Trump vs. Harris polls tighten in key battleground states

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for listening. I hope you had a fantastic Monday.

We're back in action today. We're going to have Alan West at the bottom of the hour. We know that Kamala Harris is going back to Houston again. Second visit in about. Eight days, pretty significant.

We know everyone's going to be in action today. Also, special thanks to Santa Rosa, California. All week you're going to be carrying us live and hopefully from here on in from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Always great to be in California.

The people that know Kamala Harris best, although smart Southern California with her. She did spend substantial time in San Francisco.

So, before we go any further, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Pincorce current ethics code is weak. And even more frightening, voluntary. Under the reform I propose Justice would be required.

to disclose gifts. Refrain from public political activity. All right, good. Pipe dream for Biden. As the lame duck whines about the Supreme Court, he can't control what he proposed and how it's more politics than justice.

Number two Thomas Crooks at least 105 minutes before he shot at former President Donald Trump. In a group chat, an officer sent a picture of Crooks and said, I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. But you left anyway. Let's try it again. The acting Secret Service Director comes to Capitol Hill to reveal what went wrong that led to the shooting of the 45th President.

As social media giants mysteriously combined to suppress the iconic pictures and brave actions of Trump at and after the shooting. Number Trump, he has difficulties too. He's got to frame Harris. He's got to find the right message to go after her. And he's got to get back in control of the dialogue.

He is clearly in a subordinate role here. And he is playing defense for the first week because it was a massive change on top. You had Harris come in and take over for Joe Biden. Settling in, Trump and Harris finding ways to fight, attack, and take advantage of each other's weaknesses. It's all so weird.

And that's, believe it or not, is so weird because I said that because you know, with the last two days, we're watching all the surrogates, all the auditioners who want to be the running mates for Kamala Harris. Use the word weird. I think that's the strangest move yet because I don't think weird is bad. Most people in this world are a little bit weird and They're using weird because the whole threat to democracy thing was not working. He's a criminal, doesn't hunt.

They're going to continue to say 34 convictions. It's the same conviction. It's 34 separate times to say it. And there's huge problems with that case, and it might get turned over.

So they say he's a threat to democracy because of January 6th. You've said it so many times, they're immune to it. An immunity immunity might actually overthrow that case. We will see.

So today, Donald Trump will be in Chicago at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention. One of the people interviewing will be our own Harris Faulkner. J.D. Vance will be in Reno, Nevada. That's great at a campaign rally there.

Kamala Harris will be in Atlanta.

Now, they think Atlanta could be in play, even though they virtually lost it with Joe Biden there. She's going to be with a rapper called Megan the Stallion. I guess that's big news in the rapper community if you want to get young urban voters. A little more than a week ago, Georgia appeared to be slipping from the Democrats' hands, but now I think it's up to. Donald Trump to make amends with Governor Kemp and say, listen, let's get your machine going.

I'm really going to need it. To take Georgia.

Now, what will work against Kamala Harris? I think her record, in the middle of applause, in the middle of graduation, you don't interrupt and say you're going to have a hard time getting a job. You let the gown go off, you return everything back, and then when it gets down to grinding it out leading up to the convention, That's when you finally come up with your attack plan. And also, they spent about twelve million dollars rolling out the first ads. Here's what Carl Rove said that Trump's got to do.

You heard a little of it in the open, cut six. Trump, he has difficulties too. He's got to frame Harris. He's got to find the right message to go after her because as Lucas said, we've got 101 days as of today, and he's got to get back in control of the dialogue. He is clearly in a subordinate role here.

He feels uncomfortable with it, I suspect. And he likes being in the guy who's setting the tempo of the campaign, and that's not happening. Yeah, well a couple of things are happening. Number one, after the assassination attempt, the success and that's thankfully you survived, the way he acted after Really laudable. And then the fantastic convention that just wrapped up, even by Democratic standards, they've never seen anything quite like it.

But then on that Sunday, we know about the flip that now it's come Ale Harris out in front.

Now, the question is: why did she fail in 2020? Because of her views. Why was she a laughing stock for three and a half years? Because of her actions. The question is, where do you attack?

There's so it's such a target-rich environment. I'll use those terms, but hopefully you'll understand the difference between words and actions. But the New York Times writes, Why the Kamala Harris of four years ago could haunt her in twenty twenty four? You think? Miss.

Ice is like is like KK the KKK. Was ban fracking? Let's know let's ban oil drilling. Let's spend $14 trillion on a new green deal. Let's decriminalize border crossings.

Let's forget about private health insurance. This is all out there with the wrong words. It's not my memory. Although it is my memory just now, but she's actually said it. Video clips of Rolls statements and interviews are being weaponized as Republicans aim to define her as a left-wing radical.

But that's how she was defined, is why she blew up. Why was Joe Biden picked? Because he portrayed himself as a moderate. What did he do? The rescue package and the Inflation Reduction Act added so much to the deficit.

All it did was agenda-driven. The CHIPS Act, no chips are being made. The Infrastructure Bill, there's nothing, there's only eight terminals have been built. Part of it was hooking up rural America on the Internet. Nothing's been done.

So that is target rich.

So if you want to talk about what's been done by the administration, that's target rich. You want to talk about what she stood for as Attorney General? That's a target rich environment. And then you talk about how she ran, which was brutal, and she can't call the staff. There's a lot going on, a lot of approaches that would work.

Now, for Trump, I think that he has to get his mind around. It's a woman. Minority, and I think I don't care what you wish it would be like, you want everyone to be equal, but the American people do not want women and men treated the same. When it comes to Um I guess The way you approach the words you use. And I'm not worried about I'm not worried about Kamala Harris.

I'm worried about the female voters who might look at this and say, you know, I understand what Donald Trump's trying to say, but it's a little mean. And when you say bum, When you say lunatic, I don't think it's necessary. Patrick Bett David. A self-made multi-billionaire, founder of Avalue Entertainment. He was on with Jesse last night.

I thought he made some real good points. Cut eight. When you come up in the streets of New York winning in real estate, every day's a fight. When you come up in media and you're trying to put up a show and you're number one for 15 years, it's a fight. When you come up in politics and you're trying to become a president and all these things come about you, rumors, Russia, all this, it's a fight.

He's been fighting his entire life.

So to tell a 78-year-old man who fights when he golfs, he does everything's about winning. Hey, listen, pump the brakes when they agitate you and take shots. Who do you think you are? I've been with me for 78 years. You think you can't give me any feedback?

That's the tough part. It is the tough part, but the feedback is just go after the record, not the person. That's what I would do. And that's what I think people want. I don't think we need to hear the nicknames anymore.

I don't think you need to demean people. Listen, what she stands for is going to bring us our country in a direction that would be very detrimental to our future. Nothing's going to destroy America. But we have to build up our defense. We have to get respect in the world.

We've got to get our economy lean and mean. We've got to start getting people back to producing things again here. Find a way through with the Trump method would be through tariffs to bring manufacturing back. And maybe some prices do go up on goods, not necessarily food, but he wants to do it through energy. That's what you could talk about.

And that's what I think he should do. Cut seven. Nine national polls since Joe Biden announced on the 19th that he's not running. If you take those nine polls, it is Trump by 0.88. That's basically nine-tenths of 1%.

And that's after he gets the bump coming out of the convention that really showed a unity for the Republican ticket and the Republican Party. And so this is going to be a barn burner, and it's very much up for grabs. And the next two or three weeks are going to be critical for both camps. Right. And I love the fact that, you know, obviously, being with Jamaican roots, you might have an affinity and inside track being a Democrat to the black vote.

But I love the fact that President Trump is not giving up on getting a wider percentage of the black vote. I think it makes our country better. And I think we should compete for every state at every time. And little by little, it'll change things. But also, if you become president, You go into these areas like New York and Chicago and Philadelphia, and today is Chicago again, and you'll say, Yeah, I remember him.

He came by. He spoke in my church. He spoke in my event. He spoke at my town hall.

So maybe, you know, if uh the guy you vote for, the woman you vote for doesn't win. They don't have as much resentment. Say, well, yeah, they came by. They tried to get my vote in vote. Let's see what they ha let's see what he or she has to do.

So I think it's a great idea. I d I didn't talk to anybody at the camp that told me, but this has been pretty consistent. Thought this was a little poll, and then I'll go to break because I want to leave some time for you to call, or you want to write BrianKillme.com. But MSNBC did one of those uh voter panels. Blackmail voters.

And they asked some questions, and to their credit, they aired this.

So, you have a teacher, you have a financial manager. And you have a citizen. Cut in. How many of you know a black man who has expressed to you that they're committed to voting for Donald Trump? For the brothers who have told you that or said that to you, has the emergence of Kamala Harris changed that for those brothers?

No. Why do you think that is? My guys are. Concerned about the interest rates, right? They feel like with interest rates increasing, it's harder to acquire properties and things like that, which is internally how most of them earn their money through real estate.

I would say most of the men that I know that are on the Trump train, they just want something different from the status quo, and they feel as though that Trump can bring that.

So that was Charles Coleman was the anchor, and the first guy was a financial manager, and the other one was a teacher, as I mentioned. And all the hands went up, and they say, How many people know a black man or a black person that is still considering voting for Donald Trump? And all the hands went up. You couldn't see it because we're on our radio, but it's just significant. I think he's just keep doing it.

And I just think Trump should make sure he has fun today. I would tighten it up. And Understand they're waiting on anything to call him a racist, sexist, misogynist. Don't fall for it. And I ask you this, too.

I know you're 78 years old, and I know in sports they always say you can't even go up to a 30-year-old and tell him to change his game, or you go up to a 33-year-old fighter and ask him to change his style. It's almost impossible. How do you tell a 78-year-old and tell him to approach things differently? You don't. But you could just just not use certain words.

He knows how to do that. And if his goal is winning and winning and surviving, for him, it's surviving. Because you know, the minute he's done with the election, if he loses, they're going after him on all these court cases. And they're going to try to destroy his business. They're going to try to destroy him.

Don't anybody be fooled. And what happens is the money is going to dry up because you no longer have. You know, you're not running for president. You're not being attacked for something that would go into the category of being. No one's going to donate to you for legal fees if you're a billionaire.

But right now, the legal fees are being paid, and the lawyers are being paid by a lot of the campaign, and people know what they're doing. And they obviously see that there's a political vein to all these attacks.

So there's a lot in the line for President Trump.

So I think that now that he can get oriented Suck it up because he's going to get beaten up at the DNC. And then they're going to be a sprint to the finish. And then I'm sure there's going to be a debate in between. I just can't wait to see a couple of sit downs with Kamala Harris.

Now if she's smart, she's going to sit there and say, How do you explain all my extreme views? And hopefully, for her sake, she'll have some answers. But her problem is when she gets off script, when she's asked a question, she seems to lose it.

So And that's when she comes up with the ridiculous statements, and we're going to hear some of them too. All right, you listen to the Brian Kilmeet Show.

