Trump steps in it with Harris race comments

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. All right, everyone, welcome to the latest moments of the Brain Kill Me Show. And right away, we're dealing with some big news, and that is the hostage swap. It looks like Evan Gerskovich of the Wall Street Journal and Paul Whelan, the former Marine who's been in jail since 2018 in Russia, are going to be heading home.

This could involve between 20 and 30 prisoners, multiple countries. This thing was probably very much in the works for months because we heard that we didn't really have any Russians.

Now we understand that four or five Russians who were being held for smuggling and smuggling and Various other operations and espionage have disappeared from the FBI prisoner rolls, and we assume that they're a part of it. We also know that Vladimir Karamusa, a Russian-British dissident journalist, also jailed in Russia, was also reported to have disappeared from view in a good way, as in to be packed up and left. Moscow Times reporting that the individuals recently disappeared from the federal inmate database. And when we talk about that, we're talking about the four to five Russians that we held. Speculations that the swap was imminent was raised by Slovenian broadcaster N1 Slovenia earlier in the week.

The repositories cited an exchange including the U.S., Germany, Russia, and Belarus. Russia and Belarus are basically the same. It claims up to 30 prisoners being exchanged are true. It'd be the largest prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia since the end of the Cold War.

Kind of interesting, too, as we get more and more information, and it's great news to be prisoned against your will, to be imprisoned for no reason, I should say, and then put into a penalty. Colony, which every day is torture and terrible conditions for no reason because you didn't do anything just because you're an American and to get freed, that's good news. We'll find out the cost because we did know that Brittany Griner, who was arrested, held for about eight months, was exchanged for one of the most notorious arms dealers in the world, Victor Boot, who many people died trying to capture.

So we'll see at what cost. Josh Crash Hour will be joining us in about ten minutes. Bottom of the hour, Scott Besson, CEO and Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Keysquare Group, will be with us, and we'll look to find that. In fact, Dan Hoffman might be a good guy to contact guys 'cause he's all over this. He's still got Russia contacts there.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. If the Iranians believed. that they are on the target list when Hezbollah attacks Israel, and when Hamas attacks Israel, they will reduce the attacks. Right now, they don't believe that we will do anything against their interest in Iran.

That is Lindsey Graham, of course, talking about the retaliation promised by Ayatollah Khomeini as Israel takes out a Hamas commander in Tehran, while they also announce that they've killed the number two of the military wing of Hamas in Gaza. And Joe Biden in the U.S. essentially sits this one out. It's unbelievable. Number two.

This administration has a real problem throughout the entire thing from the Defense Department through to the Secret Service with one word. That's accountability or the lack thereof. That is Michael Walt, assassination investigation. Moving forward, thanks to Fox News Digital, not the FBI, as new video shows. The shooter walking across the roof in full view before shooting the president, poking more holes in the Secret Service testimony that they couldn't have seen him because he was so low.

It looks like Congress is the only hope of getting us all a complete picture of this horrific day. Number one. Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman? She was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black.

Donald Trump, head to head, back to brawling for Trump. It was a throwdown at a black journalist convention. Not sure anything emerged looking good for either side. Harris was also a no-show in Chicago, but free to flip-flop on more left-wing stances. We don't know if she was lying when she was saying them or evolving now because she will not sit down and do a single interview.

That must change as her honeymoon continues. And she'll get a continue to jolt as she names a running mate. They'll go around to the battleground states. And then she'll go to the DNC, and that'll help. And Trump has got to keep his powder dry, and he's got to stop with the name calling.

We don't care if she's Indian, we don't care if she's black. I'm Irish and Italian. You can call me Italian, you can call me Irish, call me one, the other, not the other. It doesn't matter. I mean, it doesn't matter.

It just, it's all about doesn't matter male or female. This is what she stands for. That's enough. This is what you stand for. That's enough.

She asked you to compare records. Mr. President, you want that comparison. Believe me. All the polls say you want that comparison.

Outside Roe v. Wade being overturned, Democrats have absolutely nothing to run on. Zero. But we'll talk about that. Here's a little of the exchange that Trump walked into, cut one.

You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist. You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Laga resort.

So my question, sir.

Now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, Why should black voters trust you? after you have used language like that.

Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question.

So in in such a horrible manner, a first question. You don't even say hello, how are you? For you to start off a question and answer period, especially when you're 35 minutes late because you couldn't get your equipment to work in such a hostile manner, I think it's a disgrace.

Okay, another thing. Part of her question is totally inaccurate. He calls reporters dumb. He doesn't call black reporters dumb. If he doesn't like the question, he doesn't care what color you are.

And you don't need me to say that. All of us know Donald Trump by now. If you didn't know him before 2016, you know him now. And you know that if he sees a bad question, he doesn't say, Well, I better not say that because it's a woman, I better not say it because he's Hispanic. He says, Oh, it's a dumb question.

It doesn't mean Hispanic journalists are dumb or women are dumb.

So number one. I don't know if he's willing to dig in on that. I don't know if that makes sense. Same thing with Rosie O'Donnell. He's like, when Megan Kelly asked him, you said this about women, he goes, no, just Rosie O'Donnell.

Because it's that person attacked him. He doesn't worry about the backlash. Because they started it and he answered it.

So he didn't like the tone? Rachel Scott came out ripping. I don't think that's a good tenure to make. Evidently, no Republican has shown up for this in 20 years.

So at the very least, Scythe asks, listen, no one's really come. We asked you to come. You did. knowing that you'd been shot two weeks before. You could always start the whole event and say, listen, the assassination attempt, are you happy with where the investigation is going so far?

Well And then, by the way, this is what you said in the past. Then you're going to get better answers, as opposed to really? I just traveled here, waited 40 minutes, can't even hear Harris Faulkner at the end, and you're going to come up and attack me.

Now, you and I might answer differently, but you and I weren't elected president once and a leading more than likely about to get it again.

So I'm not putting myself in that category. But I also think the Tayen Kambala Harris is Philippines, excuse me, is Indian and not black, or black and not Indian. It doesn't matter. Nobody cares. You know, and nobody cares.

Howe identifies. It's the she was attorney general. She was a DA. She was a senator. Vice President.

And she said to you, Let's compare records. That's all you need. Here's some of the fallout front. I don't think it's that big of a deal, especially with this great news about the hostage swap, especially with the other news coming down the pike. Here's Mara Gay on MSNBC, Cut 14.

She's the New York Times editorial board. Yeah, there was one more thing that I noticed when I watched the event yesterday, which was the deeply held personal, racial, animus, and contempt that Donald Trump showed for the black women interviewing him and the journalists in the room. I believe it's going to be, if he does take up Kamala Harris's challenge to debate him, I believe that's going to be a problem for him with everyone outside of that Republican, the most rabbit right-wing base people.

So it's not going to be a problem with him. Keep in mind. Trump has never Toured Biden apart personally, and Biden tore him apart personally. They attacked each other personally, they attacked each other on issues brutally. And they have been from day one.

He went at Hillary Clinton from day one brutally because she's an opponent, not because she's a woman. That's what people don't get. That's when you go over the top. When you say, well, a black woman, it's not a black woman. He went to a black journalist conference, and that woman asked him abrasive questions.

You know who also got it? Caitlin Collins. I got to find out. I got to do her 23andMe, but I'm pretty sure she's not black. Right?

Oh, well, he has a problem with women.

Well, then he has a problem with Joe Biden. He's got a problem with Stephanopoulos. I don't think Stephanopoulos identifies as a woman, although I have not heard his pronouns yet. And I hate to do this, but here's Al Sharpton, cut 15. We've been asking the wrong question.

A lot of people, when it came out that the National Association of Black Journalists had invited him, were saying, Why would you invite him? The real question is, why did he accept? He accepted the goal to do exactly what he did. He wanted to go and say, I will stand up to these blacks. I will put them in line.

That has been the basis of his campaign. All right. If you don't like his response, I get it, but now you're projecting what Donald Trump's thinking. I'm going to go to a black journalist conference. He was shocked at that first question.

And if he has a problem with a black journalist, he doesn't seem to have a problem with Harris Faulkner, who treats him fairly. And always has. And they go back and forth. The longest interview he's done, by the way. But no one brings that up.

Because he works at Fox Maybe. Listen, when we come back, I got to get Josh Krasauer on the breaking news that Evan Gorskovich and Paul Whelan are out. We know they just picked up a ballet dancer, also in Russia. I hope she's out too. This could be 30 or 40 people.

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It's Brian Kilmade. We all here remember what those four years were like. And today, we were given yet another reminder. This afternoon Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists. And it was the same old show.

The divisiveness and the disrespect. From the reporters. True. And you did not show up.

Okay. Listen, Trump was definitely ambushed. He should have been should know it. The other thing that Trump's got to do a better job doing is I welcome him in Josh Trash Hour, editor in politics for the National Journal, editor-in-chief of Jewish Insider, Fox News Radio political analyst. Josh, the president's got to do a good job talking about stuff he's done.

I mean, he could have rattled off at this convention four or five things right off the bat. that the black community benefited from. And I think that he was so thrown off by that first question It was it was in the fight mode. Welcome. Yeah, Brian, I think that's right.

I mean, look, that was not helpful to Donald Trump's campaign. He has. He had the opportunity to contrast the fact that he was showing up at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference while Harris didn't. She didn't go in person. He had plenty of opportunity to go after her record, which I think has been a big missed opportunity, just writ large, Brian, for the campaign since she ascended to the top of the ticket.

She's To the left on crime and law and order. And that's an issue that affects black communities all across the country. And it's one where Biden had a real vulnerability, and the Democratic Party writ large has had a real vulnerability. Immigration, the economy. I mean, there's such a litany of issues that Trump could have hit Harris on pretty effectively with a broad audience paying attention on television.

And instead, he focused on her her ethnicity. Look, I I that it reminded me yesterday, Brian, of of Trump In 2016, where he would say insulting and aggressive, you know, just be on the attack 100% of the time, a little bit on different. He won that election. I think people who think this is going to have some big impact on the campaign are sort of fooling themselves. This is a divided country.

The polls show a very, very close race. But it's also a missed opportunity. That was a golden opportunity for Trump to show. Yeah, like he's set, you know, hit records for, at least in recent decades, for Republicans winning over black voters. That's something to brag about.

