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From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action now.

Lawrence Jones back in action, Fox and Friends co-host, as you know. Chad Bronstein's going to be joining us, co-founder and CEO of Real American Freestyle, one of the great success stories in sports today. And then Jordan Burroughs, who I was just with on Fox and Friends, along with Lawrence, Olympic gold medalist. He's the most decorated between his world championships and his Olympic gold medals. He's the most decorated wrestler in American history.

So he is now at 38 years old going to be joining. He's going to be joining RAF. It's really exciting. He's going to be wrestling this Saturday. He's going to join us in the studio.

So, before we get to Lawrence, let's get to the big three. Number three. President Trump ran on making America safe again, and he did just that. The largest, most prolific reduction in crime in modern American history, including a 20% reduction in the murder rate and a reduction by 20% of drug overdose deaths, just to name a few. Trump, too, has some major wins.

Sealed border, historically low crime, and crater in prescription drug costs.

Now it's time to sell those lines. Attention, GOP. The president's going to need some help. Number two. We know if they do make a deal, well, they will not comply with it.

How do we know that? Because that's what they already did. And secondly, then it makes no sense to give them the finances that a deal would demand, which would enable them to recover. Yep, that's General Jack Keene with Mark Levin. 60 days, and the MOU is through.

Where do we go next with Iran? The next bomb will be dropped by Treasury, and my hope is by American bombs will follow up soon afterwards. Number one. Folks, from today going forward, I want to hear any more. DFL, DSA, moderate, Baba, I want to hear the word Democrat.

That's who you are, and that's what you are fighting for. Really, Terry McCaulough, the failed governor of Virginia, Dems having a public. Philosophical brawl for all to see as the DSA and a handful of moderates wrestle with the party's future. And the question is: What should the GOP do while all this is going on? We discuss it.

Lawrence, I'll pose that. Great to see you again. I'll pose that question to you. What should the GOP do while this civil war is happening? Without violence, but civil war is happening.

Well, I mean, you can't be on the sidelines while they're trying to figure out what their ideology is. And you got to make the case. And I said this on the program: it's Democrats. Yes, socialism is a part of the Democratic Party, but you label them all that. They have said that they want a big temp.

Okay, fine. Then they all get the label. And so I think the one thing that Republicans are struggling with, if I'm honest, Brian. If you talk about the people that live in paycheck to paycheck. The president has done a lot.

To alleviate the pain. Tax cuts, prescription, drug costs, all of that. But people aren't feeling it immediately. The president has to make the case. Of why it's taking so long for them to get some sort of relief.

And I haven't heard this. But you know what it was? During the pandemic, we actually printed more. We just started spending. Not only that, we printed more money.

The quantitative easing, they called it, flood the zone with money, make people flush with cash, but sooner or later you stop printing it.

So therefore, the dollar is diminished. And we get that 9% inflation. And then on top of that, combined with the Inflation Reduction Act, the new Green Deal version.

So Biden spends all this agenda items and pretended it was for the pandemic.

So inflation rockets up. He told us it wasn't going to happen. And as it began to come down a little, Trump takes over and he loses. That's right. And then they go affordability.

Literally the next day they go, why are things not affordable? What are you talking about? I just got here. And then the war starts with Iran, and then oil prices went from $3.14 to $4.04. But it's still lower now than when Biden was in charge.

And I think, you know, no one likes explaining, but with this issue. You got to explain. You have to explain it because people need to understand. If you don't think that it's going fast enough, imagine what happens if they decide to start printing more money. Then you're going to be in big trouble then.

You can't afford things right now. If you turn it over to the Democrats, Life is going to be really messy.

Well, then you're telling people around the world, don't you count on the U.S. for a currency? Yes. Because we need our dollars to be world currency. For example, you can't, if you are not on the U.S.

dollar, we print money because we get into debt, we can print money. We can't do it. Right. But only because the world currency is at. If it becomes crypto or something else, then we're going to have to do it.

Then there's no value to the American dollar.

So the Republicans are going to have to go through the. I will say this, though. The one advantage Republicans have right now is that they have unworthy opposition. I mean, these people are just crazy. AOC is now calling Woke 1.0 crazy.

That's what we said.

Now she's saying five years later that they were crazy. But people got hurt as a result of that. It's one thing when the president goes in and looks at the Democrats on the side when they don't stand and applaud, and he says that they're crazy, but now even AOC is saying they were crazy.

So you were off last week, and one of the things I did on Sunday night, last night, was my whole monologue was woke one was crazy, really? April Fools?

So every time we were sat there as a show and as a network, people are like, no, no, you're not B. You don't understand. This is the way it is. Apologize for America. Use your pronouns.

Men can get pregnant. All this crazy. Defund the police. All that crazy stuff. We go, this is nuts.

Hate America. Take a knee. Why don't you take a knee? Why don't you apologize? Play the black national anthem before the white national anthem.

What are you talking about? Let's change that.

So all of a sudden, I go, yeah, that was crazy. That was crazy.

So I asked Ken McCarthy as my first guest, is all forgiven? Cut 15. No, I do not accept the apology because the number of people that were punished through that. And I'll promise the American public this. If you think Woke One was crazy, I'll promise you Woke Two, the Democrat Socialist, is even crazier.

Now there is no Thanksgiving.

Now there is no president. There is no Senate. They decide what goes forward. If the one was crazy, this is on steroids number two and three of what they want to go for. And that's why people especially who came out in 24, you've got to come out to the election again because they're hoping you'll accept the apology and they'll even do it crazier.

Yeah, I mean, he's saying if DSA is the next evolution. But the Republicans have to be disciplined. They got to stay on message. They got to know the issues, which they do. And you've got to hold these people accountable.

I mean, I see these guys that come on our ear, which I actually appreciate them coming on, but they completely crumble so quickly. They haven't thought about step number two and three. It's all aspirations. This is what I was talking about. Talking about earlier on Fox Inference, when it comes to experiment, woke 1.0 was an experiment, and they're just like, oops, we just moved to 2.0.

I'm sorry. We can't let them forget about all of the mistakes that they made. And even when they say Medicare for all, that's not possible. It'll just destroy. It's meant for seniors who pay for it your entire life.

There's not enough billionaires in the country who, if you take all their wealth, it'll last 13 months. They already did the math. Anyone who says Medicare for all should be stopped in his tracks and say it's impossible. Listen to Ava Larkin talking about this, another socialist who's running for the 25th district in Florida. What he says about capitalism, Cut 10.

We need to transform the political party structure in this country. We need to transform this economic system away from capitalism that is destroying human life and the planet. We need an alternative. This is what we are dialing to provide. Setting.

So, what's the alternative?

Socialism?

Socialism, yeah.

Okay.

So we're going to do just like all the failed countries.

Now, Hakeem Jeffries, as well as Andy Bashur, on the Sunday shows, they started rejecting. First time. Right, let's listen. Cut one. Do Democratic Socialists belong in the Democratic Party, Leader Jeffries?

Well, what I can say is that I do not support defunding the police. I do not support open borders. I do not support abolishing The Senate, we're focused on actually solving problems that hardworking American taxpayers want us to solve, which is to lower the high cost of living in a situation where life is far too expensive in this country. That's the Democratic agenda. That's what House Democrats are fighting to achieve.

So we went further. She did ask a follow-up question, cut to. Just to be very clear, though, as a Democratic leader in the House, would you vote for or against Medicare for all? I think as you've Uh, indicated in your question to me, it's not legislation that I currently am co-sponsoring or that I support.

Okay, but we do support the notion that we've got to find a path forward to fix our broken health care system and make health care affordable for everyone. Almost every Democrat's running on American Democrats running on Medicare. That's not an answer. Actually, it is an answer. The answer is: the non-answer is if the bill comes up and has Democrat support.

He's gonna vote for it. And that's the problem with it. The Democrats have two problems right here, or two ways to handle this. Either they can prohibit the people that have these socialist platforms from running on the ballot as a Democrat, or they can choose, like we have never Trump Republicans, they can decide not to support the person if they're the nominee.

So, with you here, I'm going to just drive you, I'm going to send your blood pressure through the roof.

So, Governor Bashir, they say, is a moderate until he talks. Right. By the way, I know he's in a red state. 100%. And then all of a sudden I see him, and he looks like a clear-cut guy.

But then I'm listening to him. But listen to this, cut seven. I believe socialism is a failed experiment, but I do believe that we need to get results for the American people. And I think when you look at Democratic governors, you see those results. I've been proud to create more jobs than any other governor in our history.

The average wage of a new job in Kentucky this year is over $32 an hour. We're building affordable housing in western Kentucky and in eastern Kentucky on top of abandoned coal mines with solar panels on the top so they're affordable to live in too. People just want to see results, want to believe that life can get better. All right.

So I'm thinking to myself, okay, you know what he snuck in a little bit later? That he wants to get direct voting. And he goes, wait, there's no electoral college.

So listen to this. Kudai. I didn't realize you support abolishing the Electoral College if you're saying direct election of the President and Vice President. I've said it a number of times. And it's because in Kentucky, we will never see a candidate for president or vice president unless they're from here.

Why? Because people just expect that it'll go one way or the other. It's the idea that someone would get elected not just knowing about seven states, but having to earn votes all over the United States. I certainly think it's time. Wait a minute.

I think he has it flipped. Yeah. It has its flips. The whole point of the Electoral College is so the little states are represented. You you think that people aren't coming to Kentucky now?

Get rid of the electoral colour and they'll never see Kentucky. They will stay in Illinois. Correct. Between Los Angeles and New York. Yes.

So, I mean, you know what? The people that represent us have no foundational knowledge of how a republic was created. They really do. I understand why people want to say we're democracy. We're not.

We're a constitutional republic, and the candidates that are running for the Democrats right now want to break that system up. That's why they want to get rid of the Senate. Also, that's how you get states' representation.

So, I want you to see you. This is, the more I think about it, Mark Huban should really run. And I don't know if you've seen this. It gets a little involved, but listen to this.

So, Roe Conna, who he knows, represents Silicon Valley. And he comes out and says things that I just looked it up after as factually incorrect.

So, he's for this billionaires' tax because he says that billionaires don't pay their fair share. Only billionaires are getting risk in Silicon Valley, nobody else. Are you crazy? They don't hire anybody, they don't hire like a vice president, a minimum wage guy, middle class. There's no middle class in Silicon Valley.

So, listen to this: cut 12. The California Democratic Party and the California labor movement just stood with Bernie Sanders and me in supporting a 5% wealth tax on 250 California billionaires. Passing this ballot initiative will ensure that millions of working class and middle class Californians don't lose their health care. Look, the Sacramento establishment and lobbyists are just blatantly out of touch. What this shows is that California voters want a Democratic Party that will stand up for the working class over the billionaire class.

It's so idiotic. And Brian, if you pay attention to some of these candidates and you track their background, it really all starts to make sense. Rokana, his wife has all the money. Her family has all the money.

