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Yes, the whole world is literally here in New York City. Everything's locked down. If it's not a president moving around, it's some type of dignitary. Go underground, go on the subway. If you are here, expect to be frustrated, but, or just go with it and understand that's just part of living in the big apple with the UN located.

Today in Capitol Hill, they don't care. This is Senate Judiciary Hearing on Standing Up for Women in Sports. And they could actually do something: vote on the Fixing College Sports Act in the Senate. I think they could get over 70 votes. Stop Lundgren's going to join us for this hour, one of the stars of Rocky IV.

He's got his great book out on his remarkable career. And we also have this hour Brett Baer standing by, who is best friends with his arch rival, Sly Stallone. Let's get to the big three. Number three. Gonna greet a visiting world leader.

They would do it here at the White House on the South Lawn. The president is gonna take his motorcade over to Andrews to greet she plainside to get things started. Yep, that is true. Peter Ducey reporting, President Xi comes to D.C. and he's going to get a royal welcome.

100% different approach of how Trump started his first term in office with China. Will this land the plane on a lot of trade deals like farming? Will it calm things down on Taiwan? We'll discuss it. Number 10.

But let me just say this: I do sincerely believe 28 won't matter if we don't get through 26. That's true. Very true. And I'm a big believer that you can be, when you focus on the thing out there, you trip on the thing over here. Right.

Kamala Harris, always a fountain of wisdom. The former VP turns to Michigan to try and smooth over the piker problems that El Syed is having, while a new squad member makes a move for the White House and Assad AOC. Number one. Will a deal be made? with Iran.

That lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it. ever was before. Or do I annihilate? The Islamic Republic. That is a big question.

UNGA, front and center. President Trump lays out his world vision and his choice to take on Iran in AI while seeing a problem and attacking it. That's the way he does things. He does it like no other American president ever. That is the Trump legacy.

But right now, front and center is what we do on Iran. Because today there's going to be another vote on the War Powers Act, and there's going to be pressures on Senator Sullivan of Alaska and Senator Usted to maybe push the president on ending the war in Iran or whatever status we're in right now. Brett Baer joins us now. Hey, Brett, this is really right now. The midterms are very much about the Middle East, don't you think?

Yeah, I think it's a big factor morning. I think you're going to start to see big candidates. in tight races that start to back away and you're already seeing ads direct to camera ads, talking about affordability and how much stuff costs, And out of the war, Mike Rogers in Michigan. Um I think Michelle Tufoya in Minnesota. I think you're going to see it in Uh, Maine, and maybe even South Carolina, as hard as that is to believe, but um.

But I think you're going to start to see these campaign messages that break away from the president on Iran, or at least call for it to end. Uh that's that are different. Senator Usted and Senator Sullivan have a choice to make, and will there be a War Powers vote today? I don't think it's going to be today. It could be before they leave.

But the big thing, focus today on Capitol Hill is the Senate on the college sports. Mm-hmm. And it's expected expected to pass, right? It is, yeah. But the house is not in, so you're not going to have any action on that.

Until after the midterms. Which is a lot of people critical. I'm not. A lot of critical that are picking it up with all the other important affordability things going on. But that means a lot to the president.

It does. I mean, I think this is something that he's been pushing for. It's something he's talked about on the campaign trail. And you know, they managed to get bipartisan action And it looks like it could pass with seventy votes.

So you had a great interview with Jack Keene last night on a special report because we have Steve Witkoff again with a three-hour meeting with the delegation from Iran, which includes the President, who has no power. He said, see, Steve Witkoff posted today on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. We engaged in lengthy talks with Iran, who shuttled between the two sides. Cutter did. They successfully completed a round of discussions that we hope will prove constructive and promising.

The mediators will continue to do their work. Here is Jack Keene, cut 10. The reality is where that regime is, they are convinced that they are winning here. That they've got the Americans on their heels a bit, influenced by oil and gas prices are driving their decision making. The president made a big deal out of the elections and making a case that he's not being influenced by it.

They believe he is. And as a result of that, their mindset is they can outlast us. War is a test of wills. I don't think they have any tensions of ever making a deal with us that would meet our objectives. And even if they did, Okay.

The reality is they wouldn't comply with it. They've already shown us that. And I have a fundamental problem with any deal that even meets our objectives because what happens here is you finance their recovery, you throw a lifeline to the regime, you pass this to the next administration for the next five to ten years. And that is not why we started this thing. It's indisputable what he said.

There are other people that think they can make progress. It almost reminds me like Steve Witkoff playing the role of Rudy Giuliani. Rudy Giuliani kept telling the president that he had information that shows the 2020 election was fixed or thrown or fake. Never did. And it's like Steve Witkoff, I think, maybe not knowing better, is telling the president, I'm close to a deal, hold off.

And that maybe be the reason we even got to this point to begin with, but there is no deal. Yeah, it's not a structure of a deal. I mean, there are things that they talk about. Cutter is convinced that if you don't make a deal now, then you're going to make it ten months from now, but there's going to be. thousands more killed and a lot more damaged throughout the region.

That's their pitch. But the problem is the Iranians are the ones that are not Ready. To make a deal. They were the ones that think. That this is end of times kind of stuff, and that they have the advantage because of.

the leverage of the midterms. And Listen, I think this is a standoff. I think that more likely would be some kind of action during October. That is um military and maybe significant.

So uh are you going to the state dinner? I am going to the state dinner.

So that's going to be exciting. President Xi and President Trump and the state dinner, the huge Chinese delegation. Is the ballroom done? Are you going to have it there? No.

Embarrim is not done. I don't even think it's. The structure is anywhere close to being done. But no, it's where the other state dinners have been these past few months.

So it's going to be important. What do you think the President hopes to get out of this? He's going to meet at Andrews Air Force Base. Roger Wicker points out that he's treating President Xi better than he got treated. He said, well, he put on Twitter calling President Xi an oppressive dictator and urging Trump to confront him more aggressively.

So he is chairman of Armed Services.

So what do you expect to happen? I know he's picked up the pace of purchasing farm goods, which we asked for, and for soybeans, I should say. But other farm goods, he's a little bit behind what they promised. He has not cut off rare earth, but they have not kept pace at the pace in which we're looking to purchase it. And we're not independent of China on rare earth yet, although that seems to be a very short-term goal.

What do you think's going to emerge from this? Because nothing really tangible emerged from the first one, except for more of a trust and re more of a relationship between the two. Yes, I think that there are some things that were laid. The groundwork was laid, and they're hoping to finish up in this meeting. And one of them is this Board of Trade, which essentially takes about thirty products On both sides, and brings the tariff down to zero.

So they choose these products, and then it increases. you know, the trade on those fronts. They make some deals on the edges, as you mentioned, about farm goods and that sort of thing. I think that the bigger thing is uh the help with Iran? Um maybe there's a mediation thing.

With with that, the help putting pressure on Russia. and to try to get a resolution on the war in Ukraine. And most importantly, the newest topic is AI, as President Trump calls it. super intelligence. and getting to some framework where there's a deal.

The President does not want to regulate and slow down U. S. efforts Um That said, there's there's some talk about maybe some cooperation or at least communication to be able to prevent the bad things from happening? I guess the non-starters are they say don't bring up human rights because they don't like to give them. And they don't say don't bring up anything on Taiwan.

But the President's got $14 billion worth of weapons deliveries to execute. We usually don't even put those weapons system, those deliveries up for debate. Do you think that's still on the table? I think it is. I mean, when I interviewed the President in China.

He clearly indicated that um that's something that he is willing to talk about. you know, I think that the Chinese are going to probably press to not push forward with those those weapons. And I don't know what the President's going to get for it, but But I'm not I'm not positive that he he might not just let that go.

So lastly, Brett, on the midterms, Kamala Harris took her powerful voice to Michigan to campaign for El Saeed. Here's a little of that give and take and has our in our presser fourteen.

So, first, one in twelve women in America lives in a maternal care desert. Black women are three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth. Native women, two to three times more likely to die. Medicaid is the largest funder for maternity care in America. Um Donald Trump cut Medicaid funding by a trillion dollars.

These are the facts. Mike Rogers supported that cut through that big bad bill. And she goes on, and here we go. Here's another fact. The attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care.

An attack on DEI. To recognize diversity, equity, and inclusion is an attack by definition on maternal care, including the need. to protect black women in connection with their pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care.

Okay, she likes to repeat herself, and she also had a birthing person comment, which is are we back to that? Makes one wonder, did we turn the page on DEI or did we just put it on pause?

Well, Democrats are going down the DEI road. And All that goes with it. They are opening the door for a lot of candidates, Republican candidates, that. are in bad position pole-wise. Right now.

Even AOC. said, you know, that was the woke woke first, that was the first effort on on woke, and it was misplaced essentially is what she was saying. This is going back to that. Obviously, El Syed needs help with Blockability. with the Jewish community.

And uh it must be in the bowls. pretty emergent. If he asked Kamala Harris to campaign with him. Absolutely. Brett Baer, we look forward to seeing you all day.

Historic day. And of course, with the Chinese delegation here for the next 48 hours. Brett, thanks so much. All right, see you, bro. Also, pick up the book, The Case for America: An Argument on Behalf of Our Nation.

Back with Dolph Londgren. You're listening to the Brian Kilmead Show. It's Brian. Kill made. How many years have we spent listening to politicians in Washington argue about how to make healthcare insurance more affordable?

Obamacare was supposed to fix it. Then we needed bigger government subsidies to make Obamacare affordable. Those subsidies expired and guess what? People are paying more again at some point. Maybe the question isn't, how do we keep fixing the same system?

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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Good evening, everyone. Along with Warner Wolf, I'm Stu Mayhem, and we welcome you to a most unusual event for the first time ever, West Against East in Professional Sports. Tonight's special event features two great athletes.

Get an upload. Corner weighing 221 pounds, a former heavyweight champion of the world, the dancing destroyer. The ping of stain The Count of Monte Cristo. Yo, you think you got enough names? He since that was done.

of disaster the one One and only Apollo Privy in the right corner, weighing an even 261 pounds, gold medalist and undefeated world amateur champion from the Soviet Union, the Siberian ball Ivan Drago. What started out as a joke has turned out to be a success. The base is part of the. Yes, that's a little of Rocky IV with Dolph Lundgren playing Drago. His book is now out, Fights Worth Fighting, Finding Strength and Struggle.

