Democrats admit they're getting "crushed" in midterm messaging

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It's the Brian Kill Me Show. Hope you had a great weekend. 1-866-408-7669, the number to be on the show, and we'll have an opportunity for doing that next. Will Hurd will join us, former Texas congressman, cybersecurity expert, officer at the CIA, author of American Reboot. He's going to be with us, and I thought he's pretty perfect.

I'd put in perspective what's happening in Texas, also what's happening with the Republican Party, a lot of things breaking their way, even though you would not know it. Because when certain polls go their way, people just don't cover them, even if it's their own poll. We'll discuss that and take your calls. And meanwhile, we're also watching. I understand that some of you are more concerned, especially we have so many stations, affiliates in Florida.

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You're seeing it in Russia. You're seeing it in China. People are rising up. All of them have anti-American sentiment. Kind of encouraging to see the countries that are most anti-American having as much trouble.

It's not so bad over here about the Paris. Historic opportunities. That's how I see it for America as we watch riots crop up in Russia and Iran for the horrific abuses of their own people. And for Russia, the Ukrainian people as well. The latest on the riots and the war, a war Russia is losing.

Number two. When you ask registered voters what issue is at the top of that list and you see inflation and the economy, that all points to an extraordinary set of challenges for Democrats trying to keep the House and the Senate. ABC's Rachel Scott being honest, the economic thunderclouds are gathering and we are all feeling it, even if the Biden administration does not acknowledge it. The polls are in and the numbers are housing, on housing, on stocks, on inflation have affected all of us and all of us are concerned. Number The key numbers that I looked at was the president at 36.

On its approval rating, 74% of the people in the poll said the economy is bad. It's the top issue to 84% of the people. That's all bad news for the Democrats in that poll. And yeah, I just don't know why UBC Washington Post doesn't talk more about it. Six weeks until the midterms, and the Dems got devastating numbers.

Its president's approval rating below 40. The Republican Party gains substantial trust advantages on crime, immigration, and the economy. What does it mean for the red wave? We'll break it down along with the most intriguing midterm matchups. I'm talking with that in the Senate.

So, how do I know things are serious for the Democratic Party? Because abortion is sixth in the things that matter most. Yes, I know a lot of females have registered of all different ages because of the Dobbs decision, which led to the rescinding of Roe v. Wade.

Now, the states will decide what the abortion rules are.

Okay. Don't worry about it in New York. Don't worry about it if you're in these blue states. It's the red states. It'll be effective.

Having said that, it's a June story. It's story matters. I get it. You know, depending on where you are, it matters. But if you are looking at the issues that matter most, this does not rank.

I'm telling you, it does not rank as high. First, First we're getting everyone talking about the economy. Then inflation.

So in this ABC poll, registered voters, 85% are concerned about the economy, 79% concerned about inflation and rising prices. Then 77% on schools. That explains why people who have dropped the ball and what Governor Young can use to win in Virginia, now Republicans are talking more about education.

Now look at these issues. Don't tell me that Democrats have these issues. They don't. And it's not because the Republicans are better at messaging. They're not lunatics when it comes to the economy.

They're not looking to put $1.9 trillion into an economy that was already recovering. With the Recovering Act. They're not crazy enough to try to dupe us into thinking the Inflation Reduction Act would actually reduce inflation. Instead, it was really a Green Energy Act, a new Green Deal. And because of the spending, combined with the upping interest rates, we're all affected in some way, shape or form.

Our housing has lost on average 20% of its value. We had JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Diamond saying there's going to be thunderclouds gathering over our economy.

Now, who do the voters trust when it comes to these major issues? 56% trust crime of Republican Party on crime. 54% on the economy. 54% on inflation. 45% trust on the crisis.

On immigration. Think about that. Immigration is now looming. That even got Gavin Newsom critical of being critical of his own party, cut one. We are getting crushed.

We are on the defense over and over and over again. It's immigration today, it was CRT yesterday, it will be ESG, look that up tomorrow. They consistently push us against the wall. We have no compelling alternative narrative. And that's on all of us.

Well, you know what, if the my words exactly He's a good speaker. He obviously is comfortable with the copy because it's the facts. But it's not the Republicans that are doing it. Crime is not a Republican idea. We're witnessing it.

Inflation is not a Republican idea. We're living with it. The economic response is a Democratic it's the people's response with what the Democrats are doing. It's not a great marketing campaign. There's no call rove pulling the strings.

There's no Maestro trying to undermine anybody. Beta Rourke. To the Texas Tribune at the Texas Tribune Festival. Brought up Uh what's going on at the border? Cut to.

Candidate Biden didn't spend a dime or a day in the Rio Grande Valley or really anywhere in Texas for that matter once we got down the home stretch of the general election. You gotta be locking eyeballs with the people that you want to fight for and serve and whose votes that you want to win. And it is true. Look, when abortion broke and Donald Trump said it, Republicans said it, oh my goodness, they were not ready. They were not ready to catch the car.

And they were not ready to do what they've been talking about for 40 years, and that's get behind the pro-life movement that got them to this point and got conservatives on the Supreme Court. But having said that, We're used to it now. It leaked out, I think, in March. We finally got the decision in June, July. And now we're looking at September.

And major issues. Chris Christie sees it the same way. I think Chris Christie can break down. Political moves and mores better than anybody, cut nine. I think the further you get away from the Dobbs decision and closer to the midterms, the less of a motivating factor abortion is.

And obviously, from these numbers, the more of a motivating factor the economy is. And I understand History is this way, as Julie said. And we better pay heed to history. It's going to happen again when you have a bad economy. That is what people vote on.

They don't vote on anything else because that's what affects them and their families every day.

So, what the Democrats want to do is run on abortion Trump and just to make Republicans too evil to elect. And that's what the president brought up about three weeks ago. He reaffirmed in that ridiculous Independence Day speech. He said in various other locations, and then other people have walked back. I don't mean everybody.

I just mean mega-Republicans.

Well, for the most part, everybody, every Republican, except for a handful of moderates. And they agree almost, agree with what Donald Trump ran on and what he did. They're not against his approach on trade. They're not against his approach on crime. They're not against his approach when it comes to Iran.

They're not against his approach with the Abraham Accords. They're not against his approach with tax cuts. That's what the MAGA movement is. But they want you to think MAGA will give you January 6th. It's not the case.

It didn't stop the newest operative within the Biden White House from speaking out, Keisha Lance Bottoms, cut 12. What we see again with this MAGA Republican agenda is an effort to disrupt our democracy.

So whether it be through November and beyond November, I think it will always be important to call out any effort there is to destroy, essentially destroy the United States of America. Yeah, I will say destroy the United States of America running the issues I talked about, not being for the rescue package, going along when it comes to minor gun legislation. I don't think that's. That's detrimental to the health of the country. A lot of people are upset that they signed fifteen, signed on to the infrastructure deal.

We needed infrastructure done. But they thought if they signed on to that, they'll never get Bill back better. Joe Manchin caved for no reason, didn't get anything in return, is trying to get some I guess some fossil fuel legislation passed. Republicans aren't in the mood, and Democrats aren't on board.

So it looks like he was 100% duped, which is crazy.

So we'll talk about that when we get back. I don't want to eat up all your time. 1866-408-7669. I'll talk about what is also going on in Iran and Russia.

Sometimes you try to manipulate foreign policy and get you influenced foreign policy, and it doesn't work. And sometimes you just watch and you can't you can't believe how fortuitous it is for American interest. And I'm talking about Vladimir Putin's horrible way that he fought the war with a terrible army and his I guess conscription of 300,000, which he claimed are reservists, but they don't really exist, causing the mass exodus of young people from his country, brain-drained from his cabinet. And now you have even his loyalists speaking out at the highest rankings of the Politburo and riots in the streets. Not to the point where they're looking to overthrow the government, but how they expect to get hundreds of thousands of Russians to fight in a war that they don't want and an army they don't want to serve.

Good luck with that. They are arresting protesters and putting them into the military. What kind of fighters do you think they'll get? And in Iran, the horrific way and they treated this woman who wasn't wearing her hijab right, hijab right, whatever it's called, they end up killing her. And a lot of it's caught on video.

And widespread riots, some have say worse than anything we have seen. When we come back that as well as your thoughts about the economy, how it's affecting you, and do you believe the red wave has really been stopped? I don't. I don't at all. I did for a while, not anymore.

It doesn't mean that the Senate's going to go their way necessarily. I will break down those match-by-match matchups from New Hampshire to Arizona to Pennsylvania and Ohio now. The challenges are still there. We'll see how it comes out. You are listening to the Brian Kilmeat Show.

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It's Brian Killmead. They also know that crime is a huge vulnerability for Democrats. I would say one of the biggest vulnerabilities. And if you look at Pennsylvania, for example, what's been interesting to me is it's always you follow the money and where are people spending money. And in Pennsylvania, the Republicans have been spending millions of dollars on the air on crime ads against Fetterman because that's where they see his vulnerability.

So, yes, the economy is hanging over everything, but you do have to look at state-by-state factors, and crime is a huge issue in the Pennsylvania race. Yeah, that is true. But Fetterman also has other vulnerabilities. For example, fracking and what it's done, and how even the president, now president, but then candidate, was afraid to say he'd cut off fracking in Pennsylvania. And now this guy says he'll do it.

He wants a third of the prisons emptied. He says people don't belong there. This guy is pro-criminal, and that's the problem. I think it's a problem, don't you? In Pennsylvania, you can call me 1-8-6-6-408-7669.

I think the major problem, the reason why Oz isn't up right now, and I'm not sure he's not in a dead heat or slightly up, but right now he's not predominantly up big time because Fedim is such a bad candidate who can't speak because of his stroke. And can't do the job, let's be honest. He he can't leave his events last between five and ten minutes. He usually makes no sense and leaves. And he is pro criminal, anti fracking.

He is Bernie Sanders in a hoodie. That's it.

So that, to me, it reeks of vulnerability. What he's got is name recognition. Then, when you look into his background, 40 years old without a job until he became a lieutenant governor, when he was a mayor, he was in absolute embarrassment. He lives in a house that his sister pays for, and don't act like he's an everyman. This guy's an Ivy League grad, he's just flat-out lazy.

But Fetterman fired back at Tucker Carlson because Tucker Carlson said, What are you doing with these insulting tattoos? These temporary tattoos that is not professional. Essentially, he says, Well, I've got tattooed on the people that were gunned down because of gun violence in this country. We'll see where that goes. I don't understand that Super PAC aligned with Senator.

