Reset? Trump stays on message, Vance agrees to TWO debates with Walz

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hey, this is Jason Chapitz. I'm filling in for Brian. You know, Brian, Brian's one of the hardest-working guys in all of the business.

And you know what? Maybe he's off doing something else. Not sure. He's doing like a photo shoot or, you know, putting together some special or something. Anyway, he's not here.

I'm filling in. Fox News contributor is a former member of Congress. I was the chairman of the oversight committee. And we're going to have some good discussion today. Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for giving up some of your time. And I think you're going to really enjoy this because you know what? There's always somebody doing something stupid somewhere. There's tons going on in the news. It's a crazy presidential election year, and the world's on fire.

We've got the economy that's is it moving in the right direction? Is it not moving in the right direction? How bad is it? Is it getting better? And what are the candidates' plans for it?

Because, as I look at it, one of the challenges that you see out there is you've got Kamala Harris and Tim Wallace not taking a position on many issues. And it's really kind of comical to not answer any questions, not make yourself available to the media. And then Quick, if I said to you, hey, quick, tell me. What's going on? Tell me what Kamala Harris's plan is to tackle inflation and drive it down.

Because they'll say, oh, inflation's going down. Inflation's not going down. It's not rising as quickly as it was before. But it's still cumulative. It still grows on top of each other.

And don't tell me that inflation is going down. It still continues to increase even though the rate was less.

So what will the Federal Reserve do? What will happen to interest rates? All big questions here. We've got the access to the candidates and being able to answer questions. We've got the economy that we've got to talk to.

And I think one of the biggest stories that's out there We have Colonel West coming up. Do you remember Alan West? Alan's coming up on the show in a little bit. We're going to talk to him about all things military. But I think one of the biggest stories out there is um What Secretary Blinken said.

He said it about uh one to two it he said it three weeks ago. And he said that Iran was one to two weeks from being able to break out and essentially have a nuclear weapon. What happened to that story? Why did the Secretary of State started tar start talking about Iran's nuclear capabilities And now it's gone silent. What's going on with that story?

So we'd love to hear more about that. But I want to really. Get to the heart of what I think most Americans feel. No matter where you are, no matter where you're listening to this show. everybody's affected by the rising prices that have gone out there in the economy.

And for Kamala Harris in a scripted setting to read the teleprompter and be able to say, Hey, you know what? Uh I'm gonna work on this on day one.

Well, she's been in there for in the in the uh uh you know, job for three and a half years.

So what in the world is she you know, been doing. But again, if you look at the big issues, immigration, Crime. the world being on fire, the economy, Please tell me what's your plan? Because I don't think they have one.

So we're thrilled to be joined by Sean Duffy. I served with in Congress with Sean Duffy, and he's now got his own show on Fox Business, 6 p.m., the bottom line. And Sean, Duffy, thanks for joining us today on the Brian Killmead Show. Javis, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having me.

He was, you know, probably out rolling some logs or climbing some telephone pole. I don't know. He's got this lumberjack history. What was the record you had you were telling me you were like lumberjack man of the year? Yes, I was racing up and down.

If you watch ESPN six at four o'clock in the morning, for all you men, it's it's it's uh chopping, sawing, log rolling and tree climbing. And I would I had one the speed climbing, space race up and down those spar poles. I won that several years. It's kind of like the bull riding of the rodeo. It's an exciting sport and a lot of fun.

So yeah. Yeah. And it must be fun to get Rachel and the kids out there and say, come on, let's go climb that telephone pole. That'll be really fun.

Well, the logs and water and logo and the kids actually do love that, which is a lot of fun.

So it's good stuff. It's all American, Jason Chaffetz. It's all American. That is all American. Put on that flannel and get out there and do it.

It's something I couldn't do, so more power to you. Hey, we want to talk about the economy. You got a business show. You were. Focused on finances for this country when you were in Congress.

But if I you know, as as I was saying just before we connected on with you, Quick, tell me. What is the Kamala Harris Tim Wall's plan to tackle inflation. What is it? Can you explain it to us, please?

Well, I heard what you were saying, and you're right, right? I mean, I there is no plan.

So we do have to extrapolate. What well, what would she do? And you have to then say, well, we should probably look at old comments that she made. on what she wants to do with the economy. Um, or we should look at what I mean, 'cause y y we have to be honest, she was A team member, a partner, a co-president with Joe Biden.

And so the policies of Joe Biden truly are the policies of Kamala Harris. And so not only did she help craft them, she also went out and sold those policies.

So I think we're gonna listen, we're gonna see if she's elected, a president who continues to want open borders. show on single payer health care, massive Borrowing and spending. This is traditional, you know, get on the speedway. to collapse in the economy. And that's their their portion that brings you to Remaking the American um system as a whole.

What does that mean? Yeah, it is frightening because um she's tried to simultaneously Embrace the unparalleled success, as she puts it, you know, uh of the Biden administration. You know, somebody who should be up on Mount Rushmore to, oh, wait, I've got a whole different set of plans. Look, uh, we had Former President Donald Trump at Asheville, North Carolina. Let's go to cut one.

This is him talking about. Calling out Harris for not fixing the economy now. Kamala has declared that tackling inflation will be a Day one priority. Think of it for her but day one For Kamala was three and a half years ago. Why hasn't she done it?

By repealing the Biden-Harris regulatory onslaught, we can save an estimated $20,000. And you're talking about a tremendous amount, six. Seven, eight thousand dollars a year just in savings.

So, to get economic relief to workers and families, we will make additional tax cuts. That's what gave us the great economy. We'll make tax cuts additionally, we'll make them permanent. That is a a big question, right? Because the so called Trump tax cuts are set to expire next year.

So a big question that needs to be out there is are you going to let them expire, which is essentially a tax increase, or are you going to make them permanent and extend them?

Well, and if you listen to what both she and Joe Biden have said, is they're going to let them expire, which is a massive tax increase. for every American. 'Cause, you know, Jason, when we were working on those um that that tax reform, everyone got a cut, but there was a there was a big focus on How do you reduce costs for middle Americans, for middle income people. And so yes, you're going to see a massive tax increase if Democrats don't act. But I think we have to go back just to you mentioned this at the start of our conversation, philosophy.

And Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and really all Democrats. They they believe in government. They want more borrowing, they want more spending, they love regulation because they think the government can regulate the the economy to prosperity. Right. They want lower food prices and so they start regulating the snot out of farmers.

they want to regulate oil and gas. All these things have driven up the cost of everything in our life. And Donald Trump and Republicans say, you know what, that historically doesn't work. The right approach is we need free enterprise.

So let's reduce. The size and scope of government. Let's start paring back some rules and regulations. Let's Let farmers farm and oil drillers drill. And if we do that without government involvement or interference, they'll do remarkable things.

They'll be really successful. They'll make a lot of what they make. And the more they make, the cheaper it'll become because it'll be more plentiful and people will have jobs and make more money. That's what happens with free enterprise, Jason. That's why it always works.

It brings more prosperity, more wealth. Um more opportunity. And Kamala Harris and Democrats cannot wrap their hands around it, which is why, if she's elected, you are going to get. not just what you've seen in the last three point five years, You're going to see even, I mean, it's going to be even more horrible because when you're $35 trillion in debt, I think we have an economic calamity on the horizon because thirty five trillion, we were freaking out when it was twelve trillion, Jason. We're on the fast track to fifty trillion.

And because The system hasn't collapsed yet. People are like, well, I guess we can keep borrowing and spending in our merry way and nothing's going to happen.

Well, the truth is. Actually, if you study the history of money, I guarantee you it's going to stop. The merry-around will will stop turning and we will have massive economic pain. And that's what you'll have with Kamala, because she's just going to speed this up instead of trying to fix it, because she doesn't see. Massive debt as a as a problem to the American economy or the American family.

Yeah, I think if you take the sum total of how of the knowledge and experience of how the world economy works, how the world energy uh works, how global uh politics works, the dealing with, you know, China and and uh and i Israel and and Iran and all all of those in Russia. Take the sum total knowledge of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and what do you have? I mean, you just don't have somebody Or a pairing that knows how to deal with this. If you were in financial trouble, which we are. Would you ever consider hiring Kamala Harris to come in and fix it?

I don't know what in her resume thinks that she has this in her, and she's so elusive she won't answer a question. And she doesn't have to seem to have any principles that are driving her. It just seems like a poll-tested candidate, and that's what they're trying to do. You know, Jason, I haven't heard it said that simply, but you are so right. If you have some financial problem in your life, Right, and you need some advice, and you can go have a cup of coffee with someone to figure out what to do.

Do you want to have a cup of coffee to ask some questions of Kamala Harris? or of Donald Trump. Who's gonna give you I mean who if you like I really actually need some good sound advice? I mean you would never talk to Kamala Harris You're going into the son. I might not like Donald Trump.

I might not think he's, you know, his, you know, his speeches are the nicest. But if I need Sound advice. I want to talk to Donald Trump because I think he'll give me the best advice. Jason, I haven't heard it put that simply. That is absolutely right.

And I think that's why if the economy is the number one issue and that's what people are voting on, that's why they are going to vote for Trump. If you can if Democrats can can pivot this and say, well, this is actually about sex, Or it's about race. Or it's about joy or it's about I don't know what they're trying to run on. Uh th then th th then they have a chance. Yeah.

If it's about the economy, it's about the border. Prop points. We're talking to Sean Duffy. I appreciate you joining us, Sean. He's a former congressman from Wisconsin, co-host of the bottom line on the Fox Business Network with Dagon McDowell.

