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So there's so much going on today, October 7th. You think of the horrific attacks in Israel from Gaza from Hamas and what has happened since three years ago. Do you believe it? Three years ago helped to the Middle East on its head. I mean, we also had the midterm elections, nonstop intrigue.

I'm going to go through that this hour. We're going to be joined by Rich Lowry too. Then Mark Teese and break down some of the midterm elections. That's going to be in this hour. Also, we have Marco Rubio, who's going to be going over to Greece, where democracy was really founded, and he's going to be giving a prolific speech, by all accounts, rerooting our focus on what democracy brings, how communism fails, socialism's a joke, and what we where our doc where it came from, what our founding fathers did to formulate our Declaration of Independence, but most importantly, the Constitution, where they reach to it, really is in Greece, and that's why the that's why the Secretary of State is going to be giving a speech there.

And I just know he probably wrote the whole thing himself, because this is what he imbues. This is what what drives him.

So we'll talk about that. And also talk about what's happening with the Cornell case today because it's endlessly intriguing. It puts the fraternity system on trial. It puts politics on trial. It puts the law on trial in New York State with this alleged gang rape that took place.

And two years later, do you go back and take those former students and do you take their degrees away? You put them. You put them in jeopardy criminally. And why is Latisha James doing they? Why is Latisha James actually?

Doing the investigation. I mean, she has no experience in doing this. He's already said the woman's innocent, and these guys are all guilty, basically, to paraphrase. But to begin with, I think we should really start with October seventh and what has changed. Before October seventh, our country was moving towards.

Excuse me, the Middle East was moving towards. The Abraham Accords. It looked like Saudi Arabia, with Joe Biden as president, then without using the word Abraham Accords because Trump used it. They were trying to get Saudi Arabia involved. Saudi Arabia told Saudi Arabia's MBS, the the prince in charge, told Brett, "We're looking to get normalized relations with Israel." It would have just been the ripple effect.

The whole region would have accepted Israel, and then October seventh happens. Everything goes crazy.

Now. Israel lived every day with the threat in the north of Hezbollah. Israel lived every day with the threat of Hamas in Gaza. Israel lived for a while until Assad was overthrown with the threat in Syria because you had Hezbollah spreading out there, militias forming there, always looking to take out Israel. That was that was the motherload for them.

But after they killed twelve hundred innocent people, literally, they were aimed for innocent. It was up for Israel to to turn up the heat and take out Hamas or their entire leadership, and at the same time knew that Hezbollah attacks were coming, and they indeed came, cleared the whole north of the country, and they did the beepers and the pagers and flat out intelligence, killed Nasserella, but a lot of people decide to make Israel the bad guy in all this since.

So here's Brett McGurk, who wrote a great book. In the middle of reading it now, we probably have him on this show. Worked for four presidents, Democrats and Republicans. He was working for Biden at the time. And here he talked about October 7th and what his conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu was all about.

Cut 23. He's you know already gotten on the phone with Netanyahu, and Netanyahu says one thing to him on that day. He says, Joe. In the Middle East, if you're weak, you're roadkill, and they think we're weak. And what he meant was not only the horrific events going on from Hamas, but Hezbollah got thirty thousand troops in the north and Iran, and this very real concern that this was not a one-off attack.

It was kind of the first of another shoe's about to drop, and that's what we're then dealing with in that in that first week. Yeah, Israel's prime minister. President Isaac Herzog weighed in. Cut twenty-one. We want peace.

We want peace with our neighbors. We did not seek that war. It was waged upon us by horrific, barbaric terrorists. We went out to fight, and we changed the root of the Middle East with our heroic fighters. And all the rest is bashing and attacking around us, all over the place, blaming Israel for all the faults.

But the truth of the matter is that Israel is protecting the West and the free world by its activities. It's a hundred percent true, and one day you'll realize this. I'm not sure why you don't. I'm not saying you, but people around you, because of TikTok and this international push to vilify Israel. All I have to tell you is, on October seventh, the day after the attacks, Israel hadn't done one thing in retaliation yet, and there were protests against Israel on college campuses here in New York City and on the streets.

Two of these people protesting are likely to be congresswomen from New York in the next cycle. What did Israel do to warrant an attack from a terror group? Nothing. They gave them Gaza. They gave them some freedom.

They're allowed to work into Israel. Tons of money. They built tunnels. What did Hamas do? Build fortresses.

What did Egypt do? Say that place is a mess. I'm putting up a wall. You can't get out, and because of that, it ended up not being like Syria. Syria was brutal.

Not one person protesting against Syria, but because Syrians could leave to Turkey and Jordan and Europe, millions. I'm talking about 15 million left.

So when innocent people in Gaza did not want to be targeted. Egypt said, "You're not. We're not lifting the wall. Don't even ask." When they asked, when the Biden administration said, "Hey, can you let some refugees in?" They said, "Don't even ask again." The answer is no. We do not want the Palestinians in our country.

To Jordan, we do not want the Palestinians in our country. The entire region didn't want the Palestinians in the country. They don't like them, and they certainly hate Hamas.

So when we go after Hamas, excuse me, Israel's go after Hamas, they have to push people to the left, push people to the right, and they have to get into the tunnels, which are underneath hospitals, schools, and playgrounds. It was an impossible situation, and yes, innocent people died, but I have to say none were targeted. That's why it's never genocide. Here's Brett McGurk, a twenty-two. Just trying to figure out what was happening.

It came, I described it as coming together in jagged pieces. You're seeing what's in the social media. You're seeing open sources. You're seeing a lot of intelligence information, very unclear. But what's clear by late morning, completely unprecedented event.

Started with rockets. We got news of rockets, and then the incursions, which we now know over a dozen points in the in the border, about thousands of Hamas, very well organized assault. And when I finally saw, I walked in the Oval Office about late morning, and President Biden looked very pale. Yeah, and Biden said, "I'm going to go and visit. I'm going to visit the entire region.

I'm going to go to Jordan. I'm going to go to Saudi Arabia. Not Saudi Arabia, excuse me, Egypt, and I'm going to go to Israel." Then there was a. Alleged attack that Israel was blamed on at a hospital, and the whole world went in flames. Turns out Israel didn't do it.

It was a misfired Hamas rocket that shot at a hospital. Israel got blamed, but because of that, the Jordan King said, "Don't come." And because of that, the Egyptian president said, "Don't come." Israel kills innocent people. I don't want you coming over because you're perceived to be on Israel's side.

So Joe Biden said, "How did I get myself into this mess?" Brett McGurk comes back and says, "You're the one who brought it up. You're the one who said I'm going to come visit," and he did. I do want to talk about the midterms too before we get to our our peace. With Mark Teeson, and that is Texas. Texas is front and center.

Why is Texas even close? Why is Ken Paxton even losing? Talo Rico can speak well, has backtracked on almost all his policies, and the people of Texas are being duped. This guy's as left wing radical as anyone that would run in California. Cornyn would have been the would have been the candidate that everybody liked in the Senate, and most people liked in Texas.

Some conservatives, MAGA movement, don't like him. I'm one of the people that saw nothing but class and experience and leadership, fundraising ability. Ken Paxton, really good Attorney General, very loyal to Trump, very MAGA. Got it. Probably would be a good, really good, really good senator.

But and he beat. Senator Cornyn, even without Trump's endorsement, that's the fact. But then he got lazy. He's not even campaigning. He's not good on the stump.

He's not good fighting for his own case.

Now he's got caught complaining about Trump's RNC that was there, and he's complaining about that Washington's really running. Washington's really running his campaign. He has no say. What a whiner! But it's real close.

It's too close to call. But Michigan's the most intriguing race, and it's the scariest because this Abdul Elsayed is is lying about everything. Medicare for all. People only care about gas prices. What about your radical views?

What about your appearance with socialists? What about your endorsement of AOC? What about your endorsement of AOC? What about your endorsement of Bernie Sanders? Would they even endorse you if you weren't a socialist?

And here he is with Martha, or continuing to say Hassan Piker. Doesn't define me. Hassan Piker is responsible for you. That's a fact. Cut sixteen.

This campaign was never about a streamer in California. This campaign was always about the price of gas and groceries, whether or not you could see a doctor when you get sick in the United States. I know every time I have a conversation here that he's going to come up, and the question is not about a relationship I got with a streamer in California. There is not a relationship. The reason I have a conversation with him is the same reason I have a conversation with you.

Because I want to talk to the folks out here who I want to have a conversation with.

So he's allowed to get away with that. We just come back and say you appeared on his show ten times. This is what he said about you. This is what he just said about you. He further says I'm going to let him distance himself, but he knows basically who's in his corner.

Here he is again talking about Pike or Cut Seventeen. Stop asking me about a streamer in California. He's a streamer. Hassan Blakker is a streamer. This campaign is not about a streamer in California.

A streamer in California. A streamer in California. A social media person in California. A social media person California. A Twitch streamer in California.

A streamer in California. Streamer in California. A streamer in California. A Twitch streamer in California. Twitch streamers in California.

Streamers in California. Twitch streamer. A streamer in California. A streamer in California. Yeah, that streamer's got millions of views, and without whom you would not even be a legitimate candidate.

So, when we come back, I talked to Mark Teixeira on Fox and Friends. I thought the segment was really good.

So, I want to bring the whole thing back in its entirety. He breaks down three of the races that are most intriguing, and Republicans fighting to keep it places like Nebraska, stunning, Kansas, stunning, and for the Democrats, they're defending Minnesota. It's nuts, crazy time. Brian Kilmeade, so so glad you're here. In a busy Wednesday, don't move.

It's Brian Kilmeade. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmeade. Yeah, I'm looking at the power rankings that Fox put out, and it really makes it interesting. We've never seen anything like this. I mean, it could the Republicans could hold on to the Senate and the House, and they could lose both because so many states are in play.

Like, whoever thought if you're a Democrat, Minnesota would be in play? Whoever thought if you're a Republican, Kansas would be in play, or or Arkansas? But that's just some of the intriguing things that are going on. The new power rankings are out. We're going to go over it in detail.

North Carolina, it seems like Republicans have given up on that, and in you know South Carolina, the Republicans can't give up on that because Lindsey Graham's sister. They can't give up on Arkansas, as I mentioned. They can't. They can actually say they got a legitimate shot in New Hampshire. And Michigan, Michigan, especially.

If you saw Mike Rogers yesterday, you see how formidable he is. And I'll say, the more more comments that he makes, more interviews he does, the hostility in which he brings, and the disingenuousness in which he comes out with his statements, pretending not to be a socialist. I mean, if I am in Michigan, come on. You have two. You put in Republican governors there before.

You haven't put a senator into the Senate from Michigan since '96. But Rogers, military, FBI—really not big Trump, not big Bush. He's his own Republican, and he's even got his son serving right now.

So to me, he represents Michigan, but it's up to the people. We'll see.

Now I cut up to Mark Teeson on Fox and Friends today, and I wanted to bring back the interview. And keep in mind, there's a little bit of a visual with it, and you see the numbers. But essentially, these are the states in play. Here's my interview.

