Media flabbergasted by poll showing Trump, Biden in dead heat

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. All right, everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Meet Show, the first after Labor Day I know, and everyone said for the longest time, the election really doesn't start until after Labor Day. Guess what? Check your calendar.

It's after Labor Day, so we can officially say something we knew all summer. Everything matters.

So we know Iowa's not until January. We know a debate's a couple of weeks away back on Fox business. There'll be a third in Alabama, at least. And then we'll see where we stand. I mean, we had eight on the stage, eight on the stage on the first debate.

It looks like Mayor Suarez is not going to continue. I don't know if Will Hurd can do it and Larry Elder as well.

Now we got five qualifying, which makes me wonder. Do we really, is it possible to maybe narrow all the topics down to three? Let's start.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. They did hack me, which was unappreciated, to say the least. I brought it up clearly, put it right on the table. By the way, I brought up many of our grievances on behalf of our national security concerns, concerns of U.S.

labor. Didn't pull any punches. I hope that's the case, but man, if you hacked me, I wouldn't have w visited at all. That was a woman with. Presidential Aspirations, Gina Ramondo, the latest Biden official to beg to be nice to China, even though they're not nice to us.

China aggression versus U.S. as new heights. It's revealed now that they have breached very sensitive sites over 100 times in our country, like military sites, like intelligence sites, with no consequences. As I mentioned, four cabinet secretaries all visit China. China doesn't business here, and they're not showing up for the G20.

Joe, it's time to wake up. Number two.

So we're changing that. Replacing trickle-down economics with what everyone on Wall Street is referring these days to Bidenomics. And guess what? It's working. Economy.

Joe says it's great. Most of you say it's not. We have the stats, but only you have your reality. I want to hear from you. Number one.

It's an alarm bell for Democrats who think that because of these indictments, he's going to automatically lose the general election. This poll suggests no. It's a very competitive race, but it suggests that this is not in any way a gimme for the Democrats. It's a dead heat right now, 2024.

So far, the primary is all Trump, up by about 40. Dead heat nationally, despite four indictments. We have the polls and the reaction for the dumbfounded Trump critics, many of which have said that he'd be dead and buried by now. Why isn't he? And by the way, this is a great day for us.

Anytime we can add to the Brian Kilmicho family, we're adding over WATA AM, Curtis Media Boone in North Carolina. We'll air our show every single day, live, like right now. And welcome. We truly appreciate you being here. And let me welcome you to Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, now moving up in the polls in New Hampshire, especially and fighting the good fight, already qualified for the second debate.

Governor, welcome back. Brian, thanks for having me. Hope you had a good everyday weekend. Did you work? Were you out there?

We were out there working, and we're out raising money and making sure that we have what we need to communicate our message all across the country. My analysis, the best thing to ever happen to you, Mike Pence, and And Governor Haley is the Vaikramaswamy. Yeah, look. Look, he, you know, everybody, in every one of the races I've seen, and I know you've seen over the last few cycles. There's a candidate who comes out of nowhere seemingly to get some attention, and it's a temporary thing.

And I have my eyes focused where I need to have them focused. And to the extent that Vivek continues to be the kind of Ty, you wanted to stuff in the locker in the 11th grade, um, you know, we'll deal with him. But the fact is that we have important issues to deal with in this country, uh, and people who have experience and are thoughtful about them need to deal with them. And that's what I intend to do. Yeah, I mean, he's really bright.

I'm very friendly with him. I did his feature when his book came out. The success he had before 40, almost no one, including me, would ever experience. But when it comes to foreign policy and some other issues, I just looked at your face at the debate in Milwaukee. You leaned forward and you thought to yourself, is this happening?

And that's going to. Brian, you know, you don't, I don't think it should be American policy to treat Israel, like we treat every other country in the Middle East, when Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. I don't think it should be American policy to give away Taiwan to the Chinese. I don't think it should be American policy to cuddle up to a brutal autocratic dictator like Vladimir Putin with the hopes that he's going to like us more than he's going to like another brutal autocratic dictator in Xi Jinping and China. And as I predicted on the debate stage, now North Korea wants to get involved in the game because Joe Biden is so weak that everybody feels like now's the time to take advantage.

And Vivek is essentially playing that same game.

So, you know, these are the realistic things. The good news is we've only had one debate so far. We're going to have another one in three weeks. And I'm looking forward to being there. You, I understand, believe that President Trump will be at the Alabama debate.

I don't know who's carrying it or details, but why do you believe that? Because I think he lost an opportunity, I think, in Milwaukee to be there, and I think to be able to articulate what he wants. I think he thinks the audience at the University of Alabama would be a favorable one for him. He likes that. And I think he's going to want to get in the middle of this thing.

So I think he'll be there. I'm going to be there.

So it doesn't matter to me whether he's there or not. But if he is there, it'll certainly be a bit of a different atmosphere on the stage.

So I want you to hear George Stephanopoulos. Place used to be full-time. I imagine you got benefits if you chose to take them, or you could use your wives. That's something personal for you. But ABC, George Stephanopoulos, this week with him, he was actually on the show.

And here's what he was just shocked by the new poll that has Trump and Biden locked at 46%. Cut to it is kind of shocking in a way that despite all of the baggage that Donald Trump carries, he's tied with Joe Biden right now. With every passing month, with every new indictment, Donald Trump seems to be consolidating his control over the Republican Party. And as much experience as you had, and he's had, and every expert's had, no one predicted anything that's happening right now. Four indictments, I don't know if anyone said four.

The reaction for the public, I believe they've gone so far, they've made Donald Trump. A sympathetic figure, which I don't even think he's comfortable with. Do you agree? Look, I think that what's happened here is that all this stuff is theoretical when it's in an indictment. I think the problems for Donald Trump are going to come when he's got to go to trial in two different respects.

The first is that evidence is actually going to be presented by live witnesses and documents. that will make people, I think, feel significantly differently about this and make them feel much less like some of these charges. And you know, Brian, I don't agree with the New York case. I don't think it should have been brought. And I don't think the Atlanta case should have been brought against Donald Trump.

He had already been charged with essentially the same crimes in the federal case, and I think both. cases went well overboard and I wouldn't have brought them. But on the two federal cases, I think when those evidence starts to be presented, it becomes much more real to people. Secondly, He's going to be sitting in a courtroom. Um for all of March and much of April, every day.

It's not optional whether to show up for your criminal trial or not, as it is for a civil trial. And so he's going to have to be there every day, not out there making the case against Joe Biden. When when those things happen, I think this this race changes significantly. And as those things become more of a reality, as we get closer to it, I think the race changes. And I know that's what everybody's banking on, because it's a pretty big deficit between DeSantis U, Nikki Haley, Vivek.

So as you look at that, When you strategize, and it is to me like sports, when you strategize, is your goal to get ahead of DeSantis or is your goal to get ahead of Trump? While I'm already ahead of the status in New Hampshire in the last poll, By five points and within twenty of Trump, and Trump's at thirty-four. In the latest New Hampshire polls.

So look, this is why these national polls are foolhardy, Brian. We don't have a national primary. We have a state-by-state primary. This should remind everybody of twenty sixteen. When Hillary Clinton was the head of Donald Trump, In every National Pulp.

Going into General Election Day, and then Donald Trump gets 306 electoral votes. Why? Because this is a state by state race. both in the primary and in the general election. And so to me, national polls are meaningless.

They show trend. But they don't show anything other than that. And what we're seeing in New Hampshire is that we've gone from zero to fourteen percent in three months. And we're going to continue to climb in New Hampshire. And then if Donald Trump were to lose, one of those elections in Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina or Nevada.

Is the first four. then it becomes an entirely different race.

So You know, the election is not going to be held today, and I know for some reason there's always an obsession among people. if they want an end erase before it starts. Um, it's not going to happen.