And Mitch McConnell withdrew $9 million in ads from Blake Masters. Are you nuts? You know that Kelly, even though he's got this great resume, has been useless as a senator. You know that's purple/slash/red state still. And a recent study of Arizona voters conducted by Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio says that Masters, who was then eight, I might even be closer.

And listen, he's got to establish himself. He's a Trump candidate. Trump should be writing checks too. I'm not sure why he is not, but I don't think it's up to Mitch McConnell to decide it's not worth my time. Does he want to be a majority leader?

He's already 80-something.

So the down ballot, the Cook political report, moved the ratings of two competitive Arizona seats into the Democratic column. Tom O'Hallard, one of the most vulnerable Democrats, whose seat was redrawn in a plus eight. District is competitive with Eli Crane, who is a special operations officer. We got to get him on. Eli came out of the military, became a very successful business person, and then decides to come back into Congress.

We'd be better off with a guy like him in Congress. And Republican Carrie Lake is doing very well running for the governor, trying to replace Brian Ducey, whose term limited out.

So we'll see where that goes, and we'll see how that goes. But for the most part, the President of the United States handling the economy is 36%. His overall approving is 39%. Americans were asked this on the current rate of inflation. Are you upset?

45% of the country upset By what the direction of the country is right now and by inflation in particular.

So, Anthony Salbanto was with CBS, he's been on here before. He believes that abortion is still a hot issue, and he believes that migration, illegal immigration, is something that the Democrats got to, I guess, lean into, but I don't think it's a good area for them. Listen to the CBS Director of Elections, cut for it. The other thing they kind of want this election to be about is immigration. There's a big part of the Republican base, almost 9 in 10, 87 percent, who like the idea of moving migrants from border areas into Democratic-leaning areas.

Why is that important with the base?

Well, to the extent that this is a turnout election, it's important to motivate your base. And okay, Republicans really like that. It's much more mixed with the rest of the public, but they specifically like it for one reason, that they think it calls attention to the problem. And to the extent that it's putting that more on the radar, it is for independents, for other Republican voters. And again, back to the idea of what is this election going to be?

Right, and that's why DeSantis doing what he did is so brilliant. Say, oh, it's cruel, it's not cruel, it's the reality, understand it. It made everybody talk about it. Even Beta Roar was forced to talk about it.

So if you want to be governor of Texas and you think, wow, Governor Abbott's being cruel? Really? What is cruel? Telling people it's okay to come by not showing that they're being kicked out. If you are kicking them out, which you're not, but you say you're kicking people out who aren't worthy, yet most of the people getting on these buses and getting off in New York and Chicago seem to be young males that should not be eligible for this relocation project, and now pretending that communism is the real thing that's causing the surge of the border when we know that's not true.

As we told you before, Jen Saki came out, Beta Aror came out against what the president's been doing because what the president's been doing is hurting their chances. Rachel Scott, an NBC congressional correspondent, talked about the challenges that both houses have, both the Senate and the House have, to keep their majorities cut to. Yes, is abortion energizing Democratic voters? We've seen that. Obviously, the special election right here in New York, Pat Ryan won his special election in a critical swing district when he was down on the polls by campaigning and making abortion a central issue.

Kansas, a conservative state, votes to protect abortion rights. But when you ask registered voters what issue is at the top of that list, and you see inflation and the economy, and you see 74% of Americans say that the economy is in a bad state right now, and not only that, you have independents thinking that Republicans would do a better job of handling the economy. That all points to an extraordinary set of challenges for Democrats trying to keep the House and the Senate. I think so. I mean, you wouldn't know, but I think she's being honest, especially because she looked at the ABC poll and was asked to sit on a panel where you had Donna Brazil just trying to spin it there.

Everything's great, and Joe Biden's been a genius, one of the greatest presidents ever. Fact is, the Dow, two years of gains, we're gone. That was official on Friday. We dropped below 30,000. Housing now under attack, interest rates over 6%.

If you're about to buy a house and your rate currently is 3%, let's say, why would you sell that house? You're never going to get a mortgage like that, maybe ever again. The so-called shelter inflation, surging home prices and rents far outpacing the rise in wages. Homes overvalued? Moody's Analytics says more than half of America's largest regional markets are significantly overvalued.

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Look, I think that Democrats, if the election is about who is the most extreme, as we saw Kevin McCarthy touch on there with Marjorie Taylor Greene, I'll say her name, sitting over his left side, then they're going to win. If it is a referendum on the president, they will lose, and they know that. That is Jen Saki, who came out actually as an analyst rather than a partisan, in my view, on their Sunday show. I don't know how long that'll last, but that was her debut on the network show. I believe she's been on MSNBC before.

Will Hurd joins us, former Texas Congressman, cybersecurity executive and officer of the CIA, author of American Reboot. Will, welcome back. Hey, Brian, it's great to start the week off with you, my friend. Good. Same here.

Congressman, first off, what do you think when Gensaki comes out and says if this is about President Biden, Democrats lose? I would that's true. I was surprised to hear her say it.

Well, well, I hadn't heard that clip until just now, and I thought I misheard it because it's shocking that she's being honest and the answer is correct. I never thought that I'd be agreeing with a hot take by Jin Saki. But here's the reality: she's right because you look at one of the most important issues: the economy, right? Jobs in the economy, inflation, you can lump all those things in together. It's about people being concerned about putting food on the table, a roof over their head, and making sure that the people they love being healthy and happy and safe.

This is an area where President Biden has been terrible. Inflation has gone up. He wants to say that the administration doesn't have any role in that.

Well, fiscal policy, how you use taxes and how you deal with regulation, that has an impact on our economy. And so this is where he's getting bad marks. Right. I want you to hear more from Jen Saki. Cut six.

They also know that crime is a huge vulnerability for Democrats. I would say one of the biggest vulnerabilities. And if you look at Pennsylvania, for example, what's been interesting to me is it's always you follow the money and where are people spending money. And in Pennsylvania, the Republicans have been spending millions of dollars on the air on crime ads against Federman because that's where they see his vulnerability.

So yes, the economy is hanging over everything, but you do have to look at state-by-state factors, and crime is a huge issue in the Pennsylvania race. And it's going up. Crime is now third and most polls about what people are concerned most about. At the CIA, you're fighting global crime. Here domestically, almost every city is dealing with something that's overwhelming.

It is. And, you know, I had an experience recently. I was in Los Angeles meeting with some friends, and my friends in LA were talking about how they have to pay extra money to retired police officers so that if they ever have to call 911, somebody will show up. And there's an arrangement with 911 that they call these retired police officers because they know the current ones won't show up because partly because they're overwhelmed, right? Like that's crazy that communities are having to resort to pooling their resources in order to be protected in their own homes.

And this issue also resonates to me in South Texas as a border security issue. For folks that live on the border, border security is a public safety issue. And even Democratic mayors and county judges, we've talked about this a lot, are frustrated with how. How bad the policies of Joe Biden are that is fueling the border crisis and the amount and volume of illegal immigration. I know some Republicans are divided on this.

I'm not. I understand the frustration. I've only been there three times, and that was two years ago, and I was overwhelmed by what I was seeing. And that's when Border Patrol was trying, and administration was efforting to stop the influx. They were having measured success with it at the border.

But they're not even trying to fix it at the border. How do you feel about Governor Abbott? And Governor DeSantis shipping these illegal or these migrants here illegally to these blue states and blue cities.

Well, I get frustrated when people that are more focused on the governor's antics and the broader problem.

Some people, if you're going to call putting people on a bus or a plane and shipping them to a nice part of the country, cool, then you got to call having 14,000 people living under a bridge in 100-degree weather, cool. That happened last summer. It's cruel to have detention facilities that are overcrowded by three times capacity. That's cruel. Releasing a thousand people on the streets of El Paso, that's cruel.

And these are, these are, this is, this is, we need to be focused on the real ship. I wish. these cities, these mayors, these governors from Illinois and Massachusetts and New York would tell Governor Abbott, hey, here's the number of people we can accept and help you process. Send them to this location, or even better yet, we're going to be the ones who send the buses because we know the communities in Texas are having to bear the brunt of this for the entire country. Let us help out.

I wish those were the kinds of conversations because we actually have an opportunity where you can have red states and blue states and red governors and blue mayors working together on what is truly an actual crisis. It is. And here is, I want you to hear a guy that you traveled the country with, Beta O'Rourke. Here's what he said: cut to. Candidate Biden didn't spend a dime or a day in the Rio Grande Valley or really anywhere in Texas for that matter once we got down the home stretch of the general election.

You gotta be locking eyeballs with the people that you want to fight for and serve and whose votes that you want to win. So a lot of them are saying that now, m more of them anyway, about what's going on at the border, because you can't say that it's not a problem when 7,000 people a day are coming through in Texas alone, let alone the thousands that are coming through in Arizona, it's destroying the lives of these small towns. It is, and it's not just these small towns, it's people.

So last year, When you take the number of people that were, in essence, arrested and subtract the number of people that were deported in that one calendar year. President Biden basically grew the population by San Francisco.

So you added San Francisco's people that were here unlawfully. And yes, you know, look, asylum is real. Asylum is something we should be supportive of. But asylum is also being taken advantage of by people that are not part of a protected class. They're not being persecuted in their home country.

If you look over the last, I want to say it's 20 years. If you look at how many people that go through the entire immigration course system to get asylum approved, the number is about 40%. And that is influenced by a couple of years where the numbers were, you know, the approvals were in the 70s because there was not many people going through.

So this is what is ultimately causing a problem. And it's showing people that you're circumventing the traditional process of growing our economy. Immigration is important. I'm pro-immigration. If you're going to be a hardworking member of our society, let's get you here as quickly as possible, but let's do it legally.

And that's where we should be focused. If I can, I'm talking to Will Hurd, former congressman from Texas and former officer in the CIA.

So, can I tap into your knowledge of what could be going on in Russia? You know, the Ukrainians are having great success right now, and it seems like Vladimir Putin's getting pushback from two top lawmakers, at least two top Russian lawmakers, who are against this mobilization of the 300,000 reservists who don't exist for the most part.

So, this woman who chairs Russia's upper legislative chamber and a man who Vladislav Volodynam, another Putin ally, has been very critical of him. He is actually a speaker of Russia's lower chamber, speaking out against this mobilization.

