Hamas executes 6 more hostages and Biden blames Netanyahu!

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kelmead. Hi, everyone. Hope you had a fantastic Labor Day and you're back in action today. I'm sure none of you have zoned out entirely about what's happening in the news, but I have not really let up, even though I have not been on the airport.

I cannot wait to get started with the big show.

Now there's no turning back. I mean, for the longest time, well, wait for the dog days of summer to be over, wait for the conventions to be over, wait for both nominations to be official.

Okay, done.

Now we even had a debate for the first time in our lifetime before the convention's done.

Now Labor Day is over. It's through. There is no holding back. It is a snap election. This is more like Britain.

Got a late nominee with absolutely no confirmation. Got a vice president denying that she was vice president. Wants to be the candidate of change.

Meanwhile, she's still the second most powerful person in the current government. It's hard not to run as an incumbent, don't you think? This hour, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, is Texas really in play? Let's go into the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. And they said to me, I mean, I'm not surprised, I never even thought about it. Sir, would it be possible for you to have a picture with us? By the tombstone of my son.

I said, absolutely. I wasn't doing it for, I don't need publicity, I get a lot of publicity.

So it's unbelievable, the Arlington anger. Only one candidate showed up in Arlington Cemetery to honor the 13 lives lost three years ago in Afghanistan. And it's not Harris.

Meanwhile, Harris attacks, her team attacks, and so does the media attack, saying that they used some of those photos of Trump at the grave site in campaign ads. We look at the uproar and hear the backlash of the challenge because it highlights the fact that Biden stayed in the beach and Harris stayed in her house. Number two. I tell people, look, you may not. Happy a union.

Member, you better thank a union member. You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time. Would she add some acting class?

What a kind of accent is that? on the trail, the tracker. We look at the state of the race with the debate eight days away. Voters zone in on both Trump and Harris as Kamala hijacks another Trump policy and Trump hones in on a winning message on abortion, IVF and more. Number I think we should note that These hostages were discovered in the tunnels under Rafah.

That's where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put pressure on Israel not to enter for months, using an arms embargo to try to keep them from entering. I have so much to say about this. Hostages executed in Rafa. And Biden blames Bibi as there are protests in New York and Tel Aviv. Why I think the prime minister has to hold strong.

We bring it the latest. And one of the strongest reasons is: look, so Hamas executes six healthy hostages, and then you're supposed to acquiesce and give them a better deal when it comes to a ceasefire in a war that they started? Are you crazy? In a place that this administration and Egypt begged us not to go into? Why?

That's where Hamas is. That's where the hostages are. Why were they, as Tom Cotton brought up brilliantly, as he was on Sunday again on Meet the Press? Why were you pushing not to go in there? That's where the tunnels are.

That's where the hostages are. Now they say, as Tel Aviv erupts because you didn't get the hostages back, and New York City with 7,000 in the streets erupt because, I don't know, why are they erupting? Pro-Hamas, Palestinian protesters, as if there's a difference in New York City, erupting because, I don't know, Israel got six hostages executed by the people that they support? How embarrassing can you be? Listen to this exchange to know what idiots we have amongst us here in New York City.

Cut one. An American was executed yesterday by terrorists. Are you okay? He deserved it? Why is that?

What business is he having? What business does he at a music festival dancing with his friends? Yeah. Israel killed him? Can you believe this?

I mean, what do you say to people like this? This guy's an adult. You probably you know, obviously this is radio, so he's about 60 years old sitting in his car. Proud to say that Israel is I mean, he doesn't believe a word he's saying, but his anti-Semitism comes clear. What is he doing there at a festival in Israel?

How dare you go in your own country and go to a music festival? That's the mindset that has those terrorists in Russia take over a movie theater. That's the mindset that has the terrorists hang glide into Israel proper and just kill innocent people as many as you possibly can, and then execute them and interview them before they're and submit and release the video. Before right before they get killed, they all knew they were gonna die. Just think about that horror, that terror.

But those are the people you want to give in to, those are the people you want to negotiate with. Not it doesn't make any sense to me. Look, the Prime Minister feels terrible. Two hundred plus hostages taken. Through six more die.

Why wouldn't you feel terrible? But in the big picture, when it comes to Israel, if you stop them here, you'll stop the next raft of hostages from being taken. Down the line.

So there were some pro-Israel protesters, but I want you to hear some of the exchange. Because it seems like in mass media That there seemed to be an anti-Israel bias through all these Sunday shows, through all these news networks. I fundamentally don't get it. I know people say I'm being naive. I just don't get it.

Why it's so necessary to turn on all our allies. All these time.

So here is center Tom Cotton over the weekend, cut ten. I think it we should note that These hostages were discovered in the tunnels under Rafa. That's where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put pressure on Israel not to enter for months, used an arms embargo to try to keep them from entering. Kamala Harris even said that Israel shouldn't enter Rafah because she had studied the maps. What the Biden-Harris administration should have done from the beginning is not pressure Israel to restrain its response, but let Israel win from the very outset.

Now, that's a perfectly sane statement. Kamala Harris did say, air quote, study the maps. I've studied the maps.

Meanwhile, she had a private meeting with this dearborn mayor of Michigan, who's a known anti-Semite. Why is it so secret? The AP got a hold of it and announced it.

So now, all of a sudden, Kristen Welker goes, wait a second, my storyline's getting stepped on.

So let me get involved. Cut 11. Do you believe Prime Minister Netanyahu bears any responsibility for not getting a deal? No, I believe Hamas bears responsibility for not turning these hostages back over to their families and surrendering. At every turn, Benjamin Netanyahu has tried, tried to meet the Biden administration halfway.

They continue to move the goalposts. They continue to encourage and embolden Hamas.

So listen to this.

So I'm going to play in a longer exchange, but I want you to hear this.

So Joe Biden finally gets off the beach, goes to the White House. He sees some reporters standing on the side, and he's more than willing to walk over and answer questions. Barely there, wearing his stupid sunglasses. I really have no respect for him. I can't help it.

Normally, I want to respect the president no matter who it is. I just have no respect for this guy, and I think he's snapped anyway. He knows the impact of his words.

So listen to this exchange cut six. Mr. President, if you think it's time for Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue, you think he's doing enough.

Okay. Hamas hears the president of the United States say no, he's not doing enough, and they hail it. They put it out there. They got a PR machine around the world, around the world, amongst our allies and enemies. They love it.

Joe Biden is separating from Netanyahu, not doing enough when it comes to peace. They're attacked, and they're not doing enough when it comes to peace. Nuts.

So listen to some of this exchange. Kristen Welker, I can believe that she's this clueless, but she seems to be. Cut 13. Senator, just to be clear, there, of course, is no arms embargo. It is true that the Biden administration did halt one shipment of arms out of concern about civilian casualties.

It is correct. There's no arms embargo. For weeks, for weeks, the Biden-Harris administration put an embargo, not just on large 2,000-pound bombs, which of course are needed to penetrate these deep and buried tunnels, but on things like tank rounds and artillery shells and more rounds. It was just one shipment of arms. It was this.

It was a large category. No, Chris, it was. It was a large category of weight.

Okay, but they have now moved forward with that. It's not an arms embargo, though, just to be very clear. That was very specific, and it's not a term. It was in place for many weeks. I don't know what else to say.

She's wrong. She's desperate not to be uh not to let The guy who's on the Armed Services Committee. Who served in the military? who served in the infantry, who knows ammunitions and armaments and understands everything, she's determined that to not they think that they're holding weapons back. They hold a lot of weapons back to the point where Prime Minister Netanyahu said it, and he got in trouble for si not in good trouble, but he got rebuked by this administration for saying what it is to be the fact.

So they don't want it. For some reason, she's invested in not wanting people to know how much Israel is holding, or we are holding back from Israel. Why does she care? Why didn't she get the guy from the Armed Services Committee to tell us what he knows? And then try to fact check it if you think he's got a problem with it.

So that's a little exchange I just want to share. Then there was an apology a little bit later on Arlington, and I'll talk about that later in this hour. 1-866-408-7669. I thought Condalisa Rice just had the clarity. She hopped on with Brett Baer.

over the weekend. And I thought her clarity here was invaluable because I think she's a National Security Vice Secretary of State. I believe she was extraordinary. You might not, I do. I think she's one of the smartest people in the country.

And selfless, no ego, just confidence. Cut 17. What happened on October 7th to Israel was an act of barbarity and sophistication on the part of Hamas that I didn't think I would ever see. Anybody who thinks that Hamas represents the legitimate interest of the Palestinian people in any way is delusional. And so the Israelis will have to establish, re-establish deterrence.

They will have to weaken Hamas to the degree that they can.

Something, by the way, that most Arab states want to see.

So You have to understand, they started a war, and I think Douglas Murray put it best: when you start a war, You no longer have a say in how the people respond to your war. Maneuvers. You can't sit there and let Hamas decide how you're fighting a war after they start it. Does anyone? Does anyone challenge that they started this war.

What is interesting about the tactics, they found instead of 250 square miles of tunnel, which they thought was extraordinary. It's more like 500. In it are blast walls and blast doors.

So they thought this whole thing would be fought in the tunnels. What the Israelis have done is picked and choose where they'd go in, but for the most part, they've been forcing Hamas out. And they didn't think they'd have to come out and do this, but they are. They also didn't think Israel would fight this long, but they are. One of the reasons they're fighting this long is because we have been holding them back.

And through rhetoric and through holding back, Armaments? And Israel not doing a great job on their PR war? And there is a war, and Amas has got a whole media arm, and they got a lot of people very open to hearing their side of their story. They have held this whole thing up and dragged this thing out. And when they were told not to go into Rafa, when they were told how to go in and fight, when you have to worry about fighting in the toughest terrain, maybe on the planet, in the most densest population period, where innocents are in the middle of cities, they plant themselves in mosques and schools, on playgrounds, in hospitals.

