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Maya Tom, Fox News headquarters in New York City. Always seeking solutions, never sewing division. It's Brian Kilmeade. Thank you. I'm Brian Kilmeade. Welcome to the latest minutes of the Brian Kilmeade. This is our going to be joined by Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, author of the case for nationalism. And also keep in mind, too, we got the Patriot Awards coming up November 6th. Make the trip. A lot of people won. I know it was in Tennessee for a while. We're going to put different locations over in Hollywood, Florida. Now we're on Long Island. You get hotels there. There's not a ton of hotels, but it's fun to be travel. And it's going to be a great show. I promise you you're going to be shocked about who shows up. So let's get to the big three. Number three. We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF. Isn't that nice? That is Zohran Mamdani in 2023. This guy's a real piece of work. Yeah, the IDF, if the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, the IDF has the laces. Off your election six days away, record turnout already in Virginia, New Jersey, and yes, New York City, what it means for the contenders. Number two. I'm a military spouse, and when the 15 came around, and we didn't have to worry about our check, and the first is coming, and there are people that need food. I usually have my mother over for Thanksgiving, and I don't even know how I'm going to do that. There's no way I can afford a turkey. Shut down, causing great pain for federal workers, snap recipients and more. If both are to blame, why are Republicans' approval ratings improving? Number one. We're signing one trade deal after another to balance our relationships and the basis of reciprocity. These agreements will be incredible victories for all of us because everyone is better off when we have stable partnerships, not plagued by chronic problems and imbalances. Yep, Trump trip back is on the backstretch now. He's racking up investments and trade deals with big deals tomorrow, I think, on Thursday with China awaiting and a possible agreement with the president, something they could actually sign rather than hearing about framework. Look, if they get a framework, I know it's advancement, but it's just dragging things out. The markets are looking for a deal, and markets have been up all week long there, but over 48,000 now up 112 points. So what has the president done so far? He just signed. And it's so funny, I open up the show. And, you know, when you go online, I don't buy any newspapers. I'm sure you don't either, but I download subscriptions. And the headline on the New York Times was South Korea, a lot of probably, you know, I'll just paraphrase, a lot of ceremony, a lot of warm feelings, but no trade deal. Then Trump goes on live at about 20 minutes later and says, we have a deal. So they have a trade deal. With South Korea, some highlights, $150 billion investment in shipbuilding. What we're doing to show you how aggressively we're pursuing our lack of shipbuilding. We're building out the infrastructure here with Japan is taking over one of our shipyards and building American ships, you know, Japanese technology and however that's going to work out, but they're going to build them. They also contracted shipbuilders in Norway, and now they have South Korea, $150 billion investment in shipbuilding in the U.S. 200 billion, just general investment and a pledge.

They also pledge to build up their defense, as does Taiwan. Malaysia did a rare earth deal with us. And now it doesn't look like there's going to be a visit from North Korea. But South Korea came out and said, listen, you want to go to Kim Jong-un? We don't take it personal. We actually thinks it makes it better to keep dialogue up. What I'm really excited about is the China deal because they are overflowing with optimism. They're going to have a big announcement surely. What is it? On fentanyl. They're actually going to enforce it. And some of the incentive is we're going to cut down the tariff. Another 10% if they enforcement fentanyl. What I'm hoping is we know exactly where it's coming from, and so does President Xi Jinping. And that oppressive society that has social media give you social media scores, they watch everything that you do, they're so paranoid about being overthrown. Now they can't figure out where fentanyl precursors are coming from. They know exactly where it is. I'm sure we can hand them a map and say, see these circles? That's where it's coming from. You know where it's heading? It's heading to Mexico. We know what ships they're on. Here are the tail numbers. They call them tail numbers. I'm not sure what they do on these ships. So they've got to stop it. You know, there's a big story, too, about the opium war and they're still not over the 19th century battle with the British. Can someone tell them the British and the Americans are different people? And the imperialistic nature of Britain is not the American nature. We just have an ally called Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and the region. And we don't want to see you harassing them and buzzing them and taking over islands arbitrarily, especially not Taiwan. They're going to bring up Taiwan. The word is we're going to just glide right past it. Nothing's going to change about the status. They're not going to make any statement promising that Taiwan is not an independent country or not promising it. They will just leave it out. With Japan, $10 billion in investment, $400 billion. in energy investment, and as previously was agreed on, $550 billion worth of strategic investment in our country. These deals are already done on this trip. Any other president, they'd be talking about this nonstop. With this president, they say, well, the president loves when they play out the right carpet. He loves the popping circumstance. He's dancing, even though there's a shutdown. This guy went over to the Gulf states in the Middle East. It won unbelievably well, but he didn't say, hey, aren't we great and aren't you great? He said, how would you like to invest in us? You got a ton of money. You need technology. We could build it here. We need the investment there. So that's called progress. Our leader being treated with respect is respect to us. And he knows that. He's not Donald Trump, the Trump builder. It's not Donald Trump, the host of the apprentice. He's not a celebrity who's want to build a casino. He's saying, shake my end for my country.

Build a ballroom for the country. And they said it's not going to be done until 2027 or 2029. I'm not sure why it's going to take that long. But someone said that. He's not even going to any chance to use it. So here's Donald Trump. Cut one. We had a tremendous meeting today with South Korea. I think the meeting was a lot was determined, very much determined. And we made our deal, pretty much finalized a trade deal. And we discussed some other things having to do with national security. So he talked about that. He also said that when it comes to Taiwan, they're not going to get cornered into Taiwan. I know the president in the past said, yeah, what's the big deal with Taiwan? Why are you so obsessed with it? Remember the first call he made from or the first world leader call that he received, I believe, when he was in Trump Tower, when he was president-elect, it was from the Taiwanese leader. It caused such an uproar. Here he is on Air Force One. On the Wall Street Journal story that said China's going to push him to concede to the language. When it comes to Taiwan, cut five. How much do you expect Xi Jinping to try to push you on Taiwan? I don't know that we'll even speak about Taiwan. I'm not sure. I mean, he may want to ask about it. There's not that much to ask about it. Taiwan is Taiwan. That's what he should say, by the way. Because normally people are drilling down on what exactly to say. Remember, Tony Blinken came out and his secretary of state without a president, came out and said, we do not see Taiwan as an independent state. We see it as part of China. Something similar to that. And that was an acquiescence. But then Joe Biden came out and said, if Taiwan's attack will back him up. Evidently weren't supposed to say that. But when you have a president just blurts things out, that's what happens. So we had Michael Pillsbury on this show yesterday, and this is what he told me. Before I get too excited, and I said, Michael, he should probably have booked you because he's the ultimate China expert and Trump really likes him. I said, I should probably have booked you on Friday. But this is what he said. Cut fight. Cut eight. There's no sort of checklist. Okay, now we talk about Taiwan. Now we talk about ring magnets. That's what concerns me always, is when you don't have a draft communique ready to be signed by the two leaders, which they've made clear they don't have yet, things can go bad. And they talk about enforcement. I think they're going to get something done. I just think that the Treasury Secretary, Jameson, Greer, the trade rep, ambassador, they have already done so much work. I wouldn't think they'd be speaking so optimistically because they don't want to let people down. In other words, usually publicly you under, you know, you understate it in order to really be impressive.

So Cameron Hamilton's a former Navy SEAL, great knowledge of the region. He said this about what he sees about China and Taiwan and China's obsession with the island. Cut 12. With the defense of Taiwan, that's kind of an odd anomaly that's been analyzed throughout various different circles. China could certainly take Taiwan. They have the military force and capability to do so, but it would be catastrophic to their national defense, and it would be catastrophic to their economy to do so. I think they understand this. They're far more pragmatic than people give credit, but they're here and they're trying to bolster some kind of strength and legitimacy. Yeah. We're going to see what happens. The only reason, this is why I'm optimistic that something's going to happen. Not that I don't think China's going to cheat. Not that I think they're dependable. But what happens is when you do deals with an adversary or competitor, you got to make sure you have leverage to react and you have the least leverage possible. And the most leverage they have over us. is pharmaceuticals and rare earth. We have over them as they need us, they need us to buy their products. We are the ultimate consumer nation. If they cannot, we cannot legitimately buy their products, they will be devastated, crestfallen, especially if we combine with Europe. I just talked to the European Parliament President, European Union President, Parliament President. And she said flat out, and I ran off the trade deal that we know with the EU. He goes, this is the deal we're working with. We have 727 parliament members that are signing off on it. This is we're working with. We're going to be tight with the U.S. And if you go to the EU and the U.S. speaking from the same hymn book, China's got to pay attention. And if they don't comply, the president's not signing a deal in 2019, knowing that his term is up in 2020. He's signing it in 2025, knowing his turn is up in 2020. 28, excuse me, but he'll be out in 2029 in January of that year. So if you're going to screw him, okay, a few months in, you're not buying, you're not buying soybeans a few months in, you're starting to pull back on rare earth. All right, we're not going to get a deal. We're going to have used tariffs. We're going to have a trade war. I think if China didn't want a trade war, President Trump gave him an opportunity to have a trade war. They chose not to have a trade war. Because they have enough problems. If you just take a few minutes, I know everyone's got their own lives, but just take a few minutes and just read about what's going on with commercial and residential real estate in China. It used to be how they were going to retire. Everything was going up in value. So they'll buy a house. I'll buy an apartment. I'll move in the city. It's going to work. It's not working. Everything is cratering. The jobs aren't there. A whole generation is having trouble finding those jobs. They're proud of the way they're automating manufacturing. They're probably not proud that a lot of people have no jobs. And now people are looking at China and saying, yeah, it's kind of expensive to make things. Yeah, I'm going to go to Thailand. I'm going to go to Vietnam.

