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Rich Lowry at the bottom of the hour makes sense of what's going on right now. I love his last column. Across the world, environmentalists leave only misery in their wake. Because we are talking about green, green, green in the middle of an oil. and gas inflation cycle.

There is a market for this. There is a chance to talk about renewables. We're definitely in think tanks, in futuristic meetings, in conferences, maybe in Greenland or Iceland, but not in everyday America. But someone's got to tell the Democrats about that. We'll talk about all that too.

And of course, BrianKillmee.com. If you want to see me on stage, we've got four dates. We go live, have a chance for me to interact with you. We'll be in Newark, we'll be in Mississippi, be in Albany, New York, as well as Tulsa, Oklahoma. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. You're seeing ample evidence in the intelligence and in the public domain that Russia intends to try to annex additional Ukrainian territory. Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014. Let them win.

The vicious, thuggish, most overrated military in the world, the Russian army is making gains in Ukraine because the US and NATO are too slow to give the arms they need. Muscle them up now. Stop the slow bleed. Also, keep an eye on the Nord Stream pipeline because the next twenty four hours are crucial. Number two.

We believe it's shameful that some governors are using migrants as a political tool, as a political play. Yeah, really? Shameful? Shameful is leaving the border wide open with 4 million people coming through. A little help would help.

New York City Mayor Adams follows D.C. Mayor Bowser and is asking for some bucks for the illegals bust into New York City or flown into New York City.

Now they know what Texas and Arizona have been living with: an intentional Biden breakdown of the border. Number one. The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles. Yup, agenda revealed. Mayor Pete endorses Paint at the Pump, and in order to win over climate crazies in his party in our time of economic crisis, who stands in their way?

The courts, the EPA, and Joe Manchin.

So thankful for that.

So let's get started.

So, unbelievably, in a time in which we're gas in most places $5, a little over, a little under, we see a green agenda taking root. Again, President Biden is set to visit a closed power plant in Massachusetts sometime today, give a speech about the climate crisis, but will stop short. Of any emergency declaration until I think next week, and then he's going to come out with stuff. I mean, people are speculating about what he could be doing. They're talking about maybe $300 billion worth of subsidies to buy an electric car.

On average, they cost $65,000. Maybe you have one you can get for $42,000, not sure. But they're not made, they're not ready. We got 6,000 charging stations for an entire country with $5 a gallon gas with a way to, instead of drilling that down, Why are you looking for an alternative form of energy at this moment, which clearly is not ready to go, while walking away from nuclear for the most part and natural gas, ignoring that it burns clean?

So, yesterday, if you listen closely, the Secretary of Transportation, the most overrated politician in America, was asking for subsidies on Capitol Hill, at which time, He led his agenda, and President Biden's agenda leaked cut one. Is the Biden administration. actively pursuing high energy prices in order to force Americans into electric vehicles? Of course not. The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.

What? The more pain. For gas combustion engines, so more pain for those people driving around in cars. I think one not even 1% of the population has electric cars. Do you know most people on average are paying about $78,000, $67,000?

For the most part, for an electric car. Most people use it as a second car, not a first car.

Now, how many middle and working-class people do you know?

Well, middle, probably, working-class people do you know have an extra car? I'm not talking about a car for the drivers in your family. I'm talking about an extra car. That's who's buying electric cars.

So if you are the Democratic Party, formerly the working-class party, you are leaving all of them behind.

So they decide to spend yesterday putting down Joe Manchin for blowing up Build Back Better, which had all this green crap in it, and for not passing mini Build Back Better because we have inflation at 9%. He is actually the MVP of Democrats. He just doesn't realize it yet. Congressman Andy Levin, cut forward. But to me, Joe Manchin is Lucy.

He's not Joe Manchin anymore, he's Lucy Manchin. All he does is put the football down over and over and then as soon as Charlie Brown, like the ho his whole Democratic team, comes to kick the ball, he picks it up and laughs.

So the Supreme Court two weeks ago has said or three weeks ago now The EPA has been overstepping its bounds and starting to strangle coal and oil and gas producing states.

So they've been pushed back. Then Joe Manchin pushes back on the green agenda. And then next thing you know, They're left with one alternative, executive action. I'm not sure what he can do executively. But we're about to find out.

In terms of Joe Manchin? He was getting a lot of slings and arrows. Congressman Mondair Jones, as left as it gets, cut three. It's hard to think of someone who has been more effective at undermining a president of his own party than Senator Manchin. It's not fair to string people along for a year and not come to a conclusion.

It's not an appropriate Uh way to negotiate.

So that's it. Yeah, Mazzi Arono, great vocabulary. Senator Mart Hendrick, Martin Hendrick in between there. And then you have Mondeer Jones way in initially. Listen, because he doesn't agree with you.

Because he has a backbone, it doesn't mean he sucks. It doesn't mean he's bad. If he decides to switch parties like Robert Wright suggested yesterday, a left-wing former Treasury Secretary, or kicked out of a party or kicked out of his chairmanship, he'd be more than happy to go independent. And maybe caucus with the right. And then you could all move out of your big offices, especially the chairman, and into the smaller ones.

Because back in power will be the Republicans. For Joe Manchin, he is not backing down, and I don't even think he cares. Cut five. I never strung anybody along. I was the first one to raise the alarm on inflation.

I've done it well over a year ago. I saw all the signs and indications. I was told there were 17 Nobel laureates. I said, oh no, it's only transitory. I in my mind and what I understood and the people that have the knowledge, I could uh come to the conclusion that it wasn't going to be transferred as damaging.

And right now inflation is the number one damaging and uh damaging effect in our economy. It's affecting everybody. Hmm. Right. Remember the seventeen Nobel laureates?

What happened to them? Just like those fifty plus Intelligence experts, CIA directors. like Hayden, who I we were friendly with. Before we went over to CNN and the dark side. And Brennan, that told us the laptop was fake and typical Russian propaganda.

Where are the laureates? We're the experts. They just put their names out there. They back off the... Pedestrians in the press.

And then the wrongs this stuff comes out, proves them wrong and they disappear. Not Joe Manchin. He hasn't. And I've been on the Joe Manchin bandwagon. Everyone told me on the right he's going to cave.

He always cared. Not really. I never thought he always caved. There's stuff he doesn't agree with with President Trump. He thought the corporate tax rate reduction was too much.

He didn't want to see any decrease in the upper tax bracket. They took off 1%.

So he didn't vote for it.

Okay. Doesn't mean he's lying. And it doesn't mean he has nah, he's been st uh really stalwart. And the way he feels about all this.

So AOC writes this. Or she's quoted in the Independent saying this: Manchin has paused all action for the United States to act on climate for the next four years, so I don't think he has any authority to speak on climate for the rest of our term. Oh, really? That's not bad from the 34-year-old bartender. Declaring a national emergency provides the President broad authorization to act on climate.

I think it's an essential step, and we also need to hear what he plans to do with that.

So next week, the President acts alone, and the Senate is more than happy to let him act alone. How bizarre is that?

Now that I'm in office, in office, I spend zillions. Raising money, zillions of hours raising money and zillions To become in the Senate office, I'd like to diminish my impact by giving all my power to the president. That astounds us. Constitutional Attorney Jonathan Turley. He told this to Laura Ingram last night in Cut A.

They then went to Congress and sought climate change and other measures there. That was blocked by not just Joe Manchin, but about half of the Senate supported his position.

So what's the answer now?

Well, they're going back to where they began and said, well, the President should go at it alone. And in a Madisonian democracy, it's often as important how you do something as what you do. And going alone is counterintuitive to people who think they have pride in being a senator to cut nine. What they're arguing for is for basically a single-person government. They're asking for a president to yield this authority alone.

And that is a very dangerous thing. It's convenient, but it's a remarkably short-sighted viewpoint. And when you have these members of Congress calling for their own circumvention, their own planned obsolescence, it's something that James Madison would never have imagined. He believed that you could have ambition fighting ambition. But here, the ambition is to become a non-entity in our three-branch system.

It's bizarre. It's as if I just gave up a three hour radio show because I want someone else to do it because they have the same agenda. But if you don't want me to do it and they might have be more viewed as more powerful, why would I sideline my own career and diminish my own job description in order to push forward on an agenda That perhaps I agree with or don't. Politico writes this: the White House privately fumes about Manchin as the headline: quote: After bending to the Senator's demands, only to now twice watch it blow up the negotiations in spectacular fashion, even Biden has expressed puzzlement. The President has told Confidence that while he understands Manchin represents a deep red state, he can't fathom why he keeps torpedoing the party's best-laid plans.

As for Manchin himself, word has filtered through the West Wing that aides need to hold their fire on any attacks because they still think they could get something if they show that inflation is going in the right direction. I'm Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for listening. We have in 10 minutes, in 12 minutes. We have Rich Lowry, but in about four minutes, we have you.

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A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Killmeat Show. Tomorrow, we are expected, hopefully, to get the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany back online. But I want to make it very clear, guys, that even if it comes back, even if they restart it, it's not if, it's how much. It's unlikely Russia's gonna restart it to 100% flow.

Now, if they go at 40%, which is where they were before, Germany is still in a race to fill up its natural gas by winter. Why do we care in America? We care because this is Putin playing games, playing sort of puppet master, if you will, with Germany, which, by the way, Helmut Kohl, he said we should use Russian gas, but no more than 30%. Over 20 years after that, Germany went to 55% of its natural gas coming from Russia, coming from Putin.

Now that gas is at risk, guys. I can't overstate the economic story enough. I know it's a little bit wonky. The economists put it on their cover. If that pipeline does not come back on tomorrow, and there is no indication of when it will, You're going to see Germany immediately ration gas, shut down industries, businesses, maybe like this one, and force people to save gas for winter.

Well that's Brian Sullivan. Of MSNBC, and it is a big story. It's not wonky. It's very easy to understand that Angler Merkel, East German, probably had an affinity for Russia just because of the way they were set up with the Warsaw Pact. She takes over Germany and she would not listen to anybody, especially Donald Trump, who said, What are you doing?

Not only are you doing Nordstrom 1, which was a mistake, you're trying to do Nordstrom 2.

So Nordstrom 1 is now at the bottom of the sea. Nordstrom 2 is.

Now, Nordstrom 1 still has natural gas.

Now, Russia thinks they can do without Europe as a customer. Good luck with that. Eventually, they'll pay the price. But for now, we have to be an ally, get LNG quickly to Germany. Be the answer.

