Trump back from Asia as shutdown blame game continues

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Listen, if we go into Election Day within a certain number of points, we're going to win this thing. In 2021, I beat Phil Murphy on Election Day in-person voting by $250,000. So they are expected Republicans usually do better on Election Day, but what about early voting? New Jersey, Virginia, New York City, all seeing voting surges as it becomes clear the best chance for an upset is in New Jersey as Jack Ciattarelli sees a pathway to victory. Number two. It appears the most reasonable observers that Donald Trump was punked on the world stage by the Chinese Communist Party. It was all a show. What's he even talking about? It's just incredible. Trump trip in review. Why Dems can't seem to even take out, take not a... wise damn skin seeds it just take a minute and gives credit where credits do the lack of respect even lets their voters know that there's no sense even paying attention and i think it's bad for the country number one it's actually the far left side of the democratic party because to their great credit three moderate democrats joined 52 senate republicans to vote to reopen the government There you go. JD Vance, shutdown day 31. They're not even talking to each other, too, as President Trump says, blow up the filibuster and get back to work. Have we reached that point? I'm not for that, but... Would they get the votes even? So many Republicans are against that. We discussed the fury and the pain by Americans and their vital industries. And let's bring in Jason Riley to discuss that. Jason, first off, I don't see the shutdown ending anytime soon unless we just watch the Democrats cave because Republicans are not budging. They feel the clean CR, which four major airlines have all calling to pass in two major unions have all said should be just signed and passed is just sitting out there. I don't think the Republican should give in, Brian. I think they're in a very strong position here. This is all about Obamacare. It's about health insurance and these subsidies, these subsidies that, as you know, were always meant to be temporary. They were put in place due to the pandemic, the increase in the subsidies. And the Democrats want to keep them at this elevated level, even though the pandemic is over. And I think the opportunity here is for Republicans to show flaws in Obamacare, how it doesn't work, how it's made health care more expensive, and the Democrats have to own this. The Republicans did not vote to increase these subsidies. Democrats did. They need to own it. So I hope the Republicans stick together here. I think they have a very strong argument and a chance here to explain to the American people all the problems with Obamacare. So the problem is, though, I saw a see an end poll that shows more people blame Democrats, but I just see this Washington Post poll, showed a huge disparity. 4533, they blame Republicans over Democrats. It was 4730 October 1st. Now here we are on the threshold of November 1st, and it's 4533. Now, I don't love the polling. I mean, I can't see. I don't understand it, but that's pretty stark.

Well, you have to remember, as you know, being in the media like me, what the Democrats have is not only the arguments they're putting out there, but they have the media on their side, basically repeating their talking points about whose fault this is and how much damage will be done or not done and so forth. So I think you see a little bit of that being reflected in the polling as well. The Democrats have always had that going for them, which is most of the mainstream media taking their side. And so it's really a two-on-one fight. Here's Hakeem Jeffries, cut one. But these are extremists who are willing to actually starve their own folks. One of the five states that would be most impacted, if not benefits are cut off, is Louisiana, the home state of both Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, but they could care less. So he wants to couch it as president shouldn't have made the trip. He said that he was punked on the world stage. I don't even know what that term means. And then he is continuing to just throw out rhetoric time after time. So he is not dealing. Chuck Schumer is not dealing. And I don't even hear about people underneath these guys dealing. I think they will have to deal. If the Republicans can stick together, I think the Democrats will have to cave. I really believe that some of the special interests you mentioned on the Democrats' side, particularly big labor. is now pressing them to cave. And I don't know how long the Democratic Party can go crosswise with big labor. You know how much they depend on the unions to help them turn out the vote, to help them get out their message. So leaders like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, I think, eventually we'll have to listen to those special interests. We're losing between $7 and $14 billion. It's getting pretty costly, and people got their snap and all these other things and their pay is just being withheld. causing stress around the country. Let's talk about the New Jersey election. Jack Ciattarelli, we know that he had a town hall last night. We know that he got very close last time and he defied the polls in doing so. He says he knows exactly what he's going to do and he feels as though this thing is tilting in his direction. Cut 12. Our internal polling in 21 said that we had a real shot. This time the internal polling says a whole lot. better. But listen, all I could tell you is wherever I go around the state, the energy is electric, the reception in minority communities have been overwhelmingly positive. And when Democratic mayors across this state are endorsing the Republican nominee, it tells you we're on to something. But the Fox News poll shows Cheryl's still ahead of Jack Ciattarelli, 5245. And when you break down the poll and find out what people care about on crime, they think Jack Ciattarelli's better. Cost of living, they actually think Mikie Sherrill's better. Energy, you think Jack Ciattarelli would run away with it. It's 5444. So it makes me question this whole poll.

I'm with you. And I think Chitter-Ridoli is right about last time. He really did overperform the polling. And so I think he's right to be skeptical. I don't think that's spin. He came very, very close. None of the polls saw him coming that close. And so if he thinks, hey, you know, add some points to whatever this poll says I have based on his experience last time, I think we should take him on his word at that. That's not to say he's going to win, Brian, but I think this is almost a toss-up. I think it's going to be a much closer race than these polls. are predicting right now. And I think he'd run a very, very strong campaign. I listened to his debates. I watched him put out his message. I think Mikie Sherrill hasn't been a particularly strong candidate. I think she's sort of running on her biography, which I understand, you know, the military background on that, and he's trying to undermine some of that. But, you know, I think she's running, I don't think she's done a very good job of articulating what she would do. She's just... kind of put a Trump mask on her opponent and thinks that'll be enough to get her over over the finish line. And I'm not sure that it will. So I want to bring it to your column of Wall Street Journal. And the Supreme Court is going to take up segregated political maps. Tell us what that has to do with the 1965 civil rights reform. Well, there were some temporary provisions that were put into the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And the argument is whether those provisions are now outdated. And one of them allowed for racially based gerrymandering on the presumption that white voters wouldn't vote for black candidates. So you had to create congressional districts with black candidates so that black voters would choose their candidate who looks like them. I think that's absurd right now. We're a majority white country. elected a black man president twice. I think that tells you something about whether white people will vote for a black candidate. I also know that, you know, most of the congressional black caucus does not represent districts that are mostly black. And yet they continue to win elections. All black people don't have the same political interest. poor blacks versus wealthier blacks, less educated blacks versus more educated blacks, rural versus urban. These racially gerrymandered districts just ignore all of that and think this should all be based on skin color. So I understand political map drawing. You're not going to take the politics out of that. But I think what the Supreme Court can do is take the racial aspect out of that. These maps should not be drawn along racial lines. I think that is something that is no longer necessary in this country if it ever was. So if they agree with you, the conservative Supreme Court majority, what changes? How does that change? Do people look at, all 50 states look at their maps from a different lens? Yeah. What it means is that racial gerrymandering maps violate the Equal Protection Clause of Constitution. So if states are drawing maps with too much emphasis on race, they get thrown out. The court won't approve them. Or they can be challenged in court and are likely to be struck down. So that's what it means. Right now, people can take race into account and draw maps and say, hey, we have to take race into account because of the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court could say you can no longer use that excuse.

Well, that's a relief. So check out his column, the Wall Street Journal. And Jason, as you look at the president's trip, five days, Malaysia, rare earth deal. Then they talk about he officially signs off a peace deal with Cambodia. And then he goes over to Japan, establishes a relationship with the prime minister there. They iron out and sign a $550 billion, including in it is $550 billion worth of investment here. And then he goes to South Korea, where all these countries, more defense, signed their trade deal. But the meeting with President Xi Jinping culminating there. The president says, I'll give that meeting a 12 out of 10. What do you think of the trip? What do you think of the meeting? I think it lowered the temperature, which is a good thing. China made some concessions. It's going to resume the rare earth's mineral exports. But only for a year, Brian, let's keep that in mind. They're still going to have that leverage after a year from now. Trump wants some relief for the U.S. farmers. China's going to resume buying our soybeans, which is what Trump wanted. That was a big win for him. And, of course, he won some concessions on the fentanyl trafficking that we all know about. Although I'm not sure, you know. whether or how China will do any more to crack down on that, and then how we would verify it even if they did. But he did get some concessions on that. But the bottom line here is that trade wars are hard to win. I think Trump somewhat underestimated how hard China would push back. But at the same time, we did lower the temperature. This gets us back to where we were, I think, in maybe May, and we'll go from here. But the best part of this whole trip for me is what you mentioned on South Korea, letting them be. build nuclear submarines, which is a way to contain China. And we should be doing more of that, not only with respect to South Korea, but other leaders in the areas such as Japan. So I think that is another positive aspect of this overseas trip. I want you here with the Treasury Secretary, who's really set the table for all these deals, had to say about it. Cut 40. My guess is a year from now we'll be back at the table and we'll get another delay, another role, because what everyone misses is the Chinese have rare earths, but we have President Trump's threat on tariffs. He gave the team maximum negotiating leverage when... Within 24 hours of the Chinese announcing the potential export controls, he said, if this happens, I will raise the tariffs on China 100%, which is in essence, an embargo. And the U.S., we are the deficit country. China has to export to us. So he's seeing progress. Oh, yeah, there is progress. But again, he pointed it's only for a year. And then we're back at the table again. You know, the one thing that I wish Trump had pushed Brian Moore is on the oil issue, China buying Russian oil, which allows Russia to finance the Ukraine war. I would have liked to see the president push Xi Jinping Moore on that issue. He didn't do it, but...

We'll see. But he did get some concessions, and I think those are worth celebrating. There's something. There's something. But again, we could be right back here again a year from now because of those rare earths, the rare earth's mineral situation. My hope is we're doing some deals with Australia, Cambodia, Malaysia, hopefully Argentina, doing our own mining and refining, and hopefully we'll be less dependent on them a year from now. Sometimes it's been speculated. We can probably be independent from them in 18 months, which if we focus on... on it, warp speed style, Manhattan Project style. It should be that type of urgency, along with getting our pharmaceuticals out of there. It'll give us a lot more leverage. Jason, thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. All right, listen, we'll take some calls. 1866, 408-7669. And then we'll welcome it. We'll talk about the national security aspect of all this and what Europe thinks about us pulling troops out and the war in Ukraine. This is the Brian Kilmeade. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with 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.

