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Replace Pat Toomey as the next senator from Pennsylvania.

So, General Breedlove, as you know, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and distinguished chair at the Middle East Institute, man, we have a lot to discuss. Uh and uh we have a lot to get to you too.

So listen Get on phone. First come, first serve, 1-866-556. 408-7669. Will, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I think what we're really seeing is actually an end to the momentum that Russia may have achieved in the South and Southeast, and the beginning of some momentum for Ukrainian forces as the enormous amount of weapon systems, ammunition, making their weight felt. That is, as you probably recognized, General David Petraeus feeling optimistic with New Cavuta yesterday.

Some are not as optimistic. They still want the country despite the economy and their leader falling apart. I'm talking about Russia. And yes, and their goals in Ukraine is, well, to take over Ukraine. Still, I don't know how they do it, but that is what intelligence is saying.

Meanwhile, the President Putin is somebody who missed his beloved hockey game, even though he's in the neighboring town. That fuels people's speculation that he is not well. Number two. The bill we have today to vote on, it is not Roe v. Way codification.

It's an expansion. It wipes 500 state laws off the books. It expands abortion. And with that, that's not where we are today. We should not be dividing this country further than we're already divided.

That is Joe Manchin. He is out. Dems show vote fails on abortion rights as it becomes clear that Dems want this mid they want this as a midterm issue, and Supreme Court justices have an issue too with their own personal security as weeks go by and they have been harassed consistently. Number Remember those long lines you'd see in a Television. People lining up in all kinds of vehicles just to get a box of food.

How quickly we forget? People were hurting. And what did the MIGA crowd want to do? Forget it. What is he even talking about?

He doesn't even sound sober. Getting worse. Just about everything we buy costs more. Baby formulas, weeks away from your shelves. And President Biden heckles Donald Trump about pandemic lines and blames Vladimir Putin.

And his press secretary finds it all so funny. Bizarre. Let's talk about what's happening in the war in Ukraine. We gave a thirty nine billion dollars cat out of the House. It's going to get okayed by the Senate, and it's going to be heading to the Ukraine.

Man, I hope they're spending it right. Retired General Philip Breedlove joins us now. General, how would you characterize things on the ground right now in Ukraine?

Well, the thanks for having me on the show again, Brian. The good news is that the Ukrainians are making some headway in some of their counterattacks in the north. But the Russians are continuing to slowly and incrementally add to their positions in the East and the South, which are going to be You know, tough to dislodge if and when the time comes for that. And as you also have heard, they're starting some of their political work to try to get to a situation where they can now annex or bring aboard portions of the recently gained parts of south and east Ukraine. Yeah, I mean the Kherson, they said they want to be annexed.

Evidently, their new government that they put in play was the first town they took. They just said, just annex us. We know about Mariupol. We know that's going to be a problem. We know that Odessa is being rocketed regularly.

And these are resource-rich areas.

So the question is, from what you see, do the Ukrainians have the force to really get a run about getting those towns back like they did in Kharkiv?

So I think the answer is yes, but this is not something that we should start to celebrate. if they continue to have the successes in the North, And they are now bringing aboard more of this Western equipment, and they are building a capability with that equipment to either throw into the fight in the East or to save and use as that force that would be a reclaiming force once they get to that part of the war, a counterattacking force. The concern there, of course, is, and the Ukrainian military completely understands this. As you know, Brian, we like to say that if you're on the offense, you need three to one more forces than the defense. And that's what's been hurting Russia so much in this fight so far.

They have not had that attacking force in some places, and the Ukrainians have done a good job. But now, when Ukraine switches around and goes to the offense, that burden will fall on them. And really, that's going to be relatively determinate: how they build that capability to get the force to attack. To reclaim land.

So I understand that Russia privately admits its economy is facing the biggest challenge in 30 years. Their finance minister is predicting a 12 percent collapse in its GDP, the deepest since 1994 when Russia was trying to get a lot of the money. Helplessly to become a capitalist country under Boris Yeltsin.

So there's time no longer on their side?

Well, I think you've hit some really important points there. First of all, while I've been a bit critical of sanctions because they have actually never changed Mr. Putin's behavior, what they are doing is hurting his economy. And yes, the sort of resiliency of the Russian economy is in doubt, and the capability to sustain this long, costly war is also coming into doubt. And I think that that is going to be a dynamic that Mr.

Putin is going to have to deal with. Not only that, but what goes on at home because of these economic problems. I think you have probably heard that there may be even a consideration that Mr. Putin declares martial law in Russia to support his war. And that's all about the problems.

You just identified. Yeah, but he said that he's got to have a national conscription and people have said, okay, good. Then you go to a bunch of people who don't have no interest in becoming soldiers, being trained by people. They don't have enough trainers. They got to train the trainers to train the rest of the country to take over another country.

And that would make the whole country at war, which would risk the popularity of this war, correct? I think it would. I think that he already has a problem with this war at home. The polling says that the people support it. But let's just, Brian, take it this way.

If you were a Russian and you got a call from the government and the government asked you, do you support this war or not support this war? How do you think you're going to answer? Yeah, of course. I get it. Of course.

So I'm not sure that the polling really indicates what's going on there. And what I do know is that in the 14 episodes of Russia invading Ukraine, when I was a SACIR, it was very clear that the groups that we sort of loosely called the moms in Moscow began to organize deeply when they started understanding how many of their soldiers were not coming home. And that Really has not played out yet in Russia. Mr. Putin has masked.

that, and he has to face that yet to come. I want you to hear what General David Petraeus is. He's the expert, I get it. But he sounds to me more optimistic than I've been hearing others who are in the region cut twenty eight. There's a counter offensive ongoing to the east of Kharkiv, again it's uh the second largest city in all of Ukraine.

And they've driven the forces, as he noted, of Russia all the way across the border in some locations. And that could actually threaten. The logistical lines of communication that are supporting the offensive in the east.

So that's a problem for Russia. They're having to reposition forces there. I think what we're really seeing is actually a. An end to the momentum that Russia may have achieved in the South and Southeast. In the beginning of some momentum for Ukrainian forces, as the enormous amount of weapon systems, ammunition, other supplies, and so forth are.

making their weight felt.

Well, so how do you feel about what he's assessed?

So I he and I talk all the time, and I agree with much of what he said. What has happened in the North is that counterattack is threatening one of the lines of supply into the larger Eastern fight.

So Russia is going to have to pull forces off the fight to shore that up and to work those issues. And the Ukrainians are doing a great job there, and it is going to cause Russia problems. I think that the part that is discouraging, and I think David would agree, is that. We may see at some point now Mr. Putin decide: hey, I'm not going to be able to take more.

Let's stop now and start suing for peace with what we have drabbed. And sort of getting this movement in Kharkiv to be annexed and with finally finishing off Madiupol, if and when that happens, he can say, I have got the land bridge, that was my objective all along, and he can sort of build himself into a victory and start suing for the land. And that, I think, is going to be a big problem for the West to handle: is how do we move forward with a peace process whereby Zelensky is going to be completely unsatisfied? Understood, because it's costing us a lot of money. I mean, at a time in which America is scrounging around for baby formula, and we're paying so much more for oil and gas, and you can't get wheat out, which means grain out to Africa, and they're going to be dealing with maybe massive starvation because the Russians have blockaded the port.

There's going to be external forces that could force an unhappy peace. In the area, but right now there's no sense of talk. One thing is pretty clear: that Vladimir Putin's reputation is destroyed. His country's military reputation is sullied, big time. And now we understand his greatest fear is taking place.

NATO's expanding to his borders. Finland will officially apply to be a member of NATO today, and they'll ask for membership. Sweden will be right behind. And now the Russians have said. Finland's entry into NATO will become a threat to Russia, according to Dmitry Peskov.

The next expansion of NATO does not make our continent more stable and secure. Of course, all this will become elements for a special analysis and development of necessary measures in order to balance the situation and ensure our security.

So they're not happy. How do you feel about it?

Well, I think that first of all, let's celebrate something that's really important. Finland is an incredible military, and Sweden, I hope, to follow. We have done so much with these guys in the past several decades. They exercise with us at an extremely high level. Their capability to interact with all of our systems and radios, meaning a word we use a lot, interoperability, is extremely high.

They're using, in many cases, much of their equipment is American made, although not all of it. But these are nations that militarily will be incorporated Immediately. There is really almost no work to do for them to get ready to be a part of NATO. In fact, I say this with all due respect for some of our newer NATO nations that came from the Warsaw Pact. They still struggle with some of their interoperability because they're still flying MiGs and other things in their military.

But Finland and Sweden is completely different. They will be immediately a part.

So let's celebrate that. I understand. General Breedlove, but the other thing that people, and I'm all for it, but they're going to say the Russians are going to move missiles to their border because they looked at Finland as a threat to their border. They're hardly in position now to open up another front. They can't handle this one.

But long term, they knew the pluses and minuses to this. And now finally, after decades, they'd rather be under Article 5, where one is attack, everybody responds. Yes. And of course, this is something that we had hoped at least I can. I can only speak for myself.

Many of us had hoped they had made these decisions in years past. And I think they worked with us in order to sort of enjoy the ability to fight with us if they had to. But they like their neutrality. But I tell you that I think one of the results of our NATO alliance saying we will defend every inch of NATO meaning we're not going to defend those that are out Has caused pause in these nations like Finland and Sweden. And even you heard the other day rumors that the Swiss were talking about some sort of association.

That is amazing to me, and I don't think it has gone very far. But the fact of the matter is, this is exactly what Mr. Putin didn't want, and it's a part of his poor thinking this problem through. He's driving more nations towards NATO rather than breaking apart NATO. Right, but I hear there is stress because Italy and Germany want to start talking peace, and we don't think this would be a good time to do it.

Would you say that's correct, General Breedloh? Yeah, I well, I think that what we have to understand is peace. here has to be in the eyes of Ukraine and President Zelensky. What I can clearly say to you is my opinion is we in the West should not be forcing the terms of peace on President Zelensky and especially on his military who have fought so bravely alone Let me say that one more time, alone on the battlefield. And so, um we need to understand in the West that peace Has to be in the terms of Ukraine and President Zelinsky and not something we would issue them to conveniently end a conflict.

