The Brian Kilmeade Show

How can we help make stronger communities happen?

Well, at JPMorgan Chase, we invest in what's working. Because when businesses can grow, that growth means more jobs for more people and more goods that can go to more restaurants and main streets and schools in the communities we love. Make the green grass grow all around, all around, make the green grass grow all around. Make momentum happen. Learn more at jpmorganchase.com/slash impact.

From Hia Top Fox News Headquarters in New York. City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're there.

I hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action now. Lawrence Jones, straight up from Fox and Friends, is with us. Alex Hunt, who is running as a candidate for U.S. District 1 over in Montana, he wants to replace the Republican out there, and we'll see if that's going to work.

This whole independent movement's really been pushed by Joe Manchin, supported directly or indirectly. He believes that independents are the future because he thinks they'll ultimately have leverage in a House and Senate that can be separated by just a handful of seats. And it's not a bad theory. I mean, that's what the socialists are doing. The socialists just want a handful of socialists in there.

And if there's only five or ten seats separating the parties and the majority, you're going to have to kowtow to them.

So it's not a bad theory. Before we get to Lawrence, let's get to the big three. Number three. The House has been kind of a done deal for a good while, but the Senate, a year ago, It wasn't realistic to think that the Senate might flip, but now it's very realistic. That is Charles Cook, the Cook report.

Midterms never have been tighter.

Well, Republicans have money, Dems have momentum, but also have a huge branding problem. Nobody likes them. We break it down. Number two. AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths.

Nice. Besides that, is it a big deal? That is Bill Gates. AI debate heats up in every way. The capabilities, the data centers, the competition at stake is America's future, and more.

Much more.

Now in fact there is a framework along the same path with the same objectives that were established. If the United States agrees to proceed in that way, everything will return to the way it was before. President of Iran with very little power, but going out there again, along with the foreign minister, pushing a seven-day deal where the Strait of Hermuz opens up and where they get unfrozen funds, uh, funds to their coffers. And we talk about a nuclear compromise where they give up everything, maybe not. Lawrence Jones, the president, has walked away from that offer.

Yeah, because it was a bad deal. And I'm not sure it was w worth the paper that it was written on. This is like the third deal. Look, Brian, I made it very clear that the negotiations with them is just worthless because you know, good cop, bad cop, moderates. The thing that works.

And no control. I like that too. They got a good cup, bad cup, and no control. No control. And by the way, You remember they were just here in New York, and Tehran goes, we didn't authorize them to be having conversations.

So there you go, right there, when they're trying to do a negotiation here. You mean the Supreme Leader? The Supreme Leader, yeah. They came out, according to state media, which is, to your point, the Supreme Leader, said we didn't authorize them to even be having conversations.

So that's one thing. What worries me, though, Brian, you are seeing in some parts races that really matter. Although we support the action that the president, I think his legacy is going to be appreciated more, that it's impacting some of the races. Ashley Henson in Iowa came out and said, Mr. President, end this war.

John James, a West Point grad, said, Mr. President, end this war. We also get Army Ranger, great guy, too. And also, Mike Rogers. I know.

FBI. There's no one been stronger when it comes to foreign policy in the threats of radical Islam than Mike Rogers has over his career. And it just shows. Shows you that the politics locally Have been impacted by the prices.

So I just think there's something to be said for the president speaking to the president of Iran, speaking to Fox and speaking to Amit the Press. Foreign Minister met with Amit the Press and then ABC with the President. Why are they doing that? Yeah, of course it's great for an American news service to be able to interview them, but they want to talk.

So they want to get to the deal. And they're talking to intermediaries, Qataris, I think, and then to Steve Woodkoff and Jared Kushner. That's not enough.

So this is the deal, essentially.

So here is the foreign minister through Translator talking about what else they want besides a seven-day pause, cut six. This is why we have offered this seven-day plan based on the ag based on the understanding that we had with the US interlocutors in the past. Uh confidence should be built. Uh our money which are illegally frozen should be released, uh blockade should be uh removed and and other things that they know what to do there.

So that's the deal. And Mike Wells came on and said, You know, we're going to take the deal. The President says, We're not going to take the deal. And I saw Scott Besson says in two weeks we're out of oil totally. Yeah.

So, and the over the land, they thought they'd do stuff over the land. It's all stopped up at the Pakistani border and the Turk-Menistan border. Yeah.

If you notice, none of the options that they have proposed is long term. It's also, they can just get a little bit of cash. Just let us fight another day. And that's why I say, you know, we did this with the military action as well. When we were so close to being done, then we put the pause on.

We can't do that with the economic aspect of it. We need them to be dry, especially I'm sure, behind the scenes, what I'm told the president had strong conversations with the president of China. About his support. Right.

So The pressure is on, leave it there.

So, this is what people should understand on the outside. In case you don't know, and you're just very busy, you got two jobs, you got three kids running around, and you might be thinking to yourself: why was the president so nice to the The the president of China. Here's the thing. The one thing, everyone's got their hot buttons. With the Chinese, they're about respect.

That's right. And when you go publicly and say the tariffs are coming on, you guys better keep your hands off Taiwan, get away from South Korea, stop harassing the Philippine Navy. I know that's how we feel. That's right. But if your goal is to stop all those things, that's not how you do it with them.

That's why the Biden administration, the first months of their administration, end up getting blistered by the Chinese. You know, and that blinking is so weak. Right.

And their whole airbase is so weak, and just blistered verbally in Alaska by the Chinese delegation. The president says, Listen, we're going to give you respect. We're going to give you the red carpet. Yeah, I'm going to go meet you at Marine. I'm going to go meet you at Andrews Air Force Base.

Oh, that's more than he did for you.

So what? Right.

President's about hospitality. What's his goal? We get behind these closed doors. Hey, listen, got the satellite photos. You're doing it.

I know you're doing it. Oh, you mean it's other industries and your defense manufacturer?

Okay, sure. Yeah.

Gotta stop. And if you could stop, this is how we're gonna be able to help you. Why don't we drop this, drop?

So, what he does is he does it behind closed doors. And he says, I'm going to meet you again in November, and then I'm going to see you again in December.

So that's what he does with things. Same thing with the seven days.

Now, do you think the president wants to release the Straight of Horn Roosevelt? Watch the oil drop to $70, $80 a barrel? Of course. But in three weeks, we're going to have a worse problem. That's right.

So he's staring everything down. If it's not the way you would do things, or Clinton or Obama or Biden. It doesn't mean they were right and he was wrong. Also, he's delivered results.

Okay? I mean there is a re first of all I can't believe we're 10 years in and people still don't get the Trump. Warren Policy. I know. Right.

He did business with these guys for years. He's the only one that has gotten the Gulf States on our side. He got the hostages. Leaders respect him even cheaper. But to your point, you can't embarrass these guys unless you're trying to do the stick approach, which sometimes he does in public.

And what he's saying is, give me some flexibility to cut these deals behind closed doors.

Now, how we measure this, Brian, is in the coming weeks. What is Iran's actions? Right? Because if Iran actions change and they're completely bled dry of cash, then something happened in that meeting with China.

So I want you to hear.

So a lot of people say, well, what is the plan?

So I was listening to Jack Keene on with the great Mark Levin. And here is what we should do. Here's General Jack Keene. And by the way, just got back from Israel. Cut it.

There are IRGC facilities in the areas where these groups are. We get them under arms. They go attack those facilities. We've got Israeli and U.S. air power facilitating that.

They take it down. Any reinforcement that comes in, we take it down with air power before it even gets to those forces. People in that community will be out by the tens of thousands, and we do that in more than one place, several places. That will absolutely bring this population alive. We're making it harder than what it is.

That is an answer to the challenge of what we're facing.

So he's saying when the army comes out to suppress the uprising, once they're armed up, then we take out the army because then they're going to have to show themselves. They're going to have to get together and they're going to move forward. And then they're going to expose themselves. That's when we come in with the intelligence of the IDF. Which we have a lot of intelligence.

Johnny Ratcliffe is one of the best in the business. He has the information, not to mention the Mossad. To the general's point though, of us making it harder. Then it is brunt. You know why they're making it harder?

Because there's a time clock. The time clock We have the resources. We have the plans on the table. But when you put a timeline deadline on it and you allow an election to impact your decision making. Then it becomes a lot more complicated.

You remove the barrier of the time, you open Sesame, then you start firing on officers. While you're saying that, you know what I'm thinking? Why did the president keep saying this? After the midterms, they're going to start bombing. You know what he's trying to say?

I don't care about the midterms. You know what? If it is his deadline in his head, he's letting Iran know it's not my deadline. I know you think it's my deadline because you think you figure out American politics, but you haven't.

Well, he also said this, which I thought was significant during his speech to the UN last week. I'm not running again.

So you may have thought you understood American politics, but if I lose in the midterms, I'm still the President of the United States. I'm still the Commander in Chief, which is why he told me about a month ago, is that there will not be any deal After the midterm. Either we're going to come to an agreement now, but after the midterms, all bets are off. Right.

And they should know that.

So I just wish the president would switch out his negotiators. and tell them to focus on where they did really well at Gaza. And take Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner doing a great job there. Let's land the plane and continue to disarm Hamas. You're rebuilding section by section of Gaza and just bring back Rubio and his crew to take over from here because they got the most experience of anyone in the country.

That's why. I don't care how skilled you are. If you have a portfolio of that mech, no one. Even Henry Kissinger. Could do a portfolio of this amount of conflicts at one time.

No way. It's impossible.

So. I want you to hear so the whole thing is about Iran.

So the main thing is we have nuclear weapons.

So why are you enriching? If you just said you keep saying you don't want a nuclear weapon, you want nuclear energy.

Okay, do what the UAE did. You enrich the uranium outside the country, you bring it into the nuclear reactor.

So to Kristen Welker's credit, she actually asked the question, Cut five. This is to Iran's foreign minister who speaks English. Iran's President said this week that Iran has, quote, never sought nuclear weapons, but Iran has enriched uranium to 60 percent. That's 20 times more than enriched uranium percentage needed to produce electricity. Why does Iran need a stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium?

Well, it is a question that we have answered this during the negotiations we had with the US. First of all, in reaching up to sixty percent is not illegal. It is still in the framework of NPT and our peaceful programme. We have done it for certain purposes, medical purposes, other purposes. Medical purposes?

No. But also, these people are so inconsistent. Brett Baer asked the president of this: do you guys want a nuclear? He says no. Right?

So. Then Brett follows up and said, Then why do you need to be enriching at this level? Oh, he goes, Oh, we can decrease. Then you got the foreign minister saying this. These guys are so full of it.

Oh, it's crazy. That is such an inconsistency. You do one interview there because that is who they are. The radical Islamists, this is what they do. Right.

They don't answer the question much like El Saeed. No. So they're asking him, they're saying, if you want a, and Mike Wall says, you know, if they want a nuclear weapon, if this is a peaceful nuclear program, why do they bury it? Right.

