Israel's ground operation intensifies; Kamala Harris says Biden "very much alive"

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. I hope you had a great weekend, everybody. It's hard not to watch all the turbulence around the world and let it affect you, but I hope you were able to get back in action. And thanks so much for listening to this show.

Jonathan Turley is going to be with us at the bottom of the hour. Senator James Lankford is standing by. And we're watching all the events that are taking place today, including the Saudi Defense Minister, who's a brother of MBS, who's going to be meeting with Secretary of State. I'm the National Security Advisor and some others about going forward what's happening in Gaza, which is fine. We have a lot to discuss, so let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. What we know is that James Biden received about $600,000 from a foreign healthcare company. Joe Biden gets a check of about $200,000 during the same time period that James Biden is being paid. Those are the facts.

Those are the facts. It's back. The investigation into the Biden family on track as payments to Joe, suppression of 40 FBI investigations, now a possible subpoena to Hunter Looms. Number two. Should something befall President Biden and he is not able to run, you are in the spot that that would be unnatural for you to step up, but we're hearing from donors that they would not naturally fall into lie.

Well, first of all, I'm not going to engage in that hypothetical because Joe Biden is very much alive. 2024, 53 weeks away, and the White House is beginning to panic about the prospects of their foreign policy. And it's led to the failure everywhere, and Bidenomics being a bust, which is why Biden now has his first establishment challenger.

Meanwhile, that was the vice president trying to assuage donors. They're not assuaged. This is Trump sits on top, the shrinking GOP field. Number one. This is going to be a very difficult task for the Israeli defense forces.

The defense that Hamas will put up in that very dense urban terrain, unlike anything that we've seen in recent years, is going to require some very fierce fighting. And it's happening already. Two miles in, after four weeks at war, Israel on the ground in Gaza, blasting Hamas while trying to save hostages and avoid civilians, as ignorant and anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rallies rage in major cities all around the U.S., especially here in New York. Senator James Langford of Oklahoma, Homeland Security Intelligence Finance Committees, takes up a lot of his time. But, Senator, I got to ask you.

Are you as stunned? An outraged By what you're seeing from Tulane to Columbia to Harvard to Yale to Cornell. To the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday and to Fordham today. I am disappointed, outraged, frustrated, and in some ways not shocked at the same time. The liberal base and some of these universities have focused for so long about how to hate Israel and to focus on anti-American priorities that the professors are literally raising up students to say the whole world's upside down, and the students are buying into it, apparently.

Well, they are at a huge rate. Uh First off, when it comes to what's happening domestically, you're also concerned about the border. You see there were 126 people coming across the border on the FBI watch list. We get no answers when we ask the Homeland Security Secretary where those 126 are and why this is happening. And you're worried about the Iranians coming over now.

I am actually. We've had more than 300 Iranians come across and more than 70,000 individuals that are called special interest aliens in the last two years. These are folks that are from Iran, Iraq, from Syria, from Yemen, from terrorist areas that have come across our border that the administration has said they're not on our terror watch list, so we're just going to release them into the country. I have to remind everybody, the terror watch lists are the terrorists that we know of. It's not a full complete list of all billions of people on the planet and what their activities are.

It's only those that we know of. But literally, we have individuals that are on the terror watch list that they're detained, but the people they're traveling with of the same nationality that were also running across the border, those individuals have been released into the country.

So as I like to say on this, I don't know how often terrorists travel with Sunday school teachers, but apparently they think if one person's a terrorist and the rest of the person in the group, they must be just fine and they're released. It's insane, and it's something that the administration thinks they're addressing when they put together that $100 billion funding request, and they say $14 million for the border. What's your reaction to that? Yeah, that $14 billion for the border is actually to facilitate more people crossing the border, not to deter anyone. There's just a huge difference.

When the Biden administration talks about doing more work on the border, they mean they want to expedite people faster across the border and be quote-unquote nicer to people. They have billions of dollars funding towards what they call safe migration offices in Central America so they can help people as they're moving through Central America towards the United States to be safer in the process. We're focused on deterrence to say we want legal immigration. We want people to come from all over the world to apply to be here, but we want them to do it the legal way, not the illegal way. And the Biden administration is solely focused on how they can facilitate faster, smoother, illegal immigration.

So what I could tell. Is they're trying to ignore it. They just try to ignore the border. The Vice President was asked to go down there, she doesn't go down there. The guy asked to take over, she doesn't take over.

Majorca sits there and just stiff arms everybody. And then the border continues to break, and they just hope it goes away. But do you think they could pay a political price? I know that would get their attention, but politics or the when they didn't have to get routed in the midterms, they got the wrong message from that. Yeah, they they should Pay a political price on this to say the least on it.

And we'll see if they will just from the American people as they're choosing what are the key issues. Obviously, Bidenomics has been a disaster. There's so many different aspects to be able to look at under this administration that they've taken things the wrong way, whether it be foreign policy or domestic. But this issue about security is really a big issue to every single American. That's why you've got the governor of New York and the mayor of New York City stepping up and saying, Hey, this is a problem.

This is a big issue. You've got areas that are quote-unquote blue states that are being overrun by folks that they're finally waking up and determining, you know, we've got all these folks that are homeless, we've got crime, we've got all this disconnection, we've got problems in our schools. All these things are all connected to one thing: Biden's open border policy.

So that's significant. But I would tell you, Brian, that the ticking time bomb in this is the number of people that have come across from all these different areas as special. Special interest aliens. If there is a terrorist attack in the United States, God forbid, but there is one of those individuals that crossed our border illegally, this administration will continue to be able to pay a price for it and should because they have ignored the warning and have failed to learn the first principle of 9-11, and that is the 9-11 terrorists were all illegally present in the United States. That's the first lesson that we should have learned.

Absolutely. And they were able to function under the radar until they struck.

So the vice president was being interviewed by 60 Minutes in their latest effort to rehab her image. It's impossible. She's talentless, and I don't think she studies. Here's an example of her laying down the law, cut one. What's the message to Iran?

As President Biden said, just don't. Exactly. One word, pretty straightforward. Right. It's one word.

And they do. They have attacked us twenty times. We answered once. We hit a weapons depot. They now think this word don't is something to run on.

What does Senator Lankford think of that? Yeah, don't vote for Biden is a pretty good thing for them to be able to run on. Just don't, just don't. Their focus on we're going to try to push back on Iran and their focus of that we're going to try to keep this issue with Iran separate from what's happening to Israel. No one's buying.

As you mentioned, Iran and Iranian proxies have attacked American forces 20 times in the last two years. Two weeks. That is not a coincidence. That is specifically connected to what's happening in Israel right now. They've launched precision-guided missiles from Yemen towards Israel right over our forces as well that we were able to shoot down.

But just because we're able to shoot these things down doesn't mean we're not being attacked. That means we're defending ourselves well on it. But we shouldn't have a tepid response back to Iran. If Iran attacks American forces, they need to have a strong, clear response from the United States so they don't continue to ratchet up. What Biden seems to be doing right now, Brian, is he seems to say, just don't kill an American.

You can attack us as many times as you want, but if you kill one of us, That's a problem. We've had all kinds of Americans that have been injured already in these attacks, but their focus is if you kill an American, then we're going to have a stronger response. We should not wait till that moment when they are literally shooting at us. We should be able to respond. A police officer doesn't say, okay, we're not going to fire back at the criminal until they kill another police officer.

You can keep shooting at us all you want. That's not how it's supposed to work. But this Biden's tepid response to this is going to lead to the death of Americans. Senator Langford, I think about because we've been to Oklahoma so often, we're lucky enough to be carried in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, very military oriented. You have a lot of veterans, a lot of people serving.

And don't those don't they don't we owe it to them to allow them to defend themselves, not just block rockets, but knock out the people that are sending them over? That is absolutely 100% correct. If someone is being shot at, they have the ability to be able to respond back to them in defense and to be able to say, stop. I'm going to do what it takes to be able to keep you from actually shooting rockets at me. But right now, those folks that are on our military bases in the Middle East, they're literally sitting there as in many ways a target.

And this administration is not being cleared to not just say don't. This administration is trying to try to deter them by using soft words rather than actually using force in action.

Now, none of the folks that I know in the military want to be able to have a war with Iran, and certainly Iran should not want to have a war with us. That's not what I'm promoting. But we are more likely to go into a war with Iran if we're weak in our response to Iran. And everybody knows that, seemingly, except the President and Jake Sullivan. Here is what Jared Cusha doesn't do much these days, but he did so much work on the Abraham Accords, just spoke in Saudi Arabia over the weekend.

And this is what he said, the difference. Between the world he left and the world we're in, cut eight. I see every day, you know, people even people who are not in favor of Trump are realizing that under President Trump we had a peaceful world. People said when he got into power he would create World War III.

Well, there were no new wars. He was making peace deals. The Middle East, which was one of the thorniest issues for American diplomats and politicians and military for two decades, became a very peaceful place with a lot of momentum. And in just a couple of short years, you've seen what happen when there's passive leadership and weak leadership from America and the world. And we have two massive wars that have the chance to metastasize further.

There's nothing he said that's challengeable or debatable. Yep, nothing that he said is debatable. Again, it's the two different perspectives here. It's whether you lead by strength in an area that requires strength or whether you try to function like Columbia University and Harvard and say, we're just going to be peaceful to everyone and we're just going to be sweet to everyone, and it's all going to work out okay. That's not how the real world works.

And in the real world, you've got to have strength on it to be able to have that kind of deterrence. None of us want a war, but you've got to have strength to be able to prevent that. And Senator, what about this package that now that you have a speaker, that they're going to look to divide it up and break it up into Ukraine aid, border aid and Israel aid. You guys in the Senate are bundling it up. You're in the minority, just barely, but in the minority.

Where do you stand on this? Yeah, well, we don't know what the Senate response is going to be. There hasn't been one. I know President Biden is wanting to be able to bundle it all up. The Senate response has not been determined on that.

We do need to be able to make sure that we are standing strong in different areas of the world, but that we're also focused on the border. The big issue on the border that's sitting out there is that we've been pretty clear on. We're very concerned about other people's borders, but we're More concerned about our own border and the national security risk on that. And so we want to make sure that we're the United States of America, we're standing strong, we're not abandoning allies worldwide, but we're also paying attention to our own national security at the same time. Far be it from us to be able to say we're going to be passionate about everywhere else in the world except at home.

