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Is where midterm mania, no doubt about it. The president is on Monday. He was in Wichita. Tuesday, he was in Greenville. Tonight, he's going to Clemson.

Thursday, he's going to Sioux City, Iowa. Friday, Fort Myers, Florida. Must have events in Florida over the weekend. Saturday, in Perry, Georgia, and St. Clair County, Michigan.

So he's going to end up in Michigan. I know that the El Saeed said, "I dare the president to come and help Mike Rogers." He's coming, so nice try. Glenn Youngkin's going to be on with us, the former governor of Virginia, and maybe he's going to be joining the administration after the midterms. Senator Rick Scott is standing by. We got to get him on the latest in Florida.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Half a million people participated in the demonstrations, which political leaders stress were mostly peaceful. More than two thousand people have been detained by police in connection with Saturday's violence, and at least two deaths have been linked to the protests. Yep, French riots morphing into European unrest.

What is what is it going to take for these nations to admit that the root of all of this is their welfare state and? Unregulated massive immigration. Number two, the money that Elon Musk is putting in for get out the vote is coming in at just the right time. I think the Democrats would have loved for this election day to be two weeks ago rather than two weeks from tonight, because these last dollars are going to make a big difference. That is Dana Perino.

Thirteen days to the midterms. Trump's barnstorming across the country, as I just told you, to save his majorities. How unrest in France, war in Iran, and rise of socialism play into the final results. Number one. Have to freeze, and I think this is real way to end this war.

We call this ceasefire, or stop killing, stop. President Trump called it freeze and stop. And of course, this is minimum what we need from Russia today. Yep, President Zelensky. After 4.5 years, we get closer and closer to a make-or-break deal with the war in Ukraine.

I talked to President Zelensky this morning on Fox and Friends, and we really made some progress. We'll bring you inside the latest, Trump. Rubio, Putin, as Putin raises the temperature on the world's longest war yesterday, and here's the good news. Here's the good news, and when Rick Scott's ready, just tell me, Allison. Here's the good news: we got this guy.

Harvard, who's been—he's 74 years old. He's a teacher, traveling teacher. Was in Japan for 25 years. Went to Ukraine for two, two months, and it wasn't really clear that the war started. Got scooped up when the Russians invaded.

They realized he's an American, and they arrest him, bring him to Russia, and according to reports, he was tortured.

So here we go, and I have no idea why they took him.

So now. He is now free, which is great, and that is related, perhaps, to the diesel deal. But the president says unrelated. It's more gestures to each other. When I'm talking about the diesel deal, if indeed it does come through, it allows Russia us to buy Russian diesel.

Now, there's another talk about us buying fertilizer from Russia directly. It might be great to get fertilizer. I feel for the farmers. I just don't want to buy it from Russia. Senator Rick Scott joins me now, of and former governor of Florida.

Armed Services and Homeland Homeland Security Committee is keeps him busy. Senator, welcome. Yeah, Brian. I mean, Putin's a thug. And so, I mean, we shouldn't be buying things from thugs like Putin, and we shouldn't buy anything from China.

I mean, I mean, we have to understand. I mean, there's there's good guys and bad guys, and she, Putin, the Ayatollah, they're mean, they're the bad guys, and we can't help them at all. We gotta we gotta help the good guys. I was just in Israel. We need to help Israel.

We need to help Ukraine. We need to help Taiwan. You know, we can't help the bad guys.

So you kind of disagree with the president on that because the president started trying to land the plane with Putin, and I think Steve Witkoff called him a humanitarian today. I was like, "What are you talking about, humanitarian?" Yeah right. I mean, look, I get what the president's doing. The president's a business guy. I'm a business guy.

You get things done by talking to people, which I get that part of it. But come on, I mean, this guy. Every time we talk to this guy, you know, he he never. There's never a deal. Like she never complies with anything.

Putin doesn't comply with anything.

So I mean, look, I'm I'm glad the president's trying. I appreciate the president's trying. But I mean, like Putin is a thug.

So we can't. We shouldn't do be doing business with thugs. But I appreciate. The president's trying. Yeah, and what he's trying to do too is give this guy an off ramp, and you could do it.

And the president will take some political heat if he does, but he doesn't seem to want to do it. We're about to find out now because you know Whitcomb was there now, and evidently, and Jared Kushner zoomed into it.

So we'll see. They say evidently he had a proposal. I, I, I feel like you, Rick, Senator. You know, I'm on the same page as you. Yes.

But I'm also, I mean, I'm also have to tell the story of what's happening. Yeah, I mean, he's trying. Look, Trump's trying, so I appreciate that. But come on, the guy's a thug. He's not.

There's first off, even if they agree to something, he's not going to comply. It's like Iran. They're not going to comply. She's not going to comply. These guys are all liars.

So I want to talk about Florida. Nobody knows Florida better than you. And Dave Jolly, a former Republican, now going with a so-called moderate president, President Clinton. I guess we don't really care about the Epstein files all of a sudden. President Clinton down to to try to steal this election from Byron Donalds.

Here's David Jolly, cut sixteen. We've got two weeks to go in this election cycle, and I'll tell you what's going to happen. What's going to happen on election night is this state's about to elect a Democratic governor for the first time in 30 years. That's about what's going to happen.

So it is is now lean R rather than solid R. Are you worried? Yeah, I mean, we got to go vote. I mean, I I think we're going to win. I think Byron's going to win.

I mean, it's really a clear choice. These people act like they're moderates. They're not. They're moderates until they win an election, and then they act. And just like the governor of Virginia, she was a moderate until she won the election.

So none of these Democrats are ultimately going to be moderates because they're they're run by Mondale and AOC and and Bernie Sanders and Hassan Piker.

So so Jolly can say these things, but if you want jobs, you're going to vote for Byron. If you want a better education, if you want like you want school choice, do you think David Jolly Democrats going to do that? Do you think he's going to get get the job market going? No. Do you think he's going to worry about public safety and work with their sheriffs?

No. Byron Donald is going to do that.

So if you if you like where the flur has been going, then you're going to vote Republican.

So why is it close, Senator?

Well, I mean, first off, remember all the polls when I was running. My first three races were close. It's I mean, look, it's hard. I mean, you got to bust your butt, and the polls, my polls, generally they were off seven points. I don't know if they'll be off like that this time, but it's it's hard.

Cost of living has not come down. I think that's what people expected. Nobody likes high gas prices.

So, I mean, I think all these things, you know, impact elections. Look, I'm the only Republican that won in a swing state in 18, and I won because I had a specific plan. That's what Byron's doing. He's saying, "This is what I'm going to. This is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to get insurance costs down. I'm going to get job market going. I'm going to make sure your kids have opportunities to school choice." So he's being clear about his, and I think that's why he'll win.

So let's talk about the Senate race, which is. You're looking at Ashley Moody and Angie Nixon got the nomination, and then said, "I'm going to be a socialist," and signs up for the DSA. Usually, you try to run from that in the general. Listen to her presentation. Cut twenty.

Are you ready to fight for our families? Are you ready to take on the billionaires like corrupt Elon Musk? Are you ready to fire, lie and cheat and scheme and scam and Ashley Moody? Then it's time to get to work.

So, I mean, she she has a bullhorn. She doesn't have to scream into it, but that that's her approach. It's about an eight point race. What do you think, Senator? Ashley's going to win.

I mean, again, you are not you are in Florida. We're not going to vote. We're not going to vote for a Democrat, and we because we know what they're going to do. I mean, Chuck Schumer, you know, he can act like he's a moderate sometimes, but guess what? He basically does whatever AOC wants him to do, and that's what that's what Angie Nixon would do.

She would do exactly what you know Hassan, Piker, and Mandami, Bernie Sanders wanted to do. That's what she's going to be.

So that's not what Florida's going to elect. Ashley will win. Byron will win. Um. Senator Alyssa Slackin.

People say, "Wow, you know, why can't you be a center left person like Alyssa Slackin?" Until you hear her talk, this former CIA operative agent, she comes out, remember about a year ago, and says, "Hey, she's part of the Seditionist Six. Hey, a military, you don't have to obey illegal orders." Number, what are you talking about? Got it.

So that that got her in trouble, and then I'll just paraphrase. She came out and said, "My goal is to make Donald Trump so toxic that you, as a twenty, as a young person, will never want to work for him." Saying, "I don't need this." So, what's your reaction? This is your colleague. I don't even understand that approach. How could that be your goal?

You know, I I think it's disgusting. I I tell people I'd like you to vote for me when I'm up, but I tell people go vote. Get involved in the process. I believe as you get more knowledgeable, you know, you'll vote Republican. But it's pretty disappointing.

I mean, I think it's disgusting. It's but this is what the Democrats are. It's it's it's lawfare. I mean, look, Hillary Clinton went after me because I I post her health care bill under the Biden years. They stole my tax returns, release them.

They you know they they follow my my email and stuff. Text. I mean, this is what the temperate democrats do.

So, if you want big government watching whatever you're doing, then you should. You know, people like Elizabeth Slot. You know, Slot. They're the ones going to do it. I mean, do do you find her reasonable?

Is this somebody who normally would work with in Congress? I only see her erupt once in a while, and I'm always astounded. What a letdown! When I think when I see FBI or CIA and military, I always think a little different. Before I think of military, I always think about the service.

You know the intelligence. You know the intelligence collection. Brian, I'm on one committee with her. Yeah, I guess I'm on two committees with her. I mean, she votes with she votes whichever the way Chuck Schumer tells her to vote.

I mean, she's just a pure vote for the Democrats.

So, so it doesn't matter. I always mean there's no original thought. And so, Senator, I know no one knows healthcare business like you in Congress. Got it.

So, you know, it's always good to have a Roger Marshall, people that are doctors get other elements of it. We still got to get it fixed in a way it works for everybody and make it affordable. I understand that, but Medicare for all. Is a non-starter. As soon as I hear people say that, I know they're not serious.

So I want to hear. I want you to hear Abdul El Sayed explain it. Cut twenty-five. Guaranteeing health insurance to everybody in this country would be the single most important thing we could do for small business, both for small business owners that currently exist and the small business owners that we would like to exist. And then the second part of that is to say it's also the best thing we could do for.

Health health care small businesses. Sheehy goes on twenty six. Right now, the reimbursements that get negotiated get negotiated between big health insurance providers and big healthcare companies. They are pricing out would be entrepreneurs in the healthcare space because they can't get the same reimbursements. Imagine if under Medicare for all you had a single reimbursement, and you left it to the market for a provider to be able to provide care in accordance with how they wanted to and compete in the healthcare market.

We don't. What do you think about his philosophy?

Well, if if look, why are people flocking to Canada for you know for government running your healthcare? Why? Because you can't see a doc. I got a text from a friend in in Canada the other day said said can't see a doc in October. Doesn't think she'll be able to see a doc in November.

