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From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Killmead. Man, we have a lot going on. Of course, the passing of Dolly Pardon is headlines everywhere. I mean, around the globe, literally.

Country music star came from nothing, one of 11 kids born to illiterate parents, and ends up being this global icon who's done Fox and Friends a number of times.

So we look forward to looking at her career. It's also, you can catch our show anytime youtube.com/slash at the Brian Kilmeat Show. This hour will be joined by Caroline Downey, a columnist for the National Review, talk about what's happening in this crazy country of ours where now we're debating the use of data centers. Wait a second. Do you like your phone?

Yep. You need your storage? Absolutely. You want to pay high rates? No.

So do you want to keep up with China when it comes to AI? Of course. But I don't want a data center. Can't have it all. I think China has a lot to do with it.

I think China and Russia are trying to get on social media and try to skew the perception of the public when it comes there.

So we'll talk about all that and this with the big three. Number three. You know, Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment. And I think that's healthy. You crazy Hillary Clinton, an experiment with communism and socialism?

Dems have a radical problem led by Hassan Pikras. They begin to stand up to the radical anti-American socialist. Question. How does that work with their party? Isn't it time for them to either get on board with socialists or condemn it?

Number two. It's going to hurt the American people when you tariff goods. I always say a tariff on Canada is a tax on the American people. I don't know where you're getting the 200% tariffs, but that's not accurate. Not so neighborly in the neighborhood.

Canada and U.S. trade relations hit an ugly, all-time low, and it's going to cost everybody money.

Okay. Number one. It's actually going to be a really significant piece of finally forcing the Iranian regime to recognize reality. And the reality is that they have limited cards to play. They've pushed their people to the brink of collapse.

Alex Gray weighs in, former Trump official coming to a head. Hormo Strait might just be open right now. Massive sanctions go into effect. The question, will China play ball? Because they're the ones who are the number one financer of Iran because they get the discount oil.

Will we jeopardize our relationship with China and the big meeting on the 28th by cracking down? Or are we going to give them a little bit of play? I say we crack down. in a nice polite way. You don't want to jeopardize relations, but you got to be direct.

Iran is our number one problem right now on the globe. Number two is Ukraine. And number three, I think right now, election-wise, is this trade deal. First off, when it comes to Iran, I just got to clarify: this is where we're getting. Oman and Iran have been meeting.

We know that.

So, what's going to happen?

Well, evidently, they've agreed to open up the strait. And I'm thinking to myself, why is this not major headlines? Agree to open up the straight because with that would be a number of ships.

So I was talking to a highest-ranking Trump official. twenty nine ships got through yesterday.

Now it's pretty significant. They need one hundred. Then things will be back to normal.

Okay, that was before the announcement that they're opening up. We demined the whole thing quietly. Our Navy is doing great. Doing some escorts because our allies are not even helping, which is unbelievable. I understand that we're ticked off in the beginning, but let's get over it.

So it looks like the strait might be open.

Now, I think that we'll wait because Iran, Oman, they decide what's going on there. We're not thrilled that they're talking to each other, but no one's talking about tolls either.

So Hormuz is already carrying substantially more traffic, according to U.S. officials, who told Axios that 500 ships used the Southern Channel during the last previous days, not counting the 29 that came through yesterday. That's my words. Situation is still dangerous. One ship got shot, but then we finish off where that came from, whether it's a Person, a missile site, or a drone attack.

Bottom line, Washington appears to be trying to secure Hormoz militarily while squeezing Iran economically. We've never had that combination before. Of course, people have said, Brian, we've always had sanctions. Our whole life we put sanctions on these guys, but not in combination with military pressure after already bombing them for 14 days and prior to that for at least a month. The Iranian forces reportedly attacked an oil tanker yesterday, and then we have at least 15 ship-to-ship oil transfers who are reportedly underway in the Gulf of Oman involving millions of barrels of crude.

So I'll see. Britain says they're on board. They'll continue to cooperate with us in Washington to increase economic pressure on Iran. That'll help. I have news for you, but you're all in Europe on the target list.

That's just going to be the case.

So we'll see what the experts are going to say. I actually think that Iran is still planning on doing something substantial in October to hurt the President on the midterm elections and diminish his ability to wage a war should we need it. Here's Scott Besson, cut three. Iran now faces a very clear choice with only two paths before them. Complete global isolation and a subsistence economy or a path back to normalcy with an opportunity to rejoin the global economy.

Today, we are launching Operation Economic Outcast to foreclose every other option available to the Iranian regime. Treasury has mapped every node, every facilitator, and every network that Iran has used to smuggle oil and evade sanctions. Beginning today, the actions of Treasury and other agencies will tighten the noose and block every potential source of revenue that funds the IRGC. and the evil Iranian regime. Problem is China.

And the problem is, too, the Caspian Sea used by the Russians. I love the fact that Ukraine quietly has been taking shots at Iranian chiefs going back and forth with arms to Russia. Why? To help us out, and number two, to stop the flow of arms into Russia and out of Russia so they can make some money. Mike Sorelli, a former and retired Navy SEAL, great guy, talked about what these sanctions mean along with the continuing military presence surrounding Iran.

Cut eight. It's actually going to be a really significant finally forcing the Iraqi. It possibly can with internal strife. And that's ultimately where we're going here. When Iran has to look north, south, west, and east, ultimately looking at their external enemies, but they're forced to look inward because the internal opposition is rising.

That's when regimes become brittle. And that's when we can possibly look at regime replacement. Absolutely. So we'll continue to follow that. The thing that I find disturbing that I think preventable is a U.S.-Canada trade deal.

I don't want to get into who's at fault. It doesn't really matter. I just think it's going to hurt Maine and Michigan, which is going to hurt the president. It's going to hurt the Midwest. It's going to hurt farmers.

It's going to hurt automakers. And that's what matters to me. I tend to think we're driving a hard bargain. And I see a president, a prime minister of Canada whose poll ratings go up when he looks like he's standing up to us. He used the term yesterday, this is war.

Ironic, because you can't fight a war. You basically have a paper army. You have no money put into your military. We have to not only have a thriving economy. We have to have the number one military in the world to protect countries like you, Canada.

So now you're saying this is war with us? Use your words in a measured fashion. Like, for example, Doug Ford, who says he's a conservative, but now he's talking about the deal that's not getting done, CUP 13. And dollar for dollar, tariff for tariff. We are under unprovoked attack by President Trump.

This is hurting the American people, hurting the auto sector that's cost $110 billion. And it's going to basically you're going to see layoffs in the auto sector in the U.S.

So I'd rather make a great deal. You have two choices. Either go to your enemy, China, and get your critical minerals and the rare earth minerals off them, or your closest friend and ally and your number one customer in the world, Canada is. Canada buys more goods and products and services off the U.S. than any other country in the world.

Why would you want to attack your number one customer in Canada? And one of the reasons they say is because they take a lot of our car industry. They are building a lot of cars over on the other side of the border. We want to bring them back. That was going to be part of this trade deal with these American car companies.

And the Canadians say if we allow that, we're never going to have a car industry again.

Well, with Donald Trump saying, why did you have one to begin with? Why do we trade away the manufacturing part of our country? That's one of his main goals.

So Donald Trump is threatening another major escalation. He says in 2027 and January, a 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel. Look, there's a lot of time between now and January 1st. And there's even time now between we have eight days until. We put, or China, excuse me, Canada puts.

any tariffs on us. My hope is that Prime Minister Kearney tells his people to go back in there and do the best deal possible, and we get this done. With Trump says over the last ten years, the U.S. lost, on average, sixty billion dollars a year to Canada. They don't think so.

And that's where we stand. But one thing is clear, the Dairy Association, the Farmers Association, the unions, they want to work something out.

So here's Trey Gowdy on the possible ramifications if a deal's not done, Cut 15. I think Jameson Greer, our trade route, was so close to a deal a couple of days ago. Really close to a deal, yes. And Canada's response, economically is bad for us, but politically targeting Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, what do all three of those states have in common? Republicans are about tied with their opponents in those states.

So the economics is going to sort itself out. I wonder if it's going to be resolved before these Senate races, because we don't need Maine. If you're a Republican, you don't need Maine adversely impacted between now and November.

So they know exactly what they're doing. They're targeting the President's party. Stephen Vaughan, former general counsel to the U. S. Trade Rep.

Nose Trade, Nose Canada, cut twenty.

So the President has identified three big issues. One, they're discriminating against U.S. alcoholic goods. Two, they're discriminating against U.S. motor vehicles.

And three, we disagree with them over the amount of access we should receive to their dairy market, which is one of the most protected markets in the world. Those are the three issues that the President identified. It sounded like they had a deal to address those three concerns. But the Canadians wanted more access to the US market in terms of things like steel and autos, and that's where the negotiations really broke down. All right, so we'll work it out.

I mean, it doesn't sound implacable. It doesn't sound unpassable. It doesn't sound undoable. Get it done. I mean, it's just one less problem in the world, then work on the USMCA.

I'd much rather deal with Canada and Mexico than deal with Europe, Middle East. And certainly, China. I'd much rather deal with these guys.

So we also have oil and gas. I'd rather be dependent on them. Pipelines everywhere. 1866-408-7669. We come back.

I got to tell you what. Um With Hassan Piker just said, and it finally got Democrats to take notice. Is it too late? Has the socialists gotten too much power already within that party to really do some damage to it? But it just goes to show you how serious these comments are and how irresponsible and how crazy Hassan Piker is.

I cannot believe that he is basically the standard barrier, the personality that's driving the Democratic ticket. It is insane. I'll give you an idea of what he's saying and the response when we come back on the Brian Kilmead Show. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say.

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You know, Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment. Like, who can actually respond, particularly to young people's very real concerns about where they are at this point in their lives and what kind of future do they have for themselves? And I think that's healthy. It is not healthy, you gutless, spineless politician who's washed up and should be free to make a statement that's actually correct and puts a finer point on the five-alarm fire, which is the takeover of the DNC by the Democratic Socialists of America. And guess what?

Most clear-thinking people see it as a problem, especially the anti-Semitism. You think they're going through a tough time?

