Would-be Trump assassin a convicted felon w/ history of unhinged behavior

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're here on this Tuesday show. Big hour coming your way. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, bottom of the hour. Bring us inside Texas in the big press conference yesterday about that Venezuelan gang harassing major cities and small towns. Of course, here illegally.

And at 20 minutes, and at some point this hour, we're going to have Hung Cow. He's running for the Senate position in Virginia. Cow's a Vietnamese immigrant who spent 25 years in the Navy, and he wants to represent Virginia and do what Glenn Young did and pull an upset.

So, before we get to that, we know that Governor DeSantis is having a press conference today about the investigation to the assassination. Until then, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Consumers are in enormous pressure.

So remember, we all came out of COVID with the consumers in the best balance sheets we had seen in our lifetimes. People went out and spent, they took vacations. We saw that. They spent a lot of money on their houses. They assumed that the economy was going to stay strong.

And so we're starting to see it in delinquencies and credit cards. Yep, all agreed. The key to victory this November: the economy. We know Trump's plan. Can Harris articulate hers succinctly, coherently?

Meanwhile, President Biden has attempted to cement his legacy on the economy, and that poses challenges, as you can imagine, for his VP. Number two: Americans need to understand that they have to take Trump both seriously and literally. We can't go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world. Oh, she is so bitter, tracking the trail. Trump to Michigan to talk economy, VP Harris to Pennsylvania.

Where she will talk without a script and she'll eventually give an interview. Hold on tight. Number one. The increased assets directed by President Biden were in place yesterday. These included the counter-sniper team elements.

counter-surveillance agents, and counter-unmanned aerial system elements. All right, there you go. That is the head of the acting director of the Secret Service. The assassination attempt. Number two, facts emerge about the gunman, a whacked-out loser who is a danger to those who know him.

Why didn't the Secret Service think guarding the perimeter of the golf course where the president would be less than 50 yards away from the fence worth their time? That's a bigger question. I'm not talking about the courage these guys had, the jump on the card, to shoot out the barrel of a gun. Why was he shooting? Why was the barrel popped out of the fence like that?

Even while now they said yesterday he wasn't in the sight line of the president.

Well, that's interesting because 24 hours before, he was in the sight line of the president. Cut one. The agent, who was visually sweeping the area of the six screen, saw the subject armed with what he perceived to be a rifle and immediately discharged his firearm. The subject who did not have line of sight to the former president fled the scene. He did not fire or get off any shots.

at our agents.

Well, I mean, that's interesting.

So he must have been around the bend if we're to believe that and the stretch we've been seeing hasn't is it accurate, which is possible. I mean, to me, it was five hundred yards away yesterday, and then in the afternoon they say, well, he wasn't in the sight line. Hmm. The Secret Service did not search the perimeter, and I find that bizarre. Why?

Because now it turns out that photographers who want to get a shot of the former and maybe future president as he was golfing would go to that spot and get ladders and take pictures over the top.

Now, if you sweep in the area, if you want to know if the golf course is secure, wouldn't you think that that would be an area you would go?

However, the bigger picture is. Two shots at the President, foreign president, in three months.

Now they're going to bulk up his security even more.

Now he's got more guys. President Biden called him up to his credit yesterday. He said, Glad you're okay. We're going to get you more help. I think make sure the vice president gets her help too.

Maybe take some from Jimmy Carter. He's in hospice care. I'm pretty sure he doesn't need maybe to be bulked up. To the point he has in years past. But who is this killer?

Ryan Wesley Ruth, the would-be assassin, smiling in court. Loves that he was hit with federal charges, it seems. I guess he's going to enjoy being in prison, perhaps. The cell phone records put the suspect in the area of the golf club at 2 a.m. One thirty in the afternoon is when he took his shot.

I mean, I don't care about the charges right now, but I think by saying he wasn't in the sight line and didn't shoot the gun doesn't really help prosecute the case. But if it's the truth, it's the truth. But everybody you talk to, I'm seeing interviews with the neighbors, the guy thought everybody thought he was unhinged. He went to Ukraine. He was obsessed with Ukraine.

He wanted to fight the Russians. Good.

So this guy had Chelsea Walsh, also in the Ukraine helping out, a nurse who had several encounters with Ruth and Kiev in 2022, said the threats of violence worried her so much that she conveyed her concerns to the Customs and Border Protection Officer in an hour-long interview when she landed at Washington Dulles Airport back in June of 2022. I don't know what you can do. But was anything done what was that interview like?

Now the gunmen also Was rejected. Because he wanted to fight in Ukraine. They thought he was too crazy to fight in Ukraine as bad as they need bodies. Um and plus, at 58 years old, I'm not sure what you can do in the battlefield.

So the New York Post says this Ruth was rejected as a whack job when he tried to volunteer for Ukraine. There are people like that who show up and are desperate to help and be important. And the American fighting for Ukraine told the Post that he was just one of those, just on the crazier side of things.

So there you go. He was a killer, an assassin. He hates Trump. He wrote in a ridiculous book that he put out calling on Iran to assassinate Trump. giving advice unsolicited To The current president about what to do.

So, what was Donald Trump's perspective on the attack? He spoke last night on X Spaces, Cut Seven. It was quite. Quite something. But it worked out well and Secret Service did an excellent job.

And they have the Man behind bars, and hopefully, he's going to be there for a long time. Dangerous person, very, very dangerous person. Yeah, I mean, this is what he thought when he heard it, cut eight. All of a sudden we heard shouts. Being fired in the air.

And I guess probably four or five. And it sounded like bullets, but what do I know about that? But Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets. And they grabbed me, and everybody just we got into the carts and we moved along pretty good. I was with an agent, and the agent did a fantastic job.

There was no question that we were off that course. I would have loved to have sank that last putt, but uh we decided, well, let's get out of here. Yeah, Steve Woodcoff, a businessman, big financer, I guess self-made multimillionaire, was with Trump at the time. This is what he saw, Cut fifteen. I got to see a man.

who was stoic, Courageous. cared about his friends' safety and l first before his own life. He was an inspiration to everybody who was around him yesterday. I wish the whole country could have witnessed what happened yesterday, because they would have seen a real leader. Um And that's what people said, too, with the last one.

The way he handles himself under pressure is great. I mean, Donald Trump, if he - the weaknesses come really when he's. Not doing anything. When he's busy, when he's under pressure, the guy does well. For the most part.

So I was amazed at the lack of Besides the White House, I think President Biden has said the right things. Vice President Harris has been relatively detached. But I was surprised that there was even any sense that we should dial it back a little. that maybe you should just relax a little. There was no sense of that.

That maybe I think Trump's going to get a little bit of a boost on as much as last time, but a little bit of a boost. I mean, listen to Hillary Clinton. Knowing that this assassination place Uh attempt took place. Cut twenty-two. You mentioned the press and sadly the press is still Not able to cover Trump the way that they should.

They careen from one outrage to the next. What was outrageous three days ago is no longer on the front pages, even though it threatens the physical safety of so many people, particularly as you point out, immigrants that he and Vance have decided to demonize. And I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.

So do you know what she's saying? The press is being too easy on Trump because they go from one issue to the next. I mean, you don't talk about his economy, you don't talk about his ratings, you don't talk about his foreign policy, you don't talk about the Abraham Accords, you don't talk about the Mueller report because it exonerated him from Russia collusion. You don't, you know, you don't talk about anything good. All you do is talk about negative, and that's not good enough for her.

I mean I am so, we dodged a huge bullet when she was not president. Can you imagine what she would have been like? Just an angry, bitter person. And before we go to break, and then I'll come back and take your questions. On your calls, just a quick thing on the economy.

They got a little bit of a problem right now. Joe Biden is out there trying to cement his legacy and make everyone think that he's done such a great job on the economy. You know, he has not done a great job. You know how much it's up. Prices are up 22%.

Interest rates are up 4% or 5%. You know about what's going on with our growth, overall growth. You know what's going on with our debt. Do you know, and it's fascinating. How much money is going to our debt on a daily basis?

Do you know the delinquency rate on credit cards is up to 9%, up 9% over the last 10 years? Do you know many don't see it? The the 0.25% basis drop will not affect any Of the interest rate that you might get on loans or any type of refinancing?

So, when you look at what's going on with the economy, and if you know it's the number one issue, you want to talk about it.

Well, Joe Biden's going out and there to talk about it. You know who he's hurting? The vice president. Because the vice president has to take credit for that economy and discredit if that's where the discredit lies. And by him talking about it, and she wants to avoid it, that's the issue.

So someone's got to talk to him about that. Here's what Gary Cohen said yesterday. About the state of the economy. As you know, he was a key financial advisor for the president, really, one of the co-authors of the tax reform, former head of Goldman Sachs, Cut31. Consumers are in enormous pressure.

So remember, we all came out of COVID with the consumers in the best balance sheets we had seen in our lifetimes. We put enormous amounts of stimulus into consumers' balance sheets. When the economy reopened, consumers did what we really know how to do well in the United States: not only spend what they have in their account, they use all the capacity on their credit cards. People went out and spent, they took vacations. We saw that.

They spent a lot of money on their houses. And they went out and got their credit cards fully charged up. They assumed that the economy was going to stay strong. They assumed that job growth was going to stay steady. They assumed that they would continue to be able to maintain that lifestyle.

We're starting to see softness in the economy, softness in the job market. We're seeing it's harder and harder to get a job. And so we're starting to see it in delinquencies in credit cards.

So that's key.

So when you said the balance sheets are high, you know what it means? Got a lot of money for COVID. It's opera stuff, hopefully honest on the up and up. And number two, you weren't really spending it. Where are you going to spend it?

So you sit there, maybe put it into your house. You had no construction, no crews, no contractors. And then little by little, as things started spinning back up, we started going back to work, started spending more. A lot of those jobs did not come back. A lot of the spending was not curbed.

And therefore, now we have people with the delinquency rate and credit cards now through the roof. And they're a little ticked off. And then they turn around and they find out that most of the money that we're paying in taxes is going towards interest on the debt that we put ourselves in because of the mammoth spending programs. To a degree, a lot of people spent Republicans and Democrats. But when you put trillions for the Inflation Reduction Act, when you do trillions for the infrastructure deal, when you do the rescue plan that we didn't need, you're talking about six, seven trillion dollars you put into the system.

Most of which go to these green jobs that nobody wants, into this technology that's been untested and is not affordable and is not desirable, whether it's with your cars. Or anything else.

So I'll come back. I'll take your calls: 1-866-408-7669. Right now, Ron DeSantis is speaking, speaking about the Trump assassination. A lot of people don't trust this investigation to be run at the federal level. It's sad but true.

DeSantis is one of them.