If she goes emergency room, she knows how many days she's going to have to wait. The closest emergency room just closed.

So if you think that government is going to be better for you than the private sector, you're crazy. If the more government is involved in healthcare, it costs costs to go up, access to go down, quality to go down. You want the private sector out there competing every day for the healthcare dollar, and your healthcare will get better. But you hear this side, Ro Khanna saying the same thing. Bringing us, good seniors go to the back of the line.

And do you think, Senator, when when you when a doctor knows that somebody has Medicare, they always have to have supplemental insurance if they can afford it, don't they? And number two is doctors don't love Medicare; they're not paying. People don't want providers. Don't want to take government healthcare because it doesn't pay, and it's a and it's a pain in the butt, right? And then the the rules are crazy.

The the paperwork's crazy. The government is a pain in the butt to deal with. Everything. All of our problems are generally caused because of government involvement. Education, healthcare, housing.

Why is it so expensive? Government. It's always government. We need less government, not more. We need our safety nets.

So when you look at some of these battleground states, I can't believe I'm saying this. Nebraska's got people, got Republicans ready. Kansas got Republicans worried, and Texas has Republicans worried. Senator, what's your role in this and trying to see if you can keep the majority in the Senate? I know you hope, and you would never say I think Republicans are going to lose.

So have let's take that off the board. What worries you most, and what's going to be the biggest surprise on Tuesday, one week out? I think the biggest surprise is we're going to increase our majority. I think I think Mike Rogers is going to win against Al Sayed, and I think Johnson News is going to win up in New Hampshire.

So I think we're going to pick up. I mean, probably the hardest one to defend is Tom Tillis's seat in North Carolina. But I think we're going to have a bigger majority because people. I mean, you know, all the polls can say what they want. All the polls until my last race said I was going to lose.

Every every poll, there was not a poll said I was going to win, and I won. I won three, three. You know, two times as governor, and one time as the U.S. My first time. The Senate.

So the polls don't matter. It's who's going to go vote. Americans going to go out and vote because they know Republicans are better for them than Democrats. All right, and we'll see what happens because all those things are interesting as well as Iowa is within two close to call. What about Ohio, where Senator Eusted has more of a workhorse than a show horse, and Sherrod Brown's got name recognition over the sitting senator.

What do you knowing what you know? Because you rent you were you were in charge of this for a while. Knowing what you know about Ohio, good guy, John. John, you said a good person. He's working hard.

He's actually he's he's very he's a very good Republican, and he's and he's won statewide before.

So I think he'll win. It's Ohio's Ohio's the state the Republicans typically win. The back round Michelle, he's doing a good job. He'll do a good job as governor.

So I think well I think John's going to win. I think actually we're going to pick up. I think I think Senunu and Mike Rogers going to pick up two seats.

So are you not optimistic about Michelle Tafoya in Minnesota? I think I think I think so. It's just harder, but sure. I mean, I think I think I think if you know, it's Brian. It comes down: get out and vote.

I tell people if Republicans, just Republicans, would just go vote, we win.

So we got to get all of our people. I won my elections because I busted my butt to go get people to vote. Vote, vote, vote. Got it, Senator Rick Scott. It's going to be exciting ten days.

Appreciate it. Thanks so much for joining us. We'll take a timeout and come back. Bottom of the hour. Another great governor, Glenn Youngkin.

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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. President Clinton, so good to see you. I want to thank you very much. The president sends his thanks.

A whole nation sends their thanks because of Stephen Hubbard. He's going because of you. He's going home to his family. He's a 75-year-old man, and you talk so much about my president, President Trump, being humanitarian. You are you are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that.

I commend you, and I thank you again. What an embarrassing statement that is, Steve Witkoff, a nice guy, but he captured seventy-five-year-old Hubbard. They were tortured him in prison. He did nothing wrong. He's an American teaching in Ukraine, just like he was teaching in Japan.

They pretended he was an operative when he's a teacher. He was living in Ukraine. They scoop him up, they jail him, torture him, they let him out, and now Steve Witkoff says, "Thank you, you are a great humanitarian." I mean, the Russians must be laughing their heads off. Go. You kidding?

I cannot believe this is happening.

Now, if it's a means to an end to end a war in a way that's going to give Ukraine some sanctity and some security, I'll be willing to. I'll be willing to suck that up. But I don't know how that helps. That just makes you look naive, a humanitarian. This guy kills his opponents.

He arrests. He arrests journalists. Tries to poison people wherever they are around the world. He's bombing innocent people on a daily basis. Where the Ukrainians can honestly say they don't aim for a single civilian.

Ladies and gentlemen, anyone listening, if you see Vladimir Putin, do not call me a manitarian. No one will take you seriously. Here's Marco Rubio on the whole allegations on whether they shut off Starlink and Star Shield. Cut nine. Cut six.

Sorry. Even this talk about, I think on the 13th and again on the 18th, there were airstrikes in Ukraine that were not detected. That is not because America did not provide information. I saw somebody associated with Ukrainian government say that people in Ukraine are dying because the U.S. is denying them information.

That's scandalous. That's outrageous. That's just simply not true. That's not accurate. I don't know.

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Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Hey, we are back, and are privileged to have Governor Glenn Youngkin, great friend of the show, former Governor of Virginia. Because he can only do one term, he would have won had he been out there again. But it's gone to the so-called moderate Abigail Spanberger, and she's not a moderate.

And that's it's so telling for this election cycle because you have a bunch of people who have a who are running for for things and saying things that they don't believe, and their track record doesn't reflect. And the people of Virginia and the people of New Jersey got. Burned, and I'm wondering if the people of this, the people of Michigan and Texas, are going to feel the same way, Governor. One thing about it, I when Trump ran, I knew exactly who was going to do. You know, when you ran, I knew exactly what you're going to do.

It's very tough for the voter when someone sounds good, but you look at their track record and you go, they can't possibly believe this. Yeah, I first of all, Brian, great being to be with you today, sitting in studio. It's awesome to be here. Thank you. But at the end of the day, what what the Democrats have decided.

Is they're going to say whatever they need to say in order to win. We recognize that the socialists have taken over the party, and yet they're doing everything they can to try to downplay it until they can fool voters and win. And Abigail Spanberger did it in Virginia. She told voters she was a moderate on day one. She took an express train left and immediately turned Virginia into a sanctuary state.

Immediately unleashed new fees, taxes, and and requirements on businesses. And individuals immediately started to put criminal first, victims last. Immediately started to dictate what kids had to learn in school. You got to teach climate change in schools now in Virginia, and and this is what it's all about. Oh yeah, oh yeah.

So. The net of this is you have to look at where they've come from and what they have said in order to understand what they're gonna do. Because you know, you look at this Texas race, and Taylor Rico has absolutely, completely shifted everything that he has stood for in order to try to fool voters in Texas to try to win. And then you see Al Syed, who all of a sudden doesn't know doesn't know who Piker is, and when when he ran around with him forever, and you know, streamer streamer from. Yeah, it's just unbelievable.

So this is what they do: is they try to deceive voters so they they can win places where voters are much more centrist or even center right in order to try to convince them that they are not not leftists and they are. I saw I saw a number that there's sixteen hundred ninety five detainers. That they are not honoring ICE's request to grab these men, these guys, and get them out. Yeah.

So that must burn you. Oh, I almost feel I saw Bruce Blakeman, he's Nassau County executive who wants to be the next governor in New York. He makes and his police force is the best pound for pound of the country. If you look at the stats, they were cooperating with ICE. Governor Hochul says, "I will arrest the police chiefs and sheriffs who cooperate with ICE." So, so Governor, the county executive Blakeman, who wants to be the governor, had to tell them stop cooperating.

He said it was the hardest press conference he ever gave. They must burn you, knowing that you everything that you did that she said she wouldn't undo, she's undoing. Is that personal?

Well, first of all, I wake up every morning and start in prayer and. Scripture, because I've got to prepare to read the newspaper to find out what she's doing. And when when she undid my executive order, which mandated collaboration and cooperation between local, state, and federal resources, she made a big statement that she was going to put criminals ahead of the safety of the citizens of Virginia. And what we've seen, of course, is violent crime committed by repeat offenders who are illegal immigrants here. I mean.

And it's it's not something that you can hide from, and that's why voters in Virginia have huge voters' remorse today. I mean, she's the least popular governor in modern history because of these kinds of actions. And the key thing here is to make sure that voters understand the truth: the truth that, in fact, Kathy Hochul wants New York to be a sanctuary state. She does, and she wants to spend tens of billions of dollars on trying to. Take care of illegal immigrants who are here in America and in in New York, rather than to take care of the the folks that are here because they are citizens.

and And this is what voters have to understand. Him, this Brian. This is the big point. We have naturally huge fall off. From presidencies to midterms, and you take a state like Michigan, yeah, and you have a twenty, almost a twenty-five percent fall off from turnout in twenty twenty-four to what's expected.

In 2026, among the party in power, or just overall, just overall, overall, literally 5.7 million people turned out and voted in in Michigan in 2024. In the midterms, just before that, it was under four and a half million votes. And so you have this 20 percent drop off in just total voter turnout. And yet, if that race is as close as everybody says it is, and they're saying it's a toss up, so if it's a one percent race, that's 45,000 votes that are going to determine who is going Going to be the next senator from Michigan, and by the way, who controls the Senate in my mind? And is it going to be a true socialist, or is it going to be somebody like Mike Rogers, who is literally a conservative stalwart?

And that's why we've got to make sure we get the voter turnout. But think about a million two people sitting on the sidelines in Michigan, a state that Trump won, right? And yet that state's going to be decided by forty five thousand votes. But we have got to get the vote out. See.

They'll say, see, for the voter. For example, if let's say Spamerger ran, her agenda that she's implementing is an agenda that would have got an elected mayor of Chicago. It would have got an elected mayor of New York. It really is. It's a platform.

So, what she did, if she ran, hey, I'm a CIA person, a congresswoman, but I am going to do all those things. Would she have won? Everything that if she was just honest and said, "I am for sanctuary city state. I am for not honoring, pushing back on ICE." Well, I will tell you this: there have been a lot of people who wouldn't have voted for her. Yeah, and that's the truth.

So what are you hiding? Like you would never say something. No. Like have a fundamental policy. Like I'm not for school choice.

Of course, Glenn Youngkin's for school choice. If you said you weren't, you'd be not telling the truth. Yeah.

And then if I voted for you, I'd be pretty angry. Yeah, and that's why voters in Virginia are angry. And that's why it's so important to see through the false facade that's being put up by all these candidates around the country on the left. It is a false facade, and what we also recognize is that President Trump is out beating the pavement, and that guy's working hard in order to make sure that those voters that routinely stay home get out and vote. Because again, you know, in a state like Michigan, where out of the out of the 1.2 million drop off in voters, half of those folks, if not more, came out and voted for the president.

