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From Hia Top Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmeye. I'm so glad you're there. The Brian Killmee choke coming your way. Bottom of the hour, maybe the next governor of Florida will be with us, Byron Donalds.

That'll be great. And Lawrence Jones is in the studio. They're going to be a big day today, at least for the Vice President of the United States. He heads to Michigan to campaign for Republicans, especially this guy named Mike Rogers. He's also going to deliver the keynote address of the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership.

That's going to be good now for Democrats. When they're in trouble, what do they do? They call Barack Obama, and he is going to be having a thing in Narragansett, excuse me, Martha's Vineyard, big fundraiser there. The word swanky comes into play.

So that's how you raise money. And Barack Obama, to my surprise, Not Lawrence Jones's surprise. Is not pushing back against this rise of socialists. In fact, he's helping them.

So before we get to Lawrence, let's get to the big three. Number three. We have the electricity. We have the critical minerals, rare earth minerals. I'd rather send it down to the U.S.

If I can say everyone's feeling bullied by President Trump, and this is the worst thing you could do for the American economy.

Well, thank you, Doug Ford, for telling us about the American economy over in Ontario. Getting worse. U.S. and Canada dig in as Canada looks to involve themselves in our elections for the Dems as this rift hurts Michigan and Maine economically, predominantly, where we have two tight Senate races. Number two.

The U.S. military has achieved a major milestone in the Strait of Hormuz. We have successfully cleared sea mines in the strait's international shipping lanes. Bottom line, today, international shipping lanes are open and momentum is building. Back to the battle.

Iran and U.S. exchange attacks as more oil flows through the strait every day. Why I think we have to go back to working with Mossad to find defectors and kill IRGC and besiege members. Number one. My comments might have been hurtful.

I'm really sorry that was not my intention. We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright. What I was trying to do is offer context for why it happened, but it wasn't the time for context, and you don't ever want to trample somebody's pain. Really?

Not time for context. Midterms, that's an apology. Midterms will go down to the wire as a clear-cut leader, not a parent. Two months to election day, not Democrats or Republicans, but we have the numbers. As of today, Dems try to stamp down their Civil War and anti-Semitism sentiment.

See how they do. But, Lawrence, let me start here. There is in the races right now for the midterms, in the Senate races, there are eight Senate races where Republicans are trailing in battleground states. In Georgia, The Republican candidate Mike Collins trails by 7.5. Susan Collins in Maine trails by 2.3.

In Michigan, believe it or not, Mike Rogers, who's up by four in the Fox poll, 1.8 in the real clear average, down. In Ohio, Sherrod Brown's got a 2.6 lead over Houston, two points in New Hampshire, but they haven't even picked a candidate yet, Johnson New or Scott Brown. Eight points in North Carolina, 1.9 Democratic vantage in Texas.

So how do you feel about that if you're if a Republican? I look at this two ways, and I'm not trying to, you know, pivot, but I would prefer. The message to be that we're down right now, then we're up because we already have a problem with Republicans. Showing up when the president is not on the ballot.

So in our mind. Every vote counts. There are no even red states, they are not safe right now.

So I appreciate that. Like Iowa, right? Correct. Correct. That being said, when you look at Susan Collins, she always under polls, but Overperforms.

Really concerned about my home state of Texas, even though I think we're going to pull it off. I'm still concerned about it because it shouldn't be this close. And I'm not just talking about the senator race, I'm talking about the governor's race as well. I think Collins is going to pull it off, and I also think Rogers is going to pull it off. But it's going to be close.

People have to show up to vote. And my concern is right now, people not being energized because they thought everything was going to turn on a dime, and that's just not practical.

So I don't see much of Mike Collins yet. And all I said, you know, you mean in Georgia? In Georgia, first off, because I haven't seen much of Collins. I mean, he's got a money, he's self-propelled, he was picked by the president, so he's got that. But he, you know, the governor of the state would have been probably a favorite, but it doesn't look like it's happening.

So trailing 7.5, but that won't be a flip. That's what many people thought was a flip. In Maine, I do have confidence in Susan Collins, but the lack of a trade deal in Canada is going to hurt her. There's no question. And even though she's condemned it.

Right. And the president. Right. So in Michigan, I'm convinced Roger's going to win. In Ohio, Houston should win, but believe it or not, it could come down to data centers.

Correct. And he's got to fully define what data centers have done for the tax base in the area and what kind of damage if you're on a console playing a video game, if you're on your iPhone, if you enjoy Netflix last night at a good speed. If you take these data centers away, expect to pay more and slow down.

Well, the problem is, Brian, even explaining this, you're losing. Why? We're losing right now. I agree with you on the data center. I think you're 100% right.

It's not even a thing. They are. It's in their incentive to do so. They're putting all these bots online as well. But right now, Um, it's kind of like fracking back in the day, it's it's that same position right now.

Um, because the Saudis were trying to get us to turn on our own frackers.

Now, can you change this after the midterms? I think so, yes. But right now, you got to put a pause on them.

Well, I have to. My personal thing, since I'm not running for office, is to push back on reality. I got you, and I agree with pushing back, but right now, I mean, look at my home state of Texas. Pause. It's a pause.

And we were leading on them. I mean, it was like open sesame. And I can make the argument of how much money you're getting from the tax base growing, lowering the energy prices, and all of that. But the voters They don't like it right now.

So I want to go back to Texas now.

So Tallarico is a good speaker. It's what he says is the problem. Right, the content of it. Right. I mean, he's smooth, but it's still insanity.

Right, I agree. And Senator Ted Cruz was asked because the bitterness is there between Cornyn, who says Paxton's lazy and not a good campaigner.

So when asked about that, here's what Ted Cruz said yesterday, Cut 17. Primaries can often be bitter, and you often see hurt feelings. That's part of the process. It's also part of the process that when the primary is over, that you come together and you focus on the general election. This is not about how any one particular person feels about any one particular candidate.

This is about the people of Texas. This is about who will best represent 32 million Texans. And on that, I think the answer is very, very clear. Ken Paxton is a strong conservative who is going to fight for low taxes, low regulations, lots of jobs to secure the border, to support law enforcement, to protect our constitutional rights. You don't, Texas.

Do they need Cornyn on the campaign trail? No, but he is going to support them. at a certain point.

So this is what I explained to the audience. With these same Allegations against him. Paxson. Paxson has won office in Texas. uh statewide three times.

Three times.

So there's not a question is he's electable. He's won three times with these same allegations. The second thing is, as the senator says, it was a terrible primary. It was back and forth and it was nasty. The person that led the impeachment.

Uh fight against Paxton, Republican. Jeff Leach is now supporting Ken Paxton because it's a binary choice. Cornyn is a statesman. He's a Republican. He's going to support him.

I think everybody should cool out a little bit. Let him wait a little bit. I think as it gets close, closer to the general election, him making a speech. And outlining All the issues that he had with Paxton, but why it's important, is more beneficial. Them him immediately supporting him.

I think he's going to do the right thing. I really do.

So here's what Senator Kennedy says Trump has to do: cut 14. We in the Senate don't have the money budgeted for Texas. We need help for the President. from the present. President says he has $850 million in his campaign accounts.

Um that's a lot of jack. I'm hoping that the president's going to spend $100 or $200 million in Texas, but he hasn't committed to it yet. But in the meantime, you know, we've got a race, and I'm not going to play act and say that we don't.

Well the president's not going to tell you how much money he's going to spend, but he's going to spend. I have it on good authority that no, he's going to be very involved in Texas. Um, and the candidates have gotten some talking to's as well from the president about making sure they're doing what they need to do vacations with Iceland, got to stop doing vacations, but also just be better. I mean, there are so many candidates that just ride on the coattail of the president. You can do the same thing.

Go out there, talk with voters. Uh A lot of people got some phone calls over the past week.

So let's talk about on the left. There's a story in Axios today that there's a DSA division in the DSA. I'm thinking, what's that about? The political success brings scrutiny, and some DSA members and the strategists who work with them don't think its current leadership is ready for primetime. No kidding.

Do you remember how they don't sit in their face? But the thing is, they say we're not a book club anymore. You could be growing this organization by pointing to AOC, Bernie, and Mom Donnie, but instead, they're talking about Fidel Castro and weird stuff. It's a blown opportunity. The ways that we're operating in the past are now making headlines.

Our leaders aren't politicians. They're working class people and knew what to do in media. Number one, they're not. No. Most of them are silver spoon kids.

100%. And they are lying about their past. And number two is. Don't tell me they're not good on media.

So let's say you're soft spoken and not good at a debate. But it's what you say is the problem. It's the d no no borders, no prisons, no Pentagon, no senate. Are you crazy? You think your spokesmen are bad?

Brian Their movement's philosophy. Is centered around hating the country. Yes. They want a different country. You can't ask the American people to support.

Policies that dismantle the state of our country. And I think. AOC may be DSA, right? In Medicare for the United States. She renewed for membership.

She renewed her. But I don't think AOC wants to destroy the country.

Now, her wacky ideas. Will definitely do massive damage to the country.

Well, she's got to explain. Either, I'm going to say she's all in on all this unless she says something different. 100%, but she can't. Because That is her base. That is her movement.

That's it. And that's the problem that, to your point, Brian, all of the Democrats have gotten themselves into. This Big Tent philosophy of let's keep the most energized. These are the people that are knocking on doors. They need them.

These are the foot soldiers. If they condemn them, then they have lost their special forces of their army.

So don't you love this? The DSA issued a statement commemorating the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro condemning the Trump administration's genocide of the Cuban people. Fidel was an organizer, a fighter, and adores a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination for the global South. How are you? You have taken over the Democratic Party with that philosophy?

Are you crazy? Love the people. And the most fascinating thing is when you put these leaders of this movement that love Fidel, they love Mao, dress like Mao, and you have them. Hassan Piker. And then you have them debate.

Immigrants that came from these socialist countries, and they completely crumble. They have nothing to say. These kids lived it. And they don't have it's not philosophy for them. It's their life story.

And they fall apart every single time.

So you talk about Democrats having problems? You know how anti-Israel and anti-Jew they are, anti-Semitic.

So Hakeem Jeffries is not. I don't think he is. No, he's not.

So Hakeem Jeffries, realizing in Florida they're going to lose quite a few seats, they put some powerful Florida politicians in charge and do leadership. Jared Moskowitz of Florida has served as ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, elevating a lawmaker facing a tough reelection. Did the same thing with Wesley Bell, Debbie Watson, and Schultz. He gave them leadership positions. And now he is getting huge backflash from progressives.

They condemn the moves, calling them tone deaf. And the sign that the Democratic Party is... That was Ben Rhodes that said that. Yeah. Have failed to grasp how voters in their own party are acting.

How about Rokana? Don't put Israel hawks out of touch with our voters in charge of our Middle East policy. How can you not. Interpret that message as anti-Jew. Absolutely.