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I do think that we should take this opportunity. To call for a reduction in the ridiculous and inflammatory political rhetoric coming from too many corners of our politics. Look, we can disagree with one another, we can debate one another, but we cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and if he's elected it is going to be the end of American democracy.

Well, I mean, that is Vice President, nominee J.D. Vance, talking about the shooting, talking to President Trump about what happened on Sunday. It would be great if everyone would ratchet things down, but nothing's stopping, as you see. I played some things on the channel yesterday. Lester Holt said, Yeah, the president almost got shot, but look what's happening in Springfield, Ohio.

There's 21 bomb threats, all hoaxes into Springfield, Ohio. Why? Because of the pets and cats, the dogs and cats and that story. Unsubstantiated, yes. But now we find out if you look at some of these people in Springfield, they're saying they are taking the geese and chickens and eating them.

You know what the real story in Springfield is? It's not about the violence of the bomb threats. It's about adding 20,000 people to a town of 50,000. They don't speak French Creole. You need experts to get them.

You get people who are French Creole speakers to be able to teach these French Creole Haitians how to speak English. Their services are just not available. They don't know how to drive in America. Why would they? At 18 years old, you get a license.

You do not need in Ohio driver's instruction.

So people are running for their lives. It's accidents all the time. That one 21-year-old died a few months ago being run over by a Haitian immigrant.

So these people have temporary protective status. They choose to go where some jobs are open in Springfield. They over-show up, and now they've overwhelmed the town. But because I think J.D. Vance made a huge mistake by focusing on the dogs and cats and the rumors, whether they end up panning out to some degree, it's not prevalent enough where it's happening enough, where people are willing to go on the record and say.

Enough, so we lose the main story, and the other main story is what's happening in Aurora. Another main story, what's happening in Texas. This lethal Venezuelan gang is showing up here and extorting people, doing sex trafficking. This is another problem. You might say, well, things have slowed down at the border, but the criminals are already here with a great number, and they're already wreaking havoc in cities ill-equipped to handle it.

You know, there's going to be like a, they tell me that there's going to be basically a gang warfare in New York City, American gangs against Venezuelan gangs. Do you believe that? Alex, you're in Brooklyn. What's on your mind? Yes, about the gangs, I think we deport them.

We're going to have a big issue. I think we need to deport them, but we got to deal with a potential war in our country between the gangs. I agree with that. And obviously, the eating cats and dogs is the least significant issue of the migrant problem here. But I think even if it caused death threats to go to these schools in Ohio, Trump is allowed to say the truth.

And I disagree with J.D. Vance that the Dems are not allowed to say that Trump is a fascist. They're allowed to share their opinion. I'm allowed to say that Kamal Harris is a threat to democracy. And even if it causes something to happen, the truth is the truth.

The problem is when the media lies about Donald Trump and they say he is Um he said that he's gonna There's going to be a bl a bloodbath if he loses when he never said that. He was talking about the audio in the auto industry when they lie about Charlottesville. That incites hatred against President Trump for no reason. And therefore, I think it's fair to blame them when a maniac that hates President Trump because of their rhetoric in lying. Folllows through with an attempted assassination.

But the truth, we're allowed to say what we believe. Our opinion, well, now to say the truth, if it ends up, you know, causing something like this, then that's quite frankly too bad. How do you feel about fundraising off it, Alex? A Donald Trump fundraise raising off it? I think you should definitely do that because it shows that that, you know.

But Did that happen? It's 100% wrong. I hear you. Thanks so much. And plus, you're a deficit.

You got to get some down ballot racism supported, but you go out and do it. We'll see. This one crazy news cycle getting crazier by the day. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West next. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmead. I am officially declaring TDA. a foreign terrorist organization. We will bring the full weight of the government against the TDA by declaring TDA a foreign terrorist organization. Texas will use the courts to halt their operations.

use civil asset forfeiture to take their property. use enhanced criminal penalties to keep them in jail behind bars for longer periods of time. At this time I'm going to sign. that proclamation. Texas is aggressively going after these foreign terrorist organizations.

of T D A.

So that is uh Governor Abbott, yesterday in Texas, saying that this Venezuelan street gang, as brutal as there are on the planet, has infiltrated into our country, has hidden some Texas cities, certainly in Colorado, in about eight major cities. They've come to New York, where I'm at right now, and they're beyond brutal, and they are without remorse, without conscience. And they basically have torture houses. Who knows if they're set up here where they put you in and you don't get out? Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joins us now, Dallas County Republican Party Chair, American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director.

Colonel, that was a press conference that needed to be done. We need it really coming from Washington, however, don't we? Yeah, you need to come from Washington, but one of the things, and it's great to be with you, Brian, good job last night on Gut Fail. But we can take these actions here locally in our states. And yes, the revelation came out about two weeks ago by way of a story in the Daily Mail about Trendy Aragua being located right here in Dallas in the North Dallas community.

So the only thing that I don't like, and this is my military perspective, I don't like being reactive. I think you have to be proactive. You cannot allow these groups to get a foothold in your country. And, you know, again, this is why sealing the border is so important and not transporting these single military aged males, putting them on buses and sending them all across the country. We should have done a better job vetting these people.

And hopefully, we've got to play catch-up now, but hopefully we can be very serious about how we prosecute this terrorist organization, this gang.

So get this. I've heard from one of our reporters. that the reason why some of the illegal immigrants coming to the border have slowed down, one of the reasons is because the gang warfare is so bad, the shooting so horrific that they're having trouble even getting through Mexico. because of the lawless nature and the ineffectiveness of their central government, these gangs are these drug gangs are fighting each other in the streets, making it too dangerous even to walk up to our border. Yeah, it's the turf wars, and that's what we have to be concerned about allowing them to have a footprint here because what happens when the El Salvadoran MS-13 goes against the Trendi Aragua, who is Venezuelan, who goes against the Mexican drug cartels that we know are operating here freely in the state of Texas and also the United States of America.

And that's why one of the things that some people, Mark Cuban, is behind it, to bring a casino gambling into Dallas, that's a horrible idea. When you have all of this confluence of different criminal gangs that are operating within the state of Texas, you're just going to create another type of turf war.

Furthermore, you're going to exacerbate the situation of sex trafficking, which is something that this Venezuelan gang really highlights, the sex trafficking of girls and also women. Here's Steve McGraw. He's the Texas Department of Public Safety Director. Cut 38. It's not just at Houston, but around the state.

What we've seen is TDA members, what they'll do is they'll infiltrate areas by following migrants. That they exploited at the border, they continue to exploit, including the sexual trafficking of children. That's where it starts with.

Okay, then they quickly expand and multiply. And at that point in time, is when they engage in other criminal activities. And there is no I've said opportunistic before. There is no limit to what those criminal activities are. It's just all about profit.

In that regard. And once they have and sell and fully established in that regard, they threaten the other criminal gangs and more victims. And what do TDA members look like?

Well, they look like Americans, is what they look like. Plain and simple.

So we focus on the criminal activity. Yeah, I mean, they focused on the criminal activity. They got over 100 suspects from the TBA, those gangsters, were part of a massive migrant group that rushed the border. Remember that when all hell broke loose and they rushed in? 100 of them were from that gang.

So that's uh that was found out later. That was out in El Paso, but I would have to disagree with Mr. McBride because these guys, like MS-13, they're very identifiable by the tattoos that they have, a lot of these neck tattoos, some of them with these face tattoos. And so I think that that is something we should be alert to down at the border. And again, why are we allowing single military age males who, oh, by the way, Brian, we have more single military age male illegals in the United States of America than we have the entire active duty strength of our United States Army.

Why did we segregate, didn't we segregate them at the border? Why did we just allow them to get on buses? You saw those young military age males getting off of buses in New York City. We've seen it in other places. They should have never been allowed to go past our border.

They should have been repatriated back across. Yeah, I guess we'll have to see if people have some gumption. I don't see it with this administration. All we hear about Kamala Harris is, I'm the only one with experience prosecuting transnational gangs.

Well, you got one. What are you waiting for? We'll give them to you. Got the neck tattoos and the bulls jackets. That's how they seem to want to be identified.

So what they do want to do constantly, Colonel, is talk about how they almost passed the bipartisan bill, would have been the most conservative immigration reform in recent years, really, since Reagan did it and Reagan regretted it.

So that's going to be the constant refrain. I think Republicans have to push back and say, not I didn't want to do it, not that Trump didn't force me, but what didn't you like about it? Yeah, I don't know why we haven't heard that response. The fact that you are still going to be allowing 5,000 illegal immigrants a day.

So who is going to be at the borders, being the north border, northern border, or the southern border, counting noses and say, oh, you know, we just hit 5,000, we've got to stop for today. And then, of course, it continues back on the next day.

So multiply 5,000 times 365. What do you get? You still get millions of illegal immigrants coming to this country. It did nothing to protect these children. I think the Biden administration has lost hundreds of thousands of children.

And miners into the system. We don't know who they are, where they are. And of course, we have, you know, almost two million gotaways. I want to bring you to Ukraine. Do you believe that?

Do you believe that Joe Biden should lift the restrictions on the weapons that we're selling them, giving them? Also, can you comment on this? Western allies have been buying roughly $2 billion in fuel from Russia in the first half of 2024. What they do is they sell it to other people like Turkey at discount rates. Turkey refines it and sells it and makes a profit off it.

So, this whole thing, the first half of 2024, EU, U.S., U.K., and other Western allies bought about $2 billion worth of fuel from Russia. What do they do with it? They arm more soldiers, get more rockets, buy more drones from Iran, and they bomb the hell out of Ukraine. This is insanity. It is a sanity and and I was I'm stuck in traffic but I was listening to Stuart Barty.

And He just reported the trade with Iran under the Biden administration has gone up some 49, some odd percent. But if you want to end the the What's happening in Ukraine? Take your your boot off of our oil and gas. industry so that we can once again be a net exporter for our oil and gas resources. forces and you undermine Russia.

But what do you think you see you see people going out and buying Russia, which fuels their ability to do what they were doing. The Trump administration had Russia shut down. The Trump administration had Iran shut down. because we were energy independent we were selling our resources. Yeah.

Strong and credible military deterrent. All right, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Colonel, always great to talk to you. Lieutenant Colonel Alwin West.

All right, when we come back, another military man joins us, Hung Cao, a Virginia GOP Senate nominee, a Vietnamese immigrant who spent 25 years in the U.S. Navy. Don't move. Covering this election year like no other. It's Brian Kilmead.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hung Cow is right in the studio. If you're smart enough to get the stream, BrianKillmeeChill.com, or you go to our app and just click on watch and then just push over until you get out the Fox News Talk. Hung Cow is a Virginia GOP Senate candidate, and he is on the move in that state, which is, they keep saying it's purple, and Democrats keep saying, no, Glenn Young's success, that was an aberration.