And you go tell a war, and the idea to go and fight that war and make sure innocents don't get killed and they don't get killed in the process. It's an impossible scenario. On this show, if you don't get it this hour, we'll have John Spencer from the West Point War College, who's done extensive studies about what's really happening on the ground in Gaza, been there himself. He will tell you what they've done and how many lives were lost trying to prevent civilian casualties, even though that's exactly what Hamas wants. I always thought.

That I wouldn't have to go to so extensively explain this in America. I wouldn't want to bore you with the obvious who the good guys are. And when the good guys make the do something wrong, guess what? They prosecute. If there's guys who are too or being too aggressive at in Gaza, they've been prosecuted by the military war uh tribunals.

By the way, so do we do that. Do you think they're doing that on us? The worse they are, the more they're acclaimed. But I just think there's people are losing their moral compass. And we're seeing at all these schools, and wait for these protests to crop up.

Politically, it is so detrimental for the Democrats to see what's happening in Columbia, Harvard, and all these other schools because they don't do anything. Where is Senator Schumer, the most powerful senator Jewish senator in the country, the most powerful senator in the country, most powerful Jewish senator in history, I should say, and he does nothing in the city in which he presides. Nuts.

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The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. One of the things that Columbia needs to change is the way that they approach diversity and inclusion efforts on campus. They pointed out that the current DEI methods on campus and the current DEI office rely basically on this idea that all groups can be placed either in the box of oppressors or the box of oppressed, and that is a binary worldview. That reduces people.

And it doesn't actually allow for real inclusion. It actually works against inclusion and against the idea that we should be engaging with people from different backgrounds, right? Because it shames the people that are subjectively placed in the oppressor category.

Well, because I think that that was a really important recommendation, and I'm hoping that Columbia is able to implement that.

So that's Alicia Baker, a Columbia student, talking about the need to get rid of DEI and how it helps foment a lot of this anger and anti-Semitism because people are afraid to clamp down on people because they might be in the oppressed category, really?

So they did a whole study on why there's so much unrest on Columbia's campus and where it comes from. Here's what they did. They found out this. Juden students experience at Columbia University. Spat, spit on, forced to hide symbols of Judaism, excluded from student life, being pinned against a wall.

I'm pretty sure that's bad. Anti-Semitic slurs and tropes. That's what they experienced. That's what they confirmed. Here's the recommendation.

By the task force. Improve your anti-bias and anti-Semitism training. Oh, fantastic. For students and staff. A working definition of anti-Semitism.

I'm pretty sure we just we just read it. And simplify reporting of anti-Semitic complaints. Excuse me, it was that guy. How's that for simple? Anton, listening on W D B O and Orlando, Anton.

All right, let's hold on then.

So, a couple of things that I think are also worthy to bring up. And that is the Columbia University, there is nobody who's convinced this thing is over and not going to get worse. But the one thing they have decided on is the NYPD should not be on campus.

So they didn't like when the NYPD went in there and tried to take one of their buildings back for them.

So now they said they want their campus police to take over. No offense to campus police, but they're not experienced to take down an international, I believe, international organization that's financing all this to investigate, take down and make sure it doesn't reoccur and maybe get ahead of it. You need the NYPD for that. And I'm pretty sure the NYPD at some point has got to take things into their own hands if it's as bad as last year. And you know what would be devastating?

It would be devastating if you see in these Ivy Leagues all these anti-Israeli protests going on. It might help you. It doesn't make you look good in front of the Palestinian pro-Hamas movement in Michigan, and there is some. And in other mostly Midwestern states, Minnesota. But it also makes Republicans look stronger.

The other thing to point out, too, is here are the issues. They did a study, and they said, here are the issues where Trump does well.

So here are the top issues in the country. The economy is number one, Trump by eight. Inflation, Trump by eight. Healthcare, Harris by ten. Protecting American democracy, Harris by seven.

Crime is tied. That stuns me. Immigration, Trump by nine. Supreme Court appointees, Harris by five Gun violence, Harris by six. Abortion, this is the biggie, Harris by 16.

The other big thing, the Islamic, the Hamas war, Trump by seven. Honesty? Harris is up by 18. Mental sharpness, she's up by 10. Understands the problems of average everyday Americans.

Eight.

Now, women, Harris by 13 men, Trump by five. He knows exactly how to close those gaps. Let's see him do it. He's doing better now, Trump, than he did against Biden and Hillary Clinton. Don't move.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. During the Biden-Harris administration, there were record numbers of illegal border crossings. Why did the Biden-Harris administration wait three and a half years to implement sweeping asylum restrictions?

Well, first of all, the root causes work that I did as Vice President that I was asked to do by the President has actually resulted in a number of benefits, including historic investments by American businesses in that region. The number of immigrants coming from that region has actually reduced since we began that work.

So she has memorized answers. She didn't expect to leave that question, so she answered anyway. Why did it take three and a half years? They want to go, oh, the bipartisan plan that Donald Trump didn't want to sign. Most people, if they look at it, weren't going to sign for it.

It wasn't going to get past the House and Senate anyway. What Trump does, what Trump always does, come out and say, yeah, don't sign this. There's too much. Here's what if you really want to drill down on it. Is that there was too much discretion there from the President of the United States?

So if you signed off on this, look, we did bipartisan reform, but the President of the United States would still be letting people in, and they shut down the border at a certain threshold of 2,500. Why are you letting the 2,500 shut it down now and then get the right people in that going to stay, that qualify? That would be as simple as that. But they did not believe that. Joe Biden would do that.

Plus, there was no provision for unaccompanied minors, an incredible amount of money for these NGOs, like Catholic charities, that provide unlimited services and transportation to illegals in order to get into these cities and create havoc. And if I can just transpose that a little bit further, you have 70%, this is the cover of the New York Post today: 75% of the crime in Midtown Manhattan is from illegal aliens and multiple offenders who don't get held in jail because of Democratic no-bail laws. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joins us now. Hey, Colonel, welcome back. It's good to be with you, Brian.

Hopefully, you had a great Labor Day weekend. Yeah, back at you.

So, your response to Kamala Harris's interview when it comes to legal immigration, you satisfied? Absolutely not. And the American people shouldn't be satisfied. And the American people know the truth. And think about this, Brian.

If that was the best 15 or 16 minutes of that interview, what got left on the floor that had to be edited out?

So that's very appalling. But when you listen to her answer, it goes back to her whole thing about climate change as the existential reason and threat why we have illegal immigration. I don't think that the weather is so bad in Tajikistan that terrorists are coming here to the United States of America. I don't think the weather is so bad in Venezuela that you have criminals coming here to this country. You just talked about what's going on right there in New York.

But think about the video that we've seen of armed illegal immigrant Venezuelan gangs. You know, going through apartment buildings and extorting residents. First and foremost, how do you get weapons if you're here illegally? Why aren't they asking that question instead of going after legal, law-abiding citizens?

So, no, they have not solved it. And I think that the actual number on that bill that they brought forward was 5,000.

So, how are you going to control 5,000 people coming in? Is someone going to report, oh, you know, we just hit the magic number, 5,000? Let's shut it down for today, but then we'll just start it right back over the next day. It was a horrible bill. Shame on Senator Langford of Oklahoma for even getting involved with this because it was once again a trap by the Democrats.

Right. Here's more. The other cut that I want you to hear about Kamala Harris as it relates to the border. You raised your hand when asked whether or not the border should be decriminalized. Do you still believe that?

I believe there should be 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 she never answered the question, have you changed your mind? No. No, and furthermore, it's a lie. She is not enforcing our laws. If Dana Bash had some type of semblance of objective journalism, she would have said in the Constitution, it lays out in Article 4, Section 4, exactly what you're supposed to do.

You took an oath to support the Constitution and uphold the laws. You're not doing that, Madam Vice President. You've allowed all of these tens of millions of people to come into this country illegally. We're not talking about what you did as an attorney general. Oh, by the way, you did release violent criminals back out onto the street when you were attorney general there in California.

So, what are you really talking about? Are you going to decriminalize the border? And also, ask her, you know, what's your position on ICE, immigration and control and enforcement, the ICE, where she said that she wanted to go back and re-look about the existence of ICE and maybe, you know, get rid of it.

So, how are you going to have enforcement at the border or inside the border if you want to get rid of these agencies and you're not standing up for the rule of law?

So, let's look at this: the flip-flops on the Border wall. She now says, Yeah, I want that bipartisan legislation passed. I'm going to spend about a billion on the border wall. Really? You mean that medieval vanity project of Donald Trump's decriminalized border crossings?

We went over Medicare for all.

Now, you know who wants Medicare for all? Ro Kahana, Bernie Sanders.

Now she says she doesn't. I'm sure she does. She knows it's not affordable and it'll destroy Medicare.

So it's just wait and see, hire her first. Mandatory gun buybacks. That was just a passing phase. Fracking. Right now, there's a moratorium on fracking LNG sales.

So if she wanted to show that she's for it, she would push Joe Biden to stop the pause and offshore drilling. These are just some of the things.

Now, she's also taking Trump on tips, not taxing tips for hospitality workers. She's also now talking about the wall, which I thought was a joke. And listen to this: Donald Trump a year ago says U.S. steel should not get sold to Japan. I don't care if they're an ally, it belongs.

Here. Listen to her yesterday, Cut 22. U.S. steel is an historic American company. And it is vital.

for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies. And I couldn't agree more with President Biden. U.S. steel should remain American owned and American operated. And I will always Have the fact of America's steel workers.

I mean, does she have the audacity of this woman who just steals his campaign? Uh b bull the bullet points that Trump puts out there. She just takes them.

Well, the bottom line is if you don't have any policy positions, just steal your opposition's policy positions. Look, when in that interview with Dana Bash, what did you hear Vice President Harris say? But my values haven't changed. Everything.

So, what do we believe? That's cool. Do we believe? Yeah. Do you believe what you're saying now, or do we believe what you said back then?

I mean, you said that your values haven't changed, but yet all your policy positions are changing. This is, you know, in the Bible, and I think in the book of James, it says, beware the dual-minded man. He is unstable in all his ways. This applies to Kamala Harris. She is back and forth all over the place, which means that she has no stability.