A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade. I understand that a lot of Americans are sick of partisanship in Washington, D.C. I've been here for nine months of this job. I am sick of partisanship in Washington, D.C. But this is very, very simple. Every partisan dispute, every policy disagreement, all of these things we can talk about, we can reason through, we can disagree, we can shake hands and compromise on some of those issues. Hope. But this is something that every single American, Democrat or Republican or independents should be able to agree on, open the government. Yeah, and it was frustrating. You heard JD Vance there, fresh office turning point appearance, along with Sean Duffy on one side, Chris Nunu. I think he's basically the lobbyist for all the airlines. Four major airlines say, just do the CR continuing resolution. The Republicans offer to get going. The Teamsters, the same thing. Another public union, the same thing. But it's not budging the Democrats. They think it's, as Chuck Schumer said, the longer this goes on, the better it is for them. Think about that when you're... or trying to find something to eat or any money to pay the bills or have to borrow money from a friend to do so. So I want to bring you to Kamala Harris. Her book tour is never ending, and she's unbelievable to think that she can go through these interviews telling people she lost the closest election this century, not true, and that she basically would have won, but Joe Biden was fine. It didn't work for John Stewart. Listen to this. Cut 21. Yeah, no, I'm not talking about competence at all. No, I believe he was fully competent to serve. Do you really? Yeah, I do. That surprises me, actually. No, I do. But there's a distinction to be made between running for president and being president. What's the distinction? Well, being a candidate for president of the United States. is about being in a marathon at a sprinter's pace, having tomatoes thrown at you every step you take. That sounds lovely. Yeah, it's more than a notion. Get involved in public service, ladies and gentlemen. And to be the seated president, the sitting president, while doing that, it's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah. I think it's a hard case to make for people that he didn't have the stamina to run, but he had the stamina to govern. Because I think most people view the presidency as a marathon run at a sprint with tomatoes being thrown at you in terms of governance. So he's being very deferential, but he can't believe she said that. And she said it again. And now she says to another interviewer yesterday, I think another foreigner podcast, she's very mad at Joe Biden. And she brought up not only in other circumstances for not sticking up for calling up and trying to find out if she was talking bad about him and she was about to debate Donald Trump in an hour.

And she thought, this is the most selfish phone call I ever got. But he called me on my birthday and everything's fine. They can't have it both ways. Jake Tapper's book, Allen's book, now you have another KJP's book, which is pure fiction. All these people covered up the fact that you saw all the James Comer testimony. And now you have guys like Ian Sams, his spokesperson, said he only met him twice in two years while going to bat for him every single day. You can't say that he was doing the job, capable of doing the job. And this is the campaigning was the issue. Eisenhower didn't campaign. He said, if you don't want to reelect me, don't reelect me. I got a job to do, and I'm going to golf, and you do it. And he got to reelect it. Nobody wanted Joe Biden reelected. He couldn't do the job. Maybe ever. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for MintMobil. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills. But it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Up front payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for $12-1 plan required, $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes, me slow when network is busy. See terms.

A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade. Well, the president is bringing respect to America everywhere in the world. I mean, you've never seen the respect the president gets on the world stage. It's the greatest thing to be with him. And then he brings home over a trillion dollars of investments, which is going to create over 100,000 jobs in America. We're bringing... millions of jobs to America. I mean, Donald Trump is delivering for this country in a way that nobody's ever seen before. The Commerce Secretary weighing in from what he saw it with President Xi Jinping and set kind of the tone there and just saw the way he was treated through translators. It didn't really need sometimes. I mean, Malaysia, they're playing his song. He was dancing with them, and he goes to South Korea. He gets a crown. You saw how he was treated by the troops with the prime minister, the new prime minister of Japan there. Here's more from Howard Lutnick, cut 38. I have to tell you, the strength and power that comes from my president, I mean, I can't be prouder to sit with him. I mean, President Xi Jinping showed him so much respect, so much respect. It was impressive. It was, you know... Excellent. I mean, the president set out, what did he set out to do? He set out to make sure that rare earths kept flowing because this economy's on fire, and we don't want anything to get in our way. He made a great deal with President Xi Jinping, and that's going to keep rolling. It was a masterclass on how to be classy, elegant, and the most powerful politician in the world. And they got to focus on getting our own rare earth. We've got a year to do it and make some major progress and start saying, yeah, we don't really need your stuff anymore. That would be key. For General Jack Keene, he thinks it won well. And from the military perspective, cut 41. I would give it pretty high marks. I mean, the whole trip itself and also with President Xi Jinping, I mean, President Trump walked into that meeting with Xi Jinping as the undisputed world's global leader, a position that President Xi Jinping has stated time and time again that they want to replace the United States as a world's global leader. And there's no doubt that President Trump has his win that it's back in this thing. Look at he. China's partner, a major partner in Iran, has been set back for years by Israel and the United States. And look at Russia. So Russia is a much more weakened position than what took place almost three or four years ago when they decided to form this partnership. Look at it now. I think major accomplishments here.

I think so too. I do know this, that it looks like Iran is starting to rearm and China is starting to help them, which drives me nuts, because we got to stop this. They're going to try China's support for the missile program is pretty clear. They're providing large sodium. percolate shipments from China and Iranian's effort to rebuild the ballistic missile program, which they were told not to. But there is one good setback. I know we don't talk much about Iraq these days, but we know that Iran, after the rise of ISIS, took over large swaths of Iraq and basically controlled it because there's such a huge Shia population. But traditionally, people think Iraq and Iran first, their nationalist first. But now Iran's parliamentary elections, you've got Iraq's prime minister may attempt, they say, to ally with Sunni and Kurdish political parties after the upcoming parliamentary elections in order to increase their own power by sidelining the powerful Iranian-backed Shia factions. That's big. What drives me crazy because this is preventable and is fixable that Syria, who wanted recognition from us and relief from sanctions, and we gave it to them as a favor to the other Arab nations, now they're... reportedly resume military fights of Russia. They're allowed to go repopulate their bases in Syria. Why are they doing that? They single-handedly did barrel bombs killing innocent people, many of which are in power now, because they were trying to keep Bashar al-Assad in power. Saad ultimately gets overthrown. He comes to Russia. You think Russia should be hitting the door, and I don't know why. I don't know why. We have not hammered Syria on this and say, you want to conduct commerce and trade with us, but yet you're allowing Russia to be a military presence. And that means fuel the Houthis and then fuel Iran and rebuild Iran. I mean, this is totally preventable. And the Gaza situation is tenuous. I get it. You get the hostages back. No one can deny that. They're shooting at stop. No one can deny that. But we have had clashes and maybe 100 Palestinians dead after they killed two Israeli soldiers. They're popping out of tunnel still in that area. You're not going to be able to rebuild guys unless you're going to get Hamas out. They're not going to be disarmed. They've got to be kicked out. And that's why I think eventually I look for Benjamin Netanyahu to finish him off. The other thing that's disturbing is Hezbo. as rearming. They're risking the ceasefire. I know we've hit them, excuse me, Israel has hit him a couple of times, but I think the intelligence shows that HESPA is rising up. They got to cut them back down almost immediately. That's the way you do it. Cut them back down almost immediately. And let them know, you're never going to reconstitute. It's not going to happen. And the thing is, with Benjamin Netanyahu there, he doesn't care. I mean, he'll run for re-election, but don't you know most of the people in Israel, I believe, even though they got war fatigue, no question, traumatized about three years ago, the attack, but don't you think the people of Israel understand they can't live with the threat in the north and south? Joining us now is Fabian Hoffman, a fellow with the transatlantic defense and security program at the center of European policy analysis. Fabian, welcome back.

Hmm. Lee might be somehow, probably get them on a better line. I would think would be a good strategy for us. So we'll see where that goes. What I'm going to bring up when we get Fabian straightened out is how it's being, how it's being messaged, the fact that we're pulling some troops out of Eastern Europe at a time in which Russia has not stopped and we've decided not to even meet. Fabian, welcome. Yeah, this is, that's problematic. I'm pretty sure. So, you know what, let's take a break, see if we can straighten it out so I can give him a good segment. I don't take too much time away from. He was in the Brian Kilmeade. Back in a moment. It's Brian Kilmeade. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Kilmeade. They're in their fourth year of the war. They haven't taken a major city since 22. They've gained 0.6% in the last year. They've taken over 1,000 casualties a year. This last offensive has failed to accomplish any of its objectives. Their economy is tanking, and now they're getting sanctions imposed on them. And also, President Trump is upgunning Ukraine militarily. Yeah, I wish we would be quicker, and I wish we didn't pull troops out of Eastern Europe, even if that was the plan. It just sends the run signal. Fabian Hoffman joins us now. Fabian, your thought about General Keene's assessment of the situation there. Yeah, spot on pretty much, I guess. I mean, Russia is bogged down in Ukraine. It's really difficult for them to make progress. They're losing a tremendous amount of man and manpower material. Obviously, also heavy losses on the Ukrainian side, but by and large, this is a quagmire for Russia, and they're getting punished hard. Do they know it? Do they feel as though they're winning? Do you think? I don't know if I had to give them sodium pentothal because we're not going to get a true read. But what do you think? That's a difficult question, right? I think by and large, in Russian society, their understanding that this war is not going the way that they expected it to go, that they wanted to go. We obviously don't know what exactly the Russian decision makers think. We have a pretty good understanding that Vladimir Putin is most likely not getting proper assessments from the front line, so he's getting a much more rosy picture than is actually the case. But I think by and large, even within the decision-making car trade, they're probably quite unhappy as things are progressing. How much could China control this? So you disappointed the president didn't bring that up? Or would you think it would have been fruitless for them to say, stop aiding Russia?

I mean, China has a massive influence on what's going on because it's the number one supporter of Russia. And without this level of Chinese support, it would be extremely difficult for Russia to continue this war, at least at this pace, right? And obviously, Russia also, they still believe they're sitting, they have more. more energy to stay in this fight than Ukraine and the West. And I think without Chinese support, it would be pretty clear also to Russia that they could not maintain their alliance. So I think, yeah, China plays a massive role in any... any pressure that we can mount on China to lower its level of aid to Russia that is extremely helpful to Ukraine and the West. So how do you feel it's being interpreted with the president pulling troops out of some countries in Eastern Europe? In my assessment here from Europe, obviously, it's not great. European allies, they would prefer a very strong, a very committed United States to these European countries. I think from a deterrence posture perspective, it's obviously not a great look when you're withdrawing a man from the frontline, so to speak, right, from the frontline countries in NATO. That sends the wrong signal. And so there's obviously then hope that in other areas aid will be expanded. Yeah. So you talk about Europe needs their own offensive capabilities to really get Russia's attention. Yeah, absolutely. I think, you know. If you look at European procurement over the last couple of years, what you see, for example, is that massive amounts of money have flown into missile defense. You know, that's not bad by and large. Obviously, there was a big capability gap that needs to be filled. But where European states are massively lagging behind is a counter-strike capability, their own cruise missiles, their own ballistic missiles, their own long-range drones, these are capabilities that are not acquired in sufficient numbers. And in the end, right, you have to threaten what Ukraine is doing right now. in Russia, that if they were to attack Europe, it would tremendously hurt. And from day one, they would receive the punishment back in their own country. Know that about it. And I think they get the message, Fabian. I mean, we hear about them spending more. We hear that, you know, the Russians are breaching their airspace. They don't need us anymore to say Russia is a real threat. Do you think they're getting the message and have the political will to do that? So they're definitely getting a message. Political will, that's a different question, right? As you know.

economies in Europe are slowing down. At the same time, you need to drastically expand defense spending. That's a difficult compromise. It's a difficult sell to the populations. You have leaders in power, some more, some less, that are really trying to sell that idea that right now defense is the number one priority and are willing to make those investments. But obviously, it's not easy. And if you ask me, no, things are not going as fast as they should. Yeah, but they'd be buying weapons for us. We've got to make them quicker. I think that's part of it. Your assessment of this new nuclear-powered Poseidon, I guess, drone that is supposed to be able to ignite a radiation-filled tidal wave to wipe out countries? Is that the premise of this? So, yeah, you have this bunch of nuclear wonder weapons, right? Like these new capabilities that were announced some seven to eight years ago by Vladimir Putin, among them Poseidon, among them Burr-Westnake, right? This nuclear-powered nuclear cruise missile that we also saw a couple of days ago being tested. By and large, I would say these nuclear capabilities, they don't matter. I mean, if you look at the Russia and ICBM arsenal, their submarine launch ballistic missile arsenal, that's pretty sizable, that's pretty robust. I don't think Russia needs these new capabilities necessarily to guarantee it's a short second strike capability. So I think this is really, you know, for signaling purposes. This is about sending this message to the United States, to Europe, to the West by and large, that Russia is able to innovate also in a nuclear space and to expand the threat horizon. But I think, you know, on a material level, it doesn't really matter. Yeah. And you bring up with Ukraine, you said, you know, what happened to their missile defense? And why is so much getting through? Is it because they're swarming drones and patriots are built for rockets, knocked down missiles? So there are a couple of reasons. I mean, Patriot is still performing pretty well from what I'm hearing inside Ukraine. But Russia has taken measures, right? They have adapted their missile systems at a software level, basically adapting the trajectory to make it a bit more difficult for Patriot to intercept incoming ballistic missiles. And then another reason may simply be that Russia is now increasingly targeting areas that are not covered. by Patriot missile launchers. And obviously, if you have no patriot in place, you also cannot intercept any incoming missiles with those weapons. So that means, right? Ukraine, first and foremost, they need more missile defense capabilities to defend a larger area of their country. All right, so let's talk about Venezuela. We've blown up about a dozen ships, boats, little boats, drug boats. And now the Wall Street Journal has today a story that we are looking at military targets inside Venezuela. Here's General Jack Keene on that, cut 45.