Save the day, like we have in the past, for the Germans so they hold the line against Russia. is so important. And by the way, we have to speed up the arms in the Ukraine to the Ukrainians to let them fight. They got a better fighting force. The Russians have to have a.

And fight incredible incentives, not quite doing a draft, incredible incentives to try to bolster their ranks. They're running out of people to fight. The deaths are mounting, but we are taking forever to get them the weapons, sophisticated weapons they need to fight off the Russians who can't fight head to head. They hit you with the artillery from afar until the whole city is razed, and then they'll go in. Steve listening online on the Fox News Radio app.

Hey, Steve. Hey, good morning, Brian.

So I just wanted to give you a little bit of information on Biden's trip here to Somerset to Brayton Point Power Plant.

So years ago when Brayton Point was a coal plant, the environmentalists absolutely hammered that plant. um and said we're not going to be happy until the coal's gone And let's change it over to L N G. They changed it over to L N G. And then they still weren't happy. They said that the water temperature in the Totten River.

where they were using their cooling. for the cooling for the uh the plant. Was too high in that it was killing the fish species in the river. They were probably right on that because there's a lot of people who talked about it.

So they made them spend billions of dollars to build these two massive cooling towers. that stretched up that looked like monstrosities. And anyone can go online and Google the destruction of the Somerset Power plant cooling. Towers online because it was everywhere. Because the towers, it was only good for five years.

The environmentalists didn't stop there, they wanted it closed. And what they did is they took jobs that were at that facility that were paying between $38 and $45 an hour. All gone. Hundreds and hundreds of people lost their jobs. I tried to get in there when I was younger as a plumber.

It was one of the most sought after companies to work for because they were good to their employees and they were good to the houses around there. And lo and behold, what it did to a great town like Somerset Which was probably one of the most sought after towns to live in because the houses were a little high, but the tax base was good because it had the power plant there to help them. When the power plant left, taxes on houses went from three thousand dollars a year to five thousand dollars a year. And the town basically had to suck up the rest of it.

Meanwhile, I ta I'll I'll uh our electricity went up point went up three percent. the minute the place closed.

Now we're lucky, we haven't had any brownouts. But these guys are never happy. They don't stop at anything. The money they made them waste to put up those cooling towers. But then Push him out was absolutely ridiculous.

And Steve, what you represent is not some elitist, some designer, some architect that or some industrial engineer that wants to design something. You represent somebody that wants a job and a career. and some certainty. And wants to be part of a town. And that's what happens.

They don't care about towns and communities. They want to make this transition for some type of global quest that nobody's on board with. And if you look at every study, you talk about green transition, it's about 11th or 12th. Number one is economic and inflation. Listen, stay right there.

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It's Brian Killmead. Is the Biden administration actively pursuing high energy prices in order to force Americans into electric vehicles? Of course not. The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles. Unbelievable.

That was agenda revealed yesterday. Rich Larry knew it ahead of time. He penned this column, abortion, excuse me, across the world. Environmentalists leave only misery in their wake. This green quest is not on America's agenda, but it's on a certain segment of America's agenda.

Number one, for most of us, it's not in the top 20. Rich Larry joins us now, editor of National Review. Rich, don't you think we got a lot out of that statement? Yeah, I mean, there's this contradiction where they want to pretend that they care about inflation and soaring energy prices, and Biden goes over and begs the Saudis to pump more oil. Not clear they will do it or can do it at the moment.

And then it comes back and it's all snapped back to this climate focus again, which depends on chasing the oil and gas industry out of business over the medium or the long term and making prices higher so renewables become relatively more affordable. I mean, so these things don't go together. You either want more oil and gas or you don't. And actually, at the end of the day, they don't.

So what kind of extreme measures, executive action, are they going to take for the climate crisis, close quote, air quotes, I should say, that he's going to announce next week? An executive action. It's going to be massive billions for subsidies for electric vehicles. What do you think is going to happen?

Well, it's unclear exactly what he can do while staying within the realm of the law. That hasn't stopped him before. You know, the rent moratorium he extended, even though it was clearly illegal, and then he got slapped down by the Supreme Court.

So I'm not sure what they can do exactly. Obviously, he can't spend money on his own. That is flatly unconstitutional. And it's just this whole way of trying to do business is deeply against the spirit of our system. We have a Congress, you know, and Congress passes the laws.

That's the way it's supposed to work. And if it doesn't pass the laws, well, it's too bad. You can try to elect new congressmen and senators. You can inveigh against them or you can move on and try something else. But you can't just do it on your own.

And this is the Obama pen and phone governance. And it just another way. It's so hypocritical. They say, you know, our democracy is under threat.

Well, we live in a constitutional democracy, and you have to honor the rules. Even if it doesn't go your way. And this is another instance where they're not. We have a great chance to get Europe forever off the dependence of Russia, oil, and gas, but they are quickly getting ahead of the game and beginning to shut it down. Nordstrom won now to Germany and the rest of Europe.

So this could be, they're asking immediate conservation as in today. Here's Brian Sullivan, MSNBC from Germany, CUD 27. Tomorrow, we are expected, hopefully, to get the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany back online. But I want to make it very clear, guys, that even if it comes back, even if they restart it, it's not if, it's how much. It's unlikely Russia's gonna restart it to 100% flow.

Now, if they go at 40%, which is where they were before, Germany is still in a race to fill up its natural gas by winter. Why do we care in America? We care because this is Putin playing games, playing sort of puppet master, if you will, with Germany, which, by the way, Helmut Kohl, he said we should use Russian gas, but no more than 30%. Over 20 years after that, Germany went to 55% of its natural gas coming from Russia, coming from Putin.

Now that gas is at risk, guys. I can't overstate the economic story enough. I know it's a little bit wonky. The economists put it on their cover. If that pipeline does not come back on tomorrow, and there is no indication of when it will, You're going to see Germany immediately ration gas, shut down industries, businesses, maybe like this one, and force people to save gas for winter.

Yeah, absolutely. And guess what? We could provide natural gas. We could go into emergency mode and be the supplier and save the Western world on energy and fortify the fight against Russia. What's the downside of answering Germany's call again?

Yeah, well just the idea that you have a twenty first century advanced economy in the middle of Europe that might have to shut down its industries because it doesn't have enough fuel is just astonishing and goes to three grievous mistakes Germany made. One, shutting down their nuclear power plants, no reason to do it. They have three more that the three last ones are shutting down by the end of the year even while all this is going on. And then rushing to renewables, which eventually may be cost effective and efficient but aren't now. And then just saying, okay, we'll import it all from Russia.

And I don't know whether Russia is going to cut it off now, but I think they're certainly going to squeeze and they may drastically diminish it or cut it off in the winter. And yeah, this is an emergency for the Western world. And it's the kind of thing that's going to cause a severe recession in Europe and elsewhere perhaps if it actually happens. And we should be on an emergency footing drilling and refining all that we can. And of course we're not.

Which we're not, but the president says the gas station owners are the problem, and the oil and gas industry, windfield profits are the issues. And he seems to be getting away with it. I think his 38% approval rating makes me think to a degree he is not. But to just totally not tell the truth, it's as if you're a football team and you say to everybody, If passing will get you close to the end zone, but you refuse to pass, and then blame your quarterback for not passing. They're not putting their off, they're not doing it with any vigor.

I just got to fast forward to. Also, related to this, Germany, for the most part, despite the hardships, only 22% of the German people want the government to curb support for Ukraine. 70% are still into this war. We are giving them weapons, but not enough for them to start pushing the Russians back. I believe, Rich, we got to either go all in or pull out the Himars.

Don't give them some. Give them what they need to be successful. They'll won't dissipate because they are showing that they're starting to push back in Kherson, which is a port city. They blew up a Russian radar system there. It's important for the world to see Ukraine make progress.

Yeah, so it makes no sense to be halfway in and give the Ukrainians just enough to lose slowly or have some sort of stalemate. At the same time, the Western world experiences all this economic pain.

So either do it or don't. And Biden has been in between, and they've just been slow approving these systems. And if you're going to give them four long-range rocket systems, give them 60. You've already crossed the threshold.

So give them what they need to try to hold on or push back in the South and the East, and then maybe get a deal. I mean, this war is good for no one, except for maybe Putin's grandiose ambitions, but even those haven't turned out very well. And we're eventually going to need a settlement. Maybe the Ukrainians can have an outright victory, but that seems not very likely. And you're going to have to have a settlement.

And the better Ukrainians are doing on the battlefield, the better that settlement will be. I want you to do what Michael White said now with Yahoo. He said this about what Ukraine could be ready to do right now, Cut 25. I'm looking at a map of artillery strikes, comparing them from early in this month and early July, the first week, against what we see now. And really, there's been a kind of drying up of Russian battery and fire offensive in Donbas.

And this is a result of their so-called operational pause in the campaign. I read that also as essentially the high-mobility artillery systems that the U.S. has provided Ukraine, known as HIIMARS, have really packed a punch. These things have taken out ammunition depots, command centers, killing as many as 12 Russian military officers, including one general. The Russians really have no Viable response for these NATO standardized artillery systems.

And so in Donbas, the situation is more or less stabilized, and indeed, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian forces said as much. And then you watch Vladimir Putin land in Iran, another pariah of a nation, and his right side seems frozen. And he's walking with a limp. Yeah. It's not very encouraging.

It's not a transparent political culture. Obviously, we're not going to know what's going on with Vladimir Putin until he drops dead, you know, when and if he does. But um the the Institute for the Study of War, you know, General Keene's outfit, they they had posted an analysis yesterday where they're saying that the Russian play might be to annex the territory they now control, say they're Russian territory, and say if you hit and try to take them back, we'll nuke you. Interesting. That shows a desperation, doesn't it?

And it shows the most overrated army in the world is the Russian army. Yeah, they're overrated, but they've managed to grind out these gains because they were winning the artillery war because they just outgunned the Ukrainians, and that's been somewhat balanced now as we're just discussing. But if you're going to give them four, give them a lot more. Give them all that they need. As we look at midterm elections, the Democrats now have two issues: guns.

and Roe v. Wade. The Republicans have the economy, and the And just about everything else.

Well, how do you see this playing out, being that we're still in July?

