JD Vance debates Tim Walz tonight in final(?) 2024 debate

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So glad you're here. Brian Kilmicho coming your way. A lot going on. Today, the Speaker of the House will be at the Stock Exchange. He's going to tell everyone what he's going to be doing in the first hundred days, should they keep the majority.

And of course, President Trump becomes President of the United States. That is what he hopes. I'll tell you, him keeping the House is a lot closer now than a year ago when they're ousting Kevin McCarthy, putting him in place. They're backbiting each other.

Now I think things have settled down somewhat. We're seeing a lot of natural disasters, one of which has happened with the dock workers up and down the East Coast. They are basically on strike right now.

So if anything's in stores, that's fine. But what's going to happen in two or three months, if this drags on more than a day or two, you're going to start to see things becoming more expensive, depletion of inventory, bad all around. I don't want to get into the minutiae of it, but just keep in mind. Once again, this administration lets everything go to the last minute. Even though their election fortunes are on the line, still they will not get involved with collective bargaining or try to broker anything.

Now we're in a strike situation, the 72nd strike under Joe Biden. Let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I think it's also sent a big message to Tehran, that the idea that you're proxies, you can operate through them. And again, there's certain ceilings on what Israel's willing to do. It shattered that assumption.

Also, I think it's actually restrained Iran. I think it sent a message to them that you're not safe. Your leadership isn't necessarily safe. It's so amazing what has happened. Richard Haas weighing in from the Foreign Council.

Israel goes in all in on land. In fact, starting last night at 10 o'clock, and there's been almost no resistance inside Lebanon. A true lesson for Biden's America.

Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate. Hezbollah is flat on its back, and they're about to get a knockout blow.

Meanwhile, the region waits for Iran to react. Number two. Usually is that the weekend here in Washington, probably in Delaware. Come on, stop that team. When you have Wagner, it's nine miles from here.

Come on. I was on the phone the whole time. Working on that. Yeah, right. You can't stay at the White House.

You worked so hard to get there. You wanted to run again for four years, but no one could ever get you to stay in the House on a weekend. Where is Joe and Kamala? North Carolina and Georgia slammed by Helene with a death toll over 100. How about to the tune getting closer to 200 and rising?

And Joe beaches it all weekend while his VP campaigns and meets with donors. Where is Trump? Handing out aid in Georgia and relief and starting a GoFundMe page. Number one.

Well listen, I think you're going to see a stark contrast. Between a representative of a party that wants to take us back. And then you're going to see someone who is good, who's genuine, that good, funny uncle that you like to hang out with. Right. I want a vice president that's my uncle.

Vice President Debate Day, Waltz and Vance, Lockhorns for the one and only time. We preview and look at the crumbling Democratic blue wall as Trump spends quality time in Wisconsin and Michigan, and the vice president has to do her day job. Once in a while, it would certainly help.

So let's start there. We had a VP debate tonight. What could I tell you?

Well, 90, it's going to be 90 minutes. They're going to be able to speak with mics unmuted, but the moderators, which are Margaret Brennan, Nora O'Donnell, will have the right to mute if I guess behavior is really bad. That's a way of punishing.

So you'll see some of the rules who go a little old-fashioned. They'll not. Be any meetings on the breaks. You can't have anyone come out and help you. You can't come out with any notes.

You can make notes. He'll give you a pad. You can go ahead and do that. That makes sense. We know that coming into this big debate, Kamo Harris has the most.

Highest favorable numbers at 49%, Trump at 46%, Waltz at 43%. Joe Biden at 41% and J.V. Vance at 38%. I'm not sure what it means. I'm talking about competency, especially when it comes to this.

I don't for a second think that Waltz is going to be overwhelmed. All those stories of him biting his nails, beginning to panic, are just wrong. The New York Times, of all people, went back and looked at his debates and said that he's pretty quick on his feet. He comes off likable. He does tend to lose his temper sometimes and shows some flair.

But for the most part, he's going to be quick on the comeback. His problem is his record. He's going to look to also try to defend Kamala Harris's record, but she doesn't really have one. Overall, if you name a vice president, Seven fifty days ago. And he doesn't do one solo interview, while the other guy is named.

Younger, less experienced, and has done 100 interviews. What does that say about the faith the campaign has in you? Here's what Corey Lewandowski said. Yeah. Governor Walls cannot even articulate what Kamala Harris's policies are.

He can articulate the fact that he signed a bill into law that allowed him to have abortions in the ninth month. That's a fact. He can articulate the fact that He and his colleagues enjoyed the burning of Minneapolis.

So he has to justify why that is and why so many people left his state because of the economic calamity that he put in place and moved to the surrounding areas.

So you're going to see that tomorrow night on full display. I think so. That'll be good. But if you're J.D. Vance, you don't want to be Tim Waltz.

You want to be Kamala Harris.

So take the incoming, talk about his record. Don't let the personal attacks on you and the distraction of, well, you used to not like Donald Trump. That's true. A lot of people didn't like Donald Trump. Everybody was attacking Donald Trump.

Most of them get one over, except for the Liz Cheneys of the world. That just happens. But he's got to be ready for that. Here's more from Jamie Harrison. You heard him in the open.

I actually think this is an insult. Cut one.

Well, listen, I think you're going to see a stark contrast between a representative of a party that wants to take us back, who believes that America's best days are in her past, and then you're going to see someone who is good, who's genuine, who is that good, funny uncle that you like to hang out with, but who's going to talk about how we are going to help people get a leg up, how we're going to move all Americans ahead. Right. I'm sure that'll happen. By the way, you don't want a funny person. Uncle.

You want somebody that's competent. You don't want someone making you laugh. You want someone to lead. That's why I care a little about personality. I look at action.

To me, if Kamala Harris wants to show that she could do the job, I would do the job. I would say, hey, do you mind if I go to North Carolina, Joe Biden? Do you mind if I go down to Georgia? Joe Biden, as soon as you heard that this hurricane was hit and that North Carolina might have sustained some horrific damage, you don't sit there and go ahead and go out to Nevada, do your event, go to a fundraiser, and then go to Washington and speak in front of a FEMA desk. After you're done, you give some generic comments.

And then you don't take any questions. I don't get it. I mean, this is an opportunity to do the job and show you could do the job. Just when you walk out if if there's an international crisis and the press catches up to you and they want your comment, the fact that you could feel comfortable enough to answer on your feet at that moment that shows you conversing in the issues, that's your best selling point. The stuff on the stump with people that like you, that already came to support you, that does nothing for me or the American people, I don't think, that haven't made up their minds yet.

So I just think that Trump showing up yesterday and her not taking questions after going to Washington, just going to FEMA, which is just down the block. Here's Trump cut 14. We do need some help from the federal government. They have to get together. Ideally with the governor, that governor needs to uh He's been trying to get them, and I'm sure they're going to come through.

But he's been calling the President, hasn't been able to get him. It's not totally true. They were playing phone tag. He was talking about Brian Kemp, and he met with Donald Trump for the first time in maybe two years, maybe more, maybe it's four years.

So here's Brian Kemp straightening things out, Cut 15. I just spoke. The President just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back. And he just said, hey, what do you need?

And I told him, you know, we we got what we need. We'll work through the federal process. He offered that if there's other things we need, just to call him directly, which I appreciate that. Just keep it in mind. You know, Georgia got hit, but not like North Carolina.

North Carolina's a big deal. I know about the presidential footprints. You don't want to get in people's way, but show up. Show up in the vicinity. You only got to do the job for two more months.

Please show some interest. You just go to the beach again. You got this mansion called the White House. Stay there for two more months and just watch it. It would certainly help if you asked me.

So when we come back, you'll hear what Joe Biden said when asked. He gets annoyed when people yell questions at him because he won't sit down in any type of interview format. And now that he's not running again, there's nothing that's going to force him Uh in front of the microphone. It seems Brian Kilmead Show. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead.

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By even some of the polls that you've cited. But he didn't get killed. In fact, it was razor-thin.

So when you look at. The things that you just cited, Hispanics. Donald Trump is at 40% with Hispanics. He's at plus 17% with non-white, non-college educated voters. He's ahead with blue-collar workers.

He's plus 31% from people that graduated from trade organizations. This is much stronger than he was in 2020 and 2016. Right-priebus weighing in on what's going on with this landscape. We're now just over 30 days left until we finally have an election.

Meanwhile, you have a Senate to win if you're a Republican or Democrat. And Stephen Law is in studio now, the Senate Leadership Fund president. And he's got to decide what to do with his money, the money that he's earned and raised, because you can't fund every Senate election. But if the Republicans want to take the majority, they've got to pick up two seats. One in West Virginia is a given.

Jim Justice is going to walk away with that and take it away from Joe Manchin. But what's left and what's to retain? Stephen Law, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. Much for having me, Brian.

First off, are you defending any seats? Ted Cruz is saying he's being badly outraged. Do you see that as an issue in Texas?

Well, we're concerned about that, both that race and in Florida, where Democrats are making a lot of noise about trying to make those races go. Playing on Tim Scott? Rick Scott Scott, but I think Ted Cruz especially has been one of the MVPs in this particular cycle because he's cared about his race. He's invested in the state. He's raising a lot of money.

And I think he's going to be in fine shape, notwithstanding the Democrats beating their chests about it. I think he's going to win just fine against Colin Allred.

So you look out with John Testu, who pretends to be a moderate, but he's not. If he was like Joe Manchin, fighting against the filibuster, fighting against the new Green Deal, that would be one thing. But he's not. And I think the people of Montana, who are getting more Republican by the year, I think they got Tim Sheehee up five. Yeah, right.

What we're seeing there, especially in both Montana and in Ohio, is that you've got two Democrats who have been hard left Democrats, to your point. They haven't been Joe Manchin-type Democrats, and they're running in states that we're going to win at the presidential level by 5, 10, 15 points. And they're living a lie. They're pretending to be moderates. They're voting very far left.

And we kind of view it in our business: we're preventing people from having buyers' remorse. We're voting for these people and then finding out they're very liberal. And I think the voters in both of those states, Montana and Ohio, are poised for the first time to elect Republicans to these seats. I know that Mitch McConnell is all in with Dave McCormick. You guys are all in too in Pennsylvania.

You think you have a shot there in Michigan and Wisconsin? You're looking to spend $67.5 million there on TV, radio and digital? Right. So for the first part of this cycle, we focused aggressively on Montana and Ohio, as we said. Those are the two seats that look most like pickups.

And as we enter the last month, we're now looking at these blue wall states. The states that Democrats really hope to try to hold on to to get the White House, and that's Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. But as you look at the top of the ticket, Trump is competitive in all of those states. And in each of those states, we also have good candidates running who are closing up the ballot week by week. And we think we've got a good shot in each of those races, which is why we're putting additional money near the end.

I know let's break it down if we can one by one. For example, in Pennsylvania, you got Bob Casey, who's outraising Dave McCormick. We caught up with him on the trail last week, and you could see that you're going to grocery stores, women's events, historical sites. He is pumped up. He said, He'd been at this for a year.

He said, finally, I have name recognition. What are you finding? Yeah, the same thing. I mean, Bob Casey has been skating on his father's legacy. He was a pro-life, moderate Democrat for years.

Everybody thinks that's who Bob Casey is. It's not the case. I mean, this guy is a toady for whatever the Democrats want. Every single time they need his vote, nobody even asks where he is. He's just going to vote for whatever the Democrats want, even if.

It's bad. There's almost no press. Right. Yeah. He's just kind of a nobody.

