Biden hangs by a thread, moves "big boy" NATO presser back an hour

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Brian Chilmeat Show. We are finishing out one of these weeks we're never going to forget because of the volume and velocity of these stories coming to you and through you.

And we're looking at the RNC, of course. We have Scott Besant with us shortly. He's been on before, former CEO and chief investment officer for Keysquare Capital Management, a New York-based investment partnership, self-made multi-billionaire. He could be the next Treasury Secretary if Donald Trump wins. And he used to work for George Soros, who was evil personified.

So we'll get his perspective on that. He also spoke to the former president who wants to be the next president.

So we'll do that and take your calls. We're also keeping up with all the breaking news because of what's going to be happening later on today.

So let's get to the big three. Stories you need to know. It's Brian's big three. Number three. He's taking credit for that, should he?

Of course he shouldn't. They're under attack. With me, there was no attack. Everybody felt comfortable. But he makes a big deal out of it.

Think of it. They're under attack. He is such a dumb president. It's not even believable.

So Donald Trump yesterday with us on our show talking about taking credit is Joe Biden for increasing the NATO spending among member nations. NATO and Ukraine center stage with all eyes on the Trump-Biden rematch. And what it will mean for the alliance. N. War and Torn Nation of Ukraine.

We'll review. Number two. You think you'll make your pick tomorrow, Vice President? No, not tomorrow. I'll make it close to the convention.

I would love to do it. You know, it used to be picked during the convention, bro, and it made the convention, frankly, more interesting. And it makes it easier if you pick before the convention. There you go. That is.

Donald Trump, the President, and the RNC preparing to take the spotlight as 45 gets closer to naming a running mate. Number One. He'll have a press conference, a big boy press conference, his big boy press conference, a big boy press conference, I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it. Oh my god, stop saying big boy press conference! It sounds like he's going to show everyone that he can tie his own shoes.

Although, at this point, it would be reassuring to see him do that. Right, that's the Daily Show. Biden barely holding on as fallout continues from his horrendous debate. From starts to the stars to now donors suddenly all realizing he has not and cannot do the job, which I think they really knew all along. We have all the breaking details.

So let's first off put the big news happened yesterday when George Cooney writes an editorial.

Now we find out talking about Joe Biden's got to go. And I'm not going to go over it again. George Cooney, obviously, I think to Biden. Just to be fair to Biden. George Cooney's made it pretty clear he's very angry at this White House because they condemned the International Criminal Court for indicting Benjamin Etanyahoo.

Guess who's on that? His wife. He called the White House to complain.

So then he writes this editorial as if he's got to save the world from his party and from this president who is not doing his job, does barely works, doesn't hold press conferences, doesn't do interviews, doesn't answer questions, never addresses to the people, doesn't really work world leaders unless he has to. You know about all that. That's one of the big stories. He's not doing the job. You got to work 20 hours a day.

This is non-stop. It's seven days a week. It's only four years. You'll go for another four years. There was a time in the previous century where people didn't even want another four years.

So now He has to decide what he's going to do. And what I think George Cooney thought he'd push him over the edge. Rob Reiner says he's got to go. Mike Douglas, Michael Douglas says he's got to go.

So, Barack Obama. Got a call from George Cooney saying, I'm going to write this editorial. The word is: Cooney, Barack Obama, did not push back on it. What does that tell you? They say that they went to that star-studded event, and he was out of it.

Not the same guy. Obama knows it. They still were going to let him run. Why? Because.

multi about eighty indictments on Donald Trump. They thought for sure he'd be stuck in court, be such a damaged candidate, it wouldn't matter. They'd have surrogates do all the campaigning, and he would glide through, gradually hand it over to Kamawa, They start selling us that she knew what she was talking about through different editorials and unnamed sources. And that'll be it. But it hasn't worked out like that.

And now you have comedians, late-night hosts. And politicians, some of which are beginning to line up to say he's bad. What I thought is the most egregious is what Chuck Todd put out yesterday. Former host of Meet the Press. Said he knew all along he had a source.

Listen to what he said yesterday about what he knew two years ago. Cut one. I had a cabinet secretary two years ago. Right.

Okay. Two years ago. All out of the blue ask me. Do you really think he's gonna? He can't run again like this.

And I said, Well, you have more interaction with him than I do. And they said, I don't have a lot of interaction with him. This is a pretty senior cabinet secretary.

So, and this was two years ago. Why did he hold the story? You could be hating Trump like he does. And at the same time say there's concern about Joe Biden's health. Resilience, energy.

He doesn't do interviews, doesn't go to press conferences, doesn't like talking to world leaders, misses events. Doesn't talk, doesn't let us know his policy, the Ukraine war. The Gaza War never explains what our approach is, what our achievements are. After Iran is now with a whisker of getting in Nuclear weapon? Do we ever hear him talking about that?

Do you ever hear talking about why inflation's so stubborn? You don't. But they knew about this. They knew he wasn't capable. And they held it back.

Now everyone's going crazy.

So what is the impact of Cluny? David Axelrod on that. Listen to him, Cut Six. The question is whether the risk of the status quo eclipses the risk of trying the Something else. And I think we've reached the point where many have come to that conclusion.

But the thing about the piece, Dana, that I thought was particularly Impactful was Clooney, who just hosted a fundraiser, a major fundraiser for the President a few weeks ago in California, said you can't win the battle against time, none of us can. It's devastating to say, but Joe Biden, I was the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago, the fundraiser was not the Joe Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate. That is devastating.

We knew it, number one, David Axarod. He knew it, David Axarod. The bigger story is: why did he hold on to it for three weeks? And you probably knew when you called the White House and got no one. You probably knew that he was not in charge, but you were willing to do it.

Now you want to push him over the edge, so people are speaking up and standing up in order for him to step out. This is the worst scenario for the Democrats. It is rising up. Telling Joe to go, exposing his faux pas, having anchors and comedians and late night hosts, push him over the edge, mock him, and then he refuses to go. And he's damaged in the polls.

Although the Washington Post poll out today shows he's even on a national poll with Donald Trump. Seems to be an anomaly, but we'll see. That's what Axelrod says.

So, the question is: who would be next? It would be Kamala Harris. I don't see anybody that really feels differently.

Some people want it to be a mini-audition process. I'm Harris. I use all my leverage of being a minority and being a woman to let you know that the Democratic Party is irreparably damaged if you push her aside or make her earn it. Because she didn't earn the number two slot. She fit she she checked boxes.

And then when she got there, she didn't do anything. But that's the way Democrats work, and it's all blown up in their face.

So J.B. Pritzko overheard this. He wants to be president. Cut three. We're just gonna keep fighting.

I don't know what to say. You know, I gotta gotta do what we have to do. I don't I don't like where we are, but Yeah, don't like where we are. In the back of his head, he wants to be able to run for this spot. The other person they mentioned is on a book tour, Gretchen Whitmer.

Easy for her to come over and over again. I support Joe Biden. Jamie Harrison runs the DNC. I support Joe Biden. But again, she leaves the door open in a very coy way.

Listen to this, cut five. Should he, as some people have suggested, just go ahead and take a cognitive test and demand that Donald Trump do the same? I don't think that it'd hurt, to be honest. But at the end of the day, you know, I think that he should take a cognitive test? I don't think it would hurt.

So how does that help? President Biden. It doesn't. If she was saying that two years ago, I'd give her credit. But she was President Biden's choice to be number two.

But she's the one who said, I will have a minority, I'll have a woman, and it'll be a black woman. And therefore Jim Clyburn, please endorse me. And he did, and he won. He won because he didn't have to campaign. I thought he was just as bad four years ago.

I think a lot of this has to do with his bad facelift. It makes him look like he's wearing a mask.

So you can't really see any type of facial movement. He just stares blankly as if he's dressed up for Halloween. Whoever did that also let him go under anesthesia. Never smart with someone who had two brain aneurysms, but what do I know? I just know brain surgeons as opposed to being one.

So now the Present today at 5.30, we'll have a press conference. I assume this administration is smart enough not to give questions out to reporters. They'll have a list. I'm sure Fox will not be on it. Then over the weekend, he will do an interview or oh, you know, the interview will air on Monday night on NBC.

At the same time, he's got multiple events. To screw up. With NATO Let me see. We will have the President will hold a bilateral Meeting with Zelensky? Ukrainian president.

Then the President will participate in a working session. On the NATO summit with various members, the new members included. It's got to be coherent. And then the President. participates in an event at the Ukraine Compact.

Right after that. He does his own press conference, and I imagine he's got to events tonight. We'll have to see. Real clear average, Donald Trump up nationally, three point five percent. Right now, they say it's a dead heat nationally.

fifty six percent of Democrats said he should leave, forty two percent said he should stay. And When you look at Donald Trump, numbers holding steady, but not gaining as massively as I thought, but although winning in almost all battleground states and putting some in play. When asked who should be the next Who should be up next? 29% said Kamala Harris. The next closest, Newsom, with 7%.

I want to get your take on this: 1866-408-7669. We also have some news. when it comes to the RNC and Donald Trump getting close to picking a running mate. And I do think NATO should be celebrating a big year, seventy five years. They should be celebrating two new members.

You have Sweden and Finland. But instead, they're all obsessed with The future of Joe Biden and the re-election of Donald Trump. What that would mean coming your way. You'll listen to the Brain Kill Me Show. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

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The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. Let's not forget, President Obama, President Biden have a relationship. They are friends. They're like family to each other.

And I think that's what you saw. You saw the president put his hand behind the back of President Biden, and they walked off the stage after taking questions. The video from the LA fundraiser has become an election Rorschach test. Republicans, they see frailty. Democrats, they see friendship.

Here is this headline from the New York Post. Quote, Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led offstage by Obama. It comes less than one week after the New York Post made a cover out of another piece of deceptively edited tape. Both the articles are based on cheap fakes, videos of real events that are intentionally manipulated to fool viewers.

So you believe this? These are the excuses they were making. Two or three weeks ago.

So you brought up, well, Obama had to help Biden off the stage. I wasn't invited to the To the fundraisers, how would I know the details? It looks terrible. You know, I'm watching him at the G7, he's just wandering off.

Now all of a sudden you find out because for you bringing it up and saying this guy looks like he's out of it, now you're uh now you're being cruel, now you're being partisan, now uh I'm deceptively editing things. We all knew we weren't deceptively editing things. And now, what I think is a horrible character trait, these people realize his polls are down. Forget about his health. His polls are down, so let's throw him overboard.

They just don't want to throw him overboard, him not go overboard and be so damaged, he hurts everybody's reelection. That's what they're saying.

So then I'm thinking to myself: there are certain people that are standing up, standing up strong. One of them is Senator Federman. Tell me if you could see the problem with Senator Fetterman going to back so strongly for Joe Biden. See if you get some context clues from this soundbite. Cut 10.