Why is it in the ground?

So why, and the pickaxe thing, we don't even know. I'm surprised they didn't bring that up yesterday. We don't even know what's in the pickaxe mountain and thinking it's almost impossible for us to penetrate. We could do some serious damage. I think that's going to be the next operation.

I mean, it's got. The president has kind of. Hinted at it. Anytime he says, I don't want to talk about something, that means some stuff is going on. Yeah.

So. Uh I I would take that as his answer. I hear you. I do want you to hear from John Nixon.

So, John Nixon is one who found Saddam Hussein. He's got this series you gotta watch. It's on TNT. And he's the one who was an expert on Iran and Saddam Hussein in the CIA, but he was behind a desk. But then the war starts, and he's trying to say, I could help find Saddam Hussein.

They couldn't find him. They killed his sons. They couldn't find him. And they go, no, no, you're a CIA guy. You're an office guy.

Then finally, they took the CIA. They said, go. And he went in there and he found him. And he said, when he finally got the chance to interrogate Saddam Hussein, he interrogated him more than anybody else. Wow.

So he said, in talking to him, he kept saying. Essentially, to paraphrase. You think I'm your problem. Iran's your problem. He called them the Turbans.

So I asked John Nixon, what would you do next being that you studied Iran, you talked to Saddam, and you're still all over the region. This is what he said to me on Sunday night, Qatin. their power as opposing you and resisting you. That is a very difficult situation and you're never really going to get anywhere. I used to think that negotiations were the answer.

I don't believe that anymore. You know why why he he says that? It's because he is astutely aware of the ideology. And the other thing is we didn't pull the sound bite. I don't know why we didn't pull pull it on our staff didn't pull it on One Nation.

But um But he he was asked to About yeah, he was at John Nixon wa was asked about About what their role was in the insurgency in Iraq. And he says they dominated it. They were the insurgency in Iraq. Without Iran, there would have been no insurgency in Iraq. And they remember six hundred and three of our guys, they got the exact number, but thousands more wounded through the EFPs and IEDs.

So they organized it all. Yeah.

If you if you want to track The funding, the intel, the weapons of all the radical Islamists around the world, even in Africa. Yeah.

That's what people don't understand. This is bigger than the next election. And I think, don't you think the administration could do a better job of explaining this?

Well, they do, but they could. They could say, they could make this America first. They could make this, this is about the country. But I think there are people that were inside of the White House that is advising the president. Get out everything Is dependent on the midterms.

And if you that you may destroy your legacy, I think just the opposite. Lawrence Jones, thanks so much.

Now you get some rest. Where you at? Back in the moment. It's Brian Kilmade. How can we help make stronger communities happen?

Well, at JPMorgan Chase, we invest in what's working. Because when businesses can grow, that growth means more jobs for more people and more goods that can go to more restaurants and main streets and schools in the communities we love. Make the green grass grow all around, all around, make the green grass grow all around. Make momentum happen. Learn more at jpmorganchase.com/slash impact.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Rapper Mack Lemore, who was dropped as the opening act for Ed Sheeran, announced that he is launching a free Palestine tour. But haven't the Palestinian people been through enough?

So that I didn't watch all of Saturday Night Live, did you, Allison? I just went through and watched some of the clips. Did you, Eric, by any chance? Eric's shaking me off, but here's the thing. Jalen Brunson sometimes is a Charles Barkley, who is a superstar player.

And a great personality. Shaquille O'Neal, another example, right? Jameis Winston of the of the Giants, great personality, Tiki Barber. Jalen Brunson seems like a great person. He is not a big personality.

He hosted the show. They have him in like every single skit, and he's like carrying it. And wait I mean this is something that people like trained You know, at Second City in Chicago for years, in order to. Oh, I mean, I just thought it was what I saw of it, it was almost unwatchable. It was rough.

It was the first one. His opening bottled, yeah. It was a little rough. What?

Well, I mean, even the cold open. They made Mondami look better than Trump. Are you kidding me? But that's so predictable. You almost spilled your coffee, but you didn't.

Thank goodness. Back in a moment. How can we help make stronger communities happen?

Well, at JPMorgan Chase, we invest in what's working. Because when businesses can grow, that growth means more jobs for more people and more goods that can go to more restaurants and main streets and schools in the communities we love. Make the green grass grow all around, all around, make the green grass grow all around. Make momentum happen. Learn more at jpmorganchase.com slash impact.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we are back. Aaron Flints in the studio. He's running for as a candidate for U.S.

District Court District 1 over in Montana. They only have two seats in the House, but you had one. They just got it because you're getting more people little by little. Big state, not a lot of big population for now, but a lot of people are going there. Aaron, you're an Iraq Afghan veteran, retired lieutenant colonel.

You're running against Sam Forstog, an American labor union leader.

So you really got somebody very left against somebody very right. Yeah, this is. And the district is battleground. Yeah, this is a battleground seat being targeted by both Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats gerrymandered this seat for a time just like this.

It's crazy. Our biggest challenge, Brian, is that people say, oh, come on, this is Montana. And they look at my background compared to my opponent, and they're like, oh, this race is too easy. Because, you know, you mentioned my background, combat veteran, fifth-generation Montana, statewide radio show. In fact, my show comes on right after yours.

I'm on a leave of absence. Right now, my opponent is this far-left socialist lobbyist from Portland, endorsed by AOC and Bernie Sanders. But yet, what you hear in the media is, oh, he's just a blue-collar oyster farmer running against some guy who just talks on the radio.

So that's why we get the resources. We can expose my opponent, but this is a battleground story. How is oyster farming going in Montana?

Well, this is, I joke about Oyster Farmer. You know, he spent a hot minute as a smoke jumper. I spent over 20 years in the military. Look, I thank all who've served as somebody who joined after 9-11. I was actually working for a U.S.

senator from Montana in the U.S. Capitol when the 9-11 terror attacks occurred. That's what inspired me to come back to Montana and join the military.

So I thank all first responders, anybody who served. But this guy is saying nothing about his lobbyist background. This guy lobbied for the craziest of the far-left stuff, sanctuary cities for illegal aliens, men and girls' bathrooms. I mean, the list could hire property. I don't think that goes with Montana, but you were telling me that it was gerrymandered to make it possible to have somewhat of a blue district, right?

Or a battleground district in famously right-wing Montana.

Well, that's right. You know, it's probably, I would say I'll have the honor of representing the most beautiful district in the entire country. I mean, from Yellowstone National Park up to Glacier National Park. When I first got back home from my first deployment to Iraq 20 years ago, I went straight to Glacier National Park. But I tell you what, think about the propaganda coup it would be if an AOC-endorsed Momdani-style leftist were to win in Montana.

It's bad enough that there's a Momdani in New York or if something like that were to happen in Dear Bornistan, Michigan, but something like that in the heartland of America would be a propaganda coup for the anti-American left.

So that's why we greatly appreciate you putting some attention on this race.

So here is Sam Forstag's campaign ad. Let's listen to somebody, Cut30. Right now, the richest people. In this country, they are trying to burn it all down so they can buy it all up.

Meanwhile, folks are breaking their backs, barely getting by. Can't afford the doctor, priced out of house and home, just one surprise bill away from devastation. While we're working more, but Getting less. DC isn't doing much about it, either because they don't hear the siren or because they set the blaze. I'm Sam Forstag, smoke jumper, union leader, trained to deal with a crisis.

I know what it's like. And of course, what he doesn't tell you is that he's a high-paid lobbyist who lobbied for all of the crazy left-wing special interests, higher property taxes. He pretends to care about affordability. This is a guy who is a paid lobbyist who fought to raise property taxes while I was on the radio fighting for lower taxes and combating against these higher property taxes. Plus, I think we launched our.

Do you guys even have a state tax in Montana? We have zero sales tax, which we're proud of. And finally, thanks to a Republican governor and legislature, we've significantly lowered our income taxes, but we're getting hammered on property taxes. But why are we getting hammered on property taxes?

Well, A, because we have lobbyists like my opponent who are lobbying for higher property taxes, but B, If we're going to make the Montana dream affordable again, which is what got me into this race, which is what I started this race talking about, we've got to invest in trades and trades education. We've got to revitalize our timber industry. And we've got to mine and manufacture in America again. We've got one town about an hour and 15 minutes away from my house. They used to have 3,000 kids in their schools.

Small town, used to have 3,000 kids in their schools. They only have 1,000 kids in their schools today. Yet they're surrounded by forest resources and forests that need to be fixed. And they've got enough copper right near Libby, Montana to rewire the entire U.S. electric grid two times over.

That's a way that we can have high-wage jobs to get more kids in our schools. Environmentalists are stopping you? We've had far-left judges in the federal courts. Thankfully, those are starting to turn over. But I'll tell you what, if we get a far-leftist to win this Western congressional seat, they're going to put a halt to any of this progress.

And we're going to keep exporting our kids, unfortunately.

So I want to give you, he's not here, Sam Forstak's not here, but he has an ad saying why he's running as a Democrat. Cut 31. How did you end up as a Democratic congressional candidate and why a Democrat? Started running actually because I was working as a smoke jumper for the Forest Service until seven months ago. We parachute into remote fires, put them out while they're still small.

I was also a leader in my unions local when all the doge cuts started and what that meant in our state was overwhelmingly the lowest paid workers we got. Losing their jobs, having their lives turned upside down. And a lot of those are my members. When I reached out to Ryan Zinke, the Republican in this seat, time and time again, I got crickets.

So I've decided if he's going to come after my members and my coworkers' jobs, I'm going to come and take his. And he's dropped out of this race. We're polling dead even and Montana's first. And I think people are excited to see a different kind of candidate and somebody who knows what it's been like on the ground for a whole lot of people on the state. How do you respond to that?

Phony, just more phoniness from Forstag here. I was hosting a statewide radio talk show. I'd take phone calls from anybody across the state. I'd have guests on the show. Nobody ever even heard of phony Forrestag until AOC and Bernie Sanders flew into Missoula, Montana on their private jet, true story, and plopped this guy on the stage.

Straight up phony. It was actually Republicans who fought to increase firefighter pay. And where was he when our coal miners were under attack? When we lost 700 mining union jobs at the Stillwater Mine in Montana, where was this guy? Not a peep out of this guy.

So just straight up phoniness, where I was fighting for those union coal miners. I was fighting. My cousin is a miner at the underground Stillwater Mine. I was fighting for our timber industry. This guy was nowhere to be found.

So, I mean, I was barely in Montana. I just went to Yellowstone Park, but I can't wait to go. I've got really good friends with Ryan Zinke when he was Interior Secretary, and we went behind Mount Rushmore. We went. Underneath the Lincoln Memorial.

He brought us everywhere and into the torch on the Statue of Liberty. He did a fantastic job there, but immediately, when you're associated with Trump, you're going to be attacked and you're going to be sued.

