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Brian Killmeade. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmeat Show, 1-866-408-7669.

So glad you're here. I hope you had a fantastic weekend. Last weekend of the summer, unofficially, Charlie Hurd is in the studio. If you're watching on Fox Nation, you see him. And Senator Joni Ernst at the bottom of the hour.

Charlie could have been a senator, but he did not want to run. He gets paid more to be in TV and to write for a living. Charlie, say hello, so everyone knows I'm not lying. I'm really here. Right.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Most economists have looked at it said it's not going to increase inflation.

Well, if that's what they're thinking, most economists are wrong. You don't slow the economy down. by forgiving debt and giving people another $24 billion to spend. Forgiveness Fallout. It's a blatant effort to buy votes in my view.

Joe, forgive student loans now, leaving those who paid theirs exasperated. Americans who didn't take one flummox or didn't go to college scream foul. We will present all sides. Number two. What I read of the unredacted material makes a strong case against a search warrant.

There was no urgency. If they wanted a search warrant, if it was so urgent, they could have gotten it five months ago. Mar-a-Lago madness, judges, courts, legal teams, and documents. The drama intensifies as the FBI raid scrambles to show it was all justified. It's the story that's still swamping just about everything else.

Number one. The pollsters do this for the Senate races every cycle. In August, they predict somehow Republicans are going to lose all these races. This is their dying gasp to try to try to make the Senate in play. Momentum lost?

That's the narrative from the mass media who are flat out rooting for a block on the assumed red wave. We will examine the reality and the numbers as the midterm push starts in earnest.

So that's where we'll go. I was just shocked. First off, We should be we on the Sunday shows. They should have been talking about Afghanistan. I mean, there's no justification to put a rundown together and not say one year since the biggest disaster in American military history, and it was all self-inflicted.

Yeah, entirely. And it also reveals themselves not only to not be serious, but also to be willing to absolutely do anything that they have to to prop up this administration. There is no way you, this is the biggest story. And, you know, it's. You know, you can't, and I guess at the end of the day, the reason that they don't do it is because there's no way to spin it.

The video of Afghans running after a jumbo jet, hoping to get on, grabbing onto a wing and falling to their death or jumping in the engine. And then, and then the administration's effort to try to blame the previous administration, which is, of course, absurd. And of course, let's also not forget, Joe Biden is for 20 years, for longer than that, has been the reigning expert in Washington on foreign policy. And this is the, that right there is the sum total of his expertise in Washington as a foreign policy. Because he's had the power, he just hasn't had the expertise.

Right.

Oh, he's, yeah, exactly. And he's been wrong about everything. Every single one of his foreign policy proposals over the remember when he wanted to break Iraq up into three parts? He didn't want to go after Osama bin Laden? The list goes on and on of examples where he was.

Completely wrong about these things. But in Washington, you know, you become an expert because you're wrong about everything.

So, Charlie, let's segue back to momentum lost. One thing is clear: the Dobbs decision, Roe v. Wade, did change things a little bit, especially with governor's races, because the power is in the states.

So, the Denver Republican message, tell me if you back me on this, seems to be this. I'm pro-life. But I'm not going to for have zero abortions. They are for reasonable something reasonable within there. That seems to be the message.

Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that maybe to refine it a little bit, a smarter message is: look, I'm pro-life, but I understand that my neighbors feel differently about this, and the only way to arrive at a reasonable, just conclusion, solution for this, is to put it up to state legislatures. And I think that's a reason, and that's where I am on it. I think that the great injustice here. Was that the Supreme Court took this position, this issue away from voters for 50 years? And allowing voters to tailor How they see this issue and the way they want it.

It's a very important issue. No sensible person doubts that it's a moral issue and that it's an important moral issue. And having that important moral issue decided by legislatures and your neighbors, you may not be happy with the final solution, but it's better than having an edict from Nine unelected. dudes, mostly dudes at the time anyway, um or all dudes at the time. Um, you know, uh it's better it's better than that.

We we can li you know, democracy is is messy. You have to accept things that you don't like, but that's okay. We don't live in a autocracy run by robed Do you remember that Dev Create Unifier, President Biden? Don't hate the president because they're in a different party?

So I want you to listen to Brendan the United States. Evidently, this was not, maybe you have different sources, this was not in the teleprompter, his use of the word fascists. Cut to.

So how extreme are these MAGA Republicans? Just take a look what happened. Census Supreme Court overtoned Roe v. Wade. In red states, after red state, There's a race to pass the most restrictive abortion limitations imaginable, even without exception.

for rape or incest. But these MAGA Republicans won't stop there. They want a national ban. They want to pass a legislative national ban in the Congress. If the MAGA Republicans win control of the Congress, It won't matter where you live.

Women won't have the right to choose anywhere.

So Not true. MAGA Republicans, they evidently this has been battle tested. It's been if you went in a mall, they asked you to sit down in front of a round table and do a a bit of a test about how that r resonates. Yeah, it's interesting. You know, he talks about how on the national level, Republicans want to do this.

Well, what about Democrats? Democrats have had. Umpteen opportunities to tailor federal immigration regulations that would have been sensible and that would have been more appealing to more people. And they failed to do it. As well.

But no, he he is, you know, and he forgets that whether he likes those people or not, those 65, 70 million people in this country or not. He still works for 'em. And he doesn't act like it when he says things like this. And then when he goes even further and starts talking about calling them fascists or semi-fascists. These are the people you work for, whether you like them or not.

Yeah. And there's this. Do you really think he believes that? I don't think he believes anything. I really don't.

Seventy-four million people voted for Donald Trump. Is he willing to call them all? Semi-fascists.

Well, he did, and he does, and I think that he'll say, but he'll say anything. This is the story of the guy's career. He's always said whatever he has to say. I remember covering him for years in Congress. If you needed a quote for a story, you'd go to Joe Biden.

You could get him to say anything. And everybody sort of rolled their eyes when the guy walked in the room because he would literally say anything. Including President Obama, we heard for the last eight years. Yeah, and think about why did President Obama pick him? President Obama wanted a sort of a harmless old white-haired white dude to sort of work the Senate and get things passed.

And to temper the very newness and novelty of what a lot of President Obama or then Senator Obama was bringing to the table. And so they wanted that sort of value. And you know what passed has nothing to do with him. That bipartisan infrastructure legislation, whatever you think of it, that passed in the Senate. He almost blew it up.

And then when. When you had the CHIPS bill, that was originally a Republican idea, but that passed in the Senate. He almost blew it up. And then you had the gun legislation, which I think that Senator Cornyn came in and said he has some reasonable things that he put into there.

Some Republicans didn't like it, but had nothing to do with Joe Biden. In fact, Joe Biden was in the middle of putting down Republicans, saying they're pro-gun, they want to shoot you, when this got worked behind the scenes. The idea that somehow Joe Biden is some master negotiator in the Senate, that is the most laughable thing. Again, if you, you know, throughout his career, people literally, senators roll their eyes when the guy would walk in the room. When you'd be in judiciary committee hearings or foreign relations hearings, the guy would walk in the room and everybody's like, oh gosh, here comes Joe.

And he's going to say whatever. He's going to say stupid stuff. He wants to hear him talk. But here in the past, this is the difference. He's angry now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's that about? He finally got the job he wanted since the 80s, and he's always angry. He's always angry, and his answers to reporters are never insightful or interesting.

So he says this, and people are noticing, wow, is that a unifier? And George Devanopoulos, and I notice Meet the Press. Chuck Todd said the same thing. Is this really? Smart.

Peter Alexander at NBC, I thought it was interesting, he said this, cut through it. What's interesting about this, when he, as you described, used the word semi-fascism to describe the MAGA philosophy this week. Let's go back to March when he was in Poland. He said of Vladimir Putin that he couldn't stay in power. And that became controversial.

The White House, you know, backpedaled on that and walked that back. There's no backpedaling on this. It's clear that there's a more aggressive strategy. We talked about the way that they were handling the debate over student loans. Do you think he actually softpedaled it?

Do you think someone said you should say fascism? And he said, I'm going to say fascism. Semi-fascism. When I spoke to AIDS, this wasn't a teleprompter speech. This is what he's been thinking.

They say he said it out loud. This was done not on camera. But it fires up Democrats. It juices up the base because they want to see him be more aggressive on that. But it also does, you know, it does become problematic because, you know, this is a guy who said he wanted to be a unified.

So, when an NBC reporter says it's problematic because of that, other people want to see him be tough. Can you just be a leader? Whatever happened to leading and to be actually serious about something and actually talk about stuff that you believe in and that is important to people. But this is the problem with a guy that has been in Washington for 50 years. He's been running his mouth the entire time.

But you get to write fake checks when you're in Congress because nobody's really paying attention to you, especially if you're Joe Biden. And then suddenly you become president, and every check you write has to be cashed. And he says this stuff, and people are actually listening and taking him seriously, and they write it down. And they're like, oh my gosh, you just called half the country fascist. I want to hear, I want you to, I want to get your take on what Bill Maher said on Friday.

So I'm going to take a break now. My last thing for you is: I do believe he thinks he's running again. Judging by what he was saying last week, there's no doubt that he thinks he's running again. I don't know how many other people on the left, or will they let him run under pose? I'm sorry.

I hate to be harsh about it, but the guy's delusional, and he says things that are unconnected to reality. At what point is he suddenly going to have this moment of clarity? 35% approval rating. According to the NBC poll, 45% approval rating.

Okay, that's but again, he has to have the moment of clarity to decide not to run again. Where is the clarity? I see no clarity unless there is something happens around him where his wife or his family I mean, of course, I think. Or his wife, Barack Obama. But even then, I don't know that he's listening, I guess.

I mean, but why did these people let him run in the first place? This didn't happen overnight. Exactly. They had no choice. But that is exactly my point.

That goes back to the original problem. The problem that they had in 2020 that got him nominated, Democrats still have. There's nobody else. Who are they going to go with? Bernie?

I mean, I think they'd be better off going with Bernie. Bernie has the highest Q rating among Democrats. That's when a story came out today. Listen, I got to get Charlie to weigh in on what. Bill Moore said to Rob Reiner, A conversation you wouldn't think I'd care about, but I think you will.

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Subscribe and listen now by going to FoxNewsPodcasts.com. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. It's a little bit of a thorny question because once you go down this road, this is sort of where we are in this country. The other side is so evil, anything is justified in preventing them from taking office.

Is it? No, you know what's not justified? Using armed violence to try to kill people in the Capitol. That's not justified. Answer this question.

