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So glad you're here. I hope you had a fantastic Memorial Day. Found time to salute those who gave their lives in defending this country and ready to take action as we sprint to July 4th, get closer and closer to the birthday number 250 for America. What a week we're going to have right now, and I appreciate everyone tuning in. First off, some things to keep in mind today.

Some people don't get what Memorial Day was about. Corey Bush writes: This Memorial Day and every day, we honor our veterans in St. Louis. We must invest in universal health care, affordable housing, comprehensive mental health services, and educational economic opportunities for our veterans.

Okay, it's not Veterans Day, it's not July 4th, it's Memorial Day. Keep in mind, too, she's not the only one. Mullah Omar, a big shocker, Elon Omar, I should say. Mula Omar was once running Afghanistan. On Memorial Day, we honor the heroic men and women who served our country.

We owe them and more of our gratitude. They have more and more earned access to quality mental health services, job opportunities, housing assistance. Too bad most of them have passed on, Elon Omar. This is about those who served and lost their lives in battle, okay? I'm pretty sure that these guys, these both, are very anti-American lawmakers, one of which, Corey Bush, is losing her primary right now.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. It's here. Our country sends billions of dollars to maintain an apartheid government and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is disgraceful.

But we're not going to forget in November, are we? Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian who actually wants to be in Palestine if it ever exists. Until then, why not go to Gaza, the upside-down world? The world is condemning Israel for the Rafah strike, and there were innocents that were killed, but there were so two higher-ups, high commanders in Hamas who were killed. U.S.

urges, though, the world not to condemn Iran for advancing a nuclear weapons program. They're set to get a nuclear weapon, and he's urging our allies, Joe Biden, not to sanction Iran. No joke, Jack. Number two. We keep wondering why these young people aren't.

Coming home to the Democrats, which is all why blacks are not coming home to the Democrats. Democratic messaging is full of don't talk about. Godfrey and Student Loans. That is James Carbell. How angry is he?

And by the way, if you see the shot, wipe your face. That's why I don't eat on camera because I don't want food all over my face. 2024, former President Trump goes into enemy territory twice and gets a popular GOP returned opponent close to joining the team. I'm talking Nikki Haley. While fellow Dems are telling President Biden, stop touting your economy, stupid.

Number Donald Trump may very well not be convicted. Acquitted is the worst case scenario for Democrats because then it's the only trial you have, and Donald Trump gets to go out there and say, they still didn't convict me. I'm still innocent. Yes, exactly. Can you imagine that?

Sarah Murray on CNN talking about the different scenarios. Trump trials, case one of four coming to a close, with closing arguments, jury instruction and deliberations all coming to a head this week in New York City. What Joe Biden plans on doing with the verdict and why Dems are admitting this case has already backfired on them to this point. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West at the bottom of the hour on what's happening in Rafa and at the border, but for now, let's talk about this.

So we're going to have closing arguments with the defense going first and prosecution going second. There's no saying how long it'll go, but it's assumed it'll be a day each, tops. And then the judge is going to take about an hour and have jury selection. Understood?

Now, the judge is going to be key with this. Then you have 34 counts that are going to look at it.

Now, can they get a partial verdict? Yes, they can. Can they have an acquittal? Absolutely. Can you have one juror just refuse to convict and have a hung jury?

Yes. It is a jury of seven men and five women. There's been 20 days prior. Today will be the 21st. All the proceeds is going to start in about 20 minutes and we'll see what happens.

We know this. Defense really feels the prosecution didn't clear their case. Why? Because they only call one witness. I mean, a lot of people don't even think they should have called Bob Costello because they felt as though Michael Cohen is the only eyewitness to all these documents and all these allegations, and he was the one who had huge problems on the stand as expected.

Now they might say, well, Hope Hicks said this, and they might say, You know, Rona Graff said this, and Madeline Westerhalt said this, but not all together. And they all praised President Trump as somebody they really respected whose family really matters to him.

So we'll see what happens. I know this. I'm not going to predict what's going to happen. I don't know who these seven men and five women are. Anyone who tells you this is what's going to happen is wrong.

And they're just hoping, they're hoping he gets convicted, hoping he gets exonerated, we don't know. And President Trump doesn't know either. And it's bothering him, obviously. He says, hey, I want to go second. It's just not the way New York does it.

I also understand this. And we're finding out a lot this at once. Excuse me, I'm not a lawyer. But sometimes they have a verdict and they say come back for sentencing in a month with a federal case. But with this case in New York, even though these are federal charges, This judge could decide right away.

Okay, got the counts, got it, understood.

Okay, defendant stand. You're either exonerated, you can go, or, if you're charged, found guilty. up to four years in prison. You could go to house arrest or you could get probation or house arrest and then probation. Can you imagine taking a guy who at the Republican nomination, who is leading the sitting president In almost every battleground state, in almost every national poll, and telling me he can't leave his house.

I mean, can you imagine this? But this is what Judge Mersant they don't care. I mean, one thing is pretty clear. You look at Letitia James, she doesn't care. You look at Juan Mersant, they do things that blatantly make them look positive, partisan.

They don't care.

Now, what if he's exonerated? Either way, guess what? President Biden plans on announcing it from the White House to make it seem apolitical. Really?

So, the President of the United States going against a rematch with the former President of the United States, announcing his opinion on the verdict, apolitical? Just note, they plan on introducing him and discussing him. Just as they say now, former President Donald Trump, they will say convicted felon. And look for CNN, MSNBC, if he's found guilty. Look for the New York Times.

Uh Washington Post And of course, every time Joe Biden speaks to say the same thing. Even though, in a way, it'll bring up a case that many people, like for Farid Zakaria, sworn Democrats, swore they should never see the light of day and wouldn't have had the defendant not been named Donald Trump.

Now, in terms of what we've seen so far and the speculation, we thought it was important to bring up what other channels are saying. Here's Sarah Murray on CNN. Warns about the problems Democrats are having anyway, let alone if he's convicted or exonerated. Excuse me, cut for. I think that it's very likely this is the only trial that we are going to get before Election Day.

And this case is not a slam thumb, which means that Donald Trump may very well not be convicted. Acquitted is the worst case scenario for Democrats because then it's the only trial you have, and Donald Trump gets to go out there and say, Joe Biden's prosecutors, which again is not true, came after me. His Department of Justice came after me, and they still didn't convict me. I'm still innocent. Right.

It's 100%. I mean, it's just a an overwhelming win.

Now This front story in Politico right now is fascinating because Politico is reporting that it is panic time, full-blown freak out on the Democratic side, because there's nothing that Joe Biden can do right now that is resonating. He keeps talking about his economy, and everyone's telling him, stop talking about the economy. I'm talking about James Carville and David Oxelrod, because you may think it's good, and the numbers may look good, and you might be proud of yourself, but it doesn't matter. As James Carville said, it's about the economy stupid.

Well, if you keep talking about the economy, you're stupid, President Biden. And as the headline in Politico says, full-blown freakout. Because every time you compare the Trump four to the Biden Four, even though with the ridiculous investigation and impeachment, people feel better about Biden. Excuse me, feel better about the Trump years.

Now, look at this. They talk about people. Uh under thirty Trump's winning that by 13 points. In terms of black voters, Trump's doing better by 7 points. Hispanic voters.

Trump's in a dead heat. He lost that by 10 points. Suburban voters. It looks like suburban women now is closer than expected. It's now six points for Joe Biden.

For moderates, it's 61.53. That's better for Joe Biden. What they want. Trump to do is go back on the stump. What they'd stopped him from doing for the last twenty days, twenty working days.

and month and a half is getting him to campaign regularly. They feel as though they're at an advantage if they can get Trump to campaign regularly because they feel as though they could pick things out of a ninety minute speech, a two hour speech that'll make him seem unhinged or crazy. I think that's done. The problem is it's baked in. Even for moderates, well, that's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump to his fans.

To moderates, they'll say, Yeah, yeah, I I know, that's what freaked me out the last time. But it's not going to freak me out this time. You know, a little bit later you're going to hear from Charlemagne, the God I interviewed him last week, and we're going to bring it back when his book comes out, which is today, and you're going to hear the whole thing. He talks about no one's really going to overreact to Trump like they did last time.

Well, every statement he made like he did last time, a lot of it was because he was unorthodox, a lot of it because they were telling us that Vladimir Putin put him in office, and it's blatantly not true.

So, I'll discuss more of that. I do want to get into this unbelievable story about the United States telling the UK and France. Stop pushing for censure on Iran over its illegal nuclear program. He's reportedly pushing his Joe Biden, America's allies in Europe, to back off pressuring Iran over its illegal nuclear activities as the country continues to rapidly expand its stockpile. It's right there getting a weapon.

The administration is specifically trying to stop Britain and France from censuring them, saying, why don't you just abstain? What are you talking about, just abstain? This is the group that caused total chaos in the Middle East. They're the ones providing the drones that allowed Russia to revitalize and start brutally attacking the infrastructure and killing innocents in Ukraine and continued to do it. They're the ones who are trading oil with China right now and able to sustain their democracy, excuse me, extend their economy.

They're the ones who sent 300 different rockets and missiles into Israel, supporting Hamas and Hezbollah. How could you possibly tell our allies to get softer on Iran? That to me is treasonous. Treasonous. When we get back, I'll tell you what happened in Israel over the weekend and why it matters.

Also, tell you what's happening at the border. Bill Malusion at the border. Can't believe the number of Chinese coming across. You'll listen to the Brian Kill Meet Show.

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Democrats might be better off replacing. Joe Biden on the ticket. If you were really as concerned, About defeating Donald Trump as Democrats claim they are, then you should be doing everything in your power to maximize the chance that you win.

So there you go. Nate Silver coming out and saying. Joe Byngean Try to drop out. And many people think and speculate. That's why you pick the June date, the June day for the debate.

So if he falls on his face and he'll will be able to, because Trump can't cut him off and save him, then they'll say we've got plenty of time to cut him out. The other thing that Nate Silver says, why are you doing this Convention in Chicago. The security can't control the amount of demonstrations they're going to have. Plus, you already have Illinois. You certainly have convinced the people of Chicago.

I mean, normally you get Republicans going to Colorado. You get Republicans and Democrats going to Battleground States. They're trying to win over. You know, Republicans are in in Wisconsin for a reason, because in a virtual dead heat, they're going to be in Milwaukee.

So why even doing Chicago?

So he went on to say and Nate Silver's pollster, they got it right a few years ago. He's semi accurate, kind of interesting, but not interesting enough for ABC to keep him under contract. Here's what Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, Who's very pro-Israel, but very anti-Trump, COT 19. It's not a conversation worth having. Nate, thanks for your participation.

