Biden to visit Israel as IDF delays Gaza ground invasion

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmead. All right, well, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killman Show.

So glad you're here. At the bottom of the hour, we go out to Tel Aviv, where we're going to be joined by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, the IDF spokesperson. This battle plan could start at any moment. And Doug Bergman in studio, governor of North Dakota, GOP presidential candidate. And we do have another announcement.

NBC will host the third Republican debate. It'll be November 8th at 10 p.m. in Miami. The governor is working hard to get qualified for that. We'll see how close he is and more.

But first, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Jordan is either on the first or the second ballot tomorrow. He will be the speaker. I think Speaker McCarthy has a pretty good sense of exactly where they are.

There are a handful of moderates, frankly, who are so angry at the Benedict Arnolds who created this mess. I agree thoroughly. That's the former speaker speaking out. Today we could be the day the House taps Jim Jordan. I don't know who it would be if not him.

As we heard today from Congressman Turner, they'll have to do a deal with the Democrats just to get the body functioning again. Number two. You see these demonstrations supporting Hamas in the United States of America. You get reports of babies being murdered, all this other stuff, and your first instinct is to go out and praise the terrorists. That is so crazy what's happening in this country.

Anti-Israeli protests crop up around the world and here in this country, especially on college campuses. It is utterly astonishing to me that these big buck donors are also astonished, and now they're pulling back their money. Let's see if some of these institutions will sober up.

Some celebrities also would help if they spoke out. Number one. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the President's travel last night. He's going to be leaving later on today, making his second trip to a war zone in his time in office, this time to Israel, to show the U.S. support for Israel and also what Blinken called our ironclad commitment to their security.

Gaza invasion delay as President Biden announces he's going. First, stop Israel, then he's going to go over to Egypt, he's going to go over to Jordan, and he's going to visit the Palestinian Authority. Is this the best use of our President? We'll bring you the latest. And let's ask Governor Doug Bergham, who wants that job.

Governor of North Dakota, you're still doing that. Governor, do you think it's right for the President? Do you think it's good for the President to go to Israel?

Well, I think it's good to go, but I would like say wow. If I were your president. We wouldn't be in this mess because the whole point, I mean, it's ridiculous. It doesn't matter whether Joe Biden's in the United States, whether Joe Biden is traveling across the Middle East. We're in this mess because of his policies.

He's been following a path of appeasement with Iran going back to the Obama administration. And now, who does Iran supply weapons to? Russia, drones, armed drones. Who does they supply weapons to? Terrorist organizations, largest supporter of terrorism in the world, Hezbollah, Hamas, and others.

And so Joe Biden's funding two sides of the two wars. We're in a proxy war with Russia and a proxy war with Iran. And Joe Biden is funding both sides of that through their appeasement process. And of course, what did we see with these horrific, abhorrent attacks? We saw a bunch of kidnapping.

The day that he said, I'm going to trade five Americans. For five but we're also going to throw in six billion. He put a price of over a billion dollars on every American tourist, every American business person that's traveling, every American student abroad. And I turned to my team literally the second it happened, I said, we're going to see more kidnappings. Two weeks later, hundreds of people being kidnapped by Hamas.

Right. And you thought Israel would always be on guard, especially in a day in which they're challenged almost every day since their existence in 1948, and yet they were totally caught napping. Does that make you worry that between our intelligence and their intelligence, they beat this? They were able to kill people for hours, kidnap them for hours. This went better than according to their own plan went, Hamas's plan, which has since been discovered through detainees and through the printed word of these 14-page manuals.

Well, yes, and of course the intel we've seen now where they've got color-coded maps, they knew exactly where they were going, they knew where the soft targets were. But we also know that Iran has been working on, you know, plotting this terrorist attack for well over a year. And so again, this is this during this same timeframe, naive Joe Biden and his administration trying to figure out a path of appeasement, which, of course, is also I mean, you just have to ask yourself, is any American better off today than they were three years ago when Joe Biden took office? I mean, no. Inflation is like reaching in like an insidious tax into your savings and pulling out your savings.

Everything's cost more. He's destabilized the world. He's empowered dictators.

So Americans are less safe and they're less prosperous today than when Joe Biden took off. And his main focus is green energy. That's what he called off in Colorado. He's going to talk more about wind, which is totally ineffective. Electric cars aren't going to be made.

These auto companies in the middle of this strike right now are saying, I don't think we can afford to lose this much more money on this stuff.

Well, yeah, and this is when we're using taxpayer dollars, hardworking Americans. Americans are using their dollars to subsidize the batteries which are made in China. And China controls 85% of the rare earth minerals. And if you're getting an electric car battery out of China, it's made in a plant powered by coal. China's open up a coal plant a week right now.

And why would they do that?

Well, you and I have talked before. They're the world's largest importer of oil and gas, China, 10 million barrels of oil a day. They're trying to reduce their. In their dependence on the Middle East. They're trying to reduce their dependence on Russia as suppliers.

What do they have? A lot of coal.

So they're just 246 coal plants powered. The Washington Post last week wrote an article praising China for their being ahead of the U.S. on switching to electric vehicles without mentioning what the source of the power was. They're not making the environment safer or cleaner, and they're not making the world more stable. No one's crazy policies.

No one's happy with it. No one's happy with the border. No one's happening with the Middle East. No one's happy since Afghanistan, where the president said, I got elected because I have this mature experience, former chairman of the Council of Foreign Relations in the Senate. Here's what Ron DeSantis said about this whole process: he says, Look, we cannot accept these Palestinians that are on the move now, fighting for their lives as they go south because the bombing, there's been 6,000 bombings, whether they're rockets or from fighter jets or drones in the Gaza region.

This is what he's telling everybody. I want to see if Governor Bergam agrees, cut eight. My position is very clear, as the first presidential candidate says: no Gaza refugees, period. We're just not going to do it. And why?

Because we don't want to import the pathologies from the Gaza Strip and other places in the Middle East to the United States of America. They are taught to hate Jews. They are taught that Israel has no right to exist. The textbooks that they use don't even have Israel on the map at all. And so this is just endemic to their culture.

So, what do you think, Governor? Did you agree with Governor DeSantis? 100%. I mean, because when, you know, Hamas was created back Decades ago, coming out of the Muslim Brotherhood, their whole thing was death to Israel. I mean, Israel, it's not, they weren't looking for a two-state solution.

They're looking for a one-state solution, which is Israel's wiped off the map. And so we can't have it. And we don't know if we're taking asylum seekers just like we are. I mean, forget Hamas. You start having Gaza Strip residents seek asylum in the United States.

How do we know we're not just importing Hamas terrorist cells? Because that problem already exists. Down at the border right now, we've had a 54% increase under Joe Biden in the last 12 months of people on the terrorist watch list coming into our country. And some of them, from my trip that was just down there recently at the border, from a border patrol briefing, they just said it out loud. They're exploiting these rules.

You know, we can't separate families.

So if you're a terrorist coming into the United States, well, you know, grab an adolescent, bring them with you, tell somebody it's your kid, and then come on in because we can't separate them.

So we let them into the country.

So the Trump administration came out and they had DNA kits. And after a while, they didn't even need the kit or they need the swab. As soon as they took out the swab, these guys, okay, it sounds like.

Son.

Okay, it's not my daughter. Yeah. And they would, because they knew they were trying to fix it. There's just a lack of effort in trying to fix it, isn't there?

Well, you talk to the senior leaders on our Border Patrol. They're demoralized. No one supports them. And if they can take early retirement, they've done it. And why?

Because they feel like they're being defunded and disrespected, just like other law enforcement in our country. And we've got to stand behind that. And the problem is, the last election, everyone thought Republicans would benefit from it. But because of the abortion, in my view, Roe v. Wade, that overwhelmed all the border issues.

Therefore, Democrats go, hey, it was no problem. We didn't pay any price in the midterms. Yeah, exactly. And again, when you're down there talking to the Border Patrol. You ask them, you know, is this a complex problem?

They say, no, we've had a secure border before. Give us the resources, give us the personnel, give us the technology, we can close the border. They can do that. But you know who's got better financing? The cartel's on the other side.

They're raking in they're raking in tens of millions of dollars at some of these crossings. You want to know why people walk across at a low water crossing that I was standing next to and there's people coming across. We got troops on our side why they're coming across there. They're coming across there because that's where the cartels told them. This is where you can cross.

Give us all the money you have left in your pocket.

So between $1,000 and $3,000, some of these folks were shelling out the last money they had. Where then the cartels said you guys cross there? They cross over to our side, and then what do we get? We get a bill. Here's what, yes, you disagree with Governor DeSantis that we can't be displacing these having these refugees here.

You know who's against it? A member of the squad, cut nine. And I also want to address something very specific about what Governor DeSantis said when he said, quote unquote, all. Gazans are anti-Semitic. How incredibly destructive and dangerous that rhetoric is.

We just had a six-year-old boy stabbed 26 times. this morning because of rhetoric like that. And it is dangerous, it is unacceptable, it is reckless, and no leader in the United States of America should be amplifying a message like that. Your reaction?

Well We just talked about it as a border. We we don't People are going to exploit the loopholes. Why in the world would we, A, have Joe Biden fund Iran, which is funding terrorism around the world, and then why would we take people from an area that is just launched a terrorist attack against us and our allies, Americans died? Why would we give them asylum in the United States? I mean, this is a no-brainer, which is no.

So what do you think with this destabilization of the region? You don't have anything against the President going? You don't see politics in this? Do you think that he is desperate to show that he's a man in charge?

Well, of course he is. And this is, you know, hey, I'm going to run over and show our solidarity. But is he when he's there, is he going to say is he going to announce against Israel that he's going to stop Giving billions of dollars to Iran, the people that are behind this attack. Is he going to do that? I mean, that's what we should do.

I mean, I don't think so, because he's busy trying to help Iran get to nuclear weapons, which will further destabilize not just the region but the world.

So, like I said, it doesn't matter where Joe Biden is if he doesn't change the policies. It's his policies which are making Americans less safe and less prosperous. One of your airs' expertise is the economy and what you've done in your own career. Charles Payne was on with Sean Hannity last night, and he talks about what the price of oil is going to go up to. If it gets up to $100 a barrel, who's it going to help?

Our enemies, Russia and Iran specifically. Here's what he said could be happening: Cut 12. There's no doubt that this war on American oil producers has backfired miserably. And you bring up the point, yeah. Joe Biden tapped into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to win a midterm election, but he put us in a more precarious situation.

Oil subsequently has come back on. And the only reason we're not at $4 already is that we've seen some of the refiners. Margins come in a little bit. That's not going to be the case as time goes on. And in the meantime, think about this.

