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So it's going to be a big, big hour.

So let's get to the big three before we get to Rich. Number three. If that corruption leads in the direction of impeachment, it will lead wherever it leads. We'll impeach him. Do you think Democrats should impeach the president?

Yeah, I think we should try. Really, think we should try. What an agenda that is. Good job, Adam Schiff, Rokana, and Adam Smith. Democratic gain power.

What would they do?

Well, they're leaking clues, and I find it all unsettling. But there are internal divisions that might stop anything from getting done. We'll explain. Number two, President Trump is going to make a decision here. I think it's going to have to be a comprehensive military campaign.

It cannot be wack-a-mole. What the United States did before, it's going to have to be broadened. That and our partners, our Gulf State partners, are going to have to come alongside the United States. And are they going to talk, as they were the other day? Are they going to fight?

Iran attacking more ships in the Strait as oil powers through anyway. As Trump and our Gulf allies get set to make big decisions on the terrorist regime. Number one, I got elected because of high prices. Because you know they had the high price. I didn't have the high price.

It'll be like a blink. Gasoline and diesel prices will soon come down. They'll come plummeting down for the for the consumer. That is the president yesterday in Texas. Big rally, another rally, rallying the base.

That's what Donald Trump is doing. Rabble raves, arousing across the country for Republicans. But will it be enough for his party to keep the majorities in either chamber or both? While almost all 36 Senate seats are in play right now, are also none, almost none, are out of reach for either party. I've never seen anything quite like it.

Rich Editor in Chief of the National Review, Rich Lowry, joins us now. Rich, your thoughts about what makes this midterm? Different from other midterms, it's just such a knife's edge. The Senate. I mean, Republicans easily could lose six seats.

They easily could hold the Senate.

So it's. It's and almost every race is tied or within the margin of error.

So if there's a polling error, as a lot of Republican pollsters think, well, they hold the Senate. If there's not, it could be bad.

So I'm looking at the CNN poll, New York Times poll.

So Flanagan's ahead of Michelle Tefoya by about two or three. This one says it's 14. Yeah, I mean 14 points. Come on, are you kidding? Yeah, it's not fourteen.

She's ahead. I think that's a tough race. Any other year, maybe that's going to happen, but I think in a blue year like this, the blue state, it's really hard. But it's not fourteen points. What do you think?

I can't get a read on New Hampshire at all either. Johnson Unu says I'm keeping it local. I don't want any help from the president. I don't want national news. Did one national interview maybe on Monday night?

What kind of race is he running? It's all seems so quiet against Congressman Pappas. Yeah, I think it's a tough national environment in New Hampshire. That one, he's just he's never led in any poll and has kind of been behind four or five points. I just think that that one's not happening.

The biggest chance for a Republican pickup, obviously, is Michigan, where also Rogers hasn't led but has only been behind by one or two in public polls.

So if there's some underperformance. For El Saeed with black voters, or you know, elsewhere in that electorate, that one could happen, and that that would change the map if Roger somehow pulled that off. And it's because, I mean, you go back to see Stevens was supposed to lose by six, and she only lost by one. And then when asked on Sunday, "Do you support El Saeed?" she goes, "I am on the team." Would you support him directly? I am on the team, so she does not want to support him.

Yeah, and he's been on the defense the whole general election period, starting with the Hassan Piker thing, with the Muslim Brotherhood thing, the last couple weeks, where he just won't answer. He just won't answer the question. He mostly gets away with it because the interviews are fairly brief, and he he adopts a bullying attitude and kind of backs people off. But he easily could lose. If I had to bet, I would say he wins, but I think he easily could lose.

El Sayed. Yeah, and and that would that's the most important, obviously, ideological race in the country, and maybe the most important race to Senate control. After that, maybe I'd say Texas.

So in Ohio, John Yudtis a workhorse, not a show horse, and he's got to get name recognition, even though he's the sitting senator. And Sherrod Brown, known by everyone because he's never done anything else in his life. Here's John Thune in Lima, Ohio, trying to help him out. Yesterday, cut twenty-five. John Husted.

This guy is a. I can't tell you, is so solid. He is as good as they come. He has a record of accomplishment here in Ohio, in the state legislature, in the executive branch of government. Lieutenant Governor, getting things done, bringing jobs to Ohio, reducing taxes here.

Then worked with us to lower taxes at the federal level this last year. This is a guy who gets things done. He is a solutions-oriented, results-oriented United States senator who wakes up every single day, as I said, and goes to ready to go fight for the people of Ohio. And right now, on the real clear average, it's Brown plus three, and that's been three or two. Has been as high as five, but on the average, it's three.

Knowing that Bernie Moreno, that was supposed to be a close race, and he blew out Brown. Yeah, what do you think? It's it's basically a toss up. You know, the advantage Brown has—he's a semi-incumbent. He's kind of a reliable, known factor.

You know, he he is kind of on the far left of Democratic caucus his entire career. But now, when you have the Elsaeeds and the Momdami, it's out there. He feels almost moderate compared to them.

So, I think this is besides North Carolina. This might be the most likely Democratic pickup.

So it looks like Kansas is going in the right direction for Republicans. It looks like in Michigan, El Sayed has added a point on the average, if you believe some of these polls. But some of these polls, Fox, I know, does not subscribe to.

So it makes me wonder about the real clear average. But it just shows you trends where it's happening.

Now, Alaska to me is a mystery. I just saw one that he's that the sitting senator Daniel S. Sullivan, Dan, and it's really a diabolical deception to put this other Dan Sullivan on the. Ballot, so having he's shown, but they have five or six. I haven't seen that until today.

Yeah, that's a surprise. That you know, this is the worst case scenario I think for the country. Senate control depends on Alaska, which very well could happen, and it's delayed because they accept absentee ballots like two weeks later. Maybe they have more excuse in other states because they're they're so spread out. And then you have this crazy ranked choice system, and the the Dan J.

Junior Sullivan on the ballot, along with the sitting Dan S. Sullivan.

So so this. This thing could be a nightmare. I mean, it really could be, and why this was allowed stand, and why the federal government, not the state government, wasn't taking more action on the Daniel Sullivan, on the Dan Sullivan thing, is unbelievable. Especially when it's one or two points. I mean, you people are going thousands of miles, some hundreds of miles anyway, to go vote, and they easily could be duped from it.

So, I think it's something worth discussing. I want to talk about Iran. You know, if they don't do Iran, the energy price is a lot lower. Maybe this election's a little bit different, but it is. Confrontation, we need to have.

So, the Wall Street Journal writes today that we're looking for a short but impactful campaign after election day. There's people on all sides of this at the White House. Who do you hope the president speaks to before he makes a decision? Who would Rich Lowry of the National Review want him to speak to?

Well, you know, my favorite is General Keen always. But he's going to be talking a lot to Gulf allies because problem is, as we've learned over this this year, Iran has you know ways to to hit back.

So short and impactful just doesn't sound to me like it necessarily is going to have the impact you want. I think it has to be long and impactful if you really want to hope to topple the regime or get a get a good deal. But I've just been surprised at how dug in Trump has been on this. You know, could easily cost the party a senate seat or two, but it seems he's like he's determined to see this through, and he's right that if it reaches a successful conclusion, fuel prices are are going to plummet. It just It's not going to happen, obviously, before the before the election.

So it doesn't do any good politically if it happens, you know, two months from now. And it looks like the Israeli election is in a deadlock right now. But in terms of attacking Iran, it looks like the general is on the same page as the prime minister. And the U.S. military is now sending an additional Patriot system to Israel from Texas to beef up their missile defense.

I mean, that's one of the prerequisites. More interceptors. I got to go to more. Yeah, all the preconditions are being set, and what we've learned, you know, usually when that happens, it means Trump's. Going to go and Israel.

That Israel election. I'm not an expert on Israeli politics, but the thing is, the things that are most controversial about Israel's policy positions here in the United States, there's total national consensus on in Israel. You know, Netanyahu and his enemies want to destroy Hamas. You know, and and sit on Hezbollah and topple Iran if they the Iranian regime if they can.

So, in a pushback, we saw the Egyptians, Pakistanis, Qataris, Saudis send representatives to meet with Iran this week. What do you think about that? You know, I think they just realize Iran can hurt them, and if they could get some sort of workable arrangement from their end, they'll want to kick the can that way. It's just any any coexistence with this regime is going to be fraught and suboptimal, to say to say the least.

So, what about them taking part in the attacks? You know, ideally they would, and it's kind of shocking how much the Saudis spend on the military and how little they do and can use it effectively.

So I think that would be nice symbolically. I'm not sure how much it matters. The end of the day, just just the fact is. We in Israel are basically the only, the most military effective countries in in the world. Maybe Ukraine on on defense.

So if we're not going to do it, you know, it's it's not going to happen, and it doesn't really matter too much what what others do. I think. I guess I guess we're going to find out.

So the Houthi rebels are a growing force. They can make their own missiles and are beginning to spread. They say much like ISIS began to do their own thing, but supported very much like Iran. But they're looked at as enemies by Turkey, by Saudi Arabia, and by Egypt. And they formed that whole Mecca that Mecca conference, and to say if you attack one, you attack them all.

Well, they got it. Saudi's got attacked. Why you not attacking back?

So how would you address the Houthi situation? Bombing, I guess. The problem is we we tried that, you know, a year or so ago, and it's just not so easy when it's basically an insurgent force to deal with it from the air. And and this is the I'm not advocating ground ground forces in Yemen or Iran, but the problem is the air is very effective and it's relatively low cost, but you can't affect the the outcome on the ground without having ground troops.

So. That's what's where we're kind of stuck with Iran, and I think we have the same problem with the Houthis. Yeah, I think that that's going to take. We'll be. We're very interesting to see if the Pakistani Saudis and Egyptians do something on their own because the Egyptian gets warned by the Houthis, do not help, do not help Saudi Arabia, do not furnish them with military supplies.

The Egypt Egyptians going to do it anyway. Fascinating this dynamic with this terror group that formed like a cancer inside Yemen. Absolutely, it's it's a huge problem. It's a card the Iranians had to play. It seemed all along it wasn't activated till the last couple months.

But the amazing thing is we figured out a way to get the oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The problem is it's costly.

So even though there's more oil on the water than prior to the war, I believe it just costs more to transport it.

So prices are still high. You would have thought we were getting at the beginning of the war we're getting that much through the Strait. Prices are going to plummet, but they've stayed stubbornly high. I know it's a it's a little crazy, but we'll find out surely where we're going to go. And after this, I think that we got to fully understand that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be needed again.

And I don't know how we do this. I like talk to oil and gas guys about, you know, we we we we got to get some more refineries here. But we do that, we should not be affected by what's happening in the Middle East in the future. That's my hope. Thanks so much.

