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Get started at Vanta.com. From the Fox News Radio studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade. Hi everyone!

So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade show. We got a big hour coming your way. I'm going to get the latest on the Israeli elections with Neria Kraus. He's an Israeli journalist.

And hey, Iran, bad news. Netanyahu looks like he won. Going to put together a government.

So much for ruining his career. And you're not exactly. We'll see what's happening with Donald Trump. I actually don't think the Iranians fully understand our system, and that's fine. But they think that Donald Trump could actually leave the presidency after this year.

If he has a midterm, he has a midterm. If it goes good, it goes good. It's in your face. If it doesn't go good, he's still going to be in your face. He still got the military.

He still got his agenda. He still got executive orders.

So they don't know what's going on. Don't forget, by the way, get the YouTube channel, YouTube.com/slash/atthebriankillme show. A lot of people have discovered this show through YouTube.

So before we go any further, let me just tell you too about the GDP. It was supposed to have a staggering growth of 3.2%, which is awesome. It's actually 3.4%.

So it just goes to show you, when they finish off Iran, this economy is going to explode with opportunity, and it's already there.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. It should have been taken care of long before I came here. Other presidents or other countries, but other presidents should have taken care of it. And Iran will never, ever have a nuclear weapon.

Yes, you can clap for the JCPOA and Barack Obama, but you'd be clapping for a bad plan. This is the new one. Are we going back to a full-scale war war in Iran? The VP tries a hail mary to an IRGC leader as the Pentagon fires its key war planner. That's bizarre.

We look at the options facing President Trump. Number two.

So there is, in fact, over the long term, no real sign that there is a systematic bias against Republicans in the polling. Democrats, Kate Baldwin, have actually beat their final numbers in the polling more often than Republicans have. Seems like almost every seat is in play as President Trump stops down in South Carolina to save Darlene Graham in the Senate seat after once again trying to pull Ken Paxson into the winner's circle in Texas. While Michigan heats up as the most intriguing midterm election, well, that hits a fever pitch. Number one, I think this is going to cost the Democrats the race.

I really do because they've denied it, but their denials are are just compounding their record of lying on this issue, and this is not a small matter. And it isn't Mark Halpern. This can't stand. The scheme to defeat Dan Sullivan in Texas and flip his Senate seat exposed by none other than the New York Times, citing twelve separate sources. This could decide the balance of power in the Senate as Dems scramble to explain, and nothing is working because the facts are in their way.

The GOP pushes for justice before election day.

So let me give you an idea what's going on. Essentially, in twenty twenty five, when it's clear that Mary Peltola. Was going to be the Democratic nominee. Her staff obviously had so little faith that she could be Dan Sullivan, one of the most effective senators in the Senate. They said, "We have to go confuse the voters.

We have to go out and find other Dan Sullivans in Alaska and convince them to run." So they went to sports bars. They went to different events. They went ahead and looked. Through the internet and found Dan Sullivan. They finally found one Dan Sullivan.

I think Dan L Sullivan to run, and he says, "If it helps, Mary Peltola. I hate Donald Trump. Put my name on the ballot." Well, guess what? It got on the ballot, and it's thoroughly confusing. If you look at the ballot today, Mary Peltola is the only Democrat.

They have another Ruse candidate as a Republican. They got Daniel L Sullivan, and then they got Daniel S Sullivan, the real Dan Sullivan, on the ballot. He's fourth. And he's at the bottom, and it says incumbent. But it also is very confusing for somebody who gets the ballot.

They don't expect to see two Dan Sullivans down there. And now we know that it was flat out intentional. That Dan Sullivan, that they're using from a small town in Alaska, said, "I have no interest in running." This is diabolical. This should be illegal, but I am not sure it is. They cite twelve different sources.

They talked about the extent they want to find it. They also say that Pell Tola knew about it, knew this whole thing was going down, knew. The extensive operations that were underway. What does it say about you that the staff thinks you are so bad and so unelectable that they gotta come out with a scheme to defeat you?

Now it's a red state, but it's always close. Always close. And that's why one or two percentage points could make the difference. People confuse hitting hitting the wrong box could destroy the election for the right winner.

Now I'll never believe that Peltole won ever. No one will ever buy it. And can you imagine if it decides the balance of power in the Senate? And that's not a that's not a crazy thought.

Now, meanwhile, the DSAC, the DSAC says they're not involved, but the reporting shows elsewhere they are involved. Peltola advisors seemingly making fun of voters in their focus group. Do we really have to scheme for you as if they're too dumb to figure it out? They try to figure out if people will really be duped by this, and in the focus group, it came out they could.

So here's the deal where the case stands. The second Sullivan remains on the ballot following the Supreme Court ruling in in June. They knew this was going to be a problem, but they didn't think they'd be able to unweave the scheme behind it that goes right to the candidate. Alaska's election officials are seeking are seeking to dismiss Petow's campaign, and the DSCC have also suggested dismissing the case against them. The DOJ.

DoJ now wants an expedited discovery into the alleged recruitment of the other Dan Sullivan.

So Lisa Murkowski, who really hates Trump and is not a traditional Republican like Susan Collins, is always voting contrarian. She says this. While some may try to make this this. Office, it's my printer's running out. Just how people might say, this is just how politics work.

Ballot stacking should have no place in our electoral process. Run and win on your own merits, your own views, your own policy, your own ideas, your own achievements. By contrast, recruiting candidates to manipulate the field and influence voting outcomes is simply wrong. Alaskans deserve an honest truth from Mary Patola and her campaign, and have been. And have been hmm, and have been well.

I can't read that word of a pat that they've been been subjected to a pattern of lies and cover-ups.

So she goes on to she sounds just as outraged as I am, which believe me is rare. Here is Mary Paltola trying to explain this away. To me, not effectively cut for. This is just another distraction. It's another diversion.

Every day, it's some new, you know, look over here moment. Not Dan Sullivan, registered Republican incumbent, voted for this war in Iran fourteen times. Lisa Murkowski quit voting for that war in Iran six months ago, and he's doubling and tripling down. And this is not somebody who's working. Hey, listen!

Listen! Wait! Wait! Listen! Listen!

If she was so sure that the issues would carry the day, she wouldn't have putting up a new Dan Sullivan. Wouldn't have paid countless dollars to send her staff out to do it.

Now, the reason why this was unwound, she is such a monster, according to the New York Times, with her staff. The huge temper hit one of her interns. This staffer was fired the day she won the nomination, and he wanted this guy Rios or this woman Rios goes out and tells the whole. Story. Then she gets panicked and tells the New York Times she's retracting everything.

Tough. She's already on the record about the allegations. She still tried to explain it away. Cut five. It really is a head to head.

Though there's another Dan Sullivan, as we all know, Daniel J. Sullivan from Petersburg. I don't really think there's much confusion there because Dan S. Sullivan. Paren's registered Republican, incumbent.

You know, there's just that's how his name will be seen on the ballot. But anyway, Dan Sullivan is making hay over you know allegations that are completely unfounded and silly and a diversion. No, she doesn't sound defensive because on the 21st, the story hadn't been exposed.

Now we find out she's known about it for over a year. Over a year, you are pathetic, absolutely pathetic, and I wouldn't mind. But Dan Sullivan is one of the most competent senators in the Senate, and Democrats would tell you that too. I mean, he's more of a traditional Republican, likes Trump, but he does his own thing. He's about strong defense.

He served in the military. He's about oil and gas. Push back when exposed how they were slowing down oil and gas production coming from Alaska during the Biden administration. It is just to me, it is just sickening.

So where do they go from here? Here's Todd Blanche, cut eight. According to the New York Times article, he was using fake names, and and a PAC associated with her campaign actually paid one of his organizations a tremendous amount of money. And so, we filed a lawsuit last week. I expect you're going to hear more from the Department of Justice this week as we as we learn more information.

Yeah, I hope so. I don't know what you could do though. The ballots already printed. You could get rid of the ranked choice voting because what it is is, so you go out there and you go, okay, I like Mary Peltola. I don't really dislike Dan Sullivan, so I'll put him number two.

With Dan Sullivan, you put number two. I don't think Alaskans are dumb, but sometimes you could be a little careless.

Sometimes you don't expect two Dan Sullivans and Dan Allen. Dan, ask who's who.

Well, it says in comment down there, but you could be doing things quick. You got a million things to do in Alaska.

Sometimes you go five hundred miles to get a voting place, according to reports. I've never been there, and all of a sudden, just let's say five percent make a mistake—that's the election. If I am to believe the polls. By the way, the CNN poll is a joke. It has it has the Pennsylvania race now fourteen.

Excuse me, the Minnesota race now fourteen points. Really? Are you kidding me? Flanagan is up 14 points from two to 14, and now has her up five points. Five points—it's crazy.

But Mark Halpern, a great analyst, I think a very fair analyst. He's got his own thing too. He doesn't answer to anybody. He said this about what a big deal this story is. Cut one.

And the Democrats said they had nothing to do with this other Dan Sullivan running guy. Guy whose past was a little unclear, but seemed to be a Democrat. But nonetheless, he said he's running as a Republican, also named Dan Sullivan.

Well, the New York Times talked to a bunch of people and saw text messages. That suggests, face value, that here's who was involved in the scheme. I call it a scheme to get this other Dan Sullivan to run her campaign, Mary Patola's campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the law firm of Mark Elias, the Democratic election super lawyer. If you haven't read the story and you're interested in politics and journalism, I highly recommend it to you because there's a lot of interesting things in it. First of all, they saw the text messages.

A lot of the story, although it had multiple sources, is based on a woman who was a senior person in the campaign who was fired in a big campaign shakeup right around the first round of voting. That woman went back to New York Times after doing extensive interviews with the Times and said, "You know what? I'm out. I don't want to be quoted." You may not quote me in your story. I am not a source for your story.

And the New York Times policy is no no givebacks, no takebacks. You did the interviews, and they were on the record interviews. They weren't on background or off the record. We're going to use the material.

So I don't know how that lady feels, but presumably not that great because she didn't want to. She didn't want her stuff used. More from Alpern Cut Two. If you're someone who thinks that the New York Times is in the business of destroying Republicans and just trying to help Democrats, I have to say I may be wrong, but as best we can and as best we can tell, there's been no coverage of this in the Alaska media yet. They're like twelve hours behind, so most of them are still asleep or shucking oysters or whatever it is they do.

But I think I think this is going to cost the Democrats the race. I really do because because and they've denied it, but their denials are are just compounding their record of lying on this issue, and this is not a small matter. It's one thing to play hardball, and you know, all over the country, you got Republicans getting green candidates on the ballot, Democrats getting libertarians on the ballot. That happens everywhere, and and and people can decry it, but it happens. But this is different.

This is if the if the New York Times story is to be believed, and the public statements are to be believed, the Democratic campaign said, "We got this funky way of voting here, and boy, our chances of winning will be a lot greater if we get a second Dan Sullivan on the ballot.