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They actually didn't speak. That just came out. Look, it's a terrible thing. Should have been somebody up there.

Now. The Secret Service shooter, the Secret Service sniper. It was amazing what he did. With one bullet, he took him out, and that was an amazing shot he made. I heard it was like an incredible shot, much further away.

It would have been good if it was nine seconds sooner. Right. But think about it. He had four magazines next to him. That was Donald Trump last night with Laura Ingram.

He had four magazines next to him, and he had a phone they said that was supposed to detonate, ideally, for in it from the killer perspective of He would detonate explosives in his car. This guy ordered fertilizer. It's pretty obvious. I think he ordered it through Amazon. And his car was supposed to explode and get people looking the wrong direction, allowing it to escape after shooting the president.

Now, imagine if you took another shot at the president. I thought about this this morning. How did the other three get shot? They don't seem to be behind the President. Where were they that they got in harm's way?

And they say eight shots was shot and then they shot back. You know, I would like to know how these guys got shot because it's clearly the people behind the president didn't feel vulnerable that I could tell.

So I just think it's an important thing.

Sooner or later, we'll get answers. And the bottom line is found out even more disturbing things.

So you had yesterday the SWAT team saying nobody to talk to us from. Secret Service. We wanted to. I didn't like it. They just told us where to go.

And there was no communication line. And they never even told the Secret Service guards with Trump that there was somebody suspicious out there. All this is bad.

So Secret Service was a talking to Secret Service. And evidently there was a run-through at nine in the morning. Secret Service never showed up for it.

So, how many other times did they do this? Do they get complacent since no one shot anybody since the 1980s and since Ronald Reagan was shot? Did they just get complacent? Or is it just Trump? We don't care what happens to Trump.

Nobody wants to work for Trump. Or are we going to under-resource Trump? That's what's going to happen, and that's what's going to come out. What I like is so far. I have guys like Uh Gottheimer, uh Jared um A Moskowitz come out and say Just be just as almost as aggressive as some of the Republicans because they know that the Secret Service failure is going to definitely come back to hurt us and cause a national outrage.

Because on that list was Attorney General Merrick Garland, on that list was John Roberts, on that list were a lot with Joe Biden.

So there are a lot of Democrats. They know it is not just about Trump. Maybe that's the reason why. Regardless, I think we could get to the bottom of this. And I just hate hurting law enforcement individually, but overall, it's a huge problem.

Josh Hawley weighed in yesterday, and here's what he said he hopes to hear today when the acting director comes to Capitol Hill, COP29. I do not want to hear the phrase, we're still investigating, so we can't talk about it. The agency's in charge of supposedly protecting the president, and just as importantly, protecting Americans who go to these rallies and events. It cannot be in this country that if you go to a political rally or event, you fear for your life. Josh Hawley's been doing a lot on this, and Whistleblower has been reaching out directly to him.

So the acting director gives me some hope we could. Get answers today. And it's about us. People think it's with lawmakers. It's about us.

You got to tell us what happened, like the audience, the American people, what went wrong.

So Christopher A shows up. We're still investigating. We're still investigating. Gabe Moore. but not nearly enough.

Now this guy evidently went to the roof and laid down on the ground. And said some statements that there's just no excuse, how embarrassed he is that this actually happened. And how responsible they all feel. Even the guys, the SWAT guys, said, we failed. Even though you could blame whoever you want, but he says we all failed.

All right, so we'll talk about that and so much more. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West is that. We also have the latest with Hezbollah. The Israel expect to hit back really hard today for them killing those 12 children, all under 17, over the weekend in the Golan Heights. A talk show that's real.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. And some of what he and his running mate are saying, well, it's just plain weird. And three days ago, the nation found out what we've all known in Minnesota. These guys are just weird. That's who they are.

Every day, Vance, it comes out, Vance has done something more extreme, more weird. I mean, on the other side, they're just weird. I mean, they really are. Even though he is clearly older and stranger than he was when America first got to know him. And he goes over to the flag and he like hugs the flag.

I mean, I love the flag, but it's a weird thing he does. Yeah, good luck with that.

So I don't know whether you're not embarrassed. If I got emailed in the morning. Faxed back in the day. These are the words you're going to use today. These are the buzzwords you go, excuse me, I'll keep it.

Thank you. I know what I'm doing. If you want me to stay away from certain things, I'll go ahead. But you're not going to tell me what word to use. But all these people are like lemmings, and they're going out and they're using the same word as if we don't hear the word.

And now, with 24-hour news and Instagram, and everybody on the on whether it's YouTube, everyone's seeing this. We're seeing it in quick clips. And now we put it didn't take us two seconds to put these montages together. And I don't think weird's a bad word. I don't know.

You know that person in the front of your class is a little weird? That might be Elon Musk. You know the other person's a little weird. Might be the next Olympian that we're watching over the weekend. What is not weird?

Oh, I'm a mainstream. I do everything right. I do everything with the masses. That's what you want to elect?

Okay. You don't want people that don't have any quirks? Good luck with that. You know, I I don't know. I I don't look at weird as a bad word.

And you look at President Trump and all of a sudden you realize, wow, he hugs the flag. It's weird. Yeah. Oh, thanks for that, Governor Shapiro.

Now I think I'll vote for somebody else. The more I think about it, if he's going to hug the flag, that's weird. And then Pete Buttijej of all people comes out. This failed Transportation Secretary. Transportation America has never been more screwed up.

This guy, for some reason, keeps failing up from a mediocre to bad mayor to his Transportation Secretary, an epic fail.

Now we find out that he's in the running. He's not going to get it to run as a running mate to Kamala Harris, which is nuts.

So he comes out and says, Well, the president's just strange. He's not the same guy from 10 years ago. We already know him. We don't need you to define him. We got it.

So let's just talk about the tactics then that they're going to use. Here's what President Trump sat down with Laurie Ingram last night, and he just talked about. What it means to go against Harris as opposed to Biden. And what has she done in the past that they're still digesting? Maybe J.D.

Vance thought he'd be dealing with this for a debate, but now Donald Trump is dealing with it because she's now leading the ticket cut through. They are the ones that are a threat to democracy. Number one, they had an incompetent man as president, okay?

Now they have somebody who's worse. She's sort of incompetent. She's not very smart, but she's very radical. Very radical. Right.

Uh and he has some examples for that, cut to. She was a bad prosecutor in San Francisco. She led. The cashless bail and all of the different things. She was the first of all of the bad prosecutors that have allowed.

You know, if you look at the 25 top cities, they're basically all Democrat. The prosecutors are weak. She was the early. She destroyed. She's a San Francisco liberal.

And we know that in San Francisco, there's even some pushback against people from San Francisco in San Francisco because how the city's been ruined. And Cessa Bodine, remember, the DA there was recalled successfully. I mean, that guy. just stopped prosecuting crime and protected homeless people from ever getting any social services.

So they're in fact, they're handing out needles and making sure they stay on and make that city unlivable. That's her legacy, and that's what Gavin Newsom was going to have to deal with. He could put all the gel in his hair he wants, but he's still dealing with the record. And that's why I never thought that he'd be a potent national figure. But now she's going to run on that.

And if she says, well, I grew, The person that ran for office in 2020, I grew, all right. Then run on your record for three and a half years, because that record had Trump on top. For the most part, people just said, I like the report cards for both administrations. One is now. And the other one was a few short years ago, three years ago.

If you look at the economy, you look at the foreign policy. You look at immigration. everywhere except abortion, Donald Trump's Blows it away. If you could do something a little bit conventional, but it's going to take some changing. And as JD Vance said yesterday.

In an address to donors, we feel like we were sucker punched.

Now, Trump says it's going to be easier going against him. That's what he does. Everything's positive, doesn't say anything negative. He always said that we're going to work out better. But he said it's going to be easier running against her.

But overall, The staff has to feel like, to a degree, they're sucker punch because now there's a new person on top because they literally overthrew the sitting president. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West joins us, Dallas County Republican Chairman, former Florida Congressman. Colonel, welcome back.

So much has changed. Your thoughts as Trump tries to get his bearings about going after Harris. Compare Harris to Biden.

Well, if you want to go on identity politics, sure, a lot has changed. But if you want to look at policies, nothing has changed. And you just brought up a great point in that when you look at Kamala Harris, not only does she own The past three and a half years of failed policies to include her appointment as the Borders are, even though the media has tried to cover for her on that. But you also go back and look at her record in California. You look at her record as a U.S.

Senator. And all the things that she stood for were very far-left progressive policies and programs, and that is not going to endear her. And if you want to even talk about her relationship in the black community, remember her policies on marijuana charges put a lot of young black men in jail. And that is something that is not playing well in the black community if you go and listen to some of the radio programs and commentators there.

So yes, I think that in a way, this has not really changed for the Trump administra I mean, for the Trump campaign because you're still running on the policies. Do you have to be a little bit more nuanced now? Yes, perhaps because you have a black female that is running and everyone is going to be sensitive about what you say. Yeah, I d I just don't wan I don't think it helps anything to call bomber a lunatic. No.

It just you don't need to because you have a track record as attorney general, a track record as a candidate, a track record as a vice president. And I'm looking at some of these old comments last night just to get familiar with it. You realize she was considered the biggest liability Joe Biden ever had. And they were just talking about he was the best insurance he could ever wish for because everyone thought she'd be worse than him, even at 81 and barely remembering his name. No, you're absolutely right.

And think about the fact that she has said on all these major policy decisions, she was always the last person in the room with Joe Biden and that goes on. Including Afghanistan. That's what I was just going to say.

So she owns that.

So from a foreign policy, national security, commander in chief perspective, she's got the answer to all these things.

So I think that the media is going to find it even harder. And it would have been better if the Democrats had had an open convention and tried to get someone that was from outside, maybe a successful governor, not a Gavin Newsom, like you said, because who wants to be like California? But now they're still stuck with the same old policies, and you cannot put a lipstick on this pig. We'll see what they're going to do. I know that Jon Tester, looking trying to look like a moderate, said, I want more of an open convention, but that ship has sailed.

I think there's a story to be told, Colonel, about how she consolidated these delegates so quick. That plan had to be in place. That plan had to be in place, and they had to brush back all these other contenders. The Pritzkers got nowhere to go, ton of money. You know, Waltz, nowhere to go, ton of money.

And then you have people like Governor Shapiro, who would have been a favorite to come out. Maybe the governor from North Carolina that would have come forward. Bashir, who just won another few years. These people were thinking to themselves, I'm queued up for 2028, but you would think that some of them might have taken a shot at 2024. But she consolidated so quick.

I even think to a degree it surprised Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

Well, I think there are a lot of phone calls that were being made because right now they want to reduce the perception of chaos and confusion. But really and truthfully, if you peel the curtain back, there really is not that unity. There's probably more disunity there. And all of those governors that you just named, why would they want to join on a ticket like this and ruin their chances possibly for 2028?

So I think it's going to be really hard for them to secure someone that is quality to run on this ticket because, again, they're going to have to answer for the policies of the Biden administration.

