"This Stuff Is Going Too Far!" Van Jones Slams Socialist Surge

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downwardly mobile voters, those with college or postgraduate degrees, but middle to lower household incomes of 60,000 or less. The group stands out because of education and income usually correlate strongly with higher income than higher education, but not them. 80% of members, age 25 and up, are college educated, 45% have household incomes over 60, roughly double the rate. About college grads nationally, members are predominantly white. How about 85% of them? For those people thinking, well, the socialists are just trying to give minorities and those out of power a slot, forget it. Most of the people are in their 20s that vote put Zohran Mamdani in office or rich from the Upper East Side that put them in office. And one thing they all have in common. They despise Israel. And I think borderline, most of them, anti-Semitic. With this right now is Brett Bear. Brett, last night, I know it wasn't a time in which you do special programming for primary results, but it's significant because we didn't really have a socialist prevail over in Arizona. Yeah, it's a different format than we've seen over recent primaries. Democrats are worried. I'm really worried. Publicly, you hear Van Jay Jones and Bill Maher and James Carville. Privately, you hear a lot of people talking about how they're worried about the Democratic Socialist agenda. And this was one where it didn't transpire. Here's an example in Arizona. Stanton holds on to the seat on the nomination, rather, 6831 over Newkirk, who was the socialist, the raging socialist. In Arizona, the governor slot, the Arizona governor slot, no surprise really that Andy Biggs won. He's going to run against Hobbs. Jay Philly was able to prevail on the Republican side, I guess, in Arizona too. So that was he was endorsed. He was endorsed by President Trump. We'll see what's going to happen in Michigan, where Haley Stevens, definitely a left winger, got the backing of the Congressional Black Caucus, as opposed to Elizabeth Warren, who's going with Abdul El-Sayed, along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. Obviously, Stevens, I think, would have a better shot at beating Mike Rogers. Abdul El-Sayed does have momentum, and he's got the young vote, and he's got the socialist vote. Yeah, and he has Elizabeth Warren. But, you know, it's all this populist anger and passion, but the Democratic Socialist agenda is something that's not going to fly in the middle of the country. Yeah, I guess some people say it will, but I have not seen it yet. It's not going to be in a national election. I want you guys to hear what Van Jay Jones had to say cut four. This stuff is going too far. I am a progressive Democrat. You want to talk about prison reform? I've done it as well as anybody, Republican Democrats in the South with Trump. I've done prison reform. I never said, have no prisons. Where are you going to put the Klan?

I've done police reform. I never said, no police. Where are you going to put the pedophiles? We're going to grab the pedophiles. This stuff is going too far. I've been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it's doing. But it's being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas, supporting terrorists, nutty ideas saying we don't need cops in prison. We can't deport anybody even if they rape somebody. Who said this? Chevalier. Who got elected? So and was endorsed by Zohran Mamdani and praised and supported by Bernie Sanders. So this is almost a surreal moment for people in the Democratic Party. Brett, the big mistake was letting Bernie Sanders in 20 years ago. He's not a Democrat. He came into the primary system, abused it, and now he's taking over it. Yeah, you're right. And he's, you know, he had success. I mean, look at those presidential runs. We did town halls with him. He speaks his mind. You've got to give Bernie credit. He is who he is, and he's not changing. And, you know, for a segment of the population when you're talking about. All the things he's promising, it sounds good if you're in a tough economics situation. The problem is, in the big picture, it hasn't worked in one place around the world effectively, you know, pure socialism, even though they call it democratic socialism. I want you to hear what Zohran Mamdani said Saturday over the weekend, I should say, on the New York Times podcast. You would think whatever it is. You know what the problem is. You think that the rich people have too much money and aren't taxed enough. So the question is, what about the working class? How do you categorize working class? If you did the math and you figured out a way to balance the budget and have free everything, where you get the money from? What's the threshold? This should be an easy answer. Listen. I think if you have to work to pay your bills. I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class. So that's everyone with the W2? Is that kind of? 1099s too. I think it's, it's, I'm less interested. So someone making $250,000 a year's working class? I mean, I haven't sat at home and asked myself where it starts and stops. Really? That's his definition. He does not know where the ceiling is, the bottom line is. Yeah, I mean, there are some answers where he's, listen, he's an accomplished politician. He is somebody that can speak, the talk. He can a lot of times say what people want to hear. But every once in a while, you get in a Q&A where you say, wait a second, what about this policy idea? Or how does this end up? And there aren't a lot of answers. And I think that's what Democrats inside the Democratic Party are worried about. Because just like MAGA did in 2016, It's like a takeover. Now, MAGA, it was a different animal. This is completely different. If you look at the Democratic Socialist list of agenda items, it's, again, I mean, I'm just telling you, in Washington right now, in circles, democratic circles.

there's a major fear. And Van Jay Jones and Bill Maher and James Carville are the guys firing up the flare guns. But the power of maybe Bill Clinton, whatever power he has left, he has no problem with this. And Barack Obama, who has no problem telling Joe Biden to get out or working behind the scenes and make sure it was unsuccessful, that Kamala Harris isn't the nominee. Reports came out and all these books that are written. They never thought she was that good either, Michelle Obama. George Cooney, nobody's speaking up now. They're not saying anything, the ones that had shown their power in the past. I want to get you on Iran and also talk about your special. But I thought this was significant yesterday. I think we're much better off taking military action against Iran than... sitting in Switzerland and pretending to get a deal or writing a terrible memorandum of understanding, which I think pushes everybody backwards and scares our allies. But when Speaker Johnson said this, I thought it was significant, but I want to get Brett Baers view. Cut 22. My view is that everybody needs to play a role. So we'll see how that develops. I think we have to allow the space to do that. And I know that this administration is working around the clock to resolve that in a way so that we don't suffer any more troop losses. This is such great tragedy. Right. Cut 23. It is a very important, very important objective that I believe we've achieved to ensure that the largest sponsor of terrorism does not have a nuclear weapon. That would be a disaster for everybody and everybody around the world understands that. Now we've got to wrap it up. He wants to wrap it up. You know, he wasn't saying, you know, where the president will know when it's time to end. He's definitely an ally of the president. But what is he seeing as he tries to keep power in the House and Senate? He's seen polls that are upside down that are, you know, frustrated, that are, you know, looking at gas prices going up again. He sees not a lot of support overall, independence, particularly. And, you know, he's making a political calculation in trying to help Republicans who can't really speak out like he can. That said, I agree with you. I mean, the only way that the Iranians are going to actually come to the table meaningfully, it seems, is to get hit hard enough that they see the benefit in trying to do that. I think that, you know, that's the path and the mindset that the president's on now after probably five attempts to get around to sit down and unsuccessful. So I talked to Senator Tom Cotton on and off the air, and he today on Fox and Friends, and he basically says, I want him to ramp it up. I want to, you know, don't even have to be surgical about it. Open up the straight, take out these sites, and keep the straight open, and don't even have talks because they're useless. Is that a sentiment that other conservatives have? Yeah, there's a growing, let's finish the job caucus.

And I think more and more, you're going to hear that as the prospects of negotiating seem dim. You know, every time if the Iranians say, yes, we're in the deal, yes, it's going to happen, and then they step away where they fire the missile at the cargo ship, you know, it's fruitless. I think you saw Pete Hegseth and General Kane essentially say that yesterday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And Democrats are definitely using this issue as a political cudgel. Yeah, we'll see. And everything's close. I saw the power rankings go over that Fox have put out. But everything's still close. I think the game has yet to be played. Brett, you have another series on Fox Nation. You have your book out the case for America. Still a bestseller, an argument on behalf of our nation. But you have a series called Spy Nation. Tell us about it. Yeah, it's really amazing. If you look at some of the spy stories, these are modern day things, not just back in the old days, where, you know, there are bad guys that are trying to get stuff into our country, including biological agents. And we essentially have this amazing system to try to track it down. And it goes into the secret stuff that hasn't been out before. Part of it, it looks, it's really interesting. So it's the first one is it available now? It's available now. You could get it on Fox Nation as of a couple days ago. Yeah, we'll have Spy Nation. The first one's out. The next one is spies on the inside. Then you have another one called The Invisible Enemy. So we'll see what happens. So we know this, Senator Lindsey Graham. Could you tell everybody out there that didn't have a chance to meet him how unique he was? He was one of a kind. You know, I had amazing sense of humor. Everything he could make funny in some way, shape or form. But he was passionate, especially about foreign policy, Ukraine and Iran. And, you know, it's really sad. He was a lion in the Senate. He was a consequential senator. And sometimes you can't say that. But he could move the needle on both sides of the aisle. And, you know, I think his memorial service will be quite something. I plan to be there Tuesday. The other thing about him, people that don't know, say how could he be very good friends with John McCain and very good friends with President Trump when they both didn't get along? How could he be tight with President Bush and tight with President Trump when for the most part those two really have no relationship? Can you tell me? Can I tell you how they don't have a relationship? No, can you tell me how Senator Graham can bridge all these other personalities? How could he be tight with McCain and Trump? How could he, the people that didn't get along, they got along with him? Because he figured it out. He said, listen, there are some things I don't like about him. Remember we ran against Trump and for president and Trump put out his cell phone number. I mean, they got heated at times.