That's something to talk about. Didn't take that opportunity really effectively. And I think he opened himself up to attack as he played that clip from Harris after his event later in the day in Houston. You know, she's now saying she's sort of. I think effectively kind of swatted it off saying she's focused on the future and Trump's focused on these petty attacks.

And I think it was a real missed opportunity for the Republican nominee. Yeah, Joshua, we're also talking about this prisoner swap here. We don't know what's involved. It could be 20, 30 people, but Evan Garskovich of the Wall Street Journal, Paul Whelan, held since 2018. It looks like they could be out already.

But they say 30 or 40.

So far, I haven't seen any indication if that involves any Ukrainians and Russians in the war, but they have Belarusian, Slovenia, Britain. Evidently, we're seeing that some of these countries are involved because I did not know we had four or five Russians here. Yeah. We don't know all the details yet of who the Russians are getting, who's been released from US or European prisons that we have in custody. But look, it's a great day that It seems like Evan Grushkovich is on his way home.

He's free. He was jailed for doing his job as a journalist at the Wall Street Journal. It was a. Travesty of justice. And it was every day that he was being held in a Russian gulag was a day that was just reminded us of how brutal and awful the Russian regime is, the Putin regime is.

Same with Paul Whelan, he's been in custody. uh for over six years uh and his family has been waiting So this is a good day for for the country though, I think the details of who was released I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of money. Pretty problematic figures that were being held that they're going to be released to Russia as well. Josh, how long have you been following politics, doing it for a living? Boy.

Over twenty years now. You're perfectly lined up to answer this question, to put it in perspective. I know about flip-flopping on certain issues. I get I'm not going to raise taxes. Bush forty-one, he really paid the price.

John Kerry, you know, I was for the war before I was against it. He paid the price for that. But when I see that Vice President Harris is now reversing herself on fracking, now for it, reversing herselves on banning ICE, or reimagining ICE now leave it alone, describing hiring more police officers as wrong-headed, now she's for it, weighing the pro well, getting rid of not no longer weighing on a proposal to have felons vote, eskewing that she ever said mandatory buyback program when it comes to assault weapons. She's changing at least ten policies without saying it through her staff, without explaining it. Have you can this be pulled off?

There's no primary process to really Test this strategy.

So now we have somebody who didn't get any primary votes, changing everything she stands for.

Okay. Yeah, look, she's gonna have to sit down for a dinner. I mean, she's I would. She's going to be subjected to this is a honeymoon period for the vice president, and she's gotten a sugar high in the polls as a result. The media coverage, frankly, has been kind of solicitous of someone who's been in the question.

Yeah, I mean, a very solicitous. I mean, I agree with you, Brian. I don't think but look. she's only been essentially the dominee or the expected nominee for for a couple of weeks now. I've been Just gonna be the convention, she's gonna pick a running mate, and this is gonna be more like a kind of a British.

Three-month-style campaign where it's really going to get underway, and the attacks are going to come fast and furious after the convention in August. She's gonna have to sit down for the the honeymoon is not gonna last forever. She has, you mentioned, a litany of positions that she took during the 2020 campaign on some of the most important issues. That voter space on crime, on the economy, on energy policy, that she took. positions aligned with the very radical left, the bail issue uh about about the BLM rioters.

And that's a huge, huge vulnerability. That that just to name name one other one that that that that's out there.

Now Trump needs to prosecute this camp. I mean that that that's I think what I've been talking to a lot of Republicans the last week that are sort of shocked that Trump isn't bringing this up effectively. he's good at going on the attack, yet he's not had a consistent, clear message on this front about about flip floppy and on on on her twenty twenty track record and and beyond and beyond that.

So I mean, he's ultimately the media's not going to make the case. Necessarily, it's going to have to be the Trump campaign. Thanks so much, Josh Krisha, and we'll see who the number two will be. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. I will tell you that coming Coming From the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs.

You have the best. What exactly is a black job, sir? A black job is anybody that has a job. That's what it is. Anybody that has a job.

So they didn't like that term black jobs, but specifically what President Trump is pointing out is that many in the black community are extremely upset that they're dumping illegal immigrants into these inner cities, oftentimes into their neighborhoods, and oftentimes they're taking away jobs from people who rather make who write checks off the books or not write checks, pay cash off the books, and maybe not hire people, in many cases working class African Americans.

Now, Charles Payne was on last night with Jesse Waters and said this is how Trump really should have answered. Listen. When President Biden, President Trump talks about black jobs, And then you hear black people, oh, I'm offended. What is a black job? This is what he's talking about.

According to McKinsey, the number one consulting firm in the world. 45% of black private sector workers work in three industries. Three industries. Healthcare, retail, accommodation, and food. These industries also share some of the highest share of workers making less than $30,000.

So, in retail, it's 73%, in food it's 84%. The bottom line is: why do black people have these poor paying jobs in the first place? That ABC reporter asked Trump, why should black people trust you? The real question is: why have we trusted Democrats for 60 years and still trust them to this day if this is the fact?

So, Charles Payne came armed. He wasn't asked that question, but he said, By the way, let me just answer it for the president. And I did not know that. 45% of all black jobs are in healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food, and they average less than $30,000 a year.

So, when people come waltzing in and say, I'll take that job and I'll take less money, and they paid off the books, that's how they're affected. And when you go ahead and open up the border and allow and resettle everybody into these cities, and it's not just the governor of Texas and buses, it's what's happening. They're coming to these cities because they want more opportunity because the denser the city, the more opportunity they looked at. And now that seems there's more social services that they could get.

So I thought Charles just killed it last night.

So glad Eric was able to find that. And that's pretty true.

So, you know, talk about economic situations. I thought Trump missed a few opportunities there. They'll talk about the opportunity zones that came up. And I think at one point he did bring it up, but he was more struck by the tone. The tone that was at that event.

But Trump Bonetton had a successful rally right after. And what you're seeing on the other side is somebody totally changing their stance who wants to. Thoroughly back the new Green Deal cost $14 trillion. She was thoroughly for that. This is why she blew up.

Because The new Green Deal is unaffordable and sustainable and it's not practical, and the portion that was put into play has been an absolute embarrassment and it's been a lead weight on the entire economy, affecting all of us. And before we move on, and Scott Besson just got in here, I want you to hear from Sage Steele last night, black journalist started in sports, now doing her own podcast. You see her all over the channel, Cut 12. The man on your stage is a former president, potentially the 47th president, who was almost murdered two and a half weeks ago. How about, how are you doing?

Before we get in here, which by the way, he said it, he took the time to come. Where was Kamala? Where was a couple of weeks ago? You know who was in Detroit? It was Donald Trump and the black community.

Obama hadn't gone there. Biden hadn't gone there. Donald Trump, like him or not, takes the time to have the conversation and as a journalist to start that way to me. Was so disheartening, and it is everything that's wrong with journalism to try to get clickbait and react out of that audience instead of having a a potentially a really riveting, productive conversation. Shame on her.

And that'll sage steal. Scott, welcome back. Good, Brian. Thanks for having me. CEO, Chief Investment Officer, founder of Key Square Group, whose name was brought up last week.

You probably remember, although there's been such the news cycle has been so crazy that as a possible Treasury Secretary, should Donald Trump win.

So we just played We just played with the president said, but they take black jobs. What are black jobs? And I saw that. I saw that Charles Payne said 45% of all black jobs are in retail, food, and hospitality. And that probably would have been an effective answer for that question.

When you want to do something positive in the economy for a segment of society like the African Americans, what should you be thinking of?

Well, you you should be thinking o of wh where are their jobs and they're the They are middle America, working class America, and Donald Trump. Uh it was was fantastic for that group. When we look back, Kamala Harris said Donald Trump wants to take us back.

Well, Americans want to go back. They want to go back to 2017, 2018, 2019. Kamala Harris and Jerome Powell, they were the arsonists for this inflation. Kamala Harris spread the gasoline. She cast the deciding vote.

Four. The American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act Without her, it would not have passed. It was 50-50 in the Senate. And then, you know, Jerome Powell threw on the match by delaying the. delaying hiking interest rates.

So you know they're both complicit. And now she's trying to run from her record. But Donald Trump was great for working Americans. The black community enjoyed 7.5% wage gains. Under him, higher than the white community.

I think Hispanics enjoyed about a 4% wage gain, and working class people prospered. And Brian, here before I've talked about the three I's, inflation, interest rates and immigration. And Borders are harassed that they're trying to memory hole and scrub that. This immigration for black Americans has been terrible. I want you to hear what she said.

She knows inflation is a problem, and now she wants to run from the $14 trillion new Green Deal that she was fully backing. Here yesterday was the question and answer cut 18. What else? Are you going to do to fix this problem with inflation? All right, thank you.

Well, let's start with this. Prices have gone up. If you pause this a second, this is not from yesterday. I thought this was important. She just got got this Q and A.

It's important for people to understand what the Vice President is like without a script. When asked about inflation, Scott, I'll ask you about inflation. But here's what the Vice President said.

Now you can continue. What else? Are you going to do to fix this problem with inflation? All right, thank you.

Well, let's start with this. Prices have gone up. And families and individuals. are dealing with the realities of That that bread costs more, that gas costs more. And we have to understand what that means.

That's about the cost of living going up. That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level.

Something that is a heavy weight to carry.

So it is something that we take very seriously.

So you're an adjunct professor. Very seriously. You're an adjunct professor at Yale. If that was your student. What would you say?

Clearly, it it's an F. She needs to do more homework. She probably didn't turn her paper in on time. Yeah, it it's an unsatisfactory answer. She and she she was Joe Biden's co-pilot in the inflation plane, and they crashed the American economy into the side of the mountain.

Like w we'll you know, we'll see who was in the control tower, but she was part of this. And you know, she needs to own these policies. They failed the American people, working class Americans. If you look at the University of Michigan consumer the Ford inflation expectations, the median expectation is three percent. The bottom twenty five percent of wage earners, their median inflation expectation is six percent, so twice the median.

Working class people are getting squeezed on both sides. Thanks to the Biden-Harris policies. Prices are up and their wages are down. By the way, we're following two stories. U.S.-Russia in a major prisoner swap, at least two countries, expected to be more, including Britain, Slovenia, Belarus.