So here are the policies of Kamala Harris, in her own words. Let's listen. Cut 24. I am prepared. To get rid of the filibuster, to pass a Green New Deal.

There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.

So, would you ban offshore drilling? Yes. And I've again worked on that. We need to have Medicare for all. Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?

Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on. It's simply wrong that we have a situation where the pharmaceutical companies have been dictating prices. Affordable health care should not be a privilege, it should be a right.

Okay, she wants to stand by all that, and I'm being serious. Tactically, when her experts who have paid a ton of money, she made $200 million in just a week, a ton of money, when they sit down, do they say, embrace it? Or do they say, listen, I should have really pre-thought that? I don't know. That is, I mean, what do you say?

It's a bad return on investment, without a doubt. And I think that there was a lot of jubilance and emotionalism that went in. And now they're sitting back and looking at all these things and say, oh my God, you know, this is a person that's not ready for prime time. But here's the real problem: the far-left base, which agrees with all the things she says, they own the Democrat Party.

So there is no way now that you can undermine Kamala Harris. And You know, the president, you know, President Trump, I'm sorry, he comes out and he debates her September the 10th, the previously agreed date. She has to stand on stage and talk about these policies. And I think this is going to be the urban failure. Then it's too late because when you look at a state like Pennsylvania, their early voting starts on the 16th.

So they're stuck with a person whose policies and whose history and whose previous stances of positions. It's not winnable. Use more, cut twenty-five. Plastic straws are a big thing right now. Yeah.

Do you ban plastic straws? I think we should. Yes. I think there's no question that we've got to critically re-examine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing. I am in favor of saying that we're not going to treat people who are undocumented across the border as criminals.

That's correct. That is correct. For far too long, the status quo thinking has been to believe that by putting more police on the street, you're going to have more safety. And that's just wrong. But would you support changing the dietary guidelines?

Yes, you know, the food pyramid. What would people reduce red meat specifically? Yes, I would. Good luck with that. No straws, no meat?

What kind of dinner what a terrible dinner companion? You're going to tell me that I can't have steak in Texas? I mean, or shall I? Give me a break or a hamburger. But again, this is that totalitarian control of the left.

They want to tell you what type of appliances you can have in your house, what type of car you can drive, what type of food you can eat. And that's just not going to play well. And so I think that this little honeymoon period of this first week or two weeks, this euphoria, it's going to wear off very quick because all of these clips that you're playing, that's going to get proliferated all across the United States of America. And it's going to be in every campaign ad. But we're not done yet.

Cut 23. Abolish ICE. Is that a position that you agree with? Listen, I think there's no question that we've got to critically reexamine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing. And we need to probably think about starting from scratch.

You support giving universal health care, Medicare for all to people who are in this country illegally. Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy. that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety Public education or public health. period.

I guess her checkbook's out. That's going to be pretty, pretty expensive, giving every illegal, including the eight million she let in, probably more like eleven, uh, le uh, free health care, free everything, especially the next eleven that are going to be in about three m three weeks, because they know this is the one time they can get in here if she wins. No, you're absolutely right. And you think about it, we might as well kiss the United States of America goodbye because she does not believe in the sovereignty of this constitutional republic. And she will allow people to continue to flow into this country to include terrorists.

And I found it very interesting that she came here to visit Texas For some sorority confab, but yet she could not find the time to go down and talk to the family of Jocelyn Nungare, the 12-year-old girl who was brutally raped and killed because of her failures at the border.

So, again, those are the type of things that are going to play over and over over 200,000 Americans over the past three and a half years dead because of fentanyl. That's going to play over and over. She was the border czar. I don't care what the media tries to say. She did raise funds to get violent protesters, Antifa members out of jail, bailing them out.

And she's supposed to say she's tough on crime when she just said that we need less police. No, I mean, it's just too many things. That they're going to have to try to answer for that she cannot answer for. I hear you. Colonel, it's going to be interesting.

And she'll be with you. If you want to go to Houston, that's where she's going to be tomorrow. Alan West, Dallas County Republican Chairman, thank you. Thank you so much, Brian. Take care.

You got him. And everyone, KLIF, I know loves hearing from Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. When we come back, time to squeeze in some of your calls, 1866-408-7669. We'll do that. And also, we'll talk too about what the President proposed yesterday, the current President, the lame duck President for the Supreme Court.

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Joe Biden came out yesterday. And he lands at the Supreme Court. He lands in uh to give the It's at the LBJ Library to commemorate uh an anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act. And it's cool. You know, LBJ Library, I love the fact any time you talk historically about what goes on and gave some nice remarks to the to the LBJ family.

He know he knew I guess he knew him and he knew Lady Bird. She was around for a long time after he passed away.

So wasn't very healthy and he smoked a lot. But a, he wanted to use that time to say we got to reform the Supreme Court. We have eighteen years, you should be done. Number two, we talked about how corrupt he feels they are because some of these guys took You know, where they looked at Clarence Thomas and they said some of his vacations he took or different things that they did, they need ethics, and they're going to have their branch, the executive branch, give ethics to the Supreme Court. That usually does not work to have one branch discipline the other branch.

In fact, it never works, and it's never going to pass in a million years. He talked about putting the presidential act together that would nullify the Supreme Court decision on relative immunity for a president if he did things within the scope of his job. He wrongly cited Sotomayor, who mistakenly characterized that decision as something that you now can, because of this decision, tell CIL Team Six to go assassinate a political opponent. That's called against the law. That's different.

They were talking about issues and policy, the things you did in office that you think are best for the country, that in turn end up being something that leaves you legally vulnerable. They want to get rid of that.

So it's up for debate depending on the challenge. But all these things are brought up essentially in my view because Joe Biden feels as though he lost control of that court because it's mostly Supreme Court members, and it's now a conservative court. But does he remember that it was John Roberts, appointed by George W. Bush, that saved Obamacare? And do you think they all march in lockstep because they had the same president appoint them?

Amy Conan-Barrett has not been on the same page as Justice Alito. And Clarence Thomas. And oftentimes, it's the same thing with John Roberts.

So They are trying to destabilize another institution and make it something to run on. And you're going to see Kamala Harris saying that the Supreme Court reform is something we got to do. And if they find a way to win the presidency, and if they find a way to get the majority in the Senate or retain it. look for them to do something really big in terms of packing the court. and trying to negate its power.

So, I don't know why they have to go out of the way to unearth all these institutions and destabilize them, but it's exactly what they accuse Trump of doing. And most of the time they're 100% inaccurate. Frank Hilmicho. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

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We're also watching opening statements as it relates to the Secret Service, trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong and everything went wrong in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The acting director evidently is here to play. He's going to actually give information. The other director fired because I think she wanted to be fired, knew she deserved to be fired, but instead she frustrated everyone for three and a half hours. Even you got Jared Moskowitz and Democrats calling for her ouster.

This hour, we're going to be joined by Joe Concha. We'll do a Samo cast with Varney and Company. And standing by right now, you can take a look at him, Ben Shapiro. He's also on Skype. Another reason to get the app.

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Well, great to see you. First off, this we've never seen anything like this.

So for the people out there that says this is just like any other summer, it's just not true. How long do you expect the Camela Harris honeymoon to last?

Well, if the media have their way, it'll go all the way until the election. I don't think that's going to happen. I think that it'll probably last through the convention and then it'll probably end.

So the convention is supposed to happen in approximately three weeks.

Sometime in the next week and a half, she's probably going to select her vice presidential nominee. She's going to have to start sitting down for some serious interviews. Post-August 18th, August 19th. And when that happens, I would expect that there will be some actual questions that are asked of her. The thing to notice about the polls right now, by the way, is that despite this magical honeymoon in which we've watched the entire media flip from Kamala Harris, not a particularly great candidate, to Kamala Harris, godlike, visionary, wondrous, amazing, Obama-esque figure, that that flip that's happened, she's really running slightly behind Trump still.

So according to the latest national poll, she's still running within one, two points of Trump. If they're dead, even in the popular vote, that means Trump likely wins in the Electoral College because remember, he lost in the popular vote to both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, but he won against Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College.

So again, I think that the sort of moment that we're in suggests more of a groundswell for Kamala than is actually taking place in the mind of voters. And this is going to be the best time of the presidential election for her because the sugar high Democrats have from getting rid of Biden is being translated over into what I think is sort of a false euphoria about her as a candidate.

So, Ben, I'm interested in your analysis with this because you really have three. Phases of Camilla Harris: the Attorney General, how she did on crime, and what she didn't prosecute. And then you have Camilla Harris, who became Senator Harris.

So you saw Senator Harris attack. Uh The ICE, the director of ICE, basically said you should be in ballast compared to KKK. And then you have the Kamala Harris that ran for president, who wanted to do things like decriminalize border crossings, get rid of fracking, actually defund ICE, defund the police, as well as stop offshore drilling. And it goes on and on. And then you have the one that's been vice president for three and a half years, one of which he's got to either embrace, talked about evolving, or one of which he has to say, that is me.

Where where do you Think if you're in the in the Harris camp. Where do you land?

So they're putting out their first ads right now. Their first ad is saying that she was a prosecutor.

So they're literally running on her experience as San Francisco DA. From the early 2000s, they're not even running on her as attorney general when she was the attorney general of California because, of course, she was a very left-wing attorney general in the state of California. She was the most liberal senate in the United States Senate from in 2019. She ran an incredibly wildly left candidacy in 2020 and got shellacked in the primary. She didn't even make it to her home state of California.

And then, as vice president, she was handed the Borders Art job, which we've now been told she was not handed. And the border is the worst situation that we've ever seen on the southern border.

So she has to go back 20 years to the last thing that she can run on as a quote unquote moderate. I don't think that that dog's gonna hunt. Just in the last two days, she's flipped on fracking, she's flipped on assault weapons, mandatory buyback. She's flipped on decriminalization of border crossings, for example. Like she's flipping on all of these things in an attempt to bring herself off.

As a moderate, Dave McCormick, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, has brought out a series of ads that I think are better than anything the RNC has yet brought out. Basically, just playing tape of Kamala Harris. I think when people get a load of Kamala Harris, what she actually says, this is going to look a lot like John Kerry circa 2004, for those who have sort of an institutional memory. Kerry was labeled a flip-flopper, and that was deadly to his campaign. Kamala Harris is trying to play fearless prosecutor, but in reality, she shifts her positions based on putting her finger in the wind.

It really does. And the thing is, that's what was one thing that was clear to me. I watched her opening speech. I remember it because Donald Trump even liked it. He was the sitting president at the time.

He watched her give a, I'm going to be a candidate for president of the United States for this nomination in front of a big crowd. And he said, This woman's pretty good. You know, she's going to be his and then she started sitting down for interviews, totally unprepared. Her reputation as a vice president was she wouldn't read her briefing papers and sit down for a briefing, and she couldn't retain staff. Not a good combination.

