One year later: Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal

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We're back in action now. Many of you, or if you play football, if you play soccer, You're back in college. I mean, you're basically reporting for camp, so your summer's over. If you're coaching, the same thing.

Meanwhile, for the rest of us who are not college athletes or high school athletes, we have three more weeks left of two more weeks left of August, and we get into Labor Day.

So we're going to cherish every moment. But the news has not stopped. I don't know how you take a moment off. I know I can't.

So we have Alan Dershowitz to unwind the legal obstacles that might remain in front of the former President of the United States, Senator Ron Johnson at the bottom of the arrow.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Congressional Budget Act uh Office, which is nonpartisan, said that there would be a negligible impact on inflation this year. Isn't it almost Orwellian? How can you call it Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it's not It's so true.

Jonathan Carl with a great question to Karine Jean Pierre. Inflation Reduction Bill is a green boondoggle, and now Dem's beginning to admit it makes us more subservient to China because we're all about green energy. They got the rare earth. Yes, victory for the Democrats, no doubt about it. And their agenda, absolutely.

But what about for the country? Number two. Does the President regret the decision that he made to pull the United States out of that country? Absolutely not. We were faced with a choice of continuing a forever war, continuing to send our sons and daughters over to die in Afghanistan.

Sickening. Kate Benningfield, one year since the disastrous, calamitous, embarrassing exit from Afghanistan, and the White House still trying to spin it and sell us that it was successful. Not here as we focus on the State Department and White House, whose decisions humiliated a generation of great warfighters while left America and our allies behind enemy lines. Number What about our emails? Do Democrats now believe that mishandling of classified information is as serious as we should all think it is?

We should think it's serious when Hillary does it. We should think this is serious. Sarah Isgar, an often critic of the Trump administration who was once a member of it, brings up a great point. Mar-a-Laga raid exposes that there were items that needed to be returned, but unclear why they could not have been obtained through talks. Also, now the FBI is being accused of taking Trump's personal papers, according to attorney-client privilege.

And it's still unclear why the warrant, why the raid, as the national anger boils over.

Meanwhile, before we bring in our first guest, special thanks to KXEX1550 AM in Fresno, California. Talk Radio 1550, the best talk in town, is picking up the Brian Kilmey Show.

So we're privileged to have it. We love the presence on the West Coast. Thanks so much. Alan Dershowitz, professor at Harvard University, author of numerous best-selling books, including the latest, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, joins us now. Professor, welcome back.

Well, thank you. It's always a pleasure to be on with you, Brian. Yes, thank you. You wrote a column about what aboutism is not just a slogan or a political phrase. It really matters here when it comes to the rate at Mara Lago.

In what respect?

Well, my whole book, The Price of Principle, is about how we have to put principle over partisanship in one principle that we have in the law. Is equal protection. Even Attorney General Garland talked about even-handedness and then didn't explain. Why a search warrant was necessary for Mar-a-Lago when it wasn't necessary for Hillary Clinton's house. Yeah, they did search emails that were found on Anthony Wiener's server, but no criminal investigation, no criminal investigation of Sandy Berger.

Both of those Democrats are friends of mine. I like them. I'm glad they weren't prosecuted. But the same standard has to apply to Donald Trump unless they can prove. That Donald Trump had greater intent than Sandy Berger, who stuffed the classified material into his sock, or a greater degree of negligence than Hillary Clinton.

Can't have one standard for Democrats and another standard for Republicans.

So the argument, what about ism is a damn good argument. What about ism? You're allowed to ask that question. And unless and until the question is answered, we can't be assured that we have even-handed protection of the law. Look, on surface, with all the issues that the President had leading me after January 6th, I don't know why you want any paperwork.

I mean, he's not into setting up a library that I know of, but he took a bunch of things. I'm watching these looks like 20-something-year-olds with file boxes walking to Marine One. I don't think the president was saying, take this, take this, don't take this, don't take this. Obviously, if you want to unwind, you know the president well, and you've seen him in office more than I've seen. I've only seen him there a couple of times.

You know the way he runs off. Do you think for a second that he's saying to himself, I need all this, I need all that? And when they asked for 15 boxes back, they did. And it's got confirmed, Professor Dershowitz, that he walked in on June 2nd or 6th, I forgot which day it was, when the archives people and the FBI counterterror were meeting. He said, guys, you're doing a great job.

Just want to thank you. Any help I could be, let me know. And he went back to his daily work. There were two sources that reflected that. How did we get to this in August?

Well, we shouldn't. We shouldn't. They issued a subpoena. They were negotiating the subpoena. If they didn't like the way the negotiations went, it's very simple.

You go to court and enforce the subpoena. At that point, the judge says, bring it to me. I'll go through everything. Oh, this is privileged, lawyer, client. Oh, this was never classified.

Oh, this was declassified. This may have a different privilege, maybe invoking the Fifth Amendment as to production. You can't make a person produce something if the very act of production is incriminating. But instead of going through that usual legal process, which Attorney General Garland said. Is the standard procedure.

You always look for the less intrusive method unless it's absolutely necessary. to use a search. And he had this press conference. I like Garland. I supported him for the Supreme Court.

And yet, Why not explain the difference? Why did you need to go to a search warrant? Why not enforce the subpoena? That's the way it's generally done. It's part of a bigger process.

When you arrest Peter Navarro, you have to put him in handcuffs and you have to put him in shackles, a manaphor, you have to put him in jail, stone, you have to arrest. When my clients, white-collar political clients, are indicted, I'll get a phone call from the Justice Department saying, Alan, come on, your client's been indicted. Can you bring him in tomorrow? I say, no, tomorrow's a busy day. Oh, then bring him in on Wednesday or Thursday.

No problem. He'll get arraigned, bail will be set, and then we'll have a trial. That's the way you deal with it. You don't go to the airport with the family being there, put him in shackles. That is not even handed justice.

And so, You know, in my book, The Price of Principle, I go through all these standards and go through all the principles that we've stood for and how they're being violated over and over again. And I tell the story. Of in my case, I mean, Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the President of the United States, is invited to a dinner party with me on Marcus Vinger. And she tells me, if I knew you were invited, I would never have accepted the invitation because you defended President uh Trump. And people do that to me all the time.

The library has banned me here. The library hasn't had any of my books since I defended President Trump. A public paid library. That's putting partisanship over principal. No kidding.

And you didn't because you're still considering yourself a Democrat, a liberal Democrat, and you just said, okay, this is right or wrong. And that was it. And you appreciate the president's stand on Israel. And that's the one thing that brought you to the press. And on many other issues on foreign policy, he did a very good job.

I don't support his views on gay marriage, on women's right to choose, on reasonable gun control, on climate control. We have differences. We can talk about those differences. There used to be a day when I would get on television with William Buckley, and we would debate issues like that: the economy, socialism versus capitalism, and then we would have a drink and talk afterward and agree or to disagree. You know, we were both civil libertarians.

Today, you can't have a discussion. If you don't agree on President Trump, Then you're regarded as a pariah, at least where I live in Martha's Vineyard. And so, you know, nobody's talking to me, and my library won't let me speak, and you know, all of that. And that's what I write about in the price of principle. The price is very expensive.

I have a thick skin, as you know, I've been on your show. My wife is being picked on, my children are being picked on. They didn't even necessarily agree. With my stance on President Trump. But, you know, when McCarthyites come after you, they come after your family as well.

Meanwhile, didn't you haven't you defended people that were perceived to be murderers? Oh, of course. And I also defended President Clinton. I also defended Governor Edwards. I also defended Alan Cranston, the Democratic senator.

In fact, Trump was the only Republican I have ever defended that I can remember in a political situation. And of course, I've defended O.J. Simpson. I defended, I think I've had 35 homicide cases, and I've won like. 32 of them, and you know, people complain that I let murderers out on the street.

I've never had one who's done a serious crime again. But uh nobody ever stopped talking to me over murderers. Nobody ever stopped talking to me. over other serious criminals. It's only Trump, who of course Has never been charged with a crime.

It's amazing. You know what, Alan? In the beginning, you could be a little sad about it. And after a while, you got to get mad. And you got to go, these are never my real friends anyway.

I mean, I'm mad. Look, I had a wonderful last night. We had a wonderful dinner at our house in which we had very prominent people came and we all talked. It was great. I still have some very, very good friends.

Are you real friends? The fairweather friends are the ones that I no longer want to have anything to do with. They were never friends. If they don't support you, Because of politics, how could they be friends? Lastly, I just want to get back to this case.

Here's Dan Abrams on This Week with George Sevenopoulos. Sure. He's outlined the case, CUD 5. The first question becomes: what were they doing there? Was the number one concern pursuing potential criminal charges, or was the number one concern getting the stuff back?

And I think when you're talking about evaluating this through a legal prism, The fundamental question is going to be intentionality. How much do they believe that they did this on purpose? Were they intentionally ignoring subpoenas? Were they literally destroying documents or mutilating, as one of the statute refers to? Were they concealing?

These are good questions, right? I mean, do you have an answer to any of them? They're not good questions because you can't use a search warrant to get things back. That's against the law. The fourth provide.

Yeah, you could only use the search warrant to produce But they took it of criminal behavior. But then when they take back, you use a subpoena. But didn't they take it, Professor? They can because they take it as evidence of a crime. That's the reason for a search warrant.

There are other mechanisms for getting things back, and those were the mechanisms that were first employed, subpoena. And you can get other judicial mechanisms to retrieve things and get them back. But you can only use a search warrant if you have probable cause for believing a crime has been committed and there is evidence of that crime that you're entitled to seize. And the process of the Justice Department has almost always been: don't go for a broad search warrant if you can get the material by subpoena. And they were in the process of trying to get the material by subpoena.

They didn't like the way the negotiations went. Fine, go to court. and enforce the subpoena. That's the way it's supposed to be done.

So I think there's going to be some legal ramifications here. I hope that the affidavit is ultimately released. And I hope that Attorney General Garland, who I like, Will explain why they couldn't go by subpoena. Remember, nobody was touching those materials. They were in boxes in the basement behind locks.

