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From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmeade. Hi, everyone!

So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade show. Coz I have a very, very busy week. Thanks to everybody who's picking up United in the States. The book's doing very well.

Six crucial moments that forged the American miracle tonight. I'm going to be in New Jersey, Red Bank. It's going to be streamed on Fox Nation.

So if you can't be there, make sure to watch. I'll bring history to life. We'll go over all six of these stories. I think makes America better. This hour, I'm going to be joined by Congressman John James, who wants to be governor.

John James, trailing by about. Anywhere between five and seven points in the race in Michigan, and then Craig Carton's coming on at the bottom of the hour.

So it was at the Al Smith dinner last night. Was pretty cool, and everyone was talking about my YouTube page. It's it's bigger than the Trump Watch YouTube dot com slash at the Brian Kilmeade Show. Big three. Number three, as you can see, this dais before you is filmed.

It's filled with some of the most powerful, influential, wealthy, and respected people in America, and Brian Kilmeade. Yes, the legendary Al Smith dinner took place last night. We got the highlights. There were many, many more hysterical highlights, and they honored Cardinal Dolan, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. You'll hear from them too.

Number two, I'm not going to speculate at this stage on why the interruption happened, and we'll kind of see in the coming days sort of the impact that that service interruption had. My focus here in Washington has been in support of Ukraine. Together, the UK Defence Minister talking about what happened when it looks like the US cut off intelligence sharing with. Ukraine, as well as Starlink with Ukraine, it is back, back to sharing. Ukraine gets back to their Starlink and Intel with the U.S.

as they go back to bombing data centers and refineries in Russia, while realizing they're also flat out of Patriots. Number one, nobody three weeks out should assume this election is over. The country is going to choose between being irritated by pricing and thinking the Republicans are to blame, and being frightened by what the Democrats would do if they were in charge. Twenty days into the midterms, obviously that's Newt Gingrich, and we have dozens of critical races within the margin of error. We can't guarantee results, but we will break down the final efforts by the people and the parties to secure.

Those seats.

So, you know, right now they say, according to the power power polls with the Fox, we got a forty-seven, forty-seven, forty-seven, forty-seven. We think with the rest being toss-ups in the Senate, the other two, nineteen to one, ninety-four or one, ninety-eight, it would be Democrats. That's the way it is right now. But all this stuff is a thousand people, a thousand people, a thousand people in these states. And then each district the sample is even smaller.

And the whole thing is, is going to go down in history. Donald Trump has never led in a poll. He's never led against Hillary. Never led against Biden. Never led against Kamala.

He won two of three, and the second one he got more votes than any Republican in history. But you would never know it. I really think this is somewhat of a concerted effort to make everybody think that Republicans have no shot. And when they have no shot, people don't show up. That's the scar.

That's up to Republicans to reverse that message. And the wherever. Everyone's focusing on is Michigan, focusing on Maine, focusing on Ohio, and focusing on Texas, and that's where I want to begin. Let's talk about what President Trump was saying about El Saeed over in Michigan.

Now it turns out he was posting that he had a great idea. He wants to move to this. Is a few years ago on his YouTube channel, he wants to say we're going to substitute the Second Amendment, which says a right to bear arms, to a right to have health care. This guy wants to get rid of guns. We already know that.

We know that he doesn't like football. We know he doesn't like fireworks. We know he doesn't like Israel, and I don't think he likes Jews. For the most part, when asked about difficult things, why why your biological mom was affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood, he gets angry. Not a good answer.

Muslim Brotherhood is not a nineteen seventy story, as he says. Muslim Brotherhood is a today story because they are the hub of terrorism. They're the ones who give birth to ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Shabab, Hamas, and Hezbollah. That's just The way it is. Here's President Trump yesterday.

Cut four. We have great candidates, and we want to keep our country away from this guy. Like I call him Muhammad Al Sayed, and his name is Abdul. But I think I I call him Muhammad Abdul Al Sayed, and he's a Muslim Brotherhood guy, hundred percent, hundred percent. He's a Muslim Brotherhood guy.

How about having him be on the Senate Intelligence Committee? How about that? It's crazy.

So he decides yesterday, and I just question this. He finishes up the primaries with Hassan Piker, this extremist, radical, hates the country from Egypt, thinks Israel, Israel is should be banned, should be banished, should be destroyed, and also loves Russia, loves his communists. And that's his mentor. That's the one who put El Sayed on the map.

Now she decides. He decides to, and I think this is going to help Mike Rogers. The last few days he's been with an extreme Queens congresswoman named Aose.

Now she might be good for people to look at, and if you want to maximize, she's a young person's type candidate. But she is a socialist. She re-upped her membership of the DSA. Is that the closing moderate message that's going to get your independents excited? It's crazy for me.

It's crazy.

So here's a little of AOC cut seven. They don't want women to go to college, y'all. They don't want, and they're denying the ability for nurses, for people to become nurses, teachers, social workers. We have to understand what the deal is here, because then what happens is that the UP doesn't have doctors.

Okay, this is what's wrong with what she's saying. This is what's wrong. Ready? She's referring to the fact that the president United States notices that personal debt is so high among kids when they are young men and women when they graduate college and parents.

So you get word your kid gets into University of Michigan, your kid gets into NYU, your kid gets into Syracuse, your kid gets into Harvard, and guess what?

Now the hard part. It's you're middle class, and you're going to pay over a hundred thousand dollars a year to go to these colleges, maybe ninety seven, maybe eighty nine. But that's think about it, a year.

So you don't want to. You're a good parent. You don't want be that. You don't want to be the parent that doesn't let his kid go to his dream school.

So you take out a loan, and then the kid takes out a loan. And then a parental or regular loan, and sometimes you need books, you need spending money. I don't really have it, so I'm going to take another loan after that.

So the president's big, beautiful bill limits the amount that you can take. Why does this help everybody? Because these colleges keep upping their tuition because the loans and the grants meet it, so they think they can get it. There's no incentive for them to lower their tuition because they keep getting people. They look at it and education pays off.

Now we're saying it's not going to pay off, and what the administration said, I'm going to limit. The loans, especially if people going to have certain occupations that we don't need that will not pay well. I love that idea of doing that. To me, that's we're showing responsibility. But not AOC.

She says it means women. Women shouldn't go to college. I don't know what to say to these people. Everything's sexist. Everything's racist.

That's all. That's their only game plan. I hope you're better than that, Independents. I know Democrats are dug in, but Independents, I hope you're better than that. The other big story, of course, is what's happening in Maine.

They had a big debate last night, another one, and there was a heckler that interrupted Susan Collins and this guy Tony Parker, Tony Jackson, I should say, Tony Parker, a French point guard who's now retired with the San Antonio Spurs, will not run for, will not run for Senate. I know that pretty much for sure, but he decides he gets interrupted. He actually tells, he actually tells Susan Collins to shut up when Susan Collins says it's got to be one of your. Borders. Who else would be the one to interrupt me?

He actually turns around and says, "Shut up!" Now, this guy's got a reputation for being a hot head. You just saw it in real time.

Next thing is Texas. Tallerico trying to win the win the day. Going doing his town hall yesterday. He was totally exposed for his. Covering up his true beliefs, whether it's abortion, whether it's God being non-binary, whether it's bolstering up the border, whether ice should be banned, upon further review, upon follow-up questions, he was totally exposed.

The thing that's also going to help Ken Paxton, Elon Musk, is putting hundreds of billions of his own dollars to try to get Ken Paxton into that seat. That was filled by John Cornyn.

So here is James Talerico going after Ken Paxton. Cut twelve. We can't afford gas or groceries or healthcare because the system has been rigged by billionaires and corrupt politicians like Ken Paxton. Billionaire megadonors have been buying politicians in both political parties, and then those puppets turn around and rig the rules of the economy in favor of those megadonors. At our expense, they've been doing it.

They've been stealing from the American people for five decades with their bribes, with their bailouts, with their billionaire tax breaks.

So that's an interesting take and totally inaccurate. When we come back, I'm going to be joined by Congressman John James. But there's nothing accurate about what he said. And if you want to know why prices are high in blue states, it's because all the taxes on top of them. You know, in California, they get rid of the gas-powered cars.

You know that they killed the pipelines coming out of Alaska. You know they killed the XL pipeline. Do you know they stopped offshore drilling? Do you know they stopped drilling in the? In the Anwar, even though that was in the big in the 2017 bill that was passed under Donald Trump, that's what causes prices to go up.

Right now, the price going up because of the the Iran War and they blew up a lot of the refineries in the Gulf States. Then the policies will get gas and oil down to 2.89 a gallon. When we come back, I'm going to be joined by Congressman John James, Brian Kilmeade. Show it's Brian Kilmeade. How can we help make stronger communities happen?

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The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmeade. You want to ask me about what was happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious? I get it, but you were asked a question.

This is kind of like the same. Yeah, I'm telling you. Like, we, I have no ties. We have no ties.

So your mother had no ties. I have never had these conversations with my mother. I was raised.

So you were, you were, you were unaware. But, but, but I'm just telling you that, like. You're using hearsay evidence from a tweet. This is not serious. It's not serious.

But you've also gone after the president for truthfulness. You've also gone after the president for truthfulness.

So when people ask you a question, they all do expect the truth. And do you think? Do you think? Are you insinuating that somehow I was lying? I don't know.

That's why I'm asking. And I'm telling you, I was not.

Well, your birth mother evidently bragged to your sister that she was in the Muslim Brotherhood, and then your mom was linked to a foundation that's linked to Al Qaeda. You don't think that's disturbing, worthy of questions? And the 1970s problem was actually a 1920s problem that still exists today. Just ask anyone in Egypt, because Muslim Brotherhoods is at the hub of all these other terror groups, literally. All the other terror groups.

You know who knows this? My next guest, Congressman John James, Energy and Commerce Committee member and GOP gubernatorial candidate. He's got the Republican nomination and wants to be running Michigan at this time. By at this time next year, Congressman, what are your thoughts about LCE basically saying you're bringing up a 1970 story?

Well, I can just tell you that extremism does not need to be nurtured to metastasize. It's like a cancer; it grows. And frankly, socialists who scapegoat Jews—you were talking about the 1920s and 30s—we know how that turns out. It is dark; it must be called out and never repeated. The fact of the matter is, is common sense versus crazy in this election.

And Michigan is the center of the electoral universe with an open Senate seat and open governor seat. Multiple. House seats, and really, the fate of the republic is on the line. We must not allow extremism to take hold, and we must call it out and make sure that we defeat socialism where it stands. All right.

So you're in a. And by the way, do you not? It's not. He's not. You see, Alyssa Slotkin won that seat against Mike Rogers last time.

Would you put Slotkin and Elsie in the same category? I would say that complicity is is tantamount to allowing these things to take hold. Again, there are a lot of what we've heard before. The only thing that is required to allow evil to prosper is good men and good women to stay silent. Again, this is why every single person needs to get out to the polls, regardless of your Republican, Democrat, or anybody in between, to vote for common sense versus crazy, to vote for to vote for this nation, for this republic, and not extremism.

Again, anybody who would bet, anybody who would look the other way, anybody who would not call out. The extremists and the people who they're campaigning with really is is going to put our nation at risk.

So this is folks like Jocelyn Benson who chose to run on a unified ticket. With with Abdul El Sayed, it's gotten so bad that Michigan's own Attorney General refused to attend her own party's convention over safety concerns and growing antisemitism within both her own ranks. The fact of the matter is, this is not the Democrat Party you used to know. They want to dismantle our Constitution and they want to take our nation in a fundamentally different direction than when our founders came up with 250 years ago.