Yeah, thanks, Brian. Go get him, Rich. All right, when we come back, we'll be. To take your calls, one eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine, and then the bottom of the hour call Rove goes inside the numbers like nobody else. You're listening to the Brian Kilmeade Show.

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It's Brian Kilmeade. Also, I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that that our attitude has to be to get stuff done, and the tone and our kind of orientation around it has to be. To be kind of ruthless, you know they're ruthless, but they're cruel. And when I say we should be ruthless, I don't mean cruel, but we should be uncompromising.

Well, I'll tell you, I agree with half what she said. After the election, get stuff done. You know, try to get stuff done. You can't do it by yourself. You're not going to have 60 votes in the Senate if Democrats have both chambers, and Republicans aren't going to have 60 votes in the Senate.

I can confirm that.

So you're gonna have to get stuff done. There's stuff in executive order, but you know when you do it with executive order, it doesn't stick. Passed when you leave, and they just come back. We all we all have to live with the other party doing it, unless the Republican wins. Or else we're gonna have a dramatically different policy.

Everyone's writing me about the midterms. Here's what John says. John Kling says this: Donald Trump needs to tell people that he had to get rid of the illegals and get people off Medicare, and that all student loans that were put out to illegals in housing—that's just to name a few—to explain why the costs or everything is so much different, but that they are coming down. Other people are writing, well, actually, nice things about my book, but that's not going to help this segment. Trump's five thousand dollars more than offsets U.S.

housing inflation cost of fifteen hundred. to three thousand dollars. And remember, in nineteen eighty two, nineteen eighty, nineteen eighty one, when Ronald Reagan was president, interest rates were in double figures, double figures.

So you talk about buying a house, you got to put ten percent down. You had to turn eight percent down on a house. At the same time, you got to pay interest rates to double figures. You barely even touch your principal.

Now we're at seven percent. It's high because we're used to having at two or three percent.

So that's just an important thing to to bring up. Also. People are talking about Iran. Should we go back? Everybody wants to seem to finish the job.

If I'm President Trump, I want to finish the job. But this we got to do. I want to press your military guys. I want to go outside your military circle. I want to have people that you respect that portrays to the world, the General Jack Keen.

Look at the military plan. See what we have. You know, General Chris Donahue, for some reason, is not on the job anymore. I want to know what he thinks. Not that I don't have faith in Cooper, but I want to make sure the plan is right to win this job, to to win this battle, to destroy this regime, so we don't have to keep going back here.

and And that's for me is is important. I would just I would just hope that people understand that Iran is not a choice. One president's going to have to do it. The biggest joke is Barack Obama bragging that they didn't weren't going to have a nuclear weapon under his plan that he signed the JCPOA. Do you know it would have expired already?

And do you know they were allowed to enrich to three percent? You know how easy it is to get to sixty percent when you can enrich everything's there. The centrifuges are spinning. All you need is the uranium, which stayed in country.

So they were building ballistic missiles that enabled them to arm Hezbollah to the teeth and build a ring of fire around. Israel, who is our ally, obligated we are in every way, and we should be in order to protect them.

So that's what we're looking at right now. But my feeling is, Mr. President, you got to make sure you have the right game plan. You got to get the most experienced people in the country, active and retired, to go ahead and do it to work it out. And I just think the Russians, who I believe are still giving logistical information to the Houthis, and believe they're still giving it to the Iranians, and one reason why it works to their benefit.

And here's how: the more we have to give interceptors to the Gulf States, the less we have left to give to Ukraine. That benefits Russia. The more we are distracted in that area, focusing on Iran peace, that's the less we're focusing on Russia and Ukraine peace, which they don't seem to want. These are just the little things that Russia would do to make sure not that we lose because we are never going to lose to Iran, but that we have a lengthy stay there. You're listening to the Brian Kilmeade Show.

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Your four hundred one ks are sixty-five, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, seventy percent higher. Than what they were just a short while ago. Take a look at your 401ks, and when you're 68 up or whatever you may be, you are up a lot. You know, under Sleepy Joe, you were 25 down.

So that's what the president of the United States is talking an economic message, saying the prices are going to come down after this war is done. But notice other things that are are okay. Is that the message that Carl Rove would bring up on the stump as the president goes to Texas over and over again to drag the governor, but especially Ken Paxton over the finish line? It seems to be working. I've not seen Paxton trailing in a poll of late.

They usually are dead heat. Carl Rove joins us now, Carl.

So much at stake in Texas. Money marbles and chalk, as we say in Texas.

So, how is it going? Is the president making a difference?

Well, I think he is because he's energizing. He's going to the right parts of the state. He went to Lubbock. He went to Corpus Christi. He's energizing the Republican base.

I think, frankly, more important than the president's message in all candor, however, is that there's been a relentless. Media campaign that has used the words of James Talarico against him because all this stuff is on tape. He's in the committee hearing and says they're six genders and they're you know so they've got a lot of material to work with that portray him as somebody who's outside way outside the mainstream of Texas thought.

So even though there are deep doubts about. Ken Paxton, all of the scandals and all of the charges are still flowing around him. I keep running into people in the airport, at the grocery store, at the Coffee shop, you know, want to stop at Starbucks on the street corner, walking in downtown Austin. We say, you know, I have my real doubts about Paxton, but I don't want to have a Democratic Senate. I think it'd be bad for our country, and I think that's what's driving driving this election.

And now, is it going to be enough? We don't know. Polls tend to still show Talerico up by a point or two, but we'll see next Tuesday. What does the turnout show you so far? To a huge turnout, and and not not good for the Republicans.

Now that's that's that's you know that we have I have like six days of turnout results. Very bright guy named Derek Ryan who keeps track of all this data, and his point is is that the Democrats have come out and the Republicans by by early vote last time were 1.2 million more Republicans by the time it ended. Today there are more Democrats than Republicans, and you know the the trend is going towards the Republicans day by day, but the Democrats still have a significant lead in the early vote. All right, we'll see what's going to happen this gerrymandered district, Joe. Nice.

Enough to help me out on one nation with that, but you think the Hispanic vote going from the forties to the thirties could hurt them? You know, the thirties is more traditional Republican could hurt them in the best picture. Yeah, and look, everybody was beating their chest saying the redistricting in Texas was going to net us five seats. We'll be lucky if we get three.

So let's go and talk about Michigan. Abdul El Sayed talking about the not talking about his links to the Muslim Brotherhood, but trying to simplify it and get it back on track to his what he wants to talk about. Cut nineteen. Like I've always said, my name and my faith are not the reason you can't afford your gas, not the reason you can't afford your groceries, not the reason you can't pay your rent or your mortgage, not the reason you can't see a doctor, not the reason that a smokestack is putting polluted air into your kids' lungs, not the reason that we've got PFAS in our water or there's lead in our pipes.

So he wants to change the subject, and they want to say it's Islamophobia when you bring it up. Carl Rob, what do you think? I think he does protest too much. He's asked a question that that he could easily answer by saying, "I denounce the Muslim Brotherhood. I think what they stand for is against humanity and and my faith." But instead, he he goes on the offense and attacks the the journalists, no matter who they are.

How dare you bring up that question? And I think it causes people to say, "What's he hiding?" The guy could easily come out and say, "You know what? My my grandmother may have been, my mother may have been involved in the Muslim Brotherhood, but I didn't grow up with her, and I I denounced them, and I don't." But the record shows the opposite. Here is a guy who, when the Muslim Brotherhood took over the government of Egypt, celebrated it in writing, appending his name to a letter that you know enthusiastically supporting Morrissey, and then when Morrissey was removed by the Egyptian military, he protested. He he didn't like it.

So this guy is, you know, by by not being able to come out and say frankly and directly and simply that he disavows terrorism is is raising more questions than than he needs to have raised.

So if you look at the Jewish vote, if it's going to be so close, look at the Jewish vote. I don't know how one Jewish Michiganer should vote for him. And then you look at the fact that the black vote is. It looks like Mike Rogers got twenty two percent of the black vote. He almost got no percent of the black vote.

Haley Stevens got almost all of it, and he's done nothing, it seems, to win them over. You look at those two areas in which he's got to be suffering. You would think that Rogers would pull ahead, but I've not seen one poll with Mike Rogers ahead of you. No, but but look also. Let's remember we're we're Polls are problematic.

It's difficult to do an accurate poll, and one of the reasons it's difficult to do an accurate poll is that people are don't don't want to say.

So there may be shy Rogers voters out there, Jewish Democrats who say, "You know what? I'm not going to tell some stranger who calls me on the phone how I'm voting." And and similarly in the black community, there's some antipathy towards El Sayid in the black community, and you know I'm I'm not certain I I completely understand it, but I think part of it has to do with the fact that that they just sense there's something about the guy that you know look the the black community to. It's like the Hispanic community; they tend to volunteer for the military. They, the elements of of the community are are particularly faithful. They go to church on a regular basis, and and you know they're culturally more conservative.

That's why South Carolina, for example, is put as the first Democratic primary for twenty twenty eight. When we talk twenty twenty eight, we're going to be talking AOC. I think you know that. I think she's all but said that. And listen to what she says.

Trying to make sense of her signing up. Again, re-upping with the DSA. Cut ten. These folks like to say that everything that they don't like is communism, and they like to call everyone that they disagree with a communist. But we've got news for you: good schools is not communism.

Funded hospitals is not communism. And guaranteeing healthcare as a right to every American is not communism; it's common sense. And the crowd loved it in Kissimmee, Florida. Do you, Carl Rove? Look, I give her points for cleverness.

We call it socialism when when the when the government steps over and takes over giant swaths of our economy. We call it socialism, and it never works out well.

So you know. She wouldn't say. I dare her to stand up and say they call us socialists, and we're happy to to abide by that label because that's who we are. No, no, no. She's got to set up a false a false image of oh, they just attack us as communists, and it's common sense.

No, no. She's a socialist. And socialism failed.

Socialism failed wherever it has been tried. And you know, yes, we're going to have the government take over healthcare. We're going to have government take over housing. The mayor of New York says we've been said housing is a right, so the government's going to provide it for you.

Well, I don't want the government providing my housing. I want the choice that I have. As a consumer, I don't want the government to run healthcare because if it runs healthcare, we see what happens. Go to Britain, go to Canada, stand in line for months while you need a life-saving procedure. I mean, you know, let's let's let's let's grant her this.

Let's stop calling them communists and instead call them the label that they themselves adopt, which is socialist. She's a Democratic Socialist of America member, so you know. Give her her due. She's pretty clever when it comes to prepared speeches. But this is an argument that they're not going to win if they continue to pursue it.