You saw the debate, just like we all saw the debate. And that didn't change your mind about any parts of it. I was actually flying back from Israel at that point. And then when I landed, and I started to get some of the text. And then at that point, I realized that I really wanted to get on social media and defend our president after that.

And that's what I decided to do. But of course, I mean, I know you and your viewers know that I had a really rough debate as well, too. But I really want to remind anybody that the sum total of a bad debate. He didn't see the debate. He never watched the debate.

And when you say parts of it, it's probably none of it. He said he got hit with text messages after saying what a disaster it was.

So he thought I'm just going to go to Batford for Joe Biden.

Now, I give him credit for going to Israel. I love the fact that he stands up. It's obvious to me that democracy, the longtime ally, you should be standing up for it for some reason. That's not a given anymore. But for Senator Fetterman, it is, I appreciate that.

But you didn't watch the debate, but did you believe he's still the right guy?

Now, have you seen him behind closed doors? Yes. Have you heard reports about that? Yes. Among the people, they cannot believe the insincerity with the reporting now.

Is Dave Portnoy. I thought he put it great.

Now, keep in mind, Dave does this sound bite now. Uh he does this. Uh in relation to The editorial that George Clooney put out, cut eight. George Clony. What?

Hero, this guy is, huh? Comes forward today.

Now, this guy, Clooney, threw a fundraiser, raised tens of millions, co-chair for Biden three weeks ago. He was a vegetable three weeks ago, acting like he's doing some heroic thing. Like, we can't have a vegetable run for president, not in this country. Uh so what? George, if He didn't Do the debate, Biden and wasn't a vegetable.

You didn't keep your mouth shut? Like, what's the deal there? And by the way, You just found out Biden was a vegetable three weeks ago? Where have you been for two years?

Now he's got to stand up, and now he's got to produce. He's got the normal presidential schedule.

So we'll see if he falls apart. You're going to be watching this presser, and the world's going to be upside down. Every Republican is going to want to hope that he does fine. And every Democrat is going to hope it's a total disaster so they can go beyond reproach and say, Joe, you have to step aside. You just embarrassed yourself again.

I asked President Trump yesterday on this show, Who do you want? Do you want Joe Biden or do you want somebody else? Cut 17. I don't care if it's him or somebody else. It's also policy.

It's more about policy than anything else. And these radical Democrats are all radical. Everyone that they're talking about is a radical left lunatic. And whether it's Biden or whether it's somebody else, I think it's the same. They want open borders.

They want all the things we just discussed and much more. Uh no no more uh gasoline powered cars. They want you to go all electric, which don't go far and made in China, very expensive. You know, they want, you know, as an example, I say it, it's almost embarrassing to have to even say it, that they want. Men playing in women's sports.

And I want the opposite.

Okay. Yeah, you know what the president said, and I also said this on this show. Common sense. Of course, you want to close the border. How you want to do it, what kind of fence, uh, virtual, real, whatever.

That is a debate. Of course, you want to crack down immigration rules and and refugee status on those. Of course, you want voter ID. We don't because w I want my vote to count, I want your vote to count, you're a citizen. Do you want your vote canceled out by somebody else who doesn't belong here?

That's what passed the House yesterday, a voter integrity package, which will make sure that if you don't have verified voter ID, you cannot. And citizenship, you cannot vote. That's common sense, it's not political. We come back. We talk a little about dollars and cents.

But Scott Besson, he served as CEO and Chief Investment Officer for Keysquare Capital Management, and he serves as. It's still his job. And he might be the next Treasury Secretary.

So hold on tight. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Last public meeting between you and President Biden occurred on May 31st, 2022. Does that sound accurate?

I'm going to take your word for it.

Okay. Have you had any private meetings with the President since that time? No. Any phone calls with the President? And over two years, with inflation still nagging us, with Cost out of control.

President Biden has not. Asked to meet with you in over two years? I haven't had a meeting with him. He hasn't sought a meeting. And of course, I don't seek meetings.

Jerome Powell of the Fed. I know they've got to be independent, but there's got to be conversations and to a degree coordination. Is that what Scott Besense thinks? He serves as CEO and Chief Investment Officer for Key Square Capital Management. He's been in finance for decades and New York-based investment partnership that he founded.

And he's been with this firm that he founded since 2015.

So, Scott, your reaction to that revelation. Brian, of course there's interaction. Treasury Secretary Yellen and Fed Chair Powell meet every week.

So, you know, she's the liaison. And as I've said in previous articles, previous interviews, she's gone full metal apparatcheck. What do you mean? She has gone from technocrat to brutally political in acting as Treasury Secretary, which Treasury is supposed to be an apolitical position. She gave a very inappropriate speech about five or six weeks ago out in Arizona.

identifying Trump as a danger to democracy. She does not speak for Janet Yellen. She speaks for the full faith and credit of the United States. And when she makes statements like that, she's putting it at risk.

So I think we could know what kind of conversation she is having with Jay Powell.

Well, what conversation would be productive for a President to have? with the Fed secret uh Fed uh secretary. Uh yeah. Because we know President Trump made it clear. We need rates to go up.

We need this. We need that. He was even open to negative interest rates that Europe was experiencing. He had no problem. Look, the other thing too is the President of the United States might not have a private phone call, but he also speaks in public.

In the State of the Union, Joe Biden said, I think the Fed's going to be cutting rates soon. A week later in Philadelphia, he said, I got a feeling the Fed's going to be cutting rates. Then we had some hot inflation numbers, and he said, Well, I think it's delayed for a little while.

So, you know, and the president speaks to the Fed through the media. An appropriate conversation is to, you know, the Fed has three sets of data. What has happened? What is happening, and what do they think is going to happen? And the conversation should be: what do they think is going to happen?

Older people, after they've fallen, tend to look at their feet, which then makes them fall more. The Fed fell down on the American people.

So Jerome Powell's been staring at his face. When do you think they fell down?

Well, when we had 20% inflation during COVID, we had a 9% one-month inflation print. It was astounding. Why do you blame the Fed for that?

Well, it was a combination. The Fed did not start raising rates until March of twenty two. Why would that be? Because you don't want to raise rates right before an election? No.

What happened was White House played politics with Jerome Powell's reappointment. His reappointment, the announcement of his reappointment was the latest in this century, the latest in this century. Chair Powell gave a speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August of 2021, and it was clear that he thought inflation was getting hot and something needed to be done. The White House did not announce that he was going to be put back in his chair until November of 21.

So either they hadn't decided between him and Loyal Brainerd or they were keeping their thumb on him to keep interest rates low.

So rates didn't start going up until March of 22. And it hurt. Oh, and it hurt. And in my mind, equally bad or is worse was this massive QE program they were doing. They did that right up to 20 years.

Which is a matter of quantitative easing. Quantitative easing. Which is just flooding the market with printed money? Large-scale bond purchases to suppress interest rates and the enhance bank reserves. When a government buys bonds, who buys them from the government?

Um Well, the the government buys bonds and then they just sit on the Fed balance sheet.

So that has the effect of pulling them out of the market. And causing Interest rates to get squeezed downward, or, you know, as Ben Bernanke famously said when he started the QE program. The you know, Americans should take the money and buy stocks.

So it is a risk on maneuver for the Fed to go in and buy bonds. It's it's called the asset channel. You buy bonds and then the money goes either into stocks, into credit, overseas equities, bitcoin. Right.

The stock market, here's what they're saying about inflation. Stocks were a little changed while Treasuries rallied after the latest reading on inflation, which they say is less than they thought. June's consumer price rose just 3 percent from a year ago, less than the 3.1 percent increase economists expected. Core prices, which included volatile food and energy costs, rose 3.3 percent. Should we feel good about that?

Look, they're making progress, but why jump the gun? Is a little humility and a Time is on their side. The Fed had been pricing in in the so called dot plot, which I think they should get rid of. It's where they show their projections for interest rate cuts. They had been at three cuts for twenty twenty four.

Just at the June meeting at the June meeting, they moved from three to one.

So You know, they told us we only think we're going to do one cut this year.

Now, everybody is screaming, hallelujah, we can cut in September, maybe. You know, again, you know, I don't know why we're rushing given the rushing. Politics, November. I have a pretty good idea, but yeah, look, Brian, it's baked in. Is you see the polls, you see the American people trust President Trump.

Over President Biden on the economy, on most issues, almost every issue. They still feel it. We're in a two-tier economy. The upper 10% or 20% never done better. Bottom 50% is getting crushed.

And you worry about that. You worry about, forget about Trump and Biden. You just worry about that as an American. Why? I worry about it because when the system doesn't work for everybody, people want to tear down the system.

You know, we just saw that in France. Yeah. The far right and the far left Crushed the center. You know, the saying, the center will not hold. And if Americans feel like the system is not working for them, then they will start bringing in candidates who want to pull down the system.

Look, that was the allure of Bernie Sanders and Occupy Wall Street after the GFC. There was a feeling amongst average Americans that the banks got bailed out, but their houses got foreclosed on. Right.

Scott Bessens is here. He has been very successful years. For years. Is it hard for you? To relate to working class people because you're on a different level personally and professionally.

You're dealing with huge investments at a big rate. And when you look at working class and you look at factory workers, can you relate to them at all and what their struggles are?

Well, look, Brent, I'm from Little River, South Carolina. We have 500 people. Luckiest person in the world, moved to New York, lived in London, but I moved back home to South Carolina. And I see the South Carolinians, working Americans every day. Aside from my money management business, our family has about six operating businesses.

And I tell you, those people are getting squeezed. We're very large industrial-scale farmers, and those. A quote from the other day was: You know, it used to be prime red night at our house on Friday night. We've gone back to Bruinberger.

So Is this all this is on the margin? These are very small margins, right?

So when eggs go from $4 to $7, and you go, you used to spend $200, now you're spending $300. And these are all people that live paycheck to paycheck. Most of the people we're listening to, I think it's, what is it, 60% of the country lives paycheck to paycheck? 60% of the country could not meet a $500 medical emergency.

So we're looking at inflation coming down to 3.3%. What could you do to bring it down further to help those people? Sure. Easy. I I think What we saw under Trump 1.0, we can see under Trump 2.2, the first is reassert U.S.

energy dominance. We've had negative rig count since Joe Biden came in, negative rig count, oil production. You're saying rig. Rig. For oil rigs.

So, you know, we could, I think within 12 or 18 months, we could be generating 3 million new barrel equivalents a day, so that's crude and net gas.

So I think we could crash the oil. And just to not slow you down too much, what do you say to people who say production has never been higher than it is right now? That's what he points to. He's afraid to really say it because of the environmentalists. Yeah, production's never been higher, and that's Attributed to the ingenuity of the oil industry.

The number of rigs is down.