But I think Lindsey Graham calculated that the power was shifting. He wanted to make good on making deals. And, you know, that's what he did with Democrats, too, is he figured out where you could meet halfway or 70% of the way and get... heading towards what he wanted. And he was really, really good at that. I mean, I did a, I moderated a debate between Bernie Sanders and Lindsey Graham. And they were ideologically so far apart, but were friends in the Senate and figured out how to get some big pieces of legislation through, much like Ted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Orrin Hatch did. Yeah, he wanted to get things done. He wasn't there to collect the money. And you could see as he left this world, he was not a billionaire. He basically lived off his salary, which is refreshing, isn't it? It is. Brett, thanks so much. We'll see you at 6 o'clock Eastern Time on Special Report. I will be there. Thanks so much. The great Brett Baer. Back in a moment. Big guests, bold opinions, better information. This is the Brian Kilmeade. The following statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The human brain is truly incredible. It has 100 billion neurons surpassing even the most powerful supercomputers, and it controls our thoughts, our emotions, and everything we do. And Previgen is designed to help keep it amazing. Previgin also believes that good daily habits are a powerful part of any routine. Exercising regularly, eating well, getting good quality sleep, staying mentally active, and staying connected with friends and family are all great for your brain. And that's why so many people choose Prevagen, because it can help supplement those good habits, working alongside your daily routine to give your brain the care it deserves. Previgin is powered by Apoachoran, originally discovered in jellyfish and designed specifically for your brain. Because when your brain is at its best, you can continue doing what you love with confidence. Try Previgin for your brain today.

show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade. Yeah, we are back. And when we come back, I'm going to continue to expand this conversation on what we've been discussing. But I haven't really talked much about Iran at this point in detail. I'm going to get into that too. And also, when you talk about... what's happening on Capitol Hill. They're trying to get another reconciliation package done. And I think it's going to be $93 or $95 billion. And they're also trying to do something else, which I think is great. I want to ban all government shutdowns. I don't care who the president is. I don't care who the speaker is. I don't care the majority leader. The government shutdowns only hurt people. And it's a standoff that nobody wins. You know, technically Barack Obama got scrutiny away from Obamacare because we're in the middle of a government shutdown. Sometimes it looks like Democrats got a short-term gain, but it hurt the economy. It hurt their people, mostly in blue states. When they shut down the economy, it made it look like Donald Trump economy was failing when they just shut everything down and weren't paying people. So it hurts people living paycheck to paycheck. You saw that with TSA workers. So now the Republicans are trying to finance the government through December because what Democrats want to do is in September shut the government down. So when November comes around, people say, wow, man, I haven't gotten a paycheck whose fault is it? Well, look who's empowered. So that's not going to happen. I do think we have to find a way to get our defense up to $1.5 trillion. I'll explain why when we get back. With Instagram teen accounts, protections are turned on by default. Yo, look at this real. Okay, the secret is in the timing. Don't rush it. Built in content and contact settings and automatic time reminders. Mom? Instagram teen accounts. Nothing to turn on. Safer from the start. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's bright. in Brian Kilmeade. In the Republican seats that are up for grads, three of the four seats were won by Donald Trump in 2024 by double digits, Alaska, Iowa, and Ohio. Maine was won by Kamala Harris and is a historically Democrat. The Republican there, Susan Collins, is enormously strong. Last time around, she didn't lead in any significant polls. She was down by six and the average going into the election and won by eight. So that is called Roeb yesterday. Talking about where we're at right now in July, even if there wasn't a war, you can't say either side is a lock for a red wave or a blue wave. Red wave's never going to happen, but a blue wave that everyone predicted a red wave and the midterms didn't happen. I think that had a lot to do with... You know, Roe v. Wade being overturned and things happened like that. And that got a lot of momentum for Joe Biden. He gave him a false sense that he was very popular and allowed him run for office. And we know what happened afterwards. It's the anniversary of him being forced to drop out. We know against his will and he's still bitter. What do you can remember of it? Rich Lowry joins us now, editor of National Review. Hey, Rich.

Your thoughts about how this is all shaking out for the Democrats, they have history on their side for Republicans. They have a Democratic Party that's extremely unpopular that's facing an insurgency with socialists and also a redistricting that put them in play. Yeah, so I think Republicans prior to redistricting, but they could afford to lose three seats in the House. That's extremely thin margin in any circumstance, especially in this kind of midterm. But now I think they're maybe plus six after the redistricting so they can afford to lose nine. I still think they'll lose the House, but that's at least a little bit more doable. And the Senate map is just very favorable to Republicans. Even if you say Susan Collins is going to lose, and I think there's no guarantee of that. the Democrats will still have to win two out of those four red states that Carl was talking about, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Alaska to win a Senate majority. And that's not going to be easy. And if you don't pick up, if you're a Democrat and you don't pick up Maine or you lose something else, you know, then it's even harder. You know, you have to win three of those seats or sweep those seats. So I put the odds on Republicans holding the Senate. So a couple of things, Rich. I'm not sure. I mean, with Susan Collins, I think she's got to be favored. I mean, this guy, Troy Jackson, seems like a real clown. I mean, Graham Platner without the sexting and Nazi tattoo. He's an extremist, don't you think? Yeah, I think she's a survivor. Carl. pointed out in that clip, she's defied the polls before, you know, obviously this is not ideal circumstance for the Democrats falling in love with a total jerk, Graham Platner, and then having to quit on him. We all saw evidence all along that this guy was totally unsuited to run for office or be in the Senate. But, you know, if you're, you're main, it's not a red state, you know. If there's a big wave, I think she's... She's in jeopardy. The question is whether they'll be away. So let's talk about the power rankings and say it's 48-48. So here are the seats that are up. There's the Assov seat in Georgia. The one thing about Asaf, he's got name recognition. He's good recognition. He's good on his feet, but he's very liberal in a red state, which I think is more red these days. And then you have Mike Collins, who doesn't have the name recognition, but man, he is a congressman and he is rich. He can self-finance. Yeah, I just come to the conclusion reluctantly that both of the Democrats in Georgia Raphael Warnock and Alsuff are pretty good politicians. So I favor Alsop in that race. Hate to say it, and he may end up running for president. So when you talk about New Hampshire, John Sununu, I have Chris led a little bit later, John Sununu comes out of retirement to give another shot at that Senate seat. If it was Chris, I think he actually might be favored. What about John or Scott Brown? I think it's hard in this kind of year to win a purplish state like New Hampshire, even if you have the best candidate. So I'm just put in my mind, Brian, Republicans aren't going to pick up any Senate seats, and it's going to be holding those red states we're talking about. I think you're wrong about Michigan. Mike Rogers lost by 19,000 votes this time, and now he's going to go against Haley Stevens or Abdul El-Sayed.

You don't think that Rogers is more favored now than he was against Alyssa Slotnik? Yeah, no, that's true. I think Stevens would be obviously the safer choice. Total goofball. We've all seen that video of her, like, you know, let's go out and sock them. But she's better than Els Ayad, who's one of these. He's not formally a member of the DSA, but is of that ilk. And that would create a really competitive race if they nominate him. So I take your point. I wouldn't necessarily favor Rogers, but that could be more like a coin toss. And, again, if Republicans pick up anything, it just makes them out. almost totally impossible for Democrats. What about Sherrod Brown against sitting Senator Eustid? It's basically a dead heat right now. But we know Ohio has been a solid red state for a while. It has. Yeah. Now, Brown is a good fit for that state. Obviously, he lost, though, and I don't think he's going to get over the top there. Again, if there's a wave, though, a lot of these close races, you know, you think kind of normally, oh, a lot of close races, some will fall one way, some will fall, the other. In a wave, you have every race that's tied, you know, falling to one party. So if they get a wave... That someplace like Ohio is doable, but I wouldn't count on it for Democrats. Do you give Tancredo, Tancredo, Tenerico, a better chance than Bader O'Rourke of taking the Senate seat than Bado O'Rourke had against Ted Cruz as opposed to Ken Paxton holding off James Talarico, who's got, yeah, he's good on his feet. But what he believes and says is the problem for me, but I'm not in Texas. Yeah, so the advantage Beto had at least the first time around is that no one knew anything about him. He felt new and fresh and kind of cool, and he didn't have this kind of baggage that James Talarico does. Now, Tel Rico is running against a much more flawed candidate and Ken Paxton, and then Beto had Ted Cruz the first time around. I still favorite Ken Paxton in that race. I just think it's hard. You know, some of these, maybe some of these red states will fall, but I just think it's an uphill battle for Democrats. Yeah, and that'll be an uphill battle for them. And are you surprised that Alaska is in play? I am, you know, a red state. Senator Dan Sullivan is a great guy, a very good senator, but he has a real race in his hands, no doubt about it. So yeah, we'll see. I mean, he's a competent senator too, loves the state, and he's got the Bush experience in the cabinet. He's a veteran and a sitting senator who understands the military. So he's got to work hard to make sure because it looks like Chuck Schumer's got his guy. So we were talking about socialism before and how ridiculous it is that we have a mayor.

who's running on the socialist platform and got elected on the socialist platform and can't really tell you the threshold of what a working person is. Anyone who has to work to pay their bills, he says, is working. Really? So Megan Romer, the national co-chair, can define it. I'm going to let her say it and then let you comment, cut one. We have a very specific definition of working class that comes from socialist history and socialist theory. And the definition is if you work... for your paycheck or you have to sell your labor, you are part of the working class versus if you make your money by owning something, whether it's owning an apartment building, owning a business, owning, you know, what we'd call the means of production. So when we are criticized for not being working class enough, often that's using this sort of American definition of working class being blue collar, wage labor jobs, but actually it's any wage labor job, anytime you're selling your labor. Any wage you gave your thoughts about this? I guess that's one definition, right? That's not what we typically think of as working class, but almost all of us are workers. I guess in that sense it's true. But look, this is a problem in socialism and communism had at the beginning. It was all kind of disaffected intellectuals and activists. That was the core. of the socialist movement, and they look around in the room, like, we're the workers. And it's the same thing with the DSA now. We've seen it in these primaries over and over again. And I saw on a poll yesterday, the most lessling people in the country, they're not people we think of as workers. They're not blue-collar guys out on the assembly line. They're people with a high level of education who aren't making a lot of money. It's an associate professor of sociology at CUNY who thinks he or she. She deserves more because he or she is so smart and has so many credentials that is stuck, you know, this job paying $60,000 a year in a bad apartment in Brooklyn or whatever. That's the base of the DSA. That's who they're representing. All the membership surveys show that's the people who are animated by this and part of the movement. And that's who their voters are as well. Downward. Downward. They call it working class poorly as anyone in wage labor job. And they call it downwardly mobile. So mostly white. So 80% are white, 80 plus percent are white and whose career is going in the wrong direction. So let's screw everybody else's life up. Wrong country, pal. You double down and you work harder. And if your job doesn't pay enough, you get another job along with that job. Yeah, exactly. So a lot of these people is kind of a lifestyle choice. Again, my hypothetical, the associate professor of sociology. That person's, you know, a smart person, but he or she could have done anything else and gone into a more lucrative line of work. But instead shows this and is angry about it. All right. Rich Lowry, they could have been editor of National Review. That pays extremely well. It could be an electrician. Yeah, you're upperly. Yes, upperly mobile, Rich Lowry. Thanks so much, Rich. Appreciate it. And not a socialist. When we come back, Senator Capitol will be with us from West Virginia. Don't move. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because Mandy, you need to know. It's Brian Kilmeade.