Was it appropriate? The question is, was it appropriate to bury the Hunter Biden story? You're talking about the press doing that? He's saying that's what they did and that is what they did. They buried the Hunter Biden story before the election because they were like, we can't risk having the election thrown to Trump.

We'll tell them after the election. And we know for a fact that that's what they did? Of course, you know, but I'm not saying you know for a fact that that's what they did. I don't know what they did. I know, because you only watch MSNBC.

No, that's not true. And he said he watches Fox. That is Rob Reiner. But can you believe Charlie Hurt is here? Charlie, do you believe they're having this conversation?

And Bill Maher's 100% right, even though he doesn't like Trump. He's like, it's getting scary for him. to see that this happened. And it's scary for any clear thinking person to see that this happened, that they buried the story. Then Mark Zuckerberg says what he said to Joe Rogan on which he aired on Thursday.

No, it's it's weird because so the media has lost so much credibility, especially among people like us who follow the stuff closely and people who follow all these stories that we care about and they're very important stories. But the thing to remember is the media is still incredibly powerful. And you have a guy like Rob Reiner who has access to all the information that he could possibly want. Because I don't know that. Of course, you know that.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, I know whether or not he came out and said it was true. Whether he does or not, I don't know. But I do know there are still people who read the Washington Post and the New York Times every single day. And those people, and they still believe everything they read in those newspapers. And those people have been lied to, purposefully lied to, with weaponized stories for years.

I've read the New York Times my entire adult life up until about five years ago. I canceled my subscription. If somebody sends me a story from one of those publications, I delete it. I do not read it. I don't read it for defensively.

I don't read it at all because you no longer know what's making it. I read it defensively.

Okay, and I get that. But I just, I don't, at this point, I sort of, you know, at some point, you just sort of jump over the bubble and you're like, I'm not going to fill my brain with this pollution because not only, it's one thing, you know, we're. You and I have spent all of our time in the media, so we are pretty sophisticated about sussing out what's fake or what's real and what's false and what's misleading or whatever. But there comes a point where you realize they're intentionally doing it. This is weaponized propaganda, and then it gets a whole lot harder for you and me to use our senses to.

This is an example of the subtle way they do it. They're writing this story about Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago and saying there's a distrust among the right of the FBI, but never saying in context why. Right.

Because of the Mueller report, because of the misinformation, because of James Comey, what he did, because of Peter Strzok getting a network contract when he was caught lying and biased, and he's still lying on other networks. People still that, at the very least, list the reasons why the Republicans are distrustful. Right.

Or the other thing that drives me crazy, and Rob Reiner just said it, talked about the armed insurrection. Armed. Armed with what? Flagpoles? Armed with weapons.

Okay, let's say that there were people in the audience, in that crowd, that were actually armed with weapons. Was a single one of those weapons used? No. Just to kill Ashley Babbitt was the Secret Service. Right.

But they want to say armed because they want to ratchet it up and they want to color the coverage of it. Absolutely. And lastly, Mark Zuckerberg came out, so Rob Ronner should know if he's listening, came out and said the FBI came to me and said, we've got to suppress this story. That's the most terrifying. The most terrifying story.

Absolutely. And he said it with a straight face, almost to get it out of the way. And then I told his friend. I know exactly. He was trying to get it out of the way.

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Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The problem was not with Brian Hart, it was with the Attorney General, who didn't follow his own Guidelines: There should never have been a search warrant requested here. There was a subpoena issued, and what I read, and I read it all of the unredacted material makes a strong case against a search warrant. There was no urgency.

If they wanted a search warrant, if it was so urgent, they could have gotten it five months ago. And even when they got the search warrant, they waited two days. There was no justification for a search warrant.

So, if you want to talk about who's to blame here, it's not Reinhardt, it's the Attorney General of the United States.

So interesting, Alan Dershowitz.

So I'm reading the Washington Post today. I know Charlie Hurt's going to get mad at me for saying that. And I just wanted to find like a lot of what they do is they have these unbelievably resources to get you places around the world in detail.

So he said that what they found out, because everybody wants to talk to them, is that they were having a war with the archives, National Archives.

So they're going back and forth. When they were in the White House, they were not getting along. And then they said the word is, they made the extraordinary decision. To get the FBI involved, to get the Department of Department of Justice involved. and it would result in this raid.

So they got their 15 boxes. In the 15 boxes, they saw important stuff that also had mixed in with unimportant stuff, like newspaper clippings. And they said, we need the rest of this stuff back. And then we know the stuff about April and May and the subpoena. And he goes, okay, come over, check it out, put a lock on it, whatever you want to do.

Next thing you know, it ends up in a raid. And everyone thinks, what are you talking about? Trump's negotiating to give it back, whether he should have taken it. Go ahead, debate it. But I've never been president, and I've never been to Told I got forty-eight hours to leave because he never thought he was going to lose.

Regardless. You know how I feel about january sixth, never should have happened. The President if he acted congenial and said, mister President Biden, go take a tour of the Oval Office, he would have about fifty eight percent approval rating right now, and people would be begging for him to run again. It's pretty clear to me that I'm right.

So There's got to be a process from here on in where, as you leave in the final two weeks, and it's going to be Joe Biden. The National Archives comes in, and you go with some key A's, chief of staff, whoever you give them, and they go through every piece of paper. They go through every box, they go over the time period. Yeah, can keep it, cannot keep it. And there's there'll be a third party to decide who's right.

And just remove any controversy. Because evidently, there's always controversy with you know, you hear about You hear about Clinton, and you hear about Nixon, and you hear about President Obama. And evidently, there was no controversy. But he's got thirty three million pages from his administration, I guess, on loan until his library is done. And here we are.

Six years later, it's not even done. Let's just remove all that.

So Trump makes himself open to because he's br uh brash and he's confident and he's defiant and he says, I want this papers to write my own book or do whatever. Use her, Charlie, bring up Crossfire Hurricane. Want some proof of all this stuff existing? That could be it. But now it's the number one story and shouldn't be.

The number one story should be inflation. The number two story should be crime. The number three story should be what they're doing to our. Energy independence. Of course, if you the subset of that is gas, diesel.

The fact that pay be formula is still an issue, that supply chain still matters. The president's got 45 percent approval rating because we're not talking about his job. And we're talking about the Mar-a-Lago uh rape. Way too much. And it's interesting.

You can't get me to duck out of it with Marco Rubio on One Nation Saturday when the redacted affidavit is out and has stuff in there. It's got to be a story.

So the President of the United States wants to label Trump supporters MAGA supporters. I like conservatives. I just don't like MAGA supporters. Katie Pavlich sees a bigger story in this, in using the term semi-fascist. She was on the big show, Big Sunday show, Cut A.

This isn't just simply an insult. This is a strategy by President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. When they use the term semi-fascist or fascist, they're doing that so that they can justify any means necessary to squash their political opponents, even if that means using the FBI to go after them, the Department of Justice, the IRS, which we've seen in the past when Democrats are in charge going after their political opponents. Could this be a strategy? And clearly it's a strategy.

I mean, bringing it up out of where MAGA.

Okay, make America great again. The President said fantastic. I love it. And you break it down. Who's against it?

So bottom line is I do think Democrats do have a degree of momentum. But not the degree in which it's being portrayed on every single show, on every single hour. They're trying to make it happen. They're trying to almost gin up by saying momentum's lost for Republicans. And I think they have to strategize their way out of it, but I think they're in a good spot, simply in the president's job performance and crime in this country.

Rick Klein broke down his ABC political directory. He's on Keir a lot. He breaks down how it's still folly to think Democrats can hold the House. Cut nine. The math here is just so stark, George.

Even with that victory in the special election, Republicans still need to flip only five Democratic seats this fall. Most of the battleground continues to be Democratic-controlled seats. But what has changed, George, even if most Democrats still don't believe that they'll control the House, some are starting to think that they might be able to minimize the losses, to take some marginal seats off the table, given some of the other dynamics at play right now. And their hope at this point is that even if the Republicans do end up controlling the House, it might be a very narrow majority. Right.

And Narrow still gives me control of the House, to a degree, control the purse strings and get some investigations going. And that's not the only reason, but to do it. But the most thing the president, the former president, has to do is start pouring money to Dr. Oz, start pouring money to Herschel Walker, start pouring money to J.D. Vance, to Adam Laxalt out in Nevada, to Mastriano out in Pennsylvania, to see if Blake Masters in Arizona, because he put him there.

And there was a lot of good candidates there. And the president, too, is his best interest in having these supporters, financing these supporters, if he is to get the White House back, to know that these guys owe their senatorial seat to him. But you can't stop now. I know the president does like to spend money, but doesn't have a choice. A lot of people gave him the money thinking he would spend it.

On those guys. All right, you listen to Brian Kilmey Show. When we come back, Senator Joni Ernst Jordis from Iowa, one year since the anniversary of the Afghanistan disaster, we will not forget to bring this up. Brian Kilmey Show. Expanding your knowledge base.

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He's a fool if he really believes that. I have a lot of regrets about what he did. I regret the fact that we left thousands of our allies behind who bravely fought along our side. I regret the fact that all the women that kind of believed in us have been turned back over to the Taliban. I regret the fact that the Afghanistan is going to become another breeding ground for terrorism, and most likely another nine eleven will emanate there going through a broken southern border.

That was how Sen Windsy Graham can barely hide his anger towards the administration, wanting to forget about what happened a year ago. You know, I found out the report that was written up. By defense, it has never even been read by the President. It got as far as the Chief of Staff. He does not want to know what went wrong because he knows.

He knows planes were leaving empty. He knows that he could have had the city. Instead, he kept the airport, and at least 13 are dead, maybe more. 13 great Americans. Senator Joni Ernst joins us now, Armed Services Committee.

Senator, what are your thoughts one year later? And are you astounded the administration has no commemoration of the 13 almost a year since they lost their lives at Abbey Gate? I am astounded, Brian. And first off, I want to say thank you so much to all of the veterans that served in the global war on terrorism over the past twenty years and for their extraordinary efforts to keep our country safe. And we were safe during that twenty years.

To the families of the 13 fallen from Abbey Gate. That was the one-year anniversary on the 26th of August. I am disheartened that the President did not commemorate those that lost their lives in trying to rescue our Afghan partners, Americans that were stranded. One of those young men was Dagan Page, and Dagan grew up. in Montgomery County, Iowa, where I'm from.

I know his family extremely well. And we're all saddened by his loss and the loss of those other service members. But the President couldn't even come forward and say thank you for your service. And And that we appreciate the sacrifice that they made. It was a haphazard withdrawal.