I might even go to Central and South America to build my stuff. Plus, you guys are oppressive. At any moment, you steal our intellectual property. At any moment, you could decide I'm going to make that almost impossible for you to do business here. And they're not great consumers. Why? Because they're very tight with their money. They don't have any social safety net. All this information is out there. And if it's out there publicly, can you imagine with the numbers that Scott Bessent is seeing in Treasury and Howard Lutnick is seeing at Commerce to see how... Vulnerable they are. 1-866-408-7669. I only got through one talking point. I'm going to get through more. This is a Brian Kilmeade. It's Brian Kilmeade. This episode is brought to you by San Pellegrino Chow. A gift from Italy to your home. San Pellegrino Chau is a flavored sparkling water made with real fruit juice. Finished with a pinch of Sicilian salt for a perfectly balanced taste. So which flavor will you choose? Peach, lime, blood orange, cherry, or maybe the all-new limoncello. Crafted in Italy with zero grams of added sugar. San Pellegrino Chau. Buy it now.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Well, she has been very aggressive with the threats on the rare earths, etc. And big picture... China's economy is not growing at the breakneck pace that it once was, and she really does need the U.S. market. You know, his whole kind of political structure is based on continuing to provide prosperity. So when the economy is faltering, when real estate is overheated, et cetera, this is a big problem. And China overall is very dependent on energy imports, including Russian oil, and on importing food as well, and on the sea lanes that bring on... that in. So she has a lot at stake in the meeting with President Donald Trump. So that was Rebecca Grant and talking about President Xi Jinping. There's a lot at stake there because I remember with President, I think it was President Bush that he talked to the leader of China. And he said, what's your number one worry every day? And he said jobs. You know, we have 3 billion people, and if I can't get them work, and I can't grow the economy, and I don't want a population that doesn't work. And right now, they have an unemployment number. We can't believe any of their numbers, but let's just assume that the number is semi-accurate. There's a huge problem of young people graduating college and either not getting, not able to get a job or not trying. This is how desperate they're getting. They're now going after the colleges. If they graduate students, they can't get a job. Do you believe that? And you know what they do. They disappear people. So that's why people come here. And, of course, they're forced to spy on us. Why, I disagree. People ask you, when do you disagree with President Trump? I disagree with this statement President Trump said. He said, I'd like 600,000 Chinese students coming here. No. because they're all obligated to spy. They got their families back home. If they're at Harvard University working in research, they're almost obligated by the state, threatening of their life, to give over some of that material. So we'll see what happens. It's going to be interesting. 9 o'clock theater time. In the morning, hour time, we think we'll be leaking things out during the day about more details. I think the Wall Street Journal has the most detail report about things that are going to agree on. Fentanyl immediately by soybeans. Farmers are going to be happy. The prices are good. Our stuff is the best. And then they're going to have an agreement we believe on shipping lanes, we think. And we also are going to talk about rare earth, at least for a year, guaranteed a certain level of distribution. Here's Josh Holmes, cut 11.

It's a long-held goal of the Chinese to weaken that relationship. But I think you heard Secretary of State Marco Rubio speak very clearly to the fact that that's not going to happen. But furthermore, I think if there's any lesson of the Trump administration, it's that he doesn't negotiate from a position of weakness. And that certainly would be one. What he's talking about is trying to lay a predicate for a negotiation that deals with things like fentanyl. and fentanyl imports. He's like a dog on a bone on that issue. Seen it in a bunch of different countries. Well, China is the most significant purveyor of this, and that is what he's going to be focused on. But when it comes to Taiwan, I think he understands the strategic import of all of that, and he's certainly not going to negotiate from a position of weakness. Absolutely not. So lastly, on the lesson for this block, on the shutdown. We're going on to, you know, it's weeks now. So we have 28 days, 29 days in. Senator Chris Coons, somebody who usually doesn't say so ridiculous things, but says the truth. And this sadly is the truth. It's sad for the people that are being denied their snap food, their military pay, including air traffic controllers, TSA agents. Why are the Democrats refusing to vote for a continuing resolution, even though it's Biden-level spending? Cut 17. Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage. And although a very unpleasant tool to use, it's gotten us focused on what we have to do to change direction on health care. Your health care program, this is Obamacare that needs subsidies on the pandemic levels that was supposed to evaporate. And because they're evaporating, it's time for Republicans to extend it? While we have $37 trillion in debt, so you create this program, you bolster this program, you subsidize this program, and now that Republicans are in charge, they're not looking to get rid of it. They just don't want to pour money into that money pit. John Fetterman nailed it. Cut 16. Our government should be open right now. You know, like it's right now. But if we want to talk about Biden, this is the Biden CR. I just voted yes on that. That is a Biden CR. We voted that multiple times. You know, like it shouldn't be controversial for us. That's why we could open it up and we could now work together to develop these tax credits for Obamacare. Can you please, I can't emphasize this enough. This isn't President Trump's budget. The problem rates are going up, and they're all going out. And I think they're all set for the year. Now they want to make a stand and act like they're staying up for health care. This is just you're refusing to fund the government. And that's why the rating approval ratings of the Republicans won up three points. Chuck Schumer, the longer this goes, it's not getting better for you. It's certainly not getting better for us.

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Yeah, and what he was trying to do the other day with that Islamophobia speech is just deflect and portray himself as a victim. Where if you listen to that speech, and I've listened to it several times now, the more and more sociopathic it is, this aunt, nothing happened to her. She wasn't an aunt, she was his dad's cousin, but she was just afraid to go on the subway. That's bad. You know, you prefer that she wasn't even thinking out about it after September 11th, but nothing happened to her. And then another indictment he makes against the city in America is that sometimes people have mistaken his name for Muhammad. This is like microaggression level stuff. And then he says he's been living in the shadows as a Muslim man. You know, he ran for in a mock collection in his middle school. He ran for vice president of student body in high school. He became a state assemblyman before age 30. He's likely to become mayor before age 35. And he's been living in the shadows. It's absurd. But this guy, on top of the ideology being wrong, is just so callow and unserious. He should be disqualified on those grounds alone. but it seems likely to coast into the mayorality. I guess so. But there's a couple of things going on that have piqued my interest. Number one, the turnout's been off the charts for New York City. It's way ahead of pace. And they say most of the people are 50 and over. And it's the older people that would put Andrew Cuomo in, who's hardly an ideal candidate, to say the least. But the younger people, the one that got him the nomination, it's a much different group of people voting. So that might be a little different because you project. who's going to show up? And so far those projections, the people showing up have exceeded in early voting. Yeah, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's closer than the polls make it seem, but for Andrew Cuomo to actually make up the deficit and beat him would be a miracle for the ages. I'm hoping it happens. I'm no Andrew Cuomo fan. He's just better than this guy. And look, I like Curtis LeWaw. I've known him forever. I think he's sincere. He knows a lot about the city. I really cares about the city, but you look at almost every single poll and the difference between Andrew Cuomo. and Zohran Mamdani is what is the Curtis Sliwa vote. So it doesn't mean that all the Sleewell voters would go to Andrew Cuomo, but a lot of them would, and this would be an entirely different race. So I think he should have gotten out. So look at what emerged from 2023. Zohr M.D. wearing a mask saying this to a group of Socialists of America, cut 24. We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your net, it's been laced by the IDES. Do you believe this? I mean, number one, what the hell are you talking about? You're going to tell me everyone in the academy is like, hey, by the way, we're taking our marching orders predominantly from the IDF. You're thinking, what is he even talking about? So hate, no, what he's just saying? He just wants you to hate two groups. I want you to hate the Jews, and I want you to hate the cops. Good night, everybody. Classic. Yeah, just everything comes back to Israel. Everything comes back to the Jews, and it's an obsession with these people. It's not just income inequality anymore. It's hating.

Zionism, which ultimately goes back to hating the West itself in our own civilization. So that's what this guy reflects about 30 years worth of miseducation in the American education system. And his father is part of that, right? This ideology goes straight back to his father, who is or was a Columbia professor. And he started a group in college called, you know, Free Palestine or Americans for Palestinians. Okay, that's an interesting way to focus. You know, I guess the Gleague Club was full and there was no team to try out for. You know, I watched the soccer skills. He could have tried out for the soccer team over in Bodoin or whatever it's called. John Stewart had him on. And I thought it was interesting because when I heard John Stewart was going to book him, I thought, man, he's going to challenge him because there's no risk to it. You're not running against a conservative. You're really running against Andrew Cuomo. So you could say, hey, you'll policy. where do they, you know, because he's so, John Stewart is so smart. There's no doubt about it. So listen to this, cut 32. There are so many different communities that are looking to you and this, I hate to put it on it, as a bit of a Jackie Robinson moment. And I know that that probably wields some weight. But man, oh man, what an exciting opportunity. Was there a question there? Yeah, and then the idea that he's paying some price by being a Muslim man, when this has been one of the bragging points of his campaign. He's the first Muslim to have a real shot to be mayor of New York City, and that's what John Stewart was about. And I hate that word community. You know, it makes it sound like, you know, every Muslim lives in the same neighborhood in America, and they all have the same values and believe the same thing and go to the same swimming pool and all the rest of it. They talk about trans people the same way, too. There are no such communities in that sense. So, yes, I agree with you, Stuart Smart. Most comedians are smart, but this was a disappointing moment. Here's Andrew Cuomo. He seems energized now way too late. Cut 30. The Democratic Party. is having a civil war. You don't hear it, you don't see it, but it's going on in this election. And there's two sides that are fighting. You have a far-left extremist group that are called themselves socialists. Socialists sounds nice, utopia. Socialism hasn't worked anywhere. Venezuela had socialism, didn't work. Cuba was socialist, didn't work. Socialism is not going to work for New York City. So he admits a civil war. There's going to be a civil war in the Democratic Party. Is it similar, or would you even characterize what happened with, you know, the Tea Party and traditional Republicans? We have to Barack Obama on? Yeah, I think there's something to that. Look, New York City is different. The rest of the country is not exactly like New York City. But this is a pretty stark contrast. We have the young, you know, 34-year-old socialist who's fresh, knows how to work the Internet and social media, can draw huge crowds and this tired representative of the Democratic establishment who lost him in the primary, even though he was leading by 10 or 20 points most of the way.