Let's get them out to vote. And this, you think about the races. You know, you think about Ohio and Texas and Michigan, Alaska, Kansas. I mean, these states are where not only the Senate races are going to determine who controls the Senate, but who controls the House. I mean, look at Alaska.

You know, so so we have the two Dan Solivans, which could be one or two percent. That's a big problem. There's another Dan Sullivan in the race there, just to deceive.

So, but when you have Alaska. How can you actually poll Alaska, right? How can you actually? Ohio was way off when Bernie Moreno ran, and you have a thousand people in Texas. You're polling a thousand people in Texas.

You know how much how different San Antonio is from from Austin.

So, how do you, as a politician, view the polls? Do you look at it as a weather vane? Do you look at it as a pulse? Like, how do you? I mean, as a weather vane, you can't ignore them.

There are good polls and bad polls. We know that there was a poll that broke in Florida yesterday that was done by one of the regional Florida universities. University polls are routinely wrong. Really?

Okay. Routinely wrong. They they use bad methodology. They tend to stretch them out over weeks. I mean, I can get into all the polling dynamics and so.

But but what you have as a candidate is your internal polls and an enormous amount of data analytics. Who's turning out? What are they? Democrats, Republicans, or independent? Could you persuade them?

And in a state like Alaska, listen, there's going to be I don't know 300,000 people that vote in this election, and so if it's a one percent race, that's 3,000 votes that are going to determine who is going to represent Alaska in in Washington in in the Senate. Which means you got to go talk to every voter, and and down the stretch here, the candidates that are on message, that are talking to voters and carrying the voters' trust. Or who's going to win, and that's why this this constant, constant misleading by the Democratic candidates has to be exposed because that's what it is.

So, for example, Tulareico would not campaign with Bernie Sanders, but Bernie Sanders was in Houston. Saying what Talarico would do, and then you have Hassan Piker and saying I control. Say it flat out. Talarico better not forget who put him there. Really, I didn't know they knew each other.

You so he will do what I say when he gets in. That should have been disqualifying to what we know as a Texan, shouldn't it? It should. It should. Listen, I'm I'm married to a Texan, and we spent a lot of time in Texas.

And the heart of Texas is in. In conservative Republican politics, but what we're going, what we're seeing again, is a masterclass in how to present what Talerico thinks people want to hear. The truth is really different. I mean, this guy is a fraud on many, many fronts. In fact, most.

And people need to understand that. Right. That's why this race is so important in Texas, because not only do we have the Senate up, but we've got a great governor in Texas, in Governor Greg Abbott, and he's on the ballot as well. And one or two point tighter race, and it should be. Listen, Greg Abbott's been a stalwart for Texans, and Texans, get out and vote, and make sure that you keep.

Greg Abbott as your governor. I understand.

So I want to talk about this billionaire's tax. That has billionaires running from California. About thirty, some high-profile ones from Steven Spielberg to Mark Zuckerberg to Sergey Brin. These are the biggest names, and there's others that we just don't know that do things. And they're leaving.

Gavin Newsom said something interesting. I'm not for this tax. I'm for a federal billionaires tax. They tried it in Sweden. They disbanded it in 2018 in France.

They're trying to put it up in Brazil. Tell me, because you know economics so well. And you are a self-made, very successful person, and a lot of these people are your friends and peers. Tell me what the problem is with the billionaires' tax.

Well, at the end of the day, there is a universal attack by the Democrat Socialist Party, which is the Democrat Party today, on everything to do with free enterprise. Everything. And of course, at the heart of free enterprise is allowing individuals to actually build and create and invent. And of course, there are economic rewards that come with that. And if you want to just completely torpedo the free enterprise system, say that there's a cap on what you can earn in America, because that's what they're saying.

Well, you know that the mayor of New York City said there should not be billionaires in America. And the AOC said nobody earns a billion dollars, but that's what you're pushing against. Yeah, and and here's a moment for us to remind everybody where people have come from. Which is people build this, they create it, they invent it, they change the way we live and work and enjoy each other because of tremendous innovations across this country. And by the way, America is the capital of innovation.

I know. I mean, it doesn't happen in these other countries because they have adopted much more of a socialist approach. Look at Europe. I mean, Europe has been through this for a long time, and they they've driven out all of. Their entrepreneurial spirit, GDP has been woeful in Europe for decades now.

As a result, and anyone who wants to build anything that's going to change the world comes to America and does it because they know they have a chance to get it done here. Right. So we have to once again remind all Americans that the free enterprise system, which is at the foundation of this country's history, present, and future, is a requirement for us to continue. To be the great nation that we are, and you have a few more minutes on the other side.

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I feel like he is one of the most qualified Senate candidates that we've seen in a long time. I think he does politics extremely well, and there has been these constant Islamophobic these. Islamophobic comments around his candidacy. Trump called him a jihadist. I mean, this is just—I think it's out of line.

I think it's out of pocket for our country to be a country where all religions aren't aren't welcome. Sunny Hostin, the genius on the View, but a lot of people feel that way. If they're going to vote for him, Governor Glenn Youngkin is here, Governor. Is it to to be critical of him and worry about Muslim Brotherhood ties? Is that Islamophobic?

No, it's actually a appropriate questioning to understand who somebody is and what they believe. And when I ran in Virginia, listen, I am a I am a very clear communicator about where I stand with my faith. I start every morning in prayer. I'm led by my faith. I believe in Jesus Christ.

He's my savior, and people would ask me about it all the time, all the time. Nobody got mad at anybody for asking me that question. Are you going to bring your faith into your job? Yes, I am, because that's what defines me, and I was very clear about it. I think it's just fine for people to ask these questions, and in fact, you can't really understand who a person is without asking these kinds of questions.

And I do think it is. It is the consistent response, which is when when you ask people tough questions, rather than just answer them, they immediately say, "Oh, you're actually or a racist or something on those lines." It's everyone should just be clear: where do I stand on what I believe? And voters, this is what I'm going to go do. And to change your narrative or try to actually hide it, I think is wrong.

So he in 2012, Al Sayed signed a statement supporting President Mohammed Mohammed Morsi. You know who he was—the Muslim Brotherhood leader of Egypt—and said everyone should support him.

So the Muslim Brotherhood leader, his mom was a Muslim, supported Muslim Brotherhood in college. The sister says, "I'm so proud of my mother." And then he has a sister-in-law gets picked up, was on the no-fly list. Why wouldn't you ask these comments about this? Why wouldn't that concern you? Yeah, I think Hassan Piker does like America.

I mean, I think you just get back to Hassan Piker saying that America deserved nine eleven, and they're friends and hang out a lot, and all of a sudden they're not. And these are these are fair questions during during a campaign season where you are trying to understand where people stand. How are they going to make decisions? And voters need to have great transparency in that. and And here we go.

We're we're in a very tight race where every voter deserves to understand where where Elsae stands on these topics. Just full stop. I think, and you're going to go on the campaign trail, Governor Youngkin. I think this France thing, and now it's in Lisbon and Milan, is is something you guys should be talking about because I do worry about illegal immigration poisoning our society. People who don't.

The country trying to destroy the country, but yet the Democrats are saying this is about income inequality. Listen to this: Cut thirty-nine, Rokana. 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 economy. They they are getting all the gains. One third of the wealth sits in my district.

So he goes on to say that that's what these French riots are about: income inequality. No, these French riots are about the fact that they now they over the last many decades have had uncontrolled immigration into France, and now French people are standing up saying, "Wait a minute, we have spent enough in schools because of the big influx into our schools, and we're angry about that." And let's just be real: the French riots have gone violent because of the leftists that have all of a sudden decided this is an opportunity. Opportunity to two separate groups to so hate, and we just we just have to be clear about this stuff. Listen, you take a state like Minnesota right now. Why is the Minnesota Senate race so tight?

It's because because the people of Minnesota are angry that the fraud that was now uncovered across Minnesota has really shine a bright light on the fact that the it was it wasn't waste. It was fraud, and people are angry about it.

So they're going to vote because. Governor Glenn Youngkin, thank you. How can we help make stronger communities happen?

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Special thanks to everyone who's picking up "Uniting the States," my brand new book out. Six crucial moments that forged the American miracle. I think you'll like the moments. You'll really appreciate the country more, and that's what you seem to be saying. Don't forget, I'm going to be in Palm Beach on Saturday at 12 o'clock at Raptus Books.

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I've never been. Actually, spent very little time in Palm Beach before. I've been there maybe you said three or four times. And it'll be the first time I'm ever doing a signing there, so I hope to see everybody in person this hour. I'm going to be joined by Andrew S.

Weiss. He is a vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for the International Peace and author of the 2022 book "Accidental Czar." And Julio Nuer will be joining us too. At the bottom of the hour, serves the executive director of UN Watch.

So before we get to them, let's get to the big three. Number three. Half a million people participated in the demonstrations, which political leaders stress were mostly peaceful. More than 2,000 people have been detained by police in connection with Saturday's violence, and at least two deaths have been linked to the protests. It is a mess.

French riots morphing into European unrest. What's it going to take for these nations to admit that most of all of this is the welfare state and unregulated massive immigration? Number two, the money that Elon Musk is putting in for Get Out the Vote is coming in at just the right time. I think the Democrats would have loved for this election day to be two weeks ago rather than two weeks from tonight, because these last dollars are going to make a big difference. I think so too.

But Dana Perino knows everything. 13 days into the midterms, Trump's barnstorming across the country to save his majorities. How unrest in France and war in Iran and the rise of socialism play into the final results? Number one, we have to freeze, and I think this is real way to end this war. We call this ceasefire, or stop killing stuff.

President Trump called it freeze and stop. And of course, this is minimum what we need from Russia today. After four and a half years, we're getting closer and closer to a make or break with the war in Ukraine. I spoke to President Zelensky on Fox and Friends, and we'll bring you some of the highlights and the latest on Trump, Rubio, Vladimir Putin. Right now, is meeting with our emissaries in Russia.

We'll bring the bring you the latest. Let's bring in Andrew Weiss. Andrew, great to see you. Your thoughts about where we're at with the Ukraine war? Finally, this war that seems to be going on forever, for better or for worse, it's hitting hyper speed.

The Starlink, Star Shield. Was taken down.

Now it's back up. The president and Zelensky going at it.

Now they seem to be steadying the waters, and they're back in Russia trying to see if Vladimir Putin's going to budge. Where do you think this is heading? Thanks so much for having me on, Brian. And your interview with Zelensky, I think, really captured that change in tone, where the Ukrainians are, I think, determined to have their discussions in private with the administration and not litigate this publicly. And I think that's a wise move and an effective strategy.