So we're going to continue to run the race. We're going to run hard in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and we're going to see where this ends up in January and February, not in September. Was Ron DeSantis wrong not to show up with Joe Biden in Florida after the hurricane? Sure. He's playing politics with it.

But That's his choice. I'm not the least bit surprised. that that's what he chose to do. Um, you know, the governor of the state. If the President of the United States comes, and you're asking the President of the United States or the Congress were significant.

uh aid which Robert said this is doing. Um and especially You voted against it ten years ago. For Sandy Aid. You should have been there with the President to welcome him. Fortunately, Rick Scott, the United States Senator and a former governor, two term governor who knows what it means to be governor.

um showed up uh and made sure that the President saw the things that you needed to see. Your job as governor Is to be the tour guide for the president, is to make sure the president sees your people. See the damage. sees the suffering that's going on and what's going to need to be done to rebuild it. You're doing your job.

And unfortunately, he put politics ahead of his job. That was his choice. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. I think in his mind, and I've not talked to those guys, they saw an ad. coming out from his Republican opponents, Ron DeSantis is really a Democrat.

Guess who he decided to show up with? Joe Biden and praise Joe Biden for his he wants to he praise for Joe Biden for his support. That happened to you, correct? It did. It did, I wouldn't do a thing differently.

Because my obligation is to the people who elected me. And the people who elected me were all the people of the state of New Jersey. And guess what? we were able to rebuild our state in record time. Be able to bring it back to where it needed to be, returned our tourism.

The very next summer, remember, Sandy happened October 29th. And by the next summer, tourism was back at the Jersey Shore because of the way we worked with the federal government to get the aid we needed and to get things done. Um I think people should want someone who wants to do their job first and foremost while they're auditioning for another job. Not put the audition for the other job and the politics ahead of doing things for the people of Florida.

So uh we had President Biden out over the weekend, and there are times when you want to say the economy is great. That's your you could look at certain numbers. Everybody knows that, as part of politics. I look at the job numbers. I look at the fact of growth and I but I've never seen someone blatantly lie about a liability.

And one of the things that he's lying about is that he cut the deficit. And I cannot believe this, but the federal deficit not only is not cut, it doubled for the first time without a catastrophe or a war from $1 trillion last year to $2 trillion for this fiscal year. And it's going to go up again. All the spending programs that he passed on mostly a partisan vote, some were bipartisan on the infrastructure. have now come into play.

And the money that is not there, we have spent six point seven trillion. We have only we've only had four point five trillion in revenue. And the President of the United States actually stood on the stage, I think it was Philadelphia, and said, I'm cutting the deficit. How do you attack somebody? that blatantly takes his liability and tries to reverse it.

The other thing he says is, Republicans have been bad on fentanyl, and I'm going to crack down on it. That type of jiu jitsu almost seems so farcical, but are you concerned it's going to work? It's only going to work if the person running against him in November has their own credibility problems. That's the only way it's going to work, Brian. The fact is That we know, and I've been talking about the spending that's been done, quite frankly.

Pins Barack Obama. Obama, Trump. And Biden. have sent have added trillions trillions and trillions to the deficit. Trump's added over six point five trillion dollars in four years to the deficit.

Biden's adding even more. He's going to outstrip Trump's four years. Without a pandemic. And I like to take Trump's record, and I think you agree with me prior to the pandemic, don't you think?

Well, look, I I'm I'm excluding pandemic spending, Brian. If you add pandemic spending, it's over eight trillion. Look, Donald Trump admitted it himself. he had no interest in fiscal responsibility. He didn't and he spent the way he spent.

That's fine. He'll have to defend that at some point. But it becomes very difficult if you don't have a great record on spending to be able to call Joe Biden out on his lies. And Joe Biden is lying. He's lying in a big way.

Listen, inflation, it still costs 17% more for families. to buy anything. Than it did when Joe Biden became president. They still are having their wages fall behind what their costs are. Um people feel like they're worse off.

in America today than when Joe Biden became president, because they are. And it's becoming harder and harder. For them to be able to put food on the table, put gas in the car, cool their homes in the summer, heat their homes in the winter because of his awful energy policy. I mean, look, there's so much to go after this guy on. And to get back to your original point, That's why we don't want to be talking next fall about Whether Donald Trump was convicted in some of his earlier trials or will be.

We want to be talking about Joe Biden's awful performance as President of the United States. Governor Christie, you don't have a Mets playoff run to distract you. You can focus on your own run.

So, best of luck. Thanks for checking in with us. It's after Labor Day. Nobody can say it doesn't matter anymore. Go get him, Governor.

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The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. I tell you what.

Someone said, you know, that bite, he's getting old, man. I tell you what.

Well guess what? Guess what? I tell you, the only thing that comes today is a little bit of wisdom. Hi, Bob. I've been doing this longer than anybody, and I guess what?

I'm going to continue to do it with your help. Look, uh that's what they told him to do, is spin it. And I think Bernie Sanders could spin it, even though he's terrible for the country. He'd go, listen, I'm getting older, yeah, but I'm not slowing down. And you know, he really isn't.

I don't think he's running for election. There's a good chance he's not running for re-election, by the way. And You could say that, you know, make your age wisdom. And Trump is reluctant to bring up age because he's 77. He doesn't want people examining him, even though.

You know, I don't think any of all the criticisms on Trump. Very few people say, oh, he's too old. They just don't want them or they absolutely have to have them. You heard Chris Christie, the field is not losing faith that they'll have a shot at this before it's said and done. When we come back, the latest on the border.

And how it's affecting Democrats in Democratic cities. We go to Texas, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, Brian Kilmicho.

So glad you're here. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. When I looked at that recent poll, the Wall Street Journal, I said, oh, this could kick me up at night. Look, the problem is, and the biggest challenge we face is Democrats.

I say, we, because I'm a Democrat, is that young voters, young black and Latino voters, they're not ready to come back to the party. They're not even looking at the so-called messaging that's being sent to them about the economy, about climate change, about student debt relief. They are worried about their future. And right now, they're looking for a leader who represents their values and their vision. And I think the president's campaign is going to have to really go deep and go hard to motivate those voters to come back within the Democratic Party coalition.

Because without them, it is a tight race and it's going to come down to 46. Yeah. Nothing against Donna Brazil's nice person, used to work at Fox, but I always fast-forward her sound bites because. They're all just, you know, they're pro-Democrat. They're not analysis.

This was a, in my view, A message right to the people around Joe Biden or who's ever going to run instead of Joe Biden. That she's seen polls with all her years of experience that show that there's a problem coming her way, the Democrats' way, and they're not even addressing it or acknowledging it. And they just think Trump is so, he'll be the nominee and we'll beat him easy. It was not going to be much of a problem. We've got a great chance to take him back to the House.

I'm going to leave it to the others. And she's seeing a major problem, a major problem among people that never were a problem before: African Americans and Latinos. And more and more they're flipping because they just know how much better their life was. And I look at some of this. Rent up 7.7%.

Do you think they're listening to Joe Biden in Philadelphia tell you how great Bidenomics is if you pay more? The average food, 4%.

So I was on one of those type budgets. Thankfully, I'm not now, most of my life. And if everything's a little 4% or 5% and you have almost zero margin for error, that means if you go out to eat, it throws off your budget. And going out to eat is now more expensive. Average gallon of gas is going up, it's now at $3.81 again.

So here we go. And 70% of the jobs added were people coming back to their jobs after the pandemic.

So even the jobs numbers are a little bit skewed. I want to bring this Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, not only a perspective on the border, but first I want to talk to you about minorities. Nobody has to tell you you're an American first, African American second, in my view, Colonel, and you're just going to vote for what's better for the country. and do what's better for the country, but for the longest time, people have stayed within their lanes. Is something really changing?

What do you think Donna Brazil's up to saying something like that on a national television show?

