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So glad you're here. 1-866-408-7669. Alan West at the bottom of the air. We're going to delve into the border situation, which is getting worse by the day, and the administration cannot ignore it anymore. And I think that's good news overall.

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I'm a Democrat. And they need to understand they own it now. They own it now. And they have to take the steps to correct this. Otherwise, when are we going to see an end to this?

Uh that is Henry Koyar. He's a Democrat and he's had it. Because his community is at the border in Texas. Border wars, illegals flooding the border, as New York's mayor finds his 10th city of illegals literally flooded.

Now they have to be not disbanded, but pushed over to Randall's Island. And where's the president on this, MIA? Good news is this can't last because now he and his party are paying a political price. Number two. Despite the fact that Putin is going to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops, many of them are going to be physically and mentally unfit, not ready to go fight and die in Ukraine on the battlefield.

That is General Jack Keene. That is the honest assessment of what's happening in the battlefield, the Russian retreat. Ukraine's making remarkable gains as Russia's forces begin to fall apart. And Putin's massive draft has been falling apart as well. Number one.

Joe Biden's approval rating on inflation among independents is 21%. Congress's approval rating is 14%. Everybody knows which party controls Washington right now and they want to change. They do. Kellyanne Conway on Larry Kudlow last night, 2022, swinging the red way, showing the crime and inflation and a broken border matter more than Trump and Roe.

Plus, we look at both parties, how they're handling the aftermath of Ian and Fiona. Yesterday, the president said something totally bizarre. He goes to Puerto Rico.

Now, one thing we understand, too, and I got a quick. uh Puerto Rico one-on-one exam with President Trump. President Trump said, I'm looking at how it corrupts this Republican governor's And Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth is. We give money to them. But where does the money go?

Every time they get hit by a natural disaster or need something, we give the money. But does it go to the wrong peer and to the right people? The answer is no.

So the president said, I'm not giving you a blank check. You have to understand that your Commonwealth is a country. And if you're going to give you money, if taxpayer money, you got to actually be accountable to it.

So the President of the United States didn't like that, the current President.

So he wanted to do the opposite. He goes, I'm just going to give you all the money you want. At which time, as usual, he goes too far and goes ahead and says, while he's in that country, goes ahead and tells everyone where exactly he stands in terms of the hurricane. He can relate to the people of Puerto Rico because, I don't know, he's in Delaware and there's Puerto Ricans there. Cut thirty one.

I come from a little state, the little state of Delaware. It's not like the congresswoman from New York, she's in the big state. But we have a very in relative terms large Puerto Rican population in Delaware relative to our population. We have the eighth largest black population in the country, and between all minorities, we have 20% of our state. It's minority.

And so I uh I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home. politically. There's no stat in existence in Delaware that shows this huge Puerto Rican contingent in Delaware, especially when he came of age in the 70s. How does that even make any sense? And you could see, of course, this is radio, the first lady looking very uncomfortable as he clearly was off script.

And basically, he was barely intelligible.

So when he talks about running again. If he's running again and things are going smoothly and his policy is implemented and you can make a judgment on him, oh, it doesn't matter about age. No, Bernie Sanders would not be elected or unelected because of age. But this guy is falling apart before our eyes, making stuff up that doesn't happen, making no sense when he's off script, and sometimes when he's reading scripts, like, for example, calling out people that he's eulogized, like Jackie. Kamela Harris, when asked about Hurricane Aid Relief, never misses an opportunity to bring up race.

Or inequity, CUD 32. It is our lowest-income communities and our communities of color. that are most impacted. By these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. Absolutely.

And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place. Is that is that so I mean besides Inaccurate. It's so disheartening to see a person emerge as a vice president at a young age, 50-something, and think that she's got this promising career as attorney general and senator and be this inept all the time and to bring up race all the time. I mean, it'd be different if it's Al Sharp than you expected, and it's disappointing when he does it because an activist with influence could be so much more productive. But to see Kamala Harris bring this up again, it just welcomes.

It was this, even on the Sunday shows, Rick Scott was smart enough to bring up an equity. Listen, number one, when people got slammed in Fort Myers, you know the people who got hit the hardest are people by the ocean. If you've looked at a real estate, get Zillow. Go ahead, log on, it's free. And look at the most expensive homes by the ocean.

The richest people own homes by the ocean. They got destroyed by the ocean. Yeah, some people living paycheck to paycheck or in affordable housing might be in a trailer park, but they're not. And unequally affected by natural disasters, but she has to bring it up and has everybody nodding and clapping along with her, except for the normal clear-thinking people who know when it comes to natural disasters, no one's saying, you know, give it to the white people, don't give it to the Asians, don't give it to the Hispanics or the blacks. Here's Governor DeSantis, CUD 33 on this.

I think she's trying to play identity politics with a storm and a natural disaster. And I think it's ridiculous. And honestly, we had the FEMA administrator in Florida with us, and she threw cold water on that.

So that is not going to happen. It's totally not appropriate. You don't have to politicize every single tragedy in this country. And I think people, I tell you, in Florida are really sick of the nonsense. They just want people to be helped.

They want everyone to band together. And they want us to get these communities back on our feet.

So that's what we're doing in Florida. Yeah, and so far, I think the governor has confronted a CNN reporter, had a problem with him, and the fact that he didn't give Lee County enough time to evacuate. He said, Where were you located? And she said, Well, Tampa. He said, Well, that's where everybody was located.

That's where the weather was supposed to hit. We had a few hours to get into Lee County to get out. And there's certain people in Lee County who have survived every storm and we're not going to listen to any governor, Republican, Democrat, or in between, or family member. They're just not going to leave. And they quickly say, Well, you know, why didn't you get Lee County out quicker?

You might want to get a story, but you also might want to be accurate. Let it be. The key that's going to decide what this hurricane will mean politically to anyone is how quick they can get aid and get people back to living their lives again. I'm not saying they got to build their house, but give them a place to live while they build their house or allow them to get to the aid necessary to allow them to rebuild their lives.

Some are just going to fly out and say, This is my second home. I'm not going to live there. Fine. But for those who have a primary residence, where are they going to go? How quick can the information be?

How digestible can it be? How quickly people understand. I do want to talk politics now as it relates to all this because the newest polls are coming out and it's looking terrible for Democrats. And it's not because Republicans have been great, it's because the issues and the facts on the ground and in life are so terrible. Six out of every 10 of you listening to me right now are living paycheck to paycheck.

That is nothing to be ashamed of, but it's a factor when you go to fill up your gas tank. It's a factor when you pay your utility bills. It's a factor when you go out to eat. It's a factor when you look at your paycheck and see it's not going any further. It's a factor when you go shopping or decide not to buy things because your paycheck doesn't go as far.

You just don't have the surplus. Or you use credit card cash advance to pay off a bill which you know is the wrong thing to do, but you want to be able to keep the lights on.

So that's when people aren't saying, what about Roe v. Wade and what about Donald Trump? Really? Can we worry about 2024 when it happens? Molly Hemingway weighed in, cut seven.

You know, we used to say that the media were the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. It's probably more fair now to say that the Democrat Party is the political arm of our corporate media. They understand very well that there was stagnation during the Obama era, that the Trump presidency did have great economic heights, peace breaking out across the world, a border that was on its way to becoming secure, all these issues.

Now we're back with Biden that's sort of like the Obama term, third term. And so they know these things, but their job, they don't think, is to report accurately about what's happening either domestically or internationally. They think their job is to preserve political power for them and their allies. And here's the problem.

So, if you are one of those media outlets that says we're going to pretend the gas prices aren't too high, we're going to focus on the 50 cents they left. We're not going to focus on the last week and a half that they've gone up. All right, let's not focus on the West Coast with the average price. Leave is ridiculous. The average cut in California is now $6.38.

They have an increase of almost $5 in the last year. Nevada is at $5.48. Oregon, $5.3.43.

So we're not going to focus on the fact that a lot of it's because you're trying to green up the gasoline to make it burn, which you allege is quicker, that you put taxes in there to dissuade people from actually buying new gas-powered cars.

So all those people going through that, we won't report that. But the thing is, we don't need the media for that. You don't need me for all this stuff. You don't say, well, wait a second. The gas prices seem high, and so do the food bills.

I wonder what Brian thinks. No, it doesn't matter what I think.

So by not reporting it or saying it's better than it is, you lose credibility. That's on you. That's pretty much why, in my unprofessional opinion, but I live it, is people aren't turning to other outlets. It's not because they're voting red or blue, it's because there's no credibility or interesting things going on, and it's an insult a lot of times. To what you think.

So, when we come back, I want to talk about what's happening in Ukraine and Russia. For the longest time, people didn't care. They're zoning in now. Why? Vladimir Putin has tried to annex four regions he doesn't control, number one.

Number two, he's threatening a nuclear war. That's kind of interesting, don't you think? And NATO's expanded by two countries. Both those countries might be in the eye of the storm. And what happens if they do use nukes?

David Petraeus weighed in over the weekend, causing many people, including on the right, kind of upset where we're heading with this conflict. My opinion. About Ukraine and Russia, I think it's really valid if you understand the history of Europe in particular. And believe it or not, even Western Europe. who majors in doing nothing.

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Do we take that seriously? Of course, given the nature of the weapons. but the probability of that is low. Why? Because he knows full well that will expand the war.

That brings the United States and NATO into the war as a result of the use of a nuclear weapon inside of Ukraine, and that guarantees. that Putin will lo lose the war. And by the way, what they found out in the New York Times says this story, Yahoo picked it up, that when it comes to tactical nukes, I don't know how many experts there are in this world, but you can't really use it, especially near you. You could make an area uninhabitable, but if you use nukes, it could blow up right back into your country. And tactically, you'll kill your own soldiers at the same time.

So, unless you have a suicide wish, but no one says that Vladimir Putin, if anything, is a survivalist, would do that.

So, if Russia did launch nuclear weapons, David Petraeus said, Jake Sullivan, he clearly, by the way, he was talking on ABC, he clearly is in touch with him. He didn't say Jake Sullivan, Nash Security Advisor. He said, when Jake, okay, so obviously he goes by. He didn't ask him what exactly his response would be, should they use nuclear weapons. But here's what he said could happen, would happen, and it has been explained, he believes, to Vladimir Putin, cut 11.

