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Tax relief advocates: real solutions for real people. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. Brian, Kilmi Cho, moving through a very big week leading up to Labor Day. And I really feel, this is how I usually feel after Labor Day when it comes to the midterms. It feels like a sprint. I feel like someone shot off the gun and we've been sprinting already.

It has a lot to do with, I think, the president going to Texas last week, doing a lot of work this week. You see, Elon Musk is spending a ton of money now.

So fanning it out to all the candidates in the Battleground States. And they figured there's about 30. This hour I'm going to be joined by Brett Baer and Tom Carrico at the bottom of the hour. If you want to know a guy that knows interceptors, rockets, and everything, and especially what our Arsenal has and doesn't have, he knows it.

So he'll be with us too. And we're also seeing J.D. Vance is going to play the role of Caroline Levitt today since this is the first press conference. This is the first moment to have a press secretary. We don't have one.

So the vice president is going to be stepping in.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. The last democratically legitimate National Assembly in Venezuela was the 2015 National Assembly. We don't just want there to be an election. Election is important, but we want to make sure that it leads to a republic, to an enduring republic that has elections on a regular basis.

Venezuela, the big victory for Trump, no one is talking about.

Well, when will it be elections? Quietly, I think there's a big push to get that done while Cuba could be next. Number two. The economic pressure, for sure, is moving the people and creating great strains on that regime. And you're going to have divisions within the regime, particularly the political class and those hardliners that are part of the RGC.

This is Rogers Akheim at the Reagan Institute, Iran. America slowly taking back the straight as President Trump asked the Iranian people to rise up. I have an idea. Get them guns and unleash the Mossad to start the assassination game again. Number one.

Whether you're a good president or a great president, you lose the midterms. We're going to turn that around because there's no reason for it. I'm going to get many of you people are running, and I'll be at every one of your state, your cities, wherever it is that you're running. Midterms are here as Republicans gear up for the convention. Elon Musk is spending about $200 million.

Dems look ready to lock up the House and the Senate, but they have a long way to go. We examine the sprint to November. Brett Baer, you know, he is. The best-selling author of The Case for America is His Latest, an argument on behalf of our nation, and host of Spy Nation on Fox Nation, which, by the way, also has a socialism series up right now, and getting hope to getting set to host special report in just a few hours. Brett, welcome.

Morning. Hey, Brett, first off, Scott Besson's been all over the place over the last two or three days talking about what I think is Operation Epic Economic Fury. How do you think that's going? I mean, by all accounts, it's squeezing the Iranians really hard. And many of them are squealing.

We're getting reports about Iranian leadership leaving. Uh, Tehran. Yeah, I wanted to ask you about that. Could you tell me about those reports? Because I heard you mention that on your show.

Yeah, well there was first of all a couple of sources, Intel sources saying they've tracked some leadership leaving, but then wire services picked up the story and based on Iranians on the ground.

So I think it's starting to get out there that there are pockets of leadership that are actually leaving the country because of the economic pressure. And you he's talking about everything from sanctions and squeezing the country, but also going after money in places overseas, bank accounts in the middle of The Caribbean or the Caymans or wherever they are, Besson is saying they're going after that money, and that makes a difference. The British Virgin Islands. I hear, he told me yesterday, it's not even the Virgin Islands, it's the British Virgin Islands. And I think he let everybody know: listen, I found your money.

And I know I'm going to prove it to you by telling you exactly where it is.

So the thing that's different about this, and tell me if you think I'm right, is that yeah, there's been sanctions, there's been hard sanctions. These are more intense, got it. We have the Gulf states buying in and being forced to buy in, maybe outside Qatar and Pakistan will pretend, but the rest will. And there's never been the backup of 50,000. 50,000 American troops to enforce it.

So, as they play games, we're able to hammer them back.

So, this is. Uh this is pressure on steroids. On that regime, but they feel they can outlast the President of the United States. I think he showed remarkable patience. Yeah, I mean it's You wonder whether the order was wrong here and whether economic epic fury really should have started first and then the military.

But there were reports that they were closer and closer to a nuclear weapon or they were going to move the nuclear material. And I think that that was part of the impetus of the strike. Look, whatever's happening, the U.S. military is escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Ramuz. The Energy Secretary says there's a lot going through.

The President touts it every night. You know, they turn off their transponders and they go through and you know, it becomes this every night thing where they're tracking Um twenty twenty four Tankers through, and they're getting a lot of barrels of oil through the Strait of Vermuz. I think the real question is: you know, who's going to blink? You know, there Iran thinks the lever is the midterm elections. The president seems to say, look.

We've got a plan. We're going to stick to it. And uh How it plays in the midterms, everybody's saying it's going the other way. If oil stays fairly low and people start to feel a little. And I said from the US economy.

I don't know. You know, there are some of those races that could turn Republicans away.

So the President of the United States have put on Truth Social. That there's a pathway through Syria getting more. He said, he pointed me to what he just put on Truth Social, so I just looked it up now. And there's about 5,000 hulking trucks carrying oil from the Persian Gulf through Syria. and out the Mediterranean Sea.

So, when you talk about pipelines bypassing it, Saudi Arabia is talking about pipelines bypassing it, and then you have others deciding it's not worth the risk. And now you have overland oil from Gulf states going through Syria, who's no longer a Iranian ally. That sets a dexterity and a resourcefulness maybe the Iranians were not anticipating. Yeah, and listen, Besson claims and says that in a year and a half to two years, the trade-off of removes will be. obsolete.

As far as its need, because the pipelines will expand. the ability to get oil other places will expand. And You know, in the long-term bet, they're thinking that the Venezuela deal is going to really help in the big picture. It's not going to be tomorrow. that the gas prices change based on this, but it is going to shore up markets in the long run.

So, I want to switch gears if I can over to Texas. Here's what Carl Rove said yesterday about Ken Paxson and Tallarico, cut too. The President Got him into the general election. Without the president's endorsement, he would have lost. The president has $400 million as of July 31st sitting in MAGA, Inc.

and tens of millions of dollars sitting in other pockets that he controls, Super PEX. And he's got to, if he wants to have Paxton win, he needs to come in. Time is running out. If the President wants to have Paxton win, he needs to be tossing a lot of money Paxton's way so that ads can be run that depict Tallarico as the far left winger that he is. If not, Tallarico is going to run the message of my opponent is the most corrupt politician in Texas history all the way to the victory lane.

So I was just talking to the president. He is going to put time into Texas. He gave some money to Ted Cruz to work with Paxson. But it's amazing. This guy continues to vacation, not work hard, not raise money.

I don't get it. I don't know. I don't get it either. And I don't know what the president. is regretting that endorsement.

Cornyn obviously would have run the table, one would think, over Tallarico because all the establishment would Would really rally and wouldn't have any problem raising money. And so you got to see some some power and some Some passion from the candidate himself. And the president likes winners.

So. He's either going to have to make the winner or he's going to have to change the dynamic. With the candidate himself. Yeah, right now it's just drawing by about two and a half points. But this is amazing to me.

This between El Saeed and Tallarico, every day I get up and there's some deleted sound bite that someone else found. Listen to Tallarico talk about capitalism in 2020, cut three. And also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country. And I think only... And in the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them?

The country's changed. He has not proven that he has changed. And El Saeed is not proven that he has changed. They just try to clarify remarks they've said in the past or. Or they just run from them, or they just say they don't believe it anymore.

I've never seen anything like it. It's really amazing. It's like they think that we don't have videotapes and climate change, white supremacy. And capitalism. Um that's That's something.

And in Texas, you wonder how that can sell. And to the President's point, those ads or to rather to Carl Rose's point, with millions of dollars and that sound bud, In Texas, One would think that moves the needle a little bit. Um But We'll see how this plans out. Pans out. I I think that that that race in particular is going to be one of the tightest.

I think Michigan could turn based on everything you're seeing in the internals, I think, of Mike Rogers are suggesting he's making headway. Even though all the stories about Al Sayed, you don't hear who the candidate is that he's running against a lot of times because everybody's covering all the controversy or the things that he's said in the past or the things that he's saying now. But you rarely hear that Mike Rogers, who lost by 17,000 votes last time to Alyssa Slotkin. Is the candidate he's running against? I know.

Pretty crazy what's going on. Lastly, I'm just going to end with one of your. Strengths and that's golf. Tiger Woods in court yesterday. And if, you know, in preparing for his appearance, I just started looking at all the news about him, dating back to 2009.

I have never. Scene. You know, such a dominant athlete have more problems with the law personally. Uh and driving than Tiger Woods. What do you think happens at this point in his career?

Do you think you ever see him back on the tour? It's tough. It's tough to see. I think mostly because of his injury on his leg. And His inability to really walk uh hilly courses So he's just an amazing, amazing athlete.

He obviously had problems with dealing with the pain. not only from swinging that hard for that many years, but Obviously his accident and um I've heard all of the back and forth about How he's got special treatment and all of that. And I listened to the prosecutor or the DA there. Say, you know, it would have been tough to prove. But I think that the whole issue of why are you driving anyway, which the President said yesterday, I think is the key thing.

Yeah, if you're a billionaire, I th now with now with the Waymo. I mean, you don't even have to talk to anybody. I mean, you just maybe can be the admin for Waymouth. I think he needs another sponsorship. Tonight, you have Jameson Gurrier on, right?

Yes, it's going to be interesting. We'll have an exclusive with the U. S. Trade Rep in the middle of this Canada stuff. By the way, Mexico is behind the scenes negotiating quietly, and it's the President's not putting anything out publicly, but they're much more aligned with where the U.

S. Headspace is. And then you're just a few weeks away from the Chinese president arriving in DC and what the trade implications of all that is.

So I think it's going to be a newsy interview. Absolutely. I would add, too, that when I first heard about this, I thought, okay, we went in there to blow it up, and they didn't want to bend. And the more you read about it, it was really Canada. And I wouldn't be surprised if these premiers in these provinces were the ones, it seems more and more were the ones that told Carney, we're not signing off on this because we're looking to rebalance trade with the country from dairy to wood to aluminum.

And they were ready to go. And then they got pushed back, and they decided they could benefit politically, in my view, from looking stuff against America. And now we're in a stalemate. There's been no conversations, and September 8th is coming quick. There were in the middle of three different elections, like special elections in different provinces.