So I know that he was getting worn out too.

So you got the Army background and he's got the Navy SEAL background. I've joked, of course, Ryan's a great guy, a Navy SEAL veteran, and so honored to have his support in this race. We both share a commitment to protecting our public lands. We fought for this country and we fight for our public lands as well. But yeah, I had to joke with Ryan: oh, the Navy needed the Army guy to come in and finish the job.

Now, all in good fun, though. No, I tell you what, 35 years of service to this country, 23 as a Navy SEAL, served in the state legislature, Congress, then as Interior Secretary, ran for this battleground seat, held it for us in Montana, held the line, and we got to continue to hold the line, especially on America's Tourism. You know the Cook report does all forecasts about races all across the country.

So Charlie Cook was on ABC over the weekend, and this is the first time. This is what he said that people are doing now who want to be successful this election cycle, Cut 22. Just over the last, say, 30 days, you're having basically the impact of fuel prices, gasoline, diesel, fuel, oil, fertilizer hitting here, tariffs hitting here, and Republicans for the first time starting to want to put some daylight between themselves and the president. But it's difficult because he's got a MAGA base that doesn't want them to do that.

So they're getting pushed really, really, really hard, getting squeezed. How do you stand? Where do you stand?

Well, I think it's funny. My opponent had AOC come out and they did this deep embrace hug on a stage at a rally in Missoula, Montana preprimary.

Now he scrubbed her off his website. Axios is reporting today that candidates like him and others are saying, AOC, no, no, no, stay back in the kitchen, don't come out, right? And so we're more than happy to have President Trump come out here and give his message directly to the people of Montana. My opponent is trying to hide everything about his background, including his AOC. Where do you stand on the war?

Oh, I stand on the war. Look, as an Iraq-Afghanistan veteran joined the military after 9-11, we're all tired of these forever wars. We don't want to see a boots on the ground nation-building exercise. When it comes to Iran right now, I look at it this way: we need to get this thing done with once and for all, or get it done with. And so I think by the time we get there with the support of the great people of Montana, I think it'll all be wrapped up by then.

But that's certainly where I stand. That's where our folks stand. You know what people who fought in Iraq fully understand if they were there, the insurgency was fueled by Iran. And I was talking to John Nixon, who they built the series around. He was the CIA guy who helped find Saddam Hussein.

Iran and Saddam Hussein prior to the war. He said that there's no one who is more culpable to do the insurgency than Iran. And they directly linked to 603 American deaths, let alone the thousands that were maimed of the EFPs and the IEDs.

So your feeling towards them must be really off the charts. 47 years, this war has been going on against the United States of America from the terrorists in Tehran. Let's get it done with once and for all, or let's get it done with. But let's go back to gas prices. Look, I have fought for unleashing American energy.

And we've increased production, but now we've got to increase domestic refinery capacity as well. Yeah, but we haven't built a new refinery since the 70s. And who is standing in the way of that? Far leftists like my opponent and these AOC folks. And oh, by the way, look at what would the price of diesel be in Europe today if you did the conversion from liters to gallons.

Europe, with their Green New Deal policies, are Paying $12 a gallon for diesel, I think was the last number I heard, maybe a few days ago. California, with their Green New Deal policies. Earlier this summer, I ran into Steve Hilton. $8.39 a gallon people were paying in California.

Now, I'm going to get in there. I'm going to fight because I know how we can unleash American energy. We can dominate on the world stage and lower these prices. But look, we get this war done with, the prices go down. The other side wins.

This is common sense over crazy. If the common sense side wins, we bring these prices down. If the crazy gets in there, permanently higher prices because of their Green New Deal policies. Remember, they... I mean, one thing the Democrats should be forced to do is just describe what they would do.

At the very least, if you are an undecided voter, just ask. You know what Republicans want to do and what they want to fix and what they feel in their middle of.

Okay. But you have to at least ask what Democrats would do. You can't just say I'm against Trump. That's not really should be enough for any voter. My opponent is one of these climate crazies.

We've got these climate crazies in Montana that sued to try to stop a natural gas power plant from being built. And then we wonder why energy is so expensive. They killed Coal Strip 1 and 2 and they wanted to kill Coal Strip 3 and 4. They've destroyed our public lands. We've lost hunting opportunities because of the predators they've unleashed in our forests.

They've destroyed our public lands by not managing our forests. And they're trying to block us from better managing our forests. These are the people that created the chaos, that burned everything down, that are now trying to capitalize off the chaos they created. That's why we need common sense folks who are going to get in there, fix these things, make the Montana dream affordable again, and provide high-wage job opportunities for our kids.

So, the Cook Report also says this about the house, Cut 19. The House has been kind of a done deal for a good while, but the Senate, a year ago, It wasn't realistic to think that the Senate might flip, but now it's very realistic. And where are you seeing that? We were just in Michigan, El Syed, and Mike Rogers' race. North Carolina open seat there goes first, and then you have a whole group of Republican seats, Alaska, Iowa, maybe Kansas.

But at the same time, Democrats are defending Michigan and Wisconsin a little bit, and I'm sorry, Minnesota a little bit, and New Hampshire.

So, do you believe he said the House is a done deal? Do you believe that? No, I think we actually will hold the majority because, you know, my race in Montana's first congressional district is really the epitome of common sense over crazy. But as I've looked at some of these other races across the country briefly, you're seeing common sense over crazy in every one of these races. I mean, I'm running against an AOC-endorsed lobbyist from Portland in Montana, but there's some of these other, you know, crazy candidates.

Colorado's got crazy candidates like this. Yeah, you got El Saeed over in Michigan. It's just crazy. But again, going back to something we started with, Brian, imagine the propaganda coup for the American left if they were to win, if they were to get one of these far-left socialists. A victory in the heartland.

And so that's why this is a big battleground seat. And by the way, before I forget, I got to get you one of our Montana AF stickers. AF Aaron First. Aaron Flint. America First.

The kids think it sounds, you know, it's for something else, but it's America First and Aaron Flint.

So we'll have to get you one of these. Aaron, congratulations on the run. It always takes a lot of guts to jump in, and it's going to be a tight race, but you're used to performing in tight spots in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is nothing for that. If it wasn't a fight, I wouldn't have jumped into it because Lord knows I don't need to go back to Washington, D.C.

I'd rather be back. It's a heck of a commute. It's home in Montana. It's a heck of a commute. I just know Senator Xi, he feels the same way, man.

That's a lot of time that he's not with his family. But it's worth it for the country. Aaron Flint, good luck. FlintforMontana.com. Brian, greatly appreciate the time.

Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead. How can we help make stronger communities happen?

Well, at JPMorgan Chase, we invest in what's working. Because when businesses can grow, that growth means more jobs for more people and more goods that can go to more restaurants and main streets and schools in the communities we love. Grow all around, all around. Make the green grass grow all around. Make momentum happen.

Learn more at jpmorganchase.com/slash impact. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian. and killmade. Kamala Harris has reportedly offered to campaign with Democratic candidates before the midterm because there's still time for Democrats to blow this thing.

That is a pretty good line. See that's what I'm used to. That's still an SNL. I mean, they never would have done that if Kamala Harris was running against Trump. Trump and it was the final week.

Well the old SNL used to be equal opportunity um offenders. Fair. But in this case, literally that was like the only joke. That was the only one, yeah. I mean, by the way, the the cold open was terrible.

It was cold open. I mean, he had so much potential to make that like And the fact they then had, you know, Trump's Person like Natalie coming in, like they're making this poor woman scapegoat, like it's. I understand like everyone is fair game. I just think it's an unfair caricature, but I agree. It could have been much funnier.

Right.

Do we have any more cuts from them, or is that all you got? That was all we got because I don't think the other ones I would have pulled, you would have found as funny.

Okay, I understand that.

So I guess we'll see. But before we were just talking about Montana and the battleground in the red state of Montana, but keep in mind, John Tester was there for like five terms, Democrat, but he was pretending to be moderate. But he never was actually moderate when you looked at his votes.

So he actually got beat by a superstar. I think even Democrats would admit it. And Senator Tim Sheehy looks the part, Navy SEAL. I don't know how much he likes the job, but man, everyone, especially on armed services, really counts on him. But just talking about Democrats who are running differently than they actually are.

James Tylarico was probably case in point. James Tyrico now says he's going to be tough on the border. He plans on working with the president when it comes to being tough on the border and finishing the wall. He told all Democrats to stay away. I don't want any help.

Better O'Rourke, they. Said made a big mistake having Democrats come and campaign with him. Why? Because Bader O'Rourke was a Democrat who said, I would be open to taking the wall down. And now here's Tallarico acting like a tough guy, cut 32.

This person is not available. If you would like to leave an additional message, please reply after the tone. Hey Ken, it's James. I'm calling to invite you to a debate on Fox News. Texans start voting in less than a month, and they deserve to hear from both of us before they do.

I've accepted four local TV debates, but we haven't heard from you, and we're running out of time. And that is him leaving a message for Ken Paxson. I'm not sure if Ken Paxon wants to debate, but he's got a whole lot of money coming in. Keep in mind, coming up October 13th, United States, my brand new book comes out. It'll be in Red Bank, New Jersey on the 16th, on the 17th of Raspberry, New York, Palm Beach, Florida.

On the 24th, Verobeast to 25th, Clearwater, then Jacksonville. How can we help make stronger communities happen?

Well, at JPMorgan Chase, we invest in what's working, in businesses that create more jobs, in hospitals delivering care where it's needed the most, in workers building new buildings, bridges, and roads, connecting what we need to where we live. Make the green grass grow all around, all around, make the green grass grow all around. Make momentum happen. Learn more at jpmorganchase.com/slash impact. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. It's the Brian Killmead Show. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. If you're in the Northeast, I know it was a rainy weekend. Hopefully, you're not flooded and a victim of any of that.

I know we're getting coastal flooding alerts by my house on Long Island. Hopefully, you're not near that. Daniel Hoffman standing by, former CIA station chief, Moscow, Iraq, Pakistan, South Asia, Europe. He's Fox News contributor. Julian Epstein, too, served for a long time as a Democrat, disillusioned with the direction of the party.

I want him to weigh in on. On what's going on with the midterms. We're getting closer and closer, and it's really getting tough. It's really time to really drill down on the latest polls, the latest messaging. And if you're going to spend, now's the time, Mr.

President. Republicans certainly could use the help.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. The House has been kind of a done deal for a good while, but the Senate, a year ago, It wasn't realistic to think that the Senate might flip, but now it's very realistic. Really, Charlie Cook? I do not think the House, you're the expert, but I do not think the House is already a done deal.

Midterms have never been tired. While Republicans have the money, Dems have momentum, but also have a huge branding problem. Nobody likes them. We'll break it down. Number two.

AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that you know, cause a billion deaths. Besides that, is it a big deal? Bill Gates on Meet the Press, AI debate heats up in every way. The capabilities, the data centers, the competition with China, at stake America's future, and more, much more. Number one.