It looks like if they're not in custody already, Paul Wheel in the Marine and Evan Gurskovich of the Wall Street Journal should be in U.S. custody shortly. We have about five or six Russian prisoners. We evidently were smuggling, counterfeiting, money laundering. We have them.

It looks like they've disappeared from FBI prisoner rolls. We think this is part of the process. It's been top secret. It's been embargoed. We kept it down, but now it's out.

So obviously, the Wall Street Journal is not covering this too extensively. They don't want to get too far ahead of it, but they've worked tirelessly to get Evan out.

So I want to talk about the economy in general. Today, a story came out: the retirement savings crisis, why more Americans can't afford to stop working. They say retirement is increasing. It's become a luxury right now that many American workers can't afford. With rising housing costs, medical expenses, and without the pensions that buoy previous generations, millions of older Americans just can't stop working.

Have you heard this before? And pensions are something that have dissipated in years. Uh and with this generation. Is there an attack plan for this? If you mean by the the Trump campaign, sure.

I was with my sister last week, who used to be an economist. She's probably the best economist in the family. And she said, how are we going to get these Prices are high. Do they have to stay high? What's the plan for getting them down?

And I said, you know, the threefold. One is to Exercise U. S. energy dominance. We're going to get gasoline prices down.

The Biden administration has been very harsh on the energy companies. Even though they keep saying, well, we're producing more than we ever did before, but not potentially what we could be doing. If if you looked at the twenty twenty projections for US crude production, we are supposed to be at fifteen million barrels. We are slightly above the twenty twenty level.

So twenty twenty four, we were supposed to be at fifteen million barrels. We are slightly above the twenty twenty production, and that's just through the ingenuity of the frackers and the oil industry. They kill you with regulations, right?

Well, they they kill you with regulation. There's no permitting new permits on federal land. There's new No new permits in the Gulf of Mexico. They've stopped all the transmission. And they're filing these antitrust and collusion suits.

It's a mess.

So immediately get energy prices down. If we get this, we're at a seven percent budget deficit. This budget deficit is what is one of the things causing the high interest rates. Once you get the spending under control, interest rates will come down. When interest rates can come down, mortgage rates can come down.

Mortgage rates For the same house, they are up about 100%. Since the Biden administration came into office. Kamala Harris has to own that. Car payments are up about 30 to 40 percent since they came into office.

So once you stop this spending cycle, we won't be talking about is there one rate cut, is there two rate cuts? We could have a series of rate cuts. Right. There's a few things going on. Also, it's been proposed, I believe, from Trump's side is stop taxing Social Security.

How would that if in starting in 1983, you were taxing Social Security, which means you're really getting it coming and going because it's your money, correct? And you get half your salary traditionally. And do you think that that even though we have a deficit that needs to be tackled, do you think that's something that could help seniors? Of course. And in my home state, South Carolina, we don't tax Social Security, and that's why so many people are moving in.

We're the number one state for new arrivals because seniors are treated well. And what's really happened here is there's a level above which Your earnings, social security gets taxed. That was not indexed to inflation. Not indexed to inflation.

So, you know, the levels have shot up. The cost of living has shot up.

So I think President Trump is on to something with cutting taxation on these Social Security benefits. You know, the Biden administration, they accuse Republicans of attacking Social Security, attacking retirement.

Well, they've ruined people's retirement with this inflation. All right. Scott Besant is here. He's CEO, Chief Investment Officer, founder of Key Square Group. He has had extensive conversations with President Trump about his approach to the economy.

Should he get back in, which has led him to become, in most circles, leading contender to be the next Treasury Secretary. He's going to be here for a few more minutes. We also would like to keep you up to date on the hostage swap that's going, the prisoner swap that's taking place right now. Find out what we had to give up to get back these great Americans. As usual, Americans with a heart are willing to give up more to get our people back.

And if you want to know what the Russians think of their people, look at the rotting bodies on the battlefield. They don't even effort to pick up. After when the Ukrainians kill him. Don't move. Brian Killmicho.

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Inflation is down and wages are up, prices are still too high. You know it and I know it. And when we win this election, here's what we're going to do about it. On day one, I will take on price gouging and bring down costs. Really?

Price gouging is a problem? That does sound like Joe Biden. Scott Besant is here, CEO, Chief Investment Officer and founder of Key Square Group. Is that going to work, Scott? Price gouging is not going to bring down costs.

What's going to bring down cost is getting energy costs lower, getting the budget deficit under control. And the Democrats aren't going to get the budget deficit under control. Look, I've spent a lot of time in Argentina, and the finance minister there used to walk around with a gun in supermarkets and fire it to try to get them to lower prices. Maybe she'll change her mind on gun control and walk around with a gun and fire it to try to get the supermarkets to lower prices. But you know, the constant refrain is the CEOs, these corporations, they're the fat cats destroying the common man.

And supermarkets, for example, have so much profit that they are gouging people. They're charging all this money for groceries. It's not the gas for the trucks. It's not for the goods. It's all because of price gouging by supermarket owners.

It's crazy.

Well, it's crazy. And there's no gouging going on at McDonald's. McDonald's actually. We went to a $5 meal, and they're taking in the chops on margins to try to get customers back. Because, you know, wages are up, food's up, transport's up, insurance is up.

So, you know, this is the whole thing that they set off. This is the arsonists trying to put out the fire. Right. And people mind, they've just, all they care about is electric trucks. They want everything electric, using our money, deficit money, to incentivize people to buy electric cars, which we have not even built the infrastructure for.

And you know, the infrastructure deal. They've built eight terminals over the last two and a half, three years. Eight terminals. They were supposed to hook up rural America with the internet. They've done absolutely nothing.

Yeah, and Brian, the other thing we haven't talked about is. All are all these new regulations A group called the Committee to Unleash Prosperity believes that the Harris-Biden increase in regulations have increased costs to households by $6,000 per household. $6,000. It went down $2,000 under President Trump. When they keep saying that we have the strongest economy in the world, are they right?

We have A headline strong economy because of the large budget deficit. I think we are in a very fragile equilibrium. We've never done this before. We are spending 7% during peacetime or non-recessionary.

So they're just spend, spend, spend, which is creating a high headline number. It's kind of like an athlete who takes steroids, looks great on the outside, it's killing your internal organs, and then eventually you. You have some kind of malaise. Real quick, the music's coming on, but do you like the fact that the president went to Nashville for the Bitcoin conference to talk to those leaders? I think it's great.

I think the democratic policies on Bitcoin have been atrocious. And, you know, Bitcoin and crypto are freedom, and it's a new technology, and we should embrace it. Yeah, I shouldn't say crypto, my bad. Scott Besson, thanks so much. Always interesting.

I look forward to talking to you again soon. Brian Kilmeichaire. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Killmee. Hi Bon from 48th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world.

The Brian Kill Me show in full swing and full stride. We got a busy hour coming to your way, Mark Thiessen standing by and the great Jonathan Turley to talk about what this whole colleague Sheikh Muhammad, getting life in prison, not getting a trial, part of a plea deal, why that works to our advantage. I'm a little concerned. I think he's going to end up in an American prison. I don't think spending $12 million a year on each prisoner is really working out for the American taxpayer.

And the fact that they were laughing in prison all day makes me think they're not really learning the lesson that prison should be rehab from your extreme views, if you know what I'm saying.

So before we get to them, and we are watching this breaking story, the U.S.-Russian prisoner swap that involves other countries. The Daily Mail saying 30 to 40 has Evan Gerskovich as well as Paul Whelan among the prisoners that could be in U.S. custody by now. Let's uh go to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. If the Iranians believe. That they are on the target list when Hezbollah attacks Israel, and when Hamas attacks Israel, they will reduce the attacks. Right now, they don't believe that we will do anything against their interest in Iran.

Right, because we've shown so somewhat weakness and equivocation. That's a Lindsey Graham. Retaliation promised by Atoll Khomeini on Israel as they take out the Hamas commander in Tehran. While they also announced that they killed the Israelis, the number two Hamas leader of their military wing in Gaza. And Joe Biden of the U.S.

essentially sits this one out. Number two, this administration has a real problem throughout the entire thing, from the Defense Department through to the Secret Service, with one word: that's accountability. Assassination thereof. Yep, assassination investigation moves forward thanks to Fox News Digital, not the FBI. We get new video of the shooter walking across the roof in full view while Trump was talking.

That before the shooting even started, poking more holes in the Secret Service who said we couldn't see him because he was laying on his belly. He was walking. Number one. Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman? She was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage.

I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. Yeah. Head-to-head, back to brawling for Donald Trump in a throwdown at a black journalist convention. Not sure they emerged looking good, anybody. Harris was also a no-show in Chicago, where she could have taken some real questions, but she decided to say no to the invitation.

Now she is free to flip-flop on more of her left-wing stances. I'm not kidding. We don't know if she was lying then or evolving now because she will not sit down for an interview. And let's bring in Mark Thiessen on that. Mark, just first, on Donald Trump's.

First off, on this prisoner squad, they could be in play right now. They could involve Slovenia, could involve Britain, and Belarus, and maybe even more, and Germany, and maybe even more countries. Your thoughts?

Well, we don't know a lot about it. It. Obviously, if Edwin Grskovich and Paul Whalen and some other Americans are coming home, that's obviously good news. And they were unjustly held and didn't do anything to cause their imprisonment.

So we want them home. But we have to see the full elements of the deal, and I'm bracing myself for what Biden gave away because Donald Trump. brought back more Americans in four years held in foreign captivity than Barack Obama did in all eight years, and he did it without sending pallets of cash to terrorist regimes or releasing Taliban commanders from Guantanamo and the other things that Obama did. And Biden has also given ransoms for hostages.

So if this is a straight prisoner swap, there's a long history of that. I'd be what I'd watch for is are there other elements to this deal? Are there other concessions that he made in order to get these Americans back? But obviously, wonderful for our, you know, our Fox and Wall Street General family for him to be home. And we're always celebrate when American is home.

All right, let's talk about what the Israelis did. They took out Ismail Hainiyah in Tehran while he slept, day after the inauguration of the new president.

Now they promised Iran direct attack back retaliation to Israel itself. And then we find out about DF, who is Mohammed D.F., who is the number two in the military wing in Gaza. He was killed in his wheelchair. Your thoughts about what the what the Israelis have shown they can do?