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Would it kill you guys to have a press conference? Why hasn't she had a press conference? Listen, the Vice President and Governor Wallace have been busy crisscrossing this country since the launch of this campaign and adding Governor Wallace to the ticket. You saw the ways in which they went across the battleground states last week, generating rallies of thousands, 10,000 here, 15,000 there. Wow, great answer.

That was Jim Acosta over at CNN. He. Poised the question. I like the way he did this. Went after Michael Taylor, who's the, or Tyler, who's the Harris Waltz Walz Communications Director.

Really, no excuse here. Quite fascinating that they won't make themselves available. I've often argued, having run for many elections myself, how you are as a candidate is very indicative of how you're going to be in office.

So if we don't think that she would be elusive and behind the scenes, I also think that, look, there's a total lack of confidence and understanding and principle here. And she's, I don't think, too quick on her feet to be able to answer questions. This is usually where she gets herself into trouble. But let's listen to more of Jim Acosta pressing Michael Tyler from the Harris Waltz campaign on why they won't do this. Cut nine.

Why isn't she at a press conference? She's the vice president. She can handle the questions. Why not do it? We absolutely are going to do it.

You hear her take questions as she's out on the stump. And she said last week, we're going to be having a sit-down interview here before the end of the month. What she's going to be focused on and what this campaign is going to be focused on is communicating directly with the voters that are actually going to decide the pathway to 270 electoral votes. That's why she committed to a press conference this week. That's why we're doing a bus tour in Pennsylvania as we head into Chicago.

Michael, one interview by the end of this month. I don't want to belabor this, but one interview before the end of the month. I mean, that's. That's not a lot. I mean, can you commit to a press conference before the end of the month?

We will commit to directly engage with the voters that are actually going to decide this election. And that is going to be complete with rallies, with sit-down interviews, with press conferences, with all the digital assets that we have at our disposal. They're going to use all the digital assets at their disposal. That's a far cry. I mean, that's pre-packaging as opposed to being able to answer impromptu questions from the media.

Look, the media, I would argue, is in many ways already in their camp. They're already i in the bag form. I mean, when's the last time you saw them pose a deep, hard Pressing question on Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. I mean, it just has not happened, right?

So, um, That's the big question. Look, if you're going to negotiate and other people have said this, you've heard multiple people say this. If you're going to be able to take on, negotiate, go toe to toe with Vladimir Putin and Jingje you know, and and President Xi and and uh name your world leader I mean, can't you at least talk to Canada? The press is pretty friendly here at this point. But.

She needs to be pressed on issues because she has clearly, you roll the videotape, she has clearly flip-flopped on so many issues. What I see here is the parallel. Exactly what happened when Kamala Harris ran last time. Came out of shoots, big raised a lot of money, looking like the great candidate. And that's what happened.

She started talking. She started answering questions. And guess what? She plummeted. She was in sixth place at one point in her own state of California behind.

Andrew Yang. She was polling in single digits in her home state of California. Had to drop out of the race, never got to the first vote. That's the Kamala Harris we've seen in the past, and that's the Kamala Harris I think we've got going on. Stay with us.

We've got Colonel Allen West coming up later. We've got a good, good show coming up. Stay with us here on the Brian Kilmey Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, this is Jason Chapel. It's filling it for Brian and there's a lot going on in the world and I appreciate you joining us and it's really I think important for us to understand. What's going on with our United States military? We have people, men and women, serving this country out on the front lines helping to protect us. In a world that's much, much more volatile than it was under Donald Trump.

I believe in peace through strength. I just think that's the worked for Reagan, worked for Trump.

Some of the most peaceful times in my life were were when those two uh gentlemen were the President of the United States because they understood that we had to have the biggest, baddest military that could take care of anybody, anywhere, any time, and nobody dared mess with us. But It's a little different under Joe Biden, and very different would be under Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.

So, to help us break that down and really better understand it, we're honored to have Lieutenant Colonel Alan West join us. Alan, thanks for joining us. Jason, my dear friend and former colleague, it's great to be with you. Yeah, we served together in the United States Congress. He's now the American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director, all-around good guy, beautiful family, wonderful family.

And thanks for joining us on the Brian Kilmead Show. Set the scene for us how it would be different under Kamala Harris because. That's got to scare a lot of people with her. as a Commander-in-Chief of the United States military.

Well, first of all, you gotta put yourself in this position and and think of this visual. Do you want Kamala Harrison across the the table from Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Khamenei, Kim Jong-un, the militant Islamic jihadists that you have, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, You know, all of these types. And then also, let's not forget the narco-criminal terrorists, the cartels.

So, that's not the type of person that's going to instill fear in their hearts. And it's going to be a person that, as you talked about, goes with the mantra of peace through strength. You look at this Biden-Harris agenda, what it has done to our military. Our naval surface war fleet is far behind that of China. We have more single military-aged males that are here illegally than we have our active duty United States Army.

We have the smallest United States Marine Corps since World War I, and we have some very serious maintenance and crew manning issues in our United States Air Force.

So, we don't want to continue to go down that path where we're focusing more on DEI and gender dysphoria in our military and leftist, socialist ideological agendas. And then you have Tim Waltz, a guy who abandoned his unit when they got orders to go to Iraq. Do you really want him to be the second? In line to be the commander-in-chief because when it came time for him to step up, he punked out. There's no other way to describe it.

So I think that we don't want to see a continuation of all of these critical hot spots because during the four years of the Trump administration, during the Reagan administration, we did have peace because we had a credible military deterrent. We don't have that now. Yeah, that's what's scary. And you look at the way we.

Now, I want to say that I truly appreciate your service to our country. And you served overseas. I'm watching this video now on the, I think it's the third year anniversary of our just botched exit from Afghanistan. The Taliban. I mean, there's a couple of things happening simultaneously.

One is Senator Braun from Indiana working with the Inspector General calling out, hey, can we put a stop to the Nearly $300 million that was probably given in aid to Afghanistan. Afghanistan's run by the Taliban. And then we're watching video of the Taliban parading with all of the U.S. military equipment paid for by the American taxpayers. The Taliban, for goodness sake.

I mean, uh, that's gotta just break your heart, what you did and your service and your time there. Yeah, I I spent two and a half years in Afghanistan, mainly down in southern Afghanistan, based out of Kandahar, working with the ANA, the Afghanistan National Army. And you want to talk about the greatest strategic operational and tactical blunder ever, debacle, that resulted in the loss of the lives of 13 Marines, a sailor and a soldier, which Joe Biden said on the debate stage he had never lost any troops in his time as president, so he completely disregarded them. Yeah, I mean, you have a terrorist organization now that is parading around with American military equipment, which should not be the case. And then furthermore, you know that they are selling that equipment to anybody who can exploit it.

So 80 plus billion dollars. And we are still funding a terrorist sanctuary because that's what Afghanistan has become. Once again, you know, the Taliban has reinvited ISIS-K and also the Akani Network and others. Are freely operating there. We had the Doha Agreement.

For whatever reason, Joe Biden cast aside the Doha Agreement. We know why, because Donald Trump did it. But that was conditions-based. Joe Biden just went in and said, We're going to get out of here on this date, and we just turntail and left, which is embarrassing for the United States of America.

Now, and for all the men and women who serve, put their lives in line, lost limbs and all kinds of psychological damage and everything else, and uh and and many lost their lives and Uh anyway, I That is just sickening. We have some real world threats that are on our doorstep right now. I want you to listen um to this Clip. This is Secretary of State. Um Blinkin'.

Now keep in mind when you listen to this, this audio is three weeks ago. Let's go to this clip with Secretary Blinken. And remember, three weeks ago, this is what he said. Where we are now is not in a good place. Iran, because.

Uh the nuclear agreement was uh thrown out. Instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material. for a nuclear weapon is now probably one or two weeks away from doing that. They are, um, they haven't produced a weapon itself, but that's something of course that we track very, very carefully. Um One to two weeks away, the That was three weeks ago.

Yeah. That is one of the most stuck on stupid commentaries that I have heard, and Blinken has had quite a few. Think about this. During the Trump administration, Iran was virtually bankrupt. Because of the sanctions that we had placed upon them, because we were not sending them pallets of cash and unmarked airplanes like the Obama administration did.

And all of their cronies, all of their state-sponsored terrorist organizations were suffering because of that. Then all of a sudden, Joe Biden comes along. He wants to re-enter into the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, the Iran and Nuclear Agreement. We have flushed them with billions of dollars of cash, and then we took our foot off of the sanctions. And so now they're freely selling their oil to China.

They are exporting drones to Russia, and they are supporting the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad.

So Tony Blinken is the embodiment of that weakness of this Biden-Harris administration. And again, coming back to your initial question, nothing's going to change if you keep Kalamala Harris and give her a promotion for failing into the Oval Office. Yeah, look, Iran with a nuclear weapon, that's kind of scary. And the fact that we've taken hundreds of attacks on U.S. assets from the proxies of Iran, there's no doubt, I think, in anybody's mind where this is coming from.

And I don't think Harrison and Walls even begin to understand. how the world economy works, let alone How to deal with them because to your point, and it's been made several times by Donald Trump, and that is you can't enrich these people so that they have the funds in order to do that. Our energy in production is so critical.

Now I saw a claim that oil crude was up in its production to a record high. But there's so many other factors that are impeding our ability to be the world's economic superpower, be self-sufficient and be able to actually supply Are allies with these resources so they don't have to lean on Russia, don't have to lean on Iran and others. Hey, can give us your your perspective on that. No, you're absolutely right. If you want to understand what a Harris-Waltz administration would do to our economy, just look at what Tim Waltz has done to the Minnesota economy.

