Trump's tariffs send shockwaves around the world

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

So glad you're here. Big day. This is the day after tariff day. Carly Shimkis is coming in in about 20 minutes, but right now, in studios, Congressman Randy Fine coming off a big victory in the special election. He is now replacing Mike Waltz as Congressman from the Florida District, the 6th District, which is right around where I have a house.

So I definitely know the area, and the Congressman is extremely happy to win. It was a convincing victory. I don't know why people are spending it anything short of that. It's in double digits.

So before we get to the new Congressman, let's get to the big three. Number three. Tuma is not the man with a plan to fight Trump. He ain't the man with a plan for a good Cinco de Mayo. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schuman need to be primaried and thrown out of office.

That is Charlemagne the God hosting the daily show. It's not too early to talk elections. We have the Dems recalibrating and the next generation of Republican leaders maneuvering to get that top spot in 2028. We'll have the Hill Survey. Number two.

I call on my colleagues right now to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador. This guy has no reason to be in a jail in El Salvador. He's only there because of Trump's policies. Yes, MS-13, when you're from El Salvador and you come here and you're part of a vicious gang, you might end up back in El Salvador in a prison. Success of the border has been unparalleled in American history, but turbulence has hindered Trump's attempt to rid our nation of alien criminals in our jails and troublemakers on our campuses, we'll examine.

Number one. We cannot pay the deficits of Canada, Mexico, and so many other countries, but we have to take care of our people, and we're going to take care of our people first. Yep, a monster trade tariff deal Bill announced in the Rose Garden. It ripples through the country and around the world. We're going to talk about how it's going to affect everything, including the markets, which probably don't like it if the futures are indicative of what today will be like.

Congressman, congratulations on the victory. Thank you for having me. It was a big day.

So, yeah, of course, people looked at three things: they looked at the gate seat, they looked at the Waltz seat, and they looked at what happened with Wisconsin. Your thought, I mean, 14-point win is basically what the district is. Yeah, look, that's the Cook PVI rating, plus 14. I won by more than Ron DeSantis, or the same as what Ron DeSantis won by when he ran for Congress the first time there, and a little bit more than Mike Waltz.

So I'm not an incumbent, and it was a special election.

So we were pretty excited about the president. Right, so I know the area well. But I want to talk to you, too, about what the president announced in the Rose Garden yesterday. How do you feel about it? I agree with it.

Look, Terry. Tariffs are important for three reasons. Number one, they allow us to change how we get our revenue. A tariff is basically a sales tax on foreign goods. Would you rather pay income taxes or a sales tax on foreign goods if you're keeping things the same?

The second thing is, we can't afford to have products come from countries that we might be at war with. We couldn't hold China accountable during COVID because we needed them for medicine and PPE. That's bad. And the third thing is, we've got to make the floor fair so our companies can compete.

So I think what he's doing is great.

So China got it the hardest, probably. If you take the 20% fentanyl because they can't control fentanyl, they say they can't, but I think they could because the precursors for it are made there. And then you add in yesterday's tariffs at 54%.

Now, China, for the most part, is economy is not nearly as strong. I mean, the consumers are not buying things. They have a surplus in so many goods, and the world markets are beginning to tighten up for them. This is not going to help. No, and look, I think there's an easy solution.

Countries can be fair to us, not charge us. More for our goods than we charge for theirs. And then we got to bring home these key industries. Look, where action, toy action figures get made doesn't matter. But we can't afford as a country to have our prescription medications made in a country that we may be fighting.

That's just dangerous. And how about big pharma and their use of Ireland? Ireland basically has zero tax, and big pharma pays basically zero tax between the discount on our corporate tax, which could go lower, and what's happening now with the tariffs coming in Ireland. Could things change? Yeah, well, look, I'm not a big fan of Ireland these days.

I was the only way to left. Yeah, well, and I was the only Jewish Republican member of the Florida legislature. And the way that Ireland has gone all in on anti-Semitism and anti-Israel, it wouldn't mind me if we stick it to them. Absolutely. And I understand it's embarrassing as somebody who's half Irish to think that they are focusing on what they call genocide in Gaza and they are condemning Israel.

And I think that Israel has pulled their ambassador, correct? They have, yeah. And it's crazy. My family went to Ireland a couple of years ago, one of the best family trips we ever had. I had no idea about the anti-Semitism.

I think about what would the trip have been like if I'd been wearing a yarmulke while we were touring the country. Would it have been completely different? Just what you see out of Ireland, it's just shocking. And frankly, so many other countries. It's shocking.

We can talk about that, but I don't mind if we stick it to Ireland a little bit. All right, listen, I want to go to hear Howard Luttnick, a guy right from New York City. He talked about the need for these tariffs and how they have to balance things out. Cut 12. It was just soft politicians.

As President Trump said, it was the people in the Oval Office. I mean, the European Union won't take chicken from America. They won't take lobsters from America. They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak. It's unbelievable.

We can't sell corn to India. We can't sell rice to Asia. Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan. They just block us.

Finally, the man behind the resolute desk, the man in the Oval Office, Donald Trump, is finally standing up for our farmers, our ranchers, and our manufacturers to let the world understand either they're buying our products or don't bother coming here unless you're paying for the right to come.

So, your feeling about that, that's a practical look at the goods that we all take for granted. We don't know where they come from. And I'm not really shopping in Italy these days.

So, your thoughts about this? I think he nailed it. Look, we should not allow ourselves to be set up structurally at a disadvantage. The rules that they apply on us, we should apply on them. And frankly, if we do all that, maybe we end up with no tariffs for us or them.

And I have news for you: if America has a fair playing field, we're going to win every time. That's why they put these tariffs on us, is because they know they can't compete with America.

So tell me how you came across President Trump and why he tapped you to run for this open seat.

Well, I was the second legislator in Florida to endorse President Trump when he was running against someone else from Florida who was running for president. And my endorsement was sort of big news because I was the only Jewish Republican in the Florida legislature, and I endorsed President Trump after 9-11. I'm sorry, after October 7th. And what I realized on that day is the world, it wasn't just America that needed Donald Trump. It was the world.

We needed to get safety and calmness back in the world. And the president appreciated that.

So after I won the state Senate, I thought that's what I would be doing. A couple of weeks after that, President Trump asked me to run when he tapped Mike Waltz. He actually endorsed me before I made the decision to run. Do you have some. Friction with the governor?

I do. And look, he'll never forgive me for what I did. And I understand. For going with Trump? Yeah, for going with Trump.

I mean, it was a very, very big deal in Florida when I did what I did. But I did it because I liked what Governor DeSantis would say, but not so much what he would do. And with President Trump, you always knew you could count on him. And Israel had no better friend in his four years in the White House.

So when you look now at what's happening on these college campuses, Columbia came out and they started having an uprising for two anti-Israeli students who stormed into a classroom, an Israeli history class in Columbia, and they were suspended. And then there were demonstrations for the suspended kids. And that goes at Barnard, and that played out there. And next thing you know, Columbia has lost $400 million. They've recycled through two interim presidents.

They still can't control their student body. And now they have nine items that they got a punch card that they got to fulfill in order to have hope of getting that $400 million back. Harvard's also on the docket. Princeton. Too.

How do you feel about this?

Well, it's hard for me. I went to one of those schools for college, and I spent my whole life hoping that my son would go to one of those schools. And now I don't know that I even want him to go to college. I mean, the problem is anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism is endemic. It is built into the media.

There's not much of a difference. People should understand that. No, but interestingly, you don't see it at these schools in the chemistry department or the physics department or the math department. Where you see it is in all these new fake areas of academia. It's usually something dash studies, where basically all you can do with your degree is become a community organizer.

And that is where you see this real anti-American, anti-Semitic hatred come, and they're using it. And the other problem is they're importing people from around the world to participate in these things. And that's why President Trump rounding them up, canceling their visas, and sending them home is the right thing to do. Do you plan on getting on armed services or foreign affairs committees?

Well, when you come in in the middle of a term and you're the bye guy at the bottom, you have to take the screen. Scraps that are available. And so I've told the team, put me where you need me. There's not a whole lot of committee spots left to give. I would very much like to be on foreign affairs because those issues are important to me as well.

But I really want to see us fix the issues on our college campuses. What we're doing to Americans, what we're doing to our kids, is we're poisoning their minds. And it's a shame because that's the future. We've got to have our kids know the way the world works, know what makes America great, know what makes Israel great, know what makes our Western civilization great, because too many of them are being told it's bad and it's just not a problem. And it's incredible because these foreign organizations and countries and terrorist organizations are pouring money in.

So these people are being paid to protest. And I don't know where these professors are getting their paychecks from because they seem to be firmly in the Hamas camp. Not even Palestinian camp, Hamas camp.

Well, that's again, you have to look at the development of universities over the last 20 or 30 years. They started taking money from these foreign countries that don't like us. They endowed chairmanships. They picked professors. The percentage of students coming from these places has gone up.

So, they have changed the demographics of universities from being pro-American to bringing in people who don't like America. And then we see what these problems are. Look, what I would do: I would say most people are in college on student loans. I would say if these schools behave this way, you can't use their loans there. I chaired higher ed in Florida for two years.

What I learned is you can have all the policies you want, but when you touch the budget, when you take the money away, they get in shape real fast. And I think that's what all of you are doing. It's pretty amazing. Harvard is desperate to get the President's attention to say, don't hold up our money anymore. Congressman Randy Fine, before we go, just on what the Israelis are doing now.

The IDF has penetrated deep into Rafah, and now they've taken out a lot of their mid-range commanders. And now we're seeing the Palestinian people rise up and protest against Hamas.

So I've been having trouble seeing the difference between Hamas and the Palestinian people, but the people of the Palestinian people are seeing the difference. They had one of the protesters got murdered. The family came back and murdered the police officer.

So they're in a very tenuous time over there. What do you make of it?

Well, I think that's good. Look, not everyone in Gaza is a terrorist or supports terrorists. Unfortunately, many, many do. And so that's the challenge. It's not a small number.

And we've just got to be supporting the good people. Look, there are lots of Arabs who live in Israel and like living in Israel. They have full rights. They're citizens. They have very successful lives.

In fact, Arabs have more rights in Israel than they have in most Muslim countries. And so what we need to create is a world where Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Jews that all want to live together can live together in peace in Israel. But the bad ones, they got to go. Right. That would be great while the Houthi rebels lob rockets and while the Iranians build nuclear weapons.

It's a dangerous time in the world, but Congressman, you're going to be right in the middle of it. Congratulations on your victory. He's going to be representing the 6th District. There's no Congressman-elect, right? You're in.

I got sworn in last night at 6 o'clock, less than 24 hours from the time the election ended to the time we got sworn in. I'm excited to do it. How's your family feel about it? They are excited. We're all sort of surreal.

I mean, I've slept about 10 hours in the last three nights. But look, President Trump needs warriors that will go and fight for them. The majority is so slim. And he asked me to do this because he saw in Florida that I was a guy that wasn't afraid of a fight, who'd pick up the sword, run up the hill, and chop the dragon's head off. And I'm ready to do it.

What is the margin now? The margin for me, I won by 14. No, the margin. Oh, it's 220. We're up to 220 to 213, I think.

I think there's a couple of Democrats who passed away, unfortunately.

So if they were to win, that would be 215 to 220.

Okay, so you have five. It's a little bit different than two. And sure. Stefanik is back. You're in.

The gate seat is now back.

