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Thanks for being with us all week long. This hour going to be joined by Doug Collins in a matter of moments. He was the congressman from Georgia. If you want to get a handle on what's happening in that state, you find out what's happening with Doug Collins. And General Philip Reedlove, some stunning news about North Korea now reporting for duty to fight in Ukraine.

South Korea says, what about me? I'll go in there, as well as the latest in with Gaza. What does. A ceasefire look like? I think it should be more like surrender when it comes to Hamas, not ceasefire.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Vladimir Putin has become so desperate that he is now willing and soliciting, you know, potentially support from the DPRK.

So if the DPRK soldiers enter into combat, they would be co-belligerents, and that is a very serious issue. Send in the North Koreans. Haven't heard that since the 1950s, but that's what the Russians are doing to try and take over Ukraine. What are we doing? Nothing except saying they're desperate.

It seems to me we should at least be lifting the restrictions on the weapons that Congress has given them. I don't know what Joe Biden is, if he's actually zoned in on this or actually read in on this. Number two. I'm going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.

Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs. Lying about Aurora as officials publicly tamped down talk of a gang takeover in key towns like Denver and in Colorado generally. New emails reveal Venezuelan street gangs was an extreme concern of the police, just like Trump and J.D. Vance had pointed out.

Sorry, Martha Radditz. And did Biden do a deal to keep back illegals from our border for election reasons? Number one. That's why I'm so fat. And that's why I'm here.

I'm so proud to Support? Our next present. of the United States. Come along. Harris!

All right, there you go, Samuel L. Jackson. Stars report for duty. 11 days and counting. And meanwhile, Trump camp is radiating optimism while Harris rolls out the stars and insults in an orchestrated attempt to paint Trump as an unhinged Hitler.

Again, we will discuss it. Congressman Doug Collins, you as always great to see in the studio. That means you're not outnumbered? Yep, got outnumbered a lot. As usual, you'll be the man in the middle.

Yep. Is the Trump you know, is he a Hitler fascist type? No, no. And this is the problem you're seeing right now. Harris is having a problem.

She can't sell her plans, which she has none. She can't sell the fact that she was the vice president for three and a half years because nobody likes that. And now she's trying to tell the American people: don't believe your eyes. Don't believe the guy that's at the McDonald's handing out fries. Don't believe the guy who goes and sees people in the hospital who sent him a message saying, Hey, I'd love to meet you.

Don't believe the person that goes into the hurricane disaster areas and actually helps people. Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. Believe me when I say he's a fascist, he's a dictator, or whatever. And also, by the way, oops, he had four years to prove he wasn't. Right, which is really interesting because they keep pointing out that Mark Esper and he differed when it came to a few different things with the administration.

He definitely had his differences with Reince Priebus, but they're still friends. He has different Scaramucci, he's become anti-Trump, but he had differences with Mattis and he had differences with Kelly. And if you read McMaster's book, McMaster talked about how both generals didn't respect him and they were trying to hurt him. Not stop him from doing what they thought wasn't right.

Now, McMaster, who after two and a half years came out, he had some criticisms, but he kept it between the lines. He said, My job is to give advice. It's not to run the country.

Well, I think what you had a problem with, you had both Kelly and Mattis both were in positions where nobody questioned them. When you think about it, four-star general. Yeah, four-star general. Nobody, I've been in the military for 23 years. A four-star comes in, the world stops, okay, as if you're getting the decree from on high.

You respect four-star generals, you respect their right, but they're not used to having being questioned. And so, when you get put into a role in which you're no longer the authority, you're the defense secretary, you're the one that actually is giving advice, you're the chief of staff, whatever. And when you all of a sudden get pushed back, I think it's probably the best thing that could happen. To our military.

Now, that doesn't mean that they give in and just let the president, whoever it may be, do whatever they want to do. But at the same point, they say, okay, look, Mr. President, this is your decision, your constitutional authority to do this. But here's what I believe to be. And that's when you, and then they should go back to what they expected of every lieutenant and captain that ever came to see them: is that when the decision was made, you salute, you put it smartly, and you turn around and execute the order.

I want you to hear with Mick Mulvaney, chief of staff, excuse me. Yeah. He was chief of staff. Yeah, he was chief of staff. And he was also OM OMB director.

And he was critical of President after January 6th, like a lot of people were. But he is fine now. I've listened to him as a commentator. I think he's a great guy, brilliant numbers guy, too. This is what he said, because he had that position.

Before Kelly. No, after Kelly. Cut 35. John Kelly hates the president. I've never understood why he didn't quit the job before he got fired from the job.

There's a lot of folks who used to work for Trump that just don't like him. Most of them, by the way, are ex-military. If you spent 40 years in the Marines like John Kelly did, your life is built around discipline and structure. And that's just not Donald Trump. None of the folks, I think, from the military actually understood him and got along well with him.

It's sad to see it really a... Yeah, I mean, there's some exceptions. Mike Pompeo went to West Point and could totally figure him out. That's why he was CIA Director, Defense Secretary, and probably State Department, Secretary of State, and probably will come back, and he's one of the contenders to be Secretary of Defense. Yeah.

I think what Mick said here is so true. And I served with Mick in Congress, and he and I have talked a lot. But what he said as far as agreement there is those, and I like what we just said, they came with this structure in mind. This is the way we've always done it. This is the way we see it.

We're the experts. You're the interloper. Even though you are the president, we're the ones that should be making these decisions. And, you know, it's just bad. And it is interesting.

I had not really put it in the perspective that Nick just did until I said, if you notice, most of these have to do with military. Most of them have to do with military. No question, because Mattis was one of them. McMaster, I don't think he was that too critical. He said, I disagree with the president here.

I don't like the Doha negotiations. Not many people did. But I liked other things that he did. A lot of people were against him talking to North Korea. He went and did it, and they were kind of open to it.

In the end, he couldn't cut a deal. He decided to walk away from a deal because he couldn't see any verification in it, various reasons. But, Congressman, let's talk about what's going on in the Battleground States. It looks like Trump, on the real clear average, is winning just about all of them. But man, they're under one except for Arizona.

They're close. And I think that's the one thing that I tell people all the time. And I just said it on. Marie, and I said, look, if you're not a pollster, Quit worrying about polls and go vote. Don't worry about polls.

Don't worry about where they're heading. It's not for you to do. If you do it for a living, go play with them all day. Go on TV, talk about them. But for the average voter, they just need to make sure that they go out and vote.

Because one of the things I am concerned about is there's been a lot of good numbers coming out of Georgia, good numbers coming out of Pennsylvania, good numbers coming out of Nevada. But that has a tendency to take those low-propensity voters, those folks who like Donald Trump or want to vote, but they say, well, he's going to win anyway. I don't have to take the time over the next 11 days to go vote. And so what we're seeing is good. But also, we're also seeing an interesting number is now where the Democrats who normally vote early, were they holding back a little bit?

Did they not like Harris and they weren't really enthused about the ticket? But now they're going to be, you know, the machine is going to kick in and they're going to be pressured to start up in the vote totals. I mean, she, I think to put it generously, she has not been impressive on the stump. No. No, she's bad.

And the scary part about it is if you just, if I was just to show you, and nobody knew who she was, or nobody, if you took a look at her question and answers, if you looked at her speech, I don't think anybody would actually vote for her. If there was no Democrat Party, Republican Party, there's no political job attached to it. Why would you vote for somebody who honestly cannot answer a question? When she looks at you and asks, there was something asked about, you know, when did you know Joe Biden was, you know, unfit? And her, Brian, her media, I'm looking at you straight in the eyes right now.

And she does this, but she answers the entire question with her eyes to the right because she couldn't look him in the face. That's a classic body tale of someone who's not being truthful. And would have stood by his side again for four months. Exactly. As he ran.

So at what point are you an American? And by the way, Bob Woodward writes it in his book, Bob Woodward, a Trump Hater, and Trump did not cooperate with this book, but they did reprint an old interview from the 80s when him and Carl Bernstein interviewed him. Said that in 2023, he scared the hell out of donors. Just froze a couple of times. And he spoke, Biden spoke, and they couldn't understand a word he was saying.

Yet they still were going to leave him in office.

So, what the hell are you doing? And if you brought it up, you were being cruel and mean and partisan. Remember Joe Scarborough? Joe Biden has never been sharper. Remember that?

Well, and that really brings to question: you know, Joe's. Why are you watching that channel anyway? Yeah, Joe's mental acuity at that point. But here's the interesting thing, and you bring up a good point. They were willing to stay with him.

My question was: I believe Democrats thought that he could beat Donald Trump again. He beat, you know, he was president. He had won the last time. They thought he could get by. And then, if need be, he could step aside, you know, then we'd have the presidency.

You would have Harris would just assume the presidency, and then maybe, you know, it'd get better. The problem was it was happening so quickly, and the collapse of the debate made it so prominent. They were stuck.

Now, if he had already won a second term, sending her to the presidency, they wouldn't have had to vote for her. They wouldn't have had to sell her. And then she knew you hold on tight enough. Hold on tight enough, she would. But they got a bomb dropped in their lap.

And when they actually did get rid of him, and Clooney wrote the letter and he got out. And then all of a sudden, mainstream meeting, everybody had to support somebody that in May, remember, just in May. You can remember, you can go back and look at the articles. Everybody would do in the parlor game of, well, if Biden didn't do it, who would be it? It was Newsom, Whitmer, it was Pritzker out of Illinois, it was all these others.

Never. And it was never Harris. And there was actually some stories saying, is Harris offended by these? Because they were never missing her. Right, you know why, too.

When we watched Jamie Raskin on CNN, which a tapper refused to say that she'd be a good number two, and when asked Nancy Pelosi, is she a good vice president? She goes, well, he thinks she is. And then when Press, he goes, well, the vice president doesn't do much. That's not an endorsement.

So I thought Hillary Clinton has nobody in her life that just says, you look like a lunatic. You look bitter and angry. She puts out another memoir that nobody wants to read and is reading. And she does an interview on CNN, which no one's watching. And she hops on and notices Trump is speaking at Madison Square Garden.

Listen to what she says, Cut 19. One other thing that you'll see next week, Caitlin, is. Trump actually reenacting Uh the Madison Square Garden Rally in 1939. I write about this in my book. President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially.

Pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.

So I don't think we can ignore it. That's playing to the fascist Playing to what John Kelly said, holding the Atlanta magazine article, building on it in the New York Times, having her say it, and Hillary Clinton goes on CNN and is trying to build that narrative. Yeah. My question is is what about her rally at Madison Square Garden? Did she have one?

