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From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Killmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're there. Brian Kilmicho coming to you on an exciting Tuesday, closer and closer to the midterms. And we know they're trying to get something done in the Senate today.

They've got to try to pass some data center regulation to help John Houston over in Ohio. And they did pass college sports reform yesterday in the Senate. And overwhelmingly, I would just hope the House would take it up. I know it's a simple majority and people don't want to see anything done, but the House had to, you know, basically just say go out and campaign. Why?

Well, they got one sadly, one Republican who is near death. Number two, it's Tom Massey with the other. And then you have Corey Mills hasn't shown up since he didn't win his primary, so they basically don't even have a majority.

So they just said, go campaign, and then let's see what happens.

So it's going to be a big hour, though. Keep in mind, too, we're really excited about our YouTube channel, youtube.com/slash at the Brian Killmead Show. You get highlights from this show and so many others. And my book, United the States, comes out. October 13th, you can preorder now, BrianKillme.com.

Before we get to Farley Weiss in 10 minutes, the president of the Israeli Justice Organization and Lieutenant Colonel Alan West about the battle in Texas for the Senate seat, which is now within one point. That's one point of John Corner's center seat. Let's get to the big three. Number three. We hope it's an engineering problem.

I believe it's an engineering problem. I know it's an engineering problem. And we all need to hope that it's an engineering problem. If it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable. And so the fact that all of these companies still are advancing the state of the art is because they also believe it's solvable.

Uh there you go. Uh that is uh that is the CEO of Nvidia talking about what is going on with AI. He is somebody like the president, full speed ahead, Jensen Wong. AI CEOs head to the White House today and try again to get the public's confidence as well as get everybody behind super intelligence while beating China. Number 10.

I think if you look at both of these countries, Trump's hard line is leading to fragmentation and disorientation in these countries. In Iran, they're openly feuding now. It's true, Peter Schweitzer on Jesse Waters last night. Around expecting an answer today from Trump team as they said they'll have submitted a new offer to open up the straight and deal with the nukes.

Meanwhile, there's fresh signs internal strife is about to crush that regime. Number one. The president could start driving messages that are helpful as opposed to unhelpful messages like I love data centers and I love AI. If that happens, maybe things will change. But right now, I'd say Democrats would pick up at least 25 House seats net and at least six Senate seats net.

Maybe not. Getting aggressive GOP comes out spending in a final sprint to November. As Trump hones his record and message and the number of toss-up Senate races surges, we break it all down for you. And that's where we'll start. Let's look at the toss-ups first off.

There are a number of toss-up states that I think most people agree on. There goes Alaska, but keep this fine. Mary Peltola, who had a one or two-point lead over Daniel Sullivan. because Daniel S. Sullivan's in the race.

Daniel S. Sullivan's a good one, and the other one's there just to deceive. She turns out as nine staffers come out and talk about what a brutal person she is and horrible things she said. I think that'll hurt the people of Alaska who tend to be ethical. In Iowa, it's too close to call.

Went fertilizer up. With diesel up, it's hurting farmers. Trade deals are helping farmers, but not the one with Canada that is not done yet.

So that is a toss-up. And we'll also talk about Maine. Maine is looking good now for Susan Collins, who's now ahead in a couple of polls, which is rarely done, and she usually wins. Michigan, I do not know why Mike Rogers is not winning, but one move he's making is to distance himself and tell the president to end a war. In Ohio, John used to be down by six.

In Texas, it's a one-point race. I was shocked to see how quickly it's closed. Ken Paxton, 46. James Tallarico, 47. James Tallarico is basically changing everything he says.

Up, misspoke when it comes to multiple genders. Up, I no longer think that men belong in women's sports. Up, wait a second, when it comes to the border, I want to work with the president on the border. And I know I told you I'm going to have state taxes, but I don't really mean that anymore. You have to tell me why.

Everyone could change, but you have to tell me why you changed. You're changing for one reason, because you think that's the way to win. That's why you're telling Democrats to stay away. But money is not flowing in Tallerico like it was. He went out to California to start pushing or start raising some.

Additional money.

So that's going to be interesting. Kansas is now going to be tough, but I think it's still going to be a Republican seat. I would assume you lose Kansas, you're in huge trouble. They think North Carolina's lost. I wouldn't give up on Michael Watley quite yet.

And I think that when you look elsewhere about places it could flip. I think about Michigan. I also think about Minnesota. I also think about New Hampshire.

So I know people are talking about, well, that this is going to be a disaster for the Republicans. If you go race by race, I don't see it that way. What I also think is interesting is when people talk about AOC as a national. A national candidate. You know who doesn't think she's a national candidate depolarizing?

Anybody who has to win in a purple state. And if they get New York shouldn't have to worry about it. She's still thinking, when you were in Ithaca, when you were in Syracuse, you're thinking about running for the Senate. But listen to these extreme positions. Listen listen to this drivel, cut seven.

We must abolish ice. This is not an extremist position. There is no accountability. There is no accountability. You cannot assert your constitutional rights in these facilities.

These black box detention centers are for profit institutions. They are for-profit institutions. Uh yeah, or you could do the You could do the Catholic charity situation where they're making a ton of money on grants from the government. But I like people that if they are in some of those situations for profit, I like it because they got to run it effectively or they get fired, they lose their contracts, and people are responsible. But what happens is, if you gotta get people out really quickly, that's what you gotta do.

A lot of times you gotta go to the private sector instead of the NGOs. But I mean, this whole abolish ICE thing, she actually says to this group of students that ICE is eventually coming after you. No, they're not. You tell me they're gonna walk around and w walk around and pick up people that look Italian, uh that look Hispanic? It's crazy.

But I just think the President of the United States has got a lot more to run on than he's talking about. In terms of crime, got to let it run on. In terms of the border, a lot to run on. In terms of foreign policy, cleaning up our hemisphere, a lot to run on. In terms of illegal immigration here and criminals to get out of the country, a lot to run on.

But they do not message well. And the president, well, they're depending heavily on the president right now to do just about everything. But with that comes the president speaking out a lot. And some of the things he said. were not helpful necessarily to individual races.

Now as you heard Mark Halperin say in the open, President saying, I love data centers. I love AI. He says it's not great. But he does.

So that's him being candid. And you know, when they did a poll and they asked people what issues do you care about most when it comes to voting, do you know what data centers is? One percent. 1% of the people say, in terms of things that bother them that they want to see addressed, 1%. The number one issue, cost of living, inflation, 14% on the economy overall.

So 34% cost of living, 8% immigration, 7%. The reason they're voting is because Republicans trump MAGA, and that means I like them or I don't like them. 4% because of the war in Iran, 4% corruption, 4% healthcare, 1% data centers.

So cost of living will be key.

Now, the President didn't get great news because they have not landed the Canadian deal. Who does that affect Maine? Ohio. Michigan, Iowa, to the tune of $188 billion of combined income flowing in and out. Got to play hardball in order to get the deal you need.

I understand that. But the Canadian tariffs went into place. Market's not going to love that. Bond market has rates going up to 7%.

So these are all cost-of-living things.

So this is. Not great for Republicans on that, but you could say things that they're doing now are setting up for success. And once this war in Iran comes to a close, you'll see all energy costs plummet mightily, big time, especially because people have been drilling extra and been pumping extra because of the situation in Iran.

Soon we're going to have a glut, and that's going to give us a chance to fill the strategic oil reserve.

So I think it's good. President yesterday on the midterm message, cut one. What is your message to voters heading into the midterm? We have great people, and we're running against communists, lunatics, socialists. We're running against people that are going to open up the waterway.

We have a border that just came out 17 months in a row. We have no people coming in, zero, which is hard to believe even, but that's what it is. I don't put out the numbers. And we have a strong border. We have the best.

economy, the biggest investment in the history of our country. Think of that. $21 trillion is being invested. With China, it's $3 trillion. With Biden, from the last, it was a half a trillion.

For four years, it would have been negative. Or $21 trillion, the biggest amount in history. And that money is building plants like today as an example. I don't know if this number is a big number, $18 billion. I don't even think we're including that number.

So they got 6,000 new construction jobs and they got this new iron mine going into Ohio. Don't tell me that doesn't help. When we come back, I want to go inside what everyone's mislabeling, and that is genocide in Gaza. It's not genocide, but there's a lot of podcasters, so-called libertarians, who just use it as a guise to be anti-Israel. Farley Weiss joins us, bottom of the hour, inside the Tallerico Paxon race.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The only way we would have found out the opposite is to allow it to happen. And then five years from now, everyone would be saying, I can't believe they allowed Iran behind a conventional shield to build and develop a nuclear weapons program. And now you have North Korea in the Middle East. That's what we were on the verge of.

That's what the president has prevented. And that's what he has consistently said from the very beginning of this operation. Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. And that's what this whole endeavor has been about from the very beginning. And that's what he's focused on and continues to be focused on.

Mark Arubio last night talking about they can have a nuclear weapon. You know who's going to stop that? Israel was going to stop it. Farley Weiss joins us now, president of the Israeli Justice Organization. Farley, that's what people have not, you know, we're in the middle of election cycle here.

No one's taking a deep breath and looked at the big picture, but they were moving ahead with a nuclear program. And the rate in which they were making and buying and building ballistic missiles was going to protect that program. Don't you agree? Oh, there's no question. Even Tony Blinken in the Biden administration said that Iran was weeks away from a nuclear weapon.

And what were the Democrats going to do about it? The answer is nothing. They were just going to let him get a nuclear weapon because the only one who did something about it, who had courage, extraordinary courage, was President Trump. And they knew, as Marco Rubio said last night, that they were going to build so many ballistic missiles, 100 a month, compared to seven anti-missile systems a month, the numbers don't add up. They needed to attack when they attacked.

And because they did and took this, had this courageous decision, like that, Mark Thiessen says the most courageous decision he's seen of any president in his lifetime, that it's going to protect the whole world. You realize the critics would say the JCPOA kept him in check, right? Yeah. You know, oh, if the JCPOA was doing so well, then why were they still pursuing a nuclear weapon under the JCPOA? And why the JCPOA was not going to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon?