Some of the right want him to do a total draft, but it's causing chaos in their country. Thousands streaming towards the borders. This country had protests, 1,300 protests over the weekend, and we see the success Ukrainians are having. Tell me what the American people should know about. Vladimir Putin's hold on his power.

Look, uh all all of this. Can be summarized in a phrase we have down here in South Texas: no bueno. It's not good for Vladimir Putin. In an authoritarian government, Public opinion matters when it turns to public outrage. And this is what we're seeing.

You also got to realize that if he's trying to call up 300,000 people that had formerly served in the military, that means they haven't been training, they're not prepared. This is not the kind of fighting force that is going to have any major impact on the battlefield.

So, this is definitely a sign that Putin is frustrated. And the fact that you have public protests. And then you have people within power speaking up, that portends as potential more. And the real question and the real place that we need to be watching is some of that inner circle, the senior leaders within the military that look and potentially frustrated. Yes, there are some hard, hard, hawkish folks within the Russian government that thinks that Putin needs to call this a military action and an invasion.

Stop saying it's an exercise, that he needs to be even harder. There's some of them. And there's others that realize that things are spiraling out of control. But here's what we have to remember. Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons.

You think so? And look, he would, I shouldn't say will, will's the wrong word, would use nuclear weapons. It's part of their military planning. This is something that we have to take him on his word as something that he's willing to do. And what we need to do to prepare for that.

And I know the White House has had back channels with Vladimir Putin on this particular issue. We have to be very clear to him. That if he were to use any kind of nuclear weapon, a tactical nuclear weapon, that could have an impact smaller than some of the destruction and death that we've already seen, right? That's the reality, that they have nuclear weapons that are so small, so tactical, that it may not be as disastrous as what's already happened. But we need to tell them any use of nuclear weapons is going to be met with overwhelming force.

I think at a minimum, we should say that all of Russian troops in Ukraine will be destroyed and pushed out of Ukraine. That the the rest of the world will come to the aid of Ukraine and have that debilitating are you saying we should say we're going to put our own forces in there? I think there's a lot that we can use that doesn't require us putting, in essence, boots on the ground. I think we can use some of our overwhelming air superiority to help the Ukrainians. That doesn't put Americans in harm's way.

But there are a lot of resources and tools that we haven't given the Ukrainian that we could that would allow them to destroy all the Russian forces that are in there that are in there that are in their territory. Wow, that would be very interesting. Lastly, the Iranian uprisings, they said they're bigger than the 2008 uprisings. They happened with the murder of this woman who didn't have her headdress on right. They said she had a heart attack, not possible.

So we're seeing all these protests in Iran. Are you optimistic that this is something that could gain momentum? Look, I'm hopeful that it can gain momentum. We see that the Iranian regime is cracking down, they shut off the internet. And look, I I will say that.

Absolutely. And this was a positive move, I think, by the Biden administration and Treasury to allow American companies to provide services in Iran so people can communicate. The fact that women across Iran and all thirty one provinces are leading this And are frustrated. And here is what is interesting for me. You have progressives in the United States and Europe that are finally coming around to being supportive of Strong measures in Iran.

People are now saying we shouldn't get into an Iran deal. And if Europe and America get back into Iran deal, this is playing into the hands of this Iranian regime.

So this is creating agreement amongst the far left and far right in not just in the United States and other parts of the world, which I think is a good thing to have the pressure we need to see change in the Iranian government. I hope this is not going to fizzle out the way the Green Revolution did. And this is something, and thanks for bringing it up and keeping focus on this, because the more we keep focus and attention on this, the more it can possibly grow and get support to the people that are protesting in Iran. But Will Hurd, I just hope we do not continue with these ridiculous nuclear negotiations. And we are.

Jake Sullivan made it clear, Anthony Blinken, as well, sadly, because it's a total force. Will Hurd, always great to talk to you. When are you going to decide what's going to happen? What's next for you? Look, it's a good question.

And we got to get through we got to you know, thinking about anything other than the current election cycle doesn't make sense.

So I'm not on the ballot this cycle, but we'll see what happens in the future.

Okay. Will heard. Thanks so much, Congressman. All right, buddy. Take care.

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The average mortgage is now $2,400. One year ago, it was $1,600. The average house a year ago was $400,000.

Now it's $547,000. Most Americans have been shut out, completely shut out of the American dream. And the sad part about it, it didn't have to happen. And that is um You know, Charles, that is a look at our economy right now. And if you look at some of these numbers on our economy, I don't think I have to tell you, you already made your own decision about the health of our economy.

But if you see what is actually happening with these numbers, right now, 57% of the country disapprove of it. 45% say they color themselves very upset by it. The average gas prices have ticked up for the last three days. That usually is not a good thing. It's up to $3.71, even though the president says it's going the other direction.

I'll add something to that. Jamie Dimon, in his testimony, no one's talking about it, but J.P. Morgan, Chase, CEO, he predicted an economic hurricane. Are you kidding me? An economic hurricane because inflation is going up and spending is too high.

And a soft landing for high inflation, they say, is not going to be easy.

So something's going to happen. Most economists said we've never been in this place because we are still spending for some reason, even though mortgage rates are going up and things are slowing down, but not to the degree that they thought. Why? To me, not being an economist is because we got all that free money. We don't feel the fact that we're supposed to stop spending.

We don't feel the fact that our accounts are going to be depleted because the dollars that we were given are worth less. And we were given it through the pandemic, through PPP loans, of money we didn't have that we actually printed. They say, for the most part, 72% of all home prices are too high. The overvalued areas that are overvalued the most, Austin, Charlotte, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. 210 of the 413 markets that were listed as a boon.

are now overvalued, and they will plunge. The question is how fast, how quick, and when will they bounce back?

So when people in charge are using the terms hope and we think, it gets me worried, especially when the President of the United States says everything that I just said is just inaccurate. And he wants to focus on abortion. Donald Trump And January 6th. I don't. Even though they're going to give another shot at making Donald Trump the story When they talk about January 6th, one more time.

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Thanks so much for listening, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmey Show, coming to you from 48 and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, heard around the world, especially in the Ukraine, and maybe listening in Iran, because we've put in that Elon Musk system, that Starlink system over Iran.

So when they go to shut down the internet to stop these riots, hopefully we can fire it back up again and let the Iranian people stand up for their own country. Jim Vandehei is going to be joining us shortly, the CEO and co-founder of Axios, co-author of Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less. And by the way, he's just done. Axios is a must-read for me, and most likely for you, because you're probably passionate about the country and about politics if you're listening to this show. And it just gives me a great idea of not only what's going on, but where to continue, where great stories are being written and to follow up on, to expand on.

But they do it briefly and succinctly. That's why this book's so perfect. And then Britt Hume at the bottom of the hour. Our Brit Room brings perspective about what's going on with these extraordinarily important midterms.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I think that you're actually seeing it in Iran. You're seeing it in Russia. You're seeing it in China.

People are rising up. All of them have anti-American sentiment. Kind of encouraging to see the countries that are most anti-American having as much trouble. It's not so bad over here about the Paris. Vivek Ramaswamy, on with Bill Maher last night.

Historic opportunities. That's how I see it for America as we watch riots crop up in Russia and Iran for the horrific abuses of their own people. And in Russia's case, for the Ukrainian people, the latest on the riots and the war too, a war Russia is losing. Number two. When you ask registered voters what issue is at the top of that list and you see inflation and the economy, that all points to an extraordinary set of challenges for Democrats trying to keep the House and the Senate.

Rachel Scott weighing in from ABC. The economic thunder clouds are gathering and we are feeling it, even if the Biden administration does not acknowledge it. The polls are in and the numbers are on housing, stocks, and inflation have all of us affected and concerned. Number The key numbers that I looked at was the president at 36. On its approval rating, 74% of the people in the poll said the economy is bad.

It's the top issue to 84% of the people. That's all bad news for the Democrats in that poll. And what the former governor of New Jersey was saying, 36% of his that's his approval on the economy, six weeks into the midterms, and the numbers in many cases for the Democrats are devastating when it comes to crime, inflation, and overall on the economy, and now immigration. Is the red wave back on? We'll wait and see.

A lot can change over the course of weeks. Jim Mandehye joins us now. Jim, congratulations on Axios and all the success. You took a big risk leaving Politico. Did you think it would be this successful?

First up, Brian, thanks for having me. We were confident that we would have some success. It's probably bigger, faster than we would have anticipated. But in retrospect, having done two companies, I was a journalist for most of my life until we did Politico. Once you've done it once, it does make it a lot easier the second time.

I can't tell you how many things we screwed up the first time we tried it in terms of how do you build a business, how do you build a culture. And so to be able to essentially say play the same video game twice, it's easier the second time.

So in particular, what were you doing at Politico that you thought, wow, if I could do this again, I would do it different. What's the main difference from Playbook? I think two of the big ones were one, not just focusing on politics. I think politico is a great idea at that moment. But if you think about the world, the topics you talk about on your show, you've got to understand what's happening overseas, what's happening in technology, what's happening with artificial intelligence, what's happening with media information, dissemination and consumption, and politics.

And so having that broader view has helped. Two, like everybody here is a shareholder. And I think the fact that everybody profits from our company being successful, I like that. I think it brings out kind of that animal spirit of capitalism, which I like. I think that it fuels a better company.

And then I think we have a really strong culture because we're new. You know, we're able to hire people who are high achieving, but they get along. And as you know, Brian, that's what you want. You want to do fun things with people you enjoy being around. And that's probably the coolest part of this gig.

I want to get into brevity and your approach and how it could help everybody. And pretty much it reflects, you reflected the culture and gave the culture something that reflects some of the attributes that we've been displaying. I get it. But I do want to talk about what's going on right now for these midterms. When people keep saying every election, I should be keeping it, this is the most important election ever.

In terms of midterms, I never remember this type of interest. What's your greatest concern as we head into it?

Well, I agree. There's a lot of interest. We'll see if that actually translates into turnout. As you know, these official elections could be relatively low. But I think, listen, people on both sides are highly, highly motivated.

If you're a Republican, you feel like your way of life is under threat. You feel like there's people trying to police every aspect of your life. You don't like it. You want to vote. If you're a Democrat, especially since the abortion ruling, you feel motivated.

You feel like people are trying to come at what they think is their right to do what they want to do. And you're seeing that manifest itself in higher turnout in some of these off-year elections. And so, you know, you talk about it all the time. Politics is more radioactive, more polarized than ever before. And what we'll see, it'll be interesting because last presidential election, we did have pretty high voter turnout.

