FLASHBACK: Brian's interview with President Trump - August 14th, 2025

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Well, I think you'll know that in the first couple of minutes, but I think you already know that because he's coming to Alaska. He's coming to the USA, and I think you know that. I think that's a nice tape, and I just heard it. You gave me a little breaking news. I appreciate it. But I think he wants to get it done. I really feel he wanted the whole thing. I think if it weren't me, if it was somebody else, he would be not talking to anybody. He wasn't talking to. You know, when I was previous to being... elected unfortunately the 2020 election where we did so well uh it was very unfortunate the result but what happened is when i came in i realized i said this is a man that really wants the whole thing and i think he does want the whole thing and i think he has wanted the whole thing But because of a certain relationship that he has with me running this country, he really, I believe now he's convinced that he's going to make a deal. He's going to make a deal. I think he's going to make a deal. I think he's going to find out. I'm going to know very quickly. We're going to go into the meeting. We're going to see him. We're going to, I won't do what Bush did, look him in the eye. I'm not going to do that. I'll look him right in the eye, but I feel a little bit differently than Bush. It didn't work out too well for Bush. Remember this, Brian. Under Bush, they lost a lot of land. Under Obama, they lost a lot of land, Crimea. Under Biden, they would have lost the whole thing if he had won the president. They would have lost the entire Ukraine. And the war started enraging. It would have never started about the president, not even the chance. And it didn't for four years. You know that. Nobody ever even talked about it. But under Trump, you know what? They got nothing. They got nothing. Except javelins. Except javelins sitting there, thanks. and lots of other things. And remember this, I was the one that stopped Nord Stream, too. You know, they always like to say, oh, Trump, when Vladimir Putin, oh, Trump is working for Vladimir Putin, you know, these crooked people, which they just found out now is all they should be prosecuted. They're so disgraceful. But they made up stories. As Vladimir Putin knows, I'm the toughest one that he's ever had to deal with. He's never had to deal with anybody like me. And here's the other thing, Brian. They got nothing. out of Trump. They got no land. They didn't do a Bush. They didn't do an Obama and they didn't do a Biden. So the way I understand, Mr. President, it's hard to find out exactly what's going on in Russia. By the way, they're made up. Even the people of Russia don't know what's going on. It looks like 45% of their economy is military-oriented. Their factories are so depleted. They're having North Koreans work to factories and do their fighting. Do you believe that by shrinking down from 50 to 10 days and just a handful of days, was that threat is the reason why Steve Witkoff heard from them that they wanted to meet?

Do you think that's the reason we're having this meeting in Alaska because you're about to put on sanctions? I think everything has an impact when I told India, which essentially took them out of buying oil from Russia, that we're going to charge you because you're dealing with Russia and oil purchases. India was the second largest and getting pretty close to China. China's the largest. And as you know, there was something in the works for that. And then they called and they wanted to meet. We're going to see what the meeting means. But certainly when you lose your second largest customer and you're probably going to lose your first largest customer, I think that probably has a role. I think he respects our country now. He didn't respect it under Biden. He respected, nobody respected us under Biden, but he respects our country now. And we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. We had a country, the market's raging. Look at the reports coming out. Everybody's moving back to the United States, car companies, AI companies. Everybody's moving back. They're all starting their factories now. We've never had anything like this. It is truly the golden age of America, but he respects... our country now. He did not respect our country with Biden. Who did? I know you're a big athlete. You not only watch sports, you play sports. You always have to try to pre-think what's going to happen. You have to picture how it's going to happen so you know how you act. So the one thing that some people have said is the incentive that could get his attention is economic incentives. Are you walking in that room with economic incentives for Russia in order to stop the fighting? Well, I'd rather not say because I don't want to play my hand in public, but whatever my hand is, economic incentives and disincentives. Maybe you're more important in a way, but incentives economically. You know, Russia's got a tremendous potential to have the largest piece of land by far. Right. Massive. It's got great wealth on it. But all they do is oil. All they do is oil and gas. They can't even farm. But that's okay. Oil and gas is a very profitable business. You know, that's better than I make shirts, T-shirts. You know, oiling gas, if you say that's all they do. If you're going to have one business, that's good. That's the business to have, and they have it. Got it. So, you know, they have a lot of advantages going over most countries because of the fact they have oil and gas at, you know, massive numbers like we do. And, yeah, economic sanctions are very powerful, and economic incentives are very powerful. Mark Teeson, who I know your respect for the Washington Post, writes this. He's great. Vladimir Putin's goal is to buy more time, to avoid that trap. All President Trump has to do is hold firm to his stated position that both sides need to agree on a ceasefire now. He will push for a partial or sectional ceasefire. That would be worse than no ceasefire because it would give Russia a military advantage. Your thoughts on his conclusions? Well, he's a very talented person, and I think he's a real, you know, journalist. You want to give you the highest, I want to give him the highest accolades. I have a lot of respect for a mark. I read him.