On the question of where this is going next, there was a discussion today, as you mentioned, between the president's friend and envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin. And at that meeting, they talked about having a three-way conversation: U.S., Ukraine, and Russia, presumably in the next few weeks in the Middle East. That's going to be followed by talks that the White House is trying to arrange at the president's level with both Putin and Xi Jinping during the president's trip in November to China for a multilateral summit. And then, my sense of why all of this is happening right now is the president is looking. Forward to hosting the G twenty leaders at his golf resort in Doral, Miami, Florida, in mid December.

And so I think what we're seeing is this big push by the administration to try to get some kind of big announcement in time for that meeting. The Russians have not, at this point, confirmed that Putin is coming, but I think that's the play. A lot of people are upset that Putin's coming. The president's objective is, you know, he doesn't care about a lot of stuff. If the the objective is to end the war, so if you're that's his objective.

But a lot of politicians would not be taking that risk and bringing him into the G seven or the the G or the G twenty or anything like that. How do you feel about that risk? Yeah.

So the way this war is going to end, if it's possible, and I think there's really big questions about whether it's even possible to end the war, but let's set that aside for a second. Is going to be when the United States sits down and talks to the Russians, ideally with the Ukrainians by our side, because there should not be discussions about Ukraine that are cut over their heads. Right? We don't want to see a repeat of Yalta at the end of World. War Two, that would be a really huge stain on the president's legacy, which you know is a really important thing to avoid.

You mean when we got all of Eastern Europe sold out to the Soviet Union and Stalin? Yeah.

So this administration should not be party to anything that looks like you know a backroom deal that sells Ukraine down the river. And I think the president has seen with the response from Republicans and others in the last ten days that you know he's got to avoid any perception that he's making nice. With Putin and putting pressure on Ukraine, unfortunately, all the signs over the past roughly eleven days. The president talked to Putin, if you remember, on Friday, October ninth. All signs point so far to the president putting the squeeze on Ukraine as a way of trying to kind of manhandle them into this deal by mid-December.

And so, just to walk you through what the administration seems to have been doing, and there's. It's a bit of a smoke screen where the administration doesn't own up to all of this, but you know clearly some big things have happened. On October ninth, the president's envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff made a veiled threat to the Ukrainians about cutting off intelligence support, which is absolutely critical for Ukraine's ability to to be successful on the battlefield. Then over the weekend, they talked about curtailing shipments of weapons paid for by the Europeans. That Ukraine needs, including missile interceptors, and we've seen confirmation of that in the last 24 hours.

That there is a piece of paper sitting on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's desk to authorize the transfer of missile interceptors. And then on October 14th, a week ago, Tuesday, the Ukrainians experienced big disruptions to satellite communications that are controlled by SpaceX and the Pentagon.

So there is a pressure campaign underway. I think it's a really bad look for this administration, and I think there's a way out. I think there's a way to save face here, and the administration just needs to kind of get there in the coming days, which I hope they'll do. Right, and you know, as people told me, and Rebecca Heinrich just got back from the region. I just heard it from somebody else.

Is that if you think Zelensky's dug in, you haven't met the Ukrainian people as much of a pounding as they've taken. They, if Zelensky gave in, he would get ignored. Parliament would never okay any agreement. The people of Ukraine don't trust the Russians. They know that they've been victimized by the Russians, and they don't want to be invaded again.

So it's got to end the right way. And they're beginning to make gains on the battlefield from the from their ingenuity and their innovation. Absolutely, Brian, and I think that's where I think the administration's sort of I think got a needs a reload of its its assessment. President in recent days keeps talking as if Ukraine's military defeat on the battlefield is inevitable. It's not.

It's not right. Russia has totally stalled out on the battlefield. The area where they have an advantage is clearly due to the global shortage of missile interceptors, which is not a problem that's going to be fixed anytime soon. There just is a global Shortage that affects everybody: the United States, our allies in the Middle East, and Ukraine. Ukraine's big cities are going to be vulnerable to ongoing Russian attacks this winter, and so the real problem this administration faces is the prospect of a humanitarian catastrophe that's going to look like the the experience at the Kabul airport, where you'll have big cities emptying out, and possibly hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on the move headed to Europe.

Are headed into the Ukrainian countryside. I don't think this president wants responsibility for that. What he should be looking for right now is some form of a de-escalation that prevents a Russian blitz against against Ukraine's big cities this winter. And I think there is a deal that two Republican senators put on the table, which Zelensky accepted last Friday. Senators Wicker and Kramer were both in.

And they essentially got agreement from Zelensky to stop hitting Russia's refineries, which is obviously something President Trump cares a lot about, in exchange for help with hitting the missile launchers that Russia is using to target Ukrainian cities. That's the kind of deal and face-saving arrangement that this president could push forward, which would be good for both his image as well as sort of preventing a big humanitarian catastrophe on his watch. This winter, Andrew S. Weiss is with the Carnegie Endowment, and for people not watching, we are streaming the interview. But how does this relate to Iran, in your view?

Because you know, almost immediately, Lavrov had a meeting with Iranian officials, and the president says they're not really doing much with Iran. And Iran goes, "No, they are doing a lot with us." And the Russians go, "Yeah, we look at." And one unnamed official said, "We always look at America as the enemy." So, if the president said, "Look, I got all your satellites. I know exactly what you did. The reason why you're able to hit a building in Saudi Arabia where the CIA offices were is because you knew it and that you told the Iranians." So, knock it off. You know, if there's one of those deals that comes out years later, so help us in our objective.

That would be typical of country to country we don't know about. But they're doubling down and saying we're we're helping Iran.

Well, I mean, the strategy the president has embraced is let's not trash talk the Russians and let's kind of cajole them along toward ending the war. And I think the strategy with Iran and Russia's role in the war it fits that playbook where the president tries to minimize the bad stuff the Russians are doing. The stuff the Russians are doing is terrible. It's it's it's leading to the deaths of American service members. The United States needs to.

Be very firm and opposing, and calling that out. At the same time, you know the Russians. Are focused on one thing and one thing only, which is prevailing in Ukraine. That's where the real action is. That's what they really care about.

And the challenge in front of this administration, you know, remains: Can you do anything that gets Putin to stop? I don't think a peace deal, some sort of comprehensive thing that looks like the Camp David Accords, is realistic. The question is: Can we help Ukraine hold on long enough that Putin eventually sees both that this? This war is futile, and as we've seen on the battlefield this year, Russia has made you know the gains Russia's made on the battlefield are the equivalent of ten Manhattan Islands. This is nothing in the big scheme of things.

Russia claims territory in Ukraine that it doesn't control, and it would take them another ten years at that pace to regain the territory that they they think that they that they own in Ukraine. It's it's not realistic. It's not going to happen over the next ten years, and so for this. This administration to kind of assume the war is already lost. Really, I think the question is: Can you flip it on Putin and say your war is lost, not Ukraine is losing, but rather Russia will not get what it wants, and it's going to have to live with a badly bruised but heavily armed Ukraine that's never going to let this happen again.

And that's why I'm very pleased to see the the administration once again is talking about security guarantees for Ukraine and trying to provide the reassurance. To them, that we're not going to stand by and let a genocidal war happen again. Here's what President Zelensky told me today. Cut two. Most important to think about the future, security future, prosperity future for our country.

Security guarantees our army, but not only our partners. Of course, first of all, United States and Europe. We have to freeze, and I think this is real way to end this war. We call it ceasefire or stop killing, like President Trump called it. Freeze and stop.

And of course, this is minimum what we need from Russia today. Then of Of course, we will go to President and to Europeans, and we will ask security guarantees.

So he said he would for he would accept freezing on the lines, even though he lost 25 of his country illegally. He would accept that.

Now the the comeback was they want the Donbas, and that's a non-starter. But they said, would you accept half of Donetsk? This is what some of the back and forth.

So Andrew, you tell me what you think.

So this administration has made, I think, a consistent misdiagnosis, which is that they believe this is a war about territory. And as the president and Steve Witkoff all like to say, they're real estate guys, so they think that that's what this is. And if it's a matter of drawing the line in a different way or in a you know moving two degrees to the right or two degrees to left, that's where you end up, and that's how you fix the problem. It's not the case. The Russians are using this administration and are kind of manipulating.

them into being a battering ram and to essentially try to get something for nothing, trying to get Ukraine to capitulate and give up territory that Russia can't possibly hope to seize militarily. And then more beyond that, the the Russian view is going to be, oh, we've pocketed that territorial concession. Look next at what our other demands are. And so the Russians are being very cagey about broader demands that would essentially, for example. Oh.

End Ukraine's existence as an independent sovereign country and put it back under Russia's wing. It would put strict numerical limits on Ukraine's military capabilities going forward, which no Ukrainian president is ever going to agree to. And then they want to wind back the clock on the U.S. security relationship with a number of countries that used to be part of the Soviet Warsaw Pact before the end of the Cold War, and essentially turn the clock back to where we were before. The Soviet collapse in 1991.

Those are all complete pie in the sky, non-starter ideas. But the Russians are very dug in on them, and unfortunately, they're already starting to look past President Trump and saying, "Well, you're only going to be in office for two months, two more years. You may lose big in the midterms. We need these kinds of guarantees of our security." So the Russians are starting to pivot and look past Donald Trump, and I think the window for him is. Finite, and the president needs to reckon with that and see that you know the legacy he needs to leave is one where Europe is going to be stable again, where the United States is going to be the sort of bedrock of European security, and where Russia is going to be constrained and prevented from doing something like this ever again.

That's the right kind of legacy. I think that I think that Iran and Ukraine don't understand our election system. They think Trump's out if his party doesn't do well in the midterms. He's not going anywhere, you know, which is fine. It's just so interesting the way Russia and Ukraine have different interpretations when Trump's gone.

Russia worries when Trump's gone, and Ukraine can't wait. But little do they know he's actually a friend to both, doing things uniquely. I just think it should be all Ukraine. I see very upside in siding with Russia on anything. Andrew Weiss, always great.

Thanks so much. Hundred percent, Brian. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Back in a moment.

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The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. John F. Kennedy, as you know, was a Catholic, and in the days he was running, that was a huge deal, and people wanted to know: Are you going to listen to the Pope? Are you going to listen to the people?

And that's kind of what, yeah. Because he was the first Catholic president, and I loved that comparison because when John F. Kennedy was asked, he said, "I am not running to be a Catholic president. I'm running to be president who happens to be Catholic." Yes, yeah. And candidate El Saeed said the same thing.

Yeah, I am running to be a senator who happens to be Muslim. Yeah.

Hey. This is ridiculous, but it's the view. Why should I be surprised? We're talking about not the coach of the Titans. We're not talking about Judy Zudy Jasser, who's trying to be a congressman.

We're not talking about Muslims. Nobody cares about your religion. But when you use it to work against America and you're an Islamic extremist, that's a problem.

