Hamas fighters disguise themselves as nurses in Gaza hospital, media still not convinced

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It turns out the speaker really got a hand. a tongue lashing from many in the Freedom Caucus over the deal that he cut. And it's definitely going to affect some fundraising. He did meet the speaker did meet with the President former President yesterday. He has given a full throated endorsement of Donald Trump.

Also, Ben Hall is going to be with us this hour.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. They are beefing up the budget for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility training. You look at the 2022 budget for that, $68 million. 2023, 86.5 million.

The 2024 request is for $114 million plus $700,000 and change. Political correctness killing the Pentagon. First, the ouster of troops over refusal to get vax.

Now they want them back. Said, you can come back. Come on, guys. And now revealed the military is wasting millions on diversity instead of bombs, bullets, training, and recruiting. Number two.

I don't think that there is going to be a change here in the nominee. In that NBC poll, seventy seven percent of Democrats picked Biden for the nominee. He wants to run again. He is running.

So I don't think there is a Plan B. Mark Penn weighing in 2024. More polls show Trump is too strong, perhaps, to stop. And as the old label might The old label might be too much for Biden to beat. We will review all aspects of 2024, including the GOP fractious attempt to protect their house.

Number This puts uh I I think exposes clearly Hamas's lies. They've been saying for weeks that they've got no mil military installation there under the hospital. But I think it's time the whole world now admitted. Hamas has been brutalizing the people of Gaza. Mark Regev of the Israeli government, spokesperson for Benjamin Yahoo.

Now we know hospitals were headquarters in our headquarters. As captured Hamas terrorists reveal, they dressed as doctors and nurses hiding among the sick, which is why they are targets in Gaza. We bring you the latest.

Now, I'm not in Israel. I don't get Israeli television at home, but evidently on television, these Hamas fighters are admitting they were told to go to the hospitals and they did what I just said they were doing. And they would go in there and just basically set up headquarters thinking there's no way Israel will hit hospitals. But they did and they would. They tried to avoid civilian contact, but that's where the headquarters is.

And they're beginning to reveal it underneath. They got to a steel door yesterday in the video.

So I think it's important to see. And on Israeli television, you're seeing these Hamas fighters get questioned on no duress. It doesn't seem, I don't know if that's something that will be a violation that we might hear of The Hague, but these people are just talking openly. This is what I was told to do. This is what I did as an Hamas fighter.

This is when they went into the planning.

So that's why they're doing what they're doing. There were 250 separate strikes, and they're beginning to move south. The IDF is. Israeli officials now accuse Hamas of using the Shifa hospital as a main hub. And they did it through the captured, since the Hamas captives are beginning to spill the secrets on the operation, what the approach is, and where we go from here.

They give the names, it doesn't matter. Nobody knows them. They were organized with several tents, they would say, with each group of operatives by themselves, four to five of them sitting together, all of them around the hospital. They admitted the terrorists operated from the hospital because it was a secure place, and we could locate them there, meaning the hostages. We saw the video.

Of a hostage being brought in against his will and another one bleeding being brought to the hospital. Here is Nancy Youssef on MSNBC, a WAPP national security correspondent, Cup5. What we saw coming out of the hospital after the Israelis entered, I think, also then raised questions about the degree to which the hospital was used. Remember that in the run-up to Israel entering the hospital, they said that it was the focus of Hamas operations, but so far we haven't seen evidence to that. While there have been AK-47s, rocket tanks and other equipment found, there isn't anything to indicate that this is really sort of the central hub of Hamas operations.

So they say Hamas fighters and Islamic jihad fighters numbering about 100 were that hospital in particular.

So we'll see what she is reporting. Mark Regev says this as a senior advisor to Netanyahu, Cut Four. This puts, I think, exposes clearly Hamas's lies. They've been saying for weeks that they've got no military installation there under the hospital. And more concerning is you've got international organizations who have been parroting this Hamas fiction that there is no Hamas military presence under the hospital.

And we've not seen it, we've seen no proof. I think it's time the whole world now admitted. Hamas has been brutalizing the people of Gaza. Hamas has deliberately used this hospital as a shield for its military machine.

Well, the good news is there'll be a hostage exchange, it seems, maybe sometime within our show. They're getting closer and closer. That, according to Hamas chief, says they're close to a they said a truce, I think that's the wrong word, a truce with end cessations. This would be a pause, maybe. They want them to mo remove the drones from northern Gaza.

I would not remove the drones. That means Hamas wants to move around. Forget it. Uh put the drones up and find out where they're coming from.

So the Qataris are mediating this.

So we'll see. Hopefully, we'll have some good news shortly. Can't imagine. They took so many old people who were infirmed, they took tiny children. Can you imagine how terrified they are?

All right, let's talk about twenty twenty four. I don't want to take too much time from Benjamin, but in twenty twenty four, President Biden is getting more and more questions about his age, and he's trying to kid it shrug it off and kid about it, but it's just not working. Because people don't think that, number one, he's trailing by another poll, the Harris poll. He's trailing by Trump again. He's trailing the Sienna poll to Trump again.

He's trailing to the CNN poll to Trump again. He's trailing to the Fox poll to Trump. And it's really on performance. They look at 16 to 2020 and they prepare 2020 to 2023, and they're not happy with you, President Biden. Here he is trying to make a joke.

He gets totally confused between Taylor Swift and Britney Spears. Just to get here, Liberty and Bell had to beat some tough odds, the competition. They had to work hard to show patience and be willing to travel over a thousand miles. You could say even this harder than getting a a ticket to the Renaissance tour or or or Ripritney's tour. She's down in It's kinda warm in Brazil right now.

What do you say to that? What do you say then? Everybody misspeaks. You know what misspeaking is? Trump on stage targeted got confused between Hungary and Turkey.

He corrected it the next line. I mean, that is just. Nuts. You're supposed to say Taylor Swift down on the South American tour. But if you want to confuse Britney Spears and Taylor Swift, but I mean, just to run out of gas in your stance while you're trying to tell everyone you are ready to go, this is why they don't trust him.

His own staff does not trust him. Not just because he confuses Beyoncé and Britney Spears. No one thinks he's a pop artist. Expert. Here's Lee Carter, and then I'll take a break because I want to get to Benjamin Hall and his big interview with Zelensky, Cut Sixteen.

It does not look good for Joe Biden right now. And there's a couple of things that I would be most concerned about if I were him. Number one, he is losing significant numbers among younger voters. He carried young voters by a lot last time. It doesn't look like he's going to be able to do that.

The other thing that is really damning in some of these polls is his favorability among independents. Two in three are saying they look at him unfavorably. 55%, I'm sorry, 65% of even Democrats say they don't think he's fit, mentally fit for office.

So these numbers are really, really staggering. And he can't just get through them by denying it. And he's not going to be able to do it by hiding either. Uh that's true. I know they go back, and some people have used this analogy.

Eisenhower said, we're running for re-election. I'm not going to go out on the campaign trail. They know what the American people know who I am and what I've done. President Biden does have that option. Nobody thinks that Eisenhower couldn't have campaigned.

I thought he chose not to campaign. And they were right. And he won easily. Republican.

So we'll take a timeout. Come back with Benjamin Hall. Why? Great guy, great correspondent, unbelievable knowledge of war zones, terrorist mindset. Interviewed ISIS, Hamas, all of them.

And sadly, he got blown up in Ukraine, nearly lost his life.

So he went back. And not only that, he went with Lachlan Murdoch, and he went back on the same train he was taken out on, clinging to life. And he went back and sat for 90 minutes with President Zelensky. You listen to the Brian Kilmeat show. Diving deep into today's top stories.

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Two of uh of my team were killed when I was injured. Pierre, our cameraman, is Sasha. And I know their families obviously would think about that an awful lot. I wonder if you have a message for that. I wanted to say my condolences to all the parents, relatives of those very brave guys, men and women who lost their lives.

Because they really wanted to help Ukraine. History of Ukraine will never forget such brave people. And he was talking about um Sasha and Pierre lost their lives. Benjamin Hall is clinging to his and now doing extremely well, but went back to Ukraine where he was hit and barely survived. And to go and not only go back there with Lachlan Murdoch, President of our company.

but also to sit down with President Zelensky, Benjamin Hall, number one New York Times bestseller, a war correspondent like nobody else. He is with us now. Ben, welcome back. I know I talked to you on T V, but for our radio audience, what was it like going back on the same train that you came out on on a stretcher in? Yeah.

Brian, it's It's funny because I don't generally show much emotion in my life, and I was thinking in the week leading up to this. what would an experience would this be like? Would I have my eyes on getting the news and reporting? Or would I be taken back to some of those really dark days and hours that I felt before? And Um I think uh the truth is both happened.

And I remember getting on that train. in Poland, a nighttime train about ten hours long and sitting down. And that was the point at which I I thought. I've done this journey before, and I did it when I was near death. And I was So badly injured and in so much pain.

Rather than getting sad, I had an immense amount of pride. And I felt we had achieved so much by going back. And any worry that I had that it would be negative That was the moment I realized this was going to be a positive story, and I was going to come out of it stronger. I just remember thinking that when the attack happened, just a few days later, I remember saying to myself. I'm going back to Ukraine.

I'm going back when I can because I need to show that you might knock us down, but you won't stop us. And I got all those feelings going in. And then the other side of the news. And I clicked into work mode there with President Zelensky, an interview I'd wanted to do for a couple of years. And I guess that's what you do as a war correspondent.

You put aside the feelings and you focus on what you've got to do.

So That was important as well.

So when you get in there, you sit down and you get the number of the top interview with President Zelensky. He gives you an award, but then you sit down and you said you talked to him for 90 minutes. What was your approach? We're going to see it on special report tonight. And then the unedited version I hope will be posted somewhere.

But what was your approach to the interview and what did you get?

Well, you never know with interviews how much time you're going to get. And so your priorities come up front, and you have to get in the questions you really want. And for me, I knew the first few questions I needed to ask. Are you really in a stalemate, which his top general has said. And to that, he said, no, it is no stalemate, but We are disappointed with how the counter offensive has gone.

And we didn't take land back, much land back really. But he said we managed to push Russian troops out of the Navy, out of the Black Sea.

