Inevitable: 3 Americans killed by Iran-backed militants

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kill Me. Hi everyone, Brian Kill Me here. I hope you had a fantastic weekend. We're back in action today.

I'm sure you were watching football. That's okay. But I'm sure you also were upset as I was to see our guys were hit over in Jordan, right in the Jordan, right in the Jordan border, right next to Syria. It was just a matter of time. I mean, 160 attacks, and they just said, well, minor injuries.

And now all of a sudden, a major hit. Senator Dan Sullivan's going to be on this arrow. Jason Chavis is in studio. A lot's going on.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Did you see what he recently said about the West he wants to see the economy crash this year? Donald Trump knows. This economy is good and strong and getting stronger.

He knows that while it's good for America, It's bad for him politically. The economy is good with the big numbers, but not how people feel it. Three battles being waged right now by Donald Trump: one versus Nikki Haley, one for the nomination, of course, one with Joe Biden in the White House, and nonstop fighting in the courts. If anyone can survive it, survive it all, it might just be the 45th president. We'll discuss it.

Number two. A lot of the senators are trying to say respectfully they're blaming it on me. I said, that's okay, please blame it on me. because they were getting ready to pass a very bad bill. And I'll tell you what, a bad bill is, I'd rather have no bill than a bad bill.

But we don't really know what's in the bill. No one's read it. A border bill, not quite out, but both Republicans and Democrats digging in with their beliefs and responses. We'll tell you what's in it as best as we know. And the Texas standoff with Joe Biden continues as truckers are streaming into the state to show support for Governor Abbott.

Number one. I know what the Pentagon is doing is building options for the President that will include increasing the intelligence collection, using cyber to go after both the proxies, probably Iran, CIA stepping up its game inside Iran, and the military strike packages speak for themselves. I would feel so much better if Almost Jarvidis was in the central command, but he's not. Inevitable. When you barely respond after 160 attacks in the region, you just knew one would hit and this one did, killing three Americans, injuring 34, probably more.

Weakness brings in more attacks. When will Joe Biden realize that? He's promised retaliation. I say it's time to hit Iran directly, and I understand the ramifications. Congressman Jason Chaffetz, welcome back.

Hey, thanks. Glad to be here. We have everything to talk about, but let's just talk about the international catastrophe that's emerging. Or should I say, how did we even get this far without some type of casualties by the way we've been not the way we have not reacted?

Well, Joe Biden's policy is an extension of Barack Obama's. I mean, Donald Trump was putting a kibosh to that, but then here comes Joe Biden. He helped enrich Iran, which gave them the money that they could do these terrorist type of activities and spread this money out. And there needs to be a disproportional response, not a proportional response, a disproportional response. It means it has to be overwhelming.

Iran has to really feel the pain. I think you attack them financially. You've got to make sure that you starve the regime, not the people, but starve the regime. You've got to attack them on cyber, and then you've got to have some kinetic force that goes out there and takes out their capabilities to continue to attack Americans. It's surprising we've only lost three given the hundred-plus attacks that we've had.

And God bless them. We've got to take proper time to mourn their loss and thank them for their service, as well as the two Navy SEALs who lost their lives recently.

So listen to what Michael McCall says. Harley of Firebrand, he says, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Biden administration failed Middle East policy has destroyed our deterrence against our adversaries in the Middle East. We need a major reset of our Middle East policy to protect our national security. Mike Johnson, Speaker, we are saddened by the loss of three American heroes.

Joined last night, we're praying for their families and 25 other members who have been injured. And then we have other people like Lindsey Graham. Not surprising. The Biden administration can take out all the Iranian proxies they like, but it will not deter Iranian aggression. I am calling on the administration to strike targets of significance inside Iran, not only as reprisals for the killing of our forces, but as deterrence against others.

Yeah, look, the scariest thing in the world is Iran with a nuclear weapon. And by all accounts, they're on the verge of that, if not having already achieved that.

So you need to take out some capabilities here. But President Biden, I mean, nobody's worried that he's going to have this overwhelming force. It's certainly not affecting Iran. And look at how aggressive they continue to be. Here is what Admiral Stavidas said.

He was former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Kud 8. I think we are at the point where what is necessary is a hammer blow against the proxies. If that doesn't have the intended effect, then yes, it's time to go after Iran.

So I think what the Pentagon is doing, I don't think, I know what the Pentagon is doing, is building options for the President that will include increasing the intelligence collection, using cyber to go after both the proxies, probably Iran, CIA stepping up its game inside Iran. Iran's using their proxies. Maybe we could use a few proxies operating against the MULAs, against the Revolutionary Guard. And the military strike packages speak for themselves. I think you'll see the President order another aircraft carrier, 80 combat aircraft, back to the region to prepare in case we have to go after Iran directly.

I mean, that just drives me nuts, right? We had a carrier group in the region, the Ford, then it came back to port.

So we don't have as much capability. I mean, the Eisenhower and that carrier group is unbelievable in its ability. I've actually been on that carrier, spent the night on that carrier. It is amazing what they can do, but there is a wide array of targets that you're going to have to take out. We can take out the Navy, the entire Navy of Iran in just a fairly short amount of time if we had the political will to do it.

But I think the world knows, and I think the Iranians know, that Joe Biden is very soft on this. I mean, the word was that he gave a heads up to Iran that we were going to do a pre-CID. Not denied. Not denied that, hey, look out, here we come. Everybody go hide to go home.

And that's not going to take. And I think the president also needs to explain to the American people. Why do we have American and women service people in harm's way that can't protect themselves? And are told not to hit back. That's you can only knock down the rocket or the drone.

You can't knock take out the shooter. Yeah, and that's a matter of seconds. Imagine how fast those missiles are flying at you or coming at you from a drone, and you got seconds to deal with it. Obviously, we can't.

So explain to the American people why you put these men and women in harm's way without their ability to defend themselves.

So also in the Middle East, same time, Biden officials are considering slow rolling shipments of weapons to Israel to pressure Netanyahu into finally listening to U.S. calls to pull back in Gaza.

Well, look, supposedly, this is why the Americans were in the place that they were at. But you've got to be able to take this. Look. And to suggest that the CIA and the others need to step up their game, why haven't they been pedaled to the metal already? Like, I don't understand that in that analysis.

All right. Would I mess also there's a report today that uh Are Israel is closer to war with Hezbollah and a possible regional war than ever? That according to a senior Israeli official, Hezbollah located in Iran. I mean, they're probably the most potent of the Iranian-backed groups. The number of weapons that they have, the capabilities that they have there in Lebanon, stunning.

By the hundreds of thousands, these people have rockets and missiles. And Israel, I mean, when you go there on the border, as I have, and you can look over the border and actually see what is targeted towards Israel, it's pretty stunning. And will they go after it? Maybe. I mean, they've been firing back and forth at each other for a long time.

So, what about this UNRWA group? What could you tell me about this? It's an acronym, UNRAW. These guys, it looks like at least 12 have participated in the October 7th attacks. A UN organization who's been told to distribute aid evidently directly took part in the attacks in Israel.

One accused of kidnapping. One handed out the ammo. One took direct part in the massive hit on one kibbutz in particular. Overall, three have been killed, thankfully.

So now we have eight nations pulling back aid to them. They were distributing the aid. Donald Trump denied them aid the last two years he was in office. He knew about how corrupt this organization is. Jason Chavitz, what do you know about them?

Well, for a long time, we have had intelligence that showed that this is a nefarious organization, that not everybody had the purest intentions. They're wearing the UN helmets, and so they get to go back and forth. Donald Trump acted on that, and he started to defund them. And again, you've got to get rid of their capability to even be in a position to do these things. And not just.

These individuals, but the higher-ups within the organizations have got to be displaced, and we have got to make it hurt for them financially that they are participants in this. It's absolutely so fundamentally wrong. Yeah, so no one's denying it, by the way. Japan, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Finland, Italy, Germany, and the U.K. have joined us.

But we're by far, you could take all those, add them up together. I still think the United States funds more than all of those combined. All right, I want to talk a little bit about the election. When we come back, Jason Chafe is in studio. How much do I have to pay you for both of these?

I'm on a contract. I'm a union per block. I don't pay you per block. It's totally worth it. It's a bargain.

That's according to reports. Yes. You're totally worth it. Back in a moment, Brian Kilmeicho. Senator Dan Sullivan at the bottom of the hour.

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Well, we've got 17 delegates. He's got 32. I'd say that's pretty good to start. What I do think I need to do is I need to show that I'm building momentum. I need to show that I'm stronger in South Carolina than New Hampshire.

Does that have to be a win? I don't think that necessarily has to be a win, but it certainly has to be better than what I did in New Hampshire, and it certainly has to be close. And so that's what we're focusing on. If we win, great. If not, we've got to show that we're continuing to narrow that margin along the way.

So I hear give people in Super Tuesday states a reason to know that they can continue to see and have us fight on.

So Nikki Helly talking on Meet the Press yesterday for 30 minutes, so it was a good spot for her. Jason Chaffett's with us now. Do you believe she's doing the right thing staying in? No. If you're the former governor of South Carolina and you can't win South Carolina, where do you think you're going to actually win?

I think it's just prolonging the inevitable. I think when Donald Trump's got four weeks to close the gap.

Well, okay, but she's also trying to lower expectations that she doesn't need to win. I think she has to win definitively in South Carolina to justify staying in this race. Usually you lose money, and what happens is you run out of money and you're like, I got to leave. I wish, you know, I thought that might be a bad thing. But now she has no problem raising money.

She's got a ton of money. Oh, Democrats love to tie up Donald Trump. No doubt about it. I'm not saying everybody who's donating to her is a Democrat. I'm just saying there are a lot of anti-Trump people out there, both sides of the aisle.

But to what end? Donald Trump, he dominated in the first two races, and I. You know, when you win 98 out of 99 counties in Iowa, not exactly Donald Trump's backyard, then yeah, I think it's pretty much over. Um So, listen to the Suffolk poll. They did a USH Suffolk poll.

Found Trump leading Biden among voters under 35, 37, 33. That's unbelievable. Unbelievable. Reuters has Trump beating Biden 40-34 with RFK 36-30. In terms of this matchup, because I talked about all three he's got to deal with, meaning the courts, Nikki Haley, as well as the general, he leads Haley 62-29 according to the last 538 poll in South Carolina.

That's a substantial win.

So uh that substantial lead. I think that Trump, in a way, I love this point was made of the Ruthless Podcast on One Nation over the weekend on Saturday. He said, you know what? This is a good story for Trump. Every every uh every network Every outlet had to cover Trump winning for the first time in four years.

