Jobs Report Perhaps Finally a Good Sign For the Economy?

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Carly Shimkis at the bottom of the hour to put all this breaking news in perspective. A lot's going to be going on today. The President of the United States is going to be announcing some type of executive action as it relates to Roe v. Wade. And we also know he's going to do that today at the White House.

And we also know a little bit later on this afternoon. We also know the President Trump will deliver remarks at an event for Nevada candidates in Las Vegas. He really believes that he's good they got a shot at taking the Senate there. If they're going to take the Senate, they're going to need that Senate seat. Right now, in Democratic Can.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I'm not going to second-guess the district attorney for his actions. My heart goes out for that hardbroken, honest New Yorker where a person came in. and went behind the counter and attacked him.

Uh thank you. Mr. Mayor, for at least saying the right thing, now go condemn your district attorney for doing the wrong thing and putting him in Rikers. Victims no more. Bedego Rona stands up to an attacker in New York City and kills a career criminal.

He goes to jail? That was the story, but now it's changing. The public outrage is the reason. We will bring you the watershed moment. Number two.

So what Texas is doing, the unprecedented, and that is Texas law enforcement and National Guard, anybody they apprehend coming across the border illegally, they will be returning to the border. Yeah, governor desperate to do something in Texas. He grants state authorities the power to return illegals to the border as Biden quietly builds a Trump wall in California that we paid for. This after 5,000 apprehended in Texas just last weekend alone. I'll bring you the latest.

Number one. Why do you think it is that 88% of people in this country think the country is on the wrong track? The president understands. what the American people are going through. He understands that gas prices are high because of Putin's tax hike.

Enough with that. Biden's economy is sucking wind, and the administration seems to just be sucking overall. And the Dems are furious. Yes, Dems. We're going to look at the economy and the president's actions and new jobs numbers threaten to cloud his only sunny spot.

So the new jobs numbers are just in. I just got them. 372,000 are the jobs added. They expected two. 268, so this is more than that, but less than last month.

List, jobs are good news for this country. I'm cheering for the economy. I don't care who the president is. 62.2% participation rate overall. That's a little low.

I mean, that also continues people that are retired.

So I keep that in mind. But let's add this to the factor. The unemployment is at 3.6, which is great, which allows wages to rise because people are gunning for have more positions open than they have workers. In fact, last month they had 11 million open positions, 7 million without a job. It seems to me a lot of people could be employed, choose they if they choose to be employed.

It also knows that better quality jobs are probably available. But what we will not have sooner or later, if we keep on squeezing the economy with the inflation, we will not have. These job openings.

So, for the present, he will trumpet these numbers today. But for the most part, by far, the number one issue continues to be. Inflation And I am not convinced that they have any coherent plan. Neither are the David Oxelrods of the world. Neither are a lot of Democratic leaders.

They see the President with empty schedules, three-day weekends, and they wonder where's the urgency to act. Here's his terribly overwhelmed press secretary, cut one. When you look at inflation, when we look at where we are economically, and we are in a strong we are stronger economically than we have been in history. When you look at the unemployment numbers at 3.6 percent, when you look at the jobs numbers, more than 8.7 million of new jobs created. That is important.

It is important. But just so you know, many of those jobs were emptied out because of the pandemic.

So these numbers are wildly inflated, like the growth numbers, just like when people say, well, we were in a recession when President Trump was in office. Yeah, because we were forced ourselves in a recession because of the China virus. That's a big difference.

So are you convinced that the president's got the message when it comes to oil and gas? I am not. And then we have the revelation that we were using our strategic oil patrol. According to Reuters, much of it is going to China and India. And evidently, in the oil world, we got the best, refined the best.

We have the best natural resources. It's the most preferred. And we do something that makes us insecure and doesn't even bring down the prices here and helps our enemy. It makes no sense. Here's Daniel Turner last night.

He's an oil and gas expert, Cut5.

So, this isn't something that the president's reprobate crackhead son is invested in a company that is buying our strategic reserves while we're paying more than $5 a gallon at the pump. If we had an impeachment hearing about a phone call with Donald Trump and President Zelensky, if this doesn't cause Jerry Nadler and it doesn't cause Adam Schiff to ask some questions and for Congress to do its job and wonder how this Biden crime family is profiting while the American people are suffering, I don't understand if there is a more offense that is more worthy of investigating for impeachment. It's unpatriotic and it's shameful and it's potentially criminal.

So, what I did not add is that wrinkle that the company in China that is buying Our oil for that country is is has a business relationship with Hunter Biden. Is that insane? And we know from the voicemail and we know from logic, obviously, the presence involved. We heard Tony Bobolinsky, and we know he's the big guy.

So, if this Trump had even a fraction of these connections, Adam Schiff would be on the air 24 hours a day. Needless to say. We're also, I want to share with you what happened when we got up to this morning. The assassination attempt worked. They're in a home with a using a homemade rifle.

It looks like a double barrel using two, look like, I don't know, plumber's tubes that you might use for your sink. A homemade gun was made for a 41-year-old assailant, a Navy veteran, Japanese Navy veteran, to walk up behind former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and shot him in the neck and shot him in the back and killed him. He was basically out of it by the time they got him to the ambulance and he passed away. He is dead in the most, arguably the most nonviolent society on the planet where gun restrictions are off the charts. Did not stop the assassination of this leader.

Who was known as an innovator, wanted to get China, excuse me, Japan. back off the this peace initiative, back on building up their own military again, wanted to get their economy rolling again first time since the late eighties, was doing all these things to jolt their economy, had to step aside in twenty twenty because of physical problems, campaigning with an election looming, and then he gets gunned down. Uh just awful. President Trump, everybody has Written out glowing statements about the leader, but I think a lot of people are freaked out, thinking to themselves: if this can happen in Japan. It really could happen anywhere.

I'm going to talk to Admiral James Stravitis about that. All right, you listen to the Brian Killmeat show. We have a lot of breaking economic news, international news, and we will also find out what is on the Admiral's mind, a former Supreme Allied commander of NATO, in wake of the fact that the Russians basically admitted they're in a pause in Ukraine. What should Ukraine do? We'll ask in a moment.

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to revise their constitution that was renouncing war. And all of that is a result of World War II. And he felt the constitution needed upgrading to face the realities and threats that the Japanese people were undertaking. That is General Keene, who talked about Prime Minister Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, who was assassinated by a 41-year-old Navy veteran. Didn't like his policies.

That, according to reports, I believe, out of the Daily Mail, that was what he was said to say. They found a homemade rifle, and it looked like two. Tubes you might have under your sink, made his house and took out this leader. It's one of the safest countries in the world. It's known as Admiral James Starvidis, the 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

Admiral, your thoughts on Abe's death. Gosh, just a tragedy, Brian. And of course, I spent over half my career in the Pacific. I've met with the Prime Minister. remarkable man, led Japan through some challenging periods, I believe the longest serving Prime Minister in Japanese history and really a visionary.

As General Jack was just telling us, he knew that Japan had to step up and face China. And he did. Initially in his career, he tried a bit more working with China, and then it became clear to him that. This was A danger zone for his nation. And so he aggressively improved the Defense Forces, and in addition to what Jack said, he also pushed to change a Cap.

That the Japanese have in their policy and their constitution of spending only 1% of their gross domestic product on defense. And don't forget, Brian, Japan is an enormous economy. It's the third largest in the world after the US and China, of course. His legacy will be clear-eyed realist who helped China, who helped Japan face the challenges of China.

So he passed away. The G20 is meeting right now. If you were at the G20 and had a chance to talk to Lavrov, would you and what would you say? Uh I as Unpleasant as it would be to speak to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavorov, again I've met with him on many, many occasions. He was, of course, in that position when I was Supreme Allied Commander less than a decade ago.

He speaks perfect English, by the way, although you'll not often see him deploy that publicly. I think we do keep communication channels open. I think I would push him hard, obviously, on the war criminal behavior we're seeing. And I would say to him, Look, you are leading your nation down a strategic bolt hole here, and you're not going to get out. under the sanctions, you're not going to find your way back into the global commons until you reverse course here.

And he's not a powerful figure in Russia, but he does have influence. He's been in the job a long time. He can help carry that message back to Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin said, We have not really begun yet to fight. We haven't really barely got started in action.

He called on, he warns Keeve, you better accept the deal. I didn't know there was a deal out there, or things will get worse for you. And he's in an opera, what we could term an operational pause now.

So, what do you make of his bluster? Yeah, I think it's bluffing. I think it's bluster. He is burning through assets. He has thousands and thousands killed in action.

His equipment is getting shot up constantly. He knows more and more heavy and advanced weapons are going in the hands of the Ukrainians. The Ukrainian flag is flying proudly over Snake Island, where there's a long history of bitterness and a very strategic location. And yeah, he has ground out a few more kilometers of territory, but I don't think he's got a lot in the bank, Brian. And the next step for him, he will have to declare a mobilization and start conscripting, drafting young Russians.

That he knows. even his levels of control may start to waver in the face of that.

So I wouldn't want his hand to cards. And I think that he's trying to push the Ukrainians to take some kind of a negotiated settlement.

So I think last week he took Luhans province.

So that's one of the two provinces that make up The Donbass region, and he seems to be making progress in taking the cities that he wants, even though it's at great cost, but he doesn't pay the price with political opinion. He arrests people that have a negative opinion about what's happening there.

So even though he's paying a price, he seems to be making gains. Wouldn't you agree? I would agree he's making small incremental gains, but Brian, you got to measure it against his strategic intent. what he wanted to do was to conquer the entire country. He's in possession right now of something like nineteen, twenty percent.

And frankly, the Ukrainians, as they get more weapons, heavier weapons, more accurate weapons, long range cruise missiles that can knock out the Black Sea fleet. I wouldn't bet on Putin's ability to really Gather a lot more territory.

So I think a negotiation is coming here. The question is: what are the Ukrainians willing to give up? And by the way, we've got to get that weed out, and I think that we should get NATO in action and say this is a humanitarian mission. We're going to guide it out where people will starve to death that aren't involved in this conflict. We have to do that.

