Fauci Takes the Fifth 111 Times! Provides No Answers!

We just learned that he got about a million dollars in prize money. Is that amazing? Had nine different staffers applied for this prize money and he got it. And we also find out that he deleted tons of material. That staffer that said that and did it. could be subpoenaed and brought forward. Under oath, they've got to be under pressure to tell us what was in those, in the information and how it was deleted to maybe help it recover. And then Anthony Fauci, too, could be sued in separate states, which Florida might in fact do because of the damage he did. Look, nobody expected him to hit a thousand, everything he said to be right. But the contradictions and the denials of his varying head snapping. head-shaking policies from six feet apart. I never said that. You said that. From the vaccine, if you get a vaccine, you're not going to get the COVID-19 virus. That's not true. Then he denied saying it to wear a mask. He's dumb, masks don't work. To wear two masks, never admitted that he changed policies. But the biggest story happened two days ago when after a four or five days of no hits, the Iranian militias decide to strike out. maybe directed by the RGC, and then we answered back last night. How big was that damage who got to Trey Yinks in Tel Aviv? Trey, what did we hit last night? Yeah, Brian, good morning. It was a significant strike package last night, more significant than we saw during the 13 days earlier this month of U.S. strikes against Iran. And this was in direct response to the Iranians basically breaking the lull in fighting. Iranian officials ordered five ballistic missiles to be launched at Jim Jordan unexpectedly. trying to kill U.S. soldiers. And this surprise attack led the president to make this decision to strike back against IRGC military command centers, a variety of different missile and drone positions, and then some of the maritime capabilities that remain. You had this other story that is linked, and that is the militias in Iraq that launched around 30 drones over a period of three days against U.S. forces and allies in the region. And then both the United States and Saudi Arabia responded there. That was two nights ago. And so we're starting to see a lot more kinetic action in the region. And it's a result of the Iranians, while they claim at least the negotiators, that they want to continue talks, they are still firing at U.S. forces. And is the straight shutdown? Do you think any ships are getting through there? Some ships are getting through, but the underreported story is that many of them are getting through this Iranian-approved route. And in effect, it means that they are still controlling part of the street. And it raises broader questions, again, about how serious they are about making these concessions. And we talked about this a bit on air, Brian, but I think it's a really important point that you brought up. The president is...

dealing and his team is dealing with these relatively more moderate voices. And I say relatively more moderate because they certainly are aligned with the Iranian regime, but they are in a negotiating capacity, the foreign minister and the parliament speaker. And while they may say one thing about Iran wanting to make a deal or stop missile fire toward U.S. forces, the reality is when it comes to the strait and when it comes to these attacks that we've seen over the past 72 hours. These IRGC commanders in Iran are operating often on their own or even with the approval of the political leadership inside of Iran. And so the question remains, are the Iranians actually serious about making a deal? And if they are serious... Then why are they still launching missiles? Why are they still threatening the president's life? And why isn't the straight of four moves open? Right. I mean, to me, if I'm just a rational actor and I'm an analyst, they have the deal of a lifetime with an MOU. They get their sanctions relief. They're on the path to unfreezing their funds. And the straight opens up. But the attacks stop. The government was still intact. But now they elected to not allow the straight to be up. The president reacted since then, then give them a four-day pause after 14 straight days. And now the Wall Street Journal is reporting they've prepared a series of much heavier strikes, 24-7 pounding. But I understand, too, the president knows there's not an infinite amount of munitions. Absolutely. And this is a calculation that the U.S. military has to make. They can't be in an endless campaign against Iran because it is costly and it's dangerous also for U.S. forces. I spoke with President Trump yesterday morning, and he said at the time some very specific things about responding to the missile attack. He said, we are going to beat the effing S out of them. But he also said something else, and we didn't even report this on air. So this is the first time we're reporting this part. He said it was... was such a surprise, this attack on U.S. forces, because there was an understanding that messages were being exchanged toward a possible agreement. And then they launched this attack. He said it was such a surprise that one of the negotiators said, is this April Fool's? This is a joke? Because it was so unexpected. But again, this is the challenge the administration faces is that even if they give the Iranians these negotiating windows. Even during that time, a relative quiet, they're still trying to attack U.S. forces and change this equation in the Middle East. Because the Iranians do see slowly what is happening. And I think it's very significant this week. It's maybe not the main headline, but it is very important to note. There is a growing informal coalition of Gulf countries that are starting to put new pressure on Iran publicly. And I think Saudi Arabia is really the biggest example. Previously, when the Saudis would attack Iranian proxies often in places like Yemen, targeting the Qutti's there, they wouldn't denounce it. And certainly if they were going to strike Iraq, they wouldn't denounce it. But after the strikes alongside U.S. forces earlier this week, they publicly took credit for it because their energy infrastructure is coming under attack. And they want to send a message of deterrence. And we saw this throughout the reporting over the past several months. It came out that Gulf countries like Kuwait and Bahrain and the UAE do have these offensive capabilities and use them in small parts.

The Iranians realize things are changing very rapidly in the Middle East, and it is an opportunity. for some of the success of what the Israelis want to get done. And that is the message that we understand Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to President Trump in the Oval Office earlier this week, that this is a historic opportunity and that the United States and Israel must continue to work together to apply that pressure on Iran. So I want you to hear about negotiations. Thanks for sharing that. But I do think there's a disconnect between the with the negotiator doing and what the reality on the ground is. I'm not saying they're not smart and very intelligent and in Jared's case, very well researched, but I just don't think they're talking to the right people. Here's General Keene Cut 22. We've got to open the straits of a moose. If we're not going to be able to do it through negotiations, we've got to do it by force. Certainly, anybody thinking that negotiations is going to be the pathway forward has got to come to grips with what reality is here. Iran is not going to make a deal with us that would satisfy us. Right. And that's his general has seen the plans that Cooper has drawn up and he thinks they could be very effective. And I imagine the IDF would be in. But, Trey, is it too much to think that the IDF, if the IDF's in, Gulf states would be into? Or is there still that sense of we can't act in concert with Israel? I think initially, unless there is something that we don't know about, which is totally possible behind the scenes, we're likely looking at a scenario that if this larger strike package is ordered, it is a joint U.S. and Israeli. package because they work well together and they've been coordinating even when these headlines have come out of distrust or frustration between the two leaders or the two sides. The reality is behind the scenes and you know this well talking to your sources in the region. They work together on a daily basis and the Israelis have said to us when we talk with intelligence sources here in Tel Aviv that the straight can be controlled. Reforce. There are creative ways to address the Iranian threat. Now, it's a challenging thing to do, because remember the topography of this area, it's a very mountainous region in southwest Iran next to the Persian Gulf. And while there are these cities like Bandar Abbas and others along the coast that you can hit and hit military installations there and lookout points, it only takes one drone or cruise missile to disrupt billions of dollars worth of international shipping and have these insurance companies say we are not going to approve for vessels to pass through out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Gulf of Oman. And so...

The question now is, is this strike package that has been reviewed certainly by top U.S. generals and likely is being coordinated in part with the Israelis? Will it directly address that issue of the strait, or is this going to be focused more broadly on Iran's missile capacity that does remain? Because reports indicate they still have more than 1,300 ballistic missiles. And during around, for example, like we saw last summer, a 12-day war between the United States, ultimately Israel and Iran. they can launch 500 missiles in the course of one war campaign and cause a significant amount of damage. And we saw U.S. soldiers were killed earlier this month by these ballistic missiles. And so there are a variety of moving threats here. And really, it's going to be up to President Trump about whether or not he is going to make this decision to move forward with this broader campaign. Traditionally, the Iranians cannot be bombed into submission. And that is when you hear General Key say that. He sees the reality of the situation and what the Iranians have been doing in the region for the past 47 years. And that is the challenge here to be clear-eyed to see. what they say and what they do and what they still have left and what has to be addressed on the battlefield. Here's a question that I know it would be a stretch for you, because I'm not sure the last time you in Iraq. But how close is the Iraqi government from controlling those militias? They say about 50,000, 10 separate units. I remember when we pulled all our troops out during the Obama administration, we got ISIS, income these Shia militias that might have been there in some level. And they kind of worked with us to push ISIS out and save Baghdad. And they stayed and they grew. Yeah. How much power did they have in the north compared to the Iraqi government? So they still have quite a bit of power. And the main organization there is an organization called Katayphezbollah. And they are an Iraqi-Aran-backed Shia militia group. And they have cruise missiles. They have a variety of drones and other things that they can use to attack U.S. forces and allies in the region. And they've been doing so. I was last on the ground in Baghdad in early January of 2020 after President Trump ordered the strike to kill Qasem Soleimani. And it was a very dangerous time. There was out on all Americans. To be an American there in Baghdad at that time was dangerous because of these Iran-Bakshia militia groups that routinely kidnap and kill foreigners. And so they are a group that certainly receives funding and direction by the Iranian regime, but also they have enough weapons and willpower.