Clearly, bringing an aircraft carrier into this is clearly a demonstrational force. I've always said, as an army guy, the symbol of American military superiority is an aircraft carrier. If you had to pick one thing, that is it. And we're bringing that there. Obviously, it has fighters on board that can do damage on land to Maduro's... drug labs and other things that are supporting the narco trafficking that he's doing. You know, narco trafficking and his government have become one and the same because he's taking the revenue from it. That's unprecedented throughout Latin America and the collusion that's taken place there. And that's why the pressure is. Pretty amazing. See, your thoughts? I mean, you know, in the end, it's up to the American people and the American president, how they want to allocate their resources. But you know the focus. You have this renegade country, a brutal dictatorship, a guy that just lost 70 to 30 in an election again. And then you have them allowing Iran, Russia and China to really do whatever they want in that country, which is not in our interests. Yeah, I mean, if that's the assessment right on the American side, it's a threat to national security that obviously have every right to allocate these capabilities as you please. And if that's going after Venezuela, that's certainly within the scope of possibilities. So let's talk about Hungary. They're going to be coming here. The leader is going to be coming here November 6th. They're pretty much buying Russian oil. And they said, hey, we're landlocked. We have to. We have them in Spain doesn't seem to be particularly motivated to help out. Yeah, I mean, you had other countries, right? In Europe also that were they were both landlocked and totally dependent on Russian oil or gas. And they managed to get rid of it and to separate. that line between their country and Russia. And in the end, it's a question of political will. And very clearly, Hungary does not want to separate its ties to Russia, because for some reason, it still perceives Russia as an ally. And I mean, that's really, really difficult, right? Also from a consensus perspective, because in Europe, both within the European Union, as in nature, a lot happens. with consensus decisions. And if you then have a Hungary that constantly goes against what is needed, that does not make anything easier. So are you for unfreezing the funds that are in Belgium of Russians and giving it to Ukraine? I mean, at the very least, we need to mobilize those financial resources to a greater extent. I'm not an legal expert. I'm not an economic expert. I don't know exactly how you would do it through which frameworks.

But it seems pretty clear to me that you have a lot of possibilities there. And as Europe, as the West, as Ukraine is struggling with mobilizing financial resources, we should definitely make use of this money to a greater extent that we're currently doing. No question. Thanks so much. Fabian Hoffman, appreciate it. Thanks for Zooming with us, and he can catch Fabian's show. We'll post that on YouTube. Brian Kilmechell. Don't forget, Sunday at 10 o'clock is One Nation, great roster of guests, including Elise Stefanik's going to be with us, Jack Ciattarelli's going to be with us, as well as Call Road. So don't miss it. 10 o'clock, Sunday, Eastern Time, that is, on Fox News Channel. News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan. It's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade. Hi, everyone, from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, around the country, around the world. This is the Bryant Kilme show. One thing we have in common, we're all looking at a government shutdown affecting all 50 states now. And it's because they don't want a continuing resolution. They were not done with their work. Continue to work at it. Democrats said, no, we will not sign off on that. Therefore, everything's been closed gradually since October 1st. So people aren't getting their paychecks now. And judging by the average federal government salary, They pretty much live paycheck to paychecks. This is pretty bad. Coming up later, Emily Schrader will be with us, journalists and Israeli human rights activist. Pierre DeBos is with us now. He's the managing partner of his company, Romer DeBos. We're going to talk real estate here in New York City and around the country. And we know the Speaker of the House is now for the million time talking to giving his perspective on the shutdown. So let's get to the big three. Number three. Listen, if we go into election day within a certain number of points, we're going to win this thing. In 2021, in 2021, I beat Phil Murphy on Election Day in-person voting by $250,000. And the early voting is pretty strong for Republicans in proportion, but it is a uphill battle, a Democratic state. And that's Jack Ciattarelli, New Jersey, Virginia, New York City, are all seeing early voting surges. It's become clear the best chance for an upset seems to be in New Jersey for the Republicans. Number two. It appears the most reasonable observers that Donald Trump was punked on the world stage by the Chinese Communist Party. It was all a show. What is he even talking about? That is the majority, the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, who wants to be speaker, the Trump trip. In review, a remarkable success. And most of it is economic success. The trade deals, the money investing is all about here. He may be on a foreign trip, but it wasn't the ceremony that mattered. It's a shame that not a Democrat can even point out when the president has gains. It doesn't mean you voted for him.

Number one. It's actually the far left side of the Democratic Party because to their great credit, three moderate Democrats joined 52 Senate Republicans to vote to reopen the government. JD Vance, shutdown day 31, and we're not even talking. As President Trump says, blow up the filibuster, do it with a simple 50-plus votes and get the government reopened. Have we reached that point? I hope not. And I don't think we should because someday the other party gets in charge and you won't believe the damage they could potentially do. Would they get the votes anyway? We discussed the fury and the pain by Americans. Meanwhile, don't expect anything over the weekend. The Senate is going home and the Republicans are not even in Washington in the House. Pierre, welcome. Thanks, Brian. So your thoughts, economically, how are people paying the price for the shutdown? Have you felt it at all, being that you're mostly private sector? No, private sector hasn't felt it whatsoever. You know, I mean, I haven't seen any cause for concern in real estate. I haven't seen any cause for concern and people willing to transact. If anything during the shutdown, the stock market probably hit a couple record highs during that time. Yeah. And the liquidity and, you know, the two rate cuts that we've had in the fall, supersede any aspect for real estate in comparison government shutdown. And the projected what's kind of being around the corner of the big... beautiful bill passed. So that's going to be in play. We're still on Biden's level of spending. So I don't know what's going on. I'll tell you one thing that would maybe indirectly hurt you, and that is health care, because that is a major expense for the average American. And Obamacare has not worked out. That does decide, you know, do I have enough money to move to a bigger house, a bigger apartment. Yeah, of course. When you take in consideration health insurance, which is astronomically high. I mean, I own a small business. We pay health insurance for a number of employees. I mean, the bill since Obamacare has gone up probably at least five X. You know, so it's been a huge burden. But even for your average American, you know, if their proportionate share of their premiums, it continues to rise in this wet manner. It's going to affect every aspect of their cost of living. So let's talk about the mayor's race right here in New York City. It looks like the latest poll still has Andrew Cuomo far away. He's picking up a pointer. two here. Curtis has got 15, Andrew Cuomo 33, and you got Zohran Mamdani, depending on the whole 43 or 47. What worries you most about a Zohran Mamdani win? You know, there's two things. Number one, I'm going to go with the radical beliefs with respect to the police. The sentiment of defund the police has proven to be a horrible, horrible idea for New York City. When you go back to when we had bail reform in New York City passed in Albany, and then you go back to when de Blasio, you know, when George Floyd passed away or was killed, de Blasio defunded the NYPD a billion dollars. I don't know why a heinous act that takes place in the Midwest would result in the NYPD paying a price here in New York City. But the end result was crime went up 50%.

50%. So I always say, like, you have to look at what policies you've passed previously and what the results were. Bottom line was that was a colossal failure. So if we keep going with this horrific belligerent rhetoric of defund the police and bail reform and all these things, it's just going to get worse. And this city can't afford to have more crime. One of the two good things Mayor Adams did, he got that number down. He knocked that number down, but probably close to half. That's a trajectory we need to go. We don't need to go backwards. De Blasio and this lunacy put New York City back 10 years with this stuff. But the thing is, it was Andrew Cuomo that put together no cash bail, right? Of course. It was Toblasio that wanted to close Rikers. So we're not going to put anyone in jail if I'm trying to close the place. Right, right. It's crazy. I want you to hear what Jason Chaffis said, okay, I get it. He comes to New York all the time now from another. the country, from another state, but said this, cut 27. That's a motley crew, but boy, you start to see the Democrats going after them and supporting them out loud. I mean, those policies that he's advocating are some of the most radical lurch to the left we have ever seen in this country. It is a scary prospect. It is all about voter turnout just as it is in Virginia, just as it isn't in New Jersey. But boy, what a motley crew. You elect some of those Yahoo's. This country's in trouble. Well, Andrew Cuomo, they seem to be the best option, being the Kurdish. knows as a Republican, you're not going to win in New York these days. Do you think Andrew Cuomo is a better option? Oh, absolutely. I mean, Andrew Cuomo, I'm so disappointed in Curtis for not dropping out. Everybody needs to be backing Andrew Cuomo. He has his flaws. Actually, I'm not a fan of his whatsoever. Sadly, this is an election of voting for the less of the evils. That's all this is about because my sole, you know, motive for this election is keeping communism out of New York City. This guy is a radical communist. This would be a disastrous thing for the city. And then the mere fact... He said I don't like capitalism in the financial capital of the world. Oh, yeah. And his housing plan is to take over properties. He doesn't believe in the private ownership of property. Then what does that mean? That means you believe in the government-controlled ownership of property, which is communism. So all these policies, you know, if this movement, it's mind-blowing that it's made so much progress. In reality, it's a young generation, right? These kids are coming out of school, saddled with student loans. The job market's not great. Inflation skyrocket. They can't afford to live. And they're buying into its false narrative of free stuff for everybody. It's not going to happen. You're not going to be able to fund this. You know, Brian, the city is operating at a... Multiple billion dollar deficit over the last several years. Where are you coming up with the money besides your fake slogan, tax to rich, tax to rich. It sounds nice in theory. Good luck to you. He's not going to be able to pass 90% of what he's saying. And he's duping this younger generation to believing this not. Here's a scary thing. And you know local government better than I do. But the city council is his left wing as him. Right. And if Kathy Hochul feels as though, the momentum...