And Barney's party won all three in the wake of this trade back and forth.

So yes, politics plays a big part of it. And I'm going to get into specifics with Greer tonight about what was in the deal, what they thought about it. Everything I've heard is that the President was letting go of some of the things he had pushed for before in order to make a deal. Right. And they're looking to hurt him politically because they know about Michigan, Ohio and Maine, which might be directly affected.

We'll see if it gets back on track. Maybe after your interview, you've done that before, Brett. We'll see you tonight on special report. All right, we'll see you. Back in a moment.

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Uh From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?

Well, if that's what you want, will you send the CIA in to arm Iranians?

Well, I wouldn't want to say that to you, Peter. I'd love to tell you that, but I it wouldn't be appropriate to say. That is yesterday, some of the exchanges that happened in the White House because the President put on Truth Social. When the Iranian people are going to rise up and speak out, they're going to need some arms. I hope there's a situation underway to do it.

Or, as I mentioned, I think we got to get back to the Mossad assassination squads. They're trying to kill our president, trying to kill his family, multiple operations going on in Europe. It's a matter of whack-a-mall. I hear from really good sources about how many times they're trying to foment unrest and blow up our assets. We know about their history.

So the Mossad's pretty good at taking out people that really matter, cyan nuclear scientists and others. And we know what they did in the beginning, the advent of this war. Why don't we do it again? I mean this this is For keeps. This is a chance to free 80 million people who have been oppressed with what they've done to women and families, the people that they've hung and killed in cold blood, even since January of 2026, which we're still in the middle of.

I would love to see it happen. But so far, this is what's happening. Little by little, they're losing control of the straight of Hermuz. Know why I know it's working? Because Democrats having trouble criticizing it outside Rahm Emanuel, they got to keep up to it.

You know, I saw a pair of super tankers carrying Saudi oil were struck back to back-to-back projectiles, but they kept flowing through.

Now we find out, as I mentioned to Brett, That there's a Syria said, why don't you try loading some trucks and coming through our country? It's relatively quiet. And it is. And I think that would be great. You gonna tell me that Iran's gonna bomb Syria?

They really wanna go do that? And starts hitting oil? No. But we're almost at the levels that we were prior to the war. Roughly 50%.

Um we have a roughly fifty percent failure of Iranian ballistic missiles so far fired into Jordan. It shows possibly a degradation of their long range missile capabilities.

Now the Russians are saying I'm helping them out with their missile technology. Listen. I'm sure they can sneak some stuff in. I would do all we can to blow up the rails and roads. Got it.

But They're not arming them like they were, and certainly China's not getting the free oil that they were. They're not getting their discount oil from Venezuela. I know that for sure. And now they're getting less. From Iran, and now Russia says I'll help you when I can, but how are you going to help?

What are you doing?

Now, if for me, I'd be done with Putin years ago, but for the President of the United States to see Vladimir Putin say, I'm here to help you against. against the US and I really admire how you've been able to withstand the barrage. That would be full stop for me. I'd be done. I want to talk about what our missile stock is like.

Are we picking up the pace in real time? I'll talk about that with Tom Carrico, Senior Fellow with the International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project. No better person to talk to. Don't move. We've all heard the radio ads about the IRS.

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I don't know if I've A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I think there's a realization that Even if you do negotiate with this regime and they make a deal, which they did in the MOU, both presidents signed it, they're not going to comply with it.

So if that's the end state, a negotiated settlement, And we refinance the regime as a result of it. They would never sign anything unless we remove sanctions and remove frozen assets and give them money to recover. What does that really get us? It gets us passing the Iranian regime to the next administration to cope with it. That's not where President Trump is.

And it's not where he started, and I don't believe it's where he's going to finish. General Jack keen with me yesterday. You're right. In fact, I talked to the President 20 minutes ago, and I'm done talking with those blank blanks. And why?

Because it's not like dealing with the Soviets. It's not like dealing with the Russians. Yes, they had much more, they had missile capacity. Nuclear weapon could have blown up the world multiple times, but they weren't irrational. These guys are out of their minds, but they're not crazy.

They might be our term crazy, but they're talking from all different aspects. You can never believe a word that they say. They haven't lived up to anything that they claim to have. They didn't even realize the MOU was a deal of a lifetime, it was terrible for us. And they blew that up.

And now we're getting almost as much oil out of by bypassing the strait and using it and escorting the strait as we were prior to. February twenty seventh, when this all started. Tom Carrico joins us now, Senior Fellow with the International Security Program, the Director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Tom, Whose side is time on in this standoff? I think unfortunately, Brian, I think time is not on our side.

The Iranians were just shooting a bunch of missiles at us again. And of course, that means we have to shoot a bunch of defensive interceptors at them in response in order to not get hit. And despite our very darndest efforts, and look, the military, the US military has amazing capability, but despite our very darndest efforts, they have proven resilient. Through being able to hide these capabilities from our strikes and being able to still get them off. And so, as you were saying about the MOU, they don't seem to want peace.

They're having too much fun keeping this going. And I think time is on their side more than it is ours. You think they're having fun?

Well, I think they want revenge. They're not going to give up. I think, as you were saying a second ago, they're not looking for peace. They're looking to exact revenge, and I think they're going to exact it as hard as they can. Um Did you see some of the video of our strikes o over the last two days?

I was wondering what you thought of them technically.

Well, you know, technically the video that I think CENTCOM put out was of Tomahawk missiles, our longest-range cruise missiles. And again, every time I I see that. I think that's one less tomahawk to deter China. We need all that strike capability, that long-range standoff strike capability for the pivot to the Pacific. And the longer that we stay and our readiness degrades, Dan Driscoll is reportedly conveying that to the president in his exit interview, reportedly.

Our readiness is degraded. Our stocks are being degraded. And at the very least, our force posture is taking stuff out of the Pacific. And so when I see that sort of thing, look, there's plenty of things that I would like to see destroyed. And presumably they're trying to hit anything that moves or anything they can, any target they can identify.

But whenever I see the tomahawk, Uh uh miss missiles launching the videos, that's that's the first thing that comes to mind.

So when you see do you see their m uh their missile stock being degraded? Oh. The arenas? Yes.

Well, that's hard to know, but whenever you see that they launched off a big salvo the other day, then we have confirmation that it's insufficiently degraded. I think the president said maybe two months ago, maybe a little bit longer at this point, that they had an estimated 20% of their missile. Forced left. And so, look, that's degraded, but unfortunately, not enough. Interesting.

Here's Rebecca Heinrichs on where we're at right now from Herview from Hudson, COT19. As the United States and the IRGC trade blows right now in the Strait, the United States has successfully escorted 18 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz under the nose of the IRGC, which is a wartime high, so close to the 20 million we got pre-war, just before this war began.

So the United States has an incredibly strong hand here, and the regime is severely weakened.

So and there are also today's Washington Post shows that we're using over-the-ground transportation through Syria, which was once an ally of Iran, not anymore. Yeah, I think I would be a little less sanguine. It's good that there's 16 versus 20 million barrels going through, but it's going through at a high price. And yes, it is a testament to the capabilities of the U.S. military to do that under the nose of the IRGC.

But having said that, it's taking a lot of effort for us to do that. And we're still below the pre-war levels. I think that's sort of undeniable. And as long as we have to have our forces there to do it with a great deal of effort, then we're not better off than when the war started. If the IRGC is such that they're Uh threatening to impede that and make it hard on us.

Well, then that's That means that they have not been sufficiently degraded.

So going over to Ukraine right now, they are desperate for patriots. Where could we get them? To them? Yes.

Some people say South Korea that the Vice President Pence says they have a lot. That would be one thing that they could do. After all, North Korea is providing troops and missiles. Yeah, so South Korea, I think I'm not sure what Pence was alluding to, but I suspect it was actually an allusion to South Korean air defenses.

So they have some of their own indigenous. capabilities that they have it's taken them a while to develop them. You know, the Germans have Iris T and the French have their aster.

So there's things like that. You're right. The Ukrainians want Patriot. I think unfortunately Post-epic fury, that's going, it's now even harder to get there. And it's not just because the United States has to replenish, it's that we're replenishing from the foreign military sales that are going to our allies.

And so that means that we're not making deliveries that, in some cases, our allies have already paid for. We are exercising our sovereign right, and it's an understandable and probably necessary thing to do. But what's going on right now that I think is not sufficiently appreciated is that we are having to divert these weapon sales that we keep telling our allies to buy American, but now we're having to redirect them to our own military to replenish. And what that means is you're going to see this, and you're going to see this with Japan. They released their draft budget last week, and there's a lot more references to indigenous capability as opposed to buying American.

And so, what you're seeing in Europe-Can we give Japan the licenses to build our Patriots? They build a small number, a small double-digit number of Patriots per year for their own purposes. They've exported like a very small number to us in 2025, but they're not. Producing them for the global market. They'd like to do more and they will be doing more, but not nearly enough to.

to kind of meet the need here. Yeah. Interesting. Ukraine right now, they said that one of the things they want to do is go after the archer instead of the arrow.

So, they want to get to where a lot of these missiles are. Do they have the offensive capability to do that? Being that they are generating their own. I think that's what you're seeing. And whenever you see these drones flying into Moscow, yes, going after the energy infrastructure, and that's great.

Going after military depots, and if they can get to it, the production facilities for Shaheds and what have you. Presumably, they're getting some assistance, targeting assistance from us, as they have over the years. We want them to go after. I would say not merely the archer. Let's say the bombers that may launch cruise missiles off, but also the Fletcher, which is to say the maker of the arrows.

And they're doing their best. And I think, frankly, at this point, the prospect for Ukraine to get more Patriots is low. And so their best bet is to continue to go on the offense and strike things in Russia and raise the pain level on that side. I don't know if you've seen the Russian statements, Vladimir Putin yesterday. He's telling everyone about how much land he's got and how well things are going.

And the speculation is, does he even know that he's lying at this point? He reiterated Russia's continuing unwillingness to freeze the current front line. They're moving forward with their plan is going well to capture all of the Donbass. That is not the truth. And he's lost almost every refinery in his country has been hit, and Crimea basically has been isolated and uninhabitable.