I'll talk to them every once in a while, and he has some good thoughts. And so, you know, I don't know that we're going to get an immediate ceasefire, but I think it's going to come. See, I'm more interested in immediate peace deal, getting peace fast. And depending on what happens with my meeting, I'm going to be calling up President Volodymyr Zelensky, and let's get him over to wherever we're going to meet. I don't know where we're going to have the second meeting, but we have an idea of three different locations. And we'll be, including the possibility, because it would be by far the easiest of staying in Alaska. You know, we have... We have big flights of, and he has the same thing. We have a lot of planes going when the head of Russia, the head of the United States, you know, et cetera, et cetera. So, Mr. President, did you tell Volodymyr Zelensky to be ready? Did you tell him to be ready to come? Should you start making legitimate progress? I don't want to talk about a second meeting even to him. I don't want to even indicate there might be a second meeting. Maybe there will, maybe there will. So I don't want to talk that. It's not important enough. But it would be certainly convenient. if we had a very good meeting because I'm going to let them negotiate their deal. I'm not going to negotiate the deal. I'm going to let them negotiate their deal. So we're going to be calling President Volodymyr Zelensky if it's a good meeting. If it's a bad meeting, I'm not calling anybody. I'm going home. I'll call you. I'll do Fox and Friends some morning, and we'll have a lot of fun. But if it's a good meeting, I'm going to call President Volodymyr Zelensky and the European leaders, who, as you know, I have a very good relationship where they agreed to pay 5%. Nobody thought they'd even pay 2%. They were paying 2%, but they weren't paying it a lot of them. And they're paying 5. They're very unified. I've never seen anything like it. Nobody can believe. what we did. I saved NATO. I saved it the first time and made it very rich the second time. So, you know, it's quite an achievement, I think. Yeah, I know you were wrong with him for about an hour yesterday, but just on what you were saying, the way I understand that Karoline Leavitt had joined Fox and Friends today, and she said the format is, if I got it right, is you're going to meet... And there's going to be a press conference after it. Will you be shoulder to shoulder with Vladimir Putin again last time was Helsinki? We haven't. I thought we had a great press conference last time. It was the fake news, tried to make it bad. In particular, MSDNC, they tried to make it bad. These are very dishonest people. But it was a great news conference, you know. It was rated phenomenal. And then about two, three, four hours later, they came up with this stupid scheme. about me and Russia, and what did we say at the meeting, and, you know, where do we get the tapes? You know, the old story. But, no, I thought we had a great meeting. And don't forget, we were under a lot of pressure because we had the Russia hoax going on. So I told him, I said, you know, it's going to be very hard. And he told me to, he understood. It's going to be very hard for us to make an economic deal, economic development deal of any kind, because I have the Russia hoax going on. And anything I do with the record. That was 2017.