So they're used to people like pitching in. Mondami, family, money. Has government subsidized housing at one point. When you look at Platinum, Platinum. Bernie's got three houses.

Yes, family, money.

So. I understand their world view of why other people should take care of them because it's been that way for all of their lives. That's a good point.

So, you know, it's just not practical. Right. So, you want Mark Cuban answered this. He said. Mark, you goes, Ro, I like you.

You know that. But you need to read the state of the state. The number of DECA unicorns in Cali is growing by the day as investors chase amazing startups. A unique feature of these 10-pound startups, $10 billion startups, is that even if they raise a billion, little if any of that money goes to the founders who are now worth billions of dollars overnight. Who are now worth billions of dollars?

They are the definition of cash poor, stock rich. How are you going to tax them? Make them borrow money against their shares that they can? They just raise money to grow their company, and a bank will come along and loan them money. A company that has been in business maybe less than a year, LOL, will you take their stock if they can't?

Do you really think each of the multiple founders who started an amazing company in Cali and is now a billionaire can each just pull out $250 million per billion of their net worth for that raise? You know they can't if this passes. And if it doesn't directly impact me, and by the way, this doesn't directly impact me at all, I won't be a California resident. But you can bet if I'm investing in a multi-billion dollar startup, I'm asking them to move from California first. IMO.

What does IMO mean? I don't know. In my opinion, if this passes, only idiot startup founders stay in Cali. I've done it before and will do it again. Dallas, Pittsburgh, Indiana.

I will not be in California a pre a I will not being in California as a prerequisite for an investment ideology is not a strategy, Ro.

So, so you know what he's saying? You idiot, you know better.

So this is where the rubber mesa wrote. Uh he's a Democrat. He's a Democrat and and He's a reasonable person. But the president has such a big personality. that some people won't ever give them a shot.

Although Mark Cuban has given him a shabby, especially when it comes to the prescription drugs. Yeah, they're they're partnering together. All I ask is for people is this. I understand how the president is. I understand how he can be irritable for some.

But you can't reason with this stupidity. You don't have to tell anybody. You don't have to post it on social media. You don't have to wear a red hat. But vote in the interest of the country.

But Silicon Valley now votes with the President. They have to. They left him no choice. They're going to lose their businesses if they don't do as such. You got people that are saying, rob your neighbor.

Because life is hard. And that's not the American dream.

Sorry. Lawrence Jones, I'm just saying this is the real battle. Yes. For money. In business and when it's pretending to be in business.

Thanks so much. And he's no moderate, by the way. I know. But he also knows money. Bagging him up.

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A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, with us right now, if we were smart enough to be watching on the stream, Chad Bronstein, we're seeing on Fox Nation as well as the Fox One app and everywhere else. Co-founder and CEO of Real American Freestyle. It's a big time for him because Chad is celebrating one year.

Really, the creation of his league, as well as being on Fox Nation. And Jordan Burroughs, maybe the most successful wrestler in American history, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and the most, aren't you the most medaled? Jordan, in America? History? Got the most world championships in American history, with seven total.

And now, for the first time, after watching this league for a year, you're going to wrestle this Saturday, right? I am. I am sitting next to the CEO, Chad Bronstein, who has been very persistent. And trying to get me to join the league, and he's done a really good job of building this thing up and making it attractive to the very best athletes all around the world.

So listen, you're a classic wrestler, you have a reputation. There's a lot of startup leagues that you said have come and gone. What sold you on this? I think it's the investment in the community, the grassroots level. They've started RAF Next Gen to really help to plant the seed and cultivate greatness in the next generation of athletes.

Created a sustainable business model for all wrestlers at all levels, and they've invited international counterparts to participate as well. It's really the uh The biggest expression of wrestling at a professional level in the entire world. Wow.

So, Chad, you had to win over the wrestling community. You could have a great idea, but if you don't win over the wrestling community and the world body doesn't embrace you, and the U.S. body doesn't embrace you, it would have really been an uphill battle. Yeah, it was, you know, we first started this. That was the key, right?

It's just make sure that the wrestling community respected us. My partner, Izzy Martinez, had a long history in wrestling. You've met him. And we just wanted to make sure that everyone knew we were here and they were building the foundation and that we weren't going to make a mockery out of the sport. Right.

So it's been a year. Tell me, describe what it was like when it became a reality, from what it was on paper, from an empty arena to a packed arena and starting the series. I mean, it's pretty incredible. I think you look at what we've built, and we had a great partnership with Fox. And I think for us, when we, you know, Cleveland, we had about 2,500 people in our first show.

I was just telling Jordan outside, we were going to have 4X that in Cleveland. Cleveland this year. But really, seeing the kids, I think like Jordan told us a story one time of what, you know, he has his own club. We had an event in Philly. He said, he told me and Izzy on the phone, he had 30 kids come to his club after our event the next day and talk about RAF.

And to me, that's really the accomplishment that we were trying to create is that. They have a professional sport that they can talk about. That instead of talking about the NFL every Monday, the sport they're in, they can talk about wrestling. And when he told us that story, that's really the stories that we're hearing. And so a year later, I think every time we're in an event, you see all the kids and you see the community and how excited they are.

I don't think you can match the energy when you're in that arena and how you feel. And Jordan, really, you're coaching too, right? I am. So I have a wrestling club. It's called All I See Is Gold Academy.

We're in Merchantville, New Jersey, right outside of Philadelphia. And yeah, I mean, he's being absolutely honest. When I was a kid, I used to watch the NFL and the NBA and the NHL, MLB, just because of the access I had of it always being on TV. And now in a streaming era, wrestling is so much more accessible. But you have to become a fan of the thing that you're actually trying to pursue.

You've got to know who the heroes are, what their stories are, and you've got to aspire to greatness. And I think that's what they're providing. I always look at wrestling, wrestling, soccer, lacrosse, very similar in that everyone plays. But then when it comes to watch, they go back to football and go back to baseball and go back to basketball. And now I watched lacrosse on ABC over the weekend.

And now we're watching RAF, which has been bigger than anyone I thought possible. I thought you guys would do this, maybe hit these marks in a year or two. But by far the most successful thing that's ever been on Fox Nation, it's become an identity form now at Fox Nation. Yeah, Fox has leaned in. And I always, I mean, we've done this show.

I've done Brian's show probably like nine or ten times, but you were the person that introduced me to Gavin and them to talk with Hulk Hogan. And Brian's like, just please talk to Fox before you talk to anybody else. And Gavin and Lauren and the whole group have been incredible partners. And you guys promote it too. What's cool is like once you guys.

Dug in with us. People call me all the time. They say, oh, I see you guys on NFL. I see you guys on MOB All-Star Game on the World Cup. And so now it really does feel with this partnership that like Jordan mentioned, like kids and adults want to watch.

I love wrestling. That's why we did this with our whole team. We were passionate about wrestling. I think wrestling is a greatest sport. And so kids come to the events or adults and they're like, I'm going to do lacrosse and I'm going to do wrestling because they think it's becoming cool to them.

No, I hear you. What I also love, too, is the UFC is open to letting the guys go back and the women go back. And, you know, they start as wrestlers, then you got to develop other skills and go in the UFC. You know, you got to learn to strike. And everybody knows whatever discipline you are, you got to build up whatever you didn't have.

So wrestlers were having all this success at UFC because everything ended up on the ground. And now to see the UFC go, go ahead, take your athletes, take my athletes back. I mean, why wouldn't they? You know, it's good for everybody, right? Because.

Jordan's going to wrestle with Sean Brady in Cleveland, right? Sean's only going to better his skill in wrestling, which is going to make him a better fighter.

So it's everyone wins, right? Because you can stay consistent. I agree with that, but a lot of times people are possessive. Yeah, of course. Listen, I would agree with that.

I think the good news is because we're not a fighting league, we're not competitive with the fighting league.

So I think that's where we play in a different way. What do you call yourselves? Combat? We're wrestling, right? We're family-friendly combat, right?

Because it's not a blood sport.

So when you're coming into wrestling, it's like, you know, a lot of our audience, I would say, a majority of it's their kids and their families and their clubs. Like Jordan was mentioning, his club came deep to our event and they're coming together and/or having watch parties watching at their clubs.

So I think it's just different. And it makes we don't, UFC helped. Garner a lot of the crossover athletes that we have. Without that brand and what they've done, we wouldn't be able to do it.

So, Jordan, how many World Championships? Six worlds, one Olympics. And one Olympics.

So you're 38 years old. 38.

So when's the last time you competed? October 2024.

So it's been almost two years. Almost two years.

So now you're ready to go. But you said to me on television, you said, well, I'm not. I'm not in my prime anymore. Do you I mean, you look like you're in your prime. What what is not uh what makes you feel different from when you were twenty eight or eighteen?

Well, you had to see me in my prime. I was a a pretty special athlete. You know, Because I was o I learned to operate at such a high level for such a long period of time, one of the Mm. most important and pivotal parts of my career was my recovery, the way that I took care of my body. The things that I ate, my practice habits, my recovery habits, those things were really important for sustaining longevity.

And so Being able to compete again for me, it's not just like, hey, go out there and see what you can do and try to. use this as a cash grab. I really like to compete and I thoroughly enjoy the preparation and the process of getting ready to go into a challenge with an expectation from the world to be as close to my Best form as possible. I take this really seriously.

So, right now, this is RAF 12. It's going to be a Rocket Arena in Cleveland. You're going back there. You're going to sell this out more than 2,500? We're looking at about probably close to 10,000.

Bischoff, I was talking to Bischoff this morning, he's like, Get ready for just unbelievable production. He likes to throw surprises, him and his team.

Okay.

But yeah, Rocky. Who's got the WWE background, too? Yeah, Eric Bischoff.

So. Real quick, for the um, Hulk obviously introduced me and Brian, and then Bischoff came to my house in Tampa. And Hulk's like, Brother, you need to have Bischoff if we're going to do this. And he's been an incredible partner, him and Izzy. And so, um, but yeah, it's Rocket Mortgage.

A year ago, Rocket wouldn't even accept us because we were, no, no one knew who we were.

So we went to the Wallstein Center.

So one year later, here we are at Rocket Mortgage where the Cavs play, and it's going to be an incredible, incredible show. Tell me about Jordan's matchup.

So, Jordan, you know, Jordan, like you said, he's one of the greats, 38. people want to see what he's going to do.

So uh you know, we have this crossover we have this crossover uh matchups constantly and Sean Brady, he can wrestle. We saw what he did to Joaquin Buckley, um, and Joaquin's wrestling too, but He did pretty well on the ground against Buckley.

So, you know, he accepted the challenge against Jordan, and I think it's going to be an interesting matchup.

So he's not a natural wrestler. Not a natural wrestler, but a lot. We look at Murab. Murab beat Henry Cejudo, who was a gold medalist wrestler.

So Murab came on and surprised us. I don't, I mean, Jordan, Jordan, everyone, once Jordan's accepted to wrestle, they want Jordan. Even if you're a UFC, like Armin said, he looked up to Jordan when he was younger and he wants to wrestle him.

