Will Trump Defend Taiwan? China Summit Takeaways & The Iran Threat

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Number one. President Xi Jinping would like to see a deal man. And he did offer, he said, if I can be of any help at all, I would like to be of help. He'd like to see the hormone straight open. He said, if I could be of any help whatsoever, I would like to help. Yeah, I don't believe him for a second. I don't think the president does either. And also when asked, does he need? He goes, I don't want to ask a favor from China because they can ask for a favor back. China's Summit 1 is done. And what are the takeaways? What are the likely changes with Taiwan trade in Iran? We discussed that and see the trip through the president's own words. And he spoke for a long time. And he spoke to Sean Hannity. And then Brett Baer, we got cuts from all of it. Marco Rubio still very insightful. But I think it's going to say overall. So when you are oppressed with the president, you travel with him. A lot of times where Joe Biden never talked to anybody. You know, once in a while we'll sit down with a real choreographed, a friendly interviewer and do it once in a while. Barack Obama here and there, much more accessible, but not like Trump. So if you go this way, if you're Brett Bear and Sean Hannity, you feel great. Hey, I got my interviews. But what about the rest of the crew, New York Times, BBC and all these others? They got, it looks like 40 minutes. So you could go do a report. You travel 26 hours in a plane, all types of security, passport, gymnastics. And you want to, you know, what do I really do? It's a good experience, but what did I really do? But then when you get the president to come back and answer literally any question you throw at him? It's a compliment. Someday they'll write about that. And, you know, the press's job is not to be friends with the president. They understand that. The president understands that. But just to prepare, just to be fair with them, I think is accurate. And some of them with the gotcha questions are ridiculous. I mean, one of the questions was, is President Xi Jinping a dictator? Now, does there anyone on the planet who doesn't think he's a dictator? Of course he is. But guess who would take it personal if the president said that? President Xi Jinping. So he just said, I'm not going to answer that question. You know, you let people decide where he is. What do you think that he won an election? Did you ever see him campaign? So here's what the president said. He thinks it's going to be big trade deals out of this cut one. This has been an incredible visit. I think a lot of good has come of it. We've made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries. He's a man I respect greatly, become really a friend. We've known each other now 11 years, almost 12 years. It's a long time. So look, they, you know, famously. The China likes to give background checks on the president, find out what makes them tick, find out their weaknesses, their strength, how they were educated, what their expertise or where they're not. And they did that and it's effective. George W. Bush and Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Ronald Ray, all of it. They're famous for that. Richard Nixon.

I think they've given up on trying to figure out the president because he lives on unpredictability. It's his asset, actually. It's an asset of his that he's unpredictable. He does not unpredictable and it's on purpose. And also he thinks, well, that's the policy. I don't know if I'm going to go with that. So they've given up trying to predict with him, find out what he would do next. Yeah, he likes pomp and circumstances and he likes respect. All right. But that's kind of done. They did that in 2017 and they gave him a great tour. They showed him respect now, having a vice president, even though he's more diplomatic than political to show up at on the, at the red carpet and greet him. Same one that went to as inaugural. So I think it was, I think it was a very positive trip in terms of. Tangibles. They got the 200 Boeing planes, but they wanted 500, evidently. They make their own planes, so they're looking to maybe move away from Boeing. I think Boeing's got a production problem anyway, but that's a lot. But I think you're going to see some tech mergers, not mergers, excuse me, tech deals. That worries me a little bit, because I don't really want to do a tech deal with China. But they have these so-called white deals. The white deals are ones that have no danger of endangering national security. In terms of Taiwan, that was the biggest story, always is the biggest story. They had a statement that they put out before the trip. It was kind of tough saying how we decide to handle Taiwan will decide whether our relations are going to move forward or not and whether we're willing to defend Taiwan with blood. So when asked about it, here's what he said about weapon sales and everything else. Cut seven. You're waiting on approving billions of dollars of weapons. For Taiwan. Is that moving forward? Well, I haven't approved it yet. We're going to see what happens. I may do it. I may not do it. But we're not looking to have wars. And if you kept it the way it is, I think China's going to be okay with that. But we're not looking to have somebody say, let's go independent because the United States is backing us. So we know what he's saying? If they said, we declare Taiwan an independent nation, that's something that we decide strategic ambiguity that Nixon put on the table. We're not going to bring it up, but when asked directly, I don't know we would have the sought, but he was asked in the gaggle. The President Xi Jinping asked you if you would defend militarily Taiwan. He said yes. And he would you say. That's something that we're going to answer on our own. We're not going to answer that question. So that's keep it ambiguous. Would we? Yeah, I think Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Western world all want the Taiwan straight open. And we see a thriving democracy with 80% of the world's chips being manufactured there. It's a national security threat. So of course, of course they would defend it. And as usual, critics would line up. on the president's trip, even before he went. No matter what he did, if he acted tough, that's not the way you act. If he acted to compliant and effusive, that's not the way you act. Here's Chuck Schumer cut eight. If she out-negotiates Trump, and that's happened almost every time he's negotiated with him in the past.

It will undercut American manufacturers and workers who have long been hurt by CCP's predatory trade practices. When Trump does these negotiations, the only thing he's looking for is a headline so he can see himself on the front page of the newspaper. He doesn't think of what will happen a day after. And it hurts America every time. What do you say to that? Now, the president has another meetings in September, and they're supposed to meet at the G20, and he's going to be in Miami at his club in Derao. So they're already having constructive talks. Do you remember President Biden's talks? Oh, I heard about that great relationship, but there was no meeting, never went to China. I couldn't really physically go to China anyway. And there was a situation where we could not have looked weaker during that time. Ukraine and gets invaded. China provides dual use weapons essentially and technology over to the Russians does really nothing about it. And he leaves the Trump tariffs in place. That's how tough you acted. Come on. Please. 1866408-766-on. On Iran, I think it's front and center. This is my analogy. Love to do sports analogies. So the president's happy with we got out of here and there's going to be announcing some deals down the line. They're also going to be looking to buy our gas and oil, and that'll be huge. It's actually a cheaper ride for them and the shipping lanes are closer. from here to China than they are from the Middle East. So I think they're going to do it. It makes sense. Everybody else is lining up to buy our oil and gas. It's better than anything else. So why not do it? So let's say they do that. That'll be a positive. That'll be announced on the line. But this is the semifinals. Then when you win the semifinals in any sport, you celebrate, but you know the finals are looming. And the finals, to me, is Iran. So what we're going to do next will determine if this is a, as it looked at, a successful move against a renegade nuclear power that leads the world in terrorism, or it was something that was not worth the economic challenges that have come out of it. So that's going to be big. And I'll talk about that afterwards. So when we come back. And just mentioned to you, Jimmy Lai, who's 77 years old and in prison for the 25 years, which is essentially his life. Claire Lai, daughter of the political prisoner, will be joining us next. And the bottom of the hour, Senator Shelley Moore Capito. You'll listen to the Brian Kilmeade. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmeade. Want to elevate your travel experience? Here's how. With a Delta Sky Miles Reserve American Express card, you can relax before your flight in the Delta Sky Club with up to 15 visits per medallion year. And now through July 15, 26, you can earn up to 125,000 bonus miles, so you're closer to your next adventure. The Delta Sky Miles Reserve Card.

Check out the new design at www. delta.com slash Spotify. Minimum spending requirements and terms apply. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Did the president bring up the case of Jimmy Lie? The president always raises that case and a couple others. And obviously, we'll hope to get a positive response from that. If China were to release him, could he come to the United States? I think we would like to see him released. We'd be open to any arrangement that would work for them as long as he's given his freedom. And that's the key. Jimmy Lai, self-made multimillionaire, who has a newspaper that refused to shut down despite Hong Kong being steamrolled by Red China and no longer be that, no longer that refuge for democracy, which was owned for the British for years and then was being turned over. And all of a sudden, the Chinese decided enough of this freedom and these protests, we'll take it. And then they'll try to stop Jimmy Lai, the most famous name in Taiwan. And now he's got a 25-year prison sentence. Claire Lai knows all about it. She's a daughter of the political prisoner, Jimmy Lai, and she joins us now. Claire, welcome your thoughts about what the Secretary of State just said about your dad. Firstly, thank you so much for having me. We are so extremely grateful to President Trump and, you know, his administration, the Secretary of State Review, for their continuous commitment to freeing my father and securing his freedom. This is, I mean, President Trump brought my father up first in South Korea. and brought him up again and treat his word brought him up again this time. Of course, the dream was that he would fly back with my father this time, but I am still extremely confident that he is the president and this is the administration that will secure my father's freedom. How's he doing? You know, my father, he's turning 79 this year. He has a lot of health issues. I mean, he has heart issues. He has... You know, every summer he gets heat rashes and they're like big red bumps, you know, painful red bumps. He has infections that last for months. He has severe back pains and he has, you know, he's been diabetic for a long time, but it's very poorly managed. Inside prison, he has... Gosh, I mean, he has nails that are falling off. He has teeth that are rotting and just a myriad and myriad of health issues. And, you know, we're just extremely, extremely worried. I mean, he, we've stopped really getting proper health reports in January. And that's not for lack of asking. It's just that they, they just stopped providing them. You think he regrets not shutting down that newspaper and just getting out? He has so many allies and friends around the world.

You know, I think it's hard to, you know, it's hard to look at life with the certain, you know, as the saying is, you know, hindsight is 2020. But I think my father is extremely, extremely grateful. And he has expressed it on multiple occasions while I was still in Hong Kong for all the friends who continue to speak out on his behalf and continue to support him. And he is so. grateful and humbled by it and so extremely blessed and so is our entire family. But I think, you know, part of what... Part of what guided him, of course, was character. I mean, the other part is also the Holy Spirit. And I think, you know, he knows that he answers to, you know, he knows that ultimately he answers to God. And he knows that what he did was right. Here is the president on the gaggle. He's on the plane, I think still. And this is what he said to the press when your dad's name came up, cut 11. Did you bring up with president cheating up or even if he released any progress? I think he's giving very serious consideration to the pastor. The pastor has said he's giving very serious consideration to that. What about Jimmy Lowe? It's a tougher one. I did bring it up. It's a tougher one for him. It's a tough one. He said Jimmy Lai. It's a tough one for him to do. He went through a lot. Right or wrong, they went through a lot. So he told me that would be a tough one. He said he's going to strongly consider the pastor. So that doesn't sound as promising as I had hoped. No, but I'm still extremely confident. You know, my father is... My father is a man. I mean, he has always been for peaceful protests. He has always been anti-independence. And as much as he got attacks from the very pro-CCP camp, he also got attacks from the more radical camps, you know, who were more violent than foreign independents in Hong Kong. You know, it's all my father wanted was for the, for the rights that were promised in the sign of British Joint Declaration to be, you know, to be kept. And, you know, that was a treaty that was, you know, signed between the UK and China, you know, in its exercise of its sovereignty. And I think... No, it's not as hopeful as I would have hoped, but I think, you know, I think my father's story ultimately is very much one of hope because, you know, of course, I, as I, as a family, we grew up Catholic. My father converted one year after I was born.

