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Big hour coming your way. Newt Gingrich is going to join me. He's got a brand new book out called "America's Golden Age." Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. If anyone can unwind, what to expect in Texas? One of the most intriguing races.

All coming to a all coming to a head on November third. He'd be the guy to do it.

So that'll be great. Also, special thanks to everybody picking up "United in the States: The Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle." It is doing. Real well, we'll find out how well tomorrow. We'll see where the rankings come out. Eric is back after his vacation.

We'll learn all about it when next hour. Eric, I find out about it or just now next hour.

Okay, fine. Before we get to Newt, let's get to the big three. Number three. I think it's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine. If he would have listened to me, and you remember the Oval Office, he would have had this settled a long time ago.

Not really. Disagree with the president on that. White House isolates itself on Ukraine. Both Republicans and Democrats understand that Russia is the bad one. It's not going to help the president in this election.

Number two.

Now the population grows in France not from the birth rate; it's growing from immigration. They don't feel French. They don't have security in their economy. Their interest rates have gone through the roof, and their deficit is not going to be equal. That is Kanta Akman.

She really understands what's going on in the Middle East. France riots rocking all of Europe now. Emmanuel Macron blames Iran, yeah, and the war, and jets to the Middle East to try to help out. Really, while his country's in flames, he actually went to the sea. The sea.

I keep on the Dion. What is he? Went to the theater. No. What was the name of Who's the actress?

Celine Dion. Celine Dion. Yeah, Celine Dion concert. Instead of staying with his country, unbelievable. Number one.

Sometimes in the course of a campaign, you'll see a candidate or a party that's trailing in the polls begin to catch some momentum. I haven't seen that yet. The president has been out campaigning vigorously, but I'm not sure it's making any difference. In what difference it make, I'm not sure is is helping. Brett Yum weighs in.

14 days into the midterms, and the president and VP are not taking a day off. As El Saeed over in Michigan seems to have the Dems been fractured just because of his candidacy and refusal to answer questions about his links to the Muslim Brotherhood. As Paxton is trying to consolidate Republicans before it's too late in Texas. We're going to go inside the numbers.

So, if just give you an idea what's going on in Texas, Paxton is getting a bit of momentum. The president's going to go back again to finish. Off, Talorico feeling confident. We still don't know why he took all those days off. No matter how confident I felt, I would never be taking those days off.

If I had the flu, I would at least find a way to hop on a Zoom call and keep people informed. But I think the bigger, most intriguing story is what's happening in Michigan. Abdul Sayed is was in Bay City yesterday. He's going to be joined by Barack Obama over the weekend with AOC and Newt Gingrich. As a brand new book, out as I mentioned, it is called.

America's golden age, Trumpism, and the era of unlimited, limitless possibilities. New, great to see you, Mr. Speaker. Great to be back with you. Just before we get into the book, I want you to hear from Abdul El Sayed talking about his sister and the being on her no fly list because of the alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Cut twelve. There is reporting in a lawsuit that now backs it up, and documentation with a lawsuit that Miriam Jokaku, who's your sister-in-law. That she was on the terrorist watch list. What's your response? Basically, it's exactly the point.

She did nothing wrong and was captured on that, and then sued and got off. But then she got put back on when there was a countersuit for it. Abdul Sayed, whose mom was was working with the Muslim Brotherhood in the seventies, whose sister was in who tweeted publicly for everyone to read that she's so proud of her mom. But it's no link to him. Newt, have you ever seen anything like it?

No, I think.

Well, first of all, he has to basically lie, or he's going to lose. Yeah.

So, what you have is somebody who clearly is anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, who is clearly very closely tied to one of the most extreme of all the Muslim fanatic groups. I mean, the Muslim Brotherhood is hostile. To every element of Western civilization, and it's clear his father, his mother, his sister, all of them had ties. And it'll be interesting to watch Obama sort of twist himself into a pretzel this weekend, explaining that even though his it was his administration. Which put his his sister on the watch list.

That somehow it's Trump's fault. It's Trump's fault or somebody's fault. It's not. It's certainly not Obama's fault. But I think there was an article that came out this morning in the Detroit newspaper where two major Democrats said they couldn't possibly vote for Al Saeed because, as Americans, they had to put the country ahead of their party.

And I think you're going to see that erosion for the next two weeks, as as he loses ground, and as you know, you've you've had James Carville say flatly. He'd rather the Republicans stay in charge than have a narrow Democratic victory that gave the hard-left socialists the ability to blackmail Hakeem Jeffries.

So I'll give you the two names of the people: Lori Johnson, who helped Al Gore, Senator Debbie Sabo, and John Dingell get elected Democrats. Who said they're going to leave the blank? They will not vote for the Senate seat.

So they won't vote for Mike Rogers, but they're not going to vote for him. The other one is David Kramer. He held a fundraiser and campaign, and was campaign leader for Governor Gretchen Whitmer. And Olicity Slockin, he says, "I'm leaving a line blank. I will not vote for this guy." So I think it's it's pretty telling.

Schumer's going to give money because he wants the majority. But what you're talking about with the Democrats is they are making demands of Hakeem Jeffries already. You know what it's like. Yeah.

Used to make demands when you were more of a backbencher. Sure. But the Democrats, he's saying right now, the DSA is saying progressive Democrats, backed by the DSA, are saying, "I want Medicare for all." A twenty-five dollar minimum wage. I want to abolish ICE, and they want to stop weapon sales and deliveries to Israel. That's what they're demanding of Hakeem Jeffries if he wants to be speaker.

And I mean, Jeff Jeffries has got a real challenge because these these are serious people. I mean, these people aren't just amateurs, and they are dedicated to. A radically different future than most Americans, and I think that's why this is going to be a very extraordinarily important election.

So I watched the Trump policies in the first term, but it was overwhelmed by the Russia investigation. Everything he did was just overwhelmed. I don't want to review that. But when you write this book, America's Golden Age, Trumpism, and the Year of Limitless Possibilities, people say, "Well, you know, I am not feeling it yet. I think you are over." Some are saying you are over aggressive on immigration, and so far, wages are up, but inflation's up higher, and we haven't seen interest rates come down.

Do you still believe that it's the this is the golden age? Yeah, well, I think this book takes you all the way out to two thousand seventy six, which is the three hundredth anniversary. Of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and I think when you look at the impact of all the different breakthroughs—breakthroughs in healthcare, breakthroughs in space, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence—we're going to be more prosperous. We're going to live longer. We're going to live better.

We're going to have extraordinary opportunities. And I think our current news media and our current politics. Is so negative, I know, and so hostile that we we miss the the big story, which is that the world is going to be for our children and grandchildren a dramatically better, more exciting, and more interesting place. I almost think we have to reset. And talk about America being the land of opportunity, not outcomes.

Understanding that we're here to plow the ground and make sure you reach your potential, whatever it is, whatever way you go. But we're not here to tell you what to do or make sure that you have success or get the biggest house you want or the biggest car. This is a land of opportunity, not outcomes. When things don't break your way, people look to blame politicians or some other external factor. How do we get away from that?

Well, part part of why I felt Compelled to write America's Golden Age is to re-inject that sense of optimism, and to your point, to say to people, if you're willing to study, you're willing to work, you know, sometimes you're willing to fail, get back up, and do it again. Have to fail. One of the fascinating things, as I was doing research for this, the six biggest technology companies, which are the biggest in the world. Five were founded by teenagers, and the oldest one was twenty-four. Wow!

Now, I mean that is a land of opportunity. Yes. What Elon Musk is doing? In South African-born, Canadian-educated, now an American, in inventing the Starship, which is the largest rocket ever built, and making it completely reusable. He'll be launching a hundred people.

Or 200 tons of cargo every time that takes off, and his goal is to do at least one a day, and then have them come back and get reused.

So, you start taking the young people. The chance of them, we'll probably have a village or a small town on the moon by 2033. We'll probably have one on Mars by 2040, and young people today can begin to dream about a world. That would have seemed impossible, and it's because of somebody who's really smart, who worked really hard, and who invented stuff that didn't exist thirty years ago. And what I loved—I don't feel I was raised to be jealous of those people.

I like to look up to those people. But it. This is what bothers me. We got to fix it. There are people say, "Why does he have so much money and I have so little?" You know why?

He works fifty, sixty hours a week, and he's a genius. There are people that are smarter than you. There's people more, better athletes than you. There are people that are taller. There are people that have you know that have certain advantages.

Maybe they have a maybe they have a friend in an industry you want to go into. That's what it's like. Get in there and get involved. Stop making excuses. There are things that people do well.

So I loved it. This this super this Benjamin Franklin of our. Chose America. Yeah, and by the way, you're not going to see any big newspaper stories about the fact he just committed to giving ten and a half billion dollars to children in the Trump Savings Program with the space. Yeah, oh, he did, and he has the SpaceX stock too that he lost.

Well, that's what he's going to give. That stock translates into ten and a half billion dollars. He's giving away voluntarily.

So and you know what he's doing with that? He's giving. He's not saying, "Here's the money." He's saying, "This is an investment. Right? Learn about it.

Learn about stock. Hey, what else? What other stocks are there out there? Oh, can I invest in other things?

So, what nine year old thinks about the stock market? Would they should? But now all of a sudden they're like, "I have stock. What is this about?" They'll realize it's like sports and it's fun to follow.

So I'm watching CNN today, right? And you know they, I'm saying, oh, they're talking about the Elon Musk story. Know what they say? Why is he making? Why is he promoting SpaceX for these kids?

Why doesn't just give them the money? Right. What are you talking about? It's called an investment. They even criticize this ten billion dollar giveaway to children.

Right. So there's certain things you can't please people with. Yeah, I used to tell people that if Thomas Edison had invented the electric light, it would be reported today in a story that began. The candle making industry was threatened. Yes, absolutely, right.

Because they they couldn't imagine a positive story. Yeah, I think we got to push back. You know, I also wonder how much is foreign influence. The TikTok and other things. I'm wondering because they they know that they're taking advantage of our free society.

I want to get more into your book when we come back. Short time out. The great Newt Gingrich is here. The name of his book is America's Golden Age: Trumpism and an Era of Limitless Possibilities. The speaker with more in just a moment.

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So America's golden age is now out. Newt Gingrich's latest book. It's a follow-up to his best-selling "Trump's Triumph." The former House Speaker shows what his new golden age will look like. We mentioned last block you have AI, you have robotics, specialized materials, completing reworking manufacturing. We also know they're talking about miniature nuclear nuclear power, excuse me, which burns clean, which you get the green maniacs happy again, and we're starting to understand that we got a manufacturing.

Out of our own stuff. That's part of Trump's legacy, isn't it? That we have to bring manufacturing back. I mean, Trump. Trump, in many ways, was the base of doing America's golden age because he broke out of the left's fake ideas that don't work and began to put us back on a track to build things in America.