Okay, we, we, you know, they keep walking this line of saying it's anti-Israel. But we know who they're targeting. We know they're going after the Jewish community, the Jewish members. And I don't understand how someone that worked for Barack Obama, who built the Iron Dome for Israel, is saying that that's tone. That was Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor, that said it was tone deaf to appoint Motsowitz to that chairmanship.

Yeah, yeah, I just think out of. Uh of all this, this is the biggest joke because You can't join the DSA. And tell me that you don't believe everything they say unless you're going to join and say, I like their ideas, but these are the ones I don't.

Well, I don't think you can do that. And if you're going to running against that, I think you're going to have a field day. I'm not playing that game. And I'm playing Florida. By the way, I'm not playing that game with the Democrats.

And as I said on the couch this morning, I'm not playing that game with Republicans either. If you're going to associate, if you're going to do the big tent thing with white supremacists or neo-Nazis or you decide that you're going to hate Israel, I'm not supporting, I don't want to be a part of that tent.

So in other words, you mean the podcasters that say that Qatar is really misunderstood and Iran's misunderstood and that Russia had no choice. If they're going to be a part of the United States, Russia had no choice but to invade Ukraine. Bingo, if that's going to be a part of your attempt. And you want to run for the presidency, you want to run for senator, whatever you want to run for, and you want me to support you. And I have a vote, I'm not voting for you.

And I'm going to tell everybody else not to vote for you as well, because there has to be a line in the sand with this cancer. It can't just be lower taxes. I'm sorry. I'm not going to march with the neo-Nazis and anti-Jewish people to get lower taxes.

Sorry, I'm out. Right. Absolutely.

And I can't wait to see how this goes because a lot of Republicans are afraid of taking AIPAC money too. Because that's a Jewish lobbyist organization. They used to go and appear there. The president, to his credit. has made the stance very clear for the party.

He's the leader of the party.

So that's what I wanted to hear, and he's done that since day one. Why the other people within the party can't do that, I don't understand. All right. It was great having you in. Where are you at?

A little bit. No, I got you fired up. You did. You love poking the beer. He does that on the couch now.

You notice that, Allison? I always try to question you.

Now, are you able with your eye to do jiu-jitsu? No. I haven't done jiu-jitsu in like over a month. It's really hurting me. Right.

Now do you think if you were better at it they would do it because you'd be better at protecting yourself? Are they trying to say, listen, I've seen the jujitsuistic. I have explored the goggles, though. Maybe if I go back to jiu-jitsu, I gotta be Kareem. It looks a little weak, but I mean, he is a Hall of Famer, so.

Brandon, he was seven foot. You're 7'1. No wish. You're 6'5. You wish you were seven foot?

Yeah. You get out of here. Yeah, I'd be in the mountains. What do you mean? Like You'd be like a mountain of a man.

Correct. I'm halfway there. All right. Lawrence, thanks so much. More on this.

Tomorrow morning on the couch. Back in a moment. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmead.

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Learn more at jpmorganchase.com/slash impact. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmeade. I find this guy to be really, really troubling. Elsa has said that he doesn't agree with the things that Hassenfeiker said. I think he'd do himself some some good if he made very clear.

The specific things that Huskin Pranker said that he disagree with, because I got to tell you, they make me really, really uncomfortable. Yeah, you think? Hassan Piker makes you really uncomfortable when he salutes Mal, loves Stalin, and uh f he celebrates Fidel Castro's birthday and Che Kuevara says they're fantastic leaders, that makes you uncomfortable. El Saeed says I probably won't campaign with him, but he won't disavow him.

Now he wants to say he's just a streamer. Like, you mean my best friend is just a streamer?

Okay, fantastic. It's like, yeah, he's a great, he's just a guy who lives in a $1.8 million mansion while promoting socialist causes. James Carville, not happy with El Saeed, but there's a sense on the Democratic Party that they are so uncomfortable with him that they don't mind if he loses because they want to put out this whole socialist trend and they think he, if successful, will allow the socialists to take over their party. Of course, the party establishment denies this. I think it's true.

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A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Killmead Show. When you're president, whether you're Republican or Democrat, or whether you're a good president or a bad president, you lose the midterms. Nobody knows why.

So it's been two, over 50 years, there's been two victories by a president that won and then went on to win the midterms. And one of them was a little bit of a fluke. And so for some reason The voters tend to go the other way. I think we're going to do very well because we have communists, we have a party that's been infiltrated by. bad thought by bad policy.

Yeah. You know what the thing is, sometimes, you know, the president does ex talks extremes a lot, and that's what he does, black and white. Blow it out of proportion, make it obvious and easy to understand. But he's not blowing it out of proportion. I mean, the stuff that this DSA believes is really insane, and it's not America.

You know what America is?

Well, I want to ease on immigration restrictions. I don't think we should have an interventionist foreign policy, or I think we should bolster NATO. These are American principles, and you have a different view. But if you're the DSA member, you don't want to be an American, abolish the Senate, abolish prisons, abolish the Pentagon. I mean, do I need to go any further?

But someone like AOC, who's a leading contender on the left, has said she re-upped her DSA membership. If I was to do that to consolidate support, I'd say I want to make it clear. I don't agree with anything I just said, but I just agree everybody feeling welcome. I'd spin it that way. One person who would never be a member of the DSA is safe to say, Congressman Byron Donalds, he has now earned the Republican nomination to be the next governor of Florida, and he joins us now.

Congressman, congratulations on the nomination. First time we spoke. You're going against a guy in Dave Jolly, who used to be a Republican. It's really hard to. And it wouldn't be accurate to call him a socialist.

So, how do you do your how do you how do you run your uh campaign then? I call him what he is. He's a Trojan horse for the Democrat Socialists. And what I mean by that is first let's take some just key issues. David Jolly still thinks it's okay for boys to be in girls' sports.

He still thinks it's okay to transgender kids. This is a guy that when Dr. Fauci was shutting down the country and Ron DeSantis reopened Florida, David Jolly left Florida to go to Pennsylvania and criticized Ron DeSantis. He said that Fauci's judgment was great judgment. It was unimpeachable judgment.

And then you get to the policy. David Jolly thinks that it's okay for Americans to pay more in taxes. He opposed the president's agenda. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, keeping small business taxes low, and increasing the child tax credit. David Jolly opposed all that.

He said we should roll it back. And then he wants to get rid of private insurance in Florida, and he wants to have a state-run insurance system.

So he may not be a socialist like AOC, but he's definitely a Trojan horse for the Democrat socialists of America.

So when you're running this campaign, fundamentally, for people who's never run for... Office period, how does this change? You used to run, you're running statewide to be a congressman from Florida.

Now you're running statewide to run the state.

So what did you have to do personally prepare? to run for governor. And how how is this different from what you were doing in Congress?

Well, the difference is you need to make sure you get around your state and spend time in each community in Florida. Florida is a very diverse state. I know some people who don't live here, they just think about Miami or Orlando, maybe the panhandle. But we have rural areas in Florida. Obviously, we have great beaches.

We have freshwater lakes in North Florida, the Everglades system in South Florida. And then we have major urban areas like Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Palm Beach, and Fort Lauderdale, not to mention all of the towns and counties throughout our state. And so you need to spend time going through Florida. We've been in about 62 of Florida's 67 counties, talking with voters everywhere, really understanding the nuance of these issues. And then the second piece is you get to be focused on state-level policy.

That's how you build housing. How do you protect water? How do you protect ag lands? What are we going to do about reforming Florida's insurance markets, which do need additional reforms to lower costs? And then also, how do you modernize state government to make Make sure that the systems that do operate on the state level, a lot of them dealing with.

And Medicaid, that you're squeezing out all the fraud necessary so that people could know that their tax dollars are being utilized for their purposes, not being wasted.

So, those are the differences. Running a statewide campaign versus just running for Congress.

So, yeah, I don't know if you noticed on the Democratic side with redistricting, people are expecting big things to come out and get, I think, four additional seats out of Florida for the U.S. Congress. Democrats on Tuesday chose Jared Meyers last week, Jared Mosquito, to serve as the ranking member in foreign affairs. They put Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and Wesley Bell of Missouri, who, like Mosquitz, have been heavily backed by the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, and back into leadership moments into positions, and there's been blowback there. How deep is the anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party where their Democratic members are getting blowback?

There is a major problem, it's a major risk to the Democratic Party. The antisemitism is real there, but you know that the Democrats got their monthly talking talk memo because about eight months ago, Stopped talking about Israel and BB and Yahoo, all of them. It was like a full stop. Like they just, the memo went out and said, stop talking about it. The truth of the matter is, there are real anti-Semitic issues in the Democrat Party.

They've been there for a long, long time. And look, to be honest, I think there's people, some on the right, who might have issues with BB, but we have to understand that Israel is our ally. You know, you may not agree with everything that gets done, but they're our ally. And we are going to stand by our friends in that region. We're going to stand by our friends around the globe.

That's how you conduct foreign policy. That's how you keep America safe over the long term. You've got to have people who share your interests. But look, I'll tell you, they got real problems over there. It's why we're seeing Jewish voters in Florida continue to move into the Republican side of the aisle because they know we're not going to tolerate anti-Semitism.

You may disagree on a foreign policy measure, but we're not going to be discriminating against Jews just because they're Jews. You know, it was interesting, Congressman. And as he's a gubernatorial nominee, Byron Donalds, is that when people think of socialists, people think, well, this is going to be a proletariat revolution for the working class, it's left minorities behind. Hispanics and blacks are not buying into this. Doesn't that give Republicans an opportunity to finally be heard?

I definitely think so. But look, I would also say for Republicans running around the country, it's not just about being against the Democrats. It's also got to be about the things that you are for. How are your policies going to actually contain costs and lower costs for people when it comes to their families? How are you going to make sure their kids have an ability to really build the Florida dream for themselves?

Like, these are some of the just the kitchen table issues that a Republican candidate in this cycle has to be able to address while also drawing the contrast with the fact that the Democrats are just crazy and they support crazy ideas that simply do not work and have never worked. I think for black voters and Hispanic voters, I think they're open and they're ready to listen. You have to engage them directly. You can't just do that. Brian, no disrespect to your show, but just doing radio interviews and going on Fox is not enough.

You have to go into these communities. You have to break bread. You have to let them ask questions and really engage them directly. And I think that what that builds. Is a rapport and I think a trust factor for voters who typically do not vote Republican to say, you know what?

I vote. Republican, but I like this Republican, and I will be supporting that. And I think that's the work that every Republican candidate has to do in 2026. I understand, too. And by the way, we're all across Florida.

We've got 10 stations in Florida, so all types of communities, not just one, I promise. Even though we're streamed on Fox One and Fox Nation. But talking to Byron Donalds. Byron, how Active Or how clued zoned in? Is the Cuban community on what's happening in Cuba?