So, President Trump is ramping up his midterm blitz big time. Stopping in Texas today again, marking less than four weeks until Election Day. This comes as Fox News's power rankings are now out. Everybody's talking about it. They show Democrats playing defense, with the potential to see upsets in Minnesota, New Hampshire, in Oregon.

Meanwhile, Republicans could face some close races. Same thing. Red dominates, like Arkansas, with Tom Cotton, in Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina is still likely, but still, it's it's a good contest. And South Dakota. Here to break it down, some of these potential upsets is Fox News contributor Mark Teason.

Mark, first off, how is this happening? How is Kansas this close? It's remarkable. This is this is one of the most Republican states in the in the in the country, and in the Senate, no Democrat has won since 1932 when FDR was president. That is that it is.

Donald Trump won this state by 16 points in 2024. He won it by 20 points in 2016, and yet right now, Roger Marshall is down by three points in the New York. Time, Sienna Poll, and it it is a nail biter for Republicans. He's an impactful senator, you know. He's not somebody who's sitting on his hands, so I really find that surprising.

But the president will go there and look to motivate his base because that's going to be the key.

So let's move on and talk about this race.

So Michelle Tafuya against Lieutenant Governor Flanagan. Peggy Flanagan's got some problems. She's trying to put them all on Tim Walz, but the massive fraud is. Really taking the people of Minnesota off. Plus, Michelle Tafoy is an excellent candidate.

Yeah, and she's not a politician. She is a she's a very well known sportscaster. And again, this in in a what's remarkable about how well she's doing is that in an election when Kansas is actually a swing state, the idea that that Minnesota, which is one of the bluest states, I mean, Minnesota has voted Democrat in thirteen straight presidential elections. It's the longest streak in the history of the country. There's not another state that that has that kind of a streak.

This is the State that gave us Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar, and it's it's she's she's doing well because one simple word: the F word, fraud. Right. She is tying Flanagan to this Somali fraud scandal in which hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen by from the from the taxpayers, and Democrats may pay a price for that. We'll see.

I have not seen a poll that has her less than two points down.

So I mean, more than two. Down and I want to take out this race too.

So why is Senator Ricketts is being challenged by independent Dan Osborne? Is he? This is likely GOP. How do you view it? I mean, it's it shouldn't be even in on the in our discussion.

We shouldn't be talking about Nebraska, but he's down by one to four points, one to three points in in a number of polls. And again, it's a like Kansas, Nebraska is a farm state, so there's there's a you know the price of fertilizer, the price of diesel fuel, the tariffs are very unpopular with American farmers. And again, if if there's a blue Then this this could be in play. If it's it's likely that Ricketts is going to win, but the fact that President Trump is going to have to campaign in Nebraska in the closing days of a midterm election is pretty stunning.

So, as John Harbaugh likes to say, just get the win. Doesn't matter how it looks. Get the win should be the GOP focus, and of course, the Democrats have history on their side. Take quick look at the map. Likely, GOP is the dark red.

Solid GOP is the dark red. Likely is slightly, slightly lighter, and of course, the battlegrounds everywhere. I cannot believe I'm saying Texas. We didn't have a chance to talk about Michigan and New Hampshire, but they arguably will be as good as races any in the country. Thanks so much, Mark Teese.

Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian.

So, look, we didn't go over. We didn't get a chance to jump into New Hampshire. And really heavily, and we didn't take a chance getting to Michigan at all. But that argument could be even more intriguing. Oregon's a big surprise, huge surprise.

We'll see what's going to happen. Could there be a wave? They just pisses. I'm so mad about diesel prices. I'm so mad about gas prices.

But if you could see what the president's doing because of that, and know it's temporary, my sense is people see the big picture because nothing's going to go down when Democrats get in. They don't drill at all. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade show. Can you clarify?

Are you a member of the DSA? Is that why you support Medicare for all? Just so voters are clear on where you stand. I support Medicare for all, so that people that I know across the state have healthcare. I mean, it's the worst thing in the world for somebody to lay there at night, not know what's happening to them, what's not what is happening, the pain in their chest, and and be afraid to go and get the services that they need because they know they can't afford it, and they can't afford the drugs that you know big farmers charge.

So that is Troy Jackson in a debate with Susan Collins, saying. People lying in their bed at night heed health care. That's why I want Medicare for all. As soon as somebody tells you I want Medicare for all, just know they are unserious and never looked at the math. It'll cost almost two thirds of the entire budget before we pay on interest on the debt.

And guess who's going to be angry about it? The people that are being served with it, sixty five and up. Rich Larry knows this. Out of National Review, Rich, and you know who else knows that? Hakeem Jeffries.

You know, else knows that Chuck Schumer Medicare for all doesn't work.

So why are we letting him get away with it? That's Troy Jackson last night. Yeah.

So this is a key. If Republicans are going to limit their their losses, is just hitting those kind of ideas hard. It's a discredited idea, as you point out, ruinously expensive, would be hugely disruptive to everyone's healthcare arrangements. And we had a debate about this, you know, four or five years ago, and the Medicare for all people lost as they should have. But you have A lot of these candidates around the country talking about it.

So making the Democrats unacceptable—that's the key to limiting Republican losses this year. Right. I know it's going to be tough. You don't know. You don't know whether to believe the polling anywhere, or certainly in Maine, given what happened last time around.

Collins outperformed her polling, you know, by double digits, but that one's looking real close. Here's what Susan Collins said about that. Cut eleven. I have to respond to that because it's just not true. I have never voted to cut the Medicaid program.

Never. I have never voted to cut Medicare. I've voted to expand the Medicare program so that it would cover more services. What? What Troy is proposing is for big government to take over the entire healthcare service.

I don't think that works well. I also would mention that I was a decisive vote to retain the Affordable Care Act. And you don't have to remind President Trump about that. Yeah, is that the retort you wanted? Yeah.

Yeah, look, it works in Maine. She she has forged an independent political brand there. You just listen to that clip. If you knew nothing about her, you think, wait a minute, this is a good politician. But she is a really good politician.

She's a fit for her state and. If there's anyone who's going to be a survivor this year, it's Susan Collins. I think so too. I'm optimistic about that race from her perspective. When it comes to Michigan, it's a I'm not sure what's going on there because I look at Rogers.

He's he'd be the perfect answer for Michigan. He's not big magga, you know. He's got a military background, understands that he's not in a red state necessarily, and yet he's having a real tough time without Bill Saeed, who now claims to be making it. When people claim to be something they're not, and that is a capitalist, listen to him try to distance himself again from Hassan Piker, who we know is his spiritual animal. Who says I propelled him?

He came to me for direction and momentum, and I gave it to him on my platform. Cut nineteen. This campaign was never about a streamer in California. This campaign was always about the price of gas and groceries. Whether or not you could see a doctor when you get sick in the United States, I know every time I.

Have a conversation here that he's going to come up, and the question is not about a relationship I got with a streamer in California. There's not a relationship. The reason I have a conversation with him is the same reason I have a conversation with you, because I want to talk to the folks out here who. I want to have a conversation with, and he's talking to Martha. But it's remarkable.

He didn't ask Martha to campaign with him. He didn't ask Martha to campaign with him. You know, he keeps on saying streamer in California, but he was in Michigan for a reason, right? Because Al Sayed wanted him out there and shares core beliefs with the guy. Problem in Michigan, though, is going to be a tough year for Republicans overall.

Midterms like this always are. It's a blue state, and Al Sayed, although he's a radical, I find him stomach turning. He has a personality, you know. He has some appeal. Jesse Waters, even after that interview with him next day, said, "I kind of like the guy." So I think Rogers has an uphill climb there.

Unfortunately.

So let's go over to Minnesota. Here's Peggy Flanagan talking about what a tough time she's having. With well, she is having a tough time. Michelle Tafoya, cut twenty-five. We know exactly what Michelle Tafoya is.

She is a mega Republican who is lockstep with Donald Trump on literally everything. Look, she's a former sideline reporter, very knowledgeable. She's proven that over the last five years since she left sports. But people of Minnesota. Seem to really like her.

Yeah, there's no substitute for that in politics, and she's made it unexpectedly close. And this is one of the weird dynamics this year. You look at Michigan, you know, and I would say Roger's probably underdog at the moment, but he has a real shot to win. You look at Minnesota; you'd think a state there's, you know, it should be a 15 point lead. It's not.

But then you look at red states that you would think would naturally just easily. For Republicans, and they're tied or a little bit behind, so it's a weird dynamic. With the blue states are tougher than Democrats would have expected, but Republicans are in more trouble in in deep red states than they would have thought.

So, out of Arkansas, Nebraska, and Texas, what worries you the most for a Democrat from the Republican perspective? Texas, excuse me, Texas. I still kind of think Paxton is going to win, but he has a lot of baggage. Obviously, he's He's just not a good politician. He's not out there.

You have all these tapes of him whining for why he's doing so poorly. Yeah, and that's really the keystone because if if Telesco wins there, the map unlocks for Democrats. It gets much easier if Republicans can hold Maine, which we were just talking about, and Texas. Then you really got it. You know, you got to get a semi-Democratic sweep in like Iowa and and Kansas, Ohio, Alaska.

Maybe that could happen, but it's much harder.

So Texas. Is really the one we should be watching closely, and it's not—it's not highly encouraging at the moment.

So you know the Fed's going to be chiming in today, but right now we're—he says Kevin Walsh—we're almost at full employment at four point two percent. You know the poverty level is at a rate that we haven't seen in sixty years, and then you have growth. We have the growth is gone up than we originally projected. But what you have is high gas and diesel. Do you think that is the the hardest thing for Republicans to overcome?

Yeah, it's a prices election clearly, and and that's that's the big problem because tariffs at the margin have increased prices. Obviously, gas and diesel are up at the moment, and you have all the Biden inflation baked into to prices people experience at the grocery store and elsewhere.

So, so if if it's a wipeout, that that's going to be the reason why. And as as you know, it's it's kind of weird, right? Because every other economic indicator is fantastic, but this one. Is really important to people. Real wages, you know, not just is your paycheck more, but does it buy you more at the pump and at the grocery store?

Matters a lot to people, and every poll slashing red on this, that people are really upset about it.

So here's the president yesterday cut one.

Well, I don't know exactly. When you look at the American voters, we're doing better. We're taking in trillions of dollars of investment. We have more jobs. You know, more people are working in America today than at any time in history.

The poverty rate is the best it's ever been in terms of individual. That includes African American, Asian American, Hispanic American poverty rate is the single best poverty rate, meaning lowest poverty rate we've ever had. The in Individual rate on individual people are making more money than they've ever made, and if you take a look around, we have more jobs right now in the United States of America than at any time in the history of our country.

So it's frustrating for him, and he's just looking to max out the vote. And what I thought was interesting is Senator Thune seems, you know, relative, and also they say South Dakota is in problem, but he's the Senator Thune seems reluctant to put money into Minnesota.

So I want you to comment on the president, and then that.

Well, I think that the president's message there is great, except for prices. You know, that that's that's the problem. But otherwise, the economy is going firing on all cylinders. I don't know. Whether I'd reach and I haven't talked to people about this, I don't have a great view.