You know, he created the Space Force in his first term. He's now created the Space Academy. He's been very aggressive about breaking. For example, we now have for the first time in I think sixty years a declining cost of pharmaceuticals. Drugs are cheaper today under Donald Trump than they were when he became president.

Trump RX. Trump RX, and it's really working.

So I see a guy who. Is very practical, and who is breaking up the red tape and the regulations and the bureaucracy that were keeping America slower than it should have been, and that's part of what inspired me to write America's Golden Age. Is that as I looked at all the things that were happening, it seemed to me that there was a real opportunity for us to to Get across to people. You should be optimistic. You should think that the world is going to be better, and you should think that your hard work and your effort could pay off.

In some very big ways.

So, as you write about the future, you say these are these is the potential. I mean, I saw those Tesla robots. Yes, unbelievable what's going on. I see the Chinese robots too, making big progress. It's good.

It's a good race to have. But do you worry about the pushback? No more data centers. You know, there's a there's pushback on data centers. The AI is going to steal your jobs.

What's slow down? You know, we watched the the fear the oligarchy tour from Bernie Sanders and them. Do you feel as though the headwinds could slow this down? I know you're a visionary, but you're also a politician. Look, I think if you did end up with the democratic socialists and the big government socialists in charge, they would do for America what they've done for Chicago and San Francisco and Los Angeles and Seattle, which is make it a mess.

So that that would be a danger.

Now, I have enormous faith in the American people. And for example, when you learn that that Medicare for all would actually become Medicare for no one, because it would destroy the system, cost four point seven billion a year in a seven you said trillion a year, and we only we have a seven trillion dollar economy. Yeah.

So you when you look at all this stuff, you begin to realize that the hard left lives in a fantasy world. I always tell people. They're the folks who saw the Lion King, and thought it was a documentary.

So I got to ask you, what enables you to always have vision? When you were a candidate, you had vision. You're always thinking about the future. What What is it about someone who knows history, but you also have the ability to see what's coming? Where does that come from?

Well, I think I, when I was very young, was the beginning of the space age. With Sputnik and then with Apollo, going to the moon, and I read science fiction, particularly Isaac Asimov's series, and I just got this notion that you should you should look to the future, you should ask what's possible, and you should look for solutions.

So I'm every every day. I mean, I think, for example, we're on the edge of a breakthrough with Alzheimer's. Which could eliminate it as a disease by 2050.

Well, the effect of that would be so extraordinary because it's seven million people currently have Alzheimer's. It's very expensive, and families who take care of Alzheimer's patients are twice as likely to have health problems. And it's so expensive that if you actually Cured Alzheimer's by itself. That's about one fourth of what you need to do to get to a balanced budget.

So I get up every morning, and I look for the positive. I look for the breakthroughs. I look for the new ideas. I look for the research paper. Or, as you point out, I look at a Chinese robot or the Japanese who have a huge aging population.

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A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. I have never seen the wealthiest, the most powerful, the most well-connected run so scared as they are right now. They know that they're going to lose their 30-year purchase on power in the state of Texas. That is Beto O'Rourke.

Is there anybody I'd like to hear less from than Beto O'Rourke? Did I say that right? I mean, this guy lost twice, guaranteed victory. They thought he was the new superstar, cover of the Vanity Fair, hopping on tables, speaking from the heart, next generation talent. And how did that go?

One of the things he was asked is, "With that wall behind you, he's at the wall. He's at the border. What do you think?" He goes, "If I'm elected, I'm going to take it down." That didn't age well, did it, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West? Joins us now, the American Constitutional Rights Union executive director, former congressman from Florida, and joins us now, Congressman. Welcome back.

It's good to be with you, Brian.

So everybody's talking about Texas. It looks to be a flat-footed tie, but I want to know what you think because you're on the ground. You talk to more people than I will in Texas. I think, in the end, what you will see is East Texas, West Texas, and South Texas. Will end up pulling Ken Paxton across the finish line.

The I-35 corridor, which is really dominated by your Marxist leftists, and also from Houston over to San Antonio, you will see success for Mr. Talarico. There, so early on, it will appear that Talarico is winning. But then, when the results start to come in from West Texas, which is where you have what the Permian Basin oil and gas, and then of course down in South South Texas. Texas, where you have twelve or fourteen border counties that President Trump flipped two years ago, they don't want to go back to open borders.

So I think that you will see that happen. And you've got a pretty strong candidate, Brenda Herrera, who is running for Congress down in one of those large congressional districts that run along the border. I think that his success will also be a success for Ken Paxton.

So this is what people tell me is that Paxton. Always does well in Texas elections, and he did better than Ted Cruz last time against Beno O'Rourke and against Colin. I forgot his last name. Alred, Colin Alred, Colin Alred.

So, do you think it's going to be the same way this time? You know, it's very interesting. You bring up the Colin Allred race because remember how everyone was saying it was a dead heat between Ted Cruz and Colin Allred. This was just two years ago, and the next thing you know, you get President Trump. He wins Texas by nearly some twenty points against Kamala Harris, and then Ted Cruz wins against Allred by about nine point four, nine point five percent, almost ten percent.

So could that possibly happen here? There have been some demographic changes. There have been some population increases with people coming in from California and New York, New Jersey, Illinois, what have you. But I don't think that's going to be enough to to take Mr. Talarico over the top.

And again, people are concerned about his stance on oil and gas. I don't care how he tries to remake himself on a CNN Town Hall. His voting record shows exactly the type of progressive left. This Marxist that he is.

So I want. This is the one time I disagree with Brett Hume last night in special report. But I want. I want to see if you do too. Cut twenty one.

You look at that situation, for example, in Texas.

Now he's calling James Talerico Talerfico.

Now, look, it's true that James Talerico has endorsed some pretty exotic positions in his in his years in public life, and that he is not, on paper at least, a very good fit for the state of Texas.

However, what he does not seem to be is a freak. You see him; he seems mild-mannered. He seems pleasant. He's not an unattractive candidate. Whether you agree with him or not, look—he is a freak.

He is a freak. I look at him; I think he's a whack job. You know, anybody that goes out there and rents a Ford F one hundred and fifty to to try to make himself appeal, and all of a sudden he's wearing blue jeans and and cowboy boots, this type of thing. But I think what is most disturbing and disconcerting, and it's a very good ad on this. Is how he voted, and he stood for you know putting parents in jail.

That didn't would not allow for gender transition, you know, body mutilation of their children. That's not a Texas value, and you know the president he likes to go out little Marco, you know, low energy jab and everything. That's just his style. But there is something very strange about James Talerico, and let me tell you something else that I don't know if a lot of people have paid attention to. Two weeks ago, Hasan Piker spoke at the University of Texas there in Austin, and Hasan Piker said that he doesn't care, you know, what James Talarico is saying right now.

He will be held responsible and accountable if he wins to the the Marxist DSA agenda. That's what Hasan Piker said at Piker said at the University of Texas.

So. Again, it's those type of things that are happening on the ground that people are remembering, and I think you're going to see a very large turnout. Early voting started yesterday. My wife and I have already voted, and we're starting to see some really interesting numbers already on the first day. I mean, you can't put it's five hundred million dollar race.

Do you believe this? Can you believe? Yeah, someone going to have a billion dollar race. Yeah, well, it's Texas, and the left has always known that if they want to capture the United States, America, it is Texas. And and I'll also tell you, Brian, you guys have been doing a great job covering it.

I think the unforeseen October surprise is what's happening in France. When people look at that, it's very disconcerting to people here in America.

Well, you know, the thing is, I was just on with Rokana, and he believes it's because income inequality. I go.

Okay, give me a break. Are you kidding? And then and then Macron says Iran war. It raised prices. Are you nuts?

It's the air conditioning in the schools, and and people they want better crayons. That that's a you a load of bovine excrement. These are Marxists and Islamists that have taken over the streets. I'm tired of people. You know, the mostly peaceful.

Look, they burnt down a what 19th, 18th century city hall in Paris. They defaced the statue that represents the Republic of France. This is a very serious issue, and you see it spreading over into. Belgium, and also it may teeter over into the United Kingdom. And look at the open borders policy, and how now all of a sudden Spaniards are starting to, you know, stand up against this and the government that they have there.

So there are a lot of things we can look across the ocean and see. And we don't want to be on that path.

So I think this midterm election could be that decision point. All right, I am going to bring up something that I am very curious because I don't agree with this statement from the president. Cut thirty four. Zelensky says you're on the wrong side of history on this one. Zelensky said it.

Zelensky doesn't know what he's talking about. Zelensky is a man that should have had this war settled a long time ago. If he would have listened to me, he would have made a much better deal a long time ago, and would have a million people living from his side.

So, your thoughts. And he also said that Zelensky should go.

Somebody else should negotiate this. No, you know again, Russia is the aggressor. Vladimir Putin is the aggressor. We start to believe you can make deals and negotiate with despots, dictators, theocrats, autocrats. That's not the case.

Russia is connected with Iran. Iran supplies Russia with these militarized drones. I think we need to take a tougher stance on Vladimir Putin and Russia, and stop trying to act like he is some aggrieved individual in this whole thing.

So I don't agree with with the president and what he said. I think it undermines the efforts of the people of Ukraine. Look, you can say what you want about Vladimir Zelensky, but you're talking about a nation, a sovereign nation that was in. Invaded. That's the fact.

Yeah, I don't think that's no one's. I didn't think anyone would question that. I just am on the wrong side of the president. I'm on the right side in this. I know the.

I think the president's flat out wrong, and I think he's got the wrong guys negotiating this. They're good people, but I think they got too much the Russian perspective, and and I just think you got to rotate them out. But Marco Rubio in charge. If he doesn't want to do it directly, find people in the State Department that do, that can pull it off. There's a reason why people do this for a living.

You just can't win. Yeah, and then I will also say this: you don't dual hat the Secretary of State as National Security Advisor. You need a dedicated National Security Advisor that can get down into the weeds and the details of this and advise the President appropriately.

So that's another thing I disagree with.

So I want to talk about Iran. They have come out flat out and just said we want a nuclear weapon. We're convinced we need a nuclear weapon, and if the U.S. and Israel think they're going to go back and finish the job, we have more surprises for them. What changes in what could possibly change, Colonel West, after the election?

I think that based upon the election, either way, you've got to you know end this. You've got to go and make sure that you bring Iran their capability and capacity to to their knees. And let's be very honest. You think about the pallets of cash in an unmarked airplane that Barack Obama sent to Iran. You think about the lifting of the sanctions.

Against Iran from the Biden administration, they turned that into a windfall, and that pushed them toward this capability and capacity. That's why I don't think you know the president should be you know lifting sanctions off of Russia because again, this axis of evil is all they're all interconnected.

So I would hope that the president would finally go ahead and seal the deal, close this thing out economically with the pressure, militarily with the pressure, but with no doubt can be. That Iran cannot have the capability, capacity to be the dark specter that they are in the region and across the world.