She is not grounded in any principle. And, you know, you're right. Just vote for me. I'll say whatever is necessary to be elected. And then I don't know what you're going to do.

I think that since you said your values hadn't changed, you're going to go back to the same old craziness.

So, one thing, this Tim Wallace is what a character he is. No one, one minute he's going to bat for Biden saying he's the greatest president ever.

Next minute, he's like, I'll join Harris's ticket. And now he does. And guess what? Do you know that Harris is doing worse in Minnesota since he joined the tickets? He's lost three points.

And now the problem is he was so proud of his 24 years in the National Guard. And I think he has a reason to be. But when he embellishes and exaggerates, that's what gets him in trouble. Listen to him try to explain his way. He's using the term, I use weapons.

The weapons that I used in war should not be used on the streets of America. Listen to this explanation. Cut 25. 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 school shooting. Of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife, the English you 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. Did he answer the question? No, he didn't. And this is not about demeaning his service.

He demeaned his service himself. He is a liar. He is a coward. Look, you know, when I say I ain't, that's bad grammar. When you're sitting up there and you're saying I carried, you know, weapons of war when you never went to a combat zone, that's just lying.

That is misleading. When you have on your congressional coin the rank of Command Sergeant Major, when you know that you were a master sergeant, that's misleading people.

So Tim Wallace has no credibility. And I just saw a video clip where he was asked about the six hostages that we found were dead. One of them was American whose parents spoke at the Democratic Convention. And he just walked away from the question when he was asked about it. Just walked away.

I don't want this guy to be second in command as far as being commander in chief of our troops because when he had the responsibility to answer the call to service, which I have done and many others have done, he ran away. Yeah, he was asked that question, but they are so scripted. They're so worried about making headlines. They're so worried about putting their candidate in front of the cameras. He looked at his handler and walked away and then put out a statement a little bit later.

Why do you need handlers? You're already 60 years old. You've been doing this in Congress. You've been talking about going to war forever. You go on every committee, every code, and then you become governor.

Why are you worried about that question? It's not a hard question. No, it's not a hard question. What you should say is that this is the reason why we need to keep the pressure on Hamas, a terrorist organization that has now killed another American when they did so a year ago, and they still hold Americans hostage. But they can't.

They got a tightrope because remember what they're trying to do. They're trying to win that Rashida Tlaib wing of the Democrat Party, which has a very large voting footprint there in Michigan, a Battleground State.

So I understand they met with the mayor of Dearborn, an outright anti-Semitic Semitic character who's pro-Palestinian, to be kind. And Kamala Harris already met with him behind closed doors. What do you think she's promising?

Well, you know what she's promising, that I will keep the pressure on Israel. And that's the thing, that we don't know what she's promising, but I can tell you this, that the fact that she would meet with an anti-Semitic person such as this individual and read his comments, The fact that Dearborn, Michigan is the place where people were shouting death to America, I would not set foot in Dearborn, Michigan. I would not talk to the mayor.

So just the fact that she did, and we know that, that perception lends itself to the reality that she does not have Israel's back, no matter what she says. But then again, remember what we say: you know, my values haven't changed, but yet, you know, I keep saying this over here. We don't know who Kamala Harris is. Kamala Harris is like a cloud. You see it, but when you try to touch it, there's nothing there.

So I got to ask to the end with Arlington. As you know, the President of the United States, former President of the United States, showed up three years to the day in which 13 lost their lives at Abbey Gate on the request of the families and put a wreath there. And then they said, would you go to the Section 60 where the Afghanistan war vets are buried, where those lost their lives.

So they went over there and he took some pictures. Evidently, somebody was a little rough with one of the cemetery workers. I don't know the details, but now all the attack dogs are out on Trump using it as a photo op. Uh you know who doesn't feel like it's a photo op? The families that asked him to go cut 38.

We invited President Trump. We are the ones that ask for the video. and the pictures to be taken. President Trump has been there for us from the very beginning. when our son And the other twelve Of his brothers and sisters in arms.

were murdered due to your negligence. Why did we want Trump there? It wasn't to help his political campaign. We wanted a leader. That explains why you and Joe didn't get a call.

She was a mile away. She could have walked over. She could have done her own thing. Joe Biden wouldn't get off the beach. He's what?

A chopper right away. Your reaction to this. It shows leadership. And shame on these people in the leftist media who didn't show any indignation when Joe Biden was looking at his watch coming home the ramp ceremony for those 13 individuals. But now all of a sudden they're the ones that are playing politics.

And you just have to stand up and applaud and just admire the courage of these family members that are setting the record straight. And they're not cowering away in the face of all of this criticism. President Trump was there. Where like you said, where was Conal Harris? Where was Joe Biden?

As a matter of fact, who's running the country right now? We don't know. They're there because he's yeah, looking for leadership. Lastly, why is why is Ted Cruz having such a hard time in Texas? You know, I think a lot of this has to do with the major urban population centers and what Colin Allred is doing just running as, but there's an article in the Texas Tribune.

The Democrats here in Texas are not happy with Alred and how he's running his campaign because he's not talking far-left issues. He's trying to moderate himself, which we know when you look at his voting record, that's not the case.

So, Colin Alret runs the possibility of depressing his own base because he is not kowtowing to them. All right, Colonel, we covered a lot of ground. Thanks so much. Truly appreciate it. Always a pleasure.

Thank you, Brian. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, thanks. He's Dallas County Republican Party Chairman and he's American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director and former Congressman from Florida, who's been almost three decades in the military. Back in a moment. Covering this election year like no other.

It's Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. And when Tim Wall said, like, the American people, I talk like I, like they do. No, you don't.

No, you don't. You're a huge liar, like all politicians are. I don't care, by the way. I've always said this about politics. They're all going to lie.

They're politicians. It's what they lie about. I don't give a shit. what you did during the Iraq war. You were in the Guard.

So I don't understand why they just can't. You're just insulting my intelligence. When she said, what did you say when Biden called you and said he wasn't running?

Well, I immediately thought of him first. Yeah, you didn't. Of course, you didn't because immediately, to your credit, you started consolidating support around you, saying nobody else should have a shot, called the people likely to challenge you, Camela Harris, and then made sure that they knew they'd have a place with her if they just supported her. Within three days, she had 500 delegates pledged to her. But now she said, the first thing I thought of was: Are you sure?

So, you didn't give an honest answer. You could talk about what you did. And then I realized if it wasn't going to be Joe, it was going to be me. Just expand on it. I would love to hear this question: why do you want to be president?

And she didn't have an answer for what would you do on the first day. Trump told everybody who was doing the first day. John in California. Hey, John. Good morning, Brian.

Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend. Back at you, we'll turn your mic. I have a point to make. I served 23 years in the military, active duty. We knew well in advance of any deployment because they want to make sure your family situation straightened out before you go overseas.

Over a year in advance. for this man, and I disagree with everybody. Saying that he served 22 years honorably. When you serve 22 years and you're asked to go into harm's way by your country and you bail out, that's dishonorable and a coward, in my opinion.

Well, according to his some IRCSA excerpts I saw from Megan Kelly's interview, a lot of the people that serve with him are just as angry as you you say they are at him, including the master sergeant that had to take over for him. And go as the commander. He goes, I couldn't resign if he was going to resign. I was thinking about getting out too. But when I saw he jumped out, I go, no, I can't do it because then I'll be the senior officer.

I can't have two senior officers leave their men. And they did lose people in battle. And for those people who say, well, at least he was, you know, the J.D. Vance was a Marine who was working in public information, that that wasn't dangerous.

Well, number one, it was four years, you're right. And he never said that he was at war. But there were two or three people in his position that were killed in Iraq.

So, you can't say it wasn't dangerous now. If you go to Iraq, you were in danger for a long time. Maybe it's a little bit better now. I'm not sure. Listen to the Brian Kill Me show.

Don't forget, I'm going to be in Peeksville, New York, the History, Liberty, and Laugh Store. Go get tickets, BrianKillme.com. VIP tickets are available. This is where I meet you before the show. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. So glad you're here. I'm in 48th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan, where I just learned by reading the New York Post cover page where 75% of all crimes in Midtown Manhattan are happening from illegal aliens. Multiple arrests.

I love this one guy. He got arrested and they said you took pants, you took beer. Why? He said, I needed pants and I wanted to sit down on the bench and have a beer and think about my life because things aren't normal here.

Okay, time for giving people at least one beer to reflect on why they're here illegally. I love that honest answer that got recorded in the press. But they always say, Democrats do, that when you talk about illegal aliens, they on percentage, they commit less crimes than the average American. Number one, one crime's too many, it's unnecessary. Number two.

But Tell that to people in New York City. 67,000 here illegally. A lot of them are up to no good.

Now we're getting full-blown gangs. We got American gangs fighting Venezuelan gangs. You have a problem with that this hour. I'm going to talk to David Bonson, the Bonson Group. He's got a great book out, too, but he'll give us an idea of the economy.

And they will do a simulcast on FBN, Michael Goodwin standing by.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. And they said to me, I mean, I'm not surprised, I never even thought about it. Sir, would it be possible for you to have a picture with us? By the tombstone of my son.

I said, absolutely. I wasn't doing it for, I don't need publicity. I get a lot of publicity. Arlington Anger, only one candidate showed up in Arlington Cemetery to honor the death of 13 who lost their lives three years ago in Afghanistan. And now the Harris team attacks over it being used in campaign ads.

Maybe if you had shown up, you'd have a leg to stand on. But you never met the families and you never went to Arlington, did you? Number two. Everywhere I go, I tell people, look, you may not be. Yeah.

You better thank a union member. You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time. What kind of accent is that, by the way?

Trail tracker. We look at the state of the race. With the debate eight days away, voters zone in on both Trump and Harris as Kamala hijacks another Trump policy. We'll discuss. Number one.

These hostages were discovered in the tunnels under Ratha. That's where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put pressure on Israel not to enter for months, using an arms embargo to try to keep them from entering. Tom Cotton showed up with facts, hostages, executed in Rafa, and Biden blames Beebe as there are protests in New York and Tel Aviv. Why I think the Prime Minister has to hold strong and eliminate Hamas once and for all. You can't reward them for executing six people, including one American.