to continue fighting it. And at least at this point, the Iraqi government has not been able to deal with it independently. And the president actually talked about the Iraqi prime minister yesterday. He seems to very much like him. And also, he says the coordination is happening. He told me that they coordinated and gave them a heads up before these U.S. and Saudi strikes against the Shia militia groups in Iraq. I think the question remains. Does the United States have the capability to provide support, whether it's intelligence, some level of weaponry or direction and guidance to the Iraqi government to deal with this problem? Because if they're not dealt with, it just gives Iran yet another proxy and another lever to pool when they want to. And in that region, you know better than most that if you're going after those militia, there's Shia. Now, the majority of Iraq is Shia. And then how many of your armed forces, your traditional armed forces in Iraq are comfortable going after Shia militias? So I don't, you know, that, that's a, that's a tough thing to tackle. Absolutely, absolutely. And then you look at the other proxy forces across the region. And the Houthis in Yemen, while they largely stayed out during Operation Epic Fury, have started to try and disrupt international shipping at the bubble Mandaub straight, this entrance to the Red Sea. And two really interesting things happened over the past several weeks. One, not only did they attack Saudi-owned tankers, they issued a declaration of a blockade. for Saudi vessels going into the Red Sea. They're trying to do the same strategy that Iran is doing in the Strait of Hormuz. And in limited capacity, it's not a huge problem. But if they suddenly make this declaration about all vessels passing through, then Iran has a chokehold over another critical shipping lane in international waterways. Another very interesting thing, and again, this speaks to how these proxy groups are mirroring the Iranian regime and receiving direction. Just about three days ago, reports came out and indicated the Houthis are considering a tolling system for the Babo Mundab Strait. Again, the same language that the Iranians are using about the Strait of Hormuz, and it speaks to the coordination that is still taking place. Because as the Iranians get weaker militarily, they have to rely more on these proxy groups that they have been funding and supporting for decades. Yeah, and if people want to fight back on that, they're going to have to join us in some type of convoy and some type of shepherding of those ships to push back. And that's going to mean some NATO's got to do something. Trey Yinks, thanks so much. Unbelievably insightful. And this is a critical time. We'll find out in the next 48 hours if we go back to something look like Epic Fury too. Thanks, Trey. Absolutely. Sure. Back in a moment. Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kilmeade.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. I was disappointed. I had hoped that he would come forward and perhaps apologize. A million Americans died, and many people, myself included, believe that this virus came from a lab that was funded by the U.S. government. Decision for that funding came from Anthony Fauci. A terrible mistake, maybe one of the greatest mistakes in modern medical history. to fund this dangerous research in a less than safe lab in a totalitarian country. So Senator Rand Paul brought up that he was kind of shocked that he took the fifth. I was surprised. But in the end, there was some questions that got revealed. I mentioned top of the show. First off, we found out that he was having nine different staffers apply to get money, so he got money. We know that he's worth now $12 million. He's richer now and he was before the pandemic. Tell me how that's right. He was infatuated with fame, but that's a tangential to the fact is that he told everyone the infection rate was 2 to 3%. It was actually 0.2, 0.1 to 0.1%. That is a huge different. He told to everybody that the vaccine works. You don't have to wear a mask if you get that. You're totally free. Then it turns out people are getting sick. And he said, well, you just don't get as sick and pretend he didn't say it. The same thing with wear a mask. Then the same thing with six feet apart. He denied he ever said six feet of We have them 25 times saying stay six feet apart. Then he denied it. It was based on absolutely nothing. But because of that, they kept schools close because no one can keep desks six feet apart and get all the students in. See how bad this guy was? Traditional home security only alerts you after a break-in, and that's too late. SimplySafe is changing that. Stop. This is SimplySafe. Police are on the way. We don't just alert. We stop crime before it starts. SimplySafe, plans starting around a dollar a day. Save 50% on your new system with professional monitoring at Simplysafe.com slash Spotify or with promo code Spotify. Outdoor deterrence requires a simply safe active guard outdoor protection plan starting at 4999 a month. Visit simplysafe.com slash licenses for alarm license information, Tennessee 2012.

makes you think. This is the Brian Kilmeade. I know it's really hard. Will may not be a principle of war, but it's a principle of leadership when you get into a gunfight like this, who's got the stronger will to finish? The fact of the matter is, if you let a bad team stick around for a long time, like you've seen in football in the fourth quarter, they can tend to do something that you weren't expecting. So you've got to close them out early. I think we've gone beyond that. I think we should close them out now. figure a way to finish this fight. I don't think we're close in that regard of finishing the job if we're just dependent on bombing. So that is General... Keith Kellogg, and talking about just amp it up because the pinpricks aren't working. The president's got a lot to balance out on that, but I would fully for 14 straight days of a targeted attack to take down this regime. Michael Makovsky joins us now. President's CEO, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, a leading Washington, D.C. based policy and educational organization. Michael, do you agree with the general? Thanks for having me back, Brian. Yeah, I agree with General Kellogg. I think there's a tension here between President Trump knowing what needs to be done in Iran and his belief that if he just hits them hard enough, they're going to come to a deal. And I think we need to, I think the president needs to give up on the idea of getting a deal with the Iranians won't abide by anyway. And I think achieve or finish achieving. our key objectives, such as freeing the straight-air moves, hitting the nuclear sites, degrading their conventional capabilities. So I want you to hear what Tom Carrico said that might be the limitation. He's with Fox Digital. He was on Fox Digital. And he talked about the missile stock, about 26. Yes. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the relative to the inventories of the Patriots and the fans and the standard missiles, relative to those inventories at the start of Epic Fury, we have a problem. So he thinks weapon stocks might be an issue. Have you heard that? Sure. I mean, it's been leaked. It was leaked, I think, over the weekend that that was one of the reasons we didn't escalate last weekend like many had expected. And, you know, I don't, you know, it's classified what the exact numbers are, but there have been reports of what they are. My understanding, it's certainly a problem. But I'm told by people in the know that it's a manageable problem. And I think that's the way Admiral Cooper, our Sun Camp commander, feels. Yeah, it is. It's true. It's manageable. But you do have to be somewhat wary. But two weeks, you could do a lot. Cooper thinks that he's got those targets, the 20% of targets. He did not get a chance to fulfill. Do you believe the IDF, if they're going to be Epic Fury, too, you believe the IDF will play a role? I believe so. I think, you know, as long as, I think as long as there's an understanding between the two countries between Israel and the United States of what the IDF will do, I think the IDF is more than happy and eager to do it. And I think to go in, and I think it'd be in our interest, too, because why give up this great capability? You know, the Israelis are effectively almost equal with us. They don't have as many planes, obviously.

and so on. But they were very effective in the 40-day war, and you'd want to get them involved. And I think specifically for certain missions. Do you think it would stop? Do you think the Gulf states would not work with us if Israel was doing that? Because Saudis did work with us in the last mission. The UAE has struck on their own. Kuwait has quietly struck back at Iran. Would that affect cooperation? No, I don't think so. And I think you could go back even as far back as, which seems a long time ago, but in April of 24, when Iran first fired its first projectiles, you know, missiles and drones at Israel, and you had a multilateral effort led by the United States, led by Sintam, in defending and basically repelling the Iranian attack. And that involves Saudis and Jordanians and American, the British even at that time. So they're happy to work together. So do you have any reports of how Benjamin Netanyahu and the president got along? The meeting was evidently productive. Benjamin Netanyahu says one of their best meetings ever. Yeah, I mean, that's my understanding. I mean, yeah, I think President, excuse me, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was careful. coming in. He didn't want to see another New York Times report like we saw that big article. I can't remember you a little while ago saying that Benjamin Netanyahu, you know, got Trump in. And I think Trump's reaction, you know, says, I don't need to see Israeli intelligence. And I know everything shows the president was sensitive about that. So I think the prime minister went in and just laid out. These are like the three options. You know, there could be diplomacy. You could just have pressure in a three options. I don't think diplomacy is going to lead anywhere. It's led us nowhere for four months. So I think the best two options for President Trump is one, just maintain the blockade and keep a steady pressure. But it's going to take a long time, I think, for that to be effective. Or we escalate and just rip the Band-Aid off. And take care of this in a couple of weeks. And couple it with assassinations of some key people. Joe Rogan had a, you know, you've heard this before about Gaza and the way Israel IDF is operating in Gaza. Here's what Joe Rogan said. I want you to address this. Cut 29. The fact that a take on something that if you're just looking at it, like what is, what are you, how could you defend that? Like, how could anybody defend that? Right. I don't even know how many people are dead. You have a complete. wipe out of a city, like 90% of Gaza's gone, or whatever the percentage is. You look at the buildings. You look at what it used to look like. You look at what looks like now. This is defensible? What's your response? Well, that's a great point that he should direct to the Hamas leaders in Qatar and others that have in Turkey that have been supporting Hamas. I mean, I think Israel has done, and we've seen the numbers, you know, The overwhelming amount that have been killed have been, or at least half, but I think more than half, are combatants or terrorists that have been killed in Gaza. And, you know, I think anyone that suffered, you know, an October 7th event that...

You know, that's the equivalent of like, I don't know, something like 40,000 people, Americans that would have been killed, you know, is going to want to defend its borders. So they're trying to kill if they would just give, if Hamas would just give up their weapons, you know, I think all this would go away. Yeah, stop hiding in schools, hospitals. That might as have a lot to do with it. Yeah, hiding behind their own civilians, beating their own civilians, murdering their own civilians. I think, you know, if you want to liberate Palestinians in Gaza, you got to get rid of Hamas. So when you see the Benjamin Netanyahu and you see him giving tribute to Lindsey Graham, they really lost a great ally in Lindsey Graham, right? Yeah, you know, I was at the funeral. I think the guy was, you know, you might not agree with everything he always said and he said a lot of things. But both Israel, Ukraine and I think national security of the United States, the guy was passionately dedicated to American national security. And it's a big loss for the Senate. But as you say, for Israel, it was a big loss not only because he passionately cared and he knew so much, but because of his close relationship with President Trump. And I thought President Trump gave a really great eulogy at the funeral. So on another note, it's a... revolving around New York, you had Zohran Mamdani M.Dani come out and put together a judiciary committee that's going to help him pick judges. And it was amazing. Not one Jewish lawyer made the cut. And he was asked about that. Cut 46. When it comes to, in that same letter, there was a point around Mr. Leventhal and his appointment as to why it was not considered. And I want to be very clear that we decided not to move forward with his appointment because of the fact that he served on Ghislaine Maxwell's legal defense team and collected legal fees as such. And as much as possible, we thought it best to avoid any association between the committee that would be appointing judges and the Epstein world. So your thoughts about this mayor continuing to act in bizarre ways? Yeah, look, I think it's a disgrace, obviously. I mean, I think you referred to this judicial advisory committee. I mean, I think I've seen statistics, something like 45. to 50% of lawyers in New York are Jewish, so we could have picked. And there are, unfortunately, and I say this is a Jew, a number of Jews, not, you know, a minority, but a number of Jews that even voted for Zohran Mamdani could have picked a number of pro-Zohran Mamdani. But the bigger picture is what you raise. You have a mayor of a major city in America. that is anti-American, anti-Semitic. But where does he come from? He comes from the pro-Hamas protest movement, you know, and his wife, you know, liked, you know, on X, you know, many of these posts, you know, that supported October 7th. So I think he's a nefarious influence. I worry, we see.