But this is ridiculous. We're well past that conversation. You know, President Biden is going to be the nominee. We're going to have our convention, and he's going to win in November. And one of the reasons why I think the congressman's right is who's going to step in?

I mean, really? Do you really think that Gavin Newsom's going to do that? Do you realize he's $46 million, billion dollars in debt, overdrawn in Color in California. Do you realize what's happening at the border? San Diego is the number one breach point in the country right now, and this guy's giving them health care.

Do you know that he promised to solve homelessness? And he can't get people, 90%. They just did a study, 94% don't want to live in a home. They want to live on the street and have some type of mental illness. He built a bunch of tiny homes, and basically none are full.

Do you realize how vulnerable he is? The only thing he has is a presentation. He can speak, but he's got no record.

So there is no error parent. You might say Westmore, but he's only been there two years in Maryland. I mean, that doesn't sound like somebody that's supposed to step into a breach and sell everybody on his competency. You might be the biggest Westmore fan of the world. You have no idea if he could do the job.

You had a chance to see Barack Obama take on Hillary Clinton, and then you see a prolonged TL primary. And you say, okay, this guy has only been in the Senate a couple of years, but I like him. I'll go for him. We're going to turn the page with that. But that I mean, I just don't see any there's no one to step in the breach where if something happened to Donald Trump.

I could name seven people that could do the job. And Democrats might have like it because they don't like his agenda. They don't like the way they approach Urshi. I mean, don't tell me that Nikki Haley can't do the job. You can't tell me that Governor DeSantis can't do the job.

You can't tell me that Governor Sununu, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio can't do the job. I mean, they can do the job. They get it. J.D. Vance, even though he's been there a couple of years with his background, military background, two years, I don't like his foreign policy, but he could do the job.

There's no one to step in. That's why I think that that situation is. Is a dry well unless he falls, literally falls. If he falls like he does at West Point again, if he falls down the stairs, maybe head first, if he just, I mean, if he goes up and freezes Mitch McConnell style right after his head injury, remember Mitch McConnell just froze. If he does that one time, they might just, we're just going to put anybody in there.

You know, we're just going to just push somebody else in there. But unless there is a panic but as I mentioned before in the last hour There's a sense. That there's a full-blown panic among in Politico about what's going on right now.

Now, that is before the debate. That is before the verdict. It doesn't look like these three other trials are going to get there after. And this is Donald Trump doing a couple of things that's got people on the left nervous. Here's what he's doing: he's going into enemy territory.

I didn't think he'd do it. John McCain style. It goes in front of the libertarians, and it was a mixed crowd, you know, a lot of booing, like, get out of here. He's like, okay, you can get your 3%, that's fine.

So he spoke for 35 minutes. And went out and they elected some LBTGQ radical leftists as their libertarian. Congratulations on that. The guy has no shot. Uh olive or something or other.

He is the libertarian comment. You had a chance to be relevant with RFK. You had a chance to be really relevant by saying Donald Trump imperfect as a libertarian, but we're going to back him. Instead, you go pick a fringe candidate so you stay a fringe party. which is a shame because I know there's a lot of good people over there.

But about what's going wrong with with Joe Biden's campaign, he keeps touting the economy. James Carville came out And said this about the economy, the economy that he's experiencing, that America's are experiencing, that David Axelrod says you got to back off on Cut 22. We keep wondering why these young people Aren't Coming home to the Democrats. We say, Oh, why are blacks not coming home to the Democrats? 'Cause Democratic messaging is full of That's why.

and talk about cost of living. And we're going to help deal with this. And it don't talk about f ⁇ ing. Gotta and student loans. Right.

Student loans, 47% of the country. Think it's a good idea. Over 50% think it's a bad idea. And just because you think you've got younger people because they're Experiencing the benefits of student loan forgiveness? There's a lot of people who aren't.

Middle class people who took out, who didn't take out loans, found a way to pay it. Aren't happy. People that pay back their loans aren't happy. But what Donald Trump did was really good, and Nikki Haley came forward and did first. They're not no longer going at each other.

They realize they've got to work together. Listen to Donald Trump on Nikki Haley saying she'll vote for him, Cut 23. Is there room for her on your team, or better yet, your ticket?

Well, I think she's going to be on our team because we have a lot of the same ideas, same thoughts. I appreciated what she said. You know, we had a nasty campaign. It was pretty nasty. But she's a very capable person, and I'm sure she's going to be on our team.

In some form, absolutely. I just think there's a lot of things to learn. Like sometimes leaders. Can teach you stuff? One of the things you can learn is you gotta get over it.

It's not personal. And that's what he went on to say. And he's proven it with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio. And now Nikki Helley. Nikki Haley says, you know, I think the president, a former president, should reach out to my voters.

I think they're getting closer to closer doing it together. Because I think they need Nikki Haley to say, hey, my voters, vote for Trump. Back with Alan West in a moment, Frank Hillman. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeid.

They cheer! Our country, and I say our country because it is our country. Send billions of dollars to maintain an apartheid government and support the ongoing ethics. ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is disgraceful.

That the Biden administration and my colleagues in Congress continue to smear. them for protesting to save lives no matter faith or ethnicity. It is cowardly. But we're not going to forget in November, are we? That was Congresswoman Tlaib, who prefers to be in Gaza, so I think she should go.

Everything she does is anti American. She's just a hero to the to the people of the Palestinian people. And she is not anti-Hamas. And she has thrived in hurting her own party. People want to jump on Republicans, and they should for the Mac Gates' egotistical people, but he's not anti-American.

You want to bring up people that tend to be a little bit selfish, that's fine. But they're not anti-American. She's anti-American. Why the Democrats don't just stand up and freak out on her from Moskowitz on down is unbelievable. She's basically going after Joe Biden, too.

Now, what are they referring to? In Rafah, over the weekend, there was a hit in this area. They killed two high commanders, but it also blew up a gas tank, it looks like, and according to Hamas, killed 45 people. Benjamin Netanyahu, who has apologized, but said. Essentially, they're going to do an investigation into it.

Of course, condemnations now come long and wide from France, from the UK. And we have been relatively quiet for now, but I'm sure that'll change. Let's bring in Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, knows all about what's like fighting and insurgency. Where innocent people are put in front as human shields. The IDF yesterday, Colonel West, struck over seventy five targets, one of which seems to have hidden some civilians.

Your thoughts?

Well It's good to be with you today after Memorial Day, and hopefully, you had a great day honoring our fallen. My concern is that we are once again on the side of a terrorist organization who hides amongst these civilians. And when you hear about the Biden administration not wanting to give up the precision-guided munitions, this is what you have. It increases the chance of collateral damage. But everyone, the world should be condemning Hamas because non-state, non-uniformed belligerents who don't wear a declared uniform, who hide among the civilians, are the ones who are the greatest danger to civilians.

And so instead of A US congresswoman, Rashida Khalib, going after this country, going after this administration, she should be speaking out against a terrorist organization that killed Americans. And as far as we know, has killed the Americans that were hostages as well.

So I think the appalling thing is that we have someone that is really speaking treason against the United States of America and is a propagandist for an Islamic terrorist organization on top of the fact that the world needs to pull their head out of their you know what's and stop supporting Islamic terrorists and what they do.

So, how much is this Rafa hesitancy have to do with Egypt being complicit there and keeping those tunnels open and that being discovered by the world? They're shutting down their border, not letting the Palestinians come into a refugee camp on the outside, while condemning us and the IDF to the rest of the world. And now we find out those tunnels that were built there during that, they say during that brief time when Muslim Brotherhood was in charge. But when we give them billions of dollars, they have not shut them down. They don't want that to be found out.

I think that plays a major role in the hesitancy with Rafah. As Trump says, get in there and get it done. You are losing the rest of the world by delaying. And why are we delaying? I'd argue why is IDF delaying?

It's because of us. Yeah, and think about this. Remember that it was back in two thousand nine when Barack Obama traveled to Egypt to give his speech at the University of Cairo. He asked for members of the Muslim Brotherhood to sit front and center. And then, of course, Barack Obama supported Mohammad Morsi to be the President of Egypt, and he was for Muslim Brotherhood.

And that's the time period that you're talking about when these tunnels were completed.

So the United States has been behind the scenes playing around with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is Hamas, and you can even see that here in the United States of America as well.

So I think it is very important that the world, again, comes together and make sure that we can do what's necessary to shut down these tunnels.

So, I want you to hear what Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat, said on Face of the Nation, Cut 36. What we know is that there's a humanitarian disaster unfolding right now in and around Rafah. We have not been able to get in significant shipments of humanitarian aid. And so, no matter how many people are dying from Israeli military operations, there are people dying every single day from an inability to access food and medicine. This is ultimately accruing to the benefit, not the detriment, of terrorist recruiting.

And that's my big worry here. There's a moral cost to the number of civilians that are dying inside of Gaza. But when you continue to withhold food and aid from the people, that ultimately makes these terrorist causes stronger, not just in Israel, but around the world.

Okay, well Your thoughts about this. They are the dumbass, okay? The Islamic jihadists and terrorists hate us because of who we are. They don't hate us because we're not giving food and water to people that are under their tyrannical regime. Hamas runs Gaza.

They're the ones that are precluding and preventing the aid to get to these people. We know that the pier that the Biden administration wanted to build to bring in humanitarian support relief, Hamas was firing mortars and rockets at that pier.

So, again, we continue to make excuses for a terrorist organization. We continue to believe that, oh, if we just could get in there and give the people food and water, well, 80 to 82 percent of the people there in Gaza support Hamas and supported what Hamas did on October the 7th.

So, I just finished watching yesterday, you know, Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan. Guess what? We put a lot of pressure on Germany. We firebombed, you know, cities in Germany. Why?

Because it was total war. What happened with Israel on October the 7th is an indication of total war. They have to go in and destroy Hamas. And sadly, the world does not see it that way. And they are really doing everything they can to prop up.

terrorism and proper Hamas instead of doing what is necessary speaking against it.

So they had this big story over the weekend of this physician who saved the life of Sinwar, who was the bin Laden in this operation, still alive, thought to be in Rapstar or Khan Yunus. And he went to when he was in jail for 10, 20, 15 years, I'm not sure which one it was, he went to school on the Israeli culture. He demanded to see every Israeli newspaper. He became a leader inside. And this doctor who saved his life got to know him.

And he says that this guy absolutely understands the next move Israel makes. He understood Israel will be hard to go back hard and kill civilians and be able to turn the world sentiment against them. Sure enough, look at some of the statements today. Emmanuel McCrone, outraged by the Israeli strikes that have killed many displaced persons. The European Union's foreign policy chief, Joseph Brelly, horrified by the news from Rafah.