Michael Goodwin of the New York Post joined us now. Michael, do you see 7,000 in New York City protest for Hamas? Yesterday. In Tel Aviv, they're mad at Prime Minister Netanyahu for not cutting an earlier deal to get hostages out. I understand the frustration.

But he's got to continue to f to wipe out Amas, doesn't he? Oh, absolutely, Brian. There's no alternative at this point. And I think anyone, frankly, in Israel or the United States or Great Britain or throughout Europe, anyone who thinks that somehow Hamas can be persuaded to become a rational political organization is out of their minds. I mean, look, my first trip to Israel was in 2000, in the summer of 2000, and that was the Camp David Accord moment that Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat with Bill Clinton.

They were going to make a deal to give the Palestinians a state in the West Bank that would have included something like ninety two percent of the West Bank. and Arafat rejected it. Arafat said no, because he knew that if he signed any document making peace with Israel, he would be killed. He would be killed by his own people because the Palestinian factions that are jihadist. That want Israel eliminated predominate.

It's the power of the gun. And that society has not changed. Look at what happened in Gaza. Not just with Israel, but with the Palestinian civilians. I mean, they are ruled by a gangster government that kills people publicly if they are caught in any situation other than that as allowed by the government.

So gays, of course, are killed publicly. Anyone who tries to kill people. Talks to Israel is killed publicly, humiliated. I mean, this is the culture of death. And there's a saying in Israel, you know, that there will be peace when the Palestinians love their children more than they hate ours.

I believe Goldomair first said that. But it's well known that the Palestinians have been the obstacle to peace all along. That's not to absolve Israel of everything every government has ever said or done, but it is a fundamental fact that the Palestinians are the ones who have resisted peace because they will not accept the right of Israel to exist.

So listen to this.

The bottom line, and nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. And we don't know if there is a different feeling. When you're ruled by a gangster or the mob, it's hard to speak up. Your family gets killed.

So you're wondering if you can, almost like the Iranian people, if you can alleviate the noose that's threatening to hang them, if they might have a different point of view that they're not allowed to express. That's my hope. Listen to this pro-Palestinian protester right in the streets of New York City last night. Cut three. What's happening right now with Gaza and Israel?

Will that change how you'll vote in the election? I mean, it's going to be hard for me. You know, I was part of the uncommitted movement and I just continuing voting for the Democrats. Democrats have been not responding well. And so for me, it's going to be very hard to vote for Harris.

But I don't want Trump. I definitely don't want Trump. But it's going to be hard. Right, because they're upset at Harris for not coming out more against Israel.

Meanwhile, she met with the Dearborn mayor, who's anti-Israel, anti-Semitic. And she promises to re, according to the Washington Post, reevaluate and examine our relationship with Israel and the alliance. Your reaction to that.

Well look I I think it's It's shocking but not surprising, Brian. This is the way they've been leaning. Joe Biden did it, and she, since she has become the nominee, she has stepped on the gas. I mean, and even Biden's comments yesterday that Israel should do more. That was his reason.

Let everybody hear this. Listen to this. How haphazardly he makes this statement, cut six. Mr. President, if you think it's time for Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue, do you think he's doing enough?

No. With that no, Hamas salutes him and goes after Netanyahu and helps foment the unrest against the Prime Minister.

Well And it gives Hamas incentives It tells them keep resisting and you will get more, you'll get more enticements. that the United States will lean on Israel to make more and more concessions. I mean, if you're Hamas, why would you stop now? I mean, yes, you've lost a lot of people, but you don't care about those people. You only care about eliminating Israel.

And Joe Biden, unfortunately, and perhaps because he's out of his mind, is helping Hamas right now. And so is Kamala Harris. This they give Hamas no incentives to stop. They only give them incentives to continue. I mean, as Netanyahu felt forced to come out and speak yesterday about the times that Israel agreed to a ceasefire and Hamas said no, well, why does Hamas say no?

It keeps holding out for more. What it wants is the promise that Israel will withdraw completely from Gaza. Israel would be insane to do that. It will happen again and again, as Hamas has promised.

So, October 7th was not a one-off. For Hamas. They want to keep doing it. And Joe Biden, either out of because he is just deluded politically or perhaps because he's demented in his mind, he keeps helping Hamas. He does.

And I want you to I want him to keep that Philadelphia line. Every military expert I talk to says it's necessary to keep that line between Gaza and Egypt. That's where they have the tractor trailers going into these tunnels that they didn't know existed. 500 square miles of tunnels, fortified with blast doors. They wanted the IDF below fighting this war.

They've been forcing them up. It's almost an impossible scenario. But let me just bring you back to Kamala Harris, July 25th. When asked about what's going on in Gaza, tell me if you feel better about her when she's talking military and some of the nuance of the areas. Cut nine.

We have been. Clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any Major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake. Let me tell you something. studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks to go.

And we're looking at about a million and a half people in Rafa who are there because they were told to go there, most of them. And so we've been very clear that it would be a mistake. To move into Rafah with any type of military operation?

Well, they moved into Rafah, and that's where all the hostages are. And they move people out through corridors, and she studied the maps. You only need one map, one area, to study the maps. You know, Kamala Harris, every time she opens her mouth on a complicated subject, She she tries to make it simple. By Sounding like with a sense of certainty.

But in fact, what she does is reveal how little she knows, how little she understands. And you get the sense that she's just. spewing out sort of preprogrammed ideas like that people will be able to grab on without understanding the facts, the the nuance of what you're saying. As you say, what maps I mean the the tunnel maps If you really looked at the tunnel maps, then you would know why Israel had to go into Rafah. Don't forget, Rafah was not the beginning.

The north of Gaza was the beginning. Yes, people, civilians went south, but so did the terrorists, and so did the hostages. That's why the ones that were executed the other day were all in Rafah. That's because they didn't start in Rafah. They probably started in the north and were moved secretly throughout the war.

I mean, the idea, the United States. has helped Israel in some important ways with military supplies, et cetera. But in terms of its efforts to bring this war to an end, the United States has actually been an impediment. Um Had Israel been able to finish Gaza, finish Hamas months ago, this would be over. We'd be talking about rebuilding a new kind of government.

Instead, it's still Day by day, like the tunnel rats having to go in and find out what's going on and who's there. I mean, it is. It's so stupid of what Joe Biden is doing. He he really is responsible for this endless continuation of this drip, drip, drip. I I wish I could push back, but I can't.

Michael, what's your next column on? Uh this I thought so. And we'll see what happens. We got a debate in eight days. We have a town hall in two days with Sean Hannity.

And then it's going to be what Kamala Harris will offer up after that debate. Because after the first interview, it was so scripted, so stilted, she was so nervous. I don't I don't think I don't think they're going to give another. They just want they want to do another Hiding in the Basement campaign. Do you have any feeling any do you feel differently?

No, look. Why should they, right? There's no clamor from their friends in the media. Washington Post says she should. Yeah, well, uh who?

One columnist? Yeah, look, I I think that look, they'll They'll do it, Brian, in a way that kind of meets the definition of doing it, right, having interviews, but it'll be so limited in such a way that it'll take the steam out of the issue without really doing a real interview and being challenged on her positions. I mean, Dana Bash asked a couple of good questions, but basically, she tried to do too many things. I as you and I have talked about, keep it tight. Do three or four main topics.

Those are the things that the public cares about. Go after the economy. What would you do? What role have you played? What would you do next?

What's your plan to change the trajectory of inflation to create a more level playing field for the working class in terms of job opportunities, not in terms of government handouts? You know, what would you do to stop the border infiltration? It's still not fixed. Don't pretend it's fixed. And then finally, give us your whole plan on the Mideast.

What do you think about that? What do you think about Russia? I mean, you there used to be a foreign policy debate. every year. Remember, that was one of the three debates of the Presidential Commission.

Now it's like four percent of the people ranks foreign policy as first. Yes, that's until the bombs start to fall, then suddenly it becomes number one. Michael Goodwin, thanks so much. New York Post. M.

Goodwin underscore NY Post. Thanks, Michael. My pleasure, Brian. David Bonson in ten minutes, we talk about the economy and we'll talk about the reality. There's going to be a rate cut.

Is that going to help boost the economy of Joe Biden, which would be Kamala Harris, or not? We'll discuss that and more. Brian Kilmeet Show. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Me Show.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. You know, I mean, fracking. I mean, Dana Bash had her dead to rights. I was like, you said this.

I have the quote. I'm reading it to you. You said there should be a ban on fracking. Why can't they just go, yeah, you know what? I got it wrong.

I was talking to the wrong people. You know, she's had this ridiculously high turnover. Like, 42 of 47 people as vice in her vice president are gone. Just blame it on them. You know why these are gone?

Gave me the wrong information on fracking. Yeah, I know what he's saying. He's being funny, but it was all her opinions were before she was vice president, and she never really backed off of it. Evidently, there's a big rush now to spend all that money from the Inflation Reduction Act that they told us and laughed about the fact it never addressed inflation and all on green energy products. They're worried about spending the $400 million quickly because if Trump wins, he's not going to do it.

So there's a big rush there. It's just such a joke. They know if they ban fracking, they lose Pennsylvania. That's the only reason she's not for it. She has no idea about energy.

No one ever claims that you have to be an expert on everything, but you should be competent on things like energy for America, especially if you're going to say you're going to try to green everything by a certain ridiculous date, and it affects the car industry too. Quick note, I got to welcome in a brand new station to our family of affiliates. Welcome to everyone in Fairmount, North Carolina, WFMO AM860. You're going to be hearing us two of the three hours. It's great.

So we have a new affiliate. It's an important time, a great time to be joining us right after Labor Day, the sprint towards election day, and then beyond, because we're even better without an election. More insightful with more variety of guests. It's hard to get much off what we're doing with the election because that seems to be where everybody's passion is. Lastly.