It's not even being talked about, that I can tell. Michael, go ahead. Do you want to comment on that? Just I was going to say, Brian, because this is a nautical topic and you do have an admiral on. I would say I have been pushing this.

Many maritime experts have been pushing this. And as you know, Brian, we've done this before. We escorted Kuwaiti tankers full of oil through the Strait of Hormuz when Iran wanted to close it in the 1980s. Young Lieutenant Stavrides was involved in those operations. Admiral Stavrides would tell you today: take a page from that playbook, get the grain out, escort it.

NATO is a good place to start thinking about. And you begin by mind sweeping, we have that capability. This is within the grasp of the international community. We should do it. All right.

Here is what Michael Weiss says: he's with Newsline magazine about what's happening on the ground, CUD 28. The Ukrainian counteroffensive, limited though it has been, in Kherson. This was the first population center the Russians took in late February and early March. We've seen reports now that the Ukrainians feel the wind at their back. Ukrainian military officials saying they're within sniper range of Russian troops in Kherson.

That is an unprecedented development in the last several months. Already we have seen, Jonathan, the devastating effect that the Ukrainians have made of Western-supplied long-range artillery systems, including the HIMARS. I've seen video footage of these things striking deep within Russian-occupied territory in Donetsk. Russian soldiers on social media platforms such as Telegram have been complaining that now they're facing a NATO standardized military, something they hadn't seen before, going back eight years of war against the Ukrainians.

So, these are some of those high bars seem to be making significant gains. Are there enough? There are not enough, and we need to get more in their hands. I think there's roughly a dozen there now. We need to triple that at a minimum, give them the follow on rockets once they launch the initial round of rockets.

And Brian, everything he said, I agree with. And let's also add in, you know what's going to happen next in those occupied territories. It's going to be a very spirited, very effective Ukrainian resistance movement. And Russia is going to find dead soldiers around corners. They're going to have to retaliate.

They're going to see targeted assassinations against puppet Ukrainian regimes. Um I think that the Russians ha are going to have a very virulent Insurgency they're going to have to deal with, in addition to that NATO-capable Ukrainian conventional forces coming at them.

So don't believe the bluster. Putin's in trouble. That's my bottom line. And I think if you parse his statements closely, he's talking more about negotiation than he is about some kind of sweeping military victory. Pick up the Admiral's book.

It's called Risk It All: Nine Conflicts in the Crucible of Decisions. You also see some other great books the Admiral has out. Always great to talk to you, sir. Thanks, Brian. Talk soon.

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Now, I'm not going to second guess the district attorney for his actions. With that said, Uh my heart goes out. For that hardworking, honest New Yorker that was doing his job in his place of business. Where a person came in. and went behind the counter and attacked him.

Yeah, because we saw the video and I give the mayor credit for saying that, but why not attack the DA? Because I guess they're both Democrats, perhaps? I don't know. It makes no sense to me because if you're upset by crime in this. In your city, which is up 33% overall, the only thing down of the seven major crimes.

or murder, and that's not down significantly, but they're down. Everything else, grand theft auto, everything, assaults, murder, outside murder, rapes, all this stuff is up. And then you see an opportunity for somebody to fight back, and you know that part of the reason is it's recidivist. Criminals. They keep going in and they're coming out.

The same people commit the crimes. That's according to your police commissioner. Use that as an opportunity to say something. Carly Schimkis is here. She wants to say something.

Co-host of Fox and Friends Fresh off doing your great special on 4th of July. Fantastic with Lawrence Jones. Thank you. Carly, first off, your reaction to the mayor holding his fire on the DA but siding with the bodega owner.

Well, I'm so glad that he did. And I feel so bad for everybody feels bad for this bodega owner if you have eyes and have seen the security camera footage. Thank God, though, Brian, that it was caught on camera because could you imagine it wasn't with the camera footage alone? He was put. Alvin Bragg originally set his bail at $500,000.

Then it went down to $250,000. He couldn't make it. His family doesn't have that kind of money. After the New York Post, and thank God they did, started covering the story. There was so much outrage over this that they finally lowered the bail to $50,000.

He's out of Rikers. He should have never been there to begin with. He stood there after this.

So what happened is his son owns the Bodega. They have a Bodega Association. He's at, I think it's 139th Street and Broadway in Harlem. And what happens is this guy's girlfriend walks in and has a card for EBT card, is it called? That is a food stamp card.

And she has nothing on it.

So he goes, you can't buy the snack if you have nothing on it.

So he starts screaming at her. She tries to steal it, apparently. Yeah, she tries to steal it, knifed him, stabbed him a few times, said, I'm going to get my boyfriend. A guy comes back. He's got a huge criminal record.

He's got a $350 t-shirt. I didn't know what a $350 t-shirt looks like or is even made. And he's got gold earrings, gold necklace. He comes in, starts threatening the guy. You can't hear the audio, roughs him up.

But then when he stood up, he got a knife and he knifed the guy in the neck and knifed him again and he died. And here's the thing, that the bodega worker did nothing when he was getting pushed around, and then he tried to walk away. And you can see him actually trying to get away. And then the guy who ultimately ends up. dying brought him back.

Hold him back in. And that's when he grabbed the knife because he was thinking in his head, I think I'm going to die right now. Oh my gosh. And you can completely understand where he's coming from. And then, you know, Alvin Bragg, you don't really hear about him that much.

And I think that's really because when he was first elected, there was that leaked memo of his plan on how he was going to handle the district attorney's, the district attorney's position that he was elected to. And he essentially said he was going to decriminalize everything except for hardcore murder. That was how he jumped onto the scene. Got so much backlash that he sort of went into a hole. You don't hear from him that much.

Apparently, behind the scenes, though, he's still making these horrific decisions. And people have left, just left in a left-wing city. He's too left for them. The guy's name is Jose Alba, and the guy that is now dead. Uh the killer is name, I had it right here.

I actually don't have it either, but you know what? Can I say something though, Brian? You started this by Austin Simon, excuse me. Austin Simon, 37 years old, ex-con. He's the one who attacked him and is dead right now.

Yeah. And you were talking about how there are all these repeat offenders on the street, and that is so true. In Chicago, and police know who these guys are. 1,400 people in Chicago, the gang members, the repeat people who steal stuff and get out, they commit 86% of the crime in Chicago. And they're just constantly back out on the street.

It's this revolving door system. Imagine how much safer that city would be if they eventually locked this small pool of people up. And it really is small. The number of people who are capable of committing a violent crime is very small. The problem is that they feel emboldened right now.

The other issue with areas that are high crime areas is that there's like this anti-snitch culture.

So nobody talks. To cops.

So I was reading a Chicago Sun-Times article. I remember it was actually last summer. And it said, over the course of six years, there have been two people convicted of murder. Over six years of mass murder, only two convictions. That is nuts.

I can't believe that. But see, here's the thing is, if you're into law enforcement reform and we hear about criminal justice reform, we hear about it all the time. Do it once they're incarceration. Don't put them back on the street and say, I'm giving them another chance. The infrastructure is not there.

The opportunity is not there. If you're sincerely looking to rehab your life, perhaps. But do it behind bars because don't sick them back out on us because it makes everybody look bad. Nobody wants to come to your city. You're not going to get reelected and you're not helping the person.

Sometimes people are just evil. Yeah. I know you have a hard time believing that because you always look at the bright side of everything. Oh, I know that there are bad guys out there for sure. And then you have George Gascon.

The big news this week was that the recall effort is moving forward in the future. The fact that they got over 700,000 signatures, so about 200,000 more than what was needed. They need that buffer zone just in case any of the signatures turned out to be fraudulent. And we're just going to have to wait and see if he goes the way of Chase Aboudeen. Mayor London Breed in San Francisco just announced Chase Aboudeen's replacement.

It was a woman that worked in his office. And I was thinking, oh boy, well, guess what? She left Chase Abou Boudin's office and started working for the recall campaign against him.

Okay, good.

So maybe that city has a chance. Absolutely.

So we'll talk about that. First off, the job numbers came in much more than they thought, about 100,000 more than they thought. What did it come out to? 372? The job numbers are.

So the unemployment states are 3.6. What do you think that does that change anything in the country? Do you think we should feel less doom and gloom?

Well, I think it is a good report for now, but so it's still a lot of inflation is still there. Gas prices are still extremely high. But I guess it does show that the big issue with the Federal Reserve raising the interest rate is that it's obviously going to slow the economy and people aren't going to be, there aren't going to be as much job growth as we have right now. But the economy is just because this one particular report was better than expected doesn't change the way that people are feeling right now. And what you're referring to also is not so much what Republicans feel or skeptics of Joe Biden feel, it's what fellow Democrats feel.

They evidently feel as though that they are just lost. David Axerod talked about it. In Politico today, they say many progressives, including some within the administration, say Biden's all-out messaging war against spiking prices is making matters worse. They fear his administration's unswerving support for the Federal Reserve's campaign to choke off inflation will slam the brakes on the economy, undercut the few things the White House has moving in its. favor like housing like with interest rates are High for recent times, but not high overall, and are going to hurt the housing market and eventually going to stop hiring.

Inside the administration, the debates are getting more intense, they say, as the midterms approach. Biden's approval rating at 30, between 36 and 39 percent. Quote: A lot of the frustration by the rollout and by the idea that they were going to try to do a Paul Volcker way out of the problem is the problem, according to a senior official. Paul Volcker put inflation, put interest rates into double figures in order to outstrip inflation. No one's buying, no first-time buyers are buying houses.

People with cash are going to buy houses.

So that's going to ripple down. Credit cards purchases. Yeah, so things aren't. The Biden administration is by its own design. Also, the Fed did not help by just continuing to pump money in the situation.

But right now, they're caught between a rock and the hard place. And I really think that with this administration, it's a messenger and messenger problem. Do you remember a few months ago when the administration went through this great reset and they said, okay, this is what we're going to do to raise our approval rating? We're going to have President Biden go out on the road more and talk to the people because nobody can sell the message quite like President Biden.

So he was in Ohio this week making a speech, which I was actually really surprised by what he, and I get the union thing and all that, but he talked about pensions. I mean, that's a really small sliver of society that cares compared to the major problems at hand, inflation and gas prices. And Brian, he said, I know this is like a nitpicky thing, but it was so annoying. He used the phrase, it's not a joke. Like fi like 50 times.