I don't think he might be aware of the consequences of what he says. And he, I don't think he really cares that it leads to Jews being killed because I think he hates Jews. But it's also leaked. He's fundamentally anti-American. We see, I'm sure you saw this, Brian. I mean, there's a whole petition going around of survivors of 9-11 that don't want him to attend. And he wants to attend. I think, look, he's in a tough spot on that. If he doesn't attend, it looks bad if he attends. He looks like a hypocrite. Because when he talked about 9-11 in the campaign, what are he talking about? He talked about this. I think a relative of his, an aunt, what did it mean to him that she felt uncomfortable with a job on a subway? Almost 3,000 Americans got killed on 9-11, and that's the only thing this guy thinks about. It's terrible, unfortunately. Yeah, thanks so much. I appreciate it. We're going to see what's going to happen over the next, I really think, 48 hours. I don't think the president wants to go back and forth like this. Unless something dramatically happens, I think we're probably going to be back Epic Fury too. And we go even higher the heighten the intensity. Do you think so too? Well, yeah, I mean, I think if we go in again, I think we rip off the Band-Aid and we go big. Enough in this tip for tat. I think it makes us look factless. I think if we go in, we not only hit the missiles and the drones, which are already starting to do, and we make sure that the straighter removes open. But I think we also have to hit the nuclear. We have to address the nuclear facilities. As we have to address. As long as the risks are manageable. and I think we have to hit the domestic energy facilities like the refineries and the natural gas and frankly turn off the lights on this regime, which is, by the way, killing, executing people publicly every day also. They're really like defying the world, by the way, and I think we have to really address the strategic threat. We're the only one addressing it. It doesn't seem to bother anyone at NATO. They have not one protest in the street in New York City over the killing of innocent people to hang yesterday. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Great. And have a great day, Brian. You too. 1866, 408-7669. So glad you're there. When we come back, we'll also talk about what's happening in Texas. You're going to be stunned by these polls. Yes, stunned. And a big upset is brewing in the purple state of Wisconsin. We'll discuss that. Mike Michael Whatley got a setback poll in North Carolina. But we'll tell you where the hope is. Don't miss the Brian Kilmeade, Joe, because we are continuing on right after this. He just doesn't read the headlines. He breaks them down. Real talk. Real news. This is the Brian Kilmeade. Breaking news. Unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kilmeade. Is Bernie making it harder for Democrats to recapture the majority? Well, yeah. I mean, like, what's he out on it? Well, what's in it for him?

If it's not anything more at this point, ego. You know, maybe sit a few out, Bernie. You know, you're not helping. That is Senator John Fetterman, who had a meeting yesterday because Chuck Schumer sat down with him and said, please don't leave the Democratic Party. We need you. But as moderates, there's really no place for him. And Chuck Schumer's being kicked out, too. I mean, I don't know how he wins again. If he runs again, he's already 100 years old. So I don't know if he's going to run. But he's always looking up to John Fetterman. He knows if John Fetterman flips. It's going to be so tight. You know, Republicans could do very well or they could be really tight. They could say, okay, 50-50, well, not if John Fetterman flips, who basically sits in the cloakroom by himself and usually hangs out and goes with Republicans because they like him because he definitely likes McCormick. They have definitely buddies. So. So John Fetterman just sitting down talking about where he stays. But I think there's a couple of things going on in politics. I think I should share with you. First off, in Texas. I know Ted Cruz had a hard time with Beto O'Rourke. But this is James Talarico, Talo Frico, who can speak and is composed. But his positions are absolutely awful. And you would think it would not fly in Texas when you talk about God being non-binary. You talk about the border being weak on the border, not guessing if he's for trans men and women's sports. Things like that, you would think would make it easy for John Cornyn would have a walk. Ken Paxton is trailing by seven in the last poll. Seven points in Texas. The Republican trailing. Think about that for a second. So James Talarico says he's out raising these big time. He's outraising Paxon. But is Paxson going to get going? I see him nowhere. Cut 35. If you've become a multi-millionaire on a government salary and now own 15 homes on the public's dime, then you should have to answer the public's questions. I get it. If I had Ken Paxton's record of corruption, I wouldn't want to answer these questions either. But he's asking for your vote. He is asking for your trust. And the people of Texas deserve answers. So I've challenged Ken Paxton to these three. televised debates. The networks have already set the dates and the times and the locations. We're just waiting on Ken Paxton. And that's all. He's got a debate at some point, and now he must. Because the last poll, he's down five, I should say. So James Talarico trails, James Talarico leads him by five in the Texas public opinion poll. There's another poll out there today that shows another five-point lead for James Talarico. If you look at the average, it's a little bit less. But for the most part, Ken Paxton's getting trounced in terms of money raised. So younger Texans seem to be going for James Talarico. And the guy doesn't really represent anyone in Texas, little things like not eating meat and not condemning religion and Jesus is non-binary. All these things you would think to be a non-starter. The good news for Republicans happening in Wisconsin. Tom Tiffany, a solid Republican as a congressman, wants to be the next governor.

head over the would-be nominee, Francesca Hong, he's got a lead. He's got a lead that significant 40, actually 1.43, 42. So he's up by one in that purple state that Tony Evers won back-to-back governor's races. And I know it really hurt because when you're the governor, you control when the primaries are and things to that nature. And if something happens and someone resigns, you get to replace that person. So it really matters. So Tony Evers is out and we'll see if Tom Tiffany gets his wish and gets a socialist. Because this woman hung is a real socialist. At which time, she's made it clear she wants to ban the Senate. All those crazy things you see the socialists say. Well, she came out and said, let's. banned the Senate and was pointed out by Tom Tiffany. She wants to ban the Senate. So she said, I did not ask for ban the Senate. I had no time did ask to ban the Senate, get rid of the Senate. Well, it turns out Hung did. The Congresswoman posted up something very simple and abolish the Senate. And just, well, it was in the middle of the pandemic and I don't like how Republicans were acting. No, that's not the point. You were asked about it. You said you never said it. In fact, you put it online. So I just can't see the people of Wisconsin saying, let's go socialists. They could say they can go Democrat. I wouldn't think that's a big deal. But basically they find out that that's an issue. And I mentioned before about John Fetterman being approached. The other thing is, Michael Whatley did not get good news in North Carolina. Mike Michael Whatley now down by seven, according to the latest poll there. The real clear average has it a little bit closer. But Mike Michael Whatley in North Carolina, many people thought, well, that governor is pretty popular. That will be an opportunity to flip. But in North Carolina... You have Mike Michael Whatley who will work you and get a ton of money because people want to hold that Thom Tillis seat. But we'll see because it's also going to be hard. Oh, don't forget, we're coming up on Sunday night, 10 o'clock. We've got a great show lined up on One Nation on Fox News. We're going to lead with Jim Jordan. We've got to have Jimmy Phala is going to be on with us too. Bruce Blakeman's going to be there talking about a decree he just got from the Attorney General. Stop cooperating with ICE as NASA County Executive, which he won't. There's going to be a major class as he won for governor. You listen to the brain Kill Me, Joe. Keep it here.

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That is the ridiculous farcical Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci takes the fifth, but it doesn't mean we didn't learn anything from his testimony and the questions that were asked of him, even though he didn't want to answer. The answers may lie with his assistants and his staff as they basically find out that he deleted the word is tons of material. Do they know what that was? Is it any more damning than his 1100 page diary? Mark Teeson, chief political former chief speechwriter for President Bush. He's a Washington Post columnist, and he is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Fox News contributor, which means he has a lot of Christmas parties to go to every year. Mark, how do you do that? I mean, you have so many places to go. It's hard. It's hard. I've got so many people banding my time. I mean, how many checks do you have every day? And how many texts do you have coming in? And I got to pick up your butterfly refresher. Yes. You still, you cannot forget about that. Have you tried it? Have you tried it? No, because I'm a man. All right, you're getting a kick out of this. All right. So, Mark, the President of the United States hit back yesterday and he said because the militias in Iraq who are affiliated with the IRGC decided to rocket Jim Jordan and Saudi Arabia hit back because they rocketed Aramico their oil and gas site as well as have the Houthis trying to shut down the Red Sea. So they hit back for the first time. What do you think the president's going to do? The Wall Street Journal, as I mentioned in the open, the Wall Street Journal says they're looking at Cooper's 14-day plan. He's got 20% of targets he still wants to hit. Yeah, yeah, we stopped at the 20-yard line and we've gotten, you know, into this cycle of tit for tat, you know, Iran violates the MOU, they fire at ships, they fire at Americans, we fire back, then we negotiate again, then we, it's just, it's never ending and it's just dragging this whole thing out. I, you know, just my understanding is from the public reports that the president was ready to execute Cooper's plan. and resume major combat this week. And then all of a sudden, you know, he gets word that, oh, the Iranians want to talk. They're serious now. They really want to, they're desperate for a deal. And so he pauses it. And what happens? They try to kill Americans. I mean, at some point we have to take no for an answer. And he keeps, you know, he's been very well served by his team. They got Pete Hegseth and Admiral Cooper have done an amazing job executing the military strategy. You know, John Ratcliffe has done a great, amazing job providing exquisite intelligence. Scott Bessent has done an amazing job with Operation Economic Fury.

