Trump not committed to another Harris debate; Hamas leader Sinwar dead?

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilman. I think I should say ever. Yeah, we are growing, adding a lot of affiliates. Grateful for each and every one.

Hope everyone has a really good weekend.

Now we're back in action today. It is now fall. No longer say, well, wait till after Labor Day for people to pay attention. Wait for the seasons to change for people to pay attention. We're paying attention, and we're 43 days until Election Day.

This hour, going to be joined by Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL author of How Great Is This? The name of the art book is Targeted Beirut: The History of Beirut in America, and look what's happening now.

So, before we get to our first Castelina Zito, syndicated columnists, a lot of stuff about Pennsylvania. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. We did not want this war. We're not seeking war. This war was waged upon us by the proxies of the Empire of Evil of Iran on october seventh by Hamas and on october eighth by Hezbollah.

Does anyone doubt that he's telling the truth? That is Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel. They are blasting the premier terror organization in the world in a way no one thought possible, targeting the terrorists, the higher-ups. Most are dead out underneath the nozzle and killing many who have had American blood on their hands. Will this result in a wider war?

And why isn't President Biden talking about how good it is to have the people responsible for the Marine Fabrics bombing in the 80s dead now? Number two. You know, I went shopping in Aurora yesterday. What a lot of Americans need to know is Aurora is over 400,000 people. It's Colorado's third largest city.

Violent crime is down two years in a row. It's a great city, it's safer than it's been. Right. That is Governor Jared Polis. All you should know is he's a surrogate for Vice President Harris.

And he's talking about Aurora and the takeover by gangs that he said was an illusion that we now know is a fact. And ask him about Denver, somebody, won't you? The border crossings have slowed, but not the migrant crisis, nor the Camela remake of our greatest vulnerability. Will this stand? We'll look at it.

Number one. Join me on the debate stage. Let's have another debate. There's more to talk about, and the voters of America deserve. Uh sit here.

The conversations that I think we should be having on substance, on issues, on policies. What's your plan? What's my plan? Right. When are you going to plan on doing any interviews?

Right now, 60 Minutes is thinking about has offered to sit down with both of them, aired on the same show. Trump says he'll do it if she'll do it. Tracking the trail. Trump and Harris line up battleground states, and they are assaulting those states in a campaign-like fashion. Just forty-three days to go until Election Day, early voting underway in many states.

We'll give you the trends and policies, including what is now a pretty good poll for coming out of the New York Times as it relates to Donald Trump. On the Battleground States, looks like he's making a positive move because the NBC poll, not nearly as positive. Who would have thought?

So here it is: the top line from the New York Times Sienna poll. Trump 50, Harris 45 in Arizona. Trump 49, Harris 45 in Georgia. Trump 49, Harris 47 in North Carolina. That's got to be somewhat concerning to the Trump group because it's so close.

Let's bring in Selena Zito, talking and dominating the one state that both. Campaign say they have to have Pennsylvania. Selena, welcome. Good morning. How are you, Brian?

First off, Selena, we should say this. Fetterman over the weekend said, why does everyone keep talking about fracking? Why aren't we talking about eating dogs? And why aren't we talking about demanding that Jews vote for Republicans? Because that's what they want to talk about.

But let everybody know what fracking means to the people of Pennsylvania. Yeah, I mean I thought that was an interesting um um statement for him to make, considering that, you know, he lives across I mean, he lives right in the center and heart of where hydraulic fracturing or frac fracking happens. And it employs hundreds of thousands of people in the state. It also enhances and makes farmers' lives much more profitable or at least able to keep their farm home because of the royalties that are on farmland from where they extract the gas.

So I'm not quite sure why he did that.

However, I've known Federman for years. In 2016, he understood that Hillary had a problem and that Trump was beloved in the regions where it matters. And I think that's probably what's on his mind. He sees, I mean, you can't go all that far from where he lives and just see the place saturated in Trump, pro-Trump signs.

So, Selena, you write this story that you and I have been talking about forever. That even the Trump campaign does not pick up. The headline: the crazy LNG pause.

So, listen, ladies and gentlemen, the most controversial thing that Kamala Harris has said: she was against fracking, now she reversed it, doesn't give a reason why. And she wants everyone to believe that that was Joe Biden's policy to curtail it, to make leases harder to get. And then this administration currently has a pause on LNG. Uh L and L and G leases. If you want to challenge Harris.

Demand that you lift the paws that would be supplying our allies who normally would go to Russia for this stuff. Yeah, she hasn't, you know, it's interesting. It reminds me of this old 80s movie called Working Girl, where Melanie Griffith is accused of not being truthful, but she confronts the protagonist. She confronts Sigourney Reaver and said, So, okay, you did this. What was your inspiration?

Explain why you did this. And no one has pressed. Harris on this change of heart. And nobody, this astonishes me, no one has pressed her on, okay, you support fracking, then why don't you, you and your administration with President Biden, lift the moratorium on LNGs? the the liquid natural gas, because there's that that is going to have a devastating impact, not just on the industry, it's going to make a graveyard in Pennsylvania of people that left.

Right. But it's also negatively impacting farmers. I'll be with President Trump today. He's going to be at a farm and whatever. Just show him that headline.

Selena, show them the headline. I'm trying to tell him that, at the very least, I'm not giving him advice. I'm just saying, please solve the problem because Jennifer Granholm, as you write, said this would be just a couple of months and will lift the pause. Nine months later, they haven't lifted the pause. People like Taiwan, there's countries like Taiwan, Japan, they need it.

They're asking for it. Do you want them to go back to Russia for it? The only reason to do it is to appease the environmentalists who think that it's a fracking problem, but it is not. No. And that, you mean, our Asian trade partners Have already said 10 days ago, they're not going to take our export of LNGs.

They're going to go to Russia.

Well, what does Russia need money for? The war in Ukraine.

So, and not only are you taking business away from American entrepreneurs, from American businesses, from American workers, from American farmers, you're also aiding and giving money. You're literally handing money over to Russia. It's a national security issue. And it is astounding to me that she can say I'm pro-fracking and not be held accountable for the policies that are in place right now. And be tough on foreign affairs.

We were supporting Ukraine, really? By supporting Ukraine, you're supposed to enforce the sanctions you put on Russia. The Europeans are buying it secondhand from India and China, and they're acting as if they're still adhering to the Russian ban, but they get it so India gets it so cheap, they're reselling it to our allies. which means that Russia is making money from it.

Well, and that's the thing in American politics, where a politician like Biden and Harris say we're this, this and this, but they wink and put policies in place that pretty much neutralize any sort of sanctions that they put anywhere. It's this is why people find the media a lot of the national media and a lot of politicians corrupt.

So Celine is our guest right now. And Celina, a couple other things. Selena Zito, who syndicated columnist. You see him all over the channel. She was actually famously in Butler, Pennsylvania at the time of the shooting.

It was supposed to interview President Trump right after. After it was p proven that he was okay, he contacted her to make sure he was o that she was okay, and then she gave her the the first interview. which is pretty amazing, and he appreciates people's courage that started around that day. The President's going to go back to Pennsylvania. Before I get to your take on where Pennsylvania is right now, you gave me a good tutorial in one of your columns on Barack Obama, won it easy in zero eight, Uh because but he vilified Cole.

And in 2012, he went from a 10-point win in 08 to a 5-point win against Mitt Romney to Trump winning it soon after. See, coal does, you know, it's hard to get coal to burn clean. I haven't figured a way to do that. But what is your what is the how is Pennsylvania still in what way is Pennsylvania still fueled by coal? Um so as Actually, we still have a lot of coal operating.

If you come to Pittsburgh, you can see the barges going up and down all three rivers transporting the coal. You know, here's the thing about coal that people don't understand: it is symbolic. It is part of the heritage.

So people may not work. I mean, in Pittsburgh, we don't do that anymore in terms of in the city. We used to, but people are culturally connected to it, just as they are with steel. That's why we're called the Pittsburgh Steelers and not the Pittsburgh something else's, right? Because that is part of our identity.

And eight out of ten people in Pennsylvania live 10 miles from where they grew up.

So legacy and identity is important. And as far as our state goes right now, I see it as a tie probably a little more towards Trump. You won't see that in the big cities. You won't see that in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. That's not where the race is won or lost.

The races won or lost in places like New Zealand County, Northampton County, Cambria County, Westmoreland County, where the president will be today, in Indiana County, and Erie County. You have to he that's when he won where he won in 2016. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh turnout did not matter. What mattered is what happened in those other counties. That's where Mitt Romney fell just 2,000 votes in some of these smaller counties shy of winning in twenty twelve.

And Trump jumped up on that, and that's how he won. All right, so right now, where do you think it it's at? If there was a vote today. And it was good turnout in Pennsylvania. Where is the I would give the edge to Trump today, if it was today.

And if he wanted to sell Pennsylv Pennsylvanians, even though the cities are different than rural communities. What what would she harp on?

Okay. Inflation and the border. I mean, that, you know, uh i I cannot express to you enough how much inflation is still impacting the state. I mean, I went and filled my gas tank up last last night. It was $70.

It's still $3.89 in my state, a gallon. That's a lot of money. That just does, you know, and people, you know, the terrain in Pennsylvania, you know, to get to work and go to work and just do the things that you have to do with your family, it's not a five-minute car ride or ten-minute car ride. It's a, you know, it's two hours every day. That adds up.

That impacts your life. But so do food costs. You know, and it's up 30% in our state. It's one of the highest inflationary state impacts in the entire country. You know, Selena, the other thing that people should keep in mind, and Trump brought this up in Nassau Coliseum on Wednesday.

He said, I'm not just talking about Leveling off inflation. I want to bring prices down.

So when the prices went up 9%, then you go up 7%, then you go up 6%. They don't drop. They just don't increase as fast or as much.

So it went up 2%. They're like, oh, it was higher seven points ago. Yeah, it's still at that 9% increase. It just increased a little bit less each time or each year since. He says, I have to find a way to get prices down.