We were supposed to somehow stop the world from paying more than $60 a barrel for Russian oil. That Ural oil has been as high as $80, $90. And we're also putting. would be allies in awkward positions. India needs oil.

India is going to buy cheap oil. And, you know, we want to cut deals with India, the youngest, largest democracy in the world, which is going to be a major economic power. China, of course, is buying oil from Russia and Iran. Iran gets this $6 billion and becomes emboldened like everyone says they will. All of this sources back not to an energy policy, not to an economic policy, but to an ideology.

You agree? Completely. And let's look at the numbers. The Biden administration is not enforcing Iranian. Oil export sanctions.

Their numbers shot through the roof up to like a million and a half barrels in July this year and have kept on going. Who's buying it? China's buying a bunch of it.

So, Joe Biden, I was the first candidate to say he, he, I was the first one to say he drained the strategic petroleum reserve to help win the midterms. Joe Biden's approval rating goes up and down with the price of gas at the pump in America. He knows that when the price is high, his approval ratings are low. He's trying to manage the price at the pump. At the same time, he's got a war on U.S.

energy. He's trying to get us to buy from our enemies. What he did in Venezuela, this thing, we're lifting the sanctions on Venezuela, 600,000 barrels of oil. As if they promised open elections, as if they're going to do that. It's a joke.

It's a complete joke. They'll say whatever they want to say, just the way Iran said whatever they're going to say. And then Joe Biden is so naive in his administration, then they agree to do this stuff.

So Iran is selling their oil to China. You know what China is doing? China is growing their strategic reserve. They're filling their strategic petroleum reserve. We drained ours.

And of course Putin, he's not a president of a country the way you and I would think about it. He's a mob boss, and he's gets running a huge illegal international organization. And he's worth $70 to $100 billion, and he gets a cut basically out of all the oil they sell. And so, when Putin is selling oil out of this thing, we're making him rich. Yep, it's amazing.

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Okay. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmade. We're back. Today there's going to be a vote.

We think at 12 o'clock to get a speaker in the House. Republican Governor Doug Bergham is here. He wants to be the next president, battling it out in the primaries. Your reaction to your party, to me, is the biggest embarrassment: these aids standing up and blowing up Kevin McCarthy. And people want to say it's Democrats.

No, this is Republicans. I mean, what is your take on that? Does anyone ever play the team sport in the House?

Well, I'm not sure, but this is a time when Republicans need to be leading and we don't have a leader. And this is the kind of thing that the Democrats exploit. The Democrats love this when we fight within each other. I mean, we're just basically handing them the keys to the House for next term because if they're saying, hey, well, you guys had a small majority, but you couldn't even hold it together.

So this is why we need we got a new leadership in the White House, and we have to have Republicans that stay together and think because what's killing this country is Joe Biden's policies. And the way that we fix that is when you have a Republican majority, you stick together and you actually pass. Pass legislation that helps break the back of those policies.

So you were saying to me on those debate stages, you created more jobs than anybody else up there. Not just anybody else, more than all of them combined. I mean, when you take a look at the companies, Great Plains, Avalara, Microsoft, Atlassian, all the jobs where I've been chairman, CEO, corporate officer over the course of my career, we're talking tens and thousands of high-paying jobs that have been created across all those directly. And then secondarily, because of the partner channels, I mean, and what's going on around the world. I mean, when I'm campaigning ever, I have people that show up in Dallas, in New Hampshire, whatever, and they say, I'm here today to support you because I built my company.

I was with some guys here in New York. They've got 400 people working for their company, and they started out as two entrepreneurs building a partnership for us almost 30 years ago. You were saying you were on the field at the jet game. And you saw this guy named Aaron Rodgers, who has the same injury as you. You both tore your Achilles tendon.

What was the conversation like?

Well, I just told him, I said, hey, you're my inspiration because he says he's coming back. And that would defy all odds. He's throwing without a boot, right? He was. And Kevin Durant took him 12 months to get back to the NBA.

But Aaron Rodgers says they're telling me I can't make it back. But he said, I don't listen to him. I'm coming back. I said, man, that's great. And that's pretty good since they beat the Eagles.

Now he feels like he's got a real challenge. Yeah, and I got to throw it in. Connor McGovern, the center snapper for the Jets, is Fargo North Dakota kid. And they had a great game. It's like the presidential race.

Everybody, every pundit said the Eagles cannot lose. They're going to win. And so remember when you're telling guys like me that they're not going to be there in January, then remember what happened with that Jets game.

So what do you need to get on stage in November named for NBC? We need four things, and we've got three. We've got the polling threshold in Iowa, New Hampshire. We've got the 70,000 donors. We've got to clear the national threshold.

Threshold, and just like last time, we'll be there. They said we wouldn't be there, and every time we clear the hurdle, we'll be there again. Your strategy to get your national poll numbers up?

Well, we just got to keep getting name recognition, keep coming back on Brian Kilmead Show. That's going to help us make it happen. That's the combination for greatness. Yeah. All right, Doug, best of luck.

We'll look forward to seeing you in November. And thanks so much for coming in studio. Thank you, Brian. Always great to be with you. All right, we come back out to Tel Aviv for the latest on the soon-to-be ground war in Israel.

The more you listen. The Moriolna Hello, it's Brian Killmead. Putin definitely benefits, but even more than Putin, Xi Jinping and Beijing benefit from the United States now being tied down. Not only in one war, but potentially in a crisis or, God forbid, a regional conflagration in the Middle East. And you have the president of the United States on the news last night saying, hey, no problem, we've got this covered.

We can walk and shoot them. It was interesting that he said we can take care of Ukraine and the Middle East. He did not mention China. And this whole walk and shoe gum thing is undermined by the administration's own formal defense strategy, which says they can't actually fight multiple wars at the same time. Not because we don't want to, but because we don't have the capacity.

So Elberg Colby, the former DOD assistant secretary, that's what the Wall Street Journal wrote today. It's kind of an expansive story. I don't necessarily buy into all of it, but they say with the unrest and Hamas's attack on and the reprisals certain to come, that's already happened, 6,000 rockets sent into Gaza. But they say that that's a big advantage because our eyes off the ball in Ukraine and Russia, they're moving forward. Our eyes off the ball on China economically, the full court press, the presence of our Navy, as well as if they want to go move on.

Taiwan. Maybe they think we're more vulnerable now that we move a third aircraft carrier to the region. I get it. But if Israel is able to pound Hamas into non-existence and beat the hell out of Hezbollah in the meantime, they've always been confident about these terror organizations sending rockets in from Syria. That whole stop Israel movement will stop.

And then we could be in a better stead. And I do think we look weak in Afghanistan. I do think we look weak in fractured at home in financing for Ukraine. I mean, Russia thinks if they can hold out long enough, we'll just stop the aid. Can people understand that our very Upset about what happened in Afghanistan, upset by us pulling out rapidly in Iraq and then having to come back again.

Don't quit Ukraine, please. Can we stop quitting things and actually going forward? That would, to me, make sense, but I don't want to get off the pace. I do want to talk about what's happening over there, and that is the president going. To me, this smells like pure politics.

If he had Bill Clinton's charisma, George Bush's presence, Donald Trump chutzpah, I get it. But Joe Biden is not a good speaker. He is very, he gets very tired very quick. He could barely form a sentence with Scott Pelly because he had a four-hour Sunday. We're going to send him now halfway around the world to Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and then to the West Bank to meet with the FATA leaders.

To me, you do that if you have no faith in your State Department, no faith in your national security advisors. I don't see any reason to put the president in jeopardy then, and he's not good one-on-one. What is really going on here? One thing is clear, according to even political and other sources, our Secretary of State has had no success in Saudi Arabia. They basically ghosted him.

In Egypt, they gave him a history lesson. In Jordan, they said, Where have you been? And Cutter. I wouldn't believe a word Qatar says. They are housing the leadership of Hamas.

Why would you possibly get them to lead a movement to get our. Hostages out. But that's what they're trying to do. That's what they are doing. And that really bothers me.

In terms of bothered, Victor Davis Hansen said this to me on the other night. And he just said, Look, on Saturday night on One Nation, This is not the response that we should be giving to someone who killed thirty of our people. Thirty And captured fourteen, cut ten. An ultimatum to Hamas. We haven't really expressed outrage to Hamas.

And I can't think of any other comparable situation in the Middle East. When we would lose two or three people, an ambassador, or just CIA people, or civilians, or people would be taken hostages. I mean, this administration was willing to give $6 billion. to a terrorist government for six hostages. And can't they at least show some type of concern in the sense of warning Hamas that if they are killing hostages or if they killed hostages, they're going to regret it for the rest of their brief existences.

Get the American people upset when you act with strength. We spend more in our military than anyone else. We got a better economy, even with our debt, than anyone else. Why don't you act with strength? We gave you that Trump card, show it.

Meanwhile, I don't get why the administration keeps saying Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinian people. Every poll they have, they pull over fifty percent. And if you poll them now after this hit, after this brutal hit that defies modern Uh uh modern civilization. The actually numbers would probably go up. Only fourteen percent respond the Fatah, which is The Palestinian Authority.

So why do we pretend that Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinian people? I mean, there are probably some people there that don't hate Israel. That's fine. Maybe some of the 18,000 that stream through the fence every day to go to work and then stream right back. Maybe they don't mind, but I don't know if you can separate.

I think the president wants to give this money to that Abbas and say, you are the leader. Of the Palestinian movement, you're the one we're going to deal with. We're going to wipe out Hamas, push him out, and we're going to give you power. Abbas hates us. I don't know what they do with the money that we give us, but they probably put it in their pocket.

They say Yasser Arafat retired when he died. He was a billionaire, basically on our money.

So that doesn't fly with me. I also don't understand in the big picture how Intel failed on two counts. Intel failed with America. There is a report that the CIA tried to warn Netanyahu couldn't get to him, which is weird, odd, need to get to the bottom of that. And that somehow you don't tell the Mussad what you see going on.

When I see the video of these guys rehearsing this Indak operation that was taking place a year ago, and this is right on their border, isn't anyone throwing a drone up in the air? I know Radio Shack went out of business, but that's how easy it is to get a drone. You could just go down and actually get a civilian drone, you would be able to see it.

So, the big thing is that I wanted to go over. And we'll go over more in the Army, is what's going on with the Speaker. And it looks like with the Speaker today, Jim Jordan has gotten very close. He's probably within 10 of having the votes necessary, considering he only got 90-something going against Steve Scalise and had 130 to get the nomination after Steve Scalise failed to get 217.