There's no safe place in Gaza. These attacks have to stop immediately. He knows that by taking hostages, that was the key. Why? Because when they took one soldier, they got a thousand prisoners back, including him.

That was Khalit. He was in prison for life. They freed him to get one prisoner back. Could you imagine if he got over 200, which he did? He even took this doctor's nephew, and that nephew is dead.

If anybody understands that this guy knows that Israel is going to get so much pressure from the West not to kill everyone, it's him. And the longer they delay and they live in their subterranean culture in tubes that are big, one and a half times the size of all them in London, England, that's how sophisticated and expansive it is. It's working to fortify Hamas. They don't want a two-state solution.

So when Norway and Ireland and Spain or whoever comes out and says, we're going to two-state solution, you idiots, do you understand the people that you're going to bat for want a one-state solution without Israel? And other people have to spend days and years negotiating for a two-state solution, you don't call a press conference and support it? They understand the weakness of The modern Western civilization and its leadership. They understand that we don't have, you know, yeah, the Is misguided. They understand that we don't have a Ronald Reagan.

We don't have Margaret Thatcher's. We don't have those type of leaders in Western civilization now. We don't have Winston Churchills. We don't have people.

Well, we have more Neville Chamberlains than anything else. And so, yes, they understand how they can leverage Western media, which is the exact same thing that the North Vietnamese did against us in Vietnam. That they went and used propaganda. They used the media to turn the American people against their own troops, their own soldiers there on the battlefield in Vietnam. We did not lose tactically.

We lost strategically, and especially we lost in the media, in the court of public opinion. And that's what Islamic jihadists and terrorists want to continue to do, no matter how heinous, no matter how repulsive, no matter how barbaric they are, we still have people that will side with them, which is absolutely disconcerting and disgusting.

Okay, lastly, your other expertise is the border. Texas is doing a better job.

So now the biggest access point is now San Diego. There is an 8,600% increase from fiscal year 2021 in the number of illegals coming across in San Diego. They got a massive gap in the border wall. You know, the walls that don't work, a massive gap in the border wall. Among them, 30% of the.

30,000 Chinese nationals since october first. 118 Chinese nationals crossed illegally on Saturday alone.

So we are not even questioning them. And they're coming abroad. They're not refugees. They're being placed. They're paying the cartels to bring them in there.

Now I understand why you want to flee China, but I also understand it's almost impossible to free China, to flee China. Your thoughts about what you think is happening.

Well, China is setting the stage for something very nefarious. And understand, you're absolutely right. You don't leave China with hundreds of thousands of dollars because there is no easy way to get to the southern border of the United States of America. I mean, you have to take airline flights, maybe you have to take ships. But the bottom line is that you have to pay anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000, maybe $40,000 for the cartels to come in.

So these are not individuals that are poor and refugees and things of this nature. These are individuals that have gotten the green light from Xi Jinping and the Communist Chinese Party. And the amount of single military aged males that are coming across, and we're not questioning them, this is absolutely insane what we see happening. And talk about domestic terrorism. We're setting ourselves up for an October the 7th.

Bill Melusian writes this. There is now an orchestrated, well-organized cartel smuggling operation of Chinese into Southern California, and it appears there has essentially been zero effort to stop it.

So please tell me. I'm not asking you to be a Democrat or Republican. Ask somebody: tell me why you believe this guy deserves this job for four more years. He let go of our southern border. He is now urging our allies not to sanction Iran for weaponizing uranium to a weapons level where they're going to have a nuclear weapon.

He's urging France and the UK in the Wall Street Journal today to not sanction, just abstain when it comes to a vote, making the IAEA already toothless, even more toothless.

So please tell me why he deserves another four years. He doesn't do interviews. He doesn't do press conferences. He gets angry when he has to answer two questions. He can't give accurate speeches.

And now his policies are absolutely out. I think it's run on automatic. I don't even think it's 24-year-olds running this. I think nobody's running this country right now. Final thought tunnel.

Well, you you would have to be delusional to believe that uh Joe Biden deserves another four years. And really, if you're talking about another four years, you're more talking Paris being a president and keeping This same ticket, and that would be an even greater disaster. Joe Biden has done everything to undermine the sovereignty of the United States of America, our economic security, our energy security, our national security, foreign policy.

So he does not deserve another four years as commander-in-chief and the president of the United States of America. And President Trump says, Listen, I got to round up the illegals that have come over the last four years. We've got to decide who stays and goes. And they thought that was radical. 51% of the country now supports that.

And we'll talk about that in the upcoming weeks as President Trump gets through this trial and hopefully back on the campaign trail. Maybe we have this come up in the actual debate if we got some substance in it. Colonel, always great to talk to you. Thanks so much. My pleasure, Brian.

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When we come back, we have a lot more to discuss, including we got some people on the inside of the courtroom. The judge has just made a series of statements, and it looks like they're going to ask the jury to stay late today, and both sides to stay late today. I think they're still going to hold off to their Wednesday day off and then come back for Thursday. and Friday. You'll listen to the Brian Kill Meet Show.

Don't move. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. We're all still debating what is the crime that is being alleged that Trump was concealing through these alleged bookkeeping errors.

And there continues to be a roaring debate about that question. We're at closing argument. And we're waiting for the government to state with clarity what it is alleging. And that obviously is a problem. And much about this case is impressionistic.

Basically, Bragg is relying on that jury of not looking beyond who the defendant is, certainly not looking for evidence that hasn't been produced.

So, Jonathan Turley, he's in and out of the In the jury room today. He's in and out of the courtroom today. And Andy McCarthy, in and out of the courtroom today. Janine Piro, Judge Jeanine Piro, in and out of the courtroom today, because we have closing arguments beginning. And what could I tell you that's happening?

Obviously, we're back to 1910 with people telling us what's happening. We have ticker tape, but here it is. Todd Blanche is using a visual with the jury that appears aimed at making his case as simple as possible. At the top of the screen is in invoices sent by Cohen with an arrow pointing to the next heading, vouchers, accounting department, then an arrow in the final heading, checks, accounting department. The obvious aim is to create a path for these payments that never directly involved President Trump.

Of course, he signed them at some point, but the argument is that he never directed those payments during their path and also signed them when he was in the White House because he had to sign certain things because he was still technically running the company. Although nobody, even his critics, say that he was running the company, Eric was running, and Don Jr. were running the company at the time.

So Todd Blanch is. Come out with visuals. That was one thing people said. They were getting confused by Cohen. He had so many lies in 2019.

Different take in 2018. What about 2020? What about when he became a state's witness after prison, after he wrote his book? What is what year and when?

So that's why I think it's important that he came out. He came out with these charts to give people an idea of exactly what they meant with his accounting department.

So he wants to start out simply. That, according to Shannon Bream, has just relayed that to us. And you just heard what Jonathan Turley says: we still don't know what exactly he's charged with. This is why people are crazed. If there's a documents case, you could see it, you know exactly what he's charged with, and you just figure out what is wrong and compare it to other people that have taken documents from President Biden and what he did with his Corvette and his garage and things to that nature.

But now we're looking at a situation where we still don't know what he's charged with, and the people that would also know, besides Michael Cohen and besides President Trump. Are Keith Schilling? Uh Keith Schiller Keith Schilling, thinking Kerr Schilling. Keith Schiller is a longtime aide, great guy. Got a chance to know him.

He would know. And he was at the White House for about a year and a half and then realized that Trump's the Russia stuff was so crazy, he's out. Or maybe he had other reasons, but he wanted to go back. He loved it, I heard. And then also.

Alan Weiselberg, guess where he is? Rikers Island. Could have called him. You could have called him. And he could have said, hey, Mike Cohen's making it up, but you know what?

I'm under oath. I don't want to go to jail anymore. Donald Trump knew all about it. But you didn't. And that's what I think the top lanche is going to bring up.

Looks like they'll have off Wednesday and then Thursday. Quick announcement: if you like this show, and I know you do, I'm going to go on stage the History of Liberty and Laughs Tour. I'm going to be at the Shelton Auditorium in Butler Arts at the Butler Arts Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. It's coming up now, the end of this month. It'll be June 29th at 7 o'clock.

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From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, I'm Brian Kilmead. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmead Show. We have a big, big day going on in New York City, and I'm not saying because it's New York, it's because it's the country.

We have a lot to going on because we've got the latest on the Trump trial that's got underway. This should be the final week. And then they'll get the jury's going to get this thing. And then they'll probably deliberate through the weekend, I imagine. We're just getting some jury instructions now.

This hour, we're going to be joined by some prestigious guests, Alriza Josazaria, and he is the MEK leader. It is a renegade group that is trying to bring some type of regime change in Iran. After when I tell you what's going on with the Wall Street Journal story, tell you you're going to be outraged. At the bottom of the hour, New York Post finest columnist, Michael Goodwin. But for now, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Each year. Our country sends billions of dollars to maintain an apartheid government and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is disgraceful.

But we're not going to forget in November, are we? Yes, I think we'll forget about you in November, but it looks like Joe Biden's not getting any help on the left. Rashina Talib, the Palestinian in Michigan, upside-down world. The world is condemning Israel for their Rafa strike. There was innocence it would kill, granted.

But remember who the bad guys were? Hamas. And they started it. And the U.S.

now urges the world not to condemn Iran for advancing their nuclear weapons program. No joke, Jack. No hyperbole. Number two. We keep wondering why these young people aren't.

Coming home to the Democrats, which why blacks are not coming home to the Democrats? Democratic messaging is full of. Don't talk about f ⁇ ing. Godfrey and Student Loans. James Carville, 2024, former President Trump goes into enemy territory twice: first in the South Bronx, then to the Libertarian Conference, and the GOPer turned opponent close to joining his team.

I'm talking about Nikki Haley.

So, relatively good news. While fellow Dems are telling President Biden: stop touting your economy, stupid. Number one. Donald Trump may very well not be convicted. Acquitted is the worst case scenario for Democrats because then it's the only trial you have, and Donald Trump gets to go out there and say, they still didn't convict me.

I'm still innocent. Right. But there are others out there that could be bad for the president if he does not win. Former President Trump, we talked about the Trump trials. Case one of four coming to a close with closing arguments going on right now.

The defense is out there. Jury instructions, deliberations, all coming to a head this week in New York City. What Biden plans on doing with the verdict. And as many, why many Dems are admitting, this case has already backfired on them tooth date. But we don't know what it's like if the president is convicted and is a felon.