Hung Cal, welcome back. Thank you so much for having me, Brian. All right, first off, good to see you in New York City. Number one, what brings you here?

Well, we just want to spend the day here just to meet with you and other newscasters just so we can tell the story of Virginia. Virginia is definitely one of those races to watch. Is outside, if you put the economy aside, which is number one in everyone's list. Is immigration next? Yes, it is.

Which towns have been affected most by illegal immigration? Almost all the towns. I mean, all the liberal towns are are feeling it because they're sanctuary cities, but also the rural towns that didn't vote for this. I mean, they're hurting because the sheriffs there are saying, hey, if I Even pull somebody over for a misdemeanor, I have to pay extra money to get a translator here, and I can't detain them. If ICE doesn't come within 48 hours, I have to let them go.

So it's hurting all the towns and in all the suburbs of Virginia. I mean, are these do you have some of these special dispensations that we're seeing with the Haitians, the Cubans, and the Venezuelans? Not yet, but we're definitely seeing a lot of MS-13 gangs in Fairfax County and Prince William County, and it's hurting. I mean, we had a grandmother named Melody Waldacher who was killed by a carjacker, an illegal alien, in the spring of this year. And then also a young lady down in Uh Chesapeake, she goes to Old Dominion University.

She was killed by an illegal alien who had been pulled over many times for driving without a license.

So that happens, too. When you come here, you can get a license, but there's no requirement for any driver training. What you're seeing in Springfield is a bunch of Haitians come over here. They have no idea of the roads, no idea of the signs. They don't speak the language.

But if you show up, you get a driver's license. It's just insane. Look, I came here as a refugee from Vietnam in 1975. You know, my family, we didn't get all these things. And not that we wanted it.

My parents were proud and they wanted to roll up their sleeves and work hard. And so my message to all illegal aliens is: if you want the American dream, you have to roll up your sleeves, work hard. You have to obey the American laws and embrace the American culture because I did. All right.

So when you look at Virginia right now, and you know that that's a big deal, when you look at the economy, very interesting because Joe Biden's saying the economy is great and he's campaigning on it, on his legacy. And yet the Vice President feels as though it's hurting her. What respect do you think that she might be right in this? Yeah, I mean, she's caught in this conundrum where she has to say she was part of the administration, but then, you know, obviously everybody knows the economy is failing. I mean, Tim Kaine, the person I'm running against, that's Hillary Clinton's running mate, used to say that, you know, Joey Biden has never disappointed him.

Like, really? Have you gone to the grocery store? Have you gone to the gas pumps lately? Because, you know, he's disappointed every Virginian here. Right.

So that is definitely an issue.

So when she's asked about the economy and what she's going to do, her answers are comically vacuous. She will do an interview today at the Black. Journalist conference, the same one where Trump was faced with a lot of combative questions from ABC reporters. Who would have thought? When she was asked this on Friday in Pennsylvania, I could not believe the answer.

Cut 25. When we talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people, what are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?

Well, I'll start with this. Um I grew up a middle class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn.

Some people have a question. Given maybe your current role as Vice President of the United States, how different you are from Joe Biden?

Well, I'm obviously not Joe Biden. And um You know, I I offer a new generation of leadership. What have you learned from that? I have no idea what she's talking about. If you give that type of answer, you would get laughed off the stage or an interview quite the follow-up would have been horrific.

It would have been, what are you saying? Why don't you answer the question? Yeah, exactly. I mean, everybody knows. Let's be energy independent first and foremost.

And let's stop paying a billion dollars a day for illegal immigrants in this country and to house and feed them. We have 80,000 homeless veterans in the United States. And also with that money, half a trillion dollars a year, you can actually pour it into Social Security and help fix Social Security. But they don't want to do that.

Well, they bait you into talking about Social Security because if you want to cut Social Security, seniors will never vote for you. But Social Security has to be addressed. Everybody knows it. They know it. It's only got like three years left of solvency.

It used to be 2035, and now it's like 2028 because they're giving Social Security and Medicare to everyone, to illegal aliens who did not pay a single dime into this. My mom is a recipient of Social Security after 50 years of being in this country, you know, and she needs that, and they're taking that away from her and giving it to illegal aliens. Yeah, I mean, her answer, too, when it comes to how is she different from Joe Biden, Cut 27. My approach is about New ideas, new policies that are directed at the current moment. And also, to be very honest with you, My focus is very much in what we need to do over the next 10, 20 years.

To Catch up to the 21st century around again capacity but also challenges. What do you say to that? No, you're absolutely right, Brian. I mean, this is crazy. Look, the same people that got us into this mess are saying, hey, give us a few more years, we'll get you out.

And it's you know, I don't think the American people are buying this. Right.

In Virginia, very military-oriented community, very patriotic. That's what it's labeled as. And The one thing we see now when there's a draft or we're at war, it will definitely affect you guys, your industry as well as your personnel. When you look at what's happening in Ukraine right now, people saying that Joe Biden should just allow Zelensky to use the weapons without restrictions, where do you stand?

Well, I mean, you it it's just with everything else too. I I want to know for for me What is the desired end state? What does victory look like? And they can never. Tell us what that is.

You can't just keep paying and sending blank checks to Ukraine, especially when some of that blank check is actually paying for their government pension plans.

So, again, our social security here is going defunct, and yet we're paying for their social security.

So, the first and foremost is what is the desired end state? And, second of all, if you know, if you're going to send weapons to them, don't. Don't tell them what they can or can't do with it. Right, I mean, you know, you tell me you have to suck an egg, but don't tell me how to suck the egg. You know, that's that's the thing.

Like, Joe Biden's not some master tactician. your reaction to the President's assassination attempt on Sunday. You have a military guy, twenty five years, Secret Service, did some things well, but not guarding the perimeter on a golf course with the former President who's already been targeted, that they could have got within fifty yards of him had he they just waited for him to come around to the next hole. It just breaks my heart because so in Special Operations we had to support Secret Service for many years because the Secret Service is so small. And so I did bomb threats and swept for bombs for the former Presidents all the way back to Bush and Obama.

And that's what we had to do. I'm kind of disappointed how they're dealing with these threat assessments. Do you think they were better than this? Back then, I I believe we were. I mean, I I helped set up one of the uh the Visits to Senegal with President Bush.

I was one of the first people there because I'd spent my youth in Africa and I speak fluent French.

So they're like, okay, we're grabbing you and we're taking you around to look at all the hospitals, all the counter sniper points, and everything else. And seeing what they're doing then and looking now at obvious holes in the security, I can't believe that we allowed this to happen the second time.

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Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kill Me Show. We come to you from 48 and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. We know already oppressor from Governor DeSantis. He's doing his own investigation in Florida of the assassination attempt on President Trump. He wants to be the next president, former president.

Now it's time to give him the type of Secret Service that a current president has. And I think Joe Biden's on board with that. Scott Bessett will be with us this hour, CEO and Chief Investment Officer for the Keysquare Group, and might be the next Treasury Secretary if Trump wins. Then we'll do a Samuel Caston Varney Company, Andy McCarthy standing by to go over all legal aspects of what we're first discussing with the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Consumers are under enormous pressure.

So remember, we all came out of COVID with the consumers in the best balance sheets we had seen in our lifetimes. People went out and spent, they took vacations. We saw that. They spent a lot of money on their houses. They assumed that the economy was going to stay strong.

And so we're starting to see it in delinquencies and credit cards. All agree. The key to victory in this November is the economy. We know Trump's plan. Can Harris articulate hers succinctly and coherently?

Meanwhile, Biden's attempt to cement his legacy on the economy poses quite a challenge for his VP. Number two: Americans need to understand that they have to take Trump both seriously and literally. We can't go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world. Wow, she is so bitter tracking the trail. By the way, we've ever found out why Hillary Clinton just got fined for launching the Russia investigation in the dossier, which she paid for.

But I digress. Tracking the trail. Trump to Michigan to talk economy. VP Harris to Pennsylvania, where she'll talk without a script. Hold on tight.

Number one. The increased assets directed by President Biden were in place yesterday. These included the counter-sniper team elements, counter-surveillance agents, and counter-unmanned aerial system elements. Yup, assassination attempt. Number two, facts emerge about the gunman, a whacked-out loser who was a danger to those who knew him.

Why didn't the Secret Service think guarding the perimeter of the golf course where the president would be less than 50 yards from the street, from the fence, was worth their time? It seems to me that would be a worthy question. Andy McCarthy joins us now, Fox News contributor, also best-selling author. Great to see you, Andy. Brian, great to be with you.

So, what do we know? I mean, they charged this would-be assassin on gun charges. It's just the beginning, right, to hold him.

Well, I think there's two things going on. You're right, it's just the beginning. This is, it's not an indictment, it's a complaint. And just so. people understand the difference.

Um when somebody is arrested Uh and The police want that person to be held. What they usually do in federal court is file what's known as a criminal complaint, which is mainly just an affidavit. Usually, from an FBI agent, that lays out the probable cause for a couple of crimes and gives the court a basis to either set bail or detain the person. And in the meantime, the prosecutors are working on an indictment, which may or may not have those charges that are in the complaint, may have other charges. We'll have to see.

But in the meantime, this is one of those cases, Brian, where there's concurrent jurisdiction in. for the federal government and for the state government.

So Florida State Investigators and prosecutors are working this too. And I hope they go down the road. Um of At least exploring attempted murder charges because it seems to me that that's the simplest, most straightforward. Serious crime that's implicated in this situation. It's one they can bring, and I think that the feds would have a real.

Problem bringing. Hey, I could see him just saying, Well, I didn't shoot anybody. We had the Secret Service acting director say he wasn't in the line of fire. I was just hanging out there and just wanted to put my barrel through the fence. I was minding my own business.

He's facing a maximum 15-year prison sentence, maximum $250,000 fine on the firearms conviction and three-year supervised release. Possession of firearm with an obliterated serial number is a five-year prison sentence. But get this: this guy's a felon. He shouldn't have had a gun at all. How did he even get the gun?

Well, it goes to show uh, you can get guns. I mean, it uh obviously there's a lot of people on who have possession of guns who shouldn't have them. Uh this guy's got a very very checkered uh history as uh the reports are now showing Um But again, you know, you lay out the firearms charges. I think the feds rushed in and brought firearms charges because for two reasons. First, They want to control the case, so they want to be first in terms of filing charges.

Uh and second The firearm charges are ones that the federal government unquestionably has. jurisdiction over. But I don't regard this as a firearms case. I think it's an attempted assassination. And to all the people who were saying, how could it be an attempted murder when the gu guy never fired a shot?