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on a show the other day, and he was talking about, somebody said, well, your predictions of growth last year were not what they, what we thought they were going to be. And his response is, you shut the government down. I mean, you know, you can't calculate, of course it's going to have an effect on the entire economy. And we cannot do that for a lot of different reasons and national security being one, but also our economic benefit. So, yes, I think the Senate will consider this. I think the president has sent over what we call anomalies, in other words, things that need to be included. So ours may look a little different than what the House is, but we can iron those difference out. Obviously, we have to have bipartisan before we think we have it. So where are we out with another reconciliation package that they wanted to have elements of the Save America Act in? I believe it's at $95 billion. I'm reading some things that it's in peril in the house first because, you know, a lot of people say, you know, where's the pay for us? Which is good. People point to fraud and Doge and things like that. But they just think you have a window now because you have a midterm election. You have no idea how it's going to go. Where do you stand? Well, I mean, I'm very supportive of it has military spending, particularly for munitions to replenish munitions. We know we've been using them and also selling them to other friendly countries and allies. So that is critical also on the ag side. There's some help. Our farmers are really hurting. And there's some ag support in there in that reconciliation package, which then could include, and I'm a very much of a supporter of the Save America Act. So I think that we need. did pass probably if I was going to sequence them. I think we have to make sure that we're going to avoid a government shutdown if that's the top priority and then deal with the reconciliation bill maybe after we have solidification that we can fund the government through until the end of December. But are you, is this the last week for the summer? This is the last week for the House. The Senate will be in another week. And so, you know, I don't know that we're going to get certainty of any of this, but I do think we'll be able to reach by laying the groundwork here. When we come back in September, we can do it quite quickly. And I think that's very encouraging. So there's, obviously when it comes to defense spending, I don't know how much time you have to wait because they need the money. Here's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with Dick Durbin, cut 24. Do you have a new estimate about what the war has cost us so far in this, the fifth month of the first year of this war in Iran? Senator, the estimate we have as of today is $37.5 billion. Through what period of time? Through now for certain aspects of it, but also mill pay, O&M, other anticipated costs through September 30th, Senator. Your reaction to that cost and the Defense Department needs more money to replenish those costs. Right. I'm on appropriations and I was actually in that meeting. Well, first of all, let's look at the transparency aspect of what the secretary has said. He very plainly and very clearly answered that question. And I had to listen to a lot of the Democrats on the other side say, nobody knows, nobody says. He said very clearly. That's a lot of money.

Obviously, we need to fund our troops. We need to pay our troops. We need to make sure that they have the technologies. We've lost now most recently for service members. very sadly, young people with lots of life that wanted to work and protect our country. And so we want to give them the best protections. Disarming Iran, I believe in the mission. I believe that we need to make sure that we can wrap it as soon as we can, but we have to wrap it in the right way. And so funding it is a fundamental part of that. I would be in favor of that and have always voted to... fund our military. So people say, wow, you're looking to double the amount of your spending at 1.5 trillion. And if you look at the percentage of the GDP, it'll be at 5%, which is exactly what President Trump is asking our NATO allies to do. And it's about where Reagan was. Now, Carter was at 4% of the GDP. Reagan was at 5%. So it looks like Trump wants to be at 5%. Will you support that? I would support that. And I think that it's in our best interest, not just today, but we have other situations around the world that Taiwan-China issue. Certainly the region of the country or the world where all of disruption is now. We see that the acts of terrorism and the goals of the terrorists are still very, very vitally alive. And so I think that we can't just say, Oh, we can ride with what we've got. I think we have to modernize and we have to make sure that we're funding that. But, you know, Brian, you and I know, and I think we've talked about this, we've got an issue with our debt. And so when you hear some people say the spending has not been offset, I think that's something to listen to. Senator Cabo, you're always somebody to listen to. Thanks so much. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for MintMobil. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills. But it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Upbound payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for $12-1 plan required, $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes, me slow when network is busy. See terms. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade. I'm so glad you there. It's the Brian Kilmeade. We have a lot coming to you from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan who are out of the country around the world. I'm trying to accomplish my goal of reading my book on tape that's United States and not losing my voice. Yesterday I got through two chapters who are two down.

four to go, and then, of course, the epilogue coming your way. This hour is going to be big. We just had a big opener, but we're also going to have Carl Rove standing by. Julie Bandaris is coming up after, and Frank Siller will be with us, too. So it's going to be great. Don't miss a minute. And before we get to Carl, let's get to the big three. Number three. The most important is the quality of the candidate, because the quality of the candidate will affect all those other things. A good candidate will tend to raise more money. The good candidate will tend to run ahead of their party. They will tend to be able to dominate the messaging. And that's what Carl wants. And he got really worried. I remember I'm talking about some of the Tea Party candidates. They were blowing opportunities to take the Senate earlier than they did. Midterms coming up faster. Then you think we got the Fox power rankings. We'll talk about what it means. I'll give you one hint. Both chambers are still in play. Number two. I'm calling on Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump to tell the entire Congress everything they're telling Republicans about the Iran war. They never came and asked. They never came and briefed us. He has not come to Congress at all. That is not true, but we'll have them, let them say it. Scrutiny on Capitol Hill on all aspects of the Iran War. Number one. This stuff is going too far. I am a progressive Democrat. I've been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it's doing. But it's being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas. Nuddy and crazy, socialists set back in Arizona as liberal Democrats prevail, but are the socialists still surging elsewhere? The answer is yes. We're going to break down the Democratic Party. Take over and talk about that power play. So with us right now is Carl. Always great to have you on. First off, your takeaway. Both chambers, would you say it's on, are still in play, both the Senate and the House? Yeah, I think the House more than the Senate. The Democrats can take the Senate, but only if they run the table. They have to win North Carolina. And then they have to knock off three incumbents. They have to, you know, Susan Collins in Maine, Ken Paxton and Texas, Ohio, Houston, Houston, Houston, you know, Alaska, Dan Sullivan, take the open Iowa seat. They have to take. take, you know, three more of those and not lose another seat like, you know, New Hampshire or Michigan. And Michigan is very much in play, particularly if they put Abdul El-Sayed up as their nominee. Remember, Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, came within two-tenths of one percent. Last time around, he had a tough primary and had to spend a lot of money in it last time. But this time, he's the party's nominee and watching the Democrats tear each other up.

So with Mike Rogers in particular, you have Haley Stevens. I think that Alyssa Slotnick is a lot more formidable than what I see from Haley Stevens. Do you agree? I agree. I agree. The difference will be it was a presidential election year. Joe Biden was on the ballot. This time around it's a midterm election and Donald Trump will be on the ballot. So that's the countervailing. But yeah, Leighley Stevens, you know, I saw a taper for the other day. And I mean, I felt embarrassed for her. I mean, it was like the junior high cheerleader tryouts. I mean, it was really sort of sad. And she didn't make the team. So I was used to for you feel with that. I didn't want to, I don't want to reflect on that because it was bad. enough just watching it. I understand that. So in Arizona, the Socialists did not win. Stanton held off Newkirk, 63 to 31. So for people who are panicking amongst the Democratic Party about this, Bernie Sanders amoeba that's growing inside their body, what should they take away from that? Well, stand up to them. In fact, there's a piece tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal on this very topic, and I think it is deeply researched, well-written, insightful, sort of witty at points. I think I did a hell of a job with it myself, but I've written about this for the journal tomorrow. And my closing line is the Democrats better wake up and realize that this is the fight for the future of the party. Now, I didn't put this in the piece because I'm limited to 750 words. But we've seen this drama before, and it worked out all right for the Democrats. They were in the danger in the late 1990. of being taken over by Henry Wallace and the progressives who were literally pro-Moscow and people like Hubert Humphrey stood up, the young mayor of Minneapolis and took them on and the Democratic Party avoided falling off the left side of the earth. So, but when you see what's happening in New Hampshire, excuse me, in Maine, this new candidate, Troy Jackson is like platinum without the sexting. Well, I don't know. We don't know about that yet. All we know is he doesn't have the tattoo. Okay. But he does have an anger problem like Graham Platner. And, and, but yeah, but look, it is well worth reading this, this manifesto of the Democratic Socialist entitled, Entitled Workers deserve more because it is clearly a statement of what they intend to do and what they're going to advocate. And. Democrats would be smart to stand up to it and call it out for what it is, which is socialism. And don't call them names. Don't, you know, I think the president's making a state by making a mistake by tossing out labels like communist and Democrat. Just talk about what they say they want to do. They want to open borders. They want to end funding for police. They want to end what they call the prison police and prison system. They want a 32-hour work week with full benefits. So that, I mean, what kind of company has 20 percent, you know, profit margins that allow them to replace all those, you know, you had a 40-hour week at the store. But no, now you get to work for 32 hours and get paid for 40. So where are they going to come up with the money to fill all those available jobs?

going to have they're going to take over housing you get to you get to signed an apartment and then you know in the you know mal block or the trotsky block of housing and the queens i don't know it just that sounds you read this thing and you say these people are living in a lot of well the congressional black caucus is endorsing Haley Stevens and you find out guys like Ritchie Torres who's african american and liberal, but he is pro-Israel. They say they're one of the goal of Hasan Piker is to take him out. And then remember, they took out Hispanic leader in New York City. So then you look in who the socialists are. They're mostly white people. They're over-educated white people. Yeah. This is going to be an unusual person to quote on your program, but I thought he had a great insight. James Carville. I was recently with him at a program, and James was talking about this problem, and he said, look, the most conservative, culturally and economically, the most pro. market and culturally conservative voters are black voters in the south, particularly older black women. And he said, you know, they don't like socialism. And they're not going for it. And I think that's absolutely right. This is a movement that is dominated. There was an interesting poll of the membership of the Democratic Socialists of America. And it is overwhelmingly white, well-educated. affluent, went to really nice schools and are professionals. It's not working class people. It's the sort of the overeducated college elites. Underachieving. Most of them are underachieving and they're frustrated. So they want to subscribe to another government. Yeah. Well, they got a degree in creative dance from Hampshire College. that they're, you know, that they're being properly rewarded. And in fact, if you read this thing, it really is funny that says, you know, you, in the new socialist world, you will work, quote, you will work as much as you were able and no more than needed. You have no debt. You don't need health insurance. You don't pay a mortgage or have a landlord because it's all that those are actual quotes from this. You'll be given all this by the beneficent state. And you will love it. And when you're finished with it, you'll, You'll be able to, quote, you can live without worrying about cost or dreading going back to work. So Carl, if I went to Al Gore or Barack Obama when they were running, they wanted to raise taxes. You know, they were from 37 to 39% of the bracket. You asked them about the middle class. This is what's going to happen. Mitt Romney. Whatever you agree, they knew the answers. So Mayor Zohran Mamdani comes to office and says the problem is the billionaires. And the problem is American working class. Everything's unaffordable. So he was asked a simple question. Let's listen.