So, this is the Treasury Secretary yesterday. I meet the press two days ago, and he's saying this is the fact. Everyone's critical of the president saying. Reportedly, when the and I don't I haven't backed this up, a couple economists have told me one works at FBN says when Russia said we have we've lost so much diesel we will no longer be exporting it, the price went up thirty percent. President's looking at this and saying, well, how do I get that down at least into the election?

And he said, what if I tell him start selling it to us? And he did, and it's causing controversy. And then Scott Besson said, "Before you be critical of us, remember this: Cut Forty One. The Europeans have given Russia and Vladimir Putin more money than they've given the Ukrainians. They continue to gorge on Russian energy.

There is a facility called the Ural facility. In the first six months of the year, there were 140 cargos that left. 136 of those went to Europe." To Belgium, to Spain, to France, to the Netherlands, over eight billion dollars. I ask our European allies to join us in putting secondary tariffs on China, on India. They refused.

So why should the U.S. bear the burden?

So President Trump, perhaps we will be in contact with our European partners. Why should the U.S. go it alone? You know, in a way, I did not know was that level. But your thoughts.

No, I would agree with him, and we all know about the pipeline that was coming out of Russia and going to to Germany and some of these other European nations, and that was back during the first Trump administration. I think that one of the critical things we, and again, this is why I think you have a national security advisor that specifically looks at this. You know, if you're going to go in and conduct an action against Iran, what are the second, third, fourth, maybe even fifth order effects that you have to be concerned about? And we should be looking at how we make ourselves completely energy independent. That means having the refining capability and capacity to do the what is necessary for all different types of fuel production here in the United States, American.

That includes diesel. And so, you know, we're talking about it now, but that should have been something we had been. Should have been looking at earlier on the Defense Production Act. I mean, put the pressure on states like California. They're shutting down refineries and and that capability, and let people know that they're part of the problem as well.

All right, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West is going to be interesting. Sprint to to November third, and all eyes on Texas for the first time in a long time. Also, when those gerrymandered states, gerrymandered districts, are they going to produce with Republicans at home? Colonel West, thanks so much. Thank you, appreciate you, Brian.

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Some might call it confidence, some might call it cockiness, but he just has to be right on an issue. He needs to be focused on what voters are focused on, which is affordability and cost of living. To David's point, and I think the quicker that he can get back to that message and move on from this, I think he handled this voter very effectively. But we need to move on and get back to what actually matters in this race.

Well, what matters in this race is which ideology you're going to be on. Foreign relations get a get a security clearance and be doing the work of Egypt or doing the work of Iran. You know, you're worried about some of your supporters, like the Grand Ayatollah, and you don't want to bring it up. You say it's a dumb war. I have, I know you're anti-Israel.

I think it really matters. It really matters to say to say every time someone brings something up, fills us up of something about that is anti-Islam is wrong or anti. Muslim is wrong, and to bring it up to say why do you bring things up that doesn't matter to people? It's about affordability.

Well, what's your plan to have renewable energy get the price of gas down? That's not going to work. He wants to get rid of the gas car. He said this on camera. It's one of the three hundred YouTube videos that he deleted, and the thousands of tweets.

It's all what he believes. What are you talking about? So listen. You know, here he is. Yesterday.

Talking about, you know, people are asking him questions about his background. Cut eleven. My parents got divorced when I was really young. I didn't see my mom for a lot of my childhood, and you know, they want to make this about her because they got nothing else to talk about, right? And I'm out there fighting for all the moms who are trying to just afford groceries and gas.

And I think if Mike Rogers wants to win this campaign, he probably should talk about them too. What are you talking about? Would you? What would you do about groceries?

Well, I would end the war.

Okay, pretend we don't have an enemy for forty-seven years, and it's it's not going to be on steroids when we end the war the wrong way. And number two is, I would. I don't know. I'm not going to drill. I'm not going to build a refinery.

With they're already shutting them down in California, so we're trying to get one built. It's going to take like three years to build it to get one new one. We need about twenty. Because we're beginning to drill and frack, and we have all the demands with this new data centers needed for AI.

So I just would ask all these guys, what's this guy Troy Jackson going to do for affordability? Have you heard anything? Anything creative at all? Medicare for all is not creative. It's impractical.

It's not going to work. You talk about inappropriate. Then when people say, "Well, I kid you be more like Alyssa Slotkin," remember, she was part of the sedicious six. She's also a Michigan senator, which was she just hopped on camera with Mark Kelly and others and said, "By the way, if you're in the military, you don't have to follow unlawful orders." What? What is that about?

Administration was apoplectic, and I, I was too. And they're sued, and and why'd you do that? And then she comes out and says this two days ago. Cut fourteen. I am into effectiveness, and if we have the House but not the Senate, you know, I don't have a ton of faith that my Republican colleagues are going to have any more strength.

So that's what I'm saying. I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him. I want young people coming out of school to say, "Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity." I want them to be like, "Lord, that might be buying myself." A ton of problems that I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that.

I want that deterrence message sent.

So, Pete, if you want to weigh in on this, she just told a bunch of 22 year olds, "If you come out and want to work for Trump, you're going to get sued." I want to scare people from working at another campaign. And does she sound like she misspoke? That's not a misspeaking, and that's that's a threat. That's that's a threat. It's a threat, and she's she's loving it.

I want to make people so. There's going to be so many subpoenas. I'm gonna I'm gonna make it impossible. And then she comes out and says this when people criticize her. Cut fifteen.

When you choose to call out their corruption, they clearly don't like that. They're clearly trying to change the conversation, given what the midterms are and the state of the economy, the state of things around the country. I do think there's something about being a woman and. Being a woman? Are you kidding?

Wait, you criticize El Sayed because we don't know his background to terrorism, his affiliation.

Now we don't like Muslims. You say something ridiculous like I want to intimidate people not to be a Republican in their 20s, and now it's because you're a woman. Are you crazy? Yes, you are. There are no moderates on the left except Senator John Fetterman, and they hate him.

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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade show from 40th and Sixth in Midtown Manhattan. Heard around the country, around the world, where there's a horrific subway situation. A person was shot over the weekend and killed. And now we have Bruce Blakeman, who's underlining the fact that subway crime is going up in New York City.

Wants to be the next governor, riding the subway yesterday, making headlines everywhere, and calling out the fact that Kathy Hochul is letting this happen. And Mondami says that right now, subway crime is going up, and he will not commit. Guy doesn't like cops. He will not commit to adding more cops.

So good luck with that. You continue. By the way, Jessica Tish is literally saving him, and one of the best police commissioners in the country, who ran sanitation and did a fantastic job. You know, her family's she was born into wealth. The Tish family, unbelievably successful.

And she's doing a life of service, and she got a huge award at the Al Smith dinner last week.

So, before I get to Tom Carico, when we talk about missile defense in this country, he's the best in the business. He's the missile defense project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He's the director there and the senior fellow.

So, we got Rebecca Heinrichs. She might be the premier person in this building on foreign relations. We'll talk about Iran, and we're also going to talk about Ukraine and deal with some. With Stuart Varney.

So let's get to the big three. Number three, I think it's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine. If he would have listened to me and you remember the Oval Office, he would have had this settled a long time ago. That is the President United States. I don't think so.

White House isolates itself on Ukraine by siding with Russia. Bad timing for the world. Number two.

Now the population grows in France not from the birth rate; it's growing from immigration. They don't feel French. They don't have security in their economy. Their interest rates have gone through the roof, and their deficit is not going to be equaled. That is Dr.

Kanter Akmen. France riots rocking all of Europe, and Emmanuel Macron blames Iran and jets to the Middle East, leaving his country in flames. Why this is a lesson Americans have to learn, and the role. It plays in the election. Number one.

Sometimes in the course of a campaign, you'll see a candidate or a party that's trailing in the polls begin to catch some momentum. I haven't seen that yet. The president has been out campaigning vigorously, but I'm not sure it's making any difference. In what difference it's making, I'm not sure is is helping. I do think it's helping.

If you see the size of these crowds and what he has to do is maximize his base—the people that vote for him—that'll help him in places like Kansas and Texas. 14 days with the midterms, and the president and VP are not. Taking a day off, as El Saeed seems to have the Dem base fractured, and Paxson's trying to consolidate his base. Republicans in Texas. Before it's too late, we go inside the numbers, and I'm going to be doing a lot on the midterms too.

We also know that Ken Paxson's beginning to get a lot of money, and he's going to the border. Hits for him. The key is maximizing Southern Texas. Obviously, he's not going to do very well in Austin.

So let's get to Tom Carriko. I would say, Tom, as we welcome you in, one of the hot issues in this country is missile defense and Star Shield as well as Starlink. When it comes to missile defense, what they want to do, the Ukrainians, is get the license to make their own Patriots. Would you do that?

So there's a couple things going on here. One of them is the prospect of co-production, licensed production in Ukraine that was mentioned by the president with Zelensky back in way back in July, whenever things seemed pretty pretty friendly between the two of them. That was then walked back. There's also the prospect, which I think is probably more likely, of production or and or co-production for. Or Ukraine in Europe, of of a Pack Three or a Pack Three light capability, that could be done in Germany, could be done in Poland, could be could be one of these up and coming, kind of slightly less capable than Pack Three offerings that are out there in the market.

That's a prospect too. But more more urgently, Brian is the the reports of Ukraine basically running out. And so it's one thing to talk about producing them and getting them, you know, in a couple years, but the Ukrainians are basically saying they're out of slits, and that's a problem. That's a today problem because missiles are coming in. They're killing people.

They're destroying infrastructure. They're degrading military capability. And as you probably saw, the Washington Post report. It's a report about apparently, you know, we've we've heard administration officials tell the Europeans and I. I think rightly so.

They need to do more for Ukraine. It's their backyard. They need to help Ukraine more. But we now see this report in the Washington Post that the Pentagon is not even signing off on letting European countries transfer their Patriot missiles to Ukraine, because it's a is a licensing, third party kind of a kind of approval that has to go through.

So that's that's unfortunate. If that report is true, that's unfortunate. If if we have European, it's wrong. I mean, if that is true, because I heard. The Treasury Secretary say, "Have Europe given the Patriots over the weekend?" So that that can't be right.

Either that, or no one told the Treasury Secretary. That would be terrible, Tom. I agree with you. It would be terrible. It would not be the first time that we've seen the Pentagon slow rolling aid.

However. And now we have Star Shields. They say it's not up to; it's still intermittent picking up the high speed drones, the jet engine drones, and then we have Starlink that is allowing them to go deep into Russia, which I have not heard complaints about. Would they when when we look at missile production? Have we?

I know we want to address it. We're doing things. Has anything resulted in more Patriots done quicker more? Anything to do with missile defense done quicker, Thad, or anything else? Yeah, a couple things.