It was just going to delay it for 10 years and then they could just get it under the plan. They under I was there when Benjamin Antonio made his speech to the joint session of Congress during the Obama administration. If they just could follow the JCPR and still get a nuclear weapon, they would have had a nuclear weapon by now.

So the Iran today is waiting on another offer, the seven days to decide a nuclear program while opening up the strait and getting unfrozen funds. Trump said no. not even considering it. But I'm going to let you keep talking. Evidently, today, according to reports from Reuters, there's another proposal out there that the President's looking at.

President says doesn't include unfreezing funds Do you know anything about this? I don't know about the Zeta plan, but what President Trump has done with the I mean the under P excess with the Secretary of War is they've opened up the Strait of Hormuz to the extent that Scott Besson said they're getting pretty much the same amount of oil out as they got before the war started. And so gas prices will come radically down now. And he just is economically strangling the Iranian regime. And he just has to continue on the policy that he has right now.

And they're going to be on the verge of collapse. The reality is the Iranian currency is collapsing. I want you to hear what Peter Schweitzer said last night. I'm curious. I just want to know what's going on inside.

Because you have the IRGC in Vahee, then you have elements of the IRGC that doesn't listen to him. And then you got the regular army, which seems to be invisible. And then you got the supreme leader who we can't see, and a foreign minister and president who's. Power seemed to be negligible, not strong on most days. And then you got the Speaker of the Parliament.

By the way, people have no voice, so to be a speaker of a parliament is not saying much. But he is doing Garbalov, whatever his name is, he seems to be doing the negotiating now with the emissaries. I'm not sure if he's got the power to write a deal. But here's what Peter Schweitzer said, Cut 36. I think if you look at both of these countries, Trump's hard line is leading to fragmentation and disorientation in these countries.

In Iran, they're openly feuding now. You had the top military aide to the Iranian president, General Safavi, come out and say, we need to negotiate with the Americans or we're going to destroy our country. He was immediately attacked by the revolutionary guards who said no negotiations with the Americans.

Now members of parliament have jumped in and accused the IRGC of destroying the country. This is happening openly in the Iranian public.

So that's pretty uh this is that's pretty unprecedented, isn't it? Yeah, no question.

Well, this is what's happening is that they're used to negotiating with Obama and with Biden, and they're used to just making deals, cheating, lying about what they said. They lied on the memorandum of understanding with Trump, with President Trump, and they and but President Trump is used to people breaking deals and knowing how to handle it. And so that's what he's doing is that he knows he can't trust me, but they did a deal. The deal is meaningless because they're going to break, which is what General Jackina said. And so you just go forward with the plan they have, which is a plan to destroy the regime.

And once you destroy the regime, like you did in Venezuela, where you change the regime, you change the world for the better. I guess we're going to have now there's a big debate on what would be happening next.

So the President says after I expect strikes to begin occurring on the Wall Street Journal after New Year's, excuse me, after the midterm. And my sense is we don't do anything comprehensively without the IDF. Corp Farley Weiss, do you agree? Yeah, I think that after the midterms, I think that everything is, all the constraints kind of are off. And I think that they feel they're going to first weaken them so much with the economic sanctions that it'll be a much easier military fight after the midterms.

By the time they've so weakened the regime with the infighting that you described and Peter Schweitz described, they're going to be weaker because the RADC thought we could just keep saying, doing deals, breaking deals, just keep going forward like this. And President Trump has said, no, we're going to destroy your economy. And we're going to get those ships through.

So their only bargaining power was stopping the ships through Hormuz.

Now that's ended. The fact is they have no bargaining, they have no leverage. that President Trump holds all the cards and he's using them. Yeah, I want you to hear th this real quick, Jack Keene, 33. We've got to finish them is, I think, the only thing that makes sense here.

Not just the economic, which is very good, blockade and besant, but also we're going to have to finish there with our military objective. Combined, I think we can put them on a path and set the conditions for their collapse, bring in The CIA and Mossad undermined this regime rather significantly. And help the Iranian people to arm themselves and overthrow it. That is absolutely an achievable goal. Barley, real quick.

Yeah, I completely agree. It's something that I think President Trump agrees. President Trump is, I think he wants to weaken them with sanctions before the election and then attack afterwards. Barley Weiss, thanks so much. And we come back inside the Texas Senate race and so much more, including another caravan heading towards our border.

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The Republicans do have a big spending advantage, but is it too late? The Democrats have a generic ballot advantage of eight points, but in the battleground states before this latest edition of additional Republican seats, their advantage was two points. The Republicans have the advantage of running against DSA Democrats, but are they going to do it effectively? And so on. There are just lots of issues that are up there where each party seemingly has an advantage, but the question is: are they going to be able to execute in such a way as to make them an advantage?

Yeah, that would be interesting. That's what's at stake in the next 30 days. Joining us now, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. Republicans got to say, hey, we got money, but Democrats say we have momentum. Where would you rather be right now, Colonel West?

Well, I will always like to be on the side of the better messaging and momentum, and I think that that is what you have for the Republicans, and they do have the means by which to defend. Flip that, but they just got to do better messaging. And you talked about that today on Fox and Friends. I was watching you. I think that one of the things Republicans should do right now is to take this whole affordability issue.

And as you understand in judo, you always try to take your opponent's strength, his weight, and you use it against him. We've got to take that word and flip it against the Democrats. We need to go back and remind American people about what affordability looked like during the Biden administration. Yes, without a doubt, the gasoline prices are back up, and we need to do what is necessary to get that straight Hormuz flow going. But if you turn it back over to these same people, this is what affordability means to them.

It's not just about turning everything back over to the government, rent control, housing, and things of that nature. Their policies are going to, once again, make things unaffordable. Just point to the quote-unquote Affordable Care Act, which is an unaffordable care act, and we see all the problems that we have had with that.

So, right now, let's take a look at the Texas race that you know intimately. You're in Texas and very involved with the electorate. Right now, the Senate race is 47-46 going to the Texas Southern poll, which the Fox Power, the Fox Brain Room, approved, saying it's a valid poll.

So, between the 15th and 19th, likely voters, it is a one-point race. Here's Tallarico doing the best he can to sound like a Republican. 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.

So if Fox News is where you'll be most comfortable, I'll be there because I think it's that important. Brett Baer can moderate, we can both take questions, and Texans can hear from us directly.

Well, that's he's doing stunts. Yesterday he was in front of a gas bump and he said, look at the price of this. Donald Trump said I want to lower your gas prices. He hasn't. And now he says he wants to work with Donald Trump on the border and says the border has always been a problem.

And he says I no longer think you need a state tax, even though he said he wanted a state tax. Yeah. Well, this is him trying to pivot, and he thinks about the fact that two years ago, Donald Trump won 12 or 14 of those border counties because they don't want to go back to those policies. And everyone knows the record. And so that's why it's so important.

You can have all the money, but if you're not effectively messaging, it doesn't mean anything. And so here you have James Tallarico, who has a voting record that is clear and everyone understands it, but most people don't know about it. And so he is able to go out there and put out messages like he just did. And furthermore, this past weekend, they had a historical black college and university football classic game at the Cotton Bowl. And guess who was there?

And guess who was not there? James Tallarico was there at that game, and Ken Paxon, most people don't know where he is. And so I think that that's the problem. You can have all the money in the world, but if you're not effectively messaging, it's not going anywhere. Yeah, if you're lazy, I have no time for you.

And that's what it seems like he is. Here's Carl Row just ripping Paxson. 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 shit 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, and so it's still a one point race. Having said all that, obviously when he came out and said and has been big critical of George Bush, when Bush is doing fundraisers, he just skips over the Paxson campaign. And Karl Rove is not impressed with never been impressed with Paxson. No, he's not.

And as a matter of fact, you even have Senator Cornyn out there speaking against Paxton as well. There's a little angst there between what some people call a GOP establishment, the Bush roll ball that is there in Texas. And I think that what you will end up seeing is that Ken Paxon will underperform in the ballot against some of the other Republicans that are out there. I think that you'll see the governor, Greg Abbott, have a good turnout and a good showing, but Ken Paxon will not be able to get to that point. You know, most people is going to be hard, but I think the more you will have some folks who will say, I'm voting against Tallarico more so than voting for Ken Paxon.

But again, he's got to get out, he's got to make his case, and he needs to explain some of these things, and he needs to so show some remorse. That's one of the big conversations I have with friends and people, especially even at my church. Yeah, and still he's pop ever I keep hearing from people in Texas, and you live there. Oh, but Ken Paxton is so popular in Texas. Remember George P.

Bush, you know, a great guy, Hispanic heritage, famous family, friends with Trump, not you know, him and j his dad and Trump famously had a rivalry. But he was all in, but he lost by about 20 points to Paxton. He never got close to getting that attorney general spot. And people point out he's never lost a statewide race, and now it's within one point, with everything you said being true.

So that's the thing to keep in mind. I thought Harry Enton, believe it or not, on CNN. Said this about everyone talking about Trump and he's lame duck and he's not as popular and people staying away. Listen to this, cut 10. Say they're certain to vote in 2026.

Again, 71% of Democrats say they are certain in fact to vote in 2026. And look at this. MAGA Republicans the same. It's simpatico. MAGA GOP on Trump.

In the 2024 election versus Kamal Harris, he got 99% of the MAGA GOP vote. Perhaps surprisingly, I might have thought it'd be 100%, but it was 99%. Compare that to his approval rating now with the MAGA GOP. It's 98%. That is, there's been no real decline in MAGA support for the President of the United States.

So that's when everyone's saying, oh, he doesn't have his base anymore. Their fracture, the podcaster has turned on him. It just doesn't show up on a CNN poll. Maybe they would love to say that. Yeah, they would.

And I think what is so important, and I think the president tried to stress that when he had the midterm rally there in Dallas, was his policies. On the ballot. Maybe not him personally, but the policy is on the ballot. And we already know what happened in the final two years of his first term when it was just impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, and everything came to a screeching halt.

So I think that's one of the messages. And again, if you want to try to do anything, take away this affordability argument of the left and try to say, hey, look, you know, here's the guy that's trying to put more money into your pockets. Yes, this thing with Iran is not going in the way that I want it. We see the gasoline prices, diesel prices going up, food commodity prices going up, but at least you have more money in your pockets as opposed to the Green New Deal and the things of Biden administration and taking money out of your pockets.