And Dolph tells his story, but the first time Dolph bursts on the scene for All Americana was in Rocky IV, and that, of course, was the fight. With Apollo Creed, supposed to be an expedi uh exhibition, but you took it serious, didn't you?

Well, my character took it seriously. Yeah, um exactly. It was you know, uh it was supposed to be an exhibition fight and uh uh you know there's this kind of uh bad uh bad blood between the characters uh in the uh the um uh press conference and then uh Yeah, I think there is the Plan from my side was to make an example of this guy. And I don't think Drago really wanted to kill him, but. Sly wrote the script.

That's what happened. And this was, was that your first big acting job? Yeah, I did a small acting gig in a Bond movie by my girlfriend, Grace Jones, at the time. She was in the Bond movie, and I was just standing on the sidelines. And the director says, oh, you know, stunt guy so-and-so didn't show up.

So you want to be in the movie? You can point the gun at Chris Walken.

So I did. But my name appears like two minutes down in the credits.

So I wouldn't have done much. Right. So absolutely. But you were an athlete. You were a fighter, Taekwondo, and a boxer.

Yes, I was I did karate. I was European karate champion and I was a um boxer as well.

So So that helped me a lot in the Rocky movie because, you know, you can only teach an actor so much, but the movement, the body movement, especially if you're a big guy, it really has to be there. It has to be kind of innate in your, it takes years to figure it out. And did you guys have real was it feeling, did it feel like a fight at times when they were taping this? Yeah, it did. It did.

You're so much bigger, right? I'm quite a bit bigger, and I think that was part of the story: you know, the underdog. I mean, Rocky is the classic underdog, and I think that's why Rocky 4 is. Yeah, people like it a lot because it is that kind of David and Goliath, you know, matchup.

So you wrote you wrote this book, but Would your life have been different had you not gotten that role?

Well, I would have been a chemical engineer somewhere shaking test tubes. Or maybe I would have gotten in the movie business some other way, but I. You know, my dad was an engineer, and my other brother, my older brother's an engineer, and I I didn't really want to do it, but I it was a way for me to travel, and I wanted to come to America, and I couldn't afford it to so I couldn't afford it to buy the tickets and everything.

So that I realized I could get scholarships to pay for it, and that's how I why I pursued it. You went to Clemson? Clemson, Washington State, and MIT. Wow. And now you're an American citizen.

Yes, sir. I want to get more of your story and where you came from, your origin story, what you overcame to get where you are today, because nothing's been easy. Dolph Lundgren's here. His book is now out. You got to grab it.

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It's unbelievable these conditional both people. Russia. Uh Break you. And yes, that, of course, is the voice of Drago, played by Dolph Londren in Rocky IV. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will.

Dolph eventually loses. Drago eventually loses to Rocky, who's about half his size, but they are great friends today. Of course, Expendables was the last time you saw them together on the screen. Dolph Lundgren's got a brand new book out. You got to grab it.

It's called Dolph Lundgren: Fights Worth Fighting: Finding Strength in Struggle. Just a few more questions on Rocky because we're doing a special on Fox Nation called 50 Years Since Rocky won, but we do want to get a perspective on the series. First off, your relationship with Carl Weathers. How would you describe him? Uh I thought he was great.

I thought he was a great athlete. I was a fan of his. I'd seen all the other Rocky movies and I I was kind of sad when I read the script and I Oh shit, I have to kill Apollo Creed. But you know, it was a job and Sly wrote the script and he had a Obviously it was a clever idea because it makes the audience really want revenge, you know, and it makes this uh it ups the stakes for our fight.

So I thought, you know, it was a good it was a good move on Slai's part, but I was always friendly with Carl and We work uh we used to work out at Goulds and Venice together, so Yeah, good guy. You were a fighter. He learned to fight. Yeah, when the series started, he looked like the Ali part, didn't he? Yeah, Carl had that natural movement, that you know, that rhythm that Ali had, which you can't teach people.

He just had it. And I think it was really good casting by Sly. He found him, you know, for the first picture, and he had that Ali kind of the dancing destroyer, you know, that those moves that set him apart from Rocky. And then Even set him apart from Drago, because Drago. My character had more of a Soviet, that classic Soviet fighting style with like a long stance and and a big jab, you know, very, very orthodox.

Oli Olympic-like, right? Olympic. Yeah, and then uh I know you didn't work with Burgess Merritt at the Battalia Shire. Yeah, Tyler Shire was cute. I mean, she was.

She was a great actress. I saw her in The Godfather, of course. And I was starstruck working with all these guys when I showed up. I was just a Swedish twenty-seven-year-old kid, you know. What did you know about the first three?

Did you watch the first three? Did you like them? Yeah, the first one I'd seen when I came to America on a scholarship and I was 18 at Washington State, and some friends took me to see this movie called Rocky, and everybody was cheering. I remember the end, and people were like kind of in tears, you know, and it was fantastic. It had a big impression on me.

And then I was fighting in Australia at I was fighting in the Australian Open, which I ended up winning actually. But I was listening to Eye of the Tiger in my Walkman, which was like a new device in those days, in 1983. Two. And little did I know it was going to be in the next picture, only three years later. And what was it like being the newcomer?

It was exciting. I was nervous. I wanted to do a good job. Sly was very uh Very nice to me and very uh you know, he was very helpful. Um And uh you know I was He said you really hurt him.

Well, I know. That's what I hear. He hurt me too a little bit, but I guess I was bigger and stronger, so he got hurt more. Because some of those exchanges were kind of almost for real in the corners, right?

So you go to the body really hard, and that's what he got hurt, I think. And of course, knowing that he's producing it, so you say, hey, I'm doing what my guy wants me to do. Yeah, he's the boss. Listen to him.

So let's talk about you. Yeah.

So it was important. You did not have an easy childhood, and you write about it in the book. Your dad was extremely physical with you, and he would often vent on you and beat you up. What was that like?

Well, it was it was tough, obviously. It beat up me and my mom. And I think when you're a young boy, you know, you're protective of your mother. But obviously, I was too small to do anything. I couldn't protect her, which made me feel bad.

And also I think to some degree she didn't protect me.

So I had that other kind of mixed emotions about her too, even though I loved her.

So it was tough for me. I. You know, as soon as I had a chance I got involved in sports. I think I wanted to feel strong. I wanted to feel like I could defend myself.

And that's, I think, why I got pretty good at martial arts. But it was hard. I it took me many years to recover. I would use that emotion to be a good fighter. I used it hijacked it to be an actor.

It was only in my fifties that I started therapy and kind of got out of it.

So you broke the cycle as a dad. You have two daughters. You're there to protect them.

So you broke the cycle. Broke the cycle. Are you still angry at your dad today? No, no. I stopped being angry when I was about.

20 years old because I was a karate champion, and he was now an older guy and mellowed out. And I couldn't just. Go home and knock on the door, and hey, Dad, I'm here to beat you up for what you did, you know, 10 years ago. He apologized ever. No, he didn't because he never.

admitted that he would been uh beat that he beat me on my mom. He never apologized, but I forgave him. And I realized that You know, I felt sorry for him. He was just a sad old man who had a really rough childhood and who wasn't strong enough to. To break the cycle of violence himself, so I had to do it.

So it's interesting. Your friends have similar backgrounds. I've heard him at different times. Arnold Schwarzenegger, he wrote his book. His dad was really tough on him.

He came out of World War II. They lost the war. He never got over it. What he did, he didn't really go into detail, but he was pretty tough on Arnold. And Sylvester Stallone, I think that if you talk to him now, he will well up thinking about how.

Tough his dad was not physically but emotionally on him. Never accepted him, never went to the Academy Awards, never really saw his success as anything but a threat on him. And those are the types of childhoods where they're dysfunctional, but you have a choice: do I acknowledge it? Do I overcome it? Or do I let it ruin my life?

Don't you? Yeah.

Yeah, you have to either turn it into something positive. In our I think all three of us we did, positive for ourselves and also into entertainment.

So you're kind of trying to motivate other people to have a good life and that strength, you're trying to Pass that on to other people.

So is that why you wrote the book? Do you want people to see this blonde-haired, blue-eyed guy, this fantastic athlete, actor, Hollywood looks, who's got I think you have a Fulbright scholarship to come over.

So you got looks, you got the brains, you got the physicality, you got the fame. Did you want to show people that it hasn't really been easy? Yeah, I want to show people that it's, you know, the stuff that you never hear about, the the vulnerable stuff, the things that people usually don't want to talk about. But I want to be honest about it because it makes me feel good, and I think I hope it'll inspire other people to open up too. Yeah, because you you want to by sharing it You know, you kind of it loses its power over you, some of these traumas.

You know, it's good to share it. Tell me if this happened to you.

So, as you make as you're working your way up, you mentioned Grace Jones is this megastar. Yeah.

And you're a boyfriend. Yes.

So you got a little bit of fame, but it's reflective fame. But then you get your own. Yes.

Did you ever go through a period like I don't deserve this type of fame? Like because of your upbringing, that as the fame and fortune starts coming in and success starts happening, you're hanging out with all these celebrities. Did you go through a period of saying, well, man, do I deserve this? How long is this going to last? Did you try to almost do some self-sabotage and all this?

Or do you just accept it? No, I I uh it took me years to even To adjust to it, I never really accepted it. It took me until I was, like I said, I started therapy and stuff in my 50s to really accept it and kind of feel good about what I'd done. Before that, I mean, I enjoyed it. It was a fun ride, but I never really took it in.

Like you said, I. My dad's words were kind of in the back of my head that I was that I was useless, I was never going to be anybody, and I it was hard to shake those words. It took me, like I said, 20, 30 years after I got famous, actually. Phil Floegren, our guest, his book is out fights worth fighting, finding strength and struggle. You also joined the military.

It was you had to, right? You got in the draft. What did the military teach you? In Sweden. In Sweden.

He taught me a discipline and To respect other people, to live with other guys, you know, in a small confined space. It taught me about weapons, it taught me about self-control and and um Yeah, and it was great. I enjoyed it a lot. I had a good time. And I was also a karate man, so I was used to getting yelled at, so it didn't bother me.

Plus, you could take care of yourself. Yeah.