I hear you. Does that make sense, Brian? Yeah, but we have, you know, like guys like us, especially us, if we decided we're not paying, we're not writing any more checks, that would force them to the table, maybe prematurely. I get it. It's retired General Philip Reedlove.

It's an important time in European history, maybe the most important time since World War II, and we're watching it unfold before our eyes. Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Thanks so much, General. Thank you. Good to talk to you again.

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to help the working class and middle class people. That's they say that's why we have inflation. They're dead wrong. Under my predecessor, The great MAGA king. The deficit increased every single year he was president.

No one's even talking about deficits. They said what you're talking about when the pandemic first hit and they told everyone two weeks or 10 days to stop the spread, they had to suspend the entire economy. Got it? These were workable deficits with the country hitting in high gear, inflation at 1.7%, unemployment just about 3%, with a growth about between 2% and 3%, completing trade deal after trade deal. And he's pointing out to some lines that were in Texas and saying, I can't believe this is the United States of America.

Yeah, every hundred years when we get a pandemic, we might have to consolidate and hand out food. Nothing to do with your $1.9 trillion rescue plan that two liberal treasury experts said, Secretary said, totally unnecessary. And you kept printing money, and now you want to blame other people. Joe Biden, thanks. From the Fox News Podcasts Network, in these ever-changing times, you can rely on Fox News for hourly updates for the very latest news and information on your time.

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A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Barnett has tag teamed now with Doug Mastriano. He's running for governor in Pennsylvania and the two of them are, I guess, what President Biden today likes to talk of, ultra MAGA.

So there's a lot going on within conservative quarters in Republican areas of Pennsylvania, but. Anybody who says they know what's about to happen, I think is lying. That is Michael Smurkanish on Another Network trying to predict what's going to happen in one of the most intriguing races in the primary season. It is happening in Pennsylvania. A big race to replace Pat Toomey.

Dr. Oz with President Trump's. Endorsement on the latest Fox News poll has 22% of the vote, McCormick 20, and Barnett 19, and she's somewhat on the march. The Trafalgar poll, easy for me to say. Dr.

Oz has 24 to Barnett's 23 to McCormick's 21. What does Dave McCormick think about that? As he has had a rich history, West Point grads, a former Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs under George W. Bush. Dave McCormick, welcome back.

Hey, good morning, Brian. How are you? Good. Backstretch. You glad it's almost over, either way?

Well, it's been a heck of an experience, and I'm sprinting down the final stretch here. And you cramming as many events a day as I can. I did, I think, six or seven events yesterday. And just trying to make sure I'm touching key people across Pennsylvania and going to diners and fire halls and VFWs. And honestly, it feels great on the ground.

People are focused. on the race now. They I think they're recognizing the stakes are so high, there's at least twenty percent of the voters That are undecided. You know, the race is within the margin of error. And so it's going to be a photo finish.

And I think the You know, people are asking themselves three questions. A, who's got the values, the conservative principles? that line up with who we are as Pennsylvanians and as Pennsylvania conservatives, Who can win the general election? Because the stakes of this are so high, Brian. We've seen what the extreme left can do.

We've seen what Biden and Pelosi and Schumer can do for our country. They're taking it in a terrible direction. People feel that. They're angry.

So who can win? And Bijan Fetterman is the likely Democratic nominee. And then who can go to Washington and and hit the ground on day one? With all these incredible challenges we have with our country, inflation, the energy crisis, Ukraine, China, the open border policies of Joe Biden, which have created a fentanyl crisis in Pennsylvania. And so that's where the race is, in my opinion.

And I think the clip you played is true. No one can predict where it is right now. I'm optimistic. My message seems to be resonating, and I'm. I'm going to sprint till the end.

Yeah, I want you to hear this. As you know, the number one story is the economy that could play to your advantage because you got this rich economic background, CEO of Bridgewater, which is an international investment fund.

So you understand how the global economy works, your years in Treasury. Of course, you got the military background at West Point, great wrestler when you were there.

So you have a very diverse background, but things have changed since we've spoken. We watch inflation now to the point where I haven't seen it like this, and no one's seen it like this in 40 years. And here's the President of the United States doing anything but owning it, cut one. America is fighting on two fronts. At home, it's inflation and rising prices.

Abroad, it's helping Ukrainians defend their democracy and feeding those who are left hungry around the world because Russian atrocities exist and Jeff and the American farmers understand Putin's war has cut off critical sources of food. Ukraine was the world's largest producer of wheat. and corn and cooking oil.

So he goes on to blame the war, Putin's price hike. Donald Trump called him the MAGA king and all MAGA supporters the most extreme in his lifetime. The pandemic, of course. And then he said, How dare you blame me for spending? Republicans spent more than me.

In a time of crisis, he doesn't own any of it. Yeah. Yeah, it's disgraceful. I mean, the first thing you learn at West Point is leaders take accountability. And we can draw a direct line between the terrible policies of Joe Biden and this inflation crisis.

And there's three things that are the reason we have this, the huge spending. But this is just math. Look at what Biden has spent. In his first 18 months in office, and it's it Stands out as exceptional in any period in American history.

So the spending has been extreme. The energy policies that have made us a net importer Have overnight put a huge crunch on global supply, and that's driven up the price of fuel, and that fuel is a key driver of inflation. And then the third thing is we now have a set of policies that are not pro-growth economic policies that are going to expand our economy and deregulation that we had under the American First policies of President Trump.

So on every front, the President is so wrong and he's not leading. And uh listen, as a US Senator I know what to do on day one. I know exactly how to handle this issue. I can't tell you how big a deal it is in Pennsylvania, Brian. I mean, this kills working families that are core to our Republican Party and winning this primary and this general election.

It kills elders on fixed income because prices are going up and their fixed income isn't. And it's killing small businesses. I meet small businesses every day. And this is the number one thing on their mind.

So this is a national crisis. And I'll say one more word, which is we're at risk of stagflation now. where we have this forty year high in inflation and the economy stalls. And it's all because of wrong leadership, bad ideas and we need to change in our majorities in the House and Senate. a new occupan in the White House to get things back on track and a new senator from Pennsylvania.

Is there a program, Dave McCormick, being that you do have knowledge of China? that will begin to bring manufacturing home from China. And could you tell me what in particular concerns you most that China is doing that we're on the hook for. Listen, we need to have a a national strategy that builds on what President Trump did with China. And really goes toe to toe with China in a different way.

There's four things I do beyond what the great path of President Trump was. First, We need to decouple in key strategic industries. Pharmaceuticals need to come home. We can't be dependent. We learned in COVID we're dependent on China.

And we need to bring home semiconductors, which, God forbid, we have ninety percent of the world's semiconductor production that's ninety miles from mainland China. We need to hold China accountable for COVID and fentanyl, which is killing Pennsylvanians. And we still don't know what the heck happened with COVID and we lost a million Americans and trillions of value. We need to continue the fair trade policies of President Trump, the steel tariffs and other tariffs. that make sure that our manufacturers here have a fair shake.

And then finally, we need to make sure no company or investor is investing in China in a way that's going to support the modernization of the military or the human rights abuses For the Uyghurs. And as a combat bet, someone who's negotiated against China and done business around the world. I'm unique in my ability to lead in the Senate. on how to go a new national strategy, which really changes the news. Changes our relationship with China, makes us far less dependent.

Dave McCormick with us now, GOP candidate for Senate to replace Pat Toomey in a tough fight with Dr. Oz and Kathy Barnett. Real quick on what President Biden is calling out is going after Rick Scott's 11-point plan, what the Senate should do if it flips to the Republicans. And one of it is on the one point on number five says the 50% of the country that does not pay taxes should pay anything, even if it's the smallest amount. Everyone should have skin in the game.

And that's what President Biden is focusing on. Here's what he's saying. He's making that the Republican mantra. First off, from what you know of the plan, Would you agree with it? And how do you feel about the president?

How do you feel about Rick Scott saying everyone should have skin in the game?

Well, listen, I mean, at this point particularly, my approach on taxes would be to make permanent the Trump tax cuts. I think the biggest problem is that we don't have progrowth economic policies and deregulation. That's the way to unlock our economy. We have to have a combination of progrowth policies and fiscal prudence. We have neither of those under Joe Biden.

I think it's great that Senator Scott has come forward with a plan. I don't necessarily agree with all the specifics of the plan, but I do agree that we as Republicans need to take leadership have an aggressive set of next generation leaders in the Senate. that are carrying uh carrying the fight. And we can't just be against what Joe Biden's doing, which is a disaster. We need to be proactively for what we're for.

And I think President Trump's America Perce agenda is the good foundation for that. More to follow. But at this point, I'm not in favor of any increases in taxes. Because I think it's the worst thing we could do for our economy at this moment. We need to unlock our economy, not further suppress it.

All right, Dave, what are your plans for the sprint to Tuesday?

Well, I got my friend and supporter, Ted Cruz, coming in to Philadelphia today. I've had great endorsements from Mike Pompeo, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Bob Lighthizer, who led President Trump's China policy, and Sarah Huffby, a number of others.

So great support. Ted and I are going to do four rallies. We're going to do one here in Philadelphia here in Montgomery County. We're going to do one in Pittsburgh tonight in Allegheny County. And then tomorrow we're going to finish with a rally in Wolfsburg and then a rally in Lancaster County.

So we're going to hit the state. And then, you know, the last couple of days, I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing, which is get in that pickup truck and go shake hands and make my case to the great people of Pennsylvania. All right. Dave McCormick, best of luck in the final sprint. Former Under Secretary of Treasury, International Affairs under George W.

Bush, West Point grad, and now trying to be the next senator from Pennsylvania. Thanks, Dave. Hey, thank you, Brian. Have a good day. You got it.

So he's trailing just barely in both these polls within the margin of error. Dr. Oz has the endorsement of the President. But as you see, Dave McCormick and Barnett, they both feel as though they fully are in back of the President and his former President and his policies, which is a good tactical move. You don't want to alienate Trump supporters, even if President Trump has made his choice.

So when we come back, I'll take your calls for this hour: 1-866-408-7669. We have not really d discussed much about the show vote yesterday and the derision and the anger directed at who else but Joe Manchin. Don't move. Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Here at first on the Brian Kill Meat Show.

The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. It's also possible that the fact that she is an adoptive mother is influencing their inability to see what it's like. to carry a pregnancy term. No, she's had vacuums on herself.