It can still get worse for Putin and for Russia. And even the use of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield won't change this at all. Jake Sullivan has publicly stated that the U.S. has communicated to Russia what would happen in response to that. And what would happen?

Well, again, I have deliberately not talked to Jake about this. I mean, just to give you a hypothetical. Um we would respond by leading a NATO, a collective effort, that would take out every Russian or con Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship on the in the Black Sea fleet.

So you understand? The minute they did it, they would blow up every Russian ship and kill every Russian soldier. most of which have been deployed. The rest are running for the border.

So good luck with that. Which then you're left with this. What's happening on the battlefield? And what's happening on the battlefield, and I'm reading everything. I know that the Washington Post and New York Times are trying to sell us on this war.

I am for this necessary confrontation, but I am not for no accountability when it comes to giving our weapons. And I just think that we should be finding out where this stuff is going and don't give things incrementally. If we're going to commit high mards, do it right away. Going to commit tanks, do it right away. If one of our allies has committed but is not delivering, make them deliver it or embarrass them publicly.

So, give you an idea of what's going on in the key area of Kherson. Ukrainian forces have begun to move. In what a senior Ukrainian mi military official described as the beginning of an active phase of a month-long offensive operation. This is very fertile land. It's the farmland.

It is the Black Sea coast. If the if Ukraine Loses this, they lose their ports, they'll have to be almost totally supplied for all their resources.

So they haven't lost it. They've held on to Odessa, and the area in which they lost first, Kherson, they're beginning to take back. Russia Defense Ministry acknowledged on Monday that Ukraine's tank units have penetrated its line of defense in part of the region. This is the fertile part of the southern Ukraine that the Russian forces seized in the first few weeks.

Now What else is going on? It turns out that The best fighting force of the Cheshnians.

So this guy, Rosman Kordiorov, who is now the strongman leader of Chechnya, is maximizing his poll and knows they can't afford to lose any Chechnyan soldiers because those people actually fight. They said over the weekend they blamed the Russian military leadership. This is a remarkable instance of public infighting within the ruling elite.

So, what are you going to do to them? Really? You got to go put him under house arrest and then lose the whole Chechny army? You got to have some inept Russian military leader threaten to shoot the whole Chechnyans who are basically born to fight? Not going to happen.

So he is trying to bolster his command. He tried to get 300,000. Mobilized and drafted. He says they're reserves. Reserves means they're trained.

They're not trained.

Now we understand the military contription process is a cluster. They said to bolster the battering forces, he set off a nationwide turmoil and said he wanted 300,000.

Now there's massive protests and running for the exits, bringing the war home to many Russians who felt untouched by it.

Now many men have been drafted who are supposed to be ineligible based on the factors like age or disability. On Monday, the governor of this region in the Far East said half of the men called up were called up by mistake, and they told thousands, you can go home. Do you believe this? It is a mess. The second biggest army in the world, the one that should be feared, has not been trained.

They've been bilking off the system. Money that's supposed to go to the military is not there. They're finding Russian troops with one gun between three guys who want to give themselves up and say they haven't been trained at all. This episode is brought to you by Samsung. Unfold the all-new Galaxy Z Fold 4 and expand your world.

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I'm a Democrat. And they need to understand they own it now. They own it now. And they have to take the steps to correct this. Otherwise, when are we going to see an end to this?

That is Henry Quayer, a Democrat, who, instead of listening to him and saying, how do we solve this, Henry? They primary him twice. And he had to go to a runoff to win. And by the way, Republicans support him to their credit. If they would if that left-wing lunatic beat him in the runoff, it would probably be a Republican seat.

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West is with us. He ran the RNC in Texas for a while and knows that well. Welcome back, Congressman Alan West. Welcome. Good to be with you, Brian.

How are you today? Good. Queer knows the deal at the border. Yeah, he does, without a doubt. I mean, he's right there in the major city, Laredo, and that's one of those ground zero points with all of these illegal border crossings and the fact that it's so porous there along the Rio Grande Valley.

So hats off to him for saying what needs to be said and for speaking the truth, because if you look at Robert Francis O'Rourke and all the rest of the Democrats or Progressive Socialists running for office here in Texas, they just continue to deny what everyone knows is happening down there on the border. That is wide open, it is porous, and we're losing the fight against these transnational narco-criminal terrorists known as the cartels. Henry Coyart told Bill Melusian this. That he went up to Mayorkas and he said, What are you doing? And he said, You know what it takes to seal the border.

And the response was this. was The immigration groups got to the president. My hands are tied.

Now, knowing that, that means Mayorkas has lied under oath when he says the border is secure because he knows it, even though Tom Holman has pointed out that he worked under him and Mayorkas knows how to do this. But it shows you this administration sold our sovereignty out to these left-wing groups that hate us. No, you're absolutely right. Not just the left-wing groups, but also this administration is funding these nongovernmental organizations, NGOs, to be down there and basically be the travel agencies for these illegal immigrants. And so the left can be upset with Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis and calling them human traffickers, but the Biden administration is using taxpayer funds to support Catholic charities and some of these other groups to transport illegals all across the United States of America.

I don't hear a peep from them on that. And Mallorca's, you're right, has lied under oath. If he had any semblance of honor, integrity and character, he'd resign from the position. I would hope so.

So meanwhile, we have Mayor Adams here building a tent city in the Bronx, and the people of the Bronx said, What the hell are you doing? It starts to rain. He goes, Okay, I'm moving to Randall's Island. Evidently, AOC is among the people that's been complaining about the illegal immigrants that she wants to welcome at all times by leaving the border wide open and keeping New York a sanctuary city.

Now, listen to Adams. I said Adams could have been a national figure if he was smart enough to call out the administration for endangering his citizens of New York. He could have been, but he's not. Here's what he said, though: beginning to understand that the Democrats have to be called out. Cut 21.

I don't know if you have really picked up what's happening. The far right is doing the wrong thing. The far left is doing nothing. I mean, the silence. I don't believe the silence that I'm hearing.

These are. people in need of services. And I am not hearing from the two ends of the spectrum. Far right is doing what's wrong, far left is doing nothing at all. Right, that's as close as he got to a left-wing rebuke, but it's getting there because he has no choice.

Yeah, the amazing thing is that he has the deer in the headlights look. He has no idea of what to do. And, you know, think about the juxtaposition of AOC with that staged photograph of her down there, you know, on her knees crying at some fence during the Trump administration. And now she's saying, I don't want him in my congressional district, which goes right along with the Martha's Vineyard. And so it just goes, again, to reinforce the hypocrisy of the folks on the left.

Aren't these her Hispanic brothers and sisters that she cared so much about during the Trump administration? And now she's like, get them out of the Bronx.

So, you know, at some point in time, the interests of the American people, not, you know, left-wing groups or not NGOs or whatever, the interests of the American people and the rule of law has to be adhered to. And right now, no one is doing that. And I think that's something that we can all agree on. Yeah, I think we can. I want to bring you to the Ukraine war and the way things have changed on the battlefield.

That's where you spend decades in uniform. I want you to hear what General Petraeus said over the weekend: Cut 17. He's going to continue to lose on the battlefield and at some point there's going to have to be recognition of that. At some point there's going to have to be some kind of beginning of negotiations as President Zelensky has said will be the ultimate end and at some point by the way as well I strongly agree with the idea of Ukraine becoming part of NATO.

So he's talking about what's happening in the battlefield, where the where we know that Vladimir Putin's forces have been blown out of the Kharkiv Oblast region. We know that they're making progress through in the south in the Kherson region. They said that every they're watching the Russians, ill-equipped, either be killed, leave their dead on the by the way, they don't care about their soldiers. They leave their dead on the side of the road in the battlefield. We find them bombed down in houses.

They could not care less about the they just disregard human life in a way in which I didn't think was possible for a 21st-century army. But they're losing everywhere. At which point, if you are Zelensky, do you talk? And at which point, if you are Vladimir Putin, do you understand you can't win?

Well, I think Vladimir Putin is never going to admit that he can't win. That's just the delusion of a dictator. And what you see happening with the Russian troops on the ground, it kind of reminds me of that opening scene from the movie Enemy at the Gates, where they just forced a bunch of Russian conscripts to charge into the German machine guns. And when they tried to run away, the political officers gunned down the Russian conscripts also.

Okay. You know, Chad Robuchow is a very dear friend of mine. He just got back from being on the ground in Ukraine, and he provided a great report to Fox News over the weekend. And we're talking about 18, 19, 20-year-old Russian soldiers. They're terrified.

They don't know who's in charge. They're not getting good leadership. And now the initiative is on the side of the Ukrainians. But the number one thing, and I talked about this before with you, Brian, we have got to get air superiority, air cover, so the Ukrainians do not have Russian MiG fighter jets flying over and continue to bomb them.

So that's the number one thing is to restore control of the Ukrainian airspace. And I don't know why we haven't allowed the Ukrainians to get a hold of MiG aircraft. That's the one thing that they'd like to have. And then also MAN pads, the man-portable air defense systems. I think those are the two critical things.

But Chad told me that the javelin anti-tank missiles are really wreaking havoc upon the Soviet, I mean, Russian armored forces. Awesome, but I want it replenished. We should get those contractors going. We need javelins in our arsenal. We've given them almost all of ours, and that's fine.

I'm supportive. I definitely see the bigger picture here. But there's got to be number one, accountability. When we give you stuff, it gets to the front lines. Number two, we also want to make sure we replenish here.

And there doesn't seem to be any interest in that. I want to bring you to some, and by the way, we have two Russian soldiers was found with only one gun between them. They said the Ukrainian soldiers have encountered hungry, poorly outfitted Russian troops, some with little weaponry to defend themselves. And they have more of these situations where these guys, let alone the new ones that have been conscripted to go in, you think they want to fight? Are you kidding?

The ones that weren't smart enough to get out?

So I want you to hear an exchange I had with John Kirby about an hour ago on Fox and Friends because they are kicking out 20,000 at least American military members who don't want to get vaccinated. Even though the president knows the pandemic's over and told us that. COP19. To invest in our people and train them and then dismiss them for experimental vaccine is folly when you can't recruit. Every one of your branches can't recruit their threshold, yet you're kicking out good men and women.

How do you explain that?

Well, look, Brian, first of all, the Navy did make their recruiting goals for enlisted personnel this year. Yes, it's a tough recruiting environment. We recognize that. But it's also, you have a requirement to be healthy to be able to serve. And this is a valid military requirement.