Who has done a great job has been Vice President JD Vance, who is the author of this memorandum of understanding that has got us into this cul-de-sac where we're stuck, you know, in this cycle of, you know, strikes, retaliation, negotiation. And it's like it's becoming like Lucy with the football. They keep, you know, you keep telling the president, oh, this time they're serious and then, you know, they're not. They respond by trying to kill Americans. We have eventually he's going to have to go to combat because he's got two, Trump is not going to take a bad deal. And he has two red lines, which is dismantled the nuclear program and open the straight. And Iran has made clear they're not going to give those two things. So we just finished the job. finish the job and stop listening to people who keep giving you bad advice and getting you uh you know getting getting getting you into this cycle that's you know bringing it closer and closer to the midterms and this could have been done months ago so i want you to hear what general jack keene said cut 22 We've got to open a straight to a move. If we're not going to be able to do it through negotiation, we've got to do it by force. Certainly, anybody thinking that negotiations is going to be the pathway forward has got to come to grips with what reality is here. Iran is not going to make a deal with us that would satisfy us. So the negotiations he doesn't believe should happen. And the president does indicate, according to his people, that there are moderate people there. And the IRGC is still doing their own thing. And if that is indeed the case, and if you believe that, just don't even talk to the moderate people if you think they're moderate, because they're not making any decisions. So it's either go directly with Fahidi who seems to be running the IRGC or don't do anything. Or just take them out. We've had this myth of the moderate Iranians since Iran-Contra. I mean, what moderate Iranians? They're all Nazis. They're just, you know, what's happening is that some guys talk to us, but they don't have the power, and the guys who have the power to want to talk to us. You know, they're not in charge. And even the moderates, you know, like Gallabath, the speaker of the parliament, he was Qasem Soleimani's best friend. These are not moderates. And even if they wanted to get a deal, they don't have the power to implement a deal. There's a very clear, simple. strategy it's it's complex because it's it's war but you we need to finish off the the target set that we that we paused at the 20 yard line and bring this into the end zone take out there take out their remaining military capabilities take out the economic can you or do that from the air more can you do that for you can of course you can

Look, we don't need to put, and this is another thing. Vice President JD Vance went on, you know, Rogan said, well, the people who want this, they want indefinite war, they want to send 150,000 troops to it. Nobody's saying send 150,000 troops into Iran. Nobody. This guy is, all he does is put up straw man to take down. He says that there's no, they don't, they just want indefinite war with no objectives. I can lay out the objectives for you. It's pretty simple. Eliminate the remaining leadership targets, further entomb the nuclear sites, take out their remaining ballistic missiles, destroy the economic and energy infrastructure that's giving the IRGC financial lifeline, take out the roads, airports, bridges, seaports that allow them to trade with their neighbors, demolish what's left of the defense industrial base, and then declare victory. So I want to be done. So one of the one of the hindrances is to a degree is missile defense with our allies and our bases. So Jim Tasklet from Lockheed Martin is part of the problem. Our big four weapons manufacturers have not been manufacturing weapons at a pace. that is needed for allies and for today. And look at what Ukraine's doing with their 500 missile companies and look at how they're mass producing. Look at the way Japan and South Korea have learned to mass produce. I'm not saying it's easy, but I'm saying we're usually the best. Here's what he said about our production. He says he had a big announcement, cut 27. So in our recent earnings call, you're absolutely right. We announced a $230 billion backlog. When you add the $54 billion, in this contract modification, you're pushing $300 billion of backlog for the company. We are well positioned to make that happen. We have a joint plan with the Department of War and our suppliers, really important suppliers, to ramp up. Triple, as you said, the Patriot missile production. We're actually going to be deploying and developing, again, with our government partners, a lower-cost Patriot missile that we call PAC-3 ACE, which will be about half the cost, do about two-thirds of the mission set. So we want to innovate right along with the production ramp that we're doing, and we can do both of those at the same time. I sense that if you give that licensing of the Patriots, and the thad to the Ukrainians, I bet you they do it in half the time. Yeah, and they could probably give us some too. Yeah. Let's license it to the Ukrainians and have them, you know, give us 20% of their production so that we can replenish our stockpiles too. They'll do it faster and better. I mean, can you imagine if world, I don't know if you ever read Arthur Herman's book, Freedom's Forge, about how the U.S. industry came together to win World War II. But can you imagine if we said, well, we'd love to, we'd love to fight the Nazis, but we can we don't have the weapons. Like, no, you build the freaking weapons. It's ridiculous. And like, we may have a short-term shortage of things. You might have to make some strategic choices. Like, you know, like the president is concerned about because he keeps saying he doesn't want to become Herbert Hoover because if the Iranians hit.

economic targets in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries like that. We can we can't protect everything in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and and and throughout the throughout the region. But we can protect the most important things. We stopped Israel from, you know, Iran from launching 300 ballistic missiles Israel and protecting Israeli people. Do you think we can't pick the 10 top economic targets in the Gulf? and prevent Iran from striking those. And by the way, if you launch the offensive capabilities and take out their ballistic missile capabilities, they won't be able to fire them in the first place. I mean, you know, why didn't they do this when we started the war? You know, they weren't able to hit. They did fire, but eventually it took a few days, but eventually their fires went down because they didn't have anything because we were taking it out so effectively. We cannot be prevented from carrying out, you know, achieving a strategic victory and allowing the Iranians to win because our defense industrial base is so atrophied that we can, that we can't produce weapons. One, it's not true. And two, you know, we have to scale it up so that we have a, we can replenish our stockpiles. What role do you think NATO can play now, now that we have two straits to deal with? Do you believe the president should get Matt Whitaker to start telling these guys get involved? Yes, so here's what you do. You finish the military campaign, then you maintain the blockade, and you open the straight by force, and then over time you hand that over to the Europeans. as their mission, you know, with the U.S. in a supporting role. Yes, they absolutely have to step up. And they're starting to. We have good allies in Poland, Romania, Greece, other countries who've been helping us, you know, let's let's take the good, you know. NATO isn't a unique, isn't a whole. It's a bunch of individual countries. And some are good allies. Some are not such good allies. Let's work with the ones who are good allies and pressure the ones who aren't. So I want to bring you to politics now in Texas. There's a new poll out, and James Talarico leads Paxson by seven. What is going on with a candidate who's not without talent, but his skill set and what he believes doesn't seem to meld with Texas. I'd much rather have had John Cornyn in, but I'm not in Texas, and they made a choice. Do the Republicans realize they got a problem here? I don't understand, you know, we are our own worst enemies. In a lot of ways, this reminds me of 2022. When we saddled ourselves with, like, weak candidates, you know, Herschel Walker and, and, you know, Dan Bulldoch in New Hampshire. And, like, we lost all these winnable races because Blake Masters in Arizona. Because, you know, we had a safe incumbent in Texas. Why do we throw them up aside? And, like, eh.

And, you know, we had a senator in North Carolina who was occasionally a thorn in Trump side, but isn't it better than having a Democrat in North Carolina? Why do we keep shooting ourselves in the foot? I just don't understand it. And on the other side, we're going to find out in Wisconsin, if in a purple state, does socialism sell? And that's going to be the governor's wraith with Hong against Tiffany. And it looks like she's going to win easily. And she's running on abolish the Senate. Some of those outlandish state. But this is going to be a big question where our country is right now. I know where New York City is. It's a disaster. But I didn't think Wisconsin was there. Are you worried at all? Well, first of all, for the country? I am deeply worried for the country. Though I think, you know, if you look at someplace like Michigan where Abdul El-Sayed looks like he's going to win that Senate race, I mean, that's a race that Mike Rogers lost by 18,000 votes last time. That's a purple state. You know, that Trump won it. I don't know that they want to pick somebody like that for their candidate. But here's the problem, Brian, is that the Democratic socialists are not that different than the Democrats. I mean, think about it. So they want to they want to abolish the Senate. Well, the Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster in the Senate, which would effectively abolish the Senate. Supreme Court. Well, the Democrats want to like, want to pack the court, you know, which would, which would that the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the mainstream Democrats want to do is not that great. It's just a matter of emphasis and rhetoric. They want, they want to, they both want to eliminate all the roadblocks to implementing their radical left wing agenda. It's just the Democratic socialists are up front about it. And the, uh, mainstream Democrats are, uh, a little bit more cagey. I am not for getting rid of the filibuster. So many Republicans are. John Thune is not, but the president is. And a lot of people are, you know, that you wouldn't think would be for it or for it. They're thinking so short-sighted. I'm worried about when Trump's out or Democrats in. You want people. I do not want two extra states. I don't want a PAC Supreme Court. And I definitely don't want to get rid of the Electoral College. Mark Teeson, thanks so much. Appreciate your diversity. I appreciate all your jobs, your Christmas parties, and your height. I appreciate you as well, Brian. Thank you. Back in a moment. Big guests, bold opinions, better information. This is the Brian Kilmeade. I didn't think the pain from the shingles rash would affect simple everyday tasks, like bathing, getting dressed, or even walking around. I was wrong. Though not everyone at risk will develop it, 99% of people over the age of 50 already have the virus that causes shingles, and it could reactivate at any time. I developed it, and the blistering rash lasted for weeks. Don't learn the hard way, like I did. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today.

Sponsored by GSC. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmeade. We often think about slavery and... The complicity in slavery as being exclusively to certain geographic areas of the country. Here in New York City, we were very complicit. This is critically important because this is also what it looks like to acknowledge what history truly was. What do you know? You came to America seven years ago from Uganda, and now this mayor is telling us, we're going to look at reparations to New Yorkers. 200 and, you know, 150 years later. Meanwhile, we were part of the North, the Union, fighting against the South. Now, there was slavery prior in the late 1700. Sure, early 1800's okay. But then we became the home of the Underground Railroad where Harriet Tubman would use to get people in and out of New York City, out of Rochester. If you read Frederick Douglass's autobiography. He looked at New York as a haven. And that's something, that's a place where you write checks to people who generations ago didn't even live here. And between all the blended different races and ethnicities by now, it is farcical to have reparations. Al Sharpton could say it all he wants. All these states can do the politically correct thing. But when they come up with a formula, it basically will bankrupt any state in any country. And back then, they were about reconciliation and forgiveness, not writing checks. But here we are in 2026 and this idiot wants to write a check. This is who you elected New York City. And he's worse than anyone imagine. Tell him that when you see it. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. I'm going to continue to do that, whether if it was like a trash bag like Graham Platner or whether you got a guy like Abdul El-Sayed, you know, running on like is essentially a pro Hamas candidate. And now with that woman in Wisconsin, you know, that's... Democrat Party has to decide what party do we going to stand for and what kind of parties are we going to tolerate, especially these kind of people. So that is John Fetterman who's being lobbied by Chuck Schumer not to leave the Democratic Party, which is interesting because El Sayed said the first thing he's going to do is try to put. betterman's head on a on a pike which means kill him kill him off because he's moderate and they thought he was going to be more liberal so you got to literally kill him off the language is ridiculous and they're responsible and

