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From the Fox News Radio studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade. All right, Lawrence Jones is here. I know he he wants to challenge me on never sowing division, but we are ready for a big hour. Brad Meltzer is also going to be here, historian, best-selling author, got a brand new book out.

We are the Wright Brothers, and Lawrence Jones will be with him in a second. But first, I hope you had a fantastic weekend. Got to remind you, we got a great YouTube channel now: youtube.com/slash/atthebriankilmeatshow. Let's get to the big three. Number three.

Look, I've said as much as I can say about what I think about D.A. Van Houten's investigation. It was not an appropriate investigation. It was not complete. It was stick your head in the sand and don't look to find a crime.

Yep, and that is the big Cornell situation—the Cornell rape case moves forward as Governor Hochul tries to help her election fortunes by doing the most biased thing possible: appointing Latisha James as special investigator. Really? Number two, the economic assault is working. Inflation's eighty percent. The currency's appreciated by forty percent.

The economy shrunk by six percent. Stay the course. This is working. Yep, Iran beginning to show signs they are cracking, and they try and wreak havoc in the Strait. They hit seven merchant ships over the weekend.

We got the latest. Number one. Let's be careful about all these polls. These races are tight, and they're going to be tight to the end. These polls showing the early Democrat lead—we've seen this before.

It has not been borne out. Yep, Karl Rove, you are right. Inside a month to the midterms, and President Trump goes all in on the battleground states and red states as Dems are beginning to think they already won. I think that's a mistake, but they're not asking for my advice, Lawrence. Before we get to the Cornell case, you're so good at good at cases, criminal stuff.

And you're working towards the Lord's gree now. I wanted to get you a sense of the midterms. Carl Rove doesn't get up every day and go. Donald Trump walks on water, but he's just trying to say that, guys. We've been through this before.

We routinely Republicans are under polled in these states, especially Ohio. It's a fact. I mean, not just Ohio. Murkowski has historically been under underpulled in Maine. Beto, you mean Collins?

Collins, Susan Collins. They vote the same way. They do vote the same. One has an excuse; the other one doesn't have an excuse. In Texas, the last time we had Beto up by four, the five points over Ted Cruz.

Okay, now Ted Cruz end up winning by two.

So. I think everyone needs to relax. People are just now tuning in from the Republican side because everybody has jobs to do, and they weren't as angry as the Democrats.

So now they're getting involved. There is some trepidation because they wanted the Save America Act. They wanted more boldness, and some people feel like we could have done a better job when it comes to the economy. That's fair to say, but then you have to go. Where did we come from?

And I think as people get sensible, they'll realize that Brian, there's a binary choice, and I think that's why the Republican. I don't. I'm not saying that we're going to win because I don't know, but I do think that it's a coin flip right now, at the very least.

So I think last week the Republicans began to separate. Biden from Trump by saying, "Yeah, inflation's here, but it was at five point five percent, high of nine percent. Trump's raised to two point four percent." So when you talk about prices, yes, they haven't gone down, but to get them down would have been a huge ask. But to get inflation down to zero would have been preferable because the rates come down with it. It probably would have happened without Iran, but people didn't really have a chance to absorb the big beautiful bill and the tax refunds that were increased because of that.

I understand why the party. Is explaining. I'm not sure, Brian. As much as we understand the interplays, even by explaining it, where Biden calls is going to be acceptable for the people. But I do think it acknowledges where they are.

Now you then say, okay, what will the other party if you give them power? What are they going to do? Are they going to make it better? I think that argument. Is more is it resonates more than to say where it was with Biden, but we'll see.

Yeah, we'll see.

So in Alaska, really confusing this rank choice stuff, right?

So there's Dan. It should be illegal, honestly. There's Dan S Sullivan and Dan L Sullivan. Correct. Mary Peralt,o despite horrendous.

Personality and abuse of her staff—terrible. She is still leading, according to one poll, but it's notoriously hard. But then, when they go down to one-on-one, it gets a lot closer. But the the Dan Sullivan's—it's it's almost criminal. This is a scam.

But CBS says the president's really lost the most during Hispanics. He says that they had twenty-seven percent approval with Hispanic votes voters right now. Democrats have fifty-nine percent approval right now. Do you believe it? In some respect, I do.

Yeah, but the interesting thing when it came to that polling, it wasn't just the ice enforcement; it was the economy as well. And I was under the illusion that it was just the enforcement. Areas when you talk about Miami, those little Venezuela or little Cuba, there are being upset. They're saying it's the economy as well.

So I do think that gives us a state of play a little bit. Can we recover in these last three weeks? I think it's possible, but that's going to be a tough one. If we don't break some of that when it comes to the Hispanics, then the Dems will win the midterms, at least for the House.

Okay. Here's more on what Carl Rove said. Cut seven. Let's be careful about all these polls. There's a really smart Republican pollster named Patrick Raffini who went back and looked at 3,300 polls over the last four cycles and found that 73 percent of the time, the polls overstated the Democrat vote.

In fact, if you take a look at all 3,300, they overstated the Democratic vote by basically four points at the end. At this point, roughly by seven points.

So these were. Races are tight, and they're going to be tight to the end. These polls showing the early Democrat lead—we've seen this before. It has not been borne out. Even Nate Silver said the groups which Democrats are making the largest gains on are those that make the polls most overestimated Democrats in recent years.

But I think the polls are going to help Republicans, and let me tell you why. We get complacent when we feel like we can just win these elections. Especially in red states, it's like there's no possible way. But when voters see these polls, it encourages them to show like Republicans. Arkansas, yes.

I mean, I can't believe that it's that close there as well. Same for Ohio as well.

So there is other. I agree with them that they get it wrong polling wise, but I think Republican voters need it to look that way to have a reason to show up. All right, so before we move on, I want to get this Texas question in.

Okay, about with Paxton and Talarico. Harry Enten talked about the stakes. Cut six. What if James Talarico actually does the impossible and turns Texas blue? What does it mean for 2026?

How does he do it? And what does it mean going forward?

Well, if James Talarico Actually, wins in Texas. Get this: he gives Democrats a seventy-eight percent chance of winning the United States Senate. Basically, they would be very, very close to doing so. But why? Why would it be the case that Democrats would be so close to doing so if James Talerico wins in Texas and turns Texas blue?

Well, just take a look here.

Okay, the most likely seat to determine control of the United States Senate. It's Texas. It's Texas because Democrats need to flip four seats. They need to flip four seats, and guess which seat is number four most likely to flip? It's Texas.

It's Texas. That's why the president is focusing so much on on Texas. And by the way, I've been telling people that the demographics of the state have been changing for a while. They have Greg Abbott, who has none of the past misdealings or allegations against him that Ken Paxton within two.

Some polls three, so that's our trailing, trailing, right? Trailing.

So I mean, they were talking about this on the Sunday shows yesterday, and you know, there are some Democrats that believe that they can win the governor's race. I don't think that's going to happen. I actually believe that Greg Abbott is not going to be the president. That puts Ken Paxton across the finish line is going to be Greg Abbott. His ground game is incredible.

People know him very well, just like they know Ken Paxton. I believe his effort is going to put Ken Paxton over the top.

Well, I think to you, Ken Paxton was complaining, according to Playbook Politico, that Washington is running his campaign. That he's not really doing anything. That it's not really his deal.

Well, it's his fault. He did nothing. He went to Iceland with his girlfriend. I would also say that if you want the money, then you got to listen to the campaign people.

So let's talk about Cornell. Yesterday, the attorney for Jane Doe was out there and says he's received death threats to drop the case. And he said that one of the other things he said is is not only it could be more than just seven rugby players, mostly rugby players in that in that fraternity that are going to be implicated in this.

So as he moves forward, but I just thought putting Tish James in charge of the investigation. And she comes out and says, "You know, nobody should ever have to go through what she went through," and already jumping conclusions during the press conference. How do you know what she went through? You can't do that and be a fair prosecutor. I mean, the two of the guys have already been fired from their job, and I don't care what you think about the situation.

The facts have to matter here. Have we learned nothing from Duke Lacrosse and other these other cases where we vilified the men before a proper investigation was done? That's all I'm saying, bro. I'm not saying that these guys were men of moral character. That's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying, did they commit a crime here, or was it consensual? Because based on her statement, she consented to the sexual acts, terrible what took place, and she consented to the to the drugs. And based on New York State law, then there's nothing for the legal system to do.

Now they're now making the argument after she changed her statements, I think like three to four times, that. The police department on the campus didn't hand over the proper evidence.

Okay, I would like to see proof of that if that's the allegation. And then, what evidence did they not turn over to the DA if that's the allegation? I think her text messages are damning. Right now, it seems like she was more concerned not with the sexual act, but her being embarrassed after the event. She still wanted to be invited back to the fraternity house and was mad that she wasn't.

Explain that to me, so. You know, there's a criminal case now, and then there is a civil action. Maybe she gets something out of the civil action, but the the criminal thing should be dead on arrival. And then you know, here's what Leticia James says after she gets the job. What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable.

I'm holding her in my heart and my prayers to her and all survivors. You're not alone. We stand with you. But you're not being fair. You're supposed to be the investigator.

Yes, you have already reached the conclusion. Everything, the entire. I don't care what happens in the investigation. It's all tainted based on a statement like this.

Now, I understand why Huckle's doing this. Brad Blakeman is is giving her the business right now, Bruce. I'm sorry, Brad was his brother. Is is his brother, Bruce Blakeman? Is running a tough race, and so she's using this as a cultural moment.

But there's guys that maybe and the victim, alleged victim, may be impacted as well. You can't use these cases to up your political race, and I think that's what she's trying to do. No doubt about it. And with the the attorney for one of the students said before the A. G.

was appointed to investigate these allegations, she publicly stated that this young woman had been forced to endure this horrific horrific. Unacceptable. And together with all survivors, we stand with you. Three days later, she was placed in the position of determining what actually happened. There is nothing improper about expressing compassion for someone who reports a sexual act.

But there is an important difference between supporting a person who makes an allegation and appearing to accept the factual premise of that allegation before conducting an investigation. They're right, a hundred percent, they're right. And the DA has made it very clear that he feels for this woman. He's looking for some type of legal path. He even made the statement when I interviewed him on our program, Brian, that he'll just throw it to the grand jury.

Even though he doesn't see any legal foundation right now, the Charcys guys, he's going to turn it over to the grand jury. I'm sorry, that's also unacceptable. But now it's out of his hands.