and it's probably going to lose in the general election as well. That's a sign who has the energy, who has the whip hand at the moment in the Democratic Party. If I'm the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I'm not thinking just about challenging Chuck Schumer. I'm thinking about running for president. Really? You wouldn't think that. You think that she's national, but has national appeal? I do. You know, Bernie's proved it. Bernie's not going to run again. Someone's got to pick up that baton. She also has social media ability. She has the ability to draw attention. She's charismatic. So look, do I think she'd win the nomination? Probably not. Do I think she'd win a general if she won the nomination? Probably not. But could she make a huge impact and raise her profile even more by running? I think so. And that's why I kind of think she's going to do it. Remember Bernie got a lot of concessions, got Joe Biden to concede a lot. And it looked like Joe Biden's presidency, especially in the beginning, was Bernie Sanders-esque. So you're saying if she goes in, she becomes a power player, but she doesn't have a job. Yeah, but there'll be some way to work that out, I would think, if you're her. And, you know, you can run looking at the next four years, potentially if a JD Vance or Republican wins in 28. But the big point, Brian, is this is her wing in the party, and it is increasingly ascendant. It's scary. But let me push back on that. People look at Josh Shapiro and Andy Beshear. They don't look at them as socialists. And they've had a lot of success in their states. Pennsylvania more and more is a Republican state. And you look at certainly Kentucky is. Why wouldn't you look more to them? Oh, I think they totally should, and I think they might. They need a Bill Clinton-like figure who's new, has a different way of doing politics, and is willing to say no to the left. Now, they got that in Bill Clinton after losing three times, three national elections. They've lost twice, you know, with Biden kind of parentheses in between. Maybe they need to lose a third time to actually do that, but maybe they'll wise up and go to someone like that this time around. I'm just... Having been around this a long time, the kind of the boring, practical governor usually loses. And the exciting, fresh new person, either wins or makes a big impression. So, again, that's why... I think she'll probably run, and it makes sense for her to run. All right. I want to bring you to ICE and some controversy within ICE. The firing of a lot of these leaders, the clamped down, there seems to be one side of Holman and Lyons and another side with Stephen Miller and I think it's Bovine and Kristi Noem. Listen to Todd Lyons, Cut 39. We don't comment on personnel issues. I'm not sure whether Jacobs are such a...

bold thing right now but what we're doing is we're going to make sure that we have the right people in the right place that's what we're focused on you know as a leadership team we are focused on filling the gaps where we have vacancies right now we have individuals that are getting ready to retire after great careers we're going to go ahead and make sure we have the right people in the right place and that's what we're focused on read between the lines with Tom Homan and cut 37 Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, has total authority over ICE and who serves in what positions. So, you know, I think the results speak to themselves. I think it will not be slowed down by any, you know, any story about changes in leadership. So what's going on here? Because I think that the president's got to get involved here. I think there's a definite divide. Yeah, so I think you just need to be hardcore on the deportations, and I think Stephen Miller approaches is right. Now, I wouldn't use ICE the way it's been used in Chicago, I think, in effect, to kind of create unrest that justifies bringing in the National Guard. I don't think that's a good use of ICE, but if you're just focusing on the priorities that on the merits are the correct ones, you're going after the criminals, you're going after the people who already have removal. orders and you know you're not letting illegal immigrants gather in public places looking for legal employment which means yes you do hit home depots i think that's all all that's correct i'm not sure i'm not read into every element of this uh power struggle apparently but uh there's clearly something going on and i'm going to one of the few people on the right to say this I like the fact that they have to check in every day with this judge, right? If this judge is a reasonable human being, and he's an Obama appointed judge, he says, I want the ICE, you tell me to check in every day. I think it's going to be like body cameras. They put body cameras on cops, and they go, we're going to clamp down on cops' bad behavior. Instead, it showed how crazy the criminals are and how tough their job was in 99% of the time. So when this guy shows up, he goes, these are the seven. criminals that we went after today. These are the five that we had. These are the three times we got thrown rocks throughout us. This is what we had to do to avoid being rammed when we cross such and such street. I think that if you, and I would make it all public, I would say before I go in, before I go to the judge, it's going to tell you what I'm going to tell the judge. This is my rundown today, and I'd go in and tell the judge after that. And I think after a while they realized, man, what was the governor thinking fighting back against these guys? Yeah, that could be an upside. Generally, I don't like the idea of trying to micromanage any law enforcement agency, but that could be an upside. And it's certainly an upside of the body cameras, that boomerang big time on the BLM types. Absolutely. So Rich Lowry, he's got two columns out there about Zohran Mamdani's Islamophobia canard that we just talked about. and how Donald Trump has broken the progressive ratchet. Thanks so much, Rich. Thanks, Brian. Talk in. All right. Listen, we're going to come back and finish up because let's go write me, Brian Kilmeade.com. I'll get to some of your emails in a moment. Don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmeade.

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But when it comes to manners, we slowly grew into the iPhone generation, the iPad generation, the information generation. So you can't really say, well, the salad fork goes here, the knife fork goes here, your elbow's never on the table, you pass to the right, whatever, because there's no tradition with it. Obviously, talking while somebody else is leading a meeting is a problem. But silently texting, we never really went over that. Instinctively, you think it's wrong. But you can't say, well, my parents never did that. Well, parents never had a phone. Well, they never happened in my house growing up. Well, you didn't have a phone. The new generation, this is the first generation. They're in their 20s now. We're going, yeah, I had a phone. You know, I get it now. And I think there's some, there's huge blowback on social media from people that were caught up in it, had to have the latest, whether it's Snapchat. You remember it was. Right before Facebook was, man, what was that one right before Facebook, do you know? Yeah, Myspace. Fox bought it, actually. So MySpace was the hottest thing. And then Facebook takes over. If you talk to someone in their 20s or in their teens, nobody has Facebook. And then Instagram is still hot. Snapchat has gone by that was once really hot, really hot. And obviously TikTok, they seem to have mastered the universe, 170 million followers. But I think there's blowback now on all this stuff. And there's a feeling let's go back a little bit. Get me back to a flip phone. I never would have predicted that. They call this one Bill. Aliens? Am I in a spaceship? Affirmative bill. What's with the laser saw? An Xfinity Mobile transmission says you can cut your bill in half. Oh, your mobile bill, not me, Bill. Xfinity Internet members cut your mobile bill in half. Plus try Xfinity Mobile free for a year. No commitment. Learn more at XfinityMobile.com. Restrictions apply. Savings compares one line of Xfinity Mobile Select to comparable plans from T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T as of 32426. Taxes fees extra. $30 monthly discount limited to new mobile customers only. After 12 months, regular rates apply. Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan. It's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade. All right, from 48th and 6th of Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world. Brian Kilmeichoke coming your way. You want to get happy? Dr. Arthur Brooks, is not talking about the Partridge family song. Isn't it the Partridge family? Hello, get happy. Is that the Partridge family? Well, Arthur Brooks, Harvard professor, Atlanta columnist and host of... Office Hours podcast, best-selling author of The Happiness Files. He teaches a course in Harvard about it, wrote a book about it, he's got a new one coming out about it, so he will be with us. He's always interesting, fascinating. And, of course, you're there. We're still following a myriad of things, including the President's Overseas Trip. You know, I feel bad for you guys. You're not up at 2.30 and at the door at 3 a.m. You miss the President's trip overseas, which is prime time for, you know, the time-shifted world of the Far East. Let's get to the big three. Number three.

We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your net, it's been laced by the IDF. That is the brilliant musings of a guy who most likely is going to be our next mayor. Talking about the boot of the neck of the NYPD and the IDF, off your election six days away. Record turnout already in Virginia, in New Jersey and New York, what it means for the contenders. Number two. I'm a military spouse, and when the 15 came around and we didn't have to worry about our check, and the first is coming, and there are people that need food. I usually have my mother over for Thanksgiving, and I don't even know how I'm going to do that. There's no way I can afford a turkey. Well, that's all self-inflicted, too. They're not asking for a raise. They just want the money that they earn. Shut down, causing great pain for federal workers. Snap recipients. Anybody like the TSA or anybody in the air traffic control, if both are to blame, meet Robbins and Democrats. Why are Republican approval ratings improving? Number. We're signing one trade deal after another to balance our relationships and the basis of reciprocity. These agreements will be incredible victories for all of us because everyone is better off when we have stable partnerships, not plagued by chronic problems and imbalances. He's 100% right. Trump trip in the backstretch as he's raked up investments in trade deals with the big deal tomorrow Thursday awaiting. The markets are optimistic. The Trump team is optimistic. Can they trust the China deal? Are they willing to sign something, or are they getting close to an agreement on something? We know this. The South Korean deal is done. I love this. The headline this morning at about 5.30, I'm just trying to get the latest information on the president's trip, is they're eventually saying a lot of good feelings, a lot of warmth between the nations, but no South Korean trade deal. Then the president gets, and then the president sits around and they toast. And he takes some questions and they're around the table if he could picture this. And he said, well, what's going on? He goes, we have a trade deal with South Korea. And then South Korea says, yeah, we got a trade deal. And then the New York Times changes their headline. South Korea agrees they have a trade deal. What is it? Roughly $150 billion in investment. They're going to bring Toyota over here with a huge investment and a $200 billion investment pledge in various investments. I should say $150 billion in ship building investments. So we got a ship deal at Japan. We got a ship deal at Norway. Now we have a ship deal with... with South Korea. It is really great. So it's pretty impressive. And also South Korea said, if you can get a meeting with Kim Jong-un, I'm fine with that. Don't worry about us. And we promise to spend more on defense. Remember, everybody asks South Korea to spend more in defense. We have to give them the THAAD missile defense system. We have to put 35,000 of our troops on the border. We're paying for that.

And that bothered Trump in the first term, they go, he just doesn't understand. Now they're like, okay, we get it. We know what you're about. We know you've got to be here for four years, so we've got to go through it. Here's Trump, cut one. We had a tremendous meeting today with South Korea. I think the meeting was, a lot was determined, very much determined. And we made our deal, pretty much finalized a trade deal. And we discussed some other things having to do with national security. And they reduce tariffs because of that. The tariffs give him leverage. He goes in there, puts the tariff at a certain level, and then they go back and forth to get the best deal possible, and they got the best deal possible. What is confusing to me is that they say Vietnam... is not done yet. And I wait a second. I thought that was one of the first deals that were done is Vietnam. But I guess they got to work out the details. Jameson Greer will probably handle that. Now, what's about China tomorrow? What do you think you can expect? I hear really good things about China. I really good things about things we could agree on. Here is Donald Trump, cut four. They're all investing in the U.S. with the hottest we've ever been, with the hottest country in the world. And they're all investing, so I'll be doing that. And then tomorrow morning is the one that most people find the most interesting. And I think we're going to have a great meeting with President Xi Jinping of China. And a lot of problems are going to be solved. Well, we hope so. A lot of problems. Number one, they got to buy our agricultural products, especially soybeans. Meanwhile, they got to agree not to limit rare earth or at least a year. I think that's done. They said for a reduction in tariffs, we need you to crack down on the precursors to fentanyl that's going to Mexico and not getting out. You're not getting addicts from fentanyl. You know what you're getting? Death. So, and what happens? One and done. In a lot of cases, one and done. So the president is blowing up ships that he sees. They're heading the drug routes over to the Caribbean and up the coast, blowing them up with drones. I believe they're drones. And putting a unbelievable amount of pressure on Venezuela. Presidents do a bunch of stuff at the same time. Now, you might point out to, wow, why is the president away during a shutdown? Number one, Democrats cause the shutdown. They're the ones who didn't want to have a continuing resolution to continue to negotiate on all aspects of the budget, number one. Number two is this is an important trip. This isn't a ceremonial thing. They're not going to the Olympics. They're not going to the World Cup. They're going to important conferences to establish relationships with people that we might have to fight with against China that we need on the same side when it comes to trade, that we have to work out trade deals. for both sides to stabilize our economy. President won in last April and said these are the new deals. Little by little, he's getting better deals with just about everyone. He also announced the deal with Cambodia as well as Malaysia. And we know Indonesia, by the way, I don't know if we have a deal yet, but they've been kind enough to say, well, give you troops for Gaza. So I wish we can get Egypt and Jim Jordan to do the same thing. I don't know what the holdup is. The big story for China, though, is...