So let's just look at the, I know you're into, you have the war background, you wear the camouflage, but let's talk about the economic war.

So far now, inflation is up 70% since the war started in Israel. The real, 2.2 million. For every dollar, you need 2.2 million reals, right? And then. When it comes to oil exports, they have 260,000 barrels.

They will give it a day. It was up 1.7 prior to the war.

Now, most of that stuff is being locked out, being unable to ship out. And they're just about done with the ships that were on the other side of the blockade that were being delivered to China. And I know the President, behind closed doors, let China know, not okay. It doesn't do any good to go public with China. It's counterproductive.

They got this pride thing happening. That's not the combination that works with them. Maybe it works with Putin, or they just understand toughness too. But I think there was a lot of pressure on China to knock it off, and now there's economic pressure. And you know why, Colonel?

Why else would they have come back with two proposals in three days? Why are they giving four American network interviews if they were sitting so pretty? The strait is almost up to the same flow of oil and gas prior to the conflict. You see, and that's why I would have made the economic pressure right along with the military pressure. That should have been something that we did right at the beginning because, you know, that's the thing about in the military.

You want to try to hit your enemy in every way, shape, form, and fashion from every avenue that you possibly can. And at that strategic level, where the president sits, it's not just about the military pressure you bring around, but it is about the economic pressure. That should have been something we have been doing from the onset at the 28th of February. But now it's starting to take effect, and hopefully, we can once again get more of that oil that is out. But I think that one of the lessons that we have learned here is we have got to get our refining capacity increased here in the United States of America.

We really do have to work on that thing called energy independence, because I think we still are just not there yet. We have all the resources, but it's about the refining capability and capacity to include the diesel. But I hear you, but yet we haven't built a new refinery since the 70s. We're always shutting. them down.

California basically shut them all down.

So why is it not, why is it, why is it cost effective to drill, but not to refine? when you're guaranteed business, especially with Venezuela now. Yes, and that's the point that I think we should be looking at. And I think that's a great thing that the president could come out and say, here's my lesson learned from this. We have got to do better.

Just the same as he's building this new steel factory that you all mentioned. We need to talk about our refining capability. And again, put California on their heels and say, look, one of the problems is that we have California just restricting and restraining our refining capability capacity.

So you have these quote-unquote leftists, these Democrats, these blue states. that are keeping us from being able to lower the price of the pump, the price of the gas at the pump. And it's their policies that are doing that. They're the ones that are not for affordability. Yeah, I mean, that's what you got to find a way to do it.

Because if you look at the numbers and what people cared about, 34% cost of living, 14% say economy, 6% say immigration, 7% say I'm voting because of or because of Trump, against or for. The war in Iran, just 4% of the people are voting for the war in Iran. That's corruption for health care for 1% data centers. 1%. You would think by what we hear coming out of Democrats that everybody has a data center in their backyard and they're tired of the noise and the pollution and the money.

Well, that's the Chinese TikTok propaganda because they want to get the upper hand on these data centers. They want to get the upper hand on AI. And of course, for whatever reason, we see the Marxist left here joining hands with the Communist Chinese Party. All right. Lastly, on trade.

The President of the United States, it looks like we're putting tariffs on Canada. The trade war continues. That will definitely affect Iowa, Ohio. Main And Michigan. President says, well, we'll probably get a deal soon.

I'm not in a rush. They say you take those states. It's $188 billion in commerce. Trump's Canada import ban has banned wine from Canada, cider, beer, other alcohol, non-alcoholic beer, motorcycles, whey protein, and molasses. Canada has put tariffs on our goods, too.

They pulled all American liquor off the Canadian shelves. There's existing Canadian tariffs on U.S. autos will remain, as well as aluminum.

So this battle continues. Yeah. Uh I just don't understand why with our neighbors to the north, we cannot just have free and fair trade. Uh to me, let's uh sit down and let's be adults and just say, hey, look. Enough of this terror stuff.

Let's just have Equal and fair and free trade between our respective countries. Let's make it beneficial to our respective citizens and stop going back and forth. And, you know, for Canada to start trying to court China or trying to go into the European Union, things of this nature, I don't think that works to their benefit in the long run.

So, again, I just hope we can get some adults in the room. I know. And you land that plane.

So that's why I just think between the Iran war being very volatile. And the Canadian deal being very d doable, things could really change a lot in thirty days.

So that's why anyone who says anything's locked up is just not they're rooting more than analyzing. Yeah, it's it's not locked up and and everyone knows that.

So I I I I'm not I'm not going to be dancing in the end zone, but I think that this is going to be a tough election cycle, and hopefully the American people will. vote for their best interests and not the interests of propaganda and ideologies. All right, go get him, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. Thanks so much. Thank you, Brian.

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The fastest three hours in radio, you're with. Ryan Killmeade. School has an unbelievable football season and is considered a college football playoff material. The next season, that same team has a schedule that is playing well-known teams like Notre Dame or Alabama, who are drawing a significant crowd and increase fan interest and demand. This amendment would prevent that small schools, whose fans believe they are playoff material, from being able to respond to that fanned interest and build revenues that could be put back in the university and back into the student athletes.

And critically, the revenue that is shared with student athletes. Comes from ticket sales, so capping the prices on ticket sales would reduce the revenue that is available to student athletes. I encourage members to vote no. is fixed prices. It fixed prices on everybody.

Why don't we do something for the fans, for God's sakes? Payment don't. Am I out of order, Mr. President? Yes, substantially.

Senator Kennedy, let everybody know. Listen, you just did college sports reform, but what about fan reform?

So, if you have a $47 million budget, somehow you got to get that revenue. And a lot of those tickets are getting pricing the students out and some of the families out.

So, that's what he's trying to say. The other thing that people want to include is mandatory men and women sports. You got to stop that. But there are about 29 states out there that still allow it on a case-by-case basis, which is nuts. But if you got involved in that and go for the perfect bill, I love Senator Kennedy.

Everything gets stopped up, and it is a bipartisan bill.

So you got 77 votes. What happens is, if you start saying that, you lose the votes. But are you fighting separately for that? Yeah, you're doing it. But this is the type of bill, and everyone says, why are you working on sports and so many other things?

Well, why not? It matters. Tell me how many people in the South, especially in red states, Care about Care about college sports. I mean, 75%.

So it's not a priority. It doesn't get the price of groceries down. But maybe it saves the sport so we don't just see LSU against, you know, Florida's of the world and all these 1 AA schools and Division II swimming teams and Division III gymnastics teams and wrestling squads don't have to disband because you have to have a football program and no program. And then you factor in Title IX where Title IX essentially says if you got to have men and women have to have the equal number of athletes.

So if you factor in Title IX and the money, College sports are just really AAA. It'll be AAA college sports for basketball and football and lacrosse in some markets.

So I think this is a great thing. I want to see the House pass it, and it's going to just show the government can do something right. And by the way, they were asked to help because the NCAA was powerless. From High Attop, five. Fox News headquarters in New York City.

Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Harvard, so glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilman Show coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. We are going to keep you up to date on what's happening in the most exciting midterms that I can remember, certainly most impactful.

And they're really bizarre. This is really a bizarre year because of this war that started hot and now it's just been a standoff stare down. I think we got the advantage. And I'll give you some reasons why. And then we have the Clancy trial starting up, but the midterm elections are, and we're seeing if there's going to be a future for that Clancy trial, which the country seems to be obsessed with.

Woman who strangled her three kids and jumped out a window. And the question is: did she know what she was doing? Is it insanity? And they got the vilifying of a juror. He got all the dramatics that probably wouldn't be worthy of a legal drama TV series because you never think jurors would be considered the bad guys, but they seem to be.

But just on the midterm elections, you got the communism, socialism, legitimate candidates who are likely to win their elections, who are going to be just like independent candidates if they actually get through for Democrats and they actually get the majority.

So we have all that going on. And we do a simulcast with Stuart Varney and Brian Gaffney's going to be here. He's got a brand new book as we get ready for the baseball playoffs on Knuckleball.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. We hope it's an engineering problem. I believe it's an engineering problem. I know it's an engineering problem.

And we all need to hope that it's an engineering problem. If it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable. And so the fact that all of these companies still are advancing the state of the art is because they also believe it's solvable. Jensen Wong of NVIDIA talking about the AI. Not worried about it.

Should be concerned. They just should be responsible, but do not stop. AI CEOs are heading to the White House as they try to regain their public's confidence and super intelligence, I hope, is the new term we all use. Number two. I think if you look at both of these countries, Trump's hard line is leading to fragmentation and disorientation in these countries.

In Iran, they're openly feuding now. That is true, and that is Peter Schweitzer, Iran, expecting an answer today from the Trump team as they have a new proposal submitted, different from the one they did from two days ago, which shows a desperation while there are fresh signs inside Iran of strife amongst the evil leadership. Number one. The president could start driving messages that are helpful as opposed to unhelpful messages like I love data centers and I love AI. If that happens, maybe things will change.

But right now, I'd say Democrats would pick up at least 25 House seats net and at least six Senate seats net. That is Mark Halperin getting aggressive. GOP comes out spending as the final sprint to November, and Trump really hinges on his record. If he could emphasize what he's accomplished while landing the plane of the Canadian deal, As well as the right deal with Iran, that would change everything. Joining us now is Michael Goodman at the New York Post.

And we'll talk about what's happening here in New York because I know it is a national story. Governor Hoko and Mondami, Mondami and the President speaking. But Mondami is what Bruce Blakeman is really running against because Kathy Hoko is scared to death of this mayor. And Bruce Blakeman, who wants to be the next governor, is trying to put them together. It's not helpful that the President's actually being friendly to the mayor.

Although it's probably good for the country. Michael Goodwin joins us now. Welcome back, Michael. Thank you, Brian. So do you think the die has been cast on the midterms yet?

Um Perhaps to the extent that there, I don't see that there's much. The present Yeah. do between now and November. We're talking about really a month at most. Early voting starts pretty soon in some states.

So I think the problem is that Iran is calling the shots. Iran, of course, is does not want Trump to win, to ha have more power.