How do you plan on getting something out of Maorcus that will move this story forward or get your message across? I know you speak to him tomorrow. Adobe. He'll be in front of me in a committee hearing tomorrow dealing with national security risks, and obviously top of that list is going to be the border. I'm going to talk to him specifically about why do we have 8 million people that have illegally crossed our border in the last three years, the highest number ever.

What are the key aspects that would actually turn this around? Asylum, parole reform, and how they actually handle that, something called withholding that very few people are talking about, but it's a huge issue for how this administration is actually waiving people in. And so I'm going to zero in on those key things and to say, this is what I believe needs to be done. Tell me yes or no on this. And he'll have no other option but to be able to say, yes, these things need to be done.

I'm not trying to put him in a box. I'm trying to get him to say out loud what everyone in the world knows. That needs to be done. That we've got to be able to deal with the policy areas there. You can't just throw money at the border and to think somehow that gets better.

You've got to actually change the policy at the border to get better. I hear you. Senator James Langford, Oklahoma. Thank you, James. You bet, thank you.

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And they have told us that should something befall President Biden and he is not able to run. that there would be a free-for-all. for who would run as president. You are In the spot, that would be unnatural for you to step up. But we're hearing from donors that they would not naturally fall into line.

Why is that?

Well First of all, I'm not going to engage in that hypothetical, because Joe Biden is very much alive and running for re-election. The right Very much alive, and running for re-election. Very similar. His poll numbers are terrible. Immigration is awful.

The Bidenomics he ran on all summer, they're only thirty two percent of the country. Think he's doing a good job, even though the numbers say GDP growth is good and unemployment is down. No one's feeling it. because of inflation, because of the crappy spending and before the because of the gas prices. If you're listening to me right now on the West Coast or on California, you're paying about six dollars plus a gallon of gas.

And you just compare it to what it was earlier, The vice president looked even shaky with the easiest interview any human being could have yesterday. Walking around, are you in the last person the presidency? How many times do you talk to the president? Do you meet when two or three? I'm in his office all the time.

What do you discuss? How have you gotten things done? What do you say when he says, I thought I asked you to take care of the border? It's never been worse.

So, you know, they they have problems with uh they called Jim Crow 2.0, the new Georgia laws. They dispatched Kamala Harris to bring back election integrity. Where's that spotlight? I mean, I would love a crackdown for both sides on every single state to make sure we end up with the count as the right count and make everyone feel better about it. She did nothing on that.

And she's never around, always out on the West Coast. I don't know what she does.

So she's out there talking where we're going to be tough with Israel, going to stay with Israel.

Okay, fine.

Well If you just, Mr. Whitaker, if you just ask any, how about this? U.S. forces have been attacked 22 times. almost over a hundred since you took office.

There have been six reprisals. When you say don't to Iran, why do you think that they would listen to you? There's no reason for them to listen to you. Because they're not afraid of you. Because you basically said In a first meeting in Oman and then afterwards, I'll do anything to get back into that terrible Nuclear program.

And now there's no sentiment to get back into it. You didn't condemn all their civil unrest. The problem with the entire region is Iran. And the reason why everyone was signing deals with Israel is because no one likes Iran. And they knew Israel was not a threat.

All the propaganda was propaganda. They move past it. I think Saudi Arabia has not closed the door on doing a deal with us. End with a run.

Some type of defense plan? And in turn, when it comes to Iran... Uh understand that they are the enemy. The enemy of all civilization, not just in the region. Brian, kill me, Choe.

Jonathan Turley next. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The most damning evidence is now we're starting to see the transactions that went to Joe Biden, money actually going into his hands. One of the things that I believe we're going to uncover is that there were payments made on behalf of Joe Biden where they didn't give the money to him, but the money was spent on his behalf.

That stuff is damning in and of itself. And I think there's also another piece to this, Maria. You have the cover-up that is going on in the FBI and at the Department of Justice. And that's Pittsburgh District Attorney was tasked by Bill Barr, according to Miranda Devine today. To go find out about what about these links to Joe and these accounts.

And there were 40 investigations, and he was stopped along the way almost every single time they were inquiring about Joe Biden and his family and a lot of these unsavory, I believe, business transactions. And the FBI, even though it was Donald Trump in power, not Joe Biden, was blocking for the Biden family. That's according to Scott Brady. And Bill Bohr. Jonathan, and they said let's just leave it at this because it's an election year.

Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor, GW and Fox News contributor. Jonathan, welcome back. What's your take on this, on the fact that they're getting now to checks of $200,000 made out to Joe?

Well We're beginning to see the The sort of pipe end of this process comes into view. You know, the committees have n have not previously subpoenaed the uh records of the Bidens themselves. They're doing that now. What they were focused on was subpoenaing the banks themsel in terms of putting together these. transfers.

We know millions of dollars were sent through a labyrinth of shell companies and accounts. We're now beginning to see the pipe end of that come into view. we're seeing a number of things, including the use of things denoted as loans. We have various loans going to Hunter Biden that may not have been repaid or they were taken over by political donors. We have no interest loans coming from the Chinese.

To the family. We also have, because of this labyrinth of accounts, the money tended to float between And it does appear that some of that may have been used to pay off House repairs, tax issues, credit card bills for the president.

So if one brother in life, one brother can lend another brother money. But you have to somehow account for it.

So I'm like, where'd you get the 200,000? And then what do they do with the 200,000? You can't just. Just give money away, not in our society. There are things that gotta pay, like taxes.

And with a suspicious With already the suspicious account red flags that are brought up, people are wondering about this family to begin with.

So, Jonathan, when you hear about Scott Brady and looking into this and forty separate investigations into the Bidens on things like we just mentioned and being stopped along the way, does it stun you considering technically the Bidens weren't even in power when this was being blocked? Unfortunately, it no longer surprises many of us. It's very easy in a government this size to effectively kill investigations. You don't have to leave fingerprints. We've seen this over and over again, that allegations against the Bidens Just seem to wither and die.

I the inverse is true with regard to Trump. You know, when the allegations were made against Trump, Even when intelligence officials said, Look, we don't see Russian collusion here. Or debunking the steel dossier, they still went. full tilt into the investigation. And so there I think reasonable people can see a bias there.

What's really astonishing is not just the Democrats posing any investigation into these uh money transfers But the media is just incredible lack of curiosity. You know, all the media has been saying is, you know, we want a smoking gun. And that seems to mean you either need a confession from Joe Biden or an envelope full of money to get the media to acknowledge that they have a serious corruption scandal going on. Right. And this is Byron Donald saying about the FBI, about Scott Brady, cut 39.

We are now getting information that federal prosecutors were being stonewalled by the FBI, something that, according to Scott Brady, quote unquote, never happened at any other point in his career. But because of this investigation, he had to get clearances to continue the investigative process. That's insane to me because it means that you have elements of our Department of Justice and our FBI that we're covering up for the President of the United States.

So those are the two damning pieces that we have at this point. We're going to continue to follow the evidence to see where it takes us.

So That's pretty interesting. Then it goes, they are thinking about, according to the new Speaker of the House, subpoenaing Hunter now. Is this the right time to subpoena a Hunter?

Well, they're going to have to eventually require Hunter to come in, and that's going to create a serious threat for Hunter because he Could find himself charged with. Lying to Congress if he's less than forthcoming, he could come in and just plead the fifth and say that I'm still subject to criminal prosecution, so I'm not going to. Speak to Congress. One of the weird things about all this is that the Biden administration is still slow-walking. prosecutions.

We have not heard of the tax charges that were expected after the plea fell apart. We have not heard of any FARA charges. It's the same pattern. They're approaching statute of limitations on some of those issues. And it's it at some point, the public is going to lose patience and say stop playing us for chumps.

I mean, the it's just astonishing that every time there's a Biden involved, the criminal justice system slows to a standstill, and you have got the entire government that seems to collectively be staring at its navel. But there are some people that believe that you look at the polls, people no longer think it's folly to think the Bidens were up to no good when it comes to international business dealings.

So that is probably doing some damage along with his performance. Lastly, on the gag order that's back in Georgia, a lot of his campaign aides evidently are not unhappy that he won't be able to talk about the case. But what is going on? One minute it's on, next minute it's not.

Now they're asking for it to go on again? Yes. I have serious problems with these gag orders. I think that, quite frankly, a lot of Republicans would prefer the former President to stop these public comments, not just simply because it complicates these cases and actually undermines them with the court. But it is not necessarily helping politically.

But there are First Amendment issues here. I mean, the Jack Smith recently went back to court to ask again for the gag order to not only be imposed but expanded. Smith is taking a hatchet, in my view, to First Amendment rights here. And even the ACLU has now entered and said, you know, we don't like Trump. But for God's sake, these this effort by Smith would eviscerate free speech.

So right now, where does it stand? It's reinstituted for now. Is it open to another challenge? It can be. And I think that particularly the Smith issue in federal court out of DC could move quickly if Judge Chutkin actually approved it.

I doubt she's going to give him everything that he wants. Judge Chutkin's in a weird position because She failed to show any more circumspection as a judge because she was asked to remove herself from the case. Because in an earlier trial, she just spontaneously said essentially that Trump should be the one in jail.

Well, that was before Trump was ever indicted and the Trump people said, you know, it's sort of unfair for you to be the judge in a trial when you just spontaneously said that the defendant should have been in jail when no one had actually charged him. It's crazy. And the judge decides if the judge is biased or not. There's no outside source. That's the system you guys signed off on, meaning the legal geniuses like yourself.

But I'm looking at these cases, and here's the one case people ask me all the time. You know, the Washington case is the most troublesome. For Trump, because of the way the jury, the makeup of the jury, likely will be. The documents case, they say, looks like it's going to be it could go past the election. But this case, if he is convicted on any of these, and then he's going to repeal it.

Can you run for President if you're convicted of a felony? Yes. He can run for President even if you're in jail. And for the federal trials, he can pardon himself. Even he can do so even before a trial occurs.

He can do it preemptively. He cannot do that with regard to The state charges. Of these cases, I still consider Mar-a-Lago to be the worst one in terms of the law and facts. There's not a lot of room for a defense there. They've really loaded up that case, but it'll come after the election.

With regard to Georgia, they still have to establish that Trump believed that these claims were completely invalid and that a court would not view them as having merit. Uh he had lawyers telling him something to the contrary. That's still a very significant barrier, even if they secure a conviction. There's a real question there.

So the other thing is, and again, this is not a legal argument, I'm just doing a logical argument.

