Biden's botched CNN sit-down, Israel shakedown rattle supporters...

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Well first of all, it just proves that President Biden has the authority to close the border if he wants to. He wants an open border. That's why we can't trust him. That is Senator Ron Johnson. You're 100% right.

Suddenly, Dems see the light on the broken border and scramble to blame Republicans, really? We have the latest impossible to imagine spin. Number two, we have another interesting contradiction. You have all of this discussion of his signing the checks. In the White House after the election to influence the election.

And somehow, retroactively, that was stealing the election. That is Jonathan Turley, the Trump trial. Day 15, Stormy sails away, leaving baggage everywhere for the prosecution and damaged reputation for the former president. We'll review and preview. Number But the idea that we would cut off Military aid.

to an ally. our only true, true ally. in the entire region. It's absolutely preposterous. There you go.

President Biden whispering himself through an interview where it looks like he's totally being contradictory. 2024 heating up as President Biden's sit-down and Israeli shakedown are rattling supporters from coast to coast.

Meanwhile, his sit-down with CNN is major fallout as at least 15 lives were given in 17 minutes. Where is that stat everywhere? Plus, a major Trump rally set for Saturday in New Jersey, while the former president has a. Closed door fundraiser again? Guy can't have a rally.

That's the problem. We'll talk about it too.

So let's talk about what's happening with 2024. We heard. That President Biden was not going to do any sit-downs in a major organization leading up to the convention and maybe beyond. And now we know why. He sits down with Aaron Burned, who I think did a really good job.

I watched most of it anyway. I didn't see the walk and talk portion. At which time, when she sat down with him, we noticed time after time he was saying things that were flat out inaccurate. And I'll just go over some of them. He said he created 15 million jobs.

Nobody could find that out. He just in 2022 got the jobs back they were forced to abandon because of the pandemic. Trump will kill Medicare. There's been no sign that Trump's going to kill Medicare. In fact, he was trying to do some of the same things that Joe Biden did to his credit on insulin.

Says billionaires pay 8.3% on their taxes. No, they pay 25% on taxes. Why would you not tell the truth on that? Because it builds class warfare. The working guy hates the rich guy.

That's what he wants. Not to me, if you're looking out for the country. How about this? He said he already turned the economy around. He says that real income is up.

It's down and inflation was up when he got into office at 9% and is now going down. No, when he got into office, it was 1.5%. You had it as 9%, and it was growing again last month. You have the idea of the inaccuracies. That is why he's also on the stump telling a story that nobody could verify.

Inconsequential. But he is. The person that has to put himself in the middle of every story. If you lose a person tragically, he's lost he's got tragedy in his life. If you are Puerto Rican, he went to a Puerto Rican church.

If you're black, he fought for your civil rights in the sixties. There's no proof of any of that. Then he tells a story to Wisconsin crowd how his teacher Decided, got drafted by the Packers. and decide to become a priest instead, so he's always rooted for the Packers. Nobody could find out what this story is rooted in.

He says last name Riley.

Okay. Nobody named Riley was drafted at a time when he was in high school.

So That just goes on. But I think the thing that's most consequential is his attitude towards Israel. And it turns out that he is going to hold back a weapon shipment that was legislatively given to was sent to be sent over to Israel.

Now this is not the new package, this is the old package, and he's holding it back. John Kirby, first time in history, we do this to an ally, let alone in war. Here's John Kirby trying to rationalize it. Cut three. The president and his team.

Have been clear for several weeks that we do not support a major ground operation in Rafa. where more than a million people are sheltering. With nowhere safe to go. President has said that publicly, and he has communicated that. repeatedly and straightforwardly.

To Prime Minister Netanyahu, we have proposed alternative methods of defeating Hamas that do not involve a major ground operation in Rafa.

Well. I haven't seen that. Have you designed that? Has President Biden designed that? Has Jake Sullivan designed that?

If Lloyd Austin's decided it, I'm used to Secretary of Defense's out there. Talking. Explaining. Educating. We don't hear any of that.

Don't you think the IDF would have a better understanding of how to operate in Gaza? Because they've had it for decades. They gave it away, but still watched it for decades. And now they got experience fighting on the ground for the last seven months.

So we'll take a look at that. For me, it's a disaster. But I thought Jen Saki gave it away when Jen Saki came out and said on Stephen Colbert, not only is she for it. She thinks the Democratic Party wanted more to be done and sooner. Cut five.

I do think that there is some leverage that we are all seeing being used. Should it have been used earlier? I think the answer is yes to that. But we are seeing them hold back in the sending of weapons. That's actually a pretty significant sign, given that the United States and Israel has a long-standing connection on military support, where the United States is a big provider of that.

Has the United States done that many times before, withheld the weapons? Not many times before. It has happened before, but not many times before. But that is a pretty significant step. Prime Minister Netanyahu, I would say, is someone who Joe Biden has had a tricky, challenging, difficult relationship with for some time.

People don't always see that. That isn't often talked about.

Well, it's always talked about. President Obama did it all the time. Never wanted to meet with him. When he did meet, he left out the back door famously. Then he came and tried to tell people how bad the Iran deal was and addressed a joint session of Congress.

And President Obama hated that, and Vice President Biden hated that. The problem is, and Gen Saki, educate yourself. Number one, you should really find out the numbers. Don't listen to Hamas to find out how many casualties and how many people lost their lives. Why don't you find out for yourself?

Number two, and try to do the calculations using war college information. Number two, the Prime Minister echoes the same battle policy and military philosophy of his two primary opponents, Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Lepid. They'll both be running against him, but they don't have any criticism about the way he's prosecuted in the war. That's the problem. You want to blame Netanyahu.

It's not the problem. I hope you guys all understand that. House Majority Leader Steve Scalees at the bottom of the hour. We'll take your calls next. 1-866-408-7669.

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You know, I was disappointed. That doesn't change my support for the president or the situation, but I do believe that given in that situation when you have the kind of enemy that has no conditions or You know, morals or decency or any kind of a bottom. And I don't think we should have any kind of conditions. And I haven't seen anything with Israel's conduct that would ever justify conditions.

So, Senator Fetterman standing up. Also, on this weekend show, I had to do the interview ahead of time for Senator Mansion schedule, but Senator Mansion, same thing, Alison. We might want to pull that sound. I used it on television today. on Senator Manchin, who who told us that he feels like Fetterman does.

There's no way he should be pulling this back. There's no way you should be pulling aid. There's no way he even wants to be associated in the same party as those co those protesters. And as the squad. General Jack Keen wait in.

So here's the thing: this is the sports reference is the easiest.

So you might be the owner of the team. But you hired a coach to win games. If you're Jerry Jones once in a while, because you played football in college, you'll be hands-on. That's more hands-on than you probably should be. But for the most part, owners sit back and watch.

Well, Arthur Blanks, can you imagine? Because he founded Home Depot and has been this great business person. He picks the coach to run the game.

Now you have a situation where you have a president deciding to tell another country's military how to fight. Who does that? Who does that? He knows nothing about the military. He never served.

He doesn't have any military background. He's never been he's been chairman of foreign relations. That doesn't tell you how to fight a war, and he's been wrong about every conflict we've been in his entire career. Here's General Jack Keene. Here's what he told me this morning: cut nine.

Right from the beginning when they started to wire brush Uh Israel over how they were conducting their c their military campaign and specifically dealing uh with Rafah itself. I mean, we should stay out of micromanaging an operational campaign. I mean, strategic issues, I understand that completely, but not this. And it makes no sense whatsoever. You can't win if you don't wipe out the other side.

They have 8,000 troops in Rafah. Why, if you want to achieve your objective, do you wait? They've already waited too long. They could have been in there. One thing Trump said quickly.

He didn't say how. He said, I would told them to get in there and get it over with. True. Guess who's been holding him back? This administration.

Guess who held him back of really giving retribution to Iran? This administration. Iran got the message, reportedly, but the rest of the world thought it was a meek response. Here's more from Jack Keene and he asked him too. Where are they going right now?

What are they doing about this? Uh what does the rest of the world think? Cut 8. And our adversaries, I mean, I think they look at it much like we did with uh Afghanistan. They look at it the United States pulled out of Afghanistan walking away from an ally we've been dealing with for 20 years, fighting side by side and helped surrender the country to an adver uh to the enemy.

And here we are w walking away from Israel. And our adversaries look at that and they see it as weakness, obviously, is what it is. And by the way, the President of the United States is speaking now before he goes into the last day of trial this week. Michael Cohen will be coming up Monday. We'll bring back some of his comments.

But the President of the United States has some backing. He came out and ripped this decision to withhold weapons, ripped it, and so did Senator Fetterman, you just heard. And this is what I was talking about. This is Senator Manchin. Listen.

Now, making decisions on what you can and what you can't use, you got to do the our way or no way at all. That's not who we are, and it's not what we should be doing. I have said. I've been asked today about, and I've said openly that I think it's wrong. I think that we shouldn't be.

Yeah, and he goes on. That's a Democrat. Saying that. I'm sure we're about to hear from Um Moskowitz, same thing, a Democrat. I just can't believe it.

I just, it bothers me because our whole reputation has been sullied. And you know where China was? China's visiting Serbia, visiting Hungary. Why is that significant? Because those are kind of countries that feel as though they're left out in the cold with a lot of other Western countries.

Victor Orban's a dicey character, but he's in total control of that country. He thinks Hungary first. And now he's meeting with China talking about setting up a type relationship. I'm not comfortable with that. I'm not comfortable with China.

Uh going into Saudi Arabia.

Now these aren't ideal allies, but they are allies. Why are we letting our enemy, even though we don't admit they're the enemy in most circles, do this? Crazy.

So, because of this, people are talking about impeachment with the president.

Now, I know that dog is not going to hunt, not with a two-seat majority in the House and a one-sided seat deficit in the Senate. But if you talk about how this relates to what the former president was doing in Ukraine, It's game on. Listen to T uh Tom Cotton, Cut Eleven. It would also, I have to add, be grounds for impeachment. Under the Democrats' Trump-Ukraine standard, withholding foreign aid to help one's re-election.

Only with Joe Biden it's true. It's true. Lindsey Graham. who doesn't want to tear everybody up with impeachment, doesn't really talk like that, said, look at I'm look at the criteria.

Now what did Trump do? He's accused of in Ukraine holding back weapons in turn for finding out what Joe Biden was up to in Ukraine, some unsavory activity. Day he would be his opponent. And now what they're saying right now, you're holding up they said the main thing is you're holding up foreign aid that was earmarked by Congress to Ukraine for your own behest. You could honestly say this is all about Joe Biden's election, reelection.

And what are you doing? Holding up aid. It was legislatively issued to. Israel, it's not up to you to make that decision. Cut twelve, Lindsey Graham.

I didn't come here to talk about that, but given what they did to Trump, I think you'd make a good argument. But I I didn't come here to impeach the President. I came here to let everybody know we don't agree with this decision. Yeah. And it's insulting.

And I hope they push hard, push back. But as I told you last hour, this is what he's dealing with, and I don't have any empathy for him. To me, if you're a leader, you decide this. You explain to the American people relentlessly, relentlessly, that speech he gave against anti-Semitism on Holocaust Memorial Day means nothing now. As good as it was, it shows the next day this action was already en route to cut off weapons to Israel, who are fighting for their very existence.

