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I believe I'm on the 43rd floor. If I said high at top, it really should be when I get and broadcast on the 43rd floor. But having said that, we're going to have a great hour. Michael McCopsy is going to be with us. I am, well, one of the few people on the planet optimistic that something real happening with Hamas disarming, giving up leadership.

And I think a lot to do with them being starved out and being bombed out. Yesterday, Israel is not a violation of anything. Had one of these commanders up to no good. They blew him up. At the same time, noticing international forces forming, so we'll discuss that.

But before we get to everything, let's get to the big three. Number three. They called yesterday and they gave us the points that we had to have. Very fair deal for both. But our farmers are going to be thrilled.

Our manufacturers are going to be thrilled. And uh basically we have no tariffs going into Canada anymore. I like this. I never heard the president talk so positively about Canada, period. Burying the hatchet.

Could our frenemy, Canada, finally understand they need to balance out trade with Trump and do a deal? Indications are the answer is yes. Will we see what it means for big and small business? Number two. The Iranians are running out of assets and options.

I think the Iranians are trying to continue to drag this out. They're wary of increased military consequences. They are struggling with the economic consequences. That is Colonel Mike Jennigan on America Reports. Hurry up and wait.

President gets Treasury into the fight, lets them lead as Iran has massive sanctions and secretary sanctions to spread the pain. And the UAE weighs in hard. More and more of our allies have to do the same. And meanwhile, we're getting about 9 million barrels through the strait. Number one.

If you look at the amount of members that are coming to the House that are DSA, it's 5%. They're not the Democratic Party. I think the Democratic Party needs to step up and speak out. That is not how we're going to win the House. It's not how we're going to win the Senate.

Jared Musco is with me today on Fox and Friends. DSA, not okay with Dems, even if they're not spending big money on leadership and endorsements are not stopping the movement which is now fighting Trump's foreign policy while saluting communist Castro. We're going to see what it means for November, big time, because I was just with. I was just with Jared Moskowitz, so he had a a staunch DSA guy. You know, sometimes these guys said the DSA, but they're not for getting rid of the border.

They're not for getting rid of prisons. These guys, this guy was for getting rid of prisons, getting rid of the border, getting rid of the Senate, getting rid of the presidency, stop all foreign policy, so foreign policy spending. And he decided, I'm going to beat this guy, but I'm not going to waste any money on it and time. And he didn't.

However, on the other side, in Florida, Angie Nixon wins, and Alexander Vindman tried the same thing, but he's got no personality and no track record. His claim to fame was, I was the whistleblower who tried to impeach Trump.

So that was not enough. In Florida, not at all.

So this raging socialist wins. How raging? Listen to what she's throwing out here, cut one. I think it's important to note I did recently make the decision to join the DSA. I also recently made the decision to join the Working Family Party as well as become a lifetime member of the NAACP.

And that is because those organizations are working hard in our communities to actually push back on these big corporations that are keeping us down and that are hurting us. Real corporations, yeah. Corporate they're keeping you down. How are they keeping you down?

So you're going to get rid of big corporations? They're going to, she's going to have a nationwide call for a federal freeze on rents, which will be a federal destruction of every landlord, which will not do anything but decrease the number of houses. Everybody knows it. I don't want to waste your time with this. You don't have to be an economic laureate, Nobel laureate to understand if you start telling people that you're going to freeze the nation's rent, that it's going to mean that these buildings, small and big, become dilapidated, landlords go out of business, and that means there's going to be less livable housing.

But that's what they're bringing to the table against. Ashley Mooney. And others, like El Syed, says, I'm not a socialist, but he believes basically the same stuff. Here's more from this nut job, cut to. It's very frustrating because Donald Trump and Ashley Moody and many other Republican lawmakers in Washington, D.C., they are working less and less and less and they're getting richer.

And meanwhile, everyday people across this country are working harder than ever and they're still struggling just to stay afloat. What are you talking about? Donald Trump works 100 hours a day. I mean, you got nobody. This is the first person I heard works less.

Who are you talking about working less? Most people that are successful never stop working. Because you think they wear a suit all day and they're not swinging a hammer, they're not working. I mean, that's how detached she is from the economy, in my view, that she actually thinks that's the deal. Is that going to be is you going to run on that?

Disenfranchised young people, not minorities, and overeducated white people who feel as though they should be making more money.

So, listen, for the good of the Republican Party, they should hope all these DSA members are successful. It gives them a better chance of bucking history. But in the big picture, these guys are terrible for the country. In fact, I was talking to a Democrat today and he says, you know what? It's not even worth saying.

They're not good Democrats. They're not Americans. They're not Americans. And one of the things I bring up to you is: do you know this group of New Yorkers that got the Democratic nomination likely to float right in to Congress, as well as Chris Rabb over in Pennsylvania, the guy that won over in New Jersey that used to work with the blind shake? They're all going to these socialist conferences in Central and South America to denounce our policy of pushing for democracy in our hemisphere.

So, the success we made with Honduras, the success we made with El Salvador, with Bolivia, with Chile, with Argentina, with Colombia of late, and soon I think Brazil, keep your fingers crossed, all that bringing democracy and kicking out China and Russia, they're actually campaigning. Far and wide against us with the so-called, you know, they call it the Monroe Doctrine, they call it the Donro Doctrine. I know that doesn't get you elected with foreign policy. It should, it's part of its legacy, it makes us safer. But that's what they're campaigning against.

Can you believe it? Unelected congressmen going to socialist conferences in our own hemisphere, ripping our foreign policy. Totally irresponsible.

So here's more from Jared Mosco. It's who won as primary, and we'll be going. Against Scott Singer, the three-time mayor of Boca Raton, and this is considered by the Cook Report a true toss-up in Florida and the only one, cut seven. If you look at the amount of members that are coming to the House that are DSA, it's 5%. They're not the Democratic Party, but I think the Democratic Party needs to step up and speak out.

You know, Democrats are upset about what happened in the last election. They have every right and they're upset what happened over the last 18 months. But that doesn't mean we should start embracing things or a movement that in their platform says, you know, no prisons, no borders. Oh, we're going to get rid of the Senate, by the way. Just Article 1 of the Constitution got people going on the campaign trail saying, you know, the Soviet Union wished they won the Cold War, dressing up as Mao.

He only killed 50 million people. That is not how we're going to win the House. It's not how we're going to win the Senate. You talk about Hassan Piker, who was down there campaigning at the last minute for his opponents. They put something like $25 million into the campaign against his, and I think he won by 20, 30 points.

But Hassan Piker was leading the charge with his opponent, the one who. Uh you know It's just crazy, but the one that just when you think to yourself, never going to be successful in a red state. I know it's just Democrats, but Angie Nixon winning has got to be disconcerting. She's a total whack job. She's you have all this video of her crying and screaming over the Palestinian situation in Gaza.

I mean, as if that really resonates with people. Look, nobody wants to see innocent people killed, but any clear-thinking person knows that's not the goal of. That's not the goal of Israel, but it is the goal. Of the Palestinians. And actually and by the way, it is picked up too by Hamas, because that's their goal.

Because the more innocent people that are killed, the more pressure goes on. The more pressure goes on Israel.

So that's what's happening now. If you are a Democrat, you have to either make a strong stand. Or just say they're part of a big tent. Dave Jolly, a fake Democrat, ran as a Republican, just hates Trump, will be going against Byron Donalds. He quickly let everybody know: I am not a socialist.

Cut 13. This is state, Florida, that can elect you as governor, but also elect progressive Angie Nixon for the U.S. Senate at the same time. Look, I reject the DSA. I reject socialism.

I'm a capitalist. I think she and I have a very different approach to this. Look, I reject socialism. I'm a capitalist. We'll see how Florida's voters sort that out in November.

Yeah. Keem Jeffries came out and said, I'm not for Medicare for all. I'm not for an open border. I'm not for abolishing the Senate. But we're a big tent, we'll accept everybody.

That's not good. I wouldn't accept it. I wouldn't do it. You're just putting off a problem. Everybody says that this thing is going to be decided by five or six seats.

So if he becomes a speaker, it'll be a big celebration. When he tries to pass something that's not extremely left wing, he's going to fall flat on his face. And that'll be pretty quickly as he tries to push back against Trump. I'm sure they'll be on all his anti Trump stuff, but the other stuff won't be.

So why just kick him out? Why don't you fight him in the primary? And you know what I would do is everyone's so afraid of losing their position. Lose it I mean, this is a job that doesn't make you rich. It gives you power, but what's the sense having power and having to kowtow the socialists?

Kevin McCarthy knows what it's like to have heretics in your mist. He was Speaker, and then Matt Gates decided he wanted to make it personal on him, and he got kicked him out, CUT 19. They're missing many opportunities. If you want to fight socialism, the number one thing I would be doing if I was a speaker, every place I'd go, I'd be talking about the Trump accounts. I'd show everybody what their children are going to get, the S ⁇ P 500, how they're invested in McDonald's.

They're an owner of it, right? That's how you're going to defeat it in the long term. But also, you pass that.

So you can go into any neighborhood there is and you want to talk economics. That's going to be the best. Because this election is going to be about the economy. I agree. I agree.

I agree. And I'm going to do this. When I come back, I'll talk about it around, I promise. But Dasha Burns, who I think does a great job, was on Brett's panel last night. And I like when people can pull back, not be political and just say this is a problem.

I think they said it with the Tea Party, but I didn't have a problem with the Tea Party. Number one, I liked a lot of the people there. Even though some of them were inexperienced, it costs Republican seats. But they were just saying responsible things, spending less money on social programs, while Democrats were saying you don't like people, you want Granny to die, and you want to throw him off the cliff, and you don't want poor people to have health care. But they were just saying we got to be fiscally responsible.