So the oil industry has pushed up the production per well, but it's barely above where it was when President Trump left office. And the economy has grown a lot.

So relative, the production relative to the size of the economy is actually down.

So I think we can get oil prices down. I think if we deregulate, prices will come down. And most of all, I've got this piece on Fox Digital today talking about the budget deficit, how it's becoming a national security problem. If we get this budget deficit under control, interest rates will really come down. We can go into a proper interest rate cutting cycle as inflation goes down.

But with a 7% of GDP budget deficit, Interest rates can't come down very much. Trevor Burrus: So, how do you do that without massive cuts? And it's hard to win office when you tell people you're cutting back. Yeah, I don't think we have to cut. For discretionary spending, we can freeze everything except defense, freeze no cuts.

I think we can empower states on Medicaid. I think we can put an end to this Orwellian named IRA, the Inflation Reduction Act, which is blowing out the deficit.

So I think it's back to the future, and I think it's pretty easy to do. President Trump tells us about tariffs, especially on things that come in from China. And then other people say, well, tariffs are taxes on us, the consumer. Where do you stand on that? You just met with President Trump.

You've met with him before and talked about his theory on the economy, asked you a lot of questions. What is the reality? What is the plan there? Yeah, look, I think it's information. And what I tell everyone is: look at President Trump's stance on abortion.

He is where the nation is. It is highly practical. And I am convinced that his economic plan will follow that. It will be highly practical. Whatever is best for the country, an overall tariff is likely.

It does not have to be inflationary if it's offset by deregulation and cuts in energy prices. Yeah and you know I I'll point out Joe Biden hasn't gotten rid of any Donald Trump's tariffs. Not at all. Not at all. And he said that was one of the first things he's going to do.

Well, he said a lot of things. Right, absolutely.

So we'll see where that goes. Do you believe that there are more trade deals to be done? I I think that there is a plethora of trade deals to be done. They did Korea, they did the USMCA, they were beating Phase I with China, but never really got fully implemented. Yeah, and you know you saw it on during President Trump's side of the debate the other night, which I think didn't get the attention it deserved, one of the things he said was, I'm going to use tariffs as a negotiating tool.

If we go back and look, who was the original teriff man? It was Alexander Hamilton, who, by the way, was shut. Today, in history, yes, two hundred and twenty years ago. But Alexander Hamilton loved terrorists Couple of reasons. One, it provided revenue for uh the American Treasury.

Two, protected industry. And I think President Trump is adding Brian, to your point, he is adding a new uh facet to that, and it's as a negotiating tool.

Now, at the end of the day, President Trump When he was at the G7 in Ottawa, right before he left to go to North Korea, he threw out to all his counterparts: if you all drop all your tariffs, I'll drop all mine. And I think he You know, he now comes into Trump 2.0 with a lot of credibility, and they know he means business. He definitely wants to redo the EU deal. He's not happy with that.

Well, he shouldn't be. He shouldn't be. And there are a lot. It's like I said, I'm in the Farming business. How does the United States of America have a deficit with the rest of the world in agriculture?

Right.

Let's see. When we come back a few more minutes with Scott, he is all now, even though he's a money guy, he also understands what's happening in this country when it comes to politics. We'll discuss that and so much more. Don't move. Expanding your knowledge base, it's the Brian Kill Meet Show.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back. Scott Besant is here. And we're talking about finances, where this economy is heading.

Trump really feels as though he wants to get a hold of this. Scott, what really struck me a little bit about your background? You mentioned you came from humble beginnings. You get involved in finance. You have a lot of success.

But you, in speaking back and forth to the President, Um Does he ever ask you about your background with George Soros? Oh, all the time. And what is it? Could you explain to the audience? We hear this name and we think he seems to want to undermine our country every way possible.

Yeah, so Brian, I was on the money management side, the foundation side, which is where all the nonsense happens. Kept separate. I had nothing to do with that. And what I tell people is: I have seen. The Source operation from the inside.

George, one of the world's greatest investors, and he is very good at figuring out his. Success and what I learned from him: when do systems accelerate, and when do systems break down? And he's taken that and then applied it to a political The You know, a political world. And congratulations to him. He figured out that he could come up underneath in the attorney general races, in the school board races, and the sheriff races, and get his vision of America, which I couldn't disagree with more.

But he saw the weakness in the system that it wouldn't take much money, and he could go in and implement his vision of America. And put those weak attorney generals in these spots, in these school districts, to bastardize the curriculum. Yep. And we've got to, I've seen it. I am pushing back on it personally with lots of.

donations and Shame on us for letting it happen. Shame on us, and we've always got to be looking for weaknesses in the system. I I think the American people are going to push back on Georgia's policies at the ballot box. He was a kid during Nazi Germany, right? I mean, during those days when the Nazis took over Germany.

In Hungary. Yes. Oh, in Hungary. Yeah. And he saw the influence right there.

Why would he not try to embrace this freedom? Yeah. Yeah, he he just has a very different view of the world and you and and I do. What would it mean to you if Trump wins to be tapped as a Treasury Secretary? Uh I would do anything I could to help the administration on the inside or the outside.

I think it's going to be exciting. And the reason I've come out from behind my desk: one, as you said earlier, I care deeply about the future of the country, that it works for everybody. And two, I think 2024 is our last chance for a supply-side solution to grow our way out of this. If we keep adding debt at this rate, We will get put on the equivalent of an economic ventilator by the Democrats. No question.

It seems to be their goal. They don't seem to care. Yep. Scott, thanks so much. Great to see you.

Good. Thanks, Brian. And we'll see what happens to this election. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian In Kill Mead.

All right. Welcome to one of the craziest weeks ever. You listen to the Brian Kill Me Show. We'll come to you from 48 and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. It is just nonstop.

I mean, wherever you go, you see one of our reporters, maybe another reporter, too, tracking some legislator down. Do you support Joe Biden? Will you, you know, will you ask for his resignation? And you get people that were definitive on each side: Senator Coons, I'm in. Joe Biden's the nominee.

Jamie Harrison, DNC chair. Joe Biden's a nominee. George Cooney, he's out. You know, Senator Bennett, he will lose. Fascinating.

And it's going on and on and on. Remember, as bad as the debate was, there were a couple of days where it's quiet. And Joe Biden back on vacation. He thought business as usual. Man, nothing's been usual.

So, this hour we're going to be joined by Jamie Messel, Dan Bilak from Ukraine, and then we'll do a simulcast with Varney and Company.

So, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. He's taking credit for that, should he? Of course, he shouldn't. They're under attack.

With me, there was no attack. Everybody felt comfortable. But he makes a big deal out of it. Think of it. They're under attack.

He is such a dumb president. It's not even believable.

It isn't, and I agree. There you go. Here we are: NATO and Ukraine, center stage with all eyes on the Trump Biden rematch and what it will mean for the alliance. 75 years strong. It should be a celebratory week.

It hasn't been. It's all about Ukraine, and it's all about the United States. Number two. You think you'll make your pick tomorrow, Vice President? No, not tomorrow.

I'll make it close to the convention. I would love to do it. You know, it used to be picked during the convention, bro, and it made the convention, frankly, more interesting. And it makes it easier if you pick before the convention. The President of the United States yesterday, the 45th President wants to be the 47th, talking to us about who his pick is going to be.

President Trump, the RNC, preparing, preparing to take the spotlight as 45 gets closer to naming a VP. Number one. He'll have a press conference, a big boy press conference. His big boy press conference. A big boy press conference.

I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it. Oh my god, stop saying big boy press conference. It sounds like he's going to show everyone that he can tie his own shoes. Although, at this point, it would be reassuring to see him do that. It would, and that's sad.

And they're making fun of him, and that's real. Biden barely holding on as Fallout continues from the stars to the donors, suddenly all realizing he has not and cannot do the job, which I think they really knew all along. We have all the breaking details, including this. The President was supposed to have a press conference at 5.30 today.

Now it'll be at 6.30. And normally what's the big deal? You just say to yourself, what does he need? Because he has a few meetings prior with NATO. I think he has three today.

We know he had meetings last night, speech. And is he getting tired? That's what people think. Jamie Metzel joins us now. As you know, Jamie is a former member of the WHO Advisory Committee, former National Security Council official in the Clinton Administration, author of a brand new book, It's Excellence: Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolution Will Transform Our Lives, Our Work, and World.

Jamie, welcome back. First off, just put this in perspective. What's it been like knowing most of the players in the Democratic Party? and seeing them teeter, In their support. Or lose their support for President Biden in real time.

Here it's been very difficult. Difficult for the Democratic Party. As you know, Brian, I'm a Democrat. I actually think President Biden has done a good job in his presidency. But anybody who was watching that debate a couple of weeks ago, who just had the painful experience, anyone with parents or grandparents who've reached a certain age, And you say, well, there are good days on bad and bad days.

And on the good days, it's like nothing's ever changed. And on the bad days, things are really different. And no one ever says, And then it got a lot a lot better. And so President Biden is just experiencing something that we're all going to experience, but there's a reason why we don't have eighty-one-year-old astronauts or fighter pilots. There's just certain things.

That are just too difficult for people at certain stages of their life to do.

So I, as you know, from day one, after this, it was saying, hey, we just have to face the reality. That Joe Biden will have a very difficult time serving at the level that's required for four and a half years.

So we have to think of a plan B, and I really hope that the Democrats uh my party can come to that realization sooner Rather than later, because we need to have a process for finding an alternative approach, in my view. But in his view, he's not leaving.

So that's what's going to be interesting.

So, Jamie, we agree on a lot and we don't agree on something. A couple of things. I don't think he's ever. been a typical president in terms of the work level. It doesn't seem he's ever working around the clock.

He never explains to the American people. He never sits for interviews. He never does press conferences. He got less and less.

Now the story's coming out how his staff is guiding him with the instruction cards that are so rudimentary, you wonder how he functions at all. And then I get more and more revelations like this. Listen to Chuck Todd, cut one. I had a cabinet secretary two years ago. Right.

Okay. Two years ago. All out of the blue ask me. Do you really think he's going to? He can't run again like this.

And I said, Well, you have more interaction with him than I do. And they said, I don't have a lot of interaction with them. This is a pretty senior cabinet secretary.

So, and this was two years ago. So, I want to get your reaction because, number one, Chuck Todd, it's unthinkable to me that he could say that. And also know that he refused to report that two years ago. As Meet the Press host, I think you have an obligation to report it, even if you. Don't like Donald Trump and don't want to make sure he's not president again.

That's not your job. Your job is to say, I got this information because I'm Chuck Todd. I replaced Tim Russert. And my information says that the president has some doubters among his inner circle, his cabinet members, that don't think he should serve again. That's worthy.

Are bringing up to the American people. And we're seeing that nonstop. We're seeing the former editor of the New York Times said the New York Times has been blind to the fact that these stories were out there because they so detested how it would benefit Donald Trump. This is a difficult time for the media, don't you think? I think it's a difficult time for the media.