So here's the thing to think about, right?

So within 72 hours of Hezbollah. Massacring 12 Israeli children on a soccer field. They took out the Hezbollah leader, senior commander, who was responsible for that, and who, by the way, was also responsible for the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing that killed. uh lots of Americans. back then.

Within a day of that, The Israelis take out the number one leader of Hamas, and they didn't just take him out. They did it in Tehran. After He had just met with the Ayatollah Hameni, his terrorist patron. During the inauguration of the Iranian president, which was possibly the world's largest gathering of terrorists. And the message of that was any of you touch a freaking Israeli You have nowhere to hide.

We'll reach into the center of Tehran to take out terrorists who harm our people.

Now, contrast that. With Joe Biden. We are now a few weeks away from the third annual. anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing. And I remember Joe Biden stood after that bombing and said to the terrorists: you cannot run, you cannot hide, we will find you, we will make you pay.

And all he did was kill an aid worker carrying water bottles. And where three years later, he told us we've got an over-to-the-horizon capability in Afghanistan. We don't need boots on the ground in order to protect ourselves from terrorists. Three years later, where are the over the horizon strikes? Where is the r where is the justice?

For the families of the 13 Americans killed at Abbey Gate. We're now a few weeks away from the third anniversary. Nothing has happened. What the hell? Also, Mark, it turns out a lot of these weapons, according to some people I know, are turning up in Gaza that we left behind in Afghanistan, and it was billions.

Yes, would not.

So Mark, we see what happens. And the Hezbollah commander was killed. They promised retaliation. And we have said on the sidelines, and basically, Admiral Kirby yesterday says this isn't helpful to move off ceasefire negotiations. What plan are they on?

Well, I mean, are they even tra are they even reading the paper on this, let alone getting briefed on what's next?

So the I think it's very interesting that this all went down a few days after Netanyahu came back from meeting with Biden and Harris. Uh that he uh he uh he took a measure of uh the current and potentially future president and said, I'm gonna take bold action now. To defend to defend Israel because I can't listen to these people. Look, this is the architect. Netanyahu has done more to deter.

uh uh attacks on his country by the by the actions he's taken in the last few days than the Biden administration has in almost four years. This is a guy they they're the fact that they would say, oh, we shouldn't do this because this might endanger a ceasefire. These people are pushing Israel to accept a ceasefire that would leave Hamas in power in Gaza. Crazy. Are they kidding me?

This is And why would Netanyahu take advice from the architect of the worst foreign policy debacle in American history in Afghanistan, where he not only didn't avenge the killing of those Americans, his withdrawal released the the terror the suicide bomber from the prison at Bagram. He actually Free the guy. who ended up killing 13 Americans. Americans.

So, you know, I'm sorry, but I wouldn't be taking advice on fighting terrorists from Joe Biden. I wouldn't. Here's Marco Rubio, Cut 38. In the case of Hamas and the ceasefire, it is not going to impede talks on ceasefire because Hamas, the only ceasefire they want is a permanent one that allows them to regroup and rearm so they can go back and do again what they did on the 7th of October of last year. And as far as the guy that was killed, their civilian, their leader that came over for the inauguration of the new president in Iran.

This guy's the head. This is a guy who personally celebrated What happened on the 7th of October, which let me remind everybody was the rape and kidnapping and murder of innocent civilians, and vowed to do it again.

So he gets it. Marco Rubio gets it. He's like, why are you never talking about killing the person behind it, Sinoir? He's sitting there amongst our hostages, eight of which are ours. That's him.

They roughly know where he is, just like they knew where Mohamed DF was, but they wanted to wait for him to get away from people so they can try to get him out in the open, and they finally did. I think the same thing with Sinwar. You got to blow up the tunnels. You got to figure out a security plan because we are not helping in this. We just seem to be reacting, trying to get it over because we care about this administration cares about November more than they do now.

It's August. But, Mark, if I can, let's pivot to the 2024 election. If you thought that Kamala Harris was against fracking, you're wrong. She's now for it. If you thought she was against adding cops, you're wrong.

She is for it. If you thought that she was once a mandatory buyback program on rifles, you're wrong. She is now for it. If you thought she was for the new Green Deal, you're wrong. She's not for it.

So it's about 10, the list is 10 to 12. She's reversing everything in real time. Can that work? It won't work, and I'll tell you, as George Bush said, she was for it before she was against it. I mean, that's going to be the line.

that Republicans are not pulling out like, you know. Papers that her campaign put out, or talking points, or platforms, or other that. These things are all in her own words. This is audio and video of her saying. I would want to get rid of the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal.

I want to pass Medicare for all, and my plan is even more extensive than that of Bernie. I want to ban fracking. I want to ban red meat. I want to abolish ice. I want to give health care to illegal migrants.

You go through the list, it's all in her own words.

So She's suddenly like disavowing everything that she saw that she stood for for his or for her entire political career? It doesn't work. Either either she's a radical or she's a liar. Either she's a radical or she's a weather vane. Either one of those are disqualifying as president.

Right. At some point, she's got to sit down, you would think, on some answer, and she's going to say, Well, I evolved. And then she says, I want to compare records. I want to compare Trump's record to my record.

Okay. You don't have to say anything else. That's fine. It's the thing that was beating Joe Biden. It was Trump's record.

Yeah. Her her only Record is well, I mean, like her record in the Senate. was I don't 100 out of 100 senators to the furthest to the left. The least bipartisan pieces of legislation co-sponsored of any senator.

So that's her senate record before she joined the Biden administration. Her Biden administration record is she was a border czar. And I know she pretends that she wasn't, but she was. And if she the fact that she doesn't want to be known as the border sovereign is is an admission. that the border policy is an absolute disaster because if the border policy is a success, She'd be saying, You're damn right I was the border czar and I'm proud of it.

It's a badge of honor. for what we did at the border. It's a c it's an admission that the border policy Was an absolute catastrophe that she's trying to run from.

So if she wants to compare records, it's the Biden-Harris administration. I want you to hear.

So, Kamala Harris off script is where the wheels come off because, in my view, she hasn't studied. Here's an example. When asked just a few months ago about the number one issue in America, that's inflation, listen to this, Cut 18. What else are you going to do to fix this problem with inflation? Thank you.

Well, let's start with this. Prices have gone up. And families and individuals. are dealing with the realities of The f that bread costs more, that gas costs more. And we have to understand what that means.

That's about the cost of living going up. That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level.

Something that is a heavy weight to carry.

So it is something that we take very seriously.

All right, very seriously.

So, what grade would you give her on that? That's not bad. That's acknowledging the pain. I mean, that's a lot better than what Biden was doing, which was saying: look, inflation's better. Things are getting better.

All the 13 Nobel Prize-winning economists say that the economy is doing great. At least she's acknowledging the problems that the Americans have. The problem is. Her policies call Yeah. That's the part she can't get around.

He was the deciding vote. on the $1.7 trillion So-called COVID spending bill that unleashed the inflation. That Democrat economists like Larry Summers warned. would unleash the inflation. And so she was the deciding vote on that.

So it's not even just like she's a policy association. She was the president of the Senate in a 50-50 Senate, and she voted for it. And she casted the tiebreaking vote to put that into effect.

So she is personally responsible for unleashing the worst inflation in 40 years.

So I guess it's better than Biden in the sense that she's not denying it. But you have to see it, though. Yeah, she looks like me if they ask me to please design a nuclear bomb. I'm like, well, first, get a bomb. You know?

I mean, so. I've never I've never seen anything quite like it.

So, Mark. I would trust you to build a nuclear bomb more than I would trust her to run the country.

Well, thank you very much. It's the nice thing you've ever said about me, Mark. It's true. I say a lot of nice things. Oh, that's true.

Just not to my face, which I think makes it better. Oh, I got to get back to you on the podcast. I'm not behind your back. All right. So, Mark, how long does the honeymoon last?

Yeah. I mean, you know, how How are the American people supposed to evaluate her? She's just got a rope of dope and duck and weave for 100 days, and she's president. And the media is completely in the tank for her. They're going to let her change her positions.

They're going to. Cover for her. She all she's got to do is get through 100 days. I mean, this is why, you know, this is and and by the way, If they had had a primary It would have been the Democrats that softened her up with all these crazy policies. It would have been Josh Shapiro and Bashir and all the conservative Democrats saying she's too radical to get elected because look at all these crazy policies.

So by avoiding a primary, she got she avoided having this record exposed by her fellow Democrats. I hear you. It sounds like they're coming for you, Mark, so I'm going to let you go. They'll be knocking at your door shortly.

Okay. And I can't wait to do your podcast. We're going to do that soon. I can run it. I can hide, Brian.

Yes, you can. Back in a moment, Brian Killmee Show. Don't the turley, bottom of the hour. Hostage swap underway. Good news for us.

Back in a moment. Hear the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here. The Brian Kill Meat Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

35 minutes late because you couldn't get your equipment to work in such a hostile manner, I think it's a disgrace. Wow. Trump was like, listen up, black people. You're always late. Your microphone's a ghetto, and I'm Abraham Lincoln.

I mean I think he just won the black vote.

So that was the daily show, I imagine? Yeah. That was the rotating host. I love their slogan: the most hosted show in television. Because you have Jon Stewart on Monday, who I missed.

I guess took two weeks off after the big switch with presidential candidates. Usually does Monday. I'm wondering, have any of the late night shows, I have not seen them, any of the late night shows taking target practice at Kamala Harris for doing anything for You haven't seen anything, right? Do you go through them? Yeah, Justin, our intern, has been going through.

He said There hasn't been much. And that would take courage to go that would make me think like things are going back to normal. Trump did this, you did that. And you see that they're you see who they're bringing back now to play Kamala Harris for SNL? Maya Rudolph.

She's back.

So, just like this is an opportunity, I guess, for the next six months. But will they show any of her quirks? Will they show any of her lack of knowledge, lack of depth, switching of beliefs? They need to do the cackle. The laugh, or they're just going to make it look like a hero and Donald Trump look like Alex Baldwin portrays him.