People do seem to be translating what you're seeing on social media and in viewership on different shows into voting. My big concern would be like there's just so much toxicity in the system. When I look around, I feel like this country, there's so many aspects of it. that are just sort of Clawed by volatility. There's volatility in the markets.

There's volatility in supply chains. There's such volatility in our political system. There's a lack of trust on both sides in terms of what the other side says or believes. And when you have that type of volatility, particularly when you have the market as wobbly as it is right now, it's not a great outcome. I'd much rather have the country focused on like what are the five or six things we can do to crush the Iranians, crush the Chinese, crush the Koreans, crush the Russians.

I think there's so many attributes of this company, a country that are so much. More formidable than anything you see overseas. And I think the more we focus on that, I think the better chance we have of making sure that we do end up on top. I understand. Top issues facing voters, according to this latest Washington Post poll.

85% said the economy, number two, inflation. 77% says education. It seems like abortion is dropping. Then comes crime, then comes abortion with 62%, then immigration also at 62%, and then climate change, 51%. Do you expect that to stay since this came this Dobbs decision came out in June?

And are you surprised that immigration was able to catapult itself up? Yeah, those polls you have to dig one layer deeper because what's motivating each party? There's no doubt that abortion is motivating Democrats in a way that no other topic was. Remember, before that ruling, they had little to cheer for. The economy was wobbly.

Biden wasn't chalking up a ton of accomplishments at that point. And things were going bad with a war overseas. And you have a tension, obviously, with China. And so I think abortion has been a galvanizing topic for Democrats at a moment that they needed it. Immigration might not be number one, but for a lot of people who care about immigration, they do tend to vote.

There's a direct correlation between the energy around that topic and actual voter turnout. And so, listen, there's a lot out there that's motivating people. At the end, it is going to be the economy. If the market's tanking and the supply chain's still locked up and inflation is still surging, that's not good for Democrats. There's no way to spin that.

That's terrible. Here's what Chris Chrissy said over the weekend, Cut Nine. I think the further you get away from the Dobbs decision and closer to the midterms, the less of a Motivating factor abortion is, and obviously, from these numbers, the more of a motivating factor the economy is. And I understand. History is this way, as Julie said.

And we better pay heed to history. It's going to happen again. When you have a bad economy, that is what people vote on. They don't vote on anything else because that's what affects them and their families every day.

Is he right? I would say yes, but there's no doubt economy is the thing that motivates people in almost every election. I would say you've got to remember there's more women who tend to vote in this country in almost every election, I think 15, 16 straight in terms of more women than men voting. And if Democrats can get more women in these swing districts to show up and to vote for them, it can help them on the margins. Like, listen, it's going to be almost impossible for Democrats to keep the House.

Pelosi probably loses the House and then loses her job. The Senate's very much up for grabs. And as we've seen, I remember in these last couple elections, boy, the last three, four, five, there's a lot of these races, including presidential elections that are decided by a few thousand votes. Here or there.

So, all of this stuff on the edges matters. And so, yes, I think at the end of the day, the economy will decide it, but the abortion topic, no doubt, is a motivator. You're seeing that in a lot of races for devs.

So, part of the reason why I love reading Axios, it's to the point, it's substantive and it's not sensationalistic, but yet it gets your attention. That's why you got the book, Smart Brevity. You say it lays out the data and the science and what you've experienced leading up to this moment to launch Axios. What prompted you to put this together, and what do you want people to get out of your book? Yes, Brian, we when you're in journalism, you get lots of offers to write books.

I've never written one. And the reason we wrote SmartBrevity is I've seen the difference that it makes, not for journalists. It's been a huge difference for us at Axios. But the number of people that have basically taken the practice and tried to become much more efficient communicators, whether they're preachers, teachers, students. students and definitely anybody in business.

Was so profound that I wanted to sort of write down what we've learned so that people out there, not journalists, like normal people who are trying to get ahead and trying to be heard in this era of noise, could learn from what we've been able to see firsthand. And where I think it's really useful is for anybody who's in business or anyone who's in college or anyone who's trying to make a difference and needs to communicate one to many. If you just think about this era, we're hit with so much information, it's almost impossible to get anyone to pay attention, and yet no one's teaching people how to communicate differently. And differently, I mean much more effectively and much more efficiently. And that's what this book does.

It kind of walks you through step by step. If you want to be heard again, if you want to break through the noise, here's exactly what you could do. Here's a playbook. Follow it, and you'll see exponentially better results almost overnight. And it certainly helped us as a company, but I've seen it help other companies.

You write that we check our phones on average 260 times per day. You write that 70% of employees want shorter communication at work. And we know about this. We heard a lot about this 20 years ago: the MTV generations, short ADD, short-term attention span. But right to the point, but yet there's a thirst for information.

You managed to get both worlds to collide, correct? For sure. We always say it's like short, not shallow. I don't know what happened to humanity where we started to equate depth with length, right? The longer the book, the smarter it is.

Your teacher makes you write 5,000 words, even if you only have 1,000 to say. And our point is, people don't have time for it anymore. You have to adapt to the fact that 80% of information consumption is done on a mobile phone and that people are hit with 100 times more information today than they would have been hit 15 years ago.

So you have to learn how to simplify what it is you're trying to say. Say it much more succinctly. Give people the context for why you're saying it. And if you do those steps, suddenly those emails that you send, those texts you send, those notes you send to staff or to colleagues or to bosses, they start to resonate. There's a funny story when we were writing this.

The Pope gave a speech overseas and he was talking, he's making his own case for smart brevity. He said, he told a fellow Catholic priest, he said, listen, you got to stop doing these 40-minute homilies. You got to cut them down to 10 minutes. And he said, when he did it, he said the loudest applause came from the nuns who he said were the victims of their verbal torture. I think that's true of all of us.

We're all long-winded. And I think the more we can save people time, the more we save ourselves time, the more it sharpens our thinking, the better we're going to be at work and at life. And one thing you guys do at Axios, you do the finish line. You write that. And it's kind of a universal thing to make people's lives better, correct?

It is, yeah. And the one I write on Thursdays is very much about lessons I've learned from running two companies and having sort of hired or fired literally hundreds or thousands of people. And a lot of it, I just was a normal guy from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who lucked into journalism and then got to start two companies. And so most of what I've learned, I didn't learn at Harvard. I went to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

I learned it by doing it. Kind of the hard way and often getting it wrong, but then learning, having the humility to learn and get it right. And I love sharing those stories because I think so much of what you read in books and all this nonsense that you hear from these superheroes in business, it's just not applicable to people's real lives. And it's not actually how business works unless you're born with a silver spoon. And by the way, we're talking to Jim Vanderhey.

He's got a book out now. He's co-author of Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less.

So, Jim, in a time in which I agree with you, everything you've said is be to the point, be concise, be informative. Got it. We're all in a rush. True. How do you explain the success of the two and three hour podcast or the growth of the podcast where it's 45 minutes, 90 minutes at least sometimes, and yet people seem to be consuming it?

Yeah, I think it should be information nirvana, right? If you applied smart brevity to most transactional or sort of ephemeral information, you'd have more time to listen to more podcasts. There are some podcasts that have been very successful. Joe Rogan, that's one of the great media success stories of the last 20 years. The New York Times, they actually have a pretty good listenership for their daily.

And so there are some that run long. Joe Rogan's up and run three hours because I think people are on the go. People are pre-COVID, but now increasingly even post-COVID are back to commuting, and it's an easy thing to do. And people like to have, why do you think your radio show is successful, right? People want to have a relationship with you, and they're going to sit there and they get familiar with you and they start to trust you over time.

And that's kind of the case of where I'd like to see media and basically information creation and consumption go, which is. Free people up from the tyranny of the vomit of words.

Sometimes things are just going to be quick and easy, make it quick and easy so that you can read a book or that you can listen to a two or three hour podcast. Because despite all of the noise and nonsense out there, there's never been more good information available to humans at any point in humanity. And it's not even close. Like the amount of just googling things and finding high quality information if you're a discerning consumer is like, it is mind-blowing. And we just have to learn how to get people to the sort of the right information that they can trust.

And I love that when people get that. That's why I'm in media. Like the better information people have, I think over time, the better decisions they'll make. And I think that benefits us in our local community. And I think it benefits us ultimately as a country.

Hey, Jim, thanks so much. Congratulations on your success. Guys, pick this up, make your life better. Smart brevity, the power of saying more with less. Jim Van Hei, thank you.

Thank you, Brian. Really appreciate it. You have a good one. You got it. And all the proceeds go to the Axios Fellowship Program.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. President Biden gets a campaign on what we call nominal numbers. You know, you can say, hey, the GDP was up 6%. We, everybody watching this show, we live with real numbers. What are real numbers?

They are adjusted for inflation. Ever since that $1.9 trillion boondoggle was pushed through, we have had negative. We have had negative wages every single month since then.

So 18, 19 months of negative wages, that loses you $3,000 in purchasing power. I just don't think there's anybody better than him. When you break down the practical. And the macroeconomic. And he could do that with anybody.

But when you talk about everyday living, what's going on with housing, what's going on with wages, what's going on with inflation, what's going on with shopping, what's going on with used cars, what's going on with new cars, and what's about to happen in housing is going to be. It's going to be cataclysmic because we're going to lose the values of our houses that we have. It's going to stop people from selling because instead of leaving, I guess it was. This is a 20-year high. 6.7% is a 20%, that's since 1980.

So it's even more than that. It's a 40-year high.

So if you think to yourself, I got a 3.2% mortgage and I'm thinking about selling to a get a bit, I'm not going to sell. Because now I'm looking at instead of 4.5 or 5, I could probably deal with.

Now it's 6.5 and going up.

So I'm not selling. And if I'm about to buy, all of a sudden, if I did my math and I'm doing my weekly budget and I'm realizing monthly budget, realizing now it's going to be way too high.

So I'm out.

So, the ripple effect is going to be huge. And that's the practical side of the economy. Then I'm going to ask people: where did that happen? When did it start? Oh, I remember when it started.

A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmeade. We are getting crushed. We are on the defense over and over and over again. It's immigration today, it was CRT yesterday, it will be ESG, look that up tomorrow.

They consistently push us against the wall. We have no compelling alternative narrative. And that's on all of us.

