Biden Fist Bumps His Way Into Saudi Arabia and Newsom Circling the White House

Live from the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, fresh off the set of Fox and Friends, it's America's receptive voice. Brian Killmeade. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmeicho, 1866-408-7669. And thanks for being with us all week long.

And there's a lot going on. You got the president overseas and huge things going on here at home. You know, there's only 13% of you think the country is going in the right direction. I understand that. But that's why I think we've got to solve problems, but also define what they are.

Lauren Simena, to me, is in the heart of the problem, and that is American oil production. She's going to be joining us in 15 minutes from Texas, right? She's in Texas. She's in Texas. actually in an oil rig.

And this is an industry that has been vilified. It's a windfall province. They won't let prices come down. Gas station owners are the issue. Nine percent inflation is the issue.

Rising gas prices, rising Dollar per barrel prices are the issue. We could solve it. We're choosing not to. And that fact is totally disingenuous coming from the White House and Senator Tom Cotton at the bottom of the hour. A lot of people think Senator Tom Cotton should be making moves to run for president.

We'll talk about all that, so let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. We're all given a moment in time, and we want to make the best of the moment. And I don't want to pass this moment with a partner in the White House, and there's no greater partner than the Biden administration. Really?

Gavin Newsom playing politics. Newsom spent a day at the White House while the president was away, and Trump is about to announce a plan to get back into the White House. What do both moves mean for both parties? Is it good or bad? And do either have a shot at winning in 2024?

Number two. One of the things that has happened is over the last 30 days that the price of gas has fallen every day. That wasn't fully reflected in the CPI data for June that came out yesterday. And so that data is inherently backward looking. Brian Deese.

Aspen Institute, talking about the state of the game. Economy takes another body blow, and not a person in this administration seems up to the task to fixing it. Instead, they spin it: what it all means for you and how you vote in November. Number one. We've laid out for the leadership of Iran what we're willing to accept in order to get back in the JCPOA.

We're waiting for their response, but we are not going to wait forever. What deal? What? We gave them a deal? We made them an offer?

The president meets the pariah, that's Saudi Arabia, after casually mentioning he offered Iran a get-out-of-nuke jail-free card. What is the deal? And what does he not realize that will make or break his meeting with MBS?

So my point of this is this. I think to get involved with Iran in a nuclear deal of mutual trust is nuts. I thought about it when it was released by President Obama and signed, but it was never verified and ratified. You know why? Because Democrats didn't want it.

Didn't get a majority of votes among Democrats. Cardin, Schumer, no. Menendez, no.

So now the deal is even worse.

So why do I know about the deal? All of a sudden, we're watching the president, and he gets a question at a press conference. And they said, you know, you said you offered a nuclear deal. How long are you going to wait for them to accept it or reject it? I'm not going to wait forever.

I'm thinking to myself, wait a second, you got a deal? Yeah, President of the United States made a deal. He offered Iran reportedly. An aid package of $275 billion in involved in this package. And of course, it has all these guarantees of not being able to weaponize uranium over a certain grade.

I'm not a nuclear scientist, don't want to be. But they're going to get all types of money, incentives, and be able to sell their oil on the world markets, a release of almost all sanctions, an ability to still use ballistic missiles, an ability to still consider financing and perpetrating their terrorist activities, and then they get $800 billion over five years. and a trillion by twenty thirty if they stay nuclear free. Really? Israel hates this deal.

Saudi Arabia hates this deal. You pretend to be an ally. That's not going to stab them in the back by doing this deal. What does he not understand about stabbing them in the back? And that's what the president is doing with this four-day trip.

So, today, and I understand it, different parties have different feelings. This is not the time for a two-state solution. The Palestinians have not been legitimate partners. Israelis are not perfect, but they're a democracy. They will be open to a legitimate peace with the Palestinians, but they're run by terrorist organizations whose main goal is to never recognize Israel's right to exist and make sure that one day they control all of Israel proper.

That's not the way it's ever going to be.

So, the president leaves, unlike Donald Trump. Leaves the Israelis behind, and today was with Mahmoud Abbas, where he talked about. Jerusalem being a capital for all. To me, not good. He made these remarks from Bethlehem.

Cut four. As I stand with you today, now as President of the United States, My commitment to that goal of a two state solution has not changed in all these years. Two states along the nineteen sixty seven were mutually agreed to swaps remain the best way to achieve equal measure of security, prosperity, freedom and democracy. with the Palestinians as well as Israelis. Palestinian people Deserve a state of their own that's independent, sovereign.

Viable and contiguous. Good luck with that. Gaza and the West Bank don't talk to each other, two separate forms of government. And right now, the Israelis don't even have the Arab world behind them on this movement. And for now, nothing against the Palestinian people.

They've done nothing to earn the loyalty of the rest of the Arab world.

So put them on hold for now. Why the President's rekindling this? That's for him to decide. I do not think it's a wise move. He obviously does.

But I think the Israelis and the Saudis. The UAEs, the Bahrain. Morocco Most Arab nations, not named Syria, agree that Iran not getting a nuclear weapon is not going to be talked out. They have to fear a legitimate military action will be the response. And you heard one suggestion yesterday with Ambassador Ross.

will be the response if they in fact get a nuclear weapon and Uh and have the uranium weaponized to the point where they can make a nuclear weapon. The point is, any day now, the UN, according to the UN, will lose the ability to monitor. Iran's nuclear activities. They're sun setting it. The deal that we did not approve.

Iran doesn't seem to want, thankfully. And then when it comes to Iran in particular, This is where President Biden differs from the Israeli government, even though it's just a Interim government. They are on the same page here. Here's the President talking about dealing with Iran. Cut nine.

Today You and I also discussed America's commitment to ensuring Iran never. Yeah. This is of vital security interest to both Israel and the United States, and I would add for the rest of the world as well. I continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. And we'll continue to work with Israel.

Diplomacy. Not really. Israeli Prime Minister Lapid. Doesn't feel that way. Uh and feels as though diplomacy will never work.

Here he is, cut seven. They want to destroy the only Jewish state in the world. We will never let that happen. happens. Words Will not stop them, Mr.

President. Diplomacy We will not stop them. The only thing that will stop Iran is knowing. that if they continue to develop their nuclear programme, The free world will use Force. The only way to stop them is to put a credible military threat on the table.

Do you see the word credible military threat on the table? I was with Ambassador Friedman, who served there for four years under President Trump in the green room yesterday, waiting to go on with Larry Kudlow. And we watched it live together. And he said, we watched the clip together. And he said, You hear the word credible military threat?

And I said, Yeah. He said the problem is The President could talk tough, but there's no plan. The Iranians need to know that there is a plan to blow up that facility. And I bring back to our show yesterday Ambassador Ross says I have an idea. You give, there's a weapon that we have in our arsenal, not a bunker buster, but a mountain buster.

And that is where their nuclear plant is, in a mountain. You give that bomb to the Israelis. And you let them know. If you make a nuclear weapon, they will drop that bomb. and blow it up before you get to that point.

That would bring them to the table. That is called a legitimate military threat that makes them, it gets their attention and makes them deal legitimately. And the fact is, in the remarks, when he said credible military threat, that was a message to the President. We know you don't have one. And when he said words don't work, that is a direct rebuke to this President.

I know Harry Truman recognized Israel, and since that time, American Israelis, the American Jewish community has been loyal to the Democratic Party. But the Democratic Party, at all ages is pulling away from Israel. Especially in their twenties and even this seventy-eight year old. Nothing, his loyalty does not compare to George W. Bush.

It does not compare to the 44th president. 45th President Donald Trump. And we'll talk about that. I'm going to take a timeout and come back and find out what the real reason is for the President to go over and make this trip. He's asking the Saudis to pump more.

Why don't we pump more? Lauren Simonetti's on an oil rig to talk about that and how the oil industry feels about the rebuke. Brian Kilmicho. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead.

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They talk about energy independence in America, and we have all the resources to be energy independent, but we're not. There are 12 billion barrels of oil yet to be produced in the Permian Basin alone. The permits are 12 months. We've talked a lot about that. How do we navigate this when we have been demonized and nobody wants to put new capital in?

And then all of a sudden it's not flipping the switch, especially when it takes 12 months. Our president is over there today sucking up to the crown prince and you know he's going to be asking him for more oil I'm sure. If I'm a betting man, I'm saying it's not going to happen. I don't think they can do it. I think it's pretty clear they don't have the capacity.

Lauren Simonetti is in a great place right now, Midland, Texas. It's the oil capital of the country, certainly of Texas, with a bunch of Texas oil producers who are frustrated. Lauren, I saw you with your hard hat on this morning. Allison called you. Thanks for joining us.

Absolutely.

So what was your mission? What was your mission going down? We used your soundbites that you were able to get, talking about those in the business who are frustrated by the rhetoric out of Washington. What's the reality about the American oil business, oil industry and what they can and can't be doing right now? The reality Is when you look at the administration's own data, that we are going to need more and more fossil fuel, more and more oil, more and more hydrocarbons by the year 2050.

We will need renewables too, but we are increasing how much fossil fuel we consume in the U.S. And we are doing nothing. to ensure that we can do it cheaper.

So this is going to be a problem from now until using the Energy Information Administration's own data until the year twenty fifty. What do you mean by doing it cheaper? What do you mean by doing it cheaper? All right. If we were able to unleash Right where I am, right here in the Permian Basis, I'm on the West Texas side, there are 12 billion barrels of untapped oil underneath me.

Why would these companies the privates are doing it more than the publics because there's less demand on them.

So you got a lot of players here, private and public. Why would any of them, even the ones who are unfettered like the privates? Tap into it. when they're being told by the administration that they want to be put out of business in the next couple of years. You need a lot of capital.

It's a capital intense industry. Bank stuff. Don't want to lend to them, it's increasingly difficult for them to get money to expand. They have to spend $12,000 per permit. In Texas, that's not really a big deal, but if you go to the New Mexico side, it is.

Because what they do is um it's better for the environment and it's more productive for them if you drill down further.

So you go ten thousand feet down and then you go ten thousand feet out horizontally for the fracking, right? Um If you're in New Mexico, as you're going down so far, that's the furthest they really go, and it's new, you hit the state permits, then you hit federal permits. As you're trying to do this. You sit on that permit. for a year.

It takes a year for the federal government to approve that.

