Harris bombs 60 Minutes interview; Hurricane Milton threatens millions - "You're gonna die"

From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Killmee Show.

So glad you're here. We have a lot to discuss today and a lot of moving parts, including a hurricane bearing down on Florida directly. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West at the bottom of the hour. Our privileged to have Admiral James Starvita sitting here with me, the 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a member of the Carlisle Group and an author of several bestsellers, including, I'm sure, a future bestseller, which comes out today. And he's hit the latest the latest book is you remember the 2034, a novel of the next world war, the sailors bookshelf, 50 books to know the sea, risk it all, nine conflicts in the crucible of decision, and now you also have Uh your brand new book is now out, Admiral, and it is The Restless Wave, a novel of the United States Navy.

It is, Brian. Thanks for having me on. And I'm a native Floridian, as you know, so I am watching this storm very closely. My home in Florida looks like we'll be spared. We're up in the north part, but my heart goes out to the state, to Governor DeSantis, who's doing a very, very effective job of managing this.

We'll see how that all plays out. But thanks for asking about the restless wave, set in the early days of World War II, historical fiction. It's kind of a love triangle with the greatest generation. It's a story of. Great power, war in the Pacific, and it's about new technology sweeping the battlefield.

A lot going on in this book. A lot, yeah.

So you base it in fact. You know, the war by the back of your hand, anyway. Didn't your dad fight in World War II? He did. He did.

And yes, there are both real characters.

So Ernest Hemingway, who was a war correspondent, makes an appearance. Admiral Chester Nimitz is a principal character. But there are also fictitious members of that greatest generation as young people. And what I sought to do was really portray them, not in the simple black and white of, hey, they're all perfect and they're all heroes, but to show the complexity of being 22 years old in 1941 as a war unfolds. And so many of these soldiers were the first time they were in military, right?

You get drafted. We had a shell of a force. Yep. Right? How big was our force when World War II started, roughly?

Do you remember? Tiny. We were the 16th largest army in the world, sticks in my mind. We were very small. Active duty, and we had very little shipbuilding capacity for warships.

Within a couple of years after Pearl Harbor in 1941, we were cranking out warships day after day. Pretty remarkable stuff. And in the book, The Restless Wave, you meet a 22-year-old who has graduated early from the U.S. Naval Academy. That class of 1941, Brian, they were supposed to graduate, of course, in June of 41.

They graduated very early that year in order to be ready for the war. And the book really opens in Pearl Harbor just before the attack. Wow, pretty amazing.

So we'll talk about that and also with breaking because we've got challenges everywhere. Let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The retaliation for hitting a national strategic target by Iran would probably be quite severe and dramatic. The regime. In Iran is fragile and vulnerable, and they want to put more pressure on them because they want the people overwhelmingly fed up with this regime.

Yep, a year after the October 7th attacks. How close is the region to peace?

Well, not very. How close is Israel to security? And a whirlwind? Closer than anyone could have predicted. We'll discuss it.

Number two. You have changed your position. On so many things. In the last four years, I have been Vice President of the United States and I have been traveling our country and I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. Wow, there you go.

2024, Kamala Harris rips off the bubble wrap and sits down with 60 minutes. And undecided voters can like what they see, or most of them might like what they hear. It's up to them. We look at the state of the race. Number one.

People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games at this moment in these crisis situations is just utterly irresponsible and it is selfish. And Ron DeSantis feels differently. He called her selfish and says that she's and that said he is not dodging calls from her. He says he's never gotten calls from her in the past. Why should he take them now?

Hurricane Milton, ominous threat on the west coast of Florida and beyond, just two weeks after Helene hammered the region, specifically Western North Carolina, as questions about FEMA's performance and lack of leadership swirl around the recovery. Admiral, first off, your sense, you really have to know the weather to do your job, correct? And understand it.

So, what do you see? What should Florida be braced for? Yeah, every sailor is a weatherman. Or woman, and you've got to know what's coming. And so, yeah, I've spent a lifetime at sea observing these kind of big storms.

This one. Feels inherently bigger and more dangerous for two reasons. One, It's on a direct path at a major population center in the state. This thing is headed right for Tampa Bay, which, by the way, as you know, has two of the largest military commands in the United States: U.S. Central Command, U.S.

Special Operations Command. Right there. Is it waterproof? We'll find out because that's number two. The storm search here.

By all accounts, and as I look at the meteorology here, I think it's going to be between 10 and 20 feet. And as the mayor of Tampa just said, that's unsurvivable. You will die if you try and stay. One thing I noticed about Tampa, the bridges are so close to the water. I mean, why not arch them?

I'm not an engineer, but I always thought that. It's a beautiful view. But I always wonder how long until it's flooded. Yeah, this is a running commentary about Tampa that's been going on for really much of a second. I've got some people have said, no, no, that it's uniquely vulnerable.

So we, all of us Floridians, Are very worried about Tampa, Tampa Bay, those military bases, and God help anybody who. Foolish enough to stay in the stay. You got to get out. You really do. You don't want to screw around with a hurricane.

There's just no excuse. A tornado, you don't know when one of those is going to pop up. Earthquake, you don't know it's coming. Flash fires, you don't know those are sweeping down the side of a mountaintop in Colorado. A hurricane, you know it's coming.

It's been coming for five days plus. You really have to do the responsible thing and get out of the way. Here's the mayor saying essentially the same thing of Tampa Cut One. There's never been one like this. And this Helene was a wake-up call.

This is literally catastrophic. And I can say without Any dramatization whatsoever. If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die. That's blunt and it's accurate. And nobody survives a ten to twenty foot storm surge.

So let's talk to another area of expertise besides weather, and that is the military. First off, your reaction as an American, seeing that yesterday in New York City, there were protests and demonstrations organized with the garb and the posters and the chants from Wall Street up to the Upper East Side and Columbia University, chanting for Palestinians and for Hamas. I hate it. I can't tell you how it. uh hurts my sense of what's right and wrong to see people coming out and talking about Hamas, a terrorist organization that raped, tortured, mutilated, kidnapped, a remarkable and horrific story.

Anyone who can promote Hamas is a fool. And how we ever thought it would be here after 9/11. Can you imagine there were protests for Al-Qaeda? It is unimaginable. And as you and I both know, fortunately, there were strong demonstrations pro-Israel that were unfolding throughout New York.

But you just have to feel for the Israelis and for Jewish Americans who see all this and feel a kind of rising tide of anti-Semitism, Brian. And that is deeply concerning. It should concern all of us. I think so, too. One thing I think is not slowing down the Israelis and the IDF.

And in the beginning, the frustration that Gaza wasn't going quick enough, and that maybe we were holding back we were holding them back from maybe going into Rafah and making a huge score against terrorists. Having said all that, they've quickly, after getting shelled by Hezbollah, They decide to go on the offense. And what they've done, can you put it in perspective? They've decapitated that regime. They really have.

And I think we are looking at a textbook military campaign going against what they call the tentacles of the octopus, the octopus being Iran. It's Hamas in Gaza. It's Hezbollah to the north in Lebanon. And Brian, they're also conducting thousand-mile strikes down to Yemen on the Red Sea against the third tentacle, the Houthis.

So this is a remarkable multi-front campaign that the Israelis are putting on. And it's also multi-domain, meaning cyber intelligence, precision strike, targeted assassinations, appropriate and legal under international law. This remarkable story of using beepers to go after command and control and operatives of Hezbollah. The military, the U.S. military, will be studying this campaign of the Israelis for decades.

Lucy, you know what I find irresponsible, Admiral? All the people say, we want peace, we want a ceasefire. Under what circumstances? You do it under the wrong circumstances. You're just postponing a more lethal attack in retribution.

So why don't we ever talk comprehensively about what an effective ceasefire would look like? We need to change the dynamic of that ceasefire conversation. Ultimately, there'll be a ceasefire. Wars end with negotiation for the most part. But to say to the Israelis, well, you ought to just pull your troops out of Gaza.

Let that bastard Yahya Sinwar come up from the hole he's been hiding in for a year, blink a couple of times, seeing sunlight for the first time, and then announce that Hamas is back, that's not appropriate. Israel needs to continue until they capture or kill him, and they need to continue to break what's left of Hamas.

So when we look on the other side, right now we have troops on the ground, not we, but the IDF is on the ground in Lebanon pushing forward. It seems like they know what they're in for. It seems like they understand the tunnel system, and they're putting another thousand ready to go in. What does this operation remind you of?

Something long-term, short-term? I think it's kind of a medium term, not to pick the Goldilocks answer, but what the Israelis want to do here is get as far north as they can to take out Hezbollah's missiles, Hezbollah, in their tunnel complex. Uh has 100,000-plus surface-to-surface missiles. The Israelis are going to want to decommission that tunnel complex. That means going further north than simply the Latani River, which is about 20 miles up.

They will maintain control of that zone of territory. That permits them to bring their settlers, their citizens, back into their homes in the north. All of that is going to happen in the medium term, Brian.

So look at this as a campaign that goes on for two to four months, takes out the missiles, and ensures that Israelis can get back into their homes. All of that, two to four months, that will effectively break Hezbollah, just as they broke in Hamas. Admiral James Tervidis has been freed from his network deal with another network because he has a great book out today. It's called The Restless Wave, a novel of the United States Navy. We'll talk more about that and also what else is going around going on in the world.

And what an Iranians, an attack on Iran, which is going to be a good idea. Going to be coming from Israel, would and should look like. You're listening to the Brian Kilmead Show.

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The Kudlow podcast will be available on the go after the show every weekday at Foxbusiness Podcasts.com or wherever you download your favorite podcasts. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmeid. We have a very close dialogue with administration about our war efforts to degrade Kizbala and to fight the whole Iranian Axis. Right now, as you know, struck by Iran in a massive missile, attacking 200 missiles fired at Israel.

This is really a brazen attack, and we are going to respond. And the U.S. Administration knows and understands that we are going to respond soon. Has that decision been made? Yes, we are going to respond, but right now we are discussing all our options, but ultimately it's a sovereign Israeli decision, and that decision will be taken in the coming days.

Admiral Stavritis is here. His book, The Restless Wave, is out today, a novel of the United States Navy, but just about this.

So, that is the president. The Israeli ambassador to the United States, I should say, Michael Herzog, saying there's going to be a response. Admiral, what would an effective Israeli attack on Iran look like? Let me take you into the Israeli Pentagon. Right now, their senior military are presenting a series of options, Brian, that'll run from cyber, gather more intelligence, really kind of low-end things.