But I think in a lot of ways, he didn't, I mean, I didn't, and he didn't really understand truly the abundance of God's grace and the abundance of his mercy until he really experienced an intensity of suffering and of solitude that he experienced in prison. And I think it's a... It's a reminder that, you know, for us, you know, our hope was built on Calvary and, you know, it rests in God. Right. For people just getting to know, and we have about a minute left, tell me, how did your dad make his money? How did he get his path to success? You know, he escaped him. He escaped the mainland when he was 12. He worked on factory floors. And then, you know, he made his, and then he became a manager. And then he, you know, made his money in retail and manufacturing. When he was forced to sell his company in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square at massacre, because he criticized the government, he went into what he described as, you know, the business of delivering freedom, which for him was providing a marketplace of information and ideas through what became Apple Daily. And that is why he is in jail today. Yeah, he's a very principled guy. He understands what life can be. And that's why it's so important, too, that Taiwan remains free. And nobody wants that life of mainland China, when you could have the life what Hong Kong was and you could have the life that Taiwan has. And think about that, that small island, how productive China could be. if they just allowed their people to be free and weren't afraid of their own people. Claire, best of luck. I really believe something's going to happen for your dad. Tell them to hang in there. And I hope we can stay in touch. Thank you so much, Martin. Thank you so much for having me. You're welcome. We come back. Senator Shelley Moore. Capito joins us in studio. Don't move.

Need a laptop that's built to perform and designed to last all day? Select Windows 11 PCs starting at 49999 are now at Best Buy. Learn more at Best Buy.com. Best Buy. Imagine that. This is the Brian Kilmeade. What exactly did President Trump ask President Xi Jinping for when it comes to Iran? He didn't ask him for anything. I mean, we're not asking for China's help. We don't need their help. But he raises the issue. We raise the issue to make clear what our position is. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And that's what they were, you know, they were trying, they were on the verge of building a conventional capability where they had so many rockets, so many drones that... you couldn't do anything against them. They would hide behind that conventional shield to do whatever they wanted with their nuclear program in the future. That's why the president chose to act. So that was Marco Rubio, who was there. Secretary of State would have been banned if he remained a senator for the things he said about China and they're all true. But then he's talking about what's happening with Iran, which is going to be front and center. Now, Iran could make a phone call and open up that straight. They provide almost all the money and weapons for their economy. But the president says, I don't want that because if I ask for a favor, they're going to want something back. Senator Shelley Moore, Capitol of West Virginia. She's on Appropriations Commerce and Rules Committee joins us now in studio. So Senator was still trying to figure out everything that was accomplished, but on the situation with Iran, your thoughts about that exchange? Well, I think the president was signaling that the fact that... Both countries believe that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon and that the straits should be opened. I think are two monumental statements that show a like-mindedness. I think that the Marco Rubio made it clear. And I think President Trump clarified it on the plane as well. We didn't get any, you know, any agreement as to that China would come in and help prevent. But I think the fact that the president has stated it and restated it and Secretary of State has stated it shows that I think it's helpful in a large measure. But I still think we need to put the pedal to the metal here and finish the job in Iran. Oh, yeah, we have to. And I want to talk about that in a second. But just on this trip in particular, the president said there's, you know, got the Boeing deal, 200 planes, and let's see if they actually do it. But number two, he says a lot of these companies are going to be conducting some deals. He says, I want to open up the China market to American products. There's a downside to that, isn't it?

Well, here's my concern. I mean, we went through this probably eight years ago where China was going to make investments in our states. Our state was one of them, West Virginia. Our then governor, who's now our senator, Senator Justice, had economic development folks that went over. China made this promise that they were going to invest in West Virginia. And, you know, there was no investments. So they'll say things just to get it, you know, to look good. And then they don't follow through. And the other thing I think you have to look at. is, you know, I don't want Chinese automobiles here. It's too, no, it would destroy American carmakers. It would, and then the national security issues. You're going to tell me they aren't chips all over to cars to tell you what, how, and when you're going. I mean, we can't allow that to happen besides it would erode the American car market and a lot of American jobs. So I think this, we have to tread lightly here and keep it tight. investment is good, but I'd like to see us our American companies come back first before we allow Chinese companies to come in and take over our markets. Would we stop them at the border? So if there's a Mexican residence, I think I'm going to drive to San Diego today. Should we stop that? It's not in that car, you're not. Oh, you mean? Well, I don't know. I mean, I think that's a question. I mean, we could certainly stop the sale of them and the manufacturing of them and the parts of them coming into this country because now some of the parts, I think, are coming in under different names. They're not actually coming in as Chinese car and automobile. I actually just signed on to Bernie Moreno is on a bill with Elissa Slotkin from Michigan that would prevent this. And I think that's something we need to take seriously in the Senate. talk about we're out with Iran. And my analogy was in sports, it's like winning the semifinals. I think this was a big success. But the finals are a run. And you can't celebrate. You can't celebrate this without focusing on that. Because inflation, fuel costs, no one denies that that's behind it. Or else I think the Republican agenda would be, economic agenda would be extremely popular right now. So I believe we're going to escalate to de-escalate. Your thoughts. Well, I think that we have to be successful here. I think some of the public reporting is saying that Iran's already been able to reconstitute a little bit because we've been in a ceasefire. That's troublesome to me. And because that means, you know, if we double down and the president has sort of, I think, telegraphed that's what the direction he thinks we need to go. Now, what that means. I don't know. I mean. What I think it means, and this is just me speaking, is go back in and reply some of the ground we've already, in terms of missile destruction and launchers and things like that, they may be able to have already reconstituted some of that. And that's troublesome. So we need to make sure that that job is done. And I think the president is going to have to make a big decision here, whether we go in and get the nuclear materials. He hasn't reached that decision yet to my... to my mind or to what I think he thinks we should do. But the straits have got to be open. This economic message is really, really pervading everybody's thought. We just had our primary in West Virginia on Tuesday. It's top of mind of everybody.

Which is probably the most pro-Trump state in the country. Right, right. And, you know, even our pro-Trumpers are that our Republicans didn't come out as well. Even in a state like West Virginia with contested primaries, we didn't come out in the numbers that we really thought we should. And I think that's because some, because the economics of high gas prices and high food prices is really hurting middle Americans. And they're wondering. What's the end to Iran so that we can see these gas prices come down? Yeah, I think we got additional firepower in the area. We've also been going to school on what they're doing and what they're dug out because we're seeing everything. And I believe we're listening to everything. So we're actually seeing who's in charge. So I'm very, I'm encouraged we're going to finish the job because I think it's important. I was talking to the head of the J.P. Morgan Chase, not Jamie Diamond, one or underneath him. And he said, we're fine in finance. It's just important we win. Oh, really? He goes, yeah, it's really important that this comes up being a positive and not a chronic problem where we always have to worry about the straight. That's going to affect, that's going to affect everything. Right. And, you know, I've just had a meeting yesterday with one of the governors of the, one of the Japanese provinces. Japan is really suffering under this. And some of the Southeast Asian countries, they can sustain it for a while, but they're getting to the end of where they can sustain their stockpiles. That's troublesome for them. And that has implications everywhere. You see it with fertilizer. That's the cost of food. chemicals, everything that is pervasive in our lives, not just the price at the pump, which we see going up. Here's what I love. No one is going to say it's in our best interest to count on that straight anymore as we straighten it out, even if it becomes back to international waters, which it will. I think that a lot of people realize, or UAE is using different pipelines. Saudi Arabia is now going through the Red Sea, going a different direction. So I just hope we realize you could never, everybody, Japan on down. And I hope we end up with some customers out of it. I think Japan knows you can count on us and it's actually a shorter trip. And we have more oil and gas than anybody and you guys have coal. So let's talk about something else. You guys are trying to pass, the Rojoins are trying to pass, the separate funding on reconciliation to fund the rest of DHS. And a parliamentarian stopped you guys yesterday. Now you've got to rewrite it. Yeah, well, I think it's more a bump in the road than an actual wall that we ran into with the parliamentarian. It's a technical argument. The method that we're using to pass the funding for Border Patrol and ICE is a partisan... method. It's called reconciliation, but you have to have a spending component. What she has said is that some of these don't measure up to the, what's called the Bird ruled, old Robert Bird from West Virginia.

put this into effect in the 90s, but I think we'll be able to rewrite it, and I think we're going to be just fine here. So I see it more as a technical correction than an actual obstruction. Are you guys trying to put the ballroom in for a billion dollars? That I don't think she's ruled on yet, and that's questionable whether it falls within the parameters. You know, the national security certainly. portions of it does. The spending portions do as well, but there may be some technical committee questions and other things that we think will run into. The one thing is pretty clear is he's got the funding for the physical. But when it comes to the security, there's a sense that you tell me if I'm wrong, I interviewed the speaker on Tuesday, that that should not come from private funds because security should be federally supported. And it's a broader ask. And I think the, you know, I would have hoped the administration come out more clear on this because only 25% of that billion is really going to be for special security provisions that would be in and around the ballroom. The rest of it is around training and other more agents and all those kinds of things. So I think that hasn't been made clear to the American public. So maybe we should get that number down. Maybe it shouldn't be a billion. Yeah, I think it's still going to be a matter of discussion. I think there are some pushback. It's like the first term with the wall. Yeah. Even though everyone knew we built the wall, we used to on the record, but they knew it was big to Trump, important to Trump. So they did everything to stop and build the wall. Yeah. And the other thing with the wall, too, was the figures that were used for a mile of wall were just astronomical as to what the real figures were to actually build it. So I think we've got to be careful here. We have precious resources. So we're going to scrub that, I think, as we move. through. And I don't know if it makes it all the way on to the bill until the parliamentarian makes her ruling. So people wonder with the midterms coming up, if Democrats are going to have a message that the American people are going to embrace, what is it? And what would they do? So we're getting an idea of what that message would be. And that means revolution, as means change the country. Listen to the former vice president, cut 22. We say, look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. No bad idea. Brainstorm is what I'd like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the electoral college. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. These are the things I think that we've got to do. We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating. So she's got a warped sense of logic. Got it. But that's exactly what Joe Biden tried to do. Yeah, these are radical ideas. I think they've already been rejected by the American public in 2020 or in 2024, certainly.