So yes, some negatives, but look, yes, some positives. And then I wanted to ask him about the funding from Congress, which has been delayed at the moment. And was he getting worried that US support was also drifting away? And he said that he was aware of that and that But he knew that Americans were by his side and he knew that some deal would be arranged. Eight.

He was confident that this round of funding was coming, but he did know there was a time limit on it and that this can't be a forever war and that. You know, that can start to change.

So, but he's aware of it at the moment, and he's He was saying. I want Americans to know that We can co-produce weapons. We want to also create American jobs if we are going to start co-producing weapons. We want to take European money because it is more on their borders.

So he was offering a number of varieties and solutions which might perhaps make it easier for some Americans who disagree with the amount of money being spent, they could understand. But he's just very grateful for the help he's got so far. And he also says they don't have enough weapons and they do need more weapons, which is something we've heard him say. Said before as well. The Attack'ems, it looks like we got one version of Attack'ems, gave them like 14.

We don't have that many, but that would be key because they were starting to hit inside Russia. I understood they got over a weapons depot. We know they had tremendous success in Crimea. You mentioned their Navy was forced out of Crimea, which is awesome. They found a way to get some grain out, which is great.

And they fight like warriors. But it seems like the Russians are doing their using their one asset. They got more people. And they're throwing waves of people at them. Yeah, and um well I I asked about that on the other side as well.

I said so Russia doesn't seem to have any problems continuing to send more troops your way. Are you having a problem in Ukraine with enlisting people? And he said, Yeah, that the numbers have slowed somewhat, and we are aware that But but That might be a concern and that Russia is playing the long game right now. They didn't manage to take Kyiv and Ukraine in the first few days that they hoped they would. And instead, they are now seeing this in the multiyear war.

And in the multiyear war, Keeping the numbers up, the sold number of soldiers up in Ukraine, he admits that could be. Difficult if you can keep going. And so, again, another reminder that now is the time that he needs help.

Now is the time that he needs weapons and funding. Um So yeah. Could it Charismatic? He was quite the He was almost a bit of a philosopher and a thinker. And you ask a question, and of course, we're on T V and you like to get nice short answers, but sometimes his answers would go on for five, ten minutes.

And had sort of moved from one topic to the next or coming back again. But no, he was a real thinker, and I think he also understood how different. uh stories matched and and You know how one has a relevance on another. And so he tied many of them together.

So, no, I was impressed by him actually. Um And um you know, he talked also about himself, the the impact that it's had on his life. He doesn't get to see his family that often. His children cry when he sees them, but he. His society doesn't want to cry back, he wants to show them strength, and he wants to show that strength to the Ukrainian people as well.

that this is something that he is also doing to save the future of his family as well as the future of the country.

So it was um Yeah, it it but he's also locked up in that palace, by the way. I mean, when we went in So it's corridors are black to try and save electricity. They have sandbags and barricades everywhere. The windows are blacked out. They didn't just take away our phones.

They took away our watches and they took away our pens. I mean, they are so concerned for assassination attempts. And he told us that there had been five or six assassination attempts on his life that they had stopped. As you said, that's the only thing that I've done An assassination attempt, he said, is like COVID. You worry about it the first time you get it, but not the other time.

Lachlan uh was a fun travel in Lachlan. Yes. I mean, it's great. It was the first time I've met him. He's the president of our company.

It's just I'm always amazed at how you know, in touch they are with everything that's happening, both in the stories we're telling and news around the world. And Uh, he really does understand what's going on, and we talked a lot about sort of the relationship between what's happening in Israel and knock-on effects in Russia, and um, so he. He was he was kind, he was paid tribute to Pierre and Saska all all the time, and he really understood that the purpose of this trip was news gathering and he let journalists lead it. Benjamin Hall, watch him tonight's special report. Ben, fantastic you did that.

Thanks for sharing your story. Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. Appreciate it. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West next.

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So glad you're here. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We were serious people, and this is an administration that has been deeply unserious when it comes to pushing back against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its hostage-taking. You'll remember, it's not that long ago that we paid $6 billion in ransom to get back five Americans, and within just a handful of weeks, there's now more Americans than that held by the Iranian regime.

When you are unserious, the bad guys perceive that they can move about the cabin freely, they can take Americans, they can fire over four dozen attacks on American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines in the Middle East. They can do these things with impunity because the administration hasn't demonstrated a credible deterrent threat. Over is the key. How about close to 60 attacks? We've had four back.

And evidently, President Biden, right from the White House, has tied the hands. Of the Pentagon when it comes to striking back. And there's a lot of people right now deployed overseas in the Middle East that are very upset that they're sitting ducks and unable to defend themselves. You want to know what our brain recruiting's banned? Afghanistan, number one.

were this three. Afghanistan number one. Number two, the DEI and the equity that's now involved out of instead of meritocracy and all the political correctness that's out there. Millions have poured into it. This is a fact, it's not an opinion, it's not one person who was unhappy with this commanding officer.

This is a curriculum that we are financing. And you have those two things. And then you have a situation with that, with the unbe able to stick up for yourself and fight without your being handcuffed. Lieutenant Colonel Adam West spent the bulk of his professional life in the military. He's the American Constitutional Rights Union executive, and he joins us now, Director.

Colonel, welcome back. It's always good to be with you, Brian, and happy Thanksgiving. Same to you, a couple of days away, but first things first, I'm sure you read the story in the Washington Post: how there's people are really upset that anonymous, that they've been really. Hogtide because they can't really fight back, and yet it's daily attacks on our bases by Iranian militia. Evidently, we told them, we told Iran to tell them to stop.

Do you believe this?

Okay. No, it is hard to believe, but it is what we have come to expect from a very feckless and weak administration. And of course, that's what your enemy is going to see as an enticement, and they're going to be emboldened. They're going to continue to strike harder. You know, just shooting back at an empty warehouse, that's not a response.

We have been, you know, suffering our men and women on the battlefield from Iran and their terrorist proxies, and also the explosive force penetrators, which was that form of IED that was very damaging to our men and women that were deployed over in the Middle East. We've got to strike Iran back, you know, hard, and we've got to hit them and get them to see that we are about strength and might. And, you know, when you continue to bolster their revenues, guess where that money goes? It does not go to improve the way of life of the Iranian citizen. It goes to support terrorism, and they are the number one sponsor thereof.

And so I agree with the former Secretary of State is that you You're in such abject weakness that you're inspiring all of these actions. From what you see, are you happy about where the Israeli forces are? prosecuting this war in Gaza. Yes, absolutely right. What they have done is a very good operational move in cutting off and separating out Gaza.

And now they're focusing on Gaza Strip. They're identifying these tunnels. And the other thing is that they realize how important it is to win the propaganda war, the information operation war. And so them showing the evidence of Hamas using Al-Shifa Hospital, showing the tunnels and showing the armaments and equipment that have been stored in these hospitals. But yet we don't see a condemnation, a universal condemnation of Hamas for using hospitals, which if you want to talk about a violation of international law and something that the United Nations should condemn, we have proof.

We have evidence of it.

So it just goes to show that the United Nations and the international community is really pro-Islamic terrorist organization. That's what their silence says. I want you to hear what Jonathan Gillam said this morning, cut a. Israel is pressing forward in their ground movement very tactically, and they're doing very good as far as that goes, but they're losing in the propaganda war. And that's because Iran is such an advanced intelligence agency that most people don't realize.

So, when you look at Hamas, the way they advertised and put out the videos that they did, they were inspiring people around the world that are loyal to them. When you see things like what happened today or yesterday with the Houthis and this cargo ship, you see the same thing where they're inspiring people that are loyal to them.

So, that is true. These proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, they're doing this. Iran's running this, and they're not paying any price. In fact, they'll continue with their nuclear program and they're exporting oil.

Well, the interesting thing uh and and when I listened to Jonathan, this would have been a great topic for Joe Biden with Xi Jinping with with TikTok. You know, because you see a preponderance of pro-Hamas propaganda on TikTok. When you look at someone like Mark Zuckerberg and some of these others, why are they continuing to allow Iran and Hamas to have a platform on any of these social media? And we should also be talking about Elon Musk. We need to isolate Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah and all these Islamic terrorist organizations from having any type of means by which they can leverage social media or any of these platforms for their communications.

And so I think that's where we need to come together. Israel is doing as best as they possibly can to get the truth out there, but we're not supporting them from that information operation aspect of it. And again, here you have the Houthis. They have been firing weapons against U.S. military bases.

So at some point in time, we're going to have to do you know what and get engaged with this and not be so fearful. Recalcitrant and reticent in confronting Iran. We can do that diplomatically, we can do it economically, but we're going to have to do it militarily.

So I'm sure you've heard this, but the military is now putting tens of millions of dollars into equity training and different types of diversity training. And I find it so sickening. And the Pentagon might be generating himself. I'm not sure if it comes from the White House. We're trying to get to the bottom of it, but they're slated to spend $270 million on their diversity agenda, $28 million to $111, $14 million in the department initial request for fiscal year 2024.

If the DOD is initial request for DEIA funding, I don't know what the A is for, is included in the final legislative department, we'll have to spend $269 million on diversity initiatives across fiscal years 22, 23, 24, and 25, adding to $89 million in training that's not going to help us win wars. But function in a way this administration wants to. When you see stuff like this, and this is a 34-page document that was published internally, when you see stuff like this, knowing how many years you served, have you ever heard of anything like this happening when you served? No. No, well, you know, Bill Clinton had, you know, some very, you know, crazy initiatives during the time period that he was in, but this is going completely off the rails.

But it's not just about me reading it or you reading it, it's about China reading it. It's about Iran, Russia, North Korea, Islamic terrorists. They're reading that. They see where the priorities are for this administration when it comes to our military. It's not recruiting them, it's not training them, it's not equipping them, it's about indoctrinating them.

And when you have that DEI, this cultural Marxist focus, then everyone knows that recruiting is down, and now's the time to go after the United States of America. Heck, just recently, Brian, the United States Army and the Marine Corps had recruiting booths at an anime convention.

Now, that tells you how desperate. What is anime? What is anime? That's that Japanese cartoon stuff.