So over the past eighteen months, the Pentagon has been preparing, kind of lining up at the starting line, preparing for this munitions ramp, this munitions acceleration for let's just say a dozen or so offensive and defensive missiles total. And what we've seen is so far heads of agreement that were put out kind of December, January timeframe, and then we saw in the past couple months, undefinedized contracts for things like Pack Three, Thad, Tomahawk. We're talking twenty three billion dollars just for Tomahawk. But it's not a fully definedized contract. Why is it not fully definedized?

Because they don't have the money from appropriations.

So we're waiting on Congress. We're really at this point waiting on the lame duck for that. Wow, that hurts big time. Have you have you participated in some of this innovation with missile drone defense and some of the some of the advances that that Ukraine has displayed? Yeah, there's there's certainly a lot of solutions out there, and Brian, you alluded to some of the sensing.

You can't do drone defense if you don't have really good sensing, and so first and foremost, that is what is most needful, and that's that's all for the good. You also alluded to the sensing, or rather targeting, that perhaps SpaceX or others can provide for the Ukrainian long-range strike. And this, by the way, I think is one of the most important developments of this year. Ukraine may be running out of Patriot defensive interceptors, but what they're doing well is taking the show downtown to Moscow, striking energy infrastructure and hitting Putin where it hurts. That's, I think, the new capability that they've been able to bring on board.

We're not giving Ukraine Tomahawks. Number of Tomahawks that we've given to Ukraine is exactly zero. But their own domestic long-range capability—that's what's inflicting pain on Russia and and why you know I think Putin. Wanting to have this summit and you know quietly crying uncle is Ukraine is actually hitting hitting them where it hurts and I really hope that Ukraine does not listen to the White House to ease up the pressure. They have to keep the pressure up on on Russia in this respect.

Absolutely.

So I mean there are plenty of the targets other than refineries. I mean just blowing up oil fields would would certainly be as effective.

Well, might not hurt the world price on diesel, but But the fact it was public, if you just if you take something off the table, it doesn't work to anyone's advantage. Tom, have you seen a off ramp for Russia that they could be taken because they're so into saving face?

Well, I mean, what are they losing? Seven thousand a week. They're losing thirty-two thousand a month, soldiers. I mean, obviously they can't sustain this much longer. And I'm sure Ukraine can't sustain it much longer.

But it's all about saving face to make this ridiculous war seem reasonable. Have you heard a saving face plan that you think Putin would accept? I think Putin is has a continued high tolerance for expending Russians. I don't think he is apparently losing a whole lot of sleep about the number of Russian casualties. You know, well over a million now over the past number of years.

That's one of the the piece of the tragedy here. Here again, I think that the the way to bring Russia to the table is to hit them where it hurts, and that is in their military capability. But it is also in their their pocketbook, and Russia is a gas station. And you're right; it doesn't have to be the refineries, but there's plenty of other nodes of their ability. And furthermore, the price of diesel, as I think everybody really knows, has been driven up by the Iran War well before these strikes by Ukraine began to occur, and far more greater effect.

That's just that's just That's just a fact, right?

So let's look at the Iran war. They said made it clear yesterday, maybe the day before. It's hard to know with the time shift. We want a nuclear weapon," he said. "No doubt about it.

We it's going to be a source of national pride. We want the whole country to rally around getting our nuclear weapon.

So the illusion, the pretend illusion, is over. They also are obsessed, according to Oman officials, with hurting Trump in the midterm elections because Trump has been their nemesis from taking out Soleimani to blowing him up in Midnight Hammer their their nuclear program and then killing the Ayatollah, his family, and his friends, and a few levels. Of their government, they're looking to hurt him at the midterms. I think they're probably looking to hurt the United States in just about any way they can. They've been shooting missiles at us.

They've been doing all kinds of things. I think it's frankly the the capability of our intelligence service and our counter intel that, for instance, thwarted this reported Iranian plot on the U.S. bombers in the United Kingdom from a couple weeks ago.

So I think they're trying to do a lot of things. I think it's. Important to not attribute to the Iranians being ten feet tall in terms of the U.S. domestic elections. We have a lot of different factors going on here, and Iran is just one of them.

I guess we'll we'll have to see because I think we're going to go back to action now. I know we know that. The CENTCOM commander has gone and visited every one of these Arab nations, these Gulf State nations. But they're really concerned about their desalination plants. They're really concerned about our bases and and their gas plants, their natural gas fields, especially when it comes to the UAE.

And now we see what the Houthis are doing with with the Saudis. Has anything been done in the interim, in the so-called down period, to bulk up bulk up their missile defense? Do you know of?

So there have been reports of perhaps some of our scarce interceptors being transferred to the Middle East. That's, of course, a high price to pay. But our GCC friends, be it the Saudis, be it the Emirates, they expended a whole lot of their inventory as well over the past nine months or so. And so, why is that relevant?

Well. There is a number of scenarios in which we actually want and need them to have those missiles to protect us. In some cases, those are our friends, maybe protecting U.S. forces at U.S. bases on their territory.

So it's it's a complicated thing. But suffice to say, this is not going to end anytime soon. We just did an event on this last week. You know, the Iran war. How does this end?

I don't see this ending anytime soon. And it's of course in the Iranians. Interest, as you said, for a number of reasons, to prolong this, and right now they seem pretty dug in. We have bombed everything we can from the air, in as much as we're not willing or not interested in putting in ground forces or something like that to go in and clear out tunnels or something like that. They're going to remain dug in, and it's going to be really hard to, I think, have substantial change.

Yeah, and and it's hard to imagine us mass producing it. People have brought up South Korea has interceptors; they're not using now. We've seen North Korean troops in there. That would be one way for South Korea to contribute to this. And you know, you know, Ukraine can pay.

So, do you think they might be amenable to that? The South Koreans have been developing both their let's just say artillery and rocket systems, and there's a number of European countries actually that are acquiring the Chunmu, for instance, which is kind of comparable to our, GIMMlers or or an HIMARS launcher, for instance.

So the South Koreans are out there marketing some capabilities here on the on the defensive side. They're Elsam, they're Msam, long range and medium range surface-to-air missiles. They do have some products. It's plausible that they could be could show up in Ukraine. I've not seen that happen yet.

All right, we'll see what happens. Tom Caracot, thanks so much. All right, great to be on. All right, you got it. Bottom of the hour, Rebecca Heinrichs.

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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. In Paris and beyond, half a million people had filled cities across France to protest over the future of their country. They were mostly peaceful, but as we saw in the capital, in the wings were those who wanted to take advantage of the disorder. Idiotic report from the BBC.

Mostly peaceful. You've seen this video; it's horrific. Five hundred thousand people protesting. One hundred twenty-six thousand in Paris alone. Iconic buildings being torched.

What does that say? These people don't even have an appreciation for their country. Can you imagine having riots and trying to blow up the Statue of Liberty as an American to help America get better? Because I'm upset about the school, and you know what they're upset about—the buildings. Could be better in the teachers and the classes are too big, so you blow up a city, and now people think that's the reason.

Really, yeah, I don't see a bunch of eleventh graders running around that city. I see a bunch of twenty and thirty year olds, very similar to the crazies that were in Oregon. A lot of a lot of the riots here, and that were taking place now in Lisbon, taking place now in Milan. These people who are pretending that it's no big deal that massive illegal immigrant, massive illegal immigrants, refugees poured into their country, taking up the social, the social welfare system, costing a ton of money. You tax these people to death.

You give them very few little opportunity, and now you say, "Oh, the problem is income inequality." I don't know. Do you know a lot of entrepreneurs come out of France these days? I don't. You see a lot of innovative companies coming in France these days. I don't, so I don't know what they're teaching them in schools.

But for people say the schools have been ignored. How about this? Fifty seven percent of their budget goes to education, and they've already spending. They're already spending a hundred nine percent over their annual budget. Let alone all the money they took out in order to pay off their.

Deficit now nobody's buying French bonds because they think it's a it's a terrible bet.

So I thought we could agree in the unrest, but now you Macron blames it on Trump and Iran, and now you have the Democrats saying it's income inequality. It's crazy. Here's Trump 27. The Manuel, look, he's a friend of mine. I told him a long time ago, you're making a big mistake in France.

You're letting everybody from the world come in. The whole world was coming in, and you know, you know, Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon. And that wasn't the deal. That wasn't the deal. I told the Manuel you should close up your borders.

And let's see, I've known him for probably eight or nine years. I told him as soon as I met him, I said you make Get a big mistake. We closed our borders. He did, and you know what? His borders are a problem.

And the president was way ahead of the game on that. They want to say xenophobic. He wants to make sure that the people coming into our country are going to help our country. Yeah, have some refugees.

Some. But they got to be thoroughly background checked, and that's just it. If you're going to bring these people in from terroristic states, I look at this Elon Omar situation. It looks like the way the investigation's heading, her dad lied about his role. Said he was.

She said he was an educator in her book. The guy was a colonel with a Soviet allied regime that brutalized its people. That's not how he filled out his visa. How many other people here are lying about their their terrorist backgrounds? That's why we just got to make sure the people that come here can help our country.

France just says "come one, come all." Germany said the same thing in the UK. They're all paying the price right now. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade Show. We are back.

Rebecca Heinrichs with us right now, America's foremost expert on foreign policy, Fox News contributor, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Rebecca, things are moving quick right now. We have Marco Rubio over. We have Steve Witkoff talking. Jared Kushner talking to Zelensky and the Ukrainian side.

I just found out we're going to have the President Zelensky on Fox and Friends tomorrow live. Oh, great! At six thirty.

So hopefully they'll give me some time with that, but. The president seems to have just tuned him out. He says Russia is not bad when it comes to Iran, and Russia is doing fine with Ukraine. That is blatantly not true. They're aiming for civilian targets.

They are losing. They are not winning the Donbas. They're losing so not a lot, but they're losing land.

So they're not going to take the Donbas. To get peace deal, that's what they want. They want Ukraine to give up the Donbas. Yeah, so I think we should be really clear. And actually, Secretary Rubio has been clear on this point that the Donbas, the reason the Russians want it so much, is because it would give Russia the ability to have just a straight run through Ukraine.

Yeah, and it's the it's a very heavily fortified part of Ukraine that Ukraine has been able to hold. The Russians are unable to take it militarily. They haven't been able to take it since 2014 when they first invaded Ukraine and took. They can't take it, and so Zelensky can't give that up. If Zelensky were to give that up, I mean, he would be there'd be a mutiny because of all of this blood and treasure.

He's not going to. He's not going to do. He can't do it. It's about the survival of Ukraine. It would be awful for the United States, by the way, because it wouldn't bring peace.

The Russians would just regroup and then take all of Ukraine. And of course, remember, Russia's ultimate goal is to push the United States out of Europe. It wants to carve up Europe. It's anti-NATO and anti-United States.

So that's the ultimate goal. Here, Zelensky can't do it. I was just when I was in Ukraine in May. One of the things that I learned there is that there is nobody in Ukraine. None of Zelensky's even political opponents that they would like to replace him want elections right now.