Nobody alleges that there were attempts to try to destroy them or do anything else. If there was, that would have to be in the affidavit. Let's see the affidavit. I doubt there are going to be any allegations of destruction. Can you define for me the, I stand corrected on that.

The Espionage Act. I always thought an Espionage Act was if I have material and then I try to give it to the Russians. I got this great top-secret material. Hey, a Russian agent, take it. But just by holding it, am I in violation of the Espionage Act?

Well, first of all, you know, the Espionage Act was used against the Rosenbergs. Obviously, Julius Rosenberg was indicted and executed for turning over nuclear material to. To the Russians, the left and civil libertarians hate the Espionage Act, except when it's used against Trump. Because it was used against Assange, it was used against Dr. Spock.

It was used against Ellsberg. It was used against many, many left-wing dissenters. Eugene V. Debs, it was used against liberals and civil libertarians that always hated the statute.

Now they're applauding it. Oh my God, let's use it. Let's expand it, anything to get Trump. It's like my colleague, my former colleague, Lawrence Tribe, who Says on CNN, I'm trying to persuade my former student, Merrick Garland. to prosecute President Trump for attempting to murder Pence.

Now, if you have that kind of judgment, if a student never wrote that in an exam, I gave him a C minus to grade inflation, and Lawrence Tribe is trying to persuade the Attorney General of the United States to indict him for a crime that didn't happen, attempted murder of Pence. And people are listening to him, and he's on CNN, and he's supposed to be the constitutional lawyer. that has judgment, he reflects the modern approach of the hard left. get Trump at any cost. Principles be damned.

Stread the Constitution if you have to. The only goal is to get Trump. And look, I want to have the right to vote against Trump in the next election. The way I voted against him twice. In previous elections, that's my American right, just like it's your American right to vote for him.

And that's the way it should be at the polls. But you shouldn't have bureaucrats, even the attorney general. trying to tell us who should run and who shouldn't run.

Now the Democrats are trying to say, If he is convicted. of any kind of uh Statutory violation, then he can't run for president. Hey, read the Constitution. There are only four bases for disqualifying somebody. If you're under 35, if you're not born in America, if you fought in the Civil War against the Union, or if you were impeached and the impeachment Resulted not only in a conviction, but a conviction and a statement that you can't run against Robert.

So, those are the only four criteria. And you can't expand it and deny me the right to vote against him and you the right to vote for him. Alan Dershowitz, thanks so much. Pick up his book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity is Worth the Consequences. Is Worth the Consequences?

Thanks, Professor. We appreciate it. 1-866-408-7669. We covered a lot of ground. What do you think?

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The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Congressional Budget Act Office, which is nonpartisan, said that there would be a negligible impact on inflation this year and barely impact inflation at all.

Next year, I mean, isn't it almost Orwellian? How can you call it Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it's not going to be available?

So I appreciate the question. We've actually addressed this, the CBO. It was the top-line number. Here's the thing: we have 126 economists, both Republicans, both Democrats, who have said it's going to fight inflation. We have five former secretaries, Secretary of the Treasury.

Well, there's more to it. It's just, it was the way that Republicans did that was so that it could make an argument that is false. What is she even talking about? Republicans, talking about the Office of Management and Budget. You're talking about the C is the CBO.

You're talking about every it doesn't touch inflation. Bernie Sanders says it doesn't touch inflation. I appreciate the question. And who are these hundred plus economists that says that they're going to reduce the deficit, or excuse me, is going to reduce inflation because Nobody else does. Unbelievable.

I mean, that she said that. And now they're talking about it being the biggest climate investment in the history of our country. They're saying it now. And when you think climate, think China, because they have all the rare earth necessary for us to switch to batteries and electric. Senator Ron Johnson joins us now.

Homeland Security Committee, Foreign Relations, Budget Committees. Is also holding a big roundtable discussion on the crisis at the southern border, which we'll get to shortly. Senator, that's the spin that's already coming out, and it's not even officially signed yet.

Well, good morning, Brian. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing anti-inflationary about this. the Inflation Reduction Act at all. I mean, when you increase Taxes on business. I was in business for thirty years.

I view taxes as a cost. And you try and recover costs by doing what? Increasing prices. And all the the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated to the Green New Deal, that's called a misallocation of capital. Do I have to remind everybody about Sylindra?

So we're going to see time and time again these billions of dollars going down a a black hole, they're not going to improve our economy. And as you pointed out, most of the green energy manufacturing is being done in China right now.

So I guess it might boost the Chinese economy. I don't think it's going to do a whole lot for America other than increase costs, and that's called inflationary.

So, this passed on a simply party line vote. Joe Manchin has done so much to make sure we didn't add two states to the union, we didn't blow up the filibuster, didn't get rid of Electoral College. I appreciate all those things. But why would he break on this when it seems like the oil and gas provisions he got are a separate letter, not even included in this budget? Because the parliamentarian said this has nothing to do with finances, it doesn't belong in here.

Yeah, I can't speak for Joel Manchin. I agree with you. I appreciate what he's done. making sure the Democrats don't destroy the United States Senate by eliminating the filibuster and He's at least held off a $5 trillion spending package. But this is not going to be helpful.

We just keep spending money we don't have. We keep increasing. Taxes, as well as the regulatory burden on businesses that harms your economy. There's a reason, Brian. We're in two quarters of negative economic growth.

We used to call that a recession, it is a recession. That's not a good sign. We our economy ought to just be Flourishing right now. There was so much pent-up demand. There were so many dollars sloshing around.

One of the reasons we have inflation. But we shouldn't be having negative economic growth right now. The only reason we are is because Democrat governance and Democrat policies. And this is going to be one of those policies that are not going to be helpful in terms of our economy. And Brian, if we're going to save Social Security and Medicare, We need economic growth.

This isn't going to work if we have a stagnant economy. And of course, I've been concerned. literally predicting stagflation for well over a year, and that's what we have right now.

So the other thing that you have with pharmaceuticals, they say, wouldn't it be great if Medicaid, Medicare got a chance to bid on their pharma on pharmaceutical prices? But the thing that they the bad side about that is the pharma pharmaceutical uh uh the pharmaceutical industry is going to pay a huge price and we're going to pay the price on innovation, correct? Correct. And by the way, any money we raise from that is going to be spent misallocated to the Green New Deal. It's not going to, you know, from what I can see, it's not going to go to reduce premiums for Medicare or to bolster that program and make it more sustainable.

But you're absolutely right. Start punishing the pharmaceutical industry You're going to have less innovation. You're going to have fewer life-saving drugs. That's not a good thing. I want you to hear with Kate Benningphill how she did it.

It's been one year since our disastrous pullout, an embarrassing pullout of Afghanistan. This cost 13 American lives directly and many more indirectly. Kate Benningphill, the White House Communications Director, cut 17. Does the President regret the decision that he made to pull the United States out of that country? Absolutely not.

We were faced with a choice of continuing a forever war, continuing to send our sons and daughters over to die in Afghanistan, continuing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year there. President Biden made an important and tough, but the right choice to end that war, to bring our sons and daughters home, and to free up resources. while leaving millions, if not billions, in military hardware behind, humiliating our country. Michael McCall led a study in the House about the withdrawal, got no cooperation from the State Department, but was able to find this, Cut twenty one. There was a complete lack and failure to plan.

There was no plan, and there was no plan executed. The State Department probably didn't have the resources it needed to carry out an evacuation of this size. And in Normandy, they had 36 consular officers at HKIA trying to process hundreds of thousands of people. They were overwhelmed.

So, how do you take that? They really want us to digest that they were glad the way this ended? That was a total failure. I always call it the embarrassing and dangerous. Surrender in Afghanistan.

It wasn't planned. It was totally botched. We did leave. tens of billions of dollars of the sophisticated military equipment behind to the Taliban. It didn't have to end this way, but the reason I call it dangerous is it just was one more signal.

That America was becoming weaker and weaker. And of course, when our adversaries see a weakened America, They view that as an opportunity. why do you think Vladimir Putin invaded and is now committing war crimes and atrocities against Ukraine? It's because he thought this is the time to act. You know, look at what China is doing around Taiwan.

I am highly concerned about how aggressive they are becoming and what they may do because of American weakness. And take everything that Biden has done, opening the borders. Allowing the flood of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs in this country, 40-year high inflation, record gasoline prices, high energy prices. Rising crime. Brian, it's the year 2022 in America.

We don't have an infant formula for our babies. No, our country is coming off the rails. And our adversaries see that, and they become more aggressive, and the world becomes a far more dangerous place because America is weak under Biden. A week ago today, there was a raid, an FBI raid, at the Mar-a-Lago compound of the President of the United States. He wasn't there, he was in New Jersey and New York City working at the time.

They took 27 boxes, 11 classified, four documents marked top secret, classified TSCSCI, highest level. They took surveillance video as well in and around where these documents were stated. We later learned that on June 2nd, June 20, June 2nd, there was their last meeting between the counterterrorism division and President Trump's team about documents. They got 15 boxes in January. They were going to go back and meet again at Mar-a-Lago.

It was June 3rd, the exact date. Heading it up on the counterterrorism side with the FBI was Jay Bratt, the top counterintelligence official. President dropped by, said, guys, anything you need, let me know. They said, yeah, would you put another lock on this door? Said, fine.

Something happened in between. They raid the place. What do you take away from this, Senator Johnson?

Well, again, I think this is just part and parcel of the partis the politicization and partisanship within our federal law enforcement. To me, this sounds like a dispute over the President's authority to declassify documents. He has absolute authority.

Now, maybe the bureaucrats don't like what he wanted to declassify because there would be things that are embarrassing to them. is in my time in government, I've just seen a gross overclass education. Of material mainly classified, not for national security, but to prevent embarrassing truths from coming out. A classic example is the redacted the classified footnotes to the Pfizer report. That completely contradicted the body of the report that Bill Priestley said the FBI had no idea that the field IC was tainted by Russian disinformation.