That's pretty much not the game plan that he was thinking five years ago. Sure. And, you know, it's hard to know in the House of Mirrors of what a dictator or an autocrat knows or what's inside his mind. That is, as you say, unfortunately, a speculation. But yeah, I think that continuing to stay on the offense is exactly the right thing to do.

It's unfortunate that the Ukrainians are also paying a heavy price as the Russian missiles are continuing to strike them on a weekly basis. But going after Putin's pocketbook and hitting him where it hurts on that front, I think is a very, very good development. Yeah, I guess so. And I guess we'll see what's going to happen. Have you heard anything in terms of progress when it comes to mass production?

Reading a lot more last week about these other companies that have propped up in terms of missiles and rockets and interceptors. Are you seeing any promise that the Pentagon is beginning to get to understand they got to do things quicker? Mm. The answer is yes. The answer is yes and no.

So, not just new companies propped up, but contracts. And so, the Pentagon has said, I want to highlight a couple things here. A low-cost containerized missile, basically a low-cost cruise missile, and they're buying them by the thousands, which is to say they've contracted them by the thousands with, I think, five companies. That's the sort of development that's very good. You know, the counter-drone stuff, we need lots more coyotes, and they're scrambling to get to get more of those, to be sure.

But then also you have the Pentagon's larger munitions effort for what is essentially Raytheon and Lockheed as the primes for the dozen or so prioritized munitions, tomahawks. We want to go from 57 tomahawks a year to 1,000 or more per year. We want to go from 650 Pac 3s a year to 2,000 or more a year. And then we're talking about this decade.

So I think you're going to see some eye-popping numbers in calendar 27 in terms of what the companies are able to put out because it's. You know, it's gotten extremely serious. Unfortunately, there are stockpiles, and so it is extremely urgent.

Well, the one thing that hasn't happened so far is contracts. And so, what you're seeing is the company spending billions with a B, billions of dollars out of Hyde. To get started on this munitions ramp. But unfortunately, we still need Congress to appropriate. And now we're probably going to kick to the lame duck.

And we're going to be lucky to get the triple-digit billions that were planned in the reconciliation and such. But a lot is riding on that. And so we're going to go through the midterms, but that lame duck session, everything's kind of riding on that. It's sort of presumably last bite at the apple to really get this appropriation so that everything can get on contract. You get systems, get systems in place no matter who's president.

And we got to get out of this one or two year deals. We got to get out of five year deals that administrations pledged to fulfill. I mean, can we get some of that ingrained in legislation? That you can't come in as a president and say, well, I don't want those tanks, or I don't want those interceptors.

Well, there's always authority in the sitting president and the sitting Congress. We wouldn't want it any other way. But having said that, the plan is to go with seven-year contracts and to make the termination and liability clauses so painful that it would actually be more expensive for the Pentagon to cancel the contracts in a couple of years than to continue them. And so I think that's a pretty clever. contract structure but We first have to pull the trigger.

We've got to pull the trigger and get it going. The legislation, the multi-year procurement authority was there in the last two Defense Authorization Acts.

Now we need the appropriations. Got it. Tom Carrico, thanks so much. All right, thank you. Sure.

Appreciate it. Listen, we got a few more minutes on the back end. If you want to write me, BrianKilmead.com, we're going to get some of your emails from last night's show. Also, made a lot of conversation. Tarl Rove made a lot of news yesterday.

Marco Rubio made a lot of news yesterday. We'll go over all that when we come back on the Brian Kilmead show. Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. We've all heard the radio ads about the IRS.

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He said, you know, America deserved 9-11, that he hates America. Are you concerned this might have ramifications? I'm concerned about the people that they associate themselves with costing them the elections.

So you're not concerned about Hassan Piker? They'll do something about your Republicans. Do something about Republicans. That's Elon Omar, who shouldn't even be in this country. Where is that investigation going?

Of course, she didn't want to entertain that, parry it, say, I love the guy. But you know, she does. She appeared with him too. And now he's just a streamer out in Los Angeles, really. The problem is, the just a streamer guy is a little insulted by that.

So I'm pretty sure he's going to be firing back and be a bit of a problem. He also describes his relationship with El Saeed, saying, you know, he really wasn't doing much. He's a good friend of mine. I was out there. And then he asked me to go out on the campaign trail with him and get him some traction.

So I did.

So for those people who say he's just a guy, he's not really that important, tell that to just the guy. He's pretty important.

So there you go.

Well, is Hassan Piker going to hurt? Of course he's going to hurt. But I also think the socialism thing is going to hurt them more. And now you have a candidate rising up in New Hampshire to take on what I think will be John Sunu, but could be Scott Brown. Off in that Senate seat.

And now the communist/slash socialist is within 10 points of Pappas, who has all this money, millions of dollars. He's now in the real clear political average.

Now he's up by two points over a would-be generic Republican.

So it's going to be a tight race anyway. If you give New Hampshire a socialist choice, I don't want to predict because I know New Hampshire is fabulously, famously proud of being independent. But I gotta think. I got to think the Republicans would rejoice at the opportunity to run against. A socialist.

Scott Besson brought this up with Larry Kudlow. The rise of all these socialists, as if people don't understand what's happening around the world.

Socialism, communism is falling apart. It's collapsing within itself. Cut 11. When you talk about socialism here in the U.S., when we look at the demographic of those voters, they are overeducated and under-earning.

So these are underachievers who who are who are jealous of that those who want to go and work every day and if you were to dissect the the last election that President Millay had. that it was the poorest segment of society and the young people who came out and voted for him. But as you said, we're seeing Argentina, we're seeing Bolivia, we're seeing Colombia, we're seeing Chile come back, Ecuador, and I think we could see many more.

So that is Scott Best. And that's really going to be my theme on my Labor Day show on Sunday night. It's like. I heard David Petrea say over the weekend. I hope my advice to young people is life's a competition.

It's a competition. You got to go compete, and you got to be a great teammate. It's going to be teamwork. You're going to need help, but you got to compete. You can't compete in socialism, the game's already decided.

What America has, and capitalism is indemned, is embedded in it, the opportunity to be successful, not a guarantee.

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I come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. We got a busy, busy hour coming your way. Also, I hope to get your calls and get your perspective on what's taking place as we get set to really focus on the midterms because after Labor Day, it is a flat-out sprint, especially considering on a social note, everyone's talking football. On a societal note, most people go back to school, whether it's teaching or actually back to school, or you're affected because your kids go back to school, your grandkids. Josh Trash Hauer on that, people get busier, and then we're talking about voting, and all the candidates feel the urgency.

And if you're going to spend, that's when you spend. Josh Trash Hauer on that. Julian Epstein standing by. He's taking a look at what's left of his party. Can he even identify it anymore?

Let's get to, before we get to Julian, the big three. Number three. The last democratically legitimate National Assembly in Venezuela was the 2015 National Assembly. We don't just want there to be an election. Election is important.

But we want to make sure that it leads to a republic, to an enduring republic that has elections on a regular basis. That's true. I don't know if one, they're mutually exclusive, but when they're going to be elections in Venezuela, it's been a big victory so far for the president of the United States. He says he does not want to rush it and upend that society and get back into politics. But sooner or later, I think it's a great example for Cuba.

We know that country, that island, is ready to fall. Number two. The economic pressure for sure is moving the people and creating great strains on that regime. And you're going to have divisions within the regime, particularly the political class and those hardliners that are part of the RGC. Rogers Atkheim of Reagan Institute, Iran.

America's slowly taking back the straight. As President Trump asked the Iranian people, hey, rise up.

Well, Mr. President, I have an idea. Get them some guns and let the Mossad go back to their assassination squad. Number one. Whether you're a good president or a great president, you lose the midterms.

We're going to turn that around because there's no reason for it. I'm going to get many of you people are running and I'll be at every one of your state, your cities, wherever it is that you're running. That is President Trump. Midterms are here as Republicans gear up for their convention. Elon Musk gets ready to spend, and Dems look ready to lock up the House or Senate, or do they?

Republicans still have a say in this. We'll talk about it and what happens in the sprint to November. And joining us now is Julian Epstein. Julian, for those people who think that the socialist thing is done, yeah, you got Chris Rabb and you got Chevalier in New York City and some others, and maybe El Syed, who's in denial, but we all know he is. And maybe Troy Jackson.

It looks like something else is brewing in New Hampshire. You've got a candidate coming out of nowhere with something like $200,000, has closed within 10 points. Of a sitting congressman in Pappas. Does this surprise you? New Hampshire.

It surprised me for New Hampshire, yeah. I've been watching that race for a number of months, and it surprises me. You know, again, I think it's still the same thing. It is about 10% of the electorate. They have an oversized share in Democratic primaries.

They're very well organized. The Democratic Party machine is breaking down. And the Democratic Party is making the mistake. Of the sort of Faustian bargain of getting into bed. With, I think, what is a borderline satanic cult that just wants to.

slash and burn everything that we know wants to destroy our economic, political. legal systems and is outwardly bigoted, outwardly racist. And I think it's both Democratic Party and competence at the campaign level, at the get-out the vote level. And I think it's just sort of weakness on part of the leadership to say we're going to get into bed. with these people who really want to destroy the country.

So it's not surprising to me that it's happening. I think it's an expression of a Democratic Party in decay. Karashima Manzur is her name. She's closing the gap now. She's got momentum, not that much money, but she does have the DSA.

They seem to know where the soft spots are in to win election. Mansoor's supporters list her policies 27% approve, and politics are of her ideology, 22%. But for the most part, she's for the same thing: Medicare for all, defund ICE. And I guess she picks from the carousel of craziness, and that is no more borders, no more cops. No more Pentagon, no more Senate, no more.

I mean, that's just crazy. It seems like you and Rah Emmanuel are the only ones who will call this out. Yeah, and Fetterman. Yeah, I mean, I think this is the logical extension of two things. One is when you tell people you're living in an oppressor or oppression.

oppressor oppressed country. Which is a big it's huge lie. Eventually, people will start to believe these things. And I think a lot of young voters are thinking: hey, we don't have to work to build for the next generation the way every other generation has done. And we can, you know, sort of.

buy into this oppressor oppressed framework and look to a welfare state uh or and to uh whatever identity we want to adopt in the moment. And that will be our sort of way out of having to do the hard work for the next generation. I think the Democratic Party. has made a shift in the last ten years where it's sort of It sort of gradually adopted that worldview. And this is what you get when you have, you know, the party leadership.