Taiwan, what's going to be brought up? Well, they're asking President Trump to put something in his language to say that basically Taiwan should never be an independent state. They consider it a breakaway province. Remember, right after the World War II, Shankai Sheck, a Democrat using that term loosely, was forced from power. by Mao, and then most of his group went over to Taiwan to establish themselves. Taiwan is a thriving island full of freedom and opportunity, and I think that China hates it. They have a great quality of life. They have this thing called capitalism. They are unbelievably productive, even though China tries to isolate them. It's the style of government that China fears that China would ever become. If they ever did that, even though they might be more formidable of a competitor, they would actually be our partner, which would help the world be a better place. So they essentially want the president to say that China is not an independent country. I think he's going to... Stay totally away from that, and I wouldn't blame him. Here's Josh Holmes of Ruthless Cut 11. It's a long-held goal of the Chinese to weaken that relationship. But I think you heard Secretary of State Marco Rubio speak very clearly to the fact that that's not going to happen. But furthermore, I think if there's any lesson of the Trump administration, it's that he doesn't negotiate from a position of weakness. And that certainly would be one. What he's talking about is trying to lay a predicate for a negotiation that deals with things like fentanyl. and fentanyl imports, things, he's like a dog on a bone on that issue. Seen it in a bunch of different countries. Well, China is the most significant purveyor of this, and that is what he's going to be focused on. But when it comes to Taiwan, I think he understands the strategic import of all of that, and he's certainly not going to negotiate from a position of weakness. Yeah, so I want to probably get to the shutdown, too. So just so you know, to recap, and I'm not really skewing it. I'll just tell you exactly what happened. They said, we signed a continuing resolution. because there's only three appropriation bills done in the Senate. They're all done in the House. The House votes to have a clean CR. Why would the House worry about that? Because ideally, after the House passes their budget... Then they got to have a conference with the Senate, and then they find out what they're actually going to be spending for the year in the ideal world. House does their job. They just sent them home because it was up to the Senate to do their job. And the Senate didn't. So I think they've refused to provide, get over the 60 both thresholds, I think 17 times. So the question is, is it true? Is it true what Chuck Schumer says. The longer this goes on, the more we win. I don't think so.

I think that the number one union, workers union, is already called on the Democrats to sign a continuing resolution so we can get back to work. If you don't believe me, listen to the poster on CNN. Howard Enton, cut 27. Take a look here, the shift in net popularity versus pre-shutdown. When we're looking at the Republican Party overall, that brand actually up two points. That's within the margin of error, but clearly it hasn't dropped. Come over to this side of the screen, look at the net approval ratings for Republicans in Congress. It's actually up five points since pre-shutdown. So what we're seeing here is the Republican brand in Congress has actually improved somewhat compared to where we were pre-shutdown. Do you believe this? This is CNN, and you've got to only imagine what the anchor was doing as they try to show that it's Republicans' fault for not negotiating. Why would they negotiate? And my analogy, I think, is a good one. It's like someone breaking into your house and saying, if you want us out, you've got to negotiate. What are you talking about? What are you doing in my house? Well, just negotiate. No, I'm not going to negotiate. You broke into my house. Get out. Well, we're going to go to one room. We'll keep all guys in one room if you just negotiate. We'll negotiate that. No, no, I want you out of the house. And once you're out of the house, if you have an issue with the neighborhood, I'll talk to you. But if I negotiate with you now, this is going to be happening every week. Every time that you see we're in the majority and the same thing happens after the midterms, every time we have a budget, you're not going to sign on to anything. You're not going to do appropriations. You're just going to end up holding us hostage. And if you don't believe my words, listen to Chris Coons. The senator from Delaware says exactly why they're doing this. Cut 17. Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage. And although a very unpleasant tool to use, it's gotten us focused on what we have to do to change direction on health care. Whoa, leverage. So if you're not getting your SNAP benefits, you have nothing to eat today, you can't pay your bills, your utility costs through the roof. You don't know what you're going to do. You live paycheck to paycheck and the paycheck has nothing in it. What are you going to do? Well, don't worry. Democrats need leverage. Does that make you happy? All right. At bottom of the air, we're going to have Dr. Arthur Brooks. When we come back, we're also going to continue to talk about what's happening, what's also happening with these off-year elections at six days away. You're not going to believe the newest tape to emerge about Mr. Zohran Mamdani. More anti-Semitic than you can imagine. Watch. Politics, current events, and news that affects you. Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmeade. When it's time to scale your business, it's time for Shopify. Get everything you need to grow the way you want. Like all the way. Stack more sales with the best converting checkout on the planet. Track your chichings from every channel, right in one spot, and turn real-time reporting into big-time opportunities. Take your business to a whole new level. Switch to Shopify. Start your free trial today.

and making people not learn English, having a charter school where they just speak Arabic, how will that help them meld into the city and become part of our society? When you go to high school, you're mostly the formative years when you make your lifelong friends in many cases and then you're speaking Arabic. But he thinks, I got to cut into the Muslim community. I know what I'll do. I'll promise him anything. And that's Andrew Cuomo. I like him better than Zohran Mamdani, but that's what you're dealing with. He thought that was a great move. I think it's a terrible move. But the turnout is very positive in New York. A record number of early voters are weighing in in the race, but the candidates are working to persuade undecided voters with one week to go. Still, they think there's a lot of undecideds. Nearly a quarter million New Yorkers have already voted with the biggest turnout being in Brooklyn and Manhattan being driven by... Middle age and older voters. That is great news for Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo believes the momentum is with him in ways he wasn't during the Democratic primary. Curtis Sliwa is being relentless and defatigable working around the clock. Andrew Cuomo's goal is to tug over the support of moderate voters and as many Republicans as possible. That's his goal. And Curtis Sliwa is not stepping aside. People have asked him to. The guy that did step aside is Eric Adams. He was campaigning with which must be awkward, cut 31. One more thing I want to point out that Zohran Mamdani has been stating in the last couple of days is that our comments are Islamophobic. He just said that over and over again that he was hoping to bring the city together. You don't bring the city together by supporting globalized into fire. You don't bring the city together by talking about what's happening in Gaza, but not mentioning the 18,000 churches that were burned, were burned in Nigeria, and 7,000 Nigerian Christians that died. Bringing the city together is what I did for almost 15 years. Speaking to the pains of every community, instead he has been divisive and not bringing people together. He's right. But Eric Adams can't help it run. I'm sure he's in disbelief that he's not running. But going with Andrew Cuomo is a tough thing. Curtis Lee was said, no, I'm doing it myself. And Eric Adams says, no, I'm not getting anywhere. So I don't want Zohran Mamdani to win. Either do I. Dr. Arthur Brooks is next. He always thinks of the positive things. He's going to help you change your life, especially how you wake up and when you have your coffee.

He's so busy. He'll make your headspin. It's Brian Kilmeade. Hey, we are back. One of our all-time great guests, Dr. Arthur Brooks, is here, Harvard Professor, Atlantic columnist. Host of Office Hours podcast, bestselling author of The Happiness Files, Insights on Work and Life. And he has a new book coming out, too, which I can't wait to find out more about. And also he's got a new article of how to heal our country, which is a big thing to say. And also how to make your individual life better healthier, right, Arthur? Yeah, for sure. I teach happiness at Harvard. And that's wrap-around happiness, man. How do you do it for a country? How do it for yourself? How do it for family? And it's all based on science. So this is not just self-improvement. This is the neuroscience and behavioral science of how to be a happier person. And are you still learning this? Oh, yeah, for sure. So it's a goal for the rest of my life. I got my Ph.D. about 30 years and I've been studying this stuff. But over the past seven years, I've dedicated myself completely to human happiness and what it actually means. You know, the science of how this actually works, how you can change your habits and protocols and then teach it to other people so your family and people around, you can get happier too. And did you teach this past semester? Yeah, I mean, I teach in the spring. So I teach in the spring up at Harvard. And, you know, I'll have 180 students in my class starting in January. I'll have 400 in the waiting list. There'll probably be an illegal Zoom link they think I don't know about. Right. And it must feel good to have that type of... It's fantastic. It's the best. You know, we get one pass through this mortal coil, man. And you can make life better for people. You can make life worse for people. And I dedicated myself. Look, I'm a Christian. And I said, I'm going to dedicate my Christian faith to my secular job. And I want to make people happier. I want to help people understand how to have more love in their life is what it comes down to. And I'm a scientist. So I got to do the science behind it. It's great. What's the relationship between success and happiness? So that's an interesting thing that most people don't get right. And here's the key thing to remember. Mother Nature doesn't care if you're happy. Mother Nature wants you to survive and pass on your genes. Happiness is your job is what it comes to. Everybody listening to us, happiness is something that you have to choose and do things that actually stand up to your natural impulses. So you want to have more money, more power, more pleasure, more admiration of other people. And that'll give you more, you know, all of the stuff that the world promises, but it won't bring you more happiness is the problem. So what I tell my students is, you think success will bring you happiness. Going for happiness directly, which comes from faith, family, friendship, and work that serves other people, then you'll be successful enough. So what role does in more practical purposes? Let's say you have this. You have great friends. You have a great family. But they have the stress every day, which a lot of people listening to us right now. Was it the number of 70% of all Americans live paycheck to paycheck? They worry one thing goes wrong. They don't worry about the safety net. Social Security won't be enough. That's real worry. How do you figure happiness? How do you work happiness into that? Yeah. So the problem with that is that these real world tensions and anxieties. They actually don't hurt your happiness, but they raise your unhappiness.