He goes, the thing that would cut the knees out of inflation, inflation off of the knees, would be to get energy going and reduce these regulations and fully support the energy industry. But before I go, it just fits so perfect. I want you to hear, everyone to hear John Fetterman get pushed on Meet the Press, Cut Five. Vice President Harris, as you know, once supported a ban on fracking when she was running for President in 2020. She even sued the Obama administration to prevent fracking off California's coast.

Now she says she will not ban the practice as President. Why should voters trust that that is really what the Vice President believes?

So strange why we just keep talking about fracking. Back in twenty twenty I said that that might be an issue, but it's not going to be a defining issue. And now in twenty twenty four, we're still trying to talk about fracking. And now the other side, they're talking about eating cats and geese and dogs and saying absurd things. Of course it would but I what was his point?

You you could understand Fetterman speak. Yeah. I think he's just frustrated because he knows this is a winning issue for the Republicans. I mean, let's just be perfectly honest. You know, I I do want to add, I think that that President Trump should really, really talk about what would happen if the tax cuts are not are renewed.

Right. They're not renewed. Right. I have a story about it t today. There's some unbelievable polling data.

People can check it out, the Washington Examiner or Selenazito.com. But the econ I mean, across the board, bipartisan, people are freaked out about their taxes going up. That's interesting. I mean, for example, why did Christian Welker Tell me about Bar about Kamala Harris suing Barack Obama to not frack off the coast. Why did can you imagine what an impactful statement that would have been for Trump at the debate?

Yeah. Yeah, why should we believe you when you sued Barack Obama? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's it's I mean, it cannot I mean, the two most important industries in Pennsylvania are intertwined, and they are energy and agriculture. And to not talk about tracking would be ridiculous.

Selena Zito, thanks so much. I look forward to your coverage of the president back in your battleground state. Selena Zito, thank you. When we come back, we'll take some calls: 1-866-408-7669. Then, Inside, The Battle in Beirut, with the guy that wrote the book about Beirut, Jack Carf, special operator himself, fantastic author and podcaster.

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Well, things happen. Like like Trump's been shot and then They stop playing mini-man and it jumps 250% in streaming. Many, many, many, many wished death on me. Right, and that's exactly what I did after I got shot. I just went into a fight mode.

people identify with it that way.

So that was 50 Cent. Curtis Jackson is now an actor, a producer. By the way, big critic of P. Diddy before he got arrested. He's been calling him out forever.

And he also went to Capitol Hill, talked about gun violence and drugs and things like that. And I'm not saying he's I can't do his unauthorized biography, I can't do his authorized biography, but I know this. Every indication is that this guy is supporting Trump. And so many people I know, after he got shot, he hop popped up and said what he said with blood on his face. That really resonated with him.

I think he got shot something like 16 times. Um So I think that he, and he did fight back, and he did go to prison. And I don't think he denies his background, but man, he's a workhorse. He is writing, he's acting, he's producing, he's doing commercials, and he's got a degree of humility. What he's trying to say is: I'm not going to tell you I'm going to vote for Trump, in my view, but I'm voting for Trump.

When we come back, Jack Carr, an American hero, fantastic author, podcaster, talks about his new book, Beirut. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I thought what Israel chose to do about blowing up the Pagers and then walkie-talkies, and then after targeting and eliminating membership and leadership of Hezbollah, I absolutely support that. In fact, if anything, I love it.

And Israel demonstrated that they will not allow terrorists not to be held accountable. And I fully support that. Senator John Fetterman, again, I see eye to eye on so many issues with him, and that right here, your support of Israel. There's good guys and bad guys. The bad guys are the terror group fully financed by Iran, and they are the blue chip, the gold standard in terror, if there is one, and there is, is Hezbollah.

They've been the best. They're one of the first. Hamas is second, and they're all financed with Islamic Jihad. They're all financed by Iran. And if you defang Iran, money dries up like under the Trump years.

If oil stays down, they're unable to finance, and that will sanctions are enforced. They will starve these groups. But now they're part of the whole Lebanon government. They got forty seats in their house in their representatives in their House, their Parliament. They are a humanitarian organization, but most of all, they're a military organization.

They have reservists and they have higher-ups over the weekend, over the last five days, realizing that their constant bombing has forced 65,000 to 80,000 people out of their homes now for almost a year. October 8th, unprovoked, nonstop relentless bombing just because it's in coordination with Hamas. They have killed, let me see. Three Five, six, seven, eight. They have killed eight.

Of their highest ranking. Hezbollah officials, through this pager and through various airstrikes, the exploding pager, exploding walkie-talkies, and exploding, believe it or not, solar panels, they've wiped out the eight most important people under Hassan Nasarella, the Secretary General of Hezbollah and the most powerful person in the region. Only one, two people are left, a guy that really understands the history, because with some of these deaths come people with American blood on their hands for the 1980s bombing in Beirut. is Jack Carr, often have targeted Beirut. And Jack, not only a warfighter himself, does a great job chronicling how we're in the spot we're in today.

Jack, fortuitous for you, to be able to have this book come out now. Yeah, I mean, I started this two and a half years ago. Obviously, I didn't think it would be so timely. What I wanted to do was capture the strategic, operational, and tactical lessons learned while also humanizing this event, the attack that took the lives of 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut, Lebanon on October 23rd, 1983.

So these guys were allowed to live since. And then we saw that Israel took one out about two months ago now, a guy out who had no cyber footprint at all, didn't carry a phone, never had an address. Israel seemed to have had people on the ground. They take him out and they took out some more. How do these guys be able to walk around with this bounty on their head in that area?

That's right. It's remarkable that over that 40 years later, they finally get some of the people that were involved in these attacks in the early 80s. Not just the Beirut Barracks bombing, but the Embassy bombing and Embassy Annex bombing that happened in 1984. And all these years later, we finally take these guys off the board. It goes to show that some of that money doesn't really mean the same thing in other parts of the world as it might mean here in this country.

There have been some successes with the Rewards for Justice program, but not for these two guys. But now they're off the board in some remarkable operations that Israel's been conducting over the past few months. Right. I worry about the precedent, but I would do it if I was them.

Somehow they got involved in the supply chain. They intercepted these pages. They seem to have put a GPS device in there, a switch, and liquid explosives, at which time they would, at their time of their choosing, they'd heat it up and they'd become bombs.

So they're in people's pockets, on their belts, in their hands. There was a massive simultaneous explosion. In Beirut, followed up by the Waukie Talkie explosion, followed up by a series of airstrikes. What do you think is happening right now? Israel is on the offensive.

But on these ones, these will be studied for decades, if not centuries to come. They either got inside that supply chain or they created their own company all those years ago to create these devices. And obviously, Hezbollah is using pagers because there are less things on those pagers that can be exploited via technical means, phone, obviously, video, pictures, text messages, emails, all those things that we have on our cell phones. Most of those don't exist in a pager.

So obviously that's why they're using those pagers. And then Israel gets inside that decision-making matrix, gets inside that supply chain, or builds their own company that puts these in the hands and on the belts of members of Hezbollah and then takes them out in one fell swoop, follows up with the walkie-talkies afterward.

So if someone is Hezbollah out there, they should probably be wary of walking near any appliances in the near future. Or even picking up your TV remote. Exactly. I'd worry twice.

So, Jack. You gave a great perspective on why Beirut matters. They used to be somewhat of a Christian country, right, in Lebanon? It was. It was.

Now it's Christians are being obviously moved out, forced out. They have been for a long time. The country descended into civil war in the early 80s, and that's when President Reagan and the administration put the Marines ashore essentially into a quagmire for very nebulous reasons to keep the peace in an area that was rapidly devolving into chaos.

So they put them in an untenable position, tactically disadvantageous position, very similar to what we did in August of 2021 when we left Afghanistan. A lot of similarities between those two events, but also some similarities in the aftermath. Meaning, when that bomb went off in Beirut, same thing when that bomb went off at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan, people who were blown off their feet or heard those explosions from the other side of the compound or airfield, they ran to the sound of that explosion to try to save as many of their service members, fellow service members, as possible while holding security because they didn't know in both cases if there was a lot of. Was going to be a follow-on attack, but that's the same U.S. service member who was there in 1983 and was there in 2021, fighting for that person next to them.

Unfortunately, in 1983, we also did not retaliate, which taught Iran that terrorism works. And that really set the model, set the paradigm for everything that happened since. We left. Not only did we not retaliate, we left. That left in early 84, about as quietly as we could, after some very tough talk by the administration.

So, the rules were set by Iran back then, not just for the United States, but for Israel as well.

So, we've got the rules. We've been playing by those ever since.

So, Jack, that was Reagan.

So he made a mistake there. I mean, putting him in, maybe not fully understanding the scope, putting them in worst possible situation. You bring us there with dialogue and color that goes in such depth. You actually feel as though sometimes I thought to myself, is this a novel? But it actually happened and it took place.

The other thing that I fully learned, and it's always easy to miss something to get context in the Middle East, is how the Palestinians were kicked out of Jordan and were in Beirut. Yeserafa was wreaking havoc there. They kicked him out of that country, right? Yes. And that's unfortunately the story that replays itself over and over again with the Palestinian people.

They're in a tough spot, obviously, but their leadership, Hamas, particularly and obviously in Gaza, has put them in an even worse Position and uses them, as we've seen over the last year, as human shields.

So that's really the difference between people with Western values and the enemy. We put ourselves between an enemy and civilians, and they do the exact opposite. They put the civilians between them and their enemy. Yeah, because they create havoc in these countries. They kick them out and they tell Israel, you let them live right next to you.

And Israel goes, Really? They chose to leave. They didn't like the agreement that was signed in the 40s, in 1947.

So in 1948, they're part of a big operation to kick the Israelis out. They went in 1948. They went in 1967. They went in 1973. They sent a message when they went into Beirut themselves, had a tough time, but they really killed a lot of Hezbollah in doing that.

But Hezbollah gets stronger every year. Do you think the mindset in Israel is, why not just do this now? Because it's going to be harder if we wait? Yep, there's no doubt that the paradigm changed on October 7th of last year. And as horrible as it is to say, for the last decade or so, there's been this acceptable state of violence, as awful as that is to say.

Meaning, there was some violence on terrorist attacks that wouldn't necessarily result in an Israeli incursion. And then there were some special operations missions and other things that necessarily wouldn't escalate things on the other side.