Well, I guess so. It just it seems so dramatic. You know Michigan better. How The hell could he be in a flat-footed tie? It looks like the black community went all with Haley Stevens, who lost the primary.

I don't. Are they going to run to him now because they're going to be because he's going to campaign with Barack Obama?

Well, well, that that will be seen. But the fact of the matter is, even CNN had to acknowledge the fact. That September polling woefully undercounts Republican energy, woefully undercounts low propensity voter turnout, and not just even in 2024.

Well, Michigan overperformed its its September numbers by like six points, but in in the midterm 2018, Michigan outperformed its September numbers by eight points. And even CNN acknowledged that Republicans turn out to the polls, and even right now, early returns are showing Republicans are are voting with with more energy than any other early and and absentee balloting timeframe we know. That Republicans must stand up. The Patriots must stand up. You cannot be a patriot from your patio.

You need to get out there. And if you believe that boys shouldn't be in girls' sports, you better vote like it. If you want your Second Amendment rights, you better vote like it. If you want to say over your child's medical and educational decisions, you better vote like it. Because that's all on the line.

The future of this nation. And Republicans in Michigan are standing up. We're in the front lines, and we need your support.

So right now it says in the real clear average, it looks like you're trailing Benson by six point eight percent. How do you close that gap? It also has a bunch of fake polls out there. I'm sure you remember, Brian. There's a recent story after the past primary that there are some folks who put a fake poll out there just to see if they could get away with it.

But again, the numbers I just mentioned—Republicans turn out. We understand how serious this is, and my polls are within the margin of error, and in the state of Michigan. And I'm running against someone. Who is a data center darling? Who believes in bulldozing the will of the people, the state of Michigan, and that just won't fly.

Also, in the state of Michigan, we go back and forth from Republican to Democrat every time that we've had an open seat since the early 80s, and we haven't elected a Democrat to follow a Democrat since the early 60s. After eight years of Gretchen Whitmer, we are due for a change. Having a combat veteran who understands what it takes to execute tough missions and bring people together is what we need in Michigan. Having a business leader who understands what it takes actually grow jobs because they actually have done it before is what we need in Michigan, and somebody who will work with the president, the other party, and everyone in between to deliver for the state of Michigan is what we need here. Especially when you have Democrats who are refusing to even pick up the phone or abide by common sense.

A governor who's focused on excellent schools, safer streets, accountable government, healthy families, and and more affordability in Michigan is what we need, and that's the reason why people are responding. I'm very excited for the next 18 days, Congressman. I'm going to show my bias. I think you're one of the most impressive people that could run for office. The West Point background, the successful business, the fantastic family, the sense of giving back rather than cashing in—those are the type of things, especially an African American success story.

And people need examples to say you can make any, you could do anything in this world. But I know you pick very difficult seats to run for. Whether it's a Senate seat, you won Congress twice, but this one is a very difficult one. Why would you leave a a seat that you're very comfortable with, that people were very pleased with your performance, to to test yourself like this? For the same reason that Mordecai challenged Esther, who knows that I have not been put in a place for a time such as this.

I am running because I love the Lord and I love His people. And I believe it's my obligation, not an option, to serve. This is what Americans used to do: do hard things and serve and sacrifice for the people. And as Michigan's next governor, I'm looking forward to submitting to the Lord, serving his people, and making Michigan great again. All right.

Hopefully, that's a great closing message because America is a better place with people like you in office. And I'd say it if you were a Democrat too. Congressman John James, thanks so much. Great, great. Best of luck in your gubernatorial run.

Thanks, brother. God bless. Back in a moment. How can we help make stronger communities happen?

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. There's the high drive deep right center field. Here's the jump by Tony Romo. Hit hard towards the right field corner.

Davis is done it again. Milwaukee's cut it in half for the two-run double. Hamilton grounds one through base hit center field. One pitch after the stolen base, Hamilton delivers. The Bears have tied the game.

Mitchell sends a fly ball to right center field. Tucker's going. Here it is gone. Milwaukee takes the lead. Hernandez to left center field.

Chirillo gets it, and for the first time in 44 years, the Brewers are going to the World Series. And just like that, you got the whole game. Good job, Pete. The Brewers beat the Dodgers. They.

Sweep them, and now it's on to the World Series. The Dodgers go down, so we're not going to have another Dodger World Series championship. I love that idea; I think it's great for the game. Also, I want to see Tampa get through because Tampa has to be. If you have to rank franchises in all major sports, I have to put Tampa in the top three.

Brewers are right behind them because they don't they don't hit the ceiling on the salary cap yet. The not bottom feeders like Pittsburgh, like the Pirates are, let's say, or the Bengals are in football. They just find a way. To grow talent, when I think it's even harder in Tampa's situation, without a huge fan base, to actually grow the franchise. They're in a horrible facility, but maybe that'll change.

With me right now is Craig Carton, host of the Craig Carton Show. The he's got a Outkick Show too. That's what it really is. But and the Outkick Show, Craig, you made you made me aware. It's not just sports.

No, but we tend to think of you with sports because of WFN. It's what I'm known for, but. A lot of people. If you go back far enough, I was voted the ninth most powerful person in New Jersey state politics. When was this?

This was back from 2002 to 2007. Right. Yes. Why would that be? Got people elected.

Got people unelected. Right. I got a very famous fight with Acting Governor Richard Cody back in the day. knew Jim McGreevey very very well. Chris Christie is one of my dearest friends.

So I was actively involved in state politics. But I never thought I was powerful. But I was voted the ninth most powerful person, which tells you all you need to know about New Jersey state politics. How much? How glad are you to be able to say that?

Like you really welcome that question because you wanted to get that ranking. I was hoping to get that out. Yeah, yeah, he's on my list. Cross it off.

Now you got it. That's right. No, but no, as you were doing the morning show, right? I did afternoon news in New Jersey.

So what station was that? It was New Jersey One Hundred One Point Five, which is really the voice of the state of New Jersey, and their their moniker still to this day is not New York, not. Philadelphia, New Jersey, one and one point five, and they're very good at it.

So you were not talking sports, no. I that was more of a kind of general talk show.

So I delved into politics and culture and sports. When how did you prepare for that?

Well, I'm actively involved as an American citizen and caring about politics in my community and things like that.

So that sounds pedestrian. I did a lot of reading, right? Oh, you do. Yeah, but I'm I'm one of these guys. Like I'm fascinated by people.

That's why I did the Outkick show because it's going to evolve into a lot of long form interviews, which I like to do. And I like to get to know and interview and kind of like you and I've talked off the air a lot. What makes you tick? I'm fascinated in those types of stories, especially of successful people, because I've always said, while the audience may not know it, there's no such thing as an overnight success. The animal does not exist.

We just don't see all the work you put in behind the scenes. We only get to meet you bang once you have a microphone in front of your face. In our cases, but there's always a story behind it, and I love that. And you know, that's probably one of the reasons why child stars also often in Sure, they're cute. They can memorize a few lines.

Next thing you know, they're famous. Everyone treats them like they they are celebrities, and they can't process it because they don't think they deserved it. But like when you deserve it, you're more more than likely to be able to handle it. Yeah, and I think you're more respectful of it. Like my first job in radio was twelve thousand dollars a year in Buffalo, New York, and I lived in a retirement home.

Legitimately, that's not like hyperbole.

So the fact that I went from that to the successes I've had, you know, ratings wise. Financially, etc. I have a different appreciation for it, right? Then maybe if you just woke up one day and won the lottery, that's why so many lottery winners go broke. I think it transfers to with this country.

You get up in the morning and you get the number one economic, the number one military power in the world, and it's been that way for eighty years. Sure.

So, and then we debate on all these topics. But it's impossible to appreciate the journey when we only have a slice of that journey. If your parents are wealthy. And but they started with nothing. The kids are born; all they know is wealth.

You could explain to them over and over again: "I had nothing, and I took risk, and I lost everything twice, and the banks were coming after me." And now, look at the kids; not they're not going to be able to fully understand. It's like it's almost like the Rocky Balboe thing. Once he started having success, he kind of lost who he was, his identity as a kid from the streets of Philadelphia, grew up with nothing. That's why I think it's very hard for a lot of. First-generation offspring of successful people have a tougher time finding their way.

Now that also, I brought up something about Asia Wilson, who's the WNBA five-time MVP. She did not grow up in a stereotypical, you know, American professional athlete projects. Projects, you know, one one-parent household poverty. She grew up with both parents, which is awesome. She grew up and went to private schools.

Awesome, and now she's trying to be something that she's not. I'm not sure who she's appeasing by doing that, but I don't think you should be embarrassed that your parents work their asses off to provide an upper middle class living for you. You should celebrate that. And yet there are successful people who grow up that way who are, for some reason, I don't know, maybe ashamed of that.

So I think of Grant Hill. Obviously, his parents are high academic, well educated, successful. Smart people, yeah, and he didn't pretend that he was some street kid. Kobe Bryant didn't pretend he was a street kid. Grew up in Italy, right?

Right, multilingual. Dad was a basketball player. Parents were together. You know, had all the trappings of you know suburban life and upper middle class upbringing. And I think we should celebrate that.

Now, the kids that do come out of you know bad socioeconomic backgrounds, we should celebrate their journey also. But I don't, yeah, I don't understand why people. Are ashamed of the fact that their parents, you know, were successful. Or provided for them a lifestyle to give them a better opportunity, maybe even outside of sports to have success in life.

Well, you know why? Because there is a whole group of people growing up right now, like Bernie Sanders, who says oligarchs and billionaires. AOC, but he is one, right? Yeah. AOC says there shouldn't be.

No, excuse me. Mayor Mom Donny says there should not be billionaires. Why? AOC says it's impossible to be a billionaire. Yeah, but I don't understand why.

Isn't the American dream to become as successful as you can possibly become? And then so I. And by the way, the far look. There are the Waltons out there for sure. You know, you're born on third base.

You know, Silver Spoon. They exist, but as I understand it, the far majority of American billionaires are self-made. Yeah, I know, right.

So I look at Elon Musk, and then you read his story. He never worried about money, but he he almost lost everything. Right? You've read the Walter Isaacson book, so he is trying to get Tesla going. It's not going anywhere.

The prototypes have fallen apart. He's got to get revenue. People are invested. He can't get their money back. He had to lean on the PayPal guys.

He had helped invented PayPal, but had a falling out. And they said, "Guys, they got word that he was certain. They stepped up.

Now, do I think that he would end up as homeless? No, no, because he's genius." Sure, but I think actually everyone went through it, and he had a horrible parent. He had a horrible dad. By the way, I've never met Elon Musk. I don't know if you've interviewed him or very briefly.

He does. It doesn't seem to hit it off with me.

Okay, I would make the argument that he is the single most important human being of the last hundred years to live on this planet.

Now there've been a lot of great inventors, and obviously you know political leaders and you know generals and you know people that have I think you know protected us and guaranteed future offsprings and generations can live and live a healthy lifestyle in a democratic society. But I think he is a Mount Rushmore most important human being to set foot on this planet in the last hundred years. I mean, think about what he's done for our space program. Yeah, think about what he's done for our cars and and how he engineered it. Right, and now.

Now he did you see the video of what he's got? Yeah, I still think it's AI because it doesn't make sense in my brain. I don't think for a car to flip over with thrusters and land—it's crazy, right? And it's real, right?