Whether I'd reach in in Minnesota or I'd spend everything I could on on defense, maybe maybe the latter. But they should obviously be emptying out everything they got because this is a thing that could make a difference. If there's a bit of a polling error, you know that could hold the Senate for them. Or if there's a tilt at the end, that could hold the Senate for them. Or if this this money makes a difference, and they just got to be pouring it into as many negative ads as they possible.

So, Rich, it's a right turn, but I'm just going to bring it up anyway. You wrote a column about the Cornell gang rape case, and you said the system worked in the Cornell Seven case. In what way?

Well, this this woman she has this encounter, and the immediate aftermath, she's kind of laughing it off. A terrible night, you know, this shouldn't have happened. But then a month later, she decides this is really bad. This is a terrible experience, and I was assaulted. She goes talks to the police for two.

For two days, and they produced a six-page, single-spaced statement, sworn statement about her account of what happened. She she makes handwritten notations on this. I believe she said in the interview transcript, "I'm highly confident in this." The DA goes through it, and the problem with it is there's never any instance where she alleges that she was actually coerced or didn't consent to anything.

So it just wasn't there was no crime alleged in it.

So it's not the DA's job, as he pointed out in the statement he released, to go back and say, "Can you make this, you know, your sworn statement worse?" You know, he just said there's nothing to investigate because obviously the guys' their their account is going to be different and exculpatory of them.

So if her sworn statement doesn't allege a crime, where's the crime? And then Cornell does an extensive investigation. They expel two of the guys. Spend Two of them, one who's graduated, they make a persona non grata. Then two others who weren't really involved.

They got to do various trainings and whatnot.

So, so they also produced a report that we're now seeing that basically accords with the woman's sworn statement. This was it was terrible; shouldn't happen, but it appears to have been consensual.

So, you don't just prosecute people based on vibes or on a political agenda. And it seems as though now that she's changed her story two years later. That's what's going to happen, thanks to under the auspices of one of the most biased and politicized prosecutors in the country, in the form of Attorney General Letitia James.

So I know it's nuts that our governor's view in New York of way to move forward is to give it to the most politically polarizing person. Hot in Albany, so just nuts. But I want to bring you to a phone call that just emerged. Weeks later, she doesn't get invited to a party. Word leaks out how bad everything was, and her reputation's destroyed.

And it looks like, and that's what this—the caller Matthew Ingalls, who got the call—it looks like this is set up. Cut thirty-eight. Want me to give my recollection of the entire night? You did tell me you were sober, by the way. You you did.

You said you hadn't been anywhere.

So you you you come in, say hi. We start dancing for like maybe three to five minutes, and then I pop the question. You say yes. Then I remember like we didn't know who else to bring, so I go to who was on the dance floor too. And I popped the question, and he's he's like, yeah.

And then we go upstairs. I have racked my brain for this mystery. You know, it's possible that both of us like remember this, and it's not true. The party was sort of like crowded, so people started like building up the balcony just because there was nowhere else to go. Yeah, and there was another phone call.

Will, but later when he came back and said, "Why are you asking me these questions?" So obviously, I don't know if you can tape somebody without them knowing it, but that's the tape that's out. Yeah, so this is a weird call because they're both circling around each other, right? He knows that she might go to the police, doesn't want her to, and she's trying to find out what happened and/or get him to make incriminating statements on tape.

So I don't think either of them are being fully honest with what they're saying in this account. I don't like this guy. I think he's kind of a sleazeball. the The idea that just people randomly came in the room seems false. They they came in the room in part because he he was part of the Snapchat saying, "Hey guys, you know, come come see what's happening here." But that doesn't mean he committed a crime.

And I think her her I believe her sworn a statement from a from month after the event and the Cornell investigation was suggests this was gross conduct, the right to expel the students for it, but was not a crime. And shouldn't have been charged, but now we're going to charge it anyway. Rich, we're going to see what this guy is getting messy.

Now they're talking about more than seven people involved, and there's a legal case, and then there's a civil case, and now you have now you have an outside. The Cornell hires an investigator too, Sally Yates, who's politically polarizing. Yeah, I mean it's clearly like when Hochul had that press conference announcing Letitia James. She condemned. She said it was a crime.

Basically, she was the Jane Doe's victim. And this needs to be prosecuted, but we're going to consider it fairly. Give me a break; it's a lynch mob at the moment. Rich Lowry, thanks so much. Go pick up the National Review.

Back in a moment. All right, Tuxing. Don't go anywhere. Brian Kilmeade will be right back. A radio show like no other.

It's Brian. Democratic voters are going to decide in 2028 who is going to represent them and what the party is going to stand for. But that is up to Democratic candidates and Democratic voters. And I urge everybody to run. I urge Vice President Harris to run, AOC.

anybody anybody that wants to should run, and we should allow the Democratic voters, not you and I or other people, decide the direction of the party. And I'm totally confident. They will choose wisely, and we'll have a good candidate in 2028. He's all over the place. I want the social, you know, the socialists should form their own party.

I want everyone to run. What do you mean you want everyone to run? I thought you want your own party. Number two, AOC just signed up as a renewed membership with the DSA. Why do you want her to run?

You can't have it both ways. I'm confident the party will make their choice. You're confident.

Well, why don't you have people who are in the party make that actual choice? And James Carville goes on to say, "Don't impeach Trump." Right.

Okay. He says it'll be bad in the next two years if he get power in the Congress, which he guarantees, by the way, don't impeach Trump. But then you say he's going to quit.

So if he's going to quit, why are you worrying about being impeached? He said Trump is just going to quit. He's done with it. The other guy that's going to run for sure is Rahm Emanuel, and he talked about the DSA, and he he's unequivocal. Cut five.

I think the party is in the pragmatic wing. You can see that in the governors of Virginia, you can see that in the governor of New Jersey, how they both won their primaries and also governing. And you can also see when you look at the primary process in Michigan and Wisconsin, take the states, fifty percent of the vote was not, and is what you call the most dominant voice. Cut four. There is a progressive and a pragmatic wing of the party.

We'll have a healthy debate. That's what we should have. I have been upfront. I don't believe the socialist wing. I think they are a separate party.

They believe in defunding police, which is not the party position. They believe in open borders and open prisons. That's not the party's position. When you switch that, we can talk. That said, and if you think people are so confident in what you're selling, we'll see you in November.

Now, I happen to think we'll have that a good debate about that. Yeah, evidently it gets pretty heated. Sean Hannity is—he mentioned to me today he's here for the 30th anniversary of Fox News, which is pretty amazing. But overall, this is going to be not a great cycle for Republicans. I don't think.

But at this point, I think they could hold the House. There's a smaller chance of that. And I think they really could hold the Senate if they get one of the two. It'll feel almost like a win at this point because almost everybody is guaranteeing they won't. Dasha Burns, pretty fair with Politico, cut seven.

When I go to a place like Kansas, and you have Adam Hamilton there, who is not your run-of-the-mill Democrat, he's been registered as a Dem and as a Republican before. He's the largest; he's a pastor of the largest United Methodist Church. He's as Kansas as as they come. And across the board, the candidates that are leading are largely outrunning their parties. People don't love Democrats or Republicans nationally, but they are compelled by certain candidates in their states, in their districts.

Yeah.

He's talking about Arkansas, and I think she's talking about Nebraska, and that right there, she's talking about Kansas, where Roger Marshall's in a five-footed tie. But again, the polls are impossible just because of the methodology in which they put them together, and no, almost nobody had Donald Trump winning the election in '24.

So now I know you got fifty elections, hundreds of elections around the country. It's impossible to get them all right. But I'm wondering, even if majority are right. We'll see.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmeade. All right, everybody from 48th and Sixth in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. This is the Brian Kilmeade show. So much going on today.

I know overseas in Greece. Rarely do I start a segment or a show and say that, but that's where democracy started, and that's where the great thinkers were, and that's what gave people the sense that they could have some freedom, this life, and mobility, and have a sense of liberty. How do we know? The founding fathers said that.

So they got a lot of their inspiration from the writings, and if you look at what they did, they went into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. That's what they believed, and they didn't just wing this. They were in their thirties, except for Franklin, twenties and thirties. They actually studied this, and they were able to put it into our government, the one right now. Marco Rubio is going to make a statement today.

Why would he do that? A major speech, third stop. Because it definitely has to, we have to remind the Western culture what they're about. They're beginning to allow communism and socialism, allow their borders to be breached, their culture to be destroyed, in the in the all in the spirit of being kind and magnanimous. And they're losing their country.

When Trump first said in twenty sixteen, they said he was xenophobic.

Now they look like he was a soothsayer.

So look for this to be a fantastic speech by Marco Rubio, who lives this stuff every day, and probably will write this speech himself. Also, we're talking about October seventh, three years since those horrific attacks. We see how much, how many people have lost their lives. Yes, twelve hundred over twelve hundred Israelis, most of them, all of them innocent, none of them a very few in uniform. That was the goal.

The difference between what happened after is that the goal was never to hurt a non-Hamas war fighter, but sadly, Hamas's goal was to have the IDF kill as many innocent people as possible and turn the world's opinion against them. In that way, they've succeeded. In all other ways, they haven't. Think about it. Hamas wants control.

Gaza. Hezbollah wants control. Lebanon. They once Hezbollah was all over Syria. Assad let him go wild.

Now Assad's out. Hezbollah is hated by this new government in Syria. They've been decimated. Number one terror group in the world, and Hamas is still there, but man, they're not close to the organization they were. And until they disarm, they're not going to have one pleasant day.

Look at Iran; they were sitting high, funding their proxies, building up their ballistic missiles, continuing to enrich uranium. How are they doing now? Not good.

Now it's cost; it's coming at cost. World opinion. On us dollars and cents, and we lost about 18 guys, and we lost billions in equipment. Just happens when you get in a war, and you take on the number one sponsor of terror.

So that is really going to affect the midterm elections. Why? Because of diesel prices and gas prices. It definitely affects everything we do. It's all linked.

But how's that war going? Here's what President Trump said yesterday: Cut 26. They don't have any ships. We're really holding up the whole world. It's on our shoulders, and we love doing it in a certain way.

We love doing it because we've gotten stronger, and others have gotten weaker. Yes, and in terms of real progress, we make it on the ground. No oil went into Iran. No oil left Iran. Their oil minister resigned, and they have a their intelligence officer came out and said things have never been worse.

The president, economically, the president of that country, said the same thing. They're not as bullish and boastful as they are. Even look at the Tehran Times. If you don't agree, here's General James Spider Marks, cut twenty-seven. IRGC is having some significant challenges.

They're stretched not only in terms of what they're trying to do in Iran to apply pressure at the Strait, also to try to control the population, which is a significant problem for the regime right now.

So the IRGC is stretched there. Plus, the IRGC has provided some type of support presence on the ground in support of the Houthis. Yes, and the Houthis are now being attacked by Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government.

So this is the last throngs of Iran, and President has already shown he's not going to do the MOU again that basically gives Iran off the mat. He's going to finish the job, and they thought election day would stop the president from following through. It is not. Cut twenty eight. Kirk Lippold, former USS Cole commander.