Academic professors all over the country feeding this kind of poison into students, and all of it being amplified by social media.

So, you know, it's a real problem because too many young people are starting to believe this crap. The other thing is, tell me one place it worked. Say, wow, I want to be more like filling the gap. I want to be, don't say about Sweden and Norway because they're moving away from all of that, including any semblance of socialized medicine. They're not doing any of that.

So I guess Argentina is a good example as well. Yeah, who's flipped? I think mostly Central and South America.

Well, look at Africa. Look at Botswana and Zimbabwe. I mean, Zimbabwe went free market out in the 60s, and now they're going socialist. They're turning into a disaster. Botswana went free market and it's thriving.

I mean, there's examples every single every single continent on the globe.

So, I want you to see some of these candidates having trouble running from their past. And it's stuff that they just said a few years ago. It kind of heartens me to think how far we've come from hating America, taking down statues, to funding the police was actually everywhere. And climate change was a religion. This is James Tallarico, who's got a one or two point lead over Ken Paxon for the Senate race in Texas.

This is him in 2020, cut three. And also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country. And I think only And in the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them? I mean, that was the trifecta of idiocy. Climate change and white supremacy?

What are you talking about? I think this guy is a nutcase. But again, What is happening, if you pull the camera back here, Brian, there's two things. One is Democrats don't have any ideas about building for the future. There's nothing like we had in the Clinton administration where we were building a bridge for the 21st century.

So, what do they do? They get into this victimization thing. Arthur Brooks. At Harvard has talked a lot about this. When you tell people they're victims, they're living in an oppression society.

It is um it is Very easy to manipulate them at that point. When you're told, when you tell people they're a victim, it's very, very easy to sort of manipulate them to put them into this sort of hedonic state. And that's what the Democratic Party has been doing. The way it's been trying to gain votes as it is a shrinking party with shrinking public approval rates is it's doing a couple things. One is it's opening the borders, hoping we'll have it will bring in new voters for them and future generations.

But two is it's this constant. telling people that they are victims. And when you tell people they are victims, you can manipulate them to believe almost anything. And that's exactly what the Democratic Party ideology has been for the last five to ten years. You know what's interesting, Julian.

You come out and you start saying how happy you are with the Democratic Party. You say I can't buy into this. Why I'm I'm surprised a guy like Bill Clinton. Who has nothing to do with anything that he stood for? Whenever you think about his personal transgressions, he didn't run on this.

What about Barack Obama? In 2008, you know, this guy the last time he was in power, he should be like, hey, guys, what are you doing to the party? I'm not going to bad to the mayor of New York City. I'm going to go to bat for maybe Haley Stevens. I'm going to go to bad in areas which I'm needed that reflect what I believe in.

So if you're not going to condemn it, why embrace it? They're embracing it. Hillary Clinton says it's healthy. Yeah, I'm really disappointed by that. I mean, Barack Obama running against gay marriage when he first ran back in 2008, 2009.

You know, a lot of his positions would be considered fascist by the modern-day Democratic Party. Bill Clinton, you compare Bill Clinton's positions with Donald Trump's positions. There's a hell of a lot of overlap. Clinton's even to the right of Trump. on issues like policing.

On issues like trade, on a whole host of issues, on welfare reform. You know, I think these guys just don't want to be voted off the island. They want to continue to be feted, they want to continue to be. You know, the great leaders, this great statesman of the party, and I think they just don't want to be attacked. They, you know, you know, Obama came out against wokeism in, I think it was 2019.

He made a speech against wokeism, and he was cremated. I mean, he was just creamed rather. And he was pushed back. And the flying monkeys of the left went at him hard. And that was sort of the last time he did it.

You know, he's come out against, he's come out talking about affirmative action, how we need to roll back affirmative action. He's talked about sort of woke. And every time he's done it, he's really been attacked very hard and he stopped doing it now. And so these guys think it is better to, you know, better to um uh to switch than fight. And that's what they're doing.

And it's disappointing. And I think it's a slow march off a cliff for the Democratic Party. You know, you noticed the vote the other day. I wrote this piece for the post saying Johnson should take up this vote of condemnation of the socialists. And you got 10 Democrats voting with him, eight voting with him and two abstaining.

I think Johnson screwed up that vote because he included the Save America Act. But if you had taken the Gotheimer resolution on that, which is beautifully written, I mean, if you haven't seen the text, you should go and read the text. It is a beautiful indictment of socialism and quasi-socialism. If he had taken that text and put that on the floor, I think you would have gotten 70 Democrats voting against it. And why?

That's important because it not only creates a statement from the smart, sane Democrats against socialism and quasi-socialism, but it sets the stage for a new parliamentary style democracy. Brian, where you can have a caucus of 80 Democrats that would be willing to work with Mike Johnson, say their Democrats take over in November. you have this caucus that is willing to say no to the extreme left and that could work with Johnson and give Johnson a working majority, at least on some votes. But you have to have that break. You have to have that exit.

And there was a real opportunity for an exit On that vote on two days ago. And I think Johnson sort of screwed it up. I think they had to bring the Gothheimer resolution back to the floor and see how many Democrats. You get 80 Democrats voting with. Wanting to condemn the socialists, Johnson's got a new caucus of people that he can work with the next Congress.

Yeah, I want you to hear what Speaker Johnson said yesterday when Akeem Jeffries lost his mind when two people jumped ship. Like you said, why not just do a clean bill condemning socialism, and you'll know exactly where Democrats stand and where they don't. Instead, they put in a couple other things that made no sense, too, including the Vote America or the Save America Act. I don't understand the methods behind it, but he's Speaker.

So here's what he said about Hakeem Jeffries and the problems he's having already, cut nine. I'm not going to tell Leader Jeffries how to run his conference. I have to run my own. We have difficulty sometimes passing rules. We would have gotten the votes yesterday one way or the other.

I was a bit surprised a couple of Democrats came over, but he's got to deal with his own problems. He has quite a bit of them mounting right now. The Communists are taking over the Democrat Party. They're winning elections around the country. They have defied his endorsements, even in his home turf of New York City, even in his own literal backyard in the Bronx.

So Hakeem has a lot of problems he's got to manage. I'm going to take care of my own, and we'll see what happens.

So He's got to figure it out.

So if he comes speaker, he'll have one day. If he does get speaker, he'll have one day to celebrate. And do you think that if he does become speaker, he's going to have the same problems that Johnson did? Because because of the Socialists. Oh, I think Johnson did a brilliant job keeping his caucus together given the fractured nature of our both parties.

Consider they kicked out a speaker and speak of the car. Yeah, who I think Kevin I thought was a great speaker, very effective speaker, but you know, people have different views on that. But no, I think Hakeem Jeffries' problems will be much worse. I don't think he has control of the caucus. I think the socialists are this sort of.

Fever swamp cult. Um as sort of this pagan religion, and they are, you know, they are. In this sort of cathartic state. They're not willing to reason, they just think that. Slash and burn.

is going to be the approach. And they've got a lot of progressives. They talk about it only being a small percentage of the Democrats. A lot of the progressives agree with the DSA agenda.

So I think you're talking about a split right down the middle of about a hundred members on each side. And I think it'll be very difficult to manage. But what I think you're seeing, Brian, is a Democratic Party that's dying, notwithstanding all of the big tent rhetoric and this sort of lie. The same people that told us Biden should run in 24 are the same people are telling us this big tent lie. And no, I think you're seeing the party that is beginning to disintegrate.

The crack in the wall was the vote the other day. I think it's a much bigger division. I think it's about at 70, 80. Members that want to depart from the socialist wing, and I think it'll be very hard for Jeffries to pass anything meaningful. I mean, certainly.

You know, so if you just take Medicare for all, for example, people have talked about that every time that comes up. Yeah, but every time it comes up for a vote, you've got 170 million people that get their insurance through employer-based systems, and they like their insurance. Why do you want to give that up for higher taxes? That's what Akeen Jeffrey said, Julian. He said, I don't want Medicare for all.

So I just want you to hear Van Jones, because I want you to feel better about your position. Let's listen. Abdul, who I work with at CNN, I know Abdul, his positions on Israel and foreign policy are insane. They're not reasonable reactions to anything. Look, some Democrats are going to say that we should condition military aid, that Israel's gone too far in Gaza and the West Bank and in Lebanon.

We're going to put some conditions on you. I think that's a defensible position if you're a Democrat. That's not a pool's position. There are people who say we shouldn't be paying for any of the. Military.

Yeah, since we're running out of time, he goes on to say: Abdul, this guy says. El Sayed, that I don't think they should get anything for the Iron Dome. No defensive weapons. I don't care how much Israel wants to pay, we should cut them off. Final thought about that.

This guy is within winning by a point in Michigan. Yeah, I don't think he'll win. I hope he doesn't win. But this is a large part of the Democratic Party that is aligning themselves with the Nazis and the terrorists in the Middle East. Hamas, who wants, who is going for, who has an exterminationist ideology.

They don't want peace. They don't want, this isn't about land. This has always been about since 1990, exterminating the Jews. And all of this is just cover for the Muslim Brotherhood. propaganda machine that wants to eventually eliminate and all all Israel and create another Holocaust.

And this is this is we saw this happen in the 1920s and the 1930s with some voices in America. It is the same thing happening all over again. They're sort of legitimizing this Naziist eliminationist Um uh movement That is completely contrary to everything we believe in. I hear you, Julian. Thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Look forward to your columns. Always like when you join us. Have a great weekend. Yep.

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Yeah. We are back. One of the most intriguing things about the midterms is where's the money going to go? And because now you can. Have these campaigns, work with super PACs.

And I'll tell you what, Johnson's all over it already. The president's all over it. I just talked to him. He gave about a million dollars to Ted Cruz to go work with Ken Paxon. I asked him if he's going to help Ken Paxon.

He says, yes. You know, he said, I said, you have $400 million. He said, no, I got like a billion. I said, you're going to put it into Texas? And he said, yes, absolutely.

I'm going to be putting it into Texas. I'm going to put it into all these races. And then Elon Musk is not going to shortchange anyone. It looks like he is putting in substantial money as well. Elon will put in roughly $800,000 across key House and Senate races, so that's pretty significant.