And now that we have a $40 trillion debt, how smart to How smart to uh do those people look right now? How how smart do the Tea Party look? What they were saying was, we got to get control of this debt. Here's Dasha Burns cut 18. You have this division within the party about whether to say we're a big tent and everyone is welcome, including Democratic Socialists.

And then you have the flip side, which Jared Moskowitz, who won the 25th district, made very clear to Playbook last night. He said that, quote, Florida is known for hurricanes, he said, and the DSA is a disaster area in Florida. There's no federal reimbursement coming to help those people.

So Moskowitz is kind of going to war with the DSA faction of the Democratic Party, while there are some that are saying, let's welcome everybody in. Yeah, and that's what we talked about. All right, 1-866-408-7669. I'll try to fit in some calls. And then Michael Makovsky is going to be on, and he's going to tell me I'm wrong.

There's no reason to be optimistic, but I do. I think there's something really interesting going on in Gaza. Listen, I know it's probably tenth on your punch list, but you're talking about world history here, and to me it's worth discussing. Back in a moment. Real talk, real guests, real insight, where curiosity meets conversation.

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Over 500,000 new listings every month based on average new for sale and rental listings, February 2024 through January 2025. A radio show like no other is Brian Killmeade. Last night we had a lot of boats come through. We have possession, complete control of the strait. I mean outside of nuisance value, and there is nuisance value when they shoot a drone every once in a while.

And over the last couple of weeks, we've had a lot of oil coming in.

So they estimate, according to the Secretary of Energy, about 5 million barrels of oil got through yesterday, and they're getting things through. They show up their transponders and they escort them through. Does it cost the Navy money? Absolutely. But the reason why gas is high, but not through the roof astronomical, is because they're able to get, you know, we're able to make up for it on our production, which is off the charts, and our companies are profiting major league.

And I'm happy about that. I really am. Natural gas as well. We got to get more refineries. We had more refineries.

We have to even produce even more. We're the number one oil and gas producer in the world. If I told you that in the 70s, you would have said I was wrong, and it's not possible. But it was our innovations that brought up fracking. It was the wildcatting, fracking, the great risks, these people, these entrepreneurs who took the time, and we're benefiting from that now.

But the president's now in the in the patients mode.

So he's in the patience mode because they're doing all types of things economically. They are. Trump called on U.S. allies to support the effort to isolate Iran. He wants them to do it economically.

He wants punishing sanctions on non-Iranian banks that have Iranian money. Shipping firms, the insurers, he wants them to step up and deny the same thing to Iran: refiners, traders, and ports. Find them, find them, find them. If they're exporting and refining their oil and gas, they should know about it. Wall Street General notes that Trump did not identify concrete new actions against several sanctions, but that's what I think Beset is working on.

I think he'll make an announcement soon.

So I just asked AI, too, to just give me an idea of what they're writing and overseas about what the President's doing. Al Jazeera presented the announcement as an escalation after more than five months of deadlock conflict. Jerusalem Post highlighted the enforcement targets, which I just did. The BBC generally stresses the wide scope of the warning, and the Iranian state media Says it's no big deal. There is no such thing as economic D-Day.

What would they expect? But NBC News is reporting that Russia is supplying Iran with ammunition, drone components, and TNT via the Caspian Sea. We have to shut that down. And we got to either say it or just do it. What we have, on terms of defensive and interceptors, we got to get them to Ukraine and let them know that we know exactly what they're up to and they're going to pay the price, Russia, if they continue to do this.

The UAE has suspended all trade and commercial exchanges and financial transactions with Iran. What does that mean? UAE supplies 31% of Iran's imports, valued at $21 billion. They have cut it off. Thank you.

Somebody doing something besides us against Iran. That is indeed a relief. And I think Trump's showing patience. My feeling is, I have not changed at all. This will result.

And Doing more economic damage, yes, but we're going to have to go back to a war against him. And I think what American people want is a win, and I think he's going to give them that. Cut 26. I take that article at face value because I sense myself as we get closer to the midterms, and they do focus on what's happening in the United States like a laser beam, to be frank about it. They paid lots of attention to it because they fundamentally understand war is about a test of wills, and they want to weaken the administration in terms of the political support and resolve of the American people here.

So if they can demonstrate, as we get closer to the midterms, that the war isn't being managed properly because Iran is taking offensive action, then they believe, in their minds, there's a good chance that the Democrats will take control and maybe stop funding the war. Yeah. If they did that, uh funding the war I'm pretty sure if they stop funding the world, well, one thing they got to do, I can never imagine even this Democratic run house. Denying funds to us in battle. I know they said that happened during the Vietnam War, but that was after uh thirteen years and two administrations.

I can't imagine someone doing that. But we do need to get our spending on the military up to 1.5 trillion.

Now it's a lot of money, but the dollar to dollar, that's still just 5% of the GDP. Michael Makofsky next, Brian Kilmichio.

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It's Brian Kilmead. Iranians are running out of assets and options. You know, their economy before this all started was ranked either 23rd or 52nd, depending on the measure. But they're importantly both measures. They're behind Nigeria and Bangladesh.

And let's park on that a minute. Bangladesh, known for cyclones and mudslides, had a stronger economy than Iran did before all this started.

So what we're seeing is now that the recent period of ceasefire has ended, I think the Iranians are trying to continue to drag this out. They're wary of increased military consequences. They are struggling with the economic consequences. And so I think this is moving towards its end game. All right, that is Colonel Mike Jernigan.

And I do believe that's correct on America's reports yesterday. A really good guest was Brian Hours, Michael McCofsky, President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, the Ginza, a leading Washington, D.C. based policy and educational organization. Michael, your thoughts about the President looking for economic warfare over warfare?

Well, I think it's welcome. First of all, thank you very much for having me again, Brian. Look, I think it's great. It's something we should have been doing anyway. I give the President a lot of credit for focusing so much on it.

I think there are really two questions going forward, or maybe three. One is, does the President have the patience to maintain this pressure. Um what are the Iranians going to do in response? And I guess how long does this really take to have a serious impact on the regime? Because we hear the Russians are bypassing it and arming up.

Along with China arming up Oronigan, have you heard that? Yeah. Uh no, I hadn't, but uh it doesn't matter. Yeah, okay. Um, it wouldn't surprise me.

I guess the question I would have is: the Iranians are not going to just stand pat. I think there's been some very positive news. From our perspective on the economic side, one is what Yutra is talking about about and this economic D-Day. The other thing is this Axios report that was, I think, came out yesterday that suggests that maybe a lot more oil is coming out of the Persian Gulf, non-Iranian oil that we're facilitating, that maybe up to ten million barrels a day is coming out, which would be about half of what the pre-war amount was. If that number is true and consistent, that would obviously also be very encouraging, while almost no Iranian oil Is coming out.

So I think there's a number of positives on the economic side. The question is, you know, what impact that's going to have.

So let's talk about what's happening in the region of Israel. And that is that Gazi yesterday, Israel hit and took out a few of those Hamas commanders. And it was okay. What Jerry Kushner asked for is a little bit of room and said, you guys got permission to hit what you want to hit, but there's reason to believe that he thinks this thing is making us moving. And that the Hamas is about to give up their weaponry.

What would convince you that maybe they're on this track that I never thought we'd get to in the 15-point plan? Right. First of all, I mean, we even got to this point because President Trump's twenty point plan last year, which also let all the hostages the remaining hostages out and so on. I guess I think for Israel, from what I could tell, the issue will be. Uh okay, we're all for Hamas disarming, but they gotta disarm.

Before Israel wants to really withdraw much. And I think not just to some arsenal inside Gaza, but completely disarm. And I think that's one of the issues for the Israelis. I think the second issue for the Israelis is a political issue for Netanyahu, because he's being criticized. for being kind of weak.

And he's got an election coming up at the end of October, and he's got to be very careful. You know, that he doesn't look like he's making too many concessions. You really think that Netanyahu's perception is that he's weak? He's being criticized by opposition. I know it's hard to believe outside of Israel that he's perceived that way, but I think he's seen as making sometimes too many concessions To the United States, I think gets criticized inside Israel for that.

But I think aside from the politics, I think Israel has a legitimate concern, which is They have to fully disarm Hamas for Israel to then, I think, withdraw. From the areas of Gaza that they control. And I think that's a legitimate issue for the Israelis. Yeah, I guess so. Here's Dan Hoffman.

He feels like Iran doesn't really care about the About waiting, cut thirty. Iran is trying to drive up the cost for the United States. They feel like if they can impose significant costs on us, that they can withstand the costs we're imposing on them.

So that's what he went on to say. He doesn't think that they care about the economic sanctions. But I would love to see if there was some type of way to arm the Population so they could try to take back their country and the Iranians could feel pressure from the inside. I agree. I mean, there was one effort at the beginning of the war.

You know, to have Kurds from outside from Iraq to come into the country. And I think President Trump had my understanding is whether the plan was a good one or not, I don't know. Although I've talked to senior Israelis about it, and I've heard both sides. President Trump, my understanding, is initially agreed, but then President Erdogan, the Turkey president, told Trump, you know, he can't allow it or he might come in and get involved. And President Trump then withdrew the idea.

So that was one effort.

So I think the Israelis now are reconsidering. There's a new Mossad director. He's a very smart guy. They're re kind of rethinking what's the best way to help. Destabilize the regime from the inside, in addition to anything that the U.S.

or Israel is doing militarily.

Well, it's going to be interesting to see what happens. When are the elections in In Israel. It's October 27th, and you know, he's He and Netanyahu you know, they're in Israel they poll about a million times.

So you see different polls. There was one poll the other day that had actually Netanyahu up, but a number of polls have him kind of more down. And he's been in power a long time and there's a lot of fatigue, but it's not just about him. I think it's also about his coalition partners are rather generally unpopular in the country.

So I think that's another issue for you. Michael Makovsky, also, is it true that Israel had to give a warning to Turkey to stay out of Syria? And if you go continue on there, we're going to target you?

