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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade show. Thanks so much for being with me. Dennis Ross is going to be here. If you want to talk about anything in the Middle East, there's nobody better to talk to, including resuming war, what it would mean, the Israeli elections, and what it has happened.

The Ring of Fire—is it really been dismantled, or has it just been reduced? We'll talk about that and talk about the Ring of Fire around Israel. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, if you want to unwind what's happening in Texas—from the governor's race to those gerrymanders. District to the Hispanic vote to the Black vote until Talarico and Paxson, and now Talarico is essentially running against Elon Musk, which is just a weird thing to do because Elon Musk means so much to Texas because he left California for Texas.

So let's get to the big three. Number three, he's got the. It's looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory. This is the man who built the the museum that looks like Darth Vader's tomb. Yep, that Obama verse Trump, and that was Scott Bessent standing up for his boss.

Here we go again. When when the forty fourth, but when will the forty fourth president realize his attacks just fuel the Trump train and his base? Or do you really feel Obama is Trump's kryptonite? I want you to weigh in. Number two, and what Besen is doing, Secretary Besen, in isolating Iran, is the most significant comprehensive plan I've ever seen, and that is what we got to keep in our mind.

And that brings into, well, maybe it's better that we try to finish them once and for all. General Jack Keen in Iran is meeting with Gulf states. Why? Why would they meet with this evil regime? I'm going to ask Dennis Ross about that.

While Trump mulls re-engaging a full bore military Campaign will it will the economic stranglehold do a better job at that and not cost us casualties? We'll discuss all options. Number one, that is going to be clear that Democrats are going to be in control of the House. The polls are grossly underestimating Republican enthusiasm around the country. Midterms exactly one week away, and little talk of a blue wave now, or less of it, as Trump and Vance go from state to state to state, and mostly red states.

Dems nervously try to hold on to their high hopes. We're going to break it down. And by the way, just quick announcement: Go to YouTube. dot com slash at the Brian Kilmeade show and follow us on YouTube. And you're going to love what we post up there.

Everyone's talking about it. Let's bring in Ambassador Dennis Ross. Dennis, welcome back. Good to be with you always.

So the president, first off, on the Israeli elections, people know it's kind of a unique parliamentary process.

So there's going to be an election today in Israel, and then whoever wins has got a certain amount of time to form a government. And that's going to be a challenge for whoever wins.

Well, and if it's not able to be done, the other one gets a chance to form a government. Do I have it right? You do have it right. Let me break it down for you. First of all, no Israeli government has ever been formed without a coalition.

Meaning, there has never been one party that wins so much that on its own it can establish a majority.

So you're always going to have a coalition.

Now, coalitions sometimes have been national unity coalitions. Used to have two big parties, Labor and the Left, and sometimes they would get in the neighborhood of over forty mandates apiece out of one hundred and twenty, and they couldn't reach in the majority with the smaller parties, so they do it with each other. It's been a long time since you had that. Right now, it looks like the opposition. Will, based on all the polling, will probably come out ahead of the existing government, and the gap is important here because the closer that opposition gets to sixty-one, the more likely it could allow Arabs to vote them in or actually abstain.

What I mean by that is, you can form a government with a majority; it doesn't have to be sixty-one of the one hundred and twenty. As long as it's a majority of all the votes cast, if the Arabs choose to abstain, let's say the opposition gets fifty-seven, the current block gets fifty, the Arabs get thirteen, you could have a government very easily of the opposition form if the Arab just chose to abstain because they come with a majority. One other option for you to bear in mind. It's possible that it wouldn't be so easy to put together the government because some of the members of the opposition may not want to depend upon an air vote.

Some of them may also be competing as to who should be the leader of the block. What could happen in the meantime before you put together a government? And just I'll note here, the president of the country is the one who takes about a week. Polls, all the different parties ask who they think they're most likely to join with. He then asks, typically the the party that got the largest votes, to form a government.

They're given one month to form a government. If they can't, that's extended by two weeks. If that's not the case, someone else is offered. If no one can put together a government, you have a new election. I think there's a there's an interesting scenario here.

Where it's not so easy to put together the government for the opposition, they take their time. But because they're likely to have as much as seventy with the Arabs, they would vote out the current speaker of the parliament, the speaker of the Knesset, who's a Ohana, who's a Likud person, bring in the opposition to to. Be the speaker of the Knesset, and then begin to pass laws, like for example, a law on a state inquiry commission.

Something Bibi has resisted since October seventh. Maybe also there's a defendant's law, meaning someone who's a defendant in a in a legal case can't run again for prime minister. That would rule out Prime Minister Netanyahu if you had to have a Another election. I'm just pointing out that you could have a variety of different scenarios. One of which might not mean immediate formation of a different government, but you might see a different you might see a different Knesset that begins to pass legislation that opposition members favor, and that could set the stage for an opposition coming to government a little bit later.

So right away, nothing changes. But of course, if if Netanyahu is voted out, the Iranians will celebrate. Even though the his opponent is a general whose son who lost a was his son killed on October seventh. Not on October seventh. His son was killed in Gaza.

Son was a soldier was killed in Gaza. His two of his nephews were also killed in Gaza. He has a. He was head of the military. Gadi Gadi Eisenkot grew up through the ranks of the military.

He reminds me. I know him quite well. He's. He reminds me very much of Yitzhak Rabin. Spent his career in the military.

Very honest. His part of Yeshar is literally what it means is straight. That's who he is. He's a. Kind of straight arrow.

He's not soft on security, as you might imagine. He spent his whole career dealing with that. He would not be soft on Iran, but you know he would. He would do some things differently than Netanyahu. The Netanyahu government has not.

This is not to their credit. They have not cracked down hard on what Mike Huckabee refers to as Jewish terrorism in the West Bank. It's inexcusable. I think one of the reasons for not cracking down hard is because two of the members of his coalition turned, you know, kind of nod at this and are not doing what they could. People like Smotrich and Ben Gvir.

I think Eisenkot and Eisenkot, the government, would crack down very hard on that. He would probably also be more responsive to the Board of Peace on the fifteen-point roadmap for Gaza. Bibi didn't say anything when the president announced that roadmap on July 30th. Nine days later, he came out and said he couldn't accept it. Again, the main reason was members of his coalition who were opposed to it.

So there are some things that you'd say I don't see a real change towards Iran. Although obviously the president will have to decide what what he's prepared to do, and obviously we have to think through what are the best options. And you and I can discuss that. Clearly, Eisenhower is not someone who is going to view a threat from Iran as as anything but. Existential in terms of of Israel and its strategic interests.

So I think that President Trump had at a high level talk with Netanyahu, and by reports on Saturday, it wasn't the smoothest conversation they've ever had, but it wasn't a blowout. But mainly, is Netanyahu wanted to attack Iran? Says, let's get this over with. He, you know, he said, we see what he did in Lebanon, reducing the threat to a level I never thought possible, but it's not gone. Hezbollah, and then Hamas, wiping out just about every.

But still, they have not disarmed yet. But man, did they make progress? But the problem is, the Houthis still out there, supported and supplied by Iran. As long as Iran's there, the Ring of Fire could be reassembled and reignited.

So he said, "Let's get this over with." And Trump said, "I'm going to wait, and I'm not going to be pushed into this." Your thoughts?

Well, I think again, it's it's fine to say, "Let's get it over with." What exactly is the strategy for doing that? We have probably you and I. Last time we spoke, I said my view of the use of force is very much tied to where we are in terms of taking out the inventory of their missiles, ballistic missiles, the inventory and all of their launchers, because they can't launch ballistic missiles without the launchers. Their ability to continue to produce drones, which they're still doing. Their ability to reconstitute some of their defense industrial base to produce missiles, which they are reconstituting part of it.

We don't want to be in a position where every couple months we have to be doing this. The question is, are we able to destroy enough of the ballistic missiles and enough of the launchers that the Iranians, for their own reasons, at that point realize they're losing their ability to threaten their neighbors? I'm not confident that that's. We have the ability to do that in a time frame that the president's also comfortable with. I do tend to lean more towards continuing to tighten the economic noose.

What you had General Kane saying is true. This is the most effective we've been in terms of tightening the economic noose around them.

Sooner or later, it will break them. The question is, do you want to? Do you maintain what I call a deterrent posture?

So they have a reason not to be attacking their neighbors. Do you squeeze them at the same time? Does that not offer you the best bet of eventually producing change from within? We will not produce change from within simply by bombing them. That they've demonstrated pretty clearly.

So when I weigh the choices, and I, you know, my I come out with from the view that says this notion that you can accommodate them, you can work out deals with them—it's an illusion. By the way, the Gulf states should have learned that because they've tried that, and we've seen that they were the victims of the attacks. It's the discussions that were held yesterday by the Saudis, Turkey, and Pakistan in Tehran. I can tell you, whatever the motivations, and I don't question the motivations, the way the Iranians see that is they're coming to us; they need us. This just proves that.

Where we have to be treated as one of the arbiters of what's going to happen in this region, so I mean, we we need to find ways to continue to weaken them to the point where that's not the case. I'm not sure that the use of force right now, unless we have very good reason to believe that we can really take out up to ninety percent of all their launches and missiles, to the point where then the threats they pose, we may be able to block. How about there's a few different tactics.

So, and in fact, I was talking to some very higher up people at the Trump team over the weekend, and they think the the Treasury Secretary has done an extraordinary job. And they, China is getting zero oil. They're getting zero oil out, literally zero. They've been managed to to find their money that was in the UAE, and they're cooperating. But like you said, that's that new that new coalition of Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan and Turkey sent emissaries into Iran to meet with them. These are the guys. Iran's been blowing them up and supplying the Houthis. It's amazing they still want to meet with them to work something out. What it shows, Brian, is they feel right now that they're vulnerable, and they don't believe that what we're doing is going to produce a reduction of the threat to them.

So they're trying to reduce the risk of that threat. Part of it is clearly, I think, also to come to President Trump and say, "Right, look, we think they're prepared now to to make some of the concessions that you want." I'm dubious. I I understand. I don't question their motivation, but I am worried that what that motivation reflects. I want a de-escalation because I think they they believe that Iran's capacity to threaten them remains still quite significant.