Not everybody wants to have Five kits, or four kits, or one kit. Yeah, that protester, this clown in a handmaiden's tail outfit, walking past Amy Coney Barrett's house again for maybe the fifth, sixth, straight day, and harassing her children. You can imagine five kids, two adopted, young family. Mom comes home, people are screaming her mom horrible things outside their house. They probably have to go somewhere else.

These kids got homework, they have teams, there are things they're involved with, and they got to deal with this. That's okay with you. And this idiot protester says Amy Coney Barrett adopts kids, doesn't know what it's like to carry a child, not even doing her research to find out that she's got five kids of her own, and then quickly pivots and says, Not everybody wants five kids. Right. Not everybody wants five kids, but she does.

And you know how she's going to vote, and you understand the opinion, and you understand this is going to go back to the states. You want to protest, go do it, go march, but don't do it in people's houses. Governor Glenn Young says it's up to the Attorney General to enforce the law, but he is the governor of the place in which this is happening. Yeah, I think it's a very good thing. The statute is incredibly clear.

It basically says if you are parading or picketing in order to try to influence a judge. then it's punishable with up to a year in prison. That sounds illegal to me. And I just ask the Attorney General to enforce the law that's on the books. If people want to demonstrate someplace off away from their home, that's their prerogative.

But again, this is not a final ruling, it's a draft ruling. And clearly, these demonstrations are being pulled together to try to influence the final outcome. And that is prohibited based on federal statute. Yeah, I just go in ahead. I mean, the cops just go in there and push them back.

Seal off the block. That is it. Talk to the families, find out if they want to get out of there. And I'll tell ya. When is Democrats going to understand that you may be against You may be on the offensive in this situation.

But everything blows up in your face. Cancel culture started with liberal canceled culture lunatics. They end up shooting Al Franken and everybody else. Behavior or not, justified or whatever. They blow themselves up.

Now, you're saying it's acceptable to go outside people's houses because you don't agree with them?

Well, there's a lot of Republicans who think Attorney General Merrick Garland is absolutely awful. There's a lot of people who thought that Jen Sake's sarcastic retorts. Were something that was annoying them.

So guess what? We know exactly, people know exactly where they live.

So instead of protesting outside Supreme Court justices in a few weeks, maybe there's time to go see the new press secretary. Maybe it's time to see the new Homeland Security Secretary whose major is an embarrassment to this country. I'm not into ruining his personal life, but you are laying the groundwork for making that. An everyday occurrence, which means no one's going to run for office. At all.

Here's Esther Salas on this very issue. This is the judge whose son was murdered and a husband was shot because of a job that she does. Um uh because of a convict that she had as a judge. He was cut twenty-two. You know, it's been tw over twenty-one months and and eighteen days since Daniel's murder and They can do this in a week.

They can do this in a week. Which they need to do, by the way. But had my bill, had the bill been passed, Um these justices' addresses would have been sealed a long time ago. Yeah, she knows what it's like. Richards, you're in Texas.

Hey, Richard. Yeah. Hello. Yes. Oh, that's funny.

Hold my alarm just started going off. Yes, uh very quickly I Spent 34 days in Moscow 16 months ago. I was escorted in by Putin's deputy prime minister. To be on some specials. And my host, or my escort, if you would.

Said, I asked, what is Putin's thing? And she said, and she was the daughter of a KGB colonel. that his main thing is his legacy. Which was to bring back the Soviet bloc. And that she also said that he has, I can't remember, she said, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

But my point. Why is nobody bringing up the scenario of a potential? Suicide, like Hitler said, burn it all down, and he was not going to go out alive. Everyone's talking about Putin will not push the button, but has anyone brought up the scenario of will he if he's going out, he's going to take people with him? Yeah, well, I mean, people brought up all types of things.

He's not playing in his famed hockey game today. He's 68 years old. He's at his Sochi compound right now. And we know that he does not look good on Easter. He did not look good sitting in the stands with a blanket over his legs.

And I know that he got himself in way over his head, the biggest disaster in modern Russia. Remember, when Stalin was invaded by Hitler. And things were going terrible, and the scorched earth policy was having millions die, and town after town being burned down by the Soviets of their own towns to maybe suck the Germans in and get them stuck there for the winter like they did with Napoleon. Stalin won catatonic. He was hanging out in his house.

He thought he was going to be killed any minute. He was saved by the fact that the Germans overextended. Ben, that's what I see Vladimir Putin doing. Ben listening in Michigan. Hey, Ben.

Yeah, hey, Brian, listen, with everything going on in Ukraine, I know that our biggest threat has always been China. Right now, we know for a fact that India has the second largest army in the world, and we know for a fact that there's no love loss between India and China, which was exemplified by that border combat they had about two summers ago. Are we making any type of overtures to India to play interference against the Chinese when the time comes when they start trying to make their advances towards Taiwan? Not sure. India is also friends with Russia and China.

That might be a good move, but we're not too fond of Modi right now because he's sustaining Russia. He's still buying their oil, helping to finance that war machine. But that's something to consider. I know he was a lot tighter with Trump than he is with Biden, but that is a piece of leverage of international relations that shows how astute you are, Ben. Listen, go to BrianKillmee.com, find out where I'll be, how to contact us.

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Mark Thiessen's been woken up early. He likes to sleep till noon. He'll be joining me early just because he cares so much about our audience and all of you. He'll be providing his insight. He's a columnist for the Washington Post in years with the Bush administration now at Fox News contributor.

Katie Pablich at the bottom of the hour as well. And we'll be taking your calls throughout the day. And of course as we look to see what's going to be taking Place this weekend. A lot of people are looking at what's going to be happening Tuesday, and that's at big primary. It's the test of Donald Trump's power.

I don't think he's going to have successes in the governor's race in Georgia. I think he will have it with Herschel Walker. But man, he blessed Dr. Oz, but Dave McCormick and Kathy Barnett are also still very much in contention. We'll find out what's going to happen there.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Sponsored by LifeFact: Save a Life in a Choking Emergency. Visit lifefact.net to learn more and use code BK10 to save 10%. Number three. I think what we're really seeing is actually an end to the momentum that Russia may have achieved in the South and Southeast and the beginning of some momentum for Ukrainian forces as the enormous amount of weapons systems, ammunition, making their weight felt.

That is David Petraeus, and that's what he's saying: the battlefield is the situation. They will still want the country despite the economy that is falling apart for Russia. Yes, I am talking about Russia. They still think they could take Kyiv, and their goals in Ukraine is to make them go down.

Meanwhile, in the east, Ukraine had a major victory, but in the south, it looks like they're taking a move on Odessa.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin's health is very much in doubt. Number two. The bill we have today to vote on, it is not Roe v. Way codification. It's an expansion.

It wipes 500 state laws off the books. It expands abortion. And with that, that's not where we are today. We should not be dividing this country further than we're already divided. That is Joe Manchin.

The Dem show, the Dem show vote falls on abortion rights as it becomes clear Dems want to make this a midterm issue. They knew they couldn't get 60 that would have codified Roe v. Wade. And Supreme Justices have an issue with their own personal security. As weeks go by, and there's been not one word about the identity of the leaker that caused this to begin with.

Number one. Remember those long lines you'd see in a television? People lining up in all kinds of vehicles just to get a box of food. How quickly we forget? People were hurting.

And what did the MAGA crowd want to do? Forget it. Yes, Joe Biden a little bit angrier than normal, getting worse. Just about everything we buy costs more. Baby formula gone from the shelves.

President Biden heckles Trump, blames Putin, and the pandemic. Really?

Well, the press secretary laughs at who when asked who's in charge of getting baby formula back on the shelves. Let's bring in Mark Thiessen. Mark, are you surprised that we keep on getting these catchphrases from the President? He's bringing up Rick Scott's one of his Rick Scott's points rather than trying to solve the problem six months from an election. Yeah, I mean, it's just ridiculous.

First of all, Rick Scott, like, not a single Republican in the Senate supports Rick Scott's plan.

So he has taken this outlier bill that Rick's got planned, that Rick Scott has done, and tried to make it impose it on the rest of the Republican Party and make this the plan that they were earning on. This is just typical for this. This president just lies all the time. You know, how they used to complain about Trump lying all the time? He just lies nonstop.

He lies about the Republican plans for this ultra-mAGA agenda. Most people look back and say, hey, you know, I was pretty good under MAGA. Maybe MAGA was, I didn't like Donald Trump, but the MAGA agenda sounds good. They're mistaken if they think that people voted against the Trump agenda. They voted against Donald Trump, but they didn't vote against what Trump was doing in office.

They liked what he was doing in office. I think 56% of Americans in the midst of the pandemic said they were better off now than they were four years ago. How many would say that about Joe Biden today, that they're better off now than they were a year and a half ago? I mean, yeah, let's look at what's happening in America right now. According to the Penn Wharton School, families are paying $300 more a month, minimum.

Harris poll says 84%. Of Americas are cutting back on key purchases. Why? Because natural gas is up 100%. Hotel costs up 22%.

Fuel oil up 80%. Tires, 15%. Beef 14%. Milk 14%. Gas overall 44%.

So you have big and small things that are all costing more money and interest rates going up. And there's an uncertainty that I haven't seen. And when you talk about anti-leadership, this is President Biden like losing it, pointing out to lines during the pandemic as saying that, and deficits that went up during the pandemic, blaming this basically on Trump. I find it hard to believe. And he's got this new term now.

Listen to this, cut to. My Republican colleagues say these programs to help the working class and middle class people. They say that's why we have inflation. They're dead wrong. Under my predecessor, the great MAGA king.

The deficit increased every single year he was president. The great MAGA king, deficits? What's even talking about? He's flailing. He's flailing.

First of all, he's trying to make deficits an issue right now. Like how the deficit. Americans don't. Give a crap about the deficit right now. You know what they care about?

The deficit in their paycheck because of the inflation that Biden has unleashed. The deficit in their retirement accounts because of the stock market collapsing. That's what they care about. The deficit in their 401ks. They don't care about the federal deficit.

They care about their own pocketbooks and what's happening and all the statistics that you just listed about the things they can't afford.