So why would I bring that up? Al Sayyid's got links to the Muslim Brotherhood. Like what links? How about his sister? How about his birth mother?

So suddenly he doesn't really know. How about the he went out and put out a paper saying support the Muslim Brotherhood leader of Egypt? How weird is that? That's it. That's the foundational Islamic extremist organization that came up in the 1920s.

He's so busy he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. Hey, we are back. We are covering everything, global and local. The midterm elections are heating up, and I'm going to break that down.

But I do want to find out what's the latest with Iran, as well as Hamas, and how it relates to the UN. Everyone sends representatives here, so of course, not the terror organization, but they have representation here. The Palestinians do, and then you have a situation where I think that the the Iranians are weighing into the point. They wrote 25 page later, why to vote Democrat? To me, that's a bit of a repellent.

But in the big picture, we were. It's always great when Mike Waltz joins us. He's a UN ambassador. He joins us on television and radio.

So Halil Halil Neuer joins us now. He serves as a director, executive director of the UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. Halil, welcome back. Thank you. Great to be here.

First off, before we get into details, as you look at what's happening in the Middle East and Iran situation. How would you characterize the alliance between the Russians, the Iranians, and the Chinese? They're they're working very closely. Their interests are the same. It's to weaken the West.

It's to weaken America. It's to support extremist elements like Hamas. The things that are happening in France. I'm in Geneva. It's next door to France.

We're seeing a complete destabilization of one of the most important countries in Europe. And according to French journalist Caroline Forest, there's every reason to believe that elements from Russia and Iran might, in various ways, be encouraging. The the acts of vandalism and crime and riots that have been plaguing France. And also now Milan and Lisbon, Milan as well. That's right.

There was in Brussels. It's it's across Europe. It didn't seem accidental. They were using similar tactics.

So whether it's all coordinated or or there state elements that are encouraging this to weaken the West, it's something to be concerned about. Also, these these regimes get involved in elections as well, trying to support sometimes extremist elements on different sides.

So I want you to hear what some are saying is causing these riots. Cut thirty-five. Never mix up those people, those men and women who protested peacefully with looters and rioters, because there are people out there who, rightfully, feel that the price of fuel is going to higher price, which is increased because of what is happening in the Persian Gulf, a war that France was not part of.

So he's trying to say this is about prices and and schools. And what do you think's happening? That's Emmanuel Macron, who's now in the Middle East instead of Russia, and he's trying to blame America when he when he starts to point to the Iran War. He's saying, "Look, guys, you know these crazy Americans. They're they're fighting the Iran.

We don't know why they pick a fight on Iran and they create an Iran War. And so there are prices, and so some of the people.

So there's a few things going on there. You know, first of it is he's he's trying to make a distinction, which is valid, but it may be a distinction which the difference is has been kind of blurred. Yes, there were. You know, thousands of peaceful protesters, and then there were various radical elements. It's kind of a spectrum.

Some may be these Antifa thugs, but some of them are political extremists who come from the the larger group of of the left. And let's not make any mistake. Let's be clear: the leader of the far left group, which has the energy, this guy Mélenchon, ahead of Les France Insoumises, the the uncowed political party. For months, he was stoking this kind of agitation.

So everyone in France recognizes that that you can't just point to violent kid thugs that are acting on their own. A part of it, but clearly, the far left was stoking it. We have we have a report on Fox News Digital. Fifty one different groups are represented there, and they did see the Palestinian flag flying and hammer and sickle. Oh yes, that's right.

You saw hammer and sickle. You saw Algerian flags. It so happens this was an Algerian patriotic day, so that may not have been an accident. They chose October seventeenth to get out millions of Franco Algerians who are angry at France that France once upon a time colonized Algeria.

Now you know the Algerians are colonizing France.

So yeah, you. You you you saw the Palestinian flag everywhere, and you know Macron a year ago was so proud that he recognized the fictional state of Palestine.

Well, Mister Macron, you recognized the state of Palestine. You got it. Yeah, got it. You and no one ever got gas on the streets of Marseille and Paris, and and because they're cowering to their Muslim population. That's right.

Do they? Would they admit that? No, they're they are not admitting it, and you know I wrote I think that their first response is going to be double down in the appeasement, and we see that the French foreign ministry in the past couple of days issuing numerous statements condemning Israel, and you're like guys, wake up, your your country is falling apart.

So I want you to hear what some people are saying. For example, mischaracterizing, trying to lowball what's actually happening. Cut thirty six is just a CNN report.

Well, half a million people participated in the demonstrations, which political leaders stress were mostly peaceful. More than two thousand people have been detained by police in connection with Saturday's violence, and at least two deaths have been linked to the protests. It seems pretty peaceful. I mean, do you see these scenes on television? Yeah, it's you know, you the memes create themselves here.

Mostly peaceful. Look, again, the point is is that they've been. Conflated from the beginning, the the far the leaders of the far left political parties, they they called for these mass protests. They knew there would be a number of there would be many peaceful people, but they also knew that the agitators would come. and And the language that was used there are there are clips one can see where there are certain radical YouTubers talking about the need for an intifada, and and the language that Mélenchon was using, this radical left.

Political presidential candidate was clearly stoking agitation on the streets.

So, when you fast forward over to the Middle East, where are we at now with the humanitarian effort, the UN effort in Gaza?

Well, the the the people in charge to some degree is America when it comes to the board of peace. That's going to be the new game in town. But Hamas still controls a large part of the territory, and they're not disarming, contrary to the ceasefire agreement. They're supposed to disarm. They're supposed to radicalize.

There's no indication that they're doing that.

So, from a humanitarian standpoint, Gaza is fine. They've got more food there than many other places in the world, and you know you could see videos. Is rebuilding happening? No, I don't think any. Any rebuilding is going to happen until Hamas disarms.

And that's where we're at right now. They're supposed to. Who could make this? Who could get Hamas to disarm besides the Israelis going and shooting them? The the the only one who's willing to risk their lives to disarm Hamas is Israel.

No French peacekeeper or Italian peacekeeper or any other country is going to risk their lives to do it. Nor nor the Muslim countries like Indonesia or Turkey or others who talked about possibly sending people international forces. They're not. No international force is going to risk their lives. We've seen it.

Okay. It's it's it's not a theoretical question. It's not hypothetical. In Lebanon, we had thousands and thousands of international troops from UNIFIL, ten thousand troops. They've been there for decades, and they didn't disarm a single Hezbollah person.

They were supposed to keep the entire South Lebanon disarmed. The opposite: there were one hundred fifty thousand rockets. There were massive bunkers built, terror tunnels, and they didn't do a darn thing. When you know years ago, when they would try to do something, Hezbollah would you know knock off one of the European peacekeepers, and that was it. They weren't ready to take the.

Casualties, and so they gave them a free pass.

So peacekeepers are not going to disarm Hezbollah. They're not going to disarm Hamas.

So Qatar, Turkey, Jordan. They see that there has to be some resolve there. They know it gets that that there gets their population restive. Could any leverage be used for them to take action on Hamas, who was located in Qatar? Yes.

So Qatar and and Turkey are major players, and I think the fact that President Trump was able to get the hostages out was probably through some deal made with those regimes who have significant influence, certainly financial. They're hosting them. Turkey as well is hosting many of Hamas leaders. And is very close with Hamas, so I think they were able to get certain things from Hamas, but it's not clear that they can get any more. Hamas gives no indication that they're willing to disarm.

Right. So we'll see what happens there. On the other side, in Northern Virginia, Northern Virginia, in the northern part of Israel, bordering them is Lebanon. People are really encouraged that Lebanon's government is starting to stand up, maybe create some relationship with with Israel. But how how much of a factor is Hezbollah today?

Well, Hezbollah has been decimated by Israel. Israel. The financial arm is being cut. The financial arm is being cut. Of course, one of the most spectacular military intelligence operations in history, according to David Petraeus and others, was the beeper operation.

The pager, thousands and thousands of Hezbollah terrorists who carried special pagers, suddenly blew up in their hands.

So that you know, taking them out, taking out Nasrallah, really decimated Hezbollah. But they're still a force. They're still on the ground. They still have more arms than anyone else in the Lebanese state apparatus. And Israel and the good Lebanon, the Christians and Sunnis and even some Shiites who understand that Hezbollah just destroyed the country, have been trying to meet.

And Secretary Rubio has done an extraordinary job of bringing together in Washington Israel's ambassador or Lebanon's ambassador. They've reached a number of agreements. They agree the common enemy is Hezbollah. The premise was that if the Lebanese army would, you know, show up. And start taking some responsibilities.

There could be some areas as a trial, as a as a trial period that the IDF could withdraw from certain parts of South Lebanon. The Lebanese Army would take over and ensure Hezbollah's not there. But let's keep in mind the Lebanese Army is infiltrated by Hezbollah, and so it's it's it's far from clear yet whether anyone other than the IDF can keep Hezbollah away from the border. The key is the this regime, the regime in Iran has got to change. That's right.

That's right. You know that that that is the head of the snake, and and until that falls, you're going to have Hezbollah and Houthis and all these other terrorists. What's the condition of things on the inside of Iran? Does anybody know?

Well, we we know the situation is extremely deteriorated. We know that the regime is having a hard time paying salaries. We know they're they're desperate. It's quite possible that they'll try to pick a fight with America or Israel. The Houthis picking a fight with Saudi Arabia, so the Iranian regime is getting weaker every day, and America's influence in the Strait of Hormuz and in getting out oil is far better than anyone imagined.

It's actually above pre-war. Did you see that story in the Wall Street Journal? That's right. So it's pretty amazing. That's right.

But the oil numbers aren't isn't reflective because they said, well, we're not convinced the investors.

So we're not we're not convinced that it's going to stay that way, but. Just respond to the oil getting through.

So yeah, it's extraordinary. It's contrary to what all the pundits were saying, and so the the IRGC is in a very weak spot. And as they get weaker, they're going to get more desperate. And the the the message for the West is to stay the course. If President Trump and Israel and and the West as a whole stays the course, this regime can and must fall.

It's a matter of time. This. Will fall. Very true.

So let's talk about let's talk about what's happening with let's talk about what's happening with the UN and their Security Council.

So in terms of the human rights experts, who sir who's serving on the human right? Is it true that it's being chaired by Iran? No, Iran was elected. Iran was elected to a key position in April. was nominated, and the election will be validated in a few weeks at the General Assembly to a committee that oversees budget and priorities for women's rights, human rights, counterterrorism, peacekeeping.

And they were elected. Any women have rights in Iran? No, women are beaten. They are tortured, murdered. They are raped for standing up for their rights.

And so it was an absurd. Seen a travesty of justice for that regime. The United States was the only country in the world that dissented and said this is wrong, and no other country spoke out. Why would that be? How could Europe?