And I'll expand on this. George Cooney came out over the weekend and said that when he was trying to promote his movie, so I got to stop for a second. He took a question about the letter that he wrote to get rid of Joe Biden. He says, not to get rid of Joe Biden. He is George Washington.

He did a selfless act like George Washington by stepping aside and not running for re-election. He was kicked aside, kicked to the curb, and stabbed in the back and the front. He said, The only way I do not run for election is if God Almighty comes down, but instead, Nancy Pelosi and Clooney came down and Barack Obama behind the scenes. And before you compare him to George Washington, I look this up. When Washington was asked to run for a third term, he said Prudence on my part must arrest any attempt of the well meant but mistaken views of my friends to introduce me again into the Chairman of Government.

He said, I will not run.

Okay? That's a lot different. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. 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.

So that is the reason why she hasn't done all these great things and created the opportunity economy, which I don't know what that means, but it's always curious why she hasn't done it already because they had to recover. What's the truth? Let's bring in David Bonson, the Bonson Group CEO and founder and managing partner and author of Full Time Work and the Meaning of Life. David, your reaction to her definition of why she hasn't done these innovative things. Whatever they are.

Well, that's the thing is, I think she hasn't defined what an opportunity economy is. And if she did, it would be a very different definition than we have in the American experiment. What it means to have an aspirational society is not to tell grocery stores what they can charge. It is not to give people money to buy a home. We tried all that once, it created a financial crisis.

It is also not to block an ally nation company from buying another U.S. company. All of her economic ideas that she's come out with so far, which are very few, it's only a lot of-yes. It's only about three or four things she's come out with, and all of them are against the opportunity economy. Why would she do that and expose her beliefs?

Because she's done such a good job masking them. Why did she choose those to come out? I think it's because the stuff that is more severe, the Medicare for All, the New Green Deal, banning fracking, those were major policy platforms in 2020. She knows that they're all losers politically.

Now she's taking a couple of things. It's ironic because I'm mostly a really big supporter of a lot of President Trump's economic platform from his first term, tax cuts and deregulation and pro-energy. The only things she's really come out with are ripping off his stuff, which happens to be the few things I disagree with. You know, this U.S. deal, U.S.

deal, no tax on tips, you know, that kind of stuff. Right. And the other thing that he brought up is IVF. Maybe we'll get insurance to pay for it. Which she wouldn't even go that far.

She will. I guarantee you within two weeks, I guess she's had attribution. She hasn't done it yet. There's a negative to that. The negative is it's going to cost billions of dollars, right?

Yeah, $40,000 per incident. That's more than just the economics. It's not only we can't afford it, it's just overtly against. The conservative mantra to the extent people believe in that family decision-making idea, the notion that we would force insurance companies to pay for something. We sued Barack Obama when he did that.

I mean, it's just not, it's not our policy.

So, just in terms of what the economy was and what it is, under Trump, it started at, for example, gasoline was $2.06. It ended $2.07, a 0.50 increase, obviously. Under Biden-Harris, it's now on average up 49% from what they inherited. Hotel costs up 51% from what they inherited. Airline fees up 22%.

Under Biden-Harris, you have. As relates to groceries up twenty one percent, that probably hits home the most. These things matter.

Some experts on the outside say, wait, if there's a rate cut in a couple of weeks by the Fed, this is going to whitewash all that.

Well, a rate cut a quarter point, maybe they do a half a point. From right now, we're at five point quarters.

So the vast majority of the time, about ninety five percent of the time since two thousand eight, the interest rate has been zero percent. Zero. And now they went all the way up to five and a quarter to come back a quarter point isn't going to move the needle in the economy very much. And I think that they will be down by 1% by the end of the year, and then they'll be down by 2% by the end of next year.

So let's say you end up with about a 3% Fed funds rate. That's a little bit more normal, a little bit more moderate. It's too tight and too high right now. It was way too low for way too many years.

So, you know, getting the Fed to try to be an apolitical actor that finds the right middle. Here, the problem to me is not politics, is that you're asking the Fed to set the price of money when I would rather loaners and borrowers set that price. Here's what she said about bionomics, because she does have to straddle the line. First, she praised it for two years. Last year, we put $40 million into it.

She put $40 million to advertise the success of Bionomics. It went negative.

So they don't know what to do with it except not say it. Then, when asked, listen. 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.

Well, you know, here's the problem, okay, I can't stand this idea that politicians create the jobs, politicians destroy the jobs. I believe bad policy hurts and good policy helps. But we are in a place where we have made a messianic view of political impact on the economy. Presidents get way too much credit, they get way too much blame, and that language of we created 800,000 jobs. She's wrong on the merit, and the numbers wrong, the numbers wrong, and just the idea that the politicians do it is wrong.

There's all kinds of other various factors that play into this stuff. But here's what they she would like to take credit for passing CHIPS Act.

Okay, um, so they did give Intel billions of dollars, Intel laid off 15,000 people. They're in trouble. They gave, uh, they are requiring any company that gets CHIPS Act to do all these DEI things, all these ESG things, to have daycare on site and have racial preferences. The whole thing is a big political mess. Has that seriously hurt this CHIPS Act significantly?

Significantly. A bunch of companies refused to take it. Been very uh uh discriminatory of when they are taking it. Texas Instruments is one. But the question is, why are you giving companies like NVIDIA and Intel with tens of billions of dollars in net income, corporate welfare, to to do things that they were going to be doing anyways?

It's outrageous. Would they be onshoring chips without incentives for the business? They had spent twenty billion dollars to build in Arizona and Ohio way before Chip Sacked. Way before.

So, is the CHIPS Act, do you think it's still a work in progress? I think they're going to still, yeah, there's still regulatory things they're going to do to try to tweak it and make it a little bit more efficacious. But again, when you start doing this corporate welfare stuff, Brian, this is what a conservative like me goes crazy. It avoids having to answer the question: why did they move those jobs there to begin with? A 35% corporate income rate.

Okay, well, she wants to take credit for jobs coming back. Ca jobs come back when capital comes back. A trillion and a half dollars came back when they did the corporate income tax cut that President Trump did. It went from 35 to 21. 35 to 21 and repatriated so many foreign profits that were already there that were allowed to come back, pay the tax holiday and then get that capital back in the United States.

So did we see because I know the pandemic hit soon after, did we see the onshoring that we thought we would see when you lengthened the Uh when you cut the rate. You you saw the onshoring of capital, which is what matters because the capital. Not necessarily companies. Yeah, but well, but you also saw a significant change in corporate strategy around it. You're right, the pandemic interrupted because it rethought the way people are doing supply chain related issues.

But the point is, no matter what anyone thinks about it, first of all, the issue with China's changed a lot and the number one real economic partner now is Mexico.

Okay, it's not going to be Ohio or Arizona, and so that has to do with just broader economic policy. But South Korea, Vietnam, Mexico, these are more efficacious trading partners. Which we believe or not, we can count on Vietnam. We've so far we can really count on South Korea. Yeah, if anyone wants to run on having no trade with allies in the United States, then they will create a Hoot Somali depression in the United States.

I understand that. And I would say a couple of things. I have heard. that it's not the we don't have the workers to make the chips here. And I heard it's not glorious work.

It may not be glorious work. It also doesn't require a ton of workers. It's very robotic, and there's an awful lot of technology and automation involved. But that's the number one thing. I tell the story thousands and thousands of times.

We can't get the workers that pass a drug test. We have a cultural problem: 3.3 million men between the ages of 25 and 35 that have left the workforce since the financial crisis. 3.3 million men. You talk about 2008? Since then.

We're not even talking about 60-year-olds, 55-year-olds. They talk about the boomers retiring. That's not what I'm referring to. That number is 14 million. 3.3 million men alone, 25 to 35 years old, out of the workforce.

How do they make a living? It's a big combination of different things. A lot more food stamps, a lot more bogus disability claims, a lot more transfer payments, and a lot more guys living at home. which is more depressing than you could imagine. And especially if you factor in the numbers that would be eligible to serve in the military.

That's right.

Well, fit enough to go in the military if they choose to do so or there was ever a draft. Do you think a lot of women want to marry guys in their thirties living in their mom's couch?

So they're not marriable. They're not employable. That feeds on itself and it becomes a cultural crisis. And Eric, can we have a cut of Matthew McConaughey living at home, Terry Bradjoe's the dad? Remember that was that failure to launch?

That was failure to launch. That was pretty good. I thought if Eric was at the top of this game, we would have had that. Ready to go. I did not think that you'd be using that reference.

But if he ultimately get the girl, Pete, do you know? Never saw it actually. You never saw Fay Don? I imagine we have to call Terry Bradshaw up when he's got to work, start working next week.

So. Oh, we got it. That's right.

We got to take a time. I'm listening to the music. Is that my signal, Eric? If we were on speaking terms, I got to get out. We have to do a samo cast with Stuart Varney in a moment.

David Bonson, thanks so much. He's with the Bonson group, knows everything, and is optimistic for America's future? Yes or no? Absolutely. Always.

Back and move with Stuart Varney. Then at the back end, I'll be able to take some calls, don't we?

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Yeah, and on the back end, I'll be able to take some of your calls. Just a quick note, too. I'll be in Peacekill, New York.

It's coming up quicker than you think. October 20th, go to BrianKilme.com for tickets, history, liberty, and laughs. Chance to talk about politics. Almost with the election, it'll be two weeks away. It'll be a lot of fun.

Always talk about history. And when George Cooney brings up George Washington, you realize and compares him to Joe Biden how much we need a real primer on what our first president did as compared to Joe Biden. That's a little bit. The other thing is the w the war on history, but for now let's listen into Stuart Boy. Hamas murdered six hostages over the weekend, including an American.

But President Biden puts pressure on Netanyahu as if it's his fault. To me, Israel is getting the blame and it should be Hamas. What say you? Of course. And what does it say?

If they do acquiesce and the ceasefire conditions get better for Hamas, by killing hostages, you get a better deal. Guess what, Stuart? They're going to kill more hostages. Imagine if the administration did not tell them not to go into Rafah six months ago, did not tell them how to implement this war from almost day one after October 7th, the attacks which started this whole operation to begin with. Can you imagine that?

