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Atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sewing division. It's Brian Kilmeade, and welcome to the Brian Kilmeade Show. How are you today? I'm Mary Walter, sitting in for Brian. Got a packed show for you coming up later this hour.

Mike Sorelli will be joining us. I, you, you know him from the show. He has a brand new Fox Nation special out about Michael Monsor, who is a Navy SEAL who was killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Freedom.

So we will talk to him about that. It sounds like a really interesting show. Joining us now, Theo Wold is here. Theo is a former Assistant Attorney General, former White House Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy. Under President Trump and former Idaho Solicitor General, find him online at Real Theo Wold W O L D Theo.

Great to speak with you again. How are you? I'm doing well, Marion. It's good to be with you. How you been?

I'm doing great. I have so many questions to ask you about.

So many things to talk about.

So let's go. All right. I wanted to jump right into it. I want can can we talk a little bit about the French riots? Can you explain?

So is is this so? Supposedly students, from what I understand, and correct me if I'm wrong, because I think you know we're kind of watching it, but nobody's really paying attention because it's France, right?

So Americans are like whatever. But you see a lot of what's happening there here. I think there are parallels, and I may be wrong, but these are supposedly "quote unquote" students, right, that are are that are rioting because their schools are failing and the schools are falling apart.

So because the schools are falling apart, they're they're. Burning them down, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is it students who are doing this rioting? Yeah, I think that's the most important question to sort of target, Mary, especially for American audiences, because there is a move here to say, no, this isn't about any other factors occurring in French political life. This is just one of those.

You know, we see about them all the time. The transit strikes, the labor shortages—like this—is what happens in France. They just do protests, and I think that misses. Really, what's unique and unusual about what's happening in France right now?

So it is true that students and their unions and and sort of imagine this if you can for those you know listening in here that they've got teachers unions just like we do, but the students are also unionized. Generational support staff, admin staff are all unionized in France. They have complained about conditions in French high schools in particular, and this is. Kind of amazing, I think, for Americans because we, you know, there's literally bestseller, New York Times bestseller books about how good of a job the French do on things like cafeteria lunches and their advanced science equipment.

So the idea that French schools have been underinvested in would probably make most Americans kind of scoff. But what's different here is there have been protests for years in France. The violence, yeah, the rioting, the destruction of public property, including burning these schools down, and the Threat of violence and actual harm done to first responders, fire officers, police—all of that is unusual. And I think, really, what France is learning in real time is that when you import an underclass from the third world of people who do not like your culture and are not willing to abide by the conventional sort of normal moralities or the rule of law, that you're going to have broader societal damage. And I think, really, I mean, I don't want to you know sound too You know, do and bloom here, but I think this is just the beginning for France, and I think other countries in a similar position, in Holland and obviously in the UK, are going to be looking at something very similar over the next few years.

So, is this tied in with immigration in those countries? Yes, most certainly. I mean, you know, one of the central claims of the rioters is that we were promised something and we're being denied it because of who we are. Essentially, a racial sort of immigration claim, and I think the current crisis in France has been playing over for years. As you know, Mary, there are whole communities, whether it's in you know the majority of Marseille, on certain arrondissements in Paris.

That are essentially functioning as parallel societies at this point, where they have really their own sort of civil family law adjudication systems. They have their own ways of securing funding from the state, and really, I think you know, there's a growing sentiment in France that we've got to have a course correction, a total political change. I think the unfortunate part here is this isn't something that you can sort of vote your way out of. The loss of social cohesion, the increasing levels of violence. I think it'll take time.

It takes a long time, generations, to rebuild the kinds of conventional morality that has been lost in France after wave after wave of mass migration. And this isn't just like a general election thing. This is the work of generations.

So obviously, we have to talk about the parallels in this country, right? We have rapidly growing areas in this country. We're in one generation, and it started with Barack Obama, who brought in a lot of Somalis and brought in a lot of of Muslims and put them in specific areas in the country, in the Midwest, for instance. The biggest example, of course, is Dearborn, where it is a parallel society. There, we have you, and you have the pockets in in other states as well.

New Jersey has. You know, Patterson, which the police officers' their badges are in Arabic. Like you know, it's it's it's not even in English, and they they you know fly other flags beside the besides American flag.

So, are we headed down this same road, or is America somewhat insulated from this because of the size of the country? Yeah, no. Great way of framing this, Mary, because that's our defense mechanism. Is so many Americans will say, "Well, Dearborn is just a one-off." Minneapolis is just a couple neighborhoods, and really, when you look at the overall demographic splits, this kind of radical political Islamic agenda accounts for like less than three percent of the population. And I assure you, I'm not being hyperbolic here.

But there were lots of commentators in France, political commentators, in the same and the UK who said that sort of thing ten, fifteen years ago. I think the point of France, you know, when there was a video just the other day that really no. Outlets have carried here in the United States, where the high school students who have just beaten a police officer unmercifully start chanting, "We love ISIS and we want to execute Jewish children." That was their chant. They weren't chanting, "Hey, we want more, you know, fresh food in our cafeteria." We want, we love ISIS and we want to execute Jewish children. Is what they were chanting.

I think when you notice that so explicitly, it's too late. It's absolutely too late to have a course correction.

So when you look at a place like Minneapolis, Now with the you know the you know the would-be shooter in the Mall of America, we have whole communities now in this country that are completely disconnected from the sort of the ebb and flow of typical American life, and it is fomenting a kind of radicalism that will that would really honestly shock. Most Americans, yeah, and we imported it, which which which is obviously a big problem. One last question on this, and I want to move on to Cornell, the Cornell issue. I'm shocked at the lack of enforcement against these quote unquote students that are rioting and destroying things in Europe. When did the world decide, except for Asian countries, they still use water cannons, right, with dye in them, so that they can get them later, right?

But the rest of the world has decided that. All right, we're going to let you burn a few things down, and maybe we'll get. We we can't arrest anybody. I don't know why. And then when you do, the judges let them out.

When did the When did the world decide that we're just going to allow this behavior? Yeah, I mean, again, Mary, a big sea change occurred in a lot of these countries at the same time as we, you know, as you were noting, as we had the Obama administration here in the U.S. Community policing notions that we developed through progressive academics, you know, in the Ivy leagues, that were adopted in places like Santa Monica and Los Angeles, have made their way and infiltrated into the United Kingdom and France and the Netherlands and Spain. And so, I don't want to blame us, but a lot of our progressive notions about criminal justice reform, about community policing, were adopted wholesale in these other countries. And you're exactly right.

The attitude now is we can tolerate the. Destruction of our, in many cases, I mean, you see the damage that was done in France. I mean, these are these are ancient establishments, you know, patrimony, a cultural patrimony that's being destroyed overnight, and. And look, and the toleration goes further. I mean, I don't want to, you know, tie to an even more gruesome story here, but the Muslim rape gangs in the United Kingdom.

The attitude from community policing and from the national police structure was the same, which was, this is a different culture. We don't understand their cultural norms. We have to have some toleration and acceptance of the difference here. And and again, I think that would shock most Americans. But again, you're starting to see the same attitude from municipal and county authorities in places like Dearborn or Plano, Texas, where where the instinct is to say we need to check our natural impulse to enforce the law because we may not understand the cultural separation here.

Yeah, I don't care about the cultural separation. You chose to come here, oh well. That's just me, which is why I'm not in power. I'm right there with you. I'm right there with you, Mary.

This is why I'm not in power because I would just wield it ruthlessly. Very quickly, I want to play something for you. This is cut twelve, Eric. This is Sarita Kamat Reddy on America Reports, talking about Latisha James and the Cornell case that everyone is talking about now. That's in the news.

I just want you to listen to this. I've prosecuted sexual assault cases as a federal prosecutor. I put someone in prison for life for a series of horrific sex crimes. And what you really need is someone who's going to approach it fairly, impartially, and with integrity. Tish James has none of those things.

She's already screwed up the case by prejudging it. Has she already screwed up the case by prejudging it? I'm not an attorney, but I watch a lot of Judge Judy.

Well, I used to, not anymore. But it seems to me is if the prosecutor has already said, "I stand with Jane Doe," this is going to be a kangaroo court. These poor guys don't stand a chance, do they? No, that's exactly right. That's exactly right, Mary.

And this is one of those moments where, like, we either believe in the rule of law, or we say what we're actually doing here is a midterm election. You know, get out the vote drive, and having Tish James participate, she made numerous social media posts about the case. She's been very active in media interviews, saying how she feels this should have gone, or who was culpable here, and then she's brought in as an independent prosecutor to review the matter. It's it's Laughable on its face, but this is consistent. I mean, Sally Yates was hired by the university itself to review the Title IX claims.

She's also not someone who is unbiased or objective here, and I think that's how you know if you're following this story. This is how you know it has more to do with the midterms than about ensuring that there is you know safe spaces for female students at progressive Ivy League universities.

So can I just ask you?

So from what I understand about this case, we don't have a lot of time left. But in the time we do have here, just could you just quickly give us a summary? This happened several years ago. The young lady filed, I believe, a campus report after a couple of days. But I've also seen reports that she then, when she went to the police lately and brought this whole thing back up again, has changed her account of what happened.

Can you just quickly straighten all of that out for us? I mean, Mary, your counting is really—that's—that's exactly right. There was a report filed; it occurred two, let's see, three years ago. At this point, in 2023, she revisited her original claim to to the campus police and the local police authorities, and and made amendments to her original statement. The guys who were accused of participating in this and themselves were intoxicated to the point of blacking out.

There were multiple instances where they sort of. With progressive, you know, sort of sexually liberalized culture, which was they checked in with her to make sure she was still consenting to what was happening, and she assured them that she was. They then explicitly in writing told her that we thought that there was consent. The next day, she she agreed in text message, and then. Three of the Cornell seven, three of these men who are now facing you know public scrutiny, international condemnation, had no sexual contact with her whatsoever.

They came into the room and then they they left the room, and then another one of the accused, his only sexual contact with her was a kiss. And so, look, I think the problem here is the left has created a cesspool culture on on our universities, which says anything goes so long as someone consents. These young people on both sides, the the the accuser and the accused, all said they they consented to this contact as as much as you and I, Mary, may find this all kind of deeply objectional. This is the kind of thing that Cornell and their classes on you know um you know sexuality, bestiality. They you know mean have courses on this at Ivy League schools.