He said the largest amount will be $245,000 he's going to give to Texas Republicans. Remember, they redistrict, but none of those districts that they redistrict are a layup. They're all going to be a battle, and it really is predicated on Republicans continuing to hold and grow the Hispanic vote. I'm not sure that they have done that because some saying they're misinterpreting the aggressive way in which they're kicking out illegal immigrants. Josh Crashauer joins us now, Fox News radio political analyst, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Insider.

Josh, welcome back. Hey, Brian, good to be back with you.

So, the president visited Texas on Friday. We gave a million dollars to Ted Cruz, and we'll be coming, but going back again. Obviously, he knows there's a problem and he's going to help. Yeah, look, one of the big challenges for the President and the Republicans on the ballot from Texas to across. Raises across the country is that they're worried about turnout.

They're worried about Republican voters in a midterm election not showing up for candidates, and especially someone like a Ken Paxton, who, as you and I know, and as we've talked about over the year, he has a lot of baggage in that campaign.

So the goal of a presidential visit, and I expect the president, the vice president, a lot of top surrogates to be in Texas a lot because I think getting Republicans to show up is half the battle. If Democrats have a chance at winning that seat, it's because you're not going to see the Republican turnout that we typically do see in a midterm year. I love this battle that took place on CNN. I want to get your take on it. Camille Foster, who I don't think he's conservative or Democrat, the best I could tell, he's a great guy, very smart.

I know that. Tango editor at large. He was just battling on one of those debate shows, Cut Four. It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.

I've always the idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy. And he's black.

James Tallarico, they played this cut and then had him comment. Cut three. And also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country. And I think only And in the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them? Wow, that was woke one, clearly.

We were all drunk. Uh not me, uh but James Tallarico has to justify that statement. And not many people are buying it in 2026. I think you got to tell us what changed instead of saying, well, that's not what I meant. Tell me how you changed your mind.

Yeah, I th that's the biggest challenge for the Democrats in Texas. I could see Democrats nominating someone more conservative, more moderate, as they have in a lot of recent elections. But James Tallarico was about as progressive as it gets in Texas back, and that was from 2020 during Woke 1.0. And there's just a laundry list of quotes and videotaped comments, sound bites that he said that are just so out of step with your average Texas voter. And look, Texas is a state where people pay attention to the race late.

It's expensive.

So you're going to see all the ads coming later, September, October. I assume there'll be a lot of super PAC spending, as you were talking about, Brian.

So, I mean, I've said this before, but the race, look at the polling at the end of September and October in Texas for a better sense of where things stand. I don't think voters fully understand how progressive Tallarico is. And he's definitely tried to moderate since getting the nomination and since running for the Senate race. But Texas voters have not elected a Democrat, including a lot of good candidates who are moderates. You have to go back to 1988, Lloyd Benson was the last Democrat.

Democratic Senate successful candidate in Texas. It is hard for me to imagine that someone as progressive as James Tallarico would be the one to break the streak, even in a bad environment, even with a candidate like Ken Paxton. I think the fundamentals at some point are going to weigh in. And we're certainly likely to see money from, you know, I think a lot of people on the Republican side are waiting for Trump's super PAC to spend money on the Texas Senate race because after all, that was John Cornyn's seat. It is John Cornyn's seat.

They made it harder on themselves with Paxton as the nominee who Trump endorsed. And ultimately, they're waiting for the money and the reinforcements to come in because Texas fundamentally is a Republican-friendly state, and it's one that they can win if Republicans show up and vote. What about El Saeed right now? If you look at the Real Clear Average, he's up by a point or two. He's so dramatically different from Mike Rogers.

El Saeed was saying yesterday: well, you know, the president coming after me has elevated my profile. Do you think he could benefit from this from the scrutiny? Yeah, look, I actually think that the less nationalized the race is, the better for Mike Rogers. Rogers is a very mainstream conservative. He is a very, very like, I mean, a personally likable guy, has a lot of assets politically going into this race.

And obviously El Syed, because of his record of extremism and anti-Israel radicalism and tolerating anti-Semitism, has been a real baggage going into this race. But I think Rogers is key is winning over those independents, winning over the kind of moderate voters that might view El Syed as a step too far, even in a year where I think Michigan voters may lean Democratic.

So that's the key. Certainly the other part of the equation is getting Republicans to show up in a midterm election. But when you look at Trump's job approval in Michigan, it's in the 30s.

So I think there's going to be hesitation. From Rogers to nationalize this race.

So they would much rather make this about El Syed's extremism and Rogers' record of being a pretty independent. Republican during his time in Congress and as a political commentator.

So I want to talk about today in Politico that actually I'll say right, House Republicans are taking their growing frustration with President Trump's trade policies. They're going back to the White House and saying they're upset about what's happened with the Canada trade deal. They say vulnerable Republicans will have an opportunity to air their grievances at dinner tonight, hosted by Trump. Zach Nunn is one of them in Iowa. They say the farmers, between the fertilizer costs And some of the tariffs really feel as though they're having a hard time because of these policies.

And maybe obviously the Iran war. What do you think the president could say to him? What could he do in the last two months? I don't think he can say much of anything. The policy is the policy.

And I don't get the policy. I don't know why we're in a fight economically with one of our friendliest neighbors in Canada. Like, this is, to me, a self-sabotage, both on substance and on politics. But when you look at the politics, Brian, we're talking about Michigan. That is a border state with Canada.

Their economies are pretty closely integrated, or have been at least historically. Mike Rogers is not going to want to be talking about why prices of some of these goods and why the tariff wars are affecting travel and tourism and the economy in a center rate that could be very, very close. It could make a difference in a very competitive race. Susan Collins, Maine, again, another state, economy closely integrated with Canada. And a lot of voters, even Republicans, are wondering what's going on with this trade war with one of our closest allies and our closest friends.

Makes very little sense. There are a lot of Republicans privately frustrated. I think it has a disproportionate. Proportionate political impact because so many of these key Senate races are actually taking place in states on the U.S.-Canada border where the policies are going to be felt more profoundly.

So, this is, I don't understand the policy, but the politics could be even more damaging for the Republican Party.

So, let's talk about Iran if we can. Here is what the Iranian A military spokesperson said about the exchange of fire over the last two days, cut 15. The offensive operations against the Americans will continue in a decisive manner until they regret their crimes. We warn that continued American provocations in the region will be met with heavier, broader and more destructive responses. What are your thoughts about going back to military exchanges?

Yeah, it does seem like we're at a new phase. We're just a little over six months since the war began in February. And I think it's a moment that the White House has recalibrated their strategy towards Iran. I heard Mark Arubio on your show yesterday saying we're not going back to the MOU. That's a dead letter.

Trump said the same thing, I think, in recent interviews. The time period of trying to make concessions or go to the bargaining table, that's over. It does seem like we're now in a period of long-term economic strangulation, long-term economic sanctions, trying to kind of win a staring match with the Iranians and figure out which country will blink first. The challenge with that is that that guarantees that the quote-unquote war, the military and diplomatic conflict or economic conflict with Iran is going to last quite a while. In fact, a lot of people are now saying this could last beyond Trump's presidency.

So this is going to be an issue.

Well, well, past 2026, the way things are going. I think the good news, Brian, though, is that there are some signs that Iran is feeling the pain economically. There's actually the government's, the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard's control over the country has been a little weaker, that they're feeling the heat, that they're feeling pressure internally within the country.

So, I mean, sometimes in a 24-7 non-stop news cycle, we kind of expect immediate impact on everything that the president does. But this may be the right play in terms of trying to put pressure on the Iranians economically, thinking the long game, and hoping that, like we saw this week, these occasional military strikes to deter any plans that Iran has to attack U.S. and our allies' interests in the Persian Gulf. I mean, you know, to me, I would say. I would unleash the Mossad to do what they were doing early on, go back to the assassination squads.

They are trying to kill the President, his family. They are trying to get our European assets and our allies in Europe. We know the threats are everywhere. The Mossad knows exactly where these people are. Thankfully, they have Iranians who are willing to be double agents for them.

I I would like to go back to that. Yeah, I mean, I think we're kind of back to where we were before. I mean, their military has been degraded. The nuclear attack from 2025 really did a number on their nuclear programs, but I think they're still trying to rebuild and do things to bring back some of their capabilities.

So there's always going to be a need to re-engage militarily given what Iran is up to. I think the one thing to keep an eye out for, though, if Democrats take the House and potentially the Senate, though I think that's a longer shot, like what will happen? I mean, if you're playing the long game in Iran and you're hoping on sanctions and all of a sudden the Democrats want to pull the plug if they're in control of Congress or want to pass legislation that's going to really hamper U.S. efforts to contain Iran, there could be new challenges and maybe new responses from the administration.

So I think this plan goes as far as the midterm elections, but if Democrats have newfound power on Capitol Hill, I wonder how long-term the strategy will end up being. But how could they pull troops? They can't pull the troops.

Well, I don't think that's what the administration wants. But if all of a sudden Democrats are passing bills, holding hearings, there may be a renewed political pressure. And then the question becomes: what does the administration do about it? Yeah, here's the president yesterday, Cup 14. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?

Well if that's what you want, will you send the CIA in to arm Irania?

Well, I wouldn't want to say that to you, Peter. I'd love to tell you that, but I it wouldn't be appropriate to say So, I mean, that's it. He wanted the people to rise up. He put on two social. Do you th have you heard of a plan in place to actually give the people some weapons?

I have not, though, as President said, a lot of those types of plans would be very top secret. I mean, look, we do know that there were efforts and discussions. The Israelis that had talked about arming the Kurds, arming certain factions in the country to actually have a ground game, folks, troops, boots on the ground from our allies to actually have some role in changing leadership in Iran. Never really was supported within this administration and it never really went through that process. But I'm skeptical that given The hold of the power the IRGC holds in that country and how ruthless they are.

I'm a little skeptical that just transferring arms and doing some secretive operations. They may have some impact in the moment, but I don't think that's going to result in regime change or anything significant. Yeah, I think the Mossad going to town would certainly help. And if they could get the secret police off the streets or running for their lives, it might give the Iranians a shot at reclaiming their own lives. That's my hope.