Well, I think that something is truly really changing. It's good to be with you, Brian. When you look at a Georgia state representative down in a Ninety-eight percent uh black before Joe Biden, 96 to 97%, and she decides that she is going to change her party affiliation for Democrat to Republican, not because it's going to give her political advantage, but because she doesn't feel any alignment with the Democrat Party. And her number one issue was school choice.

So when you start to look in the inner city communities where the schools are failing kids, I mean many kids in the black community cannot read or do math at grade level. You look at the wanton crime that is occurring in all the major urban population centers. I mean just about every week we have a young black child that is killed or shot because of a gangstray bullet. When you look at what is happening on the border and How these Hispanic communities are being adversely affected. And of course, young people see the influx of fentanyl.

So, yes, the Democrat Party is failing. It's not just their messages, their policies that people are realizing they don't help me. And you just articulate it with rent, with food, with gasoline, all of the everyday things that people have to contend with. And no amount of lying to them is going to get them to continue to provide electoral support to a failing political party. And if you want to look at macroeconomics, go ahead.

You look at this. He has doubled the deficit in a year from $1 to $2 trillion. Yeah. At a time in which the interest rates have gone up, and it was explained to me that the interest that we're paying on that debt as the Fed ratchet up interest rates to slow down the economy and slow down inflation now equals defense spending. Do you believe that?

And now equals defense spending, and we need more of it, and people are trying to cut it. Yeah, and think about this: what Jerome Powell is doing when you raise those interest rates, you're really putting a crunch on the small community banks, which means you're putting a crunch on small businesses. They're not able to go and get loans, and we just saw Moody's downgrade about 15 to 20 small banks. But also, the other thing is that people are stuck in their homes. Nobody wants to go and look at buying a new home.

Because the interest rate now is 7% or 8% on purchase of a new home or even purchase of a new car. Look at the interest rates on a car loan.

So what Donna Brazil has to understand is that they can sit around and say, well, let's trick them once again, but people are feeling it and they're not going to fall. Like I said, they're not going to fall for her lies.

So I I know you haven't endorsed anybody yet. I want you to play another soundbite from down in Brazil. And this is something that George Stefanopoulos echoed, and so did Chuck Todd. No one can believe in the latest national polls and the latest poll. Despite four indictments in all this negative press, Donald Trump's in a flat-footed tie with Joe Biden, cut six.

I've never seen anything like this with Donald Trump. I mean, what doesn't kill you make you stronger? I mean, being convicted, I mean, being indicted, that's making him stronger. Raising $10 million using an ugly mug shot to raise money, this is a movement. And anyone who thinks that you can apply the old political rules to trying to defeat this candidate, Based on he's scary, he's ugly, whatever you might want to call him, this is a movement.

And we have to respect the fact that it's a movement. And you know, if the election was today, I think there's an excellent chance you would win. And here's why. They have done the impossible after the midterms, in which I think he really supported some bad candidates and cost possibly his party the Senate and didn't go to bat for his candidate in Georgia and maybe costing his party the Senate. Donald Trump has come out and they have so overcharged him and attacked him to such in many views, in some ways, absolutely, to an unfair way.

They have actually made him, and you combine that with how. Bad Joe Biden has struggled, in my view, in so many ways and hurt people with the economic numbers we just discussed. Donald Trump looks better every day. Yeah. Well, what the Democrats and town of Brazil need to understand is that they've created this two-tiered system of justice.

And people are smart enough to sit around and say, hey, look, I mean, you know, we know that, you know, in several election cycles, you guys complained about the election results. You guys complained about sitting electors. You guys refused to accept election results. But now all of a sudden it's a crime to say that that's how you feel or some of the other things. It just seems petty.

It seems vindictive. And it seems like a third world banana republic. And people are very accurate in saying so. And that you're going to use the leverages of government and the legal system of government to go after your political opposition.

So yes, they have made him stronger. But I will tell you that I think what may end up putting Donald Trump over the hump, if he is the eventual nominee, is his vice president's election. I think that we're going to see for the first time in a long time. the position of Vice President being a very integral, vital and important selection. Because when you look at the other side, if it's going to continue to be Biden and Harris, no one wants to see Kamala Harris step up into the role of President.

No one I mean, her approval ratings are worse than what Joe Biden has.

So I think that President Trump needs to be very sharp in selecting a strong vice presidential nominee that can really unite the American people and expose the left for the lies and who they are. Yeah, and this new book that came out, it really makes her look terrible, petty, and thin-skinned and really lost. It's even worse behind the scenes when they had this friendly writer, write The Last Politician. He has a review. I can only go by the excerpts.

It makes it look absolutely terrible. But Michael, the other thing, before we leave the Trump and persecution, even Chris Christie told me 20 minutes ago, the New York case is ridiculous. Georgia shouldn't have been done.

So, Chris Christie, maybe the greatest critic of Donald Trump there is, said, What are you doing? And bottom line is, think about this. If he sits in courts and starts to win. Can you imagine this? If he starts to win, he's going to hit.

Uh turbo speed. But they're not stopping there. Look at this. Michael Ludig, who's a conservative judge, former federal judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, along with the incredulous Adam Schip, how this guy's running for Senate and not just disgraced somewhere in some alley is beyond me.

This is the new strategy now. Get him off the ballot. Cut twelve. This is one of the most fundamental questions that could ever be decided under our Constitution. And it will be decided by the Supreme Court of the United States sooner rather than later, and most likely before the first primaries in which Donald Trump would be put on the ballot or disqualified from the ballot by one of those secretaries of state.

And here's why. The Fourteenth Amendment they say Trump violated by causing an insurrection January 6th.

Now, even he wasn't even charged with insurrection.

So they're going to bring this up to the Supreme Court and try to keep him off. The Secretary of State in New Hampshire will be the first. All these Secretaries of State in these blue states will try to kick him off the ballot. And game on. Here we go again.

Yeah, well, it's very interesting that they're trying to use the insurrection word when the Democrat Party supports a group called Antifa, which is a domestic terrorist organization, which has been out there conducting so much violence, so much destruction of property. They continue to do so. They attack law enforcement officers and agencies. We saw that happen in Georgia. And we know that Vice President Harris, when she was a senator, she was going out there helping to get these people released from jail.

We know that Joe Biden is unconstitutional and that he's violating Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution with the open borders policy.

So you have two people sitting in the Oval Office, the President and Vice President, that we can clearly see how they've supported domestic terrorism and how they are conducting unconstitutional actions. And you're going to try to stretch this into some insurrection thing with dollars. Trump and kicking him off the ballot. This is the reason why Donald Trump is being successful. Because the left, instead of trying to run on the merits of their policies, they're just trying to destroy him as their political opposition.

So it just blows me away, Colonel, because you know what's going to happen? It's the Fourteenth Amendment. I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I'm lucky to have so many at Fox, and he's not going to be kicked off the ballot. And the Supreme Court will make sure of it. And that's going to be another victory for him.

I read some of the excerpts from the seven-hour deposition he had to do to legitimize his business, because he might have inflated, according to some, the value of his company and the volume of his building, the volume of his golf courses, whatever that is. With no complaints. There's not a bank out there that say he didn't get paid. There's not a country out there that said he violated their laws. There's no illegal activity.

They think he inflated the worth of his business in order to secure loans, which he has paid off.

So he sat there for seven hours to justify things with Letitia James. When people see this and say, If they can do this to Trump, can you imagine what they can do to even someone of any with maybe meagre means or even? Let's say a wealthy person. We have no shot. They're making him more likely to be president every day with this stuff.

Absolutely, they are. And you consider Joe Biden and his family with twenty shell companies, nine members of his family getting funds from countries like Romania. We know the corruption yeah, the corruption of Hunter Biden, but yet nothing is being said, nothing is being done. Michael Weiss is a disgraced special prosecutor and he's supposed to be in charge of an investigation. They are propping him up, and you're absolutely right with what you're saying.

