"We Decimated Their Forces" — The Secret Naval Battle Plans to Control Iran’s Strait

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You can trade your oil at full market price in dollars. We're going to look to unfreeze funds, and you're allowed to be in control of the strait. At least it's a gray area in which they're building on. So they're trying to take control of the street. We don't believe it says that. So we tell them to take the other side of the strait that we can guarantee merchant chip safety. And when we do that, they started shooting at chips. They damaged three of them. Last week, they damaged two of them. So we hit them back. But not in proportion. We hit them back. On Thursday, 90 times, 150 times in all. 15 times the number of attacks on us and on ships. Now, their parliament speaker, Kalbath, a key negotiator seeking a permanent end to the war, was defiant on post. On post on X, said on Thursday, America still hasn't learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. Listen, no longer cost-free. Yeah, you're rocketing our bases. You're not doing anything. You got Jim Jordan, Kuwait. and Bahrain, no damage done. I think there was something to refill on one person, minor injuries. And in turn, you're getting slammed. Your radar's being blown up. Your train tracks are being blown out. They were bringing supplies in and out of China and Russia, as well as losing key bridges used by the military. Here's Keith Kellogg, cut four. You take that 14-point MOU and you throw it away. And you start to make the Iranians understand that we are not equals in this fight at all. Because what you just said, we've decimated their military forces. We were able to penetrate a will. So. Does Vice Admiral Robert Harwood feel the same way? He's senior advisor to the Iran Policy Project at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. Admiral, we didn't have any bombing last night, but the day before 90, the day before that, 70 strikes. What would you be doing today? What do you recommend we do today? Well, I have to note my comments by my shipmate there, General Keith Kellogg, who I've known for 37 years. I agree with them completely. I would have suggested not following the MOU away. I would recommend sticking it somewhere else, actually. Because he's got it right. We've demonstrated to the Iranians time and time again how powerful we are and what we can do to them and how weak they are. So this is no longer about negotiations. This is about capitulation. You're going to make sure you honor the international norm and that the Straits of Hormuz, you have no control. That's international waterways and commercial flow against it. That's first and foremost. They're going to do that. We're going to by force ensure you do it by eradicating and taking out anything you can use to threaten that. That's number one. Number two is the nuclear program. That nuclear materials have to be dug up or located wherever is that and turned over. And you're going to have to agree to not pursuing a nuclear weapon. So those two objectives, the president's been clear on each and every day.

And you're going to agree to that or we're going to continue to erode anything that allows you to do that by force. And that involves a lot of death and destruction. And the president wants to avoid that. They're going to have to come to that realization or we'll continue to pursue those options. Admiral, the one thing that would keep oil prices down. and show them that they can't control the strait is letting us do it. So if we control the strait, those tankers come through again. The price of oil goes down and they lose that. potential revenue stream. And they told the rest of the Gulf neighbors see that we're for real and that we can ensure the free travel on the strait. Now, you've seen the battle plans. I understand for military people like you that tell me there's been battle plans drawn up to control the strait since the 80s. So is there one that would be effective along with minimizing any potential casualties? Well, you're seeing that play out right now, striking all those targets along the Gulf, the islands, and anywhere else that has those elements of power. And I've said since day one, Brian, putting boots on the ground, not to occupy, but to raid and ensure they are clear of any of those materials and everything's gone is another option the president has. That's your trust, but verify. We can strike, we can watch. through predators, other intelligence to ensure we've taken out everything we can. But walking the ground to ensure that's done is that verified. And psychologically, to the people of Iran, that shows and the Arab partners how committed and how much we believe that is. important to their future and are so i think that's an option the president has still has in his pocket and can utilize if he thinks he needs that and the iranians don't come to the understanding uh that this is what the end state's going to be one way or the other how bad do you want it to be for your country admiral how much more difficult did we make this with that m o you Well, we gave up a lot of power. But again, the president wanted to give them an off-ramp and to come to this conclusion, they obviously, the regime, especially the IRGC, can't do it because that's what all they have to stay empowered. They can't give up on those things because it will take them out of power internally, much less externally. And it's not just the nukes. It's not just the straits of remotes. It's their surrogates. Don't forget who they, the Hezbollah, the Houthis.

Hamas and others. That's an important element of those powers. If they lose all that, they lose power and they'll be forced out of government. So that's what the end state needs to be. The president's taken, giving them every option to do this as painlessly as possible, but obviously that's not working. So it's going to have to be aggressive action in all of those lanes to meet the end states. So here's the article, the paragraph five that says Iran will make arrangements to restore shipping through the situation. strategic orderly and then work with Oman to determine how to administer its future. It also includes an Iran pledge to ensure safe passage and remove military obstacles such as mines. So that's what they're using to say, look, we told you we're going to do this. Oman's saying, I'm not going to do this. And the rest of the Gulf state says, this is not okay with us because they try to get Gulf buy-in on it. And of course, China goes, this sounds great to me because we'll take the Taiwan straight tomorrow if that's okay. So having said that, Would you have technical talks with them today, Admiral? Well, again, I'm in the position where talks are kind of counterproductive. Present. Here's what you're going to do. Because they are having technical talks. And I worry about the people talking to them, too. It's not you. And it's not Marco Rubio. It's not people that understand the military or the diplomacy or the history. There's two business guys who are smart and really accomplished. But they don't have to hit. This is not a time to wing it. They're not doing anything in the Ukraine, and they're not helping here. This, this, this, this, this, this, this, uh, Dennis, Dennis Ross, one of the most experienced peoples in the region, he said to me, it's like the Iranians wrote it and we just signed it. Brian, this is, I go back to the National Security Council. It was such a powerful tool to bringing together all the whole of government, the CIA, the Intel community, OSD, joint staff. That organization could write the policy, write the negotiations, be the staff that ensures the objectives with the right. flexibility because they track it and work at 24 hours a day, seven days a week, was such a powerful tool for any administration. And I'm just not clear what the status of that is today and how that organization is functioning to support these objectives in Iran. But I think that in my history of time under the Bush administration and in when I served in COCOMs, that tool was very powerful in bringing together, you know, the experience, the military, the intelligence knowledge, the policy level, to meet the objectives. And I think that's a tool that could use very powerfully right now to make sure we get the end state as effectively, efficiently, and timely as possible. Yeah, bring the experts in. I'd love to see John Ratcliffe at the table, you know, and he'd be able to say, well, that's not true, you know, and that's not what we read.

Because you can't just wing in and say I looked him in the eye and I got a feeling this is the best deal we can get. That might be good for real estate. And it might be good in theory on what it takes with the Abraham Accords, which is a great accomplishment. But this is a much different situation, I think. So I understand that there seems to be a rivalry between the IRGC and the Speaker and the Foreign Minister. The Foreign Minister is making the calls to Steve Witkoff. And the Speaker is maybe playing a role. But being that the IRGC has final say, why wouldn't we have that conversation with the IRGC? And if it goes terrible, we know where we stand. I almost think the foreign minister and speaker are giving us a false sense of progress. I think you're exactly right. And let me bounce to your first statement that Abraham Accord. occurred because of the NSC. I knew the members of the team who worked at with the administration's team and made that happen another testament to the NSC. But I think what you're seeing here, these political leaders, the speaker, the president, others wanting to reach it, want to capitulate, wanting to be on the side of the people because they know. But at the end of the day, IRGC will not allow them to do that. So they've become figureheads. as everyone else has in Iran, for the real power brokers, the IRGC. And don't forget, at the end of the day, they're kind of weakless for them. The IRGC has the weapons. They'll murder people. They'll do that to political leaders that they don't capitulate to their desires and gold. So at the end of the day, I believe the political leaders, like you said, are somewhat puppet heads. And they present. somewhat optimistic expectations that are not true because they're not aligned to what the real decision makers are doing the IRGC. Admiral, can we fast forward to Ukraine a little bit? It looks as though the refinery attack has been really effective. It looks like the drone attacks have been effective. It looks like Crimea is almost uninhabitable now for the Russians. I don't think they've gained a kilometer, they say, on the battlefield. And their economy grew at 0.4%. Well, how significant is it that Ukraine now has permission to begin moving forward on the building and getting the licenses to build their own patriots? Well, let me, the real key here is what drone warfare is now, Brian. It's unbelievable to watch. And let me give you some analogies. They're shooting drones that cost them maybe a few thousand, maybe 10,000. And they're covering 1,200 kilometers and striking targets throughout Russia. Unbelievable. We've built aircraft carriers, thousands of F-35s at tens of trillions of dollars. And we can't do the same mass and depth that they can. It really illustrates how warfare has changed dramatically. Ukraine is using drones, mass drones, cheap drones, and can target anything in Ukraine. And they have zero air power. Link that to what's going on in Iran. You know, we're shooting missiles and dropping bombs that costs.