So I don't know how far he's going to go for prototype to reality. Have you ever gone on the Tesla website and seen the robots? I've seen so. Yeah, when he puts out the videos of it, I've seen it. But I think one of the greatest things he'll ever accomplish is this.

I'm blocking on the company name, so I apologize for that. But the stuff he's doing for paralyzed people. People for people blind people. Neuralink. Neuralink.

When that ever gets to where he wants it to be, imagine the gift of giving people who never had sight the ability to see and walk. I can imagine. I can get those signals back for the ALS.

So a friend of mine who you know, I have permission to say it, is getting it. Really? ALS. And he worried about it. You know what he said?

He worried about what. He worried about him putting the link in, and then Elon losing interest in it. He's like, "Let's say he hit a few glitches. God, back to electric car." Yes, by the way, so that's a fair concern.

So he waited a couple of years, but now he says they're they're going all in. Yeah, as they should. And like, you know, I just think that's amazing. That'll be one of the greatest accomplishments in mankind, right? But you know what's interesting is that he thinks it's his responsibility.

In many ways, he knows what you just said. And instead of saying, "Yeah, look at me," he he worries about population. Yeah, he worries about underpopulation, which is why he's got so many kids. Right? He literally is.

I mean, he. Do you know? Even though he dates people, he goes and gets artificial insemination. Yeah, I see. What is it?

Not ICM. I know you are talking about. Yeah, yeah. Who's good at women's birth? Anybody?

Well, women. Yeah, women. IVF, IVF, IVF. Yes. Teach you a know-how.

That's when families can't have kids. They go to the IVF clinics, and it's great. And for more on that, you'll be doing seminars on this. I will. Yes.

Yes. All right.

I don't even. I got. I had a vasectomy, and do you know why? Yeah. Yeah.

Four kids, and I looked at my wife, and she got a cat.

Sorry, it's like enough cartons. Yeah. But I'll never.

So I went to the place I was born. Mount Sunny Hospital, Upper East Side, New York City. And by the way, have they have they just shut that room down? Made it a tourist attraction? No, but they announced me.

When I was there, because the doctor was a fan of mine, and this is one of those things like it's a pretty private moment. Yeah, you know they're quarterizing your vast deference, and it's a big deal. And I go in there, and all of a sudden I hear in the loudspeaker, "Carton patient, Carton, Craig Carton, W F A N Radio, New York City, here for a vasectomy, Mister Carton, could you please come to door number three?" Are you kidding? That is the most embarrassing thing I've ever heard in my life. Is that the first time you ever blushed?

No, I first time I blushed was when Playgirl offered me ten thousand dollars to be on the cover of Playgirl. And we and I said yes to it. I wanted to do it. I figured get in shape, but I I put in the contract that I wouldn't do full frontal. I said, if you want to see my butt, I'll do that.

But you know, you know, we're not doing the other side. You had a lawyer write that. My agent did it at the time, but then CBS, who I was working for, because they owned the radio station, they didn't think it was a good idea for me to do it.

So it never happened. But I still have the contract framed.

So when we come back, I'm going to play a cut because you've been you've been doing everything publicly for the longest time, and sometimes you do roast. Anyone ever roasted you? Um, not like officially, but yes.

Well, people mock me all the time. When we come back, something happened last night, and you're as a professional. I want to know how you would have handled it. Great. This is the Brian Kilmeade show.

That's Craig Card and his Outkick show is all everybody's talking about. They're talking about that and the Trump Watch. The only two things. Yes, we're very important. Back in a moment.

Don't go anywhere. Brian Kilmeade will be right back. You hear me talk about this all the time. Obamacare was supposed to make healthcare more affordable. How's that working out?

People are still getting crushed by the cost of healthcare insurance. Maybe you are. Insurance companies are making greater profits, and while everything gets more expensive for you and your family, at some point you have to ask: Is there another way?

Well, there is. More than 1.7 million Americans have already chosen an alternative to traditional health insurance called health care sharing. The company I like is called We Share Health because they're a nonprofit and they're faith based. It's a Christian organization. Their members pay up to 60 less than they would for traditional insurance and still get access to a nationwide PPO network and over a million physicians, plus unlimited telehealth.

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You know, I picked on many of these people, and I really only met the Brian Kilmeade thing.

So Craig Carton's here. His Outkick Show is the rage.

So if you're me, I mean, do I get litigious? Do I sue defamation? Craig Carton, how would you handle? I think you got to laugh, little self-deprecating humor. Real Jim Gaff again.

But my self-esteem is not strong. And this is you just wrote your seventh book. Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. But I mean, I I actually don't know why I'm on the dais.

I don't even know what the dais was. Who else was there?

So the Al Smith Dinner, 81 years. Oh. Al Smith dinner, right? I know of it. Yeah, never.

So it's who the president candidates always go and they always make fun of each other. Yeah, yeah. But now it is like the who's who: Robert Kraft, it's fellow sports wise, Robert Kraft, Woody Johnson was there last night. The ambassador.

So do you speak at it? If you're on the list, no, you just get to be there with a white tie, and everyone looks at you and says they wishes they were you. Got it. Got it. Yeah, yeah.

So I made the cut, and it's true. And like Bloomberg wasn't there this year, but he's there every year.

So the richest, most Successful people in the country, yeah, and me, so. It's true. You're like so. You're the poorest guy in the room. No question, by far.

Yeah, yeah. And least powerful. And I'm not really religious, so it's a Catholic dinner, right? But no one ever. I'm friendly, friendly with Cardinal Dolan, the greatest guy ever.

You met him? Yeah, good man. As a great, yes, you, the guy you want to hang out with. Absolutely, almost forget he's a cardinal. It's a weird thing because he's so normal and approachable.

I've been to a couple Yankee games with him, and again, he he has to wear the regalia. I don't know if that's part. I assume you have to, right? And when you're sitting there, and you know I'm throwing popcorn back and drinking, and he's not, you sometimes forget that you're talking to a guy that's like, yo, could have been the Pope, you should have been, right? Right.

So someone told me last night. I said, you know, it's kind of interesting the way they work it out is when you get 75, they go, here's my resignation, and the Pope usually goes, don't worry about it, you look good. This time he goes, here's my resignation. The new Pope goes, you're out. And I asked so many people who know the Catholic Church.

They said, "You know, why would they accept his resignation at the top of his game?" And they said, "There is so much jealousy. You're not gonna believe this. Jealousy among the Cardinals. Really? You kidding?

Not the same Cardinals. Yes, that he's a high-profile guy at St. Patrick's gets a lot of esteem. How you know he spoke at the inaugural, so they might assume that he's conservative. I don't really think that comes up.

But I was like, wow. Even when you give your life up for God, you still have the same issue." Pettyness, right? Did you have it at the end? Right? It's like you and Jesse.

Yes, yeah, it's very similar. Which I confessed to you in the break, and now you just—it's all good. I love Jesse. By the way, sees my son every weekend. Yeah, he goes and he buys you know a meat from a butcher shop that my son works at, and my son keeps telling him that we're barbecuing together.

So I've spoken to Jesse, and we've texted each other. He and I have never actually met in person, but I'm supposed to be going to his house for bar. Barbecue, really? And you know you fell right in. But here's my question: Is Jesse Waters a guy that does his own barbecuing, or is there a guy there that's like Mr.

Waters? I've got your fillet ready for you. I think that. I think so too. I think so too.

I think he's got a living chef. I probably does. He's got a living. But you know how he started. He was actually the tape guy labeling tapes here.

Come on! Swear to you. First job out of college labeling tapes. And then he got it to O'Reilly, and O'Reilly shaped him into. And then said, "Listen, he solved a lot of them.

He went out there, man on the streets, man on the street." And now he's got his guy. Yeah, that does that. All right.

So here is some Gaffigan lines. Tell me if you think this funny, because aren't you? Doesn't your son do stand up? My 15 year old has dabbled in it. Yes.

Okay. Here is Jim Gaffigan. Let's see if you think this is funny. Cut 30. Go ahead.

By the way. While we were having our entree, let's go 38. That's not funny. Cut 38. Welcome, Mayor.

You are a socialist. You are a Muslim, and you were born in a foreign country. You are everything they accused Obama of being. Mayor Momdami won thanks to a diverse coalition of young voters, first-time voters, and working-class Blacks and Hispanic communities. In other words, the opposite of tonight's audience.

Pretty funny, right? Pretty good. They look good. That's good. Yeah.

I mean, there's a lot of people that don't want to laugh. What could you tell me about your outkick show? Yeah, today. Today, it's a football Friday. College football big games, obviously.

Fox has a big one: Indiana, Ohio State, noon on Saturday. Obviously, the NFL. Your Giants trying to go to four one and one. I went on Fox Weather on Thursday with BVD, and I'm sorry, Brian, I did say my lock of the weekend were the New Orleans Saints. Oh, you kidding?

Are you kidding? Do you believe it? Are you just taunting me? You're underdog. Back in a moment.

You hear me talk about this all the time. Obamacare was supposed to make healthcare more affordable. How's that working out? People are still getting crushed by the cost of healthcare insurance. Maybe you are.

Insurance companies are making greater profits, and while everything gets more expensive for you and your family, at some point you have to ask, "Is there another way?" Well, there is. More than 1.7 million Americans have already chosen an alternative to traditional health insurance called health care sharing. The company I like is called We Share Health because they're a nonprofit and they're faith based. It's a Christian organization. Their members pay up to 60 less than they would for traditional insurance and still get access to a nationwide PPO network and over a million physicians, plus unlimited telehealth.

With open enrollment around the corner, don't just renew. Blindly, do your own research. You have options. See what else is out there. Call one eight eight eight We Share to find out more and get a free quote in just minutes.

That's one eight eight eight We Share, or go to we share health dot org and take a look for yourself. From the Fox News Radio studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade.

So glad you're there from 48th and Sixth in Midtown Manhattan. Heard around the country, around the world, even in Oklahoma. This is the Brian Kilmeade show. Senator James Langford's in studio. We love having him in.

He's on Homeland Security, Intelligence, Finance committees, and doing the best he can to make sure he stays in the majority in the Senate. Ambassador Gordon Sunland is going to be with us too. He was for Donald Trump. He was ambassador to the European Union. He wants to get.

I want to get some perspective from him on what's going on with. With Ukraine, because it's pretty clear today, big story. They're basically out of Patriots. I know the whole world wants Patriots, we're not making them fast enough, but there are ways to get some Patriots to them, and one of which is South Korea. North Korea is fighting for for Russia.

Maybe South Korea right now they don't need as many Patriots. Hopefully, they will never need them. Maybe we can get some over there. We'll talk to him about that. But Senator James Wyant, for great to see you.

Just as well, right?

So first off, why was important for you being in New York today? I've got Tons of meetings, different interviews that are happening right now. But there is a very quick trip in and out. I am traveling around the country trying to be able to help my colleagues. I am not on the ballot in three weeks, but obviously the future of the country is, and so I am trying to be able to help out every way I can.

So, you, who are the senators that are very active around the country with the higher profile? I know Senator Haggerty. I was talking to last night the Al Smith dinner. He's been very active. I think it's pretty clear that Tim Scott.

That's his job. Yeah, that's his. That's his job. How many? Senators really decided we can go be there.

I guess I saw Senator Kennedy. Sure, yep. Senator Kennedy's out there on it. John Barasso's out there a lot. Tom Cotton's out there a lot.