Now in fact, there is a framework along the same path with the same objectives that were established. If the United States agrees to proceed in that way, everything will return to the way it was before. President of Iran wants us to believe him now on their latest proposal. Iran offers a seven-day deal. Trump is looking at a lifetime win.

Daniel Hoffman joins us now. Dan, welcome back. Thanks. Great to be with you on the program. Yeah, so Dan, so the seven-day deal would say we unfreeze billions for them.

We open up the strait, and for seven days we talk about a nuclear program, a way forward. The president's just said a non-starter, but he's still talking to them through intermediaries. What would you do? I think the President is likely surmised that The economic pressure we're putting on Iran is putting us in an advantageous position. And there's no reason to go back to that old deal, the MOU, that was signed.

That was really better for Iran than for us, of course. And we don't want to give up our leverage. Our leverage right now is the blockade, it's the economic pressure on Iran. And I think that we have to remember what our strategic objective was, which was to ensure that Iran would never have a nuclear weapon. That means inspectors need to go into Iran.

Right now, they're not allowed there. But also, that we would deal with Iran's ballistic missile inventory, their drones, their support to proxy terrorists, everything that the JCPOA did not address. And so I think the President has to decide. Probably he doesn't want to discuss publicly what he wants or how he wants to get there. Probably that's happening behind the scenes.

You know, what people forget is that when the JCPOA was signed, They got money. And if you even talk to Saudi officials, they say all that money went to terror. They go to Hezbollah, go to Hamas, they build up their ballistic missile program, and they the Middle East, the whole region goes on fire. And that's why people say, well, you had a deal to neutralize their nuclear program. I'm not convinced it was.

And number two, they they were still enriching. And number two, Hezbollah and Hamas were flush with cash. That has to stop. I mean, that was that JCPOA was never enshrined as a treaty because enough Democrats, including Senator Schumer, We're against it for the reasons that you know.

Now, even if the money had gone to Butter instead of guns, it still allows Iran to use whatever other money they have to pay for their terrorists or their weapons of mass destruction.

So I agree with you. I didn't buy that argument. I was director of the CIA's Middle East, Near East Division at the time, responsible for the Middle East, and I argued against it at the time.

So Scott Beston says predicted on Sunday that Iran will complete its remaining oil shipments to China within two weeks, leaving Tehran with nothing left to trade for anything. And the Trump administration is intensifying its pressure campaign against the regime. The Beston said they Said only about 15 million barrels of Iranian oil remain out for delivery.

Now that the U.S. is blockading the ports. Also, there's a report of something like we're getting something like $600 million worth of Iranian oil that we seized is now heading towards our shores.

So it's been an airtight blockade so far. And I think behind closed doors, the president really pressured China. to knock it off essentially. Yeah, I'm not that sanguine that the Chinese are going to. To do that, although not for the reasons that we would want.

Certainly, China has been importing less Iranian oil. They have a lot in their strategic reserve. They've also got. an economy that relies a lot on other options for energy, including battery powered vehicles instead of gas. I think what China wants is a stable world economy, and that's certainly not what we're going to have as long as Iran doesn't come to the negotiating table.

The question, Brian, for us, As we watch this, Iran has a pretty high threshold for the pain they were willing to inflict on their own people. And so how far will this economic pressure get us? Does it get us to a deal? That's something that I'm sure the intelligence community, CIA Director Radcliffe, is working on closely, pulsing his sources, just to know. How serious the pain is impacting, economic pain is impacting the IRGC's calculus right now.

So the fact that they came in and they said we want to do a deal, they had the President and Foreign Minister say the same thing on like two the President spoke on two outlets, the Foreign Minister spoke on one outlet after going to the UN and giving a speech. What does that tell you about Iran's stance and status right now? And what's really going on behind there?

Well, often what they'll do is they'll use the President or the Foreign Minister to probe us. And see, well, okay. Um What might the United States be willing to do? if anything. While the hardliners, the IRGC, the man running the country arguably right now, General Vaheedi, IRGC commander, while they continue to pursue a hard line, remember that That the Houthis right now are taking the fight to our Gulf ally partner, Saudi Arabia, trying to gain control over the Red Sea.

They've launched attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure. Iraqi militants have done the same thing, targeting the Saudi East-West pipeline.

So Iran is dialing up the pressure a little bit through their proxy terrorists. But at the same time, they're probing us on a deal because I think they would like to make a deal if it's advantageous to them, and the President is right to hold out.

So I want you to hear what General Keen said in terms of a battle plan and what we should do. He spent just significant, I think, eight days in Iran talking to the higher ups on their military and their intelligence. This is his plan, cut eight. There are IRGC facilities in the areas where these groups are. We get them under arms, they go attack those facilities.

We've got Israeli and U.S. air power facilitating that. They take it down. Any reinforcement that comes in, we take it down with air power before it even gets to those forces. People in that community will be out by the tens of thousands, and we do that in more than one place, several places.

That will absolutely bring this population alive. We're making it harder than what it is. That is an answer to the challenge of what we're facing.

He says you arm up these people. And then when the army goes to suppress him, The I D F and the U S Air Force takes him out. Yeah.

I think that, look, General, who am I to argue with General Keene, who's had the illustrious career in the armed forces? God bless him. I can just tell you from my old days at CIA, you know, providing arms. To Indigenous fighters, super difficult when you don't have a presence inside the country. If we could have done that, We would have done it.

But not to say that further kinetic action isn't warranted or might have an impact. the disparity in the in the force projection from protesters who don't have guns to the IRGC and the besiege forces, hundreds of thousands of guys who are going to suppress protests violently makes it extremely difficult, I think, extremely unlikely. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't consider this as a way of gaining leverage. And driving up more pressure on this regime. At the end of the day, one other option is that some guys in this regime decide they've had enough and they want to strike a deal with the United States.

It may be some element of the IRGC that eliminates the hardliners and comes to us and says, we don't want to be at war with you anymore. We're going to sign a deal. Inspectors will come back. We want to have a normal country with commercial relationships in the region and beyond. Uh and and we want to Earn money for ourselves, you know, and maybe that will happen if we drive up the pressure.

That's certainly another way that this could go down. What aren't we doing that we could be doing?

Well, look, historians will look back on this and wonder why we didn't start with economic pressure instead of kinetic strikes. And then Go from there with diplomatic overtures, and if that didn't work, we had a shot at taking out the hierarchy in one shot, and we did. I think that's what the theory was. Yeah, but I would have. And We always felt at CIA at least that the Iranians have a succession plan.

Even if you take out the supreme leader, it's not going to change. the overall trajectory of their foreign policy or their national securities. calculus that would have been my estimation back when i serve at cia Things might have changed. I've been retired for some years. And uh I think that In this case the economic pressure that we're driving at Iran, I think this still needs some time to take hold.

We need to get reflections of how it's impacting the calculus of the regime and then continue with Kinetic strikes as needed to ensure that oil will flow through the Strait of Hormuz. My old boss, Dave Petraeus, used to like to talk about a Baghdad clock and a Washington clock.

So, in this case, it's a Tehran clock. How long can they handle the pressure? And a Washington, D.C. clock, how long can we handle the disruption to the global economy? And it's been, I think, far less worse impact on the global economy than many predicted.

So if that's the case, we continue to drive up the pressure on Iran. And we see where that takes us. We can explore the idea of assisting. Iranian anti-regime elements inside, outside the country. We've always done that, but I can tell you.

Extraordinarily difficult. We continue to target them kinetically, take out their ballistic missile sites. Target the drone factories and keep up the economic pressure. And it may take some time. We have to show some patience.

Yeah, I understand. Two, I just wanted to, before you go, I'd like to talk about what's going on with Russia. The first joint scramble. On September 24th, Finnish and Swedish fighters intercept and identify Russian military aircraft over the Gulf of Finland, their first joint operation identification mission. If Russia's having such a hard time, With Ukraine, why is it to their advantage to start rattling the cage of big and small NATO members?

Well, I think precisely because Russia is having such a hard time in Ukraine, they're losing that war. Over a million casualties. They'll never take Kyiv. That was their strategic objective: overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine, install a puppet regime. Not going to happen.

But Vladimir Putin has always set his sights on Europe. Ukraine wasn't going to be the last country he would target and potentially invade. And he doesn't want Europe to give Ukraine. All that Ukraine needs to carry on the fight and take the fight to the enemy, whether it's humanitarian assistance, budgetary financial assistance, air defense, missiles that Europe and Ukraine are aligned like never before. Finland, of course, used to be neutral.

They're a NATO member now.

So this is a big deal. And that's what Putin has. This is the result of Putin's war. Sweden and Finland are now NATO members. And I could tell you.

Ukraine's no different than the Baltic states. This isn't NATO pushing east or Europe pushing east. It's Eastern European countries seeking ties with the West. That's what's going on here. That's what Ukraine wants.

And Putin is at war with the West. He's afraid of democracy. That's what scares him the most. And Europe's got a lot of that. It's good on us for being in, you know, supporting our NATO member partners here.

We need to step up that support from the United States.

Okay, in what way aren't we supporting them? Do you think we should make it clearer that we have their back? You think that we're the fact that we're negotiating and trying to be somewhat even brokers, you think it works against NATO that we're trying to get the Russians to the table? There is no getting Russians to the table.

Sorry, we tried that. Vladimir Putin doesn't want to negotiate an end to the war. Every time we invite him to Alaska or now the G20 meeting, he'll use that for his own propaganda purposes. And honestly, Brian, we got to avoid like. Uh own goals.

You know, we have a deal with Greenland now. How we got there? And all the saber rattling, honestly, if I were meeting with the president right now, I'd tell him, sir, there was no reason to do that. That's a NATO ally, Denmark. We don't need to do that.

It doesn't send the right message. Um To our other NATO ally partners. And so. You know, but Being tough on Russia means The Lindsey Graham bill, let's implement that. Let's sanction everybody who does business with Russia.

Let's get tough on the Russians. Let's give Ukraine the right to produce air defense inside Ukraine with the sort of stipulations that give us the guarantees that we can, whether we want to make money off that or produce enough air defense that we could use it in the United States. But we should do that. Let's be the arsenal for democracy. Ukraine is.

Is defending Europe. The enemy is at the gates. We enjoy a trillion dollars worth of trade with Europe. I mean, that's where we want to be. And we just not with Vladimir Putin.

I hear you. We are restructuring with that trade deal, real quick. If Putin's gone tomorrow. Is there going to be a Putin-like character to take his place? Or is it going to be more of a yelts in without the drinking problem to take his place?

Listen, it passed his prologue. Every time one leader goes, the next one comes in and just wipes the slate clean.

So Stalin wiped Lenin and then Khrushchev did it to Stalin, and Brezhnev did it to Khrushchev. Gorbachev did it to Brezhnev. Yeltsin did it to Gorbachev back and forth, and then Putin did it to Yeltsin. Would say that it's highly likely that the next leader will want a reset with the West. That's where President Trump's idea of enticing Russia with commercial opportunities comes into play.