It's a possible vaccine. And look, even if it doesn't prevent you from getting COVID, I'm double-boosted. I got it myself here just a little bit. That's your decision. It makes the symptoms a lot less severe.

It gets you back on duty.

So it's worth kicking out the healthiest people in our country who are already sacrificing. It's worth kicking them out? Brian. Brian, we would rather not lose anybody, of course, to the vaccine. We'd rather not lose anybody from a retention perspective to have them leave the service earlier than they wanted or we wanted them to.

But it's a valid military requirement. No, it isn't. This is an experimental vaccine that just came off the shelf. You know, it's not valid, and it's risk our national security. Admiral, you are a military officer.

You could talk sense into this White House. I was a military officer. That's why I'm telling you that vaccines are common for you. You can't even join the military without taking about a dozen or so vaccines to make sure that you're healthy so that you can contribute to the unit's success and readiness. We don't want to lose anybody to the vaccine.

They lose anything. Whether they get that vaccine or not, we don't. But, Brian, you've got to have a healthy force. This is a valid health requirement. Health is central to our readiness as a military.

And you're not just about you. What's your thoughts on this? John Kirby is a disgusting embarrassment to have worn the uniform of the United States of America. He doesn't understand his oath. To the Constitution and the rule of law, and what is right and what is not right.

Let me give you a great example of the hypocrisy and the stupidity that John Kirby didn't address and that we saw from Joe Biden. Joe Biden called up and congratulated a rescue swimmer from the Coast Guard by the name of Zach Lesh. And Zach had done countless amounts of recoveries and rescues. Zach Lash is about to be discharged from the United States Coast Guard in one month. because he did not want to take the vaccine.

But that did not have anything to do with him going in and rescuing hundreds of people in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

So uh I would just like to see the person, Joe Biden, the commander-in-chief, Who was shot up with COVID vaccine, boosted and everything? The command, the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, shot up with COVID vaccines, boosted in everything. Both of them contracted COVID. Tony Fauci, everyone else. And Deborah Burke said that they knew that the vaccine would not prevent infection.

So, why are we forcing people out? Because they don't want to take something that they have admitted does not prevent infection. And furthermore, Joe Biden said the pandemic is over.

So, why are we forcing people like Zach Lesch, a United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer, out? When he is performing his duties to the extent that the Commander-in-Chief, the President of the United States of America, called and congratulated him. And early on in the interview, I said with three variants in. Everybody knows COVID-19, the standard vaccine that was affected to a degree, but should be a choice, not a mandate, to wear three variants in. This is useless.

And they've come up with another booster to design against a variant, two variants in. We're in third and fourth wave. This is a non-issue in America. The president dismissed it. And they're willing to kick out these military men and women at a time in which we can't get anyone to wear the uniform.

I was talking to a recruiter over the weekend. You know what they told me? They've gotten two guys in two weeks, both homeless. Both homeless with absolutely no choice. They could not afford the money for an application to get a new Social Security card.

That's our choices. And you're kicking out people you already invested in. This is anti-American. This is an opinion. This is anti-American.

Final thought? You are destroying the capability and capacity of the United States military, all for what reason? To make a political point. And so, if you want to talk about a high crime and misdemeanor, you want to talk about a treasonable offense, what Joe Biden and the rest of his cronies are doing to our United States military, to me, it warrants such. Thanks so much.

Colonel Allen West, thank you. You, my pleasure. 1-866-408-7669. What do you think? If you want to disagree, it's totally okay.

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The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is urging all American citizens in Russia to leave immediately. Oh, cool. I'll try to do that, said Brittany Griner. Yeah, you also had a pretty good line about where's Jackie.

I was surprised. That was pretty good. And also, I would say that they went out of their way just to destroy Herschel Walker, my favorite guy. I mean, they basically. He's been on there forever.

What comment is? Oh, that one, yeah. He wanted to play Herschel Walker and they just mocked him. And wait. Why was that even necessary?

I didn't even see any humor in it. It was just made him be dumb. I'm dumb and I'm a dumb football player.

Okay, just make sure, vote my way. And I actually thought the cold open was decent. They made fun of the Manning cast. We'll have some of that. But after that was Absolutely terrible.

Did you see these skits? I didn't get to see it. I mean, it's like a high school play. What happened to these guys? You know, the Cold Open was sort of entertaining, which.

I don't know if we have time for now, but we do have the cut where they made fun of Biden seeing dead people.

Okay. At a White House event, President Biden asked if Representative Jackie Walorski was in the audience, asking, where's Jackie? Apparently forgetting she died last month. President Biden on Friday attended a formal ceremony welcoming Justice Katanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, said Biden, and where's Justice Ginsburg? Ruth, come on up here.

Funny. That is funny. That's just funny. I mean, it's just. I mean, and by the way, just for very few people to call it.

And to see there's no excuse for it and see how badly that was handled, that would have been an ongoing story. Instead, guess what they did over the weekend? They focused on Donald Trump's speech the night before, at which time he also did some of the truth social, which was ill-advised, when he talked about. Donna Mitch McConnell has a death wish. And what he clearly meant is he had a death which for the party, he had a death which to lose the majority, but not personally, but at a time in which tensions are high, you got to watch your language.

And the President shouldn't be bringing that up because he puts people like Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Marco Rubio. He allows all his enemies to ask other Republicans about him. Even after a devastating hur hurricane. And believe it, they just can't wait to talk about October 6th. Excuse me, January October sixth.

January sixth. That's who they want to talk about. But it's not even possible. They put off the hearings a week because of the hurricane. And when it comes back, I'm telling you, keep you proud, boys.

Keep your queue on. Nobody cares. We know these are two bad organizations nobody wants any part of that doesn't represent any political organization in this country, an extreme element, and they want to link it directly to Roger Stone and relate it to the President. When you have immigration, when you have the border the way it is, when you have inflation the way it is, gas prices the way they're currently located, these spending bills that are sucking the life out of this entire economy, and you see the president refusing to act to try to alleviate some pressure at the pump. Nobody cares about January sixth.

I'm telling you. As bad as it was, I want to reform. The electoral process, we're making a formality. I don't want electorates bailing out, bowing out like they did in 2016. I don't want Jill Stein trying to mount some type of third some type of challenge like they did against Donald Trump.

I don't want people challenging like they were doing when Joe Biden was Vice President of Donald Trump's election. And I certainly don't want to see what happened this past January 6th in 2021 before President Biden took over.

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You'll see they're here, share a world with their audience. And then Reverend Robert Jeffers, who'll be with us. And Steve Moore, the economist extraordinaire, is standing by because we've got new economic numbers and trends that I think are trending away from what this administration is doing. Hopefully, they're sober enough to understand that.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This is our administration. I'm a Democrat. And they need to understand they own it now.

They own it now. And they have to take the steps to correct this. Otherwise, when are we going to see an end to this? That is Henry Quayer, a Democrat. Border wars, illegals flooding across the border of Texas.

New York's mayor finds his 10th city of illegals flooded. He's got to move it to an island. And where is the president? He is MIA. Good news is they can't do that for long because now America cares about immigration.

Despite the fact that Putin is going to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops, many of them are going to be physically and medically unfit, not ready to go fight and die in Ukraine on the battlefield. General Jack Keene, the Russian retreat. Ukraine's making remarkable gains as Russian forces begin to fall apart. And Putin's massive draft has Russia falling apart. Number one.

Joe Biden's approval rating on inflation among independents is 21%. Congress's approval rating is 14%. Everybody knows which party controls Washington right now and they want to change. That seems to be the case. Kellyanne Conway, our newest contributor, 2022, swinging the red way, showing that crime and inflation and a broken border matter more than Trump and Roe.

Plus, we look at how both parties are handling the aftermath of Ian as well as Fiona. And for the most part, you see a very competent governor in charge. And you have CNN trying to catch him, saying things like, Why didn't you get the Lee County people out sooner?

Well, because it was supposed to hit in Tampa. And now we gave everyone all the facts that we had in real time. Also, you see that now, especially in Fort Meyer, it's going to take years to build everything back. In the meantime, I think that Governor DeSantis is going to be judged by how these people are taken care of in the short term and long term, how many people are available to give answers to people. In the Fort Myers area.

For example, where can I live? Where can I go? How much money will I have? What can FEMA do? For Ron DeSantis, he was pretty much up for the challenge last night with Sean Hannity.

He also made it clear that it doesn't matter, despite what the vice president said about your status, about your money, your earned income, or about the color of your skin, who's getting aid. Even though the vice president brought up it's all about equity distribution, Cut 34. The impacts spanned all demographics, all income levels. Sanibel has some very wealthy people. They also have blue-collar people.

You have other communities, different race, different ethnicities. Who cares? We just want to make sure people have a chance to get back off their feet and get moving forward again. And what he's trying to do is stay apolitical, and I think that's important. Ben Dominich weighed in yesterday with Harris Farker about where this is heading.

It's heading towards Republicans' way because of the facts, not because of their campaign or their new policy. Cut 36. There's such a thing, of course, as never letting a crisis go to waste. We saw that under the Obama administration. But there's also such a thing as having a crisis look like it's something that you're trying to take advantage of.

And I think that that was a situation here where she, unfortunately, you know, ran into the real teeth of something that people in America really are fed up with, which is turning everything into kind of a race-focused, politically-focused thing as opposed to, in a moment of real tragedy, bringing everyone together, trying to unite around, trying to bring people back. Steve Moore, our guest, and Steve's an economist, of course, been around, worked for the Trump administration too. When it comes to natural disasters, is it true that those lower-income classes, working class, don't get dealt with fairly? I mean, have you seen any stat to back that up? Yeah, you know, the answer to your question is no.

In fact, I did some analysis. A couple years ago, of major crises throughout American history, things like the Great Chicago Fire, things like the San Francisco earthquake 100 years ago. And two really interesting things about those kinds of disasters: the Galveston hurricane flood that almost destroyed that entire area, is that it didn't, normally it doesn't take government to step in. With all these billions and billions of dollars. People are incredibly resilient.

Chicago was rebuilt within six months. San Francisco was rebuilt quickly. And it was done almost all with private sector charitable money.

So I hate this impulse in America today, Brian, that when we have a crisis, we have to have government spend tens and tens and tens of billions of dollars because a lot of that money is never even going to be spent on the disaster. It's going to get intercepted.

