Harris blames Trump for economy, can't explain flip-flops in first interview

From higher ed. Tom, Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. And welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show.

How is everyone today? I am Harry Walters sitting in for Brian Kilmead. We, boy, what a busy hour we have here. Coming up later this hour, Brett Tolman will be joining us. He is the former United States Attorney for the District of Utah.

So we'll be talking to him later. But we're going to kick this hour off with Byron York. I can't just, I can't believe I just said Brian. Hope he forgives me. Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner.

He is a Fox News contributor, and you can find him on X at Byron York. Byron, welcome to the Brian Killmead Show. How are you? Good morning. I'll answer to both.

It's okay.

Okay, thank you. I appreciate that.

Okay, so you know what we got to start off with here, right? We got to start off with last night's propaganda ad for Kamala Harris. What was your gut reaction when you watched it or listened to it, however, you did it?

Well, it's funny, I watched it and then this morning I've been reading the transcript because it's you need to look carefully at what she's what she was saying. And one of the things I thought I would do is, well, why don't I look and see what she said About the issues that people say, voters say, are most important to them, the top three being inflation, immigration, and abortion.

Now we know where she stands on abortion. Absolutely, totally clear. She's not flip-flopping, she's always been. for unrestricted abortion rights any place, anytime. Um I was reading what she said about inflation.

She says a couple of times that she's very, very proud to have brought inflation down below 3%.

Now she does not mention that, that's actually higher than it was. When she and Joe Biden took office, it was actually 1.4% in January 2021. Went all the way up to 9.1%. We know all this. And she will not acknowledge that inflation shot up during her time in office.

And her solution to inflation. is to give people money. to pay higher prices. In other words, to to give them a child tax credit, by the way, the only time she ever uses the word tax is as tax credit. Give people money for tax credit so they can pay higher prices with it.

Give people a tax credit to buy a house so they can pay a higher price with the house. and continue to feed inflation. It's she she seems to just have a complete misunderstanding of what she and Joe Biden have done in the past four years. Yeah, I thought that was very interesting. She also had made some claims about the economy.

She said it had crashed. Remember, she had said that, and you brought up, you know, the economy grew in the third quarter of 2020 at an annual pace of almost 35%. That's huge. And that's in the third quarter of 2020. And then it grew at an annual rate of 4.2% and then 5.2%.

So her, oh my gosh, we inherited this crashed economy was just a load.

So I'm so glad, you know, you bring up the point of reading it versus just watching it. And I also think there's a difference when you listen to it and you don't see the body language as well. I think you walk away with something different. One thing I noticed last night to that point was that she looked hunched over. She looked like she was at the kids' table at Thanksgiving.

Yeah, yeah. It was not it was not well staged. I was kind of surprised at that. Uh, you know, with a i if if there were a big interview, you know, Trump, who was a T V star before, running for office would never have have done a a setting like that, I don't think.

So it looked bad, and a number of people thought that it kind of looked like Tim Waltz was her lawyer. I mean, because you you have seen these interviews. You know, with somebody who's accused of a crime and they do the the interview with the lawyer sitting right next to them to make sure they don't get them get themselves in trouble.

So it it was a it was just a physically odd setup I would blame Maybe they just didn't have a better facility to do it in. But it looked kind of odd, you're right. And it didn't work for her. I I just thought it I thought she looked tired and I thought she looked like she was hunched over. And I get that campaigning's hard.

I can't imagine what that's like.

So I give that to both. To anybody who's campaigning, I get that you're going to look tired. I understand that. I just thought overall she didn't look great. And I thought that that was interesting.

I had retweeted out, and a friend had sent to me a picture of her and Walls. And he's wearing one of those vests that the animals wear and says emotional support animal on it. Right? But I love the idea that he's. Kind of odd.

Yeah, that she. And, I mean, on the other hand, I mean, Danabash, the benefit of having Waltz there was they got to ask him. him a couple of questions. Um about The um Confusion over things that he said about his service in the National Guard and also about his and his wife's use of IVF or non-use of IVF. IVF.

And I mean, Waltz's answers were basically, you know, I just don't speak English very well.

Well, you know, to that point, let's go to cut seven. For people who didn't hear it, we have that. And I'm glad you brought that up. It's cut seven, Eric. Here's Governor Waltz talking about what Byron's saying about his misrepresenting his military service.

The idea that you said that you were in war. Did you misspeak as the campaign has said? Yeah, I said we were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife, the English, you told me my grammar is not always correct. But again, if it's not this, it's an attack on my children for showing love for me or it's an attack on my dog.

I'm not going to do that. And the one thing I'll never do is I'll never demean another member's service in any way. I never have, and I never will.

So did he just blame stolen valor on bad grammar? I think he did. He just I you know, I just don't my grammar is just not that good. Um and you know Hi. This is not the worst offense in the whole world.

I mean, he could have said, listen, on a bunch of occasions, I've described my service, which was 24 years. I've described my service completely accurately. This time, obviously, I exaggerated, I shouldn't have, but I'm sorry that I did that, and I would direct your attention to all the times I've described it accurately. He could just say that and just get over it. Um you know, the idea that that It was a grammar problem and he He, like all of us in this conversation, is a native English speaker.

It was just a grammar problem. Not really believable.

So there are so many examples of this, and we will get into it, obviously, as we go on, but I really want to pick your brain.

So I promise everyone we will get to some of these cuts coming up. Why do you think it is that neither one of them was capable of saying, Yeah, you know, we made a mistake and then moving on with it? Why is it a politician thing? Do we just write it off to the fact that they're politicians? But even on CNN last night, I watched the after-show just to see what they were going to say.

I went like, oh, this is going to be great. They're going to have balloons and fireworks for her, and they didn't, which really surprised me. But they made that point several times. This was such an easy answer for her or him, and they didn't do it. Why is that?

Well, it's it's First of all, A lot of politicians just don't do that very much. I don't think Donald Trump does that very much. Very occasionally, he'll say, I made a mistake, but not a lot. And basically, she put herself in a very weird position because, I mean, obviously, she's been in power, the vice president, for the last three and a half years. And at times, she spoke with pride about the Biden administration's accomplishments.

And then at other times, she's you know, she spo spoke about ending the Trump era. You know, we've been in this Trump era for eight to ten years now. And she wants to end that, and you think, well, wait a minute, you've been the president for the last, or vice president for the last three and a half years. She's in this weird position of Um trying to defend everything she's done. And yet attack where we are now and say that we've got to fix this, we've got to fix that, when Joe Biden has been the president, she's been the vice president.

So she's she's in a vice presidents are always when they run are always in a kind of a weird position, and she's in an even weirder one. Because she's running with a uh uh to succeed a president who actually had to pull out of the race because he wasn't able to continue. Right, and that was the other thing. She was asked about that. And let's see, do we have that, Eric?

Let me see, we're looking at it. Oh, cut four?

Okay, yeah. It's right on the first page here. Yeah, cut four. I just want to play this very quickly. This is where she was asked if she has any regrets about telling us that Joe Biden has a date on Jeopardy next week.

Here we go. Vice President Harris, you were a very staunch defender of President Biden's capacity to serve another four years. Right after the debate, you insisted that President Biden is extraordinarily strong. Given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the American people? No, not at all.

Not at all. Served with President Biden for almost four years now, and I'll tell you, it's one of the greatest honors of my career, truly. And I have spent hours upon hours with him, be it in the Oval Office or the situation room. He has the intelligence, the commitment, and the judgment. Um and disposition.

that I think the American people rightly deserve in their President.

So, no apologies for long-term. If all that's true, why don't we elect him again? I mean, w if all that's true, why isn't he running right now? I mean, it's just uh astonishing the way She just I mean, you you you talk about not uh admitting mistake. I mean, she basically said, all those times I vouched that Joe Biden was sharp and on the top of his game.

It's all true. And you think, no, it's not. It couldn't be true. He's not the candidate now. There's got to be a reason.

And the reason was he was not physically and mentally able. Uh to run for a second term. Yeah.

So so last question. She clearly was trying to distance herself from Joe Biden and the Biden Harris record, Bidenomics, et cetera, even though she said they did great on the economy and Dana used Dana used the word Bidenomics, and she kind of danced around that. Did she successfully distance herself from Joe Biden last night? No, no, not at all, not at all. The the the big question, though, is.

As far as the voting public is concerned, to the degree that they watched this interview, and of course, most of them did not watch the interview. They might hear about it, they might see clips. what impression are they going to take away from this? Are they going to look at her manner and say, well, she seems kind of moderate and kind of straight down the middle and she's not she's not mean and she's not you know, uh over hot or anything like that. She's not, you know, like And um They might look at it and think, wow, she's she's okay.

Or they may look at this and say, you know, she she can't tell the truth about her time in office. I mean, you and I are parsing every word that she said. The rest of them may look at her and say, yeah, it's okay. I don't know how voters are going to react to this. Yeah.

I I am I am somewhat disappointed that she did not get devolve into a word salad. You know, she gets caught on a couple of words. Right. And she did not. And I'll just just go quickly to cut one.

I'm sorry. There's so much I want to talk to you about. Cut one. I really thought she was going there with this. You mentioned the Grand New Deal.

I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real. that it is an urgent matter, To which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. Yeah.

We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. She starts talking about time that goes sideways. I know, I had the same thought as you did. I thought, oops, here we go. She's going to start talking about Time.

You know, it's going to be some weird conceptual word salad. But it didn't happen, and she mostly stayed. Look, the interviewer. Uh yeah. My feeling was that the interview did the minimum required to challenge her on things.

It didn't challen you, when it when it did challenge an answer that she made, it didn't challenge it over and over again. It didn't really hit her with particulars that would make it harder for her one particular BS defense of this or that to To maintain it.

So it was not what I call a hard-hitting interview. It was not a completely friendly, you know, kind of Joy Reed or Rachel Maddow sort of interview. But it was really not very challenging. And I have to say, I mean, it's the first time she's taken a series of questions. And for all we know, it could be the last.