Well, there is some sign that the Democrats have made a little progress motivating their side and especially motivating now that they're base voters, college educated whites, over the issue of Guns Row and January 6th is in there. As well, and some signs there's a little separation between just Biden just continuing to Circle the toilet and the generic ballot, which is holding up a little bit better for Democrats. I just can't believe that they'll be able to survive the deluge that's coming. I mean, there's no way you have a president at 38 where at least everyone in that, every vulnerable member of the House caucus will be totally wiped out. Maybe they'll do a little better in the Senate.

You know, Senate candidates can establish more of their profile, and you have some problematic Republican candidates. But even there, I think it's just going to be really tough.

So, obviously, you know, they're doing everything they can, but I think at the end of the day, it's grasping at straws. Quick thing: Dan Cox won yesterday. He's a conservative who believes that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. Donald Trump took the state lawmaker and backed him. He is a big opponent of the Republican governor, Governor Hogan, who's an enemy of Trump.

If you guys are following this at home, so right away, Democrats put at least a million dollars to get Dan Cox the nomination, like they did Mastriano. But get this, Rich. Mastriano is in almost a dead heat in Pennsylvania. What is going on? Yeah.

Well, one, if you think democracy is under threat from these sort of candidates, you don't support them, right? You don't cynically try to boost them in Republican primaries, which is what we're seeing all over the map. Masriano, you know, Pennsylvania, purplish State has a real shot to win. I don't think there's any way Dan Cox is winning down in Maryland. It would have been hard.

This is one of those states, really deeply blue, has a Republican governor who just happens, by happenstance, winning the first time and then just his political persona to be a good fit for a Republican. It's hard to replicate that in Maryland, even in the best of circumstances, with the best of candidates. But the Democrats are playing a deeply cynical game. Just looking at some of the money, Herschel Walker is being outraised by Warnock, $14 million to $8 million. Marco Rubio has gotten $12 million in small donations.

Democratic Challenge of Aleademics has more than double that. Senator Ron Johnson has brought in $5 million. The Democratic, they say three potential Democratic challengers have brought in more than that. A lot of money has been poured in against him. Do you see why it is if the Republicans have the momentum, the Democrats seem to have the dollars?

They do. I'm not sure why. In an environment like this, it doesn't make a huge difference. But still, if you're any candidate, you want more resources rather than less. And as Carl Rove was pointing out on America's Newsroom, I think it was yesterday, Lindsey Graham was outspent in that South Carolina race because every Democrat in the country decided they hated Lindsey Graham and wanted to make a statement against him and maybe believe that he could be beaten.

And there was a poll or two that had it close, but at the end of the day, it wasn't going to happen. You have to go to South Carolina. And I just think the environment is going to overwhelm most every factor this year. By the way, real egregious here. Mark Kelly's reelection has raised $23 million.

The other potential GOP challenges, Blake Masters, Jim Laman, Mark Bradovich, have a total of two.

So we'll see. Stunning disparity. And that's a close race where the money could make a difference. And by the way, Mark Kelly has done nothing.

So you thought he'd be a moderate, and maybe he be what Cinema is doing. He has done nothing. Lately, he's been going to the border a few times in a jean shirt. But for the most part, he has been just done a terrible job. He does not deserve to keep it, in my opinion.

Rich, thanks so much. Hey, thanks so much, Brian. Have a great week. You got it. 1-866-408-7669.

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It's Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. Seeing and watching this administration, I don't think they have any original ideas about how to deal with this. We have a lot of solutions in this country. Based centrally on fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels have changed more people's lives in a positive way than any other substance in the world, any other technology in the world. We've got small modular reactors, these are walkaway, safe nuclear reactors. And our federal government's just dragging their feet, slow playing it. If you're looking for the answers, Mr. President, they're right here in America.

You could open up the XL pipeline. You could open up our offshore drilling and our federal lands.

So he also went on to say in the Rick Perry interview on Fox and Friends, which you just heard, Secretary of Energy and former Governor of Texas, that they're looking to get they got these very affordable smaller nuclear power plants that they're putting together. And he says, listen, from what I see right now, we could start trying to get allocated to be able to do our own Power grid. And what they would do is be nuclear powered. And they are so Affordable, he says. Safe.

and deployable, my words, That we could do it right away, but you just can't do the federal bureaucracy with nuclear energy is so thick right now, it makes it tough, but it could also immediately help Europe. Let's go to Chris. Listen on W DBR. I was on there this morning in Orlando. Hey, Chris.

Hey, Brian. I first want to start by saying I believe in all energy. Um tomorrow's my forty-sixth birthday and since the late eighties and early nineties All I've heard about is climate change and that You know, we have rising waters and more fires. More earthquakes, I'm in Florida, more hurricanes, more severe. And I've heard from Don Kerry and AOC the world's coming to an end and it's completely under uh the environment's unpredictable.

These same people are Are saying that we have to depend 100% on the set environment that they've been telling me my whole life. I'm just confused. How are we supposed to live? If our environment is so unpredictable and dangerous, unjust renewable energy should be everything. Chris, they made it a religion.

So, you can't even talk to them. You can't say, let's be practical. Obviously, Republicans don't say oil and gas or bus. They say the same thing you're saying. All of the above, let's push it and make it more affordable.

You give me an electric car. I went and bought a hybrid in 2008 during the collapse of everything. And you know what they offered? In New York State, they gave you these passes. You had to apply for it.

And they let you use the carpooling. And I think it saved me about four miles per gallon tops, not that much. It was an SUV. But I went out and bought it on my own. I said, well, you know, incentivize, maybe I can burn clean.

Maybe I could go further on the hybrid technology. If you give me a choice, F-150 or the F-150 Lightning, I'll make my own choice. But if you're going to vilify me for choosing the other way, not make the other one so expensive I can't get it, and then make me feel bad that I don't have it, and then say, take the bus if you don't have the money.

Now you got me angry. And that's when I go into my corner. I go, I'm going to do my own thing. Because you guys are militant, you're not practical, you're not living in this world. And the guy in charge of all this, and thanks for the call, Chris.

Is flying around on a private jet anywhere he wants 'cause he married a billionaire in the Heinz, the woman fro who owns the Heinz family, who owns all the ketchup and mustard and relish you can imagine.

So he could fly around on a private jet, live this great life. while destroying ours. And when he's not on that, He's on a yacht. But that's the climates are, and I'm supposed to sacrifice, or I'm selfish, forget it. Thanks for listening, Brian Kilmiche.

Live from the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, fresh off the set of Fox and Friends, it's America's receptive voice. How about Brian Killie? Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show. It's going to be a big hour. Going to be dealing with Dan Bilak soon, you know, Bilak, I should say, former chief investment advisor to the prime minister of Ukraine, back in the Ukraine now, head of Ukraine Invest.

They need some money for this project. They got to win. They got to get back on the offensive, and signs are they're beginning to do that. And David Sokol's here, chairman, CEO of Teton Capital, chairman of the board of Atlas Corp, chairman of also CEO of NetJets, and former Berkshire Hathaway, as where he was CEO there, and author of a brand new book, American Perspective: Defending the American Dream for the Next Generation. Before we talk to David, let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. You're seeing ample evidence in the intelligence and in the public domain that Russia intends to try to annex additional Ukrainian territory. Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014. Down with John Kirby, of course, let them win.

The vicious, thuggish, most overrated military in the world. The Russian army is making gains in Ukraine because the U.S. and NATO are too slow to give them the arms they need, muscle them up, and stop the slow bleed. Also, keep an eye on the Nord Stream pipeline over in Germany because the next 24 hours are crucial. Number two.

We believe it's shameful that some governors are using migrants as a political tool, as a political play. Really? How about leaving the border wide open for two years? I think that's shameful. A little help would help.

New York City Mayor Adams follows D.C. Mayor Bowser and is asking for some bucks for some illegals busted into New York City and flown into Westchester.

Now they know what Texas and Arizona have been living with for the last two years. An intentional Biden breakdown at the border. Number one. The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles. Really?

Did you just reveal your agenda? Mayor Pete endorses Pain at the Pump in order to win over climate crazies in his party in our time of economic crisis. Who stands in their way? The courts, the EPA, and Joe Manchin.

All right, David, take that on. You heard what Mayor Pete just said, right? The pain at the pump will force you to an electric car, which will cost you, on average, $65,000. How many working-class, middle-class people have $65,000 laying around right now?

Well, and not only that, but the trick that he's playing on the American people is they want oil prices and natural gas prices higher. They've made it very clear, and the progressive left's made it very clear. They can't actually say that. No, they come very close, to be honest. I've sat in meetings where progressives have said, we hope the oil goes to $250 a barrel because it'll force people off of it.

The problem is, what they're not telling people. Is electricity. As soon as, if they ever actually have a plan to create enough electricity to move all those cars to electricity, Cost of electricity is not going to be cheap. We may look back at $5 gasoline in a conventional car to be to be cheap, because the only way we could ever get to fully zero CO two in the US and globally is an enormous investment in nuclear power. More infrastructure from a transmission and distribution standpoint, and we are decades away from that.

And there is progress with nuclear power, but there's got to be a willingness to use it. After the tsunami that's blanketed Japan, Europe said, okay, I've seen enough, I'm not doing that anymore. And now they're going back to it to a degree, right? Exactly.

Now, the problem is that we've allowed the progressives, and particularly the environmental progressives, to say, Climate change is the existential issue of our planet. We hear AOC say it, Bernie Sanders and all kinds of others. But at the same time, they say, but you can't use nuclear power. Nuclear power is safe, it can be utilized, and has to be utilized if this is really the issue. And I'll take them seriously, I'll take environmentalists seriously when they say two things.

They believe CO2 is the existential threat, and we have to use every tool at our disposal to get there, which We can't do it without nuclear power. Right. And David, could you tell our audience your experience in energy? You've spent 40 years in this business, right? Yes.

I've been fortunate to start a company back in 1983, but in the electricity, natural gas industry that entire period. A second company that I was CEO of, we sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2000, a great company today known as Berkshire Hathaway Energy, over $100 billion in assets in both utilities and natural gas pipelines and storage. And we had, and they continue to have. My partner still runs it, Greg Abel, a phenomenal executive. We had a firsthand seeded the lack of any plan for this environmental transition.

That's what's really funny. I mean, they talk about the Green New Deal. There is no deal. And really, it comes around, Brian, as to why Adam and I wrote this book. It's to get people to understand the President of the United States, acting on his own, does not have the right to force-feed us a change in environmental and energy policy.

