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Hi, I'm Brian Kilmeade. Thanks so much for listening. It's the Brian Kilmeade Show. We know we have a busy election day. A lot of you voted already.

That's great. In fact, all time record highs for midterms. But a lot of you are voting today, and that's even better.

So make sure you get that done so you know you're counted. This hour, going to be joined by Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. You know, we'll be in Dallas on a book in a couple of weeks. Hopefully, Colonel can join us down there. Brett Baer has just walked into the studio.

He is going to be one busy guy. Chief political anchor of Fox News. He's doing all our Does special report, but he's doing all our coverage tonight. He's going to go into the night, and I dare I say, we're probably if if past his prologue, we didn't know the house flow for for about four or five days after the election. I wonder if it's going to be the same thing today because we do know that most polls have the Republicans losing the House.

We'll see where that goes. Brett, we have so much going on. First off, we just talked to the President of the United States, where a couple minutes in, he said, "Hey, we're not going to be giving Israel any aid. No one will give four billion dollars, and they're okay with that because he's tired of it being a talking point and fueling anti-Semitism in this country." What's your reaction?

Well, I think that's interesting on election day, and you know, I don't know where it comes from. I just saw it as I was walking up here, and. That's fascinating. I mean, it fits some decision with the Israelis, but Israeli aid has been, as you know, a talking point for critics for a long time. But Israel has always said we need the aid, and so we'll have to get a little bit more behind the scenes on that decision.

Yeah, here's how it went down. Let's listen. We understand we've cut off aid to Israel. We were giving them four billion, and you're no longer going to be giving them. We were giving them four billion.

We are, but it gets cut off at the end of the year. Why? Why? Because they don't need it, Brian. I mean, I asked them because they don't need it, and because why should we suffer the slings from?

Lunatics like in El Sayad when they don't need it, it's a bad, it's a bad talking point because you say, why don't we give everybody four billion dollars? Israel's our number one. We give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it. We've been doing it for years. I've been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country.

They don't need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going.

So, so, so, Brad, I just went on to ask him too. Does that mean they can't buy it? He goes, No, of course they'll sell them anything they need.

So you know, El Said wants to cut off everything. They you know, Rojana has come out and said, "I just want to give a more for the Iron Dome." So your reaction?

Well, listen, I think it's a great thing if that's how it comes together. I mean, if it's. A decision with the Israelis, and and they honestly don't need the money. It has been a something that we have touted before as allies for, especially defense in that neighborhood. If they're saying we're good, and that that does take a talking point away from some of the critics, and I just wonder why they didn't do it before election day, right?

A lot of people said, "Yeah, much like the president decided to move Rumsfeld out after election day." People said, "If you did that, you would have done better in your final midterms." But he waited for Gates in, and we got the, and we we know what happened after. It actually ended up Iraq on a positive note.

So I do worry. But I remember Netanyahu said about six months ago, might even been to you, that he expects aid to be cut off at one point because he knows Democrats are running on it. I mean, they're running on kind of us. We want to be self-sufficient, but I mean, there's certain things that we do that nobody else does. I mean, no one's going to refill that iron dome.

The Patriots are the one we do, but they're saying that they they'll write the check. I did see their GDP was like in the fives, which is unbelievable to be at war for three years and have growth like that, right? It is true, and listen—they are succeeding. They are excelling as far as, especially when it comes to AI and digital and all kinds of aspects of that business. This is just an interesting development, a news nugget on election morning, and I think it's you know it's going to be something that we're going to definitely be driving the day.

So when we look at Michigan. Then you you watch El Said walk around; he's unbelievably confident. And I want to get into your interview with him too. We had a whole thing planned for you on Sunday with the president. I apologize.

I spoke forty five minutes into the show. About like all your interviews that you had with all the leading candidates as you travel the country, but El Sayed goes, okay, you could take the Jewish vote, the black vote, yeah, I'll try to get it, but not no big deal. I think he believes that he has maximized the young people's vote by being anti-Israel to the point where he can win without getting the same numbers in the black community and certainly with the with the The Jewish vote in in Michigan, which if you have a small lead of one, you know one or two percent, if you're going to win by one or two percent, like Slotnick did, you wouldn't think you kick any segment out. But there's something I think Al Sayed seeing either these cockyest man on the planet seeing in the polls that thinks I don't need any of those things because I got the young vote because I'm anti-Israel. Yeah, I agree with you.

I mean, it's like a shrug, like I don't care, right and You know, in the past that would be deadly, and you're right. Maybe they do see something on the inside. Maybe President Trump sees something on the inside to be to mention that today, this morning, before people head to the polls. I don't know what I'm. What I think is, is that the El Sayed campaign is unique in how it's run, and in this environment, in this kind of anti-establishment.

Kind of pushback environment. He's succeeding, or at least, at least tied.

So the Asan Piker's Senk Wiger. How do you ever say his last name? Wiger, I think. Oh yeah, okay. Senk Wiger, who is the uncle of Asan Piker.

If you can keep all this straight, he puts out an ad that basically says Israel's to blame because your prices are too high and your gas is too high. Israel's to blame.

So he goes, "Yeah, I don't have nothing to do with that ad." So he walked it back, but did he listen to what he put out yet? What did he listen to what he said yesterday? Cut seventeen. And it shouldn't be this hard to pay your taxes and know that that money is going to be spent on you and your kids instead of dropping bombs on somebody else and their kids. Shouldn't be this hard.

It's basically the message. The same message, exact same message. And you know, maybe he didn't fully walk it back because he knows it's working. You know, maybe, and right—that's the whole thing. And the Haley Stevens thing—he shrugs that off and says, "Whatever." It reminds me of what they said in the South in the '60s and '70s, where they were reluctant to give up segregation, so they do in a wink and a nod about like white this and white that, and okay, I got your back.

I can't say it, but I got your back. That seems to be the subtlety of what we're witnessing now. Yeah, and listen, everybody on all sides came out and said, "Listen." That ad is specifically anti-Semitic. It is specifically going against Jews and should be denounced. And specifically, he didn't fully full-throated denounce it.

And there's a reason for that. What was it like? First off, catching up to him in Michigan. What did it take to catch up to him? And then when you did, the fact that he tried to talk over you while you quoted him.

Yeah, bizarre. And said, "You're just pulling that out of context." And I said, "No. I mean, these are your words. Crazy. Listen, what happened was, I've been trying.

We had been trying for weeks with the campaign to get them to to sit down because we were going to Michigan one way or another, and they were saying maybe, and they were dodging us. Finally, I got the embed who covers the campaign to be at an event and say Brett Bears on the phone and hand the phone to him and And El Sayed, I talked to him for a while, and he was cordial, and said, "Okay, I'll do it. I just don't want all this, you know, focus only on my family." And I said, "I understand that. I hear you. I'm going to give you a substantive, tough, by fair interview." He said, "Fine.

Talk to my people. Talk to the people. We did it. And then, last second, we land on the ground in Michigan. They say this time it doesn't work out.

We're not going to do it." What? And so we're scrambling because I'm trying to give equal time to Mike Rogers, and I'll say it: I get his schedule, and we track down that he's going to be at some diner in Detroit, and I just go. And the people say, "What are you doing?" And I talked to the campaign manager. She said, "Fine, we'll give you five minutes." I said, "I'm giving Mike Rogers seven." Fine, we'll take seven. He comes out, walks up, and that's what you see on the sidewalk.

And that attitude that he brought there—talk over you—was just from the start. You know, I mean, it kind of. It wasn't that cordial, right? And you know, you you give them the time. I I figured after three, four questions, people got the gist here, and so I wasn't going to go full bore, you know, and and go after it.

So, but we gave the equal time. We talked about issues, but I was quoting him.

So, yeah, I mean, I find him totally obnoxious, and I did the first time I really saw him, like I guess, directly questioned about some of his beliefs was with Jesse. And I noticed he was answering different. He was answering different from the question. It was so odd. He'd be asked a question, he'd just take it a different way.

So it was almost jarring to see him not answer any questions or just say why people don't care about that. Oh, that's interesting. Tact. People don't care about that. They just care about their groceries.

What's interesting is I don't know. They would say affordability is the key.

Now, when Newt Gingrich ran and said, "This is a contract with America," I knew exactly what Democrats wanted to do. When Trump runs, you know exactly what he wants to do. These Democrats are talking about affordability, but they don't have any plan except for tax billionaires and subsidize health care. But that doesn't make anything affordable, right? No.

You know, every single interview I did around the country, I said, "What is your plan to deal with this?" And some of them said, "End the Iran War." Really, one one out of a hundred senators, you are going to end the Iran War, right? They said, "Well, no, with others, you know, we'll we'll figure out how to end it." And I'm like, "Okay, well, that really doesn't fall to you. What other plan, you know?" So the follow up is always fine. You can talk about it until you're blue in the face, but what are you going to do?

So it's interesting when we come back. Do you have a second? Yeah.

Okay. We come back. I want to talk about the Iran War and the options because that will be the number one story as soon as we get a conclusion to the election. It's going to be Iran. Yeah.

And then Ukraine next week. Yep. And we're looking to see. How what level the Russians send? Because there's a few names that you know better than me that I was given to look for to see if they attend the show.

How serious they are? We'll talk about that in two weeks, but it'll be the number one story.

So we come back more with Brett Baer is doing all the covers tonight for Fox News. Don't move. Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeade Show. Hi everyone, it's Brian Kilmeade here.

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Ah, can't say that yet. I if it's close, it may. If it's not, and you know, remember that the margin is very small, and so Democrats only have to pick up really four, right, five, and so. If if the margin's bigger than that, then you're going to be able to say, okay, there these aren't in question. But if it comes down to those tight races, that that maybe it would.

So okay, four or five days.

So we'll see how long this lasts.

So after that, the biggest story becomes Iran. We know we had a hit last night, and the president said kind of diminished how significant it was, but he said we waited for the rebuilding. You'll hear this later. We waited for them to rebuild their radar, and we just took it out again.

So that's cool for that, but they say the internal camps are this in terms of going to war again. Vans and Whitcough want a deal. Netanyahu and Hegseth want a resumed combat. Besant, Radcliffe, and Rubio prefer continued economic pressure. How does that square with what you know?

I think that's accurate. I know Besant particularly thinks that the economic stuff is working exponentially well. Like thinks. That they're really squeezing the neck of Iran. The question is, I mean, it's they don't care about their own people, and the IRGC doesn't care, and so they continue to threaten with weapons.

The Houthis are much more adept at their attacks than they have been in the past. They kind of were a ragtag for a long time. They're a lot better, and they're causing major headaches for the Saudis and for the other strait.

So. Yeah, I think that there is a leaning towards some kind of action in coming days.

So when you talk about some type of action, there's a nervousness among for China to the point where China sent their foreign minister to meet with Oman and Qatar because they're in talks about landing this plane before more attacks come up. Or remember, China gets a lot of its oil from Iran. But I've never remembered this type of overt concern. Right now, knowing that we have pretty good relations with them now. And we also know how much power they have over Iran.

And t here is video out there of a ghost ship getting through, getting to China.