So you have these drillers of all sizes saying, well, what am I supposed to do with that? Am I going to be in business in the next year? I hear ya. And I hear, too, of course, these green organizations and these political organizations are pressing the BlackRocks, the Vanguards, the major investment firms to not invest in fossil fuels.

So there's political pressure on them not to do something that will provide profit, ideally, logically, in many cases, for investors, big and small. But they're not.

Now there's a movement in Congress to push back on them and empower state officials to stop doing business with any firm that won't invest in fossil fuels.

So there's going to be a pushback against it. But it's been devastating, the lack of money to finance drilling and oil because of an ideology of a push for green technology. And here's the thing: if you talk to anybody in the oil industry, particularly the five CEOs that I spoke to yesterday, they say the same thing: we fish. We camp, we hike, we love the environment, we own Teslas, we're all about renewable energies. But let us be part of the solution.

To keep fossil fuel in existence as we make this natural, market-driven transition of the future. That's their message over and over again. And when you look at the president going to Saudi Arabia, by the way, there's not much spare capacity in OPEC. The likelihood of the Saudi sangha will pump more, it's slim. You know, I'm hearing if they agree to something, it's not going to be unilateral.

It's going to be part of the next OPEC plus deal, the next meeting in August.

So, they don't have much spare capacity. We have much more oil than them. There are no environmental restrictions in Saudi Arabia. In New Mexico, you have to Less than 2% of your gas gas volumes can be flared. And some of the companies that I spoke to said, we're at less than 1%.

We really can't do this any cleaner than we're doing it right now.

So use our clean oil. Let us help you bring down the price of energy for everybody. And it's not just the gas that goes into your car, it's in most products that you use as well.

So it kind of like Did I tell you the story, Brian? And this just adds insult to injury.

So labor's a huge issue here, right? With every industry. You go to one drill site, there's probably about a hundred, one hundred and twenty vendors. That are working on the site. Everyone from literally, they have a company, a truck, that goes around and puts water on the on the dirt so it's less dusty.

Okay?

So you get the idea. Every single one of them says, like every industry, the supply chain is a problem, we can't find labor, we can't find workers.

So they go all over the U.S. to do this, and they're bringing a lot of guys in from other places, and they need to provide housing for them, right? They sit in these like. I went to them. They're nice.

They're nice trailer parks, if you will. It's $65 per worker per night.

Well, I'm 150 miles from the border, and the illegal immigrants are being bussed here, and they're being put in those. Encampments for $750 a night. $65 versus the federal government paying $750. One guy said, Well, you know what? I took the $750.

And another guy said, No way, my wife wouldn't let me. We're giving that federal money up and we're making sure that we can house the oil workers because this is our industry, this is our country. That's patriotism to me goes over profits. But that story just adds insult to injury. They're trying so hard to get the labor.

They have to find places for them to live. And then the government comes in and they're putting illegals there. It's just sickening. And it's anti-American, it's anti-capitalist, and it's also hurting our country, and that's a whole other issue. Real quick, Lauren Simonetti in Midland, Texas.

We have 30 seconds. When they said there are 9,000 unused leases and the President says I'm going to take them away, what's the reaction of the oil business? Uh Oh gosh, the reaction. They don't believe any of that information. They said not all of that is drillable.

You know, a lot of the public companies are sitting on those because it's not worth it to do anything with them because they feel like they're being driven out of business. That's not what some of their investors want.

So that's their answer. I mean, I one guy I spoke to yesterday. He's he has 15 rigs. He's not operating three of them right now. Because he just doesn't think it makes economic sense for him to do so.

Lauren, thanks for doing this story. Thanks for telling our listeners what really is happening. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. All right, Brian, good to see you.

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It's on the table. You heard the president say that now the onus is on Iraq. To decide whether they want to comply with this deal or not. I won't get into speculating about what actually will occur or putting a timeline on it. I will just tell you that negotiations are nearly complete.

There is a deal on the table, and we just need Iran to accept that deal. Excuse me. The deal's on the table. The President blurts that out. His spokesperson just reconfirms it.

What's this deal? Not even Democrats, I understand, are briefed on it.

So many were against it originally. It's got to be worse now. The UN, as I mentioned before, as of the middle of November, July, which is now, said they will go totally dark with inspections and cameras. They'll have no idea where the Iranian nuclear program is at, and what is this deal?

Well, in the New York Post yesterday, in an editorial, this. Richard Goldberg writes, the deal includes a package of two hundred seventy five billion dollars to Iran in year one, eight hundred billion over the next five years, and a trillion in twenty thirty if they stay nuclear free. Joining me now is Senator Tom Cotton, Intelligence Armed Services, Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. Former infantry officers. Senator, first off, what is your reaction to what Kirby told us and the President blurted out two days ago?

Well, Brian, it's just another example in A long line of appeasement and conciliation of Iran. The nuclear deal with Iran was terrible when it started in 2015. And it's even worse now because most of the key deadlines and sunsets have already been passed or are going to be passed in the next year or two, yet Joe Biden continues this farce of negotiations. Uh he's let the negotiations become an end in themselves. And in the meantime, as you outlined, Iran is just racing to accumulate enough enriched uranium that it could have a rapid nuclear breakout.

It's long past time not only to walk away from these nuclear negotiations, but to make it clear that the United States will not tolerate Iran's campaign of terror and imperial aggression throughout the Middle East. Our relationship with some of our partners in the Middle East are somewhat frayed. That is in no small part because of what Barack Obama and Joe Biden have done to embrace Iran over the last decade while turning their back on our traditional partners and allies in the Middle East. Here's what Israeli Prime Minister Lapid said yesterday to the President, Qatar. You have said many times, Mr.

President, that big countries do not bluff. I completely agree. It should not be a bluff, but the real thing, the Iranian regime must know that if they continue to deceive the world, they will pay a heavy price. But he went on to say they need to know there's a legitimate military threat.

So far, there is no plan that they believe that we have that would get Iran's attention, especially the way we left Afghanistan. Yes, Brian, I don't think that our enemies in Iran or for that matter around the world take Joe Biden's word with much weight. There's no question that Iran is not a genuine military threat to the United States and certainly not acting in concert with our partners in the region. or we have multiple bases. Um it's a question of Joe Biden's credibility and resolution.

Um I'll remind you of a a time in the nineteen eighties during the so called Tanker Wars when Iran kept mining the Persian Gulf. um during its war with Iraq. And uh we uh one of our Or one of the Kuwaiti ships that had been reflagged, the U.S. ship, hit one of those mine, and Ronald Reagan destroyed an oil platform that was being used to facilitate those attacks. A reporter asked President Reagan if we were now at war with Iran, and he laughed and said no, they would never do something so stupid.

It's the exact same thing you saw, Brian, after President Trump authorized the strike that killed their terrorist mastermind, Qasim Suleimani. They shot a few feckless missiles into Iraq, and that was the end of the matter because they were scared to death of what a strong American president would do to them if they escalated. Yet they've taken the measure of Joe Biden just like they did with Barack Obama, and they know that they can get away with murder. They can literally get away with murder.

So let's pivot to the economy, and we'll see what the president comes up with as he goes behind closed doors with the Saudis today. Let's pivot to the economy.

Now we have 9% inflation. It's a number I never thought I would actually see in my lifetime. I obviously hope not to. And then we have the Consumer Price Index, which is going higher than anybody thought. And I think it's up 0.2 month to month.

And it was supposed to be 10.1%, 10.7%. It is now 11.3% in June.

So Janet Yellen was forced to answer the question in Indonesia. What's going on with this? With the inflation, CPI and PPI reports, CUT nineteen. Our greatest challenge today comes from Russia's illegal and unprovoked war against Ukraine. That was reflected in yesterday's CPI data.

which showed almost half of the increase coming from higher energy prices. Inflation in the United States remains unacceptably high. And it's our administration's you get it. They said they're going to keep it down. Really?

Number one, it's not in our interest to make Russia the boogeyman that's costing American families such a high price if you want to sustain this policy that you have of backing the Ukrainians. It's not in your best interest to continue that. You're trying to turn the public against you. Number two, it's just not accurate, Senator. Yes, Brian, inflation in America is driven by one key factor, and that's the Democrats' massive spending bills.

They're still trying to pour trillions of dollars more onto this historically inflated economy. Joe Biden likes to blame everyone but himself. for inflation and for his other failures though. Blames, for instance, the Putin price hike.

Well, you know, we had inflation well before Vladimir Putin launched his war of aggression against Ukraine. Or he blames Donald Trump's tariffs on China.

Well, we had those tariffs.

well before we ever got inflation. It's funny that the thing that inflation correlates most directly with is Joe Biden taking office last January. And most importantly, because it's the most dangerous and pernicious kind of inflation, is energy inflation because energy affects everything. Just look at the price of your groceries, Brian. Farmers have to pay for diesel and fertilizer and pesticide, all of which is based on various forms of gas.

or other petroleum products. then truckers have to drive their commodities To the grocery stores. The grocery stores have to pay for the electricity to keep the lights on and run the refrigerators and run the freezers. Energy inflation pervades the entire economy, and that's the one area where Joe Biden and the Democrats have intentionally. Driven up the price of energy.

They said this during the campaign, Brian, it wasn't an accident. They said they're going to end fossil fuels in America from which we get Almost 70% of all of our energy. This is a direct result of the Democrats' ideological opposition to fossil fuels. It's not the result of Saudi Arabia or Putin's price hike or Donald Trump's tariffs or anything else. It's the result of the Democrats' policy.

And by the way, we have an opportunity here. Nobody knows this better than you because you're all over the China situation. Do you know their economy is tanking again? Do you know their unemployment is almost 20% among new college graduates? Do you know their growth is about 0.5% and they're beginning to shut down with their idiotic zero COVID strategy?

They're about to shut down a portion of their economy again. We have an opportunity now to assert ourselves and use the assets that we have, even though the world economy pays a price when China tanks because they were so glued into everything. Don't you see in Congress, do you see this as an opportunity? Yeah. And Brian, you should remember: anytime you see those statistics coming out of China, you should probably discount them by a substantial factor because they're almost always.

fudged and scrubbed to make the Chinese economy look better than it is. Um China's economy is still growing, just not as fast as it always has been, but it's slowing down. But that does give us a chance to hopefully reset some of the terrible taxing and spending and regulatory policies of the Biden Democrats and get our economy growing once again and get inflation under control. Because that's the problem. Primary domain where China hopes to replace us as a world superpower.