Here in America, sometimes people have to understand the Russian threat. They want to see the Cold War is over. Dolph Lundgren knows about the Russian threat. You grew up with it.

Well, of course. I mean, Sweden is I think it's is it a half an hour helicopter ride from from Leningrad or something to Stockholm. It's very close.

So obviously Sweden was riding the in the uh crosshairs during the sc the Cold War and uh Yeah, it was, we were ready for it. I mean, my wife's from Norway and Norway has boarded to Russia, so it's a series up there for sure. All right, so we're going to stick a can you Dolph, can you stick around? Yeah, you're great. Dolph Lundgren's got a brand new book out.

Pick it up. Dolph Lundgren, just a moment. Also, what it was like with the expendables. It was the who's who of action stars in the same room working for the same cause. Can you imagine?

Don't move. Where big stories meet bigger conversations, stay informed and energized, with the Brian Kilmeet Show. How many years have we spent listening to politicians in Washington argue about how to make health care insurance more affordable? Obamacare was supposed to fix it. Then we needed bigger government subsidies to make Obamacare affordable.

Those subsidies expired, and guess what? People are paying more again at some point. Maybe the question isn't, how do we keep fixing the same system? Maybe the question is, what else is out there? That's why I want you to take a look at WeShare Health.

WeShare isn't health insurance, it's a non-profit, Christian healthcare sharing organization. And their members pay up to 60% less than they would for Obamacare. You still get access to a nationwide PPO network and over a million physicians plus unlimited telehealth.

So stop waiting for Washington or the insurance companies to make healthcare affordable for you. Do your own research. See what your options are. Call 188-WESHARE for a free quote. That's 1-888-WESHARE.

Or visit wesharehealth.org and take a look for yourself.

Okay. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Dolph Lundgren is here in the studio. He's got a great reason.

He wanted to meet me. That was his primary reason. And the other thing he did is wrote a book about his life, Dolph Lundgren Fights Worth, Fighting, by Arthur Collins, Finding Strength and Struggle. And it's just so interesting that I know, Sly, every time your name comes up, he speaks so highly of you. And number two, he's got a book out at the same time, right?

So, and both of them overlap. What has he meant for your career? I think he's meant everything. He found me in, you know, 1985. Uh he's been a mentor over the years.

Uh he's He reached out back in 2009. We did the Expendables series, four movies together. And then Creed II was kind of he was involved in that as well. When I play Ivan Drago, an older version of that, which was really good. He comes back with his son.

Yeah.

Draga comes back. He's now been kicked out of Russia. He lives in Ukraine. And I come back with my son to try to reclaim the title.

So it was a good role for me because I could sort of revisit that character and actually. What I did was I kind of made him like my dad.

So I was able to play my dad in a father in a father-son relationship. which was very important. It was it was beautiful for me to be able to uh kind of resolve that on screen. It was a really cool experience.

So didn't uh am I right, didn't your son in that movie, did he hit you? Uh And then yeah, well you were hitting him and then he yeah, he kind of hits me back, but it's more like I'm torturing him to be who I want him to be and I don't show any love to him. Uh so it's kind of reminding me my dad. Actually my brother, when he watched when he went to the premiere of the movie, says This guy reminds me of our father, you know, the way Dolph plays him.

So, yeah, it was a cool role. And Sly, obviously, was involved in all of those. He's been a great friend over the years. You know, I look up to him. He's a very talented man, and he deserves all the success he's had.

I mean, he literally earned it in a blue-collar way. You have to be very physical to do almost every movie he did outside maybe Rhinestone. Yeah, he's Copland. It's a toss-up. Who have more injuries, him or me?

So, yeah, I mean, you famously heard him.

So, tell me about the set on Expendables. Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, you, of course, Sylvester Stallone. Mel Gibson, all work on it. How, number one, what was that budget like? How do they afford you?

Yeah, I think it was. Did I forget anybody?

Well, let's see. You forgot Statham and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Ford. Yes, I forgot a lot. I mean, look at he put that collection together.

So I put it together. Yeah, it was funny because we're in Cannes, you know, for the festival, and we're going to do this. We're going to ride through. Can on these armored vehicles. And we're in there in the morning, like at 9:30.

And I still remember his lies.

Okay, Dove, you go up with Mel on that one. Arnold, you're up on that one with Bruce. Oh, Bruce Willis, of course, too. And he was just directing how all these huge mega stars, where they should be, and who they should sit with. It was like school.

Right. He was a teacher kind of thing. But you do it, and it worked. Yeah.

And you do it how many times? Four times, yeah. And you get to get together.

So what was it like having all these experienced guys that don't have to prove anything anymore on a set in a movie? It was special. It was, you know, normally all these guys star in their own movies, and maybe there's an other, maybe you're supporting actor, one or two other names, but they're not going to have, you know, 15 other action stars in the same little room suiting up with weapons. It's, yeah, it was kind of unreal, but I enjoyed it. I really liked it.

It was nice to meet with these, to get to know Mel Gibson and speak to Harrison Ford. And, of course, Jean-Claude I know really well, and Arnold and Sly. But it was this. I don't think that experience will. It's not going to happen for a while, for sure.

Well, I can understand that. The money, so when the first one worked, what was your reaction when I realized we could do another? It was great. The second one was was a lot of fun, maybe even a better film, more more entertaining. Arnold had a bigger part in it.

Third one was they brought in all these younger actors, which kind of diluted it a little bit, but It still did really well. No, I enjoyed it. I had not been on the big screen for. 15 years because I had moved to Europe. I was married, lived in Spain.

And I had to move back here to resurrect my career. And that's when Stallone called me.

So he kind of saved my ass, sorry, my behind from my career. I'd taken like a 90% pay cut in 10 years.

So now I came back to LA, back on the big screen, and it was great for me.

So, Sadelphi, you're not retired either. No. And you're still looking at work. He says, a documentary coming out on you? Yeah, documentary October 6th about my life.

It's kind of what the book is about, but it's like the visual version of that. Stallone's in it, of course, very nice of him, Arnold, and Van Dam and a few others. Right. Do you still train? Do you still, I mean, but I know you work out, but do you still train in combat sports?

Yeah, I do train. One of my sessions a week usually is in martial arts, kickboxing. Hit the pads, hit the bag. I just like the movement. I like it's a cleansing feeling to To combat sports is different than lifting weights.

So I like to do it once a week. When you are that lethal, do you have to watch? When people start with you, are you concerned at all for them?

Well, yes. If you do hit him, you will get sued.

Well, maybe now I don't I can avoid it. But when I was working as a doorman, obviously in clubs, which I did when I was younger, yeah, I was scared because You know, you're used to fighting some high-level martial artist in the gym and here comes some drunk guy, you know, slipping on the snow, swinging at you. I mean, he's not gonna stand a chance. But you're you're afraid that if you do something radical, he's gonna hurt. You can get a f Fall and hurt his head and die, you know.

So I was always scared of that. I try to avoid fights at all times. When you saw the UFC, did you think, man, I wish this came earlier? Yeah, I did, actually. I would have been in it for sure.

Absolutely. And then you would have got cast right out of that for sure.

Well, Dolph, congratulations on the book, Your Career, and you're not done yet. Let everybody know that you have documentary is coming out and more movies. He's available for the right movie. Dolph Ungren, Fights Worth Fighting. Thanks, Dolph.

I appreciate you coming up. Thanks, man. And go ahead and grab the book. You're listening to Brian Kill Me Cho. Don't move.

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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Killmead Show. This hour I'm going to have a special guest standing by. He is Bruce Blakeman. He's going to be with us in a matter of moments.

And Bob Chu at the bottom of the hour, the forward party nominee challenging Senator John Hickelooper in Colorado Senate race. See how that goes. And we're also seeing about a vote, a vote actually in the Senate on saving college sports that is actually going to pass in a bipartisan way.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Gonna greet a visiting world leader. They would do it here at the White House on the South Lawn. The president is gonna take his motorcade over to Andrews to greet Xi planeside to get things started.

President Xi comes to DC and the president goes to Andrews Air Force Base to greet him. A lot of people say you're doing too nice. I think the president's got some goals and he wants to make sure this goes well. What they want is don't talk about Taiwan and human rights. What we want is rare earth and maybe a trade deal and no more supporting Iran from them.

Number two. But let me just say this: I do sincerely believe 28 won't matter if we don't get through 26. That's true. Very true. And I'm a big believer that you can be, when you focus on the thing out there, you trip on the thing over here.

I don't know what that means, but the former VP runs to Michigan to try and smooth over Piker problems with that candidate there, while a new squad member makes a move for the White House. I'll explain while tracking the midterm madness. Number one. Will a deal be made? with Iran.

That lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it. ever was before? Or do I annihilate The Islamic Republic.

Now those are the questions. Unga, front and center, as the president lays out what his worldview is and his choice on Iran and AI. While seeing a problem and attacking it is his modus operandi, it will be his legacy. He says: In America, we have problems, but I'm the one addressing these problems. That's pretty much how a businessman works.

Joining us now is Bruce Blakeman, a great friend of the President, Nassau County executive, which is if you look at the population in Nassau County, it's bigger than fifteen states. And Bruce is running for governor. He's got the Republican nomination and now is within ten points of Kathy Hochl in New York. Hey Bruce, welcome back. Thank you, Brian.

It's a pleasure to be with you again. Hey, so first off, when those polls come in and those left-wing polls come in, you usually brace yourself for something that's a little bit bigger than your internal polls. But this is pretty good news. You're further ahead than Lise Eldon was at this point.

Well, if you believe this, Paul. Uh we are nine points ahead of where Lee Zeldin was. which means that if everything goes the same way, I win by three points, fifty-eight. Excuse me, 51 to 48.

So I think they can't fudge the poll as much as they'd like to. I don't trust Sienna. They are always wrong. They had Lee Zeldin down 17. He ended up losing by five and a half points.

So uh Our polling, our internal polling, independent polling has us within the margin of error. Kathy Hochl doesn't want my people out there to believe that. She wants to. Temp down their enthusiasm. She wants to stop my fundraising, which she's picked up monumentally.

So I don't believe the poll because we've got other information that tells us otherwise. We've looked at Senate polls, state Senate polls. Congressional polls, state assembly polls. And we know that we are in a virtual dead heat with Kathy Hoker right now.