Well, I tell you, there's a lot of Jews in America who don't have that type of patience for them to go through this point of reflection in their lives. Are you crazy? I mean, what a disappointment. You would think a former presidential candidate, senator, and secretary of state and first lady would say, hey, wait a second. I'm not, don't think the DSA, no Senate, Should rewrite the presidency, no borders, no prisons.

I'm pretty sure this is not a midlife crisis, it's insane.

Meanwhile, she's the same Hillary Clinton who once ripped the Democratic socialist called Bernie Sanders, who she competed with competed against. Clinton once represented the Democratic establishment that blocked Sanders' insurgent socialist campaign, but she's now describing the party's experiment with the candidates. From that ideological wing as potentially constructive. That is absolutely insane. You know what's also insane?

Hassan Piker. Who went out of his way to say the most radical things you can possibly imagine, including things like this: cut 24. I think it connects to another comment of yours that's been circulating. This is one from January. Hamas is a thousand times better than the fascist settler colonial apartheid state.

I stand by that. Do you actually mean that? Or is that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal? Like, what? I mean, it's all of the above.

I do mean it. I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people. I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter. I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.

Okay, is that okay with you? A organization that lives to destroy other people, bomb innocent people. And on, do you know what happened in 2023 on October 7th? That's okay. Much worse in Israel.

A democracy, chief ally of ours, technologically. In terms of intelligence, no one better. In terms of loyalty, no one exceeds, no one, not the UK, not France, nobody else. But that's how this guy views it. He was basically raised in the Middle East.

He didn't like what he saw in Iraq. I think he was in Egypt for a while. He comes here. flat out, does not understand our foreign policy, disagrees with about all of it. But it's not one of these things where I wouldn't have recognized China.

I would have been more inclusive when it comes to On North and South Korea, I wouldn't have approached Kim Jong-un. No, this is America's allies are worse than Hamas. What about this? Cut 26. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are genuinely.

Two of the Greatest revolutionaries in history. I love Lenin, I love Fido Cashio, and I love Che Guevara. They are Genuinely fing heroes.

Okay. So this ins insane guy. They should have about four listeners has got two million. and fancies himself for the Democrats. Among the people that have gone on his podcast, Bernie Sanders, Elon Omar, Ayanna Presley, Jaya Powell, Elizabeth Warren, Katie Porter.

And of course, Rokana. And AOC.

So he's the thought leader over there. Hassan Piker. And now lately, he said: you know, if the American Jews continue to support Israel, they're opening themselves up to violence. That was a bridge too far for many Democrats. Congressman Josh Gottheimer.

He's been strong along the way and just got stronger, cut 27. Not only is it appalling and disgusting, but basically Hassan Piker, who has got more than a million or so followers on Twitch and has campaigned with Democrats around the country, has basically put an open call out for violence against Jewish Americans, those who, of course, have come out and supported the U.S.-Israel relationship. This is right out of the Nazi playbook. This is a call for violence against Jews. I'm glad that Leader Jeffries came out strongly against it.

I hope that all my colleagues on both sides come out against it. Mike Lawler and I have, we introduced a resolution months ago condemning Hassan Piker and Candace Owens. I hope that that's brought to the floor when we're back next week. It's time we said enough's enough with this kind of blatant hatred against anyone. Yeah, you would think.

But I don't see a lot of people. I see Corey Booker and some others, and I don't see. El Saeed, who's his buddy, Bist bumping everywhere, appearing multiple times on his podcast, appearing on stage with him as he closed out. Haley Stevens to win the nomination. He's really said nothing except for I only speak for my.

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With me right now is Caroline Downing, columnist of the National Review, Steamboat Institute Fellow. Caroline, great to see you. Good to see you.

So it looks like, in many ways, I was just playing some of the clips. Suddenly Democrats realizing Hassan Piker might be a negative. I mean, there might be something bad about the streamer with two million followers. Wow. They're just kind of Corey Booker's condemning or Josh Godheimer, who, to his credit, has for a while, but they're beginning to realize they got to start condemning him because of his.

His last comment saying basically American Jews should stop supporting Israel, they're going to get shot. I'm pretty sure that was that's a game breaker for me, maybe for you, but not for guys like Hillary Clinton, people like Hillary Clinton. But Corey Booker finally came out and said some stuff.

Well, this is how the Overton window of the Democratic Party has shifted to the point where we're not even in the same paradigm anymore, right? You think of the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama. Notoriously, and I think righteously, he disavowed Reverend Wright. When he said, This is his hometown pastor, this is a guy that he'd known all his life. He married the couple, for goodness sake.

He disavowed him after he said something to the effect about 9-11: it was America's chickens coming home to roost. Hassan Piker said something very similar, which was: America deserved 9-11. But instead of saying, We reject that, we reject this.

Sorry, you're a liability to our party, we're going to embrace him. You know, El Syed in Michigan, we're going to campaign with this guy who should be considered persona non-grata to any self-respecting Democratic Party. But instead, they're kind of either indirectly blessing him or they're outright stumping with the guy.

So, when you have, by the way, the socialists, first thing that Barack Obama did when Mondami got the nomination, before he even won, he contacted him: Can I help you? Appeared and read a children's book to the children in the school on a Saturday. Bill Clinton has said nothing wrong about the socialists. Hillary Clinton says we should be open to a Big Tent. Chuck Schumer, Big Tent Society.

Hakeem Jeffries don't agree with it, but we want so there's a overall lack of courage from people in power. Totally. This is an insurgency for all of the people on the left who want to pretend like this is some healthy discernment about the direction of the party. No, you're being taken over by force. And in order to survive, you have two choices, which is either fight the rebellion or let it happen.

Let the constitution of the party be fundamentally changed. And to your point, it seems like all of these democratic heavyweights are just willing to make room for this. But I would say a big tent.

Okay, fine. You could argue that the MAGA coalition, that was a big tent, but a tent by definition has borders. And if your borders don't stop at we sympathize with the enemies of the American project, which are Iran, you know, the third worldism that El Syed is trafficking in, you're just, you're not even fundamentally compatible with the country. Forget a political party.

So tell me if this is enough for you. This is what Abdul Sayed said about Pikachu's comments about Jewish Americans, COVID-22. You know, I'm not going to trigger coat the idea that we have disagreements, particularly when it comes to foreign policy and the best use of our tax dollars. That's not about hating anybody. I'm grateful to have grown up in a community where I got so much exposure.

and empowerment from the Jewish community. I'm so grateful. Judaism and the Jewish people are a light unto the world. My hope is that folks understand. Where those disagreements align, and also understand that that does not come at the cost of Jewish safety.

That's not even a remotely rebuke. And that was after he won the That was recently, right? Yeah. Yeah, okay.

So after those Hassan Piker statements. Yeah, so like he's strategically kowtowing now because he's coming under fire for this. Kind of like how Mom Dani, who like clearly, in his policy positions, in his foreign policy posture, believes that there is, I think, a Jewish conspiracy. He either directly sort of says that or he beats around the bush about it. El Sayed has done the same kind of thing, you know, hate mongering about the cabal and about Israel and about AIPAC.

He's doing this to moderate. Because I think he knows that Michigan voters Their primary concern is the automobile sector, manufacturing. It's all these things, and he has made his campaign. Foreign policy. He's made it about Israel and scapegoating Israel.

That's not even remotely on their top three list of concerns. But if you are outside the norm on those things, just like if you're outside the norm on gender ideology, he couldn't say on Jesse Waters' show, he conflated circumcision with sex changes for children. You should be able to say very simply that we don't want any sex change procedures for minors. This is the guy who went to medical school. Right, yeah.

The good doctor. Yeah, he went to medical school and he's a doctor, I suppose, in the same way that Grem Plattner was an oyster farmer. That's what it strikes me as. But the fact that he said he could not correct for the record things that are in the 80% of the American public, and I think Michigan, which is not necessarily a blue state, it's a competitive, almost battleground state. I mean, Trump won that state in 2016 and 2024.

Yeah, so you could easily say things that would be an anathema to the moderates of the Midwest if you just don't simply state for the record what 80% of the country believes. Do you think this Canadian trade war is going to hurt Republicans? Because he seemed to be targeting Michigan, Wisconsin, and Maine. Yeah, so this latest round of tariffs, it's 50% to my knowledge, but it only accounts for 5% of Canadian exports.

So it doesn't initially seem all that concerning. It's like wooden hockey sticks and certain liquors, some things that not necessarily the bedrock of the economy, right? But if it escalates to manufacturing and the automobile sector, parts production, I'm worried for the midterms because anything that hurts Canada tends to hurt Detroit. And Ford, GM, Honda, these are beloved vehicles that are produced in Canada. I think they're going to be harmed by this.

So I would say, yeah, this is not the greatest time to do this. There's a case to be made that, okay, we think. Canada's been unfair. We have grievances with Canada, although I wouldn't say they're nearly as threatening to us as Mexico with the fentanyl crisis. But with the midterms on the horizon, Maybe that was not like the most strategic political move.

So I like to talk about what's happening.

So many unemployed young men in this country. You did some research on it. You said you're not in the National Review. You said if you look at the research and the numbers and the situation right now of kids coming out of college, the economic situation and social media, you're not as surprised as many others are like me that men are struggling for the most part. Yeah, I mean This is what I don't understand.

It's almost this like marveling, this is a mystery. Men have disengaged from every institution in American life. Including dating. Including dating. I wonder why that is.

Well, at least a few of those institutions, you can confidently say it's not that they left voluntarily. It was expulsion and it was exile, especially academia and especially, I would say, in the corporate world. I mean, there were DEI. Quotas, either officially or unofficially, both of those things, both schools, colleges, higher education and companies, took a posture of, well, we want to prioritize female or minority candidates, and that came at the expense of men. And I think they just decided to cut their losses and say, forget this, we're not doing this anymore.

There's been a lot of discourse about the stay-at-home boyfriend and how that's super cringe. Oh my gosh, like you're not pulling your weight. And I will, I do say, young men don't respect groveling, and I don't think they respect you just like trying to, you know, cater to their fears all the time. I think what inspires confidence is telling them, hey, get back out there, you know, seize your moment, you know, get back out there in the dating world, and also take advantage of the new opportunities that are out there, like in trades and vocations. Yeah, you bring up a great point.