So I suspect they will do what they can between now and I don't think they're calling the shots, Michael. They're not. I mean, if they're you don't have two piece proposals if you're calling the shots.

Well, I mean politically, um, in America because There's not much time to fix the the energy shortage and the price rises. Those are the two things that are bedeviling the economy and that are uh hurting the president And all Republicans spike. Extension.

So, in that sense, I think Iran is in the driver's seat for the next five weeks or so as to whether the war continues, it returns to the sort of kinetic activity, or whether Stays quiet through the midterms, which the president surely hopes for. Yeah, I want you to hear what Peter Schweitzer says. He's finding out that's happening inside Iran, Cut 36. I think if you look at both of these countries, Trump's hard line is leading to fragmentation and disorientation in these countries. In Iran, they're openly feuding now.

You had the top military aide to the Iranian president, General Safavi, come out and say, we need to negotiate with the Americans or we're going to destroy our country. He was immediately attacked by the revolutionary guards who said no negotiations with the Americans.

Now members of parliament have jumped in and accused the IRGC of destroying the country. This is happening openly in the Iranian public.

And the Iranian said, the foreign minister said, don't have direct talks. He evidently did talk directly. They hopped on four different American networks, including Fox, to explain their side of the story.

So I get the sense that there's something going on there that they can't control. Yeah, uh that may be Brian. W that would be great if there were a An internal revolution against the IRGC and then people would be free. Demonstrate as well, but I'm just not sure of the impact of anything. Between now and November, that would change.

to dynamics That have been in play now for months in terms of the presence. Popularity on the economy. And the war, of course, remains very unpopular. But only 4% of the American public says that's the reason why they're going to vote for or against. The number one issue is grocery prices.

Number two is gas. Number four is housing. Number five is health care costs, which is interesting before where we start. Let's talk about what's happening with the governor's race here in New York. It looks like to be a nine-point race between seven and nine points.

What does Blakeman have to do to close the gap? Because Hochl is not an effective governor, and she seems scared to death of their socialist mayor. Yes, and she is a very good idea. and she's counting on him to help. help push her over the line with his radical vote.

and that's who she's That's why She has turned left on everything. And he's got this. The Post has a story today about his army. Of influences going to target individual businessmen in the city as a way to kind of hopefully drive them out of the city.

Somewhat what they tried to do with Ken Griffin when they passed. That the tear tax.

So, this is a nasty move. And just like what Mandani calling Israel genocide state and trying wanting to arrest Netanyahu, Hoku was. Quiet. And that quiet says, I either agree with you or I don't disagree with you strongly enough to do anything about it. And I think that's the hook that Blakeman needs to keep emphasizing.

The marriage of convenience between Hokul and Mamdani. He's got to run against both of them. And it's upstate he's doing that because Mamdani is not popular in the Republican district. Of course, but I think he's got to do a better job in downstate, in the city, in the close in suburbs, because Mamdani is a drag for a lot of people, a lot of Democrats, who may not know how closely Hokul is depending on him.

So I think that's a point that Blakeman needs to keep emphasizing. I see. Yeah, and the fact is, when you have the prices in New York are not going down, the grocery shows are not happening, the rents are not frozen, the buses are not free, you wonder at some point where people are going to look around. Then he says, I'm going to start taxing you if you have a second home year and don't live here. And the worst rollout you could possibly remember.

Now he's being examined by landlords or suing to find out if the board, independent board, was actually tilted towards him before they voted to freeze rents. And that's just going to make the housing situation worse. Right now, they don't have a crime problem, but if they continue to deny police officers overtime while refusing to staff another academy, that's exactly what they're going to have.

Well and also these homeless encampments Yeah. And he won't let the police rouse them. And um that is a problem because neighborhood in neighborhoods. And Hoko again If Silent, silent. She he calls Israel a genocide state.

She says she's a strong supporter of Israel, but does not condemn him.

Now you can have that both ways. That's what Blakeman needs to exploit and explain. Absolutely. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much. Appreciate it.

My pleasure, Brian. Thank you. Read him in the New York Post when we come back. I'll be able to take some of your calls: 1-866-408-7669. And then Brian Gaffney joins us.

Got a brand new book out talking about the School of Hard Knocks, My Three Sons, and Baseball's Wildest Pitch. Of course, that's the knuckleball. And he'll be with us. They'll be with us in ten minutes. You're next.

Newsmakers and Newsbreakers, here at first on The Brian Kill Meet Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Another thing I think that is very unexpected is this relationship you have with President Trump. How did you do that, and can you help me?

Sorry, brother. Like, if you texted him a selfie of us right now. Jimmy, I I I love you, but I I love housing more. And meanwhile, because that president would not have thought that was funny at all, because the president really dislikes him. There's just no question.

So he was Mondami's on. He's looked at, I mean, he's got 53% approver rating right now. He's got 53% approver rating. On in New York City. The rest of the state, it's in the 40s or 30s.

But that's why he gets applause in New York City. I mean, it's I don't think DeBasio would have gotten applause. You know, even though Juliana, I think after nine eleven would have gotten applause. I don't know if Bloomberg gets applause, but this guy is so different and so radical. And you would think any Democrat would say, like Fetterman, listen, you're destroying the party.

We're not a socialist. You keep saying you're a socialist communist who hates Israel. We don't need that label. But he was on there trying to charm Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Kimmel was trying to get him to unmask how he gets on with the president. He says, Look.

I got to give Mondami credit on this, both of them. I don't know why the President does give Mondami this much slack. But he said we both like New York. And I'm trying to revitalize Queens, and I need this complex turned around. And if he had sent a picture with him and Jimmy Kimmel, I'm telling you, the whole thing would have been done.

So he was right about that. Patty, you're in Connecticut. Hey Patty. Hi. Thank you for taking my call.

You know, in regard to what the President's doing in Iran, and I'll comment on Canada also. You know, I'm 100% behind what he's actually doing. I think they're both very good strategies. He's hitting them economically. It's having a lot of financial problems for them.

They have no money come in. Oil is still going through. The President's got that open. I think time Yeah. And there's always showing success.

because they are all fighting within the country. And I think that is a perfect example of the strength. that they're feeling from the President's strategies. And I think what may help a little bit at home is actually if We want the turnout in November to keep our President in place. Yeah.

people that he needs to work with to continue what his plans are for us. And I think if we left and Yeah.

some of the tariffs on Canada. we might be able to reduce some of the grocery prices and You said lesson or left. You said lesson or left. I think it will lessen some of the strain on the American people so that they could better manage their budgets a little bit better and have a little bit more money to put to distribute. Dispersed between their groceries and rents and that kind of thing.

And that's why I say, and you're 100% right. Patty, that's why I say when people say this die's been cast or I think it's done, Charlie Cook was on Meet the Press or ABC and he said, oh, yeah, the house is lost. Really? The house is lost? 18 seats are up, too close to call.

There's four seats separating the both parties and the majorities. And if you can land the Canadian deal, the 21st deal, and then the 22nd could be Mexico, that could all be done in the next 15 days, maybe quicker. Gary, you're in Daytona Beach. Hey Gary. Hey, Brian, thanks for taking the call.

Ah. My wife's in the uh real estate business and I always here we We don't chuckle, we find it amazing that a lot of the people find themselves that you always hear the twenty five to forty. such a hard time either with rents or with uh purchasing their first home. A lot of them have put themselves in the position where when you run their numbers, a lot of them make fairly good salaries, but they have one thousand eight hundred a month and two car payments and they have different subscriptions and they forget about their college loans being counted. And by the time you're done, they don't qualify.

You know, they're not they're not going to be able to Uh many of them their their lifestyles are upside down financially. And uh they blame it on you know they'll blame it on the administration or how prices are unaffordable and there's no way we can buy a home. I know. And right now you have rates at 7 percent, and that's a lot to do with the bond rating with the country, less to do with the raising of rates overall.

So that's got to be, this is something like the highest it's been since 2000.

So we'll see there are a few factors. I mean, there are some things that the President does have control, and the others he doesn't, and that works for the plus and minus on both sides. But the question is: if you could find a way to get things more affordable, this is the one thing the President brought up, and I cannot believe Democrats voted against it. If you want to help students right now with loans, drop the interest rate. I have no idea why it's above the prime rate.

It used to be I think I remember correctly, before the government got involved, you had a bank, and I had a coupon book. And I had a coupon, but you rip the coupon, you get an envelope, and you write the check and you send it in. But the rates were below average.

Now it's above prime. Why are you doing that? Why did the government take over these loans and then have the interest rate? Ad Yeah. It should be below.

So, what the president offered to do, I think it was three months ago, it did not get a lot of publicity, was knock it down to 2%. Right away, everyone's. everyone's daily monthly responsibility decreases on that spot. And you could even say bipartisan way of doing it.

Now a lot of these people aren't paying their loans anyway, so you can't say, well, with the interest, they might be losing money. Yeah, a little bit. But you know, you're not supposed to be in the student loan money business to make money It's supposed to allow people to pay for college. And the other thing is, don't go to a $70,000 college if you can't get any type of aid and you're on a paycheck-to-paycheck income, and you got, like most kids getting out of high school, you got about $5,000 in the bank. If that, maybe $500 in the bank, you can't go to a $70,000 school and they'll give you student loans and parent loans to get you to that level, but then you got this extraordinary Uh extraordinary burden.

So We're looking at a few of those things.

So that's a couple of things when it comes to affordability. But guess what? Democrats didn't want to vote for it. Why?

Because it would help things become more affordable. Why did they try why did they stop the center Eusteds Data center criteria. Because it would actually address a problem. They do not want any problem addressed. In fairness, President Trump looked at Joe Biden's idea of fixing the border and said, even though there were some things in it he agreed with, he told Republicans, forget it.

He's led 4 million people in here illegally. He's looked the other way as the border collapsed. He sold off the piece of the wall the American people paid for for pennies on the dollar. He is not going to get comprehensive immigration reform. No way.

So, in that way. They weren't going along with it. But on those other minor things, Both sides could have taken credit. At one point they gotta start fixing things, don't you think? Talk a little baseball.

We get back. Brian Gaffney's in here. His brand new book, Hard Nucks. That's K-N-U. CKS.

Don't move. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian. kill me. All right, welcome back everyone.