And I think the idea of statehood, we know what that's about. That's about four new Democrat senators. So that. D.C. and Puerto Rico. Exactly. I mean, that, you know, talk about feathering your own nest. And then, you know, they want to pack the Supreme Court because why? Because they don't like the decisions that are coming out. Well, they like the tariff decision. So, you know. They like the Obamacare decision. Exactly. And so I just think, I think it's really about personal destruction of our. nine justices right now. And honestly, what I see her saying is I'm playing for the left side of our party and our party's nomination. I'm going to plant my flag there and I'm running again. So that's what the primary is going to be like? Who can now left Gavin Newsom? So if someone runs up the middle, they're just going to lose? I don't know. I mean, I just don't see where they have a pathway to a victory in their, in their primaries, which are their blue states if they're not going left. And, I mean, when you can almost nominate Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders is the kingmaker. I mean, literally, look what he's doing in Maine. Look what he's doing in Michigan. Look at what he's doing back in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is backing a radical candidate in Pennsylvania for Congress. Pennsylvania, the definition of a purple state. Right. So I know it seems crazy for you, Senator from West Virginia, but here in New York, I worry, who just elected a socialist, I worry that these ideas sound good. Yeah, and then you have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez espousing these two. I hear her sort of here recently. I just don't think that, you know, mainstream America is worried about the price of gas, the high mortgage rates, going back to the same basics. You know, if you were to go to Pennsylvania, the middle of Pennsylvania and ask them, what do you think about packing the court? They could care less about that. They want to know that they're going to be safe and kids are going to be able to get a job and a good education. And I can buy a car and go on vacation. I mean, you know, these are basics. And I still think those are going to be the basics in 2020. So the president's going to make a decision on Iran. But meanwhile, I keep on seeing all these votes about the War Powers Act. They've locked on the War Powers Act. It was basically a dead heat yesterday. Some people are missing. And then on the Senate, you have Lisa Murkowski and I think Susan Collins and maybe Thom Tillis. that are not against it. So where are you out with that vote? And if that vote comes through, you're going to ask the president to pull out troops? You know, I think right now that the president's on very solid ground in terms of the War Powers Act. I don't think we'll see much more erosion of Republican votes in the next 30 to 60 days. I mean, we're in a ceasefire right now. There's a technicality. Are we actually within the expiring time frame? And I think that... What do you think? You know, I think is it on pause or is? Yeah, I do think it's on pause. I think that's why I, when I said earlier that they've maybe Iran has been able to reconstitute a little bit. And I think some of that is because.

of the pause. But you do see reports that UAE and others are being more aggressive because they're getting attacked. I actually think that's good because I think it's in their own best interest to defend themselves and against a rogue actor that's their neighbor. And that sort of fortifies our case. You know, I just wanted to, I want, I want, I'm like the American public. I want this to come to an end. But I want a victory. And so, you know, I'm hoping that the president, after his trip from China, can have some different ideas on the way to wrap it up. And lastly, on your agenda, what's something you want to focus on? Well, I mean, I do a lot in the environment and transportation space. I mean, it sounds kind of boring, but permitting reform is what I've been working a lot on because that's building in America on every phase. And so that's what I've been focusing on. $72 billion, Senate Republicans, a reconciliation package, the 38 billion funds allocated for ICE. I get that done, 25 billion funding for the CBP. That's got to happen. We're going to do that next week. All right, that's going to be great. It's always great to see you. Thanks so much. Thanks. All right, back in a moment. where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeade. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswinshop.com with code FNRadio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 older to order. Please drink responsibly.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Here it all on the Brian Kilmeade. It's a message I've had for quite a while. You know, we need transparency and accountability on the Supreme Court. It has been expanded in the past to reflect the changes in population. That's not a crazy idea that's been done throughout the history of our country. It is crazy what's coming out. And by the way, the first story in the New York Post right now is Kamala Harris comes out with these radical things. I just played up for Senator Capito. These are the things that you usually don't bring up until you get elected. And then you do your crazy things because the American people don't want to turn the country upside down. Do you really want Puerto Rico and D.C. as a state simply because Democrats would win? Most moderates go, no, no, excuse me, D.C. was never meant to be a state. Look in the Constitution. Puerto Rico, it's a commonwealth. That's a complicated situation, not to be done on a simple majority rule. When you talk about packing the court, FDR, with the majorities everywhere at war, couldn't pack the court because he didn't like the decisions he made. Everybody knows you can't get rid of the fellow. I think you can't get rid of the fellow buster. They could be crazy. But what it does is just create a huge problem in this country and tries to change everything. Instead of having better ideas, you try to mess with institutional ideas, which makes people feel like all bets are off, that there are no rules and regulations. And the other thing that you watch, they know that impeachment is extremely unpopular. If they're going to do this again. and go after Trump on impeachment and pull off something and some Ukrainian call they didn't like or by getting the Air Force One from Qatar, whatever they don't like. That is unbelievably unpopular. We know how tedious that is as we hear the both sides call each other horrible names and people try to become famous and run for president by Jamie Raskin. by a manning the microphone and spouting out about how terrible Donald Trump is, it only helps the other party. And by the way, you're not going to get in power if you go ahead and do it, but Kamala Harris kind of blew the lid off this. She let everyone know everything's on the table. All right, maybe I'll take that table and keep it Republican.

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Number one. President Xi Jinping would like to see a deal man. And he did offer, he said, if I can be of any help at all, I would like to be of help. He'd like to see the hormone straight open. He said, if I could be of any help whatsoever, I would like to help. We know that he could pick up the phone and help. China Summit 1 is done. What were the takeaways and what are the likely changes with Taiwan, trade and Iran? We discussed that and see the trip through the president's words. We have a lot of that. Mark Teeson joins us now. You know, he writes for the Washington Post. Fox News contributor, AEI guy and fellow. Mark, so your thoughts about the quality of this trip. I think President Trump did a pretty good job. Look, he is facing an enormous challenge that he's inherited with China. First challenge is that the world changed dramatically during the four years of Joe Biden. When Donald Trump left office four years earlier, you know, the world was at peace. All of a sudden, wars broke out on multiple continents and a new axis of repression between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea and Venezuela emerged. And Trump has had to dramatically push that, that axis of repression back. I think he's done that. He's got control of all of Venezuela's oil, which was one of the largest suppliers for China. He's been taking on the Russian shadow fleet. And he's shut down the blockaded Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, which is where they get, you know, so if you combine all that, that's about 70%, 5% of China's oil. So he's, so he's. He's restoring America, and he's put on a demonstration of American military might on the world stage that is unprecedented. So if I was China looking at that, I would be very reticent about my chances of taking Taiwan. Right. And the president said, he was asked, you know, what are you going to do about Taiwan? He said, when he asked, he said, he asked me. And I told him, I'm not going to commit either way. And because that's been the American policy, strategic ambiguity. But we all know that South Korea, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, nobody wants them to take Taiwan. It would be, as you said it, it would be worse than Afghanistan the way Joe Biden left Afghanistan. Yeah, I mean, it would be, Donald Trump is not going to go down in history of the president who lost Taiwan, which would be worse than the Afghan withdrawal in terms of a signal of American weakness on the world stage. And so I think she knows that. So I think he understands that he that his window for taking Taiwan is not in the next next two and a half years when Donald Trump is president. But Trump is facing an interesting challenge that I think no American other American president has faced. If you think about this, you know, the Communist Revolution in 1949 for the last.

77 years, American presidents have been managing the rise of China, right? Now China is no longer a rising power. It is a risen power and it's about to become a declining power. They are like a roller coaster car that's been going up, up, up, up at the hill and it's about to plummet down really fast. If you just look at the demographic explosion, implosion that they're having, thanks to the one child policy. They are, they are, you know, they have no young people. They are. So the replacement birth rate is 2.1, right? Ours is low at 1.66, I believe it is. China's is 0.91. Not even one child per woman. And they have no women. They have no women because they killed them all. Because what was happening during the one child policy is everybody wanted male children to work. And so they were drowning and aborting the female children. And so as a result, you've got a population with hundreds of thousands, millions of men with no women to marry, which makes them belligerent, right? But you've also got no workers to fuel economic growth. And you're going to have no children to take care of the elderly and no workers to pay for taking care of the elderly. So they're facing a huge huge. economic problem, which is why economic growth in China has slipped from 15% of 20 years ago to less than 4% now. And in the last quarter, the first quarter of this year, 1.4%. So they're economically weak. Now, the reason that's important is because declining powers are more dangerous than rising powers. If you're a rising power, the future is yours. You've got all the time in the world to achieve your objectives because you're on the upswing, right? China is about to hit the down swing, which means that their window for doing things like taking Taiwan is closing. point, it will become clear that they are incapable of doing that. And so that's why they're setting a goal of doing that in a window of the next decade or so. And so we have to be very aware of that and understand that we have to, that is essential. that we make it impossible for them to achieve that goal. I understand. And deter them from doing it. So I want you to hear what Marco Rubio said. I want to talk about Iran, but when asked about Iran and asking for China's help, cut 17. What exactly did President Trump ask President Xi Jinping for when it comes to Iran? He didn't ask him for anything. I mean, we're not asking for China's help. We don't need their help. But he raises the issue. We raise the issue to make clear what our position is. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And that's what they were, you know, they were trying, they were on the verge of building a conventional capability where they had so many rockets, so many drones that you couldn't do anything against them. They would hide behind that conventional shield to do whatever they wanted with their nuclear program in the future. That's why the president chose to act.

So we don't need their help, but you know, all they do is pick up the phone and say, open up the straight and they could do it. Yeah, but you know, it's interesting on the plane ride back during that you've played the full gaggle that he had there. One of the things he said is I didn't ask him for help because if I ask him for a favor, I have to give him a favor. So Trump doesn't need China's help to do to achieve what he wants to in the in Strait of Hormuz and in Iran. And he doesn't want to have to give anything in exchange for it, which I think is a smart negotiating strategy. So militarily, what do you think is next in Iran? Look, I think the Iranians have very pretty much made clear that they're not willing to do this peacefully. So I don't think there's any. So what are what are Trump's options going forward? Trump's options are to just sort of let the let the situation fester. the way it is and keep talking to them, knowing that they don't intend to do anything. And also, you know, the Iranians seem to get into the false impression that they're in the driver's seat because they think that they've convinced us to stop the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. They think that they're hurting RSR as economically. They think the longer they drag this out. The closer we get to the midterms, the less likely Trump is to do something. But I just cannot see a situation in which Donald Trump allows this to just sort of peter out. I think that he, I think what he needs to do is he needs to finish the job. So he stopped the, he stopped the, the, uh, the military strikes when we were about 30, when we were about 70% done. There's about 30% of the military targets that still need to be taken out. We know where those things are. One of the problems we had is that they buried a lot of their, uh, their missiles and launchers. And so what we did is we, is we close, we basically blew up the entrances to those, to those tunnels. And they've spent the time of the ceasefire digging them out and excavating them. And they've brought out a lot of those missiles and launchers, which means we can hit them now. So, you know, in a way, the ceasefire has made our job easier for us. And it's also we've we've rearmed and reloaded during the last month. We now have double the combat power in the Gulf region that we had at the start of the war. So we are locked and loaded and ready to go if President Trump gives the order. And how important is that? Yeah, I mean, there's just no doubt about it. Now, what do you think would hold him back? What role does Saudi Arabia have who was upset that we started with the Operation Freedom? I think the Saudis are back in the fold now. And I don't think that they're going to be an obstacle to it. And, you know, I think that.