Yeah, she was at Madison Square Garden. I mean, when they do this, is this? I mean, the double standard. What about Billy Joel? What about the Knicks and Rangers?

Yeah, I mean, it says, or anybody that goes there. I mean, what is even per se? Because here's their problem: they've got nothing to sell. Bron, they got nothing to sell. They're out.

I mean, think about it. Three weeks ago, they were trying to sell a plan and joy.

Well, she wanted to be the female Barack Obama. That was, I mean, because if you look at it, that's joy. Life's going to be good. The birds will be singing. It'll be just wonderful.

Well, then even the mainstream media said, Well, what does that mean?

Well, you know, we've done some stuff. No, no. Madam Vice President, what does that mean?

Well, we've done some stuff and we've got some more stuff to do. No, madam, I surrender. What do you mean? Dana Bash, it was the most amazing look the other day after her CNN. I guess after Harris's did the CNN with Anderson Cooper, they had Dana Bash, you know, were commenting on it.

And Dana Bash's face was: you know, she's supposed to have come on here and closed the deal, and she didn't do it. Dana looked like she had lost her best friend. Right. They desperately don't want Trump to win. It's two things.

They don't want a Republican to win, but they really don't want Trump to win. Listen to Axelrod, cut 14. The things that would concern me is when she doesn't want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city, and she did that on a couple of answers. One was on Israel. Anderson asked a direct question, would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?

And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking. I mean, that's a simple question. She didn't say, Would you be tougher on Israel? Which has been, would you be tougher than she said? No, I'll be a bigger supporter in Israel, but I also will hold in whatever you want to say.

But she is afraid of offending the Mishikanders who think that she's too pro-Israel.

So she just sits on the sideline and says nothing. Yeah, it's amazing. And Axelrod can say it.

Okay, you and I could say it, you know, others could say it, and we're. You know, partisan. You know, we're we just want Republican. But Axelrod is the Democrat. I mean, he's the Democrat currently in the room of record.

You go to Axelrod because he's, you know, moves it off, and he's saying, here's her go-to response, word salad. I mean That's got to be a shocking revelation that a Democrat would say that 11 days out, 12 days out, that she can't answer a question, so her default is word salad. What scares me, Brian, and I don't know if you've noticed this, have you watched her lately? The stress of this campaign seems to be getting to her. And that bothers me.

If the stre if you have to take two days off, essentially, from the campaign to prepare for a town meeting and a NBC article. And do terribly. And yeah, and do awful. What are you going to do when you're if you are able enough and privileged enough to sit at that desk and your Secretary of Defense comes in or Joint Chief Staff Person says, ma'am, we've got an issue in the Middle East. We've just had one of our ships hit, or we've got this issue.

If she can't that answer she gave, well, I'll gather a lot of people around me. No, you're elected to be the President. This is the buck stops with you, Harry Truman. And I think that is just terrifying right now. When we come back, I just want to talk about Georgia when we come back and where it's at.

I understand things have changed, and we saw an enthusiastic response yesterday with Barack Obama or this week with Barack Obama in attendance and Bruce Springsteen. Bruce Springsteen's got a lot of fans in Georgia. Not like it's in New Jersey. Yeah, it'd be better in Jersey. That's probably.

Doug Collins here. Thanks so much for listening. Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead.

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It's Brian Killmeade. I've said it before. Donald Trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not Stopped whining about his problems since he rode down that golden escalator nine years ago. And when he's not complaining. When he's not sending out crazy tweets, he's trying to sell you stuff.

Yeah. He's trying to sell you gold sneakers. Trying to sell you a $100,000 watch. Trying to sell you a. Trump Bible wants to sell you the word of God.

Donald Trump edition. Got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke. It's pretty funny. Barack Obama sounds angry and befuddled. He doesn't, he's like, how is this guy winning?

But he was in Georgia. I mean, obviously, he's very comfortable on stage, Doug Collins. But. The bigger story is why does he have to do all the work and why is he so angry?

Well, I think from behind the scenes, he was the one that actually orchestrated this. And I think that's why you actually see him out. But you notice who you don't see out with him? Michelle. I think it's yeah, she's gonna come out a little bit, but it's not like it has been.

Why is that? Um I don't know. I think I'm not sure she liked Maybe she didn't like how it happened. Maybe she wasn't completely behind it. And also, I think it goes back.

Everybody keeps putting her up as the, you know, she was going to run for president. She was going to do all this. I don't think she likes politics. I just don't think she, I just, she never wanted to be a part of it.

So I think it's part of that. But to listen to him yesterday, again, no substance of what he was saying as far as that. I just have a question for former President Obama. In 2004, when you became basically a senator from Illinois and you were anointed less than two years later to be the nominee into that, what was your background? Exactly.

You were a senator in Illinois that voted president all the time. But, Doug, wouldn't you say at least he earned it? He beat his father. Oh, yeah. He had to go through the Kennedy Machine.

Yeah, he had to go through. Is Kemp on board? Is the Ken Machine on board with Trump in Georgia? Yeah, Kemp's working hard to get the Republican ticket elected and get Trump elected. Yes.

All right. We're going to watch on that number. Are you ready? You didn't leave your A game with me, did you? No, no, no.

You say A minus. We're going to give a little A plus.

Okay, A plus. All right. Go get him, Doug Collins. Coming up next, General Philip Reedlove. Don't move.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kill Me. What exactly? They're doing has yet to be seen, but it's something that we certainly are going to continue to monitor. Just to emphasize the point that the secretary made yesterday, um, you know, this Really highlights Russia's desperation.

tin cupping to the DPRK to Iran. Enticing DPRK soldiers, you know, if they were to ever enter the fight, I think that. Shows that Putin has Failed in his strategic objectives on the battlefield. The DPRK, Iran, are providing military assistance and support as Russia engages in this illegal war and has been for two and a half years. That is cold spin, and they are missing the story.

The story is North Korea going thousands of miles to train in Russia and be deployed at a war zone that has nothing to do with them. What exactly is this alliance? They sign a mutual defense pact, it seems, to fight for each other or supply arms for each other. They're getting tons of artillery from North Korea, and now they got about a thousand in there fighting. What are they learning?

How are they working the equipment? Are they changing and making the rockets that they have in theater more effective? Because so far they haven't been.

Now, South Korea says, I'm going to send weapons over to Ukraine, and we might even put some advisors on the ground. This is a big deal. General Philip Breedlove joins us now, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and Distinguished Professor at Sam Nunn School at Georgia Tech. General, do you think this is a big deal with the North Koreans coming to fight with the Russians?

Well, first of all, good morning, and Brian, and I appreciate you having me on. Yes, I think it's a very big deal. Uh I think there's a lot of uh obvious concepts. context to why this has happened and your teaser at the beginning of the the conversation was pretty correct on that. I think that while the world sees Russia continuing to slowly advance in the East, The cost to Russia and manpower and lives lost.

and equipment loss. is beginning to take a huge toll. And so you see Russia, as it was said, really needing to figure out how to bring more manpower to the problem. And mister Putin's in a pickle. He's already done mobilization from all of those places where it's easy for him to hide the problem.

And pretty soon he's going to have to start dipping into the big cities, which is going to be a problem. Right. But in the meantime, he is making gains on the ground. And it he does have a lot more people to choose from than Ukraine. He is making incremental gains on the ground, but But Ukraine in one fell swoop took more in Kursk Than Russia has taken in the last year in the east in Donbas.

So we need to keep in perspective. how costly and how slow this game is. And here's what I hear from those who talk to us from the battlefield, unfiltered. The formations that Ukraine face from the attack of Russia have changed. Where they used to see battalion size attacks, they now see company size attacks.

where they used to see company size attacks They now see squad-size attacks.

So, for those who don't understand those words, the bottom line is the attacks. are thinning out because the manpower is not there. But you are correct, sir. They are still showing slow incremental gains at incredible cost. of life and equipment.

While trying to reconfigure and uh the Axis powers and having those BRICS meetings up to thirty two or thirty five countries now, and they're tuck trying to come up possibly with their own currency, and who knows if that could be converted to a military alliance. General, don't you think we should be putting some pressure on our allies or people we have relations with, like India, like China to stop buying Iran's oil and like India to stop buying Russia's oil? Uh people that we have relationships with and economic ties with. The answer is yes. and I'll continue on that in a minute.

I want to highlight something else you said though. And this is important about what's happening with North Koreans.

So clearly, Russia has a problem. and they're going to use North Koreans to help them with their problem. And they got a big problem in Kirst. And if you believe what we're hearing from the battlefield, the North Koreans are already appearing in the fight for Kirst. But you made an important strategic comment, and that is Part of using North Korea and bringing North Korea in this is Russia is trying to assert itself in bringing together the bricks and trying to show more cohesion in this anti Western, anti democracy axis that is forming.

And an interesting dynamic there is that I think China is going to chafe a little bit at what Russia is doing. I'm not sure this is going to work out quite so purely for Russia and China as Russia might envision.

So you think that China's upset that North Korea is active on the military because they don't trust them or they don't want this alliance to take place? I think they just are a little bit leery of a growing influence in North Korea by Russia because China has been that big brother to North Korea for decades. And nothing happens really there that China's not sort of involved with or not at least tacit. tacitly approving. But now we see Russia becoming more capable.

And think of this.

Now, Brian, I don't know this to be true, but I read just like you do. And it appears that what is Russia giving North Korea in a quid pro quo. And there is great concern that Russia is moving rocket and possibly nuclear mounting capability or technology to North Korea. And the last thing that China wants Is North Korea being more boisterous vis-a-vis Japan and South Korea? They don't need that kind of agitation in their backyard.

And so I think, once again, China is going to be very concerned about Russia transferring technology that could enable nuclear wars. Yeah, South Korea is considering sending intelligence personnel to Ukraine. This comes after the country said it was considering sending arms to Ukraine. Why not? How about the fact that we're still not allowing them to, we're still telling them what to do with our weapons?

President Zelensky says, hey, we know where the Russians are. Please let me use the ATACOMs we have, the HIMARS that you've gave us, at their spots. And they don't want them to do that.

So Lloyd Austin was asking, can you release the restrictions? This is what he said to Jennifer Griffin, Cut 47. Why have you and President Biden continued to reject President Zelensky's request to lift the restrictions on firing the long-range weapons, the ATAC'ems, at Russian military targets inside Russia? The Russians have already moved their aircraft out of the range of beyond the range of ATAC'ems. But Ukraine has the ability to produce their own drones right now.