This is the kind of thing that they teach. And then the young people follow the rules, and now it's leading to you know the sitting attorney general of New York, the former deputy attorney general of the United States, investigating these these seven accused young men. I think it's a deeply sad story, but the blame here really rests. With the elite academics who have said again and again over the last thirty years, as long as you ensure there is equal and and mutually agreed upon consent, there are no rules, and this is the kind of culture we get when that is the predominant view. The whole thing is so sad, and what also bothers me is the the selectiveness in which we quote unquote believe all women, right?

Believe all women, unless it's Tara Reid. Believe all women, unless it's a Republican who's accusing one of our candidates, Graham Platner, of something, right? There, there is a very the the morals are mutable, if you will, and. I I just think with Letitia James I think she got away with what she did with President Trump by saying I'm gonna she campaigned on I'm gonna get Trump and then prosecutes him of course and in a New York courtroom and gets 32 convictions something along those lines with with the ridiculousness. Anyway, that that was not her.

She was with the property. She was with the um with the Mar-a-Lago real estate case, right? And the VL in the valuing of Mar-a-Lago.

So she's gotten away with it all along. She is untouchable because. She's protected by other people in the legal world, and because of that, I I feel for these guys.

Well, I don't know whether they whether they're guilty. I don't know what happened. I wasn't there, but I don't think they're going to get a fair case, and their lives are going to be destroyed. And to me, it's very reminiscent of the Duke Lacrosse case, and that was miscarriage of justice. And we can't keep having that in this country for political purposes.

Theo, we got to run. Thank you so much for joining me. You can find him on X at Real Theo Wold W O L D. Thank you so much, and enjoy the rest of your day. Thanks, Mary.

All right, coming up, Mike Cirelli will be joining us. He has a brand new Fox Nation special out, and we're going to talk about that with him. That's coming up on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmeade.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. He was U.S. citizen born in 2008. His parents from Somalia.

Mother naturalized in 2010. And this is what happens, unfortunately, when you have you know sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, and you allow radicalization to happen. Because when you create sanctuary cities like this, you create a A hotbed for this type of activity to go on. You're seeing more and more of these young people that are getting radicalized. That was Mark Wayne Mullen on with Will Cain yesterday, speaking about Sheikh Dune Abdul Mahamoud.

He's an 18-year-old Minnesota man, and he allegedly spent months discussing his desire to carry out an attack on the United States. He told an FBI confidential source in September, "I can't wait until I kill kufar man." October 24th is the day. That was according to an affidavit filed in. Federal court in Minnesota.

So, what happened now?

Now, what Mark Wayne Mullen was saying there is: see, his his parents were in this country; they were not citizens; they became naturalized later in this country. She had a baby here, so he's automatically an American citizen. And then, what does the left say?

Well, you can't deport the family. Because the sun has to stay here.

Well, they couldn't take the sun back with them. Apparently, but so that's what happens.

Now, what happened? The conversations.

Well, the FBI had an investigation that began around December of 2024, and eventually, it involved a confidential human source who communicated extensively with this guy over encrypted messaging. And they centered he wanted to leave the U.S. to join Al Shabab in Somalia, but he couldn't get the money for a flight. But by July, then his plans changed, and he told this source that he didn't have enough money, so he's going to do the attack here. He bought two pistols online, and he said he was going to go to the Mall of America or the Minnesota State Fair around Christmas.

He discussed attacking the Mall of America with an assault rifle, and told the source that he could drive straight into the crowded place and start shooting. And he. On September 25th, he got his his weapon, and he wanted to be able to do this during a Kaffar festival at the Mall of America because it was an Asian holiday that was going to be celebrated at the mall. This one got caught. Thank you know, thank God for the men and women who deal with this and stop these things.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. Michael Mansoor is one of the best individuals I've ever met. Center for Catfish One Four. Michael was the—he just had this really calm, relaxed presence.

When Mike got to the point of trusting you, then you were there forever. How a man can give his life so willingly, with such purpose and resolve? I think a lot of us thought we were pretty invincible. When you start to lose your own, you start to realize how fragile life is. Let's welcome guest Mike Sorelli.

He is a retired Navy SEAL. He is also a Chief Talent Officer for Overwatch Mission Critical, best-selling author. He spent two decades leading elite special operations teams through some of the world's most complex missions. And as I said, he serves as the Chief Talent Officer of Overwatch Mission Critical. He's also a national leadership speaker, so he's done so much.

Mike Searle, welcome to the Brian Kilmeade Show. Mary, thank you for for having me. I just want to tell people they can also find you on Exit MJ Sirelli, but it's S A R R A I L L E. Look it up. Look up the spelling, okay?

Probably just just look up the spelling.

So tell us, tell us about Michael Mansour and this story. It's now available on Fox Nation, and he did something very courageous during the Battle of Ramadi in two thousand and six.

So, so tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, this this documentary is it's special, and we we did one called "Final Fight: The Men of Extortion Seventeen" in August, really commemorating the lives of these warriors who gave their lives. But Mikey stood out, and this documentary isn't about I'm sorry, how Mikey died. It's it's really about how he lived, and you know that grenade that he ultimately jumped on and saved my life and my two other teammates. It's not about you know how he died.

It just revealed who he was. He was a light in darkness, and at the time in Ramadi, which Time Magazine hailed in 2006 as the worst place on earth, you know, we saw terrorism, we saw cruelty, we saw extreme violence. Mikey never lost his humanity, his compassion, or his faith. He he was a incredibly effective warrior. He was already nominated for a Silver Star.

By that point, for running into the street to pull a teammate to safety, but he was the light we all depended on. And in the final moments on our final mission of that deployment, we ended up in a bad scenario, and he did not hesitate. He just jumped on the grenade and saved us all.

So let me ask: When someone does something like that, I mean, you you hear these stories about things like that, but usually, you know, they're in the movies. You know, this is real life. Were you surprised at that moment, like when he threw his body on that grenade? Was that a surprise to you? Did you try to stop him?

You know, Mary, that is—it's a great question, and even twenty years after this has happened, I still struggle with that. There was times when I had conversations with Mikey after he passed, sort of upset with him for why he did that, because he had the only route to jump in the opposite direction and save save himself, and instead he chose us. He knew that he knew that Doug, three feet to his left, had a had three boys. He knew I had a two year old daughter at the time, but I say it's the damnedest thing I've ever seen. He looked in my direction, yelled "grenade," and you don't have much time to think.

It was just instinctive for him, but that's who he was. He was humble. He was selfless. He was fiercely loyal, and very few humans are that willing just to give their lives in an instant for for other people. And you know the the wounds that we suffered morally and emotionally.

Are as fresh today as they, you know, twenty years later, as they were on that day. But I have to be thankful to them and just try to live my life in a way that honors them. And I'm going to tell you that Fox Nation did such a special piece on this. It is just beautifully done, and it honors the man that we we already knew. You know, this is to me.

This is like a Saving Private Ryan type type of movie that should be made. In this, it took a while to. How long did it take to actually get this made?

So, Fox Nation commissioned this in April. I think we filmed in May. Four teammates. Three on the rooftop and another platoon mate of ours, all through Florida, along with Mikey's sister Sarah, and it was a full day of filming. And then ultimately, it took them months to cover or to cut.

I mean, that's how. I'm sure they were arguing in the cutting room about how to put this piece together, but as Fox does, they did not miss the mark on this. And I think Americans that watch this. We'll realize we we need more Michael Monsoirs in America. Oh, does mean you need?

Does mean you need to wear uniform? We need more of all of you in America. You know, all of you. Whose idea was this? I'm going to have to go, and you probably know this man.

He's a mentor of mine, Gavin Haden, with Fox Nation. He had known about this story. He gave me a call. And said we we wanted to do a story on Mikey, and I thought about it and contacted his sister, and the family was fully supportive, and Fox moved ahead, and we're thankful that they did.

Now, speaking of a sister, I want to go to cut twenty four here, Eric. This was back in two thousand in eight, under President George W. Bush, where Mikey was. Honored with the Medal of Honor, and he was awarded that posthumously. And here's a little bit about that.

Mikey's Medal of Honor is fast tracked. I think it was one of the quickest Medal of Honors approved. It was hard because the the reason why we were there is not something that we would ever wish upon anyone. But President Bush was. Very real.

We will not let his life go in vain. This nation will always honor the sacrifice he made. May God comfort you. May God bless America. These are the stories that I firmly believe we need more of, in order to get more Mike Monsors, more Mike Sorellies, that that step forward and say that this is something I want to do.

I want to protect this country. I want to serve. It's not an easy thing to do, so I think having his story told is so so important, and that's why I'm so glad that this is available on Fox Nation. You can stream The Man of Valor. The Michael Mansoor story only on Fox Nation.

Now, and how long did you say it took to make this? It was. It sounds like it was pretty quick. It was a matter of I think six months from start. Wow.

To production, and I've got to say, and I missed two names, Miriam and Christina, the ones actually doing the work behind it. They it became emotional for them, and they wanted to get this right, and they did. Did did making this? I assume that you were involved in the making of this. Obviously, did it help?

Get get some closure, kind of put a pin on the story and the relationship that you had with Mike, and having your life saved by him. I can imagine that there was probably survivor's guilt, which is would be totally normal and natural. Did it help with all of that to kind of wrap it up and and say, okay, you know, it happened. I will always honor him, and and now it's it's. I don't know, like is it done?

Put a bow on it in a way. No, you know, Mary, it's a great question, and I'm probably going to give you an answer that you weren't expecting. There isn't a day I wake up that he isn't the first thought I have, and think about him a hundred times during the day, and then the last person I pray to when I go to sleep. I don't think there's enough therapy in the world that can remove that guilt and that shame because I was the senior guy on the rooftop; I was in charge. And I still review in my head the steps from the the preparation for the mission, the planning to the the decisions that were made on that rooftop, and that will forever be with me.

