Justice served: Hamas leader assassinated in Iran's capital

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But there's also international news that. Mike just put the Middle East in flames.

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We see it right now in the Middle East. With this strike from Israel, which they had every right to do, to take out the number two official in Hezbollah, justice is finally done. Yes, it is. And that is Michael Waltz, knows all about what's happened to the Marines in the 1980s where we took out the terrorists responsible. Explosive Israeli strikes after the barbaric killing of children in the Golan Heights over the weekend.

First, Hezbollah losed their higher-up, their terror leader. Then, hours later, stunningly, a blow as the Tap Hamas leader, founder, negotiator Ismail Hanaya was killed in Tehran. He was there for the inauguration of the new president. Remember, the old president died in a helicopter crash along with the foreign minister.

Well, both of them, by the way, the president and foreign minister we saw laughing over in Qatar. With Hania. They're having a great time. Not anymore. Hania is dead.

By the way, his three sons got blown up, too, in a car and his four grandchildren. He thought it was a great day for him.

So that's the mindset Israel's dealing with. But little by little, they want to get people responsible for the ongoing hostage situation and the killing of so many innocent people, many of which were at a concert October 7th.

So this guy is dead, but they did it inside Tehran. This is substantial. Hamas blames Israel as Haniah is killed, I think, while he slept. The U.S. military says they were not informed of that, but they're beginning to go to a more Offensive posture.

Also, you have to be on high alert if you're in Iraq serving there or in Syria, because they look at us as the big Satan and Israel as the little Satan.

Now, who is Hania? One of the most senior leaders of Hamas. He ran the militant group's political operations from exile in Qatar. You've seen him a lot. He has a luxurious lifestyle, while Sinwar is the one actually doing the fighting and the hiding over in Gaza.

He was in Iran with other senior members of Iran's Axis of Resistance. They attend the inauguration of Iran's newly elected President.

Now Iran does not even have a cabinet set up yet. They don't have a Secretary of Defense, but they c you know they're going to have some type of response. In fact, the Ayatollah has said as much through a translator. Here's what it's translated to. Since the operation took place on Iran soil, We see it our duty to avenge the blood, the criminal and the terror Zionist entity by assassinating Hanaya.

It paved the way for punishing it harshly. All right, that's the way they translated it. General Spalding joined me earlier, cut four. I think that we're already in it. It happened started in october seventh.

It really started with the beginning of this administration because just poor strategy moves over and over and over again.

So you see these things escalating. It's really bad planning on behalf of the administration.

So that was, he was with us this morning.

So this thing could escalate. But what choice do you have? The status quo doesn't work. You can't stop fighting in Gaza. There's still 8,000 Hamas fighters, including the architect of the big fight.

Of the big attack on October 7th. In the north, Israel is forced to take out 80,000 people and move them back. off the northern part, off the northern border with Lebanon. Why? Because Hezbollah is rocketing it regularly.

It's not safe.

So they're living in hotels. They're living in horrible conditions in shelters, trying to go to school, not having any work. Can't continue like this.

So Hezbollah is rocketing regularly. Uh then they Kill in the Golan Heights a bunch of Druze who are Israelis. But There's more Jews in Lebanon than there are in Israel.

So Lebanon's leaders say, What are you doing?

Now you're killing members of the Druze clan over in the Golan Heights, and they were all children, 12 children, all under 17? You gotta be kidding.

So there's going to be a response, and that was the response. The response was we're going to kill the person in charge who helped design and has been part of the October 8th attacks in there. Here's Cut Five, Mortimer General. Israel is absolutely warranted in doing what they're doing. They're having to do this.

I mean, go back to the Abraham Accords. I mean, the Middle East was settled. It is a mess now, and it's getting worse. It is, and we'll discuss that throughout the show. I just think that it's hard to overstate the magnitude of the hitback from Israel, but they have to go and destroy these guys, and they got to send a message to Iran.

You better not develop that nuclear program.

Now, don't let me just tell you, we already saw where the vice president stands who wants to be president. She said, Yeah, you know, we're going to stand by Israel, they have a right to hit back, but we're not going to turn a blind eye to the inhumanity that's going on in Gaza.

Now that message gives Sinwar and others another reason to hide in the in the bowels of that land, in Gaza, and sit there and leave our hi leave hostages, eight of which are American. Locked up. Because he thinks, wow, America is not standing strong with Israel. Let's keep this up. Let's continue to strain that relationship.

They have to understand how they are related.

So the guy that died, his name is Faroud Shukr. He was known as Hashiya Moshan, and he was, again, been planning terror attacks since Hezbollah came into being and basically took over Lebanon. Lebanon is just a failed state that Hezbollah pretty much controls.

So they got 150,000 rockets, they got drone technology. They're a formidable foe for Israel. And a lot of it can go past the weapon system, the arrow system, David's sling, as well as the iron dome.

So Israel will face casualties. They're going to be able to hit Tel Aviv and some urban centers. But right now, Hezbollah has to be taught a lesson. And that is the way of the land in the Middle East. All right, let's talk about what's happening in 2024.

I knew it was coming, I didn't think it was coming like this. The problem with Kamala Harris and the reason why she flamed out, and there's many reasons, as a candidate, despite putting a great speech and getting a lot of money, is because what she stands for. She doesn't really think out her policies. She's against private insurance when it comes to health care. She wants to decriminalize border crossings.

She wants to stop fracking, stop offshore drilling. She wants to defund ICE. Re rip it down and then rebuild it. She says putting more cops into cities doesn't make it more safe. These are just some of the stances.

And why do I tell you these stances? Because guess who's changed all of her stances? Kamala Harris. She now supports fracking. She wants an increase in border funding.

Yeah, the person who goes to the border once rejected the request for her to take over border activities and focus on root causes, which was a no-show job for her.

Now she wants to. Really back to boredom. She does not want to require people to sell their assault weapons back to the government. Really? They said it was going to be a mandatory buyback program.

So these are some of the things she's changed her position on. She was entertaining, giving felons the right to vote. She doesn't think that's anymore. She called the idea of adding more police officers wrongheaded. She doesn't think like that anymore.

Now, all of this would have gotten shaken out and worked out in the primary process, but she had no primary process. She never got to the primaries in 2020. And in 2024, she was on the ticket.

So she hadn't debates, she didn't talk about anything. Really doesn't do much, according to Nancy Pelosi. But what she stands for, what she last stood for, she's reversing because her beliefs are remarkably and epically unpopular.

So she just leaked to the New York Times that these stances are all changing. Is that okay with you? Would you ever vote for somebody that would change so dramatically without explaining themselves? I don't think so. It doesn't make any sense for you to do stuff like that.

But she has changed her stances.

So it makes it a harder target for President Trump. Do you run against the 2020 Harris? And or do you run against the 2024 Harris? As if she's not in peril with any influence right now. Remember.

Here's some of the things that she's said in the past. Uh Cut twenty-one. You can talk to so-called progressive prosecutors around the nation, especially those who have been elected in the last decade, and they will tell you that at one time or another they looked to what Kamala Harris was doing. as a model of what could be done. In fact, the Obama justice Department designated my work years and years and years ago as a model of innovation.

For reform in the criminal justice system. Right.

So she is a brilliant progressive, and she was proud of it, which is fine. But it's not going to be where the country's at. You're not going to get the nomination, certainly not going to win an election.

So she went with Plan B, change everything, which means I stand for nothing. When we come back, take your calls, 1-866-408-7669. We'll expand on this and more of these stories that are taking place and the latest on 2024. Brian Kilmeat Show. Politics, current events, and news that affects you.

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Subscribe and listen now by going to Foxnewspodcasts.com. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmeade. They don't have the real ability. You remember the missile strikes on Israel? None of them really made it to their targets.

So I don't think they really have the means to militarily attack Israel. They certainly don't have the means to militarily attack the United States. You know, one thing that they could do. If they've smuggled in people across the southern border, they could have terrorist attacks here at home. That would be one of the things I would be concerned about, more so than I think having a military effect over Israel.

General Rob Spalding responding to Israel's dual hit, taking out a terrorist mastermind, Hezbollah, in Lebanon yesterday afternoon, and then two in the morning hour time taking out Ismael Hainia, who is one of the founding members and one of the leaders of Hamas, who exposed himself by going into Tehran for the inauguration of the brand new president, and they killed him. And others. This is significant, and it could put all the Middle East into flames. Brett Baer, working this story for Special Report, up early for us. Hey, Brett, these are two major moves.

Iran has promised payback because it happened on their soil. Very bold, to say the least, correct? Yeah, it's a big move. And it is a show of force. It is a show that Israel can strike where it wants to, when it wants to, even inside Tehran.

And the thing about the Middle East is a lot of it, as we've seen in the past, reacts to strength. Reacts to, you know, if you get a punch in the face, maybe that's the time to step back. We'll see if that's this moment or if they choose to escalate. It seems so far that it may be. you know, they're they're taking this and regrouping.

Well, right now, you have a situation that's intolerable for Israel. People say, well, get a ceasefire. You've been fighting long enough. You're damaged a lot. You send a message.

But you got about 8,000 Amas fighters. Sinwar is still alive. He's the guy who's been calling the shots in the negotiations. In the north, you have 100,000 people displaced. 100,000 people displaced, and you got an active, you've been absorbing missile strikes from Ezba on a regular basis.

And the Houthis are taking shots, the last shot of which went free. That's not a status quo they can live with. They have to do this. Yeah. And so they see it as existential.

You know, this threat is real. And they look to october seventh much differently than everybody else does in retrospect.

So I agree with you. There's no kind of letting up. I had the Israeli ambassador to the U. S. on last night, and it didn't sound like there was any letting up, even though they are negotiating in Rome and elsewhere with Hamas.

The other major story has happened in 2024, and this happened overnight. It looks like the New York Times got a hold of some stories, some reports from the Kamela Harris camp. And she's flip-fopping on almost every major issue. When it comes to the border crossing, she wants to quickly fortify the border. When it comes to fracking, she is for fracking.

Offshore drilling, she's for offshore drilling. She no longer wants to abolish ICE. She's no longer looking to have felons vote. She's no longer supporting a mandatory buyback program for some guns and rifles. Brett, this usually gets worked out through a primary process, and you pick the best person.