that's going to get her reelected would be to go with Zohran Mamdani's policy. She will raise your taxes. She'll make it. He says this is a good thing. We're just going to have them the same level as New Jersey. Do you know anyone in New Jersey who thinks their taxes aren't too high? Do you know any? And he wants to be more like New Jersey? Well, I always say when you take it, like as a small business owner, when you take all the expenses that we have, right? You have payroll tax, social security, health insurance contributions, unemployment tax, rent tax. When you take all of those, right? And then if you're lucky to take the risk and start a successful business. After all that, then you're paying over 50% of your income to the government with respect to city taxes, state and federal, right? So when you take the expenses, plus already your tax bracket, effectively you're paying 60-something percent to the government as it is. I always tell people, like, from a perspective of a small business owner, who's going to take the risk of starting a business, creating jobs, stimulating the economy if the burden is going to just keep on increasing increasing? It sounds fine, oh, 2% here, 2% there, 1% there. When you add it up, this is real money. And it's going to drive people away. It's going to drive people to South Ford. It's going to drive people to Texas. It's going to drive people to Nashville where they're going to start businesses and their economies and continue. Well, they're doing it. And it's going to be massive after this. After the pandemic, people just left. Absolutely. And during the pandemic, people just left. That's right. So. You agreed that affordability is an issue. Of course. So what are you, some of your ideas to make things more affordable? The only way to create affordability is by increasing supply. And you have to do such through incentivizing development. You're not going to create affordability by rent regulations. Just telling people that don't charge more because something's got to give. Something has to give because, okay, so let me let me give you a great example, right? You're coming into New York City to buy a building. You want to buy a multifamily building and become a landlord. Now, if you're not going to get an ROI on that, right? Then what's the whole purpose of buying a building? No one's going to operate it. Right now, the rent regulations from 2019 have created a tremendous amount of dilapidated housing because landlords have no financial incentive. What was that? What was the 2019? So De Blasio changed the rent regs in New York City in the most drastic measure in city history. And essentially, back in the day, you would be able to renovate a property and amortize part of the expense through increases of rent so you can get an ROI on that. Now, if you were to renovate a property for roughly $50,000, you would increase rents by maybe $20 a month, some that's completely nominal and insignificant. So right now, there's two big factors. You have dilapidated housing, and you have about 100,000 shadow inventory units. out there in New York City, 100,000 empty units out there that landlords say, I'd rather keep it empty than operate this at the trivial rents that the city's allowing me to charge. Now, when you talk about all these plans, creating housing, development, if I were to provide to you a plan that created 100,000 units in the next few years, you would say that was a brilliant plan. And they exist. They exist. That's the thing. Have some... Basic common sense in some... Are they in areas that are desirable? Oh, yeah. They're all over New York. They're all of Manhattan, all over New York City, everywhere. Desirable neighborhoods. It just, if you got to healthy regulatory environment, that alone frees up 100,000 units. And then if you can come up with proper incentives for developers to develop tied to some component of affordable housing, that's how you create it, right? And now we're talking multiple hundreds of thousands of units in the next few years. That then...

creates an affordability, you know, helps affordability by increasing supply, right? It's really that simple. You have to increase the supply of units if you want to help affordability. Over-regulating an industry just causes turmoil and chaos. It doesn't solve anything. So when he goes in and says, I want to freeze the rent, says he even know where to start? So, I mean, what do you do? Do you go up to the owner of that building across the street from us to say, this is residential? Don't raise their rent? I mean, what do you do? Basically, it takes every rent-regulated building in the city and says we have rent-freezes moving forward. How many are there? Roughly. What percentage? About a million rent regulated units in New York City. And what do we have? I believe, I forget the exact number. About 2 million apartments. I don't quote. So have. Let's say that. It's a very significant number. Yeah, no, no. Our stock of rent-stabized housing in New York City is extraordinarily significant. So if that happened, what happens to the people that own those buildings? Oh, that's a great. That's a fantastic point. Go look at last year. We had signature bank collapse. A number of major institutional lenders collapsed because they had a large exposure to multifamily housing. So they invested with... that landlord and they bought the building and they're not able to put the rents to make pay ends meet so they walk away from it and they walk away from their debt yes and the banks themselves went bankrupted you had three major bankruptcies last year for lending institutions because these buildings went down in value by half now if you have rent freezes these buildings go down in value to 10 cents in the dollar because right now you've had property insurance premiums go up 4x everything's gone up right but at the end of the day the rent freezes will cause it utter chaos and the stabilized market so do you think he plans on using taxpayer dollars to supplement that to keep landlords whole? I think that this is a plan for socialized housing. I think it's destruction by design, as a phrase that I've been using. I think that he wants to overregulate to create turmoil in the marketplace so the government can come in and take over these properties and create the socialized housing. The state government or the city government. I don't know which one. The federal government won't do that. Regardless, no, no, it'd be on a local level. But he's posted videos on this online. He refers to the Vienna model. Where the government comes in, they create private land trust, they acquire these buildings, and then they create socialized housing. The only way for the government to acquire these buildings through socialized housing is by creating distress in the market through overregulation and buying them at a significant discounts. You do that, you create socialized housing. That's what's called communism. Can you sue? God willing. I mean, do you have a suit? That's not the deal I signed up for. You could have banks. So when 2019. Banks can talk to and realty and rent groups can talk. Don't you think housing associations can rally? They, you know, they tried doing this in 2019. They filed a lawsuit of the Supreme Court claiming that the Blasias rent regulation changes were, quote, unquote, a taking of property. The suit didn't go anywhere, unfortunately. If you go further this level, I'm concerned whether the suit would prevail. You know, I would hope that everybody got together. But unfortunately, right now, our court system A is very tenant friendly and very left. And I don't think that the landlord lobby is strong enough or has enough support right now to really make the impact that they need to. Even though they got the money to have the lobbyists and they have the banks to also get involved, right? Well, like you highlighted, you know, unfortunately, our leadership has gone very progressive. And that's really causing a huge problem. And I think people have to realize that the negative ramifications. Would you think of a Brian Moynihan and a Jamie Diamond spoke up and had a press conference to this nature? Would it resonate?

I would hope so. I mean, I'm very disappointed that the leadership in New York City hasn't been more vocal against Zohran Mamdani. I don't know how the city hasn't come together with every major corporation CEO. I think Ken Ackman has, just individual success stories. Individual, right. But, I mean, they should have really come together and formed some kind of, you know. You think it's because Andrew Cuomo is so undesirable and people have to just saying, well, really, are we doing that much better? Actually, he would be better. He would be tremendously better. Like I said, it's a vote for less of the evils. Because the smaller you get, the less politics, the less of an ideologue you can be. You know, you don't really, sometimes you have to think twice. And for Rudy, I had to remind myself a lot of these are Republican. He was just doing the job. Right, right. He was just trying to get the job done. He wasn't acting like a Republican or a Democrat. Well, I always joke. I go back in the day, nobody cared what you were. Like most people don't remember what Bloomberg ran is. He was in three terms. He was a Republican, then independent, then a Democrat. Yeah, right, right, right. Like, most people don't realize that. He was just a good mayor, right? Giuliani was a fantastic mayor. Cleaned up the city. My fears, I don't want to see the city go back to what it was pre-Juliani. But you just can't get quality people in there. Pierre DeBos, thanks so much, managing partner of Romer DeBass. Very worried about what's going to happen. happen on Tuesday. Prediction? My reality, I sadly, I think he wins, but I'm naive. I'm holding out naive hope. But the early voting is a lot of people over 50 showing up, and that's what you would need for a massive upset. Yeah. All right. Thanks for you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Back in a moment. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmeade.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Look, you have a civil war going on in the Democratic Party. Okay. You have this far-left, extreme left, socialist. They are socialists. They call themselves Democratic Socialists. Forget Democratic. It's just a modifier for socialist. They're socialist. Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, etc. That far left is having a war with the moderate mainstream Democrats. I'm now a moderate. All my life, I was a crazy liberal, son of a crazy liberal, but the world shifted so fast that now I'm a moderate. Okay, so it's the far left versus the moderate. A lot of the mainstream Democrats are afraid of the left. So they think they're going to make peace by endorsing Zohran Mamdani, and they're going to buy peace with the far left. I have news for them. The far left is never going to declare peace. I hate to say it, I totally agree with Andrew Cuomo on everything he said. Everything he said was 100% right. He's actually like an analyst. I just don't can't believe, because he does this for a living every day. We're covering a million stories. I'm doing Ukraine, talking about China, the trade, the elections. And, you know, New York City pops up, and he's running for New York City mayor. Now, his dad ran against Ed Koch and lost. So he grew up in Queens. I think his, I know his dad went to St. Johns. I believe they grew up in Queens. So he knows New York. So when he goes to run for city, he may have any different mayors he dealt with, Republicans, you know, Rudy. I think he dealt with Rudy as an attorney general and then Bloomberg for three terms. So he knows what it's like to work with somebody who's capitalist, certainly moderate, started as a Republican, Bloomberg. So he knew this. So when he comes in, he goes for the fight. Why did he not separate himself from this while still saying I'm a Democrat? Why did he go to the neighborhoods? Why did he not see that the younger people were not voting for him and how did he clear that up? Why did he not open up and say, let me address the harassment allegations that out to me from office prematurely? Instead, he just waltzes through, sleepwalks through, gets upset in the primary, and now we're going to get stuck with this socialist. It's crazy. I know it's tough for him too because he's used to running against the Republican. This time he got beat by a guy that should be unelectable. Radio that makes you think this is the Brian Kilmeade. They have. violated the ceasefire by not giving our hostages back and they are firing at our troops all of them against the ceasefire Israel will enforce the ceasefire we believe in the ceasefire but we will enforce it yes uh

That is the story, the latest in the Israel. And right now there was a flare up over the last few days, but they always go back to a ceasefire in the end. Fundamentally, Hamas is slow walking, all the hostages remains. We've got two more out, down to 11. And you can't get to phase two unless you get through phase one. Actually, in phase two is when Hamas is supposed to disarm. In phase one, they thought we'd be through it already, but it's still... problematic. It's going to be tough, but I love the fact that no one can deny, there's no raging war, no one can deny all the living hostages are out. That's what changes for Hamas. And the rest of the world's rallying. I love to see the Arab world step up and express some outrage when Israeli soldiers killed. Emily Schrader joins us now journalist who lives in Tel Aviv and Israeli human rights activist and author of 10 things every Jew should know before they go to college. Emily, welcome. Glad to be here. First off, did you live in Tel Aviv now? Did you ever live here? Yeah, of course. I'm originally from Los Angeles, but I've lived in Tel Aviv over 10 years now. What made you go? I have to say, a lot of the campus anti-Semitism. Didn't intend to talk about that today, but that's the truth. I attended USC for my undergrad and I experienced some of the same types of bigotry that we've seen today, not quite as extreme, but just a very, very hostile environment for Jewish students on campus. And this is before all the, you know. All the uprising after the attack by Hamas. So a lot of people think it just came out of nowhere, but you said it was there? Absolutely. I mean, this has been an ongoing issue on campuses for many, many years long prior to October 7th. Where does it come from? It's coming primarily from the groups like Students for Justice in Palestine as well as some other extremist groups. And this group actually has ties, albeit distant, to Muslim Brotherhood. So there is a concerted effort to subvert pro-America and also pro-Israel activism on campus. Now, unfortunately, they are usually targeting Jewish students, not even activists, but Jewish students. And we've certainly seen that in the aftermath of October 7th as well. I remember UCLA, we covered it live, that these kids. were trying to get through and they just said, oh, you're Jewish, you can't walk through. Can't walk through. You know, a campus that you're probably paying tens of thousands of dollars to go to because you're Jewish. Yeah, that's right. I mean, what we saw with the encampments is really inexcusable. And, you know, we do know from the U.S. government reports that at least some of that was funded in part by the enemies of the United States, the Islamic Republic of Iran. And we've also, of course, seen $6 billion over the past few years be poured into American academia by Qatar. So this is a definite effort to undermine, I think, freedom-loving liberal values, at least on campuses. So what was the feeling in Tel Aviv when the hostages came out and when the deal?