I mean, clearly, I think she would say, well, there's no reason to talk before the debate. That's a week from next Tuesday. No reason to do that. And then after that, we're, you know, post-Labor Day and the big campaign.

Sorry, don't have time. I I think it's entirely possible that this is the only one that we'll ever see. Wow. You know, you're absolutely right. Yeah, that's probably it.

So and and listen, when the interviewer gives you multiple choice answers, how hard is it really?

Well, the yeah, the interviewer did give her you know, when you say, why did you do that? You stop there, okay? But in this case, she said, Is it because you were trying to do A or were you trying to do B? And you know, you're giving her choices. And what you really just need to say is, you did this.

Why did you do this? And. But we didn't get that. No, we did not.

Well, Byron York, thank you so much. I always enjoy getting to speak to you. I love your analysis. You can catch him on Fox. Also, look for him in the Washington Examiner and on X at Byron York.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Do you still want to ban fracking? No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020. that I would not ban fracking. As vice president, I did not ban fracking.

As president, I will not ban fracking. In 2019, I believe, in a town hall, you said you were asked, would you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office? And you said, there's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.

So yes.

So it changed in the in that campaign? In 2020, I made very clear where I stand. We are in 2024, and I've not changed that position, nor will I going forward. I kept my word, and I will keep my word. Ooh.

Problem with that is she didn't make it at 2020 because she dropped out. Out. Hmm. 866-408-7669. Let's go to Leslie joining us from Alberta, Canada, to talk about fracking.

Leslie, you're on the Brian Corning Show. Hi. Hi, I have a little different approach when I'm trying to decide how someone feels about something, and that is first you have to decide if they know what they're talking about.

So if you were to ask Kamala what the concept of fracking, what is that? What's the process? How is fracking done? Why do we need fracking? What's the end result?

What's the difference between a semi-automatic weapon and an automatic weapon? She won't know. What does AR rifle mean? She won't know that that's on a light. She'll say it's an automatic rifle.

And so when you try to just discover and let them hang themselves with a new rope. When they tell you that they don't know what they're talking about, then you know that their policies aren't going to stick. And I that would be my approach with her. Yeah, that would have been great. But I think Byron made a really great point that that's probably the one and only interview.

That's it. We're not going to hear from her again until the debate. Even if they go to the debate, she's trying to backtrack. She wants to have notes now. I will not be surprised if she somehow manages to wiggle out of the debate and blames it on Trump.

That's what I'm waiting for. But I love that. I think that those are really great questions. And those can be used, helpful hint, if you're online and you're in it with someone who differs from you. Ask them questions like that.

They can't answer it and they usually punch out. Leslie, thank you so much for joining us. Those are great, great points. And that would have been great had Dana Bash done that. Coming up, Brett Tolman from Right on Crime and former U.S.

Attorney District for Utah, joining us next on the Brian Kilmy Show. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. A Mary Walters sitting in for Brian Kilmead. Welcome.

Joining us now is Brett Tolman. He's Executive Director for Rate on Crime. He's a former United States Attorney for the District of Utah. You can find him on X at Tolman Brett, T-O-L-M-A-N, Brett. Brett Tallman, thank you for joining me here on the Brian Kilmead Show.

How are you? Well, thanks for having me, Mary. Absolutely. There is so much to get into because while everyone's talking about the fluff piece on CNN last night, the propaganda ad that we saw, There's a lot of other things going on, including an impending sentencing of former president Donald Trump that's coming up in just what, September 18th, right?

So that's not that far away.

So there's a lot of questions that go around that. My first question to you, that I think a lot of people are talking about, and then we'll get into what's happening behind the scenes, but do you honestly think that Judge Murshan is going to sentence? Former President Trump to jail? Would he remand him to jail? And if so, doesn't that kind of win him the election, I would think?

Yeah, you know, Mary, it's it's a great question of a difficult, difficult calculation. And the reality is, If the sentencing goes forward, and I say if because the Supreme Court's immunity ruling was very clear that evidence used. In uh in in a Case presented to a jury, evidence used of actions or conduct by the president while he was president. Have to be scrutinized because even if they're in their unofficial capacity, he may have some immunity. And so at this point, I'm not sure sure it's going to go forward, but if it does, do I think he's going to sentence him to jail?

I do. I think he relishes that. I think they can't help themselves. Listen, this is just me, but I firmly believe that Judge Murshan's going to do what he's told to do, right? And Democrats have a tendency to overplay their hand.

So I agree with you. I think they'll sentence him to jail to take him, but it's election interference. But I think the visual of Donald Trump in handcuffs being led off to jail, the left is going to go crazy. They're going to go apoplectic. There's going to be parades and fireworks and the whole bit.

They're going to be so happy. But on the right, there's a lot of people that that is going to make really, really mad. And I think there are some people who are independents, and that's going to make them mad, especially that close to the election. And I think it would be a huge mistake, a big miscalculation on the Democrats' part if that happens. And I just want to see it because he's got to take his Secret Service with him.

So I I I'm not quite sure how that's going to happen. And if they do it, I want him to do it as a reality show because he's going to be running Cell Block C but i it within a week.

Well, I've spoken to some mutual friends, some that are very close to the President right now. The Secret Service and the President and President Trump have worked out what's going to happen. They have a plan. They have A practical response that they're going to have to embrace if he is sentenced to jail. But I agree with you.

I think that. I think it was very powerful when they took the mug shot, but think of everything that's happened with RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard coming around and Elon Musk, and they're highlighting the disparate treatment in their efforts to now support Donald Trump. I think it's going to be on steroids from when he had his mug shot. I think it's going to be that big of an event if that's what they decide to do.

Absolutely. Now, let's talk a little bit about what's going on behind the scenes. You kind of touched on it. Trump's team now wants the trial, the sentencing, I guess, the sentencing part of this moved out of Mershon's courtroom. Where does he want it moved to?

He wants it on a federal level. Yes.

Well, they've what they're attempting to do is to say that they exceeded the scope of the state's authority when they presented, in essence, federal law which which Yeah. Yeah.

Supremacy Clause would say, hey, if it is a federal law, then it takes place in a federal court. I think that's what they're trying to argue. I think it's going to be difficult. Um as bad as the case is, that Alvin Bragg brought and as ridiculous of the evidence that was presented, you do have a state statute that would allow them to proceed, which they which they did use. And the underlying felony is, yes, a crime, federal crime, but it's not clear on whether or not that is unacceptable.

And so I think the real relief will come on appeal and probably ultimately at the Supreme Court. Right. And of course, that's going to be after the fact.

So I guess the game here is take him off the campaign trail, throw him in jail. Hope that that's enough to get Kamala over the finish line, which for a lot of people it will be.

So I think it's going to be very dicey.

So let's say if she wins, they come back and they go, oh, yeah, look, oh, this never should have been brought.

Sorry. And they've, you know, look what they've done to Trump, right? That's the game.

Well, you see how easily they're able to be hypocrites on issues. And so that would not surprise me. I do think that right now the effort needs to be put into. Pushing the sentencing back because there are genuine issues that need to be dealt with around the Supreme Court's immunity decision. like it or not, it is something that is being taken very seriously by the Manhattan DA's office, maybe not Alvin Bragg, but I hear from friends in that office that there's concern.

There's concern that You know, they have to address, they have to address the immunity decision, and that has not been done.

So, if I were Trump's legal team at this point, I'd be moving to push that. Back further and further, and ultimately, hopefully, never. Yeah, no, well, it's good to know that there are some people in the SDNY that actually are a little impartial. Jack Smith, he's back at it again. And I saw now that that case I thought was pretty much dead, the whole Jack Smith case about the documents and everything that's going on there.

How is that now being revived?

Well, it's being revived by bad lawyering and irresponsible attempt. To Yeah. Redo an indictment that was fatally flawed after the Supreme Court's decision. I mean, this is in essence, if you read this, you know, this is the exact same indictment. having taken out a few references to DOJ, not addressing immunity at all, not addressing absolute immunity and not addressing partial immunity based on official Official facts conducted while in an official capacity.

The Supreme Court was very clear on what had to happen. Instead, They couch a First Amendment right. to challenge an election, a an absolute right to use a legal team to attempt to challenge an election. Nothing unusual about that, nothing criminal, but to package all of that into a conspiracy to claim that you defrauded the United States Of something valuable. The statute they're trying to use, Mary, is one in which if you or I went onto a military base and stole a tank.

That's the statute they would use to go after us. This is what it was intended. Yeah.

If we were in the country illegally, they'd let us go. You are a former United States Attorney for the District of Utah. Kamala Harris, a former attorney general in California. What was your assessment of how she answered questions last night? For me personally, the very first one: what are you going to do on day one?

I thought, wow, this is how she answers these questions. Was she trying to be very defensive there? She didn't seem to be very aggressive. She seemed to be very toned down and very defensive to me, and I don't think she answered questions. I think she has so many handlers in her ear right now that are saying literally.

Y yep, yep. You need to you need to be you know, generic in your responses, don't give specific details. Don't let them trap you, put you in a corner. The the fact is, though, she she has painted herself in multiple corners by not just flip-flopping on issues. But when she declared, and I think we needed to listen to what she said very closely, but when she declared, When confronted about different positions she's taken, and she said, Well, my values have not changed.

That was right there the answer to all of our questions about what she'll do on policy. She will do the exact things that she outlined she would do when she was running for the Democratic nomination for President. She is going to be that bad on all of these policies. Right now is just a pretend show being put up in order to appease the middle so that she can try to beat Donald Trump. Yeah, I just felt that this was a different Kamala Harris that we've seen now.

We don't really see a lot of her.

So, which is what they want. I think they want her to be vanilla. That she it was almost this is almost, this is, it's not even almost. This is a combination of the Obama campaign from 08, right? Where nobody knew who he was.

He had really didn't have a voting record. He voted present more than he voted yay or nay. He didn't really have a lot of substance to him. No, so they could make him whatever they wanted. And Joe Biden, where they just hid him for weeks and weeks and weeks.