Or you can anoint somebody and they can change all their issues. This is an uphill battle to sell the American people on this, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, this is a full-on chameleon change, and maybe that's going to be the nickname for former President Trump because the Kamala change. Changeover on some of these issues is like it's stark. You know, you go from one side to the complete other.

And so that's a little bit more challenging in 97 days, as opposed to, as you mentioned, a primary, a lot of debates, a lot of interviews. Where you can evolve and say, I learned some things.

Now you have to say, I was wrong. And we'll see how she handles that. Uh I just don't know how you do it. But number one, she's got to do f do a sit-down interview. Or she's got to come out and say, you know, the more I think about it, I was wrong on some of these fundamental issues.

I was naive. And now that I've gotten, you know, now that I've gotten savvy, this is where I stand.

Well, the question is: why didn't you do it when you were vice president? Why didn't you recommend it when you were vice president? Why aren't you doing it now? And number two is: why did you adopt Donald Trump's policies? Is she willing to accept that?

Hi, brothers. I I think it's gonna be a major part of this race. And, you know, all the things she said on camera in these sound bites are all the makings of ads.

Now if she's saying something completely different, she's gonna have to explain that. You know, we've invited her on many times and we've continued to invite her on this this week and and going forward. But To go down each issue and say this is where you were, where are you now. I mean, that would at least help voters understand how this evolution happened. Here's what James Carville said yesterday, because he sees the euphoria on his side, cut 22.

The Republicans are going to try to introduce her on their terms. I don't blame them. I do the same thing. And she's going to have to get good fast. That's all I can say.

And I'm not very. Giddy about this. I'm not cocky at all. I think we have a tough election ahead of us. She's gonna get slaughtered.

They're coming out. They're coming. And th this is just part of the no different than it was any other time. She's got to get good and she's got to get good quick. On speeches, she's fine.

You know, after the stallion performs, some of those lyrics, probably not the best look for a future president. Uh if you're if you break it down, I know it's hard to make out rap lyrics. I know you do rap. Right.

For us non-rappers. I'm a connoisseur, Brian. I'm a connoisseur. Right.

For us civilians, like when I started reading some of those lyrics, pretty terrible. But having said that, she's now challenging, spending a lot of time challenging President Trump to a debate. He wants to debate with you, he wants to debate on Fox. How do you feel about that? We're ready.

We're ready. It may be sooner than that proposal. I think those dates were fluid, but You know, I would look for the first week in September to be a possibility. And if You know, Kamala Harris says she wants to debate anywhere anytime. I think that this is a good time and a good place.

Obviously, the former President said yes to all of the Biden administration, Biden campaigns demands on the first time around. Um He now says he was too good in that because he lost the opponent he was facing. But I think it's, you know, I think the Trump campaign will.

Well, they've already agreed to ours, and I think they're going to stick to that, but we'll see. And they'll stay in momentum because they're going to pick a VP, that'll get publicity, and then they have the DNC, that'll get publicity, and then the race will be on. Brett, exciting times. Brett Baer, thank you. CEO Special Report tonight at 6.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Israel has a right to defend itself. and I unequivocally support Israel's right to make You are and Defense for security of Israel. What we know in particular is yes it has a right to defend itself against a terrorist organization, which is exactly what Hezzo is.

All right, there you go. The Democratic nominee about to be anyway, talking about what happened, what what her thoughts were after the taking out of a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon yesterday. In Beirut, just on the outskirts of Beirut, But then the bigger news was the take out of Ismail Hazniah, who is one of the commanders. And one of the leaders of Hamas, who was doing a lot of the negotiating. But Sinwar was calling the shots.

He's in the bowels of Gaza right now.

So they said the significance is mainly not only that he is dead, but he was killed in Iran. And they vow. They vow to strike back. What exactly does that mean? Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, joins us now as a real perspective on all this.

Hey, Rich, these are two bold strikes by Israel. I don't blame him for either one, do you? Of course. They should have been trying to kill these guys. They did kill these guys.

Great intelligence and military coup. We should be congratulating everyone involved.

So there is risk, though, with this, and they do pledge some type of response. It's almost as if saying we're eventually going to end up fighting Iran. When do you want to do it? Yeah. Have it.

Okay. Yeah. The head at Hamas was responsible for this horrific pogrom. They still have hostages. He he deserves to die.

I mean, it's just it's just the appropriate uh response. And the the administration, their their doctrine is that The US and its allies should never escalate. They the other side can can escalate. That's okay. But w we can never escalate.

So they they're always warning against this sort of thing. And it reminds me of a a line um from Bill Buckley, uh late founder of of my magazine, used to say, you know, it's really wrong people who uh if a kid pushes an old lady in front of a A boss, and then another kid pulls the old lady out of the way. It's perverse to say, oh, both these kids, they all do the same thing. They just push old ladies around, right?

So Hamas is killing people and innocent civilians in terror attacks, and Israel is just retaliating and taking out the people responsible. These are two vastly different moral acts. Right.

And, you know, Sinwar is the one who was telling Hania how, you know, what to negotiate with.

So they're in Rome negotiating a ceasefire. But it's problematic, Rich, because Hamas is still intact. They've been beat up, they've been diminished. But if they survive, they win. And we're going to be right back here within a year again because Hamas is going to try to get another horrific attack or take more hostages.

Israel has to solve this thing now. It doesn't seem like this administration can fully understand that. Yeah, I mean, they need to do everything they can now. I've always been a skeptic, Brian, of the idea they'll be able to destroy Hamas, because it is true that it is a political and social movement as well as a terrorist organization.

So you should do everything you can to capture and kill the leadership and destroy its military potential, but it's going to be still there. And even if Hamas formally ends, there'll just be something else called something different that'll pursue the same end.

So this is just unfortunately a long, you know, generational struggle. Struggle, but they should do what they can to destroy his military capacity. I mean, it was amazing. This guy, Hania, was celebrated. They said, Congratulations.

And what is it for?

Well, your three kids died, and your four grandkids died. They're all martyrs. That's the mindset. That's the mindset. This is in April.

They killed three of his kids in a car and the grandchildren. And the Hamas fighters are a great job. Yeah, well he he was also on on tape as giving away their strategy, which is the more civilians in Gaza die in this conflict, the better. The better for our cause.

So at least now he's he's walking the walk and not just talking the talk. But that's the whole idea, is to delegitimize people. By making it impossible for them to fight the war without killing civilians. And so it's a perverse mindset. I won't even say it's a medieval mindset.

It's even worse than that. But it's what Israel is up against, and we need to have their backs. Do you think we do? You know, I think we do situationally and conditionally, but we should more full-throatedly. And you know, the thing about Biden, he has a he's been bad on this, he's been caved to the left on this, but he has he's a kind of a traditional guy, right?

He grew up in a different kind of America, served in a different sort of Senate.

So his instincts are different than those of the left, even if he caves to the left. And one of the things I think is really scary about Kamala Harris, she does not have those same instincts. at all. She has no break on her left. There are tons of things she said in 2019 and 2020 that Biden himself never would have said.

You never would have gone there. And now she's just trying to disappear all those positions and statements. But they'll be right back if she wins the presidency again. Because now the emphasis is on moderating, trying to win some swing voters to win the key states. But if she's elected, it'll instantly be she's a transformational leader, which means she'll be the most left-wing president we've ever had.

The top Israeli official briefing reporters yesterday anonymously said their government has been uncomfortable with Harris's tone and argued that she made a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas more difficult by being so critical. Harris' position on the issue sounds like it's a departure from Biden, but not from the left. Remember, Nancy Pulsey says that Netanyahu's speech was the worst thing she's ever heard. Also, others in her party say she is voicing what now essentially is the mainstream Democratic position on the issue, increasing public frustration with Netanyahu and a right-wing Israeli government.

Now, will that, if you are a Republican, you can't blame President Trump yesterday for saying. I can't believe that any Democrat, any Israel, any Jewish American would vote Democrat. They're about to throw Israel in the street. Do you think there's a big separation now between someone who's Jewish and the support for Israel these days? Do you think a generation's growing up not attached to that country?

Well, I mean, it's complicated. I mean, Jews are just, a lot of them are kind of cultural Democrats. They care a lot about the social issues. It's hard for them to wrap their head around the idea of voting for Republicans. But if they have the interests of Israel, you know, our important ally at heart, they should look clear-eyed at what the choice is.

And Kamala Harris occasionally might mouth the r the the same things, but I don't know. D is there really much daylight at the end of the day if you gave a truth theorem between her and Ilon Omar? I kind of doubt it. And that's what you're voting for. And I think that would weigh heavily.

All right, let's talk about what's going on in the 2024 election. How'd you characterize how Trump has handled the new opponent? You know, I think it has to be a very conventional Republican campaign in the sense I mean, we've seen this for forty or fifty years. Your Democratic opponent goes into primary, goes way left, And then tries to move to the center.

So you hit him or her for all the left-wing things she or she said and say he or she is dangerously liberal. And then when she tries to disavow everything, you say she's a phony.

So I think they're now on the first step that Border ad yesterday was good, but they got to hang all the 2019, 2020 stuff around her neck. She didn't have a primary this time, but she had a primary back then, and I believe showed her her true colors and hold her responsible for it.

Now, it's difficult in this media environment, right? I mean, she's been able to shift on like 10 things without explaining herself to anyone how or why she's doing it. It's all staff work, it's all being accepted by the media. And there's no doubt, you know, I had some. Expect expectation, maybe that she might fizzle on the launch pad.

That clearly hasn't happened. As a cliché says, has been reset and is basically a tie now. Yeah, but the thing is, we watched John Kerry flip-flop when it comes to it. I was for the Iraq war before I was against it. You know, we watched people flip-fop on an issue.

Bush 41 said no new taxes. Read my lips. It was a deal with Democrats in order to get past a budget.

So he did, and they wrung it around his neck. I think that distrust went right through the Bush family after that. They felt they were duped there, cost him an election. But I can't believe what the New York Times writes. They just went out and basically said she shifted on everything.

She now supports fracking, supports offshore drilling, wants to increase funding for the border, does not want to require people to hand over their weapons, no longer supports a single-payer health care program, Medicare for all.

Now, Is this going to fly? I mean, on just about everything, she wants to have Trump's side on all these issues. Yeah, I don't know how it's going to fly. Maybe it will. You know, the left complains: oh, you know, Trump says so many outrageous things, he can't focus on any one of them, and he gets away with all of them.