So now you have a little bit of a margin. And now just go past earthshaking budget resolutions. Great to see you, Congressman. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

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I'm inviting you to join in-depth conversations every week on the Ben Dominich Podcast. Listen and follow now at FoxNewsPodcast.com. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. You said 10% over 10 years would be $2.5 trillion coming in.

You know, you look at this list of all these countries, and there's some policy decisions here. China is at 34%, added to the 20% already, so that's 54% on Chinese goods. Are they going to come back with something big?

Well, we'll see what they do. My advice to every country right now is do not retaliate, sit back. Take it in, let's see how it goes because if you retaliate, there will be escalation. If you don't retaliate, this is the high watermark. Right.

So we're seeing how everything's sitting. Right now, it looks like the EU's got a major conference with foreign ministers, foreign trade representatives. I think it's October 7th. They're looking to probably hit our tech sector. It looks like the Chinese are evaluating, but they're going to hit us back.

They're going to go after the farmers. It's their perception that Trump is very associated with the farmers. Last time, Trump came in with a subsidy, but 54%. There was word, I was looking at Bloomberg today, and they said that the Chinese are much less equipped now than when Trump was first in to go out of trade war because they're overrun with product. The consumers are not confident.

They're not spending a lot. They're offering all types of subsidies to go to tell the Chinese people to go buy cars and to buy some of the items that they're making. And overseas, a lot of people are getting fed up with cheap Chinese goods, hurting their own local economy. And also, they're getting it elsewhere. Vietnam, South Korea, and other places.

Thailand is beginning to become more industrious.

Now, I'm not saying. That Chinese is not on the march and that they don't have a growing economy. But they said that they're more susceptible than ever. And now we're this great consumer nation. Even our detractors would say that.

And now, when the products come in, it's going to be charged 54%.

So a lot of people are going to just say, no problem. I'm going to walk past it.

Now, in talking to other people with products on Amazon, where everybody goes to shop these days, it's not like 60% of those products are made in China. Do you think we should do something about that? Are they avoiding all taxes and tariffs? In terms of farmers, there's a lot of Republicans worried, Senator Tom Tillis, North Carolina, Cod 9. Anyone who says there may be a little bit of pain before we get things right need to talk to my farmers who are one crop away from bankruptcy.

Right. Senator John Kennedy also hoping, big Trump fan, but hoping things turn out right, Cut Seven. I understand where President Trump is coming from. America is the wealthiest country in all of human history. It's consumer driven.

Our people like to buy stuff.

So the President is saying, let's use our leverage. He's saying to every business in every country in the world, if you want to sell to America, move your business here. I get it. And in the long run, he's right. But in the long run, we're all dead.

The short run matters too. And the truth is, we do not know yet what the impact of these tariffs are going to be. We just don't. Huh.

So that's very well put. He's saying, I get it. I understand the objective, but just know that we're in a situation where. We have very little margin for error. What I don't buy is that the economy was really struggling.

The economy was fine, but with the structure of the economy was not fine. Because when you make when you bring in four point five trillion and you spend between six and seven trillion, how many years can you do that?

Well, I don't know, those numbers don't make sense to me.

Well, just understand, we're bringing in a record amount of revenue, so we are productive. But we're spending way too much. And it was explained to me that we were spending about $5 trillion before the pandemic. It went up because we told everyone not to go to work thanks to the Chinese virus. And it never came down.

And look at the pain and look at the outrage. People are expressing as we try to bring expenses down through Doge. I mean, they're burning up Teslas, having crazy town halls.

So something's got to give. But I think the president could never go wrong continuing to explain his objective and giving people an understanding of what's coming. Carly Shimpkis is next. We'll expand on this. There's other things to talk about, too, besides what's happening with the economy.

Brian Kilmicho, so glad you're here. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmead. Last year, criticizing U.S. foreign policy, what would you do differently, Donald?

I'd make our allies, forgetting about the enemies, the enemies you can't talk to so easily, I'd make our allies pay their fair share. We're a debtor nation.

Something's going to happen over the next number of years with this country because you can't keep going on losing 200 billion, and yet we let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets and everything. It's not free trade. If you ever go to Japan right now and try to sell something, forget about it, Albert. Just forget about it. It's almost impossible.

They don't have laws against it. They just make it impossible. They come over here, they sell their cars, their VCRs, they knock the hell out of our companies. And hey, I have tremendous respect for the Japanese people. I mean, you can respect somebody that's beating the hell out of you, but they are beating the hell out of this country.

Kuwait, they live like kings. The poorest person in the world is the world. Kuwait, they live like kings. And yet they're not paying. We make it possible for them to sell their oil.

Why aren't they paying us 25% of what they're making? It's a joke.

So that is 1988. That is Donald Trump on with Oprah Winfrey, Carly Shimkiss. That is to show you that what the president did yesterday is nothing new for him. Yeah. Yeah, he's been talking about this for a while.

I remember, you know, it's funny. I remember when I was Don Imamus' assistant when he was thinking about running for president in 2012. And he was talking about this back then and China and the unfair trade.

So the thinking behind this is nothing new. And yesterday was. As he said, what he called Liberation Day, and the day that he finally implemented what he's been talking about for some 30 years now. Cut one. We cannot pay the deficits of Canada, Mexico and so many other countries.

We used to do it. We can't do it anymore. We take care of countries all over the world. We pay for their military. We pay for everything they have to pay.

And then when you want to cut back a little bit, they get upset that you're not taking care of them any longer. But we have to take care of our people. And we're going to take care of our people first.

So, sounds very similar, right? Yeah, right.

Okay, so I think the most important questions here are because nobody really knows what the impact of this will be, nobody. We're on uncharted territory right now. What are the president's goals and what will the ultimate impact be? And when it comes to goals, I mean, he's clearly motivated by the fact that he feels like the United States has been treated unfairly, similar to NATO nations not paying their fair share. It's about principle with him, which is why I think that chart yesterday was really so effective between, you know, what other countries tariff us, and now we're going to cut it in half and tariff them that way.

The other goal is. Really, to bring manufacturing back to the United States, so we don't have to call the Rust Belt the Rust Belt anymore. And that could happen. And as Treasury Secretary Bessett said yesterday, that would increase jobs, not in the long term, but in the short term, because you've got to build those factories. And then if revenue is raised in the process, that's a very good thing.

My big fear, though, Brian, is that this would be an opportunity for China because we're tariffing adversaries and allies alike.

So China could go, hey, Japan, South Korea, even some European nations, do you see what America is doing when it comes to tariffs? Why don't you make some more trade alliances with us and we'll treat you better than the United States is now? Yeah, we're not doing a great job maintaining our alliances and our friendships right now because we're trying to reconfigure it all and rebalance it. And China could jump in on that. China's not happy.

They have now 54% tariffs. If you take the 20% penalty on fentanyl and then the new rate that we just handed them, Vietnam up 46%.

Now, I think Vietnam zeroed everything out the day before. I don't know why. They couldn't change the chart. And Israel as well. Yeah.

Right. With that 17%. Yeah. So I think, you know what? That might be because this is just such a massive undertaking that things are taking a little longer to officially sort out.

But the dust has absolutely not settled yet. But to me, you could definitely get the market's attention by saying, I just come up with India. Here's our new deal. I just go to the phone with Vietnam. Here's the new deal with Israel.

Here's the new deal. The EU is going to decide April 7th. We think that maybe as early as today, we're going to get an answer from China's retaliatory tactics.

So we'll see where it goes. I'll tell you, there were four Republicans that are not on board. Murkowski, Collins, McConnell, and Rampo. Yeah, and you can see that, I mean, there's definitely a divide, a difference of opinion even within the Republican Party. There was a vote yesterday in the Senate to try and curb the president's powers to tariff, which clearly proves that.

But one of the reasons why maybe they're not saying, okay, we're going to make a deal with Israel, we're going to make a deal, is because that's not the goal. I mean, one of the goals that people were thinking is to go back to free trade. It's a 0% tariff across the board. President Trump has never liked that.

So maybe he's saying, okay, you won't tariff us, but I'm not going to make that announcement because we want to increase revenue in the United States with our tariff.

So I think just the goals here are different. Right. And that's interesting, yeah, because they want the revenue because he wants to de-emphasize income tax and bring stuff tariff tax. It was brought up by, and I haven't checked it, but I watched Ram Paul last night. And he said, after McKinley passed all these tariffs, they lost the House and Senate.

They got routed. In 1916, or whatever it was. Teddy Roosevelt took over after he was assassinated in his second term.

So McKinley ended up dying, but he was big into balancing trade back then because he saw America was emerging as his industrial power and saw some inequities in it. But in the short term, the short term is to the midterms. Yeah, I know. I know. There's a long-term goal, right, of bringing manufacturing back to the United States, but Can people really I mean, our political cycles are so short, and we're coming off high inflation as it is, and people are sick and tired of.

Of paying all of this money for things that used to cost less.

So, if this does increase prices, which a lot of economists, which I am not, but a lot of economists say it will, and you can understand that, if things cost more to import, then of course, you know, companies aren't going to completely eat the cost. All right, so let's talk about local politics, excuse me, national politics if we can. Your take on what Corey Booker accomplished with his 25-hour consecutive speech. What do you think?

Well, I'm sure he had to tinkle and he needed a nap. I think that that was about Corey Booker, right? And I think it's him angling himself to become the leader of the Democrat Party and potentially run for president. And he's starting it now. It was the stamina of it was impressive, what he did.

But that, you know, it wasn't like you were filibustering a bill or any sort of policy was being blocked by what he was doing. That was really the Corey Booker show. And he's getting a lot of attention. You know, he's getting a lot of praise.

So I think he's angling himself. He sees a window. I mean, Who would it be? Maybe Corey Booker is somebody that could take up that role as being the next leader. Do you think that he, I mean, he's getting some praise, but I don't know what he did.

So he talked for the longest time, and he just was, it looked like he was going to cry a few times. I know, he's right.

So he's hoping that he was getting a little late. Basically, he's like, I'm frustrated that my party keeps losing. That is lost. I mean, and basically, he was, of course, he doesn't like Trump or anything he does.

Okay. What have you done about it? I know. But what legislation have you offered? He hasn't, really.

He's very active on social media, and he's doing this long, it wasn't even a filibuster, but this long speech. But you're right. I mean, he's just speaking out against Donald Trump. And, you know, that really is the issue within the Democratic Party right now. Because what new ideas did he have to offer during that speech?

Or was it just a speech solely on him hating Donald Trump and Elon Musk?

So I want you to hear what Charlamagne, The God Said, in The Daily Show. Just tell me what you think. Cut 30 for it. Schumer is not the man with a plan to fight Trump. He ain't the man with a plan for a good Cinco de Mayo.

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schuman need to be primarily and thrown out of office. Maybe Democratic leaders in Congress ain't it. What if we look outside of Washington to the governors? Gavin Noosa from California, he's been getting active lately. What's his fight plan?

We need to change the conversation. And that's why I'm launching a new podcast. And this is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast. I don't believe you. Your body doesn't even believe the words you're saying.

So, what he was doing is mocking the gesticulations. Have you listened to Gavin Newsom's podcast? Yeah, I have. I listened to the episode of him with Charlie Kirk, the one that made a ton of news because he made the transgender comments, how he doesn't think that it's fair in a state that has those policies.

So, it's like your move, governor. It's your law. I actually thought it was very good. I think that he comes across as very likable. And he was very respectful.

And he talked about how his son really wanted to skip school and meet Charlie. I mean, they couldn't be any more political opposite. But I say that because it proves that Gavin Newsom is what Charlotte the God said. He's just a political animal. Yeah, I don't even know.