The Houthis are making a bold statement that if they were to really try to do something like that, well, if you want to bring the rest of the world in on Saudi Arabia's side, because a European airline gets shot down or a U.S. airline gets shot down, number one, you have to demonstrate the capability which they have not to be able to shoot down the airliners. Two, to be able to launch ballistic missiles, short range and medium range ballistic missiles to interdict the airports. That's another factor in there.

So they are threatening. What I should have said. We backed into that soundbite. Is the Houthis are threatening Saudi airports?

Okay, they're blowing up a few runways. Whatever they're doing. Yeah, they got some rockets, but they're about to lose their their finance here. And my sense is Saudis starting to pick up the pace and push them back and make sure the Red Sea is free to run.

Meanwhile, today is October seventh. Three years. I want to touch on that a little bit. Twelve hundred people lost, and about you know, thirty thirty thousand people lost their lives in Gaza. I think people of the plane the most.

To the rest of the Middle East, Jordan took no one. Egypt said, "You not one person, not one Palestinian we taking." They were locked in. It was up to the Israelis to push people around. And Hamas lived under the ground in tunnels they constructed with international money, aided by the UN, to fight. And and lure the IDF into hospitals, schools, mosques, and playgrounds because that's where their enemy was.

Here's the Israeli Prime Minister, excuse me, President about this day, cut thirty one. We want peace. We want peace with our neighbors. We did not seek that war. It was waged upon us by horrific, barbaric terrorists.

We went out to fight, and we changed the root of the Middle East with our heroic fighters. And all the rest is bashing and attacking around us, all over the place, blaming Israel for all the faults. But the truth of the matter is that Israel is protecting the West and the free world by its activities. All right, we're taking a short time out. We come back.

Lexi Lows is going to join us, and we'll talk more about this with Bruce Pearl, former coach of Auburn, but now he is he's combating anti-Semitism, and he's head of that combat anti-Semitism movement. Cam, you listen to the Brian Kilmeade Show. Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kilmeade Show. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Kilmeade. Hey, we are back, and let's bring in Alexi Lalas, Fox Sports analyst. And Alexi Lalas does not have to work these friendly games, but the U.S. team is back in action. And Lexi, great to see you.

Looking good. Good to see you. Are you encouraged by what you saw? Is after especially after last night's one nothing win with a lot of new faces. Yeah.

Reminder: This is the first time that we are seeing the U.S. Men's National Team since the World Cup this summer, and it's a really unique two and a half week window with four games. That's never been done before, so we were all kind of curious to see how this would play out. I don't think it could have gone better for Mauricio Pochettino, who has been brought back as the new head coach, and a collection of incredibly young but incredibly talented players that are, you know, arriving for the first time on the Scene. I think, I think a lot of people demanded change, and I think Mourinho Pochettino wanted to give that change, and I think he did.

So the results were great, but even more importantly, I think it gives us a new sense of excitement and confidence going forward. That there is a whole crop of young, talented players that can not only Play really good soccer, but can do it at a level and be really comfortable. That was what was amazing throughout this two two weeks. Was how comfortable some of these teenagers were the minute they stepped on the field at the international level for the U.S. Julian Hall, you're talking about, and you're also talking about Kevin Sullivan.

Do you? It was amazing the confidence that they felt and the impact that they had. I mean, all scored in almost in all but one game. Yeah, I think both of those players. If you are power ranking where these young players come out of this window, yeah, I would probably put Kevin Sullivan ahead of Hall.

I mean, look, Hall scored goals, and that's there is nothing more valuable in the game. But I, but and. But I think when it comes to Kevin Sullivan, he is at a position of need out there on the right wing, and so I think it looks even better because not only did he score and become the youngest in history ever to score for the U.S. Men's National Team, but his activity got even smarter as the four games wore on, and so I think he's got a. I mean, I think you can make an argument right now that if everybody was there, all of the players were there for Mauricio Pochettino, and it was a game that was.

Meaningful in a competition, that Kevin Sumlin's got a real good shot at starting. I'm not sure that Hall does because Balogun would be back and Ricardo Pepy would be back.

Now it's a good thing though. There's there's competition and a lot of these young players are knocking on the door and say, "Hey, look at me." Here's what Chris Richard said: He's a stalwart in the back for the team. Cut fifty. What surprised you about these kids when in training? Yeah, I mean, coming into camp, you realize that all these kids have a good PR.

I think you guys always get a good PR. Then, so you kind of go into it with, you know, trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. And, but I think the thing is that when you see it every day in training, you see why they have such good PR.

Now they work really hard. They keep their head down. They ask a lot of questions. Ultimately, they take a lot of pride in playing for their national team. And I think that's something that can sometimes be lost.

You know, there's now with social media, people like to do a lot of things for clout. But again, I think when these guys play for national team, they they love it. I think you saw the celebrations. I think you see just the little group they have together. You know they really just love each other, but they love playing for their country.

See, I love when when I'm I'm always a sucker for that. Kevin Sullivan went to his chest. He said the USA crest on his chest after he scored. He loves the country. I think people love that when when players show that.

Yeah, I think you know this. This is a generation that has grown up and has watched this U.S. men's national team, has watched it do good things, but also has watched it falter sometimes at the high at the highest level. This is also a young generation, and this isn't me grumpy old maning it. I'm incredibly proud of this that has been given absolutely everything, all the different pathways and all the different resources.

And I think that there's an appreciation that has been instilled in this generation for what they have and that they can do more. And I think that more importantly, they're excited about being given the opportunity to do more. But to your point, they come in, and I think they feel that this is representing a country that they love. They they understand the responsibility of that, but more importantly, they embrace that opportunity of representing what I feel is the greatest country in the world. And I think that shows in their play, and I think it shows in their behavior.

So both those players, Julian Hall with the Red Bulls, and and Kevin Sullivan are in the MLS right now. Do you think they'll stay?

Well, Kevin Sullivan's already done a pre-deal to go over to Europe with Manchester City.

Now, what'll be interesting is with Manchester City right now, a lot of stuff going on off the field with them. But where he ends up, is he good enough to stay and compete at Man City, or does he get loaned to a a different club somewhere, which is normally what happens for a lot of these young young players? I think eventually a lot of them will find their way over. But I want to stress this, Brian. You know, going to Europe is actually easier than it sounds.

But going to a place where you are playing, where you are comfortable, where you and you know, if you have a wife or if you have a girlfriend or if you know whatever that you, the other people that aren't actually kicking a ball are comfortable, and also that just because you know, there seems to be this theory that if if you if you touch the tarmac over there at you know Heathrow or Charles de Gaulle, that automatically you're a Player, no, that's not the case. And so I think it was interesting to hear Chris Richards talk about you know these these players and you know the marketing they have and how smart they are. Part of that marketing and part of that is you know agents making sure that they are going to the right place, not just to go over to Europe. Yes, it's a stepping stone oftentimes, but you still want to make sure that it's strategic where you are going to have a long term career that is successful, Alexei. The key is playing, right?

It's got to come down to play. I know people say, "Well, the training's important," but when you just sit and watch, that's the worst, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, if I had a dollar for every time someone told me, "Yeah, but he's training every day at a high level with insert whatever the the big club is," I'd have a lot of money. But it it doesn't. Nothing takes the place of actually playing day in and day out.

And if you want an example, Gio Reyna. Started every single one of these four games this this window. We got a knock on whatever wood you had. Knock on wood, because for those that know Giorena, incredibly talented player, burst on the scene at a at a team as a teenager at a very young age, and then has had a series of of injuries that has just constantly knocked him back. And so it was wonderful to see him play game after game after game.

He made the move to to France, where he is playing consistently. But nothing replaces playing. And playing consistently, regardless of what level it is, you have to be playing games. You know, they did a survey of college soccer players. They said, "What was the most important element?" And they said, "Play time," because you know it's great to win a championship, but if you're really not one of the top 13 players, you don't see the field.

You don't have that same feeling. It's also impossible to replicate, right?

So you can you can train all you want, and you can you know have different circumstances out there. But until you you know you're actually out there and the whistle blows in a real game, that's where that's where you that's where you grow the most. Here's what Landon Donovan, your archrival, said about Julian Hall, cut 51. I understand where Julian Hall is coming from. I do.

If I take myself out, put myself in his shoes, there are two probably competing, or there are probably two reasons why he doesn't want to slow to five. One, I do feel like he's probably tied to his Polish side, and like it means a lot to his mom and like his heritage. I'm Canadian. I'm super proud of being Canadian. I love that side.

The other is, though, let's just be honest. If he's not able to play for the U.S. and I know Poland are recruiting him hard and like want him and whatever, he's trying to keep that door open. I have not been in that situation because the U.S. wanted me, so I didn't have to think about going to play for Canada.

I'm just really struggling with this whole the way the rule is, the way players sort of navigate it and play one side off the other. I'm sick of it. It's your national team, and I can't understand why it's able to be so much. From like a FIFA standpoint, like just bring some clarity to it.

So, so this is what I'm confused at. I always thought the day you play for one team, you're no longer eligible to play for another country. I'm wrong. Yeah.

You first off, you can have a one-time switch, and the the specific games that you play matter in terms of if they are actual competitive games going forward. But you know, all of this, I'm I'm I'm sorry, Landon is so conflicted. He's going to be fine. He's going to be just. And I think he can under even he can understand the situation here.

And the situation here is we have more and more players that are dual nationals, and sometimes even tri nationals, if you will. And in that case, they have multiple countries that they can play for because of their ancestry. And that's that's actually nothing new. I mean, my my dad's Greek. I could have played for the Greek Greek national team if I'd gone through the process of getting a passport and doing doing all that.

And you.

So it is. There is a recruiting process, and that's where I think people start to cringe a little bit. And I get it because you do not want mercenary. I think that. Beyond the actual playing, beyond the actual winning and losing, there has to be something that means something to you when you put your hand over your heart and you sing that song and you represent, in this case, again, what I feel is the greatest country in the world.

That supersedes all of the other stuff, all of the other competition, all of the other fame, all of the other opportunity that comes with it. But I'm also not naive in that players are assessing the situation and saying what is best for my career. But I'm telling you right now, if it's just about Playing in a World Cup. That will manifest at some point, and usually at the worst possible time on the field. And so, to Landon's point, you want people that want to be there.

Yeah.

In this particular case, with Hall, you want to go play for Poland. Fine, go ahead. I would argue that that's actually a step down in terms of the competition and the opportunities. But knock yourself out if that's what you want to do. I think after this window, I think Julian Hall is only looking one place, and that's the U.S.

Men's National. And Mauricio's got to recruit him a little bit. I know it's tough. Yep, absolutely. That's part.

Yep, Alexi Lalas, your job is to tell America what's going on in soccer, and you did it once again. You're the best, Brian. Thanks. Back at you, Brian Kilmeade. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmeade. We want peace. We want peace with our neighbors. We did not seek that war. It was waged upon us by horrific, barbaric terrorists.

We went out to fight, and we changed the root of the Middle East with our heroic fighters and all the rest. Is bashing and attacking around us all over the place, blaming Israel for all the faults. But the truth of the matter is that Israel is protecting the West and the free world by its activities. Well, does Bruce Pearl believe that? Former men's basketball coach over at over at Auburn, but now he's doing things to really affect the world as well as a member of the combat anti terrorism anti-Semitism movement.