And you just said They're they're getting all nothing but negative. Doom scrolling in a Doom way.

So, for example, if you're someone whose algorithm is positive and Anthony Robbins is on your feet and you're talking about personal power and empowerment and success stories, but if you're kind of down, your algorithm reads you and you get down, you think the world's coming to an end. 100%.

Social media is coming. But that's not the reality. No, no, it's not. It's so tragic.

Social media is a grievance machine, especially for young people who can only kind of see. what's right in front of them. Because there's like lack of historical knowledge, too. I don't think history is really being taught in schools. We know that.

They don't have the ability to reflect on hindsight and see all of the decades in American history that were so turbulent and that were so challenging for our parents and our grandparents. Whether it was Jimmy Carter 14% inflation when my mom graduated college, that was a pretty bleak. Yes. Or it was the wars that we endured, where, like, quite literally, our boys were boots on the ground.

So it's like, it's not like everything now is apocalyptic, but social media convinces them that it is.

So because, listen, I want inflation to be down too, but it's at 3.4% inflation was basically double figures for a while in the 70s. Number two, Jimmy Carter actually came out and said we're in a malaise. He had a Malays speech. He never actually used a word. And then if you go back in the 60s, it must have seemed like the world was coming apart.

JFK, RFK, MLK all assassinated. You had the race riots that morphed into. The anti-Vietnam riots, and we had a situation where it must have seemed, in retrospect, when you watch videos, like the world was coming apart. We didn't have social media back then. People persevered through it, and they thought it was just one of those times in American history rather than the end of the American story.

Yeah, it wasn't these like silos of freakouts all the time, and it's you're inundated with stories of how everything is so bad and it's never going to get better. And the housing market, you've been locked out of the American dream. And to an extent, you have to grant them something there.

Some of these concerns are valid, right? I mean, yes, things are too expensive, but to your point about inflation, we are pretty close to the target, the Federal Reserve target. And the numbers supposed to just came in again. I think we had inflation down again this month. Yeah, and also like deflation when the price level.

Actually, it comes down so that the sticker prices you see are lower than they were before. That's typically associated with periods of recession. That was probably never going to happen. The rate was going to come down because Trump obviously didn't spend us into oblivion the way Biden did, and he took seriously bringing down the rate of inflation. But that doesn't mean every single commodity group had a massive decrease across the board.

And there are other factors that played into that. But overall, I'd say the Trump administration has tackled this pretty well. And young people, I think they need to remember that things were much, much worse in previous decades. Right. Or just put it in perspective, everyone's got challenges.

Remember, we celebrated much more fervently. I remember our 200th birthday. When all those things were happening at the same time, the double figure inflation, the double figure interest rates, you have a one-term president in the middle of a hostage crisis. You know, remember with Jimmy Carter, what he was doing when he came onto the scene. We were coming out, I'm just thinking now, coming out of the Watergate scandal where we have our first unelected president, Gerald Ford.

Then we got an extremely close election with this unknown peanut farmer who becomes a president. There must have been really a sense of uncertainty and corruption for the first time, but yet we were much more positive about the future of the country than we were in 250. I don't think my parents blamed their parents. I don't think they looked back and said, well, you're hoarding wealth, you're hoarding resources and possessions well into your sunset years. Why is it that right now you're seeing a lot of kind of anger from young people directed toward their elders about the wars that we've gotten entrenched into that have cost us an arm and a leg, quite literally, in terms of soldiers, but also financially?

You're seeing a lot of grievance about the housing market. And I would say, government is always to blame for that. The fact that there's such a high barrier to entry to get a starter home right now is pretty much solely the fault of the government and progressive government that inflated the mortgage market. Federal Reserve's easy money. Printed too much money.

Yes, easy money, the easy money era that drove up demand and did nothing to address supply. And that's the other thing, by the way, drives me absolutely insane. Democrats, This affordability mantra that they have capitalized on. Clever, you could say, quite clever as a political strategy, but they don't actually want to bring down the cost of anything because to do that would mean expanding supply. Real abundance means expanding supply so that prices can come down, introducing competition.

They just want to introduce more welfare. They want to explode the welfare state beyond. Raise taxes on billionaires. Raise taxes on billionaires to fund it, push socialized medicine. Also known as single-payer healthcare, also known as Medicare for all, which would require taxing the middle class.

Otherwise, the math. Doesn't compute. You can't pay for Medicare for all without taxing the middle class.

So the working class that they're supposedly championing, they might have an issue with that. What I would love to hear. And maybe most midterms don't have it in fairness. But I love to hear: okay, you have an affordability issue. You agree with that?

Yes, affordability is an issue. What are you going to do about it? The answers are not good. What they're going to do about it, because they don't really have grow your way out of it. This is how we're going to handle housing.

They have more government building housing. Exactly. They don't really believe in many cases the free market. In fact, within their party, they're afraid to use the term capitalism. Oh, yeah.

I mean, they're like allergic to it now, which I find embarrassing. We used to agree, both parties, that the only economic system that was compatible with America was the free market, which I know maybe is cliche to say free market this, free market that. But yes, everybody believed that that was the right way.

Now, suddenly, that is in dispute.

So they're pushing, if not outright socialism, they just want a much larger nanny state. And when it comes to every commodity across the board that is too expensive right now, you just need to expand supply by reducing regulation and letting the private sector do its thing. But they don't want that. Because to your point about government-controlled housing, that reduces Mom Donnie's power in New York City. He wants more and more housing out there in Manhattan and all the other boroughs to be absorbed by the city.

And what I would say to that is, have you seen the portfolio of government-run housing? Repairs like you wouldn't they need repairs like crazy. They are falling apart. There's you know infestations. They are disgustingly poorly kept.

They are decrepit.

So that's going to be the housing supply in New York. Before I let you go, by the way, this is Caroline Downey, a comment with the National Review and Steamboat Institute. Before I let you go, do you believe that either the House or Senate the die has been cast in either one of those with the midterm elections? Here we are in the end of August. Uh I think it's not looking great, obviously, for the for the GOP.

That's what Probably everyone assumes, but I think a lot remains to be seen. Even with Iran, Iran is this specter that's still kind of looming over the Trump presidency. I think how this wraps up will, in many ways, determine how, you know, what people conclude about this presidency. But I would say currently, right now, it was looking pretty dire maybe like a couple weeks ago, but it's not a stalemate now. I don't think it's a stalemate right now.

If you look at what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz, we are doing this like covert operation to get oil out of there that is kind of close to the level of oil we were moving out before the war. I know.

So, I mean, 27 last night. Yeah, so it's like their leverage is the straight, but I don't think it's as strong as they thought. Caroline, it's going to be interesting. That, along with this trade deal in Canada, I had land that plane quickly. Yeah.

Don't go for everything. Get something. Carolyn Downey, thanks so much. Great to see you. Thank you for having me.

I do believe both House and Senate are still in play. Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. Did you know Fox News has a wine shop?

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With the Wall Street Journal is calling this is the dumbest trade war ever with Canada. We're also looking at the life of Dolly Porton, passed away at the age of 80, stunningly. Our party was talking about new dates in Las Vegas.

So I've never seen more people from all different walks of life more upset by this who made more of a positive impact.

So we'll discuss some of that. But before we get to Jason, let's get to the big three. Number three. You know, the Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment. And I think that's healthy.

Is she out of her mind? Don't answer that. Dems have a radical problem led by Hassan Pikran. They begin to stand up to the radical finally, and he's anti-American. He is socialist communist, loves revolutionaries.

Question: Has to take over the party are already too ingrained to overcome or even condemn this. Number it's going to hurt the American people when you tariff goods. I always say a tariff on Canada is a tax on the American people. I don't know where you're getting the 200% tariffs, but that's not accurate. Not so neighborly in the neighborhood.

Canada and U.S. trade relations hit an ugly all-time low. Is there a way for both sides to come together? I hope so. Number one.

It's actually going to be a really significant piece of finally forcing the Iranian regime to recognize reality. And the reality is that they have limited cards to play. They've pushed their people to the brink of collapse. Yep, coming to a head. Hermuz Strait might just be open.

27 ships got through yesterday. A massive sanction push is going into effect. The question is. Will they actually hit China as hard as they need to? That's going to be one of the questions.

By the way, go to our YouTube channel. Everyone's talking about it: youtube.com/slash at the Brian Kill Me Show. Jason Riley, welcome. Good morning, Brian. This trade war with Canada, I know your editorial section said the dumbest war trade war ever.

Do you agree with that?

Well, the journal editorial page doesn't really like trade wars in general, and neither do I because I think that they hurt both sides, both parties, everyone involved. They're easy to start. They're very hard to stop. And the problem with this trade war, Brian, is one: you know, Canada is not only a neighbor, but an ally. This is a democracy.

This isn't some communist regime, dictatorship that lives next door to the U.S. These are our partners. We have mutual goals and have been longtime allies. And so that's one of the problems going on here: that we're fighting with a neighbor. But secondly, It's clear from poll after poll after poll that what's at the top of the minds of voters these days is affordability.

And so the question is. Do these trade wars help or hurt the affordability issues that concern most Americans? And by the president's Own comments. It seems that they are hurting affordability. Last week, he reduced tariffs on beef, citing the cost of beef.

to consumers. And of course it's not just beef. We're talking now about aluminum and steel. And that gets into whatever products include aluminum and steel from cars to stoves to pots and pans. And so, if we're going to have people out there worried about the cost of things in this country, then you have to take issue with a trade war that is increasing prices.

Yeah, Canada says it's going to retaliate with tariffs of 15%, 25%, and 50% on roughly $20 billion worth of goods covering about 700 products. And it starts September 8th. The presidents go in basically beginning of 2027.

So my hope is in the next 10 days, they work something out. Here is the Canadian Finance Minister, François Felipe Champagne, cut 11. The terms proposed by the U. S. administration were uneconomic.

Unfair. And ultimately Unacceptable. Today I'm announcing that Canada will match the United States tariffs dollar for dollar. Rate for rate. Effective september eighth, Canada will impose counter tariffs of up to fifteen 25 or 50 percent on 27.6 billion in imports.