And I think this whole scheme, this whole attack that they're using, plan of attack they're using, is severely backfiring against them, and they're going to be completely frustrated and they're going to end up imploding. Yeah. I mean, I did and Mark Elias is behind this big Fourteenth Amendment. He and John Podesta have done more damage to this country than anybody else. He's the evil guy behind the Russia investigation.

Go ahead. But again, understand the Fourteenth Amendment had to do with people that fought in the Confederacy, not allowing them to come back and be federal officers. Donald Trump didn't put on Donald Trump didn't put on a uniform of a non I mean, this is sick. It is, it's nuts. And by the way, this is crazy.

Over the weekend I had to read this twice. After Trump put out all the paraphernalia, it wasn't untenyed made $20 million off his head off his mug shot. Trump indictments, some of the biggest names in rap are now backing Donald Trump. And this guy, and I don't know any of them, my bad. Chicago rapper Badman Kivo did the best to give Trump a leg up on this week by tattooing the former president's mugshot on his leg and sharing the moment on Instagram with his three followers.

He also has three or four others. They're saying, You're my guy. We think you're persecuted. That mugshot on mugs sold me. I'm in.

And I'm just wondering how many people in the African-American community will remember that President Trump wanted to send federal troops into these cities, not to come down on them, but to come down on the people in these cities that wanted to live a life but couldn't because of the crime around them. As opposed to, let's make sure cops don't chase criminals. Let's make sure cops have no power to follow up and prosecute. Let's make sure the criminals get zero cash bail. And I'm just wondering how many good working families in the cities are going, I'll take the other guy.

No, they're starting to think that, especially if you live in, like say, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, D.C. You look at the mayor of Chicago, he's an absolute embarrassment. And so people want law and order. People want to be safe, not just domestically, but they want to be safe internationally. And we don't feel safe with the threats of Russia and China.

Hey, Colonel, I really wore you out today. You're going to have to take a rest after this. You sure? No, I'm good, man. I'm going to take my podcast now.

All right. We're good. Go do it. All right, Colonel Allen West, thanks so much. Go get him.

Thank you, Brian. All right, and go tape and go check out his podcast. Back at him home with your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Brian, Kilmicho. Both sides, all opinions.

It's Brian Killmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. I think there's a real alarm and it's becoming more and more real. I mean, people were somewhat hopeful that we would be in a different place by now.

And now they're starting to come to the realization that, hey, this is, we might actually have. Donald Trump as the nominee, and Joe Biden as the nominee. And this is something that 70% of the people in America do not want. They do not want Donald Trump or Joe Biden, they don't want a rematch. And they don't think these are the two best choices to be running the race.

And that is Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican who despises Trump. And I actually think that he'll end up running on the no labels ticket because what else is he going to do? They're still trying to get him to run for Senate. He'd be the one that has a legitimate shot at getting that Republican seat. We'll see what happens.

But Donald Trump did endorse the wrong guy in Maryland that would have given him a shot against Westmore, who now took over and is a rising star on the right. But listen. The anti-Trump Republicans are in a bad spot because all they could do is say to get out of the race, and if he still wins, they'll say, Well, we'll go to no labels. No labels will help. No labels and Whatever third party wants to go, you know, Joe Liebman was on with us last week.

If he runs, that's going to help Trump.

So, you could say whatever you want. Nobody wants to hear what Larry Hogan has to say. It's going to be the people in the field. And if they have a shot, they're not going to listen to Larry Hogan saying to get out like John Kasich did last time. Brian Kilmicho, so glad you're here.

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I'm Brian Kilmead. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmead Show.

So glad to be with you as we come to you from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. And we know now, no more can they tell us it doesn't matter. It's too early. It's the dog days of summer. We're now after Labor Day.

Most of us are back at work.

Some of us are getting back to school. And now it's time to really focus on. I always love this: both primary processes. And I do believe that it's going to end up. I'm about 80% sure that Joe Biden will not be running again.

So I think we're going to have both sides. It's going to be a real exciting primary season while they still look to each other. And before we get to Michael Goodwin, and a little bit later, we go out to Ukraine. Uh and talk to Dan Bilak over there in the war zone. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. They did hack me, which was unappreciated, to say the least. I brought it up clearly, put it right on the table. By the way, I brought up many of our grievances on behalf of our national security concerns, concerns of U.S.

labor. Didn't pull any punches. That is Gina Raimondo, our Commerce Secretary. Here we go. China's aggression in the U.S.

New Heights. As it's revealed, they have breached our sensitive sites over 100 times. No consequences, but instead they get visits from four cabinet secretaries. And all China hears is weakness. And now there'll be a side summit with Joe Biden.

No, there won't be. President Xi will not be going to the G20.

So much for being nice. Number two.

So we're changing that. Replacing trickle-down economics with what everyone on Wall Street is referring these days to Bidenomics. And guess what? It's working. It is the economy.

Joe says it's great. Most of you say it is not. We have the stats, and you have your reality. Number You know, it's an alarm bell for Democrats who think that because of these indictments he's going to automatically lose the general election. This poll suggests no.

It's a very competitive race, but it suggests that this is not in any way a gimme for the Democrats. It isn't Peter Baker of the New York Times 2024, a runaway in the primary and a dead heat nationally for Donald Trump. As the real fight for the right to lead our nation begins, we got the polls, the reaction, and the dumbfounded Trump critics who cannot understand how a guy can be indicted four times and be stronger. Ken Michael Goodwin. Michael joins us now from an undisclosed location.

He does not want to give out his GPS coordinates, and I understand that. Michael, I want to get into your column because it does really resonate nationally. But first things first, I'm watching Stephanopoulos, Chuck Todd, Peter Baker, all these experts and analysts can't understand how the latest poll has Trump 46, Biden 46. Can Michael Goodwin? I can, Brian.

I mean, I must admit that I too am surprised. If you go back six months, a year, it seemed unlikely that Donald Trump Could be the Republican nominee if only because. There was a general sense within his rivals in the party, and I think in the general commentariat. that he was not electable in a general election. But not Everything has been flipped on its head as that Wall Street Journal poll over the weekend, I think was a devastating poll for everybody except Trump.

I mean, it makes him look almost invincible within the party. And it certainly puts him as a legitimate candidate with Trump. And I think it begins to shift. The focus with Biden, I'm sorry, and it begins to shift the focus to Biden. Is Biden really going to run?

Is he going to be the standard-bearer for the Democrats when he is so weak? When, as you said, the economy is a mess, his approval ratings are disastrous. What, two-thirds of the public doesn't want him to run, including majorities of his own party? They think he's too old.

So now I think, in a way, it looks like Trump has. Not entirely, but he's got what looks to be an insurmountable lead within the primary.

Well, what about Biden? Right.

So for people who don't know, the Wall Street Journal poll came out and they're tied at 46 of 46. Undecided is 8. Uh, now it was at seven in April.

So here we go. Uh, now we look at the primary process, and you know, Chris Christie made a good point last hour. He said, It, you know, national polls don't matter, but they do show a trend and a tendency and a sentiment. Uh, if they, even if you, you know, you want to split the difference, Trump's got 59 percent of the Republican primary vote, DeSantis 13, Nikki Haley, eight, uh, Ramaswamy, five, Chris Christie, three, Pence, two, Scott, two, Asa Hutchinson, and Bergman at one percent.

So now it's a little bit closer in Iowa, a little bit closer to New Hampshire, but they're still on top.

So no one can understand it. I want you to hear just a collection of people over the weekend because many people didn't watch on Sunday. Just speculate on what is going on, cut one. It is kind of shocking in a way that despite all of the baggage that Donald Trump carries, he's tied with Joe Biden right now. You know, it's an alarm bell for Democrats who think that because of these indictments, he's going to automatically lose a general election.