I mean, that is an island about to tip for the first time in my life. For the first time that I can remember, like, how how big of an issue is it in South Florida? It's major. I'm telling you, I've been on the ground in South Florida a lot, especially over the last year. They're talking about it.

It is on their mind. They want to see the regime fall once and for all, and it should. That is a murderous communist dictatorship. It should fall. They still take political prisoners to this day.

And so to me, this shouldn't even be a partisan thing. Every American should support the fall of the Cuban regime, everybody. And so, look, they're locked in on this, but I will tell you, it's not just the Cuban people. It's also the Venezuelans. It's also Nicaraguans.

Yeah, we break it up a little bit to our country from Latin America. They do not want socialism at all. They want to see it defeated everywhere in the Western Hemisphere. Do you find that the Venezuelans, exiles that are here, want an election Is that one of the major issues they'd like to see in election? Because they look at Del Codriguez as a remnant of Maduro?

Yeah, I think definitely so. election of Venezuela, you want to make sure it can get conducted properly. And so this is where I think there wasn't a rush election because where's the infrastructure in that government to make sure that the votes will be counted fairly for the people of Venezuela? But definitely, they want to see an election.

So what do you take from Rick Scott? And what do you take from DeSantis? They don't get along. You know that. But they were both very effective governors, by the way, and both came from nowhere.

To winning that seat, especially Rick Scott was down twice substantially.

So, what do you take? When you look at Rick Scott and what he did in DeSantis, what do you take from both? Rick was laser focused, and quite frankly, still is laser-focused on job creation. And Rick understands that the number one way you afford Florida or afford anywhere is you got to have a high-paying job. And I take that from him.

From Governor DeSantis, it's cultural conservatism. You have to protect Western civilization. You have to make sure that you defeat the radical left at every single turn. And sometimes when you're doing these battles with the left, it is not popular early on. But you have to do the right thing and uphold the Constitution at all times.

And that's what I take from Ron DeSantis. And I will tell you, both governors have laid a tremendous foundation in Florida that we are going to protect and we're going to build upon so that the Florida dream is alive and well for everybody and we take our state to the next level. One of the issues that you guys have in Florida is insurance. Homeowners insurance and the other thing you have property taxes are not low. Where you have no tax, and we know about the benefits.

How would you tackle both those things?

Well, I mean, look, let's talk about property taxes first. I mean, look, we don't have New Jersey or New York property taxes, but at the same time, they have risen, they've doubled in our state over the last decade. The governor and the legislature put a property tax amendment on the ballot this November. It would actually raise our homestead exemption in Florida. I'm going to vote for that amendment.

But whether it passes or fails, we're going to bring that back. We have a tax and budget commission that gets sat next year. Under Florida's Constitution, it happens every 20 years. It starts next year, and we're going to have that commission review all taxes and fees in Florida with the goal of eliminating homestead property taxes. And if we can't accomplish that, then we want to target that relief to seniors on fixed income and working families in our state.

When it comes to insurance, Governor DeSantis did total reform a couple of years in Florida. That is beginning to bear fruit this year. We think it's going to continue to get better over the next couple. But there are regulatory reforms that have to be done in Florida. Insurance market, and I want to use my expertise having worked 17 years in the financial industry, while also having been a member of the Florida legislature before Congress, use my expertise of that system to modernize it and reform it.

And we believe we could push costs down 20% in the state of Florida for Florida homeowners. And Congressman, give people an understanding of what your origin story is. The first time many people have heard of you was when you went into Congress. Tell me where where what it was like growing up. Where did you grow up?

I'm originally from Brooklyn, New York. Grew up, you know, poor in inner city Brooklyn, you know, single-parent household. My mom, she did everything for me. And so I went to college in Florida. I went to Florida AM first in Tallahassee, and then I transferred to Florida State, graduated from Florida State with degrees in finance and marketing.

I was waiting tables in college, moving furniture on the weekend. My wife was an accountant, main accounting major. Her first job was as a staff accountant in an investment firm. And we both worked our way up, you know, the kind of the corporate business world. She started as a staff accountant, ended up becoming CFO and chief compliance officer.

I started as a bank teller, went into credit analysis, was a credit analysis for five years. Then I worked in insurance for seven years, and then I became securities licensed and worked in financial services for five and a half years before I got elected to Congress.

So, you know, our background has been in the business world, myself, my wife. We're business people who got involved in politics.

So when I talk about affordability, talking about insurance, these aren't talking points from political consultants. These are ideas that I know work because I've worked in the financial industry, and we want to make sure we apply common sense economic principles to governmental systems to lower costs for the people of Florida. I know Florida has been back to school for a few weeks, but for most of the Northeast, they're going back on today. Did you have teachers along the way that believed in you that you still think about today? Oh man, I had several.

I mean, the first one was Ms. Pendarvis. She was a teacher, but also the principal at the small black private school my mother put me in. My mother was a school choice mom before school choice was anything.

So she took me out of public school, I believe in the first grade, and put me in a small private school. In high school, I would definitely say it was Mr. Smee. He was my first Algebra One teacher, and he was hard. And it really forced me to dig in and really learn the material.

And then Ms. Caputo was also my math teacher in high school. And, you know, between the two of them, that's where I really got and honed my math skills. And those are my teachers that were really influential in my life. Yeah, for people who think that teaching isn't a valuable occupation, it's so valuable, we could always remember those teachers who made a difference.

And the ones that didn't believe in you, you always want to prove them wrong, too. Right? I was blessed, man. I had some good teachers. All right.

And you're making them proud. And take the next step, and of course, win in November. Congressman Byron Donalds, who is the Republican nominee to be the next governor, thanks so much for joining us. All right, take it easy. Thanks, Brian.

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Well, I can't speak for the Prime Minister, but he stopped the negotiations. It was a terrible deal for Canada. I told him it was a terrible deal. We're the engine of Canada, Ontario is, and it would have hurt our steel industry. And I find it ironic.

because we're the number one purchaser of steel in the world off the US.

So that's going to hurt the steel mills right across the the country. That's Doug Ford, Ontario's premier, and he's a conservative. And he says he is all in now. When they did the Lake America instead of Lake Ontario, he says it gets everybody all up in an uproar and nationalistic for Canada against the U.S. and certainly against Trump.

Doug Ford said things were totally out of control. He is dumb and all these horrible things, and then says he's going to deny electricity over to Maine and other states. I don't know why. I cannot figure out a reason why. Do you guys know why would we ever get electricity from Canada?

I mean, why would we ever do that? It doesn't I know there are uh ally But still, why would we ever subject ourselves? Here's more from Doug Ford, Cut43.

Well, it'd be devastating on both countries, but it'd be definitely devastating on the U.S. where the Largest purchaser of vehicles in the entire world off the U.S., over 400% more than anyone else. And they're already seeing the effect. Over $7 billion we've stopped purchasing an X amount of vehicles. $7 billion is like shutting down a couple of auto plants.

So I always say, Martha, a a tariff on on Canada is nothing more than a tax on American people. And it's probably the worst uh movie you could ever do. Yeah, I I'm not through with the trade war. I I think it's flexible. I'd go back in before September 8th.

And just fix it. And I don't, you know, get almost everything you want. You don't need everything you want. Let both sides save Face, but save Maine and Michigan and Ohio. Just don't let a Canadian trade deal that's eventually going to get worked out affect November.

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Michael Goodwin is going to be joining us in minutes. Trey Yinks at the bottom of the hour from Tel Aviv, things are heating up in Iran. And Farley Weiss, the president of the Israel Justice Organization, will be with us too. The anti-Semitism in America, J.D. Vance, speaking to a Jewish group in Las Vegas.

It's consequential because what he said about Benjamin Etanyahu and people in his party who want to see the war continue or wars continue in the area with ESPA is just, I thought it was insane, irresponsible. I actually had a chance to tell the Vice President that. You know, he's obviously thinks he's going to be president next. I can't wait to see what he has to say about that.

So, before we get to Farley, Trey and Mike, let's get to the big three. Number three. Yeah. We have the electricity, we have the critical minerals, rare earth minerals. I'd rather send it down to the U.S.

If I can say, everyone's feeling bullied by President Trump, and this is the worst thing you could do for the American economy. Thanks for that advice. Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario. Getting worse. U.S.

and Canada dig in as Canada looks to involve themselves in our elections for the Dams as this rift hurts Michigan and Maine economically, predominantly where we have two tight Senate races. Number two. The U.S. military has achieved a major milestone in the Strait of Hormuz. We have successfully cleared sea mines in the Straits international shipping lanes.

Bottom line, today, international shipping lanes are open and momentum is building. And by the way, the momentum is building and more ships are getting through. That is Admiral Brad Cooper. Back to the battle. Iran and U.S.

exchange attacks as more oil flows through the strait every day. Why I think we have to go back to working with Mossad to find defectors and kill the IRGC and besiege. Number one. My comments might have been hurtful. I'm really sorry.

That was not my intention. We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright. What I was trying to do is offer context for why it happened, but it wasn't the time for context, and you don't ever want to trample somebody's pain. Congratulations, that's one of the worst apologies ever, L Said.

Midterms will go down to the wire as clear-cut leaders, not a parent, two months in. I'm talking about if you tell somebody that the Senate's going one way or the House is going another way, it only is as a guess because nobody really knows. I'm going to take a look at the numbers and break down what the issues are. But one thing is pretty clear when it comes to Michigan. Abdul El-Saeed tried to walk back what was.

His comments after the attack on that preschool, that Jewish preschool. Thankfully, the gunman got stopped. When he did get stopped, they said, Well, I'm glad he got stopped, but to put it into context, you know, you know, there's going to be a blowback after the genocide that's going on in Gaza. Not true. And your apology said, I tried to put it in context.

So you're trying to say, I guess you're not ready for rational thought, my fault, which is an insult and not an apology. Mike Rogers has got to run through this guy, and he should, but he's not yet. Up by four in the initial poll with Fox, the latest poll on average, real clear, has him down 1.5%. Michael Goodwin joins us now for the New York Post. Michael, your thoughts about that apology.

Did you think he did anything there? Yeah, good morning, Brian. I don't I wouldn't categorize it as an apology. It was really an attempt to wiggle out from what he had said without apologizing. And I think that is a telling.

Factor here that he doesn't really disapprove of what happened. He's trying to explain what motivated the would-be killer. I mean, that's disgraceful. You know, this is a terror attack on children, and you're going to say, well, you know, Israel. I mean, if that is good license, you can then ascribe it to everybody.

Attacks, Jewish schools, synagogues, Jewish residents. I mean, it's disgraceful for someone running for the United States Senate. And that's what he is doing. How do you explain that he's up by a point? It's a mystery.