So we are an incredibly resilient people. Our heart obviously goes out to the people in Naples and areas of Tampa. But I'm not a big believer that the solution is $100 billion of federal money. And I also hate the idea that this has been done. Oh, you know, we're going to give money to this county because they have more Hispanics or blacks than this county.

I mean, that's not America. I don't think that Ron DeSantis would allow that, but that's for the Vice President. Exactly. That's got to happen. The other thing is, just let's use logic.

I don't need an economist to agree like you have, Steve, to know that richest people live on. The coast on the ocean in Florida. I mean, if you aspire to get that ocean view, so that's the first thing that got crushed in the Fort Myers. The shots and the boats. Yeah, so tell me the working class that has that mansion that got destroyed and they're going to be ignored.

Yeah. I mean, you make a really good point that these coastal towns tend to be the areas where wealthier people live, no question about it, which also raised the question of why the government is rushing in with hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars here. I do think, by the way, it's a little hypocritical for all these liberals in places like California to say, oh, gee, why are we giving all this aid to Florida when how much aid have we given to California over the years? The fires. The fires in the cheapest.

So let's look at the national gas average. It's $3.79. Unless you're in your West Coast, which, by the way, it is going up for six straight days. The West Coast, get this. There has been a it is now in California $6.38 in Nevada $5.48 in Oregon $5.43.

Evidently the refineries that feed the West Coast are all offline. They want to say they are maintenance, but there is some reason why they are not being effective. You talk about Alaska $5.34, Washington $5.30, and Arizona $4.48. Out of the West Coast, it is considerably higher. Why?

A couple of reasons. First of all, we have a new study that we just put out. It was cited in the Wall Street Journal today, Brian, that looks at how much if we had just kept with the Trump energy policies, as you know, I worked with Trump on this crusade of his to make America energy independent and energy dominant. If we had just stuck with those policies and continued to build out the energy infrastructure that we need, which of course includes pipelines, includes refineries, includes LNG terminals, we would be producing about 3 million more barrels a day. The United States.

Now, that means that if that were the case, we wouldn't be depleting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Did you know we're at the lowest level since the summer of 1984 when Reagan was first building up? What was it for? It was for an oil shock like the 70s. Exactly.

So it's a dangerous situation we're facing right now with oil.

Now, you asked the question about these West Coast states like Washington, Oregon, California. They are paying About a dollar fifty a gallon more gasoline, and their utility costs for their electric power. almost double the national average. Why? Green energy.

They've invested so much money in green energy. It's incredibly inefficient. It's not reliable and it's expensive. And so they're paying a high price for these green energy policies. And then California says, Brian, I'm not making this up.

They say, we're a model for the nation on energy. Oh, really? $6 a gallon of gasoline, double the national price for electric. Folks, you want to pay twice what you pay for your electric heating bills? Do the California model.

Right, absolutely. And the thing is, to point out, too, Governor Newsom is running on his California record. San Francisco is an abomination. California is absolutely nuts. And this president and this governor has done nothing effectively to handle it.

What he does is he just wants to raise his own profile. A million people in the last year, a million more people have left California than come into California over the last decade. That's the first time that's happened in American history where people actually left California. And that's a result of, you know, the weather didn't change there. It's because of incredibly bad governance in the state of California.

It's sad, actually. I mean, how do you get people to leave California? It's one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Absolutely. So, by the way, the market went up yesterday.

And what do you say the reason is?

Well, we fell by so much in the last three or four years. Under 30,000? It was unbelievable.

So we're just seeing a bit of a rebound there. I'm still really concerned, Brian, about the economy. I think we're in a ditch right now. I don't think we're out of the woods at all. I think Americans are glum.

You look at companies like Facebook, you look at companies like FedEx, you look at companies, cutting back on employment, cutting back on production. It's an ugly picture out there right now. And it all stems back. Every time on your show, I always try to circle it back to what caused this crisis. It was the $4 trillion that Biden spent.

And don't you love it when he gives these speeches about how fiscally responsible he is? And you'll say it. He's his joke.

Well, he says he cuts the deficit, but the deficit has been bulked up for the pandemic spending. And when he came, I mean, here, I'm going to use an analogy. Let's say I'm drinking 20 cans of beer a day, and then I say, look at me, Brian, this year I'm only drinking 14 cans of beer. Look at this. I'm sober now.

I mean, it's the most. Ridiculous thing. We have increased the national debt more under this president in 20 months than most presidents did in their entire presidency.

So, by the way, China is rerouting the U.S. liquefied gas that we cut a deal with them during the Trump years in phase one for them to buy liquefied gas from us.

Well, now they have extra liquefied gas, so they're selling it to Europe. Our gas, our natural gas, which we could have made up for that. Yeah, I've said this again on your show many times. The three biggest winners of the Biden Energy policy, which is dis to dismantle American energy. The three biggest winners in the world: China.

Russia, Iran. We are playing right into the hands of our enemies. Steve Moore is going to stick around for a little while longer, and then we're going to welcome in Robert Jeffers, the Reverend, as well as Duisomelkast on Varney Company. I hope we can fit it all in. Back in the morning.

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I don't want to hear a word from those members of Congress. You notice. whose family's got tens of thousands of dollars and several million dollars. in pandemic relief loan forgiveness. The same ones criticizing.

Give me a break. Come on.

Okay, Steve Moore here, The Economist. Steve, I'm not the economist, so let me just comment on that real quick. Go. Do you realize everyone had their student loan payments frozen? For the last two years and still frozen right now?

That is their relief. You had relief. Just like you had rent relief, that dissipated, obviously, and should be. These horrible people called landlords got to get paid too. And then with student loan relief, you had it frozen.

They gave you a head start.

Now you forgave it. And now he's backing off a little on some of the criteria on the forgiveness. What's your take on his disdain for those who would question him? I don't understand the logic, frankly, of why people should have their student loans. I mean, why?

Why should somebody make $125,000 a year and not repay their loan? I don't see how, in any form of fairness or equity, this makes any sense. As you know, it's going to cost the American taxpayer. By the way, I hate this term, loan forgiveness. I mean, what we're doing is basically telling people.

Exactly. Someone else, me and you, and the people listening to the show, are going to have to pay their loans.

So I'll tell you, Brian. It's not just that Americans are opposed to this, which most Americans are, they're angry about it because it just strikes it's so anti-American that I should have to pay your loan because you don't want to pay it back. And I hate the fact that he talked about in that same speech, he talked about, well, a lot of these people are minorities and so on.

Well, what difference does that make? What color someone's skin is in terms of whether they should pay their loans back? It's pandering. I think it's backfired. I think in November, people are going to be so angry about this, it's another reason they're going to vote out Democrats who approved this.

And that doesn't even get to the point as an economics fiscal policy guy. I read the Constitution. It says very clearly that Congress has the power to spend money. I don't see anywhere, Brian, where it says the President has the authority to spend money. And can you imagine if Donald Trump did something like this?

They'd call him a dictator. And people are challenging this now in the courts, and we'll see where it goes because he wants to get benefits from it. But I believe that a lot of people, the 38-year-olds, are just proud of paying off their loans. The 42-year-old. That just said, you know, I did it.

What I would love to do is to really examine why there are 7 percent loans. Why are they 9 percent loans?

So, people, if you want to do something, Mr. President, go and cut that interest rate and say it's creditory. But, you know, the big problem in the American economy, one of the reasons I'm so bearish right now, is look at the mortgage rate. Have you seen that? 7%.

When Trump left office, you know what it was, Brian? 2.85%.

So to go from 2.85% in a year and a half to near 7%, that's going to add $200,000 to the price of a 30-year mortgage for an average-priced home.

So what happens? Steve Moore is not going to sell his home like you were going to. How are you going to get it? Or you're going to have to reduce the price.

So it's bad for the buyer and the seller. It's bad for both of them. It's going to slump the housing market. It will, no question. It's already doing that.

Can you, in layman's terms, tell me what's going on with the U.K. economy and Liz Trust? Oh, my gosh. First of all, I'm disappointed that she backed off on this tax cut. For the rich.

This is how Reagan. For the upper class. Getting the l tax rates down is a way to bring businesses. Yeah. And so I don't understand the log by the way, here's the other thing.

That tax cut was two billion dollars. No, yeah, two billion dollars is a lot of money. The total amount that all the OECD developed countries spent. And borrowed during COVID and since then, $20 trillion.

So why is the bond market throwing a fit over a $2 billion tax cut when $20 trillion, $1,000 more, has been spent by these countries? It just makes no sense.

So what should they do? Who? UK? UK. Why is everyone focused on their economy and they think it's canary?

They should cut taxes. They should cut spending. The single most important thing, Brian, for the countries of the world to do, the virus, the new virus in the economy is out of control government spending everywhere. Countries are borrowing and spending like never before, and it's going to bankrupt the world and it's going to cause a Great Depression.

So I'm telling the Republicans, when they take over Congress, they got to start taking an axe to the budget. Did you see the reports in the New York Post yesterday? Almost a half a trillion dollars of waste. Of work. From the pandemic's bad.

A lot of it came from outside our country. It went to people in Africa and Russia and Eastern Europe and Mexico. These people don't even live in the United States. I mean, people were just ripping off the system. And by the way, Brian, my blood is boiling right now.

So the Republicans have asked the Democrats who now run the Congress: hey, let's do an investigation. Let's have an audit. You know what the Democrats said? No. We're not going to audit these programs.

It's crazy. Yet they could even blame it. Technically, they could have blamed Trump. A lot of this stuff happened during the Trump administration if you wanted. Tell me some of it did.

This is what happened. And get it back. And yeah, bottom line is: I know I got hit twice for people claiming to want unemployment insurance in my name.

So there was so much fraud going on. Steve Moore, always great to talk to you. Check out More Money on 77WABC on Saturdays, right? 1 p.m. 1 p.m.

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And Barney's got the number one show, along with Harry Kudlow, on the channel.

So we do a simulcast there just about every Tuesday. With me in the studio is another great guest, Dr. Robert Jeffers. He's the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, and author of a brand new book called 18 Minutes with Jesus, Stray Talk from the Savior, about the things that matter most. Reverend, Dr.