The redacted classified footnote said, no, they knew exactly that. in October of twenty sixteen.

So again, this this is a dispute that should have been uh ironed out in court not with an unprecedented search warrant. Of a former president's residency. I think this is outrageous, and I think the more we do hear about it, and I don't have all the details, the more I hear about it, it becomes more and more outrageous. I want you to hear what the press secretary said. Was the president's knowledge of this unprecedented move about a possible opponent and his successor, cut one?

Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is independent. This is what we believe, and this is what the president has said. This is not about politicizing anything. And even to this point, President Biden's not been briefed about anything. Not been briefed.

We have not interpreted it. Not discussed it at all. Not discussed. What? The President hasn't discussed it, been briefed on it?

Has he not gotten off his bicycle on the beach to get briefed on the raid of a former President, maybe a future opponent's compound? Is that plausible?

Well, first of all, I don't believe much of anything President Biden tells us. Remember, he repeatedly said he never talked to Hunter about his overseas businesses, which has proven repeatedly to be a lie. No, he he he may be that detached. You know, it's hard to say who's running this administration, but there's no doubt about the fact that he is the one who appointed all the partisan political hacks. To these federal agencies that are now carrying out this highly politicized and partisan activity.

They are weaponizing these agencies. Of course, President Obama started it. with the IRS under Lois Lerner. Of course, nobody was ever held accountable for that. That really began the gross politization, the weaponization of these federal agencies.

And I think the Biden administration under Merrick Garland and Chris people like Chris Perray. are putting that into overdrive. Uh you're going to have a round table. About what's happening at our border. It's going to be August 16th.

That'll be this Friday. What's going to be the focus? Who's going to be there?

Well, that's going to be tomorrow, and we've got Brandon Judd, head of the Union that uh represents the customers of orbit patrol agents.

So we're going to also have Mark Morgan. former head of the Customs Board of Protection, as well as I think is head of. Customers and border patrols as well.

So these are people that know exactly what's happening in the Southwest border now, but also have a long history. of what has worked, what hasn't worked, what has brought us to this point.

So I I just really want to discuss the cause and effect.

so much we we overlook the human depredations Of this human trafficking flow. The administration completely ignores it. They won't even acknowledge it as a problem. But the human trafficking, the sex trafficking, the flow of deadly drugs. Causing all the overdoses.

So, I'm going to really highlight what is the impact. of this Open border policy of the Biden administration that they're ignoring, as well as most of the mainstream media.

So, hopefully, at least the mainstream media in Wisconsin will show up and cover it.

So at least Wisconsinites will understand the disaster, the crisis that's occurring on our border. You know, Senator, there's a lot of things going on that I disagree with, but the one thing I think is the most underreported major story in this country is what's happening at the southern border. The frustration's boiled over. They are shipping illegal immigrants who want to into New York and D.C., and New York and D.C. are panicking.

They have no idea, or they're pretending to have no idea what is happening. No other country in the world allows their border to be breached like this, and then they become wards of the system. We can't afford this. Why? They don't have a bad policy.

They have no policy. What's amazing about that is I think they're complaining about seven thousand illegal immigrants coming into those cities. That's a daily flow at the southwest border. Every day over the last four or five months, more than 7,000 people have been what they call now encountered. They're even called apprehended because they encounter, process and disperse these people within the span of eight hours.

And so yeah, I mean you you've got You know, the mayors of New York City and D.C. screaming that, you know, what an outrage this is. No, the outrage is occurring on the southern border. You aren't even seeing a fraction of the problem that those southern governors have to deal with because President Biden is not enforcing a law and is not securing our border. It's inexcusable.

So I look forward to that. Senator Ron Johnson, how's the reelection coming?

Well, it's Wisconsin, it's going to be tough.

So Ron Johnson for Senate.com, I'm about fifty million dollars has been spent against me already trying to destroy me, lie and distort everything I say.

So I'm going to need a lot of help.

So Ron Johnson for Senate.com, it is the crucial seat. We have to save this. All right, Senator, best of luck. Take care. Hey, by the way, if you want to see me on stage and talk about Taking America's story, a thousand people at a time, I may have had a chance to talk to my book, talk about my books, and also talk about what's happening at Fox, the country.

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He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. But in the end, look, it comes down to what is in these boxes they've seized. If it turns out to be the real deal, if it turns out that Donald Trump has violated the Espionage Act, that is a serious crime. And he should be held to account.

But Bill, if it doesn't turn out to be that, there are legitimate questions, I think, from the Trump supporters about the different standards applied to Donald Trump, as have been applied to Hillary Clinton, to James Comey, to Hunter Biden, and the others. And that is the problem with when you take a massive sledgehammer like this unprecedented sledgehammer, you've got to deliver. And I thought Alan Dershow had said it best in the first hour. I mean, he's getting the first block. He said, enforce the subpoena, bring the court.

Hey, I gave him a subpoena. They ignored it.

Okay, go to court. Instead of raiding the compound, is it an emergency? What is the emergency? You put a lock on the area in which you wanted a lock on. I don't know what was happening.

They want the surveillance video. Is there a video of President Trump giving? These Documents to some Russian agent?

Some Chinese agent, some Saudi agent. I don't know. I mean, d do you think that that is indeed the case? Or knowing by the way the Trump White House went, it was very much grab it, do things on orth in an orthodox way. It may please a lot of people, it upset some others.

More traditionalists. Here's what Michael Waltz cut three. These are things that I think are terrible for the country, are further dividing it, and are completely destroying any type. Of trust, belief, and confidence in our government. And our adversaries all over the world, from China to Russia to Iran, are pointing at this and saying, look at the flaws of an out-of-control democracy.

This is why you have to go with an authoritarian regime like us. And that is absolutely corrosive and destructive. Yeah, that was from Steve Hilton show last night. And by the way, the Russians are playing this raid. And they're saying the raid happened because President Trump did not liked Russia.

And that's why they're raiding his compound. Just saying, you can't run our country worried about what people think. But I do think you have to run the Department of Justice wondering about the next day. My objective is to get X, Y, and Z, but how I get it matters. And look, James Comey had no problem trumping his.

Department of Justice, his Attorney General. You think that maybe Christopher Ray could say, hey, you know what, Merrick Garland? Don't think it's pretty good for my agency. It's going to look real partisan. I can't afford that.

It puts my men and women in jeopardy. Why not say something? From the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, giving you opinions and facts with a positive approach. It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

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Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Congressional Budget Act Office, which is nonpartisan, said that there would be a negligible impact on inflation this year. Isn't it almost Orwellian? How can you call it Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it's not Ah, that's true.

Inflation reduction is a green boondoggle. And now Democrats begin to admit it. It makes more us more subservient to China. They have all the rare earth necessary for electric cars and everything else. It weakens biotechs and spends money we don't have.

Nice. Number two. Does the President regret the decision that he made to pull the United States out of out of that country? Absolutely not. We were faced with a choice of continuing a forever war, continuing to send our sons and daughters over to die in Afghanistan.

How could you possibly pay someone enough money to say something like that? One year since the disastrous, calamitous, embarrassing exit from Afghanistan, and the White House still trying to spin and sell us that it was a success, not a chance. Number one. What about our emails? Do Democrats now believe that mishandling of classified information is as serious as we should all think it is?

We should think it's serious when Hillary does it. We should think this is serious. Yeah, we should. Mar-a-Lago, the raid exposes that there were items that needed to be reterrent, but unclear why they could not have been obtained through talks. Also, now the FBI is being accused of taking Trump's personal papers, and it's still unclear why the warrant, why the raid, as national anger boils over.

Because people see a double standard when it comes to the FBI. Michael, you're the New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor, deep thinker. Are Republicans right to think this is double standard? Good morning, Brian. There's no question it's a double standard.

I mean, if If the left didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all. Uh th this is an extraordinary breach and Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, acting as if it's nothing unusual and it's by the book and it's routine. Where in the history books is there another example of anything like this? And look, as you said, Trump may have had some papers and documents that were. He should not have had.

They may have belonged to the archives, they may have been classified. Nonetheless, Why is it that there has never been a real serious prosecution for this kind of thing? I mean, Sandy Berger, for example, who stuffed things into his clothing, in his underwear and in his socks to steal things. Out of the archives to protect himself and Bill Clinton from history, really. Case was treated as basically a misdemeanor.

He even had his security clearance restored.

So there's no precedent for this. And I think that my own view is that. Merrick Arland had plenty of opportunity to explain why this is different. And he didn't. That little speech he gave was far, far short of the mark.

And all we got instead were leaks. From uh Presumably, FBI officials telling the Washington Post and others, oh my goodness, it was nuclear, it was about nuclear weapons. It was, I mean, This is, as I said in the column, deja vu, as Yogi Berra would say, deja vu all over again, just like Russia, Russia, Russia. Anonymous sources making these huge claims, and then the reality never quite matching up. But the damage is done by these initial headlines and with very few facts to back them up.

And I just think that's the same thing as Russia. No way to govern. We hear about this leak. Donald Trump did this, Donald Trump did that. Oh my God, that's it.

It's terrible. And then they just gradually fade away because it's an unnamed source. It's leaked to them from who knows who. And the Russia link with Trump, and how many Friday stories did we have about that? And then we hear, well, what's going on with this rape?

Why does this make sense?

Well, nuclear secrets, nuclear secrets, Espionage Act, obstruction of justice. I thought they were cooperating. What happened?

Well, evidently, a lawyer did sign, I haven't seen it, sign a document saying they got everything. I don't know, really? Because one of the things they said is: just put a lock on that door. Because we'll continue to talk about this. And he said, whatever you need, I'll let me know.

He walked by that meeting on January, on June 3rd.

So that's the President of the United States. Why it would come to this? After all the controversy you have with the president, it makes no sense. But I thought Sarah Isger, who is a former Trump in Trump's orbit, now oftentimes a critic, a Republican, said this, cut eight. What about her emails?