So the Iranians are trying to say we're still getting some stuff through. Reuters also said they have they have trade supply routes that have been been pretty secure since nineteen seventy nine. They're still happening to help them rebuild their missile program.

So I know Besse is doing an incredible job, but it's not leak free. No, it's not leak free, and. Listen, Iran is has proven it's been resilient, especially with its missile program, and who knows what's happening with the nuclear program.

So I I expect that if there is talks, Vance will lead it. He was talking optimistically yesterday, but if there is talks, why would we ever believe it? I mean, we since you got into news, hasn't this been the first or second story on foreign policy for your entire adult life? It has been mine. We're getting close.

You know, it's going to happen, and it's like Charlie Brown and Lucy and the football.

So yanked away.

So there is some reports of a. Like from Belukhstan and others moving forward, starting to take on the IRGC and some of the forces inside Iran, starting moving forward towards the capital. They have a long way to go, but General Keen has also mentioned in the past that the CIA might have identified some of these groups. And if you provide air cover, they can make substantial gains. If you want a if you want a generational switch in the Middle East, it's so obvious that Iran's the problem.

Yeah, can we solve it from what we have right now? I think it is so complex. There are about ten different groups, you know, and if you arm one, the others don't trust the one, and it becomes they're not cohesive. Yeah, they're not cohesive.

So if they figured out that equation, it's like a Rubik's cube. You finally got all the colors on the right sides, and yeah, that would be a game changer. But minus that, Iran kills forty thousand people every time. You know, some uprising happens, and they don't care, and that's the difference, right? Which is amazing to you.

Do you ever take a step back and think, well, Israel's responding; they go into Gaza, and there are innocent people to be killed, but they're never intended to be killed. That doesn't add up to forty thousand dead in two weeks. Not one protest anywhere about Iran, any Western culture, any capital anywhere, anywhere. Nobody says what about those people, the Iranian people on the ground who just got slaughtered. I mean, a small stadium full of people.

Right. I mean, it just it just makes you wonder who is pulling our strings. Like why in America? Oh, we always protesting America. All the time, there's no balance, and then you got to explain it.

And then you have another party that says Iran was in a box, and you have the president Obama saying the JCPOA was working fine until we got rid of it. No one it expired in ten years, and we're past the ten years. Not only that, they were cheating. They clearly were cheating. Everybody looking at it said they were building the nuclear program.

In the last minute, what can we expect in terms of the coverage? When do you hop on behind the chair? I'm going to be on outnumbered at twelve, but the official coverage starts at six p.m. We have a cast of thousands, and It'll be, you know, rocking. It's the same team.

We've done this so many times. It's it's going to be good. It's harder on midterms.

So many, right?

So many, and they're in your ear every two seconds. We're going to call Ohio four. I'm like, okay, yeah. And you got to know all of it. And when do you plan on?

When do you stop being live? We don't know, but usually about two a.m. And we we hand over to Trace Gallagher. Will you will you ultimately make that decision, or is it Martha? I think it's Martha.

Martha doesn't. Yeah, we'll be chained to the set, so you're gonna have to go. Why did you tell this back? His cover is gonna be great, Brett. Thanks so much.

And again, I apologize for that night, but I really blame the Kansas rally for one name. It's all good. Cut short. Listen to Brian Killing's show. Don't move.

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I pick Ken Paxton over John Cornyn, who 99.3 is how often John Cornyn voted with Donald Trump.

So for 0.7, if you get Paxton, you spent half a billion dollars that could have gone to South Carolina, could have gone to Maine, could have gone to Nebraska, Kansas. But they're trying to drag Ken Paxton over the finish line. When all you had to do was nominate John Cornyn. Not everybody feels like that, but I agree with Trey Gowdy. I don't know about Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, who is not the biggest John Cornyn fan.

He's American Constitutional Rights Union executive director and former congressman from Florida. Served decades in the military, Colonel. What are your thoughts about what Trey just said?

Well, it's good to be with you, Brian, and my former colleague Trey. You know, if you're looking from the outside in, sure, that's the assessment that you have. But being here on the ground in Texas, there are many people in the conservative grassroots of Texas that felt betrayed by Senator Cornyn, especially on the gun control issue and a little bit on the on the border issue. And I think that really hurt him going into this election cycle.

So, you know, Ken Paxton is. Without a doubt, probably a suboptimal candidate, but we've got to do as best as we can to get him across the finish line. Because if James Talerico is successful today, that's going to be blood in the water here in Texas for the left. But they put the blood in the water, right? I mean, there would be Texas putting that blood in the water.

Well, I think again that you have to come back and say, you know, Senator Cornyn, a little bit of this is is your fault, your responsibility. You have to accept some some accountability for the fact that there are people in Texas that ask you to take certain positions on certain issues, and you failed them. And I think it was what two years ago or so when Senator Cornyn appeared at a Texas Republican Party convention, and he was booed. And I think. He should have taken that to heart.

He should have said, "Look, how can I do better?" And I just don't think the people had that trust and confidence on it with him.

So you don't think he was going to win if he ran through the primary? If he ran through the primary unopposed? If Trump made the call and said to Ken Paxton, "Back off, not this cycle," and he was able to not waste money in a primary, you don't think he would have won? Oh, I think that Senator Cornyn would have won, but when people had this choice, there—I mean, you saw the choice. And again, I think that you know we can start looking at the armchair quarterback, or you know, looking back at this thing.

I think a lot of questions are going to be asked about you know President Trump getting involved in some of these Senate races. I mean, look at what has happened in South Carolina when you had a very good member of Congress, Ralph Norman. A lot of folks, and I have. A lot of friends in South Carolina are saying that you know we would have preferred to have Ralph Norman. Yeah, he told.

Yeah, Ralph Norman lost in the runoff, so to Darlene Graham, and we'll see. It almost everyone agrees South Carolina is too close to call, but they did say that with Lindsey and and what's his name who ran the DNC for a while. He he thought going in that looked like a dead heat, and Lindsey Graham won pretty handily.

So we'll see what happens. That's we're going to see in so many places. I look at Maine. I mean, how could Susan Collins lose to that clown Troy Jackson? They're in a virtual dead heat.

How could? Mike Rogers lose to Elsie, the most unattractive radical candidate I can remember, and now Haley Stevens defected and said, "I'm staying a Democrat, but I'm going to vote for Rogers." You know Mike Rogers. I mean how how could he how could he lose that race? But almost, I have not seen him winning a poll.

Well, again, it comes back to a lot of these polls that we think that they're very accurate. I believe that just yesterday, New York Times CNN poll said that Abdul Al-Sheikh was ahead by 11 points in Michigan. I don't think anybody believes that Abdul Al-Sheikh is ahead by 11 points in Michigan, especially some of the recent things. And when you look at his really poor showing in Wayne County around Detroit.

So again, I think that you know, if you want to go back and look at and start to do a an after-action analysis of this election cycle, Republicans have to do better with their messaging. Republicans have to do better talking about the issues. There is no way that the Democrats should be owning the issue of affordability because they have never made anything more affordable. Nothing, and I think that you should have come out immediately and start hammering them on that. If they think health care is unaffordable, then why did you pass the Affordable Care Act?

And it still needs now. Guess what? Rates are going up fifteen percent on Obamacare again.

So it's up to Trump to write that check. Are you kidding me?

So I mean, you you put together a terrible health care plan.

So now, if we don't bail it out, you don't like people, or you you want poor people to not have health care. I've never seen a scenario like this. Republicans seeming capable of fighting back on it, but we'll see. Remember, the subsidies that were passed were supposed to expire in a year. When they expired, they said Donald Trump is doesn't like farmers or rural health care.

It's crazy. I just want you to now the whole thing with Haley Stevens coming forward. She got most of the black vote in the primary and almost beat Abdul El I see Said.

So now that she jumped, she she jumped ship. This is what Stacey Abrams that people don't know. Stacey Abrams fought the election, said it was fixed against Brian Kemp. No one talks about that now. This is what she says about Mike Rogers.

Cut thirteen. She used black people as a prop in order to pursue an agenda of.

Sore loserness, and having been someone who has not won everything I sought, it is deeply inappropriate to use anyone else to justify your behavior and to justify your dismay. She said in her press conference, "Well, he told her not to come to something. I've been asked not to come to things before. That doesn't mean that I then disavow my values." And she goes on to say, "This cut fourteen. Her personal animus has now overtaken her respect for the black people with whom she worshipped, and for every Michigan Gander from whom she has requested a vote.

I I take deep exception to her behavior, and I live in a state where black women have a body count from." The anti-abortion laws that Mike Rogers supports, and that is deeply, deeply offensive to me. That Stacey Abrams articulating how upset she is about Haley Stevens, a Democrat, voting for Mike Rogers.

Well, you know, again, I was born and raised in Georgia, and Stacey Abrams is an embarrassment to my birth state, there in Georgia. And first and foremost, I have not seen, you know, where black women are falling down and dying. And she should understand that Planned Parenthood—they have set up themselves about seventy to seventy-three percent in black neighborhoods. Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger, who referred to black people as undesirables and weeds. That's first and foremost.

The other thing is that that. Democrats have been pandering and using the black community as props. And what has been the return on investment from the electoral patronage that blacks have given to Democrats over these years? The inner cities are a failure. Black families have been destroyed.

Economic opportunities, education opportunities, are destroyed. And look, what Haley Stevens did was not about personal animus. She asked him to reject a very despicable, disgusting, anti. Anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish ad that was run on his behalf in Michigan. He refused to do so, and so I just really love how people like Stacey Abrams—they come out, they speak half truths or no truths whatsoever—and it's about time we start to challenge them on that.

Well, it's going to be interesting. I did not know there was animus between, I guess, Muslims and Blacks in Michigan. And that's what LCE tried to address. And I, I, I had no idea. Can you can you talk about that?

Is there problems between cultures? No. Look, I think that what he was trying to refer to, you know, a lot of these convenience stores and things of this nature, black communities are being bought up by, you know, people from not from the United States of America or Middle East or. Yeah, Middle East, but but again, I think that him trying to bring that up is is a pandering issue. What he was trying to say is, you know, I'm the good Abdul.

These are bad Abduls. Please vote for me instead of talking about better education opportunities. Who is the party that's against school choice and parental choice in education? It's crazy. It's the Democrats.

And so they're forcing black kids to go to failed schools. Who who is the party that's responsible for the decimation of the traditional nuclear black family? Lyndon Johnson, great society programs. You know that's that's what people are upset about in the inner cities. If you're talking about defunding the police, safety and security.

You know people want better safety and security in our inner city communities, where you see the president, the Trump. Administration is doing a great job in reducing crime. All right, Colonel. Thanks so much. appreciate Appreciate your time.

My exit question is more about when you wore the uniform, and that is the President United States got the biggest decision. I think of his second term, and that is what to do next in Iran. He's got different factions. They say Hexeth and Netanyahu said go back to war. Besson and Rubio and Radcliffe say keep on the economic stranglehold, and then J D Vance just wants to end this and just have talks.

What if you had to pick a faction? What faction? What what corner of the room should I put Colonel West in? I am definitely not about sitting down and talking with the number one sponsor of Islamic terrorism. The thing that I think you should do again: look at the dime theory—diplomatic, informational, military, and economic.