and unhappiness are not opposites. So you can be a very happy person and also have a lot of sources of unhappiness in your life. The key thing to keep in mind is that you do the best you can to lower these sources of unhappiness. You find the best job that you can. Right. You have a good relationship with other people who can help you, et cetera, et cetera, but then focus on the real sources of your happiness, which all come from love. Love that you have with God. Love that you have with your family and friends. Love toward the whole world through the way that you're trying to serve is the way that works. So you think about, you know, obviously a balance through that. Yeah, for sure. You can't change the whole world, but you can change yourself. Focus on the things that you can actually change to become a happier person. And is it the voice? What do you do with the voice in your head that wants more? I know. Well, that's Mother Nature once again. And that's one of the reasons that every religion and every philosophy, as I was said, stand up to your nature, man. I mean, there's kind of two parts about being a person. Your dog. You have a dog, Brian? Two. You have two dogs. Your dogs really only have animal impulses. They're awesome. They act like humans, but they really have an animal impulse. We have this part of a brain. called the prefrontal cortex right behind our foreheads it's huge it's a supercomputer that gives us more than animal impulses we also have moral aspirations we can make decisions in spite of our animal impulses and that's what we're trying to do all day long if you live with your animal impulses you'll just get drunk every night you'll sleep in every morning you won't show up for work you'll cheat on your spouse and that's because your animal impulses say that'll feel good don't do it You want to live up to your moral aspirations, and then you get happier by making conscious decisions. And it becomes a habit, right? Totally. You start showing that discipline. It becomes a habit and that becomes a reinforced. Animal habits reinforce themselves. Moral habits reinforce themselves as well. Is there a number that you should go through in order for it to be a habit? People talk about how many days you should do something, whether it's a diet or exercise. It depends on what you're actually doing. So you find, for example, exercise, generally speaking, takes about six weeks, four times a week, doing exactly the same thing. So I put people, I do a lot of work on biology too. I mean, I do a lot of work on wraparound wellness, health and wellness. And I'm a real gym rat and fitness guy. And so what I tell people is that they want to start working out. People not watching, not watching the stream, you're in unbelievable shape. I'm in, I mean, at 61, I feel better than when I was 31. That's for sure. Right. And because I've got my diet and exercise on point. Yeah, totally. I work out seven days a week, an hour a day. But nobody's going to do that from nothing. The way to do that is to do a workout, usually a cardio, a zone two cardio workout. That means like a little elliptical thing or going for a really brisk walk, four days a week for six weeks and then start getting fancier. But four times a week for six weeks and then it becomes a habit and then we'll talk about how to make it fancier. Right. One bill is on the other. How do you feel about the shortcuts? Which ones like a Zeptide or whatever it's called? Zepbound, Zepbound, Mujaro, the GLP1 drugs. Those things are a miracle actually. And what they do is they actually, among other things. I mean, they're thought of as obesity drugs, but they're changing behavior as well. They're changing other kinds of bad habits. People take them and find they don't want to smoke anymore. People take them and they don't want to eat junk food so much anymore and drink alcohol anymore. So it's kind of an amazing thing because what it does is it interrupts the reward cycle in your brain.

where you get these big, big dopamine-based rewards for these particular behaviors. And so they're a great thing, and they can be a good adjunct to how you're trying to improve your life. So when you see, you know, um... Selena Williams, Serena Williams, and when you see Charles Barkley, say, yeah, that's what I'm on. Yeah. I mean, that's changing even since the last time I talked to you. People were taking it and they said, well, I'm not going to tell anyone. Now it's out there. Here's why I think it would be good. So you sneak to yourself, no matter what I do, I can't lose weight. Right. Some people do work out and they don't get the reward they want. Well, you can't out exercise a bad diet. Can't be done. can't be done. You've got to change the behavior of the input of what you're putting in your mouth and not just actually how you're spending exercise. Sorry to interrupt. Yeah, because it'll lessen the weight, but you're not going to get the tone. You're not going to get the muscle. But it's a jump start to say, well, look what's possible. Yeah, that's right. It gets you out of a rut and ready to go. Yeah, totally. I mean, I got nothing against those particular things. Now, the whole idea that a lot of people who don't really need to lose weight and doing it for pure vanity reasons, that's another psychological problem. Vanity will mess you up. Vanity will ruin the quality of your life. That's just... the truth. If you're looking in the mirror thinking all day long, what do people think of me? What do people think about how I look? That per se is a problem, actually. So if that's the reason you're using it. Why are you working out? I'm working out because it's for me, for three basic reasons. I get up in the morning of 4.30. 445 to 5.45, I work out every day for three reasons. Number one is mood management. By the way, can I also tell you that it's hard to roll out of bed and work out? Yeah, that's a habit. It's a habit. It's a habit. And it's a habit without doing it without coffee because I drink my coffee much later. And you and I've talked about this before. So number one is I'm trying to manage negative mood. The best way to manage negative mood is picking up having things and running around. And if you have a naturally negative mood, which half the population is above average in negative mood, they just are. And it tends to be most... acute first thing in the morning don't drink alcohol don't take drugs don't be a workaholic don't don't blunt your feelings by distracting yourself with behavior and substances there are two things to do pray more worship more religion is incredibly good for negative mood and number two is work out is go to the gym pick up heavy things go run around and that's what i do first thing in the morning that's why arthur brooks is with us and he's what's your name of your new book coming out oh the new book is coming out it's coming out march 31st of 2026 the meaning of your life finding purpose in an age of emptiness where do you start with that book oh man it's been five years in the making it's the hardest book i ever wrote topic sentences tough enough i know so a couple of things This is what I find interesting is that when you go to countries, developing countries, their goal, especially early men, their goal is we got to eat every day, we've got to find shelter every day. You know, early, like you study early Americans when they start moving west. Right. Well, we've got to find a place to live. We've got to find out there's going to be a road. We've got to find out what we're going to eat. Right. You don't have necessary time to go, what makes me happy. Right. You have goals called survival.

and then hopefully success and wealth. Yeah. And then you read about these stories and these accounts. But there's something healthy about that. Yeah. And it just wipes out a lot of the outside sources. Yeah, I'm not really worried about my biceps. Yeah. I'm not worried about my chest development. Yes. Man, I got to make sure that this move I'm making with my family works out. And I'm not going to be attacked by the American Indians and things to that nature. And that's what you see in a lot of developing countries today. Survival is the key. Right. That's a different situation than what Americans deal with, because survival in most cases is not an issue. Right. No, that's right. Now, the problem is that when you have avoidable sources of misery, like caloric deficits or your kids don't get vaccines or you can't, you can't send your kids to school, that actually does raise a lot of unhappiness. That really does raise a lot of unhappiness. That's true. The problem is that when you actually are not thinking in the way that your brain was intended to think, which is about... doing your work every day and your basic relationships and focusing on the people around you and you know i'll tell you you know my great grandfather was a farmer and i there's one thing he never once said i mean he had a hard life and his his job was really boring and and you know he didn't know if there's going to be food on the table but he never once went home and said my great grandmother honey i had a i had a panic attack behind the mule today No, because that didn't exist is the whole point. And part of the reason was like his life could have been better and mine is, but he was using his brain the way that nature intended for him to use his brain, which was focusing on the here and now, doing his work, taking care of his family and not looking at the stupid screen in his pocket. So he wouldn't need your course. No, no, no. You would not need you course, would he? There's certain things that actually could have been better, you know, that he could have learned more of, but he could have taught a lot of things to me too because his brain was working the way evolution intended it. So I mean, we get to a certain point. Do you believe? and with these kids and the therapists there in school that we're working almost, we're giving kids too much therapy, too much convenience, worried about too much their thought, I mean, bullying obviously is a problem, especially with health. But a lot of the friction the kids go through with parents that weren't necessarily there were school teachers and nurses and psychologists that weren't even employed or perhaps at your school. Those things that you learn to work through through high school and through grammar school, a lot of kids are getting the soft landing with therapy and there's something wrong and we can work with you. Are you under the school of thought that there's a lot of negativity to that, even though the objective is correct? In the current day, the way that we understand.

adolescent's mental health, a lot of it's misguided. There's this idea that if you're sad and anxious, there's something wrong with you and you've got to cure it. That's incorrect. I tell my students, look, you study at Harvard. If you're not sad and anxious, you need therapy. It's a hard thing that you're doing. And good for you. You're making sacrifices and you're struggling. And that's life on earth, man. And you don't need, you should never try to eliminate your suffering. Your suffering is sacred. You learn from your suffering. You learn how to manage your suffering. By suffering. Now, it couldn't be disregulated. You can be depressed and anxious, and there can be a medical problem, to be sure. But the idea of eliminating suffering, that's a misguided approach and is making things worse. You could solve a multitude of problems with some relatively simple protocols for a lot of young people. Take away the phone and go run around outside. That's number one. For a lot of young people, that just solves a multitude of problems. And to back up your thoughts, Arthur, is these people that, and most schools are doing this now, making the kids put their phones away. whether it's in a box or leave it at home, almost all the kids are embracing this now, as well as the teachers. They love it. But, of course, it's hard to do in 27 states are still not doing it. There's not one classroom in America from kindergarten through Ph.D. They should have one phone in it. And that just takes fortitude and courage on the part of politicians, and it's going to raise mental health dramatically. This is a new problem. Yeah. And it was like one of those things where you put a frog in the water and you slowly make the water hotter. You didn't even know what the water was a problem. So when we first invented this, I never remember as the BlackBerry went to the iPhone. People weren't saying this could be a problem. I always thought about the look about the possibility. Yeah. I mean, this is what technology. Did you recognize as a problem? Well, yeah, because I'm a behavioral scientist and I was looking at this. And, you know, I pal around with guys like Jonathan Haidt down at New York University who wrote The Anx Generation, a great book. There's no small talk. But how this works. Well, you know, it's like it's what we do. It's shop talk. It's like, When you're talking with one of your buddies here at Fox, you know, you're talking about the business. And it's true. We saw actually this thing coming a long time. And we've been collecting data and doing studies on this as well. We can solve this problem with proper discipline, proper protocols, good schooling and good parenting. And I'm sure that we will solve this problem. Just a lot of damage along the way. One thing that's working against me and my texting is spell check. Yeah. Because most of the time it doesn't know what I mean. Yeah. And I got to check it more. But that's pretty much my problem. It's the people I text that are unhappy about it. Arthur Brooks is here. He's got some great things. Also, when we come back, when you should have your coffee and why and how you should start your day, if you want to be happy. Don't move. illuminating, intriguing, inculcating. I know some of these words. It's Brian Kilmeade. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FN Radio 20. 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.