And as Trey Gowdy was just saying, he said he came, he was a prosecutor before he went to Congress and before he joined us. He loves the law. I mean, this guy is just so passionate. He says, I came to hear skeptical on the case, but when I watched this judge in action, last week, before we went on vacation. For four days, and the jury got this.

He's never seen a judge so pro-prosecution. That worries me, because the judge is going to ultimately decide the sentence if he's found guilty. Number one, number two is he's also going to decide what the jury instruction is going to be and how expansive the scope will be. And how are they going to go out of their way if they were smart to say, hey, by the way, you do something with a porn star, it doesn't matter. You pay off a doorman, it doesn't matter.

You pay off a Playboy model, it doesn't matter. These are NDAs that are totally legal, but we should focus on the records keeping and what category they were put on.

Well, it should be a fine, by the way. It should not be prison, could up to four years in prison for a 77-year-old with nothing on his record. But that's not what this is going to be about. He could end up with house arrest, he could end up with a conviction. But the sentencing, how tha how weird is this?

The sentencing will start right away. You heard a little about the from this before, but over the weekend on CNN, Sarah Murray, a CNN political correspondent, said this about what Democrats could be looking at. I think that it's very likely this is the only trial that we are going to get before Election Day. And this case is not a slam dunk, which means that Donald Trump may very well not be convicted. Acquitted is the worst case scenario for Democrats because then it's the only trial you have, and Donald Trump gets to go out there and say, Joe Biden's prosecutors, which again, not true, came after me.

His Department of Justice came after me, and they still didn't convict me. I'm still innocent. It would be huge. But there's also, if he is convicted, what about undecideds?

Now, people, clear-thinking people who love the law, said this case never should have been tried. The anti-Trumpers will be anti-Trumpers, but the Independents Undecideds, that's going to be key, the so-called moderates. And Doug Hay, RC communications director, looked at all scenarios. That's why you need analysts now. We don't need people saying he's guilty, he's innocent, because we don't know the seven men and the five women on the jury.

And if we did, we're not supposed to say anything about them. We know there are some attorneys, physical therapists. But the jur judges backed everyone out of describing them.

So I'll do the same. Cut five. There's a subset of voters out there. They're the undecided voters. They don't like Donald Trump, and they don't like Joe Biden.

A conviction may matter to those voters. Maybe not all of them, but 20% or 40%. Pretty soon you start talking real numbers because if you're showing polling about Robert F. Kennedy or Cornell West or whomever, you're talking about a pocket of voters in Dearborn, Michigan, or a pocket of voters in Tempe, Arizona, or Winstonsdale, North Carolina. Those voters matter if there's a conviction.

If not, Donald Trump's going to go on his grand acquittal exoneration tour. And we know what that show is going to look like. And we know this. Listen to this. If Joe Biden, when the verdict is written, Joe Biden, in order to not be political, air quotes, is going to comment from the White House.

Exactly. Having a rematch with the guy that had the White House, who you beat, and are about to play again, who you're about to face again, and are trailing, you're going to make it non-political by commenting from the White House. Really?

Keep in mind, too, your son is also on trial. You're going to comment on that trial, too? Because your son's dead to rights. He signed a sheet to buy a gun saying he was not on drugs and he was on drugs at the time. How do we know that?

You wrote it in your book, and there's pictures of it in your laptop. You know, the Russian, that classic Russian disinformation, the 51 Intel agents swore it was classic Russian disinformation that's being used against him.

So let me give you the latest. This just in from our people who are monitoring the trial.

So I'll I'll read it to you. Let's re I'll read it called. Todd Blanche, who is the defense attorney, defense goes first. Then you got the prosecution, jury instructions, then deliberation. Todd Bland says, the bottom line is the charges in this case have to do with invoices, vouchers, and checks.

I'm going to talk to you a lot about Michael Cohen today. That should not surprise you. He tells the jurors they cannot convict Trump based on Cohen. Blanche points out that they were in conversation with Alan Weisenberg, Dylan Howard, who were not here at the trial. Blant says Cohen took the stand and he lied, which, by the way, he got caught lying twice, maybe more.

Bland says there are two things that he expects the jury must find relating to the documents. The documents contain false entries, and Trump acted with intent to defraud. Blanche went on to say, the records are not false, and the lines there was no attempt to defraud. Blanche pulls up the invoices and vouchers and says, Tarakoff used the invoices to create the voucher based on what she knew at the time. that she's an accountant.

Blanch says the information on the checks? Was auto-inputted by the invoices and vouchers. Alan Weisenberg, the CFO, is there. He also did a wise thing, which I've heard other legal experts over the weekend say that it gets confusing.

So, when he came out originally with charts, he said, This is where he lied, this is with the vouchers, this is what was signed, this is what my guy did. And didn't do.

So as CEO, you sign everything. put in front of you. The other thing is, as Jonathan Cholly never tires of pointing out, He's being charged for taking the advice of his legal counsel, who's now turned on him and says, He took my advice. Here's Jonathan Turley, cut seven on On the closing arguments. In the closing arguments in this case, we may have the first clear explanation from the prosecutors of what their theory is.

There's still a debate going on up to closing arguments as to what was the crime that Trump supposedly was trying to cover up with these bookkeeping violations. And the prosecutors are saying it could be one of three things: it could be state or federal election violations, or maybe a tax violation.

So it's not surprising that we're going into the towards the week of closing arguments, we don't even know what the rules are. And keep in mind, the defense has to write closing arguments. They need those instructions to figure out what they're allowed to say to the jury.

So it's unfortunately consistent with this entire case.

So, and I wrote Andy McCarthy, who's also inside. The courtroom. He's in the overflow room, I believe. I asked him, they have thirty four counts here and he can can they convict? He says, Yeah, they can convict on all thirty four or none or on anything in between.

Wow.

So that's why you throw thirty four up there, which which when I do and I'm going to find this out, but Well, why even have a judge instruct the jury? on what the charges are if there's been thirty-four counts already.

So that's what the defense is going to do, and that's what they're doing right now. I just told you exactly what's happening to the moment.

Now, what about the prosecution? What are they going to say? They're trying to say the only person they have that links Trump directly to knowing and conspiring with Michael Cohen is Michael Cohen.

So, this is what Lisa Rubin said on another network: what prosecution has to do, cut 12. They want to show the jury that they don't really need Michael Cohen to prove their case. There are a couple of episodes where Michael Cohen's testimony stands alone and unrebutted because anybody else who is in the room has not taken the stand or was not called to the stand. But for the most part, all of the evidence in this case comes from other sources too, from people like David Pecker and Hope Hicks, from a series of documents that range from the allegedly falsified documents themselves to phone records and emails and texts. There is a mountain of evidence in this case.

It's Josh Steinglass's job today to convince the jury of just how much there is and how little of it came from the mouth of one Michael Cohen. There's a lot of stuff. But the question is how much really helps or hurts the case? And then it goes back to what are we being tried for? I mean, Hillary Clinton obviously made up the whole dossier thing, paid money to get the dossier, paid money for Christopher Steele, paid money to link this whole Russia thing before she lost and after she lost, that hurt this country for two and a half years.

Vladimir Putin's an evil thug. But you made things worse. Democratic Party. Mark Ilias and others. Why?

Because you kept ranting. about Russia, and then it made it impossible for Trump to actually have relations with Russia without looking like he was conspiring with Russia.

So when we come back inside the other big story from the Wall Street Journal today, that the U. S. is urging our allies not to sanction Israel. for, excuse me, Iran. for weaponizing uranium.

I know. Crazy stuff. More from an expert in just a moment. 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.

Well, here's Biden telling Israel, our ally, exactly how they should be doing things and yet showing appeasement to Iran. You know, this is the same administration under Biden that delisted the Houthi rebels as terrorist resignation. This is the same administration who has stopped enforcing the oil exportation to China, which is actually the reason that they have this financing to be able to go ahead and advance their nuclear program. And now they're trying to interfere with the IAEA's capabilities to be able to ensure that Iran doesn't become a nuclear capability by not only abstaining from the vote, but trying to encourage others not to actually enforce it. veteran Special Operator, Congressman Corey Mills, talking about the ridiculous Wall Street Journal story.

And it's true, not denied, that President Biden is working behind the scenes to tell our allies not to vote to further sanction And condemn Iran for going past the IEA threshold and weaponizing uranium to the weapons-grade level. Joining us now to talk about the outrageous decision by this administration is Alariza Jafarzada. He is the Deputy Director of the Washington Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Ali, what's your reaction to our stance? That's a head scratcher, to say the least, right?

Well, definitely, Brian. It's so good to be on your show. And I've what we do for so many years since two thousand two when we first revealed the nuclear site in that hands. which triggered the inspections of the Iranian nuclear sites by the IAEA. And it's been twenty two years since the inspections started.

And no one would would think at the time that the regime will get to where it is now, basically going undeterred And maintaining their entire nuclear infrastructure, having this agenda of building nuclear weapons, all with the goal of preserving their system and staying in power. They feel the Ayatollahs who are, by the way, rejected by their own population, by their own people, with chance of death to the dictator, death to Khamenei. They want freedom, and yet the regime feels one way to stay in power is to get the bomb. And that's very unfortunate, the events over the past few years. How in the world the Iran regime has been allowed to actually enrich uranium.

To over 60% and be just like weeks away from having enough fissile material for actually several bombs, not just one. Right, so several bombs.

So why would Joe Biden say to the UK and France, stand down, stop, don't go ahead and censure the Islamic Republic for going past the IAEA's declaration? He said the report said the administration has also pressed a number of other countries to abstain in a central vote against Iran. Why? Because we have started discussions with Iran on the nuclear program in Oman, led by their new policy advisor, maybe next President, Rear Admiral Ali Shyam Khani.

Well, Brian, there is this thinking here in Washington that maybe there is a way that you can work out something with the Ayatollah. If you sit down and talk with them, if you give them what they want, if you give concessions, if you can reason with them, This has failed over three, four decades. The regime in Tehran, the only language they understand is the language of decisiveness, firmness. And holding them accountable. This regime can easily, based on, you know.

The agreements of the UN Security Council 2231, US can actually unilaterally trigger the snapback of sanctions on the Iran regime or in the US. Right, but they're not. Ali, why are they not? Why are they not? They're actually going the opposite.

I think this whole comes from this notion. That if you are not tough with the Ayatollahs, if you don't rock the boat, then they will behave themselves. Then you can find it, negotiate with them in order to abandon their terrorism, their nuclear weapons program. Look what they're doing in the region. I think the world has realized, especially after October 7th, that the head of the snake of war and terrorism lies in Tehran.