So, Sydney Powell cuts a deal, Cheeseboro cuts a deal. You have his other attorney, Janet Ellis, cutting a deal. And they say, well, you took the people that you think were culpable with multiple felonies, knocked it down to a misdemeanor, and you to all to obviously get Trump and Juliani or just Trump. But if their defense is, how could they turn on their client? For example, are they going to say, I told him not to do this?

And he did this anyway. We watched Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis and Cheeseburg say what they said. Are they going to say the president made me do it? Do you think the president comes up with an elaborate scheme to go grab voting machines and bring them back and dispatch the military, like Sidney Powell has been said, multiple witnesses said that she said behind closed doors? I don't understand how Trump is more vulnerable today.

What am I missing? No, I don't think you are missing anything. I said the same thing when these pleas came down, and everyone said, oh, this is the end of Trump. And I said, you know, I I wouldn't say that. I mean, first of all, these pleas were to very specific crimes with regard to by uh a couple of these attorneys in terms of getting unauthorized access to election areas.

Those are easy to prove. They're misdemeanors. They got a deal where they could walk without jail time. I it does not necessarily mean that they're going to establish a racketeering claim. They didn't plead guilty to racketeering.

They didn't plead guilty to conspiracy.

Now Alice Maybe a problem because she has become fairly opposed or hostile to Trump. I mean, she's made some some public comments about Trump. And there may be animus there. But once again, your point's a good one. You can't have a putting aside the fact you're using attorneys against a client.

These attorneys are essentially saying, How dare you believe what I told you? That's right.

So, look, you know, when does he come up with a legal scheme? You know, I'm not calling the plays. I hired lawyers to call the plays. I went. If Trump's guilty, it's of picking the wrong lawyers because he didn't like what his good lawyers, I think there were good lawyers, at the White House told him to do.

So he went and found other lawyers. And now those lawyers are going to turn on him. I'm having trouble seeing where Trump's in trouble there. Except for fundamentally they all did the same thing at for the same reason. And you would think sincerely, but who knows if it was sincere or not.

They had a strategy, they thought the election was stolen, so he went with another group of lawyers.

Now, those lawyers want to turn on him and say, He made me do it. Why? Because he paid so much? I mean, I don't think they did it for the money. I don't think they ever get paid.

That's one thing about Trump attorneys, they don't get paid that much. Yeah. Uh and I At the end of the day, we're going to have to grapple with this question of. What is enough to make an election claim? You know, the Democratic members who have denounced all of this.

Many of them supported the challenge of certification of Donald Trump. They did so with zero factual or legal basis. They didn't even really work that hard to come up with a reason. They just simply opposed the certification. Does that mean that there that was an insurrection or that they were acting in any type of criminal manner?

Now plenty of Democrats have challenged elections that was found to be invalid. You have Mark Elias who challenged elections in New York based on voting machines and claiming that they had flipped the votes. Nobody alleged that he should be charged with a crime. Lastly, real quick, I should have got to this earlier, about Colorado. They were trying to say since Donald Trump calls it insurrection that he should not be eligible to be president.

I'll be on the ballot. Yeah, I think that's hands down the most dangerous theory I've seen arise in my lifetime. I mean, these people are throwing matches at a tinderbox that we have in this country. I think that it is wrong to the ground. I mean, I think that the words are insurrection and rebellion.

This was a protest that became a riot. It was many things, none of which was good. But it was not a rebellion in my view. But more importantly, when you look at that language, they were doing that after the Civil War, actual rebellion where hundreds of thousands of people died. Can you imagine?

Our future is a democracy. If a court says that you can classify things as rebellions or insurrections on these facts, They're suggesting that any effort to interrupt or delay an official proceeding could qualify.

Well, you're going to have tit-for-tat measures in red and blue states. People are just going to be dropped off ballot. That's the future unless the courts say no. Thank you for spelling it out for us so easily, Jonathan.

So, I do not have to go to law school. If you talked over my head, I would have felt compelled to register in law school, but you make it seem so simple.

So, therefore, I can stay out of law school. Thank you. Jonathan, I owe you a favor.

Okay, bye. All right, back in a moment. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmead Show. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade.

This is going to be a very difficult task for the Israeli Defense Forces. The defense that Hamas will put up in that very dense urban terrain. Unlike anything that we've seen in recent years, it is going to require some very fierce fighting. And simultaneously Trying to ensure that the Israelis do not target unwittingly. the locations of the hostages.

This is going to prove to be a very difficult task, and we'll just have to see how their plan plays out here over the coming days. General Robert Abrams, and they're talking about instead of being a massive D-Day-like invasion, we're looking at a Slow, Deliberate, careful push. Not for the hundred thousand troops. They got six hundred thousand. Not with two hundred thousand.

Not right now. They say they're moving more 100 yards than mile by mile.

So far, they've gotten two miles in. They've blown up a lot of tunnels. They have taken some casualties. But I'm watching Trey Yinks this morning, our great reporter, and behind him is literally a war playing out. We're watching these rockets back and forth.

It's if it's a green screen and not real. But that's how close he is to the border, which is tribute to him. But that's the Israelis have made him feel pretty good about. They're moving forward and you're protected back here. Although Hamas has not stopped with their rockets, Iron Dome has been working overtime.

Hezbollah, I think, sixteen rockets yesterday.

So this could expand. I think there's major risk to Hezbollah. If you're that brutal terrorist organization, you think you were beat up in 2006 and you were. You'll be destroyed. Because Israel right now is showing they're going to finish you.

They're going to finish Hamas, and they'll come for you. And I think they Iran could lose all their proxies at once. From Hia Tom Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmead.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show.

So glad you're here. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. I know it's tough with all that's going on in the world, wherever you go, whether it's the protests, the war, politics, there's a lot of conflict in this world. We're trying to make sense of it, and we will. With us to help us out, he's an attorney.

He served in the military, also former ranking member on the judiciary of Georgia, a very, very coveted state for anybody who wants to win for the presidency. Doug Collins will be with us. Michael Goodwin, outstanding New York Post columnist, will be with us too in our matter of moments.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. What we know is that James Biden received about $600,000 from a foreign health care company. Joe Biden gets a check of about $200,000 during the same time period that James Biden is being paid. Those are the facts.

Yeah, nothing to see here, but it's back. The investigation into the Biden family back on track now that they have a speaker. By the way, Joe suppressed 40 FBI investigations. Even when he wasn't in the presidency, what the House has in store for the president and all his dicey cohorts. Number two.

Should something befall President Biden and he is not able to run, you are in the spot that that would be unnatural for you to step up, but we're hearing from donors that they would not naturally fall into line.

Well, first of all, I'm not going to engage in that hypothetical because Joe Biden is very much alive. Right. Very much alive, but he could step aside, want to spend time with his family. 2024, 53 weeks away, and the White House is beginning to panic about the prospects of them getting four more years after their horrible foreign policy. Bidenomics is not resonating after a summer of spending and appearances.

This, as Trump sits atop a shrinking GOP field, we'll discuss it. Number one. This is going to be a very difficult task for the Israeli Defense Forces. The defense that Hamas will put up in that very dense urban terrain, unlike anything that we've seen in recent years, is going to require some very fierce fighting. That is true, General Abrams.

Two miles in, after four weeks of war, Israel on the ground in Gaza, blasting Hamas while trying to save hostages and avoid civilians. As ignorant anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rallies rage in major cities and major colleges in the U.S. and around the world, we look at the states' stakes for Israel, America, and our troops. Michael Goodwin joins us now with the New York Post. Michael, thanks for joining us.

You were focusing this week on the UN, the ridiculous statement from the General Secretary and the votes that they have now, I think, conducting today to call for a ceasefire.

Well, Brian. And they passed a resolution late last week for a ceasefire. what I try to do in the column is take apart what really could happen if the UN and the Arab nations near Gaza were to work to really help the civilians. And the crux of it is that Egypt and Jordan have said, we will not take any Palestinians. No more Palestinians, no refugees.

That's extraordinary when you think of their criticism of Israel. Um and the same with Saudi Arabia. They're they're criticizing Israel over and they want to cease fire. But what's to happen to all of the people in Gaza who are being used as human shields by uh Hamas. these countries could help get the civilians out.

Instead, they demand that Israel cease fire and therefore, effectively, let Hamas go unpunished. I mean, it's a crazy idea, and it really goes back to the fact that. Mm is To put it bluntly, nobody wants the Palestinians in their country. They are all afraid of a Hamas springing up, of another ISIS. The Muslim Brotherhood ran Egypt, took it over.

Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Egypt doesn't want anything to do with that again. I mean, they used a coup to overthrow it. El-Sisi, the president, was elected later, but they are adamant there will be no more uprising of the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas on Egyptian territory. Jordan, of course, had the same thing. It expelled Yasser Arafat in a bloody battle called Black Sunday in 1970, kicked the entire Palestine Liberation Organization, the terror organization, out of Jordan, sent it packing.

They don't want any Palestinians coming back in. Although much of their population is Palestinian, they don't want these radical Islamist groups. Coming in. And so the burden falls to Israel to protect these Arab Palestinians that nobody else wants. And that's why I think, as I say in the column, it's not going to happen.

It could happen if somehow the Arab countries would work to free the hostages and work to have Hamas disarm and surrender. And then you wouldn't need to do this total bombardment. But the problem is that you don't survive. But you know, Iran is plugged into Hamas and Hezbollah. They exist because of Iran, and they would never rally to disarm something.

They should just confront the big problem. It is Iran financing the terror groups instead of nations to make Israel's life miserable, force them to the sea. What I think is a joke that shows people just don't get it is this so-called call for a Palestinian state or a two-state solution. How? With who?

Name one person that they could deal with that looks up and says, Yeah, we had a problem with Hamas. They don't represent us. No, they represent you. There was an election, and ever since then, they've only gained popularity.

Well, and if you look at it sort of strictly speaking, Brian, there is a two-state arrangement. Gaza was self-governed by Palestinians, and look at it. It became a a terrorist state. It became an autocracy where the you know most of the civilians suffer in silence because they'll be killed if they criticize Hamas.

So how is Israel ever supposed to say, oh, sure, we'll be happy to have a neighborhood filled with Hamas and filled with the Muslim Brotherhood types and Hezbollah? I mean, these are living examples of what Israel is putting up with and has put up with. And if anything, Israel has been too lenient toward Gaza over the last decade or so because look how it was repaid for its light touch. It allowed Gazans, for example, as many as 18,000 a day to come into Israel and work.