So You're going to lose half the country, but I don't think they care at this point. Although you would think that Lorne Michaels, probably this could be his last year or next year, he'll go 50 years. All right, so when we come back, Jonathan Churley tells us about KSM, the deal they cut him more. Don't move. Explain that.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. The Biden-Harris Department of Justice cut a deal with Al-Qaeda terrorists. to lead Sheikh Muhammad to avoid the death penalty.

Now, as someone who enlisted in the Marines to serve after 9-11, That is ridiculous, but it's not surprising.

Now, just think about the point that we've gotten to. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have weaponized the Department of Justice to go after their political opponents, but they're cutting a sweetheart deal with 9-11 terrorists. We need a president who kills terrorists, not negotiates with them. J.D. Vance got a very nice welcome on the road.

He's having some trouble with the press. And some of his comments in the past, but he's very comfortable in front of people. He's extremely personable. And that's why people say, well, what a bad pick. I don't know.

You know, there's stuff in this past that should have been screened. But the thing that he's got going for him, extremely bright, nosy issues, and good on his feet and personable. He's at the border today, but he's talking about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his two cohorts who are going to get life in prison. But we're not going to see this whole, all these deliberations play out. Like in Nuremberg, you got a chance to see what the Nazis were up to.

You heard the case against them, and then you convicted them. We're not going to see that now. Jonathan Turley joins us, author of The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in the Age of Rage. Jonathan, are you surprised this deal was cut?

Well, we've heard rumors that they were moving towards this type of agreement. The argument of the Biden administration was that the defendants had been subject to torture, and there was a decision from an earlier court that threw out a confession because it was the product of what was called enhanced interrogation. Many judges view that as a euphemism for torture. What was a little bit surprising, more than I guess a little bit, is that it wasn't clear to me that these defendants Could not have been convicted on evidence derived outside of that program. I that there was a con there was a mountain of evidence against some of these individuals.

that was independent from anything that they said directly.

So there was a feeling among many prosecutors that you could accept the court's earlier ruling, you could accept that some of this information would have to be dropped out, but what remained on the table was sufficient to secure the death penalty.

So you're not worried about the waterboarding and that coming up if this thing was to go through a full trial? And it would go on for months. It would cost us a lot of money, too, just to try this case, because we got it on both sides. We're paying for his defense, right? And the prosecution.

Yes.

Now I was a critic of the waterboarding system and of that program. And so I believe that, that really was a mistake. But how they could thread that needle was part of what's been going on in these courts where prosecutors have said we actually can do that, that we can remove this stuff, that not everything is tainted.

Now having said that, to be fair to the other side, This could very well have gone on for another 20 years because it is a difficult process. to separate out evidence when you've subjected people to what many, including many in the world community, view as torture. And so they finally threw in the towel and said, you know what, we're going to go for life imprisonment. What's interesting about the agreement, by the way, is that one of the sticking points was that They wanted to guarantee that these individuals would not be put into solitary confinement. The Justice Department refused to do that.

The Diet Administration refused to do that. And they ultimately the defense had to drop that demand.

So these guys would very likely be subject to not just life imprisonment, but pretty dire and punishing conditions.

So we understand there's a push today in the Senate to pass essentially Legislation that would outstrip the immunity ruling from the Supreme Court. Allow Allow presidents to be prosecuted as if that's what the immunity ruling did say. They're not going to get the votes. What's the point?

Well, first of all, they're trying very much to reinforce what the President did and said. This is going to be something that Vice President Harris is campaigning on. There's not as many people who you'll notice are clamoring to do what the President has called for in, quote, reforming the Supreme Court. members are really running for the shadows whenever that is raised, because I think that generally people in Congress think it's a terrible idea. But this immunity question, they feel like that's a winner for the Democrat.

The problem is it's based on what you could call disinformation. Most of these members want to censor citizens for disinformation and yet they They are promulgating it. I mean, it is simply not true. It's not true that the Supreme Court said that presidents have absolute immunity from any possible criminal prosecutions. The Supreme Court adopted the middle road.

It rejected the view of the Trump team, it rejected the view of the lower courts, and it adopted an approach that's not unlike what it has done in other areas where congressional and executive authority can conflict. Jonathan Tully, our guest. Jonathan was brought up yesterday about. What's going on with the January 6th, or everybody that was put in prison because of it, and the Supreme Court ruling that affected those detained.

Now, before I play those clips and the challenges in January 6th, should you be in jail? What exactly did the ruling say about those detained on January 6th?

Well, I mean, we're still fighting over this question as to how long these detentions were warranted. The Department of Justice has continued to hammer on these cases. One of the things that I talk about in the indispensable right Is how excessive some of this effort was. The lead prosecutor said that this was an effort to commit, quote, shock and awe so that nobody in the future would try would consider coming and challenging something like the certification of an election again. And they carried that out.

They brought hundreds of cases. The vast majority of these people were charged with fairly minor offenses of trespass, unlawful entry, That's the vast majority here. These are people who entered the Capitol. It's also important to note that a very small percentage of the protesters engaged in actual violence, only a relative handful, about really about a dozen, were charged with even seditious conspiracy.

So there is this disconnect between the charges and what the Department of Justice was really parading as this shock and awe on the nation, where no one would be free from the crackdown if they were part of these protests. Jonathan, the other thing that came up on yesterday with that meeting of black journalists was qualified immunity as it relates to officers.

So they were talking about this. I don't want to get into this case and bias any future jury in Chicago, but a cop walked in there. This person was having a mental breakdown. The cop felt like she was about to throw boiling water on her and he shot her.

So this case was brought up. Should that cop in a situation like that be, if they had qualified immunity, would a lawsuit still be allowed? It's generally for qualified immunity. You have no protection if what you violated was an established. Rule, if it was clear that you didn't have that authority.

Generally, under the governing principles, if an officer fears serious bodily injury or death, they can use potentially lethal force. And in the past, something like throwing boiling water on an officer could be viewed as a potentially lethal weapon or one that would cause serious bodily injury. The idea of this whole qualified immunity is to give officers a bit of breathing space. They don't they're not going to have counsel with them when they go through that door. And they have to feel like they can protect themselves and others.

So that's what he wants to empower the cops to not worry about a lawsuit.

So, not only are you not making a ton of money, not only are you putting your life on the line, but I had an interaction with somebody today and that suspect could be suing us, honey, past the potatoes. No, that's right. If you take a look at cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, they're offering relatively high salaries. Cost of living is very high, but some of these cities are offering well above one hundred thousand for rookie officers, and they still can't fill their ranks. And part of that is the higher is the high cost of living.

But I think part of it's also people of why should I do this? If I go in there in Los Angeles or LA Los Angeles or San Francisco or some other city, And I have to use my weapon, I could be find myself in years. of prosecution, that there's no one watching my back That's true. Lastly, and this is a reach. But I'm watching the boxing in the Olympics, and I'm forced to, I'm watching this man, transgender man, boxing.

Beat the hell out of everybody, and this one woman just quit rather than fight. Can you sue a body in real time and And get an injunction to make sure people fight you who are of your gender. Yes, it's very difficult, if not impossible, because these federations are allowed to make these definitions. On who is eligible to fight. I saw that.

I the polls indicate that the American people are dead set against this. That is similar to polls in other countries. And The solution is going to be political, not legal. The chances of suing a Federation on this ground is not likely to succeed. Absolutely.

And lastly, when do you think we're going to hear if the qualified immunity if the immunity ruling will affect President Trump's convictions in the New York case? Yeah, that's a good question. We have a date for sentencing in September. I'll be there in New York for Fox. He'll probably make a di he'll obviously make a decision before then.

What's interesting, Brian, is that when I went back, I sat through that trial. I was in the courtroom, and I initially said, I think it's unlikely that the judge will Say that the conviction is invalid. But when I went through and looked at the testimony, frankly, even having sat through it, I was amazed at how many public. Points of evidence. would fall into one of these three buckets.

And so it's not quite as easy to make this cat walk backwards. But I still think the odds favor the prosecutors and the judge saying, you know, some of this stuff. I did fall into the presumptive area. But what Bragg is arguing is that it's harmless error. That to the extent that we tripped those wires, the evidence was overwhelming.

You can remove that evidence. and still have ample basis for a conviction. Oh, you could. Uh it just probably wouldn't be thirty-four counts. Right.

Well, that's the argument of the prosecutors, and I think they have a judge who obviously. Tends to agree with them. He ruled consistently with them, including some rulings that I still find absolutely baffling. And that's all, these are the types of things that are in your book, The Indispensable Right, not that specific case, but what we're dealing with now in our court system: The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in the Age of Rage. Jonathan, great to talk to you.

Thanks, Brian. Have a good day. All right, 1866-408-7669. When we come back, South Park tackles the boxing issue in just a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. It's so outrageous. I mean, there's things that are complicated in sports. I go over college football, my eyes glaze over with all the new rules.

And when it comes to the Olympics, yeah, there's some events we don't know about. But when it comes to boxing, it should be very clear. If you are a transgender male, you should not be fighting women. They have stood up for this in track and field and other things. I'm shocked that boxing is still wrestling with this.

Internationally, I don't think it's an issue. But with the Olympics, they evidently went with the transgender, let them fight. And it looks like two were fighting against women. One, just the Italian woman, just quit in the middle of the fight after getting hammered twice in the face. This is a tragedy.

Don't you agree? Oh, it's absolutely. Insane, and the fact that the Olympics don't have a more clear-cut rule is asinine. But what I want our listeners to hear, which we've played it before. And let me just say this allian.

It's Algeria's Amain Caliph. Um Uh that is uh that is the transgender. Cleave's twenty five, fights in the women's sixty six kilogram, I believe that's one twenty on s uh after her preliminary opponent on Thursday abandoned the bout because He's a man. And she's got hit twice and said, That's it, I quit, is the Italian Clarissa Shields. And then another woman who has fought the same fighter.

Talked about fighting him previously and said the sh the punches were like just more intense than anything she had ever experienced before.

So you said South Park got ahead of this?

Well, we've played this before probably one or two years ago, four years ago.

South Park put out this episode and listened to this clip, and just they are, they always foresee the future. Joining me now is the Current champion of the Strong Woman Competition, Strong Woman. Miss Woman, do you feel ready? Oh, yeah, I'm ready, David.

Now, this is the first year that a trans woman is in the competition. How do you feel about that? Amazing. I feel honored to be a part of history. I have a lot of incredible trans friends who are athletes, and so we're all inspired this woman's competing.