So Biden's focused on the wrong things. And then the Democrats, not only are they not focused on inflation and solving these problems, but their number one issue now, apparently, is codifying Roe v. Wade and creating a net trying to pass a national right to abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, which is opposed by the majority of Americans because they got such a enthusiasm gap. The NBC News poll showed 17-point enthusiasm gap. The last time that happened was in 2010, and they lost 60 seats in the House.

But do you agree, Mark, that this issue, that the issue breaks would mobilize Democrats? Yeah. No, I don't. Actually, there was an NRC National Republican Senatorial Committee poll that showed they asked people whether would you be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports reasonable restrictions on abortion or vote for a candidate who supports unlimited abortions up until the moment of birth. 53% would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports reasonable restrictions, 28% for abortion up until the moment of birth.

If you look at the polls, the number of people who vote on abortion as a number one issue is two, maybe four percent, depending on the poll. For about thirty percent, it's considered an important issue, and sixty percent of those people for whom it's an important issue are pro-life, and forty are pro-choice.

So it's more Republicans care more about it, conservatives care, pro-lifers care more about the issue than liberals do.

So it's not going to solve their problem, but the problem is. By focusing on this and making this radical bill that they just had a vote on, the centerpiece of their message right now. Americans are looking at that and saying, I've got the worst inflation in forty years, the highest gas prices on record, the worst crime wave and murder wave since the nineteen nineties, the worst border crisis in American history, Fentanyl deaths, opioids out of control all over the city, and you're focused on. killing babies up until the moment of birth. That's your agenda?

Even if I agree with you and I say I'm pro-choice, that's what you're focused on right now? That's the most important thing for you. Give me a break. A couple of things, Mark. I'm not a campaign expert, but if you told me, where should I go today if I'm President Biden, I would go to that Abbott factory where they had the recall in February, and I would have emergency meetings with the FDA, and I'd make sure the cameras saw the FDA commissioner walk into my office and say, yeah, there were problems, but this is fixed.

We can't wait 12 weeks to get baby formula back on the shelf. This has got to be done. Therefore, you don't blame Trump. You don't take advantage. You don't say Joe Manchin hamstrung my party.

You sit there and you try to solve problems. Look like a guy that understands it. Why wouldn't he do that? Because they care more about killing babies than feeding them. It's that simple.

Well, that's a little abrupt. It is. I mean, that's what it is. They just passed a bill. that tried to pass a bill that literally would create an unfettered right of abortion up until the moment of birth.

I don't think there are very many Americans who think that killing a child in the third trimester is not murder. I want you to hear Karine John Pierre on this very issue: who's in charge of getting baby formula back on the shelves? Cut six. This is an urgent issue that the FDA, as you all know, and the White House is working 24-7 to address. At the White House, I don't know.

I can find out for you and get you a person who's running point, but I don't have a person in name. She giggles sarcastically. That's a very important question. It is an important question. But these, again, they're focused on the wrong things.

They're focused on the economy. He's talking about the deficit. No one cares about the deficit. They care about their personal finances. When he's talking about children, he's talking about, to use the president's own phrase, aborting a child.

That's what he said. It was a Freudian slip. He's a Catholic. He knows deep down that it's a child. He's on record wrestling with this 20 years ago, but now he seems so sure of himself.

He's stopped wrestling. He stopped wrestling. He's tapped out. He's capitulated to the radical. Pro-abortion wing of his party when Americans are wondering where they're going to get baby formula to feed to keep the babies they didn't kill, they didn't abort, they chose life.

I mean, they're focused on the wrong thing. Hey, by the way, I see all the calls up there. I'll get to them, but you're a three-tool player today, Mark. I got to tap into your other area of expertise and let's go into let's talk war. Here's Ben Wallace, the UK Secretary of Defense, on Vladimir Putin and what we know so far that will change our perception of Russia and him.

Cut 32. He has also reduced his armed forces. You know, he's put about 65 to 75 percent of all his land forces. Into the Ukrainian war. They, as we can see, are suffering some serious damage and will take years to refurbish.

So he's going to be less of a military power than this at the beginning. And him personally, he's at his Sochi compound, not playing in his beloved hockey game, and in his dress, there was no big news to come out on May 9th. And we see Ukraine making some progress, but Russia is, in a brutal way, taking portions of the Ukraine in the south and the east. How do you feel about where this conflict is?

So There was a number that came out recently that the Ukrainians had captured and taken over two hundred sixty three Russian tanks, which makes Russia the largest supplier of heavy weapons to Ukraine in the world. Nice. I love it. That's where we are. And the rest are being destroyed.

This war, this miscalculation by Vladimir Putin, we should be taking advantage of this to absolutely decimate and destroy the Russian military so that they cannot threaten anyone ever again. It will take them decades to recover from the loss. Not just from the losses. I'll give you an example, by the way, of how afraid they are of their own people. The Ukrainians have a refrigerator trailer filled with hundreds of bodies of Russian soldiers that have been killed that they are trying to give to the Russians to repatriate so they can return them to their families, and the Russians won't accept them.

Because they're afraid. They don't they don't not want I do. I hear you because that's why they're bringing incinerators to the front. They don't want to bring the bodies back. Mark, I want to bring you to this last part.

Now, Republicans are getting wary about writing these big checks. Here's Jim Jordan, why he voted against the $39 billion on Tuesday. I understand people's intentions. I understand how bad the situation is for the Ukrainian people, what they're going through, and why some of my colleagues may have went that way. But I also understand what's happening here in this country with record levels of crime, a border that's wide open, attorney general who treats the very moms and dads you were talking to as if they were domestic terrorists.

And what have the Democrats done in the last two weeks? Last week they gave us the Disinformation Governance Board and come after our First Amendment liberties. And this week they spend $40 billion on a foreign country.

So that's the concern that I have, and I think so many Americans have. I've voted for all kinds of help for Ukraine thus far. But this bill, we said, no, look, we've got to focus on the issues that count here in America, that matter to American families, and also help Ukraine, but do it in a way that makes more sense than I think this piece of legislation did, particularly with the fact that we only had a few hours. Damn it.

So can you address Jim Jordan's concerns? Because he's not alone.

Well, he's pretty alone because the vote was overwhelming and most Republicans voted for it.

So he is pretty alone. And two, I agree with everything he said about the border. I agree with everything he said about crime. I agree with everything he said about those things. That shouldn't stop us from helping Ukraine.

Where's the party of Ronald Reagan? Where's the party that faced evil in the world? And I mean, if you can't support the Ukrainians in this fight, then we've lost our moral bearings. This is a false choice to say that we can't pass this aid to help the Ukrainians defend themselves from unjust aggression and weaken Russia in its global campaign against democracy. We can do that and chew gum at the same time.

And the fact that the Democrats are willing to help Ukraine and we have bipartisan support on that shouldn't. Be stopped because they won't do the right thing on other issues. I hear you. Mark, I want to give you a chance to answer that because some people do have those questions, and there is a lot of people concerned about what's happening here. But I also see long term, we avoided it in 2009.

We avoided it in 2014.

Now we have a bigger problem in 2022. If we don't solve this now, the problem is only going to get bigger for next administrations, regardless of who's president. And I think we agree on that. And we should be doing the same thing, by the way, now for Taiwan. We should be arming them to the teeth before China invades.

So anything we're giving to the Ukrainians, we should be giving to the Taiwanese as well. And everything, so that when one day, when China does invade, we don't look back and say, we wish we had given those weapons before. Right. Allison, how fired up is Marteessen today? I mean, I couldn't even ask him a question.

He just went into his own little. It's unbelievable. You don't even need me here. Mark, thanks so much. I look forward to your next column.

All right. 1866-408-7669. Back with your calls. And then, Katie Pavlich. Challenging conventional thought and wisdom.

You're with Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Mortgage rates are now over 5%, the highest they've been in a long time. And what's called the affordability index, what people can pay for housing, is at an all-time low, which is bad, because you have high housing prices still and high mortgage rates, which means when people calculate how much of a mortgage can I afford and what kind of house does that buy me, the news is not good.

And that's another issue. That's a huge issue. Steve Ratner, not a right-wing zealot, a left-wing liberal finance guy, used to work at the Obama administration. He also said the $1.9 trillion rescue plan was not good, was not good finance, and it did not work well for the country, even though President Biden continues to think it saved the country. But we were already awash in cash.

We need to get back to work. He was awash with vaccines, already had a million in people's arms when he took over, and then he. Continued to rack up more deaths during his time than President Trump. But yet it was President Trump who acted irresponsibly when we didn't even know what hit us. We didn't have a shot or a vaccine ready to go, obviously, because we still don't know exactly what happened with this virus, where it came from, what made it up, and how to stop it.

And then you have a guy that was not able to anticipate the variants when all his so-called experts should have been telling him, look out for the variants. Then they told us if you get vaccinated, we're not going to get it again. Gen Saki's up to four or five times, by the way. Then he's gotten a therapeutic. It took four more months.

He's got a therapeutic. He's got a vaccine. He's got decreasing cases. But he's playing the pandemic supply chain. He's blaming.

Vladimir Putin and the MAGA crowd for the problems he's having. I'm going to discuss this on One Nation. And today, I'm just going to be one of my themes. If you look at past presidents, many Democrats, including the guy who says the buck stops here, meaning his desk, a Democrat named Harry Truman, leadership, captains, coaches, highest levels, lowest levels, the CEOs, the head of the Parent Teachers Association, the PTAs, whatever it is, you take responsibility to solve a problem. Everything that Joe Biden isn't doing.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I was hopeful that the Democratic Party Having control of the agenda, we put a piece of legislation forward that we would codify Roe v. Wade. 70% of the American public wants Roe v.

Wade to be codified, as has been precedented law for 50 years. To me, that would be the reasonable, rational thing to do. The bill we have today to vote on, the Women's Health Protection Act, and I respect people who support, but make no mistake, it is not Roe v. Way codification. It's an expansion.

It wipes 500 state laws off the books. It expands abortion. And with that, that's not where we are today. We should not be dividing this country further than we're already divided. And it's really the politics of Congress that's dividing the country, it's not the people.

They're telling us what they want. And it's just disappointing that we're going to be voting on a piece of legislation which I will not vote for today. But I would vote for a Roe v. Way codification if it was today. I was hopeful for that.