It's a difficult time for the Democratic Party. And frankly, it's a difficult time for the country. All Americans are served By a robust Two-party system where we have as much information as possible, where we're holding our candidates and our nominees to account to the full extent. possible. And so yes, there are many Democrats like me, who are saying, hey, wait a second, there was some important information that wasn't Shared.

And I get that there are presidents who are incapacitated while they're serving. Ronald Reagan, toward the end of his presidency, was in not that great a shape. His staff would just give him these cards and he would read them. Woodrow Wilson was totally incapacitated for a year and a half of his presidency, and the American people didn't even know that his wife Edith was essentially the de facto President of the United States. But this is just highly relevant information for people, especially in the context.

of a reelection bid where the Democrats, I think, my party was not served by the absence of a meaningful primary. We kind of cleared the decks For President Biden, and we would have been much better off to have actually a pretty aggressive primary. And if he would have won that, then that would have been. demonstrated a level of of vitality. I mean, this is really It's very late.

But I also think that that what it appears to be is that He's deteriorated pretty rapidly over recent months. And for all of us, hope springs eternal. My parents are getting older, everyone's parents, grandparents. And nobody is kind of imagining themselves at that next step. Everyone's saying, well, I feel pretty good.

I can still do certain things. And but I think we just have to face the reality because the alternative is living in a fantasy and that will hurt all of us, Democrats, Republicans alike.

Well, I'll tell you what, the other thing that says so if you are deteriorating and somebody in your life is deteriorating, the people around them will step up and go, Dad. Mom, can't do this. You know, you're going to have to quit your job. You're going to have to give me the keys. But instead, they are going out campaigning for him.

And if it wasn't for that debate, which there's a story there why he did the debate, if it wasn't for that debate, they were willing to say Donald Trump's going to win Plo, be caught up in all these court cases. You know, he's so volatile, he'll never win, and then we'll be able to coast right through. And I'll have surrogates do most of the work. And that whole story has blown up. I want to get to your column.

You wrote it with John Radcliffe, and you are vehement that China has not come clean and it really killed a lot of people because they never told us the origins of COVID-19. And you point out that it's cost $18 trillion. Millions of people have died. You say it's not too late to hold them accountable. How do we do that?

So yeah. John was the chairman, and I was a commissioner of our Heritage Foundation Independent Nonpartisan Commission on China and COVID-19. And the basic idea was that if there's no accountability for COVID-19, China and frankly any other country, authoritarian or otherwise, would have every incentive, if faced with a similar situation, to do the exact same thing, cover things up. Lie, obfuscate, even if it leads to, as in this case, tens of millions of deaths and tens of trillions of dollars. in damages.

And all of our China's had complete impunity for four point five years All of our governments have essentially been feckless. In holding China to account.

So, our commission, it was Democrats, very high-level Democrats. and Republicans, the Bob O'Brien, former Republican National Security Advisor, Bob Redfield, Trump's former head of the CDC, Heidi Heitkamp, former Democratic senator and others. And so we came up with eighteen recommendations, but the most meaningful recommendation and we're actually working and I'm I actually just this morning have been working very, very aggressively speaking with members of Congress and others Um Reform and forgive a little bit of legalese the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

So the U.S. Congress passed a law in 1976. Basically, codifying what has been international law for hundreds of years, just that it's very difficult for private citizens to sue. foreign governments. And the idea is you don't want total chaos.

But then in 2016, an amendment, an exemption to that was made for. Terrorist financing for companies that were, foreign companies and foreign governments that were giving material support to tariffs, and that led. To a multi-billion dollar settlement against the Arab Bank. And so, what we are proposing is another amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. You mentioned this $18 trillion, which is our estimate.

Of total losses to the United States from COVID-19. And so rather than saying the government. Needs to make a demarche at the World Health Assembly or something that China won't care about. What we're saying is. change, uh make this one one single paragraph amendment to this law.

and then give a cause of action. As somebody who I was speaking with said, if you say it's $18 trillion. And American mass Court claims lawyers can have access to it, and there's a path. to getting multi billion dollar settlements against China, It's like throwing chum into the water to attract Sharks. And if they, China may not be afraid of the United States government, but they absolutely will be afraid of American mass torture.

Court lawyers. And essentially, what we're doing, proposing to do, is decentralize. Enforcement in a way that will hold China accountable. It would be great. And if they were just candid about the whole thing, millions of lives would have been saved and we could probably stop the next pandemic, but they still haven't come clean and the whole world seems to be ready to get over it.

I'm glad you're not ready to. Jamie, thanks so much. And pick up his book if you want to know the future: Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolution Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World. What a great job you did. Jamie, thanks so much.

Thanks so much, Brian. Anytime. You got it.

Meanwhile, coming up at the bottom of the hour, we go inside the war in Ukraine.

Some good news coming down the pike. They're about to get F-16s a year and a half after when they were promised F-16s, but they're about to get them, and they are beginning to hold off the Russians who are having their summer offensive thwarted. You're listening to the Brian Kill Me Show.

So glad you are here. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmead Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmead Show. We have a clip from a guy named Brian Kilmead interviewing Trump.

Do we have that? Let's play that. Real quick, on your vice president candidate, word is that you won't pick J.D. Vance because of his facial hair. Is that true?

There's facial hair. I never heard that one. Number two, Doug Bergham, the thing that hurts. He's like a young Abraham Lincoln. Right, he's a handsome man.

Could you tell how much Trump hates Kill Me? Just like giving him the not helping him at all. The guy's doing talk radio. He wants you to talk, and Trump's going, eh. Yeah.

Why am I doing this? That sounds like that was like hour 18 of that interview. Should I feelings be hurt? I mean, I think we need to ask DeVito about that comment next time he comes home. I know, Joe DeVito just threw me under the bus today.

So quickly. He was 18.

So fast. That's incredible. I did not know that. I did not know he we made his show too. It actually was interesting.

They talked about it for the entire segment. And then they played the cut. But, like, it was amazing to me out of everything you guys talked about, J.D. Vance's beard. It's across the world at the moment.

I know, it's crazy. Because I thought, too, I should have probably brought up Don Jr. wants you to pick J.D. Vance. That's what I should have said.

But. He kind of stopped me on the facial hair, and he didn't even acknowledge. He goes, I never heard that. That was the crazy thing. I think Noah's going to pick up steam.

Nikki Haley. His attitude of Nikki Haley. In fact, do you want to hear that? Do we have that? Give us a second, but we can't hear it.

Yeah, I mean, because it surprised me because I thought he was going to say Nikki Cold, and we're okay. We'll see about that invitation. But it wasn't like that. But then also, like yesterday, right, everyone was saying DeSantis isn't going to be at the convention yet. And now today he has a speaking role.

So who knows what can happen tomorrow with them? Just so you know, I text them to see if I get him on One Nation Saturday at nine o'clock, which you know is your favorite show. Did he respond? You like that, and you also like Housewives of New Jersey. I actually do not.

To the housewives, but go ahead. All right. Here's Nikki Haley. Have you not invited her and would you want to invite her? Is that an oversight or intentional?

Yeah. Well, I'll take a look at that. I mean, I have heard that this morning.

So I'll take a look at that.

So you would like to see her go? I don't know. I'll I'm gonna take a look at it. I wanna see. I know she gave her delegates over.

Um, you know, there was a lot of bad blood there. She t she stayed too long. She was being soundly defeated at every place, but she just wouldn't leave. And and she he bro went on to say been more like Kasich. Who had no momentum, just won Ohio and just stuck in, as opposed to DeSantis, lost Iowa and said, I might as well get out.

He liked that DeSantis left early. When Rubio left right before Florida, if I remember correctly, he liked, you know, they were able to make amends. When Ted Cruz went to the convention, And said, I'll speak, but I will not endorse Trump. And then he said, Vote your conscience. And he still got a spot at the convention.

He did, but that was also different too, because at that point, Trump had never been president. Right? I feel like that's a pretty, that's a different distinguishing factor. I do think it bothers him up because she worked for. Yeah.

She yeah, he likes he's all about loyalty. She worked for him and Yeah, I'm sure they always end up making up. At some point, they're gonna, I think, look at Chris Christie, look at Kinzinger, Liz Cheney. But she's also not going over to other networks and, you know, getting paid to be on. She did the right thing, I think, since I endorse all my, I tell all my delegates to endorse Donald Trump.

I will be voting for Donald Trump.

So, I mean, she's doing the right thing. She might just need some longer amount of time to lick her wounds, but she's not. You know, she said some fierce things when they were competing, but I think give it some time. It should be okay. But no, no, for next week, I want it to be right by next week.

Hopefully. Fingers crossed. I mean, Trump wants those moments at the RNC. That would be a big moment. It would be.

I do think that on some level he was caught by surprise when I asked him because I just heard that. It's a great question, Ryan. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Massive Russian missile strike kills at least 31 people and injures more than 150.

Emergency crews now searching through the rubble of a children's hospital for victims. And this is the live look at the search for survivors there. You can see the devastation. Zelensky is calling for Russia to be fully held fully accountable for its crimes against people, against children, and against humanity in general. You know, haven't heard a tremendous amount of outrageous in the West here over this attack, but it is absolutely horrific.

Ah, devastating. Yeah. But if something happens in Gaza, you don't want innocent people to die. But there's worldwide outrage, college kids holding their breath with masks on, climbing up poles and yelling at Jew Jewish Americans. But here in in Ukraine When Russia hits a Ukrainian children's hospital on purpose.

You go, okay, no big deal. It is a big deal. It's a huge deal, and it shows a double standard. I'd love to see these college kids in America actually come back. and go back to those campuses, go to their hometowns and protest the Russians who invade and try to chop up other countries.

And that wouldn't be an anti American move. Can you imagine the protesters being on the same page as the American people? Daniel Bilak joins us now, member of the Territorial Defense Force of Ukraine, former Chief Investment Advisor to the Prime Minister. Dan, welcome back. Great to be back, Brian.

Thanks. Are you in Washington? I'm in I was. I'm now in I'm now in another place in North America, just heading back to Kiev.

So you're how are things on the ground?

Well, it was a grim week last week, Brian. This thing is really I mean, it just shows what a terrorist Putin is. And you know, that this is right after Orban, who's his lackey in Europe, has came back from Russia with saying, you know, I got talked about a peace plan.

Well, Putin showed what he thought of a peace plan, and he showed what he thought of the NATO summit. We bombed this children's hospital deliberately one day before the NATO summit. And he just thinks the West is weak. He can do whatever he wants. And one of the things that really resonated for me.

During the debate last week between President Trump and President Biden, was this theme of American weakness? and how Putin perceives America today to be very weak. And I think that's true. We for six months when we didn't have any sort of weapons or anything given to us, we held the Russians back. But we ran out of ammunition, Brian.