Meaning, threaten their energy infrastructure, threaten their desalination plants, and I think that they don't believe that we can protect them from that, and therefore they're they're looking for a way to reduce that risk. But it's a What you're doing is you're buying off the risk in the near term, but you're going to increase their ability to coerce you over time. Exactly. The other thing is they kept they always Saudi Arabia's been restricting us. We had a plan to open up that trade immediately, and they asked us to knock it off because they thought it would they would end up getting rocketed again, and then they end up getting rocketed by the Houthi rebels, who just don't care about civilian targets.

In fact, that's their aim. Here's General Jack Keen on what he's suggesting we do next. Cut 29.

Well, first of all, it's unusual, you know, for our intelligence services and the State Department to reveal that information, and certainly that tells you one—it's credible. And two, the fact that they're revealing it, Bill, they they want to use it as a form of deterrence and try to prevent some of it from happening. Obviously, what we've been used to is Iran attacking with military means at U.S. bases in the region as well as our allies. But what we're really talking about here is terrorist-type activities.

So the threat is real. We've announced that the antenna is up. Listen, we're pretty good at this. Bill and dete These kind of activities, just as the British have been, and certainly that's clearly one of the things that has protected America post nine eleven for so long. And what he's talking about is the terror attacks.

They're determined in the final stages of hitting us. We believe in our embassies, any type of sleeper cells that might be located in our country. Your thoughts about the dangers?

Well, I think we know who Iran is, and They what they excel at is asymmetrical warfare, and and that means you know these threats that are deniable, and they're always characterized by acts of terror. You can never you know it's hard to pinpoint for sure responsibility, and almost always takes time. What we see here is we picked up enough intelligence to determine. What they're trying to do and who are the likely actors they're going to use to do it. Oftentimes it's not Iranians.

Oftentimes they're hiring people.

So I think the the key here is a, as he said, once you expose it, already that gives them a reason to take a step back because it's sort of they they realize they could be in the crosshairs of a response. Two, it says we we know what you're doing and you're unlikely to succeed. You know the. There's deterrence through punishment, and there's deterrence through denial. Deterrence through denial is you can make a threat, but we will defeat the threat.

With Iran, we need to have both. We need to have deterrence through denial as well as deterrence through punishment. Dennis Ross, always great. Wish had more time. We're up against the break.

It's going to be very interesting because the president, after November third, all bets are off. He's done with running for election, and the die will be cast on both the House and Senate. Thanks, Dennis Ross. You're listening to the Brian Kilmeade Show. It's Brian Kilmeade.

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The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmeade. Ken Paxton is not one of us. He's not even from Texas. He's from California, just like Elon Musk.

Why is it always the Californians saying "Don't California my Texas"? To look in the mirror. Do you really, really, tell Rico you really want to go and say Ken Paxton? Out of everything you could attack Ken Paxton on. There's no doubt that he's a Texan.

There's no doubt that he's a conservative attorney general. And if everything you attack him on, you say he's really a California guy, there is nothing that profiles like a California guy about him. Nobody doubts the one thing you could say. There's nobody doubts that he's a conservative. There's no one doubts that he's a MAGA conservative.

If you want to go into the personal life and all that other stuff and the impeachment and all that, okay. But instead, you attack Elon Musk, and you're attacking. And by the way, he's not a dumb guy, so I don't even know what he's even thinking. And then you say Talarico's a California guy. Do you know that that that invites people to say, "Well, where do you get your money?" Forty nine percent of his money comes from outside Texas.

Then you say, "Well, a billionaire is financing him." You know who's financing Talarico? The guy from the the founder. The founder of. First off, you got where is it? I have a whole list of these guys here.

That crazy guy. First, you have George Soros, is one of the people that he found, and then when it comes to Texas, you also have Stephen Mandel. From Lone Capital Hedge Fund, you have another billionaire. This guy named Mike Bloomberg. I'm pretty sure Mike Bloomberg is not from Texas.

John Pritzker. I'm pretty sure the Pritzker family is not in Texas. You know the Pritzkers, Hyatts. Seem like pretty rich people. How about Rory Gates, son of Bill and Melinda Gates?

Is that really a Texan? How about Susan Sarafian, the wife of Houston billionaire, Sub Fiez Sarafian? How about This is the the one big guy that he's got. Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder, he's worth two point seven billion dollars. His wallet's been out for him for months.

Seventy four percent of all Paxson's money come from in state. All right, it's forty nine, forty nine, and as USA Today says, if Taylor Rico loses, Texas Democrats may never win Texas. That's Lieutenant Colonel Alan West thinks, and he joins us now. He was in Florida, moved to Texas. He's the American Constitutional Rights Union executive director, former congressman from Florida.

Colonel, where do you think this race is at right now? I think it is somewhat deadlocked. I think is within a two to three percent on on either side. And what's going to end up happening, I think, this is why the president is is coming back here, is that you got to make sure that you get the the incredible turnout from East Texas and West Texas and South Texas, because what Talerico is banking on is the major urban population centers. We call it the I thirty five corridor, which starts really from Denton, Texas, down to San Antonio.

San Antonio and the I-10 corridor from Houston Harris County over to San Antonio. That's where he's banking that he'll get all of his his his bang out of, and and of course that's centered right there between Dallas County where I live and down there in Austin as well. But I don't think that Talarico is going to be successful. And and again, when you think about going after Elon Musk and what Elon Musk has brought to the state of Texas by way way Technological innovation and advancement. Look at the Tesla facility that is there in Austin.

Look at the the SpaceX facilities that you have down in Brownsville, Texas, and also out in Van Horn, Texas. I mean, think about the jobs and opportunities that has brought here to Texas. And so, why would you go and attack a guy that has really done a lot to put Texas on the map as far as the space and electronic electric vehicle technology?

So it's interesting. Does he have? Is there a negative perception in Texas of him from from independence? Let's say. I mean, do they just associate him so much with with Trump that the that he has the same hatred coming out of that Trump gets?

No, I think that again, that's part of that derangement that you see from from the leftists. You know, you see the the bumper stickers on some of the the Teslas here in Dallas and Dallas County that say, you know, I bought this before Elon Musk went crazy, and those are the the same people that are going to vote, you know, against their own interests here in Texas. And what has really hurt Texas, and I think again, Brian, this is what something you've seen across many of the red states. When you're inviting in these businesses and corporations from these failing blue states, California, especially Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and they're coming here. Texas stock exchange just recently opened, and they're bringing an employment base that doesn't really understand why these businesses and corporations left California.

But when you get the onesie twosie people that are moving out of some of these places. That are saying I'm done with the the politics. I'm done with the policies. The taxation is killing me. Yes, they come here and they do vote conservative.

They do vote Republican. But it's these straphangers that come with the businesses and corporations. Then it's also what you see happening on our university campuses. Don't forget that it was just two weeks ago, I believe, that Hassan Piker spoke at the University of Texas, and the University of Texas is in Austin, Texas. That's our our state capital.

He had a big crowd. Yep. Scary! It is scary. Those are young people, which is nuts.

But I just want to hear, listen to Tarico go after, to go after Elon Musk at nineteen. This election is about whether or not you want a senator who is for Texas or for himself. This election is about whether or not you want a senator who serves you or who serves his billionaire mega donors. And Ken Paxton has the ultimate mega donor. Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas.

We we just found out that the richest man in the world is almost single-handedly. Bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and stop this movement that we're building in Texas.

So if he wants, if he wants to stop it, maybe he should stop Rory Gates, John Pritzker, Mike Bloomberg, Stephen Mandel, and Reid Hoffman from giving him money. I mean, does that come up? What is an incredible projection that he's trying to blame Elon Musk and Ken Paxton for the very thing that he's doing? At least Elon Musk lives here. At least Elon Musk has businesses and corporations and developments that are here that are benefiting Texas and Texans.

But these people, like you just articulated, I mean, what about half of his donations are coming from out of the state of Texas? That's that's incredible. And so, who is really being bought to to go and and be, you know, a senator from the state of Texas who will be serving what people from California, New York, and wherever the the respective left coasts.

So you know, Talarico has this ability that the Democrats, the leftists, always have. They project what they are and who they are on others. And so, no, Ken Paxton, as you just said, seventy-four percent of his donations are coming from in Texas.

So I think that when you look at Elon Musk's donations, guess what? Elon Musk is from Texas now.

So how do you explain, for example, if people want to say a blue wave is coming? How do you explain that Cunino is so close to New Hampshire? How do you explain that? Tefoya is so close in Minnesota. How do you explain that Rogers is probably?

I think he's going to win in Michigan.

So yet the president still got to go to Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Texas, multiple times. This is the oddest midterm ever. All fifty states are in play. Yeah, if things were going according to history, you know the the margin would be a lot greater than what you see happening. And so I think that no, there may not be this big blue wave.

I think that they may limp across the finish line. But I really am starting to question whether or not they will gain control of the House and the Senate. And if they don't, what makes you think that? I just really look at a lot of this turnout. I mean.

I voted on the very first day of early voting, and at eight o'clock in the morning, when they first opened, and there was already, you know, half of the voting machines were were occupied.

So I think that what the president has done is very smart. He learned from his first midterm election loss. He's getting out there, and he is making the case as well. Because I'll be very honest, Republicans are not that good at messaging. And when you looked at the vice president's speech yesterday, he reminded us about gas.

Prices under the Biden administration, and so this whole affordability kick that the Democrats say they have—they don't stand for affordability. If you want to talk about health care, I thought they passed a piece of legislation signing the law called the Affordable Care Act.

So all of these things that they are promising and saying—you know—is empty. They're not offering any solutions for the American people, and I think that what you'll see happening up there in Michigan and the same thing here—the black vote is. Going to be very influential, and I don't see the leftists being able to secure that black vote. Mondale didn't do it in New York City. Alcy didn't do it in his Michigan primary, and Talerico still has not connected with the the black electorate here in in Texas.

Here's here Speaker Johnson, kind of back in what you said. Cut to the polls are grossly underestimating Republican enthusiasm around the country. I am traveling the country nonstop. I'll be in. 21 more states over the next just next week between now and the election, 39 districts last week, scores of states.

We've been from coast to coast, and I'm telling you, the polling is inaccurate. The American people understand this is a contrast election. We do not want to go back to crazy. And that's why he thinks grossly underpolled. They say that with every poll since Trump came out, less and less Republicans will even answer polls.