Well, it turns out that many of those workers supplied information to Hamas about Israeli military installations, police, etc.

So what is Israel to do here? How is it supposed to defend itself? And that's where I think, Brian, you get into the nub of the matter, which is those criticizing Israel. uh for its attacks in gaza Most of them, not all of them, but most of them simply don't want Israel to exist. That is the reality of much of the criticism in countries, in colleges, and certainly throughout the Mideast.

This is an anti-Israel movement, an attempt to wipe Israel off the map once and for all. That's what Hamas is, that's its charter. That's what Hezbollah is aiming to do. That's what Iran is funding those proxies to do.

So we shouldn't kid ourselves that this is just a dispute over a ceasefire. This goes to the root of all evil in the Mideast. Listen, I hear you, and I just can't believe how few agree with us. How, if you agree with a lot of the governments, you have the UK riots, 100,000, 1,000 at Grand Central Station, thousands blocking Brooklyn Bridge. You have thousands who showed up to harass a flight coming in from Tel Aviv in a Moscow, in a Russian province.

I have never been so caught by surprise. I look, I agree with you. The one distinction I would draw, though, Brian, is I think some of the demonstrators in America particularly, but maybe other places as well, not in the Mideast, but in America, they want to cease fire out of a humanitarian heart. Heartache.

However, another bunch of the same ones say, you know, chant, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. They believe in genocide. The former groups, I think, are just torn. They want Israel to survive. Many of them are young Jewish people who feel terrible about what's being done, but they are, I believe, just ignorant about the reality of life.

Many of them have not even been to Israel. It's surprising how few Jewish Americans have actually been to Israel. A few years ago when I was there, a professor said no more than one out of three American Jews have ever been to Israel. And that was a few years ago. But basically, I think a lot of these young people, while they may be well-meaning, they are ignorant of what the reality is in Israel.

Once you go there and you see how close everything is, how, you know, is Israeli fighter jets, for example, when they take off, within a matter of minutes, they're out of Israeli territory. They have to turn around to stay within the Israeli airspace. I mean, it's such a tight neighborhood that you cannot have a terrorist next door. It just won't work. And that's where I think a lot of the American young people are ignorant.

But I think a lot of the others, including many in America, are actually promoting a form of genocide. This is just one month after the worst carnage that we've seen in our lifetime. Most people that weren't around in World War II.

So the worst I've ever seen. And then it turns out people are protesting for the people that perpetrated it. Lastly, just about 2024, Donald Trump over the weekend cut 26. And yet, Joe Biden's feeble first act, one of the worst messages I've ever seen sent out to bad people. After more than one thousand 400 innocents, including over 40 Americans, were murdered or kidnapped.

And uh think of this. We immediately announce it. We're giving Hamas one hundred million dollars. We're going to give it to them into Gaza, but they take it one hundred percent of it. They don't take ninety percent, they take one hundred percent.

Mark knows that better than anybody. They take 100% and we give them money hand over fist, and we've been doing that for many years. Trump as foreign policy and his stance on Iran looks better every day. His stance on the Middle East, his stance on the far what was going on in Eastern Europe. Things where people look around And they're saying, th how did things get so bad so quick when we supposedly had the adults back in office?

Do you think all this will help him get back to the White House? Or do you do you believe that it's already baked in that Biden's going to win again? Uh Boy, that's the twenty four Dollar question, Brian. $64. We should use the inflated number.

Look, I think Joe Biden is not going to be the nominee, and I don't believe he's going to be elected. And if it's Biden versus Trump, I think Trump's odds are improving. Every day. Yeah, despite his antics in the court, despite all of the people testifying against him, and who knows how many convictions are coming, I still think that the Democrats, if they want to save the Biden presidency, they've got to find a new candidate because, and Kamala Harris certainly isn't it.

So I'm surprised at this stage. I mean, they've tried to sweet talk the country about bidenomics. I mean, inflation is such a pernicious penalty on innocent people. I mean, it is amazing how the cost of living has just soared. Everywhere in this country for every product.

And you look at this new settlement with the United Auto Workers, which Biden was on the picket line for 10 minutes. That is going to drive up the cost of sales, which are not cheap to begin with. And they're going to move production out of the country. They said it. We're going to have to do it.

Yeah. And these mandates that the federal government keeps putting on everything, the lack of drilling and the price of oil. I mean, he has and of course the border. I mean, he has ruined the country fundamentally in key ways, the economy, security, et cetera, cost of living. And I look, this you know, if Trump were a normal good Candidate, if he didn't have all this messy stuff about his life in the past, He would soar.

It wouldn't even be a contest. But even now, I do have to say that I believe his chances are improving because of Biden's performance. And you're right. He's right, too, about Iran. I mean, Iran did not do this sort of stuff when he was president because he made it clear by droning Soleimani that that game is over.

And it's only because of Biden and only because of his weakness that you see what's happening in Ukraine, that you see what's happening in the Mideast. And God forbid that China should move on Taiwan in this atmosphere because I don't know that we could even resist. I don't know that we have the capacity militarily to help Taiwan. I mean, production, we gave our last two iron dome installations to Israel last week. I mean, we are running the sort of thing that makes us a superpower.

But the thing is, we can make it and make money by doing it. Doing it. Everybody wants it.

So, this is an opportunity for a free market economy to respond. We were making respirators where we used to make automobiles two years ago during the pandemic. We can do it. Let's go do it. Write the contracts, get it done.

Can someone lead? I think that Trump. Haley and DeSantis all beat Biden. And I'm very curious to see how this whole thing plays out. I do think everything he touches has been ruined.

And that's exactly what his career has promised. And it's playing out. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much. My pleasure. Thank you, Brian.

Crazy time in the world. 1-866-408-7669. I'll get to your calls in a moment. Doug Collins, right after that. And then we're still following that the foreign, the Defense Secretary, Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia, meeting with our Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State today, and Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor.

We'll follow that when news should come out. Brian, kill me, Joe. Don't move. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say.

Stay with Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmeade. There's no doubt it's going to be messy. One can't help but be reminded of some of the worst fighting in Iraq during our war there in places like Fallujah and Ramadi, house to house.

You don't know what you're going to encounter when you kick down a door and go in. In addition to just the tactical threats on the ground.

So, Mike Galgurno is former Marine, is now serving, and I think he's got a bright future. He doesn't really want to get into leadership or run for the Senate, but he's just talking about on Sunday night with America with Trey Gowdy what they're facing. And that's why you waited six weeks, and people, a lot of six weeks. It's ba it's roughly about three weeks longer than everyone thought. October 7th, everyone thought by October 9th, The Israelis are going right into Gaza.

But they didn't really know it. They know it's changed. They wanted to forget about it. They've been lulled to think that Hamas was no longer interested in having a substantial attack over Israel. That was all part of the disinformation campaign.

They were using hard sell, they were using hardwire phones, they were training elsewhere, meeting in Beirut, not meeting over in Gaza. Regardless, there's going to be a whole investigation on this. But right now, it's the hardest thing to go into those tunnels and also tunnels you can't locate.

So, what they're doing is they're finding these sponge bobs. Sponge bombs go in and actually will expand once they're in the tunnel and almost seal it off with them in it. How great would that be? Almost like steel. The other thing is doing smoke, what they did in Vietnam.

If you put the tunnels, put smoke into one tunnel, see where the smoke comes up. And then you know where it ends, and you know how to take it out. But these are metal, there's a piano down there. There's a whole lifestyle down there. And they have to find a way to fight it because that's where Hamas is, down there.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. I came here to say it's become clear to me. This is not my time.

So, after much prayer and deliberation. I have decided to suspend my campaign for President effective today.

Now, I'm leading this campaign, but let me promise you. I will never leave the fight for conservative values, and I will never stop fighting to elect principled Republican leaders to every office in the land.

So I'm at my daughter's college soccer game right before we went. I said, wait a second, aren't they in Las Vegas, all the presidential candidates? Let me see if they have these speeches. I want to see if Trump was going to actually adhere to these gag orders, what he's going to say. They're all all the leading candidates are there.

And I put on television, and there's Mike Pence.

So okay. And all of a sudden, I'm sitting there by myself going, wait a second, did he just. Did he just leave the presidential race? Wow. I guess he was $600,000 in debt, running for president, not going past single digits in any state.

He did very well in the debates. But he's gone. And now there were four. There's only going to be four on the stage right now, unless Doug Bergam gets a quick. And actually, Tim Scott is not there yet.

Doug Collins is with me now, former ranking member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, author of The Clock and the Calendar. And also, he is an attorney, served in the military. Also, you're a pastor? I was, yeah.

There's nothing you can't do. Still an Air Force chaplain, 22 years worth. There's a brief lack of focus with your career. My wife has said the same thing. At some point in life, she hoped that I'd finally figure out what I wanted to do in life.

It's great to be so multi-talented. I had one speed.

So, Doug, great to see your reaction to Mike Pence Bowie out. What does it represent? I think it represents a reality that. That Mike had no chance, that the base had left him completely after what happened at the end of the, you know, right, wrong, or indifferent, what happened at the end of the campaign in 2020. He was set up as a, as didn't do what, quote, supposed to have been done, and he never had a chance with the base among the Republican Party.

Right. He did the right thing, by the way. Yeah. I mean, he did what he did. He did what he thought to do.

He was told what he's told to do, and he did the right thing. He went through it. And if he thought, like many people thought, well, there's no way Trump's going to get this nomination. He's got all these court cases. He's got January 6th.

Look at the way he ended, didn't go to the inauguration, but the base just got right back behind him big time. He's up by 30. Although, I guess I'm trying to read the lips of Dana Perino. Was there a new poll that came out that shows that Haley's closing somewhat in Iowa? Because right now I see her and DeSantis tied in second.

Yeah, you can't. He's up by 30%. Yeah, you can't cause it. I mean, this has been the funniest thing over the last few weeks: Nikki Haley was at 4% and she got to 6%. And there were headlines on Fox and everybody else.

Massive move by Nikki Haley. You went from four percent to six percent. That's not a massive move, okay, when you got Donald Trump at fifty, forty five, sixty percent. I think DeSantis is in my opinion right now, you've got DeSantis Haley. Christy, a couple of that are simply staying in.

Betting. That something would happen to Donald Trump. And I don't think that if you look at their campaigns, there's not a lot of distinguishment. There's not a lot of real new energy in these campaigns. In fact, DeSantis is going continually going, you know, seemingly backwards.