We have a Congress for a reason that was established under our Constitution. That requires consensus. And thank God for Joe Manchin. But that's the key issue: we've got to get back to where we actually, if we're going to do this, we have a plan. And, David, you're referring to the fact that President Biden said to visit a closed power plant today in Massachusetts and give a speech about the climate crisis, but will stop short of an emergency declaration until maybe next week.

Nobody knows exactly what executive action he is going to put out there.

Some say he is going to get $300 billion and put it towards subsidies to get people to use some type of electric car grant or something to that nature. Do you have any idea what the executive branch is capable of doing?

Well, there it it seems as though they're capable of thinking they can do anything. And it'll take the courts to slap the back. The problem is, all this is political showboating. We're not doing anything. following any plan that's going to take us to zero emissions.

The President and John Kerry, his environmental czar, said two weeks ago that if China and India and the rest of the world don't follow what we do, America will have wasted its money. And that's exactly right.

So, why don't we start with a plan, first of all, that we sell to the American people through the congressional process? And that has to include that we have a full commitment from the other partners around the globe because CO2 doesn't know where it's where it gets to the point. Can I stop you there? You know, Russia and China are not people that are even going to, I don't care what they say, they're not going to do it. And if that's the case, is India capable of doing it?

And if that's the case, we should take modest steps over time to reduce our own CO2 as it makes sense. Which we are doing. Which we are doing, but we should stop all this rush until there is a global commitment to do this. And by the way, if the environmental groups truly believe that the science shows them that this is the existential threat of our time, The fact that they can't convince other countries to take it seriously tells you something. And the reality, President Biden said something else a few weeks ago, actually last year, where he said, we have to prove to China that we can make decisions as fast as they can.

No, we don't. They're a dictatorship. We are a consensus-based of the people republic. And we cannot allow our executive to decide that he is now the president of China. He's not.

Great point. And I know it is frustrating to be in a democracy. I know President Obama has talked about that. President Trump has talked about that. But you've got to get consensus.

You're not the king. That's just the way we set it up. I kind of like the way it's set up. You're buddies with Joe Manchin. Do French for him?

Yes, he's a great guy.

So, Joe Manchin's getting a lot of heat in the left. I don't think he cares. But he did say this yesterday, cut six. People that are criticizing me, my own colleagues, I understand that. I understand their aspirations.

I understand where they're coming from. You know, I'm not, I don't represent the the states they represent, and the people I have are hardworking people that are getting hurt hard at the grocery store, they're getting hit hard at the gas station, and everything they pay for it. With that, the criticism I'm getting Uh that people are saying with Joe Manchin's strings that I'm a string y'all. Don't you believe inflation is the number one thing in America right now that's hurting every human being, and especially those on the totem pole?

So people think I'm just worried about this and that and everything else, I'm worried about the person that can't feed their family, can't basically put gas in their car to go to work, and having a hard time paying utility bills, which is incessity.

So I'm sorry, if they don't care about that, I do. I'm more concerned about that than anything else. Where's the political agenda there? It's a practical agenda. And the other thing he went on to say, and another soundbite, is that where the 17 Nobel laureates who said that inflation was going to be transitory, we don't really know where they are.

They're probably the same place as the Intel experts that told us that Hunter Biden's laptop was fake and Russian disinformation. But he's being somewhat sarcastic, saying, are you guys for real here? You have a theory, and we got reality. No, that's right. And not only that, and by the way, I compliment Senator Manchin enormously.

He has also stood up for the filibuster. He's really the only, perhaps one other Democratic senator. That is critical to our democracy. The filibuster, the founding fathers, when they established the Constitution, wanted a consensus government of the people, the only nation in the history that's ever done that. It takes 75% of the states to ratify a constitutional amendment.

It takes two-thirds to impeach someone of the Senate and 60 votes in a filibuster. Joe respects that, even though the unbelievable pressure that the left is giving him, he cares about the average person. And he talked about some of those folks who have voters in their states that don't care about those things. They have blue-collar workers as well. And it's a shame because who's getting hurt today by these crazy policies?

Lower and middle-income Americans, the very people that this administration says they care about. Energy expert David Sokol is our guest. His book is called American Perspective: Defending the American Dream for the Next Generation.

So, David, a couple of things. I have never worked in the natural gas business. But after talking to so many people in the Trump administration, it was so hopeful to get LNG terminals set up in Europe. Isn't this a time in which we could again save Europe once again with the fracking of natural gas that we have and the need that they have? And with the Russians cutting them off again, couldn't we have all hands on deck to be the provider of natural gas to Europe?

Absolutely. The irony of this is, yes, we could, but right now, with the imposition of all the rules and all of the demagogue against the fossil fuel industry. It stops us getting a pipeline from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts? That's right. But all of a sudden, it's okay for us to go to Saudi Arabia and ask for oil.

It's okay for us to ship American energy to Europe while we're decreasing our own supply. That's insanity. The reality is, at the end of the Trump administration, we were energy independent, and in fact, we could go up another 2 million barrels a day comfortably in the next two years. Had we continued those policies. The 15 million?

That's right. We're actually moving backwards towards 10. And it's just crazy. You have to transition. And can I stop you there?

Because people listening at home who aren't in this business and doing 25 things at once from being a parent to being a worker say, didn't we hear the President of the United States say the problem is the oil and gas companies who insist on making windfall profits during this time? And how dare they? And the gas station owner? Can you bring practicality to that statement? Yeah, it's nonsense.

First of all, for the president to spend his vice president years and now his president years bashing the fossil fuel industry, threatening Exxon and Chevron that he'll put them out of business and everyone else in that sector, and then to blame them when prices go up is absurd. Um are they making more money? because of what he's done. It isn't something they wanted to do. They want to produce more oil, but they're not being allowed to.

And they're not making bets on the future because they're being told they have no future. And all of this is being done without the American people's support. The poll after poll shows that the American people do not want to see us destroy our economy. You know, it's this entire policy towards, I think of it as somebody getting a transfusion because they've got a serious medical disease. They put a port in to take the bad blood out and they put a port in to put healthy blood in.

The problem is the Biden administration is taking the blood out but has no plan to replace the blood. And a lying about That they are trying to replace the blood and saying somebody else is stopping it, which I think is, that's what I'm saying. For you, the energy expert, it must be maddening. For outsiders who just want the result, it's confusing because we hear the president say, you guys are making too much money. You gas station owners, stop hoarding the profits.

You know, we've been paying money off, take the per barrel off. It should be coming off, the cent should be coming off the gallon. And it's just not right. And I just think they're taking Americans' lack of expertise on energy for granted. And I'm just wondering this question.

We'll go to break, and hopefully, you'll have a few minutes for us. Do you think Joe Biden intentionally knows he's not telling the truth, or is he just clueless about your business?

Well, to be honest, he seems to be clueless generally. The real question to me is who is making these decisions? I don't think it's the president or the vice president. It's some folks. It doesn't seem to be Granholm.

She doesn't even seem to know energy. No, it's some folks behind them. No, the entire cabinet. I mean, one of the real dangers we have right now is this identity politics. You know, being a woman, being a man, being gay, being transgender, those aren't qualifications.

That's who you are. Qualifications are education, time in the private sector, running something, be responsible. We have an administration that has none of that. And because of identity politics, they won't replace anybody. And so we are stuck in a very ugly situation.

And they're stuck with the worst press secretary ever because she's the first lesbian African American instead of someone like Kate Benningfield, in my humble opinion, who would have been light years better, or Admiral Kirby, who is light years better. They're always looking to fill, you know, to check a box rather than do what's best. In my opinion, David's going to stick around. We're going to continue to get his expertise. I also want you to weigh in on what's happening in Germany right now because it matters today.

And then Daniel Bilak will be joining us from Ukraine. Brian Kilmicho. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know, it's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Tomorrow, we are expected, hopefully, to get the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany back online. But I want to make it very clear, guys, that even if it comes back, even if they restart it, it's not if, it's how much. It's unlikely Russia's gonna restart it to 100% flow.

Now, if they go at 40%, which is where they were before, Germany's still in a race to fill up its natural gas by winter. Why do we care in America? We care because this is Putin playing games, playing sort of puppet master, if you will, with Germany, which, by the way, Helmut Kohl, he said we should use Russian gas, but no more than 30%. Over 20 years after that, Germany went to 55% of its natural gas coming from Russia, coming from Putin.

Now that gas is at risk, guys. I can't overstate the economic story enough. I know it's a little bit wonky. The economists put it on their cover. If that pipeline does not come back on tomorrow, and there is no indication of when it will.

You're going to see Germany immediately ration gas, shut down industries, businesses, maybe like this one, and force people to save gas for winter. Brian Sullivan reporting on for another network, used to be with Fox from Langerfield, Germany. With me right now is still with us is David Sokol. David, your reaction to this energy into story in with Russia and Germany and Europe?

Well, it's it's an example of this rush to to without a plan deal with CO two. Germany shut down its nuclear plants, shut down its coal plants and decided to tether itself to an unstable neighbor. The Trump administration tried in every way possible to convince then Chancellor Merkel that that is a serious mistake. They weren't listening to it. That was North Stream two.

This is Nord Stream one. Right. So what could we do? What can they do? We need to, again, have a plan in the first place, but also increase our fossil fuel production here, be able to share it with our friends and neighbors around the world that need it through LNG.

It's much cleaner than coal. And move forward and help them and keep people from making decisions to do away. You know, energy is the lifeblood of an economy. When you lose control of it, you're giving other people control of your economy. That's why it's so stupid for America to no longer be self-sufficient and basically turn this over to China and Russia.

I know you don't know Russia's economy. You have 30 seconds. Why would they allow why would they lose their best customer intentionally?

Well, dictators do things for reasons that I don't think those of us that believe in a democracy can really get our mind around. It clearly isn't based on solid economic discussion. America in perspective, defending the American Dream for the Next Generation. David Sokol, thanks so much. I appreciate it.

Hopefully, we'll talk to you again. Thank you, Brian. Where do we get this? Amazon would be the quickest way to do it or through freedomworks.org. Fantastic.

David, thanks. When we come back, we go to the Ukraine. Daniel Bilak will be with us. He'll tell us what's happening in that war. There's some reasons to believe that Ukraine could get back on the offensive.