What you explain to the American people is this. I know some of the video that you're seeing is horrific, but you're also seeing only what they want you to say. Number two, do you know why those people are in the line of fire? Because Hamas has built 500 square miles of tunnels underneath. They become virtual condos and weapons depots, at which time they protect themselves and have the Palestinians out there as human sacrifices because they know with every dead Palestinian, we lose the world begins to side with them.

And Israel looks like thugs. They're not aiming for them, but they go into schools, they go into playgrounds, they go into hospitals. The president's got to explain that. The Secretary of State's got to explain that. Jake Sullivan's got to explain that.

The press secretary's got to explain that. And not make excuses for Israel. If they kill an aid truck, like what happened with that kitchen. Understand. But that's called a mistake.

When we blow up someone putting water bottles in his car and mistakenly tell everybody that it was a would-be suicide bomber. We later came out and said we made a mistake. Israel didn't turn on us. We didn't get yelled at by France. We know and even Afghanistan understood what we were dealing with after Abbey Gate.

But that's what happens with the best military in the world. Israel's right up there with us.

Sometimes they make mistakes. To me, it's just such an easy explanation. And what happens is you might not like the explanation, but that is the truth as we see it, and that's my foreign policy.

So that's what he's done. I think this is a terrible mistake. I also think that anybody right now on college campuses is not going to go, okay, now I'm going to vote for Joe Biden or not vote for Joe Biden, judging by how he's now depriving Israel from weapons that they need. It's not going to happen. In fact, Israel might be more aggressive, saying, what do I have to lose?

It just shows you don't get it. And evidently there's a I was listening to Ben Shapiro yesterday, and he was talking about an interaction that then first term Senator Joe Biden was having with then Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin. And Joe Biden, even back then, arrogantly was telling Bagan how he should be fighting a war in Lebanon. And Begin basically said, You don't have to give me any aid. We're going to survive forever without you.

After all, this guy's parents was wiped out in the Holocaust. He was managed to survive. He came back to run a country from the ground up.

So I just think we need a perspective again. We need a reconfiguration of what is important to us. And I'm going to bring that up with Steve Scalise when we come back. He's the House majority leader. Republicans aren't in this fight.

This is a fight between Democrats and Democrats, between a panicked president. whose ratings are dropping, whose performance is is Mind-numbingly bad. Who is being hidden from the press? when he's needed most to explain why he deserves another four years. and a vice president talking about the glory of abortion.

As usual, going overboard because she doesn't understand any issues. We listen to the Brain Kill Me Show. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade. Hey, we're back and with me in studio.

It's our privilege to bring in. If you're smart enough to be getting the app, watch you on the app for Fox Nation, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. Great to see you, Congressman. Ryan, it's great to be in studio with you. I know, yeah.

Not in Louisiana, not in Washington. You're here. First off, I got to ask you: I just played some cuts from Tom Cotton, and we know about. Congressman Mills moving forward to say that the President withholding information, withholding arms for Israel, is impeachable. Are you willing to go there yet?

Even though it has no shot of passing right what I want to do is get the arms to Israel because Israel's fighting a terrorist organization, Hamas. And ultimately, if you look at Rafah, it's one more step where Hamas is embedded in a lot of these cities and areas of parts of Gaza. And you've heard Netanyahu. They want to eviscerate Hamas. And it's not just Netanyahu, because it seems like the Biden administration hates the prime minister of Israel, but even the opposition party to Netanyahu supports what they're doing.

to eviscerate Hamas. And yet Biden's walking away from Israel. And so we want to get those arms. By the way, these are arms that Israel paid for over a year ago in some cases. And Biden's...

They paid for their arms? They paid for it. And we're not giving them the money back, but Biden's not delivering the arms.

So at the end of the day, he's trying, and everybody knows this, Biden is trying to appease the pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party, these radicals that are out there defacing college campuses, George Washington statue, burning American flags, the World War I memorial. Those same people are the ones that are yelling to walk away from Israel, and Biden is actually listening to them. You're no stranger to politics.

Sometimes you feel a certain way, but the American people feel differently. He's looking at his party and saying, I'm not going to say anything because I can't figure out this anti Semitism, this pro Palestinian movement, and that's my base. That's a degree of his base.

So he does the worst, does nothing. Instead of saying, I'm going to come out for them and maybe setting up a pup tent himself, or condemning them. He like Fetterman does and like Joe Manchin does, he goes along with it. Yeah, just show some moral clarity. The country is so hungry for that, by the way.

Most Democrats are hungry for that moral clarity to say, we stand with Israel. When you get terrorists, Iranian-backed terrorists, Hamas, are out there murdering Israelis. They still have 130-plus hostages, including American citizens. And who's Joe Biden going after? Not the terrorists who are holding Americans hostage.

He's going after Israel. People are sick and tired of that. Democrats don't. Like what Joe Biden is doing. But again, he's paralyzed because he's got this crazy far-left wing of his party that he is catering to.

Instead of standing up to him and saying, you're wrong, show the moral clarity. We support Israel, Republicans and Democrats alike. Joe Biden won't do it. All right. Let's talk about 2024.

From your perspective, too. They said that it's been a chaotic. Congress for the last two years. You know, about the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, you were never in support of that. You were going through treatment at the time.

I never thought it was going to come out. And then all of a sudden they toss him out and it takes weeks to get another speaker.

Now you finally have one, and Marjorie Taylor Green takes a run at him. Your thought to end Tom Massey, your thoughts about eleven votes to oust him. Democrats helped him. But Punch Bowl was saying that they expected maybe five. It ends up being 11.

Does 11 bother you? I mean, look, 95% of our conference voted to keep Speaker Johnson in place and Kevin McCarthy.

Some of those people that voted against our motion to table said that they still would have voted to keep. The speaker, they just wanted it to go forward. Regardless, 95% is a getting 95% of Republicans to agree on anything is tough. You sure don't get 95% of Democrats to agree because over 80% of them were in different places, too. But regardless, most of our members and most of Republicans and swing voters around the country are focused on November 5th.

It's all about electing Donald Trump president. And anything that anybody's doing between now and then that's not focused on unifying and replacing Joe Biden with Donald Trump on November 5th is missing the boat, is really not focused on the right things. And so that's where I am. That's where I think most people are.

So, and you're coming off your cancer treatment. You look 100%. And you were telling us before how great you feel, and you look great, but you're behind the eight ball when it comes to money. And Democrats feel as though they have momentum.

Some people say they're almost co-leading your Congress. Keem Jeffries and Johnson are co-leading. What do you say to that?

Well, what I would say is go look at some of the votes we've had, including this week. We had a bill to say that illegal should not be counted in the census. Every Republican voted for that bill. But, Brian, every Democrat voted against it. We're going to continue to bring bills that show the country the direction we should.

And Democrats are on the wrong side of all these issues. We had a bill to open up Anwar, the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, to drilling Section 1002 to have drilling again. Trump wanted to open it up. Joe Biden shut it down. Do you know that the Democrat representing the state of Alaska, who wants this, by the way, they want energy production in Alaska, their own Democrat member of Congress would not vote for the bill?

And so over and over again, you're seeing votes that we're bringing to at least show the country how to fix these problems, how to lower inflation, how to secure America's border, HR2, the bill to secure America's border. Every Republican voted for it. Every Democrat voted against it. Congressman Scales, you said there are 40 seats in play, base. Yeah.

I've got 435 seats. You say out of all of them, 40 are really in play.

So with that, Democrats feel confident that they showed that they can lead better than you guys because people pretty much got in line with Nancy Pelosi. Is that an argument you see when you show up in places like Long Island and you try to help out DS Posito and Gaborino keep Barberino keep their seats?

Well, I was in those districts yesterday, and we had great crowds. They don't want Nancy Pelosi or Hakeem Jeffries in charge. They were unified in an agenda that's against what most Americans want. If you like the inflation, if you like the high cost of everything, you like an open border. For you, you know that Democrats are unified in keeping an open border.

Again, we had to build a close-up. The open border issues and stopping. The issues are where people are. Nobody's concerned. Nobody even knows who some of these, you know, when you think about the palace intrigue of who's running and jockeying for what position in Washington.

People don't know or care about any of that stuff. They know how much they're paying at the grocery store. It's too much. They know when they go to the pump. They're paying 50% more to fill up their car for gasoline.

And they don't have EVs, by the way. They have diesel or gasoline-powered vehicles, and that's what they want to have. And they're paying too much for it. Joe Biden doesn't even know what inflation is. He thought it was 9% when he walked into the door when he took the oath of office.

It was 1.5%. And now it's over the top. People are fed up. I want you to hear what he said to Aaron Burnett yesterday. He had 15 lies in 17 minutes, cut 16.

No president's had the run we've had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation. It was 9% when I came to office. 9%. But look, people have a right to be concerned.

Now, do you think he knows he lied? I don't think he does. And I think that's what alarms most people. When he says some of this stuff, people just shake their heads. Every time he said it.

And, you know, and then he goes to a press conference and he holds a sheet of paper and he said, they told me to call on this person. People are like, you're the president of the United States, for goodness sake. Shouldn't you be the one that knows what you're going to do when you clear focus? Yes, you're in leadership. You had security.

Has anyone ever given you a card that tells you who to call on? No. And I mean, they'll give you advice, and you ask for good advice. You want to know what are all the different angles of every decision before I make it. But at the end of the day, I've got to make the decision and I've got to stand behind it because it's my name on the door.

It's not some staffer's name. It's your name, and you're up on the ballot. And so Joe Biden's on the ballot, and people don't like the decisions he's been making, whether it's other people that are in the room making those decisions or not, Afghanistan, the same people that made the Afghanistan decision with Joe Biden are still making these failed decisions to walk away from Israel.

So that's where people are. November 5th, that's on the ballot. You will like this direction. People know Joe Biden's where you want to go. Donald Trump will turn this around, and people know that too.

That's why you see so much enthusiasm for Donald Trump, and his rallies are sold out. Joe Biden can't fill a room of 20 people.

So it is strange to see that almost everybody agrees that the polls show you've gained Hispanic votes. The polls show you're gaining black votes. The polls show that you're gaining young voters. But almost every poll shows battleground states within the margin of error, three or four points.

So I'm wondering how both things, all those things, can be true. We're a divided nation, but there are more states that are in play right now. I mean, you look at a state like Michigan, which is typically a heavy Democrat state. Donald Trump's leading right now. You know, Pennsylvania, which Joe Biden loves to say, you know, Scranton Joey's from Pennsylvania.

I was in Wilkesbury just a few weeks ago campaigning for our candidates out there, and there was tremendous enthusiasm for Donald Trump. Not for Joe Biden. Nobody wanted to take ownership of Joe Biden in Scranton. They love Donald Trump and what he did when he was in office. They want to get those policies again because energy, again, big issue in a state like Michigan.

The president says he thinks he can vote Virginia and Minnesota. Virginia's now in secret. Is it a campaign plan for that? Oh, yeah. I mean, when you look at, again, on the ground, the polling is already showing that there's all kinds of cracks in the dam on the Democrat side.