Or we gotta grow the economy from the top up and the middle out. It's not a joke, folks. I'm doing more for the economy than any other president in the history of the country. Not a joke, folks. It's like he's stuck on repeat.

I know. I mean, he says it all the time. No hyperbole, the other one he always says, but no joke. The other thing is, he doesn't understand how to give a speech because those people were enthusiastic that they were there. And every time he gets cheers, he tries to like shut the cheers down.

What by saying it's not a joke? Not a joke. Let it happen. Just let it linger.

So Jim Jordan of Ohio said this about what he's seeing so far, Cut Seven. There's frankly no one who wants to talk to the sitting president, to Joe Biden. And he looked like a kid on the playground who had no friends. And it was sad. I felt sorry for the individual.

But the country sees that, and the country deserves the right kind of leadership. Frankly, the leadership we had under the previous president. But it's not just that. It's the decisions he makes. I mean, the idea, we now learn today that almost a million barrels from our strategic reserve was sold to China.

The first question is, why are we doing that at a time when we got $5 gas? But we also learned that the company that bought this oil was sold to, Hunter Biden had a financial interest in at one time.

So that's problematic too.

So it's not just the concerns we have about, you know, can he put two cents together, can he actually lead, but also the policy decisions that are being made. Yeah, I know. I mean, to me, that China story is just so maddening. Yeah, and it really isn't getting as much attention as it probably should. I think I read somewhere that when you're dealing with oil on the global market, the highest bidder does actually have to, the highest bidder has to purchase that oil.

I don't know if that's the same rules with the strategic petroleum reserve, but if that is the case, that may explain why some of those barrels went overseas. I'd like to see the explanation rather than I don't know. I haven't heard that. That's what Karen Jean-Pierre says. I haven't heard that.

Okay, don't let us bother you with the fact that there's nothing in that book, right? It's a tough job. Here's the thing about Kareem Jean-Pierre. I'm going to defend her. I don't think she's cut out for the job.

I say that fully, knowing that I wouldn't be either. It's just too intimidating for me. But she does have a very sweet presence. Mm-hmm. Right.

My problem is I saw her. Right. She comes off pleasant, but I've seen her on MSNBC just spewing venom on the previous president.

So I know they've got the other side to it. I haven't heard I haven't seen that. The other thing is, I just get the sense I don't even want to play the sound bites. And here's why. I got the sense that Jen Saki was in on the decisions.

Knew exactly what was going on. In fact, she sometimes, I think, would try to lead the president by her statements because they were full of what I think were factual things about the administration. She's just trying to answer questions by the printing.

So I wonder if she's going to be out and then, I don't know, maybe John Kirby is very good at what he does. He could be somebody that would, that would, I think, be a much better press secretary for the administration. The other thing on oil is I was reading that the Biden administration is saying no more offshore drilling in the Pacific and the Atlantic. I guess are you joking, baby? They haven't made that official yet, have they?

I think that the, I think they announced it. Maybe it was like a plan. Maybe that was the plan going into it, but I think the EPA has to release that report and it came out on Friday. We can look that up. Let's do a little production during the show.

But yeah, but the issue with that is that President Biden got criticized by all the progressives. Who said that it didn't go far enough? Because he's still allowing some drilling in Texas and New Mexico. It's just Alaska and New Mexico. I mean, besides the border, you know, you do this too.

Sometimes news stories that I don't even know the people, but I carry them home. That using the strategic oil reserve and having China and India buy it, India, if India was not propping up Russia, there'll be more Ukrainians alive right now. Yeah. And they are not even the victim of secondary sanctions. They are paying no political price for that.

And They are buying our oil. And I ask you this. If the American people knew that our strategic oil reserve was going into the world market as opposed to American gas tanks, and homes. How do you think we'd feel about that? Because we're making ourselves less secure.

At the same time, we're bringing it into a world market and maybe taking three cents off our gallon per gas. And it's not just any oil. We're the best oil.

Well, but it's also the oil reserve. It's supposed to be kept in the United States for hardcore emergencies and natural disasters. Right. When we come back, we're going to find out if Carly needs to know more. Oh, I would love to.

But you were also in Nassau County, Long Island. Oh, I cannot wait to tell this story. All right. That story and more with Carly Shimpkiss. And then she starts partying like there is no tomorrow.

Better believe it. 10:01, baby. She starts her weekend. You've worked how many straight days? Just the standard five.

Oh, really? Yeah. Did you work over the weekend too? Oh, did I? I can't even remember.

Oh, I had a really long. Yes, I had a really long Friday because I was on Nassau County until almost midnight. I know. And she felt our friendship is so strong, you didn't contact her. I know Brian so much more now after this.

Without me. And I'll tell you why. Yes. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. Hey, we're back, Choly Shimkiss. We have a few minutes. To talk before we do more to know.

You went to Nassau County and you now know I went to college there. Oh boy, I've renamed Nassau County, Killmead County, by the way.

Okay. And here's why. Because, first of all, I went there to film a little story that ran on Fox and Friends on the 4th of July. It was just this fun little fireworks package, which, by the way, in Westbury, New York, which is on Nassau, on Long Island, in Nassau County, huge fireworks show. Did you know that?

What day was it, Sony? It was on Friday, last Friday.

So before the 4th of July. Did you not know that we had? Oh my gosh, it's amazing. And the Nassau County Police, by the way, are my new best friends. Took me around.

They're amazing. They did a great job, kept everybody safe. Anyway, people would approach me throughout this whole thing, and I was like, oh, maybe they watch Fox and Friends first. You know, it's great. And everybody was like, Did you know that I went to college with Brian?

They didn't care who I talked about you for four straight hours with people. I met one of your college friends. I met somebody who you coached soccer with or something. Like that in the world of soccer. And somebody came up to me, your son's high school friend.

So we're getting to a second kill-me generation there. Another guy who went to high school with you. The icing on the top of the cake was the main guy. Who I was there to interview. His name is Phil Grucci.

He owns Grucci Fireworks. I went to college with him. Oh, he goes after the interview, Brian. We do this interview about fireworks. It was fun.

He goes, I was about to walk away. He goes, oh, by the way, did you know that I was Brian Kilmeads RAN in college? I was like, I can't get away from this. I cannot get away from this. It's really Felix Grucci Jr.

that I graduated college with because they also had that explosion that wiped me out.

Well, I heard about it after the fact that there was a, well, they do great work now, but that was a big thing that happened on Long Island. Was there a Gucci fireworks show? Yes, it was. Wow. Yeah, it was really cool.

So, the Grucci Fireworks says, I know a lot about them, but they've done every presidential inauguration from Reagan to Trump. They've done Olympics. They have 11 Guinness World Records. Did you know that? I did not know any of that, but now I do, because now that becomes a national story.

Oh, are we done? We're done. Oh, shoot. Did I screw it up with my fireworks story?

Okay, Brian, you have a Legion of Fire. Fans in your hometown. I met a lot of them. And Carly, I think it's time for you to move to Nassau County. Maybe I should.

Maybe you should. We'll get to talk about it. I'll get you a realtor. Oh, that sounds good. I would need one of those.

Maybe I could just move into your basement? That would be good.

Okay, cool. Don't have one, though. 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 Kilmead. Hi everyone, Brian Kilmead here.

Thanks so much for listening. It's the Brian Kilmead Show coming to you from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, but heard around the country, heard around the world, especially in the Ukraine. Uh current, we have This hour, we're going to be joined by the former CEO of Home Depot, the former CEO of Chrysler, Bob Nardelli, to put in perspective how this economy is really rolling. Matter of moments, Geraldo. Also, a couple of notes, news and notes.

First off, the horrific news that Abe Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, has been assassinated. It happened by this 41-year-old. Navy veteran decided didn't like his policies. He was campaigning for his party. He was the prime minister.

He resigned. He had colitis and was when you're in a stress and a situation with colitis, you don't go through hell. He decided to resign, but he was campaigning for his policies and his party, and he was gunned down with a homemade gun. It looks like two pipes that you might put below your sink, taped together, firearm made, and the shot hit neck and back dead almost before he hit the ambulance. A tragedy in one of the most peaceful countries in the world.

We'll talk about that. And also, we added three hundred seventy two thousand jobs above the two hundred eighty six thousand expected, but below last month's the least added since President Biden took office.

So let's get to the big three.

Sure.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I'm not going to second-guess the district attorney for his actions. My heart goes out for that hardbroken, honest New Yorker where a person came in. And went behind the counter and attacked him.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Mayor. But I would condemn the DA. Why not? Victims no more.

A Vodago owner stands up to an attacker in New York City and kills a career criminal, and he goes to jail. What? That was the story, but now it's changing, and the public outrage is the reason. We will bring you the watershed moment. Number two.

So, what Texas is doing, the unprecedented, and that is Texas law enforcement and National Guard, anybody they apprehend coming across the border illegally, they will be returning to the border. Good going, Governor. You have to do something. He's had enough. The governor grants state authorities the power to return illegals to the border as Biden quietly builds a Trump wall in California that we paid for already.

If you want to know how bad it is, 5,000 apprehended in Texas just last holiday weekend. We'll bring you the latest. Number one. Why do you think it is that 88% of people in this country think the country is on the wrong track? The president understands.

what the American people are going through. He understands that gas prices are high because of Putin's tax hike. Ugh. Biden's economy is sucking wind, and the administration seems to be bear just sucking overall. And the Dems are furious.

We look at the economy and his actions as new jobs numbers are threatening to cloud the only sunny spot on the economic landscape. But $372,000 is fine. It's great if we didn't have a pandemic. We are still over 500,000 jobs short of where we were prior to 2019 when China poisoned the world. Geraldo River is with us now, co-host of the five.

You know, he grew up in New York and knows the New York beat as well as anyone. This was Geraldo, this was 139th Street and Broadway at a bodega. If you own a bodega shop, you're grinding every day. This was the dad of the owner just working for his son, and he ends up having to stab his way away from this criminal. Your thoughts about how this all went down.