Uh-huh, and have you actually ever met Heather Swanson? No, I've never competed against her before, no. She's not exactly your average trans athlete.

Well, what is an average trans athlete? Honestly, I find that kind of bigoted, David.

Okay. Heather Swanson is actually joining us now. Ms. Swanson, how does it feel to be competing today? I can't tell you how free I feel now that I've started identifying as a woman.

Now that I can compete as female, I'm ready to smash the other girls. And is it correct you just started identifying as female two weeks ago? I'm not here to talk about my transition. I'm here to kick some f. Let me tell you something, Dingleberry.

David Perry. I'm gonna roll up the other women here, and I'm gonna smoke them. I am the strongest woman this state has ever seen. Any words for the challenger, Miss Woman? Uh good luck, Heather.

Luck is for dudes. And if you watch it, I mean, it's basically a man almost. This is crazy. I mean, I have all the sports. I mean, chess.

You want to be a transgender chess wizard?

Okay. That's fine. That's fine with me. You know, you could do you, but this year'd be really easy. Where are you born?

Sorry. Uh yeah, and the year mail. You know, you're a male. If you want to fight other men, try to qualify. You could dress as a woman, put your hair in a bun, whatever it takes to be a woman.

You know, if you want to do that, but it's the gender you're born.

So, absolutely making a mockery of anything. What kills me is I love boxing and is having a real hard time breaking through. We used to see a crop of Olympians come out, they become pros. We knew how to track them.

Now, this is becoming the number one boxing story, makes it a sideshow. I mean, they do such a good job testing to make sure the Chinese and Back then, the East Germans, and caught all the Russians cheating. And Now all of a sudden they can't dare they throw up their hands when it comes to transgender males. You know why? Because they don't have a relative getting in the ring with one.

And what makes it worse is The Olympic dream is really the Olympic dream. As I just mentioned, when you get through, you train like crazy, you go three or four round fights, you go through all the amateurs, so you get some sponsors, but you don't make a lot of money. You take a pounding, you got to learn to hit. You can't do that through light sparring. And then this is your moment.

And even if you don't have it, you just want to compete. And that moment's not going to be replicated anywhere else in your life. And some guy who says he's a woman ruins it all. It's disappointing, and it's so easily fixable. And the Olympic Committee is a real blind spot.

And I just don't, how are they calling it? I'm curious, is NBC being politically correct? I'm gonna find out, and they're pretending like the Italian just is a quitter, as opposed to got hit by a man. Ryan kill me, Chill. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian In Kill Mead. Hi everyone, where does the time go? It's Thursday and we've talked about the speed in which all these stories are coming at us. And then we get up today to find out Edmund Guruskovich as well as Paul Whelan and many other hostages. We don't know the names yet.

I don't want to get too ahead of this, but they're going to be heading home. We hope they're in U.S. custody by now. But it involves many countries. The Daily Mail says it's about 30 hostages, I should say, prisoner swaps.

And we know the ridiculous charges in Russia, but what prompted them to do this now? And We'll discuss that and we'll bring you the latest.

So, Evan Gerskovich, in case you don't remember, he's the Wall Street Journal reporter. He was arrested while he was at a steakhouse in Russia. They didn't like the fact, in my view, that he wrote so a legitimately. A s realistic story about the situation with the Russian economy since the war started. They didn't like it, they arrest him, and then they charge him with spying.

And the same thing with Paul Whelan, a marine. Who happened to be there? He did nothing wrong, and he gets 16 years in prison. He's now out. He's had a miserable time since 2018.

With us right now, by the way, this hour going to be joined by Stephen Moore, a former chief of staff at the U.S. House of Representatives and founder of the Ukraine Freedom Project. He spends a lot over there with the Ukrainian fighters, gives us the latest on what they need, and a great go-between for both administrations about how that war is going. Let's go to Senator Bill Cassidy right now. Senator, first, what could you tell us about the prisoner swap?

Do you know how many are involved and if the custody are in our custody yet? Hey, Brian, thanks for having me on. No, I do not know that. This is late breaking news. Obviously, it's been kept under wraps.

News reports suggest that the Turks were very instrumental in facilitating this. And thank just let's just give all a big American thanks to the Turkish government. But I don't have details beyond that, which has been publicly released. All right, good.

Well, hopefully, this is good, and we didn't give away the store that we're going to pay for later. But judging by the Victor Boot swap for. Brittany Griner, I'm not optimistic, but it's good to have these guys home.

So let's talk about what's happening overseas. The targeted killing of Hania, And then, of course, in resp we get confirmation of the second in command of the military wing over in Hamas in Gaza. He's dead. And this administration, for the most part, is just trying to get to a ceasefire. Do you sensei have any idea what's going on?

I think the Israelis have a sense of what's going on. I think that the fact that right now there's all these rumors about Hezbollah unleashing an attack upon Israel's northern border, what Israel just showed, that that Hamas leader was in the guest house next to the Ayatollah, where the Ayatollah stays. What this indicates is that Israel can reach into theoretically the most secure portion of Tehran and take out somebody. This time it was the Hamas leader, next time it could be the Ayatollah. This is I don't think it's checkmate, but it is definitely Israel saying, if you attack us, we have just shown our capability of doing whatever we want to do to take out leaders of the Iranian government.

And by the way, the Iranian people are a great people. It is the leadership of the Iranian government which is so evil, and Israel just showed they can strike at the heart of it.

Well, the theory is that there's people inside Iran who are helping Israel take out their leadership. The thing is, is that Iran can never discover who it is. Every now and then they hang somebody that they allege is causing this to happen, and then Israel does it again. And it seems like Israel on a regular basis will assassinate people within Iran. And then the Iranians never catch them.

And so, in some way, the Israelis have permeated Iranian society to be able to go after those folks who they think are most against the interest of the Israeli state. This is a high-stakes chess game, and I think that the Israelis just sent a signal: you come after us with Hezbollah, we're coming after you. All right. Let's also talk about what's happening with this race. Who's the Kamala Harris, the vice president that you know?

Well, flip and a flop and a flop and a flip. She runs for President a few years ago. She was against fracking.

Now she's all for fracking.

So I think that I think Biden's failures are hers. We shouldn't trust the pivot. We're not quite sure where she's going to land, except that she's going to tell the American voter that what she needs to hear. Pennsylvania is a swing state. They do a lot of fracking in Pennsylvania.

That natural gas bonanza has cleaned up their environment, has brought tax revenue to the people. It has employed a lot of folks in Pennsylvania, and all of a sudden she discovers she's for fracking after all. What about her record as the most liberal senator in the United States Senate. I think that's probably where people need to hang their hat. as opposed to a sudden conversion on certain issues that are important in swing states.

Hi, Senator Bill Cassidy.

Well, watching the Olympics is fascinating. Ratings are up seventy nine percent from the pandemic Tokyo Games, and that's impressive. But boxing, a sport I love, has totally polluted itself by letting transgender fighters in there. I mean, what is going on? We just had an Italian fighter quit.

So you're talking about an elite an elite fighter who said I c got hit twice by this man and it's allowed. I mean, is this is just brings this thing front and center. Is anything so ridiculous as what they're allowing happen? No, but I'm not really quite sure what's going on with that person. And now, Brian, you recall I'm a doctor.

And so I keep on thinking about Does this boxer have equipment, so to speak? Or does this doxer or is this boxer taking some chemical that makes her like a man? I don't know that yet. But certainly they should be screening every woman to whether or not she's taking anabolic steroids. You take anabolic steroids as a woman, your muscle mass increases.

By the way, you begin to shave. Is this what's making her stronger? Or is she kind of born as a man and now she's trying to pretend she's a female? I don't know that. But either way, I can believe that you shouldn't let men beat up on women.

Right. Not even if the reason that she's a man is because she's taking steroids that would make her like a man. No, you'd be banned if you're taking steroids, but if you decide you it's very simple. If you're an Olympian or you want to be an Olympian, you have to compete in the gender in which you're born. That should be it.

I'm with you, man. I'm with you. That's it.

So, Senator, what is the whole Biden-Harris Title IX thing, and how is it going to affect schools this year? Oh, it's really unclear, but they are prioritizing those men who wish to compete as women. over the women. I keep on thinking all it's going to take is a seven-footer. Man identifying as a female getting signed to an NC2A women's basketball team.

He's got to dominate. But under this Title nine, that would be allowed. It'll be the destruction of female sports. The needs of women are being marginalized Relative to men. You know, when this first came out, people like to marginalize people like Senator Bill Cassidy and say, well, you didn't have tolerance.

You don't understand. There's different people in this world. I think it's totally a reverse right now. I think that whole push for pronouns deserves a laugh track. And I think that when people do it, that is a part of the community that the American people want no part of.

And when I see he, she or they on an email, I don't want to answer it, nor do I want to read it. Don't you think the American public is pushing back on this now? I do think the Americans are pushing back. You know, there was a saying the other year, a few years ago about the death of common sense. I think common sense is coming back.

And common sense is that if somebody is born as a male, if they are competing as a female, that is discriminatory against the female. And by the way, when Biden Harris redefines overhauls Title nine, redefining sex to include gender identity, a forcing to allow institutions to allow biologic males into women's bathrooms and locker rooms, et cetera. And reportedly, some of the biologic males go into the bathroom and, shall we say, become stimulated, that's what the American people are pushing back on. All right. I want you to hear one of your colleagues was out on the stump yesterday, J.D.

Vance, and he's getting his C-legs. He went to the border. He was well received. He's at the border today, cut 31. The Biden-Harris Department of Justice cut a deal with al-Qaeda terrorists.

Khaled Sheikh Muhammad to avoid the death penalty.

Now, as someone who enlisted in the Marines to serve after 9-11, That is ridiculous, but it's not surprising.

Now, just think about the point that we've gotten to. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have weaponized the Department of Justice to go after their political opponents, but they're cutting a sweetheart deal with 9/11 terrorists. We need a president who kills terrorists, not negotiates with them. He's your colleague, your thoughts about his selection, about his stance there. And also what do you think about g life instead of death?

Regarding his election, President Trump wanted someone loyal, no one's going to be more loyal than JD Vance. I think we can say that. As regards this, you know, the Biden administration has made misstep after misstep. They've kind of played FTSE. With Iran, thinking that if they make concessions to Iran, that somehow Iran would be a better partner.