We we we've got a lot of folks in leadership. Myself, I'm in leadership, so we're trying to be able to help out as many places we can. Really, that's place to place on it. You know, not not every state's tracking somebody else's senator on it, and so in places you can actually be helpful. Folks are stepping out to be able to find ways to be able to be helpful.

So you mentioned Nebraska. Why was it what impact can you have in Nebraska where they have a candidate who's who's a pastor? Oh, that's Kansas. Actually, I'm sorry, Kansas. You have a candidate that's a pastor, and he is uh, and he is very well known, right?

But he's couching himself as an independent. When he said, "I was a Republican," but if you sit down and listen to him, he's was a Republican maybe in the seventies. Right. So now he's went from a Democrat to basically an independent. But again, I get some be who you are.

Yeah. That's not what we get. What is he really like?

Well, here is the first thing to remember: all these folks that are independent are saying that they're moderates or everybody else. The first thing that they're going to do is vote for Chuck Schumer to be able to be the majority leader of the Senate, and so that it just begins on the very first day, which will be the. Ninth of November, they're elected. The first thing they're going to do is step up and say, "I want Chuck Schumer to lead." Oh yeah, they're they're going to caucus with Democrats. We've got two independents, quote unquote, that are in the Senate right now.

Both of them caucus with the Democrats. That's the way that is going to go.

So people can say I'm independent. They're going to immediately say, "But I want Chuck Schumer to actually lead the Senate, and I want his direction for the Senate to actually be the direction of the country, which is diametrically different than probably what the voters at home thought they were going to do." But they one hundred. That's what they're going to do on it.

So that's the first thing to to remember on.

So Senator Roger Marshall is going to get some help. He's got some help from the president. But you have Kansas who are angry about the diesel prices. Sure, very farming farming community. They're angry about the fertilizer through the trade of removes.

And even though the and the president's with his trade deals, he's focusing on the farmers. But in order to get people's attention, you tariff. Right. In order to try to rebalance. Yep.

So. What is your sense when you talk to people where you guys, Republicans, dominate usually in the suburbs and in the rural communities? The reason why you're vulnerable is because you're not now. Yeah, and that is the big challenge out there. Everybody can see the price of diesel at six fifty and up, and a lot of other places.

Everybody gets frustrated because that drives up the price of everything. You talk about bringing down the price of groceries, you bring down the price of diesel fuel. That actually puts downward pressure on the prices of everything because everything's connected to that, from the farm all the way to The table, everything moves based on diesel prices, so it's a big deal. But fertilizer prices—they shot up actually first and foremost because of the war in Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine's a major producer of fertilizer, so fertilizer continues to have pressure globally because of that war in Russia and Ukraine.

That's the primary issue on fertilizer, and then the next issue is refining capacity. We in the United States aren't creating our own fuel to the level that we actually need, so we're dependent on what's happening around the rest of the world. The Houthis are attacking the Saudi refineries. That's taken down refinery capacity. The Strait of Hormuz is being blocked from both refined products and from crude.

That affects it. And what's happening in Russia and Ukraine?

So these global conflicts do directly affect us here. Right. And then when farmers say, "I don't care," the reason. Just get it down. Just get it cheaper.

Yeah. What can you do besides subsidizing? Yeah, we we don't want to get into subsidies on it because that actually drives the debt up. Isn't the farming bill some subsidies?

Well, there's the difference between subsidizing the price of diesel fuel around the country.

So some of the things that are happening right now, there's a red dye inclusion.

So if you're transportation fuel, well, there's a transportation fuel that actually goes in, and that fuel costs a little bit more on it. You could get diesel a little bit cheaper on it. This This red dye additive that's actually used in this—if you didn't have to do that—it brings down the price about thirty or forty cents. It's not going to be two and a half bucks, but it's something in that. Long term, the biggest issue that we have is increasing refining capacity in the United States to be able to refine our own diesel fuel at higher levels.

It gets it cheaper. My gas is cheaper in Oklahoma because we have refineries that are nearby, so it's cheaper to be able to do that. But that doesn't solve the problem tomorrow. But if we had a lot of refineries, We really would be okay, right? Oh, yeah, we would be okay right now.

You know, it's a global commodity. Correct.

Well, the the about half of the price of diesel is the price of actually crude oil. The other half of it is everything else. It's the transportation of it. It's the refining. It's the marketing.

It's all of those things into it.

So only the half of the price is actually the crude oil itself.

So yes, you get the refining closer to home. That's more predictable and consistent. It absolutely brings. I talked to oil and gas guys, and they say that it just doesn't pay to build refineries. Not as and I go, why is that?

If there's such a need for it, there is. We haven't had one since the '70s built. Is that correct? That's correct. It's not a new one.

It's because of the environmental laws. This goes back to the permitting issue. We've got a permitting bill that will come up in front of the Senate, literally the week after the election. That'll come up where we have a bipartisan agreement to be able to deal with some of the craziness of permitting for everything, whether it's for roads, for energy, for all kinds of construction. It's it's something that's long overdue to be able to resolve in America.

But it will literally bring down the cost of everything in America. With oil and gas companies doing well in this. It's not their fault, right? Right. I mean, I heard that if he goes under sixty-five dollars a barrel, they're not going to make any money.

They're not going to go for that. That's fine with that. I get it. But and then when it goes high, they make more money. Right.

When it goes low, they're not getting paid back. They lose money. Right. So I get it.

Well, can we can we actually with the president with his meeting get them to commit to building refineries? But does that have to be a different industry? No, it's it's it depends. I mean, if you are someone with called the big majors, they'll do both pull the oil out of the ground as well as actually do the refining.

So think Exxon, think some of the big boys. Can we get them to commit to building more? I think I think they'll.

Well, the first thing to be able to do is not to get them to commit to build it. Is make it where it's a price they can actually afford to do it. There's some predictability. Those refining facilities may cost three billion dollars to build.

Okay, no one's going to put three billion dollars of capital in if they're going to have to face 15 years of regulatory permitting to actually get a return on that.

So if they can get some predictability and say, if I put three billion dollars down to be able to do this, I want to know first I'm going to be able to finish it when I start it. That's pretty obvious. And you're worried about. If they have to be worried about another administration coming in and says, "I want to get rid of fossil fuels," well, like the other one did. Yeah, just think about Joe Biden on it.

Everything was set and ready to go for the Keystone Pipeline. Most of the pipes in the ground, including the pipe between Canada and the United States, it's already in the ground, already done. And then the Biden administration takes away all the permitting and says, "No, you can't actually do it." Billions of dollars lost by that company. Other companies all see that and say, "If I can't get some predictability and know that there's when I start a project, I'm going to be able to finish it." How long does it take to build one? I mean, you're gonna give me you're gonna give me the line if I actually try to guess on it, but it's it's probably three to five years.

Yeah, which is crazy. You know, they built the Empire State Building in eighteen months. Yeah, well, they built the Pentagon in in like a year and a half.

So what happened?

Well, again, it's the permitting. If if you're gonna do a mine, for instance, hard rock mine or whatever it may be in Canada, is gonna take you three to five years. If you're gonna do that in the United States, it's fifteen years to be able to do that. It's the permitting issue. That's why this is so important.

We want to do more. Mining. We want to do more drilling. We want to do more production in the United States. We don't want to be dependent on foreign sources for all of our energy and for all of our critical minerals.

We have all that here. We just have so much bureaucracy. You actually can't get it out of the ground. All right.

So you you have an election where each election is separate. I get it. So Sanona's got different challenges than than Senator Marshall over in in Kansas. I understand it. Here's New Gingrich on what he's seen just about everything before, and he's a historian.

Here is what he said: They, you guys, the Republicans should be doing fifteen. I personally believe Senator Marshall will get reelected, not just because it's Kansas, but because he has an opponent who has a whole series of weird values. And for example, both he and Tulareco in Texas are basically vegetarians.

So you go around Kansas saying don't eat beef, and it's not a big winning campaign theme for Kansans.

So my judgment is that the Republicans will almost certainly. Keep the Senate. I agree with you, but I also think there are so many races out there that are going to be two, three, four percent races, and you start looking at turnout.

So, yeah.

So that's his that's his message. And by the way, Roger Marshall's opponent in Kansas doesn't just say you shouldn't eat beef; he says you should repent if you eat beef. Did he walk that back? Yeah, I mean it's hard to keep up with it. It's hard to keep up with it.

I mean, I want to just tell you, it. We we focus a lot on what some of the other side is saying and and some of the the socialists and all the different comments on it. Roger Marshall is a good senator. The guy works his tail off. He works very.

Yeah, he's a he's a physician. He's he's taken all kinds of hits on on different things on being a physician. This guy cares about people. He's delivered babies. He's taken care of families.

This guy has a good heart and good compassion and is a good not just candidate. He's a good senator that actually does the work on it. And so I think that's a big deal. We talk a lot about Michigan. I was in Israel last week.

By the way, Israeli folks that were all there, they were asking about the Michigan Senate race, saying please. Please tell me. That Mike Rogers is going to win Michigan on it because we look at in Israel and understand the unique threat from a senator that has a deep hatred for Israel and for Jews. What that really means for the future of Israel, they get it on it. But it's not just how bad Abdullah El Sayed is; it's how good Mike Rogers is.

The guy is sharp. He does his homework. He's done his background. The guy is really very intelligent and would be a great senator. Period.

And for people who say, "Wow, he's just a conservative," I So the Heritage Foundation gave him a fifty-three percent. He was Congress for years, right? Fifty-three percent—that is not a strong conservative grade, right? Right. I mean, what is your what are yours like?

Ninety-six, probably. Yeah, ninety-nine. Yeah, somewhere through there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

So, every everybody has to represent their own state, and it's very funny to me. I'll have folks in Oklahoma saying, "How come every other Republican is not like you and the way they vote around the country?" I was like, "Because they live in a different state." We have a different perspective in Oklahoma. We're an extremely conservative state. We're conservative on our values. We're conservative in faith.

We're conservative in how we take care of our families and such. We understand not everywhere in the country is like that.

So, Republicans around the country represent the values of the Republicans or the Democrats in that state. I get that. That's the way that this works.

So when we look around the state, I think that race in Michigan is interesting because the choices that El Sayed makes.

So he's a left wing candidate who spent less money, but does beat Haley Stevens, who's might be a nice person. She might be a nice person, but is bizarre. Yeah, I mean the presentation was almost comic book. Yeah. So he finds a way to win with almost no black votes, literally none.

Right. But he finds a way to win. You would think he would spend the rest of the time going to the center, but yesterday and for the today for the second straight day, he is on. Stump with AOC, yeah, and Bernie Sanders. What does Queens have to do with Michigan?

What Bernie Sanders have to do with Michigan? But that tells you exactly what he plans to do when he comes in. Yes, he said, "Hey, I don't want to just campaign. I want to govern. I want to be able to take over the country.

I want to remake it in my image in a very different direction than where we've ever been as the United States of America." So when you look at these Democratic Socialist candidates that are stepping in, they're talking about abolishing the Senate, taking over the Supreme Court, or getting rid of the Supreme Court entirely. They're talking about Closing down prisons and opening up the border. I mean, this is not an American set of values. And what I remind people all the time on this, Brian, and you know this extremely well. When someone's elected, that's not the perspective of everyone in the state.

That's the perspective of everyone in the state that voted, and that's the big difference on it. We've got a lot of states that only thirty-five, forty percent of the registered voters actually show up to vote. It is really important for people to show up and vote because if you've got a passionate interest in this. And you don't show up and vote, you get what you get on that.