Well, I know the neighborhood very well. My my potential grave site or prospective grave site is at Trinity right there, Broadway one hundred forty fifth. Uh I shot a movie there in a bodega with uh Lynn Morel uh Miguel Miranda. I know the area very well. I remember the days When bodegas used to be protected by a a gunman with a shotgun.

who was on duty twenty four seven just behind The cashier, and then when someone came in, if it was a robbery, the guy would come out, and if the potential perp didn't surrender immediately, he was shot. And none of those uh shootings we've seen anything other than the fifties, the fifties, the sixties. You had to carry a gun in New York back then? Yeah, oh yeah. Shotguns, absolutely.

And cops used to be employed very often to do that task. And the NYPD had a task force Specifically to protect Odegas because they are so vulnerable, open late hours, a cash business and so forth. But in this case, it was shocking to me When I heard that the charge was murder. I mean, if you're going to do a second-degree manslaughter, Uh mm maybe, and then it gets dropped because of self-defense. But for Alvin Bragg, the District Attorney of New York County, an office I know well.

I used to work there as an intern back in uh back in the day.

so did my daughter. It is for them to bra for Bragg, the New York County DA to charge murder is speaking to a constituency that he does not understand You know, American people, New Yorkers, want to root for the people who fight for their rights. This guy, to me, Alba, was a Euro? Uh he was pushed around by a much younger man, an ex-con. Who knew what was going to happen next?

He took the knife out and then even in the act of defending himself, he was stabbed apparently or reportedly by the woman who started it all. uh by complaining to our boyfriend that the guy had You know, not honored a credit card that was expired or some such. Yeah, it was a food stamp card, whatever the EBT card. And the guy's name was Austin Simon, and the bodega guy that was working there was Jose Alba. Here's what the mayor said yesterday: cut 15.

It's obvious this gentleman was here. Working providing for his family. As I saw it from the video, I saw a worker here inside the store following the law. and he should not have been approached in the manner that he was approached. But yet he won't condemn the DA and his actions.

If you can sit there and look at the video, why would you put somebody in Rikers Island for a night and put $250,000 bail on him and then dismantle the GoFundMe page?

So this was an unbelievable series of events. I mean, that's what cops are up against. No matter what's going on, you defend yourself or who you arrest. They get out or they arrest the wrong people. I totally get your frustration, but I think you can't bury the lead that that was the mayor of the city of New York who is condemning the arrest of Alba and the and the murder charge.

He may not have taken on the DA, but that was really a seminal event where the mayor of the city of New York says New Yorkers have the right to defend themselves. You know, in a in a era era like this, but there's not always a cop on the corner.

Sometimes you got to do it yourself. And I thought, and I think the mayor is exactly right. I saw the video and watched it very carefully as well. This guy was m minding his business. He was assailed.

He was threatened. He was physically assaulted. Uh alba Was I mean, if it was a gun, there wouldn't even be this discussion. The fact that it was a knife is what makes it unique. But what if he had a legal gun?

Not a child not what if he had a legal firearm and shot him? I don't think he would have had as much trouble as he's having right now. But I believe that it was caught in time. I believe that Bragg has no choice now that the mayor of the city of New York and the New York Post And a very substantial hunk of the New York uh city uh establishment is behind the shopkeeper. The Bodega Association put up his bail.

You know, it's he he's not he is not alone. I'm sorry. He spent a night in Rikers. I'm also sorry that this young man is dead, regardless of actually brought it on himself, but it's still a tragedy, Bruh. Right.

The chief of police had a presser at four o'clock.

Now, I hear great things about Chief Sewell from the people she worked with at Nassau County, but I never hear from her. And I'm used to just the Brattons, the Gray Kelly's of the world speaking more. But she doesn't say it. Maybe she wants to the mayor speaks enough. Who knows?

Maybe she's getting used to the job. But it looks like crime is up all throughout the city, overall, about thirty five percent. The only thing that's down and it's only slightly is murders. And she said that they are finding that it's the same people over and over again. Harada, this is not tough.

This is not calculus. Why are we pretending as if the no bail laws are working when we know that the studies have revealed, even with the new administration, That the same people are committing crimes again for your own political survival, let alone the survival of New Yorkers. Why not start changing the policy? Absolutely.

I am you know, maybe it's because I'm a broken old man. But I look Fondly back on Kelly and Bratton and the Chiefs during Giuliani and Bloomberg, who made New York the safest big city on earth. the safest big city on earth. And we need we hearken back to those days. It can't be great.

It can't be great if you're afraid someone's going to come into your bodega and beat you up if you refuse to give him beat beat him up or do something worse. because of uh his refusal to allow you to walk out. I mean, we've seen these outrageous petty thefts and grand thefts and smashing grabs and things that were unheard of in my day growing up in New York. I th you never had uh people so so Flagrantly flaunting law and human decency and pushing people on subways. I know, or rather, I got one more thing to bring up besides crime.

In Los Angeles now, the National Education Association resolution is put forward. They're going to change the vernacular and telling teachers to start, instead of saying mother, say birthing parent. Instead of saying, instead of instead of. Number one, everyone's got to go back to the pronoun saying. It says the National Association resolution said, Using the contract language, members need now to not worry how a Board of Education defines maternity leave, mother or father.

The language is an inclusive reflection of the LGBTQUA. Do you think birthing people is better? Birthing parent is better than mother. I absolutely don't know why these people pick fights they don't have to. I mean, there's enough to deal with.

in terms of successfully integrating trans and other people into broader society, I mean, we have such real issues to face, to make a fake issue. That's like Latinx. Nobody I'm you know, nobody that speaks Spanish says Latinx. Nobody who's Spanish, who doesn't speak Spanish, does Latinx. It's the same small click.

Of elite. who really don't have uh their ear to the ground, who uh you know, they come up with with uh these these monikers that are so absurd. Why would you insult monikers? How would I be? I would be uh uh non-birthing parents who reports uh the uh the news uh uh sometimes uh yeah, it would be ridiculous, bro.

Right, the last thing was they're trying to get meritocracy out of the curriculum as well. They believe that meritocracy is code for white privilege. Because meritocracy, everything leads to white people. Do you think that's a good message for schools? I absolutely do not.

I absolutely do not. I do believe that some Uh Uh was I think s some consideration should definitely be given to the exigent circumstance under which your kid came up. I think that a kid who had a a a rough time deserves some consideration for the fact that he or she survived it.

So I do think that they should get some props for that and some admission process. On the other hand, I think that to throw out meritocracy, to throw to take the genius Amongst us. and made it medio and make it mediocre. Because you're afraid to offend the mediocre, I think, is preposterous. He is Geraldo Rivera Heraldo.

When he's going to be on the five again. I come back next week. I'm only going to work one day a week in July. It's my birth month. I'm seventy-nine years old.

I come back to work in August, bro. Right. So you talked about uh when are you going to pick a plot? You said it's one of the areas you're considering. It's I picked it right right near Katchas.

Okay. Why would you do that? I would never pick my my grave site.

Well, I I did it because I don't want my family to worry about it. It's a nice spot. I wanted a nice view of the Hudson. You know, you got the Hudson on one side, you got the bodegas on the other side, I'm upset. Really?

Okay. I didn't know you pick a pot for the view for the other people when they come to visit you. I feel so depressed. Whatever. It's a nice setting.

And I also know you're out in the Hampton, so you're able to really enjoy the summer. No one enjoys life more than Geraldo. Geraldo, thanks so much. Thank you. All right, Bob and Ardelli at the bottom of the arrow.

When we come back the latest on the fallout after the assassination of the former prime minister of Japan, we also will look at these job numbers and how it affects you on a daily basis and the coming apart. And the announcement this afternoon: the president is going to use executive action to attack Roe v. Wade. What could that be? We'll discuss it only here on the Brian Kill Meet Show.

Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. So, I got kind of cool news.

It took a while to put everything together because of the pandemic, and these theaters need to get ramped up again, get staffed, find out who's what their state is going to allow them to do. I'm talking about going on stage live, gives me a chance to interact with all of you. I get it on the radio, and it's always great to take calls and get your emails. And I like seeing people in the street incidentally, but a few years ago, we decided: wouldn't it be great instead of just having a book signing and shaking a couple persons' hand for shaking hundreds of people's hands and having only maybe 40 seconds with them, wouldn't it be great to have a live show where we can create our own format, get a few hours in there, be able to talk about the war on history, how America has been great from the start in many respects, with George Washington's Secret Six, Thomas Jefferson, the Tripoli Pirates, Andrew Jackson, the Miracle of New Orleans, Sam Houston, the Alamo Avengers, and now the president and freedom fighter, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and the battle to save America's soul. And you talk about that, talk about Fox, talk about the news, and interact with an audience.

And we've done how many shows would you say we've done? Maybe 15. Yeah, 15 shows live on stage.

So I'm going to have tickets go on sale as of yesterday on these four locations where we go on stage. There's VIP opportunities where I get a chance to hang out with you before the show, personalize your books. Books are going to be available after, and I'll sign them after. But I'll be in Newark, New Jersey, August 27th. That's especially for WABC listeners, but you can drive from all around.

I hear the theater is fantastic. In Albany, New York, at the egg, thanks to WGDJ. I'm already getting communication about it. You heard about it at 1300 in Albany. Our coveted affiliate up there knows everything they're going on with the Cuomo sweepstakes and who the next governor is going to be.

I had a great book signing up there, so now I'm going to go on stage.

So that'll be September 8th, the following week. Then, when the book comes out, the President Freedom Fighter comes out on paperback, I've integrated these live events in between. Brandon, Mississippi, November 12th, Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 13th. KRMG listeners, hope to see you all out there. Arguably, one of the best signings will ever have is in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

So, no matter what you do, big event, small event, Barnes Noble, Books a Million, whatever it is, Tulsa, Oklahoma are very, very loyal listeners, and we always appreciate that. That's a great station.

So, go to BrianKillme.com. Just follow the prompts, just click on it, and just get tickets where you want and VIP so I can meet you before. And you'll see those opportunities there.

So just go to BrianKilme.com. Excited about that.