And you don't just allow the snake, you don't feed them, you don't allow them to continue this path. Instead, the head of the singh must be crushed. And what's the people of Iran doing? They're trying to crush the head of the snake, and yet the outside world is not in sync with the realities on the ground in Iran, with the desire of the people to bring about change. And that change is going to affect everyone.

It's not just freeing the people of Iran. I understand. I'm with you. Real quick, do you think the president of Iran was killed or was just a bad helicopter? Who knows?

I mean, these guys the regime is always like lies and deception. But whatever the reason was, I think the fact that Laisi got killed It's a major blow to the Supreme Leader Khamenei because he was a major player. He was a big ally of Revolutionary Guards. It's going to create a lot of infighting. It has certainly weakened the regime.

It's going to open doors for the people because this guy's mission was to prevent the uprisings. And he has a history of, you know, being involved in a massacre of 30,000 people. We should all be glad he's dead. Ali Riza Jafarzadeh Devarzadeh, thanks so much. Appreciate it.

The Deputy Director of the Washington Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Ali Riza, thanks so much. Michael Goodwin, next. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Meet Show.

My point about Michael Cohen, yeah, he stole money, yeah, he's a liar, but I think the most devastating part, at least what I would harp on if I was a defense attorney, is that he hates Donald Trump. He literally wants to see not just a conviction, he wants to see him in prison.

Now, let me tell you what the prosecution is going to do when they stand up. They're going to say, you know what? Most of what you heard about Michael Cohen is true, which makes you wonder why Donald Trump hired him. The reason Michael Cohen was a witness is because Donald Trump made him a witness. He hired him as his lawyer.

He was his personal lawyer. That's who he relied upon on these catch and kill.

So the prosecution is not going to really defend Michael Cohen. They're going to say, I would have preferred to call a Catholic nun. I would have preferred to call a first-grade school teacher. But that's not who Donald Trump was dealing with. He was dealing with Michael Cohen.

So if you're mad that he was called as a witness, blame the defendant. Don't blame us. And the way you come back in the defense has Trey Gowdy doing his analysis after going in and out of the courtroom over the last few days. But what you do is you come back and say, look, has anyone out there ever hired somebody and they not pan out? Michael Cohen, when when the President becomes President, He doesn't take Michael Cohen.

When the president launches a Campaign and launches a team. And he has a bunch of turnovers in that team from Lewandowski to Paul Manaford. Manaford's out, in comes Kellyanne Conway. He never puts Michael Cohen in there because he realizes his limitations.

So, what you do is you feel kind of bad for the guy because he's kind of limited in skills and he's an attack dog and he's loyal.

So, you don't fire him. Would you keep him around? Because it's a family atmosphere there. That's the comeback. But Trey Gadda brings up good points.

Right now, we're seeing two of the police officers, the capital city, capital police officers from January 8th, January 6th, that are about to speak. But right now, Robert De Niro is speaking because they see that every day Trump supporters come out and they give a speech.

So now they're using this opportunity to have Robert De Niro come out there. I have news for you. People lost respect for Robert De Niro 15 years ago as an actor. He just takes any crap that comes down the line. His mouth.

Is as filthy as anything you've ever seen from some biker gang down down. He thinks people care about his opinion. He writes down some comments, and now he's speaking out against Donald Trump. And now these two police officers will come back and talk about January 6th, and there are people screaming on the outside, screaming. And they keep looking to at one point, De Niro, before he was speaking, turns his back on the Joe Biden spokesperson and just looks and sees the people screaming on the side.

And they're screaming right now. De Niro, by the way, has got to get everybody that wants to produce one of De Niro's movies, if they're any good. You don't want De Niro anymore because you have no shot at 70 million people, or let's say 50 million. 50 million people that voted for Donald Trump look at the inverse of Joe of as close as you can get to Joe Biden is Robert De Niro.

So if Joe Biden was in a movie, 70 million people that voted for Trump would not watch. And now Robert Te Niro is doing the same thing with his career.

So he is absolutely clueless. Joining us right now. With this chaos, is Michael Goodwin, The York Post. Michael, your thoughts on De Niro speaking? Uh Good morning, Brian.

Robert De Niro is a reprehensible human being. I mean, he was a very good actor earlier in his life. The godfather, of course, taxi taxi driver. But Lately, he's just become a Crazy person out there ranting and raving primarily about Trump, goes on the view and says things. I mean, it's.

it's it's a very tired act. And his own life is hardly one that we should seek to emulate, his personal life is a mess. And yet, there he is, a paragon of Hollywood who's out there opining on politics. I think we learned long ago that Hollywood ought to stay in Hollywood because it has nothing to teach America about morals or leadership or patriotism or anything like that. It's a fame-making machine for some people, but it has nothing to teach us about things that really matter.

Like, for example, when it comes to Israel, there's so many Jewish power players in Hollywood. The people that speak out. Or um Uh John Lovitts? Jerry Seinfeld? Um You know, we have that's about it.

So we don't hear any of that. I mean, you speak out and you say, well, the Jewish population is going to be wiped out if we don't stand up for the democracy in there. I can understand it. You know, especially the, I almost think that's a mulligan where you kind of want to know where the Jewish people stand on this because Republicans seem to be the only ones supporting them these days, and most of the votes go to the Democratic Party. But you don't see any of the courage there.

But it's easy to come against Donald Trump. When is someone going to whisper in Robert Te Niro's ear, I mean, how many Lifetime Achievement Awards is he going to get and donate and dedicate his acceptance speech to anti-Trump talk? Nobody's listening to him, but we'll see what will happen. What's your take on what we're seeing so far with the defense arguments? You know, Brian, I haven't been in the courtroom, so I'm not really in a great position to follow every jot and tittle.

I think there has been some what seems to me important criticism of the defense approach. from Turley and others, Jonathan Turley and others, about the witnesses they called and didn't call, about the questions, about the emphasis. But look, I think there's a lot of inside baseball here that my experience with juries and having covered and written about cases and followed cases is that it's very hard to understand, even as a journalist sitting in there every day, very hard to understand what's making an impression on the jury. I mean, they may be looking intensely at a witness and thinking about what they're going to do after the case ends. I mean, they may be totally zoned out on certain key moments of the trial.

You just don't know. I remember learning this lesson years ago. There was a famous corruption case in New York City that Rudy Giuliani, the young prosecutor, was conducting against a bunch of political Types and read and I remember reading the coverage of the New York Times. I was a New York Times reporter then, but not covering that case. And reading the coverage of the case, I assumed they would all be found not guilty on the first ballot of the jury, that the jury would come back in no time and find them not guilty.

In fact, the jury found them all guilty on every count. And I learned from that experience that you cannot really trust the media's coverage. To match up to what the jury is seeing and believing. And then, of course, you go inside the jury room where I have been, and you, you know, somebody steps up as a leader, somebody feels very strongly about something, others less strongly, maybe they haven't been paying attention, whatever. It's all beyond prediction in a certain manner.

And so I don't know what to make of how the defense is putting it on in terms of what will the jury conclude and think is the most important thing.

So that's sort of the entrails of the jury process that hopefully we'll get at the end of the day. But I have to say, I agree with Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, others, that there's no there. I mean, they really haven't even laid out what the crime is. The judge is contorting himself to find Trump guilty. Of something.

We know the political class wants it. And yet, I think it will be one of those things that ultimately. Has no impact on the politics if he is convicted and if he's. a hung jury, which means it's not unanimous and therefore, he's not guilty by virtue of that. That would be, I think, a success for him.

If he is actually acquitted, meaning the jury all agrees that he is not guilty, that would be to me, Brian Sons, a revolution is coming. Yeah, by the way, Robert De Niro is losing his mind. They have two of these police officers about to speak, and he's saying that Trump hunts total chaos. Has he seen the city streets right now? Did you hear over the weekend in New York City in a subway some lunatic who's been arrested before put gasoline all over one guy who just got here from another country who had to protect his fiancé?

You want chaos in the streets? Put Joe Biden and his philosophy on crime and no punishment and his Democratic DAs. That's crime in the streets. You don't like January 6th? Join the club.

That was a moment. What about every day, every hour? Who do you think really cares about keeping people safe of all colors and creeds? Robert De Niro doesn't see that as he sits in his bubble and rotates girlfriends.

So he's losing his mind right now. And by the way, why are you sitting there and speak the whole time and leave the cops behind you? If they have something to say, let them say it. Why are you reading your remarks? If you notice these people who speak afterwards, including the former president, they speak from the heart.

Tell you what they think. This guy thinks it's a script that he's, by the way, one of the few scripts he can't memorize. He should go back and do bad movies with Sebastian Manascalco. Look, I think De Niro. is a non-factor.

He's there for himself. He will not sway anybody's opinion. Look, I think we've all sort of. we peaked out on listening to celebrities. I think the celebrity endorsement, the celebrity opinion is not worth nearly what it used to be.

And with someone like De Niro, whose life is essentially played out, I don't think there's a single voter anywhere who will say, gee, I'm going with Bob De Niro.

So listen to President Biden every time he speaks. Remember nine mistakes yesterday corrected by his own people in front of Morehouse College and in front of the NAACP, which he called the NCAA. Here he is on Sunday at West Point. Listen to this, cut seventeen. America is the strongest when we lead not only by our example of our power, but by the power of our example.

You can clap for that. A fall. He retired that fall. He decided to Lord. I shouldn't get into this problem.

Amazing.

So he's at West Point, really motivating the troops, speaking partisan to Morehouse, and now he's at West Point again. All's tripping all over himself. The headline of Politico today, Michael, is. The headline in Politico today, it really tells a big story. It says they're beyond the Democrats are beyond panic when it comes to his fortunes in 2024.

And it goes into detail that they're upset that he keeps on bringing up the economy because people don't feel that way. They he kept on saying, compare my four years to the previous four years. Nobody thinks that Trump's four years were not better than his four years. And when the headline in Politico says that they're beyond panic. That's when people are starting to notice that this thing is, this is the headline.

It's a full-blown freak out. That's what the Democrats are doing now. And they think that they're going to lean on this trial to save them. Will it?

Well listen. Brian, I want to I want to make two quick points about things Joe Biden said and did. One is, the Post had a story yesterday. That is He visited Halley Biden. His Beau Biden's widow and Hunter Biden's lover.

Uh She is going to be a witness, the prime witness at Hunter Biden's trial, which begins next week. Sh he visited her. Over the weekend in Delaware, Now If God is If Donald Trump did anything like that, that would be called witness tampering. I The White House story is, oh, it's the anniversary of Bo Biden's death is coming up. Perhaps But she is going to be a witness against his surviving son, and he visits her?