They just said, well, he won here, he won this, he won that, he won Republican votes. Then he goes in again, he goes, sets a record with turnout. First year, Wallace was bad turnout in Iowa. Minus 37 degrees had nothing to do with it, right?

Okay. But he won by the big amount.

Okay, that's fine. But in New Hampshire, it'll be different. He wins again by double digits.

Okay. Now that was the first time any non-sitting president has ever won those two states back to back.

Okay. They have to say this. This is automatic. And then you could come on and you could say your negative things. The minute Haley goes away.

They focus on his court cases. And Biden, nine months. Don't necessarily wish for this to go away. How do you feel about that? Yeah, that's a pretty good theory, actually.

I kind of buy that. You know, you'd much rather have this type of discussion. Will you make it on another show and claim it as your own? But who does it? Of course.

How do you think I got here? Yes, no. Listen. At this point, I think most people have probably made up their mind about Donald Trump and about Joe Biden. That middle 5% that makes these decisions about, I'll go this way, I'll go that way, they're not going to firm up those votes until September or so.

So I think it's some static off to the side. It's nothing earth-shattering. It's not going to move people one direction or another. But where Donald Trump is making inroads, as you pointed out, the youth vote. The Hispanic vote, some of the other minority groups, he's doing much better because even though Joe Biden keeps saying the economy is better and all that, those people are not feeling it.

Snoop Dogg will support Donald Trump. Yeah, that he's come a long way. He's turned the corner. Charlemagne the God is taking on Joe Biden and saying, Hey, I'm not doing that again. And where's Kamala Harris?

She is nowhere to be found.

Well, she's speaking in college campuses just about female reproductive rights.

Well, that's how she phrases it. Yeah, okay. Keep doing that. You know, the pres President Biden goes to South Carolina. Where's Kamala Harris?

She was in Manhattan Beach, California, doing a fundraiser. Keeping her far away. Normally, when you have a strong vice president, you want them with the president in a pivotal state like South Carolina. Like, Joe Biden's going to win South Carolina thanks to James Clyburn. He won it last time.

So. Yeah, I mean, you know, that book came out that says they really hate each other. I agree with that. Oh, they're as far away from each other as possible.

So what's in the border bill? What do we know? They shut down the border if it hits 5,000, because you know it's gone over 10 way too much, way too often. Raise asylum standards. Almost impossible to get in unless you have hardcore proof that you're being threatened in your country.

Go to a different part of your country. Speed up review to six months instead of 10 years. They expand expedited deportation, so a rapid return. Restrict parole. I'm not sure what that means.

50,000 immigrant visas status for H-1B visas holders and green cards for Afghan refugees in the U.S. I assume we're going to screen them. $14 billion for overtime for more personnel. Right now, I did not know this. Border Patrol doesn't get overtime.

No. So now they'll get it and more guys. I hate this bill. I absolutely hate it.

Well, first of all, we haven't read it. That's what I told you. Yeah, but yeah, based on the outline, I hate it when lawmakers do this. They throw out an outline and then they go out and try to defend it. Joe Biden says, hey, we got to do this.

And you're like, wait a sec. If this is so good, then let's, why don't you give it the airing that it deserves? I don't need 72 hours. We need like a couple of weeks, like Senator Mike Lee has talked about in order to go out there and vet this. You can secure the border right now today by just enforcing the current law.

That's what we should be doing. We had comprehensive immigration reform. It already passed years and years ago. Enforce the current law. And so far, the President has not done that at all, and he has not shown any proclivity to want to do it.

He said this yesterday: Cut 11. If that bill were the law today, I'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.

Okay. A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system. and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here. And Congress needs to get it done. You wanna look wanna read between the lines?

That is that is such deflection. That is such a misdirection on the part of the President. The current laws on the book say if you come to this country in between the ports of entry, you are to be you shall be detained and deported. But that's not what the president is doing. He doesn't need another bill.

He doesn't need more money. He needs to talk to the Border Patrol. They won't talk to the Border Patrol. Ask Brandon Judd and those people. They will not do what the Border Patrol wants to have.

Oh, what are you doing there today? Yelling about this. On television? Yeah. All right.

That's America Reports.

Okay, that's.

Okay, I'm just trying to give you a pug. That's kind of Jason Campus. He's so distrusting. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. Yeah, well, it's definitely not going to let a bunch of people in.

It's focused on actually turning people around on it. It is interesting. Republicans four months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel, and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy.

So we actually locked arms together and said, We're not going to give you money for this. We want a change in law. And now it's interesting a few months later, when we're finally getting to the end, they're like, oh, just kidding. I actually don't want to change in law because of the presidential election year. We all have an oath to the Constitution, and we have a commitment to say we're going to do whatever we can to be able to secure the border.

So I did this novel thing. I'm trying to pull as much sound while Eric and Allison and Pete did, but at least I tried to bracket off as much as I can from the people that put this program together, this border reform together. Before we even judge it, we just find out what it is and how it reads and what it's meant to do before we just blow it off. Because I believe that they have maximum leverage over the Democrats right now. Why?

Because they want aid for Israel. They want aid for Ukraine. They want aid for Taiwan. Taiwan's already paid for their stuff. And to do that, they know the border is falling apart, stressing their cities: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, beyond, and Boston, by the way, Logan Airport.

We just threw there. It's an absolute mess. And they think they have a shot, so they put something together. You might not like it. But can we at least read it?

Senator Sullivan knows all about it. Dan Sullivan in studio from Alaska. He's on the Armed Services Committee, Marine Corps Reserve Colonel, and served in the Middle East. Senator, one of the things I like to tap, great to see you. One of the things I wanted to tap on.

Great to be on the show. Senator Langford, he's not known as a liberal guy or even a moderate guy. He's Oklahoma conservative.

So do you like anything that you know of in this bill, or what do you know of the Border Bill?

Well, look, the two points, and you've already focused on them, but the border has been a disaster because of Biden. Let's fully acknowledge that. Ten million people probably by the end of the Biden administration illegally coming into our country. This is a giant national security threat. I've been down there, it's fully open border.

Um 300,000, over 300,000 in December, and last year 170 who were caught on the terrorist watch list. Disaster. By the way, Alaska, we have the highest fentanyl overdoses. Per capita in the country, and it's just going through the roof. That's because of the open border, right?

People in my state, 4,000 miles away. Care about what's going on in the border because it's literally killing Alaskans. To your second point, Senator James Langford is a great guy, right? He's conservative. He's well trusted by people.

So, Brian, I think you're making a really important point, which is. Let's See what's in the bill. Let's see. What's in the text? I haven't seen the text yet before we either endorse it.

Or Dismiss it. I think James Langford's raised the issue of, hey, somehow that. He would put in there, hey, 5,000 a day is fine. He says, though. That's not what he said.

No, he didn't say that at all, right? He said that's an internet rumor that's not the case at all.

So, you know, he's. He's He he What what he's been briefing us on, he says it ends ends catch and release. Um It changes the asylum process, which the Democrats have been abusing like crazy.

So let's just see what's in it. Look, would I love to see us building the wall? Hell yeah.

Sorry, I'm not allowed to say can I say hell yeah? Yes, you can. Uh so But uh let's see it first. And here's a little more what Langrad. Then have a debate on it.

Right. Here's more from what Langer says in the bill, Cut 16. Yeah, this is similar to what we had under Title 42 during the pandemic time period, where we reached a crisis point to say we can't actually operate.

So we don't have that authority right now as the United States. We've reached crisis points. For instance, when we've got 4,000 or 5,000 people crossing the border, we can no longer process those individuals.

So right now, the Biden administration is just releasing them into the country. That's what's driving the mayors in Denver and Chicago and New York City and other places around the country crazy to say when the border gets crowded, you just release them to our cities and it causes all the chaos in these cities. This is a new authority to say when we can no longer detain and deport, when we can't process the people and actually make a decision right there at the border, then we'll actually turn those folks back around to Mexico and say we can no longer do this.

So that's what he was trying to say with the threshold. It reminds me of the stock market. Remember when people start selling off, they'll just shut it down after 2008? They say, let's just shut it down. Reconvene tomorrow.

Yeah, and there are two things that I think are going on in this debate. One is, with good reason, my view is people shouldn't, in our party, people shouldn't be skeptical of James Lankford. He's a great guy. Great senator. They should be skeptical of Biden, right?

I mean, we can give him power, he might not use it. But If this can stop the flow very significantly and give the President power, including the incoming President, which I'm hopeful is Senator is President Trump to use more power. Then it's certainly worth looking at. Trump's dead set against it. Obviously, he hasn't read it.

He probably has high-level briefing, though, I imagine, because it matters so much. But here's what President Trump said: cut twelve. A lot of the senators are trying to say respectfully they're blaming it on me. I said, that's okay, please blame it on me. Please.

because they were getting ready to pass a very bad bill. And I'll tell you what. A bad bill is I'd rather have no bill than a bad bill.

So the President made it clear. You know what? Also, let's be honest. We watched him break the border for three years. We watched eight million get in here.

We watched these flights going on in the middle of the night. We've seen the bus rides to other cities. We've seen the results in the cities we just mentioned. And we don't believe he sincerely will do anything, but he wants to throttle The next President, when he tries to get back into the White House and say, I fixed immigration in a bipartisan way, and he thinks that'll be an applause line now. Yeah, look, I mean, nobody's gonna believe that and and um I'm certainly not blaming it on President Trump.

It's blaming it on President Biden, right? That's where all the blame resides. At the end of the Trump administration, you had historic low records because he was using the authority Um and he was leveraging relationships like with the Mexicans and the remain in Mexico policy. But again, Brian, I think it's important from my perspective and a lot of centers' perspective: let's see it, let's read it. Uh let's see what's in the text, get the detailed brief and If it can stop uh the flow of people in fentanyl killing my Constituents in Alaska?

Which is happening right now. I'll take a hard look at it. Here's the other thing. This is what one lawmaker told me yesterday. Show me something.

You show me for the next two months that you're going to start turning people around, you put the remaining Mexico in place, you start putting up that wall, you say, listen, I got to change policies because it's a disaster. You stop suing Texas because they're trying to secure their own border. You immediately stop all those things. And then if I know you got this bill, then I'll sense you if there's a semblance of an opportunity that you might actually enforce what we gave you. That's 100%.

If you don't use it, you show it to me first. And that, I think, is important. And then also looking for the provisions. Again, once we see the text that have automatic shutdowns, right? One of the things that I like, particularly when you're dealing with this president, is taking away his discretion.

And that's a huge issue. How much of the language says shall? Right? Has to happen versus May. Because we know with Biden, May has to happen.