And when you talk about the energy independence that we had under the Trump administration, where we were producing, consuming, and was a net exporter, first time ever of our energy resources, now you have a Biden administration. The very first thing that they did was to go after our oil and gas industry, and really that's one of the driving factors of inflation. Port Arthur, Texas, was the number one exporter of liquefied natural gas in the world. Then you had the Biden administration come after our LNG exporting here in Texas. Why would you want to do that?

You would think that you would want to undermine the energy security and the revenues of countries like Iran, of Russia, and even OPEC. But instead, what we see ourselves doing now is going to beg Saudi Arabia, going to beg Venezuela, even. Why would we want to go and beg?

socialist Marxist dictator like Nicolas Maduro. Oh no, by the way, the Biden administration has offered him asylum if he just steps down.

So this is a very weak, very confused foreign policy, economic policy, energies policy, national security policy and of course, the border policy, which is completely broken.

Well, we always appreciate your perspective and thoughts on all of this. I really do appreciate it. And I think all of us would want to thank you for your service and the people, colleagues of yours that served, and the efforts that you made, the sacrifices you made, the risk that you took in your life to help protect this country. And most of all, personally, I thank you for your friendship along the way as well. You got it.

And you know, I was in Iraq and Afghanistan. I I I don't think I saw Tim Waltz over there. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think you did. I don't think you did.

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, thanks for joining us on the Brian Killbeach Show. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, this is Jason Chaffetz, and thanks for joining us. I want to kind of get through the state of the campaign here. We have some news this morning.

Um. The vice presidential debates too have now been scheduled. There was a question, you know, yesterday, last night, Laura Ingram had J.D. Vance on, and three hours earlier, Tim Walls and CBS had said, Hey, we're going to do a debate on October 1st.

Now, and JD Vance, I think, rightly said, let's have a chance to digest this, understand the format before we commit to it. He has evidently now committed to that.

So, market calendar, October 1st, but there's going to be one now that was announced even earlier, and that's going to be September 18th. September 18th, which is a Wednesday. And that that's going to be on CNN. And JD Vance, Tim Walls is going to get out and debate. I think these are going to be great.

You know, this is what America needs. America needs to hear the contrast because I would argue that this campaign is a choice election, that they call a choice election. Because The candidates are clearly not in the same lane. They have different policies and different outcomes and different goals and visions. You know, it used to be when I first got to Congress, I used to think.

You know, we're all really fighting for the same thing, we just have different ways to get there. I don't think so anymore. I got having spent years and years in Congress and seeing people, I think, no, their view and vision of America is something I totally don't recognize. And um the way they want to get there Is just in my mind one that is full of.

Socialist type of tendencies rather than freedom, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Like, I just don't see it. And you hear and see all the time Kamala Harris and Tim Wall saying, oh, we're going to fight for freedom. And, you know, But then you go and look at their policies and you think that's the opposite of freedom. And uh so I This is the problem and the challenge.

Harris and Walls will not answer questions from the public. But when they have to be on the debate stage and actually debate each other without cue cards, without the teleprompter, without pre-written notes and scripts, then I think you're going to see the contrast between the two. Um but this idea that they're going to continue to hide Behind a willing media, I just think has to change.

Now, last night I was on with Laura Ingram on the Fox News, on Fox News, and I was joined with Ari Flascher. Ari Fleischer. One of my favorites out there. Let's go to Cut 10. His take on the media not going after Kamala and Tim Waltz for dodging interviews.

You know, it does tell you something when the Democratic presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate are incapable of addressing their own base, the media. The mainstream media is their heart and soul, Laura. This is what's propped them up. It's what's given them the free ride. And they are afraid to take the free ride.

And when they do, when they do start to ask questions, I will predict you they're going to all be lollipops and softballs. There'll be horse race, silly questions. The press is going to fail to do its job fundamentally. They did in 2020 when they let Biden get away with the baseman campaign. And Republicans everywhere have got to realize that.

Do not count on the media asking them a single hard question. I love the way he uh I love the way he phrases that. As only Arley Fleischer can do. But I think that's absolutely right.

Now, On the other hand, you have a Donald Trump who is freewheeling, who will just let it rip. He will just tell you exactly what he's thinking when he's thinking it. And that is refreshing in politics. He's not a professional politician.

Some people say, Oh, well, come on. He was president for four years. Yeah, okay. But this hasn't been his career. This is not how he's he's not polished and toned and and media consulted to death.

Let's listen to J. D. Vance. He was speaking last night. This is from Michigan, Cut Thirteen.

As his running mate, I obviously can't always speak for the president, but I think I speak for the president. I think I speak for the American people in saying this, that we'd much rather have an American president who is who he is, who's willing to offend us, who's willing to tell us the truth, who isn't a fake who hides behind a teleprompter, but lets the American people see exactly who he is. I love that. And that's how I feel about it. You want to have somebody who's grounded in principles, somebody who understands the policy, who understands the issue, who's totally engaged with everything.

And that's what I find in Donald Trump and what I don't think you'll see with Kamala Harris. She certainly could demonstrate that and prove that if she thinks that's who she is. But right now, it is so scripted.

So where are we at in this election? What's going on? Let's get Nate Silver. He was on special report yesterday. He's the founder of 538.

Nate Silver, Cut 14. If you had the election tomorrow, which would be a strange thing to do, by the way, I think Harris would be a slight favorite. She's been ahead in most recent polling in the Blue Wall States, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, all polling in the margin of error range. Look, this Fox News poll is pretty good for Trump. That'll help him a little bit when we update our model tomorrow.

But you'd rather be Harris today. People should remember, though, two things. One, we have three more months to go. There will be more surprises. And two, the polls have been wrong before.

In both of the last two general elections, they underestimated Trump. Yeah, I think that's right. How many people of you listening at home or wherever you're at in the car and whatnot, how many of you would actually? You know, if a pollster called, would you answer the call and then would you answer? Like, I don't even know how they think they legitimately do the polling.

I remember back when they used to walk through the malls and do the polling, right? I don't know how they get that. It's a fascinating race, but two debates coming up with the vice president race September 18th, October 1st. Those will be there to watch. Thanks for joining us here on the Brian Kilmean Show.

We really, truly do appreciate it. I'm Jason Chaffetz. And Appreciate you joining us on the Brian Killmeat Show. Hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

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Well, almost Brian Kilmead. This is Jason Chapins. I'm filling in for Brian. I served in Congress. I'm a Fox News contributor, and more importantly, a friend of Brian Kilmead.

So that evidently qualified me to guest host his show, and thrilled to do so. They got a great staff that he works with. They make this really easy if I just don't screw it up.

So I appreciate you joining me. We've got great guests, lots to talk about. And I hope you also, I want to mention this. I hope you have a chance to check out my podcast. It's called Jason in the House.

Just type in Jason in the House anywhere you listen to podcasts. And we're about to bring on our next guest, Mark Thiessen. Mark Thiessen is one of my favorites. He's a former chief presidential speechwriter for George W. Bush.

He's a Fox News contributor. He's a Washington Post columnist. He's a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He's a really smart guy. And he doesn't always toe the party line.

I'm telling you, he just lets it rip in his own special way. And as we bring Mark in here, one of the things I wanted to tout. With Mark listening here, is that my podcast is Jason and I's podcast. This week, my interview, if you do it up right now, is with Ted Nugget, and Ted Nugget lets it rip. And I'm telling you, I was so impressed with Ted.

So, Mark, I know you're big. One of the things you need to know about Mark Thiessen, in addition to all, is. All his accolades and all his accomplishments, he goes to more concerts than anybody I know. But I haven't seen Ted Nugent live.

Well, maybe I could go with you to see. Maybe I could go with you to see Ted Nugent because I would go with you to see Ted Nugent in an RT. That's on my bucket list. Fascinating interview because it's so different than you think it's going to be. Very cool.

Yeah, it is very cool. Mark, there's lots to talk about. I want to get to this headline, this thing that's going to come up over the next couple days. Um I don't know if you've seen this yet, but uh here's the headline in CNBC. Harris to propose federal ban on corporate price gouging in food and groceries.

Vice President Kamala Harris will propose the first ever federal ban on corporate price gouging in the food industry, her campaign announced. Harris will also pledge that if elected, she will direct the Justice Department to increase scrutiny of potential mergers between grocers and food producers. And the ban is part of a broader effort by the Democratic presidential nominee to respond to voters' ongoing frustration with higher costs of meat and groceries.

So Not only does she want to have the conversation about banning meat, now she wants to put in price controls.

Sounds like socialism to me, uh maybe communism. I don't know. What's your take, your first blush, on the idea that, oh, we we need the government to control prices?

Well, first of all, it's funny. I worked for Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld. And in the Ford administrat I'm sorry, in the Nixon administration, he was hired to be the head of wage and price controls. And so he had his interview with Nixon and he said, Well, Mr. President, I don't believe in wage and price controls.

And he said, That's why I want you to take the job. Good point. Good point, right?

So it's not just, this is a bad idea from the 1970s.

Okay, this is where we're headed in our politics. I mean, first of all, L putting aside the virtues of wage and price controls, If they thought this was the solution, we've had record inflation going on now for three and a half years. Why didn't they do this at the start? If this was the magic elixir that was going to solve the inflation problem, why did she wait? She's been vice president for like, you know, what is it, 1,500 days or something right now?

And she's now proposing this as something she would do. I mean, if it's a great idea, do it now. Have five nine executive order. But so this is just, she's in a box because one of the interesting historical facts, I'm actually writing this from a Washington Post column next week. There is only one sitting vice president that has won the presidency in 188 years, and that was George H.W.

Bush. Right. The previous person to have done it was Andrew Jackson's Vice President on one. I'm forgetting the name now. But so it just doesn't happen a lot.

A lot of vice presidents have left office and then come back and run. Al Gore was Al Gore ran as a sitting vice president. He lost. But George W. Bush was the only H.W.