We can open the scrape tomorrow if we want to. I mean, we let six ships go through. The Iranians tried to hit them. They couldn't hit them. We have the capability to protect shipping going through the strait. But that will be a lot easier after we finish the job militarily. Because, you know, there's two ways to protect a ship. You can use defensive weapons to protect it, or you can use offensive weapons to take out the threats on the ground. If we spend... you know, 14 days pummeling Iran and taking out its capabilities along the coast to threaten the shipping, it's going to make the protection mission in the Strait of Hormuz is a lot easier afterwards. So I think the sequence needs, and the way we help Saudi Arabia is we tell the Iranians, look, if you target Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure or the UAE or Qatar, we're going to go after Karg Island. which is 96% of their oil goes through Carg Island. We've hit it before, but we only hit military targets. We didn't hit energy targets. All we got to do is take out a couple of oil targets on Carg Island and say, want to do the rest. And that's the way you deter them from going after the Gulf countries. As long as we can protect the Gulf countries the best we can, their energy sector. And I know Iron Dome arriving in UAE gives him a sense of reassurance and shows a good alliance there. I got to bring it to Ukraine. Up until the 1,600 drones that broke the three-day ceasefire, the Russians are on their heels. Can you give our audience an understanding of how bad things are? Well, so think about this. Vladimir Putin had to beg Volodymyr Zelensky to have his parade. I mean, he was terrified that the Ukrainians were going to strike Moscow during their parade. And so he threw a temper tantrum and threatened, you know, to destroy Kiev if they did anything. So, I mean, if that tells you how the battle has shifted in Ukraine, I don't know what does. Look, it's interesting how the period of the war in Iran has changed, how they quietly things have changed on the ground in... in Ukraine before Russia was, you know, Russia wasn't making a lot of advances, but they were gaining some ground, right? Very slowly, very plottingly. But, you know, I always say if you put a snail on the border of Russia and Ukraine in February 2022, it would have made more progress by now than the Russian army has into Ukraine. They have zero chance of ever taking Ukraine entirely. But they were making progress. They were making slow progress. Ukraine has completely turned that around now, and they are now the ones on the offense. And so that's put Vladimir Putin on its heels because it shows the Russian people and the Russian leadership that he can't win. And on top of that, now Ukraine is striking deep into Russia, taking out energy targets, taking out military targets inside Russia. And they've gotten to the point where their capabilities are such that they can threaten Moscow.

I mean, if Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to, he could hit the Kremlin. He's not going to do that because that's a level of escalation that neither side wants to go to. But he's got the capability to hold the red square in danger. I actually wish what he had done is send a bunch of drones and dropped leaflets with Ukrainian flags on them during the parade. I think that would have been a great show of strength. I think we should start dropping those leaflets on Iran and let them know. Let them know we're there and get them some guns. And then that would help our job. So that's the most important thing now. So you're asking, what do we do after, you know, next? So if we, after we do, you know, let's say 14, it takes, say, Admiral Cooper needs about 14 days to finish the job militarily, right? And then what happens next? We declare victory in terms of the sense that we've, that we've achieved our military objectives. We don't sign a deal with the, with the Iranians. And then we do what we did so well during the Cold War. which is we arm and train the opposition. I mean, we have muscle memory on how to do this. The CIA liberated 400 million people during the Cold War by providing intelligence, weapons, and other material support to, they provided non-military support to the Solidarity Movement and the Charter 77 Movement in Prague and Solidarity in Poland. They provide weapons to the Contra, they provide weapons to the... Resistance in Angola. We provided weapons. We drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. We know how to do this. We know how to get weapons into a country into the hands of the good guys. And so we need to arm the good guys and let them overthrow the regime. Because the only way what Trump has accomplished is irreversible is if the Iranian regime goes down. Absolutely. If that regime stays. Eventually, it may take them decades, it may take them years, but eventually another president is going to have to worry about this. If we bring down the regime, no one will. Mark Thiessen, thanks so much. Have a fantastic weekend. It will be intense. You too. 1866408-766. I'm back in a moment. Real talk. Real guess. Real insight. Where curiosity meets conversation. It's the Brian Kilmeade. This is going to be an extremely busy month. I have to watch 104 soccer games. Follow the pregame, the post game, yell useless opinions at the TV. It's a lot. So I knew that when it comes to screening for colon cancer, the choice was clear. The Coligard Plus test. It can be used at home and can only take 15 minutes, so I can do it during halftime and not miss any action. If you are 45 or older and at average risk, ask your healthcare provider about screening for colon cancer with the Coligard test. You can also request a prescription at coligart.com.

Fast as three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Well, yeah. I'm worried. I mean, this is an unmitigated disaster. It's cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. The trade of Hormuz remains closed. Gas prices remain historically high. Americans are paying $500 million a more per day for increased energy prices and the prices of goods. We have isolated ourselves from our biggest and most important allies and partners, which China has taken advantage of and is swooping in to try to present themselves as the honest broker and the world leader. any of this has been a success for America. This is awful. Yeah, that is Congressman Jason Crow, who congratulations with your military. I mean it. Thank you for the military, your service, but he's become a blatant partisan. I mean, obviously he doesn't see the strategic advantage in the difference of that two-day summit with China. Do you think the president looks at him and says, good, if I finally have an ally? Yeah, the president is very angry at members of NATO for obvious reasons with Iran. Angry that they've played places like Spain, which just says you can't use a base that we built. and is vehemently anti-American. So that's a fact. But Canada in the U.S., Canada wants to pivot to China, and they think it's the best interest in Canada, insane. And China's got no ability to move in on us because they're not about diplomacy. They're about transaction, and they're about extortion, and everything balanced China's direction. They take run-down states and take all their assets. That's not the way we work. It's not the way Trump works.

that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. We learned today that Javier implicated in this corruption scandal. Today we learned that he knew about illegal and improper payments from his campaign account to his former chief of staff. Honestly, and it pains me to say it because I like you personally, Javier, but you shouldn't be on this stage. You shouldn't be in this race. You should be preparing your criminal defense. That is, Javier was beat up because of his terrible background, his horrible work ethic, and his terrible track record. But yet he's winning by a percentage point or two in most of the polls because of the collapse of Katie Porter thought to be a frontrunner. She's just a nightmare. But still in the race, and Eric Swalwell, he can find himself. He's probably going to find himself in jail. Who knows? But he's definitely not on the debate stage. And he's out of Congress into humiliation. Then we see the debate in Los Angeles. I just think it's bigger than that in California because California is having a debate and a Republican is amongst him, not because he's a hardcore conservative, but because he is reasonable. He has common sense. I think he's a good guy. Here's more of Katie Porter and a ridiculous, and which he says we should be happening with the Green New Deal that they passed in California before even Joe Biden passed. It cut 29. We should have climate standards for everything we're building. Building has climate effects. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't build. If you're building green energy, that has climate effects, but they're net positive, in my opinion. So it is important to look ahead, to get ahead of things that are coming into our economy, and to try to have climate thoughts about it. We need to think of if this is going to take a lot more energy, which we know it will. Electric vehicles are also projected to take a lot more energy in the future. You think so? You know, they want to ban gas powered engines, but they don't want to have any energy or any refineries or any power plans. So when you have AI and you want to be industrious and attract big companies, it's not going to work out. Katie Porter won't just come out and say, we made a mistake. And the ridiculous climate restrictions that Gavin Newsom put in place were great politically, but horrible practically. Here's more from her, cut 30. Mr. Xavier Becerra, your quote at the end drifted off a little bit from the words. What the quote was was that you had not been mentioned in the charging documents, that is, in the indictment of Dana Williamson, your long-term chief of staff, Sean McCluskey, or Greg Campbell. But as you know, that does not preclude because you are also a trained attorney. You know that does not preclude an indictment from being issued against you. We do not know what Dana Williamson said about your involvement and the government will. This is a great Trump tactic that's used. I didn't expect it to come from fellow Democrats, but it's coming. But here's what I will, Katie, I will quote to you what the U.S. attorney said.

No candidate running for governor has been implicated in this case. You may not like that, but that's what the U.S. attorney said. So he got it from all sides and he deserves it. I'm telling you, this is a chance Steve Hilton can actually win this. I hope he gets to the runoff. It's going to be the first week in June. And we're seeing these debates go back and forth. So Tom Steyer is also in contention. He's second or third. He took on Bashara, too. He's put $100 million into raising his name. But he is a terrible candidate. Cut 30, cut 34. This war in Iran only points out how much more expensive and trustworthy, untrustworthy fossil fuel energy is. We won't let Trump get in our way. And whether it's the Trump gas tax because he's increased the price by going to war in Iran or whether it's the tariffs that are taxed, we're going to fight against Trump. So what are you talking about? It's your state-run gas tax that makes you the highest per gallon in the country. Maybe somebody should step up and say how ridiculous that is. Maybe. But we'll see what happens. Andy Beshear defends himself the whole time. He was the target as in every front runner. And I just think in the big picture, the biggest story is going to be what's happening at mayor and also what's happening is governor. But as mayor, you have Spencer Pratt. I hope it starts a lot of populace running for these city positions because typical Republicans are not going to be mayors. It's just so hard that people look at them as differently in the inner city. But if you just run. As a reasonable person amongst the unreasonable, like the mayors in New York, in Chicago and Los Angeles, then I think you got a legitimate shot. Chad Bianco is the other Republican on health care. Cut 41. Could you explain how you would keep people on their insurance plans with health care premiums going up? Number one, we wouldn't have to worry about health care insurance going up because of Washington if California managed its finances. We want to blame everything about California. Donald Trump was named 10 times in the opening statements. We want to blame one year of Donald Trump. On 30 years, we are going to fix the financial problem in California. caused by all of these, the waste, the fraud, the abuse, the excessive fraud, embezzlement and abuse in our medical system that allows that to happen in the first place. Along with giving illegal immigrants health care, the same health care as citizens, that could stop. That could help your schools, and that could stop attracting all the illegal immigrants to your country. All right. When we come back, Jimbo Covert joins us, a pro football hall of famer with Chicago Bears. Don't move. You'll listen to Brian Kilmeade. Big guests, bold opinions, better information. This is the Brian Kilmeade. He's so busy, he'll make your headspin. It's Brian Kilmeade.