I'm owned by Vladimir Putin, you know, which is not even closer. So, Mr. President, you were going to have a press conference today after the meeting, correct? I'm going to have a press conference. I don't know if it's going to be a joint. We haven't even discussed it. I think it might be nice to have a joint and then separates. So something like that will happen. Or if the meeting doesn't end well, I'll just have a press conference and head out. I'll head back to Washington. So, yeah, if it's not positive, you might head back. Is there any situation? No, I'm not positive. I will head back. Oh, I know that. I mean, you'll just head right back. You won't have the press conference. I know you're coming back. No, I would say I'll have a press conference in either event. Okay. If it's negative, I'll have a press conference to say that the war is going to go on, and these people are horribly going to continue to shoot each other and kill each other, and I think it's a disgrace, and I'll head back to Washington, or I'll have a press conference that's positive. You know, in doing six wars, I mean, six wars, think of it. And I obliterated, and now the term obliterated can be used because the Atopic Energy Commission, everybody said total obliteration. These pilots did a phenomenal job. CNN and their fake reporter tried to, who's just a scammer, CNN tried to say that, well, maybe a hit wasn't quite as good. Right. Maybe it wasn't obliteration. Maybe, you know, anything to hurt people, anything to demean. And in this case, they were demeaning the incredible people that flew in an airplane for 36 hours back and forth. and did one of the most perfect attacks in the history of our country. No, it was a total obliteration. And, of course, at him's talking about Iran. We had a great conversation with President Trump at one about 40 minutes. You just heard about 17 when we come back. Among the things we'll talk about is what would failure be like? Is there any scenario with this meeting in Alaska would be a failure? It's the best of the Brian Kilmeade. Across the country, United Health Group is working with local partners to build healthier communities every day. That includes helping partners like the Goodacre provide 45,000 meals and lower A1C in the Twin Cities. And helping Hello Family Dool Us deliver 44% fewer underweight births in Spartanburg. Because building healthier communities starts by giving people access to the care and services they need to live healthier lives. Learn more. at UnitedHealthgroup.com slash commitment. For over two decades, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation has been there for our fallen and catastrophically injured first responders, military, and Gold Star families. Born from the tragedy of 9-11, Tunnel to Towers provides mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and Fallen First Responder families with young children and built specifically adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. The Foundation also offers scholarships for college and trade school programs for...

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Well, she actually is, but she doesn't want to say it, okay? Because crime in Washington, D.C. is totally out of control, worse than ever. And as you know, they fired or something happened to the person that does the stats because they wanted him, him in this case, I think, to do stats which were much better in terms of crime. And they were changing crimes to, you know, this kind of a crime, that kind of a crime doesn't get counted anymore and all that. So you don't believe those stats. It's actually worse now than ever before. You know that. Anybody that lives here that said, I have never had so many calls thanking me. I tell you. Right. And I look at those streets, and those streets are safe, and they're going to be very safe in a week or so. Look what I did at the border. I had millions of people coming in the year before. Think of it. Millions and millions of people. And without legislation, you know, Biden said we have to get legislation change. You didn't need it. It was just an excuse for incompetence. The last three months, Brian, we had zero. people it was a zero zero and zero even i find that hard to believe but it's like you know it's like somebody did it and i hear the people that do it are the same people that were doing the bLS and all the other different things that they do with the fake reports but you know what they gave it a zero i'll take it but essentially it's very close to zero or zero but for 90 days now Nobody believes it's even the Republicans camp. I'm getting calls from senators and congressmen and women and they're saying that's amazing. But that is, frankly, I believe it's more difficult to what we have here. But we have inherently some very, very dangerous people living in Washington, D.C. And we've got to get them out. And the president's focusing on doing just that, President of the United States, 45th and 47th, giving us some quality time today. When we come back, you're going to hear more from him, not only talking about what happened with Russia, we also move on and talk about what's happening with crime in other cities with Governor Gavin Newsom, giving him such a hard time when it comes to gerrymandering and how the Republicans have a lot more cards to play. And the President fully realizes that, along with... A refugee or someone being held wrongly in China and what the president can do to get the self-made billionaire out who's a real friend of the West. You'll hear all that and more when you listen to the Brian Kilmeade. More with President Trump right after this.