My takeaway. was that The convictions when it comes to somebody like Newsom aren't there. He doesn't really have a political identity. Like I Brian, I know that you feel deep in your soul the way you do about politics is just your core fundamental beliefs. That's not the takeaway with Gavin Newsome.

He will go with the political wins. Whatever the popular opinion is, is what he wants because he likes the politics of it. He likes the workshopping and the power. But I don't really see the political ideology. But you know, the thing is about him, I think he's to the left, but he'll swing back and forth depending who he's with.

So, like, for example, if he actually changed his mind on things, I'd go, well, what is he going to do if he got into office? But he's not changing his mind on any of his policies. No. He's not getting more involved in rebuilding Los Angeles. You know, there's a lawsuit now to get trans men or trans boys out of women's sports.

There's a bill that's being negotiated. And he said that he doesn't want to get involved, even though he said that he thinks that these policies are wholly unfair.

So he should say, you know what? I agree. Let me cross the aisle and side with Republicans. But of course, he's not going to do that. Yeah.

So here's what Mark Wayne Mullen said about Corey Booker, Cut 38. I mean, Corey Booker, personally, I actually get along with him. Politically, we couldn't be more different. He spoke for 25 hours. I can't think of a single thing he said other than what you said.

He ranted against Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Well, that's the same playbook that the Democrat Party's had. Hakeem Jeffries isn't leading it. Chuck Schumer isn't leading it. And their poll numbers show it. 21% favorability across the United States with Democrat voters.

That's about as low as it gets.

So here it is. The Hill did a survey. And they asked people who are the White House contenders for 2028.

So for the Democrats. Harris is number one. It's unbelievable, 58%. Buddha Judge is 239%. Walls, Tim Walls is three of thirty-eight.

AOC is tied with walls, and then you had Sanders 36 and Booker 27. For the Republicans, it's Vance 69, DeSantis 42, Don Jr. 39, Rubio 34, Ted Cruz 33. Oh, man, those names are so on the Democrat side. I don't think it's going to be any of them.

I always think maybe somebody like Mark Cuban could run. I don't know. What do you think about that? Just like somebody from the business world, like taking up what Donald Trump did with Republicans, a strong, potentially likable person. I don't know if, I think Mark Cuban's pretty likable, right?

Right. I don't, I don't, I mean, Mark Cuban really hurt. His Kamala Harris down the stretch. Remember when he said there's no strong Republican women?

So this guy was barely on the campaign trail, two and a half weeks. And he goes, he really knows John Trump doesn't like strong Republican women around him. And that was the story for two weeks. But, you know, you can. But I mean I'm just saying that You're saying that he's not possible.

He also evaluated Kamala Harris, and he said, She's got it. She's got what it takes. Very impressed. Yeah, and then there's that book. I like talking about that book, that about all the the I know it's like backward looking what happened in the election, but I just think it's so funny.

There's three books coming out in the next two weeks. Yeah. There's a Jake Tapper book, which he should not read it. He didn't say a word about it when he did it.

Now he's finding out all the information. And then you have Jonathan Allen's book, which is out now. Yeah, yeah. At which time, you know, he said everyone from Ron Klain on down were noticing the decline of Joe Biden. Yeah.

Is that the one with that the Hill? The two authors on the hill?

Okay, yeah, that's what I'm talking about, where a lot of people made a big deal about how Joe Biden, you know, had a makeup artist with him to make him look. I don't care about that. But I do care about the fact that he needed. Tape. like fluorescent tape to guide him.

In a way to get out of a house that he was having a fundraiser at. I mean, these were things that were so clear, but we were called they were deep fakes. You know what, honestly, that I still think that that will hurt the party with years to come because, I mean, the lie was so massive that people are just, it can't be trusted. You know, the party.

So I was telling you this, Carly Shimkiss, before the thing of the show. I'm reading Alexander Dugan's book, who's the main advisor to Vladimir Putin, and it's in English and it's about Trump. And just to get the Russian perspective, And they said, I mean, I could read you the quote. He goes, the whole world knew that he was senile. But he showed you that the deep state is running the country and you don't need a president.

And then he went on to say Trump's different. That's why they're trying to kill him.

So, just to get, it doesn't matter what you think. I think Vladimir Putin is evil but not stupid. And Alexander Dugan is the one filling him with a lot of these grandiose ideas about what Russia should be. But just to know what the world thought, exactly what we were saying on the couch. And there were people like, how dare you?

KJP, that's insulting. Joe Scarborough, this is the best version of Joe Biden ever.

Meanwhile, the other countries were saying this guy's nuts. It's true.

Well, that's fascinating that you're reading that book. And it's true. I mean, if our adversaries and world leaders of other countries can't see it, can see it, then how come Joe Scarborough and half the country are turning a blind eye to it? And if they're lying to you about that, what else are they lying about? I ask you that as we go to break, and I want you to think about that hard.

Okay, I will. Yes, I feel like I'm in timeout. Yeah, let's not even talk during the break. I just want you to think.

Okay. Is that possible? I'll think too. I'll hold my breath. Right.

No, don't do that. You'll end up. Got it. Back in a moment. Illuminating, intriguing, inculcating.

I know some of these words. It's Brian Kilmead. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Well, it's a very disappointing result on the floor there. A handful of Republicans joined with all the Democrats to take down a rule. That's rarely done. It's very unfortunate in this case. 96% of House Republicans voted against.

Proxy voting because they believe it's unconstitutional and they agreed that it would open a Pandora's box. And so that's what we just saw. Let me just make this clear: that rule being brought down means. That we can't have any further action on the floor this week. That means we will not be voting on the SAVE Act for election integrity.

We will not be voting on the rogue judges who are attacking President Trump's agenda. We will not be taking down these terrible Biden policies with the CRA votes. All that was just wiped off the table. It's very unfortunate. We'll regroup and come back, and we'll have to do this again.

So, that is Speaker Johnson talking about Congresswoman Luna, who wanted to put something on the floor saying that if you give birth as a female, for what we know, only women can give birth, you should be able to do remote voting. And they didn't want to vote. Republicans wanted to kill it because they say Pandora's box because their theory is: yeah, okay, what about hip surgery? What about cancer surgery? What about death in the family?

What about, you know, oh, you know, it's hard for me to get a plane at that hour.

So they worry about what it will lead to. As a woman who's given birth, Carlos, how do you feel?

Okay, well, first of all, I've never been introduced like that before. Oh, yeah. It's an honor. It was written down there. Right, okay.

But it's true. It should be my chiron. It should be my larger as a woman who has given birth. I think that this was a big old mess within the Republican Party, and Anna Paulina Luna and. Speaker Johnson need to sit in an office together and sort this one out because what she was advocating for was twelve weeks surrounding the birth of your child to be able to remotely vote.

And I mean, maybe I don't know enough about the inner workings of Congress to know if that's like a good thing or a bad thing. But I do know that it shouldn't have st completely halted voting on two really important things. I mean, they were going to vote on voter ID. Oh, I know. And also these rogue judges, which I think way outweigh the twelve weeks surrounding the birth of the paced herself and went to another time.

I know and worked it out. I also don't think it looks good when lawmakers Pull these moves where it's like, we need more this and that. We need more money. We need more time off. Maybe they do, but you did.

run for a position where you are s working for the American people.

So, uh you know, it's it's one of those things that I don't think really made her look.

Well, number one, you just know what's gonna happen.

So, a woman gives birth and then the husband Well, excuse me, don't I get paternity? Aren't we an equal society? I need some time up.

Okay. Sean Duffy's wife gave birth like seven times when he was in Congress. He would have never worked. Yeah. Right?

So, but there are people going to say, why in society? Yeah. Do men take up but not in Congress? That's right. And Caroline Levitt, and she gave birth and she was like on the campaign trail the next day.

Kayleigh McEnany as well. Right. These are incredible women. Who we haven't solved the problem, have we? We have not.

But we'll continue talking about birthing people. Thank you very much. Then we come up with a break. Whoever they are. From Hia Tom, Fox News headquarters in New York City.

Always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone, from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, Brian Killmeat Show. In the Trump era, nothing slows down. Certainly, the story today is we have so many balls in the air right now, it's easy to forget that it's more than just tariffs.

Well, we'll discuss that with Taylor Riggs, one of the co-hosts of the Big Money Show, on weekdays. You'll see her all over the channel too on FBN. Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna is going to be with us on the House Oversight Committee, Foreign Affairs, just left the Freedom Caucus because she could not get an exemption that she was offering on the floor for women after they give birth to have 12 weeks off and to be able to vote. Remotely. Because of various reasons.

We'll get to discuss that with her.

So let's get to the big three. Number three. Schumer is not the man with a plan to fight Trump. He ain't the man with a plan for a good Cinco de Mayo. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer need to be primarily and thrown out of office.

So it's not too early to talk elections. We have the Dems recalibrating and the next generation of Republican leaders maneuvering. And we have the latest polls, believe it or not, for 2028. Number two. I call on my colleagues right now to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador.

This guy has no reason to be in a jail in El Salvador. He's only there because of Trump's policies. It's just so amazing how people care about an MS-13 gangster, where they actually got deported to, which might have been a mistake to send him back to his home country, I guess. Success at the border has been unparalleled in American history, but turbulence has hindered Trump's attempt to rid our nation of alien criminals in our jails and troublemakers on our campuses, we examine. Number one.

We cannot pay the deficits of Canada, Mexico, and so many other countries, but we have to take care of our people and we're going to take care of our people first. Monster trade tariff bill announced, not bill, I should say, moves, in the Rose Garden and ripples around the world are felt. What Trump's plan is and how it's designed to help the nation be self-sufficient and make things again.

So we're waiting for the retaliation, the response. Canada, they expect a response, but maybe they've been quiet for now, and I think Mexico sometime today. The EU has come out and said they have a meeting April 7th with their trade representatives. They most likely will hit our tech sector, our tech sector, it's been speculated. And China, they are meeting now.

They say it's U.S. bullying. The overall tariffs now on products, over 50%. Josh Krashauer joins us now, Fox News Radio political analyst, editor-in-chief of Jewish Insider. And Josh, so far the market hates it, down 835 points.

Your thoughts? Yeah, Brian. Uh look, there was a reason why the the rose garden Ceremony yesterday was held after the markets closed because the visuals of watching people selling their stocks, people, you know, the business leaders, Wall Street, having such a negative reaction to it was not going to be good publicity.

Now, at least there's time for the message to get out there, for them to sell it to the news networks overnight. And now the market still has a negative reaction. Look, I think the big question, Brian, is whether Trump used these very, very aggressive tariffs. As the start of a negotiation with some of these countries, or whether tariffs on their own Are viewed by this administration as a good in and of itself. And when I listened to the vice president on Fox and Friends with you guys this morning, it sounds like it's more the latter.

It sounds like they are not going to be necessarily using this as a negotiating tool, that this could be the new normal. And they're trying to end sort of the long post-World War II era of free trade, free markets, and globalization and working with other countries to, you know, if it's cheaper to make clothing in Vietnam, then that's good for the United States economy so we can spend more money on advanced economic interests.

So that whole belief system, that whole worldview that's governed international economy for many, many decades seems to be out the window. And I think it's something that the markets were not prepared for. Here's what Senator John Kennedy said. He's remarkably candid, always cut six.

Some say This will cause a recession. His tariffs will cause a recession. Others say it will cause growth. In my eight years in Washington, what I've learned is that for every economist, There's an equal and opposite economist, and they're both usually wrong.