A lot of Democrats don't want Joe Biden to be their nominee. We sure want him to be on the ballot, but we know what's at stake in November, and we know there are a lot more states in play because Joe Biden's policies have failed most people, working people especially, lower-income families, are paying the cost for Joe Biden.

So you hear what he said yesterday about the poll. And just inform everyone, the president did speak. In a little while, we're going to bring back some of those comments. He's now in court. And Madeline Westerholt, who you know, right?

She was a key aide to him, is speaking. But yesterday, she did nothing but help the defense because she says, I wasn't there when any checks were written. I wasn't there when Michael Cohen came to meet. I was on the outside. And by the way, can I just say, great family?

I don't like the way they're being treated. That's everybody's report.

So please tell me where the prosecution's scoring because I'll flip channels. I'll hear anything. I'm not a lawyer.

So we'll let you know what goes on. But Michael Cohen's going Monday. Here's what the president said about the polls.

Now, think about this. This guy's 80-something years old. Cut 15. We've already turned him. I'll look.

Look at the Michigan survey. For 65% of American people think they're in good shape economically. They think the nation's not in good shape, but they're personally in good shape. The polling data has been wrong all along. You how how many f you guys do a poll of CNN?

How many folks you have to call to get one response? All right, the fundamentals of all polls? I mean, I understand people don't like polls, and some people don't like different polls, but just to say at CNN. Meaning, Gallup and everything else? You have to call a lot of people to get answers.

That's kind of a weird response from a guy who's been doing this since his 20s. Yeah, he's been in this for over 50 years. He says the polling's good, and then he criticizes the polling when it's bad. In the same sentence. In the same sentence.

And I mean, people are watching this stuff. People know that Joe Biden is not fully informed of all the facts, let's just say. I mean, some of the things he says are just not accurate and they're easily disputed. He thinks there's a secure border. He said the border's secure.

And then the country is livid about it. And then he says, okay, I'll do some kind of show executive order to act like I'm doing something because I know people know the border's not secure, but he still doesn't want to admit it. And he doesn't want to fix the problem, Brian. He won't work with us to fix the problem. And so he wants to do some window dressing.

And it's not going to change what's going on at our border. Again, 8 million is the low number of how many people have come in illegally. It's probably a bigger number, including people on the terrorist watch list. Bad things are happening. People are.

Getting killed. Lake and Riley is not the only one, unfortunately. There's a lot more like Lake and Riley who have died because people illegally have come here that are bad, bad people. And there's more coming, and he won't stop it. Donald Trump would.

Again, this is on the ballot, November 5th. I know it's a different chamber, but Senator Schumer says he's reintroducing the bipartisan legislation. Let him bring that again, by the way, and let's have votes on real border security. Unless you're saying we're going to end catch and release, we're going to restore remain in Mexico. We're going to go resume construction of the wall.

The money's still there, by the way, to build the wall. Joe Biden ordered, halted construction of the wall his first day in office because it was working. And now what Joe Biden's done is failing miserably, but it's deliberate. It's not accidental. If it was accidental, he'd reverse the things he did himself.

So Joe Biden wants an open border. By the way, every Democrat in the House who voted against our border security bill has proven they want an open border. And Chuck Schumer wants an open border. If they used to solve the problem, he never used. To, you know, Joe Biden used to say he wanted, you know, again, Joe Biden said he used to support Israel.

Today he does not support Israel.

So he has changed to appease the far-left radical elements of his party, the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party. We're consistently out there continuing to support those conservative principles that have made our country great. But again, this is where the country is going to have to make a decision, November 5th. Congressman Scalise, I want to leave some time on the other side, so I'm going to talk to you about your interaction with the President's one-on-one. And we come back about the trial and the role it's playing when you get out on the stump.

You listen to Brian, Kilmey Chill. Don't move. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmeat. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Kilmead. I couldn't live with myself if I did a deal with the Democrats. If you can't sustain being Speaker by your own majority, should you sustain it? Then my question, no.

So either I'm going to win Speaker and be the leader with the majority, otherwise it's not right to be the Speaker.

Well, what do you feel about that, Steve Scalise, about Kev McCarthy? Obviously, Johnson stayed because he got the all hundreds of Democratic votes. Yeah, and like, I mean, I know Kevin, there was a time when he was. Thinking that Democrats might help him too. At the end of the day, Mike's got the confidence of, again, 95% of our conference voted to support him.

And most. People, not just in Congress. I mean, you leave the bubble of Washington, D.C. Most Americans are focused on November 5th, on what we need to do to get our country back on track. And it doesn't bode well, by the way, for Joe Biden.

Donald Trump is doing great because people know, whether you voted for him or not in 2020, you knew the economy was doing great. You knew we had a secure border, and you knew our allies all trusted that America had their back. None of that's the case today because of the failures of Biden. Trump can turn that around quickly, but people need to vote on November 5th if you want to make that change. And I think they will.

Kevin McCarthy's still angry, obviously. Yeah, look, I mean, at the end of the day, we've got to focus on what's in front of us, not what's behind us and what happened in October. I don't like some of the things that happened, but at the same time, I'm focused on what we can do to change the direction of the country. Not about our own internal politics and who's got what titles. All that stuff is only important in Washington to people inside the Beltway.

You talk to people, and I go around all around the country to swing districts, people who are struggling, who are living paycheck to paycheck, who are blue-collar workers, the people that actually make America work. They're fed up. They're fed up with the direction of the country. They want a change. They're excited about Donald Trump and electing more Republicans to the House when I'm going to campaign for these Republican candidates, for example.

You get rallies of hundreds of people in blue-collar towns that are Democrat strongholds, Brian. That's what Trump is seeing. That's what we're seeing. And so let's focus on what's at stake November 5th. And anything we're doing that doesn't focus on that is wasted time.

But you do want to. Try to get something done in the meantime. Yeah, we're still going to be bringing bills to the floor.

Next week is National Police Week, by the way. We love and support, by the way. Thank you for coming. As you know, not everybody in Washington supports our men and women in uniform. We're going to be giving them an opportunity.

We're going to show our cops that we support them when we have their back. And whoever wants to vote with us, Republican or Democrat alike, please vote with us. But as we know, some don't support a cops. And so everybody's going to have to take a position on these issues. But at least the cops are going to know that they have real support in Congress from a lot of Republicans and maybe even some Democrats too.

But, you know, when they go back into their communities, they're the ones putting their lives on the line to keep us safe. We need to show them we got their back. And we'll do that next week. If you were healthy, do you think you would have got the votes for Speaker? Oh, look, I mean, I made a run at it.

You were getting cancer at the time. And I know there were some people that said, look, why don't you focus on your health? And luckily, I've been able to. And I'm now in remission and no longer on chemotherapy. God presented a lot of great miracles and prayers were answered.

But, you know, I'm focused on the job at hand. We've got a lot of work to do between now and November 5th. We're going to be bringing bills to the floor. Again, should illegals vote in elections? That's a question that some cities have said, look at New York City, look at D.C., they passed an ordinance in D.C.

to allow illegals to vote.

So we're bringing a bill to the floor to say illegals should not be able to vote. It's a pretty basic question. It's like when we brought a bill to say, you know, you've had Riley Gaines on, you know, should men be able to compete in women's sports? I don't think so. We had a bill to say they shouldn't.

Every Republican voted to say men shouldn't play in women's sports, but every Democrat in Congress voted to say. Men should be able to compete in women's sports. There's a divide in a nation. They have any daughters. Do they have any daughters?

They do, and you know, they should be standing up for those women. Title IX, you don't respect Title IX if you want men to compete in women's sports.

So these are the issues that people keep working on. That's what we're going to keep working on. Yes, indeed. And what you don't like to use your daughters. Thanks for Steve's calling.

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show. Coming to you from Midtown Manhattan, but heard around the country, around the world.

By the way, this is really the fulcrum, the center of all the campus unrest that began in uptown, went all the way downtown to NYU, and then further downtown is the President of the United States on trial still. With me in studio is Congressman Wesley Hunt, bottom of the hour. We break down what's happening in court today and what's going to be happening on Monday with Michael Cohen. And we'll get to Congressman Hunt in just a second. We're following all the breaking news, too.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three.

Well, first of all, it just proves that President Biden has the authority to close the border if he wants to. He wants an open border. That's why we can't trust him. Senator Ron Johnson talked about why this bipartisan legislation that's going to be brought up again is not going to hunt. Suddenly, Dems see the light on the broken border and scramble to blame the GOP.

That's impossible to imagine spin. Number two, another interesting contradiction. You have all of this discussion of his signing the checks in the White House after the election to influence the election. And somehow, retroactively, that was stealing the election. Jonathan Turley is breaking down what's been done so far, and he thinks the joke is the case is getting worse every day that goes by.

Now we're in day 15. Stormy sails away, leaving baggage everywhere for the prosecution and damage to the president's reputation. We review and preview what's happening today. Number But the idea. that we would cut off Military aid.

to an ally. our only true, true ally. in the entire region. It's absolutely preposterous. Well, that's exactly what Joe Biden did.

It's all heating up. As Joe Biden sit down with CNN, it did not go well, and the Israeli shakedown is not going over well. From coast to coast, there is reverberations.

Meanwhile, with CNN, 15 falsities in 17 minutes. We'll go over them. Plus, a major Trump rally set for Saturday in New Jersey. The former president, a major push for big bucks. Congressman Wesley Hunt in studio from the 38th District in Texas.

He's on the Judiciary Committee, Small Business Committee, and co-chair of the Black Jewish Caucus. I did not know there was a Black Jewish caucus. Yes, there is. When did that start? It started a while back ago, actually.

Yes, it did. It's been around for a while. I have a pretty large Jewish community that's actually in my district. And so to be a part of this coalition, to basically share a lot of similarities that we have in our communities, it's actually an honor to do it, especially in these trying times. And how are they handling this?

Is there a campus near your district? There's not a campus near my district, but I mean, we're seeing the anti-Semitism just across the country, generally speaking, and you really can't ignore it. And Brian, I went to Cornell for grad school, and a couple of months ago, I was one of the first members of Congress to send the president of some of these Ivy League schools a letter demanding them to fight against anti-Semitism. And so, even though there may not be one in my district, these are still national issues that have to be tackled.

Well, you know what they're doing? There's still encampments there. I interviewed a student, sophomore student, Jewish, and she says it's blatant. People screaming things at her, baby kill her. And at the same time, you got faculty.

Teaching class amongst the encampments in front of the pup tents. Come on. This is a cultural issue.

So let's just take the tail of the tape and the tail of two cultures in Texas. You have the University of Texas, where there are encampments, and then there's Texas AM, where there are none.

So either we're going to take a stand and allow people to have free speech and allow people to be edgy while they're in college, but it stops when you start threatening the lives of students. And it's not okay for you to threaten the lives of the Jewish students just because, quite frankly, Brian, because they have lighter skin. If these were black students that were being threatened like this, all the faculty members and everyone that would be doing it would have been kicked out of these campuses yesterday. And as a black man, what I want to see is parity for all races, no matter what you look like.

So this is why I'm fighting very hard for my Jewish comrades, because at the end of the day, sir, we are all Americans first. And you don't get to treat people differently just because they're Jewish or because they're black. That's all. Yeah, I just don't understand how a couple of things. Number one, where this all came from.