Maybe this is the Harris strategy. I mean, she's flooding the zone with flip-flops, so it's hard to focus on any one. But again, that's the Trump campaign's job. I think the border ad was good. And this is another thing.

She should be very beatable because they can hang the Biden record around her neck the way they did with the border ad and everything she said in 19 and 20, and then go to the authenticity thing, which is also an issue for her.

So I think she's a very vulnerable candidate, but it's hard to get much traction against someone that's being coordinated every day in the media. And there's going to be a real impulse on the part of the media to try to keep that up for the next three months. And now they're going to have the drama of the vice president and seeing them the first team together, and then they'll have the drama of the DNC, and there'll be momentum, and they'll talk about how unified they are. And then the election is just going to be about between two candidates. How do you feel J.D.

Vance is doing? You know, I think fine. I think some of the things he said about people who don't have kids was callous and should have been crafted differently. But I don't think it really matters much. You know, I thought the convention speech was a pretty good introduction to the public.

I don't think looking at the guy, you say, oh, that's a weirdo. You know, he has three beautiful biracial kids and an impressive wife.

So I don't think any of that really matters. And it's more kind of that's sort of Twitter fodder than more than anything anyone's going to decide on.

So the finalists to be the running mate of Kamala Harris are Governor Shapiro, Governor Waltz, Governor Pritzker, and Governor Andy Bashir, we hear, as well as the senator from Arizona. Uh so your thoughts? Shapiro. Shapiro, I mean, he's a talented guy, seems pretty likable, quite popular, you know, according to Fox's own polls, what, 61% approval rating, in an absolutely crucial swing state. She's got to have Pennsylvania.

And I don't think he's going to deliver Pennsylvania to her. I don't really think that that happens anymore, if it ever did. But 5,000, 10,000 votes, 20,000 votes, if you just add that, that could make a difference. It would have made a difference in 16 and 20. I guess maybe 20, the margin was a little bigger.

But every vote matters in that state.

So for me, it wouldn't even be a close call.

Well, I think that the governor will be strong, but the problem is he's pro-Israel. And does and Kamala Harris isn't, even though she gives she gives it some lip service.

So do you want to win Michigan? If you want to win Michigan, according to the Democratic mindset, you don't praise Israel. And wouldn't Governor Shapiro Uh heard her heard that argument? Yeah, I I doubt those people at the end of the day. are going to not vote for Tommy Harris because of the the Veep choice.

I mean, if it's Mark Kelly, and I think that would be that's the other choice that makes sense. It's clearly that consideration. Scared her, but I think she'd be foolish not to pick Shapiro, and Republicans should celebrate if she doesn't. Here's John King on CNN about why maybe Shapiro won't do it. Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro is being discussed as one of Harris's potential running mates.

He also endorsed her tonight. In your view, what are the pros and cons for putting him on the ticket?

Well, he's certainly under consideration. I know that from key Harris allies. He's a first-term governor. He's Jewish. There could be some risks in putting him on the ticket.

But certainly some of our voters here in Pennsylvania said, hey, we like Governor Shapiro. Give him a look.

So that's just it. I mean, it's a little harsh, but what do you think? Yeah. I mean, this is the place where we are, where we have to worry about putting a Jewish person on the ticket to hurt you politically? Yeah.

I mean, it's it's perverse, but I guess it's true. Again, if I if I hear it, I dare the Ara Arab Americans in Michigan, in a fact, to vote against me based on my VEEP choice when they have Donald Trump staring down the barrel at them. Yeah, I guess we'll see what happens. I mean, Mark Kelly has to moderate his views.

Now he's suddenly pro-union, pro-labor, even more than he was before. He's one of the biggest disappointments I have. I thought he was going to be like a mansion figure, worried about the border. He only even shows up at the border, still says a wall wouldn't work, please. And only shows up at the border when he's up for election.

So for me, he's been a huge letdown. But he also has the Gabby Giffords angle, too, of his wife. And sadly, she took a bullet in the head from some lunatic as she was campaigning.

So you have the gun issue, you have his popularity, astronaut, fighter pilot, but we'll see where it goes. It'll be the actual inverse. It's just horrible. It's just horrible to know that you're forced to take a white man. As you know, white men are the worst.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Except for their dudes for Harrison, they're okay. They're good. They're okay. Yeah, on Zoom, far away, they're good.

Rich Lowry, thank you. Pick up the Nash Review. Get a perspective on what's going on.

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Something about you with your glasses, because people are putting memes up comparing you to Clark Kent. He's doing some of this stuff. Those were hilarious. What did you think of all of that? I think they're awesome representing people that wear glasses well.

But you take them off just before you go on. Yeah, how does that work? I mean, and what do you see out there in the audience? Is it clear or not? It's not necessarily clear, but the thing about pomo horses is if I keep them on, they're going to fly somewhere.

Yeah. But yeah, when I go up on the pommel horse, it's all about feeling the equipment. I don't even really see when I'm doing my gymnastics. It's all in the hands. I can feel everything.

Well, I mean, you know.

So that's Stephen Nedorsk. He's the one who won the Pomahorts. It's his only event, and the only event he did at Penn State. He says the only thing he was actually improving on in gymnastics, I'm talking about the Olympics, through his career. And he thought, I'm just going to stick with that.

And that's what they pushed him in Penn State. We just talked to his parents. He's one of the superstars to emerge. From the Olympic Games over in Paris on Fox and Friends. We'll bring some of that back a little bit later.

And they said essentially he forgot his goggles at an international event in Japan. And if you don't have goggles, the glasses fly off. And he competed great. And he said, screw it. I'm not going to wear glasses anymore, but I'll wear it up into the event.

He's got this disease that's in hereditary where it makes a guy, I think it makes him go cross-eyed without the glasses, but he can see with the glasses on.

So it's just kind of an interesting sideline that to think someone can overcome this genetically. I think his mom might have it too.

Someone overcome it. And then they become an Olympic champion at the pommel horse. He's got an individual competition on Saturday. Hopefully, he'll do exceedingly well.

So far, the U.S. is leading in overall medals. Not the most golds, but the most overall medals. Simone Biles, 27 years old, defying all expectations, after pretty much having a breakdown in Tokyo. Uh and not really doing much.

She overcame it to her credit. She stayed with it. Such a gruing sport. And now it looked great. And the U.S.

team gets the gold. They've won three of the last four Olympics overall.

Now we'll see the individual. The medal trackers got the U.S. with 27 medals, France with 20, China with 16. USA men's team defeated Ghana 3-0. What's the big deal?

They advanced to the quarterfinals. That's out of the divisions into the knockout round. First time. I think 20 years.

So, this is the young team with the men's. You don't just have the national team. With the women's, you can just their national team. With the men, you've got to be under 23, and there's two exceptions. We can get people overage.

So, the U.S. teams, that makes it look like we have a little bit of a brighter future than it seems when the national team plays. The U.S. women's rugby team has been phenomenal. Evidently, I don't really know rugby inside and out, but they were down 14-7 with the last carry.

I'd call it a carry because it looks like football. This woman breaks out, goes the distance. They end up winning.

So, their first ever bronze medal.

Meanwhile, the men's national team will play South Sudan today at 3 o'clock. No layups, pun intended. This is going to be a hard one for LeBron, who's aging up, and so is Kevin Durant. He's 34. We'll see where it goes.

Keep it here, Brian Kill Me Cho, moving on, covering everything. The world's in flames, and so glad I'm here with you to try to put it all out and put it all in perspective. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, so glad you're here.

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So much going on. Everything's on fire. Things that have to be addressed and put in perspective. That's why you're here. Kurt Knutson is going to be with us too.

He's a cyber guy. He really knows what's going on when it comes to the shadow banning, it seems, and what's going on with Google again, along with Facebook, as well as what the hell happened with CrowdStrike and how could it destroy almost all air travel last weekend. We glossed over it because of the velocity of other major stories. Masab Hussain Youssef will be joining us, son of Hamas's co-founder. I want to get a perspective on what happened today and who Hanaya is and how this organization is damaged after his death.

He's going to be with us too and talk about how this war has dragged on for eight months. He joined us right when this war happened.

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. What I saw. made me ashamed. As a career law enforcement officer and a 25-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend.

Why was that roof not better secured? That'll Ronald Rowe. He's acting director of the Secret Service. More answers and still more questions about the details of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Still searching for the motivation of the shooter.

I get the sense we will get to the bottom of this, though. My fingers are crossed. Number two: you're considered the most liberal United States Senator.

I somebody said that and it actually was Mike Pence on the debate stage. Yeah. Well, actually, the nonpartisan GovTrack has rated you as the most liberal senator. Yeah, still not laughing. Flip-flop VP Harris changes her views on major issues from the left-wing beliefs and causes.

She's now totally reversed, where they line perfectly up with Donald Trump. And she announces some of this right before an X-rated rapper got up on stage in front of 10,000 people and introduced her. Number one. We see it right now in the Middle East with this strike from Israel, which they had every right to do, to take out the number two official in Hezbollah. Justice is finally done.

Congressman Michael Waltz, explosive. Israel strikes back after the barbaric killing of children in the Golan Heights. That happened over the weekend, first against Hezbollah, killing a longtime terror leader, then hours later, stunningly blows up one of the Hamas lead negotiators and founders, Ismail Hania, over in Tehran. As he went to the inauguration of Iran's new president after the helicopter crash killed the old one, the whole region could go explode as the Ayatollah vows revenge. With us right now, a man who knows more about the region than probably anyone else you'll ever talk to.

He knows the players, he knows the history, Dennis Ross. Dennis is a Williams Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Dennis, how unprecedented were those two strikes within 12 hours? Mm-hmm.

Well It is. Brian, first, good to be with you. I have to say. Uh There is no precedent for it. think about what the Israelis did.

The Israelis demonstrated once again an incredible capacity to have intelligence and then fuse it into an operation. They killed probably the most important military commander of his baller. Uh Right, sure. Yeah. He was probably the most important guy in his bowler next to Nasrallah.

He's the guy who's been responsible for the rocket forces in Hezbollah. This is a guy who goes way back. He probably played a role. in the k in the attack and killing of 241 Marines in Beirut, where Nozbullah was first founded. He's played a role in almost everything they've done against us.

uh against the Israelis. He was responsible for, as I said, the rocket forces.