And we need to make them pursue it. We need to hold them accountable for their beliefs. And here's the thing. If you look at France, you look at the welfare state in the UK, the riots in Albania, the the riots that are taking place in Italy. Italy's starting to pare it back with a conservative leader, but there's just too much money being spent on social programs.

Tax dollars go up, so they're maxed out. The social services are not good, from the preschool to the daycare to the to the schools themselves, and as well as the healthcare.

So I'm I'm a French citizen. I'm paying a lot of money out of my Paycheck. I'm only working 35 hours week. I'm retired at 62, but everywhere I go, there's limited opportunity, and I got under, and I have subpar services. That's the future if we keep doing this.

Right, absolutely, and and we've seen this. We saw it in East Germany. We saw it in, in you know wherever we've seen communism and socialism take effect, things have gotten worse. They've not gotten better. Venezuela used to be one of the richest countries in the hemisphere, and today it's one of the poorest.

Why? Because socialism took over, and the government started dominating every sector of the economy and running everything. I'm going to ask you something because I had this conversation with Adam Kroehler yesterday. I did his podcast because I have the book out, and I always like talking to him. Do you think it's possible for a candidate?

To run for office, big or small, Senate, House, whatever you know, something in federal, and say, "Hey, look, I can't fix all your problems. I could get governors out of your way. I give you opportunities, level the playing field the best I can. But what I want to do is give you the opportunity in order to work hard and excel. But I will not be fixing your problems.

That's up to you and your family to make your life what you want it to be." Can you ever have that message today? Instead of time for free preschool, time for free college, time to not pay back your student loans, time for free healthcare. Could I? Could I ever get elected saying that?

Well, we saw a guy get elected by saying the government. Most problematic words are the. I'm from the government. I'm here to help you. You know, somebody who said.

You know, we can be the shining city on the hill if we if we return to individual responsibility and expand the realm of freedom in our country. His name was Ronald Reagan. And and these are timeless values that are American values. Our country was not made by somebody saying, "Okay, the all-powerful government is in charge of your life." It was made by saying, "We intend to create a well a realm of freedom in which you can achieve the greatest thing that you can be in life by your own endeavors and by your own hard work." We we were built on that. We weren't built on hate.

Come here and be comfortable, because government is going to put you in a nice little suave. Blanket and take care of you the rest of your life. That wasn't how America was made, and that's not who Americans are. Yeah.

So if if I'm running against somebody who says no, no, no, we're paying for your health care. No, no, no. You should not have to pay for college. You know. And and I say, well, no, I'm not going to pay for that.

It's up to you.

Well, and remember what each one of those things involves. We're going to pay for your health care, so we get to make the decisions. It's going to be free college, so we get to decide what kind of a college you can have. I want freedom. I want to be able to choose.

I want to be the most powerful person in America today is the ordinary consumer because they get to decide. And when government takes away that power, it provides that power to an anonymous bureaucrat who gets to make decisions for us. I don't like that. Neither do you, and neither do most Americans. Do you think, from what you think will happen, knowing the president, like we've known, and now he has a six-year track record?

Do you think we go back to kinetic action in Iran? You know, he has sort of signaled it, and if you look at what's happening on the ground, two aircraft carriers in the region, a third one on the way, plus enough ground forces, plus enough air assets. You know, if I were the Iranians, I'd be certainly thinking that's what's coming my way after the election. Golrova, always great. It seems like everyone loves when you come on our show.

Every time you come on, it gets sampled and becomes international news. You notice that? I I haven't, but you know I welcome the opportunity to be in your in your circle because I got to tell you it's an honor to to be seen as a guy who is worthy of being on the radio with Brian Kilmeade. All right, I wish you meant that, but I'm I'm naive. I do think you did.

I do.

Okay, I do. All right, Carl. Thanks a lot. The president's probably going to visit Texas four more times. He have a lot to talk about before the election's over.

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So our oversight should focus on that. It should focus on the corruption that's driving costs up. If that corruption leads in the direction of impeachment, it will lead wherever it leads. We'll impeach him. But then we will be focused on improving the quality of life for America.

Do you think Democrats should impeach the president? Yeah, I think we should try. Yeah, these are all idiots, just clowns. They want to just distract the country. For your own political gain, impeach the president.

Now, I also don't love the president going after James Comey. Still, I don't, or or all these other people. It doesn't help. They're done. If there was something there, have one case.

If it doesn't fly, it doesn't fly. Just done. But this is over the top. If you think you are going to impeach the president, if you get power in the Senate and the House, you are going to waste. Thousands of hours on TV distract from any foreign policy, domestic policy, getting down on forty trillion dollar debt.

You're not going to be worthy of anything except to be routed in 2028. That's what I believe. This midterm cycle, where the Senate we have spent 3.2 billion dollars in the House, 2.3 billion dollars to run governors' races, 2.5 billion. This is a total of 11 billion dollars just to run an election, which is going to be razor thin. To be, if you get the majority, that's what you.

You going to do with it? Torture America with these ridiculous speeches? Do you remember how tedious that was, Howard in Omaha, Nebraska? Hey, Howard on Coyle. Hey, Brian.

With Ukraine, Iran also, we need a reset. This "let's make a deal" Monty Hall kind of approach is not working. It's time to invoke Reagan, Mister Putin. Get the hell out of Ukraine. Maximum sustained NATO pressure.

No U.S. boots on the ground. This worked. When Russia is forced to backpedal from Afghanistan and Eastern Europe, look, I am. I don't know where this is going.

If if the Russians want to stop fighting, there's a way. Ukraine's not going to stop fighting. And here's the thing: people should know that Zelensky is not deciding to continue to fight. The Ukrainian people are deciding to fight. He's reflecting them.

He's not telling them we got to keep fighting. They're telling him. Not saying he doesn't think he's going to do it. They're telling him the only thing he's missing is interceptors right now. If he gets interceptors, that means those rockets get knocked down.

They need Patriots. There's not enough for now, but I think within eight months we're mass producing them in a way that maybe they're not as sophisticated as they were, but with mass production. And then the Russians going to have the most painful. Spring, if they get through the winter, you can imagine because they have been blocking almost everything. Because now they're blocking their drones, so we do need a reset in that area.

I think people are tired of it. I just do think this. If you want to know if the trilateral talks are going to go anywhere, and I I don't know if they're going to go anywhere, look who the Russians send to these meetings. If they just send technocrats and and underlings that happen to understand missile technology and military technology, that means they're just trying to slow walk and placate the president. But if they send two or three different guys that are extremely well known, if they send them there, that means they want to land this plane.

The thing that's a non-starter with Ukraine is simple. What they're not a non-starter is the Donbas region. The rest can be negotiated, and I mean it. Obviously, with the current lines, you freeze those current lines. But guess who deserves so much credit and is getting almost none?

There are people been trapped in an area between Ukraine and Russia who have been wrestling over this, starving to death. The kids are starving to death, and he/she personally plead put a personal plea into Zelensky. Did Melania Trump into Zelensky as well as Putin, and they actually put a ceasefire in the area. It's pretty amazing, right?

Well, she's also gotten about forty-five kids back into Ukrainian hands who were stolen from their families. Who steals kids? Vladimir Putin steals kids. That's who steals kids. There is a good guy and bad guy.

Guess who the bad guy is? It's not Ukraine. Don't tell me about corruption in their government. They're working it out. They were on the right side of this.

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Of course, New York City, the center of everything. Because Bruce Blakeman's in a real fight to be the next governor, and Governor Hochul's doing an odd thing in New York. She's remarkably unpopular and unproductive, and really limited intellectually and politically. But she is teeming with Bondami, the socialist mayor, who is popular with the people that put him in, but not with the general public throughout New York. But that.

That's what she's doing, running on running with a guy that says I'm a proud socialist. Who really is totally unproductive? Signed one executive order, but she is instead of saying, "Hey, you know, I got to distance myself, I got to be somewhat moderate," I'm going to be attacked from the right. She decides to go way to the left, and we'll see. It's going to be scary if it produces a victory.

If Bruce Blakeman can't close that gap, and I'm not sure exactly where it is right now, but we have a lot going on. I'm definitely going to be talking about what's happening in Iran. Wall Street Journal—it's a big story that looks like we're ready for really hard hitting, but sure. Kinetic action against them with the IDF. Wow, the Israelis try to figure out who won that election last night.

They're basically deadlocked. It's a complicated parliamentary system, but just know that they're so even it looks as though either one is going to have trouble putting a government together. They're going to need the Arab vote.

So, what do they need in return to getting? Because you have to win over sectors. Because if the Likud needs a partner. And just so you know, what I feel good about is this general that that Netanyahu is running. Netanyahu is running against whose son died in Gaza.

The foreign policy is not going to be any different. They got to take down the ring of fire that was surrounding them, Hezbollah, Hamas, and led all by Iran.

Meanwhile, the Houthi rebels are bombing inside Saudi Arabia. How are they getting so precise? It turns out Russian satellite imagery is helping the Houthi rebels bomb Saudi Arabia. Hey, Saudis! Look, we're going to be back in there.

You trying to hold us off after trying to reopen the Hormuz Strait with a can opener? You didn't want to do that.

Now you're getting bombed by the Houthis. You want our help? We gave you 200 advisers. Just to understand, your alternative is not Russia.

Somebody's got to make these people pay for the alliances they have. China too. China and Russia helping Iran. Please make that clear.

Meanwhile, the midterm elections are heating up big time. The president of the United States last night over in Corpus Christi, trying to drag Ken Paxton over the finish line. They're in a virtual dead heat. There's no doubt about it. Paxton is closing the gap.

If he's not slightly above, what I was taken about when Lubick is the the Secretary of State was there. Not that he was accompanying the president, but he was actually there because if Venezuelan oil was coming into shore, as we've begun our oil deal with that country, now that Maduro's in a. Brooklyn prison.

So here is what happened when Marco Rubio, who's Secretary of State, not involved in the political process, not supposed to be talking politics, but it's clearly he is popular with that crowd. Listen to this. Cut to Texas Tech. What a good school. What a good school.

What a great place. No, you always do well, and even people they they know they're in a fight when they're fighting Texas. That they really—that's a great place. I know a lot of people that went there. Know a lot of people that were involved, and I know some of the people that are in charge right now.

It's a great, it's a great school.

So then he decides. You know, Marco, thanks for coming. Why don't you get behind the microphone, Cup Four, Marco Rubio. We love Marco. He's so humble.

We love Marco. He's done a great job. You know, we'll drop him off, and we're going to drop Marco off and give. Where's Marco? Come here, Marco.

Marco, come up. Come on. Thank you. It's an honor to work for the greatest country in the world, for the greatest president in the history of the United States of America. We love you, Texas.