Now it's up over 200 Saturday, and now they said it's even closer now. They believe that if Jordan wants to be Speaker and he puts it to a vote and he's close, there'll be so much pressure on everybody else to get him out of this extreme embarrassment and avoid a deal with Democrats that they'll pass it. But that is a bit of a stretch. And that's saying that. These Republicans have any sense of embarrassment.

I'm not sure they do. They should. When we come back, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner from Tel Aviv, he is the IDF spokesperson that's going to be coming your way with the latest. This is the Brian Kilmeat show. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

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We have seen no specific indication that another actor or another state is preparing to widen and deepen and escalate this conflict, I'm sorry. And the President's message remains loud and clear. For anybody who's thinking about doing that, don't.

Okay. Yeah, that's loud and clear. That's one word. Let's see if it will be dissuade it'll dissuade anyone from acting. Let's bring in Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, IDF spokesperson, coming to us from Israel.

Colonel, welcome back. What is your sense that Hezbollah is up to in the North? Are you planning for a two front war? Hi, Brian. Obviously, Hezbollah are up to no good to begin with.

I would say that over the last few days, we've seen a consistent escalation of their activities, probably at the willing of and guidance of Iran. We've seen even this morning anti tank guided missiles fired at our forces. There are some casualties, and we are responding in force and then some. Indeed, there is a possibility that there will be an escalation with Hezbollah and Lebanon. I think the country, the state of Lebanon, they really need to take control of what's going on because they are a sovereign state.

It's a different scenario and different situation from Hamas in Gaza.

So I would definitely tell Hezbollah, look closely what we are doing to Hamas, how we are dismantling Hamas in the Gaza Strip and be very wary of crossing that threshold. It would be very, very bad for Lebanon. It'd be bad for Hezbollah.

So I saw that you took out at least six Hamas commanders who have various titles. What is the objective right now with the bombing campaign? The number I think you guys gave us was there's been six thousand hits inside since october seventh. Indeed, we are now here in the midst of day eleven of our campaign against Hamas. The goal is to destroy Hamas, its capabilities, pursue its leaders and take out basically all of their operational tools.

So they have drones with explosives. They have rockets, they have missiles, they have command and control s centers, they have the special forces, the Nukba force, the commander unit that infiltrated into Israel.

So we are pursuing them, we are destroying their capabilities and we're degrading their leadership. I would say that eleven days in, They haven't got a clue what's going on overground. They are in a state of complete disarray. They still have capabilities to launch rockets at us from Gaza. But we are determined to deal with that in order to remove them from the realm of existence.

Does it blow you away? Are you surprised on the tactical level they're still able to send rockets into Israel? No, it's a working assumption that they will continue. They will maintain a certain level of rocket fire towards Israel. Thankfully, we have the Iron Dome Missile Defense System, which is a very effective system and is able to intercept the vast majority of those rockets headed toward populated areas.

We are used to living in a situation where they fire rockets.

So we need to understand that Hamas, as long as they have one rocket left, they will try and fire it.

So it's going to be a long, long battle, a long war. We are prepared to fight it. And you know what, Brian? We are Committed to winning. We didn't choose this war.

They did, but we're going to win it. Listen, there's no, I hope everything you said turns out to be 100% correct because no one deserves what you guys went through. No one deserves to live in that neighborhood that you live with such hostility around you. Although I do get the sense that a lot of these nations don't like Hamas and don't really entertain Hezbollah and don't love that Hezbollah has basically taken over Lebanon, except for Iran. Do you get that sense too?

Well, Iran is a puppet master utilizing all of its proxies in the region to destabilize the region. Um of course Who pays the price? It's the regular Joe's. It's the people that just want to get on with life, that pay the price for these actions. Our role and the IDF's role in this is to restore security to the people of Israel.

The butchering of babies in their bedrooms can never be tolerated. We won't tolerate it ever again, and that's why we're on a mission to destroy Hamlas.

So Colonel, tell me w what you could about these reports that Benjamin Netanyahu, who's the the politicians to his right, who are right politically, want a scorched earth campaign. And that the U.S., us, is pushing you guys to be more measured, take your time. I want to see you humanitarian plane first, plan first. What could you tell us about these reports? The IDF is a professional military.

We work like you guys on the basis of distinction of military necessity and proportionality.

Now this is the how professional militaries work. The goal is to destroy Hamas, not to scorch anybody's earth. That is what we are doing, and we are doing it in a very, very effective way, strategically, but also drilling down into the different aspects of Hamas's infrastructure from the leaders through the institutions itself of the organization. Hamas had a government in Gaza that was all subordinated in its complete and parity. to their terrorist effort, to building, to financing, to equipping the Nukba forces, the drone capabilities, the rocket capabilities.

All of this is based on this government of terror.

So we're dismantling it. And indeed, there are you know, the situation and the civil situation, the human the humanitarian situation is not a good situation, but There are over one thousand three hundred families in Israel. Who are grieving. There are around 200 funerals per day here in Israel because of the butchery of Hamas and their strategic decisions.

So we are. On an extensive effort to destroy Hamas. We're confident we can do it. It's not about revenge, it's about our existence. And we will not permit Hamas to ever launch.

an attack like this against us, we will never let them use the Gaza Strip as a staging ground against our people. Uh like they've done. There's a Rafa opening, they understand if I have it correct, in Egypt from Gaza to Egypt. I keep on getting conflicting reports on are they going to open up and set what would be a refugee camp on the other side so Palestinian civilians can get out. Where could you tell me the status of that is?

Brian, I'm the IDF. We deal with the warfighting. The warriors are the warfighting. If anything happens on the Egyptian side of the fence, that'll be up to the diplomats. And I prefer to leave the diplomacy to the diplomats.

The IDF, if we are instructed to create a humanitarian corridor or a hiatus for supplies for the people of Gaza, the people of Gaza aren't our enemies. It's the government of Gaza, it's Hamas, this ruthless, merciless terrorist organization, and those are our enemies. That's who we're up against. But you do that, but don't you also think it's part of your military, Colonel, to not kill civilians? That matters a lot to you, to not wipe out families.

And if Egypt does not open up that gate, they'll have nowhere to go in the south, making your job harder. Absolutely. Our role is to dist is the distinction between noncombatants and terrorists. Absolutely. We see that as our role.

That's why for the last five days, we've been encouraging people to get out of the area of Gaza City, which is the hub of terror, which is the fortress of Hamas's terror instruments. And so that is how we are distinct conducting our distinction between the Terrorists and the non-combatants, the civilian population. You know, it but again, if the Egypt decide to open or to allow humanitarian aid through into Gaza, that will be an issue that the diplomats iron out. Um and if they do, then the IDF will of course uh Know how to facilitate it on our side.

So the Secretary of State has been doing shuttle diplomacy. Evidently, he got a lecture from Egypt. He got the cold shoulder from Saudi Arabia. I don't know how much you can believe from Qatar, being that they house Hamas leaders there.

So they're supposed to negotiate air quotes, some hostage release.

So he has not had much success diplomatically, met with Fatah, who has no popularity even among the Palestinians, and as well as the Jordan leader.

So why is the U.S. having so little success diplomatically? Has the stock dropped that much in the region? No, I don't really I can't judge the US diplomacy. I'm IDF of the Israel Defense Forces.

Our focus is fighting and killing the terrorists. They've perpetrated the attack. We have just as we were speaking a few moments ago, we had some more sirens up north in Israel. And that is our point of focus. As I said, the diplomacy for the diplomats It's the war fighting for the warriors.

And I'm here to talk about what we're doing on the idea. Can you win a two-front war? The IDF can win a multifront war. We are prepared and we have all of the tools in order to do so. Yeah, we're confident that we can do that.

As painful as that would be, it would be a way to wipe out all your enemies in one war rather than put off the one war for a short amount of time because you know Hezbollah is just going to start rattling at your cage again. It's a very trying time.

So glad you're in charge and so glad you shared your time with our audience. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner from Israel. Thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. Have a good day.

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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show. I come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, just four blocks away, sadly, where they say the epicenter of this anti-Israeli protest and the celebration of the Hamas attacks took place. I mean, I can't get my head around this because it is as if we saw Al-Qaeda or ISIS celebrate the 9-11 attacks. I can't believe how prevalent it is.

And it's not just in the U.S., it's also in the U.K., Australia. I did notice it, and I know you have noticed it.

So we have with us this hour Ambassador Michael Oren standing by Lieutenant Colonel Alan West of the border. And then we'll do a simulcast at Stuart Varney and find out about how this all affects us economically. This just in and handed over. Politico is now reporting that attackems that were just delivered to Ukraine have just surprised the Russians and blown up, it looks like nine of their helicopters in eastern Ukraine. Yep, move it back because we finally, a year and a half late, are giving him the rockets to push the Russians out who are on the offensive.

Again.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Jordan is either on the first or the second ballot tomorrow. He will be the speaker. I think Speaker McCarthy has a pretty good sense of exactly where they are.

There are a handful of moderates, frankly, who are so angry at the Benedict Arnolds who created this mess. I don't blame Newt Gingrich for saying that. Today could be the day we actually get a speaker. Could it be Jim Jordan? Word is.

He was a little bit heavy handed over the weekend, and people are resentful. It might take a few rounds, maybe more. Number two. You see these demonstrations supporting Hamas in the United States of America. You get reports of babies being murdered, all this other stuff, and your first instinct is to go out and praise the terrorists.

That is a little crazy. Anti-Israeli protests crop up around the world and at home, especially on college campuses, which is utterly astonishing to me.

Now that big buck donors are stepping up, so horrified by Governor Huntsman saying we're no longer giving to the University of Pennsylvania. We'll discuss it. Number one. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the president's travel last night. He's going to be leaving later on today, making his second trip to a war zone in his time in office, this time to Israel, to show the U.S.

support for Israel and also what Blinken called our ironclad commitment to their security. Yup, Gaza invasion delay. As President Biden announces he's going to the region, first stop Israel, as thousands of American troops prepare to mobilize. We'll bring you the latest, and we'll do that with Ambassador Michael Oren. Welcome, Ambassador.

I could be with you, Brian. Hi. Ambassador, why do you think that you know the diplomacy better than almost everybody, especially of this region, anybody around? Why do you think it seems as though Secretary of State Blinken has had such little success with Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia? Cold shoulder from Saudi Arabia, a history lesson from Egypt, and now, you know, I don't know what he expected to do with Fatah, but met with them.

Why is he having such little success? Would you characterize it differently? Because I think the the general public opinion Among Arab populations in the Middle East is with the Palestinians. I would go so far as to say they're with Hamas. The governments aren't.