I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class. So that's everyone with a W2? Is that kind of? 1099s too. I think it's, I'm less interested. So someone making $250,000 a year is working class? I mean, I haven't sat at home and asked myself where it starts and stops. What do you say? Listen, let me read you this. When we labor for our common good instead of private profit, we can all have a secure... and dignified life and use our time and talents as we wish. That's in there. That's the platform. And it's because the billionaire class is making us the billioners and quote the bosses. And they're responsible for everything bad in this world. I mean, this is just lunacy. You know, the Republican Republicans are in on it. The Democratic Party is asleep at the wheel. And both are funded by the same criminal class of billionaires and war profiteers. Really, Democrats and Republicans got the same group of people funding their campaigns. world does this guy live in? I agree. I thoroughly agree, and we're going to see what's going to happen in those various seats. Next, I just know you notice like when things are going good economically, but everybody's talking about the war. Remember, your economy was going well in the middle of the Iraq war, but nobody was talking about it. And now we have a situation where, unlike people gradually turned on the Iraq War, remember, Harry Reid said before the surge, everybody knows the war is lost. Which I still can't get over. So Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War and the chairman of the Joint Seats of Staff went in front of Congress yesterday. They need more money. That's one of the reasons. But listen to with the Democrats, essentially their tone. Cut 27. I'm calling on Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump to tell the entire Congress everything they're telling Republicans about the Iran war. Where are we headed? Mike. They never came and asked. They never came and briefed us. This president has to tell us what those resources are going to be used for and why. He has not come to Congress at all. They did answer those questions throughout the hearing, but go ahead. What are your thoughts about this sentiment? Well, they're reduced to just grumbling. I mean, you know, they, they, it's, it's, it's not really all that important. I mean, they, they, they, they, they, they, they can get answers to their questions and they got answers yesterday, the questions that they ask. But it's just, you know, that's, I mean, you grumble. And I mean, it's sad that we're in a place with, where, where we're dealing with a country that has been for. since 1979, denouncing the United States and calling death for America, and which is trying to get a nuclear weapon and a intercontinental ballistic missile so they can deliver it to the United States of America. And we don't have serious Democrats talking about this.

Now, it isn't coming upon the administration to go overboard in terms of consulting with and advising members. But don't do it, you know, don't hold back and do it only in these public hearings, make certain that people are reaching out and sharing information. So there are no excuses. There are no excuses. You had questions, Senator Reid of... of Rhode Island, here are the answers for your questions. And do it, do it one-on-one so that they get the answers they want. And behind the, when they're not preening for the cameras, they might be more serious. You know, kills me, Carl, is guys like Reed, people that have been there a while have been briefed at the highest level about what Iran's been up to, the assassination attempts in Washington, D.C. They try to, everything that they've done during the Iraq war, the EFPs, which are roadside bombs on steroids, the guys that they've killed, the hostage that they've taken. the people, the the rocketing of our neighbors, you might say, hey, I don't agree with the tactics, but man, Iran has been a problem. They don't even admit what they know. And the was with the military background, like Jack Reed, the ones I always expect more from, like Senator Mark Kelly, those are the ones I expect more from. Well, in Kelly's situation, he may be thinking about running for president, but you're right. But look, again, I don't want to, that was a, clown show yesterday from the Democrats. But I just want to say it is really incumbent upon the administration to find ways behind the scenes, to be briefing people and talking with people. And if they continue this kind of behavior, just ignore it. Just do the job, which is, don't, for history, I'll make a judgment about it. And the judgment will be good for the administration if they're saying, okay, who can reach out to read and sit down with them? Who at the state or the defense department? is he have a good relationship with and confidence with and send him over there and do that with all of the key players and history will be kind to the administration and not kind to the Democrats. Carl, that's where Republicans are really going to miss Lindsey Graham because the senator had a lot of friends on the left. Well, and look, he also was fearless. I mean, you know, he would go in and say, well, here's what, here's what's going on. And he would do, you know, he was fearless in dealing with the administration, too. I mean, yeah, hard to, hard to dislike that guy and easy to love him. And, but we're going to really miss him. I want you to hear how Speaker Johnson said yesterday and see how it relates to the election in the last minute we have, cut 23. It is a very important, very important objective that I believe we've achieved to ensure that the largest sponsor of state of terrorism does not have a nuclear weapon. That would be a disaster for everybody and everybody around the world understands that. Now we've got to wrap it up. He says, now we've got to wrap it up.

That's a little diversion from the president. The president says, I'm going to do the things on my timeline. I'm not going to let the midterms run it. So he's seeing polls, isn't he? Yeah, he is. And look, the key is to be guided by what's in the long term best interests in the United States. And that is. not only the inability of Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, but open and free transit of the Strait of Hormuz, because if the Iranians are allowed to dominate that international waterway, first of all, it sets a bad precedent, but second of all, it enriches them and gives them the resources to rebuild their nuclear program and their missile programs. And so we've got to stand for a principle that has been, you know, sort of global for going on 500 years. and that is the freedom of the seas. And outside of their territorial waters, they have no right to control the passage of ships from Kuwait and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and Omanan. and Qatar to the international energy markets because it will have an adverse effect on our economies and the world economy, and more importantly, that them being able to charge a toll on all those ships is the money that they would need to reconstitute these programs. Can't wait for the Wall Street Journal column. I got an exclusive preview that you work very hard on in spell checks. You don't even need an editor. Carl Rove, thanks so much. I desperately need an editor, and he did a damn good job of tightening it up. Just remember, if we lived in a classless society and governed ourselves, we would freely build a world without war or poverty. Right. That's what the Democratic Socialists believe. And nobody's upset with us. That is a world that they're in, and I want no part of. Call Roeb, thanks so much. Real talk, real guests, real insight, where curiosity meets conversation. It's the Brian Kilmeade. This episode is brought to you by Claude by Anthropic. Claude is the AI for minds that don't stop at good enough. It's the collaborator that actually understands your entire workflow and thinks with you. Whether you're debugging code at midnight or strategizing your next business move, Claude extends your thinking to tackle the problems that matter and finds connections you might have missed. For problems worth solving, get started at clod.a.i slash Spotify.

Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kilmeade. I would hope it makes you bank. Carl Rove, of course, breaking down all that's going on with the power plays. As you see, right now, if you look at the Fox polls, power poles, it looks like the Senate is a toss-up. But in the toss-up lane, they put Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, lean R is Texas. Now, in the toss-up lane, leaning D, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. I don't agree with Michigan. Mike Rogers not only knows how to run, former chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, FBI, and military, who lost by 19,000 votes last time, whoever it is, Haley Stevens or Abdul El-Sayed. I give him the favorite. Your name is Sununu, you got a shot in New Hampshire. North Carolina, as much as I like Mike Michael Whatley, he's trailing by seven or eight points against a popular governor. In Georgia, Mike Collins has got to really get aggressive. But I agree with all that, except Michigan and New Hampshire. On the House side, it's still an uphill battle, but not nearly as much of an uphill battle in the House. It really depends when the Iran war ends.

unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade. Hey, we are back, and I know you're pleased about that because we were in a break for a while. We are now back, and I'm coming up in about 15 minutes, we got Frank Siller, but right now we have Julie Vendaris, Fox News, anchor, and author of A Monumental Mistake. Is that true? Yeah, it's true. Yep. I never make mistakes, but I did write about them. Right. And whose mistakes? Well, I don't write about my mistakes, but I do write about a monumental mistake, meaning that parents not teaching their kids about respect. That's the monumental mistake. How do you feel about that video that everybody saw about this guy at a Cubs game just sitting during the national anthem? And some guy just slaps him in the back of that and then says, stand up. That kid, first of all, I don't believe in violence and I don't believe in hitting and I would never encourage my... children to ever do that or anyone to do that. But that young person that was standing in front of, first of all, God bless this guy for taking the national anthem that seriously, as we all should. But that young person sitting in front of them is exactly the problem that is with America's youth. Because they are taught that being... pro-American somehow is a bad thing. The American flag, which it symbolizes our freedom and all those who died for our country, that that's not something to be proud of. That's the youth that we have growing up in this country. That was, okay, they're kneeling again. So let's just not play the national anthem. That's how things have changed. Exactly. But remember 9-11 and how pro-America. What happened since 9-11? It's really awful. It is. Now we're electing some of the crazy anti-Semitic idiots. Oh, look at our mayor in New York. They are now in office. The people that we did. one our country are now in power. No, it's disgusting. I mean, I was just literally talking about this with Zohran Mamdani in office and what he has become, considering we're a city filled with Jews and they elected because they're so anti-Trump, they had to get the most liberal socialist in office here in New York City, despite the fact that he's anti-Semite, despite the fact that he wants to ban and have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested. I mean, come on. You're the mayor of New York. You're not the president of the United States. A couple of things. Did you watch World Cup at all? Yes, I did. And you know I'm not a sports fan. But I did. My kids got me into it. So it was very exciting. So it was 39 days. Yeah. I mean, do you feel almost like what happened? Like what do we do now, actually. No, in all seriousness, because this was my kids were never even to soccer. This World Cup was the first World Cup, honestly, that my family was ever really into. I don't know what it was about this World Cup, but it was so much more exciting to me. Yeah, it was in the games. Years in the past. 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 7 o'clock. Yeah, yeah. Got it. Yeah. The other thing, even the final was great. At 3 o'clock, you have to wait until 8 o'clock to have it or 9 o'clock as you have it. And also had the Knicks. So the Knicks were a national story. Not only they're playing for the world title, but they became a national story because nobody expected it. So we won one from that to this. Yeah, no, it was a very exciting day in sports. And again, not a sports fan. Like I wasn't even sure who made it to the finals until the day of the final. So you know Argentina lost, right? They were in the final? Oh, yeah, too bad. Yeah, no, I knew all about it. But I mean, my son, who's 10, he's my sports advisor, and he told me Spain was number one ranked, so it was expected, and he was rooting for Spain. Who were you reading for? I was kind of ambivalent because I want the U.S. team do as well as possible. Okay, but they weren't in it, Brian, so get over it. So who were you rooting for? Probably no, but I went to the game and was not rooting.