So I didn't think this is a good first match for Jordan, but Jordan's pretty active. I think he wants to go a couple times before the end of the year.

So it's a good matchup, good start. Another Philly guy.

So it's going to be awesome. 180? You got a wrestling 180? 185 is the catch weight.

Okay.

Yeah. So 185, have you seen his videos? Have you seen his videos? I've watched a little bit of them. And we're actually in the same building this past weekend at UFC 330 in Philadelphia.

And how do you feel about it? I feel confident. I f I I still feel like I'm the best. The best in the world. When I was young, it was 365 days out of the year.

Now it's not as many days out of the year. You shouldn't. Because if you wrestle, I mean, if you're training too hard, that's not good either. You've got to take into account your body. Yeah, things change with time.

You know, you have to be a bit more strategic with your approach and disciplined with your habits. But I feel really good about the output that I can put together at this period in time in my career, and I'm looking forward to this matchup this weekend. And you show the world your secret. It's a double-legged takedown, right? You show the unboxing.

But it's one of those things. It's almost like showing how their trick is done. There's still an element of sleight of hand. You haven't showed me everything in the world. Yeah, it's it's gonna be hard for him to keep up with, I'm sure of it.

Right, okay.

So, did you change uh Chad? You changed a little bit to force the action. The one thing you want to make sure is that people understand this is a show, right? Yeah, I think we. I don't know if we necessarily change rules for the action, but we incentivize.

So when you come. Like people realize real quickly, if you're going to connect to the audience, you got to be, you got to, again, they're used to tournament structures. Like when Jordan goes to the worlds, he's wrestling multiple people. It's one-on-one, one-time. You know, so they have the opportunity to really build a reputation with the audience.

So I think the event and the arena and the culture has ex pushed that. Incentivation. Yes, we're doing something really cool that with Air Force in Cleveland, where we're going to Air Force just became our official partner. Brian, I don't know if you knew that, but they love wrestling, which was awesome. Did you pursue them or they pursue you?

They pursued us. And it's been a great, they're unbelievable. They've come to all our events. We're really excited about this.

So we're going to do something in Cleveland called Flight of the Night, which is a throw.

So whoever has the best throw of the night, sponsored by Air Force, we're calling it Flight of the Night.

So that's going to be on.

So will that be a money incentive? From our side, yeah. We already have match performance, but now we'll have flight of the night now that Air Force is a sponsor of ours.

So we just came up with this idea together. We're excited about it. I mean, it's a fantastic relationship. You think about it, because who's watching? A lot of men are watching.

Young men are watching. And then also you want that attitude in our military, from our military, right? That's what they said. You know, it's like. Wrestling is just a sport of discipline and a lot of honor and loyalty.

Just so it's right, it's up it's perfect partnership for Air Force, and we're excited about it. All right.

And who do you have coming to the match, Jordan? We've got quite a few people.

So, my family and I, my wife and I, we have five little ones. They'll all be there. We've got over 100 athletes from our club, 100 families traveling from New Jersey all the way to Cleveland to come and watch me compete. And because of the next gen, we have. I should ask you to explain the next gen, by the way.

So the next gen is a youth wrestling tournament that's hosted to coincide with the actual senior level wrestling that's happening in the evening.

So my son's going to be wrestling in the morning and I'll be wrestling in the evening because it's a pretty special event.

So you have kids wrestling first.

So Next Gen was something that we always wanted to do. Like kind of, again, my son's 10. That's how I really got into doing this again. But it's so cool because Fox Nation partnered with us on it. And so they wrestle preliminaries like a normal tournament.

And the whole thing for wrestling tournaments was for me as a parent. I think Jordan can say this too because he's a wrestler, but then he's a coach and then he's a parent. It's when you go to some of these tournaments, a kid can wrestle in the morning and not an eight-year-old and not wrestle for eight hours because the tournament's not run well.

So what we wanted to do was create like a very cool experience for the kid. And so when they get there, they wrestle on Saturday. It starts at 8 o'clock in the morning, and there's a session from 8 to 11. Then they have the fans almost get to meet the best athletes. Athletes in the world, and then we go to this afternoon session.

Sunday, Fox Nation. Eric Bischoff and team and our team put together unbloop production. It's like what we already have. And these kids get to walk out and show their personalities. And I'll tell you that, Brian, if you saw some of these kids, Some of these kids Outperform the professionals.

Like they're walking out, they're doing backflips, front flips, they're looking at the camera. And that was actually probably one of the coolest experiences I've had so far. Was just seeing how excited they were. But yeah, so that's so all, and Jordan's not lying by what he said is like he's actually under-exaggerating. But Matt, the guy that runs all of our ticket name, Machikowski, he's like, man, Burroughs is crumbling with the crew.

There's like, I think, I think there's like 400 people just coming from Philly and his area just to watch him. And we've been working with his wife on it, but more and more people. It's pretty wild. Wow.

You gotta do good, yeah, it's exciting. Jordan, you gotta do good, it's exciting. You're used to it, yeah. Pressure's a privilege. I'm used to it, man.

I've been doing this since I was a kid.

So, will we see any of the next-gen fighters or wrestlers? Yeah, so on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday on Fox Nation. What time? It's at two o'clock.

So, we did the first one at six, but we're going more towards like a two o'clock time frame. Um, and it's every month.

So, we go, we do this one, and then we go to Miami September 19th, and next-gen's there.

So, every show we have, we have 12 next-gen events, but then there's two events throughout the year where it's like a true Full-on production, like Jordan and the other athletes get, where they're gonna compete on Friday night before the professional on Saturday. And that way, Jordan, Kyle, Bo, all these people will be able to watch like they're watching. And I get that same experience. And tell me who else is on the card this Saturday.

So, on this Saturday, you got Robin Henry. You got Jordan and Sean. You have Bo Nickel coming back a year later. He took a year hiatus. I give him a lot of shit for that.

But one year later, he's going up against Max, who's an NCAA champion from Minnesota. But there's a lot. Kennedy's on this card. Yeah, Gable Stevens. Gable's coming back.

Kennedy Blades. The card's stacked from start to Johnny DeJulius from Cleveland coming back to wrestle.

So it's a stacked card. Two times he saw it. It starts at 8 p.m. Eastern. 8 p.m.

Eastern Time on Fox Nation Saturday night. Yep. Jill, best of luck. Thank you. Jordan Burrows?

Appreciate it. Chad Bronstein, great to see you. Thank you. It's Brian Kilmade. Hi everyone, it's Brian Kilmead here.

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It's Brian Killmead. If a Democratic Socialist calls you on the phone and says, I want you to come campaign, help me win over centrist voters, what do you say? I don't.

Well, first of all, it's a hypothetical, and let me break the news to you. The calls haven't come in. The calls haven't come in, and everybody knows the numbers, so I don't see that happening. Look, there's fundamental differences, and that's, and I'm comfortable with that.

So you don't want them to use the Democratic Party. I don't think they should, because I think they're a separate party. That's one. Two, I don't believe in defunding police. I don't believe in open borders.

And getting rid of the Senate and the presidencies, Electoral College, and the prisons? You don't think so? Really? I'm surprised. You don't really want to get rid of the prisons.

So that is Ron Emmanuel. I'm not going to criticize him. He said that pretty consistently and outwardly. Besides Fetterman, he's the only person in politics, not commenting on politics, but because I clearly he's running that's saying that. And then this weekend it changed a little.

The dam broke and you had in a nice way Hakeem Jeffries. Governor Bashir says socialism is a failed experiment. And then you had Hakeem Jeffries come out and said, I'm not a DSA guy, and I am not for defunding the police. I'm not for open borders. I'm not for abolishing the Senate.

He didn't say I'm not for abolishing prisons, but I mean, he doesn't go without saying. But by the way, what nobody has any credibility because they told us the border was sealed, there's nothing you can do, they blame climate change, there's nothing nothing can happen, it's a migration cycle.

So these people were not even admitting. That the border was even an issue back then.

So now they say we're not for open borders, but when they're honest, they know that they blew it. It's just so funny to see all this happening.

So, in 28th, it's going to be fascinating to see who's going to try to get the DSA over there and who's just going to say, listen, this is me. This is the right thing to do. This makes me a Democrat, but I'm not anti-American. I would love to see a Democrat run on that platform. I love the country.

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From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show.

So glad you're here on 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan. We have a lot going on this hour. Michael Goodwin standing by, Lee Greenwood, the legendary singer-songwriter, will be with us today. And he's got a big announcement when it comes to drinking and also a great announcement when it comes to patriotism, as well as his relationship with countless presidents dating back to Reagan. We have a lot going on.

Also, got to remind you, we got the YouTube page always. Everybody's talking about it: youtube.com/slash at the Brian Kilmeat Show. It's going to be a big day at the White House because the White House has gone out of their way to give tribute to this 16-year-old hero lifeguard. I'm sure you've seen the video by now in Santa Cruz. This 16-year-old saw this 10-year-old struggling in a cross current, and he had to go in and save him.

He was getting beat up by the waves, would not let go of this 10-year-old kid. The guy's name, the lifeguard's name, is 16-year-old Ryder Williams. He rushed into the water to save a ten year old child who was overwhelmed by wave after wave after wave, and he would not let go. And when President Trump saw this, he said, we got to invite him to the Oval Office. He is coming today.

But with seventy eight days into the midterms, let's talk about the big three. Number three. President Trump ran on making America safe again, and he did just that. The largest, most prolific reduction in crime in modern American history, including a 20% reduction in the murder rate and a reduction by 20% of drug overdose deaths, just to name a few. There you go.

Trump 2 has some major wins, sealed the border, historically low crime, and cratering prescription drug costs.

Now it's time to sell those issues. They're good ones. Attention, GOP. The president will need a little help. Number two.

We know if they do make a deal, well they will not comply with it. How do we know that? Because that's what they already did. And secondly, then it makes no sense to give them the finances that a deal would demand, which would enable them to recover. General Jack Keene, 60 days and the MOU is through.

Where do we go from here? The next bomb will be dropped by the Treasury. My hope is American bombs follow thereafter. Number one. Folks, from today going forward, I want to hear any more.

DFL, DSA, moderate convent. Baba, I want to hear the word Democrat. That's who you are, and that's what you are fighting for. Nice try, Governor McAuliffe. Dems have a public philosophical brawl for all to see as the DSA and a handful of moderate.

Moderate Dems, Liberal Dems, wrestle with the party's future question. And now, what does the GOP do? Just watch, or do they have a message too? I'll tell you, it was just very appropriate. As I did open to my show on Sunday on One Nation, just how woke, how we thought it was incredibly crazy when they pushed everyone with their pronouns, as they swore that men could get pregnant, as they said that you should take a knee during the national anthem, as they explained that America was built on stolen land off the backs of slaves, and we were supposed to just apologize for being American, and now it's called woke.