Jeffers, welcome back. Great to be back with you, Brian. And I know that you're still in touch with former President Trump. Occasionally, I am, and I'm still supporting. And if he runs, I'd certainly be a great supporter.

Have you noticed a difference in the last four years? I mean, we're noticing the aging of President Biden rapidly before our eyes, even before, in between when he was vice president and president now. Have you noticed anything with this with the former President? I haven't. I tell you, I think the contrast grows more stark every day between him and Biden as Biden deteriorates.

I remember he came to Dallas about a year ago with Bill O'Reilly to do this history tour, and halfway through he called me, said, What do you think? I said, I think Joe Biden could never give the kind of answers you did. And so I think if he runs, it's going to be a stark contrast that will play to Trump's favor. Do you think age matters from the president? At 75, he would be?

Not like it is now. I think with him, age equals experience, and I don't think his age is a detriment to his running. From what you know, unofficially, What type of toll has church attendance taken since the pandemic when they told everyone? Go home. Yeah, it's had a big effect.

And gratefully, at First Baptist Dallas, we're at about 95 percent of our pre-pandemic attendance, but we're way on the high end. Most churches are 60 to 70 percent. And I think, Brian, it's taken a spiritual and emotional toll on people being separated from their churches. I think all of these Pew research polls about Christians not believing like they did and being more discouraged than they have been, it's all a direct result of not being connected together with other Christians. Do they make a mistake telling people to go home during the pandemic?

I think they went overboard. I mean, we, for a few weeks, went to internet television only, but we only did it for a few weeks. We realized people needed to be back together. And President Trump does run again. Do you think the religious community would be behind him?

Would you be behind him? I'd be behind him 100 percent, and I think most evangelicals will be too, simply because he delivered on every promise he made in 2016. Extinct. For example.

Well, for example, three conservative justices on the Supreme Court that were highly pro-life. You know, Brian, even Democrats, the left, acknowledges that had it not been for Trump, Roe v. Wade would still be in force today. Evangelicals know that. They know there are 200-plus federal judges he appointed to the courts that affect issues like life and religious liberty, the things that we care about.

So, yes, I think it was promises made, promises kept.

Well, let's talk about your book now. You say, how did you go about doing this? Because you take Jesus, who's chronicled in the Bible, and then you want to make it into today's vernacular, understanding for the people that don't necessarily live and breathe it like you and the evangelical community.

Well, the title, 18 Minutes with Jesus, came about from the sensation TED Talks that everybody raves about. You know, a TED Talk is a short talk by an expert on a topic of interest to an audience. But it can only be 18 minutes. And I had this thought, Brian, what if Jesus were to come back today and give a TED Talk? What would he say?

And then it hit me, he's already given his TED Talk. It's called the Sermon on the Mount. It's a sermon that can be read in 18 minutes. And yet, in it, he talks about things everybody cares about: your money, your sex life, how to deal with your enemies, your eternal destiny. And so I gave this fresh look at the Sermon on the Mount for today.

Brian, a lot of people think of Jesus as this little wimpy rabbi who went around crunching birdseed and saying nice things to people. That's not the Jesus of the Bible. He was radical. And the things he says in this sermon are really radical, but they live to a satisfying life for those who live those principles every day. What was that Sermon on the Mount like?

Well, I think, you know, it was on the hillside looking over the Sea of Galilee. I'll take a group to Israel in April, and we'll go to that place where scholars believe he delivered the Sermon on the Mount. It was a crowd, though, that was filled. With some devoted disciples, but some doubters and some religious leaders. By the way, Jesus' harshest words were not toward the adulterers, liars, and drunkards.

It was toward religious hypocrites. He couldn't stand hypocrisy. And I think if he came back today, he would talk to the religious and political leaders and point out their hypocrisy.

So you think he would be involved in politics? There's no doubt he would be involved in politics. In Matthew 5, in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, he says, You, my followers, are the salt of the world. Salt was a preservative in Jesus' day. It didn't prevent decay of meat, but it delayed the decay.

And I think he would say to Christians today: the way you push back against evil, one way is by the leaders you elect. Leaders determine policies, policies determine the moral and spiritual direction of a country.

So that's how you feel.

So you feel as if you could knock it down. Did you actually give that TED Talk? Yes. Yeah, yeah. I didn't, but I think Jesus did, and that's what the Sermon on the Mount is.

Would you do that if asked? I mean, that's a perfect conversion of your book. Absolutely. Absolutely. Right.

And, you know, again, I think Jesus would be nonpartisan. I mean, I think he would be fiercely independent. I think he would say some things commending Republicans but condemning them. And the same thing to Democrats. You know, I think if Gavin Newsom a few weeks ago put up these billboards for abortion and quoted the words of Jesus, love your neighbor as yourself.

I think Jesus would blast Gavin Newsom for perverting his word about life. I think he would quote the verse that he said himself: Don't hurt a child. It'd be better to have a millstone tied around your neck and be cast into the sea than to hurt a child. I think he'd say to Republicans, Hey, you stand for life inside the womb? That's great.

I do too. But also be concerned with children outside the womb. Make sure they're taken care of as well. I think Jesus would. Have some firm words for both political parties.

That would be very interesting. Fellow Christian, the Pope, not your necessarily Pope, but notice that he called out Vladimir Putin. He loves calling out us. He has no problem seeing having a one-on-one with Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who's obviously she claims to be a devout Catholic who is pro-choice. But she actually called out Vladimir Putin.

Should that be the role of a leader? Are you comfortable with that? Yes, I am, as long as that leader is speaking according to biblical principles and not political dogma. And look, I think the point. What do you mean by that?

Well, what I mean by that is I don't understand as a political leader how anybody like Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi can be pro-abortion. It just doesn't square with scripture. And I think if they're going to call out somebody, they ought to call out their own party, Gavin Newsom, who is doing something that is totally antithetical to the Catholic faith and certainly evangelicals, and that's calling for the slaughter of the unborn.

Well, that's interesting because famously the Pope combined with Ronald Reagan to help take down then Soviet Union. Is that a role in which you think would be supported in a book like yours? I don't think that would be the major thrust of it because I mean it went for good, didn't it? Right. Again, I think Jesus would speak out against leaders that are slaughtering innocent people.

I think certainly. That's a right thing to do. Ronald Reagan called Russia the evil empire. I think it's fine to call evil what God has called evil. And he's called murder, the abrogation of basic human rights, evil.

But I think, again, religious leaders have to be sure they're on solid biblical ground before they do it.

So, you know, Donald Trump, he's been in the headlines really since his mid-30s. He bought the USFL Jersey Generals when he was 37 years old.

So he's been out and about with whether it was George Steinbrenner, whether it was Roy Cohn and others. He's been on the so-called page six of our society. He has not lived that great biblical Christian life that maybe other people would. Why is the evangelical community?

So supportive of him. It's real simple, Brian. It's because of the policies that he embraces. Evangelicals realize they were not electing a Sunday school teacher when they voted for President Trump. And he often quotes me about what I said.

I said he may not be a perfect Christian, but he's an effective leader. And when you're looking for political leaders, it's a different list of requirements than looking for a pastor. Personal religious piety is an important qualification for a pastor. For a political leader, it's the policies that he embraces. I mean, look, evangelicals supported Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first divorce president ever.

It's not because we supported divorce, it's because of the policies that he embodied. Divorce was a big thing back then. Yeah, that was. And lastly, Mike Pence is also somebody that you support and have great admiration for. How do you handle the fact that they're not speaking?

Well, you know, I would. Say this without saying too much. You know, one of those parties said to me, We had an amicable separation, but it was a separation. And I think, look, they both are great friends of mine. I think they have just different views, and they're not going to back down from their views about January 6th.

Absolutely. They both have great qualities. Dr. Robert Jeffers, congratulations on your latest book, 18 Minutes with Jesus, Straight Talk from the Savior about things that matter most. Think TED Talk and Jesus, and you understand this book.

Always great to see you, Dr. Jefferson. Great to see you, Brian. Thanks. When we come back, I'm going to deal with Stuart Varney.

Hopefully, I'll survive.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Welcome back, everybody. I'm about to do something with Stuart Barney and a little bit about what we discussed more first hour of the show than this, and that was. The vice president seems to put her foot in the mouth every day and not being a help to the president.

She would have the most promising career possible when you have a 76-year-old president in decline, and then you have somebody in their 50s who's got a law degree, an attorney general's background, sitting senator before she was named. Failed candidate, got it. But a lot of people fail as a candidate and get a reboot, and she had a chance for reboot. But the more we see her, the more epically she fails. I mean, think about her speeches.

Think about her comments when she goes overseas. Think about her refusing to go to the Polish border with Ukraine. And then think about what she said about equity. Let's listen together. Let's do what Barney will do as Homercast.

All right, Brian, let's get into Mayor Adams, who has changed the location of that migrant tent city.

Okay, uh sorry, I want to go with another one. I'm getting confused, Brian. I can go with either one. I can go with that, which is unbelievable. I know what you're talking about, those 10 cities in the Bronx.

They're moving it to Randall's Island because AOC doesn't like it in the Bronx. Go with that.

Okay, you understand Randall's Island, there's a police academy there, the fighter academy there, and there's about 25 to 30 soccer fields that also you see rugby there on a regular basis, and about five baseball fields.

So, what you have is this isolated island where they used to run world games and things to that nature.

Now, why are they moving? Part of the reason they said is because, well, it's flooding in the Bronx, and after three straight days of rain, the puddles became untenable.

Well, maybe that's a little bit true. Maybe another part of this is not in my backyard, AOC, whose district is there, who's getting a myriad of complaints there. This liberal area that said, go in there, Ms. Squad member, and create havoc in Washington, D.C., give us a new Green Deal and make us proud. And they don't want to be a sanctuary city, just don't want to see it in front of them and mess up.

Up their neighborhoods. We're saying, as a country, we need control of our borders. When the borders come to the Bronx, the people that AOC represents want no part of it, therefore, she's whining about it, and now miraculously they move. I know you're going to disagree with me. But you've got Two, three, four million people in this country in the last couple of years They're going to work.

Whether you like it or not, they're going to work. And if they don't work, they're sitting around doing nothing, we're paying for it. What do you say? I say this: if you're worried about two to three million, I understand it. But just understand that it's going to go exponentially.