I mean, come on. Secondly, the Wall Street Journal has this amazing story about the Biden administration urging our European allies not to be too tough on Iran and its nuclear program until the election is over. Can you I mean Everything, everything is subverted to Joe Biden's needs. I mean, he's corrupted our relationship with Israel. He's tainted the relationship with Iran.

He's put us, he's using the soft touch. all to keep himself in power. And we're told that it's Donald Trump who breaks the norms. Yeah, as I just Biden's opponent is on trial. It's Donald Trump who breaks the norms by with his mean tweets.

It's a sick media landscape that we're watching. The Wall Street Journal of Iran story cannot be overstated. He's encouraging the UK, France, all our allies not to condemn and sanction and censure Iran. Not denying that they're weaponizing uranium beyond levels the IAEA will sanction, but he's worried about them because he's starting talks below the radar in Oman before the president was killed in a 1967 helicopter.

So now he does that. That to me is treasonous. And I saw a tweet by Mark Levin. He said the same exact thing. How do you go to our chief enemy outside Russia and China and say, okay, the ones that's giving killer?

Drones to Russia that saved their military campaign, killing innocent civilians. And now you say, please don't condemn them, allies. You got to be wondering where the leadership is. And if our allies start just doing things on their own, like some of the Eastern, some of these Baltic nations are, creating their own drone wall, I don't blame them.

Well, and look and look at Israel, right? I mean, Iran is behind everything that's happened with Hamas and with Hezbollah and with the Houdis. And still he He wants to play footsie with them while condemning Israel. For being too tough, or for not giving enough aid, humanitarian aid. Look at the mess of humanitarian aid.

Uh why is that? Because Hamas hijacks it. I mean, it's it's the number of things that Iran is doing to upset the American created world in a way, the American uh infrastructure of peace and stability, and yet he will not say peep. And this whole thing that came out last week, that John Kerry was preventing Uh the arrest of Iranian agents All over the U.S. Yup, and it was okay by Obama.

Unfortunately, we're up against a break. Great point, Michael. I know you write for the New York Post, but you have such a global reach and perspective. It's always appreciated. When we come back, the latest update on the Trump trial and closing arguments, we just got another report.

I'll relay it and we'll go over it in a moment. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much. Back in a moment. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis because man, do you need to know? It's Brian Kilmead.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. He doesn't belong in my city. I don't know where he belongs. but he certainly doesn't belong here.

We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot. A two-bit playboy lying his way into the tabloids, pretending to be a spokesman for himself. He was calling it as himself for himself to fool the press into inflating his net worth. He's such an idiot, Robert Te Niro. I will never see anything else he's in.

The way he goes and uses his celebrity to go after Donald Trump as if people care what he has to say. You used to probably worship him. He was hosting The Apprentice looking for money.

Now you don't like him because he's one. And he went on to say that he's going to destroy the country, destroy this city. Did you see who's running this city? Do you see what's going on with illegal immigrants in this city? Do you see what's going on with the lack of support for the cops?

If you cared about the city, you wouldn't allow this DA like Alvin Bragg to waste our time and our money, not prosecuting legitimate criminals and going after people he doesn't like.

So Robert Te Niro blew it, and I just heard Carl Roeban. His analysis is brilliant. I thoroughly agree. The administration sent the spokesperson down to condemn Donald Trump today, in between the trial. For the longest time, they kept a distance from this trial, didn't bring it up on this day unrelated, but instead, now they made themselves a part of it.

This is exactly what Trump said. They were behind it all along.

Now he's got proof. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, Brian Kilmy here. We have a lot to discuss today.

So glad you're here. Kind of embarrassing when you look at some of the remarks from Memorial Day. Yesterday I was able to go out to Jacksonville, Jaguar Stadium, where they got this huge memorial there for everybody in the region that lost their lives fighting our various wars for the last, let me see, we're coming up on year 250. And list here, no names to add to that wall. Memorial Day is special.

I hope a lot of people will go out of their way, especially our listeners, to cite those people that fought or those people that need to be saluted. Great. Corey Bush did an interesting thing, the failed Congresswoman from Missouri. The Memorial Day and every day, we honor our veterans in St. Louis.

We must invest in universal health care, affordable housing, and comprehensive mental health services. That's great and educational, except for these people that lost their lives in battle, genius. Same thing with Congresswoman Olmar. She does not even know what Memorial Day stands for. Three things going on.

We're looking at the Wall Street Journal report that has this administration. Pushing our allies not to sanction and censure Iran for weaponizing uranium and making a bomb. I know. My head's about to explode. 2024 The election, what both sides are doing.

I love Trump going into enemy territory. And lastly, the Trump trials. This is a day. 21 of a six-week trial, and we're at closing arguments. And we have ongoing reviews of the closing arguments right now.

It is defense's turn, followed by prosecution, much to the chagrin of President Trump. He wanted it the other way around, and then it's going to be jury instruction then to the jury. A guy giving us great insight along the way is Andy McCarthy, Fox News contributor and everything else. Great columnist. Andy, welcome back.

What could you tell our listeners about the closing arguments as we know them right now from the defense? LeBrian B. The way this is going to work is they're going to get two and a half hours. That's what Todd Blanch, who was doing the summation for President Trump, Has asked for. Uh and then The prosecution's going to go for four and a half hours, they say, this afternoon.

So Whatever Blanche does, he's got to make it count because this is his chance. As you just pointed out, under New York law, The defense goes first, prosecution goes last, and then the judge instructs on the law.

So he's got to make the impact that he can make now because once he sits down and around noon, he's not going to get to speak to the jury before they go out and start to deliberate tomorrow around the middle of the day. A couple of things worth bringing up right now while we're on it, in terms of the X's and O's of this.

So you got the defense, then you got prosecution, wrap it up by the end of the day. Then the judge is going to give the jury instructions for about an hour. And when the jury Adjourns and they go and meet. This could go through the weekend, right? They'll work Saturday, they'll work on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Yeah, well, they'll work until they have a verdict. I would be surprised if it took that long, Brian. And the reason I say that is. This is a thirty-four count indictment, but it might as well be a one-count indictment. You know what I mean?

Every count is the same. The evidence is pretty much the same, and I think. If you think. That he did it. Um then It makes sense to say guilty 34 times.

If you think is, I think that they haven't proved their case. then every town is the same.

So I I don't it I don't you know, I've had counts I've had trials with lengthy indictments where there were lots of counts. Where it took a long time 'cause it takes the jury a while to work through all the counts in the verdict, but here every count is the same.

Okay. Having said that, before we get to the gist of the defense arguments, when the decision is made and the jury comes back and goes, we made our decision, let's say they found him guilty on some of the charges, and we think it's all the same. You think it's 34, zero for 34 or 34 and zero? Yeah, but you're right. There's a lot of illogical jury vertic.

You know, the fact that that's the logical way to do it, you're right. That doesn't mean they're kind of do it.

So so let's say they say uh we found him guilty.

Okay, fine. The judge does not say, go home and I'm going to think about the sentencing. He could sentence right there. And will. Is that correct?

I don't think so.

Now, I hadn't heard that before, and I certainly haven't seen anything that says that. Ordinarily, there would have to be a pre-sentencing report that was done. There's usually. Certainly in federal court, there's usually three months. Between the time someone, you know, the jury comes in with a guilty verdict and the person gets.

Sentence? And the other thing to realize in New York is when you're dealing with a first offender. And a nonviolent crime. My understanding is that once he files a notice of appeal, he's out until he's out on it's not really bail, he's out on his own recognizance until the appeal gets decided, which I don't think will happen until next year.

So to the extent people are concerned, like is are they going to put cuffs on President Trump and he's going to be remanded to Rikers Island, I don't think that's going to happen. But If you are found guilty, do they take a white collar seventy-seven year old white collar criminal and fingerprint him right away? Take his picture. No, no, remember they did that when he got. before he was indicted.

So he's already been processed. In the system.

So the only question would be When he would have to surrender to serve a sentence, but we're a long way from that because he's got very significant appellate questions in this case.

So even if he got convicted, I really don't think this case is going to hold up on appeal. And frankly, the way the judge and the prosecutors have gone about it, I kind of think that the idea here is to just get them convicted and worry about the appeal later.

Well, I think there's no question about that, and it seems like the judge is in looking like legal experts. I'm not there, and I don't go to a lot of trials. I don't even watch them on TV. But judging by what I see these legal experts saying and judging by the people that I know who are anti-Trump, it seems like this judge is very pro-prosecution in an overt way. Is that an overstatement?

No, I think it's a it's exactly correct. He's allowed in. I I wrote a pretty lengthy Series of columns on the weekend explaining. How he had led in. A lot of improper evidence.

And just, you know, there are some judges out there, Brian, who, like, you know, when they become judges, maybe their experience was they did some kind of uh boutique kind of law. um where they don't really know about litigation and the whole litigation process. This is not that judge. This is a judge who was an assistant district attorney. in Manhattan before he became uh but you know he's a I think then a high ranking Judge for New York State at the Attorney General's office, and then he became a judge.

So he's a Highly experienced litigation. Specialist. And he knows that that a lot of the stuff he has to know that a lot of the stuff that he let into the case was inadmissible, and then it's very likely to leave the jury To convict Trump. And I think the reason he did it was precisely that reason. And then I look at what little we've seen of the jury instructions up until now.

And I think that the way he's going to instruct them, for example, on fraud, If what I saw this morning is any indication of it, he's basically going to tell them that they can find a fraud crime without finding a crime. What do you mean?

Well, I think he's going to tell them. For a scheme to defraud, fraud in the common law and as it's grown up traditionally is a deceptive scheme to build people out of money or property, you know, tangible property. And what he's going to tell them is that in this area of election law, that it's a little bit of a broader definition where you don't have to show that anyone who was trying to. Steal money or property if the voting public was being somehow deceived. And I think that for that to be a lawful instruction, you have to find beyond a reasonable doubt that either the voting public had some kind of a property interest that was deprived of them or that Trump somehow violated the law, that is, committed a criminal offense.

And a nondisclosure agreement, which is what these what this case is about, they're legal.

So the only way that they're arguably illegal And I think this is wrong, is if you say he somehow violated the campaign, the federal campaign finance laws. in paying off those nondisclosure agreements, even though Bragg doesn't have authority under federal law to enforce those statutes.

So it's a long winded way of saying I think they're going to let it the judge is going to indicate to the jury that they can convict on an obscure fraud theory that doesn't require them to find that some property interest was taken away from them and doesn't require them to find that Trump committed some other crime.