Hey, with me in studio, it was Pro Football Hall of Fame with Jimbo Covert for the Chicago Bears, although that was a while ago. He still looks great, and he's willing to come back if he gets the right offer. There's no doubt about it. He hasn't said it, but I can feel it. Jimbo, great to see you in person. Thanks, Brian. Thanks for having me. Nice to know someone chooses to come to New York. Yeah. Came to New York. My wife and I are having fun. It's our anniversary, so we're going to hang out for a couple days, so it's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be great. Did you like coming here as a player? Yeah, I love it. I love playing here. But, you know, we always played in the Meadowlands. That place. you know, that's the biggest wind tunnel in the world, you know, out there. Yeah. And then when you will be on offense, you know, they would take the other... the other big door there and open it up. Yeah. You got to do everything you can do. Everything was against the win. I'll tell you what. I don't know if you've seen the stadium lately. I like the old stadium. There's a sense of intimidation, big walls. I don't like the new stadium. Yeah. And both teams paid for it. You would think they'd be a dome on it at the very least. Yeah. Or even a retractable dome, right? I mean, I would think. I mean, I like the weather. I like the weather. I like the weather. I like the weather in Chicago. I like the weather until it gets too bad. You know what I mean? I like playing in a little bit of cold. and not too cold, you know, like 50 degrees, you know. Once it gets like freezing, then you want to put a dome. Like, so if you could have a retractable dome, that would be awesome. So I grew up, uh, I grew up with the Vikings. Yeah. Well, you were in that field, yeah. Right. So just watching and when they would go to their field, they would want that advantage and no heaters on benches and no, you know, no one wore anything underneath their sleeves. And that would be Minnesota in the winter is ridiculous. Yeah. When I was a rookie, that was the same thing. The bear is the coldest game I ever played in was I was a rookie as soldier field. I think the high for the day was like. four degrees. And that's before they started keeping like wind chill. Right. They started keeping it. And they were thinking it was like 2530. You could not get warm no matter what you did. You ran as fast you could. I mean, it hurt to breathe. It's like unsafe, you know, to do it. Right. What about the fans? You just sit there? No, sit there. Yeah. Well, they're sneaking in all the booze and everything like that. So they're probably pretty warm. But, I mean, they got to be cold because, I mean, and then we didn't have the heated benches. You know, we just had those big heaters that look like jet engines, you know, and guys are burning their socks off trying to get close to it and everything. really getting the technology onto the sideline. You know, the one thing, I know you still follow the league, and of course the Bears, you might have been on the greatest team ever, but the one thing they're doing now, they're a global league. They got the San Francisco 49th is going to Australia. Yeah, I saw it this morning, crazy. I mean, how would you feel about, I know you guys used to complain about England? Yeah. Right? So what would you do if that popped up on your schedule? Yeah, we were the first ones to play over there. We played in 86 in the American Bowl, they called it. It's a preseason game, but we played. I mean, that was hard. I mean, when you get over there, you know, and we, we got off the airplane, we went to Hyde Park. You know, they had sweats for us and everything. We're running up and down Hyde Park. People are looking at us like, what are these guys doing? Just to try to beat the jet lag. And then we tried to stay up. Of course, everyone went back to the room, went to a pub, had some beers and went to bed at like six o'clock. Then you're up, right? Then you're up. And it took like three or four days to get acclimated. I think what these guys are going to, I mean, Australia, they got to go early. But a lot of times they go to England, they go over, like, you know, the day before.

Right? It's crazy. They don't spend a couple days there. They just go over there and try to get it out and get it off with and come back. I mean, they were thinking for a while when Jacksonville was maybe spending half their games there. They're not anymore. They rebuilt the stadium, rededicated to the city. But they were thinking about making that a home field. I guess there's just so much money in the global game. The NBA found that out. Right. I think so. I think my opinion is some people don't agree with me on us. I've had this conversation with people. I think in the next 10 years you're going to see a team of Mexico City. And you're going to see a team in London. Wow. I think so. Because I think you can think about the Mexico City, you could have all those, the Texas teams and a couple of California teams. They can come down there, right? You can make a new division. And then the same thing with all the East Coast teams. Because if you think about it, to fly from Boston to London, it's not a big deal, right? So it'd be interesting to see, but I think the global game is so big they want to expand. Do you like the idea? At first I thought this is just to give America a gold medal. Do you like the idea of flag in the Olympics? And now more I think about it and see how unique it is. Do you watch flag football with the narrower field and the way they play it? No. I mean, I think it's good. I mean, it's great if people want to get interested in football. I think any way you get interested in football. But, you know, it's like having break dancing in the Olympics, too. You know what I mean? Is that how you view football? Really? Flag football? Yeah. I don't know. I mean. I guess. I just don't, I mean, is it football? I mean, I don't know. I mean, it's really not football. So, I mean, maybe it's an old school thing. But if more people get interested in football because of flag football, then I'm all for it. Well, so the other thing they're doing in the NFL is going to probably get the 18 game schedule and cut off a preseason game. Yeah. How would you feel as a player? Because I know the union has pushed back on that. It seems like they're looking to give on that. Well, I think the more games, it's going to be interesting to see what the new collective bargaining agreement is going to look like, right, because they're going to get more games. Do you think we're heading toward the lockout? I don't think so, but we, I mean, it's the golden goose. You don't want to kill the golden goose, right? We never do, but if through my whole life there's always been lockouts and I've been through one in 87, I was in a strike in 87. And then guys I played with were in 82 and 87, right? So two strikes, right? And we didn't really get anything for it. So now all those things we did and I kind of got them free agency and got them where they are today, you know, guys like us. I kind of paid a price on, you know, a locker or not a lockout, but a strike. But, you know, I don't know. I think that when I play, we had four preseason games. And I think three or four years before that, Brian, they had six preseason games. Which is insane, right? And so insane, right? And so a 14 game schedule back then. I actually want none. But I guess evidently there's some benefit the league has. You can't play football half speed, right? No. That's where the pro bowl blew up. Yeah, I think one maybe preseason game is enough. They expect these guys to come in in shape, right? In the old days, that's why they had six preseason games, because, you know, guys were selling insurance and selling cars and, you know, working in a bar, and then they went. They had to work themselves into shape. That's why they had spring training, right? Same thing with baseball. Now it's not like that. These guys are getting paid millions and millions of dollars. They need to be in shape. They're supposed to be in shape. And so when they come to camp, I mean, when I went to one of the practices and watched the bears, they don't even condition after practice. anymore. They're expected to be in shape, right? Because when they get there, they're expected to come with great wind and, you know, they can go through a four quarter. Do you think it's hurt the game? It's easy for me to say on the outsides and I'm a football player with the lack of pads at practice, the lack of hitting at practice because all the rules that are built into it. Yeah. Do you think it's hurt the game? Yes. And the reason I do is because I think, in my opinion, is you see a lot of injuries.

I understand the reason for it. If you've got a franchise quarterback and he gets hurt in a preseason game or he gets hurt in practice, they're going to say, what the hell is going on with that coach? I mean, you can't have that. So I get all that. But for offensive linemen and defensive linemen, I mean, you have to have to have to have go live, right? You have to. You have to get your aiming points down. You have to get your hands in the right place. You have to get your feet underneath. You can't do that half speed. Especially with a buddy, hey, just go through the motions. You can't do it half speed. And then you get into a preseason game and it's sort of. kind of full speed, you know? And then all of a sudden you go to game one and people are kicking each other, you know, I mean. But don't you think the football quality is the first three weeks of the season is down? Oh, yeah. Because of that. Well, and I also think that the defenses are way ahead of the offenses early on. Why? Because they can just play athlete. You know what I mean? And the offenses don't get their timing down, especially on the offensive line, especially guys running routes, too. I mean, when you're going like, you know, skeleton for those route guys, I mean, you just can't give guys free releases and expect to run in there. I mean, you're going to play man. I mean, guys are going to get chucked at the line of scrimmage. You know what I mean? They're not doing that a lot of times. So, I mean, I don't know. I mean, I think it's a happy medium. It's got to be somewhere in between, you know, somewhere in between where you're. Or you're giving enough of a picture and are given enough of against guys to they can understand it, but you're not going overboard. So Jimbo covered our guest, Jim, I think there's two things in sports I think are underappreciated. I always think defense and baseball. People never appreciate it into the playoffs. They go, wow, he doesn't have much range at short. Oh, and, you know, at third base, he's kind of iffy. Just when things get tight, you see the defense matter because people are so cut up in offense. And I also think the lack of, I guess, discipline to draft a offensive line. Because it's not the sexiest pick. Oh, I got a right guard. Yeah. Oh, the fans don't cheer for the right guard or the tackle unless it's somebody that everybody knows. And I just think people have backed off that. And do you find the same thing? As an offensive line, I know you're a little bit biased. But it's not the sexiest thing to draft a center. Right. And when at the end of the game, it's very rare when a player, even maybe not you, they can go, the offensive line, that tackle played good. Yeah. That center played good. Yeah. So you don't see a lot of that. And I think that people underestimate the need for the line. Absolutely. I mean. You know, when the Bears, Jim Fink's just loved to draft Lyman, you know, so he drafted Keith Van Horton's first round pick. He was the right tackle. I was a left tackle. I mean, he believed in drafting linemen high because he believed that that's how you build a team from the inside out. Right. And a lot of teams think if you can get skilled position guys, great. It's great. The fans love it during draft day. But if you don't have a foundation and that foundation is offensive lines. And I think that's what made the Bears great in the 80s, right? Because we had great offensive lines and great defensive lines. You got three of them in the Hall of Fame on a defensive line, right? So that just proves a point. So let's talk about ALS, the coast to coast for ALS effort. Why have you embraced this cause?

Well, you know, I've been on the Packard Center board for quite some time, which is in Johns Hopkins, which is a Packard Center for ALS. And they're just trying to find a cure in therapies for, you know, ALS and neurological disease like Parkinson's as well, right? And things like that. And I just believe very strongly. that when you see people like Steve McMichael cut down, I mean, that was just, for me, it was pretty devastating. One of the most physically imposing people you'll ever meet. Yeah. And you see what it does to him. Oh, and then when you go to see him, Brian, you know, I mean, he's in there. And he understands everything going on around him. Cognitively, he's fine. He's just his body was gone, right? And so he's having conversations with you, and it's so difficult, right? And so. I just feel like to raise more awareness and more money to hopefully one day find a cure for this and try to do some gene therapy to prevent it. So people can't get it in the future. Tim Green's been on our show. And Tim Green, the offensive outstanding office of the linemen seven year in the Atlanta with the Atlanta Falcons got his law degree while he was playing. Yeah. Host of Inside Edition, Fox Sports and everything successful law firm. And it hit him 6-4, 280 one day. And the next minute he's not able to. But his attitude is just off the charts. Great. Yeah. And he's gloop with his eyes writing. Yeah. And now with AI, you get to hear his voice. Yeah. And that's hard. I played against him. Tough, tough guy, you know. And so when you see that, it's the same thing, right? I mean, but do you think it comes from football? I think in some cases you've got neurological disease that come from head trauma, right? It could, you know, and I don't know if it ALS specifically comes from football, but I can guarantee that neurological diseases like Parkinson's and other things come from football because you had head trauma, right? And, you know, there's all kinds of therapies that people were working on. I saw one the other day, which was cryotherapy and, you know, when you're going in, you know, oxygen therapy as well that people are doing. And I saw that there's all kinds of different things that people are trying. just to slow the progress of it. And, you know, I think someone like the Packard Center is working on it to try to find gene therapy and other things. So people want to help you out and help out the organization go to Coast 2, number two, Coast. That's the number four AOS.org, right? That's it. That's it. Yeah. And we're going to have a bike ride on this thing. And it's going to be a lot of fun. We're going to raise money for this thing. We're going to try to kick this thing. And hopefully in the next decade or so. Have a good time in New York. Stay out of trouble. I will. Don't let the bikers run you over. We had a bike lane just designed to kill you. Yeah, exactly. I saw that. Right. And by the way, the guys on mopeds come by and try to steal your wife's bag. Yeah, we should have a bag today. Yeah, and you'll, by the way, Jimbo Covert will chase you down if you are one of those moped guys that want to steal his wife's bag. As long as they're around 10 yards away from a catch. You don't want to them catch up to you. Thanks, Jimbo. Thanks a lot.