Thank you. And they were chanting his name afterwards. Cut four. It cut five. He's doing a great job.

I said the other day on the way back from Iran, we're going to drop him off in Cuba. He'll settle that one in about fifteen. We're going to parachute him in, just drop him, and he'll figure it out. You know, Brazil didn't work out. I'm not sure what happened that election.

First time in history, they had three people in the race. The person who won the won the presidential race was Bolsonaro over Lula, right?

So they say anyone who wins that runoff never loses the general.

So this guy Bolsonaro thinks he's going to win, and the whole country is going to move conservative and kick China out, Russia, and mysteriously, first time ever, Lula wins.

So Bolsonaro is coming here because they're going to look to put him and his dad in jail. It's just crazy situation. But no one's done better in Central and South America. I wish Marco Rubio would be hands on and take the lead when it comes to what's happening in Iran, Ukraine, Hamas, everything. Or I would give Whitcoff and Jared Kushner.

Two bright people, one of the one of the portfolios. But when it comes to Iran, I feel much better with Marco Rubio there. Can't trust him. Let's start from that as opposed to there's always a deal to be done.

So I had a chance to talk to Congressman Jimenez about a big story, and that is what happened with Cuba. We know the this Angie Nixon, who is going to be that he was the Democratic nominee to go against Ashley Moody in the in the Senate race in Florida, could not say. Whether Cuba was a dictatorship or not, you don't have a bigger turnoff to the exile Cuban community, which is huge in Florida, by saying a statement like that.

So I asked Cuban exile Congressman Yemanez about that and about the eruption which happened at the UN with Mike Waltz. It went so well. I want you to hear how it took place on Fox and Friends. Listen. 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. 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. That's a scary, naive answer.

Socialist and Florida Senate hopeful Angie Nixon is walking back her comments about Cuba after facing backlash for not calling the communist nation a communist nation. She claims her response was mischaracterized. Really, saying, "quote I do not celebrate Castro." He's dead. There are nearly two million Cubans living in Florida, including our next guest, who fled the communist nation during Fidel Castro's reign. Florida Congressman Carlos Yemes joins us now.

Congressman, have you ever heard a worse answer by an American would-be leader when it comes to Cuba? No, you know, I've never been to North Korea either, but I can tell you pretty pretty surely that it's a communist dictatorship.

Okay, and so no, this is just look. She's a Democrat socialist. She's a communist herself. Cuba's a gold standard for the communists, and so they're going to defend Cuba at all costs. And so for her to say, well, I've heard people say that it's a dictatorship.

It's just a way of dodging it. She loves the ideology. She loves what that. That regime has done to the Cuban people, and that's what she'll bring to the United States. That's what she'll bring to the United States Senate, and that's why she will never be a senator from the state of Florida.

But I'm looking at this poll from the University of Northern Florida: Ashley Moody, forty-six; Angie Nixon, forty-four. Really? How does that happen? No. No, it's not going to happen that way.

It's not going to be that way, you know. We we know very well. We have look. Florida's Hispanic population. Many of the people that are here fled communism, fled socialism.

We're here for political reasons, not economic reasons. And and I can't fathom that Angie Dickinson is going to. I'm not Dickinson. Angie Nixon is going to be our representative from from the state of Florida. I I just can't see it.

And so again, you know, remember the. The polls, the primary polls, said that I'll say Ed was going to win by 20 points, and he barely won. I think the same thing's happening. These polls, I think, are trying to dishearten the Republicans from going out, but we're coming out. At least in South Florida, we can see the results, and and the Republicans are coming out in South Florida.

They're rejecting what what Angie Nixon had to say. Then more Cuba in the news. Just across town at the UN, Ambassador Mike Waltz trying to get a speech out, exposing the Cuba corruption. Watch. Havana would have you believe everything in Cuba has just disappeared.

Well, we know, we know where it went, and today we are here to share it. To the world, I'll ask everybody to go back to their. And I'm the representative of the United States of America. Back up, okay? Back up, Ambassador.

Back away. This isn't Havana. I'm suspending the meeting. You're not going to intimidate me. I'm suspending this meeting.

Do you understand who you're dealing with? This is America. Back up. Congressman, your thoughts about this confrontation in real time between communism and democracy?

So proud of Mike Mike Waltz, a former colleague of mine, and standing up to the Cuban bullies. I mean, they're used to in Cuba. If you stand up and say anything against the regime, you're going to be surrounded by a bunch of thugs, beaten, and then thrown into jail. This is the United States. It doesn't work that way.

But apparently, he forgot where he was, and he thought he was back in Cuba, and he can just intimidate somebody into shutting up because Mike was telling the truth. You know, there are two classes of people in in Cuba. People that are part of the regime live very well. They have houses. They have yachts.

They have they have Rolex watches. The rest of the people, the other you know millions of people, are are living in poverty. They don't have any lights. They don't have any food. They don't have Any medicine, because the regime communism does not work.

Communism has destroyed my birthplace, Cuba. It used to have the highest standard of living, second highest standard of living in the Western Hemisphere, and now it has the lowest standard of living in the Western Hemisphere. They have completely destroyed that island. For anybody who's wondering, what's the best system? Watch socialism collapse in France and everywhere else in real time, and then watch communism fall on its corrupt self, collapse within itself, just off ninety miles off our shores of Miami.

Congressman, thanks so much. Hopefully, it's the beginning of the end for that regime. Appreciate it. From from your lips to God's ear, I hear you, and hopefully it factors into the election. All right, so that's the latest on Cuba.

I didn't think we'd be talking about today, but as you know, it is relevant. We come back. I want to find out the ins and outs of the Israeli election, the chance of the IDF joining us in a fight against Iran. Michael Makovsky joins us next. You're listening to the Brian Kilmeade Show.

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This is the Brian Kilmeade show. If the president says to you, Scott, I need to finish the job militarily, or can you finish Iran economically? What would you tell him? I'm going to tell him, sir, we're doing our part here at Treasury. I think that the Iranians are panicked.

I think that the economy is collapsing, and that the, sir. You have a lot of options, and I am sure that you will make the best one. And that is got Besen with us on Monday. Very nice for him to offer what they're doing—trying to strangle Iran economically, but they're still bombing and trying to hit every merchant ship in the Strait. They picked it up over the last few days in the hopes of, of course, affecting our election.

Then we find out that the five that we picked up before they hit our military base in the UK, Iranian-linked. Not a big surprise. Michael Bakovsky is with us in studio, president, CEO. The Jewish Institute for National Security of America and a leading Washington, a leading Washington think tank, DC-based policy and educational organization.

So, Michael, first off, on that, on that question, I put to Scott Besson: Do you think kinetic action is inevitable at this point? Yeah.

First of all, Brian, thanks for having me in studio today. It's great to see you. Great to see you. Yeah.

I think I think that's that's where we're heading. All the signals point to that. Obviously, Trump keeps talking about it. The report suggested. I think that the issue will be if they do do it.

It's more of a question, I think, of when than if. Right now, and do you think the strategy has to be better or different? Yes, I think I think I thought for a while now that the U.S. is focusing on shorter, more intense attacks with the Israelis against the Iranians, and I think there I I would I would think that they would also most likely also try to neutralize the nuclear facilities, which they didn't do so much before. They said that not trying to rebuild the nuclear facilities.

Do you buy that? Yeah.

Yes, my understanding is that's correct because they're afraid that the U.S. or Israel will detect it, but it doesn't mean they don't have access. Pickaxe hasn't been touched. No, that's correct. But my understanding is that the Iranians have access to the nuclear material.

They just haven't done anything because they're afraid of how we'll react to it.

So I think that the I think the president is more likely. We had a plan. There was a plan to do it earlier in the war. President Trump passed on. But I think he's more likely to do that, and I think also they'll hit the energy, the interior energy facilities.

Also, Michael, what time with the election? In Israel, well, I think it's been a surprise. I think coming into the election, people thought the look. This is really about BB. It's the BB block and the anti-BB block.

On the issues, it's different than the United States. There's really overwhelming consensus in Israel on on the basic security issues on Iran, on Gaza, on Syria. Maybe differences more on the West Bank, but they're not major differences.

So I think this was more of a personality driven, and I think the the Bibi block has done better, and Netanyahu's party Likud is. Done better than the poll suggested he would, and he's leading now by like five or six seats. And you know, based on like eighty percent discounted, or so, which is an amazing turnout. Absolutely, eighty percent of the country showed up to vote. Correct, and he is winning.

BB's winning, which means the president has to pick the guy who you would think has to pick the party that's winning and say form a government. If he does not have enough to form a government, that's right. Neither side really does. The only way the anti-BB block, which is led by Gadi Eisenkot, who's a retired IDF general and a very fine guy, could do this could put something together is if he allies with the Arab parties. But he they said they would not.

He said conditions of who is. Coalition partners would be, and those would affect implicitly exclude the Arab parties. By the way, we should note. I mean, one of the interesting things, you know, with all these incredible allegations against Israel, one of them being, you know, genocide, apartheid state. This is the only country in the region where Arabs have a right to freely vote, and the Arab vote surged in this election.

So, why don't you think if these Arabs good Israeli citizens?

Well, they mostly are. The the issue is they're political issues. There's two main Arab parties. The main one is seen as too sympathetic to Hamas. They were and basically more Palestinian nationalist than Israeli Arab.

There's another more moderate Arab party called Ram, which is headed by Abbas Mansour, which is. Is more moderate, but even he and his party, he also has radicals, and I think that. Look, the country in Israel has moved to the right since October seventh. I don't think the most Israelis do not want Arabs as part of the.

So, Michael Makovsky, now that that means that Bibi's party, the Kud, has to go into the other party and say, "Who could, who are amongst you, conside with me? How much do, how many seats do you need?" Well, right now he has about fifty three or so, based on what we see.

So he needs about seven or eight. More seats, and he could do that. He might be able to pull off from the anti-Bibi block some some of the facts, some of the parties there. But some people think that if you have to make a deal with the extreme right to the right of Bibi Netanyahu, you're doing policies that will further alienate Israel. That's true.

But but but look, it's probably the country is right, and it's been going right since the second Intifada of. 25 years ago, and after October 7th, and went further right.

So there's almost no leftist parties left in Israel. There's one that has about seven or eight seats out of 120 in the Knesset, and then you have the Arab parties, which we see things like might get 18 or 19 seats, and and and and then that's it. I mean, Gadi Eisenkot is not a leftist. He's more of a centrist or center left, I would say.

So the country is center right. I mean, over. I mean, so. What's your prediction, Michael?

Well, it's hard with Israeli politics, but I'd say these are the options. I think there's a possibility of a national unity government if Netanyahu's party Likud gets together with Gadi Ashkenazi, Gadi Eisenkot's party. Then you'd be able to, and with some others, you'd be able to get a coalition, and I think that would be best for the country. I think that's positive. That would be possible, and it's possible.