It's baseball season at post-baseball season where you eliminate a lot of Major League Baseball, but focus on where real sports fans get involved, even if your team's eliminated, if you love the sport. Brian Gaffney is one of those people. He's vice president of long-form programming at Fox News and author of a brand new book called School of Hard Knucks. NUCKS OFF THE Knuckleball. My three sons in baseball's wild as pitch.

Brian, what do you know about the knuckleball? I think I know more about the knuckleball than anyone who has never thrown it. Really? So, what got you interested in it? Came home one day, saw my kids throwing it in the back yard.

And uh I was well aware as a As a kid, growing up in that golden age, Joe Necro, Joe Necro, Wilbur Wood, all those guys. Charlie Huff. Charlie Huff. Um. That this was a talent that could take someone who could only throw 65 miles an hour.

the Hall of Fame.

So when I see my kids doing this. How old are they? The oldest guy of the time is twelve. This is the R. A.

Dickey year. That's what got him out there, right? Everybody in the New York area was enthralled with this guy. Who won the Cy Young? Who won the Cy Young?

Only knuckleballer ever to win the Cy Young. And. Yeah, when I saw this, I'm kind of a failed baseball player. I love the game, but didn't play very well.

So uh I just Put my shoulder into it and took us on a decade, decade and a half long.

So you said, okay, listen, let's find out how to throw this, because they were just kind of winging it.

So you started coaching those three individually. Coaching. Listen, I am in no position to teach my kids how to throw this thing.

So I caught it. Took a lot of shots to the face and to the body. It is impossible to catch. It's very hard to catch. And.

And I looked. Far and wide for someone who knew how to throw it, who could throw it. And that got us into this. Almost this Cult-like network of the old guys who are trying to keep the pitch alive. And before I know it, my Kids are throwing with Phil Necro and Charlie Huff.

Learning the pitch from them. Yeah. And how'd you track them down? The internet got on. There's a guy by the name of Chris Nolan, who's a minor league knuckler who.

Kind of has put together this network called Knuckleball Nation. He ran some clinics. He got us in touch and before some of these other guys. And You know, as I said, 10 years later, my little guy got pretty good. He's pitching in college, maybe the only knuckler pitching in college, or the only pure.

Uh Phil Necro throw at every pitch down the middle of the field. What kind of success did they have throughout the divisions and throughout their age groups? I tell you what, going through youth baseball, face a lot of headwinds because. A lot of coaches don't like it. You're sitting there out there in Little League with twelve kids on one team, twelve kids in the other team, all their parents there, and your kid is out there throwing this little loopy lollipop and everyone's scratching their head.

But The older guy did well. I mean, he played through high school, got awards. The younger guy, as I said, he's got a college scholarship to throw it. Wow, that's fantastic. Yeah.

So what did you learn about this that made you so obsessed about it? What's the intriguing part of it? Um I think A couple things. One is It's just this amazing the knuckleball is the most amazing. Sports underdog story.

In the way that these guys I mean Maybe the greatest ever, second greatest ever, Hoyt Wilhelm. His own um the the Baltimore Orioles media relations. Um Director said he was the worst athlete ever to step on a major league field. Hall of Famer. Hall of Famer.

He, um So so part of it is that the other part of it is catching this thing, it's just You can't really quite believe it. I don't know if you've ever caught one, but it changes directions in mid-air. It is the weirdest thing ever, and it's cool. Uh But um You know, when we got on this journey to see how far they could go. Uh seeing my sons Work really hard because it's one thing to be able to throw it every so often with no spin, 60 feet.

To be able to Throw it for a strike to be able to throw it without spin every time because if you spin it once, that ball is not going to move and it just got to go. Oh, yeah. Right.

So you became a society. In what way? What is it like? It's you know, Ron Luciano, you remember him, the oh, the old ump, he used to call it almost a religious cult that just barely sur survives.

So you had these guys, almost all of them Uh turned to the pitch after their conventional s skills failed them.

So that they worked on this thing and they kind of caught lightning with it and went on to Whether it's playing the major leagues, but even some of the minor leaguers, there's one guy in the book who. who just Learned it on the side, and he was teaching kids. He was a catcher, he was teaching kids how to throw it in one of these batting cage facilities. In walks by chance a scout from Detroit. Sees him throwing there and signs him out of nowhere.

He went from, you know, basically living in his car to AAA. Amazing stories. What about Wakefield? Where does he fit in in that?

Well, Wakefield is a couple of things with Wakefield. First of all, one of the things that Former Red Sox pitcher. Former Red Sox pitcher. He got signed as a power-hitting first baseman. Came up.

Quickly realized, as he put it, he was allergic to wood. That is, he can't hit with the wood bat. With a wooden bat, with the way you could hit with a metal bat in college. He's about to get cut, throws um a coach Is about to bring him in to get cut and sees him throwing knuckleballs in the sidelines. And they said, Here's the deal: you're either a knuckleballer or you're going.

So, but as you look at him, He inspired so many other people. who are still out there trying to throw it. That because of course he pitched in the World Series too, right? He pitched in the World Series, but he had, I mean, he came up his rookie year for the Pirates and had this. truly phenomenal season where he goes, um 14-2, I think.

He beat two Hall of Famers in the playoffs of the Braves. I think it was Glavin and It was Glevin twice.

So it's an amazing story of someone. Again, the most incredible Knuckleball story. The Knuckleballs are the most incredible. Underdog stories because these guys are done. Finished.

Gone. And they get resurrected. And what about when they lose it?

Sometimes they have a knuckleball, and then the next year it's gone. And so, what are the reasons for that? Has it been discussed? You know, I think um The reasons there's a funny story where Dickey goes is learning from Wakefield and Dickey says to Wakefield, do you ever worry that it's going to disappear forever? Phil Necro used to talk about losing it for a couple of weeks.

You have to be so precise. your mechanics have to be absolutely perfect because it's not just the wrist that can cause it to spin. It could be your motion, your the way your torso twists or what have you, so that it is a Uh There are tiny things that can go wrong at the beginning when you're releasing it that can. create massive changes at the end. And that's why all these guys I mean, they say the Knuckleballers are the one group that are allowed to fraternize with the other teams when they are When they're playing against them, they always let the Knuckleballers.

Uh Go into each other's bullpens, give each other tips, even if they're on the other team. What do the Necros have that made them special? Phil and Phil.

Okay, so Phil, Phil's interesting. Phil is the only, as far as 46, right? Or 48? Till he fit when he finished. Yeah.

47. Unbelievable. He wins 318 games. Phil is the only knuckleballer that I know of, maybe Wilhelm. That actually threw it.

straight through as a kid. Every knuckleballer seems to learn it when they're 12.

Well, they learn it when they're 12 from their dad or they're watching Wakefield or someone. They set it aside, they get to the. They get to the majors, they find out they've hit a wall, and then they go back to save their career. Phil is the only guy that is throwing it. from seventh grade on.

And as a matter of fact, he told my guys, you got to commit to this thing.

So he's telling my. He's still out there. He passed away. He passed away a couple of years ago.

So he remember Joe got caught with a file in his pocket. Joe got caught with a file. Joe had a really, he had a legit major league fastball. Half his career, he threw half knuckleballs, half fastballs. Which makes it really deadly.

Which makes it really deadly. Although a lot of people say you've got to throw it to really be a good knuckleballer, you have to throw it all the time. The great thing about the great story about Joe Necro is that when they built the Astrodome, No one really knows what causes the knuckleball to Behave the way it does. They don't know exactly what does it. And there was a lot of speculation.

that a knuckleball would not work in a dome. No wind. Uh and uh turns out that Joe Necro's knuckleball worked better in the dome. Which sort of caused people to go down sort of a rabbit hole in trying to get away from the mainstream. Matt Waldron was cut by the Uh San Diego Padres.

I was hoping to see him in the playoffs. I think he got picked up by the Nationals, but he's the only one. It's a going extinct. School of Hard Knucks. It's a great book.

Out now, perfect time with baseball now in the postseason. Brian Gaffney, congratulations. Where can you get it? Everywhere, Amazon, whatever. Barnes and Noble stores, wherever.

Ask for hard knucks. They'll know what you're talking about. Thanks, Brian. Thank you so much.

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

We're going to do a simulcast on the Fox Business Network, fastest growing network in the country, FBN, Stuart Varney. A lot of people things going on. As you know, I'm located in New York with the most controversial mayor, and of course, until Cynthia Rahman wins and beats Karen Bass, where she'll be another socialist mayor in another major city, which has been totally ineffective unless you're pro-homeless and pro-fiscal irresponsibility. That's what we're looking at now.

So we'll talk about that now. Here's Stuart Varney introducing me. Between the U.S. and China only, he said he will be signing a very powerful, his words, very powerful executive order on AI, and he will direct every federal agency. To make their services integrate with America.gov.

1051, here is Brian Kilmier. Brian, Texas Senate candidate James Tellerico, he says he could win. A Democrat could win in the Senate seat from Texas. Tallarico says he's fighting for universal health care on biblical grounds. Listen to this.

When Jesus healed the sick, he didn't ask for a deductible.

So So when I fight for universal health care, I'm doing it on biblical grounds. When Jesus fed the hungry, he didn't price gouge to turn a prophet.

So when I say that no child in the state of Texas should go to bed hungry, I'm doing it on biblical grounds. Brian Kilmead is here. Polls show Tallarico is actually in the lead at the moment. He has momentum. Is Texas going to buy that?

I don't know if he has momentum anymore. He had a four-point lead. It's down to one. And that came out a couple of days ago for likely voters. And that's where we're at right now.

Now, Paxton's going to have about 60 to 100 million, maybe more, pouring in.

So we'll see if he actually starts campaigning hard and starts working six or eight stops a day. He should pull that out. But Tall Rico. I think it's a real tough situation if you're going to cite the Bible and then cite practical programs in any civilized society. For example, Jesus, a carpenter, decides to do some healing for free.

Please tell me what is analogous to Jesus. Doing what he did and US healthcare or the UK Universal Healthcare or the Canadian healthcare is guaranteeing health care eventually what Jesus would do because that's what the other systems do. If you have a knee-to-hip operation, you get in line. I'm not sure if Jesus would make you get in line, but I just know that he wasn't forced to handle an entire population of people and as well as communists and socialists. I'm pretty sure citing Jesus in healthcare isn't the most apt thing to do, especially unless he is Jesus himself, which according to reports, he's not.