It would be a much different story. The other thing to keep in mind, too, is that the president did make a speech and say, Netanyahu, I have a problem with the way you're conducting ceasefire talks. You know what he said? As walking arbitrarily down a rope line, when asked by a random reporter, do you think Netanyahu is doing enough? He said, no.

That's policy, but it rippled right into the tunnels of Gaza, and right away Hamas put out a statement saying essentially even America is against Netanyahu. And it helps get the fomente unrest that we're seeing right here in New York City, as well as the unrest in Tel Aviv. Students at Columbia University returned to class today, and as of right now, about 70 pro-Hamas protesters are outside the gates of the school. Students have got to walk through that to get to class. Brian, I've got to say something.

The anti-Semitism in New York City is a disgrace. I think you agree with me on this. I do. And you know what I look for? Who's going to step up and do something?

I don't know if it should be the speaker from Louisiana who did it last year. Or how about this guy named Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish politician in American history who represents New York? You go down there with a bullhorn. You tell those people how dare you discriminate against a religion. If you don't like policy, you're willing to do it in a peaceful way.

You put that Hamas flag. It should not even be allowed in this city. Yet it's everywhere. As Trey Yinks told me, these idiots are actually holding the Saudi flag. They don't even realize it.

And then you got the Palestinian movement, which they probably know nothing about. It's th this is about domestic politics, isn't it? The Democrats have to win Michigan and the Muslim voters of Michigan, so they appear to be anti-Israel. That's ridiculous. Right.

If you have to give up all your value, we know about subtleties and pushing certain things and not others. I get it. But when you talk about what it is like supporting our ally in time of war, that should be a bridge too far. And after a while, when you have this category which matters a lot to people called leadership, that figures into it. Doing the things you know are right, even if it's unpopular.

And believe me, there's a lot more people that don't have the bullhorns and don't have the posters and don't have the oak tag and aren't getting paid by outside companies that are going to work every day and are outraged by the anti-Semitism, are pro-Israel and understand what it's like to fight against an enemy that are such cowards they build tunnels and allow innocent people to take the blame and take the punishment. That's Hamas. You're dead right. Brian, thanks very much for joining us this morning. You're right on with this one.

Appreciate it. Jason Chaffett.

So, I mean, I think that pretty much goes without saying. But I was surprised. I thought that there are two things that are going to happen that might surprise you by November. I think Ukraine's going to come right back roaring to the headlines. And I think this will stay in and around the top story.

They like to sideline it. And when Israel is not in a hot war, for the most part, it fatigues people to talk about Middle East peace. The Abraham Accords was one of the biggest shots in the arm. But I also think it's worthy to bring up that the problem is not just here. It looks like London looks more like Pakistan, Islamabad.

I don't know what they've done in terms of their immigration, but they don't look like they're trying to embrace Winston Churchill. They look like they're trying to embrace, I don't know, Bin Laden and their Muslim mayor.

Now the UK is suspending dozens of weapons exports to Israel over concerns the arms could use to break international law. A little bit later on this hour, we'll put it back up, we'll put it online. I'm going to talk to John Spencer. He's head of a war college at West Point. He shows you how discerning The Israelis have been on the ground in Ukraine, excuse me, in Gaza, in the most difficult terrain there is to fight in.

More difficult than Fallujah, more difficult than Ramadan. It's even denser than that. Not only that, those people didn't dig tunnels. They were hiding in buildings. Not only do these people, these Hamas terrorists, live in tunnels that are well fortified, cemented in with blast doors, when they do pop up, it's in hospitals, mosques, and playgrounds, and schools.

So if you have to take out an enemy and they're in these places, think about that daunting task. And yet, when you pull your head up, you take your helmet off, and you decide to go on your phone and look at the headlines, it's all anti-IDF who are getting casualties at the same time. They're putting themselves in harm's way. Every single day.

So just a lot of people obviously out here today, people on both sides, very emotional. What do you think about the death of the six hostages though that were just found in Gaza? I mean it's it's terrible. I mean I don't believe that that we need to commit acts of violence. But you know the the Palestinians have been looking for peace in so many ways.

They haven't been. When they elected in the 90s, the Hamas, all they've done is increase power. I don't think they've had other elections, but now they've really run run by mobsters. And until You can get rid of the mob? You're never going to find out what the real people think because even if you have the courage to stand up and take on these thugs.

Which happens is you got a six-year-old. You have a grandmother, you have a mom. Anybody in your family that's susceptible, they will kill and torture.

So, it's really not about you unless you happen to be the only one on this world representing you and your family, and you might not have any friends that could be susceptible. But until you can get rid of the mob, you'll have no idea what the Palestinian people really want. Listen to Brian Kill Me Chow.

So glad you're here. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmee. Thank you so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmee Show.

This hour we're going to be joined by Target Smart CEO, Tom Bonnie. We'll talk about the real economy and what it's going to be like for this election. Also, a special thanks to a brand new affiliate joining our increasing number of affiliates, WFMO AM860 in Fairmont, North Carolina. Appreciate you being here. We have a lot to discuss.

We're following the Grand Campaign Trail and also the moving parts over in Israel. And Gaza, especially at the execution of six hostages over the weekend, at which time the President of the United States thought it would be a good idea to really blame Netanyahu for not coming forward and being more sincere, I guess, more aggressive in ceasefire negotiations in a war he did not start. Listen to this, cut six. Mr. President, if you took the time for Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue, do you think he's doing enough?

No. No. And with that, Hamas put out their statements. They got their support behind Joe Biden's statement. It helps foment the anti-Israeli unrest that's happening in the streets of New York City and the streets of Tel Aviv.

What is the reality on the ground in Gaza? We hear over and over again between the tunnels, the density of the population. And we hear the fact that Hamas hides in schools, hospitals, and playgrounds makes it, and mosques makes it almost impossible to go through and do what the IDF is doing: not kill civilians, kill Hamas fighters, dress like civilians, an almost impossible task. No one has to tell that to my next guest. He is John Spencer, Chairman of Urban Warfare Studies of the Modern War Institute at West Point.

John, welcome. Thanks for having me. Ben, I appreciate Noah your insight, not getting politics involved. Prime Minister of Israel has cited you a few times saying that their approach to this fight in Gaza has been putting Civilians first. Is that correct?

That's correct. Based on the history of all urban combat, Israel has done more has implemented more measures to prevent civilian harms than any other military. And that's despite all the false claims. Israel has Overwhelmingly done everything possible to prevent civilian harm, while Hamas. uses not just human shields, but is purposely trying to get as many of their population killed as possible.

What led you to that conclusion? based on researching all urban battles that came before this for over ten years and now three visits into Gaza with the idea since October 7th. What numbers do you go by? Because all we get is the Hamas numbers. From their from their communications or.

Yeah, I mean, I um there is no number. Um, even if we took the Hamas number and subtracted. Reasonable things such as the number of Hamas killed, the number of people that die of natural causes, the number of people that Hamas killed themselves. It still wouldn't paint the picture that everybody tries to say. It would still be a very low.

civilian to combatant because The IDF is killing Hamas, and they're broken as a military. but it still would be extremely low in this type of urban warfare.

So what numbers do you have? What are the casualty numbers? The Hamas Gaza Health Ministry reports over forty thousand civilians killed. But that includes every Hamas combatant to include those who died in Israel Okay. Committing their atrocities on October 7th.

It includes over ten thousand just missing personnel. It includes ones that die by Hamas rockets since twenty percent of the thirteen thousand they've launched at Israel have landed inside Gaza.

So of those numbers, 40,000 It's not true. Israel says they've killed up to 17,000 Hamas combatants.

So you'd have to, if we believe. Since the world runs with Hamas's numbers, we have to also believe Israel's numbers, and it still would be an extremely low civilian. death ratio in this type of contested Dense urban combat, like you were mentioning, with 400 miles of tunnels, I mean, bigger than the New York City metro. Hamas is hiding in their tunnels. while they put their civilians in the harm's way and won't let a single civilian in their tunnels.

So, I watched you brawl a little bit with Jim Schudo, who I don't think was prepared that you were going to keep your composure and have the numbers. I want you people at home to listen to this. He works for CNN. You're dismissing. You're dismissing what is not an outlier position.

As you know, General David Petraeus, who commanded US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, led the CIA, has criticized Israeli military operations. Peter Mansoor, who wrote the book on the the US surge in Iraq, has criticized Israeli operations.

So I should note that view of both the data and the conflict is not an outlier.

So I want to give you a chance to answer that question. Sure. been a mentor of mine has blurred both of my books. It has been critical as in the approach because he believes in this clear. Hold and build strategy that would have been really hard for Israel to do.

He isn't like Jim Giz saying that Israel has been disproportionate, indiscriminate, excessive, targeting civilians. He actually says, no, you have to destroy Hamas first. Junior Petraeus just has a, you know, has ideals of a different methodology, like more forces that can hold the ground that the IDF clear.

Now, Peter Mansoor, I I know the guy, uh he does some great work, wrote in o on October 16th for Israel basically not to go in. Don't make the mistakes of the United States there what Jim is trying to say that these two scholars say isn't That Israel has been overwhelmingly has killed too many civilians.

So it's a little bit of a bait and switch. John Spencer's with us now, Chairman of Urban Warfare Studies of the Modern War Institute at West Point.

So, John, when you went in there and you went on the ground at IDF, tell me what you learned that you couldn't have picked up if you just were reading numbers. Yeah. I learned what the especially when I visited like in February, kind of at the height of the operations in Conunis. And I toured the ground with the division commander, I learned even more than I could have with just the numbers on what the IDF are doing to protect civilians. like handing out their maps.

like using advanced technology that we don't even use to track The presence of any civilian based on their cell phone on or off and satellite and drone footage. And they won't even go into those areas until they've evacuated 90 plus percent of the civilians. Or they use facial recognition to, without firing a single shot, evacuate civilians and then pick up the Hamas terrorists trying to flee, like they have this whole time, running, flee within the civilians, and they'll just pick them up out of the crowd. I also learned that even the tunnel stuff, the numbers of the tunnels, like 400 miles, the sheer Amounts that every step you take, there's a tunnel underneath you. I couldn't have really felt that until I got I went in with the IDF.