Gavin Newsom, in the midst of ripping, trying to get famous and try to take on DeSantis and set up a matchup, a syndicated synthetic matchup with Governor DeSantis or others, went to Texas over the weekend. By the way, I think it's taxpayer dollars to pretend as if that's of interest to the people of California who are overrun with homeless, who, by the way, he has pledged to give all illegal immigrants ID cards. If you think that's a priority for the people of California, it's been a while since I lived out there, but I cannot picture that being the case.

So, Gavin Newsom said something that's kind of the truth. They're actually wiping the floor with them when it comes to these immigration and these other issues because I think the American people. Are seeing what's going on and a little bit taken aback by it. Joining us now to discuss it, Britt Hume, Fox News Senior Political Analyst. Britt, welcome back.

What is Gavin Newsom up to criticizing Democrats?

Well, he conceded Biden is uh is not the choice of of the Democratic Party to run again. And he looks around the landscape and says, why not me? You know, he's got great hair, Uh he's the governor of a big state with a big you know that Gives him a big political base. He's got tons of money that he's raised, which is where I suspect his trip to Texas was. was paid for Uh Yeah.

He's as popular as among liberals, and if he's aggressive, in his approach, as he says he wants to be. A lot of Democrats will look at him and say, What's not to like?

Now, the condition of his state. is sort of an arguable point. Great state, great natural assets, big economy. but all kinds of problems. Huge problems.

If it's on a report card, Britt, you have Governor DeSantis. The Democrats might not like him, but they can't say he's not successful. And you are not. Yeah, his I think his policies have been largely successful in appreciated by them. By the people in Florida and around the country, people looked at how he kept the schools open and the businesses open.

to a much greater extent than other governors did during the p p And that becomes, particularly among conservatives and Republicans, a real point in his favor. Right. And then you have Governor Newsom. Like you said, he looks the part as if you're going to cast a governor from California. But in terms of performance, in terms of the exodus from the state itself, I know he'll probably win California if he runs for president.

But how does he stand on stage and go to bat for what he's done? That's what I find almost mind-boggling to think that he must think he's doing a good job.

Well I think He thinks it. that the the policies that he favors, you know, in immigration and even crime. or that he's tolerating. will sit well with the Democratic electorate. whether how well that would carry in a troubled time, in a And the general election is another matter entirely.

So I want you to hear Jen Saki yesterday on a network appearance. It might be her first. I know she's been on MSNBC, on Meet the Press, talking about where we're at the midterms now. We're six weeks away. And a lot of the abortion's sinking on the importance list.

And crime, inflation, and the economy is rising. Cut six. They also know that crime is a huge vulnerability for Democrats. I would say one of the biggest vulnerabilities. And if you look at Pennsylvania, for example, what's been interesting to me is it's always you follow the money and where are people spending money.

And in Pennsylvania, the Republicans have been spending millions of dollars on the air on crime ads against Federman because that's where they see his vulnerability.

So yes, the economy is hanging over everything, but you do have to look at state-by-state factors, and crime is a huge issue in the Pennsylvania race. And also is the lack of fracking. Basically, Federman won't frack. She went on to say that if it's about President Biden, Democrats know they will lose. I was shocked to see a press secretary, former press secretary, say that.

Mm-hmm.

Well, to use a different role now. And what she says is undoubtedly true. I mean, I spent a fair amount of time in Pennsylvania. And I've seen these ads on Fetterman on crime. He is betterment is out there.

Uh where the buses don't run on punishment and release of murderers from prison and all that. And he's pretty vulnerable on that stuff. He's a very peculiar guy. And his positions he's such a tr in some ways he's such a strange guy with his You know, with his short pants and his and his uh sweatshirts. uh bald head and goatee and all that.

He's a peculiar looking guy. He's I mean you look at him it your first thought is, Ah, United States Senator It's not. And uh and I think he you know and I think to some extent for a time that obscured Uh the fact that the Republicans are trying to bring forward now that he's pretty far left. Hey, Britt, if we go to case by case, when people talk about a red wave, for me, it doesn't seem like the Senate is necessarily as vulnerable to waves. I think matchups make fights, and when it comes to boxing, and a lot of that has to do when it comes to the Senate and their state.

For example, I don't understand Blake Masters is the choice in Arizona within single digits, depending on the poll. And yet, to Senator Kelly, who his resume looks great, but his performance looks terrible. He doesn't really do much. And that you had Mitch McConnell pull out $9 million from his campaign. uh and pour money into J.D.

Vance, who's basically got a four uh two to four point lead. What do you think's behind that? Yeah. Yeah. on his part.

Of where the money will do the most good. toward electing uh Republican Senate. And remember this. He's putting money, as McConnell, into races uh where the candidate i is as someone who's attacked him.

So you know that he's not doing this out of personal peak. You know, while while he's out there spending money to help candidates who have attacked him, Donald Trump, meanwhile, who's endorsed all these people and raised all this money, is sitting on it. He's got to start spending on these guys, whether it's Dr. Oz, who's doing a lot of his own campaign financing, or whether it's J.D. Vance, in particular Blake Masters.

Now, Don Bullduck in New Hampshire is interesting: Trump never endorsed anyone there, but he ran on saying that the election was stolen, and he's a general. And one thing he's done is very similar to Scott Brown. I've understand he's done dozens and dozens of town halls in order to get that nomination. And Chris Sununu is not holding out any bitterness, even though he attacked Chris Sununu. Do you look at Maggie Hassen as vulnerable to a Don Bullduck still?

She's vulnerable, but whether she's vulnerable to Don Bolduk is the question.

Well you know, Baldock is you know, that that Uh election was stolen message. I don't think is is a majority winning places. Yeah. Big help.

Some it can be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tooth. Yeah. Something like that out. When you look at the economy right now, you look at the Dow, two years' gains gone. Inflation still between 8% and 9%.

Housing now under attack. You have a mortgage. People not leaving a 3% mortgage for a 6% mortgage, so sales are going to plummet. Home prices are 72% too, in 72% of homes, they are priced too high.

So an overvalue of homes in places like Austin, Charlotte, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.

So when you see some of these things happening, it's almost as if the housing market is about to be slammed, but it hasn't been slammed yet. What kind of trouble could that be in the next six weeks?

Well, I don't know.

some trouble in the next six weeks, and more than that, it'll be trouble in the next eighteen to twenty four months because if we get the recession that many are predicting and the signs are looking like that could be exactly where we're going, Um it's going to be a murderous environment for Democrats for the next next Cyclist cycle and the next. If I fast forward over to the Ukraine, did you ever expect the Russian army to perform this badly? And did you ever expect two high ranking Russian officials, pro-Putin, to speak out against him and his three hundred thousand activation of what he call reservists, but for the most part are just young males?

Well, I think that the Yeah. Start. clear that the Russian army is not what it was cracked up to be. We saw that in the in the utter failure of the initial thrust toward Kyiv. way back at the start of all this, and they were repelled and humiliated in that effort.

And now we're seeing something that I did I must say I didn't fully expect, which was this Counterattack in these other regions of the country where Russia is being pushed out of section after section, which is really quite remarkable when you think about it. American we advanced weapons have certainly helped. Last minute of play here, Vladimir Putin, from what you could tell, does this have the signs that he's vulnerable now, or do you feel that that is wishful thinking? He's vulnerable, but in a Authoritarian.

somebody out is a hard is a hard thing to do. And and I'm not saying it can't happen because You know, it's We don't have good vision. Russia, inside the political system. Yeah. it's you know, it's pretty closed and we can't we can't really see it very well.

Um, but I w if I woke up tomorrow morning and found there'd been a coup, I wouldn't be stunned. It would be earth-shattering, though. Britt Hume, Foxy Senior Political Analyst, thanks so much, Britt. Appreciate the quality time. Glad to talk to you, Brian.

All right. Let's go over the Ukraine a little bit more. Tens of thousands of young men are exiting the country. The protests are massing up. I could not believe this, but they said there was 40 cities had protests.

At least 1,300 were arrested. Think about the guts it takes to protest. Even here, sometimes it can result in arrest. That's really not going to keep you. If it keeps you from work on Monday, that's pretty earth-shattering.

Here, they can get you killed and put into jail for 10 years and they grab your families, and they still did it. Why? Because they tried to activate Vladimir Putin 300,000 reservists, which means they either are serving, they have a degree of commitment, or they have served. Turns out they don't have 300,000 that have any fundamentals in training. Many of these 300,000 are going to come from, get this, the protesters they're dragging probably by the hair or by the back of the neck or in cuffs into prison.

So they're going to ask them to wear a uniform, get a gun, and shoot Ukrainians. That'll last about an hour. Then they're going to walk over, drop their guns, and go unless they get shot in the back of the head. At the very least, They're not going to be effective. Would you say?

I think so. They're now today voting in the occupied areas of Donbass. Um Donetsk, Luhansk. Kearsan. And Zaporiska, I don't think I pronounced that correctly, but you understand what I'm talking about.

These four areas.

So they're going to vote, and we see these people being not, the Russians are knocking on their doors and they're dragging them out to vote on their behalf.

So they're going to be annexed by Russia, and they're going to act like this is a glorious day. And they're going to pretend as if the Ukrainians go to get that area back, Russia proper is being invaded. Therefore, they can maybe activate the entire country. Good luck with that. 2,500 cards were reported in the Russia-Georgia border on Sunday.

We know they're almost ready to shut down the border that borders Finland and Russia already. And then elsewhere, Kazakhstan also being besieged, and Mongolia. Can you imagine things being that bad in your country? You say, honey, pack the cassation wagon. We're going to Mongolia.

That's how bad it is. This is a historic time. If you look at our enemies in the world, it's Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia. All right? We don't formally say it different degrees.

Agrees, fine. But for the most part, Iran is looking at multiple unrest in multiple cities. Then we're looking at Russia. Falling on their face and embarrassing themselves around the globe. You have a unified NATO for the first time in a long time that added two sophisticated countries with well-regarded armies already into NATO.

And then you have the failing Russian performance that failed to take the capital and now is failing to hold the land they stole. It is down to 15% of the country. And I'm not sure that it's not going to go down quicker to the point where Vladimir Putin is threatening nuclear weapons. Why would you do that? Because you're trying to get people's respect and attention because your army hasn't.

You fired multiple generals.

So many have been killed, 80,000 dead, and you now have to beg 300,000 to fight, and they'd rather leave the country to do it. That is a disaster. For a country that's been trying to put a poker in our eye since Vladimir Putin took over, that we for a while thought we had an ally. That's why we had the G8.