So we're looking at this happening today. Do you know if they're going to work Wednesday? They are going to work Wednesday, yes. And just so you just so everyone understands, the reason Judge Murchond takes Wednesday off is he's got this other docket that he works on. Which apparently it would be very hard to try a case in court with witnesses.

and also attend to that docket. But if the only thing that's going on is you have a jury out and you just have to react to notes if they send in notes, then he can do his other work as well.

So there's three scenarios at the end.

So if he's convicted, He could go to jail for four years. Or 136 years. Really?

You know, in theory well, in theory, every count is a four-year felony count. As I understand it, the way the New York sentencing guidelines work since it's all basically the same count. He'd be capped at four years. But in theory, they indicted 34 counts, and every one of them is a four-year count. I would I'd be shocked if he got an hour uh in prison for this crime because it's a nonviolent crime in New York.

where even violent criminals don't get sent to jail. But then again, if you would ask me Brian, would anyone ever get indicted for this dog's breakfast of a case? I would have said no.

So who knows?

So the other would be he is he's convicted and house arrest. How real is that? Um I don't I I actually think that um it wouldn't happen again because If he if he files a notice of appeal, which he will do, then the same bail conditions that he's under, which is basically release on his own recognizance, would be in place until the appeal was decided.

So I don't think he would be limited to house arrest.

Okay, interesting.

So, the one thing I felt was interesting, I don't know if you know this, with some of the antics that are happening outside the courtroom where you are, is the Biden administration put a spokesperson out there to condemn Donald Trump and make this a campaign event, essentially taking ownership of it, and then introduced the two January 6th police officers, obviously don't like Trump. And then Robert De Niro took over and started cursing at people and claiming that Donald Trump is this terrible person, obviously, like he does on every award show that he gets to. I thought that's significant because for the longest time, Joe Biden's like, I have nothing to do with this. This is the law working itself through. And now, when you go up and make a speech outside the courtroom, you're essentially saying everything that, in my view, that Trump was saying about you being behind this and trying to make political hate from this is actually substantive.

Yeah, I agree with that, and I think that it shows the desperation. of Biden. I mean, he should just be ignoring this and trying to stay above it. And it makes you think that their internal polling must be telling them that they have big problems here. One of the things if Biden sends people down here as he's done, one of the things I think he ought to take note of is if if as I understand it, what the jury what the judge is telling the jury about what you need to prove to prove fraud is true, if those instructions are true, then I could see Biden being indicted for claiming that inflation was nine percent When he became president, even though he knows that's not true.

Because what this judge is apparently ready to tell the jury is: if you engage in any deception, That could um put wrong information in the mind of the voting public that that's enough to say it's fraud.

So a lot of politics is going to be criminalized if that's true, including a lot of what happens when Joe Biden tries to speak. Yeah. Absolutely. But the one thing that they're going to try to do, and Andy, this is not really your purview, but they're going to try to say convicted felon, former President Donald Trump, with every single time they introduce him. And they will do that.

And I just don't know how you want to be less political. You say, in order not to make this political, the President has committed to making a speech from the White House after the verdict is read. How does that look less political? No, it looks hyperpolitical as the whole thing looks hyperpolitical. The only thing I can figure, Brian, and as you point out, this is not my side of the street, but I would think they have internal polling, especially in the battleground states, that must be telling them like if we can call Trump a convicted felon from now until November, how many points is that worth?

And that you know, if it's worth a couple of points, that could be make or break in a lot of these states, right? I guess so. But when we're in that case right now, two point five hours with defense, four point five hours for prosecution, get it done today, jury instructions tomorrow for about an hour. Did everything I say jive with you think how this is going to go? Yes, exactly right.

I expect the jury is going to be deliberating by about 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Will they be sequestered during that period? No. As I understand it, they will work until he's hoping they'll be willing to work until after four point thirty, but they'll be allowed to go home and come back. And apparently, the rationale for that, even though I don't agree with it, is that they're anonymous, so there should be no problem because no one knows who they are as they're coming and going.

Right. Seven men, five women are on this jury. We did not need any alternates along the way. The jurors have not been since the day the deliberation started and people started quitting after they were named. There's really been no drama around that.

And then we'll see what happens from here. The other thing is, just for everyone to listen, yesterday, or over the last five days, we heard that Donald Trump did a rally in the South Bronx because he's tethered to be in New York during the case. That is just not true. He was totally free in America up until today. Is that correct?

Yes, it's correct. He went you know I grew up in the Bronx, Brian, so I can report that he went to Cretona Park because who the hell wouldn't want to be in Cretona Park? Exactly. So he did it, and he had a huge turnout. I was just amazed to hear people spin it that he had no choice but to do something in New York.

He could have gone anywhere. And by the way, he's closing in in New York. I love that he went to the Libertarian Conference, too. I think it's good for the country. Yeah, but look, I'm here to tell you, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, you should be in the Bronx.

Well, I'll tell you, you're the one, you and the Yankees. And Andy McCarthy and the Yankees agree. They're having a great year.

So are you, Andy? Thanks so much. Appreciate it. You got it. Back in a moment.

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I think it's definitely worthwhile because they're reaching those anti-establishment voters that Trump kind of shares in common with. Libertarians. There's a lot of libertarians there who don't like some of the big government policies he did in terms of not reforming Social Security or Medicare. But 11% of Americans are libertarian or identify with that ideology. And so he wants to reach those voters, even if it comes at the cost of getting booed, which you almost never see because he's always speaking to his MAGA faithful at those big rallies.

And that's what I loved. I loved that he went there and he was kind of he only spoke for 35 minutes, which is short for him. And I'm talking about former President Donald Trump going out of the Libertarian Conference. And he went there to try to win them over. He says, look, you could sit there, you could be a winner, you could sit alone and get your 3% and have at it.

RFK, they did not endorse him. They've been trying to get him. But RFK told me personally he'll never be on that ticket because they want some impossible guarantees and he's just not going to do it. He thinks he can do it his own way.

So they went ahead and endorsed somebody else named Chase Oliver. He's a pro-LGBTQ. Activist, gay guy, not anything's wrong with that, with a history of leftist position and supports open borders and drag queen story hours for children. Fantastic. Good luck, libertarians.

You're going to be well represented. You had a chance to matter, now you don't. For RFK, he's still into the belief he's got a shot at qualifying for the debates in June. Because you have to be on enough ballots to get up to 270 and win the election. And get over 50% on three polls.

He's got over 50% on three polls, but he's gotta prove he's got enough states. I don't think he has that yet. It's going to be interesting, though. He is certainly a factor. I'm not sure who he hurts more, which makes it more intriguing.

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On this issue, on Israel, my biggest problem is that right now, the reason there's no ceasefire is because of Hamas. Period. Stop right there. There's no other conversation. Why we don't have the hostages out and why we don't have a ceasefire is because Hamas won't agree to one.

We need more pressure on Hamas, not less. And any time there's any daylight between the United States and Israel, Hamas has a reason to not come to the table and agree to a ceasefire. I can't really argue with anything Jared Moskowitz had to say. The congressman from Florida, the Democratic Congressman from Florida, seems to understand that you have this enemy did something horrific on October 7th, and that's why this whole thing started. And they hide amongst the population and live in a subterranean life.

They've built more tunnels than there are more tunnels in Gaza than it's one and a half times the amount of tunnels in London. It's unbelievable what they've used tax dollars and world aid to do. Brent Sadler understands it all. The Heritage Foundation senior represents the. Research Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology, and author of the 2023 book U.S.

Naval Power in the 21st Century. Brent, welcome your thoughts about Congressman Moskowitz and the worldwide condemnation on the IDF hit over the weekend. Yes, well, thanks for having me on. And it is frustrating, just to echo the point, the reason why we haven't gotten to a better place and why this fighting is still happening is because there hasn't been more pressure applied to Hamas to come to a real negotiation or to an end to these hostilities. But again, the end of this is actually only going to come about when Hamas ceases to exist in Gaza.

And as for the attack the other day in a site where there were refugees supposedly hiding, this fits right in with the long running Hamas tactic of hiding amongst innocents to draw fire to cause innocent casualties, and that's part of their war plan. And what we're finding is that the site's actually further away from what was earlier reported from the tent city. Uh what do you mean?

So some of the so apparently, there's a there's like an encampment where there were refugees being housed and hiding. And then there was another site, another set of tents and other facilities. And that site that was distant from the I guess where the Palestinians were being held is actually what it got attacked.

So it wasn't an intentional attack. Right. And there were apologies from the Iranians. They said they hit a gas tank and it blew up everything. The IDF force struck over 75 targets over the weekend, including military buildings and warehouses, rocket launch positions, and most importantly, they killed two Hamas senior officers, Yassin Rabia, the commander of the Hamas leadership in Judea and Samaria, think West Bank, and Khalid Nagar, a senior official in Hamas who oversaw the Judea and Samaria wing.

So they got to go into Rafah. Why have they been delayed, Brent, to get into Rafah? Because of political pressure from this administration. And how much is it that Egypt doesn't want to see what they've done in there with tunnels? Oh, yes.

I think in just the last couple of hours, there's another report of more tunnels connecting Rafa across the border into Egypt in just the last few hours.

So I think it's inevitable that Israel would have to go in and occupy all of Roth in order to bring some semblance of peace As far as Egypt, I don't think the Egyptians want to have to deal with any refugees from Gaza, nor did any of the other Middle Eastern countries, because there's a history lessons behind why they don't want to do that. And I think eventually, we're going to see Israel occupying the Gaza and perhaps in the future, if things are going to go better, we'll have some responsible Palestinian authority that can be trusted to work towards peace in a better future. But right now, the war has got to be fought to its conclusion quicker, and you're right. Pressure in D.C. has not been helpful.

And you know, people keep saying that President Biden is firmly in. Israel's corner. Yes, sometimes. But, you know, it's not easy. You keep slowing them down.

General Biden has terrible instincts and a terrible record. And his party is abandoning Israel wholesale. Listen to Senator Chris Murphy, CUP 36. What we know is that there's a humanitarian disaster unfolding right now in and around Rafah. We have not been able to get in significant shipments of humanitarian aid.

And so no matter how many people are dying from Israeli military operations, there are people dying every single day from an inability to access food and medicine. This is ultimately accruing to the benefit, not the detriment, of terrorist recruiting. And that's my big worry here. There's a moral cost to the number of civilians that are dying inside of Gaza. But when you continue to withhold food and aid from the people, that ultimately makes these terrorist causes stronger, not just in Israel, but around the world.