But it's a nation of 80 million people. It's a huge country. I thoroughly understand that. But when they can start focusing on their own civil unrest, That would add to some of the complications of trying to hold us off. Yeah, and look, I think rhetoric, I mean, I think one of the I you remember this the the initial preceding initial military strike in February was Trump's social media posts that help was on the way.

I think it gave a lot of hope in Iranian society that there would be kind of a continued and sustained effort that started but then didn't get when we went to the bargaining table and negotiated diplomatically that that ended. And I think a lot of the the protesters and the people hoping for a more sane regime in Iran, they've been kind of hung out there.

So I think they're reticent. They don't like Their lives are at stake, and I think they realize how powerful a hold the IRGC and regime elements still have on the country's leadership. Got it. Thanks so much. Appreciate it, Josh.

Have a great Labor Day. Thanks, Brian. You too. Back in a moment. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Okay. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I had to get a tooth removed. I actually drilled a tattoo drill for a Foy Root Canal.

And my whole life, I wanted to see if I was a badass or not. In other words, am I a fake badass that has this envelope nobody could tell, or am I really a badass on the inside? And I told the dentist, take it out with no Novocaine. And he drilled, and I jumped.

So I just said, it's just nerve endings from there to my spine, to my brain. It, I'm not moving. And so I love fear, it does wonders for me.

So that is Doug Leone. He's on a podcast talking about the root canal he got without Novicaine.

So would you do that to prove that you're a badass? Yeah. That to me has got to be the biggest nightmare. I mean, that's what they used to torture people in Vietnam. They used to drill out their teeth, right?

So I mean that is a torture.

So I had a bowl of things. That's not what you would pick. What would you pick if you wanted to prove you were super tough? I don't know. I'd probably try to get in a fight with a guy five times the size of me or do something like that.

I'd much rather that. Then Having somebody with a drill out my teeth. Just the thought of it makes your skin crawl right. I'm lucky. I've never had a root canal.

Teeth are fine, you know, a few cavities. I don't like cavities being filled. I've never gotten Nova. Yeah, I have gotten Novocaine because I got the wisdom teeth out. You have to have Novocaine for that.

But that would be insane if I didn't. I mean, just think when you do get Novocaine and sometimes they touch the nerve that doesn't quite have all the Novocaine. Oh, yeah. You jump through the ceiling. Yeah.

So, I mean, again, I don't know who this guy is. But I guess he's a he's a billionaire. And I guess he wanted to prove how tough he is. I assume he's telling the truth. We don't even know if he's telling the truth.

I don't think we fact-checked him yet, but I mean. How many times have you seen famous people with podcasts on podcasts? Like, these guys look like they're 11 years old. They haven't heard of the podcast. Have you heard of the David Sendra?

Podcasts? No, but I might Google it and check it out. I will say sometimes I then check out the podcasts and they are pretty good. Really? You should check out our YouTube page, youtube.com/slash at the Brand Killmeat show.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of the Brian Kill Meet Show up on 48th and 6th. We've been in Midtown Manhattan here around the country, around the world. We're just blocks away.

We started this week with a horrific stabbing. This 32-year-old, this 32-year-old vice president was stabbed to death. And then we also see. Another 68-year-old was stabbed by another deranged person just five blocks from our building. You know, they say crime's down here, but I just never remember so many horrific incidents that are happening.

And of course, nothing's worse than Chicago. This hour, we're going to be joined by the founder of the Energy Advocacy Group, the Power of the Future, Daniel Turner. Talk about the price of diesel, price of gas, price of oil, and what's happening in the Gulf and how it all relates. And standing by is Captain Brett Sadler, Senior Fellow Institute for the Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology, Allison Center for National Security. Before we get to Brent, let's get to the big three.

Number three. The last democratically legitimate National Assembly in Venezuela was the 2015 National Assembly. We don't just want there to be an election. Election is important, but we want to make sure that it leads to a republic, to an enduring republic that has elections on a regular basis. That is Marco Rubio with us yesterday, Venezuela, the big victory for Trump that nobody's talking about.

But there is some pressure to get some elections, none other than Ted Cruz cranking up that pressure. When are we going to get that? And when is Cuba going to get our attention? Number 10. The economic pressure, for sure, is moving the people and creating great strains on that regime.

And you're going to have divisions within the regime, particularly the political class and those hardliners that are part of the RGC. Iran, America's slowly taking back the strait as President Trump asked the Iranian people to rise up. I get an idea. Let's get them some guns and unleash the Mossad assassination squad. Number one.

Whether you're a good president or a great president, you lose the midterms. We're going to turn that around because there's no reason for it. I'm going to get many of you people are running and I'll be at every one of your state, your cities, wherever it is that you're running. Yep, president says I'm all in. Midterms are here, and Republicans gear up for their convention.

Elon Musk gets ready to spend about a few hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps. And Dem's looking ready to lock up the House and Senate. It's within reach, and so are two losses. We'll examine the sprint to November. But the main issue hanging over the farmers, hanging over national security, consumer when it comes to oil, gas, and the price of food, if you want to look one place, it's Iran.

And how long gas and oil of a barrel of oil could be? $90 a barrel. It's supposed to drop. If it gets around to $65, we'll be looking at $2 and maybe 80 cents gas per gallon. Captain Brett Sanley joins us now.

Captain, how do you think this is running? this war is going right now from the American perspective.

Well, thanks for having me on your show, Brian. I mean, what has happened, I guess, in the last few weeks is that President Trump is stepping back from overt military action and allowing the economic warfare to kind of take the lead. That's not to say the military is not active. They very much are, you've seen the last few days. And that's got to continue to really give some sting to the economic side of things because just going after the bankers is not good enough for a regime like Iran.

And going after those in Beijing that continued to support and prop up the regime at the same time, it also requires blockade, naval forces blockading the country, and on occasion cutting the rail and road networks that connect the Iranian economy to their benefactors overseas. What about the rail and road? Are we doing a good job on that?

Well, the last series of major strikes, there were some very important strikes that kind of were missed. And road connections to the northeast of Tehran into Turkmenistan were taken out. That's one of the key overland routes into Iran, from Russia as well as from China. Also, there were attacks coming to the approaches to Bandur Abbas to the north. Perhaps somewhat economically to sever that port city from getting into the hinterland of Iran.

So some of those strikes have an economic effect that's not to be missed. Right. There were some reports that Brett Baer was talking about some defections among the IRGC. Have you could you shed any light on that? It's hard to know what's real and what's what's Fictional in this case, and what's coming out.

And if there are defectors, we're very clearly they're going to be protected and perhaps try to be kept inside Iran to rise up and change the regime. That's actually what's in the best interest for Iran. It's also what's in the best interest of the United States, not getting these folks out of the country.

Now, if they're like the Mullahs or their senior IGC members trying to get a one-way ticket to Moscow or to Beijing, that should be allowed. Let them get out, because less of them in Iran, the better.

So when we look at Iran and they're targeting two ships yesterday, two Saudi tankers in the strait, they want to say, hey, we're still in control. But what is the reality as you understand it?

Well, the Iranians have not been in control of the strait at any point in this conflict, but what they have been able to do is to sow enough concern or doubt. In the insurance companies, the underwriters, for the shipping firms to jack the rates up so high and to sow some doubt in the ship captains that there's a risk there. And the risk is real, to say the least. There were a couple of sailors just killed in the last few days trying to make the transit through there.

So it's not. Safe 100%, but there are still a lot of ships now increasingly seeing that the risk is manageable enough and that the protection from the U.S. and other Gulf states is adequate to make the crossing.

So that confidence is coming back. First, it was in the dark of night under US protection, and increasingly, That in the daylight hours as well. I think we're up to sh thirty ships transiting on average. It's not anywhere near the one hundred and twenty or so that were transiting before this conflict, but we've also got maxed out pipelines now that are mitigating some of the crude oil. Also, did you see the story tell you in the Washington Post that the president President retweeted on Truth Social?

And it's talked about how using overland trucks through Syria, something that would have been possible before Assad was overthrown. And they are welcoming it. They say it's pretty safe. You can get oil through there. Can that provide another safety valve?

Not in the immediate future, but the energy market's not going to return to what it was in February 27th, the day before this conflict. The Strait of Hormuz also is not going to be another leverage for the Iranian regime or even any other power that controls that, because there are deals to build more pipelines.

Now that we've got Syria perhaps going in the right direction to a stable government, a reliable one too, then you could have a pipeline that connects Iraq through Syria to the Mediterranean and to European markets. And that's good. That adds more flexibility and more options for getting energy out of the Middle East and to market. Yeah, here's what the Treasury Secretary said yesterday on that Cut 16. I often say in our trade discussions with China that we do not want to Yeah.

Pull apart from them, but we have to de-risk. We have to de-risk, but we have to de-risk everywhere in the world. We can see the Iranians are trying to use the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point. It's not a choke point for the U.S., but it is a choke point for many, many other countries. But that will be bypassed in two years.

In two years, the Strait of Hormuz will be like a worthless piece of water that the oil will be going on pipelines across the land. That is the takeaway, isn't it? Absolutely. And the shipping market's already adjusted. The Houthis were attacking in the Red Sea.

The shipping market's already largely bypassing, going past the Babo Mindeb Strait, right there by Yemen. And This is going to the same thing is going to play out with the Straits or Hamuz. The only thing to caution, what has not been heard is the getting of LNG from Qatar, one of the world's largest producers of LNG. There is no overland pipeline that has existed previously, and Qatar hasn't the greatest relations with its neighbor, Saudi Arabia, that any pipeline would have to go through and UAE.

So there's going to have to be a change in the strategic relationship there, and there's every indication Iran is helping that. Uh helping to hurt what do you mean? Bring the yeah, to bring the Gulf nations together, like Qatar as well as Saudi Arabia and the UA. They've all been attacked by Iran.

Okay, so that would help bring them together more with Saudi Arabia.

So you're telling me right now we're we're avoiding the Red Sea? Where the Saudis are avoiding the Red Sea? The commercial markets, the shippers that are there, the risk wasn't seen as worth it. And so the big shock was the first 30 to 60 days, but this is like several years older news. To try to adjust to go around the Cape of Good Hope of Africa to get to European markets and Asian markets.

Oil is an interesting thing. Only after the Iranians shut down or attacked. The Strait of Hormuz, did you start to see the Saudi East-West pipeline operate at scale? That's about 7 million barrels per day, and it dumps or ends at Yambu, which is about halfway up the Red Sea, towards the Suez Canal.

So the need. To go past the the Houthis is a lot less than it was in like the last couple of years. Understood. I thought we were using that to get about eight million barrels through there when the Strait of Hormuz was shut down, and that maybe the Saudis said we're going to buy we're just going to keep using it and take the risk. But you're saying they're back to bypassing it.

Back to bypassing using the east-west pipeline.

So, from oil fields that are in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia's, they pump it across over to Yambu. It's a port in the Red Sea. And then, European customers, most likely, are the ones that are picking up the oil there and just going on through the Suez Canal. They never go by the Babo-Mindeb Strait to the south there, where the Houthis are at.

So, what's it going to take to break this deadlock right now with the strangulations happening economically, catching up to their bank accounts around the globe? I understand it, taking back the strait gradually. But when the President said yesterday, I'm waiting for the Iranian people to rise up, you know they can't do it without guns. Uh my sense is is there anything Uh uh a a foot that in that Well, I think that the commodity that's got to be in bigger supply than we've seen in the past here in Washington, D.C., is patience. Um At the same time, having the military there in force to prevent the Iranians from doing something that's going to take that's going to upset this patient approach of allowing the pressures to build.

And also opening for the Iranians to take back their country. Because what's gonna happen by taking the ability of the regime to continue to pay and to finance and supply their military forces, specifically IRGC. And they're Paramilitary police force like the Basiege it's going to become impossible for them to maintain their authority On the Iranian people. And that provides an opportunity. And the way you'll see this at first.

You'll see municipalities and local military or IOGC leaders unwilling or unable to execute. The directions coming out of Tehran. The next thing that you might see after that is you'll start to see protests that are not suppressed. either because there's no confidence or there's no material or material people there by the regime to suppress the protest anymore. And then once that occurs, it's going to be very fast.

It'll transmit across the country very quickly. And if it does if it does happen, It'll be very quick when it does, and the Iranian people will have to make a choice of what regime they want to pick in the future. I mean, out of all the I know what you mean about patients, and the President's definitely seen the patients. Payoff as we gradually take back the straight rather than quickly, understood. And then, of course, Scott Besson seems as competent as anybody in the administration, might be the second most valuable person in the Trump administration.

But no one ever factored into this election if we slowly watched the Irani regime overthrown by its people. We haven't thought about that scenario. And that that scenario would really resonate with the American people. Yeah, I think the odds are that President Trump's going to be vindicated by the time that people are voting in November. On the one part is the oil prices, the gas price at the pump.

Every season, and again, if nothing else changed, the gas prices always go down. As kids go back to school and demand for gas goes down. The other thing is, there's quite a lot of petroleum on the market. A lot of the price swings is more speculation because it comes so quick and then it drops very quickly. But the fundamentals are: there's enough energy on the market to meet the demand.

Um but again uh if nothing else changed Normal supply and demand, prices will go down, people will be confident we're in the right direction, the pressures will likely build, hard to predict, but I think as long as they stay the course, things like we've seen last few days will probably have to happen again, more episodic attacks. As long as they keep it within bounds, I think the confidence of American people that we are in the right direction come November. Are you worried about our stockpiles, all weaponry, it's trade on the force? I've been worried about that for 15 years, so nothing's going to change that in the next couple of years. With regards to having the weapons to wage a war against Iran, You adjust your tactics, you take different risks, not necessarily greater risks, but you do change the way you fight.

And our military is doing that right now, I think, with the Iranians. But the issue with the Chinese, which I watch very closely, the types of weapons that deter the Chinese from deciding that today is the day to pick a fight with us, those are offensive weapons and the type of strike weapons that we're not using in large numbers. But also specifically, torpedoes on our submarines. These are the things that get the Chinese pause of picking a fight with the U.S. because any fight in the Pacific is going to be primarily a naval fight.

Understood. Brett Sadler, thanks so much. Truly appreciate it. Thank you. Enjoy the Labor Day holiday.

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You're listening to Brian Kilmead. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. I am proud to announce New York City's first ever comprehensive AI policy for our public schools, City Hall's answer to those questions. It is the most comprehensive of its kind anywhere in the country, and it begins with a simple principle.

Children need their teachers and human connection in order to learn and in order to grow. Right. He goes on to say this. And that is AI not until eighth grade, sixth to eighth grade, you should not have any AI. And they don't want to have AI teachers.

Now, I had a little debate on Fox and Friends, and I had one woman just say, Look, there's a lot of people who can't afford tutors. If you could hop online and get a tutor, whether it looks like a robot or not, or actually a physical robot, why wouldn't you do it? You know, for what is it, $5 a month, as opposed to what a tutor costs, $100 a session or $200 a session. I hear that argument, but for the most part, you want to learn from a human being, and we're learning to put down the laptop, put down the iPad, put down the iPhone totally. And learn.

And write it out with your hands. We're also learning, too. For the best example I heard. was You don't want to give a kid a calculator before they understand math. Once they understand math and are easy on it, and you want to get them to the next level.

You could use that to expedite some fundamentals that you know that they have. Why would you have a kid that doesn't know how to read, write, do it, barely knows the alphabet using AI? Because it stops you from thinking. It's a higher level. It's I want it curing cancer.

I don't want it doing my homework. Do you? Here's Sam Altman on that, Cut forty four. A thing that has changed hugely is how I feel about Algorithmic feeds and iPads in small children's hands and stuff like that. And when I watch kids just a little bit older than mine that you cannot take the iPad away from, watching this sort of like short, you know, watching like whatever they're watching, that I feel very strongly about.

So I don't know when I would let him talk to AI, but I'd rather be on the late end of what's reasonable there, not the early end. All right.

So you're not going to have any fight for the creators of AI.

So this is one thing I probably agree with Mayor Bomdani on. But what I like to do and maybe speak to some professors who are dealing with this in college. How do you know what anybody's doing? If they're actually doing their own work, I know that they've gone back to classrooms, blue book exams, writing it out. Because you could put a prompt, and I'm horribly the cutting edge of AI technology.

You could put a prompt and say, make this sound human. And make it sound human as possible. Make this sound like me. You've seen my, here's my writing, make this sound like me. And they can start doing your homework rapidly.

And your degree is not going to be worth the paper it's printed on. Doesn't the Brian kill me chill? The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. They pop up in places that nobody ever heard of before until they started the construction.

And so they had not been working in collaboration with the state. They had not been working in collaboration with local governments. And so they basically dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused for them. And that's why they got the backlash they deserve.

Well, because they came in without their own energy source and the water source, and maybe they didn't communicate what the data centers were and how they would provide a tax base for the entire county, the town. And that is Governor Greg Abbott talking about data centers and their remarkable unpopularity with the American people. It's at 30%. 30%. What has happened?

I mean, number one, people don't understand what data centers do. They don't understand. They could sit there on their phone and say, wow, I hate data centers. They could be a complaint about the prices. On storage and say, wow, I hate data centers.

They could sit there on their PlayStation, their game console, and complain about data centers. But without data centers, none of those things happen. Those are just a few of the examples. Daniel Turner joined us now, founder of Energy Advocacy Group, Power the Future. Daniel, this pushback against data centers is real.

It is, but it's also orchestrated. And that's what we've tried to make very prevalent at Power of the Future. And we've put out some reports and white papers, and the White House has talked about it. Members of Congress have talked about our report. And all we are saying is: look, we can have a robust conversation about data centers, but the conversation you're seeing online, the paid bots, the paid activists, this is a funded, coordinated campaign.

We can liken it to the anti-fracking campaign. Remember, not long ago, you can still find people who talk about fracking and they'll tell you how much they oppose fracking. And you say, well, what is it? Like, I don't know. Why do you oppose it?

Well, it's because every time I open Facebook, I'm told how bad fracking is, right?

So this ethos caught on in our collective psyche to say fracking is bad. And it takes people like me to say, actually, you're just being propagandized by a bunch of Chinese bots. Elon Musk's Twitter just deplatformed several thousand Chinese bots that are spitting out anti-data center. Propaganda because it's a paid campaign.

So let's talk about data centers, absolutely. But the stuff you're seeing online is part of a campaign, and maybe don't fall for it. Maybe when people understand too, the amount of water it draws is less than a golf course. Yeah. People can understand that.

No one says, well, I don't want golf here because I need the water. I mean, you might say I'd rather have condos or housing. That's a different argument.

So what is it? Do you think they were irresponsible informing people what the data centers were? Do you think they do sometimes plug into the grid and up people's utility rates? I think overall, I think the tech industry thought that they were the beloved of the left and of the media, and they own the social media airwaves.

So I think they came in maybe a little bit presumptuous. Like, yeah, we're just going to build these things, and everyone's going to say it's fine because we're us and people like us. They need to explain how these are good for communities. You mentioned the water issue. I've seen people push back and say things like, you know, they use 100,000 gallons of water a day.

And you say, what the heck does that even mean? Like, you really think that they're using, they're just absorbing all this water and where does it go at the end? Like, they just keep using it. What does that walk me through there? There's not even any logic in these arguments.

So, you know, the energy conversation, again, we have to talk about this. Are they energy intensive? Absolutely. But you know what's energy intensive? All development.

Every time a company announces they're going to move a plant back from Mexico. We celebrate it. Has anyone said, nope, we're not going to let Ford reopen that plant in Michigan because of the energy?

Well, why are data centers suddenly under the scrutiny? When you're going to build an Amazon fulfillment center and everyone says, this is great. We're going to get our Amazon packages more quickly. Where does anyone come up and say, what about the water and the energy? It's only data centers that have this line of attack again because it's orchestrated.

Yeah, I think you're 100% right. And Europe is starting to get it too now.

So hopefully people understand you can't have it both ways that you do enjoy. If you're going to complain about how much your phone rates are, your cloud storage are, I mean, it's all related. You love talking on PlayStation. You love doing Zoom calls.

Well, that's all got to be powered by something. Exactly. I've done town halls on this issue. Again, I live in rural Virginia. This affects my Commonwealth and my neighbors.

So I'm intimately involved. I've done town halls where I see someone with their phone holding it up the whole time. And I've said, oh man, you're allowed to record me. And the response was, I'm not recording. You were live streaming on Facebook.

And I point and say, data centers, right? You're the driving impetus of the data centers. I mean, no offense to any demographic. But your suburban housewife is the largest data center consumer because she posts everything on Facebook, she streams absolutely everything, she likes and shares non-stop. You have the gall to tell me you don't want data centers until you curtail your lifestyle.

You want data centers, you want them desperately. People get angry when they can't download their videos fast enough, when they're streaming something on Netflix and it buffers. Have you heard people complain about buffering? It buffer. It couldn't watch my show.

Data centers. You want the data centers. You just don't have the courage to admit it. Yeah, let's fast forward and talk about oil and gas. Right now, the market's loving the reports say it's up about 500 points.

I'd rather talk about data centers. Yeah, where's oil now? Nothing. Not good. It's not good.

Last I was on your show a couple of weeks ago, I was in New York City with you. I think we were at like 79.80. Not headed in the right direction. I know there's been skirmishes again. I know the president said we had more attacks along the shore.

This issue is not resolving itself. I trust the president. That he knows what he's doing. He has said, I'm not going to let the midterms impact my decisions. I think that's real political courage.

However, there are consequences to that, and the consequence is. Energy is expensive again, which means prices are not dropping anytime soon, which is not great. But if you look at where it's heading in terms of this the straight Here's what Rebecca Heinrichs said, who was with the Hudson Institute, just got back from the region Cut 19. As the United States and the IRGC trade blows right now in the Strait, the United States has successfully escorted 18 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz under the nose of the IRGC, which is a wartime high, so close to the 20 million we got pre-war, just before this war began.

So the United States has an incredibly strong hand here, and the regime is severely weakened.

So I think that things could come down quickly. I agree. We can resolve this once and for all until the markets are not afraid that there is going to be some sort of attack, that there is absolute reigning peace and stability in this area. The president, obviously, as commander-in-chief, has said it is safe. Markets are not exactly convinced by that, but hopefully it will resolve.

The thing about Ms. Heinrich's commentary, which is so important, is that those 18 million barrels a day are going to our allies. And they owe us, and this is, I think, the president's next step in his global energy dominance campaign. We saw what he did in Venezuela, we see what he did with the Gulf of America, right? We see what he's doing with Lake America, not Lake Ontario.

How many natural gas and oil pipelines go through there, right? This is part of a larger strategy. But the next step is to say to those countries: hey, you know how you've been getting your oil and gas?

Well, it's because of our military.

So here's what you're going to do now for us.

Now I hear you. NATO, the president's been tough on NATO, and I know he didn't give him a heads up, but that was months ago. And now it's time, I cannot believe whatever they can do, they're not doing anything. And I don't think we should ever forget it. Chris Wright was in Caracas, Venezuela, the energy secretary.

This deal, the $65 billion deal, is in place between the two countries. Here's what he said from Caracas, Cut 29. I would say the progress in Venezuela so far has been ahead of schedule. In just the eight months that we've been in close partnership, Venezuelan production has grown by 25% and Venezuelan oil exports have grown by 50%. And of course the amount of oil imported to the United States has grown massively more than that from Venezuela.

So we're already starting to see some benefits from that. The faster Venezuelan production grows, the faster it goes into U.S. refineries. We also see opportunities to grow refining capacity from existing assets right here in Venezuela.

So the progress to lower oil prices in the United States, of course it goes on every day, every week.

So he feels optimistic. This is a plan that's in place, but you're an oil and gas guy who knows the mechanics of getting that into our gas stations. Uh and in part of our economy. How close are we to doing that? It's going to take a little bit of time, right?

Venezuela has an enormous infrastructure, but it's dilapidated. And that's what happens when communists take over, right? Things fall into disrepair. But it has been eight months. And look at the numbers that the Secretary touted.

Imagine where we'll be in another eight months.

So again, a lot of progress headed in the right direction. That brings peace and stability to our hemisphere. It brings prosperity. for the people of Venezuela. It also brings a lot of jobs and economic benefit to the American economy.

So those are all really positive things. Again, this largest strategy President Trump has of global energy dominance. Yeah, so he says that it's going to be a little bit quicker than that, cut 30. The long-term benefits will be enormous, and the short-term benefits will be as great as we can. But we are ahead of schedule, ahead of plan, and I'm confident in the next 12 to 24 months, the progress here and the progress Americans will feel will be tremendous.

Of this deal is large, the ambition is large to massively grow production. and economic opportunities in Venezuela through that cooperation.

So he is he do you see speaking too optimistically for you? No, not at all. And this goes back to what people were saying in a couple of years. The Straits of Hormuz will be absolutely valueless, right? Those countries in that area are rerouting their pipelines to avoid the Straits.

Iran will be neutralized. But you know what? Maybe the Middle East will be not as relevant if we are able to develop oil and gas in our hemisphere. That includes Venezuela. It includes Guyana.

It includes Surah. Wouldn't you always back me off if I said that and say it's a global commodity? And that we love what's going on in North America, South America. It could in terms of pricing, yeah, because it's always going to be on the global commodity, but not in terms of stability, not in terms of the risk of us wondering or our allies wondering: is there enough in the pipeline? Is there enough being transported, et cetera?

And that's a pretty good sense of security of just the physical assets, yes. Wow.

So we'll see. And if you'll see that if you want to see oil at 75, but the lowest it'll ever get is 65. I would like to see it. Yeah, I mean, 65 would be ideal for our economy. Between 65 and 75 is good that we're making enough profit, but also we're able to lower prices for the nation.

But it's got to take a dive from where it is. All right.

We'll see what happens. Daniel Turner, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. All right.

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Previgin made for your brain. Did they give you a heads up that they were going to vote with Republicans on that rule? Did that? They surprised us. The two Democrats that voted to move a procedural bill forward didn't do the right thing.

Our power is in standing together. And that on a procedural vote, it is, I think, a mistake to vote against our caucus. This is about making sure that we maintain unity. Whether we're in the minority or when we're in the majority. People need to be able to feel free to vote and protect their constituents, but they also need to communicate with leadership.

We are all elected, but we have to have some unity around what we're trying to do and how we stand with each other. And I think that's the frustration you're hearing.

So, what happened is two Dems voted with Republicans in a symbolic vote condemning socialism. What the Republicans did, I don't know why they did this, they put the Uh save America Act in there. That would just elect, that gives Democrats an out, not to vote for. Why would they do that? But Hakeem Jeffries said Perez and Golden were two people that voted, two Democrats, voted to support the Republican procedure movement.

Now, five Republicans voted against it. Ship Royd, Pete Sessions, Andy Harris, Clay Higgins, and Ralph Norman. I'm sure Ralph Norman's going to vote against everything now. These got to be bitter. They lost that Senate race to Lindsey Graham's sister.

The ruling allowed debate on several GOP-backed measures, including a resolution condemning socialism and the Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act.

So that's why Golden got involved, because Golden says, that's what I do. I'm in Maine. I'm protecting Lobsterman. That's my constituents. But they're threatening them and they might sanction them.

Jared Golden's leaving.

So what do you do to him? Sandra, you're in New Jersey. Thanks so much, Andrew. What's on your mind? Oh, I have two things on my mind, Brian.

One, I wonder about the trend that I think is starting to happen, how we kill someone because we don't like the company he represents, like with Luigi. And then now this Palestinian woman doesn't like the woman who worked for Bank of America, so she becomes demonized. Is this going to be a new trend that we see happening with these sick people? I hope not. And that's just it.

Look, I feel bad for this woman. Obviously, she's got no history of murder, but if you read the account of how she killed those three kids of hers, you just see it's horrific. uh what she did, how she did it, chasing them down, one lived an extra day. how she told her husband to go for an errand and then went ahead and pulled it off. Then she said she committed suicide, but she's a nurse who evidently did it wrong, would know better.

Went up instead of across, or vice versa. I don't know how to commit suicide, thankfully. And then jumped out of a window where she's paralyzed at the second floor.

So people see a paralyzed woman there who said she was getting through that postpartum syndrome. How could you not have sympathy? I do have sympathy. But I think it's also for you to get a complete picture of what those kids went through, and no one can hear from them, obviously. Ben in Texas.

Hey, Ben. Yeah, hey Brian, hey listen, thanks for having me on. Listen, Brian, I'm just trying to understand who the Houthis really are. To me, they're a bunch of thugs, 2015, maybe 20,000 strong. Don't know the exact number, but Brian, they have no Navy, no Air Force.

I know we just form a coalition, going in, and wipe them out. Go in there a month's time, just wipe them out and get rid of them. Just stop this mess, allowing a bunch of thugs to control some of the shipping that's going on. I thought we were going through that straight. They feel differently.

My last guest feels differently, Captain Sadler.

So I have to look into that. But I know what you're saying. And that's also a little bit less about us and more about Saudi Arabia and the Houthis. And remember, they bombed and isolated the Houthis in 60 minutes, and everybody's saying how bad the Saudis were, so they kind of backed off.

Now the Houthis survived. We pounded them as soon as we took office because Joe Biden didn't, just gave up the Red Sea.

So the President this President pounded them. They were quiet. And now the Iranians per provide them some supplies.

So they're not creating havoc, just disruption. Wally in St. Pete Beach. Hey, Wally. Brian, I understand James Tellerico is blaming his fellow Democrats like a Robert Berg and KKK crossburning for climate change and global warming.

I know what you're talking about. Here it is. Cut three. And also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country. And I think only Ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them?

Yeah, they always do on reparations. That's part of the platform. Yeah, the white supremacy and climate change, you know they link. Of course. Yeah, it's such a joke.

I mean, what are they doing in Texas? How is this guy winning?

Well, that one is confusing. And just the Democrat Party in general, if there's going to be reparations, it has to be from the Democrat Party. They're the ones who desegregation. They're the ones who fought for to keep slavery alive.

Well, with the threatening to break up the union, people forget that. If you want to go out, if you want reparations, That go after their properties if if so that you can have their socialism go after Democrat You know, party members' properties and use it for segregation reparations. The L-Said is running on it. While you're not talking in theory, they are actually running on it. California did a study on it.

Yeah, they study it and say, well, this is not possible. New York studied it. Believe me, they're not doing a thing about it. And they shouldn't. You're talking about 1865, right?

You're talking now, I think it's 2026, last time I checked.