So it was a back and forth. But as horrible as it is to say, there was an acceptable level of this violence. That changed on October 7th. And Israel has been finding its feet really ever since when it comes to their military and intelligence services. And now they're on the offensive, as we've seen over these last couple months.

And they're going to continue to exert pressure until they feel that they are safer, have destroyed, or at least degraded the terrorist organizations of Hamas and Hezbollah. Jack Carr wrote the book, Targeted Beirut, Target Beirut. He's with us right now.

So, Jack. I'm not sure if you can confirm this or not, but there's a big story, it's all over Twitter.

social media that Sinoir might be dead.

So I saw this last night because he has not been heard from in a while. They did test some bodies. They came up negative. There wasn't him. But.

People find it very strange they have not heard from him. What are you people telling you? I saw the same thing on X on social media, so I'm always a little bit wary. But then when you start seeing things come out of the Middle East, particularly by news organizations that are there on the ground and have a home base in the region, then that's those are the ones that I really pay attention to. But they are on the warpath, so I would not be Israel is on the warpath, so I would not be surprised.

They're taking things they're going on the offensive. I want you to hear Leon Panetta's take on the pager operation. And he was former CIA director, defense secretary, cut 24. The ability to be able to. A place in explosive, in technology that is very prevalent these days.

and turn it into a war of terror. Really? War of terror. This is something new. Is it terrorism?

I don't think there's any question that it's a form of terrorism. You know, I vehemently disagree with him. What are your thoughts? Yeah, that's very odd for somebody who is in that position who should know the difference between a targeted strike and being able to legally, even by international law, by the conventions, international conventions, target an enemy's communications network. It is by all auspices a not Terrorism.

You're going after enemy combatants in a very targeted uh precise way.

So I'm not exactly sure where he's facing that.

So so Jack Carr, don't they always say that Israel is killing too many civilians, even though experts like at the West Point War College have come out and said They have done more to protect civilian life than their ratio of civilian deaths to or would-be combatant deaths is less than ours.

So at the same time, they're going to be critical of Israel if too many civilians die. They target Hezbollah fighters, and that's terrorism. What do you want them to do? Exactly. It's very strange, the double standard that Israel is held to, not just by the world, but by a lot of those in the United States, apparently military establishment, apparently intelligence establishment and politicians.

That is about the most targeted strike you could possibly carry out, and it was remarkable in its scope and precision, and we studied for a long time to come.

So Jack, I just wanted to get your take on How you feel Americans should respond. You did all this studying about Beirut and the lives lost, 241 Marines that day and others with other attacks, and we pull out ignominiously under Reagan, we should point out. Maybe not fully understanding the scope of the tumult and the terrorism and the Islamic extremism. I get it. But these guys responsible for killing Americans were taken out by the Israelis.

What is the proper response from the from Americans listening and from our leadership right now? We get silence. What should the response be?

Well, it should be support. We should be taking some lessons from this as well. If we're not doing things like this, we certainly should be studying the way that the Israel carried them out. But really, it's the lessons learned, not just from this tactical event that might have some strategic consequences by taking leadership off the board, disrupting communications, and sowing some unease into all of Hezbollah's ranks when it comes to any move that they might make. But really, it's taking those lessons learned from that and the strategic ones of the past, meaning that the senior-level leaders, particularly in the Oval Office and the advisors that surround a president, they make a decision.

And then the person at the bottom end of that decision-making chain ends up being an 18, 19, 20-year-old kid holding a rifle, off-safe, finger on the trigger, somewhere around the world, standing a post as a car approaches that might be laden with explosives or might just have bad suspension. And that kid is the final decision-maker in a chain that starts with the president. of the United States.

So that President of the United States and his advisers owe it to that kid, to that kid's family, to the country to have studied the area, studied the enemy, studied the conflict about which they're engaging U. S. forces before they put U. S. boots on the ground.

Well, congratulations on the book. I look forward to talking to you again about it. And, Jack, the thing is, let everybody know you're the only one with perspective on what is happening in the news. You can go back in time and point out exactly why we're at, where we're at right now, and maybe learn how to solve the problem. Pick up Jack Carr's book about Beirut.

Jack, thank you. Thank you so much. There are lessons in the pages of history. You got it, and you did the hard work. All we have to do is read it: 1-866-408-7669.

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It's Brian Killmeade. Robinson is dug in his heels, denying everything, but the denials are pretty general. In fact, Senator Tom Tillis came out with a unique announcement yesterday, basically challenged him, either defend yourself, challenge the report, or get out. And so it's interesting how some of the Republicans, especially out of D.C., are responding right now. And I thought that was an interesting response.

By Senator Tom Tillis, either challenge the CNN report or get out. And he's not trying to do that.

Well, I mean, he's obviously saying he's saying it's not true, but he doesn't seem to be providing any evidence to the contrary. That's correct. That's correct. And if that sort of report was directed toward me when I was running for office, I'd be fighting like the Dickens, even legally. And he doesn't seem to be doing that.

He's not. And Mark Robinson, who we had on, we read his background. And we said, you know, he's a very good speaker, very charismatic, and has a great personal story. We had him on when he was lieutenant governor on Fox and Friends. I said, now he's going to run for governor.

He's got the nomination. Let's have him on. And I asked him all these things. I didn't know the things about Pornhub and black Nazis, and he wants to bring back slavery. All this stuff seems so insane, you wouldn't think it's true.

CNN runs a story that is true, and he doesn't provide proof that it's not. You know, he says it's not true, but he says he doesn't. But it does hurt Trump because Trump said, I like this guy. He's a modern-day Martin Luther King. All right, on steroids.

Martin Luther King Jr. has steroids.

Now, Trump liked him personally. He has an instinct about him. He puts him up there. He has no idea that it looks like he was on pornhub saying all these crazy ass things.

So, what do you do?

Well, if you're in a state that you expect to win by one or two points, that would make a difference, especially with the money. That the uh that Kampala Harris has and the money she's able to pour in, it is going to North Carolina.

So they're going to have to work twice as hard there.

So we'll see what happens. Tom Cotton came out and said basically he's got to own this or get rid of it. He's got to address it or step aside. I'm surprised J.D. Vance did not do the same thing.

Now maybe he's in an impossible situation. Maybe Trump said to him, just don't bring it up.

So he's not going to just go do what he wants. But To me, on instinct, I like what Tom Tiller said. And some of the other Republicans. You gotta be kidding me. How he hit that is such a key spot, Governor of North Carolina.

But that's where you become governor of North Carolina, you're a Republican, you tighten up elections, you make sure those voter rolls are clean, you push for voter ID, things like that. Let alone being a battleground state now. Listen to the Brian Killme show. Don't forget, October 20th, I'm going to be in Peepskill, New York on stage. History and Liberty Laugh, BrianKilme.com.

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We are on the road, but with you every step of the way, bringing you the latest breaking news. That really occupied your weekend, perhaps, is official. Fall is here. You can't say, Well, I'll wait till after Labor Day. I'm too busy in the summer.

It's so far away. Wait for the primary season. It's been so intriguing because of what happened with Joe Biden being flipped out and Kamala Harris being flipped in. And her decision after 64 days not to do any interviews of worth at all, except for one debate asking for a second, is absolutely stunning. And I think America should demand higher standards than that.

In a matter of moments, we're going to be talking to. Michael Goodwin of the New York Post. And then we're going to talk to Congresswoman Maria Salazar of Florida. She's on the Foreign Relations Committee in Small Business.

So that's coming your way. I'm also going to try to squeeze in some calls. 1866. four oh eight seven six six nine.

So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. We did not want this war. We're not seeking war. This war was waged upon us by the proxies of the Empire of Evil of Iran on October 7th by Hamas and on October 8th by Hezbollah.

Yep, that is the president of Israel talking about the devastating attack blasting the premier terror organization in the world, Hezbollah, and blowing away just about every one of their higher-ups except for Nasarella. And they did it strategically, targeted, and yet people like Liam Panetta call it terrorism. I don't. Number two. You know, I went shopping in Aurora yesterday.

What a lot of Americans need to know is Aurora is over 400,000 people. It's Colorado's third largest city. Violent crime is down two years in a row. It's a great city. It's safer than it's been.

That is Governor Jared Polis, who is a contributor for and a surrogate for Kamala Harris. Talking about Aurora, let's talk about Denver. Let's talk about the worst gang there is, one that's taken over New York City, especially, and that is the Venezuelan street gang. We know nothing about them because Venezuela doesn't supply any information. We'll talk about how Kamala Harris is trying to make her tougher on the border than Trump, really?

Number one. Join me on the debate stage. Let's have another debate. There's more to talk about, and the voters of America deserve. Uh to here.

The conversations that I think we should be having on substance, on issues, on policies. What's your plan? What's my plan? Right. That is Kamala Harris tracking the trail.

Trump and Harris lineup battleground campaign assaults with just over a month ago until Election Day and early voting underway. We have the polls, the trends, and the policies.

Some good New York Times polls in for Trump. He's winning in Arizona. He's winning in Georgia. He's winning in North Carolina. North Carolina, way too close for the Trump people.

Let's bring in Michael Goodwin. Michael, first off, something you and I are very familiar with, and that is the Al Smith dinner. I did not know for decades every Republican and Democrat have shown up on that charitable dinner in New York City, run by Cardinal Dolan and the other cardinals before that, in a salute to the governor of his day, Al Smith, who had a sixth-grade education and gave so much back to so many in need. But they always go out there and be self-deprecating. It is one of those moments that we always look at.

We look back with Obama and Mitt Romney and Bush and Kerry, but we're not going to have it with Harris. Michael Goodwin, why do you think it is that Harris does not want to do this? Good morning, Brian. Look, I think we should always assume the obvious reasons. She simply isn't comfortable Having to appear in certain formats, anything that she really can't control.

She's not comfortable. why that is. it has to speak to a lack of confidence, a lack of depth, Uh that she just cannot sink on her feet.

Now here's this one is extra strange because She can read a prepared text. There's no great ad libbing required. it's uh as you say, Al Smith, it's uh the first Catholic uh uh nominee uh for President uh of a major party. And I I why she uh won't show up for this, this is a new low because as you say, virtually every candidate has, since all the way back to I think Walter Mondale, um has has shown up both parties.