Bush was the only one who won, and that was because people wanted another Reagan term. Right, right, yeah. No, all the ones who have previously run from that never won because people didn't want another term of their sitting president. You cannot run as a sitting vice president serving in an administration and separate yourself. From the sitting president.

It doesn't work. Right, you are you are either for better or for worse, you are promising a continuation of the status quo. And so she's got the stat what is the status quo? The status quo is record inflation. The status quo is wars on two continents.

The status quo is a border that's in a disaster. She owns all of these things. And so she can't, on one hand, she can't separate herself from that because why didn't you do something different? Why didn't you advise the president to change something? You know, like she's running away from being the border czar.

If the border policy was great, she'd be wearing it as a badge of honor. She'd say, You're damn right I was the border czar. We got a great border policy.

So she's inheriting all these disasters, and she's got to try and figure out a way to convince the American people that she would go in a different direction. And there's not a lot to play with.

Well, but according to Joe Biden here in Cut eighteen, uh the economy is doing just fine. You're just not writing about it properly. I think we must cheap inflation, Mr. President. Yes, yes, yes.

I told you we're going to have a soft landing. We're going to have a soft landing. My policies are working. Start writing that way, okay? Yeah.

So what do you think? It's going great, Mark. That's the president thing. She should campaign on that. You know, it's funny because she's been trying to separate all the rumors that she wants to find separation with Biden.

And I think it was Peter Doosey who asked Kareem Jean-Pierre about it.

Well, it's the Biden-Harris administration, you know. Yeah, let's listen to that. Cut 20. I actually had that sound. Cut 20.

Excellent. When did you guys learn that Vice President Harris wants to distance himself from Bidenomics. Why do you think that? Axios is now reporting that she is hoping to distance herself from President Biden's unpopularity on the economy. Can you blame her?

Do you know this is the Biden-Harris administration? Are you aware that this is the Biden-Harris administration? And she is indeed the vice president. But if the president's policies on the economy were working or if they were popular, would he still be the key? We literally just had the chair of the CEA here who laid out a pretty robust point-by-point about the economy and what has happened under the Biden-Harris administration.

And I thought it was pretty convincing. She was impressed with her own guest, yes. We got to put that in an ad. The Biden-Harris administration. You know, it's the Biden-Harris administration.

They're saying it. Look, here's the reality: the American people, if you just look at the polls, every poll shows this. The American people think the economy is heading in the wrong direction. They think that this administration's policies. Pluralities of Americans say this administration's policies have hurt them personally, financially, and very few people think their policies have helped.

So she's carrying this backpack. Full of rocks into the campaign, and she owns all that.

So, what do you do if you're her? You can't defend the current administration's policies because people think they're a disaster. But, so, how do you separate yourself? What does she offer that would be different? You know, what unleashed all the inflation?

What unfleased the inflation were the two bills that she was the deciding vote on as president of the Senate? The American Rescue Plan, if ever there was a misnamed bill, that was it. And then the second worst misnamed bill, the Inflation Reduction Act. Which were these massive spending bills that poured gasoline onto the inflationary fire and unleashed all of this inflation. And so, you know, one, she was the deciding vote for both of those.

So she personally is responsible for unleashing the inflation. But then you ask her, well, what would you have done differently?

So Biden spent, I think the calculation is, according to Brian Riedel from the Manhattan Institute, he has these numbers up better than anybody. I think it's something like $4.8 trillion more of spending that they poured onto that. If you go back to her 2019 campaign, do you know how much spending she proposed when he added up all of her spending proposals? No, no. $46 trillion.

trillion dollars. Ten times what Joe Biden actually did. She wanted to do.

So, if she had even succeeded in passing a fraction of that more than what they had done, inflation would be worse. Than it is today. I know If she wants to separate herself, her policies would have made inflation worse.

Well, I don't think they know how to even define inflation. I don't think they have a plan. And I've been saying this for a long time. If you said to any Biden Harris Walls supporter. Quick, tell me what's their plan to tackle inflation?

you can't name it. And if you did, you would say, okay, more spending. And but that's the problem. That's what creates inflation is more spending. And so now Kamala Harris is coming out with this proposed federal ban on corporate price gouging.

What does that mean? The margins on In grocery, the grocery business are about as tight of a margin as any business that there is out there. If you think that these people are just rolling in the dough and just screwing over the American people, They just don't understand the basics of the economy. I just, I really don't. You hit the nail on the head, they don't understand the basics of the economy.

Yeah, uh really quickly, I only got another minute or so with you. Um, I think you've been somewhat uh critical of Donald Trump and his his campaigning. Others have heard this too. Listen to this cut 12. This is Senator J.D.

Vance on the campaign trail in Michigan. To the people who say That Donald Trump should do something different. They had an opportunity to make Donald Trump do something different by challenging him over three separate primaries, every single one of which he won.

So I think that Donald Trump has earned the right to run the campaign that he wants to run. And look, if you listen to what Donald J. Trump says, if you look at what I say, we are prosecuting the case against Kamala Harris on policy. We're reminding people that Donald Trump delivered peace and prosperity, and Kamala Harris has delivered war all over the world and unaffordable groceries and housing here at home. What's your response to that?

What could Donald Trump? What would be your advice if you could address the President and say, hey, this is what I think he should be doing?

Well, it's funny because in that little sound bite there, he both criticized the people who were criticizing the campaign strategy and then did exactly what they said, which is to prosecute the case on policy rather than on all sorts of other characteristics. Look, Donald Trump needs to understand this. And he's a friend of mine. I talk to him all the time. I want him to win.

I'm in the Trump camp. His base. is on fire right now, particularly after the assassination attempt. They're going to walk over molten lava, broken glass, hot coals, whatever you need to get to the voting booth. He needs swing voters.

There are tens of thousands of swing voters in a handful of swing states who are going to decide who the next President is. And he needs to convince those people who don't like Biden, don't like Harris, but are not sure about whether they're comfortable putting him back in the Oval Office. He needs to convince them to vote in their self-interest. And that means pro not saying things that offend them. And making the case, you may not like the way I talk, you may not like some of the way I behave, but you loved your bank account when I was president of the United States.

You loved that there was peace in the world, you loved that you loved the way this country was going, you loved that there was opportunity, you loved that the gas prices were low, you loved you could afford your groceries, you loved that you weren't maxing out credit card debt. That's the case you have to make. That you may not like everything about me, but I'm fighting, I fought for you and I made your life better. And vote for me, and I'll do it again. That's the message.

It has to be focused entirely on the swing voters because his base doesn't need, you don't need to pour gasoline on that fire. It's already raging. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Mark Thiessen, one of the smartest folks out there.

Mark, thanks so much for joining us. I do hope to join you. Go to a concert and let's try to make that TED news. And anytime you take over this pirate ship and take it over, I'm happy to join you again. Mark Thiessen, everybody, thank you.

Thanks for joining us on the Brian Kilbeach show. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Learning something. new every day on the Brian Kill Meat Show.

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, this is Jason Chaffetz filling in for Brian. Uh he's off doing some You know, he's one of the hardest working guys out there, and he's out working doing some stuff. Couldn't do it today, so honored to be filling in for him.

We were just talking with Mark Thieson, right? Talking about the economy, talking about the candidacy of Kamala Harris. And I still can't get past this. This is new. It's out.

It's going to happen later this week. But Kamala Harris, the proposed federal ban on corporate price gouging in food and groceries. Essentially, what she's saying is we're going to have to come in and do. You know, price controls.

So her instinct here is look We don't know how to deal with the economy. We don't know how to deal with these hard things.

So, what we're going to do is we're going to have the government come in and take control. That is a scary thing. For a group of candidates, a pair of candidates, I should say, that's out there touting, oh, we're all about freedom. Yeah, we're going to take away your ability and your businesses, and we're going to set the prices. Yeah, good luck with that.

That's what we call socialism. or communism, um it just have The government controls everything in the economy. Let's go back to. I want to play Cut 21. This is.

This is a year apart. This is August of 2023 and then August now. Kamala Harris in her own words. Called Vitanomics, and we are very proud of Bydenomics. And as today's jobs numbers make clear, Vitanomics is working.

It will be my day one priority to fight to bring down prices. to take on the big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging. Right. So, what they've been saying for the last three and a half plus years is that the economy's working. It's not that bad.

Joe Biden's saying that, Kamala Harris is saying, Biotonomics is working. Let's remember the first two years of the Biden-Harris administration, they had the House, the Senate, and the presidency.

So they want to try to blame. Donald Trump, they want to try to blame Republicans. But the Democrats controlled all three bodies there for a little while. They implemented their policies. They got the Hundreds of billions of dollars that they wanted for their Green New Deal and infrastructure and broadband and all these other things that they wanted.

And they've always been telling us that it works and that Bidenomics work. But let's go back to cut 22. This is Kamala Harris again, in her own words, four different clips. Um Talking about the reality of what's going on. The cost of groceries has gone up, the cost of gas has gone up.

It's one of the highest priorities actually for the President and for me. Fighting inflation is one of our administration's top economic priorities. For many Americans, prices are still too high. And we still have work to do to address that. Prices for everyday things like groceries are still too high.

You know it and I know it. When I am President, it will be my day one priority to fight to bring down prices Well, that first clip was from 2021, second clip was from 2022, the third clip was from 2023, and the fourth clip was from, well, Wednesday. Mm-hmm.

So now she says it's going to be my day one priority. If you couldn't get it done in four years, I don't even think she understands the basics of the economy, how it works, what does it, what drives inflation, because you know what? Never, ever, ever did they talk about energy. And if you don't fix the energy, if you don't fix the gas prices, guess what? You never ever solve this problem because you have to have a thriving economy, which again I would argue Harrison Walls don't know how to deal with, and you have to have an energy sector that is thriving.