Do Democrats now believe that mishandling of classified information is as serious as we should all think it is? We should think it's serious when Hillary does it, when she had seven top secret emails on conversations on her server. She had declassifying authority. We should have thought that was serious. We should think this is serious.

Even though it's hard to do.

So, what is different about it? There's really no difference. Except for she bleach-bitted a lot of this stuff out. Her IT manager, Denver, answered a subpoena, and she was able to come in on a Saturday and interview at a time of her choosing without any cameras or recordings. And no house was raided of Hillary Clinton's, and she was Secretary of State.

Yeah. You know, Brian, I want to go back. to one thing you said which was that uh that this doesn't make sense. I'm beginning to believe it does make sense. in this way.

In April, the New York Times reported that Joe Biden was unhappy with Merrick Garland. He wanted Garland he believed that Donald Trump should be prosecuted, and he was frustrated that Garland wasn't doing anything to prosecute Trump. That was in April, and here we are.

So I to me, there is a direct connection. I think that january sixth, did not give Garland what he thought was sufficient for prosecution. But he but he stumbled on this case. And he is Turning it. Into the prosecution of Donald Trump.

That's my view of what this is about, which puts Joe Biden's fingerprints. not only on the raid, but on the entire idea of Of prosecuting Trump. I mean, and when Joe Biden says, I'm going to let the Justice Department decide who gets prosecuted, I'm not going to do any of that. Of course, he lied. And there's no doubt in my mind that for Biden, a lot of this is payback for Donald Trump and Hunter Biden going after Hunter Biden.

I really believe that we cannot discuss because this case is so unclear and inexplicable on its own terms. As you said, why not continue negotiations? Why not do this? Why not do that? It's never been done before.

I think that's the answer. It's because Merritt Garland has effectively been ordered by the President of the United States to prosecute not only his predecessor. But the likely Republican nominee in 2024. And I think that's what this case is ultimately about. All of these anonymous quotes about how serious and all that, it's not going to add up.

I guarantee you, it will never come to fruition that there's anything in here remotely resembling a nuclear weapons issue. It is all about getting Donald Trump. And I think Joe Biden is responsible for this. I think this is payback. And I think this is what Merrick Garland has become, the errand boy for Joe Biden's obsession with prosecuting Donald Trump.

Well, here's the problem. They said the exact opposite, cut one. Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is independent. This is what we believe, and this is what the President has said. This is not about politicizing anything.

And even to this point, President Biden has not been briefed about anything. Not been briefed. We have not informed it. Not discussed it at all. Is that possible?

Not discussing, not briefed about the rate of mar-a-lago? Are you kidding?

Well, it it would be dereliction. Not to be, right? I mean, you're the president of the United States. Your attorney general has just done something extraordinary to your predecessor, and you don't. You haven't been briefed?

Well, I can see where that's not a lie. It's because Biden says to Ron Klain, you tell Merrick Garland to get off his butt and go prosecute Donald Trump. You don't need to brief Joe Biden then, right? You can read it all about it in the papers. You can read the anonymous leaks.

Maybe maybe the White House is part of the anonymous leaking. But look, I I I just think you you would need a tractor to pull apart the idea that Joe Biden is not involved in this. Of course he is. How could he not be? How could he not know?

How could he not care? How could he not have some responsibility for such an I mean, w would do we say he had no role in Afghanistan, that he had no role in the Inflation Reduction Act? Of course not.

So this is as big as any of those things in its own way. Why would he be sitting this out? He didn't sit this out. He's very much involved in this. I would be shocked to death.

If he were not somehow complicit in this raid, yeah, we'll see if we get a leak out of this. Afghanistan, one year since withdrawal, the worst military exercise of that operation that I've ever witnessed. In my lifetime, an embarrassment this country is going to have a generation to shake off. It was not worthy of this generation of warfighters in Afghanistan. Michael McCall heads up an inquiry into what went wrong, and the administration has no problem saying we loved the way this operation went.

Listen to Kate Benningfield, Cut 17. Does the President regret the decision that he made to pull the United States out of that country? Absolutely not. We were faced with a choice of continuing a forever war, continuing to send our sons and daughters over to die and Look, I think that's just politics. You can't admit error on something so large and fundamental.

So they've got to stand by their story. I'm not surprised that they're not. Obey a pigs, they admitted they were wrong. This is worse. Yeah, that Well, that was some time ago.

And generally these days, presidents don't admit mistakes. Most politicians don't, because then it's on videotape and it lives forever. But I would say this, Brian, that it's good that we got Al-Swahiri with a missile. But the fact is that Joe Biden said Al-Qaeda was not in Afghanistan. That was one of the reasons that was the reason we went, and that was one of the reasons he justified the complete withdrawal.

There's no more al-Qaeda.

Now the Taliban themselves are bad enough, nonetheless, but But as we're hearing, The mastermind of Al Qaeda is there. Living openly, and yes, it's great that we droned him and got him, but Doesn't it point out that, again, Biden either was wrong or he lied? Because there's clearly al-Qaeda. in Afghanistan. And so the whole twenty year war of wiping out Al Qaeda over nine eleven has come to this, where their mastermind is living openly in the country once again, just as they were twenty years ago.

Yeah, it's amazing. Lastly, you know what's going to be jammed down our throats, this Inflation Reduction Act, which doesn't reduce inflation. It's all about a green agenda, which is not the country's agenda. Here's Jamie Raskin trying to tell everyone how much we should enjoy this spending bill, Cut 29.

Well, as soon as the Act goes into effect, I hope that all of the provisions will begin to work. I know that those who've been blaming President Biden for the inflation going up are now giving President Biden all the credit for inflation going down.

So we're moving things in the right direction already. And what parts of the bill do you think will quickly work on that specifically?

Next question. about inflation, because they have they know they can't. He has no answer.

Well and I'll Also the idea that a piece of legislation is going to work quickly to reduce inflation is nutty. I mean, you we all know how long it takes these government programs to get going. And so this the idea that inflation is already going down because of it. I mean, it's just It's unbelievable what politicians in a jam will say. Uh I mean that uh Talk.

You know, if we could indict them every time they lied, Brian. Uh that's the whole the whole I was going to kick when someone is indicted for lying to Congress. Congress lies to us every day. Especially now. Mike Goodwin, thanks so much.

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Again, we have serious issues about the way that Governor Abbott is treating asylum seekers, especially because this is supposed to be a voluntary bus ride, and it appears that it's not. And so again, we're calling to question Uh what Governor Abbott is doing is as a political ploy. There you go. And that was what Governor Abbott is doing is not, is doing is absolutely necessary, getting the world's attention to the fact that his state has been besieged, worse than Arizona, worse than New Mexico, California. It's a border state with a huge border of Mexico, and it's being overrun at this hour.

Nobody's paying attention. The Border Patrol agents are not being vilified. They're quitting on the spot. They spend all their time intake, taking all the stats and information and not policing the border. That is frustration.

So, Governor Abbott is saying: if you guys want to go to New York, hop on a bus, I'll provide them. It's costing the people of Texas a lot of money, but they're trying to send a message. And in that case, it's working. Walker, you're listening over in WABC in Jersey City. Hey, Walker.

Hey, Brian. You know, I I think that every every step of the way we've had some Some shock value. You know, when Rudy Giuliani's office was, when his house was raided, when uh Roger Stone was raided. And on and on. The next the next thing that's going to happen.

is we're going to see Trump in handcuffs. And if they don't get to trial out of Washington, D.C., he will be convicted. They cannot move the trial to a neutral state. But uh uh place, like the federal court in Greenville, Tennessee, for instance. You know, he there there's no way that Trump will not be convicted.

If it if it if the trial takes place in Washington, DC, he'll go to prison. I think it's a long way from that. I really do. I mean, because you have documents that may or may not be top secret. How did he get them anyway?

I mean, all we hear about is these top secret documents. You got to go into a skiff, you got to take off your phone, you got to take off your belt, everything else. You got to go in there and come out. I mean, it's a far cry from that, but that is what they want. They want to make sure he doesn't run.

And I'm not really sure because they must feel as though this is a Democratic cycle, excuse me, a Republican cycle. Donald Trump, whatever you think of him, might be their best chance of winning again.

So I'm not really sure what's going on. I mean, I know Joe Biden hopes he runs again because Joe Biden thinks that's the one guy he can beat.

So, there's a lot of different avenues. I don't think he's coming out in the handcuffs by a long shot.

Well, I'll tell you what, when we come back, we're going to talk about something else that very much part of the Trump administration, and that was Ukraine. When we come back, Daniel Bilak will be joining us, member of the Territorial Defense Fund of Ukraine. What's happening over there? And why are people worried about an attack on nuclear energy? And then we'll do take your calls and then do a SamoCast with Stuart Varney.

This is the Brian Kilmey Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Gilmead. Welcome back everybody, 1-866-408-7669. Stuart Varney will join in about 20 minutes, but right now, let's talk about what's happening in Ukraine. With Daniel Bilak, one of our favorites, member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine, former chief investment advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, and head of Ukraine Invest.

Daniel. It seems as though we're talking a little bit more about Ukrainian forces on the offensive than the Kirasan region and some type of subversive operation perhaps in Crimea, where the Russians have lost at least nine aircraft. What could you tell us? Yeah, thanks, Brian. Great to be back.

You know, I I was on a panel recently with uh uh a military general and uh who said that you can you can tell which side has the advantage by who's responding to whom. And I think we're now at the stage where the Russians are responding to our initiatives. And I think that's a really important turn in this war. By no means is it over, clearly, but I think that's a really significant thing. And yes, it's been very interesting.

We've been seriously softening up the the south, the southern part of the country, that's Kherson and Zephohesia oblasts. With some guerrilla warfare. And it's clearly driving the Russians crazy. And it's driving the Russian people who came down and occupied Ukrainian homes in Crimea crazy because they're all leaving. And right now, aside from being able to take out a lot of the ammunition bases and some of their heavy equipment and airplanes at their army bases and their supply lines, we are starting to choke them off by taking out bridges.

that are crucial for to get their material from Crimea into Kherson to reinforce their soldiers. And frankly, what's turned the tide or turning the tide, Brian, is the equipment that we've been getting largely from the United States. The Heimars, the Howlitzers, the MM270s from the Brits that are really American equipment have been absolutely fantastic. And we've been able to make we've learned how to use this stuff in two to three weeks. Usually takes two to four months to train.