Yeah. And now the people that did woke have said, sorry. Maybe we got a little crazy, not okay. Michael Goodwin writes in the New York Post: not only is woke not okay and we don't forgive you, he does not believe woke is over. Michael Goodwin joins us now.

Michael, why don't you believe it's over? Good morning, Brian.

Well, look, I think a lot of the uh applause and and cheering from the uh conservatives is over the race in Wisconsin where the uh the far and left uh loopy candidate uh uh lost yes yes and uh I I think that it's not It's not a fact that this is necessarily the end. There's a very narrow defeat, and there's no cause for general celebration because, look, I think there is some sense of moving away from the extreme woke of 2020, 2021. Look, we shouldn't forget, too, that all of this was an outgrowth of the 2016 election where Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. And there was all that outpouring, remember the marches and everything. And of course, they happened again when he won in 2024.

But I think some of the energy has gone out of it.

So you have AOC, for example, who really is the queen of woke, and you have even Torah and Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, both of whom backing away from the idea that you want. Want to defund the police. Said in a recent interview, woke one was crazy. Yeah, in fact, let's hear it. Cut three.

I have a local city councilman that has this saying: woke one was crazy. I mean, did they move it too far with some of those positions? I mean, you briefly supported the idea of defunding the police. I think that. You know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.

It wasn't lockdown. She was saying it in 2018. She was saying it the day she got elected. That's right. And it's not just rhetoric.

I mean, these were program ideas. This was close the prisons, defund the police. You know, all of those things were real staples of the far left. And now, as they're beginning to crack the electability issue, for example, in Michigan and in New York City, of course, I think they're beginning to see the limits of the appeal of some of this program, of some of these ideas. And you have even Mom Dani saying, no, I don't believe in that anymore.

We're not going to defund the police. The police are essential. He's touting lower crime rates, lower shooting rates.

So, this is a level of growth, but how far it goes from here remains to be seen.

Well, I'll tell you what, right now, when it comes to defunding the police, they are kind of doing that. They canceled two academy classes, and they're beginning to clamp down on overtime.

So, you're going to see less police on the streets, and now you're going to see a mass retirement if that continues. Because, as you know, they do the average of the last two years to set your salary for the rest of your life.

So, these guys who are 38, 42 years old, about to retire, go, okay, wait a second, put the brakes on, I'm out of here because they're cutting my overtime.

So, that's a way of defunding the police. It's almost like they got better at it.

Well, I think they're looking, Brian, for what is the fewest number of officers they can have without blowing up the crime statistics. And Mamdani turned down the idea of adding to the police force. And look, as the city's population grows, you do need more and more officers to do the same job. And many police officers retire because the overtime that they're forced to do wears them out. And so I look, I take a great stress on them and their families.

So look, these are important issues. But I think it's not great news, but it's good news that Woke is wounded and that it's not... It's not going to work the way they hoped it would. They're not going to sweep the country with this nonsense. That's why these midterms are so important.

They may take over more and more of the Democratic Party, but let's see if they can win general election in swing states. That's going to be the ultimate big test this year.

So I want you to hear, so they're trying to make, they're trying to say, yeah, I'm not for. abolishing prisons. I'm not for the abolishing the board of the Senate, the Presidency, the Supreme Court. But they are saying, but we're but I'm a big tent and you can come aboard. Listen to Terry McAuliffe, the failed governor of Virginia, cut thirteen.

And that's why this opportunity is so big for us to come together, get moving. And let me say another thing. I'm a little tired of all of this stuff you hear every day about all of these labels. DFL or DFL. DSA, moderate, progressive, whatever, liberal.

You know, when I was governor of the Commonwealth, guess what? I created more jobs than any governor in the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Does that make me a centrist? But I also gave more people health care than at any other time in the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Does that make me a socialist?

No. It makes me a damn good governor and a proud Democrat. Right. Who lost to Glenn Youngkin? Got hammered.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, look, I think that the Democratic Party is clearly being torn apart by the far left, and the Democrats are looking for some ground to stand on. The problem is they won't really fight the socialists, or they haven't so far. And Rick, I think if you go back to even the prior administration, they would not fight against the Elon Omars, the Rashida Tlibs, right? They welcomed them into the party.

Chuck Schumer is still calling a big tent. It doesn't work. You have to stand for something clearly and consistently. I mean, with the telecommunications and the way campaigns are funded today, you need to have a clear, consistent message. And I think that's what the Democrats can have as long as they have so many of these bizarre.

Our far-left radicals in that big tent. The tent is beginning to smell like the radicals.

So the crazy thing is, this Francesca hung, this is one who does not like Thanksgiving, wants to get rid of the border, wants to abolish prisons. Just as bad as it gets, totally incompetent. Roe Conna stood by her.

Now, look, Bernie didn't, AOC didn't, and Elizabeth Warren didn't, and she still almost won. She had Hassan Pike or the most polarizing radical on either party at any moment, so are campaigning for her. But RoConna still stands by her now. Tell me what this strategy is. Listen to him, cut 11.

You know, I really feel bad for what happened to Francesca, and I know it's fashionable to distance yourself. I'm not. I was proud to endorse her, and she's far more than the caricature that was presented. The main reason she was running was to stop data centers and to have child care. And she's a daughter of Asian immigrants.

Look, I love Thanksgiving. I grew up in an Indian-American household. We would go to Indian uncles and aunties to have Thanksgiving. We'd watch the Michigan-Ohio State game. But to judge her and caricature her based on a tweet was just, I think, unfortunate.

And of course, you know, we should love and revere the history of this country, but we also have to understand for someone like her, a single mother Asian American, how hard it is to break into politics. She doesn't have multi-millionaire donors. She doesn't have Speaker Pelosi or someone clearing her path. Listen, she has a state house and she was an assemblyman and she had a restaurant.

Okay, she decides to get into it. Forget an Asian American. She also was apologizing that her son. was partially white. She goes, I still have to come to grips with that.

She was the worst candidate, period. And this guy will endorse anyone. He goes on the podcast for Hassan Piker. He went to bat up until the last minute for Graham Plattner. What is he even thinking while going for the billionaires tax?

This is a guy that would go on every channel and try to deal with Donald Trump in his first term.

Now to run for president, he thinks that's a successful skill set. Final thought, Michael?

Well, by look, there is clearly a big ecosystem for these people to muck around in and to be heard by the far left. But I think. The people who have real responsibility for governing are seeing that that doesn't work. And I think that's what we need more Democrats to stand up. You know, someone said the other day that the Democrats need a leader who will give a sister soldier moment, right?

Like Bill Clinton did. When they go too far, you need a leader who says, no, we're not going there with you. Chuck Schumber should be that person, but he's not. Neither has Hakeem Jeffries. That's the position that the Democrats should worry about most.

I hear you. But, you know, Ram, you'll find out if you're Hakeem Jeffries that if you say big tent, these guys get in the tent, they're not going to vote for you for leader. They don't like you, just like they didn't like Kev McCarthy with Matt Gates and those outliers. Thanks so much, Michael Goodwin. Check out his column.

He does not think Woke is dead yet. Go get him, Michael. Thanks. My pleasure, Brian. Thank you.

Back in a moment. Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kill Meet Show. Hi, everyone. It's Brian Kilmead here.

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But we also know she has a socialist label. The defund error positions, polarizing, no executive experience, and foreign policy scrutiny. We know that. Let's go to Gavin Newsome, the governor of California. Executive experience running a large estate and a huge fundraiser, skilled media combatant, no doubt.

But what about the resume? What about the homelessness? What about the cost of living? What about taxes? What about a polished persona that reads as privilege?

They're gonna show homelessness. They're gonna show the affordability issues in California. Highest tax state in the union, they're gonna say nah. I hear you. Everything he said is right.

He looked at the rest of the field too. And the breakdown I I got to agree with. Here is more, especially when it comes to Harris Cut twenty one. Highest tax date in the union they gonna say now. What about Peter Budig?

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary. I said it on Bill Maher on HBO, and I'm going to say it again. He doesn't move us. He had 0% support from the black community.

Why? Because he just doesn't move us.

So I'm going to leave it at that. I just love those pauses. Kind of throw me off. But there are some other candidates, and he ran through them. I think he's making this, I think he's just ripping everybody so he can run, cut 22.

How about J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois? Executive experience, enormous personal resources, no doubt. But billionaire status awkward in a populous primary. Illinois lacks the swing state argument.

What about Mark Kelly, U.S. Senator out of Arizona? Not very charismatic. Relatively untested nationally. No.

Ain't working. Just trust me on this. Ain't working. I personally think that he could do it. I think Mark Cuban could do it.

I don't think a traditional candidate, I mean, Mark Kelly's raising a ton of money, right? He's got a. He's meeting He's going to be helping out in Georgia, but it looks right now like Asif doesn't need the help. He's going to be helping out. I didn't think he's going to Michigan.

He's going to be going to a few battleground areas and maybe raise some money because he's got a great resume, but he just. The key he's as left-wing as anyone. You would hope he'd be moderate. But he's not. You would hope in a purple state with somebody with this military, scientific background, astronaut, fighter pilot, you would hope he'd be somewhat middle.

He's just not. He says that they say that his strategy is going to be to use The rivalry with the President and with Hakeseth to his advantage. Like, I'm the guy, I'm the fighter you need. I don't know. I just don't see it.

I look at Bashir. Bashir is like, okay, yeah, I'm not a socialist. It's failed. Good. I'm thinking to myself, okay, maybe this guy's legitimate.

And then he says, well, I got to get rid of Electoral College.

Okay, he's out. Like, get rid of the Electoral College. We've been through this debate. It's the fairest way to elect a leader of 330 million people. It's the best way.

Way states matter. That's the way it is. But that's why people who look at our Congress and say, let's abolish the Senate, they say, why should Rhode Island have two centers and Texas have two centers? If you just read the Federalist Papers, if you just take a minute to get the summaries, they will tell you why. And if you just say, I don't care about the founding fathers, that's fundamentally what's wrong with you and the country.

If you don't understand how special these men and women were. You don't understand how special the country is. And that's where the wheels come off.

So that's why people go, let's pack the court. Let's get rid of the filibuster.

Now I know the founding fathers didn't consider the filibuster, but they also thought it to be more of a spirit of cooperation. The Philip Buster isn't a Jim Crow relic. I think it's important. I think you leave it in place, and Republicans will regret. If they get rid of it, they'll love it with Trump.

But they'll hate it when a Democrat becomes president. Hate it. And it'll be head-snappingly Everybody will get whiplash every time there's a change in party in power. Lewis and the Brand Kill Me Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmead. And I'm bowing. To be an American, where at least I know I'm free. But I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. And I gladly stand up and tell you.

That is the, of course, the stylings of Lee Greenwood, who wrote the song. Uh who wrote that song. How many years ago, Lee? Uh nineteen eighty three. 1983.

I can't count the years. I just give you the date. And just like I would ask Sting if I was interviewing him tomorrow. I was tired of singing Roxanne. I'm wondering if you would Do you ever get tired of singing this song?