Hamas threatens these governments as well. including the Palestinian government in in Judea and Samaria, in Ramallah. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is alive and kept from assassination. from Hamas by the Israeli military and Israeli security forces. The Hamas is also linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and to Iran.

And those two entities threaten most Arab governments, whether it be in Egypt or in the Gulf.

So that's why Lincoln is having a very hard time there. It's not easy. I think what these Arab leaders are probably saying to him is something like, you know, we want to help you quietly, but don't make us do it publicly. True. They also are upset that reportedly there is not a more even-handed approach.

We have had no interest in helping the Palestinian Authority who have shown no interest in helping themselves. And because of that, they say this set up this type of explosion. Your reaction?

It's just not true. I mean, Hamas hates the Palestinian Authority, Hamas hates peace. Every time we've had any peace process, and I've been around a long time, Brian, I go back to the Osborne process in 1993. I was an advisor to Robbie. And every time we made any progress in peace, it was Hamas that came up and blew up people.

They actually killed a lot of Palestinians. They killed hundreds of Palestinians in 2007 when they took over the Gaza Strip, Hamas.

So it's not true. If there was an ideal peace process and we had a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel, Hamas would attack us with even greater force. Why is it, though, when every time you see a poll, it's Fatah who has such little support, 14%. The last one in 2021 had 53% approval for Hamas. Oh, is that those post to Babela?

It's probably higher. There's two reasons. One is that the Palestinian government in Ramallah is corrupt, perceived as corrupt. It's perceived as ineffective, not caring about the people anymore. And Hamas is perceived as standing up to Israel, standing up to the world, armed struggle.

It's very emotional. And Hamas at least was in the past less corrupt. No no no more. But if our message from the White House is not all Palestinians, let's separate Palestinians from Hamas, is that really the correct way to characterize it, as if it's just these thugs on the corner that are the problem, not the people in the town? It's not give you let's let's sharpen the point a little bit.

As far as Israeli public opinion is concerned, there aren't many innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They voted for Hamas, they voted over and over again for Hamas, they loved Hamas, and they celebrated whenever Jews were killed by Hamas, and many of them actually participated in the attack. On October 7th, it wasn't just Hamas terrorists, it was a lot of just people who joined in it and murdered and robbed and maimed.

So not a tremendous amount of support here for the Palestinian people, which is one of the tasks that Tony Blink is going to have. He's going to have to convince the Israeli government to go against that public opinion and give aid to these Palestinians. That's what's called in diplomacy a heavy lift. But it is wrong to characterize the to make too big a distinction between Hamas and Palestinians, because Hamas is so popular among the Palestinians. you know, Mahmoud Abbas, the president, is in the eighteenth year of his four-year term.

And he won't stand for re-election because he knows how much will win. I understand that we just had a report of a killing of a lead Hamas. Um One of those leaders just been killed from one of your airstrikes. We had Trey Yinks just report it. Can you tell us anything about that?

We have targeted all the leaders. This was a tactical leader, an actual military commander. But no Hamas commander, whether it be underground in a hospital, under a hospital in Gaza, that's where they put their headquarters, under hospitals, or living in a multi-million dollar villa. In Qatar, which is where the top leadership lives in great luxury, none of them. Ever will be safe.

I hope not.

So, what do you characterize, how would you characterize the reasons? For the delay. You got hit on October 7th, and here we are in the middle of October 17th, and there has been no offensive. What do you think the how would you tell our audience the reason is for that?

Well I mean the the Israeli Air Force has carried out hundreds of uh aerial sorties. uh and the ground forces artillery is is shelling Israeli Navy is shelling from the sea.

So we just haven't had a ground incursion yet, and there are several reasons for it. One of this, we have to build up a reserve force. We have now called up three hundred sixty thousand reserves, imagining. Which, in addition to a standing army of about 125,000, brings us up to about the level of the coalition forces in the Gulf War of 2003. That's how many people are here.

So we have to build that up. Those people have to be trained, they have to be fully equipped. Usually when you go to battle, and I've done this several times, they give you a couple of days' training to make sure you remember everything you're supposed to remember. And you try out your weapons and you try out your tactics.

So that takes time. And setting that up. Secondly, is to give the time for the Palestinians in the battle zone to flee the battle zones. Because these are not like leasy suburban neighborhoods, Brian. These are killing zones, these are alleys.

and ruins that are filled with mines and booby traps. And enfilades, but that's the least of it. The biggest fighting will not be on top of the ground, it's gonna be below the ground, where Hamas has dug. uh kilometer after kilometer of my of tunnels and bunkers Uh all of them, all of them are attack bunkers, all of them attack tunnels. Apparently they fight underground.

So we can't do that if there are a million Palestinians living there. We're going to end up inadvertently killing so many of them, which is precisely what Hamas wants. Congress is actually preventing the Palestinian civilians from fleeing the area because they They they want to win on two counts. They want to kill our people and they want us to kill their people so that we'll get branded as war criminals and the UN will impose a ceasefire on us. That's just what they want.

They're smart.

So that's why we have to wait for these people to flee the area. Ambassador Oren, there is no doubt about it. Hezbollah has not let a day go by without some type of shelling, whether they're trying to blow up your cameras or trying to get they're trying to target the Sheba farm area.

So do you expect is Hezbollah mobilizing in a way That makes you think they're ready for to go offensive on you guys in the north as soon as you go into Gaza. It we can't rule it out. I I would give it a high probability. And I've even gone as far as to success to suggest in the Israeli press that when they think about attacking Hezbollah first, Only because Hamas is not going anywhere. It's strapped, and we can keep on pounding them and leave them for a later stage.

But Hezbollah is a, in terms of threat to Israel, they have ten times as many more rockets. Those rockets are much more accurate. They have a fighting force that has fought in Syria for the last 10 years, complicit in the killing of a half million Syrians. They will easily do to the people of our northern towns and cities what the Thomas did to the south, a greater threat. And we have this force mobilized.

which doesn't happen every day. With two U.S. aircraft carriers not far from our coast.

So this is this it's an opportunity. I've suggested it. But I think the glycular scenario is that we will do the ground incursion into Gaza And if Hezbollah joins that fight, And again, I think it's likely we will respond on the Northern Front as well.

So I want you to hear what Victor Davis Hansen said, military historian, Hoover Institute, Cut 11. I think we have to take a really hard look at Iran. I really do. I don't think that we can go on with Iran like this. I think our European allies understand that now.

The promising thing is that Iran no one likes Iran in the world. It's a dangerous theocratic state. Even its so-called allies like China and Russia would not lose any sleep over losing Iran's nuclear deterrent.

So I think that's gonna we have a rendezvous with Iran sooner or later. And I think this war in Gaza is only Highlighted that reality. It's an unpleasant reality, but there it is.

So that's Victor Davis-Hanson's conclusion. If you conclude to the same thing, if higher-ups in the Israeli government conclude to the same thing.

Well we concluded it about twenty years ago, we knew that these are all proxy wars with Gaan with Iran. We know that Hezbollah is wholly owned and operated by Iran, so is the Islamic Jihad Organization in Gaza, and Hamas is funded and trained by Iran.

So this is a proxy war. We're actually in our first Israel Iran war. And the question is, you know, the question is: is it going to take a long time for America, particularly under democratic administrations, to acknowledge that? And I think really the transformation has occurred in the last couple days when President Biden gave his historic speech in support of Israel, and it was quite a speech. I would say it was one word he didn't say, he didn't say Iran.

But now Secretary Lincoln is openly saying Iran. And I think that this mugged by reality, what can I say, Brian? Totally mugged. There's just no way that Iran is going to be what some people used to say would be as a responsible regional power. No, it is a terrorist state.

In a terror state that is the largest state sponsor of terror in the world. And it's not just rhetoric. They do it. They kill people.

So they're not one for big going directly at you. They can be intimidated. Salome gets hit. They've responded to all types of reprisals. It was almost nothing.

They were being starved of their revenue, their oil revenue. That has all changed. But they've still got their hostage deal, the $6 billion. They got their five guys out, and I think they're all still here in America, able to use their green cards to continue to go back to spying. They're getting the exact wrong message from what's going on right now, Ambassador.

So when the President comes to visit, who do you hope he gets told? You know, this has been our message to the United States for many years, including the very high-level discussions in which I participated. That our American counterparts will say: listen, if we give them money and we treat them with respect, they will become a Responsible regional power. And we responded by saying, no, no, they are who they are, and their essence is terrorism. And you can give them all the money in the world, they're going to use it for terror.

and they'll see the respect you give them as weakness. And they'll take advantage of it. And they have. They have. Unfortunately, we were right on this.

We made some of the same mistakes via the Hamas. We thought we paid them a lot of Qatari money. They'd focus on governance. They didn't. We used the money for terrorism.

So, you know, I can't fault the Americans entirely. We made the same mistake. But No, it's true. It is about time. I hope the world will wake up to it.

Right now, recently, the Iranians have been led into the BRIC organization. They have signed a strategic alliance with Russia. They've signed a four hundred billion dollar twenty five year treaty with China. Um there's a whole axis there.

So it's not just the United States standing up to Iran. By sending naval forces to this area, the United States is sending a message, I think, a very good message, which, you know, America is back. After withdrawing for ten years, and letting the Russians go into Ukraine and the Chinese into the south side of Chi Sina Chi China Sea and threatening Taiwan, America's back into projecting power. And from Israel's perspective, that's a very positive thing.

So what what is accomplished by the President's visit?

Well, here it's viewed in two ways. It's I'll give you a little Hebrew lesson. It's two words. It's a chizuk and a chibuk. A chizuk is a shot in the arm.

It's a sort of vote of confidence, a show a demonstration of support. A khibuk is a is is a bear hug. And Barrog's saying, you know, I'm going to hold you tight so you don't do things that I don't want you to do. And I think the President's coming here to certainly get a commitment from Israeli leaders to give that type of aid, actually water and food to Palestinian refugees, something the Israeli public does not want to do, especially since the The terrorists have our hostages. They have 200 hostages.

by giving them food and water. Would you give food and water to, you know, To bank robbers that had 200 hostages there? That's what I worry. He's going to try to slow you guys down, and they already have. And maybe, you know, maybe we'll get us to think about a lot of things.

So that's the chibuk. That's the bear hook.

So it's both. As a citizen, I'm appreciative of the chizuk of the shot in the arm, very much so. But also, as a citizen, I want to see us get this job done. As painful and arduous as it's going to be. I hear you.

Ambassador Michael Orrin, always educational to talk to you. Thanks so much for the insight. Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. Many, thank you.

You got it. 1-866-408-7669. Your call's next. Then we've got to Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. He'll tell us what's happening at the border and this military confrontation we might be going directly into.