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And, you know, I know that for a fact, because I know people out there, only 1% of the permits has been given. It's an embarrassment, and they're getting away with it, which is sickening. I want to talk about California. You don't what they want to do? They want to build low-income housing. They want to take away some of the sites that are owned by people and build low-income housing. You can't do it. The whole beauty of that area. I was there right after the fire, very closely to immediately after the fire. As soon as I felt there was a, you know, it was the right time. But immediately, and I met the people, many of the people, they were all standing in front of their sides. There were literally ashes, the steel. was wrapped up in balls. It was so, it was like a blow torch because of the winds. And I went there, and I saw every person on two or three streets I went to. Every family was in front of their house with a yellow cord. You can't go on it. And they said, we want to start immediately, sir. I said, why don't you start? They won't let us. I gave them the federal permits almost immediately. That's the hardest permit to get, by the way. And they still don't have their permits. And you told Karen Bass, let them do it. And she said she would. She wants them to be saved. He goes, they know. ought to be safe. It was, to me, it was one of your finest moments because she didn't do it. You were great. She said, we'll get them over a two-year period. Do you remember that? I said, two years. You mean two days? Mr. President, I lost all my stuff there in a fire in Malibu in the 90s, and they still hadn't rebuilt it seven years later. But I want to talk about Gavin Newsom. Yeah, I want to have an incompetent governor. He's an incompetent governor, and the mayor is grossly incompetent. And that worries me because we have the Olympics going there. Well, you know, Gavin Newsom's taking... he thinks that's his best path to being the next president of the United States in my view. And he posted on X. He gave you a warning instead of Governor Greg Abbott saying that if you allow Governor Greg Abbott to go through it to gerrymander, he's going to do that in California. He posted this, I guess trying to take the Trump approach. Donald Trump, Taco Trump, as many call him, missed the deadline. California will not draw, will now draw new, more beautiful maps. They'll be historic and they will end the Trump presidency. The Dems will take back the House in the midterms. What's your take on Gavin's warning that you missed? Well, Gavin is an incompetent governor. The state has gone to hell. You see what's happened to Los Angeles. And if I didn't send the troops in... You probably wouldn't have much of a Los Angeles standing right now. Those troops did a hell of a job. And you know who loved it? The sheriff and the sheriff. Now, after about a week or so, then the sheriff says, well, maybe we're going to take a look at the sheriff's statement the first day or two. They asked him, do you need the troops? Absolutely, we can't do this for ourselves. Now, he changed his tone about a two weeks later. It's always great to get the president speaking off the cuff and very comfortable with all the issues. Coming up next, we're going to talk about something really dear to me, and that's my town, which is a bigger story, has the nickname of the chiefs. Suddenly, that's politically incorrect and the governor wants to stop it. Now with this president, we look back at those moments with President Trump. This is the best of Brian Kilmeade.

Welcome back, everybody. You know, it's my interview with President Trump. He joins the show a lot, and we always appreciate it. When I see him, he'll say, why am I doing your radio show again? And I say, you just name it and we go do it. Now I look back at some of those better moments as we go through the holiday season. And I asked him about what he remembers about Russia inclusion. I asked him about the farmers in China taking retaliatory action because they're so popular with the Trump team. Here's my interview with Trump. You're saying it hurt U.S. Russian relations because Vladimir Putin, with all of his terrible track record, that's my view, not yours, perhaps, but that's in my words, with this terrible track record and with this horrible invasion that he did and what he does to his neighbors, he actually didn't infiltrate the election besides hacking John Podesta's emails. And you're saying it hurt U.S. relations throughout your four years. They don't even know about John Podester's emails. They had a couple of hackers who spent, in some cases, $50, $49.95, $101, and $103. Right. That's what they have. That's what, and these were hackers. These were people probably in Russia that took ads. They took ads per. Like this was, it had nothing to do with, frankly, Russia had nothing to do with me. No, they created this story. I remember when I said, I saw it on one of the networks they were saying after Hillary lost, this was going to be just a quick one day, two day excuse for why she lost. And the fake news picked it up and went with it. They do the same thing with the Epstein crap. They do the same exact thing. It's the exact same thing. Anything they can do to demean. Right. So what happens is they picked it up. And I remember it, one of the people, I won't even mention who now, because it could be that he's got problems, and I'm not going to get involved in that. But got up and said, well, Russia was the reason we lost. And I think the first time I said, Russia, I'm listening to this. I'm saying, this is like a day after the election, shortly after the election. I said, what's that all about? But I didn't think much about it. You know, I figured it was an excuse which it was. But what happened is the fake news picked it up and made it a two-year ordeal. And then it turned out with a Mueller report, think of this, 18 different people we had, 18 different people on that Mueller, everyone was an anti-Trumper. Every single one of them was a negative Trumper. And you know what? They ruled. Gotcha. That I did absolutely nothing wrong. Right. So in one way, I was very impressed by that, actually, if you want to know the truth. I had somebody of the 18. I had somebody in there who was an angel because it's almost impossible for that. They could have ruled whatever they wanted to do. They could have made up a story like they do so often. And, you know, guys like Weissman and some of these real scum, they're real scum. They were so involved in that. He wrote a book about how... And he was on the committee. I think he was one of the guys on the commission. Well, he was right. They said he was the brain behind Robert Mueller who had lost his fastball, sadly. I think he's doing some physical problems. Just real quick on that. Melania, the first lady, Juania Trump is suing Hunter for a billion dollars because he said that Jeffrey Epstein introduced you to each other. And she's suing Hunter for a billion dollars. Is that the right thing to do? Well, I said go forward. You know, I've been pretty well on these lawsuits lately. And I said go forward with Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Milan.