From the United States of America. For each product, our tariff would match the American tariff On the same type. of Canadian good.

So they're digging in. Politically, it helps them. But I hear they I'm not an expert on the economy of Canada, but I hear they're borderline recession. They don't have a great employment situation. They're not really growing.

But they have big advantages. They don't have to have an army. We're putting a trillion dollars in, and they put in almost zero. You're right. I think the Canadian economy is hurting, and I don't know that a tariff war will help things up there.

But I do know that this issue has seemed to unite Canadian politicians on the right and the left. You see not only the federal government, but you see both liberals and conservatives in Canada united in wanting to push back on these tariffs. And it's interesting how they're doing it. These are pretty strategic countermeasures they're putting in place, Brian. They're targeting border states that they know are important to Republicans in the upcoming election.

So goods that are important to economies in Michigan, Alaska, Maine, where there are some tight Senate races, and where we see battleground states and so forth.

So they're trying to be strategic here in what they do. And again, the question is whether it helps either country, this trade war. And I really think that this is a destructive policy in terms of the economies of both Canada and the U.S.

So the U.S. put on big Big time economic sanctions, and they're going to hit all secondary sanctions on any country dealing with Iran right now. And then out of nowhere, as far as I was concerned, Oman and Iran finally have their meetings. They come out and say, we're basically opening up the strait.

Now I know one tanker was shot at yesterday, and I got confirmation from the highest source that twenty seven ships got through yesterday. We need one hundred to one hundred and fifty if things are going to go back to normal. But we're getting more and more through, and it looks like they made an announcement basically to open this up. What do you think's happening here?

Well, I think economic pressure is a very, very good thing in Iran. It should be part. Of what we're trying to do there to get the results that we want. And the question has always been in Iran: who's in control? The civilians or the military, the military leaders in Iran?

And will they go along with what's happening with the civilian concerns and so forth? In other words, does the military in Iran really care what the civilian population thinks about these things, or will they press on regardless of how much damage is being done internally, economically, in Iran? But the economic pressure is meaningful. And as you said earlier, Brian, the real issue here is China. China is the biggest customer of Iran's oil.

So if you're going to put sanctions in place on people who purchase Iranian oil, but you're going to exclude China, it's not clear how effective that economic pressure will be.

So I hope we are going to come down hard on China because you have to hit them where it hurts, and that will be hitting them where it hurts.

So China sharply condemned the sweeping news. Sanctions campaign against Iran, as trading partners announced yesterday. China is said to be the primary buyer of Iran's oil. They have this covert way of getting the oil. I don't know if that's going to be stopped.

I'm certainly we know how. They say China has imported more than 500,000 barrels of oil so far in August.

So that doesn't show a much of a slowdown, although they used to 1.4 million. Right, and that's why I think economic pressure alone ultimately won't be enough here. We're not dealing with rational actors when we're dealing with Iran, Brian. We're not dealing with a regime that's weighing the cost and benefits of this policy or that policy. You're dealing with a country with leaders who really believe they're in a religious war and that they will fight to the death because they are fighting the great Satan.

And you don't negotiate with Satan and compromise with Satan. You fight to the death. And that's really what the Iranian leaders believe they are facing right now. And I only think military pressure is what will be necessary to end this war. I don't think economic pressure alone will do it.

I understand that President Trump and this administration is reluctant to re-up what we were doing militarily, but I think we stopped short of what we need to do because I think the use of military force is the only thing ultimately that they will pay attention to. We've never had a combination before either. We never had, now the military. Military forces are there. In fact, we're more bulked up than ever.

And then you have the economic sanctions.

So they know there's a real threat of a military force. And Jason, we forget, but this is the only president to ever take military actions against China. I think we blew up an oil well under Reagan. But for the most part, this is the only administration to do it all.

So they know it's a credible military threat. They do. They do. And I applauded. What we did earlier.

I think, you know, six months ago, this was the right thing to do. Absolutely. I think that Iran, as President Trump has said, repeatedly cannot get a nuclear weapon. They cannot be trusted with one. And so we not only need to make sure the strait is open, we also need to make sure that that nuclear program that they had in place is shut down permanently.

And I don't think they're going to negotiate away what they have over there. I think the only thing they'll answer to is military force.

So I hope we keep up the pressure both economically, but also do not take more military force off the table. I think that'd be a mistake. This is one thing I think their strategy might be, and that is we'll go back and forth. There'll be tensions, a few ships blown up here and there. We'll retaliate and blow up a launcher or two.

And then in October, they're going to go for American casualties. Because they truly know our election cycle and they want to make sure Republicans lose power. And they believe that will help them get Trump. He'll stay in office, but he won't have the House and Senate. I don't think that's implausible.

I think you're absolutely right. That's clearly a possible consideration on their part. They're negotiating for the sake of negotiating. That's what they're going to do. They're going to drag this out.

They think they can outlast us. They think we don't have the patience. They think that we can't take it as long as they can take it. And so, yeah, I think they're going to drag this out as long as they can. I don't think anything.

And by the way, Brian, even if we were to reach some sort of agreement with them, what faith do you have that they would acknowledge any agreement? We have no reason at all to trust that whatever they put on a piece of paper. No reason at all to do that. If they were smart. and not radicals, they would have taken that MOU, which was a gift to them.

They would have gotten money unfrozen. They were about to be able to cash in on their oil. All they had to do was allow the straight of Hormuz to be open for 60 days. They could have gotten a lot of concessions, and then of course the president looking at the midterms might have been, oh, you know what, let's give him a better deal just to end this for now. But they want they do that.

And that's what I mean, that that we're not dealing with rational actors here. This this is not someone just you know, a regime weighing the cost and benefits and how it will hurt them or help them economically. They're in a religious war in their minds. And so all bets are off the table for them. Yeah, and lastly, when we look at the midterms, where do you see it, Jason, right now?

Do you think that the House or Senate the die has been cast already? The House may be more so than the Senate. I do think that President Trump's endorsement powers do make a difference. We saw it in South Carolina, although that's more of a safe Republican seat. I want to see, well, will he throw his weight around in places like Georgia and Texas and North Carolina and Alaska?

Those will be more meaningful races for Republicans in terms of who will control the Senate.

So I think things are still more up in the air in the Senate, and we'll have to see. Also, President Trump has a huge war chest of money there, Brian, and everyone's waiting to see if and how he will spend it when the time comes. Yeah, I mean, he's spent a lot for Darlene Graham, who was victorious last night. I just think it's so interesting. Just when you think the whole socialist thing is going to sober up and it's just going to say it's just a few candidates, in comes another socialist winner, this time in Oklahoma, Nikhilia Thomas.

Uh She wins, uh she goes out and wins the nomination. She's gonna lose for the Senate seat. But again, they put a socialist in office. Democrats put a what should have been looking for somewhat of a moderate independent. But it doesn't matter.

The momentum is with somebody else. Yeah, I I think this is very interesting because the Democrats Are doing exactly what Republicans need them to do. In other words, say you look at the latest Fox News polls on President Trump's approval rating, around 40% or so. And what that means, Brian, is that Republicans aren't going to go out there in November and try and defend the president's record necessarily. What they want to do instead is point at the other party and show how crazy some of these views are of the people that the Democrats are nominating, these leftist socialist candidates.

And what the Democrats keep doing is putting forward those candidates who show just how crazy they are. In other words, they're making this a choice election, which is exactly what Republicans want them to do. Republicans are counting on the American people to say, hey, you know what? I might not be crazy about what's going on with the inflation in the economy, but there's no way I want to put into office someone who thinks, you know, we need single-payer health care, someone who wants to. Eliminate ICE or defund the police or accuse Israel of genocide and end all military aid over there.

We don't want to go that far. And yet the Democrats continue to put forward these candidates with these extremist views. And that's exactly what Republicans are counting on them doing. Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal. Thanks so much, Jason.

Thank you, Brian. You got it. 1866-408-7669. We're going to take some calls in a moment. Bottom of the hour, National Reviews, Rich Lowry.

I love this column this week. It's what I've been saying. I said on the Sunday show, we have to sober up when it comes to data centers and understand what being manipulated. There's certain things you should demand in your community, but to not build them is insane as a country. And then we find the right place to build them, not on your farm.

Not using your water, not upping your utility bills, but using the tax revenue and, of course, the blue collar jobs that come in for two and a half years as they construct them. That used to be a layup.

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McCuskie announced it's the largest of West Virginia. Largest big tech settlement in history. Meta has settled that trial that's been going on about social media and addiction and kids. And sadly, these parents are there, and some of their kids got so addicted they committed suicide. By things they read online or the depression that set in because of what's online.

Now, I'm not sure if they prove who was addicted to what, but Meta does not want to take the risk of going to a jury trial or get Mark Zuckerberg to testify again. It doesn't ever go well for him.

So they're writing a check for $17.1 million at the multi-state settlement with Meta platforms, the largest consumer protection settlement in history outside the big tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The agreement, subjected to court approval, resolves 47 states' claims, including D.C. and Puerto Rico and American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands. The company designs Instagram, they say, and addictive features, knowingly exposing young users to serious mental harms and intentionally. Misled the public about the safety of its platforms.

I mean, that's pretty significant to admit that. Instead of just saying it's good, people like it, they're trying to say they intentionally used it to addict him, and they knew what was going on. There was a lot of damning statements saying that he's bad for kids and people worried about it. But sixteen to seventeen billion dollars is out there But now I just hope they change some things about it that are addictive. Look, if you have ads, if Nike buys an ad on Facebook or Snapchat or Instagram, they want you to see it.

So you, Meta. want you to see it because they want more money from that sponsor revenue. We want you to watch television, listen to this radio show, because if you listen and the sponsors say, yeah, they're listening to me on your show and hear about my product, that's good. But addictive ways in which gradually deteriorate yourself.

socially and economically. That's a little different, and that's why they wrote a $17 billion check. See what changes afterwards. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead.