Meanwhile, real quick, I want you now I don't probably don't have time with only a minute, but I'm going to be discussing this this hour. Do you know this? Hunter Biden's international business dealings are maddening. One of the reasons is he got away with it. Number two is that people were ignoring it up until about a month ago.

Now people are beginning to speak out. And if you think it's getting bad now, Hunter, it is going to get really bad if the Republicans take the House like they should. And it's going to get bad for the president. This guy's got a crack and hooker problem, got it. But his international business deal has been flagged by the IRS and the Treasury 150 times.

If you or I got flagged once or twice, it would almost bring all of our banking transactions to its knees, from your 401k to your pensions to your checking account. But he gets flagged 150 times. How that story relates to our strategic oil reserve being bought by a Chinese company. Hunter Biden's got stakes in. Unbelievable.

Bob Nardelli next. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We have to act, and we have to show action. on behalf of the American people, and that's exactly what the President is doing.

He's saying bringing prices down is his top priority, and every day he's focused on practical things that he can do. You need a President who's going to keep at it and who's going to communicate clear to the American people that we are making progress, that we have made enormous economic progress, but that he's not satisfied and we're going to stay at it. All right, that is Brian Deese. Anything but reassuring over the last few weeks, the guy was doing, I think, altruistic work at BlackRock. They're not the stuff that really turns companies around.

I just think he's ill-equipped for this position. I think most people in that administration are. If you look at the way they've responded and not responded to these economic challenges, I'm really hard to argue with that. We would say that 372,000 jobs have been added. That's much more than 286 thought of, but we're still looking to get back to equal level where we were in 2019.

With me right now is Bob Nardelli, founder and CEO of XLR8, LLC Investment Advisory Company, former chairman and CEO of Home Depot, and Chrysler and CEO of GE. Besides that, his resume really doesn't look that good. Bob, welcome back. Hey, Brian, it's always great to be with you and Thanks for getting the real news out all day long. It's very refreshing.

It's worrisome, and I think the first time I could remember Democrats. Seem to be as incensed, maybe for different reasons, as Republicans about the administration. There doesn't seem to be a strategy. There doesn't seem to be relentlessness. There's empty schedules for presidents.

Now, you know what a CEO does. That's what we have the country CEO here. I mean, there's perception, there's messaging, and there's action. What are you seeing from the White House? Yeah, Brian, I was listening to Brian's comments.

was the economic advisor.

Now I I know I recall Brian Dees from My days at Chrysler, he was part of the Karzar organization.

So I think your comments are certainly grounded and founded. Relative to the contribution that he and his team is making. There's a lot of bantering, there's a lot of words going around, but. You know, the thing I learned over fifty years is is it's all about execution. And I certainly don't see that happening.

If you think about energy, for example, Brian, we have a Terrible mismatch between supply and demand. And nothing is d nothing is being done positively, proof positively, to improve that. If we really wanted to do something, we would get back to allowing more fracking. We would certainly open up the pipeline. But we have, again, a terrible mismatch, and I don't see that getting better.

Matter of fact, Brian, I think it's going to get worse as we see Russia and Germany go at it. And Germany's going to need more help. Not less as they get into this battle and the issue over Ukraine.

So the export of natural gas. We had a company at one time. Brian, that allowed you to, you would need a terminal on this side of the country to actually stuff an LNG ship. But you there was a technology we had that would allow you to use seawater. and basically go from LNG to natural gas right to the pipeline.

Because but it but at that point we didn't need it. We had energy independence. And this administration decided on day one To surrender our energy independence and make us vulnerable and more dependent. On supply from Saudi Arabia and other countries that. We kind of held at arm's length in advance because of some of their political issues and humanitarian issues.

But I think supply chain on a broader scale. Brian, again, is inseparably linked, inseparably linked to inflation. And again, I heard what Brian said about prices coming down. I just spent an hour this morning with one of our portfolio companies. Again, I deal with Fortune five hundred, mid caps, and we're seeing twenty percent increases regularly.

I was in LA last week, and I saw a four percent price increase for health and happiness charge for the restaurant. I don't see this going down at all. Price increases are almost like COVID. They're spreading like crazy, and everybody is rushing To increase prices because they think the door might close as we get into a further decline in the second half of this year, Brian. Baba, when you're running Chrysler, I know you're dealing with.

Maybe well-meaning people, they're usually militant and impossible to deal with, my humble opinion. But these people who want clean burning fuel, these green maniacs.

So you've got to deal with everybody, especially a democratic administration, that only thinks like that. But there's got to be a practical streak within you to say one is a hope and one is reality. Germany is facing the reality. They are refiring up coal plants and nuclear plants, reportedly. We have the ability to fight our way out of this through fracking.

We have stopped offshore drilling, through reforming the permit process for these leases, and not only help ourselves, but help our allies and therefore save lives in the Ukraine. Am I overstating that? Not not at all, Brian. One of the biggest geopolitical advantages we had is when we had energy independence, where we could actually export LNG. And there's a ample supply.

Of gas in this country, both in the ground. And Brian, the other hidden fact is there's a tremendous amount of gas that we are currently flaring. from fracking operations. We were able to collect that gas. And then repurpose it not only to run small peaker turbines around the country.

to make sure that we didn't get the rolling brownouts that are predicted. That probably will happen with high temperatures and line sags on the distribution system. You know, there's a lot of talk about price increases, but one the administration doesn't talk about through May, EV vehicles were up 22 percent, Brian, and energy costs are also up commensurate with that. Look, I think everybody wants to- So, what does that mean? Break that down.

So, we have people buy more electric vehicles.

Okay, that's fine, that's your choice. And when we go to plug them in, the energy costs are now greater. And obviously, as stats show, most of the electricity is generated from coal. Right? Yes, so exactly.

And I think everybody is in support of reducing the carbon footprint, but it has to happen within a controllable time schedule. And you can't flip the switch and get us to where this administration wants us to be. It is causing a crippling effect On our economy and every aspect of business from small, medium, to large. And to punish or to go after the utilities, the energy company, to go after the container vessels. Again, it's simple economics, Brian.

500 ships floating full of containers, and the availability is low. People are going to pay more because they're desperate to get parts. And there was a report this morning about the auto industry. uh having a parts availability problem. With the heat coming on, try to get replacement parts for your uh H V A C equipment in your home.

I mean, I'm on a six-month delay right now myself, Brian, and I'm experiencing price increases. I mean, my office phone system. Went from $200 a month to $700 a month voice over IP.

So there is this shrinkflation, which I can give you examples, and then there's hidden inflation. I think the number we're seeing that the administration is giving us is deceptively correct. I would tell you it's at least a point to a point and a half higher if you really were to track on inflation. That we're seeing. I mean, have your audience send you examples of what they're experiencing every day in their common lives as people are rushing to increase prices and they're not going to go back, and it's going to get worse in the second half.

So, I think what you need to do is when you look around and see the C team of economic experts around, even if you, whatever you do, you got to address your weaknesses in life, and you got to be humble enough to assess yourself honestly. And if what I would like to do, if I'm running this country, I need to get out of this.

So I'd be meeting with CEOs. I'd be meeting with small business owners' associations. I'd be finding out what they think needs to be done, what the reality is. For example, on the show, Fox and Friends this morning, I talked to a parts deal, a repair shop that has seven different outlets. And they talk about the struggle to get things like catalytic converters, to get windshield wipers.

They have to hunt for everything. And therefore, people are coming in. They don't get paid. The people, they can't get the money to repair their car. They can't get the parts to repair their car.

So they're hustling around as if they're working a junkyard in order to get new parts. And he said, I never thought I'd be doing this two years after the pandemic, you know, two years after they shut down the economy.

So you got to meet with the supply chain experts. You got to meet with the auto executives. You got to meet with the small business associations. I don't see any of that. I see empty schedules and three-day weekends.

Mm. Yeah, Brian. And when you do meet, you can't meet to berate these people. I mean, you can't get the energy CEOs in an office and tell them and scold them how bad they are. I mean, you need to reach out.

You need to reach out and ask for help. I mean, that's not a sign of weakness. That's a sign of confidence.

So when you go out, and I've seen that, you know, again, over 50 years. I was always willing to reach out and ask for advice and help. To be able to perform better, to meet schedules, and meet shareholder expectations, Brian. And that's just not being done. I mean, they almost have a set of blinders on with a focus on something that's not attainable in the short term.

And we are continuing to go in a death spiral in this country. I mean, if you look at some of the analysts that are saying, well, corporate earnings are good. Brian, you got to ask the really tough question. Is it because of price? Is it because of mix?

Because it sure isn't because of volume, Brian. And so all these price increases are falling through and putting a tremendous burden on the consumer, but it's allowing corporations to show profitability because they're being hammered by their investors. Just look at what's happened to the stock market. You've reported it very accurately in your morning show. And I did see your segment this morning about outer parts.

Myself, I had to personally get on the phone and start dialing for a headlight assembly unit. for my wife's car. And finally I found one in the country. And because of my relationship, I was able to get that expedited so that we could have a replacement headlight on the front of the car. I mean, it's that I'm doing it every day.

I spent a couple of weeks ago, all day Sunday, dialing for parts for chips for one of my companies so that they could meet their customers' expectations that then meets their customers' expectations, what I call a see through accountability to the end consumer. And we're dealing with this every day, and it's putting tremendous stress.

Some of these corporations are starting to trip their covenants. What does that mean? That means they're leverage ratios with the banks, and we're seeing that every day more and more pressure. As inventories build because we're out of balance, we're getting 90% of the parts lacking 10%. Therefore, we see inventory increases in one of my companies, $50 million.

Some medium-sized company that cannot afford to carry that inventory, Brian. I want you to hear what the President's address was. When the cost of oil does come down, we need the price at the gas stations that they charge at the pump to come down as well. For example, Yeah. In the last two weeks, the price of oil has fallen.

by more than ten dollars a barrel. Normally, this reduced the cost of the pump about 25 cents a gallon, yet, so far. Gas stations have only reduced prices by a few cents a gallon.

So what does he not understand? What he doesn't understand is the inventory situation. In other words, as costs went up. a lot of these gas stations were not passing on the cost commensurate with the price increase. They now realize that it's only going to get worse, and they're starting to see that.