was signed? Unbelievable sigh of relief collectively from left to right, religious, secular. Every community in Israel felt that truly, truly, truly a remarkable day that we weren't sure was going to happen. And it happened. And that's the main thing. If Hamas continues to act like the terrorist organization, they are. The thing is, the gloves are off if you have to go back. You know exactly where to go. You know the tunnels that remain. You actually know how to do the fighting instead of going through training. Now you have a year, two years of training to do it. So it's going to be interesting because now we have... communication constantly with Jared's over there now, Jared Kushner. We also have Steve Witkoff over there. We have the vice president over there. Now we have the Secretary of State. Actually, you need this type of hands-on constant vigilance from other than just Hamas and Israel. Is it welcome? Yeah, I mean, I think there are concerns primarily because I don't think that anyone in Israel believes that Hamas is actually going to disarm or disband or that they're going to step away from any form of governance. They themselves have stated unequivocally that that's not going to happen. At the same time, I think it's very important that there is an international coalition, that there is leadership on this, holding these parties accountable for the ceasefire, but more importantly, for the long-term well-being of the entire region, for that disarmament of groups like Hamas. So when you see right now, the IDF is where they're supposed to be, and they were still attacked. You said with an RPG, and you said it was one of the soldiers that lost their lives was an American? Yeah, on Wednesday there was an RPG attack by Hamas terrorists. In Gaza, there have been a few. skirmishes like this that we've seen since the ceasefire took place. And unfortunately, yes, the soldier who was killed on Wednesday was an American-Israeli, both Yona Feldbaum is his name. And unfortunately, this isn't surprising. I mean, we have seen actions like this from Hamas violating the ceasefire and trying to sabotage the progress that's been made thus far. And we did see Israel respond to that. And I expect that will be the same if they continue to attack IDF forces. So Hezbo is not moving over. They're trying. to rearm right now. They're risking the ceasefire there. How close is the Israeli government watching what the developments are? Because the whole point was that Lebanon would say this group's been diminished severely thanks to Israel's brilliance. And now they could take over Lebanon. Can you imagine Lebanese running Lebanon? But that's not happening yet. No, it's not. And I think it's something to pay close attention to because it also, we can learn from this example when it comes to dealing with Hamas. I mean, the UN Resolution 1559, as well as 1701, called on Hezbollah to withdraw from southern Lebanon to disarm and to disband. No enforcement. Even when billions of dollars, by the way, U.S. tax dollars, taxpayer dollars, were poured into Unifil. They didn't do their job. They weren't able to do this. And that was the peacekeeping group in the area. That's right. They were basically complicit with Hezbollah or scared to death.

them. That's right. And that's what we're seeing from Lebanon now. You know, at first the government was saying, yes, we're going to disarm Hezbollah. And now suddenly it's been a rearmament of Hezbollah and they don't really have the power to enforce that ceasefire. And that is extremely dangerous. Of course, for Israel, which we're paying close attention to, but also for Lebanese. They shouldn't have to live under effectively an occupation of the Islamic Republic of Iran through their proxy, Hezbollah. Yeah, we understand too. Intelligence shows Iran's, Iran is sending them rockets, anti-tankment. and artillery, which is unbelievable because their people are starving. And yet they're sending whatever money they have to buy weapons or make weapons and send them over to their proxy groups. Well, it's disgraceful. I mean, you see the economy in Iran is in free fall. There's 90 million people who effectively are a form of hostages of their own government. There is nothing operating the way that it should inside Iran and the people are really paying the price. And instead of prioritizing the well-being of their own people, they're sending billions of dollars to terror groups and figuring out ways to evade sanctions instead of... just acting as they should responsible leaders of their country. How close is the international force to being deployed? I mean, I think there's a lot of things that need to be worked out. But there's also debates inside of Israel and even between Israel and the U.S. in terms of who's going to be involved in this. We saw just a few days ago. The Trump administration wanted to have some sort of representation from Qatari forces. That was a hard no from the state of Israel. They vetoed that. I expect those decisions and debates to continue for at least a few more days. So why would you be against Qatar military? Well, I think from October 7th through today, we've seen many Qatar officials speak out both sides of their mouth. On the one hand, they want to have good relations with the United States. On the other hand, they are regularly spewing anti-Semitic rhetoric across social media, sometimes even very plainly in English. Their government? Or they're people? Government officials. Government officials. Yes. Ambassadors, senior officials. There was just a new one last night that I saw that had been tweeting since October 7th, really crazy things, even endorsing. the actions of October 7th. And let's not forget that they've allowed Hamas to have an effective headquarters in Qatar for many, many years. They could have done more sooner. And that's very frustrating, I think, for Israelis because they don't trust Qatar. By the way, we're talking with Emily Schrader. She's journalist and Israeli human rights activist here from Tel Aviv. And her book is called 10 Things Every Jews Should Know before they go to college. But let's talk about the nations in the Arab world that would be acceptable. Well, I mean, I think Israel has a long standing. You know, Indonesia said, well, you need 30,000. Indonesia says, I'll supply troops. I don't know anybody else that stepped up. I hear they're training, they're training Palestinians and some others in Jim Jordan and in Egypt. What have you heard?

Same thing. So right now we're looking at Jim Jordan and Egypt being the primary contributors in addition to Indonesia. I know that the Trump administration is working very hard to build a much broader coalition that can enforce this. I do think that that's the path forward for Gaza. We don't want to see Israel controlling what's happening in Gaza. They should have their own form of governance. But absolutely, we have to get rid of these terror groups, which, by the way, another proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran should not be in power of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. I mean, it's just un- acceptable and all the Arab world should be on the same page as that. Do you think the Arab world really wanted the fighting to end in Gaza? It's pretty clear they did, right? Yeah, I mean, I think, again, it's hard to tell because a lot of times you see these leaders speaking out both sides of their mouth or something different in English than it would be in Arabic or to their own people. But yeah, of course. I mean, nobody wants to see war. It's a terrible, terrible thing. It's a terrible thing for everyone involved. But I would say, and you know this better than me. If you talk to an al-Qaeda fighter, an ISIS fighter, Hamas, and Hezbo, they like war. Sure, but that's not the same thing as a state, you know, when we're talking about Egypt, Jim Jordan, even Qatar, any of these countries, with the exception, I will say, of the Islamic Republic of Iran, most of these countries are not keen to start big wars, even for causes they very much believe in. See, that's what I think that's happened over the last 10 years. I think these leaders are trying to lift their economies. I think they really are. And Saudi Arabia is probably the most amazing story that I've seen. The fact that they care about entertainment, that they care about, they're trying to get their people to do things. They're trying to give their women stuff that we take for granted, I guess, because everybody should be equal. But. The things are allowing women to do now, walk around in Western style clothing, being able to drive in these things. I mean, we were told that was never going to change. And this prince has seemed to have done a lot. Absolutely. I mean, I think the progress in Saudi Arabia is truly remarkable. I'm very hopeful there'll be peace between Israel. I think they want to sign to deal with you, don't you? I sure hope so. Yeah, I know it's been in discussions for a long time. In fact, it was one of the reasons that Hamas wanted to do the October 7th massacre. They wanted to throw a wrench in that expansion of the Abraham Accords. I'm hopeful that they will not be successful and that moving forward we can continue to see that. I know it's a main priority also of the Trump administration to push forward this initiative of expanding the Abraham Accords, whether it be with Saudi Arabia or Indonesia. I know that Israel is on board for anyone who wants to make peace with Israel. We're willing to make peace with them. So let's talk about some things that parents should know before they send their Jewish kids to college. Well, I think the most important thing is that people are prepared with the basic information and even the terminology, which is something I spoke. about in the book quite a bit that people don't know the difference between terms like the West Bank or Judea and Samaria. They don't know that Judea and Samaria is the actual historic name of that territory and that in fact the West Bank means the West Bank of the Jim Jordan River referring to Jim Jordan, not a historic state of Palestine or anything like that. And I don't say that to minimize anything for Palestinians, but because when a student goes to campus and they get these things thrown at them that may or may not be true because a lot of people don't know what they're talking about yet they speak with.

such confidence. These students who are not, you know, experts in international law, they don't know what that means. They don't know what the connotations are. They don't know who the players are on this issue. And you shouldn't have to have a law degree to be able to have a conversation with people on campus. And unfortunately, that was my experience. You know, you have to be. You're a bad engagement. Yeah. So instead of just, you take these people on. Absolutely. Absolutely. And it doesn't mean you have to even have a debate, but have a conversation, an educated conversation, where you can speak honestly about these things, no matter what side of the issue you're on. Give me some more. For example, who was there first? Well, I think when it comes to who was there first, it's not really debatable. I mean, I know they would like to debate it, but of course, the Jewish people, where they are from is Judea and Samaria. It is the land of Israel. That is where they became a people. And honestly, I mean, the Palestinians that we know today, the Arab Palestinian people, came as colonizers to the first time in that region. So that is the history. Now, that doesn't mean they don't have a right to exist or anything else today. But historically speaking, it's unquestionable who was there first. Looking back now with the Jon Ossoff Accords, would that have been a disaster? Had Yasser Arafat said yes? And... What do you think? In the 90s? It's hard to say. I mean, he kind of did say yes and the no and backtracked on that issue. And then ultimately we saw the second Intifada. It could have worked if there was a viable leadership that was ready to teach peace. And this is the core thing that's missing even until today, that even if there was a Palestinian leader who said, okay, let's move on from this history of rejectionism and violence and, you know, all of the things that we've seen over the past 70 some years, the public won't accept. And this is the problem with a highly, highly radicalized society. And that's why you saw criticism, actually, from Palestinians of Yasser Arafat for even agreeing in the first place to the Jon Ossoff Accords. And that's something really important to note. We have to teach future generations that Israel has a right to exist and vice versa. Otherwise, we're not going to get anywhere in the long term. And that would have connected Gaza and the West Bank and they would have some type of tunnel or bridge to both lands, correct, and a portion of Jerusalem? Yeah, I mean, this is one of the things that has been offered land swaps for a certain areas. I don't think Israel would ever go for that now. I don't think so either, just in terms of security. Yeah. I mean, we're in a very different reality today. Also with the intervention of, as I mentioned, the Islamic Republic and all the proxy terror groups that they're working on, I mean, they've been trying to infiltrate the Jim Jordan border to attack Israel from that side as well. Even now there's discussion of the proxies of the regime that are in Iraq coming into Israel to invade, not just with missiles, but also trying to get through Jim Jordan to invade Israel. So this is a very, very serious threat, and I don't think that Israel's an...