Has been essentially equated with open borders. All right, so we got the horrific news over the weekend, but sadly not unexpected, that we lost three guys and over 34 wounded in a base over in Jordan on the Syrian border. It was unbelievable that they were in Tower 22 and they get rocketed while they were sleeping, that a drone was able to do this. And as a Marine veteran, as you are, I am surprised that we would leave our guys so vulnerable. I haven't heard anything about missile defense.

I haven't heard that it was an aberration. All I hear about is the death and destruction. And that there's going to be some retaliation. Senator Sullivan, what should that retaliation be?

Well, you're right that it's a really somber morning right now, right? Three of our nation's best, and trust me, I think they're all our best and brightest, those men and women who are serving. are dead in Service to their country. We lost two Navy SEALs two weeks ago.

So, of course, I know your listeners, like millions of Americans, are praying for these families and those who were. who were um injured and uh Second, We need a deep dive exactly to your point tactically on what happened, right? Most of these, all of these bases. have missile defenses. Surrounding them, right?

And they're very good at shooting down these kinds of attacks. We are always looking to harden targets that we know are targets.

So that needs to happen immediately, right? Is there some kind of brief on this center? Yes, absolutely. When are you going to get briefed on this? I don't know, Brian, but it'll be soon, right?

And we're already calling for 448 hours. I'm meeting with the uh Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Wednesday morning.

So I'm going to be asking him on this tactical issue, right? Which is a really important one. Because if it happened here, it could happen anywhere in the Middle East. And by the way, we also got to make sure That um Our defenses are working with regard to our Navy shipping. Right.

The Houthis are lobbing missiles at our destroyers in the Red Sea, in the Middle East. Very regularly, they're shooting them almost all down. We got to make sure that stays. But you also talk about how expensive our missiles are compared to these cheap drones. And we're really paying a big financial price.

Okay, we're knocking these drones out of the sky, but we really need multi-million-dollar missiles to do it for a thousand-dollar Radio Shack. but dangerous drone?

Well, look, I mean, to me, that goes to a much broader issue, which is our own industrial base to be able to produce weapons, which has been lacking, and we got to rebuild that up. But to your earlier question, strategically, We have to re-establish deterrence. In the region, particularly as it relates to Iran. And as you and I talked about earlier this morning, during the Trump administration, they did something that's really hard to do from a national security and military perspective, which is reestablish deterrence. When the Trump administration came in, ISIS was on the march.

The Quds force, led by Suleimani, had been killing American service members through proxies in Iraq. With impunity, right? Two thousand wounded, six hundred killed by these guys. I mean, unbelievable. We completely lost deterrence.

Trump administration comes in. Uh massive sanctions against the uranium oil and gas sector. Kills Suleimani, launches a peace initiative. Much better situation than we have the APIs. And then Biden.

You know, reverses all of the ameasement strategy is not working.

So, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Service, C.Q. Brown, so the general from the Air Force sat down with Martha Raditz.

Now, this was before the attack, so this was probably taped on Friday. But I don't love this mindset, cut one. When you walk this fine line of not wanting it To escalate, what would you say to those people who are your critics who would say, Look, they're not being tough enough on these militants. They're not being tough enough. on Iran.

I would also ask do they want a broader conflict? Do you want us in a full scale war? And that's the goal is to deter them. And we don't want to go down a path of greater escalation that drives to a much broader conflict. Um within the region.

You're answered. I mean, you're going to be with him in a couple of days. Yeah, look, I think he's got it backwards, right? And what do I mean by that? Iran is already escalating.

I mean, look what they did. There's no invasion of Israel without Iran. The Hamas is controlled by Iran. The Houthis are controlled by Iran. Hezbollah is controlled by Iran.

The guys, the terrorists who killed our troops yesterday, are controlled by Iran.

So Iran is already escalating. And if they sense weakness, which this administration has shown, they're going to keep doing it. The way you actually prevent a broader war, in my view, is show the Iranians that we are ready to go directly at them. As you and I talked about this morning, we should choose our own targets, Quds force leadership, maybe Iranian Navy spy ships. Don't hit civilians, right?

The civilians in Iran, ironically, are on our side. They hate the regime as much as we do.

So General Brown Who I respect. He's got it backwards, right? We look like we're too worried about. Escalation. It's like the same way Biden's been talking about Ukraine and Putin.

They're always worried about. Doing something that'll make Putin escalate. Putin invaded a country, for God's sakes. They're all escalating. We're the ones who are sitting on our, you know.

showing that we're afraid of them. Senator, you believe the Ukraine should be funded? With accountability? I do. I do I do too.

I mean and look, there's a really good debate in our conference. I think it should be focused on lethal military aid. Not pensions. Exactly. Not What they call direct budget sport.

Let the EU do direct budget sport. Let Canada, heck, they don't do anything in NATO. Our focus should be on lethal military aid where we have the advantage. And then, Brian, here's something that's really important. Even in the bill that's being drafted up, about $50 billion.

of that. in the Ukraine package for weapons goes to Enhancing our industrial capacity to produce weapons. That's jobs, but it's what we need. It's more ability to produce. But this administration doesn't say what you just said.

They don't. Even our taxpayer dollars are buying our weapons. We make it. Those people make it. We're going to expand it.

Going to expand it. Then you modernize it afterwards. And then we have these things called customers. Taiwan actually has money. Correct.

Lithuania has money. Correct. Norway has money. Finland has money. Sweden has money.

They also want to get away from the whole Russian, all the Russian weapons because they got to go back to Russia to get updated and refurbished and rearmed. About 50 billion. Why can't someone say this? I try to say it. I mean, about 50 billion at least.

And actually, I asked this in a briefing classified, it shouldn't have been classified, just last week on the Armed Service Committee. How much of this is dedicated to expanding our industrial base to produce more weapons, which you and I already just talked about. About today is really weakening our ability to produce ships, our ability to produce stingers, harpoons, all these things that we need and our allies need. About at least $50 billion, it's probably closer to $60, is focused on expanding the U.S. industrial base and jobs.

To me, that's a smart investment, whether it's Ukraine, Taiwan, or defending our own country. Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan, thanks so much, Dan, and congratulations. Your Marines are the only one hitting their recruiting targets. The other branches have really got me worried. There's a whole reason for that.

Maybe next time I'm on the show, we can talk about it. Absolutely. You listen to Brian Kill Me, Joe. Senator, thanks so much. Brian, great to be on the show.

Thank you. Your call's next. It's Brian Kill Mead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Trump did have a slight stumble this week while talking about banks, and he introduced an interesting new term called de-bank. I don't know what the hell de-bank means, but he might have to take de-ambulance to see the doctor. The only problem with that, do you have any idea what the problem with that was, Allison? With that line? The problem is, is that it's an actual word.

And debanking. And that's why Colin Joe looks like an absolute ass again. And it's just amazing to me. You have. you know, we'll play do we still have the montage, Eric, of of the missteps last week for George for Joe Biden?

Do you remember that the montage?

So Joe Biden had two speeches in two days. He had indiscernible sentences uh twice that you just ate like nine words in a row. Not a word about that. And yet there's no, you know, there's one thing about not reporting it. But since when does comedy become partisan?

On a show that's been around for fifty years. If you look back, they were insulting Democrats and Republicans. It's just incredible. And then they go, okay, let's focus on one word in a sentence from a speech that the president gave. And but former President Gabe, and it turns out.

It was an actual word. It's not funny if it's an actual word, right? Keep it here Brian kill me chill. It's a big Monday From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian.

In Killmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Meet Show. I come to you from Midtown Manhattan, where we're heard around the country, around the world. Emily Schrader will be with us a little bit later from Israel.

She's an Israeli journalist, human rights activist, and man, that is the hot spot in the world once again. The whole Middle East peace thoroughly. Centers on what they're able to agree on. There is talk of a pause, a two-month pause at the war, at which time they get about a hundred hostages out in exchange for some prisoners from Hamas. And the theory is if you stop the bombing, it's going to be hard to start get started after.

Two months. I don't know about that. I just want to get it to the point where Hamas is destroyed because we'll be right back here a year from now.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Did you see what he recently said about the West he wants to see the economy crash this year? Donald Trump knows. This economy is good and strong and getting stronger.

He knows that while it's good for America, it's bad for him politically. Yeah, it's good for America to judge both economies: the Trump economy and the Biden economy. Mr. President, do you know you lose in that all the time? Trump's got three battles.

He's got Nikki Haley still in there. He's got Joe Biden waiting for him. And he's got legal battles. If anyone can survive it, it will be the 45th president. Number two.

A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they're blaming it on me. I said, that's okay, please blame it on me, because they were getting ready to pass a very bad bill. And I'll tell you what, a bad bill is, I'd rather have no bill than a bad bill. Right, but we don't know what's in the bill, Mr. President.

That would certainly help. Border bill not quite out, and both Republicans and Democrats digging in with their beliefs and their responses. We'll tell you what we know, as well as the Texas standoff with the Biden administration. Number one. I know what the Pentagon is doing is building options for the President that will include increasing the intelligence collection, using cyber to go after both the proxies, probably Iran, CIA stepping up its game inside Iran, and the military strike packages speak for themselves.

That's my hope. That's what I hope. And Admiral Stravitas, if you were there, I'm sure they'd be doing it. It was inevitable. When you barely respond after 160 attacks on your troops in the region of the Middle East, you know one would get through and it happened.

While they slept, three Americans were killed, dozens wounded, eight out of emergency medevac to Germany. Weakness brings more attacks. When will Joe Biden realize that? I am not sure. But that's exactly what happened.

I'll give you some more details on it. The Islamic resistance in Iraq have claimed responsibility. They are the militias backed by Iran. They claim credit for the attack. The group called its revenge for America's military presence in the region and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza.

More than 25,000 people, they say, have been killed in Gaza. I highly doubt it. Although there is a lot of death and destruction there, keep in mind it's all predicated on what happened on October 7th, where innocent people were absolutely massacred. The call to act strongly is everywhere. Tom Cotton.

Put this on Twitter. Joe Biden emboldened Iran for years by tolerating attacks on our troops, bribing the Ayatollahs with billions, and appeasing them to no end. He left our troops as sitting ducks, and now three are dead. And does his wounded, sadly, as I predicted, would happen for months. Lindsey Graham, the Biden administration can take out all the Iranian proxies all they like, but will not deter Iranians aggression.

I am calling the Biden administration to strike targets of significance inside Iran. I hear you. There's a lot of people on the right and left and said, wait a second, let's not do that. Just so you know, by walking away, we're not the bigger man, we're the naive man. Here's Lieutenant Colonel Keith Kellogg, cut seven.

And if it is not a strong response, we're just opening up ourselves to further aggression by the Iranians or anybody else in the region.

So, this is a chance for the United States of America, for President Biden to make a strong statement. They're watching. Allies are watching, adversaries are watching. Yes, they're watching in Afghanistan. They're watching us late to the party in Ukraine.