Now, if the governor wanted the scene a little less political, she could have chose a different DA in a different county as the special prosecutor. But putting Tish James James on it with her public statement, I'm sorry, that's it. That's that's unacceptable. But do you think the whole Fraternity systems going to get looked at. That whole Greek life is going to get looked at now.

Of course, it's not just that. Not just Cornell. It's just not Cornell. It's all of them. Also, this is this is also just stupid to me.

So they have gotten the identity of all of the guys that didn't just participate in that event, but the people that were a part of the group chat. The people publicly are calling for those people that just because they were a member of the fraternity. And we're members of the group chat, not the sexual act. That they should be fired. Their lives should be destroyed.

I'm sorry, that's my objection. We can't do that. I thought we were done with that. No, unbelievable. But it's amazing.

It's become a national story. But it does seem as though there was all these stats about how many women said they were sexually abused and these. Fraternities—it's a little—it's out of control. I mean, and like for example, my daughter's school; she was in a sorority, but they brought them all inside the campus, so they're basically all.

So it's basically a place to live, but they got to monitor it.

So I think it's a fair point to say we have issue with sexual assault. That's totally fine on campus. We also got a drug problem on the college campuses as well. I'm all for all of those statements. But cases aren't movement.

You can't make a case a movement. And when we start legislating, prosecuting based on movement, innocent people' lives are destroyed. We saw that with the Clancy case. The jurors on there wanted this to be a movement about women's mental health. I'm sorry, that's not the legal standard.

The legal standard is always what the person did. Did they know about it at the time?

So, and we and we saw what happened there.

Now the The long juror is the one that's being ostracized. That's why you don't do movement with cases, Lawrence Jones. Thanks so much. You're now free to go about your day by the power vested in me. You got it.

Thanks, man. All right, thanks so much. It's a big year—30 years of Fox. We're gonna have a lot of celebrations, right? Because I was there from the very beginning.

At three, right? At three, which was amazing. I—I was against the. Who knew it? Thursday, we're gonna be putting flipping the switch in the Empire State Building.

Oh yeah! Can you believe that? I can't wait for that. Right. We're gonna we're gonna be the one.

I hope you could announce that. Right. I'm I'm the electrician. I gotta work it out. They need the pros.

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A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade. I'm a former ballet dancer. I'm pretty flexible. I believe in a broad coalition, but these Democratic socialists are not like a separate caucus.

They're a separate party. They had a convention here eight weeks ago, and they don't agree with the party. We don't believe in defunding the police. We believe in better policing. We don't, as a party, believe in letting prisoners out of prison or open borders.

You change those positions, we can have a conversation. But until you change those policy positions, they're antithetical to what a Democrat is. And he basically is reluctant, even. And I'll play this soundbite a little late in this half hour. He's he's reluctant to even endorse El Saeed over in Michigan.

He can't really walk away from him, just like Schumer can't. But they know he's a radical leftist. He actually could blow that race, and if they blow Michigan, they could blow the Senate.

So he was forced to admit he's going to endorse him, but he says it's not going to mean much. You're right. In fact, most Democrats are calling him a 1990s Democrat.

Okay, what's wrong with that? Center left, I think, is much more electable than extreme left and socialist. I mean, it's good for Bernie Sanders to get in front of his crowd and start talking about, start talking about socialism and how billionaires are ruining the country. But most of the country does not want a wealth tax. Most of the country does not resent billionaires, let alone trillionaires.

You know, they they want. You know they want better opportunities and all those other things. Rahm Emanuel seems to be striking a balance, but if you look at the polls in 28, he never registers. I mean, he's almost at zero percent. We come back.

The premier historian, Brad Meltzer, has got a brand new book out. He's going to put it all in perspective here in studio. You're listening to the Ryan Kilmeade Show.

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The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmeade. So Brad Meltzer's here, one of our favorite all-time guests, historian, best-selling author. He's got a brand new book out. We are the Wright Brothers, the latest in your ordinary people change the world series for kids.

Brad, congratulations! And I am really prepared for this one. You know why? Why not? We were doing a show in Dayton, Ohio, one of our great affiliates, WHIL.

And during the day, we want to go do something with that city. Do you remember this, Allison? She told me. Yeah, we went to the Wright Brothers' house. I heard you went to the house.

I want to hear. It was it's tiny, absolutely amazing. And the and what they told us about these guys and the the trials and errors, how they got really hurt. I mean, think about flying. I mean, these guys.

How they landed. The Wright Brothers didn't fly in a plane together for most of everything they were doing because they knew if they crash, yeah. All the information's gone. Knew that, and so at the very end, we could talk about it. But at the very end, once they train other people in other countries, once they train our military, they go open a plane together, and that's where in the book where we end the book is them finally flying together and getting in the plane.

And is it true about Kitty Hawk, the one that just got off the ground, that they had to be convinced to bring a camera?

Well, let's talk about it. I mean, so this is a kids' book, right? And but they're my favorite. The only reason I write these kids. Is because of the Wright brothers.

Because my buddy Simon Sinek years ago told me this story about the Wright brothers, and this is true: is every time the Wright brothers went out to fly their plane at Kitty Hawk, anywhere, they would bring enough extra materials for multiple crashes. Which means every time they went out, they knew they would fail, and they would crash and rebuild and crash and rebuild, and that's why they took off. And I love that story. Yeah, I wanted my sons to hear that story. I wanted my daughter to hear that story.

I wanted because I wanted everyone to know that if you dream big and you work hard and you have a good side order of stubbornness, you can do anything in this world. And the Wright brothers, when they're doing it, we we think of the Wright brothers like, oh, they flew the plane and everyone cheered. No one even showed up. They had like five people that were there because they they tried to get a whole crowd there. They tried to make everyone there because everyone no to put the word out.

We'll get funding if people know about it. We'll have all this attention. Nobody was coming because no one thought it was possible. They're like, this is never going to work, you guys, ever, ever, ever. And even one of the Wright brothers says, I don't.

When they failed, he says, I don't think it's going to be able to be done for a hundred years. And they didn't stop, and I want my kids to have that lesson. That's why the Wright, we are the Wright Brothers, is a book exists. And this overlap all the way to World War One, where we're watching planes being used as as fighter.

Well, that's what happened. What they what they did is, as they started conquering flight, they of course the government helped them funding. You can mass produce, you can do things that two bicycle guys in a bicycle store can't do, but they also see their stuff weaponized. And they started seeing that, but but obviously it helps. And you know, they fly on in December of nineteen oh three is the first time they take off.

So as World War One's hitting, guess what? We have we have a weapon from the air.

So it's an amazing thing to watch them, and as in as we're seeing right now in AI, as we're seeing anywhere, any time you make a new invention, right, get ready for someone to weaponize it.

Someone's going to figure out how to do it. And so, when you approach the Wright brothers, inevitable for your series, but would you really talk about resiliency and relentlessness? Yeah, I mean, and I think what's happening right now. Listen, we live in an age of anger. We're living in an age of of you know.

Where we're fighting each other and arguing every day, and to me, we owe our kids better than that. I think we should show our kids an age of inspiration. And this is the 40th book in the series. We went to Americans. We said, "Vote for who you want." I mean, look at space.

Isn't that the feeling? Aren't you seeing what's going on in space? Of course. I love the fact that listen, we always say we're a nation of explorers, but we're really not. We stopped going to the moon.

We're not a nation of explorers. We think we are. We're a nation of conquerors. We like to conquer, and then we're done with it. And I love the fact we're going back.

I did a book on Neil Armstrong and one on Sally Ride in this series. And to me, we for the for the. For the fortieth book in the kids series, we said, "You pick America. Who do you want?" And I thought for sure they're going to pick someone famous, LeBron James, someone else. They picked two brothers from Ohio, from the middle of the country, who have nothing more than ingenuity, their persistence, and teamwork.

And to me, that's what we owe our kids. Like right now, like the those are values that are core values of America. We still share core values, and we owe our kids to it. And to me, we should be using our own ingenuity. Ingenuity and our own sense of connection to give kids a better world.

And yes, I love entertaining people with our books and that people buy these books for their nieces and nephews. But to me, it's that core resilience, it's that ability to crash and rebuild and never, ever, ever stop. Yeah, for my for the new season of What Makes America Great, we did Thomas Edison right here in New Jersey. Yeah, and and that place isn't busy enough. They have a great museum over there, but it just as if he walks in tomorrow.

And how it was nothing but in. And set up everyone to be around and get that sense of we can. It's not all about him. It was about putting other people in place. And if they have if they have an idea, how to mass produce it right away, and not mass produce it, I should say, how to build it right away.

So Bill Jones has an idea. Let's put that to let's put that into action. And that's also the need to when you have an invention to be able to bring it to production because you have to be able to troubleshoot. You can't give it to Taiwan, and you can't give it to Hong Kong or China. You need to be able to hone it and not give away your IP in the process.

Well, what I love is the Wright brothers when they're building. They have this bicycle shop, and they're building. There are all these other people trying to crack flight. You have all these other people who have government funding, who have big money, who are big corporations who are looking to cash in. They're all competing against the Wright brothers.

You know what the Wright brothers got? Nothing, Wilbur and Orville. That's it. Their own ingenuity. They can't even afford to build a big model when they want to build the engine and they want to figure it out.

So they build these tiny little toy versions, and then they build a little wind machine. They're like, "We'll test it here. It'll be cheaper." And these two guys beat all the people of all the funding. They keep it for themselves. They have all the IP.

And you know why they do it, Prime? Everyone was like, "How did? Why the Wright brothers are Wright brothers?" And here's the secret. It's their parents, their parents. Basically, their dad.

When when Orville and Wilbur are seven and eleven years old, their dad comes home one day, Dayton, Ohio, and he says, "Look, boys," and he opens up his hand, and out of his hand, he. Throws a toy into the air. It's one of those propellers you wind on a rubber band, and these boys see it and they're like, "What's that?" And we all know that, but they never saw anything like it before. And they start watching and they start timing it. If we spin it around this many times and wind it up, how many seconds will it be in the air?

They start seeing what will the wind do to this? How much longer can we make it go? How much tighter can we wind it before it breaks? How many times can you use it before the rubber band goes out? They would, and the reason why they got that is not just their father is.

Their mother was the builder in the family. She was the tinkerer. She used to build sleds. Her dad used to have a shop that he would build in. And one day they come home and they see that their kids have taken apart.