billions of dollars, and yet we don't have drones that could be targeting Tehran, you know, every IRGC member daily because we don't have the mass and range of those inaffordable drones. So what you're seeing is the true evolution and warfare that we've never seen before. And Ukraine has innovated and using it very effectively to balance the power with... Russia, one of the premier superpowers. And the Iranians are doing the same thing to us. You know, it's really. Incredible. So that's why you're seeing these efforts by the administration to bolster the new appointment of a drone czar at the Pentagon. We've got to evolve our warfare quickly. And these two cases, as you said, Ukraine has used it very successfully holding off Russia and Iran are illustrating us daily. But again, let's see how Russia's going to respond. What they've got, and again, it's ballistic missiles and drones going after Kiev every time this happens. But so far, the price they're paying is untenable. They've lost millions of boots on a ground. And again... an illustration of why he may never want to occupy Iran, but sure, boots on the ground raids to tip the balance of power till you see the internal dynamics changing. And that's the difference here with the Russia situation and the Iran situation. Iran has a weak regime. No one supports. And they're about 95 million people. Russia's 150, a very thick communist country. that the people really don't get a vote on, but they're really coming to grips with the price they're paying for this war against Ukraine with a million of their young Russian, young men killed. Yeah. It's really very tragic. It is crazy. There's one lunatic over in Russia just letting these people who on average, when they get drafted and brought to the front lines, they say they last 10 days before they're dead or wounded. Admiral Robert Harwood, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Good to be with you, Brian, as always. Yep. And I think both situations feel like they're coming to a head. Bottom of the hour, we talk about the economy and more with Jerry Willis of FBN. When we come back to your calls, don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmeade. Hi everyone, it's Brian Kilmeade here. Are you tired of those uncomfortable dress shirts, especially when they bunch up under a sweater? If so, then you must check out collars and go. Makers of the dress collar polo. Listen up. These shirts are four-way stretch, buttery soft polos with firm dress collars on them, so they give you the dress shirt look, but extremely comfortable polo feel. You can wear them with anything under a sweater, with a blazer, or by themselves as an elevated polo. They work for any occasion. These polos are perfect, whether it's in the office,

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So during that time, how did she reach out and let Lincoln know that she was looking to play ball? So this was tricky, right? Because she's on the wrong side of the line, right? So she actually pens a letter with some of her findings and send it to whom it may concern at the White House by mail. gets no response. So finally she starts slowly reaching out to Union soldiers who are being held in Richmond in the prisons there. She gives them sanctuary. She gives them food. She connects them by mail to their relatives on the other side. And slowly but surely people start to hear about her. And finally, finally, one of the now obscure generals hears of her, summons her and puts her to work. And she's able to pull it off with no experience. She's smart. She's well connected. She has a lot of money, and she bribes people who don't do what she wants. Wow. So, and then how did you find out the book was up for an award? Did you put it in for an award? No, no. I got an email from the folks over at Harper Susan Collins and said it had been nominated and then came a press release and just so excited about it because if you, and I know you know these folks, but the Library of Virginia really well-respected organization, you know, that Virginia has supplied eight presidents, an amazing eight presidents. And the. The material they have there, the letters, the original details that they have on hand there for researchers like myself is astonishing. And the way they're willing to help is amazing. Oh my gosh. They have research librarians who will point you to where you need to go because what you realize as you begin that research is it's a mountain of material. You don't know what you don't know. So how do you know even know what to ask for unless they're there for you? That's absolutely right. They're amazing. I love those research for librarians. And I also love those guys who work for the National Park Service because those local guys who are working in those areas where you're doing your research, know an incredible amount. All right. I want to go back to that, but I do want to talk about the economy with your business background. Here's the president yesterday. Talking about the economy as it is right now, cut 46. We have the greatest economy we've ever had. We have the biggest investment. 19.2 trillion is being invested right now in the United States. Three trillion was the number, the record. Under Biden and under the past administration, they had less than a trillion for four years. We have 19.2 trillion in 12 months. Think of that. We have the largest amount of money being invested in a country in history. Pretty amazing. with the team.

Do you want to take that on? And what areas are we strong on? What areas are we lacking? I'm going to tell you, I'm really impressed with this track record. This isn't even something the previous president's targeted. Do you remember previous presidents talking about how we've got to get all this money in from? Nobody says that. That was Trump. You know, yesterday, Micron said, hey, we're investing $250 billion in a new facility here. And there's now a South today, a South Korean chip maker is going public on one of the U.S. U.S. exchanges. So you're just seeing this pouring in of capital. And this is critical to our economy. Capital is what greases the wheels of commerce. Without money, it doesn't go. And we're seeing it particularly in technology. That's a great... part of this story. But we're also seeing it in some of the fundamentals. There's a company that's decided that they're going to start making pig iron in the U.S., which we don't have a pig iron foundry currently, and they're going to do that. So you see people finding new ways of plugging into this economy and bringing products that the U.S. economy needs, especially vis-a-vis China and other countries who want to take our bacon and, you know, frankly, steal our best ideas. Yeah, I think also people worry about the price of oil and gas, and every time it's a flare up in the straight, what's the market reaction? Well, you know, it's predictable. There's a seizing up, right? And we've seen oil prices go up a bit here. I think we're at 72 bucks a barrel on... WTI, West Texas Intermediate this morning. It slides all over the place. But having covered this kind of stuff for a long time, what shocks me is that we don't get bigger moves in these oil prices and also in the levels of the indexes. Look, we're in the middle of a war. We've got the entire world taking sides. It's up in the air whether we can even talk to our adversary in Iran. And still, I feel like the economy continues to chug right along. The stocks continue to go higher for the first six months of this year. All three major indexes are in the green. The NASDAQ is up double digits. So I am very optimistic. We have a new Fed chair now. The Wall Street Journal's Chief Economics correspondent, Nick Timrose, talked about what he's looking to do. I'm talking about Kevin Warsh, cut 47. Only a few officials at that June meeting, the family fight that Kevin Warsh framed it as. thought that interest rates are at a restrictive setting and only a slightly restrictive setting at that. That was maybe the most interesting line to me because if policy is not holding the economy back,

then that means nudging interest rates up isn't that big of a deal. You're just leaning against sticky inflation. So on the one hand, the minutes showed a lot of agreement. They said almost everybody thought that if inflation continued to run above their target, they might need to raise interest rates. On the other hand, almost everybody thought that if inflation came down soon, then they could stay where they are. So you read that. What are we looking at? Well, okay. So what Tamaros is saying there is that the Fed is leaning towards a rate hike, not a rate cut, and then it might not be that big of a deal. I think what's going to happen, next week we're going to get CPI, which is the most important number when it comes to the conversation about what the Fed's going to do with interest rates. And I think it's going to look pretty benign. And here's why, because we got... oil prices fall last month with what the president was doing in Iran and they were actually talking. So gas prices fell. And so it's going to look good for that month. Now, whether it goes back up could well happen. But I think that what's interesting here is that Kevin Warsh, who was dubbed by the left, as somebody who would do everything that Trump ever asked him to do, well, he may not. He may actually listen to his better angels. He may do what he thinks is best. And you could see those rates move higher. But my bet is nothing happens for the rest of the year. Well, just no change. I'm betting on no change. The housing bill is on hold. The president asked them to pass a housing bill. They did, and the president hasn't signed it. He said, well, it's no big deal. Interest rates affect housing more. What should he do, Jerry Willis? I would love to see him sign it. There's good stuff in there. And by that, I mean, there's a lot of unraveling of just ridiculous regulation that holds back housing and housing construction. I think something like 40% of the average new home, the price is due to... regulations. So, I mean, there's a lot of work to be done there. That bill did a lot of that heavy lift. There are a few things in there. I don't know, whatever. But most of the bill is really pretty good. So lastly, as you wrote Lincoln's Lady Spymaster. is now up. Do you going to have a vote for this? How do you find out? All right. So this is important. So you have to vote. It's a people's choice award. So there's not a bunch of eggheads out there saying, oh, which book do we like? No, this is up to the people. They're going to vote to decide which of these nonfiction books that are up for the award will win. And to find out where to place that vote, where on the web to go to, I'm going to put it on my social media and I'm going to connect it to you. Okay. Can you help me? Absolutely. And so people, you want people out there. So I'll put it out there. You want people to vote for you. Yes. Okay, good. Yes. And more importantly, get the book. Get the book. Yeah. Look how pretty the book is. You need to know these American stories. Yes. And that will make a great movie too. You can follow her at Jerry Willis, W-I-L-I-S-F-B-N. Yes. So that's where it's all posted. You can find out more and help her win the 2026 People's Choice Awards for non-fiction.

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The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Based on everything that I saw in that courtroom, it's very clear to me that Tyler Robinson did this. I mean, you have a kid that drove four and a half hours away from where he lived to visit a university campus that he did not go to. He visited the campus four times. You can see that very clearly on the video, one of those times, you know, at 1230 at night. You see him change clothes from, you know, wearing shorts and a t-shirt to wearing long pants and baggy things going up to a rooftop where they showed us literal pictures of indentations where, you know, someone would be lying down prone to shoot a rifle. So Donald Trump Jr., who says, you know, I don't trust anything anymore, especially after COVID when he said the Wuhan Lab, that's where it came from. They canceled him. They shadow banned him. So he doesn't trust anything, but he wanted to go and support Erika Kirk, at which time he saw overwhelming evidence that this guy did it. Tyler Robinson did it. How do we know? How about text messages where he says, I did it? You weren't the one who shot him, says his roommate. I am. I am sorry. Okay, that should be enough, but it gets worse. There are indications online that he said he did it. He goes, according to the text, Robinson allegedly wrote, I have to say allegedly, I had enough of this hatred. He also alleged that some of the hate can't be negotiated out. That is the motivation. He describes hiding and recovering the rifle. He describes trying to recover the rifle. How hard he had to do to get it and how mad his dad was going to be if he lost it. Because it was his grandfather's rifle. He discussed engraving the bullets with the very messages that were found in Charlie. His roommate and lover testified that Robinson had asked for a device to engrave the bullets. Prosecutors argue this ties preparation before the homicide to his later admission, instructed his buddy to destroy the evidence. Delete the exchange where he admits that he did this. And by the way, the guy did it. So I'm not sure that this guy Lance Twigs, his trans lover, isn't caught up in this. But right now he is serving as state's witness. So listen to Brian Davis. Read some of the text messages from Tyler Robinson. Cut 35. Lance says why, and Tyler says, why did I do it? And Lance says, yeah. Tyler says, I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out. If I'm able to grab my rifle. Unseen, I will have left no evidence going to attempt to retrieve it again. So obviously he left a ton of evidence plus videotape. He doesn't know what he's doing, but he knew how to kill and he knew how to shoot. So this shut-in, who's never really accomplished anything in his life besides fantastic grades in high school and everyone through college ends up basically, I love the term under-employed, barely working, spending his life on a keyboard, said, I'm so involved in politics, I think I'll kill people that I don't agree with.

