common? Yeah, really the main thing for Aaron Rodgers, the one thing I try to style my throwing motion behind him.

So I try to look as much like A-Rod as possible. And then the other guys, their ability to make plays out of the pocket, their leadership, their confidence they walk on the field with, is very similar to each other. And that's what I walk onto the field with.

So with Jaden Daniels from LSU, right? Did you get a chance to meet him? I called him a couple of times, but not met him in person. Oh, really? What did you talk about, if you don't mind me asking?

Yeah, we really talk about the transition from high school to college and what college life is like. You see his transition to the NFL was seamless. The second year got hurt, what can you do? But when you see that, knowing that you're coming from LSU, do you think that could be possible? Is the NFL definitely in your crosshairs?

Oh, yeah, that's always been a goal of mine. My goal has always been the Hall of Fame.

So continue to work hard for it. Continue to do what God has called me to do. And I keep saying it, trust in Him, because that's a big thing. You got to trust in God in order to get the things you want. And you don't need much trust.

You just got to have a little bit, and He'll give you everything. And Peyton, what people always say is that the speed of the game in the NFL is so different. And they went from high school to college, from college to pros. Have you got is it possible to get a sense of what you're going to be looking at next year? while you're in high school.

of the speed of play. I mean, between what they have With AI, we able to put those go those uh The VR system. Yeah, the VR system. Do you get a sense of what it's like to play like that? Um I mean at high school you got a couple of teams that can give you somewhat of a idea of what college could be like, but um You won't truly know until you're in it.

So um Really just having faith in the the work you've put in, the faith in the the man above and continue to just have a positive attitude about the things you're going into. And the grade your grades are? I got a four point zero all these. Wow. And well, how did you is that something your family emphasized?

It's big. It's very big in my family. My parents told me to be a student athlete, not an athlete student.

So being able to handle business in class is just as big as handling business out of class. But when you go to the mailbox and you're pulling out letters from colleges saying you're in if you just say yes, is it hard to focus on school? Uh, not really. Um again, uh, you can't you can't really go to college and and just play football. You still gotta go to class, still gotta handle business in class.

Um, and I I want to graduate college as well, so um making sure that I'm In the academics, in the education and Doing what I need to do there.

So when football ends, I'll be able to have a career outside of football. Football doesn't last for everybody.

So making sure that I'm set outside of football and have a career that could provide for my family and the generations after. In these days, excuse me for not knowing this, but can you have an agent now to work on NIL deals? Yes, sir. So have you done that? Yes, we have.

So how do you know who to pick? How did you know? Did you get recommended to do this? I'm sure they're coming after you, calling you. How many high school kids have to worry about agents?

Yeah, I stay out of it a little bit. I let my parents handle it. My parents, I trust my parents. Are your parents or your agents?

Well, not my agents. My parents, they picked the people that represent me.

So I trust in them. My parents have a big faith background, and they do a lot of praying about decisions and never leaning on their own understanding and trusting in the man above as well. And you have designed a shoe for Nike? I have. Yes, sir.

What went into it? Can you describe it? Are you wearing them? No, I don't have them on. Are they cleats or are they sneakers?

They're sneakers.

Okay.

What was your goal in designing them? What was your input?

So. I had a little bit of input on it. Um, I wanted my mom to to help me with the ideas.

So most of the shoe is uh mom created. Uh the most input I had was uh I wanted the red bottoms to kind of simulate like a red bottom shoe. But uh really just a Kind of a designer stylist shoe that you can wear with pretty much anything.

So it's like red, lime green. Black and then, like, the little air bubbles lime green with a red bottom.

So, uh, it's a pretty cool shoe, right? And if you're a friend of yours, you give your friends discounts for this shoe? I mean, do they get think can they throw your name around? If there's a way for me to get them that discount, I would, but I can't. Can't get in trouble there.

Yeah. So, just tell us what you expect this you said. After last year's great season, it's going to be hard to repeat it. Tell me what you expect. I really, I'm expecting for a state championship.

I see the work that my teammates are putting in. I see the work that, not even at the school, off the field, they're putting in. I see them working hard trying to achieve the goals that they want to achieve. And then, as a brotherhood, we're like. Super close.

We spend a lot of time together, so we got a chemistry like no other. I see him working hard, and I expect nothing less than the championship.