So it it It's a strange choice on her part, and yet she's demanding another debate on the basis that the public deserves.

Well, the public deserves lots of things from candidates. It deserves interviews. Yes. It deserves to see them in all kinds of different situations. But she is I have to say, I cannot recall another candidate who is so resistant to getting outside of a comfort bubble that she's hiding.

I mean, it's something unique in modern times. It should not be acceptable. I I think the Catholic thing has something to do with it too. When you're out there talking about the joys of abortion and you're the first candidate to go to an abortion clinic and then you show up to the most pro-life religion in the world, And at the premiere. event in the country, maybe she's feeling a little bit ashamed.

Or maybe she dis maybe yeah, maybe she dislikes Catholics so much.

Well, it's a very good point. She might fear a hostile audience and not just the hostile audience, but that it would be captured on video and that it would be shown over and over and the Trump people would use it in a commercial. I mean, that's probably part of her thinking too. I just think that a Americans don't want a candidate who's afraid of American people. I mean, that just doesn't make sense.

So, Michael, you were at a column today, and you and I are all over this on the Middle East and the importance of Israel prevailing. It's not so much a ceasefire. Nobody wants to see anybody killed. But the way it ends will decide how long it will be until it happens again. All they want to do is the fighting to stop.

But how it stops in the South in Gaza and how it stops with Hezbollah in the North, where they've disrupted 85,000 families, 85,000 people, pushed them off the border into chaos, into hotels, now for a complete year, and that can't stand. Gaza can't stand.

So instead of supporting military operations to get us to that point where Israel can live in peace, they just want it to end for the election. And you think one of the best things to happen for the Middle East is for Joe Biden not to get his ceasefire. Why? Mm-hmm.

Well Look, I I know he has tried. Very hard to get it, and for most people, a ceasefire. Oh, that's good, that's good, that's good. No, no, in this case, a ceasefire. would effectively just cement in place the status quo, which is you have Hamas controlling Gaza, you have Hezbollah controlling Lebanon, you have the Houthis, so you have these Iranian terror proxies all around Israel.

They made tremendous progress, they've suffered great losses. Israel clearly intends to inflict even greater losses because the status quo is unacceptable. And that's what Biden, as you say, it was just for politics. Biden and Harris, oh, the poor civilians, the poor civilians. They're talking about voters.

That's who they really have in mind. Voters in Michigan, young people on college campuses. That's who they're talking about. And so For them to get a ceasefire that would just freeze the situation in place. would just guarantee it would happen again.

And just quickly, Brian, nowhere is Iran mentioned by the Biden administration. Who just hacked the election? Yes, yes. And they tried to assassinate Trump. They're hacking the election.

They're causing the turmoil in the Mideast. All of these things.

So Joe Biden wants to kind of thread a very small needle, which is that we'll just hold everything and then we'll put everything off until after the election. But his refusal to take on Iran, his continual coddling of Iran, has only brought more trouble for the United States and for Israel, and our great ally in the region. And finally, I would just say this. Why is it that the Iranians want to kill Donald Trump? Why what are they afraid of?

I mean, isn't doesn't that tell you something about who they want to be president? Yeah, well, it kills Selemani. Absolutely. They do not want Trump to be president, and that may be why, to a degree, they're holding back, but they have no problem getting caught. Hacking into the election, hacking into the Trump camp, going through who else but Roger Stone and some others.

They turn it over to three news organizations, this information, and turn it over to the Harris campaign. I don't know what they did with it. Imagine if Russia did that to Trump and handed the Harris campaign information to the Trump campaign and to news organizations, this would be the number one story. But because it's Iran, And if Trump is the victim, it doesn't even get into our radar and there are no additional sanctions.

So what it what Israel's doing right now, from what you could say with your context, Michael, do you think they're looking to finish off Hezbollah? Do you think Nasarella would be next? I mean, they've killed eight of ten higher ups around Nasarella. And they found this many people think there were GPSs in those pagers because the way they're taking out these weapon sites, if they followed all these higher ups around for the last five years when they've had these pagers, they know exactly where all these weapons are by the frequency in which they show up at certain pla uh bases.

So do you think they're looking to finish him off now? Look, I think they're hanging that over their heads, and I think that's something Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, has to take into account. Of course, he reports to Iran. He's often in Iran. He may be in Iran now, hiding and giving these tough speeches.

You know, Brian, I sometimes wonder if he isn't a double agent, because he's the one he seems to be the only one surviving in the Hezbollah leadership. But look, I I do think Israel would love to finish them off. I think more realistic more realistically, what they're trying to do is push them deeper into Lebanon, away from the northern border with Israel, and to have some restrictions on what they can do in Lebanon.

Now, the UN is not going to police that. I mean, UNRWA is part of the problem. But I do think Israel would love to finish them off, but I don't think that's what this current operation is about. I think it's getting them back to the border that the UN imposed many years ago. It's deeper into Lebanon.

There's a kind of a no man's land. But what happened is Hezbollah came right up to the border, practically, and had a clear shot at the Israelis. That's why the sixty thousand who were evacuated from northern Israel, I just say, that can't continue. They have to be allowed to return to their homes. And I think what Israel is doing now is basically saying we've done most of what we can do in Gaza.

We're now moving more of our actual troops to the north. And so they are preparing for a potential invasion, which I believe they don't want to do, but would do if that's the only way to push Hezbollah back. Yes. I guess we're going to see what happens. Why aren't we celebrating that they killed at least two Hezbollah terrorists, masterminds that killed our guys in the eighties?

Why aren't we saying how great it is that they finally been brought to justice? Cut. That's back to my point about Joe Biden, right? He didn't he should he should there's a $7 million bounty on Akhil's head, right? That one of the ones that Israel killed.

Why isn't Joe Biden thanking Israel? Why isn't he sending them the $7 million check? Here, you get the reward. I mean, again, not a word, not a word from Harris, nothing about Our ally. They are doing part of our job there.

And you would think this would be the moment to make common cause. Instead, every word out of Harris and Biden, oh, Israel has a right to defend itself, but and the but seems to be you can't go beyond your own border. You can only defend yourself when they're attacking you. And then once that stops, you have to stop. I mean, as Douglas Murray, my colleague, says, Israel's the only country that's not allowed to win a war.

Well why is that? Why is the United States government taking the position of all the anti Semites in the world, which is we have to stop Israel. We have to keep Israel boxed in so we can eventually finish it off? That's what this is ultimately about. I hear you.

Michael, right now, if the election was today, who wins? Um I I have to think that there is a secret anti Trump vote out there. I I think Brian, the President. Still uses some of the language that turns people off, that drives them away. I know the polls look like he's inching up here and there.

I think North Carolina, the problem there with the gubernatorial candidate, probably moves North Carolina to the Democratic column, at least for the time being. I think President Trump still has a lot of work to do. I think if the election were held today and I had to bet, I would bet on Harris. I don't know. I uh do you see the New York Times poll today?

Uh no, I haven't. Arizona, he's up by three. Georgia he's up by three. North Carolina is up by two. That's not really a kind poll to Republicans.

Those are all red states, supposedly, right? These are states that have been put in play in 20 and 24, right? I mean, so the traditional battleground states, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, right, you know, Virginia used to be a battleground state. We're not talking about Virginia anymore.

So I think if anything, at this point, yes, he's got these leads, but they're all within the margin of error. They're shifting back and forth. Perhaps that's why Harris wants another debate. She wants, of course, the moderator, she can another three against one approach because there's no moderator who's going to vote for facts. Unless they go to Fox.

And for her to think that he's going to do a CNN debate. See, I also think there's a hidden Trump vote out there, too.

So there might be people I'm going to vote for, she makes no sense. When she speaks, I have no idea what she's going to be, but that's good enough. And I think there's a lot of people out there that are like, I am going to vote for Trump, but I'm not telling anybody.

So they might even level each other off. All right, Michael, we'll see how that goes. We'll take your temperature every week leading up to election day. Michael Goodwin. Thanks so much.

When we come back to your calls, and then... Uh and then we'll welcome in another special guest, uh uh another special guest. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmeat Show. Covering this election year like no other, it's Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know.

It's Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back. Got a couple of minutes here before we get to the calls: 1866-408-7669. We're just following up. I'm watching this stuff online, and I hope it's indeed true.

If you want to know who did the operation October 7th, almost a year today, it's this guy Sinoir. He was in jail, he was part of a major prisoner swap with that Gilad Shalit from all those years ago. He got one soldier about to give up a thousand prisoners. He had brain cancer, they had brain surgeons go in there, save his life, and his thank the way he thanks the Israelis by staging the worst terrorist attack against them since the Holocaust. He is hiding with the hostages.

Word of yesterday that he could be dead. I hope it's true. I will follow it up and stay on top of it, but you should look at it too. They're making great progress in the north. It is a tough neighborhood Israel's in.

Let's go to the phones right now. Who's our call, Eric? Cynthia, Cynthia, you're on. Hi, Brian. This is Cynthia, North Carolina.

I just want you to know you are spot on. There are a lot of hidden trunk voters. I was in Chapelville, North Carolina at a ladies' golf event. This past weekend on Championship Friday, I had my Trubber hat on. And got the stink eye from several people, but several of the ladies and some of the staff at this club.

Under their breath, said, Hey, I love your hat.

So it's out there. We just got to remind people to vote, not get discouraged. Yeah, I just laugh when people think that Harris went up 20 points in approval without saying anything. The same people that said, wow, she's terrible. We got to make sure she's not on the Biden Harris ticket.

Now that it's Harris Waltz, she's fantastic. She's joyful. She's optimistic. About what? What are you happy about?

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

So, I'm going to be giving a speech this week that is really to outline myself. If you've heard me talk about, I believe And what we can create in terms of opportunity for the American people. I've made it an opportunity economy, which really. Uh in short form, it's about what we can do more to invest in the aspirations, the ambitions, and the dreams of the American people.