Cut 34. And Tyler says, I'm still okay, my love, but I'm stuck in ORM for a little while longer yet. Shouldn't be long until I can come home, but got to grab my rifle still. To be honest, I had hoped to keep this secret until I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you. And then Lance replies, you weren't the one who did it, right? And Tyler says, I am. I'm sorry. So do you need, do you get what I'm saying here? Obviously, he's the guy. You're driving in your car right now and you say, of course, he's the guy. What's the problem? Well, any of the era, this is done. You know, you go through the motions and this guy tries to plea it down. And if anybody deserves a death penalty, this guy does. And you have a case strong enough. You don't need to take a deal. It doesn't seem anyway. Just go forward and just take this guy out. So the next. guy on a keyboard who wants to shoot up a school or kill a prominent person and think they're going to matter more or it's not going to matter much, we'll not do it because they see this other guy. with no history of criminal activity, no history of killing or wounding or hurting, no history of violence at all. Not like it's a TDA member or a member of the Bloods and Crips. God grew up in a bad neighborhood where on the project killer be killed. No, he lived in a very wealthy neighborhood, went to every school possible, had every advantage possible, and decided to go into this horrible vortex world led by, I don't know, discord. That's where he found his home. People he never met talking about politics that really don't affect him. So according to the testimony, Twiggs is going to be testifying against him in front of him. He was on tape in another location. This will be different this time when they actually go to trial. But for some reason, the judge needs more time. All the way until August to decide if there's going to be a trial. Of course there's going to be a trial.

Just a little bit more before I get to the other point for Donald Trump Jr. So Donald Trump was on last night. First he was on with Bill Hammer, then he was on with Jesse Waters. And he just talks about how he is the last one to give up on a conspiracy theory. Cut 43. There's people that, you know, frankly, perhaps in some cases, rightfully so, feel like they've been misled for a long time about a lot of things. It turns out they were right. So, you know, you have those. And then you have other people that, you know, I imagine are doing it for clicks. You know, they've either tried to monetize this or otherwise. So, you know, I'm not going to give credence to their way. I know many people, frankly, on both sides of that, you know, the movement, it's really coming together now that it, you know, before six months ago, it would have been probably 50, 50. Now it's probably a 90-10 issue where people are saying, okay, this is very clearly what happened. You know, but I understand a lot of people why they'd be, you know, skeptical about anything that they've been told as of late. Skeptical is fine. But blaming Erika Kirk for killing, conspiring to kill her husband is not fine. An ex-boyfriend to a conspired to kill her husband, not fine. B.Benjamin Netanyahu for killing Charlie Kirk, not fine. The Israeli government in general, not okay. The Egyptian and Egyptian private plane landed in an airport with unknown plate numbers or whatever they call by, whatever call numbers they use, not fine. And this is just some of the conspiracy theories. Members of Turning Point who wanted Charlie out? Not fine. We'll talk about that on One Nation on Sunday night. Be my lead guest, Andrew Colvin from Turning Point.

This is summer at its peak. Whole Foods Market's summer fruit fest is your invitation to eat the season. Fresh, organic, and bursting with flavor. Start your day with peaches and organic blueberries and yogurt. Build a grazing board with fresh fruit, prosciutto, and artisanal cheese. Then fire up the grill with no antibiotics ever proteins and fresh produce. Savor the season. Shop summer fruit fest at Whole Foods Market. Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan. It's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kilmeade shop from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan. We're heard around the country. We're heard around the world. We get responses from all you. And please write me at briankillmeet.com slash... Brian Kilmeade.com and just click on contacts and I'll be able to see what's on your mind. Mark Penn's going to be coming up shortly. Rebecca Heinrich, senior fellow with the Hudson Institute fresh off a visit from Ukraine last week. We'll be putting perspective on Iran as well as Ukraine. And that'll be great. And I just got to urge you. I hope to see everyone in Pensacola tomorrow night. Streamed on Fox Nation 8 p.m. See you in the audience, Brian Kilmeade.com. So before we get to Mark, let's get to the big three. Number three. The DNA evidence, the fact that, you know, minor details, like he turned himself in, and I believe his parents identified him in the video. To me, it puts so much over this at rest. Yeah, that is, obviously, Donald Trump Jr., killing off the hurtful, vengeful conspiracies in the Shirley Kirk hearings. Ken, the results end these wild, damaging unmoored theories once and for all. Number two, the leaders of the Democratic Party are so weak. They're no longer the leaders. The true leaders of this party are Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and then Donnie. I mean, Donnie beat Hakeem Jeffries by endorsing people and defeating them. No doubt about it. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, DSA wreaking havoc in the DNC as their candidate, one candidate implodes in Maine and about to win a primary in Michigan. What it means for both Republicans and Democrats in November. Number one. You take that 14-point MOU and you throw it away. And you start to make the Iranians understand that we are not equals in this fight at all. They don't seem to understand that. Are we really talking again to the Iranians after shooting ships and absorbing two days of bombing? We hit them 90 times yesterday. The question, when we do talk, what are we talking about? The MOU was a big mistake and not in any way a-okay. Mark Penn, CEO and chairman of Stagwell, Inc., former pollster with the Clintons, joins us now. Mark, welcome back. Morning. If we could stop it at Graham Platner, are you surprised we're here today where he has not turned in, is not officially resigned, is holding on to the nomination till deadline day on Monday? No, I'm not surprised. I think he kind of put out a cagey announcement, and I think he wants to pick his successor. Look, you know, look, I have thought from day one, we had no business. I should say we, the Democrats had no business nominating.

Graham Platner, backing Graham Platner, just the Nazi tattoo alone was disqualifying, and everything else about him said that he wasn't qualified to be a United States senator. I mean, and so consequently, the fact that he's going to hold them up, it's kind of just justice for the fact they never should have gotten involved with this guy in the first place. So now they're going to put together 600 delegates, going to get together and pick another nominee. Is this a good thing for the Democrats? Is that the best way to do this moving forward? Oh, look, it's as good as any. It's clear the primary process didn't produce anything that was worthwhile. So I suppose the 600 delegates is a good way for them to get the. party organized and kind of look it all depends if 599 vote for the nominee then it's going to be unifying if you hold the convention and it splits 300 300 proposed nominees then it will serve the opposite purpose but i suppose it's as good a method as any however he does have to withdraw first and uh and he hasn't done that So he denied all allegations, but he's not fighting the allegations. He just ends up leaving. So one thing that people fear on the left is that he is not going to endorse and not going to, his 72% of the vote will sit out because they're mad that he's not in. Is that a legitimate worry? Probably. Look, you know, to go back to, and I wrote an article on Fox News that said, look. Federalist 62 set up the Senate. The senator is supposed to be above politics somewhat, really, really well educated about the issues, really able to kind of work together with other colleagues in the Senate. Right. There's nothing about this process that says that we're trying to, that they're trying to nominate a senator in that mode. And Susan Collins, frankly, is someone in that mode, right? Who's judicious. She doesn't always agree with her party. She stands up when she thinks she needs to. She's been in the Senate a long time. She knows the issues. This be all, end all effort to defeat her when she's been a good representative for Maine. I don't think it's going to ultimately go anywhere. And do you think they win it without her? Do you think that the Democrats could win the Senate without taking Maine? You know, what are the Democrats going to get, whether they win the Senate or not? They get the ability to slow down, I guess, nominations. All of them. They'll probably do no. They'll probably do no nominations. Well, if that does happen, look, I don't think that's likely to happen. I think that I kind of agree with generally the notion that it will be hard for the Republicans to hold on Congress, but not impossible, particularly given what the Democratic Party has been doing for the last two months. And I do think that the Senate is going to be like a billion dollars spent by the Democratic Party not likely to switch control of it.

I want you to hear from Lauren Leader. She was on another network, co-founder and CEO of All In Together, Cut 58. And the reason why I think this is important to highlight is because Graham Platner himself in his sort of very defensive video the other day is continuing to blame this sort of idea of there's a vast conspiracy to take him out rather than taking responsibility for his behavior. And that is what I saw from his supporters. And that's why their fear that if he doesn't do anything, he does what Ted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did, didn't do for Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan didn't do for Gerald Ford, even though that was presidential and much bigger, that that could be the percentages that tanks anybody. Look, I think Susan Collins won last time, but what, eight points? Yeah. You know, is the endorsement of kind of someone who didn't have any experience, whose following was really incredibly brief because nobody knew who he was except for this campaign, really going to be the tipping point one way or the other, no. The tipping point is the embarrassment here that the Democratic Party got behind somebody who was. patently unqualified because they would quote do anything to try to defeat Susan Collins who has been a who is hardly a maga right wing you know senator who's represented the you know the state uh the state well and that they were basically willing to tell their constituents, no matter how bad this guy was, you had to get behind him. I think that's an embarrassing stain. If the Democratic Party wants to win, it has to start backing not crazy, left-wing, inexperienced, unqualified candidates, but the opposite. Just before we move on to this, and I want to get your take on Rahm Emanuel going over to Israel and saying how bad Israel is, there's a DSA platform leaked out by two of their officers. They want to eliminate the U.S. Senate, replace the president and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by subordinate Congress, amnesty for all immigrants. They want to defund the Department of War. a 32-hour work week, establish the wealth tax, and pass the new Green Deal, universal rent control, elimination of cash bail, and end to all deportations. I mean, this is a parade of horribles. How does that fit in with the Democratic Party? It doesn't, and it's time for the Democratic Party to stand up to the DSA. The DSA starts out with, hey, let's get rid of the Constitution. You know, the Constitution, principles are ones of checks and balances to preserve certain principles and rights of minority constituencies. That's what freedom of speech is about. We are not a democracy, a pure democracy. We are a republic that combines those things. If you created the classic socialist local committees, right, a president, you know, run and pointed by...