So here she was yesterday ripping the President's speech before he gave the speech, and she didn't see the speech.

Now in contrast to what I just said about the powerhouse here and acting with urgency. Tomorrow Donald Trump will address world leaders in the United Nations General Assembly. He'll play the hits. He'll insult our allies. He might even threaten to annex another sovereign nation.

But what she won't hear is a serious, thoughtful plan to regulate artificial intelligence. When people build the world's most powerful AI systems, they are sounding the alarm. You'd think the President might want to respond with action. But don't hold your breath. Donald Trump says one high IQ president can manage the biggest technological revolution since the advent of the Internet.

So he's mocking the President's handling of AI. Number one, what are Bruce Blakeman's concerns about AI? And what would you do, Dip? What would you hope to come from the federal government?

Well first of all. She has put a ban on the development of data centers. In the once great empire state, We have shut the door. On the fastest growing industry in the world. And that's why hundreds of thousands of jobs left New York last year, millions over the last four years.

That's why we're number 50 in economic outlook. That's why we're the most unaffordable state in the United States of America, because we have a governor that can't figure things out. Uh with respect to data centers, People have concerns about them. Water supply, energy production. Tax stability Data centers are willing to address all those issues.

And you've got to sit down and negotiate with them. You just can't close the door on the fastest growing industry. in the world. With respect to Donald Trump, Kathy Hoke was running against Donald Trump. because she can't run on a record.

Everything she says is Trump this and Trump that. We're the most overtaxed state in the United States of America. Our electric bills are 70% higher than the national average. And she's the most pro-criminal governor in the United States of America. She doesn't want to talk about her record.

All she wants to do is talk about Donald Trump.

Well, that is true. And the other thing I'd add is it really was a painful press conference that you had to have because you had to tell. uh Commissioner Pat Ryder uh no longer cooperate with ICE. because that is the rule of the state and he could risk arrest if he did. How painful was that?

It was very painful because Uh in my county, we had two young women in their thirties who were murdered by an illegal migrant. We had a 14-year-old girl. Who's raped? by a illegal migrant all in the last few months. Kathy Hokle She has blood on her hands by not allowing us to cooperate with ICE.

She talks about atrocities that ISIS committed. She can't name one. We got all these people, all these bad people out of my county without raiding one church. We didn't raid any schools. We didn't raid any daycare centers.

It was just good old-fashioned police work. A cooperation between local police and and federal law enforcement professionals. Uh Again. Cashless bail, raise the age, the halt act. Everything designed to make it easier for criminals to operate in New York State, and people are fed up with it.

They want law and order back in their communities. And again. Everything that she talks about is is a is a false narrative. The fact of the matter is she w can't She's trying to run away from her record, which she can't run away from. It's a record of unaffordability in our state caused by her.

The reason our electric bills are 70% higher than the national average is because of her. You approved 48 rate hikes. 48 Brian. In four years, that's one a month. It's gotta stop.

We've got to get affordability back to New York, create jobs, create prosperity. to our young people who want to live here. She's given billions of dollars to illegal migrants. Just because they claim asylum. Think about this, Brian.

They get free housing, free food, free transportation and a free cell phone. If you're a hardworking, tax paying New Yorker. And you lose your job. You get less benefits than someone who just comes here and in 15 minutes they get all that free stuff because they claimed asylum. It's wrong.

She's spending the taxpayer dollars on people who aren't New Yorkers.

So, what do you do with the price of diesel? You're seeing how high it is. I see it. I had a diesel Jeep at one point, but that's mostly for trucks. And then you see the price of gas.

And a lot of Republicans get nervous because the Iran war is really the cause of this. Of course, they've been our enemy for 47 years. But how do you run on that and tell people you're not to blame for those prices?

Well, you know what? I feel bad for people who have to gas up their car each and every day. But those are issues that are Washington issues. They're not New York issues. Kathy Hochl made it less affordable for people in travel by increasing rate hikes on buses.

on trains And congestion pricing, which are all taxes on the middle class. That's what she's responsible for. She wants to talk about national issues like gas prices. It's not about gas prices when it comes to governing New York State. It's about other things.

Kathy Hochl could have done to make it more affordable, and she's done the opposite. She's made us the most unaffordable state in the United States of America. Uh, so AOC's in the New York Times today, and she says, There's an argument that some people make that there's a very unique political window, and oftentimes in politics, you go, you only get one shot. Life doesn't wait for you to be ready for things.

Sometimes, life just makes things ready for you. If I were to run on this cycle and not win, I'd be done. But she looks like she's setting up for a win. When you see AOC, and you might have run across her in New York here, do you see president?

Now. Absolutely not. She has no grasp of the issues. First of all, our politics are different. We differ on policy, but That's just one aspect of it.

She's not ready to run The greatest country in the world, the United States of America, the greatest economy, the greatest military. What is her background? She was a bartender and she served as a member of Congress. She hasn't run anything. I mean, Ironic County that's larger than eight states in population, our gross domestic products larger than 144 nations in the United Nations.

I'm used to running a big organization. AOC has run nothing, and some of the things that have come out of her mouth are so asinine. It's like when she forced. Um Businesses out in New York and said, Okay, now we need those tax credits back. You don't get the tax credits.

unless you're working and producing revenue. And she couldn't figure that out. I mean that's elementary. And and she Completely misstates the facts of things that are going on in the world. She has no grasp for international politics, she has no grasp for domestic politics.

She would be a disastrous president. Yeah, I want you to hear. There was this one expert who weighed in and thinks she's going to run for the Senate, Cut 25. There's no question she's sort of dipping her toe in this 28 figuring out it's a way to build your own profile. But she is super young, and I would say that the senior senator from New York State is on the older side, and I think there is probably more of an opportunity there for her going forward.

You know, New York's, you know, we look at her moderating herself. She has to moderate herself even in a statewide race like New York as well.

So I think we shouldn't forget the New York politics. And just a reminder, she is barnstorming the state of New York right now. She gave $300,000 to the coordinated campaign, and she's going from the top of the state to the bottom of the state, campaigning for New York Democrats. If there's a signal to be sent, there's your signal. Do you see it?

Do you have you heard about that? Is she helping Kathy Hochul? She's helping Kathy Hochl. She's barnstorming the state. And yes, I think it's more probable that she'll run for United States Senate.

Chuck Schumer's numbers are incredibly low. His favorability, I think, is below thirty right now. She would beat Chuck Schumer in a primary. And I'm not sure she could win a general election. I think that if we put a strong Republican candidate, we'd beat her.

But um The fact is that I do think that that's the play for her. She's She's flirting with the presidential thing. She knows it's not real. My guess is that she will primary Schumer if he doesn't retire quietly, that she will be the Democratic nominee for United States Senate two years from now. And that if the Republicans put up a really strong candidate, we'll beat her.

Bruce Blakeman's our guest. And Bruce, I'm sure I don't have to tell you that a lot of people look at you have to get, I guess, 30% of the New York City vote in order to be successful in the state. Maybe you have a different number than that. And Mondami's in the city where his approval is over 50%. I mean, if you think about freezing the rents, it's been a disaster.

He's not giving free buses, even though people refuse to pay. The whole thing about taxing your residence as a second home was a debacle on the rollout, still has not been executed, make it vilifying successful people.

So far, he looks like he's bumbling through his first six months. Where do you stand with Mandami in your campaign?

Well I am Forty eight percent of the people think he's doing a bad job. True.

Okay. respective Yeah. in a democratic city, an overwhelming democratic city, there's a large portion of people who think he's doing a bad job Who don't think favorably of him. And I'll tell you right now: if I get 48% of the New York City vote, It'll be the biggest election landslide in the history of New York politics. Right now, I believe I will get thirty six percent of the vote in New York City.

That will put me over the top and I'll be the next governor of the state of New York. Right now, we're polling at around 33, so we've got only a little ways to go. 36 ensures us that we win the gubernatorial race. Will you get a debate? We I've agreed to seven debates.

She's only agreed to one on the smallest media outlet of all the invitations we got, which is Spectrum. I think they only have like 800,000 people who view their program. But That's the only one she'll agree to. She wouldn't agree to 90 minutes. She'd only agree to one hour.

So uh it's on October 13th. I'm looking forward to it. I wish there were more debates. I wish they were on bigger media outlets. She won't do that because she's afraid of her record and she's afraid of my record.

My record is of cutting taxes and making Essau County the safest county in America. And that's why I want in the last slide. In a county with 110,000 more Democrats. I know how to get Democrat votes. I know how to get independent votes.

It's called good government. And Bruce, I I hope to see you out on October. 17th over at Westbury Music Fair for my United States tour. That is in Nasser County. I know you got the whole state eventually to run, but I hope to see you in person.

We'll bring you on stage.

Well, I tell you what, I plan on being there. I've read your other books. Fascinating. You're a great author, and I'm looking forward to reading this newest book. If you're patriotic, I think you'll love it, and I know you are.

Bruce Blakeman, congratulations. Two strong polls. You're on track of making a huge upset right here in New York State. Bruce Plakeman, thank you. Thanks so much.

God bless you, Brian. You got it. 1-866-408-7669. We're going to be back in a moment. Then, bottom of the hour, we talked to Bob Chu and talk about his chances of the Senate race in Colorado.

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Kill me. I think It's inevitable that we will need military operations likely. to support the economic pressure that the blockade and BESEN is applying in isolating this regime economically. And I think the objective when we go back to military operations The objective should not be the end-state of deal. The objectives would be we set the conditions to put this right regime on a path to its clock.

Yes, as General Jack Keene, he's a level-headed guy. He's a military genius. He understands all the moving parts. He understands our military, understands the commanders. He understands Israel.

Certainly understands our enemy. And I think he lays it out perfectly. If anybody thinks that Steve Witkoff is going to be able to pull off a deal with Presky and the president, and everything's going to be open, all the straits are going to open up and the nuclear program is going to be shelved, I think you're dreaming. I mean, haven't we learned that at all over the last 25 years, and especially after the last six, seven months? They'll say things to alleviate pressure.

It'll be tempting, but nothing is going to be effective in terms of anything short of finishing the job. Presky and right now is speaking at the United Nations.

So the guy looks exhausted every minute of the day. You know, he is not the original pick. Presky was the guy who was put in place after the death of the president in that helicopter crash right before. That Joe Biden was president. Nothing to do with us, nothing to do with any type of sabotage that we know, but he just died.