And Dave McCormick is running just an on-fire campaign. He is respecting the voters of the state. He's going around. He's meeting people. He's talking to them about issues.

And Bob Casey. Pokes his head out every once in a while in between fundraisers and acts like he cares. Steve Law, president of the Senate Leadership Fund, with us right now, talking about the focus in these last five weeks.

So that was one. Where you stand in Wisconsin, too, is interesting. Eric Hovedy, take an aim at Tammy Baldwin. He's a very talented candidate who's dramatically underfunded. Yes, he does have resources of his own that he's been deploying, which means that he's getting name ID in a state that is often tough to do, especially as a first-time challenger.

Tammy Baldwin is another one of those very far-left Democrats running in a state that's kind of tilted a little bit more Republican in recent years. They went for President Trump in 2016, and we just nearly lost it in 2020. And Ron Johnson has cracked the code on that for his last two elections. It's always a hard election. It is tough, but we think Eric Hovedy's got the right stuff to be able to win that race.

I guess, yeah, he was saying that the money is an issue.

So how much are you able to give him?

So, well, we can't give it to him directly. But we can spend it on his behalf, and we're investing $17 million into that race, which is a very substantial amount. It's a less expensive state overall to engage in than either Michigan or Pennsylvania. And we may end up doing more in some of these places.

So let's talk about Bernie Moreno in Ohio. We know that Trump's probably going to win Ohio by 10. He ought to, yeah. Sherard Brown is somebody who fancies himself at one point a presidential candidate, but a moderate. What made you thought that Bernie Moreno, a self-made multimillionaire, is the right opponent?

Well, he's a hard-charging candidate. He won that primary solidly, and he's working really hard to raise money, get it on the air. And Sherrod Brown is basically indistinguishable from Bernie Sanders. They're the same person. And yet, as you point out, he's been marketing himself as a moderate.

He just simply isn't. And we're finding that when we communicate that to voters, they pay attention and they're looking for an alternative. We think Bernie Moreno is the right one. Do you think in Arizona that that's not winnable, or else you'd be in? There, right?

It doesn't look like Carrie Lake is close enough. I wouldn't say so. I mean, at this stage in the cycle, people divide up positions. And so we've seen Club for Growth, which is another super PAC, National Republican Senatorial Committee being very active in Arizona and Nevada, those two states, which give us some breathing room then to go after these tough blue-walled states, which are very, very expensive. I mean, I think Trump's got a good shot at winning both Arizona and Nevada.

That would help down-ticket racing. It's pretty impressive that he's within one or two points when I was talking to people a couple of weeks ago and they say, you know, we might have to give up on Wisconsin. The new poll has him within two. Yeah, I think it's very, very close. And again, in 2016, he started out behind in those states that have a huge blue-collar constituency.

I mean, what's happening in places like Wisconsin and Michigan is you have a huge number of blue-collar voters who always thought of themselves as lunch pail Democrats, and they're looking at the Democratic Party and saying, I'm not for that woke party, and I want somebody else. And Brian, I've got to say, I think Trump is the right answer for that. Steve Law, why do you do this?

Well, I care about the country a lot. When I got started in this particular part of the business, I was very concerned about the presidency of Barack Obama. And we started really the first super PAC that existed at that point in 2010. We decided we're going to take the fight to Democrats. And I also think the Senate is uniquely important as an institution.

The role of the filibuster to moderate the direction of the country is extremely important. Kamala Harris is going to push to get rid of it. Yeah. And also add two states and also PAC the Supreme Court. Senator Wyden proposed this.

Yes, exactly. Put that on the floor. And that would fundamentally change the country. We'd never get it back. People don't understand how much it's.

And that's why you're doing it. Yeah, absolutely.

So right now, you're down one seat. You picked up justice. See if you can hold your own and get a couple more. Steve Law, thanks so much. Thanks for having me on the show, Brian.

I really appreciate it. Uh If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Can you answer that, my question? How Waltz is feeling?

Because the reports are that he's nervous.

So that was my question. Yeah, he's looking forward to the debate. I think he's looking forward to debating J.D. Vance, who again is continuing to advocate for returning to high-risk pools that'll put people with pre-existing conditions. back into these high-risk pools that cost them more money and could kick them off of their insurance.

So where did that come from? Nobody has looked for people with preexisting conditions. Do we really have to get back in the Obamacare debate? That's Ian Sams, who's out there just to muddy the waters. But I think that Ian Sams, who for some reason canceled his appearance on Fox and Friends today, should answer the question about About Tim Waltz.

In his state, you can go through the ninth month. And without and get an abortion. And how do we know that? Because five times in his state, the child's been get to the end of their term and killed. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West joins us now.

Dallas County Republican Party Chairman, and he's a chairman of the American Constitutional Rights Union. Spent just about three decades in the military. Lieutenant Colonel, welcome back. It's good to be with you, Brian. Thank you.

Hey, what do you? I mean, I know it's high stakes for both men to go to bat for their candidate. Really, not for each other. Don't you agree? Yeah, without a doubt.

This is all about showing that you could be a good wingman to the person that is running to be president. And I think that right now, in every way, shape, and form, as the question was asked, Tim Wall should be absolutely nervous, and Kamala Harris should be absolutely nervous. Because if this is a debate that sticks to the issues, the things that the American people are concerned about, then it's hands down. And furthermore, when you have this glaring contrast, and as you said, I served 22 years in the military, several trips in the combat zones. You know, I used to call you from Kandahar, Afghanistan, when it was Brian and the Judge radio show.

It's going to be hard for Tim Waltz to stand on the stage face to face with a Marine who answered the call of duty, the call of service, and went and fought in Iraq. And Tim Waltz abandoned his unit as a senior leader of an Army artillery battalion. And his excuse does not hold any water whatsoever. And furthermore, he continued to claim that he was a command sergeant major and even had that rank printed on his congressional coin when he knew that he was not.

So the question of character, without a doubt, has to be brought up as well. You know, the thing is, he has done no interviews in 50-plus days since he got the job. And Vance has done a hundred, J.D. has done 100. Literally 100.

So every day when I look to get a sound sheet, it's Waltz blowing off questions.

So why did you hire the guy and not let him do any interviews? He's supposed to be out there, if nothing else, being a shield, defining what? Why is it? He'd be the one saying, you know, why isn't the vice president answering any questions?

Well, here's what the policy is. Here is the problem. You get your hands dirty, so she doesn't have to. But now both of them don't do anything. Which I don't know if you've seen the New York Times today.

They, of course, endorsed, as they always do, the Democrat. But they go on to say that what Kamala Harris is doing is a terrible precedent. They say Ms. Harris may think she is running a campaign designed to minimize risks of an unforced error. Answering journalists' questions and offering greater policy detail could court controversy.

After all, under the belief that being the only viable alternative to Trump may be enough to bring her victory, that strategy may ultimately be. Prove winning, but it is a disservice to the American people and to her own record, and leaving the public with a sense that she is shielded from tough questions. And he goes on: So even the New York Times says what you're doing is a disservice to the American people. That's really what it is. It truly is.

And even Peggy Noonan, who is definitely not a Donald Trump fan, referred to her as the Artless Dodger in an article that she wrote a couple of weeks ago. But, you know, coming back to Tim Wallace, you just brought up an incredible point. This is not about women's reproductive health. I mean, what he is advocating for in Minnesota is infanticide. And that should be quite troubling when you have had five babies that have been born and left to die.

And the other thing you have to look at, let's look at his economic record. He has the highest state corporate tax rate in the country, 9.8%. He is the sixth highest as far as personal income tax rate. He taxes corporations with their foreign investment and earnings. His employment rate is not good.

His economic growth rate is far lacking behind the federal growth rate.

So he doesn't really have anything to stand on as a governor. And let's not forget, he sat and watched the largest city in his state, Minnesota. Minneapolis burned to the ground. And when he was asked about employing the National Guard, his question was: do they have diversity training? I mean, this is not somebody that is going to be able to stand.

And I think, truthfully, Donald Trump should send a thank you basket to Kamala Harris for not selecting Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania. Because he's popular in Pennsylvania and he's very good on his feet. You know what he wouldn't have done? I don't know him too well, but just judging by I like the way he acted after President Trump was shot in Butler. He stood up.

You had no idea if he was a Democrat or Republican for a couple of weeks.

So I thought that was pretty important too. But I also think he would never have shut up and avoided all interviews. He would have said, Are you kidding me? What am I doing? It's an insult.

It's like if someone hires you, if someone hired me to be on the radio station and they go, Yeah, we just don't want you on the air. We'll pay you. It doesn't matter. We're going to pay you. But we're just going to have you read some notes.

We don't want you talking off script. I would say, keep your check. That's what Tim Walch would say. You've destroyed my career, especially if he loses. If they go out and lose, which I hope they do.

Then you're going to be like, what did you do? You just took the job, read the teleprompter, and went home. Mm-hmm. And you think about this past weekend, what another good contrast and comparison. You know, Donald Trump goes to the Alabama, Georgia game, which, by the way, is an SEC classic game, and the cheers and everything for him.

Tim Waltz goes to the Minnesota, Michigan game, and look at what happened there. You know, people stay out. He got heckled and people having to stand outside in the rain while his uh you know, motorcade comes up and there's some reports that he absolutely that uh he may have flipped off some of the people there. Not a good not a good way to to go out to a football game. And and the college football crowd, that's a pretty good crowd you want to have in your back.

So, I got to bring it to your other area of expertise, and that's war. Joe Biden, on what should be next after a series of military maneuvers that I have never seen anything comparable in my lifetime. I'm talking about taking out Nasarella, talking about taking out his eight highest leaders. I'm talking about killing 30 overall and then wounding 3,000 through the Pager and Walkie-Talkie explosions. And now, the taking up with surgical strikes of these leaders and their weapons depots.

And now, so far, keep your fingers crossed, they've moved in on the ground into Lebanon. The Lebanese government's invisible, by the way. They just left. They're being occupied by a mob called Hezbollah, and they're moving through the tunnels and through the border.

So far, not challenged. The mighty Hezbollah, who buries people alive, creates havoc in Africa and throughout the Middle East, and kept Assad in power and kept Israel at bay in 2006, as supposed to watch the back of Iran like Hamas. They are both. Reeling almost just, I would say, flat on their back, and people are waiting for Iran to act. Your take on where we're at right now.

I would tell you right now, Israel has gone on offense. They understand they cannot win on defense. They also understand that they cannot sit around and wait for approval from the international community. This is about their existence. This is about their future.

And so, what you have seen them do is this is a decapitation of the leadership of your opposition campaign. When you can go into Iran and kill the leader of Hamas, when you are going into Lebanon and you are taking out their senior leadership, like you said, down into the thousands with the Pager attack, that sends a message to Iran that, look, wherever you are, we will reach out and we will touch you. It would not surprise me if somehow Israel starts to affect Iran, I mean, and Hezbollah, operating in Venezuela, something that we're not doing. And we know that they are funneling across our borders since it's so wide open.

So, Israel is sending a message to Iran, to Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Houthis. I mean, you forgot to mention, and I want to mention that they're going after the Houthis. Why have we not seen the Biden-Harris administration take these type of offensive actions against terrorists and jihadists? And what about now? The lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal today, Hezbollah was the front of the line to watch Iran's back.

What are we doing?

Now's the time for us and the EU to start moving with maximum pressure on Iran and the Houthi rebels. Join in this historic opportunity and help the Iranian people who hate their government. You have to understand, for the longest time they've stood up, they've spoken up and they've been jailed and they've been whipped and they've been tortured and they've been killed because they stood up and want a degree of peace. If this is a highly educated population being repressed by a bunch of maniacal ayatollahs this guy has been scurried to a secure bunker, I'm sure Israel knows how to reach him. We have to join in this historic effort.