It seems to be a combination of the two. And I just don't know if that Frankenstein monster of that combination is working for her at all. It's so funny you said that because I thought I was clever when I deduced the same thing. It is absolutely a combination of both, which makes sense because most of those that are controlling what happens right now, they're Obama people and they've been controlling it for a long time. And she is on her own, unscripted.

She is a disaster, a train wreck when it comes to having to address anything substantively. And she has always been that way. When she was AG, it is. It's a problem of not thinking through issues and not having a grounded set of values that don't. Twist and turn with every wind that blows.

That's why we're seeing what we're seeing in that combination. I think you articulated it perfectly, Mary. Oh my gosh, thank you. We should end on that.

Well, listen, please tell your friends who, you know, your sources that say that Donald Trump and the Secret Service are working out how it's going to be if he goes to jail. Tell them that it's got to be a reality show. Put it on pay-per-view to raise money for Trump's campaign because he will make millions off of that. Because I want to see it. He's going to be buying commissary for everybody.

He's going to be rocketing it. I think it will be better than him out on the campaign trail. And that's how he gets around it.

So I personally think that that's the genius part of this conversation. I think you're right. I'll pitch it. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.

Brett Tolman, thank you so much for joining me. You can find him on Exit Tolman. Brett Tolman only has one L, though, so that's where it gets you. Thank you so much. Have a great day.

Thanks, Mary. 866-408-7669. Your calls coming up on the Brian Kilmead Show. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kilmead Show. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead.

I think the most important and most significant aspect of. from my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. All right, so that was the vice president last night on CNN with Dana Bash and her emotional support person next to her. And so she said she wouldn't answer questions when Dana was asking her about some of her flip-flops. And she said, well, no, my values have not changed.

She just wouldn't answer that. We're just speaking with Brett Tallman. He's like, there it is, right there. You know what she believes.

So this other stuff that she says, how do you believe that? When she says my values are everyone should have to drive an electric vehicle by twenty thirty, my values are that there's no such thing as a person as a person being illegal in a country. There's none of those things.

So now you know what she believes. How does it go any other way?

Now, here is J.D. Vance. He was on with Fox and Friends this morning, and he was talking about that, about her saying that her values have not changed. Yeah, it's pretty bizarre, right?

So if you have the same values, why have you changed your mind on literally every topic that you previously held an opinion on? But I think it's important for us not to buy this. If you look at the way that Kamala Harris is governed, she's actually governed as a far-left person. She's just trying to pretend that she's not far left now because, of course, she wants to win the American people's votes over the next couple of months. But if she does, she's going to do the same thing that she's been doing for the last few years.

She's going to try to make it harder to get American energy from American territory. She's going to make it harder for us to drive down the cost of everything from food to housing. Yeah, she brought up brought up again. She said, Yeah, well, food's more expensive, but that's why w she wasn't she's talking about price gouging.

So, her solution to the policy that they created is to then give people money, as we heard Byron York talk about earlier this hour, give people money in order to afford the things that are really super expensive now because of the inflation. And what does that do? That drives up the inflation.

So, now what are you going to do?

Well, we're going to put price controls in because these people are gouging, and we're going to tell them how much they can charge for their product.

Well, that that doesn't help the problem. It just makes it worse. Because then people can't pay their bills. They can't make the business work.

So, what do they do? The business is shut down, and you have just a couple of big businesses, right? Because all the little mom and pop ones shop down, some of the smaller competitors shut down. And so you just wind up with the big ones. You'll wind up with Walmart, with Amazon, you know, the big businesses.

That's what you're going to wind up with, the big suppliers. And then the government's going to say, well, these are monopolies. You can't have this. We're going to take them over. And then that's exactly what happened in Venezuela.

We've seen this place several times before. How do people not know how it's going to end? And this is what she's advocating for.

So she tells you exactly how she feels. Exactly what she means. You know, it's the same thing with immigration. Where she raised her hand on that stage, where they said, you know, do you think that illegal immigration coming into this country illegally should not be a crime? She raised her hand.

She has said several times that she doesn't believe that immigration should be illegal. And then. She goes back and and says let's go to um cut nineteen here. Cut 19. This is what she said when pressed on that by that very fact.

By Danabash Here's what she said. You raised your hand when asked whether or not the border should be decriminalized. Do you still believe that? I believe there should be a consequence. We have laws.

that have to be followed and enforced. That address and deal with people who cross our border illegally, and there should be consequences. And let's be clear: in this race, I'm the only person. Who has prosecuted. Transnational criminal organizations who traffic in guns, drugs, and human beings.

I'm the only person in this race who actually served a border state as Attorney General to enforce our laws, and I would enforce our laws as president going forward. I recognize the problem.

So, if you make me president, I promise I'll enforce the laws. But as vice president and borders are, eh, not so much.

Sorry. And and she told me I'd Prosecuted transnational crime organizations who are trafficking in drugs and guns and human beings. Her administration, the Biden-Harris administration, has lost over 300,000 children. They just lost them. Don't know where they are.

But if you make her president, then she'll start to do the job. Then she promises she's going to do it. Who believes this?

Now I know that. I know it's a dumb question because I know there's a lot of people who believe this, and you see them, they walk amongst us. And I'm sure you know people like this who believe that. And they don't believe that immigration and that problem is as bad as it is, or because of what they consume media-wise. They're ignorant, they don't know, and I don't say they're uninformed.

I hate to say ignorant because people get all offended when you say ignorant, they're uninformed. They haven't been told those truths. But you should really trust her because when she becomes president, really, really, really, then she's really going to enforce the law. Just not now as VP. I'm Mary Walter.

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Tom Barrett is a GOP congressional candidate for Michigan's 7th District. He is also a vet, and he has served before in the public sector. Tom Barrett, welcome to the Brian Kilmey Chow. How are you? Good, Mary.

Thank you so much for having me on. I really appreciate it. Absolutely. So you're you know, Michigan, to me, and maybe you can educate us maybe, but my initial thought when I think of Michigan is I think of a state that is very blue. I think of a state, maybe that's because I think of like Dearborn, Michigan, which I think in Detroit, those areas seem to be most of the press that your state gets.

So I think of a very divided state where you have a very large Muslim population, which tends to go more left, as well as cities that obviously are much more left.

So why, what's a Republican doing there? What are you doing? Yeah, well, you know, to answer your question directly, yeah, I mean, we have some democratic strategies. Strongholds in the state of Michigan, certainly Detroit being one, Wayne County, where Detroit and Dearborn are located, are skewed pretty heavily Democratic. But we have a whole bunch of the rest of the state.

This is a state of 10 million people with people from all different walks of life and all different political ideologies. President Trump won Michigan in 2016. It's one of the ten. Top most competitive states in the entire nation. And I think that the folks here in Michigan really want a change.

They're discussing. Satisfied with the direction the country has taken under the leadership of Kamal Harris and Joe Biden, and they want new change and they want to elect new people. The district where I'm running does not include Detroit or Dearborn. I'm running in the 7th congressional district, which is really kind of in the center, kind of heart of the state, if you will, centered around the city of Lansing, which is our state capital. And this is ranked as the most competitive and consequential congressional race in the entire country.

It is one that has an almost perfectly balanced partisan makeup and one that will fundamentally determine the course of direction that we take in our country. Are we going to go down the same path that we're on with over 10 million illegal border crossings, with the cost of living crisis affecting family budgets? with crime that's plaguing our communities and national security threats that abound Seemingly, by the day and by the moment? Or are we going to chart a new path and a new direction? And that's my vision for the United States and fundamentally why I'm running for Congress.

Now in 22 you lost to um Aly Alyssa Slavkin, and now she's running for US Senate. She's incumbent, so she's so she's no longer a factor.

So you have three new names, which I think is helpful. Trying to fight an incumbent who has name recognition is always very hard.

So you've got Curtis Hertle running as a Democrat, and you've got Leah Daly running as the Libertarian Party, and then you running as the Republican. What do you think are the factors in your district that make it ripe for a win for you? Yes, there are so many factors at play on the ground right here in the seventh district. Big. Biggest issue I hear from folks when I go out and talk to voters either at their door or at small town festivals scattered around the district where I'm running, or just conversations I have out and about with my family, are really the struggles of the cost of living.

Again, that is plaguing family budgets right now. The cost of groceries alone is up 20 or 30 percent, just under Biden and Kamala Harris's. Uh governance. And issues of border security, those are Easily the top two issues. That I hear when I talk to the voters in this district.

And that's really the two biggest factors that I think are at play nationally in this election are issues related to cost of living and border security and what type of direction we're going to take our country. You pointed out in your introduction, I'm a veteran. I served 22 years in the United States Army. I did deployments around the world, flew helicopters in the Army. It was the greatest adventure of my life.

But I want to keep going and I want to keep serving our country, and I think I can do that. By winning this congressional district, Rep. Representing my district proudly and carrying out the next step values that we have. what we're going to do to put America back on the right track. As a vet serving 22 years, thank you for your service.

Did you ever, and by the way, you actually were in combat as opposed to Tim Walsh, who served in Italy and fought the Battle of Cannolis, apparently. Did you ever accidentally steal valor because of a grammatical error, as Walsh told us last night? You know, I'm proud to be an Iraq war veteran. I did convoy security up and down the roads in Iraq. It was before I had gone to flight school and become a pilot.

I'm proud of that service. I'm thankful that I came home and did not suffer any physical damages while I was in Iraq. And unfortunately, and sadly, there are a lot more and many more who did suffer tragic. Outcomes. I think when you're talking about military service, look, I respect anybody's service, whether they Enlisted and were stationed domestically and never had the opportunity to deploy.

Maybe they served in peacetime. Maybe they were never activated. You can't always. Yeah.

Predict where these things are going to go, but people take an oath to this country and to our Constitution. I respect. everybody service, but I think people have to be honest and candid about what that is. For him to suggest that this is a grammatical error is just entirely. False.

And then, really, one of the bigger narratives, too, is that he claimed to have been a retired command sergeant major.