And the thing is, he's not pro-life. He's just pro-logic. He does not want an abortion when someone's in their ninth month of pregnancy. Do you? Murkowski and Collins also were pro-choice.

They had submitted their own abortion rights bill that was more narrowly tailored, but Schumer chose not to bring it for a vote. Why would that be? Let's bring in someone who knows about politics and motivation. Katie Pavlich is with us, Town Hall Editor, Fox News contributor. Katie, welcome back.

Hey, Brian, it's great to be on your show. Thanks for having me. No problem. And I know you're going to be on television with us this weekend.

So I'm listening to why would Senator Schumer put something out there that he knows guys like Joe Manchin and Republicans like Murkowski and Collins wouldn't go for.

Well, they there Chuck Schumer knows that he's using this moment on the quote codification of Roe to dishonestly make an argument. The general perception of Roe versus Wade is that if it gets overturned, that abortion then will be banned Everywhere across the country, and that's not true. If Roe versus Wade is overturned, the issue simply goes back to the states. There'll be certain states like New York and California that will have very extreme abortion laws, sometimes up to the day of birth. Other states like Oklahoma or Alabama, Louisiana may choose to ban abortion altogether.

So they're using this moment to dishonestly argue that Republicans are against Roe versus Wade, which politically they think is good because polling shows that the majority of people want Roe versus Wade held up. But then when you dive one layer deeper and ask people, well, what do you support any kind of restrictions on abortion? Then the majority of people believe that abortion should be banned after fifteen weeks.

Well, that's not what Democrats have been arguing. And that's certainly, as what Joe Manchin pointed out, was not in this bill, the bill that they put on the floor claiming that codified Roe was going to force Religious institutions to conduct abortions. It would allow people who are not doctors to conduct abortions. It would completely eliminate states' rights on the issue by wiping hundreds of laws off the books. And so Chuck Schumer is trying to use this as a base issue.

As you know, Brian, midterm elections are base elections. They're not elections necessarily where people who generally aren't involved in politics turn out and Democrats are desperate for an issue they think is on their side and they believe they can make the argument dishonestly that Roe versus Wade being overturned would ban all abortions, which is not the case. Right. Here's so will this be a motivating issue for Democrats?

Some think so, including Congresswoman Judy Chu of California, Cut Twenty. Today is not the end. Today is just the beginning. Today We start the march towards the November elections. And in fact, today, Is the start.

Of the galvanization of all women in this country. and the men who support them.

Well, she feels that they're now motivated. Does she have a point?

Well, first I take issue with her saying that all women are now motivated by the issue of this pro-abortion left. The fact is that the majority of pro-life activists in this country are women. And actually, one of the Supreme Court cases that was heard last spring was brought by a pro-life Democrat in Louisiana who happens to be a woman. And so this issue of Democrats now saying this is a broader women's rights issue. There's a lot of women who disagree with abortion.

And if you look at the polling, the majority of women actually do support limits on abortion. But if you ask Many Democrats in the party, whether they support, including Joe Biden, whether they support any limits on abortion, they refuse to talk about it, which gives you an answer. The answer is no, they don't support any limits on abortion.

So, in terms of the base, you know, getting out, you know, I do think that this hypes up certain elements of the Democratic Party, but it just goes to show how far they've gone from the 90s, for example, when they advocated that abortion be legal, safe, and rare. And now they've advocated, as seen yesterday, and Democrats who voted for the bill yesterday codified the principles that the Democrats broadly, there's a few exceptions, but broadly believe that abortion should be not only acceptable up until the moment of birth, but celebrated, that it should be a liberating idea for women. And they, while rejecting the idea that there's a lot of millions of women throughout the country, hundreds of thousands of them who show up in Washington, D.C. every year for the March of Life. who disagree with the idea that abortion should be celebrated or allowed nine months into pregnancy.

A couple of things. The other thing that's happening now, which I can't stand, but I know exactly where it's going, is the protest in front of people's houses. We saw it in front of the Trump administration. We saw it when they went out to dinner. We saw the problems Ted Cruz was having.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was having. You see it because you live around there.

Now, all of a sudden, the Supreme Court justices, who are probably weeks away from overturning Roe v. Wade, find their houses and their families turned on its head. Listen to this interview with a protester in Virginia, Cut 27. It's also possible that the fact that she is an adoptive mother Is influencing your inability to see what it's like to carry a pregnancy to term.

Well she's had five kids on herself. By herself. Not everybody wants to have five kids. Or four kids. Or one kid.

That's Amy Coney Barrett they're talking about. They've been protesting in front of her house for a week. Can you imagine be having a kid under twelve years old and seeing people screaming about your mother outside all week? Katie, this is not going to end well. And don't they know Democrats are going to be the eye in the eye of the storm eventually?

Well, the irony is that this week White House Press Secretary Jen Saki got up in front of the media in the briefing room and said and said that these people should continue. It's not that they just won't condemn it. They're condoning it and telling these protesters to continue to go to these the homes of Supreme Court justices. And at just this morning at a breakfast for Jen Saki, she's leaving her post tomorrow as White House press secretary. She was complaining about the fact that threats come with the job and that the Arlington GOP is allegedly circulating her address.

And that's exactly right. The standard should be that you don't protest at people's homes. It's inappropriate. And given the fact that groups like Ruth Sentus, which is this pro-abortion group that's been showing up and claiming, you know, saying they're going to show up at the Supreme Court in front of the justices' houses, has ties to Black Lives Matter, which of course caused $2 billion worth of damage and riots last summer. There's very serious and credible concern here for the safety of the justices.

And they're setting a precedent here, the leftists. And so they think it's fine to. protests and descend on people's private homes when the ends justify the means is the same reason they didn't condemn the leak. From the Supreme Court, despite it being a complete breaking of norms, damaging to the court, raises all kinds of trust issues about how the court can continue to do its business and whether the American people can trust the outcome. And the bottom line, Brian, is that the White House saying that people should continue to show up at the homes of Supreme Court justices shows that they want to pressure the justices into changing their mind.

Um you're not it's illegal to uh try to intimidate judges or justices into changing their mind on a case. It's it's an obstruction of justice. And yet the White House is perfectly fine with doing that in order to justify their political means. You know what I wonder is, well, why is Governor Youncin looking for the Attorney General to do something? You got state cops.

Push everybody back. Keep them down the road. And to me, I don't know why the Attorney General has to get involved. I could be wrong here, but shouldn't the Governor just tell the State Police that I'm concerned about the welfare and this does break the law? I do believe that Glenn Young, governor of Virginia, has been saying that he's willing to Protect these justices' homes because they do live in Virginia and that there are laws in Virginia, state laws, that make it illegal to protest and harass in front of people's homes.

I do think that he may be getting some pushback from the Department of Justice, who finally yesterday said that they are going to provide more U.S. Marshals support and that DOJ has jurisdiction over the safety and well-being of Supreme Court justices. But there were police outside the home of Justice Alito the other day, I believe. I know, but push them back. They're too close.

Right? They are too close. And they have to flee their house. And these kids have school. And obviously, you know the answers to that.

So President Biden has a very interesting approach to leading us out of high inflation, high gas prices, while still trying to support a war against one of our enemies. And that is blame everybody else. I mean, I'm literally, he's coming up with catchphrases to blame Trump. He's calling the Putin price hike. He's blaming the pandemic, everything except.

I'll give you an example of something he could do, Katie, a little different. Turns out the Biden administration has just canceled a massive oil and gas lease sale, which in the middle of record gas prices over in Alaska. You're talking about 1,000 acres. I mean, how do you exp how do you rationalize that?

Well, you rationalize it by getting the mind of where the left is on the issue of climate and oil and gas. And to them, it makes perfect sense. If you have less supply of oil and gas, the price goes up, and therefore it makes it unaffordable for people to use that kind of energy. They have repeatedly said, a number of Biden administration officials, including the EPA administrator, President Biden, and the energy secretary, that they are in a transition. They are trying to force the American people onto alternative forms of energy.

And I call them alternative because they are not green forms of energy. They are alternative forms of energy. They're trying to do it by force by making the American people uncomfortable. That's the only explanation for what they've done, not just with the Keystone Pipeline, limiting leases throughout the first year of Joe Biden's presidency, but now destroying these leasing projects in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. And so this is their goal.

The pain is the point. They want to make it so painful that people do have to look to other forms of energy that will be inefficient. You know, their solution from Pete Buttigieg, for example, is that if gas is too expensive, then just go buy an electric car, as if that's something that the American people can afford. Right, with no chips.

So here's President Biden. attacking the problem. Cut five. I'm not usually just discreet about my Republican friends. I get along with a lot.

I'm used to anyway. But Senator Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, Laid out a plan in writing. The alt well the it's called the I call I call it the ultra mega plan. Make America Great Again plan. It's in writing.

And here's what it does. It raises taxes. on 75 million American families. Over 95% of whom earn less than $100,000 a year in a combined income. It would raise taxes by nearly $1,500 per family.

It's all in writing. Go online. They got it backwards.

So he's picking out one element of Rick Scott's 11-point plan and saying it's the Republican doctrine. Put that in perspective.

Well, the only person who supports this plan is Rick Scott. As soon as he published it, Mitch McConnell came out and destroyed the idea that this would ever see the light of day as a Republican plan. He's very frustrated because he knew this is exactly what would happen. But for Joe Biden now to be blaming Rick Scott or to say that the Rick Scott Republican plan may happen, well, the fact is that Joe Biden's policies have led to rampant inflation that has no signs of slowing down, 11 percent tax on the American people and on every American, despite the fact that Joe Biden promised not to raise taxes on anybody making under $400,000 per year. Grocery bills are up, what, 30% in some places.

Gas is up, has tripled since last year. This idea that he's trying to say, although the government is run completely by Democrats in the House, Senate and the White House, that the Republicans maybe coming to office could pass this when Voters can clearly see what has already been done isn't going to be a valid argument. I wouldn't think so. I think it's one of the weakest arguments that I can remember that a 79-year-old politician should say, This is not going to help. Why don't we just do the best we can to get some baby formula on the shelves and work our way backwards?

Katie, thanks so much. Always appreciate your insight. Katie Pavich, Town Hall and Fox News contributor. You got it.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Actor James Cromwell super glued himself to the counter of a Starbucks in New York yesterday to protest the chain charging more for plant-based milks.