The other thing he's doing, which is a little crazy, is he wants to pretend to be a Republican.

So, Stuart, he's saying, I'm going to work with Trump on the border, really? Because you were for letting everybody in. I am no longer for a state tax, really, because you said you were. And then you said that Jesus was non-binary, God was non-binary.

Now you say I made a mistake. What point do you say you're pretending to be someone you're not? Because he never answered the question: why you changed all your views, except for they're remarkably unpopular to the most of the people in Texas. And he did this thing.

Now, if you have Zo Ram Mdani doing a fundraiser for you, please don't tell me you think that's going to sell in Texas. Have you walked and talked to anybody? I don't think he would get elected anywhere in Texas. He was doing a good job telling the other Democrats to stay away because he wants to look like a Republican or less like himself. And now, by giving into a fundraiser there and then going out to Hollywood to raise money, I think he drops the veil a little bit.

Have you seen that caravan that's formed? 600 people on their way from Honduras getting through into Mexico. Do they believe that if the Democrats do well in the midterms, the Democrats will just let them in again? Is that what they're thinking? I mean, you remember, then they marched across the border with.

With Biden-Harris t-shirts.

So these guys follow our election better than closer than most Americans.

So he's heading up there thinking, okay, if Hakeem Jeffries is speaker, I'll be let in. I got news for you. They're completing the wall. Those border patrols have no idea who's president, whose party wins the midterms. They know who's the president, and you're not getting in.

So those 600 should be stopped at the Mexican-southern border. They shouldn't even get to the northern border. Mexico has been a real strong partner. And they have not. The reason why we don't need Remain in Mexico, Stewart, is because Mexico didn't let them get to Mexico.

And they even are admitting since we bolstered their border, their border cities are much more fiscally sane. Heartbreak, killing me, but I've got to go. Brian, we'll see you next time. Thanks a lot. All right, Stuart, thank you.

All right. So we'll take a look at that. What he was referring to is the 600 people coming up from Honduras, and they're holding up signs and they look like fine people, but they just don't like Honduras anymore, and they're coming out.

Now That in a way is a failure of Honduras because one of the first things we did is we sent emissaries down there to say, what's the problem with your country? What's it going to take to keep people here? And could you let them know if they come, they're getting sent right back. and need you to accept them back. Where it's going to affect our trade relationship.

And Andorra has been a great partner. El Salvador has been a great partner. Mexico has been a great partner.

Soon, I hope Nicaragua will be a great partner. Venezuela is no longer the cesspool of urchins that have been crossing our border because they were throwing out their criminals, kicking them over here. That wasn't just a slogan for the campaign. That was 100% true.

So, this is what's important. When those caravans come to the border It is a reminder. Of what was. We kind of got spoiled when you fix something right away. In whether it's your house, your car, or your life.

After a while, you go okay.

Now it's fixed. You move on to the next problem. Trump fixed the border and everybody that works for him, Tom Holman. Mark Wayne Mohen have done such a great job at the border, picking up criminals and doing what they're doing. They're almost too aggressive now, according to some on the right and some in the Hispanic community.

It's no longer. You went from the third or second biggest issue?

So like tenth.

So they're a little bit victims of their own success. But doing a few ads, showing it the way it was, and comparing it to the way it is, might show an administration that's hitting on all cylinders. That might be ad worthy, and they certainly have the money. I think the president's got close to a billion dollars. Thanks for listening to the Brian Kill Me Show.

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Hi everyone, Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for listening. Our chance to talk about tapping locally before we get into it nationally. And we'll be talking about all that. It comes up 48th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan.

It's one of those times where so many things are happening in New York that end up being national news, one of which is a mayor of New York being really a power source of fundraising. For a lot of these Democratic candidates, but you realize. If the Mayor Bondanti is going to be fundraising for you, you have to live with the socialist label. That's what he's fundraising off. This hour I'm going to be joined by Congressman Jim Jordan.

I'm chairman of the Oversight Committee. Right now, worried about everybody worried about more about reelection. The House is not in the Senate is. And with me right now in studio is Will Thiebaud, veteran of the Army 75th Regiment, former Palantir Executive, currently director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute and founder of the Escoril Solutions. Will, great to see you.

Yeah, thanks, Brian. Appreciate it. First off, as you see what's going on in Iran right now, what role do you think that's playing in this whole midterm election? I think it plays a big role. I think it's undeniable that Democrats see it as a wedge issue they can use to, at the very least, depress voter turnout for President Trump.

But at the same time, I think the reality tells a little bit of a different story. It seems like oil and resource flows through the Strait of Hormuz are actually nearing pre-war levels. And if you really examine what's happening, is that the U.S. does have a stranglehold over Iran. There's a successful blockade on the blockade.

Exactly. And it gives us a degree of leverage because we've increasingly isolated Iran for the first time. This is a combination of diplomatic, economic, and military force to compel a foreign policy outcome.

Now, it doesn't mean that there's not a potential domestic political consequence, but I don't think we have to be in the position where we are dooming and glooming about what's taken place. It almost seems. First time in my lifetime, you know, I know when sometimes you have military operations and people sour on them. You know, Joe Biden, I'm getting out of a. Afghanistan, but the whole country knew we had to go to Afghanistan after 9-11.

Iraq, 70% of the country, 70, they got 70 votes in the Senate to go into Iraq.

So it was not, you know, you asked Bill Clinton if Iraq was the problem, he'd say yes. You'd ask George W. Bush if Iraq's the problem, they'd both say yes. But this is the first time we've had a conflict where almost every Democrat right away outside John Fetterman said, oh, this is a mistake, almost rooting for Iran. It it's a really bizarre situation.

And I've noticed that that Democrats have used what's happening in the Iran war to more or less oppose everything that happens in the Pentagon. Whether it's good technological development, good policy change, successful operations in Central and South America. To your point, it's almost as if they're taking advantage of what they see as a political football to root against American success everywhere else in the world. Because we know every president has had to deal with Iran.

Sometime, you know, Reagan thought he could deal with him. Yes. Jimmy Carter thought he could deal with him. Everyone thought they could deal with him. And then we didn't deal with them.

And we had this huge insurgency in Iraq. And I was talking to John Nixon on Sunday, who was the CIA guy who helped find Saddam Hussein. I said, What proportion of the insurgency in Iraq was Iran? He said, 80% of it. 603 of our guys died there.

Yeah, at the hands of Iranian-backed militias. And this you can think whatever you want about President Trump's decision to go to war, but I think it does represent a degree of honesty and candor with the American people that no other president was willing to put forward. Every other president was willing to let the tension simmer. And essentially take the very cynical bet that they wouldn't have to deal with the boiling over. Of our adversary relationship with Iran.

I think President Trump genuinely seeks what's best for America. He wanted to confront the situation and solve it. And he was motivated to be the president who's done that. And it doesn't mean there's not tension or, you know, things could go bad, but you have to understand and respect that. The other thing is, I think that the American people, and I think presidents, are really worried about putting troops on the ground from here on in.

Don't you agree? Yeah, I think so. Right.

I still think there's a lot of fatigue from the global war on terror that was seen as protracted. And whatever takes place, let's say by the end of this year, I think will have to be pretty tailored and specific. Doesn't mean it's not lethal and decisive. But yeah, there's a huge, I think, wariness of troops on the ground. Will Thibault is here.

Will, I just want you to respond to Richard Haas from the Council on Foreign Relations, Cut 25. Today's news is really interesting. We're beginning to see a little bit more tanker traffic move. Why do we think Iran might not escalate?

So, you know, we talked before about depression. That would drive the world into recession or worse if you had Iran going after the energy infrastructure of all of its neighbors.

So we've reached a really critical thing where oil's gone up 50%, but the potential for it to get much worse is there, and the talks are going nowhere, quite honestly.

So bad situations can get worse. That's the history of the Middle East.

So we're in a bad situation, but no one should get sanguine or complacent that this is necessarily as bad as it gets. It could get worse with all the impact that would have on the economy and on inflation and on, you mentioned something before, and on the security of the neighbors. We are beginning to sow the seeds, not just, I think, what Iran is a long-term problem for the entire region, a radicalized, capable Iran with drugs and all that, but the Saudis, the UAE, the Egyptians, the Turks. The idea that you could have four or five sets of hands on nuclear weapons in 10 years is not just, it's not a dystopian. nightmare anymore.

It has become a real strategic possibility. Your thoughts? Of course it could get worse. A lot of places in the world could get much worse. But this is where I may you know, maybe you would even disagree with this off the bat.

I think Iran is a rational actor in the sense that although they try and sow the seeds of chaos and terrorism throughout the region, they still understand that they have a country and an economy to try and maintain. And so they're not able to be reckless right now in the sense that they are feeling an economic pinch that is going to force them to take certain action. But again, to the point of our discussion, for the first time, they know that there's a credible military threat. on the table and that they won't be able to get away they may do this anyways, but they won't be able to get away with escalation that causes this kind of instability. Isn't it interesting too, Will, that they're not touching Israel?

Right.

And we have 50,000 troops ringing them right now. They're comfortable going after the Gulf allies to a degree. They haven't touched the UAE in a while, which is interesting. Going to Saudi Arabia through the Houthis, but they're not touching Israel because Israel just can't wait. Israel would not ask our permission to hit back, as you know.

And they have all the intelligence. They know where everyone lives, where they vacation, the scientists, the higher-ups. And they know a lot of the times a couple of these guys are alive only because Trump told them to leave them alive. Right.

And I I actually see Iran's choice to you know, so to speak, expand the battlefield. You know, back to Yemen as a sign of desperation in the sense that they knew that their options to inflict pain on the U.S. military in the Strait of Hormuz, on Israel, to your point, was limited because we have degraded their military capabilities.

So they had to try kind of a Hail Mary wildcard option through the Houthis in order to destabilize Saudi Arabia, to try and add a degree of complexity into this situation. Are you somebody that's concerned overall? What's the role of AI with our military? Do you think it's been a positive? L largely, yes.