Just to remind people at home who are just zoning into this, here's a little of Kamala Harris, cut twenty-four. I am prepared. To get rid of the filibuster, to pass a Green New Deal. There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.

So, would you ban offshore drilling? Yes. And I've again worked on that. We need to have Medicare for all. Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?

Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on. It's simply wrong that we have a situation where the pharmaceutical companies have been dictating prices. Affordable health care should not be a privilege. It should be a right.

And yes, she also wants to get rid of private health insurance, so that's going to go well.

So I mean, these things come back. All she could say is, well, that's the old me. I've never seen a candidate quite like that. There might be a few policies, but you're talking about maybe two dozen. Two dozen.

That's correct. And the problem for her is that she's still the sitting vice president of the United States. And there's this weird situation going on inside the White House where Joe Biden is still sort of pretending to be president of the United States, but everybody knows that he isn't at this point. She's putting out policy statements and having meetings with foreign leaders as though she's the acting president of the United States without the title, which means that she's stapled to his pantleg in terms of policy. And that's not great because Americans don't actually like Joe Biden's policy.

So you have the combination of her as a very flawed candidate who's been able to escape every single question. I mean, she has not answered a single question thus far. She became the de facto Democratic nominee a week and a half ago. She has not sat for a single interview. She has not taken a serious question from the press.

She's done a series of rallies and then she's put out a series of written statements and ads. And of course, under those circumstances where you have the Democratic Party trying to enthuse itself back into competition here, she's going to look good compared to the moldering corpse of the president of the United States. But that comparison is not the comparison that's going to happen in November. That comparison is going to be between her and Donald Trump. Joe Biden ain't going to be anywhere on that ticket come November.

And so there's a long time. Everyone's saying it's a quick, it's three months. That's true. But in reality, as we all know, most people don't actually start watching the presidential elections anyway until you get to about late August, September, October, November. And that means that there's going to be a lot of time to redefine Kamala Harris in the public mind.

She is launching this campaign in the same way she did her presidential campaign. You remember when she launched that presidential campaign? It was the same sort of Obama-esque feel, this giant rally, 20,000 people in San Francisco. And the title of her campaign was Kamal Harris for the people, because the idea was that she was a prosecutor.

So she was appearing, quote unquote, for the people, right? The same way that you would say a prosecutor appears for the people. And it completely fell on its face.

Now she's trying to hijack the Obama mystique. She keeps saying, Donald Trump's going to bring us back to the past. I'm going to go. Forward, right? She's using the actual Obama language.

She ain't Obama. She is not nearly as talented as Barack Obama. And everybody trying to talk themselves into this. Kamala Harris is a wondrous candidate, is forgetting about the fact we already know her. Right.

And the thing is. You know, there was a sense people wanted to turn the page because of the Iraq war and then the collapse of the economy in 2008. But there's the reason why Donald Trump's got a real shot and has been winning almost the entire time and is more popular according to the polls than he's ever been is because people liked his four years, despite the turmoil, more than these four years.

So when he says we don't want to go back, I feel like the American people are going, yeah, we kind of do. I just want you to hear and just want everyone to remember, because we do not have short-term memory loss. It wasn't too long ago when the Democratic Party was worried that she was going to drag down the ticket. Listen to. Uh this is Nancy Pelosi.

Is Vice President Tommy Harris the best running mate for this president? He thinks so, and that's what matters. And by the way, she's very politically astute. I don't think people give her enough credit. But do you think she is the the best?

Running metal? She's the vice president of the United States. People say to me, Well, why isn't she doing this or that? I say, because she's the vice president. That's the job description.

You don't do that much. I mean, this is not the woman. This is not the next generation of Democratic leaders, and Nancy Pelosi knows it. That's exactly right. You can hear her running between the raindrops right there on that question.

The one thing she won't say is Kamala Harris is absolutely the right pick because she is a charming and wondrous politician. They're not gonna say that, they're trying to say that now. And I think that that varnish wears off really quickly. It's been applied quickly and it's gonna wear off really, really quickly at the first sign of weather exposure. And she's had no weather exposure as of yet, because, again, we're still in the afterglow of the media.

So, one of the big elements here is that the media. Really were uncomfortable attacking the Democrats, as always. And they had to spend three, four weeks attacking Joe Biden because otherwise they would have been complicit. In propping up a candidate who obviously is mentally incompetent. And so they couldn't be seen to be complicit in that.

So they started ripping on Joe Biden. Then they got Biden out, and they're sitting down right in that warm, urine-filled kiddie pool of Democratic media complex here. And they're really enjoying themselves. They're splashing around in there, just really enjoying this sort of newfound relationship they have with Kamala Harris, treating her with kid gloves. They're going to try and carry it all the way through the election.

I just don't think that that's going to work. I think that the Kamala Harris campaign, which so far, again, has been a bunch of rallies, as well as white dudes for Kamala. Black Queer and gay men for Kamala, white women for Kamala. That is a bad way to run a campaign. Barack Obama did it in 2012 and it worked, but it only worked for Barack Obama.

If you watch that white dudes for Harris Zoom sessions/slash malice struggle session that happened last night, Is that your appeal to blue-collar voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin? Is Josh Gadd talking about weeping openly when Hillary Clinton lost the presidency in 2016? Or Josh Grobin lecturing you on how traditional masculinity is really marginalizing for BIPOC and queer people? Is that going to be the pitch to men? It's pretty obvious that what Kamala Harris is trying to do now.

Her campaign is reliant on getting out all the single ladies. That's really the campaign: get out single women in large numbers on the basis of abortion to vote for her. And I don't think that that is going to be enough to take her over the finish line in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, Georgia, or Arizona. And by the way, if they wanted to look presidential, I would not be surprised if they try to just get rid of Joe Biden wholeheartedly, whole cloth, and have him say, I want to retire so she can look like the president, Air Force One, making some decisions.

Don't be surprised if that happens. I know you won't be. But a couple of things. The other thing, in terms of real world, I really despise her comments after meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. I'm offended that she did not sit behind him in his joint session of Congress.

I'm not asking her to endorse Benjamin Netanyahu a vote in the Israeli elections. I'm asking her to stand by an ally when they're being tacked from seven different sides.

So your thoughts about our comments after meeting Netanyahu? I mean, absolutely despicable.

So, Amid Seghal, who's a commentator in Israel, had a piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning talking about Kamala Harris's comments. What he said is effectively, she handed a favor to Hamas because the entire narrative that she laid out, our support for Israel is ironclad. Also, Israel is pursuing effectively war crimes. Israel is engaging in mass starvation. And I will not be silent.

That last comment, by the way, I will not be silent. The implication is that there's someone trying to silence her from pointing out that the situation in the Gaza Strip is bad. Her entire angle has been that Israel has been too terrible in the Gaza Strip, that this thing has to end with Israel making some sort of concession. She called on Israel to bring an end to the conflict by making some sort of deal with Hamas. Hamas, as we all know, is the one that refuses to make a deal and, in fact, is a terrorist group that is currently holding babies and five American citizens hostage.

And the fact that Kamala Harris decided that that was going to be the tip of the spear, that was her first press conference as the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. And it was entirely designed in order to get the pro-Hamas squad section of her party. on board. It was quite bad. I think that it has real-world ramifications because the way things work in the Middle East is that if you're Hezbollah or if you're Hamas, you hold out for longer thinking that you're going to get Kamala Harris in the presidency and you're going to get a better deal when she's president of the United States.

If you're Hezbollah, you get more aggressive knowing that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris might shortchange Israel on the weaponry it would require in order to clear Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon to prevent them from firing rockets into northern Israel. And by the way, the holding back of weapons is much more than just JDAMs. It's very extensive. And it doesn't work to Israel's on their behalf by exposing any more of it. It could get worse.

But what Joe Biden is doing is the same thing he's doing with Ukraine, slow-walking all-weapon system to maximize death. Even if he doesn't, that isn't his objective. That is the result.

So now we could have a wider war. All we hear about is how we're trying to temper the response to the killing of 12 kids under 17 who are playing soccer in the Golan Heights. Let's make sure Israel doesn't overreact, as opposed to condemning Hezbollah. Again, she's a day late on that. I mean, the fact is that if Donald Trump were president, and everyone in Israel knows this, everyone.

We're talking about left to right. They all know that if Donald Trump were president, the situation in Israel probably wouldn't have happened on October 7th. And not only that, what is happening right now certainly would not be happening because Israel would be given the weaponry that it requires in order to maintain its own security. And even the threat of that would likely push Hezbollah north of the Latani River, which is about 18 miles north of the Lebanon-Israel border. And you would get a negotiated solution, specifically because there would be no daylight between the Trump administration and the Israelis trying to defend themselves from terror groups.

And Ben, there's already reports that Israel, excuse me, Iran is meddling in our elections through social media influencers. You know that their world gets dramatically tougher if Donald Trump wins almost immediately.

So there's no saying the extent in which they'd go to make sure he doesn't win. Does that concern you? I mean, obviously, it's very concerning. I mean, we have news, obviously, that the Iranians were attempting to send essentially an assassination squad to try and kill President Trump. There is a reason for that.

The Iranians understand that the first day that Trump gets back into office, the math changes. And that had changed under Donald Trump. The reason you had a blooming of peace in the Middle East is because Donald Trump was smart enough to throw away all of the shackles of the idiots at the State Department who suggested the centrality of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to the broader regional conflict. He said, no, no, no, the actual conflict here is Iran versus pretty much everybody else. And so if you're an Iranian ally, we're going to cut you off at the knees.

And if you are an enemy of Iran, then you guys have an alliance of convenience that could burgeon into something more. If Donald Trump had been re-elected in 2020, I have zero doubt that by February of 2021, the Saudis would have normalized with Israel and Iran would have been more fully contained than they were even during the Trump administration first time around. He's co-founder of the Daily Wire and the sole host of the Ben Shapiro show. Ben, always great to talk to you. Very consequential times.

Have a great day. Thank you too. You got it.

Meanwhile, we're following and bringing you the latest from the acting head of the Secret Service as they continue to talk about and explain away what happened that day that almost killed President Trump. When we come back, we'll take your calls. At the bottom of the hour, we are going to go to Joe Concha. He's a brand new book out, Progressively Worse, and they'll do a SamoCast with Varney and Company. Big agenda.

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It is my understanding those personnel were not aware the assailant had a firearm until they heard gunshots. Prior to that, they were operating with the knowledge that local law enforcement was working an issue of a suspicious individual. Prior to the shots being fired, I regret that information was not passed to Congress and the public sooner with greater frequency. And I fear this lack of information has given rise to multiple false and dangerous conspiracy theories about what took place that day. And I want to debunk these theories.

Let me address one conspiracy directly. The Secret Service countersniper neutralized the assailant within seconds after the assailant fired his weapon. That countersniper had full discretion to use deadly force to stop an attacker and did not need to seek authorization to fire. I had not heard that anyway about authorization problems, but that's interesting to dispel it. And all I can tell you is, I'm appreciating the fact that they're going over their timeline right now in detail.