Now, he was. Promoted to that rank on an interim basis conditionally, based upon criteria that you would need to complete in order to make that a Official promotion. He didn't complete those requirements, so he was actually retired at the next lower rank, which again is admirable and honorable service. But he shouldn't be saying that he is a retired Command Sergeant Major because he's actually retired at a lower rank. And the Kamala Harris website has now been updated to reflect that without any apology or any recognition from Tim Waltz or the Kamala Harris campaign.

They simply revise their statements and the media goes along with them. Yeah, I don't, but you know what bothers me is the vets that also go along with this, the vets who are mad at Donald Trump, you know, for whatever manufactured BS that is out there. But they give him a free pass, and I don't understand that. There seems to be mental gymnastics. To my brain, right is right and wrong is wrong.

Just say you're sorry, say you screwed up. Yeah, you know what? I was wrong. I did it for the wrong reasons, or just say I didn't even realize it. You know, it was my mistake.

I apologize. Give a lame excuse, but at least apologize, own it. And he won't do that. And that to me is worthy is more egregious than any of it. He won't own it, but I just can't get past these vets who are for Harrison Walls.

I'm like, wow, that's amazing to me.

So I don't understand. You know, one of the biggest motivators for me to step up and run for Congress. Was when we all saw the unraveling. It's a train wreck in slow motion of what was going on in the withdrawal from Afghanistan. That Kamala Harris claims that she was the.

Last person in the room as they were crafting this plan of how they were going to haphazardly withdraw from Afghanistan. 13 of our service members, the greatest treasure of our country, were killed entirely unnecessarily there. President Biden claimed, and the Department of Defense claimed this was a great success of a mission. There's been no apology and no accountability. General Milley in the entire ranks of Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense.

Completely lied to the American people and said it was a great success. And then they killed. A carload of children just a couple days later claiming it was an authorized strike against ISIS fighters. And it took the New York Times months to determine that that was actually false and that this was a car full of children. These are the things that our government lies to us about.

I simply couldn't sit back and watch that any longer. I made the difficult decision to retire from the Army, something that had become such a part of my identity, and to put my efforts toward running for Congress to bring back accountability and respect in our military and accountability from those. lead our country. We're kind of getting towards the end here. I want to ask you, how much of the other thing I think about when I think of Michigan is, of course, Detroit and, of course, cars, right?

Manufacturing. This is the heartbeat. This is where it's done. How much has this push for electric vehicles, which nobody apparently nobody wants to buy, or even if you want to, they're insanely expensive. How much is that affecting the economy in your state?

Oh, it's a big effect right now. We've already seen these electric vehicle mandates that Biden and Harris are pushing for that will completely upend the auto manufacturing supply. Supply chain and jobs are in our state, and the downstream effect of all the parts suppliers and others that contribute to this economy to be upended by that. And American families are not choosing to buy electric vehicles and they can't afford them either. I have four children.

My wife and I are raising a family in the Biden-Harris economy and find it harder and harder every day to do that. And there's not an electric vehicle really out there that is affordable and would. effectively allow a family of our size to go out and drive anywhere.

So all of these things are really not well thought out. They are pushing these mandates, and they're making it less affordable for American families. I'm fully supportive of the innovation that electric vehicles have brought about and can fully respect that without wanting to mandate that on families. that don't want to buy them. I believe that every family ought to be able to choose a vehicle that meets their needs and fits their budget, not the social engineering decisions of unelected bureaucrats in Washington, DC that are trying to shove them down our throat.

Not only that, I can't imagine having four kids in an SUV, and you're going to go sit for 20 minutes and charge this thing with four kids. Really? That's a form of torture. It should be outlawed.

Well, it's healthy. They'll just count it toward purgatory someday. Exactly. It's so funny. My mother would always say that to us.

Don't worry. It'll get you out of purgatory faster. I'm like, thank you. I'm not quite sure. Tom Barrett, thank you so much for joining me.

You can find him on X at Tom Barrett. Two Ts and Barrett at MI7.

So Tom Barrett, M-I-7 on X. Best of luck to you. Thank you. And I'm sure we'll be talking with you again.com is our website. Love to engage with people that way.

And, you know, we're going to need some help. This is the most competitive race in the entire country.

So I look forward to winning this in just under 10 weeks.

Well, best of luck to you. Thank you so much for joining me here. 866-408-7669. I'll get to your calls, and we have so much to talk about coming up on the Brian Kilmead Show. Newsmakers and newsbreakers, here at first on the Brian Kilmead Show.

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So we were just speaking to Tom Barrett. He's running for office in Michigan, and he talked about the economy. It's the economy stupid, the cost of living, immigration, the two big things for his area in Michigan. And I think that's across the country. I think the cost of living.

is a big deal for people all across the country. And it's so interesting because they keep telling us the economy is better and that unemployment's going down and inflation's slowing and things are doing great and stock markets are doing great. But it doesn't feel that way, does it? Doesn't feel that way. How to buy a box of graham crackers yesterday, almost five dollars for a box of graham crackers.

So, it doesn't feel that way. And I think you're starting to see it in a lot of different ways.

So, no matter what they tell us, it still just doesn't feel like the economy is doing well.

So, Fox is doing a pack, a package, a series, on a phenomenon that's happening in our country where seniors are heading back to work.

So, I just want to play a little bit of that for you. And then we're going to talk about how this economy, from your point of view, is it. Better? Like they keep telling us? Here we go.

A new survey shows some 20% of Americans are now unretired. While the economy is forcing these seniors out of retirement, right now I'm at a bustling job fair. This morning I met an 80-year-old man who says he's blaming the cost of living and inflation for going back to work at his old age. He says this is a matter of survival. He was printing out his resume, getting ready for employers today.

He is part of the fastest-growing age group in the labor force, people 75 and older. Career Source Boward has seen a significant rise in the senior population looking for resources compared to last year. Even in the tax-friendly state of Florida, a national survey found one in four seniors in Fort Lauderdale are still working. A paid internship at 74 years old is a plot of a Hollywood movie, but the stark reality for Barry, who is their star intern here at Career Source Boward, helping others find employment. When you tell your friends you're an intern, what do they say?

Are you crazy? You know, you're supposed to be retired, and I have three different retirements, and it's not enough. I can't afford to eat, can't afford to pay my utilities. You know, I'm barely making. My my uh condo payment.

A heartbreaking situation not only here in Florida, but all over the United States. Our seniors should be enjoying their retirement. There actually was a movie. Called The Intern with Robert De Niro, 70 years old. He's a widower, and he goes back to work because he wants to.

It's not because he has to, but he does it because he wants to. I do think some seniors are returning to work because they want to. They're bored. I think that that's part of it as well. But I'm just curious.

Your personal economy, because I don't feel it. They keep telling me everything's better.

Now, yeah, there's finally food back on the shelves. Remember, a couple of years ago, there was nothing on the shelves. Although, sometimes I go into a store and I'm like, this place looks like it's been robbed. There's no food. Like, what happened?

But I got 12 items from a warehouse, one of the big warehouse stores it should belong to. It was $115.

Now, granted, instead of getting one large Italian dressing, I got two Italian dressings. I get it. But, you know, things were on sale. I got a $1.50 off, but it was still more expensive than I remember it being a couple of years ago.

So, yeah, the $1.50 off is great, but it's still more expensive even with the coupon. 866-408-7669. Let's quickly go to Brian in Orlando, listening on WDBO. Brian, welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi.

Thank you, Mary. Good morning. You closed the last hour talking about how inflation is going to drive small businesses out of business and force them to close their doors, and we're going to be stuck with just the big guys. You implied look at Venezuela, it happened there. The reality is, you can look at all across the country.

We own a small pest control business in Orlando. And I am watching many, many, many of my friends closing their doors or selling to the big guys because cost of business has gone up about thirty percent, and you could only pass ten percent, twelve percent of that on to your clients. It's happening right now in other industries. And small businesses in this country not necessarily want. to elect President Trump.

But by golly, small businesses need to elect President Trump. It's dangerous. It's a good point. I noticed it here at the Jersey Shore. Thank you so much for kicking it off.

Here at the Jersey Shore, so one of the things we have on our home, because it's a really old home, is we have awnings. We have awnings on every window. And I will tell you, they lower the temperature of the house easily to 10 degrees.

So we save on our air conditioning costs a lot. But you have to have someone come and they put the awnings up and then they take the awnings down in September.

So, the awning company is very hard to find a company that'll do it.

So, we've had this company for years, and we got a letter. And we were told that some people they actually had to cut their client base because they can't afford to keep servicing so many people because of insurance and gas and all that stuff. And they listed everything out of why they're cutting some people and why the rest of us are getting an increase in our bill.

So instead of expanding the business because business is so good and so many people want their service, They actually had to cut it. and make it smaller. Because they can't afford to keep going. And the guys, my regular crew. That I serve every time?

Gone. Gone. So it's affecting everybody. More of your calls coming up. on the Brian Killmead Show.

Radio that makes. Makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Day one, it's going to be about one, implementing my plan for what I call an opportunity economy. I've already laid out a number of proposals in that regard.

which include what we're going to do to bring down. The cost of everyday goods, what we're going to do to invest in America's small businesses, what we're going to do to invest in families. And her plan's so good, she's not going to tell us about it until after she's elected. It's kind of like the Obamacare Bill, the Affordable Care Act, remember that? Nancy Pelosi telling us, Well, we have to pass it to find out what's in it.

It's a great word. And we all know how that worked out.

So basically, what she's saying is, if you elect me, then I'll tell you about my awesome plan to bring the economy back. That's what she's going to do. She'll tell about it after she's in office. It's like.

Okay, so she was pressed. This is from last night's interview, if you want to call it that. With Dana Bash on CNN, Dana Bash on CNN. And here's the thing. As we listen to this, how many things were cut out of this?

Because this was pre-taped. Do I and the section with Bash and Harris and Walls was a total of on my clock? And this was including her asking the questions, was 26 minutes, and everyone's saying it was like 18 minutes of actual answers.

So only 18 minutes. Am I supposed to believe that they sat down for 30 minutes for an interview and that was it? I'm not buying it, right? Like, there were there was more.