Okay, we got more details on the economy. The one way you could do that is go talk to people after or take questions afterwards if you know it. If you're going to tell me that Tom Cotton wouldn't be able to answer a million questions on this, or Governor Shapiro, if you put out Democrat or Republican, they'd be able to answer questions that go deep. You're going to tell me that Michael Waltz, if he rolled out an economic program, would even need the teleprompter? You have certain expertise.

I get that. Certain people are, you know, George H.W. Butch famously was not big into the economy. He loved to talk foreign affairs. When it came to the recession, he wasn't looked at strongly.

Same with McCain. But you can be able to talk about it. This is what I believe. You get with your economists and you roll it out.

Now, we had a disastrous rollout a month ago when she talked about taxing unrealized gains from stocks that you have not cashed out on and raising corporate tax from 21 to 28. That would be a disaster for so many people that they stopped talking about it until, I guess, Wednesday. When they come out with more. Joining us to discuss this and more about the state of the election, the state of the Hispanic vote, Congresswoman Maria Salazar of Florida. Congresswoman, welcome back.

Wonderful. Wonderful to be with you, Brian.

Well, everybody who wants to know where this election is heading, they always look at where the African American vote is. And for Republicans, if it's in the 20s, you've got a legitimate shot of winning. Uh, it's sometimes been in single digits with the Hispanic vote outside George W. Bush. It's been decreasing until Donald Trump came along.

Where is it at today? Yeah. Correct. And that's a great question. And I think that we could be facing right now a transformational realignment for the Republican Party if we sent a very strong message to the Hispanics.

We are one in five Americans are Hispanics, where one in eight voters are Hispanic.

So monumental numbers. And the GOP has a fantastic opportunity to say welcome to the GOP. We have the same values that are entrenched in the Republican Party. We just don't know it, like Ronald Reagan said. Hispanics are Republicans.

They just don't know it. And we're not woke. We're not socialists. We're not against critical race theory.

So there's a very big opportunity for the GOP to bring a lot of people to vote with us. We know why that is, and I don't want to go back too much in time. But when Donald Trump said, I'm going to build that wall, and Mexico's not sending us their best, they said disaster. Disaster for Republicans. They're not going to recover from it.

And instead, nothing moved and nothing changed. In fact, he got more Hispanic votes. And won the election that Mitt Romney got who actually lived in Mexico for a while.

So what is it about the Hispanic community that does not mind when you talk strongly about border security? Because Hispanics don't want open borders, having the Trendiaragua, the Venezuelan transnational organization, criminal organization, coming through our southern border. We want to come in legally. And that's something that we can always talk about later. Immigration, we do have to fix.

But first of all, we have to seal the border and make sure that that border is safe for everybody. Because think of this. When a criminal gang organization is coming through the southern border, they're going to wind up in the barrios or in the neighborhood where other Hispanics are. And they don't want that crime. They don't want to be raped.

They want to have stability so they can go to work and live a dignified life in the promised land.

So we don't want open borders. We don't want woke. We don't want socialism. And we want the American agenda to work so we can have the opportunity to live a better life. Summary, what people don't understand it, then duh The congresswoman that did not.

You can call me Maria. It's okay. That's fine. Of course. But to cover the New York Post today.

Talks about this Venezuelan gang that's really taking over the city. Yep. Not the entire city, but through the gang warfare. And they did it because Venezuelans are crossing. We don't know who they are because the government's not cooperating.

Now, the neck tattoos and bulls' paraphernalia should have been a giveaway, but this lethal gang has taken over New York. And then I'm reading over the weekend, too, that did the same thing in Chicago.

Now we have our gangs fighting against their gangs. For what? Let me ask you. And how did we let this happen? And if I'm sitting there and if I'm from Ecuador and El Salvador, if I'm from Mexico, you name it.

I'm not happy about that. Of course. And there's only one guy saying I have a problem with it. The other one denies it's happening. Yeah.

Well, and then I'm going to give you more news. Right now, as I'm sure you know, I'm fighting the Biden-Harris administration because they have to send a very clear message to Maduro to leave power because he lost the elections. Four million more Venezuelans have said that they're going to flee and leave and come to the southern border and knock on our doors if Maduro doesn't leave.

So we have another crisis in the making. Because of the weakness of the Biden-Harris administration. I've been saying I'm the chair of the Subcommittee for the Americas and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and I've been saying it to the White House: do something, send the signal. We signed an accord, we agreed that there were going to be free and fair elections. The Biden administration agreed to not allow them to sell any more oil if they don't follow what they signed.

And look what's happening. Right now, we are giving them the ability to sell oil through Chevron and Repsoil, and at the same time, Maduro is not leaving. And we have four more million Venezuelans coming our way. I mean, there's no the the leadership from the White House, it's it's abysmal. They just don't do anything.

The guy's not president. We have Jill Biden running the events at the White House with the UN in town, and he's angry. He's angry that he's not president, and he's doing basically pouting on the beach. But this Trende Aragua, you know better than anybody because there's probably more in Miami than anywhere else. They are changing the way of life in Miami coming from Venezuela.

Now, we know that the Trump administration was very aggressive. John Bolton, very aggressive. They had someone, they had someone elected there. They put him forward. They tried to support him, but they couldn't get anywhere.

What is the right policy? I mean, how do you pressure Maduro to get out? Do you promise him an island? Do you try to do this peacefully? Because you know who props him up?

China, Iran, and Russia. Of course. Well, you do what Ronald Reagan did in 1989 when you had a country called Nicaragua and you had the Sandinistas. And Reagan. Broke an accord, or he agreed that the Sandinistas agreed with the Reagan White House that they were going to hold free and fair elections, and whomever won needed to stay in power.

And then the Sandinistas, the Reagan administration called the Sandinistas and said, You got to go, and they left. And that's why we had democracy in Nicaragua. That's exactly what you do now. You pick up the phone and you said, We signed an agreement. You agreed on leaving.

If you lost, you have to leave. And then the new people who won need to get into power. And that's it. But no one has picked up the phone from the White House. And I just had a very important hearing on Friday asking the Biden administration, what are you going to do about it?

And they could not answer one question. Nothing.

Well, because they have no policy. They can't handle the Middle East. They're making absolutely no progress.

South China Sea, we have the Chinese Coast Guard ramming Philippine ships that just want to tr transverse free and open and international waters. We do nothing about that. We do nothing about Iran, who actually infiltrated Donald Trump's election.

So it's not bad policy. It's a zero policy. Can you imagine if you just let a car drive? And it just goes straight ahead, and you wonder why you don't get where you want to go, and it seems rudderless. But whatever.

But it's not any car, it's the main car, which is the United States, the one who should be. It should be Paris.

So, why is Harris not asked about that? And what can you give me an idea of how much commerce we're doing? With Venezuela in terms of their oil? Because part of the premise was have free and open elections, and then we'll start buying your oil and help prop up your oil business again. They didn't.

Correct. Well, the business model goes as follow. We give we, the United States, the White House gives something called general licenses or licenses to Chevron and Repsoil and the Italians and the French to go into Venezuela and sell their oil into the international market. That has provided between one point five billion dollars in the last six months to Venezuela. If you are a dictator and you have money, which is this is the same scenario with Iran.

They all they all belong to the same bad boys club.

So if you have money, you have money to repress and you have money to terrorize your neighbors. And that's exactly what's happening with Maduro.

So we, the United States, we agreed in something called the Barbado Accords that we were going to allow Venezuela to sell its oil through Chevron in the international market if they respected the result of a free and fair election that happened in july twenty-eighth. They did not. They lost seventy to thirty. The president, the new president, it's his name is Gonzalez, he won and he had to flee to Spain because Maduro was going to kill him.

So the uh Yeah. I mean, it's a movie. It's a horror movie. But hey, I was saying to the Biden administration, wait, wait, wait, wait. We signed an accord, you, the Biden White House, you signed an accord where you agreed.

So now they did not fulfilled what they committed to? How come are you allowing Venezuela to continue selling its oil in the international market? That only brings more money to the repressive apparatus. That means then that more people are going to flee because they know they're going to be repressed.

So they leave and they come to either Mexico or Brazil or Colombia. Yeah. That's it. No answer. There's no answer.

We thought Chavez was a problem. This is a bigger problem because the longer these outlaw regimes take, are allowed to stay in power. They bring in the other outlaw regimes who are our enemies. They deal with North Korea, they deal with Iran, they deal with China, they deal with Russia. To stay in power, they will give up their country's wealth.

And they don't mind when their citizens leave. That because that more uh less uh turbulence that they have to deal with, right? Of course, the more if you leave, it's less it's it's one mouth less that you have to feed. And it's one person less that you have to deal with that will manifest on the streets. Of course, that's the same recipe.

Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, this hemisphere, China, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas. It's all the same. It's the same business model. We're talking with Congresswoman Maria Salazar. Congresswoman, I got to ask you this: the President of the United States, if it is Trump, the next one, he says, I'm flying these Venezuelans back.

What is the scenario, the logical scenario, not the fantasy? The logical scenario, what do we do with these Venezuelans? We can round them up. We could say this is not the way you do it. We have no background on you.

You're going to have to go and you have to go through a normal visa process. If we can't land in Venezuela, do we land with military jets surrounding the passenger jet? I think that there are two questions here. Number one, we have to concentrate on the people who came in under Biden. You have wonderful people who have been here illegally, and like I said, that's another conversation.

People who've been here for 20 years contributing to the economy. We gave him the opportunity to stay. We got to treat those people differently. That's why I wrote a bill called the Dignity Act. And if you want me, I can definitely talk about that.

But that's immigration. Let's concentrate on what's practical and what's reasonable. We got to concentrate on those people who belong to the Trendaragua, which is an organized criminal, it's a transnational criminal organization. Hone in on those. Use ICE and the local police to get those and to then just put them in jail and see what we do with them because, unfortunately, Maduro is not accepting deportations, or he's not accepting anyone to fly back home.

Concentrate on Trendarawa first. And then after that, I mean, it's a immigration is a very big topic. I'm not sure we have time right now, but I would love to discuss it with you because if Paduro's out, that solves that problem. Of course. And then the Trump administration, I am sure, will pick up the phone and tell him we can help you find another home with your millions and in safety.