Are you kidding? Why? How could you go to a sporting event and not root for a team? Because it's got to be real. I can't pretend to care. Oh, okay. Unless somebody personally, if one of the players offended me or cut me off, then I'd want the other team. Okay. But I'll give you an example. So I don't have anything against Argentina. Or Spain. I did not think Argentina was great sports. Evidently, I didn't even notice this. I'm embarrassed not to have noticed it. Do you know they turned their back on Spain during the medal ceremony? I did not know that all except one player, which is ridiculous. Then they started fights at the end when they lost, which was ridiculous. But listen to Congressman Jasmine Crockett. When talking about this game and who she was rooting for, cut 46. If you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain. And it seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting for Argentina or actually against Argentina, right? And why was that? Just give me an explanation if you could guess. If you'll just let them finish the answer. Spain had the best team. Maybe that's why they were rooting for them. There's also a racist history that exists. Mr. Byer, you're recognized. Thank you. Why does she have to bring race into everything? Even the World Cup, for God's sakes. I mean, what does two teams from different countries have to do with racism? I don't understand because there's Spanish speaking? Yeah, I am. I don't even understand. I'm not going to. I just said, I got to cut. When I saw this sound about it, I said, I got to bring it in here because she's dying to be relevant. Exactly. That's how she makes her name. Yep. And she found. I guess Argentina, I thought they wouldn't have known more if you're going to be negative about him for housing Nazis. I thought that was a bigger deal. Yeah, I would say that that is true, but not racist. Racist against who? I can't understand, but she invokes racism into anything. And you're right, because she wants the attention and she'll bring it up. And of course, the World Cup is what we're talking about this week. So why not throw racism into that? So what do you, are you hosting Harris Faulkner at 11? I'm doing that on, no, not this week, not this week. Okay. So we have another bite that might make a show, whatever you're on today. Okay. And that is of Sonny Hosten. It turns out her son. Yeah. I don't think the way I read it, he didn't do really much wrong, just was running in an area by the railroad tax. And you would think she just let this play out. Right. But she didn't. Tell you, tell him I'm a prosecutor. Tell him I'm on the view. Let's listen. We just moved here. Oh, yes. So we're new to the area, which is why he's making mistakes. I'm a former state prosecutor. He knows he's a Harvard grad who teaches fourth grade geometry to six kids. God bless. He's not a kid who's ever in trouble. It's an innocent mistake. I understand you have to give him a violation.

I don't even understand. You'd think he was accused of something much more severe. He was just running on the tracks. We were supposed to. Just let it go. Was she covering for something else? Because I'm sorry, I can't imagine a mother going out on a limb to such an extent where because her. son just accidentally ran over some property. But you got to be really smart about how you use your name, don't you think? Well, this is not it. I mean, if you get arrested for something or jogging by the railroad tracks in a forbidden area criminal, then perhaps I would invoke some kind of authority to try to get my name around. I would throw, I would be like, do you know Brian Kilmeade? I know him. Because your kids, do you think your kids will be eventually in trouble with the law? Oh, 100%. I mean, you mean how many times have they already been? Right. No, they have not, unlike their mother. No, but you are a disciplinarian. I am a disciplinarian. My kids are well-behaved. They will never be in trouble with the law. Just be candid. You could easily skirt this. Okay. But when it comes to social media, do you have limitations? I do. I do have limitations, and I think that it is the parents' job to have limitations. It's nobody else's job but the parents. And I think having or insinuating that the government should have any say on your parents or your parenting is pathetic. And you know your kid's ages, right? And their names. I'm pretty sure. I don't remember their names, but I think I know their ages, though, right? I get them confused. There's three of them. Right. And I have almost as many kids as you have dogs. And what bothers you? Do you remember all their ages? Not really. Exactly. But does it bother when they get out of order? Like when they get out of order? I have age order, it gets confusing. Yeah, I call them by the wrong name all the time. Which is like I call Harrison Addison all the time. So I even mix up their genders. So now we have Australia banning social media for kids under 16. Right, 16. They're finding a way around it. Yeah. And the same thing that's happening in, in Norway and Sweden, first European country, France did it. I want you to hear Jonathan Haidt was on with us the other day about what is taking America so long because I would like to see the ban. Cut 47. Well, of course, we generally think parents should have the first, right. Parents should be in charge of their kids, how they choose to raise their kids. But here's the thing, Lawrence. We parents are not able to raise the kids the way that we want. Imagine if alcohol companies inserted... vodka dispensers in every school, every playground, all over the world. And you could say, well, you know, it's the parent's job to keep them off of the vodka dispensers. Or you might say, what the hell are we doing putting vodka dispensers everywhere? And so since our kids are drowning in social media, they're trapped. They can't. The kids themselves say, I have to be on because everyone else is on. And so sometimes we do need governments to set a minimum floor for things and say, okay, social media is all kinds of bad things to kids. The current law says that you have to be 13 or you have to say you're 13. And nobody's objecting to that. And Australia is saying, no, let's make it 16. And let's actually have the companies enforce their own rules.

So good analogy, right? Yeah, you want to say you're a parent, but the kids can't be with you 24 hours a day. Okay, but the enforcement is the problem because whether you make it 13 or 16, kids are still going to be on social media. But they've got to find a way. There's no way to enforce it. Do you think there's a way technologically where it's impossible for their facial recognition to open up your phone? Okay, so the facial recognition that does work. But you know what sometimes my kids do? I'm not even joking. They walk up to me with their phone. They go, mom, look at my phone and they put my face in the phone. They've actually done this. And I don't know what I'm doing. So I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm looking. And then they're like, oh, yep, you look like you're over 21. I had facial recognition the other day, by the way, say I looked 42. So I actually love the technology of facial recognition. But the real story is your kids. But the real story is there should be vodka dispensers in schools. Wait, no? Is that not the real story? That is the takeaway. If you're not paying attention. Yes. So your kids are going to go around it. So right now, I just think kids are going to find a way around it, to be honest. What about in schools? I think in schools, they definitely need to regulate it because a lot of inappropriate stuff is put up on computers in schools. I think everyone has got to go to a phone locker. It's very easy. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, phones have been banned. Don't put them into it. Don't even put them into a basket. Right. It's just like when you come in. Yeah. Phone lock. Well, that's, that's a nationwide ban now. So cell phones are not allowed. But guess what? I think it's state to state. I think some states still allow cell phones in schools. Well, yeah, it's state to state, but most states have banned them in schools. But guess what? Kids have figured out a way around that. I'm getting text messages from my daughter on her Mac laptop because they're required to have Mac laptops. And that syncs up to your phone. So they're able to text me from school. Julia Banderas, thanks so much. We have to get a hold of your kids. Oh, yes. Thank you. Well, they're probably home drinking alcohol. If you have that dispenser. Well, I have the vodka dispenser in every bathroom. And you make money off your kids because they put money back at a moment. Increasing your intelligence quotient. What the hell did you say? It's Brian Kilmeade. How can we help make stronger communities happen? Well, at J.P. Morgan Chase, we invest in what's working, in businesses that create more jobs, in hospitals, delivering care where it's needed the most, in workers building new buildings, bridges, and roads, connecting what we need to where we live. Make the greengrass go all around, all around, make the greengrass go all around. Make momentum happen. Learn more at JPMorganchase.com slash impact.

Last is three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmeade. If you're walking on the stream, you need no introduction. Frank Siller, chairman and CEO of Talented Towers Foundation, joins us now. He's got a book coming out in September. September, of course, September 1st. It's called Let Us Do Good and all building towards September 11th, which would be 25 years since the 9-11 attacks when Frank Siller was forced against his will to start one of the most successful charitable organizations in the country when your brother, Stephen. ran through the tunnel in order to get to the towers until the towers was formed. Frank Siller, welcome back. Thank you, Brian, for having me. So what made you want to write this book that's out next month? Well, there's so many stories that has culminated from my brother's sacrifice on 9-11 that I felt like the America should know. the goodness of america i mean you know the goodness i know the goodness and most certainly because i see it every day with the foundation but a lot of people don't know how the foundation started uh the struggles in the beginning uh raise the money in the beginning how it changed after a certain amount of years when we decided we're going to start building smart homes for catastrophically injured service members. You know, up to that point, we didn't have to raise a lot of money. So we were doing some small acts of kindness. I mean, small acts of kindness. But it's all changed when the first quadruple amputee ever survive any war was from Staten Island. And I went down to... Walter Reed Army Medical Center. And I visited him. And while I was there, I said, can we build you a home? I didn't always go to build a smart home. I just said, you know, you're from Staten Island. Can we, you know, maybe Staten Island build you a home, you know, tunnels of towers. And he accepted. And while we were building it, um, We started to have this guy, John Ponte, who owned a smart home technology business. And he started to come around. And he said, let's put this in a house, you know, make his life more, give him some independence. And all this high technology we put in was incredible. And he ends up working for us, you know. He sold his own business and came work for peanuts. I mean, not for a lot of money. It was one of the many miracles that happened. But I write about that story, you know, about those stories, the things that changed the foundation in such a dramatic way where we never thought in a million years it would be doing some of the stuff we're doing. Where did you get your experience to be able? You were a business guy before this, right?