Well, over at Duncan, you kind of just stick to the counter naturally. Right. Okay. There you go. A little bit of humor.

Didn't say Donald Trump. It's amazing. How did Seth Myers do that? I know.

Sort of funny. Let's find out if there's more to know. More. To know.

Alright, Tiara and Russell Wilson welcoming a new puppy to the family for Mother's Day, but Pete is taking them to task for buying the puppy from a breeder and not rescuing a pooch from a shelter island, a shelter instead. You know he got traded to the Broncos this year. You know she is famous. But they went ahead and got a pure breed puppy, likely from a breeder, where mother dogs are often locked inside filthy cages and bred over and over until their bodies give out. But do they know that's who they got the dog from?

No, they don't. They're just using this as a way to get attention. Yeah, and by the way, you should have the right to pick your dog. You're going to be living with the dog for 15 years. No, yeah.

You got to bring it around kids. And then also for a lot of breeders who love their animals, it's how they have an income. It's how, you know, it's their job. Exactly.

Next, Tuskegee Airman asking for birthday cards ahead of his 100th birthday. I'm talking about Victor Butler, a Rhode Island native who served as the Tuskegee Airmen from 41 to 46. He turned 100 on May 21st, working as a mechanic during the war. He says, I'll tell you one thing, it's great to be 100, but when you're 100, that's not much you want. But there aren't too many things that will make you happy than hearing from people and talking for people.

He said, I enjoyed being in Tuskegee, although it wasn't enjoyable in the town, obviously. Because they had segregation as an issue.

So the birthday card can be mailed to Victor Butler, care of Gary Butler, P.O. Box, 3523 Cranston, Rhode Island, 02910. Mail him a birthday card. I think that's what every parent should do with their kids this weekend.

Next, the famous hammer Chris Hemsworth wields at Thor is hitting the market, and the auction of the hammer is expected to slam once the bidding gets into the six figures. The movie prop known as Stunt Mojo Hammer is from the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor and expected to fetch at least $100,000 next month. Would you pay that? I wouldn't, but the question is, would you? Because you actually probably could afford it.

Right. Well, I don't think I could come home with a $100,000 hammer. I don't really think I've seen Thor. although his uh luscious blonde locks are indeed noteworthy. His auction predicted to break in about $9 million when the dust settles, and the most expensive item is likely to be a screen-matched ILM Red Leader X-Wing Starfighter model miniature from Star Wars, A New Hope.

An estimated bid would be $500 to $1 million. Does that mean anything to you? It's just a very interesting statistic that maybe I'll bring up with someone later.

Something from Back to the Future, maybe? A DeLorean time machine? That would cost between $150,000 to $200,000. That would be pretty cool. That would be good.

Brain temperature. 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 Brian Kilmicho coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, heard around the world, and hopefully resonating in Ukraine.

David Avell will join me at the bottom of the hour, GOPAC chairman, GOP strategist. And a lot of people are intrigued about what could be happening in Pennsylvania as Donald Trump decides that Dr. Oz is his guy. David McCormick has Ted Cruz support and Mike Pompeo's support. And then Kathy Barnett is surging.

And in fact, the latest Trafalgar poll is second, right behind Oz, just a few percentage points. But some people look at her and say she's somebody that would have a hard time winning the general. We'll see. Joining me now is the former Secretary of Defense, former Secretary of the Army, West Point Grad, 1986, same year as Mike Pompeo and many others. Author of a brand new book called The Sacred Oath.

Mr. Secretary, I'm Mark Espero. Welcome to the Brian Kilmey Radio Show. Thanks, Brian. It's great to be with you.

So Mark, first off, how have you enjoyed this tour?

Well, it's in some ways, yes. You know, it's busy, it takes a lot of time, and you meet a lot of interesting people and get a lot of great questions.

So I enjoyed being on your show the other day, though. It was a lot of fun. Right. Being on Fox and Friends is great. First off, about what's happening on the ground in Ukraine.

We're just writing a $40 billion check now. And some people are saying, when does this stop? When do we stop giving money to Ukraine when America is suffering economically here at home? What do you tell my listeners?

Well, I'd say a few things. First of all, look, this is more than just Russia versus Ukraine. It is autocracy versus democracy. And I think we need to support the Ukrainians. They are showing a lot of skill, a grit, leadership, Courage under fire, and I think that if we can provide them the training, the means, the material, the weapons to fight this fight, that means we don't have to fight it.

And look, as somebody who Grew up in the Cold War era. I know what Russia can do. And when I was Secretary of Defense, The implementation of the national defense strategy was my top priorities. But I will say this much too, though, Ryan, to your question. 40 billion is a lot of money, and we've already put forward, I think, $11 billion, $12 billion before then.

We need to make sure we understand where it's going, that there are controls, that we know exactly what we're getting, and that look, I'm a budget hawk. I think there should be offsets as well. And we need to factor those things into consideration too. And lastly, I think we Need to not only think about Ukrainian defenses. I don't like the budgets being put forward by President Biden.

I think they're weak. They're flat, and we need to really build up the United States military more broadly and deal with the greatest adversary we face in the country, which is China. Finland has come out and said, as of today, they are officially applying to be a NATO member. I can't imagine them not being on a guide path. Would you support that?

I would. I think they bring military capability. I think they would be a good asset. They shore up the northeastern flank of the Alliance and they get us into the Arctic Circle.

So Yes, I think they would be a net plus for the um uh for the United States and for NATO, as would Sweden, by the way. Uh as would Sweden, and I think that's a couple of days away.

Now, the uh Russians are on the record uh of saying uh that that would be a direct threat to them. If we go ahead and do it, because it would be bringing NATO again right to another portion of their border. How do you digest that?

Well, of course, they're going to say that. Putin likes to do a lot of saber rattling, and we should take him seriously. But as you and I discussed the other day, I'm a Reagan Republican and Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire. I don't think this one under Putin is any different, and we need to stand firm and stand tall, take a very Reagan-esque approach. They also say that Medvedev has warned the West and us specifically to stop arming Ukraine or else there'll be some severe repercussions.

They're, of course, alluding every other day to some type of nuclear attack. How serious do you take that?

Well, again, I think when anybody talks about nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction, we need to listen, we need to take it seriously, but we can't be spooked by it. And yeah, sure, we're providing Ukraine with the means to defend themselves. And Russia's done the other the the the same when the when the tide was turned. They've supplied adversaries of of ours in the past with weapons that were used against Americans.

So what's what's good for one is good for the other. Mr. Secretary, you were Secretary of the Army, and then General Mattis resigns when the President threatened to take our troops out of Syria. He said, he is not conferring with me anymore. He deserves a Secretary of Defense that understands him.

Did you have hesitancy in taking the job? No, because look, I believe in public service. I believe in serving your country. I entered West Point at the age of 18. kind of always in my blood and served on active duty for ten years in War and Peace and another eleven years in the Guard and Reserve.

So I think when your nation calls, it's your duty to serve. And that was kind of what What took me into office in the first place.

So you ended up having troops in Syria, and how would you say, what was the mission there in Syria? Do you think you guys accomplished it? I think we did. Look, I think we defeated the ISIS Caliphate, and President Trump deserves credit for that. We knocked him down to nearly nothing.

And defeated them as a real fighting force. And it was important to keep troops on the ground to ensure that happened, that they didn't rise again. The second thing was it was important to keep an eye on Iran, which was transiting. Arms and people through Syria to threaten our friends in the region. And so I thought it was important to keep some number of troops there to keep a careful eye on them.

And your focus, your foreign policy or the President's foreign policy is so much different than this President's. They are Iran-focused. They are allowing Iran to negotiate directly with Russia on our behalf to get back into an Iranian deal that you left that only has two years left. Can you wrap your head around that policy? No, I don't.

It's a mistake. I mean, I think President Trump made the right call from getting out of the deal. It was a bad deal, the nuclear deal with Iran. I like the maximum pressure campaign. We couldn't get traction because we couldn't get enough allies on board to support us.

And look, I think it's going to be a stretch to think that President Biden's gonna be able to bring back a plan that lengthens and strengthens it as he promised. And I I look, I think all these deals should be taken to the Senate and let the Senate weigh in, but I think the reason why they won't do it is they know the answer is that the Senate would reject this type of agreement.

So, look, this is why we need to continue bolstering the United States military, beef up our allies in the region as well, and make sure we're prepared to deter and, if necessary, fight and win against Iran if it comes down to that. We're talking to Secretary Esper about his book, Sacred Oath Bring Us Inside, really the last few years as Secretary of Defense that didn't end well. President basically tweeted out that you're fired or to please resign.

So that would get ticked me off, too, if I were you. But I want to go back to the area of contention. The one policy that Joe Biden claims to have kept in place that you guys had was pulling out of Afghanistan. He said he had no choice. Is that true?

No, that's not true. You know, he had a lot of choices and You know, I disagreed with the President at the end of at the end of the administration on this as well. You know, there was a push to withdraw. All troops precipitously from Afghanistan. My view was: well, first of all, I support the deal that was put on the table and negotiated by the State Department under Mike Pompeo, but I believed it needed to be conditions-based.

And so I was good going down to 4,500 troops. I thought we should stop there until the Taliban lived up to their end of the deal. And if they didn't, my view was we should use the two things that. That they hated the most. One is our presence in the country with our allies, and number two is our ability to inflict violence upon them.

So my recommendation was to stop there and pursue those two things. and get them to come to the table and negotiate as they committed to in the agreement. That's what I would have recommended President Biden do as well. He could have paused the agreement as well and kind of put the pressure on the On the Taliban. Instead, we had this terrible withdrawal that resulted in Americans being left in Afghanistan, that resulted in service members being killed, and really undermined our stature on the world stage.

So, this is a question that I have everybody in the military and on both sides on. When a civilian leader, the President of the United States, gives you a Gives you an order that you do not feel comfortable with. Do you resign or you make it work? And clearly, well, just before you even answer that, clearly General Milley and General McKenzie were not okay with this evacuation. At least they said they weren't.