Okay, so we're going out there trying to recruit from people that are, you know, involved in Japanese cartoons, anime. And that was in New York City.

So this administration does not care about our national security. Their foreign policy is weak. And so therefore, everyone sees this is an opportunity to overtake the United States of America. Yeah, the NSA has a, they found a copy of the NSA's diverse of their handbook, the Diversity Equity Handbook, an inclusion glossary. They obtained and verified by the Daily Wire.

It shows the agency now provides definitions and terms as queer theory, white fragility, as part of an expansion guide to 327 social justice terms that blame white Europeans for engaging in settler colonialism and warn of trans misogyny.

So, what the hell is going on here? What is going on at the Pentagon? If I'm Secretary of Defense and they hand me this, I don't care if it was my lifelong goal to do it. I'd hand it back and I'd say, I'm done with this. Keep your job.

And then I'd call a press conference and say I'm concerned for my country. Yeah, but sadly, Lloyd Austin has bought into that. And this is Lloyd Austin, who is a retired four-star general, a man that I served with on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who was a brigade commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. These people have sold out their oath to the Constitution, sold out our military, so that they can be in a position and they are willing masters to an ideological agenda that is destroying our United States military. But you're right.

And we're the four-star generals that are in uniform to stand up and say, hey, I'm going to put my stars on the table. We're not doing this. And if you want me to do it, I quit. I resign. We're not seeing that.

Everyone is in the go-along, get-along mode, and it's destroying our military. We're not getting out there and recruiting. We're not training them. And if you talk to people that are in the military, they're getting out because they're not training in their occupational specialty. They're just sitting around having classes on cultural Marxism.

Hey, one quick thing. If you're one of the 1900 that were told to leave because You wouldn't get vaccinated. The military is now saying, sorry, you can come back now. What would you say? Uh The only way I would come back is if they get rid of all this DEI stuff and I get a full recompensation of the benefits and pay that I lost in you putting me out.

And I want a letter of apology from the President. Uh On when it comes to 2024, MSNBC did this little thing trying to figure out the black vote is disappearing from President Biden, but where is he going? This Washington Post opinion editor said this: CUT 23. One thing that is clear in polling trends, focus group trends, and otherwise is that black voters and other voters are looking for an alternative. Black voters have long felt and said and showed us that they feel taken for granted by the Democratic Party.

We've seen the ways in which VP Harris hasn't been supported as much as some folks would like by the Democratic Party, by President Biden. And the real kicker with RFK Jr., and something that is particularly unique to him, is that he taps into this deep-seated, deep-rooted medical skepticism that a lot of black folks across the country feel, rightfully so. There has been medical racism going back to the 1800s through now. There is ample reason why folks might feel distrustful of their health care providers. Or, of what even the government is telling us we should do with our bodies with respect to vaccines.

Now, that is not to say that everything RFK Jr. says about vaccines is directly appealing to black voters, but when he talks about these things and brings up the idea that actually maybe they're lying to you or maybe you shouldn't take this vaccine, he's really trying to get at what other folks aren't saying to these voters, which is, I hear you, I see you, I understand why you might feel this way. By the way, everybody on our channel was saying that, so flip the channel around. But your thoughts about that opinion?

Well, the party of systemic racism has always been the Democrat Party. And this is why I truly believe at some point in time, somehow, they're going to try to look at how they can dump Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But I think they would seek to replace that ticket with a Gavin Newsom and a Michelle Obama because they understand how important the black vote is, especially the black female vote. Yes, you could see blacks going towards RFK, but you're seeing a lot of blacks. That recent poll that came out in the New York Times, 22% going over to support Donald Trump.

People like strength. People, you know, the policies against school choice, the economic policies of President Trump were very beneficial to the black community, his support of historic black colleges and universities, economic empowerment zones and urban centers.

So people remember these things, and you don't see any type of alternative coming from that. Thanks so much, Colonel Allen West. Always great to handle the world's problems one by one with you. Have a great Thanksgiving, sir. God bless, and you too.

Eat plenty of turkey. All right, let's do it. And then watch the Lions win for a change when we come back. I wrap things up for this hour on take some calls if we can squeeze them in. 1-866-408-7669.

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About age, it's about the president's experience. That's what we believe. And it's, you know, as they say, the proof is in the pudding, right? The president has used his experience to pass more bipartisan legislation in recent time than any other president. That's just a fact.

That is something that we have seen this President do, and that's because of his experience. Did she say the poof is in the pudding? I think she said the poof is in the pudding.

So Everybody sees it. I love when President Biden stops saying it. I think, watch me. If you think I'm too old, watch me. Yeah, we're watching you.

We're scared to death. You're going to fall off your bike, you're going to fall off the stage, you're not going to know how to leave the stage. We saw it. You have trouble hanging a wreath. Does anyone think you're going to handle China?

Does anyone think you're going to have a way out and have the backbone to stand up to your own party when it comes to Israel? Who we have Israel, the Democrats so incensed, they have their activists trying to take over your own Democratic headquarters in Washington. It got violent. Six Capitol police were hurt. Where's the investigation on that?

Can we have a primetime TV hearing? Six Capitol Police were hurt. I thought you loved the cops.

So he is old. He acts older than his age, and he's eighty one. What I love is Yesterday The Atlantic, I think it was yesterday, published a story. You know who else is old? Donald Trump is old.

And they talk about things in this story that made me laugh out loud. One of which, Donald Trump's references are old. He talks about Marxism, Communism and Cold War. Old. You guys even paying attention?

Do you know? Did you see Mark Levin's book? Did you read Ted Cruz's book? Have you been watching what's happening on these campuses? Have you been seeing this next generation who are mostly Democrats and what they think of our democracy and capitalism?

Cold War, Communism? Can you say China? Can you see what Russia's doing invading another country? Do you really have to go back to Brezhnev 1972 missile agreement in order to think, wow, Donald Trump must be caught in a time warp? And then they say And even his music references are dated.

Eldon John and Rolling Stones. First off, if Eldon John went to Madison Square Garden, he would sell it out, and a lot of those people would be young. You ever go to a wedding? Elton John. Do you ever go to, have you been paying attention to the billboard charts?

I believe the Rolling Stones are coming out with a new album. They will sell out stadiums.

So, if you want to rip Trump and say he's old, 77, you could say he's old. But his references are not dated. The other thing you say is, well, what you're doing with your hair to not look bald and gray, and what you're doing with your makeup. Makes you look like a fraud, but I assume you rather look like a fraud than look old.

So there you go. Maybe that's working for you. What an insult. A fraud? People wear makeup, a fraud, that's everybody on TV.

Even idols that they probably worship like Keith Oberman, he gets on T V, he's wearing makeup. All right. And everybody that dyes their hair is a fraud? I don't. But if I did, it's not a fraud.

Everybody who takes just for men is a fraud. And they walk out. Ron DeSantis says he loses himself in his copying his prompter, and he used to be much more reckless and freewilling.

Well, right now, he doesn't have to be. And I thought Ron DeSant I actually think Ron DeSantis is off base on this. Just like I think he can't go after Trump on the wall. Because you have other levels of government. You don't have, like Florida, all Republicans who will do anything you want.

You had the House and Senate, but you didn't have 60 votes in the Senate. Having said all that, I just think that Trump is vulnerable to DeSantis and Haley, but not that way. But he's going after Trump's age and saying he lost his fastball. That's gonna draw blood. But the Atlantic story, a desperate attempt.

To say that Joe Biden is not that old. Look at Donald Trump. Nice try. The proof is in the pudding. Watch me.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Meet Show. Come to you from 48th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan a couple of days before Thanksgiving, and it feels like a couple of days before Christmas. It is.

Unbelievably cold, but that's why we're indoors. We turned down all opportunities to go out on the patio. Varney and company, we're going to do a simulcast there. Dan Bielak will join us from Ukraine. Man, is that white hot right now with us?

Anyway, Benjamin Hall just went over there. The site in which he got blown up, almost died, lost two of his crew members and our colleagues. Went back and interviewed President Zelensky for an hour and a half. We got a cut from that. It'll be on special report tonight.

So, Dan Bielak, Inside the War, that's ongoing. And Bob Cusack on 2024, I want to focus a little bit on the house with him. I was stunned to find out how bad things got for Speaker Johnson. Um listen to of the Daily on the New York Times yesterday.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. They are beefing up the budget for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility training. You look at the 2022 budget for that, $68 million. 2023, 86.5 million.

The 2024 request is for $114 million plus $700,000 and change. So, you don't think that would be better off giving our troops a raise, helping with recruiting, getting bullets, getting bombs? No. We're talking about equity, we're talking about diversity in our military costing millions of dollars at a time in which we're being challenged all over the globe. That cannot stand.

Number two. I don't think that there is going to be a change here in the nominee. In that NBC poll, seventy seven percent of Democrats picked Biden for the nominee. He wants to run again. He is running.

So I don't think there is a Plan B. Mark Penn, a political pundit, expert, pollster, also somebody that got Clinton elected, knows the Democratic Party. 2024 mobile polls show Trump is too strong, perhaps, to stop, as the old label might be too much for Biden to overcome. We'll review all aspects of 2024, including the GOP fractuous attempt to protect their house. Number This puts I I think exposes clearly Hamas's lies.

They've been saying for weeks that they've got no military installation there under the hospital. But I think it's time the whole world now admitted. Comas has been brutalizing the people of Gaza. Mark Regev, spokesperson for Benjamin Netanyahu.

Now we know hospitals were headquarters as captured Hamas terrorists reveal on camera they dressed like doctors, nurses and hid among the sick, which is why they are targets in Gaza and why they're hitting a hospital right now. That is the number one story. Bob Cusek joins us now, Editor in Chief of The Hill. Bob, first off, how stunning is it to see the Democrats fractured over this the President Biden's correct position on Israel?

Well, I tell you, Brian, it's something that Democrats have been disappointed in President Biden before. They want to build back better. They wanted a $3.5 trillion bill. At one point, Bernie Sanders was floating six trillion, and they didn't get they got the Inflation Reduction Act, which was obviously cut in half. And they were upset by that.

However, this issue, the Israel-Hamas issue, is one that I think a lot of Democrats on the left are not going to forgive Biden. And that's a big problem for them. And in that cut you played, about 77% of Democrats. Want Biden to run. That's actually not a great stat.