It was unprecedented that we would leave a country the way we did without even notifying our allies and friends that we left Americans behind, that we left the Afghans that had helped us behind. Promises made, promises broken by President Biden. As Lindsey Graham stated, the women and girls in Afghanistan who had come so far in the past 20 years while the country was moving in a progressive way, all of their rights have been taken away. They can't leave their homes without a male member of their family. They can't go to school.

They can't work. We have the Taliban colluding with al-Qaeda and other violent extremist organizations. You know, so many of these millions of Afghans are suffering because they have no food. I could go on and a couple of things. I love that when the administration goes, Can you imagine if we were bogged down in Afghanistan and we had to get these resources to Ukraine?

Excuse me. We probably don't have and we would never know for sure. But I would say odds are if we showed strength in Afghanistan and we held on to Bagram. And we show that we're not giving up there. We probably don't get a deal with the Russians invading Ukraine.

What do you think?

Well, I think you're absolutely correct. Vladimir Putin was watching how America reacted with Afghanistan by pulling out, not stabilizing not even leaving a stabilizing force. But think about the military equipment. That was left behind in Afghanistan. You know, a lot of that could have been transferred to the Ukrainians before the Russian invasion.

And yet, we pulled out so fast. We didn't have the opportunity to reclaim that military equipment. Again, a haphazard withdrawal. This president should be ashamed of his actions. Instead, he just refuses to address it.

Right.

So now his approval rating, according to one poll anyway, at 45%, one year from the biggest debacle in American military history. And we leave everybody behind. And we also have. We have veterans come out of retirement to try to get their Afghan allies out.

So we'll see how that goes. We never even told NATO that we were leaving. They had to find out. We wouldn't let our guys leave the wire outside Kabul airport to go get people and bring them back.

Some thankfully did.

So, Senator, as we look right now at our defense, it's impossible to see what happened over the weekend and not think it's all related. We go to Poland to refuel our Coast Guard and Solomon Islands. They now have a defense agreement with China, and they told us to go pound sand. We're not allowed to go there. What's the significance of this?

Well, this is significant. In a world where China is our pacing threat, We do need to push back. And we need to make sure that our alliances are intact. And this president with his foreign policy, it's a debacle, Brian. And unfortunately, they haven't paid attention around the world to the partnerships.

that matter. We are handing over so many countries to China. And this is it's so disgraceful. You know, we do need to have relationships with other countries. And this is just one example of where this president has failed to engage other leaders around the world in a constructive manner.

And so we're seeding over these opportunities to China. They're eating our lunch. When it comes to navigation around the world, here's what General McMaster said about the whole operation in Afghanistan. He talked to me on Saturday. This was a self-defeat, self-defeat based on self-delusion, right?

We created the enemy we would prefer in Afghanistan. Remember what we heard? Oh, the Taliban will share power. They'll put in a more benign form of Sharia. And there's a bold line between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

Actually, we had this idea that we were going to partner with the Taliban against Al-Qaeda and other jihadist terrorists. These groups are completely intertwined. You see the hell that they're putting all Afghans through, and especially women. I mean, it's time to wake up and recognize that we defeated ourselves based on a fantasy. Uh about about the nature of the Taliban.

He's right, isn't he? Yes, he is absolutely correct. General McMaster laid it out quite well. And I will go a step further in that the Biden administration is living in an alternate universe. When a priority of theirs for our military is to transition.

Our non-tactical vehicle fleet to all electric. That's really a priority. Come on, we should be focused. On making our military the most lethal fighting force on the face of the planet. And yet they're bowing to climate agendas.

They're trying to make the world a utopian paradise where the Taliban are good people. You know, Brian, that's not ever going to happen.

So I want to bring you to Ukraine if I can. And we know now that the Russians have taken very little land, and now they're in a massive push to get more volunteers to bolster their force. They've lost at least 80,000. The Ukrainians are losing about 100 a day.

So it's costing both sides. But the question is: how pivotal is this fall? And is time on whose side? Ambassador Michael McFaul, he was ambassador during the Obama years, no fan of Putin. I think he tried to kill him.

No, McFaul didn't try to kill Putin the other way around. Cut 38. Ukrainians don't want it to be a years-long conflict. It costs a lot, $5 billion a year they're getting from the West. They'll eventually run out of resources, military, these Hymars that Admiral Servrios is just talking about.

That's why they want to go on the offensive in the South. The city of Kherson is what they want to take. They want to push the Russians out for the first time. With respect to the Russians, they think time's on their side, and they think the longer the war goes, it'll play to their advantage. And Putin right now is focusing on trying to take Donbass.

What's striking to me, Chuck, is he's been focused on trying to take Donbass for six months and still hasn't achieved that objective. That says to me that maybe Putin is wrong about time being on his side. What do you think, Senator? I do think we should enable the Ukrainians with our partner forces as well and making sure that they're getting all of the necessary munitions and military equipment as possible. And we need to blow that in faster, making sure that they can push back.

The Russians. we should have been doing this the last several months, enabling them to soften Uh the the Russians in the Donbas and through the south, pushing them back. You know, keep them on the move. The Russians will continue to try and advance. And as long as we're not empowering the Ukrainians, they're going to keep pushing.

If what We should really push the Russians heavily. And as long as the Ukrainians are willing to fight, we should be supporting them. Don't think that the Russians are gonna stop. They're gonna keep moving forward. They're going to move into other countries and Europe.

that are not NATO.

Well, not right away because they're a mess. They are a mess. They are a mess. But my great fear is that if we allow status quo, allow the the uh Russians to occupy Ukraine that they will reconstitute in another five, ten to stay on this march. Buy it in.

But you know They were kind of losing the simple Ukrainian. Force. Senator Realcom. What do you think?

They say 65% chance the Democrats hold on to the Senate. What do you think?

Oh, I don't think so, Brian. I think this is liberal media, liberal pollsters that. are pushing out the narrative they want to see in the fall. hoping to discourage Republicans from going to the polls. Just like in my race, the pollsters were saying, oh, I was now lean Democratic, and yet I won by eight points.

So keep the fight up. There, we want to make sure Republicans are turning out in November, and I do think we still have the opportunity to take the Senate. Thanks so much, Senator Joni Ernst. Appreciate it. Thank you, Brian.

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It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Killmee Show coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, heard around the world, and hopefully in the Ukraine and everywhere else in conflict. We're going to be joined this hour by Michael Goodwin, John Taffer from Bar Rescue. He's got an exciting announcement to make, and also he tackles something that we're all dealing with.

Have you gone out to eat lately? Have you asked people, and I'm sure you have, how's it going? And they tell you they can't get any help? It's still happening. And I'm talking about the most popular restaurants and the most unpopular restaurants, ones that are great for young people, ones great for old people.

Where are these people? They never got the college surge that they usually get in the summer. A little bit of help, but not a lot. Your hiring, I'm going to ask John Taffer about that. And Michael Goodwin looks at Jared Kushner's book.

And why is it? And anybody by the way, it's a bestseller. I'm sure it's going to be on the Times list, number one or two. But why is it every time someone writes a book, the New York Times got to go out of their way just to wreck it because they just don't like Trump? Do they ever get tired of writing stupid stuff?

Let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Most economists will look at it said it's not going to increase inflation.

Well, if that's what they're thinking, most economists are wrong. You don't slow the economy down by forgiving debt and giving people another $24 billion to spend. I wouldn't think so. Forgiveness Fallout is a blatant effort to buy votes. Joe forgives student loans, now leaving those who paid theirs exasperated.

Americans who didn't take one flummoxed or didn't go to college scream foul. We will present all sides. Number two. What I read of the unredacted material makes a strong case against a search warrant. There was no urgency.

If they wanted a search warrant, if it was so urgent, they could have gotten it five months ago. It's so baffling. Mar-a-lago madness. That's Ellen Dershow. It's judges, courts, legal teams, and documents.

The drama intensifies as the FBI raid scrambles to show it was all justified. And it looks like a private. Judge has come ahead and said, Maybe we'll get a private master to look at all this stuff and find out what really belongs to Trump and what is the fishing expedition. Number One. The pollsters do this for the Senate races every cycle.

In August, they predict somehow Republicans are going to lose all these races. This is their dying gasp to try to make the Senate in play. Momentum lost? That's the narrative from the mass media who are flat out rooting for a block on the so-called red wave. We will examine the reality in the numbers as the midterm push starts in earnest right after Labor Day.

And this is the last week really of the unofficial summer. And by the way, if you ever missed the show, I got the podcast, BrianKillmeShow.com. I don't want you to miss it live, but if you do, there's still hope. Michael Goodwin, there's still hope. You go as kick us off positively on Monday.

How are you? I'm good, Brian. Thank you. That the red wave has been somewhat thwarted and that a lot of it has to do with the Dobbs decision on Roe v. Wade kicking power for abortion to the states?

I do think there's probably something to that theory that Um it has given Democrats a lifeline, which is what I wrote at the time of the ruling, uh that this was something they didn't have. They you know, there was no argument to be had y there you you had the constitutional right to abortion under certain limits and and now suddenly you didn't and therefore there there was a new a new item for the Democrats to run on. Don't forget, I mean, Joe Biden's approval ratings were in the toilet. They've gotten slightly better since. But at that time, I mean, you had the Afghanistan debacle.

You of course you had inflation. You had the southern border. And you just had this sense that Democrats couldn't govern.

So look, I think that was probably an extreme version of where things really stand between the parties. Because at the end, it comes down to individual races, individual candidates. how they perform, the money they have, et cetera, any unforeseen events in the final weeks.

So I think that it's too early to say that Republicans were going to sweep and too early to say that Democrats have eroded them. That's the way it looks now, but we really won't know until people vote. Yeah, ABC has a poll. Biden had a 45% approval rating. That's stunning to me and cannot be accurate.

But white women, this is what they point to, the fact that women are most affected by this. They had 45% approval. 45% voted more for the Demons at 39% approval for the Republicans. It's now 54-41. And what they're doing is kicking the so-called power to the states.

I don't think Republicans have made enough of an effort to let that clear. No one's banned anything. Everyone's doing something that should have been happening a long time ago. Let your governors, let your legislature decide. Rich Lowry weighed in on this, and he said this should be the message.

He's a pro-lifer, obviously, editor of National Review, Cut 11. Clearly, it's an important change. And I think Republicans have to realize they can't run and hide from this issue. You try to do that, it's not going to work. You're going to get defined in a way you're not going to like.