So he is the one who probably authorized the attack On Saturday, they killed twelve Drew's children playing soccer. Uh he was in Beirut, he was in the the the neighborhood southern neighborhood of southern Beirut that is the stronghold Ahizbalah. probably thought he was invulnerable and unassailable. And the Israelis knew where he was and they were able to take him out. And again, highly precise Tap.

Uh with maybe two people killed. as I from him Meaning this was Yeah, literally uh hitting the floor where he was.

So here you have something that's pretty extraordinary in and of itself. And it was also, if you think about it, it was a very Smart. fought out attack. Because Israel had to do something that showed what Hezbollah did crossed the line, crossed all the red lines with the attack on Saturday. and that they wanted to do it in a way that didn't necessarily provoke an all-out war with Hezbollah for reasons you and I can get into.

And so they did it highly targeted. They sent the message to Nasrallah that no one in Uzbella. is beyond our reach. And then they reinforce that message by hitting Haniyah And Taylor. in a revolutionary guard building Again, highly precise.

Attack. with maybe Khania and his bodyguard killed. Uh in a the stronghold within Tehran. The message to the Iranians was There's no one in there's no one in Iran that we can't get. Uh And So the combination of these two things was designed to make it clear The No one in the so-called axis of resistance, which I actually call the axis of misery.

Everyone that Iran is associated with where they are, they have no hope, no prospect. They're public's and know that life will always be hard for them with no future. That's why I call them the axis of misery. But the fact is that Israel was sending a message We we can get it to anyone.

Now you may be calling for and creating what you call a ring of fire around us, but recognize that anybody who authorizes an attack against us We can get to when we will hit. All right, so let's talk about the guy that they hit in Lebanon. They said this in a way which doesn't demand an escalatory response. But Ismail Haniah, he's one of the guys doing the negotiating, living a luxurious life in Qatar, while his three sons were blown up, and four grandchildren were blown up in a car. He was hailed.

Everyone's congratulating him, saying, Congratulations, you have martyrs. They're heroes now, which is, I mean, unthinkable to us. But what did he mean to Hamas? The significance of, he is not the equivalent of Yaya Sinwar. Let's be clear on that.

Sinwar is the. The military leader of the Izadim al-Qassam Brigade, and he's the guy who. is the Hamas leader in Gaza. Ismail Hanir has been the political leader Uh oh, Hamas. for I think the last six or seven years.

and he has resided in in Qatar.

Now he has been the key guy in the actual negotiations Although he's when I say that the key guy, he's the one who. who Qatar is talking to. But the key guy in the negotiations ultimately is Sinoar. There is no one who can easily replace him within Hamas. Uh he is a little political leader who had support.

across the spectrum of Hamas.

So it will not be easy to replace in Hamas.

Now having said what I just said, the the odds of a hostage deal anytime soon have just gone down. Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas will not want to look like they're responding to Israeli pressure, so they will not do a deal right away, which is bad news for the hostage and for the hostage families. And and clearly there was a A choice that was made by Prime Minister Netanyahu, and the choice that he made was I'm going to send a message uh that shows We can hit anybody, anytime, anywhere. We have the means to do what no one else can do in this region. And part of that is designed to counteract the image that We're we're almost in the You know, we're about to enter the the Eleventh month.

Right.

Uh since Israel has been fighting Hamas and Gaza since October 7th. And that has created an image throughout the region that well, maybe Israel isn't as strong as we thought. And this is a way of trying to say Don't misjudge us. And also don't misjudge what's happening within Israel.

Some of the reason for the timing, I believe, not on the strike in Beirut. with going after Ghaniyah because in a sense they could have hit Haniya at any time. They did it when he was in Iran. They did it at a time when. when he was there for the inauguration of the new Iranian President.

You know, they they obviously he travels Uh they could hit him. I think part of the reason for the timing Had to do with what happened the day before yesterday in Israel, where you had extremist. right-wing activists. go and basically attack two IDF bases. In Israel.

And I think this was a way of saying, look, whatever you think about what looks like fissures within Israel. That's not going to limit what we can do. It's not going to change who we are. it's not going to change the character and the quality of the IDF. I think some of this was influenced by that.

So, a couple of things, too. By the way, I'm telling you that Dennis Ross, who could talk coherently and specifically from everybody's perspective, he can tell you what Iran's thinking, what Lebanon's thinking, Hezbollah inside Iran, as well as Hamas, but most of all, Israel, because he's been through thick and thin in terms of negotiations. You know, this guy, I forgot his first name, the guy in the wheelchair, but DF, who they just blew up, they evidently could have gotten him months before, too. They waited to take him out in a time in which they would have the least civilian casualties, but they haven't dug him up in his wheelchair yet. But sooner or later, he'll emerge, I think.

But Sinwar, they really got to find him, and he's Khan Yunus. They'll never be able to end that operation with him alive because if he lives, it'll seem like Hamas won. Do you agree? I do agree. I do agree.

Now that doesn't mean You know, it's possible for, I think, for BB, and people didn't know this, by the way. Yobibi has used the term total victory, which I have said quite openly, total victory is a slogan, it's not an objective. But in the what wasn't noticed in the speech you gave it to Congress, she defined it for the first time. He said destroying their military capabilities, which by the way Israel is quite close to. And Hamas no longer being able to control.

Yeah. Now those are two objectives that are actually quite achievable. They do require one other element. They require the element of knowing for sure that Hamas cannot reconstitute itself. And for that, You have to have Not just an agreement, but a practical mechanism on the ground on the border of Egypt with Gaza.

It is through that border that Hamas was able to get whatever it needed. I'll tell you, Ryan. People used to talk about Gaza as being an open-air prison. And it was probably that for the people who live there, but it was not that for Hamas. I visited the base in southern Israel.

where they're bringing back all the captured equipment. It is stunning. Because they were producing, everything I saw they were producing. They were producing their own rockets, their own drones, their own mortars, their own anti-tank missiles. All this they were producing because they could get whatever they wanted.

Plus, they built three hundred miles of tunnels. Think about it. This is Tons and tons of of cement. uh wiring, uh you know, whatever they needed in terms of metal. All this could have been used above ground to build up Gaza, which has always been impoverished.

But no, they used it. for their purpose, the express purpose of fighting Israel.

So the They got whatever they needed, and it came either above ground or below ground. along that border.

So that has to be worked out. I think it can be worked out. And by the way, you can give You can make it a test of our relationship with Egypt to be sure that they They do everything they they need to do there. But also you can give them an incentive. You can let them be the ones who do the reconstruction of Gaza.

Much more money is to be made there than in terms of anything that Might have been acquired on this on the order. Dennis Ross, our guest. Dennis, I want you to hear what Vice President. Kamala Harris said Uh after meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu last week. The images of dead children.

and desperate hungry people. fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb. To the suffering.

And I will not be silent.

Well, evidently, top Israeli officials briefing reporters didn't want their names used, said their government has been uncomfortable with her tone and argued that she's made a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas more difficult. Do you agree with that? Uh Actually, I don't agree with it. And the only reason I don't agree with it is Uh I don't think she made the ceasefire agreement with Joe. Debe at the time had already upped some of what he was asking for.

I do think what they were right about is There are certain ways to survey what you feel without creating the image of a breach within you. If we want Israeli deterrence to be stronger, not weaker, we also want to be able to demonstrate that there's no. gap between the United States and Israel when it comes to What are the basic requirements for bringing this to an end? What are the basic requirements for Israeli deterrence? And one other issue which I which generally has always been a problem that I think we have undersold.

If we do not When we talk about Palestine rights, which by the way, you know from my own history and everything I've tried to do. I believe that there needs to be ultimately a two state outcome. But I also believe that while Palestinians have rights, they also have responsibilities and they have to be held accountable. When I hear people talk about Palestine state, that's fine, but they can't just talk about a Palestine state as if the Palestinians. Have no responsibilities that they have to meet to begin with.

How do you know that housing state will not be dominated by Hamas? unless we have Palestinians out there condemning Hamas. How do you know that they won't be a member of the Axis of Resistance? unless it becomes clear, a condition for the having a state is that that can't be the case. How do we know that they won't continue to believe in armed resistance unless they have to renounce some ask.

and make it clear that they renounced resistance. In other words, How Sings as a people should be recognized as having a right to self-determination. But self-determination cannot be fulfilled unless they are also going to demonstrate in advance. That they will meet their responsibilities. And Dennis, unfortunately, against the break, but one of the things is Hamas got the guns and they have the power and they'll torture your family if you speak out against them or kill you directly.

So Israel, if they could d diminish them, if they could take them out virtually, maybe we'll find out if there is a sense of normalcy uh if there's a goal of normalcy with the Palestinian people, if there is a difference. We can't find out when when you're living amongst the mob, you can't act like a tough guy and be anti-mob and still have you and yourself and your family survive, right? You are right. You are absolutely right. Look, one of the key things is People in Gaza have to see that Hamas is not coming back.

That's it. If they see it's not coming back, then we will see how they're likely to adjust their behavior. And they will. They are very likely to adjust their behavior. Dennis Ross, thanks so much.

These are horrific events going on, but I think Israel is doing the right thing. They have no choice. Dennis Ross, thank you. We come back. We'll take some calls.

Then welcome in Kurt Knutson. We're going to break it down all down some of the challenges of the cyber guy. And then the son of Hamas, Musab Hassan Youssef, whose dad founded the organization, will be joining us. Don't move. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know.

It's Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Joe. Having a 24-karat gold apartment and meet your name in gold, and burning your ex-wife, burying your ex-wife on your golf course. It's very weird.

It's very weird. That's why that is effective, is there's so much weird on the other side that that pretty much sums it up.

Well, that doesn't mean that the left has to use it. I don't agree with that. I don't think you should use the word weird. Call him what he is, a convicted felon. Yeah, that's better.

Right, yeah. 34 ridiculous convictions. It brings up more of the injustice that Donald Trump has faced that's going to get him more money. But the whole weird thing is just such a dead end issue. The average person Walks around feeling like, you know, their friends are a little weird, comedians are a little weird.

You have that, your parents are a little weird. That's not uh that's not a negative. Who's normal?

So now, all of a sudden, we're going to start ostracizing people because they're a little different than you?

Well, to be an extraordinary success, a lot of times you got to be a little weird. You got to be a little different. Maybe Einstein Edison, same thing. Maybe Henry Ford had some of the same qualities. Maybe weird to you.

But may be very successful to others. Elon Musk seems weird. He's also got a space program. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

We've received returns. There are some that we have not been able to get information back because of their encrypted nature.