Maya Tom, Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sewing to fission. It's Brian Kilmeade. All right, from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, the Brian Kilmeade, filling out one of the final hours of the week. And what a busy week. Tyrus is going to be with us in a little while. We're going to do, we have a little bit of a standoff, a bit of a, we locked horns. And about Rocky, I did make a mistake. And now my knowledge of the Rocky series is being questioned. And he seems to think he knows a lot about the Rocky series. And we're going to go head to head. He's also host of Planet Tyrus, which is a podcast. Shannon Bream is in studio and trying to take it over. He got her staff. 27 people have come in here. And then bomb sniffing dogs, evidently, I'm a security risk. It's 28. What? It's 28? Yeah. I apologize. I didn't see the last two because I was busy opening up the show. Wait a minute. 27 plus two is not 28. Did you say 27? Oh, there would be 29. I was told there be no math on this show. That'll be 29. Okay. So, you know what I'm going to change that for the West Coast? I'm going to fix it. Perfect. We delay. By the way, I have a YouTube channel and I'm only saying it because I'm breaking. You want people to watch it? YouTube.com slash at the Brian Kilmeade highlights like that. I'm also chronicling my day today. So I'm going to roll my phone during this because I'm going to one of those longer but concise, concise days. Well, you do like your whole day, but then put it on that fast, super fast video so people can see you like pumping iron and then changing and getting ready. I'm just going to do it for professional because I'm going to go from here. I start on Fox and Friends and then we do this show and then I'm going to tape One Nation. Sunday night? Yeah, Sunday night, 10 o'clock. And then doing Will Kane show. Wow. So that'll be concise, though. There's no delay. Are you doing the five? I'm doing the five today, among other things. You already did 9 to 11, didn't you? I did 9 to 11 this morning, yes. So I was filling in for Bill Hemmer. So you get a sense of all the shows, right? Is everyone different for you in terms of preparation? Yes. Yes. I think so. Don't you feel that way they kind of all have their own personality? And the staff, we have fantastic teams and staff on every show. But they have their own personalities too. I feel like every show has its own kind of niche. So I filled in Fallura Monday or Tuesday and Wednesday. And I feel like it's her show. So I'm just, whatever you do, you do. Right. You're like, I will sit here and not blow up the show. Right. But I hate sitting. If it's my, I like moving. You like walking and standing and dancing. Dancing. Dancing you also like. I think you got the wrong guy. But you open up standing. I do. Chris Wallace never did that. Well, I mean, he had some questions about whether he wanted to show that much leg. Right. And I'm like, we're doing it. And you know you do. You know. I shave my legs for Sunday morning and everything. I get them ready. Even when you wear pants. I do sometimes wear pants. Yeah, but you'll shave anyway. Yeah, because you just got to be ready for anything. Okay, you never know what's going to happen. You could have those legs smooth and silky and ready to go for whatever, you know, international challenges arise. Sometimes a producer will call, and people don't know this, sometimes they'll tell you, can you change deals in the breaks? They'll say, can you change into shorts?

And you always say, no, because you don't like to be objectified. That's true. Like a piece of meat. I find that people, like I'm tired of people saying, hey, I saw your show. You have a great body. And I'm going to say. But what did I say? Exactly. Listening to the content of my show. I don't even take it as a compliment. They get so old, don't you? Right. You're insulted. Like, what about my brain? And by the way, if you were going to call me over the weekend, like Sunday at 11 after the show's ever and go, don't bother. You're checked out then. Well, you're already getting ready for your next full-time show, which is you've got to get up in a couple hours for Fox and Friends. Yeah, but it's not about, and again, for Fox and Friends, it's not about my body. Is it? Oh, you're sitting on the couch, so we get a full look. Right. Whether you've been working out, how many carbs you've been having. And how short my socks are. We're seeing it all. Yeah. Evidently, my enormous calves have pushed back on the elastic on my socks. It's no contest. So I'll do an interview and this is true. And a producer will go, Brian, I go, yeah, pull up your socks. I'm thinking, really? I just talked to General Jack Kean for seven minutes. And you tell me. On how we're going to win the conflict in Iraq. Yeah. Right. But listen, your calves don't take any minutes off or any days off. No. And if the challenge is between the elastic of your socks and your calves, the calves are just one flex. You don't even realize you're doing it. And those socks are back down to the angles. A little bit of a confession. A lot of times my enormous calves are due. I retain water. And I keep it all my cats. I thought it was straight muscle. Okay, let's go with that. Yeah. So Shannon, the president, I thought was his coolest thing for the press. They'll realize that at one point when they get older. For you to go, sometimes you do this all the time. You go 13 hours. You go 13 hours back. You get on the ground. You tape some things. You go from the pool camera. You might be saying yourself, you know, I didn't get my one-on-one. Like, why did I go? Like anyone who was with the Joe Biden posse, he never got your one-on-one interview, almost never. This president does Sean, does Brett Bear, Marco Rubio does multiple networks. And then he goes in the back of the plane and talks for 40 minutes. Right. You're going to get your opportunity. I mean. And he talked to everybody. Right. And for anybody who says, oh, there's not transparency. There's no access. Like, I literally don't even know what you're talking about because there's access to him all the time. So here, the President of the United States, a couple of topics about the trade deals, about Iran and about Taiwan. And about Taiwan, he's like, I was asked by President Xi Jinping. What are you going to do about Taiwan? He's like, I'm not telling you. And it's the uncertainty with him that I think sometimes scares or intimidates foreign leaders. They literally don't know what he's going to do. Right. And maybe he will decide at one point. But the big decision he has now is the $14 billion check or that he can cash because Taiwan pays. Will they get their $14 billion worth of weapons? They just got $10 billion. They're going to pay $14. What do you think? Well, they do continue to say, though, that they're way behind. And if you talk to Republicans on the Hill, too, they'll tell you that they're way behind on delivering a lot of things. So the question is, do we not have it? Are we soft, you know, delaying it for some reason to be able to better negotiate with G and not inflame that relationship? So there are a lot of different explanations that we get. But this has been a problem for years. This was a problem in the Biden administration, too, that there was just a backlog of what Taiwan's ordered and has not been fulfilled to them. Cut seven is the exchange with Brett.

You're waiting on approving billions of dollars of weapons for Taiwan. Is that moving forward? Well, I haven't approved it yet. We're going to see what happens. I may do it. I may not do it. But we're not looking to have wars. And if you kept it the way it is, I think China's going to be okay with that. But we're not looking to have somebody say, let's go independent because the United States is backing us. So I don't know if we're fine with the status quo, but it's China. I'm not sure it is. It's Taiwan. I mean, there are a lot of people who say they wanted something more full-throated from the administration on defense of Taiwan, but it is a very delicate situation. And if we are continuing to supply them as we have available, the things that they've ordered from us, that's about their defense and their ability to do that. And listen, if you want to talk about people selling or providing weapons and we're not giving them for free, they're purchasing them as a customer. You know, Iran does a lot of backdoor stuff trying to get things from China as well. And in the way that those filters through the system or through third party countries, I mean, there's plenty to talk about about who's sending weapons where. Yeah. So when it comes to Iran, what we're doing next, I think we're going to escalate to de-escalate. And president was asked about that about Iran and President Xi Jinping. And here's that exchange, cut 14. I mean, when you say support, they're not. fighting a war with us, all right? No. He said he's not going to give military equipment. That's a big statement. He said that today. We can just pause right there. I mean, there's reports that they are shipping in military equipment. Right. And there's reports that we stopped one Chinese ship that had some oil and a lot of weapons. And questions about whether China is supporting, giving them satellite imagery to help them go after our bases or our pressure points. So. You know, like a lot of folks say, these two have a good relationship, Xi Jinping and Trump, and they should be talking. I think we all agree that's good for these two superpowers and their trade deals. They need to have a relationship and be talking. But there's a lot of caution from people who want this to go well, who say China's going to say all kinds of things to the president to his face. But sometimes they're demonstrably false when it comes to actions. Right. I'm very curious and we'll never know. The first phase of the trade deal was put into place. I remember at the White House and they announced, they shook hands on it. And then the pandemic hit. And then the president lost an election. And we never know. And they go, well, they didn't fulfill it. Well, you know, Joe Biden didn't enforce it either. Right. If they had a press conference saying they're reneging on the trade deal, I'm upping tariffs or so. But he just said, oh, it's not my trade deal anyway. So I'm very curious to see if they figure it's in their best interest to live up to this. One thing that they could do, I think it's a win-win. is bio oil and gas from us. It's closer. We're dependable. You don't have to go through the strait. You have to worry about a terroristic nation. And plenty. We apparently have plenty to export. I mean, that's something that we would have available to them. You also, we always have to remember, too, their time frame is different than ours. They know they can wait out presidents in four or eight years stretches. Meanwhile, you know, she's going to stick around for as long as he wants to stick around. And that will work for him. And you can. outweigh and outlast presidents like President Biden, maybe President Trump. And so that's part of their calculation too. Absolutely. They know it's going to be three more or two more now for President Trump. So there's a, there's a lot of speculation that the House has already lost in the Senate's in play. The Senate's in play.

And that might be conventional wisdom. I thought into the redistricting mania started going against the Democrats. The speaker has to say this, but I believe it. He believes he's going to hold the house, especially after redistricting. What's the feeling in Washington? They, of course, Virginia got since we last spoke, Virginia got overturned, back to where it was. Then you got one for one or two in Tennessee. Georgia says we'll redistrict. Mississippi says we're going to do it. South Carolina says we're going to do it. Florida did it. Wait for the court challenge. Looks like they'll keep it. So I don't know a state that's not considering it outside Indiana. Yeah. And some of these states are going to consider it. It won't. work for this time around for 2026, but they're saying they're talking about maps that would maybe get them into 2028, like Georgia and Georgia. That would be 26. So we did some calculations the other day with the help of our fantastic brain room. And if everything goes as well as it could for Republicans, they could net anywhere four to 13 seats in what's currently in play in a number of these states. You can't win the midterms on that alone though. You know, you see flips of, you know, 30, 40, 50 seats. That's still going to be an uphill battle for Republicans. So the speaker does say publicly and privately, they're very focused on about 30 districts. They believe that they can hold on to or flip that will allow them to hold onto the House. And every House race is very local. It's very specific. But, you know, conventional wisdom is this is not going to go well for them in the fall. And netting four to 13 seats may not be enough to say. Well, one thing is clear. If the war's got to end before Memorial Day, perhaps, you know, that's next week. We'll say by June. A couple of weeks since you have it come to an end, but you might have to escalate to de-escalate. And if it ends positively, then we're going to see a steady decrease in gas and oil price. Just logic would tell you because nothing, the straight will be open while oil will be flowing. But for Democrats, if Republicans just to get Democrats to say what they would do, I think it would be to their advantage because a lot of the stuff they want to do is scary. So they've been just turning it and saying being anti-Trump. Then Kamala Harris spoke yesterday. And listen to this, cut 22. We say, look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. No bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the electoral college. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. These are the things I think that we've got to do. We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating. Okay. So I thought it was Republicans that tried to screw lessons. So does she really want to run on that? Do you think the majority of the American people want to pack the Supreme Court, want to get rid of the electoral college, and do you think want to add two states?

Is she worried about that or is she worried about being the voice of her party? Because as it tracks left, she wants to be seen as the thought leader of that party. And those are the ideas that are there on the far left. But I think you're right. When you pull those ideas, they're not mainstream American ideas. And every time you talk about doing these things, and she says red states are cheating. When you look around, there are plenty of states that have no Republicans in their congressional delegation. There are a number of those states that there's not a single House or Senate member who is Massachusetts Republican. So does that mean the blue states are cheating? I mean, we got to talk about what we're talking about here, you know, some definitions on that. Right. But I think that if that is an embrace of the party of these candidates in the battleground states, you know, the Brian Fitzpatrick's of the world. And if the Senate seat, Chorard Brown against John Eustid, if. If Sharraud Brown, it can be labeled as somebody who's going to add two states and add two states and get rid of electoral college and pack the court, I think that goes to the Republicans advantage. Well, and what did Carville say about this a couple of weeks ago? He said all these things, but he said, do not talk about it while you're campaigning. Just do it when you get power. So he's even cautioning them like, don't be out there. This is your new platform talking about this stuff that feels very far left to a lot of Americans. But by the way, you just provided the ad for someone to say they're not talking about it. For people like Kamala Harris, it's there. So I think that's what's going to make everything interesting. And by the way, these are the same Democrats who love the Supreme Court when it overturned the president's tariffs. They thought the court was doing a very good, respectable, dignified job just a few weeks ago. But do you think that could actually happen on a simple? Could that happen on a simple majority? What do you mean? I guess you got to get rid of the filibuster first. Can you, can you as president can't pack the court? No, you would have we've seen attempts at that in the past that obviously did not, they were not successful, did not go well and they didn't go well electorally politically either when people had a chance to say like here's how we feel about that. But it was a long time ago, but you would have to do it legislatively. Yeah. And that's the thing. Republicans, this is one of the places, Trey Gowdy and I were talking about this this morning on America's Newsroom is that is an area where Republicans have to think past blowing up the filibuster. because it does open the door for things like packing the Supreme Court. They should always think about not blowing up the filibuster. There's no way you should blow up the filibuster. But Republicans say Democrats are going to do it as soon as they get the numbers to do it. And the presidency. Right. And so they're thinking forward on that. But again, if you blow up the filibuster, I think there are enough Republican senators who were like, that would be so, so dangerous. We just can't do it. But there are other ways to do things like get the Save America Act passed that there doesn't seem to be an appetite for in the side. Real quick, because you know the technicalities of it. The parliamentarian stopped the funding, the Senate to vote in the funding to fully fund the DHS, Border Patrol, as well as ICE. But the parliamentarian... Is it fatal the stopping? Or is it just my rewriting? It just depends on what all you try to pack in there. And I think that they're still talking about that. I mean, House and the Senate are going to have different versions of what they want to see past. The Senate feels like, yeah, we're going to have a much tougher time with our parliamentarian with some of the stuff that you guys want us to tack on. And there's no appeal of that. I mean, basically once they say, no, that's it. It's either you can pass it or not pass it with that stuff tucked in. If we don't get a ballroom, will we have a country?

The question on America's lips right now. If we don't get the ballroom. Yeah. If we don't get a ballroom, there's no reason for our country to go away. Can I tell you I have gotten more questions about that digum reflecting pool? You know, people are very upset about the ballroom, the reflecting peel, whatever. And I was flying out of DCA yesterday and you fly right over Washington. It's such a beautiful shot. And I was like, oh, there's a reflecting pool. I'm going to take a picture. So I took a picture and I tweeted it out like, hey, I'm getting so many questions. Here's the latest. And you can see how much of it's done and what color it is. I'm telling you, that thing is a Rorschach test meeting. People saw that thing and were either furious. Like, I hate Trump. Why is he doing all this stuff in Washington? This is so dumb and tacky. Or this is beautiful. I can't believe all the progress they're making. This is fantastic. I didn't put any editorial on that picture. I just put the picture out of. Like, here's your update because you keep asking. But I guess you're followed by Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen. Probably. But just note, I did not follow back. Good. I didn't want the DM situation. The DM situation to get very, you know. Heated. And we found out a lot about you. Tell your calf muscles, I said hi. And you know what? And by the next time you're shaving your legs, I hope you think of me. I will. All right. That's all I ask. Back in a moment. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kilmeade.

Information you want. Truth you demand. This is the Brian Kilmeade. We only got a couple of minutes because I went late with Shannon Breen because she's a very good talker, as is my next guest, Tyrus, Fox Nation host, author of what it is, America, and host of Planet Tyrus. And should we tell everyone we're going to be squaring off shortly? It's not a square off. It's a confrontation. But one that you very well could lose. I don't see any way possible unless we're doing the your true thing, but I didn't think that was the side. No, we're not doing that. No, we're going off on the Rocky series. Yeah. And we're going to be quizzed on the Rocky series. Because? I think you're disqualified. Because, tell everybody. The egregious behavior of mental incompetence that you displayed. I've mixed up my birds. But it's not the mix-up. It's the pre-calling-your-shot, Babe Ruth. Hey, Tyrus, I'm expecting you to know this movie reference. And then what happened? Somewhere. What happened? You dropped the ball. You didn't know your own reference. You called your shot. Like, hey, where do you get a hold of this one? And you weren't even. Jim Brown is looking down on us, shaking his head. I now know what he went through. All I can tell you is, I'll fill you in the blanks. It has something to do with not knowing that pigeons could fly. And you work in New York. Back in a moment.

his mouth to your ears. It's Brian Kilmeade. We say, look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. No bad idea. Brainstorm is what I'd like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the electoral college. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. These are the things I think that we've got to do. We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating. Really? So she, if elected, Democrats really want to change the country, not make it better. See, whatever you want to say about the Tea Party, you could say that they stopped Republicans from passing legislation and doing things. You could say that. But their objective was be fiscally responsible, pushback on Barack Obama, and there was no sense of cooperation. It drove Speaker Boehner nuts. But I never doubted their patriotism. When I'm hearing these Democrats come back and talk about changing really all the institutions in government and knowing they got close last time. I can't believe she thinks it's her best interest to bring it up this time. Tyrus, host of Fox Nation, you'll see him on Gutfeld, what it is America, and host of Planet Tyrus, which is this runaway success podcast, Tyrus. Why does she say this out loud? You want me to solve the riddle of that? Yeah. Why does she say half the things outside? Like, you ever heard of her inner monologue? She's a walking oxymoron. There's no bad ideas. Let's call it idea. The whole point of brainstorming is to weed out the bad ideas. Yeah. Like you're, what? Like, we were unburdened by what has been. I mean, it's just, it's, this is the problem when you have activists and not people of substance. It's all passion, you know. I'm obsessed with Gadsad's book, Suicidal Empathy. It talks about this a lot, you know, where they say things that are counterproductive to the actual the well-being of America because it would rather be sound virtuous. You know, it's like they change the name. You're not homeless. You're unhoused. This type of nonsense. And she is the queen of this type of nonsense. So now it's she's trying to invent a new, I call it the no bad idea brainstorm. So do you think when we get on stage, we used to watch Democrats always talk about green energy. No gas powers by 2030. No gas, no oil. We're going to ban coal and all. Okay. That's gone. I don't see. Because. But now I'm wondering why this is still there. She must have talked to a politician on this. No. A political expert, don't you think? No. All their stuff is is social media polling.

That's what it is. The reason why that people eventually, you keep telling us every, we have to do this, this, and then eventually someone comes along and says, listen. Everything that you have that you're complaining about is fueled by the thing you want to get rid of. So if you get rid of gas, if you get rid of these things, the phones you use, everything, the car, they fly private jets. They're, again, oxymorons. They say things that sound good in theory and feelings, but they can't put any practicality to it. Those things, you can eventually be like, here's this and this. Now, what they're doing now is abstract. So it's inflatable. They can bring it in. That's how they. They get people to fall into this ridiculous. They play off. It's all emotional BS. So the other thing is the whole tax the rich and wealth tax and wealthy of the problem, pay fair. That's Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders was marginalized for two cycles. Even though he had popularity, they marginalized him. Now he is the kingmaker. He might have a senator. I think Mike Rogers going to win in Michigan. He certainly thinks he's got Graham Platner that's going to beat Susan Collins. But the establishment liberal Democrats are marginalized. So they got the traditional Democrat who wants to revolutionize the government. Then you have people that just don't even like America. Yeah, there's a lot of anti-American people who are going into politics. Bernie is, he's another one. He's the greatest, I think the most people got behind him because. Their message is simple. It's, it's their messages to, honestly be real, to lazy Americans. Hey, we'll tax the rich so you don't have to work. We'll do this so you can stay on your couch. It's a, it's a very self-defeating. prophecy to be like, hey, we're going to go after the people in America that are successful. The good news is that Americans want the American dream more than they want someone to do it for him. So he'll have in his areas, in his base, he'll never be able to be a president. They will get small centerships and house and those communities. Nice thing is you can move out of those communities and go to other places in America. And they are. And that's what's happening. There's a mass exodus in California. So eventually. These things always run out of air. The world was going to end. Actually, we're all done right now, according to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie, what was it, 12 years ago, we had 10 years left. Yeah. So we're playing with House money right now, apparently. Do you see that Al Gore has changed his message to now we look out for the Ice Age? What? He brought global warming and climate change front and center. Yeah. And he said the polar bears were gone. The polar bear population is actually doing quite well. Yeah. You know what? And, but the thing is is because they don't. Apply real science. It's all feelings and what somebody comes up with because this planet has been changing. We've had five mass extinctions on this planet.