Haley has risen in stature because the debates have helped her. You know, in all fairness, they've helped her a lot. She's good. She's good at it. And she plans her moments.

And I think that's a debate nowadays is not how much you know, it's are you able to do it at the right moment? And I think that she's been very good at that. The Vega's been a blessing for her. Oh, it'd been helpful. And if it's interesting, I mean, there's, you know, conversations he may not go.

I talked to him this morning. We had him on the air.

So you don't follow my career well? It really hurt my feelings. But I did ask him that, and he says: now that the debate stage is smaller. It's better, so I'm going. Yeah, well, I think it was one of the well, I was up on Maria's show and looking at we watch everybody's show, so I saw Vivek, but I was creditable.

The other problem that Vivek has in it played right into Nikki Heavy Strength. It's foreign policy. He has not. Right. He jumps, you know, wings it.

Yeah, he wings it. And that's not, that may be good in a tech environment kind of thing, but it's not good. You know, when you're innovating, you're doing sales and products. But when it comes down to foreign policy, that was where her main strength is. And he played right into it.

You know, what's so interesting now is it just shows you every time you try to say to yourself, you can't predict because you don't know what the issues are going to be. In 2008, who thought we had the Iraqi surge end up being the collapse of the economy? And now, who thought we'd be talking about Israel Hamas and who's better equipped to handle that? And it plays right into President Trump because he doesn't say this is what I would have done like he did in 2016. He goes, this is what I did.

And here's Jared Kushner on Maria's show yesterday, cut nine. When President Trump came into office, Iran was selling about 2.6 million barrels a day of oil. It was a very intense effort led by President Trump. His special envoy Brian Hook was spent every day trying to take apart the Iranian economy. By the time President Trump left, Iran was out of foreign currency reserves.

They had massive inflation. They were basically broke. They were selling about 100,000 barrels a day. The Biden administrations came in, I think, because of probably the environmental policies they put in place, oil prices started rising. And one of the ways that they tried to either buy stability in the Middle East or just try to counter the rising prices was they stopped enforcing the sanctions on Iran.

Between the start of the administration and now, Iran's taken in almost $100 billion in oil sales. Tell me that doesn't play into the violence we're seeing now. You better believe it does. I mean, look, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian armed militia groups, IAMGs, they're all dependent upon Iran for everything. They don't even, you know, it's the old saying that they don't even go to the bathroom unless they say they can.

So they have been now refunded again. I'm glad to hear Jared coming forward and talking about this because it's been this lost discussion about what happened between the Trump administration and then what happened with the Biden administration, especially on the energy policy side.

So Iran was broke. They were desperate. They were doing everything they possibly could to get back into the graces of the world because of the sanctions that Trump had put upon them based on the terrible Iran deal from the first start.

So he's exactly right here. And then when you had the, and again, let's not forget, within. If we roll the clock back a month and a half, Saudi Arabia was getting ready with other Arab countries to basically open up. full relations with Israel again. And then all of a sudden you have this happen.

I don't think there's any real coincidences in the Middle East. You know what's so interesting is Saudi Arabia is looking to grow their economy, but they're not looking to take over other countries. Nope. Not at all.

So, with all their faults, and I'm not saying that that's France by any stretch. To come in strategically and say you're a pariah nation is not understand the Middle East because you have to make a choice: Iran or Saudi Arabia. And you know, when the first time I realized it, you probably knew it earlier, is that when Hillary Clinton had her emails exposed, it showed the concern Saudi Arabia had with Iran and this nuclear deal. And I'm saying to myself, wow, was it that bad?

So behind closed doors, they're like, are you crazy? Are you sure you know what you're doing? Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't even subtle. I'm going to come speak to the Congress how bad this is.

Now he can't really do that because he sees that we are their main ally. We're resupplying the Iron Dome and we're doing what we're doing. But seeing this war break out, you understand the history in that region. You must be astounded, the ignorance of these protesters on the street saying that Israel does not belong. We're in Jerusalem, in that area of the world.

Yeah, it is amazing. And when you see young protesters here, and you see it all over the world, the rise of the anti-Semitism, this is just again. Also, though, for those of us who've been paying attention to it for the last few years, and I had, especially in Congress, we were seeing this on college campuses. Nobody was talking about it. You know, it's like all these other, everybody else's group was protected except the Jewish students and the Jewish people here in the United States.

You were getting that in Georgia? Oh, we were getting it all the time. Go to Emory. I mean, there was a lot of issues around Emory campus. We had a large Jewish population.

This has been happening for a while. We had a bill that I worked on for three Congresses with Democrat support about changing the anti-Semitism definition in the Department of Education to match the Department of State one. And we got pushback. And when the Democrats took control in 2019, the Democrats backed off of it and said they can't do it anymore.

So, again, this has been going on a while.

So, yes, it's very concerning when you look at this. But then to hear them say, here's an interesting: I support whatever Hamas did by any other means. Prima Jaipal, head of the Progressive Caucus in Congress, came out yesterday and said: if the Biden administration doesn't change their ways, he could lose Michigan in 2024.

So, let me rephrase that. Let me correct how she said that. In 2024, she's saying that the Muslim population in Michigan will not vote for Joe Biden because they are pro-Hamas terrorists. Let's put this the way it is. Absolutely.

But that's exactly what you have a member of Congress saying. Use ten, cuten. The existence of Israel is absolutely legitimate, and I think the world has come to see it as legitimate.

However, there are racists within the Netanyahu government, and there are racist policies that Israel has been carrying out. I think it is important for us to recognize that we need to be able to criticize the policies of the Israeli government and not be called anti-Semitic. I really believe that the conversation is changing in a way that is not helpful. What does that mean? She says, okay, you need the right to exist, but she does not believe you have the right to retaliate.

Yeah. Notice what she said in the very same sentence. She said that they are racist in the net and they said, one, Israel should exist. They're racist in Netanyahu's cabinet, basically. There's racists in Israel.

And that then we need to be able to call out.

Now, notice again, they're transition, but we need to be able to call out policies of the Biden, of the Israeli government, without us being called anti-Semitic.

Okay, you can't have, I mean, come on. This is just play on words. And it's just sad, isn't it? But this is the progressive movement in the United States. Right now, everyone, and justifiably so, is talking about the fracture among Republicans.

I get it. Do not pretend there's not a fraction of Democrats because you watch one, I forgot his name, one congressman today, threatened to punch out Josh Gottheimer yesterday because he called him out for voting, not voting in support of Israel. And then you have the. Squad who are calling out President Biden, who's been unfailingly deferential to these lunatics. And that's what he's gotten.

So call them out and just finish them off. Don't pretend like the problem is only in the Republican caucus. Final thought?

Nowhere. Watch it this week. You want to see some final thoughts? Watch this week on the floor when the Republicans bring forward their own proposal in the House for $14 billion in Israel aid. They're going to try and pay for it, but they're also cutting it off from the Ukraine aid, so they're going to just do Israel.

Watch the Democratic Party.

Okay. Doug Collins, thanks so much. Appreciate it. All right, when we come back, Madison Allworth is at the Brooklyn Bridge for a very good reason, trying to unwind the supporting and the money behind this Palestinian Hamas movement. One name, again, George Soros.

She'll explain. Don't move. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Gilmead. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. How many kids did you kill today? No. For a moment. Yeah.

Yeah, the question is: who's organizing these protests with these vile statements? Israel bombs, USA pays. How many kids did you kill today, really?

Okay, this is coming off an October 7th carnage like we've never before seen. The victims, Israelis, 790 were civilians. Over 200 who had the audacity to go to a concert were just slaughtered in the most horrific way imaginable. These losers have to have some type of organization behind them. I'm looking at the signs, I'm looking at the t-shirts, I'm looking at the organization, the travel.

I'm sure a lot of them are getting paid. Let's unwind it with Madison Allworth with Fox Business. Madison's over by the Brooklyn Bridge, where the bridge was actually stopped full of pro-Palestinian Hamas protesters. Madison, a lot of people are saying, who is behind this? What are you finding out?

Yeah, Brian, I mean, the amount of protests that we've seen since October 7th is obviously alarming, and that doesn't happen in a vacuum. And so, you know, we started to look into where is this money coming from. And all this, you know, in part was spurred from some New York Post reporting. Maybe not surprising, finding that George Soros' Open Society Foundation has bankrolled $15 million to groups behind these protests. That's according to the New York Post.

And then another thing that they point out is Arabella Advisors. That's another big left-wing, dark money organization, saying that they funneled $10 million to anti-Israeli causes.

Now, we've reached out to the Open Society Foundation, Arabella, as well as many of the other Fund like other organizations that are funded by these two. I do want to start first with Arabella because what they said pretty unilaterally is that any of the funding that they have distributed goes to organizations and they were not used for projects and purposes that have anything to do with the Israelis-Palestine conflict. And they talk about how they unequivocally condemn terrorism and violence against civilians, including the terrorist attack by Hamas. What's interesting, Brian, that we've been getting today, because we've been reaching out to all these groups and responses have started to come in.

Something that we've seen is that any organization that's really gotten back to us, say that they condemn Hamas and the actions of Hamas. But some have noted that they are changing their fundraising or their donor habits. Specifically, we're seeing a lot of these organizations pull out grants funding for Alliance for Global Justice. That's a nonprofit based out of Arizona, and their concern with Alliance for Global Justice is that they've come under congressional scrutiny. They have ties to Popular front for the liberation of Palestine, which is recognized as a terror group.

So As these funding sources are having lights, Sean assigned on them. They're starting to adjust they are funding. But as we've seen, that funding it you know can be used to Things like the protests that we saw, have been seeing in New York, have been seeing on college campuses, and have really been seeing across the country. What about tides? Tide also seems to be one that is involved in.

in all of this. And I think it's important to note When it comes to anti You know, you can condemn Hamas, but also a lot of these organizations support a free Palestine initiative.

So they'll come out and say that they do not support Hamas, but the money is still going. And yes, TIDE is another organization that does have. grant funding that goes to many of these nonprofits that organize these protests. Yeah, so Tide's they posted a photo on Instagram of bulldozer tearing apart of Israel's border fence and captioned Israel colonizers believe they could definitely trap two million people in an open-air prison, indefinitely trap. No cage goes unchallenged.

Their beneficiaries include the ADALA Justice Project. They believe the money they facilitate a lot. Grand Making Network gave $3.7 million of the money through the Tide Center that went to the Open Society Foundation and vice versa.