I am sure that the new opposition, which won the presidential election, will allow for that to happen. Everyone goes home, and then Venezuela will be free again, where people can return back home. Because I am sure that you have millions of Venezuelans walking around the city of New York where we're at right now, but they would love to go back home if they know that there is a future there. Right. And lastly, I thought Congressman Gonzalez had a great point of Texas.

He said, you know who has relations with Maduro? Mexico. He said, so he met with the Mexican government. He said, if I want to get messages to Maduro, this is how you do it. And maybe he could start talking sense.

Control your border. You're creating chaos. You're working against your own system. You're going to force America to act if this continues. But right now, without having any conversation.

Correct. It is crazy.

So, I mean, if you are thinking out of the box, there are things that can be done, but you have to be thinking about it. And that's the frustration. It's hurting Miami, it's hurting New York, it's hurting Chicago, and it's besieged the border cities. But that goes without saying. That's correct.

And I agree with Tony, who's a very good friend. We could definitely have a conversation with the new President of Mexico. But if it's Donald Trump, the one sitting at the table, the energy and the results will be completely different versus if it's President Biden or Harris sitting at the table. It has been proven. The empirical evidence is there overwhelming.

During the four years when Trump was at the White House, the border was pretty safe because Amlo, the President of Mexico, who, by the way, happens to be a socialist, but he understood the message from the North. Yeah, I don't know why it was, but he got along with Trump. Yes, he did.

So he was one of the last world leaders to acknowledge that Biden won the election. Congresswoman Salazar, always great to talk to you. Thank you. Thanks to you for the opportunity, Brian. God blesses you.

Yes, and of course, we're all over Florida. We've got so many great affiliates there.

So they're hearing a Congresswoman who never stops working. 1-866-408-7669. We'll come back to you in just a moment. You're not going to believe what other rapper might just be in the Trump camp. That's during We Come Back.

Newsmakers and Newsbreakers. Here at first on the Brian Kill Me Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Here's what Kamala Harris said this week about what we should do when the war is over.

No reoccupation of Gaza, no changing of the territorial lines of Gaza. uh and an ability to have security in the region for all concerned in a way that we create stability. I feel like if that's what you have to say, don't say anything. Just shut up. I mean everybody who talks about Israel these days is just so full of I mean, or just not you know, I don't want children to die.

Duh, who does? None of us want children to die. None of us want this war to go on. But it's not addressing what the problem is. Maybe I think Bill Maher is brilliant because he agrees with me.

Haven't we been saying that? It's how this war ends. We'll decide what happens. A ceasefire the wrong way, where Sinoir lives, declares victory, doesn't care about civilians. They come back stronger.

Money still flows. Hezboll looks stronger. 65,000 people can't get back into their homes, but we have a ceasefire and can stop talking about Israel. That's what the politicians hope for. That's what Democrats hope for.

They want to stop all the unrest. They want to stop losing votes in Michigan. They want to stop the protest in Columbia. But that's not the point. It's going to be even worse.

The problem is Iran. Do you understand that it was clear through the Abraham Accords and through the Trump years, through some brilliance from Jared Kushner, Ambassador Friedman? Do you understand that it became clear behind closed doors that no one had a problem with Israel? They said Israel will never coexist in the Middle East. No, it is only with Iran.

The problem are the terror groups and proxy groups that they finance, Saudi Arabia, Berlin. Bahrain, Qatar, although they got problems with loyalty, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, these countries, Jordan, Egypt, yeah, they have disagreements. But they understand that this is an economic superpower, especially for their size, that could help grow the tech center in their countries. and they're enterprising people with great educational facilities that they want to put their kids in. The problem is Iran doesn't want any part of that.

If you could solve that problem, the rest comes into place. Why can't someone talk coherently like that, like Douglas Murray, like me, Bill Maher, anybody that cares? From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, welcome to the Brian Kill Me Joe.

Hope you had a fantastic weekend. It's a sprint to the finish.

Now we're at, well, it's been 64 days since Kamala Harris has decided to become the nominee, and 64 days without a legitimate interview, just an Oprah piece that was just unwatchable, too tedious to understand. And I think most people understand this. They just want to have her coast through. And she is working hard. She is doing a bunch of events.

I'll give her that. But nothing comes out of it. Same speech time and time again. And it's still, in my view, anyone's election to win. And I'm going to bring over some polls.

We're going to go through it. This hour we're going to be joined by Evan Barker, a former Democrat campaign operative, campaign finance advocate, wrote a piece in Newsweek. Just really something we wanted to share with you because the title tells it all. I raised millions for Democrats at the DNC, by the way, this year, and realize they're the party of the rich. And the party without substance, the party of joy.

A person who's never been accused of running a party of joy, but he's always happy to work for America, Congressman Michael Walt. Congressman, welcome back to the show. Hey, good to be with you, Brian. Always. I mean, first off, where do you think the Trump campaign is at generally right now?

I hear mixed things about where the ground game is. They kind of licensed it out and they were confident that Charlie Kirk's people could get something done. Other people say, I haven't heard of it. I hear they're not knocking on doors. What do you know?

No, uh Look, it's not only Kirk's folks, it's a a super PAC largely backed by Elon Musk that has a ground game as well. And then you have a phenomenal and I've visited a number of them, including up in Michigan. uh group of volunteers down on the ground. I I don't I don't buy that reporting. I think that's reporting that the Harris campaign's happy to.

To kind of feed into the system. The Trump campaign has never had an enthusiasm factor or enthusiasm problem. when it comes to getting our base out and getting volunteers.

So right now, I see the New York Times poll. It's got to be relatively encouraging for the Trump people. Trump up 50-45 in Arizona, Trump up 49-45 in Georgia. Just by two in North Carolina. How much the does the porn hub uh gubernatorial candidate on the Republican side being that he hasn't effectively pushed back on it.

How much is could that hurt? And how worried are you in North Carolina that that could have a ripple down effect and a ripple up effect? Yeah, look, Brian, I mean to be honest with you, if this were, say, twenty two or eighteen, whenever you have an issue at the top of the ticket, like frankly we did in Pennsylvania, The last election cycle with that governor's candidate, then that could be a drag-down ballot. But with President Trump at the top of the ticket, that's what's gonna drive turnout. That's what's gonna drive enthusiasm, that's what's gonna drive the media narratives.

I don't see it, frankly, being a huge issue. I think it's really unfortunate what is coming out. But I don't see that being an issue for the Trump campaign.

Okay. Well, we'll see what is going to be an issue for the Trump campaign. The one thing the president doesn't look like he wants a debate again. Is that a wise move? It's going to be interesting to see what comes out of the Vice President debate.

And I'll just say it'll be interesting to see if both campaigns are willing to let their have their vice presidential nominees Have the last word.

So I think as long as President Trump feels like he could get a fair shake and even playing field, moderators that fact check both ways or not at all and let the American people determine that, Well, I could see it being on the table. I don't know that from talking to him, but I know the president's a great debater and feels like he could win it. Yeah, I don't think he had a great debate last time. You do?

Well, I would have I would have liked to have seen more hammering of her on the fact that she has no plan, the fact that she's running away from Biden's record, the fact that, look, in the Middle East, ISIS was largely Defeated, Baghdadi was dead, Iran was broke, Suleimani was dead, and we had, I mean, I was really jumping up and down, Abraham Accords, Abraham Accords. Look at that contrast compared to what we have now.

So I think there's a lot more of his policy wins that he could remind the American people about. Like, for example, the new NAFTA deal, the USMCA, Harris voted against. The Veterans Choice Act, walls voted against. I mean, those were seminal. generational pieces of legislation that got done.

Under his watch, everyone made fun of Space Force. And now we see how important it is that we maintain our dominant position in space against China. And so, look, I would like to see him really hammer her that her policies are bad.

Socialism, progressivism has not worked, will not work, will never work. And in terms of her casting. you know, a a vision for the future.

Well, California, Brian, is the canary in the coal mine, and people and businesses and investment are leaving there in droves. And uh and we we should hang that around her neck. I don't think there's any doubt about it. What's happening in Israel is just, and you're a guy that fights wars and studies wars, goes abroad and sees his stuff up close. But I'm amazed at what I'm seeing with Hezbollah.

We always heard the gold standard of terrorist organizations. They have a humanitarian arm, they've got a political arm, they're impossible to take down. You've got to contain them. But guess what? Eight of their higher-ups have been killed.

Two were killed about three or four weeks ago. Last night, there were over 300 Hezbollah. Hezbollah targets struck last night. We know about the pagers that all the Hezbollah soldiers and reservists were carrying. They got struck.

Then we know about the Walkie-Talkies. They got ramrodded. And then we have the solar panels on top of that and non-stop aerial attacks. Does Israel want to wipe out Hezbollah? Is it possible?

How close are they? It this has been a masterful covert And psychological operation that historians are going to be writing books and movies about for a generation to come. and look at the damage they've done to that terrorist infrastructure without having to invade, without having to put Israeli troops on the ground like they've had to do in the past. And you want to talk about deterrence, You know, the Biden administration is busy literally pulling aircraft carriers and ships out of the Pacific. Where they are needed to deter China and putting them in the Red Sea and putting them in the Persian Gulf because of a ragtag bunch of terrorists, the Houthis.

What is deterring more? What Israel is doing through covert, targeted, precise operations, making Hania, the leader of Hamas, go boom in downtown Tehran, this Pager and Walkie Talkie operation. What they're doing is imposing consequences. on these terrorist organizations and consequences and costs are what Tehran and Hezbollah understand. But they're anticipating their next move.

The report is the elite Rodwan force was studying plans for a ground invasion at the heart of the occupied that's they call it occupied territories. Uh when they got blown up.

So it looks like Israel is listening, anticipating, knows exactly what's going to happen ahead of time, and taking them out ahead of time. Hezbollah is still trying to say they're going to respond for the attack of the taking out of one of the 1980s Marine Barrack masterminds. We took out a couple of them. They were going to respond since that time. Israel hasn't stopped.

There's also a report that Sinoar is dead in the Gaza side.

So we should be celebrating the death of these Hezbollah operatives that helped. Mastermind the 1980s bear uh uh marine barracks bombing. Should we not be celebrating or at least recognizing that?