Look, I I do think that uh Michigan has a lot of Muslim uh citizens. And I think that there have been appeals, I've written about this, from uh the religious s services to vote for him because He's a Muslim and you are a Muslim. And you get that. You also have talk of assassination of Trump in one mosque.

So look, I think this is a kind of new group in American political circles. And I think they have not yet bought in to the ma American mainstream on some of these really divisive issues. Um The Can the Canada the US-Canada trade deal.

So I'm not sure. It looks like some people say Howard Luttnick blew it up. Other people say Prime Minister of Canada wants to wait in our elections. Here's former Speaker Kev McCarthy, cut 46. If you ask me about this Canada beef, it's not Trump.

Trump said he had a deal. This is Carney using the election, coming back in the trade agreements at the last minute, trying to leverage it. Why? Because we do have Maine, Michigan, and Ohio for the determination of who's going to win suit.

So it's a negotiation plate trying to leverage the election at that time. Tough place to be in, but I think this is all negotiations. We'll get it taken care of. But we should have been focused the entire time just on the economy, because that's what they'll judge you on. See, I hope they can land this plane here.

I really don't care how it got here. In retrospect, I'd want to find out. But my sense is that Jameson Greer was gonna land this plane And Howard Luttnick got involved. And there's also a chance that the Liberal Prime Minister wants additional Approval ratings out of this because when it takes on America, evidently that makes His people are happy, but economically, they're going to pay a huge price for this. And in those states, they're going to be hurting him for this, especially in Maine.

Absolutely, and the upper Midwest, too. Look, I think. The President has made some enemies along the way. And uh this is certainly one that can hurt him back. Um and I think that or as you say about the the election, we're getting awfully close now.

So It's not like you can make a deal the day before the election. I mean, these things take time to move through the economy so that there's a deal to be had. better to make it any time as soon as possible.

So I want to talk about what you wrote about, and you said the Democratic meltdown over the Jeffreys Kushners meeting. And I couldn't believe it either. First, I thought Republicans were going to be mad at it. I was a little surprised. Jerry Kushner meeting with possibly the future Speaker if the Democrats win the House.

Why would they have this meeting? Was he sent there by the President? Was it just a relationship? But the Democratic meltdown caught me by surprise. James Carville saying don't deal with these criminals.

You have no right to talk to them. Wasn't Bill Clinton talking to Newt Gingrich, who was trying to impeach him about different legislation that they worked together on? Right. And I think those days are long gone, right? That right now with this President and this Congress, There's no there's no attempt to even bridge the gap.

And I think part of that, Brian, is that radicalization of the Democratic Party is rearing its head so that if you want to be successful in an election. You have to hate Trump. You have to declare war, you have to pledge to impeach him if you get into office.

So I think that. as I say, radicalize the party so that a simple thing like a meeting becomes a c a cry for war. I mean, it just makes no sense. You cannot govern From the House of Representatives. You need to work with the President, and just as the President needs to work with the House.

So the President had a good reason, good logic for the meeting, and so did the Democrats. But their obsession with fighting Trump. has taken them out of the game. I hear you. Michael Goodwin, check out his column in the New York Post.

Thanks so much, Michael. Appreciate it. When we come back, we go out to Tel Aviv where Trey Yanks has just spoken to the President of the United States about our next step in Iran. You're going to want to hear it. Don't move.

It's Brian Kilmade. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. He's in Tel Aviv right now, negotiating what we did. It's the first flare-up in weeks between Iran and the U.S., and it was perpetuated by it looks like they were dropping mines back in the strait.

We picked up on it, we put an end to that. After we've already sweeped up the strait and we're getting more and more ships through the strait, much to the consternation of Iran. Trey Yinks is all over it because the Iranians fired back and tried to take out, hit our bases over in Jordan.

So far, I don't think they hit anything. Trey, I also know you spoke to the President about all this. Yes, absolutely. It was a night of phonetic activity in the Middle East for the first time in many weeks. And it's because the Iranians were trying to lay more sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz using what's called the Fars V rocket system, where they can actually fire these mines Into the strait.

And the U.S. picked up on this intelligence and decided to launch preemptive strikes, hitting two of the rocket launchers on Lar Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians responded then with eight ballistic missiles toward U.S. forces in Jordan. And we understand, according to the President, that all but one of those missiles were intercepted.

The other one was headed toward likely an open area. But President Trump telling Fox News, the U.S. will respond to this missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan. And so now we wait to see what that response will be.

So I mean, obviously we could see and hear almost everything going on in Iran right now, so we got to know where those lo where those rockets came from.

So every time they shoot up a rocket, it it gives away their location. Do you get the sense that that's the return target? Absolutely.

The United States tries to build deterrence with the Iranians, and that's part of the reason that the United States is likely to respond, according to the President, and also part of the reason that you see this tit-for-tat exchange for fire that occasionally pops up. It's not an indication that necessarily the United States is going to return to full-scale military operations. And the President even said that on our call, saying that they were going to hit them hard, but not as hard as they could. They're going to save that possibly for the future. Remember the backdrop here, though.

The Iranians are under an immense amount of pressure right now domestically, and that's due to the US sanctions that were announced last week by the Treasury, and also the ongoing naval blockade making it nearly impossible for them to export their crude oil from the Persian Gulf. And so all of this is connected, and this is not out of the ordinary. It's not something that was unexpected. General Jack Keene discussed the possibility last week that the Iranians would try some more provocative action in the region because they are out of options domestically and their currency is collapsing.

So the number of ships I was hearing about was 27. Was the most they were getting through there, and we're trying to get it up to 50.

So each day that goes by, it looks like Iran is losing more and more of its grip on the straight. Number one, do you think they're beginning to realize that, because we did sweep it clean, and are the number of ships getting through growing? It is growing. And what's interesting is the Iranians keep saying the Strait of Hormuz is closed, but the U.S. is still exporting millions of barrels of crude oil every day through a southern passage.

And the Iranians have tried to target this passage, but they just don't have the ability And in some cases, the desire, knowing that the US military is on alert right there, the USS George Washington just arrived in theater, and there are fighter jets prepared if the Iranians try any sort of provocative activity in this part of the strait. And so, despite what they say publicly, there are still vessels getting through.

Now, it's at about a third of what it was from pre-war levels. And so it's still down quite a bit. The strait is not. open by definition, but it is partially open and vessels are being Escorted out from a distance to get through this critical waterway. And I know that I told you today on TV, the New York Times is writing that there's concern with what's left of the Iraqi government, Iranian government, that with these long gas lines, even at three in the morning long gas lines, that they're worried about unrest throughout the country.

But they just hung someone the other day for taking a picture. Of a bombing site or some type of thing that would, or some type of unrest. They just hung a woman for this.

So they're trying to continue to intimidate the population not to come forward. I want you to hear what Ted Cruz said, cut 25. If you also look at the objective of imposing economic harm right now with the blockade that we are holding on Iran, Iran is facing $500 million a day of economic costs. That is enormous cost that is ratcheting up. The economy is in free fall.

I would like to see the longer term objection. Objective B regime collapse. This regime, the Islamic regime of Iran, has been the world's leading state sponsor of terror for 47 years.

So what I've been urging is for President Trump and the Trump administration to arm the protesters, so the people of Iran, arm the Kurds, and let the protesters remove this regime from power. I'm sure you've heard that before. As far as you know, is there an operation underway to do just that? At this point, no. And remember, President Trump earlier in the conflict broke this to Fox News.

Saying that they tried to arm the protesters back in January at the beginning of all of this, and that the Kurds that they gave the weapons to stole the guns. That's according to the president.

Now, the Kurds denied this, but as we know, Kurdish factions are quite splintered, and so it depends on who exactly these weapons were given to. At this point, it doesn't appear that, that operation was successful for a variety of reasons. And the reality is that if the Iranians take to the streets again, they likely will be met the same way they were met earlier this year and late last year with live ammunition, thousands killed. And so it's a challenging situation, but it doesn't mean that they're not concerned about it. Regional intelligence sources tell Fox News that there is growing concern that protests could erupt again.

in Iranian cities over the economic situation. And we're starting to hear Some of the messaging from Iran crack a bit because of the severe economic pressure on the regime. This weekend, Iranian President Masood Pazeshini was interviewed by state media, and he said plainly, I don't know what to tell people We say that sanctions have no effect on Iran. Because they do. And you've seen this from the currency that is now at 2.1 million real to one US dollar, a historic low for Iranian currency.

The time is in. Basically, free fall. And so it is a dire situation for Iranian officials in Tehran. And the hope here from the Trump administration is that ultimately they will change their behavior due to the economic pressure. But we do have to remember, too, the Iranians prepared not just a mosaic defense for war, they've also prepared a mosaic defense for their economy.

And they are willing to let the people suffer. They're willing to let food prices rise as long as they can maintain domestic security. And at this point, there are no reports of significant demonstrations in Iran. There is. Vocalization, oftentimes that you hear when people get in front of a camera.

But even then, it's hard to get a real grasp of what the people think because the vast majority of the information coming out of Iran is controlled by the state media. And so we're just getting trickles of information. The bottom line here, though, is that the Iranians are facing real pressure. But I think it is important to step back and realize where we are. It's more than six months into this conflict, a conflict that early on.

The American people were told would last for four to six weeks. And there really isn't an end in sight at this moment because the Iranians don't appear to be willing to make a good faith deal that would address not only their proxy threat, their missile threat, and drone threat, but importantly, what remains of their nuclear program and what is believed to be highly enriched uranium that is still buried underground inside of Iran. I'd love to see the Mossad unleashed on the Besiege and on the IRGC. They know where all these guys are. And likely, they are already inside.

We speak with Israeli officials often, and they are careful not to. Talk too much about the spycraft of what is taking place behind the scenes, but we know that the Israelis have infiltrated, in part, the Iranian government and military. The information that the Israelis get out of the region is oftentimes hard to even comprehend. And we saw that with Iranian proxies two years ago when the PADR operation took place against Iraq at Hezbollah in Lebanon. Their ability to know Houthi forces are and also to track sales of Iranian militias or even fighters in different parts of the world.

Trey Yanks, thanks so much. Mossad is truly amazing. Appreciate it. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Exports and imports have fallen by 25 to 35 percent. This is our exports have fallen more, but our imports have also declined. Of course, exports have seen a bigger drop than imports. The meaning of this is clear to those who understand economics. I do not want to spell it out.

I do not know what to say to those who claim that the sanctions have no effect. The Iranian president speaking out about the sanctions candidly, I thought it was interesting the Supreme Leader essentially said to the civilian leadership, figure it out. Yeah, figure it out. You're the one who says, well, we're going to dig in. We're not going to capitulate.

Meanwhile, the sanctions get tougher and stronger, and we know our Treasury Secretary is clamping down more every day.