And the Saudis would love it. And I'll tell you, the Gulf countries would love it. Don't tell me that Iraq wouldn't love to not be under the influence of Iran.

So this should be it. Don't you think? I know there's a risk of putting the Middle East into flames, but why put your lid on a boiling pot of terror? Why not take it off and finish it off?

Well, you're absolutely right, but that's not what you're going to get from the Biden-Harris administration, just the same as that wasn't what you got from the Obama-Biden administration. There should be no talk about an Iranian nuclear deal. There should be, once again, we should put our foot on their neck as far as those sanctions on their oil and gas industry. And guess what? What happens as a second and third order effect if we put the pressure on Iran economically, militarily, diplomatically, then they're not sending drones to Russia.

Then they're not shipping oil and those energy resources to China. And so it affects our number one and number two geopolitical foes as well. And that's how you bring all of those elements of national power against your enemy, your diplomatic, your informational, your economic. And eventually, you can use your credible military deterrent to help and assist with what Israel is doing.

So now is we have assets in the region, Colonel. I mean, we have 45,000 troops. We've got these aircraft carriers. And look, they are vulnerable. Vulnerable.

They are scared to death.

Now, all the pressure. For the longest time, Hezbollah and Hamas were told Iran has your back. Iran's got your back. You do the fighting. We got your back.

You don't.

Now let's see it.

Now we're going to see if the bodyguard can stand up to Israel. Go ahead. Israel's saying, I dare you, hit us back. We're not asking for permission. Hit us back.

But just to your point about where the Biden administration stands, although Politico says they're fighting with each other, some want Israel to continue and some don't, which is fine. I mean, through every administration, Schultz was going out with Casper Weinbachbacher, Rumsfeld and Paul Kohen Powell. I'm fine with that. That doesn't show chaos. It shows strong-minded people.

That's where the president steps in and decides who's got it right. Cut 27.

Well, and just the fact that Israel may be now launching a limited operation into Lebanon. Are you aware of that? Are you comfortable with their plans? I'm more aware than you might know, and I'm comfortable with them stopping. We should have a ceasefire now.

Is he terrible? Is he the worst? Is he the worst? Yeah. I mean, we should have a ceasefire now.

Look, the best thing would be for Joe Biden to continue to be on vacation. Kamala Harris just suspended her campaign and say, hey, look, let's give this over to Donald Trump. He had it right when he came to Iran. You heard nothing about House, Hezbollah, Hamas or any of their client terrorist organizations. That's what we need to get back to.

But the real question is, Brian, will that question about what is going on in the Middle East be asked tonight at this Vice Presidential debate? I wonder. I really do, because they don't talk about foreign policy at all. I would love it. I think Waltz would be totally out of his element, and J.D.

Vance would be comfortable. I hate J.D. Vance's stance on Eastern Europe. Many Republicans love it. I don't.

But. I see America has a historic opportunity here. And with Israel doing the hard work, I just hope he recognizes that.

Well I think that J.D. Vance does. President Trump definitely does. You know, remember, we had the Abraham Peace, of course, but with this Biden-Harris administration, they don't. And I think that what Israel recognizes is that they can't take the chance of there being a president, Kamala Harris.

They have to do what is necessary now to put their enemies in a very untenable position, even if that were to happen. Go get him, Colonel. It's a very perilous time. I mean, to stay up with it. This is all historic.

We never thought that Hezbollah would be damaged like this. I didn't think the intelligence existed to take out Nazarella, and it did.

So, and then Sinoir is probably, his days are numbered. He's sitting cowering with what's left of the hostage, what's left of the hostages, sadly, in In Gaza, and don't tell me that this is how Iran planned it. There is no way. And like I said, they're on their heels. This is a moment.

Let's not let them stand up. Colonel Alan West, thank you. Thank you so much, Ron. Take care. Listen, I got a few moments at the back end to talk, to get your opinion.

I want to know what you think's at stake and how you think this is going to play out, the vice presidential debate. I know you don't care who's better, J.D. Vance or Governor Waltz, But I want you to know who could tell the story better of the top of the ticket. Don't move. Giving you everything you need to know.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think this is the Brian Kill Me Show. We know that the media seems totally uninterested in fact-checking Joe Biden from any of the number of false claims that he made. You know, I've lost track, sir. I've been told the media is on every single side of this, and everything's our fault.

President Trump said Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi were lovely individuals when he was speaking in Montana last night. Do you agree with that characterization? I think that President Trump gets along with world leaders and there's nothing wrong with him complimenting them as people if it makes him more effective diplomatically. And there's an irony here. That's different than walking in and laying down a lot of Xi Jinping.

Oh, no, it's not actually. The problem here is not that Donald Trump and I have called out what's happened to Springfield. No, I have talked about the problems and cited Governor DeWine saying what were legitimate problems. I'm not asking about that. We have documented that.

I'm asking about your words, sir, which you are responsible for. But Margaret, you only documented it after Donald Trump called attention to it.

So, J.D. Vance, taking the fire, especially from Margaret Brennan, noticed that those are not easy retorts to come back from. He did. And then he did it three other times. You know, I watch all the Sunday shows, so I'm trying to just pick out something new for your Monday show.

And I'm watching them.

Okay, normally after I do them once, I'll fast forward. And I go, I got to see this happen. Every one of these was a brawl, every one of them.

Now at the very least if Waltz comes at J. D. Vance with a surprise. Good luck with that. He's not going to budge.

The question is: how effective will he be? Whipping it. To the issues that he wants to talk about. Here's what Jason Miller thinks. Uh that uh Waltz wants to do cut eight.

Tim Walls is going to stand up on that stage tomorrow night. He's going to lie. He's going to look to. Stick the shiv. Into JD Vance at every opportunity, and it'll be a completely different.

Character. It was said earlier in this call, almost a chameleon. But the Tim Walls we see tomorrow night will be a completely different character than what we've seen so far on the 2024 campaign trail. Yeah, it's a guy I was watching go to bat for Joe Biden.

Now, first question I would have is: you told us Joe Biden was fine, would be a great president. He's done a fantastic job, best president in your lifetime.

Next thing you know, Kamala Harris is the nominee, and you're out there selling yourself as a running mate. What was true? They both can't be true. The most successful president in your lifetime, really, that was right on the money and is going to be great and is going to get re-elected.

Okay. I thought you believed it. I know people exaggerate when they go to bat as a surrogate, but then just to go, yeah, Kyle Harris has been great. Yeah. She had 32% approval rating when she got the nomination without earning it.

Just got anointed, and now it's up to 49%. We'll see if the polls are right. But I'm watching this Remington poll right now. Donald Trump trails by two in Michigan, by two in Wisconsin, by one in Michigan, is leading in Nevada and a dead heat in Pennsylvania. I mean, that is that, put it this way: the momentum that she had is gone.

Now you gotta earn it the rest of the way. Killian Conway is one of the people who want to see Donald Trump debate again. I'm debating that. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian In Kill Mead.

Hi, everyone.

Brian Kilmead here. Thanks so much for listening. We've got a busy hour coming away. We come to you from Midtown Manhattan, but heard around the country, around the world. Josh Crash Hour is standing by to bring us inside politics, and Michael Watley, bring us inside the RC.

Big day. We know the whole team, I think, is in New York. President Trump is going to be truth socialing. Truthing? Truthing.

Play-by-play of his running mate going head-to-head with the governor of Minnesota.

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So let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. I think it's also sent a big message to Tehran, that the idea that you're proxies, you can operate through them. And again, there's certain ceilings on what Israel's willing to do. It shattered that assumption.

Also, I think it's actually restrained Iran. I think it sent the message to them that you're not safe. Your leadership isn't necessarily safe. Council of Foreign Relations, Richard Haas, keep in mind, nobody knows. We are in unprecedented territory, but Israel has been so impressive beyond imagination.

In fact, Walter Russell Mead said Prime Minister Netanyahu is having the best political week of anybody in modern history. This is a true lesson for America. You can escalate to de-escalate. Number two. Come on, I'm 7 Winnie Wratho.

It's 90 miles from here, okay? I was on the phone the whole time. Working on that. Yeah, then later you said two hours. Come on, will you?

There's pictures of you on the beach. On the beach, talking to your wife. What are you doing on the beach? My goodness. Number one, you're Irish.

No, you burn, you scorch. Number two is you have a job. Stay in the mansion and do the job. A massive hurricane hit. A massive strike is underway.

You have a middle of an election. You can't find anything to do there. Nuts. Number Well listen, I think you're going to see a stark contrast. Between a representative of a party that wants to take us back.

And then you're going to see someone who is good, who's genuine. That good, funny uncle that you like to hang out with. Right. Finally, I have a good, funny uncle to hang out and run my country as the number two who doesn't do any interviews or anything off-prompter. Vice President Debate Day, Waltz and Vanslock, Horn, for the one and only time.

We preview and look at the crumbling Democratic blue wall as Trump spends quality time in Wisconsin and Michigan.

So let's bring in Josh Krashauer right away. Josh, I do have to start by saying another area of expertise is in the Middle East. And of course, you're right for the Jewish insider. It looks like the intelligence is revealing that Iran plans an imminent missile attack on Israel.

So if we know it, they know it. And I knew they knew if they were going after Hezbollah now on the ground, there would be a reaction from Iran. You would think. Yes, Brian. Look, the big question was after Israel's remarkable decapitation of Hezbollah's leadership, the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrawa, what would be the Iranian next move?

Would they try to regroup, figure out when to strike in the future? Or would they immediately Try to respond. And as of yesterday, it looked like they may be taking their time, but with the intelligence that the U.S. and Israel is now gathering, it looks like there may be an imminent attack from Iran on Israel.

So that's why the U.S., the Biden administration, has been moving defense material into the Middle East. We saw this in April where Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel. They were defended effectively. I think we may be seeing a reprise of that, if the intelligence is correct.

So I think that there's a there's a the lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal today talks about help. It's about time you helped. Use this as an historic opportunity to destroy, pulverize the Houthi rebels who have paralyzed the Red Sea and maybe free the Iranian people from a regime they hate.

Well The Biden administration's mantra. throughout the whole Middle East conflict between Israel and Hamas, between Israel and Hezbollah has been to use diplomacy and to de-escalate. Don't Seem to think winning is an option. And they've cautioned Israel not to go after Hezbollah, not to send ground troops, at least even in a limited way, into Lebanon. They have cautioned to spend more time on the negotiating table, to offer concessions to Hamas for a hostage deal.

In the end, Israel has essentially said, we want to win the war. We want to win on both fronts. We don't have Israelis that are able to live in the north because of the threat from Hezbollah. The South, Hamas, has been degraded, but it took a lot of Israeli intervention, overriding the American concerns about going into Rafah in order to kind of clear a lot of the remaining battalions that Hamas had had in their stronghold. And they have a theory, Josh, that if they were not held back, they would be able to get those hostages out because they're brilliant at hostage rescues.

But instead, their entrance into Rafah was so telegraphed, they had no shot at avoiding their execution. Yeah, look, I mean, you know, the Reagan line piece through strength, and we're hearing even people in the administration, in the Biden administration, that were. Cautioning Israel not to go against, not to attack Hezbollah, are now crediting the Israelis for a very brilliant mission and realizing that the balance of power is now favoring Israel a whole lot more than it is Iran.