Well, yes, I think so. What we saw the other what we saw that Israel attacked these this airfield in northern Syria. It's not the first time they've done that, but it's been a while since they did do that. They've tried to they've made clear to the Turks they will not allow Uh any uh Turkish anti-aircraft Facilities or any further military presence, I think, in Syria. And it was a warning shot.

Now, Tom Barrick, our ambassador to Turkey. Who is very close who seems to echo Erdogan in the In Turkish rhetoric a lot, it was criticized Israel for this. But I think this has been a consistent view of the Israelis for a while now. They will not allow Turkey to get involved. We shouldn't forget they are a NATO ally.

But Erdogan generally support is a big supporter of Hamas, generally a supporter of Muslim Brotherhood groups in the Mid East in general, has talked about criti has talked about liberating Jerusalem. He's not the Ayatoll in Iran. But he does make the Israelis nervous. And as Iran has gotten weaker, the Turks' presence has gotten stronger, especially because the Shara, the new Shara government in Syria, is seen as very friendly with the Turks.

So the Israelis are wary of any more Turkish encroachment that gets any closer to their borders. All right. And in terms of interceptors, do you have any idea if Israel's okay with the ad stockpile? My understanding from the Israeli standpoint is they're fine, that they're ready, you know, if there's another. If there's a resumption of military activity, at least on the Israeli side, that they feel they have enough.

Michael Makofsky, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Great. Thank you.

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We're in wartime. The Commander-in-Chief Has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives. Our naval logistics are frayed. The global energy system is in crisis, and he retreats into this bubble.

Of West Wing aides who are his security blanket. To make him feel good about himself. John Ossoff, clearly running for president when he thinks he's got Mike Collins handled, when a very liberal guy in a red state should be vulnerable right now, but he wears tight shirts, combs his hair, and thinks he's a president material by going after and doing his Gavin Newsom impersonation. Brings up Natalie Harp, who's a longtime aide of President Trump for absolutely no reason, starts a controversy on her life. She's one of the fine person, hardworking, exactly what you would hope we're doing in government, getting some invaluable experience, proving herself for the last, I guess, six years with the President of the United States.

But Osoff brings her up. And just says that, well, the president goes to a security bike. And nobody gets more involved directly with all of his aides and their divisions than him. I was talking to. Um I was talking to Uh Doug Bergham.

And that not only does the President know exactly what's going on in the Department of Interior, he has follow ups with very specific questions. I was talking to Sean Duffy. I was doing an interview with Sean Duffy as they replaced the radar system and modernize Newark Airport. He says, I got three calls from the President over the last five days just on specifics when it comes to the radar and the expansion, as well as the sensors on the on the tarmac. That's not a guy that's retreating into a bubble.

That's a guy that's constantly out of the bubble.

Now, I don't really need to know that the president's got a new helipad, but he's proud of doing that, and that's a. You know, he wants to make his legacy felt over in the White House. But that's him. He's different. He's the one who got elected.

I didn't. But the way the media treating John Osoff, because it goes after Trump, you have to understand something. If Trump was running again, I could see it.

Well, I see myself as a president. I got to take on Trump. I want people to imagine me fighting Trump on the stage, so I'm going to do this. And everyone rallying around him. Cut listen to the listen to CNN, cut twenty-two.

A rising Democratic star is getting under MAGA's skin after picking a fight with President Trump over one of his closest aides. Make no mistake, by this this bizarre overreaction, they're actually Giving John Osoff exactly what he wants, and that is more publicity. I'm not going to get into what Osoff insinuated about her. That goes beyond our reporting. But it is certainly legitimate to ask about staff in the White House.

Really? You just staff and just rip people in the White House? You don't have enough people who are actually running for elective office to do that? I find it ridiculous. By the way, where did it get Gavin Newsome?

It got him a short bump, got him in recognition, but in almost every poll, and I know it's ridiculously early, he's fourth or fifth. It didn't really help them. You go after Trump. The thing is, it brings up your problem with your record. John Osov is an extreme liberal.

That's going to get more and more people saying, instead of saying George is too hard to win, Because Osov is better than Michael Collins right now. It would have been great if. If the governor decided to run, it would have been fantastic, but he didn't. He would have probably beat him, but he didn't want to.

So Michael Collins, I think the President should take this. Don't go back after Osoff directly. Go after Osoff's record. Bring up what a liberally is: make this guy extremely nervous. No, Kat Timf had an interesting take.

Yeah. The average person doesn't understand this when they hear that, right? But I think that's exactly why he did it almost because he didn't want people to talk about it. He wanted the media to talk about it. And to get this comment, you need minimum seven hours of screen time a day.

I understood it. I got too much screen time. We all kind of need to have a lot of screen time for the job that we do. You have to be so online to be like, Natalie, I know who that is. But the media, there's nothing that we love more to be like, I got it.

Did you? You know, like, well, I know why that was so because I know who Natalie is. Do you? And he knew that the people he wanted to talk about it would talk about it because we know who Natalie is. And we have to tell everybody who Natalie is in case you didn't know who she is.

Maybe you didn't get why that was. It was kind of like the perfect setup because he didn't just want, he didn't want people to talk about it. He wanted us to talk about it. He wanted the media to talk about it. And like, what?

So, yeah, I mean, he is. I just said if you want to go after Trump, you go after Trump. But now you bring up, it's all about Natalie Harp. And I thought Jensaki went back out. Maybe we'll pull that later on.

Jensaki had him on. He thought he was going to have an Asian interview.

So did I. But I watched the clip. She asked him three times. Why'd you bring her up? What are you insinuating?

Because I think she has an empathy for a woman trying to make it in any White House. And then just because he happens to be attractive, people say negative things about him. there's a lot of attractive people that are working in the Trump White House. There's a lot of attractive people working in the Trump organization, and they work extremely hard. I mean, Hope Hicks was one that did extremely well.

Margo, Uh Martin does extremely well. And then you have Natalie Harp does extremely well. They perform. They do great things. They perform well under pressure.

So There's some things that happen. The other thing is, Senator Darlene Graham is next week, we'll find out if she's got to be the Republican nominee to replace her brother. The problem is, he really has no experience on foreign policy. She'd probably be a great legislator. There's a huge ramp-up time, but she's got to win two elections.

She's got to beat Ralph Norman, and then she's got to beat the Democrat, cut 24. She was asked at a debate. about Taiwan that tripped up AOC, remember, and she's been in Congress for eight years, about will we defend them, what's our policy there, CUD twenty four. I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not on national security.

I'm not that informed on national security.

So But I do support the military. My brother was in the Air Force for 33 years, so I will do everything I can to support the military. My dad was in the Army. I'm not a polished politician up here. National security is not my thing, not my area of expertise.

Yeah. You'll rarely hear an answer like that for someone who's got a 50-50 chance of being at least maybe better of being next center. You can't say the economy is not my thing, it'll destroy you. You can't say national security is not my thing, it'll destroy you. You could just say in these areas, this is what I believe in these areas, and I'm going to be having my lead foreign policy.

Person will be My brother's foreign policy person. But there's about five areas in the world you should know about. You know, Ukraine. Middle East And China. And then who controls China?

You can pick that up. To her credit, she's had three weeks. Three weeks to get ready for this. And the first week, while burying her brother, In two separate ceremonies, probably countless more I didn't even know about, let alone all the time she entertained people at her house who wanted to come in from around the country and around the world. But that's a devastating answer.

And if Ralph Norman's got to be delicate about it, but he's got to bring that up. Because Lindsey Graham was well known and liked, but a lot of people were unhappy with the fact that he was spending so much time on national security issues. A lot of people didn't like the fact that he spent so much time with John McCain.

Some people didn't like the fact that he brawled a little bit with Donald Trump.

So that's why he had to go out of his way to make sure he wasn't primaried, and then he'd go and coast through the general, except Jamie Harrison gave him a little bit of a scare, but not much.

So we'll see if people understand.

Now, I'm sure in about a year, if she gets this job, she'll have an answer on every major national security issue. But she wants to do pocketbook issues. All right. Thanks so much for listening. Go to BrianKillMe.com.

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A very busy Thursday as we make our way through a busy week. Josh Crashauer at the bottom of the R Mark Tson standing by. Just a reminder, we got this great YouTube channel. Everybody's talking about it. YouTube.com slash at the Brian Killmeat Show.

When you get the clips, you get the whole show and other things that I have going on. It's my own channel. It might end up eventually being the number one channel. You don't want to be last. We have a lot going on today.

Before we get to Mark, let's get to the big three. Number three. They called yesterday and they gave us the points that we had a half. Very fair deal for both. But our farmers are going to be thrilled.

Our manufacturers are going to be thrilled. And uh basically we have no tariffs going into Canada anymore. That is great news. Bearing the hatchet, I hope. Could our frenemy, Canada, finally understand we need to balance our trade with that country and do a deal?

Indications are the answer is yes. They are actually drawing things up now. They say when you work in on the text, it's almost done. Simultaneously, modernizing the UFS MCA, this will help the economy right away. Number 10, the Iranians are running out of assets and options.

I think the Iranians are trying to continue to drag this out. They're wary of increased military consequences. They are struggling with the economic consequences. That is true. That is the Colonel Mike Jernigan on America Reports.

Hurry up and wait. President, let's Treasury do the fighting for now versus Iran as massive sanctions spread the pain and the UAE weighs in hard in a good way as more and more oil comes through the strait our way. Number one. If you look at the amount of members that are coming to the House that are DSA, it's 5%. They're not the Democratic Party.

I think the Democratic Party needs to step up and speak out. That is not how we're going to win the House. It's not how we're going to win the Senate. Jared Moskowitz with me today on Fox and Friends. The DSA not okay with the Dems, even if they are not spending big money.