and introduce it. But they do that to demean. They make up stories. I mean, I could tell you exactly how it wasn't. It was another person, actually. I did mean to do another person, but it wasn't Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, I told her, let's go ahead and do it. I'd let her use my lawyers. He's very upset about it. Big story out today that China is about to overtake America in the electric car and really outstrip Tesla. They probably took a lot of the technology. Your thoughts about... losing the electric car business to China. Does that worry you? I don't like losing any business to China. We're leading in AI. We're leading in so much. They know it. We're way ahead of them in terms of chips. We have Jensen Huang and all these guys that are phenomenal. We're way ahead of them. Now the Blackwell is coming out. It's so advanced that they won't catch it for years. No, we're leading them. The electric car is different. See, I don't, you know, do I care? Yeah, I don't like it. But I am a believer that somebody should buy. Well, because you should, if you want to buy a gasoline-powered car, you know, we have more oil and gas than any other country. And I say, if you want to buy something where we have under the ground, you know, the batteries, China has that, but we have oil and gas. And a lot of people want. Look, it seems to be so far like a 7 or 10% market. China's gone all out. If they catch us, you know, they're not coming into here. You know, I have tariffs so they can't come in. They can't come in with that brand new car. I want to go back to immigration if I can. Mr. President. You wouldn't say that. I want them destroying our automobile business. Somebody else would let them in. In about six months, we wouldn't have an automobile business in this country. I know. It's going to cost like $21,000 in Europe's trying to keep them out, too. Mr. President, as you know, you've sealed the border in a way that I don't think anyone thought was possible. But because of that, you have an interesting situation. You have people here for generations that, of course, you're not going to get citizenship, but they've been working on farms. A lot of farmers voted for you. They work in hospitality. A lot of hospitality workers voted for you. They work in meatpacking areas. Do you have a plan? And I know some republic is going to get upset by this. But do you have a plan to give them long-term work visas, not citizenship, to not hurt the people, not hurt our economy? So as you know, I won the election with the farmers by like 88%. I won the election with the people that want strong borders by probably 100%, I would imagine, right? I mean, how could you vote for somebody that wants open borders that never called a border patrol that never went to the site? You know, the borders never even went to the border. So I must have got it. I don't know what it is, but let's assume it's like 130%. So I won the border. I won everything. And to be honest, I love all those people. They have a little bit different thing in life. The farmers want to have...

people that can work very hard in the fields and the other people don't want to have anybody from outside of our country. And I am working in a plan that I think is going to make everybody very happy. We have to take care of our farmers. We love our farmers. But we also have to take care of people that want total security and safety in our country. We're going to take care of both. Do you think within three months you'll have an answer to the hospitality workers, meat packers and farmers? Because I think they make up. I do. So within three months? Yep. Okay. I think people are going to be happy. All right. I want to make, look, they're all great. They love our country. That group of people, the Democrats don't love our country. I think they hate our country. They're crazy. They've gone crazy. I just got to ask you about Jimmy Lai. He's a self-made billionaire, Hong Kong, friend of the West. And he was taken when Hong Kong was taken by the Chinese government, he's been jailed, closing arguments today. His son joined me. And I did not know you knew Sebastian. Sebastian, like, here's what he said, cut three. Does President Trump know him? We've been incredibly grateful that the president mentioned that 100% he will free my father. He mentioned it in a radio show with Hugh Hewitt. And it's given enough family a lot of hope. Because at this point, it is about freeing him, but it's about saving his life. I don't know how much longer he has. So your thoughts, because you're going to be meeting President Xi Jinping, and he could do that. just to buy one finger. I didn't say 100% I'd save them. I said 100% I'm going to be bringing it up. And I've already brought it up. And I'm going to do everything I can to save him. I'm going to do everything. You know, he's a respected guy. He's a good guy. I mean, you could also understand President Xi Jinping would not be exactly thrilled by doing it. It was, you know, it was a very nasty period of time in the history of China. I mean, it was a very nasty period of time. With all of that being said, his name has already entered the circle of things that we're talking about, and we'll see what we can do. I really like the son a lot. I love that he's fighting so hard for his father. And his father is, you know, not a young guy. You know, how much longer is he going to live? And I hear he's doing okay health-wise, not great. And we're going to do everything we can. Chuck Todd came out and said, you're dominating like no president since FDR. And that includes education. Because in education, Brown, Columbia, George Washington University, UCLA, all of these universities are straightening up and paying a price. Why did the cult changing the culture matter to you or does it now that you're back? It matters a lot. The culture of a country matters so much. That's the same thing about Ukraine. If you look at what's happened to those cities, they've been decimated, those magnificent spires have all been, almost all of them have been knocked to the ground there in smithereens. And, you know, it's so sad, no, culture matters so much. One thing on education that we're doing that you didn't mention, and it's true, these woke, crazy colleges are paying a very big price, and you haven't heard anything yet when you hear some of these settlements that we're doing. But they're paying a big price. But what we're really doing was there. education, which I think is almost as important, maybe more important as we're sending it back to the States.