So everything is anti-Trump. When they go on the stump, everything's anti-Trump. Here's an example, and and tell me I can shed a little bit of light on this, but you could probably shed more. AOC saying President Trump doesn't want women to go to college. Cut seven.

And they're defunding the ability for nurses, for people to become nurses, teachers, social workers. We have to understand what the deal is here, because then what happens is that the UP doesn't have doctors.

So what's he talking about? She talking? I I don't even know. I don't even try to guess where that comes from. On it, you you can look at his own family and the people around him and know that he's interested in education for everyone and that that option.

I I think we're. My guess is where that comes from is we did a change in the Pell Grant process last year because we have a what a national Pell Grant program to help people in poverty be able to rise out of poverty. That Pell Grant was allowed if you want to get a four year degree in philosophy, you could get that. But if you want To get training as a mechanic or as a carpenter, as an electrician, it wasn't allowed. On that, we changed that last year and said, if you want to get your four year degree in philosophy, fine, but you could also get support and help if you want to become a carpenter, electrician, a plumber, whatever it may be.

But you did limit some of those majors, loans given to would be students on majors that aren't that aren't going to pay back. That's correct. Are going to pay back. That's what he's talking about. He says he targeted you guys.

Targeted women's occupations. That's ridiculous. Yeah, that's absolutely ridiculous. But I like the thing is because colleges keep upping their tuition because their more loans keep upping their cap. Right.

So now you're saying no, we're going to we're almost going to control parents. We'll do anything for their kids. They're getting out parental loans. They're getting out student loans. As middle class people, you don't get maximum type of aid.

Right. So you're doing paying a hundred thousand dollars to go to Michigan. You're paying a hundred and ten to go to NYU or Syracuse. And now there's going to be oh, you're going for the PhD in philosophy. We're not going to.

Raise the threshold on the loan for you. I'm going to protect you against yourself because you would you would forever. Be locked into that loan, and the Biden administration was focused on. You can go get whatever degree you want to. The federal taxpayer will just pay for you, and so you are paying for your next door neighbor's college all the way through, regardless of what it is.

And he wants to forgive all student loans to be able to solve that. We were saying, hey, let's be wise in this. If your degree is not going to actually be able to pay you back, then why are we doing a loan? This it's no different than a car loan, quite frankly. On this, to say why would we give you a car loan for a hundred thousand dollars for a car that's worth twenty thousand.

Understood.

So for student loans, we're doing the exact same thing. Why would we give you a student loan for a hundred thousand when the degrees only worth twenty? Everything's interpreted by Democrats as something about anti-woman, gender, or race. Everything you guys do, it's gender or race. As a dad of two daughters, I'm personally offended by that, but I got to just get over it because I just know that they're trying to just paint everyone that way and to say you're just evil, you're just mean because you hate women and you hate everybody of color.

This absolutely ridiculous. Everybody knows it. You watch what's happening, for instance, in Michigan, going back there to Mike Rogers, he's aggressively going after the black vote because Abdul Sayed has ignored him. Senator James Langford, always great to have you in studio. Thanks so much.

You bet. Glad to do it again, Brian. It's Brian Kilmeade. How can we help make stronger communities happen?

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Got a chance to talk to her before the Al Smith dinner. Really great person. Hanging in there with Mondami—it's not easy. She wouldn't admit it, but it's not easy.

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You're with Brian Kilmeade. Do you feel betrayed? I want it to happen. Really? Yes.

Really, between us. People will die, of course. If attacks will continue, and if something will not work, of course.

So that is President Zelensky interviewing in studio because he was in the UK with the great Pierce Morgan, and he felt betrayed. Why? Because the president cut a 500 ton, and I'm not sure it's going to even come off. 500 ton diesel deal with Vladimir Putin. Which, by the way, I'm pretty sure we can't buy energy from Russia.

So I'm not sure President can even do this. But why would he do it? It makes absolutely no sense. And then over the weekend, what was threatened the week before actually happened—a cutoff of intelligence and a cutoff of Star, Star Shield, which would allow. The would allow the Ukrainians to be able to knock down these these drones that are coming into their country.

So for two days, we were blind, got a lot of damage. I understand, according to Jack Keen, it's been restored for now. Ambassador Gordon Sondland joins us. He used to work with President Trump as the United States Ambassador to the European Union. Ambassador, I tell you, it looks like the Ukrainians were rattled when we did that.

Have you got confirmation that it happened? That now. Everything's better. No, I haven't gotten confirmation that it's it's been restored. But to your point a minute ago, Brian, I don't understand why the president did this with Putin without extracting a true ceasefire, at least a temporary one.

Putin, you know, took took the candy. And is now making mileage out of it, but it didn't. It was a speed bump for him. He he's just continuing to pound Zelensky. I understand Trump's frustration with Zelensky because you know, look, Zelensky's fighting for existential issues.

Trump is fighting for control of Congress in the next election. They're hardly equivalent, but they're both important to each person. But why we didn't get anything out of Putin in return for this gesture is a mystery to me. Here is Robert O'Brien, who used to be the national security adviser when you were there, talking about this deal. Cut twenty-six.

The hypocrisy of the Europeans criticizing it is so rich, Larry. The Europeans have bought three hundred billion dollars in Russian oil and gas. The Europeans are buying Russian oil and gas for their consumers, but Americans aren't supposed to buy it for American consumers. I mean, that's crazy. European Union did pare back, but not they are not they're not tapping out.

Well, the difference in what Robert is is is describing and what I'm talking about is the optics of it. The Europeans have always been buying Russian energy, and you know, when I was there, we we tried to kill Nord Stream two; it got killed on its own. But for Trump to introduce this as a incentive to Putin to come to the table without actually extracting some kind of concession in return, again, is mystifying to me.

So let's having having said that, when things go back, we have to get the Patriot missiles to Ukraine. They're out, and you know the Gulf states want them too. Everybody needs Patriots. We're not making them fast enough. I heard some innovative, creative ways to do it, and one I heard South Korea's got extra, and that might be a deal that might be amenable to doing.

Do you know, Gordon? You have a good sense of what the world has and doesn't have. You don't want to leave in the winter. Ukrainians without Patriots.

So, what would you how how would what would you recommend?

Well, the you know we're at the bottom of the barrel on Patriots in terms of Ukraine's access. I think that he that the president should follow through on his licensing offer to Zelensky, and that's going to take you know a year year and a half to gear up. But in the meantime, they can borrow other stockpiles, and as they replace. Those with the new missiles produced in Ukraine, they can trade. I mean, these missiles are fungible, but I think he needs to send a signal to Putin that we haven't abandoned Ukraine, and closing that licensing deal is a big one.

So, if you give them the licensing deal, it still take them years to actually get everything up because you got to get all the components. I am sure they'll build them quick once they get everything together. But I understand Raytheon not thrilled with that because of the accessibility that the Russians could do some reverse forensics. Then someone told me, well, we could have them built in Poland, a NATO nation where there would be proper security, and then give them over to the Ukrainians.

Well, you can have parts of them built in Poland, parts of them built in Ukraine, and then assembled under supervision. There's all kinds of ways of doing this to address Raytheon's concerns, which are which are legitimate. But the bottom line is: have we abandoned Ukraine or not? And I hope the answer is we have not abandoned them. The signals that are being sent in the last few days are really, really bad for Ukraine.

They do a lot with very little, but when you start throttling their intel and their Star Shield and so on, I mean, you're leaving them very vulnerable. And I understand the president wants the Europeans to step up and take, you know, a more serious role. But they're not capable of doing that right now. He started this campaign with the Europeans in 2018. It was very successful.

They're spending more money. They're getting more serious. But these things take a long, long time. And unfortunately, many, many administrations prior to the Trump administration didn't lean hard enough on the Europeans to get them to where they need to be today. Can you?

It's It's a little maddening to think that this is going on for four and a half years. We've talked almost pretty consistently throughout this. And I think the Ukraine, pound for pound, has assembled probably the most ferocious, efficient army in Europe. I mean, better than France, better than UK. They're going to be invaluable, whether even when they're not a NATO nation.

But they won't accept anything without security guarantees, and I don't blame them. They need a tripwire so Vladimir Putin doesn't just reload. Is there any sense that you have in that closed society where if you write something negative, you go to jail? That Vladimir Putin's grip on the country might be changing.

Well, I think his grip on the country would be changing if we didn't keep hamstringing the Ukrainians, because he's putting his young men through a meat grinder that is not going unnoticed by the Russian public. And the minute he gets an opportunity for a few wins, a few victories against Ukraines, then all of a sudden that tide turns, you know, with the wind at his back again, and that's not something we want to we want to do. I understand what the president's long term goal is, as I wrote in my op-ed on Fox Digital a couple of days ago. What he's trying to do is not antagonize the Russians to the point of where we have to be. Involve twenty four seven over there, containing them because the Europeans can't do it, and then we're too thin on assets vis-a-vis Iran and vis-a-vis China.

I understand that, but if you're going to move Putin onto a course of normalizing relationships, including economic, you got to get some, you know, you got to get some concessions from him in terms of what he does in Ukraine. Yeah, I got to weaken them. I just I just read this big story about their basically their whole economy is military. The whole economy and it's unsustainable with their doing right now. They they need another hundreds of thousands more workers to assemble whatever the weaponry that they're assembling, and then they need tens of thousands to go fight the war.

They're running out of people. They go to Africa and duping people to fight. But but let me ask you the the perception around the country, around the world at Vladimir. Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump's a unique position. He'll take slings and arrows to give him a face-saving off-ramp in order to end the war.

Do you think that Vladimir Putin realizes that that they'll never have a better opportunity to do what every Russian needs to do and that save face? If and not, they don't want to consider this a loss, but it's been an absolute disaster for them. But does Vladimir Putin realize there's only a finite amount of time that Trump's going to be there?

Well, I think the one thing Vladimir Putin does not realize is that he doesn't get the constant barrage of compliments and criticism day in and day out, and have an opportunity to sort of triage that and figure out where he really stands with his legislative body, with the public, and with the strong people in the in the military, because it's an absolute, you know, dictatorship. Trump has that advantage, and so what Putin is going to face is one day it's going to topple. There'll be no warning. People will be tired of him, and he'll be gone. And so, yes, I agree with you.

Now is the time to make a deal while Donald Trump is in the White House, and once Donald Trump is gone, everything will change. First of all, I think Democrat or Republican new president will support Ukraine. Unconditionally.

However, actually, not if JD Vance is president. I don't think he's in on Ukraine. He's the only. He's the only one. He's the only one.

If Marco is president, no question. If any of the, I'm sorry. You're right, Marco. Absolutely. Yeah, Marco.

Absolutely. But and you know, Ted Cruz is running for president. I think Ron DeSantis is running for president. Who knows who else is going to run? Everybody, Ambassador, they'll all be in key.

They'll all be in key of campaigning. Yeah, but but you know, the thing is, this this is a no brainer. It's just it's one of these things I just can't agree with the president. He's got a he he has more respect for Vladimir Putin than he should, and Vladimir Putin has not made him look good. Look what happened after Alaska, nothing.

Look what happened after that phone call. Nothing. He said we're going to have a energy truce. He bombed the energy grid of the Ukrainians the next day. That makes the president look bad.

I don't know why he would tolerate that. He doesn't tolerate it from me. And what's frustrating is I know what he's trying to do, and what he's trying to do in the long run is the right thing. He's trying to get Russia back on a normalcy track with the United States. But you don't all of a sudden hand the guy.