Prices have to come down. When the price of energy goes down, like it was under Donald Trump, guess what? Everything costs less. That's the reality. Stay with us.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Almost with Brian Kilmead. I'm Jacob Chaffetz filling in for Brian, and we're thrilled to have right now Emily Dominich joining us. She's the Senior Vice President at Boundary Stone Partners and former Senior Advisor to speakers Kevin Carthy and Mike Johnson.

Emily, thanks for joining us on the Brian Kilmead Show. Thanks so much for having me, Congressman. Good to be here. Oh, I appreciate it. Please call me Jason.

Old habits die hard, right? I appreciate the formality, but this is just you and me chatting, and I don't know how many other people listening here, but a lot of them.

So, but we'll just pretend it's you and me.

So, um, I want to talk about the campaign. Uh I want to talk about politics. We've had some great guests on so far kind of analyzing things, but um I've got a series of Donald Trump quotes from his uh speech in Asheville, North Carolina. What I'd love to do is play the clip and then have you react to it and give us your perspective and your assessment of kind of what the President is is saying and how he's saying it because I mean really they're trying to go after swing voters, right? I mean that to Mark Thiessen's point earlier, Each camp already has a base of support out there, but it's those people in the middle that will ultimately decide elections.

Um And at the top of every poll that I've seen, the economy is number one, and now Kamala Harris is trying to say, oh, I'm a day one priority. That'll try to fix it. Let's listen to Donald Trump in clip one. Kamala has declared that tackling inflation will be a. Day one priority.

Just think of it for her, but day one For Kambala was three and a half years ago. Why hasn't she done it? By repealing the Biden-Harris regulatory onslaught, we can save an estimated $20,000. And you're talking about a tremendous amount, $6,000, $1,000. Seven, eight thousand dollars a year just in savings.

So, to get economic relief to workers and families, we will make additional tax cuts. That's what gave us the great economy. We'll make tax cuts additionally, we'll make them permanent. What's your reaction to that? I think that's exactly what President Trump needs to be saying on the campaign trail.

Focus on the economy, focus on the issues, focus on drawing a hard contrast between him and the Biden-Harris agenda. And make Kamala Harris own the that Biden-Harris agenda. She's been a part of it for since day one, and she needs to be as responsible for it as President Biden was. What's your take on Kamala Harris when Donald Trump went out months ago and started talking about no tax on tips, which particularly of all the states out there, particularly Nevada, right, which is very tourist-oriented, a lot of entertainment, a lot of meals being had, and big hotels and whatnot. He's been talking about no tax on tips, and then she comes out as if she came with it all by herself.

What's your read on that? I mean, we all love a good poll, right?

So we're just following a popular issue, and we see the Vice President using that trick that we've seen over and over in the election cycle. I think this is a popular issue for a reason. People think they shouldn't be paying taxes on some of this income. They think they need to get some relief, particularly for workers who are hourly wage workers or tick-based workers.

So I think this is Vice President Harris trying to take advantage of a popular issue. And frankly, the legacy media letting her do it. I mean, we're not going to get a lot of credit for President Trump from some of the other networks on this stuff.

Well This is the problem, right? She won't answer questions. She she won't uh sit down for an interview. She doesn't she hasn't had a press conference. I e you know, even So, you know, some of her Biggest supporters have been out there are starting to question her inability or.

Her strategy of just hiding behind teleprompters all day, every day. But she's in a predicament, right? She wants to take credit for being part of the administration that Nancy Pelosi says was so great should be on Mount Rushmore. But at the same time, she's got to distance herself because if things were going so well with the economy, with our stance overseas, with the border, with security, safety, I mean, all the big issues of the day, then she would own it. But she's kind of trying to distance herself.

Again, Donald Trump in Asheville, North Carolina, cut two. What she needs to explain is. The present suffering that she's caused along with Joe Biden. And by the way, they're a team. She's trying to throw him overboard.

She doesn't want to know who he is anymore. Does anyone here feel richer under Kamala Harris than Crooked Joe than you were during the Trump administration? Is anything less expensive under Kamala Harris than Crooked Joe? Only Donald Trump will say things that way. Puts a smile on your face.

What's your reaction to that, Emily? Yeah, I mean, again, I think he has to keep tying her to to the to President Biden and to the Biden administration. But but I will I will admit, I think that she's really successfully turned away from her past positions. You know, we don't hear About a fracking ban. We don't hear her talking about abolishing ICE.

We don't hear her talking about giving benefits to illegal immigrants. We are not hearing the sort of old progressive Kamala Harris that we heard when she ran for president the last time and didn't even make it to Iowa. You know, she is really moving away from that position and trying to make herself a mainstream candidate. And it is Republicans' responsibility, particularly President Trump, but certainly down ballot as well, to make sure and call out our opponents on this because we're going to see down ballot implications in the Senate and the House if she's able to successfully run away from this record. Yeah, and that's the core, right?

That's the issue. I saw some poll, and I have no idea. I mean, it was on the internet, right?

So it had to be true. But it was something like 70% of Harris supporters had no idea where she was at on issues. It was something like that. And that's the challenge, right, for the Trump campaign and for Republicans. And to your point, you know, you got a third of the Senate, you got 435 House seats up, because they're up every election cycle.

And Who can do the best job? I've been arguing that this is much like. What happened with Kamala Harris last time? Came out of the shoots. She was the hottest ticket in town.

She was raising lots of money. Her campaign looked good, almost looked inevitable. But then she had to start speaking, and people started looking at her record or lack thereof. And guess what? Next thing you know, she was in sixth place.

In California, her home state of California, pulling behind Andrew Yang. That's how bad it got before she finally dropped out. And I think something similar might be brewing here. Might be brewing here. This is Donald Trump again in Asheville, North Carolina, cut three.

She's flip-flopping on every single thing she's ever Espoused or believed in the border, health care, crime. But she truly is a radical. She's flip-flopping on everything to get elected. After she gets elected, it all goes right back to where it was. She refuses to do any interviews or press conferences almost 30 days now.

She hasn't done an interview. You know why she hasn't done an interview? Because she's not smart. She's not intelligent. And we've gone through enough of that with this guy, Crooked Joe.

Yeah. Now, let's listen to one of the other big issues: immigration, cut four. If Kamala wins, you will have mass amnesty and citizenship for all of the Biden-Harris illegals that poured into our country. If I win, you will have the largest deportation operation in American history starting at noon on Inauguration Day. Mm-hmm.

What's your take on that, Emily? I think, again, it's about drawing contrast. You know, this is, you know, Vice President Harris was supposed to be in charge of the border operation for President Biden. And, you know, frankly, we didn't see her in Texas, and we certainly didn't see her stepping out on this issue.

So I think, you know, again, as many times as President Trump can point out the failings of the Biden-Harris administration, that will put him in a good position and her on the defensive. I also think he has to be able to carry this issue-focused approach. into the next debate because getting into a place where it becomes a personal attack, again, gives that tool to the legacy media to make this about something other than the issues like the economy and the border that matter to regular Americans. And I'm going to play cut 17. This is Nikki Haley on special report on Tuesday about what Trump has to do.

I want this campaign to win. But the campaign is not going to win talking about crowd sizes. It's not going to win talking about what race Kamala Harris is. It's not going to win talking about whether she's dumb. You can't win on those things.

The American people are smart. Treat them like they're smart. Do you think the campaign? is missing the mark on those things. I think the campaign needs to focus.

That's the main thing. Look, this is a winnable election, but you need to focus. What do you think about that? I think Governor Haley is right that focusing on the issues is the right move. I think we've listened to four clips of President Trump today talking about the issues, and as long as we keep doing that and drawing a stark contrast with Biden and Harris and their work in this administration, he'll be ahead.

But I do think that she's right that we don't tend to do quite as well, certainly with the media, when it comes down to a personal focused attack. But we don't need to do that because, frankly, all we need to do is look at the issues and see that the economy is in downturn and the border is a mess and we have a regulatory burden that's making it more expensive to do business and to thrive here in America.

So I mean, I think those are the issues and where we win. And it's, to your point, at the top of our segment here, it's how we convince independents to vote Republican, not just for President Trump, but down ballot. Yeah, I think that's exactly right.

Well, it's going to be fascinating. Two vice presidential debates now set September 18th and October 1st, and hopefully we can get some more presidential debates. I think those will be quite illuminating. Emily Dominich, thanks for joining us on the Brian Kilmead Show. We do appreciate it.

Thanks so much for having me. All right, stay with us, we'll be right back. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmead.

He's so busy, he'll make your hat spin. It's Brian Kilmead.

Hey, it's actually Jason Chapel. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for giving us part of your day. I hope you're enjoying it. A lot of crazy, weird stuff that's going on.

A couple random stories, but they're big stories. And I still worry about what Secretary Glincan was saying three weeks ago: that one to two weeks, Iran would have enough. Material to make a nuclear bomb.

Now, he went out there and said, Hey, that's because you didn't sign this agreement with Iran. Oh, gosh, that's not true. The fact is that the Biden-Harris and previous Obama-Biden administrations enriched Iran. They tend to think that, hey, you play nice, you give them lots of money, and guess what? Then they'll like us.

That hasn't really worked out so well, has it? Iran was not on the march. Iran was not funding all these proxy groups to attack Americans and our allies across the world. None of that happened under Donald Trump. That was not because they were starving.