And it shows we can no longer defend our skies. We've been begging for Patriot missiles and others. I mean, there's 100 Patriot missile systems in Europe, and we asked for seven. And we're only getting, you know, they're only talking about sending it now at a NATO summit seven months later. You know, I think that really what we would love to see in Ukraine is, again, the projection of American strength and power.

And, you know, this is necessary for U.S. security and prosperity, which depends on that. And it's good for U.S. jobs. And I think President Trump really, really drove that point home that we need to project American strength and power.

And it means that America's got to be in this war to win it. You know, I mean, we just, it's awful. We always get enough just to survive and not to win. And we've shown that we can win when we're given the kit that we do. We fight this war asymmetrically.

We don't, you know, we basically cleaned the Russians out of the Black Sea. We reopened the Black Sea grain corridor that we're feeding the world, 400 million people around the world, and we did it with our drones. You know, we need the artillery, we need the shells. We were being bombed, you know, shelled 10 to 1. uh in over the past seven months You know, that's come down now.

But, you know, the administration is still slow walking the aid, Brian. And I don't understand that. I just don't understand that at all. You know, American leadership is at stake here in the free world. And I just don't understand how this, I mean, it's morally reprehensible to me that our allies did not provide us with the few necessary.

air air defense systems that that that we needed. It's unbelievable. I agree with you. You know that. And I was totally against the whole wing of the Republican Party that was holding everything up.

And I was glad the speaker finally said, screw this, I'm just getting it to you. But we had problems with the speakership, too, because of some lunatics who are in the Republican Party, by the way. I want you to hear what Zelensky said yesterday about Vladimir Putin's attempt to take Kharkiv, Cut 33. It was very important for us, this package in Congress, to equip our brigades. But.

Always we have these challenge that From the moment of decision to the moment of equipment You need much time and of course Putin uh understood he tried to occupy Kharkiv We lost some villages which are through the border, our border, and he didn't have success.

So we stopped them. He couldn't do. He lost a lot of people. I'm speaking about thousands, dozens, thousands of people.

So the price of this operation for him was very. Hi.

So you understand what he said? They would try to break Kharkiv, they didn't get through because then there's open field running if you get through Kharkiv for a while, so they weren't able to get through there, right?

Well, Brian, this is my point. For six months, We held them off. And as they were trying to launch an offensive to take our second biggest city. You know, they were dropping 500 ton to 1500 ton bombs on Khati, glide bombs. That were taking out a whole apartment block.

And they were launching these missiles, they were launching these bombs from Russia. I mean, it's only thirty thirty miles from from from the border. And we didn't have the anti-aircraft missiles to take down those those bombs. We weren't allowed by the administration to shoot at Russian planes inside Russia. We only recently, after the horrific destruction of Kharkiv, did we get permission to shoot a little bit into Russia.

And that's one of the things we've always been hamstrung by the administration in terms of what we can do. And you can't fight a war this way. America has always survived and has always won battles when it's in it to win it. And now we have this permission, but there doesn't seem to be any resolve to really defeat Putin.

Well, it would definitely, you know, they want to contain him. They don't want to hit in there. They don't want this thing to escalate. But I understand initially it was a brand new situation. First time since the 40s we see this type of invasion.

But having said that, since that time, we should allow you guys to hit inside, blow up these bridges, take out these weapons depots. If they're allowed to arm their people to attack you in Ukraine, you should be able to blow up their weapons depots in Russia.

Now we understand you're about to get F-16s from Denmark, correct? Denmark and the Netherlands.

Okay. Do you have the pilots? Because evidently we've been training them since last year. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, F-16s are, it's not like sort of handing the keys to the car or a tank and go for a spin, right?

I mean, you have to train the pilots, you have to train the ground crews. We obviously have to have a logistics system that is mobile because we can't have them all sitting at one aerodrome. But again, this points to the fact that, look, you know, we've taken, we've hit them in Russia with our own drones. And we've taken out seventeen percent of Russia's oil refinery capability, total oil refinery capability, with our own drones. And we're going after them as best we can.

But you know, Ambassador Kurt Volcker, who is President Trump's special representative for Ukraine, wrote a great article this week. And he made the point that US and NATO need to show America's and NATO's adversaries that America has the strength, resolve, and resources behind a clear plan for Ukraine and victory. And this is the problem. Nobody's ever said we want Ukraine to win. And that leads to a Russian defeat and the restoration of peace in Europe.

Unless you defeat the Russian army in Ukraine, you will never have security in Europe. And people are afraid of that. This is why we're dying by death by a thousand cuts. Through this administration, which is just awful. It's a horrible way to fight a war because you can never go out after the enemy.

How many casualties? How many casualties have better technology? Daniel, how many casualties do you think that Russia suffered?

Well, it depends who you talk to. The British think it's almost 750,000. I mean, that's a lot. 750,000 dead and wounded, wounded such that they can't come back. Uh, it could be between 500,000 and 750,000, and you know, all of that for the sake of one man's vanity.

You know, America has a chance to defeat its enemy Russia and China. by arming the Ukrainians at a fr at just a tiny cost. And with no cost to American lives. I hear your frustration. I'm with you.

I can understand it. Hopefully, people will wise up and let you win. Daniel Billak, thank you. Appreciate it. We come back.

Simulcast with Barney Company. You listen to the Brian Kill Me Show. So glad you're here. Back in a moment.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back. I'm going to go on Stuart Varney a matter of moments, but you know the drill. At the end of it, I usually have a minute or two left.

So if you want to get on board, around the country, 1-866-408-7669. We're waiting for a VP pick. We're waiting for the details of the RNC.

Now we have a movement when it comes to Joe Biden's press conference. Joe Biden's press conference is not at 5:30.

Now it's 6:30, and this is one of those times where I think Democrats are hoping he fails, and Republicans are hoping he does well, because they want to go against Joe. And that means it's time for Brian Kilmead. Brian, you spoke with Trump yesterday about not inviting Nikki Haley to the RNC. Why didn't he invite her? A couple of things.

I didn't say don't invite her, but I did ask, and I was surprised by the answer because. Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and his ambassador to the United Nations, came out and said, I told my delegates, go to Trump. I said I'm voting for Trump, but I have not been invited to the RNC. When I asked him, he said, This is the. I heard that this morning.

I guess he was watching Fox and Friends. I'll look into it. But she stayed in too long. And she should have gotten out. And she compared it to Kasich as opposed to DeSantis and Rubio, who when they looked like they were going to lose, they just got out.

When DeSantis lost Iowa, he got out before New Hampshire. He was upset she stuck around. I was surprised by that answer, but the window is the door is still open. for her to come. And I thought she handled it well, and I thought he was being very honest.

But I just think when you compete hard. He felt that it was too hard.

Some of the things she said. But I just do think. Tade Cruz and Marco Rubio at times said worse. But i it surely it would be to Trump's advantage to invite Nikki Haley to the convention. I mean, she would be regarded as someone moderate who could perhaps bring in some people.

No? Yes, and he shows that he's going after moderates in my view, although I asked him directly and he said no, about abortion. He said, we're going to just leave it to the states. That's in the platform. When it comes to IVF, we're fine with that.

When it comes to marriage between a man and a woman, he goes, take it out. I'm not against gay marriage. Those are my words. I'm just summarizing what he said. I don't want that in there.

He's like, just simplify it. Let's keep the controversy out. And what to me is saying. I want undecided, I want independents. And he said, I think I'm going to get those Nikki Haley voters anyway.

Why take a chance, right? Why take a chance? You know, UFC President Dana White, he's going to speak to her right before Trump at the convention. What do you make of that, Brian? Couple of things.

Last month I talked to Dana White when he was at his event in New Jersey, and he talked about the decision. There's so much pushback in 2016 when Trump said, I'd love for you to speak at the convention. And he said, yes. And they told him at UFC, they're like, guys, Dana, you don't want to do that. You don't want to be partisan.

He said, he's my friend. I'm doing it. And I said, What about this time? He said, If he asks, I'm going. And not only is he doing it, it looks like he's introducing him, or he's the speaker right before.

They're legitimate friends, too. You know, the president, former president. They're legitimate friends. They have great respect for each other. They were there for each other at the weakest times in both their business careers.

And now that they're both rising up. They lean on each other. And, you know, and that's what Dan talks about on and off camera. Whatever he needs, I will do. And he also said, Bar none, the toughest guy that I deal with in business and in the UFC, in the Octagon, Donald Trump, what he's been through.

He believes that that's as tough as anything that you've seen in the octagon. I've got to get your take on the European Soccer Championship. As I'm sure you know, England took down the Netherlands yesterday. They're going to take on Spain in the final on Sunday. It's at 3 p.m.

Eastern Fox Sports Sunday afternoon. Who do you have winning this one, Brian?

Well, again, we fought a revolution to get freedom from England, but I still appreciate what they did for our founding. I am pulling for them, no doubt about it. I also am fascinated to see that the U.S. has fired their coach.

So we've got to regroup and get ready. You're in America now. I am pulling for England. I think it's about time there's a change. They got close, and it's time to win it.

Kane came out late yesterday. I thought that was an interesting substitution at the end, maybe a change of an era. But I loved at the COPA and European championships at the same time. I love the fact that non-soccer players are just watching this who never played the game in America, and I just find it fascinating. I think it's been great for Fox, too.

You know, we see it on Fox Sports 1 a lot. It's great. I was in a bar in Hoboken For several hours yesterday afternoon watching the England game, the bar was absolutely packed. The atmosphere was electric. I've never seen anything like it.

I've got to get to this bar about three hours early on Sunday to make sure I can get a seat or get in the door. Did you see the game yesterday? Stuart, I saw it too, and I checked my voicemail right before the game started. Nothing from you.

So I watched by myself in my office. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And even during the game, I would have got down there and I kept checking. Nothing, not even texting. Come to Hoboken with me on Sunday afternoon.

I'm not cool enough. I am not cool enough. Kill me. We'll see you soon. All right.

Thank you. That's Stuart Varney. It's always great to have him on.

So he's talking about those European and the Copa Cups.

So. The U.S. team has talent. They got about seven players playing in the top level in Europe, never had that before. And they didn't have a good coach.

They were not played inspired soccer. They made some huge errors. And they cost themselves not even getting to the knockout round. What an embarrassment.

Sooner or later, the American people just get fed up. If we have the World Cup here, we don't get out of the knockout round, that is embarrassing. You know who got through? Canada. You know who's coaching Canada?

The U.S. interim coach that was doing so well with the team, and so they hired. Back to your old coach. He goes and brings Canada and they lose to, in New Jersey, they lose one or two nothing, two nothing to Argentina with Messi on board, with the crowd going crazy. One of the things that stood out, I think we have some time still.

One of the things that stands out to me is the politicians I expect to jump.

Some of the actors have jumped off the Biden bandwagon, but so have the late night hosts. Listen to Jon Stewart. Cut to. Even if Joe Biden came out and said, look. I understand where I'm at in my life span and cycle and what I do, here's how this government works.

Rather than coming out and becoming trumpian, And saying You think someone else could hold NATO together? They could never. Only God can tell me to get out of the race. If you were to come out and say, here's my team. Here's how we hold the line.

But we're not seeing any of that. Nothing that's been done. Inspires any confidence. Other than the fatalism of It is what it is. And this is what we're stuck with.

And that's the part that I think has degraded people's trust in institutions and the government from the get-go. Yeah, blame Trump for everything. Jon Stewart, again, right on the money. I wouldn't say my team. You hire one president.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kelmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Brian Kill Me Show, the latest moments.

And believe me, every time I come back from a break, there's something else that's happened, one of which changed since we started today. And that is that the start of the press conference tonight that means so much to President Biden because he doesn't do them anymore. Is going to be instead of 5:30, 6:30. It's a big deal. The big deal is, everyone knows, and he has said it behind closed doors.

One of the problems he has, he says he can't work effectively past 8 o'clock. And number two is he promised to Democratic governors he would work less.

So and that would keep them sharper.

So if it's pushed to 6:30, does that mean they need a gap between some of his other meetings? He's got two NATO meetings today. We don't know what he's got personally going on, a working session at 2 o'clock on the NATO summit.

So he will have a wide open press corps asking him anything and everything for the first time. In thirty months. Max Lugevir is going to be with us at the bottom of the hour. He's Health and Science Specialist, best-selling author, host of the podcast, The Genius Life. And with me in the studio is Aria Lightstone.

He served as senior advisor to U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Ambassador David Friedman, did a great job for four years. He also played a critical role in advancing the Abraham Accords. Aria, welcome. Thank you.

I told my kids this is my big boy interview today. I know. I'm really excited. That is the message. It's a big boy interview.

It was a disparaging phrase used by people and the Administration has embraced it. I don't know why, but I think the The Daily Show went to town on it.

Well should we hear that? Here it is, cut sixteen. Joe Biden, whose poll poll numbers are hovering somewhere between uh-oh and oh. But worry not, Biden's team has a plan. Tomorrow he'll hold a press conference to show that he's fully in charge of all his faculties.

Unfortunately, their branding isn't helping. The next test is what the White House says will be some kind of a big boy press conference. He'll have a press conference, a big boy press conference, his big boy press conference, a big boy press conference, I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it. Oh my god, stop saying big boy press conference! It sounds like he's going to show everyone that he can tie his own shoes.

Although, at this point, it would be reassuring to see him do that. Aria, you just got back from Washington. All the NATO leaders are there. 75 years should be a glorious time. They added two big countries: Sweden, Finland.

There is concern about the President's condition, right? Completely and totally. And is this new? No, I I think that you're finding very Interesting conversations behind closed doors. I think you will see more leaders have gone to the speaker's office, and you'll see more leaders spending time on Capitol Hill than in the White House, because I don't think anybody knows who's really home and who's really in charge at the White House.

But we understand the importance of NATO, understand the importance of paying you 2%. Up to 23 countries doing it. But Trump laid the groundwork for it. Mark Thiessen outlined that in the Washington Post. But Russia really helped too.

We no longer have to convince the rest of the world that Russia is a problem, even though they took a portion of Georgia. They took Crimea. They took the Donbass region. They weren't getting it.

Now, believe it or not, in their own backyard, they get it. Yeah, finally, they get it. And they know that if they don't show up, look, the U.S. has become far less reliable. And they're like, if we can't protect ourselves, who is going to protect us?

And NATO, I have to tell you, I'm not positive what the next celebratory celebration of NATO is going to be because right now they look at the U.S. and they don't know who's in charge. And I think they're very nervous about Donald Trump because Donald Trump has laid down the groundwork and they realize today. Today, they need to start showing up as real allies. I mean, put it this way: I don't know why they wouldn't try to run on a strong defense.

They have a legitimate history. All these men and women there today have grandparents that fought in two world wars. Great-grandparents. They have the pictures on the wall of D-Day.

So we should be the ones with the hard lessons. Absolutely. But they're the ones who seem to have short-term memory loss. And I don't know how you square that with the labor election in the UK and with the elections that happen in France right now. I think that this is the lesson for the Republicans here.

We have a chance of a generation to win in a meaningful way. If we do that, we need to demonstrate that we can govern in such a way that is demonstrably different. We can't run towards the middle. We need to run towards what we believe is correct and with those principles. Because you see that what happened in France, and you see what happened in the UK, even while Russia is on the doorstep of Europe, they've gone towards weakness, not towards strengths.

In a way, I can't figure out France. I'm not good enough at the French system, but essentially they elected the far right. Biggest seat increase ever, and the far left. And the one who's isolated is Macron in the middle. That's correct.

So, what is your how do you what do you take from that? It's all about language. Macron decided that anybody to the right of him is the far right, which meant that it was more comfortable for him to sit with the far left. And let's not call it the far left, it's communism. And Macron was more comfortable sitting with communists while Russia is attacking mainland Europe than sitting with anybody to the right of him because he's branded them as far right.

And this is what we're going to see in the elections here: whether Biden, you can notice that all the Democrats didn't talk about the fact that we don't have a president and we don't know who's in charge. Their concern is they're going to lose. That's what the concern is. And they've done a great job and they will continue to do a good job of branding anybody as a threat to democracy, which is the exact opposite of what's true. I mean, people forget, they were going after Mitt Romney.

Remember, he was a white supremac that liked to cut up companies and make people unemployed. They act like Trump is, I mean, Trump gets under their skin like nobody I've ever seen. But George W. Bush was Hitler, Mitt Romney was Eve. 49% of the country will never vote for Republicans because they're basically on the dole.

Remember that was picked up.

So they were evil.

Now they look like the great guys because they're not Donald Trump. But what is the world perception of Trump? I know before we get to Israel, which is really another area of your expertise. What is NATO worried about, Trump? No, I think they're worried about having to step up and the confluence of events.

He's not stepping out of NATO, right? Oh, correct. And nobody, I don't believe anybody there legitimately believes that Trump is going to step out of NATO. I think what they're looking at is they've been able to look the other way or count on the U.S. to look the other way while they've shirked their responsibilities.

And in between Russia being on the doorstep and now an impending Trump administration, I think you're going to actually see some of us with the greatest NATO partners that we've ever had. All right, they're motivated now.

So here's what Donald Trump said yesterday about NATO, Cut 29. He's taking credit for that, should he? Of course he shouldn't. They're under attack. With me, there was no attack.

Everybody felt comfortable. And I took in billions and billions, hundreds of billions of dollars. Stoltenberg, the Secretary General, said Trump did something I didn't think was possible. I took in the money that he's spending right now. If I didn't take it in, they wouldn't even have a NATO to fight Russia.

It was me that took in all the money. But they felt comfortable because, frankly, they weren't going to be attacked. They knew Russia would never attack as long as I was President. When he became President, of course they're paying right now. They're under attack.

If they didn't pay right now, the United States, if they were smart, would say, well, I'm sorry, we can't protect you, because they have the money to pay. But he makes a big deal out of it. Think of it. They're under attack. He is such a dumb president, it's not even believable.

And you know, he's not giving them the weapons they need. I just was out there and their Patriot missiles, they have seven, they just want seven batteries. There's hundreds throughout Europe. Europe's not giving them up. They're trying to transform out of Israel, actually, right?

So they're trying to get that. F-16's over a year to train. The first ones they're going to get is going to be later in the summer. But don't hit Russia in certain areas. You can't fight a war like that.

After all, you're the victim, you've been invaded. Yeah, President Trump and President Biden cannot have two more divergent foreign policies. And what President Trump was saying in that clip, just more specifically on point there, is he said the irony is when he's in charge, you don't really need a defense budget because people are terrified of the United States of America in a positive way. And that way they fear us. Our enemies fear us at that point in time.

President Biden has been all about appeasement. And when we have appeasement, that's when we are at our weakest. And that's what's happened with not funding or giving the right weapons to Ukraine. And certainly so what we've seen not funding and giving the right weapons to Israel. Here's what Ian Bramer said world leaders are perceiving about President Biden and then tell me what you picked up.

Cut thirty two. That is on the basis of them continuing to spend time with him over the course of the last one, two years. They've seen the deterioration, they've seen him slow down. And it's not just physically sh slowing down. It's repeating the same anecdote twice in an individual meeting.

I've heard that from a world leader today. It's not recognizing someone that he knew quite well when he came up and introduced them. Again, we're talking about a world leader here. These sorts of things, you can't not recognize them. Helmut Cole, he said he met with Helmut Cole and Francois Minteron, both long dead.

So that is Ian Bremer of the Eurasia Group talking about anecdotes now that is coming forward. But you probably heard it before. Yeah, I mean, without a doubt, this has gone on now for the better part of three and a half years. And I've been in the room when world leaders are communicating with other world leaders. If you are not sharp and on top of your game, the world will pass you by.

These aren't decisions that you can wait for hours or days on. And these decisions oftentimes are made based upon confidence in relationships. And if you can't recognize somebody that you've worked closely with, then what confidence can that country possibly have in needing to speak to you at their time of need?

So let's talk about what's happening in Israel right now. Things have been relatively quiet, but they basically gave a word to Gazans, get out of Gaza City, we're going in. They pretty much leveled Rafa, right? I saw them pictures of them in one of Sinwar's lairs. He is the bin Laden of this operation.

Is it harder to get Hamas than you guys or that Israel actually thought originally? Because they're spread out, fanned out, and they're underground. Underground is the challenge, and underground protected by civilians. And here you have a situation where Hamas is rooting for Palestinians to die, and Israel is trying to prevent Palestinian deaths at the same time trying to get their hostages back. And when those two things happen together at the same time, A, it's slow.

Israel is not built for a slow war. Israel, as we know, for the last decades, has been quick pinpoint commando operations. That's what they've been prepared for. A all-out war going on more than nine months, being fought underground with civilians on both sides being held hostage. This is just not something that Israel was fully prepared for.

Right.

I want you to hear what President Trump said about how I want to know what his support would be for Israel. First one. This fool we have as a president. He's a fool. He got us into Ukraine.

Because of him, Israel was attacked.

Now the Middle East is blowing up like it like you haven't seen it in a long time. I took everyone out. I got out of the Middle East. I wiped out ISIS. I rebuilt our military.

I wiped out ISIS in four weeks. It was supposed to take five years. I knocked out ISIS in four weeks, got rid of the worst terrorists in the world and did a job. This could this country was safe and the whole world was safe. He went on, take the third one, please.