Absolutely not. I think because I know what it thrills the audience, and I know the meaning of it, and it's been different times. The meeting meant more at different times.

Some happy, some sad, some exciting, some during crisis, as you know. Right. So, when do you remember what prompted you to write it? You know, I'd want to say right off the bat, maybe because my father joined the Navy, you know, right after Pearl Harbor. But I didn't know my father well until I was in my late teens.

I didn't really know my mother well, who played piano and bars during World War II. And they were divorced, so I didn't know either way.

So I can't really refer to that. I just know that I was a drum major of my high school marching band. I marched alongside the Marine band, then the Army band, the Air Force band. I loved the pageantry, the wave of the flags. And then when I started doing my USO tours, which started when I was a teenager, I went to Alaska before it was a state, played Almendorf Air Force Base, and then Fort Wainwright.

And I realized I sacrificed the military. Then my band I took to Vegas. My bass player was in the National Guard. We have to give up a week of work because he had to go and be deployed. And I'm like, this is really sacrifice.

So let's fast forward. I get my career in Nashville, Tennessee in 1980. And that dream never left me, that passion never left me. Let me to do something for America. I think one night, you know, in the fall of 1983, we'd had a color guard on stage.

I saw some Boy Scouts. We were on tour all the time, 300 days a year. And so, as I'm going down the highway, I probably jumped out of the truck and jumped in my bus and had a piano in the back, which I'd wrote a lot of songs during those first 10 years in the back of my coach because we were gone so much. And the inspiration came to me, and I just wrote it one night. God bless the USA.

Was it an instant hit? No. It didn't get to the top of the charts only because the release date was a little late to have it peak of July 4th the next year, which would be 1984.

So it didn't quite get there about number 11. But it's not uncommon for songs that have great longevity that they're not a hot burner. You know, they just take a long time to get into the fiber of the public. And after a while, then it sort of just gets legs, you know? And how did it get to Ronald Reagan's attention?

Through the Pentagon. I would imagine, I knew the Adjutant General in Tennessee. We did some USO tours during those years. And I know that some of the military there in the Pentagon had sent it to the White House, and I'm sorry, to Reagan's campaign, because this is a 1984 Republican convention in Dallas. And so I remember him stepping up to the microphone, and he said, I want to leave you with this.

A young writer in Nashville, Tennessee wrote these words. If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd work for. And he recited the entire chorus of my song. And I just, I was stunned. And then, of course, I did the convention.

I sang at the convention. I became Nancy Reagan's champion. Worked a lot with her almost more than I did President Reagan. What was Nancy Reagan like? Fantastic.

She was a lovely lady, a beautiful lady, and an actress. Of course, they were both actors. And she was that Hollywood type. I remember dedicating the Reagan aircraft carrier after he was gone. And my wife, Kim, and I sitting next to Nancy Reagan under the bow of the carrier, of the Reagan aircraft carrier.

And the rain is dripping on us, you know, and I was going to put an umbrella up. And my wife says, don't put your umbrella. She's sitting in the rain. And so I didn't. And we were just sitting there in a kind of a misty rain.

It wasn't really heavy. But she was a lovely lady. And I went 20 years back to the Reagan Library, which you know that I opened with five presidents. And then we sang again there at the Reagan Library. And then you have to know Bush 41.

Bush 41 became my very close friend. I did a congressional appearance at the White House for the Reagan administration, and I met President Bush, at that time Vice President Bush, 41, and we just hit it off. We became very close. I worked a lot in his campaign, flew in Air Force One many times. I was with him throughout his life, and at the very end, my wife and I flew to Kenny Bunkport, and I actually went into the house there with the Secret Service, and I had a little spin at piano, and his chief of staff brought the president out, and he sat in the wheelchair next to my wife, and he said, was I a good president?

And then I played God Bless You as I had a little spin at piano, and he was, that's just the greatest song. You know, I just loved him very much. He was a great president. Yes. I thought he was really good.

A war hero under the CIA. I did not know how hard he took not winning reelection. We were with him on the Christmas tree lighting that year. And in my belief, I believe he was a hero for the Gulf War. He was a hero.

But Lee Atwater, his campaign manager, died that year. And I don't think anyone else would tell him you need to focus on the economy. And that's why the Clintons basically got so much more attention because that's where their focus was. And so we were invited to the White House for the Christmas tree lighting. And he said, come upstairs.

And so we went up to his suite upstairs. He says, I never saw it coming. That was what he told me. Because, you know, you lose in November, you hold on to the job until January. Yeah, right, right.

So, I mean, that's little. And then, of course, your relationship with President Trump is fantastic. It seems that way. Every time I see you guys together, I mean, how would you describe it? What's it like?

Oh, he's a this is the greatest patriot, first of all. I love Trump. My wife worked for him for quite a few years at Miss Universe before he sold that. And that's how I got to be acquainted with him. And then later on, you know, just kind of through The Apprentice and John Rich is a friend of mine who won the apprentice and said, you know, Trump is just really disarming.

And I would meet him in person. He's a very big man. And he'd give you a bear hug. You know, it was kind of cool. Showing his soft side.

And if you remember, we did the Charlie Kirk funeral, the memorial in Phoenix. And that moment when I stepped back from the glass podium that would protect him, and he came out and we. We greeted each other and had just a moment to speak, and he gave me a hug. That just shows his sincerity for people and how he cares for people. He's probably one of our greatest presidents ever.

He has a big heart. There's lots of things he does for people you don't, we will never hear. Yeah, he does not want you to know. No, no, he's very quiet about things he does as a benevolent president and just a very caring person. Lee Greenwood, our guest.

So, Lee, you're always giving back, and I just love the theme of your Soldier Valley whiskey and vodka because there are dog tags around it, and it's shaped like a military canteen. Isn't that cool? Again, this is not necessarily a reference to my father because he was in the Navy. But if you remember the soldiers in World War II, they carried a little metal canteen on the right-hand side because you would be deployed for quite a few weeks, if not months, and you'd have to carry some water with you.

Now, may not always been water, so make reference to the bourbon and the whiskey.

So, this is, it comes in a canteen bottle looking. It's glass, however, so you can see. Inside the vodka, the bourbon, or the whiskey. And you can't buy this anywhere in the country at stores. You can only get it online, LeeGreenwoodWhiskey.com.

That's LeeGreenwoodWhiskey.com. And it has a little dog tag with LG on it. And the label is beautiful. And the bottle, as you notice, looks like a World War II canteen. What is this?

Soldier Valley Whiskey.

Soldier Valley Spirits out of Omaha, Nebraska. But these are the Lee Greenwood signature bottles.

So I get it.

So where do you go to get it? LeeGreenwoodWhiskey.com. That's the only place. That's great.

So let me ask you.

So, portions of these proceeds go to different charities. I will mention a couple: Tunnels to Towers, Folds of Honor, which is a scholarship program. I love them. And Helping a Hero, which is my charity that we build homes for wounded warriors.

So, that's off the top. There are three that we donate money from the sale of these bourbons.

So, one thing I remember John Rich describing in great detail when he rolled out his bourbon, like how he had all this tasting. Did you do the same thing? Oh, absolutely. We won a contest in Kentucky for the best bourbon in the country. Wow, in Kentucky.

Yeah. So, I mean, do you like bourbon? Yes, I like bourbon. Vodka, too? Not vodka.

And not even whiskey, but I like bourbon. Right. For me, I'm more of a beer-drinking guy because I drink too fast and you cannot drink bourbon fast. No, no, no. And bourbon's better over like a big block of ice rather than drinking it straight.

I mean, if you can drink straight, it'll really warm your throat. I probably need some from my show last night in New Jersey. Yeah, I mean, you played, you were seeing for how late last night? We got off stage about 10:30. I didn't get into New York till about 1 in the morning, and I was up on Fox and Friends this morning.

At 7:40. Yeah, at 7:45, a quick turnaround.

So, what is your plan? I know for all big events, the president calls you. Do you know when the next time you're on his schedule? No, but it's coming because of the 9-11 tribute. I know there's going to be something there either in Dallas or in New York.

Right. And, of course, New York City, 25 years since the attacks. Where were you on the attacks? You know, I was in Los Angeles meeting my record company. My wife and our two kids were six and three in Nashville.

Scared to death.

So I didn't know what to do. I couldn't get out of town. The only way I could have left Los Angeles would have been to buy a car. I couldn't get a train ticket. There were no planes in the air.

It was just nothing. I'd just sit there. We coordinated with Mayor Giuliani in New York, with the police commissioner as well, Bernard. By the way, he's passing. I miss him.

And we did the Fireman's Memorial at Yankee Stadium. We did the Policeman's Memorial at Carnegie Hall. And then the fourth game of the World Series. And that's where I wear that red, white, and blue jacket. There was so much controversy about can you wear America's colors?

That still goes back to, what, 25 years ago. But I said, I'm going to wear the red, white, and blue jacket that was given to me. It's leather, and it really displays America's pride. And as you saw at the game, and you can get that video on YouTube. It's really, really evident.

We were somber. I mean, it was tough to sing.

So at the same day that Joe it was the day that George W. Bush threw out their pitch, right? Yes, sir. Do you know what else was going on that day? Michael Jordan's comeback at Madison Square Garden.

Washington was playing the Knicks. Oh, my. And he was coming back.

So I had to make a choice. They go, Brian, you want to cover that or you want to cover this? Because there was going to be something at the garden, too. And David Stern was there and they brought sports back. But that's how crazy it was in New York at that time.

Any crisis like that's going to make a division of media coverage and where you want to go, but you're so good about making a choice.

So the other thing is, I thought it was great that John Harbaugh took his Giants to the 9-11 Memorial, which is so unbelievable. Have you been to it? I have. Which is what they've done, the detail in which they went through it is just amazing. But he wants the team to understand what it means to be a New York franchise.

Yeah. Right. I mean, do you think that in Los Angeles, the rest of the country gets it? No, not like they did in New York and in Washington and even in Pennsylvania. In a year 250, what did you think of the way we commemorated it?

Oh, I thought it was fantastic. Yeah, and were you there for the fireworks too? Yes, we were there too.

So, what do you think about the way we're doing it? And then at the same time, here comes 25 years since the 9-11 attacks. What's the appropriate way to recognize it? Reverend Just reverent. I I don't think we need to To jump up and make announcements, or nothing like that, or make it more important than.

You know, America's history, and we've had a lot of wars and stuff. I met a veteran the other day, he was 101 years old at an air show in Eureka, California, and he served in World War II, Vietnam, Korea, Korea and Vietnam, and the Cold War. He's 101 years old, and he just talked about America's pride in history. Do you feel good? In fact, in 2020, people were taking a knee during the national anthem.

They weren't talking about the country. And now we seem to be past that. Yes, there's an anti-Americanism with this socialism. But I think that if you come out with an anti-American attitude, it's no longer going to be accepted. Or do you think I'm overstating it?