Some of these experts, Make those late-night psychic hotlines look respectable. How great is that? Just it. And I tell you, it reminds me of the mock draft they had for the NFL because I come from a sports background. I watch ESPN, they're like, oh, we think the Giants are taking Shador Sanders.

Well, how do you know? I don't know. It seems to be a fit. Because people have different opinions about their own calculus and they're arrogant about it. Very similar to sports.

Yeah, no, I I do think that that's a senator and I always enjoyed listening to him. You know, predictions and economic predictions tend to be off base. That said, like I will say that it's hard to find an economist, whether you're liberal, conservative, no matter what your background is, that has been endorsing the the economic theory behind the President's tariffs. along the lines of like the ESPN draft punditry is that there there are now a lot of uh banking banks and and and other financial experts that are rating the chances of of a recession. I think that's much more up in the air.

Um you do see some pretty pretty pretty uh Seasoned experts on the subject saying that there could be a 50-50 chance that we have a recession by the end of the year, which is pretty alarming. That would not be good for Trump's political standing. Needless to say if that happened. But I think the economy is so complicated. There's so many different variables.

We don't know that. What we do know is it's hard to find a lot of economists, or any economists maybe, that have really been endorsing the new tariff policy. Right, especially short term.

So the one thing I want them to change their stance on, if it indeed is a stance, is doing a deal. If you want to bring these people to the table, great idea. You know, this is how bad it's going to be unless you bring your tariffs down. Doug Ford, Ontario Premier, Canada, cut 16. We'd be willing to take those off tomorrow if he took all the tariffs off.

We are not the problem. Andrew, do you know what the problem is? China's the problem. He knows. And Secretary Lopnik knows that we're willing to take these tariffs off in the next minute if he said he's taking their tariffs off.

You know, it's lumber and it's dairy and some of the inequities with Canada.

So just get them into shape. You know, form that U.S. new USMCA. I know they want the revenue and they want to de-emphasize income tax in the big picture. Yeah, well, what what I don't understand and what the Canadians and Doug Ford is a conservative leader of Ontario and what he doesn't understand is that they they that Trump himself cut a big beautiful deal in his first term promoting free trade across the the continent and this goes against every one of those principles in that deal so that that's why a lot of the Canadians are flummoxed about about this.

It's a total one eighty from Trump's policy in his first term. And you know, you hear a lot you heard this from the White House yesterday about reciprocal tariffs. Yeah. a country does reduce its tariffs and they would get get get uh that they wouldn't be penalized or imposed on said country. But one example that we've covered at JI, a Jewish Insider, is that Israel actually reduced the tariffs before the announcement yesterday to zero and thought that they were going to have some reciprocity.

And it sounds like they also were hit with a tariff. And other countries that were trying to make moves to reduce their own tariffs against the United States were still hit with tariffs.

So there's a lot of confusion. I mean, I think the theory of like, you know, the goal of lowering tariffs across the board and using this as a tool for that end makes some sense. But that's apparently not what happened and there's still a lot of confusion over whether that is the intended goal of these policies.

Well, I mean, we have it is President Trump's vision, but it looks like Besson and Luttnick have more than bought into it, and the Vice President did a good job defending it. And we'll see how long the President wants to deal with the stock market losing 1,500 points, losing 900 points.

So we'll see where that goes, because then you're going to have a lot of Republicans who are nervous. I want to tap into another area of your expertise, and that's what's happening in Gaza. And I've been noticing this, and I'm sure you've been seeing this and maybe reporting on it. But it looks like the Palestinian people are beginning to rise up and take their anger out on Hamas. And it looks like after a couple of days of protest, Hamas went out and assassinated one of the thought the leaders.

And then the families came back and killed the Hamas cop that killed their son. And then there's back these people are rising up because the IDF has went back in hard after they screwed up another hostage swap. Yeah, the number of Gazans that are saying enough is enough. It's hard to speak out when you live under a totalitarian regime, a brutal regime like Hamas. But for the first time in a while, we're starting to see some concerted efforts by Palestinians living in Gaza that they need to get rid of Hamas.

Now, some of these, as you noted, Brian, some of these people who have been speaking out have been brutally killed or oppressed.

So it's not easy for that to happen. But look, the only way that there's going to be peace is if Hamas is routed. From Gaza, and if there is like a a sane, more more. Humane governing entity taking over. And unfortunately, we're far away from that.

That there still are a lot of Palestinians who support Hamas, even though they're more speaking out. And Israel's military operation is designed to try to weaken Hamas even further. But the big challenge, we've talked about this a lot on the show, Brian, is that part of the challenge is that a lot of Palestinians in Gaza have been radicalized, that they are becoming more extreme. And there's no sign that there, I mean, I'm hoping that these are signals that maybe there is a change in public opinion. Maybe the military operation is actually making them realize that this is not the way to go.

But it may take some time for real progress to be made. Go get him. Thanks so much, Josh. Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian.

Exciting time. Taylor Riggs will go inside these tariffs and what we can expect in just a moment from FBN. Brian Kilmeado. It's Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. And the long run, we're all dead. Short run matters too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy. Anyone who says there may be a little bit of pain before we get things right needs to talk to my farmers who are one crop away from bankruptcy.

And that's the problem. There's very little, there's not much of a net. Taylor Riggs joins us now, co-host of the Big Money Show. A must-listen every or a much watch every day at 12. Taylor, your thoughts about how the market's reacting.

It looks like we're down about 860 right now. Yes.

Okay, so markets always shoot first and ask questions later.

So you wake up, all the algorithms see tariffs worse than expected, and everyone sells, sells, sells. Algorithms. Yes.

The markets are not the economy. But the markets can start to tell us how we're thinking about Corporations who are publicly traded, who have said we now have no earnings. Let's say, for example, and I'm making this up, Nike comes out and their quarterly earnings report and they say we can't pass on prices to consumers. We're eating that cost, therefore we have no earnings, no profitability. That's what the market today is trying to figure out.

Are companies profitable? Are they passing on costs to the consumers? I loved your bump and sod. Anyone who thinks they know the impact has no idea what the impact is going to. We really have no idea.

Most of the economic notes I read this morning are very much tilted to the negative side. But frankly, they were also tilted to the negative side back in 2018 when we did the limited tariffs on China as well, and they were wrong.

So I am very much, I'm trying to exhale, take a deep breath, and wait and see. The markets are not waiting and seeing. They're just looking forward to the next quarterly earnings report and getting through the next three months.

So, with people with textiles, one person in the textile business, very successful, wrote me and says, He'll need to spend $12 million more to bring the country to bring his textile business back. And he says, Making clothing is hard. Yes.

And that when they bring it back to the U.S., they're not good at it because we haven't done it. I thought to myself, Wow, this isn't just a machine, but it's not. Evidently, Vietnam and these other countries, especially in Southeast Asia, are good at it and they come in at an affordable number. This blows up the whole metrics. Plus, it takes a while to bring back your stuff, right?

It does. I was reading one note that auto terrorists even moved 10% of the supply chain could be a three-year process.

So, and you know what? I hear small businesses like the textile manufacturer who wrote into you. My only response to that is the new balance CEO tells it his shoes are made in the USA. They're not a publicly traded company, they're privately traded. Tesla, 87.5% of their parts are made in the USA.

Tesla was able to do it in America, making things in America.

Now, not perfect. There are some robotics, but he had to literally build a factory floor from hand. Yes, it took a long time. And that is the conundrum where I think we desperately now, more urgently than we did yesterday, need those tax cuts. We need to be able to do full expensing of factories, not just equipment, which is very different, which will allow that person who wrote into you to fully write off that expense.

And so I think tax cuts are absolutely more urgent. And also, A thousand percent short-term pain for long-term gain. But again, what is that price that we want to pay for the long-term? Right. Howard Luttnick weighed in yesterday, cut 13%.

They're going to want to negotiate, but these are the same people who have been ripping us off for all these years. Remember, the tariffs are only part of the issue. It's these non-tariff trade barriers where they just won't let you trade. They provide subsidies back like they charge this VAT tax, right? And they always say, Oh, it's not the VAT tax.

You know what some of these countries do? They take that 20% tax and they give it back to their producers.

So they crush our people. It's got to end. And what's going to happen is you're going to see the greatest renaissance of manufacturing in America.

So, I mean, he's cheerleading a little too, right? Of course, right. He's a commerce secretary who's part Putting this plan together, and that is his job. My A little frustration is the messaging.

So we heard yesterday from Scott Besson, who he said these tariffs are the ceiling, not the floor. It's negotiating. But Trump said in that press conference, Like these are permanent. This isn't negotiating. Like, this is it.

Then you have Howard Luttnick saying countries are calling us to negotiate. Markets, business leaders, we need certainty. I need to know. Do I have to build that factory in the USA? If I do, I will figure it out and make it work.

But if this is a negotiating tool and you're going to take these off three months from now, I can't build a capital plan around that.

So I think they need to work on the messaging so that I have certainty so I can plan. Right. And it's only three of them. I mean, three of those economic guys are the ones talking, and they should be able to get on the same page. I like the idea of negotiating.

Israel already came in, Vietnam came in. We hear India is trying to come in. You know, so let's start talking about it. Let's start negotiating. Trump does great at that.

Well, and the key is if this is a revenue raiser, he wants the revenue.

Well, and being able to both.

So you exactly.

So in our perfect world for free market capitalism, tariffs are zero. Everyone let the best person win, right? With zero percent tariffs on both sides. But if you're raising revenue, then that means my tariffs are not negotiable. That's where we're trying to read through the tea leaves and trying to figure out: is this a revenue raiser so we can reduce the income tax?

Or are we trying to get to full ultimate fair trade? And do you have an answer to that? No. We've heard both from the administration. That's why markets and the economy, it's the uncertainty.

I read one note today that said Liberation Day came and passed, but we don't have any more clarity. And I think that's maybe one of the issues that at least today the markets are digesting.

So China is looking to answer back. How do you think they're going to hit us back? You know, I don't know. I mean, to Howard Lutnick's credit, I really respect that they've come out and they've explained to the American people how China manipulates via currency manipulation. They underwrite all of their companies because that's what they do.

They're a big socialist government and they can just come in and give money to the companies the way that we in the private sector and American capitalism do not do.

So there are certain things like non-tariff barriers, like currency manipulation. China stocks, though, were down today as well. It's not clear who needs who more. I mean, Howard Luttnick was very clear this morning when he said, We are the world's consumer. The U.S.

consumes more than anyone else, trillions of dollars. China needs that. They need consumers more than ever, right? Absolutely. They say they're least equipped, less equipped now to handle it than they were the first time.

Absolutely, because they've been in a massive period of economic stagflation and deflation, almost, if you will. Consumers aren't spending over there. They are not spending, and they're in sort of an economic conundrum over there.

So, again, it is the game of chicken. Who needs who more? Right. I needed you, and you were there for me, Taylor. Thanks so much.

We'll watch you on FBN at noon. Thank you. Hey, when we come back, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show.

Hey, we are back. Thanks so much for listening. Our chance to keep up to date and all the breaking news. It's oh, wow, the market is down. 1400 points.

That is a disaster so far.

So we'll hold on tight and see. What's going on with the tariffs, how people are responding, how the world markets are trying to recover. We just spoke to Taylor Riggs on what the approach of the administration is. But let's take a step back. And if you want to know why there was a little activity on the House this week, it's because there was a clash.

There was a clash when Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna came out and said, hey, we need remote voting when it comes to women who serve and when it comes to after they give birth. They need a check. We don't want to zone out. I get that. But we want to have remote voting.