If those teeter through 2 to 3 million end up having promising careers, we are basically going to adopt all of El Salvador, all of Nicaragua, the Venezuelans can get out without being killed. If Brazil flips and goes to this, goes away from Bolsonaro, they're going to start emptying out here. China's influence, Iran's influence, and Russia's influence is turning everyone socialist, including Colombia now.

So if you're able to come here, blow up our system, thumb your nose at it, and have productive careers and eventually get your amnesty, then there's no saying that we're going to have no control of our country.

So even though your answer they've selled to 2 to 3 million is admirable. I think what it turns out down the line is nothing but disaster for America.

Okay, okay. Uh uh if it encourages more to come, that's not good news, but you've got to do something. And you ain't gonna send them back, and that's a fact.

Now then, nearly 20,000 active military personnel are facing discharge because they wouldn't get vaxed. You're fired up about this. Didn't the President say the pandemic was over? Yeah, and I think you're fired up about it too. I don't want to tell everyone your position on this, but I will say this.

Every one of our branches, including the Navy, is below threshold on recruitment. And now you're taking a bunch of military men and women. In the Army, the big story two weeks ago is that these Army members are actually applying for food stamps. That's how little they are making, but yet they want to sacrifice for our country. This is their best opportunity.

And then they're told, get a vaccine. Really? The vaccine? Don't feel comfortable with that for whatever reason. Then we find out the variants accelerate, accelerate, accelerate.

And the president says pandemic's over. And they say, if you don't get that vaccine, which is really a shot, a vaccine is something you get once a lifetime or once every seven years. This is a shot. And you see, now you want this. The president.

Got two shots, two boosters, gets COVID. Fauci, two shots, two boosters, gets COVID. The Admiral I'm talking to today, two shots, two boosters, gets COVID. These people in the prime of their life want to give to their country, including the Coast Guard, and now 20,000 are given their walking papers. And like the gentleman I talked to today, 18 years serving for the Coast Guard just saved countless lives in Florida, rescuing people out of the water after this killer storm.

And now they're going to be told in two weeks goodbye. Hopeless. Absolutely hopeless. Make the change. Unbelievable.

Brian, just take a look at the market and open your 401k, and you're going to get a smile on your face. And that's a fact for today. For today. Big day, baby. All right.

Thanks, Brian. All right. On October. Thank you. Yeah, we're over 30,000, up 870, 67, 698, it looks like, on the market.

So that is good news. We just also got some sad news, especially because so many people here love country music. Loretta Lynn has died at the age of 90.

So she was somebody in the 70s and 60s that really thrived. And the one thing about. Country music, they really respect their heritage.

So, a sad day over in Nashville for sure. 1-8-6-6-408-7669. I'll take some calls on that. But the vaccine and the mandates is just horrific what's happening. It's such disrespect for the men and women who fight.

And then, when I know this, that the fatality is infinitesimal for those who, especially with this variant, get COVID. and actually suffer symptoms, it gets him hospitalized. Look at what's happening now. All you do is say, I'm going to let my military reflect the country. We're living our lives.

We're back at work. We're riding the subways. We're not wearing masks. We're even at college campuses, the most liberal bastion there is, not wearing masks, no vaccation mandate. Believe me, both my daughters are at schools that lean quite precipitous, quite deliberately to the left.

And they are not wearing masks. Nobody asks about vaccines, but we're telling the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force and Coast Guard, yes, if you don't get vaccines, you're fired. And now even if you have a religious exemption like the colonel I talked to today, they said, no, I'm sorry, we're not going to acknowledge that. Which is unbelievable to me.

So we'll think about where that stands, and that is part of the reason when you vote this year, you have to understand. There's an anti military sentiment within this administration, and the fact that people like General Austin don't stand up and speak out like General Mattis did and others shows me they care more about their careers than they do about our defense. Brian Kilmecho. Go to BrianKilme.com. Find out how to see us live on stage, talking about all my history books in Moore, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Brandon, Mississippi.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show. Coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world.

And if you listen close, you can hear the buses pull up at Port Authority where they drop off. Illegal immigrant after illegal immigrant, because it's not just Texas's problem anymore, it's America's problem that this president's ignoring. Michael Schellenberger is going to be with us shortly. Keep it in perspective, the folly of this rapid push towards green energy and the new Green Deal that was just jammed down on throats and mislabeled in a great column in the New York Post. And I want to go over it with you in detail.

It's even something I can understand. And Brett Baer at the bottom of the hour, Go Inside 2022.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This is our administration. I'm a Democrat. And they need to understand they own it now.

They own it now. And they have to take the steps to correct this. Otherwise, when are we going to see an end to this? Border wars, illegals flooding across the border, and New York's mayor finds his tent city of illegals literally flooded, now to be disbanded because AOC and the Bronx don't want it in their backyard. Nice.

Where's the president, MIA? Not for long because the political climate says this is a problem with the voter. Number two. Despite the fact that Putin is going to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops, many of them are going to be physically and medically unfit, not ready to go fight and die in Ukraine on the battlefield. Russia retreat.

Ukraine's making remarkable gains on the battlefield as Russia's forces begin to fall apart. And Putin's massive draft has also come apart at the seams. Number one. Joe Biden's approval rating on inflation among independents is 21%. Congress's approval rating is 14%.

Everybody knows which party controls Washington right now, and they want to change. Right. And if it was going well, they'd get all the credit. 2022, swinging the red way. Not because of great strategy from the Republicans, because the economy, because of crime, because of the broken border.

Roe and Trump just don't add up. And by the way, before we get to our guests, special thanks to a brand new station for joining our family of affiliates over in Maine, WPNO, 1450 a.m., over in South Paris. Thanks so much, guys. And by the way, their slogan is the Patriot in Oxford County. We welcome now is Michael Schellenberger.

Michael, welcome back. Great to be back, Brian.

Well, I mean, you always come on and talk so succinctly and directly about the need to have renewables, but we're not there yet. And you put that all in a column, and the headline is Biden's woke green energy is a joke that makes us dependent on China. Michael, first off, you tested you go back to your testimony. What did Ro Kahana ask you, and what made you realize that they don't know what they're talking about?

Well, as I testified in front of Congress a couple of weeks ago and Representative Cona from California, he said, if there's a war on energy, how is Exxon Chevron BP and Shell making over 10% profits. And I pointed out that the reason they're making these high profits is because we have really high price energy right now, natural gas and oil, because we don't have enough supply. And the reason we don't have enough supply is because of the war on energy.

So I don't think it's the case. I mean, some people, some Democrats maybe don't understand the relationship between supply and demand.

Okay, I grant that. But I think that. most do understand that the war on natural gas that they have been leading for the last decade, trying to repress oil and domestic oil and gas production While President Biden lifts sanctions on Venezuela, You know, it goes to Saudi Arabia and fist bump the crown prince there, begging them to produce more oil and gas. as though their oil and gas had less carbon emissions than ours, That's all because they won't produce Oil and gas here, and this is outrageous. It's actually dangerous.

The world needs more energy so that we don't have as much inflation because we need to bring down the prices of everything, and the quickest way to do that is by producing more energy at home. Right, and we can. We're not Japan without natural resources. We have all of this. And we think by asking OPEC to pump more, we're helping the earth.

By the way, you know what they're meeting about? Hey, OPEC is supposed to agree to raise prices so they can maximize profits. That's how much they care. You write that wind, solar, and batteries require 1,000% more steel, concrete, and glass, and 4,200% more lithium, 2,500% more graphite, 1,900% more nickel than fossil fuels to produce the same amount of energy. That, according to not Michael Schellenberger, but International Energy Agency, minerals comprise 62%, 67% of the cost of producing solar panels and lithium batteries.

And guess who's making that? China. It's a total environmental nightmare. I mean, it's the one of the biggest scams of maybe the last fifty years Is the idea that renewables are good for the environment? They're absolutely terrible for the environment.

Solar and wind require three to four hundred times as much land to make the same amount of electricity as a natural gas or a nuclear power plant. You just read the huge quantities of materials and mining that's required for solar, wind, electric cars. The problem is the energy is too dilute from sunlight and wind. It's not energy dense enough.

So you have to grind up all of this nature, all the natural environment. to be able to produce sufficient amounts of energy. Brian, it's not going to happen. Right now, about ten percent of minerals on Earth are used for energy. If you go to renewables, it's going to go up to fifty percent.

that is inflationary. That is going to cause inflation in two ways, by making the the energy itself more expensive and then also by making electricity in particular more expensive because of the unreliable nature of sunlight and wind. Brian, I'll just say one other thing, which is that we had a major bipartisan effort in this country from the nineteen seventies Until the early 2000s. To discover how to frack for oil and gas in shale, a rock formation about a mile underground. one of the greatest innovation success stories in American history.

We wanted to become energy independent. We did. We produce huge, we're the biggest producer of oil and gas in the world. And yet, President Biden refuses to allow expanded oil and gas production at a time of the worst energy crisis in fifty years. Instead, he wants us to become Dependent on Chinese minerals.

It's 90% of them refined in China. They control the monopoly on critical minerals. It's insane to sacrifice this hard won energy security in the United States for a dependence on Chinese renewables. You're right. And I'll give you a verbatim what you wrote.

Worst of all, our need for these materials means we have to increasingly rely on China. China's market share of renewables and EV minerals is already twice OPEX. The U.S. depends on imports for 100 percent of 17 renewables and EV critical minerals. For 28 others, we import more than 50 percent of domestic demand.

So we're outsourcing our security and energy is security. Why would we do that? And it's more expensive. But in the short term, people think that we're going green. But don't they understand that this is not in our nation's interest?

It's not being responsible. It's not going in early and not driving drunk. What we're saying is what they're doing isn't responsible in any way, shape, or form. Does John Kerry not understand that? I mean The thing you have to understand is that the United States, we reduced our carbon emissions more than any other country in the world ever in history.

From 2005 to 2020, we reduced our carbon emissions by 22%. That's massive. And we did so the vast majority of those emissions reductions We're moving from coal to natural gas, clean, cheap, abundant natural gas. we should continue to do that. Instead, By waging a war on natural gas, so called climate of activists mean that we're going to burn more coal this year than we have in any other year in history.

This is it's absolutely counterproductive. You know those solar panels in China, there's a moral imperative to not import them. They're being made by incarcerated Uighur Muslims in concentration camps. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is confirmed by the U.