They're watching us wallow and ponder, giving them more weapons to defeat the Russians. They've already killed 300,000, but I guess they're still not clear on how they'll be successful. By the way, if anyone who doubts that Ukraine can beat the Russians, just say Mujah Adin puts the Russians right out of their country. Ukraine can fight with much more skill, with much more effort, with better equipment, and they'll have much more success than Mujah Adin, who considers that a big victory.

So, what is wrong with this administration? Maybe the people they hire, like the new. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairperson General C.Q. Brown. He was asked on ABC about the attacks prior to the one that actually killed the Americans.

And here's what he said: cut one. When you. walk this fine line of not wanting it To escalate. What would you say to those people who are your critics who would say, look, they're not being tough enough on these militants. They're not being tough enough.

on Iran. I would also ask do they want a broader conflict? Do you want us in a full scale war? And that's the goal is to deter them. And we don't want to go down a path of greater escalation that drives to a much broader conflict.

Um within the region. Of course, we know that. Nobody gets up in the morning and says, let's have a broader war, unless you're North Korea. Russia, Iran, and China. Although China's putting them in the military, but they're in a lot of conflicts.

Isn't it amazing the Russians never get hit, the Chinese never get hit? Think about that for a second. Why is that?

Now we've got the Houthi attack showing us basically shutting down the Red Sea. Blew up a British tanker over the weekend. We're using multi-million dollar missiles to shoot down $1,000 drones. Here's Amos Hoagstein. He's the presidential coordinator on energy security on where we're going right now, because right now the Red Sea is shut down, so we've got to go around the Horn of Africa.

Cut two. We're in a remarkable situation where we have two global conflicts. One, the ongoing war of Russia's war against Ukraine and what's happening in the Middle East and the Houthis attacking the ships.

So the first thing to remember, we are responding to the Houthi attacks. And this is not an attack on the United States or related to Gaza. This is an attack on the global commercial system, on global shipping lanes. This is not about just the United States. And that's why the reaction has not just been U.S., it's U.S.-led, but this is a coalition and a coalition that's growing, both the diplomatic coalition as well as the military coalition.

So he was also told, it was in the Washington Post, this Hoaxstein guy said, whatever you do, don't shut down natural gas. He shut down six permits for natural gas. Why is that?

Because the Russians were providing natural gas to all of Europe cheap. If we can provide the same natural gas to all of Europe and they don't feel the suffering from keeping with that boycott since they invaded Ukraine, that'll give them more steel in their spine to stand up stronger and longer. But we shut down six anyway. When asked about it, did you recommend they do that as inner security coordinator? And he said, no, no, I never recommended that.

That's a lie.

So, what are the options? You got Iran behind the Houthis, Iran behind the militias in Iraq, Iran behind the militias in Syria, Iran behind Hamas and Hezbollah. Here's Admiral Stavridis more on this. Cut 10. Their logic is threefold.

One is to demonstrate globally, demonstrate to their partners. They're very close with the Iranians. They want to impress the Chinese. They want to show that they can maneuver through this vast land battle space of the Middle East, the old Persian Empire. Number two, they want to take advantage of the fact that Israel is completely occupied with what's happening in Gaza.

Normally, Israel can be part of these kinds of responses. They are very tied down. That looks to Iran like an opportunity. And number three, all politics are local. The Iranians are trying to distract their internal population from growing resistance within the country of Iran, much of it led, by the way, by women and girls.

This becomes something going outside to slay monsters like the United States that the mullahs feel can distract that internal population. Bottom line, no. They don't want an all-out fight with the United States. I don't think it'll end up there.

Next step, we're going to have to have a campaign of days, if not weeks, to really denude these proxies. We need in our back pocket the strike plan for Iran. Let's see it. And you don't want to give them somebody to unify around. That's the whole theory with China.

They're having trouble militarily, so let's make America the bad guy.

So we suck it up, don't worry about our lives, we rally because we have a common enemy. It's basically autocracy one on one.

So where do they stand with this? The President of the United States. Uh knows exactly where it's doing with Iran. They know if he's elected. That their life's going to be a lot worse.

Do they know that these acts are helping Joe Biden get unelected? And serve for and out? Do they know that? I think the Chinese know that. That's why they're trying to ease up and make the President look competent, which we know he is not.

So we'll talk a little bit about 2024 before we go. and take a break and then take some of your calls. I'm shocked that Joe Biden's coming out, going after the intellect and ability and cognitive training of President Trump, being that we've watched this President for four years not be able to get on or leave a stage, give a speech, make it intelligible. And then know how to exit the stage. Literally, he'll walk around in a circle, leave early, embarrass everybody.

And yet, he's bringing up Donald Trump for doing a clear mistake. Donald Trump got Nikki Haley confused with Nancy Pelosi. Big move. But you know, it's like an hour and 15 minutes into his speech, most of which he had lived. Do you think Joe Biden could even stand for an hour and 15 minutes, let alone talk to?

I think the answer is no. It's he can. Absolutely not, he can't.

So, for Joe Biden to go bring up intellectual ability and astuteness and coherentness is crazy. Who advised him for saying that? Listen to him on. Listen to him on Sunday, give this speech. Listen to the word sitting president, cut twenty seven.

Did you see what he recently said about that wants to he wants to see the economy crash this year. A sitting president. They say in my faith, bless me, Father, for I mean Come on, man. But number one, what does that mean? Bless me, Father.

Come on, man. Number two, for a sitting president.

Okay. You just called out Trump. misspeaking. Can we just pick up that you just misspoke? Cut twenty-eight.

1,600 asylum off asylum officers. And over 100 cutting-edge inspection machines to help detect and stop fentanyl coming on our southwest border. That went well, didn't it? And you remember what he said last week? When he was trying to make two speeches back to back days, at certain certain moments he was saying things.

I didn't understand one word of it. We listened to it back hundreds of times. Eric, do we have that from last week? Oh, we're still looking for it?

Okay. So he goes and speaks.

So I'm watching all the Sunday shows.

Now, at one point, everybody was asking Nancy Pelosi: do you think Donald Trump is slipping? To Nancy Pelosi saying this? She says I didn't notice any deterioration. She just changed the subject back to his original point that they said Nikki Haley forgot to send, refused to send 10,000 troops the day on January 6th. Nancy Pelosi, to her credit, said, you know, this is not going to help me.

I'm not going to he blew that off and just said, well, let's go to the original statement. I did not refuse to send 10,000 troops there on January 6th. Most people get it.

Now to Donald Trump's credit, he went up to Sean Hannity, and Sean Hannity said this public or so I wouldn't have brought it up and said, What did you what did I tell you when you when I was telling you to talk to stop talking about Joe Biden's age? He said, Well, it's just saying that some people get insulted, that you're mocking people that happen to be 80. And it's not. I mean, here's an example. Nobody thinks Bernie Sanders is really acting his age.

No one thinks John Kerry is acting his age. Don't like their beliefs, don't like their policies. Hope they never I wish they never were in elected office, but I don't think at 80 years old, they're both 80, 78, 80 years old, there's any problem with them leading a country or a company. It wouldn't go well. I don't believe that they understand business.

But there's no problem. But when you when you look at Joe Biden, you got a huge problem.

So, when we come back, I'm going to take some calls on that 1866-408-7669. They're going to run on abortion. They're going to run on the Donald Trump's going to get rid of democracy. I don't think the democracy thing flies. They're going to make him seem he's going to overthrow the government.

What Trump's got to do is keep a steady ship. Let everybody know. I'm not the one who looked at student loans, saw the Supreme Court rule. I'm not the one that opened up the and then did it anyway. I'm not the one who opened up the border and ignored our sovereignty.

I'm not the one who let the Middle East on fire. I'm not the one who let uh let Hong Kong go during um Joe Biden's tenure, that happened during his tenure, and so might Taiwan go. When we come back, we'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Or you can write me briankillmead.com and just click on contacts. Just a quick note: if you're listening to the show and you got to leave our family of affiliates, you can grab that app, watch or listen on the Fox News app, see and hear the show live.

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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. We are sort of finalizing the last pieces of text right now. This bill could be ready to be on the floor of the United States Senate next week, but it won't be if Republicans decide that they want to keep this issue unsettled for political purposes. I am hopeful that we will still have enough Republicans in the Senate who want to fix the problem at the border rather than just do Donald Trump's bidding.

But we will see over the next 24 to 48 hours whether that's true. And that is Senator Chris Murphy, along with Senator James Langford, along with Senator Sinema, who feels though I have a plan to get at least 10 Republicans in the Senate. And right now, the Speaker says, I'm not even bringing it up. It's dead on arrival. I gave you a plan.

It's HR2. You guys didn't even vote on that. Why should I vote on your plan? That's essentially what he's saying. And President Trump doesn't want anything to do with it.

So it kind of hamstrings a lot of the progress that could be made. My sense is that if the president showed any sincerity on the border, had bad policies instead of no policies, it would have been more of a chance of. Are getting some support in the House? But I don't see it right now, but I see everyone affected. Denver's affected, Boston's affected, New York's affected, Chicago's affected, Philadelphia's infected, San Francisco's infected.

Do you know those idiots out in California now giving free health care? Of course you're going to leave your country. It makes perfect sense you leave your country. Cut nineteen. Has anything changed with your thoughts about endorsing Donald Trump?

President. No, it hasn't at all. Obviously, he's been very engaged, as I've mentioned already on it. None of the things that are happening the last three years on the border would have happened if Donald Trump was actually president. He knows I've been very passionate about the border.

This is an issue I've worked on for a very long time. He and I worked together when he was in the White House on some of his border policies, and when he did his big proposal that was a legislative proposal, because again, President Trump proposed new laws and new issues on this because we know that we have gaps in the system.

So, if you want to be able to secure the border, you can have President Trump to be able to come in to actually secure the border because he's going to focus in on that.

So Senator Langford was not biting on the fact that they came out against Lankford's deal. But you notice that Donald Trump did not go after him specifically over in Oklahoma. And for those people who want to condemn in Oklahoma, we've got two great stations there. Kuni K or MMG Senator Lankford's not a moderate, he's not a liberal, he has not sold his soul. He's working on a compromise bill where he believes he's got enough leverage to get a bill that Republicans could get behind.

The lack of faith in Biden shouldn't make you feel as though that James Lankford cannot be trusted. Here's what Michael McCall said, cut 26. He knows better. This is not by Accidents by design, and I call him the architect of destruction. 8 million encounters, 300 on the terror watch list, 200 million people dead now thanks to fentanyl poisoning that this one man is responsible for.