by a Congress, right, with no checks of the courts, of no checks of the Senate. Our system is supposed to be one of rational checks and balances as opposed to the popular will of the minute, right? And this is a dangerous anti-constitutional party. And Democrats have to wake up to that fact. Mark, refresh everybody's memory listening at home. When George H.W. Bush was running against Bill Clinton, what were the main difference between the two candidates? Well, you know, the difference on that was really about the economy. I think Bill Clinton had a strong economic plan and a plan that he put forward and a plan that resulted in prosperity, a balanced budget, and almost wiped out the debt by the end of the term. So, but you know, Bill Clinton wins. Okay, the country goes center left. George H.W. Bush wins. Go center right. Are we ever going to get back to that? Because this checklist is a scary checklist. And it's not just fringe people like Graham Platner with the Nazi tattoos. There are people winning now who believe this stuff. Yeah, well, look, social media, again, Plattenor and candidates like Graham Platner are creations of social media. It didn't exist at the time that Bill Clinton against Bush or against Dole, right? And so this turns out to be a destructive force because it's so easy to propagate conspiracy theories, you know, that really have no value or meeting whatsoever. It's like this whole. Charlie Kirk assassination, you know, died who assassinated Charlie Kirk. It's like you have to prove to everybody that this guy who confessed, right, is in fact the killer to combat these theories that get spread online and that people listen to. And not everybody picks them up, but you know, if we have 10 or 15 or 20% believing in these theories, it's incredibly corrosive and destructive. And I think we have the same thing in terms of the politics, right? There's really, the social media has really enabled the growth of completely inexperienced candidates, right, with more extreme views and low turnout primary systems, and then further that. So we have some work to do here to kind of get our system in balance, get back to people that we're choosing on the basis of competence, not TikTok videos. But if I put Mark Penn in charge of the DNC, you wouldn't tolerate this. You wouldn't say, hey, D, you wouldn't say DSA, you're welcome. I'm going to have a big tent, would you? Look, we're a long way from the, from the Democratic politics of the 90s. Right? In which, I ran the 98 midterm with progress, not partisanship as the key theme. And the Democratic Party is so far removed from that today that the idea of a centrist really heading it is, it's not even thinkable at the moment. Now, will it turn around in another, look?

And the administration's got to do a job in terms of bridging that and giving people confidence in the economic policy going full. Mark Penn, besides that, you have no opinions. No, it's fantastic talking to you. I truly appreciate it. CEO, Chairman of Stegwell, Inc. I look forward to getting those numbers. Thanks so much, Mark. Have a great weekend. Thank you, Brian. Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Kilmeade. And we're live on match day as Doug reaches for a buffalo wing. He's got it. Oh, and he's gone for a can of Pepsi 2. What a finish! There's no doubt about it. It just tastes better. Match days deserve Pepsi. show that's getting you talking you're with Brian Kilmeade so the defense is resting on the Charlie Kirk trial And I shouldn't say that. This is the whole thing. This is the hearing. So they want to see, and the cameras are there for most of it, the judge is going to say, is there enough here for a trial? I mean, the evidence is overwhelming. You had two or three confessions. His own parents turned him in. You got the gun traced back to him. He got video. It's overwhelming. What the crazy thing is, and you have his friend, lover, roommate, turning against him talking about these things and providing text messages. So the judge is now going to hear from the defense, and I think they're going to be wrapped by, you know, this morning. You're going to have one or two witnesses at which time, of court, the judge is going to need, get this, until September. So assuming after Labor Day, to make a decision on whether there's going to be a trial. Evidently, this guy has got no experience. He just became a judge and you put him on such a high profile case. What is Utah thinking? And on what planet? Do you need till September to decide if there's a trial and the prosecution, you got to go for the death penalty. If you have no death penalty in the state, fine. But there is one. If there is any ever reason to make sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that somebody's guilty. And the crime was horrific. You got a horrific crime killing a young man who was extremely powerful in this country, starting a grassroots group that might have helped tilt the election towards one particular party who has two young kids and a wife, just killed in the prime of his life by somebody who didn't like some things that they said, killing him in cold blood and getting them literally dead to rights. If you don't want to have a death penalty, you take it off the books. But if it's on the books, he's got to get it. When we come back, I want to talk about what's happening in Iran, what we expect to happen over here. And I'll say the success story, which is Ukraine. Don't move.

He's so busy. He'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmeade. You take that 14-point MOU and you throw it away. And you start to make the Iranians understand that we are not equals in this fight at all. Because what you just said, we've decimated their military forces. We're able to penetrate a will. So that is Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who was in charge of Ukraine for a while. He's got great knowledge of the area, 40 years in uniform, now retired. But a Fox News contributor with me right now is Rebecca Heinrich, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. And we're pretty much, I wanted to bump in on that, or Eric picked it out perfectly. And that's because the MOU has really been a hindrance. I guess it stopped the violence and gave us a plan. But if you look at what it says, it allowed Iran to interpret it as we're going to control the straight. Yeah, I would say that the MOU didn't really allow us to do anything. I don't really see any practical benefit from the MOU. I think that there was this idea that if there was an MOU that you would give maybe insurance companies confidence to get ships to the strait. But the Iranians never cooperated with the MOU and never even had a same. understanding as the United States on multiple provisions in the MOU. In particular, the Iranians thought that the MOU granted them management of the strait. So the Iranians continue to say, we've got management of the strait. It only says that we can't toll for 60 days, but we still have management of the strait. That's why they keep shooting into the strait because ships are going around their corridor and they're going through the American-led corridor along Oman. And I think the other bad thing about the MOU, Brian, was that it immediately gave the Iranians sanctions relief. So they had money coming in and who was buying Iranian oil that they were now permitted to sell the Chinese. And so I think it was a mistake and looks like the president is coming around to that conclusion because of his remarks that he just made an Ankara. And how about his response? Instead of proportional, he say, no, no, it's disproportional. Yeah. You hit us once, we hit you 90 times. 90 times and then 70 of the day before. Yeah, this looks to me more like the president had targets already on a list. Remember Admiral Cooper? He's the commander of Central Command. We used to see him almost daily during the beginning of Operation Epic Fury and that we haven't seen him since the supposed ceasefire. But I guarantee you, Admiral Cooper has had a comprehensive list of targets that he still wanted to hit should he be given the authorization to do that. So it does look like the president is now saying, look, let's further degrade. what the Iranians are using to coerce the strait. Rebecca, I know it's easier said and done, but I understand that there's been years where people have devised military plans to take and hold the straight. So I think the only way to keep oil prices down and make sure they don't manage the straight is let us manage it. So what we would have to do militarily in order to take control of that straight? We'd have to back up missile and drone. drone launchers further enough further back that we could either take them out of the sky and give it and give these merchant ships faith that they could get through the straight that we have their back right i think that's right and i think that the u.s taking control of it when we when we say that of course we're not saying that we would

That we ourselves would toll it. What we're saying is that we would be the ones that are securing it, exactly. And then once the United States does that, you have to dislodge all these IRGC coastal defenses along the banks there and in these tunnels. But then after you do that, you have the Marines that secure these areas, these particular islands, almost certainly, Carg Island. Of course, we've talked about that quite a bit. It would be temporary, but as President Trump said, look, I liked his comment where he essentially said, we can do what we need to do. The Iranians can't really do anything because of how significantly we've degraded their military thus far. But then what I would like to see is that once the United States has secured the strait, you turn it over to a multinational coalition of other countries that are in the region and have a lot more at stake in the strait, including the Europeans, yes, the Europeans, which have said they want to do it, they just don't want to be co-combatants in an act of war. But I think once the United States only we can remember in the beginning of Project Freedom, Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a great defense of it. And so does Marco Rubio. We are the only country that can do this. And this is why we do it. We establish freedom of the seas and we defend it. And then we can turn it over to our allies to take control of it after we secure it. I think that's the direction we have to go. So here is the pushback. General Wesley Clark, cut 11. They still got an enormous missile capacity. They're going to be very hard to move on giving up their nuclear capacity. So I think we're in for quite a struggle here. So he believes they have a capacity left. Now, what they did to Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jim Jordan was totally ineffective. I understand only one person was injured, got hit by falling shrapnel. So what do you think they have left? I mean, it looks like from, I try to gather all of the public sort of intelligence information that comes out. And it looks like the consensus is we probably took out 70 to 80% of their missile force. That means they have the, you know, 20% or so left over. And that's why I think that if the United States were to actually reengage on some more robust military operation, you would see these, you know, 80 targets we'd hit, 90 targets we'd hit. We'd try to further degrade their missile capacity so that if we do land. Marines put them on the ground, they're not going to be exposed to missile fire. But to your point, Brian, I think this is really important. The other thing that the other reason that the United States cannot let this go on this way is because these Arab Gulf states sided with the United States and Israel when we were the ones taking care of business. But if we're going to sort of back out and not retaliate with overwhelming force. These Gulf states are going to hedge against us. I mean, this is about the United States being a good ally and making sure that these people can bet on us and don't start to hedge away. So do you know, I don't know if you can confirm this, but Benjamin Netanyahu Hall said that it looks like the Gulf states took part in the bombing operation and blowing up train, of drawing up the train tracks, transportation in and out of what they were using going out of Russia and China. As you know, they border both those countries. Have you heard that too? So, I mean, there's some speculation online. I mean, if I had to put money on a country and say it's probably that country is probably the UAE. The UAE we do know is one of the Gulf states that did retaliate offensively against Iran. And the UAE is livid that the Iranians continue to fire on these Gulf countries. And there, I've been hearing from my credible sources in the region, too, that they're livid at the Russians for defending the Iranians because the UAE has wanted to be this global.