You're really going to take this guy on? Is that going to be a priority if you get to become a Michigan senator to take out a Democratic senator? Absolutely dumb. And what the president would he, what John Fetterman was talking about is Francesca Hong, who wants to abolish the Senate. She's a big time socialist. She's about to win the Democratic nomination by all accounts. And she's going against Tom Tiffany. Head to head. Tiffany's got a one point lead in a purple state. Will socialism sell in a purple state? Josh Crashauer, Fox News Radio Political Animal. and editor-in-chief of the Jewish insider. Josh, we're about to find out in Michigan and Wisconsin, aren't we? Yeah, this is the biggest test of the socialist movement's staying power, at least within the Democratic Party. You know, I would equate this to a virus that's spreading very fast within the Democratic Party, where we talked about what happened in Philadelphia and New York City in the month of June, where there were a lot of Democratic leaders that rationalized what happened in those Zohran Mamdani endorsed race. as just a product of a very progressive deep blue district. And even I, you know, look, you haven't seen, it is the first time you've actually seen socialism winning elections in any district in the country. So, you know, it's fair to say. Maybe it's confined to the deepest blue parts of the country. But what we're seeing now in Michigan and Wisconsin and frankly across the country is that the Democratic Party has been radicalized in social media rapid speed. And in every, you know, governors' races like socialists. about as toxic as it gets. I mean, maybe for a congressional race, you're just talking about a debating society in Washington. Maybe the vote doesn't matter as much. For governor, you're talking about someone who's going to run your state and actually define the state's policies in cooperation with the state legislature. And that is, that's where you're in those governor's races. That's not happening in Wisconsin, not happening in Michigan. And it's not happening across the country. Colorado, we saw just the last month in Maine and other parts of the country. We've heard this analogy made in other places. I think Melissa de Rosa, who was Andrew Cuomo, Chief of Staff, has called it sort of this rapid virus that's spreading within the Democratic Party. And I don't think they know what's about to hit them because, you know, we know what's happening in the primary. The biggest question going forward is in Michigan, Wisconsin, and some of these swing states, can that shell to a general election? I know Democrats are pretty pessimistic. as the nominee or someone who's as radical as Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan in the Senate race can actually prevail in the general election. So Francesca Hong dared Tom Tiffany to come up with an example of when she ever said abolished the Senate. So they looked on Twitter and they found a post February 13th, 2021 from Francisco Hung abolished the Senate. So she's not even that smart. So she dared everybody to find out all people had to do was check her history. She didn't even try to delete it. Alison Greer-Hung Communications Director responds. She said, well, that was a different time was during the pandemic, and she was upset with the Senate. So she still wants to do these radical things as Mark Teeson just pointed out to our audience. How much different is abolish the Senate and abolish the Department of State then let's pack the Supreme Court and let's abolish ICE? You know, let's add two more states. I mean, either way, Democrats are looking to fundamentally change America, aren't they? And get rid of the filibuster. And that spin does not hold even as recently as this past week. She was participating in this is Hong in Wisconsin in a Democratic debate. And she was asked by a reporter just this past week that she still support defunding the police that she has also said in the past. And she doubled down. She defended it for like two minutes. You know, you'd watch the whole interview, a post-post-debat interview.

online and she defends it for two minutes and says we need to redirect funds from the police to other social safety measures. Brian, we know how that played in 2020. Like we know how politically toxic. Even as late as 2024, when Kamala Harris's positions in the 2020 race kind of defined her candidacy for president four years later, I mean, this stuff is politically toxic. And yet, you see a lot of these same dynamics in other states. I mean, we're now at the back end of the primary. have come out of the woodwork and compete in some of the more unlikely places in Democratic primaries. How alarmed are Republicans about this Texas public opinion research poll that has James Talarico up five on Paxon? So, I mean, Texas is a big concern for Republicans. I will say, as a student of polls, that is a Democratic-sponsored poll. So I would put a little bit of a grain of salt on the actual numbers. Republicans have the race competitive. And I think, you know, they're partisan ways that pollsters can to juice the numbers for their side. I would put a little bit of a grain of salt on those numbers. But I do think that Texas is one of those races that should be a runaway race for Republicans that should be a runaway race for Republicans. That's a very scandal-plagued, problematic candidate. So that's going to be a competitive race for Republicans are going to have to spend quite a bit of money to hold that seat. So here is James Talarico talking about Ken Paxton, who's got some ethical problems, cut 35. If you've become a multimillionaire on a government salary and now own 15 homes on the public's dime, then you should have to answer the public's questions. I get it. If I had Ken Paxton's record of corruption, I wouldn't want to answer these questions either. But he's asking for your vote. He is asking for your trust. And the people of Texas deserve answers. So I've challenged Ken Paxton to these three televised debates. The networks have already set the dates and the times and the locations. We're just waiting on Ken Paxton. So, I mean, the guy can talk. Ken Paxton knows issues. But man, he does have problems explaining a lot of his investments, air quotes. Yeah, look, there are a lot of issues that Ken Paxton's campaign has. I think fundraising is part of it. But a bigger issue. obviously his personal scandals, a messy divorce and breakup with his wife and all the scandals around that, the ethical double standard that Hillary was already raising on the campaign trail. And look, I think James Talarico knows he's probably a better debater. He's more agile on the stump, and that's why he wants to have more debates. Look, we always have known that the suburban Texas vote is the swing vote in the state of Texas. Hispanic vote, which swung to the right in the last couple of elections. Republicans are struggling with the Hispanic vote. And a lot of the stuff that Ken Paxton has, the rhetoric, Ken Paxton has used to kind of rally the base, now that Republicans are in charge and now that it's less of a salient issue within a general electorate, you know, it's actually turning off some of those moderate suburbanite voters. So, you know, Texas is a red state, but it's going to be much more competitive than it usually. And Ken Paxton, as we talked about so much on the show, Republicans do what they were getting into. They basically had a candidate in John Cornyn who, you know, would have been a very heavy favorite to win the seat and not force Republicans to spend money and get distracted in a red state, depending on the red state. But they picked the most problematic candidate.

really worked to hold that sentence. So there's a new Fox News poll, Beacon Shaw poll, that says Cooper's entitled on top of Michael Whatley, 5344. So that's seven. But there was another poll that came out, the public policy poll that had it down to a four-point race. Where do you think this race is at? Roy Cooper, that's the Senate seat that Democrats are the most optimistic about picking up, which tells you about the environment. North Carolina voted for President Trump all three times in all three elections. So that's a state that does tilt to the Republicans. And if you take the, I think the Fox numbers may be a little too bullish for Cooper. But, you know, everything I've heard from the campaigns is that Cooper has a pretty sizable lead, five, five points or so. So, you know, I think that's a state that Republicans are going to struggle to hold on to. And it's a must win, certainly, for the Democrats. up if they won't have any chance of winning the Senate. Zill Ram, I'm Donnie, the true socialist. He can coooges himself as a power broker at 34 with no experience, but promises to build grocery stores run by the city. He promises to go after landlords, and now they're suing back. And now yesterday, he's defending his... Pierre de Terre tax, which taxes people for having second homes here. Instead of saying, thank you, he says pay up. Listen to what he said. And by the way, because he did this, they published all the names and addresses of everyone they're going to tax and will tax unless they can prove it to their primary residence. Cut 44. As we know, this is a surcharge on non-primary residences that are worth more than $5 million. And as required by the law, the Department of Finance sent informational resources to homeowners to ensure that they understood the tax, that they understood the options before them. And also, if they did not believe it to apply to them, that they had the time in order to be able to appeal. So they have to go and they can do it online and prove it's their primary residence. But publishing all the names, they said they had to do it. And is this a thing of pride with the socialists? You got to tax the horrible rich people? Look, this is the easy stuff for Mbondani. He believes, and his movement, the DSA movement, believes that this is what shells the most when it comes to populism. Go after the rage, go after the successful, and that's going to give you this kind of juice with a base. I mean, what we've learned, and we've seen this in cities across the country when you have this kind of mentality in power, when all these laws and positions are actually implemented. The reality is, like, people leave the city. The city has trouble paying their bills. The economy goes to haywire crime goes through the roof because of growing disorder and having trouble kind of keeping the city safe. And the reality is a whole lot worse than the promises that are made on the front end.

So, you know, it's interesting that, you know, Zohran Mamdani has sort of succeeded rhetorically, but now he's actually trying to move forward with his agenda. And maybe he gets it through. He's clearly pushing along, and he has the political wind that is back in New York City. But, boy, I mean, what we've seen in other cities, San Francisco is probably the best case example, but there's so many cities across the country where you had rhetoric and an agenda like Zohran Mamdani that literally drives people out of the city and then people turn on the elected officials very fast. Yeah, we're going to see what's going to happen. Now we're going to see if this guy is different. And now he's promising to look at reparations in New York. As you know, a state was in the union, but I guess he's looking to write more checks from, I guess Kathy Hochul is going to give him more money for this? Well, I don't know if she is. I mean, that's the biggest turtle for Zohran Mamdani to accomplish any of his massive redistribution-type goals is actually having the money to actually accomplish this stuff. Even the easier stuff, like all, you know, expanded, you know, preschool and all the other programs that he made promises on on the campaign trail. So Kathy Hochul has actually, you know, pushed back quietly, but they don't want the money. Like, it's just not enough revenue. But. And that's why you're hearing more about taxing the rich and more about redistributed, redistributed policies. But even there, there's a lot of Democrats in the city that are quietly and maybe some not so quietly pushing back against his agenda. Josh Krasher are with us from Fox News Political Radio and also editor-in-chief of the Jewish Insider. Josh, I also want to talk about Bruce Blakeman. According to the latest poll, he's now within four of Governor Kathy Hochul, and he runs Nassau County, and another county executive, he's a county executive there, another county executive from Renssel or upstate, Rensselaer upstate, has refused to go along with the state doctrine, which says don't cooperate with ICE. Both those state have county executives say, we will, and they're being won by the Tissue James not to. This is going to benefit Bruce Blakeman, I think, don't you? Yeah, I mean, what we saw in the 2022 election is that in localities and states where, you know, the party kind of went off the deep end ideologically. And it was on crime and policing and immigration in New York in that election. Even though Democrats had a good night, there were pockets of Republican successes. And New York was like the epicenter of that in 2022. And look, I think you could see a similar dynamic this time around where, you know, I think Zohran Mamdani. It's the face of the franchise. Everyone knows who he is. He's not viewed favorably in the rest of the state of New York. You look at the polling numbers. He is in the city, but not in the swing parts of the state. And he's very unfavorably viewed in suburbs across the state. So if I'm Bruce Blakeman, I certainly kind of focus on the silent majority of voters who. want to campaign and speak out against the radical policies and, you know, lack of enforcement in this case in counties and cities that are deep blue in the state. It's going to be a tough environment. I will say New York in a year like this is going to be tough for a Republican like Bruce Blakeman.

for him to beat the odds. He is Jewish, and he is a moderate, and he's pro-choice. And I think those things help New Yorkers who might say, I don't want to take a risk against a real conservative, but just because he's friends with Trump, it doesn't mean he agrees with everything the Magal World does do. Well, that'll help him here. Oh, absolutely. And he's Jewish, he's moderate. He's from Nassau County. That's an area that was once very Democratic, it's swung to the right, very decidedly so in the last four or four years. The playbook starts in the suburbs, and you know, then you went over the rural conservative parts of the state. That's how you win as a Republican in New York. And, Josh, do you think that Todd Blanche gets through? I'm, I mean, boy, this guy's between a rock and a hard place because all John Cornyn wants is him to kind of forswear the weaponization fund, which clearly, I think the president still wants. And yet, I think, you know, Todd Blanche is not willing to do that privately to these Republicans. Everything I've heard is that folks like Thom Tillis and John Cornyn are not going to, you know, support him if he doesn't, you know, offer those concessions. Put in writing. Put in writing that they will not use the slush fund. Exactly, exactly. This isn't just a handshake and a quiet agreement. It has to be on paper. And that's something I think the White House doesn't have support. And Josh, this is the problem. The president was sick of Thom Tillis, was sick of, you know, wanted Paxon. and then he goes ahead and wanted Bill Cassidy out. So again, three angry senators finishing up the string. It's not going to be easy. It's basic politics and a basic political blunder from the White House. It's better to have your friends and even your enemies closer. And what Trump did has made a whole lot of enemies from people who were friends. And that's going to make it hard to get his agenda passed in his cabinet and nominees passed. And in the North Carolina seat, it could flip it. So we'll see what happens. Josh, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. We come back. I got your emails from, especially from last night. I guess you guys were on the YouTube page, YouTube.com, at the Brian Kilmeade. You could do that again, or you could just write me, Briankillme.com, click on comments. I'll get it. Or we can get on the line. 1866, 408-7669. Don't move. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmeade.

He's so busy. He'll make your headspin. It's Brian Kilmeade. Any reasonable person who has followed his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the same conclusion. Therefore, although it pains me to do so because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right. under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions. Sir, is it true you were a crack cocaine dealer for seven years? I plead the fifth. Sir, will you tell us about the cartels you dealt with in your time as a crack cocaine dealer? No, but I can tell you that I plead the fizzif. Exactly how much money did you earn in your time as a crack cocaine dealer? So there was that, Dave Chappelle from his special? Yeah, from his show 20 years ago. When he took the fifth, that's funny. Anthony Fauci had to read it every time, but did it over 100 times yesterday. It was getting some email. Gary writes me and says, Anthony Fauci's federal pardon does protect him for a group of states prosecuting him for a crime. This angle should be used. Yeah, I think some people are talking about that. Other people are writing. You know what other people are writing? Did you guys see my look at those historic bars in Boston? Yes, what are they writing about? Are they running about your drinking? People loving it. Going to Boston because these two bars date back to the Revolutionary War, and I got a series of that. So people just want a break, want some fun and want to talk about America through 50, which is perfect for See Me at My Shows in Clearwater in Jacksonville, St. Louis, Red Bank, and Westbury.

Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sewing division. It's Brian. So glad you there. I'm at 48 and 6 in Midtown Manhattan. Heard around the country, around the world, a city that's changing rapidly that I think everybody should be focused on. I mean, it offers so much. You saw so many great things with the New York Knicks winning in the World Cup being this real hub, the host, the final and everything else. And I think it covered up for a lot of problems with this mayor who I think is intentionally destroying the country, excuse me, destroying the city and his goal of destroying the country, changing everything about it with a smile on his face, which makes him lethal. But he so he does not know what he does. He doesn't know. He knows how to implement things that would change our country, but I hope it results in him falling flat in his face. This hour, I'm going to be joined by Bruce Pearl, who's a former men's basketball coach over at Auburn, and many other times he is doing a big combat anti-Semitism movement. Very motivational guy wrote a great column in Newsweek. He's going to be with us shortly. Also, they might be passing some NIL legislation in the Senate. John Thune said that's definitely possible. I don't know if right now they're focused on getting Todd Blanche confirmed in. being held up. But maybe they'll get something for it to change college sports for the better. Before you get to Matt Taibi, let's get to the big three. Number three. This is an idea that is basically a pyramid scheme. It's basically a Ponzi scheme intellectually with the Democratic Party. And like a parasite, which I think the DSA is inside the Democratic Party, this parasite will eventually kill the host. Yes, absolutely. Under 100 days of the midterms and Dems are about to find out if socialism and radicalism sells in purple states. I'm talking about Wisconsin and Michigan while the GOP is struggling in two states. They have to win if they want to hold the Senate. Number two. We're seeing with our allies now going after their surrogates in Iran. Cross the board, incredible pressure being brought to Iran, and the more of these efforts will, I believe, ultimately move the country to a different government. Possibly, let's hope, go big and get better, or move on, Mr. President. The pinpricks aren't working. The Wall Street Journal says he's got a plan on the table, 10 to 14 days, along with the IDF, to take out. the IRGC. I'd like to see it. Number one. Although it pains me to do so, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. Yep, and with that, Fouchy wasted our time for two hours. He takes the fifth, but it doesn't mean we didn't learn anything from his testimony. And the answers may lie with his staffers who could be coming up next. With me now, though, is Matt Taibi Matt. We talked before he testified. I didn't really think he was going to take the fifth. Did it surprise you?

Absolutely. I had talked to a number of former officials the day before. Everybody speculated about what he might do, not one person that I talked to thought he was going to invoke on the stand. That was a dramatic moment, I thought, which is not terribly common in Congress. And it ought to be. a moment that propels everybody in the direction of investigating what happened with the pandemic. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen. No, I mean, we discussed this too. You know, after the laptop is real, no one believed it. Anyone who wrote tweeted that, had their account taken offline. And then the Russia hoax. Everyone knows Russia colluded with the president to win. It turns out that didn't happen. The people got awards for writing those stories about that. And then you have a situation where Joe Biden's mental declined. No one acknowledged it. We were seeing it. every day until he was eliminated in June. And then people like Jake Tapper made millions of dollars and writing a book about it while ignoring it. You would think that everyone would learn play it straight, but they're not. Lawmakers are playing politics. But for the most part, did you see much on any other outlet about Anthony Fauci and what a fraudy is? Not only did I not see that, but if you look at the New York Times this morning, you'll see Rand Paul compared to Joe McCarthy for his interrogation of Anthony Fauci. So the legend, you have to remember how extreme Anthony Fauci Mania became. in 2020 and 2021. You know, you had a call open with Brad Pitt playing Anthony Fauci. You had Joan Baez writing love letters to him, celebrities serenating him at his birthday. He became a sex symbol improbably. And that image will not die. People see him as a kind of anti-Trump religious figure. When Trump is really not relevant to this whole story, they should have been investigating the science. Yeah, really. I mean, just like, let's just look at what we know. Don't wear masks, wear a mask, six feet away. I never told you to stay six feet away. There's countless examples of them saying you got to stay six feet apart. It stopped anyone from going back to school that wasn't a private or charter school. And then you have the situation when to come to the vaccine. If you take the vaccine, you're not going to get it. You don't have to wear a mask. Everyone started getting sick again. I told you to wear a mask. Then you got to wear it outdoors. You don't have to wear it outdoors. You better not have Christmas. You better not have Hanukkah. At the same time, he's one sitting in the stands without a mask on. He's the one now going out to dinner with Jake. Tapper. And while calling Chris Andrew Cuomo after his show to say, hey, do you need any help? How can I help you while showing Barbara Streisand how to work in Alexa? So this is unbelievable. This guy should be the laughing stock of the country. Well, not only the laughing stock, though, I mean, Brian, I mean, I see all of that as a ruse to deflect attention from the real issue, which is how did this bat virus?

which can infect bat viruses, by the way. How did it come to have this fur and cleavage site, this extremely rare collection of nucleotides, inserted into its genome to make it highly transmissible to human beings while it's discovered just miles away from an institute that's doing that exact kind of research funded by the United States, we have to figure out. the exact sequence of events that led to that. And his stonewalling yesterday isn't going to prevent that, but it should be a warning shot to the press that, look, this is going to end up blowing up in the faces of all of you folks. Might as well just look into this thing. You would think, you know, laptop is real. We just stopped talking about it. The Russia hoax didn't happen. We just stopped talking about it. And then you have a situation where President Trump is president again. And now we're looking back. And we're also seeing the whole thing with the vaccine. I wonder about what do you think. If President Trump had won re-election, do you think it would have been the exact opposite? Republicans took the vaccine and the Democrats would say it kills people? I think that's entirely possible. There was evidence for that. Remember, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris talked about their hesitancy to accept any vaccine that had been recommended by Donald Trump. This is really the key dynamic about the whole COVID story. Whatever Donald Trump said that the press assumed the opposite was true, which is, you know, they accused to him of being unscientific, which in some cases I think he was, right? He rushed, he jumped a gun. But the press wasn't any more scientific and saying just because Donald Trump says this means it's wrong. So when he said... You know, we don't see that it's affecting children. That was true. And as a result, we had lockdowns in schools for much longer than we needed to. And the six feet apart. And the six feet apart and all this stuff. And we didn't look into the gain of function stuff. So here's what Dr. Burke said. And she's famously with their scarfs working with Anthony Fauci. And she saw politics all over this. Cut five. There were solutions, but it became very political. And we all have to be aware, because it was a presidential election year, it was really important for blue states to show that they were taking us very seriously. And they overclosed. And we just have to be honest that that happened. And that's why that discussion from both sides of the aisle and a resolution and a way to go forward is critical so that we can do this right in the future. So, I mean, obviously, and then they wouldn't open up, Matt, they wouldn't open up the schools. These kids were forever harmed. Was your family directly affected?

A little bit, yeah. I mean, look, my kids were home for an awful long time. If I didn't love hanging out with my kids, I'd probably be angry, more angry about it. But, you know, it was completely unnecessary. It put a tremendous strain on families all over the country. But more than that, it heightened the mass hysteria about this disease and kept people from looking at the real issue. If there had been more... effort at protecting people in the older age group, then we probably would have had fewer deaths. Instead, there was this relentless propaganda about vaccination and no other information at all. And that really hurt people. Absolutely. So the other thing is, so I looked at the questions. I thought, can you get anything out of this? And you can. I did not know that he made nine separate staffers, fill out applications to apply. for awards. He got a million dollars. Shouldn't be doing that. Number two is his assistant deleted a ton of information. Now they're going to probably bring his assistant in, put that person under oath to find out what did you delete? I mean, imagine the 1100 page diary, how damning that looks, how much he was saying something privately and is something different publicly. Can you imagine what he deleted? Oh, it boggles the mind to imagine. Unfortunately, you can't concretely speculate, but it would have to have been something that was not flattering or salutary for him. But certainly, just looking at the diaries, they're enormously damaging. They show that he had real information. For instance, about... you know, the possibility of genetic engineering and or the links to the laboratory. And he held that back. You didn't tell the president, it doesn't tell the public, didn't tell Congress. I mean, all this stuff is terrible. In a normal media environment, this would be a huge scandal. Here's what Rand Paul said that he learned later that day after the testimony was over. Cut nine. We also found that he got a million dollar award, but that he used the work of eight government workers to fill out the paperwork for an award, that he got them to nominate him, that he was discussing with people, hey, nominate me for this prize. And if it has to go through ethics, let's make sure we get the money. And everybody make sure we try to get to yes on that I can keep the money. A million dollar prize is inappropriate for government scientists. It's inappropriate for government bureaucrats. to use government workers to do it. So even though he didn't testify, I think we learned a lot about him. We learned a lot about his decision-making process. And really, we learned a lot about the things we need to try not to do again. Yeah, and hire him. And basically, he was doing policy by interview. But what about the Democrats? Andy Kim, I apologize by the way you're being treated. I want to salute you for all your help. Senator Richard Blumenthal, you've done a great job. These guys just don't want to examine Donald Trump's ethics problems.

That one Democrat, even John Fetterman, came out and said, look, I was lieutenant governor. I'm still examining what I did. Wonder if I did anything wrong would be great if you would examine something that you might have done wrong. It's unbelievable. And as you point out, it's a parallel to every other scandal beforehand. I mean, when I testified in Congress, I was privately going to the Democrats and saying, You know, look, this is not a partisan issue. This affects both sides. Let's not make it into that. And they didn't want to look at the issue because they thought it redounded poorly for Democrats. This is the same thing. They just think that this is a bad issue for them. So they don't want to look at something that could have catastrophic impact the next time. I mean, the next virus is not going to be harmless to children, most likely. And we're going to have a much more devastating impact. we're not investigating this now or as much as we could, you know, they're all going to be guilty in the future. Matt, how did this overlap with what you discovered on X when you were allowed to go in there after Elon Musk bought it? So I... Of the Twitter files reporters, I probably knew the least about COVID when we went in. But in the process of looking at the documents, we found one of the major things that we discovered is that the platforms were not only taking direct direction from the CDC, the NIH, the Sergeant General's office, but also that they were censoring by narrative and not so much by individual facts. For instance, if you had a true story about somebody who died after they got the vaccine, that could be a true story, but they would say that promoted hesitancy and they would take that down or deamplify it. And so this was a radical change in how platforms looked at the whole problem of regulating content. They wanted to align content with... the Biden administration's policies. And so as a result, people didn't get good information either about the vaccine or about the virus. Also, I remember Ron Johnson had that forum about Ivermectin about that being working. And they took it down. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. had his account suspended because he doubted about the vaccine and he doubted a lot of these policies. I mean, it's amazing how that overlapped with the political process. Yeah, and there was no reason for that either, right? Like, why denigrate, you know, a possible cure for what's going on or a possible treatment? Early on, there was no reason to think that Ivermectin couldn't have some possible, you know, important benefit. And there were a lot of doctors that I talked to who were not Republicans. They weren't conservatives who said, yeah, this is working for my patients, but, you know, I don't. I'm getting a lot of flack for trying to get it to people. And the platforms did the same thing. They just assumed out of hand because it was, you know, popular in conservative media that it had to be wrong. And, yeah, there were studies that didn't show a lot. But.

There was no reason to take down the speculation. There was no reason to punish people for asking about it. All of that happened. And when you, we only have 30 seconds, but when you testified, the IRS was knocking at your door, weren't they? They were, yeah. And, you know, all we were trying to do is tell people that, hey, this is happening. Your accounts are being censored. And, you know, we were treated like public enemies for that. It was, it was really, you know, boggled the mind. You got to look up. I mean, go on YouTube and lock, Matt, testimony. It was absolutely a circus. But you wouldn't play into it. You did a great job. Matt, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Thanks, love. The media keeps letting us down. 1866, 408, 7669. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Kilmeade. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kilmeade. Hey, we are back, and we have Bruce Pearl just around the bend, but right now it's breaking Frank. Frank's in Pennsylvania. Hey, Frank. Hey, Brian, how you doing? Awesome, excellent show. Just want to bring up two points real quick. The first point is that someone's really talking about Fouchy on 60 Minutes, even before the vaccines were approved. He said he knew the company. He knew the company he was going to use, which was buying tech. Follow the money. Let's see where that trail ends. And the other part was, second main thing was there were six miners who died in China, and they sent the bat lady to go ahead and take the samples, and that's where COVID then was used for gain to function on that. I think if they followed those two trails, I think that would answer a lot of questions. Brian, what do you think? Yeah, I mean, this guy is just... was not really interested in where it came from, but he just wanted to try to stop it. But he took a long time to try to stop it. And his missteps were legendary and his lack of humility is maddening. And now he takes the fifth when we finally get to find out what was really going on behind the scenes. Now think about it. We got 1100 pages and he deleted a ton. How much what don't we have? Then what would that have told? How many people is he covering for or how many people are covering for him? Because they wanted grants. And think about this. Before the pandemic, when asked, they did a poll, do you trust the CDC? 82% said yes. Now that number's at 30%. And he want to really kill Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Read his book about Anthony Fauci. There's a one guy I trust there. It's more Robert F. Kennedy Jr. than anybody else. I'll take a guy that's a little naive to some of the process, but that has a purity of thought and an openness to understanding as opposed to a guy who thinks he knows it all and doesn't want to be questioned.

From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmeade. I think one of the bedrocks of our city is protest. It is something that has been a part of what makes our city so special that New Yorkers can express themselves, whether they are in support or in opposition, no matter on whatever topic. We are talking about someone who has been charged with crimes against humanity, someone who... has visited the city on many an occasion and who has been welcomed by previous mayors. And I want to make it very clear that that welcome ends with me. So that is the ridiculous mayor of New York City who wants to focus on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on New Yorkers a protest when he comes in here as invited to the UN for the National Assembly. Bruce Pearl is former fantastic basketball coach in Auburn and a member of the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement and a U.S. Advisory Board member there. We're a great column over in Newsweek and Bruce joins us now. Coach, great to see you. Your thoughts about our mayor deciding to call for protest on a world leader. Ryan, great to be with you. You know, one of the bedrocks of the great city of New York is protest. How about making the bedrock being unbelievable schools like a safe place to live and grow up and raise a family? Incredible diversity and ethnicity, just the greatest city in the world. But no, he says the bedrock is protest. Because, see, that's what Islamists do. All they do is complain and protest about how awful everything is here. If it's so awful, why is everybody in the world trying to come here? Look, Brian, he is who he said he was. And the longer he's in power, the more dangerous the man becomes. And from not walking in Israel Day parade to walking in every parade. to having 18 lawyers be a part of some judiciary that's going to decide who the next judges in New York are. Half the lawyers in New York are Jewish. I'm just saying, and he doesn't have one of them. These things are not done based on any kind of coincidence. But here's the kicker, Brian. Yeah. Okay. What he's doing in New York is the exact same thing that the Palestinians have been doing since 1948 in Israel. And that's trying to make it so difficult for the Jews to stay that they're going to leave. Well, guess what? I tell every Jew in New York that thinks about leaving. You know what? That's exactly what he wants you to do. And what happens? to like countries or cities when they lose their juice?

I'll tell you what, take a look at history. It did not go so well. Also, just look at your bottom line. You want to do all these terrible programs and you want to have your supermarkets. The most successful business in New York City are Jewish-run businesses. They're thriving. And if you're going to make it hard for them, not feel appreciated, they're going to stay in business. They're just not going to give view their tax dollars. I want you to hear how he described bypassing anybody Jewish for his advisory council, cut 45. In my six months of being the mayor, I've had the privilege of appointing a dozen qualified judges from a range of backgrounds, including Jewish judges. And I want to be clear that any suggestion that the composition of the advisory committee was motivated by religion is false. So you feel better now? Look, the enemy is inside the gate, and he's dangerous, Brian, because he's smart. And he knows the things. to say that can motivate the public. Of course, this was intentional. If in one hand, he's going to brag about the diversity of his city, and therefore the diversity of that committee, he should look at things like race. He should look at things like religion if he's saying he wants diversity in this commission. You don't have to do it that way, but in the one hand, you can't say you're doing it this way, and then not doing it all the way. And so, yeah, it makes no sense. Brian, I thought about something else I wanted to share with you. You and I have talked so much about, and you've asked me like, coach, why the rise in any separatism? Why right now? What's taking place right now? And I thought about this, Brian. And here, and this is not, there's not anything new. But when you combine Islamic extremism and the Islamism that is entered into Democratic Party, okay, they obviously. Don't like the Jews. Israel's victory is Islam's defeat because the fact that it exists and it drives right in the middle of... their mecca, okay? You then combine that with socialism or communism. Well, the Jews that came to America did really well in a capitalistic society, in a democratic society, in a free society where they had the ability to work hard, get educated, and absolutely live the American dream. Like, America's Jews should be the most patriotic people on the planet because there's never been a time in our history of 3,500 years where there's ever been a place that's been better for us to live with freedom of religion and freedom of commerce than the United States of America. And guess who hates that? The democratic socialist, the communist, and the Islamic extremists, and that's why they are attacking Jews in this country. And I think that you as a great patriot and other great patriots are absolutely recognizing that. No question. And it's all combining too. And people say, when you're anti-Semitic, you're really anti-American. And they might start with being anti-Semitic, but it really goes to the freedom the whole country has. So that's what's going to eventually be targeted. And that's who we see. The L. Saeed guy said, well, I'm not a social.

But everything about him running for Michigan Senate race is socialist and extremist. And he's all for globalized the infatata. And you know he hands out with Hasan Piker, who you know is as despicable as it gets, thinks we deserve 9-11. It will take Hamas any day, once called for the death of Rick Scott. So those are the people this guy pals around with. So it's pretty much everywhere. I want you to hear something else that he's doing. He's actually entertaining reparations for New York City, for New York. Cut 48. We often think about slavery and the complicity in slavery as being exclusively to certain geographic areas of the country. Here in New York City, we were very complicit. This is critically important because this is also what it looks like to acknowledge what history truly was. So he's going to acknowledge the New York was part of the union. This was the end of the Underground Railroad that Harriet Tubman put together. It's where Frederick Douglass lived because he felt safe here. And now he wants to write a big check to the legacy of African Americans, which you're going to have trouble even finding them. Well, Brian, he's a politician, and he's smart. And he recognizes that in his election, the Hispanic community did not vote for him. The African American community did not vote for him. Unions and hardworking Americans did not vote for him. He was able to capture a bunch of college-educated young people that haven't made it yet. And they won't change for the sake of change. So if you bring up reparations, obviously that's going to perk the interest of African-Americans saying, hey, cut me in. I'll take a piece of that pie, even though they may never have been. Obviously, they weren't slaves. The other thing to recognize, slavery still exists around the world. And where it exists the most is in these Islamic extremist countries. countries. They're getting right out of Africa, just like we did back in the day. And it's wrong. And African Americans in this country know that they're not going to be fooled. Bruce, how many years did you spend on different campuses in your career? Oh, probably well. Brian, I coached for 48 years in college basketball as a head coach in 30 years. So how many college campuses? What was I on in 48 years? You didn't just stay in the gym. I'm sure you walked the campus, talk classes. Did you notice the changing students in curriculum, the lack of history, knowledge, and caring about our country? Have you noticed that? Did you get outside the athletic department? Oh, yeah. I mean, because that's what that was one of the keys to my success, Brian, is to who much is given, much is expected. And what I did, I participated in every university that I was at in ways that had nothing to do with athletics to try to help our students come in and grow and achieve and love their country, love their God, and leave our community and go make America great again and make it even better. So yeah, I was outside that. I think that.

You know, obviously what took place with diversity, equity, inclusion, how the pendulum swing. Look, affirmative action was really important back in the day, because we had a long way to go to give everybody a better opportunity. And we made some adjustments in that, and I think it was important. Like every pendulum that swings, it probably went too far, and then we had qualified people. that weren't going to be able to get into schools and in jobs and things like that because they weren't the right sex or they weren't the right race. And there has to be some adjustment and there was. But the adjustment was then to just hate our country and to teach our young people how awful we are. Yeah, we are not perfect, but this is the best place in the world to work and to live. And we're simply, you know, trying to make it better. I think conservative, hardworking Americans did not get an education. And I know this is a shot, and I'm taking a shot at universities and the educational system. But I always used to say those that can't do and those that can't sometimes teach. Now, I was a coach. I couldn't play, but I coached. So I don't mean to be a hypocrite. I'm just saying that your best attorneys, they're out there actually practicing law and doing really well. There are other attorneys that are out there and they're teaching law. And so as a result, the people that are in there teaching our kids are way more left, way more liberal, have a lot of different ideas about capitalism than the American way, and obviously being infiltrated with all this foreign money. They've invested tremendously and not only sending students, but also sending faculty. These are the people that are teaching our children. And as a result... When we do all the polling of where everybody is, the younger people are way more left, way more liberal, way more compassionate to Hamas and terrorism because they bought into the fact that there's been an apartheid or there's been an genocide, which is a complete and total lie and falsehood. But that's what they've been taught. And that's the battle we're fighting. And now we have this thing called the podcast world, who just want to have conversations. I might bring Bruce Brawl in. And Bruce, you could say anything you want. You're here as my guest. And I'm not going to really challenge you. You're going to just tell me your opinions. That's really what Joe Rogan does. Does a great job. Fantastic listener. We'll have an explorer in one minute and an astrologist in the next and a comedian in. So he made this statement about Gaza, cut 29. The fact that a take on something that if you're just looking at it, like, what is, what are you, how could you defend that? Like, how could anybody defend that? Right. I don't even know how many people are dead. You have a complete wipe out of a city, like 90% of Gaza's gone, or whatever the percentage is. You look at the buildings. You look at what it used to look like. You look at what looks like now. Like, this is defensible? So we lose lost Bruce. I don't know how much he heard, but you heard Joe Rogan just say, this is genocide. There's no that about it. 90% have been wiped out. How could you say anything different? He says you look at the buildings, you look at what used to look like, and you look at it, what it looks like now, like this is defensible. Yeah, it's absolutely defensible. If you ask me, I want Bruce to have a chance to answer it because people just get this idea. It's genocide and that's it.

Of all people, Laura Lumer, who for some reason has the president's ear, he really trusts her. She was just coming out, deciding who is loyal to President Trump and who is not. But she was one of the people that came out and called out Ukraine and said they're corrupt. The Russia had no choice about the invasion. She came out and said, I saw for myself that I would lie to. So, Bruce, I don't know if you heard what Joe Rogan said, if you heard that clip as I was playing it. As my fault, Brian, no, I didn't hear it all about gossip. He said it was, he goes, no doubt about it was genocide. 90% of the buildings are down. Yep, 90% of the buildings are down. Absolutely. But when you drop 200,000 bombs and you kill about 60,000 people, 30,000 of which are male terrorists, okay? It's the most human urban warfare that's ever been fought, that the math just doesn't add up. Yep, the place has been destroyed. Why? Because they were hiding in tunnels. underneath churches, inside of hospitals. They're launching rockets from people's living rooms. Look, there absolutely wasn't an out of genocide. A genocide is when you're trying to remove a people from existence. Okay, after October 7th, Israel could have gone in there and dropped three bombs and killed two million people. And they did not do that. They want to be able to get rid of Hamas. They want to, that we got to get back to a place, Brian, where people remember what Goldemeyer said. And that's simply this. When the Palestinians or the Arabs stop hating the Jews more than they love their children, we're never going to have peace. And you're seeing. places like UAE that have adopted that. And they've turned things around. So I believe it can be turned around. And President Trump, with what he's doing right now and his involvement in the Middle East, and listen, he did not want in Trump too to have to go back in there and do what he's doing right now. He didn't want to. But guess what? He wanted to see if he maybe could change the course of history in the Middle East. And Brian, he's doing it. Good is lining up on the side of good. Evil's lining up on the side of evil. The terrorists have been exposed. America is safer because of it. I know it comes with a cost, but I think a nuclear Iran, okay, would be worse any of the costs that we've paid so far. And you will not be able to have any sort of peace in the Middle East as long as Iran is propping up these proxies, training and telling them to continue to hit Israel. Islamic jihad, Hamas, Hezboa, and the Houthis. That's all Israel, Iran. Iran stops funding them. They go away. And then we'll have this huge situation, good situation when it comes to the Abraham Accords. Bruce, do you miss basketball? No, I love basketball. And basketball was great to me. But it was time to do something else, Brian. I love my country. And right now, my opponent's no longer the SEC. My opponent is anybody that hates our country and our Judeo-Christian way of life. And I'll tell you what, that's a potent, a very important point to fight.

Go get them, Bruce. Doing a great job and you're using your fantastic communication skills to get that point across. Bruce Pearl, thank you. Talk to you again soon. Back in a moment. The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them only on the Brian Kilmeade. Talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade. Sponsored by Previgin. Previgin, made for your brain. Well, the last poll that I saw in Pennsylvania, not a whole lot of Democrats think that he is representing them. And as you know, there's some question whether or not he flips and becomes a Republican. So I would not put too much credibility in what. Somebody like John Fetterman says. He said you should sit this out. Is that what he said? Yeah. Do you think I should take this advice? I probably won't. John, not going to take your advice. We're going to work as hard as we can, not only to elect. El-Sahid, but Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota and strong congressional candidates all over this country. Yeah, he does not enter in John Fetterman, who just shows you how different I am from Bernie Sanders, and you are too. I mean, doesn't sound crazy, just says, he actually, why would we listen to John Fetterman? A guy that votes Democrat 80-something percent of the time, but has this thing called common sense, and even though he's not Jewish, likes Israel. Does he see them as an... ally, sees Iran as a problem, sees the border that needs to be enforced, is that those never used to be democratic ideals. But that's why Chuck Schumer evidently sought out fettermen and so whatever you do, don't switch parties. I also found a pretty good source that he, when he goes to the cloakroom and the Democratic, you know, in the Senate, where they hang out, nobody talks to him. So he has now, stop going in there and he goes and sits with the Republicans. I'd be real nervous. Because either way, if you look at... seats that could flip. Michigan probably has got to flip to Republicans if I was a betting man. And I think perhaps New Hampshire. But if you look at Democrats, they've got to feel good about holding out to Georgia. I didn't think they would. In North Carolina, I like Mike Michael Whatley, but right now he is trailing. So maybe they think they can flip that. And maybe they think they'll get lucky in Iowa, Ohio, and Texas, which means a lot of pressure on John Fetterman. You keep treating him like crap. And Bernie Sanders saying what he's saying. And acting socialists, he's going to go, I don't want any part of this party. You know, he doesn't agree with everything Trump does, but you know what Trump did? Appreciate him. Had him now tomorrow ago. And there's a line of communication. If he had something he needed, I'm telling you right now, the White House, we get it done because they really appreciate him. That's why I really wish as much as I...

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