Now we're down to a G7, and all the G7 are against the Russian one. All right, when we come back, I'll take some more phone calls: 1-866-408-7669, and then get your opinion about what's happening. This is the Brian Kilmead Show: Honest commentary, unique opinions, no agenda. It's Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Killmead. I think there is going to be. Such A lambslaughter. Against the traitors, especially the 147 Republicans who just hours after the insurrection voted to not certify the elected president of the United States, Joe Biden. And I think that there is going to be so many people coming out to vote.

I want to thank the Supreme Court. For reminding women that they are, in fact, second-class citizens and taking their rights away like this, I think we could throw out. a huge number of these Republican traders. In November. That was Michael Moore on Bill Maher's show.

And Michael Moore said, you know, Trump is a lot more vulnerable than people thought and was right in 2016. In Michael Moore's world, the January 6th world, the Liz Cheney world, and of Adam Schiff world, if January 6th was the calling card for the midterms, he'd be right. But he's not right. We have moved so far past that. Things are moving so quickly, so much more impactfully.

And the January 6th Committee wants to get the spotlight back, but they can't get the spotlight back. I just don't think, I mean, we know how horrible a day it was. No one's making excuses for it. But for the most part, that's an anomaly. If you look at all the Trump rallies, there's no violence at those rallies.

In fact, most of the Trump people are getting beat up. In Michael Morrill's world, the Adam Schiff world, the Jamie Raskins world, that's where the midterms will go. But it's not. It is decisions on spending when it comes to our economy. It's the Afghanistan withdrawal.

It is the president's continuing. To push a green agenda, which is not America's agenda, by letting the border collapse. Yeah, the advantage for them is run on Donald Trump. And run uh run a Donald Trump. And run on abortion that the Republicans don't like women, which is crazy.

It's returning it to the states. And I think you'll see that. I think he's way off on this, but you know where Michael Moore stands. Trinica. Uh I think that's how you say your name.

Hey, Trinico, what's in your mind over in Arkansas? We're in Bull Shoals, Arkansas. And Brian, I listen to you every morning, eight o'clock till eleven. I don't watch any of the news anymore because you cover it all, buddy. You cover it all.

Anything I need to know, your little commercial is true. I I don't spend any time on the other networks. But as far as the inflation, I have a little Pontiac Vibe two thousand seven, which has a Toyota engine, gets really good miles. Used to fill it up for twenty four dollars an a uh you know, a gallon the full tank.

Now it's 42. Um just finished cooking up twenty pounds of chicken leg quarters to make dog food for my puppies and used to get it for five eighty nine. I paid nine ninety for a ten pound bag.

So things are going up, but what I'm really concerned about is the younger families. My husband and I are both retired, and we have income coming in, but it's sure not going to increase to eight percent to cover the inflation. I feel sorry for the younger families who are struggling. We have a real issue in this country, in our area. And in many areas, with food insecurity, and that is a concern of mine.

But you are right on about the topics, and I appreciate you. Yeah, I mean, thank you so much for the call. How do you say your name, by the way? I think I got it wrong. Renika, I'm a naturalized American citizen.

My mom was Dutch, my dad Canadian. They became American citizens. They sponsored my aunt and uncle from Holland. And other family members sponsored them, made sure they had jobs when they came.

So the immigration issue, but you know, the whole thing, we love immigrants. We love immigrants. But I am concerned. Just do it right. That's all we're asking.

Just do it right. Among those that are coming, I'm really concerned about the fentanyl thing. But let me end up on a happy note. I want you to know that I asked my son who lives in Mississippi, where's Brandon? He said 30 miles from the house.

So then I told Bill, my husband, I said, honey, I want an early Christmas present. And what I would like is to go see my guy, Brian, in Mississippi. And we have tickets, and we shall see you. We're right behind the higher dollar tickets. Brandon, Mississippi.

I appreciate it. I'll make sure to see you, Triniga. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brian Killmead Show, 1-866-408-7669. We're going to be taking your phone calls throughout the hour and then find out if there's indeed more to know. Michael Goodwin standing by from the New York Post, Fox News contributor. We're talking about the midterms with him and so much more, as well as Donald Trump. Donald Trump's got six major court cases coming at him.

I think the biggest phony case, the most synthetic case that makes the president, and you're not going to like this, these people that don't like the president Trump makes him almost a sympathetic figure, is when you see how they took aim at his family and his company, where there's nothing there. This is somebody just trying to get famous, Letitia James. I'll talk to him about that, where he still is, the number one Republican in the country. And that's what the Democrats would like to run on. Don't think they'll be successful.

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 that you're actually seeing it in Iran, you're seeing it in Russia, you're seeing it in China. People are rising up. All of them have anti-American sentiment.

Kind of encouraging to see the countries that are most anti-American having as much trouble. It's not so bad over here, but compared to it. That is Vivek Ramaswamy on with Bill Maher last week. Yeah, actually on Friday night. Historic opportunities.

That's how I see it for America as we watch the riots crop up in Russia and Iran for the horrific abuses of their own people, as well as Russia in particular losing this war in Ukraine. Number two. When you ask registered voters what issue is at the top of that list and you see inflation and the economy, that all points to an extraordinary set of challenges for Democrats trying to keep the House and the Senate. Rachel Scott weighing in from ABC, the economic thunderclouds are gathering as we are all feeling it and seeing it, even if the Biden administration does not acknowledge it. The polls are in, and the numbers on housing, stocks, and inflation are overwhelmed abortion.

We'll discuss. Number one. The key numbers that I looked at was the president at 36 on its approval rating. 74% of the people in the poll said the economy is bad. It's the top issue to 84% of the people.

That's all bad news for the Democrats in that poll. Six weeks into the midterms, and Dems are getting devastating numbers as President Biden's approval drops from under 40% now and the Republican Party gains substantial trust on crime, immigration, and the economy. What does it mean for the red wave? We'll break it down for you with Michael Goodwin. Michael, welcome back.

Good morning, Brian. Thank you. I think people are ⁇ I just find these numbers coming in overwhelming for Republicans this weekend, and ABC is trying to run from their own poll. I mean, this is ⁇ it's so crazy. They go, yeah, by the way, president's approval rating under 40%.

Try 39%. And last week, I believe the NBC had it 45%. How do you explain this?

Well It's almost impossible to explain unless you believe that the poles are being cooked. That there's some oversampling going on among Democrats or something else. I mean, I write about. the a poll on the migrant flights that Reuters did. And Brian, I've read a lot of polls, I've seen a lot of polls, I've never seen anything quite like this one.

Reuters tested that the Republican governors flying the migrants to the blue cities and states to say, hey, let's have a wake-up call here, let's get the White House to secure the border. Reuters does a poll that says Twenty nine only one-third support uh the migrant flights. But when you look inside the poll, it says that only 29% support it, but only 40% reject it, disapprove, right? 29%, that's the third they're talking about. That makes it seem like two-thirds then disapprove of the Republicans.

In fact, only 40% do. And Reuters does not mention the other thirty one percent. It just says 29 For the flights, 40 against. No mention of the remaining 31%. What the heck kind of poll is that?

Then it's an online poll. Right? And I broke down the s they give you the sample size, 1,000 people roughly. forty six percent of whom were Democrats. And much smaller sampling size for Republicans.

And you look at what Gallup says about the national preference, Democrats, Republicans. In the fourth quarter of twenty-one, There was actually a Republican advantage among Independents and Republicans versus Democrats and Independents.

So where Reuters gets off doing a poll, Counting 46% Republicans, Democrats, and I think 35% or 34%. It was a nine-point gap. between Democrats and Republicans, when in reality the gap should favor Republicans right now, in this moment, as you point out in the other polls about the economy. This is a it's a phony poll. It's done by Reuters.

To create the impression that the migrant flights are unpopular. But the poll doesn't support that, but that's how they write their story. And to me, this is emblematic. This is a case study in how the media manipulates the facts. to support the left.

And they try to magnify the left talking points, they distort the the real facts. For example, on the migrant situation, all the attacks on the Republicans for the migrant flights. They never defend the Biden policy.

Well, what about the Biden policy that has allowed in more than four million people in his term in office? I mean, that's the size that's bigger than Los Angeles. I mean, it's extraordinary what's happening on the border and how the media is distorting it. And I think that's a good idea. And by the way, guess who also knows that?

Listen to Beto Rourke on this topic, cut to. Candidate Biden didn't spend a dime or a day in the Rio Grande Valley or really anywhere in Texas for that matter once we got down the home stretch of the general election. You gotta be locking eyeballs with the people that you want to fight for and serve and whose votes that you want to win. Yes, I mean, he's panicking because he was missed to take down the wall.

Now he realizes this is a terrible development when you have seven million people coming here illegally through Texas and you want their vote when you've done nothing to help them. Yeah, look, and I think what the Republicans, the Republican governors, Ducey, Abbott and DeSantis, what they've successfully done is get the country's attention on the border. And that's why people like Reuters are trying to shut it down, because they see that their Reuters calls Biden's border policies, quote, more welcoming, end quote. Yes, more welcoming, right. That's what a benign description of an open border.

And yet, The media continues to try to demonize these Republican governors. because they see it as a threat. And that's why I think, look, the Democrats are running on two things. Donald Trump's a bad guy and abortion is a good thing. That's their fundamental appeal to voters.

And as you say, when you hear people talk about the economy, about inflation, how even wage gains have been wiped out by inflation, I mean, this inflation stuff is simply remarkable when you look at the price of everything. It is incredible. It's like all this other stuff for small cuts on the arm. Wow, that hurts. But when you have inflation, it cuts right through the heart.

And it doesn't matter what you say. It doesn't matter your marketing scheme. It doesn't matter a slick commercial. Because I go, wait a second, what's going on? I'm having trouble meeting my utility bills, bills that have doubled.

Gas, when I'm living paycheck to paycheck, is now more expensive. And you're telling me, look how less it was from how high it was. And then you say, and then you look around and say, crime is an issue in my area. I don't feel comfortable letting my kids go out at night. I don't feel comfortable in New York City anymore.

I am a cop. I'm no longer appreciated. I mean, when you no longer can afford to keep that same job without getting another, I'm looking at the president's approval rating.

So it's now at 39%. Only 22% strongly approve his performance. That's abysmal. And when you have his economy, only 36% approve of the way he's handling the economy. This is a disaster.

So yet, everyone talks about issues when it comes to abortion. It's really two-thirds are against what the Supreme Court ruled overruling Bro v. Wade.