One of them had taken apart their sewing machine, like all the pieces on the floor. You know what my mother, may she rest in peace, would do to me if I took apart the sewing machine as a kid? I'd dead, dead as could be. And the mom and dad look at the brother and say, "Fantastic, keep building." Keep figuring things. Use your curiosity.

That's why the Wright brothers are there. It's like the, it's almost like the Wright brothers itself, right? Like we have Dayton takes credit for it, and Ohio takes credit for it, right? You have, and as they should, and then you also have North Carolina, Kitty Hawk takes credit for it, and everyone's like, well, which one is it? Is it Huffman Prairie?

When they come back to Ohio, it's the same thing like the Wright brothers. It's like their parents. You can't take one of the pieces out; it won't fly. It takes all the pieces for it to work together.

So, Justice Alito has a book out, and I thought it was really a. Appropriate. They talked about originalism, where it came from, how it's still feeding off the Constitution, and where we got it from. I want you to hear this. Cut thirty-two.

Those are the most difficult cases.

Sometimes history, and of course, starting with the text of the Constitution.

Sometimes the text, and sometimes history, provide a pretty clear answer. To the specific cases that come before us, but when you're dealing with something like new technology, history cannot provide that kind of an answer. And so, in those instances, the best we can do is to try to understand as clearly as we can the legal principle that is embodied in the Constitution, and then we have to apply that to this new technology and try to apply it in the way that makes The most sense. I think in some instances, as I said, it provides a clear answer.

So, how do you regulate AI? How do you regulate flight? Because there is no, no. The the founding fathers didn't have any idea that we're going to be able to fly a plane. Maybe Benjamin Franklin did.

Who knows? But how does the Constitution still function? We have an. I mean, and listen. I always said my first book I ever wrote was about the Supreme Court.

I was coming out of law school. I was so fascinated with it, and one thing that someone said to me, and I realized, and it's so true, is if we wanted. To just always have the, you know, if the law was easy and it was clear and we knew every time what we would do, we'll just build some robots and give them the Constitution. Say, tell us what it is, and every decision would come out the same way. But we don't even want that.

We want you to be able to look and say, you know what? I don't know. This is AI. What is AI? What does that mean?

Is it a person? Do we regulate it? Should we? Is this? You know, what do we do with this?

What's Twitter? Is that a network? Is that like something different? Is is that like CBS was back in you know in the twenties, in the thirties, in the forties, or whatever was? And each time, the reason why we allow nine justices to make that answer is because as a country.

We believe in the ability of ourselves that we're going to be able to apply these new things. That when when a plane is invented, and then when a computer is invented, and then when Twitter is invented, and then when AI is invented, that we're going to deal with it in hopefully a smart and educated way.

So we all love to talk about originalism, but we always know originalism can only take us so far because you got to eventually, as Alito says correctly, there make an adjustment for things that aren't in the Constitution, and that's not the. Flaw of the system. That's the beauty of our system is that it can apply to all these new things. Do you feel better from other times when you visit over the last five years about America's history and how we're handling it? As you see the flag on every NFL game now, people are standing on the national anthem again.

Do you feel good about it? You know, better. I. This is how I feel. Like I work with.

I'm on the board of the of the National Medal of Honor Museum.

Okay, so when when you know we obviously. Care so much on those football games, especially at those Dallas Cowboy games, because our you know the the museums there in Dallas, and I love the fact that I get to see that flag unfurled. Right, that always makes me happy. What, but it made me happy back then. What?

Here's what I don't like. I don't like us fighting. I think right now we are our politicians, are our AI, our social media makes us mad every day. We're so mad, but why do our politicians make us mad? Because angry people vote.

Because angry people we know watch. Angry people scroll endlessly, and to me, I'm done with that. I read this quote; it's been haunting me for a while. It says, "Be the reason people believing good." And that's what my kids' books are about. It's my one spot in my career where I can say to people, "You know what?

This is what we should give our kids something better. That we should use our ingenuity. We should use our perseverance. We should use that ability to come together and build and show our kids what a better world looks like." But you know, we've always been fighting. We're designed on on the top when you go into the Capitol and you walk into the house.

There's a quote that's on top that basically I'm going to mess up the quote, but it basically says that we're going to always fight. It's not it's not a bug; it's a feature. We're designed to fight, and the reason why the founding fathers want us to fight is because the idea is that that way we won't have a king. That way, we won't have one person deciding everything. That's why, by design, we're supposed to fight.

What we're not supposed to do is be ruthless to each other. What we're not supposed to do is have a lack of decency with each other. That's where I think right now we are still in a mess. We are, and and again, I don't, you know, to me, every side. If you look at these extremes on each side.

All they want to do is tell you that the other side is a person, but the average American, to me, wants the same thing we all want. They want to be loved. They want to be safe. They want their kids to be able to thrive and have jobs. Like we all want the same thing, but yet we're finding all these great excuses to keep fighting.

And to me, when I do this kids' book series, like, and again, the reason why, one of yes, I like the Wright brothers for determination, but I love them for teamwork. I love them for the fact that they work together. We should use our own sense of connection again to show our kids what it can do. Right, and you know what? The right brothers is not about government.

Do you think we're depending on the government for too much? Things aren't going right; it's the president's fault. Things are going good; it's the president gets credit. Things aren't going bad; it's you know the Secretary of Treasury is the problem. You think we're blaming government too much?

I think I think we blame everyone too much. I think we I think we've become a culture of pointing our fingers and saying. Those people, that guy, this person—what happened to America? When we used to take responsibility, what happened to humility? Like you know, Neil Armstrong.

Let's just stay with people who are talk about flight and space. Neil Armstrong used to never use the word "I." He used to use the word "we." We did this. We accomplished it. And he wasn't just talking about his fellow astronauts. He was talking about the scientists, the mathematicians, the tailors who sewed his spacesuit.

He would say, "That's who got me to the moon." And we are now in a moment of our culture where we follow people who write in all. Capital letters on Twitter and triple exclamation points. I'm done with that nonsense. I think we need to teach our kids better. Stop blaming everything else and take responsibility.

You want to change the world, change yourself. That's where it starts. Like we did, we did an I am Dolly Parton book, and and everyone's asking me, what can we do to be like Dolly Parton? How do we do? How do we honor Dolly Parton?

How do we honor her? And I'm like, have you been to a Dolly Parton concert? Have you been to Dollywood? Like I've been there. And I can tell you, at her concerts, you'll see people who are city folk, country folk, rich folk, poor folk, black folk, white folk, straight, gay, straight, everyone in between.

She loved them all as long as you were authentically yourself. And to me, you want to honor Dolly Parton, then act a little bit nicer. Be like her more. Don't just download nine to five and say I did it. Like, be a nicer person.

And if we go out, like you said, and just blame this and blame that, and this one did it and this one, like that, gets us nowhere but gets us to fighting. And we got to do better during the Dolly Parton concert and the Irish and Italians because you left them out of your description. And the Jews, don't forget the Jews. Yeah, don't forget everybody. Native Americans were there too.

Yeah, everybody was there. Right. The anti-Semitism thing, just real quick before you go. Yeah. Have you been able to get your head around what?

We're experiencing. Listen, I am. It is. I wrote I Am Man Frank because I saw that anti-Semitism at that moment in time. This was four years ago, I think.

Now was at an all-time high, and I thought, well, I got to write a book to deal with it.

So I wrote I Am Man Frank. I did not think we could be at an even worse spot when it comes to anti-Semitism, and we are. And I'm like, oh my gosh! I thought we couldn't possibly top that, and it's worse than ever. And you know, I just watch this this clip of a friend sent me of a comedian on stage who basically gets on stage and says, like, you know, hey everyone, you know, I'm I'm Jewish, and and just part of the act.

And someone screams out, "Boo!" And he's like, "What? That I'm a comedian? That I'm Jewish? Whatever." And they're like, "Something, something Palestine." And I forget what they yell at him, and and he's just like, "What? What did I do?" And again.

We're in this culture of fighting. Of arguing, of just and to me, I know it's a complex issue. If it was easy, we'd take care of it yesterday. But it doesn't mean we got to stand up and just hate each other all the time. One more time, the name of the book: We Are the Wright Brothers.

So if you have a little kid, niece, nephew, grandchild who needs some inspiration, it's a beautiful kids' book. The 40th book in our series. Wow! Thanks so much, and also, Brad, thanks for endorsing my book, "Uniting the States." I did. It's coming out in two weeks.

We got to make sure everyone buys it. I took, in fact, I took a picture with it out.

So you can because when I take a picture with things, you know that that's going to make your social media absolutely. You know he's the man, Brad Meltzer, best in the business, historian, best-selling author. Brad, thanks so much. Thanks so much for all the support. A moment, learning something new every day on the Brian Kilmeade Show.

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Republicans in Texas are attacking Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico by questioning his masculinity and calling him low T. Talarico said he wished people would stop saying that as he blew the seeds off a dandelion. Pretty funny.

Right, that was the good old days. Yeah, good old days. It was the one joke I was able to pull. That was it. That was it.

I read like I don't know if you know this. New York Times as a recap of late night shows, and I'm reading Saturday Night Live. I didn't. I didn't watch it back. I tape it every week.

I'm like, why would even look at this? The cold open was brutal. It was brutal. Just just anti-Trump it completely. I'm going, wow.

You know we're screwed with getting comedy that doesn't come from us, and except for Bill Moore. But but know what we know what we like about Bill Moore? His monologue, not the comedy. That's fair. All right.

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I come to you from 48th and Sixth in Midtown Manhattan. Heard around the country, around the world. It's going to be a busy, busy hour, busy, busy week. Very excited. In one week from tomorrow, United States will be out my brand new book, "The Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle." I think those people love the country celebrating 250.

I know you're going to dig into this one and love it. Daniel Turner, founder of the Energy Advocacy Group Power Future. I got to get. The latest on the price of oil, the nuts and bolts on diesel. What's it going to mean for a hundred to two hundred million barrels of oil to flood the market from Europe of diesel, as well as seven ships hit over the weekend.

Will that slow down the number, the amount of tankers coming through the Strait of Hormuz? We'll talk about that. But first, let's get to the big three. Number three. Look, I've said.

As much as I can say about what I think about D.A. Van Houten's investigation, it was not an appropriate investigation. It was not complete. It was stick your head in the sand and don't look to find a crime. That is Thomas Giapprah.