Did that set you up? Did you have the skill set to do this? Well, it certainly was, it prepared me for this, no question about it. I didn't go into this starting a foundation saying, oh, we want to be one of the largest, if we are the largest non-for-profit in, you know, for veterans and first responders. You know, nobody's doing what we're doing. Some do some of what we're doing, but nobody does what we do. I didn't go into it like that. But. Looking back, all my experience for all my life, being an entrepreneur, I have my own business, produced my own commercials when I had my, I was in a fur business. I had the first fur commercial I produced. It was Elizabeth Taylor lookalike. And she got out of her car and had one of my fur code signs, says, I'm not Elizabeth Taylor, but this luxurious fur coat from the Staten Island Furrier show brings a superstar out of me. And, you know, so I produced that commercial and stuff. I knew about marketing. I knew about, and then I was a builder. I built homes. You know, I was not a big builder, but I knew, you know, read plans. I knew I was a contractor. I could get all those stuff done. So, yes, in many ways, it prepared me. for my role to be the CEO and the chairman of the CEO for the last 25 years. And so it went from helping those people who are victims of 9-11 to first responders, to those wounded coming back, those who lost their lives, Gold Star families coming back for more. And you're at the point now where you're doing so many different things. How do you keep it all straight? I have great staff and I have tens of tens of thousands of volunteers. You know, we have over 100 runs and climbs around the country. It's incredible. We have 300 golf outings, which I try to get you to quite a few, but you're great. You've seen some for me. You know the gala, how powerful that is. You did that as well. You know, so we have a staff that are so qualified. So qualified and professional. How does that make you feel? I mean, as you try to, you never, as you said to me yesterday on Fox and Friends, you never get over the loss of a loved one, but you learn to live with it. Does this help? It does. It does to do good in Stephen's name and all those who perished on 9-11. One of the reasons why Tunnel to Towers is so successful, the first year, I had American flags for every first responder who died on 9-11. It was about Stephen for me, but other families lost their loved ones on that day. We had the names of all 2,97 souls that perished that day at the first run. The second year, I made banners up, pictures of them held by other firefighters and police officers and Port Authority police officers. When you come out of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, that's what you see these pictures. And now I have the names of all 7,000 plus men and women who died in the global war on terror. They're being held by ROTC cadets.

It's like a mile long of names that people perish to protect our country. You know, you know, today we had the dignified transfer over at Dover. And one of those four that just came back, one of them has a wife and two children, Sergeant Swindle. we're going to take care of that family. We're not only going to pay off their mortgage. When that kid's old enough, those two children are old enough, we're going to make sure they get a college education named after my mom and dad, the mayor George Sulla College Scholarship Fund. So it's all in the book. It's called Let Us Too Good. And Talented Towers is going to be building up towards 9-11. It's going to be 25 years. since the attack. So, Frank, we'll have you back building up to the book. Of course, building up to the big events. And if we want to find an event near us, where do we go? Just go to tunnel t2t.org. And you can pre-order the book now. You know that. You missed the book. Yeah. Go ahead and pre-order this way. Either lands in your inbox or lands in your doorstep on September 1st. Exactly right. That'll be great. Exactly right. All right. And do that. Frank Siller. Thanks so much. Tontentower is t2t.org.

Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sewing to fission. It's Brian Kilmeade. I'm so glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade coming to you from Midtown Manhattan. We're just blocks away. The ice facility was attacked by some lunatic who sadly was in our military, got some training and thought, what a great idea. He actually had a manifesto and talked to the FBI. Good job with that. We also have a place called the Intrepid, where a lot of tourists go. What a perfect place to have now a strip of homeless people setting up encampments, now tapping into our... to our light switches in order to power their lifestyle that was never allowed before. Even under Eric Adams, de Blasio was starting to clean it up. Zero under, you know, obviously under Bloomberg. And now with everything, it's just going to the wrong direction. We got the worst mayor in America. Jason Chaffetz is with us right now, Fox News contributor, former Utah Congressman, former House Oversight Committee chair, and host of Jason in the House podcast. Congressman, can you believe that this mayor considers himself a power player when he can't even, he's about to lose this city. He took over a city that was in control. He's about to lose it. And at the same time, he's focused on arresting Benjamin Netanyahu. He's trying to push himself as an international figure. Is it working? No, it's not working. Look, he hasn't been on the job that long. He hasn't solved. And I think at some point the people in New York are going to say, wait a second, things are getting a lot worse, they're not getting better. I mean, I... I don't see his mandate as something that's going to last, you know, into the fall because people, I think, get fed up. He promised everything. He won a root beer and all the drinking fountains for goodness sake. And I, he's not going to be able to deliver on that. Cut 33. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. As I've said, I agree with the ICC. The Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes, as I do for anyone else charged by the ICC. My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the international criminal court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does. And I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant. And I want to be equally clear. Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large. Okay. Number one, the music. I didn't pick up on the music when we rolled it on Fox and Friends. Can you imagine producing a statement of that gravity and putting bed music? I mean, come on. I didn't really notice it until you like, wait a second, what is going? Is he producing a movie? He's playing the role of a competent mayor. Well, look, he got his job. I mean, his original job was, you know, Mr. Instagram. So, you know, I guess in that vein, he's following through on it.

Every time he goes out and does one of these stupid things on a jurisdiction that he doesn't have, it reminds the people of New York and this country that he has no plan to execute to do within the city. Any of the things he promises. Any of the things. And look at all the things that are going on with the police and safety and security and education. When do we ever get to talk about education? Things like that. This is where he's spending his time on international. He's a globalist. And that's who he wants to be. And very anti-Sama, very anti-Israel. Oh, it's as anti as you get. See, I always thought if you were savvy, you'd go, well, I got to condemn Iran's assassination of 52,000 members of whatever it is, 40, 50,000 of the citizens. And then, by the way, I also hate Israel. But they don't even couch it. Doesn't show up for the Puerto Rican Day parade. Primaries and Hispanic leader. Ritchie Torres, a fellow. Democrat. He basically was threatened by Hasan Piker. I'm going to get you next time. So he is not consolidating minority votes in Manhattan. He is supported by mostly overeducated white people. Think about that. I think of what he's going to start to do is start to travel the country. Now he's going to be able to say, hey. I'm the draw. I'm the one that can raise the money. I can help lead this part. I think he has dreams and aspirations far beyond New York. Well, I think for the Senate, look, Chuck Schumer's done, right? And if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez... He is politically a dead man walking, yes. And he's extremely unpopular and he shouldn't be. I mean, for example, if you stand for something, at least go out on what you believe in, you see the anti-Semitism raging in this country. You see Josh Gottheimer, who you know, Moscow, Congressman Jared Moskowitz, come out and go, well, what's going on my party? This would be the time for Senator... Chuck Schumer said, what's going on with my party? Well, why isn't he? No, I've made this point a couple times, but when Nancy Pelosi left, she was really the epicenter of the money raising and the message. And I think Democrats are really missing Nancy Pelosi because they followed like Lemmings. Chuck Schumer didn't pick up that mantle. Certainly Hakeem Jeffries didn't pick up the mantle. She raised the message. She raised the money. She did the message. And she kept everybody in line. And the national Democrats followed her lead as well. Now that she's out of the picture and no longer day to day doing this, Democrats are rudderless. And Kamala Harris is the leader of their party. Zohran Mamdani has the microphone with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Chuck Schumer is politically just silent. Nobody pays attention other than when he. toots on, you know, decides to let one rip there on the floor of the Senate. That's the news that he generates at this point. So who are a socialist and what do they want? Well, we have three in New York right now. You have one that's really running in Maine, the best I can tell, maybe not be a member of TSA, but this guy, was it Troy Parker? I'm not sure who his last name is. Troy Jackson, excuse me. So he is going to run against Susan Collins. This guy's way, way out to the left. So what do they believe in? So mostly... Over 80% are white. 60% have a master's, one or two master's degrees are PhDs, many of which are on the downward spiral, making less money every year because they can't achieve anything. Here's Megan Romer, the national co-chair of DSA, talking about what makes up her party. Who are socialist, communist, communist? Cut three. What do you respond to the criticism that?

Some of the members, many of the members, according to that survey at least, may lack some of the lived experience requisite for commenting on the conditions of the working class. You know, we take it seriously that our demographics do not map as closely to the working class writ large as we would like them to be. And we have specifically identified leaders of color and gave them. Extra training, extra support, trying to make sure that they felt at home in our organization and were able to help make sure that we were meeting the needs of broader constituencies. We've seen increased numbers of non-white folks join. Our gender ratio is almost equal now. Now, there's very few. Multi-race. Yeah, it's less than 20%. So things are changing rapidly. So Bernie Sanders, they let into his party. Now he's trying to take over the party. And this guy, Abdul. LLC'd over in Michigan. What do you think is going to happen there? Yeah, I was going to mention Michigan. I think, you know, they say there's four toss-ups for Democrats. I really think they're down to one. In Iowa, Ashley Hinson is an incredibly good candidate, but this primary coming up in Michigan, this is the test. Is it? Outside of... Ashley Hinson running in Iowa. In Iowa, that's kind of a separate issue. I think, I don't think that's a toss-up. I think she's going to win and win by a good margin there. But in Maine... Really? Because she is trailing. I don't believe it. I do not buy it. Because those polls are bad in Iowa. I mean, come on. They were the ones that predict that Donald Trump was going to lose by, what, 30 or something like that. Trump sued them. Exactly. Exactly. In Maine, Susan Collins always outperforms. She's a well-known Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and she's not... You know, just lockstep with Donald Trump. You're not going to be able to make that case against her. So you go down to Michigan. And Michigan, are they really going to elect and nominate on the Democratic side of the aisle, this radical socialist? I mean, he has a lot of problems, but we're going to find out because this socialist movement, if you will, yeah, New York, Boston, some of the things on the West Coast. But it is, I mean, look at what happened in Arizona last night. You know, you had people like Andy Biggs dominate, but some of the these other races, the socialists were on the ballot, they get creamed. Yes, Stanton beat New Kirk. 68 to 31, New Kirk is the crazy socialist. So in the purple areas, I guess you can call Arizona that they don't do well. But in those other areas, they're maxing out. Well, look, you have a lot of Hispanics voting in Arizona. You have a black population in Arizona. They're not gravitating towards them. They gravitating towards remarkably towards the Republican Party. who offers them freedom, liberty, and traditional values, which they are actually seeking. Here's Robert Collale. He was on Fox News at night talking about the power rankings. And just let me give you an idea. The power rankings on the Fox News poll, say it's a dead heat of 4747 when it comes to the Senate.