They are building an army and a navy that's prepared to defeat us, but they would rather defeat us and replace us without ever having to confront us on the field of battle. That's why they use economic mercantilism to try to overcome our economic might in the world. Yeah, we've got to be a little bit less greedy with our international companies. High unemployment, they got a housing crisis, sluggish spending, they got massive lockdowns. They only expanded 0.4 percent this year.

And lastly, I don't think I have to tell you that a lot of people are talking about you as possibly running for president. Have you given some quality time, that thought?

Well, I'm I always am flattered and appreciative when people ask me about that or encourage me to do so, Brian. Just last week, I was in Arkansas and in Iowa, and I heard some of that as well. But a drill sergeant of mine used to always tell us to focus on the 25 meter target first and worry about the longer targets later. And right now, the 25 meter target is winning back the House and the Senate this fall.

So I'll keep my efforts dedicated to the next election and future elections I'll address when we get to the future. The former President says it's just a matter of when. It looks like he's going to run. He says he might decide to announce in September. Would that be helpful or hurtful for the midterms?

Brian, each one of these races is going to be decided based on the conditions in the country, and they're pretty bad right now because of Joe Biden, and also the conditions in each individual state. We have great candidates. Uh, all across the country, but they're in pretty far-flung states as well, whether it's Nevada to Georgia or Arizona to New Hampshire.

So, our candidates are going to run the races that they need to be voices for their people in their home states. I'm confident that we're going to win most of those races.

Somebody else is not waiting, but there's a lot of speculation, and he embraces it. If you look at the way he holds himself, he looks like a president. If you look at his report card, he's probably the last person that's run for president. He's been a horrible governor, he was a terrible mayor. He is a lazy, bad, uh, uh, bad policy, and only interested in, I think, I don't know, hypocrisy, but it didn't stop him from walting into the White House with his jacket off.

He's asked about that White House visit, CUD 32. Talking about the number one issue in California, which is mental health and homelessness, what's happening on the streets, sidewalks, opportunities in L.A. County in particular, to not just highlight the problem, but to focus on solutions. And what I was focused on is what can we do together that's big and bold, demonstrable, where people can see the results, specifically in L.A. County.

And does that mean more money's coming? It's money, it's resources, but it's resourcefulness, meaning there's a lot of money floating out there. I mean, I'll be honest, if I was watching this and I just hear politicians talking about more, more, more, more. I mean, you've been hearing that from folks like me for a decade. We've been spending records amounts of money and people are looking and saying it's worse than ever.

So it's really just targeting our efforts, it's focusing them. And I think that's the opportunity a niche.

So he's talking about the the homelessness. He actually welcomes homeless. He invited homeless there. He sets up encampments. He doesn't let cops crack down on it.

Have you ever heard anything like that? And do you believe that the Democrats really want that to represent them? Brian, as when you started out that description without saying the name, I wondered where you were going. But after you got a few lines into it, I realized you could only be talking about Gavin Newsom because only Gavin Newsome, maybe after Joe Biden, Has been such a disastrous governor for any state in this country. And I don't think many Americans, for that matter, many Californians are gonna want to make America California.

I hope so. I hope people have standards. They're just not going to blindly vote for somebody that is just like that whole party ideology. It's not even right and left. It's right and wrong, it seems.

Senator, what race are you most concerned about that you know is going to be tight? From Georgia to Nevada to Wisconsin? Arizona, New Hampshire, Where do you focus? Because I know you want to get back into the majority as much as anybody.

So, Brian, I'd actually turn that on its head and say, where do we want to make the Democrats most concerned? A lot of the races you mentioned are places where we're on offense against Democrats who are known to be vulnerable, people like Kathy Cortez-Masto in Nevada or Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire. Everyone's looking at those races. But where can we still march on the Democrats? Where can we win a victory that a lot of people aren't thinking about right now?

And I'd encourage all of your listeners to turn their attention to Washington State.

Now, I know they're going to say, like, Washington State, it's so Democratic, there's no chance there.

Well, look, in 2010, the last time we had a big Republican wave, we elected a Republican senator from Illinois of all places. And second, we have an outstanding candidate in Washington State. Her name is Tiffany Smiley. She's got a great story. Her husband, Scotty, was blown up in Iraq a year before I was there.

He was permanently blinded, but Tiffany didn't just care for him. She fought for him against the Army bureaucracy that wanted to medically retire him. Scotty went on to serve 10 years on active duty as the only blind officer on active duty. Tiffany was by his side. She raised their three kids.

She continued her life as a nurse. Scotty and Tiffany were great advocates for veterans throughout the Trump administration. And I know that she is going to be Patty Murray in Washington State to be our next senator. And maybe most important, I think Patty Murray may know that as well because she started running negative ads against Tiffany. early June.

And as I told Tiffany at the time, you only take fire when you're close to the target. Understood. Keep your eye on Tiffany Smiley in Washington State. All right, Senator Tom Cotton, thanks so much. Thank you, Brian.

1-866-408-7669. It's going to be a different field. And it would include Tom Cotton, I believe, if Donald Trump doesn't run. The other people, I think, no doubt about it. My guest for Saturday night, Nikki Haley, she'll be in there.

Mike Pompeo will be in there. Ron DeSantis will be in there. Young will be in there. I think Rick Scott will be in there. Tim Scott will give it serious consideration.

Christy Noam, I think, would run.

So it's going to be a packed-talented field. But if Trump runs, I see Youngin getting in. Christy getting in? I'm not sure I see anybody else. What do you think?

1-866-408-7669. And on the other side, if it is not Biden, I know Newsom's going to jump in. You know Pritzker's going to jump in. Who else do you see jumping in with a legitimate shot of winning? You're listening to the Brian Killme show.

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I know there are a lot of people that are talking about you running there and potentially being comfortable there. What do you say when you see that? There's no part of you at all, though, because I don't know, you know, it's one of those things. I've tried to say. No.

No way. In every way I possibly can, including saying subsidy. I don't know what else, I don't know what language. In fact, I may need advice and counsel. What's the language to express?

Absolutely no. It's just. Fodder. It's made up and it is, frankly, it's not helpful. It's not helpful to any of us, and it gets in the way of things we should be focused on.

Well, that was Governor Newsom commenting: the fact that while the president's away, he walks into the White House with his jacket off, looking so comfortable. Look, he looks the part. The problem is, he's a terrible mayor and governor. Real quick, I get these emails. You go to BrianKillme.com, just click on comments, questions.

This one is this: Good morning. I have a question, Allison. This is really for you. About our VP. Doesn't she have a law degree?

Wasn't she a working lawyer at some point? How could she not have the ability to speak in public if she actually is working in a profession? Did she not have to argue a case? Does she not have to address a jury? This is concerning to me.

These two are making our country look so weak. As a retired veteran, she's disturbed. As with a law degree, don't they teach you how to present?

Well, it depends on the classes you take. I mean, it's not all really? Yeah, I mean, more it's more how to think and analyze the law and the cases. But yes, you would think that she'd be more articulate. But, you know, everyone's not the you know, everyone's not a litigator and everyone doesn't go in the courtroom for a reason.

But she she was. She did used to right, she was the A G of California. Right. She should be, um More of all spoken than she. Right, and you are a lawyer.

Robert WVMT in Burlington. Robert, real quick. Yes, regarding China, I think this is a perfect time to pivot away from China and put our manufacturing into Central and South America. That would solve two problems. Number one, our border problem, keeping these people at home working with good wages.

And secondly, we would counter the strategic, ever-present threat from China militarily.

So I think it's time that we woke up to the fact that the Chinese are not our friends and we shouldn't be using their products. Hey, Robert, that's something to run on. If I'm a candidate, I'm doing exactly that. And I would go further. I would meet with some of the leading manufacturing companies and talk about what it would take in the countries where it would go.

Great point. Brian Kilmicho. Robert, solving problems. Live from the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, fresh off the set of Fox and Friends, it's America's receptive voice. Brian Killmead.

Hi, everyone. I'm Brian Kilmean. Thanks so much for being here. It's the Brian Kilmead Show, 1-866-408-7669. It's going to be a big hour coming to away.

Stephen Moore, who's on television right now, is going to be joining us in 15 minutes. He did a big study on how many of the Biden administration economic officials actually have real business experience. Almost none. You believe that? Ambassador Robert Jordan will be with us this hour.

Ambassador Robert Jordan spent a lot of quality time in Saudi Arabia as their ambassador. What is happening right now behind closed doors as the president lands in that kingdom, the place he called Pariah Nation? Arada Rivera is standing by.

So a lot to discuss.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. We're all given a moment in time and we want to make the best of the moment and I don't want to pass this moment with a partner in the White House and there's no greater partner than the Biden administration. Really? Gavin Newsom?

Is that what it was about, your visit to the White House with the President away? Playing politics. Gavin Newsom spent the day at the White House, president overseas, and Trump is about to announce a plan to get back into the White House. What do both moves mean for both parties? And do either have a shot?

To win. Number two. One of the things that has happened is over the last thirty days that the price of gas has fallen every day. That wasn't fully reflected in the CPI data for June that came out yesterday. And so that data is inherently backward looking.

There you go. That was Brian Deese. Economy takes another body blow, and not a person in the administration seems up to fixing it, what it all means for you, and what it means to them in November. Number one. We've laid out for the leadership of Iran what we're willing to accept in order to get back in the JCPOA.

We're waiting for the response, but we are not going to wait forever. What? You have a deal? The president meets the pariah. Yes, after casually mentioning he offered Iran a get out of nuke jail free card.

What's in that jail free card? And what does he not realize? What will make or break his meeting with MBS? It's not a deal with Iran. A guy that knows all this inside now.

It's been walk the land himself. Geraldo Rivera now, co-host of the Five, Fox News' correspondent at large, and he's at large right now. Geraldo, welcome. Thank you, Brian. Good morning to you.

How's everything? Are you on the five tonight? I am. I'm going to be heading to New York momentarily. Are you your thoughts when I find out this deal was made, casually mentioned by the President?

A deal's done. We submitted it to him and wait until you hear back. I mean, don't you think they should at least consult with this foreign the Senate Foreign Policy Committee or at least let Congress know? I talked to Tom Cotton, Kevin McCarthy today. They had no idea.

Well, I'd like to see the substance of the deal. I I think that data talks and BS walk So if indeed he has a deal here, I'd like to know the specifics. And I applaud it if indeed the Biden administration far beyond the capability I thought they had. I made a deal uh on the down low with Iran, the nuclear pariah state, uh to uh to forego nuclear weapons, I think that That's a sensational win if indeed it's true, Brian. Wow, I don't see it that way.