That that doesn't lessen the gratitude that I have for Mike that he allowed me to live, and that that that is a gift he gave me. He gave me, as well as Doug and Betty, who were on the rooftop, and we don't want to squander that, but. Part of us died on that rooftop too, and I will say that the thing I owed a fox is that I hadn't seen Doug or Benny Olson in years, or Ray Babbiera, and I hadn't seen the family in a while.

So this brought us back together to celebrate Mikey, and I think we we also realized some bad assumptions. The three, the four of us didn't want to contact the family because we felt like we were ripping a bandaid off every time they tossed a memory of Mike, and they didn't want to burden us. And we both agreed we had bad assumptions on both sides. Mike would want us to be together. He would want us to keep in contact.

And I said this to to Griff on another show recently: as you know, the Gold Star families don't forget. They they carry that pain and burden every day.

So if you know a Gold Star family. You know the best thing you do is say we have not forgotten, and we will not forget, and we will continue to honor them. But we just don't want to be a burden on those gold star families, and I understand that. But to put a hand on their shoulder and let them know we're always here for them is the greatest testament and gratitude we can show for the sacrifices they made. Absolutely, and you're all a part of that story, whether you wanted to be or not.

That's part of your life story now, just as it is a part of theirs. And I think the word I was looking for was cathartic, you know, to to help reconnect with his family, you know, and realize, okay, we're not a burden on them. That we share this, and and we're we're having the ability to tell his story, which is so important. And I I think it should be honored. And I wish more people.

Knew about him, and now you've given them that opportunity, which I think is amazing.

So you want to check it out, Man of Honor: The Michael Mansoor Story. It is only on Fox Nation. It is streaming now. It is an extraordinary act of courage. And again, more people should know about this.

So spread the word, Michael Sorelli. Thank you so much. Thanks for everything that you do. Thank you for your service and caring so much about this country. Thank you, Mary.

God bless America. God bless our troops. Absolutely, and God bless you. Thank you so much. More coming up on the Brian Kilmeade Show.

The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them—only on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade Show. For decades, Texas has been the state where people flee to escape the economic oppression and social collapse of Democrat-run California, New York, Illinois, and other failing blue states. But if Talafrico and the Democrats get their way, all of that squalor, misery, poverty, homelessness—you know—I said it the other day.

When the blues get in, everything becomes dirty. The streets are dirty. The doorknobs going into stores are dirty. The sidewalks are filthy, dirty. Everything becomes dirty and has a bad smell.

He's not wrong. That's President Trump last night in San Antonio, Texas. This is his third trip to Texas to rally for Ken. Paxton, I'm going to throw the number. We have a very, very.

We have about five minutes here. If you want to jump in, eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine, or tag me in a post on X at Mary Walter Radio. And I'm just curious. President Trump's been there three times. Why do you think that is?

Why do you think he's been there three times? Does he? Do you think that you know the left is saying this is a sign that Paxton's in trouble? Here's the thing, now I'm going to throw this out there to you. Did you know that Talarico has been off the campaign trail for eleven days?

Eleven days, and they mentioned that last night. Ken Paxton brought that out last night. That Talarico has. Where has he been? Where's where is James Talarico?

Eleven days. His campaign now had to respond, and they put out a statement saying that he had the flu, but he'll be back soon.

Now, I don't know about you. I've had the flu. We've all had the flu. No matter how bad that flu is, you're off from work for like three days, right? Three, four.

I don't know any, but maybe a week if you're a guy. Women will be back sooner.

Sorry, sorry, guys. I'm kidding, but but you're not gone for eleven days, right? And there are rumblings. You start hearing more and more that the polls are not what people are saying they are. And Republicans famously do not respond to polls.

So does President Trump know something the rest of us don't know, and so he's just giving Paxton that extra push to really push him ahead? Eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine. Like, why? Why three trips? But also, why is why is Hillary go off the campaign trail for eleven days?

The flu? I was like, that sounds good, but it doesn't make a lot of sense. Although he does look fragile, I will say, and he apparently does not eat meat. He only eats meat on camera and then probably spits it out.

So he, you know, he's a soy boy.

So he, you know, he may be a little weak. Kind of looks it, then look hearty.

So maybe he is out with the flu for that long. And and President Trump is right. When when the blues get in, everything becomes dirty and has a bad smell. Look at San Francisco. Look at L.A.

Look at Kensington in Philadelphia. Look at so many blue cities and what they do to it. Look at New York. New York is becoming that way. I want to go to cut three real quick, and I want to know if you think this is a good strategy for the president to tell people to pretend that he's on the ballot, especially when his approval rating is so low.

Is this a smart strategy? I'm asking you to pretend. Remember, pretend. You just have to pretend.

Somebody said I'm forcing them. I'm not forcing. Pretend that I'm on the ballot because we get a lot more votes when I'm on the ballot. We get exactly 48 percent more votes.

So. You know the way we are on the ballot. Let's face it, because they're going to destroy everything that we've done.

So please pretend that I'm on the ballot. Get out and vote. Early voting begins. Early voting begins October 19th and ends October 30th. Or just go vote Election Day.

We don't care. Just you got to get out and vote. You got to vote for Ken. You got to vote for Carlos. You got to vote for Dan Patrick.

You got to vote for the group. Yeah, listen. Democrats have been working at flipping Texas blue for quite some time, and Democrats we know do play the long game. You and I know that, but apparently the RNC does not know that. We've known this for a while, right?

They're leaving California. Where are they going? Texas. We're going to Texas. We're going to vote blue.

You see, there is a vote blue. Make Montana blue. Montana blue. That's what they're trying to do, and they will pick up and just go because you can be an artist anywhere. Apparently, you know you can.

You can. Your welfare checks follow you, and they. They pick up and they vote and they vote blue. Listen, I'm old enough to remember when New Jersey was a red state, and look what happened in my lifetime in New Jersey. Went from red to kind of purpley to to blue to deep dark blue, and New Jersey's a mess now.

So, so they're very good at at doing that. At moving and will this get the base out? Here's the thing. I think the see. Here's the thing.

I think the base is going to get out. That so. Excuse my question. I think the base will get out, but they need the independents. The independents who voted for President Trump in 2024 seem to be falling away with an alarming rate from the campaign.

And I think a lot of it is ignorance. If you guys listen to talk radio, if you're those people, you know, watch Fox News, you probably know more about the good things that President Trump has done, like Trump accounts. You know, Trump accounts. I have a friend who is total anti-Trump or didn't even dash because I don't know what you're talking about. Like, wow, you don't know what Trump accounts are?

Like, that's crazy. That's a good thing, but they don't know. They've been kept ignorant. Does voting for Trump or pretending he's on the ballot get those people back? That is the question.

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So check it out. Let's go to our guest, Judge Glock, from the Manhattan Institute, where he's an economist. He's a senior fellow and director of research. You can find him on X at Judge Glock. Super easy, Judge.

Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me.

So let's talk about the midterms, all right? Let's let's talk about President Trump was stumping last night in Texas for the third time for Ken Paxton, and I'm curious, why do you think he's gone back three times? Does he sense that there's a problem getting Paxton over the line? There's definitely a problem.

So Texas is a state that Trump won by almost 14 points in the last election. It was an absolute Landslide, and for a lot of people in Texas, they kind of, at least in the Republican Party, they thought they'd kind of put the two-party competitive races out of mind. There was a famous close call in 2018 when Ted Cruz just barely squeaked by to win the Senate race, but that was the last time a statewide Democrat was really competitive in a Texas election. This time, according to some of the polls, Tarico, Paxson's competitor, seems to be ahead, from anywhere from a few points to I've seen a poll even as up to close to seven, eight, or even nine points.

So that should be very concerning for Trump. It's obviously some general concerns about the economy and some particular concerns about Paxson as well. When President Trump says, "You know, pretend that I am on the ballot, vote for me. Pretend that I am on the ballot," he's preaching to the MAGA choir. He's preaching to the people who are at the rally.

How does this help him win back the incumbents? Excuse me, the the independents who have, according to the polls, been fleeing the the President Trump and the MAGA group. Yeah, I think the issue is he wants to go back to that 2024 election where he did win so overwhelmingly, and he's telling people just vote again this time, like you voted last time. As you mentioned, those independents are a little more suspicious this time around. They're suspicious partially again because of Paxton's problems, his marital problems, legal problems, the fact that he barely escaped impeachment.

From the Texas, from a very conservative Texas legislature, there's just a ton of personal problems with Paxton.

So Trump, I think, is probably correct that it would be better if Trump himself were on the on the ballot than Paxton. But there are these more general problems with the economy and especially with the cost of living that are making a lot of independents who fled to Trump in 2024 now looking in with a sort of sharper eye. Yeah, it's interesting. Democrats—they almost ran agave the Nazi tattoo. They almost got away with that.

But then a Democrat woman came out and said that you know he was abusive to her, and that was the end of that. It was okay when the Republican came out, but not the Democrat.

So, and instead they they put in a guy who has children with his second cousin, which I guess in some parts of the country that's a thing, and who has apparently at temper issues and issues with altercations with one woman. At least that we know of, they can run that, but we can't run a guy who had marital problems. Who's wife has ex wife has come out and said, I think she's his ex, has come out and said I support him. Why is it so hard for Republicans, but it's so easy for Democrats when they've got a problem candidate?

Well, there is just a lot more media attention on Republican candidates. The Republican media ecosystem obviously has been growing out for the past twenty, thirty years, but your mainstream. Obviously, top three or four network news channels. Obviously, your CNN and your MSNBC or MS Now. Your most of your average newspapers are still left leaning, so they're going to give a much sharper look at any Republican problem than a Democratic candidate with the same equivalent or even greater problems.

And that's just an issue. But Paxton has. Just made a fair number of enemies, even in the Republican Party in Texas. There is whatever he obviously can't compete with with your Nazi tattooed Maynor with his background and all of the problems he had. But in Texas, which is yeah a very conservative state, has been shown for the voting records over the past six seven years.

Paxton has has made some enemies, and and Trump has even alluded to that occasionally. He's pointed out that that Paxton kind of drives him nuts sometimes, and so it everyone knows that that he creates some particular issues in Texas that are going to be tough for voters to get over. I want to talk about party registration. Harry Enten over at CNN, who I just adore. That man, I don't know him, but I just love the way he does his segment.