So they seem to be begrudgingly acknowledging the successes that Israel has achieved on the battlefield, even though a lot of the top officials in the Biden administration were saying, don't do this, don't use military force. The Israelis believe in the Reagan mantra: peace through strength, escalate to get the de-escalation.

So they said, with this, is an excerpt. With Hezbollah weakened, Iran is newly vulnerable. Its leaders can't be sure they are safe from attack, even in Iran. As Israel's assassination of Hamas's Ismail Hania demonstrated July 31st, the Ayatollah is threatening revenge for the death of Nasarallah, but his failure to follow through so far may reflect Iran's new fear. You know what?

They moved the Ayatollah to a secure location. If they could kill Hania and Nasarallah, they have to wonder what intelligence they have on the Grand Iron. Ayatollah. And if you'll take out Nasarella, you will not hesitate because the Aatolla has a constituency, I think, of maybe about a few hundred people in black robes.

Well, we'll see what I mean, we'll see what happens today. Obviously, there's a lot of nerves now in Israel as a response to the intelligence that Iran may be attacking Israel once again. Israel has responded aggressively. He killed the Hamas political leader who was in Tehran a month or two ago in a display of how far Israel has penetrated Iran's intelligence forces and how they've got a lot of spies in the Iranian apparatus.

So they feel pretty confident about their ability to deter Iran to fight back against Iran. But it could get pretty hairy. And if Iran does fire missiles at Israel, this could be a pretty, pretty anxious day for those living in Israel. Josh Crash Harrow with us now. Josh, you put on your Twitter account, on your action account, New Remington Research Swing State Senate polls for the American fuel and petroleum manufacturers September 16th to 20th.

But you go down right now in Michigan, you have Harris up two, Nevada, Trump up one, Pennsylvania. Trump up one, Wisconsin a tie. I mean, this shows you he was, Trump was falling back, but he seems to be pulling back, correct? This is as close a presidential race as I've covered in my time, my decades covering politics. The race is very stable.

Trump took a hit, I think, at the debate, but has stabilized. You're talking about every pollster I've talked to who's been in the field these last couple of weeks. Has seen pretty much a one or two point race in those key swing states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina. All the big swing states are margin of error contests. I do think Trump has a slight advantage in the Sunbelt states.

It looks like he's got a slight lead in Arizona, a slight lead in Georgia, a slight lead in North Carolina. Kamala Harris looks like she has a very slight lead in Wisconsin and Michigan. Coming down to Pennsylvania. That is the Florida. If two thousand it was Florida, Florida, Florida, it's going to be Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania in twenty twenty four.

Right. Yeah. And that, of course, could affect the Senate race. Wouldn't you think, but Cormac and Casey? Yeah, look, I think the Senate races are in the end going to track pretty closely to the presidential numbers.

Casey is polling in the 40, 49% in that poll that we're talking about, but he's not hit 50%. Usually in the end of a race, the challenger gets more momentum. The challenger gets a lot of the undecided voters.

So if Trump wins Pennsylvania, the Republican Dave McCormick is going to have a very good chance of winning. If Harris wins Pennsylvania, probably Casey holds the edge in Pennsylvania.

So let's look at tonight. Let's track very closely to the Trump. If Trump wins the election, he's going to have some coattails for Senate candidates. He will. You know, right now, Sheehy looks good on his own.

Justice is a done deal. The Cruz can hold his seat. If Scott can hold his seat, Hogan's in line for a huge upset. And then you have Ohio. As well as Pennsylvania, and who knows Wisconsin and Michigan, who knows how they'll go?

Because I know Rod I don't know Hove D too well, but Rodgers, man, has the resume, knows Michigan. He's a tough out. Yeah, I I look, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, those are the big three after the red states. Republicans probably are If you look at the odds right now for Republicans winning back the Senate, they're very, very high because West Virginia gets you 50 Senate seats. And the polling looks really good for Tim Sheehee, the Republican running against John Tester in Montana.

It's just looking like a blowout for Republicans in Montana.

So that would get Republicans a majority of 51 Senate seats. And then the rest is icing on the cake. Ohio is looking like the next best opportunity, Sherrod Brown seats in Ohio. And then you've got those purple states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin. Those are going to be the big toss-ups when it comes to the battle for the Senate.

It's going to be interesting.

So tonight, I don't believe anything that Tim Waltz is inept and nervous. I don't believe that at all. I think he's got a lot of experience. He had to win that congressional seat. He debated for that, had to become governor twice.

He debated for that. I think he's going to be fine. I used to watch him go to bat for Joe Biden. He was fine. They just don't let him talk to anybody as a running mate.

It's the craziest decision. You don't want Harris to talk? Can somebody talk to the press over there? Yeah. Look, I agree with you, Brian.

Tim Waltz is scared of debating belies his history as a two-term governor of Minnesota and a congressman in a swing district that had to do debate after debate after debate in all his elections. You know, I think J.D. Band is also a very good debater, and he's been preparing quite extensively for this debate. I think the bigger question is what you laid out, Brian, which is the challenge for Walls. Keep in mind, Tim Waltz has done fewer interviews than Kamala Harris, and Kamala Harris has barely done any interviews.

They don't want Walls to. Get ahead of the principal. They don't want to, you know, we don't know where Kamala Harris stands on a whole host of significant issues, and they're worried that Tim Walls could contradict her or could say something opposite to where the Harris campaign ends up positioning themselves.

So, you know, I don't think it's a lack of debating skill from Tim Walls. It's a matter of trying to figure out where this Harris ticket stands on a lot of issues. And I know they, you know, that interview she did. With CNN, that she says her values haven't changed, but certainly her positions in the last four or five years have changed dramatically. And the campaign has still been pretty unclear on some of those hot button.

Issues from the Green New Deal to economic policy to crime and social justice issues. Very, very unclear where they stand on a whole host of hot button issues. And Walls is going to be pressured, or he's going to be pressed at the very least to offer the lines of the ticket, which we didn't get a whole lot of lately. We haven't gotten a lot from here. Josh, you've been doing this forever.

Every time there's a catastrophe, how a leader responds can make or break them. Joe Biden went to the beach this weekend. I did not know North Carolina was this bad, but I don't have a weather system where I don't have the best weather system in the world at my fingertips. I don't have the best information. I don't have FEMA at my fingertips.

He still went to the beach. And There's a lot of people in North Carolina who don't have water still, and the worst is yet to come. I was with somebody yesterday from the North Carolina Hills who said they think there's over 1,000 dead right now or just under 200. Here's President Biden yesterday, cut eighteen. You usually spent the weekend here in Washington, rather than in Delaware.

Come on, it's not like Jane. We have Wadando, it's 90 miles from here, okay? And I was on the phone the whole time. Working on that. And the resources, the question is not whether we get more.

This is a list of every resource we're getting in there, but the question is how to get it in. It's hard to get it from point A to point B. It's hard to get it if some of these roads are wiped out of. Communities are wiped out. There's no ability to land.

There's no ability to get trucks through. There's no ability to get a whole range of things through. Everything he said is not unprecedented. It happens with hurricanes and disasters and tornadoes all the time.

So, your answer would be: Yeah, that's the challenge. It's not how do you get it in?

So, you could drop things, number one, number two. There are all-terrain vehicles that are there. There could be points you bring people to. But when you're engaged, or the perception, how much, how long has he been doing politics, Josh? Doesn't he know that optics matters?

You stay in the White House, you only got to be there another month. Brian, that's politics 101 and the sort of gaslighting in the last day or two. That he's done everything he could, and there's nothing that the White House could do more than what they did. I mean, look, to be fair, a lot of people got caught off guard with Hurricane Aline and the damage. In the Appalachians and North Carolina and Georgia, I don't think anyone appreciated the scope.

But one person showed up in Georgia. Listen, 23. And uh we came down with truckloads of things and uh We're going to have that done by par by Franklin's Incredible organization. They've done such a good job. We've done this before, but we have a lot of.

truckloads of uh different items from oil to water. I don't wanna bore you, but he's there. He shows. No, no. It's brilliant.

They don't want to give him credit, but it's brilliant, Josh.

Well, being there matters. That was a good event for Trump. Uh but by the we're not talking about the Georgia governor. But but look. I I don't think you can underestimate that natural des there's a reason why governors and presidents try to get ahead of storms and sh Speak to To the country, speak to the states that they govern to let them know that there's going to be government there to help you in the time of a crisis.

And it does look like the government has been a little bit, at least optically, asleep at the wheel on this issue. Luck Harris also was at a, I believe, at a fundraiser on the West Coast. There is a risk for the governing party. You take a lot more heat if you're the governing party and you're seen as not being as nimble as you can when you're dealing with a natural disaster. I blame my gas-powered car for changing the climate.

Josh, but I'll take full blame. Josh Crash Harrow, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian.

So interesting. You heard him say it. He's been doing this forever. Too close to call, this far out. Back in a moment.

Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. I was never satisfied.

I was what you would call a grinder. You know, if the score was 15 to 2 and I'm in the batter's box, I'm trying to get a hit. Why? Because your dad used to say that, T. If you weren't two for four, he would go over the two bats where you didn't get a hit.

Yeah. Yeah, perfection. It's called perfection.

So, yeah, and I, you know, ironically, about a month ago, I never do this. I said, I just want to watch a documentary.

So I was watching a documentary while I was working out and I chose the Pete Rose documentary. And he said this one story was amazing to me. He's already rookie of the year. He's in his third year. He's early rookie of the year.

Reds are a fantastic team. And he said, My dad went to every single game, but never stayed at the end because he got to get up early the next day and work at 8 o'clock. He was a union guy somewhere. And he said, One day I walked out of my car and my dad's waiting in the car and he's steaming. I go, what's wrong?

he said. In the third inning you grounded out and didn't sprint down to first base. He said, how dare you embarrass the family? I'm saying, are you kidding me? He plays one hundred and sixty two games, his fourth season as a pro.

His dad was a semi-pro football player. But if you want to know where his intensity came from, why he never stopped, that's it, don't you think? I do, and it makes you think, you know, is it better to be the parent to like never be satisfied or the one to be like, it's okay, you'll get it next time? I don't know, because it plays out in other areas, right? I mean, you have the intensity, but look at Tiger Woods, the flip side.

Plays out in other areas, the gambling to blow off steam. The hookers. Yeah. I don't know if he had hookers. Oh, just women.

Yeah. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. You spoke to the govern, I assume you heard the Republican governor of Georgia talk about that he was on the phone with me more than once.

So that's simply not true and it's irresponsible. I don't know what the governor wants to say about it. Yeah. So that was Joe Biden getting upset that President Trump came out and said but he hasn't been he has not called the governor of Georgia.

So Joe Biden said that wasn't true. But they were playing phone tag for a while, but he's definitely under his skin. I just said it. Optics matter, but also you have to care.

So, North Carolina got hit worse than anyone thought. We still do not have a handle on it. My next guest probably does better than anybody. But having said that, why get caught flat-footed? Why stay at the beach?

It makes no sense. Why go to a fundraiser if you're Kamala Harris? You're better off for your campaign, for your run to be president, to say, guys, I'm going to postpone this. I got my job to do. Fly out to North Carolina.

They only let me in Georgia, but this is as close as I can get. I'm just care about these people. That is the best thing you could do for your campaign, I would think. But they're the pros, right? Let's bring in one of those pros.

Michael Watley, RNC chair. But Michael, you're deeply hooked into. Into North Carolina. That's where you're from. That's where you're represented.

Yeah, it's home, and it's hard. You know, and I mean, we're seeing right now the devastation. We don't know the true magnitude of it. And I think that right now politics needs to be second. We need to be worried about rescue and recovery.