Leadership endorsements are not stopping the movement, which is now fighting Trump's foreign policy while saluting Communist Castro. We'll see what it means in November. And what I'm talking about now is, you know. Jayapel. Congresswoman Jayapao actually wrote a letter to Marco Rubio saying we're destabilizing Central and South America.

Really? By bringing democracy and getting rid of strongmen who, with the huge presence of Russia and China in our hemisphere, Ripping the Donroad Doctrine. I mean, this is one of the great things that are going to end up in Donald Trump's column when the Turks talks about successful presidencies. Let's bring in Mark Thiessen with that. Mark, you kind of surprised that we got a bunch of DSA candidates going down to a socialist meeting in Central America to represent America and apologize for Donald Trump's foreign policy?

Well, that's what socialists do. They've I mean the socialist communists have been trying to take over Central America for years.

Now they're trying to take over North America, which is what we're seeing. What I just don't understand is So, if you look at the Republican Party and the Democratic Party and how they've handled this problem of radical anti-Semites and all the rest of it, Donald Trump kicked Marjorie Taylor Greene out of Congress. He defeated Tom Massey. We're like clearing the brush out with all the lunatics in our party. They're like doubling their size.

They're doubling down on socialism. If the Democrats take over the House, This fall, the margin of victory will be these the these new squad members. And that means they're going to be in charge. If you look at how much trouble Matt Gates gave Donald Trump in his first years in office, how much trouble he gave Speaker Johnson, can you imagine what the coalition of Ilhan Omar in the House and Angie Nixon and El Saeed in the Senate will do to the Democratic Party? It'll be just drive them further and further left.

They're going to Uruguay, Jay Apowell, Congressman Greg Cesar of Texas. You also have going down there, David, excuse me, Chris Rabb of Pennsylvania, Adam Hamowi, who is friends with The Blind Shake over in New Jersey, Dallariza Avilia Chevalier over in New York, and Claire Valdez in New York. She will be the next, she's an assembly member, will be the next congresswoman for the 7th District. I've never seen anything like this. They're going to counter Trump's democracy message overseas.

It's insane. Absolutely. And, you know, I'm surprised they're not going to Cuba. That's where their real leaders are. Jason Piper was just there.

Of course he was. You know, Hassan Piker. This is the other thing that drives me crazy is that all these Democrats, you know, I love Jarrett Moskowitz and I think it's great that he's pushing back on this movement, but he's a model for his party. Nobody's following him in the mainstream of the Democratic Party. Hassan Piker is the left-wing equivalent of Nick Fuentes.

Right? You know, anti-Semite, loves Stalin, loves Mao, thinks the Soviet Union's collapse was a disaster. Can you imagine if any Republican were campaigning with Nick Fuentes openly? It would be awful what the reaction would be to that. But Hassan Piker, oh, you know what?

We have to, you know, it's it's an interesting story and blah, blah, blah. But there's no condemnations of these people from their own party. It the it's just it's it the they they have this is the problem with sort of the communist. Anti-Semitic movement on the left and the right. On the right, the anti-Semites are a fringe movement that have been kept out of the tent.

In the Democratic Party, they are mainstream. They are part of the establishment. You don't see neo-Nazi rallies at Harvard. You see, you know, pro-Hamas rallies and Islamic radical rallies in these places. And so they welcome them into their party.

We kick out Tom Massey. They promote Ilhan Omar to chairman of this subcommittee in the House and Foreign Affairs Committee.

So they're not policing their movement.

So I saw. One of the anchors, female anchors on CNN, push back on Medicare for all, what it means, and push back on what it means by defunding ICE or defund ICE, what it means, you know, what does that mean, no immigration enforcement at all, and get a little aggressive. Finally, as the DSA celebrates the 100th birthday of Fidel Castro and his impact. A former CNN anchor whose family fled Cuba. Had enough.

Let's listen. My grandfather found that revolution hoping to bring democracy to Cuba. And then what happened? Phil Decastro locked my grandfather up. How do you think that lands with people who suffered under that dictatorship, who now you are trying to court as voters?

We're seeing many people in the United States who are. who are seeing who are struggling under massive inequality in the United States. We want to expand democracy everywhere in the United States, in Cuba and everywhere else. No, you don't. Because there's a plan to suffocate Cuba and bring democracy there.

If an El Costo does not deserve a salute from any American, even CNN can't stomach this.

So Fidel Castro during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Castigated Khrushchev for not firing ICBMs at the United States and starting a nuclear war. This is a guy who literally wanted to fire nuclear weapons at the United States. He was a murderous tyrant. His brother is a murderous tyrant, and his successors are murderous tyrants.

And anybody who doesn't have the moral clarity to see that, Has no business serving in any position of authority in the United States. It's just that simple. If you can't understand that Fidel Castro is the epitome of evil and that the Castro regime and its remnants need to go, then you don't have the moral clarity to be an elected official in America. No, I 100% agree.

So I asked Congressman Mosquito Bita, a raging socialist who he believes hates the country. Uh if his party should be speaking out, cut seven. If you look at the amount of members that are coming to the House that are DSA, it's 5%. They're not the Democratic Party, but I think the Democratic Party needs to step up and speak out. You know, Democrats are upset about what happened in the last election.

They have every right and they're upset what happened over the last 18 months. But that doesn't mean we should start embracing things or a movement that in their platform says, you know, no prisons, no borders. Oh, we're going to get rid of the Senate, by the way. Just Article 1 of the Constitution got people going on the campaign trail saying, you know, the Soviet Union wished they won the Cold War, dressing up as Mao. He only killed 50 million people.

That is not how we're going to win the House. It's not how we're going to win the Senate. You think?

So let's see. The congressman's in a cook report says he's in a toss-up district. And why do you think so many Democrats are now coming on our channel talking about this? Because they're terrified of what's happening to their party. But again, keep in mind, God bless Jared Moskowitz for standing up to these people, but they're not a minority within the Democratic Party because they're only a click away from where the mainstream of the Democratic Party is.

So the DSA platform says get rid of all borders, right? What did Joe Biden do for four years? I mean, he opened the border and let millions of people. What's the difference between having a border on paper, but not enforcing it and getting rid of the border? None.

The DSA wants to get rid of the Senate. All these mainstream Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster, which would eliminate the Senate as we know it and turn it into a rubber stamp for the House, where they say they can pass all their radical ideas by 50 votes. The DSA wants to get rid of the Supreme Court.

Well, these people want to pack the Supreme Court, the mainstream Democrats. They want to pack the Supreme Court and add justices so that they can rubber stamp their term limits, their radical agenda. There's not that much difference between the Democratic Party and the DSA. It's just the DSA is much more open about what their objectives are. And the problem is that the Democrats have been passing.

to the left in order to appease their left-wing base. And the DSA basically doesn't want to be appeased. They want power.

So they're openly going after a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. But the Democratic Party mainstream isn't that. far off from where the DSA is in reality. Yeah, I know what you're saying. I think it's an important dissemination just if because if you're going to add two states, if you're going to get rid of the filibuster, you're going to pack the court.

That is going to be a dramatic change to our country. Get rid of the Electoral College.

So, Mark, let's go and talk about Iran. The President's got a new approach when it comes to Iran, and here it is. It's going to be all about the economy, COT 25. Last night we had a lot of boats come through. We have possession, complete control of the strait.

I mean outside of nuisance value, and there is nuisance value when they shoot a drone every once in a while. And over the last couple of weeks, we've had a lot of oil coming in.

So I'm all in favor of everything he's doing to tighten the screws economically on them. I'm glad the blockade is in place. I'm glad that he is quietly opening the Strait of Hormuz. I think they've had something on the order of 1,000 ships that have gone through there.

So this is all important and real. The problem I'm worried about, Brian, is that right now he's sort of looking at the Iranians and saying, well, all they can do is nuisance attacks. I'm worried about an Iranian October surprise. I think the Iranians understand that he's willing to tighten the screws economically, but they've looked and they've seen several times where he's pulled back from resuming major combat, and they're emboldened by that. And I think they are looking at the elections and they are thinking, well, we can attack Gulf Oil right before the vote.

We can attack U. S. bases and try and kill Americans right before the vote. We can carry out a terrorist attack right before the vote and create chaos. And the reason is, is because we stopped at the 20 yard line uh in Operation Epic Fury and didn't finish uh taking away their mil their capabilities.

And so I think that it's possible it won't happen, but I wouldn't be shocked if it did. And we will regret not having finished the job militarily if it happens. I do believe that Wall Street Journal's story seems to be right on the money over the weekend that said that they want to gradually escalate, escalate, escalate the closer we get to the midterm election because they don't think the president has the appetite to hit back. And they are escalating. They got the Houthis involved now.

They just hit UAE. We're hitting Bahrain when they can. They're also looking to foment some unrest with their Shia population in all those countries, too. Yep, no, 100%. And look, but again, they could be husbanding their resources for a major attack right before the midterms, which would bring the war.

It could raise gas prices right before people go to the polls. It could create the impression of chaos that we were surprised by it. You're always much better. Uh taking care of this pro if we if we were to if we had done this in August. Finished the j is launched the strikes that he was planning, finished the job.

This could have all been over. We could have declared victory at the end of this month. And continued with the blockade, continued with everything he's doing, but disarmed them of the ability to carry out a strike like the one that I worry they might carry out in the middle. I do too, because we do now have rearmed to a degree, and we got what we necessarily need. I just worry that leaving our guys out there not doing anything for the next two months while they could be sitting ducks.

Uh if because they look to hit our bases, right? Yeah. Or, you know, so one of the reasons why we've been hesitant, he keeps saying I don't want to be Herbert Hoover, because what they're worried about is if we attack Iran, Iran will retaliate and attack Gulf oil infrastructure, right? And that'll raise the price, that'll take out 30, 40% of the world's oil and cause a global depression. What's to say they can't do that without us attacking?