So let's go out and find one." And According to the story, they looked all around for Alaska. There are other Dan Solvins in Alaska, common name. They found one. They they they worked with some shadowy figure from Ohio to get him to run, and and then when they were asked about it, they lied and they said we had nothing to do with it, no knowledge of it whatsoever.

Now the candidate might might try to get away with saying, "Well, I didn't know what my team was doing," but they didn't even say that. They said the campaign had nothing to do with it. And we know they did. They, they did. And I'm wouldn't surprised if Christine Gillibrand, who plays the same role as Tim Scott for Democrats, you know, she's head of the committee to to reelect, you know, Democrats in the Senate.

How could she not know? Of course she knew. I didn't know anything, or it's not a big deal. That's not going to fly. And now it looks like the governor's doing an investigation.

I don't know what they can do though. They they can't get rid of all the ballots. I mean, or they could just decide as a state. Can they decide no rank choice voting? That would be something I would think would be fair.

Or you kick any any Dan Sullivan if you vote for any Dan Sullivan goes to Daniel S Sullivan because the other guy is not a candidate. He's only doing he said it. I only did this because I hate Trump, and I want to help Mary.

So this is it. Just to me, it's maddening. And if it was a situation where just one state, I would say no big deal. But you know, Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Texas, all these things are all these races are too. Kansas now are so close, so within three points.

Iowa, you can't afford to just lose a state to corruption. It's absolutely crazy.

So I just think the other thing is all these Democrats who said that Trump is trying to manipulate an election—you all an apology. You owe him an apology. This is bigger than 2020. This is legitimate. If this is a if this becomes a, Mary wins, Peltola wins, and now the Democrats have control of the Senate, all hell is going to break loose.

All right. When we come back, I'm going to talk a little about the Iran War and fan out too with the president's been up to and his messaging. Another non-story in the New York Times talked about things are really down with the Trump team as he goes from state to state to state. Then you read the story; they're not down. I talked to the people over the weekend.

I was at Angelina Shaw's wedding. They're not down. I would tell you when they roll their eyes. This is that I've been. I've talked to the Trump White House the first time and this time.

I know when tensions are high. They are not. They are not, and the story doesn't reveal tensions high. The headlines makes it seem like they're coming apart, expecting disaster. They're not.

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It's Brian Kilmeade. I heard the president was not happy when I joked over the weekend that he's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory. I am the father of two daughters. Do you think? I could have survived their childhood without going to the Cheesecake Factory.

That was my jam for about a decade. Of course, the real problem is prices gotten so high. A lot of folks can barely afford to go out to eat. Yeah, nice try. You put down you you you're the one who said it.

You said Saddam Hussein Cheesecake Factory. That's what you compare the White House to.

So the Cheesecake Factory, obviously, you think is too gaudy. Obviously, you think it's too much gold. I don't know. I've never walked into a Cheesecake Factory, looked around, and go, "Wow, I hate this place." It's it's a common place. I I wouldn't say it's like Panera, which is affordable.

I'd say it's like a mid middle class place to eat. You could always know what to count on. It's got a huge menu like a diner.

So the president United States being smart says, "Okay, what's wrong with the Cheesecake Factory?" Anybody? And this Treasury Secretary went there. Went for lunch. He goes, "I just had a great meal." I don't know what Obama thinks about the cheesecake factories that detached to think he can put it down. But Obama is still missing the point.

Trump is brilliant, and his people around him are brilliant tacticians. They always have the sense when you put him down, his people get energized. When you put down things that he does, like liking McDonald's and you know going to going to everyday places, liking burgers, fried food—that's what a lot of people like.

So, whatever Barack Obama, I think you're getting totally torched on this, and your explanation makes the joke stupid.

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Once again, that's eight hundred five eight three five six seven five. Tax relief advocates, real solutions for real people. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmeade, and I think President Netanyahu and President Trump are good allies in this and doing it together. And I hope they stay together like they're doing right now.

And I hope Netanyahu with the Likud Party can actually form the coalition. It's going to be a little bit hard because the Arab bloc of the three coalitions have got more seats. This time than last time or before, and none of them, either Likud party or the Eisenkoff's party, want to to align with him as well because they're basically anti Netanyahu. But even the Likud and the opposition party don't want to join up with him.

So it's going to be a an organ a government that stays in place. President Herzog is going to let probably Netanyahu try and form a government, and they're going to continue and press the attack. General Kellogg breaking down what looks seems to be a Netanyahu prevailing with more seats than his opponent.

Now he has a chance. I don't not an expert on the Israeli parliamentary system, but has a chance to form a government. Of course, the president's got to ask Netanyahu. Clearly, he's a winner. He'll try to form a government.

He's got a choice: try to get some from the opposition party or from the two Arab blocs. Here to break it down to someone who does know the Israeli system well, Neria Krauss, an Israeli journalist, and she joins us now on Zoom. Neria first. How would you characterize this election? Hello, Brian, from Tel Aviv.

First of all. You can tell by now that there is no one winner or one specific loser in those elections. Everybody, everyone won and lost in different aspects of the elections. And for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it's going to be really tough to try and create and form a government. He may need to be able to persuade someone from the other.

Side of the aisle, someone from the Change Block, a Zionist, a pro-patriotic party, that he can try and convince to come and form a coalition with him. But at this point, the president of Israel needs to decide who's going to be the first leader, party, party leader that would be the one to try and form a government, and he may choose Gadi Eisenkot from the Change Block, the the front runner against Netanyahu. Netanyahu, who his his party got got less votes, but the block, the change block, also got less votes. But with the Arab parties, they they are able, in terms of numbers, to form a coalition without Netanyahu. But and this is a big but, many of Gadi Eisenkot's partners.

Said that they are not willing to have a government with the Arab parties.

So when you look at look at the bigger picture, it's going to be very tough for Yair Eisenkot to form a coalition. This is why there's no big loser or big winner in these elections.

So how many seats do you need in order to have the majority and have the control of the government? How many and how many seats, for example, did Netanyahu have so far as they continue to count? Right.

So there there are 120. Seats of the Israeli Parliament of the Knesset, you need sixty-one. This is all you need, sixty-one.

So Netanyahu in his last government, which has basically ended this week, he had sixty-eight, which is more than enough—seven, six more than the sixty-one you need. But in those elections, Netanyahu's bloc got less votes, which means less, less percentage percentage of votes. Which means right now he has about fifty-four, fifty-three. We'll see the. Latest results later on today, like the real one hundred percent votes, but it's about fifty something.

It's less than than sixty, which is not enough. The blockchain. Has about forty something, but with the Arab parties, they have more than sixty. They have sixty-seven, and this is why they are the only ones who are right now able to try and form a government. But again, it's a very, very tough mission for Gadi Eisenkot, the front runner against Netanyahu, because again, some of his partner, let's say Lieberman, he's a right-wing politician, well-known.

Elderly politician in Israel, he said. Also today he repeated that he won't like to form a coalition, a government with the Arab parties.

So what what the Change Block might try to do is to rely on those seats of the Arab parties from the outside of the government, which means they can join. The Arab parties can join in specific votes to help them form a majority. But then they would will not be a part of the government. But then you have to ask yourself: Is it enough to have a government of forty some members? Of the Knesset, when you all all you really need is sixty one, that's a big problem.

A lot of numbers out right right right now, I know. But when you try to figure that out, it's a real problem right now in the in the Israeli political game. And for Prime Minister Netanyahu, by the way, the best scenario would go to a re-election, but for the block change. That would be a huge problem. They manage to form their voters.

They manage to form this way of parties that manage to maximize the amount of votes that they get for Prime Minister Netanyahu. That may be a good idea to go for re-election for them. It's not so. Maybe, maybe Brian, and and that that would be huge in Israel. Maybe they're going to try to form a unity government, which means Netanyahu would try to lead a unity government with some of his.

Parties and some of the change block parties, but that scenario would have to have Netanyahu's willing to do that, and right now he is not willing to do that. Right, because he tried a unity government once before, and he didn't ever step aside. Right, so he's going to have trouble even if he commits to it.

So let me ask you something.

So the president, the way your system works, decides who should form a government, but I think he would be incumbent on him to give the first shot. To the one with the most seats.

So, would Netanyahu is he on a clot? Is he waiting for the president Herzog to say go for it?

Okay, exactly.

So you're completely right. And the thing is, every party leader would have to go to the president in the upcoming weeks. He's going to have like open the house of the president and meet every party leader, and they every party leader would say, I recommend this leader. To try and form a coalition, so of course the change bloc, most of them would try to recommend Gadi Eisenkot, and Netanyahu's parties would like to recommend Netanyahu, and then the president should take a look and really do this mathematics of okay, who has the most seats? But the thing is, right now, when you look at the Israeli political field, for example, one party leader, as I said, Lieberman from Gadi Eisenkot's.

Blockchain may not necessarily recommend Gadi Eisenkot. He may say, you know what? I'm open for negotiation with anyone, and then he may not come to the president and recommend him.

So it really depends on what's going to happen in the president's the president's house. But also, President Herzog, he said before that he he believes in a unity of government in Israel. He may try to push the sides to do that, and also he may also just say, you know what? When I look at the the political map, I see that Gadi Eisenkot the change block. I mean the Most seats are against Netanyahu, so maybe I'm going to try and give them the first shot.

By the way, Brian, in the past, it took a while, and it's not always working out on the first shot.

Sometimes you go to re-elections.

Sometimes you, you, the president has granted the option to the next runner-up.

So it really depends on what's going to happen, and in the upcoming few days, and whether the Israeli society would give legitimacy to the party leaders. To rely in within a government to rely on the Arab parties or not, it sounds very complicated. I think, like for Israelis, it's very much you know we've been through that so many times, so it's so easy to calculate that. But eventually, right now, what you can tell is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to, as a first step, trying to prevent. The change block from managing to vote for a new speaker of the house, right?

And that's the first step that they can actually do right now because they do have sixty-seven seats. They can vote for a new speaker of the house. They had forty seats. They had forty seats, but with the Arab parties. But I got to stop you there.

Why do why do they have an affiliation with the two Arab parties? They don't have an affiliation with them, and that's. That's a a huge problem for them, or you know, they decided that before the election. They said repeatedly.

Some of them said.

Some of the blockchain said repeatedly. We will not sit with an Arab. Party in our government, and when you look at the both of the Arab parties, one Arab party, Ram, is the smaller one. Also has an an Israeli Jewish guy with them. He used to be a politician, sort of like central right or central left.

Really depends how you look at him. And the other party, which is Briger, the joint list, it's called. It's also a problem for them to be a part of of of such a government, but they they already said we are willing to vote from the outside and help the change block.

So when you talk about vote voting an issue like Speaker of the House, they may vote together.

Okay.

So on an issue like Speaker of the House, you may see that as an easier task to do. And then, so so if you get Speaker, while you wait to see who the next Prime Minister is, what what's the difference if you have a Speaker or not?