And we've been making absolute precision hits. What about aircraft? I know you had a hope for aircraft. Have you heard any progress on that? Yeah, no, we haven't, Brian, and it's actually crucial for us to launch a counteroffensive.

We've been hearing reports that the Slovaks are going to give us their fleet of MiG-29s, the Russian Soviet-era MiG-2 American kit. But the Slovaks are playing coy and they're not confirming or denying sort of thing. What has happened on the U.S. side is that Congress has passed a law. to allocate one hundred million dollars to train Ukrainian pilots on what I understand are F eighteen s and other aircraft.

But that's not for tomorrow, unfortunately. Wow, it's too bad. I appreciate the fact that you're appreciative of the material, but if you just got it all at once, you could just win this thing. People are dying because we're so slow on delivering what we say we're supposed to. And I just worry about the follow-through.

I mentioned this to you before. If anything, we will diminish the support the Ukrainian operation has in the U.S., it'll find out that we're wasting money, that it's getting into the wrong hands, that people are using it for grift. And do you feel as though the fulfillment is there, that it arrives in Poland or a bordering state and it's getting to the front lines? Are you pleased by the way that's happening? Yeah, I think there's no question that we're getting it.

In fact, I flew in I won't say which airport, the other day, and I saw a Hercules Globemaster unloading equipment, so I was pretty happy about that. The I think that stuff is definitely getting there. We can see it with the results on the field, and we can see it with the reduced number of fatalities. We were losing, as we talked about earlier, Brian, 100 to 200 soldiers a day. in May, June.

And we're probably at twenty five to thirty a day now because we've really been able to expand the range of fire and force the Russians back. And and but you know, we need more of this. As I as I said, I think on on your show last time, we've got a uh a line that's about fifteen hundred miles long, which is sort of like Boston to Miami, a front line. And you know, we had eleven high mars I think we're getting up to 16 now. But we're getting these in we're getting small packets.

I don't know what the problem is. I don't know whether it's a bureaucracy. I don't know whether it's somebody in the White House holding it back. But you know, we I I have the sense that You know, there's a policy decision that has to be made and it has to be clearly articulated by the administration. You know, that the administration is in it to win it.

It is in the U.S. interest to see Ukraine win the war because the U.S. doesn't want to live with an aggressive imperialist Russia in the future. what we're what we're sort of seeing is that is or hearing, I guess, is that US will do everything possible for as long as it takes for Ukraine to survive. Those aren't exactly the same things.

You can survive for a long time on life support, but it's not a great quality of life, right? Right. And you need the you need your p uh ports.

Well, we need all of it. President Zelensky said the other day, and I think this is probably the clearest policy statement of what our war objectives and what victory means to Ukrainians, and that is this war started eight years ago in Crimea, and this war will end in Crimea. And there is ninety percent of Ukrainians having suffered The horrific casualties and having gone through everything that they've gone through: rape, torture, mass graves, you know, it's just been horrible. 90% of Ukrainians. are in favor of not giving not one centimeter, not one inch.

of Ukrainian soil to the Russians because we know that they're only going to come back. And that kind of resolve is what wins wars. But as I always say, we're going to win this war because we have to because we're facing a war of annihilation and extermination. But How soon that happens and what the cost of that's going to be in terms of lives and destruction really depends on our Western allies and especially the United States. Daniel Billack is with us now, member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine.

Dan, you're a money guy.

So, why would it work in the Russian interest to speed up the elimination of their number one customer, the European Union? As much as you want them to be out and they want to be out of their relationship with the Russians yesterday, they know that they need their natural gas and oil through the pipelines, but the Russians are beginning to cut it off and they're prepared. European Union is prepared for a winter without it. Why is it in their best financial interest to perpetuate this, meaning the Russians? Like I think that everybody we're all rational people.

We live in a democracy where we make rational decisions. Putin and his and his henchmen are not rational actors. They are this is a policy decision that they have taken that they are going to eliminate Ukraine and probably go further.

So they'll just double down. They've got reserves, they've got cash reserves, they think that they can get around the sanctions, they think that they can withstand them. They don't value the lives of their people, so if they suffer a little bit more, that's not a big deal. And so they figure their bet is that everybody's going to cave. that if we if we really stick it to the Europeans this winter, they're going to cave, they're going to throw Ukraine under the bus, and they're going to come and seek a deal with Russia, take off the sanctions, and it'll be business as usual.

And this is going to be actually we're coming down to crunch time for the West in terms of its values. And sticking by its values. And I have to say, the Biden administration has been doing, you know, bending over backwards to try to find alternate sources, help the EU. find alternate sources of gas. To get it through the winter.

Daniel, don't be too impressed. We have it. Daniel, we have it. We could perpetuate the terminals, the LG terminals in there and get this done in 18 months, maybe quicker. But we have it, but there's political reasons why we're not using our natural gas resources.

It would be a boon for everybody, and we know natural gas burns cleaner. I've got to ask you a couple of things about the fight itself. You've decided to blow up a few bridges surrounding Kherson because you don't want the Russians resupplied, almost as if they have to sit there. Final thought on that? I mean, what is the tactic there?

Do you know, or am I wrong?

Well, it's exactly right. Look, David didn't slay Goliath by tackling him, right? He waited for the we went for the weak point and killed him off. when he understood what it was going to take to bring him down.

So what we're doing is we're cutting off the supply line so they don't get the ammo, they don't get the heavy equipment, they can't defend themselves, we psychologically undermine and degrade them. We're basically choking them to death, and that's what we're going to do. And get them out of your land once and for all. You don't want anything from Russia, just want them out of your country. That's right.

Daniel Villak, thanks so much. Appreciate it. And best of luck in Ukraine. Listen, when we come back, we do a samo cast with Stuart Varney. Then I close with your calls.

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So let's listen in together. Cross the board for big tech. It's 1051, you know what that means? Brian Kilmead joins us now. All right, Brian, unvaccinated Novak Jokovic can't compete in the US Open because he can't get into the country unless he's vaccinated.

I think this is absolute rubbish, Brian. I'm appalled by it, and I think you are too. At least I hope you are. And I was upset when Australia did it too. It made no sense because we got to use our heads.

I looked at the CDC's new guidelines. I don't know if you've seen them because they keep changing.

Now that the election's getting close. Oh, did I say that? We will not differentiate between vaxed and unvaxed people.

Okay. No longer six feet apart.

Okay. No longer recommends quarantining if you test positive, removes tests to stay in school. But we can't let one of the fittest, best, most athletic people in the world play tennis against somebody else, what, 30 feet away, hit a ball. If you want to say to him, listen, after you're done with the court, just do me a favor. After you're done with the court, just go to the locker room.

We'll set up a little room for you. You're the best player in the world. I think the people of Queens and the people of America at the U.S. Open deserve to see you.

So what an embarrassment. John McEnroe, who said, I got double vaxed and I got the booster, said this guy's got to play. Of course you got to play. What an embarrassment. Mm-hmm.

Why doesn't he just fly to Mexico Get a backpack, go to the southern border, walk across because he doesn't have to be vaccinated. I would pay him to do it. I would pay him to do it. And then hop on that bus, hop on that Texas bus and be greeted by Eric Adams right at the Port Authority. It'll be fantastic.

That will stand out. Absolutely. I'll chip in for that one. Let's get serious. Carrine Jean-Pierre was asked if the Inflation Reduction Act is Orwellian.

Raw tape. It's called the Inflation Reduction Act. But the Congressional Budget Act Office, which is nonpartisan, said that there would be a negligible impact on inflation this year and barely impact inflation at all.

Next year, I mean, isn't it almost Orwellian? It's making sure that billionaires in corporate America are paying their fair share, making sure that the tax code is a little bit more fair. And so, when you do that, when you put it in its totality, you will see that it will bring down, lower the deficit, which will help fight inflation. George Orwell's book, 1984, was about the perversion of the truth at the government level. And that's what's going on here, isn't it?

Because this Inflation Reduction Act does not reduce inflation. And Bernie Sanders said it. We have all these other experts saying it, but she cites 100 economists that's going to reduce inflation. It doesn't make any sense. In fact, the minute it passed, and I think it's just a matter of him signing at this point, they started immediately saying it's $369 billion worth of climate investment, the highest in American history.

Excuse me? I thought it was about reducing the deficit.

So as soon as the inflation, as soon as it passes, they expose it for what exactly it is. And it's embarrassing. It's an insult to us. Just like they're saying today, Afghanistan was a success. Our endless war had to stop.

Excuse me. It's the way it ended, what you did, ignoring the reality. That's the issue. If you want to reduce inflation, what you do is you reduce spending is one of the things you can do. At the same time, you up interest rates through the Fed, which is happening.

But this whole thing of spending, instead of cutting it, is a new way to. handle inflation. It's called your agenda.

Now it's good for the country. I'd love to know who it was who invented this name. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Who did that? They've got to have a sense of humor, a cynical sense of humor, to do that, because is the perversion of the truth.

There you have it. I'm afraid I'm out of time, Brian. Normally I like to extend these things as long as I can, but I've got a hard break. You know how this works. Even more powerful than the host of the show.

The hard break takes precedence. It does, actually. It does. You don't want to be cut off in your prime. Here it goes.

Hey, Brian, you're all right. See you again soon. Go get him, Stuart. Thanks. Joe, WRCN.

Hey, Joe. Brian, good morning. Hey, Brian, happy summer. Good morning. I can't believe the White House is trying to claim a victory there for the Afghan withdrawal.

It was a surrender and it was an embarrassment to America. Biden should be impeached for getting those 13 soldiers killed. I say he's a war criminal for droning that father and the 10A workers so he can get a talking point. 20 years, blood and sacrifice wiped away in less than a week by this incompetent buffoon. And no one was held accountable, Brian.