They're highly effective. We've seen them conduct attacks or operations that are.

some 400 kilometers beyond the border. and even further.

So how do you feel about his answer, how do you feel about their decision?

Okay.

Well, well, first of all, Lloyd is a friend, and he was my peer when he commanded SIMTCOM and I commanded UCOM and NATO. And so I have respect for Lloyd, but remember that Lloyd now is a political figure politically appointed by a political president. And that president has a very distinct feelings, he or Jake. We net we really don't know who's driving this train. But the bottom line is the White House is is Absolutely incapable of allowing Ukraine to gain this advantage in Russia.

I've said it many times. This is not new, but we are at this point intellectually and morally incapable of considering a defeat of Russia. We are empowering Ukraine to remain on the battlefield, but we are decidedly not, we are not giving Ukraine what it needs to win because, again, we cannot intellectually or morally comprehend what it looks like if Putin or Russia is defeated. And so, this spin-off policy of not allowing them to use, it's more than our weapons. Remember, we've got to hold on other Western weapons because there is some American technology in them.

We have some sway, and we're forcing other nations to withhold their long-range fires as well. And may I tell you that? You're crazy because they give you guys absolutely drives me crazy. They don't let you win. And you got to suffer with the criticisms on our military when, and whether it's our equipment or personnel, when everyone plays politics, instead of letting the military do the military thing, just give them the mission, let them accomplish it.

Yes, but Brian, that's one of the problems. We haven't really given them the mission. Our policy, we said there was about a week Almost a month ago, where both the President and the SecDef said we're there to help them win. That went away really quick. It was never replayed.

It's never grown any legs. We are not saying that publicly, that we're there to support a Ukraine win. It's as I described before, I think we are giving them enough to not be defeated And we're hoping they will move to the table and negotiate.

some sort of an in-game quote unquote piece. But remember, Brian, if I could, In two thousand eight The West's Response to Georgia. Was inadequate, and in the end game, we rewarded Russian bad behavior by allowing them to hold on to 20% of that nation. In 2014, The West's Response to the first invasions of Ukraine was inadequate to task, and we allowed Russia to hang on to twelve percent of the most important commercial land in Ukraine. And so we for a second time rewarded bad behavior.

And now we seem to be moving Ukraine towards a third Uh um Uh Bad Response. And Ergo, Russia will be able to hold on to even more of Ukraine, and what everyone anticipates is the capacity. Capitulation that is coming. It better not be.

So that would be rewarding bad behavior for a third time. Right? Raising children. If you reward bad behavior once, reward bad behavior second. Reward bad behavior.

So, General, you know who's critical of allowing them to keep Crimea and the Donbas region? Reportedly. Joe Biden told Bob Woodward's book, talks about how, well, Obama screwed it up by letting them keep what they have and only giving them blankets and MREs when he was vice president, which is true. Then nothing happened. Then the invasion takes place.

And then they miscalculated the response for NATO. Get two more NATO nations. I got it. But a half measure. You know who's telling the world how to win?

Israel. Israel is saying, leave me alone, give us the equipment, I will get the objective, I'll blow up, I'll do the best I can to destroy Hamas, destroy Hezbollah, and they're about to hit Iran back hard. Let me add one bump to that back to Ukraine for a second. We were not informed in America of what Ukraine did when they went into KERS. Why do you think that is?

The previous year in the offensive, we limited them into crashing into the hard lines. of of Russia and it it didn't take much. But so they didn't tell us this time. And they demonstrated how to win by going into Russia and snatching more land in one snatch than Russia had gained almost all year in Donbas.

So yes, you're right, Brian. We can move on to that subject. But remember, too, that Ukraine demonstrated to us that they know how to win. And they can fight like all they want is the equipment. They don't want us.

They just want the equipment. And they've innovated without a navy. They basically wiped out the Russian Navy and opened up the Black Sea, which NATO refused to guard against or even try to open up. Isn't that amazing? Not one capital ship, and they have essentially won the battle of the Northern Black Sea.

I'm telling you, and that's why I wish the American people would rally around the Ukraine more because they are standing up for the West. And keep in mind, now we have Russia's direct links to supplying the Houthi rebels with logistics in order to block up the Red Sea. Why? Russia wants us distracted, wants Patriot missiles in other places. They don't want everything in Ukraine.

They don't want the criticism. They are very much behind the unrest in the Middle East.

Well, that in Iran, of course, you've heard my mantra on what's happening in and around Israel, and that is that all roads Yes. and all roads lead back. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's why the Israelis have to go for maximum pain on this retaliation for the 180 missiles that went their direction last month.

General Breedlove, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Great to talk to you. Absolutely. Let the military do what the military does.

Let their military advisors. It's like a Jerry Jones comes down and wants to tell the offensive line coach what to do. You are the owner. I give you that. But if you hire me to do something, let me do it.

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Will construction of the southern border wall continue in your administration? I will tell you that my highest priority is to put the resources into ensuring that our border is secure, which is why I've been very clear. I'm going to bring back up as president that bipartisan border security bill and make sure that it is brought to my desk so I can sign it into law. The biggest issue that we have right now is that Donald Trump has stood in the way of what would have been a proven Part of the solution. to the bigger problem, which is that we have a broken immigration system in America and we need to fix it.

Well, she didn't answer the question, you gotta build a wall. six hundred fifty million dollars towards the wall. We already paid a few billion for a wall that's just laying in the desert. She will not admit that the wall will help. She would not admit it.

She wants to reinvigorate the bipartisan bill. I think she has no idea what's in it. Zero. More judges, they aren't judges. They're going to be essentially adjunct judges who are going to decide on the spot.

You didn't go to law school if people get to stay or not, by whether they are truly refugees running for their lives. Nobody believes this administration can be trusted with that because this is the same administration that put planes in small airports filled with illegal immigrants in the middle of the night, then put them into NGOs and then to our school system. And if we complained and if teachers put their hand up, the union would turn on them and they would be fired.

So she will not answer any question. And believe me, Judging by the polls, you are fed up with it. And judging by some of the responses, listen to Van Jones. I mean, the fact that she doesn't answer a question or she talks in a circle as if she's getting away with it the longer she talks. Listen to what Van Jones said, Cut 15.

I think that the word salad stuff gets on my nerves. I think that some of the evasions are not necessary. But when she's talking about trying to get you a house. I believe her. I'm trying to get you to help her.

The problem is, who cares if you believe her? Because she's going to put billions of dollars into public housing? Maybe she really wants to get me a house. What has she ever done to get you a house?

Well she's got the president's gonna get me a house. I'm going to have this new housing plan. Do you have any ideas you've ever done that? I was listening to Mark Cuban, who's going to be on a different hour today, yesterday, and she's like, I love the idea of small business and entrepreneurs.

Okay, fine. She likes Shark Tank.

Okay, one of the most popular shows around that Mark Cuban's on. But what have you done to help entrepreneurs? What have you done to cut regulation? What have you done to allow cities to thrive? Where in your life have you ever been a business person?

It's okay if you haven't. But why should we believe that you're out the health business when you've never been in business and you've never helped business? You're a law and order person that really didn't want to crack down. on crime. said there's no problem.

Girls said no problem at the border. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead. All right, everyone, welcome back. This is the Brian Killmeat show.

So glad you're here. I come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, but heard around the country. We got calls from around the world, so I appreciate that. And also, we continue to add stations. We're going to have a big announcement again next week, continue to expand in Texas.

Of course, I was in Dallas a couple of months ago for the launch of KLIF, one of our great affiliates in that great city of Dallas, who doesn't have too good of a football team, but an excellent basketball team. I'm not just kissing up to him. It happens to be the fact. Last year, the second best team in basketball. The owner of the Dallas Mavericks joining us right now is Mark Cuban, and you can see him on Skype if you watch Fox Nation.

Mark also founded the Cost Plus Drug Company dedicated to producing how low-cost versions of high-cost generic drugs. And he's been telling me about how he's working on that. Mark, great to see you. Thanks for having me, Brian. And you know, I've been talking to you for about a year.

When are you going to be willing to talk about this drug thing, your innovative way of bringing down the price of drugs? You're not quite ready yet.

So I'm ready to talk anytime you want, but here I, you know, So what made you convinced over the last month I see you quite visible that you want to go so hard for the Vice President? I just think she'll be a better president. I just think that her policies are better. You know, I've been very involved with her business policies. I think they're better, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses.

I just think she sets a better tone. She's a lot more positive when it comes to dealing with. Our the country. And so, those are the things that really make a difference to me. I just think she will be a better president to bring this country together and move us forward.

So, I saw you do a one-on-one interview with her. I watched you do it. And you think this $6,000 tax credit will be a big break for families. But in terms of details on almost any proposal, it seems to fall short. And this is the one thing that I thought would keep you on the sideline.

This is the Vice President's first policy speech. Listen to Cut Eight. Sir. Is a border wall stupid?

Well, let's talk about Donald Trump and that border wall. Yeah. So remember Donald Trump said Mexico would pay for it? Come on, they didn't. You're agreeing to a bill that would earmark $650 million to continue building that bill.

I pledge that I am going to bring forward that bipartisan bill to further strengthen and secure our border.

So that was a little of the town hall. But just talking about the border, in Texas, every time I go there, it's a San Antonio, Dallas, or Houston, or Austin. Illegal immigration is a huge issue. Doesn't it bother you the way they dropped the ball for the last three and a half years?

Well, I didn't think it was perfect for certain. And she's basically by saying that she's going to be enhancing what they're doing at the border, she's saying, you know what, we have to do a better job. But I think the bigger issue when it comes to immigration is deportation. You've heard Stephen Miller and Donald Trump talk about mass deportations. You've heard him talk about rounding people up.

You've heard him talk about checkpoints. That's scary. You know, just think about someone showing up at your, you know, your job and just dragging people out or showing up in your neighborhood.

So I think while, you know, when you go through basic immigration, she said, look, we've got to do a better job on the border. She said she signed the Lankford Bill. She said that she changed the approach to asylum. But the big differentiator between the two is how they deal with deportation. And I think that is enormous.

First thing they're going to do, get the criminals out. Do you know six out of every 10 Americans is for deportation of illegal immigrants? The first thing they do is going to get the criminals out. The first thing they're going to do is they're going to bolster up and triple the size of ICE. Which she basically said were akin to white supremacy or Nazis.

