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He is going to be with us during the George W. Bush years he was there and during Trump years he was there.

So he's going to be breaking down the national security aspect to it. And we have a lot going on today. Go to youtube.com slash at the Brian Kilmey Show if you miss anything. But let's get to the big three. Number four.

Yeah. In recent days, the United States proposed new terms. They're uneconomic, unfair. and undermine the net benefits for Canada. They ask too much.

And they offered too little. Really, Canadian trade deal surprisingly collapses, but not dead yet why Trump needs to get this deal done for Maine and Michigan and the election and for the economy. Number two. But what's happening in the Middle East, the conflict with Iran, is now a big driver of what's happening on inflation because as you know, energy goes into every facet of the U.S. economy.

And the longer that conflict, the more turmoil there is, the longer it goes on. Neil Kashkari from the Fed economic D-Day details emerge today, led by Treasury Secretary Besson, the economic general in charge. He aims at Iran and their economy. and they promise an extreme response. Uh Number one.

I'd rather an economy that has a thousand millionaires in it than one billionaire. I also think we got to start taxing wealth for people who have over a hundred million dollars. I mean, at that point, like, what even are you going to do with more money? Abdul El Syed. Weighing in on hating the rich.

When primaries pass, candidates usually move to the middle, but not in Michigan, not with El Saeed as his cronies ratchet up the extremism. And links to UBL emerge with his family.

Well, South Carolina zeroes in on a Lindsey Graham replacement and more. With us right now is Lawrence Jones.

So, Tuesday, we're going to find out if it's going to be Ralph Norman. Or is going to be Darlene Graham? What do you think? Um You know, it's always hard to tackle this topic because you don't want to. Seem insensitive to someone that is grieving.

But She's not qualified for the position. And the Taiwan answer was a non-starter. I mean, this is something you got to be ready for. This is not a job that you need training for. And I just think that this moment was similar to the Taiwan question from AOC on the world stage.

And she wasn't ready for it.

Okay. And so I just think it's disqualifying. I don't think she has any qualification for this position. I think that. The transition period is something that we have done historically for appointments, but running for the f Full term is a mistake.

Strategists said this on Meet the Press yesterday: Cut 15. If Darlene wins, it's going to be because of President Trump's rally, plain and simple. I mean, this is going to be close. And as much of a debacle the debate was for her, the rally was a success. You had Trump and Tim Scott and Governor McMaster all praising her.

What I'm watching closely is turnout. Norman had the edge slightly, I believe, going into the debate. High turnout helps Darlene. Those are her voters. Older, low propensity, a little more female.

Smaller turnout, especially if you have a cluster in the upstate, that's good for Norman.

So I just asked people to remember what happened. for the race for governor. The President endorsed the Lieutenant Governor. She got shellacked. By the Attorney General.

And so, yes, the President's endorsement has a lot of weight, but people in the South. Are independent. They're going to vote for who they want to vote for.

So we'll see.

So I didn't know McMaster signed on for Darlene Graham, too. 'Cause I knew Tim Scott did. He was waiting to see the runoff to see who made the runoff. And they signed on for the lieutenant governor as well.

So I want you to hear I thought about you when I asked this question. I had Joe Manchin on on Sunday. Oh boy. And I asked him because he has this rivalry with AOC. Remember they never got along.

Never.

So I just wanted to ask him flat out, would you would you vote for Oh, absolutely not. I don't want her as a leader of our country at all. I think it would be devastating. And she knows that. We have differences of opinion.

I disagree that there's some stability needs. We need energy. She wanted all green energy.

Well, guess what? Tell me what five hours of the day you want your energy, and that's what you'll get if you want to go down her path. These people are absolutely unbelievable in their wish list that makes no sense and nobody can live their life that way. You better find a balance.

So pretty direct, right? Yeah, and that has to be the answer, Brian. All these people that claim to be moderates, but then you ask them because it's a binary choice. This is why I don't do the DSA thing, I just say Democrat. Because if you're gonna tell me Big Temp.

And you're going to tell me how awful these people are, but when it comes down to election day, you still vote for them?

Sorry, you're not really that moderate. You're really not. I respect Nancy because that's the only answer. The only answer is: if these people are bad for the country, Then I won't vote for him. We've seen this with, you know, this guy, I see Saeed.

You know, they say he's a bad guy, right? During the primary, they said that. But now all of them are going to vote for this guy.

So we'll see.

Or just not say anything, but it looks like they're desperate to win Michigan because it could mean the balance of power in the Senate. Because if Collins could come back and they hold Michigan, and if Texas, if this guy Ken Paxon starts working hard and finds a way to overcome his personal frailties, it would be interesting. But over the weekend, it became pretty clear that El Saeed was not jogging to the middle. You know, when J.D. Vance called him out.

Listen to this, what he said on Which what he said on Friday, which is 100% true, cut to. Pay close attention and they'll leave these little hints of what they actually care about.

Now El Syed, this guy running for Senate in Michigan. He once argued, not too long ago, that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy. I'd love to go back in time. And tell my Papal. That there's a man who claims to stand for working people who says, not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it, you're a white supremacist.

So he came out and says this after J.D. Vance's speech.

So do we think J.D. is asking Usha with him back in time, is going to be taking Usha with him back in time to meet his Paw Paw, or El Said said, seemingly in reference to the second lady's. Indian ethnicity So in other words, he thinks that because back then He believes that she wouldn't have accepted him marrying and if someone of Indian heritage. What evidence does he does he know something that we all don't know, or are you just making stuff up? By the way, J.

D. Vance comes from a family of Democrats. Yeah. They're Democrats. Are the old Democrats from Ohio a certain way?

Does he know something that we don't know? Why does this guy. Always have so much Passion and heat for the other side, but never his community. When they said someone, it's on a recording from someone in his community, a group of people that said that they were mourning a little bit when the supreme leader was taken out. He don't want every time you every time you bring him on air to talk about it, he never wants to talk about that.

But he can make unfounded allegations about someone else's family. It's ridiculous.

Well, here he is in November of 2022, cut three. I don't have to tell you that the same exact forces That drove native peoples from their land. Two centuries ago. destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago. Bombed a building decades ago and tried to ban Sharia law.

Not a decade ago, Those forces are alive and well today. Excuse me. Can we just? I'm not even going to test the rest of it. I just want to hone in.

On Sharia Law. What American Okay. In Michigan. Besides Dearborn, is advocating for Sharia law. I'm just sorry.

Hit. People can't be surprised anymore. He is not even hiding who he is and what he represents. And I just don't think that's a winning message. Not in Michigan or anywhere in the country.

Yeah, here's more. What about what he said in a podcast in May? Cut for. Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him, was considered radical in his time too. And There is a radical nature to being willing to stand forthright in a time of corruption.

So, Jesus was a radical too in his time? It's unbelievable. Jesus is sovereign. Do you Jesus had a mission. I mean, I'm not going to get a Jesus lesson from someone that has his type of views, but it just shows.

He's comparing himself to Jesus. I know. It's just sad, though. This is an easy one. I understand.

You're going to lose the race anyway. I don't understand why the Democrats just won't. Won't cut their eyes right just cut. They're going to fight.

Now, I do find it interesting, though, to just show you the state of play in Michigan. There was a report that came out that Rodgers, who. Barely lost last time for Senate. has told AIPAC, don't do any ads. Don't do any ads in support of me in Michigan.

That tells you the politics at play. right now. They're completely anti-Israel right now. Right. And the fact is, Republicans are afraid to take money from APAC, which is incredible because they're a lobbyist organization, but they're willing to put in multi-million dollars.

But he feels as though it'll boomerang. But obviously, he's pro-Israel. Of course he is. Yeah, but he doesn't want any part of it. But the message that's out there, there's some even on the fringe right that are buying into this nonsense.

So El Saeed responded to Donald Trump over the weekend who came after him. He said, I think he had a little bit too much iPad time for the week. He needs his rest. Nice try. Nice try being Donald Trump.

El Saeed also, his communications director, Roxy Richner, explained to Fox News Digital that. Mason Pressler, when he came out and said Mike Rogers' campaign has the aesthetics of a nineteen sixties white flight suburb and a KKK cross burning, they quickly tried to explain that Pressler's views are not representative Of the campaign as a whole, because Pressler's ex-bio explicitly states that he posts. are his own opinions. She said she did not return a follow-up request for further comment on the post from El Say Ed's campaign. Abe, now, either you got the worst, most undisciplined campaign ever, or you're 100% backing that statement that Rogers in a pickup trunk is KKK.

Or both. Or both. I mean, it is so st by the way. You're doing this. of a place that where Motor City is.

First of all, I drive a truck. A lot of people in America drive trucks. Detroit is Motor City.

So it's like that's part of Michigan. It just. Look, the one thing that does scare is me Is that he is crafty with his words? He's obviously a very educated guy, and he never answers questions. And I just wonder if he's dependent on some of the ignorance of some voters that are out there that this could work for him.

I think the voters in Michigan are smarter. I wish the governor there would do the right thing, though. She doesn't have to back this guy. Whitmer. Yeah.

Yeah, and I don't think she did, right? She came out for the first time. She did during the prime minister. But during the general election, I hope she does the right thing.

So Noah Finley is a editorial page editor in the Detroit News. He's black. He said, there's zero chance Abdul El Syed expects me to cast my ballot for him in the fall's U.S. Senate race, but at least he could pretend he wants my vote and those of voters like me. Instead, his campaign has placed me and his ilk in his version of Hillary Clinton's basket of deplorables, voters unworthy of courtship.

Why? Because I'm a white suburbanite who has a fondness for old Ford pickup trucks and new ones. I should say this guy's white talking about that. And Finley said, El Syed's campaign creates its own basket of deplorables. She's looking to see if that is going to be like the Hillary Clinton line that's going to be tough to shake.