So the the next prime minister to form a government—that's a whole new thing. If you if you have a speaker of the house, that may help you get more more rules, new rules, maybe change a few by by you know bureaucracy stuff.

So I want you to hear this Rabbi Menz. This Rabbi Menz was on Fox News at night, and this is what he said. He said Netanyahu came out the winner. Listen to this. Cut forty-five.

Israel has a parliamentary government, which people have to understand. It's not like okay, you you won and you're the president. No, you need 61 seats to be able to go and govern, and that's the issue. He has in the mid 50s. He needs to get just a few more.

The main thing. Bibi is going to come out of this, and they're going to. He's going to join in with the president, and together they have unfinished business to save the world from an evil tyrant, Iran. That does that sound like wishful thinking, or does it sound like legitimate analysis? I think Prime Minister Netanyahu is such an experienced politician, and he may be able.

We we used we used to call him the magician in Israel. He may be able to convince one of the parties of the blockchain to join him. He may be able to tell them, "I'm going to give you a lot of budget. I'm going to give you like the the highest important ministry of Israel," and he may be able to try and convince them. To join him.

By the way, that one politician that I already told you about, Lieberman, he's not been answering the phone calls of any of the leaders of the blockchain. That's just one since the election day, since the the the the results are in.

So you can tell, you know, something is always going on behind the scenes. Prime Minister Netanyahu, he is the most experienced and effective politician in Israel. And he's able to try and you know pull some strings and maybe maybe get himself another government, but it's a tough mission to do because the numbers are not for him. Also, the other side, the blockchain. They're not as experienced as Prime Minister Netanyahu.

We should say that they're not as experienced. It's a tough mission for them as well to try and form a coalition.

So you're combining numbers, experience, effectiveness, and and for both sides, it's not an easy mission to do. Both sides didn't get six to one. Again, unless you look at the Arab parties, but that's you know a whole. It doesn't seem like they're going to do that. Neria, Neria Kraus is our guest, he's an Israeli journalist talking to us from Tel Aviv about the election.

So, Neria, what does it mean in the interim?

Now we will have elections in November. No one takes power until January.

So, what does it mean today? You have a prime minister; everything stays the same. It becomes a caretaker government. Are they still able to make decisions, big decisions on the economy and on military strikes in Iran or elsewhere? They are able to do that.

They don't get the trust of the people as much because a lot of people are are waiting for a new government to be formed. But they are able to do that. And also, we should say, you know, that the the the security arsenal in Israel is up and running. It's nothing has changed for them. But they're also skeptical in terms of like they.

We saw that in the upcoming weeks before the elections. We saw that Prime Minister Netanyahu tried to do some stuff with. Iran, which we can't report everything, but he tried to do some actions, and the security council and said no, that's not a time, that's not something that is necessary at this point in time. And a few days before the elections, it may intervene in the democratic process.

So. This is a situation, a very delicate situation, a very tense one. But still, yes, Israel can do enormous things during those times. We've been there before.

Sometimes we had elections again and again and again, and during that time we had a government who was up and running and was just like the one from the last elections. And this is how you keep things going. But if you have a Knesset, a parliament that is against that government, it makes it harder. But again, as I said, Prime Minister Netanyahu is an experienced politician, and he knows how to handle this specific situation.

So I understand we have a Patriot missile battery arrived from Texas into Israel, and we know that there were high level talks with the Secretary of Defense and your Prime Minister last week or the week before. Prime Minister Netanyahu. We know the President spoke on Saturday to with Netanyahu didn't have the best conversation. Evidently, Netanyahu wanted to do something for election day. What percentage?

The population in Israel, from which you know of or just feel, is for going back and finishing, trying to finish off this Iranian government. I think that most Israelis, most of the Israelis, would love to do that, but they do understand that our abilities to do that. When I say are the Israel, the abilities of Israel and the U.S. combined, it's not as easy as it seemed before. I mean, before the last war, most of the Israelis were sure if we get into that, if we start doing that, Israel and the U.S.

together, it would, you know, end pretty quickly. Just like President Trump thought. And and Prime Minister Netanyahu thought, and and the Mossad people told the the U.S. government. Eventually, after that war, I feel like a lot of people understood that it's not as easy as it seemed.

It never seemed easy, but I'm saying that as a sort of like metaphor. To they thought we can use you know the the B two bombers, we can use the Israeli Air Force, and we may be able to make that government collapse. And the Iranian government did not collapse. By the way, the the economic pressure that President Trump is is now putting on Iran is is is doing an an amazing work. I think in in in managing to to crack this government.

There, it's not enough, but it's cracking them. And and I do think that right now Israel and the U.S. together they can do amazing things together. I'm not sure if it's enough to make that government collapse because we saw. A long war did not help that happen, but it's it is an option that is still on the table, and and in Israel they have some plans to do alongside the U.S.

Still got to finish off Hamas over in Gaza and see if they'll ever give up their guns. We'll see. Nerya Cross, thanks so much. A lot of exciting times, a lot of moving parts over in Israel. Thanks so much.

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It's Brian Kilmeade. I'm so glad you're there from 48th and Sixth in Midtown Manhattan. Heard around the country, around the world, it's a big show, a big hour. Of course, we have the governor sparring with Nicki Minaj. What else is new?

Why? Because the governor thought it was comical that Nicki Minaj has been mentioned as a possible press secretary. And when she put that out there, Nicki Minaj went at her and said, "Basically, you're evil and terrible." And then she said, came back at him and said, "Well, you're hanging out with Donald Trump. I go to too many rallies." So, Nicki Minaj, it's your serve. That's what's going on in New York.

There's another CNN poll that that Ben's left. We'll see if it's accurate shortly, but it's always bending left. That has Bruce Blakeman trailing by 14 points. I can't believe that, especially when he raised 5.4 million dollars last month and these. Racing upstate as is she to try to cut into his lead because she is Bruce Blakeman's winning upstate.

I think he's going to be winning on Long Island. The only thing she's got is New York City. Steve Hilton's going to be joining me. He's in a tough race, and he's got a lot of ground to make up over in California. But man, as he worked hard and as he's been impressive on the stump in a very tough situation, running for governor, Senate Minority Leader John Thune will be in studio.

He's on TV right now, but we're more important, and we're streaming too. And to prove that we're more important, look at my next guest. His name goes by his TV name, but I don't know what to believe anymore. After it turns out, Ilan Elmar used her real fake name.

So, Mark Teason's TV name and Washington Post name is Mark Teason, and you know that he and also is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Mark, how you doing? I'm doing great, and as far as I know, I haven't married a sibling, not yet. But you don't know. Not that you know of.

Not that I know of. Right.

Exactly. That's your answer, and that's my answer. Exactly. I'm sticking to it. All right.

First off, I got to ask you about how big you think this Alaska story is. If people don't know, the New York Times yesterday afternoon broke a story using 12 sources that showed over over a year, the Peltola camp, the Democratic nominee for Senate, has been out there trying to recruit other people named Dan Sullivan to run in the race to confuse voters and how. Have them vote for Dan Sullivan. Said of the Dan Sullivan, who's the sitting Republican senator, and it worked.

Now they're in a runoff. They've recruited another Republican to go on a ballot. We're ranked choice voting, and Peltola is reeling now, spinning. It's impossible to justify this. First off, Mark, what stands out to you about the story?

I'm not sure if it's illegal, but it's certainly unethical.

Well, certainly, if you're an Alaska voter. You should take two things away from this. First of all, Mary Patola lied to you because she said she had nothing to do with this, and we now know, thanks to the New York Times, and credit to the New York Times for reporting this—you know, broke the story. And it's not—you know, she can't blame this on Fox News. This is the New York Times reporting this story, liberal news outlet.

And number two, she thinks you are stupid. Because she thinks that you aren't smart enough to figure out who the real Dan Sullivan is, and if she just puts another Dan Sullivan on on the ballot, then then you'll be too dumb to to figure out who the real candidate is.

So she she's a she thinks you're she lied to you, and she thinks you're stupid. That's what you should take if you're an Alaska voter. As far as legality of it, it's intentional election fraud. I don't. I mean, I'm not a lawyer.

You can you can ask John U. or or Jonathan Turley to to weigh in on the legality of it, but it's certainly intended to be election fraud. And you know, I think there should be consequences for it. Absolutely. But Weimol, what can you do?

It's only days away, and the Alaskan's going to get a ballot, and the incumbent is down fourth. And it says Dan S. Sullivan, and it says incumbent, sure, and Republican.

Now you might say, of course, don't don't insult Alaskans; they'll figure it out. Yeah, maybe, but if if four percent don't, that could be the difference in the election. Yeah, no, it's exactly right. It it only takes a it only takes a you know a small per year. You just have to confuse a small percentage of the electorate in order to change the results, without a doubt.

I just want you to hear how defensive she sounds. Listen to this, cut four. This is just another distraction. It's another diversion. Every day, it's some new, you know, look over here moment.

Not Dan Sullivan, registered Republican incumbent, voted for this war in Iran fourteen times. Lisa Murkowski quit voting for that war in Iran six months ago, and he's doubling and tripling down. And this is not somebody who's working in our best interest. And anybody who's working in our best interest isn't going to talk about the nonsense. This is all stuff to sell newspapers.

This is all stuff to get subscriptions. Nobody at the New York Times cares about affordability in Alaska. This is so funny. You know that right-wing organization, the New York Times, dying for subscriptions, made up a story about an Alaskan Dan Sullivan. It makes total sense.

Finally, someone connected the dots.

Well, if she wanted us to talk about all those other things, maybe she shouldn't have have committed election fraud. You know, if you if you engage in election fraud, then people are going to talk about election fraud and not what you want to campaign on. I mean that that's a self that's a self inflicted wound. You know, I'm sorry, but don't you know? Don't look over here.

You know, let's let's let's focus on on Dan Sullivan. Which Dan Sullivan do you want us to focus on? The one who's actually the senator, the one you recruited. You know, I don't know what his position is on the Iran War, but but you know, why is he on the ballot? And here's the other thing.

You know, if you remember, like in 2022 during the midterms, when the Democrats spent millions and millions of dollars. Backing like fake MAGA candidates to to to to to to attack Republicans for being not MAGA enough like that, spending money like pretending they were Republicans attacking the the more electable Republicans so that they would nominate the voters would nominate the more less electable people. They constantly engage in in you know dirty tricks in order to win elections. It's like what you are you not like and just Abdul El Saeed running around saying that I you know I'm not you know why are Talking about what my family did in the 1970s. No, you you wrote an article in in 2011 endorsing the Muslim Brotherhood.

Like that's they they have to pretend they're not who they are in order to win, right? They have to do dirty tricks. They have to lie about their agenda. Like if you're if you're Abdul Salih and you support the Muslim Brotherhood and you are a socialist, why don't you just campaign on that and let the voters decide? Why do you have to?