a position to give some of the concessions that they previously were willing to give simply because of security. Does Benjamin Netanyahu get reelected? Oh, that's a great question. I mean, we'll have to see. It depends. Honestly, it depends on the day how popular Benjamin Netanyahu is. Right now, I saw the polls, even this morning, we're saying that the opposition would win pretty steadily if the election were held today. But he does seem to be somewhat of a magician electorally. It seems that every time we go to elections, something happens, and he's able to come out ahead again. So we'll have to see. All right. Emily, Schrader, pick up her book, 10 things every Jew should know before they go to college anywhere. Emily, thanks so much. Thanks. Back in a moment. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis, because, man, do you need to know. It's Brian Kilmeade.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Here it all on the Brian Kilmeade. It's putting stress on people. You know, the first couple of weeks this had no impact on the economy. But as every day goes by, the impact starts to grow. Pass a clean CR, get to the table, negotiate a deal. Do not put working people in the middle of a problem. So that is Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, and Sean O'Brien, who runs the Teamsters are traditionally, oh, by the way, it's totally blown off by the Democratic Party, but traditionally a Democratic group, you know, big unions, another workers union, same thing, go back to work, do the sign the continuing resolution, go negotiate on those other things. But right now my guy's got to get back to work, they've got to get paid. So what's so hard about that? Senator Tim Kaine was asked that. You've been around forever. You indicated that. Republicans in the past have been criticized for just refusing to sign on to a continuing resolution because they had some policy disagreement. And now the shoes on the other foot and you seem to have blacked that out. Cut ten. If we voted for this bill and President Trump fired people next week, they would come to me and say, why the hell did you vote for that bill? So, Senator, here's the answer. If part of the deal to get back to work is have the OMB director and the president sign off on not firing people anymore in the federal government for a year. How about that? How about for a year? Do you know Mike Lawler, I don't know how much if he had the speaker's ear on this, but he walked up to Hakeem Jeffries three weeks ago. And he said, sign this paper. It shows it will keep the current subsidies on health care for another year. And Hakeem Jeffries said, personal attacks, just personally attacked him. So why are they not working on this? You could walk away and say, I got guarantees that they will not tear up any more programs, USAID, PBS, NPR, fire anybody for a year, especially people, money that's been approved already. So you get free of that, and then you have a continuing resolution. We already also have a guarantee that they've already said at John Thune. You want to talk about subsidies and how to extend it and how to get health care costs down? We'll do that. We'll get open the government again. So that's going to be the sweet spot. The sweet spot is put it in writing, guarantee not to fire people. Democrats say, look, look, I got that concession and a promise to negotiate on subsidies. You listen to the Brian Kilmeade. So glad you're here. Don't forget tomorrow. I'm going to be in Potsetown, Pennsylvania, history, delivery, and laugh streamed on Fox Nation. Brian Kilmeade.com.

Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sewing division. It's Brian Kilmeade. All right, here we go. Final hour of the week here at the Brian Kilmeade, 1-8-6-6-6-9. A lot going on. Don't forget, One Nation Sunday at 10 o'clock amongst our guests. Elise Stephonic's going to be with us. Call Rogue's going to be with us. Jack Ciattarelli will be there. And we're going to have other big-time surprises. Also, don't forget, one, I'm going to be on stage tomorrow. History, Liberty and Labs in Pennsylvania. Start driving now. It's in Potsetown. And it'll be the last one of the year. It'll be streaming on Fox Nations. Hope to see everyone. everyone. And my last announcement is I see at the Patriot Awards at the TILA Center for Performing Arts at the great Long Island University, where I went, foxnation.com slash patriot awards, get tickets. There are some good tickets left, but not many, so please do not delay. Shannon Breams coming up this hour. Josh Crash Hours coming up this hour, but first let's continue the big three. Number three. Listen, if we go into Election Day within a certain number of points, we're going to win this thing. In 2021, I beat Phil Murphy on Election Day in-person voting by $250,000. Jack Shaderelli, fingers crossed. He could actually win in New Jersey. Big town hall last night. It was very impressive. You can't say that he does not know his stuff, where you can say that a lot about Abigail Spanberger, by the way she's campaigned, and Mikie Sherrill. She's just been awful. New York City is another Titanic situation, and it's a five-alarm fire if Zohran Mamdani wins. We'll discuss it. Number two. It appears the most reasonable observers that... Donald Trump was punked on the world stage by the Chinese Communist Party. It was all a show. What is wrong with him? I mean, at least addressed the issue. He just had a very substantive issue. You don't like the Malaysia trade deal. You don't like the Japan trade deal. You don't like the South Korean deal. You don't like that they're going to build up more military. You don't like that they're going to be buying our soybeans again. You don't like the fact that we've reduced tariffs because of fentanyl. All right. You want to get into it. But to say that he was punked. Or do we in 11th grade? Who uses that term anymore? The Trump trip in review. Number one. It's actually the far left side of the Democratic Party because to their great credit, three moderate Democrats joined 52 Senate Republicans to vote to reopen the government.

JD Vance, frustrated. Day 31, it continues. Both Democrats and Republicans have dug in. Republicans say continuing a resolution. We'll fund at Biden levels and talk about things you want to talk about. And that's not good enough. So they voted 13 times to reopen the government 13 times. It did not get 60 votes with three Democrats joining every Republican except Rand Paul was on his own planet. Let's go to Shannon Bream. Shannon, this is getting to see the same story. I don't even put the sound up now when I see any of leadership, Democrat or Republican talk, because they got nothing new to say. Yeah, until they do, we just have to wait and wonder. And the real life stuff is starting to ripple out, whether it's travel, there's not benefits or military pay. Like, you know, the real world impact is there. But Republicans, as you know, will continue to say over in the House, we pass something. It doesn't add. It doesn't cut. These are funding levels we've already agreed to. Pass that. Everybody gets what they need, and then we continue negotiating. Multiple Democrats now saying this gets better for us. This is our point of leverage. This is why we're doing it, even though in the past they have decried using this as leverage. So this is how Washington works. So Shannon, I think in your interview told me more about how this is going to end with Tim Kaine. So, and he said it again. And do you know what he revealed? He said, I don't trust President Trump to not cut any programs. I don't trust them to say, to do what they're said they're going to do. And that's legitimately deal when it comes to health care or Obamacare. So there's a way to get that guarantee. And then he said it again. Cut 10. If we voted for this bill and President Trump fired people next week, they would come to me and say, why the hell did you vote for that bill? I mean, come on, Shannon, there's a way to see. If that is legitimately the issue, if you tell the OMB director, we're not going to do any more firing for a year, let's say, so to speak, that might be a, or six months, that might be a concession. If we say, if Republicans say, hey, you know what, we're not going to cut any program. We won't cut any programs. If you guys just come back, open up the government, we'll get back to work. There could be something there. Do you see that? Do you see that crack? Yeah, and there are reports today that there have actually been some bipartisan conversations on the Senate side. So I'm hoping that we can get more detail on that. Is it actually happening? I think it was Axios. Are they blowing smoke? I don't know. But there have to be some conversations about off-ramps because there's also reporting today that Democrats on the Senate side are getting very itchy with the word to try to get something done and wrapped up. So, you know, people are feeling pressure. And, you know, maybe, you know, there's also speculation, okay, if Democrats have a good night on Tuesday, say they win in New Jersey and Virginia, obviously Zohran Mamdani is going to win probably in New York, Prop 50 out in California. If they can celebrate those wins, the Chuck Schumer then say, like, look, we've made our point. People are trending our way. We'll open up the government for now, but we know long-term people are with us. I don't know. We're just looking for any clue on how this wraps.

Here's Senator Lindsey Graham. He has a prediction, cut nine. What happened next week? Why? Just because the carnage is piling up, and Democrats are getting hurt more than they're being helped. But there's a poll out there, and you've probably seen it, that says 4533 in Washington Post ABC poll, they blame more Republicans than Democrats, which stuns me, by the way. Well, and the thing is the Democrats will say, like, you guys control everything. Well, it takes two seconds to figure out that you can't move something through the Senate without 60 votes. That means you've got to get Democrats on board with you, but it's very easy to say. Oh, look, Republicans have the White House House and Senate. And if people have not heard of Schoolhouse Rock, they may not understand how this works with a filibuster and actually moving something in the Senate. Even if you're the majority party, you can't do it unless you get some of the minority to come along with you. So I think that's a very easy soundbite. And it seems to be working. Although the poll did note that things are trending away from Democrats, the longer this goes on, even though Republicans are still getting blamed. more people are starting to blame Democrats. So there's some shift there. The president seems completely comfortable. He said, listen, military is always going to get paid. We'll figure that out. Everything else is going to keep going as it does until you guys come back to the table. So in a long truth social, the president, by the way, I guess there is no minimum there. When you make up your own. Apparently not. When you have your own social media site, you can make up the rules. And he goes on to say that, you know, why is this still happening? And these are the last two lines of a long truth socially says. This will hurt American citizens. And Republicans will not let it happen because of the shutdown. It is now time for Republicans to play their Trump card and go for what is called the nuclear option. Get rid of the filibuster and get rid of it now. That not one Republican has really backed him on that, nor do I think it's a good move personally. But what are your thoughts about it happening? Well, Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said today, nope, my position is well known and we're not going to do it. Republicans know what it's like to be the minority. And when you're in that position, the filibuster is the only thing that you have. If you don't control anything in government, that's all you have. So I think that they think much more longer term. And I do think that soon – and Democrats that you would talk to too that have had this discussion over the years would say, listen, the Senate as an institution, there is some protection for the minority. That may be the only protection they have. And so neither side seems to be willing to move on it. And it might be one of the only places that Republicans in the Senate are willing to stand up to the president and say, like, no, just leave the procedure to us. We're not going to change it. So all four major airlines are calling on Democrats to sign the continuing resolution. The Teamsters, another workers union also is calling on Democrats. So do you think that will begin to resonate? I want you to hear Scott Kirby yesterday and Sean O'Brien. Scott Kirby is the United Airlines CEO, cut eight. It's putting stress on people. You know, the first couple of weeks this had no impact on the economy. But as every day goes by, the impact start to grow. Pass a clean CR, get to the table, negotiate a deal. Do not put working people in the middle of a problem.