But I just think that this guy had Hassan Piker in the last days of the primary. And then the first week that he's got the nomination, he's just as radical as ever. But, Brian, you do bring up another interesting point, though. He's going to have a huge problem with black voters. This democratic socialist nonsense, sorry, just don't have the appetite for it.

That's just not something, even though. Black voters in large vote for Democrats. They won't subscribe to that. And then, number two, from a religious standpoint, There's just a lot of value systems that we just don't go along with.

So he's not even trying to appeal to those groups.

So I just want to real quick, before you go, talk about the trade deal with the U.S. and Canada. President is so optimistic on Friday. He said it was basically a done deal. And then on Saturday, Friday night, it all falls apart.

And now Canada will retaliate on September 8th with new tariffs, with its own trade measures. They said they're going to match us dollar for dollar.

Now, the thing about this makes this difference. Yeah, they'll technically pay more of a price. But we are and economically, we don't need prices to go up anywhere. Especially for iron, for the farming for dairy farmers. For a lot of the for the lumber that they have.

And at this but for the most part, we should find that we actually got a lot of concessions from Canada even before the USMCA.

So you get the Canada deal done and then you do the USMCA and you get that done the way you want it, you could really send a good message to the market But it looks like Howard Luttnick. clashed with Jamison Greer after Greer had a deal done, along with Peter Navarro, saying, What the hell are you doing? What are you giving away? I I don't know what happened. The l the last Reporting, I heard from that they were close to the deal.

Yeah. So, um, I look, I anticipate that it gets. That this will get resolved somewhere in the next two weeks, though. The president seemed optimistic about it at first as well. I said this on the couch earlier, and this is not even, look, I want the president to have.

maximum leverage and I want us to get the best trade deal. as possible. Bleeding into the midterm, no matter how crazy the DIMS are, the number one issue is going to be the economy and the price of goods. And if this negatively impacts you, it will. Michigan.

There you go.

So late in the talks, the U.S.

sought to exclude from tariff reductions heavy trucks produced in Ontario, such as the Ford F-350 and the F-450 and the GM Silverado. Over time, that would have made it more uneconomic for the automakers to keep making the vehicles in Canada, Carney said.

So that was the breaking point that we put in at the last minute. This is according to other unofficial New York Times.

So it could be a little bit off. Queer hopped on Saturday. Didn't seem like he was uh Down at all about it. My hope is they work it out.

Well, I know Greer has the ear of the president, and the president trusts him. And not only does it have the ear of the president, him and Scott Besson. Work very well together.

So I'm hoping that they could get this back on track. There, again, we don't have any leverage from the standpoint. We have leverage when it comes to the negotiation with China. I'm sorry, with Canada. But we have no leverage when it comes to the election right now in November.

We need wins. We need wins that people feel instantly. Anything that goes counter to that could cost us. Laura Jones, we'll see you back tomorrow. Thanks, BK.

On TV. You don't have to come back at the radio, but we would like to. We'll do it again. Back at the moment. It's Brian Killmade.

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It's going to be announced just after our show is over, and we're going to find out what exactly is going to happen. The key is going to be for these D-Day sanctions to work. Other nations. We've done as much as we can with the dollar, but now we need anybody trading. With Iran are going to be facing sanctions if you trade with Iran.

Now, we already know about China. We got to navigate that while setting a date for them to come here, September 28th, President Xi.

So navigate that. They got to crack down there. Russia is doing it through the Capsian C kind of illicitly, but the people that are trading outright, Qatar, trading outright Turkey, trading outright Pakistan, you know, Pakistan is going to chime in and say, wait a second, I've just had this great conversation with Iran. Don't drop the sanctions and they'll open up the strait. Please don't fall for that again.

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. If Trump decides to take further action, our response, our retaliation will be seismic. First, we'll tell all neighboring countries and countries around the world not to join the United States in its economic war. Any country that takes part in imposing economic restrictions on us will be regarded as enemy.

Okay, good luck with that.

So house, so turkey. And Pakistan, who's you're meeting with the field marshal right now, they're the enemy, okay. QAE has already said they cut off all trade. Good job, guys. Saudi Arabia should do the same thing.

I don't know what they have in the banks, but Qatar is the one. I mean, Cutter's the one right now. They're playing their cards. They don't want their natural gas fields blown up. But at this point, This is for the win.

So we're really going to find out where we stand now with Cutter. And with these other countries, I'm not sure what we're going to do to China, besides urging them not to buy illegal gas from them with uh oil, which they're doing already.

So let's bring in Michael Allen, former special assistant to the president and used to work in the Bush administration. Michael, welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me, Brian. What do you think of Economic D-Day?

Well, I like it. I think it is something that is absolutely necessary. We need some combination of economic and military pressure to get Iran's attention again so that they might come back to the negotiating table and actually offer up real Compromise concessions, because so far, as you well know, they're cocky. They want us to pay reparations, get out of the region, and we need to do something to lower the boom on them.

So, I guess we're going to get very specific. I really trust the creativity of Scott Besson. But I worry that Pakistan's Army Chief set to travel to Iran today in an attempt to help mediate a peace agreement. Do you know what's going to happen? They're going to say, wow, we've got a breakthrough.

Let's call Jared and Steve Witkoff. And they're going to tell the president: why don't we hold off on those sanctions till Thursday? And then Thursday will go by and they'll go May I mean Saturday and then Saturday will go by and then all of a sudden the streets kinda open up and then Next thing you know, we're at Labor Day. Do you fear that'll happen? I do because I think I've seen this movie a couple of times before.

I feel like some of the so called allies have an interest in seeming to be these peacemaking intermediaries. And I think they kind of, and I think it's part and parcel of diplomatic negotiations anyway, but I think they try, in the interest of peace, to negotiate or exaggerate what the other side is willing to give. And so I think they come to us, they say, hey, you can make real progress on reopening the straits. But when it comes down to putting something on paper or hearing from the Iranians directly, it doesn't materialize.

So I think we need to let them stew in their juices for a while. The new thing here, and we've had great sanctions on Iran for decades, the new thing here is the blockade. I mean, if this is absolutely mostly preventing Iranian crude and other commercial vessels from getting in and out, that has an economic cost. It's not that the IRGC, the crazy rulers of the country, may care about the people. But if all of this pressure eventually stacks up against them and their economic interests, then maybe they come to the table.

Yeah. Here is the former interim assistant secretary of the treasury, who now is on the Fed, Neil Kaskari, on Face the Nation yesterday about how the conflict. is affecting the economy. Cut twenty-four. But what's happening in the Middle East, the conflict with Iran, is now a big driver of what's happening on inflation because as you know, energy goes into every facet of the U.S.

economy. And the longer that conflict, the more turmoil there is, the longer it goes on, the bigger effect it ends up having on the U.S. economy and on inflation. And even if it's driven by geopolitical factors like that, ultimately it does affect inflation. Ultimately, it does have a bearing on the Federal Reserve's mandate.

And so the longer that goes on, the less confident I am that inflation is going to return to target.

So that's what they want in order to keep rates down or stop rates from going up.

So I just think that figures into all that, especially with this president. Don't you think? Yes, I think so. I mean, the President is really interested in getting this economy humming. He's, of course, done the Tax cuts, he's got regulatory reform.

He's eager for the Fed to get into a position. where the committee can lower interest rates. And so he didn't like, of course, higher oil prices, which Sacrifice the ability of the Fed to cut interest rates because it's upward pressure.

So I think the president, though, is going to have to hang in there a little bit, and let's hope. Let's pray that the oil prices don't get prohibitively high.

Some people are suffering out there, so I don't want to take that for granted. Let's try and hold these rates down. Let's try and hold this price of oil down because I think we have a ways to go with the Iranians to get something where we can get at least back to status quo ante so that the international waterway for commercial goods and oil and gas can resume again. Yeah, it would be interesting if we have to go back and if they start hitting our guys. I want to go back with the IDF and finish these guys off for good, which is indeed possible if we go ahead, we've consolidated our targets, we actually know so much more about them now, and now economically.

We know their real, you have two million reals for any one dollar. I mean, that's almost a worthless currency. Inflation there is up eighty percent to ninety percent, and the currency value has devalued forty percent. Since this conflict happened.

So the people are really paying the price for this. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have a plan to get them guns. Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, there's a couple of different things with the people. I mean, it was great that the protests were broad-based.

It was great that it was economic in nature because that gets people more fired up. But you're right. They didn't have guns and they didn't have a recognized leader.

So over time, by the way, this is what Mossad and CIA and even the State Department ought to be working on, assessing who in the opposition community might have the ability to be a leader. That's eventually the only way out of this.

Now, I don't want us to go in there, Iraq Style 2003, and topple them, but we ought to try to help The Iranian opposition get into a position where they can affect change. And so you're right. I think it's about economic pressure, military pressure, but also what here in the United States we call covert action to enable the people to get news from the outside, to hear more about the corruption of their leaders, and actually have some people on the ground that could do something about it. You know, it's interesting, there was a big story in the New York Times how we are doing a massive push, effectively, of mass producing cheaper-made interceptors. And these other companies are popping uh are propping up.

You know, for-profit companies taking some of that money, but doing things maybe not the highest sophistication in order to be. Faster. For example, Raytheon has gotten a partnership. They're building coyote interceptors, a cost of $126,000 per interceptor, a lot cheaper. You got PowerS by Brett Velikovich is putting it together.

This is the odd. They are teaming with the largest defense contractor in the world, building PAC three in partnerships with European manufacturers, which are coming in a fraction of the cost. Same thing with a Naros company, a startup in Torrance, California, developing an interceptor drone called Bandit. That costs about $5,000 each. These are the types of things that could quickly impact the battlefield, not only in Ukraine, but certainly in Iran.