And you can't, in most places, adopt a maximalist position.

So I think they need to do a Version of what Rubio did, say, I want to protect every unborn child eventually. I realize I have a lot of work to do, public persuasion on that. In the meantime, here's a limit I support that actually is defensible and has public support, and then point at the other side for being extremist for supporting abortion in every circumstance with federal funding. And he's talking about 15 weeks. He said, I understand I'm pro-life, but not my neighbor necessarily isn't.

How do you feel about that?

Well Look, I think that's a second. sensible position, but of course it it's hard for any of the rational ideas to hold in the moment of a campaign. I mean, our politics have become so emotional now. People are so angry at the other side. I mean, the the hatred is really over the top.

And I think that's why it's a dangerous time politically. And I'm not sure that the that the ideas of being a rational, holding a rational position that you can explain, particularly on these emotional issues such as abortion, which For many women, it's an absolute. I mean, they they're not thinking in terms of restrictions, what month. there is a fear that it will be taken away, whether by the Supreme Court or by the states. And so I think that these issues are very hard to navigate in sensible ways in the heat of the campaign.

And then of course, I think for Democrats, What they are trying to do and have been somewhat successful is link every Republican to Donald Trump. And that is, I think, for them, the clincher as they see it for a lot of people. That if you can link your opponent to Trump in any way, In particular, uh Crossover districts or states that are pretty evenly split, you can defeat that opponent because Trump is so unpopular among many people, certainly not a majority, but so I think there's a lot of picking and choosing going on in these districts and in these states that don't quite fit a national model of how we think they should run. Very interesting because Senator Roy Blunt brought up something that the timing is not a coincidence. And he brought up the fact that now all of a sudden this raid happens.

It becomes the number one story or the number two story in everybody's newscast. And we're talking about the special master and we're talking about the raid and the affidavit. And now you're talking about Trump again. Instead of talking about inflation, instead of talking about oil independence, instead of talking about crime in New York City, which you could argue, and I think it's beyond argument. Uh works uh you know the that's the reality that matters most to the American people.

I agree with you, Brian, and the Democrats have been very skillful. and using Donald Trump as their piñata. I mean, the the entire January sixth A hearing system was designed to be a midterm argument. it was it was they were not going to come to any conclusions before this, they wanted they wanted Trump to be on the twenty twenty two ballot as far as what's on people's minds. And they've, I think, largely succeeded at that.

Merrick Garland, which I think That reality adds a special weight to his role in this. And since he has come out with the raid and all the leaking that has gone on, it certainly looks like Merrick Garland is part of the Democrats' fall campaign. And I think that's Just another thing that frankly I find just Disgusting about this win-at-any cost idea because if we cannot trust the FBI, if we cannot trust the Justice Department, if they're always going to play politics, I mean, this thing with Hunter Biden, the FBI going to Facebook and saying, beware of disinformation. What's amazing about that, Brian, the FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop long before the twenty twenty election.

So when they came out and played politics with it. Hey, you want to hear my this is what you're talking about. Mark Zuckerberg came out with this about 90 minutes into his three-hour interview with Joe Rogan. Let's listen. Basically, the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us, some folks on our team, and was like, hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert.

We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of uh uh that's similar to that.

So just be vigilant. Wow. And then he said this came in, and I don't really believe Zuckerberg 100%. He's trying to put it all in the FBI, and this thing popped up. And then we said we squelched the story, put down the story, didn't promote the story.

It was retrievable, but it made it tougher. But Twitter is the one who banned the story, and the FBI told us to look out for it. And now we know the FBI absolutely knew it was coming because we know the computer repairman, they gave it to the FBI. Just so everyone at home understands what you're talking about. Yeah.

I mean, so for the FBI to be in the twenty twenty campaign, if they in any way and you're right, Zuckerberg is a little unclear here, and he's blaming the FBI, but it would be nice to know what exactly did the FBI say? And who else did they say it to? Right? Because you have those you have those in former intelligence officials saying it smacks of Russian disinformation. We haven't seen the laptop, but it smacks of Russian disinformation.

I mean, there's a concerted effort, and Joe Biden used that in the debate to fend off any questions about the laptop. Every one of those IT, those intelligence experts that signed off on it, should really be defamed right now and brought out and be forced to defend themselves. From Clapper to Mike Morrell, who I like, to Michael Hayden, all these guys that weighed in and just said this is classic Russian disinformation. Leon Panetta, classic Russian disinformation. Really?

You made no effort to find out if anybody on the other end of that email would say, yeah, this is real. Or Hunter Biden. Would Hunter Biden have taken a call from the CEO of Facebook to say, I need to know if this is real or not, because I'm going to go with this unless you can show me that it's not? Did anybody do that? Nobody.

No. Mm-hmm. it so much easier to demonize Donald Trump. I mean, that's what the Democrats have been doing now. It didn't work for them in 2016.

It did work, along with lots of changing of voting regulations during the pandemic. It did work for them in 2020. But here we go again.

Now it's 2022, and they're up to some of the same tricks because they cannot run on Joe Biden's record. It's just not enough. It's weak. It's bad. Everybody knows it.

knows it. The economy is in trouble. You know, the stock market, it looks like it's ready to deflate entirely.

So there's all kinds of issues weighing on this president's record.

So what do we do? Look, the shiny thing over here. Look at this shiny thing. Donald Trump, Donald Trump. But the other thing they're doing is about to sign the Iranian deal.

So they flood the market with their oil, keeping it down until the election day, making us all, including, especially the Middle East, more in peril. Just last minute, Jared Kush's book is excellent. I don't care what you think of Trump or his administration, or you like Kelly and Conway. You're going to learn a lot by reading this book about what really would happen. But you said, don't be surprised when all these horrible reviews pour in, and they did, correct?

Yeah. It's unbelievable. I mean, they're like mean girls in high school. I mean, these attacks on Kushner, of course they're just attacks on Trump. But they they take this book and they treat it like they treat Trump.

They don't really read it, I don't believe, because you can't read it and not take away some understanding of how things worked in the Trump White House. You know, Brian, there were, what, two million authors who trashed Trump, two million books or some some ridiculous I'm exaggerating, but there was an endless stream of books that trashed everything Donald Trump said and did. And yet, when we look back now at the Abraham Accords, when we look at the deal between It's the trade deals, that's right. When we look at the difference that the border wall made in those areas, right? Why is Joe Biden having a wall built around his house?

If it's good enough for him, why isn't it good enough for the country? All those things that Trump did, I think, have gotten thrown out, right? January 6th, it gives us a reason. First, it was Ukraine impeachment. Then it was January 6th.

It's always something to delegitimize what he did. But in fact, he did some very consequential things, and Jared Kushner was central to a lot of them. And they were all destroyed. They attempted to destroy everybody there, from Roger Stone to Manaford. They took, for a while, it looked like Jared Kushner was going to be arrested, and we all know Michael Flynn's career was destroyed.

Michael Cohen's career was destroyed, credibility shot. And now they're going after a CFO of his company because he's with Trump. And it just. It's just unbelievable and it shouldn't be acceptable because we could be next. If I could just quickly throw in one more thing that I think has not gotten enough attention.

Jared Kushner in his book talks about the Democrats what he calls a pressure campaign to have the FDA delay any announcements about the vaccine until after the election. I think this is this to me is an open wound. Did they really do that at 20? Unbelievable. Michael, I have to end there, but that is a very important point.

Delayed the vaccine until after the election. Can you believe that? A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Here's what he should do: he wants to get on the side of working people in this country.

He should say to all these colleges and universities: if your tuition goes up more than the rate of inflation, then you don't participate in any federal program. No student loans, no Pell Grants, and no research grants. Keep costs at the rate of inflation or you're out of the federal pie. That's Chris Christie laying it out on the line on ABC on Sunday, just saying if you're going to forgive student loans, it makes no sense to do it for people: $20,000 for Pell Grants and $10,000 for anybody who makes under $125,000 because it's not fair to the people that paid the loans of 50 and 60-year-olds. And by the way, it turns out that only about 10 to 15 percent of those who are going to be affected are Hispanic.

Do you want to alienate Hispanic voters even more? Known as hardworking and moral and And somebody with a great work ethic, now all of a sudden, they don't go to college or they don't go to college and they got to pay back these loans from their tax dollars. Or they go to college, they pay back the loan and all of a sudden they feel look turn around and everybody else getting their loan paid off. We went into these agreements with our eyes wide open. What he should have done is what Marco Rubio brought up: examine the interest rate on it.

Examine the Go ahead, take two points off it. Say, listen, we're looking to get you guys back on track, give you a chance to pay off your loan, but don't alleviate people from that deal. Because, how are you supposed to tell the next generation? Of student loan takers, oh, you're gonna have to pay it back. Those, you know, your brother, he doesn't.

Your sister, she doesn't, but you do, because you're 18, you're not 22. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. I'm gonna put an additional $100,000 in your bar on top of what I've done, but I will only do it. if you put in 30,000.

You write a check for me for $30,000 and I remodel your bar. If you don't commit, then I won't. That's the deal. I'll give you a few minutes to think about it. I've been giving Terry chance after chance for the past two days, really the past two years.

Now it's D-Day. He needs to step up and prove himself, or I'm not gonna rescue this bar. And write you a track, but it won't be any good. I don't have the money. This guy is so full of it's unbelievable.

It's over. Because I don't trust you. Because you are a slime bucket. It's one of the best concepts I've ever done and he totally f ⁇ ed it up. Yeah.

Wow. That is some of the reality and part of the magic of Bar Rescue. It's real. Trying to help people, especially coming out of the pandemic. There's not much margin for area.

You've been put through help from bad politicians and bad policy. And now you got to play the perfect game. And John Taffer's there to help, but he's also there in the game. He's long talked about.

Now finally ready for action with Taffer's Tavern opening up in Washington, D.C. It's going to be right next to the Capitol One Arena. When is opening day, John Taffer? Oh, next week. I mean, we're there, Brian.

You know what's incredible is, by the way, hi, nice to talk with you, buddy. Always. This restaurant was supposed to open back in November. And that's an example of the supply side issues that we've had just getting it built. Things like an electrical box, Brian, which you should be able to go to a home store and buy, eight to ten weeks to get.

panels for lighting, all sorts of things.

So getting this baby opened is like a victory. It means a lot to us. We're incredibly excited. And DC's a great market.

So is this just the beginning? There's going to be more Taffers Taverns, right? Oh, yes.

So Alpharetta, Georgia has been open now for almost two years. DC opens, as I said, next week. Boston and Watertown just opened this week.