No, but remember, no, come on, Brian. Come on. Yeah, when she was senator, but think when you're representing the People's Republic of California, that's a whole different job than being the president of the United States or representing all Americans. And she's definitely evolved in her positions.

So now where we're at today, border crossings are way down, right? She's saying that if you're a criminal and you cross the border illegally, you will be deported. She's also said that crossing the border in and of itself is a crime.

So they're pretty much the same. Here's where I thought your standard would be different. She never tells why she changed her mind. It makes people think if you said something in 2019 and you did nothing for three and a half years, you're changing your mind because the policies of the other party seem to be where the country is. This is why Trump has a 15-point lead, according to the New York Times, on immigration.

And tell me, Todd. Bob Benchman from the Center for Immigration Studies, a senior fellow, said this is the reason why border crossings are down, cut 27. The first thing is that the Mexican government cut a deal with the Biden administration almost a year ago to scoop up thousands of immigrants from our border and internally deport them all the way to their southern border with Guatemala and then trap them there. Behind a military blockade, all the road blocks.

So the build-up down there is unbelievable. And 2,000 are now coming this way minimum to the board of the United States. Oh, no, Brian, Brian, listen to what he said. I think you're misrepresenting what he said. I love what she said, what they're doing.

What they're saying, he, I'm sorry.

Well, what Kamala said versus this gentleman.

So, what this gentleman said was: we're not, Kamala put together a policy that said you have to stay there. You have to stay, and then we'll send you down to a Central American country wherever you're from, and you can't leave.

Now, you're saying that that's just going to create a buildup.

Well, she's saying she's increasing the security at the border, so that's a great thing. I think that's something Trump would do. But so, you know, the remain in Mexico is what Trump did. This is hide them in Guatemala until after the election. That was no, no, you're presuming, no, you're presuming it's till after the election.

That's not the case. In fact, Microsoft did a deal with them down there in Mexico where they created 250,000 jobs. They're doing things to give, yes, for sure. And so they're giving them ways to stay down there. It sounds like a great program to me.

You can't assume they're just going to come. Oh, you know, they're going to come. You know, 8 million people came after the last three and a half years, disturbing almost every major city in the country. Would you also agree that sanctuary cities have to go in this country? And if she was serious about it, she would have said the first thing you want to do is get rid of sanctuary cities because you can't deport the criminals if they're here.

If they're in a sanctuary city, that's Chicago, that's New York, that's San Francisco, that is Los Angeles, that's Philadelphia. But now you hear those cities themselves talking about what they're going to do and their changes to their approach. And so she says she would work with them. And that's the reason why. Donald Trump talks about that all the time.

But Mark, if you just talk about performance, you're all about, I will watch you. I got a chance to know you. You're all about execution. Trump said that in 2017, end of sanctuary cities. The courts stopped them.

She's saying, in theory, I will do something I haven't done for three and a half years or recommended that Trump brought up in 2017 with the Sanctuary Cities. Right, but she that brings up a good point, right? Kamala Harris says she's going to do something. Yeah, it's changed. She never said a word about Sanctuary Cities, by the way.

You're saying that. No, what I'm saying is she said she's talked to the mayors of those cities, right? She's not come out and said specifically, you're right. But at the same time, she said she's not going to just let people cross the border. She said it's a crime if you cross the border.

She said, if you break the law beyond just crossing the border, you will be deported. But you know, she never said anything like that. Do you know Mayorka said the border wasn't even a problem for three years? And she, if you don't want to use the term czar, go ahead. You know, you can go do that.

But she was in charge. She was given the same thing. that Joe Biden as vice president was. And you know what vote Joe Biden did as vice president? He actually flew to those countries and put pressure and nobody put more pressure on the Trump people.

But I do want to talk about the economy. Yeah, real quick, two things. One, she did put pressure. That's why they're staying down there. Two, she has said, if you haven't been here five years, you got to leave.

So the real question is what do you do with people? Yes, yes, she's come out and said you have to be here five years. You don't get automatic citizenship. Touch soil is no longer to be the case when she signed the Langford bill. And then how you deal with deportations is everything for the economy and for because she understands that we've got, we can't have mass deportations.

We can't have door knocks. We can't have checkpoints to get people out of the country. It'll take two years to get the criminals out before we even can look at people that are just staying here working in kitchens illegally or delivering your food on Uber. But even in two years, you don't want to have a complete disruption of the country. But I think that for the American people, I think two things.

Trump has even talked about this. More work visas. And more legal immigration. Sure, the illegal's got to go. But can we talk about another area of your expertise is the economy?

The Trump tax cuts are about to evaporate. If they don't get renewed, they're just going to go away. Are you for that? Getting the corporate rate up to 35%. All the income tax brackets have benefited.

On average, Americans making between $15,000 and $50,000 received a tax cut of between 16 and 26 percent, while those making 50 to 100,000 received a tax break of 15 to 17 percent. Are you for letting the Trump tax reform, evaporate.

So how for the approach? I'm for the approach that Vice President Harris is taking. What she has said is that what she has said is that anybody making under $400,000, their taxes will not go up. And for 100 million of those people, their taxes will go down. And that applies also to the.

She's got to do something.

Well, of course, she's got to do something. All Donald Trump's programs, he's got to do something as well. But she has said that, and realize that of the 33 million companies in this country, 99% of them are pass-through.

So, for 99% of the CEOs and the entrepreneurs that are out there that make $400,000 or less, their taxes are only going to stay the same or go down. And to me, that's a great policy. When you look at the uh when you say pass-through, what is that?

So, if you have a subchapter S company, if you have a limited liability, a solo entrepreneur, a sole proprietorship, what that means is it's your personal taxes that are taxed. Your business taxes are taxed as if they're your personal taxes.

So that everybody, that means almost every business in the country is going to benefit.

So if you just look at performance, unless she just wants to say, I had nothing to do and Joe Biden ever listed, look at me because when pressed about performance, she's like, I'm vice president. When say what she's going to do while I wasn't there, I'm brand new. When pressed what you did as senator, don't count that. Count what I did as attorney general when it comes to being tough on the border, but don't count what I did on vice president.

So it's hard to keep up. But when it comes to performance, if you're going to judge the administration, 401ks lost an average of 9% to $12,000 just because of inflation. And if you could say, now you're manipulating numbers, right? You're manipulating numbers right now. Tell me how I did what I did wrong.

I mean, because most people's 401ks have stocks, and the stocks are setting record highs every single day. And you're seeing the net worth of. The median net worth of the country go up significantly. And so you're seeing real wages increase beyond inflation now.

So you're seeing people's 401ks go up, and that's a great thing. But not as it relates to inflation. They said if you take inflated rate, you say 401ks adjusted for inflation lost $12,000 or 9%. The growth of $12,000. And who published that, Brian?

Who and when did they publish that? Because with the record highs now, I'm just telling you, that data is wrong. Hmm.

Okay.

It was from my brain room because I asked for everything. The other thing is no, our brain room's great. No, they're amazing. I don't discount that at all.

So the pandemic hits and there's a lot of spending. I got it. But even though Jason Fuhrman, Steve Ratner, and Larry Summers came out and said we don't need the rescue package, she did it, or he did it, and she did it, whatever you want to decide.

So trillions of dollars goes into the economy, and that was the beginning of rapid inflation. And then you got the Inflation Reduction Act, which they laughed at and said it really wasn't inflation reduction. It's actually a portion of the new Green Deal.

Now, I can't believe that Mark Cuban would say that these are good moves. And if you're looking to see if past his prologue, you would think that she's going to do more of this, and how the role that played in all prices going up 20% on her range. Your thoughts? Sure, a couple things. One, that wasn't the start of inflation, so you're that's not correct.

When did inflation?

So, inflation really started back in April of 2020. When, remember, right at the beginning of the pandemic, when there was all lockdowns, the price of gas was $1.85 everywhere, you know, and prices seemed to be going lower. At that point in time, the oil companies went to Donald Trump, who was president at the time, and said, Look, it's not sustainable for us to have oil prices as low as they are. They were at record lows, and we even saw negative oil prices for a while. And what they asked Donald Trump to do, and Donald Trump did, was go to Saudi Arabia and Russia and say, Look, you guys have to reduce your production because if you don't, then our oil industry is going away.

And as it turns out, the oil industry would have got pandemic money anyways, PPP money. But he said, Okay, let's do this deal. He went to Putin and MBS and said, Please reduce production. They did. And that was, I'm not saying it's the full cause of inflation, but that was when inflation started.

Because when you reduce the production, Right. And demand starts to grow as more people leave their houses. The price of gas goes up quickly.

So, the point being that Donald Trump had the choice between helping the oil companies or keeping gas prices low for the American people, he chose to help the oil companies. That was the beginning of inflation.

Well, here's the thing. If you're a guy that became a billionaire for a reason, because you're great with numbers. When he left office, inflation was at 1.9%. If you say that happened in May, so you're saying it was a rubber band? and the rubber band pull back and they just let go when Trump left office?

You don't think they put two trillion dollars into in twenty twenty one when Biden took over and the seven trillion he put in that we basically had to put toner into a printer? No, you're right. That when Biden continued to spend, that definitely influenced inflation considerably. But you asked the question: when did it start? And so, on one hand, Donald Trump says, look, we're drill, drill, drill.

We're going to cut the price of gas, and that's going to reduce everything else. The opposite also works. When you take it the other way, it influences inflation. And that was the start of inflation. In my opinion, Mark, if she would have to be Secretary of Treasury, we shouldn't look at the back of her baseball card to know what kind of president she'll be.

Real quick, taxing unrealized capital gains.

So that means for laymen, if I have a great IP, if I have a great stock and I got this great company, I don't have any cash, but the tax bill is due. I got a cash in my stock. You can't sign off on that, right? No, of course not. And I've said that many, many times.

Let me just give you the history of that real quick. That was in Joe Biden's 2024 budget. It has never been proposed by anybody.

So when somebody in the Harris campaign said, we support Joe Biden's budget, they didn't get into details. And so Kamala comes along and says, literally, Joe Biden wanted a 34.5% or 44% income tax. She's picked 28%. Joe Biden wanted a higher capital gains tax. She picked 28%.

When it comes to unrealized capital gains, I'm telling you, Brian, that is not going to happen. It was in her original speech, Mark, when she said in August, I think. And she said, I support Joe Biden and things he's done. And then everybody took and ran with that. They ignored the fact that Joe Biden's corporate tax proposals were far higher than Kamala's.