Bruce, welcome back. October seventh means so much. Horrific day, and then what's happened afterwards has really changed everything. Your thoughts about President Herzog?

Well, I'm really grateful to be on with you again, Brian.

So good, and thank you for having President Herzog's words and the truth beyond. You know, I think you got to go back in history and understand what happened in 2005 when Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of the State of Israel, decided to succumb to world pressure and say, "You know what? We've been talking about two states. We've been talking about giving the Palestinians their own homeland and." Okay, fine. You know what?

We're just going to pull out of Gaza. We're going to drag ten, fifteen thousand Jews that are living there, that are working there. We're going to take down their homes and their synagogues, and we're going to leave. And we're going to give the Palestinians the state that they've always wanted. And and that's how it all started.

Twenty-five thousand rockets, Brian. Between 2005 and and and when you know we went to war in 2023, 25,000 rockets shot at Israel, and and and why? It's simply because the people that are living in these areas in this community do not want to live as neighbors with the Jewish people, and they've been at war with us since the minute they were created. And people now want to ask to create another Palestinian state. We should have another, you know, Gaza right in the middle of is is Israel.

So. We are in a better place right now. After October seventh, unfortunately, it took the deaths of 1,200 people in the kidnapping and 251 to once again been reminded. That this is who our enemy is, unfortunately, and I wish it wasn't the case. And as as President Herzog said, all Israel has done is simply defend its men, its women, its children, and and and our desire to just simply live as Jews in Israel.

And of course, when Hamas attacks, Hezbollah attacks days later, and they're fighting a war on two fronts. And that's what's happened over the last three years. And they've done unbelievably well, and it's come at a big cost. But Bruce. You know this.

Part of this was scripted. When you have, after the October seventh attack, the next day people protesting against Israel, come on, there is something going on here against the victims. There's no question, and and look, Israel's victory is the enemy's defeat, and who that enemy is, you you know, you decide who it is. But like you said, it broke my heart to to watch college campuses on October eighth. You know, so be in support of Hamas, be in support of the people.

That would be like on nine eleven. The on on the next day after nine eleven, there be protests on college campuses cheering the terrorists that that attack. Our country. It's the same thing, and so who's doing it? Let's face it.

It's Islamic extremism. It's Muslim Brotherhood. Brian, what they're trying to do is attack Judeo-Christian way of life. And if they could get the Christians and the Jews to become divided, then they can begin to pick them off one on one, one by one. That's the history of anti-Semitism.

And so now, today, more than ever, Jews and Christians need to come together and recognize. The founding of our country, recognizing the principles that we believe in that have made help make this country great, and understand that there is an enemy that's trying to divide us, and it's taking place a great deal on these college campuses. And it really, if you think about the world map. Iran is the problem. Iran funds Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas.

They're the ones who are fomenting unrest in Syria, and they lost their real estate in Syria, and now they are under attack. And even their own officials are saying they've never been under this type of strain. Their oil minister just resigned. But every day that Iran is struggling for its life, it can't finance these terror groups, which are a shadow of what they were. But they're not dead yet.

Brian, you know what? When I coached basketball at Auburn, there was a scoreboard, and we knew after every game whether we won or lost. We knew whether we won a championship or lost a championship, and whether or not we hung a banner. We understood that. I don't think I've ever seen historically such success in a war of survival as Israel's had against Hamas and Hezbollah, and our war with Iran.

It has been an incredible victory. I know what's coming as a price, and I understand what it's done to gas prices, and I understand how unpopular it is. You know what? You know Iran's greatest ally in this war: the media. The Democratic Party and people that have convinced our country and Americans that we've done no good—that this war in Iran, this war of choice, has done no good.

We, we have. Iran is no longer a nuclear threat right now, at least today. They are always going to remain a nuclear threat, but today they don't have the ballistic missiles, they don't have the nuclear capability, and they don't have the money to fund these proxies. Brian, this has been a huge victory for our country. The Middle East is safer, and once our enemy goes from being Depleted, which they are right now, to potentially defeated.

You're looking at Abraham Accords 2000 and what it's going to continue to expand. Peace through strength. Peace through prosperity. We literally are on the doorstep of this great, great victory, and I don't think I don't I don't think I don't think people truly understand it. They're so against the war because they've been they have been told the great the great things that have had happened in the Middle East at at at at a bit of an expense.

Yes, as far as Israel, they've hit a hundred thousand targets, thirty one thousand five hundred projectiles fired at Israel. But I want you to hear Brett McGurk of CNN on CNN talk about because he was an adviser to Biden. Talk about what Netanyahu told him that day. Cut thirty-three. He's you know already getting on the phone with Netanyahu, and Netanyahu says one thing to him on that day.

He says, "Joe, in the Middle East, if you're weak, you're roadkill." And they think we're weak. And what he meant was not only the horrific events going on from Hamas, but Hezbollah got thirty thousand troops to the north in Iran, and this very real concern that this was not a one-off attack. It was kind of the first of another shoe's about to drop, and that's what we're then dealing with in that in that first week. Yeah.

So, is that true in the Middle East? Is that basically the philosophy? It is, and and it is the philosophy. Peace through strength has never been, you know, more important. You know, Hezbollah was a real threat to Israel's north in Lebanon.

They really were, and they were a safeguard for Iran because if. Israel ever went and attacked Iran, which was obviously a threat to a concern of Iran's. They had Hezbollah sitting right there in the north that would be doing either a counterattack or get involved and create these, you know, these different fronts, and they would just simply overwhelm Israel. They tried to overwhelm Israel. And they failed.

Thanks to United States, and and thanks to President Biden for at least getting the fleet out into the Middle East, and and and and together, you know, we were able to fend off what would have been a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East. That was that was obviously presented, and you know, McGirt also said. Brian, was he talked about that when Israel was feeling pressure from the United States to either either do this for the hostages or do that for the hostages? That empowered Israel's enemies and that divide and and and it actually probably cost lives. It probably cost hostages lives because it put a delay.

It wasn't until President Trump came in and said, "No, no, no, no, no. This is not how it's going to go. This is now how it's." Going to go down. You either release the hostages, or you're going to be annihilated. And and and as a result, would you have ever dreamed, Brian, that 250, however many hostages they got, yeah, would have ever been released?

It never would have happened. I know. Just think about how backwards Joe Biden had it. He the first thing he did is took the Houthis off the terror country list, and then he said, Saudi Arabia, you're a pariah nation.

Now, Saudi Arabia is not the democracy I'd like, but they've made huge progress under MBS, who was 17 on 9/11. You cannot put him. Any, I know the families have a case there, and I don't want to get into that. But this guy has modernized. He changed the curriculum in that country, and he was close to doing a deal with Israel until the seventh.

How much, Bruce Perel, did that imminent deal have to do with the Hamas's need to attack? It. How about one hundred percent, Brian? How about the timing of the attack was one hundred percent because Saudi Arabia and Israel were talking about a peace agreement. I'll even say this: I would think if I could turn the clocks back, I would tell Prime Minister Netanyahu, "Listen, stop talking about it.

The more you let the world know that this might happen, the more of a threat." It is because Brian, I ran out of plan to attack all together. Hamas out of Gaza, Hezbollah out of Lebanon. I ran out of our land, and you know what? If they coordinated that attack and did it all together, they might have annihilated Israel. It could be gone right now.

But because of the potential peace treaty and the Abraham Accords with Saudi Arabia, Hamas went on their own. They went out. Sinwar went out there and he said, "You know what? We're not waiting for Hezbollah. We're not waiting for Iran.

We got to go. We got to go now." And you know what? The war definitely prevented or delayed Saudi Arabia from joining the Abraham Accords.

Okay. Now, I think this is something that in these last two years of President Trump's term, I think this is something he's going to push for. Brian and Bruce, what are you thinking about today? I'm thinking that my children had to be reminded that they were Jewish, and that there were people out there that want to kill us, and that we have to protect ourselves from those people. And at the same time, Brian, we've got to be the best friends, the best patriots, the hardest workers, the greatest contributors, the most generous, the kindest, and continue to just break down those stereotypes.

Be proud of who we are. Be grateful to this country that we have a place in this country where we can work and be successful. We're loved by our neighbors. I understand that there's been a rise in anti-Semitism. I get it.

But guess what, Brian? In 2025, baby, there were three Jewish coaches coaching in the Final Four. This is the greatest country in the world. If Brian kill me. If Brian Kilmeade could be on Fox News for thirty years, after how many, how many times you interviewed, and they said no, no, we don't, no, no, no, and it was sports and sports and sports.

And look at you right now. Don't tell me this isn't the greatest country in the world when you can be celebrating thirty years after all the rejection. Congratulations, by the way, my brother. Thanks so much, Bruce. I truly appreciate it.

You put it up. It shows. Also, you're a five-tool player. You can go anywhere. You can go basketball.

You can go sports. You can go news, and you could go Middle Eastern analysis. That's a lot. That's a big skill set. Bruce Pearl, thanks so much, my friend.

Thank you. Back in a moment. It's Brian Kilmeade, radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. What cologne are you wearing?

You smell amazing. Oh. Incredible! I don't know because I I mix. I know with and every game mix a different.

It's all different. Sense is different. How many different colognes do you have? Today, one, two, three, five, five. Wow!

Different five. We need to get B some of ours. Wow! Really? But yes, but not in the same place.

Not the same place. Not the same place. Yeah, different.

So that's El Said, right?

So that was Mauricio talking about after the game last night. He wears five different colognes. Are you kidding? No, and then he he's but he really was thinking about it. Was like one five colognes, but then I wear them in different places, which sort of blew my mind because who thinks let me wear different scents on my I don't know neck, wrist, wherever.

I just it's making the rounds, but it was very entertaining. You know what's interesting is did did cologne go out of style for a while? I think it depends where you're from, and if it smells good. But I mean, some people are, some people don't like it. But I feel like if it's a good smell, then you like it.

But do you want a reputation of always wearing cologne? Do you want people going, "Ah, Brian, I love his cologne. I hate his cologne." I do. Do do I want that reputation? Because I could add that to my arsenal of things to do in the morning.

Maybe it's something to try. But you're just thinking of it like the negative. There's also that, like, when someone smells good and you smell them, like that smells good, like you. Remember that smell, like you don't, you don't have that. What is the movie?

It's from my thing about the Parent Trap. I don't. When smells make memories, and you have certain smells like bring back a memory.

Well, yeah, that could be. I mean, when you walk into like, sometimes the fall always reminds me of soccer. But I don't know if that's more visual. The smell of your school when you go back to back to school night and you go back in there, you go, "Wow, I remember." There's certain school, yes, yeah. And also, when I walk by a restaurant because I worked in restaurants for so many years, when you walk by the kitchen side of a restaurant, I go, "Wow, that's the smell of work." See, or if you have a really good smell, then people might smell it like that's the smell of Brian Kilmeade.

Right memory. Right now, I have my natural body odor and odor and. My underarm, underarm. Your deodorant. Yeah, my deodorant.