Why do you have to pretend to be somebody you're not? Why does James Talerico have to pretend that he's not, you know, a guy a guy who who thinks that God is non-binary and wants to run a meatless campaign in Texas? Be yourself. They they know they can't get elected by just being themselves by just by embracing their agenda, and so they have to do dirty tricks. They have to do to have to lie about their agenda.

They have to lie about their records in order to get elected, and you know it's it's dishonest. Because they know that what they stand for isn't popular.

So, can you imagine if this election turns on Alaska, and she wins by one or two points? You talk about you talk about an angry country. You won't be able to contain it. Also, if my staff said to me, when you get the nomination, the only way to win is to get another Dan Sullivan and give a head fake to our constituents. It's an insult to Alaskans, and what an insult it is to me, who, according to this story, she knew all about it, and so did Gillibrand at the DSCC, even though they deny it.

So, I'll watch the way that matures. Along the way, I'm going to start a radio show and get another Brian Kilmeade. Right, and you try to try to get get try to get part of my momentum. This house, this house is on fire. By the way, I did Mark's podcast, and some are saying that it's the best ever.

It it it without a doubt is. Is it available? It it is available today. It's out today. Yes, you can go.

It's what the hell is going on podcast. Aei. Find it, find it wherever your podcasts are. Wherever your favorite podcasts are.

Okay, now let's talk about another area of your expertise, and that's Iran. Yesterday, J.D. Vance reportedly sent a Trump-approved letter to Iranian hardliner Mosin Rizai, seeking a framework to restart peace talks and avert another U.S. strike. The president had a different explanation when asked about that.

I was a little surprised by it, and he and he essentially said. Yeah, I just wanted to get humanitarian aid in, and I knew about this.

So, what are your thoughts about the reality?

So, I think the intelligence community has been pretty clear that the Iranians are not interested in a deal, and I think we've discussed. The president was right when he said the other day, you know, this whole ceasefire has been a waste of time, and he's right. It has been a waste of time. We wasted six months. This could have been over six months ago.

Guess who did the ceasefire? Guess who did the ceasefire? Yeah, guess who did the MOU? J.D. Vance, yeah, yeah, no, I mean, so like, look, first of all, I am not willing to concede that we're going to have the Republicans going to have a bad day on Tuesday because it's entirely possible these polls are wrong, you know.

But, but if if Iran does hurt in the polls, it's not the Iran war that's hurt us in the polls. It's the Iran ceasefire that's hurt us in the polls. It's not Donald Trump's decision to go to war. It hurt the Republican Party. It's JD Vance's decision to pursue the MOU and try and you know to pursue this peace process.

And so you know it's been a disaster. It's extended this conflict way beyond when it should have it should have been. This could have all been over and wrapped up by now, by election day. Gas prices could be coming down. Instead, we extended it.

For for no good reason, and you know the idea that we're suddenly going to try and you know go back to the peace process and convince them to pursue an agreement. Look, the Iranian the IRGC doesn't want peace. Vladimir Putin doesn't want peace. We we've just got to deal with reality. We, you know, I I understand like look, I understand Trump as a deal maker, right?

And he looks at like you know, and and Ronald Reagan was a deal maker too, by the way. He negotiated with with the Russians and got arms control treaties and everything. But he had to go through like four Russian leaders before he got a Gorbachev who was willing to do do business with him. Trump, whether it's in Iran or in Russia, he doesn't have his Gorbachev. He doesn't have somebody who's willing to sit down at the table and negotiate with you.

And if you don't have a partner, you could be the best deal maker in the world. And if you don't have a partner who wants to make a deal, then you're not going to get a deal. Exactly. And so, in both Russia and in Iran, we don't we don't have a partner who wants a deal, and we just have to we have to come around to that reality. Right, and the thing is, they want to delay a game, and that costs us a lot of money.

It costs us forty-eight billion already. It's going to be worth it to get rid of our number one enemy.

Now we have Netanyahu, who seems to have done pretty well in the election, and if he can consolidate government, he's at very least the the Iranian the Israeli people have said we got your back.

So they'll figure out the politics part of it. But Netanyahu is there, and it's got to drive the Iranians crazy, and as well as El Said. Mark, thanks so much. I appreciate it. Thanks, Brian.

All right, good. Listen to Brian on my podcast, not on his. Yeah, it was an honor. You and Daniel Plunkett do a fantastic job. For one day, I'm going to go with you on that.

Go for Mark Teason, or listen to both. Shut off your family for a while. You don't need to speak to your family every day. Too long podcasts is good for your mental health. Thanks, Mark.

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This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. Hey, we are back. Just finishing up this half hour. It's my privilege to bring in Steve Hilton, one of the hardest working candidates I've ever seen, doing the best he can to get known in California, get the nomination in California, and then get all the way to the point where we're four days away to find out if he's the next governor. Yes, he is trailing because it's a very blue state.

But man, in terms of the effort, the creativity, the conversationalism, the likability, Steve, I don't just say that. I mean, it's obvious. If I didn't know you, I'd be like, "Who is this guy? Why does he know every?" Everything about every issue. Why is he taking on all questions?

And the way you've been able to—I was watching the other day in the—I don't know what park it was—but you're complaining about the open-air park drug market, and now comes a drug addict. Clearly, a sad situation. And parks himself right in the park, and while you're speaking, to underline the problem that will not be solved unless you're elected. It's exactly right, Brian. I mean, that's why we've been running so hard and fighting so hard because I love California.

You know, moved here in 2012, my wife and my sons, and taught at Stanford, started a business, had a whole new career. As you know, we became friends and colleagues at Fox. I've had the California dream, but most people don't get a shot anymore at that. And it's this state that, as far as I'm concerned, is the best place anywhere in the world has just been ruined. 16 years of one party rule.

And it's a disaster. Almost every single measure that you look at in California, it's not just that we're doing badly; we're the worst performing of all fifty states. It's crazy how badly they've messed it up. And and the reason for that, I think, is a combination of far left ideology and governing incompetence. And that story you told there is a combination of those things.

Because on the one hand, that's MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. That's where. That was, and I've been back there since then. And in fact, that had been a little bit cleaned up because they knew that we were having a press conference there to highlight the fact that California taxpayers' money is funding that chaos. Because every day, non-profits show up at that location, as they do across California, handing out crack pipes, needles, and free drugs.

To people like that who need help, who need help to get off drugs, and yet we are funding them to stay addicted. And my announcement that day was that I'm going to stop that, get people off the streets, enforce the law.

Well, these homeless encampments are illegal, and and set up a network of homeless recovery centers around the state. And you look at that, and our plans on gas prices, and to bring down gas prices by stopping the insanity of importing oil halfway around the. World, when we have abundant resources, so get that straight. See, people should know this. They rather than drill and refinery, they shut down refineries.

They they eliminate offshore drilling, even though the president tried to do it. But they still need it, so they buy it from other countries. It's nuts. It's nuts, and it's it's actually so nuts. It's hard to even explain it in any way because we used to produce most of the oil in California that we use.

There are no pipelines of oil. Into California, either we produce it here or we ship it in on giant super tankers that are incredibly polluting because they run on bunker fuel, which is the dirtiest form of fuel.

So we used to produce about eighty percent; the rest used to come from Alaska.

Now it's flipped around. We import nearly eighty percent. Our top provider is Iraq. In the Middle East, below that, just below that, sometimes around the same, is the Amazon rainforest, Brazil and Ecuador. Oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest is being expanded to meet California's demand because Gavin Newsom and the Democrats are shutting down production in our state, mainly in Kern County, around Bakersfield.

It's totally insane. Here's the last one that you particularly will appreciate, Brian. This is a very Important detail because. Domestic production has been cut right back. As you said, the number of refineries has fallen from about forty to seven.

That means we don't even have the capacity to refine the crude oil that we are importing. I know.

So now we're importing about a third of the actual refined gasoline. Our number one provider for that is India. Where does India get the crude oil that it turns into gasoline? Russia.

So, as a result of Gavin Newsom and the Democrats' climate policy, California is now buying oil from Russia. Effectively financing Putin's war machine. Nobody talks about it. That's the direct result of Democrat climate policy. It's absolutely insane.

So let me—they just shut down another refinery. I understand too, and they're still looking in 2035 to get rid of selling oil and oil. I mean, gas-powered cars. Yes, and and and on top of that, exactly. The president removed that.

Federally, because they're using a loophole in the law to do it, but now they're trying to put it back at the state level. And this is the other. And on top of that, just last night, my opponent Javier Becerra announced that he's in favour of adding to the gouging that everyone who drives a car in California faces—the highest gas prices in the country, the highest car or truck registration, sometimes over a thousand dollars to register your car every year.

Now, a new thing—they're coming at you. With is is a mileage tax where they want to track every mile you drive and charge you for it on the argument that when they when people are doing all everyone's in EVs gas tax doesn't work. But look at the actual numbers today in California, the the proportion of vehicles on the roads that are EVs seven percent ninety three percent run on gas or diesel.

So this idea that they're just going to eliminate Gas is just a fantasy.

So, so right now, Steve, we're up against break. Only twenty seconds left. You got about a double-digit deficit. Can you close the gap in four days? Yeah, most of the other polls show us about half that.

If you add in the overstatement of Democrats, understatement of Republicans, we could be close to the margin of error. We got to fight all the way. We've got solutions for problems. Three dollar gas, your first hundred and fifty grand tax free. Just try it, California.

Thank you, Steve. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Hey, we are back. It's the Majority Leader, Senator John Thune, is in studio.

Senator, great to see you. Saw you. This is how empty my life is. I was watching on C-SPAN the other night, and you were with Senator John Yusted. Yes.

And you were at another event. And the sincerity you have for John Yusted—he's one of these guys. What like you is that he's just a workhorse, not a show horse.

So he's always doing work. Yep. But the profile is not as high it could be because you know even the interviews I do with him he says I can't talk about politics I'm in my office so because you can't so right so that's what you were up against in Ohio right it's almost name recognition for a sitting senator yep how did you handle that how have you been handling that well I mean I think with a guy that everybody knows yeah that's right and and I think that Houston and it's been great because when the president's in there and and there's so many things they don't know about the guy I mean he's got a power. Powerful personal story. You know, he was adopted.

He was a foster child, orphaned, and then of course goes on great parents, great great parents, and then who adopted him and then raised him. But then you know goes on. He's an all American football player, defensive back, Dayton, and so just great story. Real character guy, and in addition to be an incredible hard worker, so I still think at the end of the day, is as close as that race has been. That people want, if they want to, you know, pick a guy that's been around for fifty years in politics versus a John Husted, who's solid, hardworking, principled, and and and really smart to get stuff done for.

I'm going to get to last guy, I promise. By the way, you're kind enough to be in my book. Comes out next year. Games still count.