Senator Menendez doesn't see it that way. Senator Schumer doesn't see it that way. Senator Cardin, because they're a nation that doesn't trust. We don't trust, never will. And I'll give you something else.

It turns out the UN says as of the middle of July, which is today, they no longer will have monitors on their nuclear program. And it's reported that for the first time they'll weaponize uranium to the level of a nuclear weapon. It's happening already.

Well, I heard some of that. I certainly heard that they had disabled many of the surveillance cameras in the in the big nuke plant. But if indeed there is good news, Brian, let's let's give it a chance to breathe. I mean, if the moolahs shockingly have finally conceded that they're not going to get this thing done, Well, listen, I know you always like to be optimistic, but let me just tell you what the deal said. According to yesterday's.

Yesterday's New York Post, this is the deal. It will be offered. Iran will be offered an A package worth two hundred seventy five billion dollars in year one, eight hundred billion over the next five years and a trillion available by twenty thirty if they stay nuclear free.

Now Do you have a problem with that? I have none. I don't know where the trillion comes from and how much of it comes out of our pocket. Of course it does. But I I have no conceptually uh it is a bribe.

Of course, we always knew it was a bribe. We're bribing them to stay nuclear free. What the cost of the bribe is is what is interesting. And will there be full disclosure of the various provisions? Uh but I I see this I Iran is such a sticky point.

Remember, we we d what's his name, Suleimani. We popped him in in Baghdad when he was visiting. You know, I I think he was just having a good time. I think he was on vacation. Just hanging out hanging out.

All of a sudden he orders a espresso and he gets a you know, a drone strike through his head. I I I want Iran to Leave its pariah state behind. I think that Saudi Arabia is such an unreliable partner. They are the forementers of so much unrest in the Islamic world. They create these madrasas.

How's the Abraham Accords? But the madrasas have been addressed, and I would say the Abraham Accords are really because of them. If there was one nation that made it happen with Israel, it is Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, Morocco, United Arab Emirates have all fallen in place. Oman. I'm all for it.

I am absolutely all for it. And if making Iran the pariah is the glue that holds that very shaky coalition together. I want to see Israel advance partners. I understand that, but if Israel is really cut into a deal with Saudi Arabia and the other states you mentioned, Yeah. That's a that's a major uh evolution.

In the Middle East, given the fact that the Palestinian question is still unresolved and very thorny. If they can just put aside the Palestinian situation long enough to make a deal state to state. I think that adds to security. And as does Iran Getting a trillion-dollar bribe to stay nuclear-free. I want you to hear what Israeli's interim Prime Minister Lapid said yesterday.

And I think it's important because it's kind of a rebuke of the President who says, I want to talk about it. He said, this cut seven. They want to destroy the only Jewish state in the world, we will never let that happen. Words will not stop them, Mr. President.

Diplomacy will not stop them. The only thing that will stop Iran is knowing. that if they continue to develop their nuclear programme, The free world will use Force. The only way to stop them is to put a credible military threat on the table. So your thoughts about that.

That's a nature. I think that Israel, if you just follow the news over the last several years, Israel does not abide by Iran's reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons outside the agreements. Israel has sent enough Mossad assassination teams into Iran so that no one connected with the Iranian atomic. industry and situation can feel safe. I won't say they routinely assassinate them, but they do with such regularity, appalling regularity, or alarming regularity from Iran's point of view, that they understand that Israel is like a spider, a scorpion.

If you try to brush it aside, it's going to whack you. And that's what Israel has been doing. And it's a very credible military threat. And I think it's kind of laughable when they pretend that they haven't already been doing it, Brian. The President, former President Donald Trump, says it looks like he might declare as early as September he's just deciding when to run again.

Do you think that if he had the best interests, if he has the best interests of his party in mind and he wants to run, when would he announce? Certainly not before the midterms. I think it's very selfish and narcissistic of him. I think, as you know, Brian, I love the guy. I feel awful the way things turned out.

But I think when he went after the constitutional order, the peaceful succession of government. And tried to gum up things that we've been doing constitutionally for two and a half centuries. I think he. forfeited his opportunity to run for President again. That's my opinion.

I think that he can be the father of the party. He can bask in the glory of how he's managed the Supreme Court and all the rest of it. Uh but I hope that uh his silly quest for the White House. And redemption is very destructive for him and the party. Maybe the country too.

Do you think Gavin Newsom should be considered a legitimate contender? When Joe Biden makes it official. I think that uh Gavin Newsome is a very attractive politician in every regard. He's slick as can be. He's sophisticated.

He's experienced. He was married to our own Kimberly Guilfoyle, so he's got to have some substance. I I think he'd be a formidable challenger from the Democratic side. If he could uh you know, he's got a pretty boy reputation. Let's see if he can fight it out in the in the gutters of uh of party politics.

Even though he's destroyed a state, but first he destroyed a city in San Francisco between the homelessness, between the eggs that he's managed to he's managed to get people to leave the one of the finest states in the country. You're the opposition research, Brian, and that's exactly what we'll do. Do you think he's been a good governor? I think that the fact that the recall against him, remember that? failed so utterly shows that he has the affection of the majority of Californians despite everything you said about San Francisco, which is true in homelessness.

everything you said about uh you know uh Uh how the state is as a state in LA is suffering. All true, but uh I think he's he's appealing. He's not there by accident, and I I believe that he he's the kind of guy who, unlike most of the other Democrats, won't apologize and whimper about the Democratic policy. Right. It just the worst thing about him is his report card.

The best thing about him is he looks the part. He looks like a guy that should be cast as the president. Definitely.

So that he definitely's got president. We'll have Gene Hackman will be the chief of staff. Right. Yeah. Gene Freeman will be the vice president.

But he's Hollywood. But you have, you know, he is Hollywood. But in terms of a report card, that's the problem. But he does look the part. I just thought him walking into the White House was such an insult to Biden.

With the jacket off, and you had a son that says, Where do I put my feet now? All right, listen, Geraldo, I want you to have a great weekend and a great five, okay? Domino.

Okay, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. All right, back in a moment. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know.

It's Brian Gilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. The here and now for families that are out there is that gas, the price of gas is falling 10%. It's still too high, but it's coming down and certainly if you look at the oil price.

And you look at wholesale prices for gas, we should expect that to continue to come down.

So if this month we continue to see a historic number of days where the price of gas at the pump is falling, that will provide some immediate relief. That's connected to some of the steps that we've taken, which I won't belabor, but that is in some ways the most immediate impact, and it's happening right now. And he says gas is coming down to $4.63, and that's good news. This gas is coming down.

So how do you feel about that? Let's bring in Stephen Moore, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. That was Brian Dees. He's the National Economic Council Director. Stephen, do you feel good about Brian Dees' diagnosis, judging by his record?

No, I don't. I mean, I'm having a deja vu. I mean, how many times have we heard this, Brian? I mean, you've covered this. You know, week after week after week after week after week, where they keep saying, oh, it's transitory, it's temporary, it's peak, it's only rumor, it's only a high-class problem.

I mean, everything that they've said about inflation for the last year has been wrong, wrong, wrong.

So, no, they don't have any credibility. I do actually think that inflation is going to come down a little bit. It is true that the gas price has come down about 30 cents a gallon, but we're still, I mean, Brian, it was $2.50 a gallon when Trump left office, and now it's still, what, $4.85? $2.85? I mean, Yeah, I mean, it's almost doubled.

So Look, the producer price numbers came out yesterday. They don't show a 9% inflation, they show 11%. 11% inflation. It is just astounding to me, Brian, that the. that the Biden people could screw up this economy in eighteen months the way they have.

And I'm going to say one other thing. And I'm biased. I work for Trump, so I do have a bias. I was one of his economic advisers, but he was a businessman. He knew how to run the economy.

I think we'd have a booming economy today. We wouldn't be talking about a recession. If he were president, Steve, what did you discover in looking back at the backgrounds of the top economic people in the Biden administration?

Well, that there's no business experience. That the Biden people are so opposed. Business. They hate business. They hate small business.

They hate American corporations. And so, what we found was that the majority Of the people who are in the high-level positions in the Biden administration, starting of course with the president himself and the vice president, Camille Harris, and on down, the people who advise him or in key positions on the economy, on finance, on commerce, on money. That the majority of them have zero, zero business experience. And by the way, I'm not saying that they didn't run companies. I'm saying they've never even worked for a company.

So, why would you hire these people even to run a lemonade stand, let alone try to manage our $22 trillion economy? How unlike is that from the experience that you saw with the Trump team?

Well, we first did the analysis of the Biden people. We looked at the top 65 officials. And then we said, well, okay, you know, we did just what you suggested, Brian. We said, well, let's compare that with the Trump people. The Trump people have about four times more business experience.

And of course, that starts with the very top, right, Brian? I mean, Donald Trump was 40 years in business. It's one of the reasons I think the American people elected him. They wanted somebody who knew something about how to meet a payroll and how to run a company and make a profit. And very, very few in the Biden administration do.

So it says, and by the way, one other quick thing. You know how the left loves to talk about diversity, diversity. We have to have diversity in skin color and religion and ethnicity and so on.

Well, don't you think they should have a little diversity in their cabinet? Maybe some people with business experience? Because we need somebody that's tapped in, or at least make an effort. And the thing is, if you have people that don't understand what the average business is like to open up a daily, to have a dry cleaner or a restaurant, you really can't learn that in a book. I couldn't agree more.

I mean, and I'd rather take the guy who runs the dry cleaner office running our economic policy, some of these nitwits that are in the White House. And look, they are academic.

So what we found was that most of them are either spend their whole life in academics reading books. Or they are people who are community activists, as Barack Obama was, or they are lawyers, or they're people who spent their whole life in government. And so they don't have any conception. about how to How a business operates, the strains that people run companies face. You've got a woman named Lena Kahn.

She's 31 years old.

So she's just kind of fresh out of, just got her PhD. She's in charge of the Federal Trade Commission, never worked a day in her life in business. And now she's telling our businesses, small and large, how to run their operations. I mean, how crazy is that? It's crazy.

It's all in Stephen Moore's Wall Street Journal column that came out this week. He's a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Stephen, thanks so much. I just am not convinced they have the people there to bring us out of this. They have people on the outside who are very critical from Jason Furman to Larry Summers, but they don't seem to be listening, and that's arrogance.