We need to be worried about getting electricity and phone coverage and food and water to those folks. And then we'll let the politics kind of sort itself out. I'm glad that President Trump went to Georgia yesterday. I think it was really important for him to be on the ground. I think it's great.

Great supplies. Yeah. Yeah, you know, and I think it's great that he talked to Elon Musk to make sure that they're going to get those Starlink systems in there. You know, you have, you know, state highway patrol, you have command operations, you have folks that cannot communicate with the outside world right now. And those Starlink systems are going to be extremely important to try and make sure that we've got communications going on with the outside world.

So, first, tell me about that area of North Carolina that's the hardest hit that has you most worried.

Well, look, it's all of western North Carolina, it's eastern Tennessee, it's southern Virginia, you know, that whole area of northern Georgia, you know, South Carolina, that whole region through there. You know, when the roads are washed out, the bridges are washed out, you can't get in and out. Does that happen a lot? No, we've never seen a storm like this. We've never seen a storm with impacts like this.

It's not just once in a generation, it's once every thousand years.

So we don't know the true magnitude of everything that came through. And once. We do get our head around it. And once people are in a position where we're in recovery mode, then we can start to think about the political implications. Can you imagine if it was Donald Trump as president and he was caught on the golf course?

And he stayed there all the entire weekend. And then when he comes back, he comes back to the White House, doesn't go to the area. That's what Joe Biden did. And Kamala Harris shows up at FEMA yesterday, and here she is, cut 22. The devastation from Hurricane Helene is immense.

Millions of Americans are without power. Thousands of families have lost their homes. Entire neighborhoods have been destroyed. Major roads have been blocked. Everything you just said.

But that happened Thursday. And it's four days later.

So, you have a chance to be vice president. Give people a visual of what you'd be as president. Is that the visual you would have supported? Go to Washington, D.C. and go to the FEMA office.

Yeah, I think it's absolutely a fumble on her part. I think it's yet another demonstration that she is not ready for primetime. And I think it's unfortunately a bigger condemnation on President Biden that he is not in charge right now. For him to say that he was in control, that he was in command of these operations while he was sitting at the beach, it's frankly appalling that this is the representation that we're seeing from this administration. Would uh with the governor's race over in North Carolina.

How do you handle that? The Robinson situation, the porn uh The porn problem, his pseudos names, he's not been effectively pushing back on it. What is the message there from the Republican National Committee?

Well, I think right now, what Mark Robinson is doing is exactly what Mark Robinson should be doing. He is on the ground in western North Carolina. He is helping to coordinate relief supplies that are getting into it. He's acting like the lieutenant governor of North Carolina. And I think that that's really where his focus should be.

Yeah, stick it out. Right? Don't pull out.

Well, look, he's on the ballot. He's the candidate. Ballots have already gone out. They've started early voting.

So that's fine. But I think the key for Mark and frankly for everybody right now is focus on these people. They need help. Right. Having said that, do you think he'll hurt Trump?

I always heard down ballot. You know, the top of the ticket hurts down ballot. I don't know. Do you hurt up ballot when you're looking for the governor's race? Donald Trump's going to win that state.

Donald Trump won that state in 2016. Donald Ballot won that state in 2020. He's going to win that state again because he is the only candidate in this race that is talking to the North Carolina voters about the issues that we're going to be doing.

So you don't worry about the Robinson controversy. No, we worry about making sure that we're going to communicate, right? The reason that Republicans win, North Carolina is a purple state. thirty percent Republican, thirty three percent Democrat, thirty seven percent unaffiliated, right? And yet we have supermajorities in the State House and the Senate.

We have the Supreme Court. We have the Court of Appeals. We have ten out of fourteen Of the congressional members, maybe even 11 after this election, both senators, and that's because Republican candidates listen to the voters and they put solutions on the table for the issues that they care about. Republicans back the blue. Republicans back our military communities.

North Carolina is a very heavy military community, and we're going to be the ones. Donald Trump is the only candidate who wants to go into the White House, and on day one, he's going to restore our southern border, rebuild our economy, and make sure that America is strong enough on the world stage to protect our interests at home and abroad. Michael Watley with us now in the RNC because in New York City and CBS, but we'll carry it on Fox, is going to be the vice presidential debate. First off, J.D. Vance done 100 interviews, sometimes four in one day, network shows.

Mike Waltz, Tim Waltz, zero. I mean, one half, half of an interview. It's crazy. I've never seen anything like this. Having said that, In this debate, He's trying to portray himself as very nervous and told Kamal Harris, I would not at the minute he was named, I'm not a good debater.

Is this pregame gamesmanship? Yeah, I think it is. You know, um you you look at this as a guy who was a congressman for multiple terms and had debates. Uh it's a two-term governor uh you know that that has gone through the debates.

So yeah, he'll show up and he'll be on the debate stage. You know, the thing for me is that it's not as much about the messenger as it is the message. Right. This election cycle is about whether America is going to be weak or America is going to be strong. Are we going to have a strong southern border?

Are we going to have a strong economy? Are we going to have a strong standing in the world? And with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, you know that we are going to be strong. And with Kamala Harris, you know, and Waltz, we're not.

I mean, the issues.

So make it bigger than Waltz Vance. It's got to be more about Trump Harris. Absolutely. I think everything comes down to where are we 35 days from now? And are we going to be a country going in the right direction or are we going to be a country going in the wrong direction?

The American people overwhelmingly want a strong America. They want a strong economy. They want a strong southern border. And they want us to be able to protect our interests at home and abroad. Look what's happening in the Middle East just today.

You know, we've got Iran is now threatening ballistic missiles. Israel is reporting that they know that Iran is now getting set to launch ballistic missiles at Israel, who are now on the ground moving in Lebanon without resistance so far, and they've been doing it since 10 o'clock last night. When America is weak, the world is a far more dangerous place. We need to return to peace through strength, and we need to protect our allies. This attack that we have seen in Israel from Hamas and all of the saber-rattling, Iran moving it through its proxies and now directly attacking Iran, that did not happen when Donald Trump was in the White House, and it won't happen when he's back.

But it's a historic opportunity, in the view of many, me included. Do you see Iran? Being exposed. They told Hezbollah, we have you back. Should something happen, they aren't.

Hamas, something happened, we have you back. They have one battalion left. Hezbollah lost their whole higher echelon, including Nazarella. They've lost at least 3,000 fighters, probably more. There's no evidence that they have any communication ability right now at all.

And Iran does nothing.

However, an unpopular government rules by Iron Fist, essentially keeping millions hostage in Iran. This might be of their own people. This might be an historic opportunity, a window of opportunity to bring some normalcy to the Middle East because Iran has been the problem. Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, all supported by one nation. And that one nation.

Donald Trump had in a box. Donald Trump had him broke. They were not selling oil onto the international market. Sanctions were in place. And they are trying to kill him.

And they are trying to kill them. And Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, as soon as they got into office, lifted the sanctions, allowed them to sell oil on the international market, and they have billions of dollars in their bank accounts right now, and they are funding these types of attacks. A couple of things. Um President Trump told Kelly and Conway he does not feel safe. He's doing it anyway.

That's unbelievable. Two assassination attempts bulked up Secret Service. And he's going back to Butler on Saturday. And he does not feel safe. That's unacceptable.

It's completely unacceptable. It is completely unacceptable, and I think really truly that when we talk about the failures of this administration, this is going to be one of them. Right, uh, the fact that they can't keep our candidates safe, the fact that Iran is saber-rattling. You know what? If you're going after a candidate for president right now, that's an act of war.

And the fact that this administration will not denounce Iran for that, again, it just goes right back to the weakness that we've seen time and time again from this. When you look at the polls right now, you see polls that I don't, but it looks like they're all closing too close to coal. I just had Josh Crashauer on said in all his years covering elections, he's never seen anything so close. The state which has you the most intrigued and the one has you most concerned.

Well, look, we we know the map, right? It's Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. We feel very good about where we are in Arizona and Nevada. We feel pretty good about North Carolina and Georgia. We're going to win those states.

Pennsylvania is always going to be a linchpin for us. And everything that we're seeing lately is Trump plus one, Trump plus two. Those are very real and durable leads. You've had a Republican since the last elections. I got it.

They are trying to go into the rural vote and say, vote for me. Have you seen an organized effort to go into the Pittsburghs and the Philadelphians to say, vote for me? These are traditional urban areas that go for the Democrats. Absolutely. Donald Trump has campaigned.

He has done rallies in downtown Philadelphia. He's done rallies in western Pennsylvania. He's done rallies in the Bronx. He's done rallies in New Jersey and in Detroit. He is right now playing offense all across the country in every one of these battleground states.

But we've put Virginia on the map. New Hampshire's on the map. We've gone into Minnesota. But I think what we're showing right now is Donald Trump playing offense. Kamala Harris is absolutely playing defense.

I think if you want to look at key issue sets, you know, like the border, like world standing, like the economy, Donald Trump is winning in the polls on every single one of those issues. And if you look at historical polls, we're doing better today than we were in 2020 or 2016 in every single one of these battleground states.

So the map right now is definitely in Donald Trump's favor, and we're playing offense.

So I know you have a lot of strong personalities up top. You got Chris La Cavita, Big Marine. You have Susie Wiles, tireless worker. Harry Chris worked great. In comes Corey Lewandowski and Tim Murdaugh.

Jason Miller's always been there. How, you know, you come in and out. You're the RC chair, not just focused on Trump. What have you noticed? This is the best team that the president has ever had around him.

It's the best campaign that he has ever run on. Are they getting along up top? Absolutely. Is the vision the same? The vision is the same.

We are going to win. And you've got to let Trump be Trump. You've got to put him in a position so that he can. Go out there and deliver the way that only Donald Trump can deliver on the campaign trail. We have the most disciplined campaign.

We've got the most disciplined candidate that we've had in either of these last two races going into this. I like where we're at right now. I think that we are a unified team, and the president is in a very good place because, again, it's about the message. It's about the issues that really, truly matter, and he's in the right place on every one of them. A couple of things.

Your Hispanic vote, it's 54-40. We have never had in this country a breakdown like that. That is a very narrow gap. If you look at the fact that McCain lost by a third of the Hispanic vote by 33 points, and now it went from, he was very closer with Joe Biden, but it's closing again. And especially with men, Hispanic men, it's a dead heat.

Hispanic women, it's a little bit different. And the younger Hispanic voter going Republican, you're looking at the big picture beyond this election, I imagine.

So what's happening here? Like, well, how did this happen?

Well, I think that Donald Trump is better for the Hispanic community on every single issue that they care about. The Hispanics that are here legally do not like illegal immigration. They hate that issue, and they definitely support the president on it. They also know that the inflation is absolutely killing them. Kamala Harris casts the tie-breaking vote.

On $2.5 trillion worth of unnecessary inflationary spending. And then the rescue package. Right. And so she cast that tie-breaking vote that sent grocery prices, gasoline prices, housing prices absolutely through the roof. It's affecting their community just like ours.

There's a massive dock strike on right now that could cripple this economy and this country. And it looks like the dock workers are getting a lot and over 50% raise and not giving in. Their union. But right now, Kamal Harris leads only by nine points with the union vote. Just to give you an idea, Bill Clinton won the union vote by thirty points, Hillary Clinton by twelve.

So this has been predominantly Democrat. How does the president, last question, how does the president work this line knowing that the unions are leaning towards him? If he comes out and says, get back to work, he could alienate him.