That's not the legal test. The law is not sufficiently insane that it would make you go all the way up to the point of actually committing a violent act before you could arrest and charge somebody with attempt. The test in an attempt case is can you prove the person intended to do something harmful and took a substantial step. Toward doing it. It doesn't have to be the last step.

And if you have a guy who clearly wants to kill somebody, Who stakes out for twelve hours? Armed With all the things that you would need to take a long-range shot. In his possession, and they interrupt it, he still committed an attempt, even if he didn't actually fire a shot at Trump. And, Andy, a couple of things is emerging too in the Wall Street Journal today. This guy's would-be assassin is not a surprise to many.

People that knew him thought he was bizarre, thought he was crazy, thought he was dangerous. They have this woman, Chelsea Walsh, a nurse who had several encounters with Ruth over in Kyiv in 2022 when they were both over in Ukraine together. Get this: the threats of violence worried her so much when she got back to the United States, she conveyed her concerns to Customs and Border Patrol in an hour-long interview at Dulles Airport. Walsh told the officer during the interview, which took place after she returned to the U.S., that Ruth was among the most dangerous Americans she met during her month and a half at war in Ukraine.

Now, I have questions: who did she say that to? And if you speak for an hour in detail about what you saw, what does that empower them to do? If anything.

Well Yes, as I understand it, Brian, what they tried to do was farm it out to the locals, right?

So they had a case, the feds had a case open. I don't remember if it was Homeland Security or the FBI, but it was a federal agency. And then, as I understand it, They sent the lead out to the local Police Department And the guy could have been arrested if he was in possession of a firearm and he had a criminal record, which he did, he could certainly have been arrested for that. But you know, here's the problem. There are many more people who you need surveillance for, who could be a threat.

To either the United States or particular people in the United States, there are many more of them than they have resources to do surveillance on.

So, what frequently happens in these situations, and it's embarrassing, but it's just a fact: somebody does something terrible, or in this case, thank God, comes close to doing something terrible, but doesn't. And then we find out that the person was on The government's radar, usually the FBI's radar for some reason or other. But if they don't have a basis, what I usually say in these situations, if they don't have a basis to make an arrest, Um they can't hold somebody forever, but here it looks like they actually may have had a basis to Make an arrest.

So, on a different note, Donald Trump still, American First Legal is now suing the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg's office, for records of any communication related to the prosecution of Trump that resulted in these convictions between the prosecutors and the Biden-Harris campaign. They want to see communications between the DNC and other groups. America First filed a lawsuit on Monday morning. The organization is seeking documents and communication between Bragg's office and Biden White House and the Biden campaign and the Harris campaign. How successful would they be?

What would the next step be? Yeah, well I wouldn't hold my breath. waiting for tho them to produce those documents because generally speaking, if you have litigation, especially criminal litigation that is still ongoing, they have a lot of bases to Withhold cooperation. And the other thing that they would say, and it's important that people understand this, there's nothing illegal. about state prosecutors and federal prosecutors.

communicating with each other and cooperating with each other. Politically speaking, It would be explosive in this case because it would show, and I think there's a lot of other ways you can show this, but it would show that there was coordination between the Justice Department and The district attorney's office in the prosecution of Trump, but there's nothing illegal about it. And the only thing I'd add to that, Brian, is. Remember that Bragg's office here. Tried to enforce federal election law against Trump, which Bragg doesn't have any.

authority to do. If any other local prosecutor in America tried to do that, particularly if it was done in a Red District against a Democratic politician like a like maybe Hillary Clinton, who was actually fined by The FEC in connection with that campaign, the Justice Department would go nuts. They would be in federal court, they would be in state court trying to stop. The prosecutor from enforcing federal law. Here, they just let it go.

And to me, that's the biggest tell in terms of coordination between the feds and the state.

So, and lastly, Sean Combs was arrested in Manhattan overnight after a grand jury indictment. He knew he was going to be arrested. He is, as you know, everything's been upended in his career and his life because of sexual assault lawsuits, a federal investigation, which you know, arrested on Monday after a grand jury indicted him. The indictment was not authorized. The person who offered the indictment was not authorized to speak.

They're expected to speak today.

So, you got. A lawsuit got settled after he was accused of sexual assault in November of last year. Then, two more lawsuits in November 23rd. He stepped down in his position on the 28th, December 6th. A fourth lawsuit for sex trafficking and gang rape.

February 26th, sued and accused of sexual assault by a record producer. On the 25th of March, federal agents raid his many mansions in L.A. and Miami, looking for those tapes, surveillance tapes, and anything else they can find. How much trouble is this guy in?

Sounds like an awful lot of trouble. I th you know, the one thing as you were going through that catalog of stuff that occurred to me is You know, we heard a lot about non-disclosure agreements during Trump's trial. And they're a staple, as I've tried to explain to people, you know, notwithstanding the DA is trying to paint them into a pejorative way into something illegal, they're really a staple of civil litigation in the United States. And you often hear about cases getting settled with. Uh Nobody talks about what happened, right?

No one admitted fault. If there was a financial settlement, nobody says anything about it. The important thing in this context, Brian, is that those agreements. are completely ineffective against the criminal law. If you get subpoenaed, if you get brought into the grand jury, you may have an agreement that people can't speak publicly about what the underlying facts of the investigation are.

You can't prevent law enforcement and grand juries from digging into that.

So I think that those cases that you just Catalogue bear. Are probably very important to the criminal investigation, even if the press and others wouldn't have been able to pierce them. Right.

Do you have any time frame why they brought him to New York with everything? And any time frame where we're going to see him on trial? And what do you expect to that indictment will just read out on what the what the prosecution's claiming? It's going to, I'm sure, look devastating. And videos, I'm sure, are not going to be helpful.

So, do you have any idea of the timeline when he ends up in court?

So it sounds to me like we'll have to see what the charges look like, right? It sounds like it's going to be a very extensive indictment. He's a person of means, so he's going to have top flight defense lawyers who can tie things up for a while. Generally speaking, I think in a case like this, we'll have to see the charges, but you could expect several months of pretrial motions and the like, and I wouldn't expect to see a trial until Any earlier than the middle of next year, maybe? Wow, it's a lot of time not to be productive, and that's a lot of bills that are going to be piling up.

We'll see. Andy McCarthy, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian. All right.

Meanwhile, when we come back, some calls from you, one eight six six four oh eight seven six six nine. Then Scott Bessant, one of the nation's premier financial minds, will be with us in studio and talk about what the President Trump will be talking about today in Michigan with Sarah Huckabee Sanders what the message would be and why. Kamala Harris is nervous. Nervous that President Biden keeps talking. I'll explain.

Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Me Show. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Joe. Kamala Harris is losing black voters because they destroyed the economy.

She's losing Hispanic voters because she destroyed the border. And quite frankly, she's losing Jewish voters and a lot of ethnicities because of the terrible foreign policy. They want to throw out race as the reason, but the true reason is their policies are a disaster. Their rhetoric is dangerous, and their leadership is non-existent. This is why Donald Trump is still popular today.

In my opinion, it's why he's going to win this presidential election. But obviously, the story today is this is the reason why you have crazies from the left who are now attempting to assassinate him. That rhetoric is out of control. It is dangerous. And we're not going to be lectured to by Keith Boynkin or anybody else on the Democrat side of the aisle.

Clean up your own house before you come talk to us. And what they're doing now is not acknowledging President Trump and the rhetoric and let's ratchet it down. They're blaming him for getting shot.

So that's a new one from the first assassination attempt.

So not only are they making it normal, which is disturbing, they're putting it on the person that was shot. Yeah, we should blame, let's blame RFK for cracking down on the mob, right? You know, if you don't crack down on the mob, you wouldn't have got shot. Julie in Panama Beach, Florida. Hey, Julie.

Good morning, Brian. How are you doing this morning? Great. What's on your mind? Um, okay.

I just wanted to vent this morning. I am so tired of the media and the Hollywood elite and the athlete saying what they say, and people believe them. They don't do any research whatsoever. Who are you talking about? Taylor Swift?

Oh, all of them. Just, I mean, you you talk about the singer. What was it? The guy, um. Just the other day was talking about and then they showed his his beautiful mansion with the with the gate around his.

I can't think of it. John Legend? Was it John Legend? Yeah, John Legend. That was it.

That was it. Yeah, be nice to the Haitians. Open up your doors while he sits in a mansion thousands of miles away. It's it's hilarious, and I'm tired of the constant lies that are debunked. And they continue with the lies.

I mean, look at the debate, which was not a debate. It was a joke. But I you know, they it they say it over and over again and nobody calls them on it. I posted something the other day on Facebook. And somebody said I was just too emotional.

Well, you know what? I am emotional. I'm emotional about illegals coming across our country. I'm emotional about this woke culture. I am a retired educator of 33 years.

I see what's going on in these school systems. And it's bad and it's scary. Here's the thing, Julia. I think it's getting better. I think we're at a turning point.

The things that Trump talked about in 2016 that people thought were so unacceptable, they're afraid to let American people hear it now. They're afraid to talk about their green agenda. They're afraid to talk about DEI. They know it's a dead end. They're afraid to talk about getting rid of the combustion engine, getting rid of your gas cars, because they know it doesn't work.

The technology is not there. And those issues are not resonating with the American public. There's a lot more Julies out there than you think. When we come back, I'm going to be joined by Scott Besson. We're going to go inside the economy for real, don't we?

The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. When we talk about. Bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people. What are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?

Well, I'll start with this. I grew up a middle class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager.

I grew up in a community of hardworking people, you know, construction workers and nurses and teachers. I try to explain to some people who may not have had the same experience, you know, if But a lot of people will relate to this. You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn.

You know?

Okay. That is some great economic talk. That is so embarrassing. It's hard to put into words, and she's hard putting words together. Scott Bessant joins us now, CEO, Chief Investment Officer and founder of Keysquare Group, and was an adjunct professor in economics and economic history Over at Yale, a place I've heard of.

Scott, how do you feel about her economic policy having handled that question?

Well Brian, let's be clear, to use a phrase she likes, let's be clear that her childhood was in Montreal. When she was talking about her neighborhood, her mother is a college professor. When she talks about her mother buying her first home, it was in Canada.

So Canada is a great country. I don't know why Kamala Harris is embarrassed by her childhood there. I think we ought to talk about that. She acts like she was in Oakland. I know this is part of you.

This is not your world because you're in politics now. You're a key advisor of President Trump, might be Treasury Secretary if Trump wins. She grew up in Canada with a mom that's a cancer researcher at an elite hospital. She was born in an Oakland hospital, but grew up outside Berkeley. That's a huge difference.