So is Senator Eustis. Oh, good, terrific. I'm one of the few people that knew about the Gruden connection and everything else. Yeah, and he's a fantastic guy, but. Can do in his office.

I know, I know, I know. It's funny. I just some other races. The fact that Collins is up a point, people passed his prologue. That should make you feel better about it, right?

But but I trust your polls better than the ones I see. Yeah, well, and I think what we're seeing is yeah, it's all it's all margin of error race, obviously. But we feel really good about where she is, and I think she and her campaign feel really good about where she is. Did the Canadian trade deal in hyperspace hurt?

Well, I mean, I don't obviously in a state like Maine, which is very dependent upon cross border trade, that wasn't a good development for her. But she's handled it well. I mean, she came out and and just said, "Look, that's created some separation from the administration on that issue," as she does on some other issues. But she has her own brand up there, and her opponent is, I mean, he's terrible. He's terrible, and Troy Jackson.

Yeah, I mean, he doesn't even look like he's into it. Doesn't even know the Iran policy. Right.

Doesn't even know how to criticize it. Yeah. Big. Exactly, and I think that's why, in the end, you know, and part of it, I realize, and people they're frustrated with the current administration or this policy or that policy, but they know Collins works hard for them, sticks up for them, is an independent voice, and I think she wins in the end. And also, not that it's your chamber.

But you could flip a seat. Jared Golden's seat could flip to the former governor, LePage. Right? Yeah, yeah, right. That's right.

And and and and that helps too. I mean, anything that helps in the turnout, Brown, and I think a lot of our candidates, honestly, Brian, this is what it comes down to in the end. It's getting the voters out, and there's been a real effort made. I was with even you know yesterday, spent some time. We did a fundraising event for John Sununu in Massachusetts, and in his state, they have they've knocked on four hundred thousand doors.

I mean. They've got a very sophisticated ground game. All the groups are collaborating and working together on identifying, you know, either you know, independent undecided voters who are persuadable, or you know, low low prop voters who are Republican voters. They're really working it.

So he had a debate last night. He had a debate last night, probably the first and only one. But he is not doing national media. Johnson he feels is always keeping it local. But it does seem like it's separating from to believe the polls with Pappas.

And now it was a two point.

Now it's four point five point. Do you believe it's heading in that? I know you don't want it to, but do you believe it's heading in that direction? And what would be the cause of that?

Well, I think part of it is you know the Pappas and his campaign. Like a lot of these Democrat candidates are trying to tie and link him to. President Trump. You know they're all trying to make this race about Trump in their states, but Sununu's done a really good job of localizing it, and it's a very New Hampshire-centric campaign that he has run. He's made it all about what he's going to do to stick up for voters in New Hampshire, and and I think too it comes down to it's going to be how those undecideds break.

But and and but and I think that Sununu is one of his latest ads. If you haven't seen it, says I haven't even met President Trump. You know, so they're trying to make it. I'm, I'm a rubber stamp for. I haven't even met the guy, and I think so.

He's and and you know Kelly A out the governor. There's running ten, twelve points ahead of her opponent.

So I think there are a lot of factors there that still work in our favor. We had the president United States going to help out Darlene Graham. I did see her over the weekend at at Ainsley and Sean's wedding. Yes, and she was looked a little unnerved by the poll poll that had her in a flat footed tie in South Carolina. What is it about?

Only the new candidate in a tragic situation that might not be resonating in South Carolina.

Well, I think part of it is you know she's just not she's new to politics and you know as a as a candidate and a campaigner had to come up on the the learning curve in a hurry. She's done that. She's very very smart. She's accomplished in her own right, and and she's in you know just in the amount of time that she was in the short amount of time she was in the Senate after Lindsey passed has demonstrated an ability to get things done. She helped guide that.

Russia sanctions bill across the finish line in the Senate got a big bipartisan vote and eventually got on the president's desk and signed into law.

So again, I think in the end, and part of the president put on hold.

Well, and part of it is too. She had those. She had those. She had the primary and then the runoff, and so they're out of money. They're trying to raise money in the meantime.

Her opponent's on the air, you know, without an answer for four or five weeks.

So trying to get money back into the race.

Now that she's been able to define her opponent, I think the voters of South Carolina have a Clear choice, and and I think that Annie Andrews is a far left liberal. Here she is, Annie Andrews, cut thirty four. I mean, really excited that people are understanding what's happening here in South Carolina. This New York Times poll really reflects what I've been feeling on the ground as we've been building this campaign over the past 18 months. I've been to all 46 counties, talking to veterans and nurses and doctors and farmers and fishermen.

Yeah, she feels. But what should what should we know about her candidacy?

Well, I mean, I think again, she's running away from all her positions. These candidates that are running in states like South Carolina, Democrat candidates. Who've held these far left positions, all of a sudden now are trying to reinvent themselves as some sort of moderate. They're not. I mean, these are people who you know.

Look at her positions on the trans issues, for example. I mean, it's pretty clear where she's been in the past, and and that's not going away. And I you know I always tell people that they're they're now talking about we're going I'm going to get there. I'm going to be a independent voice.

Well, my definition of a moderate Senate Democrat is somebody who's always with you when you don't need them. Because when push comes to shove, they're going to go with the team, and the team in the Senate right now with the Democrats is dominated. The Senate wing is the far left. It's the the DSA, Democrats Socialist of America wing of Democrat politics. That's where the the the you know the energy and the money and everything in Democrat politics in the Senate right now is, and that's where that's the that's the wing she's going to be answering.

I will say because there's no Joe Manchin. Do you consider him a moderate? Joe Manchin is a moderate. Yeah, I mean, and he's somebody who, and he's going to bat for Susan Collins. He's going to bat for Susan Collins, but that that particular.

Wing of the Democrat Party, particularly in the Senate, just is, and for all intents and purposes, non-existent these days.

So, this explosive story that came out yesterday afternoon about Dan Sullivan and Dan S. Sullivan is the sitting Senator Dan L. Sullivan recruited, starting in twenty twenty-five, to find another Dan Sullivan to put him on the ballot to help Mary Peltola. This, according to the New York Times, with twelve separate sources, win an election, which was going to be close.

So, number one, was it say about your staff that you think you need to do this stuff, but now? It's backed up through text messages and everything else. This guy's not a candidate. He has no interest in running. Hates Trump.

If it can help Mary, I'm in. Yeah. What could you do legally, politically? Because the ballot's already printed. That's the challenge.

And I think it would have been nice to have this evidence earlier. Because I think you go to court and you and you get him off the ballot. But you know, the best thing can happen now is for voters in Alaska to say, "Okay, Mary Peltola and her campaign have been trying to deceive and manipulate." Us now for months, and this is is this is as crass as it gets. This is dirty pool on a level that's unprecedented. If they came to you and said, "I got this idea, yeah," and I have an idea, let's run another.

Let's go to a battleground state and let's run a Republican with the same exact name of the as a Democrat. What would you have said? I I can't. I'm like, no. You would just said, yeah, yeah.

I mean, this is a and. If you look at it, and the fingerprints are all over it now. You know, for a while she was denying it, but I think the text messages and everything else verify that this was a concerted effort. And frankly, I'm quite certain the DSCC and Schumer and others had to have fingerprints all over this too. It's an attempt to win in a in a state where they otherwise would have a difficult time, and and so it's an attempt to manipulate.

I mean, what it says about their disdain for the people of Alaska in and of itself ought to be enough to. Push people to vote for Dan Sullivan. It's a scenario that could happen. You could be fifty-fifty, and it could be decided. You know, forty-fifty, forty-nine could be decided on on Alaska, which was a one or two point race with ranked choice voting.

Yeah, what would you do if he look Dan Sullivan, the right one, loses by one or two points in Alaska, flipping the power in the Senate? Yeah, this that's a possibility. Yeah, and that's why I think you have to, you know, you you keep your options open. What's to say? Hope and pray that voters in Alaska turnout vote for the right.

Dan Sullivan. What responsibilities do you have as majority leader?

Well, I mean, it's obviously there will be certainly. My expectation would be.

Some you know there's a legality issues around all of this, and what the attorney general is already suggesting is something that I suspect will be you know there'll be litigation around it.

So I won't speak on an ongoing litigation or case, but you know clearly if for some reason Dan Sullivan loses by the amount that the fake Dan Sullivan ends up getting, there's we got a problem. We got a problem, Houston. It's going to have to be fixed. It's a little different. You're out everywhere, and Chuck Schumer is nowhere.

Almost. Everybody he endorsed lost. And he's still quietly giving money to the El Saeeds and giving money to the to the Jacksons. Why is that?

Well, and I don't understand. I mean, if you're somebody like Chuck Schumer and El Saeed, who is the exact opposite of everything that you say you believe in, I just it's so you know. I mean, I think what it is it's it shows that the thirst for power trumps everything in this country. What they did in Alaska, the things they're willing to do. In Michigan, for a candidate who subscribes to practices Sharia law, whose family has ties the Muslim Brotherhood, this is a this is a radical, far left individual who, if elected the United States Senate, is I mean that's that's going to be the agenda he brings with him.

And I don't know how a a right thinking Democrat, particularly somebody like the Senator Schumer, the leader, can countenance that. Last question. If we take a break, we'll come back. You have a couple more minutes inside. We're getting reports from our local South Carolina reporter that that Darlene Graham gets no positive press.

That the all local press is all for our opponent. Have you picked that up? And and if that in fact turns out to be the case, does that matter?

Well, I think in the end, it's pretty much true everywhere that the the mainstream media is cheering and for a Democrat success. And I think part of it is their their animosity and hatred of the president, which is just kind of carries over even South Carolina.

Well, I mean, in South Carolina, you would think that wouldn't be true, but I think in some of the you know the popular Areas in the state, and I was down there with Darlene a couple of weeks ago, and I think when you you know when you get out with real people, that's a different, very different field, different view. But I just I think that the the mainstream media has bought the narrative that you know this is our way our way of getting back at back at President Trump, the Apple news feed. Yeah, has almost no like almost like a single digit positive stories about Republicans, and that newsfeed goes to every single person with an iPhone. Yep, Senator John Thune, sticking around, don't move. Where big stories meet bigger conversations.

Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeade Show. The fastest three hours in radio. You are with Brian Kilmeade. Hey, Senator John Thune is is with us for a few more minutes into the top of the hour. Senator, first off, your message on the stuff is kind of interesting.

Is it just make Democrats say what they would do? Besides, be against Trump, have a billionaire's tax. They want to end the Iran War, okay, a number one enemy for the last thirty seven years. But there's nothing in their agenda when they were in power, and they're and they're trying to get empowered that would bring down any prices that I could tell. Yeah, has that been effective on the stump?

Well, one of the reasons that we had, you know, we and people get to remember, we had nine percent inflation under Biden because they flooded the economy with so much spending, rescue package, and the inflation reduction shutdown energy projects, and so you had gas prices spiking. Everything else, that's what you're going to get more of. And I don't think people think about you know the path and. In front of them, the choice that they have: if you pick Democrats, you are going to get open borders. We know that, and it's not like this is hypothetical.