Information you want. Truth, you demand. This is the Brian Kilmeade. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent. And I don't want the best for them. I'm sorry. I am sorry, Erica. But now Erica can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent. Charlie's angry. Look at that. He's angry at me now. So I think that's perfect for our next segment. Arthur Brooks, we have a few more minutes with the Harvard professor, bestselling author, his podcast, is also very successful. He's called, he's a host of office hours. He can get it on Spotify. Dr. Brooks, the name you column is basically forgive your enemies. That's what I thought that would be perfect. Love your enemies. Love your enemies. Don't forgive them. Love them. Love them. All right. So I think Trump was having fun with that. Of course. But you were shaking it. No, he's been provocative. And I got it. I was the national prayer breakfast keynote speaker in 2020. And he was, I was on the dais with Donald Trump. And, you know, that was the morning that he had been acquitted from his second or third or 40th, whatever it was, you know, the time he was impeached by the Democrats. And he comes out and, you know, I was given a speech called, Love your enemies and pray for those who are persecuted. It's the National Prayer Breakfast. And Donald Trump, he's such a great performer, I have to say. And he gets up, he says, I love a good speech by Arthur Brooks. But, but I got to say, I disagree. You know, and it's like the gall to get up and disagree with Jesus at the National Prayer. breakfast. But, you know, it's half his tongue and cheek. Of course. Of course. He's a performer. He's a performer. Absolutely. But he's, you know, he's very hard. But by loving your enemies. Yeah. And what Erica, what Erica did do, Erika Kirk did do by saying, I forgive the assassin of my husband. Yeah. I mean, that's it. That's. that's an incredible example for your premise. Yeah, well, here the important thing to keep in mind is that Jesus didn't say to like your enemies. Murder Luther King gave a sermon on this part of the gospel. This is Matthew 544, the sermon on the Mount. Jesus says, you've heard that you should love your friends and hate your enemies. Today, I give you a new teaching, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Your hardest teaching ever. But that means you have to make the decision notwithstanding your feelings. And that's really what we're talking about. People today. What do you get out of that? But do I'm doing that? How does that help you? That gives you control. when you're not hating. And somebody else is you have control. You have cognitive control. You have literally more power. That doesn't mean you have to like somebody and invite them over for dinner. It doesn't mean you have to be best friends with them and have tender feelings toward them. There's nothing to do with your feelings at all. It's the decision that you make actually to will the good of another person. And sometimes the good of the other person requires that you do a really, really hard thing that they don't like. But never do it at hate because if you do, you're weak. I mean, you're not actually going to be as effective as you could be. Do you practice that? I try. I try. I pray about that every day.

It's very important to me to actually practice that. I don't like everybody, but I'm commanded by my master to love everybody. On a lighter note, you were talking about your schedule before how you work out right away and you get going, but you wait a while to have coffee because health is very much a part of your school. Absolutely. And one of the things that we understand about coffee, coffee actually blocks neurotransmitter called adenosine. Coffee doesn't pep you up. Coffee blocks you from actually feeling lethargic. That's how it works. Adenosine is one of these circulating neurochemicals that makes you feel groggy, makes you go to sleep at night. And there's a lot of it in your brain when you first wake up, and that's why you feel groggy. It'll get by caffeine. Don't do that. Let it clear naturally. That way you won't have a crash, and you can use it to focus on your work. In 20 seconds left, which should we plug for Arthur Brooks? What books should we get of yours? Oh, the last one is the Happiness Files, Insights on Life and Work. I get through it. I downloaded it, even though you gave me a couple of entry copies. So you got money there. Thanks, man. Thanks. From high atop, Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sewing division. It's Brian Kilmeade. So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade. I happen to be located in New York City. It's about to be controlled, I think, by a borderline communist. Some of the statements that have emerged, some of the things that he have said is so concerned. You would think this guy would be a distant memory. One of those also ran candidates that stood out because it made you shake your head, but he's leading and has never trailed. Martha McCallum at the bottom of the hour call room next. And just a quick reminder, Patriot Awards, go scoop up your tickets. It's Thursday, November 6, streaming on 5. Fox Nation. Also, coming up November 1st, that's this Saturday, 5 p.m. It's an odd time, but a great theater, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, history, liberty, and laughs. I want everyone out there. And that means you. So before we go to do further, let's get to the big three. Number three. We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your net, it's been laced by the ideas. Believe that? That's not a voiceover or AI. That is Zohrun Zohran Mamdani in 2023. Off your election six days away and a record turnout already in Virginia in New Jersey and New York City. What it means for the final tallies. Number two. I'm a military spouse, and when the 15 came around, and we didn't have to worry about our check, and the first is coming, and there are people that need food. I usually have my mother over for Thanksgiving, and I don't even know how I'm going to do that. There's no way I can afford a turkey. Shut down stories causing great pain for federal workers, snap recipients, military, and more. If both are to blame, why are Republicans' approval ratings improving? We're signing one trade deal after another to balance our relationships and the basis of reciprocity. These agreements will be incredible victories for all of us because everyone is better off when we have stable partnerships, not plagued by chronic problems and imbalances.

That is President Trump signing one deal after another overseas. Trump trip is in the backstretch as he's racked up investments and trade deals with big deals set for tomorrow. We think with China all seems to be set up for a big announcement. The market certainly thinks so. And I want to get Karl Rove's opinion on that. Carl, so far we had a stop in Malaysia, stop in Japan. Now they're in South Korea. And that's where he's going to meet with President Xi Jinping of China. So far, this trip looks like a big success, especially knowing two hours ago they announced the trade deal with South Korea has been done. Yeah. And remember, he's going to be, he's going to start his Friday in Korea. which will be the middle of the night, Thursday night here, and we'll be back at the White House at 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon in order to celebrate Halloween with, you know, a mob of children on the South Lawn of the White House. Pretty, pretty amazing. I know. And evidently, he's over there and overseas, he's not sleeping. He's just so energized by what he's seeing. I think it's been impressive. I love, I think the Middle East doing business deals and establishing relationships. It really matters. It matters a lot in business. And Carl, bring me inside it. How much does it matter when you know the other leader? Well, it matters a lot. I mean, and it also, you know, you can see people evolve. That's one of the amazing things is that you can see how a relationship is developing with someone because of events. And most of the time that can be for the good president being involved. You know, I'm sure he, it looks like he's off to a great start with the new prime minister of Japan, a very important relationship for us. But also, you know, sometimes they go south. And we saw that recently with Vladimir Putin, who, you know, frankly, played the president in Alaska. And the president didn't like it. And he made said things that obviously the president thinks he has not lived up to. And the president's going to deal with that accordingly. And so, yes, it matters a lot. You want to have a relationship with these two people get to know each other. because it gives a higher level of trust in the conversations that they then have. Bush, for example, had a great relationship with the Japanese Prime Minister Kwazumi, who was one of the two modern Japanese prime ministers who, besides Abe, who is a close friend of Kwazumi, the longest serving prime ministers of the modern Japan. And they got to know each other, which was really odd because... Quasumi's father was a Japanese soldier in World War II who was shooting at people like George W. Bush's father, who was a Navy pilot in the Pacific, and yet their two sons became very close comrades and companions and partners in helping, you know, defend the security interests of both countries.

So a couple of things. With Japan, they're going to have $10 billion worth of investments in auto plants here, $400 billion of potential investments in energy, and they're also agreed to $550 billion worth of strategic investment here. So the president knows, I mean, I don't ever remember a president thinking so much about business. He also is on the precipice of cutting a deal with Colombia and Malaysia and is close to doing one with Thailand and Vietnam. So that April meeting when everything was kind of blown up and, you know, we're trying to rebalance trade. Little by little, he's pulling them in. I also think it's kind of interesting with China. They let it out that they're very optimistic. Something's going to get done tomorrow on fentanyl. Something's going to get done tomorrow on soybeans and something's going to get done on rare earth. What are you hearing? Well, first of all, let me say one thing. The $550 billion includes the other things that you mentioned, $400 billion of investment in certain things and, you know, $10 billion for, you know, new auto plants and the Japanese auto plants in the U.S., etc. So $550 billion. And that's a pretty big chunk coming from Japan. I mean, that's a significant part of their economy. Look, it is clear. that people want to do business with the U.S. And my sense is that the Japanese, you know, look, doing something about the precursor chemicals for fentanyl is something they could have done a long time ago. It's a sign that the president has pressured them enough that they feel they need to give up that card now. And look, they're making a mistake on rare earths because what is happening is they were. sort of the supplier to the world of this vital element that goes into electric cars and it goes into all kinds of things, chips, you name it. Now the rest of the world says we can't trust them to be a reliable supplier. So we're going to develop our own. We call them rare earths, but they're actually pretty common. It's just that we don't mind them much outside of China. Now we're going to do it in Australia. We're going to do it in the U.S. We're going to do it in Ukraine has a lot of rare earths. So the Chinese have hurt themselves over the long run. The interesting thing to me is, food. China does not have enough agriculture to sustain its own people, so it's a net importer of food. We are a net exporter of food. We grow far more than we can ever consume, and this is going to be helpful to soybean farmers in the Great Plains who have been cut off from the Chinese market by the Chinese trying to make up their food needs with purchases from Brazil and Argentina and elsewhere. But it looks like they can't get them. enough of them at the price they need. We're already the largest supplier of pork, for example, to China, because nobody else can match our prices in our volume.