They were not allowing them to take advantage and participate in the world markets because of their bad behavior. Nobody has anything against the Iranian people. My guess is if you walked down the streets and and met some people, you would they would be enjoyable, just like you could do almost any other country. But it's the regime that you worry about. And um I just don't think That This administration or a Kamala Harris, Tim Walls administration, has any clue on how to negotiate.

And create a win-win situation the way Donald Trump does. Um And think about that. If you were going to simplify things, if you said, look, I got a problem, and I got to negotiate something. Would you hire Would you hire Kamala Harris to do that negotiation for you? Or would you hire, I don't know, Donald Trump?

Who do you think would get a better result for you if you were going to do that negotiation? That's one of the big stories that's out there. Other story that's coming out now: surprise, surprise, Joe Biden's not running for reelection, and suddenly the Department of Justice is out there revealing and showing us that oh, maybe Hunter Biden was leaning on a U. S. ambassador to help with their personal deals.

And uh you know the revolution or revelations, I should say, that are coming out from the administration now are really quite stunning. but suddenly happened when, all of a sudden, guess what? They're not running for re-election.

Somehow, that stuff is now surfacing that suddenly that's what's coming up. Um the timing of it seems really, really Quite interesting. Um Also in the news, we're just reading this, arrests have been made in connection with the ketamine-related death of Friend Star's. Friends star Matthew Perry.

Now Matthew Perry was Uh a great actor, lot of entertainment. I'm a big friends uh uh fan. I watched a lot of shows for a long time. Sad to see him with his drug addiction and the problems, but you know um He actually died. And now the there have been arrests made.

We'll see how that plays out. Uh the the legal folks are saying this is an ongoing investigation.

So the the uh While there's a rest been made, there could be more coming along, but who is feeding him these drugs and whatnot? It'll be interesting to see. It's just a sad situation. Sad that he lost his life. And there are people, millions of Americans and families across this country dealing with very similar problems and challenges.

And it's sad to see, but glad they're going to try to hold somebody accountable, I guess, at some point. Other thing is that we're going to talk about we're going to talk about this later as well. The Department of Justice has found the Biden biographer's transcripts. Um surprise, surprise. And the oversight uh project at the Heritage Foundation, of which I'm associated with.

Um Has been pushing them legally to release these, and it's 117 pages of documents that now suddenly they have found. And again, Good legal work to push them to get to the point where they had to cough these up and admit that they're there. And now they've been found. I think it'd be interesting when the public actually gets to see that and what was actually happening there.

So there's that that's also going along. Debates in the presidential world, really important. Vice presidential debate. Uh The news today is J.D. Vance has agreed, along with Tim Waltz, to participate in two debates.

One debate, first debate, will be September 18th. I think it's on a Wednesday. That will be on CNN. CNN will conduct that debate. And then October 1st, there will be another debate, and that'll be fascinating as well.

That one will be hosted by, I believe, CBS. Those are always good. I think it'll illuminate the differences between the candidates, and it will be fascinating to watch. We should be doing that. Absolutely.

Uh so that will be really good. Um The other thing that's out there that's really top of mind are those first responders and the people on the front lines of our United States military and our first responders here at home, particularly those Border Patrol ICE agents. We have a lot of criminal Aliens. That's the legal term. People don't like it when I say the word alien, but that is what's found in the law.

And there are a lot of people that are here that are committing crimes. And you got sanctuary cities, states, and whatnot that won't turn them over.

So fundamentally wrong. We don't give enough attention to this. Sad, sad, ridiculous stories that should never happen if we just detain. And then deport those people. That's the right thing to do, particularly if you're here illegally and you're committing crimes.

I'm Jason Chavitz. This is the Brian Killman Show. Thanks so much for joining us. Do appreciate it. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

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Want to talk also with all the craziness going on in the world about what's going on in the college campuses because I think it needs a little bit more illumination, if you will. And it's kind of scary what's happening out there. And to kind of break this all down with it for us, we have online Jeff Lacks. He's a CUNY law professor at Kingsborough Community College and founder of Safe Campus, which advocates for Zionist Jews discriminated against and excluded on college campuses. Jeff, thanks so much for joining us on the Brian Killmee Show.

Great to be with you, Jason. Thank you for all you do.

Well, listen, um there's something that's been happening here and that the the uh president of uh Colombia, embattled is kind of a soft word for everything that's been going on there, had to resign, um due to a quote, period of turmoil after these anti Israelist student protests, but you're closer to it than I am. Tell us what's happening, why this went down and what your perspective is of it.

Well, first of all, she President Shafiq is a total disgrace. Um, before she stepped down, it's not like she stepped down In the midst of the heat of all the anti-Semitism, she waited to get a cushy job in the UK working for the UK government. And puts out a letter yesterday, a long, long letter actually, which talks about in detail her new job. I mean, you know, you've been on campuses and you've worked for big companies. I've never seen a top leader at any organization talk in great detail about their new job.

People at that location don't want to hear about that. They're usually upset that their leader is leaving. In this case, a lot of people are happy about it, but nobody, nobody wants to hear how great your new job is in great detail. And so she talks about that in depth and doesn't, of course, doesn't address even one word about anti-Semitism on her campus. And then she rides off into the sunset with her, you know, essentially golden parachute.

So she's a complete disgrace. And what I'm hearing from some insiders, Jason, is that the new interim president who comes from the medical school, which I always kind of like because medical leaders, medical institutional leaders have to be a little bit more reasonable. They really have no choice because they are dependent on funding and things actually it's like an airline pilot. You want a pilot spot this whole DEI mess with areas in the workplace where you don't really care what somebody looks like. You care they can get you somewhere safely.

You care if someone can do surgery on you safely.

So a lot of people are optimistic about the interim president. We'll see. But Shafiq was a disgrace, and I think a lot of people were happy that she stepped down. Quickly, how bad was it? I mean, what was life like?

I mean, I've seen the video of it, I've read articles about it, but how it was like it was like it was like it How bad was it? It was bad. And, you know, this, I'm not at Columbia. I'm at CUNY, the City University of New York. This all started at my university.

This whole thing started at CUNY. And there were connections between all these groups.

So when they were doing the Gaza and kids, those tent encampments, which violated the law, they were illegal at Columbia. When they were finally, finally thrown out of Columbia, they marched down to City College at CUNY. And what did they do at my university? They tore down the American flag from city college. And I said, this is a public, you know, Columbia is terrible, but it's a private university.

To me, it's a whole different story once you go to a public university and do the things that you're doing with the Gaza encampment.

So, first thing they do is they pull down the American flag, which always my stomach drops to the floor anytime I see that. And then they raise the Palestinian flag. In its place.

So, in a public college in New York City with 20% Jews in New York City, Congressman. To raise a foreign flag is despair. Despicable. And that's what they did. And the one message I really want to drive home to your listeners is that there is this idea that students are the ones leading this charge.

It is not true. I work with these people every day, the faculty. It is the unions. These unions are horrific. At these union meetings, the faculty members, which make them up, and these are really radical faculty, this is basically a room full of Ilhan Omars and Rashida Taib.

That's really what it is. These are Islamo-Marxists. They call each other comrades, not as a joke. They're not kidding. They really view each other as comrades.

These are the died-in-the-wall Marxists. And they are the ones organizing these rallies. Yes, the students are the face of it, but the funding and organization we have emails. My organization has sources embedded all over the place across universities. And so I have emails right in front of me right now that I'm looking at where they talk about organizing these Gaza encampments and helping these students to organize them.

So for people who think these are just misguided nineteen-year-old students or twenty one-year-old students, whatever, that's really never what it is. There is always faculty members, funding and a union behind it. Really important people to understand that. I think this really needs to be flushed out because you've got to follow the money. I don't think that these protests, a lot of them, I don't I'm not convinced that they're 100% spontaneous.

I thi I see and hear stories about people being bussed in. I think that needs to be explained. You know, the Department of Justice will tell you that white supremacy and um is like the number one threat to America. But if the Department of Justice were truly doing its full job, they would also understand and expose um how these things are going down, because these are not peaceful protests. You you know, if um our Constitution allows for the protesting of our government peacefully.

It does not allow them to do it non-peacefully. I want you to listen to this clip. This is Alicia Baker on Fox and Friends. This happened earlier. On what the next Colombia president needs to do.

And I want to have you hear his take on it and then get your reaction to it. Cut 25. I've been saying all year that this has never been about President Shafiq or one person. This is about leadership and governance at Colombia. And all I can think about is what happens next.

Will our next president be willing to put her foot down and lead strongly in a way that will shut down what you're seeing on your screen right now and make sure that it can be a safe and productive learning environment for everyone? What's your reaction to that? Yeah. Absolutely. And the first thing the new president has to do is end the investigation into Professor Shai Davidai.

Shai Davidai has stood up a Jewish Faculty member at Columbia. He's really become the face, I think, of the counter-protest movement to what's going on. And Columbia has placed him under investigation. Why? For complaining about anti-Semitism.

Because the people on the far left, the Islamo-Marxists, are claiming that his counter protests They're not, that's not free speech, of course, according to them. Uh, and he's been placed under investigation for making anti-seven system complaints. By the way, four professors at CUNY, including me. Were placed under investigation for the same reason. I was cleared because I didn't do anything wrong.

All I did was complain about the anti-Semitism. But I went through a hellish process, an eight-month-long investigation, and still to this day they refuse to give me the findings. All they did was give me a letter saying that I was cleared of all charges. But I think to answer your question, I think the president needs to end that investigation immediately because it's a disgrace. It reminds me of 1930s Nazi Germany, and that should be ended.

And then, of course, and these incidents are going to start again. A lot of people are asking, are we going to have the same thing in the fall? Yes, absolutely. There are several websites out there that are already planning. Yeah.