You bet. Necessity is the mother of invention. Finally, we here in the United States who To build expensive things that can do many different things simultaneously on the same platform. But the world's gone the opposite direction. They in the military call it attributables.

They want to be able to have drones that fly once, blow something up, and we don't intend for them to come back because they were cheaply built. And you're right also about the interceptors. This is exciting. People are saying to themselves, God, everyone in the world needs them, and we don't have enough of them. And so let's make it less exquisite.

Let's figure out a way to be able to work these things at a lower price point. that can get the job done.

So I'm excited to hear that our military infrastructure and companies are beginning to adapt because we have to change. There's so much to learn from these two hot wars, Iran in the Middle East and so much on drones and interceptors in Ukraine. I mean, Well, our military's got to go to school on this for a couple of years just in case we're dragged into battle somewhere. Yeah, Ukraine's got only got two hundred and seventy four Patriots from us this year, six hundred and seventy last year. I understand we need them.

I get it. But they are dying just to get the licenses and build them themselves. And once they get it down, they said they'll give us 20% back for free. If they could just make 100, they'll give us 20.

So that would be key. And that's why Russia is rushing to mobilize 300,000 more troops. Do you think they'll be able to do that?

Well, they are going to have a really hard time because by all accounts, their efforts over the last few months, maybe six months, to replenish the manpower have been very, very hard. They are losing, by some accounts, thirty five thousand per month. And I know they've lowered the standards for the military so that they can let even more criminals in and the rest. But here's the deal. Here's what's interesting.

Conversely, it might be in Ukraine's interests to see Vladimir Putin do a nationwide conscription. That is what's going to get some of the Russian people upset. That is what might cause them to say, hey, what are we doing? I thought you said we had a handle on this. And not that it would overthrow the government, but I think Putin needs to feel some pressure from the people that the drafting of young men to go to war is broad-based.

And what that means for the Russian economy, what it means demographically, is devastating. And so let's watch closely and see if this happens. Yeah, let's see where we go from here and see what other challenges we face. I'm just curious to think, Mike Allen, how hard a lift will it be to get $1.5 trillion for the Defense Department next year? It's going to be really hard.

We need it. It's all wrapped up, as you know, in this really complicated legislative process. Trump was right to ask for it. It's very Reagan-esque. We need to try and rebuild our military.

We desperately need to. Um I'm hopeful that we can do it. Um Trump Pentagon is doing The Lord's work out there trying to fix this munitions problem that you referenced. The worst problem might be shipbuilding, but we need funds. By the way, here we always harangue our European allies about Spending more on defense as a percentage of gross domestic product, we need to step it up.

We need to get back to where we were in the Cold War because, as a National Defense Commission, a bipartisan group put it last summer: this is the most dangerous threat environment we've faced since World War II. We've got wars in two theaters and the possibility of another in Asia.

So we got to get this together, finish a lot of these programs, get ready for a drone war and rebuild our defense industrial base. Yeah, $1.5 trillion would just get us to 5% of the GDP. And that's what we're asking all our allies to do. you bet. We got to do it.

We it's a lot of money. We have a lot of debt. But by the way, the only way we're going to stay secure is to have a great military, and the only way to have a great military is for us to have a great economy.

So it's all interrelated, and we need to do it. We have to do it. And by the way, it leads to The incidence of war being decreased because people will resume where we want them to be, which is, God, we don't want to go to war with the Americans. They are still the superpower they always were. Yep.

That's why no one's factoring in what a win would look like for the president. I would love to see that. Michael Allen, thanks so much. Thanks for having me. You got it.

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Translate! Translates matter! Translates matter! She did this with tremendous risk to her personal safety, her career, and I just am very grateful for her speaking up. For Sophie speaking up and not backing down and continuing to say what she said and speaking up for all of us female athletes is so inspiring.

And I know that's going to push every female athlete to speak out and continue to push for this.

So they talk about Sophie Cunningham coming out and saying, hey, be trans, but just don't play basketball. Don't play sports against boys, against men. And that evidently, I think you might have heard, is controversial.

So she was played in Brooklyn and both sides came out in support and detractors there. Of course, the tractors, every time people would say just you know, want to state your opinion why you feel that way, they were just saying F this, F that, using expletives.

So Trans Lives Matter, yeah. But you do you want to play basketball? Do you want to just give tho that slot to somebody else?

Well, Enos Cantor Freedom showed up. For a Sophie Cunningham game against Chicago, and when she's Indiana, and he showed up in support. And when he was there, all of a sudden, one of these women who I don't know any of these players. But this other woman came up to him. Stephanie White's the coach.

And this other woman came up, hit a three, and then came and started screaming at Anna's Cantor, who's all he was doing was sitting there with a shirt on. Her name is Natasha Cloud. She did not speak with the media after the game or during the game, but she went after Cantor Freedom, stood there and walked over.

So Anas Cantor stood up and walked towards her. An official jump, he's 6'10. An official jumped in between them and then threw him out. You believe that? He gets thrown out.

Here's his explanation about what happened: cut 40.

Sophie Cunningham shot at three and uh I put my hands up to celebrate, right? Uh literally uh a couple positions later, Natasha came back. And she started screaming and yelling and said, she's not gonna sleep with you. And I was like, I am not trying to sleep with her, I'm just here to protect woman and support her. And then obviously after that she started yapping and she started to walk towards me and literally I just got up and then I was like I'm just here to protect woman and that's all.

So It's just crazy. I mean, every week we talk about the craziness that's going on in this league. And it happened again. Here's more from him, cut forty one. First of all, I want to say she's an American hero.

Everywhere she goes, I see now a lot of people are coming out and and actually defending her. But obviously, if you're standing up for something that you believe in, you're going to get hate all the time. But I think she's inspiring not only the players in WNBA, but girls from all over the world. Not only in America, because I get so many messages, and they're saying that from all over the world. They're saying, hey, if you ever see Sophie, can you please say hi to her?

It's just amazing what she's doing. And I think she's going to go down one of the faces of the league, I think.

So here's Nate Burroson of CBS because they're both former players, Indus Cantor and Burrowson played in the NFL. And I know his shirt was pointing to his statement that he wanted to make. And my concern with him is not about his right to free speech. It's his inability to have restraint when he's in a professional setting. As a former athlete myself and him as a former NBA player, how can you go there, sit that closer to court, and then get that involved with the player doing her job?

So for me, in him being an athlete that's been on the other side of that, that had to deal with fans stopping and harassing him while he's playing. How come he didn't just sit there, make your point with your shirt, enjoy the game just like every other fan? I don't know. All he did is stand up and put his hand like three, like it was good, like you do a field goal. I don't know if is that provocative enough?

You're not supposed to even act at all? I see a lot of fans like John Mackerel and these guys going crazy at the Knick games. They're professional players. The Perfect Lunch Combo. That first bite of your favorite sub, followed by ice-cold Pepsi.

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It's going to be a big hour. We're going to be joined at the bottom of the hour by Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery. Get the latest on Iran. A lot of moving parts today. Michael Goodwin on New York Post.

Guess what? From the New York Post, Mayor Momdami getting sued for starting his own grocery stores. Turns out, using taxpayer dollars to fund grocery stores kind of drives private business out of business. That's why we don't do socialism. Yes, of course, there are tax incentives for certain companies and industries, but that's a lot different than totally supplying, using your money, and supplying grocery stores to compete against.

Bodegas, Delis, and other supermarkets, and now they're being sued. I love it. Let's get to the big three. Number three. In recent days, the United States proposed new terms.

They're uneconomic, unfair. and undermine the net benefits for Canada. They ask too much. And they offered too little. Canadian trade deal, surprisingly, collapses, but not dead for good.

Why Trump needs to do this deal in Maine and Michigan for the economy and for the midterms. Number 10. But what's happening in the Middle East, the conflict with Iran, is now a big driver of what's happening on inflation. Because as you know, energy goes into every facet of the U.S. economy.

And the longer that conflict, the more turmoil there is, the longer it goes on. And that's why it's got to come to an end while showing patience. Neil Kashkari from the Fed. Economic D-Day, details emerge. Led by Treasury Secretary, the new general in charge, Besant, the economic general, will.

Give the details today, just after our show ends, and talk about the extreme response and pressure we're putting on Iran. Number one. I'd rather an economy that has a thousand millionaires in it than one billionaire. I also think we got to start taxing wealth for people who have over $100 million. I mean, at that point, like, what do you think are you going to do with more money?

Yeah, a lot. How about investing in other businesses? You ever hear about that? When primaries pass, candidates traditionally move to the middle. But not in Michigan, where El Saeed is actually going further to the left and being more arrogant than ever.

Extremism personified. And now we find out about his mom's links to Osama bin Laden. I wonder if that's going to be helpful. Michael Goodwin from the New York Post, welcome back. Michael, we're used to these candidates going to the middle and denying that they said other things or clarifying, but now we're not getting that in Michigan with El Saeed.

No, Brent, I think that that era is over, right? The left is running a slide to the left, and it seems to be This idea that the more shock you can throw into the system, the better you will do. You'll get more press attention, of course, and you'll energize your opponents, but you'll also energize your supporters who come to fight for you. It's kind of the other way around. The legislators are supposedly fighting for the voters.

Instead, they're pitting their voters against everybody else. It's a wild west that's happening now. Yeah, L Said took aim at Usha Vance because I guess she's Indian and essentially assumes that his grandfather growing up in Ohio would have not approved of the wedding. Uh coming out on on on X and saying that Uh said I a little to And then, of course. He goes on his campaign, goes on the campaign trail, tries to walk it back.

So, this is the quote.