Joe Biden's capital gains tax was far higher than Kamala's. Market, I would tell you what, I would feel great in any country and any administration with you handling the money. And the innovation, the entrepreneurship. I just wish she was more like the person that you're describing. But I always love talking to you, and we're going to do it on television next week, okay?

You got it. That's the deal. You got it. Brian, kill me back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Killmead.

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Bill and Long Alan. Hey, Bill. Hi, Brian. How are you doing? You know, I just want to bring up a point.

That was a great interview with Mark Cuban, but he failed to say anything about the cancellation of the XL pipeline, the development of Alaska oil, the cancellation of LNG contracts or exports to other nations. I mean, how bad has the Biden administration been to American energy?

So, Bill, the whole thing is, and I'm friends with Mark, but. She he's talking about a candidate that's not running. He's talking about a candidate that he could coach.

So every time I bring up stuff about the past, well, she wasn't the present. And then I bring up, she was, well, she was just a senator from the People's Republic of California.

So I don't, like, if he was in charge and he was running, it would be a fascinating race. And if he told me that he was going to be in charge of oil production from now on, he's a profit-driven guy. It'd be all right. But just nothing about her track record is like what she described. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Look, I'm not supposed to say it. But we are leading by so much.

Now we're leading by A lot In Nevada, we're leading by a lot. In Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania. Wisconsin Even states that Are typically never in play for 50, 60, 70 years. There seem up very close, sir. New Hampshire is in play.

I said, oh, that's nice. Let's make a trip. Let's make a trip. But the fact is that states, other states too, big states are all in play. And they like us, but you know what?

They think she is grossly incompetent, let's face it. She's not doing well.

Well, that's a very optimistic president of the United States, former president of the United States, who I believe is winning but knows he hasn't won. And I think you're crazy to think you could win an election this close. I think that Harris is crazy to think she's going to lose, and Trump is crazy to think he's going to win because you got 11 days left, and a lot can happen. They already tried an October surprise with Chief of Staff John Kelly, fired, what, six years ago, coming out with a story picked up by the Atlantic, audio release by the New York Times. Eric Hovedy joins us now, Wisconsin Republican, U.S.

Senate candidate. I mean, when he first got in the race, got the nomination, I think he was over 20 points down.

Now, as I look at the real clear average and he is trending up, he is 0.8, not even 1,.8. 0.8 percentage points down for Tammy Baldwin over in Wisconsin, which is always tough for Republicans to be successful in. Eric, welcome back. How have you closed the gap? How have you done it?

Look, because I'm talking about issues. Center Baldwin runs and hides. barely does any press events. I'm on a bus tour bombing the state doing press every day. Out there engaged.

I'm getting ready to go talk to two hundred employees at this company. And we're driving message. And in fact, Brian, our three latest internal polls have us up by a half a percent.

So the momentum's clearly on our side. I think people are waking up. And it's talking about, you know, it's not just talking about inflation and issues like this. The border people are seeing the consequences of that more and more. You know, health care costs shooting up again.

Democrats don't seem to understand there's no such thing as a free lunch.

So when you have 15, 20 million illegals using our health care system, paying nothing into it, that cost gets transferred to Americans. And now we're getting renewal rates, and people are shocked at what's happening there and the crime and the fentanyl.

So it's driving those issues. And then also talking, Brian, if you can believe this. I'm sure you can. The Department of Education is trying to force school districts all over our country. And it's happening all over Wisconsin to change Title nine to uh force guys to be able to play in girls' sports and go in their bi bathrooms and locker rooms.

And if they don't comply, they're going to take away their money.

So people are waking up to this stuff and going, this is nuts.

Well, does she support that? Oh, she not only supports it, she's one of the biggest ones pushing it. That's a gift. That's a gift for you. That's a gift.

Yeah, it's insane and it's crazy. And then, you know, people are starting to waking up about, you know, her conflicts of interest. She's always ran against uh Wall Street, and yet she lives with a Wall Street executive, Maria. Who invests in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, which Senator Baldwin oversees?

So Tammy oversees this. Maria's invest in these companies, and they don't disclose. You know what she's investing in versus what Senator Baldwin's voting on.

So people are waking up and seeing what a hypocrite she has been all along, how extremely radical she is. And I feel great about it. The momentum, just like sports, momentum is important. It's critical in politics. But we just got to drive every day.

I'm going to run as hard as I can all the way through the finish line and then collapse after that. What about the border? I mean, here you're in Wisconsin, far from the border. Is that an issue for your citizens? A massive issue, massive.

Every state's a border state.

So we've had. They dumped 1,000 illegal immigrants in a town of 14,000 whitewater, turned the city's budget upside down, compounded housing problems, helped. care problems, access to health care, schooling issues. We've had horrible crime incidents. A Venezuelan gang member ended up brutally assaulting and raping a mother and her daughter in a small town in Wisconsin, Prairie Desheen, a town of only five thousand.

And then the fentanyl crisis. You know, we lost 108,000 Americans last year, 112,000 the year before, number one leading cause of death of 18 to 45 year olds.

So that's touching everybody.

So it's every state's a border state. After inflation, it's pretty close now, almost to inflation.

So the border is a massive issue here in Wisconsin.

So here's what the Vice President said yesterday. She wants everyone to know that she's going to crack down on the border, and she's going to want to do that bipartisan bill. One of it was to build more border. Wall, $650 million, which is nothing. It's only about 20, 30 miles, but it's something.

Remember, Joe Biden said he wouldn't build one other foot of wall.

So she asked this question. She wants to be tough on the border. Cut twenty-three. Will construction of the southern border wall continue in your administration? I will tell you that my highest priority is to put the resources into ensuring that our border is secure, which is why I've been very clear.

I'm going to bring back up as president that bipartisan border security bill and make sure that it is brought to my desk so I can sign it into law. The biggest issue that we have right now is that Donald Trump has stood in the way of what would have been a proven Part of the solution to the bigger problem, which is that we have a broken immigration system in America and we need to fix it. That now number one. One of the reasons that wall wasn't built is because people like her stood in the way and voted that down. Then he had to go and repurpose defense spending.

They voted, they tried to stop it, and they did get 500 miles.

Some reconstructed, some brand new. But now she will not answer that question. How do you handle that? national issue and make it a Wisconsin issue.

Well Already is a Wisconsin issue, and we're pounding Senator Baldwin on it because she said we spend too much. On the southern border and trying to protect it.

So we're hammering her, and Senator Baldwin voted for crazy things like giving illegal immigrants. Cash payments. Look, y uh think of how absurd and upside down our country's become under them. We're giving Illegal immigrants, free housing and cash payments when we have veterans literally living on the streets. You know, how wrong is that?

FEMA wasted a bunch of money flying illegal immigrants into our country, and then they don't have enough resources for people impacted by the hurricanes. Again, how wrong is that? As I say, I feel like I've often woken up in a bad episode of the Twilight Zone, where what is right has become wrong and what is wrong has become right. And this is what Senator Baldwin and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden pushed. And hopefully, the American people say enough is enough.

Even listening to all the nonsense from legacy media, I think enough people are waking up and not buying what they're hearing on ABC, NBC, and MSNBHC and all the rest. Has the Trump campaign helped? Yeah, I mean, look, President Trump and I have a very good relationship. We did a virtual town hall this week. I'm going to be with him two or three more times.

Before the end, I mean, he's gonna be here for two or three rallies next week, a big rally on Friday night. uh november first.

So, yeah, we've got a great relationship. But, Brian, you're going to love this. You know what the Democrats did in my Senate race? And they're supposed to be the ones defending democracy, they put up a false candidate under the America First brand. It was funded by Democratic donors, Democratic attorneys, and got Democrat signatures just to try to siphon off.

A percent or two of Trump voters thinking that this person's related to President Trump. Fortunately, President Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have been good at calling this out, and it's a total fraud. But this is what they resort to to try to manipulate elections. They're shameless.

They have no moral compass.

Well, this is not going to make you feel better. Hillary Clinton, desperately to try to sell a book about her life that no one cares about, thought that the MSG Sunday rally that the president's going to have, which is going to be pretty dramatic, and I think for him, it's the exclamation point on his political campaign career, said this, Cut 19. One other thing that you'll see next week, Caitlin, is. Trump actually reenacting Uh the Madison Square Garden Rally in 1939. I write about this in my book.

President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially. Pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.

So I don't think we can ignore it. So she says because he's having a Madison Square Garden rally, it's 1939 all over again. Not the Knicks, not Billy Joel, not Sebastian Maniscalco, but it's The 1939 Nazi rally. Look, it's absurd, and she's just a bitter, nasty woman. Let's just face facts.

And she hates half of the American public. And by the way, Senator Baldwin, she had the same kind of comments about Trump voters as well. Very derogatory. She's called President Trump one of the most dangerous men with a dark soul, and yet now she's trying to run ads like she worked with President Trump. I mean, it's so laughable.

Uh you know, it and it's just pathetic. The fact that he's doing a rally. And here's the other thing: he was president for four years. Guess what? He was trying to make federal governments smaller.

He wasn't trying to, he wasn't doing the games like they're trying to do of get rid of, you know, pack the Supreme Court and do all the crazy things that the left wants to do. Right. So, if you want to get rid of the filibuster, are you for that? No, not at all. Are you for packing the court?

No, not at all. I believe in protecting our Constitution.

So even if you get the majority, Eric, I'm talking to Eric Hovey, he wants to be the next Senator. Even if you get the majority, you're saying to who's ever the majority leader on the Republican side, I don't want to blow up the filibuster. The Senate is meant to be a cooling process. And you can do that and jam a bunch of things done, but then guess what? It's going to come back and bite you in the you know what.

So the reality of it is that Senate is meant to be different than the House, and we're not supposed to operate like the parliamentary system in the UK.

So I think it's important to keep the filibuster.

So, you know, but Senator Baldwin wants to get rid of it to, you know, pass a bunch of crazy things. And you know what they're going to do with it, Brian. They're going to turn D.C. into a state, Puerto Rico into a state. They're going to pack the Supreme Court.

They're going to do all these crazy things.

So, look, we're fighting for the soul of our country. I mean, I got into this race because I love America. We're so blessed to live in the greatest country in human history. Everybody has to do their part. Everybody is listening in Wisconsin.

You've got to get out and vote. You've got to get your friends, your neighbors, the people you go to church with, the people you go hunting or fishing with, or you name it, your colleagues. Everybody has to go out and vote. And if we win this, then we can start restoring the American dream and bringing this country back.