He's so enthusiastic, and he he talks about GOP registration. Let's go to cut eight, Eric. Cut eight. This is him talking about compared to twenty years ago, where the Republican Party registration is now. Take a look here.

The GOP's best party registration position relative to the Democrats in a midterm in at least 20 years: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona. The bottom line is this: Republicans right now are in a much stronger position than they have been, not just compared to eight years ago, but over the long term as well. The relative health of the Republican Party, at least in terms of party registration, is pretty gosh darn good. And you look at those states, North Carolina, which has only recently started to become purple because of all of the people fleeing, you know, New York, New Jersey, because of the policies that they voted for there, and then fleeing to North Carolina and voted for the same thing. Same thing with Arizona and Nevada as well.

Those states that he mentioned, those four states, they they've got more GOP registration in those states. Pennsylvania, I think, is the other one. How does that affect the midterms? Do you think that plays into it? Because Republicans don't vote in midterms.

Yeah, so I mean, this is an interesting switch.

So historically, of course, the Republicans were the party that was much more likely to vote in midterms. They had higher levels of education in general. They tended to be tended to follow the news more closely. But in recent years, that has switched, and the Republicans have become much more of a working-class party, and much more of a party of people that are striving to get ahead, often people with just a high school education or even less. That that turnout in the midterms has gone down, despite the fact that you're seeing increasing numbers of people willing to identify as Republicans, and you know some of that is just the very, very long-term.

Ramifications of people in the South and elsewhere not identifying with the Republicans going back to the Civil War, and you know that even when people in the South and places like North Carolina started voting Republican, they often wouldn't identify as a Republican. They would just vote for the Republican president and. Senator and representative, and then just still say I'm a Democrat or independent.

So there's increasing number of people that are willing to go in the South and elsewhere and drop those old concerns and identify the party that they're most ideologically attuned with. But the reason people that have moved into the Republican Party, even though it's been great for the Republican Party in terms of expanding its brand, has also made them a little less eager to vote in the midterms. And you have a lot of highly educated, highly engaged Democrats that are very, very eager to vote this time around. Just very quickly, cut nine. This is Trump's favorability with independents.

Because I'll tell you, I'm not a registered Republican.

So what you just say resonated with me. I I just refuse to sign up for a team that I don't think fights.

So here here is Harry Enton on Trump's favorability with independents. Independence on Donald Trump in the key 2026 Senate states. You know, back in 2024, independence in these states. Look at this. Donald Trump won by an average of 15 points.

Look at him now. Look at this. This is just not even the same universe. This is like planet Krypton. I mean, look at this.

42 points underwater. That is a significant drop, well into the deep, Lucy. What is that, Johnny B? That is a shift away from the President United States. A 57 points.

A 57 point swing, which I said. That could very much lead to a midterm nightmare for Republicans. Fifty-seven point swing. Can can Republicans win in Texas without independents? Probably not, but I can sum up the problem in three words: inflation, inflation, inflation.

Donald J. Trump is the president today because he ran against Biden's inflationary policies. Because he ran against an unprecedented inflation that broke nine percent a year during Biden's term, and he promised to get prices down. That is the number one reason. Independents and people in the middle of the political spectrum.

Went to him, and even though inflation has, on the whole, stayed fairly low and never got it back up to the levels of Biden's term, it is higher today than it was when Trump entered office in January 2025. It's at 3.4 percent a year, and as long as Americans are overwhelmingly concerned about inflation, and that is still the number one issue in the polls. And as long as inflation is high, in particular gas prices, Trump's going to have a problem winning over those independents who care about pocketbook issues most of all.

Well, I will say, gas prices are coming down. I am seeing that in several places around, like like I know I live in the People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey, and it's you can get it for three thirteen, excuse me, four thirteen, four thirteen a gallon, and they pump it for you.

So, and I saw somebody where it was under four dollars. Post it. It's a start. It's still nowhere near where it was before the Iran War broke up, and then like it's it's we can all all hope that those gas prices keep coming down over the next few months. But as long as people are looking at from a year ago or two years ago and saying it was higher now than it was.

When I elected this guy, there are going to be those same concerns in place. Yeah, very quickly, I want to talk about the economy and AI, and people are also posting their electric bills, like how much their electricity has has gone up, and some people blame it on data centers if they live near one, but it's universal. Why why are people starting to notice, or actually, why is electricity becoming so expensive? Is it because Because Democrats wanted us all to have electric cars, some of those Democratic policies are an issue.

So, if you look at the areas where prices have increased the most, they are in many of those blue states who have very high renewable energy mandates. My current state of Virginia, I have a little line item on my bill that I have to pay a few bucks every month for the offshore wind project the state is building. California residents are obviously paying a ton because of their increasing renewable energy mix, and and these are states that have not, in general, outside of Virginia, my hometown, our home state. Not built a lot of data centers. The California and New York and other prices are going up despite the data center build up in other states.

So our data centers in general probably increasing demand for electricity and therefore driving the price a bit. Yes, but are they also able to invest in a lot more electric generation as they've been doing? Probably also yes. I think it's pretty much a wash, and I think that unfortunately a lot of the supposed green energy policies put in place during the last administration. In a lot of these blue states, is the real driver of electric costs, and people are just associating those with the recent AI and data center buildout.

So, where do you see this whole data center issue going? People don't want them near them because they're loud. They, they, they are just a blight. They're just these. Faceless, just these blobs on the landscape.

I've seen some, and it just looks so—I don't know—Soviet. And they build them because they need a lot of land for these things. You know, somebody sells a farm, and so you thought you were living near a farm, and the next thing you know, you got this thing going with the lights and the sound and everything else. How many of these things do we need?

Well, at least according to people investing in them, trillions of dollars worth of them, and. Thousands upon thousands of them.

So it's hard to get the exact number. We probably have a few thousand data centers in the United States right now. If you look at what the build out we're building, about twenty times the rate we were just four or five years ago.

So these are going to explode in number very soon. I mean, people don't want them near them for obvious reasons. They are not pretty. They are big concrete boxes, basically. As you pointed out, but as I've also told people, most of the American economy is run out of big, ugly concrete boxes.

We we have everything from your big warehouses, your Amazon fulfillment centers, to your power plants, and to your other things we need that just aren't. Pretty, but we need them for the economy to go.

Now, I think the important kind of compromise here will be to make sure these things are out of the way of neighborhoods, to make sure they do things to dampen the noise that comes out of them, and they aren't disturbing nearby people. Nearby residents, and that they are actually giving off sufficient benefits to local communities in terms of tax dollars and other returns that communities can feel comfortable inviting them to the general area, and ideally not right next door to a neighborhood. I think that's where this is is going to go, and it is going, despite people's opposition to them. More and more communities are welcoming them because of all of the benefits they can bring. It's a deal with the devil.

It is a deal with the devil. People don't do it. That's just me. Judge Glock. Thank you so much for joining me again.

You can find him on X at Judge Glock, which is probably the coolest name ever. Thank you so much. Enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you so much. It was great.

Great to talk to you. All right, coming up, we have Eric Shawn. You know him from Fox News. He's an anchor and a senior correspondent. He's going to tell us about stories of the American Mafia.

I so love this. That's coming up on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis because, man, do you need to know? It's Brian Kilmeade. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmeade. Mary Walter, in for Brian, kill me. Just want to tell you, you know, one of the things that's happening with the Trump administration is they're finding a lot of kids who were lost by the Biden administration. They just lost them. They came across the border, they put them with people, and didn't check who they were putting them with, and and they're lost.

But it's also happening now. You're starting to see this spread across the country. This kind of work. Aurora, Colorado, now had opened one year ago a human trafficking unit. In one year, they opened.

Fifty-three investigations, arrested twenty-eight suspects, and recovered twenty-nine survivors, including fifteen minors, in their first year. It was created in September of 2025. They have three detectives and a supervising sergeant, and the focus is sex trafficking involving people 21 and younger.

So they're concentrating their efforts on that. There's just so much of it, which is frightening. He said, "Having a dedicated unit helps lower their overall caseload and allows them to apply the time and effort that these cases deserve." The unit was built to put survivors at the center of investigations while targeting the people around them. Those arrested: 24-year-old of Aurora, who police link to multiple cases allegedly involving the exploitation of children over several years. Another another who repeatedly preyed on vulnerable children.

Who was? Oh no, that's that's me. I thought I said Marcia. It says Marchay. And they say that trafficking looks very different from abductions that you see in the movies.

It someone doesn't have to be snatched off the street. A lot of times, they target a child who is has run away from home, or who they talk about a sixteen year old who was brought to Aurora by her boyfriend. And then he left her there, and she had no way of surviving.

So she wound up in the the where she was living. Using sex to get a place to stay, and eventually for drugs, of course, right, and food, and they were able through her by talking to her, she came forward, get the people who were abusing her, who were trafficking her. But the point of this story in on Fox News here, this the gentleman who is a head of this this task force, gave an interview to Fox News Digital. Police Sullivan, police sergeant Sullivan, and he he said that people realize that this is happening in your neighborhood, so people have to keep their eyes out because it could be a really nice neighborhood and you don't know what's going on right down the street. People think it just happens in like inner cities; it doesn't always.

Coming up, Eric Shawn joining us here on the Brian Kilmeade Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Billy Batson remembered Tommy Dee Samone before Tommy was a gangster. Tommy came into his own and matured while while this guy Billy Batson was away, and everybody knew that Tommy had a little bit of a short fuse.

This guy Tommy Dee Samone was something of a loose cannon. All right, that's a clip there from American Mafia: Stories of the American Mafia going into season three, and is now available on Fox Nation. Here's the host, Eric Shawn. He's a Fox News anchor, senior correspondent, and as I said, host of Stories of the American Mafia. On also, statues resurrected.

So we'll go through both of them. Eric Shawn, welcome to the Brian Kilmeade Show. Great to have you. Hey, Mary. Great to have you.

Good to be with you today. Thanks.

So, okay, I have to know. How fun is it doing this series? It is great. You know, every it's amazing to me. Everyone loves the mob.