So, do we think that J.D. is taking Usha with him back in time to meet his grandpa or no?

So, assuming now you're just saying that people from that time, from Appalachia, who were working class, were racist, is that what we're supposed to take away from that? Right. I mean, else I'd um I mean, it's on every hot spot, every time he opens his mouth. I mean, he's full of bigotry, full of nonsense. And if he is elected to the Senate, I think this country has turned the page and not forward, but backward.

Because Rogers is a really good campaigner. I mean, he's a really good candidate, really good congressman, FBI guy, military background, not too locked in with Trump. He's not MAGA personified, but not anti-Trump. You can tie him back to more traditional Republicans, very comfortable with his own personality. Almost won last time against a moderate in Michigan.

He's got a great chance of flipping that seat every single day. The one person I got to give credit to, people like James Carville. Uh to other other people who have spoken out, like uh John Fetterman, of course. But Joe Manchin over the weekend, I asked him too about AOC and the socialists. Listen to what he said.

Would she be a good president? Cut eight. Oh, no, absolutely not. I don't want her as a leader of our country at all. I think it would be devastating.

And she knows that. We have differences of opinion. I disagree that there's some stability needs. We need energy. She wanted all green energy.

Well, guess what? Tell me what five hours of the day you want your energy, and that's what you'll get if you want to go down her path. These people are absolutely unbelievable in their wish list that makes no sense, and nobody can live their life that way. You better find a balance.

But I looked at the New Hampshire primary. She's now second to Mayor Pete. Uh, buried in the body. It's just New Hampshire, and that's going to be the third primary for them, for Democrats. It's just New Hampshire and it's early, but she's a contender, it's sad.

It is. And you know, Brian, your point about Mike Rogers, I think in almost any election up until the last couple, he would be seen as a kind of consensus candidate for both parties. I mean, that's who normally has been elected in the Upper Midwest. I mean, these are solid Democrats or solid Republicans, but they are not firebrands from either side. They're more centrist.

They support strong economies at home and strong militaries and defense abroad.

So that's the kind of consensus candidate who normally would win a Senate seat. And that's why the Senate has had such a good reputation in our country historically. Unfortunately, it's getting to be wilder and wilder now. Mm-hmm. Uh, yeah, we'll see what's going to happen.

So, you wrote this column today, and let's focus on New York for a second.

So, Governor Hokul now has Bruce Blakeman breathing down her neck within 10 points. In case you think that's far away, keep in mind that's closer than Lee Zeldin was at this point in the similar campaign. And you have a situation now in Bruce Blakeman, is where you had a real stark choice because you had a mayor. You have a mayor now that says, I'm a proud socialist, and you have a governor afraid to ruffle that mayor's. Feathers, at the same time, that mayor would not get elected statewide because he is a socialist, which is good in the city, but not in the state.

How is she navigating this and what should we know?

Well, Brian, I think you said it perfectly. I think that what Hoko is trying to do, if you remember back to the mayor's race, Mom Dani got like 1.1 million votes in New York City. Hokul, to win the election, needs to get most of those voters in her camp in November. And so what she's doing is kind of mothering him in the sense of helping him financially, talking to him, giving him guidance, as she puts it, kind of being the big sister or the adult in the room. And I think, frankly, that this is what Bruce Blakeman ought to be running against.

He ought to be running against Momdani because he is increasingly a creature of Hoko. And I think he ought to paint them together in a way that would enable him. To get the Mamdani skeptics and the people who don't like him to at least give Blakeman a second look. You know, a couple of things are happening, too. Is that he had this famous free buses?

It's not happening. MTA says we lose too much money. Number two, the The grocery stores.

Well, now people are suing. These business owners are suing, saying, I got to compete against tax dollars. That's not fair.

So he's going to bring that to court. And then paying, and then, of course, taxing people who have city apartments as second homes. He wants to give them an additional tax. But he blanketed everybody basically with a home over a million dollars. And now they got to prove that this is not their second home.

It's been a disaster. And now lawsuits are flowing in.

So this guy's inexperience and ideas are clashing radically with reality. Yes, and this is where I think Hokul comes into the picture. That tax, she pushed it through the legislature. And so she has advocated for it. She is giving the city billions of dollars so Mamdani could carry out his agenda.

So that's where I think the connection is so vital for statewide voters because you're going to get Mamdani, first of all, the state's going to go bankrupt if it continues to funnel billions and billions of dollars to the city. And your point about the MTA is an interesting one too, the free buses. The MTA has said just the talk of free buses has gotten more people to refuse to pay the fare because they think it should be free and they won't pay.

So even his words have consequences in this way. And look, I'm not alone in thinking he has already damaged this city, and we're only seven months into his administration. Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt about it. I'm very curious to see what it's going to mean. It's that the DSA has single-handedly put the Republicans back in play in the House.

You, you would wade in on that, Cut 13. It's very important to get out there early and make sure you label the opposition for the radicals that they've become. I think, especially in Michigan, El Sayed, the Democrat nominee, is really a stalking horse for Hassan Piker wing of the DSA. They're making it very clear to Michiganers: here's the most radical man in America running for the United States Senate, support Mike Rogers. They're going to go down to Texas.

James Tallerico is so not tight. If James Tallarico ran and won in Texas, Aisha, they'd have to take Saturday night or Friday night lights off the shelf of every streaming service and DVD service in America. Texas wouldn't be Texas with James Tellarico.

So they've got to get down there for Ken Paxton. There are a lot of places where early campaigning makes a difference. I'm glad to see the president and the vice president out there doing it. Do you think it does? Or, you know, there's always conventional thought that no one pays attention until after Labor Day.

Do you believe so? Look, I believe the that rule has changed in part because of social media sort of broadcasting the news everywhere and people gathering online. But I think you is basically right in that these are dangerous candidates and the Republicans have to do a better job, I think, of isolating them and pointing that out. But look, each state is different. The population mix, the political mix, of course, is different.

So but I do think that you're seeing lots of stories today, Brian, that Democrats have increasing chances of taking the Senate.

Now that, of course, includes El Said and Te Rico.

So it the Republicans have their work cut out for them. And of course the Iran war is not helping. And along with the economic fallout, I know, and finally the Canadian uh the Canadian trade deal falling apart, not helpful. I think Trump has to go back in there and fix that, don't you? I do.

There's too much conflict, and there's things that spill over into the economy, whatever the motive, whatever the reality of the negotiations. The tariffs are now seen as driving up costs for Americans and many products. And that inflation is still here.

So it has not been conquered as the President promised he would. It's better than it was, but it's still a problem for a lot of homeowners and shoppers. Yeah, no doubt about it. 1-866-408-7669. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much.

Truly appreciate it. The headline of his column today, yesterday, don't be fooled by Hochul's act. And by the way, that's universal, not just in the state, but around the country. Understand the true agenda. Michael, thank you.

My pleasure, Brian. All right, 1866-408-7669. I know you can write me, BrianKilme.com. I've got a lot of emails over the weekend, which I'll get to. Be able to get to your calls then.

Then I'm going to break up, going to preview what the Treasury Secretary is going to be saying today around 1, 2 o'clock at his press conference. I've got two start times. One says 1, 1 says 2. And then what the reaction is going to be. On some level, I don't want anyone hurt, but I almost wish that Iran would start striking our allies because it would force us to finish them.

And I think at this point, we got to finish them, and it's got to be before Labor Day. Back in a moment. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kill Meat Show. The perfect lunch combo. That first bite of your favorite sub, followed by ice-cold Pepsi.

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Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI plant or a data center, I would absolutely want it. Would you welcome data centers in Maryland? I leave it up to the individual county and state with respect to the siting of a data center.

However, no. data center. Should be free loading on my constituents in the form of higher electricity bills. And that is what's happened. In the grid that Maryland's part of, PJM, we spent $28 billion over the last two years subsidizing data centers.

That's insane. That is what Republicans ultimately want, despite what they say. Donald Trump has these sort of feel-good things at the White House, but he hasn't supported the legislation that I've introduced.

Okay, a couple of things. What is he even talking about? Do you think Donald Trump put all those data centers into Maryland? That was you. What did you do when you were a congressman and senator?

What about Westmore? What was he doing? You want to insult the pseudo-Republican, Governor Hogan? What was he doing? Do you think Donald Trump was putting data centers in Maryland and you allowed electricity bills to go up?

Look, I think some of them went in and they had extreme weather, big subsidies. They went in there, a whole bunch of jobs go in there, and then it becomes a tax base because it takes up a lot of space. You pay property taxes like you would a mall, like you would a housing tract, a bunch of condos, a bunch of office buildings. That's what it is, and it goes for a long time: big campus, small campus, it's millions of dollars. You cannot not have data centers.

Unless you want to give up your phone, you want to give up your iPad, you want to give up your storage. Give up your pictures. Give up your laptop, whatever you want. You can't have them both. Wow, I don't know what my phone bill is getting so expensive.

Why is that? Why is storage getting so expensive? Because you stop building data centers. We're not doing that.

Now, if you want to stop and set up criteria, I'm all for that. But to give it up, and now everybody's just showing cowardice and not standing up and explaining it to people, you have Republican governors alike now and Like the Governor of Texas, say, okay, we're going to put a pause after doing hundreds of them. All right.

Now you're going to do a pause.

Now you're going to set up a criteria. I don't get it. A lot of people are writing me about the data centers. I got a lot of email over the weekend because that was my lead for One Nation over the weekend. I also got a lot of people writing me about history.

Where is this one?

Okay. Uh a couple of people just say, look. When it comes to water, a lot of the data centers, especially the bigger ones, use water.

So are they utilizing the water in a community? It could really make a difference. They said there's other things called chillers that would immediately cool down The equipment, and you wouldn't need the water to flow through. Good. Press people to do it more economically, to do it that takes no dollars.