So, in their testimony, they came forward and were asked: how did you embarrass the nation to the point where we left with planes landing in the middle of the Taliban surrounded by terrorists after the death of 13 American service members? Listen. General Milley, it's your testimony that you recommended 2,500 troops. approximately stay in Afghanistan. Yes, my assessment was.

back in the fall of twenty and it remained consistent throughout that we should keep a steady state of $2,500 and it could bounce up to $3,500, maybe something like that. Did you ever present that assessment personally to President Biden? I don't discuss exactly what my conversations are with the sitting president in the Oval Office, but I can tell you what my personal opinion was, and I'm always candid. General McKenzie, do you share that assessment? Senator, I do share that assessment.

So they recommended something to the President. The President said no, and now they have to go explain it. What did they do the right thing staying on the job? Look, I think that's a fundamental question. You know, my way of dealing with all of my bosses, to include President Trump, was if he gave me an order, and he rarely gave orders, it just wasn't his style, was really I owed him my best recommendation, and I tended to go back and present him a variety of options to choose.

Try and find something that was even better than what he might propose.

So, I think your first responsibility is in terms of serving a president: present him your honest advice and give him more options. You always want to give a president maneuver space as we. Say in the military to pick the best decision possible. And then at the end of the day, if he says, Well, look, I disagree, I want you to do this, then you have to kind of come to your own decision as to whether you can implement it or whether you would resign. And I always said that my hard line was I would never do anything illegal, immoral, or unethical.

You know, so that's where, for me, those were my lines. Everybody has their own lines. And And like I said, I think the withdrawal last summer was abysmal. It hurt us in so many ways, not least of which is our young service members who were killed there on the ground in Afghanistan. Did you know Ghani was a spineless thief?

Well, you know, I write in my book that the problem with Afghanistan was lack of leadership, beginning at the top, beginning at the political level. He was known to be corrupt. And look, he flew he fleed the capital before the Taliban really arrived in force. Contrast that to President Zelensky in Ukraine, who stayed with his people and fought from Kyiv. It just is a contrast in leadership.

And in war, so much comes down to leadership and morale. Would you have, do you believe, and you know, you're very candid, you don't love everything Trump did, you guys did not end on good terms. Do you believe Trump would have let that happen too? I don't know. I mean, it's speculative, right?

President Trump took a really tough, strong approach to these issues. And I don't know if faced with that situation, I mean, look, I give him credit. He wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan. That was a campaign pledge that he wanted to live up to. There's a lot to be said for that.

On the other hand, there are ways to do it and ways not to do it. And I hope he would have heeded the advice of me and others to keep the conditions based and really do it on the timeline that Protected our people, ensured that Americans got out, and didn't diminish our stature in the world. What's your greatest frustration working for President Trump?

Well, I think he was not I think he had too many people in the White House that did not serve him well or presented outlandish ideas. And I think if If he would take in more counsel from his cabinet, right, whether it's Attorney General Barr, Mike Pompeo, myself, or others. I really think we could have helped him implement his agenda Uh more successfully. And and of course, look, let's uh I also think his speech was too coarse and divisive. I think the key for Republicans is we need leaders who will unify the country, bring people together.

And as a Republican, and you know, Brian, I describe myself as a Reagan Republican, you got to grow that base, right? You got to grow the base that you can win elections. At the end of the day, we can't advance a traditional Republican agenda of lower taxes, a stronger military, border security, conservative judges, unless we win elections. And right now, we're sitting here, we don't own the White House, we don't own the House, we don't own the Senate. And that's a problem.

And hopefully, that will turn around here in the midterms. Do you think in retrospect, why is it like a military guy like Mike Pompeo, who you graduated with, will say, okay, he's a little different. General Keene, he's different, and I'll be able to work with this guy. Other people like General Kelly, like General Mattis, will look around and go, you know, I can't deal with this president. He's too unorthodox.

He attempts to be too volatile. He wants me to do too many things that are outside the lines. Why do you think you guys are all from the military background, but yet some were more flexible with the president than others? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, there is something to be said for the president's unorthodox style.

In some ways, it was. Successful. I mean, he pushed hard to put a wall, a barrier on the southwest border. I supported that. I thought it was successful.

I think it should be finished. Um You know, in other areas, it went too far, like I said, about withdrawing from NATO. But people have different styles, personalities, some work better than others. And it just is what it is, Brian. And do you expect him to run again?

Would you vote for him? I hope he doesn't, and because, like I said, I think it's time to pass the torch to a new generation of Republican leaders, those who will. push forward same Republican, conservative for me agenda, but we'll do so in a way that, again, will kind of grow the base and win the elections. And I'm not sure that Donald Trump can win. And for that reason, at least one reason, is I hope we see some new faces or faces emerging And after the midterms, when 2024 begins, and I hope the President will not run.

I hope we'll kind of open that to it up.

Well, you know, Mark, I hope we can have you on as an expert because this Ukraine thing is unfolding. You know the area, you know the region, you know the players. Congratulations on your book, A Sacred Oath. Mark Esper, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian.

I look forward to joining you again sometime. That would be fantastic. Good luck with the book. 1866 408 7669. I'll be back with your calls.

And then the bottom of the hour with David Avella, we're going to go inside some of these primary races as we get closer and closer to Georgia. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmeat. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

My Republican colleagues say these programs help the working class and middle class people. That's they say that's why we have inflation. They're dead wrong. Under my predecessor, The great Maga King. The deficit increased every single year he was president.

What is he even talking about? David Avella's here. He's the GoPack chairperson, GOP strategist. Always brings insight into these races, especially as the primaries get more and more intriguing. David, I'm shocked by this ultra MAGA thing from last week.

Now it's the MAGA King this week. He is trying to label somebody, give someone a label that's going to hurt them. What is the reality? The reality for the President is he continues to grasp for something to label his failed policies as anything other than what they are, which is his failed policies. And his biggest problem, Brian, is that independent voters overwhelmingly see the economic problems we have right now as a direct result of Joe Biden's policy.

And does MAGA not resonate with independents? Is that what this is about when you guys look at the pie charts and the bar graphs? People were pretty pleased when we had lower taxes and regulations and a full above-all energy policy that had economic activity booming. And they're not feeling it now when certainly you hear about gas prices, but that trickles down. I mean, you think about the higher grocery bills that people are paying.

A farmer was just yesterday sharing with, you know, it's a lot of people. His product, melons, was costing in the stores $4 to $5 last year. It's costing him $7 to get it, to then take it. To the grocery store.

So you're going to look at melons this summer being $8, $9. Right. Or the supermarket goes, I don't want it. Then they're really in trouble. That's right.

And then when you, the truck drivers, because of the diesel prices, it costs more. And then John Castamatidis, who owns refineries, was saying that what he's seeing now with diesel, there might be rationing. This summer. Can you imagine that? You can't find baby food.

You can't get diesel for trucks. It's incredible. David, sit right there. This is going to be a short segment. We've got a longer one just around the bend because we've got to talk about Pennsylvania.

Absolutely. And more. This is Brian. Kill me, Cho. Don't move.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Mehmed Oz, Dr. Oz, and Dave McCormick get this now. They've spent a combined $50 million.

Kathy Barnett, up until a week ago, had spent a grand total of $137,000. And yet she's within striking distance. Oz and McCormick have done such an effective job beating up on each other that they've created this third lane for Kathy Barnett, and she could pull it off. We really don't know. Is that true?

Let's see what David Avella says. He's a goalpact chairperson, GOP strategist. What do you think about what Michael Smurcanish said? It's spot on. And if we knew who was going to win, Brian, we'd be out in Vegas making a lot of money.

But I heard that Mitch McConnell and company, who got burned, I think it was 2012, about candidates that were probably not good for the general, good for the primary. Kathy Barnett might be an example of one of them. She is uh by the Fox News poll certainly making a move and uh as uh Was said that the fight between Oz and McCormick has opened up a lane.

Now, is that enough? We're going to find out here next Tuesday. Here is the key: we nominate Oz or McCormick, or we'll see with Barnett. We're going to win Pennsylvania. Blue-collar Democrats are not going to fall in line with the progressive lieutenant governor Fetterman, who the Democrats are going to nominate.

They had a choice between an ultra-progressive or a more moderate Connor Lamb. They're going to nominate Fetterman. And in this environment, where Economic concerns, crime concerns are at the top, and health care concerns are all at the top of the middle. Green energy and how ineffective it is in a time of crisis. That's right.

Implausible to think that Republicans will lose Pennsylvania. And plus, I think there's. Kathy Barnett's been on a lot with us, seems good, but the other two are unbelievably qualified. Very qualified. Yeah, I mean, this is.

You look at either one of them, even if you're a Democrat, you can't say, well, how do they get in? I mean, these are two people who have had tremendous careers, Dr. Oz TV, and medical, and he's still a practicing doctor. And then you have Dave McCormick. This guy's a West Point grad, served in the First Persian War, served at one of the most tumultuous times in American history under the Secretary of Treasury as the Under Secretary of Treasury when the market collapsed.

And then he goes and becomes CEO of one of the most successful venture capitalist firms in the country.

So, I mean, it's pretty qualified. It is. You think about a year ago, Brian, we would have said, gosh, Republicans, we have to hold Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Wisconsin. And now we're going to get through primaries next week. And J.D.

Vance is going to win that race in Ohio this week. Over Tim Ryan. Over Tim Ryan. Blue collar, again, another state where blue-collar Democrats are voting Republican, not. uh Democrat over the last couple of cycles.

Pennsylvania, McCormick and Oz, who I know the most about, as with most voters, just learning about Kathy. We're in a strong position there. North Carolina, Ted Budd, is in position to win that North Carolina race, and we'll be. Over McCroy. Over McCroy will win that race and put us in a good position.

Now, Wisconsin, we got an incumbent. Senator Johnson.

So we've gone from Worrying a lot about defense, and that's you're going to take the eye off the ball, and we've got to do what we got to do to win. But now we're back to being on offense: Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, places where we can go pick up seats this year. Using New Hampshire? New Hampshire? Do you like there's no see, we were thinking as at GoPack, you don't want to, you're not doing what Trump's doing, and that's picking a candidate.

You're kind of sitting back, right? Right. In many of the races, we are getting involved more on the House side in primaries. Um, but uh, ultimately, to your point, it's about making sure we have the resources for the general to elect our Republican nominees, right? Uh, so A couple of things.

In North Carolina, Ted Budd is somebody the president elevated, no doubt about it. He stayed out of it. When you look at President Trump as of right now, before we get to Georgia, where he's probably going to get thumped at the governor's race, he's about 42 or 43 races that he picks.