Right.

And to the extent she's trying to frame her personal experience, her father was a tenured professor in economics. And so he never had to worry about being laid off. That When she talks about the economy, she has no experience. This is day number 1338, 1338 of the Biden-Harris administration. And they unleash the great inflation.

And I think what your listeners should know is that they refuse to accept responsibility. For it. And having studied the inflations, the great inflations of the 60s and the 70s, I can tell you it kept coming back. Because they kept repeating the same mistakes. And everything that I'm hearing from the limited amount, the ones hearing from the Harris camp, they want to do the same thing again.

They want to increase regulation. and goosey economy with a lot of demand side Stimulus. They want to keep spending and more regulation. That's how you get inflation. Right.

And we have a lot of tax cuts out there. The president's tax cut in 2018. They keep labeling it as a tax break for billionaires because Donald Trump is rich. It goes by the boards. In fact, Trump did not do a good job stopping this in the past.

J.D. Vance has an opportunity October 1st in the debate. What is the reality, as you know it, from the results of the 2018 tax cut? How did the middle class do? Middle class did great.

And the the bottom fifty percent of Americans did even better, especially the bottom twenty-five percent.

So, working people's wage gains were higher than managers, first time in 20 years. And more importantly, across the spectrum, black households saw a 6.5% real increase in wages. Latino households saw about a 5% increase.

So, working people did great. But, Brian, what's important, everyone did great. There were real wage gains for the bottom percent of earners, and the stock market can do great too. They're not mutually exclusive. I want you to hear what Gary Cohen.

You guys want to do Trump wants to do tariffs. He wants to bring manufacturing back. It's also a negotiation tactic. Gary Cohen, who had a lot to do with the 2018 tax reform, mysteriously, it didn't come up on Face the Nation, cut 34. The way tariffs are used effectively, and I support this, is when a country is producing a product substantially below where we can produce it in this country because they have a competitive advantage.

So in China, they do not pay for capital. Most of the companies are government or state-owned entities, so therefore their cost of capital is zero. They do not pay living wages to their employees, so therefore their cost of labor is substantially lower than us. They don't have environmental controls, so they can pollute all they want.

So their ability to produce a product is substantially different than that in the United States. China produces an electric vehicle, let's call it a $20,000 a car. We produce pretty decent electric vehicles, Ford and GM produce them, in the $30,000 a car range. It seems completely reasonable for me if the U.S. government wants to tariff, and they should tariff, the Chinese electric vehicle up to a price equal to, and I would say even higher than the U.S.

vehicle. My administration is doing that. We want to protect those jobs in America. But he says when we don't have the products or the material and we go to tariff them, we don't have the leverage because we don't make them ourselves. Yeah.

That But you know terr terrorists are And overall, There are three reasons for tariffs. One is to take in revenue. Two is to protect Industries, especially nascent industries, because the Chinese, as we've seen, have a very bad habit of flooding the zone. They're doing it for lithium right now. They're making it uneconomical for one of those rare earth minerals that you need for all this green stuff.

Exactly. They're doing it in EVs. They've done it on solar.

So and then the third. Is for leverage because everyone wants into the U.S. economy. And the threat of blocking that are making it very expensive. And I think that there is a very nuanced debate to be had here between free trade and fair trade.

And what has happened is we had a runaway freight train of free trade. And in that enthusiasm, we lost. We took our eye off the ball on fair trade. Right.

We love the products. We love the cheap products. We love the fact that more would technically go for a dollar, but in return, we lost all the ability to make stuff because you can't make furniture here. You can't do some basic things that we used to be able to do because you can't compete with other people. And if China says you have a problem with me, I'm going to go give it to Vietnam and have you buy it from Vietnam.

Yeah, exactly. Brian, I think it's important to differentiate too, and this is what we really learned when the supply chains closed down. China is not a reliable economic partner. They went into complete shutdown. And I think that we were very, it sounds perverse to say, we were very fortunate to have a trial run with China shutting down a lot of critical materials during COVID.

Like, you know, apparel, furniture is one thing, but a huge amount of the necessary ingredients for many of our pharmaceuticals. We have to start making those at home. Several things like lithium, several other rare earths that go into our defense industry, we have to start making those at home or with trusted allies. Right.

And by the way, that's another reason to protect Taiwan. They are a trusted ally. If we don't protect them, they get swallowed up. We lose the basic the chip supplier for our country, which I think is terrible. What I found out too from Nikki Haley last week is that Taiwan realized for sure that China was the threat it is today, and they reconfigured their economy.

They only get 10% of their material in trade with China. They've reconfigured it. They go to other places because they know they can't depend on them. I know we're a much bigger country and they're not even technically a country, but do you think that we could get our country mobilized to do that? In terms of getting off China.

Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure. But I think the way we have to do it is with an eye on efficiency and not with the CHIPS Act, the CHIPS Act thus far has been a double fail. The CHIPS Act was supposed to do two things. One was to spur the CHIPS industry to build out in this country, but the Biden administration views industrial policy also as social policy.

So there have been so many bells and whistles that have been. The DEI requirements. The DEI requirements. We are already struggling with being higher-cost producers than in Taiwan. When you put on all these extra DEI, environmental, ridiculous environmental requirements, other handouts and allocations, then it becomes impossible to compete.

What kind of success do they have right now with the CHIPS Act? How many, what are they making now? Intel doing anything? Very little. The Intel plant in Hawaii is, I mean, in Ohio, is delayed.

The Intel plant, the TSMC plant in Arizona, delayed. The money is not going out the door because they have so many specifications. The second half of the CHIPS Act is an export ban, and the export ban isn't working. China has created a strategic semiconductor reserve. China has upped their buying of chips 50% with the idea that one day we may cut them off.

We say that we are cutting them off from the machines that make chips, but they're in the market. They're the biggest buyer of secondhand machines in the world. We need to cut off the replacement prices. But again, the Biden administration has been ineffectual on this. Right.

People say Chips Act would a great example, but it's not effective. They're not able to implement their idea for a program because of their political correctness. Scott, always great to see you. A lot going on.

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. Hey, welcome back. We're going to be with Stuart Varney shortly. We're going to be talking about, believe it or not, not much about what is.

Uh not about you about what is going on. With the economy, even though President Trump is talking about it today, we're going to talk about those gangs in the press conference yesterday that we got a hold of in that we heard about with thanks to Governor Abbott, who's just on our TV show on America's Newsroom, right on the Fox News channel. And right after this, after we get done with Stewart, we'll take your calls. 10:51 Eastern Time. Brian Kilmead will miraculously appear on the screen on my right, and there he is.

Brian, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, he's announced a crackdown on this Venezuelan gang, Trendi Aragua. He's designated them as a foreign terrorist organization. That seems to me to be a big step in the future. If you define them as a foreign terrorist bunch, What does that do for law enforcement?

Well, I think it actually maybe allows you to work in coordination with the federal government and maybe use the federal government to provide intelligence and maybe some SWAT teams in order to round these up and identify them. Look, we know one person with experience prosecuting transnational gangs. She's going to be a big help because, according to reports, she's currently the Vice President of the United States. She could tap into some of that knowledge that she got as Attorney General and then help Governor Greg Abbott getting rid of the worst gangs in the world. MS-13 on top of that, still here.

We now have to worry about, do you know one of the reasons I understand there aren't more illegal immigrants streaming through our borders? Because of the wild gang fights going on in Mexico. They're literally killing each other in real time. That's how weak their central government is. But this gang is as bad as it gets.

They have safe houses where they torture people and torture their families until they get what they want. And all hell is going to break loose if they start setting up safe houses if they haven't. Yet, in America, for the sexual exploitation, sex trafficking is really what they traffic in. It's just outrageous. I'm going to change the headlines for a second, change the subject.

I want you to look at this headline. It's from the Wall Street Journal. It's from the editorial board of the journal. The gangs of New York, as a corruption probe swirls around Mayor Eric Adams' administration, two former firefighter chiefs are charged with taking bribes. Seems to me, Brian, that New York City is in crisis on a variety of fronts with its crime, migrants, bankruptcy, and the scandal surrounding.

This city is in crisis. Underreported. I'm so glad you're doing this story. I know it's just one city. It happens to be the city we're in, but it is the number one city in the country in terms of per capita income and everything that it offers.

Number one tourist destination in this country, the number one country. And what's happening? The mayor is right now, they've took his phone about a year ago. I know they were looking at it. He's supposedly days away from indictment.

The commissioner has resigned. His brother has been arrested. The chief counsel on Saturday resigned because the mayor wouldn't listen to her when she said, You've got to get rid of her. Of your friends, one of which had another job on the side with a casino, never told anyone. The other one lied about their financial disclosures, including her home address.

So the investigation is just unearthing all this unseemly behavior little by little, and the worst is yet to come. I don't see how this mayor even survives. This is our third police commissioner in three years. The last one, Keechit Sewell, was a superstar. She must have seen something because out of nowhere she said, I quit.

See ya. Amazing, isn't it? Just amazing. This city is in crisis. Brian, I'm trying to cut it short, but I've got a lot to do today.

We'll see you again real soon. Mr. Kilmead. All right, Stuart Varney bringing up the Gangs of New York, because I got to tell you, and I know we have WABC, a huge New York affiliate, but he was talking about two ex-chiefs, Anthony Scavino and Brian Cordodosco, conspired with a retired firefighter who is now in business to fast-track fire department building reviews in return for payments.

So these guys evidently raked in more than $190,000 for the scheme on top of their roughly $260,000 salary.

So that's not enough. Pretty good. And I'm being sarcastic. And then when you talk about what else has happened in this city, it is really nuts. I don't know.

We haven't had a mayor resign in the midterm since I think the 1950s. Before that was 1932, but that's what we could be looking at.

So, when you talk about things that have gone wrong here, look at this. We know about the DA's office, how corrupt they are. And how about the fact that Lisa Zornberg resigned? Because she went up to the mayor and said, listen, you've got to get rid of your friend Phil Banks and Tim Pearson and Winnie Greco. They lied on their financial disclosures.

I can't protect them anymore. They don't listen to me.

So it's either me or them. When they didn't go, because they were his friends, I don't know, they say friends, she said, I resign on Saturday. Pearson didn't disclose that she was working for the city and for resorts and World Casino. Can you imagine that? Working for a casino on the side and not telling your main employer full-time?

And in terms of Pearson, Pearson lied on the financial report, including the home address, as I mentioned.

So this is just the latest. He's got four in his inner circle under indictment, and he's got over 20 that are being looked at or on some type of investigation.

So that's pretty pathetic. Ryan, you're listening. You're in Rock. Auckland County, New York. What's on your mind, Ryan?