I mean, they walked out of the White House. I mean, we're not used to this. I'm not used to hearing unions come out against Democrats. Right. And I do think that that kind of stuff is starting to build up for them. That will be, you know, more of a pressure point and a real issue for them when their traditional allies are saying you've got to change it. And the fact is the last major shutdown with President Trump, what, 35 days in his first term. Aviation was a big part of that because now we're heading into, you know, potential holiday travel for people as you get closer to Thanksgiving and, you know, Christmas and everything that's going on in the coming weeks, people start to freak out. I mean, every day you and I see it and, you know, folks at home see it. There are airports that have massive delays. We had a huge ground delay. I was coming into DCA here in Washington, D.C. yesterday. And that kind of stuff really takes people off. And so the more of that that happens, the more people start missing paychecks, the pressure's there. And it just, who's going to cave first in this game of chicken? Because you said the polls favor the Democrats right now. But both sides think they're winning. So let's talk about the president's trip. He was gone for a while, very high profile. I was prime time for us because we're watching all these press conferences on the morning show. But in terms of the deal with Malaysia on rare earth, the trade deals with Japan and South Korea, along with ship building and allowing South Korea to build and buy nuclear-powered subs. And then you have the China meeting. I thought this thing was going to be roundly praised. But a lot of people are against it. Here is General Jack Keene. He said this is how he assessed it. And he was much more positive. Cup 41. I would give it pretty high marks. I mean, the whole trip itself and also with President Xi Jinping, I mean, President Trump walked into that meeting with Xi Jinping as the undisputed world's global leader, a position that President Xi Jinping has stated time and time again that they want to replace the United States as a world's global leader. And there's no doubt that President Trump has his win that it's back in this thing. Look at he. China's partner, a major partner in Iran, has been set back for years by Israel and the United States. And look at Russia. So Russia is a much more weakened position than what took place almost three or four years ago when they decided to form this partnership. Look at it now. I think major accomplishments here. So what do you think about General Jack Keene, who usually tells it like he sees it? He does. I think that he is a good, neutral, strong voice to kind of guide us to where things stand. Listen, with respect to everything that happened in Asia, it seems to be another Roershack test. For most people, here in Washington, it's a party thing. You've seen them talking about President Trump getting played on the world stage, Democrats saying all these kinds of things. But there are plenty of people here who think, listen. You guys underestimate him. He's done a lot of big deals. You may have to eat those words at some point. A lot of this is not set in stone yet. It's got to get on paper. It's got to get signatures. But the White House feels very optimistic that they had a 12 out of 10 trip and that all these things are going to come to fruition. Shannon, we remember in Alaska when President Biden took over and his people got blasted by the Chinese and got a lesson to and were told that we were bullies and imperialists. And we remember how.

During that administration, we were continually sending people to China. We were sending people over there who were then kind of given talking to a lecture and sent home with nothing. Yeah. Multiple times, multiple officials. And remember, the defense secretary couldn't get his counterpart on the phone for a couple of years. So while we just want to talk to you, please talk to us. And now you have a situation where... where you have President Xi Jinping, through an interpreter, basically praising him, great to see you again. We can work something out. We're two great powers. We're not going to see ID on everything, but that's okay. And I'm thinking to myself, this is pretty impressive. So, okay, maybe they could have their tongue in their cheek and their fingers crossed behind their back. I don't know. But they're still saying this to the world to see, setting the tone for the next 90-minute meeting. So while saying, see you in April. And we're going to try to work out a trip for you to come to come to Marlago. Yeah, and that's, as we know, that's completely different than the way things were handled in the last administration. And President Trump takes a lot of heat for having relationships with, you know, agreeing to meet with Kim Jong-un, meeting with President G. talking with President Vladimir Putin, meeting with President Vladimir Putin. But, you know, his theory is you get more done by actually being in communication with these folks. Yep. Shannon, who's on your show? Well, we're going to have a speaker with us on Sunday exclusively to talk about, you know, what are the off-ramps? How does this thing get done? We're going to preview all the elections coming on Tuesday. We've got Senator Tim Scott with us looking ahead to 26. You know, he's trying to. hold the Senate from being flipped for Republicans. And so we'll talk about all of that. And we're going to preview the big tariffs case that's Wednesday at the Supreme Court. President Trump may go. We'll see. So the tariff case, which is going to say, will the president's tariffs be invalidated, saying that's really a congressional power that the executive took and it's not an emergency? Is that correct? Yeah, I mean, essentially that's what the lower courts have said, is that, you know, he doesn't have the powers that go that far, that these specific laws don't authorize tariffs. And the administration says it authorizes emergency power. And that's what this is, and they're going to move forward with it. So he's had losses down below in the lower courts, but they feel good about their arguments on Wednesday. It's going to be epic. I think it's going to be one of those things that really goes way beyond the time that's set for it. And listen, if the president shows up, he'd be the first sitting president to do that. during arguments. So it could be quite a crazy day over there. By the way, this president likes to be unprecedented. Yes, he does. And lastly, I know you've got to run. But when will we hear the results after the arguments are done? You know, normally a case like this, you'd be waiting for, like, June when all the biggies come. They've already expedited this thing by adding it to the calendar and kind of kicking off another case. So I think we hear it pretty quickly, maybe a matter of weeks. That's quick for the Supreme Court. So, and by the way, I heard your lineup which sounds fabulous for Sunday night, and it sounds perfect for a dance party. Hmm. I wish I had the time. But I didn't have. Every time I just ran out of town, I end up dancing alone with the lights off.

Dancing with myself. Right. They can play that song for you while you dance. That would be effective and appropriate. Thanks so much, Shannon. I'll see you Sunday. All right. Great. See you Saturday. Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Here at first on the Brian Kilmeade. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmeade. I think Gen Z is going to be a lot more conservative. I think that just my experience knowing Gen Z kids, my kids and their friends and whatever, I sense much more skepticism of, and I think it is a reaction to Gen Xers and millennials forcing on them. progressive views in school. And that is Jake Tapper. You probably don't recognize his voice, but he's trying to be Bill Maher. And what he's trying to do is say something logical. And again, it's maddening. He writes a book and says Joe Biden was never good. He wasn't there as a president. Only had four cabinet meetings. And then what happened after the debate, the push to get him out. And that he was not functioning as a president. It was down to four hours. And you couldn't hurt him for a certain amount of time. You couldn't give him too much. You couldn't contact him a certain hours. And you couldn't give him too much to read. We find out he was meeting with almost nobody. And nobody believes he signed all those pardons or OKed all those pardons. One guy, by the way, just got arrested for killing somebody else. No, it's not on death row, but he was doing life. So he commuted his sentence. Why? Who are these people? Why did you commute their sentence? What went into this decision? I'll tell you right now, you might not agree with George Santos. You might not agree with this Bitcoin guy the president just got out. But I know exactly. He'll tell you. Yeah, I just signed off on this guy. I got him out. Pete Diddy, I don't think I'm going to do that. So at least we hear from the president. You can be outraged and do your own radio show and you know where they stand. But now we have all these guys who are pardoned by an auto pen. There's no proof Biden even knows. There's no proof that even his chief of staff signed off on all of it. So who's doing it and how much they got paid? Josh Hawley said that the other day. These lobbyists come in. They say, you can get my brother out. It would mean a lot to me. You get a pardon on this. You get them out. You usually get money if you have access to the president. So it is just outrageous. what has gone on. And then you have Ian Sams come out, who is the president's spokesperson and said I met with him twice. And once was on Zoom, I was in the White House and he was on Camp David. He came out every day and said that Joe Biden that I see is sharp. He's to the point. He leads every discussion. The one that we saw, he walked into meetings with no cards with the names of his cabinet on it. He'd forget the name of his Secretary of Defense. He'd call him my general. We all saw that. And we report it and you do it. And people would come up to me and say, I can't believe no one else is reporting it. Now everybody else is reporting it. And guys like Jake Tapper are saying, well, my son seems more conservative. Yeah, because of the pronouns, because of the gender confusion, because of apologize for being a man, the BLM stuff. What were you paying attention to?

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade. How often would you say that you interacted with the president in person? I interacted with him pretty infrequently. So weekly, monthly, what are we talking about? Very infrequent. I think I met with the president a handful of times during my tenure in the White House. That is Ian Sams. That's the spokesperson, the firebrand who came out ripping to everybody. He even came on our channel just when he couldn't even get a word in. Defending Joe Biden, he is sharp, he's articulate, he's on top of things, he presses his staff. That's the Joe Biden we see on a daily basis. It's a flat out lie. It's not a spin. It's a lie. He didn't even see him. And you know what he went on to say? I listened to the whole testimony. It was like the 20 minutes I saw. He goes on to say, they go, well, when did you see him? He goes, well, once in person and once on Zoom, he was at Camp David. Can you imagine? Do you think that Karoline Leavitt says, yeah, I don't really see Trump much? I saw him, let me see. In retrospect, nine months in, once, some at the inaugural. That's it. Then I just went on, I thought I'd just grab some notes, read the newspaper, and then go out and answer some of your questions. That is really the same thing. This is a huge story. James Comer gets no credit for this. He called these people in. And also, I just took this picture of this full screen. Listen to the, I mean, Axis report of this. Jake Dan Sullivan. Right? Remember they said that they didn't detect anything with the president? They didn't think he was slipping. Gina Romando, VA secretary, Dennis McDonough, Anthony Blinken, all expressed concern about Biden continuing to run for reelection. Never told us a word about that. They go and admit that. And I just think we were all in danger for most of the four years of the president. Josh Crash Hour joins us now. Josh, I think this is very similar. When you read accounts, and I've been reading it for the last few days of what happened with Woodrow Wilson for 17 months, he had a stroke. They never saw him in public. His wife answered for him. They said, give me that paperwork. I'll bring it back to him. 17 months after World War I. At which time, they did things like the League of Nations, which he was trying to sell. When he wasn't there selling it, it fell apart. Maybe the League of Nation stays together, and they rally and stop Hitler. I don't know. But... Can you imagine our country not having a president for 17 months? We went through it. We might not have had a legitimate president for three or four years. I mean, Brian, his inability to campaign to even make the best... pitch forward about his policies was what handicapped him, among other things, in the re-election campaign. I mean, there's so many things. It's like having a quarterback who can't run, right? Yeah. You can't, you just, you can't run a country. You can't run a football. You know, you couldn't, you can't run any institution the way that the White House was run in the final months, if not longer, for the Biden administration. I also think it underscores the whole Ian Sam's testimony, which is, I've known.

He was Kamala Harris's comms director. He's a long-time PR professional for the Democrats. And for him not to have access to the president, given the role he had, is truly remarkable. But it does go to show both the sense of Biden's health and acuity. But it also goes to show, Brian, that Biden's inner circle was really, really small. I mean, I don't think he even talked to John Pierre all that much. And we're learning that from her interviews that she's doing for her. Wait, wait, wait. Has she said that? She, I mean, she's been very slippery about how much access. Because I want to get to the bottom there. Yeah, it does seem to suggest that she has not had the same type of access that a typical press secretary in her role would normally have to the president. I don't know if you heard the analogy in the beginning. Can you imagine if Karoline Leavitt says after four years? I never really saw Trump. Yeah, I wasn't. I saw him at the inaugural. And then I saw him again, but he wasn't there. He was on speakerphone. And then, you know. Wait a second. Caroline, every single day you knew this policy. You were fighting for the guy. He goes, well, what can you do? Do you think they just, you know, you just think the Washington Post, excuse me, the New York Post and Fox News would be reporting that? I mean, everybody, it would be the number one story in the world. We're finding out that this guy could have four cabinet meetings had to have. cards to say who these people were, looked at his secretary of defense and called him my general. And then we find out the guy goes, the general is in jail, excuse me, is in the hospital. And nobody knew about it. Nobody was trying to contact him. We were being run on automatic pilot. Well, and it's also professionally embarrassing for someone like Ian Sams, who his whole cloud is kind of premised on the fact that he has access to the president. His role, he's talking to the people in power and the people. at the top, the commander chief, on a regular basis. Two times, two times in his entire tenure. I mean, it does beggar belief, but it does go to show how the Biden White House was run. Well, I want to talk about what you wrote about, and that is the mayor's race in New York. Here's Andrew Cuomo on what's happening with the Democratic Party, cut 24. Look, you have a civil war going on in the Democratic Party. Okay. You have this far-left, extreme-left socialist. They are socialist. They call themselves Democratic Socialists. Forget Democratic. It's just a modifier for socialists. Okay. They're socialists. Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, et cetera. That far left is having a war with the moderate mainstream Democrats. I'm now a moderate. All my life, I was a crazy liberal, son of a crazy liberal, but the world shifted so fast that now I'm a moderate. Okay, so it's the far left versus the moderate. A lot of the mainstream Democrats are afraid of the left. So they think they're going to make peace by endorsing Zohran Mamdani, and they're going to buy peace with the far left. I have news for them. The far left is never going to declare peace. And the governor of New York is a case in point, Hakeem Jeffries's case in point. They don't necessarily agree with him, but they're afraid of him and his popularity and his social media prowess. Josh, I think Andrew Cuomo does great analysis here. Yeah.