From totally caught me by surprise. If you said there was anti-Semitism in this country, I go, Yeah, there might be some idiots out there who are ignorant, but a handful. And now it's everywhere. And it's not just, and then to have, do you know, Congressman Bowman? Yes.

He came out and said it's not overboard. There's no anti-Semitism in campus. That's insane. Right. I mean, that's a lie.

Yes, it's a bullface lie. We're watching it play out in live and in living color. I'll tell you something, Mr. Brian. I'm a combat veteran.

Went to West Point, deployed to Iraq, flew 55 combat air missions in Baghdad, did two tours of duty in Saudi Arabia as a diplomatic liaison officer. What I know about that region is that Israel is our only true ally in that region. And Israel put the Judeo in Judeo-Christian. And if someone attacked us, like they were attacked on October the 7th, I actually wouldn't be sitting across from you right now because I would have quit Congress, got trained up back in the Apache helicopter, and I'd be fighting for our freedom again.

So for us not, for us to expect Israel to not do the exact same thing. Thing to those that did this to them, and it'll allow them to not target Hamas is hypocritical. How could we leave 8,000 members of Hamas in this one city and just leave them there? And that, and I want you to hear what Admiral Kirby said. I mean, this guy's, needless to say, this guy's been in the military's entire career.

He can't feel good about saying this. Cut three. The president and his team? Have been clear for several weeks that we do not support a major ground operation in Rafa. Where more than a million people are sheltering.

With nowhere safe to go. President has said that publicly, and he has communicated that. repeatedly and straightforwardly. To Prime Minister Netanyahu, we have proposed alternative methods of defeating Hamas that do not involve a major ground operation in Rafa.

Thoughts. And Hamas wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, but they can't. Israel Wants to destroy Hamas, but they won't do it in a manner in which Hamas would do to Israel if they had that same kind of power. Actually, Israel is showing a lot of restraint by wanting to target the individuals that were doing this, that did this on October the 7th. They have the ability to turn Gaza into a parking lot if they wanted to, but they choose not to.

So, this is the tale of two cultures. We're trying our best to save innocent lives. But, Brian, I'm here to tell you, brother, I've been to war.

Sometimes innocent people are going to die. But the fact that they're trying to do this as systematically as possible and target those that want to harm them, we should allow them to do just that, arm them with the weapons to do that, and give them their autonomy to defend themselves in the future. They set up a sub-terrarian city, 500 square miles. They have become weapons depots and basic condos. And they want Palestinians to die because it puts heat on the Israelis.

Why can't the president explain that? They are hiding behind hospitals. They are hiding behind ambulances. And I saw this in 2006 when I was in Iraq. I remember watching some insurgents hide in mosques and then aim and shoot at coalition forces so they knew that Apaches couldn't shoot at them because they're sitting in a mosque.

So then we had to actually use a different weapon system to target them because we didn't want to wipe out the mosque, because we knew that there were innocent people in there and we didn't want to kill innocent women and children and those that did nothing wrong.

So again, we're in a very similar position. We should allow them to target those people, even in some precarious spots, even beneath hospitals, even beneath tunnels, even in ambulances, to make sure that we get the bad guys out of the way so that they don't try to do this again as they have sworn to do to Israel in the future.

So I think President Trump had good instincts on this. He said, I don't want to, you know, let these guys figure it out. I guess he's mad at Netanyahu, but he said, I would say, Israel, get in there, get it done quickly. Yes. Whatever you do, do it quickly.

But guess what happens? You have the administration say, take the weapons. We back you, but slow down. You are. Yes.

But slow down. And then after Iran tries to hit him with 300 rockets, you take the win. It's not take the win, send the message back. Do you know what that neighborhood's like? Do you know what you have the humility to say, I don't know.

Number one, the president has no military experience. Number two, he's never lived in a Middle Eastern country.

So you got to do the best you can to put the people in charge to make the decisions, give you the advice. Who's giving him advice? Jake Solv and Anthony Blinken? What do they know about the business of war? Clearly, nothing.

And this is also the reason why President Trump needs to come back, because we need peace through strength. The strongest thing diplomatically that I've seen in that region was during President Trump's first term, he moved the embassy to Jerusalem. That was a very strong move to show the entire world do not mess with Israel. And because of that, we weren't spending billions of dollars. We weren't having these kinds of conversations because we were respected.

And so that kind of strength is what we need back, not just for us, but for the entire world. You are correct. Joe Biden and Blinken have absolutely no idea what's going on. This is feckless leadership, and the world is watching. What's with Lloyd Austin?

Do you talk to him one-on-one? He must respect your service. You probably can talk to him at a higher level than the average legislator. Have you ever had a conversation with him? I have not.

And actually, we're actually both West Point graduates on top of that. And I've not spoken with him one-on-one. I would like to. Did you try? Because I do have questions.

We will reach out to his office here in the not so distant future. Me and my buddy Corey Mills, actually.

So I'm wondering why he doesn't have more of a high profile. I mean, I'm used to a Secretary of Defense having press conferences. I'm used to a Secretary of Defense walking around talking to people and getting educating the American people about the business of running the Defense Department. He's a West Point grad. I know what he was taught, and I know how he was trained.

And the one thing you do, especially as a four-star general, and there aren't very many of them that's ever existed on this planet, is you leave from the front or you get out of the way. He has completely disappeared.

Now, I know he had a bit of a health issue. And if you recall, Joe Biden had no idea that his Secretary of Defense had a health issue.

So, there is a true issue with the chain of command going on in this administration. There's a lack of awareness and a lack of coordination, which is actually unacceptable for a four-star general. And I would love to sit on talk to him at some point in the not so distant future to ask him these questions. Right. I mean, did you have to sell your soul and your conviction in order to get this job?

It sure looks like it, doesn't it? Brian, it reeks of it. It does. It reeks of it. I mean, put it this way: Mattis walked away from Trump because he didn't, he thought Trump was pulling out of Syria.

Correct. He ended up not pulling all the troops out of Syria and ended up leaving there. But he said, okay, if you're not going to listen to me, I'm going to leave. And the best thing about what he did was he didn't write a book. He didn't say anything.

He is a soldier, soldier. He did write a book. He went away. He did write a book. But that was prior to that.

But prior to that. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, but again, he will not do anything. He will not do it. I text him.

He will not do anything. No, because he's a soldier. Right. Same with McCraven's been kind of quiet, and so is McChrystal. McChrystal will not do anything either.

It's the right thing to do. Right. And you don't criticize the commander-in-chief once you've served under him. And if he does something that you don't like, the soldier's thing to do is to resign and keep her mouth shut. All right, Congressman Wesley Hunt is here.

He's got to get his first bill on the floor, right?

Next week. Recruiting detainees. And I'm going to be in Washington Monday, Tuesday for Law Enforcement Week. Yes. I'll be doing the show from there.

I'll catch up to you again. How that all relates and ties together. We're following all the other breaking news as it relates to the president's trial right downtown.

So glad you're here. Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's Talking About It.

You're with Brian Kilmead. A couple more minutes with Congressman Wesley Hunt.

Next week is Law Enforcement Week. And after Jonathan Dillow gets killed in my town, and I see the show of support and talk to so many of them, I feel like we've turned the corner on respect for the cops. It got so bad in 2020, Congressman, that I don't even know where law enforcement would go with people putting down their badges, retiring early.

So your focus. On this week. and some hope around the corner. And what your bill has to do.

So, my bill is a recruit and retain act. It's a bipartisan bill that I got to work with Glenn Ivey on. It was actually a pleasure to work with him because this is actually an issue that Democrats and Republicans can agree on at this point. Who's Glenn Ivey? Glenn Ivey is a Democrat out of Virginia.

And he's a fantastic, fantastic man. And we got to work together on this. We're both on a House Judiciary Committee. And basically, we're trying to raise the numbers of people that we are trying to recruit back to our forces to make our society a safer place. You're going to go make an effort to unretire people?

Not to unretire people, but to make it easier to recruit good people and to allow the and to allow local governments to empower them and to give them some funds to. To advocate more for pro-police type messaging to get people back on board. Because what we've seen in the last few years is basically an assault on our first responders, an assault on our police officers. We've hamstrung them and made them to look evil. And the defund the police movement has been an existential threat to the safety of our reimagining police.

And we watched the meltdown that happened here in New York, the meltdown that happened in Minneapolis and cities all over our country, the summer of love. And you watch the aftermath of that and you're seeing where we're at right now. And even my wife has a hard time just concerned about going to put gas in her car. And I tell you what, when things go bad and when stuff hits the fan, the first thing that people are going to call what? Law enforcement.

And so, one story that I want to say about this, too. It's a story that I hear from many families. The best sound that a spouse can hear at the end of a day is the sound of Velcro. And do you know why? Because that means their spouse returned home and they're taking off their flat jacket and their bulletproof vest, and it means that they are safe.

So these people are getting paid, as we talked about earlier, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 a year on the high end to risk their lives for us every single day. And we need more of them in our country.

So that's going to have money to local police. Yes, it is.

So it's money. Yes, it is.

All right. What about getting rid of consent decree? Yeah, so consent decree basically. disincentivizes people to want to serve because if they if if a police officer makes a mistake or does one thing wrong or perceive or perceive mistake and hindsight's always twenty twenty then then they could be essentially Face prison time for it. We are humans.

We are not perfect. We are a highly policed society with over 350 million people here. And if you look at the incidences that we see in this country, thousands of them, ranging from an all-out gang war to a cat in a tree, we do a very good job on policing our own.

So we need to allow these people the autonomy to operate and work to keep themselves safe and to keep our citizens safe without them worrying about going to jail. One idea, just looking at you. How many years in the military? Eight years in the military, four years at West Point.

So when you got out of the military. I would, if I'm a cop and I want, I would be right in your face to try to get you to become a policeman. Yeah. So is there recruiting done for men and women getting out of the police force, getting out of the military, to maybe get them into law enforcement? Yes, there is.

And what we have to do is in the awokeness, We need to stop talking about pronouns and it absolutely is happening and it's happening because if you think about it, there are a lot of concentric circles. If you look at somebody that wants to serve in the military and then also go into law, into law enforcement post-military. And so that's the people that you want, those warriors and the mentality of protecting others. And so that's actually a part of my bill, too, is to go after those prior service military people with really good records that want to continue to serve this nation. All right.

For you, as a black man in Washington, a black Republican, number one, have you felt prey for people of black Republicans? And have you gotten blowback in the community, the black community, for being a Republican, number one? And number two, do you feel as though it's still more difficult to drive or do things as a black man in America than it is for a white guy? Absolutely not, not today. Um, let me tell you a little bit about my district.

So, I am the congressman for a white majority district in a suburb of Texas in Houston, Texas, that President Trump would have won by 25 points, and I won by 29 points. Again, a white majority, heavy red district. I ran against nine people in my primary last year and beaten. There were nine white guys, by the way, and beat them by 30 points. I am literally being judged not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character today, my great-great-grandfather was born on a plantation.

He has three great-great-grandkids. My brother, my sister, and I, all three of us went to West Point. All three of us served our nation, and I am a United States congressman in a white majority district. That is called progress. I want to continue that progress.