Jeff. I'm glad you're on top of it. I really I have to go 'cause I got to get a commercial 'cause I got uh a great guest, uh Mike Howell from the Oversight Project from Heritage coming on. But I'm glad you're on top of this. We are going to follow it.

And thanks so much for joining us on the Brian Kilby Show. Thank you, Congressman. Appreciate it. All right. Jeff Lacks, everybody.

Thank you, and we'll be right back. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmead.

Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. And I'm Jason Chaffett's filling in for Brian. And boy, we got a hot topic here. I'm excited about this one.

I could take hours to talk about this, but. As you may recall, I was the chairman of the Oversight Committee there in the House of Representatives. That's in my rearview mirror now. Fox News contributor and host of the Jason in the House podcast. But I do also have an association with the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation.

And they've really got a good thing going there. And they've been very aggressive in trying to extract documents. What I found was sad, but true. That Issuing a FOIA request and then going to court, a freedom of information request, and going to court with the outside groups is often more. Successful than what Congress can do with the duly issued subpoena.

That's a whole nother topic, but we have on the line with us Mike Howell, who's the executive director of the Oversight Project there at the Heritage Foundation. And there was some news, it was big on foxnews.com. And the headline there was: Department of Justice suddenly located Biden biographer transcripts created by Robert Herr. That, according to a watchdog, And Mike, how led that effort? I've worked with Mike in the past.

I work with him now. And, Mike, tell us about. what happened and what you were able to extract out of the Department of Justice. Absolutely. So right when Special Counsel's HER report came out, we sued for a bunch of things associated with it.

The biggest one, obviously, being the audio tape that kind of has gotten the most attention. But another key thing about it, and we divide this up into separate requests to be really strategic about it, was the underlying kind of documents that her relied upon to include the transcript of Biden's Ghostwriter. And this is where things get kind of funky, actually. It shows you the steps that government will take with your taxpayer dollars because they bring in the best and the brightest and the most expensive at the Department of Justice to think about all the ways they can get away with not releasing stuff. And so that's why you got to go to court.

So when you're in court and you're fighting over these things, usually the government says, hey, we searched, we did our best, we just couldn't find it. And that works a lot of times. But we were very, very dogged on this one. And our tremendous attorneys were basically in front of the judge, really pushing hard on the government attorney saying, well, how did you search? Did you even talk to special counsel her to ask him the documents that you relied upon?

And of course, they did not, right? They want to do the easiest control F in the database and move on with their days so they don't have to turn it over. And they had said all these things to the judge about how they did this really intense search, and then they had to come back and tell the judge that was not true. And so that's what that story is about. And ultimately, you know, it turns out that the stuff is located.

And so that's what we're getting, and that's what we have put out. And it's just. a lot of redactions, obviously, which is the next stage in the fight. But the point is, the really big point is there is a ton of evidence and there is a ton of evidence that speaks to not only Biden's declined mental state, which the entirety of the executive branch at the highest levels was aware of, to include Vice President Harris, but also the national security concerns surrounding not just Having classified information where it should not be. But what was the president doing with that classified information?

The fact that a ghostwriter without a security clearance is aware of all this stuff. Problems, it speaks to the Biden family trading on national security for financial gang, and that's what this is all about.

So this is 117 pages of these are transcribed discussions between the President and the Ghostwriter.

Now, if you're in possession of classified information, you're not allowed to share it with anybody. In fact, you're not allowed to have it. It's not as if Joe Biden was a former president, which does continue to allow for having a security clearance. And there's no fact pattern where a senator can extract classified documents. There's just none.

Having been in Congress, I know exactly how this works. You go in, you review the classified information, they don't let you leave with it. You bet suddenly Joe Biden had all these classified documents? You had to I mean, how would you get from here to there if other than stealing them or taking them and inappropriately keeping them? And if you share that information, we need to be able to see what that is.

And so what's interesting, I think, will be when you get these documents. And that There are redactions. Why are they redacted? And it's probably going to be because they're classified information, which is the heart of the case, right? It goes full circle.

That's the funniest part of this. One of their excuses for not producing things is, well, we got to put it through a classification review. And it's like, oh, really?

So he was trading on classified information. It has to go through a classification review. And I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up another aspect of Zwanitzer. He deleted a bunch of files as soon as the news came out and Hur was appointed. And this is no different than the bleach bit scenario with Hillary Clinton.

It's a lower grade version of it. He got caught, but there still hasn't been any consequences levied on him. And this kind of speaks to the continuation of when there is not accountability for these types of things, which we have not had, aside from President Trump, who had his home rated. over it. Um you know, people just keep doing this stuff.

Well, that's the thing. I if if you know you're in an investigation and you're going to be asked for that information, to destroy that information should have a consequence. I mean, it's absurd to think. I mean, imagine if everybody just did that. Can you imagine if President Trump had done that?

If they showed up at the raid in Mara Lago and he dropped a match on all the documents, you bet there'd be a different fact pattern.

So, do you when do you think you'll actually have the 117 pages?

Well, the transcript is out. It's just heavily redacted. And so in the transcript, you can see that obviously a lot of it was about classified information being exchanged. And so where we fight now are on the redactions and other things that went into it. Documents relied upon when the transcript was up.

In other words, when Her was confronting him with things, we want to see those documents. We want to see the documents that Zwanitzer had that are not privileged. That's kind of the fight about everything else. Mike Howell, Executive Director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, using, you know, pushing our rights as Americans to actually see things. You know, we talk about being open and transparent, but we're not really.

And we've got to be more open and transparent. That's the way our government works best. Thanks so much for joining us on the Brian Killmeat Show. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. Oh, almost Brian Killmead. Hey, this is Jason Chaffett's filling in for Brian. He's one. of the hardest working guys out there, so don't think he's laying on some beach.

Uh, you know, having a little cocktail or something. Um, I'm sure he's working hard doing some stuff, but. And we'll see that down the road. But for for now, I'm filling in and uh Glad to have Josh Krushar joining us. He is a Fox News radio political analyst and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Insider.

Josh, thanks so much for joining us on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, Jason, great to be with you. No, I appreciate it. I always enjoy seeing you and talking and listening to your perspective on politics. And.

You know, we got a big event coming up next week. It's the Democratic National Convention, the DNC. And, um, I want to get your take on what's happening there. You know, the news reports are. all over the place about Joe Biden.

I think he's finally admitting out the Obvious part out loud that he was pushed out.

So And now he's been relegated to the Monday Night Speaker, and then he's leaving? What's up with that? What's your perspective?

Well, boy, I mean, so much has changed, it's hard to believe that that the Milwaukee Convention was, what, a month ago? And, and Now you have a different democratic And Joe Biden is sort of the forgotten man in the Democratic Party. I mean, Jason, I was shocked that the first rally that Kamala Harris and Tim Walls did in Philadelphia. They didn't mention Joe Biden's name at all.

So the fact that the vice president is with the president today, Maryland, I mean, it's a sort of check that box, make sure that you don't totally throw the guy under your running mate under the bus or your partner under the bus. But Biden is old news now. He's a political distraction for the Harris campaign. Look, they don't want to answer any questions about the Biden record.

So they're trying to kind of erase. Biden out of the picture. He's going to be speaking Monday night. There'll be a tribute to him. And then that then he's going to, you know, they're going to move on and focus on the 2024 campaign.

Biden, if this is a referendum on Biden's record, Jason, uh Donald Trump's gonna be the president. They are hoping that they can kind of etch a sketch away the the Biden record and kind of create their own uh kind of branding for Kamala Harris and hope that can last and that that's their playbook for for uh how how they're gonna play out this convention and play out the rest of the election.

Well, that's been the hardest part, right? She's she tends to tout Bidenomics, oh, it's working, working, but then at the same time comes back out and says, On day one, we'll work to lower prices. And now the news stories are coming out that later this week Kamala Harris is going to announce price controls, price fixing that in order to drive down the price of groceries, they're going to need to take over that. Pricing control by the government. That to me, I mean, that's what communists do, right?

That's what socialists do. Don't tell me that's more freedom. She thinks they're price gouging and that these mergers of these big groceries is causing grocery stores is causing all these problems. Oh, my goodness.

So I just I can't believe that people would buy into that. Uh yeah, I mean, look, I I I think it's going to be hard to convince the American public that inflation what was Was caused by monopolistic behavior by groceries. And in reality, it was about overspending. We know what happened in the first year when Biden took office and spent a whole lot of federal money. And people, even on the Democratic side, like Larry Summers, said that was the reason why, big reason why prices got out of control.

So, look, I think Biden couldn't convince the public. As much as he tried, that the economy was good and that there were ways that he proposed to try to handle the cost of groceries and goods. I think Harris is going to have a hard time as well. This is more of a defensive move. Try to change the conversation.

Just propose something, check that box, and hope that the public forgets that the economy isn't so hot right now. Look, some of it is about, I mean, we'll see. I think that they view also with a new candidate, they have a chance to kind of reset the message. And they're hoping that even though Bidenomics was not a persuasive message for voters, they're hoping to have a different economic agenda and try to sound a little more populist, perhaps. I'm skeptical it's going to work.

If Harris accepts the amendment, it's not going to be on the economic record. It's going to be on other issues.

Well, and this is the problem: how does she get from here to there? Because. The problem that I see for Kamala Harris is that she's Kamala Harris. And what credibility does she bring about how to deal with the world. you know, turmoils.

How do the border Crime and certainly the economy. I mean, the sum total of knowledge between. Kamala Harris and Governor Walls is what on the economy? I mean, as I said way back at the beginning of the show. If you had a problem financially or you needed to get creative or get out of a financial hole, would you go talk to Donald Trump?

Or would you go talk to Kamala Harris? There you you could list a thousand people you would talk to. Kamala Harris would not be one of them.