Well, it's going to be fascinating because do you feel, Eric Hovedy, that if. Donald Trump wins Wisconsin, you win Wisconsin. If he loses Wisconsin, you lose Wisconsin. Yeah, I mean, we're very tied together. There's a very small percentage of Trump voters that's not voting for me.

Hopefully, I'll close that gap. And there's a very small percentage of people voting for me that's not voting for President Trump.

So we're pretty in line. He's probably a half a point, maybe a little bit more. President Trump always underpolls Wisconsin more than any other state. He was supposed to lose big in 16 and big in 17. Obviously, he won in 2016 and won very narrowly or lost very narrowly in 20.

So the polls are very hard to judge in our state. But look, I feel really good. I do need to drive the message.

So if people want to contribute, go to erichovdi.com and send a few dollars my way. It'd be helpful. But look, I'm just going to continue to run, get the message out, speak. You know, I did six speeches yesterday, Brian. I've got another three today and this weekend.

I've got five on Saturday, five on Sunday. And I'm just going to keep working until I collapse because we've got to save this country. Eric Hovedy, best of luck. Like every Republican, you're being outspent, but that shouldn't be an issue because common sense, I think, should prevail. Eric, thanks so much.

Best of luck in the sprint to the finish. Thank you, Brian, and I hope all your listeners have a wonderful day. You too. Brian, kill me. Back in a moment.

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Okay, but you Which way our country is gonna go from here? Which way our future It's gonna go from here. That's why I'm so fine up to be here with y'all. And that's why I'm so proud to support. our next President of the United States, Carlo Harry.

Yeah, that was Samuel L. Jackson. They certainly have the stars. Beyonce today in Houston, Willie Nelson today in Houston. It looks like Joe, right now, I believe President Trump is sitting down with Joe Rogan.

On the average, he gets 15 million downloads, people listening. I think whatever that is, triple it. Trump, I asked him, he said, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. He didn't even know it could be three hours. But they say no handlers.

And they say minimum one hour. Let's see how long they can go. In the beginning, Joe Rogan was saying, I don't want to do President Trump. They keep asking, and now he came around. One thing he did, a couple of things, he said, I did endorse Bernie Sanders.

When Sanders lost to Joe Biden, he backed out and he said, most likely, I'll vote for Trump in 2020. I don't know what he actually did. And we'll see what happens. I think it's going to be a different interview because he could be really serious. He might say, you know, why'd you say that?

He might come out and just say, but when you go out and say she's dumb, or when you say Joe Biden has got dementia so he'll challenge, but he'll also see where it goes, and he also will do follow-up questions. One thing that I noticed about Joe Rogan is a great listener. Couple of things about what the race is right now, in terms of national. Time CNN poll. Tied 4848.

Which I don't remember the president, the former president, ever being tied. I think he was trailing Joe Biden by six points at this point. In the Wall Street Journal poll. Trump by three. Reuters poll, Harris by three.

Monmouth pole, Harris by three. USA Today, Suffolk University poll, Harris by one. Uh the Atlas Intel. which seems to be a right-leaning one. Uh 5148.

In terms of real clear average. It is pretty overwhelming. Trump is up. Even though it's less than one point in most outside Arizona. He's up.

By percentage points, but he's up. And what I think makes it more significant than the numbers, I know it's tight race, tight race, tight race, but Trump never polls well. And part of it is Many people don't. I think it's cool to say I'm a Trump fan. You know, there's certainly people out in Los Angeles, you're not going to get in San Francisco, but people just don't want to deal with it.

You don't see the bumper stickers when pollsters call, they hang up the phone. If they if they like pass. And he's and he's usually under polled. He could have a major one. And Mark Halper indicated that could be the case, but there's nothing locked up.

From Hia Tom, Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Welcome back, everyone. It's Brian Kilmey Chow coming to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan, but around the world and around the country.

And keep in mind, too, that this is a one-stop shopping for the World Series because you got New York and the Bronx one borough away. Los Angeles, where the best of seven will open up in Los Angeles came one and two. It'll be tonight and Saturday, eight o'clock. And then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, if necessary, game five in New York. I think 2-3-2 really works for the home team big time.

So I'll see if the Yankees can get one of two. That would be the goal. And then try to take it at home. But it's going to be tough against the Dodgers. We're going to talk to Ian O'Connor about that and Shannon Bream about what's happening in the other big matchup.

And that's Harris Trump. Big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Vladimir Putin has become so desperate that he is now willing and soliciting, you know, potentially support from the DPRK.

So if the DPRK soldiers enter into combat, they would be co-belligerents, and that is a very serious issue. Really? What are you going to do about it? That is the Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina saying, send in the North Koreans. Haven't heard that since the 50s, but that's what the Russians are doing to try and take over Ukraine.

What are we doing? I can't see anything that we're doing. It seems to me this is when the beginning of a world war. It looks like, can someone tell Joe and Kamala this is serious? Number two.

I'm going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes. Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs. Yeah, what's the big deal?

Come on. Lying about Aurora, Colorado, as officials publicly tamped down talk of a gang takeover of key towns and cities beginning in Denver. New emails reveal Venezuelan street gangs were an extreme concern of the cops. We have proof of it.

Sorry, Martha Raditz, it is a big deal. And did Joe Biden do a deal to keep back illegals from our border for election reasons? Number one. That's why I'm so fat. Add up to be here.

And that's why I'm so proud to support. Our next presentation. President of the United States. Samuel L. Jackson weighing in, one of the many celebrities showing up with Kamala Harris to try to drag her across the finish line.

You have Beyoncé today, yesterday, Bruce Springsteen, and Samuel L. 11 days until in this middle of this voting season. A sense of momentum radiates from the Trump camp with Harris rolls out the stars and the insults in an orchestrated attempt to paint Trump as unelectable. Will it work? No doubt about it, Shannon Bream, as you join us as anchor at Fox News Sunday.

The goal is to make Trump seem like a lunatic. Hitler. Uh Redux, is it working?

Well, listen, maybe the joy and vibes and all the good feelings were not working. I mean, there's always a honeymoon that we talked about when you're the new candidate on the scene. But the more that the vice president's been pushed on her specific policies, and also Governor Waltz, I mean, their unfavorables have gone up. She hasn't been able to answer the question about what she'll do differently when people say they liked their economic life better under President Trump.

So it seems like she's going back to the Biden argument, which was: Trump is dangerous. Listen to what all these formal people say about him. He's a fascist. He's going to be bad for the country. You know, his defenders say he was president for four years.

He didn't do this stuff, take over the military, and shut down the country. And they argue that's not what his plan is for the second term if he wins one either.

So it looks somewhat orchestrated. You talk to The Atlantic. The New York Times picks it up. General Kelly's audio is available. The former chief of staff.

Clearly despises the president.

So here he is, cut 37. And I think this issue of using the military to go after American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing. Even to say it for political purposes to get elected, I think it's a very, very bad thing, let alone actually doing it. He's certainly the only president that has. All but rejected what America is all about and what makes America America in terms of our Constitution, in terms of us our our values, the way we look at everything to include family and government.

And he's certainly the only president that I know of that was certainly in my certainly in my lifetime that was like that. You know, and I just don't, you know, we knew there was atomis between them, but the problem is that's not always what he said. John Kelly to NPR. The president and I have a very close relationship. My view is to speak the truth.

He always listens.

Sometimes he takes my opinion, sometimes he doesn't. The good thing about the president, he does listen to people. Generally speaking, we'll have a group in there on every spectrum: some liberals, some conservatives, some arch conservatives.

So it seemed like things were fine. He also said the president, how would I describe him? Very smart, very smart guy. I mean, a super smart guy. But I think it wouldn't surprise you to know he's very strong.

He's very strong in terms of trade, taxes, and business. Seems like a good guy by the John Kelly he's describing there to NPR. Or should we take him where he's Hitler, too? I don't know what to say.

Well, and that's the thing. You've got Senate Democrat candidates out there who are using Trump in their ads as a positive thing, not a negative thing.

So is he an existential threat to the country? Is he a fascist? Or is he somebody you can work with, as you say in your ads, when you're trying to win these races as a Democrat?

So there's messaging all over the place. And listen, I don't know. Obviously, things did not end well between President Trump and John Kelly, but you've got other people who claim they were in these exact same meetings and never heard the president say the things, the quotes, or the principles or empathies or sympathies that supposedly John Kelly heard President Trump expressing. You're hearing from other people in those meetings saying, I was there and it didn't happen.

So voters will have to sift through that for themselves and try to make a decision. But clearly, those two are not BFFs. Here's Mick Mulvaney, who took over for Kelly, cut 35. John Kelly hates the president. I've never understood why he didn't quit the job before he got fired from the job.

There's a lot of folks who used to work for Trump that just don't like him. Most of them, by the way, are ex-military. If you spent 40 years in the Marines like John Kelly did, your life is built around discipline and structure. And that's just not Donald Trump. None of the folks, I think, from the military actually understood him and got along well with him.

It's sad to see it really as So McChrystal wrote an editorial condemning him. Admiral McCraven doesn't have good feelings about him. Obviously, General Milley says, Oh, by the way, he's a fascist.

Okay, good. And then that's what that's what Kelly says.

Well, this is this the October surprise? Mm-hmm. I don't know, I don't think it's very surprising because we've heard comments from these people before that didn't like President Trump and said very similar things about him.

So I don't know if this is October surprise and I don't know how much those things matter anyway when 30 million people have already voted and they've been voting for weeks. You know, I think a lot of this is already baked in with people who felt like, you know, he's broken with people that worked with him in the past. They've said some negative things about him. They're being used in commercials now. If you're a Trump person, you've already probably cooked that into your vote and made peace with it in some way.

So I did show the story in the Washington Examiner today that if you go back in time, dating back to 1964, Barry Goldwater called a Nazi. One of the quotes was fascinating. It's, you know, by the way, he was in World War II, he was a fighter pilot. Over 50 years before Trump.

So, Goldwater, who served during World War II, was likened to a Nazi fascist for promoting conservatism during his presidential campaign. Governor Pat Brown remarked that Goldwater's acceptance speech, claiming it had the stench of fascism, all we need is to hear from Heil Hitler, well, Nixon, from Hubert Humphrey. It says He says Hitler would have uh It says, Democrat nominee for president remarked about the election: if the British had not fought in 1940, Hitler would have been in London. And if Democrats do not fight in 1968, Nixon will be in the White House. Oh, thanks.