So they're feeding this, and that means a lot of the people on the streets are getting paid to do that. Yes, I think such an important point. I know we discussed this on Fox and Friends this morning.

So, yeah, I think I mean, it's hard because we're on radio, but just to paint the picture here.

So Tied beneficiaries.

So, some of the people that they've paid include a dollar justice project. And what you're referring to was in part an Instagram post that they had on October 7th, which we obviously know is the day that Hamas. Enacted horrific acts of terror against innocent Israelis. And on that day, they posted a photo of the border friends. And I think.

the most important part there, quote, no cage goes unchallenged. Um And so I haven't seen anything about a Dollar Justice Project no longer getting funding. That's not one of the groups that I've seen a pivot away from. And yet they have still up on Instagram. If you go on Instagram right now and you look up a Dollar Justice Project, their posts from October 7th saying no.

Page goes unchallenged, it's still up. And yeah, according to the New York Post reporting, Tides does give money to a dollar justice project. and it starts at the top and we're talking we're not talking hundreds of dollars thousands We're talking millions of dollars. that we're potentially seeing going into these into these groups. And that should be a concern when you see everything that's happening in the country.

Absolutely. And I know you're going to follow this, Madison. We're just beginning because you do that along with what's happening on TikTok and where they get a lot of Instagram, not Instagram, excuse me, but where they get a lot of their news and you see it manipulated by the Chinese. You got curriculum, you got social media, and you have flat-out funding, all working against American interests. And that's why we're seeing these horrific demonstrations and around the world.

Madison Oldworth, thank you. Keep it here. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian In Kill Mead. Hi, everyone.

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I come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. I have Charles Hurt here in the studio, Fox News Contributor, comments for the Washington Times. Bodley Ara, Gerard Baker, editor of at-large of the Wall Street Journal, talking about some serious stuff. Also, right now, we understand the Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia is meeting with our Defense Secretary, as well as National Security Advisor, as well as Secretary of State. Not sure if he's going to meet with the President of the United States, who's in constant contact with Benjamin Etanyahu, and according to the Washington Post, does not want him to have a full-scale invasion.

I told the Prime Minister that and is opening up, is pushing him to open up, put the electricity back on. and put uh bring in some additional humanitarian aid. I would not tell them how to fight. You have to go in there into those tunnels. You want to make sure the electricity is shut off.

Before we get to Charlie Hurt, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. What we know is that James Biden received about $600,000 from a foreign health care company. Joe Biden gets a check of about $200,000 during the same time period that James Biden is being paid. Those are the facts.

That is Byron Donald's. It's back. The investigation into the Biden family. We'll discuss it, including 40 FBI investigations that were thwarted. 40.

Number two. Shh. Should something befall President Biden and he is not able to run, you are in the spot that that would be unnatural for you to step up. But we're hearing from donors that they would not naturally fall into line. Well, first of all, I'm not going to engage in that hypothetical because Joe Biden is very much alive.

Okay, you don't want to pretend he's dead. twenty twenty four, fifty-three weeks away, and the White House beginning to panic about the prospects of their foreign policy leading them to failure everywhere. And Bidenomics, after a summer selling it, has gone bust. This as Trump sits atop a shrinking GOP field. Number one.

This is going to be a very difficult task for the Israeli Defense Forces. The defense that Hamas will put up in that very dense urban terrain, unlike anything that we've seen in recent years, is going to require some very fierce fighting. That is General Robert Abrams. He knows. Two miles in, he was in Fallujah and Mosul.

Two miles in after four weeks at war, Israel on the ground in Gaza, blasting Hamas while trying to save hostages and avoid civilians as ignorant anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rallies rage in major cities, especially here in New York. Where it's just so embarrassing. Fordham's gonna have a vigil for Hamas. And Palestinians, where Colombia has nonstop demonstration for Hamas and Palestinians, and where the Brooklyn Bridge was closed by the same cause. It is embarrassing.

Charlie Hurt, Fox's contributor comments for the Washington Times. I'm not only embarrassed but stunned that this is taking place. Everywhere I turn, there's another you brought up the storming of the province in Russia. As they hear the word gets out on Telegram that there was a plane landing from Tel Aviv.

So they storm it. They try to kill these people, women and children mostly. And they grabbed the g they grabbed one guy, they stripped him of his passport, they took his wallet away from him. They were and you know, and we don't know, you know, we don't even know what ended up happening to the guy, actually. No, it's absolutely appalling.

I do think, though, one note of caution. I think that while what we are seeing on college campuses is absolutely despicable, I don't think that they represent a broad- What about Brooklyn Bridge, though? Oh, nor does that represent a broad cross-section of what normal Americans think. And I think that that is why you have people like Joe Biden who are freaking out, finally, for the first time ever, standing up to the squad and standing up to the wackos in their party, which they've never done. And they have no one to blame but themselves for this.

So we watch, by the way, he makes his statement, and I think to a degree they were stunned that they're getting blitzed by the squad, destroyed. I mean, you're watching Elon Omar and Jay Apal and the other one, the other Congresswoman Talib, which she's saying, Joe Biden warning him like he's Donald Trump, like she's done with Trump in the past. I think they're stunned by it. And then Josh Gottheimer called everybody cowards that voted president instead of a vote for sport for Israel. And this guy, Andre Carson, once, fellow Democrat, wants to fight him, calls him a coward.

He goes, you want to fight? We'll do this. You know, if you spend years, what you know, Democrats call it identity politics, and it's all about ginning up racial division within the country and pitting people against one another and tailoring political messages for different parts of their identity politics scam, and this is what you wind up with. And they can't be surprised by it. I think it's kind of funny that they own all you know, Joe Biden owns all of this.

He allowed all of this to happen. When you don't stand up to the race hustlers in your party, this is what you wind up with. And they have no one to blame but themselves.

So I want you to the Vice President again, how many times have we read this? Looking to rehabilitate our image, doing a big interview, a big spread. Yesterday was 60 minutes. The lightest Scott Pelley, who's who does a lot of really good reports, basically told Joe by the questions and the answers, would answer for him. And then he tries time to interview the vice president.

Cut three. How close is this to becoming a regional conflict that could to draw in U.S. troops. We have absolutely no intention, nor do we have any plans to send. Combat troops into Israel or Gaza?

Okay. That wasn't the question. It wasn't the question. And we already have troops in the region. Kuwait, 13,000, Qatar, 10,000.

Bahrain, 7,000. UAE, 3,500. Iraq, 2,500, and Syria, 900. What does she mean? That is a simple question.

We're concerned about it, but you got to show strength in that region to avoid an expanded war. And the more important question is, why did you greenlight $6 billion to go to the country of Iran when they are funding this stuff? Why did you open the oil spigots in Iran to give them tens of billions of dollars worth of economic surplus that they're able to spend on because we already emptied our strategic oil reserve, and Venezuela wasn't ready to open it up yet? We've opened up Venezuela, too, in this ridiculous policy that he has. But they never get asked, they're not being asked this.

I love another one of the questions, the 16 Minutes questions, was, why aren't you up by 30 points? Imagine the split screen as the Middle East is turning to war, people can't afford homes, mortgages, and why are you not up 30 points? Yeah. So you know what they answer is? We've done such a good job.

We haven't done a good job telling everyone what a good job we're doing.

So I find it interesting that we don't really hear much from Jared Kushner. But every day that goes by, Trump's foreign policy looks better. I always liked it. I had no problem with it. My problem was pulling troops out of Syria and abandoning the Kurds.

But besides that, I love the stranglehold. You ever hear General Jack Keene talk? Out of everything he's done, he's apolitical. They have never seen such unrest and such economic strangulation that was happening during the Trump years.

So, Josh Kushner, Jared Kushner, had a chance to speak about that, and he just outlined what they were able to do. And you compare that to what You compare that to what was done. I know I had it right here. Where is Jared Kushner? Yeah, cut it check this out.

Listen to Jared talk about what the difference is. This guy was actually in Saudi Arabia, cut away. I see every day, you know, people, even people who are not in favor of Trump, are realizing that under President Trump, we had a peaceful world. People said when he got into power, he would create World War III.

Well, there were no new wars. He was making peace deals. The Middle East, which was one of the thorniest issues for American diplomats and politicians and military for two decades, became a very peaceful place with a lot of momentum. And in just a couple short years, you've seen what happen when there's passive leadership and weak leadership from America and the world. And we have two massive wars that have the chance to metastasize further.

You just laid it out. That's a fact. There's nothing that's disputable. And we get to have a lot of debates, and everybody does, about how to respond to these crises, whether it's in Syria or Ukraine or wherever. But one thing is indisputable, and that is that American prosperity and power abroad prevents bad things like this happening.

Always. And if you back up to the Shale Revolution and our explosion of energy production in the United States that made the United States energy independent, That was what paved the way for Jared Kushner and the Trump administration to go into the Middle East and come up with the Abraham Accords. It all had to do with American power and American prosperity.

Well, they had something else. Uh Iran. And we realize when they realize that they re when they realized we realized that Iran was the problem. And they were willing to stand up to them. And remember, the Biden administration, both the current Biden administration and the previous Biden administration, being the Obama administration, sent billions of dollars to Iran.

John Kerry has spent the latter part of his life, his career, devoted to giving Iran a nuclear bomb. They wanted to empower Iran to take over the Middle East. And by the way, what does John Kerry think is going to happen to Israel if you put Iran in charge of the Middle East? And you're exactly right. Trump made that very clear.

And American prosperity at home and power, projecting power abroad, prevented all of these things from happening. And the second Joe Biden came into office, flipped the script on American energy independence, opened the oil spigots for both Russia and Iran, what do you wind up with? You wind up with a Ukraine war and a war in Israel. See, if you explain to the American people why we have To increase the budget and where we're going to put our efforts in, and what's going to be going on. You understand that peace through strength, and I'll give you all the examples.

You treat us like adults. You don't say, well, we've got to get out of Afghanistan. We've got to get out of here. We can't get a If we get out, we're going to end up having coming back and doubling our defense budget unless we project strength for our allies. It gives our allies a reason to feel secure.

Like it or not, we are a superpower. We have earned that right because how productive we have been, and we need a defense to reflect that. One of the lessons I think that we have to learn from Iraq and Afghanistan is that you have to have a clear objective. And my criticism to this day of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan is that we didn't have a clear objective. If you can't take that clear, and the great thing about politics is you have to be able to enunciate what that clear objective is.