Well, and even the polls that show Kamala Harris with the momentum, with a small lead in the election, don't show her having an advantage on which candidate would be better equipped to handle the economy.

So look, I I I don't think Democrats can win the economic argument. I think You own it. I mean, she's part of the administration that presided over a very volatile economy. It's a roller coaster rack in the last few weeks alone. But they're trying, I mean, they want to fight on abortion.

They want to fight on certain issues that are more favorable to them. They want to, I mean, immigration is another example, Jason, that they're not going to win on immigration, but they're up with an ad trying to reframe Harris as actually more moderate on border security than her record shows, both as candidate in 2020 and as vice president, as the borders are, and not willing to really take on that role for the long term. But I think fundamentally, the Trump campaign has to respond to the reframing. They have to actually fight back. I think that Harris has been able to get momentum largely because Trump has not really responded in kind with a focused and clear message, responding on the economic front, responding on the border security front.

Well, I mean, Jason, we you know, probably been in politics, covered politics for so long. I mean, Harris ran one of the most progressive left wing campaigns I can remember for a series candidate back in twenty twenty. You don't need to have like a historical memory to to to remember that and and to go have gone through that.

So the Trump campaign is going to have to kind of bring back the video clips, bring back the record and hold the Vice President accountable for her political goal statements in the past.

Well, this is th again, I've been saying multiple times, this is where uh she ultimately gets herself into trouble because where you know, is much like her first campaign, right? She comes out of the shoes, she's raising the most money, she looks like the most attractive candidate, and next thing you know, she starts introducing policies and talking out loud, and she's then in California California, her home state, she's in sixth place behind Behind Andrew Yang, for goodness sake, with signal digits and then drops out.

So, not saying that's going to happen here, but I'm just saying.

Now she's got to introduce things other than saying, I'm new. And she's coming out of shoots later this week saying price controls. What? That's going to scare a lot of people, and it's not going to solve the problem, and it's not going to go over well. Um to your to your point though, uh Josh.

Let's listen to Donald Trump. He was in Asheville, North Carolina. This is him. About how much the Harris price hikes have hurt the typical household. Cut 23.

The Harris price hikes have cost the typical household $28,000. Congratulations. Hope everyone's happy. Credit card debt has exploded and it's exploded to the highest it's ever been and the costs of a typical monthly mortgage has tripled, tripled, and probably more than that if you think about it. We were at about 2.4 percent and now you're up to 10 percent and even 11 percent, but you're really not there because you can't get the money even if you want to pay it.

In July alone, 350,000 people were added to the unemployment rolls. I mean, and the President goes on and on from there. I I think if you're looking for solutions It's going to be fascinating to me to see how they handled the DNC.

Well what you know, I that they I've read that at least, you know, They were going to bring in Steven Spielberg and this Hollywood team to try to dress this thing up and make I mean, I'm guessing, but I want to get your perspective that so much of this is on tape. Because I just don't think that they can actually af uh uh take the chance of of a Joe Biden going live. Or some of these others. They can give speeches. You know, Obama, I think it's on Tuesday night and others, they know how to give speeches.

But In terms of, hey, what's the new agenda? I wonder if we're actually going to get one by the time we get to the end of the convention. The convention's going to be a victory over style, a style over substance. The theme of the last couple of weeks, it's about vibes policies. I don't know how long they're going to last, right?

I think it's going to change once Labor Day hits and the campaign gets underway and in full gear. But look, conventions are like four days for the party to put on their best pace forward. Usually, you don't get a ton of detailed policy at the conventions. I think you said it, Jason, the former President's Club, Obama, Clinton, they're going to be the Biden, you know, soon to be a former president. They're going to be the headliners for the night, three of the four nights.

So, yeah, I mean, it. The the Kamala Harris has gotten an extended honeymoon. Like, she's usually you get a week of a honeymoon for your convention. She's gotten about three or four weeks since since she ascended to the nomination. Things are going to be going downhill, it's gonna get a lot tougher on once the campaign begins in earnest.

And I'm already starting to see like you know, David Axelrod talked about the irrational exuberance of the Democrats a few weeks ago and Saying, don't get too high on your own supply with some of the polls showing Harris pulling ahead. This is a very, very close race. The latest polling starting to the Fox poll shows Trump up by one point. Pew Research, I think, shows Harris up by one point. This is neck and neck.

I mean, we are in street fighting political territory where a few thousand votes in each direction are going to make a big difference.

So, look, Harris is going to get a boost from the convention, but we're a divided country, and this is going to be a very, very competitive race going forward. Yeah, I nobody's gonna argue with that. I mean, even Nate Silver, you know, Is pretty smart on this stuff and came out and said, Yeah, be careful because we've always underestimated Donald Trump and his appeal. And there's so much to the base. But I still give the advantage to Democrats because I think they're better organized in terms of getting out the vote, doing early voting, doing ballot harvesting.

The example I use is. If you ask a um Democrat. Or ask a Republican when's the election, they'll say, Oh, November fifth. You ask a Democrat, they'll say, Oh, it starts in September. And and that's true.

You know, they they start early voting so early. That's the difference in how they think about this. And Democrats work on this twenty four seven Year after year after year, Republicans tend to show up in the last five, six months and say, ooh, we got an election. Let's get organized. Oh.

I mean, if there's any election that Is a rebuttal to the trend of early voting in state after state. It's this like the old campaign isn't really going to begin in earnest on Labor Day, and some states are going to start voting like a week out around the time of the first debate. Like you would think that people want to process who the candidates are, what they stand for, what their policies are, where Harris stands on a lot of these key issues. And she's sort of been very vague now about where she stands. You would think that that would be the strongest argument that if you want a well-informed electorate, you shouldn't have two months of voting before the campaign even really fully begins.

So, yeah, I mean, this is an election that should be, if it was, if people who cared about good government, who cared about democracy, wanted to have an informed electorate and not have people just voting R's and D's, it would be that, you know, you wouldn't have early voting in these states. But you're right. Like a lot of states, Pennsylvania, I think, is one of the states that has the most early voting, are going to start right soon after Labor Day. There's a month or more in many states of early voting.

So that's the reality. I think. you know, the Trump campaign has now sort of adjusted their message to try to get as many Republican votes banked early as as Democrats do. But it's a it's you're right, it's a it's a custom that that they're Republicans are more used to voting on Election Day and Democrats have been taking advantage of banking votes early on, depending on what state they're living in. Yeah, yeah, ex exactly.

And so this is the problem, this is the challenge, but it's also the opportunity to also It's just so unique to the American way of life. And it'll be fascinating to see. The DNC starts next week. We'll get Joe Biden out there and then dismiss him, and he'll go home. Literally, literally, will not be there for the rest of the convention.

He's got to be a bit bitter now that he's talking about the reality that he was pushed out. Josh Kroshar. Um, did I pronounce your last name right, by the way? You did, and then I give it extra. You're one of the few that has pretty much gotten it right.

So, I'm not going to try it again.

So, it's if people try chaffets all day long, they still can't get it right.

So, glad to be in that club with you, Josh. Thanks so much for joining us on the Brian Killmead Show. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Hear the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here.

The Brian Kill Meat Show. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Sponsored by Previgen, Previgen is the most recommended memory support brand by pharmacists. She's flip-flopping on every single thing she's ever espoused.

or believed in the border, healthcare, crime. But she truly is a radical. She's flip-flopping on everything to get elected. After she gets elected, it all goes right back to where it was. She refuses to do any interviews or press conferences.

It's almost 30 days now. She hasn't done an interview. You know why she hasn't done an interview? Because she's not smart. She's not intelligent.

And we've gone through enough of that with this guy, Crooked Joe. There's Donald Trump being Donald Trump In Asheville, North Carolina, obviously in the midst of a big election, making the case that, hey, If you're gonna go out and negotiate and you're gonna be th the the leader, you gotta do some interviews, you gotta be able to talk off the cuff, you gotta be able to respond to the toughest of questions. You may not like 'em, may not be totally But that that's one of the skill sets. I would argue one of the core skill sets for the President of the United States. You don't know what issue is going to face a President.

You don't know what call is going to come at three thirty in the morning. You don't know. But you got to be able to respond And lead, and part of leading is being able to listen, answer a question, take a complicated situation, synthesize it down into clear policy and directives. You do that not only for your military, but all the cabinet positions and everything else. I think it's terribly embarrassing.

The spokesperson is saying, Oh, we're gonna maybe do one interview before the end of the month. And yet to have a freewheeling uh press conference like Trump's able to do at a spur of the moment, that's a skill set that I appreciate. You may not like every the way that the press Donald Trump says it, but I'd much rather have somebody open and transparent, willing to tell you exactly what they're thinking, than hiding behind Yeah. Being beholden to some puppeteers to write it all out for you and you just read it. That's kind of scary.

Real quickly before we get to the top of the hour here. Great story in the Wall Street Journal. I want to draw your attention to it. It came out late last night. A drunken evening, a rented yacht.

The real story. of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage. This is a fascinating story. The sub-headline says: Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general. President Zelensky approved of the plan.

Then tried unsuccessfully to call it off.

So, who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline? This is saying that it's some Ukrainian military officers and businessmen. You know, it's refreshing to actually have some real reporting going on. And it hats off to the Wall Street Journal. I think they're one of the best publications out there.

Real reporters doing real stories. And this is a fascinating read. Who blew it up? We thought, oh, was it the CIA? Was it the Russians?

Hands up, it's the Ukrainians, according to this story. Encourage you to read it. Thanks for joining us. I'm Jason Schaffitz, host of the Jason in the House podcast, filling it for Brian Kilmead. Really do appreciate you joining us.

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