Why would you do power sharing with somebody you beat?

Well, you do that a lot, unfortunately, because you need to build a coalition. And I think the differences on the issues are not that great. And I think the Iran issue we just talked about is becoming more and more imminent. And I think it would be better for the country.

So I think that's possible. By the way, you could have new elections as another possibility. Either way, I see BBC. Thanks, Michael. Yeah.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade Show. The fact that we're talking about Kansas, the fact that the president's been in South Carolina and Mississippi. I know for a fact you're not in these states unless there's a data point that's driving him to spend time in those states. How many times has he been to Texas?

I mean, we shouldn't be. Spending two hundred million dollars or three hundred million dollars in Texas to defend a Senate candidate, so there is a lot at stake. I think the House, you know, with three seats that the Democrats need to pick up, is probably going to go to the Democrats. And right now, all eyes are on the Senate, but certainly the map has expanded, and Democrats are feeling bullish. And that is Ron McDaniel.

You know she's she's used to run the RNC, and that's pretty good analysis. You could say that, but if that sees got to give up, got to win three seats. But also, you're going to be flipping some seats because of maybe people are popular, or maybe the gerrymandering work. Brit Hume joins us now, Fox News senior political analyst who's seen it all, done it all. Hey, Brit, do you ever remember a time when so many seats were in play?

I don't remember a time when so many seats were in play in the kind of places where they are in play. You see Republicans struggling to defend seats in states that have been So reliably Republican for so long that it is really quite striking that you know you see this money. It was just mentioned that that soundbite being spent in places like Texas, even now in Mississippi and other places along those lines. Yeah, I mean President United States going around. You can't say he's not hustling, doing two or three events a day sometimes.

But he's got to go back to Texas, go to Nebraska, went to Kansas. It's going back to Ohio again. I think he is going to finish up Sunday in Iowa Saturday. Day in Kansas, wow! Daytona Beach on Friday in Florida, which is interesting because Florida now you have a Senate race with a real fringe candidate that's within four or five points, which and a governor's race within four or five points in in your state.

How's that? How's that happening?

Well, it's the political gravity this year isn't all in one direction, and the result is what you're seeing, Brian. I mean, the president is deeply unpopular, and the Republicans who have been attached to him like you know like glue are similarly unpopular. He's not on the ballot, obviously, although he wants everybody to pretend he is. That would it would be good if for the Republicans, if if Republican voters pretended he's on the ballot and vote accordingly. The problem with that is, of course, with his unpopularity.

Putting him front and center like that is is motivating the Democrats, who have no other way to express their their dislike of him than by voting against his party, which is what's happening.

So here, the President United States going out, he's having a good time in the sun. And you say that he could be motivating the opposition, but I think it's a it's a risk it's worth taking because worst of all he's got to get his supporters to vote.

So a lot of them were sitting out.

So a lot of it, if it's going to be one or two points, you appear in these red areas and you motivate people again, remind them that it matters, hear the message, and hear the alternative. Yeah, I don't think Brownie has any choice but to try this because you know Republican voters discouraged, concerned that it's hopeless, stay home. Republicans have no chance of. Of holding on to the Senate, I think the House is gone, but we're holding on to the Senate. But there are risks associated with it by making this singularly unpopular president the center of your campaign.

So the other thing is, Brett, and I'm not sure if the president is twisting it like he should on the stump. Is how do you plan on getting prices down? How do you plan on bringing oil and gas down? What proof do you have that you can make anything affordable? This is the grenade you handed me.

Now, you could honestly say the Republicans have a oil gas program. They want to drill just about everywhere. They want to maximize that. They want to get rid of windmills. They want to do you know renewables when when.

But no more subsidies for electric cars. Like you, you know, their policy is all pro oil and gas. It used to be a negative, but that that will bring oil and gas down when you when the Iran war comes to an end. But Democrats' record is shutting down refineries in California, and we know the new Green Deal disguises as the Inflation Reduction Act did nothing but but up the price of gas and oil. I think Democrats' energy policies for the longest time have bordered on insane, and the president has a case to make here.

And all all other things being equal, it would be compelling. The problem is, of course, at this stage, at this moment, all things are not equal. His unpopularity and the and the and the price of fuel at the pump and elsewhere is is the dominant issue. The two dominant issues, and they're hurting him and his party in both instances.

So, so I mentioned the places where the president's going to be going to pretty much red areas. The other thing that I find interesting is Barack Obama. I also think he motivates Republicans to. It amazes me the mocking tone that he takes on the stump. That's the same mocking tone from the Washington Correspondence Dinner and the same one he had in 2016.

I was pulling up cuts yesterday. Of all this time, he's never going to be president. He does not know enough. There is no way Republicans would put him forward. Just mocking him in twenty ten, and look what happened.

Even the election that he lost, Brett, he got more votes than any Republican in history.

So that mocking tone that he takes to be dismissive, I think instead of just saying, "I would not have done this," "I would not have done that," you know, like traditional George H. W. Bush going after Bill Clinton, for example. The fact that he mocks and and tries to. And tries to you know denigrate him.

I think that motivates, in my humble opinion, that motivates Trump people. Yeah, I think that may be true, Brian, but it also excites the base, which Democrats have to do too. I mean, you listen to those snotty lines he issues about Trump. Yeah, they get roars of laughter from the assembled faithful.

So you know they do have their effect. I want you to hear. Cynthia Nixon, excuse me, Angie. It's hard to get; they're very similar. Are the one running for mayor and likely to win in Los Angeles?

Here's Angie Nixon. She's the one who closed within four points of Ashley Moody. Listen to this statement. Cut twenty-seven. 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.

Mean, do you ever? Can you imagine this? A policy that's been in place since 1959. She's not sure if it's communist tonight. It's a it's it's it's signal that this woman is utterly unqualified to be United States senator.

For her not to know that the Cuban, the Cuban government is a dictatorship, and not be able to say it is bizarre. That craziness that took place on the UN yesterday with Mike Waltz and the Cuban delegation banging on their tables and then trying to charge the podium was almost surreal, because Mike Waltz was running down where all their money is and how Castro and the family and other government higher ups have billions of dollars. Where it's stashed? Have you ever seen anything like it? I don't remember seeing anything like that.

The UN. There was a time when Nikita Khrushchev took his shoe off and banged it on the podium, and I think that was on the lecture, and I think that was at the UN. And there have been some confrontations there over the years, but this is right up there among the weird events that have happened there. It was quite bizarre. Yeah, and by the way, people at home listening, I know this is mostly visual, but just picture this.

We're going to play it. Picture a group of four or five, one woman, four guys, going up within maybe a hundred feet of Mike Waltz, who the ambassador who is giving his giving his speech, and they're going right up to the stage. Listen, Havana would have you believe everything in Cuba has just disappeared.

Well, we know. We know where it went, and today we are here to share it to the world. Tell us, everybody, to go back to their. And I'm the representative of the United States of America. Back up, okay.

Back up, Ambassador. Back away. This isn't Havana. I'm suspending the meeting. I'm going to end the meeting.

I'm suspending this meeting. You understand who you're dealing with? This is America. Back up. How do you think he handled it?

No. Hooray for Mike Walsum! He called them out, and they behaved exactly in the way that that one might imagine the representatives of a dictatorship would behave, where where they are utterly unaccustomed to being called out for the things that they have done and not done. He's doing it, and they get and they get up and try to shout him down. Perfect.

Big question. Big picture question for you.

So you know, in studying history and doing my book, everyone disagrees. Alexander Hamilton was against the Louisiana Purchase. He wanted New Orleans. He didn't want everything. These really smart people were disagreeing.

And even during the Reagan days, it seems I wasn't as clued in as I am now. Obviously, I was in high school, but it seems to me that we were more into doing deals.

Sometimes good for Republicans, sometimes good for Democrats. I think the only thing missing today is not the passion and the disagreement, but in the end, thinking we have to come up to solve a problem.

Social Security is going to be the next big one. Healthcare is going to be another one that's always percolating. Did we were we at a point twenty years ago where we always we tried to resolve problems more than we do today?

Well, I think Brian that the divisions within the country politically intense though they were, we're not as intense or as deeply felt as they are now. I mean, there are people in this country that believe that the presence of Donald Trump in the White House is an abomination. I mean, it is one thing to be opposed to him, but they think it's an abomination and outrage, a national emergency, and the idea that you can somehow make a deal with someone you feel that way about is pretty remote. Trump is always willing to make a deal and always thinks that he can, even in situations sometimes where no deal, realistic deal, is actually possible. But the divisions are so are so deep, and the country has been getting this way more and more since I since I.

I would say since for some time now, but certainly since 1994, when Republicans took control of the House of Representatives for the first time in decades, and and Democrats in some respects have never gotten over it, and Republicans have been pretty harshly partisan themselves, and you know treating the Democrats as if as if they're all you know socialists and and and lovers of crime and so on.

So we. You know, we have divisions are bitter. It will take quite a leader to get past this. And trust between the two parties, which used to be important important elements in the ability to make deals and compromises and so forth, trust is in short supply. I mean, I would love to hear the point where, hey, I won the election, but you didn't lose.

And you know, I want to meet you the White House. Let's give me your list. See what I can do. And and and make make the other side look like the bag. Whatever side does it, make them look intransigent.

If you sincerely want to get some stuff done, remember George Bush's first call was to Ted Kennedy. It drove conservatives crazy on education, and and a lot of times it gets you primaryed if you're a senator.

So it's gonna it's gonna take some people that are secure in their seats and secure themselves. And you know what else it would take, Brian? I think it would take a less poisonous media atmosphere. Who, what able person in his or her right mind would want to run for office in this climate? Because.

You're going to get you're going to get scrutinized in ways that oftentimes are totally unfair and out of bounds and over the top. And who wants to subject themselves and their families to that? And the result is that we end up with some highly mediocre people.

Some of the best people in our country are not eager to run for office. True. Are you going to be in New York for the election coverage? I will be up there for. Election night, yes, sir.

All right, great.

So hopefully we'll be able to grab you in radio if it's not too early, and because I know it's going to be a late night. The other thing, Brett Hume, when it comes to twenty-eight, I know Democrats are going to line up twenty D probably at least fifteen. Do you think Republicans get into double figures with people running for the nomination? They might, but the question is, who are they? Right.

I mean, everybody talks about Rubio and Vance. I have a I have a suspicion about Vance. He, you know, he's everybody's idea of the front runner, and he may be. But a lot depends on how the the public and the party feel about. Donald Trump by the time twenty twenty eight rolls around, and if he is attached to the hip to Trump as indeed Vance is, it's a good question.