That's what pollsters are saying. There, some of them are trying to be honest. They just can't get Republicans to sample. Yeah, and and again, when you are doing a sample polling here in the state of Texas, I'd like to know how much of that came within that i thIrty five R Tan corridor, as opposed to East Texas, West Texas, or even South Texas. The questions that are being asked, and again, how many Republican households are being called into, and how many responded.

Those are the type of details that we need to know about this polling. And look, even we saw in the the Democrat primaries in Wisconsin and in Michigan, the polling was way off. They were talking about double-digit victories. Francesca Hung ended up losing in Wisconsin, and Alcind, I think he was like one to two percent that he won there in Michigan.

So, people don't you know. You can say polling, polling, but folks are less and less trusting of these numbers that they see. They think that it's trying to, I guess, tamper down the enthusiasm. But what I'm seeing at these polling locations. Completely different.

So I love this. A lot of people cannot endorse, like Van Jones cannot endorse Al Saeed on his foreign policy. He just won't do it. The gubernatorial candidate for for the Democrats in Michigan just won't do it. You know, okay, yeah, I'll vote, but doesn't want to appear with him.

And then Haley Stevens, who lost by one point the nomination, said this on CNN, cut sixteen. You're still fully behind, Abdul Fatah. I'm on the Democratic ticket. I can't say that I agree with everything that's gone on. You know, I wish that first debate had been more about, you know, that rubber stamp for Trump because we got a lot of chaos in Michigan.

You know, I don't want to debate, you know, who's the enemy of the United States. It's very clear that Iran is. I didn't run my campaign on foreign policy issues, but that was litigated in my primary. You know, I'm not looking to be front and center right now. I'm looking to be in.

Team to support, you know, my next governor, Jocelyn Benson, and frankly, these great Democrats who are working their tails off, who are going to make Hakeem Jeffries the first Black Speaker of the House. You didn't mention Abdul. I'll say it in that last answer.

Well, look, I would just say you had asked me if I'm still on the team. I'm on the team. Read between the lines. There, she's not on the team. Oh yeah.

Well, look at Ilhan Omar, whatever her name happens to be, this week bringing in Hassan Piker in Minnesota, and now you've got Amy Klobuchar and Peggy Flanagan, and everyone trying to distance themselves because they realize how toxic this is and how bad it is for their brand.

So, you know, again, they continue to you know drop hand grenades on themselves, and that's why I think there's there's a lot that can happen between now and and next Tuesday. My mom had a saying. There's many a slip between the cup and the lip, and I think that that's what we could see happen by the time the polls close next Tuesday.

So I want to bring you to another controversial ad by Senk Uygar from the Young Turks, who's the uncle of Elsie. I saw that. Listen to this, cut seventeen. You're going to have to put those eggs back. They don't like eggs anymore.

No, they like eggs, but we have to set that seven dollars aside. For killing Palestinians? What? I mean, don't we give Israel four billion dollars a year anyways? Yeah, and now we're giving them another twenty-six billion dollars.

Do you know how much that is per American taxpayer? No. It's like a hundred and sixty-one dollars per person. Apparently, it's costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.

So they're blaming Jews for the price of our food, and they're saying it's genocide, and and we're paying for it. Yeah, and again, I go back to dropping hand grenades on your own feet. That was a horrible ad. I watched it yesterday, and you just ask yourself, and you know, it's kind of like the Vivek Ramaswamy ad that ran in Ohio. Who who sits down and looks at these things and says?

Okay, this is a good idea to try to go out and blame, you know, the Jewish people or the the war that they are fighting for their survival on us having high egg prices.

Well, then, when eggs were high during the Biden administration, who did we blame it on? It was the policies of the Biden administration. It was them going after the oil and gas industry by way of the Green New Deal. No, by the way, I don't care what Talarico says. When he becomes owing to Hassan Piker, he'll undermine the oil and gas industry here in the United States of America.

Just a despicable ad, and I think that this is another thing that's going to hurt Abdullah Al-Said in Michigan. Yeah, no, it should. And the thing is, that's not helpful. I saw Jamie Harrison ripped it. He used to run the DNC and said, "You basically, you got to be kidding me." And listen to Van Jones, cut eighteen.

This is a very dangerous ad. Because what it does is it suggests that the reason that people can't pay for things in the grocery store, bananas, but bananas is because of you know the United States is giving all this money to Israel. We give a very small amount of money to Israel compared to all the other foreign systems that we do. But you're picking out the Jewish state, and you're pointing to the Jewish state. And of all the, we we we spend money in Qatar.

We spend money all around the world. But you're going to say because of the Jewish state, that's why you're suffering. Listen, when that happens, when you start getting people riled up, and you've seen this all through the last century against Jews and blaming Jews for all your problems, you're headed down a dark pathway. No kidding. Yeah, I'm up against the break, but you agree, right?

Yeah, absolutely agree. And it's a very horrific thing. Hamas exists because of Iran. And same with Hezbollah, and we just had the anniversary of the October 23rd, 1983 bombing of the Beirut barracks, and that was because of Hezbollah proxy of Iran. Can't forget that.

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So before we go further, let's get to the big three. Number three, he's got the one. Looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory. This is the man who built the the museum. It looks like Darth Vader's tomb.

I mean, it's unbelievable, right? Obama versus Trump. When will the forty-fourth president realize his attacks just fuel Trump and his fan base? And do do or do you feel Obama is Trump's kryptonite? I want to take all calls.

Number two. And what Besant is doing, Secretary Besant, in isolating Iran is the most significant comprehensive plan I've ever seen, and that is what we got to keep in our mind. And that brings into well, maybe it's better that we try to finish them once and. For all right, in Iran, it meets with the Gulf states. Why?

Why are they meeting with the evil regime that's rocketing their countries when they didn't even cause any cause any type of friction with them? Are we about to reengage militarily with them to finish the job, or do you think we should stay with the economic stranglehold? I think it's going to take some kinetic action. Weigh in. Number one, that is going to be clear, that Democrats are going to be in control of the House.

The polls are grossly underestimating Republican enthusiasm around the country. That's what many people say. The polls don't matter. It could be worse for the Republicans, but the polls are not an indicator. Midterms exactly one week away.

Little talk of a blue wave as Trump and Vance live news. Trump and Vance go from state to state to state, from red state to red state to red state. Is that a bad sign? That's that very question to Steph Kite, a political reporter at Axios. Steph, do you think that's a bad sign that the that the Republican president and vice president Have to go to places like Kansas and Mississippi.

I mean, it's certainly not a good sign. I mean, time is limited, money is limited, and when you're having to expend resources, both the funding that we've seen go to these states, and also, you know, Republicans' number one spokesperson, you know, Donald Trump, when he's having to go and support people like Senator Cindy Hyde Smith and Roger Marshall in these red states that Trump won by double digits, it wasn't even a second thought in 2024. It goes to show just how why Democrats have. Been able to expand this map. Does that mean that Kansas and Mississippi actually end up flipping in November?

You know, I think that would be unlikely still, but it shows that Republicans want want some insurance there. It does. The thing is, as you know, Steph, no one's going to remember the the amount of the win. I mean, for example, it's double digits for the president wins Kansas, but Marshall's probably going to be. He's going if Marshall wins, it'll probably be by about two points, right?

No one's gonna remember that, though. Yeah, no one will remember it, but it could be a sign. You know, is this the beginning of the Southern states becoming more competitive long term? Is kind of a question that I've been talking with with people about. You know, political strategists.

Is this is this election just a blip? Is it just a reaction to the Iran war, to gas prices, to the Trump presidency? Is it reflective of unique and strong Democratic candidates in some of these states, or are we starting to see a little bit of a shift? Where some of these southern states are not going to be so solidly Republican moving forward, and that's something to watch. And that you know that comes into play when you're looking at the margins, and we'll see moving forward in future elections.

So you also write in your column, there's some really bad candidates, or let's say. Not the strongest. Troy Jackson, not the strongest. Ken Paxton, not the strongest. Troy Jackson now is a tie with Susan Collins.

But when I see them together, this guy's not even engaged on foreign policy at all. He's been around forever. He does not seem to have any charisma. There's a reason why he was third in the gubernatorial race, and he was not supposed to be the Senate nominee. And at the same time, Ken Paxton liked in Texas, but full of scandal, had trouble raising money, and doesn't seem to be that active.

Effective. Yeah, I mean, it goes to show. I think it's interesting that when you look at kind of the work that the Senate leaders did to kind of recruit candidates in both of those cases that you pointed out, they backed someone else. You know, Majority Leader John Thune did not want Ken Paxton to be the nominee. He worked hard to keep Cornyn in place.

He begged the White House to get behind Cornyn for months. They gave polling showing how much more it was going to cost in order to keep the Texas Senate. Right? This was this was all something that they worked toward. Still, they ended up with Ken Paxton, and it's seeming to be proving true that Ken Paxton is a much more vulnerable candidate in Texas.

Same thing in Maine; it wasn't supposed to be Troy Jackson. Schumer hoped to have you know a governor who was more moderate that could win the state easily from Susan Collins, but instead he had Grant Platenner, who had you know excitement in the beginning, but then imploded, of course, and now they're left with Troy Jackson, which again, Maine for Democrats should be an easy. Pickup state. It's a very blue state. Of course, Susan Collins is a unique, unique candidate.

But you know, if if Collins ends up hanging on, it will be in part due to the candidate choice there. Right. They did no background check on a guy that was really problematic—a fake oyster farmer with huge problems in his personal background. The biggest mystery to me, Steph, is what I'm hearing about Angie Nixon. This is a fringe candidate who decides to be a socialist, who believes everything should be free, and we should be freezing rent.

It's like a mini momdami, and then when asked even about Cuba, an easy answer. Not really. Cut twenty-four. Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship? You know that is what people have told me.

I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have to take their word for it. And I know you're going to go into this. Where do I? How do I feel? Things need to be handled with Cuban relations right now.

This decades-long failed embargo has yet to change over the regime. I have talked to Cuban Americans here in the state of Florida who have family members that are. Still over in Cuba, and they told me that they are hurting even more now because of this failed embargo. They told me that the blackouts, instead of being four to six hours long, they're now being twenty-four and thirty-six hours or forty-eight hours long. Yes, that's the point—to bring them to some somewhat of a democracy and bring that evil regime to its knees.

How could how ridiculous is that answer? If you want to win statewide in Florida. I mean, obviously, Florida, Florida politics. When you're talking about Cuba, is unique there. And you know, to be fair, Nixon is still struggling to to make that race as competitive as some of these other.