I mean, if it was Obama at this point seeking reelection, it's probably 97% of Democrats.

So he's got a party unity problem. And as we all know, the party down the stretch that's most united usually wins. Right. And by the way, 30% of Independents support him. That's the key.

So you're right. That is the key. The Eni is 90%. He got 7% among Republicans. But so many people seem to be coming out.

Just on this Israel issue. How about how underreported it seems to me, maybe you're in Washington and it isn't, that the DNC headquarters was basically raided. Six cops get hurt. Protests against with congressmen on the inside like Brad Sherman. These are Tlaib.

People wanted to marginalize Tlaib. Why is she doing such crazy things? I don't know why she wants to be in this country personally. But there's a lot of people who are just as extreme as her.

Well, listen, and if you if you watch the video of that, there have been a lot of peaceful protests on both sides of this intense debate and argument, but that was not peaceful whatsoever. And the Proof is in the video. And it is striking. And obviously, Democrats who were stuck in that building, the DNC building, which is right by Capitol Hill, it was startling. And to get them out of there, that's a real problem.

And honestly, Brian, I don't see this stopping. Obviously, the war is going to be continuing, and hopefully, we get all the hostages out. But the conflict is going to be continuing. And it's fair to say, especially because this was Israel's 9-11, that this is not going to be a short-term war. And it's likely to go into the election year, perhaps deep and perhaps beyond.

And this is not a good thing for Biden. Obviously, he didn't start the war, but at the same time, he was promising things would calm down. And, you know, the world, people, if you look at the polls, they're not happy with the economy. We've got two wars raging, and he's got to defend his record this time around. That's why this 2024 is totally different than 2020.

He's got to run on his own record. COVID is over. Over. He's going to have to be on the campaign trail. And honestly, he has not been very media accessible, as you know, Brian.

I mean, major stories, major decisions being shouted at him as he's walking away onto a plane or helicopter or into a beach house. And he's shouted, Are the hostages about to be released? Yes. Yet, whoa, wait a second. The President of the United States just say a deal for the hostages is imminent.

And then you go back to the Israelis, you go, No, we don't think it's imminent. And then two days go by and nothing happened because he's disrespecting the press, walking away every day. And I know Trump was the other way, never walked away from a camera, and people love to just fight with him. And we've all seen that with the chopper in the background. And we have another guy that just doesn't rarely ever walk over, does not do sit-down interviews, and still at the same time wants to convince people he's not too old to do the job.

I don't think you can have it both ways. And you know the one thing that's changed, Bob? You can no longer say Trump can't win. He might win the primary, but he can't win the general. CNN.

Uh New York Times Fox News Harvard, uh the Harris Poll. All have Trump beating him head to head. Absolutely. And that is something that you have to have free media. The first time I interviewed Trump at Trump Tower, his staff said, okay, you got 15 minutes.

We asked tough but fair questions. We got 80 minutes. He gave us three subsequent interviews from Trump Tower before he won the White House. If you're going to run for the White House, you've got to go for it. You can't be careful and just get in the White House.

Ask Hillary Clinton about that. And Trump is going for it. He's media accessible. And honestly, you're totally right about the narrative, which has been frustrating me for months because I've talked to Democrats who seem way overconfident, even months ago, that Biden, well, he won last time, so he's going to win again. That race was extremely close, came down to like tens of thousands of votes in several states.

So this is something that Trump can easily win. And right now, he's in the league. Right. What they're trying to say is not that he'll be right-wing. They'll say he's dangerous for democracy.

He is Hitler. And now they're saying that we were at the. The Atlantic Magazine story, I just went over with the audience. They're saying he's too old because he makes the whole story: Trump is really old.

Okay, because he likes the Rolling Stones in Elton John shows he's dated, because he thinks about the Cold War, communism and Marxism. Really? Do you think that that is not a theme today?

So I just and the reference that his older sister died and his younger brother died, more indications that he's old. I'm reading this story. I can't put my jaws on the ground.

So, I mean, yeah, no, listen, I mean, and it's something, too, that I think the White House is totally misplaying this issue about Biden's age, because obviously that's why some of these stuff about Trump's age. I know DeSantis has gone after Trump a little bit on his age. And it's really not age, it's how sharp you are. Bernie Sanders is older than Biden, but in a lot of ways, you know, he's sharper. He just is.

And everyone makes mistakes on the campaign trail, whether it's Trump or Biden, but age is a significant factor. I think the White House should be embracing its underdog role instead of saying just as Biden says repeatedly, watch me, watch me. Having all the candles on the, you know, I heard Carr roll this morning. That doesn't work. And I agree with him that that's not the way to play this.

You should embrace the underdog status as Obama did, and he ended up winning.

So, Bob, we talk a lot about the president, but I want to talk about the House and the Senate. And the House got a huge problem making money, earning money. And those 20 years. 22 days didn't make people want to donate, obviously, without a speaker. And then we find out when they did the CR in the two tiers that Speaker Johnson did it, he got a warning.

From the freedom car, because you better not do that again. How many votes do you lose? Seventy, eighty Republican votes to do it? And now he gets a warning. You know he had no choice.

He could have shut down the government. Absolutely. No, absolutely. I think Mike Johnson led. You know, a lot of Democrats were very skeptical.

They mocked the two-tier, which is really not that complicated if you think about it, just basically two deadlines of extending the government. And Democrats went along with it, just as they had gone along with Kevin McCarthy's effort to not have a shutdown. Obviously, the conservatives want more, and they're always going to want more. But at the same time, Johnson, I think, got a victory there. The problem is, you've got to convince your own guys you got a victory, and a lot of them think they got a loss.

So I understand donations to the House campaign has lagged big time. The National Republican Congressional Committee raised slightly more than $5 million in October.

Now, the latest report underscores their cash problem. They reported you're having $37 million in the bank end of October, but trailing the Democratic counterparts by $10 million at this point in 2021. At this point in 2021, the Republicans had $67 million in the bank. But they got to make up big time. And Kevin McCarthy is the workhorse.

And I think McCarthy would be willing to help, perhaps, but I'm not sure. I mean, I'm not sure what McCarthy's role. We're in unknown territory with him.

Well, we are. And it's so bizarre to have two former speakers still serving in Pelosi and McCarthy. And we don't know what McCarthy's future is. He knows and has shown that he can raise money. This is a real problem though, and not surprising that donors were turned off by the chaos with the speakership and finally getting one.

With Johnson. Remember, the House is barely in Republican hands.

So that's why this election is so important. Beyond the presidential, which is basically a toss-up, so is the House.

So is the Senate, though I'd give an edge to Republicans in the Senate based upon the map. But everyone wants money. And I'm sure the Senate Republicans are telling donors, well, give us money instead of the House Republicans. But they all need money. And I think Johnson, they've recently announced a new fundraising mechanism for Speaker Johnson.

That was issue number one because he's not a big fundraiser. But once you're Speaker, you can raise a lot of money, and that's what he's going to be doing. Yeah, very interesting. I know that the Democrats believe they have the House just to go for the taking. Lee Zeldon's fanning out in New York to try to keep the seats he helped win in New York.

And there's going to be other people, I think, that are not going to be voting just on abortion. It's going to be on inner city and immigration. What do your stats show, and what is your feedback on those top issues?

Well, the w Zeldon is a very smart political operative, and he knows that. The path to the majority goes through, if Democrats are going to get it, through New York and California. New York in particular, Republicans did well in the last election based on the crime issue.

So now this is a presidential election year, so obviously New York and California are blue states, though these are more conservative, independent districts. But these are a lot of toss-up races.

So this could go late in the night and could actually, we may not even know who's going to control the House for a week plus after the election if it really comes down to it, because it's going to come down to, I think, a handful of seats, and that's going to decide it. And that's why the money is so important. Yeah, I guess so. It will come down to that. I'd like to ask you about two candidates: Tim Sheehy in Montana and Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania.

What is your early assessment on their campaigns? I know Republicans' path to the majority, that would help grease it. Yeah, listen, the Democrats have almost no margin for error in the Senate because of the map. They really can't pick up any seats. They say they're going to try to take out Ted Cruz and Rick Scott.

I think that's really unlikely.

So they are just playing defense. And you mentioned Montana, Sheehi, solid candidate, taking on Tester, who has survived in a red state. Sherrod Brown in Ohio is going to be in a tough race. Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, who lost to Oz, Amendment Oz, last time around, he's going to be the guy to take on Bob Casey.

So Democrats are going to have to basically run the table and defend all these seats. Why? Well, because of the map, but also because Joe Manchin is not running.

So the Republican, that Republican, that seat in West Virginia is clearly now going to be a Republican. That makes it a 50-50 Senate. If Republicans win one more, they get the Senate.

So I think the chances are highly likely. That Republicans are going to win the Senate. But remember, a lot of people thought they were going to win the Senate last time, and they didn't. Right. It depends on the quality of your candidacy.

What about Arizona? Do you does your indications, Bob Cusack or Tomba Barcuse of the Hill, indicate that cinema will stay in? Because I don't see the infrastructure around her because she left the Democratic Party. Yeah, I think that's a fascinating race because you got Gallego as a Democrat. Where's Chuck Schumer going to go?

You know, he's been working with cinema. I think cinema is going to run. She has a fair amount of money, but as you say, a lot of donors, because they're Democratic donors and she left the Democratic Party, are now giving to Gallego. And then you have Kari Lake running, who has been kind of at a contentious relationship with the Republican establishment, but that has warmed recently.

So I think this is a toss-up race. I would be shocked if cinema doesn't run. And that could split the Democratic vote.

So that's a potential pickup. Certainly, for the GOP, but that's going to be kind of an unusual and odd race. Right. And of course, it'll take three weeks to count the votes. I don't think they've done anything to improve their voting like Florida went ahead and did, and we think Georgia did too.

Bob, fascinating, especially at this point, there's so much up in the air, and now we have all these other parties from RFK to the no labels to Jill Stein and the green and whatever. Whatever Cornell West is doing, I'm not sure, but 1%, 1%, 2% could really make a difference. Totally could make a difference. And if you look at the returns in various states, it could totally make a difference.