This guy takes over, he's a doctor, and he looks really reluctant. And I think he's powerless. Bob Chu is coming up next. You listen to Brian Killmee chat. He's so busy, he'll make your head.

Spin. It's Brian. Kill mead. And I think the one thing that our candidates this time around really have going for them, Sean, is that. Our fundraising organizations out there have been incredibly successful in ensuring that our candidates have the resources to get their message out.

The Democrats, as you point out, and they've got this sort of AC Blue ATM card that they hit all the time, and that raised enormous amounts of money, which, by the way, is being investigated. But that being said, the one way that we've counteracted that is that a lot of our groups and allied organizations are working together to ensure that our candidates have what they need to get the lead on the target and to make sure that they define their opponents and that they define themselves and give the American people in all these states a very clear choice because the differences could not be more clear heading into this election. Majority of Leader John Thune weighing in on what his real strength of the Republican Party is, it gives him hope, and that is that they've raised significantly more money and they're just now deploying it in areas they didn't expect to. Like, for example, in Texas, I'm not sure where they're going to put North Carolina and Georgia, but they're going to fly it into Minnesota because that seems to be a two-point race. They're going to put it into New Hampshire because that's...

a one or two point race. Both of those would be flipping seats as well as Michigan with Mike Rogers seems a much more traditional, palatable candidate, but yet he's still trailing in the recent polls to El Said, who could not be more radical. Joining us now in the studio, a man who's all focused on the Colorado race. He's Bob Chu, the forward party nominee, challenging Senator John Hickenlooper over in Colorado. You're essentially the independent candidate, right, Bob?

That's right. I'm totally independent. Forward party has values, but no policy. I get to do my own policy based on the needs of Colorado voters. But you're a Republican by trade, and you describe yourself more of a John McCain.

Yes, I'm a fiscal conservative, and I'm focused on our fiscal health and, in particular, our crushing national debt that's going to destroy opportunities for the following generations. Just to pay the interest rate, it's taking a bite out of our GDP. Oh, huge. Trillion dollars of interest, more than we spend on national defense, more than we spend on all other discretionary categories combined.

So when you look at where the money is going, You know, we have revenue, record revenues, by the way. They're up 7%.

So where's all this money going?

Well, the biggest line item in the budget is Social Security. And whoever gets elected to the Senate this fall is going to deal with Social Security insolvency in the next six years. We cannot kick that can down the road any further. Right. What would you do about that?

There are about a dozen different changes, adjustments that you could make to the Social Security program. I want to sit down and talk with people. And if we pull three or four of the right levers, we put it on a permanent path to solvency. What's your background? I'm an engineer, a chemical engineer.

I enlisted in the Navy when I was in college. I became an officer on a nuclear submarine, spent a junior officer, two on a submarine, and then 12 years in the Naval Reserve Intelligence. How would you characterize those years for you? Uh very, very impactful. Uh what you learn, the the teamwork, the discipline.

Uh Following procedures and just the teamwork with the enlisted and officers together to keep that submarine going.

So, but do you have a specialization in accounting? Math? No, I'm an engineer. You learn all the above. Right.

So you learn everything.

So you see that $40 trillion debt. You know that we're paying interest on that debt. You know that it's hurting us internationally, too, because people have to decide where they're going to invest. If it's going to be T-bills or something else, talk about other countries. The Chinese have stopped doing it, so have the Japanese stopped doing it.

So you've got to work on As you try to beat John Hickenlooper, your big presentation is: if you elect me, I would like to try to sell the country on my program to bring that into debt. What would it be?

Well, first of all, our interest rates have shot up considerably over the last several years, and that has contributed to higher mortgage rates, higher student loan rates, higher credit card and auto loan rates. No, I'm talking about the long-term rates. The Fed raised short-term rates, but what drives mortgage rates are the long-term Treasury bonds, and that is based on the magnitude of our national debt, not what the Fed does.

So, what do we do about it? What would you do about it?

Well, $40 trillion. Where are we going to find it? The billionaires don't have that much money. They've got about $8 trillion, depending on where the market is that day.

Okay, so. We can't find it from the billionaires. The top 20% of us hold $130 trillion in wealth. And as we pass and that wealth transfers from one generation to another, we have to do a better job of taking a slice of that, a fair slice of that, and earmarking it for national debt, not new spending. And if we do that, I think the markets would breathe a sigh of relief.

It puts us on a path to better opportunities for the next generation.

So you'd have to get into people's wealth. And you would have to make it mandatory that Jeff Bezos, when he passes away, gives a portion of his wealth to the debt.

Well, first of all, current law steps up unrealized capital gains. We got to eliminate that free step up where unrealized capital gains avoid taxation. All right. We need to implement some sort of inheritance tax. We can have a significant.

Floor so that the middle class is not paying this burden. But we have to do it. It's the only place where we can find considerable money. What do you think you could raise?

Well, over the long haul, if we taxed, say, 30% Of $130 trillion, we still leave $90 trillion for the heirs who didn't really earn it, they just got born in the right family. Yeah, I mean the thing is, if they say the only reason it's keeping us afoot is that we control the dollar. And we are able to keep ourselves afloat because of that. Could you explain that in claimants terms? We are the world's reserve currency.

Once upon a time, the British pound was the world's reserve currency, but they let their debt get out of control and they no longer are. exceed their GDP per person in the next 10 years. That's pretty telling.

So, in Colorado, you consider yourself a McCain Republican. What separates you from a Trump Republican? I certainly don't like the way that Trump has weaponized the Justice Department. He went way too far on tariffs, and that drove up costs for all Americans. It His tariffs whipsawing made businesses difficult to plan their futures.

And uh So A lot of what Trump has done. Sealing the border, I approve of, but the way that ICE is out of control, I don't approve of. In what way do you think ICE out of control? I mean, they're arresting people just based on racial profiling. There's a lot of people that are here.

They had their papers. They're taxpaying. We need to put them on a short path to citizenship. If they got here illegally, they should be able to stay. If they're not criminals, if they're not drug dealers.

What kind of message is that to everybody else? Oh, you came here illegal.

Okay, you can stay. You think that's a good message? You know, I'm a pragmatist. I'm a pragmatist. These people.

Immigrants make America illegal immigrants. There's no difference if they're hard. If you're going to come here illegally, there's a huge difference between an illegal immigrant and somebody who's waiting to come online and filling out forms. There was a family. They were technically illegal.

They had filled out all the forms. They were here on asylum from the Columbia drug laws. What about the caravans that came here? Eight million minimum that came here. You watched them cross the border.

They should stay? If they are hardworking, tax-paying people, Why not? They're working. They're working off the books, on the books. On the books.

So, what about the books waiting online? You had no problem with people crossing the border in that last administration? I did not say that.

So, did you? I did not say that.

You have a problem with it. I do have a problem with it.

So, why would you let these people in? What kind of message is that?

Okay, you came here.

Well, you round it. We have money to round them up and throw them out. Donald Trump sealed the border. I give him two thumbs up for that. Joe Biden should not have let those people cross the border.

That's my stance. But they're here if they're taxpaying, hardworking, motivated, future citizens. Doesn't matter. We can make them hardworking, tax-paying people contributing to our economy. And creating helping create jobs and expanding the economy.

That's a good thing. And if the border opens again, anyone who comes in can stay? We won't open the border again. But do you know the next Democrat's going to open the border again? They all do.

No, they don't all do. We almost had a deal. The Republicans almost had a deal, but Donald Trump squelched it because it would have killed his signature campaign issue. I think that's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it, that deal would have allowed all these people to get amnesty.

And the people that come here illegally, there's no way this country would have accepted that you come here illegally, you get amnesty. Reagan tried that and ended up looking foolish because of it. He said one of his big regrets. Let me get back to economy. Biden, 7% inflation.

Trump, with his war, continues inflation and his tariffs continue inflation. Neither major party has done this country justice over the last many years. It's time for independents to come in and be a force for good. There are six independent veterans running for U.S. Senate.

Uh Let's see, Todd Achilles in Idaho, Brian Bangs in South Dakota, Seth Bodnar in Montana. Another gentleman in Nebraska, Ty Pinkins in Mississippi, myself in Colorado. If a few of us get elected, neither major party would have a majority in the Senate. And politics as usual would be flipped on its head. That would be a good thing.

Aaron Powell, is Senator Joe Manchin working with you? He ain't formed an independent party. He has. He is not working with me. Because that might be a good thing to reach out to, because he's trying to build a foundation there.

Yeah, I've been talking to people who are associated with his movement. I'm a fan of Joe Manchin. Because you immediately come in as the power base. Absolutely. In the House and Senate because it's so close.

It's so close. Yes.

I would have outsized influence. Whereas a Senator Hickenlooper has to follow the party narrative, vote the party line, and maybe he'll get a few crumbs here and there for Colorado as a result. See, John Hickenlooper, I remember with his business background as a governor, he tended to work across party lines. But we have not seen much of that since he's got in.

Well, that's because the parties don't like to work together. Congresspeople who do work together across the aisle. Get ostracized by their party. They could threaten to shut out of funding. All right, so As an independent, I can work with either party, whichever party wants to get serious about the serious problems that face us.

And by the way, my guest right now is Bob Chu. Bob, the independents are making a difference. The other thing is the DSA boasts over 200,000 members now. They have a lot of candidates that are probably going to win two or three seats in New York State alone. One is going to win in Philadelphia.

One is going to win, it looks like it's going to win in Colorado. El Saeed has appeared six times in front of the DSA, so he's a virtual member, AOC, who says I'm going to run for president, said I'm re-upping my membership. What role do you think the DSA should have in the Democratic Party, or excuse me, in our country? None. They've got a platform that talks about totally rewriting and doing away with the Constitution, making the Senate and the President and the Supreme Court subordinate to the House of Representatives.

So they're more of a threat to the Constitution than any current administration actions have been. And socialism. Let's not forget the past.

Socialism, serious socialism, has been a failure. Sweden recently has been moving away from their socialist tendencies. Over half the hospitals in Sweden are now owned by private equity. There's a reason for that.

Socialism does not work. And socialized medicine has not been effective in England or Canada. If uh and yet we I know El El Saeed says we have to have socialized medicine. How would you, where do you stand on that?