So, I want you to hear a little bit more from the coach talking about how everyone on his team should approach the game. Cut 39. Right now, we're going to pray for peace on earth. Amen. Do you hear me?

Yes, sir. So, we're going to pray for peace on earth. Do you understand? Yes, sir. Y'all love each other.

Love your enemies. Love people that don't think like you. Love people that don't look like you. Do it because you're a representative of your God, representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Let's do a moment of silence for Charlie's family, and let's pray that this madness will stop. Amen. What happened to Charlie's family? Um Do you remember or Uh Charlie Kirk? Oh, so it was with Charlie Kirkstand?

Yeah, I think I think it was that. From last season. Yep, I think it was that situation where he got shot. But really the lesson there is don't leave anybody out. That's still a lesson that he teaches us to this day.

Not leaving anybody out just because they dress differently, look differently, or are different. Uh one of the things that all all the all out of all the worlds in the in the Bible, God uses to describe us, He never uses us as normal.

So uh everybody was wonderful and beautifully made um in their own way. Um they're they're all called to do something.

So treat everybody the same, love everybody, be kind and Bring them in. Wow, it's a great approach to life as well as football. Check out the brand new season. Week one is available today. It'll come out, I imagine, every Thursday for the rest of the year.

God Family Football on Fox Nation, and look for that quarterback, Peyton Pops Houston. Peyton, congratulations on all your success. Look forward to talking to you after the season and watching this year and next year in college. Yes, sir. Thank you.

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Previgion made for your brain. You know, I was fitzen a lot in the month of July, although, granted, you know, I schitz a lot all the time. But the bottom line when it comes to voters is, simply put, They don't care. They don't care. I mean, just look at these numbers.

Okay, top issue, a midterm vote. You can list up the three issues. The economy, not surprisingly, comes in at number one at 54%. Immigration, 28%. Look at climate change is.

It's tied for 14th. Tied for 14th, all the way down here at 3%. Johnny, I'm not the greatest mathematician in the world, but I sure as heck know that 54% is a whole heck of a lot higher than 3%.

So despite the climate being so warm in the month of July, the hottest month on record here in the United States of America, the voters simply put do not say that climate change is going to be an issue in which they vote upon. What a relief. And the climate mania that has people like Governor Gavin Newsom banning gas cars and the same thing in New York by 2035, all this mania, everyone should be aware of the environment, do things to get renewable energy. Absolutely.

Work on everything. But for the most, don't destroy an economy because you're trying to be politically correct. And that's also part of woke one, I guess, that they now admit was a big ruse, according to AOC. Yeah, sorry about that. Woke one didn't really make any sense.

So the other person doesn't make any sense, Hassan Piker. And according to the Wall Street Journal, and I think it's so true, there's some panic on the Democrats that this guy is such a power player and he's such a radical and he's such a wild card, he's really going to hurt them. I mean, for example, listen to Hassan Piker talk about losing the gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin, Cut 16. Versus where we are now. And then think two years from now.

There's a general election. It's going to be a presidential election. Every victory, and even every single defeat. Is a very valuable data point, very valuable lesson to learn.

So I like to say, look, being a leftist is about taking a lot of L's. And we have taken a lot of L's for the last 10 years. And look at us now. And look at where we're at now. And that's what's scaring traditional Democrats, even very left-wing Democrats outside the squad.

People are saying, well, excuse me, your L's are ban the police, forget the Pentagon, don't fund Israel, kill Rick Scott, put blood in the streets of every Republican, Israel's worse than Hamas. That's that's what he says. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The media will do everything in its power to try to discourage you. It will tell you you're fing.

Loser. They'll say, oh, DSA. Your candidate was Oh, Francesca Hong was bad. She was a bad candidate. Oh, she didn't like Thanksgiving.

Yeah. Yeah. So unwilling to learn, not be coachable, that type of language. And if you listen and I was listening to some of his uh speeches. They're all cursing.

He cannot go three sentences without some type of swear word. While dressing like Mao and worshiping China, the guy killed 15 million people, and you're allowing him to be the voice of your party? It's insane. It's like having Nick Fuentes be the voice of the Republicans. He's not a Republican.

He doesn't want to be one. And anyone seen with them should be eliminated right away from contending for any office. But they love Hassan Piker. Did you know Fox News has a wine shop? Did you also know you can get ahead and start on your Christmas shopping?

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