In whether it's positive or negative, I think it is an essential technology the military must muster and understand in order to compete and succeed in the 21st century. It's also a domain of warfare that the United States has a substantial lead. And we should not use that as an excuse to rest on our laurels, but to establish geopolitical overmatch that can candidly survive the 21st century. It is a reality of warfare. Russia and China, all of our adversaries will be able to try and adopt it, even non-nearpeer adversaries.

And so we need to own and dominate in this new domain of war. Right.

And I think that that's interesting. Palantir is certainly full steam ahead. How would you characterize your years there? Yeah, I was very blessed to work at Palantir's my first job out of the Army. I worked there because Palantir is not a tech company that was selling ads on Facebook.

They weren't configuring search algorithms. They were trying to deliver a software product to warfighters, my old comrades, who would be able to use software to make better, faster decisions in conflict. Ultimately, I'm convinced. I know it has been a part of saving lives on the battlefield, of helping the U.S. military be more lethal and effective.

It's perhaps not perfect, but I think it is. And again, I don't work there anymore, but I think it's one of the essential companies of the 21st century. What is your take on this whole mantra now where people keep saying that Gaza is an example of Israel is inflicting genocide on Gazans? Yeah, I I don't um I don't think That's true. You know, I think there are a lot of other people who can comment legally on the matter.

You know what I I am not someone who would uh say pray I don't think it's a good thing that it happened, right? It's distressing to understand kind of the scale of the destruction, but it is the nature of warfare. Candidly, I also think it's part of why you need artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is technology that will enable more precise technology. targeting and military operations.

So, you know, perhaps the kind of military operations that Israel felt like they had to conduct in Gaza are not necessary going forward. You know, I do have to say, I don't always appreciate kind of the insinuation that somehow this was just like how the American military fought. We were under intense regulations and the law of armed conflict, and it was in many ways a hamper on our way of life when I was in Iraq. But all that to say, I don't think we can understand the plight of the Israelis given October 7th, given the intense proximity of their foes in Israel. We should find ways to ensure that it never happens again.

That I think requires military outcomes. And what you guys have is what they have, is they have a system where Hamas wears plainclothes. Their headquarters are in hospitals and in schools and among civilians. And yet they were still text messaging people to get out and dropping flyers. This is going to be dangerous.

And they ended up using all the money and funds from international organizations to build tunnels instead of building roads.

Well, and there's a reason that the war in Gaza is still ongoing, and that it took so long. Israel could have achieved that level of destruction in a matter of weeks, months, but they went through a deliberate effort. You know, kind of a movement to contact, as we would call it in the Army, where they would approach a building. Call people out of the building, tell people what was going to happen, and then do what was necessary to eliminate the threat to their forces. And so I don't think you should describe what happened as Israel intentionally.

Killing civilians. It doesn't mean that it was a good thing that we should be happy about, but war is hell. AI is front and center today. The CEOs are at and it's a major conference going on at the White House today. They're looking to respond politically, make people feel better about this new technology, the super intelligence.

When people say guardrails, they think about bumpers on a bowling alley. Let's set up and limit people and make it impossible to do certain things. What does it mean to you? What would you like to see come out of this conference today and what come out of what the President said will be in the executive order on a way forward to responsibly move forward with this technology?

Well, it's just that. And that's why this can only happen with President Trump. He can set the conditions of moving forward, still developing this critical technology for our economy and for our national security, without burdensome regulation that cripples new entrants and the entire sphere of AI development. And w my my frustration with the debate is that we are trying to invent whole cloth, a new concept of regulation and law, when existing laws and regulation already exist. It is illegal to build a biological weapon.

And then let it loose on the population. Whether you do that with artificial intelligence or not, it's illegal to hack. Yeah. Already. And so I think existing laws impose a burden of responsibility on these AI developers already.

Knowing that you could lose your whole company if you do something. For example, though, when Decides they got a contract with Australia and they're working on the Medicare program, but they expose people's personal information. That's it. They say rogue agents did that. Your response.

I understand that's kind of their talking point, Brian. But if you really look under the hood of what happened in many of those instances, the same with this hugging face so-called hack. The AI labs want you to believe it is an AI agent run amok out of control. But in reality, as some external investigations of other hacking incidents have revealed, it was reckless software engineering. That led them to gain access to sources of information and data that they shouldn't have.

Again, I think there's existing legal infrastructure that Poses some risk of liability already without having to broadly define the limits of AI.

So we have an intellectual conversation about very smart people and powerful people trying to regulate super intelligence. And then you have AOC, Cut 43. AI Data, all of this are founded on theft. They are stealing what is yours. Your face, your behaviors, your privacy.

Is that how you view AI theft founded on theft? Have you ever heard that before? I've heard it out of people like AOC. I mean, she she is trying to create a mania. uh a moral panic for political gain.

You know, Robert Oppenheimer tried to create a moral panic around nuclear weapons. He wanted a one-world government. Manage and regulate nuclear weapons. We're seeing this new playbook that was the playbook from the climate craze as well in order to stoke such a fear, an existential fear in Americans so that they empower Democrats to not only destroy an industry, but to manipulate and control the technology so it can be used for political ends. Again, existing laws prevent AI companies from harnessing private information.

If there is publicly accessible information already on the internet, they can use that, but it's nothing new or extraordinary. Will Thibault, you're absolutely right. And also the data center is on that, too. That's their new climate change. Will, thanks so much.

Appreciate what you do. Thank you, Brian. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead.

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Well, right now, the races are, it's more about, it's, you know, it is portability issues. It's the price of diesel in places like Iowa and Kansas and Nebraska and the Midwest, Minnesota. And so I think that's the issue, and what's happening in Iran is sort of trumped everything else that's going on. It would have been a grace to pass the Save America Act, but it's a great issue for our candidates to run on because every Democrat block voted against it. We've had it up on the floor now six different times in different variations, and every single Democrat every single time on six occasions has voted against it.

Senator John Doone yesterday talking about the voter ID law that was passed and Democrats voted against it, even though it's so obvious every sect of this country, every ethnic group, every gender, and we have a lot of genders, if you listen to James. Voter ID, because they don't want their vote canceled out by somebody who doesn't belong here. Chairman Jim Jordan joins us now. He runs the judiciary. He's also a member of the Oversight Committee.

Congressman, welcome back. Good to be with you, Brian. Thanks for how you do. Yeah, I mean, I know you don't follow the Senate. You've got your own chamber to worry about, but does it blow you away you can't get votes on they can't pass that?

Yes, it just I think underscores what Leader Thun was talking about, just how radical the left has become and they control the Democrat Party that they won't vote for photo ID, they won't vote for citizenship voting, they won't support that legislation. which is as common sense as it gets. Of course, maybe it shouldn't surprise us when you really dig into it, Brian, because I think we've talked about this before, but We've deposed ten people from Act Blue. They've all taken the fifth. They've taken the fifth because it looks like they're taking foreign contributions in our election cycle.

So if they're comfortable with taking foreign contributions, I guess maybe they're comfortable with foreigners voting. Again, just underscoring how radical the left has truly become in this country.

So I guess nothing's going to get done. I also I'm not sure if it generated in the House or Senate, but didn't you guys look to generate cutting the interest rate on student loans? Yeah, I think we have it might have been part of our we've talked about that before, but but yeah, I think that's that's that's something that's been been looked at but it should be a no brainer. That's a way of immediately lessening costs for people. Yeah, and then and when you sell your home, if people sell their home, the capital gains tax and other things, there's things you could do that would free up housing, bring down the cost of housing.

So young families could have a more a better chance of getting an affordable home and getting that first home. There's things we could do in the tax code there as well that would help with affordability. But again, the left doesn't want to do it. They're all about power. They're all about Um I mean, deep down they just don't like the country.

It's sad. The greatest country in the world. Greatest country in history. And the left hates it. I just do not understand these folks.

So let's talk about Ohio again on the Senate side. Senator John used to. I've got a chance to know. He has a low profile, but he's a worker. He got put there when J.D.

Vance became Vice President of the United States, and now he's trailing by four points to Sherrod Brown. Is Ohio in jeopardy? Because in the governor's race, Vivek has won up or one down in every poll. I'm used to Ohio being firmly read. What's changing?

Well, I think it's just overall concerns that, you know, look, I always say this campaign, in my judgment, is about kind of three key messages. Number one, we did what you elected us to do in 2024. We need to go tell the voters that. You wanted us to cut taxes. We did that biggest tax cut ever.

You wanted us to secure the border. We did that, frankly, in record time. And God bless the administration for the good work they've done there. Talk about that. I think we have to acknowledge things cost a little too much.

And I think that's a concern that many Ohioans have. We've brought down the cost of so much, the record inflation under Joe Biden, but there things still cost too much.

So the things we should be we we could focus on and we're going to continue to work on as I mentioned, the cost of housing and different things we can do. And then third, I think this this campaign is, and this is what we have to I really focus on these last five weeks. is this campaign is reminding the voters what the left wants to do. Where they want to go. They want to make us a socialist nation.

They want to get rid of the Senate, get rid of the presidency, fundamentally change the Supreme Court, pack the Supreme Court, not to mention all their crazy policy positions. And I think it's really important we go tell the voters: look, you may not be 100% excited about everything this election. We understand that. But look what happens if you don't vote, if you don't come out and vote. This is where the left is going to go.

And it is a frightening place. Never forget, Mom Donnie was sworn in nine months and 29 days ago as the mayor of our largest city. And he said, I was elected as a Democrat Socialist. I will govern as a Democrat Socialist. They are going to do all the crazy things they've talked about unless we stop them.

And the only way to stop them is on election day.

So I want you to, I mean, just some of the things that are going on. The one issue that has popped up I wasn't expecting was data centers. That went quick. It's now, if you look at the voting, only 1% of the people are voting on whether there's a data center in their town or not. But still, it matters.

People are talking about it. And number two is AI as an industry.

So first off, President's like, hey, we're having the CEOs over. We're going to come up with some type of plan, but I'm not looking to slow anyone down. Democrats are firmly looking to slow people down. Here is what AOC said yesterday: cut forty-three. AI.