It wasn't this way 30, 40 years ago. My parents were involved in the civil rights movement. My dad is alive and well. He is 74 years old. Grew up in a segregated South outside in New Orleans.

And guess what? Here I stand before you today. That is the America that I know. Also, it was the Democrats that wanted segregation, and Jimmy. You are correct.

Thank you. People forget that. You are correct. Congressman, continue to write your great success story. And I will see you next week.

Congressman Wesley Hunt, Tom Dupree next, to break down what's happening in the courts. You listen to the Brian Killmeat Show. God bless you, Barbara. Thank you for having me. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Everybody saw what happened today. I don't think we have to do any explaining. I'm not allowed to win away because this judge is corrupt. He's a corrupt judge.

This judge, what he did and what his ruling was, is a disgrace. Everybody saw what happened today. He's a corrupt judge, and he's totally conflicting. And I gotta get back on the campaign trail. I'm not supposed to be here.

We are so innocent. There's never been anything like it. Meet every single analyst, legal analyst. I'm innocent and I'm being held in this court with a corrupt judge who's totally conflicted. Take a look at his conflict.

It's a disgrace to the city of New York, to the state of New York, and to the country. President has fired up. Very similar remarks from yesterday and the day before. He does. He just feels like it's a waste of time.

And this is a guy, not only personally, Does he like to hate wasting time? He also knows this is hurting his goal, which is to become the next president of the United States in everyday matters. And it bothers him. And plus, he's got to listen to all this crap going back and forth. And there's no substance to this case.

The Wall Street Journal just wrote a storytelling. This is the implosion of lawfare. Joining us now is Tom Dupree, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Tom, I've been doing this show and doing Fox and Friends, so I did outside the President's remarks. I've not seen much that goes on today.

But right now, Madeline Westerhalt, who used to be right outside the Oval Office, she's saying good things yesterday, and that she was not on the meeting with Michael Cohen. what was on which was on the schedule. Anything else of substance, of significance? You know, I don't know I don't think so, Brian. I think what we're going to see today is a lot more of what I would call circumstantial evidence from the prosecution.

You know, people who said, Well, yeah, I saw Michael Cohen had a meeting with Trump, or you know, maybe even I saw Michael Cohen go into the Oval Office for a meeting with Trump. But the prosecution's kind of dancing around a lot of this. I think they need in a hurry to start putting in direct evidence if they have it. Showing about what Trump himself knew and did, particularly vis-à-vis the treatment, the accounting treatment of these payments. That's what the case comes down to.

What have they proven so far?

Well, let's see. We've proven a lot about the nature of the tabloid business in New York. That was what Pecker talked about. We proved, I suppose, that, or I don't know if proved is the right word, but at least we got evidence on the encounter between Stormy Daniels and Trump in the hotel room. But we haven't really gotten the proof of, again, what these charges hinge on, whether or not there was an unlawful accounting treatment of these payments.

I mean, that's what the DA has gotta prove in this case, and I think it's gonna come down to what Michael Cohen has to say next week. And that's why you think that he's Monday. Karen McDougal is nowhere. No more COOs, no more CFOs, no more assistants. Uh, uh, like uh Rana that was there forever, not this one, Madeline that was there, or Hope Hicks that was there.

So they feel is do you think it's uh indicative of what they fi think about the case that Cohen's up on Monday? Do you think that was always the plan? Just your thoughts. I know we don't know for sure. My thought is they put Cohen deliberately at the back end.

They know that he's going to be a terrible witness. They know that the jury, at least a lot of the jurors, probably aren't going to trust a word out of his mouth. We've already heard from other witnesses, prosecution witnesses, who say they dislike Michael Cohen and don't trust him. They know he is very, very dangerous for him in that respect. And so I think from the prosecution's perspective, the way this trial has unfolded, they wanted to get in all of the evidence and build their case as best they could before they finally turned to Michael Cohen.

But look, I think their case is going to, in large part, rise or fall on how Cohen performs next week. You say that Cohen could hurt. Cohen has to help, or else the prosecution goes down in flames.

So at which time, how much rehearsal do you think they've done with him? Oh my gosh, I think they had to do a lot. I mean, look, I think the prosecution knows better than anyone that the fate of their prosecution rests on how Cohen does. And so I would expect that they would have rehearsed this with him. They would have practiced mock questions and answers with him.

They would have done their best to try to get his story out in a coherent way. And they will do their best to inoculate him from what I'm sure is going to be an absolutely searing cross-examination from the Trump defense team.

So give us an idea how this looks.

So Cohen goes up there for how many roughly how many days do you think the prosecution wants to question him? I would say at least a full day, possibly two full days, is my best guess. And then up comes the defense, right? Correct. How many days would you think that's going to be vital for defense?

As much pressure on the defense as prosecution. Yeah, I would say a kind of a similar sort of thing, at least one day, possibly two full days. I mean, look, the Stormy Daniels testimony went much longer than I would have anticipated. I mean, I can't imagine why the prosecution thought it was helpful to them to have her play such a central role at this trial, but they did. And I would imagine Cohen is going to take at least as much time as Stormy Daniels.

And then who's left? You got to feel that this is. The anchor of the prosecution, right? For better or for worse, this is it. Does anyone follow Cohen?

My best guess is no. I mean, who would it be? Karen McDougal's not coming, and I'm not quite sure of who else in the Trump orbit they think could help their case at this point. I think Cohen is going to be the finale and the culmination of the prosecution's case.

So Then the defense goes two or three days. And then you have closing statements. How long can closing statements last?

Well, yes, closing statements will last several hours, but before that, keep in mind the defense can put on its case, right? In other words, The defense could call their own witnesses. You know, the big question is whether they're going to actually call former President Trump. My guess is no. But they would have the right to do that if they wanted to do that.

And they would have the right to put on other witnesses. I'm not sure exactly who they would want. I think this case probably falls more in the category of the defense arguing the prosecution just simply failed to carry its burden of proof and close there. And that is a common strategy. Defendants will simply say, we don't really have much to put on in terms of our own case.

We're not required to. The prosecution is the one that has the burden of proof. And then they would move quickly to closing arguments. But we'll see. If there was a defense witness in theory, if these people exist.

What would you want for defense? What would that witness look like? What role would they have that would help the defense? Like would it be Keith Schiller, who was by President Trump's side when he was businessman and host of The Apprentice? Would it be any of his family members?

Could talk about would a wild card, just be nice about it, would a wild card. Michael Cohen was how he was a breaker rather than a fixer. I mean with any of that help. Yeah, it could. If they can get testimony like that, yeah, it could.

In other words, what I would be thinking if I were in the defense's shoes is ways I could really rebut the prosecution's suggestion that it was Trump himself who made the decision to characterize these as legal expenses or what have you, to basically support the story that this was an instance of Cohen either just acting on his own, going rogue, or that the president kind of did what he did in order to protect the impact on his family rather than for political purposes. That's what I would look to bolster.

So again, we had Stormy Daniels on the stand, and the thing you hope the jury would understand is the only thing that counts, Tom. Yeah. The way the payments Where the money was taken from. And uh and how and what Trump knew about it. Right?

Yes, yes. And that's, Brian, to me, that's what was so perplexing about why the prosecution went down that long road with Stormy Daniels. I mean, look, I get if their goal was to kind of, you know, dirty up Trump and kind of, you know, bring out all this sort of insulation stuff. I get it. I don't think that's a legitimate reason for the prosecutors to do what they did.

But that to me is really the only explanation for it. I mean, they went off on this just, you know, day-long detour about this encounter, alleged encounter, and Tahoe and all of that, which has virtually no relevance to the charges that the jury is going to be asked to render a verdict on at the end of the day. And defense clearly was like, listen, let me tell you, tell me a little bit about yourselves. You speak to dead people, right? Yes.

For a while, you thought your house was possessed. Yes. And what did it turn out being? It ended up being a raccoon. Or a squirrel was in there.

Okay, fine.

So you do you're a medium in the meantime. Have you made money off Donald Trump? Oh, yeah. Whether you want to admit it or not, you had a tour out of this. You sold candles because of this.

You had items out of this. You did interviews because of this. And then this phone call was entered into the fray. This is Stormy Daniels, then attorney, Keith Davidson, 2018, talking to Michael Cohen. Cut twenty six.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he comes out and says, you know what, Stormy Daniels, she wanted this money more than you can ever imagine. I remember hearing her on the phone saying, You Keith Davidson, you better settle this story because if he loses this election and he's going to lose, if he loses this election, we lose all leverage. This case is worth zero.

So why was that important to for the defense to hear?

Well, I think it was good for the defense to get all of that out because it really just goes to the underlying motive of Stormy Daniels' kind of entire role in this case. And look, the prosecution is the one that chose to kind of play this card and to put her credibility and her integrity at issue in this case. And I thought the defense did an effective job in showing, number one, her motive that she dislikes Donald Trump with a passion, that she wants to see him in jail. I think, number two, they did an effective job of showing that throughout this entire sequence of events, more than a decade, she was motivated by financial incentives. She wanted to make money off of all of this.

And I think the defense did a very good job of casting reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury going to her bias, her lack of credibility, and her motive. I thought that was kind of the strengths of what the defense did. Times are pretty since I did pay my retainer. I'm going to try to get the most of it. First off, let's stop in Georgia.

This week, a judge said, okay, the Trump team. And all the other those people side with the RICO, the RICO Act in Georgia. We are going to revisit whether Fonnie Willis should or should not be prosecuting this case. Where is that and why would a judge look at a case and change his mind? Let's see.

So in Georgia, first, I think the important thing for people to understand is the reason why the Georgia case has now basically been put in suspended animation for months. There's not going to be a trial before the election. All of that is attributable to Fonnie Willis's historic misjudgment in deciding to have an affair with one of her prosecutors. This is entirely attributable to that error on her part. I think what's going to go on here is the Court of Appeals is going to look at what the trial judge decided about whether Fonnie Willis needed to be recused, whether you could cure the problem just by kicking off Nathan Wade, her ex-boyfriend.

But that's going to take several months at least for the Court of Appeals to decide it. Maybe they'll decide a harsher sanction was warranted. Maybe they'll agree a lesser sanction was warranted. Maybe they'll agree the trial judge got it exactly right in doing what he's doing. But the bottom line is they are not going to be deciding this in the next month or two.

This is going to be something that's going to happen in the fall.

Okay. If it does happen in the fall, do you really think they'll have a case in the fall where the president's got to sit there with the campaign that close? No way, no way. I cannot imagine a universe, right? On election day, Donald Trump is sitting in a courtroom in Georgia defending this case.

That's not going to happen. Why? Why wouldn't it happen? If Fulton County is just there blatantly political, What would stop them from doing that?

Well, let's see. I mean, several things. First, I can't imagine that the judge, and look, the Georgia judge, I think, has been kind of playing things, you know, more or less down the middle. I mean, we haven't seen kind of the series of insane rulings in Georgia that we've seen in other. courts and cases.

So I would imagine that the Georgia judge himself would not schedule a trial for around the election. If for some reason he did, I would imagine that the Court of Appeals would swoop in and put a stop to it. All right, well on the documents case, Aline Cannon says. I'm going to take a look at some of these issues, some of these challenges. I know May 20th is not going to work.