Some were easy and some weren't, like J.D. Vance in particular. How would you gauge the power of the President right now? It's an important endorsement, except when it's not, which goes to the candidates matter. The President's endorsement gives you a platform to build on to go win an election.

But if you're a bad candidate or you're a bad candidate who runs a bad campaign, the endorsement in itself is not going to get you over the top, as we saw in Nebraska, as we're going to see in Georgia when Governor Kemp beats Senator Perdue. If you're running in a primary, you'd rather have the endorsement than not. But it's not a guarantee for victory. I want to go back to Pennsylvania for a second. Michael Smirkani, show I really respect.

He's got a great radio show, too. This is what he said about the endorsement of Dr. Oz, which is, by the way, split Trump world. I mean, you have Hope Hicks on one side, and you have Ted Cruz on the other side working with McCormick against the president, and Pompeo working with McCormick, Cut 36. I'm sure that when all is said and done and the dust settles, people will want to read into this.

What does it mean for Donald Trump? I think that former President Trump gave a boost to Oz that without Trump, Oz was fading. And it would have been McCormick. I don't think in the end it really comes down to the Trump endorsement. He makes Oz more of a contender than he would have been.

Your thoughts? It goes to what I just said. He gives you the platform to build on to ultimately go on and win a race. And Oz got it.

Now he needs to finish. If for him to be the nominee, he's going to have to finish this race and convince enough voters to cast a vote for him. When people come up to you and say, why are Republicans so up? Why do they look in position to be so successful? What are the issues?

Is it the failure of the Biden administration? Do you think it's regret about some of the Trump initiatives? Or do you think it's just a cyclical thing? Because traditionally, the party that wins the White House takes a pounding in the midterms. There is no question it is President Biden who is driving this election.

And it started with the failure in Afghanistan, which made many voters, particularly independents, question was he up for the job? He defied all his generals in doing this. That's right. And now you go to inflation and the economy. Has people worried about making ends meet?

You've got crime on the rise. You've got health care as a growing concern. I mean, Not enough focus is put on this, but the healthcare that people didn't take care of during COVID that now is coming back that They're sicker, they're in worse shape. That. We're going to have that health care issue to deal with.

And then the education issue, where more than just parents want to have a say in their education, it is the lost time that so many children.

Now we have school districts that are lowering testing standards so children can pass the test because they're so far behind in the basics.

So we're watching this ultra MAGA term flow out of the Democratic circles. We're also watching a big push on Rick Scott's 11-point plan, if we get power in the Senate, not endorsed by Mitch McConnell. Is it endorsed by David Avella? Did you look at these 11 points and say that's a good blueprint for Republicans? I've not looked at the plan in full.

The one that most gets the attention, obviously, is making everyone pay something in taxes. And certainly it has been a long tradition we're trying to lower people's taxes. We should instead want an economy that brings the lower wage earners up so that they have to pay taxes because they're in a higher tax bracket. Economic growth is the key to bringing more revenue in to pay for vital government programs. And many states would bristle at that because they're trying to get rid of their income tax.

Why now would we, at the federal level, want to try to impose more of a federal tax? I think his point was in getting to expand on it yesterday or here on this show. He said a lot of people are on welfare social programs. He wants them to get to work, and then you'll pay income taxes off your paycheck, no matter how big, no matter how small. And 50% of the country not paying anything.

That's the great thing: ideas are being debated on the Republican side. But Mitch McConnell said, bad move politically. That's okay. You can have disagreements in the Republican Party versus what are you getting out of the Democratic Party, which is failure and these. These absurd labels, ultra MAGA, what does that mean?

What does that even mean? Right. I want you to hear what Britt Hume said about what Joe Biden could be doing here at Cut Three.

Well, I think he's trying to rev up the voters in his own party and trying to scare people. Broadly speaking, the MAGA movement, as it is associated with Donald Trump, isn't terrifically popular with a broad majority of Americans, and it certainly isn't popular with his base. He obviously has reasons to worry about whether his base will be there for him this fall with things going so badly and people are having such grave doubts about him even from within his own ranks.

So I think that's what that is about. I don't think there's any chance it's going to work. His biggest challenge, Brian, is not enthusiasm, it's anger. It is anger within the Democratic base amongst moderates who now realize that Joe Biden is not a moderate. And it's Pushing the progressive agenda.

So you have the anger of those voters. And then you have the anger of progressives who think he's not doing enough. We haven't gotten rid of enough college debt yet. We haven't raised taxes enough. We're still using oil and gas.

We're still using oil and gas. The house is still alive. Yes, that's right. And that is the challenge the Democrats face, but can't happen to a better party.

So I won't make you hear the whole sound bite, but Roe v. Wade is now a big issue after the leak of last week and now the protest outside the Supreme Court Justice's house as an American. I'm not comfortable with that. Forget about the vote because it's going to be in front of Democrats' house next. Do I want to hear that they're at Chen Saki's house?

That's where they're going to be heading. Because Republicans, the same thing happened with cancel culture. Oh, they're just going to cancel the bad guys that are out there.

Well, it turns out Al Franken gets blown up and all these other people get canceled. And they're still feeling the ripple effects around the world, around the country. Here's Kamala Harris on the fact is yesterday they were unable to get 60 votes to codify not Roe v. Wade, but some abortion on demand. Policy Cut 16.

And let's be clear: the majority of the American people. believe in defending a woman's right, her choice. to decide what happens to her own body. And this vote Clearly suggests that the Senate is not where the majority of Americans are on this issue. It also makes clear.

that a priority for all who care about this issue. A priority should be to elect pro-choice leaders.

So they want to make this an election issue. Senator Schumer basically said it yesterday. Does it worry you, David Evelle, as somebody with the chairman of GOPAC? There are certainly voters who care very strongly about this. Never has this issue ranked.

within the ranks that it would decide elections as much as economic issues, as much as health care issues, as much as foreign policy issues. Will it have impact in some races? It could. There's no question about it. But overall, there are bigger issues driving votes.

Let me add one thing, if I may. You mentioned Jen Saki. Why is there not an ethics investigation about a future MSNBC employee standing in the podium talking as the mouthpiece for the president of the United States? Because she does not admit she has the job yet. That's basically a joke.

You know, she's going there right away to probably get her own show. It's unbelievable. It is outrageous. She's had the job for two months after we've known she's gone there, but she hasn't formally done it.

So I want you to hear this bizarre soundbite. I don't mean to lean the witness, but it's bizarre to me. Congresswoman Katie Porter of California was asked about inflation and abortion. She put them both together.

Well, I don't think they compare. I think they actually reinforce each other.

So the fact that things like inflation can happen and it can become more expensive to feed your kids and to fuel your car is exactly why people need to be able to be in charge of how many mouths they're going to have to feed.

So I think the fact that we're seeing this jump in expenses, that we're seeing people having to pay more in the grocery store, pay more at the pump, pay more for housing, is a reason that people are saying I need to be able to make my own decisions about when and if to start a family.

So I don't think we're going to see them. I don't think it's about comparing them or contrasting them. I think they reinforce for people just how big of a responsibility it is to take care of a family.

So do you Do you follow that line of thought? I'm confident that most Americans would not agree with that viewpoint. And where I would agree with her, it is a lot to start a family. And this administration is not making it any easier by making energy costs go up, which makes every other part of American life get more expensive. 84% of Americans say they're cutting back on some key purchases.

The University of Pennsylvania says it's costing families on average $300 a month. I imagine it's even more. Everything from plane tickets up 33%, fuel oil up 88%, hotels 22%, things like gas, 44%, and I think natural gas, almost 200%.

So all this stuff is real. These numbers work. And I don't think saying the Putin price hike or ultra MAGA is going to make people feel any better. Finally, when it comes to baby formula, if I'm the president, I'm sitting over there in front of that Abbott warehouse, and I'm demanding the FBA give me the clearance in expedition. Expedited form to get that baby formula out of that building and onto the shelves.

That should be the emergency. We saw with the COVID vaccine a president who was determined to get it out. And to make sure it was tested properly, can and quickly what it can do with the bureaucracy. And this administration is not willing to do that. Yeah, but baby formula.

You're not talking about a luxury item. I get it. All right. David, great to see you. Great to see you.

Chairman of Gopak, I know you're extremely busy. You don't make predictions on primaries, but I know you'll make predictions at other times when we get through this season. And of course, everyone's looking at Tuesday and then Georgia right after. David Dovella, thanks so much. Thank you.

We're going to come back with some phone calls in just a moment. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmeet show. The fastest growing talk show in America. You're with Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin.

It's Brian Kilmeade. Hey, welcome back everybody. Just got to remind you, you got Saturday at 8 o'clock. I want everyone to watch One Nation. Got a great roster of guests, including Tyrus, who'll be on with Greg Gutfeld.

You know, Tyrus from the Gutfeld Show. You know him, came out in wrestling. You probably don't know much about him, but you will if you pick up his book. But how he met Gutfeld and how he ends up being a Fox News contributor, really a great story. It's the first time they've got to be telling the story to somebody else, even though it came to life in his book.

So we'll have that on amongst KD Pavlich. And we're going to take a look at the name, image, and likeness. NIL. What's the big deal? It changes college sports entirely.

That means I'm a freshman. I want to go to the University of Nebraska. It turns out a car dealership has Lamborghinis. If I go to Nebraska, it just turns out during the year I can have a Lamborghini. It's totally legal.

I could go sign pictures and footballs at the Lamborghini sales shop. I could go to Dick Sporting Goods and be signed locally. I could go get my own deals done.

Now, I do think college sports athletes to a degree should be controlled and paid. I'm not sure that this is it. Can you imagine how much Tim Tebow would have made had he been able to cash in on his likeness? I mean, to me. Johnny Manzel.

got in trouble for signing autographs in the summer. signing autographs of himself while they sell his uniform at the bookshop and he doesn't get a dime.

So things have changed, but we've overcorrected. We're going to look at that world because I think it's It's really changing all of college sports entirely.

So those are some of the things we're going to be looking at on Sunday, on Saturday too. And also, congratulations to 77WABC. I was able to go to a big event with Allison last night. They celebrated their rocket rise in the number one market in the country. And they've done it through this family-first management style.

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