Could be six. We don't know. One day, 20 volcanoes pop up. The air changes. Weather patterns change. No one told Mother Nature doesn't care if you build a house on the ocean when there was no hurricanes in that area. Things change. So then eventually, facts catch up and then they hop to the new one. One thing I'm glad about that we got rid of the dinosaurs before we got here because that would have been. That's kind of arrogant. Right. Well, we all. Were you on the founding fathers? You made the, you made the call? Good point. We were sitting there, like, in the pharaohs and the pyramids and the aliens and whatnot? Like, do you imagine if we had to not only deal with traffic, but also a T-Rex? Well, you wouldn't have traffic. Because they'd always be breaking the roads. We wouldn't be able to develop. To be able to get to that point, we would all be living under rocks because we'd have to hide. We'd be hiding. We wouldn't have time to build a fort. That's as bad as social media. Are you sure you're not a Democrat? Because that's like a democratic thing right there, you know. I'm just, no, I'm just. Are you shaming us? We're on stolen dinosaur land. Is that what this is about? That's a good point. I am, I do feel bad. I do feel bad. See, that's that empathy, man. You got to let empathy is good in small doses, but you should not rule. I have God sad. God sad, yes. Yes, love him. He has sympathetic empathy. The courage in this book, the courage in this book is phenomenal. This, I read your last book. It took me about, I think it was like eight hours. I knocked it out. This one I got at seven and I'm already going back to look for different chapters. It's a really good book in terms of just looking, calling things for what they are. He doesn't pick a side, which I love it. You never do either. You just present it. Take it for what you will. And very similar, you have very similar writing styles. He's a professor, scholar. Yeah. Forty years. And I'm, um, well, based on the performance in the last Gutfeld, I would use the term scholar lightly. But, uh, You do know certain things well. It's just your short game needs some work. I'll just say that way. Thank you very much. Golf reference. I'm going to think about that a little bit later. I am going to tell you that our audience in them, we're going to have a quiz. I wanted to be a duel, but you're going to ask me questions about the Rocky Sears. Because of, you know, Brian, I have spent most of my time on the Gutfeld show protecting your reputation and interest. Whenever Gutfeld makes a crash joke, I literally say he's a friend. I defend you adamantly. And then what happened? And then you go out and lay the biggest egg ever on gutt. It wasn't so much that you, this is the, this will forever be known as the pigeon incident on the Gutfeld show that might have changed the course of our relationship forever because now all he has to do is roll that tape and I can't say anything. So this would happen. Do we have the footage? Right. We have the tape, but I think it was some weird story. I'm saying this is such a hard story. No, no, no. Stop it. No, it was pigeons. Listen, you're doing, you're making excuse me. I need you to own this. Dirus, should I tell you this? Brian, I need you to own this. I will, but you have the story is so dumb. It was a study done. It was a study done in England that says pigeons allow men to get closer to them than women. It was birds. So, yeah, right. So I'm saying to myself.

This is the dumbest story ever. It's not. But I thought I had a rocky reference. It's actually some science because birds tend to pick up on emotions and anxiety. But who can't? Because they're a prey item. So when they feel something else nervous, they get nervous. And typically, women are a little more nervous in cities than men are for good reason because there's men in the cities. Okay. So here is, so that's the premise. Yeah. And here's what happened. And I go back to Rocky 2. And this blows up this whole study. In the beginning of Rocky 2, he needs speed. And Mick puts a. pigeon in a pen and he can't find that pigeon and he's a man but by the end of rocky two right before he goes into the ring to fight apollo i'm going to blow the cover he wins he gets the pigeon and it shows you it's a chicken brian damn it was a chicken oh really and you had the this this this is why they hate you No, he does. This is why. This is why Greg, I will never pick on Greg again for making jokes about you. I know. You put a pigeon and you run out. He's going to fly away. Oh. So you wouldn't chase a pigeon. Oh, now I get it. Okay. Sorry. I want to see. Damn it, man. You're shaking your head. I just, it's, I will relive that moment. It's like, I see it in black and white. It's very similar to Seinfeld when George's dad talks about when he was cooking in Nam. You know, it was just a slow motion thing where now I can't live with Greg at all whenever he goes after you. Because the worst part about this is not on film is the reason why it was so upsetting was that during the commercial break from across the room, my. friend, we were friends at that point, looks to me and says, hey, Tyrus, you better get this movie reference. You're going to love this. So it was set up. He was Babe Ruth calling his shot. Yes. And I popped up to second. No, you infield flyed with bases loaded. And the cold part was it was so wrong on so many levels to where I don't believe you actually watched the movie at all, which is difficult for me. Given your height and proximity to Philly, I would think you would watch Rocky Agnosia. Rocky, too. I believe the coma, he was in a coma way too long. I would have pulled her out of the coma earlier because it was way too much sitting around the hospital. Yeah, you were at a bad place in your life when you were watching it. Rocky three, the best. His wife was in a coma from having his child, and he still went, and she woke up to tell him to fight. If she was only in it for 10 minutes and says, wake up and fight, what, she's taking a nap? Is that going to inspire you to fight the greatest physical athlete in boxing at the time? He was a, he was a character of the great Muhammad Ali. And when she, when she said to lean in. What did, what did Adrian say to Rocky? When? Now first they'd come closer and then she said, when? And then what happened? The bell. She smiles. And the music hits and he starts jogging. And he catches the chicken. True. All right. When we come back.

Is that just a one-time subpo? Or do I really know, am I prepared to go run a perfect quiz game against Tyrus's Rocky Questions? That story when we come back, only on the Brian Kilmachia. I want you to try to chase this little chicken. What do I got to chase the chicken for? It's embarrassing, you know? Because chicken chasing is how we always used to train in the old days. Yeah. You catch this thing, you can catch grease lightning. Ready? Yeah, well, I'd rather eat it than chase. It ain't very mature. Listen, if you say... Well, neither are you very mature. A fighter ain't a farmer. Come on. Go on and get him. You look like a grail out there. What's the matter with you? I feel like a Kentucky fried idiot. Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeade.

Talk show, that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade. All right, so Rocky, the Rocky series has changed America. It's been a big inspiration for me, but Tyrus does not believe it. He's got a series of questions to ask me, which will reveal how much I know about the Rocky series, but I hope you're playing fair. Listen, I... Despite the disappointment and just sheer letdown of the incident on Gutfeld, I will say this. You've had many highlights. So, you know, it's just, you've hit a lot of big 50-yard field goals. You missed a chip shot, so it's a little discerning, but we're not ready to cut you from the team yet. So show me, let me show you that how I get done. Easy ones, because this, let's just set it up. Let's get started. Okay. What's Rocky's dog's name? Butkus. Okay, see, see? Okay, I don't get a bell or anything, Eric. I don't get nothing. Okay, there you go. All right. Okay. Where did Rocky and Adrian's first date happen? Very simple at the ice rink. Okay. Picked her up from the pet shop, went right to the ice rink. She had the thick glasses on and the hat. Yep. Okay. All right, this, again, this is this very Rocky oneish. Yeah, well, that's on purpose. You got to prove one before you get into two because two, there were some issues. We're getting there. Rocky climbed the steps of what famous Philadelphia landmark? This is, this is an easy one for you. The state, the state steps, the library steps. You know what? It's the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Yeah. You know what, though? He steps. I'll give it to him. He's a busy man. Okay. On which holiday does Rocky and Apollo have their historic first fight? Fourth of July. New Year's Day. Okay, because it was Christmas. It was cold. Remember he was? Yeah, it was New Year's. Punson and he was cold and hit the stakes. I thought it was a 4th of July. He was trusting red, white and blue? No, come on. They were celebrating the bicentana because it was celebrating the bicentany. He's stalling. He's stalling. Please don't talk to the suspect. This is an interrogation. This is not a game show. Yeah. You can be good cop right now because right now if I had an attorney, I'd say take this to the grand jury. Here we go. Oh, man, I miss Judge Janine. What is Rocky and Apollo's rematch called in Rocky 2? What's it called? I'll give you some examples because clearly this is going the way I feared. Grudge match to Super Fight 2, Ultimate Fight 2, Mega Fight 2. Ultimate. Let's just move ahead. What was it? Super fight, too. It was on the thing. And he walked up. Well, these are weird questions. This is not what people care about. All right, cool. Let's go with the easy one. Rocky 3, okay? Where does Apollo take Rocky to be trained for his rematch with Clubberlang? Los Angeles.

There you go. That's a normal question. I mean, that's what people care about. Yeah, that's because he had to learn to change his style of fights. Why don't you ask me that? This one I can relate to. Before his rematch with Rocky reporter, asked Clubber Lane to make a prediction. Pain. Very good. That was in my wedding video, actually. It was also in your face when we had our little thing on Fox and Friends. Okay. All right, this one, if you don't get this one, I'm walking out of here, and I'm never coming on this radio show again. What does Ivan Drago say to Rocky before their fight? I must destroy you, I must break you, or you will lose? I must break you. I didn't need multiple choice for that. Oh, good. Okay, okay, all right. Because then we broke the Soviet Union after that fight. Okay. Uh, we, Rocky after after Rocky four, there is no Rocky. Okay. You know, we don't have to do this the whole segment. I don't know. Um. How am I doing, by the way, Pete? Are you keeping score? How many have I gotten right? I think you're three and three. Three and three. Yeah, you're not making the playoffs, bud. Okay, here we go. This one's tough. And this one, but this one's worth two. This will put him over the edge. And Rocky Balboa, as Rocky enters the ring, what is the theme song, Polly picked out for him? Is it the best is yet to come by Tony Bennett? High Hopes by Frank Sinatra? Or ain't that a kick in the head by Dean Martin? One more time. The choices. High hopes by Frank Sinatra. The best is yet to come by Tony Bennett. Ain't that a kick in the head by Dean Martin? I don't think any of them. We'll pass. I'm going to say Dean Martin. No, no, no. Who was it? High hopes. All right. Really? Yep. Wait, they played high hopes? Yep. And Pauli, Pauli makes a point of it. He goes, I like Sinatra. Okay. This, this, if you can't, what is the name of the gym Rocky Trains at? It's mixed gym. Well, we all know it's mixed gym, but what's the name of it? No, no, this is the name. The answer we were looking for is Mighty Mix. Mighty Mix. Are you sure you're not more of a sex in the city guy? Mighty Mix? Is it really? Yes, the name of the sign, Mighty Mix. Yeah. I mean, I'm telling you, Stallone. This is your team. Stallone could not. This is your team. This is your team. This is Stallone could not have Stallone. You know what? I believe we could have Stallone on the show, but I don't know if that would be a good idea. He might have one more fight in him, Brian Kilmeade. Right. And it's not Rambo. In the Philofia Spectrum, Brian Kilmeade and Stallone. Take Out Tyrant's podcast. I'm not on it. Yes, sir. One of our...