Let's keep up the diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran to isolate them from the rest of the world. But without a doubt, we've got to do better to increase our refining capability here so that we are not dependent upon what happens in the Straits of Hormuz. But we have got to isolate. Diplomatically and economically, so I think that's where you find me, Colonel West. Thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Always a pleasure. Take care, Brian.

Okay, and by the way, I'm going to be in Colonel West's neck of the woods in Dallas. Coming up on, I think it's November 14th. November fourteenth at Barnes and Noble. I'm going to be signing United States of Six Crucial Interbank Books, of the Six Crucial Moments that Fords the American Miracle, and I love talking about it. And hopefully, we'll have a chance to talk before we do the signing.

I did a signing on Sunday; it was great, but I just signed, and I feel like I'm not giving people what they want. No chance to interact besides those minute or two when we when I sign the book.

So this one's going to be more of a signing, a give and take answer.

Some questions, and then we'll sign the books, and we'll stay until every book is signed.

So go to briankilmeade.com. We just got to register, so we know how many how many books to have. You're listening to the Brian Kilmeade Show. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmeade. Hi, everyone.

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It's Brian Kilmeade. I think it was probably a long time coming. The guy was doing it a lot. Kill me, you know this because you like in Fox Friends, you guys are you guys like microwave broccoli at four in the morning? You're not kidding.

Yeah, that's exactly what was happening for a while. I cannot reveal who. Yeah, Harris Foster pollute the whole the whole first floor, and it was awful. Steve Ducey, but that well, it was Todd Pyro. It was Steve Ducey, right?

No, I'm I'm not saying I'm not giving out names, but I would say. Political power to force them in early retirement. Right. I would say this. That's why they don't let us come here with firearms, because there are certain things that happen in my voice.

Because, Craig, you are known to have certain particular things. There are certain times that you people might watch you fly off the handle, and if you were armed, they might fear for themselves. I never lose my temper, as you both can. I have not lost my temper. No, no, no.

He sends. He sends. Well, not to me. He sends. He sends scathing emails.

Oh, I did it once, ten years ago.

So that was a really good show last night on Gutfeld. It was an interesting topic. I mean, we start off at the first topic, someone mocking Charlie Kirk's death. I'm thinking, what's funny about that? But it just goes to the extreme attitudes of people in their twenties.

I don't know. Did you see this? A person wrote a poem. A Christian conservative came on campus and did a Charlie Kirk thing. And I did you see this video?

I saw. You know, I was I was I was gonna grab it, and then I thought, "There's, we're not getting into it today." It's unbelievable. Her poem is terrible. Her attitude is everything you think about. Just like a really just pompous liberal.

Yeah, and it was awful. And but then her apology was this one eighty, and I I agree with you. What you were saying, you're trying to figure out what happened to make her suddenly apologize. I haven't been able to find. Right.

I mean, they said. That the parents probably realized no, no. The parents probably let it go forever, and then the parents started getting blowback, and they said, "You got to put an end to this because it's that I think it's university, you know, that whole University of Michigan attitude that that's so pervasive. The one where the girl got thrown the other day, I interviewed her. She's a conservative on campus, just saying, you know, against this merger of Islamism and the Democratic Party.

So they're having They have a stack table out, and they have literature at the University of Michigan. This one girl with a nose ring comes out, purple hair, just like every stereotype, starts screaming at them, pushed her phone in his face, big guy, and then she turned around. This this girl is there, about twenty years old, weighs about. She says she weighs ninety pounds. And the girl walked up to her, and he she picked her up and threw her because she just said something simply like you wouldn't be able to be expressing your opinion like this in Iran.

Your tattoos and your nose ring in Iran, and she threw him. And then when a guy just tried to hold her back, and then the security guard, she wouldn't allow herself to be cuffed and started screaming, "I'm going to come back and kill you! I'm going to come back and kill you!" And then turns out, well, she's on all types of drugs for emotional. She's very nervous or has depression or whatever. But that's the attitude of so many people at the University of Michigan.

I mean, you send you write a seventy-five thousand dollars check for out-of-state students. You send them to that school, and they come back so many times, totally radicalized. I mean, if you already have a lot of mental health issues, and then you're there, and you're probably just watching all of this stuff on your phone nonstop, just getting fed to you. I mean, it's going to make you crazier. It's not going to help your mental state.

Yeah, and just so it's amazing that people don't get this stuff on their phones that are very conservative. You know, they don't get ones that say. But the attitude that she had. This is what I want to say. The attitude that that girl had.

About hey, you're very brave to be out here without any type of protection for your neck. Oh, that was yes, going back to the going back to the girl. She's like, yeah, so brave. Isn't that the same attitude the killer had? Remember, he said, "Yeah, is I can't take this," and he says, "It's too much.

I have to take action." Charlie Kirk's statements on pro life and about family and or whatever Charlie Kirk's message of big conservatism and doing things fundamentally right and whatever you want. He goes. It's too much.

Someone had to do something.

Someone had to do something.

You're not trying to kill a sniper in your neighborhood. You're not trying to wipe out Al Qaeda in your backyard.

Someone has to do something about somebody with an opinion that you don't agree with. That was the same attitude. She was oblivious to the fact that she's threatening somebody of being shot in the neck and foam and laughing at an assassination. It was such a flippant comment. Showed how tone deaf she was.

Like. It would be like just you making a sarcastic comment with your friends. That would be funny. But she just thought it was like that, which tells you what kind of circle she's probably hanging in. But here's the thing: sometimes with your friends, you have thank God that's not on.

You know, thank God that wasn't on social media. But you know, you have fun, make sarcastic comments. That's different. This was written. It's a poem.

It's a poem about the murder of Charlie Kirk, and telling the guy who's doing the Charlie Kirk thing, take all questions on campus. Telling him you're lucky to be out here. Very brave to be out here without any covering for your neck. Yeah, or other security. I know.

Yeah, and she chose to step up to the mic and say all this, right? And she laughed after.

So, and then two weeks later, she's making a massive apology. I just hope people sober up. But I also think it's the same attitude with the anti-Semitism on campus. This is why El Sayyid doesn't feel as though he needs union workers. He doesn't need Jews to vote for him, and now he also doesn't need another segment of the population, blacks.

Because if he wanted the black vote, he knows that Haley Stevens kicked his ass on the black vote in Michigan, and she never contacted her. And must be something that he's seeing in the polls that shows he does not need that section of the country, or he knows he's going to get enough. That's why Clyburn and Obama come in at the last minute. But Clyburn had huge problems with him early. And we all, by the way, Haley Stevens would have been the answer.

Haley Stevens, in my view, is is is took the blows for a Democratic Party that has given up all their values and all their beliefs in order to maximize their margin of victory in the House or Senate. Because they believe that the socialist will caucus with Democrats, that all that matters. Haley Stevens goes, "No, this is crazy. I don't believe anything this guy's saying." And finally, she said, "I can't even pretend to vote for him." And now they think she is the heretic, crazy. Go to briankillme.

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This is election day.

So glad you're here and with us because you know we get all pumped up for election day, but we really don't get any news until about seven o'clock Eastern time tonight. A little bit earlier, you could see the size of crowds and turnouts and get that idea. But you really got that too on the early voting, which the turnout was just tremendous. I'm not sure who it helps, but they say that on election day, Republicans traditionally do better. I saw one of the polls.

I tried to look hard to see if there's anything positive about the Sienna New York Times poll, and one of which was they say for undecideds who change their mind late, they break nine points with Republicans. That's tradition. But why would I go ahead and go through with somebody else's numbers when I got Carl Rove with me, former Deputy Chief of Staff for President Bush, and Fox News contributor, of course, and he'll be all part of the election coverage tonight. Carl, good to see you. Good to be here.

The mothership, the mothership. Yeah, right. Right at forty eighth and six in your favorite studio. Yeah, I'm in your. I'm in your favorite studio.

I'm not allowed to say favorite studio. You know because you're in so many. Yeah, well, and it's because I'm not. My opinion doesn't matter. Your opinion matters.

So there's two things that happen. That are, let's say, the October surprise and November surprise. October surprise was was Dan Sullivan Jr. Dan L, whatever he is, fake fake Dan Sullivan, right? And the Dan Sullivan that we all know that you that work in the Bush administration, yeah, Dan S.

Sullivan, who's a who's a military veteran too. And then you have the other big surprise is Haley Stevens, who says, you know, I can't vote for Al Saeed. I'm staying a Democrat, but I'm out. Pick your surprise.

Well, those are both big surprises, and I, you know, and I just wish both of them had happened a few days earlier, so they had time to work their way through the system. But I got to tell you, that New York Times story was jaw dropping about Dan Sullivan and what happened in Alaska. Think about it: the Patola campaign. Manager shares with the who then got ousted shares with the New York Times reporters the emails the chronology and the story of how this came about and it starts with the campaign in combination with the Democratic Senate campaign committee. Staffers are told go find every Dan Sullivan who's registered to vote in Alaska.

Then they hire this guy Jared Kurtz from Ohio and send him up there, and he uses fake names. Approaches these people to say, "Would you consider running for the Senate?" Finds this guy in a little town that literally you can't drive to; you have to fly or go by boat to. Whose name is Dan Sullivan Jr.? Dan J. Sullivan Jr.

And he says, "Yeah, I like Patola, and I'm a Democrat." And they get him to run as quote a Republican." And this is all being coordinated with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. They deny it. The Patola campaign. And two super PACs, and here's where it gets it, and a law firm, the Markelias law firm. Here's where it gets.

By the way, is Markelias involved in every underhanded thing that goes on in elections? Is that the hub of the Russian situation? Oh yeah, absolutely.

So this, this, according to the New York Times reporting, they one of these super PACs pays Kurtz eighty seven thousand dollars. And there may be other payments that are made, but but this one is to his consulting firm.

Now, why is that important? Because federal law prohibits coordination between a campaign and a super PAC. You cannot coordinate on expenditures, and somebody inside the campaign sends to the super PAC. Pay this guy because he's the guy who's helping us get the fake Dan Sullivan, and maybe some other. He goes to another one, the other the other Republican who's on the ballot.

There are four people in the general election in Alaska. The other one he goes to who's like a carpenter or something, and and and and says, "Why don't you run?" And the carpenter tells the New York Times reporters, "Well, yeah, I was probably already going to run, but that sort of kicked me over the over the the threshold. But but I was probably." Probably already going to run because God told me to run. Yeah.

So usually gets involved in elections. Exactly. Yeah.

In fact, in fact, gets involved in the Alaska election. Everybody knows that. Yeah.

He's got a special affection for Alaska elections. But the the point is, they coordinated, and that's a violation of federal law. And you know, and and now they're going to have to at some point in all likelihood explain who talked to the super who talked to the super PAC and told them to pair it to pay Jared Kurtz. And were there other payments through other vehicles or avenues to Kurtz? Kurtz is going to have to come forward at some point, I suspect, and answer questions to law enforcement.

So, number one, Peltola is still lying. Yeah, she is. I mean, it's not believable. I didn't know anything about this. I'm focused on only my candidacy and the incumbent.