So what got cut out? If this is the stuff that got put in, What got cut out? This was really an interview. This was an edited, in my view, propaganda piece for Harris and Walls. That's what this was.

This was just to help her check the box. See, I did an interview.

Now be quiet. It really wasn't. And Dana Bash gave her multiple choices on some questions.

So, is it this or is it this? Just ask her an open-ended question and let her go and see what happens. And I wonder if that's what got cut out of the interview. Anyway, so Dana Bash did a little pressing back here on some of Kamala's claims about the economy. Here we go.

You have been vice president for three and a half years. The steps that you're talking about now Why haven't you done them already?

Well, first of all, we had to recover as an economy, and we have done that. I'm very proud of the work that we have done that has brought inflation down to less than 3 percent. The work that we have done to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors. Donald Trump said he was going to do a number of things, including allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, never happened. We did it.

The insulin thing was driving me crazy last night. It was one of those moments where I start to yell back at the T V and my husband sticks his head in the room and says You know she can't hear you, right? Trump did that. That was a Trump thing. And then Biden, of course, overturns it because he overturned everything.

And then goes back and says we're going to cap insulin for seniors and took it as his own idea. These people are a bunch of plagiarists. Biden has plagiarized several times during his career. We know Harris keeps taking all of Trump's policies.

So that was a total lie. Also, when she kept saying that we had to recover as an economy and we did that, we brought inflation down to less than 3%. It's still higher than when you got it. Stop. In the third quarter of twenty twenty, the economy grew at an annual pace of almost thirty five percent, and this is from the Department of Commerce.

The following quarter, it grew at an annual rate of four point two percent. In the first quarter of twenty one, The economy grew at an annual rate of 5.2%.

So don't say that you had this struggling economy and everything was a mess when you got it. That's not true. Unemployment was falling. It had hit a high of 14.8% in April of 2020. The unemployment rate fell to 6.4%.

When she was sworn in as vice president. And so lies, lies, lies, lies. But Joe Biden's doing the same thing. Oh, the economy was such a mess when we got it. No.

Yeah, it was it wasn't as good as it had been before. But it was still on the way back. And then all the growth stopped. She also had said, um, That they had brought all these jobs and these manufacturing jobs, 800,000 manufacturing jobs. That's a lie, too.

So your personal economy, we've been talking about that this morning with our guests. I'm curious if you see the economy being better. They keep telling us that the economy is better, that prices are coming down. That um you know and the supply chain has finally you know, worked itself out, that's great. But They couldn't do anything because, well, first we had to work out this economy.

And. I don't know. I just don't think people see it. The US economic growth for the last quarter, they say, has been revised up to three percent annual rate, which is considered quote unquote healthy, and that would it was fueled by consumer spending and business investment.

So we're spending more. I'm not spending more. Are you spending more? I'm not. I'm not spending more.

We were going to make a big purchase and we had paperwork drawn up and offers in and the whole bit. And our financial adviser, when we were talking to him about it, pumped the brakes and said, Nope, don't do it. Not before the election. Mm mm mm. And he's a Democrat.

So I don't feel it. I don't know what's happening, but the numbers are not adding up to what I'm feeling anyway. 866-408-7669. Don in Ohio, listening on WHL. Hello, Don.

Welcome to the Brian Kilnweed Show. Hi. Hey, I got uh two questions in a statement.

Now, one, she's talking about the electric cars. If you ask the computer how many congressmen have electric cars, it says very f very few.

So she's not even getting support there. And then she's going after the all these other gas companies and stuff for sticking it to the American people. But they've already said how bad the economy has been, and people are using their credit card.

So their millionaire friends, if we miss one payment, they want to take it to 28%. Is she shutting that down to twelve percent? She's not doing anything there. Yeah.

Right? Yeah, credit card debt is up. People are putting a lot of stuff on credit cards.

So let me ask you, though, Don, how can this stock market be crazy? And we're hearing that job growth has been revised upwards, so it's actually better. We know that the jobs numbers, the jobs that they created to have added that they claim to have that they added to the economy. Remember, they said that had to be revised downward, that there were over 800,000 fewer jobs than what they had originally claimed. That was a big oops.

So the numbers aren't adding up to what's happening in people's personal economy. What's happening? But why why didn't they do something about that? If if everybody's using a credit card, why didn't you say, hey, that's That's what's not allowed to be. That should be 12%.

But here's one major thing: Biden and his crew are missing out on one thing: they're in Michigan. Go to the Michigan Football Stadium, have a couple of the football players introduce him and explain to them. If Biden would be allowed to give eight hundred million back, they're transferring it to the debt of the taxpayers.

So if it's eight hundred million at four percent for five years, it's thirty two million dollars worth interest in five years, and then we don't pay it back. I see 28-year-old people. Explain it to them in detail. Right. Well, yeah, I do think, I will say, Don, thank you so much.

And to your point, I do think Donald Trump needs to get out there and just be more, just laid out. You know, RFK speech, when he laid out the law fair and what the Democrat Party had done to him, I thought it was a great speech. He laid it out succinctly, easy to follow. I thought it was great. I love Donald Trump, but had he given that speech, it would have been two hours long, and he would have talked about Ukraine and the assassination assassination attempt, all this stuff would have talked about would have been all over the place.

He's got to focus When he focusses and he gives a succinct speech and just lays the things out that's easy to understand, I think he wins over people. When he rambles on, About all this different stuff, and he goes off on tangents. I think he loses people. People punch out.

So, I think that that's one of the things that he definitely, definitely could improve upon. Greatly. Tim in St. Louis, welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Tim, hi.

Mary, good morning to you and happy Friday. Just a quick point on perception versus reality, being a communication instructor. I just wanted to let everybody know that the world we live in today, the perception of it has been just Misconstrued by the media and everything else. You can look at different theories and all these other things. But Donald Trump needs to focus on the reality that he wants to share with his vision for the country.

And he needs to share that and why it would better the lives of everyone and not just Republicans and conservatives. I voted for him the last two elections. I'm still having trouble considering voting for him this election. I may fit it out. I have a hard time trusting politicians.

Um but Two. to give everyone that vision of having that better reality, to change the perception, it is challenging, but I really hope he has that opportunity to do that over these next sixty seven or sixty six days. Before the election. Thanks for taking my call today.

Well, thank you so much. I appreciate that, Tim. And I hope you don't sit it out. I really do. I hope you pull a lever.

I may not agree with the person whom you choose, but I don't like sitting it out. That to me. And leaving it up to other people to decide your future and decide, you know, the direction of this country. I I I don't like it. I don't know.

To me, it's kind of like the coward's way out.

Sorry. And I get that Trump's not the best communicator. Obama was a great communicator, but Obama was the guy who takes you out on a date, and this is a chick's point of view. But Obama was the guy who takes you out to date, walk you to the door, and tell you how much, you know, what a great time he has, and he's going to call you in the morning, and then you never hear from him again. Donald Trump just tells it like it is, and I think people have a hard time with that.

Does he ramble? Yes, he rambles. Not a great communicator in that sense. But I'd rather hear the truth than hear somebody lie to me just because they're good at lying. That's all.

I I think you got to cut through all the extraneous stuff. And you're a communications guy, you got to cut through the extraneous stuff and you just got to go with what are the policies and look at the facts and this is what's going to be best for my wallet, what's going to be best for my personal economy. More of your calls coming up, 866-40-87669 on the Brian Killmee Chow. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. We created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs, bringing business back to America. What we have done to improve the supply chain so we're not relying on foreign governments to supply American families with their basic needs, I'll say that that's good work. Yeah, she thinks Kamala Harris thinks they're doing good work under the Biden administration.

So, in other words, Bidenomics. It's rocking. It's doing great. And that's part of the reason by Nomix part of the reason why as many as 20% of people who have retired are now unretiring and rejoining the labor market in their sixties and seventies. We live longer.

Working in your 60s, I don't think, is that big of a deal. I'm sorry. I just don't. We live a lot longer now. The only people who retire in their 50s are quote-unquote public servants, teachers, cops, firemen, that kind of thing.

They're the ones who retire in their 50s. And a lot of them go on and get another job and then work for another 10, 15 years.

So I don't think it's that big of a deal. But there's there is to me a distinct disconnect between what we're being told about the economy and the numbers they're throwing at us and what we're seeing on a day to day basis in our personal economy. Josh in Dayton, Ohio, listening to WHIO. Josh, welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi.

Hi, Mary. Thank you for taking my call today. I appreciate it. Of course. Um So I'm a disabled vet.

I have an income from that. I also have a bookkeeping business that I run. It's small. Um I also work for Um A school doing bus driving. I do a pizza joint on the weekends.

Also, going to school and getting an income from that from my benefits from the military.

So, I literally have five incomes. coming in and still trying to take care of my family. Um feels like a struggle.

So know, the fact that I'm having to do all this stuff just to keep my nose both you know, the water to f you know, float it it seems ridiculous. It's I'm not looking for I know a lot of people say, oh, veterans need free homes and stuff. I'm not looking for free stuff. You know, I want to work. You know, as part of the veteran community, we like to be proud that we earn what we've got.

You know, so um but at the same time, the fact that the VA and stuff like that says Out of our their their motto is take care of veterans and yet we have veterans that are Struggling to get food, get housing, things like that, to provide for their families. speaks volumes about the economy and where we're at. And You know, part of what, and I want to go into a little bit about what you said here, because what bothers me, and listen, I didn't serve, and my husband did not serve, so I have mad respect for people who do because it's a job that I have not done, and I know it is so essential to this country.

So, thank you for that. Because I really do have mad respect for that. And the families also serve at the same time. You know, nobody gives the family any kind of credit, but they also serve as well. You said that you do pizza delivery, right?

You're a delivery driver. And I just read a story that those jobs are going by the wayside. Americans are being replaced by people by illegals who have driver's licenses because a lot of states will give these people a driver's license.