Okay, they said they afraid of Iran. You know, there is a general culture of the UN to go along to get along, and they're weak. As to quote Margaret Thatcher, they are feeble. Unbelievable. When you look at Israel's elections right now, and you look at what they've done.

When about three years ago, before October seventh, the ring of fire was stable. There, I mean, their imminent being hit from seven sides was was inevitable. Hamas was strong. Hezbollah was strong. Islamic Jihad was being infiltrated.

At that point, Hezbollah was thriving in Syria at the time. And then, because Russians took their eye off the ball, because Iran was unable to, because of the unrest over in Syria, Hezbollah was neutralized. I guess maybe part of that was because Iran was able to maybe finance them at the same rate.

So they Hezbollah gets kicked out of Syria. They have an enemy. Then Hezbollah gets the pager operation weakens them, and then they discover all these missiles and rockets at their border. And then you have Hamas after the. Horrific October seventh, they've been slowly decimated.

I don't think anyone would doubt that they lost all their leadership many times over. And then you look at the shape Iran is right now. Do you think that Israel is safer today than they were prior to October seventh? Yes, I think there is no question that from a from a military. Geopolitical situation certainly military.

The threats that Israel faced on the eve of October seventh, on October sixth, the Syrian army is gone. Syria is gone. It was Assad was a very significant military threat to Israel. He's gone. He fled to to Moscow.

The new guy Al Shara. We don't know exactly what he'll turn out to be, but it's not a threat to Israel. Hezbollah was a massive threat. I mean, I was in Israel on October seventh. It was very scary.

And then the question is, what's Hezbollah going to do? And people said, you know, Hamas is firing thousands of rockets at Tel Aviv, but Hezbollah—those are real rockets—and so there was tremendous fear. And that's largely been taken out.

So there's no question that that militarily, Israel is stronger in the region than it ever has been. Of course, politically, it's something else. Politically, we see across the West that there's this there's this paradox, which is that you have countries like. Canada, where I come from, the UK, Australia, which are increasingly hostile to Israel. Democrats in America, Democrats in America, and you and and the paradox is is that you see United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain, far friendlier Islamic countries, far friendlier to Israel than some of the leading countries of the Anglo sphere, and you wonder how could that be?

And then, well, the truth is that the folks in the United Arab Emirates and some of those countries, they're fighting Islamists, and they know ex. Exactly who they are, and they'll say it. Whereas our leaders in London, in Ottawa, in Canberra, in Australia, they are the ruling parties are courting Islamist votes to stay in power. That's the strange situation we're in today. Slow suicide.

It's suicide. It's it's absolutely look what's happening in France. Yeah, look what's happening in France and in Italy. You know, and the welfare state. On bottom line, is the wealth and the money that they're using and the economic philosophy that they're implementing is unsustainable.

So the quality of life's bad, the quality of services are bad, and people are angry because they were promised things while working thirty five hours a week and retiring at sixty. The math does not add up. That's right. Helal Newyur he serves the executive director of the UN Watch, a non governmental human rights organization. Based over in Geneva, Switzerland.

I know this is not as night. This is a little bit different than Geneva, but thanks for coming by, you, Leo. Great to be here. Thank you. Back in a moment.

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Okay. I'm going to go with the fried chicken, two pieces, please. And that's going to be all for you. Yes. Thank you.

No problem. Thank you. For too many black Detroiters, in particular. Their experience with somebody who looks like me is not a good one. You go into a gas station, you go to a party store, you're being talked at from behind.

Glass wall. Yeah.

If you're a woman, you're being catcalled. If you're a kid, you're being sold a Lucy out the back, being denied a bathroom. I've always tried to be on the right side of that, but I also understand that, like, if that's your experience with somebody whose name is like mine, that leaves a terrible taste in.

So I I'm trying to make heads. I had to ask for interpretation.

So number one, that's El Sayed sitting in a restaurant being interviewed by a black reporter. Yes, for the root is the podcaster of the show. Yeah, being okay for a podcast. At which time he orders fried chicken.

Okay, and then he's trying to say I did not know this that Muslim. Gas station workers treat black people bad. I mean, apparently, and they catcall and sell other things. If really, yeah, I mean. It's one of those things.

If anyone else said that about him, would be so offensive. But I mean, apparently it's just him trying to court the black vote because it's what he needs.

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So let's get to the big three. Number three. Well, half a million people participated in the demonstrations, which political leaders stress were mostly peaceful. More than two thousand people have been detained by police in connection with Saturday's violence, and at least two deaths have been linked to the protests. While French riots morphing into European unrest, what's going to take for these nations to realize that the root of all of this is a ridiculous welfare state that's unaffordable and unsustainable and unregulated?

Massive immigration. Number two, the money that Elon Musk is putting in for Get Out the Vote is coming in at just the right time. I think the Democrats would have loved for this election day to be two weeks ago rather than two weeks from tonight, because these last dollars are going to make a big difference. Thirteen days into the midterms, Trump is barnstorming across the nation, literally and the country, to save his majorities. How unrest in France, war in Iran, and the rise of socialism play into the final results?

Number one, we have to freeze, and I think this is real way to end this war. We call it ceasefire, or stop killing. Stop, President Trump called it freeze and stop. And of course, this is minimum what we need from Russia today. That is President Zelensky talking to me this morning.

I'll play some highlights from that. Four and a half years later, are both sides being conjoined to some type of agreement? I just have no faith in the Russians. Never will. I want to talk about the midterms, though.

So let's go back. Let's go. Let's open it up.

Some of the key places that we want to discuss. I want to talk about Michigan, and I want to talk about Maine. First off, another salute to Joe Manchin. I told you the role he played.

Some are disappointed that he actually signed the Inflation Reduction Act, but the beginning was so huge. The rescue. Package he fought against; these packages were out of control, something like three trillion dollars, and he paid it back. He pushed back against two states in the filibuster, and now he's doing something I didn't think he would do: he's actually going to campaign for Susan Collins against a ridiculous joke of a candidate and Troy Jackson, just a slubbish guy who stands for nothing. He is basically Grant Platen without the tattoos and the allegations.

Here's Joe Manchin with me on Tuesday talking about what Democrats. Represent it scares him. Cut thirteen. That's why I'm not a Democrat anymore. I do not sign onto 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 that we can make policies again, to where we can compromise and work together. That's what they're wanting.

So yeah, and that's why he was with Susan Collins at a small table, doing some town halls yesterday because he wants to make Susan Collins reelected. Why? Because Susan Collins will go against the Republican Party because she's first and foremost loyal to the people that put her there. This is a fact, and it ticks off President Trump. He said one time he you know he gets frustrated with her, but he says she's a very nice woman.

And he's got to stay out of the way there, and he knows it. Same with Michelle Tefoya. Let Michelle Tefoya win on her own. The president, just like every president, Democratic and Republican, there's only certain places you're not going to help.

So he is helping everywhere. He's going doing at least one campaign a day in different states and different times. He's going to be going to South Carolina to shore up Darlene Graham, no doubt about it. What they're also trying to do in Maine is lock that up for Susan Collins. They feel if it's close, it's hers, and they feel like it's close, so I believe it is hers.

So they can maybe, maybe excel there. I hope. Especially when Troy Jackson made that comment he did last week, when a protester stood up, started yelling at things that Susan Collins said, probably as a Troy Jackson supporter, and she said, "Shut up." I mean. Shut up! No apology.

The next day, really.

So in Florida, obviously very red. Obviously they gerrymandered to get additional seats. Obviously you had Rick Scott, a very successful governor, run, even though they can't stand each other, and Ron DeSantis of term limited out, but he's been unbelievable in getting millions more Republicans into the state. But he's worried they're not going to be voting. Listen to him last night, cut eighteen.

People need to vote, and here's an interesting fact: there are one million registered Republicans today in Florida. That the day I got elected in 2018, were either registered Democrats or Independents, and they've now come over. But they've probably voted for Democrats in the past. They may not be Sean Hannity, Ron DeSantis, been voting Republican straight ticket our whole lives.

So those are folks you got to earn their votes. We got to make sure we're turning out our base voters, and yeah, is is crazy. Easy as some of these candidates are, like the Senate candidate, there is a market for that, even in Florida. Not a majority, but she's going to turn out some voters.

So do not sleep on Florida. We've got a lot of work to do. And remember, these Republicans turn Democrats in order to run for a seat. Dave Jolly, former Republican, just hates Trump, so he ends up going on MSNBC and decides I'll run for governor. As as a Democrat, and I'll be palatable because a lot of people remember me as a Republican, and they think bringing Bill Clinton out is a positive look.

Bill Clinton has a has positive qualities in his day as a speaker. He's not healthy now. There's no doubt about it. But they bring him out as a moderate voice. He's a moderate voice from decades ago.

Literally, has no resemblance to the Democratic Party. Believe me, he Ellis Saeed says Obama wasn't left enough. You think he'd ever want. Bill Clinton, there, but yet here he is, cut fifteen in Hollywood. Whoever thought we'd have a forty trillion dollar debt and so little show for it?

Except the largest gap between the super rich and everybody else in the history of America. We can do better. In Florida, I understand why Florida wants to keep taxes as low as possible, so you'll always be attractive. To people coming down here, but once you get here, you got to be able to live and have an organized society where things work and life can get better for people, which is pro work and pro family and pro community, which is inclusive, not divisive. The problem is, I don't know who wrote that speech.

But I know firsthand, Florida is extremely livable, as affordable as it gets. Obviously, the gas is a little high right now. Clearly, the electricity utility rates are high across the country. But the least, I mean, it's not one of those blue states with a bunch of taxes folded in that makes you, you know, you're paying like six dollars or seven dollars for gas in California because they're trying to discourage it.

So, Bill Clinton, thanks for your concern. Florida does not need to worry about quality of living compared to the other forty-nine states. I am serious. It was a weird message. It's almost a benign message.

So I don't know how that helps. The governor's race, they said, instead of solid red is now lean red. A lot of these races are going to be close, and it's going to have people alarmed and give Democrats a lot of hope. But I think when you have a chance to step back and then look at both policies in 28, it's going to be a brand new game. The biggest joke is this woman, Angie Nixon, just a radical who decides to go socialist after she gets to the nomination, and just like just a raw politician.

Who just? In fact, the other thing she said is Ashley Moody should go to jail. I will put her in jail if I win. I mean, she's just screaming into the bullhorn. Bernie Sanders down there in Gainesville.

Listen to her cut twenty, Angie Nixon. Are you ready to fight for our families? Are you ready to take on the billionaires like corrupt Elon Musk? You get it. I can't take it.

Elon Musk is the problem. You're running against a billionaire who's actually putting people in space, eventually on Mars. Person that pioneered the a practical electric car that's actually affordable, and now you have a public offering on SpaceX stock, which has made thousands of their employees multimillionaires, including those who work on the factory because he gave them stock because he wanted them to have stock and then. Company, so you you're going to run against Elon Musk. Good luck with that.