S. State Department. BBC, New York Times, everybody has found this. This is a moral abomination, the idea that we would be importing products made by people in concentration camps. You know, the progressives talk a lot about Muslim rights.

We're seeing an uprising in Iran right now. It's a beautiful thing. We should not absolutely not be importing a single solar panel more. I say when I hit this point in Congress, AOC shifted uncomfortably in her seat. The progressives know they're wrong.

to import Chinese solar genocide panels That's just got to stop. But I'll tell you the other thing: guess how those solar panels are made? With 100% coal, the dirtiest fuel on the planet.

So it's a kind of collective madness. It's a religious fervor. There's no other way to explain it. There's no environmental or economic rationality behind it.

So, Michael, a couple of things. We don't have anywhere to throw them out either. There's no safe way and secure way to get rid of these solar panels. We haven't figured that out, nor the batteries, nor do we know how long they will last. Michael, give everyone an idea of your background.

You're not exactly a Barry Goldwater Republican, right? No, I was a lifelong Democrat. I'm now an Independent. I could no longer be in the Democratic Party given what I knew about what these policies have done to the natural world, what it's what the ways in which Democrats have made homelessness worse in California. still an independent, Time magazine hero of the environment.

I wrote a book, Apocalypse Never about the environment that came out in twenty twenty. People can find me on my Substack, Michael Schellenberger Substack. I've got a big piece coming out today about how the media has been lying to people. about climate change and natural disasters. I do think climate change is happening.

I do think we should do something about it. The wrong thing to do is to become dependent on China. The right thing to do is to produce more natural gas at home. It's from my view is that natural gas and nuclear are the most important technologies for protecting the natural environment and achieving American energy abundance. And abundant jobs at home.

Is there any Democrat that looks at you, pulls you over and says, Michael, I hear you. You know, I'm stu I'm stuck in this. You know, I can't disavow my party, but I understand where you're coming from. Does anyone understand that, or does everyone just dug in politically? No, no.

all all all the time and of course exactly what you said they can't say anything publicly Um, you know, I would when I testified in front of the Senate last year, The senator from Arizona, the astronauts. Mike Kelly. Yeah, Senator Kelly. He did say, he said we recognize that we have a problem with the solar panel supply chains. That's a a nice way of recognizing that the panels are being made by the perhaps the most persecuted ethnic minority in the world.

Right. He's such a liquid. AOC is uncomfortable. They know they're wrong on this, but they don't know what to do because they're captive to a really extremistic. You know, she was in Congress for a week and came up with this detailed new Green Deal.

You're going to tell me she came up with that at Boston College.

Someone handed that whole portfolio to her. And you add this, because it all relates to the war, where the U.S. imported around 18 million barrels of war per month. Of Russia oil per month. We produce 19 million barrels of oil domestically per day.

Instead, President Biden has leased less land for oil and gas production during his first 19 months in office than any other administration since World War II. Think about this. If we really wanted to help Western Europe to get through what's going to be a hellacious winter because of Russia oil and gas, they made these bad decisions to be relying on them. Got it. We could be doing it.

We are choosing not to do it. We're letting them beg over to Canada, going over to the Middle East for natural gas. We could be setting up LNG terminals on a rapid pace and be their answer in a market economy. We'll get paid for it. They would be more than happy to pay us.

They could be our customer forever. And as you tell us, natural gas burns clean. But he refuses to do it, right? I mean, this is stunning. I mean, I still have people, I still have progressives and Democrats come up and tell me that Biden is doing everything he can.

Like you said, he's offered fewer leases than any president since Truman. I mean, this is absurd. I mean, we've had a bipartisan consensus. President Obama and President Trump So that the extent to which we've been doing oil and gas during Biden's administration is because of the leases and permits that were given by Obama and Trump. We should be expediting the creation of these LNG export terminals.

I mean, that's a no brainer. We can produce enough natural gas for ourselves at home as well as for our allies in Europe. What's happening in Europe, it's going to be ugly for the and not just this winter, but for several winters to come. We had a we were under a treaty obligation to protect Europe militarily. To avoid having to do that, We need to help them to maintain their prosperity.

They made a terrible decision President Trump, to his credit, actually warned Europe against becoming dependent on Russian gas. But we should not compound their terrible decision by depriving them of the fuels that they desperately need. It's unbelievable. I just, you know, we used to have interesting conversations and there'd like to be nuances to it and you bring in these intellects to debate it. And now we have things that are just so blatantly right and wrong.

It's mind-boggling to think we won't do anything in our national interest. It's our national interest while China builds coal plants and has the rare earth and is stripping their country in doing it and providing us with rare earth and then they'll have a stranglehold on our economy. Wow, you say this. Gavin Newsom, the day he says we're going to go all electric cars, stop building gas stations and ban the combustion engine, he tells everyone, don't charge a car. I don't eat your car between 4 and 6, and whatever you do, don't put it on your air conditioning because we're running out of energy.

That was like the next week. It's bonkers. I mean, there's a war on natural gas, which is first of all, that's crazy because natural gas is the main way that we reduced our carbon emissions. They're Brian, I don't know if you know, they're banning gas heaters. They're banning gas cooking.

This is happening in California. It's happening in New York. It's happening around the country. That's insane. We're almost having blackouts in California for three years in a row because we don't have enough reliable electricity.

So now they're going to go make us even more dependent on electricity. But here's what gives me hope. In Sweden, they tried this. There's been a backlash. Republicans went in there or the conservatives went in there.

You could honestly say the same thing with Liz Truss in the UK and maybe even in Italy. There's a practical basis to the average person, and we want to do things that make our life somewhat livable and not this ideological way of living. Michael Schellenberger, thanks so much. Look forward to your new column on Substack. Thanks, Mike.

Thanks, Brian. Back in a moment. Expanding your knowledge base, it's the Brian Kill Meet Show. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. Tim Keebo, in his last discussion with my legal counsel, was, listen, we know Tony's cooperating.

We appreciate all the information he's provided. We will follow up with you. We're definitely going to have him come in for a follow-up interview or spend some more time on this. And I haven't heard from them since. At all?

No. Nor have my lawyers. No communication whatsoever. No. Since before the 2020 election.

Correct. It's shocking. Uh shocking, yeah, that's would be one adjective. Tony Bobolinski sits down with Tucker Carlson again with an extended interview. We have more of that interview, and you know that he was the business partner of Hunter Biden, and then he was backstabbed by Hunter Biden.

Him and his uncle were double dealing behind his back, and it became apparent that this military intelligence officer, who's already become a self-made multi-millionaire, didn't need this type of duplicity. He came to help out a former vice president whose family business did not have the expertise in which he brought. Then he realized this guy was doing things against the interests of our country and certainly not in his best interest to maximize profits from the fund they founded. And that's when he came forward. And when he gave the information out, people said the laptop was disinformation, and nobody picked up the Bobolinski story, which was stunning, unbelievable.

And now, as things start. The New York Times, Washington Post, and other outlets say, yeah, that laptop was real, which we all know. What about Bobolinski? Has anyone ever asked President Biden, do you know Tony Bobolinski? Did you meet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel when you were former Vice President Joe Biden?

Did you tell him, take care of my family? Cause man, did he ever If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. this issue around the gender binary. has taken up way too much space.

in the public conversation. I think that people are weary of it. I think that people having to put the she's and the this and that and the pronouns on their their Zoom. All of that stuff starts to send a signal, I think, to working class voters. that these people are not concerned about the things that affect me every day.

They're not concerned about inflation. They're not concerned about which is not to say you can't be care about everybody, but there's something that's out of balance. And so I think that when we start sending the cultural signal, that were more concerned about the the the pronoun you put on your zoom call. then we are concerned about the fact that you don't have a house or a job, I think the party's off track. Van Jones on HBO with Bill Maher, and I think he's 100% right.

And I'm just astounded that very few people talk like Bill Maher. And in this case, Van Jones, joining us now is Brett Baer, chief political anchor for Fox News, Anchor Special Report, and of course, his book, To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, The Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876, now available on paperback. Hey, Brett, Van Jones speaking logic on the left. I've not heard a lot of that.

Yeah, I agree with you. And Bill Maher has kind of stirred that up on the left side, and he's I think changing some minds, I think Ban Jones has always been of that mindset of more practical. Side, and when the woke side of his party goes off the rails, he kind of brings it back in. I I do think that it reminds me of When in twenty sixteen, some polls in North Carolina and Pennsylvania suggested that. Hillary Clinton was more concerned about who was going to the bathroom which sucks.

than she was about my job. for my economic success. And those are that started to pop up in polls late. And I do feel that in some places that, that has that mentality has kind of sunk in again. Yeah, and we'll see what's going to happen if it's not too late.

Now, right now, I have not seen a poll that listed abortion as number one. It seems to be dropping of late. It looks like the interests of people are mostly inflation, economy, as well as crime. And now, border is rising up, the border wars, along with immigration. That's bad news for Democrats.

100%, because there's not an answer. There's not a they don't have a policy prescription. Speaker Pelosi said the other day when asked by Bill Malugin that the border they're trying to make it secure and that there's a plan for that. But there really is no plan. And you know i've talked to Secretary Mayorkis on Fox News Sunday and other places.

Um It it is not. set in stone about policy, about how they're going to deal with this. And because of that, it becomes exponentially a problem even though just now Networks are starting to send people to the border. I mean, have you noticed that just within the past month? NBC now sends somebody to the border to do stories.

And surprisingly, they're running into Democrats who are turning into Republicans Based on what they're seeing along those border states. But to me, the only Democrat that has credibility is Henry Queyr. Yeah, and he has been on the border every day. He tries to talk logic to Democrats. He also said to Bill Melusian, who relayed that to Shannon Bream on Sunday, that Mayorkis told him that the left-wing immigration groups have gotten the Biden and he's really helpless to do anything.

And Mayorkis, in many cases, has got to sit there and be the battering ram and take it like Muhammad Ali against George Foreman in Zaire and almost rope it dope. But you can't lie. And if that is the case, he's lying under oath. I know. And he's got a long-storied history of being a public servant.

This is Mayorkis. and has has given his life for public service. But if you're dealing with a policy that you have to defend and it's not defendable. defensible Uh it's It's really hard. And basically, that's where he is.

And that's why he's not doing a lot of the interviews unless it's in a very friendly environment. I know Peter Thiel is so confident as we switch to the center races with J.D. Vance. He's basically given all his money now to Blake Masters. He believes Vance has locked this up already.