Now, over the weekend, he called out to UAE. you UAE banks that were still dealing, even though they came out and said the right thing and might perhaps have been our most loyal Gulf ally, they've come out and said we found two banks still dealing with Iran. That's got to stop. The real is now one dollar to every two million reals. Think about that.

Inflation's at 60 percent. You guys, this country is flipping out. We're at 3.2 percent. Think about what's going on over there. Lines at three in the morning to get gas.

Farley Weiss joins us now, president of the Israeli Justice Organization. Farley, where do you understand this conflict to be right now? I haven't noticed Brett McGurk. who used to be with the Trump administration, became a critic of the Trump administration, said, there's no way Iran is winning. We are not losing.

I think things are really beginning to the the screw the screws are beginning to turn on this regime. Yeah, I think that President Trump has been extraordinarily sophisticated in dealing with an evil regime. that breaks every rule, breaks every agreement, and his goal is to create chaos in the world and pressure people by bombing them, these Arab countries that were not involved with the conflict, and by bombing them, pressuring them to pressure President Trump to end the conflict when we know that Iran is trying to get nuclear weapons, Iran's financing all this major terrorism in the world, and President Trump has come on this economic way of just collapsing their regime financially and it's working and he's been an amazing success and he bombs the areas that they're using to try to stop ships through the Hormuz and he's clearing shipping lanes and more and more ships are getting through and no Iranian ships are getting through. It's a tremendously successful policy.

So, and I think that we're going to start forensically trying to figure out who's financing what, while trying not to alienate China, even though they're the worst perpetrator, because we've got a meeting coming up in two weeks. That's just the reality of the world. And I would never forgive Russia, who's giving the coordinates of our locations of our bases, clearly which Iran tried to bomb again in Jordan. From your sources, did you hear that there was any damage done to our bases last night? I've heard of what Adam President Trump seemed to say that they knocked out the missiles that were coming in towards those bases.

And I think, look, Iran has all this financial maneuvering, whether it's through banks and UAE or through all over the place, that they are trying to get around sanctions through Russia and China and everybody trying to assist them. But as the United States clamps down more and more, that will be harder and harder for them to financially do it. And that's why the country is I think what half the people are unemployed. President Trump said their inflation is at 300%. I mean, they're getting crushed.

And it's a very good way to deal with them.

So Farley, what I would love to say is the Mossad unleashed inside Iran so we can get back to the assassination squads that you guys have been so good at. If the evil won't you know, if while they start their evil regime, it would be great to know we put pressure on them that way. and give defectors a place to go. From what you understand, is there a place for defectors to go? Is there any intelligence operation taking place inside Iran?

I mean, I think that the new head of the Israeli Mossad came in and removed the people who were in charge of the Iranian policy because they hadn't been successful. And I think they're putting forth a new policy to try to have many agents and many, you know, it's not Jewish agents. They have a lot of people and the people who oppose the regime. Eighty percent of the country opposes Regina Benetanio is more popular in Iran than the supreme leader is. People oppose it and they want to take down this regime.

So they have to get more aggressive with the policy to inside Iran, make the government start having let's see some towns and places to being taken over. Let's see, arm the Kurds, let's really change the regime and make it because the only way this is going to end is with regime change. And I think President Trump's administration is moving in that direction. And that's the only way, but you're dealing with an evil regime, it's like the Nazi regime. The only way that ended was when it ended, and you could either end it economically or militarily, but one way or the other you have to end it.

If they can't pay people, then people are going to stop working and that's going to help end the regime as well. Just give them a pathway and give them some type of arms or some type of help, hope, rather, if they wanted to overturn their government. Let's talk about anti-sism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Israeli sentiment here in our political process. I find it stunning and disturbing, but it's especially on the left.

So, over the weekend, Hakeem Jeffries put some Jewish lawmakers in charge of their leadership, and they're getting huge backlash from Jared Moskowitz to Wesley Bell to Debbie Watson Schultz. And people like Roe Connor are coming out and say these people are tone deaf. They don't understand that that's not where the Democratic Party is right now. Farley, for the most part, most American Jews vote Democrat. What's going on here?

Well, I think you're going to see that changing. I think in Michigan, I don't think the majority of Michigan Jews are going to be voting for Al-Saad in the Senate race. I think I'd vote for Mike Rogers. I think that they're losing the Jewish vote, the Democratic Party. Gallup has said that the most pro-Israel members of any American group is American Jews, and they care about Israel, and they're not going to be the same way.

Just all these groups, Mike Rogers talks about how these Michigan Jewish groups are coming out and giving him money and supporting his campaign.

So they're losing the Jewish community. The Jewish community is very upset about this. And President Trump has been standing with the Jewish community and standing with Israel and cracking down on anti-Semitism. It got rid of those students from those foreign students that were causing havoc on college campuses and intimidating Jews. It's become a much safer country in those campuses.

But in these blue states, the Democratic Party, Roquan has talked about, is that they've turned against the Jewish community in a very significant way. And Akeem Jeffries is part of the older school that is still pro-Israel, and he's trying to keep the Democratic Party that way. But if he doesn't oppose Tlaib and Omar, it doesn't oppose all these anti-Israel policies. Kevin McCarthy came out and removed Steve King as a member of Congress, removed him from all committees, then pushed for a primary opponent and got him defeated in the election. President Trump got Thomas Massey out, and Marjorie Taylor Cream pushed her out.

And when you push out the bigots in your party, then you have a party that people can support when the Democratic Party finds their big tent. But instead, what there are is that they're a big tent in the sense embracing anti-Semitic elements and saying that's okay. And that's not okay with a lot of Americans, not just Jewish Americans. Yeah, I want you to hear what Randy Fine said, the Republican congressman from Florida. Mm-hmm.

Zohran Mamdani has called many of you in this room who participate in American politics quote monsters who use your money to quote turn us against each other. He called for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu. He made no similar calls for the leaders of Iran or Vladimir Putin. His Jew hatred runs so deep that his wife openly celebrated October 7th.

Now Abdul Rahman Muhammad El Saeed justified a Muslim terror attack against a The Michigan Synagogue. He has said the State of Israel is a bloodthirsty terrorist state, no different than Hamas.

So that he's 100% right, right? I mean, and that's the Democratic mayor he's talking about. Yeah, it's not just a Democratic mayor. It's a candidate in Michigan that is being supported by Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party, Al-Saed, who to this day supports the destruction of the state of Israel. And he is a, and this person is supported by the Democratic leadership.

They should have all come out and said they supported Haley Stevens and helped push for her to win. It was a close primary. She could have defeated him if all the leadership would have come out against Al-Saed and said that his views are unacceptable in the Democratic Party and they just won't do it. And because of that, it's getting more strength from the party. And it's a terrible situation.

Carl, yeah, I think they... The leadership did come out for Haley Stevens. Shander Schumer came out for Haley Stevens. Keem Jeffries came out from Haley Stevens. They're just not as powerful as Bernie Sanders and the squad in that party.

They came out for her, but they didn't come out and say, we will not support El Saed. Haley Stevens supported El Saed after the primary. They did not say it's unacceptable. Before, there was a sense in America that both parties said certain views were unacceptable and they would not support them, even if they were the nominee of the party. That has gone out by the wayside in the Democratic Party.

And that they could have supported someone to oppose Talaib in Almar. And would it still say the Blue Districts? It would have still stated a Democratic District. We didn't do that. They like having the squad in there because they look at them as: well, we're a party that accepts minorities, but they don't understand these are anti-American people.

They don't just say we want to have more Medi-Cai spending or less foreign policy spending. They want to change the whole constitution and the nature of the country. I find it just unbelievably disturbing. But in terms of Hassan Piker, nobody's worse. And now El Saeed says, I won't campaign with him, but he won't run from him.

Hassan Piker kind of thinks it's funny. Listen to this, cut four. He uh asked me to stomp for him. And I had not considered that ever before. I did not realize that people would get so mad about it.

Because from my perspective, Who cares if I'm doing a rally with a politician? I'm like, I've already had the guy on like a hundred times on the broadcast. You know, I've fundraised for him. I like him a lot. I have my disagreements with him too, of course.

But But that was when the onslaught came in. Yeah, he what do you say about somebody that would go on? That guy's podcast period. Agree with him on most things. And knowing that this guy worshiped Sheikh Avara, Fidel Castro, and Lennon.

But part of the thing is that they don't have a problem going on these people's podcasts. If he's going to vote Democrat, they just will do it no matter how much of an anti-Semit, how much of a bigot, how much of an anti-American person he is. They have no boundaries anymore in the Democratic Party. And the problem is that when they have, it's not just Piker, it's Talaib, it's Omar, it's the Chavale who's getting a Hamaway there. It's all these different people that they're not disavowing any of them.

And so they legitimize bigotry in their party. I hear you. And that's a terrible thing for the country. Yeah, it's almost the pundits on the outside, like Van Jones, like James Carville, you know, Rahm Emanuel not even registering in the presidential post.

So I put him as almost an outsider. But the people actually in the game, very few are condemning the anti-Semitic attitudes and candidates. But I want to bring you to the right for a second. I'm not thrilled with J.D. Vance's stance on Israel.

Is that Sounds very similar to a lot of these podcasters on the right have on Israel. And today he's going to be speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition at a summit in Las Vegas. Do you think he should address this directly? Yes, I do. I think that Mike Collins, who's running for senator in Georgia, addressed issues of bigotry with his staffers at the Republican Jewish Coalition and spoke out directly against them and denounced them and their white supremacist views.

And J.D. Bance, I think he spoke before well about Israel like a year ago. And I think that he needs to really make strides to improve his standing within the American Jewish community. And I think this is an opportunity. He accepted the invitation to speak.

He's speaking tonight. And I think he needs to. To speak in a different way than he spoke in some of his other public comments. I think that President Trump has been an enormous, the best friend Israel's ever had by far. No one's even a close second.

And J.D. Band supported administration. All he has to do is say he supports the policies of President Trump and speaks strongly for it. And that the people, when you denounce people, you know, when President Clinton denounced Sister Soja, and that was considered to be a big moment for him in his campaign to make him a moderate and help him win the presidency. Vice President Band should denounce some of the people who he were friends with because they are no longer his friends.

Tucker Carlson was at an event. Tucker Carlson was with President Trump at a year and a half ago in Mar-a-Lago. And Trump now denounces Tucker Carlson because Tucker Carlson doesn't act like a friend anymore. I know. Uh it's pretty clear.

In fact, he acts like an enemy. Uh, right now, and I understand that sometimes you have a disagreement of fallout, but I couldn't. I he's made a 180. Um, and lastly, When you look at what's happening in Gaza, Farley Weiss, as president of the Israeli Justice Organization, I see a glimmer of hope. But yet I talked to some other people and go, don't fall for it.