And now, where is this case? That case, too, is in a state of suspended animation. I don't think we're going to have a trial in that case before the election either. Look, and here, too, I think frankly, a lot of this goes back to decisions that the prosecutors made. Jack Smith made the decision to charge that Mar a Lago classified documents case in Florida rather than in Washington, DC.

I suspect he's regretting that decision. I think if he had charged it in Washington, D.C., it's likelier things would have moved along more quickly. Maybe there would have been a trial before the election, but that's not the road. He chose to take. He brought this case in Florida.

Judge Cannon is, you know, not, I don't want to say she's putting on a slow vote, but she's not expediting the case. She's giving full consideration. She's having lawyers come in to argue these important, complicated issues. And the consequence of all of that is there, too. We're not going to see a trial in Florida before the election.

All right. And the January 6th case? January 6th, that right now is in the hands of the United States Supreme Court. I think that the Supreme Court is going to recognize some scope of presidential immunity. And I also think they are going to send it back to the lower courts to make more fine-tuned decisions or determinations about what actions from former President Trump fall within the scope of immunity and which don't.

There, too, it's a slow process. I think it is going to be hard. I don't want to say 0%, but I think increasingly unlikely, really to the vanishing point, that that trial happens before the election, too. And as you know, the president had a civil trial at which time they found that he was falsifying business records and owned hundreds of million dollars worth of taxes. It's come to light that the judge on that case consulted with an attorney, and that attorney says, Yes, I gave him advice on how much the president should be charged.

This guy was a real estate attorney. He came forward. He's available for all interviews. Could that jeopardize this case? And that is Judge Ergeron.

who I found really repulsive personally.

Well, I got to say, I mean, it's just like one thing after another in this case. I mean, the fact that their attorneys giving him advice out of court on how to decide it certainly raises concerns. I guess what I would say there, though, is we need to figure out, we need to hear more and learn more about precisely where that conversation occurred, what, if anything, the judge did in response to it. I mean, look, attorneys give judges advice all the time. You know, and just the fact that some attorney made a comment to a judge wouldn't be sufficient in and of itself to blow up the verdict.

The question is, what did the judge do in response to it? That's the question. Right. We've known $450 million, a bond of $170 million, and that's going to be kicked up to appeal. And hopefully, justice will eventually be done there.

Tom, Dupree, great job.

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And there you go. This school board over in Virginia has voted 5-1, as he mentioned, to put the names of these Confederate legends back on these schools. Quote, I asked, would you I ask That when you cast your vote, you remember that Stonewall Jackson and others fighting on the side of the Confederacy in this area were intent on protecting the land, the buildings, and the lives of those under attack. This is a woman obviously in favor of the change. Preservation is the focus of those wishing to restore the names.

Quote from Gene Kirby: We are here tonight to go back in time to a time in history that was very cruel, where hatred and racism continued throughout the country and throughout the United States. Kirby went on to say: Is this the type of agency that you want to put in Shadowah County's public school buildings? But the pushback was The go back in history. These were great Americans who were on the wrong side for history. Obviously, their views are not supported today, but they fought for a cause they thought was patriotic.

They were just wrong, but for up until that point, they were considered to be elite Americans.

So, this is the debate going on right now. This is the first time I've ever seen this: a push back to Civil War names. Pretty incredible. That is something worth noting. This is causing a bit of an uproar around the country because they've changed military bases now.

I mean, I'm supposed to be going to like Fort Bragg is now Fort Bragg, is now Fort Liberty.

So, Fort Liberty is where I'm going to be going in a couple of weeks.

So, all these forts, I think they're new forts, and they're not. These bases have all been changed.

So, again, taking down the statues, debating on Civil War generals. It's back on now, and Virginia again leading the charge, where so much of America was forged. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

Brian Kilmer here. Thanks so much for listening. We have a lot going on today. The trial is resuming now for day 15 for Donald Trump. We're also doing the aftermath and cleanup on Stormy Daniels.

That was a joke. Josh Trashauer is standing by because in Congress, they're so upset by what's happening with Joe Biden's latest decision. They're already talking about impeachment. In fact, the talk is more than talk. They're taking action.

Mike Sorelli is going to be with us today. Dan Myrak and Mike Barber. They're going to be talking about fighting this war in Rafa and so much more. These guys do it for a living. They're lethal weapons themselves.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three.

Well, first of all, it just proves that President Biden has the authority to close the border if he wants to. He wants an open border. That's why we can't trust him. That is Ron Johnson, of course, suddenly dims to see the light on the broken border and scramble to blame the GOP. That will not fly.

Number two. Another interesting contradiction. You have all of this discussion of his signing the checks in the White House after the election to influence the election. And somehow, retroactively, that was stealing the election. Jonathan Turley, here we are.

Stormy Daniels sails away, leaving baggage everywhere for the prosecution. They have not been strong. But I'll tell you what, the former president's reputation has not been helped. We review and preview. Number.

But the idea that we would cut off military aid to an ally. our only true, true ally. in the entire region. Is absolutely preposterous. And that was Joe Biden in 2019.

He's done just that in 2024. And then in an interview with Aaron. Burnett, he lies 16 to 15 times in 17 minutes. No joke, Jack. Josh Krashauer joins us now, Fox News Radio Analyst, editor-in-chief of Jewish Insider.

Josh. I guess your reaction, if you want to personally. Uh uh someone who writes for the Jewish Insider. about the President deciding to not deliver weapons. Israel paid for at a time in which they want to take The last province.

uh and home of Hamas.

Well, look, when when we heard from the President immediately after october seventh, uh the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel, The line from the White House was that Hamas needs to be defeated, needs to be ousted from power in Gaza. Rafah is the last holdout. That's where the leadership is. That's where the last four battalions are. That is a key part of the Israeli mission.

It's one that the Israeli public has been behind throughout the war. And now, not only are you seeing the White House saying, we don't really want you to go into Rafah, which has frankly been telegraphed by this White House for quite a while now, but now is withholding and threatening to withhold additional weapons if they have a full-scale invasion.

Now, there are operations by the Israelis in Rafah, and perhaps not at the level that would cross that red line, but simply setting a red line and putting more pressure, Brian, on Israel rather than Hamas, you know, is What do you talk about? Folks on the Capitol Hill, Republicans, even some Democrats, and foreign policy experts who know that to get things done in the Middle East, to get things done needs. pressure on Hamas and there just hasn't been much of it from the White House in recent days.

Well, why don't they ever explain why they have to hit hospitals? Why don't they explain why they have to playgrounds in schools? Why don't they understand why they're dropping up flyers and how different that is, providing pathways of sending in aid the best they can, unlike almost any other. Situate any other time in military history. They're doing even more, you could argue, than we were doing before Ramadi, Fallujah, and Mosul.

Brian, the simple reality is that the White House is as attuned to domestic political concerns from their base as they are to the military operation in Gaza and in Rafah. They they don't want to see images of collateral damage, of any any any full scale military operation that could cause uh the the anti-Israel protesters, the the anti-Israel faction of his party in Congress to to erupt at in the middle of an election season. And that's why you're seeing, I mean, as we get closer to November and you see these protests on campus, you see, you know, a lot of lawmakers from the left, everyone from Chris Van Hollen to Rashida Talib on Capitol Hill are trying to push Biden to be more tough on Israel. That is this tightrope that he's trying to walk. The problem that he's facing is there are a lot more pro-Israel members in Congress, Republicans united in support of Israel.

And then you have a large number of Democrats who have been critical of the White House and how they've handled this. Everyone, you know, from John Fetterman to Jackie Rosen and suffer reelection in 2024, and a whole lot of House lawmakers as well.

So he's divided his party. This is not a. A good political move. He's divided his party on Israel at the worst possible time, and there are a lot more pro-Israel lawmakers that are speaking out and criticizing the administration. And if they want to get through to the campuses, I know they're praying for spring and everyone to go home, but Jamal Bowman, AOC, and Ilyan Omar have all said this shows our campus encampments are working.

Keep it up, get stronger.

So I don't know if anybody looks around the corner or thinks ahead, but the ramifications have felt around the world to all our allies who are already wondering what's going on with Ukraine aid, who is already wondering how we could leave Afghanistan like this. Here's Benjamin and Yahoo yesterday, cut to. We are determined, and we are united in order to defeat our enemies and those who want to destroy us. If we need to stand alone, we will stand alone. Yeah, and I talked to Joe Manchin yesterday.

It's going to air on Saturday. Here's what Senator Joe Manchin said.

Now, making decisions on what you can and what you can't use, you got to do the our way or no way at all. That's not who we are, and it's not what we should be doing. I have said. I've been asked today about, and I've said openly that I think it's wrong. I think that we shouldn't be.

I mean, does he does he care at all about those voices in his party?

Well, it'll be interesting to see if this gets walked back at all. In fact, well, on one hand, they're not walking back the comments. On the other hand, there's more intel from Folks at the White House, that maybe Israel, what they're doing now, isn't crossing that red line. Maybe we're going to tweak our criticisms and walk it back a little bit.

So I think they were unprepared for the death of opposition in their own party. Yeah, rank-and-file Democrats, liberal Democrats. Stood in line with the White House, but a whole lot of Democrats, even those who are not necessarily the most vocal when it comes to Israel, have broken from the administration. Or even Chris Coons, which I thought was interesting, is one of Biden's closest allies in the Senate, someone who's well versed in foreign policy, gave sort of a subtle critique on the Senate floor yesterday, saying that, yeah, you need to take Rabbi to win the war, you gotta get Rafa. That's what the Israelis have been saying all along.

And it's not just Benjamin Netanyahu, it's everyone in that war cabinet and in the military leadership.

So, yeah, I don't know. Politically, this was a move that backfired. You don't want your party divided in an election year. The best rule of thumb in politics is if you're winning, your side is united, the other side is divided. Right now, the Republicans are united in support of Israel, in support of Israel going into Rafah, and it's the Democrats that are pretty badly divided on this issue.

You think impeachment goes anywhere that Corey Mills put out yesterday? No, no, I don't. Look, th th I understand the argument that this is for political reasons why why Biden is doing this, and I would agree with that part of it. But there was a qualitative difference, I think. I mean, that you could argue about the first Trump impeachment, but it was about deliberately doing a quid pro Pro-quo leverage for political favors.

I don't think this is the same, and I actually think that's more bluster than actual what we'll see on the House floor. And just so you know, I watched Jen Saki sit on Steve Colbert's couch and said, I wish the president would have done more sooner to sanction. To sanction Israel, which is nuts, but that reflects the spirit on the campuses. And she looks at the Democratic Party. I think every year the Democrats seem to be leaving Israel more and more, and it doesn't look good for their future if you look at what's happening on these campuses.

Xavier University has now canceled the Biden administration's UN ambassador, Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield, as a commencement speaker. They were afraid things were going to get too unruly, so they decided to deconflict there. That's the second college that has rejected her after asking her to go. The first one was the University of Vermont. Isn't that interesting?

Yeah, I mean, look, the president is going to be speaking at Morehouse College in Georgia soon, and there's questions about how he's going to be received there because college campuses have become unfriendly territory for this White House. And look, it's that milieu of the party. It's the college campuses. It's these young staffers that, in a way I've not seen in quite some time, they're publicly, anonymously trying to oppose the White House that they work for when it comes to Middle East policy, when it comes to Israel.