Thanks so much, Steve. All right, Brian. Have a great weekend. You got it. We come back.

With the President's doing right now in Saudi Arabia, Ambassador Robert Jordan weighs in. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom from 2002 to 2003, now at SMU. Don't move. Brian, kill me, Cho.

So glad you're here. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. What will you say to Saudi leaders, specifically to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, about the Khashoggi murder and other human rights practices? And if I may, Prime Minister Lepid.

How close are you to an agreement with Saudi Arabia to gain overflight rights, and should we expect that soon? Thank you. With regard to the question you asked me, My views on Khashoggi have made been absolutely positively clear. And I have never been quiet about talking about human rights. Right, but he didn't answer.

Will he bring it up today? Ambassador Robert Jordan joins us now, served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, diplomat in residence at SMU, and author of Desert Diplomat Inside Saudi Arabia following 9-11. Ambassador, welcome back. Do you think the President is going to bring that up today?

Because early word in the New York Times, according to their sources, was they were warned not to. Yeah, Brian, good to be with you again. My guess is he does not bring it up by name directly, but certainly makes some references to the importance of human rights. Yeah. And improving uh the side of record in that regard.

It would be great if he could encourage the release of some political prisoners to have what we would call deliverables. associated with this. But I doubt that he's going to actually be raising the name to Shoghi in his meetings with the Crown Prince. The problem is, he promised. the the family, the widow.

and the family that he would bring it up to him. And they were on Fox News talking about the president I told the president, I understand why you got to meet with him. At least bring it up and talk about the other political prisoners.

So that would be a direct affront. It's a real difficult position that any president is in in situations like this. He's got a national interest, a country to protect both from. a security standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think sometimes this President gets ahead of himself in his rhetoric.

He got ahead of himself by calling the Saudis a pariah nation during his campaign talk I think he may be very careful in He may needs to be more careful in the kind of commitments he makes. But I do think regardless of the personal tragedy that Hatisha, the fiancé, Uh who who's uh whose concerns I certainly share, And even if you look at the nine eleven families and others who have suffered from Things that have happened at the hands of at least some Saudis over the years. This is a country that has to move forward And has Enormously complicated. Challenges and choices that have to be made, some of which are existential. How do you handle Iran?

How do you deal with the Israeli relationship with the Middle East? How do you deal with oil issues?

So, there are so many of these issues that have to be dealt with. You've got to figure out how to d do both. How do you handle the values that are so important to America, And at the same time, do business with allies or partners whose values you don't even share.

Well, they know who President Biden is when he was Senator Biden, Vice President Biden.

So no one has to tell them about him and his background. But in terms of their policy, this is not the Trump Accords. I mean, there is a sense that every time they bring up Iran, they're hurting any type of the Abraham Accords happening. And then the President came out and said, Uh I have a plan and I gave it to him. Cut twelve.

We've laid out for the people, for the leadership of Iran. what we're willing to accept in order to get back in the JCPOA. We're waiting for the response. But we are not going to wait forever. How does that resonate in Saudi Arabia?

Well, I think it's going to bring a mixed reaction. The Saudis certainly are. viewing Iran as an existential threat. At the same time, Uh if By not waiting forever suggests that down the line there's going to be a military Uh eventually. Uh where will that Blowback takes place.

It'll take place in Saudi Arabia. It'll take place in the oil fields. It'll take place. in attacks on the these visionary buildings they're trying to create in Vision twenty thirty. It's going to be chaotic and dangerous uh for the Saudis.

And so I think the Saudis have some interest in trying to Put a lid on the development of nuclear weapons, but at the same time avoid. Um some kind of military attack. uh that actually explodes in their faces. uh and uh it disrupts the entire uh vision that they have for developing their country. How do you feel about this Prince?

The young people seem to like him. His enemies fear him. We also know he's a brutal going to be a brutal murderer, but he also does a good job cracking down on the terrorists in his midst.

So how do you view him, Ambassador Jordan? It's a mixed verdict. I will tell you that I Had a good relationship with Jamal Khashoggi. I met with him a number of times while I was ambassador. I've been extremely vocal in my disgust and exasperation with this Crown Prince.

not only with Jamal's murder, but also with his incursions in Uh in Yemen. His writing roughshod on many of his other members of the royal family and the business community. At the same time, There are a lot of exciting things happening in Saudi Arabia. They're developing a real vision for what needs to be part of their country going forward, reducing their dependence on oil. Women are now driving.

A lot of the social Taboos have now been eliminated. And it frankly has probably taken an authoritarian regime in order to make that happen over the objection. of the clerical establishment and those who didn't want to go so far. And so this is a very mixed bag as it often is with the Saudis. But it's an area where I think we have to meet the challenge.

We have to find a way to articulate our uh our values and human rights. to encourage them to do better. Uh and there's a huge there's huge room for improvement in that regard. But we've also got An interest in a stable Saudi Arabia. If the royal family went down, Saudi Arabia would look a lot more like Yep like Libya than it would look like Switzerland.

I hear you. And the thing is, people should keep in mind, they're not just haphazardly bombing Yemen. They were getting rocketed by the Houthi rebels, supplied by Iran, into populated areas, not even to military installations.

So they did have to respond. The question is how they responded. Do I have that characterized incorrectly? Yeah, Brian, I think you've got it right. They were indiscriminate in their bombing of the of the Humani population, which is what created so much of the blowback.

It wasn't that they were that they didn't have a right to defend themselves. The Houthis for years and years had been launching incursions across the border into Saudi Arabia. Once they got Iran's missiles and technology, Uh they became uh sort of like the dog that ate the butt that caught the bus. They took over Sana'a, they took over much of the country. and continued then to attract Iran's interest in fomenting instability with the Saudis.

Gotcha. I want you to hear what General Keene told me this morning about the prospect of getting back into the JCPOA. He obviously is not for it, cut 14. They took hundreds of billions of dollars as a result of the 2015 deal, and they bought thousands of rockets and missiles for the Hezbollah and Hamas that rained down on Israel. Their proxy, the Hezbollah, tried to establish missile bases in Syria.

The fact is, Israeli has conducted over 200 airstrikes against that, and also they toppled the very year that the deal was signed, they toppled the regime in Yemen, a country friendly to the United States and to the Arabs. And the Houthis have rained hundreds of missiles down on Saudi Arabia. If they give them this deal, the Israelis know they will be the victims of that money. Is he wrong? I think he's got a lot of really good points there, Brian.

And I think part of the problem here is Uh how do you walk back the relationship with the Houthis and the in the conflict. Frankly, there's been a ceasefire in place for a couple of months. This is an area where there actually might be an opportunity for some negotiation. Tim Lingerking of the State Department has been leading those negotiations. And so far, he's had at least some limited successes.

Well, uh do you want to see us enter into that agreement? I have been very critical of the first agreement of twenty fifteen. I didn't think it went far enough. I didn't think it would work. I didn't think they had sufficient inspection rigor to it.

And I also thought it was not long enough in duration. I mean, even if you had stuck to it, it would be expiring here in the next three years.

So Um A better agreement would be Ideal. a longer agreement, one that had sufficient inspection protocols, But I'm not uh uh deluded by the idea that uh somehow that's possible. I think it's worth a try. I think even the Saudis probably would rather have some kind of deal that freezes in place Uh ability to develop nuclear weapons. And if they don't, And I think we may well see the Saudis saying, well, maybe we need to have our own nuclear weapons if we can't tamp this down.

Yeah, 1-800 Pakistan. Ambassador, lastly, we're going to ask them to pump more. Can the Saudis pump more? I don't even want to ask them, we have our own oil, it's against our national interest. But the President's going to ask him to supply more oil, and he's going to ask him to level off on his financial relationship with Russia.

Will they do either of those things? I think there's a chance they'll pump more oil if they can. But of course, we've probably all seen the note that President Macrone apparently said that the rest of the Uh the Saudis don't have that much more production capacity. In my own experience, They've had about 2 million barrels a day of what we would call surge capacity. that would allow them to surge for maybe a couple of months in extreme situations like after nine eleven.

But that is not a permanent capacity. Right now, they've got about ten point five million barrels that they can produce. They've agreed to start producing another six hundred thousand this month and next month. But that's a drop in the bucket compared to what the world really needs and where the demand is right now. It's possible the Saudis could produce a little more, but I'm frankly not convinced that they have.

the short-term capacity to produce Uh enough. additional oil. that would make that much difference on the world market. I think demand is going to have to cool as it may be doing. And I think we're going to have to find other sources of supply.

But it's a conversation we need to have with the Saudis. On Russia, I do think there is a uh kind of a moment here where we've got to to challenge the Saudis. to understand that in many ways our relationship with the Saudis is inconsistent. with where the Saudis appear to be going with Russia. And that's the kind of discussion that has to be had behind closed doors.

We don't need to pound our chest in the media about it. But I do think we've got to get some clarity on where they stand. their temporary agreement in the OPEC plus Uh environment. may be expiring here, and so they may not have at least the contractual obligations to stick with Russia. And that could be a positive thing.

But in return for that, the siders are going to want something. And what are they going to want?

Well, they're going to want additional security guarantees. Um they have been uh I think frustrated at our pulling Patriot missiles out of Saudi Arabia, putting them back in. uh not responding to uh the attacks on the oil fields uh in Abcake and Kharais. And so we've got a number of issues here that the Saudis are going to want some sort of assurance from us on. And I think that's kind of where the bargaining is going to go.

Yeah, we'll see what happens. Ambassador Robert Jordan, always appreciate your insight. SMU is lucky to have you. Thank you. Thank you, Brian.

Take it. 1866-408-7669. We're going to come back, and I'll give you a chance to talk because we've had a chance to talk to some great people this hour from Geraldo, Stephen Moore, to Ambassador Robert Jordan. We also know this, that Ivana Trump has passed away at the age of 73. She's been a staple in New York for the longest time.

And her and her husband, a one-time president, Donald Trump, were probably the top couple in the country. This is the Brian Killmeat Show. Learning something new every day on The Brian Kilmead Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

But Get mad, get everything. Yeah, Ivana Trump passed away 73. They found her at the bottom of the stairs. I think it was some type of cardiac arrest. Really tragic, evidently, really close with her three kids, especially.

Donald Trump gave a nice tribute on Truth Social. Eric put out a statement, so did Ivanka. I managed to Don Jr. Will too. It was just, she was a staple.