All of these benefits, without extracting concessions at the same time, and that's what he's done. I agree. I just want to see how it relates to Iran because the Russians are definitely helping the Iranians without actually with hard materials as well as satellite imagery that help blow up our bases. Big story in the Wall Street Journal: how the Chinese are providing the Houthi rebels with sophisticated weaponry. I mean, this has got it.

We got it behind. I know it happens behind closed doors. You're you're a diplomat, but I'd like to see some legitimate pressure. We know exactly what you're up to, and this is what your Japanese.

Well, he could be asking Putin quietly to stay out of Iran and saying, "Look, I'll do this diesel deal with you. Stay out of Iran. Don't give us problems there. Tell your friends in Beijing to stay out of Iran as well, and at least give us that win. That's better for everyone in terms of energy prices." But I'm not seeing any of that, unless again, it's happening so quietly that not even.

You know, people that I'm talking to are aware of it, and that's just your opinion, Ambassador. I watched those riots in France, and as much as I think immigration has something to do with it, a lot to do with it, I actually think it's the social welfare system, the social welfare state in the UK. They can't afford to pay for what they with the politicians have promised. There's not enough money in the system. There's not enough innovation.

There's not enough growth. Free healthcare, free daycare, pensions at 60 years old. 35-hour-week work week. The math does not add up, and it looks like the bill is due.

Well, listen. You know, we all make fun of the French when we go there on vacation, and we see them sitting in the bistros at three in the afternoon on Wednesday. You know, smoking cigarettes, and and and they're always on vacation. And that has been largely fueled by our defense spending, because if they were on their own, forget about three percent, five percent, six percent of GDP. The Europeans would have to spend fifteen percent of GDP to make up for the United States, and they would not be able to live the life they're living today.

And that's one of the things that annoys Trump, and he's completely correct about that. Ambassador Gordon Sondland, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. You got it.

We'll be back in a moment. You're with Brian Kilmeade, the talk show that's getting you talking. You're with. Brian Kilmeade.

The fact is, the African American turnout is going to be down because while they're not happy with Trump, they are really alienated by some of these weird values. The fact is, the Latino turnout is going to be down because while they're not totally happy with Trump, they're really alienated by these anti-family values.

So I wouldn't be so sure right now about defining what election night will be like. Because I think there are a lot of Americans wavering between these two choices, and I have a hunch that in the end, being afraid of big government socialism and weird values is going to be more powerful than being irritated at the gas pump. Contract with America is that—that's what Newt Gingrich ran on, and he said, "If you put me in charge of the House during the Clinton era, this is what I'm going to do." So when Trump takes over, this is what I'm going to do. You knew what he was going to get in 2016, 2024. I know I'm going to do.

Now some are disappointed. The Iran wars lasted so long. You won't be when this thing comes to an end in a few months. Oh, you won't be. But Democrats don't have a contract with America.

I don't know anything that they're gonna do. All they are doing. Is pretending to not be what their record indicates. The guy over in Kansas. I'm a pastor.

I was a Republican. No, if you look at this guy and what he stands for, there's nothing Republican about him. He's going to caucus with Democrats. If you see El Sayed, he's nobody thinks that this guy's going to run like a moderate. That he's not.

He's not an extremist. It doesn't hate the country.

So these are the two states that I think are going to flip Republican. I I can't get a read on. New Hampshire, because Sinunu will not do anything public. I don't even see video of him on the stump, but he's working hard. Notice the states.

I'll put that as a question mark. I think they're going to go to Paxton in in Texas, and I think they're going to go with Rogers in Michigan. Paxton is known. This is with Lawrence Jones, Lawrence Jones, who I work with every day on Fox and Friends. Said you understand how popular he is in Texas.

They know exactly who he is, and as an attorney general, he did exactly what he said he was going to do. His problems are. Personal conduct, and I don't necessarily think he's the best for campaigner, debater. But in terms of what he would do as a senator, it's going to be no questions. And the thing is, too, I look at Tarico was not bitter.

O'Rourke was somebody who was he was a liberal guy who was very comfortable speaking. And then the more you looked at him, the more you worried about him. But he didn't duck on what he stood for. He knew exactly. And people say, "Because that's not me." Talerico is pretending as if he's a Texan that's changed almost on everything that he believes, and you saw in that town hall how many people had questions with him on his on his religion and everything else that he's allegedly behind.

So those are the two I think are more more likely to flip, and then it's up to places like Iowa to hold, and it's up to places obviously like Kansas to hold and Nebraska to hold. And the president saying, "I'm not taking any chances. I'm going to tell you exactly where he's going to be. He is, he is already gone. Trump is expected to campaign every day." Leading over next twenty days in states including North Carolina, Kansas, and Michigan.

JD Vance working extremely hard, and it's going to help him too if he's going to run for president, which we know he is. He'll hit the trail. He'll hit the trail with stops in Michigan and many more. And of course, he's going to keep going back to Ohio, where he's extremely popular. Remember, for people who think John Yosted, Senator John Yosted, dead know that almost the entire race.

J.D. Vance was trailing. Donald Trump had to fly in and save him as a senator in Ohio. What happened is he did such a good job as senator, high profile, comfortable in his own skin, good speaker, very active. Remember when that train derailed and where he was doing on a regular basis?

Kind of won people over. You got to thank, man. He's he's a he's a really good senator. He's solid. Been there forever.

No, he wasn't. And then Bernie Moreno beat Sherrod Brown. That's who. John Huston's going against. He's never let him.

So Brown is trying to say, "Know what Brown said yesterday? If I get in there, Donald Trump will not get one nominee through.

So if we have a nominee that gets, if we have a secretary that gets sick, and Homeland, you just going to leave the position open? Ambassadorship? You just going to leave it open?" I mean, that's not the way our system's supposed to be set up. I know Supreme Court justice; those things could be a little dicey. You play politics, but Surgeon General, you're just going to leave open.

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Number two, I'm not going to speculate at this stage on why the interruption happened, and we'll kind of. See in the coming days, sort of the impact that that service interruption had. My focus here in Washington has been in support of Ukraine together. That is UK Defense Minister back to sharing. Ukraine gets back their Starlink and Star Shield and Intel from the U.S.

as they go back on bombing, as they go back on bombing data centers and refineries, while realizing they are also flat out out of Patriot missiles. Number one, nobody three weeks out should assume this election's over. The country's going to choose between being irritated by pricing and thinking the Republicans are to blame, and being frightened by what the Democrats would do if they were in charge. Yep, twenty days into the midterms, and we have dozens of critical races within the margin of error. You can't guarantee results, but we'll break down the final efforts by the people and parties to secure their seats, and just before we bring in.

Dan also go to YouTube channel. If you can't watch, listen to us live, we have the clips, the highlights in the show, and you go to and more YouTube.com/slash at the Brian Kilmeade Show. Hey Dan, if I'll go back to my my second big three, and that is what's happening over in Ukraine. We've restored the help. As a CIA guy that used to be stationed in Moscow, is are you are you comfortable with that?

Well, I'm definitely not comfortable with the way the whole process went down. There should never have been an interruption, and I think, in a larger sense, as a country, as an administration, the Trump administration needs to think about. How they ensure that it's the United States making all of the strategic and tactical decisions about Starlink and Star Shield? Elon Musk should want that. He should be.

He should want to be insulated from those decisions. He has. Global business, including in China, and we know where China stands in this war in Ukraine as an ally of Russia.

So it's a it's a kind of challenging situation, but we're still not doing enough, Brian. And I have to ask, like, what is the objective here for the Trump administration? I I think I know President Trump would like to get to a deal, but I think the objective has to be something different, which is that Ukraine. Stays independent and continues to be in a position for years and decades ahead of being able to defend themselves against potential future Russian attacks to maintain their independence, and that Europe remains free from Russian from the threat of Russian military attacks. That's our goal.

For me, a deal is a separate. Story and the objectives, I think, need to be really clear and clearly stated. I'd like to see Secretary Rubio make some sort of a public statement, as he did in Athens, so eloquently, about why the war in Ukraine matters to the United States of America and how it is linked with the conflict in the Middle East. I would love that too. And you want security guarantees, Dan.

That's what they want. And you know what? The British said, "We'll put troops there." So do the French. But you know, of course, it's got to be America over the top that would stop it. Although, do I think the Soviet, the Russians, would invade again?

If I thought British troops were there, they know that would be a world war.

So that's just it, because we this wasn't a one-off. They try to take Crimea, then they try to take the rest of Donbas, and they do a flat-out invasion.

So what's going to stop this cycle from coming back in four years if they could stand up their economy again? Right. And and if we were to give them Donbass, I mean that just echoes what we did during you know the prelude to the Second World War, where we gave up the Sudetenland, heavily fortified area in Czechoslovakia. And once Hitler had that, it was an easy cakewalk to take the rest of Czechoslovakia. If we were to force Ukraine to give up territory, Russia has never captured heavily fortified areas in the Donbass that Russia will, by the way, will never capture.

If you listen to, you know, read what General Jack Keane's team at the Institute for Study of War write, then that's just going to put Ukraine in a position where they're going to be vulnerable down the road. And, and Brian, to be fair, even if troops are stationed in Ukraine, it doesn't mean that they couldn't be removed by some future administration. I mean, I'd be worried about that if I were in Ukraine. Ukraine promised. That to give up nuclear weapons and in return receive a guarantee of their territorial integrity in Budapest, 1994.

We reneged on that.

So did Europe.

So, by the way, just can you bring me back to that mindset? Can you bring me back to that mindset? Wasn't that the Yeltsin era when we were trying to make them an ally and we thought Russia was going that direction? And were they? Were we right to think that?

No. I could tell you, Brian. I served in Moscow a couple of times, and I served there in the '90s. And the one thing we all realized there was that the whole Russia was collapsing in the '90s. There was no, you know, functioning.

Healthcare, education, business was run by mafia guys. The one piece of the form of the Soviet Union that survived the collapse of the Soviet Union were their intelligence services. They were running high-level penetrations of the U.S. government. Rick James, Robert Hanson.

They were surveilling us all over Russia, and it was clear that the intelligence services were going to be the ones that would hold sway, you know, through whatever, however long Yeltsin was in power. And so I'm I'm not that sanguine that you know whatever agreements you want to make those are ephemeral leaders come and go, territory well that's kind of a different story and that's how a deal could be made that's more long lasting. This conflict I have said time and time again on Fox News since it began it's not going to end until Vladimir Putin is gone from the Kremlin. I said this. Four and a half years ago, and I'll stand by it.

And what's changed? Because I was just reading the story that their economy is all military, and they need hundreds of thousands of more workers, but they're growing it at under one percent.

So something's got to give, right? I mean, are they just pretending that money doesn't matter? Look, Vladimir Putin doesn't care. How much he destroys his economy? He's got an infinite threshold for the pain he's willing to inflict, not just on innocent Ukrainians whom he's bombing indiscriminately, but also on his own population.

Over a million casualties. It's not rational from the perspective of President Trump, who keeps talking about all the dead soldiers and how it has to stop. But Vladimir Putin, it's rational for him. He wants to stay in the Kremlin. He's in a war.

He's dug a deep hole. He's going to just keep digging until somebody removes him. I think before there are. Economy collapses. His security guys will realize, you know what?