80 billion in weapons and equipment. He left for Al-Qaeda.

Now they've come back. We gave away the air base there, 400 miles from China. Al-Qaeda's back. Sharia law is implemented. It's a training ground for Al-Qaeda and terrorists now.

Women have to be back in Burkhas. They can't attend schools. They're throwing gays off roofs again. And insult to injury. Remember when the Castings came back?

And this buffoon is looking at his watch? He doesn't even care. About the dead soldiers, he's a war criminal in my eyes, Brian. And he should be brought to impeach me. I don't say, yeah, war criminals are a little harsh.

What I say is totally incompetent. And when you had all of his military people say that's not what I recommended, but I did it anyway. And then he says, well, the previous deal was in place. What are you talking about? You overturned everything Trump did.

The deal that was in place had nothing to do with giving up Bargram. And the president, the former president of the United States, never would have allowed Al Bardor to take Kabul. He said, he would have said, one more foot, and I'll blow you up. I know exactly where you are. And he would have done it because he was fresh off killing Salome.

So that wouldn't have happened. I did not love the talks we were in in Afghanistan. I didn't like what Khal Azad was leading during the Trump years. I also don't think that Trump would have pulled everybody out. I've talked to people with him.

They said, let me get through the election. We'll revisit it and see where we're at. He never would have let this happen. And if you don't believe me, will you agree that? Donald Trump, thanks for the call, Joe, has a big ego.

And the answer is yes. Would you believe that he wants to be successful at all costs? The answer is yes. He would never want to be the guy that gave Afghanistan to the Taliban. Believe me.

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Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmey Chow at the bottom of the hour. Brett Barrel joins us to talk about the political fallout from the Mar-a-Lago raid by the FBI one week ago today. Lieutenant Colonel Alvar North on what's left of Afghanistan that he saw, that he covered, that he watched, and then fall apart before his eyes and how the I guess the military community feels about all their hard work and sacrifice, life and limb lost.

And to see the Biden administration throw it away, and you're not going to believe, they still say it was a success. Let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Congressional Budget Act Office, which is nonpartisan, said that there would be a negligible impact on inflation this year. Isn't it almost Orwellian? How can you call it Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it's not Yes, exactly.

Jonathan Carl, inflation bill is a green boondoggle, and now Dem's beginning to admit it. It makes us more subservient to China, weakens biotech and spends money we don't have. Yes, victory for the Democrats, no doubt about it, but not for the country. Number two. Does the president regret the decision that he made to pull the United States out of that country?

Absolutely not. We were faced with a choice of continuing a forever war, continuing to send our sons and daughters over to die in Afghanistan. Unbelievably how insulting that is. Cape Benningfield, one year after the disastrous, calamitous, embarrassing exit from Afghanistan, and the White House still trying to spin and sell us on their success. Not here as we focus on the State Department and White House, whose decision humiliated a generation of great warfighters while left America and her allies behind enemy lines.

Number one. What about our emails? Do Democrats now believe that mishandling of classified information is as serious as we should all think it is? We should think it's serious when Hillary does it. We should think this is serious.

Mar-a-Lago raid exposes there were items that needed to be returned, yes, but unclear why they could not have been obtained through talks. And now the FBI is being accused of taking Trump's personal papers, and it's still not clear why the where, why the warrant, why the raid, when he could have just asked a judge to enforce a subpoena. It makes no sense. Also, special thanks to KXEX1550 AM in Fresno, California for carrying the show. It's the best talk in town.

And hopefully, by carrying our show, it just got better. Thanks so much. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Alvin North always makes our show better. When he joins us, Colonel, before I get you on Afghanistan, what is your take on the raid? And The criti criticism the FBI is ex is feeling right now?

Well, f first of all, thanks for having me back, because every once in a while I'm getting old enough that I maybe that's the last time.

Well, now with you, honey. Never.

So look, here's what's gonna happen. I I you know, I don't have the gift of prophecy. But I've been around this town a long time. I've seen this kind of thing happen before. You know.

At at one point in time I'd been at the White House for almost five years at the point. They started asking for my paperwork. In our administration, it was Ronald Reagan's administration. gave them everything that they wanted, and they still wanted more. Congress is always going to behave like that.

Yeah, yeah. But but the the good news is at the end of the day, no one went to jail. No one there was no one indicted. tried, convicted, and sentenced to go to jail. At the end of the day, there was some who pled guilty, but at at the end of the day, the bottom line was Ronald Reagan was not going to be impeached.

And that's what it was all about. It was an effort to impeach the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. They wanted to get rid of him. You know, people like t t talk about how Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan, two great old Irishmen, you get together and have drinks and I that's baloney. That's that's creative.

history. It's false. I I was in the room when Tip O'Neill, the day that we would s We were sending American troops into Grenada. We waited until after eleven o'clock at night so that the Washington Compost couldn't carry the story. and then briefed the members of Congress up in the residence.

And I was there. I watched Tip O'Neill get up right after the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lesie, spoke. And I watched O'Neill get up and walk out the door and say, I'll see you impeached for this. Then happened. The bottom line of it is, the left, the far left in America, is still the same far left.

It's just more vicious. More vociferous and further wrong than it's ever been. What's going to happen, mark my words, what's going to happen is. between now and Labor Day. When the big campaigns start to kick off, you know, everybody starts to focus on the elections coming up.

And you're going to see a press conference held by the Attorney General of the United States and and maybe some others. that they're going to threaten the president of former president with going to jail. They're going to claim that members of Congress 'Cause they're desperate to hang on to the House and the Senate. Absolutely desperate. And they know that they're probably likely to to lea lose the house.

So, why is it that at the same time they're raiding the President's residence, former President's residence, At the same time, they're going after members of Congress and the state legislatures. particularly in in Pennsylvania. Why is it that they're doing that? Because they're going to end allege a conspiracy to overthrow an election. That's what they're going to allege.

That's why the these guys are all out in the in the Sunday morning talk shows. All this all this is aimed at undoing What the American people are now you just went down and you're countdown at the front end of the show. Here's the problems in America right now.

Okay? And and they want to distract from that. And they want you to think, oh no, if you keep us in power in the House and the Senate, we'll save you from all these terrible things. And they create words like the the Inflation Reduction Act, where it's not going to it's not going to c decrease in inflation at all. All of those kinds of deceptions being worked by this administration.

and by their tools. And the FBI is being used as a tool of the government of a particular party in the government. That's what's happening. And that's one of the reasons why what we've got to do is we've got to turn out the vote in November. We've got to make sure that the American people, we the people, And I'm a chronic optimist, as you know.

We the people have got to throw these rascals out. and you start fixing it in the House and the Senate. and in two years, return the Presidency to honorable integrity. Gotcha. I want you to hear what Michael Waltz said about this whole raid, cut to.

Yeah. And the notion that a president of the United States would have some type of nuclear warhead design just sitting around in a box, or even you saw speculation on the Sunday shows today that it could have been the names of Russian sources or images of spy satellites. You know, the president gets finished intelligence, he gets analysis. This kind of speculation is just shaping up to be Russia hoax 2.0. Because what he was hearing is the president had nuclear codes or nuclear details about our nuclear defense in his midst.

Number one, I don't know why he took any of them. He's not into building a library to begin with. He wants to get back there. Number two, he's not deciding what boxes to take out. We watched it on video going to Marine One.

He returned 15. I'm sure he would have returned most of the rest, except for the ones they took that had attorney-client privilege on him.

Well, r remember that was a fishing expedition. I mean, they can claim whatever they want. Whatever they say that they're really after will be a lie. These clowns lie repeatedly. And so what you're list what you're seeing is the end result of another lie.

They're digging for just anything they can. What they're looking for is a crime. that they can pin on this President. Do they don't want him to be able to run again? They're afraid of the effect he's having on the election of people in in look at the numbers of victories he gotten in the primary in the primaries.

I mean, he still has an enormous following. There were seventy-five million Americans who voted for him.

Okay. The bottom line of it is they want to do anything they can to destroy the man. That's why the Attorney General in New York City excuse me in in New York State. That's why the district attorney in Manhattan. That's why every jurisdiction to look eighty seven thousand new IRS agents How many thousands are going to be working on Donald Trump?

I still have not heard a good excuse of why we need them. It makes absolutely no sense to me. If anyone thinks that they're just going to go after the Jeff Bezos of the world, they're crazy. They're not going after just rich people, Elon Musk. They're not, because they can't get enough money.

Well, how do you justify the spending all this money?

Well, we're going to get it back.

Well, how are you going to do that?

Well, a lot of people aren't paying their taxes.

Well, who are those people? Because the top 1% are paying 40% of the whole country. One and the top one percent have attorneys and they have got accountants to take care and make sure that they're not breaking the law. Even no no matter how many times you change it. Look at what we're what we're suffering from right today is an excess of the government of the United States in the hands of crazy leftists.

This is Mount Seitong would have loved to have had a government as complicit as this one is in taking this country off the left side of the ship. We're in serious trouble that this country is today because the far left is governing. They're in the White House, the executive branch. They're in both branches, both houses of the Congress. And if they could, they'd fill the judiciary with people on the far left.

Look at what's happened in these cities and states where they've taken far-left prosecutors and basically stopped prosecuting crimes and ignoring the victims. I understand. Yes. We're in serious trouble. That's what we can fix it.

We the people can fix it in November. It will start and the process will begin. And hopefully, by twenty twenty four, we've got good candidates to run on our side. And I say our side, I mean the American people's side. That's what we desperately need to have.

So American people need to turn out and fix it.

So the administration is trying to reset what happened last year in Afghanistan. You lived it. It's extremely personal to you. I believe it's the worst military disaster in our history, bar none, including what happened in Vietnam and Saigon. It was worse, even though we pledged it would be just the opposite.

Kate Benningfield trying to explain it away. Cut 17. Does the President regret the decision that he made to pull the United States out of that country. Absolutely not. We were faced with a choice of continuing a forever war, continuing to send our sons and daughters over to die in Afghanistan, continuing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year there.