So you're telling me the guy that. Took eight shots at the the president. former president. has apps. That we can't get into, that may, if you could get into, reveal some.

Relevant information. That is correct, Senator. encrypted apps of an assassin who a murderer And we can't get into them all these days after. That needs to be fixed. in the future.

Somebody's using these apps. to communicate with a foreign power. Senator Lindsey Graham, just great questions. That's an example of a guy trying to make progress with a hearing instead of trying to make political points. Kirk Knutson's here.

He's the cyber guy. CyberGuy.com is where to follow him on things like this. Got a lot of topics, so this is one of them. Does it surprise you that he had three encrypted platforms, I guess, identifications on three separate platforms? And it doesn't seem like we're able to break into any of them yet?

I mean, look, if you want to hide, that's what you use. Or if you just want privacy, so you don't have to be a bad guy. If you want privacy, you use an encrypted app like WhatsApp, et cetera. And it doesn't surprise me that we're not already into it already. It does surprise me.

We have the tools here. We have uh New Zealand. Denmark. And I think it was one of the gun, it might have been Germany, is where he was communicating with, one of which was right before he would mount the building and and perpetrate the attack. Who's in communication that same day?

And we don't know. Does that intrigue you? Of course. What in the world are you doing? Who are you talking to?

Who are you talking to? Who else might be involved now? The other thing they described it as he's using one old school method. Of social media app. Like it reminds me of it it seems like they're indicating something like MySpace.

Remember, MySpace was the hottest thing, Facebook was the hottest thing. But it seems like they were doing that because the guys had almost no footprint. But your thoughts? Yeah, that too. And you'll see people that use gaming platforms to chat that don't want to get detected because, you know, inherently games are talking about shooting and strategy that are fantastic.

So you can hide legitimate messages inside of it when you want to communicate with somebody who's on the other end of the game and you're trying to conspire to pull something off. Not that there's any evidence that this happened here, but no, it doesn't surprise me that that's used. And it doesn't surprise me that he was smart enough in his early 20s to know not to get something that's mainstream that, you know, tomorrow Mark Zuckerberg could turn over to the government or to anybody else.

So one thing we also learned is that he flew a drone about 10 in the morning right before to case the place. He got within 200 yards of where the stage would be. And I'm sure he learned enough to be able to pull this off, be able to see everything from an aerial point of view. We talked about something on television that your surprise Secret Service doesn't have. I am sitting here.

It's like saying you knew your car was going to crash and you decided not to put a seatbelt in it. Or take airbags out? Yeah, exactly. Or you knew there's going to be a fire and you said, oh, we don't need a fire hydrant or a fire extinguisher. Don't even bother calling the fire department.

Here's what we know. Widely used with law enforcement agencies all around the U.S. is a company called D-Drone. D-Drone is the go-to when it comes to detecting drones that are commercial-based drones around you. They're often used by local police, they're often used by state police, they're used by the federal government.

Why the Secret Service apparently was not using it is beyond me. These things are low cost. They can see not only the drone coming, track it, see if it's a threat. But they can also, Brian, this is just what s boggles my mind, because none of this may have happened. If they use the feature that's on this, which allows you to see where the operator is controlling the drone from.

So if you got two hours ahead of the president being shot and the The uh assassin is using a drone. From another location, they could have very well gone straight to that location and say, boy, what are you up to? What are you doing with this drum? Third thing they could do is actually disable the drone. They could just jam it, take control of it, and remove control of it.

But at that point, he'd already done his reconnaissance. What is absolutely shocking to me is that nobody but nobody at that event especially not the Secret Service, even knew That a drone was flying. No one. But yet they know now.

So, how do they know? Yeah, but how do they know now? They didn't interview the kid. They blew his head off.

So, who knew?

Well, you can go and see the record of a drone where a drone has gone. You know, DGI, you know, one of the famous. I assume it was recovered then. I'm sure it was recovered. I'm sure at some point you piece together, you know, hey, I saw a drone here, and you got 13 reports of that, and suddenly you've got a story to follow, and they probably found the drone somewhere in his possession.

So, famously, we found out thanks to the Twitter files that they were shadow banning a bunch of people, deleting up to the next election, and through the pandemic, when people would speak out they thought was anti-in an anti-vax way or a way they thought wasn't productive to controlling the American population.

So, we found this out because Elon Musk bought it, looked at it, put some journalists on it, and they did it. We assume that we assume Facebook was doing the same thing, so was Google. Anybody who thinks they've learned the hard way not to do that again has got to be disheartened today because it's revealed that when it comes to the Trump assassination and seeing pictures of this president standing up, putting his fist in the air. And saying fight. You can't get it on Google.

Hard to find out information on the assassination, which was written in a positive way because of the way the president handled it and thankfully survived. For Google and Facebook, they have since apologized for this. Your thoughts? My thoughts are: if you didn't think there was a Wizard of Oz. At the helm of these social media companies and of all the big search engines like Google that we use on a regular basis, that really feeds the information into the American public.

Think again. This is a orchestrated machine. And they'll say, no, no, no, no, no, we manually did not do anything. It's an algorithm. It's our algo.

It's our algorithm. It did it. It did it. You know, we're just trying to protect it. And they apologize.

We want to dial down violence, and it automatically saw this as some violent statement, so it dialed it down. But that doesn't really explain a lot here, Brian. It doesn't explain how when you would just put in. President Assassin assassination and then TR It wouldn't auto-complete. It should immediately say Trump, right?

You know what he said? Yeah. Truman. Truman, right. And wait, what?

And it would not do that.

So, why? Why? And who's holding them accountable? Who's holding them accountable to say, why am I being censored? And how does this affect the election?

And how does this affect conversations? Common day life. I mean, how often does this happen when you're not the president? How often does it happen when, I'll tell you right now, years ago, you and I were sitting on set at Fox and Friends, and there was an unpleasant story that we decided to share. against what Facebook didn't want me to share it.

But we're not going to hold back. We shared how they were doing something similarly and dialing down certain people on Facebook so that they would suddenly. disappear from the feeds of their followers.

Well, guess what? Hours after the broadcast. My following bass Went to Zippo. I mean, the numbers were there, but I would, I actually was, I was, somebody who handles the technical end of my social media said, What's up with this? There must be a problem over at Facebook.

No. They dialed it down.

So now I went to their, you know. corporate channel and I said Explain this. Explain this. Oh, we have no idea. There's no, no, of course, nothing's going on here.

There's nothing, Burger. Nothing's happening at all. And then, magically, about six hours later, suddenly that normal cadence came back only because, you know, we complained. Human beings. Don Jr.

was the first one. Donald Trump Jr. was the first one I knew. First time I ever heard the term shadow bands, guys, I'm not getting any response to anything I'm putting up.

So he's putting up these, he puts up electric inciting tweets about his dad. They're not irresponsible. They're just passionate and direct. And all of a sudden, he wasn't getting any traction. Nobody was responding.

And he said, what is going on here? Couldn't get an answer. And then all of a sudden, shadow band became a new term that everyone fully understood. We all lost a ton of followers after January 6th. Yeah.

But the problem is, see, you and I won't even see it. We don't even see it happening to us. We'll see, like, oh, you got 260,000 followers on this particular social media channel. And you're posting as usual, saying, Hey, I want to share this important information with you. But on the feeds of those Hundreds of thousands of people.

They see nothing. And you don't know they're not seeing it. Yep. How would you know? How would you know?

Right.

And the thing is, what I was hoping is that Elon Musk was going to flatten the playing field. And I'm saying that I don't feel comfortable on these other platforms because I don't, as crazy as, as much as Twitter has become the Wild West, at least I know I'm not being banned, shadow banned. I'm not being suspended for no apparent reason. But it looks like Facebook still has got the power and Google is still irreplaceable. They do.

And, you know, and the problem, here's the biggest problem. Who spends the most money in Washington? Both parties. Uh with Congress lobbying them. They're doing the most.

Big tech. They spend more money. Mark Zuckerberg, the whole kitten caboodle of Silicon Valley, spends more money to say, get your hands off us. Keep your hands off us so that the good laws that we see happening, say in the EU, that have some really good effects to protect kids, protect people's privacy, watch out for them, they force that the Facebooks of the world have to tell you if they screwed up and they did something that may have affected your privacy or dialed you down in life. None of that exists in this country.

Nothing. Zippo. Lastly, I'm just so disappointed both campaigns are using TikTok. I mean, we're just giving it over to the Chinese. They're able to manipulate news feeds and shape the minds of the next generation.

It's strenuous, isn't it? It's just as good. I just hate it.

Well, I mean, it's like.

So You sit there and you preach that TikTok is A bad Idea for America. And let me just tell you, it's a bad idea for America. Why? Because, unlike this country, when you have a business that's based in China, The Communist Party doesn't need a search warrant. They don't need permission.

They don't have to go to a court. They willy-nilly, at their leisure, decide: I want a fun, I want all that information, I want it right now in five minutes. Or we're sending in 23 people to look at that server right now. Step aside.

So, what's being collected is everything in our lives that goes up on TikTok. And a lot of people, especially kids, say, I don't care, I don't have anything to hide.

Well what you have to hide though is when they get to know you so well That they can say five magic words to you at a certain time of the day, knowing exactly how you're going to act. You got to talk to if Trump wins, you have to talk to him. I'm going to get you an appointment right away. Kurt Knusson, follow him at the cyberguy.com. Kurt, thanks so much.

When we come back, Musab Hussain Youssef, whose dad co-founded Hamas on what was really accomplished with the killing of one of their leaders yesterday in Tehran. Don't move, Brian Kill Mecho. Thanks, Kurt. Educating, entertaining, enlightening. You're with Brian Kilmead.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. We see it right now in the Middle East with this strike from Israel, which they had every right to do, to take out the number two official in Hezbollah, by the way, who was responsible in large part for the 1983 Beirut bombing. I simplify to all the Marines and all the victims of that bombing from so long ago. Justice is finally done.

And that is for who Shakur, that's who. They were talking about Michael Watts was talking about former Green Beret there. And then there was another hit last night about 2 in the morning. We got word Eastern Time that. A Hamas leader was taken out, and he was the guy doing the chief negotiating.