She said that. Who believes that? Nobody. Nobody. But I just hope that if she's going to lie about this, what else is she lying about?

Along with her horrible behavior that was reported the month before. Right. The way she treats staffers like they are minions, but beneath her. But having said that, Dan Sullivan's also one of the most effective senators in the country. He was effective during the Biden years, making sure the alerting everyone to way the the the oil was not flowing through the pipelines at the capacity that it could.

Always trying to do make a difference. I can't believe he's even vulnerable. Let me Alaska. Let me tell you, you don't know the start of the guy. You need to know the story behind him.

I know him. He's a friend of mine. I contributed to his campaigns. I encouraged him to run the first time. He's one of the most remarkable people I've ever met in politics.

His family grew up in Northeast Ohio. Family owns the company that makes Restolium. It's a big company. He goes to Harvard, goes to Georgetown Law, graduates near the top of his class. And what does he do?

Does he say, "Oh, I'm going to get a clerk, federal clerkship"? Do I'm going to go home to Cleveland and go to work for the big Jones Day law firm? I'm going to become general counsel of the family company eventually and live a wonderful life? No. He goes to the Marine recruiting station and joins the United States Marines.

I meet him when he is a White House Fellow.

Now, the the very difficult program to get accepted to. There are four or five or six members of the military who are part of each class each year in the White House Fellows program, and he was one of them. And I met him when he and he took up his assignment with the National Security Council, working for Condie Rice. And what he was doing was terrorist financing issues. And his first day on the job was.

January, January. Excuse me, September first, two thousand and one. And eleven days later, his job became awful damned important, and he did an extraordinary job tracking down and cracking down on terrorist financing.

So much so that at the end of his year as a White House fellow, Condie Rice says, "I, National Security Advisor, I want him for one year more." That never happens. The military are not allowed to do it. But she goes to the chairman, the Joint Chiefs, and says he's playing an important role. I want him for another year. Pete Pace himself, a Marine, smart enough to say I'm not going to get in a direct fight with Condi Rice because I'll lose.

Instead, what he does is he says, "Let me think about it for a day or two." Comes back and says, "Okay, Condi, you can have Captain. I think he was Captain, maybe Major at that point. You can have him for another year." But he's got in advance sign a document that he will accept two consecutive back-to-back combat tours in the Middle East, and he says, "Where do I sign?" Spends one more year at the White House, and then back then the Marines were doing nine-month tours of duty. Spends eighteen months in some of the toughest duty possible in the Middle East as a troubleshooter for Obseid, leading an elite team that did some really incredible things. That's the kind of guy that we're talking about here.

What a patriot and what an exceptional human being! Right to be treated like this by by by corrupt people who say let's let's let's confuse. I can't beat them. I can't beat them straight up. This is how you beat him.

He had fifty three percent of the vote last time. Here's Governor Mike Dunleavy on some of his options. Cut twenty six. The individual contacted the Division of Elections here in Alaska. He wanted his name on the ballot as Daniel Dan S.

Sullivan. His name is Daniel. It's not S. His middle name is initial. Initial is not S.

That's the initial of our incumbent state U.S. Senator. As you mentioned, the campaign site looked eerily similar to. The senators, and that just started the whole ball rolling.

So we've been investigating this at one level since June, but then the courts decided they were going to put the individual's name back on the ballot, and then with the New York Times article. It's really given us, I think, a lot more to work with at this point. Right. So in terms of the investigation, but but what about the election? Yeah.

Well, look, they at least made it made his name on the ballot, Dan J. Sullivan. I don't know if Junior's on it or not, but we now all know about it. You know, where's Mister Kurtz? Let's where where's he?

He's going. He's in the wind. Where is the other Dan Sullivan? He's disappeared too. Did he get any money?

Did he get paid to run?

Well, we don't know.

So here's Mary Peltole, cut twenty seven. Is it possible that anybody in your campaign was potentially part of that conspiracy to plant Dan J? I have no idea. I honestly have no idea. This is offensive to me on a number of different levels.

First of all, this is Alaska. We do not. Not in the business of tricking each other up here. The second thing is, I know I can win this race. I've known since day one.

Well, you didn't believe it, or your staff didn't believe it. According to the source, she was she knew about it. No, no, no. Her former campaign manager says yes, she was aware of it. And and and look, this this has got.

I mean, it just is hard to believe. That it's just simply not credible that this was all going on, and with all of these meetings and all of these staff people in this thing, that they did it by themselves without her awareness. She had to have blessed this in order; otherwise, what?

Somebody surely she didn't hire just simply a bunch of crooks and and connivers to be on her campaign staff, who all thought this was a great idea. This had to be blessed. Yeah, here is a Dan Sullivan, cut thirty. You do not have to vote for a corrupt. Senator, or Senate candidate, which is what she is, whose first order of business was to say, "Miss Schumer and his staff, let's figure out a way to cheat and steal votes from Alaskans." And it's all in there.

None of this, this disputed. Read the New York Times article. It's not he said, she said. It is receipts from text messages from Eve. Emails.

Mary Peltola's top campaign staffer, her top chief of staff, got weekly updates on the scheme for a year and a half, and she says she doesn't know. It's ridiculous. No one buys it. No one buys it. And I hope she goes down to defeat.

This is too ugly. Seventy thousand people already voted. They expect three hundred thousand to vote in Alaska. I think that's what's the challenge up there. Do you know?

Is is it long drives to because we think it's open tundra everything? Yeah.

No. Look, one part of it is is that you have a lot of villages, particularly in the north and west part of the state, that you they mail the ballots in, and so you know. Have to have the plane show up and pick up the mail and fly it. You know, so we're not going to get a result. Oh, and look, they close at midnight Eastern time, and we'll be lucky to have a sense within twelve or fourteen hours of of because you do have you know you have Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, some major some major towns that that that cast a bunch of ballots, but this thing is, and then we have to remember this is a ranked choice voting state, one of the two in the country, the other is Maine, and so you if nobody gets fifty.

Percent on of of the total vote, you then have to begin allocating the second choice of this third and fourth. And I mean, this this will the only good that will come out of this. We're going to kill rank. It's going to kill two rank choice voting. Back in a moment because I got to talk Texas when we return with James Tallerico, who suddenly wants to work with Trump.

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. I would love, as the next U.S. senator from Texas, to work with Donald Trump to actually fulfill some of the promise of his political project. Because the the promise of MAGA was that we were going to transform this government so that it delivered for the people who have been left behind, the people who have been forgotten in this country.

And there's still time to do that. There's still time to do that on a bipartisan basis. If the president wants to work with with me or with any Democrat. To expand healthcare access, I'm there. If he wants to make sure that every single kid in this country, oh, if that is that, that's enough for James Talerico.

Now saying he wants to work on a bipartisan basis with the builder, Donald Trump. Call Rove is our guest. Call. No one knows Texas better than you. Do you think James Talerico is that bipartisan spirit that we need in this in the Senate?

Look, I think he's a very smart. Operator, and I think he's run a very smart campaign, and he realizes Texas is a red state, so he said. I have worked on passing sixty bipartisan bills. These are bills that passed the legislature with overwhelming numbers. But he's going out of his way to sort of say, "I'm a bipartisan guy." I voted for the largest property tax increase in history.

Now, of course, he voted for other things like a state income tax and against other property tax cuts. But he's smart enough to know he cannot come down the end at the end of this campaign saying the things that he has routinely said in the years before, like we need to abolish capitalism. Or oil and gas jobs are going away, and that's a good thing because we have a climate a climate issue. We we we no beef, no beef. No, wait a minute.

We must reduce our consumption of beef because it's an existential threat to the climate. I mean, he can't get away with saying those things and win.

So he has smartly gone out of his way to say I'm um I'm a bipartisan kind of guy, and I'm I'm I'm for cutting property taxes.

So here's that's the same thing to do in Nebraska, the same thing to do in Kansas, same thing to do in South Carolina. Pretend to be somebody you're not, right? Because your positions are so unpopular. Yeah, yeah. And look, I live in Travis County, Austin, Texas.

It is the blueberry and the deep red sea. And if you're a Democrat in Travis County, except if you're running in the far western part of the county, which is Republican, Travis County is three to one Democrat, four to one Democrat. And you don't worry about anybody to your right. You. Worry about somebody to the left, and the things that he said.

You know, like there are six genders, and you know which is new to me. They don't believe that in Comanche. Bacteria is cut thirty-three. There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.

There are some folks, and that would think that if you deny your child's gender identity, that that's incredibly harmful. God is both masculine. And feminine, and everything in between. God is non-binary. Check, please.

That should be it for Texas. That would be it. But you just walked it all back. Yeah, yeah. No, but he is walking it all back.

I mean, he said he said in response to that last piece of tape you had there. He was asked about this was years ago that he said this, and he was asked about it recently. And he said, "Well, you know, I think the lesson is we shouldn't use human terms to describe God, and this really wrong to do that." Well, that's what you did, buddy. You used human terms to try and describe the Almighty and to. Try him.

Make him a political tool for you. That was October fourteenth, twenty twenty-one.

So it's not that far. Yeah.

What do you predict?

Well, we have two competing things here. We have a very controversial Republican who's surrounded by charges of corruption, and we have a very, very liberal Democrat who had the energy and had and had and had the momentum. And the question is, here at the end, what's the tension between those two? There are people I run into them at the airport, or in the Starbucks, or at the local grocery store, or on the street walking. I literally walk into.

Lunch, and people will come up and say, "Oh my God, Paxton's so terrible!" But I'm worried about a Democratic Senate, and that's ultimately going to the tension there between you know the very you know scandalous. The scandals that surround the Republican Paxton and the liberal comments, the not liberals, the incredibly progressive left-wing comments by Tarico. The tension is ultimately going to decide the race.

So, ultimately, Paxton has gotten elected in the state of Texas a lot. Yeah, but beaten back a lot of competition, including George P. Bush. That's right. But remember two two things.

Well, first of all. This he was impeached in 2023. After he got reelected in 2022, he was impeached, and so all of this stuff that now about the girlfriends and the fake Uber account paid by the corrupt business guy and the dealings with the corrupt business guy and the favors that he does on behalf of him, appointing a quote special prosecutor, which is a title that doesn't exist in Texas, for the sole purpose of going after the creditors of the corrupt business guy. All of that stuff came after his last race. His last race was.

2022, and even in 2022 and 2018, there was something about him. He trailed the rest of the Republican ticket in 2022 by 155,000. How did he beat Cornyn? Donald J. Trump endorsed him.

They said that he was going to win anyway, and that Trump jumped in the last minute. No, you don't believe that. No, look, I was, I got access to the, to the outside polling. Trump delivered him. Trump delivered him.

No ifs, ands, or buts. The president's endorsement is enormously powerful. Thanks so much, Carl Rove. Going to be an exciting night. You're not making a prediction.

I'm not.

Okay. Coin toss. Back in a moment. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kilmeade show.

Now, the president of the United States has complained that I'm engaging in some sort of political witch hunt. That I've got some personal vendetta against him. That I campaigned against him. That is not true. I'm running for attorney general because I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president when our fundamental rights are at stake.

He should be charged with obstructing justice. I believe that the president of these United States can be indicted. For criminal offenses, and we were joined with law enforcement and other attorneys general across this nation in removing this president from office. It's important that everyone understand that the days of Donald Trump are coming to an end. Right.

That's besides that. I don't think she's obsessed with Donald Trump at all. It's unbelievable. That's what she said in this term. I'm talking about Tish James, the attorney general of New York, when she made it her mission to get famous, off as usual by attacking Donald Trump, either by supporting Donald Trump or attacking Donald Trump.

Either way, you can get famous that way, and that's where Adam Schiff made his name, and other people made his name by being an enemy of him. And that's what she looked to do, but she fell flat on her face, wasted a lot of time and money, thinking that she had the equal weight and be able to put him on trial in New York City. And that's what happened. She kicked her shoes off every day, put everything else on hold, and just watched him stand on trial. And they convicted him, but it actually helped Donald Trump become the next president of the United States.

Sarita Comitaretti joins us now. She's a Republican. Nominee for Attorney General of New York, taking on Tish James and wiped the floor with her at a debate. Sarita, welcome. Can you hear me?

Okay, I'm not sure she's coming through. Good morning, Brian. How are you?

Okay, Sarita, how are you?

So we just played Tish James. No problem. Her obsession with Trump hurt this state, no doubt about it. But how do you convince a A a a blue state like New York that she's bad for the state, and that Republicans were the shot because under her watch. New York is less safe.

Listen, she's been obsessed with national politics, and it made her a celebrity. It burned ten million dollars of our taxpayer money, a hundred thousand attorney hours from the attorney general's office, but it didn't serve New Yorkers. Crime is up, homelessness is up, fraud is out of control. Everyone in New York feels less safe and feels like they're being ripped off every day because they are. And we actually could could have an attorney general's office that did something about that if you had an attorney general who's a prosecutor focused.

On the safety of New Yorkers, that is what our campaign is all about. And you know what? We've gotten support from all across New York, all across the political spectrum. Doesn't matter what your race or religion or politics are. Everyone wants safety first, right?

That's the fundamental precursor for everything else that you you have in your society. And so, I have found a tremendous amount of support in communities across New York for our message. People want change, right? They did, and did you find she was ill prepared for the debate you guys had? Listen.

She just can't defend her failing record. There's just no answers to some of these things. The bottom line is, previous attorneys general, whether they were Democrats or Republicans, did ten times the work that she does when it comes to things like prosecuting fraud, and that affects everyday New Yorkers. That means there's billions of dollars that's going to criminals instead of being given back to taxpayers, and that that comes out of our pockets, right? Previous attorney Attorneys General had this amazing organized crime task force in the AG's office and staffed it up with the best prosecutors and went after organized crime, everything from organized retail theft to organized cyber crime, to to organized gangs and violent violent criminal enterprises.

Attorney General Tish James has just deprioritized that. Instead, she decided to assign twice as many people to prosecute cops than criminals. There's no explanation for that. There's no excuse for that. New York is less safe because she decided to put in place policies and laws that release criminals from jail.

That is her priority, and it's why we have a broken system where the same known dangerous individuals, repeat offenders, career criminals, get arrested and released, arrested and released. And she's proud of that system. She she said the other day in an interview she helped write those laws. Nothing will change under her watch. And we've all been living under this for eight years, where it's ridiculous.

You know, people are getting attacked by repeat offenders. Churches are being firebombed. Women are getting stabbed in the neck, raped in the park. I mean, it's astounding. Violence against women is up under our first elected female attorney general.

Violence against women has surged. Hate crimes have surged. Anti-Semitic incidents have surged. Assaults on the subway have doubled. People are being pushed onto the subway tracks.

Car thefts are up. Retail theft is up. People are losing money, and they're getting hurt. And it's because we have an AG. Who doesn't care about public safety?

So here is the other big story: is what happened at Cornell at Cornell University, and that whole rape case that happened a couple of years ago. But now it's moving forward to be prosecuted. Number one, Letitia James weighed in on this, and tell me what you think about her comments. Let's listen. So let me just say, my heart goes out to the victim, the survivor, and I stand with her and all individuals who unfortunately.

Have been the victims of sexual assault. And my job is to ensure that the rights of students and that the rights of survivors and that all individuals on campuses all throughout the state of New York are safe, and that Cornell University and other universities, SUNY universities, CUNY universities, private universities, all have protocols in place that they are in compliance with Title IX, and that they ensure that all of the students are safe on their. She's supposed to be a fair arbitrator. Should she be saying, "My my"? Heart is my my heart and my my prayers with the victim.

Well, here's the problem, Brian. You know, I know sexual assault investigations well. I did them as a federal prosecutor. I convicted individuals for really horrific sexual assaults. You have to go into those investigations fair and impartial.

And she's not done that. She has prejudged the case. She's already screwed it up by doing that. She is now confirmed. Her office has confirmed that they're frantically looking for outside counsel to handle the case instead of her.

Which means now New York taxpayers are going to have to pay millions of dollars to some private law firm to do this investigation—a criminal investigation—because we don't have an attorney general who can fairly and impartially handle a criminal investigation. We don't have an attorney general who can handle a criminal investigation at all because she's never prosecuted a case in her entire career.

So this is really, frankly, it's an embarrassment for New York that we don't have an attorney general and an attorney general's office that can handle one of the most important cases in the state right now. And as far as her comments about, you know, it's her job to look at what's happening at all these universities. That's been her job for eight years. This happened under her watch. She hasn't done anything.

As I said before, violence against women is surged. I've talked to university students in New York. I spoke to some young girls at Binghamton University. It told me they feel scared walking to lunch. By themselves, they have a buddy system for everything.

They're worried about going to the bus station. One almost got abducted at the bus station. I mean, this is this is what women in New York are facing, and they have an attorney general who has has not been paying attention at all because she's obsessed with national politics, not the safety of New Yorkers.

So the polls are out, and by the way, we're talking to Sarita Kamatareddy. She's a Republican nominee for Attorney General of New York, former federal prosecutor. In New York, and former chief of staff under the DEA, and now there's a there's an internal poll that has you down six, but the Sierra polls has you down fifteen on election day. What's your message here in New York State? I know we have WABC as one of our many affiliates in New York.

What is your message? My message is simple. The only poll that matters is that is today, election day, and this is your chance. There is not another one coming. This is you.

You ask New Yorkers, and and you can ask whether it's Sienna asking or me. They all say the same thing. A majority of New Yorkers believe that New York is going in the wrong direction on crime. They want. To focus on public safety, they want someone's going to take it seriously.

Well, this is your chance to actually make that happen. You've got to come out and vote. We already have the support of a silent majority. That silent majority has to be loud. It has to be voting today, and and when we do that, we're we're actually going to bring about the change that New Yorkers.

Have been waiting for it. That's what our campaign represents. I will tell you. I was a federal prosecutor for 12 years. I served under the last three presidents.

I served as chief of staff of the DEA. Over the course of my 12 years, I worked with Democrats and Republicans. I worked for Democrats and Republicans. And in this race, I am endorsed by Democrats and Republicans for one simple reason. Public safety is not political, and that is why our campaign has been able to build the common sense coalition of Republicans, Independents, and Democrats needed to win in New York.

I just need every single one to vote.

So, there's Mike Lawers just put this out on Twitter on X. There's a problem with every ballot scanner in Westchester County. We do not yet know the exact cause of the issue, whether it's the ballot or the machine. The Board of Elections is working with their vendors to resolve it. He's urging everybody to stay online and vote.

Do not leave the polling place without voting. Have you heard this? I have. I've been informed of what's happening with the scanners in Westchester County. We are closely monitoring that situation as the facts develop.

Listen, New Yorkers deserve to have elections where every vote is counted and every voter has confidence in the process. I agree with Mike. People need to come out and vote. This is your last chance. Today is your last chance to bring about change in New York.

Don't miss that chance. Go to the polls. Stand in line. Don't let anyone turn you away, and vote for a safer New York. Sarita, thanks so much.

You did a fantastic job. You impressed everybody with your performance and your campaigning. Best of luck in the final score. Thank you so much. Go get him, Sarita.

When we come back, I'm going to do Stewart Varney. We'll do a simulcast there with it's the number one show in Fox Business. You'll see us on FBM, but you can always catch us on the stream. And don't forget that we always have the YouTube channel. You can pick up all these clips in the show.

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Now, the Brian Kilmeade Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stewart Varney live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmeade. Welcome back, everybody. I'll be able to squeeze in some calls on the back end.

So, if you want to line up, also, you've got to write me, Brian Kilmeade. dot com slash Brian Kilmeade dot com. Just look for comments, and I can get to them. In fact, I'll call them up now. Following a couple of stories, when we talked to President Trump on Fox and Friends, he said he he's ending aid to Israel, four billion a year.

He says they don't need it. I talked to Netanyahu about it. There are reports that that I'm hearing from other people here at Fox that Jerusalem was. Caught, caught by surprise by that. But let's listen to Stuart Varney.

We'll do a final cast. President Trump announced on Fox this morning that he will end all aid to Israel by the end of this year. He says they don't need it. I just spoke to Brett Baer about this. He said it was a complete shock.

Why did the president make this announcement on election day? I asked him about anti-Semitism in this country. It was said it started taking root before you took office, and now it's in full bloom. We saw with Colombia during the Biden years that's the beginning, and now we see it ever since January after October seventh. We got it, and then he said, "Well, you know, we're great allies," and he went on to say, "The four billion dollars we're going to be cutting off to not give the Democrats a talking point because they Israel doesn't need it." Now I don't know.

I know their GDP is growing at a pretty good rate. And I know that economically they've been a miracle story, even by while fighting this war for the last four years. But I have no idea why you would give in to Democrats who want to cut off aid to Israel, our number one allies in the region. Look, it seems like he is accommodating the anti-Israel feeling that is clearly growing in this country, and the president's accommodating it on election day. If Netanyahu comes out, and again this is real time, and then I came right up here six minutes later and started the radio show, so.

If Netanyahu comes out and goes, it's true. We we don't really need the four billion. I'd rather buy the weapons from America than get the weapons from America, where we can mass manufacture ourselves.

Now Netanyahu, remember, came out about a year ago and said it's clear. I'm looking at the die has been cast. If Democrats take power, and they eventually will at some point, Israel is going to be on their own.

So that's the message. We know we're going to have to be our own weapons manufacturer and our own purchaser.

So he knew this was coming. I don't know if he's going to be the prime minister. He still got a. He's got still got to have the blessing from the president to go put together a government after getting fifty three seats. He needs sixty.

So we'll see what happens with Netanyahu. But it really caught me by surprise. And I'll tell you, I have no patience, Stuart, for any anti-Semitism in this country and any anti-Israel sentiment. They're not perfect, but they're a democracy and they're our ally. And they're literally surrounded by enemies.

They have no choice but now they're going to diminish the ring of fire and put it out for good. The last thing to extinguish is Iran, which will be the number one story after we get this election result. It will. Talerico in in Texas, he leads Paxton. If he wins, I mean, I don't know whether he wins or loses, but if he does win, that is a political revolution in Texas, isn't it?