All right, Brian. Just before I get to the inflation, I just want to say something that before Trump ran for President, he had a great security team around him, and I think he should bring those guys in to help him out with the Secret Service. I would not be waiting around for the government to help protect me. Trump needs help now with the river. Yeah.

Keith Schuler is in a lot of his books. He's a guy you can trust, but I mean, they aren't as well-trained as the Secret Service. You know what, Ryan? The guys close to Trump. The ones that are with him every day, he loves those guys and they love him.

I just don't know what they're plotting and planning around them. I don't know what they're scheming out. I mean, we you are you in the poli are you in law enforcement?

Well I I knew guys who were in Trump's security team before he became president and before he ran. And these guys were excellent guys. These guys came from law enforcement. But let me just get to the inflation thing here. The inflation thing, us business owners out here, we are being creamed out here by inflation.

And not only us, but people who are everyday workers. They're basically what they're doing is telling us in small businesses, you know what, you're on your own. If you want to stay in business, you're going to have to take losses for the next year, the next two years, because the inflation is out of control. We cannot withstand that. When we start going out of business, people are going to be losing their jobs.

It's that simple. No, listen, I hear you.

So that's why just ask yourself how we got there. Don't just say we're coming out of the pandemic. They put $8 trillion of spending into the bloodstream for their agenda, not for us, for their green agenda, and laughed about it and said it was really never about the Inflation Reduction Act. That's a disqualifier. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

It's Brian Kill Mead. Hi, everyone.

Brian Killmee here. Final hour, top of the hour. I'll be going on outnumbered. I hope to see everybody there. And don't forget about One Nation coming up Saturday at 9 p.m.

And chance to see me at Peakskill, October 20th. We've got a great state show, History, Liberty, and Laughs, October 20th, Peakskill, New York. Go to BrianKilmey.com. This hour, we're going to be joined by Ned Ryan. But we're going to take a breath and go over the big stories taking place right now, talk about what's happening around the country, and of course, with the assassination, the second assassination attempt on President Trump.

So let's get started.

So, here, Is what we can know, what we now know. President Trump will make his first in-person remarks following the second attempt of his life. Last night he was on. Twitter Spaces or X Spaces and talked a little bit about it. I'll let you hear that in a second.

But just know this: everybody, this would-be assassin, this 58-year-old, is as dangerous as there is. Basically, if you were to draw up an AI version of a future assassin, this would be it. He wrote in his ridiculous book that it'd be great for, he called on Iran to assassinate President Trump, said he voted for him, a horrible person, and then he tried to get Vivek Brahmaswamy to stay in because he tweeted at him, and then tried to get Nikki Helly to stay in because he tweeted at her. And then he's all for the Democrats, giving Joe Biden advice, riding around, pulled over 100 times in North Carolina. At 1:30 in the morning, he decides to camp out outside the Mar-a-Lago golf course at the place he would eventually stick his gun barrel through the fence, waited for possibly President Trump to come around when he saw some people coming around the bend.

When word went out in the morning, I guess, that Trump was going to golf, but everybody knows Trump was going to golf on. A sunny day and a Sunday, know he's got a full week of campaigning and just had a full week. It makes total sense, even though it wasn't announced.

So, Trump goes out to golf. He's about 300 yards away. They say it wasn't a clear shot, but they took a shot at the gunman because he was spotted by the Secret Service. Most of that stuff is known. What bothers me most about the press conference yesterday, I love that the acting director was there.

I love that the sheriff and acting director at the same press conference. I love that the Florida cops actually tell you what they know instead of keep saying it's an ongoing investigation, which goes to show you they never had to tell us it was an ongoing investigation.

So, what you find out now is that they never had a clear shot, but they were 300 yards away. But they also admitted they didn't guard the perimeter. of the Part of the golf course that is right on the open street near a bus stop, where it turns out photographers say they go in order to get high and look down and see some pictures of the president or some video of the president playing golf.

So, if you could take pictures there, wouldn't that be a great place to shoot a president there? Obviously, this assailant thought that would be a great idea. Ronald Rowe. On what he did to increase assets after the first assassination last month, cut three. The increased assets directed by the President by President Biden were in place yesterday.

These included the counter-sniper team elements, counter-surveillance police, and counter-surveillance agents on the exterior. Counterassault teams partnered with local tactical assets from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. and counter unmanned aerial system elements.

Okay, so it means they had drones, unmanned aerial systems, right? I mean, you got to give Trump credit. He hears the shot goes on, they scurry him away in a high-powered golf cart that's armored, and they get rid of him, and he's calm. I talked to him on Sunday. He said, Brian, everything's good.

My guys were great. Secret Service was great. I appreciate them. But it doesn't mean their game plan was good. Steve Woodcoff noticed Trump's demeanor.

And he was pretty impressed. Cut sixteen. You knew immediately it was gunfire. It didn't sound like firecrackers. The Secret Service were exceptional.

They were on, they had the president secured. In my estimation, because I was five yards away from him, in my estimation, maybe after the first shot, certainly after the second shot.

So, by the time the fourth shot rang out, the president was on his way with that detail. It was as if they had practiced it 500 times before.

So, that's great. The guys, the men and women are courageous. I don't want to put anybody down, especially because I never trained as a secret service agent. But I am hostage to the experts that we use, and I have great respect for people like Chris Swecker, who was with us yesterday. Cut 20.

In this case, one alert, again, it was one alert Secret Service agent that did the right thing and took the shot. But if this is not a resource problem, he said they had all the resources they needed out there. I don't think it's a resource problem. They can reprogram resources from investigations over to protection because less than half of their budget is devoted towards protection. I think it's all about sort of catching up with today's methodologies that are much more proactive.

And he pointed that out, but he blamed it on lack of resources. That's a cop-out. He's an FBI, former FBI assistant director. Frank Loveridge is an actual USS Special Agent in charge. Cut 19.

You have a protective operations team that's going to be going out in advance. You have the detail and the shift that's with the president and other tactical teams as well. And you have a team behind you. And you move throughout the golf course as you proceed forward. There should have been a team in tandem on the right, a CSU team, that should have been moving with them to make sure there's nothing on the other side of that fence or in the shrubbery.

As well as that, he was there for 12 hours, according to the reports today. He may not have been in the shrubbery for 12 hours, but he was in the area. Why wasn't he detected by a team that was doing a sweep? Was there a sweep completed, and did they just miss him? I mean, put it this way, they say it's very hard to surveil a golf course.

Of course it would be. Just logic would tell you that. It goes, you know, it spans miles. Got it. But when there's an area right by a street by a bus stop, I would think that would be a top area.

And if you see guys on a ladder on a with taking pictures, you might think to yourself, that might be a guy without a ladder shooting a gun.

So he had a scope on an AK-47, which he never should have had, because this loser, this dangerous loser, this would-be assassin. Had already been convicted of a felony. He already was on a car chase, didn't give himself up, and was holed up in a house with a gun, then got arrested.

So, from there on in, he shouldn't get a gun, but obviously, he has no problem getting a gun. Also, he went over to Ukraine, wanted to volunteer. He was too crazy for the Ukrainians to use.

So, they sent him back here. He's back here, and he goes after the president. Obviously, deranged, obviously, he needs a lot of help. I have no interest in his future, but for the president to be shot at twice in three months, that's got to wear on you. And Joe Biden, to his credit, did call the former president, said, I'm going to give you more resources.

That's fine. But what they've done, and I'm not going to play the clip, I'll just tell you, what you're seeing now, Lester Holt indicated you'll do: acknowledge the president was shot and then blame him for the rhetoric. Not for the people that called him Hitler, not for the people that say democracy is over, we'll never have another election. It's Donald Trump's fault. And they point to Springfield, Springfield, which has been overrun by 20,000 Haitians.

No, that's not the story. It's that. J.D. Vance and the president said they're eating dogs and cats. Know what they're eating?

Geese and pigeons. Maybe cats, I don't know. But the real story is the 20,000 dumped there. The twenty thousand special temporary visa holders that went there because their country fell apart, Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti. Did we get a vote on that?

And why are you dumping in Springfield? Remember, 40 went to Martha's Vineyard. You guys had a coronary, a collective coronary. That's where tens of thousands, 200,000 live in the summer and about 25,000 live full-time. 40 landed in Martha's Vineyard.

You fell apart. You collapsed. You had to quickly get them out of there. You had no resources. You had to get them to a military base.

Can you imagine in a working class area like Springfield when 20,000 show up over the course of two years, overrun your schools, they don't know how to drive. They don't understand our roads. They can't read the language. What are we doing? And now you think the story is cats and dogs?

Yeah. The American people aren't looking at your ads. They're not waiting to find out how they feel by watching television and see what Kamala Harris's surrogates say. They understand what they're up against and they understand who's trying to watch their back. If Donald Trump didn't care about you, believe me, you know what he was doing on Sunday?

He would do that seven days a week, only he would do it in all of his golf courses, many of which are located around the world from Turkey to Scotland. All right?

So, this guy has lost money since he ran for president. Nobody else in the last 70 years has lost money from being president. They used to, not anymore.

So Those are the two major stories. But the jiu-jitsu on blaming Trump for being shot at is crazy. I know you're not going to buy into it, even if you're not going to vote for him.

So let's talk about the number one issue. Today, the president's going to be in Michigan, in Flint, Michigan. He's going to be doing an economic forum, taking some questions, being interviewed by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Brilliant, by the way, choreography. Sanders is smart, understands the president, understands the economy, will know how to push the buttons and know how to extract details in their answers.

President's also moving on to crypto exchange that he's going to be offering. He's wide open to this cryptocurrency. I don't know enough about it to talk coherently. Trump is smart enough to learn about it and be open to it. Interesting.

So one has no interest in it. The Biden-Harris administration, and then one is open to it and seems to have gotten some Silicon Valley votes in the process. Brian Kemp. on the reason why people will vote in Georgia For the former president, Cut 29. Frankly, y'all, Kamala Harris of 2020 wouldn't even recognize the Kamala Harris of today.

The truth is the vice president is just another politician saying whatever they have to to win an election. That is what's at stake. this November. And by the way, what she says doesn't even make any sense. She has people put things on her website, but when she talks, she makes no sense.

The economy in every single survey is what you care about most. What do you care about most? And when asked about the economy, I said I mean listen to some of these answers. And from her first solo interview. and how similar they are to her speeches and to the debate.

Cut twenty-one. I grew up a middle-class kid. I was raised as a middle-class kid. Focusing on, again, the aspirations and the dreams. I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people.

I was a career prosecutor for most of my career. I started my career as a prosecutor. Creating an opportunity economy where. It's about investing in areas that Really need a lot of work. I intend to create an opportunity economy.