Yes, those comments were dangerous. Malicious. and anti-Semitic. and should not be tolerated by anyone in the public square. What we've seen is a startling rise of hate crimes all across the United States of America, but particularly in this moment, Directed against our Jewish brothers and sisters.

And that is Hakeem Jeffries calling out finally Hassan Piker, which Corey Booker did in social media, which has been called out by Josh Gottheimer. And there's probably a half dozen others. But I think about Rokana. I think about the whole squad. I think every member of the squad has been on Hassan Piker's podcast.

Now, what was Hakeem Jeffries talking about this from this loser Twitch streamer, Cut23? People don't f with Israel any longer. And if and if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around. And take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews. Really?

So, how bad is that? Rich Lowry joins us now, editor of NASA Review. Hey, Rich, I'm giving Keem Jeffries credit for coming out, but he's still a big tent guy. Yeah, so that comment was terrible. You can say, squint a certain way and say, oh, it's just analysis, but it sounds like a threat.

And the idea is directed against all American Jews. I mean, if it was up to American Jews, like Donald Trump never would have been elected. You know, B.B. Netanyahu probably wouldn't be prime minister of Israel. Most Jews are liberals.

So it's crazy to attack all Jews. And I think the game that El Said has played here is particularly cynical because he campaigned with the guy repeatedly. That wasn't a mistake. He did it deliberately. He was with him on election night.

Won't even name him in his statement, kind of distancing himself from him.

So clearly, though, the powers that be in the Democratic Party have concluded this guy now in the general election environment, at least, is a big problem, and they all have to distance themselves from him. But this guy is not. I mean, El Saeed isn't. Just basically saying, I can only speak for my campaign. Listen to some of the things that this guy has said in the past.

Cut 26. Fido Castro and Che Guevara are genuinely Two of the Greatest revolutionaries in history. I love Lenin, I love Fido Castro, and I love Che Guevara. They are Genuinely fing heroes.

I mean, okay. Do you need any other statement after that sound bite? Do you need to hear anything else, Rich Lowry? No, but there's plenty else. He could go on for a half an hour with clips like that.

He's illiberal, he's friendly to totalitarianism, and he's attracted, at least, to political violence.

So this guy's a poisonous toad. No one who wants to be within 100 miles of elected office in the United States should have anything to do with him, but he's a hero to the DSA left. You know, it's amazing to me. El Saeed really is not condemning him. Basically, he says, I speak for my own campaign, and that has gotten other Democrats upset.

So what do you think this does to his campaign?

Well, it's a competitive race there. I don't think he's had a good couple days. I don't understand why he went on with Jesse. I think he I admire that he did it. I think it was great TV, but I'm not sure he helped himself with that.

I guess he's just trying to demonstrate that he can reach out beyond his Hassan Piker base. But that's, you know, Rogers has a real shot there in Michigan, and if he wins there, it almost makes it impossible for Democrats to win the Senate. And just the symbolic importance of putting a stake into the El Cai Eat campaign and demonstrating that, yes, the Democrats can go too far, even in what's probably going to be a favorable environment for them in the midterms would be a big deal, too. And here's what I look at other places where Republicans really got to worry. I mean, you got to worry about Iowa.

They have a shot of flipping New Hampshire. I really haven't heard much of John Cenunu, except for he's got the president's backing. Looks like he's going to beat Scott Brown, no problem. Who I like, but it just doesn't seem like he can compare. Chris Tsununu probably would have won, almost going away.

But I definitely see Iowa being an issue. It looks like they're going to have to work extremely hard in Texas. As well, to keep that seat. Are there other seats that they should be worried about? Is Nebraska we believe in play?

Yeah, yeah, I think there's this this whole stretch of what would ordinarily be safe red seats, seats that that are in play. Ordinary year, we wouldn't be talking about Texas, Nebraska, Ohio, Iowa, or Alaska. And we have to talk about them all this year.

Now, they're all basically kind of tied.

So, you know, luck of the draw, kind of normal randomness. You think, okay, half half will break their way, half will break Republicans' way. But You know, in a in an election that's a good night for Democrats, all you know, all close races could tip their way.

So, definitely the Senate is in play. There's no doubt about it. Alex Castianis, a Republican media str consultant and strategist, said this what he's seen over the last two weeks: cut 36. I think Republicans are bouncing back a little bit. All the energy was energy against Trump.

Democrats had more intensity than Republicans until recently, when we've seen now a counter pressure. with Republicans voting really very scared of Democratic socialism.

Now there's a countervailing force to, hey, is this election about tapping the brake pedal against Trump?

Now they're Democratic socialists.

So I think the race has tightened up everywhere and Republicans have a shot to keep the Senate. I don't think they're going to hang on to the House. And I know you won, Rich. You're a conservative guy. But do you think he's right?

I do. As we've talked about in the past, I think he's absolutely right about the House, unfortunately. And I think the Senate is roughly a 50-50 proposition.

So it's definitely the biggest thing Republicans have going for them is just the image of the Democratic Party is in the toilet. It has even gotten worse since 2024. And nothing that's happened over the last month or so you'd think would make it any better.

So that's the best chance for kind of a 2022 type midterm where it's not great, but you stave off the worst sort of losses.

So I wouldn't necessarily bet on that, but it's a possibility. All right.

So I want to talk about a hot topic. I opened up with my show on Sunday with this. About data centers. I don't know what's going on. People are scared to death to say, I'm in support of data centers.

With restrictions. You're not. Does America realize what's going on here? We can't go back to the horse and buggy. We have to stay with the car.

You know, do they understand? That we can't get the space shuttle back. We're now in a SpaceX vehicle. What is going on? Why do people are beginning to push back on this and governors caving on both parties across the country?

Yeah, well as Abraham Lincoln said, in this country public opinion is everything, and public opinion has swung strongly against these things two or three months before an election, so everyone's going to pay attention.

So I think it's wrongheaded, and I think the only alternative is to go out there and make the case, alleviate these concerns. I don't think there should be any data centers to get any tax rates. I mean, that's ridiculous. But that's what elected officials were offering them, right? There was no reason to give them to them.

The concerns about water are almost totally bogus. The new data centers use these kind of, they're called closed-loop systems. Yeah, you use some water, but then you're constantly recycling it, so you're not continuously drawing on water. The energy is a big deal, but it's a reliable, kind of predictable draw, which shouldn't be a problem for electricity grids that are in good shape anyway.

So that's why a place like Texas that has a lot of these, electricity rates haven't gone up because electricity is abundant. And the places where electricity rates have gone up, it's not because of data centers, it's because it's scarce because they have ADI. Policies like in California. But my expectation, it'll be kind of like fracking. There'll be states like New York that say, no, we're never going to do it.

And then those states that embrace it, and they're going to benefit. I mean, the story is about the tax revenue these things produce. You know, with really no significant downsides, at least not compared to factories, right? Everyone says we need to reindustrialize and have a manufacturing revival in America. Does anyone realize what a factory is?

How ugly a factory is? How disruptive it is to a community? But for 100 years, we're fine with factories because they created good jobs. And same thing with these data centers. The construction work is amazing.

You're making electricians and plumbers actually rich. And then, as you're alluding to at the top, it's necessary to this technological race with China. And if we turn our back on it and don't do it, it's not as though AI is not going to come. It's going to come. It's just going to be via Chinese companies rather than American ones.

So, Rick Perry, who basically invested in a data center. He said this reminds, you know, former Secretary of Energy, he said this reminds him of another debate. 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.

So he's pushing back. He's not governor, but the current governor did pause this. Yeah, well, he's you know, Texas.

Well, another thing about Texas, we talked about the Senate race glancingly. The governor's race is a little closer than you expect. I don't think Abbott's going to lose, but you make a politician nervous around campaign time. He's going to react. But the counterexample, the oil and gas case is actually a good one because the rational side won there despite the opposition.

The opposite case is nuclear, where there was an irrational fear of nuclear, and we just haven't built nuclear plants the way we should have, the way that France, of all places, did.

So we really hurt ourselves with that superstition around nuclear plants. And if the anti-data center case side wins here, we'll do exactly the same thing.

So I want you to hear Chris Van Hollen feels differently, the radical lefty who thinks he's going to run for president. 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 tree 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've 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.

So That's the pushback. And he's blamed the federal government for building data centers, he went on to say, in Maryland and in Virginia. What are you talking about? Yeah, so I mean he's right about two things. One, locality should decide, right?

If a local zoning commission doesn't want a data center, no one should force them to have a data center, obviously. Two, I do think the data centers are going to have to alleviate the concerns about electricity. And they are a major draw on electricity. But again, this is not something new. I think steel mills at their height used 5% of all the national electricity in the United States.

We didn't say, oh, dear God, we can't have steel mills, right? You just you create abundant energy.

So I think that's the answer. I don't know what the energy policy is in Maryland, but I imagine it is as good as it is in Texas and other places. Uh yeah, we'll s we'll see what happens on this because I also think that the insidious nature is that China and a lot of the social media platforms are being infiltrated by The China and Iran or anybody that's anti-American to start publ to swaying public opinion. Yeah, so Chinese sources say data centers are terrible in the United States and great in China. And that kind of tells you all you need to know.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not accurate. Rich Larry, thanks so much. Safe, Brian. 1866-408-7669. Get on board, Brian Kill Meet Show, coming your way.

When we come back, we also take a look at some other things Hassan Piker has said that you're not going to believe it. Did anyone even consider campaigning with this guy? Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know, it's Brian Kilmead. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

I stand by that. Do you actually mean that? Or is that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal? Like, what? I mean, it's all of the above.

I do mean it. I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people. I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter. I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.

Do you see how desperate they are? The guys on Pod Save America, the former Obama guys. Listen, you don't really mean that. Oh, no, I mean exactly what I said. Absolutely.

Now, I told you about what he said about. Castro and Lennon. But here's another cut: him just praising these guys. Cut 25. Fidel Castro And Che Guevara were lions, okay?

They were lions. I'm sorry that you don't have the adequate history lesson to understand that. And as an American, you don't want to pull your head out of your and understand why the rest of the planet refers to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as very differently than we do here. It is so Delusional. It's so ridiculous.