I was going to say the same thing. That's pretty, pretty spot-on analysis about where the Democratic Party is. There was a Gallup poll that came out in the last month. Over two-thirds of Democrats now view socialism favorably, much more than the number that view capitalism favorably. And that's about the share of the Democratic vote, not about the overall vote, but that's about the share of the Democratic vote. that Zohran Mamdani is getting in New York City. Usually when you only get about two-thirds of your own party's vote, that's really bad. But because Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa are splitting up the rest of the vote, that that's why Zohran Mamdani is on track to win. Keep in mind, in almost every single poll that's been conducted, Zohran Mamdani is under 50%. In fact, the Fox poll and all the other public polls for the most part show... Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa actually either are tied or ahead of Zohran Mamdani, but because of that split opposition, you know, Zohran Mamdani is on track to become the next mayor. Socialism, you know, this is what Andrew Cuomo is talking about. It's becoming more popular in the Democratic Party. It's not popular among independents. It's not popular, certainly among Republicans, but there are enough Democrats now, like 20 years ago, socialism was a dirty word, even among Democrats. Now two-thirds of Democrats view it favorably. It's why someone like Mbondani is going to be on track to win that mayoralty. You know what blows me away, Josh, is that if any of these tapes usually blows up a candidacy, number one, when it comes out, his mom says he's not really an American, he's really a Ugandan Indian, when his dad comes out and, you know, and blames Abraham Lincoln for what Hitler did, when you have him calling cops, racist and anti-queer. I mean, this is just off the top of my head. Some of the crazy thing, you know, his anti-Semitic behavior, it's justice for Palestine groups that he started in college, and he's only 34 years old, so you can't say that was a long time ago. You know, remember Brett Kavanaugh, they were talking about things he did in high school. This is not too long ago. So these are all the things that would blow up anybody. And then he makes up some story about his aunt being harassed after 9-11 when it's not his aunt. It's a friend he called an aunt. And she's never been seen with the hijab or whatever it's called in the subway where God almost brought him to tears. Any of this stuff usually kills a candidate. Nothing hurts this guy. Well, look, I think partly Andrew Cuomo should have brought this stuff up earlier. He's done it in the final week or two of the campaign. Oh, I know. This is New York City. 9-11 is still a fresh memory for a lot of not everyone. Younger people, obviously they seem to not realize their own history. But a lot of New Yorkers know what happened on 9-11. And the fact that Zohran Mamdani is more concerned about what he views as Islamophobia towards his distant cousin rather than the horrible terrorism that New York City suffered on that day. That would be disqualifying just a few years ago. York City. The notion that someone like that could spend more time condemning a so-called Islamophobia rather than actual terrorism that it's to be a risk and safety issue in New York City is remarkable. And it does show you how far to the left, how extreme Zohran Mamdani is. Look, the thing to watch on election night, I've heard from a lot of folks tracking the early vote that Andrew Cuomo seems to have gotten some late momentum when he's

hit Maldane on those attacks. It's just like it's come too little too late. That should have been narrative that Andrew Cuomo went after Mbondani on. He only brought it up in the final week and a week and a half of the campaign. I think it's a little too little too late. But I still think there are enough New Yorkers that know that crime and safety and security are central issues in the city. And the problem is that they just didn't get organized quickly enough to stop Mbondani. Josh, you do this every day, but... I was struck by Andrew Cuomo was never trailing in the primary. And I think going into this voting day, you know, the primary day, he was up by three. And then he gets crushed. And now he's never really been inside 10 points. And we know that this early voting is very strong. And there was a percentage, a large percentage over 50. And he's known to be good with over 50s, not so good elsewhere. We know that Zohran Mamdani did not do well in the black community. Andrew Cuomo does do well. And I would think the Jewish community would have to have not to do the right thing and just. to not vote for an anti-Semitic candidate. So I'm wondering if there might, the polls might be something about New York is so hard to poll, we really know very little. Yeah, look, the primary electorate is different than the general electorate. Obviously, it's closed primary, only Democrats are voting. There was a big surge among younger voter turnout in the primary, and I do imagine that Zohran Mamdani's base is going to show up in big numbers for the general election. But the difference is that a lot of the people who didn't even think of voting or who aren't Democrats, their independents, or they're Republicans, or their people who didn't. think it was an important election or didn't even know who Zohran Mamdani was, are going to be participating in November. You know, look, the polls have been, there have been a lot of differences in the polls. There was a Quinnipiac poll that showed Zohran Mamdani only at 43 percent, and Andrew Cuomo actually catching up pretty quickly in the last few weeks. Other polls have shown Zohran Mamdani with a bigger lead. You know, the things I'm hearing on the ground is that Andrew Cuomo is closing the margins a little bit. I don't be skeptical that it would be enough to win the race. But, you know, if Zohran Mamdani only wins with 43% of the vote, that is far from a mandate. It would suggest that if Curtis Sliwa dropped out of the race, Zohran Mamdani wouldn't be mayor. You know, the quirkiness of this election is giving Zohran Mamdani a big advantage. But, you know, 50% is the number. If Zohran Mamdani gets the majority, then, you know, that's going to make a big difference. If he is an accidental mayor because you have two candidates splitting the anti-Zohran Mamdani vote, it's going to be a different story on election. That would be very interesting. It would be a huge shocker. Lastly, I think Jack Ciattarelli's got a legitimate chance. And I wonder what you thought, because the real clear average has it around two points.

Yeah, I think it's going to be – that's the race to watch on election night. The polling has been all over the map. There was a poll. There have been some polls showing the race tied, essentially. Others have shown Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat with a larger lead. New Jersey was one of the states that had the biggest swing toward the Republicans in the presidential election. And a lot of the elements of the Democratic coalition fell out – fell apart, voted, voted for Trump or stayed home. And that's going to be the big question to watch. Is Mikie Sherrill going to be able to put the pieces of the puzzle back together? Or Jack Sherrill, he almost won four years ago against Governor Murphy. Can he actually finish the job this time around? I think, you know, given the environment, I would say Democrats, Cheryl has a slight edge, but it's going to be the one to watch on election night. So tell me if this sounds like a potential deal with the shutdown. You know, I listen to Tim Kaine say twice that we just don't trust the president not to cut any programs. We don't trust the president to legitimately engage with us on insurance premiums. If there was a way to guarantee both those things, is Tim Kaine one of the most experienced guys in the Senate? Is he trying to give hints? If you can guarantee me both those things, I can do it. I can, that might be, I mean, can you put something in writing? Can you do something binding? I actually wonder whether, speaking of like the Virginia election, that whether the shutdown might, you know, find a way to end because of the political dynamics on Election Day. So, I mean, I think, look, Kane is a pivotal figure in all this, but... Is he? Why? Just because he's respected on the left? Well, it also represents a state with a lot of government workers in Virginia. So I want you to hear him, Josh. I want you to hear him say this. Cut ten. If we voted for this bill and President Trump fired people next week, they would come to me and say, why the hell did you vote for that bill? So what he's trying to say, in my humble opinion, unless I'm just trying to find hope, is he's trying to say, guarantee me you won't do any more firings, you know, Doge-style firings. Oh, yeah. And we could get something out of this and save a little bit of face. Yeah, look, I don't think. It's interesting because I think overall Democrats are feeling the heat. For Kane, I mean, he's always been pretty liberal, and he obviously represents a lot of Northern Virginia government work. So I think he's a little bit off message, perhaps. You know, I'd be surprised. You think he's off. Josh, it's okay. I'm just, I'm thinking that he's been there so long that maybe he's trying to tell us something. But maybe he's just blinking his eyes because it's windy as opposed to he's being held hostage or something. You know. I mean, look, look at John Fetterman, I think, is where the country is. He's siding what he doesn't understand why the Democrats are continuing to keep the government closed. And I think he is the middle. He's, if you want to find out where the average. A voter is listen to John Fetterman, and he's not with the rest of his party. Well, he's with the Teamsters, and he's with another working class.

union from a couple of days ago, federal union, they said, sign the CR Democrats and get back to work and negotiate. So we'll say, I just hate losing money. I hate to think that people paycheck to paycheck, have to call up their landlord and say, sorry, I can't, you know, I can't make the payments this week for no reason. They didn't do anything. We're not bankrupt. The money's there. This is a standoff that's unnecessary. Josh Crouchauer. And by the way, you probably know most of them. You spend a lot of time in Washington. You don't make a zillion dollars if you're a staffer for a senator or a congressman. Those are the ones not getting paid. It's crazy. Yeah, I'm hearing a lot of stories, friends and colleagues who work for the government aren't getting their paychecks. And it's a real concern. Josh, go get them. Thanks a lot. No shortage of great stories back in a moment. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kilmeade. Sponsored by Previgin. Previgin, made for your brain. They're making Zohran Mamdani a mainstream Democrat now. This party has left the people. Of course, the press wants us to ignore Monde. Here, it's an embarrassment because most of the press is on the side of the Democrats. That is the Speaker of the House, and he's 100% right, and I'm going to look something down. Sorry, I had the audio up on my... This is what Media Research Group went. That was Speaker... Johnson, he's not exaggerating that now the whole party is guarding against Zohran Mamdani. They're trying to make sure that this guy wins, whether it's John Stewart or anybody else. And this is what media research did a study on the late night shows. 95% of the late night election jokes attack Zohran Mamdani's opponents. So you've got a 34-year-old who doesn't like cops, who's a pro-Palestinian, whose mom says he's Ugandan and Indian more than American, whose dad blames... blames Lincoln for Hitler, and the jokes are on everybody else. Blame Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo and Adams. It's insane. Who is making these decisions? I don't get it. How could you go to comedians? I can understand when you put pressure on commentators. We don't feel they're that Fox. But someone's putting pressure on comedians to stay away from X, Y, and Z. Kill Trump every day. Joe Biden's fine until he's not. Got to get rid of him. And then Kamala Harris, she's going to win. She's got momentum. She's got spirit. Oh, she's terrible. Then I'll vote for her again. Zohran Mamdani, he's got no experience. Let's not bring that up. Who's deciding this? Brian Kilmeade.