So we now have Boston, D.C., and Atlanta. Tampa is on the horizon, and Las Vegas is on the horizon.

So we're working hard to build them and find franchisees and partners as quick as we can. And we're pleased. We have about 27 restaurants on the books now in various stages of development.

So, what makes you think you see all the struggles people are having, even when they try to do everything right? Getting help, you mentioned supply chain, the prices of inflation. What makes you want to get back in the game to this extreme?

Well, you know, people still need to go out. And if you look at the markets, Brian, and I'm a big believer in cause and consequence. And if you look at markets across the country, some are down twenty five percent in sales to prepandemic levels, some are ahead up to thirty percent in sales compared to prepandemic levels. And it's the consequence from the cause of lockdowns and various political restrictions that were placed on the industry.

So in very many markets, Success is coming to those who don't necessarily deserve it because the marketplace is so alive. And in other markets, failure is coming to those who do deserve success. because of the lockdowns and the consequences from all the causes related to the pandemic.

So we opened we needed about eighty employees in Boston, Brian, and about one hundred twenty in DC. And going through the hiring process was very, very interesting in today's labor market. We did staff both restaurants one hundred percent. It took us twice as long as normal. We didn't interview as many as we would like to come up with the 100 or so for each restaurant, but we did staff it effectively.

But here's what was really interesting. Finding employees was a lot easier than finding management. And we're finding that management is just not readily available today. I'm not sure if they're looking to be entrepreneurs, if everybody's looking for that next opportunity. I know they're out there.

But finding management is very difficult today. I did not expect that, Brian. Wow, that's pretty amazing. A bit of surprising. Everywhere I go, I always ask how you staff, and everybody says I need people.

It got a little bit better in the summer. Biggest question, John, and before we get into the concept of the Taffers Tavern, which is fascinating, is what do you think? Where did the people go in 2019? Where do they go? I'm talking about I go to places on the water in beach towns and they're having trouble, and you know how much money you can make.

A lot of it is off the books because you don't declare all the tips. You don't declare all the tips you make.

So, having said that, what is your theory? I can't understand that. Look at a steakhouse, Brian, where people make $1,000 a night as a way they're struggling to find people. And you know, these are jobs. You don't take them home with you at the end of the night.

It's a good income. You have no stress. You go home at the end of the day, your day is finished. It's Frustrating to me. And the other concern is: you know, the restaurant industry has always been a stepping stone for people in life.

Young people come into the industry and it's a stepping stone to get to that next level of your career. We're not seeing that stepping stone activity much anymore.

So it's a powerful change, Brian. And I can't answer where they are. I scratch my head all the time. I'm looking for them. How are they surviving?

Clearly. The future of any industry is going to be based upon human resources today, almost as much as any other resource. Also, policies. complete policy reviews of human policy reviews. For example, in our corporate office, Offices in Las Vegas, we just implemented a flexible PTO policy.

We don't count PTO days anymore. People need time off, they can have it as long as they work and stay on top of it. Then we created a dog-friendly office. And we've done all of this research is what does it take to retain employees in today's market? And it's not income, it's all quality of life issues.

That are driving people. It's a real shift, Brian, from just pre-pandemic levels. How much priorities have shifted for people? You know, it's kind of interesting because, you know, it's had Mike Rowan here, and we talked to him about his book and people just wanted to work. There's glory in work, and of course, the push towards trades as opposed to going to college and get your art history degree and wonder what you're going to do with it.

So it's the same story, but who's willing to work hard? And the quietly quitting thing. Everyone was told to go home, not everybody, but a lot of people were told to go home, don't work, I'll pay you. And they were frustrated. Then they looked around and said, Why am I working so hard?

The job, I don't really feel fulfilled in that job. Why, you know, and I can stay, and my unemployment is extended, and my rent is forgiven on hold, and my loan is frozen for now.

So people said, This is quality life. Why should I get involved in that race again? I agree. When the financial pressures are lifted, one can do what they want to do much more than what they have to do.

So let's talk about your concept with the with the Taffers Tavern. You talk about what does your kitchen look like and why and you you were talking about having a camera set up on your kitchen. Yeah, so we we uh uh Started this, as you know, four to five years ago. And if we look back, Trump was president. Unemployment was incredibly low.

We couldn't find employees. Restaurants couldn't sustain themselves with six, eight people in the kitchen anymore, Brian. The training was too much. We couldn't find the people. Many of the employees we found were New Americans, so there were language barriers in training.

It was a nightmare for us.

So we said, could we reinvent the kitchen?

So we looked at computer technologies, robotic technologies, food preparation technologies. We selected sous vide as a food preparation technique. It's extremely high quality, Michelin five star. We take a great steak, for example, Brian. We season it, we put it in a special plastic bag.

We then take that seasoned steak, put it in a water oven at 135 degrees. That water oven cooks the steak to a perfect medium rare. We then take that steak and we finish it in these special combi ovens. that sear the outside flawlessly and finish off the steak. And when you when you're when you eat it, it's as delicious as anything you've ever had.

But for me, I can do it with less people in a more controlled environment to create greater consistency.

So Brian, there's no stove in our kitchen. Traditional stove in our kitchen. There aren't traditional hoods or fire control systems in our kitchen. Everything is as high-tech, computerized as it can possibly be. And the result is really great quality.

I can't wait till I can get you into the DC restaurant to try it yourself. You won't have as soon as I can get there, absolutely, or go up to Boston. When are you going to open up in New York?

So Well, we're working on New York now. That's probably a good year, year and a half out by the time we get it done. But the final point is, Brian, the kitchen is air conditioned.

So when you look at how do I retain kitchen staff, well, an air-conditioned kitchen, nice and cool, that's one step forward. They don't have the depth of prep and all the things that other kitchens have because it's done in our commissary kitchens.

So we find that we've created one of the most appealing kitchen jobs. In the country, then because it's a snowball effect. Since our ticket times are six minutes instead of 12, our servers aren't under pressure.

So everybody just seems to have a better energy level and a better dynamic when there's less stress on everyone from a food production standpoint. It's interesting to watch that dynamic change for people, but it's fun. And the whole point of the restaurant is when custom employees are having fun, customers do. And you know, you'll be successful. I can get Brett Baer to go there.

If I get Brett Baer into Taffer's Tavern, that'll immediately guarantee success. Should I work on that? Oh, absolutely work on that.

Now, Cavuto, I'm worried I'm not going to be able to keep away when he's in jobs.

Well, the good news is, Neil is still a New Yorker or a New Jersey guy.

So you're going to have to catch up to him and do good luck with those taxes.

Now, your opinion, John, on the state of our economy now, people are caught up in two consecutive quarters of negative growth. That's not what you deal with. You're in the real economy, dealing with people in the biggest sports bar, in the nicest steakhouse, all needing help. What do you sense is going on in this country? Volatility, people are scared, Brian.

Almost everyone you talk to. Feels that there's this tipping point that we're at right now. And in the next 90 days, either we're going to start to introduce a little better or things are going to get a lot worse. And people have no confidence, no certainty, if you will.

So a lot of people I know are getting into that pause mode again, Brian, sort of like when a pandemic started where people say, you know what? I'm not doing anything right now. I'm not investing. I'm not this. I'm not that.

I'm not opening anything. I'm going to sit tight right now. And that paralyzation, that pause scares me. That's hurt us a lot over the past few years. But what about interest rates?

Getting back into that. How does that affect you guys and open it, going into a commercial strip mall, whatever it is, or own building? You've got to take out that loan unless you have a lot of money and you can pay cash for that building or that property.

So you're going to go in there and you've got to cut a deal and you're going to sign that lease. But now the interest rates are up. Oh, and look at a restaurant business. And people don't realize this, a restaurant costs four times more to build than a retail store because of all the hoods and the equipments and electrical systems and all of that that a restaurant has. When you have to buy that level of equipment, Brian, in a kitchen costs six, seven hundred thousand dollars You know, the solution in the past has been to lease the equipment or otherwise finance the equipment.

That's so expensive today, that's not a viable option. And that's going to change. It's going to be more expensive again in a couple of weeks. Those are some of the fears of uncertainty that we're facing right now. I think there's an uneasiness across the country that stems from a lack of confidence.

And I don't think people believe in leadership. And if they don't believe in leadership, then they can't believe in the results or consequences of leadership.

So I think that's what it stems from. Did you go to college? Yes, University of Denver. Did you have to stick out alone? I did take out a loan.

I worked my butt off to pay it off, Brian. I was looking this morning if I could pull a second on that financing so I could qualify for ten thousand dollars in free money, but I can't get a second thirty years later. What's your reaction to this? I think it's very unfair. I think if you look at our economy and tax programs over the years, there are groups that have been targeted in the past.

Business groups and things like that for various types of relief. But typically, those types of investments are made because those individuals are investing in the economy. They're investing in equipment. They're investing in the creation of jobs, et cetera. I find this incredibly unfair.

And I find it personally as a way to placate the supporters. uh his political supporters. And academia is a large supporter of this policy and the party that drives this policy. And I think that the the money moves from one pocket to another in the same pair of pants. Uh yeah.

That's interesting. And I'll say this: for me personally, there were two colleges I wanted to go to: Syracuse, NYU. When I looked at the numbers, even with the loan, I couldn't afford it. I went somewhere else that I could afford. I went to LYU and I could afford it, and it worked out.

So, everybody I know dealt with that. Yeah, I got in, but I didn't get enough money. It's, you know, whatever it is, that's the higher end.

So, if you get into George Washington University and you get an $82,000 bill and you're for a middle-class family, you're not going to George Washington University. Even if you take out a bunch of loans, you have to know what you're getting into.

Now, we're going to the fundamentals of that deal and saying, don't worry about it. What if you're the 17-year-old go, Mom, Dad, don't worry about it? We're going to get it forgiven. Yeah, I think how about the fact that there's $22 billion in college endowments? And think to yourself, college endowments are leveraging hedge funds, right?

They're short-selling stocks. They're using every financial tool that they have to grow these endowments. They've created an industry of managing college endowments. And all those endowments were created, Brian, when college loans were started years ago and colleges realized: okay, this is government money, we can up our tuition.

So, you know, this has been caused by the whole premise of college loans. College loans increase college tuition to the level that they have $22 billion in endowments, and they're charging these obscene prices to go to college every year. I think the solution should be, dare I say, some type of regulation upon college admissions. They shouldn't be able to build endowments of that level on the backs of students who are borrowing money to go there. I hear you.