Well, that's a liability or or or benefit. I think it might end up being a liability. Interesting. I think I think it's going to end differently. I actually do because once the Iran thing is done, I think a lot of his policy is going to go in the place.

I think it's going to be up to him to start solidifying into. Legislation, so we don't get whiplash if a Democrat does win. I just don't think that Vance is as popular as he thinks he is with Republicans. Yeah, there's also this that Democrats have a problem because they're running this time, but what are they running on? They're running on their opposition to Trump.

Well, Trump is about to be gone in a couple of years, so what program have they announced that anybody's Going to look at and say, well, this is what they're for. They haven't. They're not for anything. They're against Trump. Everything else is utterly secondary.

So they're a party without a program at the moment. And I think it would be to their benefit if they had one, but they don't. Yeah, it's really the same thing they're doing now in twenty six. They're a party without a program. Wealth tax is that something to run on?

Well, Medicare for all, really? That's not serious.

So it's it's just I'm going to make things more affordable.

Okay, by what? Talking about it, I haven't seen anything. New Kennedy said, "Contract for America." I knew exactly what we were getting. Yeah, I remember Bill Clinton campaigning, much as Trump is campaigning now across America in 1994, talking about the. Contract on America, as he called it.

I was covering the White House at the time. I remember thinking, you know, this might this might be effective. It wasn't. Go get him, Brit. Always educational and informational.

Thanks a lot, Brit. You go get him. All the best, Brian. Thank you. Back in a moment.

From breaking news to big name guests, Brian brings you insight you won't hear anywhere else. You're listening to the Brian Kilmeade Show. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Donald Trump says there that any Jew would be ashamed to vote for Abdul, and there's a debate among Jews in Michigan about whether to vote for Abdul.

Jews in Michigan have a moral obligation to support Abdul. They should do it to protect themselves from anti-Semitism and rising hatred in America. What are you even talking? How could that even be? What are you thinking about?

So vote for Abdul, who doesn't like Jews or Israel, couldn't answer the question: Who's a bigger enemy of this country, Israel or Iran? To protect yourself against anti-Semitism, make your deal with the devil. I mean, I mean, not saying this guy's the devil, but you make your deal with an enemy who clearly is an enemy of your community. Come on, are you crazy? What kind of thought pattern is that?

See, there's two things that I don't understand. I I'm looking at the polls, and and I see that he lost the Jewish community. He can't get the black vote. He has the youth vote, but Democrats tend to get the youth vote.

So Mike Rogers, who barely lost last time with Donald Trump, and he listen, Mike Rogers, this is to advantage is not a Trumper. He doesn't. He likes. He respects Trump. I've talked to him.

I'm friendly with him. He respects Trump, but that's not his. A lot of his policies are not like are not Trump's policies, so he wouldn't be a Susan Collins Murkowski, you know, sand in the gears. But he's not signing off on a lot of stuff. He's more like, you know, he's he's more like Tom Cotton, I would say, more like Marco Rubio when he was in the Senate.

But you know, he's going to go in there. He's going to talk about intelligence. He's going to talk about law and order. But I just don't know why it's close. I can't figure out why it's close.

And Mike Rogers did the hard thing. He said, "I'm just going to camp out in Detroit, and I'm going to try to win over the black community. I'm going to let them know that that I want their vote." Now it looks like he's got up to 22 of the vote instead of 15. How could he be losing? Brian Kilmeade from high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City.

Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmeade. Can you believe we got another hour coming? Way Martha McCallum will join us. Got to urge you to get the YouTube channel, youtube.

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So just make sure you become a member, or if you know you're watching YouTube, just make sure you follow us. The president United States going to be busy today. What's new? He is going to be in Ohio, back there, trying to get Senator Eusted across the finish line, and a lot of Congress people to see if they can have some success there, including the governorship.

So we'll see where that goes. Thursday is going to be in Rock Hill, South Carolina, because it looks like. Wow, it looks like Graham is having some issues there. Daytona Beach, Florida, Friday. He probably wants to be near his house because I guess.

The governor's race is tighter than many people thought because Dave Jolly is is a Republican. They just flip parties in order to run, and and so, but he's just a Trump hater. Then it's back to Kansas on Saturday, finishing up in Iowa on Sunday. I wouldn't be surprised if he put something on the board on Monday.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. If that corruption leads in the direction of impeachment, it will lead wherever it leads. We'll impeach him. Do you think Democrats should impeach the president?

Yeah, I think we should try. This really terrible. The Dems gained power. What would they do?

We have a clue. I'll let you know what it is. And I think it's very important to understand that they're going to have some huge problems if they do, in fact, get the House because they got about five or six flat-out socialists who have some bizarre policies that even Democrats will have trouble dealing with. But it's going to be jammed right. Down Hakeem's throat.

Number two, President Trump is going to make a decision here. I think it's going to have to be a comprehensive military campaign. It cannot be wack-a-mole. What the United States did before, it's going to have to be broadened. That and our partners, our Gulf State partners, are going to have to come alongside the United States.

Yep, that would be great, wouldn't it, Iran? Attracting more ships and hitting more ships in the Strait, but oil is powering through as Trump and our Gulf allies are putting together a battle plan, of course, with a key partner, the IDF. Hopefully, making it enough to get clear victory in Iran. Number one, I got elected because of high prices. Because you know they had the high price.

I didn't have the high price. It'll be like a blink. Gasoline and diesel prices will soon come down. They'll come plummeting down for the for the consumer. Yeah, they'll be coming down.

There's no doubt about it because he has policies in place that will do just that. Democrats don't, but have Republicans done enough to make it clear a midterm loss will not make things more affordable. They don't even have a plan to make things more affordable, except for prematurely ending a war, which President Trump's ultimately going to make the decision on before any type of shift in power or new people come in or out for the next in the next cycle.

So, let me give you an idea of how important these midterms are to both parties. In Senate spending, three point two billion dollars. In House spending, three point two point three billion dollars. In governors' races, two and a half billion. And overall, Trump's midterm blitz—you know where he's going.

Absolutely everywhere. It means a lot to him. For Obama, he's gone the—I love what Town Hall said. Town Hall, the magazine, says Barack Obama's amnesia tour. Rallying in Cleveland this weekend, the former president told the crowd his 2015 nuclear deal kept Iran from getting a nuclear bomb without firing a shot—just diplomacy.

He said, "Until Trump walked away and started his own war, it's a great story." If you have a memory of a goldfish, more than a hundred gigawatts of coal. Coal has retired since 2010, according to Electric Choice. That's capacity that could power about 40 million homes, close to a third of American households. The bill landing in your mailbox today was written by the Obama years. This is guy that had no idea about power.

What he did is he benefited from the advent of, with nothing to do with him, the fracking, the fracking boom. That was happening since the seventies. They finally got it right during his term, so it was shale.

So he didn't want to drill, but when you got to shale and what they did to get it out, that was a whole different animal. But it certainly benefited from him. But by the time Trump got in power. The economy was a mess. He started cutting trade deals, and we started moving forward.

He's got about twenty deal trade deals already. He's going to land the one in Canada eventually, and he's going to get the one in Mexico too. These are the types of things that turns economies around, and that's what Trump tried to say yesterday on the stump. Cut two. But if you have any doubt before you go and vote, pick up your four hundred one k's and check it out.

You see that you have made more money than you've ever made in your entire life: sixty percent, sixty five percent, fifty eight percent. People are telling me right now, my wife is in love with me. She thinks I'm like a great investor. Sir, my wife finally loves me. She thinks I'm a genius.

Darling, you're really good at this, aren't you? Yes, darling. Here, we're up 64 percent. Yeah, so that is there's some investments you're in the stock market you absolutely are benefiting. You have a pension, pension fund.

You've got to be absolutely benefiting. But they're just talking about the day to day things where it is up higher than usual, and the president was in the process of bringing it down. But the wars brought things up. But it also has increased our production. We also have not appreciated the big beautiful bill.

The tax returns got kind of plowed over by the increase in gas prices. That's going to be there again next year.

So that's going to put more money in people's pockets in 2027 for sure. But the other thing to keep in mind is when it comes to a different policy. If you look at New York and you look at California and you look at what they're doing, trying to do in Illinois, they're trying to get rid of gas cars. They're trying to make you have an electric car. Is that really part of your lifestyle?

I mean, that's what you're voting into office, and that ultimately, which we're going to be talking about leading up to 28, if that's your thing. Speaking of 28, Marco Rubio was in the area, traveling with the president because he was going to go greet the first Venezuelan oil shipment that was coming into Texas. But he was on stage, and as usual, the president brought him up. Man, the crowd went wild. Cut six.

Marco Rubio. We love Marco. He's so humble. We love Marco. He's done a great job.

You know, we'll drop him off, and we're going to drop Marco off. And where's Marco? Come here, Marco. Marco, come up. Come on.

Thank you. It's an honor to work for the greatest country in the world, for the greatest president in the history of the United States of America. We love you, Texas. Thank you. He's got to be short because you want your Secretary of State campaigning.

You can't have it. You know, you really can't have your AG out there. But sometimes he does. But I would keep it separate, and Marco Rubio should stay above it. But if he's gonna, if he's not going to run, and if he's going to be a running mate of JD Vance, he's going to have to quit his job.

I'd hate to see somebody else running the State Department. Although, I think Brian Mast is a dark horse to be really good at that or defense. Should that ever open up? But what will Democrats do if they get into power? They got a huge problem.

Big story in Axios today: a group of six progressive House candidates in safe Democratic seats is already coordinating how to wield power. They got a name for themselves now. Instead of the squad, they have informally named themselves the Block, which matters a lot because they're going to block everybody's agenda until they get what they want. Also, they're going to work together as a block.

Now these are extremists. I mean, the extreme of The extreme Chris Rabb, flat out socialist. Donna McKinney of Michigan, a socialist. This guy Adam Hamoui, Hamoui. This guy worked with the blind Sheikh.

Talk about a radical Muslim.

Now they said he testified against him, but what was he doing with him? This guy was the one who mentored Bin Laden. Claire Valdez for New York, an ultra-lefty. Dolorisa Avila Chavalle, an unabashed hater of Israel, who would says she wants to wipe her brow when sweaty with the American flag. Malat Kieros.

Of Colorado, absolutely repulsive. Together, they're going to form the block, and they're going to jam things down Hakeem Jeffries' throat. If, of course, this is as close as what Johnson had to deal with.

So, what else are they going to do? Cut seven. Our focus needs to be on bringing costs down.

So, our oversight should focus on that. It should focus on the corruption that is driving costs up. If that corruption leads in the direction of impeachment, it will lead wherever it leads. We'll impeach him, but then we will be focused on improving the quality of life for Americans. Do you think Democrats should impeach the president?