There's a huge problem with that because they worry about the ripple effect from there on in. The clash resulted in basically a shutdown of the House. Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna joins us now from the Florida's 13th District. Congresswoman, welcome. Hey, thank you so much for having me on.

No problem. I want to get your perspective. Obviously, when someone gives birth, we're not expected back at work for, what, three months in the private sector, sometimes even longer.

Well, you know. But in Congress they have not really addressed this until you brought it up, correct? Correct. They haven't addressed it. To put it in perspective, there's only ever been 13 women in U.S.

history to ever give birth while serving. But specifically right now, we have a pregnant legislator who's a Republican. And that, as you know, we have the slimmest majority in U.S. history.

So we have to address this. A lot of people saying, you know, you should have to go, we are going back to work and we still do, but we have a unique job to where one vote could essentially impact legislation for the country. And so, you know, this has been an ongoing discussion for over two years, but what happened this week specifically. Is instead of allowing to keep the floor open and let us keep voting, which Speaker Johnson could have done, because I There's something called a rule and it's a parliamentary procedure and it allows legislation to come to the fore.

So it's not the actual bill. It's the legislation basically hatch that you would actually press to allow it to come down, right?

So what they did was they attached My petition to allow new moms to vote by proxy for a duration of time if they need it. And they attached it to the Save Act, and they weren't even planning on putting the SAVE Act on the floor, which is another separate conversation. And ultimately, as a result, failed and so we're here today.

So the vote failed, but some Democrats were some Democrats getting on board with it.

Well, so the push to allow the Democrat and Republican. But the problem here is that, you know, Johnson has largely been called out for this. He actually got community noted on X because he said that, you know, it was our fault. It wasn't, they chose to send us home. We could have stayed to keep voting.

So, you know, I don't like the lies in politics. And Speaker Johnson's a nice guy, but he should have done that. It was wrong.

So, why did they? Can you excuse me? I'm a little slow when it comes to parliamentary procedure. I apologize. But why would they put it with the SAVE Act?

They wanted it to essentially be killed on the floor.

So they were trying to force us to either kill this. Um kill this Legislation to allow new monks to vote, or they are going to paint us as anti-election integrity, which the irony in all this is that. Myself and eight other legislators, some of the most conservative in the House of Representatives, I think I have like a 93 or 94 percent freedom score, right?

So very conservative, very pro-Trump. um they try to pay us as anti election integrity. And I think that that in itself, when I was in internal discussions with the speaker and three it was three members specifically that are telling the speaker if he does not kill this, that they will shut down the entire House of Representatives. And it's people that do not believe And vote by proxy because they're saying that it's unconstitutional.

However, those are the same people that also voted by proxy.

So there's a lot going on right now. Frankly, the really exciting thing is that we actually have legislation that we need to pass. And we do have a slim majority. We have several members expecting children. And they're not going to be able to vote.

And we need their votes because we have the smallest majority in U.S. history.

You know, I think there's a lot of ego involved here, but at the end of the day, you can't just change the rules because you don't like that you're losing. You shouldn't play with the agenda of the president either. And so I'm just putting the facts out there and honestly, thank God for platforms like X that were able to community note the speaker because they even said you didn't have to send people home. Why did you do that? And so, you know, it's disingenuous to confuse the American people and try to paint us in a certain light, but this needs to be addressed, and I'm hoping that it will.

Here's what the speaker said right after this happened.

Well it's a very disappointing result on the floor there. A handful of Republicans joined with all the Democrats to take down a rule. That's rarely done. It's very unfortunate in this case. 96% of House Republicans voted against proxy voting because they believe it's unconstitutional and they agreed that it would open a Pandora's box.

And so that's what we just saw. Let me just make this clear. That rule being brought down means that we can't have any further action on the floor this week. That means we will not be voting on the SAVE Act. for election integrity.

We will not be voting on the rogue judges who are attacking President Trump's agenda. We will not be taking down these terrible Biden policies with the CRA votes. All that was just wiped off the table. It's very unfortunate. We'll regroup and come back and we'll have to do this again.

So you're saying that second half was insincere, they couldn't have stuck around? I Yeah, he he basically It's called a clean rule.

So he could have done the legislation with that rule and he chose to put it together. And even after the fact, they could have stayed. We could have stayed. We could have put it back on the floor and they chose to send us home. In a backroom discussion that I had with the speaker and these holdout members, they said that they were going to exercise their legislative ability to try to kill this.

And that's what they try to do. As you're also hearing, though, he said that we can't have, we're not going to go to vote on this legislation. I just want the American people to know that it wasn't until this came up with allowing new moms to vote that they were even willing to put the SAVE Act on the floor, which is a problem because we've had Congress for over 70 days. You know, there's a lot of nasty behavior that takes place in DC, but I'm not going to be quiet about it. And as you saw, the speaker got fact-checked on that, and they said, no, this is a lie.

And I'm glad that they did.

Okay, a couple of things. First off, have you contacted President Trump about this? I mean, you guys get along so well. I mean, is he - how does he feel? I don't like to disclose my personal conversations with the president, but what I will tell you is that his administration is one of the biggest pro-family administrations probably in U.S.

history.

And I would also say that This is not, you know, when we're talking about specifically vote by proxy or members of Congress from voting from home, no one's advocating for blanket allowances to do that, right? In fact, I am probably case in point. I had a child. I never voted by proxy. A lot of these members vocally opposed to this have voted by proxy, which is the irony in all this.

But again, we're talking about, you know, now with CATCAM at 14 in U.S. history, it needs to be addressed because it will impact our ability to pass legislation in the next couple of months. And what's crazy about this entire conversation and argument is to try to paint someone like this, and as you stayed, I have a wonderful relationship with President Trump, and he knows that, I have his cell phone number. Um But to paint us as anti-Trump I mean, why would you want to do that? You know, like this is just such a nasty thing to do.

And so, what I would say is, I would very much so like them to put all this back on the floor. And if our vote fails, our vote fails, but don't attach the two to try to make a political point and play with the president's agenda. And I don't think the president would appreciate that either.

So I will tell you that we have open lines of communication, but this is definitely it's disingenuous for the speaker to do and to behave the way that he did. But that's exactly why I'm just going to continue putting the facts out there. I have nothing to hide. And I hope that this can get resolved. It's amazing because Trump always solves problems harder than this.

I mean, he's He's even, I'm about to go cover the Live tournament in Daral, and he's trying to get the PGA and Live together. Uh that should be easier.

So, Congresswoman, a couple of things. This is what people worry about. And it's not without merit.

So, okay, obviously, does anybody want a woman who gives birth back at work the next day? It doesn't happen. It's not 1850, it's not pioneer woman. Everybody knows that. But now we have the advent of paternity.

Okay, so you give birth, excuse me, it's equal rights. Why is it okay for the woman to give birth and the man's got to go right back to work? His wife just had a baby. And then all of a sudden you have horrible things like Nancy Pelosi breaks a hip. She's stuck in the hospital in Lithuania.

Why can't she vote for proxy? Doesn't that matter for senior citizens who break hips? You can see eye to eye with that. And then there's people who go through horrible things like cancer surgery. Jamie Raskin, he's got to go through all his treatment.

Can he get remote voting? Isn't that horrible? Of course, it's horrible to go through cancer treatment, but that's what they worry about. And do you see what they're saying? Yeah, I The slippery slope argument is, I hear the what-ifs and hypotheticals, but specifically to this, right, I'm talking specifically female members.

And remember, the reason why it expanded to male members is because they wouldn't even allow the conversation for female members to be had.

So I tried this back in January when we did our rules negotiations, which is the rules that are governing the House. And they wouldn't even allow that to come to the floor. They wouldn't allow it to even be a discussion. And so now you have three Republican members, who've been in business, either three or four, that are men that have babies on the way. And in the event of Wesley Hunt, he had to leave his son in the NICU to come up.

It doesn't mean they have to use it, right? But the option, and then I said, Well, Mr. Speaker, why don't you have the discretion to approve and disprove? And then the answer to that was, you know, no. But the problem here is that these arguments and the what-ifs and hypotheticals are being made by people that voted by proxy.

And you can look this all up. And so that's why I'm saying is the argument there, there is no there there because these are the same people that when Push came to shove, they did it and their voting records are out there on it.

So that's, I guess, the irony in all this is that right now we have a slim majority, one of the slimmest majorities in U.S. history.

These are legitimate concerns. It doesn't mean the member has to do it, but there needs to be a way. For if, for example, Representative Kamick might need to be able to vote because she can't travel right back right away. You know, there's good legislation that we have. Hopefully, they put it on the floor.

But these are all genuine concerns. And so I would say that both sides, Republican and Democrat, abused the proxy voting during COVID-19 and they did it up until 2022. I wasn't there at that time. But what I can tell you is that I'm addressing a very real concern and that I've made my chase not just to Congress, but also to now I think we're making it to the American people. And I think that, you know, if they have the ability to put this on the floor, not attach it to anything, but do what they do with every other piece of legislation, it's going to pass overwhelmingly.

And that's because other Republicans are going to vote for it as well.

So there's a lot of internals, but I just wish that they weren't playing with the president's agenda like this. And what's next then?

Well, so there's a lot of time between now and Monday. And he talks with the speaker and others. And so we'll see. what they have to offer. I would tell the speaker, and I've been telling the speaker: you should not have done what you did.

It was not right. You shouldn't have sent us home. And I think now everyone knows that he has the ability to keep stairs, so hopefully, he won't do it again. Yeah. Uh okay, and you're and you left the Freedom Caucus, right?

You're so angry. You left the Freedom Caucus? What? Yeah, I love the Freedom Caucus because it was a few members in the Freedom Caucus that said that they were basically going to attach Something to kill this, allowing new moms to vote to the SAVE Act in an attempt to make me pick and choose and basically to try to launch a pressure campaign against me. And I actually wrote that in the letter to the Freedom Caucus.

And I wrote it in a letter to the conference because that in itself is just nasty. Ironically enough, too. you know, coming from people that didn't support the President.

So that's kind of a plotch list. Wow. Yeah, and lastly, just on something less important, the market lost 1,500 points. What's your reaction? Uh what's your reaction?

I know in speaking tributes to the President and also to my colleagues in Congress. That initially everyone was anticipating maybe a slight jolt, but I do believe long term, because of what's happening, you'll see that it will allow for American business, more revenue for our country, and then also to impact the way that we're able to shore up our coffers financially with the amount of product that we're getting from companies that are selling overseas. And so I think that it's going to be okay. Remember, everyone forgets. Go ahead.

No, go ahead. Yeah, everyone remembers what the economy was like under President Trump's first term. We're going to get back to there. Um And lastly. When you everyone wants to find out what's happening with the big, beautiful bill, have you seen what the Senate is working on?

I know the Senate and the House are both still kind of finessing the rest of that, but I do know for a fact in the big, beautiful bill, we are going to try. Permanently resolved, ending taxes on tips, ending tax on Social Security, ending tax on products that are made in America. Obviously, also, too, those discussions typically happen between. the Speaker of the House. And then also the minority, majority leader, and then their counterpart.

And so typically, what will happen is after those discussions happen, then we kind of see an overall input package. It'll kind of bring different factions of the conferences.

So we're still working on our end. But look, the goal is one big, beautiful bill. All right. And then just to seal this off, you're going to talk to the speaker again about reapproaching this? I mean, yes, I've been in talks with him multiple times throughout this.