But I just saw this way, Steph. This is the crazy thing. Maybe, maybe you don't like this poll, but I just saw the University of Northern Florida poll that she's two points off. Yeah, I mean, we'll see. I think you know, for most of the polling that I've been seeing, it's not quite as competitive.

But again, it it could be. Speaking, we've seen this this energy around more socialist candidates, these Democratic socialists. There could be excitement there when it comes to Democrats in Florida. And Ashley Moody is still you know a little bit of an unknown. She came into the Senate, but she doesn't have you know the same kind of name recognition as some other candidates in other races.

So in Florida, has historically been more of Battleground state, so it's of course one to watch, especially when we're seeing so many of these trends shift away from Republicans. And it is a question, to your point, is this going to be a situation where the national headwinds end up hurting Republicans and giving an opening to candidates who maybe wouldn't, on paper, look like the best candidate for Democrats to choose, and maybe you know are in favor of policies that are not broadly popular within the Democratic Party or only with a more progressive Side of the of the of the base, or you know, do we see these candidate picks influencing more than than the national trend? You know what's so interesting is that affordability is the issue. How gas prices are higher than the president Trump wants, obviously, and we know why. It's the Iran War.

It's not it's not a Ukraine. It's the Iran War. We get it understood. It's a global market, even though we're drilling like crazy and fracking like crazy. It's a global market.

I understand it. But what Democrats are trying to get away with is they say, you know, Donald Trump has made things unaffordable, hoping that they don't remember what they handed over to Trump, and hoping they're not going to ask, "What would you do?" Do you know of a Democratic policy that would lower oil and gas? When they've basically been saying they want to make oil and gas a part of the past. I mean, in California, they want to get rid of the gas engine. That's where New York is heading.

So I just don't see any credibility Democrats have. When it comes to to lowering gas gas prices, have you heard it? I've not. I think that's a good point to raise. I think this is an issue Democrats have run in time and time again during the Trump era, where they find Trump as as a powerful candidate to run against.

They find Republicans a powerful party to run against. But when it comes to laying out what they are actually for and how and the solutions that they think will work to fix the problems that they're pointing out, they may have ideas here and there, but there's not a lot of consensus on what that would look like. And then, but. You know, to be fair, we've also seen Republicans run on this issue in 2024, only to turn around and show that the policies that they that President Trump talked about, you know, tariffs, don't seem to be working, and he has made the economy worse in some areas and gas prices higher. And you know, Republicans are also facing that.

And both parties need to to agree, not just to run on the economy being bad, but actually figure out consensus for how to. To pass policies that might improve affordability for Americans.

So you know it's so interesting. And in terms of policies, I was just trying to get some policies to be able to talk about it rather than just say this or that.

So Democrats are split on immigration. Akeem Jeffries pushing restrictions on ICE. Small House faction wants to eliminate the agencies responsible for immigration and border enforcement. Man, that's a non-starter. You would think.

Jeffries' message at a Texas event accused ICE of a reign of terror that worsens affordability. Not sure that can. Action, Delia Ramirez of Illinois introduced legislation, according to reports, that would would dismantle DHS and eliminate ICE as well as border patrol. Who signed on to it? Jim McGovern, Jesus Garcia, Elon Omar, Rashida Tlaib.

So these are some of the fringe candidates signing on to extreme policies that you would think Democrats would be smart enough not to say they'd open up the border again, because that's what the Republicans want them to say they would. Because it scares people. Yeah, I mean, we've been here before. The abolish ICE movement—the first time around—was was not effective and ended up hurting Democrats just a few years later. Immigration is one of those issues where, again, both parties are able to to attack the other side for how they've handled it.

But we've seen both Democrats and now Republicans, when they're in power, go too far in a way that pushes voters back towards the other party. When Biden came into office, Democrats. We're polling well on the issue of immigration, and he, you know, unwound much of what Trump did. Ended up moving too fast. Ended up having the situation where we had the crisis at the border, immigrants coming through, and voters not liking that, saying you've gone too far.

We need some kind of law and order at the border. Trump got elected, and people were, you know, they are happy with the numbers going down, but now we're seeing voters saying yes, but we don't want to see aggressive ICE tactics on the. Streets. We don't want to see arrests at bus stops, and that's again giving opening again to the Democratic Party. I mean, it's just one of those issues that voters on immigration.

I spent a long time. I'm covering the issue. They're very much in the middle. They want some order, but they also are not in favor of some of these policies, these flashy, more aggressive actions that ICE agents have been on camera taking. And that's going to be a careful.

That's going to be an interesting issue to watch. Both parties try to thread, and whether we see progressives actually win out on these arguments of changing the law enforcement agencies and changing who is actually in charge of arresting and deporting immigrants who are here on. Lawfully, and whether Republicans try to temper at all some of the the more like aggressive tactics that you know what's so interesting, Steph, is that there are Republicans that are mad at Trump for not being more aggressive. You know that, right? Yeah.

They want it. You promised mass deportation. What are you doing? And getting mad when Mark Wayne Mullen says, "Okay, we're getting the worst of the worst first." People get mad at that on the extreme right.

So I'm more, I'm, I'm more like, let's be reasonable. You get the criminals out first, and let's have a discussion on the best way forward on the people that are still here. But that that statement will alienate the Freedom Caucus. And others on the right, so it's interesting. Trump will be free of any election to see if he can do something comprehensively after.

But in the mean, yeah, go ahead. What I was going to say, I think it is a similar dynamic on the left as well, where there are moderates who are okay with some policies that are restrictive at the border, who are okay with ICE existing and continuing to let that agency be in charge of arresting and deporting immigrants who are here unlawfully, especially if they've committed crimes. But again, them even saying that, similarly to the dynamic on the right, will inflame progressives who think that doesn't go far. Just on tariffs, I wanted to bring this. Up, because I'm, you know, it's usually a lot of Republicans in tough races are saying, "End the war, tariffs are bad," and they're just leaving the Trump out, even if they don't believe it, they're saying it.

And then Mike Rogers had this unique answer where he just stuck with the facts.

Well, listen, because you know the president has gotten twenty trade deals. He uses tariffs to get the trade deals. He doesn't really talk about the ones he gets because once he gets, he talks more about the tariffs he gives. But listen to this. The automobile portion of these Canadian tariffs worries me a little bit, and we're going to go back and work through those issues to get some relief to make sure that it's good for Michigan, not bad for Michigan.

There are other tariffs. We have the Chevrolet Silverado being built in Mexico. By next year, they've announced it's coming back to Michigan. Why? Because of those tariffs that are based on getting reshoring of manufacturing back in the United States.

That's huge for us. It's a multi-billion-dollar. Investment right here in Michigan, and they said the same thing.

Now with Audi making a big announcement the other day, we're opening up. I think it's going to be in Georgia, a big plant there, because you lose all your fees. It's an incentive to bring manufacturing back. Just your thoughts on that? I mean, I don't hear much from any Republicans saying tariffs were good.

Yeah, I I do think we're seeing, especially you know, newer Republican Senate candidates and senators who are like part of the more populist side of the Republican Party are embracing this idea of tariffs, at least targeted tariffs. And I think that's what you're going to start hearing more about. Where Republicans have issue most often with the way Trump has laid out tariffs is just how sweeping they have been, and they want to see a more targeted approach. And I remember even. As Trump was just beginning to impose some of these tariffs, when I was talking to Republicans on the Hill, what they tended to tell me was that they that they see that Trump has proven that target tariffs on particular on particular things work, but what they're worried about are these blanket tariffs.

So it's interesting to see Mike Rogers say that, and it's also been interesting to hear some Democratic candidates. I think even Abdul say it at the debate. Similarly, said you know some tariffs are okay, but we need to look at the way this these They're being imposed. Yeah, and then President's got to jog around the court decisions too when he uses them.

Now, Steph Kite, always great. I know this is a fascinating time where all fifty states are in play, so it's hard to keep up. But you did, thanks, Steph. Thank you. Back in a moment.

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I mean, you think he's going to disappear? You know, I'll leave it up to the pundits to make that determination. I don't think he'll end up being president of the United States.

Well, you're wrong. That is Barack Obama constantly minimizing the chances and mocking President Trump' chances of winning the presidency, let alone twice. And I always say the middle one when he lost, he got more votes than any Republican in history, including the first time he won. But one thing I'm going to be talking about this hour, next, right after I'm done with Stuart Varney, we got Steve Moore next talking Ukraine. But after that, I'm going to talk a little bit about the rivalry between Obama and Trump.

And now Obama continues to not understand that why Trump wins. And when he comes out and makes it personal and does the mocking, the people that get exercised are the people that support Trump, because you don't come out and say I would not have done the tariff thing, and I would I would have kept the free trade deals in place, and I was good on the border, but I think the president's gone overboard. He mocks cheesecake factories, Saddam Hussein, mocks on the gold, mocks on his hair, makes fun of his approach. That's the wrong approach. When will he learn that?

In my view, what about yours? Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade show. Would you accept a peace deal that freezes everything the way it is right now, where you still keep seventy-five percent or more of your country, regardless of how it started? Yes.

Right now, we have to freeze, and I think this is real way to end this war. We call a 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 course, we will go to President and to Europeans and will ask security guarantees.

So that is President Zelensky with me last week on accepting what he wanted a peace deal. Obviously, not in the nitty gritty, but basically, if they froze the lines. They would freeze now and then start talking, and that takes a lot. And he's also got to make sure the Ukrainian people are on board because. You know, it's not Zelensky who is bullheaded and stubborn.

He's representing the people who feel the same exact way. And now they had a very positive year, as much as they're taking hits and hurt, getting hurt. They're with their grid. They're taking back land, surely, but steady but sure. With us now, back with us, and we're privileged to have him here in studio.

The former chief of staff of the U.S. House of Representative, founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Project, which raises money to aid Ukrainians, Stephen Moore. Stephen, you heard President Zelensky. I'll take the freeze right now. Yeah, and could you give me an idea?

What was the last time you were in Ukraine? We were there about a month ago. Was what was it like then? It was brutal. I'll tell you.