She was like the number one, her and her husband, Donald Trump, with the number one story in New York, whether they were getting divorced or where they were buying the plaza, where their brother in the Trump Tower, going to Studio 54. And then when they broke up, it was a big deal, Marla Maples, all that stuff. Just so I remember the whole time, she was a very disciplined Eastern European woman who raised three incredible Kids They're extremely responsible. I don't care if you think you agree with their or their politics or not. They're great people.

You gotta meet them. I think you have a sense of who they are. Let's find out if there's well, should we find out if there's more to one? No? If you want to know more, we can.

Okay. More. To know. Just one alcoholic drink a day, I thought this would be good news, could lead to an Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. Research is the University of Oxford consuming just seven units of alcohol, half the recommended maximum, fuels iron accumulation in the brain that adds to alcohol suppressing a hormone that controls the body's absorptions of the minerals.

I mean, we're going to die. Later on the study, but you have three more drinks and it counters that and you're fine. Oh, it does? No. I didn't think so.

Breaking next: Breaking Bad characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman to be enshrined in the bronze statues in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That is where it was actually shot. Or it was pretended to be shot. I think it was actually shot there, but I don't actually know that. But regardless, if you want to go there, you can now see the statue.

The city served as a backdrop for the hit show.

Next. Seven in 10 parents say their dog is just as much of a picky eater, if not pickier, than their kids. That's your fault. 54% say they only like particular foods. 46% not interested in their food.

I've given the same thing to my dog the whole time. Once in a while, we'll add something. You don't play into it. I mean, are your dogs picky eaters? No.

I was gonna say, I don't, I've never had a dog that doesn't eat anything and everything. Right, so I don't buy this study. Save your money. Could a hectic household actually impair a child's brain development? A new study finds that both poor nutrition and living in a chaotic home environment can negatively impact a young child's executive brain functioning.

They studied kids up at 18 months to two years at the University of Illinois and found that youngsters eating sugary snacks and processed foods were marked have problems in working with memory and planning organizing snacks.

So don't fight and don't give sugar. Living in a household with high amounts of noise, overcrowding and disorganization also contribute to poorer executive functioning.

So you see how much parents can make an impact. I think that headline is a little deceiving in that a hectic household. Hectic doesn't necessarily mean all your kids' crap. The Brady's, those are six great kids. I agree.

A lot of chaos. Hectic. Right, hectic. And a lot of times food wasn't ready. even though Carol had no discernible job.

But Alice was not feeding them sugary snacks. I don't think so. Rich was making them help. A lot of meat because of Sam. Sam was giving her a lot of discounts.

I would say this. If you are a stay-at-home mom, you shouldn't have a housekeeper. I would disagree with that because trying to wrangle little kids and clean the house. But they weren't little kids, they were full grown.

Well, that's true. Right? I mean, it was a blended family. It was. But they were keeping Alice employed.

They were helping the economy. All right, that was good. Good point. And they were the first family to have turf in their backyard. That was not correct.

They're doing that now in California to save water. Yeah, they don't they're not allowed to have water. Thanks, Gavin Newsom. 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 Kilmeet Show coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, heard around the world. Shannon Bream is standing by with her law degree, her knowledge of the industry, as well as the knowledge of the economy. It's going to be fascinating. Sandra Smith with a business background will close the show and we'll find out if there's indeed more to know.

The President of the United States has landed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a direct flight from Israel. At one point that would have been unfathomable, unthinkable. But Air Force One is now there, and it's going to be a high-stakes meeting. But the question is: will MBS? Find a way to shake the president's hand because he does not want to.

And I think that he knows the guy that he called the leader of Pariah Nation, and now things have certainly changed. He could make him pay the diplomatic price. We'll see what he's going to ask for and what he'll actually get.

Well, projected.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. We're all given a moment in time and we wanna make the best of the moment. And I don't wanna pass this moment with a partner in the White House. And there's no greater partner than the Biden administration.

Gavin Newsom spent a day at the White House, jacket off, looking perfectly at home. He knew the press was there. While the president wasn't. And meanwhile, Trump is about to announce his plan to get back into the White House. The question is: when will he announce?

And should it be before or after the midterms? Will either one of them have a shot in 2024? I want you to weigh in. Number two. One of the things that has happened is over the last thirty days that the price of gas has fallen every day.

That wasn't fully reflected in the CPI data for June that came out yesterday. And so that data is inherently backward looking. Really, Brian D's, economy taking another body blow as not a person in the administration seems up to fixing it. Consumer price index at 11.2%. Instead, they spin it instead of explaining it when it all means for us, what it all means for you and how you'll vote in November.

Number one. We've laid out for the leadership of Iran what we're willing to accept in order to get back in the JCPOA. We're waiting for the response, but we are not going to wait forever. Right. President Buddha meets with the pariah after casually mentioning he offered Iran a get-out-a-nuke jail-free card.

What's the deal with that? Does he realize that we would like to know as a country what is in it before he negotiates away our security? He's about to meet with NBS now. Breen Shannon Bream, Fox News is chief legal analyst, anchor of Fox News at night at 12, best-selling author. And we're seeing the big steps of Air Force One, Shannon.

You're watching it too, more than likely. And we're seeing the royal family meet there. I guess that's the king. Can he fist bump a king? Has that ever been done before?

Listen, in the world of COVID, there's been a lot of fist bumping. I wouldn't do it like with the Queen of England. But I think even she was doing it, her elbows or whatever.

So I mean, who knows? It's a whole new world. Right. And the thing is, MBS knows he's been called a pariah, knows that he's been called a murderer by this President. And does he make it easy on the President and not meet him out there?

I can't tell who's who, just by the outfit they chose to wear.

So what what happens here? I wonder if he's going to try to trump Biden and make him shake his hand. Gosh, that's going to be so tricky and so interesting to watch because both these leaders have something to gain and something to lose through this meeting. You know, MBS wants to have respectability on the world stage. But as you pointed out, and as we all keep pointing out, the president said he would be treated like a pariah that he is.

And so, you know, when you press people within the Biden administration, there are even Democrats out there saying these optics are terrible. It's not a good look for us to go over there hat in hand. Asking them to up oil and gas production, going to make nice with them when we have domestic options that we have not fully leveraged. And you said this guy was horrible. The White House says we're going to bring up human rights abuses, we're going to bring up all these things.

It's just super awkward. And you almost feel like with this trip, there's more opportunity for to hit a minefield, to do something really inappropriate on the foreign policy stage, and to really not be able to come away with measurable wins to say, look what we got when, in the first place, there are people from your own party who don't think you should be going there. Yeah, it's just a little bit of a disconnect that we were able to pick up in watching the Israelis address the idea of the Iran nuke deal and them getting a nuclear weapon, and it was pretty apparent. Here's Israeli Prime Minister Lapid yesterday at the press conference and trying to tell the president, you keep talking about diplomacy. It won't work.

Cut seven. They want to destroy the only Jewish state in the world. We will never let that happen. Yeah. Words will not stop them, Mr President.

Diplomacy We'll not stop them. The only thing that will stop Iran is knowing. that if they continue to develop their nuclear programme, The free world will use Force. The only way to stop them is to put a credible military threat on the table. So he said credible military threat.

And I was with Ambassador Friedman at the time. He said that's the key word. He does not believe the President has it. We're actually watching the President go down those steps. Every step matters.

He went down by himself. He seems to have made it. He takes off his aviators. And I can't tell if he's shaking hands or not. Can you tell, Allison?

Can you tell Shannon? I can't. Because of the because of the outfits. Um they are told they're blocked. Maybe that's intentional.

Of course it is. thing, you know, you know how it is on these trips that the press is very carefully corralled and where we can go and what we can see, where our cameras can go, very tightly controlled.

So the angles are never a mistake. I mean, there's always a ton of thought put into that. Up, up, uh, mm. Can you see, Allison? What is your take?

This bump. A fist bump, I believe. With somebody who may very well be the royal family. There's a lot of Royal Family members. Anthony Blinken trailing behind Jake Sullivan is also there to walk back everything the president says.

Yeah, we're shaking hands. Handshake, fantastic. Remember the doctor? The doctor said shake hands at the G7, but when you go to the Middle East, fist bump. And then when you go to Saudi Arabia, technically the Middle East, shake hands.

That's an interesting prescription. How do you fulfill that prescription when a doctor gives you orders like that? Wear the mask. That's what I want to know. I don't.

Oh, wait, I'd see some on the military guys. Maybe the leaders are not going to wear them, but some of the other military folks and the people are going to wear them. I hope that guy tested positive or something, because for the military to be wearing a mask outside. Yeah. Well, it does not match with current scientific data and numerous studies that are out there, but if this is an abundance of caution situation, these are world leaders, you know, I'm not sure that gentleman has a choice.

Wouldn't it be great to have your car follow you all around? Like, I land in Germany. Think about the traffic that you fight every day. And if there could just be like a Brian Killmead motorcade. Right.

Wouldn't it make life so much easier? I always think the thing, listen, being the president, I think, is the hardest job in the world. I don't know why anybody would want to do it. It's very, very difficult. What I would miss the most, though, about it is flying private all the time and having motorcades everywhere.

Like you have saved so many hours off of your life. By those two things. Right. And then when they go away, I think that a lot of them still fly private and that kind of thing. But you're not going to get motorcades everywhere.

And in DC and in New York, I mean, that's that can make or break your day. And the band's probably not going to play everywhere you go.

So when what do they think? The President, I believe we've learned we've got we've covered so many of these. Shannon, and you cover a lot of we cover a lot of them live. Usually, they have something set up where they walk away with something.

So is the President going to say, I've got them agree to X amount of barrels of oil. I am going to walk away. We are now closer than ever to having Saudi Arabia recognize Israel, which would be special credit to the Abraham Accords. Is there something deliverable that can happen here? Right, and that's the trickiest thing about this trip, I think, because everybody is looking at it from the front end.

Like I said, you've got the criticism from both sides of the aisle saying we shouldn't be going to Saudi Arabia to do this, to ask for this. It doesn't the optics of it look like a position of weakness. But what can you walk away from it with to say this was the trade-off and this was worth it? I don't think there's going to be any big announcement about Saudi Arabia and Israel. I don't think we're getting that on this trip.

And you heard Emmanuel Macron, you know, France's president, say just a couple of weeks ago, I think Saudi Arabia is maxed out. I don't think there's that much more they can do for you when it comes to oil.