Radio that makes. you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back, everybody. We're just watching these turn of events.

Just so interesting. You can't kick your eye off the ball in Ukraine, and people think it's to Russia's advantage, maybe technically, but that hasn't stopped the Ukrainians from fighting just because the rest of the world isn't concentrating. And believe me, no one's going to tell Germany, Poland, and the surrounding nations that there's a problem in Ukraine and Russia's advancement. But they are moving forward. But get this: we evidently sent them the ATACMs, which are great, which are rockets that go a much longer distance.

So they're able to keep. A lot of their weaponry, a lot of their armor, closer to the border because we didn't have attack'ems to give them.

Well, evidently, we snuck in and gave them attackums. And the Ukrainian military has now said the U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles struck nine Russian helicopters in eastern Ukraine. Nine. The delivery used on the battlefield, confirmed by two people familiar with him, marks a major ramp-up of the administration's defense of Ukraine.

Now, I'm for the ATAC'ems. I'm for the F-15 fighters. I'm for the HIMARS. I'm for the Patriots. Guess who wasn't?

This administration Three days, hey, Zelensky, we'll get you a ride out. We saw what happened in Afghanistan. We know you're going to lose again. Really? You want to fight?

Okay. It's good luck. You're holding him out of Kiev? Fantastic. You need missile defense?

I'll think about it. You need high marks? Maybe. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Eventually.

If you gave him everything right away, you would not be trying to get the house to give you more money today. Brian kill me, Chair. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Joe. I don't understand this attempt to downplay Iran's role and sweep it under the rug.

Iran is behind all this. Their fingerprints are all over this. Iran provides $150 million per year to Hamas and weapons systems that they use to kill innocent civilians in Israel. Of course, they're behind this. All their proxies, Hamas is a proxy of Iran, Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran, and the Iran-backed Shia militias in Iraq and elsewhere are all backed by Iran.

So the idea that they're somehow not behind this. Really defies common sense. It does, and it's an insult. It's an insult to people that follow it, care about it, and don't want to be hit again because of it. If they just don't want to admit that their policy has utterly failed.

It's like if George Bush was determined to be an education president, but when 9-11 happened, he quickly went on a war footing. He was a wartime president. Can you imagine if he says, no, I'm going to go back to education? That's as severe as this president saying my Iran policy was working out fantastic. Joining us now, a man who knows that's not the truth, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director.

Welcome back, Colonel. Good to be with you, Brian. Thanks so much. So I mean, how soon you can't just go out there and just start bombing Iran, I get it. How soon do we just welcome this we just admit that we need a change of policy?

Well, I don't think this administration is going to do so because, as you know, this administration wanted to go back into the Iranian nuclear agreement. The dismissal of them not enforcing the sanctions allowed once again on Iran to sell oil and increase their oil revenues, which benefits Hamas and Hezbollah, and of course that additional six billion dollars. But remember, Brian, we are at the fortieth anniversary of what happened in the Beirut barracks bombing, where about 243, maybe 250, Soldiers, sailors, and Marines lost their lives there. And after receiving that $6 billion just last month in September 11th, Iran came out and said, yeah, we were totally complicit in that, and we helped in the planning. And that was Hezbollah.

And even in Iraq, we know about General Suleimani, but also the EFPs, the explosive force penetrators, those IEDs that were so deadly to our servicemen and women in Iraq. Those came from Iran.

So Iran has a history of going out and not just supporting Islamic terrorism, but really supporting the killing and the maiming of American citizens. And this is just another iteration. Outside of the direct rocket attack on Saudi Arabia, which is inexplicable about five, six years ago, we know they're the enemy. We didn't know what prompted that. But just besides just constant tensions with the Houthi rebels, who this administration decided not to label a terrorist organization, for the most part, they do not like direct confrontation.

Adam Bowler, who Who worked for Trump and was in on the Abraham Accords, kind of the lead negotiator, said this to me over the weekend: cut 18. I think that's pretty empty. I mean, the truth of the matter is, look at what happened when we killed Iran's number two guy. We killed Al-Famani in Iraq, and they fired a missile that missed our base and didn't kill anyone because they knew. What we would do if they fired the missile.

Iran really likes to instigate. They have a little bit harder of a problem backing up their threats. Is that true? No, I think he's absolutely right. They're looking at circumventing any type of direct confrontation because they remember the last direct confrontation they had with the United States of America was with Ronald Reagan when one of their surface mines hit an American naval warship.

And Ronald Reagan unleashed the United States Navy against them. They don't want to see that. But what they're banking on is the weakness of this president and this administration, who was just recently denying any type of Iranian involvement in what we saw happen in Israel on october the seventh.

So I think that they, in a way, fear an American response, but they don't fear the response of America from this current administration. Axios is reporting this: that the Washington Post is: officials waited to announce that President Biden is going to go to Israel on Monday night until they receive commitments from Benjamin Netanyahu himself on a humanitarian package. Secretary of State Anthony Blake received assurances during that marathon meeting of seven and a half hours in Tel Aviv this week and then made the announcement that Biden will be visiting. I do not like President Biden. forcing using leverage on Benjamin Netanyahu.

Do you? No, I don't, and I don't think that's his place. You know, how would we feel if Benjamin Netanyahu were to say that, you know, I'm not going to come and visit the United States of America until you give concessions to the cartels, even though they have been responsible with the fentanyl, the human and drugs, the sex trafficking.

So, no, Joe Biden should not make these concessions. And when you think about the consequences to what Hamas did, leave it up to Israel. You know, it was 2005 when Israel, you know, exfiltrated, you know, left Gaza. And what has happened over the last 18 years since 2005? Attack after attack after attack.

And now we have the worst day for Israel since the Holocaust. And we also have 29 Americans that were killed. I would rather see Joe Biden go over and say, hey, look, we stand shoulder to shoulder with you. What do you need? We're here to back you up.

Do you need intelligence support? Do you need special operations support? Do you need augmentation of our fixed work? aircraft to go after these Hamas rocket sites. That's the message that you sent.

Yeah, that's what I would assume. I think the American people would back him on that. To me, this is what I think. The only reason that the 80-year-old is going to go over to a war zone, which is risky if you're 50 and JFK, is if you is politics. He's trying to look like a guy in charge.

There is no reason for him to go to Israel. That's why you have a Secretary of State, a Secretary of Defense. There is no reason for him to go. This is all show.

Now, what is he going to say to the Fatah, Abbas? You're the new leader with 14% approval rating among the Palestinians. He's a corrupt clown who lost, who is way over the hill. And then in Egypt, what's he going to say to Al-Sisi? You better open up your border?

What's he going to say to MBS? They don't have any respect for Biden at all.

So I don't get what he's doing. Why is this worth the risk?

Well, it's not worth the risk, but what they're looking at is the political optics that you just brought out. To try to now, all of a sudden, say, you know, this is a wartime president, and look how brave he is. He went to Ukraine, now he's going to Israel. But the bottom line is: who cares about the optics if your policies don't change? And what I am really concerned about, Brian, is the fact that we are purposefully and intentionally giving up the sovereignty and the operational control of our border, and we're allowing these sales to be established here.

With the single military-aged males that this Biden administration has allowed into the United States of America, it's highly disconcerting. Right. I want you to hear, even ABC's Rian Salam said this on Sunday, CUT 19. It's really important for people to understand the wider context. I want your viewers to understand that in January 2021, Iran was exporting something along the lines of 700,000 barrels of oil per day.

Now that number is about 3x that amount. That translates into tens of billions of dollars in incremental revenue, where Iran was previously in a box under a campaign of maximum pressure.

Now Iran has the resources not just to deal with domestic economic challenges, not just to rebuild its nuclear program, which it has done emphatically, but also to finance its various terrorist proxies.

So is he right? He's absolutely right. And not only that, I mean, now we have the Biden administration easing off on sanctions on Venezuela, allow them to sell their dirty crude oil here instead of allowing us to become energy independent.

So yes, The policies that we have seen have enabled Hamas and Hezbollah to benefit from the return on investment that we have enabled for Iran. I mean, there was a point in time when Hezbollah was basically out there doing bake sales and having lemonade stands to try to raise money because the Trump administration had so constrained and restricted the revenues flowing into Iran. They are the number one sponsor of Islamic terrorism. And now Biden, he can travel over to Israel all he wants. But the thing that he has to come to understand is what he is witnessing is the return on investment of what he has done with Iran.

So I want you to hear with some of these protests rising up in all these major cities and campuses for the Palestinians, for Hamas, I find so perplexing and aggravating. Listen to some of these guys speak about why they're doing what they're doing. For example, at Georgetown, Cut 22. Do you feel like Israel is the aggressor in this situation? If we sto uh if if we talk a step back Before the Hamas attack.

Um I think Israel has a lot to be uh condemned. About Uh they have been doing uh massacres for decades. I hold responsible to the Israeli State for for for their upper tide on Gaza for since two thousand six because they they have been uh increasing their military occupation in in Gaza and they have been treating uh the uh treating uh the people in Gaza like they're not humans.

So they're blaming Israel. Your thought on this? This is going everywhere: Harvard, Pennsylvania, Yale. Yeah. Hunter, NYU, Columbia.

Hopefully, I don't get you kicked off the air, but what a dumbass, okay? Israel has not been in Gaza since 2005. And furthermore, when you look at these young people, what about the young people that were there at a music festival for Peace and Love? And then all of a sudden you have Hamas terrorists paragliding in and just indiscriminately kill them and raping young girls next to dead bodies. I mean, don't the young people here in America understand that?

So this is the great work of propaganda and these people that don't understand. But Brian, we're getting to a point where freedom of speech cannot be you go out and you support a terrorist organization that has the blood of Americans on their hands. Yeah, we wouldn't have tolerated al-Qaeda or ISIS. Why are we tolerating this? Colonel Alan West, thanks for your perspective.

We'll do some with Varney and Company in a moment.

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Hopefully be around you on WOKV in Ponavidra right after that, November early in November. And then I'll be going out to you'll see me in Michigan. You'll see me in Illinois. And hopefully everywhere else. And there's a whole bunch of book signings.

So it's my opportunity to get to see you guys in person and talk about American history the right way, the accurate way, and understand how great this country is.

So let's listen in right now as Stuart Varney introduces me. year Treasury. Straight up today, you're now looking at four point eight three percent. All right, 10:51 Eastern Kill Mead Time. Brian, Donald Trump calling for tougher immigration restrictions.

He wants to expand the travel ban on Muslim majority countries. His travel ban, by the way. A lot of pushback on those comments. What's our you? I don't know.