Well, Donald Trump represents and has always fought for American workers, and he's always going to fight for American workers. I think when you talk about this strike, it is an absolute failure by the Biden-Harris administration for them to allow them to get to this point. His own, I mean, the Commerce Secretary, they asked her about this. She said, I'm not paying much attention to it. Which is crazy.

What are you paying attention to? What about the Transportation Secretary? We have 35 ships by Friday. They're going to be just sitting off the coast of New York, New Jersey. It is the weakness of this administration for them that as we are barreling towards this strike, Joe Biden is sitting on a beach, and Kamala Harris is at a fundraiser in San Francisco.

Good point. Always great to see you. Michael Watley, the chairman of the RNC, busy time and a sprint to November. Thanks so much. Brian, thank you.

Really appreciate it. Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Kill Me. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. The Democrats are outspending the Republicans big time on the big Hispanic, Latino networks and radio stations, but yet Trump is continuing to trend up. I'll tell you another thing he's trending back up in, and that's African-American voters. We're looking in these various battleground states. When Harris first got into the race, he dropped down to like the standard Republican, 7%, 8%, 10%.

He's bouncing right back up to 22%, 23, 24%.

So this is an amazing, I'm seeing a shift. And I'll tell you, these prognosticators with these models that they have that have been wrong, by the way, each presidential election, they had this thing spreading wide open for Harris. They better rethink their models. That's Matt Towery. He said he's got some numbers going to come up in a couple of days.

He has been critical, guys. You remember last week? He came on and he said he's got to do better with traditional Republicans, you know, and Nikki Haley voters haven't come over yet. This time he says he sees these trends going Trump's direction. And I watched it last night with Laura.

That's why I thought it would be good sound bites to bring in. I was going to play with Watley, but I figured he's an expert too, so I play one expert against the other. The trends are going interestingly. I just think that. The man- the man-woman vote, I've never seen anything quite like it.

The male, it's men against women in many ways. I mean, the Hispanic vote is even, even, but when you put it overall and let women vote, which I was fully support. Thank you, Brian. Thank you. It's like 23, so it ends up being about a 10-point spread.

Battle of the sexy. Yeah, we did that earlier. Who won that? It should be a top. It must have been the men.

They always win. No, Billie Jean King won. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kill Me. Thanks so much for being here, everybody, who comes here from Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world.

This is Fox News World Headquarters, where we're watching a series of things going on.

Okay, I'll give you an idea. We have a dock workers strike from Sea to Shining Sea, as well as up and down the East Coast, that could really stop our supply chain in a way we haven't seen since, I don't know, three years ago during the pandemic. And then we also have what could be a Middle East war, as it seems intelligence reveals that Iran is prepared to send ballistic missiles into Israel. They don't usually wait to be hit. I don't know if you've been following their modus operandi.

And then you have a vice president debate tonight. Kennedy, if this is too much, this might be the one time in your career where you go, it's too much, Brian. It's not enough. I need more, Brian. Oh, you want more?

I want more, Cowbell. Cal Bell. One more chaos. Did you watch SNL this weekend? No.

Okay. Because I was doing my show in Pottsdown, Pennsylvania. It sold Joel's. Oh, how'd it go? Amazing.

It was just so much fun. Potts Down, Pennsylvania. That's right. Potsdam. Town.

Pots Town. Pots Town. And was it rural? Was it middle class? Was it middle class?

I know you grew up a middle class child. I grew I grew up a middle class child. My mother saved as much money as she could and bought a house. No, it was normal. It was like a normal, sweet suburb.

They had a very clean, delicious McDonald's. It was some of the best McDonald's I've had all year. Did you see any future presidents at the Fry's? I think I did. You did?

Yeah. It was great. There were a lot of pro-Trump people, and a lot of people, like, I've never voted for Trump, but. I'm terrified of her. You're terrified of her.

That's what people are telling me.

Well, I mean, but you don't come out right or left. You come out, you call anybody. You're a libertarian by train. Yeah, I make fun of everyone. Right.

Yeah. Not me. No, I didn't make fun of you. I made fun of Greg Gutfeld a little tiny bit. A little bit.

But you want to go back on the show. But actually, to make fun of him will not hurt you from going back on the show. I mean, look at you. It actually made your career. Right.

Thank you. I had no career. No.

None at all. This whole stuff I was doing before. I was just mopping floors and grabbing coffee for Gretchen Carlson. Before Greg Gutfeld discovered you, which who booked her? Allison, was it you or Eric?

You k what is wrong with you? I don't know. That's too much going on, Brian. All right. This is how we cope with things.

All right. If I had dice, I would throw and go, you'd pick it up and then we'd decide where to go. But here's where we're going to go: the vice presidential debate today. Both men can't really debate each other if they're going to be effective. They got to go and represent the top of the ticket.

So if Waltz is defending my years as governor and J.D. Vance is defending a podcast. They're both losing. I think that as J.D. Vance got to go back for the policies of four years and then what he'll do, maybe more may at times, when I listen to him, he's more effective than President Trump talking about what President Trump did.

I think Katie Vance excuse me, hold on. JD Vance. likes playing defense. He likes fighting. And that makes him Better, he's got a better foundation as a debater.

I think Tim Walls can be tripped up on some of the dumb things that he's said and done. And he does have a lot of erratic energy. And I think that J.D. Vance just needs to tap into that. But the more Walls tries to go after him, it actually will empower J.D.

Vance. I actually have more faith in J.D. Vance. Oh, yeah, he's going to be good. And not because I like him or I have favoritism.

I just think he's better in this environment. And the reason he's a senator is because he can hold his own. He's an improvisational debater, and he just has a better command of the issues. And he has one of those gifts where the words appear to him when it's most necessary. And John Wooden always said, Greatness is doing your best when your best is required.

And when it is required to have facts and a comeback, J.D. Vance seems to have that. John Wooden used to start every season telling everyone how to tie their shoes.

Sometimes you've got to go back to the basics, Brian.

So just for the record, you said erratic, not erotic. I think I said erratic, but erotic would be it would be okay in there. Right. Yeah. Eric, remember you have.

Tim Walls is very I mean, we've redefined masculinity. Tim Walls is now just he could be on one of those shirtless firefighters Calendars. That's how sexy he is. To who? But we've redefined masculinity, Brian.

So there's a new definition. Wait a second. Jen Saki, sitting down with the second gentleman, I thought he defined masculinity as not having any masculinity.

Well, then Tim Walls would fall right into that category, wouldn't he? We have to redefine masculinity twice. We have to keep a coach that had a uh was formed a gay club in high school. That was right. And uh and then he became um Congressman and a governor, but that's not important.

No.

He's a coach and a teacher. He's a coach. He's Coach Walls. I was there at the DNC when they were passing out the big Coach Walls signs. And everyone's waving them.

Woo! I grew up in Nebraska. And I did not know his parents owned a meat locker. Oh, that sounds like that sounds like a gay club that I'd like to go to. I mean, that might be the name of one.

We might be giving people a lunchtime business. Hey, Eric, did you know that thing you had showing the moderators going after J. D. Vance? I don't know what number that is.

You pulled it, I think, from Fox and Friends. Yeah, let's listen. We know that the media seems totally uninterested in fact-checking Joe Biden from any of the number of false claims that he made. You know, I've lost track, sir. I've been told the media is on every single side of this, and everything's our fault.

President Trump said Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi were lovely individuals when he was speaking in Montana last night. Do you agree with that characterization? I think that President Trump gets along with world leaders, and there's nothing wrong with him complimenting them as people if it makes him more effective diplomatically. And there's an irony here. That's different than walking in and laying down a lot of Xi Jinping.

Oh, no, it's not actually. The problem here is not that Donald Trump and I have called out what's happened to Springfield. No, I have talked about the problems and cited Governor DeWine saying what were legitimate problems. I'm not asking about that. We have documented that.

I'm asking about your words, sir, which you are responsible for. But, Margaret, you only documented it after Donald Trump called attention to it. Yeah, Margaret. He's good. Yeah.

He did three of those shows in one day. Yeah, and he's maybe four. He's pretty unflappable, and he just keeps coming back. And they lay so many traps and play so much gotcha. Right.

Because, and by the way, It's hard defending yourself, let alone defending President Trump, who can be undisciplined on the stump. I don't know if you heard.

So they'll all of a sudden and they'll throw something at you, and you're like, I didn't even, and you're thinking to yourself, I didn't even hear it. At least he's giving us spontaneous asides. He is. Kamala Harris will give us absolutely nothing spontaneous because she knows she cannot exist in these very moments. I'm going to have to show you.

How wrong you are. And I'm I'm embarrassed to do it. Jack Brian, I thought this was going to be a friendly exchange.

So you know Kamala Harris turned down 60. I think she's going to turn down 60 minutes. She has an offer from 60 Minutes. But she did say yes. Right.

She did say yes. Eric, I just saw that Margaret Brennan is on my form. My my fault. I just saw that. If I could do it again.

So here's Kamal Harris on a podcast I never heard of called All the Smoke. I assume it has something to do with pot. But who knows? I don't pretend to know. But I know Kamal Harris likes to cook and make up stories that never line up.

content. From the time that the President called me and told me he wasn't running, I mean, it just like everything was in speedy, speedy motion. And I was not sleeping so well. And that one morning, I just I I mean, I had, I don't know, a few hours' sleep, and I'd, you know, I'd like to sleep. I just got up, I was like and so I just went out and got a pork roast and started marinating.

And my family happened to meet in town, so they were very happy about the whole situation. But I just got up and started cook everybody asleep, I just got up and started cooking.

Okay, great story. What's funny about that? Absolutely nothing. She's inconsequential and boring. Keep in keep in mind.

Do you know the other story?

So marinating the pork roast? There's another one better and probably uh less accurate. That she got the call and she was making pancakes.

So, are you making a roast or are you making pancakes? Yeah, which is it? Right, you gotta make a decision. You short order cook. If you who likes to sleep too much, right?

So, but what she's saying, and it's very funny, she's saying that she had really bad insomnia. And which, you know, every other world leader Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, George W Bush. I sleep forty five hours a night. I don't need more sleep. And it's a sign of strength.

But for a future president, it's like, I really like to sleep. I love to sleep. I could never be president. Don't ever entrust the country with me. Because when I don't sleep, I make bad decisions and I'm cranky.

Like everyone in my life knows, like, oh, let her sleep no matter what happens. Right. Like, how's it on fire? You know, we still have a couple more. I think it's a bomb, honey.

Leave her alone.

So I don't, I don't like that. And then she's also saying, I had such bad insomnia. I was so sleep deprived and incapable of making a rational decision. That is the moment I picked Tim Walls. Yeah.

So that's her out. I'm sleepy.

So I'm how m how strong am I? If this is your standard for strength, four hours a night. I could run the country. Yeah, you absolutely could, Brian. I would trust you more than any of these four candidates right now.

Peter Coutria, is that how you say his last name? Sure.

So he's uh he's got the number one book. He's all about health and fitness. And he and I had him. You're obsessed with that.

So I had him on and I interviewed him and only four minutes. I felt like I left a lot at the table. And he's like, really? Thanks for having me on. Do you need help with anything?

And I go, No, I'm all right. He goes, Well, you do the morning show? Yeah. How much do you sleep? I go, four hours.

He goes, It is like he goes, You're living a life as if you had two beers every day.

So think of much well, number one, I shouldn't be driving. No.

Number two is. I mean, I've seen you drive. You shouldn't be driving. With 12 hours of sleep. Let me just say this, Katie.

Seven weeks sobriety. I am fine. But I will say that I was talking to my wife the other day, which is a good sign. That's a great sign. Right.