We'll see. Radio that makes you think this is the Brian Kill Me Show. The Nord Stream pipeline was down in part because one of its turbines, this big engine basically, had to be sent to Canada to be fixed. The turbine is German by Siemens, the German company. They can only repair it in Canada.

They had to take it out of the Russian pipeline, but Canada wouldn't take it directly because of sanctions.

So they had to go through Germany and bring it back. The Canadian people were really ticked off at Justin Trudeau saying, We've got these sanctions on Russia, and now you're allowing a Canadian factory to repair one of the machines that makes Vladimir Putin's energy monopoly operate. But then Trudeau apologized. He said, basically, he blamed it on sort of Germany. Germany basically asked us to do it, and we want to do it because they need to keep the natural gas flowing.

Vladimir Putin has Germany on a string, guys, and he's kind of playing with that tap to see how much the West might give back. He's ticked off about Germany and Europe's and the West's support for Ukraine with weapon systems and whatever. And if he's messing with that tap and putting literally lives at risk in Germany, So it's very interesting.

So I hope you're able to follow that because it matters. Also, here's something really encouraging: despite all this heartache, they could be staring straight at Germans' face.

So far, only 22% of the country wants to scale back their support for Ukraine. 70% wanted to continue to show support for Ukraine in every way possible. Daniel Bilek has to feel good about that. Chief Investment Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine and head of Ukraine Invest, he is in Ukraine right now. Daniel, welcome back.

Thanks for having me again, Brian.

So Daniel, first off, without leading the witness, what are things like on the ground? I'm seeing some signs that you guys are moving forward in Kearson. Yes, yes. I mean, this is this is like a slow moving drama, where we're starting to get the upper hand in no small measure because we've now started to get really good kit from the US, these IMARs. uh uh multi uh launch rocket systems.

And we've started to we've been able to go after their supply lines and their and their ammo depots and their and their food storage and everything else, which is freaking them out because before our shells didn't have we we probably had because we were using Soviet era artillery and it had a range of about twenty kilometers. And now with the Highmars, we can go to up to eighty, I think. And so that that's starting to have an impact. But You know, Brian, we we have a a front line of over fifteen hundred miles. That's longer than Boston to Miami.

And to date, we've got sixteen High Mars units. And, you know, we need a lot more to really make a difference and start to take our country back. We need more and we need it faster. Yeah, I want to pick that up too, but I want to go back to the original soundbite, and that is Brian Sullivan, the reporter in Germany, talking about this need to get these turbines for Germany for Russian gas to flow. How do you feel about that?

Well yeah. I I don't feel very good about it. In fact, I'm I'm suing the Canadian government over this. I filed an application in in federal court last week to force the Canadian government to reconsider and to cancel the permit. I mean, you know, President Zelensky has said we need three things.

We've been consistent with this over and over again. We need weapons. We need the right weapons at the right time and the right quantities to make a difference. We need financial assistance to keep our economy afloat. And we need absolute ironclad sanctions.

We were told by the United States and the other allies that sanctions were crucial To be implemented in order to degrade Putin's war machine and to make it impossible for him to wage war both on Ukraine and on other, including NATO countries that are in his sights. And Canada had actually put together some pretty robust I'm a Canadian. I mean, I was pretty proud that we'd put together a really robust sanctions machine and a regime. And the first time it gets challenged, we roll it back. And you know, Brian, this isn't just about a turbine, okay?

And this this isn't benign because you know, in in addition to the other things I do here, I'm a member of the Territorial Defense Forces.

So I'm in a line defending my region and my town. And every dime, every penny that goes to Gazprom from Germany is essentially financing international terrorism and is financing Putin's war machine so that he can drop more bombs on my head, my family's head and the heads of other Ukrainians. And this is what I really wanted to challenge because it didn't make any sense. And you know, this stuff about that Putin said that and Germany's position was, well, if we don't get this turbine, we can't they can't run the whole pipeline and the we won't get gas and we're all gonna freeze.

Well, it turns out that the gut pipeline is supposed to be turned on tomorrow, Thursday, and this turbine is a spare part that isn't supposed to be put online until September. And so I want to ask the court and ask the federal government. Right, what the hell's going on? You know, what was, yeah, what was the rush?

So we understand that they are looking to the Russians have a plan. This is their plan so far. Tell me what you think of what John Kirby said yesterday, cut 20. We have information today, including from downgraded intelligence, that we're able to share with you. About how Russia is laying the groundwork to annex Ukrainian territory that it controls in direct violation of Ukraine's sovereignty.

We are seeing ample evidence in the intelligence and in the public domain that Russia intends to try to annex additional Ukrainian territory. Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014. What do you think about that? They're going to just start annexing things, they're bringing in Russian teachers, they're changing courtesy to rubles, they're putting in their own proxy mayors. Is this happening?

Well, yes, it's happening. This is straight out of there as your as mister Kirby said, straight out of the Russian playbook. None of this is a surprise. What is not happening is that they're not really getting much traction on this. Uh they can they can plan and do everything that they want, but they need people to play ball with.

And so far, especially in Kherson and Zaporizhia, which are the two areas where they're desperate to try to annex. The people have been very passive-aggressive at the least. And we have a strong partisan movement that guys are out there killing these collaborationists and the mayors and that kind of stuff to the extent that nobody from who is even favorable to Russia in those communities wants to take on these positions because it's too dangerous.

So they're bringing people in from Russia. I mean, look, you know, thi this is this this is this is obviously, you know, they'll they'll ratchet it up. But it comes back to the issues of weapons and sanctions. And if we can have the right weapons, we get them ASAP, we'll drive these guys out of Khatrasan and Zerborizia. I mean, Brian, this this war could be over the Defense Minister, Olekti Reznikov, said yesterday that this war could be over by December.

if we get everything that we need in the time that we we need it. And you know, for some reason, you know, the US has been great and the American people have been fantastic.

Something seventy percent of Americans uh back Ukraine in this uh in in this in this conflict. I don't think there's seventy percent of Americans that can agree on anything together. Yeah. But I you know, we're we're extremely grateful. And and you know, they for some reason, we've only received 40% of what's been promised.

So I don't know whether it's bureaucracy. 40% of American promises or 40% of NATO promises. American. American. Unbelievable.

Yeah, so I'm not sure what's going on, but we'd really like to have that moved up as quickly as possible.

Well, who do you talk to? We're talking to Daniel Billak, the former chief investment advisor to the Prime Minister.

Now you have a key. Who could you talk to on the American side? And are they admitting that it's moving too slow or not coming at all?

Well, I've I've been talking to to people I know in uh In Congress and who are people who watch this stuff carefully and in think tanks and things like that.

So, I mean, all this is being monitored. It's not hard to do. Um but So, the Kyiv Independent is reporting that the U.S. will give Ukraine more high Mars. And they expect to announce a new package of military aid to Ukraine this week.

So hopefully, not only will we promise it, we'll deliver it because they are working.

So I think for the American people and for your cause and for practical purposes too, people like to see Ukraine take some land back And do you believe that Kearson might be the first area in which we could see you guys regaining considerable land or maybe a city? Yeah. adjacent uh provinces uh they're dug in the least but they're also being supplied they're connected to where kherson is connected to crimea and that's where they're coming from so you know it comes back to these these these high mars and and more of this long-range artillery that we can as we advance and we're taking we're taking a number of towns and villages we've got a couple of hundred you know it's we're moving slowly and advancing in that in that area and you know the closer we we we get the more the more in range are the are the russian uh supply supply lines and eventually you know i hope that we're going to start taking them out in crimea Because that's Ukrainian sovereign land. It's not Russian territory. And so we promised the Americans apparently that we wouldn't bomb Russian territory with their equipment, but Crimea is Ukrainian land.

And the US is it's in I've heard it before, I really won't believe it, but in it to win it. And if we get what we really need, the American people will see a free, prosperous, independent Ukraine, which is exactly kind of values that Americans And Daniel, you can't have your hands in everything, but I'm sure you know that Turkey and the U and the Russians are speaking about allowing the Black Sea to open up, see your grain to be delivered and released. Where is that at? Yeah, I think they're close to some sort of an agreement. And then Putin came out today and said that, yeah, that's great.

We'll let the grain through. But by the way, you've got to take the sanctions off or remove the sanctions from Russian food products and grain so that we can export around the world.

So that's not a huge surprise. I don't know how they're going to square that circle. But again, he's chipping away. He sees that he got something on the turbine. He sees that he'll play for everything he can get to weaken the sanctions regime.

And if that sanctions regime gets weakened, it means money flows into his treasury. It means he kills more Ukrainians. He does. And the other thing would be, of course, the firing of two ministers, I guess. Do you have some traitors in your midst?

Do you know anything about the people that Zelensky has gotten rid of? Uh was the head of the uh uh The Security Service of Ukraine and the head of the prosecutor's office. Uh, sort of like the FBI and the two branches of the FBI, if you like. You know, it it's still kind of uh murky, but it looks as if uh there were a lot of uh people it it's not surprising that the Russians would have tried to infiltrate those two uh organizations because they have uh access to uh really sensitive materials and there's been lots of talk in the press that the recent kherson was rolled by the Russians coming up from Crimea was that they were tipped off where all the minefields were and the key positions of Ukrainian defenders. And so that made their their their job considerably easier.

So all of this is is being played out as we speak. Daniel Bilak, thanks so much. I hope these high mars get there. I hope there could be some pressure to get the stuff that we've given, the money that's been allocated to the people that are fighting to win. Daniel, thanks so much.

Stay safe. Thank you. God bless the American people. I hear you. 1-866-408-7669.

When we come back, I'll take your calls not only about what's happening in the war, what I told you also with one of the nation's premier oil and gas experts, energy experts, David Sokol. We've given you a lot. I do want to hear what you have to say because the administration is not on the same page on anything we just went over. What do you think? Don't move.

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if Iran has a nuclear weapon. That's the goal of the Iran deal. You think so? Thanks. The goal of the Iran deal is ridiculous.

The trust of pariah nation is already, well, whoever weaponized uranium at 68%. And the deal that's on the table is absolutely against our national interests.

Meanwhile, just a quick note: I'm going to be going back live on stage to be able to talk about America, the history the way it actually was, as opposed to what we're learning in schools, and also talk about Fox and everything else. It's kind of America great from the start with the mix of winning the war on terror, and it's fun.

So, Newark, New Jersey, August 27th, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, all WABC. RCN listeners, hope to see you out there. That's Saturday. Albany, New York, the next week, September 8th, the egg. And then don't forget, I have not been to Mississippi.