And then we hear, wait a second, Iran's plotting to assassinate President Trump.

Now, that's not Good behavior.

So I think that they are always kind of interpreting our enemies in the Middle East. us having the values that we have. that if we make some concession that they will make a concession back. And I truly think that the only that when people hate the United States, You cannot make concessions. You have to continually go after them with the same sort of kind of intensity that they come after us.

And unfortunately, I think that Vice President Harris will continue the kind of Biden administration mentality of making these concessions.

So I'll tell you what, when you see what happened in Union Square and the filed men of all those monuments and people watching the takedown of the American flag and burning it to the ground, and then when you see on Times Square yesterday, I'm sure you don't know, but there was a big demonstration for Hania, the Hamas terrorist, and anti-Semitic phrases being hailed out on Times Square in New York City. This is a terrorist. This is not even the Palestinian cause. This is a terrorist cause. I mean, at what point do we stop tolerating this?

Yeah, so The left needs to recognize that the degree that they do tolerate it normalizes it. It should not be normalized. It should not be normalized to be anti Semitic. are to be anti-American in the United States of America. If you want to be anti-American, then leave America.

You can criticize our country. You can say, wait a second, we could do things better. We all agree with that. By the way, I think the government's too big and we should decrease wasteful spending. But when you come out and you burn our flag, when you come out and you actually attack us as if we're the enemy, hey, it's time for you to leave.

Right, and they've got to be investigated. You're investigating everyone. I want to find out if Iran is financing these very organized protests that are really going to kick at the gear. You know that in the fall when the kids go, when the students go back to school. Have we moved to investigate this?

No, I do not know that we have moved to investigate that, and there is no indication that I know of that we are. But that is something that the IRS should absolutely be looking at. Who are the funders of these charitable organizations? Who is organizing these different groups, which seem to be remarkably well organized? Um Yeah, okay.

We're just getting a report now that the bomb that killed the Hamas, the Hamas leader, was put there a long time ago. I don't know how that could happen because this inauguration was just put in place.

So we're just trying to find out. We don't know how Israel did what they did. Senator Bill Cassidy, there's so much going on. The Title IX thing is important, especially as kids go back to school. In Louisiana, they go back quicker than here in New York.

So this is a big thing. Senator, thank you. Hey, Brian, thanks, man. You got it. 1866-408-7669.

We'll come back and take your calls and follow up on these reports. Middle East is about to explode, but maybe it's just it was inevitable. At least it'll be on Israel's terms. Listen to the Brian Kill Me Show. Newsmakers and Newsbreakers, hear it first on The Brian Kilmeat Show.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. It all bothers me the fragility of the human mind. You know, that we're so everybody forever was like Kamala Harris is the worst vice president. She's the least popular vice president of all time.

And then in. A moment. A moment in time, all of a sudden she's our solution. She's our hero. Everybody's with her.

All these social media posts about her. Try googling a negative story on her. You won't find one. And that's the scary part as Joe Rogan was talking about. We know that she was a calamity.

One problem after the next, didn't get along with Joe Biden, turned down the border, turned down an option to dominate the border, didn't thought it was a loser issue. Election integrity never really showed up. And now covered up Joe Biden's obviously failings.

So. The biggest problem was where do you turn? We had to open up the process. And they expect us to have short-term memory loss and not picture what a flawed candidate she is. And her beliefs are all being reversed at this hour.

Whether it's fracking, when it comes about forced confiscation of weapons, buyback plan when it comes to rifles, all this stuff. She's letting it know through surrogates that anonymously put these stories in the New York Times and Washington Post that she's changed her opinion on that because they're so unpopular, which is why her boss and her were so unpopular. But now her ratings are going up because everyone's in lockstep to get her elected. And Joe Rogan went on to say also that he thinks that Trump's going to lose now.

So you know He's no soothsayer, but he does have a good poll to the people. Nobody really wanted to hear that. You look into Nate Silver, Nate Silver says, according to his polling, Trump's going to win.

So there's no permanent, this is the way it is, but there's different factors. They got to come out with some really strong ads. It's going to help. They got a lot of money.

Now they have the PayPal co-founder has just switched from a Democrat to Republican just to support Trump. That is great news for him. I could also give you some additional information on this prisoner swap that has Evan Gerskovich. We understand he is now in American hands in Ankara, Turkey, along with Paul Whalen and others. They say it's overall 24 prisoners, six separate countries.

Three of those countries are Germany, Russia, the U.S. I guess the other one is Belarus, we've gotten confirmed. We do have to find out, too, about that ballerina that was picked up. You know, those ballerinas are always so so dangerous to dictatorships.

So she was picked up, too, and charged with treason.

So I don't know why anyone would go to Russia. There's no way I would ever go there in a million years. And if a company assigns you there to be a journalist, you got to find another profession because they clearly don't want you back. This is the new rules, not the old rules, not the Yeltsin rules, not the early Putin rules, but these are the rules now. But it is good news that they're coming home.

It'll be good to do that. It'll be a boost for Joe Biden politically, I'm sure, until we find out how much we were asked to give up. Then, all of a sudden, people are going to say: wait a second, is this a problem? Is this something we want to do? And we'll have to.

When we come back too, Stephen Moore is going to bring us up to date on what's happening in Ukraine, those weapon systems and where we go from here. But when you look at President Trump, he is trying for let everybody know who Who Kamala Harris is, and then could define basically how he's going to attack. The problem was he kind of got off track last week, excuse me, yesterday, because Of this, cut seven. I will tell you that coming coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs. You had the best.

What exactly is a black job, sir? A black job is anybody that has a job. That's what it is. Anybody that has a job.

Yeah. And they didn't like that. But it turns out, as Charles Payne would outline later, and I'll probably play it for you in a half in 20 minutes. He said, well, if 45% of all African Americans are employed in the hospitality industry, healthcare industry, or something to do with food. 45% and the average salary 30,000.

It's absolutely hideous. Impossible to live on that.

So that's the type of jobs that you have illegal immigrants coming in here. They could pay them less and they knock you out. They don't have to give you benefits. They don't have to answer to you. They don't have to give you sick days because they're paying them illegally.

That's why you crack down at the border. But I think people in those communities understand it. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmeid.

So, the good news is it looks like these hostage swap has taken place, and we have at least two back: Evan Gerskovich of the Wall Street Journal and Paul Whelan, a Marine, unjustly jailed and sentenced to six years, 16 years. He's been there since 2018. Gerskovich has been there about 500 days. It looks like they've landed in Ankara, Turkey, so they're out of Russian hands. They're in our hands, which is great news.

I think it's 24 hostages in all regarding six, at least six separate countries. We know four: Germany, Russia, the U.S., and Belarus. We're looking to find out more. I think the UK would probably be the fifth. Because it looks like one was already there involved.

I did not know that we had four smugglers, money launderers in our prison. They are now off the prison log, so we assume that they're part of it.

So we'll keep up to date on that breaking story that's dominating the news, obviously. This morning. What would cause the Russians to do this deal? And evidently, it's really complex. You've got a bunch of countries involved.

You have to have equal weight on all of them. How desperate is everybody to get their own prisoners out? Stephen Moore is a former chief of staff at the U.S. House of Representatives and founder of the Ukraine Freedom Project, raises money for aid in Ukraine and just got back from the front lines. Stephen, you're dealing with the Russians on a regular basis.

They have no, they could not care less about their people on the battlefield, right? They leave the bodies. Yeah. The Russians have no respect for human life. And look, and going over to what we're seeing in Israel, Hamas has no respect for human life.

And so that's what these countries have in common. Yeah, so this guy Hania that was killed in Tehran, I remember he was being celebrated. I'm thinking, what's going on here? Why are they celebrating?

Well, it turns out three of his sons and four of his grandchildren were killed. And they were saying, celebrate because they're now martyrs. Yeah. So that's the mindset you're fighting against. Exactly.

Well, and the irony here, the interesting thing is that the Russian Orthodox Church does the same thing in Russia. The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has said, if you die fighting in Ukraine, all your sins will be washed away.

Now, he stops short of 72 virgins, but it's the same thing that ISIS does, that Hamas does, and now the Russian Orthodox Church is doing it. Yeah, I don't know if they have their religious entity, but what is the state of the war over there? Yeah, you know, it's rough. They've gone for six months without U.S. weapons, and we were in about seven different spots on the front in three different provinces, Kharkiv, Donyatsk, and Kherson.

And we talked to a lot of military leaders, and we asked him a standard question. He's like, on a scale of one to ten, how much 155 millimeter shells, artillery shells, do you have, with ten being all you need and one being nothing at all? And three to six was the common answer.

So they're not getting the ammunition that Congress has said. Sent over there. Why is that? You know, it's difficult to say. The Biden administration has a history of slow-walking weapons there.

In January, they promised M1A1 Abrams tanks, and they didn't get there until October of last year.

So it's you know, they promised F-16s in May. They're still not there, although I think I've heard that they have there last couple of days. Have they been trained? Have the Ukrainians been trained on them? Yeah, you know, there's you know, the dysfunction of the Pentagon that I've learned about in the process of being in Ukraine is just breathtaking.

They don't have enough seats. They need 40 pilots trained. They only have 20 seats in the school.

So rather than open another school or find some retired F-16 trainers or something to really get this done, they're doing them consecutively.

So Ukraine will have half the number of pilots they need right now. Because they didn't have enough chairs? Yeah, exactly. It's just bureaucratic dysfunction at the Pentagon. And anyone who thinks that we're prepared to fight a war in China or, you know, the Middle East or uh or Europe or anywhere else is misleading themselves.

Because we don't we can't execute for somebody else, let alone ourselves. Yeah, exactly, exactly. And if you l so the the the warfare is being rewritten here in Ukraine right now. Because of this lack of artillery, uh the Ukrainians have innovated first-person view drones, which looks so they got Goggles on their faces. They've got game console looking things.

And it looks like they're playing a video game, but they're flying drones, suicide drones, to kill Russians. And 90% of the battlefield injuries right now are from these first-person view drones. They are making, but the Russians are making progress, but they're paying a heavy price. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

So are they closer to Kyiv? Is there a chance? No, no, no, no, no, no.