They can't do it in the middle of the war. And so, you know, this idea that Zelensky is the one standing in the way of peace, and if you replace him, you'll get somebody else in place. I mean, there can be no elections anyway. Yeah.

So look, Zelensky should play smarter. If he's got a problem, the president said, "Call me directly." So he could be easily play the game a little bit better. But when you go out and you say these things, that's going to take people off. But I think his approach is correct. What he needs is interceptors.

He needs patriots right now. And so far, if the Washington Post story is true. It looks like we're standing in the way of Europe handing over patriots. Did you see that report? Yeah, I did see that.

So this is. I hope that's not true. I hope that's not true. It would be just unforgivable on our side again, and it's not in our interests. The pro peace strategy, the pro peace policy, is to pressure Russia.

It is not to put any pressure on Ukraine. You want Ukraine to be doing well, and you want to be standing side by side with Ukraine in order to compel the Russians to stop Zelensky. Has agreed with President Trump every time President Trump has said we need to have a ceasefire, and as soon as President Trump says that, it's the Russians that then turn around and hit Ukrainian infrastructure. Another important point here too on this is Russia isn't just hitting Ukrainian targets. Russia is deliberately, systematically hitting American businesses in Ukraine.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine has been clear that even as late as, I mean, as recent as September, Russia is hitting American businesses in Ukraine. In order to try to capitulate, the United get the United States to capitulate.

So, I mean, look, this is I did not know that. This is first time I am hearing this. Oh, it's a major issue. I mean, we think that you think that if you are American, you are safe in Ukraine. They're they're deliberately targeting us to try to get the United States to to capitulate and to get us to force Ukraine to surrender.

But yeah, the the Russians are supporting Iran also in Iran's efforts, obviously, to target U.S. forces in the region too. Yeah.

So the U.S. President Zelensky on how Vladimir. Putin is interpreting the fact that he's allowed to sell diesel. Cut thirty-nine. Big support for Putin.

He feels victory with sanctions, and this whole deal, and then Sterling between us. We have to be very honest.

So we are always thankful bipartisan support, but with Sterling, it's not the support. Murray is. I mean, this for today. It's more supportive for Russian aggression, especially for their strikes against our civilians, against our energy projects. And we are afraid that the question of Russian gas will be raised, and also the question of frozen assets.

This diesel deal is very dangerous. It doesn't have influence on the real influence on the price in the United States. We understand that the price is because of blocking of Ormos.

So that's affecting the price well more. We all know that. Yeah, I mean, if look, there's a couple of things for them thinking about. One, Ukraine hitting the refineries in Russia. Ukraine has been doing that, and as it's been doing that, there has been no correlation between an increase of price in diesel in the United States, just relative to the the overall.

So I heard from somebody negotiating in the oil deal said the day that. Since they hit so many refineries, the Russians say we're no longer exporting diesel. They said the price went up thirty percent. Is that not true? You mean globally?

Yeah.

I mean that that might be. I'm talking to those specifically. If you just look at like the the farmers that are hurting, and so like specifically, I mean, I don't know. I've had to look at that trajectory. The last I saw is because the Russians have taken off.

But if that were true, Brian, though, that would have to do with Russian sanctions too, because Russia's not supposed to be exporting any any energy anyway, and they're buying it from India and China. India and China and Brazil are buying from them. Yeah, I mean, what I saw the the chart is is that look, there's been no direct correlation. As Zelensky with Ukraine has been hitting oil refineries directly in Russia with the immediate price in the United States. I mean, the problem is it's a global commodity, and we've got problems everywhere, including in the Strait of Hormuz.

And so that's the that's the effect there.

So I mean, my I like you know the idea is that the United States should be focused on deregulating And do other things to export more oil ourselves, and that way you can affect the price. But, but I want to get back to the other issue about what Zelensky is saying, though. Too, Zelensky can't stop hitting those refineries unless he gets some other military advantage, because that would just kill Ukraine to stop hitting the very thing that's hurting the Russians. It is hurting the Russians domestically. It's causing long oil lines, you know, long lines at the gas pump inside Russia.

It's bringing the fight to Russia, so the Russian. People understand that their government is causing this pain domestically. That's why Zelensky is focused on the refineries. If he needs to pause doing that for for the for what the what President Trump wants right now, he's got to be able to get some other military advantage.

So it's got to come in the form of interceptors, missile defense interceptors from Europe, or from the United States, which we've got a shortage, and so it's going to come from Europe. Europe has them, by the way. Or they need to have what Chairman Roger Wicker of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Republicans said, "Which is why not give Ukraine more access to Star Shield, the military component of Starlink, further into Russian territory, so that Ukraine can hit deeper inside Russia and hit the launchers that Russia is using to hit inside Ukraine. It has to have something so that it can it can preserve itself." So yeah, this is the story that Scott Besson must not have known because he said over the weekend the European allies should stop buying energy if they're going to condemn us.

And number two is. They they should lend them some patriots. And today, the story in the New York Post says delays in approving transfers from partner countries coincide with the worsening rupture of Zelensky. The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country.

So, there's if this story is true, that means we're preventing Europe from sending interceptors. I mean, right? If that is true, and I certainly hope it's not, it's not going to bring peace. For those who argue that this is the way to peace, I mean, this is like Munich with Chamberlain forcing the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland, which did not bring peace. It was appeasement, and then we had a Second World War.

So, I mean, it would be a disaster. I mean, the way to peace is to stand with our European allies, and by the way. On the on the Europeans buying Russian energy, the beauty of Trump one's Russia policy is that it opposed Nord Stream two, which brought Russian energy into Europe. Remember that was Angela Merkel of Germany. That was her big disaster.

And it was one of the first things I heard that Nord Stream two was when President Trump brought it up. Yeah, said, "What are you doing? I'm supposed to watch your back, and you're cutting an oil, but you're cutting an oil deal, a pipeline." So Trump one had it right, and it was the Biden administration that authorized. Nord Stream two and released sanctions, and so the way to peace is not increased dependency on Russian energy. It's to get more sovereign European countries working with the United States.

There are really two big culprits in Europe that are a problem: it's Hungary and Slovakia that continue to buy Russian energy, and then you have French buying LNG. Even with Orban out, they're still buying energy.

Well, so it's been quick. They're going to stop. I mean, the idea is to stop, but it was Orban. It was like gangbusters buying Russian. He's a Russian asset.

That's the the the new administration is going to be much much better, much different, but still. But that that's the issue. But but Europe has actually moved in the right direction because of pressure from the Trump administration and because of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. They are getting off a Russian energy.

So that that's the ticket. The ticket is for the U.S. to lead the West and get off of dependencies on Russia and China, for that matter. Big question. Last minute, Rebecca.

Heinrich, do you believe that after November third, no matter how Republicans do? The president goes back with the IDF and finishes off Iran. I certainly hope so. I mean, look—you, the the best thing that we can do is stand beside the allies that are actually willing to fight for their own territory, their own sovereignty and security against our shared adversaries. I mean, who has been better at that than the Israeli government, the IDF?

And remember, the the IRGC has been severely degraded. I mean, what Admiral Cooper has done with U.S. Central Command? To degrade the the Iranian military is remarkable, but there's there's too many IRGC leaders that are still in power, and we got we got to go after them. And Israel will be the great ally to do it with.

Absolutely, Rebecca Heinrich. Thanks so much, Stuart Varney.

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But if you want to get on online, we'll try to squeeze in a few calls. If Stewart leaves us a little bit of time at the top of the hour, we know the. Market is up substantially, six hundred and seventy-five points. They jump as oil and yield yields retreat. That's what the president wanted—just a little bit of relief leading into the.

November third election. He just shouldn't be. You should be more accurate when he says the Russians aren't too bad in Ukraine. They just killed a one-year-old child. They're aiming for apartment buildings, and they're stealing children.

Besides that, bring in Brian Kilmeade. All right, Brian. Bruce Blankman rode the subway on Monday. He called out Governor Hochul and Mayor Mandami for not doing enough to keep commuters safe. New York City just recorded its seventh subway homicide this year.

My question, Brian, is why doesn't Mandami? Get any of the blame? He should get blame, and they caught up to him yesterday. But the press is being very easy with it. Remember, left wing press in the city mostly follows him around.

They're happy that he's there. A lot of these youngest people—they've looked at him as a rock star.

So right now, overall crime is down overall, but is beginning to tick up. And on subways, we know the horrific murder over the weekend, and now we have Bruce Blakeman who wants to be governor, who's a lot closer than anyone understands to Hochul, and they're beginning to panic on that side. And believe me, she wants this thing to calm down. And then when Mayor Mondale was asked yesterday your very question you just asked me, say, "Will you increase subway? You know, the police presence in the subways?" He wouldn't commit.

He said, "Would you add more transit cops?" He wouldn't commit. What mayor wouldn't commit to redirect or hire? But this is a mayor who's starting to push back on overtime and then canceled two police classes coming up.

So yeah. Crime. We might have our hand on a boiling pot of water right now. This thing could explode quickly. No, I don't like to hear that because there are all too many incidents in New York City of crazies walking around and these incidents on the subway.

Everybody has a sense of anxiety in the city. There's not peace and quiet and calm and enjoyment. It's—I just get this sense of anxiety, which I'm not used to. New York was a decent place for a long time.

Now, how do you feel? Is it falling through the cracks a little? I mean, I'm still taking the subway, probably three days a week. I take the train home. I feel fine.

About it, but I just saw a woman over the weekend said I wanted to avoid the subway because I don't feel safe.

So I hopped on my bike, and she got punched off her bike. Was able to try to, and they took her bag. She was able to grab her thermos and try to beat the guy with it, but it was it right in the afternoon. Going through Central Park in a nice area, trying to avoid the subway.

So I know these are anecdotal. And Jessica Tisch is saving this mayor big time as the best, arguably the best police chief in the country. But I don't know for how much longer. And there's talk, Stuart, of her quitting. You know, the famous Tisch family.

She's basically working for very little, trying to save the city. She might even run against him. Oh, next one. New York State reportedly rolling back its statewide ban on Native American imagery in school sports. This includes, I believe, your hometown, Massapequa on Long Island.

Are the schools happy about this?

Well, put it this way: She decides that American Indians shouldn't be depicted or known anywhere in New York.

So if you're the Tomahawks or you're the Indians or the Warriors or the Chiefs, it's insulting to the American Indian community. The problem is most American Indians like being remembered, and many of those tribes stood up for Massapequa. They all, most of the others, capitulated. Massapequa, my town, doubled and tripled down. They got some lawyers.

They say we've been doing this since the '50s. We're not budging.

So in comes President Trump and says it's horrific to make these kids do that. Invest all these dollars. Get all the new gym floors, all the new logos, all the new turf. Forget it.

So he pushes back. Bruce Blakeman goes to bat, and they finally. Are allowing teachers to walk around with chief emblems and allow people to walk around with the Indian chief depictions or even the name? They would have fired you if you walked around with chiefs on your shirt, but you're allowed to play as the chiefs in sports. And now, after this ruling, you can.