you know, banking center and they wanted to kind of be neutral in all these different conflicts. And they told and the Russians do a lot of business with the UAE and they told the Russians do not side with the Iranians and they did. So the UAE is very, very frustrated and it would not surprise me at all if it was the UAE that retaliated. Well, number one, they do have control of Iranian money in their banks. Yep. So what is it going to take and what is the downside of freezing the money that they put in there to basically? hide. And a lot of their so-called Iranian elites have money there. I mean, I think that they should do it. I mean, I think at this point, their argument would be, I don't think it's a good argument, but their argument would be, we don't, again, we want to be neutral. We don't want to be, we don't want countries to think that there's a risk if you invest in our country, you have money in our country. But obviously, everybody should understand that there is a risk that if you're going to be an aggressor in the region, that your money's going to be at risk of these countries freezing it in their banks. So I think clearly the UAE should freeze that money and not permit the Iranians to have it. They have frozen sums. so has Qatar. But, you know, the Iranians shouldn't think that they've got money safe anywhere. So let's go to Ukraine. So I was struck by how friendly the president and respectfully was to Volodymyr Zelensky and vice versa. And the one thing the president likes, and I was talking to a esteem general last night, he likes the fact that Ukraine's winning. And he says, instead of feeling like it's hopeless and this guy just wants me to pour money into a state that's going to fail, he's just going to cut a deal. I think he understands and I think he's been briefed by his intelligence services that the damage they're doing to the refineries is real. The fact that they're mass producing their own long-range missiles 1500 miles away. You were in Ukraine three weeks ago. So what's the reality? Well, remember we even taught? I think we talked about this where I was like, you know what? As soon as the president gets his briefing on how well the Ukrainians are doing, he's going to see that they're a winner and that they can contribute to our security. And so, yeah, I was very pleased. I was not shocked by it, but I was very pleased to see President Trump. So warm towards Volodymyr Zelensky, they traded jokes in Ankara. And now the United States is going to be collaborating with them to some degree on drone production. Because we need them. We need them. And we all, it's not even just about learning how the Ukrainians build drones. That's. People can figure out how to build drones. It's how the Ukrainians have figured out how to adapt on the battlefield and reiterate how they're doing it against a peer adversary like Russia. I mean, they're the only country within our alliance architecture that has fought Russia recently. So there's so much that we can learn from the Ukrainians. President Trump likes to bet on the winner. And I think Ukraine has demonstrated that it's winning and it wants to be a team player for us. So.

When they need is Patriots. Yeah. And they can't why the one thing is Keith's been targeted. They go for apartment buildings and you have Ukraine going for refineries. So they want to kill civilians. Don't anyone tell you different. And Ukraine just wants to stop the war machine. So having said that, they now have licenses to build patriots or it's officially coming soon. But I was listening to the experts, which I am not. And they say it's going to be about a year between the components and the construction and the instruction. How do you feel about it? So that's what that's, you know, there's always like on paper what, what people say, if you just look at what, how long it takes Lockheed Martin to build these things and even if Lockheed Martin is going to take about that long. But then there's the, okay, but if people have the real political will, can we not find the component parts and and get the supply chain where it needs to be to go faster? So I've heard a little bit of like rumblings that Poland might be able to help with some of these things to try to, to get Lockheed Martin, the parts and pieces that it needs to go faster in Ukraine. So, so I'm hopeful that everybody understands. that this is an emergency. Ukraine needs to have patriots. They're doing great on drone defense. The only thing that they cannot defend against is the missiles that Russia is firing at civilian targets. When I was in Ukraine, I was struck by how important the patriot is for the people of Ukraine to have confidence to go to work and send their kids to school. I mean, it's much like the Israeli... you know, Iron Dome. They need confidence that they're going to be protected. So this is an emergency. It cannot take three, four, five years. It needs to be immediate. Right. A member of a year and a half to train a pilot, to pick a pilot, to learn to rely one F-15 that they may or may not get. Those with the Biden dragging things out. We don't have that type of time. So I also was encouraged by this. The president talked to Vladimir Putin on Saturday. He likes to call right before a Ukrainian meeting. And at the end of it, evidently, the report was he was frustrated, Vladimir Putin. What have you heard about that meeting? Because usually he feels as though he wins President Trump over, not this time. No, Vladimir Putin seems very frustrated. I mean, he's got oligarchs that are now publicly speaking about how badly the Russian economy is doing. He is losing thousands and thousands of Russians on the battlefield. You have a small country that was supposed to lose right away. Winning on the battlefield, I mean, Ukrainians are killing more Russians and the Russians are killing Ukrainians. They say one Ukraine dies for every six Russians. Yeah. I mean, and we should not, you know, lose sight of the fact that these are still just a lot of Ukrainians that are dying too. And the Ukrainians are so, they're war-weary. But at the same time, they have such an incredible national resolve. And these people are not going to be situated. Where are they going? They have nowhere to go. And when I was there, the other thing I was so impressed by that Americans should be able to relate to, too, incredible patriotism. They're defending hearth and home and their own freedom. And so really inspiring greater sense of national cohesion and identity. Russians are clearly very frustrated. And here's the other thing. The Russians still only fear the United States. We want the Europeans to do more, absolutely. And we want the, and the Europeans are. They're the ones that are supplying weapons to Ukraine. They're buying them from America. But it still comes down to, is the United States still backing Ukraine? Because that's what the Russians fear. We're the only ones that can be the backstop for Ukrainians success. And when we equivocate, they get hardened and they fight harder. Absolutely.

That's exactly right. And when the United States is strong and demonstrates that the Russians are not going to prevail, you move closer to peace. I mean, if the Russians think that the United States might back out or might not support Ukraine, that emboldens the Russians. So this is so interesting. So people at home who say, I'm tired of you talking about this war. Well, imagine if you were fighting it. And Ukrainians didn't want this war. There's not one Ukrainians that I hope we fight Russia, not one. But now, not only are they not losing ground, but in Crimea, it's almost uninhabitable, according to reports, because they've just rained down rockets and drones, and there's summer on the beach in that resort town is not coming to fruition, is it? No, it's not. And I love the Ukrainians always call, you know, the Russian occupied territories temporarily. occupied territories because the Ukrainians might say, look, we might get a ceasefire now, but all of these Ukrainian territories that the Russians have taken, we want them back someday, if not soon, eventually. And so, I mean, the Russians are, I mean, if you just look at the big picture, NATO has expanded because of this war. I've got two new Finland and Sweden. And so, I mean, any way you look at it, the Russians have not succeeded. Now every one of the countries is now spending more in their military. Look at now Germany is the second biggest contributor. to their defense, taking the place of Britain. So now they're putting $93 billion into their defense. That's unheard of for them. Now, we're at $1 trillion, roughly. Yeah, we're at one trillion, but that's- We need to be 1.5. We need to be at 1.5. And remember, I mean, that's about 5% of our GDP. So if you look at each nation's GDP, that's kind of the more important metric than to look at exactly the numbers that they're spending. But look, like, you know, when I talk to my, I'm from rural Ohio. When I go back and talk to my friends back home, I say the reason this matters so much is because the Russians actually hate us. We're their number one adversary. It's the United States of America. And Russia wants to break up. NATO because they think of NATO as being the United States's influence and prosperity as it relates to our forward project in our relationship with Europe. And so we want to stop, we want to enable the Ukrainians to prevail to stop the Russians there because it creates less of a problem for us. Do you believe that the Russians are playing a role helping Iran significantly? I... I don't know the degree to which they're providing material support. They are blocking anytime somebody wants to put out, and any country wants to put out a statement or put out increased sanctions or anything like that, the Russians block it. So they don't want to condemn Iran. They're publicly supporting Iran. We do know earlier on that it looked like credible reporting that they were providing targeting to help the Iranians. What really worries me is those early drone strikes that where Iran successfully killed our warfighters on those bases with drones, that that. That tactic, that specific tactic was something that the Russians have learned to do against the Ukrainians. And so, I mean, I'm worried that the Russians have helped the Iranians so much so that they may be directly responsible for the death of Americans. Because they know a lot about our bases. They know a lot about our bases. Rebecca Heinrich, thanks so much. Man, so intense. Senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, two hotspots, you know it all. Thanks so much, Rebecca. Thank you.

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Information you want. Truth you demand. This is the Brian Kilmeade. All early polling shows that Abdul is catching all the fire. All of the energy of the Democrat Party in Michigan is that Democrat Socialists of America with working parties kind of blend. Would you rather go up against him? We're going to beat them both. We just watched a debate recently. There's an absolute train wreck for them. It is about crazy versus common sense. We're offering a common sense agenda, a change agenda. That's why we think we're definitely going to win this thing. And Abdul, the crazier he gets, the more crazy he talks, the better he does in the Democrat primary. Yeah, and by the way, he calls himself a doctor. I guess he does have a degree at Columbia. But he's not a doctor. And he got pressed on that, not being a doctor on MS now. That was Mike Rogers, who was locked up the nomination unopposed on the Republican side, almost beat Alyssa Slotnik to get it last time. Remember, Dave McCormick, barely lost to Dr. Oz, came back and won that seat against an established Senator Casey who had been there for decades and his dad before that. I think that Mike Rogers got an easier road. And I do think that he can do it. I think there's much more logical people in Michigan. Here's Abdul-Elson. Saeed, unable to answer why he uses the term doctor. Cut 28. No, at the end of the day, it's not about whether or not I'm a physician or a doctor. The question is, can you see a doctor? It's not about my education. It's about whether or not your kid gets a good at education. So I'm just not spending time. But people would say it's also about, did you tell the truth? Well, I would say that I was the health director for the city of Detroit. I've done more to provide more people health care or eliminate their medical debt than most doctors have done in their practice career. Well. I say you did not tell the truth. And that's who they're trying to find out who to pick, who to run against. I think Rogers really wants against Abdul El-Sayed. And I think he's a very bright guy. It's what he believes is the problem. It's not that he can't do the job, but what he would do if he got the job, which is scary. Now, Alyssa Slotnik could honestly say, and I'm not saying that she is, but she could say I'm a moderate and I'm from the CIA. Abdul can't say that.

Instagram teen accounts default teens into automatic protections for who can contact them and the content they can see. Explore teen accounts and all of our ongoing work to protect teens online at Instagram.com slash teen accounts. From high atop, Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sewing division. It's Brian Kilmeade. Hope you had a great week, fresh off 4th of July. We really haven't slowed down. We've got 100 miles an hour. Then July 5th was we had the Sunday show of One Nation. Hope everyone liked that. We led with Doug Burgum because Doug Burgum was the guy who put together the fireworks and made sure the Mount Rushmore went okay and unrolled and rolled out the Teddy Roosevelt Museum over in North Dakota. Busy, busy, busy day. And I hope everyone liked that show. This Sunday is going to be a great show, too. I'm going to have Andrew Colvin on talking about the Charlie Kirk murder. And now, finally, he was accused by some people, these podcasters, these lunatics of playing a role in Charlie's death. Erica Kerch was. They said Egypt had a private plane there. Why was Egypt there? Israel was doing it. Benjamin Netanyahu Naniao made him an offer when he didn't take it. Charlie Kirk was assassinated. All this crazy stuff. Instead, we watched as... This guy, Tyler Robinson, confessed in texts and to his parents that he did this. His parents turned him in. The evidence is overwhelming. I hope it begins to make everybody out there. Stop looking at the internet and saying, you know what? That sounds right. 9-11 was an inside job. We never landed on the moon. You know, the, you know, what are some of the other conspiracy theories out there? You know, Donald Trump was not shot at Butler. Do you hear about that? That's another new one. He wasn't really shot. She's crazy. Joining us now is Mark Teeson. Mark writes for the Washington Post, Fox News contributor, and you see him all over the channel. You saw him back this morning. Mark Teeson, welcome back. Good to be with you, Brian. First off with the President of the United States. Can we talk about Ukraine for a second and talk about the Tony Hadwood Volodymyr Zelensky? The Tony Owensky was so dramatically different than we've seen before. Respect was given. He talked about how innovative they've been. And now, as you have called on in your column, General Keene is talking about, they now are about to get the license to build patriots. That's awesome. It's such good news. And it's such a smart thing to do because one of the things that we've done that Trump has done is quieted sort of the anti-Ukraine right because he's instead of giving aid, he's selling weapons to Ukrainians through NATO. And NATO's paying for it. And so as soon as it stopped being a drain on U.S. taxpayers, all the arguments against doing it went away. And now we've gotten to the point where the Ukrainians are actually going to be helping us. in our production. Because if they can build their own patriots of a license, not only could they, can they supply themselves and it's no longer drain in our stock, but they can actually help us refill our coffers and give us a fraction of their production. And then also we can get into business with them in drone technology. Because one of the things where, one of the things that's holding us back in Iran is the worry that the Iranian regime could actually attack the Gulf oil infrastructure with drone attacks.

Well, what if we help ask the Ukrainians to help us with that? And, you know, deploy Ukrainian drone units in Saudi Arabia, in Kuwait, in UAE, in Qatar, to help defend them and help us produce the technology to do that. That would be enormously helpful. The Ukrainian military is the strongest, most capable, most battle-hardened military in Europe and arguably on the entire face of the earth, except for the United States and Israel right now. And so we should be finding ways to have mutually beneficial defense cooperation with them. They're innovative, they're flexible, they're responding to the war is changing on the ground in Ukraine in ways that we need to learn so that it's going to affect the way we fight future wars. So there's a lot of opportunity here that benefits the United States as well as the cause of freedom. So it looks like Ukraine has pioneered drones that are now reaching Siberia, which is 1,700 miles from Kiev, doing some damage. And it looks like our intelligence apparatus were the ones who said, you guys got to start aiming for refineries, not depots, refineries. And now what's happened, and everyone is feeling it now in Russia.

Very much so. And it was a director John Ratcliffe together with the president that hatched this plan, reportedly according to one report on the golf course together. And it's working. And also the fact that they're able to reach into Tartarstan right now. Why is the fact that they can hit Tartarstan important? That's where the drone factory is. That's where they built the Shahid drones, the Iranian drones that we've been facing in the Middle East. The Iranians were giving those to the Ukrainians, and then they gave them the technology to build their own. So they have a Shahid drone factory that is producing like 90% of the drones they're using in Ukraine. That's in Tartarstan. It was built there intentionally to be out of the reach of the Ukrainians. Now Tartarstand's within reach of the Ukrainians, which means they can take out that drone factory, and that would be a game changer in the war. So Vladimir Putin's in a lot of trouble. So when you talk about the Patriot system, it will take time, though. The Patriot interceptor missiles, you know, obviously they're unbelievably effective, but they got to work with Lockheed Martin or Raytheon and produce them, get the material and teach them how. Yeah. And there's also, by the way, there's a company that could help with that called Divergent Technologies out in California that I visited last year and I'm going to write a column about them. But they, you know, normally it takes, you know, six to eight weeks to produce a single Patriot Interceptor. They can do it in days because what they do is they do, they do 3D printing technology. And they can produce it instead of having hundreds of parts, it can have six parts. So it's less, it's less. less prone to admit it to error. And they can start cranking these things out. We need to have a divergent factory in Ukraine that is producing these things. And they can produce them faster. And quite frankly, we need to start using this technology more. It shouldn't take us so long to produce munitions in this country. And there's technology available to help us do it quickly. And it's also really important because the technology is changing in real time. Right? It used to be when you build a defense system, you build it, design a missile, you'd build it and use that thing for decades, right? Now it's weeks. You know, like we, like somebody was telling me, a Ukrainian was telling me that like you don't, we were saying we need to buy drones from Ukraine. It's like, you do not want to buy drones from Ukraine right now because if you buy, let's say you buy 10,000 drones from us and six weeks they'll be obsolete. Wow. You need to have a relationship with the drone producer that we could produce them quickly for you, the latest versions of them when you need them. So the whole speed of military technology, the speed of development is just escalating and accelerating in unprecedented ways. So I want you to do what Keith Kellogg said, Cup 4. You take that 14-point MOU and you throw it away. And you start to make the Iranians understand that we are not equals in this fight at all. Because what you just said, we've decimated their military forces. We were able to penetrate a will.

Would you like to see that done and just start again? Right. Well, here's the problem is that Donald Trump has two red lines with the negotiations of the Iranians. It has to be complete dismantlement of their nuclear program and the Strait of Hermuz has to be open and to all international traffic, right? The Iranians are not willing to give him either of those things. And so when the fundamentals of the negotiations are based on two incompatible goals, then they're never going to succeed. And so, you know, I don't blame him for trying. He's a good negotiator. He wanted to give it a shot. But, you know, the reality is this is either going to end into, there's three options for how this ends. A deal, which as I just described is not likely to happen. A decisive military final phase of the military campaign where we just take out everything that we had stopped, 14, you know, 5, 20 yards short of the finish line when we have the ceasefire and finish the job, as president said. or some kind of muddled, you know, conclusion, which nobody wants. So I think it's inevitable that this is going to go back to major combat and then we're going to finish the job. There were reports that Benjamin Netanyahu Hall had that some of our Gulf State partners played a role in the 90 strikes last night. What have you heard? I have not heard that, but I believe everything in Benjamin Netanyahu Hall reports, it would be a good thing because they were the ones who, some of them, not all of them, not the UAE, but some of our Gulf partners were the ones who pulled the plug on Project Freedom when we were trying to open the straight by force. We can open the straight. I mean, we have the technology and the capability to do it. And heck, let's bring the Ukrainians in to help us do it. But the way this ought to end, and it can end decisively and it can end pretty relatively quickly. Finish the last 10 to 14 days of bombing that we had planned so that their defense industrial bases reduced from 85% destruction to 99% destruction. Take out all the ballistic missiles that they brought out of their hangers. Destroy the instruments of repression. either restore the blockade, restore the blockade or take carg island so we control the oil and then open the straight. And then unleash director John Ratcliffe and the CIA to help arm the Iranian people and help them overthrow these people. Because that's the only way we're going to have peace in the region is if we wake up the one morning with people who are not, who don't wake up in the morning saying death to America and death to Israel. How real do you think the president, the threat of the president's life is? Very real. I mean, think about this. They just had a funeral for the Ayatollah, who they blamed Trump for killing. They want revenge. And he killed Soleimani, who was a hero in the revolutionary circles in Iran. Of course they want to kill him. And the solution is to overthrow them and get rid of the people who want to kill him. Here's what the end of the end of this should be. There should not be a regime in Iran that wakes up and says death to America, death to Israel, and death to Trump. There should be a regime in Iran that wakes up in the morning saying, America is my friend, Israel is our friend, and Donald Trump is our friend, and we want to work together for the peace of the world. That's the only way this ends in a, everything that Trump has accomplished, which is enormous, stays locked in permanently, is if you have a regime that doesn't wake up every morning wanting to kill them.