No, you're not. And to tell you the truth, sometimes, as you know, the wave of generation changes with every group of young people. And I fault the colleges for not teaching correct history to our young people. My boys are 31 and 28. They understand the commitment to patriotism and the importance of the flag, the puds.

Allegiance, as you know, that's a bunch of crock where people say that it's not what it should be. We got to remember what it says: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. This is a republic that stands for the rest of the world. Ronald Reagan was right. This is the only country left.

This one goes down, forget freedom. And not in any country in the world. But people that hear, they grew up with it, they don't appreciate it because they never know anything else. That's why I always say: travel. Travel.

And if you travel and find someplace better, stay. But they always come back. Wherever Kim and I go, my wife, Kim, I've been married 34 years, wherever we travel in the world, and of course, our boys go with us sometimes. And now we have a new grandson, four months old, Theodore. But we always try to be good ambassadors for the country, and we have never had an altercation.

Oh, I got pickpocketed in France, but that's my fault. Yeah, yeah, I blame the French.

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And whiskey, but it's also award-winning. And a lot of this money goes to great causes. That's plural. Look for the LG dog tag. You got it.

And that comes with it. Thanks so much, Lee. Thanks, Brian. Bye. in a moment.

Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeat Show. Yeah. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

I think abolished ICE is a call to action on several levels. One is the literal interpretation of abolishing ICE. Which I support.

So, when we talk about defunding, it can show up in multiple ways. Does any agency deserve to be funded more than almost all the others for healthcare, housing, and youth combined? Families are owed reparations. These debts that is AOC.

So, she wants to just forget about all that. Remember, woke one was crazy. That's her. And can't say, well, everything was locked down. No, no, this is a lot of this, the first three cuts I showed you were before 2020, so before any lockdown.

So that's her.

Now, remember, Nancy Pelosi was asked about AOC. And originally, she goes, she just got here. Everyone kept talking about her. And, you know, she didn't know if she was going to support Nancy Pelosi.

Now it looks like Nancy Pelosi's all in. Cut five. I think that she has been m So operational and just wonderful. I know it's a joy to work with her and I think most members think that. Really?

Most members think that. We'll see. I know, she doesn't have she is likable, I admit to you. I mean, it's got a great smile, it's a good personality. But I agree with you, you who said this on T V on One Nation on Sunday and just said it to me on Fox and Friends.

She doesn't study. She has not gotten deep on any of her weaknesses. Everyone's got weaknesses. Everybody. You know, some people just don't have an economics background.

Some people don't have a foreign relations background, let alone experience or interest.

So You know, the president's got his, he's a builder, he loves the functioning, he likes designing, he also has great instincts on foreign policy, and certainly he's got great instincts on the economy. But she has not looked to strengthen any of her weaknesses. She goes from policy to policy without any thought of it. When she says Medicare for all, if anyone ever did the math, you would never say Medicare for all. Hakeem Jeffries is not for Medicare for all.

You got to do the math. It's impossible. It destroys Medicare for anyone if you get Medicare for all, including doctors.

So it doesn't work. Anyone who says that is not serious. And then, when asked about how what happens if Taiwan is attacked by China, what is our policy? She has no answer. When you talk about Western, Eastern Europe, she has no answer.

I don't even think she's clear on the Cold War.

So what happens is you can't know everything. But you've been there for six, eight years. You have people that would actually walk around with you and tell you the history of the country, would talk to you about policy. You don't even have to read it. They'll explain it.

You could put together an A-plus staff, but listen to her talk about stuff. She really does not know. Looking to the Brian Killmeat show.

So glad you're here. Yeah. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kill Me. Thanks so much, everybody, for being there.

It's the Brian Kill Me Chow. I know your weekend was fantastic. We're back in action now. The number one issue in America is energy. And Daniel Turner, founder of the Energy Advocacy Group and Power of the Future, is going to be with us.

The nuts and bolts of where oil, where gas, where diesel is as it relates to our national security. Standing by is Mark Dubwit, CEO and founder, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, one of the leading think tanks when it comes to America's security, especially in the Middle East. And one of the guys you one-stop shopping when it turns out if you want to talk about our options with Iran. And we have a lot.

So before we get to Mark, let's get to the big three. Number three. President Trump ran on making America safe again, and he did just that. The largest, most prolific reduction in crime in modern American history, including a 20% reduction in the murder rate and a reduction by 20% of drug overdose deaths, just to name a few. That is Cash Patel.

Trump 2 has a few good stories to tell. Border Patrol, sealed, historically low crime, fact. Cratering prescription drug costs going in the right direction. First time in my lifetime.

Now it's time to sell those issues. Attention GOP. The president is going to need some help. Number two. We know if they do make a deal, well they will not comply with it.

How do we know that? Because that's what they already did. And secondly, then it makes no sense to give them the finances that a deal would demand, which would enable them to recover. That is General Jack Keen with Mark Levin. 60 days, and the MOU is through.

Where do we go next? With Iran? The next bomb will be dropped by Treasury. My hope is American bombs will follow up afterwards. Number one.

Folks, from today going forward, I want to hear any more. DFL, DSA, moderate, convention. Baba, I want to hear the word Democrat. That's who you are, and that's what you are fighting for. Terry McAuliffe, Dems have a public philosophical brawl going on for all to see as the DSA and a handful of so-called moderates wrestle with the party's future.

I don't see how they coexist, despite what Terry McAuliffe says. What should the GOP do? Just give up the floor and let them fight it out? I think they're going to need a strategy. Just a quick reminder: if you ever missed the show or you want to get some highlights, go to youtube.com/slash at the Brian Kill Me Show.

We got our own channel. Mark Dubowitz comes in now.

So, Mark, the president says earlier. I want Iran to wave the white flag. You think that's going to happen?

Well, I think the Iranians are under severe economic pressure thanks to the President's blockade, Brian. And so I think the President understands right now that he's Got the upper hand. Hormuz is becoming a shrinking asset in the har arms of the Iranians. I think they played that Hormuz card at their weakest point, and the President has really crushed them militarily. Severely degraded their nuclear program.

But these are dedicated jihadists. I don't think they're going to wave the white flag. But they're certainly taking a beating. When you talk about what mar the Treasury can do, it looks like they're looking leaning towards third party. Where anybody dealing even in illicit energy sales with oil and gas with Iran, they're going to get sanctioned.

And that's what the President basically said. China's the main culprit. If China has to make a choice, do you want to deal with the U. S.? Do you want to deal with us?

Now President in a couple of months is going to have the Chinese President here. Do you think he would risk that relationship to start sanctioning them and risk that visit?

Well, Brian, it's interesting. I mean, even President Obama, who was very weak on Iran, very weak on China. Actually, impose secondary sanctions against Chinese banks that were processing Iranian oil transactions. There is legislation that has been passed by a bipartisan Congress that gives President Trump the authority to go after these Chinese banks. And they have to be put to a choice.

You want to trade in the U.S. dollar? Do you want to be part of the global financial system? Or do you want to help the leading state sponsor of terrorism fund its jihadist war machine? I think President Xi needs to be put to that choice, and Chinese banks, I believe, if put to that choice, will choose the Western financial system over Fundamentalist jihadist.

Yeah, they also say they're going to look to get Chinese refiners and find them, banks and give them sanctions, and aviation restrictions. That could some of what we think is going to be announced this week. But when the president, you know, I'm looking to Tehran Times, and of course, they're a propaganda organ of Iran. They seem to think that they're in the driver's seat. and that the US does not want to go back to war.

What do you think about that? Yeah, that's certainly the perception in Tehran, and you hear that from multiple Iranian sources. They think they're winning. And listen, if they follow mainstream media in the United States, mainstream media, much of it anti-Trump, believes that Iran is winning, America and Israel are losing.

So they're certainly getting Caught up in their own narrative. I think they've drunk their own Kool-Aid. But that is definitely the perception in Iran. Is President Trump going to be willing to return to major military operations? Brian, I don't know.

He certainly is going to try economic warfare first. Economic Fury? Is he going to return to Operation Epic Fury? Again, that is a big question. But the thing that he's missing, Brian, in his strategy is Operation People's Fury, which is tens of millions of Iranians who despise this regime, who've been on the streets repeatedly for years, including in January when one in seven Iranians were actually on the streets.

Where's our strategy for Operation People's Fury? We need to provide those Iranians, tens of millions of them. With the support to take down this regime, or at the very least, cripple it in ways that even American bombs can't do. Why? Why haven't we?

It's a great question, and multiple U.S. presidents haven't. I mean, I don't know what it's going to take for a president to finally realize, like, Millions of brave Iranians keep returning to the streets, yelling death to the dictator. 40,000 of them were mowed down in January, and yet we can't even provide them with communication devices, labor strike funds, financing. Never mind arming them.

I mean, never mind getting weapons in there. Let's get armed drones in there. The Iranians' security services, can you imagine if hundreds of thousands of armed drones were descending on besieged checkpoints? I mean, these are things we can do, and the President needs to issue an intelligence finding instructing his intelligence community to build him a plan. He may not decide to implement the plan, but at least have a plan.

You said he gave some arms to the Kurds and they kept it. Yeah, again, I don't know if they kept it, that those Kurds have been well armed and well trained and have a lot of arms. I think at the end of the day, the Kurdish option was scuttled by the The head of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, who called the President told the President not to allow 70,000 armed Kurds to descend from the hills into Tehran. If that had gone ahead, I can't tell you would have succeeded or not. But the plan was never implemented because the President decided to block that strategy.

And Erdogan is no friend of ours, Brian. I mean, he is a Sunni Muslim Brotherhood fundamentalist. He is as bad as the Islamic Republic, but on the other side of the fundamentalist divide. And I don't think we should be taking orders from. President Erdogan.

Why does President Trump not agree with you on that? Look, I think President Trump rightly understands Turkey's a NATO member. It's a serious military power, second largest military power in the Middle East. I think President Trump always does try to get along with people and get along with leaders. And I think he's giving Erdogan an opportunity to try and get along with the United States.

uh to stop inciting against israel to stop killing the Kurds. And he's giving him an an opportunity. President Trump is a patient man, but he's also somebody who, if you try to Undermine him or run circles around him or do anything that is not in America's interest, the president will lose patience. I think President Trump might lose patience with Erdogan if he continues this behavior.

So here is Chris Wright, the Secretary of Energy, who's going on the offensive, talking about how much more energy we're actually producing, but also we're getting much more through the strait than you would think. Cut thirty-six. For the commercial satellite players, these are great businesses, but this is a conflict zone right now. And to see exactly what's happening as we're seeing in the data, that's difficult. We're talking and coordinating with every ship.

We know every day exactly how many ships transit the Strait of Hormuz in and out. We know exactly if they're going the southern route, the US route through Almani waters. We know exactly what they're carrying. And so every day I get a report of transits in the North and the South and the exact product count and details of what goes through in the South.