He is representing Jane Doe. Cornell rape case moves forward. Governor Hochul tries to help her election fortunes, but hurts the case by taking the most biased person you know in New York and says a lot. Latisha James and appoints her special prosecutor. Number two, the economic.

Assault is working. Inflation's 80. The currency's depreciated by 40. The economy shrunk by 6. Stay the course.

This is working. That is Dave McCormick. Iran beginning to show signs they are cracking as they try and wreak havoc on the Strait as their oil minister resigns. We got the latest. Number one.

Let's be careful about all these polls. These races are tight, and they're going to be tight to the end. These polls showing the early Democrat lead. We've seen this before. It has not been borne out.

Call Rove, hold your horses, Democrats. You have not won anything yet inside a month of the midterms. President Trump goes all in and goes hands on, battleground states, red states, all of them. We got go beyond the polls, and that's we'll begin with Michael Goodwin. Michael, Call Rove weighed in, and he just said, "Look, there's the Democrats.

There's no doubt about it. History says Democrats should have a good day." On election day, but how good does it mean getting the Senate too? Call Rove talked about. The importance of the polls and knowing where they're coming from. Listen to this, cut seven.

Let's be careful about all these polls. There's a really smart Republican pollster named Patrick Raffini who went back and looked at 3,300 polls over the last four cycles and found that 73 percent of the time, the polls overstated the Democrat vote. In fact, if you take a look at all 3,300, they overstated the Democratic vote by basically four points. At the end, at this point, roughly by seven points.

So these races are tight, and they're going to be tight to the end. These polls showing the early Democrat lead—we've seen this before. It has not been borne out. Even Nate Silver said the groups which Democrats are making the largest gains on are those that make the polls most overestimated Democrats in recent years. So no rose-colored glasses, but don't overstate the negative.

That's pretty much what you wrote about too, Michael, right? Yes, I think Brian that despite what the polls show, there are still lots of opportunities for President Trump and Republicans. It's state by state, of course, but it very much depends, I think, on how well Republicans unite and sell the story of success this administration has had. In big ways. I mean, it's obviously the Iranian situation is weighing right now on that, and the price of everyday goods.

But there's other aspects to the economic story that are much more favorable, including the employment rates. Unemployment is low. People are making more money. Household incomes are rising, family incomes are rising, and of course the stock market.

So there's much to celebrate in this. But like Carl, also know I also know that you cannot you cannot overlook the current moment, and so I think the president's trip. He's visiting ten states this month. is important, and he's got, I think, to stay on message and not get drawn into issues like the Art of Triumph and those sorts of things that do not poll well and that and that are of no interest to people who feel their economic situation is going downhill.

So, I think. The message is important, but sticking to the message is more important. Yeah, I think so. But he does feel positive about data centers, and he does feel positive about AI. He still got everybody together, and he still put together a panel and a super intelligence panel.

He named them, but he wants to guide it. He doesn't want to end it and close it. He's not going to fall prey to this new movement that seems to manufacture as the pandemic. Yes. No, I think that's a good point, Brian.

That the president has been a president on this issue. I mean, he personally favors it, but he also understands the political dynamics of it.

So the way he's going about it, I think, will lead to the best information that the public can have. I mean, you you'd look at the stock market, for example, very much connected to the whole AI, which is, of course, dependent on the data centers.

So there, all this ties together economically. And of course, the Iranian war too.

So he's got things to sell and explain. But I think there's still and there's still time if he says it in a way that people feel included in his vision. Got it. I want you to hear what Senator John Kennedy. He summed it up pretty well too.

Cut five. I'm sorry, cut nine. But it's more than just cost of living. The American people, both sides, feel anger. If they don't feel anger, they feel.

Deep melancholy. They feel like the Washington political leaders have let them down. That they they don't listen, they don't care. They feel that way about Congress in particular. They think the United States Congress is the best evidence of why it took our ancestors thousands of years to learn how to stand upright.

Some of that is is our fault. We should have done more, but we've done a lot. And I've been out on the. Campaign trail talking about it.

So he feels as if he feels anger, but don't you think it's also important to point out that inflation under Joe Biden was at a high nine and on average five, and under Trump it's at two point five or two point four. I mean, people should understand. Yeah, the prices went up, but they were flying up when Trump got the keys. That's true, Brian. But I think the problem in making that argument is that the prices that went up under Biden never came down, and so anything that's happened since it's just, for many and many cases and many consumer goods, it just continually raised them.

Not nearly at the rate that they were under Biden, but no question that. There are all kinds of data that show people on the margin are falling further behind. I mean, the number of credit card delinquencies, the balances of credit cards, people living on credit cards, for example, that's increasing.

So those are the kinds of people. It's difficult to say what they want to hear. It's really about what can you do. I hear you, but I should point out who's responsible. Just don't give the Democrats a free pass on this because they said nothing when things were out of control.

When they got one point nine trillion dollars. I mean, how much money? That was a trillion dollars to on their infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act, which they mocked out, mocked us, and said it really had nothing to do with inflation, which we knew all along. Would you spend like that? Of course, you're going to get inflation.

Yeah, Trump spent during the pandemic because he was advised that he had we had to send people home to stop working. But after that, Biden went to town. But you know. Brian, the thing about Donald Trump that's always amazes me. He lived his life as a Manhattan developer, you know, born born to a wealthy family, and yet he is the candidate going back to twenty sixteen.

He is the candidate who most connected to the working class and the people who felt left out. Felt that he was their spokesman, and you you look at all of all of the things he has done, and that's why in the column I mentioned the two the two highlights for me of the twenty four campaign against Biden and Harris: the garbage truck, and then working at McDonald's. I mean, in a way, there were campaign stunts. But they really, I think, captured the essence of who his appeal was for, who he wanted to talk to, and I would hope he would get back to that kind of appeal because I think it's gotten lost in all of the comings and goings of the presidential office, foreign powers, etc., the war.

So I think the middle class, the working class. Those were his defenders and supporters in both of his victories. I think he has to make it clear to them that he is still with them. He's got Hispanics and non-college educated voters. Those are the biggest improvements, and I think he's hurting on.

If I'm to believe the polls, I think he's hurting on them right now. Yes, I. I agree that there had. Look, you're looking at his approval ratings, and the the the decline is significant enough that you begin to look at who within his constituency is pulling back from him. And those groups you mentioned are two of them.

So he's got some work to do in the next month. We'll see, Michael Goodwin. Thanks so much, Michael Goodwin, the New York Post. Appreciate it. Thank you, Ron.

Right. The one thing I can't support the president on is giving the cell phone out for Tom Cotton. Tom Cotton is one of his greatest allies. He's never, as far as I know, said anything against the president. On daylight savings time, he's against it.

That's it. Who cares? Why the president put out his cell phone number, which, by the way, now I can't contact him. I can't because he was on on Sunday. is is just insane.

The other issue is this billionaires tax.

So we love to the socialists love to vilify billionaires. Remember, there hasn't. Remember when Zoram Mcdonnie said there should be no billionaires? Really? Okay, there should be, and everybody knows.

AOC came out and said you don't make a million dollars, you can't be a billionaire. Nobody earns a billion dollars. Really? Okay. Have you heard of patents?

Have you ever heard of investments that pan out?

So you're not allowed to profit.

So now they're doing the billionaires tax. And California, if they pass this, they're going to lose every one of the billionaires. They've already lost some significant people, which is their tax base. Remember. People, everyday people, if you make the bottom fifty percent pay like five percent of the taxes, the top ten percent pays seventy percent of the taxes, and that's not enough for Bernie Sanders.

So the billionaires' tax is not supported by of all people, Gavin Newsom, and Bernie Sanders is targeting anyone against it. Cut twelve, ten, the American people. Sustain democracy. Take on the greed and power of the billionaire class, and create an economy and government that works for all. Or are we destined to live in an oligarchic society?

Where our economic and political lives are controlled by a handful of the wealthiest people in the world—that is the real question on the ballot here in California—and that is why the whole country, and frankly, people around the world, are paying attention. To what is happening here? See, I just don't resent any billionaire. I know usually if they inherit money, I look at the Oracle present.

So the dad Ellison, he has Oracle. His son has a bigger vision. He wants to get a media element to it and consolidate these networks. Bought CBS and just bought Paramount, which gets with at CNN.

So he has a bigger vision than his dad. You might be resentful of it. But he's growing the economy. Know he's also doing, he's growing his company. Know he's also doing hiring people, and those people need offices, and they got to rent from commercial realtors.

And those people need furniture. They got to go to commercial office furniture. And those people got to need paper goes to computers. That's going to help as well.

So you take that wealth and you continue to grow it. You invest it yourself, or you sit there in a mansion, make a bigger mansion, or you go out invest it. I appreciate that. I don't resent that. I mean, you have Elon Musk, who basically bought a whole town and made it a SpaceX town, all right.

And now he is going to be buying huge swaths of land. He's going to be putting data centers there. He's going to hire a bunch of people. He's going to provide a lot of power, and that's going to be a big tax base for the for the borderline communities. Then he says, "Listen, if it becomes a problem, I'm going to put him in space." Okay.

Do you know anybody else that can do that? It's called unique talent. You did you watch playoff baseball? Did you watch the NFL on Sunday? I know a lot of you played football.

I know a lot of you watch football. When you watch these players out there, they're doing things that you can't do. You can't do it. I'm telling you right now, you couldn't get open. You couldn't be the last man on their roster.

Why? They have a unique talent. They worked extremely hard, and they combine that with making it to the upper levels of society of their sport, which is their chosen occupation. I don't resent not being Tom Brady. Got a different set of skills.

Not as good in my job as he as it is.

So what? If he becomes a billionaire, like LeBron, I think is a billionaire. Do you think I resent LeBron? Kidding me? Guy still working out at forty-two, still an elite player.

He took a lot of his investments and he grew it in various different sports. This guy wants to take LeBron's money away. I don't want to take these guys' money away. You know what I want? I want him to buy businesses, employ people, give people an opportunity.

I'll spin off. You'll spin off, and you'll make the most of it. Even if you buy offices and you have a deli, you could build a restaurant in the area. You will benefit if you can have a parking lot in a busy. When a guy gets a restaurant conglomerate, and you can valet park, and you can get a parking lot that's going to benefit.