Putin has just—you know—it used to be there would be an air raid in the middle of the night. You'd wake up, you'd stay awake for a few hours, and then go back to sleep, and it'd be miserable. But now Putin is just putting in fifteen to twenty drones, like ten times a day, and so you're constantly under an air raid on your. I walked out of our apartment in Kiev one day, and there was smoke from drone attacks in two directions.

So it is really difficult to maintain a normal life in Kiev right now. Right, but they're running out of soldiers.

So they, but they're not running out of drones. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So they got North Koreans and they're duping Africans to fight for them, and they just don't want to draft rich kids, right?

Well, yeah, yeah. Think about it this way. Fifteen thousand Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan in the eighties, and now that many fifteen fifteen thousand, and now the Russians are incurring about thirty thousand casualties a month.

So that's that is the nature of the meat grinder that that Putin is putting these people into, and and they're all volunteers, by the way.

So don't shed any tears for the Russian soldiers there. They're all volunteers. They're all very well paid. The conscripts stay in Russia. The contractors go into Ukraine, and they go there.

They fight and they commit horrible war crimes.

So you know, there's a lot of people dying, but you know, they chose to be there.

So now we're heading into winter, and they're trying to blow up the grid, right? Yeah, trying to give you guys like freeze you out. Yeah, yeah, and this is standard operating procedure for the Russians. They've been doing this for years. But you know, they're they're targeting infrastructure, energy infrastructure inside Ukraine.

They're actually down to the point where trying to blow up every gas station in Ukraine. And so you know, and the unfortunate thing is, it sounds like Zelensky has made a deal. Not to attack energy infrastructure in Russia, so that's a real one-sided thing, and and you know that's been effective because Russia is a gas station with an army, and if you cut off the gas revenues, then the army can't do much, and and now we're opening up. More revenues with this diesel deal—the seven seven billion dollar diesel deal.

So here in Qatar, excuse me, no, it's not Qatar, UAE. In within two weeks, they're going to be talks, and the way I understand it from the American side, they'll know how serious the Russians are by how high the. How high-ranking the people are that attend.

So if it's just technocrats, if people are the implements to chop things down and ask a few questions, don't expect anything. But there is some reports that they're going to send some high-ranking so high-ranking generals there, or somebody who's going to be politically empowered to do something. What are you hearing? Listen, I think no matter who shows up, that is a sideshow, and the real question is that can we get Vladimir. Vladimir Putin to stop bombing Ukrainian civilians, and you know President Trump and and and Vladimir Putin have had fifteen phone calls and one meeting talking about peace.

And on average, on those days, Putin sent a hundred and ninety drones and missiles into Ukraine.

So he's talking to President Trump. He's like, "Yeah, man, I want peace. You know, why are we doing this war? Yeah, let's end this war." And then he gets off the phone and hits launch. And and and kills a bunch of Ukrainian civilians.

It is ironic that it's unbelievable that it's Melania Trump that caused a ceasefire in a city that's being starved out. Yeah, holding. Yeah, listen, she's amazing. That's amazing stuff she's doing. She's returned Ukrainian children.

She's done a lot of. She's put a humanitarian face on this. That has been huge respect for her.

So, what do they need in Ukraine? Money? Look, you know, there's, there's right now, there's two major ways that Ukraine defends itself from Russian drones and missiles that are not fully functional, and you know, Starlink is one of them. We've heard a lot about that in the news, and the Ukrainians designed a lot of their interceptor drones to you to be used with Starlink, and and and Elon Musk and March of last year, put out a tweet said, "I will never cut off Starlink. I will never use it as a bargaining chip." And then, what happened on October fifteenth is he he didn't cut it off.

What he do was he slowed it down. Yeah, slowed it down so that if you are if it's on a vehicle going faster than one hundred miles an hour, the signal gets cuts out.

Now, the bad news about that is the slowest. Russian attack drone goes 115 miles an hour, right? And so it's really hard to intercept these. If your Starlink signal, you know, if you trusted Elon Musk and designed your interceptor drone to be used on Starlink, it's really hard to to intercept these Russian attack drones. The second one is F-16s.

The people at Lockheed Martin are doing amazing work trying to keep those planes flying, and the F-16 is one of the few platforms. The Russians have that can catch a Russian jet-powered drone. These things go about 250 miles an hour, and the unfortunate thing is that half of Ukraine's F-16 fleet are in Belgium, where a Belgian company called Sabina has a contract with U.S. Air Force to do maintenance, and they're wildly underperforming. Yeah, it's uh it's incredible.

So they're they're slowing down the getting F sixteen s. How many do you have?

Well, Ukraine has forty three, and so Zelensky said a couple about a month ago that more than half of them are are awaiting maintenance. And the Wall Street Journal did a great editorial on this, and and you know, the the and. The Belgians replied that they're doing four a month, which is just nonsense. The the F sixteen pilots that we're friends with say that they're they've done about ten overall this year.

So, you know, it would be good to get some clarity and some truth out of the Belgians about why they're slowing down these F sixteens. Yeah, be very interesting.

So, Zelensky's popularity, where do you think it's at? It's better. I tell you what happens every time Donald Trump attacks Zelensky, his ratings go up. I don't know if you ever seen Animal House, but there's you know the the line I'm thinking of is that you know they can't do that to our president. Only we can do that to our president.

So every time Trump attacks attacks Zelensky, same with the ratings go up. Yeah, the same with the same with the Academy. I want you to hear Vladimir Putin on the goal of the negotiations. The goal of these negotiations will be to discuss the issue of ensuring the security of Ukraine and Russia after the peaceful agreement is reached and in their final version, rather than as a result of the ceasefire and action for some short period of time. We are ready to renew these contacts in order to achieve this goal.

Think so? You know. There is nothing that you can give Vladimir Putin that will make him stop attacking Ukraine. He's got all the money in the world. He's got, you know, what he wants to be.

He wants to be the next, you know, Peter the Great. He wants to reunite the Soviet Union. And the the misunderstanding that the Trump negotiating team has is that again, that there is something that he wants. That there is a business deal. There is economic prosperity.

He wants all of Donbass, so he won't stop. Yeah. Is he going to get it?

Well, in Look, all of Don Bos's a stepping stone because the reason he can't take that area militarily is because it's heavily defended and defends the rest of Ukraine. And so he is trying to get at the negotiating table what he can't take militarily after what twelve years of trying. And so he wants Ukraine, he wants Estonia, Finland, Eastern Europe, and he will not stop. I mean, here's unless you put. You know, a hundred thousand NATO troops into Ukraine after any peace agreement.

You know, Putin's already in violation of dozens of peace treaties. He's you know international agreements, including with the United States of America. He has never he he just routinely breaks these these agreements that are for Ukraine. The only way it ends is with them winning. You know, if if there's some way that you can make Putin stop.

You know, Putin again. It's got to be embarrassed. It's cost him a ton of money. It's destroying his country. Yeah, I mean, they've sold to North Korea.

Yeah, I mean, he is he is not the the tough guy that people thought he was.

So yeah, you got to make him stop. And you know, Donald Trump's the president of the United States. He could do this. He could make Putin stop. And that's kind of what needs to happen.

Steve Moore, thanks so much. Had people want to contribute to the Ukrainian project, had to do it. Yeah. So Ukraine Freedom Project at org. You can.

Also catch me on my Substack, "Tales from World War Three." Tales from World War Three. Got it. See more. Thanks so much. We're going to do a simulcast with Stuart Varni and then take your calls on the back end.

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So you'll see us on FBN. And then at the bottom of this, in the back half, I'll be able to take some phone calls.

So Howard and Sandra, stand by. You'll be the first too. And I want to get one of the big, overwhelmingly questions. I really want to get your opinion on when it comes. Trump and Obama sparring.

Do you think Obama gets out Trump's base as good as Trump by the mocking tone? It's not so much he's taking on policy and positions, immigration, inflation. He puts that trying to put down Trump, and Trump's come back as I like the Cheesecake Factory. Fifty-one. Trump's come back.

Are you kidding me?

So let's listen in, Brian. The latest power rankings show Democrats leading Republicans on every single issue by a wide margin. Except for crime, that's not a good place to be. To be right before the midterms, is it, Brian? I just to the other thing I would follow up on.

You know, I'm looking at corruption, inflation, gas prices, healthcare. Healthcare, I understand because I have a healthcare plan. Which, by the way, so I don't have to remind you, it's an epic fail. It's got to be bailed out every year. When you don't bail out a bad healthcare plan, you don't like poor and sick people, which is the oddest thing ever.

But that is the story when it comes to corruption. The perception. But Democrats think is the Trump Trump team is corrupt. When it comes to inflation, nobody was great at better inflation than Joe Biden. But the president has not brought it down as quick as he wants.

But in terms of economic growth, in terms of the salary increases, the GDP, and things to that nature, it's being overwhelmed by the price of goods, which is the price of gas, which goes back to the Iran War.

So the question is, no Democrat has put together a plan to handle inflation. No Democrat has put together a plan that's going to bring down any gas prices. True, you know the answer to that is their answer is solar panels and electric cars. Really?

So you vilify the number one electric car maker in America? Do you want to buy the Chinese electric car and destroy the American business? I'm pretty sure the answer is no. They have not gotten out of their, you know, their Greek, their green mania yet.

So the Republicans have not done an effective job at saying what would you do. That's why this stands away at. Stands. Do you think perhaps that the president's personal popularity is at stake here and hurting him? Perhaps no, not really.

And here's why: you know, he was not supposed to win a single election. You see how he dominated. Former vice president, he wasn't up in any of the polls. He was within the margin of error of all those battleground states. He won every single one of them.

I don't think for a second he's 36 percent approval rating. If for for President Trump, the best he could ever do would be 40. The best he could ever do.

So that's the old that's the old sixty seventy percent approval rating.

So for thirty six percent, you don't get the crowds he has gotten over the last three weeks. If you heard Kansas the other day, he's in Mississippi. That's his base. For him to have somewhat success, or or or not have the the what tradition says would be a bad midterm, because it always is for this for the party in power, he'd have to get out his MAGA voters, and they were sitting on their hands. Up until the last 12 days, and I think they're getting mobilized.

And he's not—he's not converting independents. I'll give you that. He's not converting Democrats. What I think he's doing is taking traditional Republicans and MAGA disciples and saying, "Get out there, turn out, and get them to turn out." Yeah, yeah. I got one for you, Vice President Harris, Kamala Harris, former Vice President Kamala Harris.