They love mafia stories. They are fascinated by the gangsters, by the mobsters, by all these stories. You look at you see the movies and the books, not just Godfather and Goodfellas, Sopranos. This we're now in the third season, and the show on Fox Nation is called "Stories of the American Mafia," and we're telling individual stories of mobsters and mob guys and events. And it's so, if you actually look at it, Mary and think, "Wait a minute, they are actually killers.

They prey on society. They're parasites. They're murderers. They they deal with drugs and and ruin people's lives." That's true. But everyone kind of forgets that, in the sense of their their life.

What someone once told me, you know what they, you know what it is. It's America's romance with the with the cowboys. You know how the cowboys and the Indians and all that back then, and the cowboys were out there in the range doing what they wanted and living that life.

Some people say, well, that the mob. Mobsters and the gangsters and all those stories are, and the films and the books and the TV shows are trying to all part of that whole genre, but the modern day version of that.

Well, it's it's like Billy the Kid. If you read stories about Billy the Kid, he was somewhat of a celebrity. Back in the eighteen eighteen hundreds, you know, back in the American West. To your point, you know, that that that gangster was kind of you know taking from the rich to give to the poor, and people were almost rooting for Billy the Kid. And that's John Gotti in many ways.

You know, I covered John Gotti, and we had had a show called Gotti's Guy about Luke Hasman, who was a close aide of his, is on Fox Nation. I mean, John Gotti was a celebrity in New York, and. End in the country on the cover of Time magazine. Andy Warhol painted his portrait. He'd go out to the nightclubs, and they they had a block party of July Fourth out in front of his headquarters in Queens, in New York, with fireworks and balloons, and and he was treated like you know a major you know celebrity, which is quite a contrast to what.

You know, he actually represented well, of course, because and I had written down John Gotti, so you and I are on the same wavelength, which should which should frighten you. But but Gotti and and what they do is all of these guys, their neighborhoods are the safest neighborhoods to live in. Uh, yeah, because they knew you know what's going to happen if you go in and try to rob somebody, you know that that that has always been you know the the the what's been said about that. Uh, they're not as prevalent as they used to be. No, uh, they there are the five families in New York and in Detroit.

I think the Detroit family is is still going, and in Chicago, Philadelphia, elsewhere. Um, you know, Dallas had a had a family, Los Angeles. Out in Ohio, actually, out in in in Nebraska, there was part of a Chicago group. But look at Las Vegas. I was thinking about this the other day.

Las Vegas, the the it's all corporate now. You know, they're the power. The corporations, corporate America, kind of took over it. The state took over gambling. They basically still have gambling arrests, but now the government is legalized.

The government runs gambling. In lotteries around the country, so a lot of that has been taken away from what organized crime and the and the traditional officers used to do. The irony of all that is just delicious.

So, what is your process with this? When it comes to this, you know, I know you host the show. Do you have input into who are we going to cover? How is the story going to go? What are you involved in the creative process of this?

Yes, somewhat. Not as much as some other shows. Rob Monical is our Producer is just absolutely fabulous, and Adam Welby. They pick stories that people may not know about, or stories that you're familiar with. You played at the at the top of our segment, talking about Tommy DiSimone.

That was Lou Ferrante. Lou Ferrante was talking. Lou Ferrante was a hijacker with the Gambino crime family. Went to prison for 14 years. He is now a best-selling author.

He read thousands of books. Has educated himself. Vanni Rocco was a former on the FBI task force. He went undercover with the DeCavalcante family in New Jersey, so they know the mob world from the inside. And at the beginning, the soundbite you heard from them was talking about Tommy DiSimone.

I mean, if you watch Goodfellas, you know who Tommy was. Tommy was Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci's character was based on Tommy DiSimone, who was the kind of just like Joe Pesci's character was in that in the movie, this hothead who was you know very violent and was kind of crazy. And there's that scene, the Billy Bat scene, where they're in the bar where Tommy comes out and and Billy's at the end of the. Bar played by the wonderful actor, the late actor Frank Vincent.

If you remember the bar scene, which says, "Come here, come here, let me hug you." Yeah. And he says they start insulting each other, and he says, "Go get your shine box," meaning you know Joe Pesci as the character had shined shoes as a kid. He goes, "I don't shine no shoes no more." That was Tommy DiSimo.

Well, in our series, "Stories of American Mafia," one of the episodes is on who Tommy Act, the real Tommy was, who Billy Bats was. Billy Bats was Billy Bats, Ben Ben Venana, Ben Ben Venner.

Sorry, Billy Bats Vent. That Vena, and that story is true. There was an insult. It just escalated, and and and Billy Batz was killed, and then he was buried. And that's based on a true story.

So we go behind the scenes to try to show you some of some of you know. It's also so interesting how these guys now talk about it. You know, we're retired. We can talk about it now. You know, it's just—it's just so interesting how much it has changed.

And yes, it is not as prevalent as it used to be. And I—I am of the opinion, and I know this may be very controversial, but I'm of the opinion if the mob was as powerful as it was back in the day, you know, back in the the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, you know, really, John Gotti was kind of like the height of it, and it's just gone. They've gone down. From there, for a lot of different reasons, but I think you would not be seeing some of the rampant crimes in New York that you're seeing now, because they gave a certain sense of order to the city. Right or wrong, just don't do business with them.

Right, like don't do business. You're fine. There was there was a certain order that they brought to the city and a certain way of life that they demanded, and I do think that the city would not. Be where it is right now. If the mafia was as strong as it had been back in the day, other things would be going on.

But again, for the average New Yorker, it would not be the way it is now. Yeah, you know, in a way, I agree with you. I mean, of course, you've got the scourge of drugs and the heroin that came in, and all the negative things, the horrible things. But on the other side, I think in a way, you are absolutely right. There was a sense of order.

They didn't take any gruff. If you were a petty criminal, you would you would not last that long in a neighborhood. You know, you knew you don't go into that neighborhood.

So I think in many ways there was an order. And in fact, if you go back to the history of of the country and the Black Hand, that's how it started as a way for Italian immigrants to get some foothold and success in the United States. And then you go through the unions and and establishing unions and establishing, you know, what Jimmy Hoffa did in the Teamsters. Jimmy Hoffa shouldn't be remembered for what happened to him. He should be remembered what he won at the bargaining table and at the picket line.

And this was all geared toward actually that angle of it, raising millions of American families into the middle class. And like it or not, organized crime was a part of that. They took their cut, but. Everyone else, in the in the sense of going to the middle class and being in an established structure, was successful. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna come up with more here with Eric Shawn to talk about something that is on available tonight on Fox Nation.

Statues Resurrected. It's a three episode series. We're gonna talk with Eric about that coming up here on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeade Show.

He's so busy he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. In March, six years after being pushed into the harbor, Baltimore's Columbus found a new home on federal grounds. A replica of that statue was made by Italian Americans, and the Trump administration was proud to accept that, and we have it across the street from the White House. The Columbus supporters in Ohio see this as a harbinger of things to come.

We have a Christopher Columbus statue going on display at the White House. Perhaps the tide is changing back. And that's just a small clip from "Statues Resurrected." It is a Fox special that is available starting tonight on Fox Nation, and it is hosted by our guest Eric Shawn. Find him next, by the way, at Eric Shawn TV. This is so interesting.

I remember when I think we all do when that statue was was pushed into the harbor, and it seems as if that fervor has kind of it was it was like the protest du jour. For a hot second, and then it stopped. Are we righting the wrongs? Is it going back the other way? I think it is.

Yes. With that, a couple of years, a few years have gone by. This has happened with several statues.

So that's what our series is about: statues resurrected. About the fact that that backlash against several statues are now returning, not the Confederate statues, but these are three statues that have been, as we say, resurrected. Theodore Roosevelt. There was a statue of a Texas Ranger and Christopher Columbus. You remember the the outrage over Christopher Columbus?

Yes, an oppressor, and and all of this, and and he was. Against Native Americans and all of this sort of thing, that caused this fervor to just take down his statue. And around the country, various Christopher Columbus statues were were taken down. In Philadelphia, that the city had the box put Christopher Columbus in a box in the Italian American neighborhood in South Philly, and we focus on the fact that that that. That Chris, he's coming back.

The White House put a Christopher Columbus statue back up across the street as a representative of what's been going on. But there's still a fight in Ohio. They've been waiting on a legal action. There was a Christopher Columbus statue that was given to Columbus, Ohio. Christopher Columbus, get it?

And that's under federal. That's been there's been a federal lawsuit dealing with that. He's still in storage. But some of these statues are coming back. There's so much here.

First of all, we were just talking about none of those Christopher Columbus statues would have come down if the mob was still as powerful as it used to. Yes, for sure. Right? Like, don't get within ten feet. Right?

Don't touch. Don't touch that. Yes, exactly. That's the first thing. But when I was seeing them take down a lot of these statues, especially the Confederate ones, I'm like, so well, you know, they are just taking down statues of Democrats.

So. Right? Do we care?

Well, you know, it's it's what I think is so interesting is in New York City, Thomas Jefferson stood in the city council chamber. He's a founding father. They took him out. Yes, he owned slaves. George Washington owned slaves.

You know, at what point do you? At what point do you try to whitewash history? Can you, or do you recognize history? For what it is, what the values and issues were at that time, and how do we? Is it fair to the historical record to try and impose?

Values of some now to what is fact in the past, and where do you draw the line? You know, and of course it's not fair. Of course it's not fair. If we're censoring and we're tearing down these statues of people who owned slaves 200 years ago, Sonny Hostin wouldn't be on the View right now. Because if you go back in her history, she's descended from slave owners.

And you know the other—I have a the Confederate statues for me are different because the the Confederate the Civil War they fought against are obviously the Union, so I do have an issue there. But I think in some of these other statues, as you just said, Teddy well Teddy Roosevelt is huge. I grew up in Manhattan in New York and would go by the Museum of Natural History all the time, and there was this magnificent Teddy Roosevelt statue, designed. in 1939, his family and he started that museum. His collection of some of his travels around the globe are in that museum.

And there was the reaction against him. That statue, I can understand being controversial because it showed a African like looking up at him as if he's you know adulation of the white man, I guess. You know, and a Native American, and that caused some sensitivities.