This poll's going to be a very good. Suggests no, it's a very competitive race, 46 to 46 percent. As you say, we can't be certain about polls, certainly as far out, but it suggests that this is not in any way a gimme for the Democrats, despite former President Trump's legal troubles. People were somewhat hopeful. That we would be in a different place by now.

And now they're starting to come to the realization that: hey, this is, we might actually have. Donald Trump as the nominee, and Joe Biden as the nominee. And this is something that 70% of the people in America do not want. Man on the right is the former president of the United States with four indictments. And he's still tied with Joe Biden in this poll.

They just don't know. I just don't know how to handle it. And the thing is, they've so overcharged him in all this stuff. It's all coordinated. And now they're going to hit him with the 14th Amendment.

That he was behind an insurrection and is ineligible to run for president. That's Mark Elias' last evil move. The other one was the Russia hoax.

Now he's behind the 14th Amendment push. And that's only going to help him because he is right to run. He didn't cause an insurrection. And when it goes up to the Supreme Court, it's another victory.

Well Brian and Yeah, uh you're right about about these polls because What they show is that For a lot of Republicans and even some voters in general, the indictments are proof. Of a corruption within the Democratic Party and the federal government. And so that is a big part of Trump's support now: that he has been victimized by a corrupt government.

Now that That is like a ricochet because it not only helps Trump, but it hurts Biden. And of course, it hurts the other candidates who are in the Republican Party.

So that's why I say the poll is devastating in that it helps him only and hurts everybody else.

So I want to talk about your column in New York because I could write the same you could write something very similar in Chicago with mayors and governors. And you could write the same thing, I think, in Pennsylvania with mayor and the mayor of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and the governor. And I think you could probably do it with the horrendous shape of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Oh, we're happy being liberal and we're open-minded. Excuse me.

Your policies are to the left of everything liberal, and you're destroying the best cities in the world before our eyes. And now you're watching an inept governor work with an overmatched mayor. And what's the result in New York for people listening around the country?

Well, Brian, it feels as though the city is kind of sinking fast and that there is no real leadership From the governor or the mayor that would make a difference. Look, I mean, I think that the Previous problems are well known. The crime, of course, the quality of life, the public disorder, the taxes, the cost of living, et cetera. These are well established, a failing school system. What you've got now on top of all of this is the migrant issue.

So The city now calculates that there are over one hundred thousand, something 105,000 of the illegal asylum seekers in New York City, of which 60,000 at least are living at city and taxpayer expense, meaning in hotels that the city leased out. or in congregate shelters. Over 200 of which have been opened just for the migrants, 200 sites.

So, this is an extraordinary problem. The city has never seen anything like this. And it brought it on itself largely. I mean, of course, Joe Biden is responsible for the open borders. But the mayor and the governor Essentially said, come on in, come here.

And the city has a right to shelter obligation. which is enforced by the courts. And so anybody who shows up says I don't have a place to sit stay tonight. The city has some rights to sort of put them through questionnaires, et cetera, but ultimately, it has to give them a bed And a meal. and a roof.

And so when you multiply that by this incredible migrant flood of asylum seekers, most of whom will not get asylum if their ever cases are ever adjudicated, It's bankrupting the city. It's taking over all the public services, all the public spaces. And there's no end to it. And this has been my complaint all along, Brian. When the mayor said we're a sanctuary city, come on in.

The governor did all these things to encourage it. There's no limit. There's no the border is still open. Millions I think Fox has counted something like six and a half million have come across the border during Joe Biden. Yeah, that's right, Joe Biden's tenure.

Many of them are the gotaways, a million or so of those who are unidentified.

So It's just a disaster, and it's being focused on the city. We don't know. I mean, we've seen pictures of the border towns and things like that, but we don't know what are the numbers in Los Angeles, what are the numbers in San Francisco? I mean, Boston had to call out the National Guard last week because of riots there involving Democratic governor. Had to call out the National Guard to handle the emergency.

The Democratic mayor called out the administration, so now the administration doesn't take his calls. And the governor went to meet the governor, Democratic governor of New York, went to meet with the president. And the president had no time, even though he was in the White House and she was in the White House. And this guy's got nothing but time.

So they're giving the New York cities the cold shoulder and they're ruining their own cities. And I know Lee Zeldon helped Republicans come to the polls in New York, got 47%, but lost to 52% for Hokul. But in turn, they flipped some seats that allowed the House to go to Republicans. Do you believe, Mike, that? Michael Goodwin in the New York Post, do you believe that that could the immigration issue could get the Republicans to the polls again or flip the Democrats?

I do. I think it's a very big issue. I think it's something of a sleeper issue in the sense that the mainstream media doesn't want to cover it, doesn't want to acknowledge it. Because it's, of course, bad for Democrats.

So let's not talk about it. But it is an issue I think that people are seeing across the country. And look, the fact that Joe Biden Has such low approval numbers, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41 in these polls. This is clearly one of the main issues. And I think again, Brian, everything turns on the kind of purple state voter.

And in many districts, Around the country, you were going these swing districts in the House, you were gonna see them turn on the economy. On the sense that Joe Biden is too old and that the immigration is an example of his failure as president to enforce the law and to stand up for America. Yeah, so listen to this. 41 were arrested at the Roosevelt Hotel. This is a hotel that was taken out of mothballs, and now they're living pretty good.

They get three meals a day.

Some of them don't like it. They fight in the stairs, they drink in the hallways.

Now, 41 people have been arrested at the Roosevelt Hotel. This one woman, a young migrant woman with a prior assault rap, was arrested last week for allegedly slapping a cop, an NYPD cop. She was freed immediately without bail, and she gets to still stay for free three meals a day, and they get laundry service. Do you believe this? And now, tomorrow, 19,000 illegal immigrant kids who might be the one, I'm sure they're wonderful children, but we can't absorb 19,000 illegal immigrant kids into a system that's already.

Dramatically underperforming for those in it.

Well, and and in some of those arrest stories, there was one where one guy said, Oh, I like it here, it's good. I mean, we don't the food we don't like the food, but we get free child care too.

So, wouldn't a lot of ordinary citizens like to have free child care for the government? I mean, Brandon, when you read those things, it does resonate a bit with the Ukraine argument. We are spending billions to protect Ukraine's borders, but we will not protect our own. We are spending millions to give free child care and free housing to illegal immigrants, but we have many citizens who don't have those rights and privileges and comforts.

So, I think there's a sense that the Country is out of whack. That its priorities are wrong, that it's not taking care of its own first, that charity begins at home. People understand that. And I think that the more these issues go on, don't forget, we're still a year away from a general election. I think these problems, there's no sign they're going to get better within the next year.

And while we're talking, the Philadelphia Police Commissioner just resigned over the crime wave that's blanketed that city.

So that's the story. We can't control the crime because the cops aren't allowed to do their job. And that's it. And when it comes to Ukraine, we're suffering under Joe Biden's half-in, half-out tactics. Not giving them what they need to be successful, but not abandoning them so they don't lose, which I think is also criminal and makes it very tough for Republicans to back this ridiculous approach.

And we have a Secretary of Defense who's there just to collect a paycheck. Thanks so much for the column and the insight. Michael Goodwin, thank you. Always a pleasure, Brian. Thank you.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. If at the end of this calendar year, Joe Biden announces that he's not going to seek a secondary. Based on all your reporting, how much of a surprise will that be to you? I would say it would be a surprise to me, but it wouldn't be a total surprise. It wouldn't be a total shock.

It wouldn't be a total shock. When he talks about his life, he uses this word fate constantly. Joe Biden is a very religious guy, and fate is a word loaded with religious meaning. And he always talks about, he can't say where fate goes. And so I always, when I hear that, to me, it's the ellipses in the sentence when he's talking about his own future that I account for in thinking about his calculus.