So, if deodorant has a strong enough smell, then maybe that's what people think. Hopefully, it's not your body odor. Yeah, I'm hoping. Hopefully, hopefully that's not.

So that is that is interesting. That was that they played so many impressive games. Talk about the U.S. national team we we had last half hour. I mean, beating Peru was expected.

Beating Canada, Canada was got knocked down the same round. It's not they played most of their starters yesterday. Mexico, and then beating Mexico that was like the biggest win they've ever had against Mexico. Really, three nothing two. It was so.

This is maybe the coach's first. Imprint on the team because remember he came in and goes, what do I got? Thirty, forty guys to pick from. I'm going to pick 25. Right now, maybe had 30, and but they're basically the nucleus is there.

So now everybody's got almost everybody's got to feel pressure after seeing what they saw from those young players. I mean, and he was trying. I think there's something like 13 or 15 that they did pull up, and he was really rotating them through. It was fun to watch. I feel like.

After the World Cup, you still sort of know some of the guys that were playing in the World Cup, and you're seeing the new guys come up. You know, it's sort of a way to keep the momentum going afterwards. Here is the coach talking about what he saw. Cut twenty nine. You had 13 debutants this this camp.

Yes. Was the idea coming into this camp to play all of them, or is it more of a testament of how the younger players came in and performed day in and day out in training? Yes. The idea was to know first and then assess them if they are ready to play, give the possibility to play, and I seen all the players that made the debuts because they deserve. Yeah.

To be on the on the field. It's true that with 28 players, it's not easy to. Manage no because some problems like Cole Campbell was unavailable today. Was difficult for him to be involved in Mexico. The first two games he was with Smoliju, and today with the opportunity to see and see how he compete, I think was a good opportunity for all.

But I think all deserve because they showed the character, the quality, you know, and in the way that they adapt to the team was was amazing. I didn't give a gift or present, right? Ah, because because they deserve. And with the performance and the result, I think we were right in the way that we assist the player. No, it wasn't his best English, but I got, I got the spirit of it.

He talks fast with the accent; it is a little rough. I do want to bring up one other sports story, and Pete, feel free to weigh in here because I know you love the WNBA.

Sophie Cunningham, this this this columnist Candice Buckner is calling on the fever to cut her because she's such a distraction. If Indiana will never achieve anything with her in the roster, you know she's averaging about eight points a game. She's forty-one percent fifth, you know from three. That's fifth in the NBA, and she's just a workmanlike. Comes off the bench, cut her because she's such a distraction because she doesn't think trans men should be in women's sports.

I mean, she's the other than Caitlin Clark, one of the most entertaining parts of that league.

So, what is this columnist saying? She's trying to get attention. But I actually think, isn't that? Don't you think that's the feeling of most of the players? Yes.

Like, right? I mean, and most of the coaches. Like, why is she getting so much publicity for saying things which are societal, not basketball related, but she's allowed to comment. And it doesn't seem to rattle her when she gets criticism, which is great. Which is exactly what they need.

I mean, what they want to keep the league insular and small, or do they want to grow it and get more eyeballs?

So interesting. Caitlyn Clark, not a word, really doesn't complain. But I feel like she lets Sophie kind of help do it. It's sort of the ying and the yang. It would be good if she defended Sophie once in a while.

Agreed. You listen to Brian Kilmeade. From the Fox News Radio studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade.

Hi, everyone!

So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade show. We have a big hour coming your direction from 48th and Sixth in Midtown Manhattan as we mark a bunch of things. And the thing I'm keeping an eye on that might be the story of the week is what I hope, anyway. Marco Rubio is going to be doing in Greece.

He's going to be giving a State of the World address in Greece, home of democracy and republics and great thinkers that our founding fathers used to build the country, build the Constitution, write Declarations of Independence. It's not my opinion; they wrote about who influenced them, and that's worn into the writings. And I think we all need to recalibrate what makes our country great. And one guy, my first guest, doesn't need that, but we'll go over it. And Marth, and I think it's going to be a signature speech for Marco Rubio, who lives in Breezes on a daily basis in his life and as on Foreign Relations Committee and everything he was doing as a senator.

Now as a Vice President, excuse me, Secretary of State. Who knows who he is? Vice President Martha McCallum too at the bottom of the hour. But first, let's get to Carl Rove. Carl, great to see you.

Thanks for having me, buddy.

So, Carl. This Rubio speech is going to be a big moment for him, but hopefully the world is listening. And you think this is the type of thing is going to get coverage and traction in Europe? Oh, absolutely! I mean, when the Secretary of State, who in his own right is a major world figure, decides to give a speech and to give it where he's giving it, of course, it's going to have attention.

I mean, look, Europe is trying to figure out the U.S. You know, they they have been on the receiving end of. You know, two terms of you know two and one and a half terms of Donald Trump and four four years of Joe Biden, and the contrast between the two weakness and strength, and you know they're trying to figure it out, and this will help that this will help them enormously. Yeah, so we'll hopefully set the tone there, and also find out if Russia is trying to destroy the world like China did, and maybe be candid about what's going on with the pneumonic plague. We'll talk about that, but the headline in today's New York Times not getting much traction.

Ukraine gaining land back in Donbas, and they basically over the course of two years barely lost more than they gained.

So, what does that tell you about how this conflict is going?

Well, it's a disaster for the Russians. Let's be honest. The Ukrainians have shown themselves to be adroit and technologically advanced, and they have stopped one of the an army that outnumbers them, and have inflicted terrific casualties on them through the use of technology, drones, and and drone technology, and. You know the the Russians have have got to understand now that they cannot win this war, on the battlefield, and and they and they are coming to the point where they cannot continue to sustain their battlefield energies. I mean, they're they're they're running out of people.

The the losses that they're that they're suffering each and every month are horrific. If we could just, and I know there is not many around, if we could just get them some Patriot batteries, that's what we need to knock down the rockets. They also got to technologically figure out how to knock down these high-speed drones that are attacking them right now. I am convinced they will, but I just don't want a lot of people to die while they innovate. Yeah, my sense is that they're holding on to some of the weapons that they could use to stop the the Russian assault, the incoming missiles and so forth.

They're holding on to them until the winter comes, because they recognize that in the winter they become enormously vulnerable. To now, as the fall is coming on, it's getting a little bit cooler, but but you know they still have time to sort of redo the jigger, rejigger the grid, or to repair that. A power unit or whatever, but but in the in the winter that that becomes a lot more difficult.

So my sense is they may be holding on to the the few that they've got in order to save them for the moment where the danger becomes even acute.

So I don't have to tell you three years to the day since the October seventh attack, and so much has changed since then. How close we were to expanding the Abraham Accords, and then how far that seems away now, and yet here is a day that. Twelve hundred Israelis lost their lives, and there's anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic protests around the world. Girl, not in a million years that I think that would be the case three years later. Yeah, neither did I.

I mean. You know the people who are apologists for what happened on October seventh. These people who, you know, and we've got some of them running for office here in the United States, and we've got others campaigning for on behalf of candidates running for office in the United States, who basically have been apologists for the attack on October seventh. You know, hurt people, hurt people. Says one of those candidates.

Yeah, and you're talking about the attack when a Hezbollah. When a the brother of a would be attacker in would be attacker ends up being Hezbollah, and he's saying, "Well, that's the reason why the brother was militarized because he he was killed and he was going to go out and kill children, and that was his excuse." Well, his brother was killed in Lebanon. Heard people heard where people. Yeah, turns out he was killed because he's a member of Hezbollah. Yeah, exactly.

An excuse terrorism. I mean, there is no rationale, no excuse whatsoever for the for the death of innocents. This was a deliberate attempt not to you know have military on military. It was to to attack civilians and kill them. and And and the footage that we've seen of these, and the stories that we've heard, and the eyewitness accounts are horrific.

And yet, we still today have people who are excusing it, and you know, just asking questions. They say about about Israel. When it comes to Iran, the president. Almost on by all accounts, very few people are saying Iran's winning, like they were saying three weeks ago. We have the oil minister resign.

You have the intelligence leader, their intelligence leader, come out and say things have never been this bad. The president over there confirming that almost no oil is getting out of Iran, and we're beginning to shut down the banks and the banks are zero. There's zero getting out by ship. They're they're now having to you know sort of put it on a truck and take it to taken to the the east and bring it out via Pakistan, which is enormously expensive and not very lucrative for them.

So, look, the the president of the United States by standing tough has has achieved an enormous victory here in opening up the Straits of Hormuz and is winning the economic war against the Iranian regime. And they're gonna they're feeling internal pressure. That that are requiring them to realize they can't continue along this way.

So how does that play here? I know the president does not talk about the war much, except for it's a small sacrifice at the pump for now. As we look at the midterms, you alluded to the Michigan battle. Mike Rogers, who you know well, was getting ridiculed by El Sayed for taking taking money from PACs and corporate donors. But here's what Rogers said back, cut fourteen.

I've never seen a bigger hypocrite in my life. Who you know has been raising on the the West Coast from billionaires and hedge fund managers with AOC in New York City, raising tons of money. He has corporate money coming in through the Chuck Schumer pack. I mean, it's just nonsense. He says this to try to present something, someone he's not.

So that is some of the attacks. Medicare for all, nobody cares about his dreamer in California. I care about gas prices and food on the table. Do you know anything about the plans? You want to drill less to bring oil down?

Because do you know a Democrat that wants to continue to drill and and buy more oil? Yeah.

Look. Look. Think about this. The NBC poll net favorability of. People approve, disapprove.

What's the gap? Republicans are minus thirteen as a party. The president's minus eighteen. The Democrats are minus twenty-one. You know, so look, they have not offered a plan.

They've talked about these issues. Their ads are overwhelmingly about you know inflation and cost of living and healthcare costs and you know blah blah blah blah blah. But there's no there's no there there. You know, they were the ones who gave us the you know the the Inflation Reduction Act, which blew up inflation up. And they have no idea that there.

What are they concretely saying about what they're going to do other than blame It on the companies when in reality it's it's at the heart of it. It's government. When the government spends too much, it creates inflation. When it applies tariffs, it raises the price of goods. And when you when and this all started as as we should recall, when Joe Biden spent far more than we needed to spend to help our economy, and we ended up with nine percent inflation.

Yeah, that led to all of this, and the president's inflation rate has gone up. And you wrote about this considerably less than Joe Biden averaged over four years.

So that be some the president, the vice president, others should be bringing up.

So let's talk about some of the red states that are a challenge. Do you look at Arkansas as a challenge for Tom Cotton?

Well, I want Tom Cotton to get reelected, and the guy running against him is raising money. But I think at the end of the day, Cotton gets reelected. But you know, look—it's the Democrats are trying to widen the field and throw money at states like Arkansas and hope that something happens on election day to surprise everybody. What about Ricketts in Nebraska? At the end of the day, he look a successful and popular two term governor, and the guy who's running against him is running as an independent because the Democratic label in the state is so unpopular, you can't win as a Democrat.

So he's claiming he's an independent, but we now know from the background tapes he he is he's making comments that make him sound like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and dismissing supporters of Donald Trump. They got some footage of him talking at. At a fundraising event, and dismissing the good people in Nebraska who voted overwhelmingly to reelect Donald Trump. It's tough to be an independent with that out there. What about in Lindsey Graham's case?