So that was taken.

However, that now has been transported out to the new presidential library out in in the Dakotas, out in the Badlands, and that is will be probably resurrected there. But at what point do you? I can understand the sensitivities, but at what point do you deny history, and and where does that draw the line? And that's what I look at. When people call for some of these these statues, and we're seeing kind of a backlash, and out of the backlash.

Well, I believe the statue that you're speaking about with Abraham Lincoln, where that's where the slave is looking up at him. Oh, yeah, Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt, okay, looking up at. I believe that was paid for by freed slaves, was it not? Yeah, and and that's and all that gets lost.

You know, right? This this in the in the drive for political correctness or wokeness, so to speak, all of that gets lost. And and people, you can be critical of it, but I think. It does a disservice to the legacy of our country, good and bad. To try and hide this and try to deny this, I think you can recognize that it's not the the most sensitive type of representation.

Maybe to have a a African man without a shirt, like looking up at Teddy Roosevelt, I can understand that. I, but I think I can get. But what they should do is put a plaque next to it to say this was paid for by emancipated slaves, by freed slaves, and tell the story as of why. Instead of to your point, instead of judging it through today's eyes from what happened 200 years ago. Yeah, that's that's exactly right.

You go to the city council meetings in New York, and I've seen some of the council members. They won't stand for the when they the national anthem in the beginning, and and they have the flag. They won't stand for that. I mean, physically stand up. That's what I mean.

And so I think there's this whole trend to try and from the left to try. To hide all this, get rid of all this because it offends them. But at what point do you say, okay, I understand it. It's it's to you it's offensive. To other people, it's not.

But it is the history, and we yeah.

Well, they're all insane. You can't argue with insane people, and so that's part of the problem. We're now seeing a backlash back. I think for some of these statues, and that's what the series is about. Yeah, no, it's it's so interesting, and I and I love that you're doing this because I you know I wonder about some of those things like yeah I wonder where those things are now.

So this answers that. It starts tonight on Fox Nation. It's a three episode series, so you want to make sure you tune in and catch it. In Eric Shawn is the host. Quickly in thirty seconds, did you have input into which ones you looked into?

We talked about it. I think these are the first. What we we actually chose the ones that are the most newsworthy.

Now that are being resurrected, you know these are really Teddy Roosevelt, Christopher Columbus, and there's the it's the Texas Ranger statue that stood at Love Field was taken down and and was replaced by the Texas Rangers out in the out in the ballpark. It's so interesting. I didn't know about that one. Yeah, I didn't know about that at all. Eric Shawn, thank you so much for your time.

Really appreciate you joining me. Great to be with you. Thanks so much. Have a great rest of your week. More coming up on the Brian Kilmeade Show.

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So I saw this this article. And I said to Allison, "I said, I think Doctor Tom on this. I think this would be a really good story." So this comes out of the UK. It's a telegraphed story, and there it's titled "How Having a Disability Became Cool." And I have noticed this with some people that I know, their child is diagnosed with ADD or time blindness is another one. He just can't get up in time to go to school, and so they kind of wear the their child's disability on their sleeve.

And yep, he has to have more time to to finish tests, you know, because he he can't get to school on time. He's got this accommodation, that accommodation, and they wear it. They wear it as as almost a It's almost a Munchausen's by proxy, I think, in my world.

So, I want to start off talking about the parents' influence on all of this first. In the UK, they say one out of four British people is now labeled disabled. It's the it's a higher rate of disability than the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. What's happening? Right, I read that entire story.

It's lengthy, and anybody listening should read it. And you know, I saw the term sickfluencers, right? Yes. Well, that's part of the issue here. Is all these you know social media is all these influencers, and they have sickfluencers, and you have looksnaxing, all this other stuff.

And the the issue, I'm not to discredit some people having disabilities, but when you look at you know the the numbers just escalating so high, everything is a disability now. And even talked about autism, you know, and an autism has has skyrocketed in in the in the last like I think it was like one out of every ten thousand fifty years ago, one out of every thousand.

Now it's like one out of every five or something, whatever the number is. And part of that is you know that spectrum of autism used to be used to be something called Aspergers, right, which is a milder form.

So now Aspergers if somebody is a little bit awkward, right, that can't really look in the eyes, they seem a little different. You know that would have just been considered like a shy kid or a kid that might be a little strange back in the 1980s, and now there's a diagnosis labeled on them. And and I look at our whole society. To your point, with parents and everything, it's you know running for for a label. And again, we don't want to discredit those labels, but at what point, you know, do we do we look a little further into this, particularly in in the education system, which is strangled now, you know, with um you know with the special education law and and and the cost.

That they have to cover, you know, for kids that that have these disabilities, and you know, it's really has a trickle down effect, and yeah, and to your point, like this Munch, I've dealt with that in the past, Munchausen by proxy, with the parents, you know, sort of taking their kids to doctors over and over again, trying to find an ailment, and the symptoms may be there, but the the doctors can't find the ailment, and that's called psychosomatic. Yes, so, but the parents. Why do parents now all of a sudden want to have a child who is considered disabled in some way, shape, or form? That's just weird to me. It could be, you know, sometimes it is to get those added benefits, extra time, and accommodations through the school system.

But I think, you know, as a society now, there's just too much information right in our faces all day long, right? And there's this sort of You know this this sort of painted masterpiece of everybody having to to be the great student, the great athlete, the great this, the great dancer. And if you have a kid that may not have those qualities, that may be a little shy, they're not the life of the party. It's almost like you know the parents feel bad for themselves and their child, and are looking for for reasons instead of just you know instead of just wrapping their arms around their kids and letting their kids be who they are and flourish. And find themselves during the you know the progression of life.

And it's also not fair. What I think is, it's not fair because I was listening to my this one person that I know who just his whole identity is his disabled child, and I just like I I think a lot of it has to do with the parents because he's like, well, you know, he just can't get out of bed, so he had he had to drop out of college because he just couldn't make it on time to classes. I'm like, who's paying his bills? They are, of course. I'm like, why didn't you do what my mother used to do?

What we didn't want to get out of bed to go to school. She opened the drapes. The curtains in your room, bright light. She's like, get it up and get it out the door because I'm not. And if you miss the bus, you're walking because I'm not taking you.

You know, there's some parenting that's involved. I think in all of this, and they're doing their children a great disservice because the kids cannot function later in life, which gets into these sickfluencers that you talk about. These kids go on social media and they tout every every diagnosis they have, and they go from one to the next to. The next, to the next, to the next, and I got pots, and I got this, and I got that, and and that. I guess they make money just by touting their mental illness.

Well, I think I don't even think it's that, Mary. Maybe that's part of it. I think it's more, you know, those individuals they just they're in desperate need of of being noticed, of having some sort of an identity. It's like you know, you hear of somebody who's famous, and then there's somebody who's infamous, right? The infamous person, let's say it's some you know whatever school shooter or mass murderer, right?

They're now infamous, and in many people's minds, it's better to be noticed, even if it's for something negative, than to feel invisible. And that feeling of invisible, that's you know, that's part of the whole self esteem spectrum. I tell people when I give lectures. Yeah, what is self-esteem? It's how I feel about me.

It's not how others has nothing to do with other people. It's not called others' esteem, right? And I talk about that. And yeah, that the this idea of self doesn't exist in this virtual world and the attention that you're getting from everybody else because nothing from the outside is actually going to fill whatever void is missing internally, and that's got to be discovered from self. In the silence, reflection, controlling thought instead of being controlled by thought, and digging deep within oneself and extracting you know the skills and qualities that are God given to all of us.

It's interesting. It's such a different way of parenting. It's switched in a generation. You know, Gen X. We grew up with parents who didn't give two thoughts about our self esteem whatsoever.

They didn't care, right? They were they were just like suck it up, buttercup, and get going. And and and I'm sure my brother, my youngest brother, loves to read his old report cards because, like, his first grade kindergarten, it says he should be evaluated for possible dyslexia, and my Totally ignored it, just set him on his merry way. He's like, he's like, I'm disabled, and you totally ignored me. My mother's like, you're fine.

It's funny to bring that up. I remember looking at like my kindergarten first grade report card that my mother still has, and it always said, you know, Tommy is on cloud nine, right? And Tommy, if that was a modern day Tommy, I would have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, but no, I was just a dreamer, right? And I just, I just. I did well in school, but I just my mind would wander.

I think about great things. I think about God. Right? I didn't have ADHD. I just had a a mind, you know, that liked to go in other directions.

We'll call it. Right, and every now and then the teacher would come up behind you, smacking the side of the head, and tell you to pay attention. Catholic school, yeah, that's what you get with Catholics. Yeah, and Catholics will.

Well, I I saw a couple kids manhandled in public school, and and I think sometimes that's what.

So, I guess my question is, I want to know where does this go? Do we have an entire generation coming up that's just going to live off the public dole because they have ten thousand disabilities, which apparently that just puts you on the gravy train to never having to work. And you know, in the article, it's like a lot of a lot of it's a lot of young women. I think it was in the UK, right? Yes, yes, and that was the other thing.

Yeah, yeah. And you know, I you know, when I read it, they you know, they'll go to their doctor, go to many different doctors, and the doctors like, you know, there's nothing physiological wrong, physiologically wrong with you. This is you know, this is somatic; it's in your mind. They don't want to hear it. Right, they say it's old school.

They don't know what they're talking about, and then they, you know, then they they collect the following, they post the stuff online, and they, you know, it's like a collective consciousness, and everybody's on their side. And now, you know, the physician is is the moron, and you know what I am saying? And it's not how it works. But to your point, you know, what's going to happen? How are they going to function out in the real world?

Are they going to be able to go get a job, show up on time, do it with vigor? The answer is likely no. And does that mean now it's going to no? They'll be living on the public dime, probably. Yeah, that's something we got to stop.

And to your point about physicians, you know, my my husband's a physician, and he'll tell you, you know, when he sees, he can tell without even looking at a birthday how old a patient is based on the number of diagnoses that they come in with for all of their disabilities. And what's interesting is that a lot of times they just self-diagnose. He's like, "Well, how do you know you you you have depression? Oh, well, because I I on Google, you know, Google Doctor, you know, WebMD. They went on that and they self-diagnose." Diagnose with these things, and they're.