I think that is a dereliction of duty. And he's talking about Majorkis, and he's also talking about Trump. And that's a guy that tries to stay out of politics. But clearly he's a conservative. When we come back, Elami Frader brings us inside the Israeli situation right now.

Netyahu's power. Is it true that a war with Hezbollah is now imminent? Man, Brian Kilmee Cho.

So glad you're here. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. The center of gravity for the aggression in the Middle East that we're experiencing is Iran. We have said this time and time and time again.

And to deter. The proxies themselves, by hitting them, will not be sufficient. We have got to go after Iran. We've got to reset. The strategy in dealing with Iran and the region, and admit the fact that this thing has failed.

Yeah, that is General Keene. And that was prior to the Iranian attacks, the sponsored attack through these militias. They'd killed three of our guys and wounded dozens more. And they've been hitting us 160 times. We've answered about five.

The Houthi rebels are now getting some direct attention. Emily Schrader joins us now, an Israeli journalist in the eye of the tornado, which is a tornado and hurricane of Israeli news. What was your reaction to the hit in Jordan? On U.S. forces.

Well, thanks so much for having me, first of all. I mean, I think that this is a natural escalation to be expected from the Islamic Republic. They've been doing these small-scale attacks over recent months, weeks and months. 156, I think it was, have been on American targets, and we've responded, as you mentioned, to hardly any of them. This is not an effective policy of deterrence.

And the way that the Islamic Republic operates, if you are not responding strongly exactly, then they're only going to get worse. You can't deal with a terrorist dictatorship like the Islamic Republic with rational negotiation. Unfortunately, it just doesn't work. And we keep seeing the Biden administration trying to do the same thing over and over and over again, the same failed policy of appeasement, quite frankly. And it's not going to work because what we're talking, what we're dealing with with Iran is the Hitler of our time.

Trevor Burrus: So, what does Israel feel like you're at war every day? Yeah, I mean, I think the Israeli people. Public, we're still very, very traumatized as a collective. You know, in some of the major cities, you might not notice it. At the same time, we're dealing with immense tragedy.

We're used to dealing with immense tragedy, and we're not going to stop it from letting us live our lives.

However, yes, of course, we're at war. It weighs very heavily on everyone's hearts. We have soldiers who are dying every day. And I want to add one more thing about soldiers that I think Americans might not understand: that these are 18-year-olds. These are extremely fresh out of high school.

We have a required military service.

So, this isn't people whose careers are defending the country, who decided to join the Army. These are people who were drafted, who are required to be there. And so, we're losing, frankly, in the eyes of many children in this war. The defense of our country is on the backs of 18, 19-year-olds. And that's a very difficult place to be.

How do you characterize the war effort so far by the IDF? They're getting critical for not being targeted enough with their bombings and their attacks. What do you agree? What's your answer to that? I mean, this is absolute nonsense.

The efforts that the IDF goes to in order to avoid civilian casualties is unprecedented by any Western army. We see consistently, even from the IDF, releasing footage from some of our pilots in the Air Force, releasing footage from body camps, from soldiers, calling off strikes, holding their fire. And of course, in any fog of war, there are casualties and there are mistakes. But what we're seeing by and large is a policy of doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties. Right.

Do you believe the numbers of 22,000 civilian deaths? Because we're going by Hamas numbers. Yeah, and that's precisely the problem. The statistics that we get from the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is actually the Hamas Ministry of Health, those are numbers that are vetted and approved by Hamas terrorists.

So we can't rely on them.

Now, I will say that, of course, there are civilian casualties, and that is tragic, but we have no idea if it's anywhere even close to 22,000. 23,000. And we also know at the same time, according to IDF estimates and body counts that they have verified in terms of terrorists, that it is thousands of Hamas terrorists who have been killed.

So I would greet any of those numbers with a lot of skepticism. How close, and by the way, we're speaking with Emily Schrader, an Israeli journalist, human rights activist. Emily, how close is the IDF to achieving its objective of eradicating Hamas? We're not there yet. We're not there yet.

I think there's a lot of work that still needs to be done. We said from the beginning that this was going to take time, and it is going to continue to take time. And of course, we're also dealing with public pressure. Israel is dealing with the ICJ case that just took place. A lot of accusations and misinformation about what's happening on the ground that does make it more difficult for Israel to achieve its objective, which really is crazy because we're talking about a terrorist organization that not only oppresses innocent Israelis and has kidnapped and killed so many of them, but their own people.

This is what they do to their own people, too. Everyone, including the Arab world, should be with Israel in taking down Hamas. Right. And if you asked a Palestinian, do you want a two-state solution? They will say no.

Because they want you guys gone. Absolutely. I mean, I think there's poll after poll that has come out, but there was a new one just recently that I saw from a Palestinian source that was, I think, 86% said that they want Palestine from the river to the sea, which means the destruction of the state of Israel. They're not interested in some sort of negotiation over, you know, this is our territory, this is your territory. They're not interested in that.

And when you have not just a leadership, but an entire population that is against the mere existence of the Jewish state, and don't forget that the Jewish people are the indigenous people to this territory. You're going to have a problem. There's not an enforceable peace agreement that can be made with a society like that. They have to go through some sort of de-radicalization before we can ever get to that point. And you talk about that generation.

So, where do you see Gaza long term? Has anyone put together a coherent plan about what happens next? I mean, there have been several proposals for what should happen when it comes to Gaza Strip long term.

Some of them, I think, are more viable than others, and there are also a lot of unknowns as it stands today. But I think that the best possible option would be for the IDF to work with Arab states, with Arab partners, if they are willing in order to put together a viable leadership that probably is some combination of Palestinian authority along with other Arab states, maybe Egypt, maybe even Saudi Arabia, working with the local communities inside of Gaza. The way that the society works in Gaza is very tribal. They operate in very, very large families that have a lot of power over certain neighborhoods, sort of. Like clans, and I think it would be advantageous to build partnerships with those clans, have positive relationships with the state of Israel in order to ensure a better and more secure future for the people of Gaza.

So, I guess we'll see where it goes. We also know there are reports now as many as 10 rockets fired towards central Israel and Tel Aviv, likely from the northern Gaza Strip. Shrapnel reported seen in several scenes in central Israel.

So, Hamas is still capable, it looks like. Yeah, I mean, we have seen a bit of a lull in central Israel in terms of rocket fire. But, yes, even on the way over here to speak with you, I saw that there were rocket sirens, a massive barrage hitting central Israel. My friends and family are all in shelters.

So, this is a really, it's an ongoing front. There is never a dull moment, and we're doing all we can to continue to push back against terrorist forces.

Now, that being said, a lot of the abilities of Hamas to carry out these types of attacks have been destroyed. But of course, we also have the Northern Front to be concerned about.

So the UNRWA is a UN organization tasked with giving humanitarian aid out.

Well, it's been reported and confirmed now that about 12 of them took part in the October 7th attacks. One accused of kidnapping. One woman handed out ammo. Another took part actually in the evasion at Kimbutz. There's some three got text messages telling them to muster up to a certain point.

Three, thankfully, are dead. This is at least 12.

So what do you say to a UN humanitarian organization that fights for Hamas? I mean, this isn't new. This has been how this organization, we call it UNRWA for short. This is how this organization has worked for years. Their entire purpose for existing is contrary to making peace.

It's a refugee organization specific to Palestinians and only Palestinians. All of the refugees in the world fall under the UNHCR, the High Commission for For refugees, Palestinians know. And what's interesting about that is that they have their own definition of refugees. There were an initial 700,000 refugees from the 1948 war in which they tried to wipe out Israel and failed. Since then, the number of refugees has gone from 700,000 to 5.9 million.

Now, how do you explain that? How does that make sense? If you're a refugee organization, aren't you trying to make Refugees not be refugees? You want them to be resettled. You want them to have a happy, safe, prosperous life, wherever they may be.

Not the case with Palestinians. UNRWA keeps them in perpetual victimhood. Descendants of Palestinians are considered refugees, including people like Bella and Gigi Hadid. These people would be considered refugees under UNRWA, which is insane, even when they have foreign citizenship.

So the entire premise of UNRWA is perpetuating the conflict, not solving it. And that is why you see so many problems and corruption within this organization, because it's not actually helping Palestinians. It's hurting them. It's keeping them from advancing, from moving on with their lives, whether it's in Gaza or Lebanon or Syria.

So we see right now that Netanyahu and Biden are at loggerheads and that he's considering slowing down weapons deliveries in order to get them to start Israel to start listening more. Have you heard this? Yeah, there has been some chatter about this. I mean, I think that that's absolutely preposterous, but I can't say I'm surprised given how Biden's foreign policy. Has been.

He says a lot of things that are good about Israel. He's been very positive when the war first started, but that doesn't really mean anything if you're still negotiating with Iran because the Islamic Republic is concerned with destroying the state of Israel, and they are the body that's behind everything we're seeing. All of these terrorist proxies, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, all of them, even the Houthis, they are from Iran. And so you can't be pro-Israel. You can't support the State of Israel and also be negotiating with Iran and giving concessions to Iran.

It's just not possible. Right. So I guess it's going to be a long month or two while this still goes on. But in the end, you have to reduce the terrorist threat, not just kill the people responsible. And so far in Gaza, can you see Gaza existing the way it was?

Do you see a big buffer zone? Do you need Egypt and Saudi Arabia and others to step up and just take the Palestinians out of there? I mean, I don't know about taking Palestinians out of there. I do think that there's going to have to be some sort of force, maybe even an international force of several different Arab countries that are going to. Rule very strongly at first, Gaza, in order to ensure that Hamas doesn't sort of make a resurgence.

Any reality in which we see Hamas continue to exist in the Gaza Strip is not one that Israel will accept. Israel will continue to fight until Hamas is decimated and not in control of the Gaza Strip, and that's how it should be. And frankly, everyone should support that because it's in the interest of everyone, including Palestinians. In terms of a buffer zone, absolutely. I think there will be a buffer zone when it comes to Israel.

I don't know yet what's going to happen in terms of the Palestinians who are there. Ideally, they'll be able to return to their homes and live in some sort of society that has not under the control of Hamas or any other terror organization, but it will require some sort of at least temporary involvement from Israel on the ground and then later, probably other nations as well, because you're dealing with such a terror-prone society, a society that supports the actions by majority, of course, not everyone, that supports the actions of October 7th. It's obscene. Right. I guess we'll find out.

About the hostages. Have you heard what is your take on the two-month pause that's reportedly out there in exchange for 100 hostages out? Yeah, I know that Israel also agreed to some of the proposals that were put forward in Paris. I think that Israel is pretty much, as they have been proven in the past, Israel is pretty much willing to do almost anything in order to protect human life, in order to get back our hostages, especially the female hostages. There's a lot of concern about the female hostages that have been there for over 100 days now.