I d oh God, this shit makes me so mad. Yes, these were revolutionary heroes. What do you say to that? I mean, th so you'd hear that and you go, I'm not going on that podcast. I can't.

Even if I think some of the things are good that he's saying, can't go on that podcast. But Everybody goes in that podcast. RoConna goes in that podcast. Uh he said, Well, I wanted people different views. What what do you have in common with a guy that loves Communist revolutionaries?

They kill Tens of thousands, if not mill, in Stalin's case, in Lenin's case, killed millions of people. Among the people that have gone on pikers. Podcast. Bernie Sanders. He went Omeyer.

Omar? Ayanna Presley. Jay Apal. Elizabeth Warren? Katie Porter.

Believe me, this is just what I was able to pull up in a very short time in researching this.

So these people say this. What do you do if someone says that in front of you?

Well, we want all views. You want all views in America? You could say it, but I'm not going to be subscribing to it. Hey, Hassan Piker is coming in to town. Love's winning Worship Stalin.

Really loves Castro. Do you want to go see him? No.

Do you want to go on this podcast? I do not. What if you're running for office? Definitely not. Do you want to meet him behind the scenes?

Absolutely not. Why would I do that?

So It could only hurt your reputation.

So El Said, who's trailing already by four points to Mike Rogers.

Now, campaigns with the guy. He knows all this. He's been on with it multiple times. Here he is in Dearborn, Michigan. Allegedly, Distancing himself from those comments.

I'm talking about Abdul El Saeed, cut 22. You know, I'm not going to trigger coat the idea that we have disagreements, particularly when it comes to foreign policy and the best use of our tax dollars. That's not about hating anybody. I'm grateful to have grown up in a community where I got so much exposure. and empowerment from the Jewish community.

I'm so grateful. Judaism and the Jewish people are a light unto the world. My hope is that folks understand. No one believes he believes that. Also.

Hates Israel. I guess, but that goes, APAC is this is the problem. To the point where Mike Rogers told APAC, I know you want to give me millions of dollars. I can't do it. Here's Congressman Josh Gottheimer.

Was that good enough for you, Congressman Democrat? Cut 28. Yeah, Al Saeed's response was pathetic, and it did not answer the call. I mean, the bottom line is he did not condemn Piker. He didn't even mention Piker.

He didn't condemn what Piker said. He didn't say, I'll never campaign with this guy again. As you pointed out, he campaigned the last night of his primary. This isn't such some random guy for him. And frankly, he should not only condemn him, but no Democratic members should allow piker anywhere near them on the campaign trail.

You would think. Yeah. Crazy times. This is what gives Republicans hope. It's kind of the wrong reason for the country.

And then on top of that, Hakeem Jeffries getting ripped by Democrats just for meeting. Meeting with Garrett Kushner, who is good, obviously, son-in-law of President Trump. Just meet him. Crazy times. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeat show and we move ahead. Exciting week, especially as you close out summer, there was a time when people say, oh, it's the end of summer. Nothing really happens.

That is so wrong these days. We have the latest on the Iran war, Richard Goldberg is going to be joining us, Senior Advisor, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. I know this administration really respects those experts, and Richard Goldberg, who had previously worked for the White House. I'm Carl Rove, best in the business, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Bush and Fox News contributor Wall Street Journal columnist. Before we get to Carl, let's get to the big three.

Number three. You know, the Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment. And I think that's healthy. Really, Hillary Clinton, it's healthy to be tapping into socialism/slash communism? STEMS have a radical problem, led by Hassan Piker, as they begin to stand up to the radical anti-American socialist question, has the takeover of the party too ingrained to overcome or even condemn?

Number two. It's going to hurt the American people when you tariff goods. I always say a tariff on Canada is a tax on the American people. I don't know where you're getting the 200% tariffs, but that's not accurate. Doug Ford of Ontario, not so neighborly in the neighborhood.

Canada and the U.S. trade relations hit an ugly, all-time low. I hope they find a way to walk back off the plank. Number one. It's actually going to be a really significant piece of finally forcing the Iranian regime to recognize reality.

The reality is that they have limited cards to play. They've pushed their people to the brink of collapse. Coming to a head. The hormo straight might just be opened. Massive sanctions go into effect.

The question: will China play ball and how far should we push them without blowing up the relations, which are going to, I guess, hit another high moment. In September, because President Xi is coming here and there's probably going to be a return visit in November. Carl Rove joins us now, former Deputy Chief of Staff to George W. Bush, an all-around smart guy. Carl, welcome back.

First off, your thoughts about Darlene Graham winning last night.

Well, first of all, welcome back to you. What are you welcoming me back? I mean, I was there in your absence when you were off gallivanting around the country. I was doing my duty with your successors, your predecessors, your followers, your temporary wannabes. I have a successor already?

Yeah. Pardon me? I have a success already. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have said that.

I mean, cat is out of the bag.

Well, big victory for Donald Trump. Darlene Graham would not have won had it not been for A, his endorsement, and B, his visit to the state. If you take a look, he went to Horry County, which is where Myrtle Beach is, and that whole northern tier, which had been in support of Russell Fry, the local congressman in the primary, came out strongly. That was her, some of her best territory was where the president went.

So hats off to the White House for making certain that their candidate won. And because it was like a 53-47 victory at the end, 54-46. And the president deserves praise for having brought her across the finish line. I mean, he really loved Senator Graham. I mean, they fought, but they did it in a way that they respected each other.

You know that, and you liked him too. But do you worry about, and you have such a sense of history, do you worry about The ramp-up time for her to do the job, and that she might be vulnerable in a debate with the Democrat. Mm.

Well, yeah, the debate with Norman, she had a huge blunder on Taiwan not being able to answer it.

So my suspicion is that her campaign staff is going to spend a lot of time between now and if they do have a debate, making certain that she's fully prepped and advised and has a chance to formulate her thoughts. But look, there's a first-time candidate, and this is the kind of thing you run into when you go to the big leagues without being, you know, having played in the minors. Muriel, is it Muriel Humphrey? After Hubert Humphrey died, she ended up taking that Senate seat. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

We've had a number of these, and generally they don't spend a lot of time in the office, but something tells me that Darlene Graham is going to be there for a while if she wins this fall. She is a serious person, and she has been involved in state government, and so she has a sense of service. Her brother set a great example for her, so we'll see. But my gut tells me she's going to be there for a while.

So I just think it's interesting if you just thought. Democrats thought, okay, we're done with the socialist stuff. Primary season's over, and forget it. Did you see what happened in Oklahoma? This uh Nikola uh this uh This Mikhaila Thomas, a 31-year-old, ends up getting the socialist in Oklahoma.

So she ends up winning the primary. This is not going away, is it, Carl? No, it's not. In fact, it's a gift to the Republicans. There's a piece.

I've read it. It's going to be in the Wall Street Journal tomorrow. It's really well done, insightful, thoughtful. I think I've done a job on them. Yeah, absolutely.

But I'm writing about this because this is an opportunity. Think about it, I put it in the context of Florida. Think about Florida. They have a woman leading the Democrat ticket. She's at the top.

The U.S. Senate nominee in Florida went out and joined the Democratic Socialists of America after she won the primary.

So every Republican candidate in the state of Florida can go out and say, you know what? The leader of the Democratic Party is in favor of all of these crazy things and list out what the DSA is in favor of and say, hey, is my opponent in favor of those things? Unless they come out and say no and denounce the DSA, we can just assume they're going to get along and go along with all these goofy ideas of defunding the military, defunding the police, ending prisons, open borders. The government is now going to take over all the major corporations, food, transportation, energy. They're all going to be common goods and treated as utilities.

And the government's going to provide, you won't have a mortgage and you won't have a landlord because the government's going to give you a very nice apartment in some Soviet-style block of apartments that it's going to build. I mean, this is an opportunity that Republicans, particularly in Florida, where you have a DSA member leading the ticket, and in Michigan, where you have a DSA adjacent member in the form of Abdul Al-Saeed. This is a great opportunity for Republicans to go out from top to bottom and say, does my Democrat opponent agree with all these crazy ideas? of their ticket in this state, atop the ballot is in support of?

Well, how about this? Hassan Piker is the spiritual leader of these socialists, and he's the guy that the number one podcaster in that in that world, number one personality. Hassan Piker on Twitch on Thursday said this, cut twenty-three. People don't f with Israel any longer. And if and if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around.

And take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews. Really?

So we're going to go shoot Jewish people for supporting Israel? I mean, is that acceptable in any par on any p uh planet? No.

And it shows how what a bigoted anti Semite this guy is. And the fact that he spent the final day of the primary in Michigan with his arm around Al Said tells us everything we need to know. The failure of Abdullah Saeed to denounce that statement, he said, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That is a bigoted statement. And not only that, but but think about where it leads, Brian.

If you're a Jew who supports Israel, What if you're an ordinary American who supports Israel? What if you're an evangelical who supports Israel? Does that apply to them as to anybody who's for Israel is fair game for violence?

Somebody's going to act against you, he says.

So, no, no, this is this is again, this is a disease inside the Democratic Party. And smart Democrats would not follow the lead of Hillary Clinton and say, oh, well, isn't this an interesting experiment? They would say, we denounce these people and they have no place in our party. And Democrats have faced this before. And have rallied to rid, like for example, after World War II, to rid pro-Soviet elements, including the former Vice President of the United States, who was a dunce wandering around advocating coexistence with the Soviet Union.

I mean, it's just. I was astonished. I really was.

So, if you could understand what you mean, this is not a walkback. This is that Abdul El-Syed was, when asked about this in Dearborn, said this, Cut 22. You know, I'm not going to trigger coat the idea that we have disagreements, particularly when it comes to foreign policy and the best use of our tax dollars. That's not about hating anybody. I'm grateful to have grown up in a community where I got so much exposure.

and empowerment from the Jewish community. And he starts off by talking about their disagreement. I he what he was said to, if you paid close attention, was America should stop supporting Israel, stop giving it um uh uh selling arms to it and and and end its relationship, its cosy relationship with Israel.

So that's where he started. For God's sake, and a refusal to denounce Piper, yeah, his close buddy helped him close out the campaign.