Gerald Ford also called a Nazi. And guess who else was called the Nazi? Ronald Reagan, multiple times a Nazi. Guess who else was called a Nazi? Paul Ryan.

So, I mean, they're all Nazis, but they just don't run. They just don't rule like Nazis. They don't think like Nazis. They don't act like Nazis. But if you don't want them elected, keep saying it.

Well Well, and there used to be a time where everybody agreed that it wasn't, well, I mean, everybody, but most mainstream people would agree it's not good to invoke Nazi or Hitler imagery or symbolism or accusations because it was such a devastating, murderous time in the history of this world. Like, that's not something you throw around. But I did think that examiner piece was very interesting and that it goes back to show this isn't a one-off. I mean, this is clearly something that they've been trying to tag Republicans with for decades. It's not just a Trump thing.

It goes way, way beyond that.

So if people are going to say, oh, we shouldn't use, you know, invoke the Nazi language and that kind of thing, it's certainly been done quite a bit. Right. Just lastly, here's Harris on the same page, Cut 32. You've quoted General Milley calling Donald Trump a fascist. You yourself have not used that word to describe him.

Let me ask you tonight. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Thanks.

Meanwhile, when it came to the pandemic, he gave states their rights. When it comes to abortion, he wants to turn it over to the states. I don't know what she's talking about. They talk about what the president said about his enemies. He has legitimate enemies.

And McCain was an enemy of his. Hillary Clinton launched the dossier, was fined for doing it, commissioned Christopher Steele. Her lawyer did. That is truly an enemy. And I think that if you're going to go after the Pre the sitting president like these guys did, he's going to go back at you and find out what took place.

And that's how McCabe got fired. That's how Peter Strzzok got discovered. Yeah. Listen, there's always been this storyline between President Trump. He was not a politician.

What does he say? He was in Washington a total of maybe 15 to 17 times before he was sworn in as president. He's not a swamp guy. He doesn't hang out here. He's not part of the establishment.

And a lot of those folks were against him before he ever walked into the Oval Office. And he's had to fight people who opposed him before he ever had a chance to put policies into a place.

Now, listen, they may not like what he ended up doing with policies and positions and otherwise, but there was always some element of Washington that was out to get him before he ever got here. Yeah, no doubt about it. Kai talked a little bit about what's going on with the Virginia election integrity. They want to clean up their voter rolls. They want to get people out there, and they're told they can't.

They want to do hand counting in Georgia. They're told they can't. What's going on here?

Well, listen, there are hundreds of lawsuits that have already been filed in a number of states out there.

Some of them are coming from private entities. But, you know, the one in Virginia you talk about, that's the DOJ telling them you can't do any mass cleanup of your polls within night or your voter rolls within 90 days of the election day.

Well, the thing is, you know, we had Governor Youngkin on last week on Fox News Sunday. He's been on Fox talking about this. This is a law passed under then Democrat Governor Tim Kaine. The DOJ had signed off on it in the past. It's been used, according to the governor, within this 90-day window before and through numerous Democrat administrations there in Virginia.

So it does raise questions about why the DOJ is doing it now. This ruling out today, apparently, the judge has said you got to put these people back on their voter rolls. That have been pulled off. And the reason they're kicked off is because they've identified as non-citizen at some point. There are ways for them to clean that up.

If it's a mistake, you can get yourself back on the voter rolls, or you can show up and cast a provisional ballot while you challenge that status.

So there are ways to fix it. And I think for everyday Americans, it's hard to imagine why you would fight so hard to leave people who have self-identified as non-citizens on the voter rolls. Crazy, Shannon. As someone who loves the law like you, when you hear the vice president talk about, and other Democrats talk about reforming the Supreme Court, code for packing. What's your reaction?

Yeah, I mean, that's something that's gone on a lot the last few years. And there was a point at which President Biden was against it, thought it was bad. It would set a bad precedent. He's now come forward in support of some reforms and changes to the Supreme Court.

So is the Vice President. She's talked about all kinds of things, like, you know, hinted at maybe it's time to get rid of the Electoral College. Maybe it's time to pack the Supreme Court. You don't want the Supreme Court to be viewed as political, leaning right or left. It is a neutral body that has to make tough decisions.

And I was talking to someone this morning who said, Well, they're totally in the pocket of President Trump and they're going to protect him if he loses this election. I said, They've decided against him many, many, many times, including the three justices he nominated to the court. They're not afraid to tell him no, and they've done it many times. And they are very careful that they want to operate independently. You know what's amazing is the Republicans are on the cusp of getting the majority.

There is not one senator, and I just talked to Eric Hovety, he's a candidate. Not one senator says, I want to get rid of the filibuster. But yet, almost every all these senators outside Joe Manchin, now leaving in cinema, have that are considering voting to get rid of the filibuster on almost all legislation. And that is really, really critical because clearly the way that the Senate operates is it's supposed to be a place where it is tough to move really big ideas. It's sort of a check on anything that gets through the House.

It's sort of just, you know, it's majority rule over there. Just to give a pause, to move things forward, you got to get to 60 votes. If you blow up the filibuster, then it's a simple majority that runs everything. And that includes, you know, federal regulations and abortion and, you know, all kinds of funding measures and everything else. I mean, it's a major move that Democrats and Republicans have cautioned against many times over the years.

And if you're in charge now, it's going to come back to bite you when you're not. All your shows have been especially great leading up to the election. Thank you. Who do you think?

Well, ladies first?

Son did the network show first.

Okay, so we've got Senator Marco Rubio, who has been campaigning with President Trump and is allegedly kind of a shortlister for Secretary of State if Trump wins. We've also got Governor Polis, a Democrat out of Colorado. He'll be a surrogate for Harris Walls. But also, they got a major gang problem there in Colorado, and we're going to talk about that in the border. What about you?

Please bring up the emails that show the police knew this was a gang problem, and he denied it. He denied that there was a problem, said it was Donald Trump trying to make hay of it, and it turns out Trump was right, and it is a problem. And I'm going to have an interesting show. I'm going to lead with Senator Kennedy. Then I'm going to have Governor Ron DeSantis Jorge Mascovel, the UFC fighter with an incredible origin story, who's a big has turned into a huge Trump supporter.

He's going to try to tell us why the UFC seems to relate to him so well. By the way, Joe Rogan sitting down with the president right now. I just got an alert. Can't wait to hear it. And we're also going to have Dave Rubin, Tommy Laren, break down these the moments in media that matter.

That is Saturday at 9 p.m. You are Sunday Eastern Time. Yes. And you are Sunday. Check your local listings.

That's right. We replay 2 p.m. on the Fox News channel. I can't wait. Thanks so much, very consequential times.

Thank you. Okay bye. All right, 1-866-408-7669. I'm going to talk about the World Series, take a little bit of a break, especially here in New York for WABC listeners, one of my great affiliates with Ian O'Connor. Right now, coming back with you on the Brian Killmeat Show.

Newsmakers and newsbreakers, here at first on the Brian Killmeat Show. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. Hey, we are back. Let's go out to Nathan's.

Listen to Freedom 96.9 over in Oklahoma. Hey, Nathan. Hey, I was just gonna make a comment about I seen y'all's morning show on Fox. Y'all's interview there and and it seemed like Y'all ought to try to hold them to the answering the question as to why they done away at the executive orders in the first place for the border situation. You're talking about our interview with Jay Johnson?

Yeah. Any time that's brought up, they want to switch to different policies that they can't pass. Nathan, it's a little frustrating. You know why? Because it's not his policies, it's hers.

So it's like, this is what I think she's going to do. This is what I think they should have done.

So any time you press on these policies, it's she's the vice president. What do you want to do? And we're supposed to just think that she's going to be tougher on the border because she was a prosecutor. I don't get that. Yeah.

Yeah, and none of them will ever answer why they even signed the executive orders on day one, anyhow. And made it think it's intentional, don't you think, Nathan? Oh, yeah. They will not admit it. They just wanted to have a big, like Mark Cuban said.

And I should have asked him this too. I'm I can't believe I forgot. He said the reason why they opened up the border, they have big hearts. You've heard that expression, right? They care about people who need a who want to experience the American dream.

I feel like you got to do it the right way. You don't start off by breaking all laws. That's exactly right. They need to look at Poland, what they're doing. That's like everybody out unless you apply, and we're not looking for applications.

That's what they're doing. By the way, Poland says, America, please build a military base here. And Donald Trump, if you do it, I'll name it after you. We want to make sure the Russians don't come that direction. I thoroughly agree.

I believe we should do it. Even if the North Koreans get angry. By the way, we should make an offer to the North Koreans: if you want to defect, come over to Ukraine and fight for us. You don't want to be starved to death with that lunatic. Information you want, truth you demand.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. This will be pitch number seven. The count is still one and two. Gotta steal Soto a hot Five flyballs. Yeah.

Thomas backing up, Thomas at the track! And whoa! Short up. A three-run home run. An incredible moment as Juan Sauter goes deep to give the Yankees a 5-2 lead in the 10th inning.

Here's the 1-2. Thomas flyball right field. Who else? Should end this game. Then that man right there.

There. Juan Soto. Puts it away. And the New York Yankees have won the American League pennant. And just like that, the Yankees are back in the World Series for the first time since 2009, going for their 28th Championship.

Again, Ian O'Connor covered a lot of them. Obviously not all of them. You have to be over one hundred years old. Author of five books. His latest book, The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers, is out and doing really well.

It's great. Ian, welcome back. What are your thoughts about the Yankees and Dodgers back in the World Series together? Thanks, Brian. I think it's great for Major League Baseball to have these two franchises going head to head, Shohei Otani versus Aaron Judge, with a little or a lot of Juan Soto mixed in.

It's It really is a great thing for baseball. And I think for sports fans, just to see you don't often get two superstars together in the finals in baseball like you do. Oftentimes, like in the NBA. And it's just the nature of baseball. It's a different sport.

It's hard for a superstar position player to dominate it. But here you have the two best players in the game, head-to-head, the New York and Los Angeles markets. It's hard to get better than that. I know, I hear you. And really, I think that both of them over their mini playoff slumps.

Judge came alive. A lot of people are saying he's got to produce, not like Stanton is. Stanton's been absolutely phenomenal, got the MVP of the ALCS. But I think the Dodgers, Scott Otani, was over his nerves. He's not pitching yet, but he's hitting great.

And I just think that both these guys are ready to step up. I would not be surprised if they dominated offensively. But Ian, are you under the belief that it's going to come down to pitching? It usually does, Brian, and particularly in the postseason. And if that's the case, I expect the Yankees to win this series.