It all goes down the chain. What he does not understand is because certain people have money, it doesn't mean you don't. Back in a moment. Big guests, bold opinions, better information. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show.

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206 Democrats voted for it in the House, including Hakeem Jeffries and AOC and Chuck Schumer.

Well, he blocked it. He ordered the Democrats in the Senate to block the bill, or it would be law today. We would be listening to the people, holding data centers accountable. But Chuck Schumer blocked it because here is the bottom line: Democrats want to talk about affordability, but they don't want to do anything about it. The bottom line is their crass political strategy is hurting ratepayers at the local level in places like Ohio, and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Senator Yosted talking about everything he says is 100 correct. They said, "Well, it didn't have any enforcement in it, so we're not going to vote for it." It gave them parameters to enforce. Senator Yosted, his four data centers, but he's doing it with The community in mind. Community should have a say in it. That's what the president's saying too.

Daniel Turner joins us now, founder of the Energy Advocacy Group, Power the Future. Daniel, when it comes to data centers, that's a red hot issue, especially in Ohio, where there's a lot. Right. It is. It's an issue nationwide, and I'm I'm talking to you from my sheep farm in rural Virginia.

We have a third of the nation's data centers. I draw. I pass them every time I drive to Washington D.C. from my farm.

So it is definitely a hot button issue. But it is a solvable issue, and I think what Senator Hughes had expressed his frustration really gets to the heart of it. Like these are not insurmountable problems; these are things we can tackle if there is political will to tackle it. And unfortunately, every time we get close to an election, every single opportunity to solve a problem becomes an opportunity to exacerbate that problem for the campaign trail, and that's exactly where we are. And do you think a lot of this is still The climate change crowd trying to stop power, regardless of where it is, if it's not solar panelled or windmilled.

Absolutely, yeah. It's a great point. This is the same people who, just two years ago, under President Biden, were telling us that we were going to get rid of the gas stove, are now telling us we're going to get rid of data centers. Because the the what they have in common is that you take a company like Meta, which in Ohio is building a data center, but they're also building a natural gas power plant that will provide enough power for the data center and for the local community.

Well, if you just hate the natural gas and Industry and you don't want natural gas expansion. This is your new tactic. Whether it's a stove, whether it's a generator or a leaf blower, now it's a data center. Right, it's the same thing we see from New England and Northeast governors: Kathy Hochul, New York; Maura Healey in Massachusetts. When they stop natural gas pipelines that were going to bring natural gas to New England, right from Pennsylvania, from the Marcellus region, they stop them.

They won. Successfully, but now what do they get to do? They get to point the finger at President Trump and say, "Look how expensive things are in New England. Affordability—it's all President Trump's fault." Well, we could solve this problem if you didn't want to play political games. But that's what Democrats do really, really well—they play political games brilliantly.

Did Governor Hochul do some horse trading on that pipeline, where the president said he needs that done? Yeah, there was some. I don't think it ever actually took place. There was some early negotiations. Kathy Hochul is is is unfortunately not the smartest person to hold that seat, and she she's terrible.

Just. Manipulated by all sides, she doesn't everything on this tragedy coming out of Yale. Right, it's a good pivot, and it shuts up her critics.

So that's where she wants to focus. Because if you look at the issues plaguing my beloved home state, where my mom still lives and all my family still lives, which is New York. These are solvable issues. Case in point, Kathy Hochul says she wants to open the first nuclear reactor in fifty years.

Well, she wants to build it from scratch. That's going to take a decade. What's sitting idle is Indian Point. She could just reopen that tomorrow, but she's not doing that. She's she's she's getting the talking point of we're going to do something great in the future rather than do something difficult now.

That's Kathy Hochul in a nutshell. Absolutely, she, and that's why Bruce Blakeman's got a real shot here. Let's hope. And also, you talk about fracking. How much is fracking?

The ban on fracking in New York under Governor Cuomo really hurt. No, it crushes New York State, and we put out a study not long ago on this. On you can see it on powerofthefuture.com, where we compare New England counties, Pennsylvania counties, from their counterpoint in New York State. Right there's just this imaginal, imaginary, invisible line that north of it is New York, south of it is Pennsylvania. But it's the same geography; it's the same area.

And south of that border, where fracking is legal, the land is. More valuable, the the income is higher, the GDP is higher, the tax revenue is greater. Why? Because Pennsylvania allows fracking, and if you recall, and your audience does. And we we we move at the speed of light now in politics.

It's remarkable. But just four years ago, when Josh Shapiro was running for governor, he was anti-fracking until he flip-flopped because he realized, holy cow, if I want to win Pennsylvania, I can't be anti-fracking.

So now he's reversed course. I welcome that. I don't think it's genuine, but I welcome it. But but he has reversed course. We could do that in New York State, and you could be a profitable have have the.

The revenue, but Kathy Hochul hasn't reversed course, so it's dem on dem violence. This what bothers me. I don't expect you to answer this because you're not really political, but. If Democrats get in power, I feel as though they know how unpopular and how they've been exposed with the green energy stuff—that the world was coming to an end. If we don't act now, we can't sleep at night.

It actually, it actually destroyed generations of children who thought the world was going to end. And just because Trump came in power and the average and all of a sudden Silicon Valley is not playing ball with Democrats, I thought they grew out of it. But my sense is they just keep in there powdered dry for when they do get power again.

Now there goes the gas engine. There goes the oil, the drilling, and the fracking. Yeah. Yeah, hundred percent. This this is a thirty forty year movement.

It's been most of our lifetime that we have seen the climate movement. They're not going to go away anytime soon. You have to realize some of these climate executives at these large, probably Chinese funded nonprofits, they're making over a million dollars a year, right? They have a four hundred one k. They have beach houses.

This is a very lucrative business. Big Green. We hear all the time: Big Oil, Big Oil. Big Green is very very real. It is a multi billion.

Dollar industry that produces nothing. All it does is is have people lie down in traffic. It litigates; they're very good at litigation. Oral arguments at the Supreme Court on this right now, as we're speaking, on the constant pernicious litigation on on climate nonsense.

So, so they're not going to roll over and go away because there's a new sheriff in town. They're just keeping their powder dry until they get. A Gavin Newsom president, and they'll be back with a vengeance. Scary. I just thought sometimes people would would move on from things.

We'll see. I just before we move on, I just think people should know that. I'm pro data center, but with reason. If there was a huge hum around my house, I wouldn't be happy. If there was taking up farmland and hurting the community, I wouldn't be happy.

If they're taking up all the water, I would not be happy. If they're upping my rates, I would not be happy. But here's what they are doing: the president through an executive order and through legislation, if they would just pass it and not worry about the midterm elections. Here's what Senator Dave McCormick is: this is the Ratepayer Protection Act, cut thirty-eight. The ratepayer protection is is is the worst example.

We have you know people across Pennsylvania talking about electricity prices and and data centers, and this would have addressed this head on. And the thing that's most interesting is this passed the House decisively with two hundred and eight. Democrats voting for it. Hakeem Jeffries, AOC voted for this.

So, if you want to see an example where the Democrats are playing politics at the expense of the American people, this is it, and that's it. And I just wanted to put a put a lid on that.

So, let's talk about what's going on with the Strait. It looks like there is a. The alternate, the East West pipeline, the Saudis have got back up almost up to full speed, and we're almost at the same level through the Strait of Hormuz. Except for this weekend, the IRGC went after about seven merchant ships, so that slowed things down. Where are we at in the big picture?

I remind people all the time. If you can rewind to 2021, just a couple years ago, when there was a cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which brings gas from the Bayou basically all the way up the Eastern Seaboard, the Colonial Pipeline pipeline was shut down for five and a half days, and it wreaked havoc on on America. Right? People remember the panic, the waiting hours in line. There was pandemonium.

The East. West pipeline in in Saudi Arabia shut down for over three weeks, so you can look at gas prices and say, "Wow, right a big disruption." But this is a hundred times worse, and it was you know three times as long as a shutdown.

So I understand people's frustration with energy. I'm never going to dismiss it. Diesel prices are through the roof. I mentioned my farm; I have to buy a lot of diesel, and and it is very expensive. I get it, but the world is a volatile place.

Russia and Ukraine. Have blown up fifty percent of each other's diesel refining capacity. Iran is not completely neutralized, unfortunately.

So there is a lot happening in the world, and and we have to embrace the fact that if we're going to try to bring stability, whether it's to Ukraine, whether it's to the Middle East, it's going to have an impact on global prices. I'll own Iran happily. I'll say yes, we're trying to eradicate radical Islam, but everyone with a a you know Ukraine flag.

Next to their emoji, they have to own it too because every time we give Zelensky more weapons, all he does is blow up Russian refining capacity. Makes sense. It's a good military strategy, but that's driving prices too.

So the world is a messed up place. All of these engagements are causing prices to go through the roof. It's not just one or the other. Daniel Turner, how much does it help that Europe is going to release 100 to 200 million barrels of diesel, and they're going to start putting more up front almost immediately, as we've asked? What is your what is your thought about that?

Huge, huge help. But the question is, why did it take so long? And the reason why is because the EU does not want President Trump to have a good midterm. Just like Iran doesn't want President Trump to have a midterm. I mean, the IRGC wrote a letter saying, "Vote Democrat." Open letter to the American people.

Please put back in people who who like us. Right. So the European Union, sadly, is very much the same. The EU should have released these barrels of diesel. Weeks ago, but they didn't.

Why? Because they don't give a damn that it's punishing their people. Europeans are used to high prices. They get to point the finger at President Trump and say he's the bad guy. What we need is a Democrat who will sign on to the Paris Climate Accords again, and a Democrat who will say, "Hey, you don't have to pay your NATO dues.

We got your back." So, yes, it's going to help. But the fact that it took the EU so long to do shows, you know, this whole tinkering in in politics. The world is not our friend, and people need to ask why. How close are we to building another refinery?

Nowhere. I don't even know of any that are in the pipeline, and they need probably eight to ten years to be built. This is where I wish President Trump were a little more aggressive with his executive order. I would be. I would use national security protocols.

I would build them on military bases if necessary. I would be building refineries as as as much as the market demands, and the markets are demanding them. But We mentioned the oral arguments in the Supreme Court case today that's happening, which are all these climate lawsuits. What's the first thing you do if Killmead Oil decides to build a refinery? Every single Soros-funded Moms Against Asthma group sues Killmead Oil, and they gum it up for years in the courts.