I've only been there a couple of times, but I can't wait to go back to Brandon, Mississippi, November 12th at City Hall Live. And then Tulsa, Oklahoma, KRMG at the Cox Convention Center. These are big venues. I want to give plenty of time to fill them up. Hope to see everybody out there and about VIP.

Opportunities where I could actually talk to you ahead of time, KRMG listeners, especially over there.

So that is absolutely true. The Iranian deal is very much on the table, and I think it's kind of sad that it's on the table. We don't know the details of it. We know that this by 2030 has not been walked back. If Iran stays away from a nuclear weapon, even though they've shut out the cameras, they shut off the cameras currently, there are no inspectors there.

By 2030, they get a trillion dollars. You believe that? We're giving people a trillion dollars not to build a nuclear weapon.

So why wouldn't everybody do the same thing? Because you can get free money from the American people to do something you shouldn't be doing to begin with anyway, because it's a violation of international law.

So that's the agenda. I also thought this poll was pretty interesting. You know how we've been talking this hour about this green agenda, about these green policies, not drilling at home, not investing in oil and gas, and not going for nuclear energy, not going for fracking, which is natural gas, which burns clean. The American people are on to this. A CNN poll.

Sixty eight per cent of American adults when surveyed said the President does not share their priorities. That's exactly what we've been saying. They do not share the priorities. We don't even understand where it's coming from. And that's we're just talking about energy.

let alone talking about what's happening at the border, shutting that down. Here's what Michael Weiss said about the President's visit to Iran yesterday. That is President Putin. Twenty-four. If Putin feels the need to go to Tehran and sort of kiss the ring, the Ayatollah, as it were, and beg for military and diplomatic support, I mean, there's rumors, the U.S.

intelligence suggests that the Russians might be seeking Iranian drones to beef up their war effort in Ukraine. That's not the kind of situation Putin wanted to find himself in six months into this campaign. As I say, I mean, it shows that Russia is kind of running out of options. Putin himself came out just two days ago and said that sanctions are beginning to take a major bite out of Russia's tech sector.

Well, by that, I read it as also taking a major bite out of their military-industrial complex. Precision-guided munitions, for instance, all the electronics of these things tend to come from the European Union and the United States.

So he's looking for other markets, essentially, to keep his war machine going. And he's finding it in the Middle East. He's finding it in Israel. I hope Israel is just not, maybe not taking a stance in the war. I hope Israel's not Sharing technology with them.

India's buying their oil, China's buying their oil, some African countries are buying their oil, the Middle East is still doing deals with them, but most of the free world has walked away. And let's hope they pay the price and Ukraine gets their territory back. That would be a major win for the president, but more of a win. for free America. 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. It's the Brian Kill Meet Joe. I hope you're having a fantastic week, and you're back in action now as we move through the summer. I get it, it's hot, but it just makes me wonder.

I'm watching. As the president said today, to go uh out to Massachusetts uh and stand in front of a closed power plant. I'm watching ABC. I always watch the repeat at 2 in the morning, 2:30 in the morning when I'm up. And I'm watching David Muir.

First Fifteen, twelve minutes. We're all about heat wave.

Okay. See Heatwave. He waved. All right, I got it. Heat wave.

It's the summer, a little bit hotter than usual. Why is that a big deal? Hoover Dam has an explosion. That's kind of a big deal. That was buried in that.

We now find out it's been limited, it's not going to affect anything. Let's make sure it's not. Terrorist activity. But I just think that it seems as though sometimes there's a symphony between what the President's agenda is and what the networks are doing. But let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. You're seeing ample evidence in the intelligence and in the public domain that Russia intends to try to annex additional Ukrainian territory. Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014. John Kirby, let them win.

The vicious, thuggish, most overrated military in the world, the Russian army, is making gains in Ukraine because the U.S. and NATO are too slow to give them the arms they need to be successful. Also, keep an eye on the Nord Stream pipeline because the next 24 hours are crucial for Europe. Number two. We believe it's shameful.

That some governors are using migrants as a political tool, as a political play. Yeah, uh Corinne Jean-Pierre. A little help would help. New York City Mayor Adams follows D.C. Mayor Bowser and is asking for some bucks from the illegal for the illegals.

Bust into New York City. The problem is, they're not busted to New York City, they're busting to Washington, D.C. They just want money for the illegals that are being flown into these cities. Number one. The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.

Pete Buttigieg letting his agenda reveal show itself. Mayor endorses Paint of the Pump in order to win over the climate crazies in his party in our time of economic crisis. Who stands in their way? The courts, the EPA, and Senator Joe Manchin. Brett Baer, chief political anchor for Fox News, back off vacation.

His book, Still Great, To the Rescue: Ulysses S. Grant, The Fragile Union, The Crisis of 1876. Brett, welcome back. What is your take on Pete Buttigieg kind of letting the cat out of the bag? High prices mean let's just go green quicker.

Yeah, he's not the only one actually. There have been several. The Commerce Secretary said something different like that, Gina Ramondo, saying. the quicker we get to all green energy. uh the better it is.

Some have said there may be some pain along the way, and obviously, we're feeling that pain. Um now it's not Sellable. right now because we just are not capable Um of making that transition easy. And ripping the band-aid and causing pain to make the transition politically. I think is a death knell, and it's going to compound the problems That they're having.

You know, the president's considering a climate emergency.

Well, I mean, there are emergencies in this country. There are. Energy emergencies, there are border emergencies, there are crime emergencies. But if you look at polls, climate change is down to one percent. as far as the thing that is top on people's mind, And it seems like They're just pushing.

Mm-hmm. to get down that road because of, you know, ideologies Uh largely from the left.

So, a couple of things. Obviously, stopping that. And to add to what your poll said, a CNN poll shows that 68% of the country thinks the President's priorities are not their priorities. This is one of their priorities.

So, he's going to be speaking today in front of a closed plant and let us know that maybe as soon as next week, he is going to be putting together some emergency climate measures. I saw it speculated that maybe it's $300 billion towards subsidies for electric cars. Are you hearing anything specific yet that you think has substance? Not yet. Uh we don't have th the specifics, but Clearly there's a push for electric cars.

Uh and they've transition some of that money in the infrastructure bill uh to build infrastructure to support electric car Charging stations. And so that's going to be tied in there. Mitch Landrew, former New Orleans Mayor, is in charge of deploying that money. uh in this administration so They're they're tying it together and they're they're clearly pushing that way. I think But this isn't it.

You're gonna have I think a Pushback. in November on a number of different fronts. The question is how significant it is and right now as we look at it Yeah, I hear you. Brett, you had a chance to sit down with Joe Manchin where he made the announcement that the Buildback Better is Dead. You were hosting Fox News Sunday at the time.

This time, Mini Billback Better is Dead. He saw the inflation number and said no.

So here is some of the response he's getting from his own party. This is Congressman Jones Heinrich Hirono. Cut three. It's hard to think of someone who has been more effective at undermining a president of his own party than Senator Manchin. It's not fair to have to string people along for a year and not come to a conclusion.

It's not an appropriate way to Negotiate.

So that's it. Yeah. Okay. So that that sucks.

So they you know, yesterday Robert Rice talking about taking his chairmanship away. Do they understand if Joe Manchin leaves, they lose the majority? I don't think they do. I I really don't I think there's a total disconnect. You know, it's not just Joe Manchin, it's Kirsten Cinema, it's now a few others.

uh that have real concern about inflation, some of them up for reelection. Maggie Hassan up in New Hampshire. Mark Kelly, don't hear a lot from him in Arizona. But Here's another one. Maybe Chester?

Yeah, Ma mention just takes the bullets. for some of those others. And You know, yes, it's frustrating for that party, but how about scaling your ambitions? to the numbers that you have rather than the numbers that you wish you had. You know, Rumsfeld used to say you fight the war with the with the army you have.

Um They are doing FDR-esque things. with A very, very slim majority. And you study, wrote a book about it. You study in FDR's library. This is not the case.

But remember, President Biden sat down with those historians, being that he had both chambers of Congress in the White House, and he sat there with John Meacham and company and said, How much power do I have? And they must have put something in his head that he thought he was going to be just czaring over the country. But he got his 1.9 Uh billion dollar Rescue package. And then after that, it's been slow going, even though he's got two bipartisan packages to brag about, but he doesn't brag about it. I want you to hear what Manchin said to the criticism.

Cut five. I never strung anybody along. I was the first one to raise the alarm on inflation. I've done it well over a year ago. I saw all the signs and indications.

I was told there were 17 Nobel laureates. He said, oh no, it's going to be transitory. I in my mind and what I understood and the people that have the knowledge, I could uh come to the conclusion that it wasn't going to be transferred, it's damaging. And right now inflation is the number one damaging and uh damaging effect in our economy. It's affecting everybody.

So remember the fifty seven laure the seventeen Nobel laureates who said it's going to be transitory? Just like all those Intel experts that told us Hunter laptop Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation? Yeah. No, they were wrong. And people were telling them that they were wrong.

And Joe Manchin was the biggest of them telling them. And he's got to vote. People in West Virginia are supporting him. in all of his efforts So uh he doesn't have to worry about anything at home. I'm just wondering, Brad, I always bring this up and everyone just says I'm crazy.

But why do we do you think that he does not have a shot at the nomination if he wanted to run for president? I don't think it's out of the question. I think that he's seriously considering it.

Okay. A lot depends, I think, on this on this midterm and how Democrats react to it. You know, everybody's conventional wisdom is that progressives would never allow it. But If it's the Am if it's a Democrat Even a moderate one. who can win Um I think that it's very real, and I hear Big, big fundraisers.

uh who are very powerful. Who Or seriously considering Um at least pushing or helping Manchin make that decision. Lastly, just President Trump, obviously he's in town today. Vona Trump is his first wife, passed away. People are talking about him.

He interviewed with Cindy Adams and said, just remember, 74 is not old, and people are saying it's just a matter of when. Do most political analysts agree? Possibly with me, that September would be counterproductive to Republicans' hopes for taking both chambers, would hurt their election chances. If he announces in September 100%. He becomes the issue ahead of November for some of the races where.

All of the things that the Republicans are running on go in their direction, yet. the one that gives them problems and heartache for answering questions. is the former president.