Well, The issue is not Who pays for it? The issue in this country is that we pay 19% of GDP in total for health care. Our peer Western countries spend half to two-thirds that amount of money and get the same health outcomes. We have to figure out how to reduce what we spend on health care. And if we do that, then the question of who pays It becomes a whole lot easier to answer.

All right. Good luck, Bob Chu. If people want to give to the forward party, which you're in, what do they do?

Well, there's a National Forward Party movement, there's a Colorado Forward Party, and then there is my campaign. All three are separate. My campaign, BobChu2026.com. I've got a written plan to solve our national debt, reduce deficit spending, deal with immigration, and affordability. All those topics are detailed out.

All right. Thanks so much, Bob. Great to see you. Thank you, Brian. Good luck in New York City.

All right, thanks. Where the world has come, the General Assembly is here. Protests, by the way, outside the Iranian regime, outside the UN building, because the Iranian president is speaking, an outlaw nation and a terroristic government. And at least their former Iranians seem to be stacked up to protest against them. You're listening to the Brian Killmeat show.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We cannot Let any circumstance, situation, or election take our power from us. If we are not in the room, Charlotte Chisholm talked about it. If you're not at the Table, bring a folding chair, otherwise, it might be on the menu. I'm conflating two people's segments, you know that.

Some of the She's absolutely insane. I mean she says whatever pops into her head. She has no idea that people are actually listening and hoping that for a coherent thought. And no one knows what she's talking about in the room or at home. When you play it back, you just say to yourself, does she even know what she said?

Now we all sometimes talk in circles, but she does all the time talk in circles. She's with Abdul El Saeed, and the guy doesn't even know how to nod along because he doesn't even know what she's saying. And by the way, yesterday it came out that there's so much waste inside Obamacare, you could actually get Democrats to say, hey, you know what? There's so much waste here. There's a lot of people that don't exist that are getting Obamacare subsidies.

You could take that savings money and maybe provide some type of subsidy plan for people that might qualify, but you could set up a criteria. I'll give you an example. Dr. Oz is leading the charge along with Vice President Vance. The Trump administration says it found 750,000 people from Obamacare plans that were ineligibly enrolled or improperly enrolled for Obamacare.

Officials say 315,000 enrollments covering those 760,000 people are being canceled, saving an estimated $2.2 billion. The alleged fraud includes phantom enrollees, people signed up without their knowledge. Can you imagine that? You have it, you don't know it, and states are getting money because of it, saving an estimated people who already have employer insurance and people whose incomes were too high to qualify.

So, just by doing simple things, you could be saving money. She's talking about healthcare this whole time. I want universal health care, I want Medicare for all. There's no money for Medicare for all. We want more subsidies for Obamacare.

Did we just tell you we're forty trillion in debt? And the fact is you have to increase these subsidies for a program that should have been self sustaining by now, if it had any merit at all? The administration says insurance brokers and agents were a major source of the abuse. CMS is suspending hundreds of brokers accused of improper enrollment and has temporarily stopped new broker sign-ups. A separate government test showed a real vulnerability that the GAO created 24 fake ACA applicants in 2024 and 25, and almost all were approved for subsidized coverage.

Do you realize the government is working to defraud the government? ACA enrollment surged during the Biden administration from about 10 million to 22 million. But think of how proud he was. Oh, I'm expanding Obamacare. You're robbing from Obamacare and healthcare and from the American people.

Not so you can benefit personally by being negligent. You're listening to Brian Kill Me Check. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

It's Brian Kilmie. Welcome to the latest moments of the show, This Hour. I'm going to be joined by the Latvia Foreign Minister. You know who's jealous? My first guest, Jessica Tarloff, co-host of the Five, co-host of A Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway, who's a fantastic guy.

Author of I Disagree, Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends, the book that came out this week that everybody's talking about. And Jessica, I saw you last night with Andy Cohen real quick. You were popped up. I saw you with Bill Maher. Yeah.

So how's that going? It's, I mean,. It's a lot of fun. I mean, it's a different book tour. You don't usually see Fox people on those shows.

That's what we were just talking about. I am brand ambassadoring all over the liberal sphere. Right. Is a good thing. And it's what the book is about.

It's what the five does. And it's been great, like especially the audience last night at Watch What Happens Live, a bunch of left-leaning girls, girls and women who love Bravo. Right. And they Took audience questions and people wrote in with questions. And it was all like, how do I talk to people that I care about who see the world differently than me?

And like, I mean, some fun stuff.

Someone asked, what was my favorite argument that I ever had with Janine? When she was on the show, which is fun. Do you recall that stuff? Oh, yeah. No, well, this one is like seared into my mind.

So that was easy recall, but. It's very heartening. to see that people want To talk across divides. And obviously, I hope the book is helpful for them. The tips and tricks that I've learned from doing this for a long time now.

But it made me very optimistic about the country. Wow, you mean writing the book or the response to the response That people are identifying with the message of the book. Because you would think you might walk into some of these environments, and people would be like. MAGA's a cult. And like, I have no interest in anyone that might have a positive view of Donald Trump.

And I have gotten none of that. Right. Even if that's how they feel about the politics of it, they can separate the person from the politics and genuinely want help in navigating these conversations.

So when did you realize that this book could work? Because they are your friends. Like the five are your friends. Yeah.

And you're living that example. Yes, that definitely resonates with them. It's been interesting. To also unpack what the media ecosystem has done in terms of people's perceptions of those relationships. Because it's very different if you watch the full hour, right, versus if you see a 60-second clip of me or of Greg or Jesse, you know, quote unquote, demolishing me.

You wouldn't think that there was much connective tissue there, or that, like, the back half of the show, we're going to be talking about dating trends and robot dogs, and you know.

So it's been awesome for me to be able to bring that to life for people and for them to also understand that you don't have to lose your center or your politics to have these relationships. I'll give you an example. So, what are some of the most polarizing issues? Number one, let's just say. The border.

Over the last few weeks, how many conversations have you had at the border? On the five. That's probably one of the most every day. Every day. Even when I don't want to.

Right. You have to get into it. Which is most of the time.

So what happens is, so you go at it, you prepare. Is it when you approach, I'm preparing for the argument, you got to anticipate what I'm going to say. Yep. And then what you're going to say.

So you go and do it. And you go to break after. Yeah.

And you think you're still friends after that. But sometimes it drags into the break, sometimes. I really. I think that that is very much up to me. I mean, you've been on the show, and you know that like Greg and Jesse are pretty unfazed.

So they're going to go back to just being themselves.

So. It's on me to decide how far do we want to go with this. And if it's something that's really important to me, or something that I feel like has been said that was offensive or whatever, sometimes I mention it. But in general, I know. That there's always a tomorrow.

And there's an opportunity to continue the conversation. And that's why these long-term relationships with people who think differently are so important. And the way that you approach the conversation itself, you know, the book is designed with these tips boxes at the end of each chapter. And one of them is To make sure that you have a soft start when you are engaging in. Tough topics.

And that's, you know, some connective tissue is a joke. Obviously, Jesse and I mess around with each other all the time, but something that shows them and anyone else who's participating, that in this case, you know, millions of people are sitting at home, that like we're good. No matter what is about to happen, there's a bond there. And it's not going to be broken because we have different opinions on how sexy Stephen Miller is. That's true.

And that is a big difference. It's a weird obsession for him, right? Jesse never stops, actually, with that. Abdul now so sexy. People are talking.

Right. And he hasn't had Mike Rogers on.

So how do you figure out what's going on there?

Well. I think Mike Rogers doesn't want the doors are open, right? This was a Ken Paxton problem. You were calling it out, saying, You got to do more media. And now that he's doing more media, I think we see why he doesn't like to do media.

Well, you're not a choice, right? No, you well, certainly not in a high-stakes race like this. But yeah, the Emphasizing to people and showing them how open our doors are here to these conversations has. Been illuminating where they say, Oh, I didn't know that they allowed people like you on. I'm like, Allowed me on.

Like, I host. a very beloved show with a lot of I know, I don't want to like make you yeah, it's it's all right. Fox Birds are great too. Anyway, yes, there's a huge audience for it and been number one for over four years now. And Suzanne Chose someone as outspoken as me to do that.

And Harold Ford obviously is great too. It's. Little bit more moderate Democrat and his approach more presidential. But I think we're modeling what people want in their lives. Frankly, even if I irritate them sometimes or if, you know, the conservatives irritate them.

So a lot of people, when they go on, we get a lot, hey, Jessica, like when you won that show, Brian, is it hard to deal with Jessica? No, she says different opinions. It makes the show good. I always come back with, why do you want to flip the channels to get another opinion? Isn't it good to be on one channel and get more of it?

Leave it on all day and all night. And they go, well, it's good to find out what everybody thinks. But what do you?

So I get that a lot when we go out. You know, which why was Greg hate you? I get a lot. And number two is. What is the origin of.

That bit that Greg does with you? It just seems to work. He loves it. It does work. It just seems to work.

Hate sometimes does work. I think that could be a good thing. It's so affectionate if you know how Greg loves. He loves hard. Yes.

So that's what I hear.

So, Jessica, the other thing is: when you go out, I'm just curious what you get. Like when people come up to you, besides would they is it general why you're on Fox? Or is it or is it Jesse or is it Greg? It's definitely Jesse and Greg. There's a lot of questions around like.

Are you okay? How high is your therapy bill? Are you drugged? Are you drunk? No sedatives, no therapist either.

You know it You build A skin, a tougher skin, and just an approach. in dealing with people that makes it Most say is. I mean, you see you join the show. I'm just fine. I'm pretty unfazed by it.

And there's so much room to also be able to casually counter this stuff. Like the other day, I just said, You guys are so annoying. Right. And you don't get to do that usually on TV and when you're talking about politics.

So they're wondering about that. Like, What are these relationships actually like? I get a lot of do they believe do they actually believe the stuff that they say? Do people ask you that about you? I get that about you.

Yeah.

And you're like, sadly, yes. I go, no, she doesn't I got no one gives her her talking points. What is more challenging when a Democrat's as president or when a Republican's president? What's more challenging as a host of a show? Oh, I think playing defense is much harder.

I'm trying to lull the rest of the five into understanding, like, accept your fate, and you will actually enjoy it. If it isn't blue tsunami, making all the decisions right and then. I mean, playing defense. And I have some regret. About how How I talked about Biden towards the end.