So let's jog over to the shutdown. Senator Chris Coons on C-SPAN, let it be known exactly what they're doing. Cut 17. Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage. And although a very unpleasant tool to use, it's gotten us focused on what we have to do. to change direction on health care. So if you're in the military, if you're an air traffic controller, TSA worker, any federal employee, just know that you're being used as leverage. Yeah. Oh, think about the kids who are going to not have school lunch programs or the families that depend upon SNAP funds to put something on the table. Just, you know, if you're hungry, just remember the Democrats are, you're giving the Democrats a tool to use and they're using it. Or actually, they're using you as a tool. Or maybe they are just tools, period. So here is, so here we are. We're weeks into this now. The president's overseas. And we know that there's really no off ramp. If I gave Carl Rove the keys to design an off ramp that would end this thing, even though you're a conservative, how does it end? Knowing that there's got to be the Democrats looking for at least a space saving measure. Yeah, well, there's got to be a level of confidence and trust among members in the Senate and the House, Democrat and Republican, that they agree that they're going to have conversations and that there are solutions possible. It's going to have to be give and take on both sides. Democrats want to get the continuation of the Affordable Care Act, the Obamacare subsidies. Republicans might be willing to do that provided you. take into account the enormous fraud. How can you deal with that? And also so that, you know, the very wealthy are not getting the same kind of benefit that somebody who middle class or working class it gets. There are ways to arrive at it. But ultimately, it's going to come down to the trust that you find between individual players in the House and Senate. You know, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Susan Collins has got to play a big role in this, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Tom Cole of Oklahoma has got to play a role in this. And the good news is those are the kind of people that Democrats say, you know what? If Tom gives me his word or Susan gives me his word, I can count on it. But it requires the Democrats to stop playing games. Look, I hate this. When Republicans are in the minority and Democrats are in power, the Republicans make a stink about a clean resolution and don't support it. And when Republicans are in power and the Democrats are in the minority and the Republicans propose a clean continuing resolution, the Democrats play games. And in both instances, it's wrong. We have the biggest enterprise on the face of the planet called the U.S. government and for us to be treating the budget and the fiscal responsibility of that institution. As casually as we're doing with this is ridiculous. So the Democrats, there's a reason why you pointed it out. Republicans are. Their approval ratings are rising because the Democrats are being so open. We want to subject the country to such a volume of hurt that you'll side with us against the people who are trying to do the responsible thing. A continuing resolution ought to be clean. You shouldn't be playing games on it. Here's how it ended. I want you to hear CNN because I know you don't watch. So I taped this portion. This is their poster, cut 22.

Take a look here, the shift in net popularity versus pre-shutdown. When we're looking at the Republican Party overall, that brand actually up two points. That's within the margin of error, but clearly it hasn't dropped. Come over to this side of the screen, look at the net approval ratings for Republicans in Congress. It's actually up five points since pre-shutdown. So what we're seeing here is the Republican brand in Congress has actually improved somewhat compared to where we were pre-shutdown. I'm surprised they didn't cut his mic, but those are numbers. You live in the numbers world, Carl. Yeah, is he still employed incidentally? Not sure. No, look. Look, this is, I mean, go to almost any poll. And he's right. Take a look at before the shutdown, look at the most recent one. And at worst, it's flat. But in most instances, you're starting to see Democrats declining and Republicans growing, albeit, you know, look, we're a deeply polarized country. So they're not going to be big leaps. But the independent voters of people who are weakly linked to either party are figuring out who's responsible for this. disaster, and it's the Democrats. They're clear and open about it. They glory in it. We're, you know, we make people hurt enough. The Republicans okay. No, no, don't think it works out. Three races to get through before you have to go, I know. Zorimani, this emerged from his, I guess on his radio interview from two years ago. Listen to this. Cut 29. Everybody's looking at the polls. They're saying things look good. They're looking at the betting eyes. They're saying things look good. That's exactly how Andrew Cuomo felt, seven days until the primary, a few months ago. No, I'm sorry. I should have said 24. Go ahead. We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your net. It's been laced by the idea. I mean, this is just a myriad of crazy statements he has made, most of which are caught on camera. What are we doing here in New York City? You're about ready to elect a crazy man, mayor. Wait for my column tomorrow. You probably not listen to it, but it's well worth listening to the six-minute, 44-second video that he cut in response to the exchange that he had with Vice President JD Vance over his, over Mamd.'s aunt supposedly being, you know, nervous after 9-11. I thought it was one of the most astunny. It was, let me tell you, the video is well done. He's powerful. He's persuasive. He's eloquent. But it is the dumbest thing I think I've seen in a recent campaign because he basically says the city of New York is full of bigots who hate Muslims. And I've had enough. I do not intend to be, you know, I thought I could be the mayor of a United City. But that was false. That was wrong. I made a mistake. And by God, we're not going to stand for this anymore. I mean, he's depicting New York as a cesspool of bigotry when we know that New York is a city that celebrates the great, you know, sarcophany of face and ethnicity and origin and outlook. I mean, you know, this guy is depicting New York as, you know, some hellhole for everybody who is a Muslim. And it is the wrong message.

for a guy who should try and unite the city of New York. You're going to see it reflected. Yeah. And in your column, you're going to see it reflected in the outcome. And Carl, he made it up. He didn't have an aunt. It's somebody else who's dead. And they've not even seen a picture with him. Yeah. Yeah. It was a family friend that he called his aunt. But I didn't get into that in it because I thought he even worse than that minor statement was the essence of what he said, it is one of the most astonishingly short-sighted. irrational diatribes, I think I've seen in politics. Two quick races to look at. Jack Ciattarelli, what are the chances of him winning in New Jersey? Well, he's got a shot. She's a terrible candidate. But the Democrats have a 13-point registration advantage. The fact that it's competitive says something about how weak a candidate she is and how authentic a candidate he is. I've never met him. I've just seen him on television, but I've seen him in the debates. He just seems like a good guy. And in politics, that counts for a lot. I hope so. And then you have what are the chances Abigail Spanberger gets upset by the lieutenant governor winsome? Well, look, the polls there have shown consistently, you know, a high single digit, you know, 10 points at most and maybe a couple of polls above that. The interesting thing is that Abigail Spanberger is a much better candidate than Cheryl in New Jersey, but she is hampered by her attorney general candidate who is, this guy has done a terrible job. He's going to lose. Yeah, Jay Jones. And Mayeris, the Republican, has done a terrific job as Attorney General, and has weathered this quite well and done very, and been very effective. I think he's going to win. And that says something about the Commonwealth of Virginia, where there still is a climate of two things. Tickets splitting and a belief that people in office ought to be good people who have strong values and not the kind of, you know, bigoted comments and nasty personal stuff that. that Jay Jones said. And they also, they don't particularly like candidates who want to be the chief law enforcement officer who got arrested for traveling 117 miles per hour in your fancy car in a 70 mile an hour zone. Carl Rove, thanks so much. We'll make sure to read your column on the Wall Street Journal tomorrow. Appreciate it. Thank you, buddy. All the best. And we'll see him on One Nation on Sunday night. Martha McCallum next. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Kilmeade.

From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmeade. Hey, Martha McCallum, we have a short segment here, and then we were fine on the other side of the hour, right at the other side of the half hour. You're all pumped for your show at 3 o'clock? Yes. One of the things that we're watching really closely are all these layoffs. You know, for a long time people thought that AI was just going to replace some of the, you know, Lower level. Modane jobs. And now what we're watching is this. coming onslaught for white-collar workers and people who have maybe been working for the last five years out of college, they have accounting jobs, legal jobs. This is going to keep spreading. It's a huge issue in America, and we're going to take that on right at the top of the show today. 14,000 people, I think, laid off at Amazon. Yeah, I think there's a lot more coming. I think you should keep your eye on the finance industry and other places where they're going to be cutting headcount. There's a big pressure on these companies by... They're boards to make sure that they're as efficient as possible and that they're ready for the AI age. They're shedding DEI, shedding climate initiatives. And so is Bill Gates, by the way. And this is the wave of the future. And it's going to be very difficult for a lot of people. I'm fascinated by the climate talk because for the longest time, we thought we weren't allowed to ask questions. How dare we question science? No, Bill Gates goes, yeah, I think we're going to be fine. And I'm more worried about being cold than hot. Yes. Back in a moment.

A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. We have a few more quality minutes with Martha, and then I'm going to be on outnumbered at the top of the hour. Martha, you are on an enumer? Not today. But 3 o'clock you're on. I'm on at 3 o'clock. So we have to talk about this, this Bill Gates story. Bill Gates comes out, and he basically says, you know that whole thing I was telling you about climate change? I'm not really sure it's a big thing. His arms are going everywhere. He says, well, he sunk billions of dollars of his fortune into initiatives to stop global warming because it's a national, it's a world catastrophe. Now he says it's not, astonishingly, he now claims that not heat. But the cold is killing more people and more of a threat to humanity. Quote, surprisingly, excess cold is far deadlier, killing nearly 10 times more people every year than he does. Do you know his latest project was dimming the sun? Because that's how worried he was while he flew around in his private jet. And, Martha, if you question climate change, you're an ignoramus. How dare you? What are we witnessing here? I mean, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said we're all going to be dead in 12 years. Yes. I mean, this was, this was Bible for these individuals. In fact, there was a lot of commentary that it sort of did become their religion. Oh, yeah. And that if you didn't believe it, or if you had no faith in big air quotes in this whole thing, that you were, you know, you were evil. You were a bad person. You wanted the whole planet to sort of. burst into flames and die and you didn't care. Selfish. I saw a video this morning of Al Gore, who was really the architect of this movement. You remember the movie that he made? Do you want to hear it? Yeah, thank you. Here's a bunch. He's Al Gore, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Greta. And not Van Sustrin. Cut 47. This is the one challenge that could completely end human civilization. And it is rushing at us with such speed and force. It's completely unprecedented. The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. What the scientists are telling us is if we don't get our act together, the world that you will be bringing your children up in and your grandchildren up in will be increasingly unhealthy. and uninhabitable. It is what we decide now that will define the rest of humanity's future. If we don't, it will be a death sentence to countless of people. What's she going to do? I don't know. Well, she was taking a boat to Gaza. She's, yeah, she's, I know she's been spending a lot of time in Gaza. So, yeah. This is so, and it just flies in the face. This actually lines up with what we've seen happening at universities. It's like you have to have, you have to buy into this dogma or you're a bad person, right? And it also ties in with Trump derangement syndrome or anything conservative derangement syndrome. And what we need to get back to is this idea of good scientific debate. Sure, you want to take the climate.