This is what we're seeing nonstop. Van Holland is probably the worst. Nadler, a Jewish New Yorker, Senator Schumer invisible. If he's not condemning Netanyahu, he doesn't say anything. He wants to talk about energy drinks.

So this is a fascinating time where Republicans are firmly in Israel's camp. Yeah. No. It's astonishing how ill informed the perspective on combat and that which it what happens to civilians that get caught up in the middle of it. Yes, there's a war that's being fought.

That does mean that people's access to food and ordinary life is going to get disrupted, which means the way you minimize the human suffering of this innocence is you get the fighting over with as quick as possible and you get back to a normal life. What you don't do is you prolong this, which is what Hamas's goal has been, to draw the Israelis into this kind of drawn-out war where they can play a political and diplomatic offensive against them and alienate them. And hopefully, the Israelis now are at a stage where they control enough. Of the ground and the airspace around that they can actually turn the screws on Hamas and bring this to a much quicker conclusion. Right, I want you to Nikki Haley's over there in Israel right now, and this is what she said from what she's seen.

She was there this weekend, Cut 37. This isn't gonna go away by some political agreement. This isn't going to go away just because somebody wants it to. This is only going to go away when we acknowledge the truth. Every one of us has to be responsible.

And for all those countries who decided to recognize a Palestinian state. Do you know what that felt like here in Israel? You just gave credit. to Hamas and all that they did. She's not she's one hundred percent right.

I don't even know what the Ireland, Norway and Spain we're even talking about. I'm going to create a segue. Wh what does that Palestinian state look like? And by the way, the Palestinians don't want a two state solution. No, the Palestinians want Israel completely wiped off the map, at least those that are in leadership there in Hamas and the Palestinian authority as well.

And we haven't even mentioned Hezbollah to the north. I mean, Israel is fighting for its existence. On october seventh, Hamas declared war on Israel in the most horrific fashion, violating standards of combat and standards of behavior that are well known, and yet they're not being called out for that. Hamas. And the suit and again, it's not going to be resolved.

And this is where I might differ a little bit from Ambassador Haley on this, and that is, when you have a war, the only way you can end the war is through force of arms. or some negotiated solution. I don't see any reason why Israel needs to come to a negotiated solution given the nature of Hamas' attacks and what they continue to aspire to.

So force of arms, sadly, is the only way this comes to a peaceful and lasting conclusion. And by the way, uh We understand that Israel tanks have read have reached central Rafah.

So that's what you were probably referring to. Quick thing: The Wall Street Journal today has this story: President Biden pushing the world not to censure Iran over its illegal nuclear program. I thought this was from the Onion, near its critical mass. President Biden is reportedly pushing America's allies in Europe to back off pressuring Iran over its illegal nuclear activities. He continues to rapidly expand.

Everyone agrees with that. The administration is specifically trying to stop Britain and France from censoring the Islamic Republic on the behest of the IAEA. Do you believe this? I mean, what planet are we on?

Well, it's been clear for some time that the Biden administration seemingly wants at any cost to get back to some failed negotiated nuclear control agreement with the Iranians that we know that they will break light sheet and steel to get around it. They continue on this failed approach. It makes no sense. It's the same cast of characters. in the White House that days after the death of the Iranian President and the Minister of Foreign Affairs died in a helicopter crash of a terrorist state, that they decide to do condolences.

Completely backwards Kind of worldview, and it's certainly not going to get the in state that they're after. The way they're approaching it is not going to work. No clear way to say it.

Well, what I mean, who is running this foreign policy? I mean, they're totally turning it on its head. This is the group that just sent three hundred missiles and rockets and drones over into Israel. We've been having the Houthi rebels, we've been having the USS Kearney knock these attack drones out of the sky, trying to reopen the Red Sea, and we're trying to make sure they're not sanctions and censured. Yeah.

It it it again, it makes no sense. If you want the Iranians to come to the negotiating table, you don't try to get apologies or excuses for their bad behavior. You punish that bad behavior and apply costs to them so that they then are compelled to come to the negotiating table.

So, again, the approach is Counterproductive. Understood. And I guess we'll see what's going on. Finally, in Ukraine, a couple more minutes here. Ukraine, I understand, is extremely worried about what's happening in Kharkiv.

The pressure from the Russians is real. They also found out, too, that they're getting F-15s from Belgium. We have green lighted it, but we said you can hit inside Russia. They're going to be delivered soon. This has been over a year in waiting.

We were supposed to have started training Ukrainian pilots in September. We were supposed to be providing a lot more, and the weapons that have been green lighted are not there yet. Can you shed light on any of these things? Uh well Every decision the White House has made with regards to Ukraine has invited this war and then has actually done everything to lead to a war of attrition, which is a sloppy approach the Russians excel at. And the only way to get out of it is actually if they take the fight to the sea and isolate Crimea and shut down their ports in the Black Sea.

The fighting, unfortunately, on land, I mean, right now there's an offensive that the Russians have launched. It looks like it's targeting Kharkiv, but it's moving slow, thankfully. The Ukrainians have not lost any will to fight, importantly. But again, getting these capabilities like fighters, long range munitions like the ATACMs, we're way late to actually trying if we wanted to help the Ukrainians bring the war to a quick conclusion. At best, we are going to have to support the Ukrainians in a nutritional war while hopefully pivoting to something that gets the Russians on their knees, probably through the Black Sea.

Uh pretty amazing. And the the Navy has been they've been very effective in blowing up and really taking a toll on the Russian Navy, which is pretty phenomenal. Lastly, when it comes to China, we understand they're doing a lot of things in and around since the Taiwan elections, in and around Henan and really taking over a portion of that island and making it sub-friendly and making it a place where it is to becoming a battle station for the Chinese to fight us eventually. No, they've been building up Hainan. It's like their Hawaii, where we have our Pacific Fleet based for a couple of decades now.

But one of the important things of the events of the last week to note is the Chinese like to telegraph And kind of signal even with the moving of their forces before they go large on it. And they did this recently after the inaugural speech by President Lai in Taipei. And what they did is they said, we're going to do a drill around your outlying islands, like Kim Men Island and Matsu Island.

So these are far away from Taiwan, hard to defend. That's a signal that they might take in a future conflict, rather than taking on Taiwan directly, they might try and take these islands. And then they did these drills of upwards of sixty aircraft, twenty plus warships around the island.

So they can do it quickly. And they can do it all around the islands.

So they've, for the third time now, done a dress rehearsal of what they plan to do to Taiwan. Right. You would think with their budget problems and their economic problems, they wouldn't want this conflict. But for some reason, it seems to be an obsession. Thanks so much.

Brent Sadler, always appreciated from the Heritage Foundation, Senior Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology. Thanks, Brent. Yeah. Thanks for having me on. You got it.

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Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. I can honestly tell you there's literally been two, maybe a third, but two real governors that really nobody liked.

Nobody cared for at all. I don't like that. Would you say who they are? Do you really want me to? Yeah.

Andrew Cuomo. complete jackass. No one liked him. And I gotta be honest. No one cares for Gavin.

Gavin's just a f ⁇ ing. Excuse me. He just is. It's really disappointing. I got along with him.

All of us got along for a while. But even the Democrats, they won't tell you out loud. But behind closed doors, they're like, oh, God, look who's coming. You know, they all roll their eyes. And that is Governor Sununu telling like it is, and Gavin Newsom, too.

He's so full of himself. And we know the personification of arrogance is Governor Cuomo. People should keep that in mind before they say, wouldn't he be a great mayor? He hasn't learned a thing. Remember how power-hungry and mad, power-mad he was, as was Gavin Newsome, too, putting sand in skate parks.

Remember, that's not living, that's live-free or die attitude of New Hampshire. But Governor Sununu has said it. I'm going to fully back Donald Trump. I thought there's too much chaos around him for him to win, but he sees that he could win right now. He's backing it.

And I thought the other big story is Nikki Haley inching closer and closer with every interview back into the Trump world while still keeping saying, I didn't lose my mind. I wasn't drunk or high. I was upset with him. We were going at it, but I think what's better for the country is for him to be president. I think that helps her career, and I think it helps Trump.

What he needs to do is have a Nikki Haley event in Pennsylvania and in Michigan where they come out together. And I know people, the Steve Bannons of the world, the Don Jr.s of the world, they don't like it. Uh tough. You can't win with just pro-Trumpers. You can't win even with those big rallies.

I wish that was the case, but it is not the case. And right now, we're looking at that case that's going on. Lunch is over. They're back in session. I understand the defense closing arguments are still taking place.

Andy McCarthy told us it would be two and a half hours for defense. That's what they asked for. The prosecution wants four and a half hours. To me, that shows a degree of panic. don't you think?

A degree of panic. Tom Dupree weighed in on this. Tom Dupree on Sunday Night in America, what we can expect today. And of course, Trey Gowdy, the host, is providing incident analysis. Cut ten.

But if you're in the prosecutor's shoes and it comes time to closing the argument, I think that's how you have to pitch it. You have to say, look, we never put Michael Cohen up as an angel, but he was close to Trump. He did know what happened. He was trusted by Trump, at least at one point in time, as his lawyer. And although he was lying then, he wasn't lying now.

I don't know if the jury's going to buy it, but I don't think the prosecutors have any other choice. Right. So that's what the pitch is going to be when defense wraps up. But I think they've been very clear. I think they used charts.

I think it's helpful. Who knows? I don't know the seven men. I don't know the five women. I don't think.

Although, you know, they were blacked out after day one. What I think is so important too, strategically, was, you know, when Donald Trump gets done with his gag order and can go after everybody, Alvin Bragg on down, especially if he's found innocent, look out. By the way, no gag order on Donald Trump when it comes to the documents trial, even though Jack Smith wants it. That just came across just now. I love what Trump did in the Bronx.

Took great risks. Could it look bad? I love what he did over the weekend. I'll give you a little of it because he went to the Libertarian National Convention, Cut 24. In the last year I've been indicted by the government on 91 different things.

So If I wasn't a libertarian before, I sure as hell am a libertarian now. D-Roy wrote Donald J. Trump will address the Libertarian Party. At its national convention on Saturday, the Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for President of the United States. Whoa!

That's nice. That's nice. I'd love it. Why just go to places that love you? You have to win over those other people.

He's getting that. I think Nikki Haley is the next step. By the way, quick announcement. The History, Liberty, and Laughs tour is going to be going to Indianapolis. It's going to be on June 29th.

It's coming up. Shelton Auditorium. It's going to be at 1,000 West 42nd Street. Then on the 27th of July in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, it's a chance to be patriotic, to understand about history, have a good time, and get your questions and answers. For meet and greet before, there's also a special opportunity as you click your way through.

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