So we'll see what the measurables are other than this is a goodwill tour. The president was very firm in his support for Israel. You know, as you said, they would like to see something very concrete when it comes to defense of them. They don't have the luxury of diplomacy because they live in the world's most dangerous neighborhood, as we always like to say. And they have people who are calling for complete extermination of the existence of their country.

So they're not going to mince words in the way that a U.S. president might, although I think President Trump is rather tough when it came to defending Israel and talking about them as an ally, which President Biden has done, you know, in talking about them as an ally as well. But this trip. has got so many potential landmines in it that it's a big gamble for this administration. Right.

I mean, but the thing is, he cannot shake Afghanistan almost a year ago, this month, next month. And he also cannot shake the fact that he keeps going back into this 2015 deal or wanting to get back there. How about the fact that the Senate asked him, check with us, at least tell us what's in it before you offer it? He didn't and announces it. I got a deal.

It's up for them to take it. What is the buzz? I can't imagine Democrats on the Foreign Policy Committee really or the U.S. Armed Services are really pleased by being left in the dark like this.

Well, and there's always been this argument in Washington that it's a treaty that needs to be ratified by the Senate, as has been set out by policy and practice for the couple centuries our country has been around.

So there's always been this argument here in Washington, and it does upset members of Congress from both sides of the aisle, both parties, that they don't like to feel like they're strong-armed out of something that they very much believe that they have a vote on and that they're a central voice on.

So a couple of things are happening locally.

So the motorcade is taken off. They go behind closed doors. We'll see what emerges.

So the Iranian deal I find most disturbing. The Iranians are going to get a ton of money, up to $1 trillion by 2030, which is insane because they put it towards terror and ballistic missiles. It's crazy. But let's talk domestic politics. Do you see Gavin Newsom walk into the White House this week and with a jacket over his shoulder as if he lives there?

Don't you believe that? The ad in Florida? lead you to believe that he is running for president. Yeah, I think he definitely wants to run for president. And listen, he survived that recall attempt there, and I think he's had an extra added level of confidence in his ability to move on to higher office after he survived that recall attempt, which was very animated.

There was a lot of smoke. I don't know how much fire there was, but there was an attempt to get him out. I think coming out of that, he feels very emboldened. And remember, People who live in California and droves of them have left. They're not going to forget the strictest lockdowns in the country, in many respects, there in California, that their own governor did not.

Comply with. I mean, that's going to be the ad. That's going to be one of the ads that people like Shuttered Businesses. Losing everything, don't know how to keep my family afloat, and here he is eating at a five-star restaurant while the rest of us peasants were told, go lockdown and give up everything and take your kid to school for two years. I don't know.

I mean, I think he's got a lot of confidence, but Republicans, I think, are almost salivating at the possibility of taking him head to head because I think they think they're going to have a lot of material.

So here's what Adam Carollo said because he was, I'm dumbfounded that he thinks he. Do you know what? Put it this way: Can you imagine if you found out today everyone took a vote and you can host your show tonight at midnight? You'd go, Okay, why?

Well, with that momentum, Channon, that you can coast your show, run for president. He got recalled to the job he was elected to because he was doing such a terrible job. And the fact that he wasn't thrown out, but they tried, he considers a victory. It's insane. Cut 34.

Adam Carolo. It's insane that he's talking about freedom. The guy shut down churches. He shut down beaches. He shut down outdoor dining.

Gas is seven bucks a gallon. He shut down schools. He had mask mandates. My kid went to school but had to eat outside. He had to eat lunch outside even during a rainstorm because they wouldn't let them into the cafeteria.

They arrested a guy who was in the Santa Monica Bay paddleboarding alone because they shut down. Shut the beaches down, and this dictator is talking about freedom. It's so insane. Right, and that's in his book.

So anyone who lives in California and has a brain in there, a brain cell left, is astounded that Mr. DeCaptive, the king of the homeless that destroyed San Francisco and brought that magic to other major cities in California, would walk around with gel saying, I don't want to run for president. Yet I've got more to do here in California. Right. Lastly, Donald Trump may run in September.

I'm sure you hear that. Friends are saying he's going to run for sure, but just run in September. This is the backdrop of the January 6th Committee and the increasing ratings on Governor DeSantis. I think it hurts the Republicans if he announces in September. Wouldn't logic lead you to that same conclusion, Shannon?

Yeah, and there's definitely talk in Washington that Republicans are worried about that they feel like this midterm is theirs to lose. They feel that they have every good opportunity to have what they're calling a bread tsunami. And they really worry that if he gets involved again, the midterms are going to turn into a referendum on him instead of on the economy and all these other places that the White House is struggling.

So there's definitely some consternation and hope among the Republicans that he will hold off. All right. Shannon Bream, who's on tonight? I would tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. I'm actually off the night because I've got a special assignment.

Which I also can't tell you about, but I am hosting Fox News Sunday, so I'll see you on Sunday. Ooh, is it an interview that I'll see on Sunday? It's possible. But tonight you will see the one and only Kevin Cork. He's going to hold down the fort.

Nice. And on Sunday, of course, we're going to be talking foreign policy and economy with Senator Rick Scott will be with us. We've got someone from the White House coming to talk economy, which I'm very impressed that they will send us someone to discuss that because we have much to dive into. Right. I just would recommend you read Stephen Moore's column in the Wall Street Journal.

Very interesting. Nobody has any physics. I know you have a lot to read for your show.

Well Shannon, thanks for your transparency.

Okay, well, I will see you very soon, my friend. In fact, Saturday night. How about that? That would be great. And I'll see you Sunday in the morning.

How about that? Boom, perfect. Sandra Smith. Sean Bream, thank you very much. Sandra Smith, bottom of the hour.

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You were last hour talking about the Presidency in twenty four. I don't see any sane Republican running against Trump. And the ideal ticket for me would be Trump and DeSantis. Maybe Pompeo. who was who was a fantastic Secretary of State.

What I also wanted to tell you, none of the commentators have commentated on on his Alaska rally for Sarah Palin and Kelly. At the end of the rally, he plays a song by Sam and Dave. Hold on, I'm coming. And the lyrics of that song tell you he is running. Good point.

Great call, JD. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. The industry is responding with increased production. We need to see rhetoric.

and messaging that indicates that our country supports increased production. Welcome back, everyone. That's the CEO of Chevron trying to be diplomatic yesterday on FBN. They're really tired of being vilified as the bad guys when they were told they're out of business soon, and which all these major investment firms were told you better not invest in any of these fossil fuels because they feel the pressure from green energy and the green lobby and most Democrats. And they started caving to it, even though it provided, in many cases, profits for people's mutual funds and pensions funds.

Shannon Bream lives, I almost say Shannon, unbelievable. I called Shannon Sandra. You know, it's never happened before. Never. Sandra Smith is co-anchor of American Reports.

I'm going to be on with you in a little while. Fantastic. And you'll be on with Sandra Smith, not Shannon Bream. We love Shannon, by the way. You will be in the studio.

I can't wait. I can't wait either.

Okay. So, listen, first off, the CEO of Chevron is still measured, measured in their response. I know it's not WWE and calling out the president. That wouldn't be appropriate either. But I'm still amazed how oil and gas is so measured in coming back at the president and politicians like Pete Buttijudge.

The fact of the matter is that you should not. Demonize these American-based companies that employ thousands of people when we're on possibly the verge of a recession. Demonization of business, bad. Capitalist society, good. Free market society, good.

Kevin McCarthy, by the way, just put out this tweet. I wanted to bring it to your attention, Brian, because I know you like all things new. Think about this: inflation is so high that if you've had a constant salary for the last year, Think about that. It's like you've worked more than a month without pay. That's Washington Democrats, what Washington Democrats took from you.

This is the Pelosi pay cut. You know, it's important for Republicans to really paint that picture, whether it's sky-high energy, gas prices that we're all paying, or at the grocery store, or whatever, however you're being hit by this inflation, that that is money out of your pocket. At the same time, it's an administration that continues to point fingers at everyone but themselves, including American companies trying to do business in America. I know, and you just pointed out another quote, which I think is important. What we've witnessed, and you're the business expert, but I always like to be led by economists because that's what they do.

We're at 9% inflation. How are we going to solve it? We're going to raise interest rate. What else are we going to do? We're going to raise taxes.

Excuse me? We're going to raise taxes. Why is that a good idea? Thankfully, yesterday or the day before, yesterday, Joe Manchin said, yeah, I looked at the 9%. I'm not going to go along with it.

Reconciliation's dead without Manchin. It's not going to happen.

So it makes me wonder when Democrats are going to start calling out their own administration. And you walked in with a quote from a Democratic lawmaker. Alyssa Slotkin. She just said on another network that people can feel and see the spin from this Biden White House on inflation. She said, I think that what I would like to see is some sort of path forward.

So that maybe We can't fix this tomorrow. This is not an exact verbate, but something that says we're working on the problem. We know the kind of sort of road that we're on, and people are not happy. We want to get back to normal pricing.

So, this is a Democrat saying to the White House: stop spinning what is a very real, tangible problem that people are living through and feeling every single day. Nobody's happy about this. You're a Republican, a Democrat. You don't like paying what you are at the grocery or at the gas pump. And it's time that these Democrats start identifying the problem.

But you can't fix it, Brian, if you don't know what's causing the problem or don't acknowledge what's causing the problem.

So, they're talking about tax hikes. more spending. When poll after poll shows that inflation is the top problem for most voters right now, and when asked to what do they what's causing the problem, most people say government spending.

So why is this White House thinking it's a good idea, one hundred sixteen days ahead of the midterm elections, to tout more spending? Couple of things. What I feel is they think that they're going to lose at least one chamber. They know it.

So we're just going to do anything agenda driven because it agenda matters more than the welfare of the individual. It's the exact opposite reason you're supposed to get into politics, to help the most people possible instead of your own party gain. I want you to hear the problem. There's a lack of trust that this administration have proven to be worthy to be behind the wheel at a time of crisis, much of which they created, and here's why, Cut 15. I really doubt that we're going to see an inflationary cycle.

Our analysis is going to be done by our economic experts. They continue to convey that they believe the impact will be temporary, transitory. The overwhelming consensus is going to pop up a little bit and then go back down. This is something that will settle down. Transitory.