crisis side of the argument, go ahead. But you're also going to listen to the guy or gal who's on the other side of the equation, and we're going to get some good answers. But, you know, in this, Bill Gates says, You know, if I had to choose, I'm paraphrasing a little bit here, if I had to choose between the climate going up, here it is, I'll let the temperature go up one-tenth of a degree to get rid of malaria. People don't understand the suffering that exists today. Now, he has done a lot of work with malaria. I did a malaria project many years ago, and it is very, very important. So what he's saying is, you know, world disease, poverty, these are more pressing. And the climate will, you know, probably actually not be... a catastrophic event. It's insane. It's insane. Are they going to cover this everywhere? Like, is this going to be, you know, oh, by the way, the, you know, reports of your demise were widely exaggerated? I've been looking at my quad box. I'm not seeing it all morning. And this has been, this is a two-day story. More and more is coming out. Now, think about this, Martha. I put this in the same category as Jake Tapper writing his book about the failings of Joe Biden. You know, excuse me, you think there was a problem with Joe Biden? Of course, we were telling you that. We were telling you that for four years. The guy's not normal. The guy was being mocked. Right. And there's debate in 2020 because I thought he was going to lose. And next thing you know, he's supposedly this great guy with his fantastic career and becomes President of the United States. I mean, that's as crazy as Jake Tapper telling us, well, I just did some great reporting. The President wasn't making a lot of decisions and he was falling short and he should have gotten earlier. Really? So you feel like saying there's got to be some, by the way, I should apologize. You know, it is starting to happen. When you see some of the changes that are happening and the movement that's happening in the big news organizations, you see some of this shift as, you know, what ends up happening is that profits start to decline. And that's when the heads of these companies understand, oh, I guess we were supposed to be covering the news. Yeah. I guess we were supposed to be actually enlightening people, telling them both sides of the story. And when we didn't do that for, you know, since basically 2016, when we just hammered them with one thing over and over and over again, a lot of them went away. So what do we do wrong? So now they're looking at all of it. They're trying to figure out if they can get to the other side of it, if they can speak to the whole country, something that Fox has known since its inception. And we'll see what happens if they're able to try to write that ship. But this is a huge story. I remember going back to Benghazi. Right? We were covering it. And the other networks were laughing at us, you know? Oh, Benghazi. You know, I remember Hillary Clinton saying, you know, just because some people went out and took a walk, you know, at one night and got into trouble outside and a fire started, whatever she said. You got to open your eyes and you have to cover, you know, you have to cover the whole story. And this is just a screaming example of what we're talking about. Bill Gates saying, you know what? It's no longer actually a hair on fire issue.

Enough said. So what about Al Gore? What I'm going to do is I'm going to try if I can get, if I can get through it to watch his movie. Because almost everything he said did not come through. An inconvenient truth. Inconvenient truth that got him, I think, an Emmy or an Oscar or something for Best Documentary. I wonder if he'll come on. You should invite him. He's an angry guy. I mean, that guy's an angry guy. I mean, have you ever seen him interviewed? He's isolated, but he's very rich. Extremely rich. Yes. So remember when Trump came out of the Paris? This goes to things have changed. When Trump says I'm pulling out of the Paris climate change thing, big deal. That was one of the earliest moves he made in 2016. Nobody's talking about that now. You know, he's saying, why is China and Russia? Well, they're listening to developing nations. And they're going to take their time. We can't really work with them. Our biggest economic competitor is, you know, treated like a developing nation that did not have to accede to the parameters of the Paris Climate Accords. And Trump said, wait a minute. They're like the biggest pollute on the planet. So if they're not in it, it doesn't make any sense for us to be in it. And they, their benchmarks were like 2036 for China to even get started on abiding by the tenants of the Paris Climate Accord. But we had to do it right away. I mean, talk about one of the myriad ways that China has come at us, right? That's just one other. You can put that on the list of 20 different ways, everything from fentanyl to AI to stealing intellectual property to, oh, we made a deal in the climate accord that's going to hamstring your companies, but not ours. Right. So. If you can do renewables and you can make it more affordable, you know, they were again, they're not worried about polluting the environment. They're building these coal plants, but they're also the number one producer of solar panels. Right? They are doing renewables. You can do that. Go compete. Go do it and go compete. 100%. With the whole windmills and everything else that's going on. That's a little dicey because the president's getting pushed back because some of these projects are going on in red states. They hire all these people. And he's like, hey, I'm done with this. Those red state governors have to answer the questions. Why did you give up an entire span of the Atlantic Ocean to a European company who convinced you that? ocean windmills were the future because they signed on for it and they succumbed to the pressure that existed back then to, you know, sort of give credence to the climate change crew and they wanted to win elections. And so they went along with these huge projects, which now not only shouldn't be built, but can't be built. They're too, they can't meet. the amount that they agreed to build them for. So they've had to renegotiate all the contracts on these things. It's a disaster. It's a disaster. And they also think that there are links between the deaths of whales and other bad issues for the environment. So if you're an environmentalist, why are you supporting ocean windmills? Right. New Jersey and New York. What do they have in common, Democratic governors? Did you see this study by the Manhattan Institute? Yeah, but when those deals were done,

There was a Republican governor in New Jersey. Oh, was it governor, Chris? Connecticut also went along with it. He was part of, you know, signing off on some of these deals, I believe. So he listens. So maybe he'll call. The Manhattan Institute survey found that Elise Stefanik. beats Hokel 43-42. Now, I know it's early and it's just one poll. The other poll was within two points. Isn't that pretty unbelievable that she hasn't even declared yet? I mean, it took forever for Lee Zeldin get out of double figures and he was a fantastic candidate. I know. She hasn't even declared yet. I know. And she's already neck and neck. It's so interesting, right? I mean, you look at this race. It's like a TV show because Andrew Cuomo is now running against Zohran Mamdani. and Curtis Sliwa. Kathy Hochul is the governor of New York because Andrew Cuomo got in trouble for these harassment suits that were brought against him. Accidental governor. He lost his job. She became governor. Now I think of, I look at this poll this morning against Stefani, where she's neck in neck. And in my head, I see Kathy Hochul holding her fist over her head, holding hands with him, Donnie. I'm thinking, yeah, this probably isn't a good idea. What did you, what was your perception of him in Donnie when you interviewed him one-on-one in your studio? Look, he is, you know, he smiles a lot. He's a big smiler. He is working very hard to move himself to a place that's modern enough to get elected. He apologized to the police on my show. Obviously, there was already a ton of rhetoric, which we cited to him, of things that he had said about the police being racist and everything else. But we didn't have that soundbite that we saw yesterday, which we played on our show, about... when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it was laced by the IDF. Which is the most nonsense thing you can say. No, it is nonsense. And horrific. But, you know, I mean, he's young and he is, he just smacks of someone who is willing to sort of, you know, say what he thinks he needs to say to get elected, which all politicians do. But I think it's good that people are being exposed to everything as we get close here. But it still looks like he will win. I want you to hear what John Stewart said. You know, John Stewart's extremely smart. And sometimes, especially. a Democrat against a Democrat, you could be tough and not sacrifice your party. Listen to what he said. Cut 32. There are so many different communities that are looking to you and this, I hate to put it on it, as a bit of a Jackie Robinson moment. And I know that that probably wields some weight. But man, oh man, what an exciting opportunity. Wow. I don't even have the answer. That question was stunning. Jackie Robinson. Was Jackie Robinson a socialist who hated Jews? Who doesn't like cops? Are you kidding me? Jackie Robinson should walk on water what he had to put up with. This guy's not putting up with Jackie Robinson put up with. And you know, here's the thing. It is not about his religion. It is about the things that he himself has said. Okay. So the idea that this, you know, we live in a very multicultural city here, right? We have lots of Muslim friends, lots of Jewish friends, lots of Christian friends, okay? It is not, and this is what I want to be, this is not about religion. So John Stewart's sitting there basically saying like, because of your religion, this is a Jackie Robertson moment. But he's negating all of the things that Zohran Mamdani has actually said.

about New York City cops. Which I thought he would bring up. He's a supporter of law enforcement. He, you know, he did so much good work with Ground Zero and with the people who, you know, were exposed to the burn pits. It's like law enforcement is key for him. Yeah. So, Martha, one more time for people who missed. Who's going to be on your show at 3 p.m.? So we're going to talk to Mark Tepper about what's going on with the white collar layoffs, which is a huge story. I also have the Rain family. Their son tragically committed suicide after an unbelievable relationship with the chat bot that is so frightening. But every parent must be aware of what is happening online. Thank you. I'm Martha McCallum. Thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. I'm going to be back in a little while with more to know. And then top of the hour, outnumbered. And don't forget, November 1st, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, history, livery, and laugh streamed on Fox Nation. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmeade. Warning for the 19th in Yamamoto. There's a fly ball to deep left center field, headed back there. It is gone. Vlad Jr. gives the Jays the lead. The franchise face putting the team on his back. I'll tell you, this guy's amazing and he's ready for everything. I mean, this is the first mistake that Otani has made, and he didn't get it back. And by the way, that is World Series game number four. They tied the series of two games apiece. Toronto Blue Jays win in Los Angeles after losing a heartbreaker in 18 innings, tied for the longest game, along with another game the Dodgers played in versus Red Sox in 2018. But it was the Dodgers who win dramatically. And congratulations to them. But now they went up to 1. But last night it was tied at 2-2. It makes me wonder if there is indeed more to know. More to know. Sponsored by Previgin. Previgin, made for your brain. Yeah, final score was 6-2 Blue Jays. And by the way, that guarantees that the Toronto Blue Jays will get a chance to go back home to win the series or lose it. Next, Bill Gates. This is my favorite story of the day. makes major climate reversal after years of yelling at people like me and maybe you that the world was ending, how dare you not know it and understand it, while he flew around putting millions of his dollars into these programs on his private jet all around the world. living in these huge mansions, he wanted us to know that the world was going on fire. He was actually working on things to dim the sun. He said it was our only hope. And now, astonishingly...

Bill Gates now points out that our greatest fear, if anything, is that it's going to be too cold, not heat. He says being cold is a far greater threat to humanity. Surprisingly excessive, cold is far deadly or killing nearly 10 times more people. He came out and said the Microsoft founder, he said billions into his fortune. Climate change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the poorest countries. It will not lead. to humanity's demise. Al Gore, did you hear that? