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Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. Brian Kilmecho coming your way this hour. Lieutenant Colonel Alan Wes and Granger Smith, author of the new book, Poison in the Well, the follow-up to his New York Times best-selling book, Like a River.

So that'll be great.

Meanwhile, special note: we got to go to the YouTube. Go to youtube.com/slash at the Brian Killmeat Show. It is the YouTube channel we finally got, and everyone's talking about it.

So I hope to see everyone there. Today is going to be exciting. There's a primary. There's a primary in New Hampshire. It's going to be impactful, all part of our big three.

So let's go. Number three. We're putting maximum economic pressure on Iran and isolating them. At the same time that we're doing that, they are trying to wage economic terrorism. That is Chris Wright, turning the screws.

U.S. making major headway completely shutting down Iran exports, including stopping their money flow and taking back the straight gradually.

Now, back to going after their new program. Why they have to finish the job before this election and flip the midterm script. Number two, Canada is a great trading partner for New Hampshire. I don't think it does us any good to have a fight with them, a trade war with them. This is something that should be handled at the negotiating table.

And it might be still, but last night, 12:01, Canada slaps U.S. with tariffs as the trade war heats up and Trump is poised to slap back. Got confirmation, it'll happen today. Why both sides will do well to talk it out rather than tariff it out? Number one.

I don't even know if Hassan Piker considers himself a Democrat. I think all of that is an irrelevant distraction. Obviously, nobody supports Hamas, a terrorist organization, which brutally attacked Israel on October the 7th. Not true, Jamie Razkin, on Meet the Press, 57 days until the midterms, and both parties know that time is running out. As New Hampshire has a key primary, as I mentioned, and RNC gets set for a Dallas two-day convention starting tomorrow, we go over the issues, the polls, and the major players descending of this make-or-break November elections.

Now, meanwhile, let's talk about today, the Democratic primary. Chris Pappas, the establishment-backed four-term congressman, everyone thought he was going to have an easy time of it, and he might be in the end. But people are struck that the socialist candidate Karishma Manzour, a socialist and proud to be, is running against what she calls corporate Democrats, criticizing party leadership, HG. Chuck Schumer and now thinks she's got a legitimate shot. And she went from 45 points down to nine.

Who knows what the final tally will be?

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Senator John Sununu against. Former Senator John Sununu against Scott Brown. Both are attempting political comebacks. Sununu is the prohibitive favorite and has got the endorsement of one Donald Trump.

So that's going to be a big help. Sununu can actually win in the general. I wish Scott Brown could win. It seems as though Sununu's running much stronger, and that's where he'll be. But when it comes to New Hampshire, this Karishma Manzoor coming out of nowhere is noteworthy.

Cut 10. Vote your conscience. You'll be told by the corporate Democrats to vote out of fear. Do not vote out of fear. We've seen what happens.

They don't offer us any solutions. We're done with those problems. We need bold leadership. Really?

Okay, boldly leadership. A lot of generic comments about that. But what does she stand for?

Well, not for the establishment, Cut Fourteen. He has to go back to 2024 and resign after that abysmal loss to Donald Trump for the second time. I blame both the Republicans but also the corporate Democrats for losing to Donald Trump and leaving us in this nightmare where the Allies are suffering, the veterans are suffering, the U.S.

soldiers, service members are suffering, families are suffering. And yet the corporate Democrats have learned nothing. They're trying to rig this primary. They're putting their fingers on the scale in this primary. What have they learned after this abysmal loss to Donald Trump twice?

Chuck Schumer is a corporate politician. There is no saving his soul. He has to go. By the way, kind of a big statement. No saving his soul?

I mean, this is your party leader. You might have a different vote. But saving his soul? What's with this woman? I have no idea who she is.

Right now, Pappas on the Real Clear Average has 1.5% lead. Over. It's Johnson in there. I have to think that Manzur is a better opponent against Sununu for Sununu. But not better in the general.

We'll see. If anyone can flip it and keep it alive, you gotta think it's him and the other seat they could flip. is Michigan. But right now, Al Said seems to have a one point lead, which is stunning to me. Over in Texas, it's going to be interesting because Ken Paxson is now down about three in the latest polls.

And he is somebody that finally got a million dollars from Ted Cruz to go spend, and then $10 million from the president to go spend. I think he's going to need more. Carl Roe says he needs $100 million more.

So now he's got the president appearing last Friday for him. He's got $10 million to spend, and he's got digital and TV ads that are going to begin to roll out. And Tallerico is. Of good speaker But not a great thinker. If you ask me, he does not have the masculinity, he does not have the Texas wherewithal.

I mean, whatever say about Beter O'Rourke and the past run the the past candidates who run against Ted Cruz, they were solid candidates. Tellerico is a good speaker, but it's what he says is the problem, and how he wants to delete everything he tweeted and eliminate everything he said in the past, which should be the issue. Senator John Kennedy, who had one of the most unique appearances on a Sunday show in quite some time, I could not get enough of it. But this is what he said about the Texas race. 'Cause he's worried.

Cut 16. Those experts, if you listen to them, they'll all say Texas should be a fat guy layup for the Republicans. And I guess if you look back. 25, 50 years, that may be true, but every election is different, and boy, this election certainly is going to be different. And there's no sense bubble-wrapping.

The election is close. The attorney general was being outspent. A couple of weeks ago, I asked President Trump to. To ride in and help us with his $800 million, and he did. He put down $10 million yesterday, and I.

I believe more is coming, but it will be a close race.

So is right now Tellerico 51, Paxson 48. Winnable, absolutely. But that was July. I mean, we've got August. They've gotten primarily.

Tao Rico was against Crockett, didn't have much of a fight. Ken Paxton was a flat out brawl. I was just talking to Ten Cruz today before he did his interview with Lawrence Jones on Fox and Friends, and I asked him what was the impact of the President's endorsement. He said that Corner was going to lose anyway.

So I thought that was interesting. He said Kerno is going to lose. He ends up losing. He was down by nine or eighteen between nine and eighteen. He ends up losing by twenty eight when Trump weighed in.

I'm not sure why he be do so well in the general and do so poorly in the primary. But that's what they say. Let's talk about the trade deal. twelve oh one, Canada handed down. Uh their idea of a punishment to us For walking away from a trade deal that they walked away from.

They had 50% American tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian exports. They were going to reduce or eliminate tariffs up to 50% on Canadian steel, aluminum, and automobiles.

Now, Canada's retaliatory tariffs are now in effect. Canada imposed tariffs on 15 to 50 percent on roughly 20 billion of U.S. goods. On September 8th, that's today. Courney declared that Canada has been attacked by the United States and the two countries are now at war.

Really?

Shouldn't you have an army first before you lose language like that? Corney's full quote: Yesterday, when the Americans stopped doing memes, President last night, yesterday was putting memes and showing the U.S. flag over Canada and Mexico. I don't know why. But when the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade and stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions.

It's not constructive, but then that's their democracy.

Now, I talked to. A high-ranking Trump official intimately involved in these trade negotiations, and essentially, this is it. We will have a response, he says, today. And UX actions will be harsh and quick. It's just business for us.

This is not a war for us. No way this affects our inflation or prices. $20 billion is only 0.06% of overall U.S. consumption. Reporting that this is going to affect us, our cost of living in the midterms is Canadian and Democratic talking points.

They have reached out informally, and both sides have talked about next steps after today's actions, what kind of deal might be possible. I sense That they're going to get a deal. And I think this is going to happen. In the short term, obviously, Kearney looks tough. And they go, Canadians are rallying around the flag.

And after a while, they'll say, What are we doing again? What deal did we walk away from again? Is it true we initiated talks with the United States? Is it true we walked away? Yes.

And yes. About sixty eight percent of Canadian exports go to the United States.

So Canada is more exposed economically, but the U.S. also depends heavily on Canadian commodities, including oil and fertilizer. Uh here is the thing, the confrontation strengthens Kearney in the short term. They'll rally behind him. But economists warn support will weaken if tariffs produce prolonged price increases.

And job losses. Keep in mind. You talk about the strength of the economy. Our unemployment is 4.1%. We added 162,000 jobs.

Our growth is solid. What we have is inflation. We're looking to get down. That doesn't affect. Inflation.

So, when we come back, I'm going to be joined by Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. I'm going to talk about Iran, talk about what we're doing, and why this could really, I could see a couple of things happening real quick. If you land the Canadian deal and the terms looked as good as they did last time before they broke off, and then you find a way to break the Iranian war. This has a way of changing the dynamics entirely. I think both are extremely possible.

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Yeah. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmead. I'm very optimistic about what's going on. They came in all last week.

I think there's going to be more coming. The president came in strong. I think the Senate Leadership Fund's going to be strong. I feel very supported. And I think we're uniting in Texas to make sure that we don't have this left-wing, woke Democrat socialist, which we've never had in Texas.

He's the most radical Democrat that's ever run in Texas. And I think people are realizing we need to stop this. That is true. He is radical, and that's Ken Paxton weighing in. Let's see how hard he's got to work.

Now he's got at least $11 million from the President. According to Karl Rove, he needs $100 million. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joined us now, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director. Colonel, your thoughts about Ken Paxton at this point trailing on one poll by three points the late. With your thoughts.

Yeah, I think the most important thing, and it's good to be with you, Brian. Hopefully, you had a great Labor Day weekend. You got to get out on the ground now. And it is not just getting out on the ground in places that you're comfortable with, being East Texas, West Texas. I think it's important to get into these major urban population centers and make the comparison.

When you talk about safety and security, that's a great comparative point. When you talk about educational opportunities, that's another great point that you can look at. And the key thing is here: don't let Mr. Tallarico, State Representative Tallarico, believe that he can just run with impunity in places like Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston. You have to start thinking about the battlefield calculus of what you need to win in those areas.

And you combine that with West Texas, East Texas. You got to go down to South Texas and once again remind them of what the border was like when you had the open borders, which, of course, again, Mr. Tallarico supports.

So I think that's the most important thing is. To take that message on the road, and you've got to get out there and pound the pavement. And it's still hot down here in Texas, so you've got to do a little sweating.

Well, yeah, I mean, if work ethic's an issue, it's, you know, he's had success. But you just got to pound it. I don't care what kind of speaker you are. You just got to meet people and take some heat. But most he knows Texas and they know him.

Emerson, the poll on the tenth, has him up one, which is surprising because they lean left. University of Texas poll on august thirteenth, that's almost a month ago, had Tallarico up three. Uh and the latest poll would be late August. Uh and that would be a flat out tie with the TPPF poll. I'm not sure how many of these polls we subscribe to, but in other words, it's in play.

And the thing is, you have a candidate that's not trying to be moderate. I mean, this is a very California-like senator. Yeah, and when you think about the money that Mr. Tallarico is bringing in, it's mostly from out of the state, I think 70 to 75 million.

So the people that on the left are talking about Donald Trump giving 10 million, that's a drop in the ocean when you think about what he's getting, Tallarico is getting from out of the state. And that's one of the key points I think we should bring up is that do we really want California and New York selecting the next senator for the state of Texas? And we already know that Representative Tallarico voted against banning China from coming in and buying up land here in the state of Texas.

So now China could possibly have someone that they could influence and would cast his vote to support the Communist Chinese Party.

So all of these things have to be brought out. And again, it's so important that you have that work ethic, that you get out there and you pound that pavement. And we'll see what happens in the next couple of days here with the midterm. Rally that's going to be taking place here in Dallas. All right, so let's talk about what's happening in Iran.

You know, the President of the United States is now combining with Europe to demand weapons inspectors, excuse me, nuclear inspectors get back in there, which is good. Also, our total shutdown of oil, Navkin down, they have 30 million barrels of oil left, which is nothing for them.

So that's a week's away from a total collapse. And we're seeing some gains in hitting them hard every time they try to reopen the straight. We have choreographed our own pathway through there, and I think we're starting to make some real gains if slowly but surely. How do you see it? Yeah, you know, the only thing, and you and I, again, have had this conversation, you talk about an economic D-Day.

All of these things should have been done in concert together from the strategic level when we started this operation back on the 28th of February. But I do see us putting more economic pressure diplomatically, isolating Iran, and that's going to put a hurt on China as well. And maybe China will be the ones to say, hey, you know, you guys need to take a different path because this is affecting us and our energy security as well. But without a doubt, I think the most important thing is the American people need to see some type of results that the pump is. Before the midterms.

Absolutely. Before the midterms. That's why I think there's two scenarios that could change things. One scenario is that Iran actually throws out their own government. And we see some major gains or acquiesces entirely, opens up the straight.

They know that the tolls will never work.

Soon, they'll sober up to that. The other the other thing that could actually change things uh for the president That would be the oil prices that will result in going back down. But listen with China. China buyers are now turning to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and UAE for crude oil. The Gulf Energy officials said in some cases Iranian oil now costs refiners more than competing supplies due to relative scarcity.

They said Iraq has offered discounts of nearly $30 a barrel on some grades to get more customers. Spread crew down to 97.

So they're not they're China's going for different customers and they snubbed the Iranian president at the Shanghai conference.

So China's kind of getting the message. Yeah, and I think that's an important point of this because China is really the puppet master when you look at Russia and also Iran, and they're being economically affected as well. And I think now is where you put the diplomatic pressure on Iran as well as Saudi Arabia to say, hey, look, don't get into the camp of China. And the UAE already pulling out of OPEC. I think that they're leaning more so toward us and our policies as well.

All right. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West weighing in from Texas. Ranger Smith next.

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Granger, welcome back. Appreciate seeing you. Hey, thank you, Brian. Good to see you too.

So, did you put a pause on music to write some novels? You know, I think that the pause is extended, maybe indefinitely. Writing books on this topic is something I'm very passionate about because I think it matters. And I ran into an understanding of touring and music that I was entertaining people, and perhaps caring more about their souls would be more important to me. And what turned you on to that?

You know, it's interesting. I was just watching the program this morning with you, and right before I came on, there was an advertisement for Fox News Health talking about anxiety. And I thought, that is a perfect segue into this because we, as Americans, could start to feel this anxiety. And those that identify as Christian could be crippled by this anxiety and yet thinking, aren't I supposed to have faith? Aren't I supposed to trust in something greater than me?

And there can be ways to diagnose a sick faith. And I know that because this is the life I lived for many years.

So this new book, Poison in the Well, addresses these different toxins that could sicken our faith. In what way? Tell me about the book. Yeah, so there are ways the Bible says of itself, test yourself to see whether or not you're in the faith. And so there are check engine lights that you could be doing or not doing in your life that would reveal that you either have a cultural faith that's kind of aligned with what we think Christianity is, or an assumed faith that maybe you got from your parents.

But one thing, you know, an easy one would be this. If you have no relationship with a Bible. And this was me for most of my life. Would you not if the Bible says of itself that man cannot live on bread alone but from every word that comes from the mouth of God, then if we have no relationship with it, then essentially we're spiritually starving. And that would be a sign if we didn't want that kind of bread, if we weren't hungry for that, then maybe something's wrong under the hood.

And that's what the premise of the whole thing is. Yeah, 11 of these toxins that could reveal either a sick faith or maybe a non-existent faith. And all of them coming from my own story of what I've noticed about myself in my past life.

So do you think that do you think that you were you needed this in your life and you couldn't believe how much you needed it and then that's why you wanted to share it? I think what you just said probably understates it. Yeah. I was in a great danger, eternally, I was in a great danger of assuming a cultural, nominal Christianity when I didn't have the living water of Jesus, knowing he died on the cross for my sins to forgive me, which is humanity's greatest need, is to be reconciled to a holy God. I didn't have that.

I just thought I did. And had that change you?

Well, I left music. I left everything to be able to travel the world. And I'm actually a pastor now in central Texas. And so to give this message has now become my life's mission. And in writing this book, you plan to try to get that across in your story.

Yeah, I try to use my story so that it's so that I'm not preaching at people saying you shouldn't do this or you should do this. It's more so, hey, brother, I hear that something that you're doing that I used to do that was actually harmful to me. I wish I could help you understand this the way I did. And you talk about the 11 toxins. Here's one of them: I'm a good person, so I'll be fine.

Yeah. It's the root of all corrupt religion is that you could do it. You could climb the mountain and meet God. Just try harder and God will accept you. And Christianity is the opposite.

God came to man where he was and in the form of Jesus to forgive him on the cross. That is earning a salvation is detrimental to a faith trying to earn that. Another one, number four, says, I don't need to go to church to be close to God. You hear that a lot? Yeah, it it would be it would be the same as a a sheep outside of a flock living on the side of a mountain that's exposed to wolves, exposed to a great danger.

So the New Testament never assumes a lone ranger Christian out by itself. It's always abiding in a flock. And you said, this is an interesting one. You said, the best part of heaven is getting my loved ones back.

Now that's that's a toxin? Yeah. What it represents, what it means is it's exposing a small view of God. If someone says, I can't wait to get to heaven to be with Grandpa so we can go fish in the lake in heaven, he's going to show me around. Of course, that's a beautiful thought.

And there's essentially nothing wrong with it. But if that's the way we think of heaven, it's exposing in us the way we see the great giver of the gifts, the maker of Grandpa, the maker of sunsets and mountains and human eyeballs. The intelligent mind behind all of these things would be in our presence. And it's very hard for humans to think of this way, but that's a toxin to think that grandpa is the reason I want to go to heaven. And how do you think of it?

To be in the presence of the Creator.

So think of everything that's. Beautiful and complex and intricate, and every color in the spectrum, and everything you've ever seen from every artist, or music, or the galaxies as we look into the sky, the mind behind that. The mind behind all of that. The giver of all of these gifts would be dwelling with us. Revelation 21 says he would be with us.

And I believe we would be so enamored. By this being, that there isn't much time to think of anything else.

So, why do you think Granger, you couldn't be a musician and a pastor? Yeah, that's a great question. I th the I think the root behind that is as long as I was out performing and putting out music and standing in these arenas and needing attention, it was harmful to me Because man cannot be worshipped. We're not made to be worshipped. And so it puts me in a danger of being in these kind of settings, needing that attention.

And look no further than any of the superstars that have ever lived on this earth. It usually doesn't end well for them. And so I recognized that I was. Needing I was needing this fulfillment through applause and it becomes dangerous. The one exception, well there's probably more than one, but the one that stands out is Dolly Porton.

She seems to have had it all. Right? I think there are exceptions, and I think that's a good example. It doesn't seem like it got to her. Yeah, it did.

It doesn't seem like it got to her. What's another one you said there might be more? Can you think of another one? More than Dolly Parton, you mean as a as a great person? Um Pat Boone.

Okay. I think it would be the list of shit. I'm saying that Pat Boone's another guy that seems to have pretty balance with the whole thing, and he was a guy that had tremendous. when he was younger, had a lot more celebrity than he does now, but he's still got it. I agree.

I agree. I wouldn't put myself on that list. I don't think I'm strong enough to be on the list with Dolly Pardon. All right. Well, pick up your book.

Congratulations. It's out. It's called Poison in the Well: 11 Toxic Beliefs That Kept Me from Living Water of Jesus. Thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate it, Granger.

Brian, good to see you, man. Thank you. Talk to you soon. All right, 1-866-408-7669. When we come back, we'll be able to take your calls, also get your emails, briankillme.com, and I'll go over some of them because we have a lot of time, we have our special weekend shows.

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. It absolutely felt like winning the lottery. The whole town is going to profit from this. Lucerne County is experiencing a data center called Rush.

For residents in this rural community of Salem Township, Pennsylvania, the AI boom has delivered a staggering payday. This year, nearly 100 families sold over 1,700 acres total to a data center developer for $586 million, with families getting anywhere from a million to over $35 million. A lot of folks felt stuck here. Michael Hanson bought his first home here in Salem Township in 2019. This year, he sold the 14-acre property for nearly 60 times what he paid, making millions.

Now, the 38-year-old construction worker is retired. Prior to this deal occurring, I genuinely thought I was going to be that guy that died on a job site someday. It's easy to look from the outside looking in and say, oh, these guys are sellouts. But I mean, who wouldn't jump at the opportunity to create generational wealth? And they're just talking about different ideas, what's going on with data centers.

And right now, we've seen the stats: 30% of the public. 30% of the public approve of data centers. 70% don't. We also know more Republicans approve than Democrats. But bottom line is, they're being built like crazy.

I guess data center alleys considered Northern Virginia, Loudoun County area. The amount of tax dollars that flow into their area is off the charts. I think that Senator Kennedy brought up a great point. And he just said basically, everybody needs data centers, they affect everybody, but their PR is absolutely terrible, and their communication is absolutely awful about the benefits that they have. And also, they got to find a way not to use as much water, clearly, and they have to find a way to look less horrendous.

Because they're eyesores for the most part.

So here is. You know, I don't know if you were able to, Eric, were you able to find Senator Kennedy on data centers? Talk about that? Yeah. He came out and basically said they are geniuses, but they're marketing dummies.

And he said that right now people look at it as only a problem. They take up the wrong land, they take up too much farmland, and they don't go out of their way to look ecstatically pleasing. I think it is totally backwards that we are now fighting against him. Instead of fixing him to make sure they're done with the community in mind, they just want to ban them and every cowardly Politicians is not standing up and explaining it. And then finding out if they're building it correctly, environmentally correctly, and friendly.

And then realize if we don't do this, somebody else will, and those tax dollars will flow elsewhere. And for two and a half years, there'll be a ton of jobs. Even when those jobs end, some will remain, but they'll continue to be paying taxes on the land that they have. That is why it's important. The other thing we have going on right now is that started at 1201, is kind of a, I hope, short-term trade war with Canada.

Here's Dave Ignatius. on the impact this trade war could have. He's with the Washington Post, COVID twenty three. To Trump and now to Besund, it seems like a kind of trash-talking sport. And I think one thing that may change that is voters in the border states, in Minnesota, in Maine, who have a deep affinity for Canada, beginning to say, hey, wait a minute, we're not comfortable with this.

We'll see. But they are they should be comfortable with for example, dairy farmers are never comfortable with what's going on. A lot of people in the car industry were not happy when those manufacturers went north and even more went south. Cut twenty two. What struck me as I've talked to people in the last few weeks is that this is now beginning to spill over into areas that really matter.

For example, the so-called Five Eyes partnership that includes Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, maybe the most successful intelligence partnership in modern history, is beginning to fray a little bit. I don't want to say that it's coming apart, but I hear that questions are being asked by our partners. Do we really trust the United States with our secrets? You know, at a time when we get blasted, when the President posts maps showing our country covered by an American flag, do we really trust this other country? Intelligence is about trust, most fundamentally, with our secrets.

Well, put it this way, if you want to not trust us, Then put more than 1.4% of your small GDP into military.

So the President is frustrated. That's the way he does it. He works hard, much like business. He's going to pound you hard until he gets the deal he wants. And when you walk away from a deal that you asked have to have these talks, and then you walk away and then blame us and then say we have a war, I'm pretty sure you're going to get a few maps showing the United States flag over Canada.

I actually don't think it was helpful over the weekend for him to do that, but that's what the President does.

So we'll see if it results in a deal. 20 other trade deals have been done by the President of the United States. I think it's pretty significant.

So Debbie Dingell sees an opportunity in Michigan to maybe capitalize on this, cut 20. Then we have what he's doing to Canada, who isn't just, they're right there. You can see them, they're our neighbor. But our economies are deeply integrated. Michigan workers build things with parts and materials that go back and forth over the border every single day.

We sold 660,000 vehicles last year. We have 500,000 jobs in this country just related to parts in the auto industry. 1.2 million jobs related to the auto industry. Doubling down on this trade war with Canada is raising costs, it's disrupting supply chains, but most importantly, it's threatening jobs.

Well, maybe Canada should be open to rebalancing trade and make it more balanced. Very simple. They were offered the best deal possible to the point where people were upsell Lutnik and Navarro, who I have no patience for, Peter Navarro is a joke. But those guys were both looking at the deal that Jameson Greer was giving them and thought, well, you know, this is a way too way too kind, but just do it, get this done, and we'll put it behind us before the election. And work on USMCA too.

Well, the US is making great progress with Mexico. Canada was at the point where the U.S. made an announcement, where President Trump made an announcement, looks like we're going to be done. And then all of a sudden they walked away. Keep in mind, there's also concern of what might happen next.

Donald Trump has now, we have learned from the Trump administration, they're going to hit them with another round of American tariffs. We postponed them until 2027, but after today, after them go into effect today on $20 billion worth of goods, expect the U.S. to answer. Also, Trump is threatening Bombardier. Trump has threatened to block Canadian aircraft maker, that Canadian aircraft maker in selling planes in the U.

S. while arguing that the company should manufacture in America. Bombardier says it already has significant U. S. footprint and relies on thousands of American suppliers.

Trump is signaling further escalation. His administration has floated additional tariffs, particularly on autos. While Trump has continued to use other social media posts to say the worst is yet to come, about 68% of Canadian exports go to the United States, so they're looking to make a dent. Out of everything that they sell, I think fertilizer will hurt us the most because of the Strait of Hermuz and how much has been stopped there of late. Conversation so far strengthened Kearney domestically, rallied Canadians, I understand that, gave them that sense of pride that they missed, especially when they lost in the Olympics.

But the economists warned that support will weaken if tariffs produce prolonged price increases or job losses. I have news for you. It's going to. Many of the American items will soon face Canadian tariffs. 15 to 25, or 50% mirror the Canadian exports that now face 50% American tariffs.

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Hi everyone from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is the Brian Kill Me Chow. Hope you had a fantastic holiday. We'll do a simulcast on FBN with Stuart Varney shortly. We'll talk about 9-11, four days away, marking 25 years into the horrendous attack.

We'll also be taking your calls. It's my privilege to bring in Utah Governor Spencer Cox, author of a brand new book called Off-Ramp, How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt. The library would like to know that. A lot of people haven't tried. You have tried on a regular basis.

That's pretty much the label on you. You try to make things happen.

Well, thank you, Brian. It's great to be with you, man. This is fun. It's great to be in the studio with you. Look, I don't get it right all the time.

And politics is built that way. Like, every incentive is lined up right now not to try to work together, not to try to solve problems. But I really believe that Americans right now want people to get stuff done. That's what they care about. They're frustrated.

We see this going back and forth. Right, they're tired of one party, so they try the other party, and we're not getting stuff done. We're not working together.

Now, I want to be very clear: working together does not mean that you have to compromise your principles. I think we should disagree, I think we should debate strongly, but we definitely shouldn't shoot each other. And that's one of the things that worries me is the rise in political violence. Because this is almost a full year since Charlie Cook's assassination, and it happened in Utah with you as governor. How did you get word of it?

So, you know, we were a normal day. This is in your book. Yeah, he was coming out. I knew he was coming. He was actually coming out twice.

He was speaking at UVU that day, and then the next week he was speaking at Utah State University, which is my alma mater.

So, I was kind of focused on that one because I knew he was speaking there. And so, I had forgotten he was at UVU that day. Normal day, I'm having lunch with my staff when my assistant comes in, and she had a look on her face that I'd never seen before. And governors, we know bad things are going to happen, it's just a matter of time. I didn't know what this one was.

I walked out. I was told that Charlie Kirk had been shot. I was actually told that two people had been shot. You get bad information so early. And my first thought was, you know, this can't be true, not here.

This can't be real. I'm sure it's bad information. And immediately that video started going viral. And then, of course, that's when you knew. You said within 30 seconds, you got a call from the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who's a friend of yours.

That's correct, yes. 30 seconds. You're thinking to yourself, how did he know? Yeah, yeah. Again, word spread so quickly.

This was all being live streamed.

So people were literally watching it when it happened. He's at the White House at this time. The president says, hey, call the governor. A president called me a little bit later, but it was Secretary Rubio. And it's not just, hey, you've had this awful tragedy, the highest profile assassination in 50 years in your state.

But He's a close personal friend of these guys, right?

So it's so much more than that. And now you're trying to get the right information, and there's a whole bunch of information coming in, but you don't know what's true, what's not true, what's going on. But you thought he was going to survive for a while. You were getting some positive reports that he would be able to survive. They certainly got medical attention quick.

The very first report was that he was in stable condition.

Now, my first question was: all right, where did we get that report? And I realized it was like fourthhand. And so immediately we sent one of our people over to the hospital so we could get direct information. And that very first conversation, we realized it was not good. Wow.

And then the investigation started. What was your role in securing the scene?

So we, again, I have a role in securing the scene, but we immediately sent our team down there. The FBI was on their way. We knew that they would be there.

So we had local law enforcement who was on scene, the local sheriff, immediately secure the scene. And they start, you know, they're taking statements, they've got witnesses. There, who saw what, who heard what. We're reviewing video very quickly because there's a lot of cameras all over campus, and we knew we would be able to pick something up. We knew where that was.

People were pointing towards where they thought the shot came from, which was high and kind of behind. And so, we had our lead investigators on the scene, and Cash Patel flew in that next day.

So, the FBI was on the scene very quickly. And it was like a military zone. I mean, everything was locked down. We had everybody, all of our law enforcement, racing to the scene to try to catch the perpetrator and make sure that this didn't happen again. And then the video would come into play, and you'd get the guy, and ultimately, his parents would turn him in.

Yeah, yeah. They recognize his mom is watching the news. We do this press conference that night, and she sees this video, and she's like, wow, that looks like my son.

So they bring him in, they confront him, and then. Then they get his phone and he has all of these messages with his friends and others saying that it was him. You surprised a year later, Tyler Robinson is on trial, and it took a year to decide if we should go ahead with the trial? Yeah, look, the justice system all across this country takes way too long. It's something we're working on fixing in Utah.

We need more judges. That's one of the things that we're doing so that we can move through these quickly, get through the backlog faster. Look, you have a right to a speedy trial. You don't have a right to a slow trial. And I think that's really important.

We take way too long on these things. But the good news is they're making sure that they're doing it the right way. We don't want this guy to get off. Like in most states, there's a draw that comes with every case. And this happens to be a brand new judge, somebody I appointed just a few months ago.

Can you imagine that this is your first case? Are you happy with the way he's moving things? Because a lot of people think she's been too accommodating towards defense. Yeah, look, again, I want the right outcome. I want justice, right?

And we have a presumption of innocence in this. But I would rather have it go slow and not get overturned on appeal. And if he is giving a little leniency on the other side, that's so it doesn't get appealed.

So there's no question when this is done. And Governor Cox, the worrying thing is, just as a non-lawyer, I very rarely see a case. which has so much evidence towards the accused. I mean, this is overwhelming, including his parents bringing him in. It's the kind of most open and shut case you could possibly.

But the podcast world is having a field day saying he was not the guy. Look, you can make. Oh, sure. You can make a lot of money in this country by making stuff up. And it's far more interesting than the truth.

This guy did it. He admitted to it. We have video evidence. His parents saw the video evidence. The gun has been in their family for years.

I mean, all of it is there. We have the fingerprints. We have the tools he used to write on the casings. Again, it's just he did it. He admitted to it.

And we caught him. All right. So in retrospect, who should have secured that scene? Who should have secured the roof? Yeah.

So there is an ongoing, well, it's close to wrapping up.

So really important. We had third parties come in to say, okay, who did what right? Who did what wrong? What can we learn from this? That's all going to come out in the next few weeks, the next few months.

And so I'm not going to bias that investigation. Again, I know. The local teams work very closely with his security teams. And I mean, look, the president almost got shot off of a roof. And that was with the greatest security team in the world, right?

I mean, he's got more security agents than anywhere. And I hate that this happened, and we have to make sure it doesn't happen again. But I'm not going to point any fingers until the investigations happen. You really distinguished yourselves during that time by speaking eloquently, concisely, and from the heart. At that moment, what did you feel like your responsibility was at that time?

Well, look, we were already starting to hear the rhetoric.

Now, I want to be clear. Most of America was absolutely incredible during this time. I had Democrats from all over the country who were calling and offering their condolences, their sympathies to Erica and the family. They were very clear that this is not okay. But then you would open social media and there were people celebrating, right?

Not just saying. They still are. Are. Absolutely still are. And that made me angry.

It made me sick to my stomach. And there were calls for retribution and civil war and all of this stuff. And I was just worried that this could spiral into something else.

So, look, I don't take any credit for this. Erica did more to lower the temperature than anybody else out there. I mean, there was this moment I was there at Charlie's memorial service where she stood up and actually forgave the guy who killed her. Yeah, I could never husband. And neither could President Trump.

He said that, right? I could never do that. But I think that did more to lower the temperature. But what I tried to do is I tried to channel what Utah's were feeling and saying at that point. We could not believe it happened in our state.

And you'll notice, like, in Utah, There were no riots. Nobody turned over cars. Nobody attacked police officers. It was just calm, and there were vigils held and people serving and trying to make the country a better place. And that's what we do.

That's the answer to prevent political violence is, again, we argue passionately, but we treat each other with dignity and respect. And I hope that's an example to everyone.

So Spencer Cox is our guest, the governor of Utah. He's got a brand new book out called Off-Ram, How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt. It's really and polarization. When we come back, some of the things you think we could work on that you have positioned yourself as somebody who's conservative but likes to get things done. Wants to get things done, what we can learn from the way you approach things, and will that come back in vogue?

I do think that'll come back. There'll be a sense of doing deals, trying to get the best deal possible, but trying to get something done because people are extremely frustrated. We'll see. A lot of people think I'm crazy for thinking that. You don't.

And I want to hear what you have to say on that. Governor Spencer Cox in a moment. From breaking news to big name guests, Brian brings you insight you won't hear anywhere else. You're listening to the Brian Kill Meat Show. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. All right, Governor Spencer Cox is here. His book, Off-Ramp, How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt. He joins us now because he's known as somebody that can get along with both Democrats and Republicans. Spencer, how do you do it?

What is your approach? When you get into politics, right away they say: if you want to win over your party, show your conservative credentials, show you willing to go to bat, raise the most money. If you're reaching across the aisle, a lot of times people go, we don't know if we can trust this guy. Sure. Yeah.

And look, I get some of that. I do some of that sometimes as well. I understand the pushback, but I think there's two things that are really important. One is you can burnish your credentials and be very conservative and stick to your principles. And you can get stuff done.

And that's what we've been able to prove in Utah. Look, I like to say it's easy. We have a supermajority, right? We never have to listen to a Democrat. We never have to pass a bill by a Democrat.

And yet, the Democrats pass many bills every year with significant bipartisan. Partisan majorities, sometimes unanimous majorities, because we want to represent everyone and we want to work together and we want to solve stuff. Give me an example of something that passed that you thought to yourself, well, half this bill I don't agree with, but the other half I do. Yeah, so look, again, with most of these, there's been those types of compromises that have happened ahead of time where we can get stuff done and figure it out. Look, there's one that I talk about that was a really big one.

It was really controversial, and that was around protecting rights in housing and employment for LGBTQ individuals.

Okay, so this was, I was lieutenant governor at the time, but Governor Herbert was in, and I was helping with some of these negotiations. And we sat down because the country was really blowing up with this stuff. Indiana, Arkansas, people remember, this was, I mean, eight, 10 years ago. I don't remember exactly when it was, but real controversy over this stuff. And we sat down and said, look, we brought religious leaders into the room.

Can we protect? Protect the freedom of religion so that you remember there were lawsuits about you have to bake this cake for the LGBTQ, or if you're a religious, you have to allow gay marriages in your church. And we're like, we're not going to do that. Like, we're going to push back on that. But the two sides came together and said, look, we can offer some protections here, but we're also going to raise protections for religious freedom at the same time, right?

It's not one or the other. We're going to do both. It was a hard pill for a lot of conservatives to swallow, but we did it. It's been a model. It's worked very well.

We haven't had issues. We protected religious freedom and we made sure that people weren't just getting fired from their jobs because they were gay, right? Like, that seems like a pretty baseline level for people. And it's one of the things that Utah's are pretty proud of. People who opposed it at the time now support it.

And I'm grateful we were able to do that. I know in New Jersey, for example, they are now suing the state because they want to be able to have a kid go up and say, I'm changing my gender, I'm changing my name in school. and not tell the parent. See, it's ridiculous. Thank you.

Absolutely ridiculous. You know, that's the part for the course in California. Yeah, yeah. Of course. And look, here's another example that I can give you.

So we banned transgender medications and surgeries for minors in the state of Utah. Knew this was going to pass. And we don't need any Democrats. We're just going to do this. And I knew the Democrats would oppose it.

And yet, so what we did was we still got together. We got together with the transgender community. They came to the governor's mansion, those who were passing the bill, we talked about what was going to happen. We said, look, we want to do this respectfully. We want you to know.

We want your feedback. The debates were still passionate, but they weren't awful. They were much better than in other states. Still passed the bill. But I'll tell you something that came out of that.

We were able to get some funding to help these kids. To get some therapy, some doc therapy. These kids are struggling. And I care about these kids, right? And so instead of saying, hey, you can transition anytime you want and you can't tell your parents, we said, look, we're not going to allow you to do this.

You have to wait till your brain is fully formed, right? We don't let you drive. We don't let you drink. This should be pretty standard stuff. But we also want to treat you with respect.

It doesn't mean they supported the bill. They were still mad that the bill passed. But that was a way that we could show, hey, we're Republicans. We're conservatives. This is an issue that's important to us, but we're also not going to just tear you down in the process.

Where do you stand on the environment? For example, The environmental extremists, the protests in the street that are now, you know, where. The beginning of the protests, the so-called Antifa protests, that caught people by surprise, was this whole push for green energy. We've got to get rid of fossil fuels. The world is going to end in 10 years.

It's going to end in eight years. We know AOC thinks it should end this year. Al Gore should have ended 10 years ago. All these things.

So now, do you believe if Democrats get back into power, do all those things come back into vogue, knowing the power that's needed for AI and everything else? Do you sense there's going to be Back to green energy, no more gas cars by 2035?

Well, I certainly hope not. And I'll give you some hope on this front.

So we've been having these discussions with the national governors about energy. We should love the environment in Utah because, I mean, that's your greatest asset. And guess who's protected the environment all these years in Utah? Conservatives, Republicans. But there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it.

And this is a problem. By the way, the big fires that we're having out west are because we haven't treated our forests the way they should have been treated, because the extreme environmentalists locked up those forests.

So you should have about 50 to 60 trees per acre for a healthy forest. In some places, we have 2,000 trees per acre so that when these fires start, they burn so hot that nothing can recover. Greatest environmental disaster in the history of Utah are fires that have burned so extreme because we shut down logging, we shut down treatment of these forests by the extreme environmental community. We release more carbon into the atmosphere from the fires. Utah this year than all of the oil and gas, all of the fossil fuels combined, right?

So this is what we're doing. We care about protecting the environment, but here's where I want to give you some hope. Every governor I've talked to has changed their mind about energy. They all know we need more of all of it. Like the idea that we're just going to shut down energy production in this country is not happening.

They're much more supportive. The Democrats now I'm talking about are much more supportive of what we're doing. That would give me a great solace. That could be something moving forward. A few more minutes with Governor Spencer Cox on his new book, Off Red.

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I forgive him. That's what we were talking about with Governor Spencer Cox, who was there at the Memorial Service after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Of course, he's governor of Utah when the assassination happens. He's at the hub of it. He was our communications.

That was our opportunity to find out what was going on. He kind of brought the country through that. I know the president really approached that, really, really appreciated that. The name of his book is Off-Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt. And he's with us now.

But that was one of the moments that we both talked about. I think you were a national figure before. But after that, your interaction with the Kirk family, which I truly appreciate. But that moment was something that I wouldn't have been able to do. Yeah, look.

Days after the guy who put a bullet in your husband and ended your ended his life and destroyed your family forever. It was powerful. I mean, you hear it there. I still kind of get chills when I hear that. Erica's standing up there forgiving him.

And there were, you know, I found all these tweets, posts on X from Charlie where he talked about forgiveness and how important that was. That he quotes in the Bible: Jesus Christ saying that we should love our enemies and do good to those that hurt us and despitefully use us. And her standing up and forgiving people was the most Christian moment I can remember. It was absolutely stunning. I think it surprised a lot of people and is one of the examples that I use in the book of how we can do this better.

And I just wanted to bring you back to that moment in court when James Robinson's there and the judge addresses him, Cut 54. Calling case two five one four zero three five seven six State of Utah vs. Tyler James Robinson. Could you state your name? Tyler James Robinson.

Thank you for being here, Mr. Robinson.

So He would later say, people would read his lips and say that he did when his family walked in and they started talking about Charlie's kids. He goes, he was married, he had kids. What do they tell you about this guy? I mean, I'm sure you know people in the community that know him. Yeah, yeah.

So a quiet guy, incredibly talented and successful in high school. And then he flames out of college really quickly. Internet vortex, right? Yep. Yep.

Yep. Gets sucked into these rabbit holes, you know, internet, gaming, all of this stuff. And they talked about how his personality changed. And that's what scares me is like this was a kid just like any other kid. There was nothing that would have suggested that he would eventually become this monster who could do something like this.

So a year later, Erica Kirk will be speaking in Dallas for the next two days, and the president's going to have the first time ever a midterm convention. And I know there's about 100 lawmakers in Canada that's going to be there out of the 300 plus that could be there. How do you feel about is this well-timed for you? You like the location? What do you think it's going to do for your party?

Yeah, well, it's interesting. I don't know what it's going to do just because we've never had one before. And I hope it's helpful. Look, we've all seen the polling. We know that it's tough out there right now.

And we need Republicans to do well in these midterms. We've got to keep the House and the Senate. I know everybody's out campaigning, trying to help candidates do everything we can.

So my hope is that there will be a rallying cry around this, that it will drive people in the party to get out and vote. That's one of the concerns people have. I know the president has this. When he's on the ballot, there's higher turnout, and we do better. When he's not on the ballot, that hasn't been the case.

And so I know that Republicans are very hopeful. We're hopeful that this will be a positive thing. And one thing that they're doing is I don't have any Democrats said what they would do better. Affordability. Oh, that's so good.

They're staying on message. But how are you making things more affordable? By spending more on programs? I don't get it. By vilifying.

Yeah. Corporations, I don't understand it. You want to raise taxes? When has that ever worked? That might be the greatest asset that Republicans have, is that?

And this whole rise of the DSA, who at a conference over the weekend, among the many things that they have a problem with is GLP ones. They say basically they're fascists to lose weight and get fit. That is part of a bad message in society, to get in shape, to work out. Yeah. I don't know what to say.

Well, I was flummoxed. I saw some of that reporting. I saw some of those videos over the weekend. Again, I think exercise is really important. I don't think exercise is a vestige of colonialism.

I think that's good. And capitalism. And capitalism, right? Look, there are so many issues in our country that need to be solved. This is not one of them.

And yet, if that's the message, I feel really good about our chances. Beatrice Alder Bolton says, argue that fitness is a measure of relative Disposability under capitalism, and that the left should reject the idea that revolution depends on being physically optimized or fitter than fascists. Other conference themes were, of course, anti-Zionist. Don't like ice. The health systems fascist and And tech oligarchy.

Well, right. I just have to say, if everything's fascist, then nothing's fascist. I think it's the way it goes. Look, one of the things that is... By the way, no one will accuse those socialists that I saw of going against their orthodoxy because they are not running to the treadmill.

Well, none of them were looking too fit. They didn't want to be fascist or label as hypocrites. They definitely are pushing back against that tradition of that traditional look. Hey, so one of the things that I worry about in our country, and social media exacerbates this, is the extremes get elevated to the top, right? And get so much attention.

And yet, like 70% of Americans hate what's happening in both parties right now. They hate that type of extremism that we're talking about today that is getting all of the attention. And let's be honest, I mean, they're winning some elections, right? They're winning some primaries at least. We'll see what happens in the general election.

What do you think the socialist candidate over in New Hampshire, do you think they have it he has a shot? I mean, I certainly hope not. This is where we'll see elections. Yeah, yeah. Elections have an opportunity to bring us back to reality.

You said something at the jump, at the very beginning, that you think that the pendulum is going to swing back to where we start to reward actually getting stuff done and working together and trying to figure things out. I'm starting to see that as I travel across the country, that there's kind of a hunger for that, that there's a rejection of this type of extreme DSA type of politics in both parties and hope for the future.

So I'm optimistic that Americans will respond in November. Yeah, I think too, a couple of things. You know, there's certain things that aren't going to change. For example, the Big Beautiful Bill. They're going to do that in reconciliation.

That is solely their agenda driven. But when Republicans realize after three years that the executive orders are going to go away and they're going to be totally reversed with a different stack, If a if Democrat wins. They're going to be, I think, a rush because now they've made those tax cuts permits. You're going to have to pass another tax bill. Be tough.

But I think that if you're going to sit there and say you're proud of immigration, you're proud of sealing the border, but what are we going to do to people that are going to get a green card? What are we going to do because we are an American society that's birth rate has gone down? We're going to need to replenish with first-round draft picks. Einstein chose here. Elon Musk chose here.

These are immigrants that changed our country because they chose us. We have to make sure that they still, those scientists and geniuses, choose us, don't you think?

Well, look, I hate executive orders for the reason that you just mentioned, because the next president can just undo everything we did. The founders understood that. That's why they made Congress the most powerful branch. It would be fun if Congress started acting like it and actually tried to get some stuff done. But to your point, you're right.

Look, I've been told for 40 years that you can't secure the border. I was told that with the last administration. I was in the White House. I specifically asked that question. Climate change was caught on the border to come down.

You remember that? That's exactly right. Yeah. No, that's it. And then President Trump did it.

He secured the border. He did the thing no one else could do.

So make green cards a little bit easier. Screen them hard. But screen them hard. This is the thing. Make work fees more prevalent.

We should not be taking American jobs. And I think people are rightly upset about that because that did happen. But we should be recruiting first-round draft picks, as you said so eloquently. And that's been our superpower for so long. Is that the best in the world want to be here, and we should want them here.

And Governor Cox, real quick, I'm very familiar with a Canadian that went to college here, and he wanted to stay. And they said, well, what job are you going to have? And they said, we're going to finance you. We have plenty of that. You're going to take an American job.

He goes, What do you need? We need accountants. He goes, I'll look for an accountant job. He got an accountant job because the immigration told him, we got enough finance people, we don't need you. I don't really, I'm not against it, even though I wanted him to come here.

I get it. Systems working like that. That's right. But there's a lot of people in meatpacking, for example. If you can go in and organize it, you get people from another country that want to come work here.

They go back. Maybe they earn their way. Then they apply. Hey, they worked for me for six years. I'd like to sponsor them to come here.

Set up a system. That's all. When they're in a system, people won't resent it. We definitely need a system that works. And right now, we do not have a system that works.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox got a brand new book out. You got to grab it. Off-ramp, How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt. Congratulations on the book and everything you've done, Governor. Hope to see you again soon.

You're the best, Brian. Thank you. Back in a moment.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney. Live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

Thanks so much for being here. It's Brian Kilmead Show. We're watching now, too, the 9-11 ceremonies taking place at the White House. They have this good big Royal Trade Center Steel that they're going to all these states and educating people on what happened on 9-11 because it's now, as usual, there's a counter-narrative to 9-11 as if we deserved it. I know it's sickening, but I'm going to say it.

It's out there. And then nobody better than Frank Siller. And Frank Siller is out there. He's organizing everything in. And now let's listen into Stuart Silly.

We're approaching the 25th anniversary of 9-11. New York City has released, the mayor has released 170,000 documents. About the air quality in Manhattan soon after the attack. Mandami says people were lied to by officials who were trusted to tell the truth. How do you respond to that?

I don't know. I don't know if they were lied or they didn't know. But Governor Christie Whitman was EPA, and she was the one who said it's okay. And then soon after, people were wearing masks, and a lot of people chose not to wear the masks. And I remember tossing out to Eric Sean, we were on the air and reading that morning that the paper masks weren't good enough, and that was a weekend.

So again I don't think anyone intentionally said, hey, it's poisonous, let's go down there. But they were quick to say, air quality is fine, it's okay.

So that's Governor Christie Whitman and the Bush administration at the time. I don't think they had devious intentions. I'm not sure. Do you think so? No, I don't.

I just don't imagine. I think this is a case of chucking political blame across the aisle. That's what I think.

Sounds like our mayor. Yes, and he will be in attendance at the 9-11 ceremony this week. He will be there. Change the subject. Activist Dashon L.

Harrison spoke at the Socialism Conference. He took aim, amazingly, at GLP-1 drugs. Watch this. The political deployment of GLP ones is fascistic, not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people. This is a structural critique that asks what happens when the conditions produced by capitalism, by public health, by the state apparatus, and by anti-black desire align around a single bodily ideal that leaves little to no room for divergence and punishes any body that does.

Brian Glp One drugs are fascistic. Away you go. Is there a laugh track with that statement? Or, I mean, why are you wearing a mask? First off, why are you wearing a mask?

The minute you're wearing a mask, you have lost me even credibility. Number two is looking at that panel, clearly nobody will accuse them of hypocrisy. They're not on GLP ones. But if I was to tell you that there was a group Running against prisons, borders, the Pentagon, the Senate, and the Presidency, who call GLP ones fascist, you'd say, Brian, why are you wasting your time? I'm not going to waste my time looking at this group, but that group has momentum, it's got members, and it's now deciding whether they're too big for the Democratic Party or should they nest there for a few more years until they totally take them over.

It's incredible what some people on the left are willing to accept. And understand. And don't tell me people are frustrated and they just want change. Change in what? To grab a form of government that has not worked anywhere, that all you have to do is look at Cuba and look at Russia and say, wow, they really got it great.

Isn't it great to hop in your retzel and go to a job that doesn't exist in Cuba and say, well, that's the system that has to work. And when it comes to GLP1s, whatever you want to say about El Saeed and Hassan Piker, they didn't get that memo. Those two workout buddies are working out six, seven days a week, and that is the fitness, which they're also against. Keep in mind, they don't want shortcuts and they don't want you working out because that's what the fascists want. I mean, it's just incredible what these people believe, but people are afraid to say you're not in a Big Ten.

You got Ram Emmanuel, you got Van Jones, you got another handful of other people, but for the most part, Ro Khanna, Zuck Schumer. Hakeem Jeffries, we're all in a big tent. Good luck in that tent. That big tent is the big, that's the strongest thing Republicans have going for them. The people in that tent.

It was that comment about genocide against fat people. That really got to me. Brian, Kilmead, you're all right. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you soon.

All right, Stuart. Let's go work out and be fascist. Uh fantastic. A GLP one. I mean, by the way, I mean, these people, they are so comfortable in their beliefs.

It's not like they say things and they worry about backlash. You would think that woman, Romer, that hopped on with Shannon Bream, wouldn't be able to go to her apartment without feeling shame when she said all those things I mentioned about banning borders, banning the presidency, banning the senate, banning cops, obviously banning ICE. Uh and the Pentagon, you would think that they would We're afraid to show themselves. The one of the few people that stood up against this on the left was Jake Oshensaus. He was on the big weekend show when he said this, cut eight.

I've condemned Hassan Piker repeatedly, including on Fox. And his rhetoric does not stand for what the Democratic Party stands for. What the Democratic Party should be talking about is how we're going to save Social Security. It's going to go bankrupt in a few years. How we can tax the social media corporations to invest in education for our kids.

How we can cure Alzheimer's disease by 2040 so that 15 million Americans can know their grandchildren. These are the kinds of big, bold ideas that Democrats are going to campaign on, should campaign on, not some streamer in California with anti-Semitic bile. I hate to tell you, but AI is going to be the thing that's going to solve Alzheimer's quicker than anything else. And nobody's been more supportive of AI carefully, forcefully, and collectively than the President of the United States, where Joe Biden said don't think so, as well as cryptocurrency. They also wanted to be able to invest in it rather than run from it and fight it.

They also wanted to see if they can control it.

So, Jake Oshenslaw is one of the most reasonable guys, but you have to understand too: getting big corporations to invest in various things in the government. It's not true to Democrats. That's what Dev that's what Republicans are doing, but they're not threatening, they're offering opportunities. And Trump RX is an example. Trump RX is getting big pharma in involved in saying what you're selling to other countries.

You're going to be selling to us at the same price. And now, for the first time, prices have dropped precipitously. With Trump Rx drugs and they got 90% of them with them. Since 1963. That's working with corporate America, not vilifying them.

What others do, like President Obama, is just find them and collapse them, like what they did with Chrysler. Remember that? I didn't forget it. Brian killed me, sure. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City.

Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmead. Thanks so much for being there, everybody. Hope you had a fantastic Labor Day weekend and a fantastic summer, but it's over.

So let's get ready for the 58-day sprint to the midterms and so much other. There's so many other things going on, including maybe landing this plane when it comes to Iran. We're hitting them from multiple angles, squeezing them hard. I'll talk about that with Real Admiral, Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery. Yes, he's a Rear Admiral, Real Admiral, too.

Go to youtube.com/slash at the BrianKillmead Show to see any and all highlights to. The Socialist Convention was this weekend. If you missed it, the good news is I got some of the highlights or lowlights, depending on who you are. We also have a big primary today, which is New Hampshire bound.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. We're putting maximum economic pressure on Iran and isolating them. At the same time that we're doing that, They are trying to wage economic terrorism. Yes, we are.

Chris Wright, the Energy Secretary, turning the screws. U.S. making headway, completely shutting down Iran exports, stopping their money flow, and taking back the straight.

Now, back to the new program, why they have to finish the job before the election and flip the midterm script. Number 10. Canada is a great trading partner for New Hampshire. I don't think it does us any good to have a fight with them, a trade war with them. This is something that should be handled at the negotiating table.

Yes, I agree. Johnson and new Canada slaps U.S. with tariffs as the trade war heats up, and Trump is poised to slap back while both sides will do well to talk it out rather than tariff it out. Number one. I don't even know if Hassan Piker considers himself a Democrat.

I think all of that is an irrelevant distraction. Obviously, nobody supports Hamas, a terrorist organization, which brutally attacked Israel on October the 7th. Yep, there you go. 57 days until the midterms. And both parties know time running out in New Hampshire has a key primary.

And RNC gets out and sets for Dallas convention, which begins tomorrow. We're going to go over the issues, the polls, and the major players descending on Dallas that couldn't make or break this November election.

So they got to get some money. The president's got about a billion dollars. I think they say $100 million has got to go to Ken Paxson. Then you've got to find a way to fuel Mike Rogers over not Hassan. Piker's best friend, El Saeed.

And then John Sununu has already got the president's endorsement. He's within two points of Chris Pappas, the congressman in New Hampshire, and that is a Democratic seat. But I think that John Tsununu's name is royalty there. Chris Sununu has only helped it. Their dad has been the chief of staff for George W.

Bush, former governor of the state.

So I think then also New Hampshire has got to feel dissed because the Democrats went out of their way to make sure New Hampshire was no longer the first primary for them. I mean, you don't just forget about stuff like that, I would not think. But we'll see because I guess Trump did lose the state, which is interesting. But over the weekend, the DSA took place. And at the DSA, Hassan Piker was there because he is their number one guy.

He's their rush limbaugh. And he was saying about the Democratic Party, what he thinks, and what about his 9-11 comments saying we got what we deserved. Here's what he said. Cut five. Blowback is a concept that the CIA agrees on as well.

It's not a controversial thing. It was the language that I used was controversial. And there's two things here. One is This is something I said in 2019 and apologize for two days after, for the language that I use, right? Um should not have said deserved.

And what's really interesting to me is Not only Not only do we no longer have any interest in trying to identify nuance in conversations. There was no nuance to your conversation. You said, all right, I'll say it. We deserve 9-11. There's no nuance in the conversation.

And then on whether the 912 newspaper is offending those who loved who lost loved ones, the newspaper that's behind him on all his live shots, cut four. I don't think it's a joke. First of all, I the intention there is not to be edgy Uh I'm a media demon. And 9-11 is the most impactful, most consequential. News story and and And tragic event, tragedy that happened in our lifetime, in our generation.

It changed the entire world. It changed my world as well.

So, when I got the original newspaper from 9/12, of course, I immediately went and got it framed.

So I could hang it. It wasn't to say, like, look, I love 9-11 or anything like that.

Well, that's the way we took it. He never defined it.

So now he's trying to moderate a little bit while being the rock star over the DSA. Democrats don't know what to do with him. Roe Conna loves him. El Said loves him. You have Governor Newsom saying, I don't really like him and he doesn't like me.

Jamie Raskin, he doesn't like me. But he won't flat out condemn him like Rahm Emanuel or Van Jones. Yeah. So Hassan Pika was asked about his anti-Jew attitude, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, cut three. The overwhelming majority of Democratic Party politicians are self-identifying Zionists, proud Zionists, proud to defend Israel.

So it's not up to me. I mean, if it were up to me, I would make sure that every Democrat was very critical of Israel and wanted to hold Israel accountable, not just Trump accountable, but Israel accountable and stop spending so much money on endless militarism overseas, endless militarism in the Middle East. That would be my dream. But right now I'm a very pragmatic person. We're not living in that reality.

So I'm trying to make as much of an impact as possible with. uh anti-war candidates that will actually get elected into office.

So he's anti-Zionist. He knows the party is mostly anti-Democrat. Excuse me, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic. He knows they barely condemned, and Chuck Schumer was invisible when the Columbia riots happened, and Harvard riots happened, and UCLA was stopping Jewish kids from going to class. I didn't hear a word from almost any Democrat outside John Fetterman.

So now he's saying, well, they don't really like me. Democrats don't really like me.

Well, we'll see about that. In New Hampshire, there's something else going on. Keep your eye on this. It would be the biggest upset to date, and there's been a few of them. Karishma Manzour was forty five points down to Chris Pappas, the long time congressman in New Hampshire, thought to be a shoe in to go against John Sununu or Scott Brown.

Most likely is going to be John Sununu. She is now within nine points going into The election today Here she is cut 10. Vote your conscience. You'll be told by the corporate Democrats to vote out of fear. Do not vote out of fear.

We've seen what happens. They don't offer us any solutions. We're done with those problems. We need bold leadership. Yes, we need bold leadership, and I guess that's her.

Inexperienced and socialist. She's proud of it. Of course, anti-ICE, too.

So Chris Pappas cut 11. In this fundraising email, you raise the concern that the party is that you are losing. We're losing, you say. If the election were held today, Would Democrats lose that Senate seat? It's a very tight race, Peter, and it's been that way over the course of the last year.

We've got a likely Republican nominee who was our senator before. We have to ensure that voters understand that a vote for Sununu is a vote for Donald Trump's agenda for the war, for high gas prices, for tariffs, for health care cuts, for all the things that voters are incredibly opposed to almost across the political spectrum right now. Yeah, he's afraid to condemn it, afraid he's going to lose to it. I know that Republicans are hoping that Charishma Manzoura wins. People say they got the momentum, it'll show that they don't need a lot of money.

People in New Hampshire are too smart to put her in office, so I know that for sure. The other thing, and I'll end this on the midterms, I do want to talk a little about Iran when we get back. Um About this Canadian trade war, too, because it could affect all of you. I want to talk about what's happening in Texas. Texas is something that most polls, the real clear average.

It looks like Ken Paxon is down about 1.2%. Is it winnable? Absolutely. Should they be up 10 points? Yes.

Would John Corner been up 10? Yes. Ted Cruz told me today, though, that even without Trump's endorsement, Corner was going to lose. I'd like to hear a second source, but he does know not only does he know Texas because he's a sitting senator, he also knows tight elections and thought he won by two points over Beto O'Rourke and seven points over his other opponent, but he was down late.

So it's all winnable. And what they say is the president's got to put in $100 million, not just $10 million, but $10 million will certainly help. Ken Paxson finally doing some interviews, cut 15. I'm very optimistic about what's going on. They came in all last week.

I think there's going to be more coming. The president came in strong. I think the Senate leadership fund is going to be strong. I feel very supported, and I think we're uniting in Texas to make sure that we don't have this left-wing, woke Democrat socialist, which we've never had in Texas. He's the most radical Democrat that's ever run in Texas.

And I think people are realizing we need to stop this. He can speak well. He should be a senator. From Michigan. Illinois.

He should be a senator. From California, not Texas. I mean, the whole thing of not liking meat, not wanting to enforce the border, saying we should let everybody in, defunding ICE, saying that we need. uh social workers to go out on Cop calls is just absolutely insane. Jesus is binary.

All these things are on the record. They're 2022. He doesn't stop believing them. He doesn't say why he believed it and why he changed. He just knows now America's changed and he's caught having to live down what he believes.

So the other thing is, and I'll talk more about the midterms later. I do not think either party has won either body. England told you they did. They're just flat out lying.

Well, the generic ballot has the Republicans down.

Okay, enough. You have no idea what's going to happen next. And until Democrats have a hardcore idea of what they would do when they got power, I don't really give it any creed. Also, stop telling me President Trump's done and people stop listening. You've been telling us that for eight years, it doesn't more than that, 10 years.

It doesn't work. It's not going to happen. They're never going to not listen to President Trump. Just like they never didn't listen to Andrew Jackson. Everyone thought when he did this, that he did that, he made this move and that move, that was it.

It's not the case. Doesn't mean everybody listens all the time. And if a president of the United States is told not to campaign in a certain area, that's called par for the course with every president. We've seen it of late, especially. Clinton was told by Al Gore, I don't need you at all.

George Bush was told by John McCain, you're not popular, please don't come. There are certain districts, probably it doesn't work for the president to show, but for most, They'd love to have him, love the interest, and love to know what he would do because Trump shows up and does things, for example, to help Mike Lawler. He'll show up and say Mike Lawler fought so hard, I got so mad at him for. SALT tax to be able to write off your income tax because your income tax is so high. The original big beautiful bill, the original tax reform, did not let you write off your state income tax.

He lobbied to put that in. He says they got mad at him. He knows what to say when he goes to the Battleground District.

Now, when it comes to Canada and the trade, it looks like Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine is going to be affected, especially if we go continue with this trade war. Jameson Greer does not call it a trade war, but at 1201, it looks like the Canadians came out. And said, We're going to put some tariffs on you. 50% American tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian exports. That was on.

And because of that, Canada retaliated by imposing tariffs on 15 to 50 percent of roughly 20 billion of U.S. goods. Jameson Greer, not worried about it. He told me this morning that is.06 of our economy. He doesn't think that we can't overcome it.

So that's certainly important. He also says that this is not considered a trade war. There's no way we consider it a trade war. twenty billion is zero point zero six of American consumption. Reporting that this is going to affect cost of living is wrong, but it's going to maybe hurt politically a little.

And also, it's okay to say that they're beginning to put feelers out of starting talks again. Here's Jamison Creer, CUS17. We did have a deal with the Canadians a couple of weeks ago to the point where myself, other cabinet members, their trade minister, we felt good enough to have the leaders on a phone call, Prime Minister Carney and President Trump, just to level set. Over the past year and a half, as the United States has levied tariffs to protect domestic production and bring home American jobs and reshore manufacturing, during that whole time, Canada has had huge ability to export to the United States, a lot of things duty free, not everything, but most things. That being said, China and Canada were the only two countries to retaliate against us.

Uh they are. And instead of working out a deal, they've done 20 trade deals, 20 trade deals: EU, South Korea, unbelievable how many with Vietnam. They haven't done one with Canada yet. but they're about to do one with Mexico.

So John Sun, who thinks it's going to hurt people of New Hampshire, came out and said it. COT 19. Canada is a great trading partner for New Hampshire. I don't think it does us any good to have a fight with them, a trade war with them. This is something that should be handled at the negotiating table quickly, effectively.

Trade's an important part of our economy. Tourism as well.

So I think it's something that can and should be resolved quickly. All right, there you go. When we come back, I'll be able to take some of your calls and read to your emails. 1-866-408-7669. How do you feel about these midterm elections?

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Hey, we are back.

So we was talking about the trade war before On what's going on with Canada. And Carney came out over the weekend, the president just had some fun, put the American flag on Mexico, and Canada, and Greenland. And Corney put this out. When the Americans stop doing memes, he means Trump, stop throwing shade and stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions. It's not constructive, but that's their democracy.

The retaliatory tariffs came into effect at 1201 Eastern Time. Look for our tariffs to come back today. Unless cooler heads can prevail, I think that Jamison Greer's. counterpart he can deal with. It's when these other premiers, that's what they call their governors, get involved and they want some more.

The guy Ford's a real uh a real piece of work. He's on Carney's. I'm never going to accept this deal. I'll campaign against this deal.

So Carney could lose that tough guy image if he signs up on this deal. He got panicked and asked for impossible things. And that's where we're at. We're at today.

So that's disappointing. Among the people that see it as a bigger problem is Dave Ignatius. He says this hurts us politically this hurts us militarily and with intelligence. Got 22. You know Dave Ignatius.

He comes on our show. He's on the Washington Post. What struck me as I've talked to people in the last few weeks is that this is now beginning to spill over into areas that really matter. For example, the so-called Five Eyes partnership that includes Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, maybe the most successful intelligence partnership in modern history, is beginning to fray a little bit. I don't want to say that it's coming apart, but I hear that questions are being asked by our partners.

Do we really trust the United States with our secrets? You know, at a time when we get blasted, when the President posts maps showing our country covered by an American flag, do we really trust this other country? Intelligence is about trust most fundamentally with our secrets. Yeah, and I don't see it happening. They all need us more than we need them.

But I hope it stays separate. And one thing about the Canadians, this is what people tell me that go to war with them. The ones that they have show up and they show to fight. They're not scared. They're very well trained.

The problem is they've totally degraded their entire military. They have almost no hardware, no ships, no Navy, very little Air Force.

So while they did that and they grow their economy, we have to put $1.5 trillion into ours. And now they say they're going to use the term war on us? Never should you ever say that again. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

So this is an unprecedented level of economic pressure on Iran. I can't emphasize enough the importance of this blockade, which has denied Iran the opportunity to export oil. There's some cost to the world economy, for sure, because the Strait of Hormuz is the new center of gravity for this conflict. Yeah, so that is uh that is Daniel Hoffman who just loves the blockade. One of the people that gave that idea to the president was General Jackine.

Said, why don't you blockade their blockade and just block it? Don't let anything through it.

Now nothing gets through. And they took a shot at one of our ships, so we blew up three of their tankers over the weekend. And we told them, You keep that up. And now the numbers are pretty unbelievable of how much these guys are suffering. You know, about the real is worth over 2 million real for $1.

And now they tried to raise wages to go up with inflation that's over 60%. I mean, America's freaking out at 3.4% inflation. Can you imagine 66% inflation? Or our currency would be almost worthless.

Now we're announcing today a new exclusion zone right near the Strait of Vermuz after the U. S. struck those three oil tankers. We're just creating our own lane entirely. And the Wall Street Journal writes this, not me.

No Iranians from here and in, no Iranian crude has crossed the blockade since it was reinstated by the Navy in mid-July, according to ship tracker Kepler. Iran is still loading small amounts of oil onto tankers, but those barrels remain trapped inside the Gulf. Iran loaded 255,000 barrels a day on vessels inside the Gulf in August, 85% below the February to April average. Kepler data shows this. These are not my numbers.

They're not the Wall Street Journal's numbers. These are official tracking numbers. Those newly located barrels remain trapped behind the blockade and have not made their way towards buyers. Here's what I love, and I wasn't expecting this.

Some buyers are turning to Saudi Arabia. The Chinese buyers are turning to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the UAE for crude. Gulf Energy officials, this is going to Gulf, the Gulf Energy officials, in some cases, Iran oil now costs refiners more than competing supplies due to its relatively scarcity. Iraq has offered discounts of nearly $30 a barrel on some grades. Brent crude was trading around 97 barrels.

They'll knock it down in order to do business.

So don't act like they're tight with Iran. They're not. There's militias that are tied with Iran. That's true. Let's bring in Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery.

Admiral, welcome back. Hey, thank you for having me, Brian. I mean, we have, I just did the headline in the Wall Street Journal. Really is saying that essentially what they're blocking Iranian oil, that no Iranian crude has crossed the blockade since it was reinstated in mid-July. Are they feeling the pressure yet?

Yeah. I I think they have to be. I mean, this was a serious percentage, you know, a a majority of their of their exports uh, you know, were fossil fuel based and delivered by maritime, you know, delivered by sea. And uh and then purchased, you know, at below market values by China and India, to avoid and then paid for back in Riao, paid for back in Yuan, to avoid US sanctions.

So they've lost that source of income. That's what's driving you had good numbers on inflation and on unemployment. That's what's driving this, is this lack of funds from the sale of fossil fuels.

So Bloomberg's report in the U.S. resolution demands that Iran urgently remedy its noncompliance on the nuclear inspectors and allows checks to ensure the non-diversion of nuclear material. As of yesterday, they are refocusing on nuclear. We noticed that inspectors have not gotten in there at all, and the EU is joining us. in pushing to end the non-compliance with inspectors.

I like that angle too. We can do one and the other. Uh-huh.

Okay. I agree. We should be able to put pressure on both the nuclear You know, we should the long-term issue, the President did not enter this war over the Strait of Hormuz. He entered this war over a nuclear program that was clearly designed to build a weapon and the delivery vehicles to threaten Israel, a threat, by the way, they've never backed off on, the idea that once they got a weapon and a delivery system, that they wouldn't exterminate Israel, and then use the same weapons against the United States.

So obviously, that has to be a big part of our approach, of our comprehensive approach to holding the Iranian regime accountable. It starts with the nuclear program. We obviously have to solve the Strait of Hormuz, also, a problem that developed during the war. But we have to do the nuclear program. All right, so we were trying to squeeze them, no doubt about it.

I thought Senator Kennedy summed it up pretty cool this morning, last night. Um And he said, just think about where we're at now, and don't tell me we're not better off. Cut 31. I think no fair-minded person Who believes in life, death, and the resurrection, if that's what you believe in? Can look around and think that the world is not safer because of a degraded Iran, degraded Hamas, debated, degraded Hezbollah.

and Assad is gone. The world is safer. We have accomplished all of our objectives in a run.

So He's saying that, but we can't leave it like it is, right? Correct. I mean, we did the original objectives that were stated. You know, it they never did say regime change, but a change in how the regime acts plus the degradation of each of those military capabilities has happened. The problem is, in the process, we lost control they initially lost control of the ability to put fuel through You know, the straight-of-homeo's at the rate that it was, the 20 million barrels a day rate that it was before the war.

So we've got to reestablish that.

So we're not done. We have to do that. And we have to convince Iran not to strike out against those vessels or against our Arab partners out of frustration. And the way you do that is you continue to drive their economy into the dirt. And do you think we're doing that?

We are doing it. Is there anything else we could do?

Well, I honestly, that has to do with China. Yes, there is more we can do. We can begin to right now, the two prongs to this are the Navy with the blockade and BESENT with the targeted sanctions. And those targeted sanctions right now, they've hit the UAE bank hard. They're hitting banking hard to elicit the third party, third country banks that support them.

But in the end, we know that the source of this revenue is China. And so I think at some point we're going to have to hold China accountable. Are you encouraged at the Shanghai Conference, President Xi seems to have blown off the Iranian President?

So I think what happened there is President G realized that President Trump was taking these days ahead of the summit to not Beset wasn't targeting China ahead of the summit. And so he returned the favor by not cooperating with Iran ahead of the summit. That's the summit on the week of the twenty first of September between G and President Trump. And we'll have to see what happens coming out of that summit. where does the United States go?

Do we where does China go with respect to Iran to see how this plays out over the fall?

So tell me if you find this correct. The U.S. hasn't bombed major cities in Iran or targeted the military and political leadership. And experts say the reprieve has allowed Iran to repair and rebuild its military industries, including those involved in missile production that were targeted by the U.S. and Israeli strikes during the first 40 days of full-scale war.

If that's true, why would we not hit major cities in retribution to these actions? I think we've been trying to keep things In escalation management. We are the mature country in this in this relationship between us and Iran.

So we have done if you do strikes against maritime capabilities, Or against shipping out in the ding. We strike your ability to target them. We strike the units that hold those. Those um Those assets, the storage facilities and such that we detect. You're right, we have not begun to reattack their defense industrial base.

And I don't think we've gone on significant reattacks against their leadership. And look, last time I was on, I argued that we probably ought to be striking IRGC owned companies. I mean, that's what feeds the IRGC. The IRGC is like China, they have state-owned enterprises. that they make money off of, and we probably ought to preferentially target them so that we hold the IRGC accountable, not the Iranian people.

But I think this has to do your broader question has to do the answer has to do with escalation management. We're not trying to go back to a full scale six hundred strikes a day, Israel joining in with the U. S. and our Arab partners having their infrastructure attacked.

So I want to talk to Russia in Ukraine. We know that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff went to Russia and then they went to Ukraine for the first time. Here's Jared Kushner, Cut 44. With President Putin, we went through a lot of the ideas that hadn't worked to date, and we really tried to think about what would the elements be that are needed for this durable peace that we've spoken about, and what are the things that Russia can gain from it, what are the things that Ukraine can gain from it, and what are the things that the world can gain from it.

So we understand too when we look at Russia. Russia tried to be positive out of this. They appreciated the interest. But they're all over the place in terms of what they would do. There is one of their publications reported much less optimistic about a quick settlement that Commerceant.

Its analysis portrays the U.S. trip as an attempt to revive negotiations. It argues Moscow believes its battlefield position is improving, which is nuts. The RBC highlights another publication that while carrying Witkoff's claim of significant progress and plans for renewal of trilateral talks, they promptly report that Putin's meeting produced no agreement. TASS, the Kremlin line, cautiously positive.

Dmitry Opeskov called the U.S. mission a small step towards peace and said Russia does not rule out resuming trilateral talks.

So, what do you take from this? Listen, so first I want to start by commending Uh Kushner and Witkoff were going to Ukraine directly. It was the first time they'd done that, and that was the right thing to do. You need to treat put these two. These two combatants on a level playing field when you're talking to their leadership about how you end it.

And meeting in Ukraine was important. But after that, I have to say: if you have Jared Kushner's number, you can pass my number to him because I'll tell you how you get Russia, how you get this thing back on track if you want a real peace treaty. That's put pressure on Russia. We've put maximum pressure on Ukraine. Zelensky's conceded everything he can possibly concede and not be impeached.

He's not going to give up land they have not captured already without some kind of durable security arrangement from the United States that we're not willing to offer.

So he's conceded the land he can concede. At this point, the belligerent who's continuing to battle to try to take more land is Russia. And if you want this to end, you have to put pressure on Russia. And that's taking Secretary Besson and saying, hey, now that you've got that Iran plan worked up, work up a similar one for Russia. And bring real economic pain onto Russia for this because until Russia feels that economic pain from the United States.

they're going to continue this I believe Putin will continue this war in the false belief that he can solve it on the battlefield. But I mean, do you realize, I'm sure you do, how much they are paying a price. Right now, they basically can't get grain out. Their ports have been blown up. It's dropped.

Their exports have dropped 50%, even though they've grown plenty of it. Ukraine has hit almost every one of their refineries. Uh that that one from uh Fifty, uh something like fifty million, uh five million uh Barrels of oil today to 3.8 just over the last few weeks.

So they're paying a price on their infrastructure. They're also trying to destroy Russia's ability to have domestic travel and trying to harass them with drone strikes on their airports.

So this has hit every facet of Russia life. It has.

Now, this is a switch. I definitely, you know, I'm in Ukraine all the time, and I have to tell you, last time I was up near Sumy, and I would say 80% of gas stations that I passed were blown up. You know, the Russians have been doing this to Ukrainian critical infrastructure. They've also blocked Ukrainian grain transfers. I mean, the big losers on this are going to be the people of the Sahel in North Africa who are not going to get grain potentially this fall out of this.

I am worried about that there is an international scope to this that I hope the two countries can sidebar their way through to allow grain shipments and fertilizer shipments to proceed from both countries because those are critical to the rest of the world. But realistically, I mean, we're entering a period where Zelensky is attempting to put pressure on Putin's decision-making process, and the way he's doing that is with mid-range and long-range strike. And you gave a good list there of the impact it's having. Yeah. So, Commissioner's.

Said the only thing he's going to do is pressure on Putin, and they finally passed Lindsey Graham's sanctions. 85 votes in the Senate, and now the House won't take it up because they don't want to give Trump power. I'm tricking. Yeah, this is unfortunate. Look, we need that bill passed.

It's not perfect. It had to get manipulated a little bit. I understand that. But this is one of those areas where sometimes you have to take the 80 percent solution, get it done, get the president signing it and allow the president to use these tools. Trust the president to use the tools to put pressure on Vladimir Putin.

When Putin begins a partial or full mobilization in October, November to pull up another 200,000 or 300,000 troops in addition to the 300,000 he normally recruits each year, I think Trump is going to be very disappointed in him then. And then President Trump can say, look, based on that, Vladimir, here's the action I'm taking, and take advantage of the Graham bill to make that happen. Yeah, I mean, you need a security force and they're not giving up the Donbass. That's out of the question. But you just got to make sure we're not invaded again with a different president.

Correct. Agreed. And plus, we're at I mean, Russia's ability to reconstitute is significantly faster than Ukraine's. I mean, Ukraine's phenomenal. They're going to unbelievably.

dynamic defense industrial base, but it's nothing I mean, Russia's is significantly larger and bigger and hypercharged right now. It's forty percent of their government spending goes to def the defense industrial base. Yeah, we'll see it does for the people.

Okay, Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, Iran and Russia are now off our checklist. Thanks to you. Appreciate it, Mark. Hopefully we'll get these wars ended back in a moment. Where big stories meet bigger conversations.

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I'm worried about two things. We need more bullets. Not just for Iran, but for the world. And number two, we need to be partnering up with Ukraine to develop a new way to fight wars. And that begins with drones.

And number three, we need to give the military some more money. We're going to have to probably do it for reconciliation because the Democrats hate Trump so much they don't want to spend money on the military. He's 100% right. John Kennedy was unbelievable with Kristen Welker. At the end of it, he says, By the way, Kristen, I like you better than Chuck Todd, and I like you, and you have better hair.

So it was almost he was having too good of a time. Jon Kennedy also weighed in on the Pentagon and everyone being fire fired. They were trying to Tom Tillis is against Hegseth, but when every time Cassidy Anytime, not so much John Corny, anytime Cassidy. And Cassidy and Tilla speak up, it's usually because they're mad at Trump and they know they're leaving the Senate because of Trump. Here's what Kennedy said about the state of the Pentagon, Cut thirty three.

He's consolidating power. That's clear. He seems to be firing some pretty good people. Whether they deserve it or not, I don't know. The President I voted for him.

I'd probably vote for him again until evidence is shown to me that He shouldn't have fired these guys. But I'm not worried about the personalities. I am. You know, a lot of these generals, I met Randy George, he seems great. And I met C.D.

Donahue. I was with him in Germany and in Fort Bragg, and he was unbelievable. He's got this incredible reputation.

So to keep in touch with him for the last four years, I can't believe we just lost basically Tom Brady. Um For no reason.

So that is kind of disturbing. But I feel he feels he's got a clean house, I guess.