So, this is going to be a crazy election, that's for sure. Bob Cusack of the Hill. You're with Brian Kilmead The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we don't have much time, but I just want to come back and tell you.

I want to go along because I just find this whole season, 2024, it's not even 2024 yet, so fascinating. And when you think about the individual races, you would think in the Senate, for example, if the Senate flips, it's going to dramatically change your life. Number one, don't have to worry about the filibuster being busted again. You don't have to worry about being added to states in some haphazard fashion. You don't have to worry about uh packing the court.

You have to think, even if a Democrat becomes president and hold your tongue, because if it's Joe Biden, we are in a lot of trouble, more than you can ever imagine. But they're not going to be able to jam down These nominees That are just left-wing activists who are checking a box. You know, they even stopped some of them anyway, thanks to Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sineman and a couple of other sometimes intermittent sober Democrats.

So that's why I think Tim Sheehy, as a special operator, I believe a Navy SEAL, should destroy Jon Testa. John Tester never took the heat that Joe Manchin did, and he should have. He never stood up and was a moderate. He would claim to be a moderate and vote with Joe Biden every single step of the way. And in Pennsylvania, it's hard to imagine on paper A better candidate than Dave McCormick, who now has experience taking on Senator Casey, who never does anything, just votes along with the party, never see him taking a leadership role.

And then you have a guy that served in the military, went to West Point, went to war, was in the Department of Treasury, then became a self-made success story, multi-millionaire. and now wants to be senator. How about it? The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

But I think that they're very deeply watching what we do. And that's why we've got to make sure that we stand by President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people. Because if we turn our backs on them, then I'm sure President Xi thinks we'll turn our back on Taiwan. That's why this is absolutely important, and we cannot fail to fund both. You know, Mr.

McCall and I have traveled collectively together. We recently just came back from Israel. and talk to some of those families that uh had lost and have some who whose family members are still held hostage and others that were killed. I felt the same way in looking at the same things that was done by Hamas to the Israelis, that was done to the Ukrainians by Mr. Putin.

And that, of course, to Congressman Meeks, he does get along with Mike McCall. I know they really respect each other on the House Foreign Relations Committee, and they're really urging Ukraine to be supported, where a lot of people are equivocating on it. And right now, that's been punted to maybe the new year to Nord of the funding that war as well as the Israeli war. Dan Bilak joins us. Bilak joins us now, member of the Territorial Defense Force.

off of Ukraine. Dan is also an attorney based in Kyiv. Dan, welcome back. We had the President Zelensky sit down with Benjamin Hall for an hour and a half. I'm looking forward to seeing that.

But do you think right now you guys are in a stalemate? Um Thanks for having me on, Brian. Bye. I think that stalemate is kind of a a word where nothing's happening, whereas things are happening. I mean, I think General Zeluzhny, the chief of our Army, the Commander-in-Chief, said the right thing.

He said this is positioning war as opposed to maneuvering war. And we needed all sorts of kits still last year. If we'd gotten the tanks and the armor and the other equipment that we needed, we were begging for back in this time last year. we'd probably be in a very different position because we gave them almost six months. To dig in and the Russians to dig in and mine, as you know, most of the South.

But you know what, we're still pressing the advantage, Brian. You know, we we have even though we have no air force, we have no navy, we've denied them control of the air and we've denied them control of the Black Sea. And by using the kit that we've been getting from the US and our other allies very effectively and very responsibly, we've been mixing it with new drones and new technologies that we've been coming up with to really push the we've almost pushed the Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea and into back into Russia to their port at Novodosisk. That's pretty significant because it's it's meant that we've got a lot fewer rockets coming at us and our into our cities and our homes from their their ships in the Black Sea. And frankly, we've shown what long range missiles can do.

We've used the storm shadows and scalps that we got from the UK and the French to take out the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, which has had a major, major impact on the Russian ability to project power in the Black Sea Fleet. And when we got our first set of attackums, the shorter range ones with cluster bomb warheads instead of the unitary warheads, we we took out uh an airfield in uh in Bernyansk in occupied near Mariupol in the occupied territory and took out nineteen nine helicopters. I mean, you know, th w this this stuff makes a big difference. If we had more of it, this this might be a different war.

So, you know, we're not we're not giving up. And and uh you know, we we we just need really the the our our allies to double down and and support us. You know, I read today that we're getting 30% less of the artillery shells, the one fifty-five millimeter shells that we need. And all of that makes a big difference, Brian, because we're outgunned, we're outnumbered, we we should have to fight smarter and more asymmetrically, and we can defeat these people if we have the technology. And that's been General Zeluzhny's.

Is it true you're hitting inside Russia, you hit in some military bases? Yeah, our people generally don't admit or deny, but then they kind of smile.

So we're developing longer, longer range capabilities. We just developed a drone that can go 1,000 kilometers. It's like 600 miles, which would be the longest-range missile or armament that we have. And we're trying to take the fight to them. We have to take the fight to Russia.

President Zelensky said this war started in Crimea literally 10 years ago. We've been at war with them for 10 years. This week is exactly 10 years when the Maidan Revolution started. But it also started the latest version started in Russia when Putin decided to invade full scale. And it's going to end in Russia.

We're going to have to either convince people or degrade them to the point where they're They're going to sue for peace or changes will happen.

So roughly, you've taken 50% of the land that they took on the initial invasion back?

Well, we've taken more than, yeah, about roughly 50% of what they took in the first instance, we have taken back. It's been much slower and harder because of the mining of the fields and the trenches and everything else. Plus, they have attack helicopters, they've got air force. We don't have these things. And it really puts our soldiers at risk.

But we are advancing. I mean, we've now crossed the Dnipro River in the south at Kherson, and we have beachheads there, and we're actually getting armor to the other side, which is a big advantage, because they're quite stretched. They're stretched along a 600-mile front. And front line, and they can't, they keep throwing their whatever they don't have a lot of reserves, so they keep throwing whatever troops they have available into into different spots to shore up their lines.

So, we just have to keep pressing. And, you know, the Kherson thing, keep your eye on that. That's really interesting because that if we get within artillery range of their supply lines from Crimea, this is a very different war. And that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to trit their forces, we're trying to degrade their supply lines, take out their ammunition depots, take out their fuel depots, and look, you know, in a Dievka where they've thrown in the Donbass.

They've thrown like They're throwing bodies at us like you wouldn't believe. They lost 7,000 men last year, last week. They're losing like se five to seven thousand men in that one pocket. every single week. And, you know, I guess they got a lot of people that they can still throw at us.

But, you know, these aren't trained soldiers by any stretch. Right. Just a meat grinder. We're talking to Dan Bilak. He's calling us from Ukraine.

So Dan, looking at the bigger picture, are you able to export grain?

Well, we're we're we're exporting. It's a really interesting question. I mean, we are getting it down through a new grain corridor that we set out set up, which is where we hug the coastline of Romania and Bulgaria and Turkey, all NATO members. And so if we're going within their territorial waters, the Russians aren't going to hit those ships. But there are still vulnerabilities.

There was a ship that was hit by a floating mine last week. And I understand that those three countries, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, are going to try to put together a force to try to keep their waterways clear of mines. But you know, we have problems on our on our western border with our with our allies, where we have Polish Uh, first we had Polish farmers and now we have Polish um uh uh truckers that are blocking uh the the the crossing points at the border. Um and disputes over haulage fees and things like that. And and you know, we have we have there's like sixty kilometer or you know Right.

50-mile lineups of trucks trying to get over that border. Wow. And that's got to be something settled by politicians. Unbelievable. I did not know that.

But lastly, when are the pilots going to be ready with the F-16s?

Well, I mean, we're what we are hoping is that they'll be ready late winter, early spring. I mean, you know these are accelerated training programs, as you can imagine. It took a long time to get them up and running because you have to train not just pilots, but the ground crews and all the technicians. Everything's got to work in a very synchronized manner. And you've got to put them on fields in different places so the Russians don't bomb them.

And so this is going to be quite a challenge. But we're hoping to get these guys in the air, get our boys in the air What I've heard is the end of February, beginning of March. I mean, that would be a miracle if it happened. It would really be welcomed because, you know, it's one of the best. Versatile aircraft in the world, and uh, how many will you have?

We're backing them. How many will you have? That's a good question. I'm not really sure. I hear all sorts of different numbers.

I hear like we're going to get up to one hundred, but I doubt that's going to happen right away. You know, we're going to have to get our initial set of pilots trained up, and then they're going to have to train other pilots. And so, hopefully, if we get a dozen, it'll be a good start. Dan, thanks so much. Appreciate it.

Stay strong. Appreciate it over here. Thanks, Brian. Thank you and the people of the United States. We couldn't do this without you.

Right. Keep in mind, they're going for Georgia, going for Moldova. They're going to create havoc in the Balkans. They've got to be stopped in Ukraine. You might not like it, but they didn't like being invaded either.

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Keep in mind, too. I'll talk about it on the back end, but we do have a special Saturday edition of One Nation begins at 9 o'clock in Teddy Booker T. We'll find out if it stays on the best-selling list, but it says top 10 of the country. Hope everyone could download it. Also, you could watch the special on Fox Nation, get an idea how two American icons played some path to racial equality.

I think it's a story you need to hear. Two great Americans who came from nowhere to mean so much to the country, even today. And there's so many other stories. We've been covering three major stories: the political correctness of the Pentagon and so much more. But let's listen in.

Here's Stuart. 51 on the East Coast. You know what that means? It means it's time for Brian Kilmead, the man who never takes a day off. He works 23 out of 24 hours on.

I'm sure he makes something else happen on that extra hour. Brian, good morning to you. Elon Musk's ex just launched a defamation lawsuit against Media Matters for America. They claimed that the platform showed anti-Semitic posts next to advertisements and it triggered an advertiser exodus.

Now, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson just opened an investigation into Media Matters for potential fraudulent activity. Do Musk and Texas here, Brian, have a case, do you think? I think it's a pretty strong case. And not only that, I salute Ken Paxson for doing this. Media Matters, a despicable organization that exists just to create havoc for left-wing causes.

And Elon Musk has got the wherewithal to take them on, and he doesn't care. He'll bring it on. What he's done in saving Twitter is really been well-chronicled on this channel. What he did with Matt Taibbi and Barry Weiss getting in there, revealing the bias that was taking place during the last election cycle and beyond, and then through the pandemic. And then you have Elon Musk saying, wait a second, you're trying to.

Destroy me. Let's go through this. And he says, I'm going to file a thermonuclear lawsuit. And one of his lines was. I cannot wait for the discovery.

It is going to be great to see the discovery process on Media Matters, who's behind it, and what the agenda is. He has lost IBM. He has lost Apple, Lionsgate, Paramount, all off of what he now calls X, because of what they say is an anti-Semitic post that he might have retweeted, which could be litigated another time. But also, the Missouri AG also might join in with Ken Paxton. I love it.

Yeah. Yeah, go right ahead. I would say the same thing. I want to get into this issue, Brian. Ramapo College in New Jersey getting a lot of backlash after they congratulated a transgender swimmer for breaking the women's 100-yard butterfly record.

That post has since been deleted. A spokesman for the college said the school will continue to support all of their student athletes, adding that the post was, quote, deleted by a peer who wanted to protect their teammate from insulting comments on the post. Here's another example of this, Brian. I mean, this just cannot be right, can it? No, it isn't.

And it's called This Swimmer. When was it when She was a man, swam for the men's team, Average at best, decides to become a woman. And celebrate the fact that she said a butterfly record. For me. I want to know who came in fourth.

And I from now on, every time a man comes in a race, I don't want to see the top three, I want to see the top four. I want to see four people get medals. And then you leave these records, put an asterisk. I mean, Roger Maris has an asterisk because he played in 162 games instead of Babe Ruth paying 150 for. All right, when he had the record at 61 homers, put an asterisk, was a man.

Keep that in mind when you look at the women's record. I don't have anything against this. Woman. at all. I live your life, but just don't ruin sports for women.

That's all. And if the I worry about them getting into soccer, we see some horrible things in lacrosse. They're just too big and strong, and it's not fair. Don't women's rights matter? Yeah, I mean, how would you feel if you're a young lady and you're really competing at the top level and you're hoping to become a name in the state and perhaps nationally, and then all of a sudden it gets thrown out the window because someone decides they want to be another sex and dominate your sport?

I mean, it just cannot be right. It's going to be, you know, it's going to be litigated out in 2024. And because for the longest time it was the Me Too movement, what about women's rights in society they've been taking advantage of for years? And we see people going to prison and being canceled. All of a sudden, when you stick up for women now, everyone goes radio silence.

At least some Republican candidates are stepping up and going, that's not okay with me. And if you have a daughter out there, you should really be able to relate to this, especially if they try to compete in any level of sports. It's a bad enough individual. Again, back to the contact sports. You put a man that decides to be a woman in the contact sport like soccer with no pads.

Or you put him in lacrosse or field hockey, all bets are off. People's faces are getting shattered. We all saw that video a couple of weeks ago. That's ridiculous. Yeah, you're absolutely right.

As always, I should point out, Brian Killmead, thank you so much, sir. Happy Thanksgiving to you, by the way. Back at you and your family. Thank you. All right, so that was great to be on that great network, Fox Business Network.

But I was saying before. With this transcript, over with this Ramapo College swimmer, they posted out congratulations. And I also realized that that person's not having an easy life if they aren't happy with the gender they're in and they want to switch. That's not an easy decision. But if you're bold enough to not only switch genders, but stay in the same sport, just switch bathing suits.

And then go in and not care how other people might feel as though it's not fair that their life dream is being blown up because you made a personal decision. You want to do that in school? Go ahead and compete. Try to get the best grades possible. Who cares what gender you are?

But if you're going to compete athletically, or if you want to compete for the same job, go do it. But athletically, come on, this is not even a hard question, is it? I mean, but you have to have the transgender games. And and I'm sure you'll get a ton of sponsors. I just keep in mind, too, I just want to go over a couple of things.

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Brian Kill mead. Hi, everyone. Thanks so much for being here and listening to us all year long, coming up on Thanksgiving. We have a lot to discuss. As you know, the news has not slowed down.

We're going to be joined by Joel Rosenberg over in Israel and Lee Zeldin at the bottom of the hour to unmask what it will take to be successful in New York. He got within five points of. Of being the next governor from New York, a Republican governor, first one since Bataki. He did so well, I believe, and most agree that his coattails helped flip the House of Representatives because it brought so many Republicans along with him, but including George Santos, who's an embarrassment, to the country, not just his party.

So we'll talk about that with Lee. And of course, we're following all the news. We are getting reports that at any moment, my fingers are crossed, there's going to be a hostage release. That's coming from Qatar, and there's some reports, too, that it's imminent coming from Israel.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. They are beefing up the budget for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility training. You look at the 2022 budget for that, $68 million. 2023, $86.5 million.

The 2024 request is for $114 million plus $700,000 and change. Political correctness, killing the Pentagon. First, the ouster of our troops over refusal to get vaxed.

Meanwhile, we have very few guys. We lost 1,900.

Now they can come back. Would you? And now revealed the military is wasting billions on diversity instead of bombs, bullets, training, and recruiting. Number two. I don't think that there is going to be a change here in the nominee.

In that NBC poll, 77% of Democrats picked Biden for the nominee. He wants to run again. He is running.

So I don't think there is a Plan B. twenty twenty four. More polls show Trump is too strong perhaps to stop and the old label might be too much for Biden to beat. We'll review all aspects of twenty twenty four, including the GOP fractuous attempt to protect their house. Number This puts I I think exposes clearly Hamas's lies.

They've been saying for weeks that they've got no military installation there under the hospital. But I think it's time the whole world now admitted. Hamas has been brutalizing the people of Gaza. Now we know. Hospitals were headquarters as captured Hamas terrorists reveal.

They dressed as doctors and nurses, hiding among the sick, which is why they were targeting the hospitals in Gaza. We'll bring you the latest. And let's go to Joe Rosenberg right now. He's the editor-in-chief of All Israel News and All Arab News, and the President and CEO of Near East Media, a New York Times best-selling author. Joel, your reaction, first off, what do your sources say about a possible release of dozens of hostages?

Brian, great to be with you. And I'm very close to the border of Gaza right now. I've been reporting all day artillery, shells, fighter jets, bombings. But Yeah, the Israel is anticipating. I mean, I would say every Israeli is paying very close attention.

It's 6:09 p.m. here. The Security Cabinet is meeting right now, Netanyahu and his most senior officials. And then at 8 o'clock Israel time, which would be 1 o'clock Eastern, the entire government will be meeting.

Now, as I'm talking to you, rockets are in the air. I'm actually getting rocket alerts. On my phone, on an app that I have.

So Hamas is taking its final shot at the moment. But I expect. There will be a deal.

Now, I will say, Brian, that for most Americans, They think of Israelis as never negotiating with terrorists. Like that's a You would think that would be a bedrock rule, but it's not actually true. Uh Israel is struggling, uh to be honest, with the fact that it it it it values its own citizens more than the prisoners and the terrorists that they've taken. Potential. And but the contract Unwritten, but definitely known by every Israeli, is you never leave an Israeli behind.

If there's any way to get them back, Um, you have to do it. Netanyahu once gave something like eleven hundred terrorists. to Hamas and others to get one hostage back.

somebody who'd been in pr you know in hostage uh held hostage for years So Right now we're looking at between fifty and eighty maybe in the next couple of days, but there's talk that maybe one hundred and forty uh terrorist prisoners would be released. And that's a tension here. I'll just say one more thing, Brian. At literally on my phone as I'm talking to you, the sirens are going off in my ear.

So I'm telling you, they're taking their final it happens every time if we're close to a a a a ceasefire of any kind, the terrorists go crazy in the final hours.

So they're hitting rockets towards you? Are they coming from the Hamas side, the Gaza side, or Hezbollah side? Exactly. The Gaza side. No, no, no.

No, sorry.

Well, both, I will say. There are rockets and missiles coming at the Lebanon side, but that's an entirely different front. That's on the north, and we're dealing with it. But at the same time, right now, what we're getting is a barrage of rockets coming in from Gaza. Does it blow you away that three weeks into this, they still have rocket ability to shoot rockets?

Yeah, we're well over 11,000. And I will say we're on day 46, okay, so a little bit over a month, coming up on a month and a half. The most they've ever fired was 4,300. I know that because that was the month that my wife and I and our sons arrived. As dual US-Israeli citizens to live here full-time, and that was nine and a half years ago.

So that was 4,300 in a month. And now we've had 11,000 in just a little bit over a month. People here in Israel are shocked by that number. as as well as, of course, by the invasion on october seventh. Are they resupplied?

Are they getting resupplied? There's no way for them to resupply, but what we think has happened is it has been fairly quiet. I mean, not totally, but over the last several years. And that's what glulled the Israeli government and intelligence and military into a false sense of security. There was a sense that, well, there's a couple of other factions, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and another one, and they would occasionally fire off some rockets, sometimes hundreds.

But then think but but Hamas was always over the last several years was always like, it's not us. Look, we'll do what we can to try to tamp things down. But it looks like what they were really doing is stockpiling. Worse, worse, Brian, and you may have reported this in the past, but The international community trying to be helpful, was helping Hamas as a government. rebuild its water system because the pipes were so old.

Well, we now know that Hamas was taking those pipes and turning them, you know, cutting them and turning them into rockets.

So it's just more of the savagery and the cynicism, and that you cannot trust. A terrorist government. All right. Couple of things. I understand on your in Israeli television they are showing some Hamas captured fighters, terrorists, and they are saying that they were at hospitals.

They were in hospitals, some dressing like doctors and nurses, and that's where their headquarters were located. Could you tell me about this? Yeah, and this is one of the things that we are struggling here in Israel so much that the mainstream media, you know, certainly the New York Times, BBC, MSNBC, CNN, have really bought the Hamas propaganda, hook line, and sinker. I mean, and so what we're dealing with is Israeli intelligence is pretty impressive.

Now, it blew it on October 7th, don't get me wrong. And their heads will roll politically here after we win, and we're going to win, but Um Israel knew and had been tracking what was going on and was trying to explain it to the world and and and you know, Brian, 'cause you're you're there, I'm over here, but you know the American media was not listening, was not accepting, was acting like Israel was crazy, and how could you announce that you were gonna go send Special forces into a hospital or every hospital, but that's 'cause we knew. And now the news is coming out that we were right. One of the captains who identified himself as something unpronounceable tells off-camera interrogatory that about 100 Hamas operators took control of the Rantisi hospital in Gaza for about five days to carry out attacks. They were organized in several tents with each group operatives by themselves in groups of four to five, them sitting together, all of them around the hospital.

They admitted the terrorists operated from the hospital because it was a secure place and no one could locate them there. He said it was better than operating from their homes.

Okay. So the doctors were furious because Hamas operatives and operatives of the terrorist organization were inside the hospital, but they couldn't do anything. If they protested, they'd be killed on the spot.

Well, that's exactly right. And as we've been reporting on our website, All Israel News, this has been the modus operandi of Hamas, which is each of these is a war crime, right? What's crazy we're in a crazy world, Brian, where Israel is being accused of war crimes, including by the UN Secretary General, through terrorists, right? But actually what's happening is it's a war crime to use a hospital or a school or a mosque or a church to launch missiles and hide terrorists. And yet, this is literally what's been happening.

And yet the world is so much more willing to believe a genocidal terrorist organization that has beheaded babies and burned people alive than Israel. And that is antisemitism in its most wicked form.

So evidently, the New York Times is reporting that you guys are looking to get fifty chil women and children back, and they're looking to get in exchange for fifty teenagers and women back from Israeli prisons. What can you tell me about that?

So so I don't know the specific details, but this has happened where Israel sort of grades Um, I I'm not sure that's the right way to put it, but for the purposes of our conversation, essentially grades the prisoners we had. Like, and and so um women and teenagers have been used to be suicide bombers, to transport, um And by the way, more rocket sirens, more rockets are inbound as we speed. But um But you know, it sounds like, oh, we, you know, Israel has women and children. Yeah, people who commit terrorist acts, we capture them and we put them in prison. But.

Israel does sort of grade them, and if there are people that were maybe transporting weapons or moving money, right, or hiding terrorists in their house or something. uh we're more willing to give those people back. And release them for our innocent civilian hostages. We don't but but I'll tell you, Brian, this has been a conversation that actual fam hostage families, people who have loved ones, including baby and children and Holocaust survivors in Gaza, have been warning the Prime Minister, don't give people that have blood on their hands Like you're just gonna make it worse. And yet there are others who are like, I don't care.

Let you know, let them all out. and then go kill them or arrest them later. But right now we've got to get our people back.

So that's a tension that's not that good. You're getting back 50, or there could be international. I'm not we don't know. The 50 are coming our way and 100 are going their way. I want you to hear you from the American press.

You talk about them not trusting you guys. Here's an example: this is Nancy Youssef of MSNBC, Cut Five. What we saw coming out of the hospital after the Israelis entered, I think, also then raised questions about the degree to which the hospital was used. Remember that in the run-up to Israel entering the hospital, they said that it was the focus of Hamas operations. But so far, we haven't seen evidence to that.

While there have been AK-47s, rocket tanks and other equipment found, there isn't anything to indicate that this is really sort of the central hub of Hamas operations.

And this was on MSNBC from a Washington Post national security correspondent. Is that just inaccurate?

Okay. No, you just like I'm at a loss for words, Brian. But let me go back to a more such a clear example. Remember a few weeks ago when Hamas claimed that Israel bombed one of their hospitals, right? I remember what happened?

The New York Times, by the way, I've got rockets blowing up over our head right now, so we can hear the bombs. Let me ask you, is that unusual for it to reach to you? No, not where I am, because I just started leaving the border area a little while ago. I've been reporting all day along the border. But anyway, but we're also getting rocket fire, missile fire from the north.

So just to confirm what you just said. But going back to that hospital situation.

So here the world accuses Israel of committing war crimes to go into the hospitals, but the hospitals are being used by terrorists. Then, a few weeks ago, right, the New York Times puts a front page, top You know, screaming headline: Israel bombs Palestinian hospital, says Palestinian health officials. Whoa, how seen health officials, that's come eyes. They're a terrorist government. And so the idea, but but think about that, Brian.

Just break that down for a moment.

So, first, the New York Times immediately believes a genocidal terrorist organization, number one. Second, that you don't even consider The possibility that they're being lied to, right? Third, they so believe the narrative that of course Israel would bomb a Palestinian hospital. But none of those things were true.

Okay, so And within hours we could prove it. And by the next day, we had 10 video angles plus an intercept that Israeli intelligence picked up between two Hamas operatives. No, I know, I know. That's been well chronicled. But we remember that.

But I'm just saying, from here on in, you guys got to do a real good job of taping everything, unveiling these tunnels, and just make it indisputable because these people are working against you. And we're seeing it on these college campuses: protests for Hamas. If women for Hamas, you know what their lives would be like if they were a member of Hamas? I mean these people are just nuts and ignorant. Those people are unpersuadable.

Like something has something crazy and wicked has been unleashed in the world. And just even if we were doing better public relations, what we say in Hebrew, hasbara. Even if we were doing it as well as you possibly could, those people that are out there i i once from us they're never b you know but why are they working for the New York Times? Why are they working for MSNBC? Why do they work for CNN?

How is that possible that at that level, you know, we're not talking about some idiot eighteen year old We're talking about professional journalists. Who decide, no, it's more likely that Hamas is right. Israel is horrible. Right. Until they get burned over and over again and they start losing their jobs, they're going to keep doing it.

Hopefully, we'll expose them, and you will too. Joe Rosenberg, thanks so much. Stay safe. It's an honor. Thank you, Brian.

Back in a moment. Learning something new every day on The Brian Kilmey Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. There are a lot of people that are afraid, afraid of being Jewish at this time and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country so often subjected to violence.

It's important to listen. It's important to have facts. Try to take a breath before you answer. If it's possible, have a conversation. We need a ceasefire now.

Right, ceasefire while they continue to shower rockets into Israel. But you've got to cease fire. Hezbollah, too. But we were just on with the reporter Joe Rosenberg, who was talking about the amount of rockets they are still showering into Israel, even though a ceasefire is about, or excuse me, a pause is about to take place. It seems that there's been talk speculation.

The New York Times says it'll be 50 hostages, women and children. For one hundred Palestinian prisoners, women in teens.

So That's the way it is. It's usually two or three to one. That's the way they do it. They value life a lot more on the Western side, on the Israeli side. If it is indeed true.

But if indeed it is true and there is a pause, I'm sure they'll put drones up in the air if Israel is smart and then see how the Hamas fighters. pop out of their uh pop out of their tunnels. and where they go. Because they found, we just heard Jeff Paul of Fox News say the IDF has announced to them, they found three more tunnels around that huge hospital.

So, three tunnels around a hospital. We have. Captured Hamas terrorists saying, Yeah, we were told the hospital dress like doctors and dress like nurses. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

I don't think that there is going to be a change here in the nominee. In that NBC poll, 77% of Democrats picked Biden for the nominee. He's got the full party machinery. He wants to run again. He is running.

So I don't think there's a plan B. Biden has a year. I've worked with presidents before, so is Ari. A year is a long time in presidential history. And let's face it, if people thought the economy was going well, they wouldn't care about his age.

It's really about the economy, immigration, crime, and key issues. He's got a year to fix. This is true, and these numbers aren't even higher. All right, we are back, everybody. Brian Kilmead here.

We are taking a look at what's happening on this hostage release. And we're getting some reports that it's going to be done, but they want to see a ceasefire first, and the Israelis are saying. That they don't expect Tamas to do is cease fire.

So, how are you going to release? Any hostages if there's no ceasefire? I thought the Israelis would have the hardest time. It's Hamas that's sending the rockets over, which is stunning to me. Joining us now is Lise Eldin, knows all about this.

Lise Eldin is a Jewish American from New York, working hard to make sure Republican continues to maybe tilt towards purple. But remains blue. But a lot of Republicans are having success here, including him. Lee, welcome back. Yeah, it's always great.

Yeah. So, what's your take? I know you have great sources in Israel. Should we expect this hostage swap? Excuse me, not a hostage swap, prisoner exchanged for hostages.

Mm-hmm.

So it's it's something that we're hearing reports that a deal is is imminent.

Some are saying that it's done. You just brought up a great point as far as the ceasefire.

So the way that I look at it, there's a a few possible fronts. If Israel reaches a deal with Hamas, and let's say there was a ceasefire, that doesn't stop the Houthis from carrying out their attack, doesn't stop Hezbollah up in Lebanon from carrying out their attack. They are not parties to this deal.

So we should keep an eye on that front. There will likely be international pressure on Israel if there is a ceasefire to keep the ceasefire. And something else for us to keep in mind as that goes forward is that domestically, inside of Israel, that is not going to be viewed as an option to just not eliminate Hamas.

So that's why we've been seeing so many of these Hamas sympathizers here in the United States and around the world trying to get a ceasefire under the belief that that is the best shot that Hamas has to be able to regroup. to be able to survive.

So yes, I mean, as far as the first part of your question, is a deal here possible? Sure, it m it might be imminent, it might be done. There's a couple of dynamics that we'll have to see in short order whether or not there actually is a ceasefire. But keep an eye on those other fronts. Keep an eye on both the international pressure and also the domestic response because I'm under the belief like many others, that Israel has to eliminate Hamas.

I want you to hear this IDF reservist from Israel said this last night on our channel, Cut 7. I don't think there's any reason to talk about that until all of the hostages are released. This is not an organization we can trust. You cannot trust a group that Breaks into another country, murders, rapes, and then publishes the footage of these murders and rapes on the Facebook pages of grandmothers and granddaughters and laughs and makes phone calls. Look, mom, I've killed ten Jews.

This is not a group you trust. This is not a group that you allow to regroup to better attack my brothers in arms. Release the hostages first. Right, but you know you're not going to get all 250 back. We don't know how many are alive.

And the other thing I heard, Lee, and I'll bring you to domestic politics shortly, is that the Hamas doesn't have all of them. That the minute they crossed the border, Islamic Jihad and other groups started just grabbing them. Right. Hamas says that they have two hundred and ten. I believe I saw a report with that number.