President Biden made an important and tough, but the right choice to end that war, to bring our sons and daughters home, and to free up resources. Your witness.

Well first and this is heartbreaking because I was I was one of those who was still in the hospital when things collapsed in nineteen seventy five in a place called Vietnam. at the end of May 1975. And no one ever expected it was going to end that badly, and I thought it would never happen again. I know that others that we have as talking heads for Fox News, both in Fox News radio and television. think that we're recovering from this disaster.

I will tell you that the armed forces of the United States today and our ability to deter war and defend ourselves if we have to fight one is far worse today than it was before the collapse in Afghanistan. It's not just because of the collapse, it's because this administration has decided they are not going to improve the defense Posture of the United States, our ability to attract new allies has diminished considerably. And at the end of the day, You now have w we had young Americans College graduates enlisting in the armed forces of the United States, not coming in as officers, but enlisting. We had people from the Ivy League schools and from the best engineering schools and the best. Service academies, all of that has changed dramatically because of this administration and the disaster.

of Afghanistan. The armed forces of the United States are, for the first time in years, the United States Marine Corps is having a hard time making their quotas, their numbers. With qualified people. Why? Because, first of all, an enormous number of young Americans, that 18 to 34-year-old cohort, Are one incapable of serving in the armed forces because of physical problems, mental problems.

Drug use. All those kinds of things that would say you don't want these kinds of people in the armed forces, and they're right. All of that has now come rolling down the hill like a cascade. The U.S. Army is tens of thousands short.

of their recruiting goals. And the re-enlistments are not happening anymore. Why did they happen before? Because we are blessed to have young men, particularly and women. who want to serve their country in the uniform of the Armed Forces of the United States, who did so proudly.

They were not embarrassed by what we were doing in Afghanistan. Look, coming home from a war is always a good thing to do. But the doing the right thing the wrong way, which is what this administration did, It's been catastrophic. It's hurt us globally. It's hurt us here at home.

It's the kind of thing that we need a real leader to inspire the people to want to serve. I was in, remember, I was still in the United States Marine Corps in 1973 when we decided that we're not going to draft anymore. Thank you, Richard Nixon. Lyndon Johnson sent my brother and me off to Vietnam and Richard Nixon brought us home. And Richard Nixon is the guy that said, we're not going to draft anymore in 1973.

Everybody thought the armed forces would collapse. By nineteen eighty, we had the finest military in the world. And it stayed that way because people in the Oval Office, no matter what party they were in, and people in the Armed Forces committees of both the House and the Senate, ensured that we got the very best equipment we possibly could. How is it that Communist China and Russia now have hypervelocity weapons that can deliver death and destruction in this country, and we can't stop them? How is it that I don't know?

They cut the budget. They cut the budget for those programs. The the very first time hypervelocity weapons were were looked at was under the previous Obama administration, not this extension of it.

Okay, they cut the budget for it. And when President Trump says we're going to turn it back on again in a secret decision, Okay. They and they started working on it again. They realized The other guys are way the head of way the hell ahead of ahead of us on this thing. And they really are.

That's that kind of decision-making that has put this country at serious risk, Brian. Colonel, you understand. I'm up against the break, but I think you agree with this final statement: that this is one of the finest fighting forces of any generation. They deserve so much better on the back of their baseball card. By the way, Joe Biden chose to end it, and I don't think they should feel at all down about what they did and how they served and what they sacrificed.

Just don't. Spot on. Absolutely right. God bless this country for having young Americans who are willing to serve in harm's way and protect us from all the evil that's out there. And anybody that served with our men and women or against us understand what I said is 100% true.

They understand how the adjustments were made in the battlefield, from the technological standpoint to the human standpoint. And I'm still in awe of it as people unwind it in a pedestrian way because I didn't serve to me. I can imagine you covered as a reporter and then you fought there as a Marine. Colonel, thanks so much. Bless you, buddy.

75. You got it. And pick up his latest book, The Giant Awakes. Uh a uh Jake Cruz novel. That is Colonel Alvin North.

Back in a moment. Learning something new every day on The Brian Killmead Show. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmade. It just felt great to throw no later in the championship game of the first ever Metro region.

And I just am so happy that we're here. What's it been like since, Joey? All the attention. It's been great. Our entire team representing New York.

the Metro, Long Island, Masspequa and Grape. And that is Joey Lilianetti, the 12-year-old who had nine Ks and threw a no-hitter to put Massapequa into the Williams Sport Pennsylvania Little League World Series. First Long Island team since 1978. First time in their 72-year history. Get this.

If anyone has kids in sports, you know that the model now is to, you know, parents don't coach. Give you money to the trainers. You don't have enough money for a trainer. Your kids got to almost drop out. These are all volunteer coaches in Massapiqua, New York, and they were able to break through like this.

And then you watch them in ESPN do what they do. Most of the people they're playing are a lot bigger. They gripe from a much wider area. This is just one small town who plays great fundamental baseball. I mean, they've had two defensive stops on ESPN's top 10.

Now they're going to play on Friday. They're going to play on Friday, and they will guarantee two games. If they win those two games, they can have one loss, the way it works out in these brackets. But once you win the American side, then you play the best in the world, two of the Caribbean and Taiwan and all these other great nations are playing each other, and then you'll see it on the Little League World Series.

So this has become America's team. They say people who find out they're cheering for them when they find out how small the town is and how much they've already overcome.

So now keep your eye on them in Williamsport. I know a lot of you live for it.

Some of you ignore it. This is the one year to pay attention. And congratulations to all those coaches and all those parents. That's a massive equipotence Little League. All the other teams are great too, but this is a first.

When we come back, Brett Bear, speaking of great. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. What about her emails? Do Democrats now believe that mishandling of classified information is as serious as we should all think it is?

We should think it's serious when Hillary does it, when she had seven top secret emails on conversations on her server. She had declassifying authority. We should have thought that was serious. We should think this is serious. Not really.

That is it. Maybe whataboutism is effective here. Brett Baer has been all over this, was grabbed from his few days off at your mom's birthday party to help us out on One Nation. I appreciate that. Chief Political Ernest for Fox News, which means you have to come on even without a tie when news breaks.

Brett Baer, welcome back. Thanks, man. Hey, thanks for helping us out on Friday. That really helped.

So I appreciate it over the weekend.

So, Brett, what has changed since we spoke?

Now we find out that there was classified information, maybe the highest classified information there. 27 boxes, 11 classified, four documents were marked top secret. Evidently, something was marked TS/SCI, which was the highest level. But we still don't understand why enforcing a subpoena wouldn't have been more effective. Yeah, I think there's still the timeline that's the biggest problem.

But the classification, we've heard a lot of different things from the term folks. One, he declassified it all. Two, they didn't know what was in the boxes. Three, it was protected. But the biggest problem is the timeline when they get the first subpoena.

And what happens in between there to the search warrant and what we saw last week.

So we're in the same spot. It's just that we have yet to see the affidavit that gets us to that search warrant. I have not seen this. Maybe you have. They say the Trump lawyers, now former lawyers, told them that all the material was removed, and they signed a paper saying that all the papers that were taken from the White House were given back.

Do you know that to be true? I don't know that to be true. And I also don't know that some. uh White House lawyer signed off on the papers Um arriving in Mar a Lago. And where were they in Mara Lago?

There was a secure facility for getting briefings and documents of SCIF at Mar-a Lago when the President was president. And it continued.

So it's not like they were in a broom closet, I don't think, but we don't have all that detail. Right. A couple of things. When the I think that's unexplored. Maybe you know better.

Who told everyone to pick up watch or remove? Like the GSO had to sign off on this stuff, the GAO had to sign off on this, and then you watch people walk in with cardboard filing cabinets and they're putting it into Marine One. Who decided that? You know, how was it taken out? Fifteen box were immediately given up in January.

What were those fifteen boxes? Was the President like, yeah, I don't know who put them there? Could we go back to those days? Did the President actually walk into a huge room and say, I want that one, that one, that one, and that one?

So do we do you think that process is worthy of exploring? one hundred percent. And usually, the declassification process involves The White House counsel, which is Pat Ciplioni. Maybe he testified to the D-Class process in his testimony to the January sixth committee. We don't know.

But there is some documentation of a declassification. It's not, there is broad authority, but there has to be some kind of marking of the moment. Uh it's not just like Poof, it's all done. Um and Remember where we were after january sixth before the inauguration. I would say it's a little chaotic.

At the White House.

So going back to that time is going to be important. Yeah, a couple of things. Trump says he wants his boxes back because some of them have paperwork that show attorney client privilege.

So that matters too, because is the FBI looking at stuff they shouldn't? He says he actually, not that this means anything to me or you or the audience, but just so you know, they specifically want A14, A26, A13, A33. They go, this was labeled attorney-client privilege and it was taken anyway. And also, it makes one speculate. And I've had FBI agents on, you probably will today as well.

When you go in for nine hours, you said you got a tip that says go in there, this paperwork is there. We couldn't wait anymore. They took a weekend, they went in. But you're there for nine hours.

Some have speculated if you're there for nine hours, you don't know what you're looking for. And you don't know where it is.

So that also will lead to speculation. Why do you need to go through Melania's Closet, which they did. I think it's Really broad. If you look at the search warrant, it's every nook and cranny of Mar-a-Lago. It's every place besides guest rooms.

It's every place the former President could be, could have stored something, could have been at any time. It's any document from when he was President from the beginning to the end. I mean, it's not like you are pinpointing a narrow search.

So yes, that leads to speculation about what else were they trying to find or maybe they were just seeing what they could find. Nine hours is a long time. We have Brett Bear on with us now.

So, the other big story today is one year to the day since the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Congressman Michael McCall has been trying to do an examination of what went wrong, and there was a lot. Got no cooperation from the State Department, but the minority did release a report. Here's a little of it: Cut 22. But there are so many mistakes.