His sisters running. It went from solid R to lean R. Yeah, well, look. I think at the end of the day, she's going to win. But but it's always hard to get you know a spouse in.

If you look back over history, when you have instances where the where the the office holder dies and a spouse comes in, or in this case, a sister is put forward, Darlene, you know, family member, it's it's it's tough because there's just a little bit of reaction by some people. Say, well, you know what, I I may have supported Lindsey, but what's this about a sister? Or you know, I may Have supported so and so, but you know I'm not I'm not going to automatically go for the spouse. Muriel Muriel Humphrey was there forever, right? Yeah, right.

Exactly over Minnesota.

So in Minnesota, Michelle Tafoya has never trailed by more than two points in a bright blue state. Yet John Thune made a statement that we're going to look at that and see if we should throw more money at it. What's he looking at, Carl? Just throw money at it. Yeah, there's been.

I met her two weeks ago. Very impressed. She's authentic. She's smart. She's articulate.

She's empathetic, and being able to talk sports with the outstate, you know, redneck farmer—that's a big plus. And she also has the advantage that she's running against a lunatic, this Lieutenant Governor Flanagan. She begins many of her events by having what do you call those land whatever's, you know, where you apologize, you know, just like you know, look, we, you know, the the the headquarters of Yeah, the the headquarters of Fox is probably you know five hundred years ago occupied by the Winnebago Indians, and so we're supposed to apologize for the presence of twelve twenty one Avenue of the Americas. And she does this all the time, and she's also tied up to and dismissive of all of these scandals that we have, where vast sums of federal and state monies were being stolen by groups of crooks, primarily Somalia immigrants, who set up these phony childcare centers and phony medical centers. And and we're stealing, you know, millions of dollars of our taxpayer dollars.

And Flanagan is dismissive of it, and was part of the administration that oversaw it, that that that presided when all this stuff was being stolen. Has she effectively made that choice as you did? Do you think she's effective?

Well, you know, she, you know, time is the most important commodity in a campaign, and she got into the race. You know, Minnesota chooses its candidates late, so. But no, she's got. I think she's got time, particularly since she is who she. Is and comes across.

I mean, you meet her, and you know that this is a solid individual, and personable, and and articulate, and and and and really empathetic. I don't get a handle on what's happening in New Hampshire. Johnson Newnue does not want to do national media. He just wants to focus on New Hampshire. He doesn't want to be labeled with or against Trump.

Yet he's still trailing. He's trailing by just a couple of points on the Real Clear average. What's happening? You know the family.

Well, that that's the key. The family. I mean, New Hampshire is. Everybody knows what Sununu means. The dad was a great governor of the state and served his country valiantly as chief of staff to President Bush forty one.

The brother. Chris Sununu was a very popular three-term governor, personable, outgoing, very funny. John Sununu, very smart, fantastic wife Kitty, served in Congress, was one-term senator, got defeated in in the Obama wave of two thousand and eight. But everybody knows what Sununu means. New Hampshire values: flinty, tough, do what's right.

Not being dictated to by anybody represents us well.

So I think you know the Democrats got a milk toast candidate, and I think Sanu has got a real shot at it. And full disclosure, he's a friend of mine, and I wrote him a couple of checks. But I I I told him in fact last time I saw him I said, when you get elected, you're going to owe your brother big time. He said why? And I said because he's a very popular guy and he's a lot more funny than you are.

And I get the sense, yeah, they have a fun rivalry between them. You know that that that family. It must be fun to be around the dinner table at Thanksgiving time because they they are all smart and energetic and interesting people, and and the they're really terrific. Yeah.

So, lastly, Texas. I know you feel about Ken Paxton, but what's the race look like? Ken Paxton call it now off my complaining, complaining that gas prices are going to kill him and the war has hurt him in Texas. Yeah.

So. First of all, we we got it. We we have two candidates who got weaknesses. The scandal surrounding Paxton, and then look. I live in Austin, Texas.

This is sort of Moscow on the Little Colorado River. It's a very liberal town. And and Tal Rico originally was elected to the state house from a district that a Republican representative in the suburban county north of us, Williamson, and then got redistricted almost exclusively into Travis County. And as a Democrat, you don't worry about any. The right of you, you worry about somebody to the left of you.

So he has said the most extraordinarily bizarre things that you'd expect to hear. You know, in the worst parts of you know the commie quarter of Brooklyn and Queens.

So I think at the end of the day, Paxton stands that you know it's a coin toss, and the question is, can Paxton make the argument that that his values, the Talarico's values, are not the values of everyday Texans, and that the seat cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of some.

Somebody who shares those views now. You know, on the other hand, you know, Talarico is going to be saying, "Do you really want to have this guy representing you, given that his record and all the allegations?" So it's it's it's costing us a lot of money, though. I mean, in the last the last thirty days, I think the Republicans have put a hundred and sixty five million dollars into Texas. In the last twenty four hours, it's five million. In the last twenty four hours, they put down five million more.

I mean, the amount of money is just astonishing. Yep, it's more than I'm making a day. Call just a little bit. Call that was a good. That was a good joke.

That went straight by us because we all know you're a working stiff. That was a good. But you know, look, you know, you you you take that paycheck, you deposit it, you pay your bills, and there's a little bit left over to take the wife out for a hamburger if we're lucky. I know what's going on. Yeah, if you're lucky.

Yeah, exactly. Thanks so much. Great job. Thanks, Martha McCallum.

Next, both sides. All opinions. It's Brian Kilmeade. Breaking news. Unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade show. Hey Martha, we only have a minute, then we get a full half hour.

So I thought it'd be a good time to tell us who's on at three o'clock today on the story.

So on the story, we're going to speak to Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas, on this third anniversary of October seventh. I think a lot of the narratives around this story have been very distorted in a lot of ways. I think it's very important to get back and be grounded in what happened on October seventh and what happened since. Right, and then you have.

So about Baltakis talking about that because we were talking about how the world's on fire. Yeah, one of the things that's happening: anti-Israel protests on the day that they were attacked. Are you kidding me?

Well, I mean, think about it. Like, isn't that exactly like if Hamas's hope was that it would turn world opinion against Israel because they would retaliate so fiercely, they got what they wanted on that. But most of them are dead. That doesn't work out for them. Hezbollah too.

They're still in charge in Gaza. They're still they're still running things in Gaza. The whole thing of giving you know in the debris, they are still in charge. Yep. The whole thing of giving up the guns, not but they aren't quite ready yet.

Not quite ready yet. All right. Back in a moment more with Martha, and we got a lot more to talk about. Don't move. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmeade. I think the president needs to come out and make sure which which is which. But if we're not doing that, we need to start wrapping it down. Looks like oil prices are coming down. That's going to be huge for Michigan citizens.

We're paying a heavy price, which is why I came out and called for a tax holiday for our residents. Would have been seventy cents a gallon. The Democrats. In Michigan, here voted against it. We're trying to call for a diesel export ban, which looks like the president's kind of got ahead on that.

With red dye that will help agriculture here in the state. That's really important. Bring down prices, but I do think it's time to start wrapping it up. There are other things that we can do other than the big military presence, and I think that we ought to shift gears and bring the bring all that home and put us into an end end state. Mike Rogers on with Martha McCallum yesterday.

That was the question. He knew he knows oil prices are going up. The war is not popular. He's got a huge Middle Eastern population, so he's he's moderating and nuancing his position. That struck you yesterday.

I mean, it did because initially he supported the action of February 28th and said, you know, you have to get it done and get it right, basically, with regard to Iran. Yesterday, when we spoke, he said, you either have to have an end date or end the regime. And the president has to decide which one it's going to be, and that's true. That is the president's decision to make. But I think what we're hearing in October of 2026 is candidates moderating all over the map to try to win in these races because they are very, very tight.

And Michigan, you know, we'll see how it works out. I talked to Abu to Al Sayed Abdul Al Sayed, excuse me, the day before that. He's his line is just like you know. Oh, it's a bad war. Why are we doing it?

War, war, war. It's all bad. It never leads to anything good, and we have higher prices. It seems like a somewhat superficial approach to understanding what's going on. Also, you know, which I brought up with Al Sayed, a very interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal a few days back, which said that it that we're almost at the levels of oil leaving the region through alternate means other than the Persian Gulf than we were at right before the war started.

Yeah.

So, I mean, it. It's amazing the creativity and the facility that's being used to pump oil out. The goal, in my mind, should be to make the Persian Gulf obsolete. We keep the blockade intact. All of the oil producers find other ways to get their oil out, which they are doing.

And we were originally told it would take two years to find diversionary pipelines. Not that's not the case. It's getting out.

So these are the stories that I think are not told enough, and they're certainly way more granular than what all. Talking about right, but also the Strait is opening up a little. There's been some tax now, yeah, but they just keep powering through.

So the Strait is getting close to where it was on our side of the Strait. But looking at the situation in Iran right now, it's for Jim to say. I don't like war or Middle Eastern wars. You just have to understand we have this enemy. Whether we want to fight this enemy, absorb their blows, watch our ally get rocketed and eventually destroyed—that's a decision.

But you can't have no decision. No decisions means the end of Israel eventually. Yeah, I mean, look around the Middle East, and prior to the revolution in Iran, these countries were fairly friendly with each other. Iran and Israel had open communication. You know, you see the former, the the crown prince, the exiled crown prince of Iran, whose father was the Shah.

You know, who was overthrown, obviously during the revolution. He recently went back to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Remember the relationship that the countries used to have. I mean. Pre-regime, the Middle East was a very, very different place, and you know it's 50 years ago.

That's a that's a blink in the course of history. But I think to to not understand the goal, which is to expand economic advantage for these countries, you've seen such a huge transition. You've got Hezbollah. You know, Lebanon is butting heads with Hezbollah in their own country. They want to be free.

You have new leadership in Syria, which is. A move in the right direction.

So you have to sort of recognize history doesn't move overnight, and gas prices can go up. I think they will come down when these pipeline issues get get figured out, and I think that that is actually happening if you really look at it. Right, but in the short term, it's hurting it's hurting the Republican Party because diesel, especially, absolutely for some reason, diesel and the refinery capacity on diesel is problematic, as they say, because. Ukraine, Russia is not exporting at all anymore, and Iran is almost not. You know, they're not moving any product anymore, and they were able to move product for quite a long time in the beginning stages of this.

But they, as far as I understand it, they're, they're, you know, their supplies are kind of full, and they can't remove them, so they can't make anymore or refine anymore, and that obviously has an impact on global diesel prices as well. I just want to bring up you had that interview with Abdul El Sayed earlier this week, and he kept. I'm telling you, he's a capitalist. You know, there's stuff he's speaking to the DSA multiple times. AOC is back with the DSA.

The people are endorsing him. Bernie Sanders, AOC, and that streamer from California, who's so basically so responsible. Here's the exchange: On is he a capitalist? Did he convince Martha? Cut eighteen.

I'm a capitalist because I believe that we leave it to supply and demand, right, to allocate where capital ought to go and the goods that we produce. But I also believe that there's a basic amount of soil that we need. Good school, clean air, clean water, healthcare, childcare—those are things that just are in the firmament.

Now, those are the basic foundations. It's not disturbing to me to think that government should be able to offer you those basic things, just like you got and I got. I'm so grateful for the amazing public schools that I got to. We pay so much money for those services.

Well, the reason we pay so much money is because we end up fighting wars that we shouldn't be fighting. That's why we end up paying so much money, and because we cut loopholes for the richest people who pay a lower effective tax rate than we do.

So I would rather us not buy a whole bunch of wars, and I would rather us buy really good schools. I mean, as I said, right after that, you know, you look at Newark, New Jersey, for example. They spend more per student than most places in the entire rest of the state, and they have the lowest achievement rate.

So, money does not. Yeah, money does not make better education. We know what makes better education. Look at what's happening in Alabama. Look what happened in Arkansas.

What makes it is, you know, improving teaching. Charter schools, giving people more choice in the schools that they go to, and sticking to the basics and not teaching kids—you know—not spending like hours a day on bullying and peripheral issues. You have to stick to the mission of the school. But he, obviously, I don't know how he calls himself a capitalist because what he's saying is that he wants the government to run all the things that he ticked off: childcare, schools, healthcare. He wants to give all that power to the government.

So when I said, you know, you call yourself a Capitalist, and then I play the soundbite from Donny saying that the government gives you your dignity. I guess there was a bit of sarcasm in my question to him because I'm like, "Are you going to debate this guy? Because you sound just like him." Yeah, it was it was great, but I worry about him winning more than you know. You know what happened in Nebraska, Republican or this so-called independent. You know, Tom Cotton in Arkansas could be an upset there.

I doubt it in Texas, but I worry about him. More than anything else, because they'll make people think that these, I think, this possible Islamists could work his way through the system and get a position in a purple state. I think that is worrisome. I mean, I'm looking at what Tony Blair just said about what's happening in the UK, and I think that what's going on in France right now and in the UK are very instructive for us. This is where we could go if we elect people who want to have a socialist government, and in many ways, a government that doesn't want to see any support for Israel at all.

And remember that the reason for supporting Israel is the kind of you know Judeo Christian values that Marco Rubio is speaking about right this minute in Greece today. It's protecting Western civilization. And Tony Blair talked about this. He said this weekend the UK's Green Party passed a motion in. Titled Zionism is racism, which commits the party to a single Palestinian state and a world where Israel does not exist.

And to Tony Blair, that is problematic. If you like Western civilization and you care about the Holy Land, know that about it. Plus, he gets into the nitty-gritty with the Palestinians. One of the things he said to President Bush was, "I'll help you in Iraq. You got to help me with the Middle East." But if you look at Gaza, You got Gaza.

Would you deal with it? The West Bank is is the battleground now. But if you look at Israel, when you mention that Iran is the problem. But Egypt was the problem. They led a big push to wipe out Israel, Syria, Iraq.

Everybody joins in, and they lose in forty-eight and seven, in sixty-seven, and seventy-three. And every time Israel pushes a little bit more back and creates those buffer zones, so they gave back the Sinai Peninsula and they got peace. Golan Heights right now is not really in dispute, but I am sure Syria would want it back. I don't think they'll get it back, but right now that's not a daily thing. When Sharon just says take Gaza back, you know Jordan was running Gaza, and was you know they didn't want any part of it.

So when he gave it to the Gazans, look what they did with it.

So if you're Israel, why would you do that again? And then you go, well, that's Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Well, Palestinian Authority has no authority.

So we're dealing with the you know Biden won't only deal with the boss. Boss has no power. He might be talking about the King of England.

So. They were in a fantasy world. When people say two state solution, who are you dealing with? Exactly. You know, and Hamas is still, you know, remnants of Hamas are still in control in Gaza.

And unfortunately for the people of Gaza, they did, you know, they elevated Hamas and made them the leadership. And that was the moment when Israel put up their barriers between on the border there, because they, you know, well, if Hamas is going to, if you're going to elect Hamas, we're going to have more missiles coming our way.

So now we need to. Ourselves after that election in I think early two thousand five, if I am right.

So you know this, it the future of the people there is something that. Is you know central to figuring this out, and I do believe I know that you know this peace board is trying to make some progress, but it does need to be rebuilt, and it needs to be part of the equation when you look at the remaking, hopefully, of the Middle East, where there is a stronger economy and they can return to the way that they used to be—these dignified, independent countries that are not all tentacles of Iran, terrorist proxy tentacles of Iran. Yeah, it wouldn't be too much to ask when we come back. We just talk about the midterms. One more thing with Martha McCallum.

Her show is coming up at the story at three o'clock. And according to reports, he's talking to my people. I might make an appearance. Yeah.

If she can meet my money demands, and a lot of times she claims to not have the budget. I I'm good for it. I swear. Back in a moment. Real talk, real guests, real insight.

Where curiosity meets conversation. It's the Brian Kilmeade Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. There is a progressive and a pragmatic wing of the party.

We'll have a healthy debate. That's what we should have. I have been upfront. I don't believe the socialist wing. I think they are a separate party.

They believe in defunding the police, which is not the party's position. They believe in open borders and open prisons. That's not the party's position. When you switch that, we can talk. That said, and if you think people are so confident in what you're selling, we'll see in November.

Now, I happen to think we'll have that a good debate about that. That was Ron Manuel with John Hannity, and I like when the Ron Manuals, the Al Saieds, they come here. You got to just give you a point of view. We want to hear all sides. We, the main thing about our channel, the reason why we have so many viewers, is you don't have to flip the channel to get another opinion, right, Martha McCallum?

Absolutely. You're the one who has a lot of. We're celebrating our 30 year anniversary, and we, you know, we always want to hear all sides. We want to give people independent voters, as you said this morning, Brian. We have.

Something like thirty percent people who are registered Democrats who are avid Fox viewers.

So, you know, I think that one of the great things about our thirty-year history is that we've proven that when something is happening, we are now the the. Network of record. I mean, we're where people go when news is breaking, and we've proven that over and over again. We've outpaced the networks in our election coverage. We've broken more stories than anybody.

So that's what we're super proud of today. Yeah.

So how many years you been here? Twenty two. Twenty two. Yeah.

Well, that's a long time. Yeah.

How many years are you? I'm twenty nine. Yeah.

So I got. They wouldn't let you in the door in the first round. Not right away. They go. They said, "Brian, we'll prove to you we can do it." And then we're going to bring in.

We'll take you on approval. I started filling in. I think a month into, month or two in, just doing sports. And they go, "Oh no, if you're going to fill in, you have to do the Sunday show." I go, "Great." I said, "I remember. I'm on another network called New Sport." So they, I followed him.

I followed the sportscaster around. They go. You think you got it? I go. Yeah, it was.

He did a good job. He goes. Good because tomorrow you can go on. I go. I can't.

I go. I'm on another channel. He goes. No one sees your channel. No one sees ours.

Don't worry about it.

So I go. Really? So I go. Screw it. I'm going on.

How can that's great?

So there was basically my audition on the air because the guy needed a sick day. There was no two sports guys. Yeah.

And then they go. Oh, would you be able to do the Sunday show? I'm like, what's a Sunday show? He goes, a three hour sports show. I'm like about what he goes.

Well, we gotta we gotta put it together. We haven't really done it yet, but he doesn't want to do it.

So do you want to do it? I'm like, yeah. But I'm on another channel. He go, I don't think it matters. And I go, you know, wasn't on in New York.

Nobody was carrying Fox News, right? And little did we know what would happen. I know, no, that's such a great story. And I heard someone say earlier today that you know, one of the tech guys. They said to him, "Like, do you have any friends?

Just bring all your friends here because we need all of them." Yeah, I had this guy, Craig Thomas, who was this fantastic producer, and he got out of Dartmouth. Got out of Dartmouth, and he was already, and I had I had been doing stuff in TV and radio for thirteen years, so I, I know who's good. I go, this guy is unbelievable. And I go, how'd you get the job? He goes, I got called.

I was sleeping in my dorm. I had sent out a resume, and I told him I got to wait to graduate. And they go, well, how how many weeks do you need off?

So he goes, you really want me that bad because you don't really know me. He ends up being unbelievable, but he thought. The whole industry is like this. It's like, yeah, they call you in your bed in the dorm, exactly. But then now everybody wants to get in.

As you know, it's even hard to get an internship here. It is. It's hard to get an internship here, and a lot of our employees do come out of the internship program because you know they have the experience. Oh yeah. If you're good, you get hired.

If you're good, you will get hired for sure. Yeah.

No, we we have an extraordinary team, and that's one of the things that I'm most proud of, and also just a lot of great friendships over the years. We've all, you know, watched our kids grow up together.

Now some of them are getting married and moving on to their own careers, and so it's it's a it's just an amazing place to be. The day that I said yes to come here from CNBC was really like the smartest move that I ever made. When did you know it was the smartest move you made? Oh, very early on. There's just a sense of excitement here, and you know, things don't we don't put things through you know several layers of bureaucracy.

It's like, oh, that's a good story. Go do it. You know, and if you raise your hand and say, you know, for me, I said I really would love to be. I'll do anything to cover these conventions. You know, it was a two thousand four election.

I was like, you know what? I'll just like stand on the street corner and talk about how traffic's picking up. I just want to be part of the part of the team. And I found myself on the floor of the convention that. That cycle with Major Garrett and Carl Cameron at the time, who were our seasoned political reporters.

So I was like, "You better do well here. You better really do your homework and do a good job." And you know, it was it was so satisfying to just work really hard and to to do well and to have people say, "Good, that was good. We want you to do it again." You know. And do you you have a new book coming out too? I do.

I do. Thanks for the book of Valor. It's a story of America's history. And it's told through the first-person narratives of twelve people who represent each era of American history, from the Mayflower women. And you, Brian, are the spectacular voice of William Dawes in our Revolutionary chapter.

And he was, you know, sort of the unsung hero of the night that Paul Revere rode. He rode the southern route while Paul Revere rode the northern route, and then they rode together that night until they both basically got chased down by the British. And you know. Handed it off to the to the militiamen in Lexington and Concord, and it goes all the way up through the Battle of Shock Valley. Matt Williams is a Medal of Honor recipient.

His story is absolutely extraordinary, and in his case, he and his wife Kate tell their story. They told it to me, and then I wrote it in their voice.

So I got "Uniting the States" come out on Tuesday. We overlap with the Boston Massacre. Yes, but the six stories that I have with the Boston Massacre, I look at Paul Revere as a silversmith. Because Paul Revere put the plaque together that told the story and exaggerated the story of what happened that day, and it got picked up by all the papers and it was imprinted in a million places, and it was people's perception of the way it went down. And what I loved about it, and the reason why I included it, is because at trial the soldiers were exonerated because there was reasonable doubt.

That's right, and it shows by John Adams. See, yeah, by John Adams, Attorney John Adams, former Sons of Liberty guy. Yes, you know, I guess former. Because there's no more Sons of Liberty. Maybe not, Martha.

Thanks so much. Great to see you, and I will see you today and watch the story at three o'clock. You listen to the Brian Kilmeade Show.