But Hamasta is diminished. They have said that they won't have a leadership role. They have not let up their arms yet, but there's a process in place to do it. Do you see any hope there? I mean, I'm not as optimistic as you.

I don't see that Hamas will ever give up their weapons. They're like the Iranian regime. They're fanatics, they're zealots, and their goal of trying to destroy Israel and doing anything they can to do it. And they're not doing anything to change that. And they're not changing the education system.

They're not changing any of the major elements that show that they've changed their way. The education is changing in Gaza. There's a new curriculum in there. Is that not true? Yeah.

I think in certain areas, but I mean, the amount of people that Hamas is killing anyone who's trying to cooperate with the international community. And they still have the majority of power in Gaza. And the international community is not going to go there on the streets and take that power away. Only Israel can do that. And so I think the only solution in Gaza is for Israel to take over the rest of Gaza militarily.

I don't see it solving in some other way. I just think it's going to be whenever that happens. But I think that's the only way it's going to solve because they're going to be there like an Iranian regime. I don't think they're going to ever agree. They may say it, they may do a few steps, but not anything fundamental.

Barleyweiss, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Oh, it's good to be with you, Brian. Yeah, and again, we will play back those remarks today from J.D. Vance at some point.

You'll listen to the Brian Kill Me Show. Back in a moment. From breaking news to big name guests, Brian brings you insight you won't hear anywhere else. You're listening to the Brian Kill Me Show. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I'd say this NIL has changed the giraffe forever. Because there's no question after the third round of the NFL draft, you're going to make more money. by going back to college and doing an NIL deal.

So if we have a client who has another year of eligibility, and he's not convinced that he's going in the first three rounds, the first two days of the draft, more than likely he's going to go back and make more money and stay in college and then do the draft.

So that is Drew Rosenhaus on with me Sunday night, and he's the most powerful agent in football. And he told me off the air, I am recruiting high school kids because why wouldn't I? Because they're getting NIL money. And then when they're getting recruited, they're going to go to LSU, where they're going to get million-dollar contracts. Who's going to negotiate that?

And don't you want somebody that's got experience?

So they need agents. Matt, Matt, if you got an agent too early in college or you met them early, that would be a scandal. I mean, that's what that's what blew up Reggie Bush. He was uh meeting with some marketing executive when he was in college. He ends up being reversing and they they took his Heisman away or something like that.

So this has totally changed.

So I asked him flat out, he's with that tight end. Yeah. He's with the tight end that's going to leave Cleveland because he was going to be put on the practice squad or cut and going to LSU.

So that's never before been done. Leaving training camp and going back. He's doing it with some other players now this week.

So, other players are doing it. They said just because of this year, because a judge after the draft ruled that they had a fifth year because if they graduated before or around 2022, I think it's somewhat pandemic-related or a lawsuit about something else.

So, they get that fifth year when it realized he's not probably, he's gonna make maybe $550,000 on the practice squad. And you'll make well over that at LSU? He's going back.

So the conferences, the SEC and others, said, no, no, we don't want that to happen. A judge will know it's got to happen. Nobody is in charge of this. They actually need Congress to pass some reform. I asked Drew Rosenhast, do you want to pass that reform?

He said, no, not really. From High Atop. Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hi, everyone. Brian Kilmead here. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action now at 48th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan. It's going to be a big hour because there's a lot going on today.

J.D. Vance is out in Las Vegas speaking to a Jewish conference of supporters. I know that Tim Sheehey's going to be there, Dave McCormick's going to be there, and there's going to be a tribute to Lindsey Graham, who was such a great friend of Israel and, of course, to the country. People, I can't believe how widespread and how much he is missed on both sides of the aisle. And that's what Donald Trump expressed that last night with Trey Gowdy.

By the way, standing by is Congressman Jim Jordan, also a friend. Bottom of the hour today, Sean Alexander, 2005 NFL MVP, former star in Michigan, and for the Seattle Seahawks, of course, I got to get him to weigh in on what I talked to Drew Rosenhaus about last night, and that is. An NFL player, follow this. An NFL player goes to camp. Gets caught.

And can he go back to college?

Now the answer is yes. Let's get to the big three. Number three. We have the electricity, we have the critical minerals, rare earth minerals. I'd rather send it down to the U.S.

If I can say, everyone's feeling bullied by President Trump, and this is the worst thing he could do for the American economy. Really, thanks for that, Doug Ford. You know a lot about the American economy as Premier of Ontario getting worse. U.S. and Canada dig in as Canada looks to involve themselves in our democratic process by pushing for Democratic candidates in Michigan and Maine.

And I'm wondering if that Prime Minister is doing the best he can to dislodge Trump, which is going to be fruitless, I can remind you. Number two. The U.S. military has achieved a major milestone in the Strait of Hormuz. We have successfully cleared sea mines in the Strait's international shipping lanes.

Bottom line, today, international shipping lanes are open and momentum is building. Back to the battle, Iran and U.S. exchange attacks as both oil flows through the strait more and more each day. Why I think we have to go back to working with Mossad to find defectors and kill the IRGC and besiege the best we can. Number one.

My comments might have been hurtful. I'm really sorry. That was not my intention. We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright.

What I was trying to do is offer context for why it happened, but it wasn't the time for context, and you don't ever want to trample somebody's pain. Thank you. I'm sorry, the context was misconstrued. Midterms will go down the wire as clear-cut, there's no clear-cut leader in the House, no clear leader in a clear-cut leader in the Senate. If anyone tells you they know who's going to win, they are flat-out lying.

They're just betting and thinking, which is fine. But as we look at eight separate races inside the Senate, like battle r and battle inside battleground states. They're all leaning the Democrats' direction, all within the margin of error, but they're leading that direction, including in Michigan. Including in Ohio. Including in Texas.

New Hampshire, North Carolina. Main And Georgia and Alaska. This is one or two points, margin of error stuff. But it shows you how much of a coin flip this is. Congressman Jim Jordan, have you ever seen anything this close on both sides?

Yeah, it's close out there, but I'm still optimistic. I think, you know, look, I'll talk about the House first. I think we've got good candidates running. Redistricting is definitely going to help us. We finally have done what Democrats have been doing forever, and we redrew some of the lines in some of these states.

There have been a number of retirements on the Republican side, Brian, but most of those retirements, like 40, most of them are in relatively good, safer Republican seats, which is a good thing. If you have retirements in a 50-50 seat, that sometimes makes it a little tougher to maintain that seat. And then finally, I would just, you know, we're raising money. That's helping too, but I would say finally, one of the things really helping us is just the crazy positions that the left is taking. You know, we've talked about these.

Crazy to defund the police, crazy to abolish ICE. It's crazy to say men should compete against women in sports. Crazy to shut down the government twice in one session. Crazy to create sanctuary jurisdictions where the politicians tell local law enforcement not to work with federal law enforcement when it comes to enforcing federal law for the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

So I think that that will help us as well when we tell Voters, if Democrats win, this is what they want to do. Not to mention where the DS, the Democrat Socialists, want to go: abolish the presidency, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and frankly, the United States Constitution, and go to some kind of parliamentary government framework that I don't even know if they know what that means and looks like.

So I think that is one of the things that's going to help us down the stretch as we try to win these races.

Well, I think you're right. I think, do you agree with the number that there are only 19 seats really in play in the House? Does that number sound right to you? Yeah, it's a small number. I mean, there may be a few more, but in the age of redistricting, you know, what Democrats did forever, particularly you look at New England, there's not one member of Congress, Republican member of Congress from New England in the House.

We got Susan Collins in the Senate. They've redistricted up there and made it just difficult for Republicans to win any seat. And so we did that in some more red states, and I think that's going to help us. But what that means is there are a smaller number of the target races in the more 50-50 type districts.

So, yeah, it's a relatively small number, but we got to win those. We've got to win a bunch of those if we're going to maintain the majority, which, again, I think we can. The other thing that goes through the Democratic Party is the anti-Semitism, anti-Israel and anti-Semitism. Abdul El-Sayed leads the charge on that in terms of candidates. I think Hassan Piker is the best at it for all the wrong reasons.

But remember when he said this, Cut in. Want to abolish ICE? Who's going to deport the criminal aliens from the country?

Well, you and I both know that we've, long before we ever had ICE, we had INS. We were able to enforce our immigration policies without shooting people in the face in the back of the head. We have ICE now, and we have far, far more undocumented people.

So ICE is clearly not working. It's just shooting American citizens in the face and the back of the head.

Well, illegals are shooting people in the face, too. I mean, do you want to take that on?

Well, I I mean He said ICE is failing. No, what failed us was the Biden administration when they just let in 10 million people. Think about what they systematically did. We're going to let in 10 million illegal migrants enter the country. They let that happen.

And then all over the country, the left creates these sanctuary jurisdictions, which makes it difficult to apprehend those illegal migrants that the Biden administration let in when those illegal migrants commit another crime. And then finally they said, oh, by the way, we're not going to fund ICE. We're not going to pay the guys who go out and actually get these individuals who commit another crime, who entered the country illegally. That's the systematic plan they had. And he's trying to blame it on ICE.

For goodness he said, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. This was done by the Biden administration. And thank goodness President Trump was elected to secure the border, which we have done. Frankly, that happened in the first few months. I still remember when President Trump gave his joint address to Congress last year, not this year's Great State of the Union address, but the address he gave last year, he'd been in office a few months and he said, you know what?

He said people said you need new legislation to secure the border. Turns out all you needed was a new president. And that was true.

So yeah, the idea that he's blaming it on that that LFA he's blaming it on on ICE is just ridiculous. And then of course his anti-Semitism ran clear when he made the comments again that synagogue attack. And so basically what do you want? Because Israel is attacking and committing j genocide in Gaza. Listen to this apology, cut nine.

I got a really important question about that at the Jewish caucus and my comments might have been uh misconstrued to be justifying something I did not intend to justify, right? To anybody who feels like uh my comments might have been hurtful, I'm really sorry that was not my intention. We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright. What I was trying to do is offer context for why it happened, but it wasn't the time for context, and you don't ever want to trample somebody's uh pain.

Wasn't the time for contacts? In other words, I meant everything I said. You just didn't want to hear it. Yeah, and like the context was you're making excuses for terrorists? Give me a break.

Like I mean, I I happened to be at the Republican Jewish Coalition and spoke there there last evening as well. And one of the things I said to the group was you know you think about it brian there are 190 some countries in the world But the radical left, the hard left, they always focus on attacking two. Two countries, the United States and Israel. Crazy. And why is that?

And I said to the audience, in my judgment, it's because each of those countries. United States, greatest country ever, and Israel, each of those countries started with a purpose. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of individuals said, we're going to declare to the world why it is appropriate, why it is justified. To start America, where freedom really meant something, where liberty really meant something. And we have this amazing place called America, where you can chase down your goals and dreams and you can make good things happen.