Well, you know it's interesting, Stewart. If I ask Stewart Varney what he stands for, you'll have no problem answering me. You won't look me in the eye and say, "What does Brian Kilmeade want to hear?" As much as you might like me, and if you ask me what I think, I'll just tell you what I think. That's what Republicans did. They'll tell you exactly what they're going to do.

Democrats have realized their ideas are so unpopular in these red states. They've decided to take Republican ideas. I mean, basically, Talerico disavowed almost everything he said. I misspoke. I was inarticulate.

Man, sometimes I can be a little provocative, really. And now he says Donald Trump's a builder. I can't wait to work with the president to cut red tape and build housing. Really, Mister Conservative.

So the Question is: Are the voters willing to be duped into thinking that the candidate they're voting for has actually changed their views? And I'm not just saying keeping in Texas. I'm talking about Kansas. I'm talking about Nebraska. I'm talking about South Carolina.

All these, all these candidates have far left views and have either deleted their past statements, denied them, or say that they were made a mistake.

Now they feel differently. The question is: Are voters willing to be duped like they're being duped in? With the same Dan S. Sullivan, very similar. This is also a very similar head fake that they're getting.

I don't think for a second Tellerico is. Also, I just talked to a very higher up guy in Texas who says it's forty nine forty nine.

So I'm not sure who's going to win. But a lot of Texans will go out and vote for Paxson as flawed as he is because they don't want to do what you just said, give up their conservative state. I can see it. What a day! I'll have some great.

Results tonight. I do believe, Brian Kilmeade. Thanks so much for being with us. We'll see you again real soon.

Now, still ahead. I think it's gonna be a long night. I actually think it's gonna be a really long night. I mean, you gonna tell me that Alaska's gonna be able to count all their votes if it's one or two point race? There's no way Alaska's gonna get this done tonight, and that could be the balance of power.

It could be the balance of power in the Senate, and then you have another state that's going to be quick. It's going to be quick in Florida, and hopefully decisive. Byron Donalds deserves to be governor. I think he's run a very good campaign. He's a rare person that likes Rick Scott and gets along with.

Governor DeSantis, he's got more Republicans voting, so he wins that. And I don't think Ashley Moody's going to have any problem in the Senate because I think people of Florida are too sensible to realize that Angie Nixon would absolutely be awful. Who still can't figure out if Cuba is a dictatorship or not or a communist country because she's never been there. That's interesting.

So, in terms of the biggest story, I do believe it's. The November surprise over the October surprise, which is Alaska, because we I interviewed Dan Sullivan in June, and he told me all about this other Dan Sullivan on the ballot, but he thought they were going to straighten it out to the courts. Obviously, it didn't happen. But when you have Haley Stevens come out and said, "Not only am I not voting, not voting for Abdul El Sayed." But I'm actually going to endorse Mike Rogers. She got widespread ridicule, but one person that is not ridiculing her, Kevin McCarthy, the former Speaker, cut eighteen.

Well, they're going to be tough on her within the Democrats, but she knew that going in.

Now, I believe Haley deserves the Profile in Courage Award because she knew what would come about her if she made this decision, but she cares too much about her state. Think about what she just did. She knew she got the call from AOC. She got everybody else yelling at her. But she knows the position that he's taking would be wrong for her state and wrong for the country, and she was willing to risk that to endorse Rogers.

And I hope other Democrats, when you go into the polling place, you can pull your curtain aside. No one can dictate how you vote, but really use your heart and make that decision the right decision. And Ken McCarthy on Sunday thought they were going to lose the House and 220 for Democrats, but he thinks the Senate is very much is still up for grabs. A lot of. Experts coming in and weighing in.

We'll find out what they said and what they do, and we're also going to keep these pollsters make them accountable. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmeade. All right, from 45th and Sixth in Midtown Manhattan. Heard around the country, around the world, it's the Brian Kilmeade show.

This hour, I'm going to go out to Ukraine, where Trey Yinks just sat down with President Zelensky and Julian Epstein, standing by. We're talking about the election. This is Election Day. Hopefully, everyone's getting out to vote or voted already. It's amazing how many people.

Have voted already in the early voting, so this is really heating up. One eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine. I'll get your impression. I want to know how the lines are going for you. There is a problem in Westchester County.

I just saw it. Westchester County is in New York, where Mike Lawler is in a tough fight with Kate Connolly, and it turns out. It turns out that there's a problem with the voting machines, and they're urging everyone just to stay online.

So I don't know if that's happening near you.

Sometimes things can happen. Doesn't mean people are trying to screw with the system or anything, especially with computer systems. But they want—they're really concerned about. You know, people get fed up. They get online.

It only hurt. It hurts one candidate more than the other, and just on percentages, more people show up to vote on election day than are Republican than Democrat.

So that's really important. The other two stories: you got the November surprise, that is. Haley Stevens coming out and saying, "I'm not voting for El Sayed. I'm voting for Mike Rogers." And then he got the October surprise, which is the longest one going, and that is the revelations about Dan two Dan Sullivan's who has now disappeared, and he's supposed to be running for Senate. Clearly, there's a problem.

He was put up there to confuse the Alaskans, no doubt about it. The question is, where is he, and was he paid off? And also, as Carl Rove pointed out in a different hour here on Fox and. On Brian Kilmeade show, it looks as though there's a collaboration between the Super PAC and the campaign, which is forbidden by election law. Which means everybody involved has got to go lawyer up.

This is going to be pretty serious. But most importantly, what I care most about is just getting the right election result. Why do you have to do people in order to get people to vote for you or win an election? It's kind of embarrassing. And this has been a machine that's been in the works since 2025.

Since she declared, Mary Peltola declared for the election, so we're following a lot of those stories. And then the number one story right after the election will be the Iran. What are we going to do moving forward? Julian Epstein joins us now. Served as chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee and staff director to the House Oversight Committee for Democrats for five years.

Julian, everyone's predicting. I'm getting from various outlets two twenty to two twenty five for Democrats. But then when I break down the different races, the toss ups. There is a lot of people all over the map on where these toss-ups are going, and the ones that are leans can always go the other direction.

So I don't think the die's been cast. Do you, in the house? No, I don't. I think that's an accurate analysis, Brian. I think.

The big thing that we don't know is what the Republican turnout is going to be. If Republican turnout is high, it's a good night for Republicans. If Republican turnout is middling, the low propensity voters don't come out, then it's not so good. I still think the Republicans hold the Senate. And where do you think they hold it?

Let's let's break it down. In Maine, do you think Susan Collins holds? I think Maine, Alaska, Michigan. Maine, Alaska, Michigan.

So, do you think Alaska is going to take a while to come back? They say it could be four days. Oh my gosh, Alaska is going to what? What a mess! And made more messy by the rank voting, which they've got to get rid of.

There's a. Question on the ballot there, but yeah, I think I think Alaska could be a couple days. I think there's a serious criminal investigation ongoing there. I think it's not just the coordination between the campaign and the super PAC. I think you've got an argument that there was an effort to deprive people of their civil rights.

The Democrats engaged in a criminal effort to deprive people of their civil rights by deliberately deceiving them on the with the vote stacking ballots. Stacking, rather, I think this is a serious matter. I don't think it's going to go away. Here is Governor Mike Dunleavy. Cut twenty-six.

The individual contacted the Division of Elections here in Alaska. He wanted his name on the ballot as Daniel Dan S. Sullivan. His name is Daniel. It's not S.

His middle name is initial. Initial is not S. That's the initial of our incumbent state U.S. senator. As you mentioned, the campaign site look eerily similar to the senator's, and that just start the whole ball rolling.

So we've been investigating this at one level since June, but then the courts decided they were going to put the individual's name back on the ballot, and then with the New York Times article. It's really given us, I think, a lot more to work with at this point. So the New York Times is helping the investigation, but it's not going to help the election, is it, Julian? It may. We don't know.

What I mean, I think people react very negatively to dirty tricks, and you know, this is this is an effort by the Democrats to deprive people of the franchise. We've heard all through the J six investigations, and you know, the last ten years, how Democrats were the party trying to save democracy.

Well, here's a example where they are directly trying to subvert democracy by fooling voters, by deceiving them, by getting them to vote for the candidate that they don't want to. That's taking away their franchise, and you know the civil rights section of the criminal code. Says that if you conspire to deprive someone of their civil rights, and voting is one of their civil rights, you can go to jail for ten years.

So I I think this is something that is very serious. I think it is a moral failure. I think it's a more it's an exposure of the cravenness of a lot of the democratic sort of consultant community and the political community. There are courts that went up as high as Schumer, and I think the moral question, the ethical question. I think is pretty clearly damning for the Democrats.

I think the question really is: is is this going to lead to some criminal liability? And as I said, under two hundred and forty-one of Title eighteen, Section two hundred and forty-one of Title eighteen, there is a case to be made for it. I want you to hear the other big story: is El Sayed getting two point four million dollars after Haley Stevens? This reportedly after Haley Stevens says, "I won't vote for him. I am going to vote for Mike Rogers," and you know she lost the election.

The primary by just one percentage point got the majority of the black vote and got almost the entire Jewish vote. Robert Wolf, a Democrat, good friend on the story yesterday, and and a and a big donor said this. Cut twenty four. I don't mind that Haley Stevens did. If her line in the sand was Israel, I think she could have done it much differently.

I actually think this is going to help Syed because there's only eighty thousand Jewish votes. Forty thousand will go to the Dems and forty thousand Republicans ish. There's one point one million of black votes and two hundred fifty thousand Muslim. And he did a huge event with Clyburn, and that's why he told Haley Stevens she couldn't attend. I think he wins.

What do you think?

Well, I think his math is wrong. I think the split and the Jewish vote is going to be seventy thirty towards Republicans, which is a which is a titonic shift. I think that's happening nationwide. I think his support, Sayed's support within the Black community, is weak. I think it's always been weak.

I spent a lot of time in Michigan politics. I speak to a lot of people on the ground there. I think it's weak. I think he has he is not a good campaigner. I think he's a he is.

Amateur. Every time he's asked a tough question, he tells the reporter what they can ask and what they can't ask about that. Reporters should be saying to him, "Excuse me." In this country, in this democracy, reporters get to decide what to ask, and and not the candidate. And furthermore, the questions we're asking you about your anti-Semitism go to your judgment and your character, and that's what voters care about even more than your Medicare for All or whatever other fairy tale you're trying to sell to the voters. I.

I think the media has done a very very poor job at nailing him to the wall on that, but I I still think it is a Rogers victory. I think people don't like the extremism that they see. There was a New York Post piece on Sunday. I'm sure you saw it, where Sayed supporters in various mosques and Islamic centers across Michigan are calling for the final solution. A final solution for Jews, meaning the extermination of Jews, are calling United States the house of Satan.

The kinds of things that were reported in that story are just shocking, and I think that a lot of middle middle of the road voters, centrist voters, don't like the anti Americanism, don't like the extremism, don't like the bigotry that's coming out of the Sayed campaign. The interesting thing, Brian, is how the Democrats have come. Down like a ton of bricks on her. Democrats always say, therefore, you know, women being able to be in leadership positions, right? Women being able to express themselves, women's rights.