That's what you could have done two weeks ago, because we've had various timelines written up in almost every major publication, including our building, about what went happened according to our reporters and our information. But the FBI has been reluctant to do it. They just sit there and take questions. And if you nail the right questions that they want to answer, they do it. The Secret Service agent director didn't want to answer anything.

So now the FBI's deputy director, Paula Botti, that's who you're hearing from now. They're laying out the timeline as they know it definitively. What a great way to start a hearing. And now we can start answering questions about the facts as you know them and then challenge them. And if things need to be debunked, they can be debunked.

I what a novel approach. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. I kind of fell in love with her. I thought she was smart, engaging.

She's funny, feisty, twinkle in your eye. What is this strange feeling? It's like my blood is flowing again. The excitement is palpable. There was just an incredible level of excitement and support for her.

Kamala Harris has had the single best first day of any presidential candidate in history. Interesting. That's a great perspective.

So it's got a week. She made $200 million and had a bunch of appearances reading the prompter. She's a lot better than Joe Biden, ever was. But they want us to have short-term memory loss about who Kamala Harris, the vice president, is. Joe Koch is now in studio, author of Progressively Works, a brand new book.

It's called Why Today's Democrats Ain't Your Daddy's Donkeys. Great name. And they'll do Stuart Varney in 12 minutes. We're also watching the U.S. Secret Service acting head, Ron Rowe, talk about what went on that day and also defend the Secret Service while not making excuses.

So far, very impressive. And the assistant FBI director. It has been a rapid rollout for Kamala Harris. That you'd have to say. And if you told me that she was going to be this well received, I would say, okay, on what planet and what year and what election cycle.

I can't believe this is the same vice president. It was almost unusable. Three weeks ago? Yeah, there was a CNN panel about five weeks ago that was talking about how Joe Biden, before the debate, may have to replace Kamala Harris on the ticket because she was dragging down Joe Biden. I think this is the sugar high moment, Pixie Sticks and Red Bull, as far as they got rid of the old man.

And no matter who came in at the top of the ticket, Democrats would be your fork because now they feel like they have a chance when Joe Biden, they knew they have no chance. Joe, I think also she had to have a plan in place. There's nobody that can hit the ground running like this. Look at all the events that are already planned and prepped. Look at she knows exactly where she's going.

I know there's teams that do that, but not her team. Her team wasn't good the first time around. She's got almost no staff retained outside of her husband. There's no loyalists that I know of in the White House. This had to be a work in progress.

At least since no one can hit the ground running like this, it's impossible. You're right, Brian. At least since June 27th in Atlanta, they probably were planting the seeds at that point that at some point they'll be able to force Joe Biden out. But here's the thing: she hasn't taken even one great. Question on anything, and you want to run through the policies of Kamala Harris?

Happy to do it. She has publicly said, this is all in video, by the way, and fresh video, not like Joe Biden's 1994 crime bill video. Like 2019-2020, she has said the following things. She wants to ban fracking, wants to end the fossil fuel industry, wants to eliminate all offshore drilling, wants to abolish ice, wants no part of border wall construction, wants no part of Remain in Mexico policy, thinks that biological men should compete against biological women. She wants to end all private health insurance, all while providing illegals with health insurance.

She believes in sanctuary cities. She believes in stacking the court. That's just off the top of my head. And once that gets exposed, I would imagine it's going to be three weeks of this sugar high through the DNC. But when there is a debate finally between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, he has to recite that just the way I did.

And once people are reminded that she's to the left of Bernie Sanders, people like that don't get elected nationally. You know what's so interesting is that the Democratic Party wants to do the things that you write in your book about going way to the left, but they know the American people don't want. That's why they put Joe Biden up there. They were afraid that Bernie Sanders would win.

So they might believe it, but they need somebody else to lead it. She has to run from the things that she believes in. She literally runs from it. Not with it.

So, why is that? If they know their idea is so popular, why do they adhere to them? I think a lot of pressure from the media and social media has pushed them in this direction, like I talk about in the book. CNN, back during the 2020 election, said to every Democratic candidate, and there's something like 23 of them, we're going to give you one hour of national airtime for a town hall. And all of them accepted.

That's great. Oh, but on one condition, this was CNN's condition. The town hall is only going to be about the climate crisis. We could only talk about climate. Oh, I can't talk about the economy, inflation, trade, energy independence, foreign policy.

No, no, just the climate. And what are you going to do? You either agree and get the hour of national airtime, or you don't agree and then you don't get that, obviously, that stage.

So I think the media and social media, like people like AOC, Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff, they don't live to pass policy or to legislate the way Tip O'Neill did with Ronald Reagan, for instance, or Newt Gingrich with Bill Clinton. They're there for likes and retweets and getting invites to Stephen Colbert. Like, that's basically the existence of many congresspeople at this point, where it's all performance art and nothing to do with actual performance. But yet, when they go to pick a running mate, everyone's talking about a moderate white male, which are terrible people, by the way. If you've had a chance to meet white males, they're the worst.

I know, I've heard. And so now it's one white male. It's going to be Governor Tim Waltz. It's going to be Senator Mark Kelly. It's going to be Governor Shapiro.

According to reports, white men.

So if they are looking to push their policies, why are they pushing people out front that you would think by their resumes wouldn't support their policies? Precisely.

Well, Tim Waltz is pretty radical in his own way. That's true. He led to fund the police. But you look at a Josh Shapiro. He seems to be the most sensible choice until you do the political calculation that probably one-fifth of Democrats are.

Like blatantly anti-Semitic and would never support a Jewish guy pro-Israel on the ticket.

So I'm sure that's going into the calculation.

So I just keep going back to Mark Kelly, Mark Kelly. Maybe he could give you Arizona, but Mark Kelly has allowed Arizona to be overrun as a border state. And again, he doesn't support border wall construction either.

So I don't know. No one votes for vice presidents. I think that's what I'm trying to say, right? You look at the vice presidents over the years, right? George H.W.

Bush didn't carry Ronald Reagan over the finish line. And Dan Quayle certainly didn't carry George H.W. Bush over the finish line. Al Gore wasn't the reason why Bill Clinton won, nor was Dick Cheney with George W. Bush, nor was Joe Biden with Barack Obama, nor was Mike Pence with Donald Trump.

So in the end, the vice presidential pick always sounds great, but ask Mitt Romney. Chose Paul Ryan specifically to win Wisconsin, and he couldn't even deliver him that.

So I just don't know if it really matters, quite frankly. Yeah, I mean, what you try to do is fill in your weakness. What George W. Bush was an outstanding governor with no foreign policy.

So you get a guy with foreign policy. Right. Mike Pence, the ultimate insider politician to balance out the brand new businessman that many people weren't except. Accepting then.

So I just think that now you have somebody who's a real left-winger and an ineffective vice president. She needs somebody, she needs a stable pick behind her.

So Mark Kelly, to me, would make the most sense for her. He's got military background, astronaut, which seems almost mythical these days. And then, you know, they say he's a moderate. He, to me, is the biggest disappointment because I thought he was going to be a Joe Manchin type. I thought he was going to be so concerned about the border and security, he'd forget what party he's in.

But I was wrong. Because he only gets interested in the border when he's up for an election. He votes for Joe Biden 99% of the time. That's the only stat that you need to know.

So, always basically. There's only two senators that are worth listening to, Manchin and Cinema. They were issue by issue.

So, okay, Joe Manchin might have let me down, but there aren't two extra states. They didn't get rid of the filibuster entirely. He pushed back against the massive new Green Deal. We got a mini Inflation Reduction Act, but at least there was somebody that made it interesting. For the most part, you're going to have somebody, if she wins and they find a way to keep the Senate.

This is going to be, I'm not saying cataclysmic, the country is going to end. Nothing's going to end the country. except a world war, uh which we're not if we're not prepared for it. But I do think this is going to be a runaway train if they do. Yeah.

The Senate and the Presidency. There is no speed bump, no wall anymore. You could just push through stacking the Supreme Court, for example, ending the filibuster. You won't even recognize this country. And it's a shame because if you read the book Progressively Worse, you'll see that John F.

Kennedy actually cut taxes in a recession and he beefed up the military. Jimmy Carter was a pro-life Democratic president. Could you even imagine that person getting even remotely sniffing the nomination? Bill Clinton actually achieved a balanced budget amendment, worked with Newt Gingrich, said the end of big government is over. You can never picture a Democrat saying that now.

And Barack Obama was hated by the left to the point where they called him the deporter-in-chief because he actually had Jay Johnson, a very capable DHS secretary, who did their job and relatively kept the border fairly safe.

So it is not your daddy's donkeys anymore when you look at the positions this party's taking and where the country is going if they win to your point.

So let me ask you something. Are they going with the country or are they trying to lead the country a different direction with your research on the book? Leading the country in a different direction. Ultimately, we're even Democrats in a different direction? Yeah.

I I think we're we're a right of center. Country in the end. I think it's not even about Republican or Democrat. I think when you talk to most folks, they just want common sense. Don't spend money that you don't have.

If you have police, let them enforce the law. Let the district attorneys put people away who deserve it. And obviously, on the border, we need a secure border. It's that simple because hundreds of terrorists have come into the country, and that's something that just ain't good.

So I think in the end, common sense and common sense tells me slightly right of center type of country that we're in, but they're trying to lead it in another way by masking the Trojan horse here, who is Kamala Harris, the most radical senator, according to unbiased analysis, Brian. Yeah, Joe Contri here, his book, Progressively Worcester Now, Out Why Today's Democrats Ain't Your Daddy's Donkeys.

So when you look at the other story, is that not only do we want to get to the bottom of the near assassination of President Trump, but how about the fact that Google and Facebook, separately, perhaps together, are finding a way to suppress the images and the stories regarding this? Why? Because the images are making him look heroic. And the way he rose up with the blood on his face, his hand in the air. And the flag up there would make him look almost unbeatable.

So, what do you do? You begin to shadow ban, for lack of a better term, him on Google and on Facebook. Amazing. It's like the Hunter Biden laptop all over again, right? And they were called out for it, and they just simply do not care.

I love the fact that Democrats are now calling Donald Trump a coward because he's saying, okay, the race has been reset. We got a new candidate at the top. I want to negotiate a new debate. And they're calling Donald Trump a coward. After he got up and did exactly what you described, I was here at Fox.

I was about to go in the air for the big weekend show. Fight, fight, fight tells the world that he's okay. And then two days later, he's at the RNC.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden gets COVID and you don't see him on camera for a week.

So I don't think he wanted to go down that road as far as calling Donald Trump a coward. It doesn't even make any sense. His retort should be: I don't know who your nominee is. Yeah. Let me know who your vice president is.

And then let's think about it. Because I just spent $70 million against a guy that's no longer in the race. It makes sense, but we live in a nonsensical time, Brian. All right, but I'll make sense, and you make sense, Joe. Congratulations on the book.