That the next leader of Russia, and it could be another retired KGB guy, who knows? But they decide they've had enough of bending their knee to China and being an ally of North Korea and long-term strategic competitor Iran, and they decide they want to reset with the West. And we bring them into the fold and we do that. It won't happen until Putin's gone, but it could very well happen. And that's why these compacts are of value, not for Putin.

Nothing's going to change with him. But the next guy will see the opportunities to wipe it clean. Dan Hopman, thanks so much. Appreciate it. All right, thanks.

You got it. Listen, Brian Killmeat Show. We're going to be back in a moment. Don't move. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we just got a few minutes here.

Just got a quick note: everybody here in the area, I know it's been very rainy, but it's not too early to think about the big events that we have coming up for United States. I'll be on stage for Fox Nation where it streams, but more importantly, see you in person. We're going to kind of bring history to life. United States is the six crucial moments that afford the American Miracle. And I'll be in Red Bank, New Jersey.

I was at that theater a couple of years ago. It was fantastic. First time ever at Old Westbury, the Mestbury Music Fair. It's in the round. Last time I was there for Lee Bryce.

Before that, Mike Tyson. One sang, one didn't. And it's really cool.

So I want to see everybody in person. VIP opportunities remain. Go to BrianKillme.com, especially WABC listeners. I know you're in the area.

So I look forward to seeing everyone in person. Keep in mind, too, coming up next, Julian Epstein. I want to break down the midterms. I know the Cook report, and I'll play it for him. It says the House is lost for the Republicans and the Senate's in jeopardy.

I don't think either chamber's decided yet. Mm-hmm. I think a lot of people are hoping for one thing, but one thing I know for sure is that everything is so close, you can't guarantee anything at all. He's so busy, he'll make your head. Spin.

It's Brian Kilmeade. If John Cornyn were the nominee, this race would be over. But, you know, when you've got a guy who's got multiple girlfriends and $200,000 worth of improvements in his house from a corrupt business guy for whom he does favors, I mean, my personal favorite is the Uber account in the name of David P. Since he drives around in a car that has SO4 license plates. It made it a little difficult to have assignations with one of his mistresses.

So the corrupt business guy gives him the fake Uber account, and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings.

So we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olson. I mean, where can you make this up? I mean, really. Like you said, these are all allegations that came up at his House impeachment, or Senate impeachment trial in 2023. He was ultimately acquitted by the Republican leadership.

He was acquitted in the Republican Senate and found guilty in the Republican House, and now it's in the court of public opinion, and that's why this is a race. Yeah, Carl Rove obviously does not like Ken Paxon, and everything he just said is. Uh there's nothing really False about it. I mean, that's just it. But Ken Paxton wins every race in the state.

And was going to beat Senator John Corny. I heard this from multiple people, even without the president's endorsement.

So the one thing about Kent Baxon, I think the one thing he said was. The age of George Bush is over.

So people say, why did George Bush have a fundraiser and not give any funds to Ken Paxon?

Well, what do you think? He's going to forget that? Julian Epstein joins us now, served as Chief Counsel for the House and Judiciary Committee and staff director to the House Oversight Committee for the Democrats between 96 and 2001.

So we have Tallarico acting like a Republican, and we have Ken Paxson really not working too hard to hold that Republican seat so far, but now he's going to get about $200 million. How do you see this playing out, Julian? In Texas, I think Texas stays red. I think it'll go red as far as the eye can see. But I think Paxson is a bad candidate.

I think Tellerico is trying to do a remake. He's doing what a lot of Democrats are doing, where they're running from their real positions for the general elections. But I think if you want to find out who they are, find out what they were saying during the primary. Same thing in Michigan, same thing a lot of other places. The Democratic Party is going full-scale socialist, advancing the goals of the radical Islam movement that is attempting to colonize the Mideast and colonize the Democratic Party.

So I think Texas will stay red. I think the President made a big mistake not backing Cornyn, but I think Texas will stay red. I think the House, the Senate stays Republican most likely. I think Fetterman's probably going to switch to the Republican Party. And I think the House probably flips blue.

Now, when you say Federman switched, do you know people in his camp or are you just looking at it and analyzing it?

Well, both.

So I'm sort of talking to people around. I'm talking to people in Pennsylvania. I think likely what you're going to see is Fetterman switched to independent after the election. And I think his vote in terms of who he caucuses with for a leader in the Senate is up for grabs. I don't think he is going to be part of a party, and I'm very sympathetic to him, that believes in tax and spend, redistributionists, big state, big government for as far as the eye can see, and siding with the wrong guys in the Middle East.

The guys, you know, what we're seeing in the Middle East is, and it's not just me that says this, the Saudi crown princess says this, is a modern-day Adolf Hitler that is attempting to colonize the Middle East and will do great damage to our security. And economic interests such that it will make a buck increase in gas prices look like a walk in the park. Yeah, so it's interesting because independence, do you see? Pennsylvania being like Connecticut. Remember when Joe Lieberman famously lost to Ned Lamont in the primary and was when independent kept that seat for a while, right?

So. I'm wondering, could Pennsylvania be like that? Could he ever run as an independent in Pennsylvania? I think with i with the Republican support that he's showing, I think he could put together a winning campaign with independents and the Republican Party if the Republicans want to play ball, which I think they should. Because I think what you saw with the vote against the DSA when you had You had 10 votes in the Democratic Party voting against, voting to condemn the DSA.

It would have been a lot more if Johnson had done the resolution differently, but then you had about 30 or 40 Democrats the next day also break off from the leadership. What I think. The Republicans should recognize there is likely to be a big move from centrists in the Democratic Party away from the Democratic Party, people who are going to defect, like I've done on Michigan, you know, and I would do elsewhere as well, because this sort of pro-radical Islam, pro-socialist, pro-communist ideology that's taking over, becoming the beating heart of the Democratic Party is not anything we want to, it's not something any of us want to have anything to do with. We find it odious. And I think if the Republicans are smart, they're going to start setting the table for folks that can move to the independent column and caucus with them.

And I think there's a good chance, from what I understand, talking with a number of people sort of in Pennsylvania, that this is certainly on the table for Fedderman now. Interesting. About the whole house in particular, this is what Charlie Cook's read is: cut 19. The House has been kind of a done deal for a good while, but the Senate, a year ago, It wasn't realistic to think that the Senate might flip, but now it's very realistic. And where are you seeing that?

We were just in Michigan, Al-Syed, and Mike Rogers' race. North Carolina open seat there goes first, and then you have a whole group of Republican seats, Alaska, Iowa, maybe Kansas. But at the same time, Democrats are defending Michigan and Wisconsin a little bit, and I'm sorry, Minnesota a little bit, and New Hampshire.

So uh do you see that? Do you think the house's a done deal? No, I I think it's more likely than not, but you know, Cook's own. Um Data, I think it was a week ago. Showed that while there's an eight-point advantage for Democrats in the generic, the advantage is only 2%.

Two points in the 39 battleground states. And, you know, you put that together with. What we've seen now, I think, for six cycles is the undersampling of Republican voters, Republican leading voters. I think it's likely that the House flips Democrat, but I don't think it's a done deal. And I think it's A question of Republicans and the president making their case.

I think what you've seen under the Trump presidency is a lot of. Republicans falling back for not wanting to get out in front of the President on messaging. But I don't think that the Republicans, and I don't think the President is making a good case. We had 20% inflation under Biden cumulatively over the four years. We're now down to about 3% inflation.

That's a big change. The affordability crisis is a crisis that was authored under the Biden administration by the Democrats. I don't think they've made the case, the contrast between Democratic extremism, the socialist tax and spend, Redistributionist big government ideology on the one hand versus the builders on the other hand, the Republicans being the builders. I don't think they've made that case. I think you could take, for example, on housing.

Democrats want is a bunch of bureaucrats, government bureaucrats to centralize power. Government, Republicans want to build. I don't think they're making that case. I don't think they've made the effective case on the existential threat that the Hitler movement in the Hitler-like movement in Iran represents to this country, both economically and from a security point of view.

So I think midterms break late, Brian. They always break late. I think there's a lot of undecideds, but I don't think that the president and the Republicans are making an effective case. I hear you. A lot of them are trying to separate.

So when it comes to the war, you have Mike Rogers separating when it comes to the war. Ashley Hinson separate when it comes to the war. John James, Governor Teresa, Michigan, separate when it comes to the war.

Now, you know, Mike Rogers on intelligence. He knows the danger of Iran. John James fought in wars. He's a West Point guy, so he certainly knows it. Ashley Hinson thinks that, you know, The the problem is Fertilizer is very high, diesel is very high, that affects a lot of farmers in Iowa.

So is she doing are they are those three doing the savvy thing?

Well I mean, maybe. According to the polling in their state, yeah, the war is unpopular. But I think, you know, a couple of things about that. I think that the President and the Republican Party have not made the case on this war. And the fact of the matter is we are winning this war.

Two-thirds of the oil is getting through the strait and through the region through alternative routing. The east-west pipeline has been damaged, but that'll be repaired. And there's other routing. We're getting about probably 15 million barrels a day, either through the strait or the alternative routes. And Iran is on its knees right now.

The economy is crumbling. They don't have any they don't have any answer to what Trump is doing in terms of the blockade. And I think eventually they will cry uncle. But it's going to take some time, and I don't think that will happen before the November election. And I think The Republicans haven't made the case that we're winning.

They haven't made the case about what happens if we cut and run. I'm sorry to hear some Republicans talking about the cut and run because I think that's just wrong. And Democrats don't have an answer on this. Democrats are doing the work of the Muslim Brotherhood. And radical Islam by fully backing this cutting and running.

I mean, Iran has voted in this election. They've mailed in their ballot for the Democrats. And the worst thing we could possibly do was cut and run.

Sometimes there's something more important than the next election as well, which is American security and American economic primacy. And again, it pains me that neither party is really making the case on this. It's really strange. It really is. Yeah, we get a dollar increase in price.

I mean, what the Iranians count on is the West being weak. Right.

That we don't have to do. Yeah, that we don't have any stomach for doing what is necessary to stop their colonizing march. And And so long as we Have this cut and run weak ladyboy mentality of as soon as prices rise, gas prices rise for a couple months, we're out. And that's exactly what the mullahs want to hear. And both parties should be standing up against that.

But I'll tell you what, the president's really making a stand saying that they just rejected his offer flat out and he hasn't talked to them.

So I think that the president's saying, listen, I know we're going to hit him hard. He let the Wall Street Journal get that story. They're going to get hit hard after Election Day.

So for the Iranians to play the same game plan they did with Jimmy Carter, it's not working. The other thing is we get into the individual races. I was shocked to see the New York Times run with this story about Mary Peltola. Up in Alaska, who's mysteriously got a one-point lead over Dan Sullivan, one of the most effective senators and Republicans. He's a guy who worked for Bush.