But they're not out of the woods yet. Hermie Dillon has to step up and just make sure the DOJ nixes this from this ridiculous governor that we have, who made this a priority. To try to be politically correct while stopping fracking, stopping pipelines, and getting rid of nuclear—part of the terrible policies that make New York the number one state for people to leave. You know, Brian, we like you because we know exactly how you feel. You're just like Dave Portnoy, actually.

All good stuff. I'm cuter. Whatever you say, he's richer. Yeah, that's true. Still ahead.

All right.

So, thanks so much. Yeah, that's we were just talking. I got a couple minutes on the on the other end, but we were just talking about this this city. I mean, this mayor's ridiculous. He just he is.

This is why it's a bigger deal than just a New York mayor. Number one, a New York mayor is the most high profile mayor position in the country. He's got a lot of power, a lot of people. But one of the things that fuels our local economy is Jewish-owned businesses. Why would they come here?

Why would they invest?

Now there's push from to divest from any type of investment in any type of Israeli products, stocks, or or companies or anything else. Do you believe this? And now these Democrats, these some controller Tom Napoli, said, "No, I'm going to. I have my job is to grow the pension, and this is a very good investment, so I'm going to do it." And now he's getting huge pushback. I mean, this anti-Semitism in a city that is only has has more Jews than anywhere else except Israel, and this anti-Semitism that is raging in France.

This pro-Palestinian thing is anti-Israel. No one even knows a Palestinian. These Islam these Islamic cultures who says they'll throw you off a roof if you're gay, if you're a woman, give up on rights, and you're probably going to leave school. That's what the Democrats are backing. And that's the attitude that's being massed right now by this Abdul Al Sayed in in Michigan.

It's the big picture story, but this mayor is, believe it or not, as extreme as he is. He's actually disappointing the DSA for not being extreme enough and not kicking all the Israeli businesses out of the city. Many of which are going.

So, we had Ken Griffin at a big press conference too. Wix, one of the richest people in the country, self-made multi-billionaire, and he was going to invest here, and he's probably still going to invest in a building. But you know where he's putting three hundred fifty billion dollars? Miami. He's going to build a sprawling campus, and that campus is going to be affiliated with the university, and it's affiliated with the university.

And it's going to be a place, basically the Silicon Valley of the South. Could have been in New York, but they left because he's smart. Doesn't like to waste his money. Go to BrianKilmeade.com. Order my brand new book, United States.

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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade show. We got a big hour coming your way. My interview with Rokan is getting a lot, making a lot of traction.

So we thought we'd bring it back. You'll hear that a little bit later. And Joe Manchin's got some company when it comes to trying to be an independent. His name is Matthew McConaughey, and Matthew McConaughey came out and did this six-minute social media post. And he mentioned Joe Manchin in it, just saying it's time for people to be independent of thought and get to have ideologies.

Whereas it got us, and then Tyrus will be joining us too. Keep in mind, we got a great YouTube channel. Go to YouTube.com/slash/atthebriankilmeatshow. And also, when it comes to United States, a book that came out last week. Thanks so much for everyone grabbing it.

And here's where people are asking me, how do I get it signed? I can't go to every city, but I'm going to West Palm Beach on Saturday and on Sunday, Vero Beach. And then I'll be going to Jacksonville and Clearwater and Doylestown, Pennsylvania. You'll see all the all the stops. But if I'm not going to your town, again signed, you can go to my website and I'll just personalize it.

We'll be able to send it to you.

So let's get to the big three. Number three, I think it's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine. If he would have listened to me and you remember the Oval Office, he would have had this settled a long time ago. It's just not true. He's talking about Zelensky.

The president couldn't be more off on this. And most everyone in the country and Republicans, I think eight have already come out against the diesel deal and against not selling, allowing Europeans to give Ukraine their Patriots. Number two.

Now the population grows in France not from the birth rate; it's growing from immigration. They don't feel French. They don't have security in their economy. Their interest rates have gone through the roof, and their deficit is not going to be equaled. That is Dr.

Kanta Ahmed. France riots rocking all of Europe, and Emmanuel Macron blames the Iran war. Really? And then jets to the Middle East to offer peace there while his country's in flames. Celine.

Dion concert over the weekend. Why this is a lesson Americans have to learn, and the role it plays in the election.

Sometimes in the course of a campaign, you'll see a candidate or a party that's trailing in the polls begin to catch some momentum. I haven't seen that yet. The president has been out campaigning vigorously, but I'm not sure it's making any difference. In what difference it's making, I'm not sure is is helping. I do think he's making a big difference.

You see that crowd over in Kansas. You see the crowd over in Ohio. You see the crowd over in North Carolina and in Texas and in Oklahoma. They're big. They're enthusiastic.

The goal. Is not to win people over; it's to get your fans to vote. I I agree with you. The independents and Hispanics that are ticked off at him it might not make a difference. But he's got to mobilize the people that voted for him on an off-year election, and they just have not been there at all so far.

But let's talk about the midterm elections. The president's going seven seven different cities, seven different cities in in seven days. He's going to he'll just continue to work, and I think he likes. He also knows it's over after this. Really, I mean, they might help out who the nominee is, but he's not going to be doing much.

He's in Greenville, North Carolina today, as he and Vice President JD Vance accelerate a nationwide midterm travel push. Member, North Carolina is getting a whole bunch of hurricane money. The money will rebuild eight major corridors. Trump will go to Kansas on Monday. Vance will ramp up his midterm blitz.

The president, as you know, he's going to be in South Carolina, Iowa, Florida, Georgia, and Michigan later this. Week, so it's going to be big. And for the president of the United States, he's having a good time when he's out there, but he's also talking about everything else that's going on in the world too. When Brett Hume came out and just said, "I'm not sure how much it'll help," here's why: because he thinks the the administration's had some missteps. Cut eight.

Then you had this fiasco last week where they appointed this press secretary who might, with some time, have turned out to be a competent press secretary, and they sent the poor person out there with no time to prepare. Really, it's only a matter of a day or two, and it didn't go well.

Well, of course it didn't. It was crazy to send her out like that.

So I don't see this White House and this this campaigning by the president as having made much headway so far. I think the problem was. The law background, saying you're a lawyer, and then they find out immediately you're not. You failed. You didn't pass the bar, and I think she got off to a stumbling start.

But I definitely would have just got Scott Jennings. Not worried about it. He the guy would have been able to hit the ground running. He's got so much experience, and also. Every single day he goes on CNN, and he's the only reasonable person on there.

He's used to taking the fight and keeping his cool under pressure.

So I thought that that would have that would have made sense. But that's the president. A lot of times his instincts are right, and that case didn't end up being right. I thought you would eventually have gotten better. I would have probably put her back into communications, done it for a while, maybe hire someone a bit later to help out.

Maybe rotate them to you know rotate somebody else in. But he just said, let's just go make a change. I'll do it myself for a while. But the bigger story, I think, is what's happening in certain elections. I look at the battleground states.

I look at what's happening in Minnesota. I look at what's happening in Ohio. I look what's happening over in Maine. I look what's happening over in Texas and Kansas.

So Mike Rogers is beginning to point out the problems with Abdul El Sayed and his background. It is really, really disturbing. It's beyond disturbing. Here's Rogers. Cut nine.

If you think about what they're trying to bring to the table, it's not what they're telling you; it's what they're lying about to get here. There's a reason he erased over 200 videos and X tweets and all of the things that he needed to do because he was talking about things he didn't want you to know about him. And the lying that you went through—I mean, you did that very well. We should wrap on that and just send that out to voters right there. It's that deception.

He has a pattern of deception. One of his Leading campaign staffers came out and said, "This guy will lie to one, say something to one group. Two hours later, completely lie to the second group about what he said at the first group. He is a manufactured candidate. He is, and that's the scary thing.

Same thing with Tarico. The scary thing. I mean, Tony Jackson. That's probably not his thing. The guy's very unimpressive person.

Doesn't seem conversant on anything. Has no idea about foreign policy. Said that." He, you know, he said that the Strait of Hormuz was open and had it all backwards. It's just bizarre. But what I also found too is there's two in the Detroit Free Press yesterday.

They had two operatives, long-term Democratic operatives, who said, "I will not be able to support him. I will not be able to support him for president. Excuse me, for a senator and." You have a situation where these two guys. One guy was out. One guy was helped get Al Gore elected.

The other one helped get Stavino elected, and came out and basically said, "From what I see, I'm going to leave the line blank." So, this two Democratic fundraisers. One name is Lori Johnson. She's the one to work for Stabenow and John Dingell and Al Gore. And then this guy David Kramer, who was in the Detroit Free Press. He helped campaign finance and volunteer leadership roles with Gretchen Whitmer and Alyssa Slotkin for the Senate, and Haley Stevens of the Senate said, "No, I'm going to leave it blank.

I'm going to vote, but I will not be able to vote for them." So, I think things like that. That's why Mike Rogers has set up right in. Inner cities, and he's trying to win over the black vote because it was so alarming to El Saeed supporters how little black support he got, and that's how Haley Stevens. You know, they were polling, and Haley Stevens was was trailing him by four or five points when the final votes were in. It was a one or two point race, so that really closed down big time.

And that's why Barack Obama will be campaigning with El Sayed, and El Sayed all week. And I think he's going to do two or three days this week. Even though El Sayed is somebody that was extremely critical of him in the past.

Now the other thing that's happening over in Texas is Paxson's trying to shore up his support and just make sure Texans vote. If Texans vote, he should be able to slide by. Keep in mind, people brought up to me, I'm not big. I can't go inside Texas numbers, but they say that Ken Paxson. Did better than Ted Cruz in the last two cycles.

Yeah, but you know, you look at your opponent too. You know, Attorney General. What do you want? He seems to be perfect for that. And what people are doing now in Texas, Bernie Sanders is not campaigning.

With Talerico, but he is campaigning. Yesterday, Bernie Sanders and Beto O'Rourke went to Houston, very urban population, but Talerico was somewhere else. Why? Because he wants to pretend that he's a moderate in Texas. You all know he's not a moderate.

But listen, here is Bernie Sanders playing the hits yesterday, and again, one thing I despise what Democrats are doing: vilifying successful people. Cut seventeen today. In America, one man, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53 of American households.

So what you got today is unprecedented. It is extremely dangerous. It's not that one stays up nights a lot. These guys got mansions and they got private jets and they own their own islands. Fine.

What is wrong with that? Number one, I think Elon Musk employs 145,000 people. He's made seven thousand millionaires, and when you talk about the media, Elon Musk bought X, and it exposed the fact that the Democrats were hammering social media in order to get down conservatives. This is proven, as Barry Weiss, as Matt Taibbi, you remember they went in there. It's proven that they were.