Data, all of this are founded on theft. They are stealing what is yours. Your face, your behaviors, your privacy. And they wanted she wanted to say this, cut 44. In an environment of AI.

They want to wipe out all of our livelihoods. They want to make sure none of us have jobs. And they want to keep all the spoils of those riches while consuming and burning energy at a pace that is completely unsustainable to make this worse.

Okay. I mean, can you imagine? Is there anything more irresponsible you can say so quickly?

Well, I mean, think about it she talked about privacy and your rights and your liberties. For goodness' sake. Jack Smith went and got our phone records. He probably got some of you. He probably saw some of your text messages, Brian, to some member of Congress or some member someone in the administration.

He went and got that. He went and got mine for two and a half years. He got McCarthy as Speaker of the House 16 days after he became Speaker. Like, you talk about privacy and violating our liberties. That that is what the the left has done.

Look, with these data centers, It should be common sense things done at the local level. Local people should decide when, where, if, and how these things happen. And if they're coming to your community and you decide to do that as a local community, great. I would ask these companies to do something for your community. Lower your property taxes.

Put in a new swimming pool for the kids. Build a new park for the community. Whatever. But it should be a local decision. That's how it should happen on the local level.

But for her to say all those things she said. In light of what they did to our liberties, what they did to Americans during COVID. I mean, the censorship, the shutdown of the government, telling people they couldn't go to church, couldn't go to work, couldn't go to school, what they did to kids. Who couldn't go to school for a couple of years? You gotta be kidding me.

And now suddenly it's like, oh, they're out to save your liberties and your privacy and your rights. Give me a break.

So Jack Smith testifying right now, and one of the things he said is Donald Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.

So he continues to obsess. But they called him in on the Senate side, and they're sparring with him nonstop. What should people we're doing this show? You're on with me. We're not watching right now.

But what should people know about Jack Smith? He was out to get the president. It was all about keeping President Trump from winning reelection. Just like in 2016, the Clinton campaign did the whole Russian dossier baloney that Comey used to go spy on the other campaign. That was all designed to stop President Trump.

Just like in 2020, when the 51 former Intel officials signed the letter saying the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian information operation, baloney. They had the laptop. They knew it was real. I mean, it's always been designed to stop. the Republicans and President Trump from winning election.

Jack Smith, the biggest takeaway from Jack Smith is it's best to understand this, what he did and how he handled the Speaker of the House. Evan McCarthy becomes Speaker. 16 days later, he goes and gets his phone records. Who he called, who called him, when it happened, how long it lasted. He tells the agent who goes to serve the subpoena, he tells the agent that they don't tell the agent it's for the guy who's Speaker of the House, second in line to the President.

They don't tell the judge this is a subpoena to to get the phone records to the judge. for the Speaker of the House, the guy second in line to the Presidency. They don't tell him that because they ask the judge for an a nondisclosure, a gag order on the company. They tell AT and T, you you and the judge, you can't let this guy know. Because he's a flight risk.

You got to be kidding me. The Speaker of the House is going to flee the country. But that's how determined Jack Smith was to go get the President. It's sickening what they were doing, violating the Constitution, not being honest, not being square with the people. We actually deposed the guy who served the subpoena, the agent.

He said, if I'd have known it was a Speaker of the House, that would have caused me real concern. I didn't know that, I just had a phone number. This is how bad the left is willing. This is where they're willing to go for politics. That's the key takeaway.

All right, so I want to cover a couple of things. This trade deal with Canada that's not happening, more tariffs go in place. They say it's going to cost Ohio, Iowa. Maine and Michigan, $188 billion. Here is President Trump yesterday on what's going on with this trade war with Canada, Cut 50.

How does this end, Mr. President? I think what's going to happen is over the next three or four weeks, they're going to come to us and they're going to say, we can get rid of all the tariffs. We're going to win everything. your thoughts about the toll that's taking in the short term and where it's heading in the long term?

Well, we understand the President's objective here, of course, is bring back manufacturing, help the country in That in many cases it's working that way. You've seen some of the manufacturing numbers. Manufacturing jobs are up.

So it's working. In short term, it's sometimes tough, but this is how the president negotiates. We get that. But we understand the goal. And I think the goal is a worthy goal, particularly in key industries, key manufacturing sectors, key defense sectors.

You want that stuff done, built, and put together here in the United States.

So that's what he's trying to do. There's always some difficult times in the short run, but I think in the end, President's pretty good at getting these negotiations to move in the right kind of direction. And that's what we hope happens here. You know, there's some Biden officials working with the leadership over in Canada. Do you think they're playing politics here at all?

The left is always playing politics. I mean, the the the left The left, which now controls the body it it was funny, b in b b uh in the bumper uh stuff that going on when I was first called in, it was uh there was they were playing uh uh J John F. Kennedy. And the once great party of FDR and JFK is now completely radical controlled by the left, and they don't like the country.

So of course they play politics with everything. Our chief of staff always says, remember one fundamental fact, all Democrats are operatives. All Democrats are focused on politics all the time. And it's like there's a lot of truth to that.

So yeah, that's that of course they're playing politics. They always do, because politics means everything to the left. and power and control and this this scary fact that they just they don't like the country now. It's really frightening. But do you think that it it's going to hurt you guys in the midterms if you can't land this trade deal?

Well, I'm hoping we can. Um you know, you you you heard leader Thune talking about some of the concerns in in the Midwest. Particularly with people in the agriculture sector. And some of that's tariff, some of that's just the cost of things, obviously the affordability concern. Um so yeah, it it's a concern now, but I think we can we can turn things around.

We got five weeks. We can remind the voters of, as I said earlier, what we've done. We can remind them that we understand the cost concern issue out there. We're working on that. And we can certainly remind them, which I think has to be the central message: how radical the left has become.

I want to talk about the Sports Act that passed yesterday. The Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act 7722, and I'll give you a rough idea. It'll give athletes a federal right to earn NIL money and receive a share of school sports revenue. I hope they come up with a clearinghouse on that to make sure these are legit companies. Transfers allowed one transfer, five years to play five seasons.

Scholarships, by the way, you can't be over 25. Scholarships and care protect scholarships after injury or poor performance, provide a path to finish the degree up to 10 years after eligibility. I love that. Agents and enforcement cap fees at 5%. NIL contract rules and let athletes sue to enforce specific protections.

Sports programs that will require schools to reserve a minimum number of sports, protecting your sport, my sport, wrestling, and soccer, things like sports like that. Olympic programs while giving college sports bodies limited legal protection to enforce national compensation eligibility rules. I'm going to give the NCAA a little bit of teeth. It's going to protect. Listen, you don't even know what it's like, but outside where I grew up in Long Island and you in Iowa and Penn State and places like that, wrestling's not a major sport.

And it's usually one of the first to go, like gymnastics. Doesn't mean they're not really important. But if they don't restructure this, we're going to lose the other sports. Right, we're going to lose the women's sports and the Olympic sports, which was one of the things we tried to focus on. When we started working on this, A couple years ago, our focus was sort of three big objectives.

One, you want, You want some parity. As much as I'd like to see the Big Ten win with the football championship every year, it's nice if there's real parity, real competition out there. Number two is you want to maintain opportunity, is what you were just describing, Brian. You want opportunity, not just in the big sports, but in the Olympic sports and the women's sports. Make sure they're not dropping programs.

And then number three, frankly, is you kind of want to remember this is supposed to be about getting an education. I mean, when's the last time you heard of a one of these great college players, uh college football players, being academically ineligible? You don't hear about it anymore because they're paying him so darn much money. There's like no way. No, Johnny actually passed that test that the professor said he he felt he flunked.

No, he's playing on because we're paying him a million bucks. He's playing on Saturday.

So that th those are sort of the three objectives we had when we were working on this. And then, of course, you got to give some antitrust relief so that you can have a governing body actually make rules, and not all the rules are determined by So, is there anything you don't like about this that the House is going to wrestle with? Because I mean, I hope you guys take this up, but I'm sure you're just not going to just rubber stamp it. No, there's some concerns. There's the union, there's the collective bargaining issue, the union issue that's sort of there.

There's some other prescriptive things in there. We tried in our bill that we put together in the House working with Chairman Wahlberg and Chairman Guthrie and some of the other committees. And Gus Billarakas, who was the sponsor, we tried to put together one that was minimum minimum amount of rules because you want the NCAA to kind of do their own thing here and work. You don't want the Congress prescribing everything for goodness sake. The only thing worse than the NCAA would be Congress doing it.

So we try to do that. I think this has got a little more prescriptive, but overall I think it's positive, and we're going to take a look at it. I hope so. I mean, I understand why you didn't get back. I mean, you barely have a majority.

Massey's not voting for you. Sadly, you have one of your guys is really ill. And then you got. Corey Mills is not coming back ever since he lost the primary, so you barely have a majority. Is that one of the reasons you guys didn't come back?

Yeah, and then you have some some uh some Republicans who were opposed to our bill that we had put together with three committees and and they uh in the House who weren't willing to support it. And the Democrats who were were co-sponsors pulled their co-sponsorship. because of a different issue, the Cal A decision on redistricting in some of these southern states. And so they pulled their support, so you just didn't have the vote. And my guess is that same dynamic would exist now.

And so we'll have to wait until after the election. Always great talking to you, Congressman Jim Jordan. Appreciate it. Back in a moment. Where big stories meet bigger conversations, stay informed and energized, with the Brian Kilmeet Show.

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Now, you you sought the phone records of a bunch of U. S. Senators, right? Uh We sought the toll records, non-content records. Any Democrats or just Republicans?

If President Trump had reached out to Democrats, just Republicans, right? The toll records that we sought were relevant to the investigation, and they were Republicans. I'm asking you. You stalled me again, Counselor. You know that.

So that was back and forth, Senator Kennedy. And by the way, that was Jack Smith. And you know, this guy is there to overcharge everybody. That was his reputation going in. They pulled him out of The Hague to go find Trump, find something on Trump.

And it kills him. kills him every day. Just like Letitia James and everybody else. that Trump won that election or they were going to try to put him in jail. Believe me.

And they were going to try to bankrupt them and take everything. But it ended up just the other way around, didn't it? And Jack Smith has to justify way too aggressive behavior. And now that's what he's doing today.