Okay, that's fine. That's seventh. It's now the seventh most important issue. And I just felt this week in particular, there was discordance between what the numbers were saying and what they wanted us to believe. And I think you're realizing that too.

They're desperate to make Donald Trump an issue. And I think these reporters are cheering for this January 6th hearing to steal the headlines. How dare they? I thought they were supposed to investigate what happened. Why are they trying to steal the headlines and produce another TV show?

Yeah, look, I mean, that's what they want. They want a democratic government. They want a government that will arrest its opponents. that will do whatever it can to shut down dissent. That's what the media wants, which is Brian, one of the great changes in our country, great being large.

that the media used to be for free speech. That's what it it it knew that the First Amendment is what gave it a right to to say and do what it did every day.

Now the media has become censors. They've now side with big tech and big government in censoring points of view. I mean, it's an extraordinary change in our society that's having huge impact. And I don't think enough people really appreciate what has happened to the media in America.

So one thing is pretty clear, the Department of Justice has radicalized and politicized the FBI. The FBI used to have one person who was appointed, and he got a 10-year term or she, to not be a political figure.

Now, these people that are placed and picked and put into the FBI and the Washington Bureau has politicized the agents.

Now they're suffering from that. And then you brought up something else in your column that no one's talking about, and I want to make sure we do. And that is the anti-Semitic behavior as Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, called out by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, but almost nobody else. There used to be a time when someone like Senator Schumer, according to reports, is Jewish, would be offended by that. Why are they silent about anti-Semitism?

Well Look, let's face it, there's a real anti-Semitic caucus within the Democratic Party to leave Elon Omar and a handful of others. And they are they are not just criticizing Israel, they're anti-Semites. And that's who they are. And the Democratic Party is afraid to offend them. No kidding.

That is, again, one of the great mysteries, Brian, why Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Schumer have given so much power to the radicals in their party. Talib and Omar are two of the radicals, but AOC on socialism stuff. Bernie Sanders, head of the budget committee. I mean, this is ridiculous. And I think that they have stolen the Democratic Party, and the so-called moderate leaders have let them do it and had participated in it.

It's one of the great mysteries. It's why Joe Biden is so unpopular. His policies are unpopular. People still have a sort of affectionate feeling for him, which I think is misguided. Nonetheless, it is because they know him.

He has crafted this image of the lunch pail guy and all of that. Yeah but But in fact, he's been the architect of this disastrous policies. He continues to Support them, to go out there and say them. His MAGA, MAGA, MAGA speech in Philadelphia was the most divisive, polarizing speech you can imagine. Uh Yet he still The president.

And so I think the public is beginning to wake up. To these deep, deep things that are of change that are rippling through the government. I mean, it's now the Democrats love the FBI but hate the police. Uh I mean, go figure that one out. Right, but the problem is now they want to pretend they like the police because they realize they've lost the law and order vote, and they lost any man or woman in blue should never vote for a Democrat, probably wound outside that idiotic sheriff in Texas.

And now you have people who are related to cops not voting for them, and then you have retired cops not voting for them. They know who wanted to reimagine police, and they're desperate by putting this bill through the House. They said they put a bill through to help police in local and large cities. No one buys it. It's not going to pass.

It's all symbolic. And we'll see. If there was a big push in this country to defame and dethrone and dishonor police, they'd love it. But they realize they lost that when people lost their security. I'm fascinated to see if Democrats are to lose.

They earned it. It's not that Republicans had a great message. They had a normal message. Let's not make it impossible to make a living. And let's not destroy the borders, not even crackdown.

Let's not destroy the border. Let's not destroy inner cities. Let's not tell cops to go home. And that's the Republican message. They don't have any brilliant orator.

And I know you agree with me on this, but I looked at Barack Obama regardless of what you thought of his policies. He's unbelievably talented. Bill Clinton is an unbelievable communicator. I don't care if you loved everything or nothing. You just respected their talent.

I thought George Bush is relatable. Even though he came from a very famous family, he was an average guy that worked in oilfields. He was part of Texas. He wasn't a Connecticut guy. Having said all that, I see no talent in Joe Biden.

I don't see any likability. If you ever notice when he gives a speech, even when he gets applause, he interrupts and says, No, no joke. I'm not hyperbole. Yeah, it's not hyperbole. He doesn't even have to take a pause.

I find him totally unlikable. And the fact that he lies, especially about his son, with and just was able to do that so so easily makes me wonder what else he's lying about that way you haven't even thought to ask.

Well, I think in many ways Joe Biden is a creature of government. I mean if you were designing a person who was bathed and born and bathed And raised and lived in government for their entire life, that would be Joe Biden. And look at him. I mean, there's a surface. Appeal, but then underneath it, there's corruption, there's dishonesty.

Right, that there's clear racism in his past. Uh all of these things you know, are to me emblematic of a government life. And this is what he has. He has a government life. And he will never change.

He will never be the architect of a kind of freedom and a kind of thriving liberty that America aspires to and that the Constitution gave us. He will always, I think, distort. And his constant embrace of bigger and bigger and more coercive government is really quite something. I mean, that's well beyond Barack Obama. Michael Goodwin, read his columns, watch him on Fox.

The New York Post columnist, Michael Goodwin, thanks. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Hey, welcome back, everybody. We're going to be talking with. Dan Hoffman, a former CIA station chief in Moscow, Iraq, Pakistan, and South Asia. We've got to talk about all the arrests that's taking place in Iran, as well as what's happening in Russia, including the war that's fighting. And they are finding killing field after killing field, and they're finding kids tortured.

That's what these people are made of. These Russian absolute mutants, these officers in charge, the people that were able to survive, the generals that weren't killed, have ordered some of these done.

So they go, and if they can't beat the Ukrainian soldiers head to head, they'll just kill innocent people who are unarmed.

So we'll talk about that and talk about what's happening in Iran. They say this unrest is already greater than 2008 unrest.

Well, is it possible for them to be more than just Angry people speaking up. Is it possible that they could actually get a new government out of this? And how is it feasible and plausible for us to continue to negotiate with Iran on a nuclear deal that they were already breaching before we pulled out of it? with Russia leading the charge on behalf of Iran and the West. No joke.

We'll talk about that and then we'll end with more to know. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmey Show.

So glad you're here. Don't forget, go to BrianKilme.com to have a chance to see me on stage talking about history and perspective as well as what's going on in the news in Brandon, Mississippi, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Those people who don't come to referendum, you know, Russians can turn off their electricity and won't give them an opportunity to live a normal human life.

They force people, they throw them in prisons, they. force them to come to these pseudo-referenda. That is Vladimir Zelensky speaking to CBS through a translator, obviously, coming out talking about what life is like on occupied Russia as they try to annex four key areas in the Donbass region, which they don't even control. They're forcing them to have a phony referendum. You see these people being pulled out of their houses, being forced to vote.

Daniel Hoffman joins us now, former CIA station, CIA station chief, served in Moscow, Iraq, Pakistan, just about everywhere that's bad. Daniel, welcome back. What is your take on the state of affairs right now in this Donbass region, this phony referendum? What's the point? Yes, so I just put out a column on Fox News.

Putin is on the ropes. U.S. and NATO must call us bluff with three lines of support.

So folks who are interested can go to the Fox News website and take a look at it. But Really, as General Milley has said, that Ukraine has seized the strategic initiative. And after their blistering counteroffensive in Kharkiv, they are threatening Russia in the Donbas. They're threatening to take back Crimea. And Vladimir Putin has kind of run out of options.

And so what he's done is he's mobilized three hundred thousand of reservists for the first time since the Second World War. He's threatening the world that he might use some of his 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and we can talk about that in more detail if you like. Um And then he's got these referenda. He's essentially illegally annexing four regions of Ukraine to make them Russian territory with the hopes that he'll deter the Biden administration from providing the military equipment, especially long range tactical missile systems that Ukraine needs to take the fight to Russia.

So, number one, before he even uses them, I think one of the biggest stories is the 300,000 so-called reservists. It has caused a panic inside Russia, it seems. Thousands are streaming towards the borders. He's been rebuked by two high-ranking allies in the Politburo, which I know is just ceremonial these days, like the House of Lords. But he got rebuked saying this is not acceptable.

And plus, they're not even reservists. They have no experience, it seems. They're actually taking protesters and forcing them to go in the army. What kind of soldiers would protesters be? Yeah, so the the problem for Vladimir Putin is now he's allowed the war to come to Mother Russia.

And he was very popular when Russia illegally annexed Crimea and used some of their irregular forces, Wagner Group and others. To fight in the Donbass back in 2014. But now the war is coming home, and that's why you're seeing all these people. Um You know, I was talking with some friends about this and it reminded me of that last scene from Animal House when everybody's just gone kind of pandemonium in the streets there and people are just trying to go someplace, get out. You know, sorry for the Blutarski reference, but man, you know, when I was in Russia, we used to talk about all the things that are just unimaginable that you could never have predicted.

This is a major risky step for Vladimir Putin. domestically, he's risking a lot. He knows he can kind of snuff out his domestic more liberal opposition. That's why he's doing it. The real threat to him are his ultra nationalist hawks who believed that Russia would topple the Ukrainian government in three days in their so called special military operation.

It never happened. And so Putin knows that he's at risk for potentially even losing his grip on the Kremlin if he doesn't Satisfy their need to take Ukraine. And this isn't going to go anywhere. These guys aren't going to wind up in Ukraine for months. It doesn't do anything about the logistical challenges that the Russians have or the morale, which is, as you noted, has hit rock bottom.

Look, um This military adventure by Putin is a humanitarian catastrophe. The more he loses, the more those losses accelerate for the Russian military, the more dangerous Putin gets because he's just backed into a corner.

So the president's order drew widespread protests. 1,300 Russian protests were 1,300 protesters were detained. When there were outbreaks in 40 cities, thousands of Russians have also been attempting to flee the country. They're trying to go to Finland, obviously, Mongolia, Kazakhstan. They're just trying to get, they're running into Georgia over the weekend.

Tens of thousands of young men exiting the country because they don't want to be in the draft. And some of them we actually interviewing on camera were seeing them through translators saying, you got to be kidding me. 2,500 cars reported at the Russia-Georgia border on Sunday alone.

So we've never seen anything like this. But I thought, Dan, you'd be the perfect person to put it in perspective. Do you have an idea how vulnerable he actually is? Where at The point where he can fire generals, fire defense secretaries, or whatever the Analogy is in their system. But now at some point, he's running out of people to fire.