I don't think he has. Cut four is Vance. Our opponent has tried to run as far away from the Biden administration as he can. And our job is to remind people that he is not the moderate that he pretends to be in his TV commercials. He is, in fact, A rubber stamp for Biden Pelosi.

You know, we can't just be against things. We can't just be against the Biden administration. We have to be for things, too. We have to let people know how our policies are going to make their lives better.

So that's one thing Tim Ryan's doing. He's running from the president and saying he's some of this moderate or slash conservative, said Democrat's a bad word these days. But the bottom line is J.D. Vance is right. Tim Ryan votes with Nancy Pelosi all the time.

100% of the time. It's not like 80%. I know. It's across the board. And so you've got a situation where they have to point out that as Tim Ryan just today or yesterday said, was asked the question, so you're not going to ask President Biden to campaign with you?

And he said, no, I'm not. Um But if that's the case, You're not telling the voters that every time Biden asked you to vote with him, you did. And that's the Vance campaign's challenge.

Now they've had some fundraising issues. They've had some slow start issues. He's a first time candidate. This is Vance. But it's a Republican leaning place.

Pretty reddish, Ohio is. And Teal may be right. I mean, that may be solidifying, but right now the polls are still tight. The other one that is closing is Dr. Oz, Fetterman's Maybe because the issues have moved away from him, because he seems to be: let's go easy on crime, let's look at the problem and think it's police.

Taking Black Lives Matter outside some audio interviews off his website. And Dr. Oz has talked much more practically. We thought going in where Pennsylvanians were. Here's Dr.

Oz yesterday with Laura, cut five. Voters want to know that you care and the way you express that is by listening to what they're saying, which is what you do as a doctor as well, and then addressing their kitchen table concerns. While Federman's talking about the topics you just mentioned and lots of other issues that have nothing to do with the crisis happening here in Pennsylvania, I'm talking about crime, the highest homicide rate ever in the city's history in Philadelphia. I'm talking about drugs, fentanyl in particular, and the open border that's causing it to kill folks in Pennsylvania more than ever before. We're top five in the country with fentanyl deaths.

I'm talking about a 40-year high of inflation and tax rates that are through the roof, advocated by not just Federman as a candidate for the Senate, but also as a lieutenant governor. He was pushing for almost a 50% tax increase, while not paying his own 67 times.

So he's going after Fetterman, who can't get a sentence out because of his stroke, perhaps, who is going to be looking at a closed-caption debate, which is going to be bizarre, which substance will probably be about 20 minutes once they expand it. And then you have somebody that is against fracking, is basically more towards to fund the police than fund the police. The issues are not tacking his direction. How close is this race? I think it's very close.

It's within the margin of error, and that's a substantial shift from plus eleven Fetterman when everything started. Remember, as we talked about before, Oz had a bruising primary against Dave McCormick. That slowed him up. I do think he's finding his stride, and you're right, crime is driving. a lot of the push.

You know, he had a town hall the other day, Oz did, in which Uh a a black man stood up in Philadelphia and said, Honestly, it is easier to get fentanyl on the streets. than it is to get baby powder for my baby formula for my uh kid and These are not like made-up people. These are not like people that they're putting in the crowd. These are real. People that are coming out to talk about the issues they're facing.

And you're right, the issues are going Oz's way. Fetterman has a stump speech that's about 12 minutes, and it is not full of substance. It is full of making fun of us. And you wonder how long that can can hold. Yeah, I mean, he's looking to run out the clock.

It's scary. If President Biden wins the presidency and doesn't campaign, and Fetterman wins the Senate seat and doesn't campaign, I'm afraid what people might learn from that. It's just not fair to the reelectorate not to get to know who people are under pressure and in a debate setting. The last one is the most controversial: Herschel Walker being accused of funding a woman's abortion and paying a $900 check. She's come forward.

Listen to Herschel respond last night, cut one. First question, do you know the woman? that is making this allegation? I have no uh no idea, but it is a flat out lie. And now you know how important this seat is.

This seat is very important that they'll do anything to win this seat, lie, because they want to make it by everything else except what the true problems that we have in this country is. This inflation, the border wide open, crime. They don't want to talk about that.

So they're making up lies now because they need this Georgia seat. And then his son last night came out and says that his dad is lying and that they had to move eight times because they feared fear for their welfare because of him and said some disparaging things about Herschel. What's going on here? Yeah, it's not good. It's crisis management and how the campaign deals with it in the next two days or so is going to determine.

The case of this Senate race.

Now, both candidates have family issues. You know, Raphael Warnock's. ex-wife has her own statements about Warnock and his How he dealt with the family. But this is not good for Herschel Walker and how he deals with. the next few days and the debate more importantly on october fourteenth.

uh in Savannah is going to determine this race. You know, I've seen stranger things in in elections. Think about where we were with With President Trump and candidate Trump, Billy Bush, Texas Hollywood, the bus, John McCain. I mean, we've been down a lot of roads. on elections.

I don't know, but it's how you handle it. That determines whether he's going to come out on top. Right. A lot going on. Indeed, there is a lot at stake.

And I look forward to the next Herschel Walker interview. I think Sean asking very direct questions. And if this woman produces a check and a receipt or a phone call, then Herschel looks like it's lying. If she doesn't and she's set up, it would propel. Could propel him to victory, showing that he's a target of all these would-be attacks.

We also thought it was interesting: the SNL could skew one candidate. They chose Donald Trump and Herschel Walker. And I don't know if you saw, they just had. Uh, Keenan Kamana just mocked Walker's intellect. And I thought to myself, wow, I mean, who commissioned that?

Raphael Warnock? I mean, whatever happened to a fair, and now the late night shows, basically, they promote Brett, something you would promote. Coming up next. Nancy Pelosi. I mean, can you believe it?

Would you think Johnny Carson, when we were saying the Speaker of the House on the next edition of the Tonight Show? I lose I lose Brent. I think I might have. It sounds like you refuse to answer the question, Allison, right? I mean, out of all the questions I've ever asked, that wouldn't be the toughest.

Um, but we'll see.

So we'll see if we get him back. I refuse to answer that question. That's the stand. That's what had Brett Fair just finally made a stand. Can't hear you.

Just real quick, the late night shows are political shows now, but to the point where they're actually saying Senator Schumer and Rav coming up next, the Secretary of Transportation. I mean, I never thought late night shows are going to be like that. I thought that was our job.

Well, guess what? That's why Greg Gutfell's winning. Yeah, I know. I know. Have you been on that show?

I have. I've survived a couple of times. And ha and your career's still intact? Uh well, we'll see. I mean some Well, I mean, yeah.

I mean, it is it they did have the rankings the other day and it's not even close. It just it's a strange time. Br Brett, thanks so much. Do you have you want to uh unveil your panel for the first time? Um we have We have Ben Dominich, Juan Williams, and Libby Beavers on.

We're going to also have common ground, this segment that we do once a week about. you know, either Democrats or Republicans or people from different views starting to talk about where they come together. hopeful to continue that at least once a week. Wow, is is there music underneath it? There is a nice intro.

It makes you feel good. All right, good. Brett, you made me feel better that you came back and didn't duck my question. Thank you so much. Brett, and pick up his paperback to Rescue the Republic.

Appreciate it. Back in a moment. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

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With the outgoing host and producers of The Daily Show are finally said, I can't take it anymore. We're going to have to compare it to a comedy on HBO. Yeah, and it goes on for more than that. And it is very entertaining. But yeah, you know, she's lost everyone when she lost the daily shop.

Listen, even last week, the whole equity comment, North Korea is a longtime ally of ours. He's supposed to making things worse while the president's trying to call on dead congresspeople while. Is misanthropes over in Puerto Rico where he says, I basically am I'm Puerto Rican politically, he said. It's amazing how he's just caused so many more problems for himself by picking people that check boxes rather than qualified. True.

And isn't he at his best when he's at COVID? He was at his best when he had COVID. His ratings went up when he was unable to speak in front of people in the White House. Not that he takes questions, but that's think about it. That's when the President's number surged.

Well, because you feel bad for him and you hope that he's healthy and then also that he can't speak and stick his foot in his mouth. Let's find out this morning now. More. No. Alright, the famed neuroneuropathologist Banan Omalu, the inspiration behind the Will Smith movie Concussion, tells TMZ that Tua should never play another down of the NFL again after suffering a scary head injury.

Listen to Mr. Amalu. Stop playing. Let's do it. Gallantly walk away.

No matter how tough you think you are, your brain is still 60 to 80 percent water. Your brain is still as vulnerable as the brain of a little kid who is 60 years old.

So, my advice to him is: it's time you've suffered severe long-term permanent brain damage. If you love your life, you love your family, you love your kids, if you have kids, it's time.

So gallantly. Walk away. He was never gonna walk away. There's no way he's gonna walk away. He's gonna go through his concussion protocol, and that's it.

Right, because how much is his contract for? Oh, he's about to get a huge contract if he keeps playing like he's playing. There's no way he walks away. Yeah, because what else is he gonna do to make that kind of money? Right, but his, you know, you do wonder about the head injuries in football.

We haven't heard much about this, but now they've got to revamp the protocol. No, they fired the trainer that put him back on the field, but evidently, the trainer did every single thing he was supposed to do under the current rules, and they make him the bad guy. Yeah, that's not fair either. I mean. Except for use logic and say, man, he was barely walking.

His alibi was he has a bruised back. By the way, isn't that a problem? A bruised back? Agreed, but at the same time, if the coaches, then, even if Tua himself is saying, I'm going in, nothing's wrong, I mean, where do you draw the line? I agree.

The poor guy is the scapegoat. Right, and I'll add this, because I won't have time for another story. The Giants, Tyrod Taylor is their backup quarterback. He played one drive and gets hurt. One out, received a thought-to-be concussion.

Any thought that he could play the same week, sometimes five days and you're okay, they're going to London, no one after the Tua situation is going to let him play. No. I mean, better safe than sorry though, because your health is the most important. Like, yes, he has a big contract, but if he can't function in 10 years, what was it worth? And even if you don't know him, know this: for the good of the game, Tua can't be permanently injured.

Because if he's permanently injured, everybody goes down. And people start saying to their kids, you're not playing football. And they got past that. There was a bit of a crisis point. Football got past that.

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