And then 172 years after that, 1948 in Tel Aviv, a group of individuals said, We're going to declare to the world why it is justified and appropriate to have a Jewish state in the land of Israel in the aftermath of World War II. And it was created with a purpose to let Jewish people all over the world come home, come home to the land that Abraham had been promised by God.

So that. Two and it's it's it's no accident that the left always goes after those two countries. And this idea that the S L C is trying to justify and talk about context is just baloney. That is just so ridiculous. And I think, again, the American people are going to see through that.

And hopefully, Mike Rogers is going to be the next senator from the state of Michigan. Yeah, we'll see. I think that you're 100% right that also I heard there was a tribute to Lindsey Graham, too.

So a moving time.

So I want to ask you about Senator Eustead. You know, he was appointed to that position when J.D. Vance became Vice President, and he's for data centers. And now, data centers has only got 30% approval rating, and they seem to be the third rail for both parties. Where do you stand?

Well, I think the first thing, three things we need to do. One, codify President Trump's executive order, make that a law which says, look, if a data center comes into some community, it can't in any way drive up the cost of electricity or water rates or the water issue with local residents. I think that's number one. Number two, local communities should decide this. They should decide when, where, how, if these things even happen at all.

That that's how it works. You got to have the local community deciding how this is going to go. And then if you you follow those two things, and then you also say, but in the end, we still want to make sure we'll be we beat China.

So let's let's make sure residents aren't harmed. Let's make sure local residents get to decide where they go. And then let's make sure we continue to beat China in this AI race so that You know, you don't want the communist Chinese winning this important technological battle. Is your belief that they're working the Internet to make sure that to foment some of this unrest and distrust? Yeah, you know, look, no surprise that the communist Chinese are doing that.

I think we all understand that. But that still doesn't, you know, that still doesn't mean that concerns aren't real for local communities. And I side with local communities. It should be a local you don't want Congress saying where these things should go. You want local communities having the full say in how they happen.

You want Congress to say wherever they go. I mean, think about this. We're talking about the largest, wealthiest companies in human history who are putting these in. They should be able to guarantee nobody's water rates are going to go up, nobody's electric bill is going to go up. I mean, that is, I think, just kind of good common sense that the president's putting that executive order.

I think we should make that law. Kimberly Strasso, the Wall Street Journal, had a great point and understood everything you said. You got to be responsible, get the community involved, but to build it is also brings in a lot of positives. Cut 54. But they're also not talking about the jobs they create, both downstream in terms of the supplies that go into the building of these, the actual construction of them themselves, the skilled jobs to actually run them when they come on, and also the enormous tax revenue that they are generating in places where they are located.

If you look at Loudoun County, by some estimates, data centers take up about 3% of the land and provide about 40% of the local revenue. Taxes would be about $5,800 more a person without these data centers.

So this is something they need to do a better job of explaining to the public, as do politicians.

So the benefits are great, but do are you guys I see the governor of Texas will put it on hold. I see everybody just run well, Democrats or Republican. Tom Tiffany going after a Democrat on data centers. Is everyone just going to not touch it this cycle, even though obviously we need them? I think Kim is exactly right.

And if there's a way to say, okay, local communities, you get to decide where they go. And when they come in, you also get to decide what benefit's going to accrue to your community. Are you going to say, you know what, we want you lowering our property taxes? That would be great. Everyone's fed up with how property taxes have been increasing.

So you could apply the savings to property tax. You could say to these people, you know what? We think we need a new recreation center and a swimming pool for the kids in our community. Maybe that's something you want to do. I mean, I leave that up to local communities, but Kim Strossel is exactly right.

Communities get to decide where they go, if they come in at all, how it happens, when it happens, all that stuff. They get to decide that. That's local, not federal. That's how we want it. And they should say, you know what?

We want some benefit here. And frankly, the best benefit, I think, for a lot of property owners would be my property taxes go down.

So I want to talk about the Canadian deal that's not happening so far. Would you like to see something done before September 8th when they kick when all the reciprocal tariffs kick in on the Canadian side?

Well, again, we all know President Trump's focus and goal here is to increase manufacturing, benefit the United States. I think everyone agrees with that goal.

Sometimes you use tariffs and you get these complicated situations.

So yeah, we'd like for this stuff to get ironed out as quickly as possible. I think the President would do the same thing, but we understand the objective. I'm in Ohio right next door. We have huge manufacturing in Ohio. Lots of goods move back and forth.

So we'd like to get this figured out. It's good for the auto industry. We've got a little company headquartered right in the 4th District of Ohio, Honda of America. And there's parts moving to Canada and to Mexico and all over the place.

So we understand that. But we also understand the President's objective, which is making sure manufacturing continues to be strong and grow here in the United States.

So yeah, let's hope it gets ironed out as quickly as possible. Do you think that Canada is playing politics with us since they understand that Ohio, Michigan, and Maine are tough seats for Republicans to hold, or certainly a battle, and they want to make it seem like those costs or any increased costs are Trump's fault? You know, I don't know. They may well be. I don't know.

I hope not. What I hope is that everyone's operating in good faith because they they also, you know, Ontario is big manufacturing there too. We're look all kinds of suppliers and parts makers and everything else for manufacturing in Michigan and Ohio, as you say. Goods are moving back and forth, so it's in their best interest to operate in good faith and work this out. Let's hope that happens.

A lot going on, a lot of moving parts. And I'll tell you, this is going to come down to the wire. Congressman Jim Jordan, thanks so much. I should say, Chairman, thank you. Back in a moment.

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the motivating force in the Democratic Party right now. The traditional Democrats are on defense against the DSA. And part of the problem is the star of the DSA is the mayor of New York City. who has shown in the last month He can't even figure out how to competently raise taxes. When a Democrat can't figure out, and especially a Democratic Socialist, can't figure out how to competently raise taxes, he has to continue to come out with his new apartment tax that he's putting on.

The people in New York, he can't even roll it out. They've now gone their second phase of that. And he's not lying. That was Governor Christie on ABC this week without George Stephanopoulos. And you're talking about a guy that said we're going to tax you more if you have a second residence here worth more than five million.

He sends out 17,000 letters saying you're getting a tax more. And some of the apartments that he goes to aren't even worth a million dollars, and they're the primary residence. And if you don't prove that it's your primary residence, you're going to get taxed. Do you believe that? Yes, believe it.

17,000 plus. Then they said, we made a mistake. It's 10,300. Still, people are saying, Are you crazy? It's my primary residence and it's not $5 million.

So they're not suing to stop the tax. They're suing because you can't tax people until further notice, until they prove they're not worthy of being taxed. It's like taking someone making $45,000 and saying, We're going to tax you as if you make $5 million unless you can prove otherwise.

So now I got to go run down to the local IRS office and prove it. I'm pretty sure America doesn't work that way, unless you were the socialist mayor in New York City. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we're back waiting for Sean Alexander.

We assume he's going to join us 2005 NFL MVP, former Seattle Sea Arc, of course, but star University of Michigan.

So we got to, I definitely want to talk to him about what's going on in college sports. And I don't think there's anything more interesting. When business becomes sports and politics, it's very rare when all three. Welcome each other. I think all three welcome it.

I think on some level, College sports needs some help from Politics and politicians. I think the NCAA needs help from politicians. I think the coaches actually want some help from Washington. And it's right now being run by judges. And players.

And I know the cat's out of the bag in terms of paying players. And now I know that if you have an outstanding gymnast happen to be attractive, I think that while you can go get your Nike deal or go get your Reebok deal or go get your Gatorade deal on your own and not blow your eligibility. Where in the past, if you ever appeared in an ad or signed autographs at a dealership, you're done. You are done. Being literally suspended, Johnny Manzel was set with signing autographs in the summer.

And they knew it was a violation, but he did it anyway. He signed footballs and he got suspended for, I think, a couple of games, and everyone thought it should be worse. And then Reggie Bush had his Heisman taken away for a while because he signed a marketing deal with somebody while he was still an amateur football player. Those days are done.

Now, I think on average, somebody making one, two, three, four, five million dollars. There's no salary cap. There's teams right now in football with $50 million or $70 million to fund their whole team, let alone the basketball team, which is 10 players. But they're all being bid against not because of the quality of the campus, their education, their reputation. You're getting it because they offered me more money than the coach promised me playtime.

So everything's rapidly changing. Maybe you're still watching. And I think a lot of it is a lot of more interest in sports, a lot of it has to do with gambling. I like to think that people remember tradition of Notre Dame and Michigan and all these teams. But I think a lot of people are watching sports, involved in sports, watching to the end, watching red zone, especially because they got money in the game.

Especially people who used to play or want to compete. I have that sense of I want to be in the game, but I'm not.

So, how do you get in the game? You put money in the game. Maybe money you can't even lose.

So that's what I think we're and I don't think you're ever going to get that out of the game now because you let it out. And now there's gambling everywhere. It's advertisers. They're intermingled in all the sport shows on down.

So. While we wait, I just had a chance to talk to Drew Rosenhaus. Why is that important? He represents the biggest names in the NFL and has been for at least 30 years.

So why is that important? Because he's now representing college players. And I asked him, What about high school? He goes, Oh, yeah, I'm representing high school players. Makes sense.

Because they're offering high school players million dollar deals to pick a college. And don't you want somebody that knows what it takes to get into the NFL, knows what passing camp to go to, knows how to train, knows where to go, knows where you should make yourself susceptible to injury in order to get yourselves exposed to a would be university? Here's Drew Rosenhaus. on why athletes are choosing to stay in college.

Now, we had this one player on Friday, and it's going to be officially today, and more players will join who are going to leave training camp because they're not going to make an NFL team or be on the practice squad and gonna go back to college. The conferences, a few conferences wanted to prevent that from happening, they got overruled. Houston Rosenhaus with me Sunday night at 10 o'clock. Cut 35. Excuse me, 55.

I'd say this NIL has changed the draft forever. Because there's no question after the third round of the NFL draft, you're going to make more money. by going back to college and doing an NIL deal.

So if we have a client who has another year of eligibility, and he's not convinced that he's going in the first three rounds, the first two days of the draft, more than likely he's going to go back and make more money and stay in college and then do the draft.

Wow. I mean, think about that.

So you're sitting there first two days, you don't get picked. You could be in the third round. You could be a starting quarterback. I mean, you know, how sixth round for Drew Brady. Of course, you want to see what you're going to go make a roster.

We're saying, why risk it? Go back.

So you're guaranteed money. The other thing is, if you're thinking as a player, I'm NFL caliber. And worse comes to worse, I'll be in the practice squad and make $550,000. At least I'll have a limited chance for an injury and have a chance to grow in a professional organization. Rather than go back and possibly get hurt, You know, I'll play in East Droudsburg State somewhere.