She's been busy trying to connect with voters on the campaign trail. You got to watch this, Brian. Here we go. I came through Milwaukee to say thank you for all. Don't get me started on that, but good luck to ya.

People show their power, and they make clear we're never gonna let anyone take our power from us. Never let someone else's limited ability to see your capacity. Be a limitation on your ambition.

Okay, Brian. A new poll shows most Democrats undecided about who they want in 2028, but Harris is in the lead amongst those who have made up their minds. Does that surprise you, Brian? Stunned. I'm stunned.

I mean, it's not so much she lost; is what has she demonstrated in terms of being a savvy politician? I mean, I look at Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. You can. It doesn't matter if you agree with them. They know where they stand on issues.

And you could tell them what they did. This is a vice president. If she was a serious candidate, Stewart, you know what she would have done? She would have gotten the nomination to be governor of California. She would have floated right to that job, replaced a terrible governor Gavin Newsom, paroled up her sleeve, worked hard and produced, and she would have been a front runner for the next election in this perfect situation.

Let's say a Republican wins or a Democrat wasn't going for the second term. But she has to do something effectively. She has never been a good attorney general. She was now terrible. Vice President, one of the worst, a terrible candidate.

She can't articulate any message. Remember, she was a presidential candidate who was awful. They asked things to her like, "Tell me your immigration policy," and she giggled. She has not put the work in to understand how to relay how she feels. She's a weather vane.

And anybody, if I'm Bashir, if I'm Rahm Emanuel, if I'm Shapiro, if I'm if I'm Westmore, I say if she's leading, give me that race because I could beat her, I could destroy her in a race.

Next time, Brian, please tell us how you really feel. Brian Kilmeade, good stuff. Thanks very much. Thanks, appreciate it. We got a few more few more minutes here, so I want to play play a couple of things from Barack Obama.

I don't know if you know this, so he came out and says. Came out and made that comment that we played it a lot. He said, "I look at the White House now, and it looks like Saddam Hussein and Cheesecake Factory." And first, I thought that I missed something because Saddam Hussein's palaces were full of gold. I am like, "Is he talking about?" I am a little slow, I guess. Is he talking about the restaurant franchise?

And now people are saying, "Why are you putting on Cheesecake Factory?" I love the Cheesecake Factory. You know, you don't like Saddam was saying, of course, you don't like the way the White House is. It's not your taste, but basically, Trump came back and said the whole house was in disrepair when I took it over. It was an absolute mess, so I cleaned it up. That's what I do for a living.

You know, you know, he plays golf and he has golf courses, but he's always in hospitality.

So when he came to this, he said, you know, in the beginning, I did some things around the edges, but now I'm really going to fix things for the next person, whoever it is.

So you don't like the gold? It'll probably come down. But the other stuff, my goodness, what you do with the rose garden? Unbelievably effective. You got a patio now.

What you do with the heliport? It doesn't help me. I've never needed a heliport. But you know who does need one? The president of the United States.

He put it in, and not one person, including David Axelrod, does not think the White House doesn't need the White House doesn't need a ballroom. They should have probably put it event center instead of ballroom because it looks like a fun room. But he's going to build a wall. He's going to make the White House better.

So the president took him on. I think it. I think it radicalizes his base and gets them ready to vote. You tell me. From the Fox News Radio studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmeade.

Hi, everyone from Forty Eighth and Six in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. It's the Brian Kilmeade Show. A lot going on today, and I tell you, we seem to have races in all fifty states. When people constantly say to me, especially we were at, I was at Angela and Sean's. A wedding over the weekend, so there's all these political people there.

There's civilians from South Carolina, some of her friends, and the people from New York, just normal friends. And then there's the president United States and all these political figures there. Everyone's like, "What do you think's going to happen?" And I laugh because it's not just one game. You literally got fifty games within those games. There's Senate races and congressional races, and nobody tells the truth to polls.

And I'm not convinced that they know how even how to get a hold of people. This hour, I'm going to be joined by Frank Bisignano. He's the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration as well as the IRS. He's going to be in here talking about the reality of the economy, and he knows it. And Riley Gaines is here, host of the Riley Gaines show on the podcast, and host of the games for also host of Gains for girls on Outkick and Outkick dot com contributor, but Riley, you're also here for the girls podcast, which is just girls, just girls.

I know, crazy concept, right? I think we should ask Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Ketanji Brown Jackson exactly what that means, right? Does girls, for example, Kenanis Cantor be on your podcast? The answer is no. Isn't it?

Well, it's 2026. What if he says he's a woman, Brian? Don't be a bigot. Don't be a transphobe.

Well, the thing is, there's a couple of things going on now. People are flipping out at the F1 race that Sophie Cunningham was asked to drop the flag. And it's amazing. I think just looking at how cancel culture has shifted over the past six years, right? Kind of my barometer here is COVID.

That's when at least the veil was lifted for me. I'm sure it has been going on much longer than that, but at the time I was a sophomore in college, and that's when I had my first taste of real. Cancel culture, just being COVID. It was the BLM time. I saw the effects of like not posting the black square on your Instagram and how that was like essentially social suicide if you didn't.

As a college age student, but to see how cancel culture has changed, where now you have Sophie Cunningham who came out totally unapologetic, confident, secure. She exudes courage, and she has said, "Have you met her?" By the way, yeah, she's amazing. She's become a dear friend of mine over the past. I would say year and a half. Honestly, she she's been in the the spotlight for this issue for several months now, but it's been a year and a half of correspondence.

So I've known where she stood on this issue, as most elite athletes do. I think ninety nine percent of men naturally the number would be less. I think for professional current female athletes, which is amazing, right? It's always women. We seem to be our own biggest hurdle, our own biggest obstacle in this fight for.

Or you know, equal opportunity as women, the biggest hurdle. Is women, but Sophie she she's uncancelable. You can't cancel her. Look at the opportunities that she's had since taking the stance. Whether it's it's being there at the F one race and and you know waving the flag.

She just had a drop with Adidas and her shoes sold out in moments. Her stock has increased tremendously. I think she gained like three thousand or three million. Excuse me, followers on on social media across the platforms since she she took the stand.

So it shows me that cancel culture is. Not as powerful. It doesn't have us in the same chokehold that it did, you know, just even five years ago. I mean, a couple of things.

So while we're talking about Sophie Cunningham, you saw the article, the columnist two weeks ago, has said time for Indiana to sever her. She's too turbulent. Too turbulent. After all, she's you know she comes off the bench as a contributor, but she's not a star. That gives me more respect for her because when you're a star, you feel you're untouchable.

You probably are. But when you're a good player in the top league, that means you're expendable and. Still, she took the courageous stand, and Caitlyn Clark didn't have her back. Do you find that unusual? You know, I try and put myself in Caitlyn Clark's shoes, which is, of course, impossible, right?

But you look at the the fire that she's already under. I try and put myself in her shoes for being good, for being white, for being straight. The women of the view said she had tall privilege, which is like the craziest thing ever. But you look at all these things, and I, I think to myself, would I, if I were Caitlyn Clark, would I want to give them more ammunition to hate me when they already seemingly like she's definitely already a a target of direct violence on on the court? I would describe it as so.

Would you want to give them more ammo? I don't know if there's a right answer. I don't think you can like. Volunteer someone for the position that Sophie has taken, but Sophie's always had her back.

So I do wish we saw a little more from Caitlin Clark in terms of of you know not not having to take up a what is deemed political stance on the issue of men and women's sports, which is crazy because of course it's not political. But I more so just wish she was there for her friend Sophie and her teammate. That would have been good because she's basically the bodyguard on the court. Yeah, she is. That really happens.

She is.

So so keep with the WNBA before we move to this new controversy with the NWS. WSL, NWSL, which is the Women's League, American Women's League.

So the finals again continue, and the Valkyries—is how you say it—the Valkyries. That's right.

Okay, they ran off the court, ran off the court, rather than ever stand for the national anthem. Here's the coach talking about it. Since the inception of your franchise, the team has not been on the floor during the U.S. national anthem, and that's continued through the finals. Can you explain whose decision that is and why the team does that?

That's just kind of you know we're two years in. That's been part of our pregame, so that's kind of been our focus: is that we do our pregame the way we've decided to do it, and then now again, like I just mentioned to him, we are locked in, focused on the details, learning from our losses, and focused on how we can get better and make sure we win games. Who decided to do it and why? I really. Don't know.

I understand your question, right? I'm not trying to, you know, not answer your question. It's just part of our pregame. What do you do during those ninety seconds that you're off the court? Again, I'm with my staff, so I'm focused on my plays.

That's what I'm doing right now. Yeah, it's just habitual to disrespect to disrespect the flag. Yeah, we go out of our way to disrespect the flag. It's how we get ready for games. Just ritual.

This is such an ignorant position I believe for these athletes to take. I don't think it's anything more or less than that. I think it's it's merely based in total incompetence. I think these players. Again, you know, trying to put myself in their shoes, which is hard to do, to be that ungrateful and that anti-American.

But I'm putting myself in their shoes, and I think they believe they're giving a middle finger to Donald Trump, right? Like a big middle finger to Donald Trump, to his administration, to the Republican Party, because they're currently serving in the Oval Office. But it's just so ignorant because that is not what the flag represents. It is not what the national anthem represents. It's not, you know, the flag doesn't belong to to those who are in the Oval Office, the presidency.

The flag belongs to the People. It represents our shared identity. It represents unity. It represents the people who fought for our freedoms, the very freedoms itself. That's what it represents.

So to see people not standing for that, I don't see it as a knock to Donald Trump in the way that I think they're intending to. It's a knock to our U.S. military members. It's a knock to the freedoms that we have here in America that give them the ability to do that. I think that's the hypocrisy in all of this.

The First Amendment allows them to protest in that way, but it also gives us the opportunity and the ability to call them stupid. And also, yeah, do you think it's Trump or you think it's the country? You think they're just disappointed the country because I don't know because because they're here. I don't know. I think you look at someone like Brittany Griner, who had some time overseas in Russia.

She was someone who did not stand for the for the flag or the anthem prior to to doing that. She came back, and it appeared as if she had a newfound appreciation for this country.

So I do.

Okay, that's how it appears for sure. I mean, there there were moments, especially in the immediate following that, when the national anthem would play, where you see tears in her eyes, and so. You wonder: Does it take that? Does it take you know going somewhere else and seeing how blessed we are here to really understand what's at stake and how fortunate we are to call ourselves Americans? Before, I guess they take the stance that they did, but yeah, I hate it.