And the states are accepting it really gracefully and beautifully. And they want it. They desperately want it. We have 40 states where education would be as good as any place that were. We have 10 where it won't be so good because it's like a guy like Gavin Newsom, he's not going to run good education because he doesn't know how he's, you know, it's just got a mouth. But a place like Los Angeles is going to be tough. But all over, you go to Iowa, you go to Indiana, you go to all these places, Nebraska. Every one of these places, they're going to have. Florida is going to be phenomenal. We're sending education back to their... to the states, and we're getting it out of Washington, D.C. and the bureaucrats. You know, you have people that are involved with, like Florida from Washington. They've never even been there, and they're running education in Florida. We're sending it back so that Ron can run it, so that all the governors can run it, and they're going to do a great job. Now, 10 states are not going to do it, but they're the same thing like a guy like J.B. Pritzker won't do a good job with education. He probably doesn't even want it back, but J.B. Pritzker won't do a good job. Gavin Newsom won't do a good job. You know, the various, the same places that run badly will do a bad job. But 90% of the country is going to do a phenomenal job. We're sending education back to the states where the parents are involved. They love their children, where their teachers are involved. They love the children. And it's not going to be run by the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. that are destroying. I mean, we have the most, we have the worst education almost in the world for a top 40 country. You know, we're like 38, 39, and 40 out of 40. education. So obviously we're doing something wrong. That won't happen for long. When education goes back to these well-run states, it'll run as well as the various, like Denmark, Austria. You have some countries that have great education. Interestingly, China does very well with education, so you can't blame it on size, but they do very well with education. And lastly, on behalf of Massapequa, you and Linda McMahon helping keep the chief's name. Yep. So that means a lot. I love Massa. I have a lot of friends in Massapequic, including you. But I love Massapequa. I've heard that name for years, okay? And they have a, you know, they have a championship team. They always have a great team. I know. And everything. Young people that played on that team. And, you know, great people. They play the – we got to get the name back to the Chiefs. And you know what? They're demeaning the Indians by taking it. It's actually the opposite of what they think. They're demeaning. They are. And that's a place. And that town is sort of based around that whole football thing that they have going there. So – We're working hard. You know, it's a state problem, not a federal problem. So we have to interject and we've done that into the state. But the state is fighting us very hard. But I think we'll be successful with it. You're always successful. Mr. President, thanks so much. Best to luck in Alaska. And I look forward to seeing you walking on the military base and greeting Vladimir Putin. And we'll do the best we can. And I think we'll have a good result in the end. All right. Go get him. Thanks so much, Mr. President. Thank you very much, Brian. Appreciate it. Very good. Thank you.

So that's the President of the United States being candid of those moments of the day. But I never, never do not appreciate when he comes on. I don't take it for granted. I hope you don't either. He always comes to play. He doesn't come and be tight-lipped to or give us deceptive answers. He answers honestly. And that's why so many of you write and say, I love when he comes on your shell. Count me into. I don't take it for granted until the next time. And of course, every time he comes on, it makes a ton of news because the President's always making news. Brian Kilmeade. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.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 order to order. Please drink responsibly.