Well, the moment a woman speaks up and says. I'm going to go against the orthodoxy. Then the Democrats come down on her like a ton of bricks. The criticism that liberals have been making about Republicans is that they don't push back about what they see as conservative extremism, Republican extremism with Trump. And now, when you have an instance where the Democrats, you have a Democratic leader trying to push back against what is naked bigotry on the part of Sayed, they say, "Oh, you can't do that.

You can't do that." I mean, this is exactly.

Sort of the Marxist playbook. This comes right out of Herbert Marcuse, one of the most famous Marxist professors. That's one of the most cited professors in academia, and he talked about liberating tolerance. And liberating tolerance in the Marxist worldview means you can. Only have tolerance for views to your political left, but anything to your political right, you have to squash, and that's what we're seeing happening in the Democratic Party.

That's what we're seeing happening on campuses. That's what we're seeing happening all throughout left-wing communities. Whereas, you know, you can go as far left as you want. You can have this Red Green Alliance. You can have a Socialist Islamist Alliance.

But any time you want to talk about the Common Sense Center, we're gonna we're gonna guillotine you like the Jacobins did in the French Revolution.

So I want you to see what Haley Stevens said because they're saying because her husband is Jewish and said on Fox and Friends, "I will not vote for El Sayed." He said, "She said this." Some critics have dragged my fiance into this, suggesting he or others must have made my decision for me. Think about what that says. A woman can serve in Congress, can run statewide, fight for her convictions, and still be told when when she makes a choice, people dislike someone else must be pulling the strings. That is sexism dressed up as political analysis. My fiance has his own views.

I have mine. I made this decision, and I'm proud of it. Do not. Question my independence simply because you disagree with my conclusion. Yeah, what?

What a patronizing. You know, sort of gross mindset you're seeing coming from the left here, that women can only speak out, women can only be independent when they agree with our orthodoxy. But when they question the orthodoxy, no, we're going to make them pay this incredible price. It's like you know, diversity. We want diversity of faces so we can sort of check box our quota system.

But you get diversity of point of view on the left, and they freak out. They can't take it. And what it tells you is that their worldview is so, and their orthodoxy is so fragile that if anyone from the team questions it, they fear it's going to fall apart. They feel it's going to be exposed. They feel it's going to be seen for what it is.

Well, the left wing is making bedfellowship right now with bigots and racists, and you know, thank God for Haley Stevens to call that out. I've been trying to call that out. I think Fetterman's been trying to call that out. I think people like Mark Penn. Have been trying to call that out.

There's a handful of us who have been trying to call that out, and I think of I think you know long term this is going to be very very bad for the party. It means there is no moral core left to the party. The party was built on the idea that we're going to provide equal opportunity and we're going to have a pluralistic society, and this is directly contrary to the core core philosophy of the Democratic Party. And when you no longer have a core philosophy, Philosophy. When you no longer have a core set of ideas or beliefs, then you really don't have a party.

It's just a group of people clinging together. Thirsty for power, and that's increasingly what the Democratic Party is becoming. And if it's a five point advantage, and you have six five or six socialists in the House, they'll be the most powerful faction. They already have a name for themselves: the block.

So we'll see what happens. Julian, the veto block. Yeah, yep, yeah, that's the block. Believe me, it's yeah, the veto block. But if it's a twenty seat advantage, Democrats could say, "Well, you know, we listen to them, but we do our own thing." Haley Stevens has taken the tough stand of, "I'm not leaving the." Democratic Party.

I'm just not voting for that guy. It's not happening. If even with a 20 vote margin, Brian, it's not happening. The Democrats are capitulating to the Islamic socialist wing, and you can see that in Michigan. If they were going to stand up to it, they should have stood up to it with Syed, who has a long rap sheet on anti-Semitism.

The Democrats have decided they are going to capitulate to these Marxists. Julian, are you going to lead the Democratic Party? I don't know. I don't know. I'm thinking about it.

I don't know. I don't. I don't agree. Subscribe to any of this. My goal has always been to try to reform it, bring it back to the Clinton years, where Democrats worked with Republicans.

They were in the political center. They believed in the free market. They were very pro-Israel. They believed in building rather than rather than taking in order to. Through this con job of the welfare state, you know, fifty percent of Americans now get some kind of welfare or another.

Thirty percent are on means tested welfare. I mean, we're going exactly the direction that the French are going in, which is a welfare state, a grievance culture, which ultimately is the end of your civilization.

So, I think the Democratic Party are taking us in that direction right now. My goal has always been to try to reform it from within and bring it back to where it was in Clinton years, where we worked with Republicans. Republicans were friends. We made. Disagree between the forty-yard lines, but we agreed with them on basically on basic principles of patriotism and the free market, and that's where the Democratic Party ought to be.

That's where many of us want to see it. When I come on shows like yours, Brian, I get off. I get calls from Democrats saying, "Hey, we I agree with you. I just can't say it because if I say it, I'm going to get voted off the island." Well, that's got to change. You know, this is the same thing they say in Hollywood.

When they, when you, when you're an actor, an actress, if you make a statement that is anything pro-Trump or pro-conservative, unless you're Sylvester Stallone and Clint Eastwood, you'll pay a price. Julian, oh my God, yeah, Julian Epstein, thanks so much. It's going to be an interesting day here on Election Day. Appreciate you joining us. Sure is.

Thanks, man. You got it. Trey Yank, bottom of the hour. Your calls next. Don't move.

One eight six six four zero eight seven six six nine. The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them—only on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade Show. Brian, you wouldn't be aware of this because no one likes you, but people are reportedly using ChatGPT and other AI tools to write flirty messages, apologies, even breakup texts.

And relationship experts think it's weakening our emotional intelligence and communication skills. I want you to know that I never use AI to come up with my insults. Right, that comes from the heart. Yeah, comes from the heart. Are you worried?

I can sense it's organic. I would say a couple of things. They're they're they're worried that our emotions we're going to AI to give us our emotions. I personally lost touch with my emotions in the '80s, so that's not really a problem. But isn't the same thing as greeting cards?

I mean, if you take a greeting card, it's like okay, it's an anniversary. You get a greeting card.

Somebody else's words. What's the big deal about going to an AI, a super intelligence, SI? Yeah, I guess Trump's watching. Watches, right? Yes.

Yeah.

S I to maybe bring it up to the next level. Maybe you, maybe you have to live up to your S I U. I I love it. Send the reckless text. But you could say you could say in your prompt, make it reckless.

Yeah.

No, robots can't. You. Nothing's more reckless than raw human emotion. Robots could never understand. What's your advice to young people?

Well, first of all, Brian's quite a steward on this one because I believe this was sponsored by Hallmark, right? Absolutely, as most of these studies are. That was last night.

Some gut felt back and forth. It was very interesting topics. They say that it's really bad if you, let's say, want to flirt with somebody to go with AI, because the AI will have you say things that you can't live up to or you don't mean. They also say do not break up with someone on AI. Because you do way too much explaining.

It's a good point. I mean, just writing. Should you be writing? Should you be breaking with people on paper anyway? I mean, there's that famous Sex in the City that he broke up with her on a Post-it.

So I mean, it does go way back. I didn't see that one. Yeah.

No. I mean, in theory, yes, you should be the bigger person and do it in person if you're going to break up with someone.

However, you could upload a bunch of like your previous texts and say, like, write a really nice text, whatever, using my voice. And then AI would sound more like you. I mean, there are things that can happen. Whoever wrote that doesn't understand what AI can do. Yeah, but I really don't.

I know what it can't do. I mean, you got to give it good prompts to do good things, though. Because if you try to ask it stuff, sometimes you are not giving it good prompts. It gets very frustrating. You are like, it's not giving me what I want, but you are not asking the question right.

Well, I know for one thing: if I have a column and I wanted to summarize. I give it to ChatGPT. It's going to always summarize to the left. Grok will always be fair. Like when it's just normal news stories, I'll just say, "Hey, summarize in bullet points." ChatGPT, great.

But anytime something has an opinion or or an angle, do not give it to ChatGPT. Interesting. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. Grok is much more trustworthy. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmeade. We are back, and normally when we go to Trey, he's in Tel Aviv. But these days, where there's conflict, there's Trey, not in personal life, but in terms of country to country. And he sat down with Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine. That's where everything's happening as they look to fight off the Russians, inflicting, I think they said.

A record number of casualties did Ukraine last month for Russia in this four-year-old war. Trey just sat down with Volodymyr Zelensky. Here's a little of that interview. Cut 41. Didn't President Trump tell you not to target those refineries?

Yes, we had different conversation, different and several. With President Trump and with his team, about attacks on refineries, and we ask that we can't not respond after Russians attack on our energy, after Russia is killing our people. Attacks on our electricity, gas, refineries, on everything. We said that if you want us not to attack Russia's refineries, they have not to attack our energy system. It seems like a normal request, but it's bizarre.

And they are back to hitting refineries, and they're going to get Patriots. That's kind of good news, and they're hopefully being delivered quickly. Which with us right now is Trey Inks. Trey, how did you find yourself in Ukraine? Yeah, it's an interesting time right now.

There's a lot going on around the world, Brian. But when we thought about this story in the context of the midterm elections, it is a foreign policy story that the American people are familiar with. Other than Iran, it's arguably among the top foreign policy stories that does affect the United States on a massive scale. And when we see the aspirations of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It's very clear.

He does not intend to stop at Ukraine. He intends to threaten NATO allies of the United States in Eastern Europe and possibly even further. And so that is what this war is about. And we're here to tell the story of the Ukrainian people that have now suffered for four and a half years after their country was illegally invaded and their sovereignty violated. And the Russians, as we speak, have ramped up their attacks on Ukraine and.

It is a dire situation right now, and while much of the world's attention remains on the conflict in the Middle East, this is a story we have to tell. And when you when were you surprised? He freely admitted that yeah, he did tell me to stop, but I'm not because they're not. It was interesting to hear him say that, and he explained that the Russians also did not adhere to the energy ceasefire that was requested by President Trump, and they've been targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure. And we've seen that on the ground.

I want to just paint a picture for our listeners right now of what the situation looks like in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. This is a European capital city of approximately three million people. It has Western values, coffee shops, nightclubs, restaurants. And there is a rolling blackout throughout the city right now because the Russians are targeting the power grid here before the winter time to inflict as much terror on the civilian population as possible. Today, we visited a site where a Russian ballistic missile slammed into an apartment building of people who were curious about the United States, friendly to Americans, allies of the United States.

And they are suffering right now, and it's not just here. As we speak, rescue workers further south in the region of Zaporizhia are digging through the rubble of a humanitarian aid center where 31 people were killed and 45 people are still missing as a result of Russian aerial bombs. And that's not to mention a nearly 800 long mile front line that is currently getting bombarded by Russian artillery with ground forces fighting the Ukrainian soldiers who are trying to protect their country. This is a conflict that is nearly five years in, with no end in sight, and there's no objective reality of why Vladimir Putin wants to continue this war. But he is inflicting as much.

Pain and terror on the civilian population of Ukraine as possible, and the Ukrainians are desperate for Western support and for support from the United States. But yet they're getting—they're not gaining any ground. It doesn't seem, and they are getting maximum casualties. I mean, over thirty thousand last month.