So now they go out and they get a gig of pizza delivery or whatever it happens to be, and it takes that job away from you. And I have a real problem with this surge of illegals coming into the country and giving them credit cards or debit cards that have a couple thousand dollars on them. And it gets automatically renewed every month. Our vets don't get that. They're being put into apartments and into these hotels that were several stars in Midtown Manhattan and now they're dumps.

We don't do that for our vets. And I would think that the veteran community would be so up in arms about that, but yet I cannot tell you how many vets I see who just can't stand Donald Trump because they believe the suckers and losers hoax, or they thought they're believing what the misinformation is that's coming out now about Arlington and what happened there. They. I I j that just that whole thing just shocks the living daylights out of me. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I really don't know what to do as far as some of that because, you know, I hear the same thing from my veteran friends. I just don't know. Who do we need to go to to To get that, you know, and that's part of why I've kind of put my foot down over the last month because even during the summer, and I wasn't gonna say any names, but you know, Kroger had one or two cashiers sitting there, you know, bringing people up. I was like, Well, I've got nothing else to do. Let me apply, and you know, I'll help my community by getting people through the line faster.

They even denied me and said, Oh, we're gonna go a different direction. You don't you don't fit. It's not, I mean, no offense to cashiers. I know they do work hard when they're actually working, but It's not that hard to do that job. It's a minimum type wage or just above minimum wage job.

It doesn't require a degree. And you have to turn down a veteran that's willing to help your company that, you know, earned a couple billion dollars in the last few years and that kind of thing. It's just it's mind-boggling. And I would love to help. Yeah, the new and I love that you say I don't mean to cut you off, but we're up against the clock, so I apologize for that, Steve.

But thank you. And listen, I hope that you find a job where you don't have to have five or six jobs, but you are going to school, and I think that that's fantastic, you know.

So maybe you can just have one job instead of several. I do think that hiring vets should be a priority. I'm a big fan of hiring the best person for the job. I'm old-fashioned that way. That's what I think.

The most qualified person should get it. But you know, the new direction everybody's going in is you have to check it out yourself. And I hate it because there's always a problem, and the machine yells at me, please place the item. I'm like, I'm placing the item. I hate it.

It goes against everything. I'm not getting anything less expensive. In fact, everything's more expensive, and you have one checker. and all these other automated things, and you pay one guy to stand there and watch over his workers while we self check out our stuff. And it never scans the coupons.

It's just so annoying. And if I'm not invited to the Christmas party, I truly don't think that I should be doing the job. Because if I'm now an employee, I wanted to know what the benefits package is, etc.

So I deeply resent it. It's terrible. My husband doesn't let me go shopping anymore because I get so worked up about it. It's really terrible.

So, God bless you, Steve, for wanting to be a checker. I can't do it. I'm Mary Walter. You're listening to the Brian Kilmead Show. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City.

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Hey Mary, great to be back with you. I assume that you watched what everybody was watching last night or listening to it. And I think you walk away with something different when you watch something versus when you listen to it versus when you read the transcript. You come away with a different opinion. But let's start with your overall opinion of the 18 minutes that Kamala Harris actually spoke last night.

Yeah, look, I thought it was an adequate performance by the vice president. We heard her have to respond to her evolution. on issues like immigration, border security and the Green New Deal. I I think I could have used some more follow ups. I think it actually her record goes beyond just the the flip flops and inconsistency in her record go beyond those issues.

I think the issue of crime and law and order is an important one that didn't get addressed in the interview and uh If she had Governor Walls sitting next to her, I would have loved to hear about his handling of the riots in Minneapolis after the George Floyd killing. I think her view on criminal justice would have been an important issue to cover, especially with Walls there. That's one of those issues that actually, if you want to look at a progressive position that they both held, and at least in 2020, that is going to be a big one, I think, on the campaign that the Trump campaign has also gone after them on. It is crime.

So I would have liked to see that addressed. But look, you've got 18 minutes. There's not a whole lot of time. I understand the challenge with an interview like this. Look, if this is the only interview she does, it's a problem.

Like, she's going to have to open herself up more to really explain where she stands in more depth on these big issues. But I think the big takeaway is clear. She's trying to position herself more to the center. She's trying to echo. You remember the word to etch a sketch frame that the Romney campaign talked about in 2012, where the positions in the primary are no longer operative because we're in a general election?

Well, she's trying to tonally at least get there. Um I you know I I thought um You know, she's trying to kind of thread that needle where the base and the swing voters can both find something to like from what she has to say.

So, look, I think she did an adequate job. There was no word salad by my ears. Like, she answered the questions adequately. But I think there's a lot more that needs to be answered. And I hope she continues to be willing to, I mean, she's a presidential nominee.

She should be taking more and more questions as we get closer and closer to the election. Yeah, I, for one, am wildly disappointed there was no word salad. I was so let down by that entire thing. I was totally looking forward. I thought she was almost getting into it a little bit when she started talking about the, not the significance of the passage this time, but she said deadlines around time.

I'm like, oh, she's going. And she pulled herself out of the spin.

So I was a little annoyed by that. That interview last night to me was what you would expect from an introduction to a candidate who's doing their first run at an office. It didn't seem to me to be an interview. That you would do with a presidential candidate in the election is two months away. That's not what it seemed like to me.

It seemed to be a very introductory, light get to know the candidate, you know, and just the overall view of the candidate. That's what it seemed like to me. And I don't think she's going to do anymore. I don't think she's going to dig deeper. I don't see that coming.

Well, I think it depends on how she does it in the polls. I mean, if if she i I I don't think her camp campaign can look at the numbers right now and feel comfortable about where where where they stand. I think they're they may have a slight advantage, but Look at the Wall Street Journal pull out today. She's up by one point nationally. That's too close for I mean, she she's gonna have to develop a debate, she's gonna have to expose herself, I think.

Two more and more questions because it'll become a negative narrative that I don't think would be beneficial to her campaign. And yeah, no, I agree with you, Mary, that you know, it did feel like it was almost like a parent-teacher conference instead of an interview with the potential commander-in-chief, right? I mean, there was a little bit of the optics, it was a tapes in Savannah Torch at a coffee shop. It didn't seem like it had the graph. I mean, it seemed like it was a smaller setting.

Um then then Really having one of these rare interviews to talk about potentially the next President of the United States. Yeah, I don't think the setting was well at all. But to your point about the polls, odds makers, according to Newsweek, the Vice President went from being the favorite to win with odds of 52.4% on Thursday to tied with Donald Trump at 51.3% each this morning. And this is according to Star Sports Betting Company. Over the same period, Trump's odds of winning improved from 48.8% just before the interview to 51.2%, according to Betfair out of the UK.

So they're saying that this didn't go super well for her. And to that point, If you saw, this is, I want to go to cut 26. This is Ashley Allison on CNN. Afterwards, they had their panels and they rotated people in and out. And Ashley Allison, during this analysis, at certain parts, I'm like, oh man, she is totally chilling for Kamala Harris here.

Here's what she had to say when she was asked that question overall about kind of what we're talking about. What did you think?

Now, you might not like the way she answered him, but she answered him as a capable, qualified leader. And I do think she. I think she moved the ball forward a little bit. You know, maybe she didn't score a touchdown. She moved the ball forward a little bit.

I mean, the bar was low to begin with. Like, the bar was, oh, please, Lord, don't let her talk herself into a word salad and go off on some weird tangent. That was the bar. And we come out with the praises.

Well, she moved the ball forward a little bit.

So, the context I would provide in analyzing the interview is: number one, I think Republicans not smartly lowered the bar so low. If you're going to be the next president of the United States, you can board salad. If that's the bar, then we're at a pretty low bar.

So, I think that Republicans and Trump in particular seem to not know how to play the expectations game. Time-tested part of politics where you actually raise expectations for your opponent so they fall below it. In the case of Trump, often they lower the expectations and the Democrats don't do that well, but they manage to just get above that low bar.

So I think that was a mistake in terms of I heard a lot of pundits on CNN, Fox, and other networks just lowering the bar so much that I think it's frankly easy to state a few talking points in 18 minutes and get through that moment. And I don't think it was good. Expectation setting. You know, I also think that when you think about the American public in the last couple of years, Joe Biden couldn't put a complete sentence together. I mean, he was getting increasingly incoherent in his interviews with what we did.

And Donald Trump tends to also be sort of a poor communicator at times. He certainly gets his points across, but he tends to ramble and sometimes isn't as crisp and effective as he otherwise could be.

So, you know, I think with. Compared to like the p presidential rhetoric we've heard in recent years, you know, maybe the bar should be low because it we it's it's been a while since we've heard sort of the type of commanding a clear uh rhetoric from from a potential president. It's been a while. Uh and and if you listen to Joe Biden, for God's sakes, I mean, you know, he it was hard to kind of make out a lot of times what he was saying. It was almost like you're you're just sitting at the edge of your seat hoping he gets through the interview and and and he got to the point where he had to step down from the race.

So compared to those low standards, yeah, maybe Harris gets a passing grade. Before we run out of time here, one of the things that I think is so amazing is the issue of immigration. And it's becoming a real problem. You have hospitals closing in our southern states, our southwestern states specifically, California, it's happening because of the debt that's being run up from treating these people when they cross the border. A lot of them come here, they're pregnant, they want their baby born in the U.S.

because, woo-hoo, free ticket, or they come over and they have horrible illnesses and they want to get treated in the U.S. And so it costs thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars for this. And so you have hospitals going bankrupt along the border. That doesn't make people happy. You have stories of what happened with these in California where they, I think it was California, where they tried to get on a school bus.

They're trying to get on school buses, so they're showing up at the bus stops. And these illegals are trying to get on school buses.

So now they're telling parents, well, if we see illegals at the school bus stop, we're not stopping to pick up your kids. You have some places where busing has been cut for American children, but the illegals are going to be picked up. The children will be picked. And then you have what's happening in Aurora, where Venezuelan gangs are literally taking over apartment complexes and they're armed. They robbed a whole bunch of firearm stores in the area.