He has served in the military. He's been very effective against Joe Biden, countering, getting oil and gas going. And Mary Peltola, nine separate staffers, just talked about how miserable she is, how she's used gay slurs and made fun of people's mental deficiencies and physically hit one of her staffers and is basically fired too after they did well in a primary. And I'm wondering if this is going to play a role and how it ends up in the New York Times. Kimberly Strass will join me from Alaska on Sunday with the Wall Street Journal.

Cut 25. Mary Peltola has already had some issues up here. Remember, she briefly served as a House member representing Alaska. And that was because she won essentially because of Alaska's goofy rank choice system.

So she essentially won by default.

Now this year, there is a nasty trick going on in Alaska, Brian, where there's this decoy Dan Sullivan candidate who has purely been put, clearly been put on the ballot with help from Democrats to try to confuse voters and get them to draw votes away. From the incumbent Dan Sullivan. But I think all of this adds up to show the desperation a bit of this campaign.

So you know about the Daniel S. and the Dan L Sullivan, whatever it is.

So that's one thing. But do you think this guy could be a game changer up there in a state like that? Does that word travel in a big state with very few people proportionally? Yeah, I mean, look, I think what the Democrats did there by putting another candidate up with the same name and Dan Sullivan is. You know, tells you everything you need to know about modern Democratic Party's commitment to democracy.

I mean, they want to trick voters. They want to fool voters. Talk about voter suppression. It's a shameful thing that the modern Democratic Party is sponsoring. But Patola, the funny thing, I remember Ed Cox saying something to the effect in the late 90s about Yeah.

Want you to believe that they care about people they've never met. And they're these great humanitarians. But in terms of people they know, they could be the worst bastards in the world. Right, and he's a Democrat. He's a Democrat.

And it just reminds me of this. When I read the Times story on the Patola thing, it just the idea that came to mind: they can be pretty lousy people to people they know, towards people they know. And deal with on a day-to-day basis, which tells you a lot about sort of who they are. Look, I think that's another one that's sort of up for grabs right now. I know.

Have to imagine that this Republican Party, the state Republican Party in Alaska can figure this thing out because it's a red state. And so, you know, that's another one that's up for grabs. They're defending territory that they ought not to be defending. But, you know, I think Republicans, I think Collins wins in Maine, and I think Rogers wins in Michigan. I think you're going to see a Fetterman go, as I say, to Independent after the election.

And so I think it's going to be close, but I think the Rs hold on to the Senate. But if I were the President right now, I would be putting Marco Rubio out there. On the campaign. I know, but as Secretary of State is usually supposed to stay away from politics, as you know. There is no.

communicator in American politics that is more effective than him. And I tell you, I know this from talking to Democrats. The guy that the Democrats fear is not JD Vance. They believe they can beat J.D. Vance.

They believe that he just does not have the charm to sweep the independence. But the guy that they fear is Marco. Julian Epstein, thanks so much. Always great. Back in a moment.

Coming to you on a need to know basis, because Mandy you need to know, it's Brian Kilmead. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I wish that Ed Sheeran had not taken the advice. First of all, let's not be listening to f Robert Kraft, okay?

So when Robert Kraft says, I've called all the other stadium owners and they're not going to let you do the show with McLemore either, then Ed Sheeran should have said, go f yourself. I can go to Brazil and perform for 250,000 people.

So then it put McLemore in the position of not wanting to really blame Ed because he knew the pressure he was under. But in my humble opinion, Ed had more power than he was aware of. Not really. If you want to perform in this place called America, Brazil is not America, and he has like seven sold out stadiums to cash in on. And I don't know if there is a stadium that has two hundred fifty thousand people, but I'm pretty sure the Rio market is not as lucrative as the American.

As the American market, and the real market, you got to charge much less a dollar for. The other thing is. What are you doing? Why are you performing with a guy that hates America, that wants to destroy Israel? And is pro-Hamas.

I mean, for a guy to get up there and make a speech like that and put Aaron Edge here in that spot, you picked him. You knew what he was about. And Kathy Griffin, I mean, I was the one who said to pull the cut, so I'm to blame. But I just want people to hear how twisted everybody's mind is. Go to Brazil, really?

From High Atop, Fox News Headquarters. In New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Here we go, everybody. It's going to be a big hour.

Thanks so much for tuning in. Sean Davis is standing by CEO of the Federalists. He'll be joining us just a moment. Also, I got to remind you: we got a YouTube page. Everybody's talking about it.

Go to youtube.com/slash at the Brian Kilmead show. We post the clips, we post the show, and you get a really good idea if you ever have to miss the show or what exactly is going on. It has the latest, most insightful, and that's why it's ranked among the best in the world. And before we get to Sean Davis, let's get to the big three. Number three.

The House has been kind of a done deal for a good while, but the Senate, a year ago, It wasn't realistic to think that the Senate might flip, but now it's very realistic. Charlie Cook weighing in: midterms have never been tighter. While Republicans have more money, Dems have momentum, but also have a huge branding problem. Nobody likes them. Will Republicans take advantage of that?

Number two. AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that. you know, cause a billion deaths. That is Bill Gates. Overstating things just a bit, don't you think?

AI debate heats up in every way: the capabilities, the data centers, the competition. At stake is America's future and maybe the world's. Number one.

Now in fact, there is a framework along the same path with the same objectives that were established. If the United States agrees to proceed in that way, everything will return to the way it was before. That is Masood Preskin's interpreter, the president of Iran. He does two interviews with two major networks, including ours, and the foreign minister does one. They have an offer, seven-day deal.

The president says, no thanks. Why? Because it unfreezes funds, opened up the strait, and doesn't have a commitment to denuclearizing, to zero enrichment. Let's bring in Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist. Sean, welcome.

Thank you for having me. First off, on the seven-day deal. Do you uh surprise the President turned it down? Not really, because it seems like the Iranians, when they make deals, don't really stick by them.

So it's why we've been in this weird kind of middle ground purgatory thing with them for months is we think we have a deal and then they go and start shooting ships in the straits and then obviously we don't have a deal.

So I really don't generally understand how you can make a deal with people who will go and break it the next day. I want you to hear what the president said. President of Iran. And keep in mind, he answers to the supreme leader, the IRGC. The IRGC might have indications they might have me control of the whole IRGC.

let alone the actual regular army. But here is he is uh here is on Face the Nation yesterday, cut two. Developing nuclear weapons is haram from a standpoint of belief, not from a legal perspective. Even if some individuals in Iran may have the incentive to develop nuclear weapons, religiously speaking, they are not allowed to pursue that path. America came and killed it.

We were sitting and talking and we had reached an agreement. Why did they attack? America's intention is not to resolve the issue. America's intention is to overthrow our administration. Israel says it in their own speech.

What they're doing is neutralizing the government, not negotiating. I mean, this guy's all over the place. He says it is against their religion to have a nuclear weapon. That's a funny way of making underground cities of nuclear weapons. But against the religion, I guess if you build it on the surface, that's anti-Islam, I guess.

I'll throw that in the bucket of things I wish were true. Like I wish they all believed it was against their religion. I think the last like 20, 30 years of their development would say otherwise. It's laughable.

So, I don't know where we go from here, but the President says he's going to continue to talk. But with the current situation the way it is, right now oil and gas are going to stay high and diesel is going to stay high as this conflict continues, even though we're doing things as a country to make that price come down.

So, what is the messaging if you're in one of those battleground districts, whether you're Mike Law or in New York or you're fighting for a Senate seat in Michigan with Mike Rogers? Yeah, I mean, it's not a good time to be running on the economy.

So if I were them, I would honestly be trying to avoid that issue and then focusing instead on how completely bonkers and insane their opponents are. I mean, the thing about Democrats is they really have been handed an amazing opportunity given where the economy and where Trump's approval is. And all they have to do is not be insane for like five minutes and they can't seem to do it. I mean, so all you have to do if you're a Republican running right now is point to how bonkers and crazy your opponent is. Maybe you don't like the war in Iran and maybe you don't like Trump, but you want this guy in Texas who's super into transing kids?

That seems like an insane thing to do. How about this?

So the question is, if they get power, what would they do? That's what you're building at, Sean, right?

So tell me your plan. I know exactly what the Republicans are going to do. They're going to make the tax cuts permanent. They were going to build up the military. They were going to fortify the border.

They were going to round up illegals. They're doing all those things and they were going to drill oil. And gas. The war with Iran, they won for a quick hit. It's gone longer than they thought.

I got it.

So the question is: if you gain power, are you going to do something productive? RoConna made it clear the answer is no. Cut 26. Is impeaching President Trump a third time a mistake for Democrats? No, it's not, because it's not about Donald Trump.

He's going to be a lame duck and, in my view, largely increasingly irrelevant. The point is to stand up for the Constitution. Impeachment says that you can't get into an illegal war in Iran without constitutional approval. Impeachment says that you can't just start firing federal employees in defiance of what Congress says. Impeachment says you can't do deals with foreign governments to allegedly enrich your own family.

It's about setting a standard. And the Democrats can impeach to uphold constitutional values. There you go. Ladies and gentlemen, impeachment three, thought 97% of what he just said is not true. But I mean, if he wants to go into personal finances with his family, good luck with that.

But To to they really gonna waste their time on impeachment, Sean? Yeah, they can't help it. When Trump is in the picture, he's like the laser dot that people mess with their cats with. Like the cat can't resist it. Like it's on the wall.

It's got to go after it. And what I found fascinating about Rokana's answer there is he didn't talk about things that Democrats would do in power to reduce costs, to make people's lives easier, to get crime down. It was all about give us power because we hate Donald Trump and we're going to spend the whole time going after Donald Trump. If that's their plan, man, I'm going long on J.D. Vance 28 because if they're going to come in and take power and do nothing but go crazy about Donald Trump, they are begging for America to be like, all right, we gave you a chance.

You're insane. We're going to let J.D. have a go at it in 2028. I want to talk AI because it's a surprise issue and it's different. I mean, we could honestly say this is brand new.

Almost like when Roe v. Wade was overturned, that just changed everything for Joe Biden's fortunes for the better on the midterm elections. But for AI, from the data centers to the actual potential. Of this technology, I'm fascinated by where we're going to go because you can't simplify it and make it a cartoon effectively because it affects people differently. A lot of people are using it.

50% of the country is using it in some way, shape, or form.

So I think to ban it's crazy. The president says, hands off, let liability and self-regulation do the job. And then there's a guy like, Bill Gates Look at him yesterday, cut 12. AI is certainly powerful enough To drive events. Uh That You know, cause a billion deaths.

You know, so even though It's pretty hard to get to 100%. There's never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent. Using the latest AI tools.