I mean, I think it's I think they're anti American hacks. I really do, and and that's not to discredit their their talent on the court. No, it's just their posture and their intent. And I'm of the mind that any person who Can't stand for the national anthem. My personal opinion is you shouldn't be able to represent the U.S.

at the Olympics. Yeah, how about try France? It seems nice. Yeah, they really seem to. It seems like a pleasant society.

Super. Yeah, go to France or or even England. My husband is is British, as you know, and he calls it Englandistan now. Right, and and the thing is, you think they're happy there? I hear the social contract's falling apart.

The social welfare state's unsustainable, so they're going to have further cuts.

So and they're going to have whatever they promised them. They're not. Unable to give quality healthcare, unable to give quality daycare, so they got to give it all away. You get good baguettes.

Well, I wouldn't know, but then again, you're you're in that world. I want to bring you to the WNB, excuse me, the NWSL, Portland, the Portland Thorns. Security has twisted Seattle political commentator Brandi Cruz's arm behind her back and dragged her out of Providence Park on Friday night after she and a group of women revealed a T-shirt that said "XX." X Y, out of a game. That's too provocative to wear a T-shirt like that. It's wild to me.

If you, I'm sure most of the people listening to this have seen the video clips of this. You've got Brandi Cruz, who is this former leftist, by the way. She's a former liberal. Like it's not like she's the staunch conservative and has been a conservative her whole life. She describes it as actually the left left her the women she was with.

They're mostly lesbians. Like these are not your traditional far right MAGA conservative, as we are often labeled for taking the stances that we do. These are former leftists. Leftists, what they would describe themselves as lifelong liberals. All they were doing was wearing a shirt that said X X X Y, of course, denoting Chromosomes of the human species, female and male, but for some reason that is deemed offensive, too offensive to to remain at the game, the game that they spent money on to buy the tickets to be there.

But all of the fans in the stands, which it seemed like virtually everyone else in the stadium, which is not representative of real life, they were waving their trans flags and their paraphernalia, their their pride or gay paraphernalia, and that was no problem, but. Denoting X X X Y. What do you have a shirt that says X X X Y? Oh, I wear it all the time. And do people give you an attitude?

Depends on where you are. Living in Tennessee. I mean, it's only like you go, girl, like winks and whispers and fist bumps and and that kind of thing. But you go to somewhere like San Francisco, and there are a lot of people who support it, but they would never say it out loud. It's a lot more of the the you know hostile, dirty looks that are are aimed your way.

So you know, I think the depends on where you are, but for some reason, the WNBA. I've worn an XXXY athletic shirt there before. Not treated kindly in Minneapolis. All the while, by the way, the trans people are able to have, or those who support the trans agenda, they have shirts that say, "You know, protect trans kids with knives on it." Like, I would hardly even call it thinly veiled threat. But human chromosomes—that's too much.

You know what's so unbelievable is that. Did they want it? I want it to happen that a man, whether it's Dennis Kanter or somebody else, just plays in WNBA. Could you imagine if, like Mike Tyson, said that he wanted to be a woman and he? Got in the ring.

Caitlyn Jenner was jarring to me. I had no idea.

So let's say Caitlyn Jenner was in her twenties. A try, a decathlete, one of the best athletes ever. Right. So if if that if if Caitlyn Jenner was Bruce Jenner becomes Caitlyn Jenner is in the prime of of her life now. She would try to get into the WNBA, and then what would the WNBA do?

Exactly what they're doing to Ines Cantor and Royce White and saying, well, okay, well. Any man can become a woman, but not you two, because you are not actually a woman. And of course, in instances, well, how can you tell me that? Is it the beard? Is it the fact I am six foot seven?

Is it the fact that I can dunk? Is it the fact that that we possess different political opinions? And they're not able to answer that. It's a joke of a league, which I really hate because again, the athletes themselves are incredible, but the WNBA itself—I mean, they are committed to to total. Self destruction, implosion.

And they got to get a new commissioner, aren't they? That's that's the that's the news. That's what I hear. But we we'll see. Of course, it's Kathy Engelbert is the commissioner now.

They're saying that she resigned. I'm of the mind that Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, pushed her out. Just with her her failures across the board. You can't fail like this. It's so it's so hard to fail as epically as she failed, and she's doing it well.

Really, absolutely.

So I I can't believe it's one story after another. And today I knew you were coming in, and there was a these three stories.

So you got Sophie Cunningham, the WNBA Finals, where you sprint off the court rather than hear the national anthem, and now you have uh and now you have the NWSL. And now I was on um who was on with us earlier. Who said that in the WSNWSL? There is a sense that there might be a trans man or two in the league. Have you heard that?

Jennifer said this. Yes, and and actually, the rules are so bad that as women, you can even inject yourself with performance-enhancing drugs and still compete. I mean, this is. You, I mean, you think of like the Megan Rapinoe's, right? Of of the world, this is that league.

It is it is so absurdly bad, and and I think when you're looking at sports like soccer and basketball, there's a physical component too, right? Anyone can recognize the unfairness. At least anyone with with eyeballs and a shred of honesty recognizes the unfairness and the biological differences between men and women. Kindergarteners do. But what you you probably don't understand is just the safety risk that is imposed on actual women when you're putting them in a position where they could be like you know a a man a male with a Y chromosome could slide into them with this cleat or or whatever it is it's it's a dangerous position.

I don't have to worry about that in my sport of swimming. You know, there's no like physical contact or we're not throwing elbows at each other. But in sports where there is collision and things like that, it's really dangerous. Just think about flag football. I know.

I mean that—that's—that is a physical sport with no pads. Yeah, right. Yeah. But by the way, on a side note, positive, the best thing to ever happen to football and for women and for girls to come to women to college is flag football. Girls love it.

Then they fully understand the sport. Until you play, you don't really fully understand it. You always tell me when you pull up to football, they don't know what you're talking about. Especially like same with guys. If you take a guy from Germany and say you've never seen a football game, my husband.

Don't know what's going on, right? Does he get it? He played rugby, so there's a level of understand.

Well, now he does, but when he first came to the U.S., his his best understanding of football, first of all, that's soccer to them over there. Um, uh, but was rugby? That's what he had to compare it to, and now he's a football fiend. Of course, anyone living in the south, I. And you tell your girl and you say, okay, run a pattern.

Here's a pass. These had to memorize plays. This how you play defense, and then you put them in front of an NFL game. They Thoroughly get it, and now they're offering scholarships, and now there's going to be an Olympic sport.

So that's pretty cool.

Well, Brian, how about University of Kentucky? Huh? I'm. They're doing amazing, is what they're doing. They're they're number one in the SEC.

Oh, little old Kentucky, um, in in men's football, of course. This is a sight that I never thought I would see. Right. So, as a Kentucky grad myself, I am like enthused. I am like Will Stein's number one fan.

I am saying, "Go Cats!" from the top of the roof. And just think, after what Indiana does, it doesn't matter a winning tradition could stop, could change in one year. Isn't it crazy? Right. With the new NIL rules.

Isn't it crazy? I know. I look at people like Dabo. Sweeney, who has been, I mean, traditionally and historically amazing, it just left him in the dust. All the NIL stuff.

I think he's more. I think Nick Saban got out at a good time. I think so. They both had the same mentality. They wanted the coaches to be in control, but the players are.

You don't play me, I'm leaving. Crazy, yeah. The the NCA is the wild, wild west.

So you do. What are you doing? Outnumbered today. Outnumbered. Outnumbered.

And then you're going to do the girls. And then the girls. All right. But this is the best of the day. Thank you.

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You're with Brian Kilmeade. The fact that he doesn't appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia means that he's woefully unprepared to do this job. When was that? When was that, Eric? Did he say that recently?

Oh, 2016. Because I'm pretty sure that almost everybody knows that President Trump knows the issues. You don't agree with him, but he will speak on any issue at any moment to any reporter, all reporters at any time, literally at any time.

So there's anybody in the world that knows more than him? Yeah, he went in possibly as one of the least experienced. A foreign relations person, politicians, but the most experienced business person we've ever had. Period.

So know how to lead an organization, how to get things done, know to execute a project, know how to staff up and execute big time. Got it. Confidence through the roof. But this is just nonstop Barack Obama trying to put down President Trump, and all Trump does is keep on winning, keep on having successes, and. He was—he actually propped up Obamacare the best he could.

Tried to destroy it once. It wasn't for thumbs down from John McCain. Ironically, it would have been destroyed. But now, he's getting ridiculed for not propping it up again. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmeade. Six years, they say, Social Security is going to go bankrupt. Is there a Scott Fessin plan to fix Social Security? Look, we're looking all the time at what's going to happen. I am one of the trustees for the Social Security Trust Fund, but Brian.

Little inside baseball for you to think about. Every presidential candidate for the past however many cycles has been able to say this isn't my problem. Every candidate in the 2028 presidential cycle is going to have have to have a solution, and I hope that will get us there.

So I'm not sure that that means that they're going to be able to fix Social Security during Donald Trump's last two years.

Well, joining us now to discuss this and more is a good friend of the show, Frank Bisignano. He's the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, handles the IRS and Social Security issues, and doing a great job, making everything easier and faster and more efficient for the American people. Frank, welcome back. Thanks for having me. How are you?

So, Frank, I don't have to. My question wasn't new to you, right? I mean, that's what they say. Six years, so security is just not going to be funded anymore. We always seem to answer the call and the challenge.

Can you outline the challenge?

Well, you know, I think the first challenge, as I've probably said before, as many times as I can to people, it was you know the mandate from the president to protect and preserve, and we've been maniacal on that mandate in terms of cleaning up all the books and records, and you know it became about fraud, waste, and abuse. What I think you've seen and we've talked about is that of the three hundred thirty million Social Security records that were out there for Americans, over fifteen percent of them were inaccurate.

So the first thing in any good business is to get the books and records right, the operations right, and that will just make you better and stronger. The president's been very clear about protect and preserve. I've heard, yeah, my good partner Scott on before a recording of what he talked about, but I think in fact, you know. There is a commitment for Social Security to go on forever, and that will happen. But in order to get everything right, you must handle it right.