So yeah, I sent those tweets out and have been speaking out a little bit because the public understanding of what's happening is just too far away from the reality. What's the reality that Mark Dubowitz sees as the CEO of Foundation for Defense and Democracies?

Well, the reality we've been seeing is that Admiral Bradley Cooper, as the head of Central Command, has been doing a fabulous job. The men and women of the U.S. military have been doing an extraordinary job of actually moving those tankers through. Throughout the past few months. And we're getting 15, 16 million barrels a day out of the Hormuz area, either through tankers.

Or through pipelines, Saudi pipelines, Emirati pipelines. Also, see that the Saudis and the Emiratis are building new pipelines and that everybody is waking up to the reality that you cannot let Islamic Republic of Iran, a theocratic jihadist regime, control Hormuz. And again, as I said earlier, Brian, it's a shrinking asset, a shrinking point of leverage for the Iranians because they played that card at their weakest point after they had lost. A significant percentage of their warmaking capability and their nuclear capabilities. Instead of playing that card when they were strong, under the Obama deal or in a no attack scenario when they would have had nuclear weapons, ICBMs, tens of thousands of ballistic missiles, hundreds of thousands of drones and an economy that was able to be immunized against the very sanctions that Secretary Besant says are on the way.

So I think Iran is in a much weaker position. I think Secretary Wright is exactly right. Um a lot of these um outside service providers that are tracking this thing depend on GPS. tracking of tankers, but what's happening is the GPS is being switched off and Ambo Cooper is escorting those tankers quietly and covertly through the strait into international markets.

So here is General Keene on what he thinks is going to happen in the fall, Cut 27. The Iranians believe, now, this is, we got to understand, this is in their head. In their head, they believe time is on their side and they can ride this out. despite the economic suffering of their people. And that is the position they have taken.

So the economic path is one thing, and no one knows if that's true or not. Even the Iranians don't know it. It's not knowable at this time whether economic collapse will actually take place and they'd be willing to make a deal they're not willing to make now. And he believes that in the fall, when the midterms get closer, they're going to get more and more aggressive because they want Trump's party to lose. They hate Trump.

They think it's in their best interest to get the party that's cheering for them, the Democrats. We're literally cheering for them to be successful and saying they're winning to be successful at the midterms. That's probably the strategy they're going to implement. Yeah, 100%, Brian. I think it's going to be an October surprise.

Right before the midterms, the Iranians are going to do everything they can to massively escalate, drive up that price of oil, drive up the price of gasoline, drive up inflation and create a situation where Trump loses the House and the Senate. That is exactly what they want. They want to hobble the president politically.

Now, I think they're miscalculating because I think whether or not the president holds the House or Senate, he's going to have two years left. And presidents typically lose Congress in their last two years. And what do they do, Brian, when they lose Congress? Because now their domestic agenda is stymied. They always turn to foreign policy.

When they turn to foreign policy, they want to create a legacy for themselves. President Trump's legacy is inextricably tied to Iran. He knows that. The historians know that, and he is going to spend two years making sure that at the end of his tenure. The Islamic Republic has lost, and America has won.

And so the Iranians are going to play their games in the short term. But I think President Trump understands over the next 2.5 years, he needs to defeat the Islamic Republic and ensure that whoever wins the next election is not inheriting the kind of problem that he inherited from Joe Biden. Mark, I think I would love to see him really finish up this job, at least the 20 percent of targets and more. Uh before Labor Day. And just let the Iranians know what we're capable of because we actually have more assets in the region we had than before Epic Fury started.

Even though we'd like to have more interceptors, I've been assured that we have munitions, you know, like to have more tomahawks. We have different things that we could use.

So I'd love to see that happen before. In the couple of minutes we have left, I want to talk about Hamas. It looks like Jared Kushner and Hamas are meeting face to face. We rarely do that with Khalil al-Hayyai over in Cairo. It happened yesterday and it's going to be happening again today to implement the next step in the 15-point roadmap.

It looks like there's some indications that Hamas has done things we didn't expect. They admit they have to develop leadership, and there is a plan in place. to give up their arms and put it into so-called storage. uh of all types. And then have that international force come in before the Israelis move out.

Where do you see this? Look, I think Hamas is going to play the same game that their patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is playing. They want to wait out Trump.

So they'll agree to things, they'll say things. At the end of the day, they are never going to give up their weapons. They're never going to give up their holy jihad against Israel and the West. They would not be Hamas if they did not. Surrender.

uh the ambitions to To destroy the West. That is who they are, that is in their DNA.

So I think it's all a delusion. I think it's all a waiting game. And I think I wish Jared Kushner Incredible luck and incredible fortitude to try to push this through. But the problem we have is not 2026, 2027, 2028. The problem is January 20th, 2029, when I am very, very worried that there will be a President in the White House who doesn't have President Trump's fortitude.

And in that case, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Republic, Iran, China, Russia, you name it, whatever enemy of America. Has waited out Trump, and now is a new president who doesn't have the same commitment to using American power, economic, financial, diplomatic, and military power. Against our enemies.

Well, you know, there's no doubt about it because I don't think J.D. Vance has any interest at all in the Middle East, and he's the likely nominee on the right. And if you listen to any Democratic nominee, potential nominee, they're living off not liking Israel and making sure they're not getting arms. And if you ask Netanyahu, he says we plan on being our own arms manufacturer because we can't count on America.

So, Mark Dubowitz, I think you're 100% correct in that.

So, hopefully, that's why the President wants to solve all these problems before he leaves. Thanks so much, Mark, for I appreciate you joining us. Thanks so much, Brian. You got it. Back in a moment.

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Passing this ballot initiative will ensure that millions of working class and middle class Californians don't lose their health care. Look, the Sacramento establishment and lobbyists are just blatantly out of touch. What this shows is that California voters want a Democratic Party that will stand up for the working class over the billionaire class. So that is Rocana, who represents most of Silicon Valley. Mark Cuban writes back, and it's lengthy.

I'll try to get through some of it. It's on X. He goes, Roe, I like you. You know that. But you need to read the state of the state.

The number of DECA unicorns in California is growing by the day as investors chase amazing startups. A unique feature of the $10 billion startups, that is, even if they raise a billion, if any of that money goes to the, none of that money goes to the founders who are now worth billions of dollars overnight. They are the definition of cash poor, stock rich. How are you going to tax them? Make them borrow money against their shares if they can.

They just raise money to grow their company and a bank will come along and loan them the money. Can I just stop there? You insert my money? When you get a billion dollars to have a startup, you have to hire people. That should help people.

A company that is now back to Mark Cuban, a company that's been in business maybe less than a year. Laugh out loud, will take their stock if they can't. Do you really think each of the multiple founders who started an amazing company in California is now a billionaire can just pull out 250 million per billion of net worth from their raise? You know that they can't. If this passes and it doesn't indirectly and it doesn't directly impact me at all, I won't be a California resident.

But you can bet if I'm investing in a multi-billion dollar startup, I'm asking them to move out of California. For the first moment. And if this passes, only idiot startup founders stay in California.

So good luck. You tell everybody billionaires are the problem. But your solution to the problem is not practical, feasible, plausible. And Mark Cuban just called you out, not a Republican. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Eight or nine million barrels a day on a running average are going through the strait. Plus, you've got to add the 6 million barrels a day that are being diverted via pipelines. And those pipelines are being expanded as well. But so, in round numbers today, 14, 15 million barrels a day are leaving the Arabian Gulf region versus the 20 million barrels a day pre-conflict.

So we're short five or six million barrels a day from this region, but it's much smaller hole than people think it is.

So that is the engineering secretary saying that, look, we're shutting off the transponders, we're getting ships, merchant ships, through the strait. Many more than have been labeled. Evidently, none came through on Sunday. Maybe two or three came through on Saturday. But between Oman and Iran, they're making sure that people make it say it's too much of a risk.

Insurers aren't going to insure.

So therefore, we're not going to get much oil through. And what the Secretary of Energy is saying is we're getting more through than you know. Daniel Turner joined us now, founder of Energy Advocacy Group, Power of the Future. Daniel, always great to talk to you. Your thoughts about what the Secretary of Energy is saying.

Hey, listen. We're getting a lot through. We can't talk about it. Yeah, first off, a shout-out to- Is that true, though? 100%.

And it's a shout-out to President Trump for choosing Chris Wright to begin with, something that we don't rarely talk about because it's been almost two years now. But to have someone who's from the industry, who understands the mechanics of the industry, the markets of the industry, and doesn't really care about the politics. Like, he's not a politician. He's never wanted to run for office. He wants to produce as much energy because he believes that a robust energy industry brings prosperity and peace, etc.

So, just to have him in this role is great. But what he's saying makes total sense, and there's a lot of confidence in that. There is oil getting through. Markets are reflecting that. The problem is that if we were at this stage for the last four months, all of inflation would have slowly started to come down.

As we saw in early this year, January, February, when oil was in the 60s, inflation numbers started to come down. Price of goods and services started to come down because of that. It takes a little while for low energy prices to trickle into the market. But then they spiked again, and then they're up and down. And the fluctuations are so intense over these last six months that inflation doesn't know what the heck it wants to do.

So that's the biggest problem for the economy.

So Dan Bruet was on with Larry Kudlow, and he feels differently. CUP 38. It's hard to know how many barrels are actually moving through. I don't want to disagree with Chris, but I think it's debatable as to whether or not we're up to 15. There'd be few in the industry who I think would actually support that number at the moment.

And that's not a criticism. I mean, he has information, obviously, that perhaps I don't have. But look, I think what's important to understand is that the straight will open. And as we've seen in the marketplace over the course of the last 30, 40, 50, 60 days, when the stray does open, oil prices will come down. And when oil prices come down, and they will come down fairly dramatically, retail products, I should say refined products, will come down as well.

So he's not sure, but he hopes.

So you needed $65 a barrel, you told me, right? And what's it now? 82 are in Dixon. 404 average price per gallon? Yeah.

So that would definitely, if it stays this high, what is that compared to the last year with Joe Biden? Biden averaged $95 a barrel for four years, and we got accustomed to it. But it also led to a certain stagnation of the economy. One of the things I think Dan Broulette said, which is most important, is that Chris Wright has information we don't. And that's pretty darn true as the Secretary of Energy.

I think there's evidence to show Chris Wright is the one who is correct here because of just the actual market itself. No matter how powerful the president is, oil markets are not going to lie. They can't. It's just the invisible hand theory, right?

So when you had bankers like J.P. Morgan saying we're going to hit $300 a barrel in oil, well, that never happened. And the reason why is because markets knew oil was getting through. Markets were convinced because otherwise we would have been at that price point.

So there's market evidence, there's economic evidence that Chris Wright was going to be able to get. right is the one who has the facts.

So why have the strategic oil reserve, why has it gone down? Bad. Yeah. Well, we drained more than half of them during the Biden administration, and we haven't been able to replenish. I believe that we still have a slow release to try to steady oil prices, but it's not an ideal situation because we should have been replenishing.