He's got 80,000 dead. He's now on the run in a lot of these regions. They're dropping their uniforms, leaving their equipment. The Ukrainians are picking him up. How vulnerable is he from losing power?

That is the big question for the intelligence community. And remember, you know, when Russia's gone to war, And 1905, 1917, those losses wound up in revolution. Stalin knew that and was so concerned about it that he mounted a massive purge and killed 25 million of his own people, knowing full well that his generals and his intelligence officers would be the greatest threat to him. Putin knows that. It's his own inner circle.

It's his minister of defense and those under him. And it's his FSB director, Bortnikov, and the National Security Advisor, Patrashev. Those three are really key. And look, there were hundreds of attempts to kill Hitler back in the day. None succeeded.

I'm sure that Russian senior officials are thinking about it with Putin, and he's a very cagey operator, and he's going to make it hard on them. Whatever they're doing, though, is so incredibly secret and so opaque. It's very difficult for us. even in our intelligence community to track that. And we could be surprised by a succession crisis where somebody winds up with control over the Russian nuclear the nuclear arsenal.

And it might be somebody worse than Vladimir Putin, frankly, if one of those right-wing nationalists, ultra-nationalist hawks. uh succeeds in overthrowing Vladimir Putin, you could be faced with an even more cataclysmic um Humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, they may not hesitate to use tactical nuclear weapons, although there are questions about whether the what the command and control is, whether anyone would actually take Putin's orders.

So all I can tell you is that the situation in Russia and in Ukraine day by day just gets more dangerous for the region and beyond. What should we do? Do you think that now's the time to give them everything they need? I know you were in that camp earlier, but now really go for the kill? There's three things this the Biden administration needs to do.

First of all, own the narrative. The territory that Russia is now illegally annexing, that's Ukrainian. It is Ukraine. It's always going to be Ukrainian. And if Ukraine wants to fight for that territory and they do, we should give them all the weapons they need.

And we're not. We're not giving them the weapons with the range they need. The Hymars only have a range of about 50 miles. There are these Army tactical missile systems with a range of 200 miles. The Biden administration is not given Ukraine, and they should.

You're absolutely right. We need to give Ukraine all the weapons they need. Third thing we need to do is to go back channel with all of our contacts in the Russian government, in their foreign ministry, their intelligence services, their military, and emphasize, as Jake Sullivan did, National Security Advisor over the weekend and on the TV shows, that any Russian use of weapons of mass destruction, whatever that might be, will be met with a you know will be met with catastrophic consequences. The U.S. will take action.

I think we should consider Article 5 if Russia Russia launches a nuclear attack in European Territory. And remember, too, that Ukrainian forces are not coalesced in a way that any tactical nuclear weapon is going to cause them a lot of damage, but it would cause massive damage. To civilians and to Russian soldiers as well. But hey, Vladimir Putin's never hesitated to throw his own under the bus and put them in a position to be killed on his behalf.

So we have to factor in the likelihood that that might happen. But only by taking the fight to Russia and winning will we reduce the likelihood, I know that sounds counterintuitive, of this getting even worse. The longer it goes on, the potential for even worse stuff happening grows. Absolutely. So I do want Germany to start paying their way and start providing what they promised, as well as France and others.

I know the UK has been strong, but I'm hearing terrible things about Germany not coming across with anything.

Meanwhile, it just makes no sense to me because the quicker this ends, the better off they are of getting energy back, but not from Russia, hopefully. I want to get to Iran before you go. Ellie Kohanan is one of the many Iranian refugees in our country. She talked about what's going on there and what we could be doing. Cut 30.

Jake Sullivan and Joe Biden, they have it exactly wrong. Right now, the people of Iran are out on the streets risking their lives protesting. They are calling for the death of the Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader. They are demanding regime change, basic human rights and freedom. And in essence, they're letting America and President Biden know that this regime has no legitimacy at home.

And our point was stop negotiating. this new deal and just support us. To their credit, they're not doing what Obama did, which was nothing, but they are saying that they're condemning because this woman got killed because she wasn't wearing a hijab right, they killed her. They said she died of a heart attack. No one believes that.

So that's what really started these protests against the morality police, which is just terrible by description.

So what do you think is happening on the ground?

Well, look, we're seeing the most significant protest since the green movement in Iran. We've seen reportedly, it's very hard to track all these figures, but Hundreds killed. Thousands arrested. And let's be clear: the protests, the spark was this poor woman who was brutally murdered because her hair was out of place. Uh but really the protests are are coalescing around uh the people's Anger.

over the corruption that that they see in Iran and their poorly functioning economy.

So you could argue that now's not the time to give them a way out economically and open up all sorts of opportunities by eliminating sanctions for this corrupt regime. uh to take in more money and use it uh on you know their proxy terrorists that they arm to fight against us, like Lebanese Hezbollah and all the proxy terrorist militants in Iraq who are doing their bidding against the government of Iraq and against us as well. But is there more that we could do? Absolutely, there's more that I think the world can be doing right now, and we shouldn't be deterred from doing it. This is why Iran wants nuclear weapons, frankly, because they want to be able to have control over the region to launch those terrorist attacks.

It's a revolutionary government. They want to bring that revolution to the region and beyond. And they also want to ensure that no one can interfere with their domestic affairs. We should be doing absolutely the opposite. Why do you think we got the Abraham Accords?

Because we agreed on one thing in particular: that Israel's not the problem, Iran was. And the president just doesn't see it that way. It's so frustrating. Daniel Hoffman, thanks so much. Go to foxnews.com and check out Dan's column.

Thanks, Dan. Thank you. All right. Listen, when we come back, we'll find out if it's indeed a need to know more. What are you doing Expanding your knowledge base.

It's the Brian Killmeat Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Joe. We've got to stop this and realize the power that we have right now. We're going to get two to five new Democratic senators after this election come November.

I really, truly believe that. I believe we're going to keep the House. I think the pundits are all wrong. They're wrong so many times.

Well, that is Michael Moore, and that's what he believes on Bill Maher. And I would believe that, too, if I hung out with the people that Michael Moore hangs out with. He believes January 6th is what this election is all about. January 6th, as bad as it is and preventable as it was, has almost a negligible effect despite the January 6th hearings and the efforts of Liz Cheney and company and Adam Kinzinger, both of which I was very friendly with, were always great to interview on the show, but I think they have Trump derangement syndrome. And whatever goes on, it's not about January 6th.

Maybe if the economy was better, or somewhat like it has been in the past, and there wasn't an Afghanistan withdrawal the way it was, and you didn't see crime rising the way it is, and you suddenly weren't alerted to the fact that the mainstream independents and Democrats weren't alerted to the fact of the collapse of our border. Possibly January 6th, we got bored and might want to focus on that, but that's in Michael Moore's world, in Hollywood's world, in Democratic circles, the Jamie Raskin. Group. Good luck with that. I'll keep that.

I'm more than willing to say I'm wrong if that happens, but they're not losing the house. As of now, the election was today, but who knows what's going to happen around the corner? Let's find out if there's more to know. More. To know.

Hey, NASA said to crash into an asteroid on purpose. They're set to slam a spacecraft into it. As the Wall Street Journal push notification said, this is not a movie. Why it matters? It is possibly a large space rock that could be found heading towards our planet.

Why take chances? What's happening? The first of its kind mission. It's called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. It marks the first true test of whether or not NASA can one day be able to push a potential dangerous asteroid off a collision course with us.

We don't want to end up like the dinosaurs. I think we all agree on that. Do we even know what wiped Eric or Pete? Do you know what wiped out the dinosaurs? Was it an asteroid?

Do we agree on this? I think we do. I think it was an asteroid, and then, you know, there was a whole bunch of volcanic activity that made it warm too.

So the asteroid was the killing blow. Or else everything was going great for the dinosaurs until that asteroid? From what I understand. From what you know.

So where did it hit exactly? It's Grand Canyon? That's my bet. Big one. That hit in Mexico, the Achiksalub crater.

You think so? I know so.

So that's where it happened. That's where we lost the Trinosaurus Rex and the T Rex and the Brontosaurus? I believe so. Yeah, down there in that um in that um peninsula. Wow.

Let's hope that doesn't happen again. Do we agree on that? Yeah, I hope so. All right. The collision is expected at 714, so hold your ears.

Next, Nostradamus, my favorite predictor of things since Gene Dixon's passing. A book sales is skyrocketing after a prediction that Queen Elizabeth would die at 96.

Now, the book is interpreting the prophecies of the 16th century French astrologer Nostradamus. It is flying off the shelves again. The book, Nostradamus, The Complete Prophecies for the Future, was published in 2005 and is an interpretation of Nostradamus' Less Prophecies. Remember the late Great Planet Earth?

Well, they are predicting that she would die at 96 because, but this is what they're saying: that Prince Charles will abdicate his throne, and someone totally surprising will take over. Why? Because they disapproved of his divorce, a man who later they considered unworthy. The people will force out the king of the islands. Men will replace him who never expected to be king.

See, the problem with this is. The kings have no power. We don't care about the king and queen. It's ceremonial. It's like a reality show.

Yeah, and then when Will Stradamas was alive, people cared about kings and queens. I mean, these vague, vague predictions. And now, do you really think Prince Harry is going to become the king? They're going to go over his brother? He doesn't even want to go back to England.

No. He's got to worry about his own, you know, being here in America with his brother. What was Nostradamus' last name? Anderson? Johnson?

Probably. I think it was one name like Cher. Cher, thank you. Um. Or or uh who's uh who's the one who's having tax problems?

Sh uh Shakira. Could be Shakira. Yes. Dr. Dama Shakira.

Next. Dolphins hold up despite some hilarious. There was another butt punt. Did you guys see this? Yes.

Here's what he caught. They punted it right into this guy, punted it right into somebody else's butt. Late in the game, 21-19, in the 21-19 win over the Bills. Dolphins punter Thomas Moorstead punted the ball off the butt of Trent Sherfield. Is this bigger than Mark Sanchez?

Let's listen. This is risky. It is, oh my goodness, blocked indeed. And we just told you. He's only had one blocked in 14 years, and that was number two.

And look at where it comes in the game. And 18 seconds left, no timeouts left. That's when it happened. Did you see the Bill Dorsey meltdown at the end of the game? I saw that.

What can he do? I mean, they lost one game to the Dalphins. Dolphins are going to be good, right? Yep.

So much. Hey, quarterback two can play. Everyone says this guy can't play. Everyone's going to find out about it. They want to trade it.

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