I'm sorry to interrupt. Yeah, exactly. I'm just excited to say what I'm about to say.

So, I get a lot of people coming to my private practice, right? And they often use the term my anxiety. Oh, yes, yes, anxiety. And you know, I remember I had somebody not too long ago, and I said somebody who I'd been seeing for a while for other things, but she would use the term my depression.

Well, my depression. I said, what do you mean by my depression? She was well, might explain what you mean by that. She says, "Well, my depression." They said, "How about this for the next week? For the next couple weeks, what I want you to do is every time in your mind you hear yourself, and I'm not discrediting that she feels depressed.

I'm not trying to do that. Say, how about every time that comes into your mind, say my gratitude, my joy, my wonderful life, right?" And and she started doing that. And Kiki, guess what happened? Oh, she wasn't depressed anymore. Yeah, she started feeling yeah, and then kind of, and again, I'm not saying that that's the solution for everybody.

There are people that are genuinely depressed and crippled and can't function. But you know, when you when you're kind of slipping that name tag name tag label on yourself, right? Yeah, at some point, when you sit back and reflect and look around and say, "Hold on a second," right? Yeah, I get anxious. Here, here, and here.

I do sometimes, right? Right. But I'm not saying my anxiety. That's in many cases just normal, right? Anxiety is often normal, right?

It's not always something that has to be slapped on with a diagnosis and it's an impairment. And sometimes it does. Right, you know, I try to get people to understand. Yeah, yeah. Like, if I go on, yeah, I go on national TV all the time.

You know that sometimes my my heart rate starts going up a little bit because I know there's a lot of people watching. Doesn't mean I have a an impairment or a disability. It means that I have a sympathetic nervous system in my brain that's trying to protect me. Yeah, it's evolutionary.

So we got to look sometimes look at it like that from that perspective.

Sometimes I just want to take a quick second here. We got in the couple in the time that we have left to talk about Cornell, about what's going on there, and I just want you to hear this. Cut fifteen, Eric. This is a Cornell student talking about the atmosphere at Cornell and why they think that's partly to blame for this. The main thing that failed her was the Cornell administration.

The Cornell administration fosters a culture where sexual assault and rape can go unpunished for long periods of time, and we do want to work on changing that. But here's the thing: from what I understand, but initially she agreed that this was all consensual, and the guys all said it was all consensual when Cornell investigated this.

Now, two years later, it was not consensual according to her. And you know, I'm not getting involved in any of that. I'm not taking sides in any of this. But have we come to a point in our society where, like, yeah, do whatever you want? You know.

Know it's your body, your choice. You and she's and and she supposedly agreed to all what happened initially. Whereas I got to tell you, my generation again, Gen X. I'm not that old, you know. But that that never would have happened.

No one would have voluntarily, that I know, would have voluntarily agreed to something like that. Did it happen sometimes? I'm sure, but it was not something that people talked about openly. You know. Yeah, and you know, even that I read those.

You know those emails as well, and you know based on that information, you know you can you can you can somewhat conclude that it was consensual, right? You could say that, but even if that's the case, let's say that is the case that it was consensual, we really don't know yet if they had those emails. You know, I guess the jury's gonna have to decide on that. Yeah, but even if it was consensual, you know, in Cornell. You know, they're.

I would find it hard to believe that you know Cornell, if they had a you know a clear cut look which looked like a rape case, that they would rush that on the drug. I find that hard to believe. And you know, the person that you that just made that comment is is an individual that, no matter what, no matter what evidence is presented to that person, they're they're not going to they're not going to change their position. That's part of the issue that we're dealing with right now. Even if this girl, that person that just made that comment, even if That girl came out like the Duke thing many years ago and said, "Oh, right, you know, I really wasn't.

I made it all up." That person's not going to change their position. They still want those guys, you know, going to jail and their lives ruined. And that's the problem with this whole thing. You know, the the names of the accused are on the front page, and you know she maintains her her secrecy. You know, her identity is concealed.

And one of the guys already lost a job. He was already fired just based on the accusations alone and the circus that's surrounding this. And I fear that they're going to be railroaded because of Letitia James, and that does. No justice. Yeah, and there are millions of people out there like that young, the person that you just that you just mentioned that got fired.

Even if this thing comes out and it was, you know, all the evidence shows that it was consensual, they didn't commit rape, right? There's still millions of people out there that are going to still say, well, that that deserves to lose his job anyway, right? You know what I mean? And that's the that's the problem I have. We again, I can't, I don't know what the outcome is going to be.

I don't really have an opinion on it, but you know, our system here, it's not the court of public opinion. It should be done. You know, by a jury and a judge, the proper way, and you know, even nowadays, those things. I'm not a lawyer, but they seem to be compromised. Yeah, it's very interesting how society just changed in that arena so quickly, so fast, overnight.

And I think we we've gone from one extreme to the other as we often do. Dr. Tom Kirsting, again, his books, Raising Healthy Teenagers and Disconnected. Follow him on Exit Tom Kirsting. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you, Mary. Have a great rest of your day. More coming up on the Brian Kilmeade Show. It's Brian Kilmeade. Information you want, truth you demand.

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So, coming up, we'll have Josh Crasher. We'll be joining us. He's a Fox News political analyst. We got a lot to talk about. We're going to talk about Mandyam Domi's comments yesterday on the anniversary of October seventh.

We're also going to talk about Don Lemon and midterms. There's a lot to discuss with him. But did you know that supposedly there is now a second laboratory worker death in Russia? Did you know this? Yeah, Russian officials yesterday responded after reports of the death of a second worker from a facility in Siberia that studies the plague.

I don't know. To me, this is like the mastodons. If it's gone and it's been eradicated, why are you studying it? It's like these people who want to bring you know dinosaurs back. I just don't think that's such a great idea.

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, "There is a great deal of media coverage. The vast majority of what the media are reporting about the situation is false." He says this is not true. The World Health Organization asked Russia on Tuesday, you know, um, could we some more information about this whole thing, like like how this worker died? You know, we know it was pneumonia, but how about the whole plague thing? Russian authorities have labeled the cause of death pneumonia of unknown etiology, so they're not saying it's because of the plague.

The head of the World Health Organization told the Epic Times that I know we will get an answer, an answer to that formally, but we've heard so far that Russia has denied there being another case. No cases of plague have been detected among anyone who had come into contact with the deceased worker. They said about 90 percent of those placed in quarantine have been released after nearly 5,000 lab tests had failed to detect any dangerous pathogens. President Trump told reporters in Washington yesterday. China didn't say much.

Russia's not saying much either, but they do say they have it very much under control. Where have we seen this play before? And it's all—it's every two years. It's every two years. Hanta virus, Ebola, swine flu, killer bees.

Remember the killer bees? There's always something. There's always some kind of big thing that comes up every two years. I don't know. It makes me doubt all this stuff, but like.

I doubt it, but at the same time, is it just a coincidence? Was there a second worker? Why aren't Why aren't they telling anybody? We need answers. All right, coming up, Josh Krauscher with lots of answers.

It's coming up on the Brian Kilmeade Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmeade. And welcome back to the Brian Kilmeade show. Mary Walter in for Brian. Joining us now, Josh Krauser, Fox News political analyst, editor in chief for Jewish Insider.

You can find him on X at Josh Krauser. Two A's there in a Krauser. Josh, welcome to the show. Great to talk to you. It's been a while.

Hey, Mary. Good to be back talking to you. And then yeah, a lot to talk about. There is. Let's talk about October seventh being yesterday, and I watched the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Danny Diamond, I believe his name is, and he was saying how they thought that there would be more unity, more solidarity with Israel, especially on the anniversary of October seventh.

So he was very disappointed that there was not more unity. And you had, I think, a lot of people wanted to see how Mayor Mamdani was going to handle it.

So yesterday. He he made a speech and he he got booed, which was which was awesome. But he said some things in this speech, and I'm just going to read it for people who who didn't hear it.

Well, excuse me, he posted on X. This was on X. This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers and marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7th.

Okay, on that day, Hamas killed more than a thousand Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss. And this is where it goes south. You couldn't just leave it at that; like that would have been the right thing to do to just leave it at that. He goes on to say, the suffering did not begin nor end that day.

Instead, it continued through the Israeli government's devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than fourteen hundred Palestinians have been killed, and he goes on and on, and he talks about every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist. He doesn't say why. Every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continues.

And to honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with. Freedom, safety, and dignity. A lot of people outraged about this. What's your take on it? Yeah, they have a right to be outraged.

It's not just Republicans or people who are supportive of Israel. It's a lot of moderate Democrats who, like you said, Mary, why you can't just express your sympathy and condolences for the Jewish community? Who lost the largest number of Jews in any moment since the Holocaust with the October seventh Hamas terrorist attack? You can't just leave that leave that note of sympathy and not have to blame Israel or Jews for their own predict for for for for what happened, the horrible terrorism that happened on October seventh. This is who he is.

I mean, Mubdani has has notably been more pragmatic on a lot of other issues as mayor, whether it it scaling back sort of the the very radical. You know, economic views, or keeping Jessica Tisch as NY PD commissioner, understanding that you need to have someone who can you know enforce the law and keep the city safe in place.

So he's moderated on some other issues, but when it comes to Israel and it comes to safety of the Jewish community, he has you know his ideology has taken taken center stage, and we saw that. 20th for the last 24 hours, the statement drew widespread condemnation across the the the spectrum politically within the Jewish community across. Different religious denominations, and then it was stunning to see. He did attend a vigil last night for October seventh, and you had people who were sensible, one-time supporters of him, shouting him down. He didn't even speak; she was just standing there, and they claimed he was he was some you know he was attacked because he dared show up at at an event commemorating the dead or honoring honoring or remembering the dead.

That was too much for these these radicals and these extremists. I mean, it shows you just how. Extreme and insidious, this movement is that he's been associated with throughout much of his political career. But again, it gives the game away when you see someone who can't just say, "I wish you well." One day of the year, at a time when when Jews around the world are mourning the the loss of 1,200 people who were slaughtered on October seventh. Or just keep your mouth shut and don't say anything at all.