So, you know, Josh Goddard called him out and said, Hassan Pike and that, and El Saeed, his walkback was not good enough. We have people condemning it. I'm not going to, Hillary Clinton's comments were before she heard that on Thursday, but she thinks socialism is a good thing. She goes, it's a good thing to expand the thought. She understands where people are coming from when they support socialism.

I don't get it. I mean, she should come out. I mean, she's done as a politician. Can she possibly do what's good for the country and condemn this? How do you explain her stance?

Yeah. Well, look, it's just not good for the country. It's good for the Democratic Party. Does she think it's a winner to say the DSA platform is what we should do? I mean, is she in agreement with the DSA platform?

Is it interesting that they literally say we should end police and prisons, that we should defund the Department of War, that we should close all of our military bases, that we should end our economic sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran? I mean, please, what in there do you think is interesting and attractive for the future of the Democratic Party, Ms. Clinton? Where what? Yeah.

So, I know where you stand there. Do you think what kind of lead, what kind of advantage? Do you give the congressman in Michigan over her son? of Oversan Piker's buddy, El Saeed. Yeah, well, look, I think I know Mike Rogers, good man.

And look, but let's not kid ourselves. This is something that we need to engage with. And that's what the point of my column tomorrow is: the Republicans ought to go on the offensive and they ought to lay out the program of the DSA and of these socialists and say, does my Democratic opponent in every race on the ballot, if you're running for the state house in Michigan, if you're running for Congress, if you're running for the state Senate, if you're running for sheriff, you ought to say, my Democrat opponent, does he agree with the views of the leader of his ticket? And does he agree with the views of the Democratic Socialists of America who have endorsed him and whom all these leading Democrats are excusing? Really, all these crazy ideas, are you in favor of them?

And let them either emphatically denounce those ideas or hope, you know, if you can't denounce them, then we're going to just assume that you're ready to get along and go along with them.

Well, AOC too. AOC was supporting El Said. Every one of those squad members have a Appeared on Hassan Piker's podcast. Roe Conna has appeared on his podcast. You know what their answer is?

Oh, I'm Big Ten. I don't mind going with people who have differing views. What's your answer to that?

Okay, well, great. Good.

Well, good. You're willing to pair it with a bigot and an anti-Semite and a guy who says the United States, America deserve 9-11. Go on, David DeNuke. You know, if you're just, if you're just, if it's interesting outreach, go on with David Duke. Go on with, you know, go on with the, you know, the politician in Moscow.

Yeah, go on with Fuentes. I mean, what is it? I mean, it's entertaining. All we're going to do is just have a big tent. There needs to be a moral standard in politics.

They need to say this guy is unacceptable. His views are anti-American. They're bigoted. He is an anti-Semite. And we are not going to benefit him by going on his little Twitch program.

So, I want you to hear what this guy believes. Cut 26. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are genuinely. Two of the Greatest revolutionaries in history. I love Lenin, I love Fidel Castro, and I love Jay Guevara.

They are. Genuinely fing heroes.

Okay. Now, how many people did they kill? How many innocent civilians died? How many innocent citizens? How many advocates of democracy did they jail?

Who is this lunatic? Lenin? Lenin is his hero? My God. I mean, this guy is either a moron or he is simply attempting to gain as much attention for himself by saying the most outrageous things.

Millions died because of Lenin and Stalin. You know, freedom was extinguished in Cuba because of Castro. I mean, my God, who is this lunatic? And he's such a player. I mean, listen, half the two-thirds of the party was fine with him.

They were just avoiding him. I don't know who he is. They can't do that anymore. Lastly, I just want to talk about Texas, if I can, for a second, because you live there and you are there, and you're an expert. Alex Castianis, who is a Republican consultant, media consultant, said this about Tallarico right now, who's leading in most polls, Cut 37.

Tallerico, you've got a guy who doesn't say he's a Democratic socialist, but he is echoing all of their positions and has. And he has a Kamala Harris problem, which all of it's on the internet recorded forever. He's a poor candidate. You know, in Texas, you need to be a manly man, and he's riding inside saddle for the gunfight. I don't think he fits Texas.

So, but does Ken Paxon is a conservative? We know that.

He's got huge personal issues. What's going on in Texas?

Well, Tallerico has raised a bundle of money and he's up softening his edges in the media and on the internet and in his ads. And Ken Paxton doesn't have any money and isn't able to raise money effectively, not a good fundraiser. The question is, when is Donald Trump, or will Donald Trump, begin to spend out of his $550 million in his super PACs to defend his chosen candidate? And if he does, then Tallerico's record can be exposed because Alex is right. There's plenty of tape out there of him saying things like, you know, God is non-binary and there's six genders and, you know, I love trans kids.

And, you know, I'm got the first officially vegan campaign and blah, blah, blah. Look, I live in Austin. I mean, it's a lovely community, but we have a bunch of, you know, it's a very liberal community. And Austin liberals have to sort of outdo each other in being goofy and liberal. And he is a progressive.

But in order to beat him, The Paxton party, the Paxton campaign has to have air cover. And the Senate committee and the Senate Leadership Fund made it clear months ago. They laid out their expenditures on Paxton losing and Cornyn winning. And when Paxton won, the message was: Mr. President, you chose him.

You need to spend on his behalf because we don't have the money. And so until the president starts spending money, Paxton is going to be vulnerable. And Talrico is going to have plenty of time and plenty of money to soften his image. All right.

Carl Rove, thank you very much. That's why I asked you. I can't wait for that column that you say is so good by your unbiased opinion. I mean, I made a workmanlike effort. We'll see.

I can't wait. I'll build off it tomorrow for the show. Carl Rove, thank you so much. We'll read the Wall Street Journal. Back in a moment.

It's Brian Kilmead. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. Hey, we are back. Just going through some of my emails. I'll read you some of them.

Michael writes: Arm the citizens of Iran. This was brought up in a conversation.

Well, they don't know how to shoot a gun. I was talking to the Iranian professor who was held hostage now, got out, and was teaching at NYU. And he says, Well, they don't know how to drop guns, they don't know how to use them. Michael writes me and says, Brian, most every single Iranian citizen knows how to fire a weapon. The teenagers know how.

Look at Iraq when the public turned against our troops. Everyone seemed to come up with a weapon. That is so true. I'm all over the place. Dana writes about the data centers.

Hey, Brian, what do you think guests would think about putting data centers on sanitary landfills that produce methane on power and data centers? Eric, you want to help me with that? Do you think that makes any sense? That would be dangerous, wouldn't it? I feel like that's conceivable because we do extract methane from landfills for other things.

I just don't know if it would be enough for a data center. Yeah, how about this? John writes, If the world is so flat, we had Democrats trying to tax U.S. manufacturers as much as they could for U.S. production, and Einstein, like Thomas Friedman, telling everyone the world is flat, then why is it that U.S.

manufacturing capability moved away to begin with? That's a deep thought. Back in a moment. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

It possibly can with internal strife, and that's ultimately where we're going here. When Iran has to look north, south, west, and east, ultimately looking at their external enemies, but they're forced to look inward because the internal opposition is rising, that's when regimes become brittle, and that's when we can possibly look at regime replacement. Man, that would be great. Wouldn't it? Mike Sorelli, great analyst at Fox, retired Navy SEO who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Richard Goldberg joined us now, senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, previously served as senior counsel for the White House National Energy Dominance Council. Richard, how close is that? Do you have any idea what's happening on the ground in Iran? Yeah, I mean, listen, the fact that we're not in major military operations means that demand is high while the situation deteriorates.

So we know the president's talked about this, Treasury Secretary's talk about this. We're talking about 100% inflation just as the baseline for most products. You have higher numbers in certain staples. You're talking about gasoline that is not available because they subsidize gasoline. They can't afford to do it.

And so they're trying to limit ration. You get to a gas station towards the end of the month. They say, nope, can't get any gas here because there's no money to help you pay for it.

So the situation for the Iranian people, their demand is high. Their supply is running out. And so people are getting pretty upset. And that also means that the people working for the people in charge of the country right now are not getting paid. And so at some point, as everything is falling apart and they run lower and lower and lower in the tank on resources, while they See the United States able to get more and more oil out of the Strait of Hormuz on our terms.

The pressure they thought would come on President Trump is not there. He's not giving in. He's found ways with the U.S. military. All credit to Admiral Cooper and our U.S.

military and partners who have figured out a covert way to get more and more oil out without an MOU, without any deals, without any extortion rackets. That means the pressure is all on the regime. It is loosening on us. And we've already done most of the military damage we wanted to do with respect to the nuclear missile programs.

So, this is now a strangulation battle. And yeah. You should be driving up the middle with that, with a covert plan to help the Iranian people seize their moment because it is a matter of time until they're back out on the streets. They obviously are afraid. That they're going to get mowed down around again.

I mean, 50,000 people getting slaughtered last time they came out, it's a real thing.

So, what are we doing about that? What are we doing to help those people come back out in an organized way? That's a question. That obviously is classified, that we wouldn't know, but it better be something we're working on. I hope so.

Does your gut tell you we are? Yeah, I mean, I don't know how you wouldn't be doing that. I mean, this is a regime. that now is videos out about their plot to kill the president's son. I mean, these are sick people we are dealing with.

I mean, you know, in the course of diplomacy, in the course of dealmaking and strategy, the president is a smart guy. He says things at different moments for tactical reasons. But I don't think this president is in any way under any illusions that this is a regime that has to end up in the ashbin of history. And he is going to help make that happen. He's not going to do it at moments.

Where it could create pain unnecessarily to ourselves or create wounds to the global market. He's done this in a very methodical, sequice way. But I don't think, if you listen to what Treasury Secretary Best is talking about here, I don't think we're talking about some deal that they break in a few months again or in a couple of weeks. I think we're talking about changing the course of history right now. Yeah, here is the Treasury Secretary yesterday talking about secondary sanctions that anyone who's dealing with Iran cut three.

Iran now faces a very clear choice. with only two paths before them. Complete global isolation and a subsistence economy or a path back to normalcy with an opportunity to rejoin the global economy. Today, we are launching Operation Economic Outcast to foreclose every other option available to the Iranian regime. Treasury has mapped every node, every facilitator, and every network that Iran has used to smuggle oil and evade sanctions.