So he was a five-alarm fire all day yesterday at Meet the Press. Why do you think he's doing that? You think it's legitimate concern or is this just part of this is new climate change? Yeah, look, we've all read the same sci-fi books about AI taking over. These are not new issues that people have.

I think what's actually happening is what happens with every major new technology.

So if we go back like 500 years, the printing press, you know, people are able to read things they weren't able to read before. And then suddenly after that, you have people wanting to control what you read. Then you have radio, you have TV, you had the dawn of the internet. We had like a golden age of the internet for 15 to 20 years. And then when the people in charge decided, oh man, people are doing stuff with this freedom I don't really like.

We need to clamp down on it and start censoring people. They try to do that. And I don't think AI is any different here. I feel like we're entering the age of the algorithm and who controls the algorithm or the AI is who gets to control who's in power and what happens. And so you have a couple of tech oligarchs, three, four, five, who've decided we have this amazing technology that's going to make us rich, but it might also lead people to doing things politically that we don't like.

So we have to control it.

So give us all the control. To me, it's the most obvious. Power grab I've ever seen, and I can't believe anyone's taking it seriously. Anthropic had dinner. Anthropic CEO had dinner with the White House, even though he's been very critical.

Obviously, they had a huge blowout with the Pentagon at 10 o'clock last night. And past several days, OpenAI and outside researchers have disclosed a litany of episodes of agents going rogue. They said they leaked 53 images of ChatGPT users. breached an Australian Medicare portal, attempted to hack other silos. That according to the company, that's ChatGBT turning itself in.

OpenAIA is pursuing training on its most capable mod pausing training on its most capable models.

So Anthropic says they've also hired a third party to analyze their agents.

So You see the big picture here, the major companies are saying I'm a little scared too. But you see Oh, uh do you see an insincerity there?

Well, what I'm a big fan of Trustbut Verify. And what I've seen a lot of from the AI guys is sharing these horror stories of agents that went rogue and got loose. All right, show me the prompts you were using. Have you noticed they're not doing that? They're not showing you the prompts.

They're not showing you the code. They're just saying, hey, trust us that these things went crazy. And we didn't tell them, hey, go crazy and see what you can get away with. And that type of lack of verification, I have a huge problem with, especially when what they're demanding as a result of that is total control. We want the government boxing everyone out.

And wouldn't you know, the only people who will benefit from that are not the open source upstarts. It's those of us who are the first movers who want an actual monopoly on the whole thing. I think it is so craven. It is so obvious what they're doing. And even though I am something of an AI skeptic, I'm not a doomer, but I'm not one of these utopian optimists.

Like I can kind of get what they're coming from, but they couldn't have picked a more ridiculous group of people. To be making this case, Bill Gates, of all people, Bill Gates, the guy who's like trying to unleash crazy mosquitoes everywhere as a way of like vaccinating people. They picked the worst people possible to be making the case that they're trying to make. Yeah, and don't tell me that this Epstein thing is a big story and I got to get to the bottom of it.

Well, oh, Bill Gates is available. Let's interview him about AI. You can't have it both ways. But here he is talking about self-regulation. This is a Mr.

Free Enterprise. It's not enough. Cut 15. Do you think self-regulation is sufficient or does it need to be accompanied by legislation? No one thinks self-regulation is enough.

So there needs to be legislation passed in Washington. Absolutely. law enforcement and the politicians. To get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like, and that has to be. A required thing And it will be a little bit of overhead for the industry.

but not a dramatic slowing of of what they're doing.

So he's asking for self-regulation. I just find that fascinating. You think Steve Jobs would ever ask for that?

Well, I think Bill Gates, unfortunately, is extrapolating from his own personal experience where he has no sense of restraint and no ability to control his own behavior.

So I guess he assumes no one else can do it. But what's interesting, they weren't asking for self-regulation when they were going out and gobbling up copyrighted materials and training data and AI on it without asking for it. They weren't asking for self-regulation when they were pulling images that weren't theirs, when they're reproducing things they don't have a right to do, when they're taking content that's not theirs and trying to monetize it. They were fine with the wild, wild west when they were just trying to get rich off of everyone else's IP. But now that you might have open source upstarts coming in that could take a giant chunk out of the profit margins of the anthropics out there, suddenly we got to get self-regulation here or get government regulation here.

And I'll just end with the following question: Has any industry, has any new technology benefited by saying, you know what we need right now? We need a bunch of politicians getting involved with this. Has that ever happened? Made anything better in history? And I would say probably not.

Right.

I mean, absolutely not. And the thing is, Sean, it's hard enough to figure out AI, right?

Now you've taken politicians who have no, and it's not their fault. They're not expertise in AI. And then what Harold Ford tells me the other day on the five, he says, Brian, but we have armed services. We're doing commerce. We're not all experts in weaponry.

I go, yeah, but there's a certain foundation that you have. AI is literally the next frontier. The smartest people in the world working with the other smart people in the world to create a super intelligence that's smarter than all of them.

Now let's bring in the senator from Michigan to bring it all under control, right? And we're not going to be able to pull the wool over his eyes at all. Is that possible?

So lastly, before we go, I just think it's fascinating that on the Democratic left, they look at 2028 and AOC is the superstar, right? She seems to be the one. But more and more, as Axios writes today, more and more politicians in hard fights for their Senate seat or House seat. are telling her not to show up. Does that tell Sean Davis of the Federalist that she's not a national candidate if you're not if you can't help somebody in a battleground district or state?

Yeah, I honestly don't see her as a viable national candidate.

Now, she has a lot of energy. Like, she represents the wing of the Democrat Party that has the energy. This is not someone who's going to stand up to any sort of scrutiny. This is not someone who can stand up and have a normal debate and not come out looking like an idiot.

So, you know. Maybe she might be a viable VP, somebody to be off to the side, rooting for the presidential candidate. I have a very, very difficult time seeing her being taken seriously as a national candidate at this point.

Now, maybe that changes in four or eight or ten years. But right now, if you put her at the top of the ticket, I think it would be a disaster for Democrats. And that would be a shame. Sean Davis of the Federalists, thanks so much, Sean. Appreciate it.

Oh, it's a pleasure, sir. Thank you. You got it, 1-866-408-7669, or you can write me at BrianKillMe.com, and I'll get to some of your responses, not only from this show, but from last night's show of One Nation, Sunday at Fox News. Don't move. Big guests, bold opinions, better information.

This is the Brian Killmead Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. Why not become an independent? Because I'm a lifelong Republican, Democrat, are my sky. That's a moment right there that's clippable, ladies and gentlemen.

I guarantee you, that's going to break through. That'll get clipped. Yeah, I'm a lifelong Democrat, though. He is. And he was one of those godsends.

After Donald Trump won the first time, I remember John Fetterman would be out there in Pennsylvania, and it just stood out because he's such a unique-looking guy, and he's 6'7, whatever he is. And I remember just sitting there and just listening to him talk. And he was on MSNBC nonstop and CNN because he was talking common sense and liberal stuff for Pennsylvania. And by the way, big rivalry with Shapiro. He does not like Shapiro at all.

So he ends up beating Dr. Oz and holding on to that Senate seat despite having a stroke. And then somewhere along the way, the whole party just veered away from him. First, they were going to bat for him. He should be able to wear a hoodie.

He got to be patient. He had trouble being able to come into work at all. And they were all defending him. And the Republicans were saying, This guy won an election. He doesn't come.

Well, he's got to recover. Then he went through a depression. Democrats stood by him. But when he came out of depression and talked openly about it, on a lot of issues, he could not understand where the Democrats were coming from. What do you mean you're anti-Israel?

What do you mean you're for Iran and the Iran war? What are you talking about? Who thought it was a good idea to open up the border? Why did you pretend that Joe Biden was okay? All the things that we discussed on this show without bringing up whether he was a Republican or Democrat.

But he stood out so much, everyone stopped talking to him to the point where when you get to hang out, when you're not on the floor, there's a cloakroom there. Democrats basically stopped talking to him, didn't make him feel welcome there. He goes in the Republican room.

So when he says I've been a lifelong Republican, I think it's a slip and we are Julian Epstein. Kambai earlier says, I think he's going to go independent. He might. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Is there any part of you that worries at all about AI going rogue?

Well, I don't worry about it. I just, you know, it's a huge industry. It's really the Industrial Revolution, maybe bigger. You know, they actually say it could be bigger than the Industrial Revolution. Who would think that?

Uh and it is in fact bigger than the internet. And we're leading, and we're building tremendous, you know, trillions of dollars worth of places. And why should we give that up? Uh if something is bad, they have to fix it. And if they don't fix it, that's why you have the Department of Justice.

So there's President Trump yesterday talking en route. to having dinner with the CEO of Anthropic. Who's a big critic, by the way, of the president behind closed doors, and he definitely leans left. But maybe the president can win people over personally. And so much of this, I think, is apolitical.

Uh Even though at the midterms, it's mysterious how all this stuff came out over the last three weeks. Six weeks of data centers. John Houston all of a sudden finds himself backed against the wall. But in the Wisconsin situation, Tom Tiffany's the aggressor there, pushing his opponent because he was more pro-data center.

So I know it goes back and forth both ways. But I'm just fascinated. I just think it's. It takes a pause. If I told you about men and women's locker rooms, it doesn't take a pause.

You know instinctively, you know where you're going. You know, you talk about building a wall.

Some people say, No, no, we're give me your give me all your free and huddled masses or read the Statue of Liberty. And other people go, No, no, build a wall. This takes a second. Just take a second. And just say, okay, first off, what are people's motivations?

Are they really concerned? Like Tristan Harris is in here? He's really concerned. He's a true expert from Silicon Valley. Absolutely concerned, 100% sincere.

I don't know what Bill Gates is doing. You know, Bill Gates is trying to buy farmland to make sure that we don't have any cattle because he thinks that flatulation is going to ruin the ozone layer. You know, he's. Doing all types of globalist things. I know he's smarter than the 99% of the public, but I'm not convinced for one minute he's telling us if we don't do something quick and he's on all the networks, the world will end and the world doesn't end.

Now he moves on to another topic, and now he's dying to be relevant again and stop talking about Epstein.

So he jumps in and says the most A prolific thing's possible. Cut 13. It's great that there's this discussion with the industry almost against their interest admitting these things. The problem is that the rest of the world is either discounting this or just thinking of this as a competition and Uh it's very scary that we don't have Uh You know, all of the thinkers saying, How do we want to shape this? I guess that doesn't include us, right?

Just him. We need thinkers. We're not really thinkers. It's a verb. But you know, the non-thinkers out there, we just want to be victims or we want to be beneficiaries of it.

We need the thinkers. Uh to get together and think together.

So people are saying the thinkers were concerned, but we got to forge ahead. And then there's a real thinker like David Sachs who says, yeah, forge ahead. Regulate yourself. If you're concerned about your model, rein it in. And then we just had Sean Davis on from the Federalists said these guys are looking to wall up everything.

They're looking to wall off other competition that they're ahead for that.