You, we saw that under Biden, and then Democrat control of the House and the Senate, you got open borders, higher taxes, more spending, high inflation, and and and bigger government. I mean, that's what they do when they're in power. They grow government. With Republicans, you get more money in your pocket, you get safer streets, secure borders, and better opportunities for your family to get ahead.

So it's it's These, this is what's in front of the American people. That's the choice that's front of them. I would say too in the Senate, Brian, because we just chatted about this a minute ago. Yeah, what can you get done?

Well, I mean, that's there's a there's a bunch of stuff that we need to get done, and obviously depends a little bit on how the election comes out and what we do in the lame duck. But what's also on the ballot is the courts, because the Senate has under the Article One of the Constitution the power of confirmation.

So the entire judiciary and about twelve hundred you know positions in the executive branch of the government come to the Senate for confirmation. The Senate flips. Say there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court. In the next couple years, the president nominate somebody. You can you see Chuck Schumer, the Democrats processing, or you know they're going to block, block, block.

And the other thing is, everything they will do, if they have both House and Senate, will be investigate and impeach, and it'll drag on indefinitely. Will they be able to get rid of the filibuster?

Well, I no.

Well, they could, but it wouldn't do them any good because the president can still veto anything they do. And then they'd be helping if a Republican president correct, yeah, already coming. Correct, yeah.

So they'll probably hold up on that.

So. That means the two states and the packing the Supreme Court will not get done. Yeah, it wouldn't get done. But think of you know the House impeaches the president right away. The only difference between a 24-hour impeachment trial in the Senate and a 24-month impeachment trial is Republican majority.

You need a supplement for defense, and you also got to get a 1.5 trillion-dollar budget, which sounds like a lot, of course. But it's not. It's five percent. That's what you're asking NATO to do. Right.

Do you think Democrats will play ball on that? And are they just going to be flat out of money? They going to star. The military. They.

That's what my experience in the in the entire all the spending fights I've been involved with in my time in Congress. The Republicans always want to spend less. Democrats want to spend more. With one exception, and that's national security. They're always willing to cut the defense budget, and that's why I think we have to keep open.

The possibility of doing something with all entirely Republican votes, and if that's how we have to fund the military in the lame duck, I think we have to be prepared to do that. It looks like the president had some big time meetings over the weekend. Had one yesterday about going back to full scale military action in Iran. How would you? I know how you want to see it end with these guys out of power.

Yeah, but how do you see this for ending? Would you support that?

Well, I think that I. I think right now we need to give have the president's back. To finish the job, whatever that looks like, and if there's a deal to be had there that opens up the Strait, the shipping lanes, and things get going again, I mean, it takes there and kills their nuclear ambitions. That would be a good outcome. But I think that if the president needs to do something kinetically in the in the Strait there to to get that resolved, then I think we need to give him some space to do it.

But my view on this is this is a short term thing. Gas prices are going to come down, and but you know the choice in front of the American people is for the next two, four, six years. What path do you want, Senator? Your gut tells you. I know what you want, but what does your gut tell you?

Being that so many plays with places like Nebraska and Kansas, never before that I remember, and South Carolina are in play. How does this end?

Well, I mean, and you know, and add Texas to that list. It's a it's a big map this time. But I still think the Republican vote in places like South Carolina and Kansas and Texas comes home because if they look at the alternatives, these people, voters in these states, don't want to go down that path of a woke agenda. On so many levels, you know whether that's you know boys and girls sports or trans surgeries for minors, the economic agenda, higher taxes, open borders—that's what you get with Democrat leadership.

So I think those states come home. We need to hold them if we're going to keep the majority. Senator John Thune, always great to have you in. Thanks so much. Thanks, Brian.

Good to be with you.

Now back onto the trail to finish the job. Indeed, let's go. Good to see the Brian Kilmeade show. Keep it here. From the Fox News Radio studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

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You see all the polls in Maine. It's one or two points, and Susan Collins seems to be the much better candidate. I mean, this guy Troy Jackson just seems awful, a miserable guy. No idea about foreign relations. Terrible reputation.

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So there is, in fact, over the long term, no real sign that there is a systematic bias against Republicans in the polling. Democrats, Kate Baldwin, have actually beat their final numbers in the polling more often than Republicans have. Well, I just tell you, when it comes to the presidency, nobody had Trump beating Hillary. Nobody had Trump beating Kamala. I'm telling you, I think he's going to win.

No, I think he's not going to win. And then he wins every battleground state.

So. How did that go? Maybe in individual races, but the president—they've been way off. Harry Enten of CNN seems like almost every seat in play. As President Trump stops down in South Carolina today to try to save Darlene Graham, after trying once again to pull Ken Paxton into the winner's circle in Texas yesterday, while Michigan heats up as the most intriguing midterm election hits a fever pitch.

Number one, I think this is going to cost the Democrats the race. I really do because they've denied it, but their denials are are just compounding their record of lying on this issue, and this is not a small matter. And that is Mark Halpern weighing in, nonpartisan. This can't stand. The scheme to defeat Sen.

Sullivan and flip his Senate seat exposed by none other than the New York Times, citing twelve sources. This could decide the balance of power in the Senate as Dems scramble to explain it with. They want to do is confuse the Alaskan voter. Even a small percentage that they're voting for Dan Sullivan, but they vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan, and that could decide the election. None of what I said is hyperbole.

Josh Kraushar joins us now. Josh, this expose in the New York Times yesterday afternoon is stunning. The details of which shows that Mary Peltole knew the whole time this was happening, and a plan went into place in 2025 to recruit a Dan Sullivan. Right, is the cover up worse than the crime, or is the crime worse than the cover up? I guess that's the the bigger political question.

The the the Democrats lied about the fact that they were they had their fingerprints all over the scheme to recruit another Dan Sullivan to run and to try and split the Republican vote on the ballot in November. And if you know, good good on the New York Times for getting the scoop, and good on apparently one of the Top campaign operatives for Mary Poltola, who was fired, left the campaign recently, was the source for the story told the New York Times on the record about all what that was done for this this fraud basically to to to Alaska voters, and then she tried to recant the story under pressure from from Democratic leaders apparently. But it's a great scoop, and and it actually might make a difference. I mean, this is going to be a very close race in Alaska.

Some of the votes. Have already been cast. People have been voting. Or by the way, this is a good advertisement not for not to have too much early voting because you have stories like these that break a couple weeks before the election, and you should think voters should want to know about about the kind of hijinks that go on and the issues that that come up at the final stage of a campaign like this. But boy, I think this could be a difference maker in what's going to be a very close race.

And put it this way, you know, it could be fifty fifty in the Senate, and you know this is going to be a close race.

So if I look at this final tally, and Dan, the wrong Dan Sullivan has four percent of the vote, and Dan Sullivan loses by four percent of the vote, and the flip or the power in the Senate flips fifty one forty nine, or goes fifty fifty, which means every committee gets shared. I mean, this this is going to be just. You talk about a divided country. There's going to be such outrage across this country. Yeah, I.

Well, look, Alaska is going to be the final state to tally its votes, given the time zone difference, and given the fact that it has ranked choice votes. It's the one state that has general election ranked choice voting.

So, Alaska. You have to put Alaska when we look at the Senate. Talley on election night. Alaska is not going to be on the board until much later, so we'll get a sense of where that race stands late late into the night on on on on Wednesday morning. But I would put Alaska aside, given all the intri the issues late late breaking issues, but also the intricacies with the vote counting in that state.

So look, we'll know if I really can't, Josh. I really can't. I really do think this is going to get more scrutiny than anything else. You don't think so?

Well, look. There's the Trump's DOJ is obviously filing a lawsuit about the the the fact that you have the two Sullivans on the ballot, and look, I just don't know we'll have clarity about who who's winning the race by the time you know Wednesday rolls around, and that that's. It's also possible that either Republicans are going to hold the Senate and Alaska might not make the difference, or that Democrats are going to have a big wave in red states, and and Alaska would go with the icing on the cake.

So there are a lot of different X factors. Listen to this as some explanations. This is the Alaskan Democratic Party Executive Director Jenny Marie Striker. When this broke at six, I do know that you know any reasonable Alaskan looking at a ballot with at our ballot knows exactly how to. Vote.

This is not confusing. Republicans have claimed election confusion, confusion, and worked to try to make Alaskans scared of the election process. And we just refuse to be. Come on, please. Yeah, if you put him at the bottom, you have another Republican who's really not running on top.

And the Daniel, the fake Dan Sullivan, says, "I'm not a politician. I hate Trump, and I want. I like Mary." So he's not even campaigning, Daniel L. When Daniel People aren't going to get confused by that. Of course, they will.

Yeah, I mean, Brian, look, they wouldn't have gone to such effort. It took months to find find a Dan Sullivan that was willing to be put his name on the ballot, and they spent lots of money to try to figure this all out. They wouldn't put that much effort for such a scheme if they didn't think this was going to be helpful and would make a difference in a close race.

So, you know, that that that that explanation is just pretty implausible spin.

Now, look. I could buy that Alaska is just too red of a state, and it turns out Dan Sullivan does you know wins beyond the margin of this other Dan Sullivan, but he hasn't led in any. He has not led in any poll. Yeah, but Alaska. I mean, I will.

Alaska is one of those tough states to poll. There's just not a lot of good polling. I will say that the you know this is this is a race that could go the other way too. There have been races where Alaska is a very quirky and independent state.

So even though it's Republican, you do have voters that are willing to vote for Democrats in the right circumstances.

So look. Like I said, this could go a lot of different ways. It may not be close enough that this becomes immaterial, or it may be the subject of lawsuits and political fights for weeks after the returns start to come in. On and lastly, I just want you to hear from the reporter, the reporter on the New York Times political reporter, New York Times, by the way, Mary Peltola. I played it so many times for our audience; I don't want to do it again.

She says it's the New York Times trying to get subscriptions by making up a story. Really? The New York Times needs a subscription to so so she they they make up a story about an Alaskan Senate race that makes sense. Here's Kellen Browning, the reporter. Cut seven.

My understanding is that Mary Peltola was aware of this effort, that she wasn't directly involved in these activities, but she was kept aware by these were her top aides that were participating in this plan as well as. The top Democratic operatives at the national level, which do ultimately answer to Senator Chuck Schumer, as you said, his spokesperson said that he did not have any knowledge of these activities. But again, it was top Democrats who were participating this for close to a year.

So it's hard to believe this is going to go right to Gillibrand and right to Schumer, who is in charge of the of the of the Senate.

So when you look around the country now, Darlene Graham, now according to this New York Times poll, is now in a tie. The president's going to go there today. It looks like Paxson is in a flat-footed tie with Talerico. That's the president was there yesterday. Where do you think the Senate is trending?