And I write about that in the book because, and a lot of Democrats are doing this. Like outwardly lying. I never said, you know, this is the most virile, strong man I've ever, you know, whoever was saying, like, I've never met anyone with this kind of energy or whatever. But people have said that. Yes.

And. They are going to be embarrassed for the rest of their lives. I I certainly said Joe Scarborough, we play that all the time. Yeah, it's a fan fave. We get more of the view on the five.

You guys are more of the view than the view. I know, it's longer than an hour on our show sometimes. By Playing defense is tough. And also, picking and choosing your spots. And that's something that I pay a lot of attention to, not only because I want to be honest with the audience, and I'm certainly not going to stand there and back something up that I think is crazy.

Like when we talk about all the DSA stuff and abolishing prisons, obviously that's a no-go. Right. For you, but that's interesting because that's something you might do agree with them on. Like the DSA is not. That might be almost like a r a Well, I think there are denominations of DSA.

I don't think, like, Dari Lisa Chevalier belongs in the party. I don't think she belongs in. pol in elected politics. She's going. She's going, I know.

And I feel badly for her district, frankly. But I I don't think like AOC's DSA doesn't belong in their politics. It's still to the left of me. Right. But I totally get it and it doesn't scare me.

And I think that she has also evolved, certainly in the way that she presents. Why do you think that Gavin Newsom said what he said when he was pretending to fly fish with Jake Tapper? In the regular clothes. And people that know fly fishing said he wasn't doing it right. I'm the only fly fish.

But he said when they said about, oh, if Kamala runs, I'm not running. I was shocked by that. Were you?

Well I knew that there was some other rationale. First of all, a lot of them are saying things that they don't mean at this point. Like, I'm not, everyone's not running. And, like, J.B. Pritzker is dropping 80 pounds, and like Westmore and Andy Bashir are doing a book talk just last night, like, patting each other on the backs about how we need more of them in public.

Like, everybody is running. Like, I passed 10 people on the street today. They are probably running for president.

So I think Gavin was playing a little bit of a game there. I think that. He also might know something that we don't know that she's not going to run, which I think would be best. Missing out on the gubernatorial race, I think, was her big mistake. 'Cause she could have walked into that office.

And had a great Two years before he started running. In other words, you missed the whole cycle. Missed the whole cycle. Yeah.

Just You were vice president. And you didn't want to live in DC. Because remember, there was all that back and forth. Douglas had a very similar trajectory. Remember?

Well, I don't remember living through it, but yes, I remember from the history books. she would have been a wildly popular Governor, and it would have been, you know, a welcome home to the state. And I think Gavin would have been very happy to pass the torch. To her. I don't think he feels the same way about Becera.

And I know people are. I'm not saying Steve Hilton is going to win, but it has been interesting to see people reacting to him because I told people, I said, you're going to like Steve. And Steve knows what's up. He lives in San Francisco. His wife worked for Google.

Like, he spends his life around liberals. He knows that he's not going to walk in there and, you know, talk like a Rust vote or have a series on why she didn't run. I mean she for governor. Yeah, she her she knows what you know. That she would have probably waltzed through it.

She probably looked at that field and said, Katie Porter, really? I'm not going to have a problem here. But it's work. You really got to work. A lot of it's not glamorous.

Well, the management job. The management. You run the state. You go in seven days a week. You're going to go to the natural disasters.

You're going to get criticized. Obviously, nobody does not get criticized. Even if it's running a country. Yeah.

I mean, California is not like, oh, I'm going to be the governor of Rhode Island. You've got to really want to work. You've got to do that. You want to do 20 hours a day, seven days a week. The president seems like work, too.

Right. I just don't think she, I think she wants to be more queen of England. Like, I think she wants the pomp and circumstance. I don't think she wants to do the job. I think of, you know, the guy, the other guy that's a pretend candidate is Bernie Sanders.

He never wanted the job. I mean, he the reason why he's not more outraged that he really got a raw deal with the Democratic Party is because I think the last thing he wanted to do was actually have responsibility and not just be a naysayer on the other side. A lightning rod for the discourse. Yeah, there's other people that want the job. Definitely.

Well, who he couldn't want the job? She's still, she's not running, but she still wants to, and she could do the job. She could have been governed, right? I go, okay, I might not agree with her, but she would work 20 hours a day and she would work hard. There's no question about it.

But I with her, I think it's a workout. This is what AOC's biggest liability will be. She's got Christmas, she's got charms, she's got presents. But will she study? The stuff that's just, it's not glamorous.

It's like, I need to understand what's going on with Taiwan. Yeah, I need to understand with the economy. How did we get this 40 trillion? And you got to thoroughly understand it.

So if I'm going to sit down in a debate, just go, no, no, no, that. I know instinctively when what a policy won't work. I'll be able to counter it if I thoroughly understand it. And that takes work, not someone telling you Jessica Tarlov is not going to bring up the economy. Don't worry about it.

To me, those are the people That want the job, want to run for the job and want to do the job. Like going to DeSantis, best thing, he could do the job. He's going to have a hard time getting the job. Yeah.

I mean, I felt that way in the primary. I think you guys would have been better off with DeSantis, frankly. Like I'm not sure politically. Uh I just think the cut the country would be More unified now. I don't think he would have like a 32% approval or whatever Trump has going on.

Can we get some to Jessica? Let's just do one long segment rather than give you, hold you open for the other one.

So, can we get some tips? Jessica Tarlov, our guest, she's a co-host of the five, as you know, but her new book is out. It's called I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends. Can you give me some tips? Let's say if you have a liberal friend.

In my case, or you have a conservative friend in your case.

Well, I already talked about the soft start, which is manners also and understanding how important it is to make people feel Like you care about them when you're about to hit them with something that they don't agree with, to think in averages and not anecdotes. It's Ben Shapiro for me. You know, the facts don't care about your feelings. It's the most effective way to communicate. Don't sound like an automaton, but make sure that you're grounded in public opinion.

And people who watch the five know how much I do that, and it probably annoys them to some degree. There's a lot in the book about how to process criticism because I get a lot of criticism. And one of the things that has been really important for me is to be able to take a step back and see that if someone is criticizing me on style, that I've probably won on substance. And to take that win.

Sometimes it's a silent W. Right. But that. Um excuse me. Like, if Donald Trump is going after my jittery presentation.

The substance was probably pretty good.

So I like that one a lot. To stop worrying about whether you're likable and start thinking about whether you're credible, that people do. Like what you just said about Hillary Clinton. You say, I don't agree with her, she's going to work. She's a credible person.

Absolutely. Great advice. Those are a few. All right. So, this one, I think we're going to get to the point we're going to do deals.

I think that it's not the next president, the next one after that, we're going to start talking about deals that get done. Yeah.

It'll make the five even better. I can't wait. I just want to see my friends for a moment. I want them to be playing defense. A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Killme Show. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Bottom of the hour, it's going to be great. We're bringing in the Rafi's Foreign Minister. She was with me on television yesterday.

And if you think about Latvia, just think about it as a small, strong Baltic country in between Belarus, a vassal state of Russia, and Russia. They've knocked down at least six Russian drones already. The Italians are providing a lot of the drone defense. And when people talk about democracy and liberty, if you say that in Eastern Europe, they will know exactly what you're talking about because many of their, if they grew up, if they're in their 60s or 70s, they did it directly. If not, their parents told them about what life was like in the communist regime.

As we see it crop up in our politics today, it's because people blacked out about the whole. Cold War, what it is about, why we won, why our system works, and these people are gaining ground because, you know, capitalism's hard. It's uneven. There's no guarantees?

Sometimes there's no format. But the best thing you can do is hustle and appreciate your freedom and liberty, and have the right to fail or in the process of succeeding. Fuck.

So when we come back, the Latvia Foreign Minister will be with us. And you're listening to the Brian Kilmey Show on General Assembly Week here in New York City. A radio show like no other. It's Brian. Kill made.

Hey, we're back and we're waiting on Baiba Brazé. She's a Latvia foreign minister, and Latvia is in the eye of the storm when it comes to NATO.

So, President Trump said, hey, NATO. Show me you're serious. He said, all right, I want 5% of your GDP. I want you to spend it on defense. It was supposed to be two percent, none of you are doing two percent.

So they all hit two percent. The President said raise it up to five percent. And guess who did it? Almost every Baltic country. Poland so so exceeded it.

And Latvia is one of them too.

So that is important, and that is why the Baltic country is almost impossible to criticize. They're literally on the border of Russia that used to be the Soviet Union, and they know that Russia wants to reconstitute the Soviet Union. They do it on a daily basis. If they're not trying to infiltrate physically their border, they're trying to infiltrate their elections. And what they're saying now is By uh Baya Braze, the Latvia Foreign Minister.

Uh Foreign Minister, thanks so much for joining us.

So. Well, thank you for having me.

So, how's the UN General Assembly been so far? What have you guys done if you had a chance to speak? It's been of course very busy because the whole world is here, so it's a great opportunity to have bilateral meetings that also to fight communalities with countries across the globe.

So not neighboring countries, but countries in South America, in Indo-Pacific, Africa and other places.

So lots of those meetings. And currently we are sitting at the Security Council, in the Security Council, Latvia is a member of Security Council. And the meeting on Russia's aggression in Ukraine has just started. Yes, and I'm sure you want to take part in that. What could you tell our audience here in America about what type of security breaches you've had?

Well, the situation, of course, with Russia's attacks on civilians, on ports, on civilian ships, merchants exporting grain, On children is becoming dire. And that is one issue that the Security Council has discussed and countries here are taking up quite significantly because, for example, the fact that Russia is not allowing Ukrainian grain to be exported from Black Sea ports is affecting food security around the world. whether that's in the Middle East, whether that's in Africa or other places.

So this is where the United Nations can help and Security Council is looking into it. But there are also a number of conflicts around the world Uh we have counted around 65 to 67 armed conflicts, which is a higher number. Then Since The Second World War.

So that affects both maritime security, freedom of navigation, it affects people's lives. prices, affordability, and everything else.

So it does have an effect actually on everyday people of people's lives.

So since when has the Russians figured out how to stop the export of grain from Ukraine? A Ukraine without a navy has basically opened up the Black Sea, but the Russia's clamped down again?