In your utility bills, doesn't make a loud humming noise, but you can't ban them. It's a joke. Just like banning oil and gas. I'm tired of oil and gas. All right, do you do you wear jeans?

All right.

Did you drive a car till you protest? Yes. Did you fly in a plane on your vacation? Yes. Did you on your cruise, did you think you used any fuel at all?

Or do you think that was just Well did you guys row on your cruise? No one thinks practically. And now people are panicked. This guy, John Usted, the senator from Ohio, is in a tough battle with Sherrod Brown.

Now they're running ads, he is Mr. Data Center. He should fight back and speak up and talk about the right way to do things in Ohio. People get energy in Ohio. They wanted to vilify fracking for a long time.

Then even Democrats realize I can't do that. We come back. Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

These sanctions are going to be dramatic. I think they're going to be meaningful, but I want to highlight their currency is as weak as it's ever been, and inflation is skyrocketing. And those two things, combined with this naval blockade that's being successfully executed, together with us opening a lane in the Strait of Hormuz to move oil in and out and ships back in to get more oil. I mean, you know, some days, I think this is important, Ashley, some days we are moving more oil now than we did pre-conflict because of the pipelines that have been opened up and all that's happening in the Middle East.

So, yeah, if you talk about the reprogramming of the oil, because they may be building up rapid pipelines, but I also think it hurt doesn't help. That The Houthis are stopping the Red Sea and that travel. This just in, Iran has issued a warning that vessels violating its arrangement for transiting the Strait of Amuz could face restrictions, including fines, detention or confiscation. We're just bringing everybody through the Oman side of the strait, kind of ignoring the other side of the strait. They're looking to charge tolls at Iran.

But as we mentioned, there is an increase in the amount of amount of merchant ships that are getting through there. Let's bring in Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, Senior Director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation for the Freedom of Defense of Democracies. Admiral, what do you think what do you expect today when the Treasury Secretary comes out and speaks? Hey, look, I'm excited. I think when you combine increased sanctions, particularly if they're done in concert with the United Arab Emirates, who has a lot of influence on the Iranian economy, along with the blockade, and let's be clear, this is anchored in the blockade that says we are going to block ninety percent to ninety five percent because there's still small amounts of ground based tanking, but ninety percent to ninety five percent of your fossil fuel exports, we're going to cut off two hundred fifty to three hundred billion dollars a year worth of excuse me, one hundred fifty percent to two hundred billion dollars a year worth of value To the Iranian economy.

Those are big numbers. And so if this truly is. a useful, effective sanctions package with that. Look, I want to see more economic pressure uh on uh on um Iran, while we get as much fuel out via pipeline and the Omani channel as your clip just mentioned. Inflation is up 80 to 90 percent, currency, two million real for every one dollar, and they say it's been devalued forty percent since this conflict started.

Now I see the president comes out and says. It is better that we demonstrate our strength and dignity today and tell the world that we have won and that we are ending the war. The Speaker, Galibav, says no matter how much military power we have, if our people are struggling and the country lacks financial circulation and economic growth, we will not achieve progress. As someone who has experienced war, we understand the true value of peace.

So those are indications are, look, they want to get on the other side of this. But this is good cop, bad cop. The IRGC is saying belligerent things. No, I agree. And I think we probably have to specifically target IRGC accounts outside the country, which I think are in United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.

The IRGCs, we've mentioned this before, they're a criminal organization, right, in the sense that they take money from financial dealings by the state and pay, the IRGC senior leadership has funds overseas. We need to grab this money. We need to hold them accountable. And we need to make sure that people that the Iranian people understand this is about the IRGC, not you.

So as much as possible, that's what I would do. I do think though, Brian, a few weeks of this and Iran's going to have to lash out. They have to lash out at the Arab states that are Arab partners with attacks on their critical infrastructure because that's the only way they can impose pain on the U. S. Israeli Arab partnership.

And then at that point, what do you expect us to do? I think we're going to have to do return to combat operations. And again, I would very specifically target. IRGC held state-owned enterprises. What I mean by that is after 1979, when the clerics took over all the All the properties and all the companies, a lot of companies, they got rich.

During the Iran-Iraq war, the RRGC said, look what we're doing. Where's our scratch? And they got companies. Those companies, they're in shipbuilding. In construction and communications, we should label them legitimate military targets because they fund the IRGC and we should attack them.

And again, message to the Iranian people: this is about the IRGC, not you. Strike those targets. I'd also still strike targets, maritime targets, in the Bondura Abbas area on the Strait of Hamuz Islands, to make sure that they can't easily target ships going through that Omani stretch of water. Yeah, we got to start doing that again. Major John Spencer was on with me Sunday night.

He's from the Urban Warfare Institute, executive director there, author of 20 Times I Almost Died. But he's also a professor at the War College. He said this about the reality of munitions and what we're capable of still, CUT 27. Even if it was true and if I believed it, although there is no number, the wrong message to send to Iran or any enemy is: you've figured us out. You attack our bases, you attack really our allies, and we'll stop because we're a shortage possibly of these munitions.

Right. And that's really what they've interpreted now. If we hit their allies in the Gulf states, they're going to yell at us to stop, and we do. Yeah. So, first of all, I'm glad I like Spencer a lot.

He's a smart guy. We are not short on the munitions that we need to hit Iran. The munitions we need for them are shorter range precision-guided munitions, 500, 1,000, 2,000-pound precision-guided munitions. We have over 100,000, Brian. We can strike every target in the world.

We're fine. We're fine on that. What he's talking about there also is the defensive ones. Look, we were short patriot and dad for a China. Plan before the war started.

Now we're shorter. I get it. We need to finish this war off. We need to finish this war properly. And then rebuild our Patriot and Dad.

And you just saw massive contracts to triple and quadruple Patriot and Dad production over the next two to three to four years. We gotta let that go. One thing that is killing us, though, Brian, is the lack. of Drone defenses, ground-based drone defenses. Our air base drone defenses are great, the ones in aircraft, but that's for defending things far away, for those close in targets like Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Eastern Saudi Arabia.

They're 60, 90 miles from Iran. We need ground-based systems. They're located in Ukraine. Also, U.S. companies are in Ukraine.

That stuff needs to be flowing into our air partners and to United States forces so we can defend ourselves against that. Are they flowing in? I think some are. Not at the rate, like if you and I were in a bureaucratic free environment, there would be more. But the normal bureaucracy, the military integrating a weapon system, we haven't been fantastic on it.

But we have actually used a MirOps to shoot down a drone. I know that at least once. What does that mean? What's a Mirops? Can you say that?

A MirOps. That's the Eric Schmidt company that's done a ton of great work in Ukraine. Their Mirops has a effector, a missile called the Surveyor, shoots down drones really well. And I know they've done at least one intercept, probably more than that. Defending our air partners and our bases.

I saw this story in the New York Times yesterday. It looks like they started a bunch of companies that are making cheaper. more effective interceptors. There's one called PowerUS, the largest defense contractor in the world makes the PAC III in partnership with European manufacturers. The industry acknowledging that the last four years have demonstrated you cannot supply a modern conflict with a single entity or faculty.

So they're making these facilities, I should say, they're making these cheaper. There's these these cheaper drones and interceptors. Raytheon announced a partnership to build a Coyote interceptor. Neros, a startup company in Torrance, is developing an interceptor drone called The Bandit. It's going to cost about $5,000.

The other one with Raytheon, $126,000. And Paris has their own.

So it looks like there are some rapid things going on quickly. Oh, there are.

So look. Coyote's been around a while. That's the problem. When America's normal defense industrial base process, you end up with $126,000 interceptor, like you just said. The right answer is the newer U.S.

initiatives, whether they're done by the defense industrial base or the new startups like Andrew Powell or the new guys whose names you and I can't remember, they need to come in around $5,000 to $10,000 around. By the way, the Ukrainians, for perspective, are $1,000 to $10,000 a round. But we don't have the kind of lack of supply chain authenticity and cheap labor that Ukraine has. But we could do to $5,000 to $10,000 around, Brian. And if we could crank these out.

It would remove the Iranian the sole Iranian advantage here. And once you remove that, then we could cut that their their military advantage, then we could concentrate on the Straito Hormuz.

So when you say this the straight of Hermuz, things are getting better there, they say they're up 400%, but they're still behind where we want them to be?

Well, what I'd say is, is that they are rebuilding their ability to so we smashed their ability to have radars and systems that could detect ship movement as far south as Oman. They're rebuilding those. Yo, they're bringing them back, I promise you, that there are new target sets on those islands and in Bandur Abbas. And we're going to need to hit 'em, because if they get all that situational awareness tools back up, Then they'll be able to launch effective drone attacks on merchant ships going through. We'll probably shoot most of that stuff down with our aircraft overhead.

But you don't you know, the merchants are going to be a little nervous when there's a lot of firing.

So we need to remove their capability to target shipping as far south as the Omani transit scheme.

So Admiral, do you think that they know are very aware of our election cycle and will wait for October to do something to maximize the damage to Republicans and President Trump? I think so. I mean, I would if I were them. I mean, I would say this. They're certainly bringing their, you know, there's an advantage to conserving their weapons now so they could do a stronger strike in October if you're trying to hurt President Trump.

Yes. So looking at Ukraine, it looks like last year we gave them six hundred seventy Patriots. This year, we've given them two hundred seventy four. And the UK is getting getting letting them build their own scout missiles. We said we talked about letting them build their own Patriots, our Patriots, and give them licensing.

What do you think is the best way to help Ukraine? Yeah, so look. The Patriots that they would build themselves wouldn't come until twenty twenty eight. Same with the ones that are being built in Germany now. That's probably late twenty twenty seven.