Would you be holding back weapons from Israel like President Biden is doing now? Israel's got to finish the job. the answer is no. But Israel's got to finish the job Which means getting Sinoir and wiping out. They've got to finish the job.

And Biden knows that too. But Biden doesn't know. You know, Balance. Biden. If you look at the Palestinians, they can't stand Biden.

He's being hit by every side. Nobody likes him. Israel doesn't like 'em and the Palestinians don't like him. What's the word on the ground? Is he right?

The president is exactly correct about this. The dragging this out hurts everybody. And the Palestinians who are not fans of Hamas need Hamas to be eliminated quickly, and they need Hamas to be eliminated decisively. And this, we want all sides to win the ceasefire now crowd, which started back in October and supported by the president. Kamala Harris just yesterday was supporting the riots on the college campuses.

She said, You have to understand. Yeah, I have to understand, and I appreciate where they're coming from. When you have that kind of message coming from the White House, it It enables this to continue to happen. Iran financing the protests. That's emerged over the last few days.

Intelligence have let that be known. I called Maloney on that, by the way. Why would you mean? Because they need an excuse for why this is now out of control. You know who financed these protests on campus?

The Democratic Party financed these protests on campus. It's the same, the Venn diagram in between Black Lives Matter, in between the pro-Hamas rallies, in between the rallies that were against Trump before his inauguration. It's the same exact people with the same exact financing, with the same exact slogans, with the same exact organization. And now, as we're approaching the election season in the DNC, which is going to be filled with terrible things in Chicago, they now need to blame where that terribleness is coming from. And now they're calling out Iran.

Do you believe that Iran had nothing to do with it? I'm sure Iran has had something to do with it, but why are they publicizing this today? The Democratic Party and Iran are in collusion with corrupting the future of the American people.

So, what do you know about this new president of Iran? Considered a moderate, but what do you know about the king of the United Kingdom right now? It's an honorific position to agree.

So unless you're the Ayatollah, it doesn't make that much of a difference. And right now, they said that he got elected in a very low turnout because he wanted to reapproach the West. Yeah, but how long is that? Why would you vote in Iran? The president doesn't make decisions that affect your daily life.

It's like voting for the guy who collects the garbage.

So you hope that they do a good job, but at the end of the day, it's a technocrat position. This person's slightly this way or slightly that way. Without the Ayatollah's blessing, there's nothing that's changing. It will not affect a woman growing up in Iran in an iota of a difference. All right, Arielites, so stick around.

A few more questions. We come back. Bottom of the hour, too. We open up the talk and start talking a little bit about your health. It's a really good story.

It is Matt Lugavir, and Max's mom got Alzheimer's. He tried to get to the bottom of it. What caused it and how to stop it? Then realized a lot of it is preventable, and he's had a big Big successful writer now, as well as a huge podcast.

So, talk a little about health in a moment, but we talk more about what's going on in NATO and Washington right now and how it relates to our elections. Don't move. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. They should have never been in a position where they could have had. If I were president, they wouldn't even be thinking about a nuclear weapon. And now they're months away from getting one because Biden doesn't have any idea what he's doing.

He's grossly incompetent. And he has no idea. Iran should never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. And Biden should never have allowed them to get this far. They're way advanced now.

They would have never even been thinking about nuclear weapons if I were president. That's the one thing. And I would have made a deal with Iran. We would have made a deal with Iran within one week after the election. Aria Lightstone with us now, serve as senior advisor and U.S.

ambassador to Israel. We work with David Friedman. We don't have much time, but we're What happens is when you give interviews, if you do this regularly, you talk about your Iran policy. He comes out in conversation. You know, sooner or later, I'll ask a question.

But he never talks about his Iran policy, never talks about his Middle East policy, always responds to a crisis. How much does that matter? We don't know what Joe Biden's doing to stop Iran's nuclear program or if he cares. He's not, and he doesn't. I mean, that the policy on day number one was to re-embrace the JCPOA, which as President Trump describes as failed.

It's never signed completely and totally. It's failed, and they laughed at him. Yeah. So, what is the policy?

So, this is my feeling. My feeling: nobody's in charge of the White House. Yeah. It's not even a ban policy, it's no policy. And these people, we don't even know who advisors us, four people.

So I just wondering when you were walking around Washington, your perception. Yeah, there's a lot of confusion, which is why the NATO leaders have to go not only into the White House, they have to go to the State Department, they have to go to Congress and find out what is American policy. And by the way, President Biden's debate explains a lot about the Middle East. How does he show up and he's with Israel today, but tomorrow morning he's with Hamas and the next day he's with Iran, because it turns out that it's likely not him. And there are different people that are responding to different things, which means that America has an incredibly incoherent foreign policy.

You're Jewish and you have a Yamaka, so it's pretty clear you're Jewish. Very clear. You say you go to Saudi Arabia, you go to Doha, you go to. I have not been to Doha, but Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco. How do you feel?

Completely and totally safe. Since when? What year? I've been traveling the region since twenty nineteen, but since October seventh I've continued to travel the region and not a problem. You you go through New York, what did you hear?

Uh, on the way to the studio, I got called Dirty Jew twice. Has that ever happened before? Prior to four years ago. And what about in Washington? Washington, D.C., walking to a meeting yesterday in Capitol Hill, walked by the Free Palestine people and got booed the entire way down the block.

What is that like? To be an American walking down the street in Washington, D.C., to be booed because of your religion is a startling thing. Not tolerable. That things have to change. It shouldn't be.

Right.

And now, when the kids go back to school, the same thing. This is what the students are saying. 60% of the Jewish community in New York City said they don't feel safe. Does that number astound you? I think it's probably low.

I don't know a single person ready to go to college this fall that's exciting. Harriet Lightstone, thanks so much. Appreciate what you're doing. Hopefully, you'll get back in charge. We'll be back on the Abraham Accords track.

There we go. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmeade. Just to update you on what's going on, tonight at 6:30, the most consequential press conference of Joe Biden's career. Prior to that, it was the most consequential interview with George Stephanopoulos.

Okay, to some degree. He's looking at right after that interview with NBC on Monday, but now it's going to be moved to 6:30. We also have this. James Comer subpoenaed the staff. Of the White House to find out why they're covering up for Joe Biden's clear mental illnesses or physical illnesses.

We're trying to get to the bottom of that. We'll see if they respond. It is a crazy time in the world. Also, the RNC starting up Monday, we know this. Dana White will be introducing the former president.

He'll be speaking right before. And we know Ron DeSantis got a key speaking slot. And it looks like Nikki Haley, as of right now, not invited. That could perhaps change. With me in studio, if you're watching on the stream, you recognize him.

Max Lugavir. He's a health and scientist journalist, best-selling author, and the host of a podcast called The Genius Life and director of a brand new documentary called Little Empty Boxes. Max, welcome back. Hey, how you doing? It's great to be here.

Great. Tell me about Little Empty Boxes. Yeah, so Little Empty Boxes, it's the first ever documentary capturing the science of dementia prevention, which is a global health threat now. 55 million people globally suffer from dementia. And so the documentary focuses on my mom, which is my why, the reason why I got into this field.

And it basically, we discuss the science that is enabling us to procure better brain health years, decades down the line, possibly. Because it's preventable.

Well, there are estimates that at least 40% of cases are preventable, according to the latest Lancet Commission on Dementia. But I believe that the vast majority of Alzheimer's cases are, and possibly even Parkinson's disease cases are. For a layman like me, could you tell me the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's? Yeah, well, Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia.

So Alzheimer's disease affects about 6 million people, a little bit more than that in the U.S., and numbers are expected to explode in the coming years. But there are other forms of dementia: there's Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia. It was revealed that Bruce Willis, unfortunately, is suffering from frontotemporal dementia. Lewy body dementia is actually what my mom suffered from. There's vascular dementia.

So there are all these different subtypes which now are starting to be thought of as a whole, you know, this category of dementia, like neurocognitive disorders that affect us related to age. And then Parkinson's disease is different. Parkinson's disease is a movement disorder classically, although many people who develop Parkinson's disease down the road will see a decline in their cognition. This is referred to as Parkinson's disease dementia. And Lewy body dementia actually has more in common with Parkinson's disease.

So it's a whole category of cognitive, age-related cognitive disorders. And it's really unfortunate. It's really sad. There are no cures as we speak of. And these are conditions that begin years, if not decades, prior to the onset of symptoms.

Here's your trailer of the documentary that's how do we get this before rolling? Littleemptyboxes.com.

So it's a fully independent release. We had a national theatrical Release a couple months ago, but now anybody can watch it anywhere in the world at littleemptyboxes.com. All right, let's listen to 41. We know that Alzheimer's disease starts in the brain at least 20 to 30 years before the first symptom of memory loss. The million-dollar question, actually, probably the trillion-dollar question, is why do people get Alzheimer's disease?

The rates of Alzheimer's have skyrocketed. What did we change? The federal government. In 1980, it starts its guidelines. You take away butter, meat, dairy, eggs, cheese, all those things you ate.

What do you eat on your plate? What's left? The brain only takes as much sugar as it needs. The overall problem is inflammation. What happens in Alzheimer's is you have low inflammation, but chronic low inflammation.

Diet, stress, sleep, toxins, all these things have a huge impact. The question is, How far gone are you before it's irreversible?

So, I did not know a huge increase today. It's not just that we're more aware of it. There's a huge increase in dementia and Alzheimer's. There is, because the risk factors for Alzheimer's are increasing.

So, if you have hypertension, for example, that increases your risk for developing Alzheimer's. If you have obesity, if you have type 2 diabetes, and these are the diet-related modifiable risk factors, but these are all increasing. I mean, today we're seeing now almost one in two of us are not just overweight but obese. That is a risk factor. And those, you know, our food environment has become increasingly toxic.

Our environment has become increasingly toxic in general. And so, I think it's not quite a surprise that it's, you know, we're seeing rates of these increase.

So, when you hear about Ozempic and all these other drugs that are supposed to wagobi to get the weight off, is that a way to avoid some of these things? Potentially. They are looking into these peptides like semaglutide as a potential disease-modifying treatment. I believe there has already been a phase one and phase two trial looking to see if. These drugs can potentially prevent Alzheimer's disease.

They've already shown that they um Can reduce the risk of cardiovascular events. And insofar as, I mean, these drugs have been used for decades at this point as drugs to treat type 2 diabetes. And so only recently has it been approved to treat obesity. But insofar as type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, I think it can be expected that this might reduce risk. Right.

So for you personally, what you saw in your mom, was it behavioral or did she inherit that? No. So the heritability of these conditions are very low.

So Parkinson's disease is minimally heritable. There's about 2% to 3%. Of cases are considered to be inherited, and with Alzheimer's disease, similar, only about 2% to 3% of cases. Since your mom got it, how do you think she got it? Yeah.