The biggest one, Margaret, for me, having lived through it, were you know being in the classified space, listening to the intelligence community tell the story about this is going to be imminent. It's going to fall sooner rather than later. The military said it told us the same thing. And then we went to state. And they paint in the White House a very rosy picture.

There's a disconnect between intelligence on the ground and what the White House is doing. I think in this report, this says it all. There's no way we're going to evacuate embassy personnel from helicopters like we did in Vietnam. And of course, we know that happened. And it was worse.

And he said there won't be another Saigon, and it's worse. And some of this video is so horrific running along the plane. Do you think this administration is effectively trying to move past it? Yeah, they're not having a briefing today. They're not having the president's Still in Kiwa Island.

There is nothing to talk about it. Of course, they want to move past it. But it was really of the foreign policy kind of missteps. Uh it started a avalanche of questioning around the globe. If we do this, what else does it mean for US sticking with Allies were following through.

Yeah, uh what sticks out for you, Brett?

Well, I think that, that miscommunication was really quite something in those early days. The fact that one year ago today, there were Kirby, Admiral Kirby was saying, you know, we have this under control, and days later, major cities are falling to the Taliban. and the allies are kind of leaving. um the air cover had stopped.

So Mm-hmm. It changed the dynamic immediately, and then we leave Bagram Airbase. I think leaving Bagram was the biggest. The biggest thing. Brett, the last thing was the President of the United States is going to be signing, I imagine, sometime this week, this.

this inflation reduction package. How long do we call it that and how soon till we can switch to climate change package?

Well, they're already starting. They're gonna have cabinet members around the country pitching it as a climate change energy bill. It was only called the Inflation Reduction Act. to get past Congress or that during that week. In reality, it doesn't do any of that.

I think You know, you saw some of that this weekend with the White House Press Secretary trying to field questions from John Carl and ABC. It's just not, it doesn't work that way.

So. The question is, how much is it going to make a difference And how fast does it change things ahead of the midterms? That's a really big question. Brett, a lot on your play today. Were you able to, was your mother's birthday okay?

Did you end up enjoying it all? Yeah, the Big 75, had the whole family together, played some golf. It was great. We did not cross paths with the Bidens, although we kind of cut off to go a couple different ways. Secret Service and the Bidens were very separate from where we were, and we had a great weekend.

It's so interesting that you're both there at the same time.

Well, happy birthday to your mom. She did a great job with her sons. Brett, have a great show tonight. See you, buddy. You got it.

1866-408-7669. When we come back, we're going to talk about a few things. We're going to talk about more to know. I want to give an idea of what else is going on besides the big three. Also, to give you an idea of what a big deal I think Afghanistan is.

Mike McCall was actually bursting out of his suit yesterday and trying to explain what was wrong. What really drove him nuts is they said this was partisanship and they picked and choose excerpts of what happened in Afghanistan to fit their own narrative. Nothing could have been more wrong because we all know what happened there. And I've talked to another people. The administration left people behind by the thousands, and we're still trying to get them out.

Cut 21 is Michael McCall. There was a complete lack and failure to plan. There was no plan, and there was no plan executed. The State Department probably didn't have the resources it needed to carry out an evacuation of this size. And in Normandy, they had 36 consular officers at H.K.I.A.

trying to process hundreds of thousands of people. They were overwhelmed.

Yeah. They told everybody to leave the State Department, told everyone to leave the embassy. There was a thought that they could have stayed in the embassy. It was fully stacked and it was staffed and they could have continued to process things. Remember, Bardar called back to the White House, to the Pentagon.

They said, What do you want us to do? Do you want to secure Kabul or do you want us to? And he said, We only want the airport. That is a fact.

So, because we have the airport, we have to depend on the Taliban to code the perimeter. What the Taliban was saying is they're going to rule, they're going to burn Kabul to the ground. I can't stand on the outside. To their credit, they call back.

Now, if Trump was on the other end of the phone, do you think for a second he would have said, Oh, whatever you want to do, or Pompeo, oh, whatever you want, I'll just take the airport. Do you think for a second, you know why I know it's not true? Pompeo's a military guy, number one, and West Point guy would never give up a country. Number two. Donald Trump wouldn't want to be The president of the United States, they turned the country over to the Taliban.

I didn't want to talk to them without Ghani and the presence of the Afghan government. No doubt about it. I thought that was a mistake. Khalazad, a lot of the things he conceded was a mistake. He said he was doing what the administrations wanted him to do, but the ultimate deal was absolutely awful.

And the ultimate result could not have been worse. And it resulted in not only 13 dying Americans dying, but over 100 civilians just waiting to leave, many of which were American citizens, dual citizenships, or allies of ours. Crazy, right? Hey, if you want to see my stage, and I hope you do, go to BrianKilme.com. See you in Albany September 8th.

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This is the Brian Killme Show. Welcome back, everybody. Thanks so much for listening all show long. Hey, don't be afraid to go to BrianKillmee.com, especially if you live in the Albany area, or if you can drive there. I cannot wait to get back on stage September 8th, be able to talk about all my books, America Great from the Start, History, a thousand people at a time telling our real story, not perfect, but trying to be, as well as answer your questions about the news, Fox, and that's what I had the most fun in at the end being able to do that with my good friend Pat O'Rourke, stand-up comedian to open things up in a red, white, and blue way, and the MC Rick Thatcher.

So let's get to the big, let's get find out if indeed there's more to know. More. To know.

Well good news.

Solomon Rushdie is on the road to recovery. His agent confirmed that Sunday the announcement following news that the writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday because he was almost stabbed to death by this idiot called Zafar Rushdie, excuse me, Andrew Wiley. Wait, do we have the name of the guy who actually stabbed him? Because he used a phony name. But this guy's been basically running for his life for the last 25 years, thought he was okay, thought he'd give a nice speech.

The fight was still in existence thanks to Iran. They cheered it. Officially, they didn't, but you know they did. His son, Rushdie's son, released a statement saying, We're so grateful to all the audience members who bravely leapt to the defense of and gave first aid to his dad and the doctors that were involved. He got stabbed in the neck, he got stabbed in the abdomen.

He was about to, he could, in fact, lose an eye. But at 75 years old, it looks like he's going to be okay.

Next. The UK rising cost of living forced Britons to part ways with pets. That's a little desperate, don't you think? The cost of living, yeah, the inflation's gone up. But pet and animal shields say they're experiencing record increase for cat and dogs because the trend comes in the countries really from rising bills.

I guess if you got to feed them, you got to give them up, perhaps. They say on average, UK households has lost $4,300 a year.

Next. You write what you know. Lisa Kudreau disagrees with people who are talking about friendship being more diverse.

So Glisa Coudreau, who who was uh one of the stars of One of the stars of Friends. It was claimed by French creator Marta Kaufman. Uh, explaining that the creators have no business writing for the point of view of people of color. Asked in a recent interview about her view of the beloved show's diversity, says, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives from college and after college. And for shows, especially when it comes to comedy, that's character-driven.

You write what you know, they have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color. I think at the time, the big problem was that I see where was the apprenticeship.

Okay, I got it, but I also think it's important to understand that there's maybe half the country that feels a certain way, and there's another half a country that feels that does not watch them. And whatever they say makes sense to them. Earlier this summer, Kaufman pledged to donate $4 million to her fund, an endowment to chair positions in the African American Studies Department at her alma mater, and that's Brandeis University.

So she's under criticism for not being diverse enough as a cast. They would probably not make friends today. That's the bottom line. Not make the series friends.

Next. New Orleans inmates barricaded themselves in a pod, making demands, including books TV, and they want to be able to watch the Saints. The Office of Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hudson told Fox that the residents of the highly secure pod 2E are refusing to enter their cells and comply with the officer's commands to remove barricades from entryways in the pod. Sheriff's deputies are going to employ the best practices to de-escalate the situation. Look, a lot of them white-collar crimes, non-threatening crimes, I think you should have some quality of life behind bars.

And watching the Saint games, I don't think is out of control unless there's a problem. Gambling, I don't know. Gambling for what, aspirin? Blankets.

Next. Mariah Carey's Atlanta home was burglarized while she was on vacation. Page six says that Carey was busy on vacation in Capri, Italy, and at a $20 million mansion in the Hamptons and luxuriating at a $20 million mansion of the Hamptons. When it was shot at the Hamptons, her Atlanta home was burglarized. Police have confirmed the break-in, but tell us that this is still an open investigation.

The information may be limited. Carrie's reps did not respond to the request. Carrie, meanwhile, spent last month in Italy with boyfriend Brian Tanaka. I don't know, is he famous? Pictures of the group were all over the place.

Next, Michael Jordan's worn 1998 NBA Finals jersey could fetch $3 million at auction.

Sotheby's auction says it's a rare piece. Jordan's 1998 finale in Game 1 jersey is among the most highly desired pieces of sports memorabilia. And the present example is one of just two final jerseys to ever appear on auction. And come after, come September 6th, you'll get your chance to bid on it. I will bid on it, but I most likely will lose.

You're not going to keep saying it'll sell around $3 million.

So, how high will you go? I don't know. Is it worth more if he washed it or didn't? Do you want the true authenticity of what it's like to join? Join Michael's bid on it.

But no one wants to go in the room in which we have his jersey frame.

Next, Prince Harry's underwear from Naked Las Vegas Pictures scores a $250,000 bid. It only took a few minutes for the bidding to skyrocket, $10,000 opening bid to $16,000 before the strip club owner from San Diego called to place a bid for $250,000. It's not a typo. Dino. Who is the strip club owner?

I guess he's gonna go by that. Says he plans to create a shrine for Harry's undies if he ends up winning the auction. The live portion of the auction went down to Larry Flynn's Hustler Club, where Kerry claims Prince Harry dropped by during their wild time in Las Vegas. He was a fun guy at that point. Yeah, but just think about this, though.

If you can't go to $3 million for Jordan's jersey, But one-third less, you can get the undies. Yeah, but one everyone wants, and the other one, everyone, including Harry. wants to go away. Outside is some type of I don't know, weird thing to put in a bar. I believe that should go away.

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