Yeah, that would be interesting if that would indeed happen. But you've already knocked out 80, well, up to 80 of their leaders and the ones underneath are just as bad as a president says. Knock them out too. Yeah. Knock them out too. All these people who are screaming at him on the phone and yelling and cursing him and saying, you know, Viola will kill you. I mean, the recounting of some of these conversations that Trump has with these people, I don't know where his patients comes from. Just kill those people. And would you go back in partnership with Israelis to do it? Absolutely. I mean, I'm sure the Israelis were salivating at the picture of all these Iranian leaders that they're coming out of the cloud of the, out of their hidey holes for the funeral of the Ayatollah. I wish we had taken them out then. So Rahm Emanuel made it clear that he's going to run for president and he's anti-Israel. Listen to him. Cut 16. Your government has been complicit in the horrors now being inflicted on innocent families in the West Bank. that undermines your international legitimacy as a small nation at a time when you can least afford it. And he went on to say my vision would be 23 equal states in the Arab world. And if Israel wants weapons, they can buy them. This is a guy that's supposed to be reasonable on the left. What do you think, would you be thinking if you're in, you live in Tel Aviv right now or Jerusalem? Well, what I would think is of the Democrat, this is the moderate, right? Yeah. You know how we keep talking about there are no moderates in Iran, like they're no moderate Nazis? They're no moderates in the Democratic Party either, at least in the presidential campaign. I mean, this is the guy who worked for Clinton, who worked for Obama, who's supposed to be sort of a semi-centric kind of guy. That's the lane he's choosing for himself. He's obviously concluded that you cannot get the Democratic nomination and be pro-Israel. And so he's decided to join the self-loathing. club and attack the Jews. And it's quite frankly pathetic. And, you know, now on terms of buying weapons, I mean, Benjamin Netanyahu said we want to stop the aid and buy them. I think I think it's great that Trump stopped giving away stuff to Ukraine. I think we should stop giving it away to Israel. Israel's a wealthy country. They can afford to buy it. I agree with that. But not wrapped in a in a mantle of anti-Israel. you know, spreading the lies about genocide and all the rest of it. I think Rahm Emanuel is pathetic. I hear you, Mark Tyson. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. It's going to be an unfolding situation. Your sense of what's going to happen this weekend in Iran, because the president says he's open to talking again. Yeah, we'll see. I think my guess is the likelihood is that major combat will resume, but it's not going to be this weekend. It might not be until the first Wednesday in November. First Wednesday in November. I think that's right after Election Day, which is Tuesday. That's so interesting. I know if you realize that. Yeah. I mean, let's let's put, I tell you what, I'll bet you a, what is that, a raspberry freeze? What's your favorite drink? My butterfly. My butterfly. I'll bet you, I'll bet you a butterfly refresher. First Wednesday of November.

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Here's David Axelrod and what it means and how this guy still has power, cut 22. What is it about him that allowed him to be 30 points ahead? of a popular sitting governor enforcing her out of the race. And the answer is that he was speaking to something very real. People feel like they've been ill-served by our politics, ill-served by the system, the economic system as it's functioning now. They see great concentrations of wealth influencing policy. You hear that all over the country. It's not just in Maine. So it would be a mistake for people to say, well, know, this was an aberration and we should just forget about it. You may not agree with the solutions that Graham Platner was offering, but you better have some of your own because people are very, very concerned about the direction of the country. I don't know. He had a lot of boats, but he was trailing Susan Collins by four. And they say she always pulls bad and wins big. Now, she's already pulling good. So how popular can he be in Maine if his ideas had him behind Susan Collins, who everyone says is so vulnerable? Listen to the Bright and Kill Me Show. Riley Gaines is next. Outcruits contributor, host of the Riley Gaines Show, and author of The New Children's Book, One, Two, Three, We Are Free.

Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FN Radio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 order to order. Please drink responsibly. talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade. I am absolutely encouraged. It was the right thing. I will say it's what I expected. I expected the Supreme Court to uphold the legality essentially at the 27 states that have laws protecting women's sports. I did not expect them to go so far as to say all states must adhere essentially to the intent of title line. And we have 23 states still that basically will refuse to protect women and girls in their sport categories. So we're not done. We won, but we're not done, is what I would say. Jennifer Say, as you know, an executive, former CEO of Levi's and a... A fantastic gymnast in her day weighed in on the Supreme Court decision last week that said you have to protect women's sports. And if states decide that trans men can't participate in women's sports, that is okay. It stands. The problem is the other states that say it is okay. Riley Gaines knows that. Outkick contributor, host other Raleigh Gaines Show, where she's a host there and author of a brand new book just a couple of weeks ago. It's a children's book called One, Two, Three, We Are. are free. Riley, what were your thoughts when that decision came down? Man, of course, I was excited. This was long awaited, at least speaking personally. But. There's a part of me that also feels exhausted. You know, I recognize it as a win. We celebrate, of course, success, victory. But the fact that we even have to continue to have this conversation, nonetheless, be brought before the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court where we have a sitting Supreme Court justice who just a few years ago said she couldn't tell you what a woman is because she doesn't. Taiji Brown. Yeah, because she's not a biologist, which is the most absurd thing I've ever heard because I'm not a veterinarian, but I know what a dog is, Brian. So there's a part of me that's exhausted. We recognize it now as progress, right, indicating we are moving in the positive forward direction. But I think if you would have told us as a society collectively, even what five, maybe 10 years ago that the Supreme Court ruled that women's sports to have them is not unconstitutional, you would kind of just sit there and be like. Duh, it's not unconstitutional. Kindergarteners know that. So I'm excited, but I'm exhausted at the same time. So when Title IX came out, one of the stories that I did a few times was how many men's sports would be eliminated because they couldn't match it with women's sports. You have a football team of 65 guys, 75. And then if you have to have just as many female athletes, what they were doing is cutting wrestling, cutting gymnastics, cutting.

whatever men sport in order to get compliance. And if you didn't have football, it was relatively okay. That was once the hot issue. Now all of a sudden is like, wait a second, will you stand up for yourself? The way you stood up against the men? Will you stand up against the trans men the same way and just say this is not fair to women? But we couldn't get that. Pervasively anyway. People were afraid of looking intolerant. You know, and it's it's. been the sheer silence from either silence or deflection or refusal to engage or oftentimes, as we even saw in the Supreme Court ruling, it was ultimately, I think it ended up, it's kind of confusing based on the breakdown because it was 9-0 ruling that Title IX should be interpreted as biological sex, but 6-3 in regard to the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. And the three justices who voted against our rights to equal protection as women. We're all liberal women. And so it kind of proves the point that in our fight to equality to use the buzzword that they love, in our fight to equality as women, the biggest obstacle that I think we as women face are liberal women. Here's Jennifer say, not a liberal woman, cut 52 on the other states. Not only is it unfair that depending on your zip code, you might have to face unfairness, but as a matter of practicality, it doesn't work. If you're a really good athlete, you compete across state lines from a very young age. I was in my first national competition at nine. I competed in New Jersey, but I competed against states all over the country. So how is this going to work? If you're in a state like Tennessee that protects women's sports, but you have to go up against a team in California that could field a boy, it doesn't work. So it just doesn't work practically, and it's certainly not fair to the girls in the 23 states that don't have laws. And same thing with swimming. Yeah, certainly that's the case. I competed all over the country when I was, I mean, even prior to competing at the collegiate level. So what Jen said there is absolutely correct. And it's an important distinction to be made because, again, while we celebrate the win, it's really not. I don't think as big as the headlines make it out to be because it's kind of like a may not must. This ruling says that states may protect women's sports, but you don't have to. It's not required or mandatory, shall we say. Again, it's just not unconstitutional if you do. So in the 27 states that have some sort of fairness in women's sports law, this is great. It's the win that we think it is. But in the other 23 states, which you know the ones, right, the usual bad actors, California, Washington, Oregon, Michigan, Maine, et cetera, et cetera. This really means nothing at all for them. And so what do I think we're going to see? I think we're going to continue to see defiance from those elected leaders, with leaders certainly being in air quotes in those states. I think we're going to keep seeing people like Gavin Newsom or Governor Wall's attempt. I think what they believe they're doing is giving President Trump a middle finger by defying, openly defying his executive orders and federal law, that federal law being Title IX. But the reality is there.