Now he's got a lot of supporters, and in some places it makes a big difference that somebody gets an endorsement. Just last night, this gubernatorial candidate, Dan Cox, in Maryland, Big win. It was a lot bigger than people thought it was going to be.

Now he's got an uphill battle. In um Against the Democrats in the fall. In fact, the Democratic Governors Association spent $1.2 million. On this candidate, Dan Cox, the Trump-backed candidate, because they think it's going to be easier to beat him than the moderates.

So, yes, I think if the former president announces in September. November becomes a lot about Donald Trump. In some races, it's already going to be, but inflation, crime, border, other things. are leaning the Republicans away. All right, Brett, have you named your panel yet?

And are you trying to get Mrs. Zelensky, who's speaking right now? on Capitol Hill as a guest on your show. We have. We have been trying.

We're hoping it works out. Britt Hume's going to be on tonight. And uh we may get a COVID update uh from the CDC or uh the head of um COVID at the White House. You know, it's interesting to watch some of these states go back to masks, and I think much of the public has moved well beyond that. In San Diego, they told the kids if they have a problem wearing masks, stay home.

Unbelievable. In San Diego, that's how it's playing out. Yeah. Brett, I'm not wearing a mask now. I hope you're not either.

Hither am I. Good. Brett, have you named your panel? I have not named the panel. I've got some scheduling issues, Brian.

So if you're available, let me know. All right, just talk to your people. I don't work for free. Just give me whatever Juan Williams gets, then I'll be happy. Is that right?

Brett Fair, thanks so much. When we come back, Martha McCallum joins me, and we'll be taking your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Meet Show. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. What you have is a power elite. which thinks that climate is the emotional excuse to control the rest of us. And this goes all the way back to a Robert Heilbronner article. In 1992, When he said, Now that the Soviet Union is gone.

We need a new excuse to take control, and climate and the environment is probably the best excuse we're going to get. Newt Gingrich weighing in yesterday. Martha McCallum will go way in now, host of the story at 3 o'clock. We're happy to have her here on Fox Nation, heard around the country and around the globe. Welcome back, Martha.

Hi, Ryan.

So, do you believe this is a democratic agenda item as opposed to solving our problems? They're looking to check a box, led by climate czar John Kerry, and is. Private jet? Yeah. And his yachts.

I mean, there's just no end to the hypocrisy. And it kind of makes my skin crawl, actually, to listen to him talk about how important the work that he is doing as he travels around and all that. Yeah. I mean, it's fine. I have no problem with somebody flying in a private jet.

But if you're going to be the climate czar, then I think that you might want to rethink the way you're living your life. But he's just too important. He's too important to have to be stuck on a commercial flight. But in the larger part of your question, Brian, I'm not someone who sees a conspiracy under every action. I think that most things that happen in the world are less intentional than that, although we like to think they are.

However, it's almost impossible to believe that the United States believes, the leadership of the United States believes that by taking unilateral action in this country, by making it more expensive for people to drive around, by trying to force them into electric vehicles that we don't have answers for in terms of electric power on them or how to get rid of the batteries over time. Will be such a drop in the bucket unless you have China and India coordinating in a global effort to bring down CO two emissions. And remember that deal we had that we got out of was like China was like, we'll start thinking about it in 2030. And we signed off on it. Yeah.

Okay, that sounds good. That sounds good.

So it is, it's tough to think that there isn't some sort of ulterior motive in here since it's so ham-fisted and it makes absolutely no sense to tie our own hands and make things more expensive for the people of this country without any other plan already in place. And we're going to hear from the President today. It's going to happen at 2:30 this afternoon as he talks at a power plant that powers windmills. And I'd be happy to talk about. windmills in the water, uh which is it's something that I've kind of Become obsessed with.

He's going to talk about the advantages of that today, but he doesn't want to push, just one last thought here. All all we keep hearing this week are the things that the President could do that he doesn't want to do. Right? You talked about national climate emergency, right? Oh, no, the president's not going to do that.

There's been a lot of internal debate at the White House. They really can't decide if it's going to work. It might not get past the judges. Then, you know, this other act, should we make it so that we can federalize the right to abortion across the country in some way? Oh, we're not going to do that either because we're not really sure.

There's a lot of infighting at the White House over whether or not that would work and get past the judges. It's like they're just like tiptoeing up to the edges of things, saying, Oh, we're going to do this national executive order action. And then they go, oh, I don't think that's really going to work. And they step back.

So, where the President stands on these things, who knows?

Well, the Secretary of Transportation was speaking yesterday trying to get subsidies to support electric car purchases, which are going to cost on average $67,000. Cut one. Is the Biden administration? actively pursuing high energy prices in order to force Americans into electric vehicles? Of course not.

The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles. Okay. Yeah. The more pain at the pump. There are 6,000 power plants to power your car in the country, hundreds of thousands of gas stations.

And he thinks if we just all got electric cars, we wouldn't have a problem. We wouldn't have to go to Saudi Arabia, we wouldn't have to worry about Russia.

Well, we didn't have to worry about those things a short time ago. We understood the resources of natural gas that were in that are under this country and the energy independence that we experienced from it, and we threw it all away basically on day one of this administration.

So it you know why people are angry about gas prices? Because there was too much intention in it. That's why they're angry. You know, if it's just sort of a natural, oh, it's all because of what's happening in Ukraine, people wouldn't be angry, but they're angry because they understand the intention. And they don't believe it when the president says it's Putin's price hike.

By the way, when oil was down, so was Russia. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Republicans' favorite hobby is to make conspiracy theories out of everything to distract you and keep you from talking about what's actually important, which is the fact that they are trying to take away your right to bodily autonomy. If I was faking that, why would I intentionally fist pump somebody?

It's so silly. Oh my gosh. Martha McCallum's here. Her show starts at three. But Martha.

I'm just watching this video while we're playing that. She sort of like half smiles, tosses her hair, because she can't push her hair back with her hand because her hands are tied behind their back. Oh, wait, they're not. They're not, actually.

So I'm going to fist pump. I mean. You know, I I think about the Civil rights protests, I think about Vietnam protests, you think about the fact that the people who were doing them did them at personal risk. Right. Because they were so deeply invested in the issues at hand.

This is such a phony, it's so phony. And also, think about the fact that we're not seeing we've seen some attacks on some pro-life centers. We've seen things. We've seen those bizarre attacks of like the people with blood all over them. And that kind of stuff has happened.

It is a serious issue in America. This is something people do debate in a serious way, but we're not seeing sort of organic protests across the country. We're not. We're not seeing grassroots organic protests breaking out across this country. And what we're seeing is this phony baloney stuff that is happening.

And they have an ability to pass legislation. They have they're members of Congress.

So this is obviously It's for show. And and y you know, that when you put your hands behind their back and they're not handcuffed, that's the definition of of fake. And by the way, her explanation's ridiculous. Uh why would I be fake if I was fistbud meat?

Well, how could you get your hands free if your fist if you put your fist in the air? But uh makes no sense. But the other thing is uh the Vice President of the United States in New Jersey. First, meeting with the state legislature to find out how desperately to keep abortion in play, and then. She gave a speech.

And she's comparing Kamala Harris's comparing abortion to slavery. Uh let's listen. The United States Supreme Court took a constitutional right. that had been recognized. From the people of America, from the women of America.

We know. NAACP. that our country has a history. of claiming ownership over human bodies. And today Extremist so-called leaders are criminalizing doctors and punishing women for making health care decisions.

for themselves.

So, I guess we're comparing it to slavery. Does that work for you? No. I mean, again, there's just a disingenuousness about the way this is being discussed. First of all, This decision by the Supreme Court was not to take away a right that was in the Constitution, a constitutionally protected right.

This was a question, this law was debated from the very beginning as not having grounding in the Constitution. Ruth Bader-Ginsburg had issues with this decision of Roe v. Wade in the first place. And it really bothers me that people don't talk about it in real terms. What has happened here?

Is that it was returned to the states, which makes it a more democratic process. People in each one of those states, New Jersey, is not going to lose the right for an abortion. Neither is New York or New York. Neither is New York, neither is Illinois, neither is Massachusetts, neither is Colorado. I'm in California.

I can go on and on, right? The other thing is that 60% of all abortions in this country aren't done in clinics anymore. They're done by prescription pills that arrive in the mail.

Okay?

So the idea. Yeah, 60%. I did not know that. And abortion is down 20% over the past 20 years in the country.

So we are, as a country, moving away from abortion. We're moving away from these kinds of clinics. We're moving into a different area where these issues are taken into people's own hands. And that is the one area that the White House is thinking about protecting this pharmaceutical access across state lines into states where it is now illegal.

So that's a question. Would there be Republican pushback on that? There will be in some places. I mean, I would imagine in a place like Mississippi, for example, where they have zero right to abortion, that there will be pushback on obtaining those pharmaceuticals. My guess is that an organization like Planned Parenthood makes their whole future all about this, about protecting that right.

Because what we're seeing is a decline in use of clinics, which I think most people would say, I mean, Democrats used to say they wanted abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. And Martha, I know something else has been pointed out on your show. To extrapolate from the decision to say same-sex marriage is going to be banned, interracial marriage is going to stop, people are going to go to jail if they're caught in, let's say, for example, a Mississippi, Nebraska resident getting an abortion, you're going to go to jail, you're going to be prevented from going across state lines. All this stuff is not rooted in practicality or and they're not honestly addressing anything. What they want to do is make it bigger than it is.

Yeah, I mean, AOC was talking about a topic pregnancy. That is not included in these laws that are being put into place around the states. But the fact of the matter is, it's about people. Going to vote on referendums, voting for representatives who support what they believe with regard to abortion. And if you don't, if you're so incensed about this, you do have the option to move to another state where they respect the right that you believe you have.

It is I think it's been a very disingenuous and disingenuous conversation. I also don't hear people talking about it as a number one issue that they're going to vote on. It used to be abortion used to be a single issue voter sort of drive that we saw a lot. When you look at the polls, about 70% say that it's an important issue for them. I would imagine that cuts a little bit both ways in terms of whether they're for or against.

So we'll see what happens when people really do vote on this. The thing is, see how this plays out is what John Roberts wanted as a compromise, 15 weeks, right? He wanted to knock it down from 24 to 15. That's what Governor Young is in Virginia. Right.

And it's going to be interesting to see what DeSantis is. We know he's as conservative as it can be, but he's going over a state that is red. That's right. It's not a Wyoming. And he doesn't talk about it a whole lot.