So there's obviously this schism taking place within the administration, within the White House. The vast majority of Americans are with Israel. It's the Democratic Party where these divisions are apparent. And it's hurting the president politically at the worst possible time. And look, even if the campuses, the kids go home, this dies down, at least for the summer period, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August with a mayor who is as anti-Israel as they come as far as big city mayors go.

I mean, that's going to be another big test and big problem that what Democrats are. Already preparing for it.

So I know, Josh, you're one of the many people who want to sit down and interview the president. He doesn't talk to anybody, so don't take it personal. As Brett Baer told us, he's asked for an interview every day since the convention, Democratic convention, and he's been unsuccessful, obviously.

So Joe Biden decides he's got a great message to send. And Donald Trump is stuck in the courtroom, so I'll do an interview. And Aaron Burnett blew him up. We found the New York Post deserves the credit. They found 15 lies in 17 minutes.

Here's one of them, cut 16. No president's had the run we've had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation was 9% when I came to office. Nine percent. But look, people have a right to be concerned.

It's not 9% when he took office. It's the second time he said that. That's one of the many lies. I guess she let that one slip by. Your thoughts on that?

Yeah, but we're the fact-checkers. That was sort of a cottage industry for the last president, even though there's a lot of. Uh, misstatements at the very most generous way of putting them. Uh, you're not, you're not hearing that. Uh, you know, I mean, look, it's it's I think the biggest, forget the numbers, Brian.

I think the biggest. And most interesting part of that interview is that Biden is insistent that the economy is doing great. Even though the numbers, the polling numbers show majority of Americans by by by a large margin, think things are still pretty rough. Inflation's still not in under control.

So yeah, I mean, that that's the bubble that this White House lives in. It's not just like Misstating numbers, misstating data, misstating facts, which the New York Post documented, but it's just believing in a reality that most Americans aren't feeling. If your reality is at odds with most Americans, that's the biggest political problem anyone could have running for reelection. I would think so. That's a very creative way to say that.

How about this? Trump will kill Medicare. Trump never said that. In fact, he worked on some of the things that President Biden was able to pull off. Billionaires only pay 8.3 percent on their taxes.

That's not true. On average, billionaires pay 25 percent of their taxes. You already turned the economy around. Real income is down, and inflation is up. Corporate greed is driving prices up.

Almost every step of the way on the supply chain, prices are going up. That's why prices in the back end for people that own supermarkets are up because that's the prices they get, and they don't want to take too much of a hit without losing business.

So, creating class warfare on taxes and hating corporations, again, the president thinks he can get traction there. I don't get it. He also said. American people have money to spend. They're just not spending it.

When 76% of adults make under $50,000, when he took office, 71% the year before made that much money.

So it's not that that's money. He's coming back and then saying CNN's polls are wrong because they have to call a lot of people before somebody finally picks up. That's not necessarily a lie. That's just weird. Yeah, I mean, it's a very, very cherry-picked way of denying the reality that almost every poll shows, which is that Biden is down in national polls and in most Swix state polls.

You can cherry-pick one or dispute the methodology of one poll, but the reality is he's in trouble. And if he doesn't realize it and his advisors don't see that, then they are in a bigger heap of trouble than I would have thought. And, Josh, lastly, Nikki Haley's saluting her donors this weekend, and she's going to thank them for their support. And she's going to do it at a retreat.

Okay? That's fine. At what point does it behoove both of them to in to get together. Because if you see the numbers in Indiana, you see the numbers in Pennsylvania, there are people still voting for Nikki Haley. Yeah, I think it's probably going to come at some point.

And one big underappreciated dynamic over the last month is the fact that Republicans have actually kind of confronted their extremists much more effectively than, and with Trump's help, frankly, Mike Johnson and Trump meeting together at Mar-a-Lago, Ukraine, it gets passed, the Marjorie Taylor Greene rebellion gets. Stopped. Republicans now and Mike Johnson especially looks like he's actually leading his caucus and and and and letting the mainstream majority uh really take hold, where Biden is being held uh captive by the hard left, as we just talked about.

So I think that moment I mean, I think that that is an encouraging sign perhaps that Haley will eventually get on the the Trump train, support him for Uh, a re-election for election. We'll see. I don't, there's no reporting in that story that that's going to happen, but it does seem like. Um she's probably more likely than not to to um get with the the party by before the November 11th. Which is weird.

I just don't know how it's going to go back. And let's let's just look at it from her point of view. How would it benefit her to be on the outs if Trump wins? If he loses I'm not too sure that his movement disappears because he put almost everybody there in power and in seats. Her best risk would be like, hey, we fought hard.

Ted Cruz fought hard. Marco Rubio fought hard. Ron DeSantis fought hard. I'm not going to be the one. That lets that stress and attacks.

I'm going to make it part of the game. I get it, I can understand it.

So let me help. Yeah, I mean, if she wanted to go the independent candidate route, she had that opportunity. Or at least that option with no labels. She decided not to go that route. She decided to stick within the Republican Party.

If she wants to get into politics in the future, I think she's going to, I mean, endorse if she doesn't endorse Trump or doesn't support Trump, that would be a pretty significant obstacle to any future political viability. But, you know, people have short memories, and I think if she gets with the program, I think she'll be in the mix as a whole lot of other Republicans will be in the future. And listen, Josh, I can go for another half hour and still answer all the questions because also we have this Tim Jordan thing in the background. He wants to be the next speaker, so he's trying to work it. But unfortunately, we're up against a break.

Josh, thanks so much. Best of luck, and can't take a minute off where we lose three or four storylines. Thanks so much. Go get them. Yeah, I'm going to give you the latest on the trial as it's been printed out.

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Well, you keep saying my, please don't do that. I'm not a Washington Democrat, okay?

So when you say my party, I don't relate to any of this. And I have a lot of friends who aren't Washington Republicans. The parties have gone so extreme, Brian, and somehow we've got to bring the grand old party, make it grand again and make the uh Democrat party responsible again. And they I think they both lost their ways and they're just listening to their own uh their own chatter here in Washington. But None of this makes sense.

Joe Manchin is going to be joining me on One Nation. It's going to be Saturday at 9 o'clock. I like him so much. I just find him interesting.

So, what people have said about signing on the Inflation Reduction Act is okay. But I do I am disappointed, but I do understand that for a year he pushed back on the ridiculous original request that they had would have bankrupted us forever and destroyed the oil and gas industry.

So he got a lesser chart.

So he's still a Democrat. Not with Jim Justice is going to be a severe conservative, if that's a real term. But Joe mentions interesting because I do think he's one of the people that, if I ever see someone go to the Congress like Brian Fitzpatrick. You go there. John McCain, Lindsey Graham.

They go there not to be famous. They want to affect change within reason. And when they're not in power, they work together as much as possible. If I took the Joe Manchin, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Brian Fitzpatrick attitude. We'd get a lot done and we'd debate on who got the better of the deal.

It would be a totally different Congress. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. In 2023. A group of Special Operations veterans set out on an unprecedented journey skydiving into all seven continents.

within seven days. I constantly remember that the people that we were jumping for gave up their today and every one of their tomorrows.

So we could be out here doing stuff like this.

So that's just an excerpt from a brand new documentary that's out that screens this weekend. It's called Triple Seven. They said it couldn't be done. And the people that did it amongst them are Mike Cirelli, Dan Myrick, and Mike Barker, three friends, served in the military and are still serving this country and setting a great example. Welcome, guys.

Great to see you. Good to be here. All right. First off, this is the safest the studio has ever been. I feel as though, if anything happens, I'm going to be okay.

And I'll give one correction. This is Glenn Cowan, our Canadian special operator that was on the trip. I apologize, Brian.

Okay. No, all good. Glenn Cowan, my fault. You'd probably be better served having boots here, but minority boots.

Okay. I'm just fixing that right now for the West Coast when we delay it and we show it out there.

So, first off, can you go over your military backgrounds? When did you start serving? You want to start, Mike? I did.

So, yeah, Glenn Cowan. I'm a Canadian component to the team. I served 20 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. I was a light infantry officer. And the majority of my career I spent with Canada's National Mission Unit, which is equivalent to sort of the top-tier U.S.

Tier One Special Operations Units. Mike? Also twenty years in the United States. Started out in the Marine Corps as a recon Marine and Scout Sniper, switched over to the SEAL teams and served a good portion of time in JSOC before I retired. I served thirty-five years in the film business.

So you shot this. I shot it. I'm the filmmaker, yeah, behind these. Whose idea was it? Mike's, actually.

It was, he put it all together. How'd you guys meet? How'd you pick him out? Grinder. I met him on Grant.

I'm joking. We met through a mutual friend, Christian Krempel. That's a Chinese app, by the way. It is, yes. It should be.

So please, it's not safe. No, we met through a mutual friend Christian Krempel, who's also in the entertainment industry. He was tied into the special operations community. I had this idea, and we wanted to film it, and Dan came into the picture. All right.

So, Dan, we appreciate you being here. You can bring us through from the civilian aspect, what you could probably relate to best.

So, what was the mission? The mission was to jump seven continents in seven days with a view of raising $7 million for a charity called Folds of Honor, where we could contribute that capital back to the children and families of fallen special operators. And you know, it's such an effective organization with Dan Rooney. They started. You understand their mission, so you wanted to give back.

Tell me how you charted this out. You said, Mike, you said that Glenn is the one who charted most of it out. Were you just being funny, or he actually saved the day?

So, Glenn did help substantially with his company 1-9, but we all planned this. The thing is, the triple seven, seven continents, seven days, seven skydives, has been a sort of lore within the international skydiving community that no one's been able to pull off.

So, nine special operations veterans said, Why not? Let's give it a shot. And we ended up pulling it off, setting four world records in the process. And we did it in six days, six hours and six minutes. Private flights.

No, we did it all commercial, with the exception of one leg, which is uh where we had the hiccup in Miami. But what you gotta understand, and what your audience needs to understand, is what makes special operations special. It's not better, it's not elite. It's doing basic stuff really, really well and being brilliant at the basics. And resourcefulness, resourcefulness, but also planning, contingency planning, and supporting planning.

So, yeah, this was a seven-day trip. This was 18 months of planning, preparation, and logistics leading up to seven days. And sort of thought through every contingency, every sort of. Every bit of deconfliction we could do ahead of time so that it was as smooth as possible. Because there's things we can't control are always going to be that fog of war.

Tell me the seven cities.

So we started in Antarctica. Then on to Santiago, Chile. Miami. Barcelona. Uh Cairo, Egypt.

Abu Dhabi and UAE and then Perth, Australia.

So that the biggest thing that I think happened was for the first time in history Uh all uh aircraft were grounded. We still don't know exactly what went wrong, but all aircraft are grounded. How did that affect you guys?

So. It's not the only time in history. It happened one other time in sort of the last 30 or 40 years, and that was on 9-11. when the FAA kind of canceled all air traffic over continental North America. We were flying from Santiago, Chile, on Jump 2 to Miami.

It was a red-eye flight. I think we were the last flight to land in Miami. And as we kind of were getting ourselves sorted at the Miami airport to head to the drop zone, our phones started to explode with text saying. Your flights have been canceled, your flights have been canceled. And we were doing this deliberately commercially so we could push as much capital back to Folds of Honor as opposed to trying to get away.