Well, that's right. And but yet what phone calls did the Israelis get? from Biden and Harris's Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State. Rather than thanking them and appreciating them, it was you guys are being too escalatory. and and and everyone settle down.

And it's the exact opposite. You nailed it. Understand your adversary's next move, get ahead of it. Cut it off at the path rather than what this administration has done, which is react belatedly, whether it was Russia's invasion. Of Ukraine or in the Middle East, they're in constant reaction mode.

After deterrence has failed, after invasions, after attacks like October seventh, then we scramble to react and it's constantly the the the tail wagging wagging the dog, and that's why you've seen the world go into chaos. I want you to hear what Leon Panetta said about the Pager operation, Cut 24. The ability to be able to A place in explosive. in technology that is very prevalent these days. and turn it into a war of terror.

Really? A war of terror. This is something new. Is it terrorism? I don't think there's any question that it's a form of terrorism.

Do you believe that Israel blowing up those pages of Hezbollah fighters is a form of terrorism? Uh That's Absolutely not what I would describe it. I believe it's a precision strike, very few civilian casualties. No requirement for an invasion and occupation by the IDF. Uh, took out their leadership, and again, the psychological piece of this now Hezbollah has to question.

Everything. They have to question their entire supply chain. You can imagine the impact that's having on their propaganda. It's shown the emperor to have no clothes, or they like to project force and strength and sophistication, and also the effect on their recruiting. We're also seeing reporting that not only are they having recruiting, they're having their current fighters kind of run the other way.

So, again, this was a masterful stroke by Israel. And one has to question. Whether our own intelligence community kind of has the aggressive mindset. to stage that type of operation? And would a Commander in Chief Harris, Kamala Harris, approve such an operation?

I think absolutely not. And we saw that about how they've reacted against the Israelis. The Israelis understand that sometimes you have to punch the bully in the mouth. in a targeted, precise way to get them to stand down. But Biden and Harris's team, I think they wake up in the morning thinking about what concession can I make today?

And the next one, Brian, and we're already seeing reporting of it, is pulling all our troops out of Iraq again, which are there to keep a lid on ISIS as a concession to Iran because Iran wants to dominate Iraq. That's the latest concession that Biden and Blinken and crew are putting on the table. They're the kids in the schoolyard that says, Can I just give you more lunch money? Heck, can I throw in my fruit roll-up too? And maybe the bully will be nice.

And we've seen the exact opposite the last four years. But here's the problem. We can kick the bully's ass. and we're choosing not to. I have no idea why we put all this money into defense.

But we could destroy them, not take over the country. But their actions are provocative since the 1980s. Why don't we acknowledge they're the problem? Educate the American people not to go to war, but let them know there's going to be suffocating sanctions and they're most likely going to result in extreme behavior in response.

So we cannot pull out of Iraq. I know a lot of Republicans don't want to hear that. But if last time we left Iraq, we got ISIS, we had to come back and we had to combine with Iran. And guess who went into Iraq to help it? saved Baghdad and stayed Iran.

Obama yanked us out. Obama yanked us out in 2011 with no follow-on plan. You had Al-Qaeda morph into ISIS. You had them running a terrorist state the size of Texas. Staging attacks all over Europe and the Middle East.

Like, I don't want troops there either, but we can't just wish the problem of terrorism away. And like, I like to fight away games when it comes to terrorism. And you can't take out people like Baghdadi, like Suleimani, and others by lasers from space. You've got to have forces on the ground, drones on the ground. They can be small, they can be targeted, but they have to be there.

What if uh they say Iraq is asking us to leave? In one way, they have to sue them for the public knowledge consumption. What do you think the reality is? And can they do that without getting permission from Congress?

Well, this was the same kind of fig leaf excuse that Obama used in twenty eleven. Many within the Iraqi government do not want to become a subservient state to Iran. But Iran has its agents in the government too. We have to show leadership. We have to show support for our friends, the Kurds.

Uh, that have been by our side and that actually support religious freedom, support Christians in the Middle East, in the Levant, that stand with both Jordan and Israel in terms of wanting peace and stability. We have to show that leadership, but it but again, when they're just looking for the next concession. Then now they've put those troops on the table to hope Iran will be nice. What is Iran going to do? They're going to use that as an excuse and an avenue.

To do what it's always wanted to do: establish a ring of terrorism around Israel for Israel's eventual elimination. And lastly, on this assassination investigation, you're going to have a hearing this week. What can we expect?

Well, look, I think that the the Failures. Of the Secret Service around Butler and partial failures down in Florida. are jaw dropping, they're unacceptable, and we are looking for very real accountability. And getting to retire with a thirty year pension isn't accountability. Actual punishment for those who almost got the President killed and didn't do their job.

So that's one. But at least the Secret Service, Brian, is being forthcoming. about its mistakes. The FBI, on the other hand, which is responsible for investigating the backgrounds of the shooters. We know nothing more than we did in the days after the shooting about Crooks, about his encrypted accounts, about how he built IEDs, was he working with others.

They are some would say stonewalling, I can tell you, saying, look, it's under investigation and we'll get to it when we get to it, is not acceptable. In this moment, at this election going on with ongoing threats, You have to tell the American people what you know when you know it. And oh, by the way, you have ongoing assassination of plots back to from Iran. What is what is Biden or Harris imposed as a consequence for trying to kill one of our one of our former President and one of our nominees. Nothing, zero.

Brian, can you imagine if Russia was trying to kill Harris, was hacking the Trump campaign and giving those documents to the Harris campaign, the blow up in the media, the demand for some type of action, but yet we're getting a shoulder shrug from this administration and from the mainstream media. Wow, I need another hour. I cannot believe how many plates you can keep in the air, Congressman. Congressman Michael Waltz, thanks so much. All right, thank you.

And you know what? He might be running for governor. I'm not sure. I just know that to lose that international affairs savvy. would be a loss for the country, but it'd be great for Florida.

As you know, DeSantis' term limited out. We come back, we take your calls, bottom of the hour, another special guest. Big show.

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Let's have another debate. There's more to talk about and the voters of America deserve. Uh the weird. The conversations that I think we should be having on substance, on issues, on policies. What's your plan?

What's my plan? And um and we should have another one before Election Day. All right, well, we'll see if we can have a debate before Election Day. Will there be any substance in it? And will if Trump prepared a little bit better It would have been a disaster for it, just judging by watching the Oprah interview and And seeing Her lack of substance.

I w I I really wanted to know what she was going to do. I really wanted to know how it's going to govern, how it's going to be different from Joe Biden. But 64 days, no press conference, nothing. When we come back. A big fundraiser of Democratic causes that was at the DNC that has stopped because of what she didn't hear.

More on that story next. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Vice President Harris, as you know, once supported a ban on fracking when she was running for president in 2020. She even sued the Obama administration to prevent fracking off California's coast.

Now she says she will not. ban the practice as president Why should voters trust that that is really what the Vice President believes?

So strange why we just keep talking about fracking. Back in 2020, I said that that might be an issue, but it's not going to be a defining issue. And now in 2024, we're still trying to talk about fracking. And now the other side, they're talking about eating cats and geese and dogs and saying absurd things. Of course, we're talking about fracking, it's a real issue.

But we can't talk about any real issues, because as soon as Trump says something a little unorthodox, that becomes a theme. The Sunday shows pick up on it. That was a legitimate question for a change, and he wants an illegitimate question. Evan Barker joins us now. Uh Evan Big Oh, soon.

But Evan is a huge Backer Bob The DNC to change her mind, especially after she saw what she saw. But I thought it was so interesting is that Fetterman is somebody who's kind of blunt. Did you have him on, and he would want to talk about that? But all we want is an explanation why you changed your mind. And if she ever gave interviews or there was a follow-up question, for example, Senator Murphy, I'm looking for this.

This is how hard I'm looking for this. Senator Murphy was on six weeks ago with Channel and Bream on Fox News Sunday. And they said, well, we can't ask Harris why she changed her position, for example, on fracking. Yes, she's changed. Why?

He goes, well, they're better at it. They're better at fracking? I did not know that.

Well, that would be interesting. What are they doing different? How are they getting the shale out quicker?

Now, If you your answer was I met with some people in Oklahoma, and they were concerned about the earthquakes that were happening when there was a lot of fracking. That was a legitimate concern. When we went out to Tulsa and Oklahoma City, various book tours of visits or station visiting KRMG, They said to me, Yeah, everyone's happy to frack and happy with the revenue, but there is some, there's issues with some earthquakes. All right. Rumbles and And I changed my mind.

But what I did not know That Selena Zito wrote in the Washington Examiner is that, do you know? That the Attorney General, Of California named Kama Harris sued Barack Obama to make sure they didn't frack off frack in California. On federal lands. Really? I mean, how great would that have been for Trump to bring up in the debate.

But Those are the types of things, those are hits and misses, but it looks like, and almost everyone agrees. There was no price to pay or to gain from the uh debate when it came to the overall polls.

So I was not at The DNC. I was at the RNC. I've been at the DNC before. Evan Barker was, and Evan's a big donor to the DNC, but not any more. She wrote a column about it.

Evan Barker joins us now. Hey, Evan. Hi, hi Brian. And by the way, I'm not a donor. I actually was a fundraiser.

Fundraiser worked. Yes. So I worked as a fundraiser for U.S. House and Senate candidates, all Democrat Off and on for the last 10 years.

So, tell us your background. I thought it was so interesting you put that in. You grew up in a democratic family, a working-class family, so you have a sense of. You know what it's like with the taxes, the burn, trying to make ends meet, going from paycheck to paycheck. And you were also born with a.

lung issue, so you were constantly going to the doctor, you always were sick, so you understood what health care, how much health care means, and you thought, because of these issues, that's why I'm so comfortable in the Democratic Party. Did I portray your si your si situation correctly? Absolutely, yes.

So I grew up in the Midwest. I am originally from the Kansas City, Kansas slash Missouri area, both And I have a lot of union family members, construction workers in my family. I spent a lot of my childhood in and out of union halls. And I was also born with a rare genetic lung disease. My dad was a small business owner, so it was just him.

And my parents also divorced when I was very young.