Squelching conservative thought and promoting the other, and they're upset. And Zuckerberg, the Zuckerberg, helped destroy, helped Donald Trump lose in 2020.

Well, now he looked back and said, "I made a mistake," and he went and and sold to told Trump, "I made a mistake." The role I played with the Zuckerberg's not good.

So yeah, I own Facebook. Yeah, I own Instagram. Yes, I own YouTube. I think it's YouTube. Is Facebook on YouTube?

Eric, no, they're Who owns Who owns YouTube? Oh, Google owns YouTube.

Okay, oh, okay. And you know what? The owner, the the guy who runs YouTube, YouTube and Google, he goes to the White House multiple times. Why? He wants influence.

Absolutely.

Also, when it comes to AI, the president needs to know what's going on.

So their their idea is that they're they're they're owning the media. What they do is stay in communication. Cut eighteen. They are using their wealth to significantly increase the power that they have, and to undermine American democracy.

So what you are seeing right now is these guys owning more and more of the media, traditional media, social media. Musk owns Twitter. Zuckerberg owns YouTube and Meta. Ellison owns a bunch of other social media. Yeah, they do.

And what they're going to do is not be conservative. Oregon's have you looked at all that stuff? It's absolutely not. I'd be more worried about TikTok. A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. Welcome back, everybody. I always love talking to Senator Joe Manchin, in or out of office, no exception today. Especially with Matthew McConaughey weighing in on his big movement, the independent movement. But first things first.

What about the crazies on the left? My interview with Senator Joe Manchin. Democrats are rolling out some of their biggest stars, like President Obama and President Clinton, this week in hopes of jolting progressive races. This as DSA leaders are reportedly working behind the scenes, pressuring Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to get their liberal agenda passed. The Wall Street Journal reporting, "Quote: His path to power runs directly through an expanding group of Democratic socialists who want major policy concessions in exchange for their support.

Demands on the table for Jeffries." Included wealth taxes, votes on Medicare for all, an arms embargo on Israel, raising the minimum wage, and abolishing ICE—all outrageous, in my view. Former West Virginia Senator and former Democrat Joe Manchin joins us now. Senator, would you ever be able to sign on to that if they asked you to do that? That's why I'm not a Democrat anymore. I do not sign on to any of that, and if they do, it'll be the doomsday for all of them.

Because the bottom line is, the people in America are not that far left or far extreme right. They want some common sense, central, middle the road type of operations so we can make policies again, to where we can compromise and work together. That's what they're wanting. They better go like a Scud missile after the high cost of living. If they don't attack that first, if they win the house and if they win the house in the Senate, they better have a plan and show people in America how they can lead.

Even if President Trump would veto it, they're showing common sense.

Solutions to the problems we have, whether it be tariffs, whether it be the war, having an AUMF authority to use military force, so people have input on this war that we have going on, and there's going to be an end in sight. All of these things that contribute to the high cost, and the one thing no one talks about, Brian. Is the debt of the nation forty trillion and growing another two trillion this year is unsustainable? That is the driving force behind high costs and inflation of everything, and no one's talking about it. And which you said, and which you makes, which you said, makes so much sense.

But if Akeem Jeffries wants power, Joe Manchin, he's got to give into it. He's never going to get the numbers. What do you say to him? I still think there's enough out of four hundred and thirty-five, and if let's say he has two hundred and twenty, or two hundred and twenty-five, I still think there's enough. What they're saying is they don't want to work with the other side.

There's enough good modern centrist Republicans that'll work with modern centrist Democrats to move this country forward. The problem has been since Dennis Hastert, as the Hastert rule, it has to be all one side or nothing. If the whole if the whole Congress doesn't vote for it, we don't do it. Those days are gone, Brian. Those days are gone, Senator.

I don't have to tell you. I don't have to tell you that Kevin McCarthy didn't get any Democratic support ever through all those votes, and didn't get saved, even though Nancy Pelosi said she would do all those votes. I don't see why Republicans would bail him out. I'm not saying bail him out. I'm just saying you want to do something.

You're right. I thought the Democrats. I called Democrats and says, "Please support Kevin. You don't want this to go down. Kevin's a good guy.

He'll fight the good fight. He needs some help." Now Kevin had to, you know, kind of garner that up himself. I don't know what went on on that side, but I was talking to Democrats, pleading with them just just to stay and support Kevin McCarthy. He's a good man; they've done a great job.

Well, you and your daughter are working for this independent movement, but real independence, not fake independence. A caucus with Democrats or Republicans, but they always caucus with Democrats. And Matthew McConaughey jumped on your train, even even met you. He said this summer, former Senator Joe Manchin's daughter. Launch the Independent Leadership Council, but to recruit, fund, and back true independent candidates for Congress—not 50 of it, just a handful.

Just a handful is all you need.

So, you talked to Matthew behind before this. What are you guys up to?

Well, let me just tell you, Matthew is such an unbelievable person who takes an interest in this great country and where we're going. For his children and grandchildren to come, he's concerned as we are concerned about it. And right now, we don't see the two sides coming together. They're getting rewarded for bad behavior. Both extreme left and extreme right are fighting like the dickens.

Whoever wins, wherever they are, it's going to be the other side's fault. That's not fixing any of the problems that America is living with. We've got to change that. Matthew took a tremendous interest in what we were doing, and I told him, I said, Matthew, I tried everything, I've done everything I can. I like both sides.

There's wonderful people on both sides of these and the R's. There's good people. There's extremes on both sides. We have to bring the good people together that can make decisions that have lasting for our country. Anyway, he dove into this and started researching himself, which is what he does.

He's Better than anybody I've ever seen is going into the minutiae and figuring this thing out. He came to the same conclusion we did. Put a truly elected, independent. In Senate, in the Congress, that basically will work with both sides, but does not belong or behoove into any side. Not a D or an R, but working with Ds and Rs.

Whoever has the best ideas and the best policies for our country, they'll come together because the numbers are going to be so tight. He agrees with that, and here we are.

Now we're just we're glad to have him. He's just the great. Great, he's a great American. All I can say, and two guys, and two great guys who love football, but you were the much better player, Senator Joe Manchin. Thanks so much.

No, no, no, no. I tried. I tried. You were very good. Seth Bondur in Montana.

Seth Bondur and Kevin Collie are going to win. General Kelly, there was a independence. California and Seth Bodner in Montana. We need help. All right, Senator Joe Manchin.

Always great to talk to you. A man extremely level-headed. Great for America. I always love talking to Joe Manchin. He makes a difference.

Just still trying to help the country. It's too bad he wasn't younger. I hope he would run for president. Thanks so much for listening to the Brian Kilmeade Show. Don't forget, pick up "United States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle." Let's beat Sylvester Stallone.

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So, over the weekend, I was able to host One Nation on Sunday at ten o'clock, and I have my book out this week. It's Harper Collins' book. Hope everyone got it. United States, one of the smartest people in the country.

So, in in the company, maybe the country, is so passionate about history. Is Tyrus, so I thought if anyone could interview me on the book, it would be Tyrus.

So we had some fun with it, and I thought it'd be great. He came in and he read the book, and we just talked about everything from the Louisiana Purchase to Shay's Rebellion to John Quincy Adams' role with abolitionists, and of course, we opened up with the Boston Massacre, not because it led to the Revolution, but because it led to a sense of justice in America. This brand new country was six years away from fighting for it. Here's my interview with Tyrus. I am Tyrus, briefly with a hostile takeover stepping in for a little role reversal, and I am going to put you on the edge of your seat.

How dare you? Yeah, but I dared. Yes, I so dared for a good cause, though. Look, America wasn't built overnight, and it certainly wasn't built without a fight. From the battlefield to the White House, six early Americans helped shape a young nation and define freedom, which would mean for generations to come.

Now, Fox News' own Brian Kilmeade is bringing their remarkable stories to life in his brand new book, "Uniting the States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Mural." Brian. Thanks for joining us. No, no, honored that you took up my offer to take over the show because you are the most passionate person about American history in the building and the smartest. Listen, why?

Okay, the six names. Why? Connect them all together.

Well, I looked at them as individual events, but they are connected. All of them are connected because when I look at American history, I did seventy-two. What made America great? Did six history books, and you talk to all these historians. And afterwards, when the cameras are down, I just talk to them.

Does this astound you? The American story, how it broke, the way it broke. And then I went down and drilled down on the six stories that astounded me most. And I think the thing that hit me is that these were human beings. They had their frailties.

They had their weaknesses.

Some were great leaders.

Some were great thinkers. They were all unbelievable under pressure, but they were all the right person at the right time. And then I tried to break it down. I don't want just be war. Just not about America is not about the Revolutionary War only.

That's well.

Sometimes those wars were fought in courtrooms. Yes. In those battles, and the Constitution means something even when you don't like it. Yes. Can we roll?

I got some shots. We had one. Yeah, I got some shots for you. Right. Can we roll one?

The problem is Jefferson is not a king. He's got to go to Congress. Yeah, and how is he going to tell Congress, who's still got war debt, that we need all this money, even though it doesn't sound like a lot now, to double the size of the country, which in theory diminishes the amount of worth that your land has because it's now a lot more of it. He had a dilemma because he wasn't sure he had the constitutional authority to buy that because Constitution doesn't say you can buy new land. He thought he could sell Congress on it.

He didn't know that they would buy the constitutional authority or come. The money, but the expansion, what that would do in productivity, and he was able to sell them on it. America's crisis was averted. The Louisiana Territory became part of the United States, securing the nation's trade and creating a path to the expansion Jefferson dreamed of.

So what I want to do is Louisiana Purchase. How do you double the size of the country without firing a shot? Right. How do things break our way for us to do this?

Well, James Monroe is Mister Everything. They called him Big James. Yeah.

And he was asked to go over by Jefferson and said, "We cannot allow this Napoleon to be in control of New Orleans, who you know know quite well. That's the port where everything is. Says either we're going to buy it, we take it by force, or you're going to sell it to us." Monroe says, "He goes to Monroe. Go go go get it." Now, why did he we get it? Because fortuitous things broke our way.

Number one, there was a rebellion in what we now know as Haiti. Thousands of French troops lost their lives. The British start saying, "We're going to go back to war with you." He wants Austria. He wants Russia. All of a sudden, he goes, "You know what?

I need the money. I can't be over there in the colonies." And I think Britain needs a rival. And if we double the size of America, maybe they could fight them for a while.

So things broke our way. By the time Monroe arrives, they basically says, "Not only am I giving you New Orleans, I'm going to give you the whole territory." That just doesn't happen anywhere else. You know, it's one of the things that's cool about your books, and when you talk about your books, is you talk about with the same passion as if you're doing play by play in a prize fight. You know, like you just look at you, you just excited. Look, if you can see where I'm seeing, he's got goosebumps.