He is one of the senior most leaders, Ishmael Haniah. A name very familiar to my next guest, Musab Hussain Youssef. He's the son of Hamas co-founder, and he's got a brand new book coming out right now, and it is From Hamas to America. Musab, I thought about you right away. Your reaction to the death of Haniah.

Hi, Brian. Yeah, this is this is you could say the most significant Hamas assassination since the beginning of the war. In fact, in the entire Hamas history, this is the the head of Hamas uh political uh bureau. and the significance of where he was killed. He was killed in a very secure location Uh in Tehran.

And uh the mossad if uh the massages behind this operation. I don't have solid information, but is sending a very clear message to the Iranian regime to the terrorists. and all those who support terrorism and want to legitimise what Hamas has been doing as an act of resistance, that this is a dead end. And um See? he just got his uh punishment.

What does it say to, what do you think they're thinking today, knowing that Mossad's reach, the IDF, or Israel's reach, is into the capital of Iran the day after an inauguration of their new president? What message do you think they're saying when those doors close and they talk to each other? What do you think they're saying? Look, this was an assassination of a Hamas top leader. But in the meantime, this is a very clear and direct message to Ayatullah Khan'i himself.

because if the Mossad was able to reach from thousands of miles away. Accurately, and hit Hamas leader in his bid. in a most secure Iranian compound, this means that the Khamena'i is not that far.

So if they keep missing with the Israeli security and sending their proxies to kill Jewish people just because they are Jewish. This means that there is no limit to this war, and next is going to be Nasrallah, next is going to be Ayatollah. Nasrallah, Nasrallah in heaven.

Well what's what's the difference? They are the same.

So Sinwar lives. He's in Gaza. They said there's about 8,000 fighters left. What do your sources tell you is the damage done to Hamas so far?

Well, the damage is severe in Gaza, but the difference. That Sinoir has been under the ground and he's hiding behind civilians. women, children, and he's surrounding himself with hostages. I don't exaggerate to say that Israel knew about his location multiple times, but they couldn't. uh eliminate him because uh his fate is r is connected to the fate of the hostages.

And this is why it's very complicated in Gaza. But as of now, most of Hamas infrastructure has been destroyed Hamas's lifeline has been cut And most of Hamas' leadership in Gaza has been assassinated. Like for example, Sinoir is very uh He's well known, but his mentor and his superior, which is the Hamas military wing chief, Muhammad al-Dair. was killed just a couple of weeks ago.

So Hamas is suffering uh uh great damage levels. That's Day F. That's the guy in the wheelchair? Uh well, actually, I don't know if he's on a wheelchair, but uh most likely uh Uh he was injured in a previous uh assassination attempt and we re I I personally don't know. If he was in a wheelchair or not, but he was wounded for sure.

Do you think that America equivocating holding back weapons is lengthening this war for Israel? Of course, you know, this is what we've been saying from day one. uh that the Islamists and the Islamic regime of uh Iran. When they see this hazet hesitation of the American administration. holding arms and make giving Israel hard time and posing a condition as Israel is the perpetrator in this war.

is simply showing that the United States is not giving Israel enough support. And this is igniting the bloodlust in the Islamists in the region. Uh for example What would have been correct? is to have the American presence by Lebanon and by the Arab Gulf to just show the Iranians that they cannot miss with the uh global security the way that they are doing. But when the United States is uh sending the wrong messages, Musab Hussain Youssef, former member of Hamas, whose dad co-founded Hamas, tells the truth about Hamas.

They're an evil group that needs to be stopped. And just we have to give Israel the weapons to do it, and they will do it. But we're only going halfway. Musab, thank you. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show from 48th and 6th I'm at Midtown Manhattan, but heard around the country, making an impact around the world. Jason Miller standing by, Trump campaign senior advisor, Ben Dominich also will be joining us this hour. Editor-at-large for the Spectator World, host of the Ben Dominich podcast.

We're following some breaking news, one of which is the hit in Hezbollah in retaliation for the killing of 12 kids, all under 17, over the weekend in the Golan Heights. They took out an elite commander of Hezbollah whose fingerprints were all over the marine bombing in the 1980s. He's dead, but it didn't stop there. Hours later, about five hours before we started Fox and Friends, we got reports of Ismail Hanaya, one of the leading forces of Hamas's evil organization, was struck dead in his bed after attending the inauguration of the Iranians' new president. The Ayatollah has pledged a retaliation, a reaction.

But what will it be? The Middle East is on fire big time. But you gotta say one thing. when things get quiet and you are a commander in the Iranian Quds force, Or you're a terrorist leader, you got to be saying if they could hit them, they could hit anyone. And it's going to be hard to sleep.

Uh unlike Terrace Israel aims for the commanders and the people in charge, not civilians. When civilians die, it's a mistake. When Hamas strikes and Hezbollah strikes, when civilians die, it's the intent. And for the most part, Russia has the same philosophy, kill civilians, maximize the pain. Jason Miller is out and about.

He's got to divide his time between J.D. Vance as well as President Trump. Jason, welcome back. But Brian, good morning. Great to be with you.

So much has changed over the last couple of weeks since the RNC. How have you guys changed? How have you guys had to pivot away from Joe's too old to Kamala's too unknown or too radical?

Well, we have opportunities on both fronts here, Brian. And with Joe Biden, he was renting much of this radical left space, and a lot of the focus was simply on his incompetence and what he's done to destroy our economy and to destroy the border and to make the international space complete chaos. With Kamala Harris, not only does she own all of the failures of the Biden administration, but she has this radical left component as well. She's not just renting that real estate. She actually lives in the crazy left-of-center world.

And when you go through everything that goes into crime, whether it's defund the police or bailing out the rioter in Minneapolis who then went on to murder somebody, is now serving life in prison for the rest of his life in Minnesota. When you take a look at the border and Kamala Harris being the border czar, that is squarely on Kamala Harris. Then you also look at the economy. I mean, Kamala Harris was the wing person for Joe Biden for every step of this way. And so when you're wondering, as you're going out and doing your back-to-school shopping, which, by the way, I just saw what the bill looked like for as my wife went out and did the back-to-school shopping for the kids for getting ready for school, and you see how much more everything is going to cost you this year, from school clothes to transportation costs, things of that nature.

That is squarely on Kamala Harris. And so the It's both the competence factor or lack of competence when it comes to Kamala Harris, but also the radical left ideology that would make her the single most radically dangerous liberal that's ever run for president before.

Well, not anymore. She's changing all her views. And yesterday she won after you guys. She has an interesting way of describing the former president and his new running mate, CUD 15. Last week you may have seen He pulled Out of the debate in September, he had previously agreed to.

Here's the funny thing about that.

So he won't debate, but he and his running mate sure seem to have a lot to say about me. And by the way, don't you find some of their stuff to just be plain weird?

Well, Donald, I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. Because as the saying goes, If you got something to say.

So, first off, on the weird part, isn't that an interesting way in an attack plan? It cracks me up a little bit. And here, Brian, I thought the Democrats' plans were to attack President Trump on democracy the entire election. But Kamo's going through and throwing out all of Joe Biden's attacks because simply they haven't worked. And President Trump is actually beating the Democrat ticket on the issue of democracy.

And so that's why they're switching up. Here's one thing to keep in mind. I know exactly kind of the way you're saying it in the framing, but The reason why Kamala Harris is trying to go to this weird attack on being weird, which by the way, if they want to make that the focus of the game, we're all ready to do it. Trust me, they're not going to out-attack us on this issue. Brian, they don't have anything good to talk about when it comes to the economy and inflation or the border or the global chaos.

And especially as we see what's happening with Iran funding all these terrorist groups, and then obviously that leads to Israel trying to take out or successfully taking out the terrorist leaders. But when Kamala Harris's best attack is to try to say that her opponents were weird, it just goes to show you it's like setting off a signal flare that they cannot talk about the most important issues that Americans want to go into.

So number one, we're going to point out just how weird Kamala Harris is. I mean, so, you know, everything from the Crazy trans indoctrination to our children, to things of that nature.

So she's going to get the full force of that. But we're also not going to lose sight of people who are pissed off about the economy, pissed off because they're paying too much, and they're pissed off when they see what's happening with crime and a lack of a border and the chaos around the world. Conla Harris is not getting off the hook on that. We are coming at them full square, straight on. What about the debates?

What's the strategy there? What bothers you about the September date? Are you holding out for another network? Are you upset that are you now thinking twice about ABC? Great question.

So debate or debates Yeah. Are definitely going to happen with the Democrat nominee. Absolutely, no question. But with the chaos that we see going on with the Democrats, it's not yet a 100% done deal. The Kamala is going to be their nominee.

I do think there's going to be a massive case of buyers' remorse. I would not be surprised if Democrats tried to swap out Kamala Harris. Keep in mind, Brian, if we let's take the time machine back four weeks ago and all of the libs, whether it be the New York Times and Washington Post Ed boards, whether it be the leader of the Democrat Party, George Clooney, or any of the other party elders, they were all saying that Joe Biden needed to go, but they were not saying, let's rally around Kamala Harris. She's really kind of the worst possible candidate that they could pick.

So once there actually is a Democrat nominee, once it's formalized, Then they're going to most likely move to do that virtually next week. And once we know that they're not going to try to do another bait and switch or say, oh, guys, now it's the end of the third quarter. We need to quit and try to sub in a different team to play the fourth quarter. Then, of course, we're going to lock those in. They're thinking too.

But, Brian, we want some diversification of voice here. I mean, there are definitely some issues when it comes to ABC, our concerns about their ability to be fair. But I do think that there are additional networks that will add some diversification of voice who will make it a more fair venue. But, Brian, you saw what President Trump did to Joe Biden on that debate stage. And imagine when you throw in then the absolute crazy, radically liberal positions of Kamala Harris.

If I was Kamala Harris, I would not want to get on that debate stage with President Trump. But guess what? It's going to happen. It just might not happen with ABC. I want you to hear what she said.

This came out in the New York Times, citing an anonymous campaign official. She now supports fracking. She wants an increased funding on the border. She does not want to require people to sell their assault weapons back to the government. No longer supports a single payer health care insurance program.

And they're trying to pull down that GovTrack scorecard that ranked her as the most liberal senator in 2019 that Nora O'Donnell got out of her.

So, what are you going to do with a candidate that backs off her positions last taken in 2020? How do you handle that?

Well, a big part of it, and this is a Very strong thank you to everyone who's a listener of yours who's gone to donaldjtrump.com and helped to contribute because those ads just started yesterday nationally and in all the battleground states.

So a big part of that's going to be with the paid advertising to go and remind people of just how liberal Kamala Harris is. Another example of that, Brian, is when you were talking about journalists who are aiding and abetting this gaslighting of Kamala Harris's record is Axios. And this one just made me laugh because it's so farcical. But literally, one of the reporters, Steph Kite, wrote up the fact that the Trump campaign was falsely calling Kamala Harris the Border Czar. And literally, this reporter was community noted on Twitter with her own.

Posting from years ago calling Kamala Harris the borders are. And so it's we're not just running against Kamala Harris here. We're running against the mainstream media, the exact same people who said that Joe Biden was cognitively okay and covered it up for years. The exact same people who said that the Hunter laptop was fake. The exact same people who said that there was this Russia, Russia, Russia hoax back in 2016.

And so the paid advertising will be real. And Brian, as you follow, or anyone's following the Trump War Room Twitter account or the RNC Research Twitter account, They hit hard and they hit quick.

So we're going to call out both the Kamala Harris campaign and call out the media. We're doing the big, massive howitzers in the form of paid television ads, but also in social media. And guess what? When you talk about what President Trump and J.D. Vance are both hitting on the campaign trail, it is calling out the real record of Kamala Harris, and we're going to do it every day and twice on Sunday.

All right. I want you to hear what Karl Rove recommended for you guys because of the stunning news about Joe Biden out and the relief among the Democrats that you have a younger person in. The DNC is straight ahead, and they're going to have the momentum behind the new vice presidential pick, which, as you know, gets people out of attention. This is what Karl Rove said. 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.

Well, I mean, there's a lot of things that make it impossible when you have a historic change of nominees, but does he have a point? And is there a way to get in charge of the narrative again?

So I would disagree with his framing. I would very much encourage Um Carl, to tune in and watch President Trump's rallies and also to tune in and pay attention to what President Trump is saying on social media, whether that's on True Social or on different platforms that the campaign is communicating from. Kamala Harris, is dangerously liberal. And she's going to make your financial situation worse. And she's going to make the chaos at the border and the crime on our streets even worse.

And she's going to continue to worsen America's standing in the world. Full stop. Kamala Harris. is dangerously liberal.

So it's a very clear message that's coming from the President, from JD Vance and from us. And I will drop a note or a text message to Carl after this interview to make sure because I had not heard that clip exactly, to make sure that he knows exactly what we're doing. A couple of things, too. You have J.D. Vance on the campaign trail for the first time over the last two weeks, and people looking back at his podcast he did to promote his movie, to promote his book, and even before he became a candidate.

And they're finding a lot of stuff that is creating a little bit of turbulence with your team. How are you handling it?

Well, I think JD Vance is doing a fantastic job on the campaign trail. And I think that there's an important distinction between coming out of the gates and there being any issues with anything that JD Vance is saying on the campaign trail or someone going through and trying to nitpick from attacks that could be as old as ten years. The fact of the matter is J.D. Vance is very much driving President Trump's message as we talk about things such as family or families that are now childless. And things of that nature, where the focus that we're talking about is, well, yeah, let's talk about the families of Lake and Riley or Rachel Morin or Jocelyn Mengree.

When you want to talk about people who are now childless, that's where the focus very much should be because Solely because of the border policies from Kamala Harris and the rest of the people in the Biden administration, there are all these murders that have been led into our country and have not been stopped. I mean, we still Brian, I'm old enough to remember where a month ago we were talking about fifty-five missing ISIS agents running around. The United States, we haven't caught them yet. They're still running around unchecked. And so there were only 19 terrorists.

Uh Participated domestically in the U.S. with the 9-11 attacks, when you have 55 ISIS terrorists running around the country, that scares the you-know-what out of me. And that's because of Kamala Harris's incompetence.

So President Trump today is with the National Association of Black Journalists. Why was it important for him to go there? Because President Trump is committed to be a president for all Americans, and it doesn't change anything. The Kamala Harris is now likely to be the Democrat nominee. It's still not finalized, but it's likely, but we'll see what they do or if they get smart and swap in someone else.

But President Trump really believes that he can perform at a historically well level with black voters in the country. And if you're going to use the rhetoric and the talk that you're running to be the president for all Americans, you got to show up. I mean, a big part of the game in politics is showing up. It's why we showed up to the Libertarian Convention. It's why we show up to non-political events such as sneaker con or to UFC fights.

We're going to go where the voters are. We're going to go with where journalists are who may or may not be with President Trump and his mission. Because if we're going to fix the economy, we're going to make our streets safe, you have to do it for all voters. You can't live in some bubble and say we're only going to talk to people. From our own party, or people who would identify as, say, Republicans, we're going to go everywhere.

Brian, we're fearless.

So Jason Miller is our guest, Trump campaign senior advisor and has been for a while. Jason, Project 2025 has been a talking point for Democrats, and they fired the person who really pioneered and wrote the 900-page document. All right, is that a good thing for the Trump team? Did you guys call for that?

Well, we've been calling for them to shut the whole thing down and effectively, I guess probably not super politely the way that I'm phrasing it, but to shut up. I mean, the only agenda for President Trump is what he has put out on Agenda 47. You can go to DonaldJ Trump.com and read President Trump's platform. But he has a very simple, straightforward platform on how to make America great again, focused on growing the economy and securing our border, the drill, baby, drill and secure our border, the things being he's going to do on day one. And whether it's Project 2025 or any of these other outside groups, or maybe they were former advisors, maybe they were in the administration.

But I think this is kind of part of a problem of kind of these, you know, the technocrat nerds in Washington, D.C., these think tank nerds. They want to go and put all these white papers together.

Well, guess what? Unless it's coming from President Trump or it's coming from his campaign on his behalf, then it's not a position being advocated by President Trump, just full stop. And I think there are people who they probably had good intentions about what they were trying to do, but they were completely undercutting President Trump's message. And so now, politically speaking, they're sleeping with the fishes because they got stupid on this. Jason Miller, always great to talk to you.

Thanks so much. Jason Miller with Trump. Back in a moment. Covering this election year like no other. It's Brian Kilmead.

He's so busy, he'll make your hat spin. It's Brian Kilmead. Kamala Harris prosecuted transnational gang members and got them sentenced to prison. Trump is trying to avoid being sentenced to prison. There's two choices in this election.

The one who will fix our broken immigration system? and the one who's trying to stop her.

So Is there any more? more of a dead end than going after Donald Trump on the border. Is there anything Kamala Harris could waste any more money in besides just literally burning it in a pile than to spend money to try to get the immigration issue from President Trump? It is absolutely impossible. It will never happen in a million years.

But go ahead. You can try. I watched her speech yesterday, and she came out and was saying, Donald Trump is all talk when it comes to the border. Really? He built miles upon miles of the wall.

You left it rotting in the desert. You were asked to do the border. You said, I'll go to the root causes, not address it. And then you only went to the border once when you were harassed to doing it, and they sanitized the entire thing. And now you want to tell everyone you're tough on the border?

Please try something else. I beg of you not to waste all your donor money. Ben Dominic is next. Brian Kilmicho. Information you want, truth you demand.

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I acknowledge this was a failure of the president. Is it not prima facie that somebody has failed? A former president was shot. Sir, this could have been our Texas school book depository. I have lost sleep over that for the last 17 days.

Just like iron somebody told me.

So I will tell you, Senator. I will tell you, Senator, that I will not rush to judgment, that people will be held accountable, and I will do so with integrity. And not rush to judgment and put people in the future. I can't unfairly persecute them. I unfairly persecute them.

People who are deaf to.

So that was Senator Josh Hawley going at it with the acting director of the Secret Service, who gave more forthright answers and at least seemed like a human being, unlike the other director who was fired. But he was there, Ronald Rowe. He was as the associate director, and he was part of the problem. And he said he went on top of that building. He could not believe, by the way, there were five buildings.

He could not believe within 500 yards, and he could not believe that that was the perimeter inside those buildings. Look, that's what they do for a living. I can't believe it. And I've never been asked to secure a building. Ben Dominic, with us now, Fox News contributor, editor-at-large for the Spectator World.

Ben, was it an improvement, those hearings yesterday? Or do you still have many, many questions? Many, many questions, Brian. I mean, I just, you know, yes, it can be an improvement just in the sense that the other director was just completely incompetent. But I think that in this situation, you know, we need to, there's so many more questions that need to be answered before we can move on from this.

And I think that the reality is that the American people have no faith. in the current protection of our leading political figures, and that's a huge problem. I mean, it's a gigantic problem. And we need to be able to have confidence in that regardless of who they're protecting, regardless of when it's happening. And look, We live in an era, Brian, as you know, when we have seen an increased number of major threats against extremely prominent individuals.

You know, people, for some reason, they seem to memory hole the fact that Brett Kavanaugh was targeted in a direct assassination attempt by somebody who came across the country with the intent of killing not just him, but perhaps several members of the Supreme Court. And that's something that just happened. I mean, it's not something that's ancient history. And yet I think that when we look at this situation regarding the Secret Service, the idea that it's some kind of rush to judgment, it seems to me that this is a situation where there should be many people who are sidelined and taken out of this role. And the other thing is that, as you know, the Secret Service is not a place that is known for being a particularly happy workplace, quite the opposite.

It's one that struggles to hang on to good people. It struggles to hang on to people who are qualified. I think in this circumstance, you have to be very, very concerned about the level of quality protection that we have in this country at a time when the heat politically and the heat when it comes to threats, not just here but overseas as well, is extremely high. I know.

Now they're flooding both sides, including RFK, with Secret Service. And, you know, they got a lot to do. The Trumps have fanned out all over the place. They all need security, but they got about 8,000. They want 9,000.

So they said they have trouble holding on to people. They said because you're subjected to other people's schedule. They say, by nature, you might be away from your family months at a time. And it takes a different type of person to be able to do that. They like doing it, but there's a sacrifice on the other end.

So that's something to keep in mind, too. They're human beings, but there should be a standardized practice to doing these things. And they have been doing something right because we have not had an assassination attempt on our president since the 80s. We'll see if anything, in fact, changes. I want to talk about the assassination in Tehran of Hunaya, who is one of the higher-up commanders, even though he's living in a four seasons in Qatar, in Hamas, doing the negotiation, taken out in his bed.