So again, you've had some of the CEOs of the banks on your program, and one of them in particular said, listen, We were in the ditch for a while, and Now we're trying to recover.

So we are going to keep inflation rates, interest rates higher to try to make up for the hole that we dug while we're going through the first phases of this recession.

So prices are up. Supply chain costs are up. To have that gas delivered to the pump, Brian, I guarantee you I'm seeing it in my business where you're seeing fuel surcharges because of diesel cost.

So this is not going to roll back immediately. I mean, the 18 cents that he talks about, whether it's 20 cents, that's not going to change the price at the pump significantly. What could happen is there was a question asked to one of two pump manufacturers, you know, these pumps that pump petro at the station, and they're being asked: can you volumetrically reduce the amount of gas that you're paying for?

So, in other words, if you see $5 a gallon, it may lead to a point where you're only going to get three quarts instead of four quarts, Brian. And so, again, there's this psychological thing that we see at the shelves where the price is the same. But the amount you're getting is reduced. Less ounces. And less parts in what you're buying on the shelf.

So this thing is just having a compound effect on what we're experiencing as an individual consumer and a producer, Brian. Wow, it's incredible what's going on. We did add 372,000 jobs. Wages are going up, but they're not keeping up with inflation. Lastly, the word is Paul Volcker in the 80s came in, and when he became chairman of the Fed, he raised interest rates to beat inflation.

And a lot of Democrats are fearing that the President is going to go along with the Fed and do that. Is that how you would approach inflation? Is that the only way to stop inflation, to have it met by high interest rates, to slow down the economy?

Well, I think two things. Just to go back, I mean, we still have $1.3 million on the payroll, government payroll. And if we're creating all that jobs, why is the unemployment rate Not going lower because, again, it's not a correct, it's a deceptive reality in those numbers.

Now, on the inflation rate, if you're not willing to do some of the things that you've suggested, which I concur with, then the only lever that this administration has is to raise interest rates, which is going to have a compounding effect. On the economy and the consumer. If you don't increase supply, if you don't get container ships unloaded, if you don't increase the flow of material, and you're only looking singularly at one solution, that's going to be increasing interest rates. We're already seeing housing, we're already seeing mortgage rates, we're seeing new autos, we're seeing construction permits. All collapsing.

Talking to one of my contractors, commercial contractors, he can't get PVC piping because of based on petroleum product and oil shortages.

So this thing, I mean, the tentacles of destruction that's caused right now in this economy are unprecedented, right? Unprecedented. When I was running Chrysler in 7, 8, 9, we focused on one thing. That was the financial institutions were melting down.

Now I've never seen the complexity. That's challenging the CEOs today in my entire career. It's more complex, more diverse, and trying to satisfy such a broad range of constituents, you end up satisfying no one, Brian. No one. He's the CEO of XLR8, LLC Investment Advisory Company, former chairman, CEO of Home Depot, Chrysler, and GE.

Bob Marndelli, it's always educational to talk to you and interesting. Thanks so much. Thank you, Brian, very much. Keep up the great work. I will try.

Thank you. When we come back, your chance to talk: 1-866-408-7669. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmeat Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

All right, welcome back, guys. I'm going to try to squeeze in as many calls as possible, but to talk to a guy like Bob Nardelli, who's run three of the best, most successful companies in the country, was just too valuable to stop. My apologies. Alex, you're listening online in Mountain View, California. Hey, Alex.

Hi, thank you for taking my call. I wanted to say that. Shinzo Abe had a lifelong goal of repealing Article 9 of their con of Japan's constitution. I think the Japanese people should honor Xinzalabe by repealing Article nine, converting their self-defense force into a full-blown official military force and establishing it. It's independence from the U.S.

Alex, you know what? I would love that. It would just take the pressure off us in the region, and we have an ally that knows how to fight and has a history of defending itself.

Sometimes. Too aggressively. 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 Killmeat Show, 1-866-408-7669. This hour, we're going to be joined by Shannon Bream. How do I know? It's on my list, and Allison usually gets these things right. And Congressman Mike Waltz, the Green Beret.

He is very active on our defense and also knows the challenges that we're having around the world, including Vladimir Putin being very standoffish, to say the least. As he says, I'm willing to take on any nation of the West. And he says he's just going to take a pause. Things are going to get worse for Ukraine unless they come to the table with a peace deal. We'll get his take on that.

Also, the news, Abe, Shinzo Abe, has been assassinated in Japan. One of the most peaceful nations on the planet has almost the strictest gun laws on the planet. A 41-year-old Navy vet decided to make his own rifle and killed him on the spot, shot to the neck, shot to the back. We see it all on camera. This is devastating to Donald Trump personally.

They became very great friends. And then we'll talk about the job numbers: 372,000 jobs added. We'll get the perspective on what that means for our overall economy. The market so far likes it. We're up about 70 points.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I'm not going to second guess the district attorney for his actions. My heart goes out for that hardbroken, honest New Yorker where a person came in. and went behind the counter and attacked him.

Yep, congratulations, Mr. Mayor. You got half of that right. You're right. The bodego owner was right to defend himself and kill his assailant that was trying to beat him to a pulp.

But on the other thing, the AG, the DA, should be called out, and we'll talk about that because I believe this is a watershed moment. The American people are tired of being victims and can't wait for the cops. Number two.

So, what Texas is doing, the unprecedented, and that is Texas law enforcement and National Guard, anybody they apprehend coming across the border illegally, they will be returning to the border. Okay, states taking it on themselves. It's Governor Craig Abbott. Had enough. Texas governor grants state authorities the power to return illegals to the border themselves because the government is not, the federal government, this after 5,000 apprehended in Texas just this last weekend.

Will this work? Number one. Why do you think it is that 88% of people in this country think the country is on the wrong track? The president understands. What the American people are going through.

He understands that gas prices are high because of Putin's tax hike. Ugh. Putin's tax hike. Biden's economy sucking wind and his administration seems to bear just sucking, be just sucking, as Dems are furious. We're going to look at the economy, the President's free schedule and new jobs numbers as they threaten the cloud is only sunny spot.

And the good news is unemployment states at 3.6%. The better news is Shannon Bream joins me now. Fox News legal analyst, anchor of Fox News at night at 12 o'clock, best-selling author. Shannon, your reaction, first off, Uh to the jobs numbers. About 100,000 more than they thought.

Well listen, it's good. We all want good news about the economy for sure. And anytime that needle can move in the right direction, it's awesome. Our problem is the labor participation rate where we still have over 10, 11 million jobs that are open and employers desperate saying people will not come back to work.

So there's a lot to digest in the stew of numbers this morning, but I think all Americans would agree anytime we have a bright spot or a positive spot, it's good for all of us. I do. I think that's good. I also think I would love to see the inflation tackle because that did tick up. And we have about we're still 500,000 jobs short of where we were pre-pandemic.

And we know that only 7% of the country, 10% of the country, feel as though we're heading in the right direction. Perhaps the most maddening thing is the fact that oil and gas is under our feet. It's in our waters. He stopped offshore drilling. Fracking has leveled off.

LNG is not being exported at the same rate it was. And our own strategic oil reserve, this revelation that is being sold, according to Reuters, to places like China and India.

So I want you to hear what Daniel Turner said. He's the founder of the Power of the Future, Cut Five.

So the son the president's reprobate crackhead son is invested in a company that is buying our strategic reserves while we're paying more than $5 a gallon at the pump. If we had an impeachment hearing about a phone call, With Donald Trump and President Zelensky. If this doesn't cause Jerry Nadler and it doesn't cause Adam Schiff to ask some questions and for Congress to do its job and wonder how this Biden crime family is profiting while the American people are suffering, I don't understand if there is a more offense that is more worthy of investigating for impeachment. It's unpatriotic and it's shameful and it's potentially criminal.

I would think so. And we know about 150 violations by the Treasury on different transactions. That Hunter Biden has made. But how about that revelation, this story, Shannon? That's so crazy.

I've tried to follow this trail here on the different Chinese energy companies and the state companies and all these different things about what's going on there. It leaves me with a lot of questions. But I know that if it was Hunter Trump, if that was the last name, there would be more people interested in getting to the bottom of those questions. And we shouldn't care what the last name is. If there's something that appears to be this off, especially when the American people are struggling this much over every time they go to the paint of the pump, We should get answers.

And you know that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are trying to get from the Treasury those suspicious activity reports you mentioned that allegedly there are some 150 dealing with Hunter Biden and potentially President Biden's brother and other folks. And now the Treasury Department says, well, now you can't get those unless the Democrat on the committee also signs off, which why would they ever? I mean, there's just not going to be a scenario in when they do that. But Democrats have to remember that if Republicans retake the White House and both houses of Congress, that rule is going to apply to them, too. It leaves the minority party almost defenseless and trying to investigate.

So, man, I just I think it's fair to ask: what would the media do? What would Treasury do if the last thing was Trump and not Biden? Jana, this just came across. The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday prohibited the use of most drop boxes for voters to return absentee ballots, given the state's Republicans, given the state's Republicans a major victory. The 4-3 ruling by the Court's conservative majority will take effect for Wisconsin's primary election next month, though it's true most impact most likely will not be felt until the November general election.

Do they want people, they don't feel they're safe, they want people to actually go to vote. And if it's going to be a mail-in vote, it should go to the precinct. It should not go to a be dropped in a drop box. If you're for the Dropbox, if you say, listen, it provides a certain amount of convenience for people with weird work hours or other demands on their lives, I don't understand people saying that they shouldn't be monitored. Like, we can't put a camera on them, or we can't have an undercover police officer keep an eye from the parking lot.

I mean, you have to answer those questions. If you're against those kinds of protections, you need to tell people why. I mean, the argument is, well, it will intimidate certain voters.

Well, not if you're just dropping off your ballot. I mean, that should not be an excuse for not having some kind of monitoring. I think states are going to have a really tough time because so many of these new ways of voting, new methods came into being during COVID when we were very frightened and people were very nervous about the spread and what we didn't know and contact and those kinds of things. But states now haven't, in many places, given that power out. It's going to take a long fight, like you saw in Wisconsin, to their state Supreme Court to kind of claw some of those things back.