But, scope, you said something there. You said these people who who voted for him, they're shocked. I, I will not understand ever, ever, ever why so many Jews in New York voted for Mam Danny. I will never understand the rabbis that were standing there with him to legitimize him. Why do the sheep vote for the wolf?

Yeah, I mean, look, Mamdani. I mean, did about as badly as you could within the Jewish community in the twenty twenty five election for mayor. The problem, writ large, was that very few other communities. Swung away from the Democrats or swung away from Abdi, the way the Jewish community did. Look, I think a lot of it is changing demographics in the city.

A lot of it is that the Democratic Party has been co-opted by a faction. We've learned about this in a lot of other races, congressional races, the El Sayed candidacy in Michigan, and the Senate Senate race. That that a very radical faction has really taken hold of a lot of people in the Democratic Party, and because of their hatred for Trump and their you know essentially opposing Republicans and people who are. Aligned with Trump at all costs, they they will bring into the tent people who are just as you know who are extremely radical and and and and and have very dangerous views, frankly, on terrorism, national security, foreign policy. I mean, these are views that would have been disqualifying for a candidate for dog catcher, no less mayor or senate.

But but now they become normalized within the Democratic Party, and that's that's what you see. Jewish voters who who are on the front lines, they they certainly have their safety and security at risk if if. If everything I am donning wanted came to fruition, or if everything else I had wanted came to fruition, but I think other people are a little slower to pick up on the dangers and the radicalism that they pose. Yeah, well, that's Darwinism right there. I wanted just very quickly go to cut twenty-two.

This is Ambassador Mike Huckabee. He was on the story and talking about what Ma'am Donnie had to say because he is the ambassador to Israel, so he is over there in Israel and talking about this. And well, let's play this first, and and then I have something to say. Go ahead. It would be the equivalent of on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 for him to have gotten up and said, "Yes, it was tragic that those airliners flew into the World Trade Center, but America overreacted and America took on more than it should have, and America should be condemned for reacting to the slaughter of its people." Right, and I say that you know I was I was in Israel last year, and one of the things we were told is that it would have been the equivalent of I think something over something like over a hundred thousand people in this country being killed.

Like if like the cartels had crossed the border, let's say it's fifty that crossed the border from Mexico, and in the southern states they just started slaughtering people, and let's say they slaughtered fifty thousand people. All right, and they took something like forty thousand people hostage and brought them back across the border. What do you think America's response would be? And any thinking person would be like, "Well, Mex, you know, Mexico right now would just be one big beach, right?" And and you would say, "Well, would they be justified in doing so?" But yet, you when you draw the comparison, the percentage of people Israel's the size of the state of New Jersey.

So when you that that was a significant number of their population that was slaughtered on October seventh, and the rest that were taken taken hostage and then just just treated horrifically and tortured, etc. Why is it though that why is it always Israel that's the scapegoat? I don't get it.

Well, I mean that's nothing new, and and that's something the Israelis have learned throughout history. That's why they they will listen to countries that that are saying don't don't do X, Y, and Z. But they ultimately need to protect their own people. That's that's what any country has to do for their own safety. Look, the the the the any other country if they were their borders were you know traversed if if that many people were slaughtered, you'd be look what we did after nine eleven.

I mean, I think for good reason in Afghanistan. And beyond, that's what countries do when they're attacked: they go to war and defend themselves. That's what Israel did in Gaza. War is not pretty, but not being able to understand cause and effect that's a basic. Basic, you know, understanding one and one of who started the conflict and what Israel did to defend itself.

And by the way, there were there were still hundreds of hostages in Gaza that were not being released. And the you know the war had multiple aims, but freeing the hostages that were being taken—women, children, men—that that took years, took you know two years and more.

So people seem to forget their history very fast these days. But we we know through our own history when we're attacked. We defend ourselves, and that's what most Western democracies will do. For some reason, Israel is held to a different standard. It's very it's very interesting.

I I want to switch gears. There' a lot to talk about. This I I thought was super interesting. Don Lemon said that he he was on Spencer McNaughton's Uncloseted podcast. It's former CNN anchor, and asked him a question about whether he wants to be Commander in Chief.

So listen to what Don Lemon had to say here. Look, I I I never say never. It is like I've got a lot on my plate right now. Doing what I'm doing, this is not easy to do every day. But I have to be.

I am very aware of the importance of what I'm doing, what it means to the culture and society. I shouldn't say very.

Sometimes I'm too close to it. But when I'm out there, people like thank you for what you're doing, and so and it's very humbling. But when I'm out there, they're not only saying thank you for what I'm doing. They say, "Did you ever? Would you ever consider running for office?" And and I say, "Well, you know, I thought about." Would you ever run for president?

And I said, "Oh well, definitely. I think I could be a better president than Donald Trump." So that's where that came from. Let me try and get a headline out of you. What percentage chance before you leave this earth do you think you will run for president? Oh, what percentage chance that I think I'll run?

Sixty-five, seventy. Wow. Sixty-five, seventy percent chance. I was going to run for president. Feelings, Josh.

Thoughts. Yeah. I mean that's pretty interesting. I mean it shows you no one's even hiding their ambition any anymore. But look, this is going to be a very wide open.

Presidential race on both sides, frankly.

Well, both the Democratic and Republican. This could be one. Everyone says every every presidential election is going to be the most important election in their lifetime.

Well, boy, the direction of the two two two parties is going to really be set by who the nominees are, and it's going to be pretty. And isn't there a good chance he's going to be democratic? Isn't I am sorry to me to step on you there. Isn't there a good chance he's going to be in jail anyway? Isn't he being charged for that whole stunt in that church?

Yeah. Yeah, I mean that. That that's still. I mean, I. I think I think that he's still facing some some legal issues, but politically speaking, that's probably the benefit for him.

Yes, very true. Very true. I just wanted very we're running out of time. I wanted this is the last thing I want to get to. Cut five here, Eric, and maybe we could just get the gist of it, and maybe then cut it short a little bit.

But this is President Trump yesterday in the White House asking. He was asked if he would go after Biden, Obama, and company for spying on him and his family. I could have done very bad things. Hillary Clinton. I could have done very, very bad things to Joe Biden.

I could have done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama. I thought it was inappropriate to do so because you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect. Then I found out that they impeached me twice, and. I certainly, even to this moment, I have I can do whatever I want if I want. They've done some very bad things.

You just mentioned it. It was just mentioned in the form of a question. What they did, very illegal. What they did, many illegal things. But I view the presidency as a very sacred position, very sacred position, very important, very sacred, a position where it has to be treated properly.

Now, interesting though Hillary Clinton never was president, I have seen so many posts. I'm sure you guys as well of people who support Donald Trump who are so angry at this because the Democrats have already said that if they take power, they are going to impeach him again. They're going to investigate his entire family. Why won't Republicans fight? Yeah.

Hello. Yeah, go ahead, Josh. Can he not hear me? Oh, I think we lost him. Oh, we lost him.

Oh, all right.

Well, you know that's the one thing that drives me crazy. And you can follow Josh on Exit Josh Croucher with two A's in Croucher. We we lost him, but um. You know that's something that drives me crazy. And if you want to jump in, you can drop me a text on Exit Mary Walter Radio.

We. If you can make it really quick, eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine is the number. When I heard that, I'm like, no, they are going to try to destroy you. They've tried to destroy you since 2015. They have been, they have damaged this man.

And if he wasn't as rich as his wealthy as he is, meaning President Trump is not as wealthy as he is, they would have would have crushed anyone. And they did. They bankrupted General Flynn. They bankrupted Michael Caputo. Who most people haven't even heard of, and they're coming after him again.

One of the lawyers that came after him during the Trump administration never charges were never filed, but they bankrupted this man just just from from fighting the legal battles. And that's what they do; it's lawfare. And he sits there and says, "Nah, you know I don't think so because I respect the office of the presidency. That's great, but the precedent has been set." And I think people are so tired of watching one side of the aisle continually be above the law. And Hillary Clinton was never president.

I don't know why she was included in that. And I get that Trump a lot of times has bigger fish to fry. He's got other things to worry about. But when he is out of office, they are going to do everything they can to destroy him and his family. And I, I don't know.

I, I just really wish that he would. I don't know. Hand it back to him. If you want to jump in, eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine. I'm Mary Walter.

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Prevagen, made for your brain. And welcome back to the Brian Kilmeade Show. All right, so my my friend John, listening in the car driving to DC, says anyone who contributes to Don Lemon's campaign should immediately start a RICO case against him for stealing their money. Very funny. I thought that was really fun.

That was that was very good. All right. I also wanted to just very quickly go through some other news that we have here. Rand Paul, remember Rand Paul? I haven't heard from him in a while.

He's he's been kind of quiet ever since you know he rages against President Trump. Rand Paul, who's chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, released yesterday some new pages from Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary. Yes, he said. From the so-called diary, and he wrote in here in a diary entry, January first through the seventh, twenty nineteen, in the midst of a government shutdown, he said he he referring to Trump is acting more and more bizarre.

Should be impeached, but Democrats are rightfully concerned that this will galvanize his base. He also went on, so he should be. That he's bizarre. He's acting bizarrely. They the entries show that Fauci began contemplating what a Trump presidency would mean to his agency's funding during the 2016 campaign, and also commented on his debate performance.

He wrote, "Trump made a fool of himself in the debate on Monday, September 26th." He also wrote, "Trump caught in tape denigrating women. Anyone else would be disqualified by this.

However, people still support him.

So this goes back to 20." 2016, the 2016 campaign, and that was the Billy Bush tape, right? That's what that was all about. Herman Sal reached out to me on X and said, "This rise in anti-Semitism suggests to me that the horrors of World War II have been largely forgotten or ignored. It seems that civilization is not so civilized anymore." And it's sadly, he he's kind of right. I don't know whether we didn't teach the younger generation, which I suspect is a lot of it, or we um.

You know, we they we've just for they've forgotten it. I mean, the number of kids who just don't know history is really sad, and I think they've been purposely kept somewhat in the dark in that way. All right. Well, thank you for for joining me, Mary Walter. In for Brian Kilme.

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