Just to save money. Just to save money, well, not to save money, to give them more money, right? No, I know, to save money in order to donate more.

So, what it turned out was a ground stop notice to airmen that all air traffic in the US was shut down. We don't know why. There's systems glitch, cyber, who knows what what might have happened, but it led to a huge hiccup. And what we ended up doing was very rapidly planning our jump, moving to the drop zone while kind of canvassing our networks to try to salvage and get ourselves back on time. And the only way we could get back on time was through the use of private aircraft.

And so we got some great Americans, some great Canadians stepped up. And found us very quickly a G5 that we were able to charter very rapidly, still deconflict the no-tam issues, get our jump off, get to an executive airport near Miami and get airborne on a private aircraft.

So it just, I think it speaks to the resiliency, the agility, the ability to pivot. And Dan, when you find out these, these, the, the, the fights are shut down, do you just break out your camera again and start rolling? Yeah, I mean, it, you know, it's a mixed bag because it's a very difficult logistical challenge, but at the same time, it's good drama.

So storytellers like good drama and conflict, but watching these guys overcome and solve the problem in real time was one of the highlights of the movie and was a real honor to kind of witness. Right. How did doing Blair which prepare for this? Unpredictability. It's certainly we were shooting Blair a lot, improvised and in real time, and this is very much the same way, even more compressed.

We shot this in in in five days overall. And we didn't have a lot of time to sit down and do interviews and really think things through from the production standpoint because the whole point was just to kind of keep the flow going. They were mic'd up the whole time? Most of the time, yeah. But we were following them.

We had my crew me on camera as well as Kevin Burke was one of our cameramen as well. We're constantly following these guys, and there wasn't a lot of rest, a lot of airplane flights, and coming on and off of customs and that sort of thing. combined with the jump footage, which is all very dynamic.

So it's it's um it's it was quite quite the undertaking. I mean, not only you had to get there, you gotta jump too. I mean, it I know it's easy for you guys, but is it when you're jumping, it's like the easy part jumping out of the plane? This was a logistical puzzle nobody had solved.

So the jumping actually was the easy part.

However, With the sleep deprivation, and we had WOOP, you know, the wearable human performance device. We were all wearing those. Whoop was one of the sponsors, and you saw a degradation in performance as we got further into the trip.

So that increases the risk profile that somebody's just head is not in the game, they didn't recover. And it's a testament to these guys, because Brian, at the end of the day, We do understand sleep deprivation well in special operations, but you cannot train to sleep deprivation. You just have to power through. But you can recognize that you've had this feeling before, I guess, because I live my life in sleep deprivation. That's true.

But I don't jump out of airplanes. By the way, we're telling you about this movie because it's coming out this Saturday. It's a documentary. It's called LegacyExpeditions.com. Go to the site right now.

You can find theaters and you can buy tickets in New York City, in Tampa, in Austin, in Dallas. We just launched in Dallas. And we're privileged to be on in Austin too and Los Angeles. The theatrical release is Memorial Day, but you can see it this Saturday, right? In New York, yes.

Only in New York. Are tickets available? Tickets are available on legacyexpeditions.com, and then the screeners will be in select theaters from May 31st until July 4th.

Okay, and it's only going to be thes. Will it ever go online? Here's the ultimate goal. We want to continue to tell the stories of guys like Lenny. And are falling through these adventure expeditions.

And so ultimately, we're looking for the right production studio to partner with us to keep this going. But if this ends up on Netflix or Amazon, Which also Raises more money for Faults of Honor. That's the ultimate goal. Right. Who do you keep in mind when you're jumping, Glenn?

I know you got to focus on everything, but do you think about the guys you serve with? Is it possible not to? Yeah, no, and that was the whole point of the trip. We dedicated each jump to a fallen that was special to each one of us. I dedicated mine to a young man named Master Corporal Byron Greff, who was the last Canadian that was killed in Afghanistan.

And he's got a pretty tragic story in the sense that he went home on holidays to see the birth of his daughter, and on his way back into Afghanistan, he was doing a logistical road move, and he got hit with a big IED. What year? Uh, that was two thousand eleven.

So y so yeah, I mean you know We're always thinking, we're always kind of preparing and sort of focusing. We do a lot of visualization even before things like an easy jump. But this was grounded in the memory of our fallen. And I think Dan does a great job in sort of portraying sort of each jump and the dedications we made. And not only telling our stories, but we tell the story of a fallen service member in the context of each of the continent jumps that we did.

Wow. And what about you, Mike? I jumped in honor of Michael Monsour, who Jumped on a grenade three feet from me and saved my life as well as another seal. Will you explain that again? He jumped on a grenade.

Jumped on a grenade. Yes, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Uh born and raised in Southern California, uh Lebanese Catholic family. Just a wonderful individual. And I will say this: you know, we are in a time.

Where military recruitment is at an all time low. We do hope that the younger generation sees this and sees guys like Glenn and what they become because of their military service And if it Let's say motivates one person to join the military, then that is a total success. Of course, it will. Yeah. Glenn Cowan is here.

Mike Sorelli is here. And we also have Dan Myrick, who's pioneered a lot in cinema. He does documentaries and he was on for the right. Dan, what's your takeaway? What was your perception going in?

I know you're ready for anything, but what is your takeaway when it was over and they asked you and a friend walked up to you and said, How was your last? How was this mission for you? How was this production? What did you tell them? To not take your freedom for granted.

I mean, these guys toe the line. These guys have given up the ultimate sacrifice. Their families have given up the ultimate sacrifice. And What they do allows me to be a filmmaker. And so I think it's important not only for myself.

On a personal level, but people that watch the film just have an understanding. This is an apolitical subject. It has nothing to do with what side of the aisle you're on. These guys are fighting for our freedom and our liberties on a daily basis, and it's something we shouldn't take for granted. And that's what I hope the takeaway is.

Yeah, I'm sure it will be. The one thing that gets me when it comes to recruiting, Are we even trying? When's the last time we saw a good ad on television? When's the last time we saw Beat All You Can Be? Remember how great those ads were?

Growing up in high school? You thought it was great. I'm like, this is going to be a lot of fun. We don't see any of those ads anymore. You put together like highlights of you guys.

Have someone like you staring to the camera talking about your service, the people you made, the friends you made, how it changed you as a person, how you came in, how you got out. Don't you think that would be the best story? And I could see you walking on a college campus and saying, Not many people know, but two years ago I was in Ramadi, you know, but it changed me. And those are the types of things that would sell the military. Don't you think?

Are we even trying to do that?

Well, I'll tell you what. You look at the World War II generation. They were shaped by military service, and then they came back and grew this economy into what we have today. I call this what you're referring to as outcome-based recruiting. Show what Glenn has become.

Because of 20 years in military service, the professionalism, the discipline, the accountability, the drive. the the person it makes you, but You know, Hollywood, at the end of the day, is the greatest recruitment tool. That the military has, say for what it is.

However, military, or I'm sorry, Hollywood has slowly been been depicting veterans in all these flicks as these broken. Characters, and I'll tell you what, you know, if we're broken. I'll tell you this, you can't break what's already broken. These guys, Glenn has one of the largest defense funds in Canada. All the guys in this film have started businesses after multiple combat deployments and 20 years in the military.

We're not broken. And this narrative is starting to really, I'll just say it piss us off. No one pushes back. Push back an organizational way. I mean, that's just it.

Glenn, your thoughts? We're focused collectively. Again, I'm from Canada. I give a different perspective. We have our own weird idiosyncrasies up there.

But the theme is the same, and we're focused on the wrong things. Don't reduce standards to try to increase recruitment. Raise standards. People want to be challenged. The young men and women that are going to join the military and fight the future wars.

They're going to do it because they want to challenge. They're going to do it because they want to show up and they want to serve. Don't reduce the standard. All you're going to do is ruin it for everybody. Increase that standard.

I come back to one of the best recruiting slogans that I've ever heard. It's a British Royal Marine. It says 99% need not apply. That's the mindset we should have as we're looking to recruit. And I would guarantee you, we will increase recruiting across the board if you come up with a slogan like that.

I think it was Woody Allen who said, I would never want to belong to a club that would have me as a member. That's the opposite of what you're saying. It's like, hey, if you tell someone they can't get in, they're going to want to get in if they're made of the right stuff. Hey, I want to just take a short break and come back. I have a couple of minutes on the other side.

I do want to talk about what's happening over in Rafael and what you thought. All right. By the way, go get tickets to the Legacy Expeditions. Go to legacyexpeditions.com. Find your theater.

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It's Brian Killmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. It's my privilege to have with us still Glenn Cowan, Canadian, but he's still a great guy, and he's a fantastic American. I'm going to see what I can do to get you citizenship if you promise to defect.

Mike Sorelli is here, too. And Mike is one of our great guests, and Dan Myrick is the producer of a brand new documentary. It is going to be out. Um is going to be out Officially, with a theatrical release on Memorial Day, but it's called Triple Seven. They said it couldn't be done going through seven continents, jumping through seven continents in 168 hours, skydiving.

So it's as hard as it sounds. Guys, just a few more minutes. Everyone's focused on Rafa. People who've never been there, which is 99.9% of human beings. Do you believe the IDF has to go in there if they want to defeat Hamas?

Because we hear that we gave them other suggestions, the Biden administration. Mike, begin.

So Rafa is a very uh You know, urbanized area with over one million people include the tunnel system, it's a very complex problem. Netanyahu was clear from the start that the objective here is the eradication of Hamas and the recovery of the hostages. They say eight thousand left two battalions. And I want Americans to put this into context. If somebody came into your home Murdered half your family.

Took your daughter. You would do anything that was required to protect your family and get your loved ones back. What is shocking. is that the Biden administration is saying, hey, we stand with Israel, but on the other side of the mouth is now withholding weapons that could possibly be utilized in Rafah.

So it's an inconsistent message. And at this point, you know, I I think I said it on Fox and Friends a few weeks ago. Netanyahu probably looks at Biden and says, feckless, and we're going to do what we need to do to defend our nation and get our hostages back, and that's the bottom line. Glenn, do you have a sense of what those men will be fac and women will be facing? Yeah, I mean, it it is.

Should they go in? It is perhaps one of the more complicated military problems. Let alone the religious, political, geographical, and everything else on the back end. Speaking very objectively of just as a military operation. Yeah.

If you have an enemy and you want to kill the enemy, there's only one way to do it, and that is to put men and women face to face with them, and you kill them. And that's it.

So, if you want to hold ground, you have to be on the ground. You know, in traditional infantry doctrine, the infantry is the only organization that can hold ground. You can't do it from the air. You can't do it from the sea. You have to have people there physically holding that ground.

And the IDF knows that, don't they? I mean, that is very. Military doctrine 101, you have to go in and muck it out.

So, if this is the objective they want, they have to go in. Dan, 15 seconds. Why should we go see your documentary? I think it's good for America, and I think every American should go see it. Triple seven.

They said it couldn't be done. These guys did it at LegacyExpeditions.com. New York City, Tampa, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles. It'll be out there for everyone Memorial Day. Thanks so much, guys.

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