Then it'll work up to targeted assassinations. They'll go up that ladder of escalation to go after, for example, Iranian. maritime assets. Then we get into the options of striking Iran itself. Here, I think there's four key options.

One is go after military targets. Number two, go after their military industrial complex where they build the ballistic missiles. Number three, Go after their energy producing sector, and number four, and most controversially, go after the nuclear program. If I were the senior Israeli general, I'd be advising a combination of those. I'd probably hold off the nuclear option for the moment, but I would go after military-industrial, some energy grid, and certainly military targets.

What about targeting the Aitolla? I think he is absolutely a legitimate military target. And let's face it, the Israelis have killed the leader effectively of Hamas. They've killed the leader of Hezbollah. I'd like to see them take out the leadership of Iran up to and including the supreme leader.

It's a legitimate military target.

So over the weekend, or it was a few days prior, the Grand Ayatollah said death to America is not a slogan, it's a policy. And they've demonstrated that that policy since 1979. Correct. Why are we pretending any different? I think we need to look with very clear eyes at this regime.

And you played a clip from Jack Keene a few moments ago, General Jack, good friend of mine, a mentor, and he said quite correctly: the population of Iran increasingly. is sick and tired of this rotten theocracy that sits on top. It's time to go at them hard.

So do we went after the Houthi rebels multiple times lately last week. What was so difficult about getting these tribes neutralizing these tribesmen? Again, one word, Iran. Iran is resupplying them.

So by going after Iranian capacity, industrial capacity, you also choke off the Houthis. Wouldn't you also do that by going after the oil? Because that is their revenue? You absolutely could. There's a problem with that, which is despite the fact that we want to choke off the Iranian economy, they're producing three, four, maybe five percent of global oil goes mostly to China, a few other places.

But if you suddenly cut that off, the impact on the global economy could be deleterious. And final thought, Brian. a risk here in terms of oil is the Iranians closing the Strait of Hormuz. None of that means we should be shy about going hard at them. Because we could reopen it.

We absolutely could reopen it and we would. All right. The Biden administration really has no control over Netanyahu. That's what they're saying. Is that correct?

It is correct. And there's, I think, both a professional and a personal split between the very top leaders in the two countries. Clearly, these are two leaders, Netanyahu and Biden, who don't like each other. You can hear it in their tone. You can see it in their body language.

And then, secondly, Professionally, let's face it, for the Israelis, this is an existential threat. You heard the ambassador say this will be a sovereign decision by the Israelis. The Restless Wave, the name of the book. Pick it up. It's a novel of the United States Navy.

It is a historical fiction. Congratulations on doing it. Admiral James Javieras, thank you. Thanks, Brian. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Was it a mistake? to loosen the immigration policies. As much as you did. It's a long-standing problem.

and solutions are at hand. And from day one, literally, We have been offering solutions. What I was asking was: was it a mistake to? kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place. The policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem.

Okay. But the numbers did quadruple. And the numbers today, because of what we have done. We have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. We have cut the flow of fentanyl by half.

But we need Congress to be able to act to actually fix the problem.

So this is what she says. We had a bipartisan plan. She had nothing to do with it. She had no idea what's in it, in my view, with Senator Langford and Senator Murphy. And senor cinema.

And that would have solved the problems. You had no interest in doing that. Do you know why that whole thing came to be? It's because Republicans, I think idiotically, were holding out on Ukraine aid. And they said, well, we need to fix the border.

They said, well, what if we get together and do a border deal? That was Mitch Buccane's idea. And they get together and do a deal in a sealed room. And they came out with this complicated proposal. And some Democrats said, we'll just take it so we can get the Ukraine aid.

And Republicans go, wait a second, what's in it? I'm not okay with this. What's this threshold of 5,000 before you shut down the border? What's all this money going to NGOs for? I'm not for that.

There's no provision here to handle unaccompanied minors except for they get to stay, no DNA kits at the border. There's some other things that they liked about the money for the border, additional Border Patrol agents and no additional money to build the wall. After all, there was already a wall to be built.

So the Republicans didn't sign on it. No amendments were offered. And now they had a talking point. The other talking point was in 2021, when we first came in, President Biden proposed comprehensive immigration reform.

Well, no, but the Democrats, Republicans aren't going to touch that. You're not going to even seal the border. Why would they go to give everyone a bath of citizenship? And if you loved it so much, why did you not bring it up, promote it, push it, give speeches about it, ask the Democratic House and Senate to pass it?

So Whitaker did a good job following up, could have been a little bit more relentless, but I think it got the bubble wrap off, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West on that. Colonel, the first time she was actually asked consecutive questions on this, what do you think of her answer? She completely failed. She completely bobbed it. Chronologically look at this.

When the Biden administration, Biden-Harris administration came in, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took 91-plus executive actions to undermine the security of our border. We have seen record numbers of illegal immigrants come into this country. I mean, numbers of 10 to maybe 12 million. We have seen 250,000 Americans dead because of fentanyl, a chemical warfare attack. We haven't seen numbers like that even in the last Korean War and Vietnam War.

We have seen.

Now, countless amounts of hundreds of thousands of single military-aged males are in this country. And right here in Dallas, just a week or so ago, we had a woman who was followed home to her place, and she was by four Hispanic males. Yeah, and thank God they caught them yesterday. From Venezuelan, gangsters. From Venezuela, Trendiaragua.

And so, you know, all of this is a result of what she did.

Now, let's talk about this bill, this Lankford bill. You know, again, you're supposed to follow the right process and procedures. That should have been brought up in committee. It should have been debated and voted on committee. No.

Mitch McConnell and a couple of other people get together and throw something together, and most people did not know what was in it. And then, like Nancy Pelosi said, we have to pass a bill to find out what's in the bill. And it has nothing to do with fixing this problem. 300,000 children are missing who came across the border illegally. 300,000.

And I wish that these commentators. I wish Whitaker would have said that. Where are these children? You're worried about separating a handful of kids over the course of six weeks during the Trump years, kids in cages, which was Obama's way of protecting them from the general male population. But kids in cages, you have that talking point, and then separation of families to deter them coming over here.

If you were drink, drunk, driving, and they'll put you in jail and they take your kids away. That's what Tom Holman said. You don't like it. We can debate that another time. But that was short-lived.

But now you have 300,000 who came here we didn't track. Yeah. And they're gone and no one knows where they are. And so this is just a cacophony of failures. And for them to come back around and for her to say that, you know, we've been trying to fix it.

No, you haven't. You have not been trying to fix this whatsoever. And you are the person that was put in charge of taking care of this issue. And you have done nothing. for this issue to the point where now we have America's you know maybe this moderate moderator or commentator should ask do you accept any responsibility for the death of Lake O'Reilly do you accept any responsibility for the death of uh young uh twelve-year-old girl uh nangare down in houston all of these women who have lost their lives you know due to illegal immigrants do you accept any responsibility for that that's what we need to have someone do i would love for kamala hairs to sit down with you I would love that.

Just so she would not be able to handle the follow-up question because she didn't memorize it. This is all memorized. Uh So when you talk about our economy, our economic principles, he brought up a few things on that. Cut eighteen. is about saying that When you invest in small businesses, You invest in the middle class.

And you strengthen America's economy. Small businesses are part of the backbone of America's economy. But pardon me, Madam Vice President. The question was. How are you going to pay for it?

Well, one of the things is I'm going to make sure that the richest among us who can afford it. Pay their fair share in taxes. And I plan on making that fair. But we're dealing with the real world here. But the real world includes.

How are you going to get this through Congress? You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I'm talking about, because their constituents know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm going to let you comment before I comment. Go ahead. It's just a circular conversation, right?

It's just the things she's memorized. And when you listen to her, guess what? We heard that from Joe Biden. We heard that from Barack Obama. There's nothing new under the sun, like King Solomon said in Ecclesiastes.

This is just a rehash of the same old failed policies, which means the economy will continue to suffer and struggle as we have witnessed in the past three and a half years when she's been the vice president.

So, what is she going to do different? Not a doggone thing. As a matter of fact, you know, they went and looked at her economic plan. It was cut and paste from Joe Biden.

So there are no new ideas. And so she is not any type of change agent. You remember, you go back to Dana Bash's interview. She said, my principles, my values haven't changed.

So she's no one different than the person that was there in 2019.

So she says the rich people can pay more than they know it, and people are whispering about it.

Now, I don't know what she's talking about, but my so-called rich people are paying over 50% of the money that they have. I don't care what they say. Over 50%. As Dave Portnow even tweeted out, too, I'd love to know about these secret rich people that don't pay taxes. What they do is there's an incentive to invest.

If you have money, if you invest that money, guess what? Then you have a real estate agent that gets commissioned. Then they got to go if you buy an office building. That ripples through the economy. You get people to get their money off the sideline.

When they believe in the economy, they do that. But when you keep upping their taxes, they say, screw you. I'm not investing a thing. And if she's talking about unrealized gains, taxing unrealized gains. realize gains.

So you bought Apple. Apple had an unbelievable year. Apple's emerging as a tech or an AI stock. It's emerging.

So you have a great year, or you're the one who offered it. And you have a fantastic year, but you're not going to cash in. The best is yet to come. But no, the tax man's here, so it means you have to cash in.

So, why would you even do the IPO if you're gonna what do you need for experience?

So he should have asked, taxing unrealized gains will destroy Wall Street and curtail investment. Whose idea was that? Either that or you just think that rich people are really not paying any money on their taxes. They go out of their way within the system to get write-offs, but with those write-offs come additional employment and it's supposed to goose the economy.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, they're boosting the economy, and they don't understand that. They would rather see more people wedded the government. And you think about right now, government spending as part of our GDP is at an all-time high, some 25-26%. When you look at most of the jobs that have been added, quote unquote, during the Obama, I mean, the Biden-Harris administration, they're government jobs.

818,000 jobs, you know, they were mystical jobs. I mean, they had to erase those jobs and downgrade them.

So, all of these things that she's saying, these are failed policies. These are things that we have already witnessed and already seen. And she really is, I hate to say this, Brian, but she's way over her head in all of this talk about the economy, talk about energy, talk about national security, all of these issues that if you just press her a little bit, she folds. She can't answer these things. And just the same as Tim Waltz.

If you look at the economy of Minnesota, he has the highest state corporate income tax rate in the country, 9.8%. He has the six highest personal income tax rate.

So, this is all these folks realize. And when she talks about raising the corporate tax rate even more, what do you think that's going to do to businesses here in the United States of America and investment? Do you think they're going to stay here in America or they're going to try to go somewhere else? Right. Household savings has dropped $372 billion under her.

Consumer debt soared at $3.15 trillion under her. Mortgage rates doubled $3.4 to 6.2. Inflation hit a peak of 9%. And now it's at 2%, but it still never dropped from that 9%. But they want to focus now on Donald Trump not doing the interview.

And he's had a bad time there. They're not fair with him. They're relentless with him. And he says, I'm out. Scott Pelley.

Cut twenty-two. Then, a week ago, Trump backed out. The campaign offered shifting explanations. First it complained that we would fact check the interview. We fact-check every story.

Later, Trump said he needed an apology for his interview in 2020. Trump claims correspondent Leslie Stahl said in that interview that Hunter Biden's controversial laptop came from Russia. She never said that. Trump has said his opponent doesn't do interviews because she can't handle them. He had previously declined another debate with Harris, so tonight may have been the largest audience for the candidates between now and Election Day.

So Scott Pelly said that he said he would not do the show unless he got an apology from Leslie Stahl with the company for saying that the laptop wasn't real. He says, we never said that, as you heard.

Well, listen, cut to twenty three. I think it's one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen, and you don't cover it. You want to talk about insignificant things. I'm telling you. Of course it can be verified.

Excuse me. They found the laptop. Leslie. It can't be verified. Can't be verified.

Just like those idiots and those people in the FBI that held on to until after the election can't be verified. She made no effort, not skeptical at all about it. Or the 51 quote-unquote intelligence experts and officials that said it was misinformation. And oh, by the way, many of those are included in this list of some 700 national security experts that are back in Kamala Harris. This is just a repeat of the same old thing.

And shame on Scott Pelley and CBS, you know, for them wanting to, once again, bring Donald Trump in. He's tired of it. He's had enough of it. We saw what happened with the ABC debate. We even saw the smugness and the obtuse nature of the CBS moderators doing the vice presidential debate.

You know, I think that it's time that we start looking at a different type of debate system going forward instead of allowing these people to have it. And everyone shuns Fox News or Fox businesses because they don't want to be challenged. The left wants to control the narrative. And it's about time that we say no. All right, here's more of Leslie Stahl.

When he said they spied on my campaign, listen to this, cut 24. The biggest scandal was when they spied on my campaign. They spied on my campaign. There's no real evidence of that. Of course, there is.

It's all over the place. Leslie, they spied on my campaign and they got to. Can I say something? You know, this is 60 minutes. And we can't put on things we can't verify them.

You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden. We can't put on things we can't verify. Leslie, they spied on my campaign.

Well, we can't verify them. We can totally verify them. It's been just go down and get the papers. They spied on my campaign, they got caught. They did.

And they and they were. Just the laptop was real. They did spy on his campaign. He's 100% right. Hillary Clinton unleashed the whole Russia hoax.

And he says, if you want this interview, apologize. And they wouldn't.

So then they spent a half hour and let Kamal Harris go off on him and say, basically, you have to be willing to do these interviews. This is a woman that's done three. As opposed to over a hundred. That's for his vice president alone. Yes, if you want to talk about election interference, just look at CBS and what the clips that you just played.

That's election interference or some of these other networks that denied the truth and would not do their due diligence as quote unquote journalists to get to the bottom of these things. They just went along with the narrative that was out there. And again, I think that President Trump is absolutely right to say You know, everyone knows who I am. They know what I stand for. And I don't need to go on your network unless you guys are going to prove to everyone and admit that you were wrong and take responsibility for your actions and what you did four years ago.

Yeah, Lieutenant Colonel, thanks so much. Alan West, appreciate it. It was a pleasure. Thank you. All right, we come back.

We'll take your calls on a lot of this. If you'll play some more, they're Lou Long of the interview in 16 Minutes with Kamala Harris. And the vice president, he just looks more ridiculous every day. The vice presidential nominee looks more ridiculous every day. Brian Kilmicho.

Here are the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here. The Brian Kill Meat Show. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Is that kind of misrepresentation Isn't that more than just being a knucklehead?

I think folks know who I am and I think they know the difference. Between someone Expressing emotion, telling your story, getting a date wrong rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump. But I think it comes down to the question of. Whether Whether you can be trusted to tell the truth. Yeah, well, I can.

I think I can. I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word. How embarrassing is that? I mean, that is the guy that wants to be the vice president of the United States, unable to explain his inaccuracy. And the crisis management on these comments is terrible.

I think I can be trusted. I think I can be trusted, really. Tanner Man Square is like D-Day. Tannament Square was a riot. The whole world watched as this country, which was pushing towards some type of representation, got pushed back and squelched by the communist dictators before everyone's eyes.

Students run over by tanks. Either you were there or you were not. You'd say, oh, I was there on D-Day. I'm sorry. I was there two weeks later.

Oh, so you were at Normandy? Yes, but there was no fighting going on. I was there on vacation.

So, which one is it? These are historic dates, and we know it's not a one-off. He also sat down with Jimmy Kimmel. Let's listen to some of this exchange, Cut 29. Please welcome America's sweetheart, Governor Tim Ly.

Thank you for coming. It really was great to have you here. I feel like you're a real person. I mean, I thought maybe our fantasies conjured you up. We're like, we need a really nice man to come in and help us.

Wow. And here you are. Can you really control the weather and be honest with me? Because. I have a pickleball game this weekend.

I love you. You could just dial it down a little bit. It's been a little bit hot here in Los Angeles. Yeah, it never ends, does it? No, it doesn't end.

Yeah, and then he went on to say, I expect to wake up on the day after election day with the vice pres with the vice president will be the new president. And there's like, really? You're waking up with I just can't believe Ellen Comperney is. He's unable to defend his record in Minnesota except for saying that the vice president, that's not her policies, when it comes to abortion in the ninth month, it actually says it there, so you can't just keep denying it there. How you handle with the snitch line during COVID, how you handle the George Floyd riots, the taxes that you put on people.

I don't know. How he was picked is beyond me. Hope to see you guys in Peekskill, New York. Believe it or not, it's coming up next Sunday at 7 o'clock, BrianKillmead.com. From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division.

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So glad you're here. This is the place where, you know, not exactly in front of here at Washington Square Park, at Columbia University, Wall Street, Penn Station, Madison Square Garden. Why am I saying all these places? This is all where we saw protests against Israel on October 7th, one year later, after the massacre that killed innocent people and took 200-plus hostage, 100 still being held captive against their will. Yet, all these idiots who are an embarrassment to their families and a disaster, if you are parents of these people, you have failed.

You have failed as parents. You should give up your parent card. If you come into America and you're protesting for Hamas, you have raised an idiot. And let me just say, you should be embarrassed, and I just worry that people, these terrorists like Hamas Hezbollah, Iran, think that they're making gains in America because they see these protests making life more and more difficult for those being held against their will and for the IDF fighting as the only democracy in the region. This hour, going to be joined by John Reid, host of Richmond's Morning News.

We're going to be doing Politics in Pints coming up next week on the 16th.

So that's going to be great. I hope to see everybody there in person. We'll do a SamoCast on FPN with Stuart Varney. And Mayor Glenn Jacobs is standing by in Knox County, Tennessee, talking about FEMA's response and the challenges that remain.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The retaliation for hitting a national strategic target by Iran would probably be quite severe and dramatic. The regime. In Iran is fragile and vulnerable, and they want to put more pressure on them because they want the people overwhelmingly fed up with this regime.

Yes, that is General Jackin. A year after the 10.7 attacks, how close is the region to peace? Not very. How close is Israel to security? And a war win?

Closer than anyone may have predicted. Number two. You have changed your position. on so many things. Vice President of the United States, and I have been traveling our country.

And I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. Right, so you've changed on everything. Still, no explanation why you've changed. The bubble wrap is off. 60 minutes, sit-down is in.

We're going to look at the state of the race. Number People are in desperate need of support right now, and playing political games at this moment in these crisis situations is just utterly irresponsible, and it is selfish. Yes, that is Kamala Harris talking about Governor Ron DeSantis not calling her back. Why? Because he says she never has called me through any catastrophe.

It's always, I deal with the president, not with the vice president. Don't make political hay with me.

Next, Hurricane Milton, ominous threat to the west coast of Florida right now by Wednesday afternoon, just beyond two weeks after Helene hammered the region. And that's where we begin. Mayor Glenn Jacobs joins us now. Mayor, welcome to Brian Kilmeicho. Hey, thanks, Samuel, Brian.

First off, from you know, it's hit seven states. We're talking about first Helene and the challenge it gives. What about the communication with FEMA? How was Tennessee m uh affected much? Yes.

East Tennessee was hit very hard, especially in. are more Rule. and mountainous regions, and that's causing some serious challenges because we have people in remote areas that don't have power, don't have water, don't have anything and can't get anything to them. As far as communication Yeah. As far as communication with FEMA, I wouldn't be doing that anyway because in Knox County, we were not hit much.

We had to close a couple of rows. That was really it. But in the early stages of these things, it is state and local governments as well as just the unbelievable community effort. that I have seen among churches and nonprofits and others. You know, to try to take care of people as best they can.

And it's really up to state and local governments to organize. What FEMA does in the end is they just cut checks reimbursement. You know, but it's not like they're going to send people to this area anyway.

So, you know, and overall, It's been my experience that communication from the Biden-Harris White House is non-existent with locals. When President Trump was in the White House, I actually got email updates and numbers that I could call. You know, if we needed help at the White House, I have never once spoken to anyone at the White House, received one email since Joe Biden has been president.

So I want you to hear Deanna Criswell pushing back against people that said that FEMA was invisible. And remember, Homeland Security Secretary said they were out of money in the middle of the hurricane season. Nice budgeting. Cut five. The first thing, Brett, is it's false.

We have been on the ground since before Hurricane Helene hit Florida and before it crossed over North Carolina. And what I would say is just because somebody doesn't fing a person in a FEMA shirt doesn't mean that we're not in the area. We have a team located with the state side by side to help them understand their needs and move resources where they're needed. We've moved food and water and much of what you're seeing delivered. by the amazing National Guardsmen across North Carolina are the supplies that we've brought in.

The entire federal family is there to support this response. We've been there. We will continue to be there as long as it's needed to make sure we're meeting everybody's needs.

Well, I mean, your thoughts about what she says is happening. Because if you don't see them, it doesn't mean they're not there. Yeah, whatever. I did see a female truck in Kodak, Tennessee at the Bass Pro shop while I was picking up some stuff the other day to bring up here. You know, there's a lot of talk about North Carolina.

I have friends in North Carolina, obviously. That's a terrible situation.

However, in Tennessee, no one's talking about Tennessee. It doesn't appear that much has happened in Tennessee. And I have to believe the reason for that is because Tennessee is not a swing state. Right in this presidential election. We're a heavily Republican state.

We will vote for Donald Trump. And I think this thing has just gotten political, and they can say whatever they want to keep on talking about North Carolina. We could sure as hell use some help in East Tennessee, too.

Well, I want you to hear it.

So you're not a swing state. Technically, hopefully, that'll stay the same. Here's Senator Tom Tillis. He kept he was told that North Carolina is getting everything they need and that he was happy. Cut seven.

The President is right to say that billions of dollars is being spent as a result of Biden's failed immigration policies and border policies.

However, we have the resources that we need. We are going to have to go back and pass more resources. We could have a discussion about the failure of this administration's border policies and the billions of dollars it is costing, but right now, not yet, is it affecting the flow of resources to Western North Carolina? But they said that they are out of money and they said they can't relocate money from the $650 million for illegal aliens to come here. Yeah, so again, in East Tennessee, where I'm at, and I am on the ground.

Venus not doing anything here again that I can tell.

Now, maybe they're, you know, maybe they're in other areas, but in this particular area, which is sparsely populated, they're not. You know, and frankly, when this whole thing happened, everyone here decided we're going to, this is Appalachia, we're going to do it ourselves. You know, and if they want to come in and help, that's great. Actually, they just need to stay out of the way if they do want to come in and help because our people are doing everything we possibly can. But again, I think it's rather disingenuous.

To say that they're here, and just because you don't see someone in a FEMA shirt doesn't mean that they're here. You know, we're the ones organizing the food drops, we're the ones organizing water going in. We're trying to find generators, people up in the mountains right now who are on oxygen and don't have any power, who might be on have diabetes and on insulin, don't have any power, so you can't keep the insulin cold. And literally, We're doing it ourselves. You know, no, no help from the feds that I know of.

So, you know, to say that, I think they should probably come in and actually take a look at what's going on.

So, what about your governor? Governor Lee, you know, this is a very challenging situation, you know, just all over the place. We have very competent leadership with TEMA and, you know, everything else. You know, it's just, it was pretty overwhelming, especially the first few days. You know, National Guard's been activated, you know, but still in some areas, it's basically.

You know, the state and local, not the state, actually, local people coordinating. For instance, I'm working with an organization called Mission of Hope. Delivered a semi-truck full of water to Mountain Imports here in Erwin, Tennessee, which is right outside Johnson City. You know, that's the other thing. You have all these businesses, all these people, you know, they're the ones that have stepped up and helped.

And it hasn't been really the government, especially at the federal level. You know, states, states there, you know, you can get resources, you know, but this. I do it at CMAM. Is actually working, I just don't see it, and you'd probably have to talk to your governor to see if that's true or not. But on the ground, I don't see it.

All right, Mayor. And then Milton's going to be hitting soon. And that should not hit you, but man, it's going to be definitely going to command some resources. Yeah, it's going to be terrible. Hey, if I give a shout out to the folks at Mission of Hope, if people want to help, please make a contribution to missionofhope.org.

They have a splash page where you can go and click on the link and make a donation. That money goes directly to the Hurricane Relief Fund and we'll help people here in East Tennessee. All right, go get him, Mayor Glenn Jacobs. Thanks so much. Thanks, Blen.

So there's a little battle going on. I don't want to get him involved, but it would be between Kamala Harris and Governor DeSantis. Governor DeSantis saying, Look, the Vice President called. Why am I calling her back? Since when is she interested in Florida?

Been doing this job six years. Never heard from her. I'm not going to be a political pawn. Listen, cut to. People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games at this moment in these crisis situations.

These are the height of emergency situations. It's just utterly irresponsible and it is selfish and it is about political gangsmanship instead of doing the job that you took an oath to do, which is to put the people first. And DeSantis answered. He answered last time, but he answered with us this morning too. But here's what he said.

Cut three. For Kamala Harris to try to say that my sole focus on the people of Florida is somehow selfish is delusional. She has no role in this. She's been vice president for three and a half years. I've dealt with a number of storms under this administration.

She has never contributed anything to any of these efforts. And so what I think is selfish is her trying to blunder into this. No, she has no role in this process. I'm in contact with the President of the United States. I'm in contact with FEMA director.

I'm obviously managing all our. State agencies. We're supporting all our local government. And I will say this: I've had storms under both President Trump and President Biden, and I've worked well with both of them. She's the first one.

who's trying to politicize the storm, and she's doing that just because of her campaign. There's no doubt about it. He's not going to play games with that. And he's like, What could you possibly say that Joe isn't?

Now, they have two decisions to make. With Milton bearing down on the west coast of Florida, does she want to be doing Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern? It looks like she is. They shut down Oval 48th Street here in Manhattan. That's where Howard Stern tapes right at Sirius.

And it looks like Stephen Colbert is on 56th and Broadway, which is about five blocks from us. And it looks like he's going to do both. Is she concerned about how that's going to look? Is anyone there that wants to step in? You do 60 minutes, you tape it over the weekend.

It's really not a problem. But you choose to do Stephen Colbert when this historic Storm is supposed to hit for all the wrong reasons, historic, and supposed to have up to 12 feet of storm surge. That's problematic.

Now, for President Biden, not that we think he's running things anyway, but almost everybody's left to work on the Harris campaign. But he's going to Germany and Angola. An unnecessary swan song goodbye to both countries. Should you be doing that with a hurricane where we're still trying to find bodies and people, and another one about to hit in What? Thirty hours.

If I thought this was an efficient White House, there's no way they'd be doing it. And at the very least, they've got to change the tone of the interview now with Colbert. Can't be Miss Happy Face. Miss Giggly, you have to be a little bit more serious if we do it.

So I don't even know if they have the people to pull that off. When we come back, I want to play some. Of the Harris interview in 60 Minutes, and also put in perspective. Why did Donald Trump not want to do 60 minutes, and why at first you might say, why not try it? And then you realize how many times he's done it and how unfairly he's been treated.

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Hung Cao, a Republican candidate for Senate in Virginia, criticized drag queens and implied that they are not tough enough to serve in the military, which is sad because Hung Cow is a fantastic drag man. Right. That was Hung Cow talking about the debate and they're having fun on SNL. But this guy, I'm telling you, if anyone can make progress off that debate, I've seen so many sound bites from it, and it just looks. It was like Tim Kaine was caught by surprise by how good this guy is.

And remember, most people that would know the military think this guy is an incredible warfighter who still wants to get back to his country in his Vietnam origin story, waiting seven years, his family waiting seven years to become a citizen after the Vietnam War and becoming such a patriot, a scholar, an academy grad.

So, pretty impressive guy. Coming up in five minutes, 10 minutes, we'll talk to John Reed a little bit more about that. And he's got one of the most unique American names because it's Vietnamese. It sounds a little different.

So, what we were talking about is the war in Gaza, the war against Hezbollah, the incoming hit against Iran. What would it look like? What would it look like? Because we know Israel is going to do it. The G7 all agreed they should.

But of course, the U.S. wants to limit the action. General Jack Keene does not buy into it. Cut 36.

So if there's limited damage they're going to do, the retaliation for hitting a national strategic target by Iran would probably be quite severe and dramatic. That's the consideration they're going through in doing this. And we can only speculate about what they're going to do. I think the one thing they will do. is there'll be certainly a robust attack.

And they're doing that because they know that the regime Uh In Iran is fragile and vulnerable, and they want to put more pressure on them because they want. The people right below the surface, overwhelmingly fed up. With this regime, and civil unrest in a massive way is certainly a possibility. Right. So that's what they're hoping for.

Best scenario. He's not saying decapitate the regime and see what happens, but why not decapitate the regime, see what happens? How could it get worse?

Well, the nukes could go crazy. Whatever they've developed could go nuts, and rogue scientists could sell it. Yeah, we thought the same thing in Pakistan. We thought the same thing in Iraq. It never came to fruition.

But throughout my entire lifetime, 1979, I mean, through junior high school, they have been a problem. From taking the hostages on down, they've been a problem. Almost everything in the Middle East. Is really around at this point is really around Iran. And this is an opportunity to hit back.

Now they say they'll hit back again.

So they'll hit Israel, and then they'll try another two hundred rockets. Israel will knock down the bulk of them, and then they'll probably finish the job. That's why I said in the original statement to open up, yes, peace seems far away. But a victory doesn't seem nearly as far away because they've killed another key Hezbollah commander. This guy was coordinating the missile acquisition not acquisition, but transportation from Iran.

Think that's an important job? Yes. They said one hundred rockets yesterday did Hezbollah into Israel. Everyone's okay. And now they're moving on the ground and blowing them up at night.

I do not want to write a six billion dollar or a what is it, a one hundred fifty seven million dollar check to Lebanon. I know there's good people over there. I know there's Americans over there. But if Hezbollah is running the government, why would we give them money? It doesn't make sense.

I thought Bill Amar nailed it earlier when all these politicians make statements that go nowhere. Mm-hmm. Here's what Kamala Harris said this week about what we should do when the war is over. No reoccupation of Gaza. No changing of the territorial lines of Gaza, and an ability to have security in the region for all concerned in a way that we create stability.

I feel like if that's what you have to say, don't say anything. Just shut up. I mean, everybody who talks about Israel these days is just so full of I mean, or just not, you know, I don't want children to die. Duh, who does? Exactly.

None of us want children to die. None of us want this war to go on. But it's not addressing what the problem is. Exactly. I mean, what are you wasting time for?

I want to cease fire. Why? What circumstances? It's going to start up again. You just don't want it to be your problem.

I'd like to see somebody solve the problem, and I think Israel's just taking things into their own hands. We'll talk more about it. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back, everybody, and let's bring in John Reed.

John Reed's host of Richmond's Morning News with John Reed at 11:40 WRVA, the kind enough to be carrying our show.

So John, welcome back. Hey, thank you. They love you here in Richmond, man. We're excited that you're coming in a couple of weeks to. be here in person with us in Hopewell, Virginia.

So they love you.

So set the scene for everybody with politics and pints. Tell everybody what they I'm not sure how many tickets are left at this point, but what they'll be seeing. And I think Honestly, I think it's sold out. But we rent out a theater. This is the old theater in Hopewell, Virginia.

And it's about 800 people, and it's jam-packed with. Generally, conservatives, but the hosts here locally, I do the morning show, my friend Jeff Katz does the afternoon show. We were joined by you at the last Politics and Pints, and then we get this ambassador who worked for President Obama, Howard Gutmann, big Democrat. He will toe the line on everything. And then we kind of debate the issues of the day.

It is so much more than the view and PBS. It doesn't put you to sleep. It's actually kind of raucous and the crowd gets involved, but it's all friendly. Everybody walks away, they shake hands, and everybody's you have a beer. It's a good conversation.

It's the way we used to do things. It wasn't a brutal MMA match. It's kind of like a fun boxing match.

So we're. We enjoyed having you last time so much so that we're we're excited that you're coming back. I know it's going to be great.

So I guess it's going to be from 6 to 10.30.

So have a chance to go on a panel, have the audience participate. And of course, the election's only Two with two, three weeks away. And then you have two uh catat uh Two hurricanes are just wiping out the South, and that's going to definitely affect the electorate and a lot of lives that's more important than the election. But how people act during that time is really part of the audition process to decide who should the next president be. What do you think of Harris so far?

It's been a disaster. Look, I was with Governor Glenn Young, who has been very even-keeled in his three years as governor. He's not out there picking fights with people. I mean, this is, you know, Virginia is, I don't think it's a blue state, and it's not the red state that it used to be. It could go either way.

And Glenn Young understands that. He tries to be a reasonable force in the state. He told me Friday night that he didn't hear from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris before the storm, during the storm, the week after the storm. I mean, I don't know if that's changed. Here on a Tuesday morning, but headed into the weekend, he hadn't heard from them.

He said, You know, I'm getting calls back from the FEMA crowd. But to me, that's weird that they wouldn't pick up the phone and call him. I heard your previous guest talking about the phone call to DeSantis down in Florida. I would just think from a political 101 perspective that you would pick up the phone and say, hey, governor, you know, we'll do whatever we can. And I think that's not going to play well here in Virginia.

And the people in Southwest Virginia are hurting. We're raising clothes and food. And I've got friends who've actually packed their trucks and driven it three or four hours out to Southwest Virginia because they don't feel like they're getting the attention they need from the Fed. Right. And I just love the FEMA's response that we're there.

You just might not be able to see us.

Okay. You're right. Thank you. You're right. It's the Holy Spirit.

It's everywhere. Just you can feel it. Here is Tom Tillis. They kept saying, well, everybody's happy about the response. But here's the senator, a Republican, but hardly a firebrand.

He's the senator from North Carolina, cut five. The first thing, Brett, is it's false. We have been on the ground. One thing we have to point out is there's a lot of great volunteers, people on the ground, law enforcement agencies, first responders, a lot of good people doing good work. But the administration was slow to get started.

We know for a fact, Ted Budd, my friend, and I have been across the state together. We know that the soldiers at Fort Liberty were prepared. a move on Monday of last week. I want to know why that didn't happen. Was it a failure of the administration?

Was it slow rolling by Governor Cooper? But the fact of the matter is, we're only beginning to see that mobilized about a week too late. And I think that's the source of some of the frustration.

So I tell you, I've talked to people over there too. They were ready to go. They're an hour away. These are their friends and family. They would love to help here and not in the Middle East and, you know, not some tsunami in the Far West, whatever it is.

They couldn't believe they had to watch this happen and wait to get the call.

So they finally get the call and it's going two days. They've already turned things around. What takes so long? Is there anybody in charge in this White House? Have they all left for the campaign?

I think they're focused on the national election. And you would think that anybody who lived through what happened with George W. Bush. Right. I mean, I was working in the Senate back then with Katrina, and it was a disaster.

I don't, I don't, you know, the press blew everything out of proportion, but I would think anybody who was around at that time would be hypersensitive, especially crassly during election season to make sure that they were visible and that they were very responsive. And it just doesn't seem like they give a damn. I'm kind of sure.

So the average citizen. Fortunately, there's still that spirit in Virginia. People are going to get in their pickup trucks and go and help their neighbors, and that may be what saves these folks. All right, so we got John Reid is with us here. He's from our great affiliate at WRBA, and we're talking about politics in Pines for next week.

That's going to be a major event. Who knows what's going to be happening then? And then we could be talking about the aftermath of Milton that's hitting Florida. But when we talk about what's happening now, do you believe the President should still go to Germany? Do you believe that Kamala Harris should still go on Colbert and Howard Stern today?

Look, the President of the United States needs to be the President of the United States. I'm loath to criticize that. But Kamala Harris, how flippant can you be when you look at the The interviews that she's done of late. I mean, these aren't serious things where one would say, yeah, I mean, you get an opportunity to talk about your leadership and address these issues. These are late night talk shows.

That abortion, you know, call her daddy Podcast the other day, I was stunned by that. You know, anybody who's done communications work in the political world would say, hey, pause, man. You got to think about whether you're. you're sending the right message that you're serious. People already question whether she's serious.

And to me, she's serious. She is indicating that she and the team around her are not, and it's insulting. When large groups of people in what, four or five different states. Are suffering, and she's out there yucking it up with people on late-night TV. I think that's kind of gross, and I hope people will hold her accountable for it.

So, this just came across. President Biden has postponed his scheduled trip to Germany and Angola, opting to remain in the U.S. for the federal response to Milton. They have shut down 48th Street right outside our building so she could go do Howard Stern at 1 o'clock Eastern time. I'm not sure if he's going to.

cut that off, if she's going to cut that off or not. Because like you said, they tend to be numb to things. I mean, when she put out her economic plan last month, she said we are going to tax unrealized capital gains. What are you talking about? Everyone everybody hated that.

That means we're going to have to pay taxes on gains that we made on our 401k. Really?

So what are you even talking about? Has she even thought that through? And I'm wondering, did anyone think through that 60 minutes interview and say to her, what are you going to say when they ask you about your flip-flops? And her answer is, I instead of saying I love, I walk around and I'm compromising. With who?

Who are you compromising with? Without losing my values? What are your values? I have no idea what your values are. Yeah, I get the impression there's a fear from the staff about interacting with her.

I mean, it's kind of anecdotal, it's inside the beltway that she can't keep a staff. But, you know, you want a staff person who's going to pull you aside and say, you know what, I'm going to be the biggest jerk that I could possibly be to you during this rehearsal.

So you are prepared for what's about to hit you. And I've heard from some of my old friends in the Senate, she doesn't like that stuff.

Well, as a result, when the cameras are actually on and the world is watching. She's not ready, and she thinks she's such a genius, but she keeps demonstrating she's really not. She's bad at this.

So, Hung Kao wants to be the next senator from Virginia and replace Kane. Their debate seemed to make a lot of waves, certainly a lot of sound bites. Here's a little of it. When you're using a drag queen to recruit for the Navy, that's not the people we want. What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for seconds.

Those are young men and women that are going to win wars. Out of it. Please. Please, audience, please. Yeah, please don't applaud that, even if you agree with it.

Did he make gains last week? I think he's bound to have. I mean, people actually heard that. And Tim Kain, the sitting U.S. Senator, who I covered back when he was on the Richmond City Council years and years ago.

I mean, he just couldn't bring himself to say, hey, drag queens aren't the face of the military that's going to bring in the type of person who will fight a war. Hung Kao actually has fought a war. I mean, he is on paper exactly who you would want. In the Senate, and it's been a rough go for him. Tim Cage raised $15 million in that race, and I think the latest number for Hung Kao is only three.

So he's really having a hard time getting in front of the voter that's not obsessed with politics. That soundbite got through to people here in Virginia. I have to believe that in a state like ours, where there's so many vets and retired military people and families. They agree with the sentiment he just shared, and he said it in a way that resonates with them. Hey, John Reed, I look forward to seeing you next week.

Politics and Pipes at the Beacon Theater from 6 to 10:30 Eastern Time. Come one, come all. Thanks, John.

Now, the Brian Kilmead Show joins Fox Business's Varney and Company with Stuart Varney live on your radio and on Fox Business. Here's Brian Kilmead. Welcome back, everybody. In a matter of moments, we're going to go on to a simulcast with the Fox Business Network. It's going to be great.

We also got to tell you, too, this is your chance to get tickets. I still remain on the 20th, October 20th, at the Paramount in. Uh in Peekskill, New York. History, Liberty, and Laughs to go on stage, unscripted. It's going to be streamed on Fox Nation, so it'll be great.

So let's listen into Stewart. This will be.

Now it's exactly 10:51. And miraculously, Brian Kilmead appears on the screen. Brian, look at this. A pro-Israel demonstrator surrounded and attacked by a pro-Hamas crowd during protests in New York City. He gets a bloody nose out of this.

Have we come to this, Brian? Street fighting in New York? Yes, and it's organized. It's two or three different groups. You're talking about people at Columbia University down at Wall Street yesterday.

They stormed into Penn Station as well. Madison Square Garden. They were at Union Square, all with the similar signs, similar Palestinian garb. I guess Yasser Arafat left some patterns out and some material available. They are pro-Palestinian, a group they know absolutely nothing about, a region they're unfamiliar with.

What they see is anti-Semitism, which you should understand is anti-Israel, another ally, another pro-American movement that people in America can't get behind. It is sickening. If you're a parent of any of those kids, you have failed. You should be embarrassed. And believe me, this is pro-Hamas.

Not pro-Palestinian. And do you know what they were doing in Gaza? They were celebrating a year since like the October 7th massacre when they went in and put babies into ovens and blew people up in front of their families and massacred children and took 200-plus hostage. And these idiots out on the street celebrating that moment, condemning Israel for fighting back. When I'm watching some of these Arab feeds, you know, 80% of the people that lost their lives since that time when Israel pounded back in Gaza have been members of Hamas.

You know that a whole population cheered when the 200-plus hostages came back and probably some of them lost their lives that night. And Israel has a chance to do one thing. These were their enemies who lived next to them and constantly rocketed them.

Now they have a chance to eradicate them. What they need is support from their prominent ally, their chief ally, us. Just get out of the way, provide a lot of the armament, maybe some advice, make sure Iran doesn't overreact. That's it. And they will do something we haven't heard in a long time, and that is win.

Win against Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. I'm with you. But it seems to me that New York City is becoming almost unlivable. We just got a report from the New York Police Department. Shoplifting has come to unprecedented levels.

Everything's locked up. You can't buy anything in this city any longer. It's becoming unlivable, Brian. But wait a second, Stuart. Crime is down in America.

We really turned the corner on that. You see the stats. We have the life that we live, and then the one with the numbers tell us we should be enjoying. There's no way that the numbers are down. There's no way that small business isn't paying the price.

There's no way you feel safer in this country right now in this city than you did when Bloomberg was in charge, when de Blasio was napping till noon. It's actually gotten worse, and now they've torn apart the sitting government, the mayor's office. Everybody's gone, resigned, except the mayor who tailors his shirts and goes to work every day and talks to his lawyers. I don't know what he's doing, except for you prosecute Danny Penny, the Marine that stood up because they were about to be in a major assault and attack on would-be subway riders. That's the guy you prosecute.

But the shoplifters, the smashing grabs, they get to hang out and do what they want. It's insane. Do you know what else they were chanting yesterday in the street? NYPD, KKK. And guess who's watching them, guiding them, making sure there's no violence comes their way?

NYPD. I mean, at one point, are we going to wise up and understand who the enemy is?

Well, not yet, apparently, Brian. Not yet. And that is most unfortunate because I've got to live here and so do you. Thanks for being with us, Brian. Anna, we'll talk to you again real soon.

Stuart and I saw each other about uh Four in the morning today, four thirty in the morning. He was going to do his job. I was going to do mine on separate networks. And for a brief moment, we came together. And that's always inspiring and insightful.

The other thing we didn't talk about that I'm prepared to that I should bring up, and that is the money. Out of nowhere, Major Cas comes up last week and says, Hey, we're going to need some more money. FEMA's out. What? FEMA's out of money.

Since when? This is hurricane season. On the back end, you're out of money. Why did you not say that before a hurricane hit?

Well, if you look, then they said, Well, we decided, since it causes so much controversy, that we're just going to use some of the 2025 money.

Okay, so we're already in deficit already by trillions of dollars.

So we're just going to spend money from a budget that was also underfunded next year. How about this? Inspector General report finds that FEMA has been sending deadlines for up to sixteen years for seven billion dollars worth of grants, sometimes without explanation. For example, FEMA is still Sitting on $4.5 billion in unused frozen funds from Superstorm Sandy, which happened 12 years ago in 2012. FEMA officials have to justify and explain why they're extending these deadlines.

Why would you? Why would you knew, as a president, say SuperSone stand is Superstorm Sandy, we've paid out over 12 years any claims, go see a lawyer. I need that money for Milton, I need that money for Helene.

So now you want to tell us you're out of money, need emergency funding, while giving $167 million to Lebanon, which you shouldn't because Hesbull will get it, while giving $100 million to North Carolina, all right, and to rebuild roads while people have not all been found. And then you find out you have $7 billion in unused funds for FEMA and $4.5 billion set aside for Superstorm Standy. I'm broadcasting from the area that was devastated from it, not from Midtown, but New York City, absolutely devastated. Certain sections, Lincoln Tunnel was absolutely flooded. I think the Holland Tunnel too.

And then you have Long Island, which my home personally got three feet of water. Just about everybody I know was flooded. I'm telling you, by the power vested in me. Use that money for these hurricanes. If no one's claimed it yet, put an application forward yet.

They're out of luck 12 years later. This is the problem: good leadership, good staff. goes up and gives the President this option. But he has no staff. They all left to work for Harris.

So he's got an angry press secretary who storms out of her own press briefings because she had too many questions. And then you have people like they used to spin for him, like Ian Sams, working for Harris. Then Harris likes to pretend to be president, gets mad when governors look at her as somebody that. It's just playing politics like Governor DeSantis said. I'm not going to take your call.

You're not even the chain of command. Crazy times. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Killmead. From 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world.

Brian Kill Me Cho.

So glad you're here. It's going to be a big hour coming your way. We have a lot going on, as usual, leading up to the election. I didn't think it would be one story, but I didn't think it would be so much natural catastrophe, but it's happening. Step Knight is standing by Avaxios.

Jake Steinfeldt, Body by Jake, doing incredible stuff with this country, helping every single state in these schools, getting fitness a part of it. And Body by Jake, always an inspirational guy to be around. He's going to be with us today telling us about his project that really started with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

So before we get to Steph, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The retaliation for hitting a national strategic target by Iran would probably be quite severe and dramatic. The regime. In Iran is fragile and vulnerable, and they want to put more pressure on them because they want the people overwhelmingly fed up with this regime.

Yep, that is General Jaquin, a year after the 10-7 attacks. How close is the region to peace?

Not very. How close is Israel to security in a war win? Closer than you may have predicted. Number two. You have changed your position.

on so many things. Vice President of the United States, and I have been traveling our country. And I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. Really?

twenty twenty four, Kamala rips off the bubble wrap and sits down with sixty minutes. And undecided voters can't like what they have to would have heard, most of all what they hear. And I have to wonder if she hurt or helped herself last night. I'm going to play these clips and you'll decide. Number People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games at this moment in these crisis situations is just utterly irresponsible and it is selfish.

Really?

Okay, we'll find out about that. Hurricane Milton, ominous threat of the west coast of Florida and beyond, just two weeks after Helene hammered the region, specifically Western North Carolina, as Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to put a call into DeSantis, but he did not pick up. Saying later, she's not in the chain of command, never called me before. I've always dealt directly with the president. Why would I deal with her?

Joining us now is Steph Knight of Axio. Steph, you got Milton Helene. Voting plays a role, major rally at Butler on Saturday, and then all of a sudden the vice president says, I have to do some interviews, does a podcast for kids that's pretty raunchy, I understand, young adults, I should say. And then she does Stephen Colbert today, she does Howard Stern today, and did 60 Minutes Over the Weekend. Why is she doing all this, do you think?

I mean, look, there's definitely been growing pressure for the Vice President to do more sit-down interviews. Axios and others have been reporting on just the lack of engagement with the press from both Harris and Walsh over the past few months. And especially given the fact that this was almost, you know, kind of a last-minute campaign, it's important for people to be hearing from the Vice President and, you know, having her answer questions to... to some of these changes in policy that she has slowly begun to roll out. And so, you know, I think the pressure was building and they felt like she did need to get out there.

And of course, this comes after the debate and maybe feeling the need to kind of play a little bit of cleanup, clear things up, start being active and not just sit back and let the media criticize either her lack of answers or the way she has flip-flopped on issues from immigration to health care to gun ownership. And so it has been pretty remarkable to see her all the suffering. And it seems the campaign flipped a switch and is now willing to sit down for these interviews. And, of course, also looking at more interesting platforms, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, which is a very popular podcast for women across the country. And it was definitely unique for her to reach out and do that kind of podcast.

And I think it was also kind of an answer to some of the more bro-focused podcasts that former President Trump has been engaging with. It was kind of Harris's response or reaction to those kind of podcasts that both Trump and Vance have been sitting down for.

So she sat down and talked about the economy and the border, where two of her weaknesses. Tell me if she helps herself here, Cut 17. Was it a mistake? to loosen the immigration policies. as much as you did.

It's a long standing problem. and solutions are at hand, and from day one literally, We have been offering solutions. What I was asking was: was it a mistake to. kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place. The policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem.

Okay. But the numbers did quadruple. And the numbers today, because of what we have done. We have cut The flow of illegal immigration by half. We have cut the flow of fentanyl by half.

But we need Congress to be able to act to actually fix the problem.

Really?

Your thoughts, Def? I mean, look, I think it's always important to pay attention to the questions that politicians clearly don't want to answer. And it's very clear that she doesn't she's not comfortable with this kind of question. She's trying to change the narrative on immigration. She has embraced much harsher policies.

She has rolled out kind of part of her border immigration platform in recent weeks in which she has a lot of different things. She says that she supports asylum restrictions at the border, restrictions that are not all that different from policies that Trump had in place during his administration that Democrats widely criticized, including Kamala Harris. This is obviously a really important issue for Democrats to get right. It's an issue that they have really struggled to campaign on. And she clearly does not want to talk about the shift that has taken place.

We've heard that from her, from others in the administration, who would prefer to act like nothing has changed, even though you look at the actions that they've taken, you look at the rhetoric and the word choices that they use now versus at the beginning of administration, and it becomes very evident that they have felt the need to pivot and recognize that this is a real issue that they need to address. And she mentions, you know, day one that they were offering solutions on day one. The piece, the legislation that the Biden administration rolled out on day one and sent to Congress has not really gone anywhere. And when we've reached out to the Harris campaign asking if she still stands by that legislation, which was much more focused on pathways to citizenship, we have yet to get an answer from that. Right.

I mean, so I just thought, you know, enough of this. Let me go find out what it is. And this morning I looked it up and I got the summaries. The summary, it's all about pathways to citizenship. They don't talk at all about border enforcement.

And that's not where the country is right now. Also, Steph, I don't need to tell you that when Joe Biden took office, he had a Democratic House and Senate. And when he wants to pass something like the Inflation Reduction Act, like the rescue plan that we didn't need, like infrastructure or gun legislation, he talks about it. He makes it a campaign of it. This guy put it out day one or day two, never heard about it again.

It's true. And you know, I've heard from immigration advocates and former officials who have expressed kind of anger that there wasn't any real push early on to kind of get that across the finish line to really push for legislation. But I would note that the border issue, the number of people coming across the border illegally, started spiking very early in the administration. In about February, we were already starting to see warning signs, February of 2021. And so I do think that played a role.

They very quickly realized that it was not the time to push for those kinds of pathways, that they had a different issue when it comes to immigration they needed to focus on. And still, they weren't really able to figure out the best path forward in time. And then we've seen kind of the chaos that unfolded over the past few years. Yeah, 7.8 million illegals as opposed to 2.4 million illegals, let alone the gotaways, along with the drugs, while in assistance not to build that medieval vanity project called the wall.

So I think this stuff comes back to bite you in many ways. If you think about it, the stuff that Trump Was running on in 2016 is actually more applicable today, especially the rhetoric on the border wall. It's like America is more ready to listen now. I mean 58% afford deportation. I mean, you look at both the polling that we've seen, more and more Americans are open to restrictions at the border, are more concerned about the level of immigration.

You know, Harris has done extensive polling over the years, and it does show a shift in the population. And you also look at how Harris is campaigning on this, and it's very clear that Trump has sort of won the argument on immigration and the border just based on the things that Democrats are now willing to back. The fact that Harris continues to tout the bipartisan border bill, you know, I think it's often lost on people, but that was quite a significant shift to the right for Democrats to be pushing with as much energy as they have been, including things like restrictions on asylum in between ports of entry almost across the board, and then also including nothing for DREAMers or TPS holders. It's pretty remarkable that Democrats are willing to embrace that so wholeheartedly, and shows just how much the conversation has shifted. Were they still going to pass?

I might as well act tough on the border to help moderates and moderates or those in red seats. We don't know how much they mean. It's just mysterious how the squad has kept silent. And if that legislation was about to pass, or I thought it was a chance, they would stand up and the AOC would put on that white outfit and cry again at a fictitious fence. I want you to hear.

Yeah, there are certainly progressives who have been critical of this shift. There are certainly, especially members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who have been very, very concerned with the way that the Biden administration has shifted on this. But the number of people who are willing to speak out in that kind of group from the left has been shrinking. Here is Governor Tim Wals. Tell me if he helped himself last night, cut 21.

Is that kind of misrepresentation Isn't that more than just being a knucklehead? I think folks know who I am, and I think they know the difference between someone Expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong by a, you know, rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump. But I think it comes down to the question of. Whether Whether you can be trusted to tell the truth. Yeah, well, I can.

I think I can. I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word. Okay, a couple of things. He's talking about Tienamin Square. That's like D-Day.

I mean, that's either you're there at D-Day or you weren't. You can't say, Well, I went to the area around that time. Either you were part of the invasion, you weren't. Either you witnessed the Ederman Square and the unrest and the way the world changed after that, or you didn't. And he made it up that he did, that he took weapons of war into war, never got past Italy, didn't go, wasn't, didn't retire, didn't retire a command sergeant major.

He didn't get an award over in Nebraska that he said he did. And he went on to tell, I think, Jimmy Kimmel, that they told him to tighten up, Harris told him to tighten up his language. Do you think he's helping and hurting her?

Okay. I mean, look, there's no question that that that moment, especially during the debate, was one of Wals' probably worst moments of the campaign so far. And these kind of questions around falsehoods or exaggerations of his story continue to pop up, which is just going to hurt a campaign, especially when they only have a couple of months to try to eat into Trump's lead. You know, on one hand, I don't think he has had the most helpful past few weeks for the Harris campaign. They're clearly not thrilled with some of these things that he's been talking about and the lies that have come, you know, have been shown to be lies of late.

The other side of this is that he has still pretty high popularity numbers at this point. It's unclear how much the voters have really been paying attention to that and how much that they that could impact how they vote in November. Obviously, we're seeing polling even today that shows that Harris continues to kind of move up in The polls in a head-to-head between her and Trump.

So it's not clear whether some of these issues with Wallace are going to actually impact the campaign down the line. Where do you think the race is at now? You know, I mean, it's so hard to know, right? We've been looking at these polls. Every single time new polls come out, they are pretty much always within the margin of error, both the national polls and when you're looking at swing states.

This is going to be very close. It does seem that Harris has been able to maintain a little bit of momentum, slowly inching up above the former president in the polls. But we have known polls to be wrong in the past. And you can also make an argument that Trump is doing better in the polls and swing states today than he was doing in 2020 and in 2016.

So it's hard for me to make a prediction. But right now, there does seem to be a little bit of momentum behind Harris. I want you to hear what Charlemagne the God said. It seems to be men against women. It looks like Trump is locking up the men vote.

It looks like she's getting more women. Listen to Charlemagne Cut 27. One place where I think they mess up in regards to messaging, like, you know, you'll listen to a lot of reporters and they'll be talking to Trump or J.D. Vance, and they'll be talking to them about things that are happening right here in America. Because it is an election season right here in America.

So there's so many things that we care about here, like right?

So it's always America first. But then, you know, you go to Tim Walls and they're asking him about geopolitical politics. And I think a lot of times that makes them sound, you know, very out of touch. I don't know if I agree with that, but I think it's interesting they brought that up. Yeah, no, and I do think it is, it's been fascinating to look at the polls and see the way that the country has kind of divided along gender lines with women increasingly being more, especially young women, increasingly being more likely to associate with the Democratic Party, be willing to vote Democratic, while men have been more drawn to the Republican Party.

And, you know, it kind of goes back to what we were talking about earlier, even just looking at the kind of podcasts that both candidates have been participating in, podcasts that are very clearly gendered and focused on particular groups, where Trump and Vance have been, you know, kind of doing a lot of speaking with kind of, you know, quote, dude influencers and clear male influencers, while Harris, you know, does this podcast with Call Her Daddy, which is a very clearly feminine, women-focused podcast. And it seems like both are really leaning into those differences as part of their campaign strategy. What about raunchy? I mean, the way I understand it, people will tell you it's a raunchy podcast. You know, there's definitely a lot of discussion of sex and, you know, women empowerment themes.

You know, I can't really speak to the exact description of it. I have not been a regular listener, but I know a lot of people who do enjoy it and find it interesting and helpful to kind of figure out what life is like. There's a lot of discussion about dating and relationships and advice in that direction for sure. Got it. Fascinating time.

Steph Kite, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Actually, it's a political reporter giving us the latest. Listen, when we come back, I'll be able to take some of your calls: 1-8-6-6-408-7669.

And then we'll welcome in Jake Steinfeld to listen to the Brian Killmeat Show. Learning something new every day on the Brian Killmeat Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. So, what kind of gun do you own, and when and why did you get it?

I have a Glock. Have you uh ever fired it? Yes. Of course I have. At a shooting range.

Yes, of course I have. I'm sure she hasn't. There's no way she has. I mean, I'd be stunned if she has. I mean, you know, anyone that she shoots with.

I have a Glock. She goes, I said that before. And the giggling after is a joke. The giggling, I feel like, is a hurdle a little bit, but I feel like that's also something easy enough to probably fact-check. If she did go to a shooting range, there should be some sort of log of that, I would imagine.

Yeah, can you tell me when's the last time you went? Oh, it's been years. Do you think that's healthy to keep a gun in your head and not train for years? Is that responsible? Is that good ownership?

Where do you keep it? Do you keep it as safe? Do who's got the combination to that safe? I mean, these are all questions that they wanted to be able to do that. If you didn't have your gun in a safe, they'd bet they could take your guns away.

She talked about that before. That's why I I don't know. I mean, I saw that poll today people are referring to in the New York Times. Since when has a Republican ever led in a national poll? Why is that even it had a forty eight, forty eight it has a two point difference.

I I I don't think the momentum's with her. I don't think, listen, I know that Trump's had some rough weeks. This is not one of them. Last week was not one of them, and this was not a weekend, a rough week, a weekend for him. You see him making major gains with Hispanics.

I talked about that with Rachel Campo-Suffy today. You also see him make major gains with men, just consolidating them around him. With Hispanic men, by the way, it is a flat-footed tie. Overall, I think there's a seven-point difference. It used to be double-digits, deep double-digits.

So, and with white high school-educated males, he's going through the roof. He is more popular than ever before. We'll figure out what that means in the big picture. Is he shedding somewhere else? We'll see.

He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead.

So, Jake Seinfeld, one of our good friends back in the studio, you know, bodied by Jake, chairman of the National Foundation for Governors Fitness Councils, spent the last how many years now, Jake, putting in these fitness centers? Right, it's been, this is my 13th year. 13th year.

So I started with Arnold in California as chair of the California Council of Physical Fitness and Sports. And I did a year with Jerry Brown and then took on this position 13 years ago. And I had a single mission. I want to put it as many. Don't quit $100,000, don't quit fitness centers in as many elementary and middle schools in this great country of ours as humanly possible.

And I'm proud and happy to say that I have stood next to Forty-nine governors. I've done fifty states. Two weeks ago, I started. I was in Alaska with Mike Dunleavey. I was in Hawaii with Josh Green.

I was in Nevada with Joe Lombardo. And I was in New York with the great commissioner of the NHL, Gary Bettman. Why New York? Why didn't you get a governor of New York? You know, did you get Cuomo?

I didn't get Cuomo either. This is my home state. But you know what? It's about the kids. And this is not about red or blue.

But you're supposed to get governors to show up to show support.

Well, especially because this is not a Democrat or Republican issue. It's a kids' issue, right? And I just assume maybe this governor doesn't like children. Right. But that's the only thing you can control.

No, no, seriously. That's really what I thought. I thought maybe this person doesn't like children. And if you don't like children, then you don't want to be where I am because we're in a middle school. We were in Hamlin in Buffalo.

We were in Troy Middle School in Troy, New York, and Saranac Union in Saranac, New York. Because we have an obesity problem in the country. It's really amazing. And when you put a fitness center in a school, It's amazing to see what happens. It becomes the hub of the community.

Brian, we talk about this all the time. You're a soccer player, you know, your kids have played sports, my kids have played sports. When you're able to engage in exercise, and when I talk to the kids, it's really awesome because I tell them, I kind of remember, life's about moments.

Some great, some not so great. I remember being in middle school. I was an overweight kid. I had a bad stutter. My dad bought me a set of weights when I was 13, and it changed my life.

Because not only did the weights build my body, but it built my confidence and self-esteem. And that's what we need to do today for our kids because. Right, as you know. As our kids go, this country goes because they got next. I mean, what's the number of people that are not eligible, not in good enough shape to join the military?

I think the number is between 60 and 70 percent.

So, even if they wanted to go join, they said you're too heavy, you can't do it physically, you're not capable. And it's just about getting started. You know, I talked to the kids about just getting started. Look, people are desperate for hope, right? They just need one repetition.

You know, the world lets you be what you make them believe you are. And if you think about that, whether it's in fitness or in life. Everybody has a dream. Write the dream down on a piece of paper, right? When you're exercising and you're in school, you're not homesick.

If you're not homesick, you're in school. If you're working out, you're less fidgety. You're less fidgety, you're more focused. You're more focused, you do better on your tests. You know what they're finding out, too?

And you live this, you probably like, no, I told you, but they're finding out the one way to reverse the aging process or keep yourself young is weights. Is weights. Everyone's talking about sophistications and bands and, you know, this. And the weights. I've been doing right for 47 years.

As you know, I was the first guy to do personal fitness training. Right. Made it an occupation and parlayed that famous by association into some really cool, fun things, books and videos and television shows and television networks. And it really exercise is basic, man. You know, it's boring.

But basic. But you need to make it a part of your lifestyle.

So find something you like to do and do it. Walking, running, whatever it might be. Just mo because the most underutilized antidepressant Is exercise. If you're mad, sad, angry, or stressed, change your body. Change your state.

Change your state. You're having a bad day. Just find yourself at a gym or find yourself. Exactly. So.

The other thing that's pretty apparent, too, and you were the first to do this, you did it through your almost pay-per-view, where people can go and do their own fitness.

Now we're finding it on the apps. You pick up your phone, you got to work out there, you could do it in your hotel room.

Something else has happened since the last time we met: the emergence of food. And we used to say, well, these kids aren't active enough, right? These kids eat too much.

Okay. Or they're not involved in sports. All right, that's fine. What about if they're not eating too much? It's just what they're eating is impossible to burn off.

What about the Frankenstein foods that we're eating? Yeah, I was going to say. And we just say, okay, it tastes good. My mom gave me cereal full of sugar and frosted flakes. I'm sure it's fine for you, right?

And all of a sudden, we're finding out the stuff that's in it's almost impossible to burn off. It keeps us sick. It doesn't make us healthy.

So not only am I not the stud football player, soccer player, basketball player, I'm an average athlete who's eating what my parents told me, and I can't shake the weight, which hurts your self-esteem.

Well, let's take it to another level because where we put fitness centers, schools, whether it's. Urban, suburban, inner-city reservation schools, right? Where, you know, there are food deserts there.

So they're getting just calories and they're bad calories. It's like prison. That's going to give you in prison. It's like prison. And see, and that's it.

And I'm hoping that this next administration. looks at Fitness and health. What about RFK? Do you know him? You know what?

He lives in the neighborhood. I see him at Sush. We shake hands, high five. He's a good dude. He's in great shape.

Oh, he tells you testosterone replacement. He's in great shape. And I'll say this. I just hope that this next administration does in essence what John Kennedy did in the 60s with the Presidential Fitness Challenge, which we did when under Arnold, I came up with something called the Governor's Challenge. And here's what it was.

Because as a kid, I took that president. Kennedy challenge, and it was A rope climb. And for an overweight kid with a bad stutter, right, you're not doing the rope climb. I ran the 50-yard dash in three days, and you would get a patch if you achieved the goal.

Well, all the athletes got patches.

So it just made me. Do you want to hear JFK talk about this? Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Let's go. Do it.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate. than to have a soft chubby, fat-looking children. who go to uh watch uh their School play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their week's exercise. I hope that all of you will join and everybody in the United States to make sure that our children participate fully. in a vigorous and adventurous life which is possible for them in this very rich country of ours.

Number one, just says it flat. I mean, chubby, fat little kids. He's not insulting them, he's trying to push to action. It's motivation, right? And.

Uh w we're we're all too soft. Too soft, most physically, mentally, spiritually, however you want to say it. And our kids are too soft. And we need those those words. Is what needs to happen, and that's what I've been pushing.

But it's about giving the schools the tools as well. Not cutting out physical fitness, not cutting out mental fitness. Because you go to these working-class areas, guess what? The first thing that gets cut: all the things: the gyms, the fields are going to go by the boards. That's exactly right.

The after-school program.

So you go there, you put a gym in. I have something to do after school. We put a fitness center in the school, so it becomes the hub of the community.

So it's not where I say we ask the teachers and the administrators. Great for the kids and the teachers, but keep it open before and after school and on weekends.

So the moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas, and aunts and uncles can exercise too. And it's amazing to see what happens.

So you should be encouraged because Casey and Callie Means put out a book, and one was studying to be a surgeon. The other one was in the food business. Together, they realized that the whole medical profession has no idea about nutrition. You go to your general practitioner, they have no clue. They have no less than you because they're going to focus on something different.

They have no interest unless, you know, it's like they might learn nutrition like they might learn hang gliding. It would be a totally different thing they might do.

So she quit. And she writes a book, and it's has been a bestseller for weeks now. It's very similar to what RFK said. Here is Casey Means on what she discovered about the American health system. American health is getting destroyed and Americans are tired of it.

When you just look at the statistics, it absolutely speaks for itself. Children's health is worse than ever. 40% of children are overweight or obese. 36% of children have a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. Autism rates are one in 22 in California.

18% of teens have fatty liver disease. Young adult cancers are up 79%. We're on track to have one in two American adults with cancer in their lifetime. This is absolutely astronomical. She thinks that somehow I don't necessarily think there's a conspiracy between the medical profession to keep you sick and need this medicine, pharmaceutical business, and that.

I don't know if I can go there. Let's not even go there. But what do you think about her stats? First of all, the stats are dead on. I think the stats are dead on.

But these stats have been there. And we have to do something about it. And if we all just do something, right? Where my thing is putting a fitness center in a school. You put a fitness center in a school, Bri, it's amazing to see what really does happen.

And over these past 13 years, I've been and traveled to every state in our great country, stood next to, as I said, 49 of the 50 governors. At one time who doesn't like children. Right, exactly. And it's just exciting to see kids' faces light up. Give them an opportunity.

Well, the other thing is that's underappreciated. If you're a great player, you know, if you're scoring 22 points a game or you have a great handle and you're playing basketball and you're a quarterback or you know you're eventually going to start, okay, fine. What have you good? Is there a place for somebody who's solid? Hey, I'm a pretty good athlete, pretty cool.

I can play every sport. I get off the bench sometimes, sometimes I start, sometimes I don't. There's almost like no room in youth sports for people that are just okay. Let's just go even further. Let's say I'm not really interested in team sports or this.

I like doing something else, but you want to stay in shape. You want to be in shape. And in shape is what you make it. Find something you love to do. Right.

And you do that. I mean, you know, look, I got my Instagram thing at Official Body by Jake, and your audience has been incredible supporters. I talk about it now and again, but we need starting right now. This messaging is really important. What's going on around the world is very heavy.

We need to take care of our own here in this great community. I want you to hear more from Dr. Casey Means on what we. What a lot of people do not know is that the ultra-processed food industry that is keeping Americans sick and dependent on the healthcare industry was created by the cigarette industry. Two of the largest mergers in the 1980s, once the favor for cigarettes started declining, two of the largest mergers in history before the 1990s were in the 1980s, and it was.

R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, two cigarette companies, buying processed food companies, and then using the same playbook that we looked at for cigarettes, make the product addictive and cheap and apply it to processed food. Did you know RJ on a bisco, right? It's RJ on a bisco. You know that I sat next to the CEO of RJ Onabisco.

On the Concorde. Traveling to London with Steven Spielberg and his wife, Amy Irving, 100 years ago to train Harrison Ford for Raiders of the Lost Army. I could not drop more names. By the way, congratulations. I never saw a more trained name.

Go ahead now. It's the truth. Let me keep going. It's the truth. That's my whole lifetime.

That was one of your trips. But no, because you measure it because you know what happened there. He told me how cookies and cream ice cream. Was made. How did that come up?

Well, here's how it came up. I don't know. I think they served us a little cup of cookies and cream. Have you worked through every other topic? Do you know?

Not the word. By the way, anybody else? Who wants to know how cookies are? I was 21 years old at the time.

Okay, man. I'm sitting next to the CEO of R.J. Onabisco, Barbarians at the Gate, right? You know? And he says.

We made Oreo cookies, and there was tonnage of breakage of the Oreo cookies. And one of the workers on the line brought in vanilla ice cream, put some of the Oreo crumbs in there, hence. Cookies and cream. Wow. That, I mean, take that, Edison.

I mean, I thought Edison did a good job with a light bulb, but this is even more important for America. I have to help destroy the country. I have. That's what keeps me a business. I mean, what are you talking about?

How could you be a part of this? I'm a spokesperson for Cookies and Creep. No, I'm not. Although I do love Cookies and Creeps. I just got to say this to you.

I know you got a lot to do. No, you just take a break. We'll come back. Oh, good. Great.

Let's do it. Back in a moment. Jake Steinfeld, don't move. Expanding your knowledge base. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show.

Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. 75% of American adults over the age of 55 having a chronic illness tied to food. This is costing our country 90% of our $4.3 trillion health care budget. 23% of the largest GDP in the world is going to health care, which 90% of it is going towards chronic illnesses.

related to food. That is Dr. Casey Means. Is some of the stats that got her motivated to write the book that's best selled along with her brother? But the main reason why they did it, everyone, Jake Steinfeld, wants to make money.

I get it. But she really wants to change things. And I asked her all the time: I said, Is RFK on page? Because we talk all the time. RFK, if Trump wins, will move in.

You can't get confirmed because of the politics today, but he'll move into a prominent position. And I think a guy like you would also fit in great because we got to make America healthy again. That's his big thing. I think that's the biggest thing, really. And I love what Casey is talking about, but you know, you have to kind of boil it down.

How do you boil it down to surgical missions? Because this is a big, what she just mentioned. She's right. But it's huge. I mean, it's a huge.

Problem. A huge challenge. Whole foods is expensive. And people in working class areas, urban environments, don't have that excess income. They're paycheck to paycheck.

Now you want me to go to Whole Foods and pay twice as much for healthier foods.

Okay, so, Brian, so then tell me this: what do you do? What do you do? Who opens up a Whole Foods for the people? I would say this. They even told me that Whole Foods stay away, not stay away, but keep in mind, go to a farmer's market.

You guys have that in Los Angeles. You got a farmer's market. Listen, I don't see a lot of them. Farmers' markets are outstanding, by the way, and there really are. And I've been around the country and been to many farmers' markets.

Well, how about this? And they're awesome. We subsidize projects. We do all this things all the time. How about we start subsidizing food places to get everyone started?

And when we talk about enterprising zones to revitalize, you bring in the private sector to revitalize areas, get low-credit loans, and that's what worked with Tim Scott. What about if we bring the supermarket, the farmers' market principles into all those areas?

Now, you just said something. Public-private partnerships is really how all of this should go. The way that I have done it with these fitness centers, there's no government funding, there's no taxpayer funding. It's all done with public-private partnerships with companies like Coca-Cola, Anthem.

So, for example, I'm in New York and I'm Troy, New York, and I find out that my school, my junior high school, has been picked by Jake Steinfeld to put a gym in. Tell me about the corporations involved. Coca-Cola, Anthem, and Nike. Those are the companies that have funded me. They buy the furnace equipment?

They give me the money to purchase all of the equipment. There is no taxpayer funding, no government funding. It's a gift, not a grant. Grants, what governments do. Gifts and what your parents and your grandparents do.

And they just have some Nike and Anthem. No, no logos. No, they want no logos. Coca-Cola has been amazing for my goodness, man. You know, you talked about it when I started, right?

There was a big thing about doing a soda tax. If you remember that, in Berkeley, California. And we squashed that because it hurt the people. It hurt the bottlers. Listen, it's about moderation, Brad.

Right. Right? And if there's choice. And I'm not a shilling for Coca-Cola, right? They don't pay me.

They have 140 brands.

So, where do we find out to support you at Body by Jake? Here's the deal. The support is about, let's think about this next. Administration, and let's think about what could be done and do it in a simple surgical way. Official body by Jake.

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