If we're worried about them doing it as a retaliatory measure when we're hitting them, how much more easily could they do it if we don't hit them? And they could do that right before the election. and cause absolute global chaos. And it's one of the things about that Wall Street Journal story says that they think we're going to attack them anyway, just after the midterms.

Well, then why would they not preempt us by attacking before the midterms when they can do political damage to us and start the war on their terms? We should attack at a time of our choosing, not at a time of their choosing. And right now, by leaving this unfinished, we're leaving them in the driver's seat. I think there's an excellent chance we have some type of shot at them before Labor Day. I certainly hope so.

Not that anybody wants war. I just want it to end. The right way. Thanks so much, Mark Thiessen. Appreciate it.

Read him in the Washington Post. See him all over the channel. Thanks, Mark. Thanks. You got it.

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They're moving into our country. Honda just announced, Toyota just announced, they're moving their operations from Mexico, from Canada, from other places. By the way, we probably have a deal with Canada. You probably saw that. Very major tariffs were going on to Canada today.

We delayed it for three days because I think we have a deal with the Prime Minister and good deal for everybody.

So that's good. Which I think is going to be great. I think the fact that they delayed three days and working on the text, I'm optimistic. Simultaneously, the USMCA is taking shape to be modernized. That's going to help the economy.

Brian, over in Clarion, Pennsylvania. Hey, Brian. Hey, thanks for taking my call. We love your show. You know, my husband and I support Israel and President Trump, and I'm so sick of this Iran deal.

I'm 63. They've been terrorizing the world for most of my life. And I think President Trump should evacuate Tyran, give them two or three weeks, and then we should use our limited nuclear arsenal on them. Yes, I know. Drop the bomb on them.

They want a nuclear weapon. Let's give them one and end it. I know it's shocking, but that's how I feel. Yeah, the thing is, Brian, I think the after effects of the surrounding countries and what it means for the world, I don't think we need to do that. But I appreciate your frustration.

John in South Carolina. Hey, John.

South Carolina. Hit brain, how's it going? We'll turn your mind.

So this never gets talked about. Trump sits there and says, hey, let's, you know, maybe it's going to be power plant day, maybe it's going to be bridge day. Instead of taking out entire power plants because it's, you know, quote unquote decades worth of damage for the country, why aren't we just taking out like. massive amounts of like high tension lines like I would love that. And I'm not against the bridges.

You just prove it has a military component to it, take it out, make them feel it. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I think the Democratic leadership needs to speak out against the DSA agenda.

Okay, again, no Senate. We're just going to get rid of the Senate. You know, no prisons, no borders. You know, this idea of embracing a Fidel Castro. I think the Democratic leadership needs to speak out against it because, yes, you know, primary stuff is we're in the general election now.

And this is not what general election voters want. But I will tell you, there is an economic populist movement to the DSA, and we got to recognize that we got to talk about how people are struggling to afford the American way of life. And by the way, everything that they have offered does not make anyone's life better. It pretends to level things out. But it's not even interesting.

It's not even something worth exploring economically. It's already been an epic fit. Fail, but it is spreading. They had more, another victory, a Democratic nominee for Senate going again to Ashley Moody, a socialist who spent less than a million dollars, outspent by, I think, six to one. Josh Krashauer joins us now, Fox News Radio political analyst, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Insider.

Josh, you heard Jared Moskowitz, who had no problem winning, but they were running hard against him in a very anti-Semitic. uh a pro-socialist way. Yeah, Brian. I mean, he also said in that same interview that he was one of the. Leaders fighting against Trump's cabinet nominees.

He held hearings against Pam Bandi. He has been an outspoken leader in the Democratic caucus against Trump.

So, this is not an issue about Trump, partisanship, even like most policy issues. It's about Israel and anti-Semitism. And the guy who he was running against, even in a pretty Jewish district, in actually one of the most Jewish districts in the country, was running virulently anti-Israel and palling around with anti-Semitic surrogates in the final days of the campaign. And that's what Moscow had said. This is when you isolate what these challenges are really about, it's candidly about anti-Semitism, you know, the tolerance of anti-Semitism and a hatred of Israel.

And it's pretty dessert. I mean, you never would have thought the Democratic Party, which has been home to most American Jews politically throughout many, many generations, that that would ever happen. But that's what we're seeing. We point to all the races in New York from Mamdani on. What is the common denominator in so many of these races?

It's about Israel. And about a tolerance of anti-Semitism. Yeah, no doubt about it. Angie Nixon actually beat Alexander Vindman, even though Chuck Schumer was all for Vindman, and he had so much more money. Listen to some of her past comments about Israel, cut five.

Many of my colleagues have stated that folks are fearful of another massacre occurring to the Jewish people.

Well, guess what? A massacre is occurring now. My love for people is being questioned because I want to stand against the unjust killings of innocent people. They wanted to. um, call all Palestinians, uh, you know, anti Semites.

I am upset that the hostages got taken and everything, but I am also upset that we are continually seeing people lose their lives.

So this is an unhinged woman who's done nothing to research this. She's losing on anecdotal information. Anyone who went over there knows it wasn't genocide. It's called retaliation, where a kid they dropped flyers To let people know to evacuate buildings because we're going to be bombing something there because they built a lot of their industrial complexes under schools and under hospitals. Good luck winning Florida with that message in a state with a leans to the right, obviously, and also has one of the largest Jewish populations in the entire country, which is, and it has a Jewish population that is much more moderate and even Republican than in a state like New York.

So that is a message. Democrats are already privately, I've talked to some top Democratic strategists that thought Florida may have had an outside chance with Vineman and a more moderate candidate in that race, but that race is not going to be invested in. They've written off that Senate race totally.

So I mean, as much attention as, and she's obviously bad for the rest of the party because her quotes and her lines are going to be used against other Democrats also running in pretty tough districts or states for the Senate.

So, you know, this is a nightmare all around.

Now, it's interesting. In the races that mattered a little more, like the Moskowitz race, the Debbie Wasserman-Schultz race, you know, Florida is a much more moderate Democratic electorate, at least we thought it was, at least in some. Of these districts than in other states.

So there's still a moderate DNA, and there's a lot of Jewish voters in a lot of those South Florida districts that they held off these anti-Israel and socialist candidates. But boy, the fact that it's spread to the Senate race in Florida, the fact that we're seeing a nominee in Michigan who is well to the left and as extreme on Israel and anti-Semitism as I've seen in any modern Senate nominee in my lifetime in El Syed. I mean, that is the kind of mood of where the party is and the DSA. It shows how much influence they're having right now in the overall Democratic nomination process. I mean, if you think about it, Troy Jackson's pretending not to be a socialist, but everything else points to what he believes in as he is a grand platinum clone without the tattoo we assume, but marries his cousin, an interesting thing to do.

And then if you're not the Franklin Roosevelt, But on the other side, you have El Saeed who says he's not a socialist, but everything else is ridiculous. He should know better when he talks about Medicare for all. He should know better when he talks about freezing rent. But he has a long past too, that his past tapes are going to be hard for him to outrun. I want you to hear more from the DSA.

They believe it's time to salute one of their idols, Fidel Castro. Ashik Sadiq was questioned on that as co-chair of the DSA, Cut9. My grandfather found that revolution hoping to bring democracy to Cuba. And then what happened? Fidel Castro locked my grandfather up.

How do you think that lands with people who suffered under that dictatorship, who now you are trying to court as voters? We're seeing many people in the United States who are. Who are struggling under massive inequality in the United States?

So, putting out a statement about Fidel Castro courts those people. We want to expand democracy everywhere in the United States, in Cuba, and everywhere else.

So Cuba, is there anything besides anti-Semitism that's not going to resonate in Florida? Probably pro-Cuba stance, pro-Fidel Castro stance. Those are probably two detrimental things, wouldn't you think?

Well, absolutely. And it was, I mean, Moswitz also said that in his interview last night, that there's a lot of Cuban Americans in his district that will not even listen to these candidates because of their affiliation with this pro-Castro organization.

So, I mean, look, you have someone like El Syed, who going back to Michigan, he's someone who was affiliated with the Bernie Sanders movement when he first ran for statewide office in 2018. He spoke out in favor of defunding the police on podcasts and several interviews that have been on tape and have been circulating. And certainly it's a position he's switched on, but he's going to have to defend why he believed that in the first place. And then you have the anti-Semitism and the views on Israel that have been well outside the mainstream and is costing him with Democrats, Jewish Democrats in particular, in a big Senate race that Democrats need to win to win back the Senate majority.

So, I mean, this is the bundle that these candidates are embracing when they lock hands with the DSA and they accept their involvement inside the tent. And Democrats want to say, well, we're a big tent and we have moderates and we have.

Socialists, but when you tolerate and even indulge these extreme positions, it's going to have significant political downball and consequences on the more moderate and the more mainstream parts of your coalition. And it's a reason why you have a party in the first place. You can say what we believe in, what we don't believe in. And the fact that they're tolerating these extreme views and saying it's part of the big tent just tells you how radical and how extreme the movement has gotten.

So, I want you to hear what Senator John Ossov had an interesting thing to say about Donald Trump. He thought that he would just bring up one of his assistants, Natalie. And that has been the number one story. What are you talking about? The average person doesn't know who she is.

If we have to deal with the White House, you know who she is. You know, I was a dedicated assistant, unbelievable, 24 hours.

So John Ossoff thought he'd bring it up and tries to justify it, cut 20. We're in wartime. The Commander in Chief Has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives. Our naval logistics are frayed.

The global energy system is in crisis, and he retreats into this bubble. Of West Wing aides who are his security blanket. to make him feel good about himself.

So the West Wing 8, he's talking about Natalie Harp. He's trying to justify saying, what do you think he's up to with that?

Well, you know, increasingly in our kind of media ecosystem, saying something crazy or going going Going low gets you the attention you need. And we all know that John Ossoff not only is running in a big race for the Senate for his reelection, but also is a possible rumored about presidential candidate for 2028.