So, you know, as a child, I realized what it was like. to basically be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. And my family had voted Democrat for a very long time. And that's what inspired me to initially get involved in Democratic politics. I first started interning for Barack Obama's campaign in 2008.

And I was also an alternate delegate for Hillary Clinton when I was in high school, believe it or not. And then so I kind of made a career out of this. But over the last Couple of years, especially post-2020, I've just seen. This shift in the Democratic Party, where they are no longer connecting and resonating with. the people in my family who used to vote for them.

You know, I have several members in my family, they're in Missouri, who voted for Barack Obama. And then, you know, when Donald Trump came along, they switched to him. And For the longest reasons, like I or sorry, for the longest time, I couldn't understand why. And just over the last couple of years, I've started to process and just really see the way that the Democratic Party has completely become beholden to donors. And I know that this is also an issue with Republicans as well, I'm sure, but I'm speaking to my experience working with the Democrats.

You know, we're now the party of Dick Cheney and the party of endless proxy wars and divisive identity politics. And I think that they just don't know how to speak to regular people anymore. You felt it was a little vacuous. They talk of joy. uh you know a a bit brat summer that bothered you Because there's so many serious issues out there.

There's so many serious issues. And I think about my grandmother, you know, who who was someone who voted for Obama and then has switched to Trump. And, you know, she lives in Missouri and she is just surviving right now on her social security check. And this inflation has just totally been it's just been so difficult on her. And I think that people say, oh, well, yes, there's been inflation, but at the same time, we've seen we've seen wages go up.

Well, what about people like my grandmother who are no longer working? You know, like. She has to go to three different grocery stores when she grocery shops. just to find or Or sorry, just to be able to buy groceries. You know, the way that she used to, when she could just go to one grocery store.

You know, she has to do all of this extra work to scramble to get by. And I just, when I was at the DNC, I didn't hear much about the economy at that point. you know, Kamala Harris had even put Any economic positions on her website? And I just felt like so disgusted by the fact that. I was just in this giant arena with all of these people just mindlessly going along with this, you know, just her just becoming the nominee overnight.

And it just felt so incredibly out of touch. Oprah being there, you know, just just Telling people like my grandmother that they should just be complacent with joy. And the one thing you could say, Evan, on top of that, you could say, well, you know, we're coming out of a pandemic. Yeah, you were coming out of it. And they said, don't do the rescue package because you already had one in December of a ridiculous amount of money that was more than Trump asked for from Congress.

And then you put the rescue package in, you do the Inflation Reduction Act, and you get $7.2 trillion and infrastructure to trillion dollars. That's what you chose to do.

So either own it, just say, that's what I chose to do. Instead of saying, well, I inherited a mess.

Well, wait a second. You didn't have to spend $7 trillion. Just tell us what you're going to do. I feel like they're hiding the ball. And the reason why AOC and others to the way to the left are not saying anything is they believe that she's going to do exactly what they want as long as she can win the election.

Yeah. And that's I mean, that's what it it comes down to is like they the Democrats just have they have a huge messaging issue. Like they don't know how to talk to regular people anymore. Do you find other people in your family that aren't? Do you find any other friends?

That were at the DNC. Did you find anybody else echoing what you're saying and what you're doing? Quietly, privately. When I first went public with my op-ed and before that, I had actually posted a video on TikTok, which is what led to the op-ed. I posted it to maybe like 30, 60 people, and it ended up getting like 10 million views or something.

It was totally crazy. Privately, I got several messages from people. Saying, you know, wow, you're really brave. I can't believe you're saying this. Like, these are things that I've thought, and I have just been too afraid to say because I don't want to lose my job or I don't want to make it so that I can't have a job in the future.

But thank you for saying it, you know. But they would never, ever say it publicly. Do what you did. I I did. I think maybe it's just growing up with an illness that's always made me sick, and I've realized how precious life is.

I just feel like it's important to speak the truth.

So that's what I've been doing, and that's what I'll continue to do. And, you know, a lot of those people that were. that were reaching out to me privately, you know, after all these Fox News appearances are are no longer speaking to me at all.

So it's been a very interesting experience. What is your sense how's the election? If the election was today, what do you think? Who wins? Oh man, I think it'll be really, really close.

I think it's going to come down to Pennsylvania, really. And I was even saying this a few weeks ago before the DNC, when Kamala announced her running mate, I thought it was a strategical error that she selected Tim Walls. I think it would have been a lot better if she had picked. I think she would have had a better chance if she had picked. Governor Shapiro.

So I think it's going to come down to PA. And I think it's going to Wow, and if you are right, Evan Barker, that means that The fact that he said, Hey, you got to give me an adjustment. You got to tell me what I'm going to do. I want to be productive as vice president, that she did not want that Governor Shapiro breathing down her neck.

So she went with someone that's not going to bother her that promised not to run. And that could be the same mindset that's the reason she's sitting at the Al Smith dinner. I am not confident enough to sit there and memorize a few jokes and make fun of myself. And I am not confident enough to put a talented governor, whether you like him or not, he's extremely talented, so-called moderate. From Pennsylvania.

In a state I gotta have. It's said I'm gonna pick Minnesota, a state I already have.

So, and by the way, they don't let the guy do interviews. He used to be a surrogate for Biden on every weekend. They do not let him talk to the press. It's insane. She doesn't talk to the press either.

And I want to say, probably by at this point, I've probably done more interviews than Kamala Harris has. I definitely have.

So, yeah, I mean, it's crazy. We're living through historical times.

Well, anyone who says, Evan, I can't believe you did that, just say, read it. After you read your column. People will understand why you did it. It makes total sense. And then come back.

You'll get your friends back if they would just read it. Yeah, that's a great point. I'm not sure if all of them really have, but I don't know. I think they're just they're running away from me right now, and that's okay. I'm okay with being brave And alone, that's fine.

Now I'm getting sad. No, it's fine. It's fine. I've got a really good support system around me. I've got.

I've got really good family. You know, actually, a lot of my family are really happy. They're like, oh, she's finally seen the light. All right, good. You have Thanksgiving to look forward to.

All right. Evan Barker, thank you very much. Interesting insight. Everybody's opinion matters because you usually represent so many more people as well. Evan, thank you.

Thank you. All right, when we come back, we're going to find if there's more to know. And if there's a rapper out there that's about to join the Trump train, kind of. Hear the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here. The Brian Kill Meat Show.

More to know. Sponsored by Previgent. Previgent is the most recommended memory support brand by pharmacists. Are you really gonna stay out of this presidential place? I do.

I'd like to stay out.

Well, look, things happen. Like like Trump's is shot and then They stop playing Mini Man and it jumps 250% in his frame man. Amen, amen, amen. Wish that for me. Right, and that's exactly what I did after.

I guess that. I just went into a fight mode. people identify with it that way.

And that was 50 Cent talking about his prison stay, the shot. I think he was shot a ridiculous amount of times. And he said, when Trump got shot, he can relate to that, especially his reaction. He can relate to that. And I'm wondering how many men in the black community, the reason why they're skewing that direction, at least in the polls, is because of that.

And my sense is he's voting for Trump. The guy's a free marketer. I think that he has some standards. He sees what's going on. But he just doesn't want to go all the way unless he.

Has to. And we'll see next. Janet Jackson is slammed as irrelevant and elite for questioning Kamala Harris's race, saying, Have you heard this before? She's not black. Really?

She's not black, she says. That's what I hear, that she's Indian. That's the way, uh, that's the way love goes. Oh my god. Uh she was just chatting about that in the State of the Union.

Her father's white, that's what I was told. Uh she went on to talk about that. Allison, that's not helpful, right? I mean, it wasn't, but then apparently someone who claimed they were her manager went out and apologized, and then they had to walk it back because he wasn't really her manager, nor was he speaking on her behalf. It just keeps on, keeps the story out there longer and longer.

Right. Yeah, what happened to her?

Next. Homelessness going through the roof in California, crime, high taxes, open border, bad schools, gas prices, and housing plague California. This is Governor Newsom's legacy. Newsom signed a bill into law that will close a legal loophole that has allowed for an increase in California's plastic bag waste. That's how he's handling all those problems that California is facing.

Despite a 2014 law that was designed to ban the environmental bite, plastic bags create pollution, he says, in our environment.

So now he's going to ban it again. That's his answer. He has got people way to his left, but this is, he's not getting help from the party. He's trying to help her by not passing left-wing lunatic laws that people are going to find so dissatisfying and link back to her. But doing this is not helpful.

Next. And it's also the most annoying thing ever if you actually do the grocery shopping and you can't have a plastic bag. Governor Murphy did this in New Jersey, and I curse him every time I check out, and I refuse to buy a reusable one. And you know what? And by the way, isn't he a Goldman Sachs guy that probably never shopped in his life?

Oh, yeah. What would he know about going to the supermarket? Right. So it's crazy. And that's the same thing.

We have bags in our car. And I'm thinking to myself, what are we doing? Going to a soup kitchen? No, you got to keep the bags because you buy the bags, you got to keep reusing the bags. And they say they take longer to even break down.

It's if you throw them out. Yeah, next. Tom Brady finally had enough of watching the Cowboys and his early dysfunction. At one point, he said during the game, because, you know, this is his first three games, two Cowboy home games. Two of the three have been losses.

He sees the problem with their efficiency. It bothers him. And at one point, he just said, oh, my God. To the Cowboys' credit, they did try to come back. They fell short.

The Ravens, one of my favorite teams, ended up getting their first one of the season.

Next, Mercury Morris, member of the Dolphins undefeated 1972 team, passed away at the age of 77. He was a great guy. Caught up to him a lot at the Super Bowl. He remembers being in jail. He went the wrong way, got addicted to drugs for a while.

When they were celebrating 10 years since the perfect season, he actually could hear the celebration from the jail he was in. And finally, this. Harris Buckner beats Travis Kelsey in merchandise sales, the kicker on the Kansas City Chiefs, more than the tight end dating Taylor Swift. Why? Because he stood up for traditional morals and his Catholic beliefs.

I don't know. Christ in jerseys, a great max. A great match. A great matchup and a great pairing. I'm Brian Kilmead.

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