So the thing was interesting. I was playing a little bit more from Bill Gates, but I was also in on Sam Walton, and he. Oh, Altman, excuse me. Walton's a different guy. Sam Altman, who f From Uh chat GBT.

So he's went out saying, Look, I'm a little concerned. There's our models are doing some other things, but he's looking to move forward. He says we're nine to 12 months ahead of China, okay? But he's just saying that I want to take any questions that you have. And he was wide open.

The questions that we were giving him are the, you know, us non-thinkers, we're giving him, we're making him think. And he's still moving forward. He still sees the benefits, but he's moving together cautiously because the so called I think superintelligence, a much better name. I think artificial intelligence is going to go by the wayside really quick.

So almost like remember COVID was the coronavirus and that was COVID nineteen.

So I think that you're really going to see people move forward. In an exciting way, but when superintelligence gets smarter, when they start teaching itself, when these agents start teaching itself. How to think even more than they're thinking now and figure out things that We never thought possible. For example, in the meeting, You know, he indicated that basically AI is eliminating the need for mathematicians because they could do it all. Doesn't mean you don't need to know math, but if you want to do this for a living, you've got to think of something else.

Is it going to eliminate all human interaction when it comes to acting and speaking and coaching? Absolutely not. They say you need human interaction, it's going to be there forever.

So here's more from Bill Gates talking about self-regulation not being enough. Cut 15. Do you think self-regulation is sufficient or does it need to be accompanied by legislation? No one thinks self-regulation is enough.

So there needs to be legislation passed in Washington. Absolutely. You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like. And that has to be a required Thing, and it will be a little bit of overhead for the industry, but not a dramatic slowing of what they're doing. I don't know.

You gotta be well educated. You know, the so-called thinkers. I want somebody that's an expert in the area. For example, I watch a lot of football. You don't want me deciding.

What referees are good and bad. You don't want me deciding the new nuances with instant replay. You probably don't want me picking up the salary cap, but I've watched. 500,000 football games. But I'm not an expert.

So now, Anthropic has commissioned a third-party safety organization to examine the behavior of its models. In documents, the company has publicly released. It has disclosed the frequency of misalignment episodes. The system card for the Opus 5.5 model released this past week showed how often it misbehaved in ways the company flagged as unusual or problematic. But what you're showing me is you're doing it, announce it.

Oversee it, hire a third party that understands it, But I do I want Senator XYZ looking over the shoulder there or some politically aligned person who might fall victim to a lobbyist in order to get reelected, deciding whether they should move forward with certain models and not others? And then they got to throw money at all the politicians in order to get them to okay their models and move forward. I don't see it. And lastly, and I see most of the calls are for the midterms, and I'll get to that. But I just want to play Chris Leehan.

He is the. Open AI, Chief Global Affairs Officer.

So he is right under Altman. And he talked about. Need to he he talked about being cautious, but moving forward, Cut seventeen. Look at, as we sit here today, we have a model out there known as Astra. It is both the most capable model in the world, meaning the U.S.

continues to lead on the innovation as a result of this model being out there. We have more than a billion people using our technology on a regular basis, but also very, very safe because we put that alignment in and build those guardrails around it.

So I do think that there is a way to do this, and we are doing it as we speak, pacing, not pausing, meaning that we're continuing to put the U.S. in the position to be able to continue to be the global leader on this.

So There you go. Move forward. But move forward cautiously and the president is full steam ahead because he knows if you fall behind, it's almost impossible to catch up by the nature of super intelligence because it's going to find a way to keep up. And when people say get a kill switch, yeah, it's a kill switch. But if you listen to these developers, I get the sense these agents will know how to kill the kill switch.

So I'll play one more cut. Here's more from Chris Lahan. Here he talked about. How what we've done in the past could really help us in the future. Cut 18.

I think we have to understand that this technology is something that is similar to the printing press, electricity, the combustion engine. We as humans have gotten these things right before. We can definitely get this right, but we all do need to do it together. And at the core of what Sam was talking about yesterday is to get this right, to get at the question that you're asking about. It does require that we actually work with society, we work through the democratic process.

You actually get the public giving their inputs on this so that we can actually make sure that as many people as possible benefit from it. Absolutely. And also, I think we all should learn to work with it. I think that Mark Cuban had the best advice for graduates. Instead of complaining about AI, what you do is learn to master it.

And you go up to a company that's led by a bunch of 40 and 50 year olds and say, listen, this is what I could bring to your company. You're going to get a huge, huge starting salary. Because you'll know how to work this stuff and you're wide open to it. I just, I mean, the same, the generation before this generation was the ones who get impatient with my generation and say, Give me your phone, I'll work it out. Like all this stuff that's intuitive to you guys was not intuitive to me.

But now when it comes to AI, it seems like the 60s, 50s and 60s-year-olds are more open to it. Than the 20 and 30-year-olds. What's going on here? But I do think it's going to be a major midterm issue and how you do it. The president says full steam ahead.

Other people want safeguards, data centers. President's like, we've got to build them, build them responsibly. Here are the guidelines. Other people say, how dare you? We're going to.

And these people look like the same purple-haired, nose-ring people that were talking about climate change. They're now in the George Floyd riots, how racist America is.

Now they're going to talk about how data centers are ruining the world. Rich on WABC, Hey Rich, in Connecticut. Yeah.

Yeah.

Hi, Brian. uh benefited from and requested uh government uh intervention and government control uh to improve standardization and standards, the railroad industry uh getting one gauge because of course uh as people in the Northeast know there uh in New York City, they're uh without government standardization they wound up being two separate Uh unconnected railroad stations, Penn Station and Grand Central Station, the radio and T V industry, the airline industry. Uh early in the country, uh towns uh Had uh re uh standardized production standards, whether it's butter or lumber.

So it's danger. I think voters are alienated. by the extreme view. That government's the problem in standardizing.

Okay, so Rich, that's a good point. You know, there is regulation there. And I'm, for example, if I'm a congressman, if I'm a congressman from New York and I'm not an expert on transportation, but I'm on the transportation committee, I got staff and others that teach me it, and I work, I work with my colleagues, and I could come ahead and I could offer some regulation, rules, and regulations to go by, is what you're saying. Do you believe you could do the same thing? You could do the same thing as the AI, something as sophisticated as AI?

Do you want the the senator, the male, the female senator to go in there and tell to to tell You know, Sam Altman. And Dario Uh mr. Uh Anthropic, what to do on AI? AI is certainly a unique technology. We have to be very dangerous, careful about its uniqueness.

It shouldn't be compared as a metaphor that we handled other technologies in the past so we could handle this. I think we're right to be wary of government, and we're also right. Right to be concerned about lack of government oversight. All right. Thanks so much, Rich.

Howard, listen to the WABC app. Hey, Howard. Yes, hi, how are you? I wanted to bring the attention back to what's called the affordability crisis, because reality is. When the economy isn't in good enough shape, You drive around, you see the every every other block, there's a sign about the gas prices.

But the problem is that the Republicans are starting to lose Processor. in terms of being able to fix it. The Democrats are promoting that they're going to fix it. Reality is 9 out of 10 of the most expensive places states to live in are run by Democrats. 10 out of 10 of the most expensive cities are run by Democrats.

So there trying to say they have the solution, but when they're in control, they're not solving any problems. AI and all that stuff, it's secondary, tertiary things. The main thing is the economy isn't where people want it to be. And the solution is being promoted as we got it. Democrats have the solution.

And I think that's a that's a mistake. Yeah, I know that's just it. If Howard, if I'm running against a Democrat. I don't run for MAI. I'd say, okay, these are the policies I back, these policies I don't back.

I wouldn't do what Mike Rogers did, I like him, but I wouldn't. And this is what I do, and this is taking a little longer, but this is an adversary that's lasted a while. But I would do this. I would just press every Democrat that I'm running against or front, just tell me what you do. You have a better idea about energy?

Really?

Solar panels? How's that electric car working out? How about that infrastructure bill? How much have you actually put to work? I thought you were going to lay lines to give farms cable television and connect farms.

Do you realize it's all been done with the infrastructure bill and the billions of dollars? They think they've been filtering 15 terminals. Hey, what are you going to do about the border? Oh, now you're going to back the border? When have you ever enforced the border or immigration rules?

Oh, when it comes to law and order, really, you're better at law and order? Than this current crop?

So in terms of growth, our GDP growth is great. The unemployment numbers are fantastic. The inflation is actually a lower rate than it was when the President took office. Gas prices slightly up. We know exactly the reason why.

twenty new trade deals. Could they have done better trade deals than Trump just did? I didn't see any.

So that's what I would do the whole time. I'd go, okay, I'm giving you my things to do list. You have to have something that you would do. Besides, not do what I did. That should not be enough.

We're going to take a short time out and come back so I have some more time on the other side of the break. You'll listen to the Brian Kill Me Show. Don't move. Boats? Besides all Opinions.

It's Brian Killmead. Mm-hmm. A radio show like no other is Brian Killmeade. Sponsored by Previgen. Previgion made for your brain.

Jay Hench has climbed the staircase. He is not going to the mound. He's going to get Justin Verlander's daughter. Tennevy, of all the pitches he threw from 60 feet 6 inches, the speed at which she ran out to the mound might be the most important thing we've seen today. I gave everything for this.

I left home. She's in school, and I. Wasn't there. Yeah.

There's just a level of commitment it takes to be great at something, you know? And I hope she understands. She means the world to me. My family means the world to me. I'm happy that I get the opportunity now to make up for lost time.

So Justin Burland deculted a career, and he was probably the best of his generation. Or among the best of his generation, started with the Tigers. He played for the Mets briefly. Mets got rid of him. He still had a lot left.

And he called it a career. And at the end, instead of being taken out, he let his manager came out and let his daughter run out.

So, when he talks about being away, it's not like going to the military, but you are away for nine months of the year.

So, you miss the first day of school, you miss all these other things. And then when you play, Almost longer than almost everybody else can ever imagine playing, almost two decades. There's a lot of sacrifice here. But I think you really saw a great scene at the end of the regular season because the Tigers going nowhere.

So you saw that. What a great pitcher he was, what a great draft pick, and what a great attitude he had throughout his career. But now the regular season is finally done, and now we're into the postseason. Wild card round first. And of course, one of the highlights would be, and I think for the whole country and for the game, Yankees, Red Sox, here we go again.

The Red Sox are just incredible. They went from worst to maybe the best team. uh for about a period of two months Good enough to finish off in third place behind Tampa, behind the Yankees, but with the third best record in the American League because the rest of the American League was just god-awful and dead, you know, round 500. We'll see. It's a first start all the way around.

We'll see who ends up. People are just saying, anybody but the Dodgers, please? Yes. Don't forget to go to BrianKilme.com, pre-order my book, United the States. Everybody's talking about it October 13th.

And always watch One Nation Sundays at 10. You're listening to the Brian Kilme show.