So Israel will agree to Whatever they can, whatever they can get away with security-wise, in order to get our hostages back. That being said, I don't know that Hamas will. I don't know that Hamas will. I don't know that they even have enough control within the Gaza Strip. There have been times when some of the hostages were transferred to PFLP, another terror organization.

Some of them were under Islamic Jihad. They don't really know where everyone is. There's some amount of confusion as to where some of the hostages are and who's in control of the situation.

So I don't think that Hamas will agree to release all the hostages because then what leverage do they have? And frankly, although I hope that they do, Israel should not, if we get all our hostages back, Israel should not have a two-month ceasefire. Israel should take out Hamas. It's better for everyone. And I think for the first time, you're starting to see this week videos of protests of Palestinians within Gaza condemning Hamas, calling for the release of hostages, and that is unprecedented.

This is something we've never seen.

So we're starting. To see a little bit of a change even within the society, and I'm hopeful that there will be much more, but at this point, not so much. Emily Schrader, thanks so much. Stay safe. Thank you.

Thank you. Back in a moment, Brian Kilmee Chow, 1-866-408-7669. Don't move. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. When you read an article on social media, like let's say you follow the New York Times on Instagram and you read one of their articles and you process it a certain way, the second you start reading the comments, your initial impression of that article is radicalized one way or the other. This thing we take for granted now that the journalist who did the work gets to have their Uh uh Piece put on the same shelf as everyone else's spur of the moment. You seem to trust journalists more than I do.

I trust certain journalists, yeah. Yeah, I do. Certain ones I do, not a lot. Not a lot. No.

And everything I read, whatever source, it's only half the truth. They print they print the narrative. They don't turn truth. That's a generalization, though, isn't it?

Well, it is, but it's weird because it's generally true. You know what it is?

So that was Seth McFarlane going back and forth, and he had some good examples of that, too. He's like, people tell you what they want to hear. I don't get into the comment section of what people say, I never read the comment section of what people have to say. I read that column, get that point of view, and think about it, where that's coming from, and what they look to achieve. You're really going to see it.

On this election cycle. I mean, Donald Trump's the worst. I mean, it's some there people have gotten so crazy with Donald Trump being the worst, you're almost numb to it now. Alex, listening in Brooklyn, New York. Hey, Alex.

Hey, good morning, Brian. Thanks for taking the call. I want to comment about the border situation and Republicans not going along with Biden's crazy bill. To secure the border. I don't think Republicans need to believe until they see what's actually in the bill that the Democrats are trying to secure the border because the name has the name of a border bill.

Democrats have a record of, number one, not not looking to secure the border. Biden has the capability he could put these policies back in place that would actually secure the border. But also they have a they did this in the past where they give a name to the bill, but that name doesn't represent the majority of what's in that bill. They did it with the infrastructure bill. 60% of it had nothing to do with infrastructure.

So just because it's called a border bill doesn't mean that that's actually what's in it. You know, you you fundamentally we agree on this. You got to read it. It's amazing to me that you had Ted Cruz call a press conference last Thursday and say we're against this bill, and Rick Scott the same way. I go, okay.

Did you read it? No. We have a rough offline. Did you get briefed? No, not formally.

Okay. But the only thing different about what you were just saying, about. Joe Biden mislabeling what you know, the the whole Inflation Reduction Act. That was all written by his his side.

So That whole rescue package. It wasn't rescuing anybody. It was there for his agenda. We agree in that. This has been a bipartisan effort.

You got a centrist. Like cinema, left the Democratic Party. You got a Democrat like Chris Murphy, and then you have a Republican. like Senator James Langford, and don't tell me that he's a moderate. I want to see what's in it, but I have no faith in Joe Biden to implement it.

Why did he break it to begin with? Why did he go for such a political loss? Who has got pictures of him that said break the border or else? That's the crazy thing. But thanks for the call, Alex.

And people have a fundamental distrust. I would like to look in it and just say, okay, this can stay, this can't. This leads too much of a discretion interpretation. That's why it's got to go. And that's the big thing, as Senator Sullivan was telling me.

You want to leave nothing for Joe Biden's interpretation because it will always go against the country's best interest. like most of his instincts are. Listen to the Brian Kilmey show. Hey, go to BrianKilme.com. Sign up for my Henderson, Nevada show coming up on the 27th of April.

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Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Did you see what he recently said about the West that he wants to see the economy crash this year? Donald Trump knows. This economy is good and strong and getting stronger.

He knows. But while it's good for America, it's bad for him politically. That is Joe Biden doing what he does best. Scream on the stump. Three battles being waged by Donald Trump.

First, you got the woman with Nikki Haley for the nomination. Then you got Joe Biden for the White House and nonstop in the courts. If anyone can survive all three, I'd have trouble with just one. He will be the 45th president. We'll see if he ends up the 47th.

Number two. A lot of the senators are trying to say respectfully, they're blaming it on me. I said, that's okay, please blame it on me. because they were getting ready to pass a very bad bill. And I'll tell you what, A bad bill is, I'd rather have no bill than a bad bill.

Right, but we don't know what's in that bill, Mr. President. Border bill, not quite out. Both Republicans and Democrats are digging through their beliefs and responses. We'll tell you what's in it as the Texas standoff of the Biden continues.

And truckers are streaming into the state to show support for Governor Abbott. Number one. I know what the Pentagon is doing is building options for the President that will include increasing the intelligence collection, using cyber to go after both the proxies, probably Iran, CIA stepping up its game inside Iran, and the military strike packages speak for themselves. Yeah, there you go, Admiral Stravit. It's inevitable.

When you barely respond after 160 attacks, you know one is going to kill Americans, and this one did while they slept in the Tower 22, right on the Syrian. Jordan border. Three Americans died. Nine had to be rushed to the hospital, considered in serious condition. Dozens are the wounded.

When will Biden realize that only strength will stop the next attack? He says he promises a response. We'll have to see. Joining us now is Tom Caraco, Senior Fellow of the International Security Program, Director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Tom, from what you know, what should the response be from this weekend's devastating attack?

Yeah, so it's pretty significant.

So three U.S. service members, of course. Being killed, which is unfortunate. But the United States has to respond, it has to respond firmly. We kind of took our time in responding to the quote unquote Houthi missile attacks.

that were emanating from Yemen. And what did that do? It kind of emboldened Iran and its proxies to do more. We finally got around to responding to that, hitting the launchers and that sort of thing. And in terms of this attack, You know, attacking this base with lots of UAVs, injuring 30 service members as well.

It's going to have to be a strong response. We can continue to respond, you know, with small amounts, but it has to be something substantial enough that no kidding makes it stop and no kidding hits where it hurts, or this will just being a bowing in the grass kind of operation. I hear you. So it's got to be Iran, not militia. And I guess you don't want to militarize the whole country against us, but at the same time, they have to pay the price.

I've had other generals and strategic military experts say we could wipe out their navy if we wanted. Sure. And look, there's a lot of, I think, options at our disposal. At the same time, we don't want to get into a big war with Iran, but we do want to do enough to make them wake up tomorrow and say, you know, that wasn't such a good idea, we shouldn't do it again. Yeah, um what would be responsive would you recommend?

Uh do you think we have sites in Iran? Yes, look, there could be Navy, there could be air defenses, there could be any number of things, but it could also be leadership outside that perhaps might happen to be outside of Iran at the moment. I think it comes down to who needs to be hurt in order for this to stop.

So necessarily need to be run by eco.

Well, what do you do you think it's indeed possible? I mean, they seem to feel they're almost begging for a massive response.

So Biden came out and said there'll be a response. And he talked about He'll talk about having to look at now. We saw the Secretary of Defense actually go back to the Pentagon today. Do you sense that he's been clued into how things have been going with his physical challenges? Look, we have to assume that his team, his staff, is very well informed on this.

And they're going to present some options. Ultimately, it's the president's job to pick the options. For instance, it's the president's job to decide whether or not to respond to the Global Hawk shootdown, whether or not to respond to the al-Abbas missile attack, and how so.

So there's not going to be any question that you have the information. The question is who's advising them and how firm they want to come down. Yeah, I guess we'll have to see. Tom Cotton says Joe Biden's emboldened Iran for years by tolerating these attacks. Mike McCall says the Biden administration failed Middle East policy has destroyed a deterrence against them.

Mike Rogers came out as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Said, President, Biden has let our guard down. Dan Sullivan, who was just on the show, said the President needs to order a clear, lethal and overwhelming response that demonstrates to Iran and the world that whoever targets our men and women in uniform or supports these attacks will face the full strength of the military. Where do you stand with all those statements? Look, I think like I said before, it does need to be strong.

Weakness is provocative. And like I said, we've got to hit Iran where it hurts. We've got to make sure that they are the ones putting the pressure on the Houthis, on these other militias, as opposed to standing back and goading them on.

So I think in general, yes, those statements are right. They align with the need to act sufficiently. Do you think Iran wants a wide war?

Well, I think we talked the last time I was on. I think that Russia and China would benefit. From a wider war. Russia and China would benefit but with distractions on the Korean Peninsula. And so we do have to be cognizant of that.

I don't think they want a wider war in which they lose and suffer, but people do miscalculate. The Iranians have miscalculated in attacking the U.S. directly and indirectly many, many times. And for some reason, they mostly get away with it. But I don't think they want a big war.

I think we need to do something substantial enough to kind of grab them by the lapels and shake them. All right, we'll see what happens. Here's what General Jack Keene told me on the 12th to cut five. The center of gravity for the aggression in the Middle East that we're experiencing is Iran. We have said this time and time and time again.

And to deter the proxies themselves by hitting them will not be sufficient. We have got to go after Iran. We've got to reset the strategy in dealing with Iran and the region and admit the fact that this thing has failed.

So that's how he felt on the twelfth. Yeah, look, I I think that's compelling. We've seen this coming. You saw this train coming with the ramping up of the Houthis. You saw this two weeks ago.

I think he was probably responding or perhaps anticipating to that missile attack by other Iranian proxies on the U.S. airbase Al Abbas. A couple weeks ago. And so we've seen this coming. They keep doing this and in some ways, it's the most predictable thing in the world.

So right now, we understand that the administration is considering slowing down weapons delivery to Israel until they start listening better to the urgencies from the administration to be more precise Or scale back on the warren Amas. Where do you stand? Look, I think the administration is trying to do to walk a to kind of have it both ways and walk a fine line. There's some, as everyone knows, some competing domestic political considerations there. And Netanyahu knows that, and he knows U.S.

domestic politics as well as anybody. And so, look, our friends, the Israelis, need to, and they will continue with this and continue to plow ahead. And I do believe the United States will continue to support them because at the end of the day, we have to, and it's the right thing. But the administration is clearly toying with some competing diplomatic messages. Yeah, I guess we'll see what happens.