Well, here's what's interesting.

So, my mom had a condition, again, called Lewy body dementia, which has more in common with Parkinsonism. And Parkinson's disease is now the world's fastest-growing brain disease. And there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that Parkinson's disease might actually be caused by exposure to certain environmental toxicants.

So, I mean, we could talk about diet until the cows come home. And I think that diet in many ways is setting us up for brain disease. There are a Class of herbicides and pesticides and certain industrial solvents that occupational exposure to these compounds has been associated with dramatically increased risk for Parkinsonism. And they actually use some of these compounds in animal models to create Parkinson's disease-like symptoms. And so, whether you live in a rural area and you might be exposed to certain herbicides and pesticides, say you live by a golf course where they're routinely using this stuff, or you're a farmer and you're using these compounds like paraquat or rhodinone, or you live in a more urban environment and you're exposed to compounds like, for example, trichloroethylene.

Which is still today being used in dry cleaning applications.

So you want to be really careful. If you regularly dry clean your clothing, Brian, you want to make sure that you're using a green dry cleaner, a dry cleaner that doesn't use compounds like trichloroethylene or its related compound perchloroethylene. And my mom was in a garment district in Manhattan. She worked in the garment center here. And in all likelihood, she was likely, you know, she was probably exposed to these compounds, which are used in manufacturing.

Wow, that's incredible. And when did she first start experiencing symptoms and how long did she deal with it? She was 58, and she passed at 66, and it was really difficult. And, you know, I'll never know what pulled the trigger for my mom with regard to these conditions, to the condition that she had developed. It could have been related to diet.

It could have been related to an exposure to any one of these toxins. I'll never know, unfortunately. But what I do know is that the modern world has become dysregulated in so many ways. I mean, the food environment is 73% ultra-processed. We know that insofar as food can increase risk by causing diabetes, causing type 2 diabetes, when we overeat these kinds of ultra-processed junk foods, which most Americans are now doing, that it can drive up risk for these conditions.

So, what have you changed in the knowledge that you've acquired? How have you changed your diet and your activities?

Well, I've become a lot more, and this is not to sound alarmist or to fear-monger, but I've become a lot more aware of my environment. I try to make sure that I'm breathing in clean air. I replace the air filters in my HVAC system, in my home, regularly. I have an air purifier because we know that indoor air can be up to 100 times more polluted than outdoor air, actually, due to the off-gassing of our furniture, the exposure to volatile organic compounds and the like. I drink, I try to filter my water.

I try to drink clean water. I try not to drink out of plastic. What about the overall meals? Yeah. Well, with food.

You eat less meat, more meat, no, I eat a protein-centric approach. I think that's really important. In terms of warding off frailty, which we know is a risk factor for developing. Dementia. And so, yeah, I take a protein-centric approach.

I prioritize grass-fed red meat, wild fatty fish, eggs, things like that. There was a recent study that found that. Egg consumers compared to non-consumers had a 50% risk reduction for the development of Alzheimer's disease, thought to be attributed to choline, which is a nutrient that eggs are the top source in the American diet. And so protein-centric. And then I, you know, round out my meals with dark leafy greens, which we know are super nutrient-dense and provide compounds which are directly supportive of brain health.

So I try to take a whole foods approach and I try to prioritize high-protein foods and dark leafy greens and low-sugar fruits and things like that. Max Lugavir is here, his podcast called The Genius Life. And this is his documentary out called Little Empty Boxes. Here is Kathy. This is your mom?

Yeah. So here she's talking about being diagnosed. Ask you some general questions. Do you remember what the date is today? Uh Um The d what the date is.

No, I I can't.

Well, h how about the month? No. So you had some studies done. The findings were fairly striking.

So it's clear that part of what's going on here is Parkinson's disease and likely something called Lewybody dementia. a disease that's somewhat in between Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, where there's both memory problems and then some movement uh issues as well.

So that must be tough to hear that. Super tough. Did she recognize you? She recognized me, yeah. Once you've seen one case of dementia, you've seen one case of dementia.

So she did she always recognized me. And unfortunately, in my mom's case, she was hyper-aware of the decline that she was experiencing, which made it really torturous actually for her and my family. I'm not a clinician, but I've encountered a lot of people that have had dementia in their family. And with certain forms of dementia, I think Alzheimer's disease in particular, the patient is not always aware of the decline. It's usually the family members that see the change and end up walking with them into the neurologist's office.

With my mom, she was aware at every turn the decline, and it was really difficult. And Parkinson is again, it's the w it's the fastest growing brain disease. It might be a man-made condition. I mean, these are conditions that were only first defined essentially in the medical literature just a few a handful of decades ago.

So Ali was convinced it wasn't his punching, it was Parkinson's syndrome. I'm not sure if they ever looked at his brain. Yeah, I mean, if you have, if you're genetically at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, your brain is just more vulnerable to the insults of modern life, and particularly when you're getting hit repeatedly in the head. I mean, that will probably have something to do with it. Probably is.

The other boxes have no problems. It's really strange. Having said all that, I don't want to put you into politics, but that is the conversation we're having now about the current President of the United States, who's had two aneurysms.

So he's had brain surgery already, and we see the slow movement. We see him putting his hands up so slow. We see the gait. Does any of this stuff sound familiar from your research? Totally.

I think, you know, I don't know if, first of all, I've never even been in the room with Biden, but from my intimate, yeah, from my intimate experience with Parkinson's-like conditions, I think it's pretty clear that he has some Parkinsonian stuff going on. There's the bradykinesia, the slowness of movement. You can see the rigidity when he turns. His voice, I mean, his voice has become so quiet that's a. That's a sign of what?

Hypophonia. Yeah, so that is a hallmark characteristic of Parkinsonism. My mom experienced that. And there's a micrographia is another thing. If you actually were to be able to look at his handwriting, you know, the handwriting becomes really small and diminished.

So I think physically it's pretty clear that he's got some Parkinsonian stuff going on. I don't think you'd be able to diagnose dementia without complex neuropsychological testing. Because I was watching him on D-Day with the soldiers that were in World War II.

Some of them were over a hundred and they were moving better. I watched James Clyburn, 84 years old yesterday, look like he was ready for the Olympics.

Well, you can clearly tell the rigidity, the stiffness, the shuffling of his gait. He doesn't have a normal stride anymore.

So it's clear. And, you know, obviously the Parkinson's disease expert that's been to the White House a handful of times and his recent tweet that they intend on, quote-unquote, tackling Parkinson's disease or whatever it was that he tweeted. I mean, I think it's pretty clear. I mean, it's actually difficult for me to watch him because it hits so closely. Because all the research you did, you know exactly what you're saying.

Yeah, and it just hits really close to home. I mean, it reminds me, I have empathy because it reminds me of what I saw in my mom, and that's not something I would wish upon my worst animals. And she had good moments. Did you have moments where you thought Wow, this is this is fine. Uh, we're having a normal conversation.

Then other moments when she did forget the month and the day? Um, it was Joe has seems to have decent moments. Yeah. Well, when you're stressed out, when you're underslept. Which I can imagine that there's a lot of stress and you know, sleep disturbance.

Yeah, of course.

So, I mean, that's all that's going to be. Whenever, if you're at risk for cognitive decline, particularly in old age, if you have so much as any kind of infection, it goes systemic and it affects the brain.

So, the brain doesn't sit in isolation. And my mom, you know, when she was well slept and when she was, particularly when she was exercising, I mean, she was, she definitely did have more of a spring in her step and cognitively was a bit more lucid.

So, yeah, it is variable to some degree, but in general, every day was difficult because, particularly because she was so aware of what it was that she was doing. What you did is use it to help other people.

So that's why you put out this documentary. If people want to go to go to littleemptyboxes.com. Yeah, littleemptyboxes.com.

So we're doing this fully independently. And, you know, we don't have a big streamer getting behind us. And it's just been a grassroots effort. And, you know, people around the world now, almost everybody that I encounter has some... has had some interaction with dementia, with Alzheimer's disease, with Parkinson's disease.

And so it's a film that not only provides insight and provides a light, but also provides solace for people that have gone through it. All right. A few more minutes with Max in just a moment. Max Lugavir. A lot of people, after you came on last time, people say, who was that guy that you had on?

So I got to remember to keep saying your name. Max Lugavier is here. Little Empty Boxes is the movie. And this podcast is the genius life. Back in a moment.

Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. Information you want. Truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Should he, as some people have suggested, just go ahead and take a cognitive test and demand that Donald Trump do the same? I don't think that it'd hurt, to be honest. But at the end of the day, you know, I.

So you think that he should take a cognitive test? I don't think it would hurt.

And that's Governor Whitmer taking questions on our book tour about Joe Biden, should he take a cognitive exam? As George Stevenopoulos brought up, and he said, I don't need to do it because I get tested every day. Max Luger is here, health and science journalist, best-selling author, and host of the podcast, The Genius Life. And go pick up his documentary or download it, Little Empty Boxes, at littleemptyboxes.com. What would do you have any idea?

This might be something when people want to take a cognitive exam, do you know what that would consist of or what that would reveal? Yeah, I mean, the gold standard test is a it's a four-hour-long neuropsych test administered by a neuropsychologist. And that, I mean, there's so much at stake now with this election, I think, he should absolutely voluntarily. Volunteer to do it. I mean, watching him, I'm not a medical doctor, and I've never been again in the room with him, but it looks so similar to what it was that my mom had.

The decline in processing speed, the clear decline in processing speed, the change to his voice, even his facial features, the reduction in observable affect that you can see. To me, he could have a condition like Lewy body dementia, which generally what differentiates Lewy body dementia is that at its onset, you'll see both the movement symptoms that are associated with Parkinsonism as well as the cognitive decline. It's not necessarily a decline in memory, but it's just generalized. Cognitive decline, a reduction in processing speed and the like, which to me, I mean it just looks really similar to what I've seen for almost a decade, what I observed in my mom. And I imagine that when you go behind closed doors, the family would see it.

Like you saw it. Yeah, I mean, look, if this was your father or your grandfather, you would be walking them into a neurologist's office. There's no question.

So it's, I think it's just denial, or I don't know. I mean, there's obviously stuff going on. It could be essentially a Parkinsonian condition. It could be Parkinson's disease. It could be another form of dementia.

Again, it looks similar to what I've seen in my mom, Louis Bida dementia, but. I don't know for sure. But it's definitely cause for concern. Max Lugavir, thanks so much. Good luck with your little empty boxes documentary and your podcast, The Genius Life.

Great to see you again, Max. Thanks, Brian. From the Fox News Podcasts Network, in these ever-changing times, you can rely on Fox News for hourly updates for the very latest news and information on your time. Listen and download now at FoxNewsPodcast.com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News Podcast Plus, on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music with your Prime membership, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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