So, look, the headline is: he would not be surprised. That's Frank Ford, the author of The Last Politician. He had access for the last two and a half years to Joe Biden. They expected a friendly outcome, not a Bob Woodward type thing where you have no idea. But some of the stuff that has come out has made him look horrible, especially when it comes to Afghanistan, how he couldn't believe the press's reaction to Afghanistan and understand what was going on.

And he made himself his own advisor and didn't even study the different options and military advisors, but he trumped everybody. And even though he was told, and I'm under, I have a very good source that told me that General Milley has papered his way of giving the right advice, he thought, to Joe Biden to leave 2,500 troops behind just to make sure he wasn't blamed.

So there's a lot of stuff in there. But there's Joe Biden. I think he's running. I think he thinks he's running. I'm just wondering if his party is not going to tap him and just say, Joe, you can't run.

You can't campaign. You make no sense. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. Why is all this going on? They want to get to the south, shut off Russia's main supply routes, and therefore be able to bring all their long-range artillery drones much closer to Crimea.

and begin to attack Crimea with long-range fires. depots, fuel and ammunition, military bases, and force the Russians to pull back and eventually pull some of that military literally out of Crimea without having to physically attack it, which they would likely do next year if this operation is successful. General Jackine weighing in. He's with the Institute of Study of War he founded, and he's also a four-star general and our Fox News contributor. Talking about the.

Strategy of the Ukrainians, and that's what they hope. And they are making some progress now, but it's hard to tell exactly what's happening on the ground. The guy that is is Daniel Bilak, member of the territorial defense forces of Ukraine, then also an attorney in Kyiv. Dan, are you still in Ukraine right now? I am, Brian.

Great to be on your show again.

So with General Jack just was talking about, does that sound like a strategy that you could sign off on that might be taking place? Yes. No, I mean, I love listening to General Keene because he's a very astute observer of what's going on here. Look, we it's a grind. There's no question about it.

no matter what your your plans are, everybody seems to criticize us for in the Western media for somehow not not being not having achieved victory already. It's like Mike Tyson said, it's great to have a plan until you get punched in the face. And we are going through the most Heavily mined. Country now in the world. There's hundreds of thousands of mines that have been planted on a territory the size of Oregon or Colorado.

And it's like five mines per square yard, both anti personnel and anti tank and heavy fortifications. If we'd gotten the tanks and other heavy armor that we'd asked for when we first started asking for it, they wouldn't have all this time to have built these things. But you know, it is what it is. We don't have planes, so we can't really apply NATO standards of warfare because we don't have the long range firepower and air superiority, which the Americans and the Allies did in Iraq, for example. That's why the losses were so low, because they flew forty one thousand Sorkis in thirty days using one thousand eight hundred aircraft.

So we got to be symmetrical, asymmetrical and creative. And as the general pointed out, we're creating our own combined arms warfare maneuvers with drones. We've been successful in breaching their for the Russians' first lines of defense, and we're now securing those positions. You know, we're not we're pushing them back and we're forcing them in in Bakhmut to in order to stretch their reserves, their artillery. They have low counter battery and they're running low on ammo.

You know, and frankly, Brian. But now in comes North Korea. In comes North Korea with nothing but artillery. Did that concern you as Kim Jong-un makes his way to Moscow? look, we can sweat what we can control.

Whatever they get, we're going to continue to try to destroy. They can give them more artillery shells and things like that. But if we can continue destroying their artillery and counter battery weapons, then they won't have anything to fire at us. But you know, if we advance they know that we advance another fifteen or so miles. need to get to the water to cut them off.

If we get within another ten, fifteen miles on the pushing the front forward, that'll bring us our artillery within range. of their what's called Glocks, ground lines of communication. That's the roads, railways, bridges. And that means it'll come under the firepower of our artillery. And that's going to be a serious problem for them because we're going to cut them off from Crimea and we'll cut off their supply lines coming in from Russia.

So a couple of things are Are worth discussing. The defense minister was about to be fired. He resigned on Monday. Zelensky announced plans to replace him. It came the move comes amid a widening graft probe, as Kiev looks to signal to Western partners who provide enormous amounts of defense that it has zero tolerance for corruption.

Was this guy corrupt? Um You know, Brian, I've actually known Alexey Resnikov for twenty years. And he is one of the most honest people I know. Um, you know, I don't think uh look, he inherited a monster ministry that had a horrible reputation for corruption for for the last twenty years last thirty years. And he's been drinking water from a fire hose since the day he walked in.

And he managed to bring our procurement up to NATO standards. He brought in NATO standards for the weapons. He negotiated all of these weapon systems. I mean, frankly, he was among the coterie of people around the president who really saved the country. And we owe Oleksi Reznikov a great A debt of uh gratitude.

You know, he he tried what he could with inside the ministry as best he could, and and you know, he started to to weed it out. But, you know, there are a lot of there's still a lot of things to do. The the the new defense minister Yeah, Umedov is a very capable guy. I've met with him when he was at the State Property Fund. You know, he speaks idiomatic American.

He's a really good manager. And he's going to continue the reforms and the things that Olek Siereznikov started. And I guess the president just felt he needed somebody that had more. Or different managerial experience at this time. You know, well, Lexi Reznikov started, got us.

You know, the weapons we need, those things are now coming. You know, we could still use the attack'ems and the planes, but you know, that that that's all in the work in the mix as well down the road.

So You know, I I suspect we'll see. May he may get another appointment in a few days. He's a very, very capable ind individual.

Okay, so no big deal.

So, Daniel, let me let's move on. We have so many topics to discover. Uh, number one, you guys are kind of admitting you made a mistake by not pushing through in the winter. Here's a quote. Uh if the Ukrainians don't get a breakthrough, there's nothing stopping the Russians from just digging into more trenches and counterattacking.

And they said whatever happens in the coming days, they'll continue fighting through the winter because Ukrainian troops said they now realize that giving Russia time to build its defenses through the winter was a strategic mistake because they just dug in, set up the mines and set up the trenches.

So you guys are not going to let up, which is a lot of pressure on you guys.

Well, Brian, it wasn't our mistake. We didn't have, I mean, you know, we only got the sign-off on the tanks in January. We didn't have anything to attack them with. I mean, you know, we preserve the lives of our soldiers. You know, they outnumber us in manpower.

You know, classic warfare doctrine says you've got to have a three-to-one advantage in manpower. NATO doctrine says you've got to have air superiority. You know, we didn't have superiority in anything in ammunition, in guns, in tanks, in arms. Didn't you take Kharkiv? Didn't you take Kharkiv right before the winter?

That's exactly right. We took Kharkiv before the winter because we took advantage of a we were very, very opportunistic, which is how we fought this war all along and why we're going to win, because we're creative, we're asymmetrical, and we took advantage of a breach in their line. And they also learned, Brian, from their mistakes. And uh, I got two other things. Right.

And the other problem is the Europeans are not buying Russian oil and gas from Russia, but they're buying it from India, who's getting it at a discount from Russia.

So that is absolutely wrong.

So here you are trying to isolate and pre hurt them economically because of their invasion of your country, and Europe says, yeah, we'll provide all this weaponry and money, but at the same time, they're buying Russian oil and gas. Yes, and there's a lot of sanctions busting and lots of loopholes. I mean, these things really need to be tightened up. You're absolutely right, Brian. I mean, the economic front in this war is just as important as the military front.

And frankly, the sanctions don't seem to have brought Russia to its knees economically. It's hurting. It's not being able to produce what it could. But they're still making weapons and the Chinese are sending them dual use equipment.

So they take the chips out of the washing machines and they put them in their rockets, right? Um but you know, this it's the same thing with the grain deal, right, with the Black Sea Grain Initiatives. And it just it just goes to show that you can't trust anybody in this in this mix. Especially mister Putin. I mean, you know, he he's prepared to let fifty million people starve by not allowing Ukrainian grain to leave the ports.

And it just shows you you can't sign any agreement with him that he's going to maintain. Just ask mister Progozhin, which you can't because he's dead because Putin back renaved on his deal with him. apparently.