So I asked him: Do you want to see rules? Do you want to see more parameters? Because right now there is no. Salary cap There's really a selection of different products you can use, but pretty much it's wide open.

So here's what True Rosenhouse told me that CUD 56. Would you like to see more rules and reform? No. As an NFL agent, I kind of like it the way it is. You know, it is the Wild, Wild West.

There's a lot of money being thrown around for these young men. Look, I'm an American. I believe in free enterprise. I like it wide open. I think players should be able to get their value.

I like the system as it is. I don't want any restraints or any more rules. We've got enough of those in the NFL and in college. This is pretty neat the way that it is, and I'd like to keep it this way. Right.

That is a little self-serving, but that's the way he wants to do it. If the rules are, there are no rules. Basically, no rules at all. And what happens is they're trying to put in an age limit. They're trying to put in you can only transfer one time without losing a year's eligibility or sit out a year.

But then again, there's an age limit there.

So if you sit out a year, more than a year, you're bumping. Against the age limit. Also, they want to have a list of NAL teams that could go through a clearinghouse NAL products, I should say, in companies, go through a clearinghouse and then see who wants to be a part of what player and what organization.

So that would be the NCAA getting involved again, but every time they get involved, they've been overruled by the courts. Here's more from Drew Rosenhaus on what's happening today, and that is Daquan Mitchell. He is his tight end that did not make the Eagles roster after not getting drafted, went to the Browns roster, and they said you're lucky if you get in the practice squad.

So he said I'd like to rejoin my college coach, Lane Kiffin. At LSU, who used to be at Ole Miss, and they want him and they're going to pay him. They didn't tell me details, but a lot of money. Come 57. My sense is that the courts have already ruled that the NCAA cannot prohibit Daquan and his class of players who were granted a fifth year of eligibility, who didn't know they had this fifth year of eligibility.

when they declared for the NFL. And I expect him to be able to play at LSU this year.

Now, Daquan was recruited by many schools. LSU was just one of them. In fact, we had other schools offer more money than LSU, but Daquan took less because he wanted to play for Lane Kiffin, who was his coach last year at All Miss. Why is he doing this? It's a very simple answer.

He is not going to make an NFL team this year. At best, he would be on a practice squad. He feels playing another year in college would be great for his development. and it will allow him to get bigger, stronger, more experienced and take another shot at the NFL. Oh, and by the way, he would make more money in college than he would in the NFL practice squads.

About twice as much.

So this is amazing.

So Drew Rosenhaus went to the University of Miami, when Miami was a bunch of all star college players and almost all seemed to go and star in the NFL. Michael Irvin and Warren Sapp. Reggie Lewis. I mean, so many great players. Bernie Kozar.

I think he represented almost all of them. Vinny Testoverdi.

So If he was caught on campus early, if he was and a lot of them were his age when he was coming out, he had no reputation, just a lot of brashness and confidence, and he would get in a lot of trouble. And they put him on the cover of Sports Illustrated and they talked about the most dangerous man in football. And now he's sitting there saying, Yeah, Of course. Every college player needs a representative. It's going to be me.

Who knows more about the NFL than me?

So I'll go to college and I'll say, look, I'm not sure you have the ability to play in the next level.

So you got to maximize what you can do here. And you go up to a high school kid and say, looks, LSU is interested in you.

So that means you're looking at at least $2 million like to represent you. I know you have your prom coming up in a couple of weeks, but after your prom and you return your talks, please give me a call.

So that's how things have changed. And you don't blame the agents at all. Of course, they don't want to change things. But if I tell you these rules and I'm telling you this right now, you got to change things.

Sooner or later, there's going to be fifty million dollars. I think right now, there's fifty million dollars in these big time programs. I'm not sure if they're going to make it back or not. But If you're going to put $50 million into football, how much money you put into field hockey, women's lacrosse, soccer, men and women, how much money time are you going to be putting into Gymnastics or wrestling? Probably not much, unless you're Iowa, Penn State, who also gets huge revenue off those sports when I talk about wrestling.

Ohio State.

So it's changing the. I know things had to change, and you do have to find a way to represent players. and help players get remuneration, because only one percent making the NFL, and I think the the average NFL career is about one and a half years or two and a half years tops.

So you only think about the stars, you think about Joe Montana. But there's so many other people who come and go, you don't even know their names. And they were outstanding at every level of play.

So they do have to have that moment. But is there a way to do it and not kill all college sports? and also the illusion of a student athlete. You got to get these guys and these women coming out of school with a degree and a sense of what they can do in their life. Because if they're not going to make a million dollars, it's great to make a million dollars.

Wow. Can't believe I'm 19 years old. I made a million dollars. It's great. And then when the next year comes and the NFL doesn't draft you and the USL, the UFL doesn't put you on a team where you don't go there.

Nobody else is paying you a million dollars getting out of school. They're paying you 50. Or 60,000. Dollars And then why would they pay you? You didn't go to school.

You didn't get a degree.

So you got to go back.

So at least make out a deal where you're going to get your degree.

So let's say you're coming from a Division II program and they can pay you full tuition and they can give you money on the side. You got to go to school. If you don't go to school, you're going to end up, you know, you'll make your $200,000 at Salisbury State or whatever Division II schools out there, or North Dakota State, which now moved up. And then all of a sudden, you're going to be flat on your face and say, What do I do next? Unless you want to go into coaching, which is fine.

But usually, people are done with the sport when they're done with the sport as an athlete.

So, we'll see if that's the avenue you want to go. Hopefully, people understand. I just don't want to see athletes left in the dust like boxers have been left in the dust before when they don't have proper representation and they're counting on managers to look out for their best interest, and they never did. Ever. All right, when we come back, I want to talk about this Canadian trade deal and why I think it's got to be rectified.

And we'll also take your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Also, you can write me, briankillme.com. Just click on comments. I got a lot of comments coming from last night and this morning.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. Sponsored by Previgen. Previgion made for your brain. It was like something out of Saturday Night Live when he signed a document saying change to Lake America. No one's going to call it Lake of America.

It's been Lake Ontario for hundreds of years. It's going to continue being Lake Ontario. And it's just so, so disappointing because I love the U.S. I love the American people. Canadians love the American people.

We differentiate between the great American people and the president. And he wa and that Ford, uh that's Dan Ford, and he uh And he went off on the president of the United States. He doesn't have any logic. I have more logic in my big toe than anybody else. And we're going to deny electricity to Maine.

He was a little bit calmer this weekend, but there's a fracture there when it comes to trade relations with Canada. I don't think it works to anyone's advantage. When the president was doing 51st state, it was a shot at Justin Trudeau, but the whole country took it personal. And then the current prime minister made his name off being tough on Trump and then made a speech in Davos where he talked about the time for middle economic countries to come together because the age of America is over. And everyone loved it, especially China.

But nothing's happened since. And they realize they need us. They asked for a trade deal to get reignited. And they did. They re-engaged.

They got close to being done to the point where last Friday, two Fridays ago, the president said, it looks like we're going to get a deal done. By Friday night, it blew up. And some Howard Luttnick talked to the prime minister or prime minister talked to Howard. I'm not sure. But in the end, they blew up the trade deal.

So it's not existing anymore. And I hope Both sides seem far apart.

So the President of the United States called up Google Maps and Apple and said, please change the maps. No longer Lake Ontario. Let's instead of making it Lake Ontario, make it Lake of America. We have Gulf of America. He says soon we're going to have Ocean of America.

I doubt it.

So he says that nobody is buying that. They caught by surprise by that. They are not changing it in the north, but they did change it on the maps here. Here's more from Doug Ford about what he plans on doing Cut forty three.

Well, it'd be devastating on both countries, but it'd be definitely devastating on the U.S. where the Largest purchaser of vehicles in the entire world off the U.S., over 400% more than anyone else. And they're already seeing the effect. Over $7 billion we've stopped purchasing an X amount of vehicles. $7 billion is like shutting down a couple auto plants.

So I always say, Martha, a a tariff on on Canada is nothing more than a tax on American people. And it's probably the worst uh movie you could ever do. So the deal was just about done. And just when you think, I'm thinking to myself, okay, on our side, we tried to make it tougher and it blew up. Then I hear Doug Ford say this, you know, we're trying to bring iron back, we're trying to bring back the dairy farmers and try to balance out trade on that note.

When it comes to oil and gas, I think it's an equal exchange. But when it comes to trucks, the manufacturing left during NAFTA, and the president's making no bones about it. He wants to pull it back here, not just with Mexico, but with Canada. And they didn't want to lose the 4x4s, and they didn't want to lose the SUVs.

So just when I thought maybe we blew it up, then Doug Ford said this, cut 42.

Well, I can't speak for the Prime Minister, but he stopped the negotiations. It was a terrible deal. For Canada. I told them it was a terrible deal. We're the engine of Canada, Ontario is, and it would have hurt our steel industry.

And I find it ironic. because we're the number one purchaser of steel in the world off the US.

So that's going to hurt the steel mills right across the the country. Well, I mean both of us are going to try to find other customers. They have almost no trade with India. That'll start. They actually want to increase their trade with somebody that's been taking their businessmen hostage, and that's China.

You want to go into bed with China? Good luck. They're going to start having those Chinese cars, which will destroy their industry because they make them with government subsidy funds under market value, way under market value. They're electric. I'm not saying they're getting bad cars, but they're produced in a way in which nobody else can compete.

Which is why you're in the World Trade Organization. There's supposed to be certain fundamentals. If you want to be a part of it, China doesn't pay any attention to it.

So here's what the President put on Truth Social. For many years, the USA has been losing more than $60 billion a year with Canada. Why? Our long-ago stolen businesses are now coming back to America in order to avoid paying tariffs. They are lining up, just like the rest of the world.

That's President DJT. He came back on Sunday and said, let all Canadian companies that are doing business with America move to the United States immediately. Many of them are companies that moved out years ago due to stupid U.S. policy and leadership. When you move back, there are no tariffs.

So move back. He took on Doug Ford, too. When I announced that I was running in the 2024 presidential election right at the beginning, Doug Ford was ready, no, Ford and Motors was ready to close their big factory in Detroit. Then, because I was heading to the poll, leading the polls, they figured they could leave it open a little longer to see what happened.

Now it's running 24/7. It's one of the most profitable car plants in the world. There are many other examples for both Ford, GM, and others. I've revived and indeed saved the automobile business in America. That's because of what I've done with tariffs.

Tariffs do help in some things. They don't help in other things. I think it could be a little bit more targeted.

Well, we'll have to see. Go to BriankilMe.com. Find out how to pre-order my Uniting the States book that comes out on October 13th and how to see us. On stage, as we bring those stories to life in Red Bank, New Jersey, in Westbury, New York, in Clearwater, Florida, Jacksonville, as well as St. Louis, Missouri, BrianKillme.com streamed on Fox Nation.

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