But again, I would say that, you know, what people are seeing, I don't know if you remember the speaker's fight in January of 2020, or January of 2022, when we were negotiating the House rules and everyone was like, I don't understand what's going on in Congress. There's a lot of parliamentary what are rules. And so I think right now everyone's kind of understanding the process of how legislation works with the rule and the actual legislation.

So look, we have some great conservative members, but the process in all this has to be respected. And the speaker has the ability to keep us there and has the ability to ensure that these are all brought to the floor separately and given a fair shot. And he should do that. But he should not lie about conservative members. He should not go out there and be disingenuous because then he's going to get fact checked and that's embarrassing for him.

Go get them. Congresswoman, thanks so much for telling our audience your story. We got about 10 stations in Florida, so we heard it from your hearing throughout your district. Congressman, thank you very much. All right, thanks, guys.

Got it. Listen, when we come back, I'll be able to take your calls for the first time. I see you up there from Daytona to New Jersey, back to Florida. Don't move. Both sides, all opinions.

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Do you see a connection at all between the rhetoric we're hearing from Democrats on Musk and Tesla? Connection to the violence at all, what's happening on the streets to Tesla dealerships? Yeah, I mean, again, like, I've. I've seen Republicans call me communists. I hate this country.

I mean, it's like it's... I don't know why not. How are someone do you still have your test on? I was just wondering if you still have your test slit. are not holiday.

Well, I give her credit for talking. That's AOC not equating the violence that she's basically calling for, especially some of her colleagues. That woman named Congresswoman Crockett, who says can't wait for Musk to feel the pain, and talks about how many dealerships. I think 44 attacks in March on various Tesla dealerships that have been reported, drivers as well as power stations. And I saw a major attack over in Italy, all because Elon Musk is somebody that wants to help out Donald Trump.

And I think, in a way, I think they're right. They think it's a heat shield for. Donald Trump, normally he'd be getting a lot of this incoming.

Now Musk is getting a lot of it. Then there's a story in Politico yesterday that said Musk's time is coming to an end. Not really. It's not true. Talk to various people who would know.

At the White House, they would certainly say, Yeah, you can go with that political story. And they said, No, it's not true. But he does have a time in which he's going to move on. I mean, he's got uh he's got Starlink. He's got SpaceX, he's got X, he's got his boring place, which is their their tunnel program that's supposed to be traffic.

It's already being uh implemented in uh Las Vegas, which is pretty amazing. You gotta watch that. And you got the Tesla cars, and who knows what else he's starting. He's got his own AI company, which technically went out and bought X. Let me ask him: where has he had time to start an AI company that then talked to his lawyers and finance guys and said, yeah, buy X.

Really?

Okay. And by the way, that is raging. All those people, all those people that when he bought X and then had the Twitter files exposed through Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenbergers and others, all the advertisers dropped out. They're all back. We're all back.

And you could complain about X all you want. It is now a vital news source once again. And now I think it's financially solvent, too. Brian Kilmey, Cho.

So glad you're there. Don't forget, go to BrianKilmey.com, W-H-I-O. Listeners especially, I want to see you in Dayton, Ohio, June 21st. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian In Kill Mead.

Hi, everyone. Brian Kilmean here. Thanks for joining us on the latest moments of the show. End of the hour to talk to Kurt Ainsworth. And Kurt's an interesting guy.

He came up with the torpedo bat that's making so much noise. And we're watching the Yankees hit the ball out of the park in the first few games, even though they've dropped their last two. But they're pointing to the new bats, all eagle. He's got a great personal story too, so he'll help bring us inside that story. And Batio Ungar Sargon is standing by on all the breaking news, and we got a lot of it.

So before we get to Batio, let's go big three. Number three. Shulma is left. That's a man with a plan to fight Trump. He ain't the man with a plan for a good sink on the bio.

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schulman need to be primarily and thrown out of office. There you go. That is Charlemagne the God filling in on the Daily Show. It's too early to talk elections. Nah, we have Democrats recalibrating, and we got some early polls to show who the frontrunner is on the right and the left.

Number two. I call on my colleagues right now to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador. This guy has no reason to be in a jail in El Salvador. He's only there because of Trump's policies. There you go.

Success at the border has been unparalleled in American history, but turbulence has hindered Trump's attempt to rid our nation of the alien criminals in our jails and troublemakers on our campuses.

Well, explain. Number Wrong. We cannot pay the deficits of Canada, Mexico, and so many other countries, but we have to take care of our people, and we're going to take care of our people first. That's what he's doing. That's what he did yesterday.

Monster trade tariff deal announced yesterday in the Rose Garden, and ripples are being felt around the world where the market is down 900 points, which is good compared to the last hour when it was down 1,500 points. Bhatia Unger Sargon is all for this. She wrote a book about how the elites betrayed America's working class, and maybe it's a reorganization of that. Batia, welcome back. Your thoughts about what's happening.

Not that much of a surprise, really. I think that this is the first president in 60 years to say, I'm going to bet on the American working class and the American middle class. And what Wall Street is doing is effectively trying to short his agenda. They're trying to control him because they got used to being the only thing that mattered to American president after American president after American president. It was Wall Street and China.

Because they're tied us in with the pension plans in 401k. It wasn't Andrew Carnegie, right? It was all of us. Exactly. And what Trump is doing is, it's honestly astonishing.

He's saying, I am not here to service the international global elites who have been carried on the backs of the downwardly mobile, struggling, forgotten, humiliated American working class. I am here for the people. He's doing exactly what he promised to do. And the markets sell off. I don't know.

Brian, this is like the most un-American, unpatriotic thing I think I have ever seen. In what way? These the markets are effectively saying if we can't get access to the cheap Chinese markets, if we can't keep selling out the American working class, we're out. I mean, that's what they're doing. It's disgusting.

And it is unbelievably, unbelievably shocking that they have no shame about this. They are trying to control the President's agenda because for the first time in 60 years, he's picking average Americans over the elites.

So here's what Kevin Hassett says, his National Economics Advisor, CUD 14. I can tell you that the president's phone is ringing off the hook, but it doesn't mean that he's going to change because there's so much that they're doing with their value-added taxes and their non-tariff barriers that they're not really like. Do you think the EU is going to change all their regulations that harm American workers? Not fast, for sure. And so I don't expect that there's going to be a massive reduction in this action, but everybody's talking to the president right now.

And we're seeing a retaliation, not retaliation, what China is going to do. What I'm encouraged about, because I look at China as an evil empire, I just do. And they said that they're less prepared now for a trade war with the U.S. than they were in 2018 when we first went at them and said this can't continue to exist. They're getting hit with 54% tariffs.

So anything coming in here marked up 54%. Who's going to buy it? The question is: are you going to stop the online shopping where Amazon's got over 60% of all the items are Chinese? Right. First of all, I love that guy.

He always has a smile on his face. Yes.

I'm so angry, and he's just always doing the same thing, explaining things in a much calmer, like kinder, like gentler, with a big smile on his face. And I really aspire to be more like him. You know, you know what Trump did yesterday? He closed the de minimis loophole. What does that mean?

The de minimis loophole was: China could evade American tariffs on imports that were worth less than $800. This is the only reason Timu exists. It was simply a ploy by China. They would import things that were $2.50. You would look at the prices on these things and you're like, how is China making a profit on it?

They're not. They used it to evade tariffs.

So they would take a big shipping container and fill it with crap that was, you know, 50 cents. And then, of course, within that would be the other things. And Trump simply said, We're not doing this anymore. We are not going to allow you to undercut the American worker. Brian, when you talk to industrialists for the last five years, 10 years, they will tell you Diminimis was hurting American workers.

How can we compete when China is importing things that are worth 50 cents? And that's where Americans are going to go to get them.

Well, yeah, we're going to see what's going to happen.

So far, we see that France and the EU might, through the EU, are getting France and Germany are getting pressure to do something back at us from, I guess, their lawmakers. And the EU is going to meet on April 7th, at which time they think they're going to slam into our tech center. China wants to try to punish our farmers. They envision farmers being. Trump supporters, so they want to go after him that way.

And then we'll see Israel came across and said, Let's just do zero tariffs. And to me, the president should take, I want to see the president take that offer. Vietnam says, I hear you. Let's drop. We're going to drop our tariffs too, which is where a lot of our textiles are made.

I think we should take that offer. But as I was talking to, as I was talking to Taylor before, she was just saying, I think they want the revenue. I'm not sure that they want to cut the tariffs. They want the revenue from the tariffs to diminish what we're paying in income taxes. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Right.

So, this is a new thing for the president. The president has always, his whole life, has been a big proponent of tariffs as a way of making the product of the American worker competitive in the global marketplace again. This idea of using it to generate revenue, I think, is a more recent thing. I don't think the president cared much about the deficit in his first term. It was not something that he got excited about the way that he does about restoring the American dream.

Now, he's focused on it.

Now, he's very focused on it, and so I think he does see it as a way to generate revenue. You know, we're at the starting point, right? He's used these tariffs already, unbelievably effectively, in order to control the southern border, in order to get fentanyl down, right? In order to get these countries to the table who never would have come to the table otherwise.

So, it's already been unbelievably successful. We're at the beginning of a reorganization of the American economy for the last 60 years. It's been an upward fall. Of wealth from the backs of the American working class into the bank accounts of the global elites. And Trump has many ideas about how to reverse that.

I want to point out something else I think is really important. He controlled the border, which limited the supply of cheap labor, and he imposed the tariffs, which raises the wages of the working class. But he is also radically cutting regulation. He's doing drill, baby, drill, and he has a tax cut coming.

So there are things for the business community to look forward to. He just wants them to share a bit of that prosperity with the workers. Right. And that's the thing. People say, you're a rich country, but if you look at the wage increases over the last 20 years, they have not felt it, working class and middle class.

You know what's so interesting is Scott Besant, when I used to tell people he was introduced to us as somebody who could be the next Treasury Secretary. And then the producers would say, not Allison, and Pete. The producers would say, who is that? That's not likely. He's going to go back.

And I go, listen, that's how he's been introduced. And Trump people know him.

Well, it turns out he was. The one thing he would say, and I looked at him, he comes off like an austere guy, but he's not from money. He says his dad lost everything at one point. He had to go to work at 16 years old, 15 years old. He's been working the rest of his life.

And he comes off as somebody who's from Wall Street or, and he says, I'm more worried. I go, what worries you? He said, what worries me is the amount of distribution of wealth. It's too high on those who are rich and not enough. And this guy's a billionaire.

And not enough on the working class. He goes, that's how you have a civil war. Then people start having class resentment. I go, wow, that came out of left field. You know, so that's his focus.

He may look like a rich guy, and he is a rich guy, but his focus is not that way. See, Brian, you just explained why I'm a MAGA lefty. Yeah. Because this is what my heart beats for. I look at our economy.

In the 70s, the largest share of our GDP was in the middle class. That's what a healthy democracy looks like. Today, over 60% of the GDP is controlled by the top 10%. Not the 1% that Bernie loves to rail against, but the top 10%, the over-credentialed college elites who marry each other and have a combined income of $1 million. They are controlling over 60% of the GDP.

And meanwhile, their cleaning lady and their nanny and their landscaper cannot afford a home. This is unacceptable. I hear you.

So that's what the focus is right now. We'll take a short time out and come back more with Bhatia because there's other things I want to talk about. Number one, there's so many great stories, so many interesting stories, one of which is not getting enough attention. What's happening in Gaza? The president also, by doing nothing, is doing a lot.