Governor Santa said something similar. He said, look at it. When it comes to the refugees with the Palestinians, they shouldn't come here. Let's stay in the Middle East. He comes out and says, listen, they have this anti-Semitic approach to things.

Not everybody, but most. And we can't take the risk. There's already so many protests. And what he's basically doing is a version of what President Trump has said. When the war on terror is raging and it seems to be kicking back into gear, we should look at who's coming here, especially what comes through our southern border.

With President Trump, he also looks at sanctuary cities. Everyone thought, well, that's a little over the top.

Now, how does that look?

So we look at, they sued to get their sanctuary status.

Now, every one of these cities is turned around and go, man, the sanctuary status thing is not really going well for us.

So, what Trump is trying to do is say, can we get control of our immigration laws and stop looking out for the people here, especially after they saw the horror that happened right outside the Gaza line? That's what a lot of these extremists are capable of. Until you show me a system that can effectively screen, he's saying, Let's look at this.

Now, the way the President did the travel ban was terrible in his first year. He just basically just said it, and all of a sudden, everyone's like, What is going on here? Hopefully, he knows how to implement things better now if he was to become president again. Picking up on what you said about the border, we're what, just two weeks, just over two weeks into October, and already we have sixteen thousand known gotaways. Four Iranians on the terror watch list just caught at the border.

There's a terrorist. If there is a terrorist incident linked to the open border, Politically, Joe Biden is toast. And he should be. And he should be. What he has done at the border is worse than any single policy that I can remember outside his exit from Afghanistan.

This should destroy any other candidacy in any party, which is why the mayor in New York City is divorcing himself from it. The governor of New York is running from it. The governor of Illinois is running for the Hills because of it. And you're not going to see anybody in Pennsylvania doing anything different. And people look and say, wait a second, Governor DeSantis over in Florida seems to have cracked down effectively.

In Oklahoma, they're not having these issues, but California in a total disaster. That's, to me, the proof. The proof in what policy is effective. And I don't know if you've noticed over the weekend, Stuart, but 60 Minutes did an immigration story. You know what they did it on?

How dare you load people in a plane and bring them to Martha's Vineyard 18 months ago? What was really behind that? That is the one immigration issue you think the American people care about. Rich people first to deal with 30%. 49 people from another country who had a private jet ride to a luxurious island vacation, that to me shows how warped people's minds are, how detached they are for what Americans care about.

I think you got that right, Brian. Thanks for your input today. We'll see you again real soon. You got this. Stuart Varney.

Let's go out to Joe in Jacksonville. Hey, Joe. Hey, Brian, thanks for taking my call. I'd like to recommend a man for the Speaker of the House, since you don't have to be a member of the House. I would like to recommend a man named Jonathan Lee Iverson, who is the First black uh Ringmaster for Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Now, you know, what a perfect uh choice. A black man that can work with clowns.

Well, I don't know what the color of someone's skid has to do with it, but it is a total clown show. Everyone should be so embarrassed by those eight who stood up and decided that Kevin McCarthy wasn't doing everything that they like and ousted him, despite people with 210 saying he's doing a great job. And it's hurt this country. Joe, there's no doubt about it. It's hurt this country and it's hurt the party, and they deserve everything they get.

Matt Gates and company for acting selfishly and personally. And saying that Kevin McCarthy is actually, well, he didn't implement appropriations bills and he needed a CR to get it done.

Well, how many people are working on an appropriations bill right now? None. You didn't like the way he was doing impeachment? You thought it wasn't comprehensive enough? How many people are working on the impeachment inquiry?

None. How many people are working on getting our budget in order, cutting down the deficit, or coming up with a way to seal the border? None. How many aid packages have been sent to Israel after this horrible terror attack? Nothing.

So all these people who acted away I'd be embarrassed if I was related to them.

Now it's up to them to go rally around Jim Jordan. And I was just watching one lawmaker. They say he's got around two hundred and five votes. He needs two seventeen. I was watching one lawmaker that said Jim Jordan had his people trying to intimidate others and bang them into submission.

And these guys and these women are saying, wait a second, you're not going to do that. I got some pride too. You're not going to demand I vote for you.

So again. It seems to be turning people off because we're in this mess. People wanted to blame Kevin McCarthy because you needed. 15 rounds. When it turns out, he was the only one that could have gotten through in 15 rounds.

Do you know most of these, most every Republican, 70% of every Republican in the House is there because Kevin McCarthy either recruited them or fundraised for them? And that's why they were so in support of him, but he didn't, he only has five, six. Margin of error?

So that's what's happening today. We're going to see a vote of 12, and let's see if it gets even more embarrassing, or if it's going to be one or two votes, one or two rounds, and that's it. But if not, Mike Turner and I think others are going to call up Democrats and said, let's do some power-sharing deal, because it's not in the best interest of the country to do this. And Republicans, you work so hard to get just a portion of power after the midterm elections and want to prove that you deserve the Senate and the White House. This is not the way you do it.

At all. There are a few things out there that are semi-bipartisan, too, especially when it comes to Israel. And now it's even at the border you could win people over. for their own political survival. But now you have no opportunity.

So, listen, let's hope it's behind them. They can get going. And I think even Democrats got to say to themselves, this is enough. I liked it in the beginning, but now it's really hurting us. Brian, kill me, Chill.

Keep it here. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Carl. Brian Kilming here. Thanks so much for listening.

We have a lot to discuss right here in this hour on this Tuesday. We are getting some reports of increased pace of fighting in the north part. That is with Lebanon, Hezbollah, Lebanon, right in that area. The Israels are braced for it, but it's also set to penetrate deep into Gaza. They've killed another one of these Hamas leaders until they're all dead.

They're not going to rest, and I don't blame them.

Meanwhile, their political wing stays in Qatar, and I don't understand how they're allowed to do that. But meanwhile, the The Israelis are picking their time to go forward. This hour, we're going to be joined by General Rob Spalding, talking about the bigger picture, and the great Sandra Smith. And at the top of the, I'm going out numbered on television.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Jordan is either on the first or the second ballot tomorrow. He will be the speaker. I think Speaker McCarthy has a pretty good sense of exactly where they are.

There are a handful of moderates, frankly, who are so angry at the Benedict Arnolds who created this mess. But you should still vote. Vote for Jim Jordan. Get this over with. Today could be the day that Jordan becomes the next speaker.

I'm not sure how many rounds it will take, and I'm not sure how angry people are, but they've got to stop embarrassing the country. Number two. You see these demonstrations supporting Hamas in the United States of America. You get reports of babies being murdered, all this other stuff, and your first instinct is to go out and praise the terrorist It's nuts. The anti-Israel protests crop up around the world and here at home, especially on college campuses, our so-called best colleges, from Columbia to Harvard to Yale.

What is utterly astonishing to me, and I'm heartened by the big buck donors are also outraged and are cutting off their funding.

Now that gets to them also. Where are the celebrities that are there for Black Lives Matter? Where are they now for Israel? Number one. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the President's travel last night.

He's going to be leaving later on today, making his second trip to a war zone in his time in office, this time to Israel, to show the U.S. support for Israel and also what Blinken called our ironclad commitment to their security. The Gaza invasion delay. If President Biden announces he's going to the region, first stop Israel. Then he's going to go all around.

He's going to see if American troops are actually going to mobilize. That is the warning. We will bring you the latest. And we'll do that with a guy that knows all about mobilizing troops, General Rob Spaulding, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General.

And he's the author of a book, War Without Rules. General, welcome back. Thank you. It's great to be back.

So, General, what's your impression of? I was a little shocked that the President feels as though it's in his best interest to go there himself. What message is he hoping to send?

Well, I think what he's trying to do is distract from the fact that You know, the money that the Hamas was getting was. likely the result of policies that his administration had put into place, whether they be through assistance to the Palestinians themselves or indirectly through Uh I ran.

So maybe he goes, and now it turns out our Secretary of State did the tour, went to Saudi Arabia, evidently was ghosted. He went to Egypt, was lectured to, given a history lesson, says you took your eye off the ball and this is what happens. Same thing with Jordan, the same thing with the Palestinian Authority, is anything but accommodating. Is he doing this because his Secretary of State failed?

Well, I well, I think the whole thing has been a failure. If you think about it, I mean, the big the big one of the group that you just talked about is Saudi Arabia. And if you go back to the beginning of his administration, You know, the change and the and the disruption from the I what I would call you know historic Abraham Accords. has basically put us, the United States, in a position where we have to now carry the burden for what's going on in Israel, and that's added to carrying the burden for Ukraine.

So we've just made very, very bad strategic mistakes across the globe with this administration. I want you to hear what Jake Sullivan said prior to the attack that took the lives of so many.

Now it's up to 299 military men and women, and they're up to around. Uh the exact number is roughly 3,000 wounded. And we have 3,000 wounded and 1,300 Israeli dead. Let's listen. What we said is we want to depressurize.

de-escalate and ultimately integrate. the Middle East region. The war in Yemen is in, it's nineteen-month of truce. For now, the Iranian attacks against U.S. forces have stopped.

Our presence in Iraq is stable. I emphasize for now because all of that can change. And the Middle East region is quieter today. than it has been in two decades.

So that doesn't really wear well, does it?

Well, it doesn't. You know, there was a lot of people saying that Russia was not going to invade Ukraine, and then all of a sudden they did.

Now we have an ongoing war in Europe. The Middle East was quiet. A quiet before a storm is what I would call it. And then I think the other thing that's that's really beginning to boil is China. Across all these issues, just because there's nothing going on in the first part of the administration doesn't mean that they are putting in the pieces.

To really put pressure on the free world and on the United States, who's supposed to be the leader.

So I think we've made bad decisions. that are now beginning to um you know haunt us. And it all goes back to really the way we pulled out of Afghanistan. It looked like we were just quitting a whole region. All of a sudden, the weapons, too, we left behind, there are American weapons turning up in the hands of Hamas.

What would be, of course, because the Taliban has no money and they're selling up their assets, which are our assets that we left behind.

Now, you think it's a bigger picture, you told me yesterday on Fox and Friends. You think in the big picture, China and Russia are to gain, and it's part, possibly part of a plan. Can you expand on that? Right. So if you go back to the First Cold War, I mean, the Soviet Union was clearly bent on global domination.

And I think we have the same thing going on now.

So we have the Second Cold War. China's bent on global domination. And part of that um strategy involves Russia, it involves Iran. And to a lesser extent, North Korea. And I think what you're seeing play out in the Middle East is a lot of what Iran is doing, but they're doing it on behalf of and supported by the Chinese.

And the same is happening in Europe. And so when you think of the Soviet Union as a military might, Obviously it was the most, you know, had the most nuclear weapons other than the United States. But economically, it was a basket case. That's not the case for China. China has an industrial base second to none, and it's got a 14 trillion plus dollar economy.

So when you add in the military might and oh, by the way, the growing nuclear weapons in China, the massive nuclear arsenal in Russia and this relationship between China, Russia, and Iran. I think you have the makings of something far more powerful than the Soviet Union. And she is very clear about what he believes the future of the world should be, and that is. Marxist-Leninism. He has not been shy about saying that.

So I think that's what we have to start to think about. This is not just about Hamas, it's not just about. Ukraine. It is about the globe. And do you fear that we're bringing too much firepower to the Persian Gulf as we bring in the Eisenhower and Gerald R.

Ford?

Well, what I think, and this is kind of my point on yesterday, is that we're focused. narrowly now on On Gaza and really not taking a step back and recognizing the bigger picture and understanding that we're going to have to muster our resources. This is going to be a long fight, and it's going to be across the globe. And if we don't focus on that, the type of conflict it is in the same way that we did. For the Cold War.

The Cold War went over 40 years, and we prepared ourselves. We mustered our strength. We grew our science and technology on an industrial base. We are not doing that. And that is what I thought the current administration and and to some respects even the Trump administration was lax in really doing the things necessary to be able to deal with a generational Conflict.

We're not talking about something that ends in a couple of years.

So I do know one thing that's heartening is that China's economy is sucking wind, and the Marxist philosophy just is not a successful one. The model has not worked. And right now, their real estate is going bust. They're putting another stimulus program into play. It doesn't matter.

They have built enough for twice, they've built enough housing for twice their population. They just did make-work projects, and now they seem to pay the price. They're arresting the former real estate moguls they used to have. They wiped out all any type of capitalist principles within their communist doctrine. And they are really having a hard time despite pouring money into their military.

Should that give us hope?

Well, I don't think it should give us hope. I think what she did is he basically recognized that they had gotten the things they needed. They got the technology, they got in the industrial base. And if you go back to Deng Xiaoping, who said, We're going to bide our time and hide our capability, this has always been in the plan. And so, no, I just don't think that they're capitalists.

And so, that wealth is not something they're looking for. They're looking for the power that comes along with the industrial base and what that industrial base can give them, which is a very powerful military.

So, I think they're transitioning. From the China that when I lived there back in 2002, that was really focused on economic growth and getting science and technology. They're focused on military strength and power now, and they're using what they took from the West to build that. But they also have new partners. They have Africa.

They have the Middle East. They have Central Asia in addition to Russia and Iran.

So they have the resources and markets they need. And they are trying to create, go back to what we did after World War II with the Marshall Plan. They're trying to recreate that in their own area. But isn't it failing, General Spalding? Isn't it failing that Belt and Road program?

Yes, from the standards that we would say it is failing. But from the standards that they want, which is political influence and control, it's not. If you look at who supports. Russia and the Ukrainian conflict at the UN, far more countries are on the side of Russia than along with the United States, with Ukraine. And I would venture to say you probably get the same type of outcome with regard to Israel and Palestine.

So I think we have to recognize that they have a different motivation. And the things, while we say, hey, this is a failure, this isn't working by our own standards. They have different standards, they have different goals. And those goals don't align with a healthy free world. Right.

I just do think, too, a bad loan is a bad loan. When you don't get paid back off money you have, it does hurt. And I also see that they built, they say they built enough house. They have 1.4 billion people. They built housing for 3 billion people, and they got no women.

They have a single birth policy, so they're heading in the wrong direction with their population. If we had a long-term plan, we would wear them out because no one wants to live there and emigrate, unlike here, sadly, because of our border. We have evidence.

Now, when it comes to the Ukraine, this just in, the Ukraine military used U.S.-supplied longer-range missile to strike nine Russian helicopters, so the attackems arrived in secret. They were able to go past what they thought the battle lines were and wipe out some armor of the Russians. Finally, they might be getting what they need to be successful. Why has it taken so long?

Well, I think one of the things you have to be concerned about with regard to Russia and Ukraine is you don't want to start a nuclear war. And I think that's the thing that, again, I fought this current administration for because we're not afraid of nuclear weapons and we ought to be. We ought to be thinking about just how far we're willing to go in this conflict. This is something we thought about with regard to Vietnam and Korea. Ultimately, it wasn't about Vietnam and Korea, it was about the Cold War.

And I think we have to recognize we're in another Cold War, and we want that war to stay cold. We do not want a hot nuclear war, and I think that's the issue. On China, I think two of the things that we have to consider is: one, we've allowed them to join the global financial institutions. But they don't have a convertible currency.

So that prevents them from having a run on their banks like would happen with a normal country. They should have never been integrated with a non-convertible currency. And I think, furthermore, on the demographic issues, I think they're exporting a lot of those males into Africa, into Central Asia. They're intermarrying with the women that are in those areas where they're doing a lot of the jobs like construction and manufacturing.

So they have plans to deal with the issues with demographics and financial issues. That you know, I think we have to pay attention to them. Oh, I didn't know they're intermi they're intermingling with African populations in order to expand theirs. Absolutely. Wow, General Spalding, thanks so much.

Look out for the bigger plan while we have all our eyes on Israel. Thanks, General. Thank you. All right. When we come back, we'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669.

They're welcome. It's Andrew Smith. Brian Kilmead Show. It's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Complexity of what they did was really quite extraordinary. Were you surprised by the sophistication of the attack? Yes. Actually, I was more surprised that there just wasn't the awareness of what was being planned.

Petraeus was once director of the CIA and can't understand how both Israeli and American intelligence missed preparations for the attack. This is a very substantial operation, and the planning of it alone would have been very considerable. But then the training and equipping and positioning of forces, then the actual conduct of it, that all of that could take place and not spark much increased military readiness is really quite stunning. How do you account for it? Dramatic improvement in Hamas's operational security.

Very, very creative use of these munitions and capabilities to. Degrade dramatically, in some cases, knock out the Israeli ability to see. What is going on around this quite formidable iron fence that was established? At the very least, it would be safe to say that Israel underestimated its enemy. No question about it.

Yeah, so that's General Petraeus who's going to be on with us this week. I'm doing something at the Union Club with him, too, on his new book. It's called Conflict. He just looks at keeps politics out of it and talks about how the military and war has improved and Hamas improved. They're evil in every sense of the word, but they pulled this off.

Quote: According to Hamas's leadership, we were expecting to get a smaller number of hostages and return, but the army collapsed in front of us, meaning the Israeli army. What were you to do? That, according to Ali Barak, a Beirut-based Hamas representative, who should be arrested immediately. The Israel army has become a paper tiger. We'll find out.

The former intel officer with the IDF said the operation was the result of at least two years of planning, a period that included two conflicts between the IDF and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. A smaller militant group in Gaza at the time, Hamas was criticized for staying. Standing on the sidelines as. Islamic Jihad were eliminated by Israelist strikes, but they go ahead and did the hang glider thing, they did the bulldozer thing, they cut the fence, they had the motorcycles, and they had the doom buggies. And they hit these defenseless towns, and they predicted, according to their manuals that we found down there, dead bodies, and they lost over a thousand people.

They predicted that within three to five minutes, the Israeli military would respond. And they didn't in great numbers. And they got inside nine bases, which shows you they might have had people on the inside. Or intelligence was so great they knew exactly how to get in. Sandra Smith will go over this with me.

We're also watching Republicans on the House floor. They're talking about freezing the $6 billion Iran got. They're moving legislation there. Guess who agrees with them that doesn't have the guts to stand there? Senator Schumer.

Brian Killman. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. Welcome back, Sandra Smith, fresh off filling in for Dana Parina. We'll go do her show, America Reports at 2 o'clock.

And John Roberts is over in Israel.

So, is he going to be joining you today, Sandra Smith? Amazing coverage so far. He's going to be reporting on the ground there. Brian, thank you very much for having me, by the way. And I remember I requested these earthings to not.

Go over my head. You left a special one. I know, I do. But didn't we have a woman on, Allison, that didn't? Eric, you came in there and gave her the clip-ons.

And one of the anchors goes, No, I want the normal headsets. You know, I could do something like this, right?

Okay. Yeah, you could do that. Anyway, so no, really, really. Busy morning with our continuing coverage of this ongoing conflict there. Mark Esper, the former Defense Secretary, is going to be joining us top of the one o'clock hour this afternoon.

We had Nikki Haley on this morning when I was filling in for Dana with Hemmer. Obviously, there's a lot of questions about what's going to happen with those Gaza refugees. Nikki Haley was pressed, or I would say she was actually slammed by Ron DeSantis for her comment that half of the Palestinians don't support Hamas. He drew the conclusion that does that mean that you would take in these refugees into the United States when they're fleeing? And she said that that was not her stance, that their surrounding countries should certainly be able to take them in.

I think there's huge questions at this hour as the president is expected to make his way to Israel this afternoon on the ground there tomorrow. How do you limit civilian casualties in Gaza? You've seen over a million already flee the north. Do you get worried that this administration is starting to take Tell Israel how to fight this? It's a fair question.

President Biden was asked about that. Was it 60 minutes over the weekend? He was asked: can we handle two wars? This is a huge test of this president's foreign policy. How involved we are.

But we're not fighting either. We're just writing checks and providing armament.

Well, I just talked to Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, the Republican. He was just on the ground there in this bipartisan group that toured Israel. They went for a couple of days. He said, let's give them what they need. Yeah, let's do it.

And we saw this today. We saw the Ukraine got the attack'ems, used them right away, blew up nine helicopters in Russia, who's really using this as an opportunity to surge forward. But they've been hit because the Ukrainians know how to fight. I just wish we would give them what they need. I really, a little disconcerting to see Republicans push back so much on weaponry.

Do they prefer Russia wins? I mean, that's what they should be asked. But I'd like to ask you your opinion on what goes on at noon today, roughly, when they're going to vote for a speaker. I saw an interview, I think it was with your show, where a congressman was saying, We don't enjoy the heavy-handed way in which the Jim Jordan surrogates were pushing people, demanding they vote for them.

So people getting bent out of shape.

So, what do you think is going to happen? Are we going to look at another 14 rounds today to pick a speaker?

Something needs to happen. I think Republicans are in a super tough spot here. I think it looks like a mess in Washington. No question.

So, you can only lose four Republicans, right? Who was the congressman we had on this morning? Scott, um, who he was a flip. Right? Yeah.

So he's throwing his support. He says, we just got to get this done. And I think you're going to find a lot of Republicans are there right now. I don't know. I'm not going to share my opinion on it because I'm not going to share any opinions.