I mean, some of them don't have the Harvard-Yale endowments, the Stanfords, I get it. And other ones, they should be somehow justifying their price. I think with Mitch Daniels, who was former OMB director and governor of Indiana, headed up Purdue. And the first thing he said is, I will not increase tuition. And he cut other places.

A lot of it was administration. And he was able to keep that price down and make. It's possible for kids from Indiana, especially to go.

So we just solve the world's problems, or at least we give the world an opportunity to solve their problems. Let's see if they take you up on all the solutions you offer, John Taffer. I hope so. All right. Pick up Power of Conflict.

Watch Bar Rescue. And then, of course, if you're in Washington, if you're in Boston, if you're in Maryland, go see Taffer's Tavern. And it'll be Go ahead.

Well, I got you. I got to say, I've been loving One Nation, Brian. I love the show. You know, I think it's sipped into a great format. I don't miss it every week.

Well done. Thank you so much. John Taffer, an unsolicited compliment. I will pay you later. Brian Killmee Show.

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I'm certainly pro-choice. What I'm saying, I'm more pro-choice than you could imagine. I don't think life is always precious. Most people don't think that. What I'm saying is you shouldn't say to the other side, you people hate women.

They don't hate women. They just think it's murder. And if you think it's murder, then you can't go, well, except for people with a vagina, they can commit murder. I don't think it's murder, but they legitimately do. Huh.

Yeah. Bill Maher, I don't know what he tapped into, but just this sense of rationale saying I'm pro-choice, but I understand that people are pro-life what they think. And when you come out and say something like cartoonish that Republicans hate women or MAGA Republicans hate women, we shot you. You shut him off, okay? Just like I think uh Democrats for the most part just don't Prioritize defense.

Doesn't mean they want us to fence less. But you try to get people's attention. But the minute you see the President of the United States something as safe as something as irresponsible as they don't like women, they've got women mad, they want to take all away all your rights, take away all your freedoms, it's just the start, it's just the beginning. That's when even a guy like Bill Maher, who's a liberals liberal, will come out and say, can you guys knock it off. Even if you even the people that agree with him are ticking him off.

And I think you all get that out there. Uh and As much as he is like Donald Trump, he sees the extreme measures going on right now when the FBI. raids his Mar-a-Lago estate. Hey, go to BrianKilme.com. I hope to see you at the egg in Albany September 8th.

And then I got two dates: Brandon, Mississippi in November. And right after that, I'll be in Tulsa, Oklahoma. KRMG fans know that. And December 2nd in Newark, New Jersey. Just go to BrianKilme.com.

I'll see you there. Don't move. Live from the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, fresh off the set of Fox and Friends, it's America's receptive voice. Brian Kill Mead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brian Kilmeet Show, 1-866-408-7669. The number to call as we come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, heard around the world, and hopefully, especially in the Ukraine and now, especially in Afghanistan, even though we've gotten out, but it's been a year, just over a year, since we left. And it's just barely almost to the day in which the explosion at Abbey Gate cost 13 Americans their lives and hundreds of Afghans who were hoping to get out of this country. Bottom of the hour, Brett Baer will be with us. And in a matter of moments, Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann will be here.

As you know, he conducted and coordinated Task Force Pineapple, a group of retired Green Braves, Navy SEALs, diplomats, regular Army and beyond, reporters. Everybody pitched in because the government didn't. Operation Pineapple, the book is now out, the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honor a promise to Afghanistan. In my words, uh because the administration didn't.

So before we get to Scott, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Most economists would look at it said it's not going to increase inflation.

Well, if that's what they're thinking, most economists are wrong. You don't slow the economy down by forgiving debt and giving people another $24 billion to spend. Forgiveness fallout, a blatant effort to buy votes in my view. Joe forgives student loans, now leaving those who paid theirs exasperated. Americans who didn't take one flummoxed.

Or didn't go to college, they scream foul. We'll present all sides. Number two. What I read of the unredacted material makes a strong case against a search warrant. There was no urgency.

If they wanted a search warrant, if it was so urgent, they could have gotten it five months ago. Mar-a-Lago madness. Judges, courts, legal teams, and documents will go through it all, including the latest drama that unfolded this weekend. Number one. The pollsters do this for the Senate races every cycle.

In August, they predict somehow Republicans are going to lose all these races. This is their dying gasp to try to make the Senate in play. Adam Laxalt, who was favored to win in Nevada.

Now it's basically a dead heat, could still do it. Momentum lost. That's the narrative from the mass media who are flat out rooting to block the assumed red wave. We'll examine the reality and the numbers as the midterm starts to move forward in earnest. We're about 70 days out.

But let's turn to Scott Manner. If you're watching on Fox Nation, you probably see him. Scott, welcome. Hey. Thanks, Brian.

What were you doing before the pull out of Afghanistan? I was work, well, I have a leadership company that I teach human connection skills that I learned as a Green Beret. But also, we were about to launch our play, Last Out Elegy of a Green Beret, that I wrote and performed in to complete my midlife crisis. But we were launching it on Amazon Prime. We were getting ready to put it out.

We had worked for years on this thing. We had toured the country with it. As a stage play. As a stage play. And the whole idea was to help Americans understand the cost of modern war and the impact on our families.

And so we used veterans to tell the story from the stage. Very, very powerful play. And COVID shut it down.

So we turned it into a film. And we were getting ready to launch it. And you're getting ready to launch it. And then all of a sudden, you start seeing this Afghanistan deal cut during the Trump years. But to me, especially after doing my research, there's no way it would have unfolded like this.

But having said that. I agree. But having said that, when you start realizing that the Afghan Army is not going to stand that. that Gahani might not be the leader we thought. What are you thinking?

I was hearing from Nizam and other friends of mine who was. What was Nizam? Nizam was an Afghan commando and Afghan special forces NCO that I had known since 2010 who was in duress in Afghanistan. He was trying to get out. He was being hunted by the Taliban, receiving text messages.

And he started contacting me in early summer saying that things are falling apart. Province after province was falling like dominoes. And he said, I think the country's going to flip in a month. And he was like two days off.

So a lot of us in the SF community, the special ops community, we were already looking at this thing going, it's going to fall. It's going to fall. And we were mobilizing, trying to get involved with our partners. Back up a little bit. When did you get involved in the armed forces?

I joined the Army in 1991. I'd always, I grew up in a little logging town in Mount Otto, Arkansas, and met a Green Beret when I was 14. And when I met that guy, I knew right then that's what I was going to do.

So you joined? I did. How soon until you were special forces? It took about five years. It's about a five-year wait.

You have to, they don't, as an officer, you have to be a first lieutenant promotable.

So I did a tour of duty down in Panama, and then when I was eligible to try out, it was 1995.

So it was about a five-year wait, and then about an 18-month pipeline to go through that to get your Green Beret. William 9-11. I was actually at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. And 7th Special Forces Group. And on my way to Fort Pickett, Virginia, when the towers were hit, we did a U-turn in the medium and went and watched the rest of it at group headquarters.

And we all knew as a Special Forces regiment that our lives had changed forever. And where did you go?

Well, first of all, my Ranger buddy Cliff was killed in the Pentagon on 9-11. He was my first friend to lose in the war out of 23. And, you know, it hit me right out of the gate. But 7th Group was actually held in strategic reserve for the first couple of years of the war. 5th Group went in first, then 3rd.

And then 7th Group finally got the nod in 2004.

So my first deployment into Afghanistan of several was started in 04, 05. And what was the situation on the ground at that point? At that point, it was, you know. Iraq was already going on. Iraq was already going on.

It was, and really was the weight of effort for the United States at that point. The bulk of the, you know, war assets and material was there. Afghanistan was not a backwater, but it was certainly, it had. It had subsided somewhat, but what we saw when I got there in 04 was you still, the Afghan army was fledgling. It was just getting started.

There had not been an Afghan army since like 1978. And so we were working with mostly militias and local groups. But the Afghan army was just getting underway. And that's what I found myself doing in 04: helping them stand up. How did they respond?

Yeah. Initially, they were not a great fighting force at all. In fact, I would say that the general purpose Afghan Army and the general purpose police force were a paper tiger. Morale was terrible. Desertions were terrible.

There was a lot of corruption within the officer corps. It was too big. We tried to build the military. This is where we made a lot of mistakes in Afghanistan across all the administrations. We tried to build an army in our image.

We tried to build a Western army, and they were nowhere near capable of that. And they couldn't handle the type of requirements that it takes to sustain an army like that. And to give you an example, they require precision fires, platforms, intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance, and those all contractor-heavy. We pulled all the contractors out in June with no warning, and the army just collapsed. Right.

No, that was crazy. They said if we kept some semblance there, the NATO was willing to stay. Yeah. And they had to find out through news reports, not even through a direct contact, that we were leaving. Yeah, we burned partnerships on so many levels with this thing.

But, you know, you think about. 20 years, really, Brian, starting in 2008, the Afghan, or excuse me, the Special Forces and the Special Ops community really started putting its effort into building partner capacity with Afghan special operators, commandos, special forces. Here's General Frank McKenzie, he's CENTCOM Commander, COP48. We believed that Kabul would fall if we pulled out our troops. It was just a question of when Kabul would fall.

And we had been saying that really since the fall of the year before. That had been a consistent position of Central Command, our subordinates in Afghanistan, that if we leave, they're going to collapse. And we left and they did. What d what do you think when you hear that?

Well, it aggravates me because I know that there were several general officers that gave that warning. Including Miller, who quit rather than preside over it. Miller, McKenzie, I think Milley even gave the warnings, you know, candidly. But they were not heated at all. And the other thing, though, that kind of bothers me about that whole thing is, and it's just me personally, is I would love to have seen somebody put their stars on the table.

As a result of that. I mean, you got thirty, forty years in, man. What better way to make a stand for the military community rather than like those kinds of comments that are one year later? I mean, throw it on the table and take a stand, and maybe that might just push this back. I don't know.

Here's more from McKenzie about what went into that decision to stay or go. Cut 47.

So, in your opinion, was the withdrawal a mistake? I advised against withdrawing. My recommendation and my opinion, and it remains so today, was we had the opportunity to remain in the country with a small force. I realize the Taliban could very well have chosen to attack us, but I do not believe, based on the intelligence I was reading at the time, that we would have been forced to add more forces in order to maintain a 2,500 force level in Afghanistan. We'd have coupled that force level with an aggressive diplomatic campaign against the Taliban, probably more aggressive than the Doha Agreement in those negotiations.