What's the message there? And what was the risk with that Israel? operation. Look, I think the risk is obviously that there's whenever you go down this road, there's blowback, there's responses, there's ramifications that can't always be clearly predicted. But I think that Israel wanted to send a clear message, and I think that they have.

And this is something that a lot of A lot of people, I think, don't understand that the Israelis have had to Really navigate the last several years without the kind of backup and support on the world stage that they normally get from the United States of America. The Joe Biden administration, you know, has a long history, Joe Biden himself personally with BB Netanyahu, and it's not a very good history. It's one that's tense and that has frequently. Resulted in the Democrats and the Biden's sort of approach to foreign policy being something that was navigated more based on domestic political concerns as opposed to the interests of our allies overseas. Look, I think that whenever you have a bad guy who's fomenting terror around the world who doesn't wake up in the morning, that's a good thing for the world.

And I think that that's something that we can applaud in this moment, but understand that there are ramifications for these things and we need to be prepared for them. Right.

I want you to hear what Kamala Harris said that got Netanyahu and the Israeli administration upset. Let's listen. The images of dead children. and desperate hungry people. fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third, or fourth time.

We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb. To the suffering. and I will not be silent.

So evidently they came out with a report that said Uh the admitted the Netanyahu group was extremely upset with her stance. They said uh yeah, they were very upset with the left wi uh the left-wing stance that she took after meeting up for about 20 minutes behind closed doors. She really didn't even want to shake his hand. And they're concerned should she become president, but you can't say she's an outlier. I mean, look at Chuck Schumer.

Look at Nancy Pelosi, the worst address ever in front of Congress when I thought it was the best address I ever heard in front of Congress. Look, I Brian, I get really passionate about this and got passionate this weekend, in fact, arguing with some people on the network. And it's one of these things that I think is just very Clear-cut. You can't go out there and have this type of attitude toward a situation where Israel is actually. Is in its own interest as we would in their situation in order to prevent something like October 7th from ever happening again.

And that's something that they are completely justified in doing. This is not some kind of gray area. This is not something where there needs to be some type of conversation about moral equivalency or anything like that. And Kamala Harris is: look, the danger with Kamala Harris, one part of this is that she's a far-left progressive. But the other part of it is that she's a deeply unserious person.

She is not someone who has ever had to deal with the challenges of foreign policy, the challenges of national security on the level that you would like to see from a presidential candidate. And the fact that she is coming as close as she is to the presidency should be of great concern for every American who cares about the safety of Americans overseas and our interests in places like the Middle East.

Well, in the past, it doesn't take long to remember that John Kerry flip-flopped. I was for the war before I was against it. And famously, George H.W. Bush. Bush said, No, read my lips, no new taxes.

And those flip-flops, he ultimately paid the price. They both lost.

Now, Kamala Harris is looking to do them to the 10th power. She now is reversing herself on fracking, reversing herself on increasing funding for the border, reversing herself and taking your guns away and with a mandatory buyback program, reversing herself when it comes to private insurance. Didn't even say it herself, but put it out to the New York Times that the campaign is going to do this. You may remember these things called primaries. At that time, you usually flush out these things and end up with one person who represents your party.

They ended up with the wrong person who's not electable.

So they said, let's just reverse everything she said. Will this work, Ben Dominich? I actually am very concerned that it is going to work, Brian, because I think that they have so many water carriers. They have so many water carriers in the media, so many water carriers in Hollywood. They are going to try to produce the heck out of this and make her into a memeable, nice person who seems normal and seems well-adjusted and all these other things.

They're going to completely try to pull the wool over Americans' eyes. And the thing is, I do have confidence in the voters. I think if they actually get to know more about the real Kamala Harris, I think they'll make the right decision. But there are going to be so many people completely invested in making sure that doesn't happen that they're going to try their absolute best to prevent that from being knowledge that anybody has prior to election day. All right, get this.

She actually wants to portray herself tougher than Trump on the border. Listen to this. Here's nine seconds of her ad, cut nine. Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents. Donald Trump blocked a bill to increase the number of Border Patrol agents.

Number 10. Kamala Harris prosecuted transnational gang members and got them sentenced to prison. Trump is trying to avoid being sentenced to prison. There's two choices in this election: the one who will fail.

So she actually is portraying herself tough on the border.

Now, normally, that would be a third rail for Democratic voters because that could be anti-Hispanic. They would never say that.

Now she realizes the whole country has moved away from their policies, so she's changing her own policy, what she said in 2020, how she acted prior to becoming senator. She is counting on the fact That the progressive left within her own party, you know, which is, you know, however you count it, you know, maybe it's one out of four, maybe it's one out of three. You know, it's a chunk of the party, and she is counting on them to be there for her because they hate Donald Trump and because they hate everything that he stands for, regardless of the fact that they know that she's lying when she says all this. She's lying to the American people so that they will think of her as being a tough on crime, tough on the border person. When in reality, she was never that.

She never was that. And it's complete hypocrisy. By the way, that deal that she's talking about, you know, as I told you before, you know, at the time, that was a complete trap. It was designed to, you know, set up a whole situation where they would have been able to. A bipartisan deal with Langford leading the right.

It just would not have been the kind of thing that we need to do as a country. But here's my own opinion about her. She is a cipher. She is a chameleon. She is somebody who is going to adapt to everything that is demanded of her in the moment and is not going to be held.

In any way to account for all the different positions that she's had over the course of her career, and the media and Hollywood and every Democratic donor is going to be out there completely behind her because they understand her as a vehicle for everything that they want to achieve. Ben Dominic, who would be the most formidable foe for Republicans to debate against, to run against, for a running partner for Kamara Harris? Would it be? Kelly, would it be Shapiro? I think on paper, Mark Kelly has a phenomenal resume.

On paper, I think that he's great. I think that if they want to really try to win in the blue wall situation, you go Shapiro because I think that he's worth a couple of points in Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania, as you know, is a key state. But if she's going to go the sort of southwestern, you know, sunbelt route and try to put Georgia back on the map for the Democrats, try to compete in North Carolina and the like, I think that picking somebody like Kelly, who's a veteran, who obviously can bring up the gun issue, whose wife survived an assassination attempt, he's an actual astronaut, it's hard to go against that in terms of a resume. And I think that he would be a smart choice as well. I know, you know it better.

You know Arizona well. You know Arizona politics well. But I just feel like he's such a disappointment. I thought he was going to be a mansion-type character standing up for Democratic Border. I completely agree.

He's been a very bad senator. Senator, if you actually look at his record. And he's depicted as being centrist or moderate when he's nothing of the kind. I mean, as opposed to somebody like Cinema, who really has been, you know, a centrist in a number of respects. And he is just as radical when it comes to things like getting rid of the filibuster, when it comes to things like court packing and the like.

But he has this facade of being sort of a moderate, just because of his mood and just because of his background. And that's something that I think Republicans will have to press against if he's the choice. Listen to John King on CNN say the problem with Shapiro. Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro is being discussed as one of Harris's potential running mates. He also endorsed her tonight.

In your view, what are the pros and cons for putting him on the ticket?

Well, he's certainly under consideration. I know that from key Harris allies. He's a first-term governor. He's Jewish. There could be some risks in putting him on the ticket.

But certainly some of our voters here in Pennsylvania said, hey, we like Governor Shapiro. We'll give him a look.

Some risk of putting a Jewish guy on the ticket? I mean, this is ridiculous, but it's also something that I think acknowledges a truth about the Democratic coalition right now, Brian. It's terrible. And the fact is that putting a Jewish candidate on that ticket could end up being something that ends up highlighting the gap between where most Americans are on the question of Israel and defending them and their right to exist, and where the far-left progressives are on this issue in a way that, frankly, speaks to the Rashidah Tlaibs of the world and is an absolute joke, by the way, and has no place within our politics. Lastly, you know, I am not a conspiracy guy.

I'm the last one to hop in any conspiracy train, but the biggest decision we'll go down and look back in this election is who put Joe Biden in to debate in June? Because it exposed him, allows him to be swapped out. Maybe our first clue is today, Anita Dunn. Anita Dunn is the first of Joe Biden's advisors to leave the administration, and she's joining Harris. Guess who was in charge of debate prep?

Guess whose husband played Donald Trump? That would be Anita Dunn. Look, she's been around for a while. I've clashed with her a couple times over the years. She hates her.

And yes, she does. Yes, she does, Brian. But look, I think if she was the one who made this happen, from the perspective of her party, she did a good service in the sense that they feel like getting Joe out, getting him out there as early as he did with that debate was the only path toward getting the nominee that they actually wanted.

So your pro inside job. Destroy me. This is a key involvement.

Sorry, man. Wow. I don't want to go to the Christmas party at Spectator World. No, no, I think, man, it's conspiracies all the way down at this point in Washington, and it's been a crazy time in politics this past month. Absolutely.

Ben Dominic, thanks so much. I'll talk to you. Again soon. We'll be back or wrapped up this hour on the Brian Killmeat show. Hear the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here.

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Well, that doesn't mean that the left has to use it. I don't agree with that. I don't think you should use the word weird. Call him what he is, a convicted felon. Yeah, that's better.

Oh, that is Joy Behart. She's such a delight, but she doesn't understand weird either. I did this last night on Gutfeld. Thanks to that whole staff for doing such a great job. We did a whole thing on it.

It makes no sense. For one thing, I don't think weird is bad. If you know, I think Portland and Austin have weird in their city motto: keep Portland weird, keep Austin weird. You know how many people are looked at as weird and different? You should take that with a degree of pride.

Also, aren't we supposed to be a society that tolerates people? You know, Einstein looks a little weird to me. You know, it seems like Elon Musk is just a little weird. Thomas Edison seems to be obsessed with this whole quest he has to a light bulb. Henry Ford's got this idea of automation and mass manufacturing.

That seems kind of weird. It seems kind of weird that he flew down to Brazil just to get cut a deal with all the rubber that helped build the tires that revolutionized the Western world and then eventually the entire planet. That's kind of weird. It's kind of weird not to have any days off. It's kind of weird to want to surf all day.

What is normal?

So, in other words, let's elect someone normal as a co- uh as as as who would define it. I just think the weir is almost a compliment, but it's also a realization that saying that either side is going to be the end of democracy. is wrong. Nobody was buying.

So at least that would bring down the temperature again. But this weird thing is going to go right away. I think by next week. Ryan killed me, Joe. Hey, it's Clay Travis.

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