Pick it up progressively worse. When we come back, we'll do a simulcast. with Stuart Barney. Thanks, Joe. Thank you, Brian.

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, everyone. Always exciting when Varney and Company comes and we do the sambo cast together. And then on the back end, they always leave me a couple of minutes.

So if you want to squeeze in a couple of calls or emails, BrianKilmead.com. Also, special thanks to everyone at Stroudsburg that came out over the weekend on Saturday night. It was fantastic to see everybody in person, get your questions, and meet you. And we get the stay-with-in-yourself t-shirts that are still selling very well. But with Stuart Varney, we're also seeing and monitoring what's happened with the Secret Service and this.

And this hearing. It's very encouraging. It is 10:51 Eastern Time. That means it's time for Brian Kilmead. All right, Brian.

President Biden defended his plan to overhaul the Supreme Court. He claims it will actually help the country. Watch this, please. The bipartisan commission I convened. analyze various term limit structures.

Based on their report, I believe the best structure is the 18-year term limit. That would help ensure the country would not have What it has now. An extreme court I think this is a dud. I haven't seen any editorial writers coming out vigorously in favor of the present suggestions. How about you?

Well, Stuart, in terms of if he was serious about trying to get this passed, which we know is a lame duck president without the majority in the House and with just a one-vote majority in the Senate, it's not going to go anywhere. And if he was really trying to get it to go somewhere, he would try to get the attention of leadership in the Senate that would shepherd it through, that felt motivated to do something like this.

Some of the people moved vociferously against the Supreme Court. What I think it does is it allows him and now her to be able to come out as Vice President Harris, come out and say, yeah, the Supreme Court's corrupt. I'm going to change it. If you listen to me, I want to make it better for everybody. I want to get it rid of immunity.

This corrupt Supreme Court gave presidential immunity to that horrible person called Donald Trump. And I'm not going to take it. And I'm president, but I don't want you to take it. And he made up some stories that couldn't have happened with Chris Coons taking place in the 1970s when Chris Coons is. About 40 years younger than him and was like three years old.

I watched the whole thing because I was hosting the five yesterday, painfully. And at which time he put four or five things he'd like to change about the court. Stuart, you know, fundamentally what doesn't like about the court? It's more of a conservative court. But you know what he should appreciate as a law student that didn't do so well at Syracuse?

He should appreciate the fact that this is an institution and this is a time in which it's more conservatives. There'll be a time in which there's more liberals, but a lifetime service should be exactly what this is about. I don't want to undo what the four founding fathers did, and I'll add one more thing to that. Up until the 1970s, the average service was 18 years.

Now you got people like Justice Thomas on for 33, and people say, why are they staying so long? We're in better shape now. We're living longer. I apologize. As Americans, we found a way to stay in shape and live longer.

It's screwing up Social Security and it's lengthening the stay in the Supreme Court. I think we can adjust both those things without blowing up the Constitution.

Next one for you, Brian. The FBI says Donald Trump has agreed to an interview on Thursday as part of the investigation into the assassination attempt. Why has it taken so long to interview him? And we still don't have a motive.

Well, I'll tell you what. The one thing that I'm not going to get over is the fact that Christopher Wray, who wasn't forthcoming about much, went out of his way to say, yeah, with Donald Trump, I'm sure it was just shrapnel that hit his ear. Minimize a bullet that hit his ear by saying it might be shrapnel, then a couple of days later, he'll walk it back. Oh, when I met with President Biden, I really couldn't tell that he was maybe losing it or freezing up or maybe not all with it. But when it comes to a bullet and witness a place I didn't visit the site and I didn't see the wound, I'll make an opinion about that.

I thought that was odd. I think that a couple of things. This has been very slow and very political. I'm very encouraged about what's happening so far because you have the acting director telling us a timeline as he knows it, open for questions and challenges, admitting mistakes, talking about the changes. And you have a deputy FBI director who's a lot more forthcoming now.

You have to understand, when you blow off a Republican or Democrat senator, they're the impetus for us. We want to know. The American people want to know what happened.

So we have people that represent us ask questions. When you blow them off, you're blowing off us. We deserve the right to know. They don't seem to realize that. We should know these things.

Brian Kilmed, you're all right. Thanks very much for joining us. Go get him, Stewart. See you in the hall. 1866-408-7669.

But I am encouraged by what I heard so far, and we're going to pull some stuff off for the final for the different hour in the show. But in terms of about Crooks and who he was and what they knew ahead of time, CBS is trying to piece this together like all the networks are. Prior to this hearing today, I want you to hear what was on this morning, Cut 26. Of Thomas Crookes, at least 105 minutes before he shot at former President Donald Trump. One counter sniper texted his colleagues that a man knows you guys are up there, referring to the building he just left.

In a different group chat, an officer sent a picture of Crooks and said, I did see him with a rangefinder looking towards stage. That officer spoke to ABC News. I had sent those pictures out to that group and advised them of what I noticed and what I'd seen. I assumed that there would be somebody coming out to speak with this individual. Why they didn't confront him, I don't get.

And these officers, these squad team members that were sitting down in a group setting, really couldn't figure it out either. Just a lack of execution.

Now, look, I don't know the Pennsylvania cops. I heard there was only seven there, most of them did traffic, but any of them are capable of going up and talking to somebody that might be doing something suspicious. They do it every day, they're not shy.

So, why didn't they confront him? They were taking pictures of him. I just don't understand. And you guys, we have a lot of cops that listen or that want to text me that have my number. Just tell me what would stop you in that type of situation with a big crowd from seeing somebody suspicious and not approaching them.

Especially look. No offense, but this guy didn't look like he was walking out of Goldman Sachs. He looked like a guy that was coming, you know, on hard times. Stringy hair, not really doesn't make hygiene his priority. sitting around, looking suspicious, looking shifty, staring back at you, who's standing on there and with Kevlar on your chest and a gun in your hand?

Outside the actual event itself, which ladies should put the antennas up for all civilians like me? Why don't you want to go in? Why are you outside the perimeter? Why would you not want to be inside? Why would you come to an empty field in Butler, Pennsylvania, and sit at a picnic table outside where the former president's appearing?

So We're going to hear all this, and I'm encouraged that this guy, Ronald Rowe, showed up today willing to talk.

So, we're going to have a lot from him. This is Brian Killmee Show.

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Secret Service, along with the FBI Assistant Director, try to give answers to the question of what was going on that day that had all these failings that led up to the almost assassination of Donald Trump. He's going to be speaking to the FBI shortly. They'll interview him, but most of the times, he's going to be looking at this wondering what went wrong. And first off, the people around him were not informed, the Secret Service was not informed that there was a threat out there.

So, when they went out, they had no idea they were putting their body in front of bullets and thought there was going to be a risk. Look, it's not the inaugural where you got to go out. You would think on some level, there's got to be no there was no rush to get out in that field in Pennsylvania and Butler. No one's saying, Well, what's wrong with the former president? I'm not going to vote for him.

So, there was absolutely no rush there.

So, I'm a little confused about how you would not relay that to the Secret Service if there was a guy who looked suspicious that we're keeping an eye on that might have a gun. With me right now is Charlie Hurt, Washington Times opinion editor. He's in studio Steph Kite from Axios, a political reporter there, who will be joining us shortly.

So, I'm pretty encouraged, Charlie. I know you were in transit.

So far, I'm seeing them lay out a detailed timeline. With explanations. That helps. Then we have the assistant director talk about where the investigation and what they discovered. That helps.

Rather than a director show up and just say, We'll get into the bottom of this. We don't know yet. Unfortunately, I don't know anymore. It looks like these guys are hands-on, and it looks like this U.S., this new acting director of the Secret Service, was on the roof, laid down just to see what the shooter said, so he knows what this is all like. Yeah, but a pretty low bar.

Obviously, that's what we should have gotten last week from Kimberly Cheadle. And of course, in all of these moments, you know, the transparency and honesty are the most important thing. And, you know, right now, Chuck Grassley is speaking. By the way, we should put monuments up to Chuck Rassley because you want to extinguish conspiracy theories. This is the guy.

Who extinguishes them by collecting all of this stuff? 95% of what we know happened that day has come because Chuck Rassley released all of it. Because he has still and it is so important in a free society that if you want to get to the bottom of these things that are of importance to the public, you have to have people in elected positions who, without partisan rancor or anything else, are trying to give it to the public. But I think that the thing you just mentioned a minute ago to me is the most important part of all of it, which is why. You know, if you knew that there was a threat Why would you let it's not a big deal to just tell the president to wait five minutes?

And resolve the situation. And it makes you wonder if it wasn't the communication problem. Right. By the way, you're putting other Secret Service agents in line of fire.

So that also should distinguish should. assuage people that wonder if there was a big conspiracy theory to get him killed.

Well, not many Secret Service people want to get other Secret Service people killed. And when you go out there to throw your body in front of a bullet, that's exactly what would happen. Here is Ronald Rowe, the acting director, Moments ago. One of my first actions as acting director was traveling to the Butler Farm Show site. To better understand how our protection failed, I went to the roof of the AGR building.

Where the assailant fired shots. and I lay it in a prone position to evaluate his line of sight. What I saw made me ashamed. As a career law enforcement officer and a twenty five year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend. why that roof was not better secured.

To prevent similar lapses from occurring in the future, I directed our personnel to ensure every event site security plan. Is thoroughly vetted by multiple experienced supervisors before it is implemented. That's that's leadership. Yeah. We didn't see that last week.

We saw a smug, arrogant woman who said, I don't care what you do. I'm no Joe Biden. I don't know what she was thinking. Yeah. And and it's a lesson that goes back to 9-11.

You know, the whole problem there was the stovepiping of information and this idea that, well, I'm only responsible for what I'm responsible for. Here you have somebody who's saying, no, actually, we're responsible for keeping the the president from getting hurt. Hurt. And therefore, it doesn't matter whether the AGR building is within the perimeter or the water tower is within the perimeter. All that matters is if those things are a threat to our mission, then we have to take care of it.

And it's really not complicated. Of course, that's the way it has to be. Right. Here's a little more from Ronald Rowe. These were discussions that were had between the Pittsburgh Field Office, the local counterparts and everyone supporting that visit that day.

And that's why, when I laid in that position, I could not and I will not and I cannot understand why there was not better coverage or at least somebody looking at that roofline when that's where they were posted. And that's what we were saying. Yeah. You know, so, and we're civilians. Yeah.

And also, you know, one of the things that also gets kind of glossed over is the shot that the counter-sniper took. Was an amazing shot. And he was shot shooting through trees. And while that's not you know, they train for that, it's still an extraordinary shot. And of course, it's also that shot that the counter sniper took is was from a much greater distance.

And so, you know, accurate you know, he had to be it was a much more difficult shot. But also, the difference between when the shooter is up. Looking over the ridge, or whatever, the top lip of the roof, and then duck back down. The target went from being an impossible shot to an even more impossible shot. And that sniper took the even more impossible shot.

So we also know they took two sniper shots. I think eight rounds, two returned, one was a kill.

So you realize there were four other magazines there and how bad this could have gotten. And evidently his car was ready to be detonated to distract everyone in his twisted mind. He was going to get away. But Tom Cotton, this is what we were talking about in the break, so I want to share it. Tom Scott was on with me this morning and wants this answer.

We don't know anything about the shooter, Cut 31. The FBI director needs to answer for the status of their investigation, especially what they found about the motive of the shooter. I just think it's not credible to say that a 20-year-old who was willing to go and try to assassinate a former presidential candidate had zero digital trail, had never indicated Kat anywhere online, on social media, anywhere, any kind of motive. The FBI needs to answer for the state of their investigation. And frankly, having say covered up the motive of the Nashville shooter last year, they don't have a lot of credibility if they're not completely forthcoming today.

So yeah, I mean, we don't know, but I'm sure they've done a lot of work. Evidently he's had very few friends. Most of his contacts are with the families. He was smart but not popular in school, big, no kidding. And he we saw him he was ba b uh basically won some science awards, but he was also cut from the J V Rifle team.

So he wasn't the best in the business uh when it comes to what goes on, but he's flown from these areas where guns are prevalent, where very, very comfortable. It's the way you you live in a rural setting too, don't you? Yeah. And and you know Uh, not to be too macabre about it, but if uh you know, that shot that he took, everyone talks about how you have to be this extraordinary shot, and that's not true. Um, a 150-yard shot with a rifle that is scoped in is actually not a very difficult shot at all, um, and obviously he was.

Uh you know, missing the target. But and and and you know, obviously You know, the reporting suggested he was a very smart guy. You didn't have to be a smart guy to pull this off. You did have to be a sociopath. And this guy is clearly some kind of, or whatever it is, sociopath, psychopath, whatever it is.

His ability to carry out all of this planning without any regard whatsoever for the destruction and loss of life that you are going to wreak is it takes a special sickness, brain sickness. And whatever we find out about this guy and his. Did you look it up Lee Harvey Oswald? We know that. Yeah, but I mean, you know, my dad wrote a book about Lee Harvey Oswald.

That doesn't mean, you know, a lot of people look up Lee Harvey Oswald and look up, you know, they want to learn about that. Yeah, want to learn which he was to kill Kennedy. Yeah, but that there's a huge, you know, obviously there's a giant leap between that and being the kind of monster who can pull off. uh some so you know this kind of Uh atrocity. All right, listen, more with Charlie Hurt in just a moment from the Washington Times, of course, Fox News contributor.

We're going to hear more from these hearings. We also have a lot more to cover, including yesterday Joe Biden came out and said, I have an idea, let's reform the Supreme Court. And I'm not going to tell anyone about it. I'm not going to tell you how I'm going to pass it. I want to reemphasize I'm a lame duck, and that Kamala Harris is on board.

The whole thing was surreal. And a lot of fictional stories, again, Uh where they weren't in the prompter, but were in his head. And unfortunately, we had to witness it. Back in a moment. Giving you everything you need to know.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. All right, we're back. Continue the give and take with what's happening.

what's what's happening over with the uh Secret Service. and the testimony today is pretty electric and it's kind of good to see both sides really Not against each other, Charlie Hurt. It it seems to a degree. I mean, obviously the Republicans are much more aggressive and the other ones are worried about The next move by the Secret Service. And they are, you know, they were, he says they're at a.

They want to be at like 500 more agents, maybe another 1,000 agents, because it's impossible to keep this job. Yeah, I I'm I'm heartened by the bipartisan nature of it all, and we saw that um Last week, when Cheadle came before the House Judiciary Committee. Um and and that's great. Uh uh you know I'm I'm I'm you know there there were still some partisan Hack attacks during that, which are super annoying. I also find it kind of annoying that the only time these people come together on something is it when it comes to like protecting their own people, like protecting important people.

What about like coming together to protect the border? or coming together to be concerned about riots around the country that affect the the little people, regular citizens in this country. But yes, I'll take it where we get it. I agree with you. I'm glad to see them Um You know, being sane about something.

So, uh, yesterday, uh, Landuck President Joe Biden called for major changes to the Supreme Court. Impose an 18-year ban, term limits, enforce a code of ethics on justices. He also put his support behind a passage of a new constitutional amendment that would limit immunity for presidents.

So, to counter their decision, a direct response to the Supreme Court decision, President Trump, that has President Trump some people think protected, erroneously cited Sada Mayor's dissent, where she said it is now okay for a president to ask a Navy SEAL to kill a political opponent, which is that's against the rule of law. That is totally different than what they're talking about. It's not an official act. That's not an official act. Of course, it's not.

It's an act that is prevented by our Department of Justice.

So he wanted to say no one was above the law, and he says that there's nothing normal about this court. What is he trying to say, being that it's got no shot of passing? What does he hope to do with this? Ladies and gentlemen, exhibit A in why Democrats cashiered the nominee that won their primary and replaced him because he's a basket case. First of all, the thing about immunity is so absurd.

Of course, the only person enjoying this quote-unquote immunity is Joe Biden right now, and it is going to protect him from getting charged with all kinds of crimes for the Afghanistan withdrawal catastrophe. That without basic presidential immunity, he could be charged with, just the same way it protects Barack Obama from being charged with droning an American citizen in Yemen. Like he did with Alwaki. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And there is not a single president who has ever served as president who couldn't be charged with the crime if they didn't have basic immunity.

It's such a lie. But just to step back real quick on this whole thing, you know, Joe Biden is a guy that has been on the Judiciary Committee for a long time. He has always been somebody who claimed to respect the courts and claimed to respect judicial independence. And for him, in his swan song, at the end of his career, to step out and decide to make this ridiculous, absurd attack on judicial independence because he has no, because he's got nothing left. And he's trying, I don't know if he's trying to build a legacy or what, but this is a guy.

who has spent fifty years in Washington. forty of those in the legislative branch, ten of those in the executive branch. The two most corrupt parts of our federal government are the judicial are the legislative branch and the executive branch. And Joe Biden has come out of that 50-year career in Washington a millionaire. And the idea that he is then going to sit here and start wagging his finger at the Supreme Court, which controls zero dollars.

They don't have a budget. They don't spend money. The level, literally, there's no such thing as a Supreme Court. Actually, the Supreme, only Supreme Court lobbyists there are is the Solicitor General and whoever the plaintiffs are that come before the court, and then others who have to write what their opinions are and to put them before the Supreme Court. Those are the only quote-unquote lobbyists.

Do you know how many lobbyists there are that lobby the administration and lobby the United States Senate and Congress? There are, there's, and it's, and it's valued at trillions of dollars every single year. These people are controlling. And so the idea that this guy is going to come out and suddenly decide that, oh, I need to teach ethics to the Supreme Court, go pound sand. And I would like to say something else, but yeah, but the attacks on these guys are unbelievable.

And all they want to do is to discredit the court because they no longer control the court. Which, by the way, hurts the country. It's terrible. Talk about a coup. Talk about an attack on democracy.

This guy, take him out with the garbage, man. He's done. Yeah, but you know that other people are putting up to it too, but she's going to run on this. We want us to return the Supreme Court. We have to make sure this is what you do.

If it's a traditional campaign. You say, if you put me into the Supreme Court, I think more than likely if you put me in the office over the next four years, I'll be able to replace a Supreme Court justice. From that, I think, thinks along with the American people. Obviously, a Democrat. If you put me in the office, it's going to be a Republican.

Just run on the fact that I'm going to probably have an opportunity to put a Supreme Court justice on the bench. That's why I helped Donald Trump get the job last time.

So just run that way. That's what won elections. That's what won Donald Trump in 2016, and it's what won George W. Bush in 2004. And I think it's worth noting that for 40 years, Republicans ran on these promises to put constitutionalists who believe that the Constitution says what the words are and means what it says, and they failed, you know, they've had at best a spotty record.

Donald Trump is the first Republican president to come on, stick with those promises, and actually put sensible constitutionalists on the Supreme Court. And then, when they had a chance to reevaluate Roe v. Wade, they did what any sane legal mind. Has ever believed, which is Roe v. Wade was stupidly decided.

It was injected with politics, and it was completely unsupported by the Constitution, and they replaced it. And now the issue goes back to the states, goes back to governments that are closer to people, and those people are making those decisions. And by the way, as somebody who is very, very pro-life, I have been startled to find that my fellow countrymen, where they come down on this issue. I've kind of lost on that a little bit, but at least now I know where the argument is, where is the debate. And now let's have that debate.

In Ohio. In every state. In every state. And let's just do it. And hopefully, I will be able to convince my fellow countrymen to get my way.

And then, since he did that, Donald Trump comes out and they'll say, well, Trump really wants to ban it. And that's not what he said. Such a lie. Charlie Hurd, so glad you're here. Great to see you.

A lot of news, and Charlie can handle it at the Washington Times. Fox News contributor Steph Kite, Axios next, Tillman. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Meet Show.

Well, they're going to say you're afraid of debating her. That's what they're going to say.

Well, they said that with Biden, too. You know, I was afraid. I did great with Biden, and I did great in every debate. I've had a lot of debates. But you're winning a lot of the issues.

But you know, I'm leading in the polls by, I think, a lot. I don't know. I hear different numbers. But I'm leading in all of the polls. I'm leading big in all of the swing states.

And I say this, the interest, yes, I'll probably end up debating. I think actually the debate should take place before the votes start being cast. You know, when you had a very good second debate with Biden, they really beat him badly. The problem was 30, 40% of the votes were already cast. If you're going to have a debate, you've got to do it before the votes are cast.

I think it's very important that you do that.

So the answer is yes. But I can also make a case for not doing it. Wow.

So Donald Trump kind of hedging just a little bit. I think most likely he'll debate, but he's also saying, look, last time I debated you, I took all your terms.

Now he got a few things that people don't know about, but he did get a few things that he negotiated in. But in the end, you want it in June, you got it in June. You want the second one in September, you got it.

So then he goes and wins substantially, easily. Joe Biden's so bad, they kick him out.

Now he spent all that money running against Joe Biden, and now it turns out that he's running against the vice president. And he says, wait a second. And now you want me to just pretend that she's already got the nomination, which he seems to be, but doesn't have it yet. And then he's going to go do September, like you said, against somebody new. Slow down.

And he's not thrilled with doing it on ABC. He's got a little bit more leverage now.

So I think he's negotiating just a bit. Let's bring in Steph Kai, politics reporter at Axios. Steph, welcome back. Thanks, Roman. Me.

All right. Are you surprised Trump just didn't say yes? Of course, I'll do it in September, or do you think this is par for the course? Yeah. interesting because early on it seemed like he and his campaign were much more you know ready and eager to go ahead and debate Kamala Harris and I do think his his response here and the way that he's kind of couching his response is an awareness that Kamala Harris is a different kind of opponent for him and that there would be more risk than there was when he debated you know President Biden and I think it's reflective of the Trump campaign overall kind of trying to figure out what their best tactic here here is moving forward with Kamala Harris as the nominee.