Yeah, I think we should try. I mean. You remember how tedious that was? Twice, how everything just stopped, and we watch people give speech after speech after speech after speech, and finally came to a vote. Everything's on party lines.

Never got close to impeaching him, especially if if the Republicans hold the Senate. I mean, you literally—I don't even think I'll cover it. I don't think we'll—I'm not going to cover it. It's just a total waste of time. Kamala Harris, I agree with what she says here.

Cut eight. I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea.

Okay, just to be honest with you, I just because we have limited resources, and I think the energy and the resources need to be put into accountability, need to be put into investigations, and that's where the time should be spent. Yeah.

If if they have some programs, they should do it. If they actually want to tell us the world is going to end because of global warming, no one's buying it. They're going to tell us we don't need a strong defense. No one they could possibly buy that story either.

So what are you going to say that that the Trump family made money? That's going to keep you busy. Let it keep you busy. But you know the one thing is when Trump was running in 2020, they knew we had four more years. When he was running in 2024, they knew he had four more years.

But now that you're in the backstretch, the last two years, I think they're got just like Britium told me in a previous hour today. They're still hung up on Trump, and it's nothing to run for. I don't believe that Trump has a 34 percent approval rating. I think it's probably like 43, 44, and I think the minute this war comes to an end, with a possible thumbs up conclusion, however we decide that looks like, you're going to watch those approval ratings go sky high. And people are going to be compared to him nonstop because no one can dominate a news cycle like him.

That's when we've proven over and over again, even if you think it's something negative.

So let's talk about the most intriguing race there is, and that's Michigan. Hassan Piker is there. Talking a little in Minnesota, Elon Omar, which is not really her name, she's somebody that might be deported. Just marked by words, certainly finds herself in some legal trouble. But listen to what Sean Piker does.

Puts himself right back into the news cycle. This is panicking the left. Cut seventeen. Not even going to bring up the Republicans because they are the Muslim American force in this country. They're terrorists.

Think that helpful? You think that's helpful for Amy Klobuchar to say Republicans are terrorists? You never say that. It's not going to work, especially when anyone went over Republicans to to not only govern but to actually get some votes. I never really heard Republicans referred to as terrorists, but then again, I don't listen to the Twitch feed of Assange Piker.

Cut eighteen. The Jewish community is saying that your comments is making it unsafe. Zionism is not anti-Semitism. I will always fight against anti-Semitism, and I find all bigotry to be morally repugnant and completely unacceptable. But I also find it a real shame to constantly complain about people who are outspoken on the issue of Israel's genocide.

Yeah.

Number one, it's not genocide. No, no reasonable person would say it's genocide. Nobody would say that Israel doesn't have the right to defend itself and actually extinguish the ring of fire that was threatening their existence. That's exactly what they did, and that's a message to everyone: If you're going to start assembling huge arsenals to destroy Israel, you're going to get destroyed before you can finish off that huge arsenal.

So let's fast forward over to Ohio, where John Yosted might be, if I believe the polls, three points off. Here he is yesterday, cut twenty six. The people up here love their country; they will fight for it, they will sacrifice for it. But the Democrats, many of them—I won't say about all of them—but many of them don't love their country. They don't recognize the greatness of this nation, and they certainly won't sacrifice for it.

They use it as an instrument of their own desires, their own ideology. If he's within two points, I think he wins. If it's distance eight points, like for example, I'm here. Minnesota is so tight, and it's two of three points, and then today fourteen. CNN poll, New York Times poll.

What do you believe? Really, fourteen points? You kidding? But if you want to know an agenda for the Democrats, here it is: Kamala Harris. I want to expand the Supreme Court, nonstarter for me.

I want to get Puerto Rico and DC statehood. Are you kidding me? You're just going to just arbitrarily nail two states. DC is not meant to be a state. Nobody thinks it should be a state.

It's not a state. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth bathed in poverty. They can't keep the lights on. We have to inherit that without a vote. Just going to jam it down people's throats.

Going to get rid of the filibuster and do it in a simple majority. That would be. This is what they're going to do, and they're going to run on cutting off aid to Israel. These are some of the things you can expect them to debate on on the on the on the stage. When they they'll get into double figures.

I just laugh when they only have six people up there. It's going to be about fifteen people up there.

So we're going to take a short timeout. Come back and I'll talk to Ron with Martha McCallum. One eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine. Just a quick note: I'm going to be in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, promoting "Uniting the States: The Six Crucial Moments That Forge the American Miracle." It is a special on Fox Nation, and it's doing it's top three on Fox Nation. You should check it out.

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You are with Brian Kilmeade. If you thought everything cost too much before. Guess what? Everything costs more now. Your mortgage, your health care, your utility bills.

Interest rates are up, and then there's gas—four dollars a gallon, five dollars a gallon. Diesel over six dollars in climbing. Iran didn't have nuclear weapons. We had curbed their nuclear program because I put in place a deal that everybody acknowledged had kept them from getting nukes. I didn't have to fire a missile.

I engaged in diplomacy. We need to rein in the cost of child care so young families can afford it. We've got to make sure no one has to worry about high healthcare premiums.

So President Obama has such a twisted view of his foreign policy and domestic policy. Healthcare premiums are through the roof. Massive subsidies are needed, government spending in order to keep his program afloat. And even Joe Biden had to pass subsidies, but he knew he couldn't pass them without a sunset.

So when they sunset, they blame Trump for not continuing them. A bad policy that nobody wants. A mandate that he made everybody get Obamacare, but the Supreme Court said you can't do that. And free. Country, and then he talks about the JCPOA putting Iran in a box.

In what box was that? I know one pallets. I know pallets got there of cash, which they used to build up their ballistic missile factories, and now be able to try to. And you saw it. The ballistic missiles were not in the deal, and neither was I.

I. Eyewitness inspection. They used cameras, and Americans weren't allowed to be part of the delegation. Expecting it with the IAEA, they were allowed to enrich uranium, and they got unfrozen funds. And he thinks they kept him in a box.

It was so unpopular; it couldn't even pass the Senate, with it was majority Democrat. It was so unpopular that Ben Cardin. I don't think he ever voted against Obama. Didn't vote for it. That Chuck Schumer, Menendez, Goldbar Menendez, he didn't vote for it.

But he had a seat on the Foreign Relations Committee. You know, he's so popular that Chuck Schumer didn't vote for it. And every Jewish person in Israel said, "Are you kidding? This is a plan." The only reason why they didn't have a nuclear weapon is that Israel went out to assassinate. Allegedly, all their scientists and take apart their program.

They never even admitted they had nothing but a civilian nuclear program, and now they're saying our goal of getting a weapons a weapon has never been more real. They're saying that now. How's that program doing now? It's entombed. Pickaxe needs to be taken out, and that enrichment needs to be needs to be taken out.

Listen to Brian Kilmeade show. Make sure you watch One Nation Sunday at ten o'clock, right here, Eastern Time, right here on Fox. Don't move. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade.

What matters is not polls. What matters is people. And with the people I'm here with today, with the people I visit in communities like this across the entire state of Texas, there is energy. There's excitement because what Texans realize is there's so much at stake. They want to make sure Republicans, independents, and just people who love our great state they want to turn out and vote to make sure we keep Texas, Texas.

Texas values are on the line. Yes, that's Governor. Governor Abbott, within four points of holding on to that seat, it looks like he is. I've never seen him trailing in a poll, but I am surprised it's so close. He's been such an effective governor, a counterweight to the Joe Biden administration, to the Obama administration, an ally to Trump.

But that this is just a different cycle right now. Martha McCallum did not need to hear, not did not need to see me to hear me say that because she's going to be doing our election coverage and probably agrees. Everything's in play for Republicans and Democrats. It seems, Martha. Yeah.

It's great to be with you as always. I really think this is going to be potentially one of the most interesting midterm elections that we have covered, and this is my sixth round of covering them at Fox. I know you have too, so I do think there is a lot of very tight races out there. I just want to mention this story that just broke from the New York Times that claims that Mary Palatola in Alaska that her team. Literally searched Alaska for another man named Dan Sullivan, who they could convince to run against the sitting senator Daniel S.

Sullivan.

They found him in a fishing village. This man—it's—it's a just breaking right now. It is clearly an October surprise. I think that it. Could very well have an impact on the Alaska race, but I think we've all sort of had question marks about who is this Daniel J Sullivan who just decided, a former educator, that he was going to launch a campaign for the Senate from his tiny fishing village in Alaska, and his name is Daniel J Sullivan.

So this this reporting is pretty interesting from the New York Times.

So yeah, these are all things that could impact how these races are going to go, and they're happening fast and furiously.

So the staffer who set out to do this combed through voter records to produce a list of Dan Sullivan's. Correct. It was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state's Republican senator.

We know him well. And if Peltola's campaign or its allies could track down and persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for the Senate, the fusion could—the confusion they think could—gave Peltola the race. The plan worked this spring. A retired teacher from a tiny fishing village from Alaska's Panhammel. Reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy in the Senate.

His name was Dan J. Sullivan.

Yeah, it goes on to say, Brian, that the the Pelotola campaign has denied that they had any connection with this candidacy, but the New York Times says that they found, based on interviews, they have text messages, they have documents that were prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign. That not only did Miss Pelotola's team work with people trying to recruit Mister Sullivan, but that the effort was much broader. That they worked to coax other would be spoilers into the race to dilute the incumbent support and help catapult the. Democrat to victory. That's a quote from the New York Times.

And you know what makes this even more insidious? They're taking advantage of the rank choice rank choice voting. Correct. Because what happens is, okay, I like Peltola. My second choice would be Dan Sullivan.

Which Dan Sullivan? Right. Exactly. And then if you like Peltola, you're going to go for the other Dan Sullivan. Yeah, and and people do also have a choice whether or not they want to participate in rank choice voting.

So they could just not put something second, and maybe you know. Maybe Paltola voters go that route.

So it's, I mean, this is, you know, I mean, all campaigns do everything they can. They pull out the stops to try to to win elections. But I think this is something that will resonate with the people of Alaska. We'll see what kind of what impact it might have. It's a sparsely populated big landmass with not many people, so that's what makes it really, really tough.

So a lot of people say, "Listen, I can't vote. I'm not going to be able to take off a day and go 200 miles to a voting booth." Or I didn't think ahead of time. Where you hit the wrong Dan Sullivan already, so it's got to be S, and his middle name is not S, but they almost change it to S in order to do this. Paltrowia had a story come out by the New York Times says he treats your people hideously. That she fires people even after she won the nomination, that she's volatile, and you would think the character does matter.