Well, if you look at the polls, it's looking like a category five storm for for the Republicans, and it could wipe out even some better states on the map. You well, there were CNN polls that came out the I think overnight. You have you know the polling has been you know the question is who shows up? Do Republicans show up, especially in these red states? To mitigate, I think the the tide, or or or is this a historical landslide that that some of the polls seem to indicate?

Look, I I think you talk about that. You know, candidate quality matters a lot in in these races. The Fox, the power rankings at Fox, just shifted South Carolina to a toss up. I didn't think I'd be hearing that. In any election in recent memory, but but you know, Lindsey Darlene Graham has not run a good campaign.

has struggled to raise money, and Annie Andrews is making that one close. That said, it's a state that Trump won by eighteen points in twenty twenty four. You have to really outkick your coverage by by by a significant margin to to make up that that gap.

So, I mean, that's going to be the test for the for the Senate and these. Polls seem to suggest that Republicans are, some of them are going to stay home, and that a lot of independents and Democratic turnout, independents are going to swing to the left, and the turnout for the Democrats is going to be through the roof. That's a perfect storm scenario. We haven't seen that type of scenario in a long time. A lot of the polls seem to indicate this would be one of the strongest environments for the Democratic Party in for all the decades I've been covering politics.

So you know we'll see. I I think the the late breaking polls seem to show a lot of close races, but ones where Democrats still are ahead in some of these very red states.

So you know I think we could see Democrats not being able to get the victories on these red state turf. On the red state turf, you know that that would break a lot of historical precedent for Republicans to lose in Kansas and Texas and some of these. States, or we could see something. You know, we could see a see a landslide, and and and that that that that that's the question on election night. Yeah, I guess it's so.

What's interesting is Abdul El Sayed. I don't know how many more groups he's going to lose. The black vote that took a bite out of it. Mike Rogers took a bite of it. The Jewish vote.

What Jewish person would vote for this guy? Hates Israel. Seems to hate Jews. And then number three, he also seems to.

So he's got the black vote, the Jewish vote, and he also is losing a lot of mainstream Democrats, like two two well respected Democratic operative, one of which helped Whitmer get in. To his position, and now he just lost. He just lost Haley Stevens' husband, who's Jewish and says, "I can't possibly vote," and came out in public. I can't vote possibly vote for El Sayed. Here is Haley Stevens on CNN, cut twenty eight.

Like a lot of households across America, we're a household divided. I still very much want our Democratic nominee, his name is Abdul, to win this race. There's so much on the line, but I want to encourage, you know, this campaign to shut out the hate and to call it out and to make people who were in my coalition, right, feel, make them feel comfortable. About coming to the polls, right? That's that's all that needs to be done.

So she's barely voting for him. She doesn't doesn't even want to say his name. And can you change your campaign and stop with the hate? I mean, that's a condemnation. Yeah, Brad.

What do you think? What odds are that in the privacy of the voting booth, she she's ended up voting for Mike Rogers? I think that's a real possibility. I mean, I've never seen an endorsement that lukewarm, and one the message she was sending throughout that whole interview was that this is a guy who can't who who can't condemn anti-Semitism and hate, and and is threatening the black community, threatening the Jewish community from from platforming people that that are just extreme beyond belief. That's the close.

That's the endorsement from from from from someone who says they're still voting for. Though again, I wonder if she, in the privacy of the voting booth, whether she actually is going to go ahead with that. Oakland County, by the way, I mean the key. But and this is where the poll, you know, you can believe the polls, and and polls have been off, especially in a lot of these midwestern battlegrounds. And that that's the caveat I would I would put through all the voting and for all the polling analysis, which is that polling has been off in a lot of elections, and it's been hard to capture, although the you know the white working class voter who.

Is very much going to decide the Michigan Senate race and a lot of these other races as well. And when you look at the fact that El Saeed anecdotally is having so much trouble putting together the Democratic coalition—the black voters, the Jewish voters that always vote Democratic in large numbers. It tells you that there's something going on there. I would not be surprised to see a very, very close race in Michigan, and and I think Rogers is very much in the game. Even though polls in the show, again, the polling shows they'll stand up, but I think Rogers and the internal polling I've heard shows that's a very, very competitive race.

I want you to get a little of the Papasanunu race, something the national media has done really get a piece of. Sanunu will not do any national ads. He never even met Trump. Here's a little the sparring that took place last night. Cut thirty-five.

The fact that Kamala Harris is coming in and. Chris is embracing her, baffles me. He's campaigning with Gavin Newsom with Kamala Harris. He talks about being bipartisan, but when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker, he voted with her 222 out of 223 times. I don't know what Chris's infatuation is with California, but it's not New Hampshire, and it's not a good model for our state.

Well, Senator, here in New Hampshire, we welcome out-of-town guests. That's part of what we do here every four years. You're campaigning, Senator. I'm proud to have the former vice president who carried the state of New Hampshire in the last election. Unlike the guy who's given you his complete and total endorsement and tens of millions of dollars to prop up your campaign, the most corrupt president in our nation's history, Donald Trump.

He went on to say, "I didn't even. I did not even. I have not met Donald Trump." But your thoughts about that exchange? Yeah, look, that's that's that's. I mean, New Hampshire is a different type of state because everyone in New Hampshire, small state, everyone knows the you know everyone knows Chris Pappas.

Everyone knows certainly John Sununu, who is the brother of the former governor and served in the Senate himself. The Sununu name is gold in New Hampshire. I will say New Hampshire is a blue state that voted you know Democratic in the last three presidential elections.

So you know it's it's For anyone in that environment to kind of run against the tide, but if there is anyone that can do it, it's someone like John Sununu, who is well liked and has served in the Senate before from from the state of New Hampshire. I think that that clip you played sort of sums up the divide. That even though there are a lot of local issues specific to New Hampshire that John Sununu is hoping to kind of emphasize, Papas is trying to make this a national race about Trump versus. Kamala Harris, and he he's he's siding with these national. He doesn't have a problem.

He has no no qualms signing siding with these progressive national Democratic figures because he thinks that that's where the wind is blowing. And remember, Kelly Ayotte is running away with the race as governor, so that might help Senedd too.

So we'll see what happens. Great, yeah. Very tough to see. But you're saying you you if you're a Republican and listening to Josh Kraschawer, you should be worried, right? You batter down the hatches.

You need to get your voters out. These are the the best thing going for Republicans is that the turf it's home field advantage. You're running. Most of these races are taking place in states that Trump won comfortably: Kansas, Texas, Iowa, Ohio. These are states Trump won by at least eleven points.

And if Republicans come home and and and and and and the gap closes even you know in the slightest, that's the way that Republicans overperform. But the polling is not looking good, and that's why Republicans are a little bit worried in a few days before the election. Go get him, Josh. I look forward to your oh your analysis leading up to election day. Thanks so much.

Back in a moment. It's Brian Kilmeade. He's so busy he'll make your head spin. It's bright. Killmade.

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And I want you to take a look right here. Which party beat their final Senate poll averages close races since 1998? You know what the party that more frequently actually beat their final polling averages in the United States Senate? 54% of the time it was Democrats who beat their final poll averages, versus 46% of the time it was Republicans.

So there is, in fact, over the long term, no real sign that there is a systematic bias against Republicans. In the polling, Democrats, Kate Baldwin, have actually beat their final numbers in the polling more often than Republicans have. And that is Harry Enten, of course, talking about the polls and how inaccurate they are and where they trend. I believe the Republicans are chronically underpulled, and I don't think it's necessarily in the intention of the polls. I don't think Republicans want to answer the call.

I don't think they take it, and I don't think they trust them. Ray Richardson, though, is host of the Ray Richardson Show on News Talk WLOB Radio from six to ten. We take over, and he's kind enough to carry this show as one of our coveted affiliates. Ray, welcome back. Hey Brian, thank you for having me on.

And Maine loves you. I hear it all the time. People love your show. They think you're the smartest man in talk radio. All right, great.

I want to hear more. I should give you more time. You have anything else to say, Ray? Because I've never get compliments like this. You know, no, it's true.

I hear it all the time. People say Brian Kilmeade knows things nobody else knows.

Well, thanks. Really interesting. But the main thing is when it comes to Maine. Is nobody knows more than Ray Richardson.

So to go inside those numbers, everyone's befuddled by Susan Collins always out outperforming her polls. Is it going to be anything different this time? I don't think so. You know, the one factor no one can control: do people turn out? If we have a normal midterm election turnout, Susan Collins is going to be fine.

I've always thought she was going to win by eight or ten points. I made the same prediction in 2020. She was down about ten points right now going into the election, and she won by ten. Maders have a unique relationship with her. She comes home every weekend.

She does five, six, seven events. Every weekend, people know her. They love her. They respect her.

Well, why is that though? Why is they why the polls so off in Maine?

Well, I think there's a lot of things. First of all, they oversample Democrats. And then you mentioned it earlier. There's a lot of people like me. I don't do polls.

I usually say I'm in the media. It's not fair. But a lot of my friends, they don't trust pollsters. They think pollsters take their information and manipulate it.

So a lot of people that think the way I do don't do polls.

So, but when they do a poll, why do they seem to always underestimate her? I, you know, I can't answer that. It's just a common trend. I mean, Susan Collins has always underestimated going into an election, and then, as you know, she's always won, and she usually wins pretty handily. I don't expect anything different.

You know, here's the key: Mainers are common sense people by and large. She's done nothing for them to tell her goodbye. Nothing at all. No matter what the Troy Jackson campaign has tried to say about her, most people know her. They know the stories they've told are all lies, and most Mainers are disgusted by it, both right, left, and down the middle.

Especially what's happened in Alaska, you do not have that problem.

So Troy Jackson is almost the accidental candidate. How has he been received? Tell me about him. You know, I've known Troy since the year 2000. Oddly enough, he was a pro-life Republican.

I had a political action committee at the time. He called me up, started yelling at me, "Why are you giving money to my opponent?" And I'm like, "I don't give money to Democrats. I don't know who you are. Who are you?" To his credit, he called ethics and got it straightened out. Found out that they had given him bad information.

This is what I'll say about Troy. He's a very ambitious man. The problem with Troy is he is not intellectually curious, and I think that's dangerous when any when anybody is ambitious in politics, but isn't curious about things. Troy just doesn't know things. He was on another network, as you may know, and was interviewed about the war in Iran.

That's his big thing. He says Donald Trump. He says the war in Iran, and he says something billionaires. And they ask him, "Well, what would you do?" And he said, "Well, I would let Iran go back to controlling the Strait of Hormuz." Like they did before the war, and when the interviewer tried to help him out, he didn't even understand. I mean that should be that should be that should be disqualifying.

Now I read the story today about about how Democrats miss Graham Platner, and there's a picture of him smoking a cigarette on a oyster ship, a oyster boat, which he's never on because that was a whole scam too. Do they miss Graham Platner? He was getting big crowds. Oh, I think the hard left in Maine absolutely misses him. They were do or die with Graham Platter.