So it would have had to have been a whole of government effort. But it remains my position that we had the opportunity to stay, keep the Afghanistan, the government of Afghanistan running. And when it didn't, he stayed? And he presided over the collapse, right? Mackenzie gets a call.

Do you want to? Do you want to? Kabul is now empty. Do you want to take Kabul? Or do you want me to from Al Bardar?

And Al Bardar was told, we just want the airport. How bad was that decision? It was terrible. I mean, first of all, the way in which this went down, I mean, we had other, well, they call them APODs, but they're basically, you know, they're large bases that could have facilitated a much more deliberate withdrawal, Bagram Air Force Base, Kandahar Air Force Base. And we just gave those up.

But then also to just give up Kabul and then try to defend a little postage stamp like H.Kaya just for a non-combatant evacuation. It was a recipe for disaster. What was the reality on the ground? How many guys and how many families were you looking to get out? And when did you realize you'd have to do it yourself?

I don't think any of us, there were a lot of volunteer efforts underway. None of us knew. The true magnitude of the problem. What we knew, here's what we knew, Brian. We knew that these special operators who we had helped train, the commandos, the special forces, the KKA, these amazing Operators were our best bet to keep al-Qaeda and ISIS at bay for the long term.

And we were about to just turn them over.

So, for all of us, it was how do we just keep them alive? Because surely the government's going to take this over. We'll just hand them over to the government and they'll take it. But they left. The state did the embassy just let they everyone vacated.

Yep, the new embassy was actually at HKIA, and I talk about that in the book. It was actually in a former CIA bar inside the airfield. But our thought was: all right, we're just, we know who they are, we know where they are, and they trust us, the commandos, the special forces. We're going to keep them safe. We're going to try to move them to certain points on the gate.

We'll hand them off to the 82nd, to the Marines. And then surely at some point, special operations will come take them from us and we can hand them over. Where was the 82nd?

Well, the 82nd and the Marines, you know, they were all pulling security around the perimeter. How many troops did they get in there in a matter of weeks? It was a couple thousand, I think, was the total. It was a small contingent. It was enough to hold the airfield, but remember, they were held back.

They were not allowed to push beyond the perimeter.

So the recovery of these high-value at-risk targets. It was up to them to move themselves. They're guided by these volunteer groups, and it worked. But the sad part about it was we were only able to facilitate a fraction. Of those who really should have done, I think somewhere around 700, 700 to 1,000.

That's amazing. I mean, you feel you could do more. More with Scott Mannon in a moment. His book is now out: Operation Pineapple Expressed the Incredible Story of a Group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan. My words, because the government didn't, because President Biden chose not to.

Learning something new every day on the Brian Kilmeat Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. We're going to do everything in our power to get all Americans out and our allies out. Does that mean troops will stay beyond August 31st if necessary?

Depends on where we are and whether we can ramp these numbers up to 5,000 to 7,000 a day coming out. If that's the case, they'll all be out. Because we've got like 10,000 to 15,000 Americans in the country right now, right? And are you committed to making sure that the troops stay until every American who wants to be out is out? Yes.

How about our Afghan allies? Does the commitment hold for them as well? The commitment holds to get everyone out, that in fact we can get out and everyone should come out. And that's the objective. That's what we're doing now.

That's the path we're on. And I think we'll get to it.

So he totally did not tell the truth. He left anyway. And he said, Well, I never had a complete list of who was there because they never reported to the embassy when they went to Afghanistan. Scott Mann here, author of Operation Pineapple Express, just chronicles what he did putting together a group of veterans to help get our Afghan allies and Americans out of Afghanistan because President Biden wouldn't. Your reaction to that exchange?

It's just so hard to listen to, and it just conjures up so many moral injuries that so many in the veteran community feel. I mean, first of all, for our American citizens, it turns out there were a lot more of them behind enemy lines than was talked about. But also for our Afghan commandos and the special forces, I'll tell you this, Brian: Minister Hasina Safi was the Minister for Women's Affairs. She was the most hunted woman in Afghanistan, right? She was on the run.

The State Department wouldn't get her out. They would not open the gates for her. This is the Minister for Women's Affairs who was being hunted by the Taliban for standing up for women's rights. She ended up coming through the Pineapple Express, wading through an open sewage canal with her family, and pulled through a four-foot hole in the fence by an 82nd Airborne First Sergeant. Yeah.

That's how she escaped Afghanistan, the most hunted woman in Afghanistan.

So, where was all of the women's advocacy? During that moment, most, yeah. And where are they now? And the thing is, so you had a State Department, an embassy that was built like a fortress. I wasn't there, but you were.

I guess that the embassy is unbelievable in Afghanistan, and they just abandoned it right away. I guess there's a fear of being another Iran hostage situation.

So they left that all that area and their paperwork, they grinded it up.

So, do you believe this is the State Department, the State Department, author of this evacuation? I believe that the displacement from the State Department and other buildings like that was part of the Neo. There was always this plan to collapse on the airport, right? I don't think that was the right play. I think we should have fought to hold Kabul in a more expansive way because here's the thing.

We could not recover the American citizens, we could not recover the green card holders, we could not recover the at-risk Afghans because we were in a sole defensive posture at the airfield. And we lost momentum, we lost initiative. Right.

And how many of those planes ended up leaving Afghanistan empty? I don't know the number of that. I know there were a lot. And then I also know that, like, you know, it's called the most successful airlift in American history. And here's where I have a problem with that.

I believe the U.S. forces that went into HKIA and did what they did are to be commended. Sure. They did yeoman's work. But the vetting.

of the 100,000-plus that came out, only a fraction, like maybe 1%, were the special immigration visas, the at-risk Afghans. The rest were not. And so that's where I have a real problem with how this went down. Scott Mann here, one of the founders of Operation Pineapple Express, you needed third countries to cooperate. You started getting planes in to get people out, and you couldn't get the State Department or an ambassador to pick up the phone to be able to accept these American allies and Americans.

Yeah, it's really been frustrating, at least from my vantage point, on the level of support with not just the State Department, but D. In terms of getting these at-risk allies out.

Now, some groups have had more success than others, but what I will tell you is that. This private-public partnership that really is what this was. These were private groups working with the government who really did a heavy lift to present responsibly these highly vetted individuals. To me, the government has not really acknowledged the role of these groups even to this day. And now one year from today, are you surprised so little has been mentioned about this withdrawal?

I was talking to Zach, one of our pineapple conductors, and he said that this anniversary is actually harder than the actual collapse because it just feels like no one has done anything. 73% of our veterans feel betrayed. 67% feel humiliated because of this withdrawal. And they shouldn't be because they fought so brilliantly and adapted to a very complex battlefield. Over the course of 20 years, gave people a chance at a good life.

Operation Pineapple Express did great things. Go out and pick up Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann's book. Scott, it's been great talking to you. Thank you, Brian. Brain kill me.

Radio that makes you think this is the Brian Killmead Show. The math here is just so stark, George. Even with that victory in the special election, Republicans still need to flip only five Democratic seats this fall. Most of the battleground continues to be Democratic-controlled seats. But what has changed, George, even if most Democrats still don't believe that they'll control the House, some are starting to think that they might be able to minimize the losses, to take some marginal seats off the table, given some of the other dynamics at play right now.

And their hope at this point is that even if the Republicans do end up controlling the House, it might be a very narrow majority. Well, we know who that was. That was Rick Klein, off and on with Brett Baer, chief political anchor for Fox News. He was breaking down. Things for ABC yesterday.

Brett Baer joins us now. Brett, do you sense, are you buying into the home momentum shifting? That was the theme of the Sunday shows, it seems. Yeah, I know, and they're they're really hitting it hard, but Listen, the the basic math hasn't changed in that It's really hard to imagine that the house does not change hands with maybe 10, 12, 20. in the majority.

For Republicans, because you just look at the country and the redistricting, you look at the, it's only five seats they have to pick up and Um just in the current environment, you're going to do that.

Now What they may have stopped for the short term, at least right now, is. the bloodbath that was looking like thirty, forty seats At one time.

Now with couple of pieces of legislation with Roe v. Wade overturned, with uh some some momentum on the left in a few circles. They are right to say they may have stopped that major, major loss. Right.

Well, I guess we'll have to see how you handle it. I thought it was interesting that Rich Lowry over the weekend, who, you know, obviously pro-life, very conservative guy, writes editor of National Review, said Republicans have to respond to that. Hoping the issue goes away or not having an answer is not good enough. Here's what he said: how they should handle it, Cut 11. Clearly, it's an important change.

And I think Republicans have to realize they can't run and hide from this issue. You try to do that, it's not going to work. You're going to get defined in a way you're not going to like. And you can't, in most places, adopt a maximalist position.

So I think they need to do a version of what Rubio did: say, I want to protect every unborn child eventually. I realize I have a lot of work to do, public persuasion on that. In the meantime, here's a limit I support that actually is defensible and has public support, and then point at the other side for being extremist for supporting abortion in every circumstance with federal funding. So that there's got to be some type of mission. Avoiding it is not going to work.

Marco Ruby already said I'm pro-life, but if my neighbor's not, I have to respect that if I represent them, that their point of view matters, essentially. And I I think that that's an interesting way to do it. I think that that takes away some of the sting. I also think that turning the tables and asking that question about where are the limitations is very politically powerful and very politically damaging to some of those swing state Democrats. You know, you look at Ryan in Ohio, you look at Kelly in Arizona.

You start painting or asking questions about what week number are you for putting limitations on abortion? That question gets very sticky because the progressive left doesn't want any limitation. And if you look across the world, Even in progressive Europe, most countries are at 15 weeks.

So, you know, that issue does turn, but at least right now, at the beginning of it, it seems like Republicans have been, you know, there's been a shift away from Republicans. A little bit, and they say mostly with white suburban women that were starting to make gains. But what's interesting is no one's even talking about the Hispanic vote and that massive switch that's taking place. Nobody wants to report that. And that is, I think that's going to be an overwhelming factor.

But Jamie Harrison weighed in on the president's new stance, his stance of basically saying MAGA Republicans are dangerous and semi-fascist. Jamie Harrison's a DNC chair. Do you think he'd look to walk that back, cut four?

Well, it's not about the embracing, it's calling what it is, what it is. In the end of the day, we are a country built on freedom. And when you chip away at that, when you see the bullying that takes place in places like Florida with DeSantis, when you see them chip away. At privacy rights, when they try to demonize the other. The attacks on transgender kids and their families, the attacks on marriage equality that we are hearing from the Supreme Court.