So the more you kind of portray yourself in a more extreme fashion, the more attention you get in the Democratic ecosystem, in the media ecosystem. I thought it was notable, though, that the mention of Natalie Harp did go too far by, according to a lot of Democrats who've been favoring the Osoff message and have boosted his candidacy, boosted his possible presidential candidacy. But even David Axelrod last night said, boy, I like John Ossoff and I've been a supporter of his. This was not the right message to send.

So there is a big backlash that I don't want to say a big backlash, but there are Democrats that understand this is not good for Osoff's political career to be seen as a kind of a purveyor of that kind of in the dirt politics. And look, the Democrats are used to move. What did Michelle Obama say? When they go low, we go. High.

Well, the new mantra of the Democratic Party is when they go low, we go even lower. And that's what Asaf was basically. But it was unprovoked. I mean, the president wasn't even bringing up Asaf. He uh, it would, it seemed, just come out of left field.

But if you could look at Gavin Newsom, there was appealing that he was making some progress. But Gavin Newsom fighting against Trump, who he's not going to be running against, has got minimum impact. It gets you some news, and maybe some people on the left, like and Robert De Niro, might feel good about it. But what about your. What about your career?

If you want to know exactly what What Axarod said. He says He came out and actually said. Hmm, where is it? He said, Axelrod's key assessment: they juiced the virality of, I'm sure, probably thrilled some of his base who figured out was just giving Trump a taste of his own medicine. But they distracted and detracted from the power of his message, which was saying that Trump was spending too much time working on the White House and not enough time working for the American people.

So it was a takedown, everyone high five, saying with Natalie, hanging out with Natalie, we're a security blanket. And people talk about it, but they're not really talking about it in the right way, especially because Asoff is in a red state. And he's got a liberal voting record, and he's up by five to ten points. Why would he not focus on his race?

Well, I think he thinks he's got the race in the bag, which is always foolish to do. Look at someone like Vinman in Florida. When you think you have the race locked up, you often can get surprised. But I think he feels comfortable enough in the reelection and is buying into the headlines and the scuttlebutt that he could be a serious presidential candidate.

Now, I think Osoff is much more comfortable doing these set pieces where he has a pre-scripted attack line that plays well on social media. But I haven't seen him do many interviews. I don't know where he stands on a whole lot of issues. He's sort of an un and he, you know, this is someone who was sort of the afterthought when he first ran for the Senate. It was Warnock that was the star, and Osoff was the second fiddle and barely won that first Senate election.

And now he's trying to find ways to get national attention, and this is a cheap way of doing it. I think that once the bright lights shine on John Osoff more, and if he does decide to run for president, he's not going to get this kind of pass. And he's already feeling. Heat because he made a pretty dumb, ill-advised attack on Trump that's now backfiring on him. I just, yeah, some say he's getting gains because people are talking about him, but I agree with you.

Josh, what about Hamas and Israel? Are you starting to think that there might be something unique about this situation? That maybe there's something they're doing. I mean, it requires us to the U.S. to take Hamas at its word that they're going to demilitarize.

And the debate has always been who goes first, right? That Hamas demilitarize and do what they need to do first before Israel withdraws its troops from the Yellow Zone, the part of the territory in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has not shown any indication that they're willing to lay down their arms and actually give up power.

So as long as that's the case, Israel's going to rightly view them as a national security threat to their own country, and they're going to need to respond accordingly. Yes, it looks like there's four hundred miles worth of tunnels that got to be destroyed too, some of which have been destroyed and some we don't even know where they go to. But I did find out that there's legitimate progress on an international force to go in there.

So I said, okay, we're not moving unless there's something internationally happening. And well, IDF would move if someone else came in and there was a public display of giving up the weapons.

Now, would it all, but would it be a lot or would it be all? There's always going to be a question on that. But This shows progress on a peace plan. That all sides do not want to tick off the President. President had Jared Kushner talk to Hamas.

You know, he's in constant contact with the IDF and you know the surrounding neighbors where they stand. Yeah, look, I think there may be some small progress made. One thing that I've Seen on the Israeli side is that there's an orange zone and a yellow zone. And so Israel's withdrawn, I think, or hasn't used military action in a small slice of disputed land in the Gaza Strip that Israel was managing not that long ago. But look, the fundamental challenge is Hamas is still in control of a good slice of Gaza, and there's a U.S.-recognized terrorist group.

And until they're gone, it's hard to see any real progress being made, even though, yes, you're right, there's small steps that have been achieved. All right, Josh. Thanks so much. Josh Crash Hauer, appreciate you weighing in. We come back.

We'll open up the phones, 1-866-408-7669 and read some of your email. Brian Kilmee Chow. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Killmeat. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Is your goal in trying to re-engage with Chairman Kim still denuclearization? And what makes you think you could be successful now when you work with the...

Well, I don't want to talk about that, but I do have a good relationship with Kim Jong-un, as you know, you've seen. He didn't like Biden, he didn't like... Obama, he didn't like anybody, but he likes me and I like I you know, I just got along with him very good. We had we had great meetings, we speak, uh and I think uh our nation and I think other nations, frankly, whether it's Japan or South Korea, they're a lot safer if I'm President if somebody else is President. I agree.

No doubt about it, but it doesn't help on midterm elections. For some reason, foreign policy never scores. Just ask George H.W. Bush that. He didn't get four more years and he didn't do well in the midterms.

But that's what he's talking about, and no doubt about it. North Korea, South Korea is interesting because North Korea said, okay, yep, got great memories of President Trump, Kim Jong-un, but we have no interest in talking about a nuclear program, and we don't really care that you scaled back the South Korean military exercises. All right. I don't know why we keep doing it. We need to keep doing those exercises, sending the message, using Japan, Philippines.

And South Korea to let China know something happens with Taiwan, we're going to help Taiwan. And it's going to be significant. Nicholas in New Jersey. Hey, Nicholas. Ha ha ha ha.

Hi, Brian. Two points real quick. One is I've been a Republican my own life. And I really I've voted for Trump all three times, but I really can't support him if he refuses to lose the war. I mean, he's losing the war.

He's not winning the war. And Republicans, in my opinion, have their own extremists. Why are they not supporting John Cornyn in Texas? He's a perfectly fine Republican. I was for it too, but they thought that Paxson was more MAGA.

Right, that's the problem. We have to realize that we have our own extremists. We're calling out the Democrats for the Democratic Socialists, but these guys like Paxton are extreme on the right. And that's why Citarelli lost in New Jersey because he didn't distance himself from Trump. Thank you.

I'll listen to your opinion, but that's not. Yeah, I think New Jersey is a lot different than Texas. I think if Ken Paxton loses because he's lazy, he's not raising money, he's got to be everywhere. And number two is he's got personal issues. And if the people of Texas don't want somebody with uh with a messy divorce, And other things, they're not going to vote for him, but they keep voting for him, Attorney General.

They fend off some really good people to keep that spot, including George P. Bush.

So, if he's that popular, he's got to win, but he has got to learn to work. Remember, Ted Cruz won by 2.5% of the vote, and he worked 24 hours a day. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Killmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brian Killmeat Show right in Midtown Manhattan, here around the country, around the world, where I'm continuing to pursue this story. Why am I the only one in a suit in Midtown? I really believe. I'm walking back, I walk to Penn Station often, or I'm going to Grand Central often, and I'm really starting to look around now. I mean, I'm literally walking down Madison Avenue.

I don't see anybody in suits. I there's people. I gotta walk in the streets, there's so many people, but nobody's working. Or In a in a white collar job. And it's a little concerning because New York City is supposed to be the financial center of the world.

And I'm walking to the J.P. Morgan building, which is the finest building I've ever seen. If I can get people in a suit there, are they even wearing them at all? Doug Schoen's going to be with me shortly. And the great Gary Sinees, actor, founder, and president of chairman of the Gary Sinee Foundation, is also going to be here with the big announcement.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. They called yesterday and they gave us the points that we had to have. Very fair deal for both. But our farmers are going to be thrilled, our manufacturers are going to be thrilled.

And uh basically we have no tariffs going into Canada anywhere.

So that is President Trump bearing the hatchet. Could our frenemy, Canada, finally understand we need a balanced trade of relationship? Indications are the answer is yes. We will see what it means for big and small business. Number 10.

The Iranians are running out of assets and options. I think the Iranians are trying to continue to drag this out. They're wary of increased military consequences. They are struggling with the economic consequences. Yep, there you go.

That is Colonel Mike Jerrigan. Hurry up and wait. President, let the Treasury do the fighting versus run as massive sanctions spread the pain and UAE weighs in and comes on our side hard. Number one. If you look at the amount of members that are coming to the House that are DSA, it's 5%.

They're not the Democratic Party. I think the Democratic Party needs to step up and speak out. That is not how we're going to win the House. It's not how we're going to win the Senate. Jared Moskowitz is singing my song today when he came to Fox and Friends.

DSA not okay with the Dems. Even if they are not spending big money, leadership endorsements are not stopping this movement, which is now fighting Donald Trump's foreign policy while saluting communist Castro. We see what it means for November. Doug Shoan, you join us now, former Clinton advisor, a very logical, moderate Democrat who wishes there were more like him, as do I, running for office and actually in place outside people like John Fetterman. Doug, welcome back.

Thank you so much, Brian. All right, so first off, because I know you have a passion for foreign policy. I know you wrote a book on Venezuela and the rise of July Orchavez. I was stunned to see.

Now, I know this sometimes when people speak up here, it gets traction worldwide, but rarely do we try to see our congressmen and women travel the world and talk out against our foreign policy. You got Claire Valdez, Daraliza Avilia Chevilet, Chris Rebb, Adam Hamawi. He's the one who was an advisor to the blind sheikh, radical extremists, visiting. visiting this Central America, this Uruguay socialist conference to let them know that they're against Donald Trump's foreign policy, which is bringing democracy to Central and South America and not ignoring our backyard. I mean, that is extremely damaging, and I think Especially with their message.