His little face is red, and we're gonna just keep this party rolling because I want to roll one more while we got time. Number two, please. This is about the burning of Washington. Yes, and when you have, if you think things are bad in America now, they're not. If you want to see things bad, how about a five foot two inch president suffering from bouts of epilepsy, staring at Washington burning, not knowing if his army would reconvene in the Battle of 1812, and if his wife was still alive?

Would we bounce back? Watch. You say you have the actual flag? We do.

Okay, you gotta get it. Sure, in the corner. I'm ready. Here it is. It is huge.

What's beautiful about this is that 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. And that was standard, right?

So, whomever took the fort would raise their flag. We end up bouncing back, rallying for the cause, which kind of is a thing. I think, given today's climate. These stories are really important. I think they can resonate with a lot of people who sometimes, you know, they didn't have the crazy media and stuff back then, and we see things that are sometimes more saturated than what they are.

And here are some real issues where, like, moments away, where the country's history could have been changed forever. And the thing is, Tyrus, people think we just started disagreeing now. I mean, when we had the Louisiana Purchase, you know, we didn't want to do it. Alexander Hamilton, he goes, "Hey, I don't want to diminish the power we have in the North. You're going to go add all these other states.

How my my vote's going to be diluted? Really." Genius Treasury, right? Jefferson, genius. Guess what? They disagreed.

We worked it out. Turns out Hamilton was outvoted. We doubled the size of the country. The House and Senate said, "Well, find a way in the next twenty years to come up with that money." And at four cents an acre, five hundred thousand acres, it was definitely worth the purchase.

So I just think the push and the pull and the way America has always shown this resilience to eventually do things right. And the one thing that I wanted to bring up for you. Is the last chapter because it's John Quincy Adams, and John Quincy Adams is one of the most outspoken abolitionists of his time in the 1840s. He goes back to the House, and instead of just being in the House representing Massachusetts after being president, he decides to make an impact, and he decides to make abolition as his cause because he hated slavery, so did his dad, so did his family, and he was haranguing the South to get rid of it. And guess who he inspired?

Not only Abraham Lincoln, who sat behind him, but Frederick Douglass. He writes, "I." I remember getting possession of a speech by John Quincy Adams made in Congress about slavery, and reading it to my fellow slaves because he was he was a slave at the time at 15 years old. And oh, what joy and gladness it produced to know that so great, so good a man was pleading for us, and further to know there was a large and growing class of people in the North called abolitionists who were moving for our freedom. That's why Quincy Adams made the cut, and that was extremely unpopular and dangerous at that time. Stand on absolutely.

Stand on well, and I personally. I'm glad he did that. Yes, just keep it just between us. Just keep it real. Listen, obviously you can pick up this book everywhere.

Yep, and you know pick up Brian's new book, "Uniting the States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle." It's available now. Brian, I'm going to turn the show show over back to you. Yep, only because they're telling me to in my ear. Right, and because you could keep it. I could.

You got the building stature. It's going to take at least security five to six seconds to get here. Can I add one thing? Fox Nation. Special.

It's dropped. It's available. Took eight months to shoot it. Those guys at Fox, the ladies at Fox Nation, unbelievable job, led by Rob Monaco.

So coming up next. I had a chance to talk to Ro Khanna when all this Paris riots broke out. I'm on the set and I'm getting text messages from because we rolled this clip where he said the reason why these riots are happening because of income inequality, and that's what's going to happen here. Income inequality. Number one, they were saying it's for schools.

Of course, they. Everybody wants to be rich, but I don't know. Macron is not a conservative. He's supposed to called independent. All he did is try to raise the retirement age to 64.

We're trying to get to 68.

So I thought was just the craziest thing. He thought that I said that about him, and he wanted to confront me on what I said. I said, "Great." So if I ask Fox and Friends to book him, so we we add him on this morning. I like him, and I just think when when you're a smart guy, and I've been texting back and forth with him, especially the first term, I just expect more of you, especially when you represent Silicon Valley. Why do you hate wealth?

Why do you think billionaires are the problem, and why do you think that's the foundation of these riots? When we come back, my interview on Fox and Friends with Rokana. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Hey, we are back, and as I said to you before, it's creating a lot of uproar by interview with Congressman Ro Khanna, who is for the billionaire's tax, but Medicare for all.

But the reason he came on with us on Fox and Friends is because he is looking at the Paris riots and saying it's because. Of income inequality, and I just don't think it is. I think it's wild immigration. It's fifty-one outside groups. I see the Palestinian flags.

I see the hammer and sickle. I see the Hezbollah flags. I see them burning iconic buildings in France, and I could not believe that a guy who's running for president as smart as Rohanna would actually think that. And when I said it, he said, "I want to come on." So I said, "Great." Of course, I never have enough time on Fox and Friends. It's just the way the show is built, and it's all successful.

They like to keep things moving, but this is as much time as I got.

So here's my interview with Rokana. Peaceful? Tell that to locals standing by shattered supermarket doors, frantically trying to stop the looting mob. But one Democrat says this is all about wealth inequality, and he is Congressman Rokana. He's kind enough to join us right now, Congressman.

This is about wealth inequality wrecking a city. First of all, let me just unequivocally condemn rioting and vandalism and violence. But look, here's what happened: Macron cut taxes for the wealthy. He cut both corporate taxes and he cut wealth taxes on real estate. And students have lost funding for schools.

Their schools are crumbling. There are less teachers. They're overcrowded, and they took to the streets.

Now, for Vice President Vance. To say that this is somehow immigrants doing this—I mean, does he understand France? France has had a history of protesting since the French Revolution. It's the most French thing to do—to wreck a city. I'm pretty sure I haven't really seen this often.

Fox News reporting that 54 organizations and movements identified as part of nationwide protests led to the 2,500 arrests, only 16 of which are kids in high schools. And did you know that France is spending 57% of its budget on education? Fifty-seven percent.

So, because your schools aren't as good as you want them to be, you're saying that this is driven by schools. It used to be spending fifty-seven percent, but Macron made significant cuts because he cut corporate taxes, he cut taxes for the wealthy, and if you talk to students there, they will tell you that the schools are falling apart in certain places. They're telling you teachers are not being paid, in some cases they don't have enough teachers, and that's what this about.

Now, rioters have hijacked some of the students, and I unequivocally condemn the rioting and violence, and that. Should have no place in a society, but there's also the costs of the war. I mean, the cost of the war in Iran, as Macron understands, has led to higher diesel prices and gas prices. That's happening here at home, and it's one of the reasons that people are upset with the cost of living.

So you see, not rampant immigration into their society that pays for free preschool. You get universal health care. You don't see that playing a role. No, Brian. I mean, that's such a small percentage of the budget.

The the role is the large tax base. But let me ask you. I mean, do you really think that French the people don't have a history of protest and a history of taking to the streets? I think it's because they let in let in folks who are most foreign groups. Did you see the flags, Congressman?

Did you see the the hammer and sickle flags? You see the Palestinian flags. What does it have to do with the school? Curriculum, or lack of teachers, or the days being too long.

Well, first of all, there are many people, young people, who are upset about what happened in Gaza, and that's not just immigrants. That's many people who grew up in France, and including immigrants.

So you burn a two hundred year old two hundred year old building because you don't like what's happening in Gaza.

So, so I just want to bring you to a quote from Under Secretary. Tell me why our State Department is wrong. Our Under Secretary says this: We are witnessing the resurgence of far left political terrorism. If you claim to stand for working people, stop making excuses for those who are destroying everything working people have built. Unlike their apologists, we believe destruction and chaos are not legitimate forms of political expression.

Terror is not justice, and a campaign to destroy Western civilization is not a protest against the price of groceries. Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio, we will never surrender American communities to organized political terror. We'll dismantle terrorist networks that threaten our people.

So you're saying he's wrong. To identify this as as left wing terrorism. He's wrong to make it about the left wing. He's right to identify rioting as totally wrong and to say that you should never be destroying property or national monuments. But I think that we have to look at what is the cause initially of the discontent in this country.

Why are there so many protests of young people around the world? Because the price of oil has gone up, gas has gone up, is going. High school kids are driving. High school kids are driving. They're driving to school.

What are they protesting? That is it, school or is it the price of gas?

So you're going to tell me they destroyed 115,000 riot in Paris. 550,000 are rioting because he cut tax. Because Macron, who is any conservative, tax cut taxes on the rich. I'm telling you that the rioters have no justification. I will never, ever justify violence, Congressman.

What about Milan? What about Lisbon?

Well, you see, in many of these places, whether it's Albania, whether it's in Spain, you see a discontent from young people. In our own country, why? Because they're saying wealth is accumulating in the hands of a few. You got 989 billionaires. Many in my district, they've got 22 percent of the.

Enemy, they they are getting all the gains. One third of the wealth sits in my district in Silicon Valley, and young people are saying, "I can't get a job. I can't buy a house. When I have to go drive to to go on a date, it costs over a hundred bucks to fill my my gas tank. I've got all these loans with student debt.

With the school I went to, doesn't have enough teachers. And I guess I mean, we can just keep putting up pictures of riots, and I'll keep condemning him. But if we don't tackle the fundamental whole. The young people have. And the rich people, the rich people in your district, which you should be proud of, employ with Elon Musk alone over 115,000 people.

They've created over 7,000 millionaires. They continue to grow, but they're growing outside California. They're going to some Memphis because you guys are taxing them away from you. And now you're getting angry that the billionaires are leaving. And now you're putting a billionaires tax, and they're all leaving.

And you want. To continue to push that, look at the data. Look at the data. Had 241 billionaires since we announced the tax has gone up to 261. Does anyone think the AI revolution is happening in Miami or in Austin or not?

It's happening in my district. Unfortunately, over time, but a lot of people come to this country to to have success, and you and others are condemning that success and indicting it. No, instead of saying I salute the geniuses, you said I want to tax the geniuses out of my state, and that's not going to get you president United States. It's not going to get you past a primary in America. This country has made it possible.

I want my parents to be immigrants. I want a socialist country, and now you're now you're saying you're justifying rioting. No, Brian. One of the things I appreciate about you—you always have a civil conversation. I love this country.

I'm grateful for this country. This country allowed me, my family, to live the American dream. No, I want this country to work for the kids in Pennsylvania I grew up with, not just for the Silicon Valley billionaires. We're gonna have to leave it there, Congressman Wilson. We look forward to seeing you.

No special thank you for the congressman from coming on, for coming on and telling his point of view. But he's going to be on that stage, and he's got to defend everything in California from shutting down the refinery. When I say on the stage he's going to run for president, we all know it. And when he's on that debate stage, he's got to defend all those things: millions of dollars going to legal immigrants, the homeless population, and the and the exodus from places like I'm in in New York, and he's in in California. Two beautiful states that are proving to be unaffordable because of the horrible Democratic policies.

And instead of saying I want to move to the middle where Fetterman is and Mansion was, he's going further to the left, vilifying people that are successful. Go to BrianKilmeade.com. Order my New book, United States. I think it's six more reasons to love this country. But I break down the six crucial moments that forged the American miracle.

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