In order for us to invest in a good business, we want its operations to work right, and that's was job one of protect and preserve. And we rooted out a ton of fraud. And now, books and records are in the shape they never been before. Most important file in any financial services firm is the name and address file, and you can think about the social security number database like that. And we clean that up.

And the journey on how to work together collectively will continue in order to get this to be here for another ninety years. I mean, number one, it's just more efficient.

So, someone calls an eight hundred number; they get an answer with five five point six minutes. The field office waitage dropped thirty percent in since twenty twenty four.

Social Security account access is now available twenty four seven. You shorten the average processing time for initial disability. Claims by forty days to seventeen percent, reduce the backlog of plenty of pending claims by twenty three percent.

So everything is getting more efficient. That's really what you do and what you are hired to do.

So everyone's working better and more efficiently. But when it comes to Social Security in particular, is it a matter of raising the cap?

So, for example, what is the maximum you could take out of someone's paycheck annually? You know we're capping out at 184,000 of income, and I think look at I want to come back to really this is a subject you know as Scott said has been asked of every president, and in fact ultimately has been questioned before. Whether in fact it can be solvent and those problems are solved, the solutions had to start with eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse. It was way beyond making it more efficient. Efficiency comes out of higher accuracy and better performance.

And I think you'll see this year we produce a report. And it will talk about the future, but I think, in fact, you know, the solution. Sits in many different buckets. Of course, I think the cap has been raised before, obviously, and this won't be the first time somebody asked that question. And you know, the other thing is means testing.

For example, I was talking to Ken Longo, and he goes, "Why am I getting a Social Security test?" I'm. He says it to me every every time I see him. Right. Every time I see him. Right.

So for for people that don't need it. If you just said, "Hey, you're," I mean, if people don't need it, can you give them an option to to not get it? They have the option to donate it back. They have the option right now to donate it back. Yes.

But why don't they have a quarter, like an organ donor, and just say, "Don't send it to me." Yeah.

Well, items like that ultimately would require congressional approval. Really?

So interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, actually, actually, you know, the president's been super committed to what we're doing. He's been usually supportive. He's seen the progress and believes in Social Security.

But ultimately, you know, this is a Senate and Congressional issue, which we're happy to drive the outcome to.

So I mean, you you run the IRS, you see the revenue come in. Do you think the is the revenue five point four trillion dollars? Yeah, and is that an all time high? That is, it is all time high. And I think when you look at the best service, we like to think about this year that passed as a triple crown.

We paid out three hundred billion in refunds. We paid biggest number ever. Right now, you heard the largest revenue number ever. More Americans got refunds than ever before. The average refund was double digit up, but that's really not a good representation because a lot more people got refunds.

Yeah. So you know, we put more money in the Americans' hands, and you saw it in the economy. I know people want to talk about the economy. People get the benefit of lower Deductions this year, and they're taking home more absolute dollars in their paycheck because of great work that was done on the working families tax.

So that's one thing, Frank. Just I'm no economist, but basically people say, "Well, the tax cuts really put us into deficit." Well, how does that add up if you have more revenue than ever before? Yeah, yeah. I mean, look at the fact. In a matter is, we have worked really, really hard.

In improving the IRS, you know, Secretary Besen's been a great supporter of the work that's been done at IRS. The president totally committed. Our opportunities are still large. We're we're in a meeting today discussing tax season. For the following year, gotcha.

I remember we we work on a fiscal year, and I think you're just going to see bigger and better numbers next year too. Frank Fisognato, our guest, Frank. I want you to hear Kevin Hassett. You know, obviously he he wants to spin positively where the administration's going, but facts are facts and numbers are numbers. He's not happy, and no one is that gas prices are higher than anyone expected.

But here's what he does say: cut six. Correcting for changes in prices, you could look at real consumption when President Trump took office, and then real consumption for the American households in aggregate. You know, it's the GDP numbers. What we're getting now, and the difference is that Americans are consuming a trillion dollars more. There, the amount of consumption per household has gone up, maybe around five thousand dollars per household.

That's after inflation, because of the income boom, the capital spending boom, the fact that. People aren't losing their jobs. All the things that have made the economy great means that affordability crisis—it's a myth. And sure, they can talk about gasoline. President Trump's right that it's going to drop like a rock soon.

So, where do you stand on it? You look at the numbers. These guys are all your friends. They are. And Kevin is especially, and he's great at what he does.

And I think what he was saying and what I was saying are very, very similar. We just come at it from different backgrounds. If you look at what he's saying, he's supporting. What I was saying about putting more money in people's pockets, and they have more capacity, and not only in the refunds and the dollars they're getting today, I think if you look at any indicator, whether it's inflation outperforming where it was in the last administration, if you look at every number we've produced in SSA and in IRS far exceeding the performance across the board, and yes, there are some items in the economy right now, gas prices, and obviously you see the administration will I guarantee as they have said they will that will be solved too.

So Frank. Looking at the big picture today, and I know I'm getting into your banking background just a little bit. Anthropic has had this interesting prospectus out. I have this great product; it's going to be available for all of you. And by the way, it could also destroy the world.

Buy it if you want. I just, I just, for me, I just don't get it. It seems like such a valuable company. It's got debt, but man, does it have potential. And I don't know what the messaging is from it.

I don't know. Can you answer that question? Because banks seem to be jumping on top of it. I guess J.P. Morgan and others seem to want to get there, and I guess they'll get preferential treatment.

Which of the American people know about this? Because SpaceX was the last opportunity that most people thought was a big thumbs up. I don't know what how to ask you this in a way you can answer. But how do you?

Well, here here's an answer. I don't know. I know you could answer in real life, but go ahead. Yeah, yeah. Everybody can answer.

Obviously, SI, and I am on the president's task force for that, led by Jay Clayton, who's great leader, unbelievable partner. You know, in fact, is here forever. Right, and every person listening is using it somehow in their daily life, and so it's technology, and you know, there's always going to be issues with change. This is massive change; it's massive size, but you know, you talked about you talked about. You can talk about SpaceX.

You can talk about Tesla. I mean, the fact of matter is, this is about innovation, and you know, Henry Ford. Was doing things that were going to destroy things. Also, you know.

So, to my life, technology is the great enabler. It will always have risk. We have to manage risk. I'm not commenting on stocks and companies. I'm commenting on innovation.

And that's what America was built on.

So, and I have great confidence in our ability to manage risk across innovation. And if people are capable, you know, there's people that can invest and they can start, and they're multi billionaires. But if the average American, they'd like to be part of it. And I'm just wondering if this is that opportunity to be a part of it on some level. And well, I'd say the best way to be a part of everything, the economy itself, is a Trump account.

Right, you know, we we have seventy million under eighteen enrolled in Trump accounts. They're going to get an opportunity. Every family has a chance here with a newborn to get them enroll claiming their thousand dollars. My good friend Michael Dell put six point six two five billion into Trump accounts, and that's twenty seven million American children.

So capitalism—it's—it's been great for for generations, and we're trying to get it to every generation. Frank, always great to talk to you. Done a great job of Social Security, making everything simple for the American people and doing it for free. Frank Bisignano, thanks so much, appreciate it.

Meanwhile, we come back. We're going to find out there's more to know. Just quick and. Thanks for everyone to picking up "Uniting States" my brand new book. It's the six crucial moments to forge the American miracle.

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Hey, welcome back, everybody. Of course, I have to have a more to know and kind of a download of the data and talk about the WNBA. Not because I love women's basketball, though I appreciate the athletes and love when women play sports in anything, whether it's flag football or soccer or anything else. The WNBA, I could do without.

Now they have every single game. We're up to game five now. Would they run off the court rather than stand for the national anthem and give us some respect?

So it's the Valkyries coach, Natalie Nakasi, asks why your team leaves the court for the national anthem. Listen to this: Since the inception of your franchise, the team has not been on the floor during the U.S. national anthem, and that's continued through the finals. Can you explain whose decision that is and why the team does that? That's just kind of you know, we're two years in.

That's been part of our pregame.

So that's kind of been our focus: is that we do our pregame the way we've decided to do it, and then now again, like I just mentioned to him, we are locked in, focused on the details, learning from our losses, and focused on how we can get better and make sure we win games. Who decided? Yeah, really? How disrespectful that is for the country and for your league and for your team. You tell them to stand during the national anthem like every other team in every other sport.

Golden State Valkyries won that game sixty-four fifty-five over the Atlanta Dream in Game Five of the WNBA Finals. I only wish the worst for them.

Next. Nobody wants this star. Tova Fendelshon speaks out after Adam Brody's anti-Israel comments as the Netflix rom-com returns to the season for season three on October 22nd. One of his stars found himself at the center of a political firestorm. Adam Brody, who plays progressive California rabbi Noah Rocklob, accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in a September GQ interview.

Adam Brody said, "Quote, put me down as thinking it's genocide." Genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.

Now, Fadela Saw, who plays Brody's mother on the Netflix series, was asked whether the accusation of genocide, or or worse, when they come from the Jewish people themselves, to which she replied. To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild. It's right out of a Hitler's playbook. You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator. I believe that the perseverance of the existence of the state of Israel is crucial to the way being of the democratic world and of the free world.

Of course, Israel needs the United States. The United States needs Israel. Believe you me.

Next. Liberals are melting down after Soapy Cunningham gets the checkered flag waving honors at the F-115 United States Grand Prix. Cunningham of Indiana, as a way of getting the lefties nuts. The race itself wasn't the most exciting USGP event we've ever seen. At the Mercedes, Kim Antinelli leading pretty much from the lights to the flag.

Is it odd how once again another sport has recognized the star power of the WNBA before the WNBA did? Mars at Lou Dassel tweeted out Sophie Cunningham waved the flag. What are we doing? She's not even a relevant basketball player. The shock from F1 isn't that they are right wing, but my God, what they go low!

It's always the sleaziest, cheapest way. She's a great person, a fantastic player. She might not be among the superstars, but she's an established NBA player. I'm sorry, she's not good enough for you. Yet Carmen Talis came back and said, yet again, the U.S.

racing proved that F. One is still not a safe place for the LGBTQIA community, whatever that means. It's safe, but you know what's not safe? Is this when you have trans men and women sports? Wake up!

Jay Z announced himself as the Super Bowl halftime performer. A lot of people don't like it. Rumors swirling that Miley Cyrus is going to be named the performer, but then Jay Z jumped ahead of her. I don't know. I like his story.

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