I'll give him credit; he was a very charismatic speaker. And a lot of people in Maine are hurting. There has been terrible state policy, of which Troy Jackson was one of the shepherds of when he was Senate President in Maine. And so people are hurting here. And he came, Graham Platter came along, very charismatic.

Again, like Troy, didn't have a lot of details, but he sounded. Good, and I think they resent it that he stepped away from the race and gave us Troy. All right, so we'll see what happens there. You also could flip a C too, right? The former governor is running for.

You had a moderate congressman. Believe it or not, I think he's Golden Jared Golden. Yes, and he's retiring. And do you think Paul DePage is going to take that slot? That could be a flip.

Yeah, I really do. We've always thought that could be the flip. In fact, I run many maps during elections just because I'm a political junkie. And there are some maps that show Paul LePage becomes the majority vote for the Republicans. Should he prevail, he's a legend up in that.

It's the largest congressional district this the side of the Mississippi. He has always won it when he ran for governor. He always won that district, and I think he's going to prevail. Maybe a little tighter than any of us hope, but I I suspect he wins it by four or five points.

Well, that's a flip that nobody's talking about, and I think every seat matters. He spoke to the speaker this morning in Maine. How much you've been? How much have you been hurt by this lack of trade deal with Canada and this standoff we're in the middle of now? To be perfectly honest with you, I think it's been way, way overblown.

As you know, Brian, Mark Carney made a deal, came to the table to sign it, decided to change it, and then, of course, President Trump said enough. My take on this has always been: Canada is our neighbor. I like Canadians. I have a lot of Canadian listeners in my audience, but the Canadian government really has not been very good to America, and the president is trying to level the playing field.

So when he slapped these tariffs on, a lot. Of people complained about him, but the truth of the matter is, what industries do you have in Maine? What industry you have that are affected?

Well, you know the lumber industry has certainly been affected. Most of we, unfortunately, with state government policies, oddly enough, we have all the trees, but we've driven the sawmills up to Canada because it's cheaper to run them up there.

So with the tariffs on lumber and those kinds of things, Senator Collins, by the way, was able to get the tariffs on lobster, the tariffs on road salt, which may not sound like a big deal, but in Maine we use a lot of road salt because it's cold here. Yeah. So and she's gotten a recently she's gotten a few more tariffs taken away. The president's negotiating. I think we should support him.

What we need here is a strong economy. Our neighbor New Hampshire has one of the strongest economies in in New England in in America. Their taxes are lower. Their incomes are higher, and we still operate under the same federal government.

So I think it's just something. Personally, to whine about, I say that on my show all the time. It's something to whine about because we don't want to get serious about fixing problems. I guess so.

So we'll see what happens. Going to be a lot of scrutiny there. This is obviously it for Susan Collins. I mean, six more years. You got to think.

I mean, I know she's dealing with some mild Parkinson's too, right? No, not Parkinson's. It's a benign tremor. They tried to turn it into that. She's had that.

I've known her since 1994, and she's had that benign tremor since that time. It's not Parkinson's. And as you know, Brian, she never misses a day of work down in D.C. She's the hardest working person in D.C. I will tell you, this has been a hard election.

She's a personal friend as well as my senator, and they've said so many things about her that are provably untrue and so vicious and nasty. I said to Steve Abbott, her campaign manager, who's also a friend and was in studio this morning, "Please, let's win this one and call it a day. Let's don't go through this again." Yeah, absolutely. We'll see what happens. Do you think that Joe Manchin showing up for her helped?

Sure. Joe Manchin's a respected guy. He and this and Senator Collins came into my studio for about forty-five minutes. We got. I have a text line, like most people do.

We got unbelievable texts from people all over who were listening. The fact that Manchin was here, standing up for—obviously, he didn't have to do that. He's from West Virginia, but he thinks so much of the senator. In fact, he refers to her as the soul of the United States Senate. He wanted to come up here and tell people the story they had together, how they were able to work on difficult problems across party lines to get things done.

I think that's an important story because that's always been. Susan Collins' story. Thanks so much, Ray Richardson. Appreciate it. You're doing valuable work, and the whole country is focused on Maine too.

But you're not alone. Focused on New Hampshire is a big deal. Michigan's a big deal. Texas is a big deal. Nebraska, Kansas, Georgia may be out of reach for, and now South Carolina for Republicans.

But now South Carolina is in play. Crazy cycle. Thanks so much, Ray. Brian, thank you very much, and again, Maine loves you, man. I appreciate it.

Thanks for the opportunity of putting us on, especially during these election times. All right, so that's Ray Richardson. Quick note: Elon Omar, she is being investigated by the Trump team, right? First, then we find out. Wait, the investigation actually started during the Biden years, but they stopped it when it got to Joe Biden's office.

He's why are we investigating one of our own? Why for immigration and financial and financial shenanigans? Today it just broke as I was coming up here. It looks as though her immigration policies and the questions around it were actually were actually being investigated by the Obama administration. But they stopped it when they realized the questions on her immigration status passed the statute of limitations in five years.

There's been ongoing investigations. What's going on right now is absolutely real. What they tried to push for is to expose what they got out of the raid on their house, but the DOJ successfully pushed back, got a judge to rule no, they don't have to say what they got. But they got her sisters, evidently her sisters' text messages, her text messages, and there seems to be a lot of substance to the fact that she married her brother fraudulently, obviously, and meanwhile having kids with the guy she allegedly divorced. What a Mess that is.

The other big story is which we're talking about is the growth of the GDP. Look, I know unemployment was always a big deal. It hasn't been a big deal because it's under control, still in the force. Got it. Number two is economic growth.

The GDP in normal times growing at three point six percent would have the market surging. The problem is inflation still there. The answer to the growth of GDP is America likes what's happening with the administration, and we know inflation directly caused by high oil, gas, fertilizer, and diesel prices across the country. You can land. You can't just hope for growth like we're doing right now.

That's policy. But man, you land the plane on this Iran war, and I don't care who's in power. It's going to be the president in the White House. This economy is going to boom. Do you feel it?

Go to briankillme. dot com. Tell me what you think, and I'll read your emails next hour and the next time you hear me. Keep it here. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Killme. Hey, we are back, and one of the stories is getting buried, but it's never far from my mind. And judging by you know the algorithms, which when we post and what you care about, you care about foreign policy. And I think the thing that's going to get the president's attention—I don't care whether he keeps both houses or doesn't loses both—is going to be Iran. He wants to get this thing done before January to start his final two years, and then you'll watch oil and gas go down, along with fertilizer and especially diesel.

Let alone what could happen if we land the plane in Russia. But having said that, there is very few people I could talk to with a more comprehensive feel for what's going on in the Middle East and or Ukraine than Rebecca Heinrichs. She, as you know, you see her all over the channels now, signed as a contributor. But we came up with two stories. Number one that we woke up to today: the war planner has been fired at the Pentagon.

Okay.

Was supposed to be planning a battle and supposed to go better than it did the first time. We did a lot of great things, but we got to come up with a different strategy because they're ready to counter our original strategy. And we're doing without a war planner with nobody named to replace.

Now, maybe it's justified. I have no idea who these people are, but it just disturbs me.

So many people are being fired. Were we really that bad? You know. And I watched Secretary of Defense Gates come out and go, "Look." I had to clean house too when he came in after Rumsfeld, so he knew it and he felt he had to do it.

So he's going to give, he's going to give the current administration some space. But my hope is that people don't let their political ambitions affect policy. I know the vice president and maybe the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not for this operation to begin with, so. You have to factor their mind when they're in meetings with Cooper and others, and the and the CIA director, who want to finish the job and see this this four decades long problem we have with Iran and what they've already done to their neighbors and what they're capable of doing once Trump leaves. Believe me, they're freaked out about Trump.

He's absolutely destroyed their government. They killed all their higher ups, generations of leaders. My hope is we go back with the IDF and we finish the job. But here's my interview with Rebecca Heinrichs as we go over the latest breaking news on the Iranian situation, their approachment with the Vice President of the United States, and more. Let's listen.

This morning, new reports indicating the president is weighing a new new strikes on Iran right after the midterms. Vice President Vance, though, reportedly already in touch with the regime's biggest hardliners. We direct Vice President Vance. No, what that is is we—they need help with medical supplies and various things. He asked me what I thought.

I said, "If you want to do that, that's okay." Basically, it's getting supplies in to help people that are not well.

So it looks like the vice president initiated this contact. Fox News contributor Rebecca Heinrich joins us now. Rebecca, your thoughts about reaching out to the hardliner of hardliner to I don't know, probe possible peace deal, or is it just about getting them some food?

Well, if we need to get the Iranian people some food and some medical supplies, this would not be the individual that we would be talking to. And the United States has been, in fact, getting some humanitarian aid into the Iranians, which is amazing, Brian, because we're not letting any Iranian exports or imports come into the country, and we've even taken out their shadow fleet. But we have total control about what comes into the country, and so we have been doing some humanitarian supplies. Brian, I think what President Trump is trying to do is just make sure that he has all of his options in. Place.

He's got military forces flowing into the region, and he's evaluating what another military campaign may look like. I do not foresee, Brian, any success in possible breakthroughs on the diplomatic front. They also offered us seven demands for us to end the war. None of the seven are going to fly with this president. Iran did put together this expo, so I'll share it with the foreign minister.

While our brave forces are fully prepared to defend the homeland, Iran continues to give diplomacy a chance to succeed. We remain in close and ongoing contact. With intermediaries to review ideas that can ensure the implementation of a seven-day plan in even less than a week.

Okay, having said that, you brought up an interesting thing. If we go back to full-scale war, and after all, Israel just got a new Patriot battery. You believe it was with the IDF, and you think things should be different this time. In what way?

So, if the United States is going to go back at it and go back to another military campaign, the first one was already wildly successful in terms of taking out the specific target sets that we wanted to. Brian, but the IRGC is still in power, and they are the ones that are continuing to fire into the street.

So, if we want a different outcome for this other military campaign, you have to have a different strategy, and you have to have a different target set.

So, I think this has to be more comprehensive. We have to go after regime leaders. We have to go after their ability to resupply their. Forces, which means going after key bridges. I think that the IDF is especially good at knowing which targets we need to go after, which is why I think any second military campaign should be the United States again alongside the Israelis.

And if you know that, and the Mossad and IDF know that, I would not want to be a high-ranking IRGC official in one week. Thanks so much, Rebecca Heinrichs.

Meanwhile, you got it. Oh, thanks so so much for back for helping us out. We love her in studio, and I love bringing her back for interviews on Fox and Friends.

So, hey, I hope to see everyone in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on Sunday. And thanks to everyone who kept united the states. My brand new book, Six Crucial Moments That Fought the American Miracle, available at BrianKilmeade dot com. For keeping it number five in the country. Awesome, two weeks in a row.

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