It's not Wyoming. Right, but that's the whole point. He recognizes the state that he lives in. He knows that that where you know that people probably would look for something, some sort of a compromise. Most of Europe is at fifteen weeks.

Which is a lot. Less than we are at here in New Jersey. You can get an abortion till the ninth month. I cannot get my head around that. No, I can't either.

So I think when people talk about it in real terms and they say, well, you know, when you're four months pregnant, I mean, speaking of someone who's been pregnant three times, like four months is a long time of pregnancy.

Okay. And that's, you know, roughly around 15, 16 weeks.

So I think that's a, people are reasonable, more, much more reasonable on this issue than most people are giving them credit for.

So I want to talk about crime. We haven't talked about that all show. I actually didn't even talk about it much this morning on Fox and Friends, but we are finding out as you study crime, and even Democratic mayors are realizing it is killing their party, if not their own personal careers. Because when you're a victim of crime in Illinois, in Chicago, in New York, in Philadelphia, in Los Angeles, in San Francisco, they're finding out the one commonality is that the same people. The same people, it's not that criminals, the number of criminals are growing.

The criminals that usually were jailed and take out of society are allowed to be back. Mayor Eric Adams pointed this. This out yesterday. You could have a meeting with your district attorney. You could have a meeting with your governor, but instead he addressed the press because crime in New York is up almost 40%, cut 35%.

The goal is this continuous battle of making sure dangerous people that are arrested. are prosecuted Go through the criminal justice system and off our streets. We continually have this catch, release, repeat mindset. We gotta get that under control.

Well, it's absolutely good. Have we been saying that? Ray Kelly, Bratton, they did this study a long time ago. These compcept people do criminal justice for a living. What is the significance of him making that statement?

Is it because he doesn't have the Don't get anywhere talking to his party behind closed doors. I think that's part of it. I think his message is that if I speak to the press, you know, maybe I'll start to get a little bit of traction in places where I can't get it. I can't understand how all of these folks in his administration or in his city council don't realize that they're all going to get voted out of office. I mean, there is.

If there's a Republican alternative. Absolutely. And Zeldin seems to be a legitimate, even though they're outnumbered two to one, Democrats to Republicans. But yeah, I mean, even in places where, you know, and I think that's when you look at the mayor's race, right? I mean, this is why Eric Adams won.

Because New York is obviously a blue town. New York City is a blue town. But he was the most conservative Democrat that they could find, former police officer, going to be tough on crime. That's why he was elected. I think he gets that.

He says all the right things. He's like, We're not going to have these tents anymore in the parks. We're going to clear them all out. He's done some of this. I think he's got a really tough job.

I still want to sort of give him some opportunity to succeed here because he does say the right things. I think he's more aware of the problem than I mean, look at how out of touch De Blasio was. You know, even to think that he could be president or a member of Congress. He's now dropped out, too. But I think Adams gets it.

And I just. You know, I think anybody who loves the city of New York would love for him to just continue to get the kind of support that he needs to carry some of these things out in the legislature. But it's a tough job.

So if any Republican wants to be elected, especially Lee Zeldin's got some legitimate credentials with military background, a conservative, Trump-backed but not owned, like let's say Ron DeSantis was inextricably linked to Donald Trump. Junkin wasn't, but liked him. Hey, thanks for the endorsement. I'm going to run my own race. Zeldin knows he has to run his own race.

They say if he wants to win, all he should be focusing on crime and that DA. And I think it's authentic, too. It's not a risk. You're not talking about same-sex marriage or anything like that. But if he talks about, I want to have the Mississippi law when it comes to abortion, that's bad politics.

If you want to win in New York, doesn't mean he's a bad person or a bad Republican. Republicans want that statement. A lot of them want that statement or hit the road. I think they have to understand the state they live in. Absolutely.

Everyone has to understand the state that they live in. I think so. Right? I mean, you have to talk about oblivious. I know.

You have to, I mean, that's why you see Lise Elden in a different posture. You see the Colorado governor in a different posture. Absolutely. People understand. And that's the whole point of a democracy.

They're supposed to represent the people who vote for them and the things that matter to those people.

So I completely agree. And when you look at these numbers, you look at the photos that you see every day in the New York Post. I saw this one yesterday of this young girl who got like her hand was broken, her face had been punched in. It's crazy what's happening. No reason.

It is crazy. And we also have to get, you know, there's all these crazy people on the street. They need to be off the street. Right. And someone needs to get serious about figuring out a way to do that.

We just destroyed all of these mental health institutions in the city, just, you know, determined that if you just give people medication, they can be mainstreamed and live in the rest of civilization. Not everybody, no, no. And I don't think I have to tell you that a lot of people behind these school shooters are on antidepressant medication. Absolutely. And that's what's Sending people over the top, and I think we have a chance.

We got to do more than read the jar. Absolutely. Listen, when we come back, Martha McCallum will do the favorite thing she does all week. You might think she enjoys time with her family or on vacation. Not as much as Morden Know.

That's my number one. Absolutely. Are you worried that your kids are listening? I just went on a little two days off with my family, and it was so much fun, but I'm super excited about Morden Know.

Sorry, McCallum family. Back in a moment. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Killmead. But Biden came out as a really sleepy, sweet grandpa. And he was like, he's always repeating this story. Yeah. Yeah, well, I went to Scranton.

Scranton. I grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. My dad. My dad lost the job. No Joe, I'm not kidding around here.

No, no. No human being in the world thinks that's a joke. Nobody. Is it? Yeah.

I lost his job. And then, you know, I dial, then even do the number thing. Number one, the one part. Number two, what the guy said. Number three, you know the drill.

Come on. No, we don't. Now, what he does is he kind of whispers and then he yells. If you know, I think it's a wonderful move. Don't you love it?

When he's like, We know how to get natural gas because we can get it. We know they get it. That's way down.

Okay, the people that private the public, the pirates of the Caribbean? David Carvey saying, finally, a comedian saying what he believes and sees. You know what also we should look up, Allison? Jason Tzadeikis. When it looked like Biden was out of it, Jason Tzudeikis gave like an authentic parody of Joe Biden being out of it and just being oblivious.

But when he came back into it, they brought in the other guy that made him look like a legitimate older president.

Well, it's very interesting what's happening, right? You've got Jimmy Fallon. Saying, oh, Fauci's resigning. Hey, maybe Biden should think about that too. Wow, I didn't know he said that.

Oh, yeah. It was sort of, I'm paraphrasing, but that's definitely the sentiment of it. I think that's fair. You have Colbert coming out with aviator glasses on and getting all angry about what happened in Saudi Arabia. You have.

By the way, it used to be funny. We usually try to find humor in that rather than lecture in that. Exactly.

Dana Carvey has been doing that Biden imitation, though, for a while. It's getting harsher the way that he's doing it now. But he is so funny and so brilliant in the way that he's doing that.

So when you're losing, so Biden, look at the polls, right? He's losing women. He's losing independents. He's losing Hispanics.

Now he's losing late night and comedians. That's a significant cultural shift that you're seeing in the country on the left. Let's find out if there's even more for Martha to know. More to know. Shall we go ladies first?

Okay. So I've been following this Musk case really closely. I find this whole thing fascinating. Elon Musk and Twitter. Elon Musk against Twitter.

Remember when Twitter didn't want Elon? They said he was basically the devil. No, you can't buy our company. You're going to ruin all freedoms in the country. Then he was like, I'm going to give you $44 billion.

And they said, okay, right?

So he was going to take them private.

Now he wants to drag it out and say, you know, we're going to figure out how many fake users you have on Twitter. And I need till November, my legal team, to actually figure out the answer to this question. But he lost that.

So the Twitter judge in Delaware, where all companies are incorporated and where they do a lot of this kind of thing for mergers and acquisitions legal issues, she's like, no, no, no, it has to happen, I think, August, you know, in the next couple of months. You guys have, you're going to be in court for four days in August.

So he lost that part of this bat.

So he might be forced to buy it, but the thing is, the value, the question is the value. And one thing he wanted, if he legitimately wants to find out how many real users there are, a court will make them find out how many real users they have. Will Twitter come back and say again, I can't tell you because it's privacy? I don't think it's going to turn out to be about that. Think it's going to turn out to be about what he signed away in the agreement.

And he disparaged the company after he said, You know, I won't go after the company. And then he did. I think they're never going to get down to the bot issue in this, is my view.

Next. Down to the bot issue. Fauci flip-flops on his own retirement. Quote, I may step down from my current position at some time. He said, I will step down at the end of the first term of Joe Biden, but now he's hedging.

He can't imagine life not in control. He's already like eight. How old is he? He's like 82 already. He's been in that spot for as long as any of us can remember.

Do you think that Democrats are starting to realize that this guy is full of it? He's been misleading all the time, never admits when he's wrong, and is terrible at baseball. Yeah. You mean because he told us that masks were not necessary. You didn't need to wear a mask.

And then he told us that masks were necessary. Then he said that two was better than one. Then he said the vaccines were going to change our lives. Then the vaccines didn't change our lives. Then he said you need a booster.

Then he said you need another booster. You mean because of that? A little bit. I get it. I get it.

Next. Oh, Netflix only loses 970,000 subscribers after projecting 2 million would pull the plug.

So that's good news. Uh, so uh, that means their stock went up, and I don't get it. Do you get it? I mean, I'm happy for Netflix. I don't want to see any another movie industry pay the price.

People get fired, even though they're trying to be politically correct all the time. But you are losing subscribers still. Why would you think that's a good bet? If you're an active person. An investor?

Yeah. Well, whenever they do better than the projection, investors think that there's a little bit of opportunity there, right?

So if the analysts all thought they were going to lose $2 million, they only lose $970 in Wall Street speak. That's good news. Justin Bieber's World Tour will resume after recovering from Ramsey Hunt. He had some facial paralysis. He announced Tuesday that he'll fire back up at the end of July.

That's pretty good news. A lot of people have seen some weird diseases and wondering if it's linked to the vaccine. Have you been hearing that? I'm not saying it's happening, but I do think it's kind of odd. Yeah, but then on the other hand, you also have people who had COVID who still have weird lingering effects as well.

So, all around, you know what really makes me angry in this story? The origins of this disease. Because I go back to an interview I did with Dr. Robert Redfield a long time ago. He said the reason this thing keeps spinning off at new variants is because it was souped up in a lab to do exactly that.

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