My recommendation is that we give them Starlink targeting over Russia.

so that their own strike weapons can strike Uh Um Iscondar launchers, ballistic missile launchers, when they begin to set up. It's about a 20-minute process to set this up.

So, you know, it's set up to launch a missile. Plus, there's a limited number of launchers, and there's a limited number dude to know how to operate the launcher, right? These aren't conscripts. And what you need to do is strike them. You strike them with weapons launched from F-16s, the ones we've given them, or our NATO allies have given them, with weapons we've given them called extended-range attack munition, and you attack them with their own.

medium range strike that the Ukrainians are building at great speed. That's the way you do it. Shoot the archer, not the arrows. And if you kill the archer the dudes manning the ar the launchers, those guys are irreplaceable in Russia.

So they said they're going to look to mobilize 300,000 soldiers. Can they? This is on top of their normal three hundred thousand they're getting each year.

So I think they're looking to have a big year, like a five hundred to six hundred thousand year. I don't know if he can or not. I mean, this is risky. You're going to start affecting your base. Putin has his own base.

And so far, he has not been drawing children from that base. He's been drawing them from minorities, from prisons, from other areas. If he does this kind of conscription, he's starting to risk his long-term credibility as the leader. But he's been told by his generals, if we just had a few 100,000 extra men for the next offensive, it would go better. I'm not sure that's true.

I think that's just a few hundred thousand extra men to get killed by Ukrainian drone operators. What do you think the reality is on the ground? Do you think Putin's getting the true story? About how these guys are doing? I can't believe he is because he's really risking things here.

He is not getting the traction he expects he does make they do make some advances the russians but not in a way that guarantees grabbing any of the Fortress Belt cities. And he is absolutely destroying his economy. His lead economist For the bank, for the lead Russian bank, called it out the other day and said, Look, we're in a full wartime economy with no investment in infrastructure, no investment in the private sector. We're going to have a brutal collapse when this war is over in their economy. And so he was fired, obviously, the next day.

I'm surprised he hasn't been arrested yet. But the truth is. He is destroying his economy. To achieve this game, and he's not getting there. Here's what the former vice president, Mike Pence, is in Ukraine right now and said this yesterday: Cut 49.

Ukraine is winning this war. Four and a half years after that brutal and unprovoked invasion by Russia, Ukraine's military on the front lines has fought Russia to a stalemate. And by essentially reinventing drone warfare, they've taken the fight directly into the heart of Russia.

So they I mean, I know he's selling a little bit, but a lot of people are coming back very encouraged after meeting with Zelensky. But you know, I'm there like, I don't get to meet with Zelensky. I'm there four times a year for a couple weeks training their soldiers. And my take is probably. Less optimistic in a sense that they're not losing, is what I'd say.

They are not losing this war. And Ukraine will not lose this war militarily. They have the resilience. For the reasons he said. Drone their adaptability in drone attack and drone defense, both on the front lines and medium range and long range strike.

The question is, I don't know how they win, how they seize back Crimea, how they get back the 75% of Donbass they've lost.

So I would define them as not losing. I think Zelensky would join me in this, because he defines winning as getting back Crimea and the Donbas. And I don't know how you do that yet without a complete collapse of Russia. As an entity. And I don't know that that's happening.

And so I appreciate his optimism, but I probably take a slightly less A less optimistic approach and a more realistic one. Here's the other thing that we don't talk about. Their civilian resilience is so strong. If we had 10% of this, our country would be so much stronger. Their ability to take these strikes, I mean, the Russian ballistic missiles now, 75% of them, 65% just hit.

They hit supermarkets, they hit apartment buildings, they hit schools. And they hit defense industrial base sites.

Sometimes they're accurate. And they come from North Korea. Just whole missiles and then parts from China. You know, they're getting supported by the Axis of aggressors. And Russia, I mean, Ukraine is holding off four countries.

Russia. China, North Korea, and Iran, not on their own, but with no actual other forces in the field with them. It's amazing. Admiral Mark Montgomery, thanks so much. Appreciate it.

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Our response will be concentrated in sectors such as steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, electronics.

Some of these measures will raise costs and reduce choice for Canadians. Reluctantly, because we recognize that some U.S. companies and some U.S. states are innocent bystanders in a dispute that they did not want.

So that is Mark Carney, whose ratings go up when he takes on the U. S. Say he walked away from a trade deal that the President thought was done on Friday. He gave a pretty good speech. He said, look, I think we've got something done to talk to Kearney.

Feel pretty good about it. Evidently this is according to one report. Uh we actually walked in and changed the rules a little bit at the end and asked for a special Compensation for the F-150. They say the U.S.

sought to exclude from tariff reductions. Heavy trucks produced in Ontario. Such as the F350 and F450 and the GM Silverado. Over time, it would have made more uneconomic for automakers to keep making the vehicles in Canada. They want to keep making a McCanner, we want to bring him back here, so we let the whole thing collapse because of that.

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We're going to be speaking at the bottom of the arrow with a former hostage in Iran about what's going on. He's got great contacts.

Now, Professor of Columbia, he's going to be with us shortly. Nancy Hogshead is standing by too. She's a civil rights lawyer, CEO of Champion Women, and a legal advocacy for girls and women's sports and a fantastic athlete in her own right. And we're going to get to all that because once again, another weekend, another controversy with the WNBA.

So before we get to Nancy, let's get to the big three. Number three. In recent days, the United States proposed new terms. They're uneconomic, unfair. and undermine the net benefits for Canada.

They ask too much. And they offered too little. All right, there you go. Canadian trade deal has fallen apart for now. The USMCA not to be updated for now.

We got to the eighth to work it out. I hope as we go back, especially it's going to affect the midterms, Maine and Michigan specifically. Number two. But what's happening in the Middle East, the conflict with Iran, is now a big driver of what's happening on inflation because as you know, energy goes into every facet of the U.S. economy and the longer that conflict, the more turmoil there is, the longer it goes on.

Economic D-Day hours away, and the Iranians promise a swift and harsh retaliation for the Treasury Secretary's actions. We'll discuss it, what it means for other countries doing business with Iran. Yeah. Number one, I'd rather an economy that has a thousand millionaires in it than one billionaire. I also think we got to start taxing wealth for people who have over a hundred million dollars.

I mean, at that point, like, what do you think are you going to do with more money? Yeah, how about expanding your business? Does that ever occur to you? When primaries pass, candidates usually move to the middle, but not in Michigan with El Saeed and many of his cromies ratchet up the extremism as links to UBL emerge from his mom and her past work.

So, good luck with that as Mike Rogers will try to get some additional traction. First polls had him up by four.

So, over the weekend, WNBA game, one in Brooklyn, another one in Chicago, evolving the Indiana fever. Prior to this, Caitlin Clark, you weren't really talking much about the WNBA, but yet it's been around for decades. Yet, the quality of play is fine. And the players are averaging, I guess the salary is $1.4 million. But we now have some controversy because Caitlin Clark was received.

And then we finally have Sophie Cunningham standing up for her. She's become a celebrity in her own right. And then over the weekend, we had Enos Cantor, longtime NBA or now retired at 35 years old, saying that unless the WNBA makes clear what their gender specifications are, he will declare himself eligible for the draft. And showed up to support Sophie Cunningham at the game with the WNBA last night, and that caused some controversy. He would eventually get tossed out.

of the arena when he was challenged by a player simply because he stood up after Sophie Cunningham hit a three. Joining us now, Nancy Hogshead. Nancy, welcome to the show. Great to see you. What is your take on this consistent drumbeat of controversy in the WNBA?

Have you ever seen anything like it? I have not. I have not. And what's sad is that they could easily solve this really quickly. And we're trying to help them.

I'm on your show right now because we have a change.org petition that asks that we want to show the WNBA that this is indeed an 80-20 issue, that women's sports should be for females. Yes, it's not really hard. But how you define a woman, we have a Supreme Court justice that had trouble with that. We're going to go back to that debate.

Well You know, the mainstream media didn't cover the last Supreme Court argument very well when they said that they they that uh it was unanimous. The Supreme Court, all justices held that when it came to Title IX, which bars discrimination based on sex. The that equals biology. And everybody agrees to that.

So but we heard about all the there was this ideological split when it came to the Equal Protection Clause, but not at all when it came to Title IX.

So Sex means biology. You can't just rename what a word means and have it subsume the reality of what it means. You can't just say a dog is a cat, and everybody has to agree that a dog is a cat. But if the d but if the dog felt like a cat Would you have to let him play with cats? Yeah.

That's a perfect example of how somebody's feeling, whether they're feeling masculine or feminine, but that therefore means that they have changed sex. I mean, that's an ideology, that's a religion, that's a cult, that is a belief system. And people in America can have their belief systems. I don't believe in that belief system. I believe in biology and facts and verifiable.

And our petition with XXXY Athletics, the brand that I'm wearing here, and the Women's Sports Policy Working Group, which includes Martina Navichalova, also, you know, we would just want to make clear to the WNBA this is what everybody wants.

So A couple of statements.

So here's an idea.

So Saturday, The Fever with Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark played In Brooklyn. And this is a little bit about the scene that was happening outside the arena, Cut 39. If you're all gonna stand here with me today, will you at least answer some questions for me? My first question is... No.

Do your beliefs. Trans Lives Matter! Trans Lives Matter! She did this with tremendous risk to her personal safety, her career, and I just am very grateful for her speaking up. For Sophie, speaking up and not backing down and continuing to say what she said and speaking up for all of us female athletes is so inspiring.

And I know that's going to push every female athlete to speak out and continue to push for this.

Nancy Oxhead, did she do the right thing, Sophie Cunningham? Oh, I'm so appreciative. She's the first professional current playing athlete that is speaking out on this issue.