So it's it's it it it we really need our partners to be r vigilant on this and and and and enforce the sanctions. I mean Daniel Bill Eckard guest from Ukraine, he calls the mill of a war zone. Here's what else General Keene says, America is not doing. Cut thirty eight.

Well, we have hundreds of tanks that we could provide to the Ukrainians, in my judgment. We have different kinds of Abrams tanks.

Some are more sophisticated than others. But look, the Ukrainians have proven time and time again, whatever the technology is we give them, they can handle it. We were forced into giving tanks by the Germans and the Europeans because they wanted to give the leopard tanks and the challenge tanks that the UK has. But we could have given so much more. They didn't get anywhere near all the tanks that were promised them by the Europeans, and now they're going to get 31.

Will the 31 make a difference? Of course it will. This is a very good tank that they're going to use. But the reality is we could have given them, as we have said so many times before, so much more and so much sooner.

So it's frustrating for people that want to see you successful here. And this is what the, I know you can't criticize administration, it's not in your best interest. But they don't give the high They don't give the long-range missiles the attack'ems, which can be shot off the High Mar launchers, I understand. They don't provide the tanks and the speed in which they did it. They said they're going to train F-15s, F-16s, but they're not going to start until September.

It should be starting now. They had to set up a syllabus, which is a joke. And now we have other nations donating our planes with our permission to you guys, and we'll train you.

So you've got about 200. Pilots, I think, ready to go.

So, little by little, you're getting what you need. But if you're going to get it, why not get it all at once? Look, you know, Brian, every government is doing what it's doing in Ukraine because it listens to its citizens. And when people are just appalled by what's happening, that that a democratic free country is being invaded for no reason, you know, it it really it really it really goes against everything, every sense of freedom that Americans have. We are really grateful to the American taxpayer and to the American people for the support that we've had because I think that everything we've gotten has been because the American people have been behind us.

And a lot of money has been spent to help Ukraine. There's been a lot of speculation about we spend too much, et cetera, et cetera. While it's only six percent of the Pentagon budget, at the same time, Americans expect a return on their investment. And the return on their investment is victory. And it's our it's exactly the same return that we want to give them on their investment, which is get this war over fast.

And the more weapons we get from the United States, the faster we get them from the U. S. and our allies. General Keene is absolutely right. We now know how to use more NATO systems and platforms than any other NATO country knows how to do.

And we not only know how to use them, we have made them interoperable on the battlefield, which has blown the minds of a lot of military experts. And you know, the biggest problem is that when the equipment gets slow walk, Our people die. And our overriding concern is always and that's why we go slow on the on the counteroffensive, not o not just to preserve the lives of our soldiers, but we need to keep liberating every single village from this brutal and gruesome occupation. I mean, I I don't want to know, it it you know, there are there are cases now of places that we found in in deoccupied uh Kherson that we liberated where, you know, little girls have been raped so badly that there's no separation between the vagina and the anus. You know, I mean, this kind of stuff, and this is over and over again.

So this isn't just about dollars and cents and equipment and military. It's about the lives of people. And we need to end this war. And the kidnapping of children and brought to Moscow is unbelievable, brought to Russia.

Well, exactly. Kidnapping of children, etc. And, you know, he doesn't want to negotiate the end of this war. He wants us to capitulate. And so we have to win.

We have to destroy the Russian army in Ukraine. And then we'll deal with Putin. We can negotiate anything we need to negotiate after that, but we'll be doing it with our territory intact and our sovereignty restored. And there's a big story today about due to the American people. Right now, there's intercepts too of 17 Russian phone calls with them talking about how ill-supplied they are and how many people are dying.

They said, should we use our fingers as bayonets? We're unable to get our dead. Their bodies are being eaten by workers. Worms, we can't get to them. And these are intercepted phone calls because these soldiers, lacking discipline or no other way to communicate, are going back to their houses.

So it is not easy being in the Russian infantry, as hard as it is for the Ukrainians to burst through. They don't care about the lives of their soldiers either. And they're losing about a battalion a day, that's five, six hundred soldiers. Per day. And at the same time, because of the mines that they've made, 50,000 people in Ukraine have lost their limbs, or at least a limb.

And we have a huge problem with prosthetics and everything else. I mean, we're going to have to rebuild our society from the bottom up just because of the sheer scale of the brutality. But we can do this, and we can do this together. Right.

And it'll help humanity because that's how bad Russia is not going to stop here. Daniel Bilak, thanks so much. Stay safe. Thank you. Thank you, Brian.

God bless. All right. From the Ukraine, finding time for us. 1-866-408-7669. I'll get to your calls if we can, right around the bend.

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Obama used to talk about my vice president, which is a phrase that got under Joe Biden's skin. And so he's very respectful of her. He calls her the vice president. That's very significant for him. But the difference is that Obama had holes in his resume that he wanted Biden to fill.

And Biden doesn't see the holes in his own resume because he's been around forever and it leaves her stranded. It leaves her stranded, not really. I mean, she choses to be leaved stranded. She was beginning to portfolio, and she says she just didn't do it.

So, in defense of Joe Biden, you give somebody an assignment. You're supposed to do it if you're the Vice President of the United States. And they gave him a lot of the international stuff because he loved it. But his advice on Ukraine was terrible. They end up with blankets and MREs.

Guess whose idea that was? You got it. It was his.

So now, this book by Uh Franklin four uh four The last politician that talks about the Vice President. And for those of you who think, well, Joe Biden is going to be great for the country if Joe Biden steps aside, she will have the machine behind her. She evidently was called someone with rabbit ears. Any hint of criticism about the way she treats her staff and the way her staff wouldn't stick around, they kept quitting. She'd be beside herself.

Ron Clain was reportedly tasked with showing Harris the vice presidential ropes, but that quickly went awry.

So it's just as bad behind the scenes as you think it is, because we see her in front of the camera. Can you believe behind the scenes it's worse? The best position in the world for a Democrat would have been Joe Biden vice president if you were confident. He would have already stepped aside already had he done that. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show.

Brian Killmead. Everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmee Show.

So glad to be back after Labor Day. Nobody can say anymore.

Well, it's the summer. The elections don't really matter. Nobody's paying attention until after Labor Day.

Well, check your calendar. It's after Labor Day. You're back at work. You're back at school. Or you're getting close to getting back at work, back at school.

And we're ready to go now. And it's getting serious. We know in January, we got the Iowa caucus. We now have a debate in a couple of weeks, another one in about a month over in Alabama. And that one, according to reports, including Governor Christie's hunt, he believes that that's when Donald Trump will get into the debates.

But right now, you have to see what seemingly. Just a titanic lead he seems to have in the rest of the field.

So before we get to Congressman Michael Waltz, also this hour, Tim Stewart's going to be with us. He's the President of the National Oil and Gas Foundation, and he is pushing back and going to tell us, weighing in on what's happening with the UAW strike that could be looming. And the breakdown and negotiations that could be happening, as well as the failure of the electric vehicle.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. They did hack me, which was unappreciated, to say the least. I brought it up clearly, put it right on the table. By the way, I brought up many of our grievances on behalf of our national security concerns, concerns of U.S.

labor. Didn't pull any punches. Wow. See, we've visited anyway, though, right? That was Gina Raimondo, China aggression versus the U.S.

at new heights.

Now it's revealed that they have breached sensitive sites in America over 100 times with no consequences. But they did get four cabinet secretaries, and all China hears from this is weakness. And by the way, the pull-aside with Joe Biden and President Xi at the G20, not going to happen. He's not going. Number two.

So we're changing that. Replacing trickle-down economics with what everyone on Wall Street is referring these days to Bidenomics. And guess what? It's working. Really?

The economy? Joe says it's great. It's working. Most of you say it is not. We have the stats, but only you have your reality.