They thought that they would bait the IDF into those tunnels. They put in these blast doors, I understand, and got ready for it, but they haven't done that. They've done the best they can to get them out of the tunnels. How have they done that?

So initially they took a very like find a tunnel, wait, clear it, and all the tunnels were booby-trapped. They did try to flood it, and it worked a little bit in the beginning where they flooded for over a week and the water would rise and flush the Hamas out.

Now, what they've done is just again using their advanced technologies, it's no longer Hamas's tunnel.

So the IDF will enter this tunnel at the same time they're attacking on the surface. And basically, simultaneously move through the tunnel before Hamas even knows they're there and basically surprise them even underground. How many Hamas fighters do you think roughly they've killed? They say roughly 17,000, but I think it would be higher than that. Because for me, there's combatants and non-combatants.

Non-combatants are protected, but a combatant could be anybody to include, like we've seen. Non-Hamas civilians holding hostages in their private homes. That means you're no longer a civilian, you're a combatant. Exactly. And that's where we did find those two hostages.

They did find those two hostages. They were just being held as basically manservants in one of these condos. I want you to hear this statement. This was done March this was a March statement. This was prior to going into Rafah.

The big talk was: you can't go into Rafah. But no. We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way. that any Major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake. Let me tell you something.

I have studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks to go. Okay. I know she studied the maps and that's intimidating, but would you be able to expound on that statement? Yeah, I mean I I so Absolutely, everybody, United States administration, everybody, I don't do politics, was saying the IGF can't go into Rafah.

Where are the hostages that were shot? Rafa. Did the IDF have a high civilian casualty rate when it went in? Absolutely not. They moved a million people into safer areas.

Wish there was a place. They built cities for them, everything. But that came at a cost that these hostages to include American citizens. We're being held in Rapa in tunnels, being tortured, and then shot, eventually shot in the head. Because the IDF was pressured not to even enter the area, even though they sh they demonstrated in con units and other locations that it was absolutely possible to move civilians and have a very low civilian casualty rate despite Hamas's tactics.

So it basically gave Hamas sanctuary in these areas like Barafa, where the IDF was told you can't go in. What do they find in Rafa in terms of the the Philadelphia passage there, that barrier? What do they find there in terms of the sophistications of the tunnels? I found a superhighway basically of over 100 tunnels to include ones you could drive two trucks through Simeon, you know, abreast through the tunnels. It was a full super highway for Hamas to receive all its rockets men, weapons, equipment for years.

Uh under the Egyptian Eyes actually, between this Egypt and Gaza border, they found all these tunnels, and now they're sealing them all so that Hamas will be truly cut off. Which is huge. And now they want. The IDF to abandon that. Do you think Netanyahu is right to not?

I mean, it's a tough call. I think it's absolutely any military, to include the U.S. military, who have had really struggled in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, anywhere, to actually cut the enemy off from its supplies.

So in this case, it is critical to have peace. in Gaza is to cut Hamas off from supplies to be able to remove Hamas as the governing power. Eventually, I think the idea and Israel can leave once they've sealed and found all the tunnels, which takes a lot of time and then created a new barrier wall and security framework to where it's completely sealed.

So Egypt had to know about this, John Spencer, am I right? I mean, I I wouldn't I don't know about Egypt's as in their government as most people just geography wise. I mean the distance from the Sinai to like Cairo, it's huge.

Somebody in Egypt absolutely knew whether it's the Bedouin tribes that benefit from this illicit. Funding of terrorism and helping that change, but absolutely, there's no way anybody in Egypt didn't know. Why did they decide not to hold after they took a city in Gaza? Why did they do do they just not have enough people? It's enough people or capability.

I mean, this is you Hamas. in Gaza can't be held in you know basically without context of A massive terror military has been attacking since October 8th and threatening to basically do an October 7th full invasion in the north. And the IDF is, I mean, it doesn't have a massive military even when it mobilizes the entire country. But it's also an enemy situation. If even the U.

S. military wouldn't have been able to hold Ground in Gaza without immense amounts of fighting dayly. until the security framework was brought to a point where you can actually hold ground and start building stability.

So, they really had no choice.

So, if you're in ceasefire talks, first off, before we do that. What weapon systems and what weapons have we held back that you think may have hurt the effort of the Israelis? I keep hearing about these huge bombs, the bunker busters. What do you what's the reality there? Yes.

I mean, we can only go on what's reported in open source, but the U. S. administration, again, without political, has said publicly that we were holding large diameter munitions. like the two thousand pound bomb that can penetrate the ground and actually get to Hamas. In their tunnels.

But I don't know the full list of all the things, but they've absolutely said yes, we're holding large diameter munitions, which also hurts Israel's ability to defend itself against Hezbollah in the north, who has hundreds of miles of tunnels as well. They have tunnels as well as rockets nestled into suburbs and cities. Lastly, John Spencer, what is left of the Hamas fighting force? Very little. I mean, it is broken as a military and forced into this guerrilla force.

And eventually, it may be an insurgency once a new power is put into place, but it's no longer a functioning military, it still has thousands. of fighters. And but as a military with command, with units that can do their assigned mission with rockets, I mean, the rockets were going from three thousand plus a day to zero a day.

So it's been broken, but it's still there. I want you to use one other question from Jim Shudeau. Let's listen. All right, it froze up. You can take issue with the Health Ministry of Gaza's.

Specific numbers, but as you know, the Biden administration, the Pentagon, has said that. Civilian death tolls in Gaza of many thousands, including many thousands of women and children, they found credible as well.

So you can't dismiss the The civilian casualties is entirely incredible. And I should note that CNN has fixtures on the ground there that witnesses the results of these strikes and sees the bodies. Your reaction? Yeah, one, I didn't want to say it to him there, I'll say it here. I mean, the idea of using fixers.

And to include CNN fixers who have been documented as taking part or of October seventh. And those fixers are local people that they pay to do things like Mysteriously, be at a place where civilians are going to die before they die, and then immediately air the numbers. Which has never been happening in war to know within minutes of how many civilians because, okay, well, who was that a civilian or was that a Hamas? John, John, can't thank you enough. Chairman of the Urban Warfare Studies of the Modern War Institute at West Point.

Thanks so much, John. Appreciate it. Thanks. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmeid.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. The press is really the biggest problem of all the fake news I call it. is the biggest problem of all. Because they immediately went from her being a joke, not qualified, She'll be terrible and she's the worst vice president in history too.

All of a sudden, she's wonderful. But she's not wonderful.

So we have a debate coming up. And I look forward to that. And she'll be exposed.

Well, I gotta see if she'll be exposed. She can. She does know how to ask questions. When you have a lawyer training, they have a certain way of doing things. I will be stunned if she excels in the debate.

She's gonna look just as land upstanding without any big errors and going to look by all accounts. NBC did the report over the weekend. Her goal is to get underneath Trump's skin. And that's why they wanted the mics up in between so she could turn around and sue her famous, I'm talking now, let me finish, or whatever she says to Mike Bence, whatever she said to Joe Biden and others to make her look tough. And as a woman, it's tougher just the way gender roles are made up still in our society in 2024.

But I think Trump's going, no, no, let's kill the mics. I'll let you finish. Take your two minutes. It should be very entertaining. And interesting, but he's got to be ready.

She's a lot sharper than Joe. Who y'all are? He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. And what is the sort of composite when you average them together?

Harris with a three-point advantage nationally over Donald Trump.

Now, if you're a Republican, what you can take Salas from here is this is not unfamiliar territory. For Donald Trump. Take a look here at the last two elections, 2020, 2016. The polling at this point coming out of Labor Day, beginning the fall rush in 2016, Hillary Clinton led on average by five points. Of course, Donald Trump won in 2016.

And Joe Biden had an even bigger lead on average Labor Day 2020. Donald Trump didn't win that election, but certainly in the Electoral College, he came this close to doing so on a.

So Trump has run from behind before, certainly. Right, and he looks like he's going to do it again, plus he under-polls, people say. And I don't think that now is any different. Harris seems to be more popular suddenly than Joe Biden, even though throughout her vice presidency she's always polled lower, which is why there was a push for other Democrats to push her out and maybe sell Joe Biden as somebody that could do it for two years. And we got this talented person behind him.

But now everything's reversed because I believe the media has gotten firmly behind her. 84% of all her stories are positive. 87% of all Trump stories are negative. How could that not play a role?

Well, joining us now to talk about this and more is Tom Bonnier. He's the CEO of Target Smart.

So, Tom, what is Target Smart? Target Smart's a data company, a political data company at our center. We work with campaigns and organizations. Really what we do is we build individual level voter data, build models and use that to help campaigns drive their strategy. Gotcha.

So right now, are you affiliated with either campaign?

So we work primarily with Democratic campaigns. Gotcha.

All right, so what could you tell me about trends right now in the battleground states? What first off should we look for? At this point, it's registration, not likely, correct? That's right.

I mean, generally, what we're looking at, you mentioned the polls, and obviously, we're all obsessed with the polls. I'm right there with everyone. But we also have to keep in mind, as you said, there's not a great track record of accuracy with the polls. I mean, back in twenty twenty two, we were told afterwards that the polls were actually quite good when they missed by about five points. And we know this race is a much closer race than that would suggest.

So what we look at is other trends. We look at voter registration data. We're looking at what people are actually doing, the actions they are taking. And so at this point, the big question that we've been looking at is how did this race change When Joe Biden stepped out And Vice President Harris stepped in. Are people responding with any level of excitement and enthusiasm?

We do know that Democrats were struggling this year and really over the earlier part of this cycle with a lack of excitement and enthusiasm. And we saw much more excitement and enthusiasm on the Republican side. What we've seen since then is just this big increase. in traditionally Democratic groups registering to vote since july twenty first when that switch over happened. A lot of younger voters who are frankly not very excited about this presidential race a month ago are registering to vote.