This is not who America is. We're about freedom and rights for all of America's people, not just a select few. But the Republicans are turning a blind eye to this extreme agenda.

So they're not backing off from it. He was all over the place on that. But I mean, that was that was all I mean, he was going down a bunch of different roads there. But I I I agree with you that I think that that uh comment is going to be problematic for the President and the party. It is like basket of deplorables in a way, Hillary Clinton's.

Famous phrase. And, you know, there are a lot of people, millions and millions of people who. like Trump policies, They don't necessarily love everything the man does, but they like Trump policies. And to be called semi-fascist or fascist in any way, you can't really be semi-fascist. is really quite something.

And if you listen to the explanation, Okay. of a lack of privacy. and freedom. I mean, there are conservatives who could argue The exact same is happening on the other side. Uh with some of the things that are that the administration is trying to do.

Amazing. Let's pivot to what is going on with the DOJ and President Trump and Mar-a-Lago. This is what Jonathan Call is reporting. I wonder if you have the same Cut 17. Publicly, what they're saying is this is rallying Republicans to Trump's defense.

This makes it more likely that he will run for president, more likely that he will win the Republican nomination, campaigning against this political action by the FBI and the DOJ. Privately, they are really concerned. And one of the big concerns here is that Trump has nobody defending him. If you look at his legal team, it is comically inept and inexperienced. All of the big names who defended him through the first two impeachments, through the Mueller investigation, they are gone.

There is real concern that he needs to bring in a heavy-hitting criminal defense attorney.

Well, he's been asking.

Well, the Jim Trustee and Ed Corcoran, is that the sense you get? No, I don't get that sense. I mean, Jim Trusty has has been around the block. I do think that they had a slow start Some of the filings early on needed like filing 101 from the judge, apparently. Um But I I don't get that sense.

I do I do get the sense that Trump world is not as bullish about the Political implications of all of this as it drags on. You know, I think there is a powerful side to it about the overshooting, but I think there are people. people looking at it that both sides handled things kind of uh sloppy. All right. Either in the initial handling of the documents.

How they dealt with the National Archives and the back and forth of the negotiations, and then the actual search or raid. You know, I think both sides could be at fault of going over the top.

Now, we'll see how it plays out and what the actual facts turn out to be as we learn more. We didn't learn a lot from that affidavit.

So, the judge comes out and says, Hey, that special master, I might do that, and we might have an announcement by Thursday.

So, that'll bring somebody that the judge says is neutral and that to look at the documents that they took and the more than the documents, everything they took. Yeah, they'll go through everything and figure out what falls under executive privilege. Tough part is that they've already been through these documents by now. And if there was something that was executive privilege that could affect some future case. They've already looked at it and kind of already been through it, I would think.

I mean, I don't think that those documents just sat someplace without being examined during this time. But yes, that person, whoever that is, it's likely a judge. Is going to go through and see. Yeah, what's Trump people say that the former President wants documents back. Um what falls under NARA, the National Archives.

and then make a determination.

So Nick's pain significant. Yes, in the Washington Post today, they they just talked about they try to reconstruct and it's amazing for people that don't want to leak. They certainly get a lot of information. But The Washington Post says basically the National Archives was sparring with the Trump administration while he was in office. And when he left and they took the fifteen boxes back, they saw some important stuff in it, and they made the extraordinary move to call the Department of Justice about it.

It's almost as if we were talking and all of a sudden you call the cops. And the Department of Justice made the move to get involved. And that's why so many in the Trump were like, excuse me, how did this come to this? We're negotiating. I want some of these documents for whatever reason.

You want these back for whatever reason. You say there's classified. Here, take some back, lock it up until we can decide it.

Next thing you know, there's a nine-hour raid. And that move by the archives to take action has really brought this thing in disproportionate attention. I don't know if you agree. I do agree. And what we don't know is what was the impetus for that.

Was it somebody who was you know, completely anti-Trump and they had fi you know Um Emotional. feelings about it or that they had some evidence that that there was something that was egregious. That needed to be dealt with right away, and the Trump people were giving them the Heisman Award stiff arm. And they just got frustrated. I mean, I agree.

That is the hinge point at which this thing goes from negotiating and getting documents back to. This big That we're dealing with now. Very curious to see what happens with it. Brett, you had some good personal family news that you put out on social media. Tell us about it.

Yeah, my son Paul won a big golf tournament, Hurricane Tour kids' tournament. And uh I walked with him the first eighteen on Saturday and then on Sunday his mom walked and Paul shot seventy five last round and won. won the tournament.

So that's his first first win and So that's good. I had to share it on Instagram. That is awesome. And what great team now? He is heading into ninth.

So heading into ninth grade too, he's gonna put golf in high school? He is. Yeah, he's joining out for the varsity team. He already plays uh middle school now, but Uh Yeah.

So you know the backstory. I mean, everything we've been through with his health and stuff, it's kinda cool. To have um to have all of this. You know, I've sat in many hospital rooms at Children's National. Thinking about that day, so that's cool.

He beat me for the first time last week, too.

So that's a sad and happy event.

Well, it shows you got to compete. You got to bring your A game now. I got to bring my A game. And he's 6'2.

So, I mean, it's like he's taller than me. You're already making excuses?

Well, you beat me, but you're taller. I don't think that's going to fly. It's not going to fly. All right, Brett, good luck tonight, and congratulations to Paul. It's awesome.

All right, man. We'll see. All right, Brett Bear, when we come back, we'll finish up with your calls: 1-866-408-7669. By the way, I'm going to be on Jesse tonight. I'm going to be hosting Primetime with Jesse Waters, but I'll be myself, and I'll be tossing to Brett tonight.

Would I be tossing my w no no, he tosses to me. Yes, okay, Monday, Tuesday, listen to I should have brought this up with Brett. Monday, Tuesday, he tosses to me, but Wednesday, Thursday, I'm part of a group that tosses to him because I'm on the five.

So you just you Connected with Brett all we have to come up with new ways to toss to each other. I know. No, the only time I talk to him is either on the air or tossing to him to be on the air. All right. Back in a moment.

Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Joe. Democrats gotta be thinking: how do we go from Obama to this?

Yeah, well, even Obama said it. Like, Obama was famously quoted as saying, you know, Joe has an amazing capacity to things up. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, he was a dumb guy when he was okay. I mean, he's n he's never a bright guy. I mean, he's very Well, known as a liar. Like, there's all these videos of him lying about his education record, lying about.

So many different accomplishments that he's achieved in his life. He was always a artist. And not just a artist, but like a liar, like a flat-out liar. I graduated at the top of my class. No no, you didn't.

It's true. I mean, everything Joe Rogan said was just true. It doesn't mean and Aaron Rodgers is his guest, right? Yeah. Right.

But here, you know, he's right. Think about this. Like, if you finish, say, twentieth, but when you claim Syracuse. Yeah. And he was caught cheating.

And he we know that he was he was lifting Excerpts from a British right, a British politician's speeches when he started running the first time around. And we also know. Too, that he makes up half these stories that he comes up with all proved to be incorrect. That story about the train and the conductor, and the guy came up to him. The guy's been dead.

And if the timeline was played out, the guy wasn't even alive at the time. And he keeps repeating the same story. For example, he was arrested protesting Nelson Mandela's for release. Not that he was released, that he wasn't released. Not true.

He was never arrested. Keep saying the same thing over and over again.

So people are like, well, what can we do? What can we do is not elect him. That would help. What is with this politician? Remember Hillary Clinton?

Didn't she say she was under fire when she at one time getting off the bottom? I didn't understand. Yeah. And she was with Sinbad. Yeah.

Who never turned on him. Sinbad the comedian. Yes. They would never fire at Sinbad the comedian. By the way, if you're going to fire at somebody, Sinbad will be the first hit.

He's like 6'9. You don't hit 5'2 inch, you're not gonna miss. Yeah. Let's find out there's even more to know than that. More to know.

A few weeks have forced NASA to scrub their launch of a new moon rocket that happened on Fox and Friends today. They were all pumped up to do this at 8:30 this morning. They said if there's a little bit of a delay or a weather problem, it'll be 10:30. If there's a mechanical problem, it'll be a week. Let's wait a week.

So they'll find out what went wrong. I believe it's something with hydrogen. I'll work on it later today after I get ready for primetime with Jesse Waters.

Next, Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson was shot during an attempted carjacking. You believe this? You should because it's Washington, D.C. Head coach Ron Rivera tweeted the update last Sunday that he's doing okay, is in good spirits. Quote, I just got done visiting with Brian Rivera, said his coach.

He's in good spirits and wanted me to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. Before the shooting, Robinson had been expected to split backfield duties in Washington with Antonio Gibson and J.D. McKinzick. He was taken into the third round of the 2022 draft. Police have identified two male suspects in the shooting, but both remain at large.

You have a nice car. I guess you should be willing to be carjacked.

Next. Taylor Swift takes top prize at the MTV Video Music Awards.

So finally, she wins something. It's been about five minutes since she won. Swift took home the top prize for best, I guess. Who watches videos anymore? Yeah, I mean I come on.

I don't I I bet you all your children Have never seen a video on MTV. Yeah, hasn't been on in at least 30 years. Her announcement came at the end of her. By the way, she announced she has a new album called Midnights. I'm sure it'll be a big success.

Hope they turn things around for her.

Next, Army Programs gives poor performing recruits a second chance. The program, which began in August, is one way that the Army is hoping to fill the ranks of its struggles with the recruiting goals.

So if you fail out the first test in BASIC, they'll let you do it again.

So what are you supposed to do? Military officials who spoke to on condition of anonymity because the totals are preliminary. And could change, said the initial recruiting goal is about as much as 60,000 this year, but more realistic expectations later put at 55, with one month to go into officials are predicting they'll come out at 45,000. Unbelievable. Next, Texas Democrat Bidder O'Rourke's got a bacteria infection.

Say he's going to take time off the trail. Also, The ashes of beloved Star Trek actress Nicole Nichols will be launched into space. That's a relief. Roy McElroy wins Tour Championship, the FedEx Cup. Congratulations.

He had to come back to do it. He won by a stroke at 21 under par against. Again, Scheffler, Scotty Scheffler, comes in second. Congratulations to him. Rory McElroy now has Morphed Exchampionships in Tiger Woods.

I'm Brian Kilmead. Make sure you watch me on Jesse tonight at 7 Eastern. Put the power of over 100 meteorologists and the worldwide resources of Fox in your hands with the Fox Weather Podcast. Precise, personal, powerful. Subscribe and listen now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts.