Harris struggles to answer Bret Baier's questions in combative interview

From high atop the middle of the middle Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Brian Kilmet here.

Thanks so much for listening. I appreciate it. It's going to be a big show, big time. Tonight, I'm all excited. I got my tails, I got my tucks, I got my white tie.

I am going to be on the dais at the Al Smith dinner. And it's been my privilege to be there. I was asked there by Carlin Dolan. Cardinal Dolan is the greatest guy you've ever meeted. Forget the fact that he's the highest-ranking religious official, maybe, in the country, certainly in the most prestigious position running St.

Patrick's. in New York, but he asked me to be on the dais for the last four years I do it. Um and I love it. But I've never had presidential candidates there. Because that's what it was famous for.

Every four years the presidential candidates go. And this year, because of the pandemic, they didn't do it last time. Uh, but this year they're going to have one of the two because Kamala Harris is not going to show up, so it's going to be a big show. Plus, she sat down with Brett Baer last night, which brings me to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three: number three: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and they've been weak and feckless in this entire conflict. In fact, they're putting more pressure on Israel than they are on our enemies and their terrorist proxies. Pretty crazy. That was Derek Anderson outraged, like we all are, about the lack of support for Israel when it really matters. Israel poised to attack back in Iran within days.

I am hoping they take out the oil. I'm hoping they take out the arms and maybe the nukesites. Guess what? The Biden team wants none of that. Should they listen to America as the fighting rages in Lebanon and Gaza or do their own thing?

I feel take the latter. Number two. Mistakes I made weren't big policy. We had the strong border, we had the great economy, we had all these things, but I put some people in that I wouldn't have used again.

So I would say that would be the biggest mistake. Mostly good. But some bet. Trump on the trail. From Univision to the Women's Forum and now to the Al Smith Theater tonight, we look at 45 Sprint to win back the White House.

Number When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished? Joe Biden I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room. Joe Biden is not on ballot. Ha ha ha ha. Duck.

VP Harris marches into an interview with Brett Baer. We review, playback, and see what she accomplished and what Fox viewers were able to learn. My takeaways and yours coming your way. Bottom of the Arelani Channel, joining us from the Hoover Institute out on the West Coast.

Now we bring in Chris Lasavita, Trump's co-campaign manager, GOP political strategist, who might be authoring. and being the manager of the biggest comeback in political history if Donald Trump could become the forty seventh President of the United States. Chris, welcome back. What did you t what's your takeaway from last night's one on one between Brett Baer and Vice President Harris? Brian, thank you again for having me and appreciate all your listeners tuning in.

First of all, the author of the greatest comeback in political history will be none other than Donald Trump.

So I mean, he's just been on a roll, and things are looking really solid. But last night, If anyone tuned in last night, to try to figure out maybe a little bit about the candidacy of Kamala Harris or what she stood for, why she's running, they would have been sorely disappointed. I thought that the interview for her was a complete and utter disaster. I mean, she failed to address some very important points. And instead, Pivoted To Just Launching baseless attacks against President Trump while trying to avoid accountability for the issue of her position on the border.

And it's complete and utter failure. Where she stands in terms of transgender reassignment surgery and having taxpayers pay for it for prisoners. And for illegals. And I know that sounds crazy, but it's actually true. And whenever Kamala Harris says, I will follow the law.

You know what that means? She'll follow it until she changes it. And that's really what these elections are about, putting her do the American public really want to put her in a position to change some foundational aspects of American democracy? And all the indications are that, that's a resounding no. I want you to hear some of this exchange and then comment.

She was commenting about how unhinged Donald Trump is, and this is the follow-up, Cut 12. Why is half the country supporting him? Why is he beating you in a lot of swing states? Why, if he's as bad as you say, that half of this country is now supporting this person who could be the 47th president of the United States? Why is that happening?

This is an election for President of the United States. It's not supposed to be easy. I know, but it's not a case of the easy. It's not supposed to be. It is not supposed to be a case of the people.

Are they misguided, the 50%? Are they stupid? I would never say that about the American people. And in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he's the one who tends to demean and belittle.

So she wouldn't answer the question. He's unstable. He's fear-mongering. But it it looks in many like by many polls he's winning. What did you take away from her her response?

Well, as a matter of fact, the first thing that I thought of and we actually the campaign released this video last night, but the first thing I thought of when she said that was A video clip of her from a few years ago calling younger voters stupid.

So we sort of put those together and sent it out to the world last night.

So but it's it's clearly not the first time where she says one thing and then and then does another. But from the standpoint of look, they have they have nothing to offer uh In terms of policy.

So their entire focus is to make the tried to frame the debate. About, quite frankly, as I view it, Donald Trump's passion, his passion for wanting to actually. uh change policy um and and and you know contribute to a growth in the United States that's been sorely needed in the last four years.

So it's really baffling because she's a member of the incumbent party. And they constantly she tries to run away from Biden, but then she embraces him. I mean, they clearly do not want to discuss anything On policy, Brian. They can't discuss inflation. They can't discuss general economic conditions.

They can't discuss the border. I mean, they can't discuss anything.

So they want to make it about uh anything but that So I'm just looking at the real clear average and it For the most part, you guys are ahead everywhere except Wisconsin, but it's all percentage points. I know you're a strategist. It's almost being a defensive coordinator. How are you going to stop the offense? How are you going to score in the end?

If this game is so close without giving away the playbook, can you give me an idea what these last three weeks look like from inside the Trump campaign? Let our listeners know. Sure. I mean, being a product of Pittsburgh, football is very near and dear to my heart. And while in football, defense, And a good defense wins Championships.

in politics. It's offense that wins elections. And so I would expect us And I think you'll see that as the President sets the tone. of this campaign, we're on offense. And we will be driving The issue agenda going forward.

We will be driving what The decisions are going to be based off of. And what I mean by that is, you know, it's taking the Taking the aggressive stance that, yeah, we've got to talk about the border. Yeah, we've got to talk about inflation. And there's not an issue. I mean, here's a classic example.

If you recall a couple weeks ago. the actually during the time frame right before the ABC joke of a debate. The FBI, the Department of Justice, released crime statistics and said that crime was down everywhere. And the President knew better, and we made that a center point of some issues during the and some discussion during the course of the debate. And he was quote unquote fact checked by Muir on ABC about how well, according to the Department of Justice, all those crime statistics That crime's actually gone down.

Well, yesterday, the Department of Justice. revised their crime statistics. and actually showed that crime has gone up.

So, you want to talk about a level of election interference that is unbelievable. Then we find out this morning that the English Labour government is bringing in Hundreds of workers to work in battleground states to elect. Kamala Harris meets. Yes, the Labor. There's check my tweet feed.

You'll see it. It's unbelievable. They're bringing over the well, it's it's it's a political operation, clearly. But they're soliciting UK Uh Workers to come over to the United States and take, they're looking for people to put them up in free housing.

So, oh, yeah, it's it's I mean, so you have a hundred. Yeah, you write, you tweet out. Uh, nearly one hundred current and former Labor Party staff are going to battleground states in the U.S. to campaign for Kamala Harris with party offerings to sort your housing.

So, they're bringing in the British, and that's okay. Yeah, the British are coming. The British are coming. I mean, you can't make this up, Brian.

So tonight is going to be the Al Smith dinner. I know the big attraction is: I'm going to be on the dais. The second biggest attraction will be the former president who will be speaking. She turned it down, Chris. She did not want to comment.

They'll put it in the prompter. You don't have to be funny. You just got to try, be self-effacing. To me, it's one of the fun things about being a politician. It's been a part of American culture for 50 years, and she's not coming, blowing off all Catholics.

Here's a little of Trump when he was running against Hillary. The last time we had this, because in 2020, we had the pandemic. Let's listen. I know Hillary Mett. My campaign manager.

And I got the chance to meet the people who are working so hard. to get her elected. There they are. The heads of NBC?

So CNN. CBS, ABC There's the New York Times right over there and the Washington Post. They're working overtime. Really? True.

So the spirit of the room is great. Your thoughts about the what could you tell our listeners about how the President's preparing, who's helping him with the writing?

Well Um a couple of things. First off, you know, the the from twenty sixteen, uh you know the President's comments there, clearly nothing has changed. Mm-hmm.

Okay. uh uh going forward because they essentially have the same thing going on now. But I mean, I'm not going to get into the details of who who's writing and all of that, but it's it's I've seen a draft. It looks really good. I think the president I don't think people will be disappointed.

They most definitely, to the extent they can, tune in. you know, President Trump has an incredible way of connecting with people. And you know, this kind of event is tailor-made for him in a lot of ways.

So I mean, just suffices to say that I know that Cardinal Dolan won't be disappointed and those in attendance will not be, and especially those watching. But it should be a fun time and one that it really is important. You know, to show that despite the fact that we're engaged in this. this battle of positions and the choices that are made that the American people want to know that people can get together and poke fun at each other and themselves.

So it should it should be alarming to people that Kamala Harris has no interest in doing that. And yet, they want to launch broadsides on Donald Trump as being whatever and they behave that. Usually, the way I judge things with these guys is If they're attacking Donald Trump about something, That means they're the ones doing it or guilty of it. But it should be fun. Chris, will he take her time?

I mean, she will not. The big thing is, there's going to be no opponent there. And usually it's self-effacing. It's not a speech attack, you know, like he'd say at a rally.

So will he take some of her time and say, These are some of the shots that she could have taken at me? I mean, we'll see. I'm not going to give it away, Brian. I don't want to give it away.

So, do you think this is a shot at Catholics that she's not coming? Do you think it's because she's not comfortable in this format? Does she not want to be with Donald Trump? When you guys close the door in a meetings, like, how do you figure is the what is the reason she's not there, you think? I think it's a couple of things, but but I think if you look at the culmination of The things that she has taken a stand on, it's 100% a shot at Catholics.

You can't take a look at it any other way. I mean, if you look at it as a body of work, And her positions and what she's done in the past. It a hundred percent is that. And then, of course, you've got I think she's incapable. I mean, look, this much is certain.

We know that if Kamala Harris was there, she would spend all of her time laughing.

So and she's got that down, Pat. But I think the ability to talk is probably without the help of a teleprompter, she'd be jumbling ward salads. But look, the bottom line is we'll wait and see how the boss does and how he approaches it. But It's disappointing that that that they would decide to sit this one out.

So, Chris, you're in the news. They say you made $22 million off this campaign. You shot right back. What's your thought? What should our listeners know about what's going on there?

Well, first of all, thanks for asking that. I wish that was the kind of money we make in campaigns. It's not. You know, the Daily Beast is a far-left publication, the same publication that actually Printed the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax back in the day. The same ones who broke a story yesterday saying that President Trump micro-doses drugs for heaven's sake.

So it's a left-wing liberal rag that is, you know, honestly exists to create or try to create some sort of problem. Problems within the campaign leading into the election in three weeks when we're in such a solid position. But it's unequivocally BF. And I don't sp I don't spend a whole lot of time worrying about it. That just comes with the territory.

Got it. Chris, thanks for your quality time. We appreciate it, and I'll see you tonight.

Okay, sir. Take care. Brian Killmead Show. Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmead.

Listen to the all-new Brett Bear podcast, featuring common ground, in-depth talks with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle, along with all your Brett Bear favorites, like his all-star panel, and much more. Available now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. Parrots went on Fox News and took all those questions and hung in there and kept her calm and didn't attack the network or the interviewer or whine that things were unfair. She talked about policy and she gave answers to tough questions.

But the tone was set right from the outset with a series of questions about immigration. where the Vice President of the United States wasn't really given the opportunity to respond. That's interesting. Willie Geist usually a fair-minded guy. I don't watch his show a lot, but I'm not on Fox and Friends today, so I watched this morning.

I'm surprised he has that review. I think that when she started going off in a different direction from the actual question, Brett brought her back because he knew he had twenty minutes, you're not answering anything. Number one, I'll give her this. She was composed. She was not rattled.

And she was confident. But her answers wouldn't suffice, maybe because there are no good answers. to her policies and positions. Maybe she still hasn't figured out when she's with Joe, not with Joe. She's going to be a different president, not a second Biden term.

I heard that. That was new. They probably love that. But I thought the objective was to charm the audience. Did she charm the audience?

Answer the question. The answer is no. And I think if I would have, if Brett just looked at him and says, listen, your staff is wrapping up. I have more questions. Do you want to trump them and just keep at this, or should I listen to them?

That would have maybe got him a few more minutes. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. How many illegal immigrants would you? Estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years.

Well I'm glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you. It is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have. And you know what I'm going to talk about. Just a number. Do you think it's 1 million, 3 million?

Brett, let's just get to the point.

Okay, the point is that we have a broken immigration system. That needs to be repaired.

So your Homeland Security Secretary said that 85% of apprehensions. I'm not finished. It's a rough estimate of 6 million people have been released into the country. And let me just finish. I'll get to the question, I promise you.

I was beginning to answer.

Well, you didn't answer it. She says that 8 million have gotten in and millions of gotaways, and they stopped.

Now we know that multiple cameras don't even work, which means the gotaways were picked up on camera. They say 30% of the cameras don't even work at the border. If I'm a leader, if I'm head of Border Patrol, head of Homeland Security, then up to the president, that's unacceptable. You fix it tomorrow. Any business would run like that.

A guy that's run for office before, one of the most insightful conservatives out there, joins us now. He is. Uh gotten up early for us, Lonnie Chen. He is a David and Diane Stephen Fellow in the American Public Policy at the Hoover Institute, former adviser to Mitt Romney, senior advisor on policy to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Lonnie Chen, welcome back.

Great to be with you. Thanks, Brian.

So, what's your thought about that exchange in particular last night?

Well, I mean, you know, it was a great exchange if you don't believe in answering a question. And I think that was the biggest challenge was that throughout the interview. what we heard were a bunch of dodges on really what are some very critical issues, Brian. For example, this issue of illegal immigration that Brett Baer spent some time asking Kamala Harris about. This is a really important question, which is what are the policy decisions that this administration has made, that her administration has made?

that have resulted in the release of millions of illegal immigrants And folks, frankly, who we don't know much about. into the United States. And she never answered that question. There were other questions she never answered. She didn't answer questions about her record, about the failures of Bidenomics.

These are the sorts of things that I think reasons why voters who saw that interview last night are gonna be really troubled with it. And to the extent that those folks are still thinking about who they want to vote for, I think they'll be leaning toward Donald Trump. Why do you think you're such a strategist, and that's why they have you in the Sunday shows too, because you don't just say, okay, all conservatives are right and all liberals are wrong. You really play it, you call balls and strikes.

So if you were in her camp, What do you think the objective was of her sitting down? And I think every Democrat should do it. Every Republican should go everywhere. Every Democrat should go anywhere. But they don't just don't.

Hillary Clinton never did. John Kerry, I don't believe, did. Barack Obama, after he got the nomination, never did. And Al Gore didn't.

So why what was the approach to going on to Fox and do you think she achieved her objective?

Well, you know, I think the goal was to try and put her in front of a different audience because if you look at The interviews she's done so far, and they've been basically softball interviews. She's gone on outlets that have been very friendly to her. She's gone on outlets that have basically extolled her virtues as opposed to asking her tough questions. And I think The goal was to put her in front of a different audience. I just don't know that.

they prepared her all that well, or that she was all that well prepared to answer those tough questions. And if I were going to put a candidate in that situation, or as a candidate, if I were going to be in that situation, I'll tell you, I sure as heck would have some better answers. Than the kinds of dodges we heard from her in that interview with Brett.

So it doesn't strike me as being a successful strategy. I understand where they're trying to get with it. But she unfortunately just didn't deliver. Uh Yeah, I mean, I'll get this is the positive. She was composed, she did not rattle.

I would say that. But she had no interest in answering the questions. And the hard out is what struck, you know, they were evidently four people were saying wrap up. She showed up twenty minutes late, and they knew that he had a show that started at six, and they had to quick get it edited and, you know, roll in the clips that you saw. They weren't going to edit any of her words or any of Brett's words.

But here's what he said happened behind the scenes, Cut Twenty One. Dana, I'll give you a little behind the scenes here. I know you love this, and it fits in with Dana Reed Sports. You know, when the kicker in football, they call a timeout right before he's going to kick the field goal. They're icing the kicker.

So we were supposed to start at 5 p.m. This was the time they gave us. Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came in and said, well, maybe 20.

So it was already getting whittled down. And then the vice president showed up about 5.15. We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around for the top at the 6 o'clock.

So that's how it started. And I could tell when we started talking that she was going to be tough to redirect without me trying to interrupt. I did this with President Obama. At one point, I just said, Mr. President, I know you like the filibuster.

I just didn't even have the chance to sometimes redirect in those ways. I had a lot of other questions.

So He was trying to redirect and she got insulted uh multiple times because she would not answer the question. And 'cause she don't she probably thought, I have no good answer, so I'll answer a different question. Yes.

Well, can we start, by the way, with acknowledging that Brett Baer is a great journalist. Here's a guy who asked the tough questions, asked the questions that needed to be asked. has the experience, by the way, you talked about the experience with Obama and how hard it was with him. But Brett Bair, great journalist and did a great job last night. Look, I this is all part of a theme, Brian.

She's not interested in answering Harvard. And it's not because, I mean, to your point, she knows how to answer questions. She's perfectly composed and she understands what she's doing. She just doesn't answer the questions because she doesn't have a good answer. And it's not an answer that people want to hear, whether it's on immigration or economics.

And by the way, we still don't have a real clear picture of what it is she's for, what it is she's going to do. She's put out some plans, we'll give her credit for that, but it's hard to understand if those plans are legitimate or not when they're so in contrast with her record. They're so in contrast with where she stands on all of these different issues. Take energy, for example. She's talked about banning fracking.

She's talked about banning our ability to explore sources of energy within the United States that would help to drive down the cost of energy for American families. And now you've got her saying, no, no, no, I never believed any of that.

So, which Kamala Harris are we to believe? I think that's the reason why she's having a tough time with these interviews because she's not going to be able to do that. The answers aren't good answers. And when you don't have good answers, you you don't show up. And you know this.

You know, primaries. Wow, isn't it great? I didn't have to spend any money. I didn't have to spend a year or two years on the road living in Iowa, New Hampshire. I just got the nomination.

Isn't that great?

Well, on the surface, sure. But the bad part is, you haven't been battle-tested. You haven't tested your arguments. You didn't sit up there with eight other Democrats on a stage and try to point out differences between you, and then realize when you walk off that stage, meet with your team and say, guys, I got to come out with a new message here. I got roasted last night, and there'll be another day.

So that is an opportunity to train. And win. And then, when you get it, you really have a chance to unite the party. She was anointed without a great reputation inside the party, and then she was lifted on a sugar high. Bring us to the fall untested, and now she finds herself, I guess, Lonnie.

Yeah. That's the only way you would think that she would do these media blitzes like she's doing right now. What look, do you understand that those primaries are an important part of the process for the candidate? Yeah. Boy, what what a great point, Brian.

I mean, i i it does make candidates better. And and you know, they're tough. Primaries are really hard. And of course they're hard because you got a bunch of candidates who pretty fundamentally probably agree with each other. And they're trying to figure out how to differentiate from one another.

And by the way, you know, she did run in a primary, but she ran in a primary four years ago and she got smoked. And now she's coming around and the nomination's been handed to her and she doesn't have what in sports Call the reps. She doesn't have the reps. she hasn't been through the meat grinders. She doesn't understand how to answer the tough questions.

And I do think that, that experience is really valuable.

So I think the Democrats may have miscalculated this strategically a little bit. In handing it to her without having maybe even a little bit of an open process where she would have had to do a little bit of campaigning, would have had to try to earn some support. didn't have to. And as a result, this is what you get. You get a candidate who for them, unfortunately, is ill prepared for these situations.

But you're absolutely right about the value of going through a primary and the value of going through any competition. You at the Hoover Institute, it's more traditional Republicans. Condoleezza Rice, who probably I think just honored to talk to her every time. She just joined us in the studio a couple of weeks ago. She runs things up there.

So, more traditional. George Schultz was there, I think, up until he was 100 years old. How do they look at Trump? Are they more or less accepting of the of the non-conforming Republican than they were in twenty sixteen.

Well, first of all, I think that you've got a variety and diversity of views around the institution.

So I don't want to speak for everybody, but I think it's fair to say that a lot of folks look at this and they try to understand What are the next four years going to look like under a Harris administration and then under a Trump administration? And look, not everyone has to agree with Donald Trump one hundred percent of the time. If you look at his policies, you can have disagreements with it. But the fundamental question, I think, on a policy perspective comes down to this, which is who's going to put our country in a better position to grow economically who's going to put our country in a better position to counter the challenges posed by China, which I know, Brian, you talk about a lot on your show. Who's going to be best equipped to do all of that?

And I think folks look at that and understand we've got a relatively binary choice here. between two different candidates that represent two very different visions for the future of America.

So folks will have their disagreements with former President Trump. They'll have a point of view on it. But I think this election comes down to a fairly fundamental contrast on policy at least. And people need to make a decision around that. Do you think the American people are coalescing around a decision in those battleground states?

From the people you talk to, go inside the numbers. Where do you think we're at right now? I can tell you with a real clear average, Trump is slightly up everywhere except Wisconsin. Yes.

I mean, I think the momentum is very much with former President Trump. And I said this on Sunday, I guess it was now. that you're seeing a coalescence, particularly amongst Republican voters, maybe even some who've been skeptical of Trump in the past, there's a coalescence because of the issues we've talked about, immigration and the economy. And as a result, I think he's benefiting from that. But look, if you look at all the surveys that have been taken recently in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and places we know where this is this competition is going to be very tight, Independents are supporting Trump by double digits in most cases.

And that's why I do think he does have a slight advantage at this point in the race. And I think he's very well positioned to be elected President on november fifth. I do think that no one should take anything for granted. This is going to be a very close race, and we all know the couple of states where this will be competitive. But I do think that Kamala Harris, the comparison I use is I think she stalled out a little bit.

There's no question she had a bunch of momentum and the media was fawning over her for many weeks. And that worked to her advantage. But I think that that plane has stalled out, Brian. And I really think that we're at a phase of the campaign now where Trump's got to close this thing. If he has a strong close, I think Trump gets elected.

So you're in charge of getting Republicans elected. Tim Sheehy looks good. He's up about seven on the Real Clear average in Montana. West Virginia, Jim Justice, has got it.

So are you worried about Texas? Casey's up three in Pennsylvania. Slotkin's up 2.7 in Michigan. Brown's up 2.6 in Ohio. Can you add anything to these races?

Well, let me give you my sense. First of all, Republicans are going to control the Senate. I have very, very little doubt about that because of Sheehy in Montana, as you said, and Jim Justice in West Virginia. But beyond that, Republicans have an opportunity, I think, to get up toward fifty three or fifty four members of the Senate potentially because of some of the races that you've noted. Ted Cruz is going to win in Texas.

He's a strong campaigner, and he's running a good campaign and understands That they're running hard after. And so I think we'll be fine in Texas. And then if you look up towards states like Michigan, Mike Rogers is running a terrific campaign up there. I think he's got an opportunity. Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania, a lot of that race is going to come down to the support for former President Trump.

And I think if former President Trump gets across the finish line, you're going to see Dave McCormick bring that seat across the finish line for Republicans as well. And then also competitive races in Wisconsin and perhaps a few other places as well. But you got to feel very good if you're Republicans right now thinking about control of the Senate. And I think it's a question of how many, not whether they'll control the Senate.

Well, you're being outraged everywhere. There's not one race in which the Republican has more money than the Democrat. Yes.

Well, fundraising is an issue and so people cannot rest on their laurels. But I think, Brian, this comes down to there's some things money can't buy, even in politics. And what we're seeing is an example of a situation where people are really frustrated with the Biden economy. They're really frustrated with what we've seen over the last couple of years on immigration. They're very frustrated on what we what we see as a pretty chaotic situation around the world.

And as a result, I do think Republican Senate candidates are going to benefit from that.

Now, how much? That's the big question. And obviously, we haven't talked about the house, but the house is going to be tight as a tick. It's going to be really, really close and competitive coming down to the end. I don't know who's going to control the house.

But I do think that on the Senate side at least, Republicans have a tailwind at their back. I mean, it's amazing coming in with a couple of weeks left, two and a half weeks left. We can't really predict for sure any chamber or the White House. I mean, it's that close everywhere, even experts like you. Lonnie Chen, thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Look forward to it. Are you on any of the Sunday shows this week? No, I'm not, but hopefully we'll be here before the election, and always a pleasure to be with you, Brian. Absolutely.

Lonnie Chen, thanks. When we come back, I'll squeeze in some calls, 1866-408-7669. This is the Brian Kilmeat Show, on the road in Richmond, Virginia, home of WRGA. Hear the ins and outs of the 2024 election right here. The Brian Kill Meat Show.

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Well, she was combative and energetic, and she certainly landed some blows on Donald Trump. But in terms of how well she answered your questions, which were about the very things that had been raised about her, you know, the thinness of her positions, her failure to explain her flip-flops on issues going back to when she was the candidate for president back in 2019 and 2020, she didn't give you very much, Brett. And you did a great job in writing, those are the right questions to ask. You did a good job of answering them, of posing them. And she, you know, I'm sure her partisans will look at that and say, yay, Kamala.

Uh Juicy fought you. Um, but if people have doubts about her, I don't think that she cleared them up. That was Britt Hume giving his honest assessment of Brett Baer, replace him on special report. And I don't think anybody would have been done better at all. Because you ought to ask these direct questions.

You don't yell, you don't take it personal. Let me finish, let me go. I was answering your question. Let me answer your question.

So when the people do that, the goal would be don't. React angrily, but you got to ask yourself: do I finish my question or do I let her finish? And one of her things is one thing that is definitely a factor, which I know that Mike Pence had to deal with and Joe Biden had to deal with with Sarah Palin. You could debate, but you don't want to look like a bully. And uh the male the male-female thing is real.

And a lot of people looking out there and go, yeah, you know, Brett had a good point, but if he was too tough and he was too dismissive and talked over all the time, then he looks bad.

So I thought it was just really well handled. I think that it's all out there now.

So, take a look at the interview. You see the clips all over social media. Make your own decision. And I know Brett probably, and I think she would have benefited for another 20 minutes. She would have benefited for another 20 minutes to expand on different things.

And maybe she wanted the opportunity to say, I'm not Joe Biden, this wouldn't be a second term with Joe Biden. She got that out.

Well, what do you mean? And then she would have been able to expand it, but we'll never know. By the way, I just want to remind you guys: Allison, you're going to be there in Peekskill, New York, right? Me. At the Paramount.

Yes.

Right. On Sunday, the 20th. And it looks like Governor Pataki might be coming. The former mayor, turned, two-term governor of New York, the last Republican governor. That's amazing, but people are still coming to see you first and foremost.

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Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmey Show on the road in this beautiful Richmond, Virginia, WRVA. They've been an affiliate now for about eight months, have a chance to do politics and pints here in person and meet hundreds of people and be able to talk about it with this great lineup of anchors as well as. um uh as well as talk to some great people out here.

So it's been a a great day and it's about to get uh better because we're just getting reports now that the evil mastermind of the Hamas massacre on October fifth. Could be dead. Sinwar killed in a Gaza strike. I've had people write to me directly say it's confirmed. We haven't confirmed it on Fox News, so I can't say it's confirmed, but I would say that most likely an evildoer to the nth degree, every bit as bad as bin Laden, is dead.

And that's a key. Even though they can replace him. He's still the mastermind. He's the one who fueled this horrific attack that killed 1,900 innocent people and actually took young children as hostages and old men and women, and many of which are still being held against their will.

So let's get to the victory.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, they've been weak and feckless in this entire conflict. In fact, they're putting more pressure on Israel than they are our enemies and their terrorist proxies. That is Derek Anderson talking about the ridiculous, bipolar way in which the Biden administration is dealing with Israel.

One minute saying we'll give you arms, we'll give you a missile defense system, and the next minute saying you better rush aid into Gaza, even though Hamas is taking almost all of it. How long will this administration get away with the worst foreign policy in my lifetime? Number two. The mistakes I made We weren't big policy. We had the strong border.

We had the great economy. We had all these things. But I put some people in that I wouldn't have used again.

So I would say that would be the biggest mistake. Mostly good, but some bad. Trump on trail from Univision to the Women's Forum, and now tonight on the Al Smith dinner, most importantly with me on the dais, we look at 45 sprints to win back the White House. Number one. When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?

Joe Biden I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room. Joe Biden is not on ballot. Ha ha ha ha. He's not on the ballot because you replaced him. Trump on the trail.

As I mentioned, the VP Harris marches into an interview with Brett Baer. I am not sure her objective, but I'm pretty sure she didn't achieve it. My takeaways and yours. As she exposed herself to probably 6 million viewers last night, and now it's all over social media. Mark Thiessen, I thought about you.

Because you are someone to analyze stuff like this. You try to put it in perspective. You also like strategy. And you know the strategy, the strategist that said go sit down with Brett Baer. I love it.

Sit down with everybody, if you're Trump or if you're Kamala Harris. What do you think her objective was, and do you think she achieved it?

Well, first of all, she should it's good that she did it. She should it shows that she hasn't been doing it more. She hasn't been in these adversarial interviews. You're not on Call Your Daddy and Colbert, you're not going to get tough questions. But even then, she got stomped on the view, right?

And so she Brett played her the two clips of her saying I wouldn't do anything different than Joe Biden or couldn't come up with anything and gave her a chance And she still didn't have an answer for it. It's it's it's remarkable. You're you're say I would not be a continuation of the Biden administration, but I wouldn't do anything di anything different than the Biden administration. It's like you gotta come up with something. I mean, you know, in retrospect, the Afghan withdrawal didn't go the way we wanted it to.

that's at least a concession that something went wrong under your administration. And then she the the but the the moment that was deadly for her was when Brett was asking her about her position in twenty nineteen supporting transgender surgery for detained illegal immigrants. And she said Well, Donald Trump had the same law in the books under his presidency. And he pointed out, well, yeah, but he didn't support it. And he's not for that.

And she said, you're responsible for what happens in your administration. Oh my God. Yeah. You know, with overlay, worst inflation in 40 years, worst border crisis in American history, worst, you know, that you're responsible for what happens in your administration. I mean, that was like the closing, she made Donald Trump's closing argument for her.

So they put up some of the young women that have been killed by illegal immigrants horrifically in the most horrible way possible. And to me, it just shows you, underlines, unnecessary death, murder by definition, unnecessary death. Up when there are illegals here just to commit crimes, and you find out they got rich criminal histories. What responsibility do you have, Madam Vice President, for their death? Cut seven.

Do you owe those families an apology? Let me just say, first of all, those are tragic cases. There's no question about that. There is no question about that. And I can't imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced.

for a loss that should not have occurred.

So That is true. It is also true That if a border security had actually been passed nine months ago, it would be nine months. Mark. Are you kidding me? a bill that wasn't even debated Was not no amendments offered that nine Democrats voted against.

That happened last year. These murders took place the years prior. If that had passed, had nothing to do with their deaths. And that was the answer she's going with? Yeah, and then she said, Well, we introduced a bill at the very beginning of the administration.

It was named Steve Bill. That they knew that they didn't have, that they weren't going to pass. And oh, by the way, they had unified control of government. And they still didn't pass that.

So, you know, because Democrats wouldn't have supported it.

So, you know, look, I will go back to my previous point. You're responsible for what happens during your administration. And, you know, she wants to have that line when it's attacking Trump, but she doesn't want to take responsibility for what happened on her watch. They reversed over 90 executive orders that Donald Trump had in place in the border. If they had kept remain in Mexico in place, Those people would not have gotten into this country, and those Americans would still be alive.

And all these people who say, you know, Like, well, you know, the the the crime rate, uh migrant crime is not any higher than regular crime or, you know, or uh all this thing. Not every single one of those deaths shouldn't have happened because those people shouldn't have been there. Even if it's one, you know, when Martha Raddis says to J.D. Vance, well, it's just a handful of apartment complexes, it's like, First of all, a handful of apartment complexes, you're okay with that? And two, not one of those people should be here.

Not one. If you had just kept those policies in place that you inherited a secure border, none of those uh apartment complexes would be overridden with the Venezuelan gangs. Right. And but it's amazing that Martha Raddis is as clueless as the Vice President, and that Kristen Welker says, Why don't we know the cholesterol level of President Trump? I mean, there should have been a laugh track with that.

They should have borrowed it from Modern Family. Chuck Todd. said this from the border policy to the economy President Biden has been presiding over a turmoil overseas. There isn't a lot about his years that voters love at this moment. It's why former President Trump has basically a 50-50 chance to return to the White House just four years after voters fired him.

The whole Biden isn't on the ballot anymore. Voters are certainly feeling his presence. If there's one thing that's clear, they don't want it. It's a candidate who reminds them of Biden. And that was tough for him to write, I am sure, because he despises Trump.

Yeah. So here's the thing: a sitting vice president has only won the presidency once in 188 years. It would you have to go back to Millard Fillmore before until 1988 when George H. W. Bush.

One after serving as Ronald Reagan's vice president for two terms. And the reason was people wanted another Reagan term. That's the reason why he was elected. Nobody wants another Biden term or he'd be the nominee.

So she is trying to do this sort of this electoral jiu jitsu, where she won't break with Biden, she won't say what she would do differently, she won't criticize him in any way or that, but she's campaigning on a new way forward and turning the page. And you can't have it both ways. This is clearly a change election. If you look at our polling, if you look at the New York Times Cianna Poll, something like ninety percent of Americans want either serious or even drastic change.

So Right now, Donald Trump is the change candidate. And she is the candidate of continuity. She is trying to do something that no sitting vice president has ever done, which is campaign as the candidate of change. And that's very hard to do, and she's not having much success doing it. The problem is that people is that Trump is also an incumbent because people know that he was president for four years, and they like what they like, they dislike what they dislike, and so it muddies that message a little bit because he's a change from the last four years.

But do they want to go back to the change they had four years ago? Rapid fire. I got four minutes. I need every one of them. You ready?

I want to talk to your column about Trump and Zelensky have a lot in common. Also, the revelation that there are maybe a thousand North Korean Fighters on the ground with weapon systems and just flat-out fighters fighting against the Ukrainians with the Russians. This is a huge bridge, a huge issue that is not being fully digested mentally or strategically. Your thoughts? It's crazy.

I mean, so, first of all, it just shows that Ukraine is not an isolated thing that you can isolate from China, from North Korea, from Iran, and all the rest of it. We have an axis, a new axis of evil that is working together, and Ukraine is one of the key battlefields in that. As far as Trump and Zelensky, I got news for the anti-Ukraine right. Donald Trump loves Zelensky. And number one, he credits him with saving him on the phony impeachment.

He said in that meeting with Zelensky. He when he stood by me and said he was like a piece of steel, and when he stood by me, that was the end of the phony impeachment. He killed it, right?

So he saved Donald Trump. Number two, they're a lot more alike than people realize. He th Zelensky is a Ukrainian Trump. He was a TV star, an outsider who was not involved in politics, who was independently wealthy, didn't need to get in, and he went in to take on the Ukrainian deep state. Keep in mind why he was elected before this war started was because he wanted to he was the first non-corrupt president of Ukraine.

He was an outsider who's going to take on the deep state and kick out all the oligarchs, kick out all the corrupt politicians and make Ukraine great again. And he was doing that until Russia invaded.

So these guys have a lot in common. They're both celebrities, both had media empires, both were outsiders. And so I think people will be very surprised if Trump is elected how he handles Zelensky. And they've purged in there. He has a victory plan.

I want them to get forward. Winter's about to start. Russians deserve all the pain they're going through. They don't deserve this victory. I hope America doesn't get fatigued with it because don't confuse the President with the cause.

Because he's not presiding over it well and restricting the weapons use, it doesn't mean this is not worthy and in America's interest. Lastly, I have a report that Sinoir is dead. They're looking to scramble to confirm it. But let's say the reports are true, he's dead. How important is that?

Nasarella dead, Sinwar dead. How important is that in that region?

So think about this. If that report is true, since october seventh, Israel has killed the entire top leadership of Hamas and the entire top leadership of Hezbollah. I mean, just absorb that for a second. This is the greatest. Counterterrorism operation in the history of the world.

This is D.B. Netanyahu is now approaching Churchill status. in terms of his handling of this conflict. And for the Biden administrat now, the Iranians have given Israel the pro pretext to go after their nuclear program, and the Biden administration is saying don't go after the nuclear sites. Give me a break.

This is the perfect opportunity to go after the nuclear sites. They've given you the odds, they attacked first.

Now you after you have the right to hit them back, take out those nuclear sites as soon as you can. finish this job. And we are restricting them. We're saying with no war weapons until you get more aid into Gaza. I have news for you.

I understand the humanitarian portion of that. But when you have video of Hamas taking the aid at gunpoint from the Palestinians, you wonder about the wisdom of feeding your enemy. Who does that? We didn't do it in World War II, I'll tell you that, and we bombed the hell out of Dresden.

So there's nothing that isn't and Israel, there's no country in the world that takes more care to protect civilians than Israel in conflict. I don't know how anyone can urban warfare the way Israel has, in which they drop fake bombs on the top of buildings first so that people will hear and get out of the way. They call people and tell them, you know, you need to evacuate and bring the children out. They go to such lengths to avoid civilian casualties, and they've managed to but you can avoid all civilian casualties in war. And they didn't start this, but they're going to finish it.

And the headline in the Jerusalem Post, they called this crazy: Hezbollah tunnel to Israel ignites outrage among border communities. There was going to be another massacre on the other side of the country, only run by the gold standard of terror groups, Hezbollah, because tunnels were right into northern Israel. They had no choice.

Now they're thinking about the courage it takes to go into these sophisticated tunnels against these battle-tested fighters who knows what they're facing, but they're doing it for their country and they're doing it for the West. I hate to tell you. And I wish people would recognize that, besides people like you and people that are no longer in power, like Condoleezza Rice, and just Macron obviously doesn't get it. And I'm not sure Joe Biden gets it either, but I know Kamala Harris doesn't when she keeps calling for a ceasefire.

Well, three weeks, we got a chance to pick people in charge who do get it. Pompeo, I hope, goes back. Tom Cotton, I hope, goes to defense. I hope Marco Rubio has a role. And I think we might get adults in the room again.

Mark Thiessen, thanks so much. Take care, Brian. Back in a moment. You're with Brian Gilmead. Uh Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. She won't be in ballast because sadly, Kamala Harris is in cover.

So, even at the last minute, it's a shame because the nature of the evening is to bring people together. The nature of the evening is civility, patriotism, humor. It's not a campaign speech, it's not a campaign stop. It's not a roast. It's not a roast.

There's teasing, big-time teasing. The tradition of the evening is you tease yourself and you tease the other person. All right? And you do it, but a lot of laughs, a lot of laughs.

So we're upset that she didn't come. 'Cause it we we're we've missed an evening to accent something sorely needed now that even she articulates rather eloquently, that we've got to turn the page on bitterness. And the Al Smith dinner traditionally tries to do that. Yes, and that is Cardinal Dolan, one of the greatest personalities. I don't care that he's a Cardinal priest, whatever.

And he's also a talk show host, got a show on Sirius. Just talking about the letdown of Kamala Harris not doing what Al Gore did, not doing what George Bush did, not doing what John Kerry did. It goes back forever. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and then John McCain. You're self-effacing, you attack playfully the person next to you.

You sit virtually right across from the person. The Cardinal separates you. And what it does is brings millions, maybe even billions of dollars into the Al Smith dinner.

Now, who's Al Smith? He was the first Catholic mayor who ran for president of the United States. He had a sixth-grade education. Just a remarkable story. Just was a fantastic, was a fantastic governor back at a time in which everything was so corrupt, and you had to know certain families to get anywhere in New York.

And he just transfixed that because he was a great people person, Catholic.

So they named it after him, and then you apply and you get the money afterwards. You have to apply to the church and they evaluate whether your cause is good enough.

So it's all positive. Helps although the Catholic schools.

So she hurt because money is not flowing in the way it normally would. But I'll tell you, they are sold out. They've doubled the amount on each table, so that certainly helps. Trump is going to show up. And I don't know, Allison, do you think the fact that I'm going to be there is also helping ticket sales?

Helping ticket. That's why it's sold out because you're going to be there. I'm on the dais wearing a white tie. That you hope, and the suit that you hope is going to fit you. Right.

I hope the guys at Men's Warehouse have a good tape measure because they measured me up. And I'm trusting him, I refuse to try it on. But I do have to give it back tomorrow. You need to post a picture on your way to make sure it fits properly. Too late.

It's not too late. Brian killed me, Chill. Don't move. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

You've heard a lot about it, but many people, a lot of people can't humanize this story. I know Anthony Robbins came out and executed produced a great movie about sex trafficking in America. A kid comes from Central America. He thinks he's going to LA Galaxy Camp. He ends up being essentially sold into slavery.

uh in uh Los Angeles and the It depicts something that's very real. And Maddie Rowley is a little different. She's an investigative reporter who found the real thing at the Free Press, her article inside America's fastest growing criminal enterprise, Sex Trafficking. Maddie, welcome to the Brian Kill Meat Show. Thanks so much for having me, Brian.

I'm a huge fan, so it's an honor to be here. Oh, thanks, and I'm a huge fan of the free press. What you guys have done is just amazing.

So what made you tackle this? And what made you want to get to put a human face behind the problem? Yes, that's a great question.

So I found this actually through my original piece about NGOs making billions off the border crisis. And I had spoken to several whistleblowers, including Tara Rodas and Deborah White, who were the ones who alerted me to what they were seeing at federal government shelters, these unaccompanied children, they crossed the border. And then they're sent through government funded shelters. And Tara and Deborah had volunteered to work at one of these shelters, and they started talking to me about what they were seeing. They were seeing kids several kids going to one sponsor, hundreds of kids.

And in one instance, Deborah told me she saw three hundred and twenty nine children that were sent to two side by side apartment complexes in Houston, which Should send up flags for criminal activity.

So they were the ones who sort of tipped me off to what had been happening. these last four years. And as I started digging into it, I found that you know, and I we had the federal government and found that child trafficking has in fact increased under Biden by and has in fact tripled. And the government is now supporting over well over two thousand kids. um who have been trafficked.

So are they illegal immigrants who cross the border as unaccompanied minors in many cases? Yes, in many cases, I spoke to several people one, an immigration lawyer and another, a woman who works for one of these NGOs that supports the Office of Refugee and Resettlement in sheltering these kids. Two of both of them have said that they have seen sponsors who are trafficking the kids, and then the kids, thank God, they escape and they are given these child eligibility letters and are able to get some support. It's also, you know. adults who might live in the same home.

These kids are sent to homes and there are other people, other adults living in the home.

So it's sponsors, other adults living in the home. And unfortunately, there's a third prong there and there's some overlap where we have gangs. Gangs are trafficking kids and young women and even males, which was another very shocking thing I learned and in talking to an executive director of a shelter for males. the only shelter for males in the United States.

So, yeah, very sad. I mean, when you talk about NGOs, that's Catholic charities too, right? That they have any idea what's going on underneath their nose. Oh, yes, absolutely. I mean, there are probably about a dozen NGOs who are involved in refugee resettlement and illegal immigrant resettlement throughout the United States.

The one that I spoke to, the U. S. Committee of Immigration and Refugees, they get hundreds of millions of dollars per year from the federal government. And this is the case with like I said, almost a dozen NGOs.

So, yes, it's a very, very big network. I'm not sure people understand just how big it is. And these, you know, they're. They're located all over the country. They have regional offices.

I think it's 80 offices. they have all across the country.

So when you talk about numbers and we don't know what three hundred twenty thousand unaccompanied minors are, and eighty thousand specifically, they say the number goes, we don't know if they're dead or alive. Where do those how do those numbers line up with the story you covered? Yeah, I mean, that's the biggest question. A lot of these kids fall through the cracks, and something was confirmed to me in my reporting. In speaking with a woman who worked for the NGO, many of the kids these kids.

So once the Office of Refugee and Resettlement sends these kids off to live with a sponsor that could be a family member, a friend or in some cases, unfortunately, people the kid doesn't even know.

So often when that happens, they are no longer responsible for that child. The federal government is no longer responsible for them. And they then fall to it's the community's responsibility, it's the state's responsibility.

So many of these kids get put into the foster care system. Or, you know, I unfortunately they are put into runaway homeless shelters at the woman I spoke to at the NGO said that. very, very difficult to place these kids that slip through the cracks.

So what was the most uh surprising thing about this? As you see, by the way, the most vulnerable people in society from every other country, the only thing universal I could find the human beings can agree on is that kids need to be protected. and at any cost. I don't care whose kid it is. Who I mean, I don't understand the people that would be involved in this, the mindset there.

But can you give me an idea of the people who are involved in this and how high up in the government it goes? Meaning the resettlement of the kids? Like for example, does Homeland Security Secretary know about this? Does the Border Patrol know about this? Yes.

So that's another great point there. Senator Grassley, Republican Senator Grassley has held Many a roundtable, many of meetings, has written dozens of letters. I attended a round table on the exploitation. Of unaccompanied ch migrant children in July, and not one Democrat showed up. And this has been the case throughout the Biden administration.

They continuously look the other way. Again, Secretary Becera was not there. He hasn't answered to this. And another shocking thing about this is that there have been several Office of Investigative reports, government reports. That prove that the Office of Refugee and Resettlement is just not.

Does not have the oversight to look after hundreds of thousands of kids. There have been 137,000 kids who crossed the border alone in 2023. And they just don't have the oversight needed. Um to to run this program to run this program, excuse me. Um and you know, there was one recent report where they did a study of across three hundred and forty three children unaccompanied children, and nineteen percent of those unaccompanied children were handed over to sponsors who were not vetted.

They were still waiting on their SBI fingerprint test results to come back, and yet they were handed over to them anyway.

So That's just agreed just in my opinion. In your opinion, in anybody's opinion, this is insane.

So, how they could let this happen, another byproduct of dropping the border, not caring about it, and suddenly realizing it's a political liability. But this is perhaps the ugliest part of this. Outside the murders at the hands of these illegal criminals who kill innocent people like a Georgia Jogger and Lake and Riley and others, this is the other sub-story which has got to be front and center. Thanks for doing it. Maddie Rowley, appreciate you joining us.

Pick up her story inside America's fastest-growing criminal enterprise, sex trafficking. Maddie Rowley, thanks so much. Thanks so much, Brian. All right, 1-866-408-7669. When we come back, we'll take some calls.

I just want to remind you before I go to break, I cannot believe it's here. We've been talking about it for a few months, but now it's here. Coming up on Sunday at 7 o'clock, Peekskill, New York. I'll be on stage at the Paramount Theater. It's going to be streaming live on Fox Nation, your favorite app.

And we're going to bring history to life. We put together a show that's going to be amusing, entertaining, informative, inspirational, motivational, and patriotic. All those things. I put a lot of commas in there. And you can just see, we're putting out a tape to give you a highlight of what will go out there.

And I'll put it on social media. But I hope to see you Sunday in person at 7 p.m. Eastern Time in Peekskill, New York. and VIP opportunities where I come out at five o'clock and I tell you what the show is going to be like and of course answer all your questions about this uh election cycle. And I know it's hard between the Mets, Yankees, Jets and Giants, but the Giants play on Monday night, so Giant fans should all be there.

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And that was the opening exchange meek. It went on like that for nearly 30 minutes. It goes without saying that Donald Trump would not be given the same treatments, talked over, not allowed to finish those questions. It doesn't mean the topics weren't fair. There was a lot in there that viewers wanted to hear from Kamala Harris.

Why do you have different positions now than you did in 2019? How are you going to fix the immigration crisis? All fair. Fair questions, but Donald Trump obviously would never be treated that way on Fox News. Willie is 100% wrong.

In fact, if we could play back to Donald Trump, go ahead, go on YouTube now. Go on there and listen to Martha McCallum do an interview with Donald Trump. Donald Trump or watch Brett Baer do an interview with Donald Trump and that's exactly what happened. In fact, Trump was all ticked off. He thought that they were too easy on Obama and too easy on the Democrats and too tough on him.

And I know what you're going to say.

Well, Trump always complains. Not really. He made it clear he made it pretty clear that he made it pretty clear that he thought Brett Baer gave him a real hard time. And he did not he was not thrilled with Brett Baer being the moderator if he was to do the debate.

So if he was to do another debate too, although he would have taken Fox News.

So that's what's going on right now. There's a lot of people just trying to make sense of what she actually accomplished.

So I looked at Geraldo Rivera's Twitter feed, who said that she he is voting for Kamala Harris, not Donald Trump. He said how did how could she possibly go on with on Fox News and prepare so little? I agree.

So here's an example of Kamala Harris. Was asked if Donald Trump is so unhidden, so unworthy, so vile, so dark, why is he winning? Cut twelve. Why is half the country supporting him? Why is he beating you in a lot of swing states?

Why, if he's as bad as you say, that half of this country is now supporting this person who could be the 47th president of the United States? Why is that happening? This is an election for President of the United States. It's not supposed to be easy. I know, but it's not easy to do.

It's not supposed to be. It is not supposed to be a case of the people. Are they misguided, the 50%? Are they stupid? I would never say that about the American people.

And in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he's the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish. The American people. He's the one who talks about an enemy within. An enemy within. Talking about the American people, suggesting he would turn the American military on the American people.

He's misguided. You say now he's unstable. He is unstable, but he's not well. You say he's mentally not stable. He's not stable.

And guess who? You also said was mentally stable, Joe Biden. Nobody believes that. Is there anybody on the planet least qualified to talk about someone's mental stability than a vice president who won't admit that Joe Biden has lost a step and his synapses in his brain aren't exactly snapping?

So why is it that she feels comfortable leaving herself so open by talking about the mental capacity of one Donald Trump at 78, who's doing four times the appearances that she is in the final weeks, even today? Donald Trump will be at the Al Smith Theater, she's not. We're hearing about great reporting from Selena Zito in Pennsylvania. She's saying that when they have events in Pennsylvania, they close it up. You've got to get an invite.

It's closed doors. Closed to the press. And when they let the press in, they don't let other people in. They don't even know about it. And then there's a story in Politico in Pennsylvania.

We all agree You win Pennsylvania, you win the Presidency? And that right now she's a total mess on the ground. And it's Donald Trump that's unhinged.

Now look, the one thing I pointed out last week in my open on One Nation, which is going to be Saturday at nine o'clock again, I hope everyone will join me. at on Eastern Time on Fox News is that Last week it was all personal attacks on Trump. Mocking him with Barack Obama, James Carville essentially calling him a Nazi because he is going to go to Madison Square Garden where a pro-Hitler rally took place in 1939. No joke. And then she's saying he's unhinged, not saying his border policy is bad, not saying his economic policy is not good, not even talking about abortion and the Supreme Court justices that he put on there that nullified Roe v.

Wade. They're going after him personally, which for the most part says we have to make him unelectable. That's our formula for success.

So we'll see how that goes. Before we find out if there's a need to know more. I thought putting in perspective was Britt Yume last night about what he thought of the interview and what she accomplished. Cut 19.

Well, she was combative and energetic, and she certainly landed some blows on Donald Trump. But in terms of how well she answered your questions, which were about the very things that had been raised about her, you know, the thinness of her positions, her failure to explain her flip-flops on issues going back to when she was the candidate for president back in 2019 and 2020, she didn't give you very much, Brett. And you did a great job in writing. Those are the right questions to ask. You did a good job of answering them, opposing them.

And she, you know, I'm sure her partisans will look at that and say, yay, Kamala. Uh do she fought you? Um, but if people have doubts about her, I don't think that she cleared them up. Yeah. Well, we'll see where she goes from here.

I just think the internals, the story is going to be written this over the last two weeks. The internals are so bad. Think about what she's done: the Univision Forum, which is great. Go Stephen Colbert, which is fine. Charlemagne the God, all of a sudden they put this together.

This. Town hall on iHeartMedia.

Okay. And then she does Howard Stern for an hour. Then she sits down with 60 minutes. Then she does Fox News. I think it's great.

I would have done it all along from August on, July, August, September, and leading up to the DNC and after. But remember, she said leading up to the DNC, sooner or later I told my people to schedule a few interviews. What changed that now she's doing a ton? Let's find out if there's more to know. More to know.

Sponsored by Previgent. Previgent is the most recommended memory support brand by pharmacists. Here we go. This is stunning news. Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died in Argentina after falling from his hotel balcony.

He's 31 years old. Buenos Aires is his place. He was there for pal Niall Haran's tour when he tragically punged from the third floor on Wednesday afternoon. Police say they discovered Payne's body after emergency services responded to a call from staff at a hotel where the star was staying in the city's trendy Palermo neighborhood. Payne rocketed to stardom as part of One Direction, the massively popular boy band created by the British version of X Factor, the group which included Harry Stiles, Lewis Thomason, Niall Rand, and Zane Malik.

Now, on indefinite hiatus, they went on hiatus in 2016. Evidently, his girlfriend stayed with him for a few days. She flew back, and then he, people are reporting, they jumped out.

Next.

Well, they also, though, to go back, people are reporting with that 911 call. They called about 10 minutes before he died. And then the worker said that he was under the presumed to be under the influence of alcohol and drugs and insisted that someone needed to come urgently and that his life might be in danger because he's in the room with the balcony. Wow, what a shame.

Next, lighter note. Why Gen Z feels guilty about taking lunch breaks? 47% of Gen Zers miss out on lunch twice or more per week, researchers say. 50% of the 20-seven consider lunch the best part of the workday. On February 24, they commissioned this study by one poll.

It said the best part of the workday, according to the finding members of the distressed demographic, are four times more likely than boomers to feel guilty taking a break from work. How do you figure that? That shows more dedication? Yeah, I don't know. Or is it like get your stuff done so you can leave when you're done?

Or is it now that we have so many more calls? You know, there's not really an hour or like a half hour to run to get. Here's my advice: you could take a lunch. Just be smart about it. And, you know, also, can I add this?

Bring your lunch, save a lot of money. From Hayatom Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody.

It's the Brian Kill Meet Show. We're on the road in beautiful Richmond, Virginia, where we had a big politics and pint event last night. I always loved coming down and meeting all the affiliates. Every single one of you guys are valuable in your city, your town, in your car, in your house. or listening on your device, but be able to come down and see everybody in person is certainly a thrill as well as seeing the whole station here.

WRVA. This hour, we're going to be joined by Mike Lawler. Mike Lawler was in a big debate last night against Mondair Jones. He used to have that seat. Lawler pulled off the upset in 2022 and helped deliver the House to Republicans.

He's in a tough fight for that seat. He tells us, gives us an idea how that debate was. Also, we've got some great news: WLNA 1420 a.m. Peachkill, New York, where I'm going to be on Sunday night at 7 o'clock with History, Liberty, and Laughs on stage, bringing history life, motivational, inspirational, and patriotic. Just go to brandkilme.com.

I'll see you in person. It's going to stream on Fox Nation.

So, in between playoff games, football games, of course, baseball games, hopefully, every WNBA finals, hopefully, people have time to watch. Also, WBNR, WGHQ, all are part of it, the Big Beacon Cluster. Joining me now is Selena Zito, nationally syndicated columnist. She has written some great columns, got great insight, not only from Elon Musk, but multiple times with the President. She knows all about Pennsylvania, probably.

As well as anyone, and I have yet to meet anyone that says Pennsylvania will not decide the next President of the United States. Selena, welcome back to the Brian Kill Meat Show. Thank you so much. Always fun to be on with you.

So, Selena, I mean, you were there during the assassination attempt and you were with him that day. You were with him after doing the interview, the first one after that. And then you were with him as he went back to Butler with that huge crowd, and you got that great feeling, big crowd over in California after that. Then Donald Trump did a Univision town hall. He did a town hall with women's events.

For Kamala Harris, she sparred with Brett Baer because she didn't want to answer any questions, and she got direct questions. First off, before we get into detail, where do you think Pennsylvania is at right now? And what should we be looking at?

So At this moment, if the election were today, I would give the edge to Donald Trump. And part of there's a couple reasons for that. First of all, the rightward move of my state has largely gone unnoticed. But it has been incremental, but definitely apparent if you're paying attention. And so I think that the be you add that with how the party's coalitions have changed and that the working class is now the dominant feature within the Republican Party, that is why I would place it in Trump's corner.

He is very appealing to the working class. I have argued for several months that it will likely be a cosmetologist or a welder or a laborer or fireman that decides this election. And that's what I'm looking at and the evidence is is that it it trends Trump. Harris struggles in our state in the same way that Hillary did, only I think a little more so because she has never had to earn the vote of a moderate Democrat or a Republican or an Independent voter in her electoral history because she always ran and won in California. Yeah, I mean, one thing that Joe Biden had an advantage, I don't know how you feel about it, Selena, because he lives in Delaware.

He represented Delaware, but he always says he's Scranton Joe. Joe Biden would have had an easier time winning Pennsylvania than Kamala Harris, correct? Correct.

So he was able to pick off some of those working class voters who had voted who had known Joe for 40 years in our state. I mean, I can't express enough how much time Biden spent in Pennsylvania before even before he became vice president. He called himself the third president, the third senator from Pennsylvania, but he also did a lot of local elections, like state, you know, little very small offices.

So he had a relationship there. And that was how he was able to pick off those voters from Trump in 2020. We're talking about Selena Zito. Syndicated columnist spends a lot of her time in Pennsylvania. And I want you to hear some of this exchange.

First off, I also think Joe Biden keeps going to Philadelphia and he keeps being he basically is asking how can I help and the only place they send him is Pennsylvania. And what Trump's doing is he's trying to seal up the rural vote and trying to take a chunk of the city vote. She is going into rural areas. Has she been successful? She doesn't have to peel off much.

Is she giving enough attention to those areas?

Well, you know. The counties that are going to matter the most are one of the ones she was in on Monday night. and that was Erie County. It was the first time that she'd been to Erie County. A part of her challenge is when she has events, they're not open to the public.

They're by invite only.

So you're not quite sure if this is enthusiasm or manufactured enthusiasm. Are these the people that were already going to vote for you? Right. And so that's the and that has been the case throughout every event. has done in Pennsylvania.

I have been sort of astounded at that approach. It's very different than Obama's approach in two thousand eight and twenty twelve. And I can't understand why, you know, and I hear this from Democrats, they're like, well, we wanna go, but we cannot. or we don't know about it. Really?

Yeah. And and Walls had an had an event three events in Western Pennsylvania the other day that people didn't find out about until twenty minutes after the gates opened.

So it it's it's it's nuts. It's insane, it's counterproductive. It's it it really kind of I I'm not quite sure what's going on. I don't understand why you're not trying to as we all know, politics is about addition. You want to add people.

And that's not addition. That's just keeping the same people you always had.

Now, maybe they just want it to look good, but looking good does not win an election.

So you wrote a column. You said Vance's visit, J.D. Vance's visit to Cambria County was more important than you think. In what respect?

Well, this is a county that was Democrat forever. It was only in the past two years, three years maybe, that it went from Democrat registration to Republican registration. And that just isn't even incremental. It's soared. It's at almo it is almost 50,000 now more registered Republicans.

It's a county like Cambria to watch on election night. If they if Republicans turn it's seventy five percent of those new Republicans, just Republicans, remember, some people don't change their party registration. They they might vote Republican, but they're like, I'm a Democrat. But You know, if that county has a seventy-five percent turnout, that the the election is over. Understood.

So I want you to hear this exchange because one of the big problems with the Vice President, she's running as someone who's changed, and she actually pulls ahead of Trump narrower than ever on the party of on the candidate who brings change, even though she's in the white in the White House now, which is it defies logic.

So, when asked, how are you different than Joe Biden? She can't tell you.

Well, she was asked that in a roundabout way last night with Brett Baer, Cut Five.

So You're not Joe Biden, you're not Donald Trump, but nothing comes to mind that you would do differently. Let me be very clear. My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency. And like every new President that comes in to office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences and fresh and new ideas. I represent a new generation of leadership.

I For example, I'm someone who has not spent the majority of my career in Washington, D.C. Your campaign slogan is a new way forward, and it's time to turn the page. You've been Vice President for three point five years.

So what are you turning the page from?

Well, first of all, turning the page from the last decade in which we have been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country and have Americans literally point fingers at each other.

So she's neglecting the fact that it was eight years of Obama, four years of Joe Biden and her, and just four years of Trump. But she's turning the page from four years ago. And she blames Trump for what happens ten years ago? Uh it was so Mm-hmm. Understand how You basically know what the questions are going to be.

Even your average person who only pays a little attention to American politics knows what the questions are going to be. They're going to be about immigration, they're going to be about how are you different from Biden, and they're going to be about the economy, right? None of the answers were forward-thinking. None of the answers were answers. you know, it means she basically I was watching this wi in a bar last night and And this woman said to me after that answer, she said, she's basically saying, here's my resume, and I'm going to do all these awesome things that are on my resume.

But but what are they? And our resume is not great for the American people where we're at right now. Right. You know, I just don't, nobody wants a left-wing. Light on crime, DA, do nothing vice president.

They do want somebody to change things, change the tone. But right now, they want to change it back to Donald Trump, even if they don't like the guy.

Some of them love him, as you know, and some of them don't. But now they're saying I'll take his policies. And no one talks about the foreign policy, but the foreign policy is such a train wreck.

So, what do you think overall? Did she help herself last night? No, that didn't move one vote. It really didn't move one vote. Um and and in fact it could have had some subtraction there.

And how you know, how do I know that? Because I watched it with people that live in the zip codes that decide elections, right? But yeah, I also watched the reaction of Democrats and Democrat advocates on cable news, anchors that are clearly Democrats. Uh That is They literally freaked out. And I was like, Whoa whoa, well, this tells you everything actually if you're paying attention.

Yeah, I want you to hear this.

So I think it's almost comically unself aware, if that is a phrase that I could work here. That's a great phrase. Right. Unselfaware. How about that?

So to sit there and say that Donald Trump is unstable and unhinged and losing his mind when she served with a guy That we watched the tear rate before our eyes, who she claimed run circles around her whole staff and never stops being insightful, interesting, and a wonderful leader.

So listen to This exchange, cut twelve. Why is half the country supporting him? Why is he beating you in a lot of swing states? Why, if he's as bad as you say, that half of this country is now supporting this person who could be the 47th president of the United States? Why is that happening?

This is an election for President of the United States. It's not supposed to be easy. I know, but it's not supposed to be. It is not supposed to be a case of the people. Are they misguided, the 50%?

Is that stupid? I would never say that about the American people. And in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he's the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish. The American people, he's the one who talks about an enemy within, an enemy within, talking about the American people. Suggesting he would turn the American military on the American people.

He's misguided. You say now he's not. He's unstable. He is unstable, but he's not well. You say he's mentally not stable.

He's not stable. So, I mean, she's the least qualified to make that statement. And when Jesus says enemy of the people, you know what he's talking about. You're talking about. Uh you're talking about the The James Comeys of the country.

You're talking about the John Brennan, the people who appeared in the Mueller report, and everything that was found out about the plot to unseat him using a fake Russia investigation. That's what he was talking about. Adam Schiff working behind the scenes to stab him in the back and impeach him. That's what he was talking about. He wasn't talking about Mr.

and Mrs. Johnson living in a suburb in Pennsylvania. Yeah, again, first of all, she didn't answer the question. Nope. She didn't say why.

You were asked why. There was no answer that had Y in it. It was it went somewhere else. She she I think she believed she could masterly masterfully turn this into her Sort of event, something that she could control. But Brett Barris he is not someone that suffers foals.

He's going to continue to ask questions. And she decided not to answer any of them. And I think that's why this is this event. This interview is a subtraction. And I don't think she's going to go on Joe Rogan after this.

You know what? I I think her this is my this is what I thought, Selena. Talking to Selena's here. I thought you was going to come on and try to be charming. I thought she was going to have the answers down.

You know, she rehearsed them enough. And I and I was talking to other people around Brett Baer, and they were saying, I don't think so. I think she's going to come out firing. I think she's going to come out on the attack. And I just thought, well, if she does, she's not she's going to be counterproductive for her because We want to hear what she has to say.

We don't want to hear that she's tough. Just charm everybody. Say you're going to be a leader. Tell us why you changed on the ten core issues of your twenty twenty candidacy and you disappeared for three and a half years as Vice President. Give us an idea.

That doesn't have to be a brawl. I mean, and you could answer those questions. These are an opportunity, but to me, it's a swing and a miss. I appreciate her coming. She was composed.

I'll give her that. She was not rattled. I'll give her that. But who did she win over? A Nikki Haley voter?

I don't think so. No, I agree with you. I saw very little evidence of anything in an enough Of a way to have persuaded that voter. Follow her at Zito Selena, Z-I-T-O, S-L-E-N-A, get her latest columns. Selena, always insightful to talk to you.

Thanks so much. We'll talk again soon. Thanks, Brian.

Enjoy Virginia. All right. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Do you owe them an apology as well?

I'm going to tell you that I am so sorry for her loss. I am so sorry for her loss. Sincerely. But let's talk about What is happening right now with an individual who does not want to participate in solutions. Let's talk about that as well.

Right, in all fairness. I told you, I feel. awful for what she and her family had experienced. But here's the thing: what they did is they played the moms and they put up the pictures of those who lost their lives to illegal immigrants, brutally murdered in the most horrific way possible. Details not needed, but easily retrieved.

And you would easily say, Well, he doesn't want meeting Donald Trump. It's not about Donald Trump. Donald Trump had 2 million people come in illegally during his stay in the White House for four years. He tried to build the wall. He tried to crack down.

He was sued every step of the way and hindered by only getting $1.8 billion, $1.6 billion from even Paul Ryan's house as well as the Democratic House. But when they tried to seal the border Litigiousness aside, he was able to knock it down to 2 million. She has let in 8 million, and there's about 7 million gotaways.

So, about 20 million people here illegally. She takes no responsibility for it. And I know it's a horrific thing to say, how could I be responsible for people committing such horrific crimes? But you could say, I feel terrible that that happened on my watch when I was named border czar or those in charge of root causes and the problems. Whatever.

You're the vice president, you're responsible for the administration.

So, at home, were you won over? Do you actually really think that she was not responsible? Of course, she's responsible. Brian kill me, Chill. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead.

We don't support socialism, congestion pricing, and government-run health care, and we sure as hell don't support higher taxes, reckless spending, and inflationary policies. You know who does support those things? Mondair Jones. As a member of Congress, Mondair was the third most radical leftist in Congress, voting with AOC and the squad over 97 percent of the time. By contrast, I'm the fourth most bipartisan member of Congress, standing up to my party on issues of SALT, access to IVF, and opposing a federal ban on abortion.

Mondair passed one bill in his time in Congress. I've passed 10, five of which have been signed into law by President Biden. That is Mike Larlow last night in his debate with Mondair Jones, the battle for the 17th District in New York. It really could be one of the few handful of races that would talk about the balance of power In the house a Joining us now, Republican Congressman Mike Lawler. News 12, televise your debate, Congressman.

How do you think it went last night?

Well, thanks for having me, Brian. I thought it went really, really well. I think obviously, we painted a very clear contrast for voters between myself and Mondair Jones. This is someone who supports defunding the police and cashless bail and open borders, wanted to decriminalize border crossings, wants to allow cop killers and rapists the right to vote from prison, wanted to give blanket amnesty to criminal aliens. uh you know, believes all cops are racist and white supremacist.

And obviously, has embraced the socialist policies of the far left. And really, during his two years in Congress, Was reckless in spending, increasing spending by five trillion dollars. That's what's given us. the high cost of groceries and energy and housing. And this is somebody who affiliated himself with AOC and the squad, and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

And now that he's in a swing district, is trying to backpedal as quickly as possible. But You know, we have the receipts.

So, Congressman, have they redistricted your district at all since you won it? They tried to. There was a minor change in the very northern part of my district in the town of Beekman. They kind of Tweaked the election districts, but beyond that, it did not change at all. And the one thing that people would say is: you're not somebody that just goes there invisible, you're a high-profile.

A congressman. You also will call out Trump when you feel as though he does things that you don't agree with because you're from New York and Donald Trump will not win New York. He's making gains and Lee Zeldon's making gains, but it's still a democratic state thanks to this city, thanks to New York City. Here's Mondair Jones going at you where he thinks you're vulnerable. Cut 43.

Mike Lawler actually voted on three different occasions to cut funding for law enforcement. He succeeded actually earlier this year in cutting funding for law enforcement by nearly a billion dollars. This too was written about in the Rockland Journal News. Don't just take my word for it. New York Times said it was a very important thing.

He also opposes an assault weapons ban, which would make us safer if we had in place the same way we were safer from 1994 to 2004 as a result of that legislation.

So your thoughts about that exchange. Number one, assault weapons ban has only been in place for a short period of time during the Clinton years. And then how you define assault weapons is the big key for gun owners. Your thoughts about his attack.

Well, look, this is someone obviously who is trying to defend the indefensible. In his own words, he said we need to end mass incarceration and defund the police. He called all cops racists and white supremacists. He called ICE agents terrorists.

So this is not somebody who's serious about public safety in the least. He supported New York's disastrous cashless bail law, which was the single stupidest piece of legislation that has ever been enacted into law anywhere in the country. No question. And from my vantage point, this attack on his that he's making that we defunded the police in Congress, the New York Times called that false. What he's talking about is an earmark from Senator Shelby, who's no longer in Congress.

to provide over six hundred million dollars for the construction of an FBI building in Alabama. And that was removed from the appropriations bills. And that's his claim that we're defunding the police. At the end of the day, everybody knows that I am one of the strongest supporters of law enforcement. It's why I've been endorsed by every single police union in the state and city and district.

And I have fought tirelessly to repeal these disastrous criminal justice policies that are making us less safe.

Now on the issue of gun violence, What Democrats never want to talk about is the fact that most gun violence is committed with a handgun. And their policies under cashless bail and raise the age have allowed criminals who use guns in the commission of a crime to be released back out onto the streets only to reoffend. In New York City, 80 plus percent of those arrested for gun violence are released back out onto the street under cashless bail and raise the age, only to reoffend. These people are not serious about actually tackling gun violence. They would rather use this as a political issue and go after law-abiding gun owners.

Kamala Harris and Mondair Jones support mandatory confiscation of guns. They don't support people's legal right to protect themselves. Despite, by the way, Kamala Harris admitting that she herself is a gun owner, rules for me, but not for thee. And that's part of the problem here. The assault weapons ban that they're talking about has been out of effect for 20 years now.

Uh and in uh Over the last twenty years, Democrats have had complete control of Washington twice and didn't get it done because there is not consensus behind the bill that they're talking about. The bill, as written, would ban nearly every semi-automatic weapon in the country, and most guns are semi-automatic weapons. If you want to tackle gun violence, then we need to start by prosecuting criminals who use guns in the commission of a crime. I have taken a very common sense approach to gun safety. I passed in this Congress the Undetectable Firearms Act.

Which would extend a bill that President Reagan signed into law that requires that no gun be manufactured or sold that has less than 3.7 ounces of metal so that it cannot evade a metal detector. at schools, at public sports arenas, at concert venues for airports. That's a common sense measure that was reauthorized in this Congress with my leadership. In addition, when I was in the state legislature, I voted to ban ghost guns and expand the red flag laws with due process to make sure that we do address the issue of mental health. If you look at gun violence statistics, Most gun violence that occurs.

Uh are suicides. And that is obviously a major problem. And we do have a mental health crisis in this country, we need to address. And again, when you look at the overall statistics and the facts, Most gun violence is committed with a handgun, and yet Democrats have no problem allowing criminals back out onto the streets to use handguns to reoffense. Mike Lowell, our guest, and Congressman, you do have a reputation of.

being bipartisan, going across going across party lines. Mondair Jones, I think, was shocked when you won last time, and he's looking to get back there this time.

So when you look at, for example, how you stand on uh abortion bans or you're you're pretty much pro-choice, correct? No, look, I'm personally pro-life. I've been very clear about that, but I have also been very clear that I do not support a federal ban on abortion. I will not vote for one if it came to the floor. I have always supported exceptions for rape, incest, the life and health of the mother.

I have sought to codify access to IBS into federal law as well as access to contraception. And I pushed back on the effort by some in my party to ban mifopristone. But the law in New York, Brian, is settled. And it's not changing. And Democrats are trying to fearmonger on this issue.

To get people to believe that somehow in New York abortion rights are going to change.

Well, I mean, that's what it worked against Zeldon. There's a lot of people who thought that Zeldin was going to make this state. a pro live state, and he was never going to do that and like he wasn't in play, but it was effective pushback. Emerson looked at your guys' race, and they essentially say it's you have a slight lead. Uh so far.

What is it going to take for you to hold that seat? And why do you think Democrats are pouring money into it? Do you have a figure on how much money is against you?

So this race two years ago obviously was one of the races that flipped the balance of power in the house. It's a district Joe Biden won by 10 points in 2020 over Donald Trump. It has 80,000 more Democrats than Republicans by enrollment. It's home to Bill and Hillary Clinton and George Soros.

So by no means a Republican bastion. And on paper, Democrats should have it. But we have done a very effective job going into every single community, building relationships across the political spectrum. And doing the job. As I said, I've passed ten bills, five of which have been signed into law, brought back over $70 million in community project funding.

I've held over 50 town halls and mobile office hours in the district.

So the people in my district know who I am. And understand that I will continue to do the job on their behalf. The Democrats are spending over $20 million to try and take me out. When all is said and done, this race is going to be over $40 million between outside funding and directly to the campaign. I've already raised over $8 million, as has my opponent.

So it's an extremely expensive competitive race. It's crazy. I mean, it's bigger than U. S. Senate races.

It's that's that's how insane this is. But we're in a deeply divided country. It's going to be a very close outcome in terms of control of the House, and this is going to be one of only a handful of races that decide it. And so certainly, if people want Republicans to keep control of the House, my race is it. And I hope people will support us by going to lawlerforcongress.com.

We're texting lawler to eight five double oh seven. Uh Lastly, second to last, first off, what's going on with Israel right now, I know matters a lot to you. And it looks like the administration once again says giving another mandate. If you do not flood Gaza with aid, we're going to stop giving you arms. Matthew Miller trying to do the diplomatic way at the State Department yesterday, Cut 41.

There are implications under U.S. law to the delivery of humanitarian assistance and Israel doing everything that it can to ensure that the delivery of humanitarian assistance is not impeded. Our hope is that Israel will take the steps that we outline. And the ramifications are no arms. The problem is it's basically fueling Hamas.

And when they put it in there, Hamas comes in, the thugs come in with their guns, and it stops people from getting it. And they're tired of arming their they're tired of feeding their enemy. Where do you stand on this? This administration is schizophrenic at best. This is absolutely disgraceful.

Humanitarian aid and assistance has continually been provided throughout. The reason that it may not be getting to the Palestinian people is because of Hamas. Hamas is the oppressor of the Palestinian people, not Israel. And the fastest way for this conflict to come to an end, the fastest way for there to be a ceasefire. the most lasting way for there to be a two state solution.

Is for Hamas to surrender, to release all of the remaining hostages, including the seven Americans who are being held. And for every every Arab nation. to recognize Israel's right to exist And normalize relations with Israel. Then we can have lasting peace in the Middle East. But this administration has undermined Israel every step of the way.

And I don't even believe at this point it's Joe Biden, it's the radicals in his administration. That continually engage in misconduct, that are talking about arms embargoes, which only seek to do one thing: undermine Israel's ability to defend itself and embolden their enemies to hold out just a little longer. And when you see what Hamas has done, when you see what Hezbollah has done from the north, when you see what Iran is doing, This is a result of the feckless policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and their administration. They emboldened Iran by trying to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal by lifting sanctions on the illicit oil trade between China and Iran that has now crossed the $200 billion mark over the last three and a half years. It is outrageous.

that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have allowed that illicit oil trade to occur, that is what is funding the nuclear program, that's what's funding their ballistic missile program, that is what is funding the terrorism from Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. This administration has been so weak And so duplicitous when it comes to supporting Israel, it is absolutely disgraceful. And the only way that this conflict is going to come to an end is when Hamas surrenders or is defeated, period. And Israel is on the way to doing it with Hezbollah, but they're getting slowed down too. If you look at their foreign policy, you have China doing dress rehearsals on a Taiwan invasion.

You have North Korean soldiers on the ground fighting with the Russians while supplying the Russians, and Iran supplying them too. And we are allowing them to sell oil, allowing them to have revenue to actually arm, train, And and and Fully back Hamas and Hezbollah. It makes no sense. Worst foreign policy in my lifetime. Lastly, on Sunday at 7 o'clock, I'm going to be in Peekskill, New York at the Paramount.

What should I know about Peekskill? Listen, we have a wonderful district, Brian, and I'm so excited to have you come up on Sunday. Peakskill is a great company. community. It's a vibrant community.

It's the only city in my district. And you know, it is just a wonderful community right on the Hudson River, very diverse. It has a large immigrant community. 19% of my district is Latino. It's the fastest-growing population in the district.

They have a large, vibrant Hispanic community there, a black community. And former Governor George Pataki was the mayor. And I believe he's going to be down for your show on Sunday night as well. And I hope to see you too. We're going to be streaming on Fox Nation.

7 o'clock. And just be ready to get on stage, okay? And look as good as you did the other night at the Italian Tribune Gala. Mike Larla, thanks so much. Thanks, Brian.

Appreciate it. All right. See you Sunday at 7. BrianKillmee.com. If you want to get tickets, don't move.

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I would say this. The... Mistakes I made. We weren't big policy. We had the strong border.

We had the great economy. We had all these things. But I put some people in that I wouldn't have used again.

So I would say that Uh in terms of knowledge and learning, it was people. If you have a good group of people or a great like secretary, somebody in charge of a big agency. It's all about the people.

So I would say that would be the biggest mistake. Mostly good. But some bet. So that was President Trump, when asked about things he'd like to do different. He said, I made some bad choices.

He really didn't know anybody. Chris Christie came up with his he was the one who was gave him recommendations, huge binders on who to put in what positions, and then We know that Jared Kushner just tossed him out and he started from scratch. But I will say this: I'm looking forward to the Al Smith dinner tonight. I'll be on the dais watching the President and hopefully interacting with the former President before at the Hilton tonight. I'll be in my I went over to men's warehouse and I rented.

What's the matter? Oh, okay. I rented, I have a tux, but I don't have tails.

So I had to get a white tie and tails. And they said, Do you want to try it on? And I said no. And I'm kind of saying to myself, I wish I tried it on because they had a tailor there. But I just did not want to get changed again.

So I have it in the bag. It's in my office. We're in Richmond today.

So I'm going to go back to New York, dress casual. I'm going to put on the tucks, and I'm going to walk six blocks through Manhattan in tails. Is that going to be weird? Yes.

It might be, and I pray that the suit fits, Brian.

Well, we'll have another story. That's very true. I have there for the best. Dawn just said to me: whatever you do, don't get the baggy pants, Ducks. Hmm.

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