We're meeting with China about some getting control of the Houthi rebels. Why would we meet with China? What do they know about the Houthi rebels?

Well, again, I it is a little bit remarkable. Look, the Chinese have been buying up real estate throughout the Middle East and Africa, lots of other places.

So they do have interest and presence and all this sort of thing. And look, China is clearly becoming a global power. But you're right, it's not necessarily the best look Uh, to be kind of uh going to the Chinese for help half a world away, they must chuckle about that a little bit. Uh, so again, my hypothesis stated earlier is that it's it's really in China's interest for these things to distract us militarily, even if China as an economic power uh is going to be uh uh feeling some pain uh from the uh disruptions in shipping, as everybody else does. Wow, thanks so much, appreciate it, Tom Caraco.

Thanks so much, Senior Fellow with the International Security Program. Thank you, Tom. 1866-408-7669. Bottom of the hour we're going to be Speaking with Senator Tom Cotton, he wants to see immediate action. I do want to touch a little bit about what's going on with the election in the primaries.

And for one thing, with the President of the United States, I think he pulled back a little on the Nikki Haley attacks, focused more on Joe Biden. You know, for one thing, I think that he's getting some blowback from the way he acted after winning New Hampshire convincingly in double figures. He was upset that Nikki Haley was out there misconstruing what that win actually meant, and he thought I could maybe turn the page. He's kind of let down by that. Plus, he was probably anticipating some of the stress of sitting through that civil trial that cost him tens of millions of dollars.

And now another one could be coming down the pike today worth $345 million. But when you look at what's happening with Nikki Haley, he thought that was just a big distraction and it's going to delay what he wants, and that is targeting Joe Biden. And I get that to a degree. But keep in mind, the longer he fights Nikki Haley, the more wins he racks up, the more positive the general press will have to report on him sooner or later. There are going to be solid court cases.

Sooner or later, it's going to be how great Joe Biden is defying our odds. And how diminished President Trump is.

So, the more they can go back and forth with Nikki Haley, I think that's a little bit better for the president. Nine months is still nine months away. You listen to the Brian Kill Me show back in a moment. Covering this election year like no other. It's Brian Kilmead.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. That bill of the law today, I'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly. A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system. and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here.

And Congress needs to get it done. Yeah, right. Just yell and be mad. Joe Biden does that great. And when he talks to union workers, he thinks everybody talks like that, where they're mad at each other.

So he just said we go do it now. The problem that's hurting James Lankford and everybody else is the president's lack of credibility on the border. The fact that he only went there once and they had staged some phony drug raid in a cop car with a German Shepard, and there was nobody coming through, so he thought the border was fixed. I don't know if he bought that or not, but no one else was. Today they're going to try to impeach Mayorkis.

I'm not sure if they have the votes or not. It will get stopped in the Senate, but they want to just point out and rake him over the coals how bad he has been. They have not impeached a cabinet secretary since 1877, and that was the Secretary of War at the time. Coming right off the Civil War, less than 10 years. And now, by the way, he was stopped in the Senate, too.

Just crazy. By the way, someone just emailed. They didn't want to come on the air, but here's a question. Walter wanted to know: where is the money we are spending on these illegals coming from? It's coming from Homeland Security, and this is special border money, too.

So it just comes right out of that. Just like to actually secure the border, we did not have enough money for the President, the 45th President, so we had to go into the defense budget and said it was national security. Ryan, you're on the Brian Kilmey show. Hey, Brother Eric, I'm glad you're doing well, man. I love listening to you.

As the email said, we got this money that's being taken from the other places.

Well, now we know we have money for the vets and the homeless, right? Yeah, we should, right? About all the money, right?

So why aren't they implementing something to take care of our own? And that's the biggest problem for everybody, right? They're repurposing a lot of that money.

Now, the cities are told you're on your own. There, they're just taking from their general fund for the most part. And a lot of times, or they just decide maybe Boston, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago have different decisions. But there is no. Illegal immigrant.

Budget. really at all.

Now all of a sudden they need it. Yeah, that's the thing, right? We've had this money and you're willing to go get it for uh illegal immigrants. But you haven't been willing to take it for from wherever to provide for our own? Yeah, and that's what people should point to, and that's what these mayors are saying.

Federal government, you let the border get open, now you pay, and Joe Biden will not even help Democratic mayors. Democratic mayors, and he will spend money to make sure that Texas doesn't secure their own border. Catherine, listening in the Washington state, it's crazy. Washington State. Hey, Catherine.

Hi, Brian. Hey, listen. Why haven't the Republicans impeached? Biden over the fact that he Swore on January twentieth, twenty twenty one to uphold. Our nation's laws which include immigration laws and To prevent foreign invaders.

It drives me crazy. They impeached Donald Trump. Liquity split, the Democrats did twice. Yep. And exactly over stupid things.

And this is a blatant. A violation of your oath of office. It drives me nuts. He is supposed to prevent boring invaders, and he's supposed to uphold. Yeah, see, Kathy, I don't know.

He's got nine months left, let's hope. And they have to work on keeping the house. By the time they get that done, they'll really get nothing done. I want to see them get something done.

So they're handling my orchestra now. I actually think in a way they want to just let everybody know how bad he is. But you know he's just implementing Biden's policies.

So and he's bad at it, doesn't meet with the Border Patrol. But we'll see. Thanks so much. Daniel, listening in Georgia. Hey, Daniel.

Hey, good morning, Brian. Just wanted to let you know I'm going to get your book for my birthday and try to start reading it soon. Nice. Teddy and Booker T, thanks so much. Yeah, my quick question is: hey, you know, I'm not sure if you're familiar with you have to have a membership card to get in to either Sam's Club or Costco.

In order to get in there and do your shopping and all those things.

Well, you know what? They wouldn't let me in because I didn't have it.

So I thought to myself, hey, we need to send all those 10,000 or so Costco and Sam's Club door graders and workers down to the border to help control people from getting in, which is kind of a funny Pundit to it. And my thing is, I think last week on Tuesday, when it was Um the t uh the Primary in New Hampshire, and nobody could decipher what Joe Biden was right saying. Yeah, thanks so much. Yeah, and they jump all over Trump because he did make a mistake, no doubt about it. But it was an hour and 15 minutes into a speech.

Joe Biden can't get 10 minutes into a speech. He has trouble with the prompter. He just eats all the words. And don't tell me because he's a stutterer. I mean, there's something malfunctioning.

He doesn't work hard. He doesn't give interviews. His speeches are halted. They have no message. His missions are never talked about because he can't speak about it.

He's got no one to speak about it. Kamala Harris has nobody's respect, nor is she clear either.

So you have Anthony Blake and Jake Sullivan, who just emanate weakness. It's crazy. Trump's got to win this. Or if Nikki Haley finds a way. But right now, it's just Trump's got to find a way.

Brian killed me, J. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade.

I would go after the ship at sea scenario. We've done that before. It's a very effective way and a very direct demonstration of American power. That is a little of Admiral Stravitas trying to understand what exactly the administration should be doing as opposed to what they will do. He was trying to be diplomatic and doing it and stay apolitical.

Senator Tom Cotton joins us now. His comments were out front and personal. As soon as this attacks came clear, and we lost three of our guys and eight more are seriously wounded. Dozens got hurt after an attack over the weekend. And on our forces, that I didn't even know we had a base right over the border in Syria in Jordan.

And worst of all, I didn't know how exposed they were. Joining us now is Senator Tom Cotton. Senator Cotton wrote: Senator Cotton, great to hear from you. Hey, thanks for having me on, Brian. off, let me please express my condolences to the families and the battle buddies of all three of those soldiers who were killed yesterday and now several dozen who were wounded.

We all are praying for them, praying for the families of the three soldiers who were killed in action and praying for the speedy recovery and return to duty of all the soldiers who were wounded. Absolutely. You wrote: Joe Biden emboldened Iran for years by tolerating attacks on our troops, bringing the Ayatollahs with billions of dollars and appeasing them to no end. He left our troops as sitting ducks, and now they are dead and dozens wounded. Sadly, as I have predicted, would happen for months.

So you have been saying that. You said that here.

So now, what should happen?

Well, Brian, unfortunately, the President has left us with very few good options. If he had firmly responded to these attacks by Iran through its proxies on America, not just over the last three months, but over the last three years, they would have stopped Long ago, but now Iran has crossed essentially every red line you can imagine. They've killed American soldiers. They've done it on a friendly nation soil. This is not Iraq or Syria.

This is in Jordan. And the attacks continue elsewhere, too, you know, from the Houthis, for instance, in Yemen against the Red Sea.

So, as I said yesterday, it has to be a devastating military response. This is almost certainly the work of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the shock troops of the Ayatollahs. They have bases and locations throughout the Middle East, in Yemen, in Syria, in Iraq, and, of course, in Iran itself. And those should be utterly decimated. And it should be made clear to the Ayatollah.

That we will no longer tolerate these kinds of attacks. That doesn't mean that we're going to invade Iran or there's going to be an all-out war that lasts for years. I would remind all your listeners that we've had moments like this in the past. Iran in 1987 and 1988 was mining the Persian Gulf. One of those mines ultimately hit a US naval ship.

It didn't kill sailors, it wounded several sailors, though. What was Ronald Bregon's response? It was to sink half of Iran's navy. He was asked shortly thereafter if we were at war with Iran, and he, in his kind of a buncular way, chuckled and said, No, Iran would not be so stupid. Of course, Iran would not be so stupid as to go to war with the United States.

But if they think they can get away with targeting our soldiers and ultimately killing our soldiers, and that's exactly what they will continue to do.

So here's what Joe Biden said January 15th, cut for. I've already delivered the message to Ram. They know I'm not to do anything.

Well, that's wrong. And here's what he said. They did anything anyway. He delivered a message to Iran. Here's the president yesterday, cut three.

Lastly. A waste. It was pretty very solid. and attack on one of our base. And we show this far.

We shall respond. Have you heard anything? about what can be doing. After all, Senator, aren't you on Armed Services Committee? No, I haven't heard anything, Brian, and I suspect that the response will be weak and feckless.

as it always is with Joe Biden. This is a man, remember, who Bob Gates 10 years ago said has been wrong on nearly every major national security and foreign policy question of 40 years. The only change I would make to Secretary Gates' statement is that we now have to update it to fifty years. It's Joe Biden's weakness. again, not just over the last three months, not even over the last three years with Iran, but with Russia and the lead up to the war in Ukraine and over the last two years of that war with the collapse in Afghanistan that has caused the Ayatolas and their terror proxies to think they can get away with targeting Americans hundreds of times or even killing Americans.