Most people are not jealous of success. Also, most people know they're not as smart as him. I mean, he's Neuralink trying to get the the people those who have brain damage, unable to walk, try to get them on their feet again. You consider him evil. I want that guy to have maximum tax breaks to hire the maximum amount of people and give them the maximum amount of salary.

I just think you need to wrap your head around, totally wrap your head around something different when it comes to these elections.

So let's move over to Michigan. Michigan's interesting race. The governor's race is extremely close. John James is within five points, four four or five points. See if he can close that gap.

And then the other side, Abdul El Sayed. You know, one or two points up or down. Remember, he was supposed to win by nine points against Haley Stevens. He won by one.

So right now, he might be up by one on Mike Rogers. I'm not sure that's going to last. I mean, he this guy is the guy was talking about the getting rid of the combustion engine. This guy is talking about renewables being solely running on renewables, and now he's also who has talked about in the past getting getting rid of basically capitalism. Abdul Salih yesterday with the Detroit PBS talking about, I guess, his version of capitalism.

Cut twenty six right now. The reimbursements that get negotiated get negotiated between big health insurance providers and big healthcare companies. They are pricing out would be entrepreneurs in the healthcare space because they can't get the same reimbursements. Imagine if under Medicare for All you had a single reimbursement and you left it to the market for a provider to be able to provide care in accordance with how they wanted to and compete. In the healthcare market, we don't have that right now because of the power of the health insurance industry.

Right. So he wants to get rid of all private insurance. He says because you don't pay all for these expensive CEOs, that money will go into a general fund. The whole Medicare for All. It's a joke.

Goes to Oxford and go. He can go to every school he wants. Get a Harvard Master's, PhD, whatever you want. He has not put time and thought into this. It's not worked anywhere.

And when you bring up the UK and Canada have a single payer system. He says, "Well, don't you think we're better countries than that? In what way? Tell me what's wrong. Why is the UK system terrible?

Why is the service so bad? Why are the doctors so unhappy? Why is the Canadian system so inefficient? Why do you have to wait so long?" When you answer those questions and tell me what you would do different in America, then I know you thought it for this more than a second as a catchphrase that Bernie Sanders told you to say that you might be repeating. But guys like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer know it's a lark.

It's crazy.

So here's Abdel El Sayed trying to convince every, and Mike Rogers trying to convince everyone he's a capitalist. Cut twenty eight. In this economy, it is easier for a billionaire to make a second billion. I would rather tax billionaires some wealth, bring that back to invest in schools and childcare, to unlock the human capital that sits inside our local communities, invest in access to capital for would-be entrepreneurs, and watch the thing move. We've got to ask whether or not capitalism is working for everybody.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let Detroit become a Democrat socialist city. It doesn't work. That's what's on the ballot. They're talking about big government, government control, more rules, more regulation, another green new deal. If you do that, guess what?

We are going to continue to ride this thing out to number fifty. I have plans to get us to where we're the envy of the country again. Yeah, has to be, and also you got to compete with China. Have you brought up a good plan to push back on China's car industry? I'm all ears.

It's got everyone in a panic over there.

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I like to get specific. Eventually, America's story of survival, gallantry, and grace.

So it's going to be an out. You can pre-order it now. Your show's coming up three, Martha, and you've already seen me in the morning. Although I didn't interview you, you were already on here because this is one of your busy days. Ah, first off, I get the sense that wherever you stand, this four and a half year war is going on hyper speed with with the Russians and the Ukrainians, mad, upset, wrong tactic, right tactic.

We just there's a sense we got to end this thing. Do you do you get that sense too? Absolutely. I mean, I think that the Power players involved definitely want that. President Trump is pushing for it hard.

We saw Witkoff this morning with Vladimir Putin with some sort of letter in his hand of some kind of agreement. I think the big question is what Putin will agree to, because one of the Most important elements of this, if Zelensky is going to be asked to freeze, you know, ground that was Ukrainians and Russia invaded, he's going to want this security agreement, and I think that's going to be the big question mark because Putin. The reason he invades Ukraine is because it's the only non-NATO country on his border, so he's like, I can probably get that one, so. The security agreement, I think, will be the sticking point again, as it has been throughout these negotiations. I mean, still screwing with Georgia, still screwing Moldova, absolutely.

And and if you ask anyone in Europe, they know this is not going to end because, look, if you just think from Vladimir Putin's perspective, he was on a bit of a roll. Takes a piece of Georgia, no problem. Taxes get lifted. He moves on. Oh, I think I'll take 2014.

I think I'll take Crimea. Why? Khrushchev never should have given it away. And there's Russian-speaking people there that needed to be saved from the Nazis in 2014. Really?

That's a problem. Didn't do. What are we supposed to do? Barack Obama blankets. It's true.

He said blankets. MREs and blankets. Yeah.

And then we have the outright invasion under Biden.

So he must be thinking, I'll to be done with this in a few days. I'm going to get a piece of this back, and don't sell short what he did in Belarus. Lukashenko loses that election. That should have been a Democrat there, somebody else to loosen up the Russian grip. And he goes now, Lukashenko stays.

Absolutely. So you make great points, as always, Brian. And you know the the question of you know the taking of Crimea, and then you've got Biden saying, you know, well, a minor incursion would be one thing.

Okay, they walk in. Language matters. You know, minor incursion is probably what they consider the area that they have already been able to take by force. Remember, Ukraine had a Russia-friendly president prior to Zelensky that they liked. And when you hear, you know, I mean, I hear President Trump saying that somebody needs to replace Zelensky.

The question is, is that somebody that is, you know, favorable to Ukraine and Ukrainian independence, or is this Putin's puppet that is going to be put into Ukraine because that's who was there before? And then they had, you know, the uprising. They had a change of government. Have Zelensky calling for democracy, and then you've got boots on the ground from Russia. I don't know where you stand on this, but there's a belief amongst people, possibly even negotiating with the Russians, that McCain, working with democratic forces in Ukraine, making sure.

I think it was Yushenko. Yes, it was Yushenko, the one. Yes, the one that was forced to was poisoned. Yes, so he was a good guy. The guy that replaced him was was a stooge, exactly.

And then when he realized he had no had no support, he left.

So they put a new guy in there, Pruschenko. Pruschenko wins an election, and then out of nowhere, Zelensky wins. He's a guy who played the president, ends up being the president.

So, so roughly, that's Ukraine.

So the Russians saw that McCain and others were on the ground helping these these what do they call it? One of the Orange Resolutions, and they they said that you were being provocative to the Russians, almost saying we're coming for you next.

So there's a sentiment among some people. Negotiating this on our side, that the Russians had a point, and I think that's a problem. To to diminish the Russians is a problem. That's not smart. If you want to be a broker, like when you do the Palestinian Israeli thing, if the U.S.

is going to play a role, it doesn't do any good to say yes or average. You're a terrible person. Play it up the middle. You're trying to get a deal done, Jimmy Carter and others.

So I get that perspective. But if you really believe the Russians are entirely at fault and that NATO is a threat to Russia, I think you should not be negotiating. I mean, all you have to do is look back. I agree with you, and obviously the war does need to end. Obviously, the president's right when he talks about the thousands of people who are being slaughtered, Ukrainian young men who are diminished, and you know they need to figure it out.

And how? When we come back. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade show. These audiences, which were almost entirely white, I actually don't think I saw a black person in either of the audiences that I went to.

He had them. Eating out of the palm of his hand, he's kind of arrogant and cocky, and I think it's a political weakness because it is preventing him from doing what he needs to reach out to voters who he hasn't persuaded.

So, talking about Abdul Sayyid, who's got a huge problem in Michigan, and it's the black vote. He's gotten almost no black support, and Martha McCallum here, her book. The book of our America's story of survival, gallantry, and grace comes out next month. But he has a huge weakness, and then I watched Haley Stevens say, "I have never seen a Republican candidate work harder and set up with more infrastructure in black areas than Mike Rogers." And he, you just heard that description, Martha McCallum. That those are the he's still going to maximize, I guess, his base.

Not a great to me. You go back into the Democratic where the Democratic well was. I think he's tried. I don't know that he's seeing much success with it.

So I think that at this stage of the game, it does appear that his strategy is to double down and try to expand and solidify his base. I think this is a complete jump ball in Michigan. And I always go back to the primary when he ran against Haley Stevens, who probably has more in common in her policy with Mike Rogers than she does with Abdul Al-Sayyed. From who we can tell, who says he's a capital. But there's nothing.

The only thing I can find in his entire economic agenda, he did a a session at the Democrat at the Detroit Economic Club yesterday, is that he supports small business. It's like who doesn't? I mean, who doesn't? He's like I'm a capitalist. I support small business, but he wants to have the boards of AI companies fifty fifty percent owned by the U.S.

government.

So that is not capitalism. But with regard to the black vote, I think he knows that this is a very problematic area for him. I heard Jeremy Peters the other day talking about how you know he he's from that area. He's like, I don't know a single Jewish Democrat voter who will vote for him. They just won't show up.

And what I was going to mention a moment ago. In fact, you want to hear that? Yeah, sure. Go ahead. One of the factors in this race that is really worth paying closer attention to are the number of Democrats, lifelong Jewish Democrats, especially in the Detroit suburbs, who are saying for the first time in their lives they're voting Republican.

That's a big deal. And what did he say yesterday about Israel? They're not an ally. Yes. What ally gets you into wars, takes your missiles, and doesn't do anything for you?

Does he know anything about the intelligence sharing? Does he ever know anything about a democracy and history, or he does know a history and he hates that they exist? I think that the evidence is on the side of that, of the latter. He remember this is the same person who couldn't answer who's the greater enemy, Iran or Israel. He couldn't answer that question.

I had Pete Buttigieg on who was campaigning for Al Sayed in Michigan. I said, "Can you answer this question?" And he said, "Yes, Iran is our enemy, and Israel is our long time ally. Do we agree with everything they do? No, but that is an easy question to answer." He said, "But you know, I don't have to agree with him on everything." I just going back to the primary, which I keep. Thinking about because you see a lot of voters, black voters.

Hispanic voters, to some extent, who gave support to Haley Stevens in that in the primary, and the polling was showing that he was going to win by double digits in that primary. Right, it was all looking like it was going his way by by a lot. It was also that way with Francesca Hong, if you remember, in Wisconsin in the governor's race. He just ekeed by. He barely beat Haley Stevens, and a lot of her voters, I think, are moderate.

Glanders who very well may show up for Abdul. Do they stay home or do they come out? That's what's interesting to me in the Jeremy in the Jeremy Peters soundbite because he says they are going to vote for a Republican this time around.