I think knowing Trump, he does not tend to want to back down from a fight. And so I think it seems likely we will see some kind of debate. But you're absolutely right. There seems to be more leverage here and leverage that Trump is trying to use to maybe get a more favorable network or just have more control over how the debate itself this time around.

So it's obvious the media is just loving Vice President Harris. Cut 17. Mm-hmm. I kind of fell in love with her. I I thought she was smart, engaging.

She's funny, feisty, twinkle in your eye. What is this strange feeling? It's like my. It's like my blood is flowing again. The excitement is palpable.

There was just an incredible level of excitement and support for her. Kamala Harris has had the single best first day of any presidential candidate in history. I would think this also requires short-term memory loss about how we should portray it for the last three years. But your take on her first week. I mean, look, there's no question that there is a lot of excitement around Kamala Harris, you know, both in the media coverage and also just talking to Democrats.

And, you know, and I think you have to put this in the context of the number of Democrats we were hearing from just a few weeks ago who were saying, you know, this is over. There isn't, you know, the election's over. Trump is going to win. There was such. Kind of resignation among so many people in the DC politics world that Joe Biden had just lost any chance of winning in November.

So I think then to have a new candidate, to have that actually play out, this historic change in the Democratic ticket, has certainly inspired excitement among Democrats hoping to have a real fight in November at the top of the ticket. But the question is, of course, how long is this actually? Actually, last. There's certainly been this honeymoon period, but there's still several months to go. And as you point out, Kamala Harris has not always been popular.

Many people have looked at the polls and said that she's, at moments, been even less popular than President Biden. And she does have real vulnerabilities that are going to be highlighted between now and November.

So, you know, while the past week has certainly been one that has been marked by excitement and enthusiasm behind her, I don't know that we can count on that lasting through November.

So, Steph, there's a big story now that everyone's pushing back on the Democratic side that she was never, never the borders are.

However, as I read Politico, Biden makes Harris the point person on immigration issues in 2021. Washington Post, Biden taps Harris to handle the border crisis. NBC News, Biden tasks Harris with stemming the migration at the southern border. Axios, Biden puts Harris in charge of the border crisis. You guys Had that headline and kind of rewrote it and said you were wrong in 2021.

What led to it changing our headline from three years ago? You know, There's no question, and I think this is an important conversation to dig into. And there is no question that Kamala Harris had a role and an important role at the time in handling migration at the border. have always been critical in my coverage of the Biden administration's handling of this issue, and Kamala Harris certainly had a role. Even at the time, her role was focused on migration from the Central American nations of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.

She was charged with dealing with root causes, which at the time, those were the countries the majority of migrants were coming from. This was while we were having the migrant child crisis early in the administration, and it really was focused on those three countries. And her role was focusing on root causes, which at the time was the Biden administration's main focus. That was what they were focused on. The reality is the border crisis shifted and very quickly those countries became irrelevant as migration grew from other countries more broadly.

And we saw more and more concerns with domestic policy, what was domestic policy, what was happening at our border. She did not step in to fill those additional roles. And we've reported extensively how many people in the White House were hesitant to take ownership of the issue because of how politically Charge it was. And so Kamala Harris was never tasked with that side of things. Was she given a very important part of the border issue at the time?

Yes. Did she step away from taking on additional ownership? Yes. Is this going to be a big issue for her and a headache for her campaign going into November? Yes.

But was she the person in charge of the crisis going into 2022, 2023? I don't think that's exactly fair and it's a little bit of a nuance there.

So, did you get pressure from the administration to change a headline that's been fine for three years? Did I get pressure from the Biden administration to change my headline from three years ago? Yes. No, I mean, we covered it three years ago and we've not had discussions about our story from three years ago. Right, but they but you guys have corrected your headline, right?

We have not.

So you so when you guys said When Axio said Um When Axio said Biden puts Harris in charge of the border crisis, you didn't correct that? We have not changed that headline.

Okay. Um so but you think you got it wrong then? I don't think we got it wrong. I think there's nuance here. And if you read the story, within the story, we do know that her charge in the border issue was still focused.

Even at the time, you can go back and read the transcript when Biden made the announcement. It was always focused on a particular area of the border. And I still, in my latest story as well, touched on the fact that that was her role, was focusing on root causes. All right, so you didn't feel any pressure to do so. Do you think that.

I felt like she w she got the assignment and didn't really want it. And that's where almost the compromise role, where Joe Biden, the vice president, actually did it. For Barack Obama, didn't he? Right. But the the traps that Kamala Harris was given was very reflective of the role that then Vice President Biden had under the Obama administration, which also was focused on the root causes, working with Central American nations, where at the time the majority of migrants were coming from.

And the idea there is to try to convince people to stay earlier on, as opposed to focusing on domestic policy enforcement policies at the U.S. border. And so that was kind of a mirrored position for Kamala Harris. At the time, and of course, came at the beginning of what became a massive border crisis for the Biden administration, one that has been a political and humanitarian crisis for several years. And so she did have a role in that.

But as I've reported with my colleague Alex Thompson, there was a culture of many people within the White House not wanting to touch this issue, knowing that it is A, extremely complicated policy-wise, B, it's very difficult to fix. Once you see the number of people coming across the border, there are no easy fixes. It does require a feeling we have to do the exact opposite of what Trump was doing. And th to do that you had to be more precis uh You had to be more permissive. They're not going to build a wall.

They let it rot in the desert, number one. Number two, they didn't want to remain in Mexico. They were very critical. That was very effective. They fought hard to get rid of Title 42, which is bailing them out for years as the pandemic lingered.

And then, once that was gone, and then they set up with this app and this pathway, and they say, if you come, you can stay, all hell is broken loose because, on some fundamental level, they want to do the opposite of their predecessor. That is certainly true that the Biden administration came in with a lot of promises to undo what Trump had done on the border. And they moved very quickly, very early on, even before DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was officially head of DHS. They did move very quickly and there was a sense of scoring political points on this issue. They wanted to reverse a lot of things quickly.

And there have been concern among some officials. We've spoken to people and reported out that there was concerns that maybe things moved too quickly without thinking through what the policy was actually going to be to kind of fill in the gaps there. I want you to hear something else that the Harris administration is, excuse me, the Harrison campaign is doing, and that is. Knowing the threat to democracy wasn't really resonating, perhaps, they decided to attack the ticket of Trump Vance this way, Cut 19. Donald Trump and his weirdo running mate and the Republican apparatus behind them.

Frankly, J.D. Vance, just dumb Vance, is pretty weird. Weird is perfect vernacular. And there is something weird about these guys. Trump's hair is weird.

Well, I think a lot of what Donald Trump does and a lot of what J.D. Vance has been saying is indeed weird and been weird for some time. But about Donald Trump or about J.D. Vance, his vice president candidate, it's just they're weird. And no one wants to sit with the weird people.

There's something a little off with the other side. There's something a little weird with the Republican campaign. But in the case of the Republican presidential ticket and how they are trying to regain the White House, there is something going on that does feel off.

So, they want to make them weird. I've never heard anything like that, but I don't know how insulted they should be or what their reaction should be. Have you ever heard anything like this? No, it's certainly an interesting strategy that they're going with this this weird tagline and it has been a notable shift from Biden campaign rhetoric to Kamala Harris campaign rhetoric and you know I think it's interesting that early on you know I reported on a memo that came out of the NRSC that the Senate Republican campaign arm that had created a bucket kind of targeting Kamala Harris that they categorized as weird so I do think this is kind of a taking a criticism that Kamala Harris has received from the right and trying to turn it around but it has been notable how much Hot Harris and her surrogates have leaned into that to that word and You know, the fact that they feel like this is sticking in some way. It'll be interesting to see whether they continue to use that phrase moving forward.

We're going to be moving forward.

So, with the DNC, I guess they're moving forward. The president's going to move forward, just finishing out his term, and we'll see where it goes. In terms of where would you have you been struck by how organized this brand new campaign is? They know exactly they're going to be in Georgia today. They know they're going to be in Houston next.

And the way they were able to hit the ground running, it makes me wonder. If they knew this was going to happen earlier, that they were prepared in detail should this come forward. Has any of your reporting revealed that? You know, we don't I don't have a super deep sense of what those conversations looked like. We know that there were certainly Harris backers early on who had begun to kind of look into the possibility of her taking the top of the ticket, especially after the debate and as the whole conversation was really taking over over whether Biden should be stepping aside, the decision he ultimately came to.

But the other side of it is Kamala Harris was also expected to go out on the campaign trail on behalf of Biden. There are certain elements of the campaign that have remained. She, of course, has kept on some key figures from the Biden campaign staff to kind of make that transition more fluid.

So were there some kinds of conversations and planning about a possibility? Maybe. But there also has been a lot of holdover from the Biden campaign, and there were plans in the work even before the ticket change.

So just put a new person there. We're going to go anyway. We might as well just let the vice president go instead of the president. Is that what you're saying? Potential.

that and also the fact that Kamala Harris herself herself would have been on the campaign trail as you know the running mate for President Biden even if he had stayed at the top of the ticket. All right, here we go. And lastly, just in your gut feeling, do you think it's going to be an issue that Harris what did Harris know and the staff know about the President's mental condition? And why did they ignore it, deny it? And in fact, refute it?

You know, I That is certainly something we're hearing from Republicans and something that they want to raise questions around. It could be an issue for Kamala Harris down the road. I feel like we haven't seen that play out just yet. We haven't seen any indication that that has been concerning to voters just yet when we look at the polls. But again, this is a very new transition.

I think we're still seeing how the Harris campaign is actually going to shake out, especially as they move on from the initial kind of honeymoon of excitement that we've seen over the past year. Is this Mark Kelly's to lose? As Vice President? You know, Mark Kelly is certainly an interesting choice. I don't know that he is the top choice.

You know, of course, he comes from more of a battleground state, so replacing his seat could be more difficult. We're certainly seeing that the fields start to narrow there, but there are some other good candidates out there. There, including Governor Shakiro. Steph Kai, thanks so much with Axios. Appreciate it.

Brian Kilmicho, back to wrap up the air in a moment. Don't move. Hear the ins and outs of the twenty twenty four election right here, The Brian Kill Meet Show. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

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Let's go back to politics now and let's go over to Alex in Brooklyn. Hey, Alex. Hey, good morning, Brian. Thanks for taking the call. I just wanted to comment about your conversation with Venture Piro.

Because I think he's a very smart guy, but I think he's wrong here that it's going to be a walk in the park for Trump to win this election because this honeymoon of Kamala Harris is going to disappear in a couple of weeks. But I think we need to take into account that the people, the handlers that are appointing her to be the nominee, are very smart people. They're the same people that hid Joe Biden in the basement, and they know what they're doing. If they didn't know for certain that she has a very strong shot at winning, I know, Alex, you're right. You cannot take anything for granted, even if Biden was still in.

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