And until Joe Biden takes decisive action to show that he now understands the grave errors of his weak leadership, then these attacks are going to continue. And there's a simple way Brian, to know if he's been successful in whatever action he takes, which I suspect won't be enough. But whatever action that is, is do these attacks stop or do they continue? If the attacks continue, then by definition, The Ayatollahs and their terrorist forces throughout the region are not scared of Joe Biden. And right now, nobody's scared of Joe Biden.

Do you think he needs authorization to hit Iran right now? No, I don't, Grime. He has the same authority that any president does, which is to launch military strikes. To defend America and defend American troops and interests around the world. Congress does our job of providing the military to the commander-in-chief that is available for that kind of use.

If Congress disapproves of the specific military action, we can always defund that action, has happened numerous times down our history. But this is why our founding fathers created a single executive, not a council of executives that would be racked by dissension, but a single executive to take actions in a crisis and an emergency to defend our interests and certainly to defend our troops. Yet again, I think Joe Biden will fail that. You read the newspapers this morning and the entire everything you hear in those newspapers or when you see John Kirby, the White House spokesman, go on morning talk shows. It's all about restraint and proportional response and not seeking a wider war.

Of course, we don't seek a wider war with Iran, Brian. But if that's the emphasis at all times and that's the fear, then Iran is going to widen the war as they have been doing for the last three months, really the last three years. Proportionate responses will not stop these attacks. Only a massively disproportionate response will stop these attacks.

Well, it's going to be really interesting because we're also dealing with the Houthi rebels who just blew up a a British tanker over the weekend, and we're still using multimillion dollar defense rockets to knock down thousand dollar drones. I don't know how long that's going to happen. Yeah, it um We can't continue to use multi-million dollar missiles against. Basically, makeshift homemade weaponry that so many of these proxies use, we should be going directly to the source. Taking out all their radar systems, their ammunition sites, their launch pads.

We shouldn't just be playing whack-a-mole, letting our troops see sitting ducks, hoping that our air defenses will succeed on every single time. We've got some of the world's best air defenses, Brian, but as we saw at Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan yesterday, it only takes one miss for catastrophic consequences. What the President has to do is to restore a sense of fear that I told us have for America. This has happened before. Again, I cited Ronald Reagan in 1988 as one example.

It didn't just stop the mine in the Persian Gulf. Brian, it ended. The eight-year Iran-Iraq war six months later, because the Ayatollahs were so scared that America would intervene in that war. Think about Donald Trump in 2020. We started the year by killing Qasem Suleimani, Iran's terrorist mastermind.

And then at the end of the year, right before Christmas, Donald Trump put on social media that if a single American was killed, he would hold the Ayatollah's responsible. He called it some friendly health advice. And guess what happened for the rest of that year, Brian? There were no more attacks. The attacks that were threatened did not happen because the Ayatollahs feared Donald Trump, just like they feared Ronald Reagan.

Right now, no one is afraid of Joe Biden. He has slapped a kick-me sticker on Uncle Sam's back. You know, the same thing is I was researching Thomas Jefferson Triple E pirates. No one, everyone just paid off these radical Islamic nations using the Quran as their weapon to kidnap people, enslave them, plunder their cargo, take their ships. And everyone was terrorized.

They were scared to death until it was the U.S. a couple of decades old. We decided to, you know, let's put together a Navy and let's just start blockading them and let's start escorting our ships. And that still didn't work. And then we had to get a ground war together and then they got the message.

And we wouldn't be bothered again until the 1980s. We have to go back to it because it's the same mindset we're dealing with. As President Trump said over the weekend, borrowing from Ronald Reagan, peace through strength. And without strength, which is not just having a strong military, but a strong president. Who is willing to use the military when compelled to defend our interests is the way we ensure peace.

Again, we've heard now for three months about the Middle East.

Well, we don't want escalation. All that does is. signal in flashing me on lights to Iran and all of its terrorist proxies that you can punch America right in the mouth and nothing will happen. It's the same thing you've seen in Ukraine for two years when President Biden has pussyfooted around time and time again, refusing to give Ukraine a specific kind of weapon system they need because he's afraid of escalation. Again, to use the military jargon, the way to avoid escalation, Brian, is to establish escalation dominance.

So, I want you to just talk a little bit about the Board of Bill, what you know of it. First off, have you been briefed on it? Not its most recent iteration, Brian. I was a little closer to this when we started in November and December. I'll tell you, my position on the bill that's finally released, and I think it's still in draft form, is that we need a bill that will solve the problem at the border.

It's not about having a political issue for the campaign as the Democrats are accusing us. Or not giving Joe Biden tools that he can use because we know he won't use those tools. He hasn't used the tools he already has in place. A good bill will solve the crisis at the border. It will compel Joe Biden to take action that stops the flow of hundreds and even thousands of migrants across our border every single day.

That's what needs to happen. That's not, again, it's not about empowering a president who wants to protect our border, like Donald Trump did and will again next year. It's about compelling. A stubborn, reluctant president whose party doesn't even believe in borders to actually secure the border. I just want you to hear a little bit from Lankford describing what he worked out with Cinema and Murphy, Cut 14.

Yeah, well, it's definitely not going to let a bunch of people in. It's focused on actually turning people around on it. It is interesting. Republicans four months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel, and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy.

So we actually locked arms together and said, we're not going to give you money for this. We want a change in law. And now it's interesting a few months later, when we're finally getting to the end, they're like, oh, just kidding. I actually don't want a change in law because of the presidential election year. We all have an oath to the Constitution, and we have a commitment to say we're going to do whatever we can to be able to secure the border.

But people say if you have two thirds, it's like having nothing. They need everything, including the wall being built.

So the question is, do you want to give if Donald Trump's going to get elected, he would probably he'd know how to he'd have additional tools from what I could see. And he was something to build off of. If you have stuff from zero, the argument is they'll never have the leverage you guys have right now because of the need for foreign aid and for how bad everything is down there. Yeah, so that That point is critical of these negotiations going back to October. Brian, typically, Chuck Schumer, who's not good at his job as the majority leader of the Senate, has only one move.

He uses a legal deadline to put a bad bill on the floor and thinks he can compel the votes of sixty U. S. Senators. He does that, for instance, on government shutdowns to fund the government or on the debt ceiling to avoid a debt default. There is no deadline for this.

There's no legal deadline. That's why we have said in the beginning: we want to. Promote and protect Ukraine's security, but we also have to protect our own security. And right now, the border is a grave threat. To our national security.

And as you say, you can't dam one half of a river. It's nice to get things like a reform to the asylum process. Which has been badly abused by foreign migrants and left-wing nonprofits in the Democratic Party for decades. But if you also don't, for instance, reform the parole system, it won't stop the crisis at the border. To give you a sense of the scale of abuse of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, who was no border hawk by any means, Was only paroling about five or six thousand people a year into the United States.

Last year, Joe Biden paroled one point two million people.

So he he passed. Passing it. Barack Obama's record in a day and a half.

So, unless you actually address all the sources of abuse that Joe Biden has used over the last Three years to get us to the point where we're seeing more than 300,000 illegals cross into our country every month, which on an annual basis would be well over the population of the state of Arkansas. Then it's not going to solve the problem. And that's the bill I'm focused on: the bill that solves the problem now, not one that empowers a president. To use new tools, who wants to secure the borders? Donald Trump will next year when he's elected again.

but rather forces this President to take actions that he could have already taken, but he simply refuses to. Do you think Nikki Haley should drop out? I've endorsed Donald Trump. I don't see how Nikki Haley is going to win in South Carolina beyond. It's early in the primary process, to be sure, but if you look at the votes that Nikki Haley has won and the votes that Donald Trump has won, there are many, many more of the Donald Trump voters in places like South Carolina and Arkansas and on Super Tuesday than there are the Nikki Haley voters, who frankly are not, in many cases, even Republicans or someone who will support the Republican in the fall.

So I would rather, given the writing on the wall, get on to the general election so Republicans can unify behind the president and focus on turning Joe Biden out of office while also winning back the Senate and holding on to the House. Senator Tom Cotton, thanks so much. We appreciate it. I look forward to seeing what the president's response is, and I would love for him to call you guys to get a suggestion because you know. Thanks so much, Senator.

Thank you, Brian. You got it. 1866-408-7669. We'll end up some calls. Also, give you some special thoughts when we come back.

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So now the only way Spirit and JetBlue will merge is mid-air. It's kind of funny. But it was just I just thought it was just a huge opportunity lost on Saturday Night Live because there's been so much going on. I mean, funny things. You can make fun of Trump, but just make fun of the other side and you're all beset.

I thought their cold open was kinda interesting. Did you see the cold open? Just a bunch of guys complaining the football's over, now they have nothing of substance to talk about, and the sadness making fun of CBS sportscasters. I did. I heard it.

I didn't see it, but yeah. It was fine. I didn't think it was that revolutionary. It happens every single year after this weekend. Right.

You know, if they want to do something unique to this year, that would be. Uh but one thing, but I've been like, isn't it interesting they choose CBS to mock and not And be safe.

Well, CBS is hosting it this year, right? I mean, so we're trying to be current with it. Oh, I guess. But yeah, they talked about how it doesn't matter, it's not a real game. Kind of interesting.

I just thought the other thing was debank to say this word. Let's play that other clip. of Josh Uh of what's his name? Who's he who's the other anchor? I like to refer him as Scarlett Johansson's husband.

Right. So here he is, Colin Jost. Making fun of Trump, Cut thirty seven. Trump did have a slight stumble this week while talking about banks, and he introduced an interesting new term called D bank. I don't know what the hell D bank means, but he might have to take D ambulance to see the doctor.

So here you go. Turns out it was a real word. And if you as you mentioned earlier, if you're going to base the whole joke over a word, shouldn't somebody a staffer look it up and just say, let's just make sure it's not a word, it's just not a gap in my knowledge? Exactly. Like you would think if that's the core of it, let's just triple check.

At the same time, given all of those Ivy League educations over at SNL, you would think they would know the definition of a simple word like the bank. Right. Plus, Donald Trump is with the nicknames and everything going on, and that dress isn't that nice, not that fancy of a dress. There was so much to make fun of. That would have been gold.

Right. It was great. Instead, it's like, oh, that debank word that he used. I think they just want to like the de-ambulance. And like, they liked that part of the joke more before they needed the bank.

It's a real word. Hey. Just a quick note: just go to BrianKillmee.com if you're in anywhere near Henderson, Nevada, April 27th. We're going to be doing a live show there, talking about winning the war on history, how to do it in a fun, entertaining way, and we bring it to life. Carly Shimk has called it immersive, and I think that's good.

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