They're not giving a middle finger to President Trump at all. They're giving a middle finger to every little girl in their state. So I think there's no reason to believe we won't continue to see that. I hate to say, but you know, the thing that could break those other states, an injury. That's it. So if an injury happens because some trans male feels like a woman and runs over on the soccer field, some other athlete, and God forbid they get hurt, then people say, well, how do you feel about that? Honestly, Brian, I don't even think that would be enough to get the other side to recant from their voting record. I think what it's going to take is real enforcement mechanisms from the top, from the federal government. So what does that mean? It means the Department of Justice may be working in collaboration with the Department of Education going after these institutions and holding them accountable through, you know. monetary means, holding them accountable, again, for violating the law because that's what they're doing now. Riley gains our guest. So Riley, today on Capitol Hill, August Fluger, the Congressman from Texas and his colleagues are demanding accountability from the commissioner of the WNBA for the multiple attacks against Caitlin Clark, a player in his words. And I agree, transforming women's sports and inspiring a new generation of young girls to participate in sports. I'm putting the league on notice that if he keeps letting the violent targeting slide. they could find themselves facing the DOJ or EEOC crackdown for violating federal civil rights law. Do you feel as though this is something Congress should be involved with? Yeah, you know, it's hard as a very principled conservative and someone who really truthfully, not just the talking point, but really does believe in limited government. But what I think that we have seen, or again, I'll speak personally, what I've seen for two years from Caitlin Clark is. I don't think it can be described as anything other than repeated targeted violence. The amount of cheap shots and hard files and physical play beyond what is considered normal basketball, eye pokes and hip checks and throat grabs, all targeting Caitlin Clark without the refs blowing their whistles. So look, I think this is a worthwhile use. of their time. And I don't think at this point we've heard a response from the commissioner, but I will be interested to see. I know they followed up this letter with a couple pretty key questions. I mean, as simple as what are you actually doing to protect your athletes. I'll be excited to see how the WMBA responds up until this point, certainly what we've seen in the past few years. I don't think there's a league or an organization more dedicated to self-inploading than the WMBA. So I can't imagine a response that will bode well. As a soccer player, you always have to go into the towns, talk to the clubs, try to get them to come to the games with their parents. It's just what you do. If you're an emerging sport like lacrosse, two great sports, right? But they're not football. They're not basketball. So what you do is you go in there, you send your players in, you pay them a little bit more than make appearances. I have never seen a Liberty player doing a CYO or any type of game. They don't even know who they are. This way, 1,000 people show up at Madison Square Garden. matter because they don't put the time in, they still get paid and sustained by the NBA.

Yeah, no, that's right. We were just talking prior to this too. We see it across the board, I think certainly, and probably one of the most obvious examples of this being the WMBA and the NBA. But the WMBA doesn't necessarily have to worry about their marketing or their ratings or their franchise because they subsidize everything from the NBA. And it's the same thing we've seen with our U.S. women's national soccer team and the U.S. men's national soccer team. I just saw an article where I think the U.S. men's team, their earnings ended up being, I think, 12.8 million, if I can recall correctly. And they have to split that in some way, shape, or form with the U.S. women's national team. Doesn't make sense to me. Because the revenue is not the same on the women's side. No. That was the problem. When they talked about equal pay, the problem is revenue. I can't go to a New York City. If I'm a waiter in New York City. I'm going to get paid more than a waiter in Kentucky, a small town of Kentucky. I don't deserve equal pay. Why? The prices are less. The tips are less. So I shouldn't be sharing. That's just the way it is. But we'll see how that goes. Lastly, on what you would talk about, Caitlin Clark, here's their coach when she heard that the Congress is thinking about looking at the hard fouls on Caitlin Clark, cut 53. Stephanie White. Concerning reports suggest that many of these attacks against Caitlin Clark may be racially motivated. What's your reaction to that? Our team made a statement yesterday, so you can find that statement. No, I understand that. I just mean as a coach, when you hear one of your players is being mentioned in a letter from members of Congress to the commissioner of the league. How do you handle that? Again, that's not something we can control. We're not affiliated with those groups, and we try to keep the main thing, the main thing, and focus on the things that we can control. I mean, I just don't understand how hard it is to say, look, Caitlin Clark is our player. And we stand with her. We want all players to be safe. I mean, it's really as simple as that. And again, I hate to keep comparing women's sports to men's sports, but think back to Harrison Bucker, right, of the Chiefs. And when he was involved in the controversy, he spoke at the commencement. And he said, you know, he gave pro-life talking points, encouraging people to get married and have children and to grow in their faith. When the head coach of the Chiefs was asked about this, he defended his player. When other teammates were asked about this, they defended their teammate. Women just tend to be catty. I hate the reputation. I hate the stereotype, but they prove it to be true as we saw here. I don't know why the coach can't say something as simple and PR trained as. Caitlin Clark is our player. We want her to be safe as with the rest of the league. I just saw your nine-month-old daughter. I know how much children mean to you. You want a big family. Obviously, it's beautiful. Your book is now out. One, two, three, we are free. Why did you think this is the right time? And what do you want the message today? Well, you did my daughter's here in New York with me. She is the light of my life. When I think about her in the country that I want her to inherit, it is a more safe one. It's a more fair one. It's a more just one. More moral, more righteous, more opportunity.

more prosperous nation. The education system now is designed to tell kids all of America's flaws and the hardships that we've gone through. And certainly those are a part of America's history, but they leave out the American exceptionalism that I believe even still currently that we are living through and how it's only going to get better from here. That's what this book is. It's a little board book. So for young children, designed to do some out of count to 10. As young as my daughter, the book is dedicated to our daughter, her name's Margo. And so it was really special to be able to on that dedication page write this for her. Obviously, she can't read it yet on her own, but to be able to one day give it to her. Hopefully she knows what her mom has fought for. It's her, quite frankly. She's everything I'm fighting for. So very exciting. You could find out more and get the book and a signed copy with myself. I know Dr. Ben Carson also had a book in this collection and Kirk Cameron at 250, or Riley250.com. All right, Riley 250.com. All right, we go out and grab it. You're not going to be, especially this year of 250. Yeah, come on. People want to have a reason to understand they're exceptional and maybe push back against the schools that don't feel that way. Lastly, we've been covering over the last three days even today. the whole Charlie Kirk trial and the assassin. He admitted to it three times. He's got a witness that says it, put it in text message. It said it has a handwritten note underneath the keyboard that said his parents turned him in. But yet conspiracy theories that said, gee Egypt was involved, Israel was involved, Benjamin Netanyahu was involved. Erika Kirk had him killed. Erica, boyfriend had him killed. Andrew Colvin had him killed. Turning point had him. All these things. And now all these podcasters and influencers have been running wild over the last year. Does it end from what we saw over the last two days? You forgot the people in the maroon shirts, Brian? They were also involved. Honestly, I think the faction of... people who are chronically online, who believe these things or tout these talking points, there's nothing that you could present to them evidence-wise, like hard evidence. There's nothing you could present to them that would get them to say, you know, maybe I had this wrong. Maybe we should lay off Erika Kirk, Charlie's widow, the mother of his children. Maybe she wasn't actually involved. There's nothing at this point. So knowing that and kind of coming to terms of that myself, because I found myself over the past 10 months, I would say irrationally angry, but saying that maybe it's rationally and justifiably angry at the people who tout these talking points, I don't think there's anything that you can say to them that will at this point get them to change their mind or to say, maybe I was wrong. Well, the thing is, they're not unintelligent. No, they're not. Number two. Which is even more concerning. Right. So if just some crazy, like Alex Jay Jones is actually not unintelligent either, but the Sandy Hook were actors. He got sued for that, lost everything, and he should have. Number two, we never landed on the moon, that the president wasn't really shot at Butler. You know, we saw, on the other side, we saw them try to lie to us and tell us the laptop wasn't real. So, well, I'm not saying you should believe everything at face value. And I understand why people are skeptical.

But I think there's a point between skeptical and responsible. Totally. And we're at that point because we're about to start another election season. Totally. And then it's going to be Republican, Democrat against Republican, Democrat, and then you've got to wonder, well, what is real? What is not real? When it comes to the pretrial, I. I want it to be known. Like I had questions of my own that I wrestled with as well. Not any of the necessarily crazy conspiratorial, but did Tyler Robinson act alone? What other institutions ultimately contributed to the woke mind virus that I certainly believed that he had contracted? Is it read it? Is it schooling? Is it public education? I want all of those places to be investigated and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. So to act like those of us who. Again, at this point, alleged, and I certainly believe in our justice system, innocent until proven guilty. But for those of us who do believe that Tyler Robinson pulled the trigger, that doesn't mean that we're not seeking truth and justice like the other side. They think they're the only ones who want those things. I promise you, Charlie Kirk's bride wants truth and justice for Charlie. She had nothing to do with her to torture her in this way. I've seen her behind the scenes. And let me tell you, Brian. While she is so strong, and I think she's doing an incredible job leading turning point, which is exactly what Charlie wanted, it's heartbreaking behind the scenes. Especially because she knows a lot of these people. Because she knows them. Riley Gaines, congratulations. Go pick up her book. You're not going to regret it. Listen to her show. The Riley Gaines Show on Outkick. And the name of the book is 1, 2, 3. We are free. And you can get it at? Riley 250.com. Back in a moment. The headlines, the stories behind them, and the people who make them. Only on the Brian Kilmeade. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade. Sponsored by Previgin. Previgin, made for your brain. I think it's a good thing because I like the Americas. I think they are kind of hilarious as well. They are funny. So I like the way they are. So I think it's just good. And it's been, honestly, on every single thing with the World Cup so far here has been amazing. From the games to the stadiums to everything has been amazing for the training ground or where we're trained. It's been amazing, so I'm super happy, and it's been impressive. This is, the World Cup has been, it's so rare. It's so rare to have an event where you go, that was unbelievable. Every event, every venue, unbelievable. Transportation, really good. Communication, really good. The game's unbelievably great. That was Earl and Holland of Norway. He's the six foot four, I think 210, 220 pound, maybe 230 pound forward with unbelievable flexibility and athleticism.

He, they point out, is the issue with America. They said if he grew up in America, he'd be a tight end in football. They say in America, in Norway, they said, you're going to be my center forward. That's the difference. I don't think it's going to happen too much longer. Just like they said boxers, they said forwards in basketball used to be boxers. I understand things will change. I think it'll change, but this guy is an unbelievable person too. Go Norway. When it comes to my policy, farmers gives it to me straight, so there's no surprises. It's your coverage, you should never be confused. You hear that? An insurance provider with a conscience. We're a choir, but yes, we have that too. Straightforward coverage you can literally understand. That's what you get when You have farmers. Bump, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Learn more at farmers.com. Underwritten by farmers' truck or fire insurance exchanges or affiliate. Products not available in every state.