Someone said over fifty thousand have been forced from the battlefield. One point four million are casualties overall. Ukraine has a fraction of that. Absolutely, and they have a real mobilization problem. There are very few young men in the streets of Kiev that you see because they are all on the front lines.

It feels like a world war, Brian. When you are here, we went to the metro system of Kiev, and there are people who have spent months sleeping underground in the metro every night because the missile and drone attacks are so heavy. Every two hours, sirens are sounding across this city and across this country of forty million people. As the Russians continue to bombard these major population centers, and on the front line, they are doing what they can, but they have far fewer supply lines and options—not only to fight there on the front, but also to protect their cities. And that is why President Zelensky, in our interview, reiterated his request to the United States for those Patriot missile defense interceptors that are in high demand right now to try and protect the civilian population.

You cut forty—is that very question? How many Patriot missile defense interceptors is Ukraine receiving from the United States each month? Twelve. How many do you need? Minimum one hundred because Russia uses one hundred fifty, according to the estimation of military people in the United States.

For example, professionals they will tell you if somebody uses one, you need two to destroy. One to two. This is the mathematics of of how to defend. We never used one to two. We always used one to one because it's a big deficit.

So he needs it, but everybody needs it, right? We just gave some from Texas. We gave it to Israel, all the mid, all the Middle Eastern Gulf states. They need them. With there's just only so many, right?

They're willing to pay, but there's just so many to go around. Yeah, there are. Really, you Patriot missile defense interceptors, in terms of the global supply needs out there right now, and they are getting some from other countries. But Zelensky told Fox News that he asked the Trump administration for 300, what he described as a winter package, to try and protect what remains of the power grid here, because it gets so cold in Ukraine that people will freeze to death if they don't have heating. And that request was not fulfilled.

And while the State Department did just announce, actually, hours after our interview with Zelensky, that a package of five hundred Patriot missile defense interceptors could ultimately be delivered to Ukraine through the Europeans, when you read the details of that package, Ukraine wouldn't receive these interceptors until twenty thirty one, and they need them right now. They don't need them in five years, and it's a real issue. In terms of air defense for this this city and for this entire country, because when you see how the Russians attacked, there was one point when we were here this week, Brian. In a span of forty eight hours, the Russians launched fourteen hundred Shahed drones at this country, and they're doing everything they can to shoot them down. We were with an air defense unit on the outskirts of the city, and they're using very old equipment, decades old equipment.

But when it comes to Ballistic missiles; they can only use these advanced systems. They are able to shoot down the drones and the cruise missiles with smaller systems, but they need the Patriot interceptors to protect these major cities. And we saw today the destruction that is caused by these missiles when they slam into these heavily populated areas.

So I want you to hear.

So I want to switch.

So I will see. I mean, I think the the majority of the American people want to see Ukraine supported. There's any doubt about it. And I have no patience for Vladimir Putin. But he is able to.

I'm very curious to see what you think of the trilateral talks supposed to take place next week. What do you think the Russians are taking it serious? Who do you think they're going to send to these trilateral talks with Steve Witkoff or an American contingent as the arbiter? Yeah, there is going to be a Ukrainian delegation and a Russian delegation headed to Abu Dhabi. They'll take place in the UAE next week.

And Zelensky seems confident about the possibility of some limited resolution out of those talks. He said to me, he's not interested in speaking with President Putin on the phone. Ultimately, he hopes these talks progress to an in-person meeting where he believes more progress could be made. But we have to remember what the Russians have been doing throughout this war. They continue to say they're open to dialogue and peace, and they do what they can to manipulate the American government to believe their perspective in this war.

But we were here the night the Russians invaded Ukraine. And they then worked their way toward the capital city that was defended by Ukrainian forces. And when they were on the outskirts of the city, they committed a massacre with mass graves, like like something out of a horror movie, against the civilian population in a place called Bucha. And this same methodology was used across Ukraine and other locations like Izium and other cities. They have been doing what they can to continue this war, and they have shown no real interest.

Adhering to any sort of ceasefire that would end this conflict. Yeah, no question. I don't know what the president was talking about when he said a tank division made the wrong turn. They would have been stopped with the javelins that he gave them. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, so I like to if we so we'll see what happens. If if the Russians send a high high ranking official, then they're taking us serious. If they just send a technical, they send a technocrat team, it's a delay a game. Let's go to Israel if we can. This is what President Trump said today, and it caught me by surprise.

And I just want to know what do you think? Cut forty two. We understand we've cutting off aid to Israel. We were giving them four billion, and you're no longer going to be giving them four billion. We were giving them four billion.

We are, but it gets cut off at the end of the year. Why? Why? Because they don't need it, Brian. I mean, I asked them because they don't need it, and because why should we suffer the slings from?

Lunatics like in El Sayad when they don't need it, it's a bad, it's a bad talking point because we say why don't we give everybody four billion dollars? Israel's our number one; we give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it. We've been doing it for years. I've been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country; they don't need it. Do they need it?

Gadi Eisenkot the Top challenger to Netanyahu in the recent election, who may get the nod from Israeli President Isaac Herzog to try and form a government, says they do need it, and he called this a failure by Netanyahu in terms of negotiations behind the scenes. If he knew about this and was involved in this agreement, I don't know what to make of this. Actually, that the Americans will be cutting off billions of dollars of aid to Israel in the middle of a Ongoing conflict against Iran that directly involves Israel. Remember, during Operation Epic Fury, it was U.S. and Israeli jets flying side by side, and the Israelis have been at war for more than three years following the October 7th massacre on seven different fronts, and they're low on many munitions.

And I just I don't see a scenario where there is broad support for it in Israel. Largely speaking, Israel is both. In its country itself, in the Jewish state, and also in the United States, referred to as the most important ally of the United States in the Middle East, and so I don't know what to make of this decision and where it came from or why it happened at this specific time. We know there have been a lot of conversations behind the scenes between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump. About Israeli elections, about the ongoing conflict with Iran, but the specific issue of defense spending and the billions of dollars that have propped up the Israeli military in their ongoing conflicts against Iran and its proxies across the region has largely been considered by analysts and Israeli politicians as incredibly important.

Yeah, this is really caught everybody by surprise. And I said that means I went on. I'm just paraphrase. I said, so does that mean they can't buy? I said, oh no, they can buy what they want, but we're not going to give it to them anymore.

And then I got another text message from someone in the know who said the president is wrong. That's it's obviously that's two years away. It's an MOU with Israel ends in two years. That's he misspoke.

So what's interesting is the Israelis have raised the concept of eventually becoming independently able to resupply and support their military op options and operations in the region, but that again seems like something down the road, not something that would take place immediately, especially. Especially amid an ongoing war.

Well, Democrat wins. If you listen, I'm not know how how much you're following American politics, but because you're over there, but the Democrats, almost everybody's running on cutting off Israel.

So I thought if the Democrat wins, that's inevitable. That's what they're preparing for. I wouldn't think a Republican president would ever do that. Hopefully, he was able to clarify a little bit later today because if he was going to do something like that for political gain, you should do it before election day. And I just hate to think, yeah.

I hate to think that that would help me get elected doing the wrong thing, so it just it would be a huge mistake.

So Trey, the other thing is the president's got his biggest decision to date coming up as as soon as they decide who wins what. And it looks like there's a faction: Hegseth and Netanyahu say let's finish the job militarily. There's Besson Rubio and Radcliffe who says let's continue the economic squeeze. And there's J.D. Vance who says let's just talk.

Let's end this. Let's just get a peace agreement with Iran. Where do you think the majority of Israelis stand? The majority of Israelis. Seem to be prepared for conflict.

I've been talking with intelligence sources even as recently as a couple of hours ago, and they say behind the scenes preparations are still being made. And when we look at the publicly available intelligence, the open source info, it appears that the region is headed toward war in the days or weeks ahead. There are dozens of American refuelers that have returned to Israeli airports, not just Ben Gurion the international airport in Tel Aviv, but also Another airport in the south of the country, closer to the city of Elat. Additionally, you have U.S. forces there, as you mentioned, the new air defense system, the additional Patriot battery there to defend Israel, and then also that reporting from the Wall Street Journal that indicates Gulf countries have been notified by U.S.

officials to prepare for the possibility of a brief but intense renewal of combat operations against Iran, and so. We're also seeing a lot of shaping operations that are currently taking place. You saw the strike overnight on Kesem Island. This is going after air defense and the ability for the Iranians to use their radar systems. Again, this is laying the groundwork for a possible military operation.

I've also been talking with people on the USS George Washington. I just. Returned from an embark there, along with U.S. forces watching these jets take off from the flight deck. These are the jets that are going to be used if the president orders new strikes against Iran.

When you're sending three aircraft carriers to the region at once, dozens of refuelers and fighter jets, along with 50,000 U.S. personnel, it becomes a scenario where a decision has to be made because the sailors can't stay at sea forever, and. They're already on a very long deployment as it is, and so there are decisions that are going to have to be made here in the coming weeks about what's going to take place, and that's part of the calculation the president has to make along with his advisers of if you are going to resume military operations against Iran, when do you do it, and how can it be supported?

Now, the U.S. military is the strongest military in the world, but there are still limitations when you're operating thousands of miles away from home. Absolutely, and but with our bases taking some damage, I don't know what we. Can do from the Gulf State bases. Trey Yankst in Ukraine, stay safe.

And when you go back to Israel, stay safe. Thanks, Trey. Appreciate the insight. Thank you. Back in a moment.

Learning something new every day on the Brian Kilmeade Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. And do you know this? To your point, Republicans have jumped off the Trump train a lot.

Mike Pence, Michael Cohen, Liz Cheney, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Tommy, Adam Kinzinger. What's the big deal? They leave. They testify against him. Life goes on.

Why is this such a big deal? Yeah, I don't know. Who are you asking? It's the problem, man. He asks these questions and he expects an answer.

I just thought I thought if I threw it out there and someone would grab it, but nobody grabbed it at all.

Now this ain't Fox and Friends. We're gonna let you just, we're gonna let you twist and die. I know. The biggest disappointment was Tyrus because I really don't expect anything of you, but Tyrus, all right, help me out. Shut up, Brian.

We're out of time. Oh.

So that was Tyrus. That was last night on Godfeld. I still don't know why I do that show, but I talk about shows. November seventh, I'm going to be in the United States tour. My new book, "United States: Six Crucial Moments That Fours the American Miracle." I'll be there on the seventh.

That's Saturday night. This Saturday night at the Capitol Theater. Brian, just a few tickets left there. Jacksonville, we got room. VIP tickets remain too at the Florida Theater.

Love going back there. One of the nicest venues possible. Then on the 14th in two weeks in Dallas. At the United States, so then Fairhope the next day, in the morning at excuse me at four, but before that I'm going to be in Destin at eleven.

So Destin, Florida, over to Fairhope, then Richmond, Virginia, on the 16th, and that's where we'll be. Keep in mind we'll be in Chesterfield, Missouri, November 21st. That's pretty much the thing. St. Louis, BrianKilmeade.com.

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