Remember, in the height of COVID, when oil was at negative dollars, oil prices were plummeting. President Trump wanted to replenish the entire reserves and Congress blocked him. This makes no sense. Of course. Of course.

This is a bailout to the oil industry. And the oil industry has such hatred amongst the left that they hate a lot of things, don't they? But anytime anything is oil-related, it's their rallying point to say, oil, big oil, we hate oil. And so they'll never propose or support anything that helps the overall energy industry. But Daniel Turner, do you think the green fever is broken on the left?

I think so, but I don't think it has in the members of the Democrat Party because their donors are still crazy radical leftists. And they put, you know, climate change isn't as popular as it was. But the same climate movement, the best example is Greta Thunberg, right? She moved from climate change to I hate Israel like that. Why?

It's because it's all the same leftists. It's all the same.

So whether it's BLM or I hate Israel or climate change or doesn't matter. It's the same mentality. Climate change isn't popular right now, but leftistism is. And we see that in the surge of the DSA. It's the same leftists.

Well, why don't we build more refineries? We have to. We should. We've expanded refineries. And so people have said, yeah, we haven't built a new one from scratch, but the refineries that we have online have expanded by 30, 40 percent over the last decades, and that's good enough.

It could be, but I do think more refineries are absolutely essential and strategically located, right? Obviously, we build a lot of our refineries in the Gulf because of just the laws of thermodynamics. If you have to heat something in a hot room, it will heat faster than if you heat it in Alaska, right?

So there's a reason why the refineries, and yes, they're closer to ports, et cetera, but there's an environmental reason why we build refineries for the most part in warmer climates. But we do have refineries not far from here in Jersey. We have refineries in Michigan. And we need refineries in more strategic locations because that will just ease the tensions of oil prices. I always thought if it's a good business, people are going to build it.

And the oil companies are making a lot of money right now. And I don't want them to give it back because there are going to be times when they're not making money. That's part of the business.

So I would think this might be a good time to. Invest some of that money. There is. And I would think if I were President Trump and we have these executive orders on energy emergency, those are the protocols. There are national security emergencies right now.

We are in global conflict, right, in one location, clearly, but we could also talk about what's happening in Ukraine. We need reliable, abundant oil across the country. And so there are a lot of reasons to say, hey, look, we're going to have to build this refinery here. And yeah, the environmentalists are going to protest and they're going to bust in all of their activists and bang drums. But, you know, this is big boy conversations, and we need these things to serve.

Just back them up and we'll show them.

Now, when the Ukrainians are blowing up Russian refineries, I'm thrilled. What does it do to the oil market? It hurts oil, especially the Europeans, because they still buy a lot of oil from Russia, a lot of gas from Russia. They buy it through intermediaries, right? They buy it through third-party proxies.

There is this global ban on Russian oil and gas, but a number of countries have ignored it. Turkey's ignored it, and they're a member of NATO. I believe South Korea has ignored it. India has ignored it.

So if you're France and you're saying, I'm not going to buy Russian oil, but I'll buy Indian oil.

Well, it is Russian oil, just vis-a-vis India, and you're paying more for it. Yeah, which is incredible. But when we look at the oil, you just told me something that I never didn't realize because I always thought it's one price. You said it's not one price. You said in right now in the Middle East, it's $97 a barrel.

Here, it's $82 a barrel. Yeah. So I thought it was a world commodity. Can you explain that to me? It is a world commodity, but there are different indices.

There are different oil markets, right? The big one that we use here in America, which is called WTI, West Texas Intermediary, it's the American platform for oil. There's another one which is in the North Sea, which is called the Brent, right? That was the big oil exploration there, BP, the Scandinavians, the Russians who were excavating, producing in the North Sea. And the other big one, there are big three, but there are, I think, 120 of these indices, smaller ones.

The big three, and the third is Moriben crude, which is the Middle East. Normally, they're all around the same price point. Just like if you were going to buy gold for X ounces of gold in America or you bought it in Tokyo, it'd be roughly the same price. Tokyo could be a little cheaper for whatever reason, but it's roughly the same global price. But right now, we're seeing huge.

Huge deltas in these markets. And that goes to show American producers aren't nervous, but Morban crude is petrified. I was talking to one oil company executive, and they say we're running out of shock absorbers. Yeah. That the longer this goes on and we play this waiting game.

We're running out of ways to make sure the people don't feel it the way they potentially could.

So we'd have very few more cards to play. Everyone immediately tapped into their oil reserves, right?

So we're kind of running out of that. We are. And this is an industry that is petrified by uncertainties. I mean, if you get an announcement tomorrow that a hurricane is manifesting off the Gulf Coast, oil prices will go through the roof. Nothing has changed, but this industry hates the unknown.

And we have been in six months now. When did we start? We've been in six months of unknown. And the industry. Is petrified.

We've stabilized a little. $82 a barrel in oil is good. It's not $65 a barrel in oil. But we need $65 a barrel oil for months and months and months and months to then trickle into the price of manufactured goods, the price of blue jeans, the price of cars, gas prices, right? And we haven't had that.

So to bring down the inflation number, to give calm to the overall economy, we need geopolitical stability. Right. And we haven't had it.

So did you like this message from J.D. Vance when he was with Will Kaine last week, Cut 35? Cool number one, keep oil and gas cheap for Americans. All over our country. And then, obviously, goal number two is ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.

I feel confident we're accomplishing both of those goals. Your thoughts? We are, I agree with him that these are two absolutely essential goals. Oil prices are cheaper than the Biden years, but they're not necessarily cheap yet. Again, $82 a barrel oil is way better than the average of $95 for the Biden years, right?

Biden hit $125 for sustained periods. But we're not exactly at cheap oil yet. And yeah, producers are doing well, and they are putting that back into investment. We see American companies that are making profits, and they're going to Venezuela with it to increase production. Their production is up 20% month over month, which is great for the world.

It's great for the Venezuelan people. It's great for American industries.

So they are reinvesting, but we're not exactly there yet of cheap oil. Where is Venezuela's rebuild at? They went from, I believe, they were around 200,000 barrels a day right before we entered to last. I saw it was around 280,000 barrels a day, with projections to get up to 400 in the next six months. Months.

Huge delta from where they should be, right? They have 17% of the world's oil reserves. Which should they be at? They should be at 4 or 5 million barrels a day, quite literally. And they're at how many?

Around 280,000 barrels. Yeah. So they are far, far from where they should be. And where they were, I think they got up to like 2 or 3 million right before Chavez. But that's going to take rebuilding of everything, right?

Yeah, it's going to take huge rebuilding. Have they told you, or do you know, is it safe for executives to go there?

So far, that everyone I have spoken to said, you know, there are security details, but no one has postponed their trip from the oil people I have talked to because of safety concerns.

So they're taking all the necessary precautions, but nothing has happened, which is a great sign for stability for the Venezuelan people today. Daniel Turner, thanks so much. We'll see what happens in the next few weeks. Maybe we finally get this thing over with before Labor Day. That's what I hope.

Daniel Turner, thank you. Thanks, Brian. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmead. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Her brother spent $20 million in his primary in June. Just so that he would not get put into a runoff, because he knew that the South Carolina primary runoff voters are not Lindsey Graham voters. They are more bright red.

Now you have a late August special election primary runoff where she started with 33 percent. It's not clear that she can win unless Trump. Really goes there and really lays down the law and says you got to vote for her.

Well, I mean, we're going to have to see because. Yeah, Congressman Norman, who is b second in the runoff, but he seems to have more traditional Republicans, more conservative Republicans in South Carolina. That was Paul Kaine. He's a reporter, political know-it-all, and just says, look, it looks good for Darlene Graham until you understand that Senator Lindsey Graham was respected by in North Carolina, but in South Carolina, but they didn't love the fact that he was spending so much time. Overseas.

And they also didn't love the fact that at times he was a critic of President Trump. But they got along and they went back and forth, but they didn't love that.

So when Trump said, I'm going to make sure everybody knows the fact that we disagree does not matter. I still endorse him. I still get mad at him. But I still endorse him.

So we'll see what happens, because Darlene is not going to really have much chance to show herself as somebody that can do the job. But she seems extremely competent, well read. But you have Congressman Norman. who's been there forever.

So we'll see what happens in that runoff. Whoever wins that runoff will get the center seat, there's no doubt about it.

Now over in Alaska, I Dan Sullivan on, he's in a flat-footed tie with Palolta in Alaska.

Now look, That is a place where he got 54% of the vote, and Donald Trump won easily. But right now, in Ohio, in Alaska, in Texas, and Iowa, the Republican candidate is trailing. It's still early. Here's Dan Sullivan, cut seventeen. I always have tough reelections, but here's the thing: we're always ready, right?

The Democrats have been throwing Schumer, the far-left groups, over the past year. tens of millions of dollars against me. They started going up with negative ads over a year ago, but they can't beat me on my record. I just talked about some of my record, which is really strong for Alaska, really strong for America. And we'll see.

He has basically what the Golden Dome is to cover the country. It's really going to be starting in Alaska. If you want the icebreakers and the pathway to the Arctic that's going to make the Strait of Vermuz, old news, and you want to have that big race with China and Russia, it's going to be through Alaska. And now the Coast Guard base is being built up there. Oil and gas energy is being maximized because Biden starved it because he thought the future was electric cars.

And he wanted to make sure that Alaska, who didn't vote for him anyway, was not going to get the energy reserves that they need. Dan Sullivan's making that happen. President Trump's making that happen. He's got to be able to go out and say what's happening, which is going to be key. What I love is the fact is.

From the midterms, the Democrats got to decide what they want to do. Because they have DSA, Big Tent, you have other people saying DSA, I don't want their policies, it's hard on me, but I'll rip their policies while not ripping them. That's what Nakeem Jeffries is trying to do. But over the weekend, his objective was clear. Let everybody know.

We might be a big tent, but I do not go for what they're actually selling, cut one. Do Democratic Socialists belong in the Democratic Party, Leader Jeffries?

Well, what I can say is that I do not support defunding the police. I do not support open borders. I do not support abolishing The Senate We're focused on actually solving problems that hardworking American taxpayers want us to solve, which is to lower the high cost of living in a situation where life is far too expensive in this country. That's the Democratic agenda. That's what House Democrats are fighting to achieve.

Yeah, but he says I'll take them all. But I have produced for Hakeem Jeffries, and I'm sure he knows this. These DSA candidates who you say is part of a big tent who you don't agree with are not going to vote for you for Speaker. They almost, Mayor Mumdowne almost primaried Hakeem Jeffries over in Brooklyn with this radical leftist.

Well, you know, the one who's the author of Woke One and maybe Woke Two. But at the last minute, they pulled back, but they did go ahead and primary a bunch of others. And I think seven primaries have flipped candidates with incumbent Democrats.

So that's a little out of control. Republicans went through this, but they were with people that just wanted to spend less, be more fiscally responsible. They're not with people that wanted to become a different economic philosophy and social philosophy entirely.

Okay.

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