A lot of younger women And especially a lot of younger black and Latina women registering to vote. And this is, by the way, you mentioned the battlegrounds, it's happening in the battlegrounds that we've looked at so far, states like Michigan. Uh North Carolina, Wisconsin, Nevada. But it's also happening in Red States, blue states. It's kind of happening all over.

It's it's more of an organic movement that seems to be happening at this moment. Most of you say women and black women in particular. Yeah, especially younger black women, younger Hispanic women. Just registering at rates higher than we have seen, including what we saw. two years ago after the Dobbs decision, where we did see Again, at that point, a lot of more organic intensity and enthusiasm, where you had a lot of these same groups registering to vote at a high rate, presumably in reaction to that Supreme Court decision.

We're seeing numbers at this point that are actually exceeding those registration numbers from two years ago.

So you break it down. And so let's look at you said overall, up 175% black women voting in 13 states.

So in North Carolina in particular, what did you find? Yeah, North Carolina, it's one of those states where the electorate, you know, it's a pretty diverse electorate. significant African-American population. It's also a relatively young state. in terms of those uh those demographics.

And what you're seeing is similar to those national numbers you cited, meaning you're seeing almost a tripling when we look at younger black women registration, meaning We're saying in this case, under the age of thirty, we're seeing almost tripling. in registration rates compared to the same point in time four years ago. That's an important baseline here, given that we don't want to compare it to something that's outside of the presidential cycle. When we look at that same weak prior to the twenty twenty election, what you're seeing is almost triple the number of young black women registering to vote. Also young voters overall, it's a little bit over doubling from that previous a week from 2020.

So again, similar to the numbers we're seeing across that entire sample, we're seeing in North Carolina. And but you see rural votes going more for Republicans, you said winning bigger for but obviously rural means less than the dense areas. I know a lot of people from the Northeast seem to be relocating to North Carolina.

So let's go to Pennsylvania. You write voter registration among Republicans is four times higher than it is among Democrats. GOP voter registration surged in July with more than 21,000 Republicans. In contrast, only 5,000 Democrats.

So what do those numbers mean to you? Yes. Well, Pennsylvania is a state where you look at the last this is a trend that's been more than just the last few months. It's frankly been the last few years where you've seen Historically, Democrats built up a pretty substantial registration advantage in the state going back decades. And really, over the last few years, Republicans have been chipping into those gains by registering more voters.

And that's been a fairly consistent trend. Part of that is a little misleading. What we're seeing is younger voters are more likely to register as independents or unaffiliated voters, but it doesn't seem to impact how they're voting. They're still voting pretty heavily Democratic. But it's still certainly a trend that I think has been concerning for a lot of Democrats, given how important Pennsylvania is.

uh to both campaigns. Yeah, you you write also the number of Democrats registered to vote in this state has decreased by more than three hundred twenty thousand. When people talk about cleaning up the register uh their registration, has Pennsylvania done a good job on that? Has North Carolina done a good job on that? Yes, I mean, both those states have have done a pretty good job.

There are some states that I think are a little bit overzealous when they talk about cleaning up the registration rolls.

Sometimes, if someone has just gone two years without voting, they can be purged from the rolls. You know, both of those states have done a pretty good job. You know, and those numbers that you're citing, there's sort of a a few things that are happening. Part of that is people who are being removed from the roles because They don't no longer live in the state or they've died. In some cases, it's people switching parties.

In Pennsylvania, you've had it both ways, people switching from Dem to Republican and vice versa, but you have had more people switching from Democrat to Republican. than the opposite, especially when we think about Western Pennsylvania, some of these areas that were traditionally more solidly Democratic that have trended much more Republican in the last decade or so, or certainly since Trump's first election. We have Walt and Kamala Harris in Florida. Maybe they think suddenly they feel it might be in play. You said Florida has 1 million more Republicans registered to vote.

That wasn't the case a few years ago. 5.3 million active Republican voters in the state compared to 4.3 active Democrats. Why do you think the Democrats might see a glimmer of hope there?

Well, I think part of this has been a big turnout game. And frankly, Democrats haven't been able to get their vote out in Florida in recent elections. In twenty twenty two, obviously, it was more of a mixed bag where it wasn't that red wave election that I think a lot of people were predicting. But in Florida it was. We saw Ron DeSantis win easily.

the the Senate race wasn't close there. It wasn't like what was happening in the rest of the country. And the reason for that was Democrats stayed home.

So you're sort of have two things happening at the same time where the state politically has been trending more Republican, and Democrats haven't been able to get their vote out. That said, there is the abortion amendment on the ballot there that's qualified for the for the ballot. It'll be on the November ballot. And the track record, and granted, this is a short track record. We're talking about two years of precedent here, so it's not a huge precedent to draw from.

But when we've looked at the states that have had abortion amendments on the ballot, Kansas in 2022, Michigan, a handful of other states, what we've seen is Democratic-leaning voters have voted at much higher rates when you have that on the ballot.

So I think there's some level of optimism there that that ballot initiative is going to draw out a lot of voters who potentially will vote for the Harris-Walls. Ticket at the top of the ticket. That said, there'll be a lot of Republican voters, a lot of registered Republicans who will also be voting for that.

So it's not quite as cut and dry, but I think there is some source for hope for Democrats there that they'll get better turnout than they've been seeing in the last few elections. Tom Bony, lastly, how do you feel about personally, and what does Target Smart think about having ID to vote? It seems like the American people, the majority, want to have a voter ID to vote. Democrats don't want it. Republicans are desperate for it.

Where do you stand? Yeah, look, I think it's important that we protect the ballot and protect the vote, and I think that's something that all Americans agree on. I think where perhaps we diverge at times is where they make it too cumbersome, where people don't necessarily have ID and states aren't making it easy enough. I think it's important to make sure that everyone has access to the appropriate identification.

So they can go in and confidently vote, and we're knowing that the vote is protected.

So I think a lot of states are doing a good job with that.

Some states need to do a better job. Yeah, I just think it's very hard to function without an ID, period. Whether it's a plane, bus, you know, you want to buy you liquor, I don't know. I don't even know how you live life without ID. I can't get in my building without it.

But we'll see if that should be something I thought we'd all agree on. Tom Barney, thanks so much. Very interesting. Thank you. All right.

We're going to come back and wrap things up. Take some phone calls too. I also want to go over what the Kamala Harris's newsstand, what she's now taken from Trump. Not only is the taxes on tips, not only does she want to build the wall, she's got another thing she's taken from him. Uh Hear the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here.

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Right, Bill Moore just talking about that interview on CNN, which Is the only interview, and basically you had 16 minutes where they're talking, and the most intriguing line was: everybody knows I'm going to keep to my values. I change my mind on issues, but I keep to my values. What values are that?

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Now he can do a thing or two. I was a lifeguard on a river, and I learned how to read the currents, not just the ones on the surface. But also the ones deep underneath the water. I am about to start the biggest war of this century, and I'm not gonna fire a single shot. You're gonna blow up eight years of diplomacy.

Well, if you think that got their undeceived water, you just wait. What did the president know, and when did he know it? Mr. Gerbachov! Tear down this wall.

And talk about the relationship with Gorbachev, right guy at the right time. It earned $7.4 million Friday through Sunday with an estimated cumulative total of $9.2 million. Reagan hit fourth place with $1.4. Number one was Wolverine, 15.2. Alien, 9.3.

And it ends with us 7.4.

So, did anybody else, Pete, did you see any movie? Eric, did you see any movie? I haven't seen this, but I did see Deadpool and Wolverine. And it was a lot of fun. You check your brain at the door.

Don't try to look for a plot that makes sense. But this was a movie that fans have been waiting for ever since Ryan Reynolds did the first Deadpool movie. They've wanted Deadpool and him with Hugh Jackman and Wolverine, and it delivered on everything I think the fans wanted. It's a goal, but I just do think you're better off rooting for something else besides a movie outcome.

Next, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Darius Slay made it clear he's not looking forward to opening up the season in Brazil. Listen. I do not want to go to Brazil. You want to know why? They already told us not to leave the hotel.

They told us we can't do too much going on because the crime rate is crazy. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, NFL, why don't y'all want to send us somewhere with a crime rate this high? And like, we got the country.

So, you know, the first thing people think is like something terrible can possibly happen. I told my family do not come down there because I'm not going to be nowhere to be found. Really now would be in a hotel chilling, minding my business, playing my game after a long. On nine and a half hour flight.

So I don't have any intentions on doing nothing. I'm going to eat hotel food. I'm doing everything. But they said, yeah, man, it's going to be pretty crazy down there. You know, Holy said, they're going to be, you know, try to be the best they could possibly be, the top flight security.

I agree, it's a mess. Ever since Lula took over and they got rid of the guy that was Bolsonaro was trying to make things better there, but they'll play the Packers. It'll be in Brazil. It's a dictatorship, and now they just they just knocked out X. That's the next story.

Brazil is banned. Twitter, X. Top court judges uphold the block of Musk platform. They didn't even put a lawyer. Musk didn't fight, but he kept.

Uh he kept uh He kept his satellite company above.

So Starlink, so Starlink can continue to transport it, but they told everyone they don't like the Wild West. Element of, and they want to control everything there. The Chinese are all over this, so they're trying to knock out. X. And I'll tell you what, it's a bad sign.

They're arresting the head of Telegram. They're banning Twitter in Brazil. Look for other horrible countries to do the same thing. Brazil got great potential, terrible leadership.

Now this. Ugly scene. Matthew and Johnny Crudeau, heartbroken sisters, speaks out after the NHL stars and his brother were killed the day before a wedding. Katie shared a moving tribute to her big brothers. He was killed by a drunk driver.

They both were killed by the same drunk driver who was complaining that he had to spend the whole weekend in jail because of the holiday. Just unbelievably tragic on all sides. And that's a quick look at what's happening. And there is now, now that you do know more. More to know.

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