Now, keep in mind, too, the toss-ups, they have Lean D, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire. Why is Michigan in there? New Hampshire and North Carolina, the great hope with New Hampshire is, Noonan, the name. And then the toss-up, Alaska. Dan Sullivan, actually in trouble in Alaska, Iowa, you don't think is a problem. Maine, you think is going Susan Collins-way. What Ohio, Ustead against Brown. You know Brown. Do you think that they're going to go against Ustead? I don't know. Brown's got a good name there in Ohio. And in Alaska, really hard to tell what's going on in Alaska. I mean, that's such a rural, local-driven issue. But really hard to tell. But this is... Here's what we're not talking about. We're not talking about a blowout. You know, when I first came to Congress in 2008, they blew out the Republicans. 2010, that pendulum swung way back, and Republicans came sweeping into power. We're talking about a handful of seats now, both House and the Senate. And so this whole idea that they're going to blow out the Republicans, nobody, but nobody is predicting that. The most important factors of voters, 46% say cost to living, 25% say Democratic values. 13% say immigration. President's kind of guilty of that. He moved it out of the way. And then 5% crime, because crime has gone down. Trump's handling the economy, only 31% approval in June. And that's the last one. Mega. Mega-based Republicans' enthusiasm is down. They don't understand when we have the House of Senate and the presidency why you can't pass the Save Act. They want gas at two bucks a gallon, not four. They don't want to be in a forever war. I don't think it is a forever war. I think the president's doing the necessity that he has to have. And they want more mass deportations. Those are the big ones that the base, the far right of the party that is all in for Trump. They're a little frustrated. Those things aren't happening. Dems have the party affiliation edge just by four, though. And that's changing. In the Intermountain West, Arizona, other places, Nevada, Nevada has really changed to become much more to the Republican side of the aisle. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't even close before Trump got there. So we'll see what happens. I also think that when you comes to the quality candidates, Mike Rogers is probably the best quality candidate out there. And he's run multiple times. He was a member of Congress. He's only lost once. Yeah. And so, you know, you've got that. You've got a good gubernatorial race. Arizona, we got a good quality candidate in Andy Biggs. That is going to be a good race. I think he was the only one that could take on Hobbs. I'm excited about that race in Arizona. Right. I guess we're going to see, see what happens. What about this whole JD Vance blaming Israel for... everything for saying there's elements of that uh the Joe Rogan podcast there's elements of his the israeli government that wants a forever war i don't think that's going to play well i i think he needs to clarify it i think um i don't understand it that's not the JD Vance that i thought we were going to get and where we were going to go um but we will see i i'd like to hear him expand on some of that but boy he's

He's taken it from a lot of people on the Republican side of the aisle at this point. Didn't seem to slip at the tongue. When you're on for three hours, it's hard to say I was misquoted. I know. I know. Right. I mean, or does he feel that way? Like you talk to a lot of people in the Republican Party. They don't want anything to do with Ukraine. They don't want anything to do with anything in the Middle East. They think Russia's got a point. You know, you have, I don't even think they're into defense spending, where you could always count on Republicans to rally around the Pentagon. Right. I don't understand it. I don't relate to it. I don't understand where they're coming from. I don't know why this is such a difficult issue for them. But, you know. It's hard to explain, but I'd like to hear him explain more because you're right. When you're doing a three-hour interview, you're starting to hear like the nitty gritty. And Joe Rogan doesn't cut you off. He lets you keep doing it and talking about it. But a lot of people believe that, you know, Marco Rubio is probably much more of the... the candidate of the future than anybody else? The word is, if President Trump doesn't say, I'm keeping my hands off, I'm going to let it play out, then money's not flowing anywhere except JD. If the president says JD's my guy, that's where no one wants to waste money, like the big donors. Right, right. That's the word. So you're much more tapped into political circles. Do you believe they were going to see multiple people on the stage or fringe candidates and JD Vance? I think it'll be fascinating to see because I don't think you're going to see Marco Rubio. If JD's in. Against Jay, no, no. He's after resign at Secretary of State. You'd have to do one of the, and so I think they'll sort that out ahead of time. And, you know, a lot of people, I think that conventional wisdom was, okay, JD gets to be run for president, Marco gets to run for vice president. And maybe that's the direction it goes. But I'm just saying on the political calculus here today in July, Marco, I think is. probably the best suited within that Trump world. I watched his press conference today. I'm sure nobody else was up. It was at 5 in the morning. Yes. He literally took questions all over the map. Probably 20 questions, Trump style. 45 minutes. There was not one time where you thought, oh, he has no idea what he's talking about. You're saying, how much should he say? And that's what you want. You want a guy or a woman that just understands everything 380 degrees. His competence, his mastery of the issues, his time as the intelligence chairman there in the Senate, his time as Secretary of State. He knows this stuff. Plus domestic policy, I mean, he's one of the best in the business. The only person better would be me, but I'm not running.

Yeah. And you agree. There's still a recruitment. I think the big money would flow to kill me direction. And then they'll see some of the stuff I said over the last 30 years. And they go, I don't think so. Yeah, yeah. And the money would stop. The research people would just have got to town on that. Jason Chapin's, Congressman. Thanks so much. Always great to see you. Welcome to next time we see you on air. I don't know. Not today. I'm getting on a plane. Okay. Bye. See you later. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmeade. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. I learned of this last Wednesday, and I immediately ordered my chief counsel to launch a comprehensive investigation. Currently, the division of elections is working to ensure anyone who is illegally registered is removed from the voter rolls. So that is Mikie Sherrill explaining that by mistake, a bunch of illegals got their names put into the voter rolls from motor vehicle, 6,400, which voted. And I thought James Blair had a great tweet and response. He said, no, this can't be true. It's impossible. Get it, tongue firmly in cheek. That's what they've been saying. Clean up your voter rolls. Why is that a problem? I look at the fraud, Medicaid, foreign entities, stealing money from our social programs. Why can Democrats not get on board with that? And then domestically, when hospices get set up that aren't hospices and daycares, that aren't daycares, and they get to the bottom of it because the FBI and... HHS investigated. Why is that partisan? And then when Mikie Sherrill is a Democrat comes forward and says what she says, do you know what she said afterwards? Well, Donald Trump has no credibility when it comes to elections. Excuse me, what are you talking about? No credibility. This is exactly what was brought out. And Democratic Governor Phil Murphy let it happen. She blamed her predecessor. All I would say, the only messaging I would do differently with the President of the United States who wants elections cleaned up is I don't care who wins. I just want the right person to win. Of course, I'm a Republican. I want Republicans to be successful. I want my friends to win. The people I donate to, I want to prevail. But I just want everyone to know that their vote's going to count. It's not going to get canceled out. There's going to be no shenanigans going on. At the very least, can you clean up your voter rolls? Not to get rid of people, but to get rid of dead people. People that have moved. Clean it up. Straighten it out. Make people feel good about the process, even if your guy loses. Tyrus is next.

He'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. All right, Tyrus is here. He's getting ready for his podcast and, of course, doing Gutfeld today and whatever they ask him to. He always says the same refrain. Hey, Tyrus, you watch on your show and you always say how much. And we reach your money demands every time. Yeah, a free 99 is a tough rate. Hey, hey, personal. Hey, thanks for always giving me the shot on a radio show. I have a lot of fun. You take over, man. Yeah, it's a blast. And I appreciate the artist rendering photo that you left on the desk for me. Do we have that somewhere? It was hiding around here somewhere. Oh, me? Over there? Yes, yes. It was an artistic rendation that was left on my desk. So. Yeah, so apparently, yeah, so you were in spirit. Yeah, it was right there on my desk for me when I came in. Do you want this for your house? My walls are full right now, but if you'll autograph it, I'll definitely put it in my office so Gutfeld can see it. Okay, absolutely. But yeah, that was nice of you to leave that. Right. It doesn't speak at all of insecurity. It's not really flattering. Let me see. The smile's a little, you know, Jokerish, but other than that, it's dead on. Okay. So we'll put it right there so we know where it is. It's not going to go anywhere. So you got, uh, Gutfeld tonight. Yeah, I got Gutfeld at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on my podcast and, um, We're going to talk about all things Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today. So what's the main difference between the podcast to do with the radio show? This becomes a podcast, you know? You can only see the show on YouTube, too. The thing I love about the radio show is that you have time for discussion. Right. Especially with guests and stuff. Like there's a lot more time. And there's a, the pressure is different, you know, because you want to get it right. And you got... You got a really great, great team, by the way. Like, when you need something, information stuff. Allison Pete and the fellas are phenomenal. But, like, you call a number, you know, when you walk in at 8 a.m. and they're like, they just got, they got so much stuff. And you basically, a lot of people don't know, like, the clock's ticking. And you've got to come up with three hours. And during that time, there's, you can get an audible here and there, but you got to, it's got to be laid out. Absolutely. Your team makes it easy. Couple of things. How do you just tap me into a wrestling background? I was watching ESPN. I forgot they got the contract for wrestling. So you're watching baseball. And they go, coming up next, WWE event. How do you feel about that? You know, I always felt that wrestling was kind of a separate thing. You know, the sport, but the sports side of it, I love that it's getting that kind of recognition. The downside of it is that, you know, to protect the magic show that it is. I kind of always think it should stay within. But go to it to see it. Right. But at the same time, it's giving wrestlers an opportunity to really step out the box and show how talent they are and the interviews and stuff like that and getting their influences on other all things sports. But let's talk about baseball.