I picked the Yankees in seven. Obviously, I wouldn't be surprised if the Dodgers won in six or seven because that lineup is great. And you look at Otani and Mookie Betts and the rest of that Dodger offensive attack, and you saw them wear down the Mets pitching, Mets with too many walks in that series in terms of Mets pitchers. And I think that's what the Dodgers do. They do not swing at balls that aren't strikes.

And that's the approach they'll carry into this series against the Yankee pitching staff, which is better than the Mets. And you have a real true ace in Garrett Cole, who also has a he has a good overall postseason record when you look at his career. But with the Yankees, it's been a mixed bag for him. And I think he needs to be an ace in this series for the Yankees to win it. And I think he will be.

Yeah, he has to. And I had John Smoltz on today, and he thinks that. For now, Colis has to pitch differently because he's not 100%.

So he just can't blow you away with a fastball. He says it's a frustrating thing for a pitcher. He says he experienced it. Here's what Brian Cashman said to Major League Baseball Network on everyone saying it was a 15-year drought. Cup 52.

Give me your thoughts here. Fun of getting back and winning a pennant after a 15-year drought. I don't want to say drought, that's not fair, but you understand what I'm saying with the gap. How about winning a pennant? How does that mean to you?

Let me hear. It means a lot, man. I hate the 15-year thing because it completely forgets and discounts that some other organization cheated us when we were all the way in the end. If you knew what was going on, I don't think they would be advancing at that during that time thing. I think we would have been advancing.

So I hate that 15-year thing because I don't think it accurately reflects history.

So he's talking about the Astros, still not over it. You know what helped the Astros? The pandemic. We stopped talking about it. That's right, Brian.

And hey, I guess I don't blame Brian for feeling that way. If I were in his position, I probably would say the same things. But at the end of the day, history shows it's a 15-year period, waiting period for them, a drought, if you want to call it, that seems biblical by Yankee standards. Obviously, most franchise would sign up for that. But it's 15 years whether or not Brian Cashman wants to admit it publicly.

I've heard him say those things in the past. And he's entitled to his beliefs. But at the end of the day, the Yankees haven't put up a banner. Their 27th, of course, came in 2009 against the Phillies. I was there for that.

I was there for all the 90s championships. Grew up a Yankees fan with the 70s championships.

So it does feel like this drought is biblical, again, by Yankee standards, and it's time to end it. For the last few years, they've been wanting to fire the Matt, not to play a team, obviously. He stayed there, but fans have been calling for the firing of Cashman. They wanted bigger trades at the All-Star break, and they wanted somebody who's going to fire this team up. Aaron Boone treated them like professionals.

They said, maybe we need somebody a little bit more fiery. Looks like they're smart to hold on to both. I think so. And listen, Brian Cashman to be in that job for more than a quarter century. I remember the day I was there the day he got that job, and people weren't sure he'd last a year Yeah, right.

He got it from Bob Watson, who couldn't take Steinbrenner. And people wondered if Brian Cashman could last more than a year or two with the boss. And wow, it's been an amazing run. The thing with Brian is he put. The Yankees in position in the tournament basically every year, not every year, but close to it.

So I just didn't see there was a, in recent years, a good reason to run him out of there when he effectively was putting together rosters that would make the playoffs. And of course, they weren't winning championships, but they were knocking on the door almost every year. And when you do that, eventually you'll break through, which is why I think they'll break through. In the next 10 days or so. A couple of storylines.

These are the type of things you like writing about. John Volpe, the starting shortstop for the Yankees in 2009, was a nine-year-old kid in the Canyon of Heroes watching the Yankees go down on floats before speaking and just hoping to catch a piece of toilet paper that was being thrown in their direction after winning. And now he replaces a Yankee captain at shortstop, and he's the starter. I mean, who would think? Yeah, that's a Yankee story out of Central Casting.

A kid from New Jersey, Derek Jeter, was from New Jersey, idolizing Jeter when he grew up. And I uh I was on a radio station. in August in saying that I thought that Volpe was about to become a superstar. Then I corrected it to say a star. I do think he's a star, and I expect he's going to have a big series.

I think he's ready to break through And he's going to have a big career with the Yankees at short time. I'm not saying it's going to be a Derek Jeter career, but I think he's a really good young player who could be a difference maker in the series against the Dodgers. I just think, too, people should understand if you're not big baseball fans. I mean, Aaron Judge is 6'7. He has hit 58 homers, hit over 60 homers, single season record, non-steroids, major league record, and fantastic fielder, sometimes play most of the time, play center now.

He played almost every game this year, brief injury. And then Otani on the other side, even without pitching. Is already heading to the Hall of Fame, but the guy's also a pitcher who hurt his arm this year, and for the first player in Major League history to have 50 homers and 50 stolen bases. Yeah, that's right, Brian. If you're not a baseball fan, I think this is an opportunity to check the sport out and just watch these two players because Otani and Judge.

Are two of the greatest players of all time and will be considered that when they retire. And they do so many things to beat you. And Judge, I remember one day sitting at Yankee Stadium a couple of years ago, and here's a 6'7, 282-pound man playing center field gracefully for the New York Yankees. And I said to myself, Brian, I don't care what happens in this game, I am writing a column about that. He's playing Joe DiMaggio's position, Mickey Mano's position, with incredible grace at 6'7, 282.

So we've never seen that in baseball, an NBA power forward playing center field. And so, yeah, this is an Otani is unbelievable. Not only his power, but his speed, more than 50 stolen bases, the first 50-50 guy. To see these two on the same stage will really be an unbelievable thing.

So I asked John Smaltz what he learned from both these teams in the playoffs, Cut 58.

Well, the biggest thing I learned is the Yankees are playing really good baseball at the best time of the year, and they've gotten some big hits out of Stanton. Of course, the focus is going to be on Judge DeSoto. But for the Dodgers, Dave Roberts did an incredible job. You know, they're beat up. No one's going to feel sorry for you because you got the big payroll, all the expectations.

Their bullpen is unbelievably good. And I think that's what's going to get them the World Series Championship if it's going to be that bullpen that gets it done. And for the Yankees, it's going to be the ability to take out starters and their offense and obviously the power.

So that was that's his breakdown. Hall of Fame pitcher of what the Braves won in 95, lost in 96 at Yankee Stadium. Then he went over to Boston, became a stopper. Which is pretty amazing. Ian, in your estimation, When do the nerves go and it just becomes baseball?

Do you think that when do the players tell you it just becomes a baseball game? I think it's repetition. And you look at Alex Rodriguez, for instance, Brian, really struggled in the postseason. And then. It sort of over time he learned, and I don't know if he learned this directly from Derek Jeter, but Jeter was the best at this.

These are big moments, but when you go to the plate in Yankee Stadium or Dodger Stadium, wherever, you have to find a way to make that big moment small, or else you have no chance. Hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things to do in sports. Trying to do it against elite pitching when the stakes are so high in October is even more difficult.

So I think repetition. breeds familiarity and allows you maybe to make those moments smaller at the plate. But I've never seen anyone better at that than Derek Jeter. It just takes some players longer than others to figure that out. All right.

Lastly, just Aaron, you wrote the book on Aaron Rodgers. Everyone should go out and get it. He has not had a great year, had a couple of good games. Here he is talking about it, the loss to the Steelers, Cut 53. Got to be accountable.

You know? I gotta play better. That's key. I gotta play better. We've got to find a way to run the ball better so we can action pass.

Uh um yeah, I thought Did some nice things in the passing game. Brees obviously had a couple of really nice ones. Spread the ball around to Tay, G and Allen. Mike had a nice conversion. But we gotta run the ball better and I gotta play better.

So, your thoughts about what you've seen of Rodgers this year coming off the Achilles injury already an all-time great. What's amazing, Brian, is that the Jets are two and five, and they're still the most talked about team in the NFL. And Aaron Rodgers, probably the most talked about player in the NFL. They still have a chance to turn their season around. They've already gotten their coach fired, Robert Sala.

And so, no, he at times has looked okay. He's looked 41. He's going to turn 41 in December. He's playing hurt, too. And he's got a number of leg injuries.

He's got a knee. He's got a hamstring. He's got an ankle. He still has the Achilles from the surgery of last year.

So there's a lot going on with him physically. He's a tough guy. That's been under talked about and underappreciated. He's playing through a lot right now. But if they don't beat the Patriots this Sunday in New England, their season's pretty much over.

So this is a must win game. And they can still go on a run. They have the talent. They got Devontae Adams now, as you know, as a football fan.

So with that, yes, it starts Sunday. If they don't win Sunday, Then their hopes of making the playoffs pretty much go out the window. Devontae Adams came in. He said he's trying to change the culture on offense. The team was too lax.

I can't believe under Rodgers, the team was too lax. Adams just came over from the Raiders. They were a fantastic tandem with the Packers. Yeah, and I think that it's amazing to think that the energy wasn't there against the Steelers. And that's what Aaron Rodgers said too.

And Devontae Adams to have to talk to the team after his first game like he did after the Pittsburgh loss.

So it tells you there's a lot wrong there, and it needs to be fixed this week. And I think more than anything, Brian, they're feeling the pressure. They were supposed to be a Super Bowl contender with Aaron Rodgers. And they've been everything but that.

So I think They have to face the pressure, confront it. find a way to play loose. If they do that, they could put together a winning streak and get back into this. Oh, there's no question. Bad division.

Yeah. Yeah, bad division and also the wild card situation that last Playoff spot in the AFC looks like it's going to be a bit of a mess.

So if they can get in the tournament somehow, then I think they'll be liberated. But it's going to take an awful lot of work. They're going to have to go eight and two in their last 10 games to make that happen. Have you talked to the family at all? Have you talked to him at all?

I haven't talked to him. I mean, I talked to some family members, including his father, who's wondering why they haven't made more defensive adjustments. They're getting killed. against the run. His dad was an old offensive lineman in college.

And he sees some things defensively that he thinks they should be doing against the run. But Yeah, I mean, it'd be interesting to see at the end of the season if there's any further advancement towards reconciliation with his family, because he did see his father have that scene in the book last summer at a golf course in Las Vegas, at a tournament there, hugged him. I'm sorry, Lake Tahoe, and said, I love you. They each said that to each other.

So hopefully that was the beginning of a process that leads to a complete reconciliation. Ian O'Connor, thanks so much. Pick up his book. It's out right now, The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers, as he continues to cover this series. Ian, thank you.

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