So now they're armed to the teeth. You have this happening. And at the same time, NBC News is reporting that the Biden administration, as soon as this week, is going to start that program that would fly in people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Ukraine. They're going to bring them back, despite finding that there's a boatload of fraud in this program, with something like 3,000 of the applications with an address to a warehouse. And they're going to be spending more money on sanctuary cities and NGOs.

To me, I think this is going to fly under the radar for the most part in news cycle-wise, even though NBC is reporting it, and we know they're, you know, to me, propaganda. How wouldn't you think they would hold this until after the election? This doesn't seem to be smart to me. Are they that tone deaf?

Well, look, I mean, the I think you're hitting on one of the important political points in in this election when it comes to immigration, which is that the the rise in migration and illegal immigration From the southern border has led to a strain in social services, and that's why this has become more than just a base issue, right? I remember when I you know covering politics a couple decades ago, immigration was like strictly confined to sort of conservative Republicans talking about it. When you look at deep blue mayors like the the mayor of New York, the mayor of Chicago, raising the specter of so many people coming in that they're using hotels to house illegal migrants. And they're having trouble like fit you know, the schools are suffering as a result of having to enroll all these kids in that don't speak English and are really putting a strain on the services for the community.

So you're actually seeing immigration in the Fox poll that came out of the Sunbelt state this week. Economy was the number one issue, immigration was the number two issue. And a whole lot of independents and even some Democrats said it was a problem.

So the stories that you're citing are experienced by a whole lot of Americans and it becomes more less of an abstract issue and more of a day-to-day quality of life issue. And that's why Harris is scrambling in her interview last night, right, to talk about how she wanted a bipartisan border deal that Republicans opposed, and that's how they're trying to frame it. But I don't think a lot of voters sense that she has the energy or the real cares about the issue as much as many other politicians do. And she certainly was responsible for a little bit immigration in her portfolio at the beginning of the Biden administration, and the record speaks for itself. I just I'm just so floored when I was reading those stories.

I saw them yesterday and I was like, what? And this was before she did the interview, and I knew she was going to be asked about it. But again, she didn't really give anything substantive. There was nothing substantial. It doesn't seem to me as if they're trying to win over any kind of independent.

It just seems to me as if they're happy with their base. They think that's enough to win. And maybe that combined with possible shenanigans if anything happens. I don't know. I'm not saying that's going to happen.

But it just doesn't seem as if there's any kind of attempt being made to win over independence. That'll be my last comment to you. Go ahead. Yeah, look, Mary, I think if you look at the strategy and you look at the playbook, they're trying to recreate the 2020 Biden, the anti-Trump Biden coalition. People voted for Joe Biden in 2020, not because they loved Joe Biden, but because he wasn't Donald Trump.

And I think you're seeing a similar dynamic now with the Harris campaign, where they're just trying to just do enough to get those voters both, you know.

Some people who are more moderate, but maybe they don't like Trump. Two people who are younger, and the base of the party that may not have loved Joe Biden, but. Definitely didn't want Donald Trump in office. And she's been, you know, Biden was losing a lot of that base on both sides when he was in the race. Harris is trying to put that together, and she's trying to deal with constituencies that may not agree with each other on all the issues, but trying to kind of slow walk that coalition back into existence.

And look, if you look at the polls, it's kind of remarkably similar. The numbers are remarkably similar in the national polls to where Biden was in 2020, at least in the results of the 2020 election. And yet, then we have Trump on the other side who actually is building a coalition, and I love it. I think it's fantastic. And hopefully, that will help pull the independents in, and people who maybe are a little bit more moderate Democrats will pull it into a coalition.

We'll see. Josh Crosser, thank you so much for joining me. It was a pleasure getting to speak with you again. Thanks, Mary. Good to talk to you.

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You're with Brian Kilmead. The idea that you said that you were in war. Did you misspeak as the campaign has said? Yeah, I said we were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife, the English tone, my grammar is not always correct.

But again, if it's not this, it's an attack on my children for showing love for me, or it's an attack on my dog. I'm not going to do that. And the one thing I'll never do is I'll never demean another member's service in any way. I never have, and I never will.

Tim Lawles. blamed his his stolen valour. On grammar. and compared it to them attacking his dog. I don't know.

Thanks John Valor. It's a big deal. I don't know how you don't know the rank at which you retired. I don't know how you don't know that you were not in combat. How does that happen?

I think those are things you remember. Right, there's certain things in life that you look at and go, I haven't been in your shoes, but I think I would remember whether I was being shot at or not. Apparently not Sim Wallace. Let's quickly go to Arthur in Arizona here. Arthur, you're on the Brian Kilmead show.

Hi. How you doing? Good there. I apologize for any background noise or whatever, but um I I don't like to talk about these things and I don't I I want to tell you about Tim Walls. I I'm 100% disabled Marine.

I spent a long time in the hospitals, VA hospitals, military hospitals. I had to learn how to walk again because of the injuries I've sustained in the Marine Corps. And And I had the opportunity on the spine boards, along with a lot of other Marines and Army guys and stuff, to listen to stories. Of these guys, and you see them, they wear hats, they wear the recon hat, the seal hat, they wear all this stuff. And you hear the stories they talk about, and they're completely off.

They're wrong. They lie. They completely we call them professional veterans. That's what we dubbed them on the spine where they tell stories of things they never did. There was a guy who was telling a story.

Of doing an operation in a territory the team I was on was controlling.

So you would have known. And it was an absolute lie. And to hear these people talk, it's just incredible. To I don't even know how many years I had in the service. It was five years and something.

They gave me my paperwork, and I just threw it in a file. I don't know, because everything after I got injured was just a blur. And so I my focus was getting better for my family. The Marine Corps was so far behind me and such a small part of my life. After they handed me my papers, I threw all my military gear in the trash.

Except for my my field gear, I took it to the um I took it to the Army-Navy store and I gave it to the guy. I said, just take this stuff. I don't want anymore. I don't want anything to do with it except for my poncho liner. We call it a wuby.

And that's the best thing to sleep under in the field. You want to make a Marine smile, a field Marine? Tell him about his wooby. Ask him about his poncho liner. He'll smile like crazy.

You know what? I wish I had more time with you, Arthur. I'm sorry. I really, my heart really breaks for you, and I don't say that flippantly. To hear that story really hurts me.

I feel for you. And God bless you. Really, God bless you. Because coming up, I'm going to tell you a story very quickly that's in the news that I think is going to bother you, but it really proves Arthur's point. That's coming up next on the Brian Kilmey Show.

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So we're just speaking with an incredible man, a vet, disabled vet, fully disabled, marine, and his experience and how sad it is, what he's going through. And, you know, then you have people like Tim Walls and Dick Blumenthal and others who, you know, get accused of stolen valor. And it's always a mistake. Oh, and it's always Democrats. Do you ever notice that?

It's always Democrats. Because if it was a Republican, they go to jail. But it's always Democrats and they never go to jail. And there's always like a weird reason. And did you notice Tim Walls last night didn't apologize?

And I thought that that was very egregious. There was no apology last night. And then what do we see this morning? Wesmoore ran for governor in of Maryland in 22. Yeah.

And He was introduced twice as having received. a bronze star for his army service in Afghanistan. And at least once he did say he received the award. He's a Democrat, shocking, and he's now the governor of Maryland. And he made the claim on an application for a White House fellowship in 'Oh six when he was twenty seven years old, and that's that's according to the New York Times.

They filed a FOIA request. And he wrote, For my work, the Eighty second Airborne Division have awarded me the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Action Badge. He submitted the application in January 2006, but when he submitted it he had not been awarded either the Bronze Star or the Combat Action Badge. He was awarded the Combat Action Badge in May of two six. Yeah.

Uh but there's no record showing that he ever received the bronze star, and now it has come to light again with everything that's happening with Tim Walls. And once again. Oh, it was an honest mistake. I I've not served in the military, but I I think when you retire you know the the the level at which you retire, or the when you leave, when you're discharged. You know where you were.

Yeah, you kinda know that the medals you received. I don't know. Like, I still have my sash from Girl Scouts with my badges on it. I'm not comparing them, but I'm just saying it. I still have my sash.

My mother you know, it was one of the things my mother gave me when they cleaned out the house and they're like, Here, take it. It was my Girl Scout badge, my sash. And I'm like, Oh, and I look at all the bad I don't know what they're all for anymore, but I look, Oh, look at that So I would think you would uh remember something like the bronze star. I don't think that's an honest mistake. He said his commanding officer had included the commendations on the advice of a superior officer and a mentor who helped craft his White House application because they had started the process of going through the paperwork for it, but he was never awarded it.

I just don't buy that. To throw somebody else under the bus for that, you're the one who signed that application. You're the one who chose to put it on there, even though you did not receive it.

So, I don't know. It just seems to be a problem with the Democrats, and they always seem to get a free pass, and it seems to it's really, really annoying.

Okay, let's lighten it up just a little bit. Because I, this story. I can understand this, and I don't know if it's that horrible. I don't know. So this happened in China on a flight.

On Jun Juniou Airlines, and they were flying internally in China, and there was Toddler. who was flying with her grandparents, and this toddler, he or she oh, her, so it's g she. Um I don't know if she identifies as a girl or not, but we'll call her she. And she cried non-stop during the entire flight, three hours. Nonstop.

So two passengers said, Let us handle this. Her grandmother said, Fine, take her, she's yours. And they went and they sat in the bathroom with the child, and they videoed this. And they posted this on Chinese social media. And it shows them inside the locked bathroom.

Now, all I can say is the bathrooms on Chinese airlines have to be much bigger than ours because I can barely stand being in there by myself. Like, I will dehydrate myself purposely, starting the night before, right after dinner, before a flight. And I will not take in any liquids. Like, just take a pill. That's it.

I purposely dehydrate myself so that I don't have to go to the bathroom on a plane.

So they post this picture. It shows both of them inside the locked bathroom with the girl who's just about a year old and she's just screaming bloody murder. And a woman who's sitting on the toilet told her that we won't let you out unless you stop crying.