And if you can't take that to the American people, then you have no business getting involved in it. And I wish that our leaders would view this as an opportunity to define what their clear objective is. And by the way, I would say the same thing. You know, obviously, neither one of us is elected to protect the state of Israel, but I would give the same admonition to them. But they have to do what they have to do.

They have to protect. They are a country, and they have to protect their borders. I just love the fact that let's do a two-state solution. Let's start talking about it. Really?

If Mexico just wiped out 1,400 of our people in the most brutal way possible, would you say let's get a better relations and set up a terrorist? Enclave in Mexico closer to our border.

Well, you know what Joe Biden would say? Joe Biden would say, yeah, you're right. He's actually that stupid. Because he has opened the borders to whether it's the fentanyl or the human smuggling cartels, drug cartels. He's opened the border to these people.

And it's all pure insanity.

So I really don't know how the Biden administration has the right to lecture anybody on any of this stuff. Yeah, I don't either. But this is where we stand. Richard Goldberg was on with Trey last night. He served as director for counter-Iranian weapons of mass destruction for the White House National Security Council.

This is how he evaluated this situation, CUD 15. Why is Iran suddenly on offense to this extent? And the reason is we've had two and a half years of an appeasement posture, turning maximum pressure into maximum deference, maximum concessions, trying to chase after this regime, desperate for a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran. And so if today Tehran looks out at the Middle East and says Joe Biden still wants that nuclear deal. He hasn't snapped back the UN sanctions.

He let the UN missile embargo expire. He's not enforcing sanctions. We still have cash flowing to us, $10 billion from Iraq, $6 billion in Qatar. The oil sanctions not being enforced. The question would be why is Joe Biden still doing that?

They're still holding a candle that if this calms down, there will still be a nuclear deal. Could that be possible? Do they really think they can deal with Iran still? I think without, I mean, you didn't have to be a brain surgeon to know what Iran wanted out of the nuclear deal in the first place. Yet John Kerry and Barack Obama and Joe Biden have spent the last 15 years pushing for this.

They believe in this. They want Iran to have a nuclear bomb. And the entire- Well, they say they're objects just the opposite. They say their objective is we're going to give them so they don't enrich. No, no, up to the end of the the JPOA.

But then at the end of that, they're on a glide path to get the bomb. It was the the whole thing was a fraud from the beginning. It was so that they were trying to stall it until they gave it to them. That's not a solution. How is that a solution?

How do you g look at the timeline of that, of giving of allowing Iran to march towards getting a bomb, and then when the deal sunsets, they're going to try to hatch a new one? No, at the end of it, they get the bomb. What's going to happen to Israel in that game?

Well, they say the governor, did General Petraeus. Who Was here yes uh, last week, said that's why I was against it because it's sunset. But everything else he liked about it, which I thought was crazy. Number two is that they thought after ten years they're going to be so used to trade and being the family of nations, they wouldn't need a nuclear bomb. But you heard what Saudi Arabia said.

These people are lunatics. What the NBS said. NBS says if they get it, We're getting one. Of course. Good luck.

Good luck, world. No. Saudi Arabia and Iran have nuclear weapons. And it's an inability to understand human nature. They think that they can hijack human nature, and you can't.

Of course, they're going to want a bomb. Charlie Hurt, where can we see you later today? I think we'll be at Jesse tonight. Oh, you're going to play yourself? I'm going to be myself.

Charlie Jesse. Charlie Hurt, I can't wait to see you with makeup. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmead. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. You have the current front runner for the GOP, Donald Trump, facing what, 91 criminal charges? I've lost count. Yet The Biden-Harris ticket is running neck and neck. with Donald Trump.

Why are you not 30 points ahead?

Well, I'm not a political pundit. When the American people are able to take a close look. At election time on their options, I think the choice is going to be clear. Bill, we're going to win. That is not going to be clear.

Also, trailing in Pennsylvania and Michigan, in Georgia, almost every battleground state. Trump just running on his record, even if it doesn't say anything. Court cases aside as he battles it out in Iowa. Nikki Haley moving up in Iowa. Ron DeSantis hanging out, but I guess he might be getting close because Trump's going after him.

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Because they're afraid of having to confront Iran militarily if Iran tries to develop nuclear weapons.

So again, the president can strike a couple of unmanned buildings in Syria and say don't, don't, don't to the Ayatollah, but the Ayatollah is looking at the full chessboard and he sees a president that's actually deterred. And they're worried that the next person won't be. And that makes me think the action could get worse. That is Richard Goldberg, served as Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. Last team, with me right now is Gerard Baker, editor-at-large of the Wall Street Journal, host of the Wall Street Journal-at-Large, 7:30 on Fridays, and author of the book American Breakdown: Why We Do No Longer Trust Our Leaders and Institutions and How We Can Rebuild the Confidence.

Gerard, is Richard Goldberg right? I mean, hitting a weapons depot in Syria?

Okay, but that's the first after 19 attacks, and there's been two since by Iranian-backed militias. Yeah, it reminds me very, it's a pinprick, Brian, and it has absolutely no deterrent effect, I think, on the Iranians. It reminds me a lot of, you know, remember in the Clinton administration back in the late 1990s when we had a series of escalating terrorist attacks against American targets, the USS Cole, in particular, the embassies in Africa, we had two of those hit. And you remember what the response was? Every time to those.

They fire off a few cruise missiles. One supposedly hit a baby milk factory or something like that. You know, it wasn't serious. And that was al-Qaeda, by the way, of course, both those times. It wasn't serious.

It didn't represent any kind of serious attempt to shut al-Qaeda down. We didn't do anything about what they were doing in Afghanistan. And of course, what do we have? Two years later, we had 9-11. And I worry that this, you know, they sent, they're probing.

The Iranians are probing all the time. This Hamas attack, this Hamas atrocity, terrorist atrocity in Israel, you know, obviously it was Hamas who was organizing it, but we should be under no doubt that it was in the Iranian interest to do it. The rockets they're firing, Hezbollah firing from Lebanon, same thing. The missiles that have been fired from Yemen, that the US warships shot down a couple of weeks ago. They're probing everywhere, and they're trying to see how serious this Biden administration is in terms of responding and whether or not they're going to give a serious response.

And hitting a few weapons facilities, Brian, is not a serious response. And that's how the Iranians interpret it. What about the Wall Street Journal report? I mean, you guys came out right away and said there were meetings in Beirut. There were bi-weekly meetings with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian officials, al-Quds force officials.

And hundreds of them, we reported last week, too. The news journal reported last week, the hundreds of those fighters were trained in Iran with those paragliders and the various terrorists weeks before October 7th. I mean, the Biden administration is clearly trying to deny that. You know, they keep saying, well, we haven't got actually any hard evidence.

Well, do you know what they said, which is nuts? We have some intercepts, good intelligence. It shows they were surprised. By the breadth and scope of the attacks and the timing of the attacks. Oh, really?

So you have an intercept. You got these reportings. See, what I would do if I was in the White House, if I talked to my intel guys, if they said no, I go, listen, can we reach out to the Wall Street Journal? Where did you guys get the story? Because I want to find out if it's right.

Yeah, very well. Exactly. Very well-sourced story. I think you saw the sourcing.

So you were confident in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't think there's any question about it. Look, and I don't also, what the Biden administration is doing is, I mean, first of all, that saying there were people in the Iranian administration were surprised. Sure, they were.

I mean, I'm sure, you know, the transport transport minister or the guy who's responsible for killing women on the streets for not wearing hijab or whatever. They probably didn't know about it. But that does, of course, there were people in the government that were surprised by it. The key thing was, of course, you can't on the one hand say we know that Iran has very close links with Hamas, has been funding Hamas, has been training Hamas, has close connections. There's guys in Qatar that are right there, right next to Iran, have regular meetings.

You can't on the one hand say that and say, oh, But we really don't know whether they had any involvement. This is the biggest terrorist attack anywhere since 9-11. And nobody doesn't think it was very well done. Of course, of course, it was incredibly well planned. I mean, terrible.

Terribly, very evil. Terrible security and intelligence lapse on the part of the Israelis. That's something else that's going to have to be accounted for at some point. But let's be clear where the blame lies. The primary blame lies with Hamas.

Who's behind them? Who's sponsoring them? Iran.

Now, look, the Biden administration is probably thinking, well, I know what it's thinking. It's thinking, we don't want to provoke Iran. We don't want to get into a war. But that's exactly the way you do get into it. You create longer-term problems, right?

Nobody wants a war. We don't want to go to war with Iran. Iran's a big country with serious weapons. It's got terrorist networks around the world. We don't want them blowing us all up.

But if you continue to appease them like this, when they do what they're doing, you are storing up an even bigger problem for the future. Sure, tell me if you think this is a factor. We have allies in the region. And they're kind of concerned about Iran.

So they say, well, who's got money back to America?

Well, if America is not going at it, showing people that we're strong and willing to act and not only show our muscle, but use our muscle, they're going to say, listen, I'm going to cut deals. That's why there's a rapprochement with Saudi Arabia and Iran, which, by the way, got nowhere, it seems. But we got to go out and show these people, here's your missile defense. And by the way, we know it works. Everybody wants it.

So let's make it for profit, sell it to them. They can now defend themselves in Ukraine, in Israel, in Taiwan. What are we waiting for? Yeah. I agree.

And exactly, the Biden administration is following on for the Obama administration. The Obama administration came in and its entire foreign policy in the region, once it had pulled out of Iraq in 2020. And you remember what they first did. They pulled out missile defense from Poland. From Eastern Europe, exactly.

Yeah, by the way, talking of, you know, and when we also, you know, we were going to have the great reset with Russia. And of course, Obama famously said during the 2012 election, he'll have more flexibility to help Russia after that election.

So, yeah. Absolutely. But what they did in terms of the Middle East, they pulled out of Iraq, you know, which is probably ultimately what the American people wanted and the right thing to do. Iraq was a mess. Timing was terrible.

But what they did, timing was terrible in the manner in which they did it was terrible. But what they then did, they focused all their attention in the Middle East on getting that deal with Iran. And what was that deal really about? It was about deferring Iran's nuclear capability by in the end a few years. And in exchange, we were going to give them, we were going to release all the economic sanctions on them.