So that's the thing is that when I first went to Kyiv, it was surrounded on three sides by Russians.

So quite literally, there's one, the southern route was available. And now I live in Kyiv. And if I want to find a Russian, I got to drive about 10 hours.

So what we're talking about here is the Ukrainians have swept the Russians back to just 17% of their country. And So, and they've driven them back miles and miles and miles and miles and miles. And the Russians are advancing by a few hundred yards at a time.

So, the Russians are advancing, but not anywhere the scale that anything else in Ukraine is going to be indicated. But their manufacturing has picked up the pace, evidently, and the Iranians have been a huge help. Oh, yeah. Listen. And North Korea might be picking up, too.

Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea are all working together. to cause chaos in the world. There's shooting wars in Europe and there's shooting wars in the Middle East. But but you know, we're all in an information war, you, me and everyone listening to this. And so and and uh You know, our adversaries are all working together, and they're the only ones that realize we're in a global war.

And so uh Zelensky rotated out as Secretary of Defense and a few generals. Has that been effective? Yeah. Yeah. Um i there it's they he's he's rotated out these generals, he's rotated out some of the the c the commanders and uh there's been no drastic change.

So uh so it it is there is a a uh it's essentially a stalemate right now. Right. And uh the one thing they've managed to do is is reopen Uh The sea lanes in order to get wheat out. Oh, yeah. And they did it themselves.

Yeah. You know, there's a lot of people talking about the Russian submarine and the Russian frigate that were in the Caribbean, right? You know why those ships are in the Caribbean? Because they can't use them in the Black Sea because the Ukrainians have knocked out about a third of the Russian Black Sea fleet. And they're also targeting Crimea.

How are they doing it? Uh they're doing it with American weapons. They're doing it with the high Mars.

Well, actually uh they're they're doing it with with uh with long range drones. They're doing it with uh with with long range equipment. And Do you think that they have a view on our elections? Are they worried? Because I want you to hear what J.D.

Vance said before he was named number two. The Israelis will need this stuff, the Taiwanese need this stuff, and of course America needs this stuff. Can we possibly fight all of those conflicts at once? No. The math just doesn't make sense.

So what we should be doing is with Ukraine, encouraging them to take a defensive posture, not these disastrous counter offensive the Biden administration has been promoting.

So your thoughts? You know, I think J.D. Vance is misinformed about the situation in Ukraine. I think he's one of the things he and I agree on is that the state of the American military-industrial complex is not up to the task. His argument is that we give up.

My thought is that we innovate and we produce this stuff. You know, we're it's not the world's not going to get more stable. It's like this now. It's going to get worse. The Chinese haven't even begun.

So rather than Yeah. Retreating my Suggestion to Senator Vance is: let's ramp up production. Let's get real serious about this. When you talk about any type of talks, peace talks, you have to make sure the it's clear that the Ukrainians aren't on the run, that they've held like holding their own, make things a little painful for the Russia. Russia, how close are they to having productive talks?

How much do Russia want this to end this to end? Wants to reestablish the Soviet Union. Russia wants to be an empire once again. And so anything that they say. Is not, that's not to that end is, is just not true because Putin's a KGB agent.

So, Vladimir Putin, Russia is currently in violation of dozens of treaties, ceasefires, peace agreements with about six different countries, including ours, Brian. And so no one has made a convincing case to me yet as to why You know, as to why Putin might adhere to this particular peace agreement. And so, yeah, he is spending 6% of his economy on military production. For perspective, the United States is spending about 3.5%. And our economy is bigger, so it's a lot more stuff.

But the stuff he produces is cheap and numerous, and our stuff is expensive. And I'll tell you this: our drones don't work. In Ukraine. You know, the Ukrainians are manufacturing these $500 Kamikaze drones that are killing a bunch of Russians. About 90% of the battlefield injuries recently are.

Are from FPV drones, these kamikaze drones. And for perspective, our cheapest drone is the Switchblade 300, which costs $37,000. And my friends in Kherson that use them say that they're really fun at parties, but they're not really good at killing Russians because the weapons payload is just really small. I hope they're doing some after-action reports. It's so important.

And why do you think the Russians agree to this swap at this point? Is there any vulnerability there? Is there something they're looking to get from this? Oh, yeah. The people that we're giving them are really bad people.

The United States has a bunch of cyber criminals. You know, these are people that work for the Russian government and work to hack our stuff, right? And these are the people who have been caught. And so we're giving them back.

So you can expect more cyber attacks because these are their best guys. And, you know, one of the guys that's being released by the Germans is a murderer. And another couple that's being released by Slovenia is a deep cover Russian, you know, they went over there a long time ago under deep cover. Remember the show Americans the other day? Americans.

Yeah. These are just the Slovenians. And so, same thing. And we're giving those people back as well. All right.

So, yeah, we'll see what happens. 24 people at least. And it looks like our guys are in good hands. Biden has made a press release. We have not seen him all week.

He says, Today we celebrate the return of Paul Evan also, which I think is the ballet dancer. I'm not really sure. No, she's the Radio Free Europe. Oh, Radio Free Europe.

Okay. And we affirm our pledge to their families, and we'll see you there.

So this could be a political victory in the short term for President Biden. Overall, before I let you go, Stephen, get back to action. You actually live in Kiev? I live in Kiev. I was in seven different spots at the front.

Is there a sense of who they want to win this election? Yeah, they're really nervous about some of the things that Senator Vance is saying, and I don't blame them. And here's what you've got: you've got the Biden administration slow-walking weapons, and then you've got the things that are Trump campaign. Yeah. And so, you know.

Where do they look, right? And so that's it's it's a tough choice. And you know, what I see, here's what I see: I see some of the America first people that are, you know, we actually had about eight of them in Ukraine recently, a bunch of kind of like senior staffers at different places, a bunch of all America first guys. They came to Ukraine, they saw it, they saw that Ukrainians are good partners, they want to win. And we took one of them to the front.

We took one of them to Kherson in a city that's under active shelling. We got him within three kilometers of the Russians, and it blew his mind. And so he went back. It was a three-hour drive from Kherson to Odessa, where we were, and he spent the drive back that three hours just completely rethinking his worldview.

So I think that when America first people recognize that Ukraine is not Afghanistan, that Ukraine is a place that wants to win, and that if we give them the weapons they need, They win.

So, the problem right now is the Biden administration is slow-walking weapons. Nuts. Yeah. And that holdup was terrible. But I just do think the people around President Trump, should he win, understand your point of view.

I understand that. And the thing is, one thing about President Trump, he's coachable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's true. Steve Moore, thanks for all you're doing.

If people want to give to the Ukraine Freedom Project, how do they do it? UkraineFreedomProject.org. We are a 501c3. We run on your donations. We're getting good information from the front to members of Congress.

We were in D.C. last week where, actually, I testified in front of the Helsinki Commission about Russia is torturing and murdering Ukraine's Christians in occupied Ukraine. And right now, millions of Ukrainians are Christians who are worshiping underground, just like the Soviet Union, worse than the Soviet Union. But pastors are getting tortured. They're being accused of being CIA officers.

It's some of the worst things in the world are happening to Ukraine's Christians. And we're getting that. Story out. We're talking to people in Congress about that. We're talking to folks like you.

So, UkraineFreedomProject.org, would love your help. All right. Thanks so much, Steve. Back in a moment for the latest on the prisoner swap and getting more details. Don't move.

Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Kilmead. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. How does her changing her views on her policy justify having the presumptive, the Republican nominee questioning her race?

How does that increase or decrease your party's chances of winning in November?

Well, Caitlin, you haven't had that conversation with Kamala Harris because she's been hiding out before her. I want to have this conversation with you, Senator. Just like Joe Biden hid out before her. And my point is: when are you and the rest of the media going to demand that Kamala Harris come out and answer questions in an unscripted format about where she stands for this country, as opposed to continuing to focus on what Donald Trump said today? You know, four years ago, Joe Biden said, if you don't vote for him, you ain't black.

Could you imagine a more insulting comment? Joe Biden is presuming to judge the political views of one-eighth of our fellow citizens based on their skin color. Did you ever ask? Kamala Harris to condemn his remarks? You're a Republican senator.

I'm going to ask you about the Republican senators. Did you ask Caitlin? Did you ask Kamala Harris? Caitlin, did you ask Kamala Harris why she's willing to serve as vice president for a man she essentially called racist and a segregationist? Have you or anyone else in the media asked Kamala Harris those questions, Caitlin?

Senator, trust me, I covered the Biden-Harris White House. We obviously have asked for her to come on, but my question is for you about this. The thing is, you're talking about this conference, and you have Senator Tom Cotton talking about the President going to this conference of black journalists, and it got out of hand. There was lack of respect on both sides. When you attack Trump, all bets are off.

I mean, that's what got him to the point where he said something to To Frank Launts, when he said about John McCain. Uh I like guys that don't get captured. Because John McCain was attacking him. He read off a few of the attacks on him. He gets him ticked off.

He walks over. She's 35 minutes late. She comes up and asks four negative questions about how he views black people. When he's trying to say, well, what about Kamala Harris? And I don't think it was smart for him to say, hey, she was Asian, but now she wants to be recognized as black.

I have no idea if that's true. I could not be less interested. But that's where you get Tom Cotton on has to defend it. And Kristen Unu writes about it. You should be defending Trump's record against her record.

That's when all these surrogates will come forward. And just think about it. She's changing her positions to be more like Trump. If that doesn't tell you that she knows she's wrong on everything, I don't know what will. Because she's wrong on just about everything.

And she's changing at least 11 positions without doing one interview. And I haven't seen, and this is what Tom Cotton's point is. I haven't seen a lot of clamor to interview her. We need to sit down with her. You know, she's only making speeches, she's not sitting down with us.

Whoa. Demand it. Make it a big deal. Have Jake Tapper and Rachel Maddow do a telethon, raise money to get her to step up because that's what she's doing now, raising money and doing speeches.

So she wants to stay in a role. But if you really had confidence in your candidate, you make sure she sits down in between and starts announcing some of these changes. And here's a bigger question: why? Starting August 6th, the Fox True Crime Podcast presents Crimes on Campus, sharing chilling stories of scandal, corruption, and murder. New episodes available every Tuesday beginning August 6th.

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