So uh Ukraine indeed uh has push the Russian fleet away from the Black Sea, so they are in the ports of Russia. But in the same time, the freedom of navigation for grain, so the grain for Ukraine and grain from Ukraine, was insured until July. And since July, the Russian attacks have increased several.

So it's it's a reality. Russia killed Indian sailors and civilian uh merchantship uh a few months ago so it's it's quite clear that uh Opening up those ports opening up the export of grain is a survival of many, many people around the world. Is there anything that can be done from NATO's perspective to open that up again? Yeah.

Well, we are working with Turkey and other countries to make sure that we can do that. Because of course That is something that is important for everyone, not just for Ukraine herself, but for many countries around the world. And Turkey has been a very constructive partner in that respect. What role does Latvia, how much does Latvia worry about what's happening in Ukraine right now as you see the advent of this new drone war?

Okay. The fact is that it's not only about Ukraine, what Russia is trying to do. is to really subdue a country which wants to be like us, like the US or like Latvia or other countries in the world. And Russia does it with the help of Iran, with the help of North Korea.

So there is another axis of evil that has formed currently.

So quite clearly it does have an effect because it's a role mod you know, it's it's essentially a model of democracy that we have. in in Western countries that is being attacked because that is a threat to Russian authoritarian imperial regime. Understood. I understand that you guys are the only EU country to oppose lifting sanctions on Russian oligarchs. Why in would anybody lift any sanctions on these oligarchs?

That's a question. That's a question. But you have to ask those countries. There were three countries, and I'm not going to name them. It's not in uh European solid solidarity sort of terms to name anyone.

But you can you know those countries, you can ask them why did they do that. It's not uh I can only say that Latvian position has been very strict and strong. We oppose lifting sanctions on Russian oligarchs, on weakening sanctions. We stand for strengthening of the sanctions. We welcome the Graham Bill.

That was best. Uh by the Congress, and we do look forward to the enactment of those. regulations. But in the same time, it's quite clear that these sort of positions within the EU that we saw recently developing will have an effect also on our citizens and other citizens in the third countries if the rumor is right since the deal was about the freeing of some certain citizens from prisons in third countries because have to warn our citizens that this can happen to them. And that is a very negative horizontal effect indeed.

So it's going to be a very interesting time. We see that President Zelensky said that there are some interesting proposals that have been brought up that possibly get Vladimir Putin to the table. He wants a trilateral talks. Have you heard similar promising things?

Well, the US efforts to bring peace to the US. Ukraine, we support fully. There is only one person that is between peace uh and and achieving it and that's Putin or as he's called in Latvia, Butcher in Kremlin. And uh we urge not to spare any effort put pressure on Russia to get to peace because as we see currently there is no indication that the butcher wants peace.

So pressure, pressure, pressure, while also showing that we are genuine, both Ukrainians, Europeans and Americans in wanting to achieve peace and having some type of long and lasting Deal.

So we will see how it ends, but we support these efforts. And indeed, the meeting between President Trump President Zelensky was good, was constructive, so we look forward to having the results. If it was for the US, Europeans and Ukrainians, we would have peace already. There's only one country, one person that doesn't want it. Barbara Burbrise is with us, Latvia's Foreign Minister.

So if we just don't so we we watched Yeltsin and he drank too much, and we watched Gorbachev, and they said he was ineffective. And then Vladimir Putin took over. In the beginning, they tried to win him over in the West, and he gradually looked at the West as the enemy. Is that the feeling of most people in Russian government? Do they all feel like Vladimir Putin that the West is an enemy that they can't deal with and its expansion and reclaiming the Soviet Union is the goal?

Or is it just Vladimir Putin? Does that vision die with him? Mm-hmm. Russia currently is an imperial authoritarian regime led by a vertical power. vertical uh sort of uh organizational power.

So there is no internal balances, checks and balances or anything else.

So it's a country run by KGB. former KGB which are intertwined with organized crime.

So it's an imperial authoritarian regime and it poses threats to the whole Western civilization, frankly.

So are you convinced do you think do you get up every day wondering if the Russian army is going to move on Latvia? Thanks. Uh no, because we clearly uh know, together with our NATO allies, that Russia currently is unable to launch a challenge on NATO, a military challenge. that what this regime is doing is, as we also saw from the U. S.

Department of Justice indictments, Uh the D O J called it Uh state sponsored There is some financing. and from where they're for hire.

So quite clearly, they are trying to attempt to undermine both support for Ukraine in European countries and beyond. They are trying to attack uh not you know, conventional military attack. that through sabotage, through armed drones, as we saw it in Leitzig airport, Also, through various hostile information attacks, cyber attacks. on various countries in Europe but also beyond. And this is the reality.

We have seen attempts at arson on former British Prime Ministers' properties. We have seen attempts at derailing trains in Poland. We have seen threats. On the military heads of military companies in Europe.

So there is a variety of different measures. that these uh influence uh efforts are taking. By Russia. And we just have to be very, very prepared for that through our internal security services. information exchange among the intelligence agencies, preparing society that this is possible that this can happen, that these incidents are organized.

And be ready to deny them.

So this is you know, as it used to be in the Cold War times, now they take different shape because the technology and cyber have changed the environment, but actually the nature of everything is very similar. Foreign Minister Baba Barbaraze, thanks so much. Stay safe over in Latfia, and thank you so much for continuing to live up to your NATO demands of 5 percent of your GDP and doing everything necessary to keep your country safe. Thanks so much. Meanwhile, the President of the United States spoke yesterday, and today the President of Iran spoke.

This is something he said prior to him walking to the Sage Cup 5. We will speak about the suffering of our children in Minab and Lamurd and the brutality of those responsible for these crimes. Human beings do not commit such acts and this behavior is deeply regrettable.

So they're talking about the bombing of what could be a school of innocent people dying. That would be terrible. But this is a president that hangs women for speaking up and wanting to not wear headgear every day. They're hanging innocent people for protesting and they're worried about the brutality of a regime. They define brutality.

Here's the President of the United States on what he wants to do. Cut to.

So while others have talked, I have acted. While others have spoken of peace, I have made peace while others have ignored threats. I have confronted them while others have talked of courage. America has shown it. while others have promised strength I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world.

working with many nations in this room. We are solving decades of intractable challenges, and we are settling years of unfinished business, and we are doing it well.

So That's what I think sums up Donald Trump. When everyone says, this is a problem, let's study it. This is a problem, let's have a committee on it, this is a problem, let's add a bill on it. He does it. And it ticks people off sometimes.

Other people can't, but they'll be in awe of it, catches people by surprise. The speed in which he does things is he addresses his issues. The first thing he did when he got into office, Panama. Really? Second thing he did, major operation, was blowing up these boats and going after the cartels.

Really? Caught me by a little bit by surprise. Operation Midnight Hammer. They have this program. They continue to grow it.

They're not listening. They're not paying attention. They're supporting all these proxy terror groups. I'm going to bomb them. Venezuela.

been a problem. Not anymore. It's Cuba. You know you'd act. His foreign policy is still about 36% approval.

That'll gradually go up. And you're always going to be the happiest. about the President's foreign policy, the next time. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. More to know.

Sponsored by Previgen. Previgion, made for your brain. Hey, welcome back. Before I go, and before I go, I just want to remind you, don't forget One Nation Sunday at 10 o'clock and Uniting the States. My brand new book comes out October 13th, the Six Moments that Forged the American Miracle.

You will love them. You'll love those stories. I think you'll love the country even more. But now it's time to find out if there's more to know, and there is. Chicago Commuters getting hit with a bold new Florida Billboard campaign.

Yes, expanding its multi-million dollar recruitment campaign to the Midwest. The Florida Chamber of Commerce is launching the next. Free enterprise billboard campaign targeting Illinois Governor Pritzker. As the chamber says, the data shows billions of dollars in income moving from Illinois to Florida. They're trying to get more slowed down a little bit, and it shouldn't.

By the way, next. A poll reveals that black families send their kids to private schools at higher rates than white families or Asian families. This goes against, it's kind of counterintuitive. The New York Post did a study. The data points to challenges, conventional, the challenges, conventional assumptions about private school and enrollment patterns across racial and socioeconomic demographics.

Yes, they want to make sure that their kids learn too.

Next. Playing loud music on the bus will cost you hundreds of dollars if you live. In Singapore. Yes, bus passes in Singapore can now be fined up to $500, and that is $293, $500 local, $293 period for us for playing their Uh Their feet play by placing their feet or playing loud audio, as well as eating, drinking, or littering on board. A line of $5,000 will be imposed for more than serious offenses such as causing obstruction or danger to fellow commuters.

Now, Allison, you ride the bus all the time. Would you like to see people fined for putting their feet in bad places and playing loud music? I mean, the feet isn't as big of an issue, thankfully, on New Jersey Transit. But honestly, the music, not even the music, it's when people are FaceTiming without headsets or even talking on the phone. Just be quiet.

Everyone's doing their own thing. If you're on a call, try to whisper, but try to keep it to a minimum.

Next. Jackson Dart's left knee injury looked like he'd be out four to six weeks with an MCL sprain. Then the afternoon happened. And their 28-6 loss, which was tough to deal with against the Rams, got a lot worse because it looks like Jackson Dart is done for the season. John Harbaugh said evaluations are ongoing and he would not comment on reports.

But the NFL insiders say Dart is seeking additional medical opinions on whether surgery will be needed. If surgery is needed, he is done for the year. Absolutely terrible. And Brian, we have this lovely TikToker who thinks it's all about karma. Dart sustained a leg injury so bad that he was unable to walk off the field by himself.

Now back in May of 2026, Dart also decided it was a good idea to introduce Donald Trump at a political rally.

Now there's one thing about Karma: she will always, always find you.

So it'll be interesting to see if Dart makes it back out onto the field this year or not. I mean, it's fascinating. You know, the president, every time he appears with somebody, they're going to get bad luck. It's bad karma. Jackson Dart has had an incredible run.

He played in just about every game, missed a couple of games last year. But he's been phenomenal. This devastating. Uh for the Giants, no question. But I don't say give up on the season.

I say you got to go out and get a J.J. McCarthy, somebody just rotting on somebody else's roster to back up Jameis Winston. Listen to the brain kill me, Chuck.