So. You know, kudos to her. We did have a lot of tennis players come out after the Women's Tennis Association, the WTA, came out and said that they were going to start sex testing. But I just want to remark on that clip that you just played, and where people are saying trans lives matter. I agree.

I think everybody agrees, but that's not the issue. The issue is: do men belong in women's sports? That's what our petition with change.org is trying to establish: that they can live their lives, they can dress however they want to, but don't invade women's sports and women's spaces. We don't segregate, we don't segregate in any way throughout society very many places. We don't in academics, we don't in when it comes to employment.

But when it comes to sports, when it comes to women's spaces, changing spaces, rape crisis shel uh centers, shelters, hospital wards, Prison cells, we do sex segregate. And why? Because women have fought for hundreds of years to be able to get those segregated spaces. We need them. Women need those spaces.

So how did you feel about Leah Thomas the years ago at the University of Pennsylvania?

So Leah Thomas, I think, piqued a lot of people. When you first, you know, we're saying, oh, well, you know, transgender people can go on hormones and be able to compete fairly. It just showed everybody that was nonsense, that they cannot do that. And the more people saw Leah Thomas, the more that they were in favor of having sex verifications, sex tests, mean that only women, the biological kind, could participate in women's sports.

So it's not that they're excluded from sport. They're welcome in sport, but everybody plays in their sex category, their weight category, their age category. And you can't just wave away and say, I identify as something different to get out of those sport categories that are there to ensure fairness. And do you believe Anita Scantor gets kicked out of the game last night? Because after Sophie Cunningham hit a three, he celebrated, and one of the players in the other team didn't like it.

So here's how he described what happened: cut 40.

Sophie Cunningham shot at three and I put my hands up to celebrate, right? Literally a couple positions later, Natasha came back And she started screaming and yelling and said, she's not gonna sleep with you. And I was like, I am not trying to sleep with her. I'm just here to protect woman and support her. And then obviously after that, she started yapping and she started to walk towards me.

And literally, I just got up. And then I was like, I'm just here to protect women. And that's all. Unbelievable, right?

So he gets tossed. Right. Okay. I hope everybody I didn't hear that segment before about the she just wants to sleep with you, like that is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. But what I did see of him standing up was These amazingly tall, strong women look like children next to him.

So these are literally the world's best female basketball players. And when he stood up and he's six foot ten, it just showed exactly the biological differences between men and women. I mean, he's just enormous.

So, um, Nancy, when you swam, can you imagine if a man just said, listen, I want to swim against Nancy Hogshead?

So, my entire career, which was between 1976 and 1984, I had to compete against the East Germans. And nobody of my stature, of Kara Dansky's stature, of Jen Say's stature, of all these amazing women who are coming out in favor of women's sports, were standing up for me. We were told we had to be quiet about it. And so I will not let an unfairness go by the way that. The way that sort of what happened to me.

The difference is. A woman on steroids is nowhere near men.

So, my peers in the East German world that I was competing against. They were nowhere near men. They were a little bit faster than we were in many cases, not in all cases. But they were nowhere near men. They were that that eleven percent gap.

I I remember those I remember those shots of those Eastwoodmen women. They were like men, you know, with the steroids. You know, back then they were raw. They didn't know little about it. Yeah, they were like men, but they weren't men.

Right. They did not have the biological. But Nancy, let me ask you real quick.

So the WNBA might be looking for a new commissioner, but there's a draft in March, and Eden's Cantor and others are going to declare. He came out and said, look, the G League in the NBA, the minor leagues, they're making $45,000 a year. The average salary for the WNBA, $1.4 million. There's going to be guys lining up to play in that league.

So they have to do something. What would you recommend? Oh, it's simple. It's a fifty cent. Cheek swab.

So I was cheek swab back in nineteen eighty four when I was competing, and it was part of our credential that we wore all the time. And you do a once in a lifetime cheek swab, you get verified, and the end. It's just as simple as that. Got it. Let's see if they'll do it.

It worked on the border. This is so fixable. Yes. So I just want to encourage everybody to sign our petition. You can go to change.org backslash XX.

WNBA.

So that's change.org, XXWNBA. CEO of Champion Woman, Nancy Hogshead. Thanks so much. Back in a moment. Thank you.

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I think what it reminds me of is the anti-fossil fuel effort that went across America for decades trying to keep our abundant fossil fuels in the ground and hanging it on this green climate issue, which was a false issue in most cases.

So I see the same thing happening here. It's the progressive left. Obviously, you nailed it when you talk about China not wanting America to win the AI data center race, so to speak. Whoever wins that, Wins. And I think that's the real key.

It's why President Trump has been so strong in his position of saying, hey, You know, go out there, build these data centers, win this race, and we'll decide where they need to be.

Well, look, everyone's got a bid. Small town should matter. Have your town halls. But understand, this is to everybody's benefit, not just Facebook, not just. Uh Amazon, this is what people need.

you actually need it to function on a regular basis. You want to use AI, you want to use it for school, you want to use it for work. That's what's going to have to happen. But I understand now everybody's so scared about saying they're for a data center.

So now even Republican governors like in Texas and elsewhere saying, I'm not for it.

So that was Rick Perry on with me with One Nation last night.

Now he's an investor in it, but the reason why I booked him is Secretary of Energy. And he remembers everyone saying don't use oil and gas. He's like, Are you crazy? Can't get jeans. You know, you're not going to be able to farm.

You're not going to be able to drive. You think you're going to do everything in an electric car? What do you think is fueling the grid? Here's Senator Tim Scott trying to they're trying to pin him down and meet the press. Cut 44.

Well, we know that the Democrats, Governor Shapiro, was for data centers as well. But we know with a question I wrote an op-ed, Kristen, about a month ago on the importance of data centers paying their own way. paying for their electricity, paying for their water usage, and only going to communities that want them. But we also know that Democrats are being used as pawns for this disinformation campaign run by China to make sure that China wins the AI future instead of America. We absolutely have to make sure that data centers only go to communities that want them and they pay their own way.

Yeah, don't give them massive tax breaks. In the beginning, they want the blue-collar jobs. They say, listen, why don't you come to my city, come to my state, and we're going to give you a tax break. And they said, okay, now we're not at that point now. Then they said, Well, you know, I asked Doug Bergham flat out, Secretary of Interior, is it true that data centers up the utility rates?

He said absolutely not.

Now I've heard other things other times, but I guess it depends on the deal they cut. But now everybody's trying to say you're for data centers, you're for data centers. No, well, you said you're for data centers. Like, for example, in Wisconsin, Tom Tiffany's against data centers. He's criticizing his opponent, he's a Republican, criticizing an opponent, Democrat, for being for data centers.

We all should be for them. It's how you build them and where you build them that's key. Listen to Chris Van Hollen. This guy just reeks of politics when every word he says. Cut 45.

Would you welcome data centers in Maryland? I leave it up to the individual county and state with respect to the siting of a data center.

However, no. data center. should be free loading on my constituents in the form of higher electricity bills. And that is what's happened. In the grid that Maryland's part of, PJM, we spent $28 billion over the last two years subsidizing data centers.

That's insane. That is what Republicans ultimately want, despite what they say. Donald Trump has these sort of feel-good things at the White House, but he hasn't supported the legislation that I've introduced.

Okay, nobody's going to support anything you introduce in the White House ever. But Congressman Van Howen, do you think that anyone's saying I am running on upping the utility rents rates for anybody ever? And even the DSA wouldn't be for that, unless, of course, you're a billionaire or trillionaire. Donald Trump, Don't Want Anyone Kid You, is for upping the amount of money people pay for their phones and their data collection. Seriously?

And you allow all these data centers to come in, and now, over the last month, now you're against it. And now you want all these rules. You're still brain kill me, Joe. We go inside this big move. It's less than two hours away now for a big press conference announcing.

big time sanctions on Iran. Details next. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. There are several countries that still continue to trade with Iran, and it's no secret, and it's been publicly talked about, that China still buys oil from Iran, especially when it was able to get out of the strait.

You know, countries like India also accept Shadow Fleet. Oil from other countries, including Iran.

So I think there's, you know, this is a clear indication that the conflict is with Iran, that we do not seek conflict to expand this conflict. We want everybody to join the United States in the denuclearization of Iran, because this is an important project. I hear you. That is, of course, the Ambassador Matt Whitaker, the UN, the Ambassador to NATO, and trying to figure out a way forward. One thing pretty clear: NATO nations have stood back and done almost nothing.

Uh Keon Taj Baks joins us now. He's a professor over at NYU, and he's an Iranian American scholar and former political prisoner released on in twenty as part of the twenty fifteen Iran nuclear deal, and author of the Iran Crisis Notebook. You could always catch his columns on Substack. Keon, welcome back. Thank you very much, Brian.

So I guess first off, are you optimistic that this Treasury Secretary will have the type of sanctions that will get the Iranians' attention?

Well, Brian, I think that we, I mean, at this point. With so many months Um almost you know stretching into a year of this operation or at least let's say from February I think the American people and a lot of people around the world will, I think, be justified in approaching this With some skepticism, and I'll tell you why. The reason is because it seems that if I was to assess. where the US is and where Iran is there are some advantages that Iran has. On the one hand, the U S As so far On a number of things, not everything, has over-promised and under-delivered.

So, when we hear about the Treasury Secretary or Mr. Besson saying this is. A D-Day. I mean, in a in a sense, I would prefer him not to make such let's say large promises about what could be done, partly because the US has done a lot already, not only over the last year, but over the last several decades In sanctioning secondary countries against Iran.