Share it. Number one. It's an alarm bell for Democrats who think that because of these indictments, he's going to automatically lose the general election. This poll suggests no. It's a very competitive race, but it suggests that this is not in any way a gimme for the Democrats.

And they can't figure it out either. New York Times, Peter Baker, 2024, a runaway in the primary and a dead heat nationally for Donald Trump. As the real fight for the right to lead our nation begins, we have the polls and the reaction from the dumbfounded Trump critics while the red while the first hell-all book on the Biden administration.

Well, has some revealing passages. Joining us now is Congressman Mike Waltz, House Armed Services Committee, among his many jobs. Congressman, welcome back to the Brian Kilmey Chow. Hey, good to be with you, Brian. Thanks.

First off, on something that people are astounded by. On the general election, the Wall Street Journal does a poll, very hard to diminish the Wall Street Journal's quality in their polling, but many people will. It shows right now at dead heat Joe Biden. Despite four indictments, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, when you look at the Republican primary field, national politics, I know it's a state-by-state race, but listen, Trump up 59, to DeSantis is thirteen, to Nikki Haley eight, Ramaswamy five, and it goes down from there.

So before I let you hear everybody else try to speculate, why, Congressman, do you think this is happening?

Well You know, there there's this whole narrative out there that, yes, uh, President Trump's going to run away with the with the primary, but man, I'm just not sure he can win the general. That's the narrative the media wants to push, the White House wants to push. But I got to tell you, the numbers are Saying something completely different. We're seeing, especially since that mug shot, we're seeing African American men. Not huge numbers, but they're starting to, they start.

Okay. They're starting to trend towards President Trump. We're seeing African American women on the school choice issue. Jewish voters are absolutely appreciate that President Trump. Was fantastic on Israel and our relationship with Israel.

And then Hispanics have been trending towards Republicans. And certainly identify with where progressives want to take us in terms of socialism. Look, I think this is what, the third, fourth poll now that we've seen President Trump and Biden in a general election uh in a dead heat or actually President Trump ahead. And despite everything they're throwing at them, people see right through it. It's highly politicized.

So that isn't enough now, Brian.

Now they're going to try to take him off the ballot. in key states in this Specious, untested, ridiculous legal theory based around the Fourteenth Amendment. And I think that's going to backfire as well. There are lawsuits in Florida and New Hampshire asking judges to block Trump from the ballot. Guess who's behind it?

Mark Elias, the same Mark Elias behind most of the Russian hoax. We know this. And now he's re-emerged again.

Now, what is going to happen? It's hard to imagine not happening. I think this is going to go to the courts that he did not do something that would be legally caused in insurrection.

So, therefore, he'll win. That will provide more momentum for him as this plays out. And once again, as you debate the 14th Amendment and Donald Trump, guess what you're not doing? Hearing from Chris Christie, paying attention to Tim Scott, wondering what Nikki Haley's going to do.

So this is. At the same time You can't say, well, that's what Democrats want, because if he becomes the party nominee, he's going to lose. Listen to Conservative Judge Michael Luttegdal. He came out and said the 14th Amendment is a real threat to Trump, Cut 12. This is one of the most fundamental questions that could ever be decided under our Constitution.

And it will be decided by the Supreme Court of the United States sooner rather than later, and most likely before the first primaries in which Donald Trump would be put on the ballot or disqualified from the ballot by one of those Secretaries of State. Former federal judge, U.S. Court of Appeals judge.

So, and he was once thought to be on a shortlist to be a Supreme Court justice, and that's guy, known as a conservative. What do you think? That what he just said.

Well, look, Brian, I think this is just one more instance where the Where these forces are unleashing another Pandora out of the box here, that is, whether that is weaponizing impeachment. weaponizing the Justice Department. Uh yeah. They talk about President Trump doing damage to Uh our republic. The left is what's doing damage to our republic here.

And if you start, I mean, I've served in places in Africa, in Pakistan, elsewhere, where you run for office, and you lose, you're guaranteed to go to jail. Or if that doesn't work, then they just figure out a way to strip you off the ballot. That's I never thought I thought I would see this kind of stuff here. And just you know what? be careful what you wish for because if they unleash this, Then there's going to be a demand that we do it in the future.

At the end of the day, let's let the people decide. They're putting out these allegations about the president. Let the people decide, let the people vote. And then let's move forward. But I think this is just going down a very, very dangerous, slippery slope.

And when you talk about what's good for the goose, good for the gander, they're talking about an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden to find out his role with Hunter Biden's international business dealings. There's a lot of Republicans, not a lot, but there's a handful that are not signing on for this. You have very small margin for error. Are you going to, if Kevin McCarthy asks you to sign on for it? Oh, in terms of an impeachment inquiry, Brian, I yes, an inquiry, I think that's where we need to go because at the end of the day, the administration is going to block and tackle the things that we need to see in terms of bank records, who was behind these LLCs, what was going on in terms of access to the White House, what policies were changed, flight record that Hunter Biden was flying around on Air Force two and then cutting deals in the aftermath.

The impeachment inquiry gives us greater standing with those subpoenas and gives us greater standings in the court. And that's where I think that's where we need to go. I mean, what more do we need? Besides the text messages, emails, and the meeting log saying that. Joe Biden was directly involved in these business dealings.

When you have Russian oligarchs thanking Hunter for the long dinner and all the time with the vice president, I that to me that is that's That's enough. And we need to take this to the next level and get to the bottom of it. And Joe Biden asked you, he goes, Well, where's the money? When he was asked, and he giggled. Let's see if he's still laughing.

But it looks like there's some Republicans not for it yet. We'll see how it stands.

So let's talk about the Wall Street Journal story today: that it looks like there's been gate crashes at U.S. bases by the Chinese. And this is the quote from the Wall Street Journal: Chinese nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, have accessed military bases and other sensitive sites in the U.S. as many as 100 times in recent years. They range from Chinese nationals found crossing into a U.S.

missile range in New Mexico to what appeared to be scuba divers swimming in murky waters near a U.S. government launch site. The incidents, which U.S. officials describe as a form of espionage, appears designed to test security practices at military bases and other sensitive sites. The Pentagon came back and said these individuals are cited criminally.

Barred from future insulation access and escorted off the base.

So you're not allowed to scuba dive. For now on, no more wetsuits scuba diving near our military silos. I mean, are you kidding me? Where's the reaction to this? Yeah, by the way, Brian, what do you think would happen if we were scuba diving off the Chinese submarine base in Henan?

Right, I'd say, No, no, no, I was just a tourist. You would be locked up. Damn near for life, and then used as a bargaining chip.

So we need to start playing hardball. with this avalanche of espionage that we're under, whether it's the spy bases in Cuba, whether it's the spy balloon, the literally hundreds of thousands of cyber warriors that are stealing our tech, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students, we are in a full avalanche of espionage because they know that with our open society, we will always be more innovative and creative But look, at the end of the day, they're just feeling it and applying it right to their military. And what happens in response? What are the consequences for that? They get cabinet meetings.

They get a whole string of Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, Gina Ramundo. Over there, following them around the world, saying, please meet with us, please engage. And so that's the green light for Beijing to even do more. There's no consequences to it. Here's the Commerce Secretary coming back talking about her trip to China, Secretary Gina Raimondo.

And keep in mind, her email was just hacked, and she still went on the trip by the Chinese, got 18. They did hack me, which was unappreciated, to say the least. I brought it up clearly, put it right on the table. By the way, I brought up many of our grievances on behalf of our national security concerns, concerns of U.S. labor, concerns of U.S.

business. Didn't pull any punches. Still, though, it's a complicated relationship. There's no doubt about it.

Well, okay. Thanks for that. It sounds like we make great progress. And now in the G twenty, President Xi will not even go. And President Biden says he's disappointed in that.

Well, and that's I mean, Brian, all of these cabinet secretaries going over was the buildup Do this. She She bite meeting in the House.