Why? Because they don't want you to build it because they're funded by. Foreign countries, whether it's the Qataris, whether it's the Russians, whether it's the Chinese, they don't want you to build a refinery because energy independence is bad for the global order.

So that's a problem. Who's going to build a refinery and spend years in the courts with hundreds of millions of dollars in litigation costs? It's not worth it. I'm thinking about the people that invest in the XL pipeline and the and the jobs they were involved. And he just came in and canceled it.

Base billion dollars was lost, and so people say, "Are you going to rebuild that pipeline?" What company would ever rebuild a pipeline, knowing that Gavin Newsom is going to campaign on shutting you down? Right. I've mentioned this before, and it's. I think it's a very important takeaway. What Biden did, canceling Keystone, was not just damage, cripple our energy industry.

He sent a precedent that any large, complex infrastructure project that is more than four years in the making is now A political risk. Who's going to build a dam that's going to take ten years to build? Who's going to build a railroad that's going to take? Unless it's within California, their crappy high speed, which is never going to get built. Who's going to do anything that crosses a state line or an international border?

If your political opponent's going to run on shutting you down, there's a market signal that Biden sent. Don't do anything because we will campaign on stopping you. Just this thing, Dan. When this war ends in Iran. You're going to watch the strategic oil reserve get filled up.

You're going to see the Venezuelan deal really pay off. You're going to see gas go down to 290, and it's going to actually the market's going to have a. We're going to be overflowing with oil. Correct? We are.

But the sad thing, the possibility is that you'll have Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries, and they will say it's because of them. We got elected, and look at what happened. Oil prices are down. Energy prices are down.

Now, vote for us in 2028. And and that is the risk that they're trying to pull the wool over the Americans' eyes. That's why people like James Talarico and and Omar Omar Al Sayed have all changed their tune. Subversion. Don't tell us.

Don't let us answer questions who we really are, what we believe. Just get us power, because then we'll have the ability to campaign for president in twenty twenty eight.

So there's a lot on the line with these midterm elections. Go get him, Daniel Turner. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Back in a moment.

Thanks, Brian. Take care. Great job! It's Brian Kilmeade, the fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmeade.

Kids, let me help. I think I know why you have so much anxiety, so much loneliness. It's because you live in a surveillance state. We all do. According to the Wall Street Journal, everyone is scared to dance at concerts and clubs, dance like no one's watching.

How quaint to think you could still do that. Everyone has a GPS-enabled computer in their pocket, a tracking device in your car, a ring camera at the door. Have you met the flockers? Flock cameras, yeah, flock cameras that read your license plate and track your car wherever it goes. Everybody hates them.

The people who complain about surveillance do a lot of it themselves. Gen Z is now Gen TMZ, and the targets don't have to be a celebrity. One of the biggest viral stories this year was the two lawyers making out in Central Park. It's okay, they're married.

Well, he is. He is, but look, people. People cheating is a long and cherished human right. It may not be noble, but whatever happened to "ain't nobody's business if I do"? Andy Warhol famously predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.

One of the most prescient things anyone's ever said. What he didn't foresee is it would be against your will. Because now everyone is the celebrity who thought they could get away with running into Target without any makeup. Everyone now is sad Ben Affleck who can't have a cigarette without it going online. It's disturbing how much Americans now enjoy watching other people be less than perfect.

Fifty-five percent of Gen Z say fear of being caught doing something or saying something that's seen as cringe has prevented them from opening up emotionally. Thirty-eight percent say the fear of cringe has stopped them from asking someone on a date. I get it—you are a fifteen-year-old and you like a girl and you want to tell her in a text.

Well, it better come out like it was written by Aaron Sorkin, because if there is anything cringe about it and it winds up as a screenshot, that kid is f***ing kids. You got to reverse the cringe. What's cringy isn't looking silly; it's the narc who's reporting it. That's what's cringe. Brilliant, and I mean, I read this thing verbatim first time I've heard it, and I thought, unbelievable.

I wish I wrote it.

So I think about it, but couldn't write it like that. It's just perfect. Bill Maher nails it again.

Meanwhile, I don't know why President Trump is still critical. From the Fox News Radio studios in Midtown Manhattan. It's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade. All right, from 40th and Sixth in Midtown Manhattan.

Heard around the country, around the world. This is Brian Kilmeade. We got a lot going on today. I got to tell you what's going on in Iran. Really encouraging signs for us.

I'll explain that. Also, the investigation into the would-be hijacking from last week. Man, we're getting details. This was so preventable. It's scary.

You wonder how somebody who could fail out of an Almani flight school because he was radical could actually get on a UAE plane. As a pilot, and how Australia knew about this guy too, Al Hami.

So this is just crazy. He ends up trying to put an axe in the head of the pilot and crash the plane, possibly in the Ben Gurion Airport. Evidently, if not just overall, we'll have to see. And then, of course, we have some other breaking news we got to get to. But first, let's get to the big three.

Number three. Look, I've said. As much as I can say about what I think about D.A. Van Houten's investigation, it was not an appropriate investigation. It was not complete.

It was stick your head in the sand and don't look to find a crime. That is true, and that is the attorneys for the Jane Doe, possible victim in this rape case. It moves forward. Governor Hochul does the worst thing possible, gets political. Letitia James is now the investigator.

Really, Letitia James? Could you be more pro Democrat, anti Trump than that? Are you ever going to get to the bottom of things when she's already sided with the victim? Number two, the economic. Assault is working.

Inflation's eighty percent. The currency's appreciated by forty percent. The economy shrunk by six percent. Stay the course. This is working.

That is Dave McCormick, of course. Iran beginning to show signs they are cracking as they try and wreak havoc in the Strait as their oil minister resigns. We got the latest. Number one. Let's be careful about all these polls.

These races are tight, and they're going to be tight to the end. These polls showing the early Democrat lead—we've seen this before. It has not been borne out. Carl Rove weighing in, not willing to say curtains for the Senate and the House with the midterm elections inside a month away. President Trump goes all in, hit three states in four days.

Now he's added again today. He's going to red states. He's going to battleground states. He is not going to. He's going to go right through the tape, no doubt about it.

But the other big story that we're talking about becoming national story, kind of by surprise, is something that happened in 2024 when there's alleged gang rape situation. That happened at Cornell University. There was an investigation. They couldn't prove it. There's text messages that said there shouldn't be any investigation.

That it was all consensual. Then we find out about the use of ketamine, applied with ketamine, and drunk. Does that mean that the guys that are involved in this are are exonerated? Perhaps not. In the New York State law, if you do drugs in alcohol, are you suddenly no longer protected?

Perhaps not. We know that everybody's lawyered up, and this is a now a national. Story. Donatuto all over it. Fox News contributor, criminal defense attorney, and host of Fox News True Crime podcast, Crime and Justice with Donatuto.

Dona, welcome. Hi, Brian. Thanks for having me.

So, Donna, what are your thoughts right away about this case? This is something happened in 2024, and there's a lot of records, a lot of text messages. These guys have been graduated now for over a year, two years now, working on it. But now they're evidently mostly rugby players from a fraternity. A lot of people weighing in from the president to now both attorneys and Latisha James.

Now is going to lead the investigation. Do you think that's a good move? I think it's an awful move. I couldn't agree with you more, Brian. It's it's an awful move because she has already shown how she feels about this in her own Facebook post.

She has come out saying that she feels for this victim, she sides with this victim, she should be heard. And although I agree that everyone has the right to be heard, that does not mean they have the right to be believed. And so, what we have to do is we have to listen to everyone, but we have to look at the facts. And the facts are going to play out little by little every day. Hearing more just this morning, I heard ABC News put out a recording of a phone call that was had, and you can listen to both sides of that phone call, and you can argue it on both sides.

You can say was she manipulating the phone call? Was the purpose of it to try to get this guy to give her some information? You can argue that he was trying to gaslight her.

So this is one of those situations where I think our laws do not really. It's sort of align with what happens on these college campuses, and there's going to be people that want to come after me about this position that I take. But at the end of the day, I do not think it is more incumbent upon a young man to determine whether or not someone is intoxicated, just as much it is should be as as incumbent on the young woman. I mean, it's like we put we put these twenty year olds in situations and say that the man is supposed to be the bigger adult. In the room.

Well, why aren't we saying maybe not put yourself in the room in the first place? And so I think there's so many ways to talk about this, where you know women want this true level of equality. But if you want a true level of equality, you have to assume equal risk. And without assuming that equal risk, all you're doing then is making women victims of circumstances that they have choices in making.

So, so Donna, what does it say? This is working against her. She. She still wanted, according to text messages, days later. She still wants to go to some fraternity party in the same exact place, and she does say in a text message, just to paraphrase, that you didn't do anything wrong to one of the people that I guess started this a whole situation.

Well, I think you're right. I think you have to look at the timeline here. Right, this alleged incident happened at the beginning of October. The she doesn't make this allegation to the police until November, and in between, there's this whole conversation about a party that she's dying to go to.

Now, there's always going to be the people on the other side that say you're never going to have the perfect victim, and victims are going to do things that they should not do. They always invoke the Harvey Weinstein example, where women on the other side of the country are. Sending him emails about what a wonderful guy he is after they're claiming that they've been raped. At the end of the day, we have to use our common sense, and we have to say, "How do we determine what truly happened here?" And in looking at all of these communications, you have to piece together what the intention was, what the purpose was, what the feelings were, and that's how you determine what is consensual and what isn't. It looks like the lawyer yesterday says it might be more than seven.

I heard that yesterday. I also heard him say that there might be evidence in the bottom of a lake somewhere, with absolutely zero evidence to back that up. I think it's completely irresponsible, Brian. We are seeing this trend in lawyers. Whether it's the lawyer for the holdout juror in Clancy, whether it's Redington himself, whether it is now lawyers in this case, lawyer for Jane Doe, that are coming out and making this media tour about changing the narrative of their cases.

And putting out the narrative that they want heard, and let's remember that this civil lawyer filed a civil lawsuit, and in that lawsuit does not admit at all that his client ingested drugs and alcohol. I mean, it's just so voluntarily, it's just so unbelievable to me that now we want to change the facts of what happened back in 2024, and that's why piecing everything together is very important. And I want to remind people that information. In a civil lawsuit, is not evidence. What do you mean?

So, if it's a civil lawsuit because they're trying to get money, this is not criminal.

So, you have to start over. You can't build off that. No, no, no, no. You you can you can build off the allegations. But my point is, is that there's allegations made in a civil lawsuit that are extremely one sided.

When a civil lawyer files a complaint, that complaint is the perspective of their client and their client alone. They decide what they're putting in that lawsuit, what they're not including in that lawsuit. What may later come out in court.

So to look at that the same way that you may look at a criminal complaint or a criminal police report, I think we just have to be clear that this is someone's version of events. It is not accepted evidence. That that that's all I mean. I want you to hear Jane Doe's attorney yesterday, Cut Thirty One, Thomas Giapra. If this was a normal investigation that was done in New York City, for example, they would have gotten search warrants.

They would have grabbed every single one of these phones of these guys. They would have downloaded all this material. I'm I'm confident, knowing this day and age and the group that we're dealing with, that there were other photos, there were videos, and you know where I think those photos and videos are now. I think they're in the bottom of Lake Cuyahoga because once they knew there was a problem, they cleared everything out and they got rid of it. And the fact is that the investigation.

Investigators let that happen. They let that happen. We'd have a lot more evidence. And frankly, I don't. I'm not even sure we have everybody who participated in this assault because my client was blacked out during periods of time, and that's reported in these statements.

We don't even know the people we have or the people we definitively know. If you ask me, I believe there were more.

So you are—I mean—there is a lot of speculation and hyperbole in that statement. A lot. And that's where my problem lies. You know, this is all you know spewing information that you have no basis to to to gather that from. I mean, there's been no allegation that anybody deleted anything.

I'm sure that investigators at the time, when they were asking questions, they asked for any information that was available. And when you talk about, you know, this lawyer says there would have been subpoenas and they would have been able to gather all these things. That may or may not be true. You don't just get to go into somebody's Because you feel like it, right? There has to be a judge that signs off on that, and there has to be reasons to.

To obtain that information, and if at the time the information given was that you know this was fairly consensual, I can't imagine that any court was going to sign off on search warrants for those phones.

So again, is that true that that happens in some investigations? Of course, it's true, but does that mean that it would would have happened here? I think that also a speculation, given the fact that this was a closed investigation. And remember, we can argue back and forth about whether or not the police did. Good job, because frankly, I don't think that the DA had all the evidence when he made that decision.

And so, if you're going to reopen it, you're going to reopen it. But we also have to remember there was a full Title Nine investigation with a full Title Nine hearing.

So the information that was presented is presented on both sides—the victims and those that could potentially be charged, and those that were charged under Title Nine.

So you know, there there were hearings here.

So the one thing about New York, I understand that there's rules if a crime happens if you voluntarily are really taking alcohol or drugs. As I'm not saying anyone should be exonerated, but if you make that choice, how does that affect your case?

So yes, in New York law, voluntary intoxication is not does is not something that affects consent.

So if you voluntarily are intoxicated, they say that it does not affect your ability to consent.

Now, in other jurisdictions where I live in Illinois. There are cases where, if you are too intoxicated to consent, then consent is not an option.

So the the jurisdictions are different in the way that they apply these laws and the types of laws that they have.

So in this case, voluntary intoxication does not mean that you cannot consent and that you have to be there. Specific language that you have to be unable to communicate your you know lack of desire. You have to be incapacitated, is the term.

So, New York, Donna, what's the next step? Because you had two things: Glatisia James is going to assign somebody to investigate this. At the same time, you have a civil suit moving forward, and now we have a bunch of former students, Cornell students, lawyering up. One of which was name was exposed. Had nothing to do with this.

He was Marine, who was a member of the fraternity, but wasn't even there. But his name was out there, and he's getting threats.

So where where does this where does this case go?

So you're right. There's a bunch of different things happening here all at once. There's this civil lawsuit that was filed, and all of these young men that are named in this case will have to lawyer up, and they will have to fight this lawsuit in in court.

Now, remember, the civil standard is lower in the burden of proof than it is in criminal court, and so quite often you can see a finding of liability in a civil court because you're basically looking at 51 percent versus 49, which is not. The standard in criminal court, so you can have two very different findings if there are two separate cases happening. You also have this investigation happening now. Here is my problem with the investigation: not only that it's being led by Tis James, but the AG's office is really not an office that normally investigates sexual assault.

So what I do hope is that somebody on that staff has experience, maybe as a former state crimes prosecutor, that actually knows what they're looking. For in these cases, because this is not the type of crime that the AG normally investigates, so I'm I'm a little worried about that as well. I'm also worried about now if all of this conversation and public discourse is going to be the motivating factor as to charging. And I just I just would hope that the system itself could stay as neutral as possible to do the right thing. And if the right thing is charging these young men, then that's what should happen.

But if you charge them only based on the pressure that's happening in the public arena, I have a real problem with that. Yeah, I just hope everyone understands. After the Duke case, you're not doing yourself any favors jumping conclusions either side. And this Duke is not the only one. I mean, Brian, I've been doing this work for a long time now.

I do a lot of sexual assault cases, and I can prove more times than not that. People have lied, and it's very disheartening. And everyone thinks that you know I have this view, or I don't believe women. That is not true at all. That is not true at all.

But what I will say is that many times I have handled cases where we can prove with evidence that people have lied and have falsified these types of allegations. I mean, look at the Johnny Depp case.

Okay, now Johnny Depp, of course, was only civil, but the world watched that play out, and once they heard the evidence. They had a very different view of the facts than they did going into that case. Absolutely, Donna Rotunno. Check her out on Fox News on Fox Nation. She's got a show, Crime and Justice with Donna Rotunno, which is your podcast, and then of course your Fox Nation show every single day.

Donna, thanks so much. When we come back, your calls one eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine, and then we tell you about what's happening with Iran. Really encouraging things. I'll explain. Don't go anywhere.

Brian Kilmeade will be right back. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Some people leave concerts with merch, and I leave concerts with a two and a half year relationship. But I have really good friends.

They don't judge me for dating these men. They're actually really supportive. My literal therapist. I'm not your therapist. Actually, you just you just show up once a week at my house with a empty bottle of wine and ask if I want some.

Yeah, well, I have manners. And then you flop on my couch and overshare, and every so often I just say, "Damn, that's that's crazy." Is that not a therapist? And then I go, "Well, you know, oh, it's getting late. I should probably go to bed." And and and then you say, "Sleepover, yay!" And then I give you a pedialyte, and my security drives you home.

So that was you don't recognize it. That was Taylor Swift joining with Dakota Johnson on SNL monologue. Really, I didn't even recognize the voice. Yeah, Taylor Swift surprised everyone. I tuck out some of the cheers because it would have gone on much longer.

But yes, it was entertaining. It was honestly one of the more entertaining parts of the show. Right, I mean, I couldn't believe how bad the one was last week. Yeah, it was like last week's cold open. At least was I think slightly better than this week's, though.

Believe it or not, just slanted. I mean, they have a political agenda as much as as Jimmy Kimmel as as a political agenda.

Now Howard Stern has a political agenda. Yes. And Robert De Niro over the weekend he came out against Trump. I did not even know he was against Trump. Really caught me by surprise.

Seriously. Yeah, he's and he says to keep the vote of New York pure. But I know Donald Trump is going to Syracuse. He's going to be helping out Bruce Blakeman there, and it looks like Zell Ramey Donny's going to help out Governor Hochul in New York City. But every time he appears with Hochul, it hurts him.

Every hurts her other places. Yeah, upstate. Question for you though: Did you see Steve Hilton's controversial ad? No. Oh, it's uncomfortable.

Really? We can maybe play at the last segment here, but I guarantee you, we didn't pull it because you will probably you will be squirming. You'll be very uncomfortable listening to it.

Okay. What a tease! I also saw that Ken Paxton's ex-wife. Yes. Even though they're suing each other publicly, and the most, she basically said, "Still vote Republican." Yeah, she doesn't mention his name.

Correct. She's she's not a fan of him, but she still thinks going Republican will be better for the country. Vote Republican across the ticket, she said. That'll help. And then Ken Paxton called again off mike, complaining that Washington's running his campaign that he's not running it.

What is with this whiny, lazy guy? But you should still vote GOP. That's what she says. That's what she said. Back in a moment.

He's so busy he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. Everyone, Brian Kilmeade, welcome back, everybody. I'm. It's great to have you back with us.

And we got to talk about what's happening overseas, but I first want to talk about what happened with that would-be hijacking with that Israeli jet, excuse me, the UAE jet.

So it's it's trying to get over to Ben Gurion Airport, but as you know, the co-pilot decides to grab an axe and hit the back of the head of the pilot, and they start wrestling in the cockpit. As they're wrestling in the cockpit, the door gets open once he got closed by the co-pilot, then he opens it again. Can you imagine getting an axe in the head and still saying, "Man, this plane"? Is going to go down unless and these people are all going to die unless I find a way to get that door open. And when the door open, the people have to know there's something wrong.

They see the blood. They jump in. A plumber saves the day. Two pilots or four pilots end up being on the plane. They end up flying the plane even though it's damaged, studying it out and getting into Saudi Arabian airport.

Then it turns out the 26 year old co pilot is actually radicalized, and they knew it in Oman. That's where he's from.

So they wouldn't let him in. Flight school, but somehow he's allowed to fly this plane. Australia also knew about him. Joining us now to discuss this is Nira Kraus, Nira Kraus. She's an Israeli journalist, and she talked.

She got this story right away. Talked immediately to the passengers. Nira, welcome back. Thank you so much for having me, Brian. All right.

First off, one of the craziest things is how many other co-pilots have gotten thrown out of flight school because they are linked to some radical Islam that we don't know about.

So that's such a crazy story because also dozens of money. Pilots have flown into Israel without the Israeli authorities checking their backgrounds, and eventually there is a whole story here that is being unrevealed because of this crazy attempt to eject the plane. Because apparently Israeli authorities were not doing their job necessary their necessary job in checking the backgrounds of the pilots that are coming into Israel. Because apparently Fly Dubai did transfer the. Information of the pilots ahead of the flight, but the authorities did not check it, and now there is like a huge blame game in Israeli in the Israeli government.

So the UAE did the right thing. The UAE did the right thing by sending the info of the pilots to Israel, but according to the agreement between the UAE and Israel, apparently the UAE was not even supposed to have an Emiri pilot on this flight, on any flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv or from Tel Aviv to Dubai, because the agreement is that you can only do it with allies of Israel, with pilots who are coming from nationality of Israeli Eli. Which actually makes sense because you don't want to have politics involved in being a pilot of a plane. And apparently, Fly Dubai did have Omani pilots flying planes—dozens of them, by the way, Brian. I'm not talking about one or two; dozens of.