So, and we were driving. Did she talk back to you? That's an even better sign. Right. She did.

She didn't talk back.

Okay, great. But she gets texted and sometimes she gets distracted. And she is so unhappy with my driving. That I am convinced when I'm pulled over with her in the car, she will turn on me and thank the officer and tell you everything I was doing wrong. I believe that she would go, it's about time.

Tell them. Tell them. You tell them again. And officer, while you're at it, give them a ticket for not sleeping enough. All right.

We'll see.

So what was I saying? Um that you're going to be president. The New York Times writes a story today and endorses her. It says, because she's patriotic, the patriotic thing to do. She's not Trump.

Then she goes on to say, and I'll paraphrase. That it's not okay and not a good standard for you not to do any interviews, and it's not good to shortchange the American people and not expand on what you would do as president. And I thought. That is the ultimate non-endorsement endorsement ever. They can never endorse Trump.

They would never endorse a Republican. What they're trying to say is you suck. Yeah, you're not. And what you're doing is not okay. The only thing you have going for you is you're not literally Hitler.

That is the only thing you have going for you. You're not him, which isn't enough. And everyone knows it's not enough. Might have been enough for some voters in 2016. It was enough for voters in 2020.

It's not enough now.

So here's what Reince Priebus says the state of the race is right now compared to the previous Cut 12.

So in 2020, we were told that Donald Trump was going to get killed by even some of the polls that you've cited, but he didn't get killed. In fact, it was razor-thin.

So when you look at the things that you just cited, Hispanics, Donald Trump is at 40% with Hispanics. He's at plus 17% with non-white, non-college educated voters. He's ahead with blue-collar workers. He's plus 31% from people that graduated from trade organizations. This is much stronger than he was in 2020 and 2016.

Your thoughts. I want to point out something very interesting there. There has been an uptick in younger conservative voters. Like younger Gen Zers now identify as conservative, and more so than younger millennials. 26 years.

And I think because a lot of them. Are going to trade schools.

So it's like there has been a paradigm shift in how people educate themselves and how they think about the world and how the government is going to treat them. It's another reason why I'm optimistic. Everyone's doom and gloom. I am not, I don't feel that way.

Now, if you bring up DEI, nobody wants DEI. When you bring up, you know, affirmative action, get rid of it. You're a racist. We got rid of it. And the world is moving on.

When you talk about that pronouns and that political correctness, there's a huge pushback on that. And now, when you talk about going to trade schools, we always thought there was a stigma to that as if you can't handle college.

Now, over the last 10 years, that has dug into the parents and the kids. I want to learn a skill. He's a kid. This is good news. If you've got more than two kids and the older one, you know, you did what you were supposed to do, sent him to a private school, took out loans.

And now your credit cards are maxed out because of inflation. You could barely make those loan payments.

So with the younger kids, you're like, why don't you go learn how to weld or learn how to build houses? You'll finish school in two years, have no debt, and you're going to start at 70 grand a year. The other thing is, is that a turn on to go into a bar, put you to 20-year-old Kennedy? You go into a bar, you see a guy still with his hard hat on. Yeah.

And a jean shirt. I mean, I might have been going to the meat locker where they dress up in little construction costs. I was what is known as a fruit fly, Brian.

So I'm just saying that, like, could that, could we get to the point where even single women and single men look at women and go, wow, she's a welder. I wonder if she's single. Have you ever heard that? I mean in Flash Dance Jennifer Beale's character was a welder and a super sexy dancer. And that was a documentary?

It it was based on something that could have been a documentary. Which means. A lot to the people who were the subject of said film. Or didn't really happen. We don't have to go that far.

We don't have to point fingers. Back in a moment. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. You can really tell that Trump is worried about this election because now he's just lashing out, hoping anything will work.

Look. I could have been sunbathing on the beach. You have never seen a body so beautiful. Much better than that. Much better than Sleepy Joe.

Well What are you? You talking about? You're saying you got a hotter body than Joe Bottom? I'm starting to worry that bullet got a little more than just the ear. An attorney for Deaddy said that his client wants to testify at his trial, saying, I don't know that I can keep him off the stand because you can't hold a guy back wearing all that baby oil.

So there you go. That was just a hit from the first episode of SNL for a brand new season. Kennedy's still here. Kennedy got 5.3 million viewers. The Nielsen ratings did.

Same day ratings, the most viewers for any SNL season premiere since 2020. Wow. It is their 50th anniversary, which is, that's a phenomenal feat. It is the longest running show in TV history. And I thought the Mu Dang skit was very funny where Bo and Yang dressed up as the hippo and made fun of Chapel Rowan, who is this, you know, she's a pop star.

She's like a synth pop, bio drag pop star. She's like, I have to cancel shows this weekend because of my mental health. And so Boen Yang made fun of that as the tiny hippo, which was very funny. And now the people critical, is that the one people are critical of? That was insensitive.

They're like, that's so insensitive. It's like, no, he loves her. He's making fun of the fact that a pygmy hippo baby has like captivated the world's attention and that Chapel Rowan. Is so precious, she can't perform a couple of shows. And she told her fans, like, stop talking to me, stop trying to hug me.

That's so weird. And it's like, lady, you wanted to be famous. Like you've been doing everything in your power to be famous.

Well, here you go. It's like, yeah, it's hard and it's weird, but Talk to your therapist after you come off stage. Like everybody else who's had a hard time. And that's why you have insurance. Yeah.

I mean she has great insurance. Right. And the thing is, once you reach your deductible, they'll pay 80% of that. Absolutely right, Brian.

So by the way, the references, not one thing did I know what you were talking about. That's okay. Yeah, I've just, because you stay culturally on top of the culture. Oh, I got teens in the house.

Well, you listen, and you listen to them. I listen to them more than they listen to me. Let's just put it that way.

So you know what they're listening to. I was banging on my daughter's door this morning at 7:30, terrified that she had overslept. Yes. And I'm banging, and then I start to worry. She's got AirPods in, so she can't hear me.

I don't know that she's awake. I'm getting terrified. She opens the door and she sees my hand up pounding on the door. She's like, oh my God, what are you doing?

So that's my life. That's your life.

Well, you listen. They don't listen to you. They don't listen. They have our AirPods. We never invented them.

Did Elon Musk do that? No, he didn't. I blame him for everything. Right. He also puts chips in our brains.

Thank God. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. A Senate report on the first Trump assassination attempt says one of the biggest issues were technical problems, including delays in emails after the sniper was spotted. Emails.

Who sees an assassin and is like, I better open Outlook? Hey, sorry for the mass email, but there's a sniper on the roof. Please respond by end of day. The center report also says there were delays in texts after spotting the sniper, like this one that read: LOL just saw this.

Sorry, which roof? Hashtag mercury in retrograde. Pretty funny. Silly eye. But sadly, true.

Jimmy Phale is here. Uh, I don't can't confirm you left. Did you laugh? I thought it was funny. I actually I thought that angle was okay as an album.

You know, it's rather than saying I wish they shot him and killed him, which people would have cheered. And it's like people want to get mad at them. I get this for going at the assassination. But at the end of the day, I always say I want to live in a world where we get madder at the people who do the bad thing than the people who make fun of it. Does that make sense?

Yeah. It's like the Secret Service got the guy shot. We should be allowed to make fun of them, or at least be madder at them than we are at the comedians. And if you want to be mad at both, that's fine too.

So we just had that number. SNL got 5.3 million viewers on Saturday.

So that was the same day, the highest since 2020. My feeling would have missed because did you watch the cold open? Yeah, it was terrible. Right. But not only that, it was.

Kamala Harris is a hero, right? Right away, the minute you can't make fun of the word salads with her, that is a compliment. Do you remember when these guys came on and George Bush would make fun of himself when he came back, and Al Gore would come back and stiffer than the stiff Al Gore? And where it really hurts comedy, let me explain this to people, okay, is when you're writing jokes, every subject matter, look at it like it's a song, every subject matter is a note. You can put in your song.

If you take certain notes off the scale, you're going to inevitably write a weaker song. You know, if you only have one chord, you can play. It worked well for Blink 182, but most bands aren't Blink 182. You know what I mean? When it comes to comedy.

And that's where it's weak. It's like they made Kamala look good. They didn't want to trash Biden. And you can see the agenda behind the joke, and that's where it sucks. All right.

Jim Gaffigan came out, was good for Tim Waltz, right? That was pretty good. But they didn't mock him. He just talked about his hands flopping all around. He didn't say anything like, I'm, you know, my parents own a meat locker or anything like that.

So Ian Sams is selling this story about Tim Waltz's mindset with Martha McCallum, who you've met. Yeah, yeah. You like her, right? I'm very pro Martha. Cut to.

Can you answer my question? How Waltz is feeling? Because the reports are that he's nervous.

So that was my question. Yeah, he's looking forward to the debate. I think he's looking forward to debating J.D. Vance, who again is continuing to advocate for returning to high risk pools that'll put people with preexisting conditions back into these high risk pools that cost them more money and could kick them off of their insurance.

Well, he started out earlier and said how nervous he was and how he's panicking. There's no way. Yeah, well, listen, man. I have a hard time. You know, you want to mock Waltz.

But it's no way to treat a guy who stormed the beach at Normandy. You know what I mean? The valor he has shown in the Battle of the Bulgaria. See, would that have been funny? Yeah.

You come out, he's in full uniform. Uh-huh. That's funny. Yeah. You can lean into some of this because that's where big topical comedy works.

It works when it dabbles in the knowns. You dig. Yeah. Stuff we all know to be true, and it's ridiculous. That's where I mean it.

Greg's biggest opening, okay? And we all know this. I only have a show because Greg's was so successful, there was a market for more comedy.

So, you know, we have our moments where we pick on each other, like he doesn't like my wardrobe, but I don't have his budget. I can't shop from the Peter Dinklage collection. You know what I mean? He can. But the point is: okay, they created an opening because there were so many juicy targets in the Biden era.

That SL traditionally would have shot at. If we had a president who shook hands with invisible people, I mean, you think of how many miles they got out of Gerald Ford slipping on one stair out of Chevy Chase, and Biden we've seen fall a hundred times. And the fact that they left those subjects off the table. Really created an opening for somebody to come along and be a little more accurate in their assessing of the political world.

So, what do you think is going to happen tonight? Listen, I actually think Vance and Vance has a problem in this regard. The facts. Are not on his side in terms of are people better off now than they were four years ago, the border, the economy. And the reason I think it's a problem is because Vance is a lot better at staying on message than Trump is.

Okay, we like Trump, we like Trump's policies, but I mean this. I believe we make a better case for him some days than he does because some days you give him the bases loaded with none out, like the border question at the debate, and he was goaded into talking about rally sizes and cat eating. And again, he won the meme war, might have even won the election for all I know, but he didn't win the substance battle. And the substance favors him. That's where I think Vance is at an advantage tonight.

Right. No, I think he is too. Plus, he's got a hundred reps. Yeah. One, I mean, you got to see the battles this guy's been fighting on Sunday shows.

That's what's the point, man. You know, in boxing, they say it's not what your record is, it's who you fight. Yeah. He's fought everybody. Right.

He is the Julio Caesar Chavez. He's four in one day. Yeah, yeah. He fights four fights. He does every Sunday show.

And they all begin with, like, why is he Hitler? Why are you the worst? Right. And then he has to try to have a conversation. I used to do great.

But. But have you ever heard of no reps? I mean, they gave Waltz a half a rep. He co-hosted an interview with Danabash. And he answered a question poorly.

I'm not good. What do you say about misstating your rank? My wife gets at me because of grammar. Yeah, you say, I worded it poorly. He had been saying it for 15 years.

It's not like it was one answer one time. It needed clarification. It was 15 years of clarification required.

So the craziest thing is Donald Trump nailed it, and they will not give him credit. He goes to Georgia with Franklin Craham. He's got supplies. He goes, I'm also bringing Elon Musk. We're bringing Starlink over.

We're going to get these people communicating again. I'm going to be here for you. Where is Joe Biden at the beach and then shows up at the White House? Where is Kamala Harris at a fundraiser at an event and then goes to Washington instead of Georgia, Virginia? There's places she could go if North Carolina said no.

Missed opportunity. I'll defend Biden in one regard. He thinks the Carolina hurricanes are an NHL hockey. Right, which is a problem. They won.

I didn't realize the season was. Yeah, the season had not started, so that's where you're wrong. You're always trying to make excuses for him.

So listen to Joe Biden, though. He does not know how to handle Trump. And you could tell this has been seething.

So Trump made up a story. It looks like that he found out that Brian Kemp, they've been playing phone tag with the president.

So he came out and said, yeah, he hasn't called the governor yet of Georgia.

So here's Joe Biden, cut 16. Let me get this straight. He's lying. And the governor told him he was lying. The governor told me he was lying.

I've spoken to the governor, spent time with him, and he told me he's lying. I don't know why he does this. And the reason I get so angry about it, I don't care about what he says about me, but I care what he communicates to the people that are in need. implies that we're not doing everything possible. We are.

We are. I haven't seen Biden that mad since they forgot to warm up his canoe and shore. Right. So that's a very feisty Joe Biden right there. Right.

And I love this too: cut 18. You usually spent the weekend here in Washington rather than in Delaware. Come on, stop it, game. Whenever we go, it's 90 miles from here, okay? But let's talk about optics, because you know this, and we've all said it.

If we literally had a state underwater and Trump is seen shirtless on a beach, there's a real problem. Absolutely. A mega problem. They were mad about him going to Mar-a-Lago during his presidency when things were fine. Just keeps going to Mar-a-Lago.

You're paying. Biden's been there every day.

So he's bad with optics, but where they're really bad with optics. Is they don't have a willingness to lead that Trump does because leadership is instinctive and it's fluid.

Something happened, I'm going. They have to well, something happened, let's run it through the focus group. Let's figure out how we can do this. Because, as you know, when a president shows up, what they're really doing is bringing the nation's attention to the crisis as a way of saying, hey, we're all paying attention. When you get a Biden-Harris, which is, all right, we're going to put out a statement, fake a photo on a jet, and we'll get down there in two weeks, it's basically you're on your own.

Even if you're sending resources. And by the way, it was a terrible picture. Nothing's on the page, and you have no idea if the headset's hooked to anything. I think you do know. In the air, she's the one that can make a phone call.

I guess. But a couple of things come to mind.

So if it's, for example, let's say you love doing stand-up. Hypothetically, really not, that you love doing stand-up. They go, Jimmy, we lost our stand-up. Couldn't you go step in? You're supposed to hang out with your wife.

Will you stand up? Do it. I do. Yeah, jump and go.

So Kamal Harris had so many opportunities to look like the president. This is an opportunity. Put on the windbreaker and go down there and just say, listen, and then when she walks out of a deli and people go to what's going on with Israel, don't go, I have a butter roll here. No, you say, I'm really concerned about X, Y, and Z. And all of a sudden you go, oh my God.

You could see. You know, we don't worry about it because we're on the air. But the average person goes, Yeah, I saw it on the television the other day. She looked pretty sure of herself, talking about Hezbollah, how big the force was, where the tunnels were, what the big picture is, where our resources are allocated. Instead, there's not one person in harm's way in a war zone.

That's her ad lib, which is wrong. Again, it's absurd. And you know what? We could talk about our takeaway, but the truth is, the world sees this. You know, we we assess it, but the world sees this and they don't form an opinion based on Rachel Maddow telling them Kamala has the goods.

They form an opinion based on watching Kamala, just the way they watched Biden. You know, when we went through three years of them telling us it was cheap fakes, nobody was sitting on the other side of the world at Iran going, Oh, I guess he's sharp then. They were watching him, you know, quit talking in the middle of a sentence 'cause he was finished. Right now they see the door open and they say, How do we take advantage of it? Because if we're too good, we get Trump.

If somehow we could make him look better, we'll get Kamala, which is easier for the bad guys to take advantage of us. Yep, that's what they love. I mean, that's that's the hook of her.

Okay, is it another extension of the Biden administration, which we know, and the world finds the Biden administration very easy to do business with and very easy to take advantage of. You know, in baseball, When you see the catcher throw down the second, if he has a weak arm, everybody looks around and they're like, all right, we're stealing bases today. They look at this administration and they go, oh, we're stealing bases on this team. I don't like the sports analogies. There's a lot of them today.

Can you tell Jimmy has a gambling problem? And by the way, Allison, for the record, he brought up Hooker. The hooker or her. Did I say hooker? Yeah, you said hook her.

Allison says I say hooker roller because he's obsessed with hook. I want to challenge her. I think guests should get one challenge flag per kill meet interview. I think we should be able to throw flags as you go back. We said hook her.

Well, all right. But do you know where the word hooker comes from? Give it to me. I'm I'm listening. We have a little bit of a dispute, but it is a Civil War officer, can't even say general, known for liking prostitutes.

Okay. So they say Hooker's Girls and Hooker. And then as I was looking it up to verify my story, it might predate the Civil War. But it's so appropriate. Yes, like, I mean, if you were to name It's what prostitutes do.

Yes. And listen, I just love that this is, of all the subjects I've covered on the show, I love that this is where the fact check resides. Talk deficits and wars and history. But fair. And, you know, as a former cab driver, you laugh, and this has been a top of mind because the UN was in town.

The UN General Assembly is the Super Bowl of hookers. Like, if you're a cabbie, that's the only thing you pick up. Really? Yeah, because nobody else gets in cabs that week because they know they can't get to the east side. Right.

But there's a certain percentage of the population that has to get to the east side.

So they pay you well. Because you can't get. Is it true? The longer you have in the car, the more it costs, right? Yes.

Um but the truth that this is the thing. As a cabby, you don't really want to take them the long way. Because you get turnover pays back because every time they get in, you get that new fee, you get that new tip. Does that make sense? Yeah.

But I was like a driver in Pretty Woman during UN Week. Can we talk about New York for a second? I'd love to.

So, what's with Mayor Adams? He lost his key aide today. Yep. Or yesterday.

So this guy's gone. His attorney's gone. His education secretary is gone. His police commissioner is gone. I mean, What are we doing here?

Yeah. Do you have an end to this? Listen, I did not expect such poor judgment from the guy that gave P. Diddy the key to the city. Right.

You know, he seemed to me like the picture of competency.

Now, there's a man with instincts. I mean, he's going to try to ride it out. Selfishly, I want him to because every day Jermaine Williams is not in office this other day. I mean, he's the public advocate. Yeah, we throw the word woke around, but as the public advocate, like if you played.

Monopoly at Williams' house. Nobody goes to jail. He is a open up Rikers. That's who he is. He is the open Rikers guy.

That's what he should be known as to everybody listening. He has not backed off to fund the police. No, no. To be clear, we've had this discussion. He's so liberal, he wanted to defund the cop and the village people.

All police. Paw Patrol, they're all gone.

So now Al Sharpton's having a summit to decide if there's a political agenda here expediting him out. That political agenda is the same one that pointed at Trump. And Letitia James got exactly what she didn't want. Remember, she tried to blow up the NRA, end up in court. She was wrong.

Right now, those five judges looked at Trump's $454 million judgment and go, I don't get it.

So, I mean, she's coming off. She wants to propel herself, I guess, to the governorship. I mean, Julie, how's this look? There's a reason we are leading the league in U-Hauls right now. Like, we're neck and neck with California.

And if ever there was a case to be made. For the problem with one-party rule, it's in New York and California. States that are running massive deficits, states that have all the resources on earth, yet people are fleeing them anyway. And that's the problem with one-party rule is, as you know, there's no real accountability.

So if somebody could step up on the right, you know, we're all chummy with Slewa. I love Sleewa. I get a kick out of Slewa. You do need a tough on-crime guy in that who really understands the city. Exactly.

I mean, when you talk about a guy who's actually on the streets, they're not on the streets. I mean, to be clear, they're on the sidewalks in front of the nightclubs in Eric Adams' case. And that's my biggest concern right now: if he goes away, it's going to devastate the bottle service industry. Nobody talks about the vodka waitresses in Chelsea. They're all in bad shape.

You know what? How does he go out every night and look great? I mean, he's a good-looking man who goes out every night and is up in the morning. I actually think that's his biggest offense, knowing that he's a guy that's closing Marquis at like 5:10 on a Tuesday. You're jealous.

Yeah, and looks good at an 8 a.m. press conference. All right, Jimmy. Do you have anything planned for your show? Today, we're a bit today.

So, listen, it's obviously debate preview day. Bruce Singman has some exclusive from the Trump campaign she's running alongside. She makes a lot of that stuff out. Tudor Dixon's. I do believe she does.

Tudor Dixon's in the House as well. It's going to get rowdy. That's the only prediction. Get rowdy. It's going to be rowdy attitude.

It's Fox across America. I'm going to give people stuff that you can't get anywhere else.

Well, no, no, that matters. But you're running a professional operation. Remember this. If radio shows are boats, you're a carnival cruise line. I'm the inflatable raft in Captain Phillips.

You know what I mean? I'm a Somali pirate. You know what? Sometimes those rafts move very quick. Yes.

And they always can go on shore. At 12 noon, I am the captain now. Back in a moment. Brian Kilmead. Working up a sweat to bring you the latest news and opinions.

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So, were you nervous at that at battle? No, after 40, 4,190 hits. You know, the world's watching. Get ready for the record. You know, it was September 11th, by the way.

I had the whole month to get one hit. I could have done that with one hand. But don't forget, when I got the hit, Brian, I was player manager.

So not only was I playing, but I was running the show. I was making the lineup out. You were probably the last one. Yeah, I was. And I don't think there'll ever be another one because it's just too much involved.

You know, you have to take care of the press. We know that. You have to take care of the players. And as you're a player manager, you've got to take care of your skills. And you can't neglect the press or they'll run you out of town.

That is Pete Rose on our show a short while ago. Jimmy Phela passed away at the age of 83. Sure did. Bigger than life. Pete Rose was the man, Charlie Hustle.

God love him. Nobody played harder. Put him in a hole. I like him in the hall because what he did on the field isn't undone by what happened off the field, in my opinion. I don't want to get into a bar fight here, but I kind of do.

Right. But you have the home run king. Yeah. Not in. Not in.

And you have the hit king. Yeah. Not in. Next. President Jimmy Carter becomes the first U.S.

president to live to 100. You predicted this. I remember when he was ousted after one term, you said he'll live to 100. Yeah, I mean, honestly, Biden wants to know his secret to looking so young. He looks better than Biden.

Morgan Wallen, good guy. $500,000 to Hurricane Helene relief. You were against this. How dare you, Morgan? Stop it.

No, that's great. He doesn't live there, but he cares about who's there. Yes, he does. All right, and you do, too. Oh, you match this.

Yes, we're already in talks with how to get the money down there. Hopefully, they take that off. Thank you, Jimmy. Kudlow on Fox Business is now on the go for podcast fans. Get key interviews with the biggest business newsmakers of the day.

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