Transitory. Over the last couple of months, we actually saw it trended downward. Our higher price is here to stay. I believe it's transitory. We're also working to unstick bottlenecks.

between the ports and the stores. Inflation has everything to do with the supply chain. I'm going to do everything I can to minimize Putin's price hike here at home. I mean, what is it? Sam.

I mean, that's right there. And then when you turn around and say, let me just tell you what's wrong with the economy, people don't have that short of memories. They know what he said before, and it didn't prove to be true. And fundamentally, I believe people lost respect for this administration and trust in this administration on the day Afghanistan happened. I like economic experts, too.

I wish there were some in the White House. We all saw this new report from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity showing that most of Biden's top officials have zero experience in business. It would be funny if it wasn't so terrifying. The very team that has been deployed to help us avoid a recession and climb out of this inflationary crisis doesn't have a lot of experience dealing with it. I mean, I look at guys like Brian Deason.

By the way, these people are always welcome on our show. We invite them every day. They don't send us anybody there. Do you stop them? Not very often.

And, you know, we ask fair, challenging questions, but they're tough to answer at this moment. Lacking experience, why not reach out to Larry Summers? I've been saying this all along. Janet Yellen acknowledged that she's been getting this inflationary problem wrong. Larry Summers has been raising the red flag on this for quite some time, but here is my point in the middle of all this, Brian.

The very people that this administration From day one, they have said that they are setting out to help the hardworking middle-class Americans. They're the ones who are going to pay for all those mistakes and all those officials who have gotten this right all along. Because guess what's going to happen? There's going to be a lot of short-term pain for long-term gain. I mean, Larry Summers is making the point that we're going to have to see millions of Americans lose their jobs.

Unemployment's going to have to go above 5 or 6 percent for years to bring down that inflation rate. Inflation was 1.4 percent when Joe Biden took office. Right. And now we're at 9 percent.

So a couple of things.

So when people act like they're cheering the Fed, they go up 75 or 100 percent basis points.

Well, good. The faster that interest rates go up, the faster inflation will go down. But along the way, there's people trying to buy a house, looking at their credit cards. They're already pulling the plug on. They're already pulling the plug, so it's hurting housing.

And eventually, people are going to look around and say, I don't know if I can keep my employment, my payroll this large. That's the point. That's the point. Those are the people who are going to pay for these policy mistakes. It's going to have to happen.

I mean, you look back at history, Brian, anytime we've gotten into any severe inflationary environment, you've got to raise interest rates. And the point is to hurt the economy. I mean, there's no other way to paint that picture. You've got to hurt the economy and hurt demand to bring down those prices. And that would be the goal of raising those interest rates.

So I don't know if people are applauding hiking the interest rates, but they see that as a necessary evil to bring down prices.

So as you know. Yeah. Being with your financial background, there's been pressure on these major investment firms to stay away from fossil fuels. And to the point where it actually is being a good investment, but it's not a good political investment while looking for more environmental-friendly opportunities.

So, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street managed to more than $20 trillion in combined assets.

So, Dan Sullivan, put together with 10 co-sponsors, has introduced legislation that will require investment advisors with more than 1 percent of our fund shares to vote only upon the instruction of the fund's investors, not on their own discretion. He's trying to do what Kentucky is doing statewide and push these investment firms to look at oil and gas and coal because they are, I think, insidiously destroying their businesses. And I think there's pushback now in Congress to defend the people that work there. Do you think this is good? Look, I think people are looking at the entire energy situation, sort of I would say from sort of one view.

I think increasing oil supplies in this country, you're going to have to increase the willingness to invest in the fossil fuels industry. Everybody's been told not to spend on that industry because we have an administration that's not friendly to it. I think when we're talking about increasing oil and asking Saudi Arabia for oil, I think there's a bigger picture there. I think we can get the oil here. We need to be able to refine it into gasoline.

So you need the investment in the refining capacity in this country as well. Not seeing that yet. I mean, we're maxed out as far as refineries in this country right now.

So I think it's kind of interesting what West Virginia is doing. They said if you do not, they told six of the nation's largest financial institutions, including J.P. Morgan, BlackRock, and Wells Fargo, that they might no longer be allowed to do business in their state of West Virginia because of their positions on fossil fuels. I just love that they're taking action instead of being victimized because there's some great people working in that business. We are better and cleaner than anybody else.

We could be working on evolving there. But Sandra, in the big picture, I'm thinking about it. They're using the pandemic to jam this stuff down our throats, and it is just not ready. Europe's realizing it's not ready. They're firing.

Germany's firing up their coal plants again. That's going to be a mess. And China never stops. Winter is going to be a mess. Right.

Are we capable of that? Bottom line, as Bjorn Lomberg has said all along, this transition was not ready. No one was ready for this transition. Push the transition prematurely, and people pay the price. Hardworking people pay the price.

That's what's happening in Europe. That's what's going to be happening here. Absolutely.

So we're going to take a break and come back and find out if Sandra wants to know more. Also, if she knows her guests. For her show. I think I do. 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 Killmade. Hey, welcome back, everybody.

And at around 2 o'clock, 2.15, I'm going to be joining Sandra Smith and John Roberts. That's going to be exciting. But Saturday at 8 and 11, One Nation, which I host, amongst our guests, Dr. Drew Pinsky, will try to make sense of some of the president's temper tantrums, as well as a lot of these superstars are tending to take some time off from great tennis players like Osaka to great singers like Ed Sheeran. What's going on?

Are they very strong or very weak? And we're also going to talk to Newt Gingrich. And we're also going to talk to Ambassador Nikki Haley. Sandra Smith is here in studio. If you're smart enough to get Fox Nation, you see her.

Sandra, who's coming up on your show? This is so fun to be here. And by the way, coming up, 1 o'clock Eastern Time, John Roberts and myself on America Reports, we'll have Peter Doocy top the hour in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He will give us a preview of the high-stakes meeting about to happen there with President Biden and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Also, Jerry Baker will be joining me on set.

Charlie Hurt is in New York. York City. We'll have him weigh in on the current events of the day. Brian, Killme. Wow.

As the bad numbers and bad news pile up for the president, I believe you're going to tell me he should put in a little work.

So we'll see what Kilmead has to say. Dr. Marty McCary and more. Tom Cotton, the senator, will be joining us at top of the show. Just so we know, it looks like President Biden has fist bumped MBS.

Correct? Was he meet him at did he meet him at the tarmac? No. Sandra, let's find out if there's more to know. More to know.

To know. All right, this is bad news for both of us. Just one alcoholic drink a day could lead to Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. This, according to a University of Oxford study of 21,000 people, drinking seven units or more of alcohol per week displayed a connection to markers of higher iron in the brain. There are groups of neurons that control motor movements, procedural learning, eye movement, and other stuff.

Iron accumulation in some areas of the brain also has a connection to poorer mental skills. I still want to drink. Uh, all I have to say is, uh-oh. You're in trouble.

Next. Go ahead, Shady. Oh, and I put this by you: 94% of travelers bring stinky food on a plane. A new poll of 1,000 Americans, 45%, think travelers are less self-aware and ruder now than they were before 2020. And that's just an example.

Man, do not, do not bring. Hot, stinky food on the airplane. That. Drives me nuts. I do notice that they're serving very little food these days.

So that's tricky. Right. They come by with a little basket and you try to pick a snack. And I feel kind of juvenile asking, can I take two? But this is my lunch quite often.

Right? And you think to yourself, that's good, thanks. I mean, you have 5,000. Can't you just scarp it down in the airport real quick? You know?

You mean eat before I get there? Yes. And don't take your shoes off on the airplane. Nine out of ten people say that's a no-no.

Next, seven in ten parents say their dog is just as much of a picky eater, if not pickier, than their child. Do you agree with that, Sandy? Not with my German short-haired pointer. He will eat anything you put in front of him. Human food has been banned in my household, although my children sneak it to him.

True, I'm the same way.

Next. Oh, oh gosh, I'm not fast enough.

Okay, researchers in Japan say people are more likely to trust strangers that look like them. And a lot of that trustworthiness depends on the strange the strangers Gender. Really? Interesting.

So, I guess as we expand on this study, results suggest the average person is more likely to trust someone whose similar features: either a man looking at another man or a woman staring at the female doppelganger. The study found simple facial features didn't factor into levels of trust with strangers of the opposite sex. This, to me, is of almost no good, especially in Japan, if you know what I'm saying.

Next. Could a hectic household, this is a great answer for you, this is a great one for you. Could a hectic household actually impair a child's brain development? A study of children 18 months to two at the University of Champaign found the youngsters eating sugary snacks and processed foods more likely to have problems with memory, and living in a household with high amounts of noise, overcrowding, disorganization, also bad.

Now, how do you feel about this? I actually think this is really important and actually really serious stuff. I think nutrition is huge. I think schedules are great. And I think creating a calm environment for kids is really, really important.

But don't you like sometimes hectic is fun? I'm the youngest of six kids. I know hectic households, and I hated it. You hated it. I don't know.

You wanted calm? I mean, I thrive in chaos, so I guess it helped me somehow. I could see fun in chaos. I could understand. There should be adult supervision.

Do we agree on that? We agree. All right, good.

Next. Regularly drinking alone is a red flag for alcohol problems later on. A new study warrants and shows that about 25% of adolescents and 40% of young adults drink alone. That's depressing. My goodness, that is depressing.

And I guess what happens is by age 35, most of these adolescents end up drinking alone, 60% higher among young adults. They end up drinking alone.

So just don't drink alone. Right. Do you notice that in the old shows, anytime you watch those shows, everyone's drinking? They drink during the day. They're drinking at alone?

Well, everyone has a drink in there. Yeah, right. I mean, it's almost like an appendix. A martini. Right.

Yeah. Do you wish those times were still around? Do you wish they were still alive? They all died when they were like 60 years old. That's true.

I mean, they did die young, but they look really happy. Yeah, this is true. And lastly, top lullabies that young parents know the words to. Number one, Yeah. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

You know that one, right? I love that. Baba Black Sheep. I'm pretty sure. Do you know that, Ellison?

Baba Black Sheep? Roro Ro you boat everyone knows that. Yeah. Humpty Dumpty. I thought that was only two lines.

Jack and Jill? I thought that was a that's more of a poem. Humpty Dumpty's not a lullaby, it's more like a poem. Right. Story of both.

Do you think it's bad parenting if you need karaoke screens to sing lullabies to your children? That's something to think about because we're out of time because this music is. You should sing to your kids.

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