They like the fact that she's actually from Alaska and does fish and do things that Alaskans do. But Dan Sullivan has been a remarkably effective senator, especially when it comes to the energy industry. The way he worked so hard to fight back against Joe Biden, who wanted to shut everything down. Yeah, I mean, I think that the the polling is very difficult, obviously, in midterm races, and I think it's always very tricky in Alaska for obvious reasons. But I think that many sort of smart observers of this that I've spoken to recently seem to feel like this is leaning in the incumbent Dan Sullivan's favor in Alaska, and this is the kind of story that could persuade people that you know that they want to stick with the.

Person they have rather than a person whose campaign might have engineered this. I think Peltola is going to have to come out today. She's going to have to make some sort of statement, some kind of reaction to this story if she wants to, you know, grab this bull by the horns and try to rein it down. And what they're doing is, Peltola campaign and the DSEC denied participating in efforts to recruit spoilers to the ballot in Alaska. Neither group addressed a detailed list of questions provided by the Times.

The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either campaign and did not recruit any candidates into the race. The campaign wrote in a statement. The DSCC sent a similar response saying it had no involvement in recruiting Mr. Sullivan or any other Republican candidate.

So that either is that's a flat. That is a definitive statement. It is.

So either you're a flat out liar.

So they're going to have to prove that. They're going to have to prove that. And the Times says that they talked to twelve people who participated in participated in. The plan. Twelve people who participated in it, or were told of the plan.

So this is, you know, this is. I just think their campaign is going to have to respond, and they're going to have to do so in a very forceful way if they want to tamp this down.

Well, the other dance Elvis just drop out. I mean, what is? How much does he get paid? I don't think. I think it's probably too late.

I mean, I think his name is probably on all the ballots at this point.

So he could drop out. Certainly, he could drop out at the last minute. I just don't know if it will change the ballots. Yeah, in a rare. Uh.

It is a rare for source to seek to retract comments made in previous interviews. The Times standards did not obligate reporters to comply with such requests. The Times have never agreed that these previous interviews would not be published. Rios, this is the guy who looks like he's changed his mind. Last week, the Times prepared to publish the article.

Miss Rios, who had planned to file a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Peltola campaign, contacted the Times and said she wanted to take back her previous statements. As we discussed, we're not going to be able to do that.

Meanwhile, the operation began in the summer of twenty-five to lure potential spoiled candidates onto the state's usual four-person race. Rios, in one early meeting, said aides with the DSEC introduced a veteran Democrat operative named Jared Kurtz to Rios and Anton McPortland, who at the time was Piltos' chief of staff. Kurtz, a native of Ohio, was introduced to a specialist in secret ballot maneuvers.

So there you go. This is what lengths they went to in order. To be Dan Sullivan, yeah, and it says that Kurtz told us when they found him. She said, "This is, I believe, Rios, and that that this other Dan Sullivan told them that quote she hated said he hated Trump, and if it was going to help Mary, he liked Mary. He didn't have any interest in being a politician, but if this could help." So Sullivan maintained that he entered the race on his own volition, did not respond to repeated requests for comment this past week.

So is he gonna? Is he gonna perjure himself? I mean, I guess not perjure himself because not going to be under oath. But is he going to flat out lie? Yeah, I mean, I think you know the.

The burden falls on him to explain how he got into this race and whether or not any of this is true. And as you pointed out, Platola and the Democratic re-election committees say that they did not. You know, I mean, I guess there's sort of a fine line. Like, at what point did this guy? Take it, um, you know, take it into his own hands and say, "Yes, I am going to register." And they'll say, "We didn't force him to register," um, but this is this it it it's fishy.

It's a fishy story up in Alaska today. Everybody, well, it's just a shame because this could decide the balance of power in the Senate. It could, uh, because if you look at Ohio, too close to call. You look at Minnesota, too close to call. You look at New Hampshire, perhaps too close to call.

You look at Texas. You look at now. It's now South Carolina.

Now South Carolina is neck and neck with Darlene Graham, so the rookie politician. Yeah, and you know, I mean, those are two places. I think Texas with Paxton and Darlene Graham in South Carolina, where the president really put his personal weight behind both of those candidates.

So, and those look like very, very tight races. And that's something that we'll be watching really closely. Yeah, we're gonna take a short timeout and come back. I want to talk a little bit to Ron. Also, Martha's got some real good news.

Her book is now in my hands. The book of our America's story of survival, gallantry, and grace that comes out. Shortly, right, Martha? November ten. It's on pre-sale now.

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Their focus is on survival, and what Besson is doing, Secretary Besson, in isolating Iran is the most significant comprehensive plan I've ever seen. Yes, but. As I said, there are other eight avenues, and we're gradually trying to shut down those overland routes and also the Caspian Sea. All of this will take time, and Iran is resilient. At what blackmail, smuggling, sanction evasion?

The idea that just because oil revenue is shut off, and that still will take some more weeks, based on estimates. There are other sources of revenue, and they will put the pressure on the people in terms of economic peril, and reserve money themselves to do what, just to survive. 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. That is Jackine today, and your thoughts, Martha?

Because we report in the Wall Street Journal, President plans on combining with the IDF and go back hard and fast into Iran. We know that two days ago we had the so-called Mecca Kids, the Mecca Conference of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan. I guess Turkey, Syria wants to join it. They had a meeting. I think Qatar might have been there too with Iran.

What do they talk about? What are they looking to do? I guess calm tensions and save themselves, but they know. This is their Iran still in power. What do you think is happening next?

It's so interesting because you know, for those countries, by and large, the isolation and diminution of the Iranian leadership benefits them over the long term. They appear to be trying to sort of pacify the situation and just sort of stick with the status quo for as long as they can. Do they think that Iran is going to stop hitting targets in Saudi Arabia? That's not going to happen. I mean, remember the Houthis.

Yeah, I mean, when you look at these. Jihadists over history, what they want is to have American bases out of the region and to diminish American power all over the world. I mean, look at what happened when Iran planned its plot against the airbase in the UK. What happened? I mean, understandably so, but we brought our planes back from there, right?

So every time we left Iraq, absolutely.

So every time we pull out of these areas, that is when you know the Iranian. Leadership and other groups as well, the Houthis, etc., that are backed by Iran, feel like they're winning this.

So I think President Trump obviously has an enormous decision to make, and the midterms. He has said in the past, you know, that ultimately he doesn't he doesn't care. It's not what matters. That what matters is the kind of legacy that he's left with as someone who has had an impact on the world. This is an area where we can have an enormous impact and.

It appears that there are plans being put in front of the president. For what he may do right after the election, in conjunction with Israel, and these are enormously consequential times.

So I would really advise people: you know, get out and vote. Number one. Number two, try not to get sucked into the trivial nature of some of what's going on in these elections. We just talked about some shenanigans that has been happening, reportedly in Alaska. But think about the big picture.

Think about American strength long term, our economic dominance long term. These are the issues that will define. Our generation.

So we know the UK plot was real. It looks like one of the guys at least was linked back to Iran.

So they were going to do something. Number two, the Wall Street Journal reports today that several Gulf countries are prepared for a short, intense military campaign.

So they were only talking about working with these Gulf states. The UAE seems game, but they're not speaking to Saudi Arabia. It would be beneficial if they worked it out. But Saudi Arabia, with a lot of military, doesn't know how to use it. Evidently, certainly protect themselves.

We also know the. U.S. military is sending a additional Patriot system to Israel from Texas to beef up the beef up their defenses ahead of time. I also find out that Steve Feinberg, who's got a key spot in the Pentagon, is doing a great job of upping mass production on interceptors. Going to make them a little less sophisticated, but more prevalent.

That's going to be key.

So all these things matter. And do we have the firepower to pull it off? I just want to know we have the game plan to pull it off. And that's just it. The problem is in the White House, and I'm glad there's a diversity of opinion.

But the people that didn't want the president to go in are trying to get his ear now, just to say, "Let it go, don't go back again." So that's the problem in the White House. You have two factions telling the president two different things. Yeah, I mean, it's hard. For me to see a way that that's not perceived as a weakness that will continue to be exploited in the years to come, that Iran will not reconstitute its nuclear plan. They don't care about their people.

So that the one thing that they are afraid of is an uprising of their own people. They've seen it happen before. They know what happens when you know when when a population turns against you. When you are a dictator, it is ugly for the people in leadership.

So. So I think that you know we we know that Bibi Netanyahu, who looks to be coming out of this election in a position of power, really believes that regime change is the only answer. Here is it risky? Of course, it's risky. Has it been successful in the past?

It's been checkered. But the question is: Is there a goal that changes the cattle that the Calculus of the Middle East. If this regime stays in power, and I think that the you know most of history points in the direction that it does not. Looks like Bibi Netanyahu has got more seats, and yeah, and I've the parliamentary system is a little different for me. I'm not claiming to be an expert on it, but the president's got to turn around and say whoever wins, go try to get a government together.

Question is, can he do a consolidated government with his opponent, who's a general and he likes? For the most part, that's the way I understand it. Or do you do a deal with the Arab contingent? There's two Arab contingents there.

So Michael Makovsky was on with me earlier, and he doesn't think that Bibi's going to look to do that. He thinks he's going to look to go with the general who he just beat. And and hopefully the president won't go. Will acknowledge that BB won, got more seats. Yeah, I mean the interesting thing to me is that all of the top three contenders agree on the most.

Substantial parts of the platform, and that is the destruction of Hamas, of Iran, and protecting the state of Israel.

So you know, it's not like you're, it's not like he's running against a dove who's saying, "Look, we just need to sort of make friends with everybody, all of our neighbors, and you know, try diplomacy." I think that the direction overall of Israel, if Netanyahu stays in power, regardless of the coalition that he puts together, because he put together, you know, a coalition last time that. Involved the most conservative elements in Israel, and he still managed to sort of consolidate his power and stay in the position he's got in the Middle East. It looks like the UAE might host the Ukrainian talks that are going to take place within two weeks. This is what to look for, I understand, by someone close to the negotiations. Look for this guy Oleshchy Oleshchy to come.

If he goes, he's considered a higher up and shows that they're serious. About these negotiations, if they just send technocrats there, they're not serious.

So, if you want an indication that they really want this to come to an end, that was one thing to look for. I think Zelensky will send the higher up people that be decision makers in order for them to move forward. But for Ukraine to give up land that they don't that the Russians weren't able to win, don't you agree, Martha? That's a non starter.

Well, it's a non-starter because they, you know, people live in those regions, and it's it's going to be complicated to extract them from them. Is on your show with three.

So, are we coming back after a break? No, this is it. I'm working on something for Alaska, so stay tuned. All right, we'll try to get you Dan Sullivan. Thank you, thank you very much.

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