So they are motivated, in his opinion, to vote against Al Sayed rather than just stay home. Right. I mean, they successfully pushed Hassan Piker in the background, but I keep thinking about Hassan Piker when she say he said to Talarico, who I didn't even associate with. We put him there. He's going to answer to what I say.

So they're trying to put the anti-Semitism put a lid on it for now. But he doesn't. He didn't get that lid remark. And then Hassan Piker, who was giving up at that, remember the DSA convention he had, and they made another couple of remarks. I guess they told him you have to go away for a while.

But my goodness, they're basically letting you know that if you elect me, I'm not going to do anything that I said I'm going to in the final stretch because they're pretending to be people they're not. I never remember an election. Maybe maybe a person or two. Where you have a bunch of people running on things they don't stand for because they're afraid to say what they stand for because they can't get elected. Abigail Spanberger.

If she said I'm going to run on banning ICE and preventing them from being a sanctuary state, if I'm going to say I'm going to put global warming as part of a as part of a Virginia school curriculum, if she ran on that stuff, I don't know if she wins against Winsome Sears. But she's doing all of it in New Jersey too, to a degree. And now you have LLC trying to tell this guy tell trying to tell us he's a he's a guy who is not a not an Islamic extremist. Kind of worry about that. And now he tells me he is not a socialist, but he sounds like all those things.

Well, I just—I mean, the things that he says are the reason that—that—that is a perfectly logical takeaway. I mean, he wants government-run healthcare. He wants to half-own the the AI companies, which you know anybody knows that you know no matter how you feel about AI and the promise that it presents and the threats. I mean, what? Show me a government industry that has benefited from being half-run by the government, and you know you can point to the airline industry.

Then you're Talking safety regulations in this case, he's talking about you know ownership of of these companies. I mean, you want to lose to China? That is the prescription for losing the AI race to China, right there.

So the one thing on AI, I just want to bring this up because I thought was an interesting story. What have we heard? Data center stop, putting it on pause. Don't be too much for a data center, whether it's Eustid or whether it's Susan Collins, the Memphis City Council. Rejected an 18-month pause on new data centers and expansions Friday.

Supporters want time to address the pollution, noise, and other neighborhood concerns. They're going to set up sound walls. Elon Musk is eventually going to get to it, but hundreds of electricians lined up at the Memphis Union Office seeking mid-South data center jobs. They don't want a delay. Traveling from Idaho and Virginia for these high-paid jobs, it's one of the first times I saw pushback of people saying, "Let's be practical.

We're going to build them. Let's just force them to build them the right way, you know, and don't be ramroded into something you don't want. It that doesn't look good, that sounds bad, that eats up farmland. But this is the first pushback where people showed up with their blue collars and their hard hats and said, 'I want this job.' I feel good about that because. Elon Musk seems to have picked out Memphis because they're economically depressed.

He says, "Let me bring my industry here to Tennessee, to Memphis, which we were just fighting crime with.

Now this could help." Yeah, I mean, a lot of these data centers have programs where they are adding to teacher salaries in the area. They're obviously encouraging the growth of jobs, and they are trying to place these in places that are farther away from neighborhoods. In many cases, a place they're looking for locations where it's not too far a drive for work, but it's not in the backyard of you know suburban homes in these areas.

So, I think what's going to be really interesting to watch on the data center story if Democrats. Let's take the House and potentially the Senate. It's going to be interesting to see how this storyline goes. My my bet is that it disappears. After the midterms, I do too.

That suddenly, it's okay. They're building that dead center, and they're creating those jobs in my district, in my Democratic district. And I'm not going to really say anything about it. Martha, I hope you're right. I really do.

If the Democrats sweep, I hope they go get away and build it. But Bernie Sanders really doesn't want them built. And if there's a big socialist movement, the AOCs of the world, they have no idea. She wouldn't let an Amazon facility in her neighborhood. But it really depends on where you live, like what you're saying.

You look at the swing states that we're talking about. You look at Michigan, very. Different, and that is where you're hearing candidates sort of speaking out of both sides of their mouths. Places like AOC, you know, more intensely, open to Democratic Socialist leadership. There, I think you're going to continue to see pushback.

It's a little bit of a curve, but a little bit different. But just what we're talking about, Middle East up. Yesterday, JD Vance was asked about endure, or a couple days ago was asked on Air Force One by Mark Halperin. Asked him, "Do you plan on endorsing Bibi Netanyahu like the president did?" And he said, "No, I'm going to worry about my own country." But right away, I said, "Yuri, didn't you go to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban?" So we're getting more and more signs that JD Vance is running for president will be dramatically different, and that's fine. But just so you know, that's dramatically different than any Republican I ever remember.

He seems to be very anti-Israel, certainly anti-Netanyahu.

Well, I mean, I think it was a good question that Halpern asked him, and it was good to you know get him on the record on that. I think that to some extent he believes that this—that's the positioning he wants to be in in 2028. Yeah, it wasn't a mistake. He thinks it will be a good place for him to be. Can you imagine if it is?

That means it's great for both parties to be anti-Israel. Think about that. Yeah, I mean we'll see what happens to Netanyahu in this in this. Election that's coming up at the end of this month, you know, and President Trump did endorse him. We'll see what kind of impact that has.

But you know, the thing that I think has to be the question that's asked pervasively, no matter who's the leadership in Israel, you know, do you support him? Is Israel our ally? And to sort of separate those two things. But yeah, no, I think he's. You know, when when someone says, you know, when someone tells you who they are, I think you have to believe them.

Yeah, you know, my hope is you'd be like, "Well, I was just mad at him on that moment, but overall, I hope, or I like both candidates. It just he had an opportunity to not look so anti-Israel, and I think he relished the opportunity not to take it." Yeah, no, I think that's what he believes. I have no reason to think otherwise. Wow, that's why Israel says we have to be able to manufacture our own weapons because we know that this this thing with the U.S. is coming to an end, and it's gonna it's gonna hurt us.

Because as a democracy, they're providing ridiculous intelligence. Think back to the Abraham, of course. Think the economic possibility of changing the chessboard in the Middle East, and all of that depends on a good relationship between the Saudis, Israel, the United States, the Gulf states, and an isolation of Iran to the point where they are choked off.

Okay, where it becomes not a good plan for Russia and China to support Iran anymore, where that is putting bad money, good money after bad, right? And that's why this goal is important strategically, and and I believe you know needs to be needs to be pursued. When we come back, we'll find out who's on Martha's show today at three o'clock. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmeade show. We're following it all.

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President Putin, so good to see you. I want to thank you very much. The president sends his thanks. A whole nation sends theirs thanks because of Stephen Hubbard. He's going because of you.

He's going home to his family. He's a 75 year old man, and you talk so much about my president, President Trump, being humanitarian. You are you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you, and I thank you again.

I've never heard such a clueless comment in my life to call Steve Whitmough coming out saying we got the seventy-four-year-old Steve Hubbard out, and you call my president a humanitarian because one thing President does, and even I don't see CNN criticizing this, is he's always talking about death and destruction. How much it bothers him more than you would know, but then he comes out and says, "You say my president's a historian, a humanitarian, so are you a humanitarian." You captured him, scooped him out of Ukraine. You put him in prison, and you tortured him. And because you let him out, you're humanitarian. Yeah, I.

I mean, these are the kind of things that, if they're said in the moment of trying to make some sort of deal, it's certainly better off that the American people aren't hearing that kind of language. And truly, this was not intent. Yeah, it's horrifying. It's horrifying.

So, what's your take? And by the way, it's going to get worse over the weekend because you got a real. You travel a lot. You go to Europe a lot. Would you say?

And you do a lot of coverage there too, much more than me. I think I've only been there four or five times. But I'm watching this unrest right now, and it's so clearly. And you look at the statements from Poland and Hungary; they go, "This is what happens. This is why we sealed our border." And yet, you can't.

All these countries going out of their way in France and England and Germany say, "No, no, this is nothing to do with illegal immigration." As we watch things that are emblematic of French history being targeted and Italian history being targeted, they're they're trying. They're just frustrated by schools and the price cost of living. And the Iran war is the cost of energy. Look, what's happening in France has been going on for over twenty years. They have overpromised all of their people.

Benefits that they can never deliver. They have like a 62 year old retirement age after which you know many of them get generous pensions for the rest of their lives. This is an unsustainable economic system. And then you load on top of it millions and millions of people who have flooded into the country. And then suddenly something that they a service that they were promised that doesn't deliver.

They're going to start tearing down your buildings and torching the town. Hall in Marseille in Limoges, storming the town halls in these places. This is what happens when you overpromise. This is socialism in action. I think this is the most powerful argument for Republicans in this country because this is what we will be set up for.

We are already forty trillion dollars in debt and have seven years left on Social Security and. Democrats that are running right now want to promise everybody even more than that. Daycare, preschool, absolutely. And you're going to be hearing again about universal basic income. Trust me, in America, and that's what's going on in these places in Europe.

In Poland, you have to wait months and months and months to see a doctor, and then they'll call you and say, like, on the two days that you left town, and say, like, oh, your appointment is tomorrow. And you have to just like drop everything and rush back for this nationalized healthcare appointment that you waited for months for.

So here's Ro Khanna. I had him on Fox and Friends yesterday, cut thirty nine. 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 economy. 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. I want this country to work for the kids in Pennsylvania I grew up with, not just for the Silicon Valley.

So he thinks it's all about income inequality. And he says, "There's nothing." He goes, "That's what they do." He says, "It's because the schools are rotting, and the teacher there's not enough teachers. The classrooms are too big. They put—I couldn't believe this—they put 57 of their overall budget into education. How much more do you want to put in?" So, those were a bunch of eleventh graders.

Teacher union power that is sucking up those dollars. You can have an education system. There are you know small Catholic schools in New York City where the cost per child is like five thousand dollars, and those kids are going to good. They're having, they're getting a great education in New York, New Jersey. It's like seventeen, eighteen thousand per student, and they're failing.

So money is not the answer to good education. Wasting money through teachers' unions and all of that, hiring consultants for millions of dollars who don't fix problems and pocket the money. That is the problem with the U.S. education system. But we have a huge crisis in this system, and going that route.

Is not going to make it any better. Yeah, I don't think so. But this weekend they're supposed to be even bigger riots, and they're worried about it spreading even more.

So, Albania, you mentioned Milan, Lisbon—that's where it's spreading. I don't really know if it's on deck in in Germany, but Macron—I've never seen a more inept leader. Goes to see does puts out one tweet, and then goes to a Celine Dion concert, and then he goes to now he's going to the Gulf states to complain about us. No, it's it's unbelievable. I mean, what they need.

Wait a second. Before we go, who's on your show?

So, Mike Pompeo is going to join us. We're going to look at your Zelensky interview, and we're going to talk about his take on Ukraine. All right, that's going to be great. And of course, your book is the Book of Valor, coming out November ten. Yep, United in the States is out.

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