Well, I'm obviously not Joe Biden. Clearly, I am not Joe Biden. That the vast majority of us as Americans have so much more in common than what separates us. We all have so much more in common than what separates us. Do you think she means a word what she says?

Most of them are platitudes and just without meaning and impact. We'll need about Trump. Build the wall. I'm going to fix the economy. I'm going to drill.

I know exactly what he's going to do. Even if he says it four straight times, I know what he's going to do. She talks about a middle-class child. She grew up in Canada. She wants to say she grew up in Oakland.

She was born in Oakland in a hospital. She lived in Berkeley. Then she moved to Canada when her parents divorced. Her mom was not indigent. She was a cancer researcher, usually pays pretty well.

I'm not saying that she had an easy childhood or a hard childhood. Please don't make it a common childhood or an oppressed childhood. Number three is: notice she doesn't talk about McDonald's much because there's no proof that she even worked there. One thing we know exactly what Trump did at every single time because he was mostly on television doing it. Let me give you the facts on the economy and why Trump wants to talk about it.

Number one, he leads by 10 when asked who's better on the economy. Economy under Biden-Harris, $372 billion below expected levels. Consumer debt saw a $3.15 trillion increase. Mortgage rate up from 3.4 to 6.2. Inflation hit a peak of 9.1.

It's a 2.1, but it's never come. Down overall prices are up 22 percent.

So these are the things that Trump should run on. Avoid bringing up cats and dogs, it doesn't matter, nobody cares. Nobody cares about that element. We care about the people of Springfield, how it relates to the temporary protective status of Haitians who have come into work, evidently some good people, but the money it costs the town, the city, the state, the government is all coming from us. Evidently, they get cash, they get a place to stay, they get something to eat, they get a stipend on top of that and free schooling.

Who wouldn't leave Haiti for that? I'd leave Haiti for that. The biggest single expense in our economy is the $3 billion a day we play in our debt. That's why all this stuff matters. What does Trump want to do with it?

I can answer it right away. He wants to do the best he can to get the Americans the money they need, let them keep the money they earn, while getting rid of the illegal immigrants here taking up our services. And let him do it the right way. By the way, the legal system when it comes to immigration, it's going pretty well. I mean, if you talk to somebody, even once they get married, if they marry someone from outside the country, they got to go through legal hurdles and there's proper vetting, maybe even too much vetting, to make sure they're not doing something just to become an American citizen.

By the way, the second biggest expense that we have is our military. Our military costs us $2 billion a day. We need a restructuring there, too, and I think Trump's going to do it. Tell me, you wouldn't feel better today. Knowing that Elon Musk is in charge of leaning out our government.

That's what he's going to do. He's going to be head of sensible spending in our government. Who doesn't who thinks that money is going to the right places efficiently? Who doesn't think there's redundancies that can be done?

Now the people that don't want that, or maybe people that are employed and are employed in the government and are afraid their jobs are going to dissipate. Jay in New Jersey. Hey, Jay. Hey, how are you? Good, which on your mind?

Hey.

So, I want to talk about the economy because I think a lot of numbers that the current administration have been putting out are lies, in my opinion.

So, that's what I want to talk about in credit card debt.

Well, if you look at well, let's look at the numbers of last month. I mean, August supposedly spending was up, but nobody talks about the credit card debt that's been circulating since basically the beginning of Joe Biden's presidency. I mean, you know, I was on vacation last month, and I ended up having to spend over $1,000 on a credit card that I didn't think I would have to pay. And a lot of people. are getting stuck with spending more money than they can afford, and then they don't realize it, and they have all these lingering debts.

If you look at the tax returns for the begin for in April, people I think was like 90% of people were using it for their credit card debt. It's something like that, I remember correctly. Uh listen. We were flush with cash. Uh we not only took care of that cash after the pandemic, we spent it to debt.

And then with the with the dollar you get doesn't go as far, it just made the pain even worse. And now they have somebody telling you over and over again that it's even better. And it gets you angry because it's as if they're so detached, they're telling you how to feel and blaming you for any problems. Ultimately, we are responsible for our own situation. But there's a philosophy out there that the government is not working for you.

It's working for their agenda. Whether it's DEI or it's the green economy, it's not your priority. You could be responsible. but not irresponsible to the people that put you in office. When we come back, we'll take a short break, open up to more phones.

Also, go over some other things that matter most to you, including what's happening with immigration in this country. This is the Brian Killmeat Show. Hear the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here. The Brian Kill Meet Show. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. I mean, those were the shots we heard. The other one never got a shot off. And he ran across the street and grabbed his car, hopped into his truck or car. And amazingly, a civilian In that area, I saw something and it looked very suspicious.

And in the car drove their car to the back of his Truck Of some kind. and took pictures of the license plate. Gave them. to the sheriff's office.

So President Trump recounting a second assassination attempt from his perspective, invaluable, for the first time last night in X Spaces. He'll be with Hannity tonight, Gutfeld on Wednesday.

So there we go. Uh the president United States Again, taking a shot at him, and he recounts how he got away with it. The one thing that comes to mind, I see this crazy guy, I mean, the utter definition of a future assassin walking around. I don't see him working ever. Oh, I know he wants to go to Ukraine.

He gets to go to the Ukraine? How does he do that? How does he afford to buy a gun? Evidently, there's reports that he voted in the North Carolina election. His residency is in.

He committed a felony. He's a convicted felon and there's a residency in Hawaii. How did he get arrested over 100 times in North Carolina? They said they kept pulling him over. One time he led, he didn't pull over, and he was holed up in his house with a gun.

Keeping police out. How does he get out? He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. Law enforcement checks also revealed that from 1997 to 2010, the subject had numerous felony charges for stolen goods.

I can also share with you that he was the subject of a previously closed 2019 tip. To the FBI where it was alleged he was a felon in possession of a firearm. In following up on the tip, The alleged complainant interviewed was interviewed and did not verify I repeat did not verify providing the initial information This is a little from Death Jeffrey Veltri yesterday, the FBI special agent in charge of the investigation into the second assassination of Trump. That's Ryan Wesley Ruth. This guy is the epitome.

This guy lived his whole life to be an assassin. I mean, he is a convicted felon, arrested over 100 times in North Carolina, goes over to Ukraine, was too crazy even to fight for the Ukrainians. They sent him back. People that were with him called them the most dangerous person they've ever been around. And then he shows up for 12 hours and sits outside the Trump golf course with a gun, with a rifle.

And with plates ready to take out the president. Sticks his barreled through the fence, and thankfully, a quick-thinking special secret service operator was able to shoot him out. He was able to try to get away, but a great citizen, a female, by the way, was able to take the picture of the car of the guy, and then they quickly brought her to the scene of the crime when they finally pulled him over. And she said, Yeah, that's the guy I saw wearing a bright pink shirt. Ned Ryan, American Majority CEO and founder and former presidential writer for President George W.

Bush, author of the new book, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism. Ned, welcome back. Your thoughts about this gunman. I have real questions, Brian. I have real questions about the Secret Service.

Why did they not sweep the perimeter? when they knew Trump was going to go out and golf and from reports that we hear they did not do that. And this guy was camped out for 12 hours. And I also know that Trump just came back from the West Coast. He had not been in West Palm Beach.

How did this guy know for 12 hours he should be camped out in that exact spot? With Trump coming back, I think relatively late that night and then deciding he was going to golf the next morning. I I have a lot of questions, Brian. I think the Secret Service needs to be reimagined. I think FBI, DOJ, a lot of things need to be reimagined.

And I'm very happy to hear that Governor DeSantis has declared I will be holding an independent investigation because I have to be honest, Brian, the FBI and the DOJ that have been targeting Trump for the last however many years, I'm not sure I really trust them to get to the bottom of this matter, to this issue. I think we have a shot of it with DeSantis. You know what's so interesting is that sheriff came out and held his press conference the day of the shooting. He didn't wait for the feds. He's like, here's what happened.

I'm going to let you know it. I thought to myself, this guy's going to get in trouble. I talked to him the next morning. He was just his forthright. And he says, no, this is the way I do it.

I don't care what anyone tells me. And that was so refreshing after Butler, right, Ned?

Well, the crazy part is bringing up Butler, Brian. This is the second time in just over 60 days, and we don't even have answers for the first one. We don't even know what went on in Butler, Pennsylvania, and just over six days later there's another attempt. I have to tell you, and I think I don't mean to be sensational at all. I'm not sure this will be the last attempt on Trump before November 5th because the corporate propagandists, Brian, I refuse to call the media.

I've been dealing with them. You've been dealing with them for longer. I've been dealing with them in a real way for the last almost decade. They have created an environment in which they've been calling Trump Hitler, his supporters Hitler. They've been calling them an existential threat to democracy.

And at some point, when you create that environment, Someone deranged is going to try and stop what they have been told is a significant threat to democracy. Maybe the corporate propagandists, instead of trying to gloss over this, should actually, there should be some culpability. For the environment that they have brought about, it'd be nice to have someone be responsible in the corporate propaganda, but I don't think they're going to do that. Here's the difference between Butler and now: do you know, the same breath they're saying it's uh the assassination step is terrible, we got to get to the bottom of it, they blame Trump for it. They're blaming Trump.

They go to quickly, they quickly say, Yeah, I mean, to go to Springfield, Ohio. They say, Wait a second. And I watched Peter Baker, who wrote some pretty good books. He sometimes does some fair reporting. They now read their articles in the New York Times out loud.

And I'm listening to Peter Baker. I'm going, as I'm coming up here, I just said, Let me look at this. Let me just read this. And as I'm listening to it, coming up to the radio show, he quickly says Trump's language has led to this moment and changed politics for the worse, and then starts talking about Springfield. Are you crazy?

The story is Mar-a Lago. They are crazy and they're deeply dishonest, Brian. I'm sorry. That's why I refuse to call them a free and honest press. They are corporate.

Propagandists, they are stenographers of the state. And the other thing that I would really like to see out of the left, and a lot of those in the corporate propaganda. If Trump is Hitler... Why are you sorry that Hitler isn't dead? Why don't you try to be intellectually coherent and instead of saying, well, they missed that, they didn't kill Hitler in their minds.

We're really sorry to see that.

Well, either Trump's Hitler or he's not. And if he's not Hitler, stop using that kind of rhetoric that is encouraging deranged people, now two in just over 60 days, to try and kill him.

So here's the thing. If you want to run against Trump, say I don't like what he's doing at the border. I don't like what he's doing with trade. I don't like the Abraham Courts. I don't like his approach to foreign policy.

I don't think he's strong enough with NATO.