He's letting Netanyahu do what he's supposed to do. And by not holding back, the message is getting too home. Oh my goodness, there is no public sentiment on our side this time because at the same time, he's pushing back on the colleges. Don't move. You're with Brian Kilmead.

He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. Hey, we are back. So I don't know if you've noticed, there's so much going on. I don't blame you if you didn't.

But about two weeks ago, Steve Witkoff walked away from Qatar and the talks when he felt as though Hamas lied to him. And they were disingenuous when they said they were going to let out, I think, between three and five hostages for a 60-day ceasefire. And the The Israelis say, no, I want them all out. Uh, enough. Enough of this.

They were going back and forth.

So Steve Witkoff walked away.

So the Israelis are going in to do to Hamas what they did to Hezbollah. They're looking to take them apart. And unlike there's no Joe Biden, there's no campus protests, there's no Macron visits, there's no pushback. Yeah, there's pushback inside Israel. That's fine.

But they're letting them finish them off because if Amas stays in power, which they showed us they still are, this thing is going to be an endless cycle, just paused rather than ended. Bhatia Anger Sargon is with us now. And Batia, a couple of things.

Now we see them holding on in Rafah. They're holding territory for the first time, not leaving. But we're seeing Palestinians protest. Against Hamas, right? Yes.

In Gaza. In Gaza, thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets to protest against the brutality of Hamas. And it's horrifying, Brian, because all of the allegedly pro-Palestinian organizations, the international community, the campus protesters, They have nothing to say in support of these people who are being brutally suppressed by Hamas. They are killing them in the most brutal way. There was a young man, a 22-year-old.

The footage of his body that was returned to his parents with a note clipped to it that said, This is what happens when you criticize Hamas. His parents said that his body had been stabbed 175 times with a screwdriver. He had been burned all over his body. He had been tortured for hours and then murdered. And they killed another person after that.

It's horrifying. It is absolutely horrifying. And you don't hear a peep out of any of the international community, any of the campus protesters. Nobody cares because it turns out that they love terrorists more than they even hate Israel. And we all should be supporting these people, these brave people, for standing up against the brutality of Hamas and really keeping our eye on this because this is the potential for the next stage.

So, yeah, the next stage.

So, what happened is Hamas, the family of that kid, young man, went and found the police officer. Officer, one of them involved, and they killed him. Uh, on video, and the family stood up and says, We're not going to take it. And so they're pushing back.

So, this is the type of thing that we need to happen because no one believes in the Palestinian Authority, but we're looking for some type of alternative. And the more people let out of prison, the more Hamas members you're getting.

So, it's a tough situation where Netanyahu is going surging forward. But, and I can understand it, the hostage families are saying, hold on, and the former hostages are saying, hold on. Yeah, I mean, since the beginning of this war, Israel has been caught in this like horrifying Sophie's choice. On purpose by Hamas. Because they can either go easier on Hamas in the hopes of saving some of the hostages, or they could prioritize defeating Hamas, but then they put the hostages at risk.

And of course, within Israeli society, they are naturally split over these two totally, totally important, crucial, and uncompromisable imperatives. I want to say something about Qatar, though. These people, I mean, I don't Understand what leverage they have over the United States. Why do we have an airbase there and we get nothing in return for that? You know who would love an American airbase?

Israel. Saudi Arabia, people who have not been the spokespeople for Hamas from the beginning of this, do you know that there are two people on Al Jazeera who are regular commentators who are actual members of the Qassam brigades? One of them was out there saying, Yeah, we should be killing all of these protesters. And of course, Al Jazeera is totally state-sponsored by Qatar. Why do we not make any demands on them in exchange for this beautiful airbase?

Hey, why don't you shut down your pro-terror propaganda network? It is the only news media that the majority of the Arab world consumes. How is that acceptable? And I just have never heard an answer to this. Why is Steve Witcoff not out there making demands, not just on Hamas, but on Qatar?

Joe Biden made them a major non-NATO ally in 2021. What did we get in exchange for that? I have no idea. No one can point to anything.

So they have pointed out that they are in a dangerous neighborhood with no army.

So they said that they can't afford to take sides in all this. That's what they said. It's total nonsense. You don't have to actually have a state-sponsored propaganda network for terrorists. Al Jazeera.

Yes.

Right. Who is working there? And also UNRWA. Uh, the UN organization.

So, this is where we stand right now. But for I did not know this, for 16 straight days, we've been hitting the Houthi rebels. Seriously, hitting them, that's going to be big. And Iran said We will thinking about indirect talks with the U.S., but no direct talks. Problem is, this window is open with their air defense damage, and so is their nuclear program damage before they get a nuclear weapon.

What would you do? It's a really good question. Tulsi Gabbard, in her testimony, said she does not think that they are close to being able to achieve a nuclear weapon. I think the American people want to see the evidence for that, what that is based on. We want to have an understanding.

Look, Trump believes in peace through strength, and he believes that we should not be sending young American men and women to fight wars that don't involve us. Marco Rubio made it very clear during his confirmation hearings: there are going to be three questions asked for every single decision in terms of foreign policy with this administration. Does it make America stronger? Does it make America safer? And does it make America more prosperous?

And I have seen only that guiding principle in every single decision that's been made. True. Would you just say also a situation where if Israel says, I want to take this out. Just like they They took out those leaders inside Tehran. They still can't figure out how they did that.

After the President died accidentally in a helicopter draft, they had an inauguration for the new guy, and next thing you know, two Hamas leaders are dead. If Netanyahu tells Trump, I'm going to take it out, here's my coordinates, you know, those 2,000-pound bombs you gave me, I'll use them. Would you help me knock the rockets out of the sky in a return? What do you do there? It's a very tough question, and one that's for the president who's much smarter than me.

Israel is a very crucial ally in the Middle East, which enhances our national security and brings a lot to the table. That said, our interests and Israel's interests align a lot of the time, but not all of the time. We have our own separate interests as Americans, and so I would leave it to the president to decide if that was in our national security interest in that moment. You want to ask me? Yeah, what do you think, Brian?

Thanks for asking, Bhatti. It really came natural. I'm saying go ahead and do it. We got your back. We have a third aircraft carry in the area.

This has been an enemy to the America for 40 years. They have assassination squads going into Staten Island trying to kill Iranians. They have trying to kill our ambassadors in Washington, D.C. They are the problem. Even though there were imperfect governments in the Middle East, they are the reason why we're having problems in there, and they are the ones stopping the Abraham Accords from going forward.

They are fueling Hamas and Hezbollah. It seems like a huge planner's wart that needs to be destroyed. The Iranian people need to be unleashed.

Okay?

Okay. Good answer. Here in Hat Spin, it's Brian. kill me. And Anthony Voltby, who hit 243, here's a pop flying to right.

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A three-run home run. Anthony Bolpi, he went to right field the other day. field today. And Volpe's not known for being a home run hitter. And the Yankees won their first three games, but the amount of home runs they hit and the bat they used was making headlines around the league, around the country, even for those who aren't baseball fans.

It's called the Torpedo Bat. And the Yankees analytics department wanted to make one, and the Mariuchi Sports was able to answer that call and come up with it. And it's been in circulation for a couple of years, but now getting a lot of fame. Kurt Ainsworth is the co-founder of Mariuchi Sports, which is making the torpedo bats and joins us now. Hey, Kurt, welcome.

Hey, thanks for having me. How has your life changed since the Yankees got off to that rip roaring start? It's been great. It's been torpedo mania, that's for sure. To kick off our first year as the official bats of MLD, it's been fun to see all the attention around baseball and around bats.

It's been a blast. Right. So tell me, what is the torpedo bat? Yes.

So it's a it was really designed by an MIT physicist with the Yankees at the time, and he was just studying data on how we can make bats better for Major League players. Lee was looking at where balls were impacting bats and came up with this creative design to take mass out of the end of the bat and move it towards where the players were hitting more often into the sweet spot. And so that started at the end of 23. We had two players use it last year with Giancarlo Stanton and Francisco Lindor, and it did really take off. Other players saw it.

And then this year, of course, the Yankees get off to that crazy start, and everybody's talking about the torpedo bat.

So it's been a lot of fun. But Judge is not using it, right? He's not. He is not. Uh Stanton was the first or one of the first?

He was. Yes, Stan was the first one last year to use it. And then he had that great postseason with the seven home runs in the postseason last year. And then Lindor last year also used it and did really well. But no other players were willing really to give it a try yet.

It just it looks different. And then now with all the data in the game today, you can show the player that, hey, this will help you perform better. This is where you're hitting the ball more often. Let's move mass there. And players are buying in much easier nowadays.

So it's interesting.

So Kurt, when you started putting it into play, what year did it actually come into play? Last year? Yeah, 24. And what kind of response outside Stanton's uh response have you did you start getting a sense from the players that there's something special here? You know, our guys here started believing in it.

It just looks funny, Brian. I'm gonna be honest with you. When you look at it, look at that bowling pen. And it's just something that out of it just wasn't normal. But now I think with this hype and people seeing the results, I think now you look at it and you're like, okay, I like it now.

It doesn't bother me. I'm not supposed to hit on the end of the bat anyway. Right. I want you to hear what Aaron Boone said, Cut 42. I say to you guys all the time: we're trying to win on the margins and trying to get, and that shows up in so many different ways, whether you see, you know, bat models, you know.

We saw the momentum steals that Volpe does. You see shifts. Like when I say those kind of things, like we have a big organization that are invested in a lot of different things where we're trying to be better in every possible way.

So that that's what he said, and he got in there.

So you make sure it was legal and it's in part of the Yankee organization. What have the orders, Kurtz, been like since the Yankees got off to that fifteen home run start? It's been great. And there's other teams doing it as well. I know the Yankees get all the publicity, which is awesome for baseball because that's a huge market.

But it is great. Aaron Boone says it correctly. Other teams have these data scientists now. And if you aren't investing in data scientists, if you aren't looking at where you should play the shifts in the field, and if you aren't doing those things, you are getting left behind. Not just the salaries separating the teams, but when you have teams like the Yankees, Orioles, Dodgers, if they invest in these data scientists, they're going to have an advantage.

And like you said, you win on the margin. Yeah, I guess so. And can other leagues use this? Can high schools use this? Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, high school, you're going to still benefit more from an aluminum or composite bat at this point in time. But we do have a torpedo bat out there and kids are flocking to it. It is going to, if you can hit the ball in the sweet spot, you should perform better with the torpedo bat because, I mean, you don't need that weight at the end of the bat.

So, Kurt, you're a player. I mean, can pitchers adjust to this? I mean, can a pitcher adjust to like, let's not throw it near the thickness in a bat? That's not possible, is it? Yeah.

Look, I don't think it's that drastic. I'll be honest with you. I think it's a small adjustment at that level, but pitching has gotten so good. These guys are throwing so hard. They're making up new pitches and the defenses are getting better.

So as you can tell, offense has gone down. There's less hip batting average has gone down.

So if there's a way that we can have more contact, put more balls in play and keep this excitement going. I mean, baseball is a lot more fun now when it's sped up. And if we can have some more offense too. Inside of this and less strikeouts, I think it just gets better.

So tell me your story. You're an athlete, a baseball player yourself. Tell me how far you went. Yeah, I was a former pitcher, which doesn't really make sense that I co-founded a bat company, but I kept getting injured. I played at LSU.

I went on to play in the major leagues. I was a pitcher with the San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, and then finished up with the Dodgers. But I ended up getting hurt and started the bat company with two other guys while I was playing for the Orioles.