That number is less Than the amount of hostages that were believed to have been taken.

So that leaves the question of. Uh what happened to everybody else. Are they still alive? Have they been taken by others? as you just pointed out.

So yes, well and then the other piece that we're starting to see we'll get more details is there were some reports that the amount of hostages that were to be released Uh was going to be a set number for every four days of a ceasefire.

So, we'll have to get the facts out, make sure that we're on the same page as to exactly what this deal is. One thing that was reported is this concept that Israel's not getting all of the hostages back simply for a ceasefire fire starting and also not getting everybody back for that ceasefire being in place for just a few days. Uh that there might be some type of a deal that there's a certain amount for every four days.

So uh wait waiting to get confirmation on that, too. I mean, so the people that they took, they took children. I mean, they took children, they took 80-year-old women. It's just unbelievable that what they chose as hostages. We've never even seen anything like this.

Yeah, I I actually you know, and I've been to Kafaraza, the kibbutz, where um a lot of media has been. Uh that's where the reporting of the the babies who were beheaded uh took place. Even though this is thousands of miles away from home, uh it couldn't possibly feel any closer to home for for so many of us. And as you and I are having this conversation right now, there are Jewish students On college campuses here domestically, who fear when going from dorm to classroom, and then Jewish students reporting that when they complain about their fear to faculty, they're being told to speak to a therapist as opposed to getting the actual resolution.

So, and the one other piece, I mean, you and I are both from Long Island. One of the hostages, Omer Nutra. Is just recently out of high school on Long Island. After graduation, he went to fight in the IDF. He was a commander of a tank battalion on the border with Gaza, and he's one of those hostages.

So there are many people who we know around Long Island who know that family. And it's important for all of us to keep in mind that while we're talking about a large bulk of Israeli hostages, there's also a lot of Americans mixed in with that as well, which once again, this couldn't possibly feel any closer to home, even though he's thousands of miles away.

Well, we'll follow that.

So when you see the Democratic Party is fractured over, it's not just those crazy squad members. It's a lot. I mean, they've surrounded and caused violence. around the DNC building a couple of days ago. You see them shaken.

A lot of these Democratic lawmakers can't understand it.

Now this eighteen to thirty four group is very critical of President Biden for, for the most part, standing by Israel. Did you suspect this on the left, a party that happens to enjoy the majority of every Jewish vote in every election? Yeah, they have a Real problem on their hands, and they have to root it out from their ranks because it can get elevated, embraced, empowered if you're silent about it. There are members of the Democratic Party who understand what moral clarity means in a moment like this, who understand what right and wrong looks like, and they really need to lead and take charge. And you have to singularly, emphatically, forcefully condemn anti-Semitism in your ranks.

In Congress, on college campuses, on the streets. And when I watch these Hamas sympathizers dress like Hamas, use rhetoric like Hamas and then even engage in physical intimidation. I'm not looking at my voters. The same thing happened when we had the BLM riots that were taking place. The folks who are taking to the streets They're not the ones who are who are voting for me and the folks who I usually get behind.

They're the ones who were 290,000 strong last week in Washington, D.C., not desecrating, not vandalizing, not threatening. And in that ranks, a lot of Democrats who didn't vote for me, but that's the way to exercise First Amendment freedom of speech. All right, so Lee, your goal now is to form a PAC and try to make sure Republicans continue to make gains in blue states like New York. What are you doing about it? We just came off of a local election where here on Long Island, for example, we flipped the Suffolk County executive seats over the course of the last few years now.

Long Island, Nassau, and Suffolk County, which is areas that Obama and Clinton and Biden did well in these different pockets, especially you go to places like the town of North Hempstead and some of these congressional districts like the 4th congressional district, which is southwest Nassau.

So we're in a situation where Suffolk and Nassau County exec District Attorney, the county legislature, all four House seats. Everything is Republican for the first time in my lifetime as far as I can think of. And that's a good trend for us to continue. It's important to organize to win campaigns not based off what you're against, but what you are for. Take nothing for granted, work hard until the last votes are actually not just cast, but also counted.

Campaign as a team, understand the stakes, Because everything is at stake November of 24, and I want to do my part.

So is your sense that New York, with the high taxes, with the exit of the billionaires, with the overall over being overrun by tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, they're willing to they're beginning to understand what democratic policies do? Or is this just hopeless? No, you're absolutely right. You add the safety dynamic, you add the freedom dynamic. New York Post had a story that New York is the least free state now.

In the entire country, and it's really swung the independence. and you have a whole lot of Democrats who are disenfranchised Democrats. We won the Asian vote during last year's race. We won the Dominican vote. We won the Orthodox Jewish vote.

There is there are a lot of people out there who are upset with the direction of New York City and New York State, so we have to continue this. And this past this month's local elections in the Bronx, A city council candidate, Christy Marmorado, Republican, ended up winning a city council seat in the Bronx.

So it's not just in these purple areas that have now become red or some blue areas that have become purple. But but you're seeing in some of like the darkest blue territory in the country, There are Democrats who are upset with the direction right now, and they want to try something different. And that's why we've now seen two consecutive Sienna College polls. that are putting the presidential race As competitive. And Sienna College actually pulled me further away from Kathy Hochul than they're polling that lead that Joe Biden has right now.

So, you know, something to keep an eye on, obviously, really hard in a state that's 22% registered Republican. But clearly, between the elections, polling, policy, we're seeing that this is, in fact, real, that New York has been shifting right.

So, right now, the question in this new poll, in this Sienna poll, currently, how serious a problem do you think the most recent influx of migrants is in New York? Very serious. 55% of New Yorkers, 47% of which are Democrats, somewhat serious. 27% of all New Yorkers, 28% are Democrats. Here's the question: Do you think the New Yorkers have already done enough for new migrants and should now work to slow the flow?

64% said yes. 53% of those are Democrats. 85% of those are not. Those are Republicans. You just got to think the quality of life and then education, and then you have to say to yourself, who shut down the schools for your kids?

And who's shutting down the libraries? Who's cracking down our crime? Who tried to put Federal troops into these cities and was ridiculed for it? Who tried to get sanctuary city status made illegal, unconstitutional, and was sued back for it? How many of those would like to go back with what Trump recommended in twenty seventeen?

Yeah. Absolutely right. And you just used the term sanctuary city, and you have that, the sanctuary city policies in places like New York City, sanctuary state policies. coming out of state capitals like what we see up in Albany. And there are a whole lot of New Yorkers who listen, you ask the question another way.

I don't believe that they support Sanctuary City and Sanctuary State policies. And now this week, the mayor of New York City put out a budget that is going through that has all sorts of severe cuts In many respects, contributed by this migrant crisis, and those cuts include cuts to the NYPD. People aren't happy. Oh, they're not.

So, Lee, what about you? Are you thinking about running for Gillibrand Senate seat? Uh that I haven't been thinking about. Quite honestly, I have been spending a lot of my time thinking about helping to get other great candidates elected with this year's local election. And what I think is most likely is that after the November 2024 election, we'll start giving some thought to making a decision on next steps.

But at this point, my mind is consumed. As far as politically it goes, it's about expanding the Republican Party, getting good candidates elected, expanding the majority in the House. Gosh, we need it.

So there's a story in the Washington Post about Donald Trump, and they said for three years, the big thing with Democrats, don't bring up Trump. Just talk about my predecessor, don't bring him up.

Now the new strategy is bring him up. Encourage networks to interview him instead of saying you're supposed to not legitimize him.

So knowing that that is the strategy, if you're Trump or Trump says to you, did you see that story, Lee? How should I handle it? What would you tell him? Uh why? He has a whole lot of policy accomplishments from his presidency that he should never stop talking about.

And I think that there's an opportunity here to not just talk about how things were better in many respects. When he was in office, but also to talk about the future and the different direction that this country needs to go, what our borders should look like, what energy policy should look like, foreign policy. We want to end World War III, we want to secure our border, we want to become energy independent again.

So go to those things. Yeah, absolutely. But you know, every press, but everybody wants to talk about January 6th.

Well Listen, you just, you know, you can't take the bait. I mean, there's. It is important to talk about election integrity always. I mean, I believe that there should be voter ID in all fifty states. I don't think ballot harvesting should be legal anywhere.

There's a conversation to be had about protecting elections, but do it looking forward. All right. Uh, w so I I assume you're going to support him? Uh I believe I have been supportive of the president. I get along with a lot of the Republicans who stepped up in this presidential field.

It was filled with talent. But quite frankly, honestly, once the Alvin Bragg indictment came out, I thought to myself that was going to launch President Trump into a different stratosphere as far as his candidacy. He's never looked back. His lead's only grown. I think he's going to be the nominee.

He is Lee Zeldin, former New York Republican governor, candidate, gubernatorial candidate, and congressman. Thanks, Lee. Thanks, Brian. All right, one of the most powerful figures and respected figures in the Republican Party. Back in a moment, Brian Kilmey.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead.

So I was able to go to Governor Huckabee's great show on TNN, and I had a chance to meet Pat Boone. This guy acts, you talk about age not mattering, he's over 80. And he acts probably like he's 60, I would say 65, and he's so on top of things, so red in. We had a chance to talk to him in the green room.

So I thought, you know, let's do this, let's put it on locals. And here's a little bit of my interview with Pat Boone. Who do you think Governor Huckabee likes better, me or you? I sense that he likes you better, and I think most of the audience agrees, but maybe you pick up only because he is a big antique collector.

Okay. That's the only one. Yeah. Okay, so I shouldn't take it personally. I'm an antique.

Okay. You're still modern. All right, good. And by the way, are you do you think that if I stayed with the clarinet that I would have had more success? Because I quit in eighth grade, and it's a big regret about it.

I think it should have been the bassoon. Bassoon. Yeah. So, what with locals is, you just go to culpritclub.com as a chance to join a club. Where just anybody who subscribes to just us, I interact, put up stuff live, do original stuff right inside that.

And people are joining, just started last week, and I'll put original interviews in places like that that you don't get anywhere else. By the way, go to BrianKillme.com, get Teddy and Booker Tig. Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music with your Prime membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Mm.