This just isn't right anymore, and we're going to have to remove Vladimir Putin because we're tired of putting bending in need at China and relying on little Rocket Man for artillery and having a strategic relationship with our long-term enemy, Iran. I just, I just think that's the part that's not sustainable. Long before Russia's economy breaks, long before the population refuses to go to serve in Ukraine for thirty minutes. Before they're killed on the front lines, the security guys around Vladimir Putin will realize, yeah, this just isn't tenable anymore, and the old man's got to go. That's that's the way I see it.

It's the way it's happened in the past. If past is prologue, I would not be the least bit surprised if that's how this thing goes.

Well, in other words, you can't lose a war. You can't pressure them. You can't lose a war. Keep power, right?

So the thing is, you know how secure he is, insulated he is. You know he's thought about this, Dan Hopman, how vulnerable he is. He's paranoid of, and I think most people agree with that.

So it's going to be harder than you would think. Wouldn't you think? Definitely harder. We'll never know about it, not even our intelligence services, because it's got to be kept so secret that you know the. Security on the communications.

The guys who are going to be look. There were attempts on Hitler's life as well.

Some that were almost successful.

So I have no doubt that those are things Vladimir Putin is concerned about. He's a little smarter than Gorbachev. He's a former, you know, I put that in air quotes. Former KGB spy. That's the way he thinks, and so he'll do everything he can to protect himself.

But look, that's that's just at least the way I see it. We got to stop throwing them a lifeline, and understand that the more we do that, and the harder we are on on Ukraine, the more we incentivize Putin just to stay in the fight, and his guys. Even more importantly, they see ah well, there's there may be a way out here. The United States is interested in doing a diesel deal, or they're interested in buying Lukoil's overseas holdings for a fraction of their twenty billion dollar value. That might encourage.

The the Russian military and the senior security officials to just stay this one stay the course a little longer. I did not know that. Are you you throwing that out there? Is that is that in play the Lukoil thing? Absolutely.

Well, can you explain that? There have been discussions that the that the Russians are interested in selling off their Lukoil's overseas holdings. And the Trump team has put together a group that may buy those holdings, and the U.S. government would be involved. And Putin is willing to give up those holdings for a fraction of their cost.

Now you have to ask yourself, why would he do that?

Well, he's doing it because he would expect that the United States would therefore not implement the Lindsey Graham sanctions or provide Ukraine with artillery that they need. We're just not being the arsenal for democracy and. You're a historian, Brian, and you know that this harkens back to the 20s and 30s. We were not isolationist in those years. We were trading all over the world, but we didn't project enough power to defend our allies from the onslaught that resulted from Hitler and from Japan and from Italy, and we paid the price.

And that's the last thing we want to be doing right now with this century's axis of dictatorships: China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.

So, of course, I'm reading the stories you are about China providing the parts for missiles that allow the Houthis to become more of a potent fighting force. How true are they in Dan Hoffman's CIA world? China definitely sees an opportunity to reduce or eliminate altogether U.S. influence in the Middle East, so that the Middle East, the Gulf states, would be more vulnerable to exploitation. And in that goal, they certainly share that goal with Iran.

They want to make the United States pay a massive price. And they want to try to ensure that our allies in the region all decide that that they can't trust the United States. They conclude that we're not a trustworthy ally. That's what's at play here for China. Also, they believe the Chinese that if they force us to pay a significant price economically, that they will have greater leverage over us when it comes time to negotiate deals.

So, but that's what's at play here. I mean, you know, you're more you're more the surveillance. This is the report, and then you let the diplomats work things out. But I imagine behind closed doors, if the president has a relationship, he seems to have. If he presents the evidence that we have, the Wall Street Journal has.

Oh, he gets more sophisticated. Look, I know exactly what you're doing. It's not even worth you denying it. These are the parts that got delivered. These are the results.

Now you're bombing Saudi Arabia. I told the Saudis about it. You want to do a deal with the Saudis? They're not going to want to do any deals with you right now.

Now we could not take this public, or we could figure out a way to do this. I need you to knock it off. We're watching this stuff get delivered.

Now, do you want to jeopardize our superpower relationship for this? Nah, yeah, not going to work. He doesn't. He doesn't care. I'm sorry.

Lots of presidents, not just this one, many of them, going back to FDR, thought that that that their power of persuasion would hold sway over foreign dictators. The dictators are smart. They'll make it seem like that's true. They'll make it seem like you have a good personal relationship. Kim Jong Un will walk, you know, around Hanoi with you.

We saw that. We were out there for the summit, or in Singapore. They don't care. They hate us, also, by the way, because what scares them is democracy. They hate President Trump.

They hate you and me and the rest of us in our country.

So no, I don't see any any persuasion there or moral. I think I should have I should I should have qualified that the leverage that we may have.

So if we're doing a good enough job, as I heard, Doug Bergam told me a year ago that they're 18 months away from not needing China when it comes to rare earth. That's the main leverage they have over us. Yeah. So if we were able to do something with them, they need our market. If we were able to do something for them in order to stop them from doing this, I know it's not going to be kindness.

So I'm wondering if there's a leverage point. Agreed. I think the leverage point is to win, win the war in in Iran, defeat the Iranians, show that that that Iran is a loser, and win in Ukraine. You want to beat China? Win.

That's it. Super simple to me. You want to have leverage over China? Win. Make Ukraine and the Gulf states our allies.

Do it by winning. That's how we do it. Not by going to Xi Jinping and trying to strike deals where we offer something they offer something. Forget that. That isn't going to happen.

This is about hard power. Win on the battlefield. Win in whatever settlement results from our winning over Iran and win in Ukraine. That's how we do it. I hear you, and we'll see what's going to happen.

You know, I there is a there is a sense the president did not know in Ukraine that we did both those things, and I'm going to, and I'm I'm capable of finding out, and I will. But it's it's very interesting that Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner threatened that to the Ukrainians if you don't stop bombing the refineries in Miami, and next thing you know, three days later it happened.

So they they better be careful on that one because. This is the Russian refineries don't have such a great impact on the world price, and we know that.

So, if you're creating this illusion that Ukraine is responsible for our high diesel prices or gas prices, and this is all part of it, that'll be exposed, and it's not good for our strategic interests. And moreover, it's some short-term, ephemeral, midterm election that's coming up. And I'll admit, I'm not a Politics guy, like you are, and I deal with national security issues that are going to linger for years and decades to come. But we better be super careful about the decisions we make now that could have long term implications. Dan Hoppen, thanks for laying that out for us.

Just win, like Rocky two after Adrian got up from the coma. All the Rockies, man, you got it. And life is a Rocky episode. Dan Hoppen, thanks so much. Back in a moment.

This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. He's so busy he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. Governor Kathy Hochul is here. She is almost certain to win reelection in November.

But then again, the Buffalo Bills always look good around this time of the year too. But after that, she put her head in her hands. Kathy Hochul, they are the Al Smith dinner, eighty-first one. I was on the dais because I was really the biggest name on tour, right, Pete? You know that I'm the biggest name there.

They wanted to feature me, being that I own my own tux. None of those billionaires really own their own tuxes. I mean, I'm surprised you didn't have your own separate table. I should. Everybody else can have the dais.

You need your own special. But it's about the kids. It's about the Catholic children. It's not about my ego, which is very healthy. Hey, by the way, United States is now out.

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Welcome back! Once in a while on our show, you get to do something totally different, and I got that opportunity. There's a brand new movie coming out starring Andrew Schultz, a fantastic comedian, and Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. And by the way, unbelievably approachable. This is the second time I had a chance to meet him.

He did a documentary, 50 Cent did for Fox Nation on some type of law enforcement situation. Remember, he got shot multiple times. Went to jail. Very successful rapper has come out. I think he's a big Trump guy.

Doesn't feel he doesn't do any good to come out and say that. Andrew Schultz has got a very successful comedy career. He's an actor and he's got a great podcast too. Together, I didn't even know they knew each other. I thought they were just maybe cursory friends.

I had a chance to interview them for their brand new movie, so I thought went so well. I thought it would be great to bring it back for radio. Here's my interview with Andrew Schultz. And Fifty Cent. October means a lot of things: the fall, the season.

Of course, you think about Halloween, but the rest of the country is going to be thinking about Street Fighter. They're released this month with two of the stars right here: Andrew Schultz and Curtis Fifty Cent. Jackson is with us, guys. Thanks so much for being here. First off, Curtis, what made you think that that video game could be a movie?

It was exciting. I came in contact with the game just a fan of an arcade. Right, so when it came time to shoot the movie, I was like, "Oh, this is cool!" Because you want to play a fighter, yeah, yeah. I want to play. Describe your character.

Balrog was—he's the only fighter in the in the series. Just a champion, right? Actually, actually, is that something you want with your character? Yeah, yeah, it's cool. You want to be the champ?

Yeah, lists like that. You know, I am Mike. I am Mike kind of champion. That you know that that if it wasn't boxing, it would have been arm robbery. Understand like that—that overaggressive guy, right?

This, that, yeah.

So that why I said that is because you also wanted to be a winning fighter, yes. Sure.

Your character, Danny Biki, yeah, is not a winning fighter. No, but he doesn't know that boastful. Yeah, he has no clue. You know, like he's actually—it's kind of like funny lore. He was made to make fun of a video game that ripped off Street Fighter, right?

So they made him as a parody.

So they made him like weak. To make fun of this other video game. But then it kind of caught on with the gaming community because the character doesn't know he's horrible. Like his his you know Hadouken or Gudouken is his his move only goes like two inches, but in his mind he's like I'm just exercising restraint. Like I don't want to hurt that person.

Right. And and the director told you as his character do something was really out of your realm. Yeah, be funny. Yeah, basically. Actually, you know what's funny is what they said is they're like, hey, we want you to be in Street Fighter, and I was like, awesome.

Am I going to be Ryu or Ken? Like naturally you think, cool, right? I'm like, I gotta be one of these guys, and then they're like, no, no, you're gonna be Dan Hibiki, and I was like, who's that? And then, then the producer Kale goes, trust me, you're gonna be perfect for it. And I looked up Dan Hibiki, and the description of the character was all confidence, no ability.

I'm like, what about me is perfect for this? Yeah, yeah. Help me understand. You almost willing to turn it down. The thing is about you guys with this.

Do you feel a responsibility to because people in the nineties remember Street Fighter, yeah, and everything goes back to the nineties. And then I am finding out about the people that set the trends, and they don't come to me for that. Said the world loves the nineties; they're embracing this again.

So, what was it like for you to go back? You were at the top of the rap game in the nineties, right? Yeah. What was it like to go back there with everything around you? Like, man, it's exciting.

The energy, like. Get going into it. I'm. I'm like this. Like Andrew is there.

All of these amazing people. Nigga, you know, Jason or. Noah Centeno, Kalina playing Chun Li, Orval Peck. I mean, you got Cody Rhodes, Cody. Yeah, and Roman.

Way to be in my movie, Roman Reigns. This is your movie. The second he showed up on set, he's like, "Guys, thank you so much for being part of my movie." What he's not going to tell you, but he should, is he? This guy lost thirty pounds without taking the fat shot. He lost it naturally, right?

Thirty pounds through through old fashioned anorexia, right? This guy didn't eat. How long? Like two months or something like that. It was like, yeah.

I trained. I started training like for a month before. I got to say, and I spent thirty days boxing too. Yeah, and that's because he's topless and or shirtless, whatever you call guys. I call him topless.

Topless, yeah. I had to be back down in the in the shape. Yeah, yeah. Because I I did the first four or five UFCs because as a broadcaster, not as a fighter. Oh, really?