Beginning today, the actions of Treasury and other agencies will tighten the noose and block every potential source of revenue that funds the IRGC. And the key is going to be Pakistan, Turkey, it's going to be India. Uh it's going to be uh Iraq. And most of all, it's going to be China and Russia. Most of all, China.

China is importing about 500,000 barrels a day so far in August. What are we going to do to China while still trying to make sure President Xi still arrives here on our shores and we don't get back into a trade war with them? Remember, a lot of oil went out to sea during the MOU that's on the waters. That could be part of what they're importing at the moment, what they're buying and trying to pay the Iranians certain ways.

So, we're going to make sure that that is not happening. There is a lot of money that has built up in China over the years on the illicit oil trade that had been going on for years, obviously, 2 million barrels per day until this conflict, until the blockade. And a lot of that money gets repackaged and sent as barter infrastructure investments, different things.

So, there's plenty of targets in China, all the way up to state-owned enterprises to look at there. And you have to be willing. I hate the pun, but you have to be willing to break some China if you're actually going to change this behavior. And they could retaliate.

So that's a big deal. And they have to be thinking about that in the White House. But there are other places that are friendly, you know, that there is a lot of leakage. UAE. UAE.

UAE has historically, unfortunately, been a place in Dubai where the Iranians get access to cash, where they do a lot of transshipment. And the UAE knows that that is a problem. Abu Dhabi has known it's a problem for a long time. They've tried. But what happens in Dubai sometimes Goes ahead without what Abu Dhabi says or wants.

That has to change right now. Otherwise, it's really bad for the UAE. We saw them getting ahead of this with their statement. By the way, European capitals, there are bank branches of Iranian banks open for business in parts of Europe. There are flights that take off and go back and forth, maybe carrying cash.

All of those have to stop. And of course, you talk about the border countries, absolutely. Iraq and Turkey, where we've had gold sanctions evasion before, Pakistan, all of that has to get shut down. If the Treasury Secretary really has a map, And he sent attaches out to every every capital saying X marks the spot or else.

Well, now it's the moment of or else, and hopefully, it's good news. And they start showing us the product of this mission of things that are closing off. And if not, we're going to be waiting to see. You know, the old Chinese proverb, you've got to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, and Treasury is going to have to kill a couple of chickens. Here is that Chinese foreign ministry after we had that press conference yesterday talking about the sanctions cut too.

China-Iran cooperation has always been conducted within the framework of international law and should not be disrupted or undermined. China is closely monitoring relevant developments and will take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard its own rights and interests. The first statement's wrong. They're not complying by international law by illicitly setting up a network of ghost ships in order to deliver oil on a regular basis. But what do you read into that?

I care less about talk. I mean, if I only looked at people's words, then nothing would really make any sense in analysis. I mean, the Iranians still claim they have total control of the straight of Hormuz while we're getting eight, nine, 10 million barrels per day out. And the President says we cleared the mines on our own.

So the Chinese can say whatever they want for propaganda purposes and for their relationship with Iran. The question is what is actually happening behind the scenes? The Treasury Department will know the answer to that, and then we'll see what they're willing to do. Formos, uh it looks like Iran and Oman. Have come up with a deal essentially using the Amman side of the strait to get ships through.

I read this thing like 10 times. I'm thinking to myself, wait a second. They say they created an apparent contradiction on Trump's announcement. They said they described mind-clearing that they've done. And then they went on to say.

that they set up a framework to allow traffic to get through.

So, negotiating a temporary joint shipping card through Homoz.

Now, we got about 27 through yesterday. We're 29. What do you think that means? That means it seems like they'd be opening they've opening up the straight. Here's what I think.

I think that the Iranians are desperate right now to maintain the appearance of control over the Strait of Hormuz because they don't have control over the Strait of Hormuz.

So they've tried continuing to send drones and missiles. And you do see hits. Every day you see maybe one ship gets hit, and then somehow 20 plus get through.

So they have lost the ability to stop traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. They have lost the ability to use mines to block traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. We've been doing a lot of things covertly. Again, all credit to Central Command and the U.S. Navy.

So, what do they do now? They fly to Oman. They put out a joint release. Oh, the reason why oil is flowing is because we're allowing it. It's our control.

We have a deal with the Omani. There's no deal. This isn't real. The Omanis, by the way, are like the Swiss bankers to the Nazis. They're everything to everybody at this point.

Remember, this was the Omanis who flew to Washington and went on CBS to try to say, oh, these are great people. Don't go to war. They've made such a good deal. They're going to denuclearize. It was like the night before we launched Operation Epic Fury.

The president has talked about how upset he is with the Omani conduct.

So this is one more piece in their appeasement. But as long as there's nothing real there, they're not paying them, they're not giving them anything. You know, it's all just charades, it's all just theater, because the U.S. Navy is right now in control of what goes in and what comes out of the Strait of Hormuz.

So, Richard, Mike Pence brought this up to me yesterday because he was just in Ukraine. And he said they need patriots. We only have a finite amount of patriots. They don't need much, they said, just five percent more. And he thinks that they should go to South Korea to get them, because South Korea has some that they should be willing to spare, especially knowing that there's been a little bit of tension between our two countries.

Do you think that's a good option? I think that we should be looking at all of our global partners that have access to munitions and platforms. By the way, the Biden administration did this in certain cases earlier in the conflict, looking at Europeans who can backfill certain orders on different platforms while the U.S. was going to make good on their sales in the future. You can do that.

If you have your own munitions stockpile issues here at home while you're still building more, manufacturing more.

So we should make sure that if at all possible, with a coalition of the willing, that we have the Ukrainians with what they need because they're doing well on the battlefield. And the more Putin is up against the wall, the more leverage the president has in all of these different conflicts. What do you think if you were on John Radcliffe's plane and he said, Richard Goldberg, what should I say to the Russians? Because evidently he landed there yesterday. Why do you think he went?

What do you think he said?

Well, obviously, it's clandestine for a reason, I suppose. But if we have evidence that they are sending arms through the Caspian, if they're doing something that we credibly believe is endangering the U.S. military, as that's we highly suspect it, targeting intelligence, things like that, I think you make it clear that we know what you're doing. You've said certain things that are untrue. And we have ways of responding.

And if you want to go down this road, you'll regret it. And you can also potentially see messages move from the White House of saying, hey, we also know you're providing these levers of financial support to the regime right now. If you cut those off, maybe there's a path forward in negotiations with Ukraine where you see benefit in the future.

So it really depends on what the president's message was and what the intelligence picture showed, but plenty of communications opportunities there for the CIA director. And John Ratcliffe's as good as it gets. I worry about Kalingrad and they're going to start militarizing that. That's basically a weapons depot, right? Right in the middle of the Baltics.

And do you also think that they've sent drones over Poland, drones over Germany? They're always infiltrating in Moldova. Do you sense that we have picked up intelligence that Russia is going to make a move, which seems ridiculous considering the trouble they're having in Ukraine, but making a move to widen this fight? It's possible. It's always been a worry, obviously.

And if we were picking up on this, you'd have to send a clear message very quickly and quietly. The opposite of what Joe Biden did, giving a press conference saying maybe we'd be okay with a limited incursion. You put the CIA director on a plane and say, we know exactly what you're planning. Do not do that because here are the consequences we have planned. Right, Richard Goldberg, thanks so much.

Always great. You bet. All right, when we come back, we'll wrap things up and also have you weigh in 1-866-408-7669. Thanks so much for listening to the Brian Kilmey Show. Don't go anywhere.

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Then work for somebody else. It's not about me, what my life can be. But what my life can do. I'm at that point in my life to where I just want to be able to do things that are good things that can be built on and carried on. And I'm proud of my legacy so far.

And so I hope to just continue to do things that Might be of use. To other people. There you go. That is Dolly Porton talking about her life in the big picture when she was on Fox and Friends and talking about her legacy. She's got her foundation, Dollywood, which is a nonprofit, I understand, as well as her reading foundation.

Her dad was illiterate, fantastic guy, was able to raise 11 kids with a stay-at-home mom, and she was just appreciative, and she's been famous almost her entire life. Dolly Pardon passes away at the age of 80, and it seems sudden. I mean, it seems like she finds out she has cancer, went into the hospital on Friday and does not get out. She said, I have a lot more to do in May when told. When people start hearing about something happening with her health and she had to cancel some dates, she says, Look, I got this diagnosis, but I'm not going anywhere.

She had a kidney stone and other things. But here's what she said, cut 45. Of course, plastic surgeons can make you look as good as they can on the outside. But it's serious business when you're talking about internal medicine.

So I have great doctors. and I'm doing really well, and they assure me that everything I have is treatable.

So I'm going with that. And I just want you to know I thank you for standing by me and that I will always love you. Thank you. And that is the cover in the New York Post. That is her famous line.

Brian Seaver, who is Dally Parton's nephew, She did not have children. Cut forty-four. I am representing the Parton and Owens family today, announcing the passing of my Aunt Dolly, Rebecca Parton Dean. Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and have some rest. Yeah.

Rest in peace, Aunt Dolly.

So, obviously, she must have had a ton of nephews and nieces with 11 kids in their family.

So, she passed away at the age of 80. She's transformed, I guess, generations if you think about it. I mean, she was tied with Burt Reynolds, with Kenny Rogers. She was synonymous with great appearances on Johnny Carson's show. And then, the fact that she's still relevant, writing notes to Eminem as he emerges on the scene, is all part of the new country scene as she talks about.

So, sad that she passed away, but you can't say she didn't have a life well lived. My goodness, I've never seen more people from different walks of life comment on it. And she was also smart about something else. Not a Republican, not a Democrat, impossible to determine. She says her family was all over the map.

You think Tennessee, you think Republican. But listen, they were Democrats for generations before. That's that was the South in which she grew up in. But she passed away at the age of eighty. Um the update on her health essentially was optimistic up until She passed away.

I'm sure more details will come out. We'll have to see about that. All right, so we'll have more on that. And of course, her. Her funeral will be carried on the station live and certainly Fox Nation on top of that.

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