We were going to let their oil back onto global markets. We transferred, remember the $6 billion in pallets of cash. We basically, this administrative Biden administration, the Obama administration appeased Iran in pursuit of this deal. Trump rightly pulled out of the deal, took a harder line with Iran, killed Suleimani, the head of the Quds force, which I think terrified the Iranians, made them think they didn't know what they were dealing with. Biden comes back in and immediately goes back to the appeasement strategy.

And what do you get? You get October 7th. All right, and you get a lot more financing. I wasn't putting this together, but Goldberg did. Say, wait a second.

Actually, Kushner did. He came out and he said, if you are taking oil off the market, you need it replaced in order to keep the price down. You can't get re-elected if you don't keep the price of gas down for the American people.

So you go cut a deal with the devil with Venezuela, and then you allow the Iranian oil to flow on the global market.

So that allows that price to be somewhat palatable. What else did we do, Brian? We gave a finger to the Saudis when Biden came in, right? That's what we did. They raised money because of the Khashoggi killing, which was a terrible thing.

No one defends it. It was awful. They're not condemnable. They're terrible. I mean, that was a terrible thing.

But we have to think bigger. You can't subordinate your whole foreign policy to an outrage about a terrible crime that was committed. But that's exactly what we did for like a year and a half. We told the Saudis, you're a pariah, we don't want anything to do with you.

So what did they do? They start trying to do a deal with Iran. They start doing a deal with China. They bring in Russia. And of course, what does the U.S.

now? The U.S. then scrambles, you know, a year later to say, oh, well, actually, you are our friend and we would like you to do a deal with Israel. Too late. And then he shakes his hand, fist bump.

I won't shake my hand with him, all that stuff. But you know what else it did? Houthi rebels are no longer a terror nation. Houthi rebels were striking them with rockets on a daily basis. I don't love with their blockade and the amount of innocent people that suffered.

They were ham-handed in their approach, but they were defending their own border. Would we let Mexico just lob rockets over at us? And plus, these renegades are financed by Iran.

So we said, no, you're legitimate. Yeah, they were the ones who fired the missiles last week, whatever it was, 10 days ago, that a U.S. warship had to, you know, had to. We still don't know, by the way, for sure, whether those missiles were fired at Israel or whether they were fired actually at the U.S. war, possibly at U.S.

targets in the region. Look, we've been on the retreat. That's the reality, Brian. This is the terrible reality. We've been on the retreat in this region for no reason.

For 10 years, yeah, America's still got the most powerful military in the world. It's the only country that can project force way beyond its shores. And instead, we've been timid and retreating and appeasing these enemies. And Iran has become this incredibly powerful. And by the way, if we don't get behind Israel here, and if we don't get serious about Sacking Iran, we're going to lose that region completely.

And you know what that means for Israel? Israel can't survive. In a region in which Iran dominates, controls that region. It already controls Iraq, it controls Syria, it controls most of Lebanon, it controls the Gaza Strip, it controls Yemen. If it is not stopped, it will completely control that region.

And that is not a situation that Israel could possibly see.

So thousands of pro-Palestinian slash Hamas demonstrators flood New York City streets, Brooklyn Bridge. I'm sure you've seen the video. You see some pro-Israeli American Jews, I imagine, on the outskirts, just horrified by this. The pro-Palestinian vandals spray-painted plastered businesses with Zionism as terrorism, horrible things they read on the walls. They said they were going to do it, and tonight they're going to take over.

Fordham Law School is going to be a big vigil, just ignoring October 7th. You can't tell me I expected what was going to happen at Columbia to the degree is still happening. The fact that the president's not speaking out, I love that these big donors, a lot of them you cover the Wall Street Journal, are going. You know, I gave you fifty million dollars. Yeah.

Now you get nothing. Yeah. I love it. The U Penn, same thing. Yale, Harvard.

Yeah, they will survive. But let let people know that there's going to be hell to pay for this type of irresponsible actions. And this is all of a piece, Brian, with what we've seen at universities over the last 20 years. You know, this isn't this doesn't come out of nothing. It comes out of the corruption of our universities by these extreme left-wing, critical race theory, decolonization, crazy, crazy progressive ideologies that have taken over our universities.

And, you know, you l look at it you see it in this terrible form, as you say, in all of these so-called demonstrations, these processes, where Jewish students are barricading themselves into a room at Cooper Union or they're being told to stay home and not go out at the weekend in Cornell or Cornell University, an Ivy League university, because people fear for their safety. The reason that's come about, Brian, is because we've tolerated this, as I say, this corruption, these depredations that have been made into our universities by these extreme levels. Look at there's been a lot of really interesting stuff that had been published in the last few weeks about, you know, you cannot get a position now at an American university, an elite university, a regular state university, whatever, a regular university, unless you subscribe. It's kind of like having to make a well, it's not kind of like, you have to make an ideological commitment to all of these extreme left-wing ideas about Black Lives Matter and decolonization and critical race theory in order to get a job. And not and I'm not a job in gender studies or African American studies, a job in life sciences or environmental sciences or even physics and medicine.

You can't get a job unless you literally because the diversity, equity, inclusion crowd actually Vet these applications and they rule out. Everybody has to make a divestic academic inclusion statement, and they rule out those that don't meet their left-wing positions. You're your CEO? And it's time for you to hire people. And they're coming out of Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and they know what you know.

And you say to yourself, not only am I not going to hire the professor, I'm not going to hire the student. And there's going to be a pullback on that. I interviewed Larry Fink, BlackRock, on my podcast two weeks ago, largest fund manager in the world, biggest financial institution in the world. And he said, we hire 600 graduates a year, BlackRock, around the world. He said, we're not going to hire people who have been involved in this kind of hate speech.

Good. Finally. This is what's going to make this fine. I mean, it's kind of ironic, isn't it? That free speech, it turns out, does come at a price, right?

So we've been trying to get free speech back into universities in the last 10 years, 20 years, because they become so corrupt and so monomaniacal and so extremely intolerant of any alternative view to that dominant progressive view. We've been trying to do that. And the only thing that's going to do it is, as you say, the donors pulling their money, the employers saying we're not going to hire you anymore. It's kind of ironic but necessary that actually it's going to take the threat of losing your money and your students losing their job prospects for them to start returning universities to what they are. Right now, universities are becoming manufacturers of hate speech.

That's what they are. And it's, you know, That's got to change. You know, I was just wondering, I was looking at my Palestinian calendar. I was wondering what month is Pride Month. And Trans Rights Month.

Do you know which month is Pride Month? Because I wasn't able to see it in the middle of the month. Yeah, I got to go and have a couple. My Arabic's not so good, so I'll ask you.

So maybe it's my fault, too. I don't even have a UK background like you do.

So I'm saying to myself, do people understand if you care about equity and inclusion, you don't like anything they stand for? They should be. You don't like anything they stand for. I would love to see Cornell or Harvard or NYU establish a campus on the Gaza Strip, right? And have the, you know, the LGBTQIA meetings and have the gender meetings and have the, you know, the decolonization meetings and all of these.

You know, let them see how the only country in the Middle East, Brian, as we well know, that tolerates, you know, a diversity of, whether it's, you know, gender, sexuality, race, or whatever, the only country that does that is Israel. And this is the country they all hate. Right. By the way, not everybody. And you know better than me.

You're much more uh global and cosmopolitan with a lot more international contacts. But There's so many people in the Middle East that don't look at Israel as the enemy, but they know that their masses do.

So they see the demonstrations in Jordan and Egypt on the streets, so they can't go too far. Although I'm totally let down by King Hussein, King Abdullah. You've got to be kidding me. The Egyptian LCC goes, I'm not opening up my gates. Can't set up even a temporary tent city on the other side if you care that much.

And Turkey, why they're in NATO, I still don't understand. I know strategically they help us, but ideologically, they could not be more different. But if you have Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Sudan, the UAE all signing on to the Abraham Accords, queued up, possibly is Saudi Arabia. The other smaller ones, Oman, will fall into place. That's anti-Iran.

There's hope out there. Yeah, I still think those deals will be done eventually. Look, those countries, once you mentioned it, this could be a convulsion. Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, they're exploiting it. Let's call it what it is.

They're exploiting the murder of 1,400 Israeli citizens for their own benefit. Because they've got their own problems. They've all got their own. Especially in Egypt, Sisi came to power only after he pushed out the Muslim Brotherhood. Thank goodness, yeah, and killed half of it.

And Adam said Obama. Yeah, absolutely. But he's got tremendous pressure from the Arab street, as they call it in Egypt. Same in Jordan. Turkey's, you know, obviously not an Arab country, but it has its own domestic political problems.

They are exploiting this for their own advantage. They can put themselves on the side of their people by saying these incredibly evil things about Israel. But you're right. I still think, look, in the end, as long as the United States is, this is why this period is so key, Brian. As long as the U.S.

stands by Israel, doesn't get carried into this ridiculous both-sides-ism that, you know, oh, Israel's killing people, innocent people, and Hasmas is killing people, so the innocent people say they're really no different. There's a huge difference between the two. Stands by Israel, stands up to Iran, then those countries like Saudi Arabia, maybe even Jordan, and certainly those other Gulf countries, which have already signed up for deals with Israel. There's a chance, I think, that we can bring more of them back on board. But it's going to be.

A really, really testing few months. You sold a lot of subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal. That's how good you sounded. We're going to watch it at 7:30. Buy your book, American Breakdown.

Gerard Baker, thanks so much. Brian, thanks a lot. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking.

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Because Because I had A great successful presidency and he was the vice president. He should endorse me. By the way, that is the President of the United States, former President of the United States, speaking in Las Vegas. I was watching, and all of a sudden, I'm watching Mike Pence and I'm thinking to myself, wow, I was hoping to catch Trump, watch DeSantis. He was good.

I watched Governor Bergam, a little bland. And then I'm watching Mike Pence and I'm saying, wow, he's kind of fired up. He looks kind of emotional. And then he came out and basically said, that's it. It's not my time.

And you know what? Quality man, quality candidate. I even think, I don't know if the bridge is burnt with Trump. For on both sides? But I mean, you're going to tell me that if you're a Republican, you wouldn't want him in your cabinet?

The guy is loyal as the day is long. He's got unbelievable experience. He's got great values, ethics, knowledge. He gets it.

So he's a good, good guy. But on the debate stage, he'll be Vivek. Christy. It'll be Haley. And right now it'll be DeSantis.

I'm only using four fingers. I right now, Tim Scott's not on the stage. That's the biggest surprise. And that'll be followed by Governor Bergroom. Both have the donors, they need the pulse.

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