Of specific flights that were flown by Omani citizens, and by the way, this is not to blame the Omani government for that because the Omanis are also trying to, you know, push themselves out of this situation. They were not sending. This is what they're claiming. They were not sending this pilot to do that. But eventually, when you look at this delicate situation in the Middle East, you must understand that those nationalities are—they have so much conflict and and and and you know, discussions and discourses.

Different nationalities, and this is why airlines should just do their work in not having different nationalities that are not allies of specific countries being flying. You know, having them to fly those planes, but eventually they did have. Omani pilots on flights to Israel and from Israel, but the main gap here, the main breach, is that the Israeli authorities did get. This is what we found out during the weekend, and I know that from my sources. The Ministry of Transportation in Israel did get the info of these pilots, but they didn't even check the background.

Although Israeli authorities should have done that, and also you know the Mossad should have been involved in the Shin Bet. This is a regular thing. That should have happened mainly, you know. After nine eleven, America began to have these really important rules in terms of who can fly a plane, who can be in charge of, you know, one hundred and seventy passengers. For some reason, in Israel, there was a breach there, and eventually, it ended.

You know, with such a miracle, but it could have ended completely differently. Yes, so you have to wonder where where this goes from here and how this adds to everything. And when just the bigger question is: Is Iran linked to it at all? Are they investigating that portion of this?

So of course that was the main thing that Israel wanted to investigate at the very beginning. They did not find a specific linkage to Iran. They did find some empathy that this pilot El Hamami has portrayed to Al Qaeda and other terror organizations. They did find that in social media, by the way, was pretty you know out there with those opinions. About like terror organizations and the liking of them, but when you look into the details in his investigation, according to my sources, he told the investigators that he was when he was looking for a job, he was specifically looking to work in an airline that would fly to Tel Aviv.

By the way, he also had opportunities in the past to do that. This is not the first time. He had flown to Tel Aviv, but he changed his mind when he had the last chance to do that. Thanks God, by the way, because we we can know what would have happened with different people on this airplane. Because you had this hero Indian pilot, Captain Smith Machar, and you had those group of specific people on this airplane that were able to, in in in you know, in a few seconds, they were able to save the situation and and to take.

Control of the situation, but you can know you you can never know what would have happened.

So he had the chance to do that before, and he didn't do that. But he was plotting on on the it was planning on doing that. I want you to hear. Yeah, I want to hear. I want you to hear from the pilot.

Here's here's him talking about what happened. Cut twenty five. I did try and manage to open the door once, but I think he shut it back close. At this point, I remember I was lying down. On the cockpit floor, I felt the aircraft and the whooshing sound and people screaming.

And as I was telling the ambassador here, I had that one last fight left in me. That you know, call it personal or call it for people, but let's say I did it. That if I don't do it, I'm gonna die. And that's when I pushed against everything. I gave everything that I had.

It is incredible. He had an axe in the head, and he's still able to say, "I'm going to open the door twice." It's unbelievable because he was first of all fighting him, and then I'm gonna open the door, as you're saying. But also, he explained that he was not even he was not able to see anything. His vision was blurred, so he was not able to see what he was doing. But he had this instinct of you know pulling his hand and trying to open that open that buckle there, and he was successfully doing it for the second time, and then what?

Yaniv Chayun, the the guy that I interviewed, the plumber, as the President Trump called him. By the way, he's a huge fan of President Trump. I should say that as well. Yaniv Chayun. When I called him, it was immediately.

He he. I'm a journalist here in the United States, and I and I work for Israeli media, so they they know me there.

So he was immediately telling me how much he likes President Trump.

So just in case, you know, the President I know, he likes your work.

So Yaniv Chayun loves President Trump.

So. Anyhow, Yaniv Chayun, he was rushing into the cockpit while the the pilot, Captain Smith Machar, was able to open the door for the second time. This is unbelievable! How heroic what he's done there. Also realizing that there are people that are coming to try and help him.

And I, by the way, spoke to his uncle. This morning, and he told me that he he spoke with his nephew, of course, and he said he did his best and he succeeded. And he said, as we understand right now, he's out of danger, out of the woods, is getting better and better, and he'll be back home soon. And he said that. Captain Smith Mather feels that his prayers, Captain Mather prays every night before he goes to bed.

So he prayed this specific chance to Lord Hanuman. This is what his uncle told me, Hanumanji.

So he did this prayer, and he feels like it got him stronger. And then he managed to to do that as well.

So he had all those thoughts during. I want to bring up another topic, and that is the New York Times today writes that in Iran. Is really massive unrest. There's been an oil minister resignation. He was warning about how bad things were getting, and he has resigned on Sunday.

The president talked about a worsening economic conditions, and Iran's national security adviser warned that the rapidly deteriorating economy has plunged the country into one of the most difficult periods in its history. It looks like this stranglehold is working. What do you hear?

So this is, I think, what President Trump had predicted. He spoke about that possibility that their sort of strangling the the Iranian economy would work out, and we see that for a while now. We see this is a long process of Iran basically losing its economy and and and having their their coin their coin becoming less and less valuable. And the people of Iran, you can you can tell that by the way they act. They try to to also say that on social.

Media, they realize that the economy is becoming much and much worth. Their their living there is so expensive, much more than I would say a year and a half ago, but also six months ago. And this was President Trump's plan alongside Minister Bassand that he was trying to take the situ, the economy situation of Iran, and put that in in in you know that was the target that that is the main. Main target now. He's also, of course, working on the Strait of Hormuz, but he's also trying to strangle their economy.

And from what I've been hearing from sources in the Middle East, the government, the Iranian government, has been starting to feel it more and more intense in a more intense way in the past few weeks than it was before, and they feel it. In the oil, but they also feel it in different aspects of life, and you can tell it by by. No one's getting paid. It's really—I mean, not not anyone, but like a lot of people are not being paid. It's really hard for them to put food on the table.

It's really hard for them to buy something because even if they get paid, the coin is worth less and less.

So it's really hard for Iranians to keep on living that way, and the government is not really helping in relieving that situation for the citizens because they're trying to also keep, you know, their the the the governmental money for their power for their army loading so this entire situation is bringing Iran to the verge of of of sort of a collapse an economical collapse in Iran but I think that it's too early to say whether they'll be they will actually they would actually collapse from that situation I can tell you that Israeli sources you know Israel the Israeli government they're wishful that it would help But they are also trying to push President Trump into trying to bomb them again. And and if I can just add, Brian, in twenty in in twenty two days there is elections in there are elections in Israel.

So yep, matters a lot. Neria Krauss, thanks so much. Back in a moment. Thank you. It's Brian Kilmeade.

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So, what was that about?

So, it's the Steve Hilton that's getting quite the controversy, in that it's like two girls. There's like this big. Trans flag in the background, and basically, it's alluding to the fact like she's just gonna try being with a girl. But the reality is, she's having her fill in the ballot for Steve Hilton to be a Republican, not vote Democrat. Oh my God!

Yes, you want to hear? There's a pastor in California who had a reaction to it. Yeah, let's hear it. Whose decision was that to make that grotesque, insensitive? And maybe it's unknown to them, but an issue regarding lesbianism among college girls and some high school girls—that is, an abs right now—is an actual pandemic of social ill.

Do you guys believe that this is a battle between good and evil? Because I do, and I'm not going to hold it against Steve regarding who put out this video. Yes, I'm voting for Steve Hilton. I'm not going to judge him with this stupid ad. It was stupid.

I mean, it got it. It got a lot of people talking. I will say that. We'll see how it does. Like right now in the polls, right?

It's up and down, right? No, you think he's down by twelve? Yeah. So it's he needed the attention, right? He needs something to spice things up.

Apparently, just can't believe it doesn't really fly with him. Does it? I mean, I mean it. I guess in some way they they thought it was going to win some sort of constituency by putting it out. All right.

So some other wacky stuff. Robert De Niro on a Trump Trump's terrible hands off our ballot rally. Listen, cut seventeen. When Trump's Department of Justice threatens election officials, demands voter rolls, and seizes ballots, what do we say to them? Hands off our vote.

When masked and armed, ice thugs stalk our polling places. What do we say to them? Keep your hands off our vote. He's a genius, right? This is why they write scripts for him.

This is what he came up with. I know he couldn't be more. Trump is not even looking at New York. He Bruce Blakeman is New York. He's not even playing a role in New York.

What is he even talking about? Good question, but I mean, he's getting the coverage right by going out there. I don't know. So the other controversial is Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton says Washington's really running my campaign, and he also said the RNC midterm convention didn't help me.

Well, the RNC is running your campaign, or excuse me, Washington's running your campaign because you seem incapable of doing it. But one vote he did get was for Randy White, the Cowboys legend. Listen to this, cut fifteen. This other guy, I don't know him, so but I hear what he says, and that's different from what I believe. Do you believe that James Talerico is too woke?

Yes. I don't want to go into each specific thing, but yeah, I mean, he is not—he's different than what what I think is right, and that's why I'm here today. We can't have this guy be in Texas. Are you kidding me? If this guy gets elected in Texas, I'm gonna pull my hair out, and I don't have many left.

So we got to get out and vote, and so this doesn't happen. Yep, that's Randy White.

So he's got some tradition. A lot of people think that these Republicans, if they don't stay home, will give Pincan backs in the victory. The thing that could do it is that they feel discouraged and won't. And a lot of people feel as though the Hispanic votes in jeopardy for the President United States to capitalize on the redistricting because they said an overzealousness in arrests on the illegal immigrants.

Now it wasn't, you know, they went beyond worse first.

So that's what people worry about, and that's what people are saying that people worry about on the right that they went too far. I think that there was some incidents that go on. I think it's a combination of things. When you see someone's illegal and they're a criminal, you go get them. And when they're hanging out with other people here illegally, you grab them too.

And then there's others that you grab because they don't show up at any of their hearings. They're illegal. ICE knows it. They can target them and get them out. They're getting them out by the thousands.

It's going to allow comprehensive legal immigration to happen. Just keep in mind, "United States." My brand new book comes out eight days from today. You can pre-order it now at BrianKilmeade.com. Also, get a signed copy and personalized. It goes to my local Barnes and Noble.

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