And I think some states probably won't do that. All right. I'd like to move on, if I can, and talk about what's going to happen in January 6th Committee. Pat Sciplioni is going to be in front of them at some point today. He is the President's attorney.

We know a lot of his quotes in the past. I worry about the precedent. Nobody else in the Democratic side seems to worry about that. If you can't open up to your attorney and your attorney, Shannon, and say, hey, you know what? What about this?

Can I do this? And then find out that all those questions are going to be out in front of the public, I think there's an inherent problem with that. What do you think is going to happen today? You know what, I think that Pat is a brilliant lawyer. This guy is nobody's fool.

So, I mean, he's negotiated a deal that he feels comfortable with in talking with the committee. And he could have very much, I think, drawn this out with various legal court battles and all kinds of things.

So I think if he's found a place that he feels is sort of a sweet spot that he can get in there, give some testimony that he thinks will be helpful to clarifying events of the day and the president's thinking, that kind of thing, I don't think that he's the kind of guy who's going to go in there and get surprised by gotcha questions. You know, we'll see. My understanding is going to be videotaped and transcribed, so the rest of us will get to see exactly what he had to say. But we know how this works with the January 6th Committee. They use these clips to great effect, some would argue, in sort of the T V production quality of the way that they do these hearings.

And having now seen some of those hearings, I think Pat Saboloni is going to be very aware of how anything he says could be used and spliced and diced. Right. What is your sense about Cassie Hutchinson and how her testimony is resonating? You know, I am here in Washington, so I know a lot of people who have worked with her or know her. And I get various reactions from people who, you know, I don't know her at all, but they have questions about some of the things that she said and question her veracity.

So, you know, that's one group of people who've worked with her here in Washington who feel like everybody has their own motives. And, you know, they have talked quite a bit about the fact that she wanted to go on to Mar-a-Lago and work with the post-presidency team with then former President Trump, and that she was, in their estimation, very burned by being forced out of that and not getting to take part. And it's clear that there was a motivation from her that she wanted to go on and work with them.

So she may have had her concerns about January 6th. I think we all agree it was a terrible day. But they weren't so onerous to her at that point that she wasn't pursuing a job with him after the fact.

So, you know, everybody has their own reason for sharing information in Washington.

So you look at it all through that prism.

So let's talk about the Second Amendment that was found out according to the courts that it was not being properly represented in places like New York and six other states, I think.

So they nullified the essentially New York seemed to have nullified the Supreme Court decision because they were put, I think there was a two-point, that was a two-pager put in there by Justice Kavanaugh to say, hey, New York, tell us some restricted zones that you want people to be able to use a concealed carry. Besides that, use it everywhere. They put so many restriction zones in, I would argue that this has to violate the spirit of the law. From the places that you can't carry a gun, from state houses to schools to subways to parks. Basically you can't you you can't carry it anywhere.

To the point where I'm sure there's going to be a counter lawsuit to say you're ignoring this, you're ignoring the rules. I think you're exactly right. From the minute they started talking about the contours of what they wanted to do with the new gun laws, I thought, yep, that's going right back to court. And I'm not sure if it ended up in there, but the things about we're going to need your social media records and accounts for two to three years previous. I mean, all of those kinds of things lead to the very concerns the court had, which was, okay, you can set some objective requirements with this thing.

You can't do a bunch of subjective stuff. And if you're doing things like we're going to need to see all of your social media, well, what if somebody is a MAGA person? They post, you know, for Trump and keep America great and all that kind of stuff. Are you going to say, well, they're a political outlier and an extremist, and so we can't give them a gun? I mean, those kinds of things are going to take this right back to court.

New York knows that. New York officials know that. They want to be seen as if they're doing something, and they're going to see how far they can push this.

So I think that those things will end up right back in the stream, probably fast-tracked to the Supreme Court. Who, by the way, when you disregard what they just told you, is not really favorable when you show up for the second time. Oh, interesting. Art exhibits, museums, public parks, zoos are among the sensitive places that are put out there.

So essentially, this is actually more restrictive perhaps than it was before. And I guess, well, no Times Square, I guess, no subways, mass transportation.

So good luck with that.

So they're not, it's going to be another legal fight. It will be, and it'll eat up time, and these laws will be in effect in the meantime. But remember, the big Heller case, the big gun case from years ago at the Supreme Court that Justice Scalia wrote, he did say: listen, you know, states and localities can put together reasonable restrictions. You can't just go waving a gun around in Times Square or whatever you want to.

So, there's definitely going to be an argument for some of the place restrictions that they have, the areas. But it sounds at this point so sweeping and broad that if it leaves no place you can legally carry a gun, the Supreme Court's not going to view that favorably. All right. Thanks, Shannon. Good luck with your show tonight.

Appreciate your incident analysis. I'll see you then. All right. Oh, yes. 1-866-408-7669.

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Those dates announced in just a moment, right here on the Brian Kilmeet Show. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. I think what we have to remember whenever we talk about Hunter Biden is that had this only been about corruption by Hunter Biden, it would be an embarrassing scandal.

It would be the kind of thing that a lot of presidents have had with members in their family doing shady and sketchy and corrupt things, trading on their influence in order to self-enrich. But in this case, there's no question, as we know from those documents that were lied about and claimed to be false when they were real, that all along, at least in many of these transactions, there was an anticipation that Joe Biden himself would be involved.

So we're not just talking about protecting Hunter Biden. We're clearly talking about protecting Joe Biden as well. And at this point, at the very least, Jesse, we should have an independent prosecutor who's not beholden to the chain of command that ends with Joe Biden to make decisions, not just about. Hunter Biden, but also about the president himself. That is uh Glenn Greenwald.

And he is somebody who now lives in Brazil, started his own company. They kicked him out.

Now he's writing on Substack, and now he's a Fox News contributor. Which, if you thought about his career lately, you would think the last person that would be a Fox News contributor is Glenn Greenwald, who's very critical of conservatives, very critical of, I guess, Trump and a little of Bush. But I just think that he has a place to talk and a platform where he's not judged, but he just sees the craziness and the double and triple standard for Reuters to do a report about. Joe Biden selling oil Strategic oil to China and India, no matter how they got it, to a company that's linked to his son, Hunter. And for them to have to think it's worthy just and leave it out and just focus on January 6th.

It is just insane. And that's where we ended up with Joe Biden. Which is going to be part of the show I have on Saturday night on One Nation. Just talked about all the things that are going on that Joe Biden has blatantly screwed up, that he's getting a pass on, and now Democrats are getting upset with him. We're trying to say that that was how this guy profiled going in.

And some of the problems with the election, it wasn't with voting machines, it wasn't with. anybody individually corrupt. It is zucker bucks. It is problems with governors changing rules without a legislature at the last minute. It's the incredible number of drop boxes that makes one question about the sanctity of all this.

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He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. This kind of bravado comes as a result of Putin's military momentum, which they have, in taking the eastern part of the Donbass region, the so-called Luanced Oblast. better known as a province. But the cost of doing that has been immense.

Their casualties are very, very significant. They poured everything they had into this one single access. They stopped all other offensive operations to be able to do this one. And they began it in April. And it's taken this long for them to complete it.

They actually thought they would have the entire Donbass region, not just the eastern portion of it, but the whole region to include the Donbass Obles by now. And that is General Jack Keene couple hours ago break down what exactly the Russians' advantage has been in the Ukraine as they take what we call a war pause. And now Vladimir Putin bragging that essentially he'll take on all commerce. and that he hasn't even begun to fight. Congressman Michael Walsh joins us right now.

Congressman, how would you assess things right now in the Ukraine?

Well, Putin is Is grinding away. He has literally put nearly eighty percent. Uh it's by some arguing almost ninety percent of his land forces He's pulled them Brian all the way from Siberia, from the north. He is fully committed. He's grinding away and he is literally leveling city after city.

with his long range artillery. And as long as as you and I have discussed, as long as oil prices remain as high as they are, as long as Biden sticks with this asinine energy policy and not unleashing American energy, I think he's going to have the resources to keep grinding forward.

Now the question is, what is going to be left for him to govern? he's essentially the going to be the he's essentially occupying rubble. at this point. And one of the reasons, aside from the historic and cultural reasons that Putin has always wanted the Donbas, was that it was also It looks on the map, it looks relatively small, but it was the industrial heartland of Ukraine. It was where their mining capacity, their factories, their manufacturing, their steel mills That's incredible and a huge and significant loss.

for Zelensky and for Ukraine to have permanently lost that. And then the other piece is The access to the Black Sea. I mean, Putin has successfully connected Crimea with the Donbass, with the Landbridge and Marioquel. And as I've said many times, one can only wonder if Biden had given the Ukrainians the anti ship missiles that they were asking for last year, the anti aircraft systems that he's finally now starting to push into Ukraine, if they had just had that more sophisticated weaponry, would Putin you know, be in the position that he's in. Yeah, we give it we now we're giving the uh the The long range weapon system, but we need more to give them, but it's already making a difference, I understand.

So would Vladimir Putin comes out and he says we've barely started, is that just bluster? Like you said, he's using 80 to 90 percent of his ground forces. Is that barely starting? The assessments are kind of all over the place. I mean, looking at in terms of the number of missiles he still has, a lot of the long range cruise missiles and others, they've depleted their stocks.

They are having to now go to conscription. To where they're drafting young Russian men and forcing them to go into this war. But the real question is that I have not seen a good answer is what is the status of Putin's health? There was a lot floating out there. In terms of him having some type of cancer that was affecting his health, I've asked for briefings on that.

I hope to get those in the next few weeks. And then his political support at home, he seems to have solidified. to keep grinding away and feeding resources. And then economically, Brian, China has replaced everything that Europe has walked away from. And for every European bank that has stepped away, China has stepped in.

So I do think he will have the resources to keep pushing forward. My question of the Biden administration is one, how long do we keep supporting and to what end? Saying it's just up to Zelensky and just up to the Ukrainians and Russians isn't sufficient. What's in our interest? And how long are we going to pour resources?

Into this, and to what end? Is it just to it gets to a stalemate? Or are we going to help Zielinski take territory back at some point? And then are we helping him? are we helping the Ukrainians with any type of insurgency and resistance?