Okay, vote for somebody else. But why are you making up he wants to be a dictator on the first day? That he is somebody that wants to take away Medicare. He wants to take away your Social Security. What do you take away IVF?

What are you talking about? The bloodbath statement. All this stuff is erroneous. And these are adults, many of which go to Ivory League schools. They know the difference.

Are they? No, I'm just Yeah. Their license says it. They're deep, dishonest. No, the reason I held the book up is because you're right.

Everything that we've seen take place since Donald Trump came on the national scene. It boils down to this, and I've told them this: it's about who decide. When Donald Trump showed up in January of 2017 in Washington, D.C. as the duly elected President of the United States. Essentially announced I'm the one who decides both foreign and domestic policy.

And administrative state and its allies in the Democratic Party and the corporate propaganda said, we don't think so. We think actually the administrative state and everybody else decides, not you, the duly elected representative. of the American people. That's what everything comes down to, Brian. Russian collusion, Ukrainian quid pro quo, these Springfield bomb hoaxes, all those things that you just mentioned.

It's about who decides. And Donald Trump thinks in a constitutional republic. This sounds obvious, but this is not what we're actually experiencing in DC today. Duly elected representatives of the American people should be the ones deciding how to govern this country. We haven't really been experiencing that for most of the last hundred years.

Ned Ryan with us now.

So, Ned, project where we are right now. You mentioned you think they'll take another shot at President Trump. That's horrifying. But we have 49 days left. How does this play out?

I don't think we're having any more debates. I don't know about you. I just don't think it's happening. We're not.

So, how does this play out? I think it's going to come down to honestly, Brian. I've said this for a long time. This is coming down to 70 states. The question will be Uh who will have the better ballot collecting machine?

Who will have the better early voting machine? And I think it's going to be fairly raised or thin margins in seven states that will decide the White House.

So I would strongly encourage, and I know they have pieces in place, the Trump campaign and the RNC to actually be doing what they're supposed to be doing in regards to those two things, absentee ballot chase and early voting. And that's what we're doing with American Majority Action in four key states. I think that's what it comes down to. Everything else to me is kind of a moot point. There'll be all kinds of twists and turns on narratives and more hoaxes and.

Dear God, God forbid, more attempts. It's going to come down to who's going to collect more ballots in those key states on November 5th so that Trump can get back to the White House. And quite frankly, on day one, say, we're not doing this administrative state stuff anymore. Here's what's different about this election: you go back to W against Gore, and you go back to Kerry against W and Clinton against Bush, HW. I get it.

And you really knew the difference between the two, but I also knew. That they knew their stuff and they just believed differently from each other. Of course they would massage and exaggerate. Embellished. That's part of politics.

But I knew Bill Clinton was smarting. I knew Barack Obama was smarting. I don't think Kamala Harris has any idea what she would do as president. She has no idea what she stands for. She has you know, I guess she has a left-wing bank.

Okay. But I don't even think she stands strongly for that.

Someone else is going to be running the country if she wins, because she doesn't even care w who runs the country. There's no even ego to want to run the country. I have provided. I propose this, Brian. Again, some people might disagree, but I propose.

That those who accept the premise that the administrative state should be doing the governing and management of this country. All you really need in the White House is a mask. to keep the masquerade going, to give the appearance to the American people that somehow someone in the White House is calling the shots when, in fact, most of the business is being done by the administrative state. I mean, that she fits that bill perfectly. And I again, that's one of Trump's greatest sins.

He's the last president since Reagan to say, I reject the premise that the administrative state is legitimate. And again, for that, he was essentially treated as a traitor to his country. Over a difference in governing philosophy, a governing philosophy we were actually founded on that was firmly rejected by progressives 100 years ago.

So tell me about the American Leviathan, Dow Today.

So it chronicles the rise of the progressive movement, which went out and made it its goal to undermine and destroy the political and moral authority of the U.S. Constitution. To destroy the machinery of the Republic, Brian, which is a key part of the protection of our natural inherent rights. If you have a diffusion of power through the separation of powers, the machinery of the Republic, that's the greatest protector of our natural rights. Progressives firmly rejected that.

In fact, the only separation they believed in. Brian was separating out the administrative, state, managerial class from any political accountability. And then wanting those people, those unelected bureaucrats to do the actual governing. And so trying to explain to people through the book, this is what progressives always wanted.

So when you have unelected bureaucrats dictating to you on various aspects of life today, That was the whole point to begin with. And the last point I'll make on this that people should be aware of: when you view the state as salvation, which progressives do. Why would you ever want to limit salvation? You would just continue to grow and grow and grow government.

So people have asked, why does government continue to grow in DC? Why is our debt 36 trillion and growing like a trillion every 90 days? Why would you ever limit salvation if that's what you think the state is? That's where we're at right now, and we have to have a conversation about what do we want moving forward: republic or administrative state, and a powerful executive. Because most of the administrative state resides inside the Article II executive branch, Could actually take very strong steps to dismantle and devolve that state if he wanted to.

So, Ned, describe this battle, we got 49 days left. How is it different from the Kennedy-Nixon battle in the 1960s? You had two different visions for the country. One wanted to talk about turning the page and being new in JFK. Nixon wanted to continue with the Republican principles that Eisenhower brought to the table.

How is that different?

Well, right now what we're at at this point in our history, Brian, is we're coming down to are we actually going to be a self governing people, Americans, are we going to do that? Or are we going to have it dictated to us by unelected bureaucrats? The difference is in the past is that we generally agreed That the American people should be involved, that they should actually have duly elected representatives that were accountable to them. We've left that behind. I mean, I really honestly believe that in many ways the administrative state bureaucrats, and we see it with Donald Trump.

I've just said, screw it. We don't think we're accountable to the American people. We're going to govern. And I make the point in the book, Brian, elections come and go, administrations come and go. The state remains.

And I think that's a real problem for the American people.

So I encourage people to grab a copy, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, wherever books are at, you should be able to find a copy of American Leviathan. All right.

And lastly, how does. How does Kamala Harris get through these interviews? He's got Oprah on Thursday. It'll be a walk in the park. But she got blasted on that local interview.

Did terrible. I think Oprah will just be a layup. But after that, She has to do some interviews. Final thought. Do you think she can get through it?

I'm not sure if you can because you actually have to link together like three or four coherent sentences, which apparently the nation's leading purveyor of word salads is incapable of doing most of the time. Ned Ryan, thanks so much. Pick up American Leviathan out today. Congratulations, Ned. Back with more to know in just a moment.

Then at the top of the hour, I'll be unoutnumbered. Don't move. More to know. Sponsored by Previgent. Previgent is the most recommended memory support brand by pharmacists.

He's written six books, and someday he hopes to sell one. Host of One Nation and co-host of Fox of Brian Kill Me.

So Brian. Good to see you. Sure, you've been talking about this all day, right? Saying the same thing over and over again. No, I like to think I provide a variety on radio and television.

Thanks for being a fan. I know you only get up at noon, and I've already done two shows at that point. And I'll take that as the nicest introduction you ever give me, so I feel like I'm on cloud nine. That was a little of my show that I starred in, starring Greg Guttfeld on the Gutfeld Show last night. It was a really funny show.

So is the show overall. That's a little of the fun and gaiety. I'm going to be unoutnumbered at 12, and it won't be nearly as uproarious. Let's get to more news because we're in the middle of More To Know, brought to you by Prevenue. Guardians manager Stephen Vogt chokes back tears after an emotional victory yesterday.

That's the kind of stuff that this team does. Getting a little emotional. I mean, you're proud of the way they've played. Hello, these guys. They're so much fun to watch.

They love each other. They work hard. That was an emotional night. And to see two teammates come together like that. That's powerful.

Well, the Guardians were playing catch-up for most of their division matchup against the Minnesota Twins, but things turns their favor, and Kyle Manzardo hit a clutch homer to put the squad up 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning. The first year Skipper met with the media after Cleveland's 87th win, and as you see, it was more than just a win.

Next, Instagram turns to teen accounts with social media platforms under pressure to protect children. They now say that if you're a teen, there's going to be age restrictions. The effort includes what the company has called built-in protections. Meta, which owns it, says the company will automatically place teens into their accounts with those under 16 needing parental permission to change their settings. Don't you think that they're going to outthink their parents and find a way to break this down for the kids that are in trouble anyway?

It happens with everything. Always you know, all those advertisements, get your parents' permission first or not without a parental permission. Kids always figure out ways. Even going back to the days of uh cable. I mean, whose idea was it to have older guys buy you the beer?

I don't know. That was genius, though.

Next, time to grow up. Surveys claim the real age of adulthood begins at 27. I think you come off your parents' insurance at 26. The survey conducted by Tarker Research on behalf of Life Happens. For 56% of correspondents, the true mark of adulting is simply paying your own bills, financial independence, and prioritizing responsibility over personal funds.

38% also rank high as key signs of entering adulthood. The study found that moving out of your parents' house, 46% that's adulthood. 28% are among the top events that made America feel like adults. The transition isn't smooth for everyone. 11% of Gen Zers say they still don't feel like adults at 27.

This is pretty interesting. Gen Zers, by the way, we had that study yesterday that said employers who hire Gen Zers, 75% are dissatisfied with them or have fired them already.

Next, the new report shines light on a dramatic increase of anti-Semitism on college campuses. It looked at 2087 anti-Israel incidents, vandalism, harassment, protests, assault, and the big push to divest between June 1st of 2023 and today. And it increased. 477 percent, the highest number ever documented by the ADL. Sickening.

Next, Oscar winner filmmaker James Cameron has purchased the rights to Charles Peregrino's forthcoming book, Ghosts of Hiroshima. Cameron has committed to use that and the 2015 Pellegrino book, Last Train from Hiroshima, as the basis for a film he will shoot as Avatar Production Permits. I guess he's doing another one. Cameron shared with Deadline that the two nonfiction books will be adapted into one uncompromising theoretical film. Eric, you know best.

Is this going to be an anti-American film saying that we should never have dropped the bomb? I I hope not. I mean, you realize how many people would have died had we had been in the invasion? We dropped a bomb and they still didn't quit. We had to drop another bomb.

And we pre-made a million purple hearts in preparation for that land invasion.

Well, did not know that. That's why I called on you, Eric.

Next, Northwest University of Illinois has a policy of discipline and community members who make weight-related jokes.

So if you say any fat jokes, you get fined. Northwestern prohibits discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national organ, caste, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation. But now, wait, making a joke about a person's weight is harassing conduct. And you can't even do it on email or text messages. It's never a good idea, but you can't fine someone for being rude or wrong.

Can you?

Now, kids gotta have money on campus? Will they accept Venmo for people that are distasteful? Can you find out, Pete? Thanks. From the Fox News Podcasts Network.

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