You give me yours, Brian.

Well, what I hope, because I can't speak for two hundred and seventeen people, I hope they get behind Jordan. I just thought I thought Steve School East is good. I thought Kev McCarthy was perfect. I mean, when you work To get 70% of the people in your party elected. And what he does with his fundraising was unbelievable.

You can't possibly please 217 people with every vote every time. And then for these people work in their own interest, it just is maddening to think the Republicans are pretending as if they have all the power in the House to cut spending, put together their programs, reinforce the border, and in their view, now, I guess, stop funding Ukraine. Do they understand they're not alone in this? I think you can tie this all together because, by the way, as we're speaking, there's Republicans speaking on Capitol Hill right now, these senators who want Biden to freeze Iran's $6 billion. There's a lot happening right now where we cannot take our eye off the ball.

What else is happening? You've got Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting today with the Chinese President Xi while all this is going on over there. Let's not take our eye off of Russia. Russia and China, and how about our southern border?

So, this is a major test. And in the middle of that, you've got the president departing for Israel.

So, the Wall Street Journal did this major story today, and how Hamas's hit, forcing America in to help out the best we can on Israel, gives a major advantage to China and Russia, not only in the region, but to do their thing in other regions. I don't necessarily agree that's if we stand still, but by backing Israel, I don't necessarily think that Russia and China will be, will benefit that much from it because I don't think Hamas is necessarily popular in that area. But I don't understand, besides pure politics, why the president's going. If he had the inspirational capabilities of Bill Clinton, persuadability, George Bush's candidness, you know, JFK's charisma, I could see maybe showing up. But for him to show up now, when you watch him having trouble getting around, saying openly.

Scott Pelley introduced the feature on Sunday saying the president has a long day and he sometimes gets back to stuttering when he's tired. That's the guy you want to send to Israel in the middle of a war zone, then to go to Jordan, then to go to Egypt, and then to go to the West.

Well, how do you send a message to Iran? Who's sending a strong message right now? Don't deal with it. You say, listen, I gave you a shot. You've made me look terrible.

Clearly, your hands in this attack. We're changing our policy when it comes to Iran. You don't need to show up in Israel to do that, in my opinion.

Well, the White House, as the president's departing, has said that this is for a show of solidarity with Israel, a show of support on the ground there. Look, we've moved these two aircraft carriers, one's on the way, just off the coast there. This is a huge show of support on the part of the United States. More of a defensive posture, not exactly meant to be just a deterrence. This could be utilized.

And we've got now messages to troops to stand ready for possible deployment. 2,000. 2,000 of them. We don't exactly know what those roles are, but this could be a huge mobilization that we, you know, we don't know what the coming days look like. We don't know why Israel has put off this ground invasion into Gaza, but we know that there's huge risk for civilian casualties, obviously, that they've got to address.

The president has said. His intention is to obviously limit that as much as possible. I mean, I keep going through the maps. We keep stepping up to the map in the morning and the afternoon. I mean, you look at the Rafah crossing to the south into Egypt, and you've got a million people that have already evacuated the north into the southern part of Gaza, and that's a massive amount of people moving about a massive amount of people.

When I started this show, it wasn't open. No, that they have now made. Blinken announced yesterday that they announced it. But you've got to assume that's a major traffic jam happening and possibility for Hamas to understand and know that you have an enormous amount of people trying to get out right there. Right.

And you just wonder how many Hamas killers are going to get out with them. But did you do the Danish show yesterday? No.

So at 9 o'clock, we watched when the cameras were live on that Rafa gate. I thought I'd see thousands of people. I think I saw 200. And I'm thinking to myself, are they just stuck in traffic? You know, I know some of them were actually on Pulpaza.

They've made that clear.

So I just worry when you get brutalized like Hamas did, they will capitalize on. Humanity. And there's a lot of people who feel as though every day that goes by, more public sentiment will go against. Israel, and if it is their decision to get their ducks in a row and there's tragedy together, I'm fine with it. But if it's Secretary of State Blinken and our president saying you lose our support unless you do what I say, I got a huge problem with that.

It's not like you're dealing with General Mattis and General Petraeus. They have no experience fighting a war, and they don't really have a history of making great decisions anywhere in this region. They already bet on the wrong horse.

Well, MASA, they've got 199 held hostage. They're in Gaza. True. That could be the State Department by last count said that could be more than a dozen Americans being held hostage. That's an incredibly challenging situation for anyone, including military generals.

How do you go about that? True. I want you to hear, Lawrence spoke to a few students. The biggest, most disconcerting thing outside the carnage has been the reaction of the pro-Palestinian protests. Listen to what the kids at Georgetown are saying, the reason they're against Israel.

Cut 23. Regarding your questions about beheading babies and raving women. Uh Um I don't think that's true because I didn't even see any glimpse of footage or a document showing that. As you're probably aware, there has been like a spread of misinformation. I feel like it's disinformation.

Yeah, definitely. I haven't read enough about whether or not these images are true. I know that there are a lot of reports that these are false and this is misinformation, this is disinformation.

So, this is what's incredible to me. Wow.

So, do you have to show all this brutality? And then, by the way, it's out there. And say it's actors? Yeah. I mean, that's what's going on.

Have you seen the latest with Alicia Keys? She has taken many by surprise with this post. She's receiving a lot of backlash for this Instagram post that she has now pulled from her social media site. She asked the question: What would you do if you weren't afraid of anything? Tell me your truth.

She's wearing black and green colors. And she finished the post by adding, I've had my eyes on paragliding. With eyeball emojis.

Okay, so she added that.

So then the screen grab is out there, but she's now deleted the post. Her Israeli-born Record manager Has now come out saying, whoa, whoa, whoa. She's defe the manager just defending Alicia Keys. Alicia Keys is saying this is not what it was, this was completely unrelated in any way to the recent devastating loss of innocent lives. She says her heart has been breaking.

But you talk about it in the context of what we're seeing on college campuses and the number of people that are now being exposed. Like Britt Hume said the other night, it's like turning over a rock. It has been. It's crazy, Sandra. Who's going to be on your show?

Mark Esper is going to be joining us at the top of the hour. We've got some joining us on the front lines, IDF forces. We are going to take our viewers minute by minute leading up to the president's arrival there. Many on the ground in Israel say they're very happy he's coming. It's a show of support for Israel.

We will have live continuing coverage with John on the ground in Jerusalem. Wow.

Sandra, thanks so much. Coming up next, General, breathe love, and I'm going to be outnumbered at the top of the hour. Is it right if I wear this? Do you know? Sharp.

Love it. Are you going to wear the same thing for your second show as you first? I will be changing. You'll be changing. I will surprise you.

Really? It's going to be great. Are you going to wear the headset? No, I'll ditch that.

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Meanwhile, I had a chance to talk to, at the very last minute, we booked this former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. And I'm not talking about Stavrides. I'm talking about Philip Breedlove, the general. He joined me with perspective not only on what's happening With Ukraine and Russia and why Europe matters, but most importantly, what goes on with Israel, what our tactics could be, why the President could be coming over there. Is this about politics or is it about performance for the Israeli army, who is about to go into a bloody war?

We talked about him, and I wanted to bring this interview back for you.

Now we're joined by former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Riedlub. General, your thoughts about why it's taken so long to get the ground incursion going and how does it relate at all to the President's visit?

Well, first of all, Brian, thanks for having me on Fox and Friends. I think that we shouldn't be looking at it like it has taken so long. I like to look at it like Israel is doing its job in preparing. This is going to be an incredibly tough mission, as you know. And with the hostages scattered all in the conflict, trying to do this in a responsible way, it's going to take time.

And frankly, you and I don't know what's happening behind the scenes in the political sense.

So I don't I'm not fretting over how long it's taken. Good. Seven and a half hours Israel and US officials met, separated separate rooms, passed papers back and forth, and evidently President Biden wouldn't commit to going until they committed to until the Israelis committed to a humanitarian game plan. Is that smart? Do you want to read between the lines there?

Well, I think again, you have talked about it on your show that that the real game now is almost all about the PR campaign. Hamas knows they're not going to win this military engagement. What they want to do is to turn the world against Israel. They dash into Israel and do some of the most heinous crimes we've seen in our time. And then they dash back, and now it's all about setting the stage to make Israel look like the aggressor and quote-unquote the bad guy in this conflict.

So, the president's going to the region right after the Secretary of State went to Saudi Arabia, he went to Qatar, he went to Egypt, and he went to Jordan. And evidently, he got the cold shoulder in Saudi Arabia. He got a history lecture in Egypt, and he's got no tangible gains from Qatar. Is this why the president's going? Because the Secretary of State seems to have not been able to make any inroads, or what else do you think it is?

Well, Brian, I actually believe it's a little different. I think that what we have seen over the past few years is that American leadership and Western leadership for that matter has been in decline. We have been slowly backing away from things, and I think now that the president is going to the Middle East to try to reassert Western and certainly American leadership in the Region. I think this is a time where it's important that the West read also the United States leads. Right, and you just think this is all a fallout from Afghanistan, and this president, in many ways, I don't want to put words in your mouth, in many ways is trying to rehab from that decision.

Yeah, you know, I don't like to do politics, Brian, but I would just say that we have a trail of decisions and actions across the past decade. Decade or so, and this is multiple administrations, not just this one, whereby America has been retreating from leadership positions in the world. And I think this may be the first step to try to reassert some of that leadership. There's a couple of things. Do you think that the Israelis have already concluded that Hezbollah is going to be coming in from the north?

Well, I believe that Israel and the IDF are very intelligent and smart about how they handle the north. You've seen this in the Golan Heights and along the Strip of Lebanon before. And I think they're preparing by getting people out of there so that if they have to take action in the North, they'll be free to move and they'll not have to worry about their own civilians or others in that northern area.

So, what I see is an IDF that is being smart about preparation for what they feel could be an attack from the North. The Wall Street Journal writes that Russia and China are celebrating that there's a diversion away from Ukraine and maybe. From Taiwan, and who knows what North Korea is up to. Do you think this works to Russia's advantage in the Ukraine that we're focused for this moment on Israel?

Well, if you've seen across the past five or six days, some of the most tough action in this battle in the east and Ukraine have been going on. Russia has been using this time where the world's eyes are diverted to Israel to do some of their toughest attacks. And indications right now that some of the actions of the Russians in the north may have culminated not in their favor.

So I'm not sure how this will eventually play out. But certainly, Russia has used the past week To attack in a major way in the north and east part of eastern Ukraine. Thanks so much, General. Appreciate your insight. All right, thanks so much for listening to the radio show.

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