In the Russian-occupied areas, and that obviously will take a different strategy. And finally, Brian. for to truly be helpful, the thing that has me concerned is that we're pushing all these billion dollars of equipment into Ukraine. We don't have any advisers or eyes and ear on the ground to understand how it's being spent, where it's going, what type of strategy that they have. I'm not advocating for American boots on the front line, but I do think it would be smart to get some advisers Into their headquarters, into their strategic planning, into their depots, and understand where all this equipment's going.

I like to see some titanium counteroffensive because we know from what the Iraqis did to us and what the Taliban did to us, how destabilizing it can be. And when you don't know when the next hit is, and our guys are a lot better than their guys, clearly.

So, one thing we could say, too, is that the stupidest thing the President's doing, because he thinks it helps him domestically, is continuing to give Vladimir Putin credit for the high gas prices, high inflation, high taxes, and for causing the supply chain issues. What is he talking about? That's the last thing you want to do is make him seem as if he's punching above his weight and that he's even more of a factor. I mean, Putin has played a pair of fours like nobody's business. He has been bluffing for years.

And Biden just plays right into his hands on the international stage as though Putin now has the capability, because believe me, he's twisting this propaganda. for his own use back home and that look look how we're making the United States suffer, look how we're affecting the US economy, and Biden's just playing right into it. But set that aside on the domestic side, on the US political front, Inflation was, we all know, and everybody sees through it, inflation was at a 40-year high. In January of this year, well before the invasion. I think this Putin tax hike has fallen flat.

And we're going to see the results of it in November. But it's such a risk. And why shouldn't the former chairman of Senate Relations Committee understand the risk of making your enemy putting the wind to the back of an enemy and help him domestically? Make him seem like this behemoth. Doesn't he understand that it's not Republicans you're trying to impress?

It's not Donald Trump you want to denigrate. You're hurting your own cause. You're getting people killed because of that. You're helping his popularity sustain itself. I also want to bring you to China.

This week we have this story that China is looking to maybe take the moon. And then you think that there's even greater warning right now. And the FBI says, what did they say? Every 10 hours, there's another FBI investigation going on with China. That's right.

Every ten hours, they are opening another counterintelligence investigation with China. The American industry, international corporations, the EU, if having the head of MI five and head of FBI say the Chinese one way or another will steal your technology, will steal your proprietary processes, will steal your patents, you cannot be attracted to that honeypot of getting to that billion person market because at the end of the day, what they will do is steal your technology, set up a competing Chinese firm, States subsidize it so they can put their prices in the dirt. And then take your market share and take you out. And they have done it in ports around the world, they've done it in railcars, and mining, and lithium, and pharmaceuticals. And at the end of the day, Chairman Z of China is very clear that they are going to become the dominant world power through technology.

So, what do you think they do with it?

Well, two things they do with it. One, They create dependencies, which they have now done in all of these technological areas. And then number two, they hand it over to their military through their SIDMIL fusion program. We've got to decouple, Brian. We've got to put better protections in place.

I have protections pending in legislation in the CHIPS Act and the other that's pending in the Senate. to start increasing our security offices, to start cutting back on the amount of researchers that we allow into our research institutions, the number of students that we allow. Nothing wrong with the great, wonderful, historic Chinese people, but they have no choice when their government taps them on the back and says, go take X, Y or Z from this supercomputer or this AI algorithm, they have to do it. They're in violation of Chinese law. And the Chinese government holds their family accountable.

We have to tighten up all of these supply chains. And if we can't bring them to the United States, how about we incentivize them to go to Central America and then we kill two birds with one stone? We address the migration problem and we bring our supply chains back to the Western Hemisphere. We got to meet with private business. We got to get them on board.

We have to show them what they probably already know. But for their shareholders, they feel it benefits them. We got to tell them it's not in America's interest. Make a choice or get out or be like Nike and just say, I'd rather be a Chinese company. Goodbye.

It's a time for choosing what the heck happened to corporate patriotism. But at the end of the day, we also have to show them it's in their interest. When you have all of Shanghai being locked down and they can't get their supply chains out of there, how about we bring them back to the Western Hemisphere, if not into the United States, for their own business interests? Congressman Michael Waltz, if they paid you by the hour, you'd be a billionaire. Thanks so much for your time and always being on top of these issues.

All right. Thanks, Brian. And they definitely don't pay me by the hour. Thank you. Right.

WOKV is our great coveted affiliate there, and Congressman has that right within his broadcast. We come back, we find out there's more to know. Don't forget, One Nation, Saturday at 8. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Killmead. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. I'm just looking at my watch right now. I'm getting ready for One Nation. One Nation will be on Saturday at 8 and Saturday at 11 o'clock Eastern Time.

Hope everybody watches, has some great guests from Douglas Murray to Jim Bridenstein. This guy's an astronaut who knows that we're now getting battles at the space station with Russia and fighting for the moon with China. He'll bring us the reality on Earth.

So let's get to the big, let's find out if there's more to know. More. To know. This is kind of sad. James Conn passes away at the age of 82.

You know, the great roles he played. The first time I saw him was Brian's song, playing Brian Piccolo. But he's just a factor as a toll life, played a great thug from New York, from the Bronx. There was a tribute offered, too, of here is, for example, of James Conn in one of his prolific moments to really had him arrive on the scene at the Godfather, beating up. the husband of his wife in the movie.

It was my fault! Where is he?

Sonny, please, it was my fault!

Sonny, it was my fault! I hit him! I started to fight with him, please! I hit him! So he hit me!

I'm just uh I'm just going to give a doctor to come and take a look at your. Anyway, don't do anything. Please don't do it.

Okay. What's map? I'm gonna make that baby an orphan before he's born. Huh? Hmm?

Last but not you won the money. Francis Fort Coppola said, make it real, and it was.

Next. Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter reportedly in jeopardy. He's not even talking about how to finance it now. He found out it's not nearly as valuable as he thought. There's a lot of bots on there, but he's really dug in.

I think he's got to pay billions of dollars if he doesn't work out the deal. Twitter offered Musk and his team access to the platform's firehose of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets last month. But three people familiar with the matter told the Washington Post that Musk team has concluded that Twitter's figures on spam accounts are not verifiable. Twitter said on the call yesterday that the spam accounts represent well below 5% of his actors' users' base each quarter. What do you think about this?

I think it's great in that it's really going to get us some answers on how many people are real and not. But I mean, I think he wants to walk away. Probably. I mean, the value has plummeted since. But he was using Tesla's value to help buy Twitter, and Tesla's value has dropped because of the.

Stock market, so I think it's a little bit of an issue.

Now I think he can get a better deal, but if he walks away, Twitter's in tatters, don't you think? Yes, but also it's gonna be a lot. Many more legal fights, too. Like, is he gonna walk away? You know, because they're gonna say you're not allowed to walk away, and they're gonna contest that, and it'll be interesting.

This is gonna go on for a while.

Next. Norman Rockwell, pretty good painter I hear. They removed his paintings from the White House. They replaced them with Joe Biden family photos. How ridiculous is this?

Evidently, four Norman Rockwell works featured in the White House have been taken down. Politico first reported the paintings were taken down on Tuesday. Writing two individuals familiar with the matter said members of the Rockwell family have requested the art be returned to them. Their request was granted last year. A person familiar with the matter said the paintings have been replaced with several jumbo photos of Biden.

The paintings are said to be part of the So You Want to See the President series that features various high-profile Americans. I think he painted them in 1943 for FDR.

So after he visited the White House, is that really the story or are the Bidens getting somebody else covering for him? That's my question, right? Is it really sort of like a little bit of a cancel culture? We don't want Norman Rockwell. Like, I feel like there's enough walls in the White House, they could have added family photos elsewhere.

Next. After nearly 100 years of existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover with the strip's latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and more characters who are not heterosexual. The heterosexuals are the worst cartoon characters. For Popeye. For Popeye, the whole thing is to try to get olive oil.

Right. A girl. Why can't Popeye try to get a guy? Maybe he really wants Bruno. Maybe he's really Brutus.

Brutus is really good. Brutus, yeah. But you know, one thing was great. Popeye was great for selling spinach. He was.

I mean, for about 30 years, spinach lived off Popeye. Great for selling and then great for getting your kids to eat it, right? Don't you want to be strong like Popeye? But the problem is, Popeye, big forearms, no biceps. I don't want that type of build.

I'd rather be Brutus, but I'd rather win like Popeye. Also, I found him he was much tougher in the blue sailor outfit than he was in the white sailor outfit. For more on your analysis of Popeye, what? Did you have to do that? I really did.

I really like Popeye.

Next. WNBA star Brittany Griner pled guilty to drug charges. No one's really denied that she had some hashish oil with her. The question is: does she deserve 10 years in prison? I don't know how they're going to work this out, but the White House got themselves in a lot of trouble because they called Brittany Griner in response to her letter, but they never called Paul Whalen's family, and he's been there even longer.

That's terrible. It's just bad organization.

Well, as we were seeing, sadly, you know, they don't have the organization or the communication in place. But for Granny, they were saying, you know, she sort of needs to plead guilty so that the Russian courts will view it as more sympathetic, right? Because if you plead not guilty, their court system doesn't work the same way. They look at it as more of like you're spitting in their face and they'll get, you know, you're not going to get a fair trial, and then they'll be less lenient. Right.

It's tough to get a law degree there. And I understand it.

Next, Steph Curry will host the ASPN ESP Awards July 17th. It comes a month after the Warriors won their championship. There's seven NBA championships. Here's my worry. He's great personality, but he's not a big personality.

Great conversation, but not a showman, and you do have to be funny on the SPs, I thought.

Well, two things. I mean, A, maybe we'll see a side of him we didn't know existed. And we'll see how well the show is truly produced, right? If they have good producers, they're going to make him great. And by the way, congratulations to Vitaly Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv.

He is going, the boxing champion is going to get the Arthur Ashe Award for courage. Fantastic. Broadcaster, Hall of Famer, and college basketball icon Dick Vitale will be honored with the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance. Yet another cancer bout won again. I'm Brian Kilmead.

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