I mean, my Red Sox, you know, 14 straight. We got rained out yesterday. So I don't know if that puts a damper on things or not. Pardon the pun. They are your Red Sox? Yeah. Oh, die hard. Die hard. Great young team. We were dead last. I mean, we were awful. Bad as the Mets. After, worse than the Mets. We got, we lost a series of Colorado. Right. And we stopped trying two years ago. Yeah. So I literally was like the season's over, but I always show up. And then we swept the Yankees, swept the Mets. And that changed everything. And everything. And we're in a tough series with the Orioles right now. The Orioles were seven. They had won seven straight going into our games. A last question about wrestling. How do you guys feel? How do you guys feel? How do you guys feel? How do you guys feel? How do you guys feel about that? How do you guys feel? How do you guys feel about that? Like Muhammad Ali and Gorilla Monsoon when the airplane spin them. Celebrities, everybody wants to be a wrestler. And they think they can. And they think they can. And the only thing that is different now is back in the day when you came down, you got your ass handed to you. Guerrilla Mansoon put Muhammad Ali in an airplane spin and told him he didn't know wrist watch from wrist lock and get out of my ring. And it was a certain you protected it. Now celebrities get a little more. opportunities, you know, putting guys, you know, towns who's got spaghetti for arms and snatching guys up. That wouldn't happen back in the day. Not happened. Andre wouldn't have allowed that. That wouldn't have went down on Andre or Hogan's watch. So do you remember Muhammad Ali, I'm older than you, Antonio Anoki, who did tremendous damage because I guess there was a contract that said he couldn't hit Ali. There was got on his back and he kicked him. There was a lot of rumors and stuff like that. And the thing about wrestling is you never know what's what. He stayed on his back the whole time to avoid. It's crazy. But because to avoid being hit, I don't think Muhammad Ali knowing who he was, would have had a problem with being hit. I don't think he ever would have got close to him. I mean, if you're going to try to box Muhammad Ali, you're going to have a bad day. He went to his back because that was the only defense and offense he could muster was hoping that Muhammad Ali would make a mistake. Let's not forget Muhammad Ali had gloves on. So. There was, I don't believe that story. I think that's just part of the lore that, you know, to make, because in wrestling, you have to be bigger than life. So, but again, that was a different time now, you know. And then we have guys like, you know, Brock Lesnar who went over to UFC and dominated became a world champ. So the legitimacy of wrestling was more prevalent back then, where they would protect themselves at all time. Now you would have a wrestler going there. It was more of on an entertainment side and get knocked out. Because it would look good. It would be good for ratings. But back in the day, wrestlers would not allow that. But Dr. D. David Schultz was fired because he was too rough with Mr. T. Is he, is it true? They pounded, he, Anoki pounded Ali's legs so bad. Yeah. That it really hurt him. And a kick from Anoki would be more dangerous than a strike. And I got, like I said, he is one of my all-time favorites. When I left the WWE, the first phone call I got was from his people. And I got the chance to go over in Japan and wrestle in the Tokyo Dome and all that. And he came out with his classic red scarf and like their rules. He's still around? No, he's passed. But his traditions.

were still respected. You know, you didn't know that you didn't speak to your opponent so you walked out there, which I thought was great, which means you had to know it all was in the ring. And the Japanese crowd, it's an art form. So it's completely different. You'll do an amazing move. You'll hit a guy with some power and you won't hear anything or you'll hear some, oh, and the whole, oh, and then all of a sudden. You get this rounding, standing ovation at the end of it. Like, it's absolutely. There's too polite and discipline. It's just, it's the, it's a respected art form. It's very cool. I'll bring you something else. You get to be excited. I want to come out of retirement now. Do you remember when Buster Douglas fought, uh, fought Tyson? And where it was. Tokyo. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Blue. See, what was surreal is we're watching Tyson get hit for the first time. And then we watch him go down. And you don't hear any noise. I'm saying to myself, it's this real? But it's the Japanese audience is so polite. Instead of the build and the noise that you would normally have, until he actually went down and was out looking for his mouthpiece, I go to myself, this is something surreal happening right now. That fight. Buster Douglas fought above his pay grade. Oh my goodness. The loss of his mother inspired him to be the best version of himself. The sad part was Buster wasn't able to maintain that. He had the ability to be a world-class fighter. And then his first title defense against Evander Holyfield, he just got demolished. You know, and he struggled with weight problems and things like that. But that was the right night, the right place. And Mike was dealing with, you know, nothing but sharks around him. and wasn't preparing like he normally would or should have. With Don King and Holloway. And all those guys just, just, just, they were just parasites, just draining off them, you know, and then, you know, being in a really bad marriage, you know, and just he was a lot of bad things going on for Mike. I think the best thing about Mike is that who would have thought he would have became a philosopher? You know, and now I think he's bigger than his boxing career, which is saying a lot because he's the baddest man on the planet for a long time. Well, he seems he's got the right woman now. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I've met her. I've met that. And she is absolutely phenomenal. He's in a great place. And, you know, his battles with mental health, the loss of a child. Like, he has probably been the most polarized, humble person who's been through so much. But he's just become a beacon of enlightenment. And I think that's an amazing, amazing thing. You know what's also amazing is he was in debt, right? Taxes. He paid it back. He earned it back. Like you watched him do his one man show. You watched everything he was doing. And he just said, okay, I'm not blaming anybody. He never did. He never has. You know, a lot of people just, that ridiculous court case that going to prison for the way he did. The Dershowitz was always said he was 100% innocent. Here's the thing. A lot of people don't, men don't come back from that. You know, it takes a certain amount of integrity and redemption and faith in yourself to come back from that. Because a lot of cases, society won't let you come back from that. You know, and he's reinvented himself. He's never backed away from any situation. So he is the epitome of the American dream.

So I want to, on a different note, just for a moment, I watched you last night. You talked about socialism over the last few days. So people have trouble defining socialism. And one thing is, if you believe what you believe, if Bernie Sanders believes, what you believe, it's okay, fine. But imagine if you're just saying it, you don't know what you believe. And I think the 34-year-old mayor of New York City exposed himself, when asked, just tell me what working class is. Listen to this. I think if you have to work. to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class. So that's everyone with a W2? Is that kind of? 1099s too. I think it's, it's, I'm less interested. So someone making $250,000 a year is working class? I mean, I haven't sat at home and asked myself where it starts and stops. Why not? He's the mayor. This dude is he auditioned. He's an actor. He's auditioned. He's an anti-Semitic crony. He has no base. I mean, he sat there and I want to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, but didn't understand his job. He couldn't do that. And then his answer was, hey, federal government helped me out. This is the problem. I don't live in New York. But there was no way in hell. You work here. I work here. But I'm a 1099 based out of Florida. Really? You catch my drift. So, but. New Yorkers to be asleep at the wheel, the voters to be asleep at the wheel. I think this should be, and you shouldn't have to be Jewish to be shocked about this, but you allowed an completely unqualified hack, a mama's boy, if you will, with no real skill set to come in, and he is just running the agenda of an anti-Semitic, anti, he just. He has no basis. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, same thing. She was, whenever they're caught on a hot mic asked a question, the ignorance is overwhelming. Remember what you did overseas? What kind of a bartender? I mean, was she? Jim Crow started the Senate. I mean, these used to be things that you would say, that there would be a meeting about whether you were fit to serve. Now it's just part of the news thing, that unqualified actors who can't make it in Hollywood or a rap career. Or a bartender. Now they audition and the organization of the left puts them in, gets them the votes. They put the money into them. And then they tell them what to say. This is what the American voter has to smarten up. You have to stop electing people based on how they look or how fancy their ads are. And you know why you're right? And there's many reasons why I'm the number one, you said you were. So that's good enough for me. But number two is when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was there for about two weeks. You know she was a bartender before. Came out of nowhere beats Joe Crowley. She comes out and goes, oh, yeah, I got the new Green Deal. It's like 300 pages. Yeah. Number one, I don't care if you're for the environment or not. Where'd that come from? Exactly. You know, it'd be different. If you've pulled Glenn Youngkin and you tell me he's got an economic plan, yeah, no kidding. You spent your life in finance. I would see it, yeah.

But this is a 30-something year old person. He goes, by the way, new Green Deal, totally revamped the economy. What do you talk? Where did that come from? Who are you working for? Exactly. And that's the question that people need to be asking for whom, like, again, and we see it. Tim Walz makes that disgusting speech about being upset that a pedophile was deported. And he's like, our children safer. Are their life's better? Yeah, absolutely. But people then be like, he's stupid. He's not stupid. You're either part of the team or a sympathizer because only a pedophile. That would be their mindset trying to say, oh, it was a bad day because he got caught. That was the day. And what people should know is that there's been a pedophile that abuses 10 year old for years. One that we know of. For two years, usually it's not one-off. It's never one. They graduate. They get, you know, and his answer was not remorseful, not I'm sorry. It was, it's a cultural thing. But you know if you do that over there, you get murdered, you know, in certain societies. So again, we have to start asking ourselves when they make these speeches. We need to stop bringing in other democratic strategists to say, oh, that doesn't represent us. No, they do. The question is, you need to find who's cutting those checks. So I want you to. So Van Jay Jones, your thoughts about him being outraged, cut for it. This stuff is going too far. I am a progressive Democrat. You want to talk about prison reform? I've done it as well as anybody, Republican Democrats in the South with Trump. I've done prison reform. I never said, have no prisons. Where are you going to put the Klan? I've done police reform. I never said, no police. Where are you going to put the pedophiles? It's going to grab the pedophiles. This stuff is going too far. I've been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it's doing. But it's being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas supporting terrorists, nutty ideas saying that we don't need cops in prison. We can't deport anybody even if they rape somebody. Who said this Chevalier. And she won the election easily. It's a little too late. All of the Democrats that were okay with saying Russia, Russia, Russia, and Trump is Hitler and all these things, they open the doors to a certain part of a creepy society. And now it's come to Roos. And now he doesn't like it. But it's too late. They allow these guys to come in. We need to start looking at, they went after our children. They took away education. They don't want you to read. They don't want you to have thought. They want you just to follow. They groom. And what is the basis of the identity? The color of your skin and who you sleep with. That is the entire basis of what you've allowed in. And then they get in. And now they're socialist, no, no, no. This is a monstrous group of people that have.

didn't have numbers, couldn't openly come in and say, hey, I support pedophilia. I support those things. I support no one going to jail. Because if I'm a pedophile and I want to get rid, I would want to get rid of jails. Also, if I was a pedophile, I would want us not to know what a woman is anymore. I would want children to be sexually... educated at a young age. But you believe that Van Jay Jones being sincere? A thousand percent. I don't think he realized, and Van I think is a brilliant guy. I'm going to agree with him on much, but I could have dinner with him. Seems like a great guy. I could have a conversation with him. If I got to know him, I probably could be friends with him. I don't, my friends and I, Kevin Nash and I, I consider him like a brother. He's about as Democrat as it could possibly be. Dave Patiste, about his Democrat. And I love those guys. I don't care what they are politically because I know who they are as men. But him coming forward now, when he had the ability to say, hey, this isn't right what's going on in our colleges. Instead, they were so, so forced on making a false narrative about President Trump. That they created the monster that they were trying to convince us was in the White House. And now that's who they are. Look at who they are running. Like Tim Walz should have never been allowed to public speak again after those comments. They were disgusting. If you take that in any, there's no context way to swing it. And the worst part was he's making these statements while he has this new backdrop of a bunch of children hugging on them. We need to wake up. You know, those people that you like so much, they're telling me to take a break. Because they know their clocks as they should. Tyrus, thanks so much. Appreciate you, man. Go get him. Both sides. All opinions. It's Brian Kilmeade.

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