So the girl starts c stops crying, and the woman filming the video picked her up and told her, If you make any noise again, we're coming back to the bathroom.

So this has caused a ton of controversy. Criticism mounted. The airline customer service department had to apologize for the incident and the quote oversight of the crew. They had to condemn the two passengers' behavior. One of the women who posted the video online said her intention was to ensure, quote, a restful flight for other passengers, but then all these social media users.

Piled on her.

So it's nice to know that this insane sensitivity is not just here in the US, it's all over the world. And someone said adults in their thirties can have emotional breakdowns, but people don't allow toddlers to have theirs. We were all once children. Don't be a cold-blooded adult. First of all, If I was thirty and having a meltdown like that, That just didn't happen.

That's a now-generation thing. And I know I sound super old, and I'm keeping the ball if it comes in my yard. But I kind of get it. I don't know what was wrong. Was this cruel?

I don't know if this was cruel. How is this cruel? They got the kid out of a tantrum. They didn't beat the kid, they didn't hit the kid, they took the kid in the bathroom. And said, okay, when you stop crying, we'll leave.

I've had to do it with my nieces, where I was somewhere and my niece is out of control, screaming. And I took her outside and I put her in the back of the car. And we sat in the back of the car. I didn't leave her in there by herself. We sat in the back of the car and I said, look, When you stop screaming, we'll go back inside.

But not until then. And she had her little temper tantrum and she worked it out. And when she stopped, she said, Okay, I'm done. I'm like, All right, let's go back in. Is that cruel?

Is that terrible? She didn't have need to have her tantrum in front of a whole bunch of people, so I took her outside. You couldn't take her outside, 'cause it's plain.

So you took her into the bathroom. I dunno. Is that terrible? Am I missing something? I don't have kids, so you know, pile on, that's fine.

But my mother, my parents did that when we were kids. If we were not behaving in a restaurant, and there was also a certain age where my parents would not take us on planes. They're like, I want to go to Disney. My mother's like, no, you're not fit for flying. It's not happening.

Like, there were places my parents wouldn't take us. They're like, you're just not fit for public. It's just the way it is, not going. My parents, if I was in a restaurant or my brother's or whatever, and somebody was melting down, my mother took that kid and out to the car you went.

Now, back in the day, they'd lock the doors and leave you in the car. No adult, and they come back in and finish their meal, and then they go back out and see how you're doing.

Nowadays, you can't do that.

So now you sit in the car with the kid. What's the difference? I don't know. Am I what am I missing here? I actually think it was brilliant.

These people came up and said, okay. Let me handle this. Let me help you out, grandma. I can see you're at the end of your rope and so is everybody else on this plane. We're in a confined space together.

What do you think? 866-408-7669. 866-408-7669. You can reach out to me on X at Mary Walter Radio. I um I don't know.

I I think this was okay. But I think everyone is just so sensitive nowadays. That's terrible That's horrible You're a horrible person and they had to be condemned by the flight attendants and and by the airline and I bet you because it's China their social credit score has gone down now so they're not allowed to fly anywhere. 'Cause they tried to help out. Yeah, I don't I don't see it.

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Welcome back to the Brian Kilmead Show. I'm Mary Walter sitting in for Brian Kilmead, 866-408-7669 is my number. A lot of people want to talk about the military aspect and Tim Waltz and the stolen valor and the allegations and does some comments on what some of previous callers had to say.

So let's go to Georgia and Roy listening on WVGA. Roy, welcome here on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi. Hi, Mary. Thanks for taking the call.

You can dispense with all the questions about Tim Waltz's military career. The only thing you need to ask him is to provide a copy of his DD two hundred fourteen. It's a military document that it's the profile of the military member from the day he joined the service to the day he got out. Dates of promotion, dates of uh Um awards, commendations. how he was discharged, whether it was honorable or less than honorable.

anytime an employer hires a vet, They asked to see a copy of the 214. And he's applying for a job So we should ask him for a copy of the D D two hundred and fourteen and put this Sergeant Major thing to rest. 'Cause it'll tell you whether he did or didn't. Um, if it was a temporary promotion, it'll be in there. But When he retired, it will show the rank that he retired.

So, you don't need to ask him any more questions or guess or go by here, say, or anything. Uh It clearly shows, though, you know, Eric Holder did the vetting of these potential running mates, and Wes Moore was one. And we're finding out now that Wes Moore now claimed he received a bronze star, and he never did.

So, this is a problem with Democrats, and clearly the vetting process that they go through, because did they not know that he didn't receive it, or did they not ask for that piece of paper? Did Eric Holder not know to ask for that, or did they just think it was going to be swept under the rug? And it would be handled the way it's being handled now, which is no big deal. And he's going to get away with it.

Well, I think they think that peop the the majority of the people out there are stupid. And we're not. Um You know, it's The the information is out there. All you have to do is go get it. And uh and again, you don't have to ask any more questions.

You don't have to guess. You don't have to rely on hearsay or I spoke to so-and-so who served with him. No, get his DD two hundred fourteen. And it's it's like his biography. Interesting.

All right. Thank you for that, Roy. It's good to know. I did not know that, so that's good to know. I want to switch gears a little bit here.

John in South Carolina wants to talk about Trump. We really didn't talk about him that much, did we? John, welcome. Hello, Mary. How are you?

There's a very important topic which hasn't been brought up, and this affects the younger generation, 18 to 29. Mothers and families.

Now, listen to this. The youth does not trust the military. They don't like the way the veterans are treated. The youth is tired of forever wars. They saw the disaster of the Afghan withdrawal on and on and on.

Now, The last draft we had in this country ended after the Vietnam War in about nineteen seventy five seventy four. The first draft was Woodrow Wilson. Then FDR Truman reinstigated the draft after World War II that lasted through 75. All Democrat administrations.

Now the Army is running about thirty percent, thirty five percent behind on new recruits. The Navy's taking a hit, too. Who's going to run the armed forces? They don't trust the Democrat Party. I will bet you.

a dollar to the hole in the donuts that a good question to ask would be or bring up the point that the Democrats will probably have to reinstigate conscription, the draft. And this should be a talking point brought up by all Democrats in local, state, um, elections and the federal stuff. You are right. I actually bring that out when I'm, you know, on X or if I'm speaking with someone who who especially a young person, they're saying, like, look at us, we're gonna turn it blue, we're gonna turn Texas blue. And they're young.

Then my first, like, I'm so excited. I'm like, are you registered for the draft? Because I heard the Middle East is getting hot. And they ignore it. They don't want to hear it.

But you need to. It's got they're running on vibes, and that's what the Democrats are doing. It feels good. These kids need something to feel good about. It's an emotion-driven generation.

And so they're playing to their emotions, and it's working. And listen, when we were young, what did we really know when it came to voting? What did we know? Nothing. We really didn't.

Most of us weren't that involved. Who are we kidding? We thought we were. But unfortunately they're not baked yet. And unfortunately, if they do vote blue, there is a really good chance that they're going to find themselves in a position where they're not super happy.

And uh that's the folly of youth, right? But it's a great point, John. Thank you so much. Let's stick with the name John, it's a good one. And go to Jacksonville, Florida and W O K V.

John, welcome. You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hi. Hi, Mary. You do a great job when Brian is out, so thank you.

Thank you. Yes.

All right, so I'm a Marine Corps veteran, and I served when Ronald Reagan was in. And I was ready to go to combat, but I never served in combat. And I served four years honorably. and um but never claim all these years Never claimed to have been a combat veteran out of respect for all of those who have served. And he When you look at it, Two worlds has all of the indicators.

Of a pathological liar. As you see, which absolutely right? Am I correct? Yeah, that it it's lot it's just they just keep piling up. Then there's another, the IVF thing, right?

It it it's just one after the next after the next. Correct. And he's used it, his pathical, pathological lie, to work his way through politics. But anyway, I just wanted to say that out of respect, I never said, so I served in the Marines, in the military, never went to war. And that is a distinct difference that he should never do.

Thank you very much. God bless. And you do a very good job when Brian's out. Thank you, Mary. Thank you so much, John.

And I appreciate that. My mother always used to say, because we would ask about my dad, you know, my dad was in the military and he was a radar specialist in New Jersey. And my mother always used to say, we used to be like, because kids want to know, did dad go to war? Did dad go to war? My mother's like, yeah, your father fought the battle of the New Jersey Turnpike on his way to Fort Dix every day.

We were so disappointed his kids were like, Oh But that's what he did. He was a ra you know, he was stateside, he was a he was a radar spot. I don't think we were at war when my dad was in, but we were so fascinated by the whole thing, and that's what we were told. And to this day, we're like, Yeah, my dad fought the battle of the turnpike, that's it. All right, one more here.

Mike in Texas, you get the last word here. Mike, welcome to the Brian Kilmeid Show. Hi. Well, I've got two things to tell you. First of all, my thunder got stolen over the DD 214.

I still carry mine. And I got out of the Army in 1979. I was there doing the first parts of the volunteer army. I was in high school when the draft ended. And we all knelt down and kissed the floor at Averella High School.

And then we passed a petition for the janitor to change the flavor of that wax. But yeah, that that was the seventies and if anybody remembers it, they are lying 'cause Yeah. But uh when I was in uh I was in peacetime, but then I went in the National Guard for a few years to finish out my obligation. And while I was in, they were developing the toys that they're using now. We thank God they never attacked San Antonio because At Fort Sam, Houston.

I was there when they brought the people in from the Tenerife airplane crash. And, you know, I was a journalist, so I y I got to cover a lot of things and I was accessed, so they they gave me a T39 with those little Lear jets. Mike, Mike, I've got twenty seconds. the Cowboys and those guys. But you know, it's it's one of those things that it's in my D D two hundred and fourteen.

And when I got out, they asked me for that to go get jobs. You have to have that to go get your benefits. You've got to have that form. Yeah.

I don't mean to cut you off, but we're up against time.

So I never knew about that forum before. But it says to me that Eric Holder didn't do much vet. And I wonder if the Democrats do the vetting, but they just don't care. And I think that that's really, really sad. Right?

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