But I saw those guys, yeah, and they were the but the toughest the guy, tougher the guys, the nicer they are because they have nothing to prove. Wouldn't you know?

Now, Andrew, yeah, is he? That's why he's nice. Tough he is. Is he nice? Yeah, he's the nicest guy.

Until you, you know, don't like him because I get the sense you. Yeah, yeah. I'm really prejudiced that way. Yeah. I don't like people who don't like me.

Oh yeah, that's pretty much natural. I do get the sense Andrew, you still are a little afraid of Curtis.

So fifty? Yeah. I'm not afraid of this guy. Yeah. Okay.

I'm not afraid of that guy at all. Right. Look at me! Look at you! No, and listen.

The other thing that sticks out with me, and always wonder, you guys are like many, like they'd say, five tool players.

So you're a rapper that's how you make your name. You also you're doing documentaries for us, and now you're proving yourself as an actor, Andrew. You're a podcaster with opinions and knowledge, and then you're doing stand up, top maybe in the world. Oh wow! I really believe it, and people know it, and you're selling out Madison Square Garden.

No, we do. Thank you. And then you go, let me. Try acting. Is this like the third most important thing?

Like, where does this rank on the things that matter? It depends on how much they pay. It's all about the money. Yeah, we'll find out later. The next, the next one.

Exactly. Yeah, we got to get a Street Fighter two and Street Fighter three. Of course, it's going to be a sequel. How do you feel about? Where does this rank?

Where's acting rank? I like, I like creating the the movie and the TV shows. Like to me, that's really fun. And and this process was very collaborative. Yeah, so like Kate Katal and Kale.

Katal's the director, and Kale's a producer. Like, they were very inclusive of us and like our ideas, and you know, kind of letting us riff and pitch stuff. And that to me was the most exciting. Like acting is definitely fun, but like actually feeling like you've got your fingerprints on a project of this size, you know, is very special.

So I like that. I believe it's going to take over his career. Oh, you think Samuel's boy? That's how it is. I think he's going to make movies, a lot of comedic stuff too, like that.

But he'll go into that space and. There's a, from from, from my perspective, I needed as long as I'm not showing up in any of his documentaries. That's the only guy I knew was the next guy. These projects for me was perfect because it was small enough. My role.

Like I was there thirty days. Like I, I can't take a quarter of what I'm doing right to go play on the movie. But do you know what that's like for him to take thirty days off from being 50 Cent? Like for the last two decades, he's probably worked every day as 50 Cent in some capacity. Why was that important for you to diversify and and not just depend on music?

Because you can't stay the same. The messaging and everything else. You know, I didn't want to be like like a version at 63. You know what he said? He goes.

You mean like Madonna?

Well, I didn't want to be trying to hold on to that the sexy that way.

Okay, that presentation. The first day on set, he goes, "Guys, this is gonna do wonders for my love life." Yes, I'm sitting there. They paid me a lot of money to get back in shape, and I came back looking like Fifty Cent.

So did you not drink? Did you not have any junk food? No, no, no. I was like, I was eating yeah. You eat nothing.

I was eating, but you had to build up your muscle too. Yeah, yeah, and like enough to. I mean, it's just eating like fuel instead of eating because it tastes good and it's food. Oh, okay, understood.

So. This is the main thing. As this is clearly a non-actor, you're talking to, right?

So, size. If you go out on stage, you know what you're saying. Your premises, right? Yeah. But now you got to get words, and someone wrote them.

They want you to stick to them, Andrew. For you, yeah. What it was like looking at dialogue and going, "Okay, I think I got it. I think I got it. Go." Were you thinking the words, or you just thinking the character?

I think I think you definitely think character first, and then also the people who wrote the script were brilliant. Like the script was. Hilarious, you know, and the character doesn't know he's funny, though. You know, that's the difference between stand-up and acting. Is like, if you have a good comedic character, he's dead serious.

George Costanza is just an emotional wreck all the time. He's not trying to be funny, right? He's like really frustrated.

So that's kind of what I tried to think about, and and they just they were also really cool and letting us riff and you know throw different things out and to me that might lend itself to my strengths a little bit.

So that's like ten versions of that, yeah. If you went back to the edits, like, cause I watched his day. You do multiple, yeah. Oh, I watched his performance, and then like they would let him go, and then things, special things, would happen. Understood, and that's we're gonna have some fun bloopers, right?

The directors have to put their ego aside, and for an actor, and just let you go. No, because I think everything comes from them, really. Like they would have great lines that they pitch. Like all the funniest stuff is obviously from them because they created this world. Not true.

Not true. Okay, but they did. They did. What do you what his thoughts around it when he got in it and was. Just performing, right?

Like I saw that, I was like, "Ooh, I would have forgot that dialogue and just kept that." Understood. This was more. It was just in it. Which brings me to you. You used to be in the CEO.

I'm producing. You used to be involved. Yeah, we like yo. Who's the line? Put that right there.

Right. It's better. Right. Like, and then you talking to the the actual writer because the the director is is conveying a piece that was developed by a team. Right.

So that he's not. Absolutely married to it. When you see something that feels good, just it pops off. I don't be going. We got to keep this.

Yeah, right.

So you have an instinct for for movies as well. I love I love watching man. I love watching movies, man. And you like it being produced as well. Yeah, yeah.

Because that's this. Like for the most part, I'm around cinematography that way.

So lastly, before we go. What do you want people to get from this? I know you want to do a sequel, and that'll be great. Yeah, yeah. When people see this movie, what do you want people to get?

I want people to get. Oh my God! Look at how good 50 is in shape. That's all they want. That's all they want to say.

That's all I want. What do I personally like them? What do I personally like them to say? Yeah. Wow, that was amazing.

Right? You see how he turned into that whole other guy. I told you that guy was. Who's the comedian? What do you want people to take away?

I want them to be able to escape. For two hours, you know, like I think there's just so much like existential doom in the world. It'd be great to provide that to people. They go into the movie theater and kind of have that experience that we had. And also, this just like the most beautiful time I think for us is the '90s.

Is like the last time before everything was on camera.

Now everything's a camera phone, or is a camera attached to somewhere. Like we got to live authentically in a really beautiful way without shotglasses for IMAX too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's gonna be it. Yeah, go go check out, go check it out at IMAX. Watch on a big screen.

Andrew Curtis, great to see you, and I cannot wait to see you without a shirt on. Yes, clip it. Thanks so much, Brad. Great to meet you. Appreciate it.

See you again.

So, Street Fighter, the name of the movie. These guys had a great time. Doing it, and so I think it's the whole way to build on that Marvel thing—the whole, you know, superhero situation, the surreal situation. I thought was very interesting, and what they're hoping for, flat out, is a franchise. And by the way, all Fifty Cent talks about is business and money.

That's it. They did a whole bunch of stuff together. It was kind of cool. Hopefully, they'll continue to come back.

So when we come back, I'm going to have a chance to talk a little bit more about my book in a more sophisticated way. I got this book out called "United in the States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle," and. Tonight I'm going to be at Red Bank, New Jersey, on stage. Going to stream it on Fox Nation, but I want to see in person at the Baysy Theater. Joe Pisco was going to come down and sing us an open, and then on Saturday I'm going to be at the Westbury Music Fair in the round.

That's going to be great home game on Long Island. I really get a chance to do that. Have a chance to talk about history, bring it to life. But it's not a lecture. It is an entertaining night, and hopefully everyone joins me and go get tickets at BrianKillme.com.

And if you want to get the book, and I hope you do, and you want Personalized. You don't live in New York. You're not going to see me. Can't go to any of my events, and they're all listed on my website. There's a lot more over Florida, going for California, going to Alabama.

I have a lot.

So if you don't, if you you can't do it, you goes just click on personalization. It goes to my local bookstore. I show up when I can, once a week, and we'll send them all out. I'll personalize and send it out.

So. When we come back, I bring you inside the making of the book "United States." The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them—only on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. All right, welcome back, everyone.

So I did an hour, a fifty-minute special on United States, and it's on Fox Nation right now. What I thought I would do is knock it down to a four-minute highlight reel to talk about the six crucial moments that forged the American miracle. And here's a listen, and here's a look. Watch. Two and a half centuries ago, an improbable experiment was sparked by a radical premise: that freedom, progress, and self-determination belonged to the people.

This was a great test of the American Revolution. From thirteen fragile colonies to a global powerhouse of innovation, culture, and industry, America's path has been anything but ordinary. He realizes as long as I keep an army in the field, all is not lost. A story carved out by visionaries. It's at that moment where we start truly becoming a nation that we would recognize.

This nation was fueled by curiosity and propelled by generations who looked at impossible horizons and saw an invitation. You have a right, if not an obligation, to rebel against unjust laws. But one question remains: How did America get here? Dark days of the revolution. War through the early republic.

This is it. America is over, but somehow we wind up emerging better than ever. Six crucial moments that could have destroyed the American experiment. Six visionaries whose obstacles fueled them. Welcome to United States.

Number one, John Adams proved America was all about justice first and foremost. Right in front of the state house is where the events of March 5th, 1770, happened. Ultimately, it's a chaotic situation. One shot rings out, somebody falls, and there's a pause, and then all the rest of the muskets go. This was a great test of the American Revolution, and the defense attorney would become the second president of the United States.

Number two, George Washington changes the way Americans fight. British have more troops, they're more organized, they're more determined, and Washington has his untested army of farmers with very little training. Had it not been for that fog, they would have seen these barges, and then it would all been over. George Washington could have been captured, he could have been killed. The American experiment would have died in the cradle.

Number three, Daniel Shays wanted reform. He got a constitution. The farmer. Have been struggling against the government for months. There's an army coming from Boston.

If they don't control the Springfield Armory, those weapons are going to be used against them. And they're like, "Whoa, we could lose this if we don't have some sort of centralized system where, if there is an insurrection, the federal government can step in. Yeah, we could then break down into chaos. Number four, Thomas Jefferson had a vision. New Orleans is absolutely essential to American prosperity.

If Napoleon were to stop any U.S. trade coming down the Mississippi River, you wouldn't be able to ship your products. That's when Jefferson told James Monroe and Robert Livingston go approach and see if he'd be willing to sell. Number five, James Madison refused to break. The Capitol building burns.

The White House burns. You got a sickly president sitting on a horse by himself, wondering. If his militia would come back together, if his army would ever form, and if his wife was still alive, that's a bad day. The British came in. The first family was gone.

The dinner was still hot. The wine was out. Then they burned the place to the ground. The burn marks. Here it is.

It is huge. When they hoisted it that morning, after they had held the fort, and Francis Scott Key sees it, it I think is just as dramatic for us now as it must have been for him. Number six, John Quincy Adams dreamed of freedom for all.

So it's never been done before. A president serves, loses his reelection, and then went back to Congress. That's what John Quincy Adams did. He was a true hero. And he sees how hard he's fighting to end slavery to the point they passed the gag rule, preventing him from speaking about it.

It couldn't keep him down. They had more fights to fight. There was nothing inevitable about the success of the American experiment then or today. But we can also take examples from the past and say we got through these times. If we stick to our principles, we can not only get through it but flourish.

At 250 years young, America remains dynamic. Resilient and brimming with unwritten potential, these are the moments that united the states. All right, great job, everybody, from Jennifer Ashley for helping out produce that piece and the special. I will see everybody tonight in New Jersey at the Baysy Theater, and then on Saturday in Westbury. Thanks so much for listening, everyone.

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