Their message isn't, hey, let's be better friends. The message is go back to socialism and communism. Brian? It's why what Jared Mostowitz told you. is exactly right.

These democratic socialists are not democrats, they're socialists. And they don't stand for the values that We as Americans of all parties have been brought up to share. And I do not want my elected representatives, whoever they may be, going to foreign countries, denouncing our country, denouncing our values, and denouncing our foreign policy. To me, that's pretty axiomatic. Yeah, I mean, it's not like, well, I like France better than Germany.

This is like I like socialism better than democracy. Stop spreading it. And Jayapal is probably the loudest in saying that she's against the so-called modern day Monroe Doctrine, which they playfully call the Donroad Doctrine. She is dead set against it. She wants her hands off.

My goodness, one of the biggest complaints for past presidents, Democrat and Republican, has been why don't we pay more attention to our own hemisphere? I thought this was one thing that would be immune from Democratic criticism. Brian, I am old enough to remember John F. Kennedy's inaugural address in 1960. 60, where he spoke of the Alliance for Progress and the need to reach out.

in our hemisphere to promote democratic values everywhere. I I believe he was right then. I believe that approach is right now. And I am very pleased that we beat the far left in elections, we who support capitalism and those who are against in some of these nations, not all, but some, a countenancing of narco terrorism.

So I stand with the United States, and I stand with the propagation of democratic values. Sadly, the city we're both in, I believe you're in New York, is represented by people who don't feel what you just said, Doug. Claire Valdez said this, She's a New York State Assembly member who is a congressional candidate, likely to win. Said, we need a foreign policy built on international solidarity and cooperation, not imperialism, war and extraction. The threats we face from climate change to mass displacement to the rise of fascism don't stop at our borders.

Neither can our response.

So, you know, she thinks that. When Uruguay When V Venezuela When Bolivia Uh when Columbia Of chili And soon I hope Brazil Flip to a more of a democratic representative government, it's a bad thing.

So that's the last thing I wanted to say about it. But I'm just stunned that you put that in black and white. She's saying she's against America and American values.

So if you are a Democrat right now and you want to get the majority and you know there's going to be at least six or seven socialists that are going to be sitting next to you, and if the majority with those six socialists In your party. Gives you the majority. How do you deal with that if you're a Keem Jeffries? Can you stop it now, or is it too late? I well, I think it may be too late, but I think after the election you say to the socialists who will be elected, the six or seven that you hypothesized, I think, correctly, you say you're either going to toe the line or we're not going to have you as part of the caucus, because I don't want a democratic majority predicated on the balance of power being held by those who do not support our country, our values and our system of economic leadership.

So here's what Jared Moskowitz said about the leadership and what they need to do, cut eight. I think the Democratic leadership needs to speak out against the DSA agenda.

Okay, again, no Senate. We're just going to get rid of the Senate. No prisons, no borders. This idea of embracing a Fidel Castro. I think the Democratic leadership needs to speak out against it because, yes, primary stuff is we're in the general election now.

And this is not what general election voters want. But I will tell you, there is an economic populist movement to the DSA, and we got to recognize that we got to talk about how people are struggling to afford the American way of life. So can you do both? The way you do it is to address people's concern about affordability through things like a fair tax system, tax cuts where appropriate stimuli for small business, promotion of economic growth, indexing of capital gains, giving the system a chance to work and trying to succeed most of all in the war in Iran, to me, the question is not are you for or against the war, but how do we best go forward to achieve our objectives? I think the Democratic Party has become the party of no, not the party of constructive engagement.

So, for example, one of these women that just won, one of these candidates that just won Angie Dixon, Nixon, that just won the. nomination over Alexander Vinman in Florida. came out and said, we want a nationwide freeze in rents. Nationwide freeze in rents, as if if we just get better landlords, we'll have better housing. Does anyone play this out?

If you freeze all rents in all districts, in all cities, in all states, That's going to be impossible to sustain to keep up with maintenance. And in order, you're not going to get more housing if you freeze rents.

Well, not only are you not going to get more housing, you're going to change our economic system because we don't have state central planning. We don't have we have a federal system, and it is not for a U.S. senator or any national elected official to determine what our economic policy should be on a national basis. You want to advocate as Mandani is doing in New York for rent freeze, for stabilized apartments. I oppose it.

but I at least believe he has the power to do it. But again, we are not in a system where U. S. senators and US congressmen by fiat change our economic arrangements and our economic system.

So I want to bring you to something else.

So John Osoff, people thought, would have trouble keeping his seat, but it looks like Michael Connolly's is having trouble staying within single digits of him.

So they're now pushing Osoff as a presidential candidate.

So he looks the part, wears the tight shirts and the tight jackets. And after giving a speech, calling out Donald Trump, Gavin Newsome-style, he added, and by the way, he referred us to fly around the country with Natalie. As if his assistant he's having some affair with. People were outraged. I am personally.

I've watched him for six years work with her. She's unbelievably diligent, hardworking, got the respect of everyone in the White House. You might not like how dedicated she is, but no one thought, why would you bring this up? Among the people that are outraged by it, or excuse me, have skeptical on it and wonder why he said it was David Axelrod said, You have a great message. Why are you bringing her name up?

And then here's Jen Saki with Asov. I think she's surprising him. Watch. The reason I asked about Natalie Harp is because it's kind of raised this question out there: more questions about her. He is surrounded by sycophants, no question.

I just talked about that. But you specifically mentioned her, and I just wonder why.

Well, I've heard this particular aide referred to as his security blanket. And I think we could say that about any number of the senior aides in the White House. They're not telling him what he needs to hear. They're telling him what he wants to hear. And the nation is at war.

And we cannot afford that. We need a team in the White House. We need folks at the State Department, at the Defense Department, in the United States Congress who take their jobs seriously. Seriously. And she went back and forth two or three times with him on that.

What do you think about his explanation?

Well it it it doesn't Pass the smell test, Brian. I mean, what is the point? In our system where as Olsov suggests, he has policy differences with the President. Why wouldn't he want to articulate those differences rather than attacking the President and his aide personally in an unfounded and arguably specious way? I was offended by it.

Yeah, it's just a left turn. Of course, people are going to defend it and they'll say, Well, maybe you should just let it be.

Well, if you let it be, it makes it seem like there's something going on.

So if you attack back, people say, Why are you elevating it? But you can't win. I just think there's a responsibility. If I start working for the government now, not only am I going to get subpoenaed, I'm not making a ton of money. I'm working 60, 70 hours a day, and now my name's been sullied.

They're hunting down his brother and family members to get comments on this. And that's not why you're supposed to go for government. I mean, there's a reason why you go for elected office. You're a public figure. Others just want to serve.

I don't even think she's making sick figures to do this. And every time I walk in the White House or I see him at an event, And I'm lucky enough to do have access. All she's doing is working, carries around a printer, printing things out. Intercepting different calls, helping things out. And by the way, could not be.

More forward-leaning in terms of understanding messages and getting things out and clarifying for me personally. Brian, I think our politics is suffering From what I have heard called the politics of personal destruction. I don't like it when my party does it, the other party does it. I certainly think this attack makes no sense. And it's one of the reasons why I tell young people who are interested in politics to give it a second thought or government, because it subjects you to not only lower pay than you might get in the private sector, but to these kind of attacks which are unfounded and unfair.

Yeah, I you'll see what happened.

Now, Doug, I asked you last time. If you could just name a couple of Men or women that you hope run for president, or would you think would be leading contenders? Can you give us a couple? I would say Mark Kelly, Steve Bashir, Uh certainly. uh would uh fit Governor of Kentucky, senator from Arizona.

Right, exactly. Those are Mark Kelly, would probably be my first choice at this point. I'm not clear he's going to run. I'm not clear he could get the nomination, but we need a centrist Democrat who has broad appeal. We haven't had one of those in a very, very long time.

And I'm going to throw this out at you.

Some expert, political expert, said the best thing to happen to Democrats. would be not to win the House. And I followed up and I said, why? And they said because they're going to be obsessed with Trump. Of subpoenaing his family, trying to impeach him, and it's going to keep them totally sidetracked instead of just looking at 28.

So, if he holds the chambers, they're going to be forced to look ahead, and that will be the best thing for the party. What do you think about that theory?

Well, I think there's a certain amount of truth to that because I think the Democrats, particularly in the House, are going to investigate before legislating. The other side of it is if the Republicans control, as they do now, all branches of government, that gives the Democrats a clearer target for 2028. Absolutely. Doug Shoan, thanks so much. Thank you so much, Brian.

Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

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It's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back. It's always great to have Gary Sinise on, actor, founder, and president of, and chairman of the Gary Sinise Foundation, especially in 25 years since the 9-11 attacks and what he's done for men and women in the battle who are waiting to maybe go to battle again as we wait to see what's happening with Iran. Gary Sinise, welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me, Brian.

Gary, what are your reflections as we come up on 9-11 25 years? How was your life changed?

Okay. Oh, I was tremendously impacted by that day. In 2019, I wrote a book called Grateful American. Graciously supported me when that book came out. And in the book, there's a chapter called Turning Point.

And that chapter is really the September 11th chapter and what happened to me personally after that terrible day and the turning point that that was for me to go into a level of service that I hadn't imagined prior to that. But that The event was so profoundly impactful The images, the people I met afterwards, the organizations that popped up. In reaction to that event, the troops deploying, all the different things, going on USO tours, everything. It really changed my life, and it was indeed a turning point, and really the basis for what happened years later when I founded the Gary Sineese Foundation. And the Lieutenant Jan Band, we know that, and we know you're playing, and the foundation, how it's grown and taken care of soldiers who have been fighting for 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq, correct?