So, this is our 21st year in business, and it's been one heck of a ride. This is my 11th year as the actual CEO of the company now. And we've sold a couple of times. We're publicly traded now, but I'm having more fun than ever before. Wow.

So, you actually won a gold medal in the Olympics, too. Who was your manager? Tommy LaSorda, legendary Tommy LaSorda, that was a heck of a run. We had a great young team and went over there and beat Cuba in 2000 and won the Olympic gold medal. It was just a great time.

Yeah, he called it one of his greatest victories, greatest thrills. He was one World Series. That's saying a lot.

So, Kurt, when you realized you had to start thinking about another career, what led you to getting into staying in baseball and getting into a back company? Yeah, I think I was just lucky, right? The stars have aligned for me in my career many, many times, and this is just one instance. I came back to LSU to do my rehab on my shoulder, and our head trainer was Jack Marucci. And I was in the club in the training room with another player, former big leader named Joe Lawrence.

And he was rehabbing a knee while he was playing football for Nick Saban. He came back as a 27-year-old freshman to play football for Nick Saban. Jack was the head trainer rehabbing his knee, my shoulder. And to fast forward, as we got along in our rehab, we're like, man, my shoulder hurts, your knee hurts. What are we going to do now that our careers are over in sports?

What about a bat company? And then we started talking about it, you know. saying, man, Rucci sounds a lot better than Ainsworth or Lawrence.

So let it sounds like that designer Lamborghini Ferrari. Let's go with Rucci. And that's really how it started back in two thousand four in the training room at LSU. And then where'd you go from there? How do you how do you go get an idea to becoming a business?

Yeah, I mean, it was a baptism by fire in certain ways. Being in the clubhouse helped. We knew that there was an opportunity that, you know, the old way of doing things needed some tweaking, just like the bats now, really. At the point in time, the other companies were sending 12 bats and only three or four were good enough for a game. And we said every single bat we send out was going to be perfect.

You know, I was a former pitcher, and they would give, I would order wood and get bad wood. And I'm like, man, they're walking guys to get to me. I need the best wood.

So we said when we started our company, we're going to get every player's going to get top-quality gamer bats, the best wood. And, you know, we started that way and it really took off. And guys like, you know, David Wright and Carlos Beltran and Albert Puhold really adapted to our brand and to our wood. And that is what led us to expanding the company outside of wood bats in 2009 is when we really became a sporting goods brand. You were making the bats in your backyard or Marucci's backyard?

Yes.

Jack was doing it as a hobby in his backyard. And then when we started the company, I built a shed in my backyard in a neighborhood in Baton Rouge. It was kind of wild. Our neighbors thought we were. Crazy.

Jack would come home after Nick Saban would yell at him at practice and he would cut bats at night. And Joe and I would sand, paint, finish, and sell the bats during the day. And we did that for about a year and then it took off and then we moved over to you know the side of town where we're at now.

So, in other words, you have to conv you can get a player to use your bat, but you're not the Major League Baseball bat. How did you get Major League Baseball to become the bat of Major League Baseball? Yeah, it's been a long journey here. You know, Louisville Slugger is an iconic brand. Everybody knows Louisville Slugger.

I have all the respect in the world for them, they've been doing it for a long time. you know, over 130 plus years now. And so they've been the only official battle with MLB. And we've been talking about this for a while. And now that 55% of the league are using Marucci and Victus, our two brands.

So it just made sense that we would solidify that That deal to where we would become the official bats, and then now to where we can work with MLB and put the logos on bats and really promote our players because we have such high profile players using our products. We want to be able to promote them. And to be able to do that, you had to be the official bats. Understood. Uh Amish, you bought an Amish run wood mill in Pennsylvania?

Yeah, you know, Brian, that's what we normally do when you start a back home. You just go up to Pennsylvania and you buy a wood mill. No, we didn't know what we were doing at the time. We just knew we were getting great wood from there and we wanted to protect. Our supply.

And I think it's one of the best decisions we ever made. We went and bought our woodmill back in like 2007. And then we've expanded since then, bought another woodmill and a timber company up in Pennsylvania. We get all of our wood. Most of our wood is maple and it's all pulled from the Appalachian region up there.

So it's awesome. All of our wood is manufactured in either Baton Rouge, Louisiana, or King of Prushville, Pennsylvania. Wow, so where wh what is the demand from your from your company now? How many bats are you putting out a day? I mean, are are this all levels?

Yeah, you know, the torpedo bat gave us a little bump this week, I will say, but you know, the business has grown quite a bit. I mean, you're talking about doing, you know, thousands of bats a day throughout the course of the year for us. But this has been a lot of fun with the torpedoes, and it's something new. And it's not just a bat. I think it's something that's going to stay because it makes sense.

And it's finally somebody looking at the game with basically outside eyes saying, I'm not just going to use a bat just because it's been done that way for a long time. They're bringing real data in there and tweaking the bat. And I think kids will have better performance out of this. And I always tell people, if you've never seen a kid run around the bases after hitting a home run and he's not laughing or smiling, I mean, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

So we want to have kids have more success. And that's what it's all about in baseball. We want to keep promoting this great game. I know. And where do you stand?

I know where you stand business-wise, but when it comes to you play college, you play, you can lose, use aluminum bats. It's kind of dangerous, don't you think? They've deadened them down, if you will, to where they perform just like wood now, believe it or not.

So I think that a lot of the bats are as long as they're staying within standard, which we see now with all the data in stadiums, Brian, I mean, it's easy to find the cheating bats, if you will. Or if somebody's breaking the rules, every stadium has exit velocities and swim speeds. I mean, you can find out the bats that are over the limit and get them out of the game pretty quickly now to where they are safer.

So I feel like we couldn't make enough wood. For everybody that wants to play to Swingwood.

So I think there is a place for the aluminum and composite bats, but as long as they're staying within the limits. Right. I want you to hear what Stephen A. Smith said. He went to your defense, Cup 44.

It ain't illegal. Everybody else free to do it. Exactly. What we complain about the Yankees doing it for? I mean, damn it, even the pitch of Cortez that got the home run smacked on him, all right, four to five homers gave it up was my guys using this.

He didn't complain about it. Look, if it's illegal, that's a different matter. If it's legal and everyone's free to do it, then it ain't a controversy. Period. Right.

So, I mean, obviously you feel the same way. Yeah, look, that's well said, right, by Stephen Nay, right there. Everybody can use it. Other teams are doing it. I do think the teams that have the data analysts are going to have more of an advantage because not everybody misses or hits in the same spot.

So we're actually making the bat exactly to the specs of where they're making the most contact.

So each bat is custom-made for the hitter. All right. Thanks so much. Hey, listen, Kurt, congratulations on all this. Enjoy your time in the spotlight.

Hope you get a ton of orders. Kurt Ainsworth, co-founder and CEO of Mariuchi Sports. He's the founder of, or the one who was asked to design what we now know as the Torpedo Bat. Thanks, Kurt. Thanks for having me.

Appreciate it. And if you can help the Mets, they have a little problem making contact with their torpedo bats. Can't help you if you can't hit the ball. But the Mets have enough money, have enough talent. I think they'll eventually do it.

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Everyone's talking about the ripple effect from the tariffs that were offered to over 100 countries yesterday by the President of the United States in the Rose Garden. One of the industries that's going to be most affected that had auto workers actually in the audience was the auto industry. And the one that's car company that's made with more American, that has more American presence than any else is Ford.

So it was kind of interesting today to talk to the Ford policy officer, Steve Crowley. And Steve had a way of immediately assuaging people's concerns about can they afford a car? And that is, why don't we just give everybody what we give the employees?

So Rather than talk to the CEO and talk about what's going to be happening, bringing parts back, we just talked about: hey, you're a consumer, you're thinking about getting a car. Ford wants you to act, and they want you to go find your dealership. Here's my conversation from Fox and Friends with Ford Policy Advisor Steve Crowley. Steve, can you expand on this?

So now we're going to be treated like an employee when it comes to pricing in any dealership across the country. Hey, thanks for having me. You bet. That's exactly right. For the next couple of months, we're going to offer our customers the same deal that our employees get.

And as you say, that's worth thousands of dollars. You come into our store, you get employee pricing. This is kind of to call a little bit of a timeout. We've heard some uncertainty from our customers, and we want them to be assured that Ford, the most American auto company, is going to do right by them, as are our dealers. We make the most cars here.

We employ the most. We export the most. And so we here at Ford, we're in a good position to address customers' concern and give them a really great deal on a great vehicle.

So that's great. People are worried. A lot of people are scrambling to get a car before the tariffs kicked in, even used. But this is new.

So that's interesting.

So one thing I've found out is that even though you're a most American-made car, We don't make everything that goes into that car. I mean, for example, leather seats. The best leather, we don't really do much for leather seats in mass production here in this country. You gotta go elsewhere. Have you been able to explain that to the White House?

You could have the best intentions, but you just don't have the material and the manufacturing here yet, and you don't want to be penalized. Absolutely. And the White House gets that. And that's why yesterday the new tariffs on companies generally don't apply to automobile manufacturers. In particular, we have our own set of tariffs, of course, that was announced about a week ago.

And you're absolutely right. There's a global system for supplying car parts. And as a major manufacturer, we're part of that. But again, for us, we like the position we're in because we do make most of our vehicles here by far. Most that we sell here, we make here.

And we also love to buy from suppliers here in the United States. And we do that whenever we can. And most of the parts that go in our vehicles are made here in the United States. But sure, it's a global market, of course, and there are some that come from elsewhere. And yes, the administration has understood that very well.

So, Steve, what country, it's just boxing Ford and GM and Chrysler out that you're going to be able to do that. Want to get access to. Maybe you could give us what it's like. You know, certain countries love. I mean, I don't really see many, many Ford F-150s in Germany, right?

Yeah. Well, we sell around the world, but in most of those other major markets, we have manufacturing in local markets or in local regions. Our Ranger truck is super popular globally. We make that in five different locations around the world. We're going to keep making around the world and pleasing customers around the world.

But for here and now, we're focused on the United States, our major market, our home market, our hometown. And we're going to offer our U.S. customers a really, really great opportunity. And so we walk into our local salesperson, our local dealership, we stress that they're all going to be on board, right? There's no caveats?

Yeah, our dealers are stepping up and it's really great. And what it means is you get the employee price. Look, I'm an employee. That's a great deal. I can tell you.

It's thousands of dollars. And it means that the dealers will sell below invoice.

So it's a really great thing. We're going to take advantage. Advantage of a strong inventory that we have here. And at least for the next couple of months, it's a fantastic opportunity. Just real quick, we'll show you a car.

You got it. Real quick, exit question.

So, if you have to get a part from another country and there's a tariff on that part, how can you not charge more for your car? Don't you have to charge more for the car? Because your margins on an average car sale are not great. Look, we are a small margin industry. There's no question about that.

And sooner or later, yeah, these prices are going to work their way through the system. But it's not a switch.

So we don't have to charge more on cars today. Like I say, we have, you know, we have a pretty good stock and it's that savings that we're going to pass on. But, you know, the dust is going to settle on this thing, no doubt, over the next few months and beyond. All right. So that's my conversation with Ford.

And tell you what, they've done a great job communicating with me offline just to tell me what their greatest concerns are. They want to make it work. They want to build in America. Certain things in America we just don't get. For example, leather seats.

We don't have great factories for leather seats.

Well, that's it for this hour. Don't forget to go to BrianKilmey.com. I want to see you in Dayton, Ohio, June 21st at the Victoria Theater, History, Liberty, and Laughs. Tickets still available. Don't move.

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