So the first point I'd make is that if we look at the US track record on the military side, the Straits of Hormuz, the number of missiles, there have been some real gains. In the sense from the US side, in other words, the bombing of the nuclear installations. Was both unprecedented for a US president and also. From what we can tell, it has been relatively successful. On the other hand, a majority of the military.

Objectives have not been met, and here we are several months in, still wrangling over the strengths of Hormuz.

So, the first point I'd make is. Um Should people be skeptical in thinking, well, Does really, Mr. Besant and the Treasury, really know as much about the Iranian economy? As They first of all claimed that they knew about the military, and then we discovered there are lots of underground cities with missiles they didn't know about. They didn't know about the Iranian plans to close the Straits of Hormuz and so on and so forth.

So you get my point on that one. On the other side, Brian, is a very, very clear fact. For people who have been living in Iran and who study Iran, and that is that the Iranian economy. is incredibly opaque. It's not transparent.

It's very hard even for specialists like me that study the government budgets, that study revenues, that study get really into the weeds to understand how the Iranian economy actually works. I'll give you one startling data point. Which several years ago, a leading Iranian economist, I'd be based in the US, leading one of the top universities. Estimated that forty percent of Iran's GDP is off the books.

Now, for someone who studies a country, think about what that means. 40% of a country's economy is actually not in view.

Now, either, Breson, I mean, I assume the US Treasury has eyes on areas we don't. But if you put these two together, Brian, a poor track record of over-promising and under-delivering. Plus, a highly, highly opaque and non-transparent Iranian economy, which by the way, has been built on evading sanctions. It's not that they're just now going to try to evade sanctions. The whole system is built on evading sanctions.

The whole system is built on shadow financial sectors through the Gulf, through Chinese banks and so on and so forth. And so they're very resilient.

So if I put those two together, Brian, I'd say that we have to really wait and see. Very interesting because you would think if forty percent is off the books, it's untrackable. But then again, we've had a lot of time to really to examine where the money is coming, what's coming in and what's coming out. Maybe we made some progress on that. And they also said we also are able to get ships through the strait.

They're up four hundred percent over the last two weeks.

So we're trying to maneuver that through the Oman side of the strait.

So that's something that's changing the dynamic a little bit, along with rerouting some of the oil through pipelines, correct? Yes, but I mean, if you step back and think about where we are, we are the world's number one superpower dealing with one of the four main energy chunk points on planet Earth. And we're really doing what is a kind of, you know, a salvage operation, trying to get through a few boats through the Omani thing. This is nowhere near the claim that the straits are open and that we control this, that the U.S. controls the straits and that it's back to business.

So I think that, you know, I think we should see it in the perspective it is. I don't think it's a successful operation so far. And I think the U.S. is, you know, the U.S. administration is juggling a number of bulls, domestic politics in the U.S., regional politics with the new Mecca Accords, which is maybe throwing a wrench into President Trump's Abrahamic Accords.

And then globally, its relationship with China, its relationship with Asian markets.

So the U.S. has a much harder task than the Iranian regime does. But nonetheless, we, I think, at this Point, people would not be unjustified to feel frustrated by the pace of progress. Yeah, Professor, I want to bring you to the response that the Iranians had.

Now, the Speaker of the House and the President was: let's end, they basically said, let's end this thing. Different response from Iran Supreme National Security Council Secretary. Motion. Rizai. If Trump decides to take further action, our response our retaliation will be seismic.

First, we'll tell all neighboring countries and countries around the world not to join the United States in its economic war. Any country that takes part in imposing economic restrictions on us will be regarded as enemy.

So, I mean, that, of course, would be UAA? And the pressure has got to go on Turkey and Pakistan. as well as obviously China and Russia, right? Do you think that the President is going to put pressure on Turkey and Pakistan as Pakistan makes another overture to be a mediator? Um Well, again, we're gonna have to wait and see.

But given the track record, my feeling would be. Probably not enough to really make this a game changer, let's put it that way. Because at the moment, Turkey, because it's come into this pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, is Turkey has been a spoiler. Of a lot of, I mean, it is a NATO ally. It is a, you know.

It has been up to now a friend of the United States. But on the other hand, it does play this double game with the Islamic world. in which Turkey also comes out And accuses our closest ally, the US's closest ally in the Middle East, Israel, with destruction and the same kind of language as the Taliban or ISIS or al-Qaeda makes, or the Iranian regime for that matter.

So it's hard. They're going to drive a hard bargain on a range of other things like Syria.

So my sense is that President Trump is not in a position to press them as hard as needed to fully push the Iranian regime into a corner, but we'll have to see. And as for those different voices coming out of Iran, Brian, yes, there are always differences within an administration, but I think your viewers and listeners should realize that. Um The person who's referred to as the president of the Iranian Islamic Republic is not a president in the way we understand a president. In other words, controlling a strong executive power. In the U.S., the president is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, has the top executive power in the country.

That is not the case in Iran. The president in the Islamic Republic of Iran is more like a kind of prime minister. No, we understand that. But he is speaking for the government.

So, right now they say. You need 2 million real for $1. The currency has been devalued by 40%. Inflation is between 80% and 90%. When you talk to people on the ground or communicate with people on the ground, now the Internet's back up.

What are they saying conditions are like inside the country? Yeah, I mean, I have close relatives who just came back actually last week from Iran, spending some of the summer there. I speak with other family who are there. Look, the conditions are really dire. The prices are extremely high of goods and services.

At the same time, and I don't want to minimize in any way the economic hardship faced by the Iranian people, but the reality is that these, you know, maybe my impression is a lot of that. of money, that revenue, which is off the books. is used by the IRGC. It doesn't go into the government coffers, by the way. They control the oil, they control the oil revenue, then they give some of the money to the government, which shows up in the government budget.

But they use that money To highly subsidize goods and services for many Iranians. Not all Iranians, but many Iranians get very, very highly subsidized basic goods and services: electricity, water, education, healthcare, and gasoline. Iran has probably the second cheapest gasoline in the world. Still. Yes, still.

Yes, yeah, yeah. They subsidize it very highly. There's a big debate going on inside Iran now where the price they're they're they're asking for the price of uh of uh price of the pump to go up because the government just simply cannot afford to subsidize that much.

So this is a big so it it is a big, huge strain. And apart from anything else, it just disrupts everyday life. People who want to go about their shopping, their do you think we do anything to arm the population? Do they have to be trained to? Oh, Brian, that is just such a hard question.

As someone who is who has always been a civil activist, I really I have to tell you, the only real empirical data point I can think What if I was in Tehran? And my cousins and my family all of a sudden were given access to weapons. What would we do exactly? And I have to say. Unless there's a group of younger Iranians who get trained in and can be put somewhere in the country where they can be safely trained, I really don't see a lot of the urban middle class being able to I mean, you know, I'll have to be frank here.

Would I pick up an M sixteen and go wandering around the city? I don't think I know what to do with it exactly.

So it would be a big lift, it would be a big operation, it would take many months, it may be years of training and so forth. All right, Professor. We'll see what happens when the Treasury Secretary makes his speech. I think it's going to end up with some type of kinetic action all before. All before the midterm elections.

Professor Keon Taj Bakish, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thank you, Brian. Back in a moment. In a world of noise, get the signal.

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When we read from paper, when we write, handwrite stuff down, that changes the way we think, that deepens the way we learn. A screen simply makes everything way too easy. No friction, no learning. When we type, we tend to type as fast as other people speak.

So typing basically becomes like a courtroom stenographer. I'm just getting verbatim stuff down. But in that case, the only thing I'm paying attention to is the sound and the order of your words. The meaning is irrelevant. When I handwrite, I can't keep up with you.

So already I have to parse, what are you saying? What does it mean? How does it fit together?

So just by taking notes with a pen and paper, you're going to learn better. Jared Horvath. The Digital Delusion. His book is now out. He was kind enough to join us on radio and T V over the weekend.

And he basically just says this. I had no idea until he came out and testified and then wrote this book. For example, when you use an iPad, Or you can use a MacBook and you're taking notes in a classroom, or you're learning things and reading things, it's much better to read from a book. It's much better to write out things with your hand. Here we are in the digital age, and everybody's typing, but if you want to remember it and understand it, he said there's something about the way you learn and studying the brain and neuroscience that you have to write it out.

And did you hear his explanation about if you're listening to a professor speak in a classroom tonight, today, or a teacher, you're in seventh or eighth grade. And you're taking notes, and they said you can use your MacBook, or you could use your Chromebook. Don't. He's saying use a paper. Write on the lines on a paper because as you write, it imprints on your brain.

But when you type, it doesn't. And they say stenographers, for example, if you say, Hey, you took down every word of the trial, yes. If you test stenograph, what happened? They go, I don't know. Because they're an automatic pilot, they're not there to j digest and understand.

Here's more from Jared. Oh, God bless the robots in the room. No, we simply cannot connect with a piece of machinery in the same way we connect biologically with another person. And that deepens learning. But if anyone who's ever been around a dinner table knows that if you're having a great conversation, as soon as a phone comes out, it breaks that entire system down.

Same thing in the classes. And what I was talking about, too, is about they're starting to roll out robots. for primary school. Would you think that would help? Because you have more teachers, a lot more patients, a lot noble absences.

Would that work? Because after all, you're learning the thing. No. She says, absolutely not. You need a personal connection between the student at any age, first or first year of college.

You need the connection with the person relaying it. Even if it's a bad teacher, you have a connection and something they're related to. This is somebody who not only knows education, knows neuroscience, and studied the brain.

So fascinating. Who can't relate to this? Grandparent, parent, student listening right now? Hey, just a quick note: United States is coming out October 13th. I'm going to be in Redmack, New Jersey on the 16th, Westbury, New York on stage on the 17th, Clearwater, Florida, November 7th, Jacksonville, November 8th, and Chesterville, Missouri, November 21st.

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