Yeah. Yeah, I know many, many folks who've been deployed multiple times over and over. They've lost friends, they've had buddies wounded, families have lost loved ones. We've tried to just step in where we can at the Gary Sinise Foundation and provide services and support. And just make sure that they know that they're appreciated and that we're not going to forget that they're out there and serving our country.

We can never do enough for the men and women who defend us.

So that's what the Gary Sinise Foundation is all about. We have multiple programs at the foundation. And really, as I look back at what happened after September 11th, the people that I met, the extraordinary people that I met, who were really just motivated like I was to do something, all of those ingredients just went into making the Gary Sinise Foundation.

Now we're in our 16th year. We just celebrated our 15th anniversary.

So you also just on 9-11, do you know what your will you'll be? Yes, I live in Asheville now, Brian. I thought. I'm going to stay home, be with the family on that day, but we do have teams that are deployed. We will have a team at Port Authority on that day in New York serving food, supporting on the day.

Some of our people will be there. I'll actually be serving food to firefighters and police officers here in Nashville on that day. Just in remembrance and honor of the men and women who. Who serve our country and those who were affected by that terrible tragedy? And Gary, you know one thing, we've seen the recruiting went through the roof after 9-11.

Then it was swayed for a while, but now it's booming again. There was a time in which we were kneeling during the national anthem.

Now no one's doing that at all. And I think we've gotten through that period. Are you heartened by that? I mean, I'm not saying the polarization has ended, but I do think there's a feeling of patriotism in our country. Do you sense more of that?

I do. I do. You know, I mean, look at the history of our country. You're a historian, Brian. You've written so many books about the history of the country.

It ebbs and flows and goes up and down. And we're impacted by events and they change the course of what's happening. And then we bounce back the other way. I remember after September 11th, the feeling of the nation just wanting to come together in such a profound way. We just wrapped our arms around each other.

People were helping each other, raising their hands to go serve in various ways. And then, remember, as time went on, as we got into the Iraq war, a little bit deeper into the Iraq war, things started to become kind of divided again, and we were divided. Then we came back together. We came back around. I feel like right now, as you say, I think I'm feeling a sense of.

Strength. We're in our 250th year of this country, and I think a lot of people are celebrating that, even though, you know, of course, there are some people that don't like the country and all of that. But I think generally I'm feeling what you're feeling as well. Especially the fact that you're in Tennessee. It certainly helps to have a feeling of patriotism there.

So, Gary, I know sadly your son passed away a few years ago after a long illness. You discovered that he was even more of a musician than you thought. Can you talk about what you found and how you're trying to get word out about his music, your son, Mac? Oh gosh, Brian, thank you for asking. My son Max Sinise was a great composer, great drummer, great musician, went to USC Music School, graduated with honors from there, went off and toured the world with bands playing and composing music and whatnot.

He eventually came to work for the Gary Sinise Foundation. He was always kind of a little. Dad, that's your thing. You do your thing. I don't know.

But he started to get kind of tired of being on the road. And I said, why don't you dip your toe in the water a little bit at the foundation and see how you like it?

Well, he did that, and he fell in love with the mission. He's always, you know, he's grown up around me doing a lot of this stuff, but he really fell in love with the mission and came to work for the foundation and just loved it. He was writing some music for us, for some of our videos and whatnot. Serving the mission in whatever way he could and in. 2018.

He was diagnosed, unfortunately, with this very rare cancer called chordoma. I mean, but have you ever heard of it, Ryan? Not not until I read about your son's illness, your son getting it. Yeah, you know, it's so rare that it's like maybe 300 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with this cancer per year.

Sometime, you know, about 70% of the time, like other cancers, they can go in, they remove the initial tumor. And good margins and everything's clear and and and it's cured. But about thirty percent of the time it comes back. And that's what happened to Mac. It came back and then he then he's into a fight with a cancer that There's no cure for.

So they kept trying multiple drugs on him, surgeries. Radiation. He eventually lost the feeling from his chest down. He could move his arms. But he couldn't play drums anymore.

He couldn't do any of that. He was kind of. Yeah. In a wheelchair and a hospital bed at home. I mean, he really was disabled by cancer.

In the last year of his life, 2023, he hadn't been thinking about cancer at all, and he decided. Hey, there's this piece of music I wrote in college. I never finished it. I want to try to finish it. And he went back to work on it, Brian, in the spring of 2023.

By the summer, he and a buddy of his, Oliver Schnee, who came, they came together, they were composing pals at school. They finished the the song and went into the studio, and that led to an entire album of music that was finished Just two weeks before he died. He died on January 5th, 2024. And Then Brian I started to find all this additional music that he wrote and tucked away in his laptop and his Dropbox files. And there was so much of it and so much good music that I called his buddy Oliver and I said, We got to do another record.

So the first record is called Resurrection and Revival, and the second record is Resurrection and Revival Part II. And then I started to find more music last year. And we made a third record: Resurrection and Revival Part 3. This is all music that came out of his laptop. He just.

Wrote it and tucked it away, and it's beautiful, beautiful music. The vinyl records are for sale at the Gary Sinise Foundation on our website. with all the proceeds going to support the mission of the foundation. And I have a book coming out. about Mac.

Uh you know, I've been doing two projects, music projects. Resurrection and revival. And at the same time, writing a book. I'm kind of, I guess I'm a little bit Brian Kilmead here, just jumping multiple things all the time and getting a lot done at the same time. And the book comes out November 10th.

I hope I can come back on. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, it's been, you know, having those projects, Brian, the music and the book. That has really helped me through a very, very difficult time after losing Mac. I can imagine too, it's therapeutic, and also you're doing something proactive to keep his memory alive.

Yeah, as a matter of fact, we're getting this the music produced around the country. The National Symphony Orchestra has played two of his compositions. The Nashville Symphony will be playing one of his pieces in early September. And next week, I'll be in Milwaukee. Doing two concerts at the Skylight Music Theater, two concerts called Graceful Warrior.

That's the name of the book. And I'll be narrating and talking a bit about Mac and the music. And we're hiring an orchestra and they're going to be playing the music. And it's all to benefit the Skylight Music Theater in Milwaukee. Wow, that is fantastic.

Oh, you talk about multifaceted. That's going to be great. And the book is going to come out in a couple of months.

So I imagine you have it back from the editor already or it's still working on it. You know what? It's going to print like tomorrow. I think they finally pulled it away from me. You know how it is.

You keep wanting to change things and add things and tweak things. And I've been doing that. I've been working on it for a couple of years, and now it's going to print. And its official release is November 10th, which is Mac's birthday. He would have been 36 on that day, and we're going to release it on his birthday.

That is fantastic. Gary, I know you're semi-retired. You're picking projects that you want to act in. But as you look at your industry, you're not in Los Angeles anymore, I understand it. Where do you think the movie business is at right now.

Between the streamers and the movies, and the consolidations in Paramount being bought by Oracle. Where do you how healthy is your business?

Well, it's hard to know. I mean, it depends on who you talk to, I think. You know, I've talked to a lot of actors who are struggling. You know, they're acting, quite frankly, they're struggling right now, even though there seems to be quite a bit of content out there. I mean, if you look at all the various platforms that are out there, there's multiple series being done, a lot of things are being done.

But I n I know a lot of people that uh continue to, you know, f Fight to stay alive in the business. My managers and agents are as active as ever, it seems.

So they're very quite busy with a lot of their clients.

So I think they would say while the business has changed, You know, there's upsides and downsides. Things, things are different. I've been out of it for a little while now. The last thing that I did was a television series called. thirteen reasons why And I finished that.

I did one season, their final season of that show, and it finished up in December of 2019. And The following month, Mac uh had Very, very serious surgery, and then he was in the hospital for two months and then. He came out for two months, went back in for four months with another surgery. And I just stepped away from the business and haven't really. Right.

You know, um, haven't really looked for anything specific because I've been You know, just focused on the caregiving and then, you know, the aftermath of losing my son. And will I go back to it? It all depends on the project. I'm available, and if the right thing comes along and it fits the lifestyle and all of that, I'll consider it. I did well, Brian, so that was a good thing.

And I was able to afford to step away from the business to take care of my son and And look after things there. God blessed me with a good career and I was able to do that. Yep, you earned it. No one gave you anything. Started off, started your own company in order to get the experience necessary and get the attention in order to get onto Broadway into movies.

Gary, if people want to download or get Mac's music, where do they go? Oh, absolutely, Brian.

Well, the vinyls we benefit at the Gary Sinise Foundation from the sale of the vinyl records, and those can be purchased at Gary Sinisefoundation dot org. Uh resurrection and revival. Uh and then Part two and part three.

So there's three records there. But you can download them on all the platforms: iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, all those. You can download all three records, and I love it. There's over 60 pieces of music between the three records.

So there's a lot of great, great stuff. Great stuff for movies. He wanted to write for movies. He really wanted to. That's what he really ultimately wanted to do.

He was a great drummer, great player, and everything. I think ultimately Mac wanted to write for music uh movies, so you will you will experience a bunch of A bunch of orchestrations on these records that really feel like soundtrack, you know, like they should be on a soundtrack or something. And then there's rock tunes and jazz tunes. And he had a. Wide You know, quite a variety of genres that he was interested in, and it's all evidenced in the music.

So, GarySinesFoundation.org. and download at all the digital platforms. You got it. Gary, great to see you again. Congratulations on the move, the foundation, and what you're doing to keep your son's name alive and well.

And I look forward to your book in November. We'll have you back for sure. Oh, Brian, thank you. And the book is actually in pre-sale right now, so you can just look it up on the internet. Graceful Warrior.

The true story of a son, a father, and a family who carried each other through. And I'm looking forward to getting on the road and talking about it and sharing the music and sharing the story with people. Gary, thanks so much. I'll talk to you soon. We'll be in bed, Brian.

Thank you.

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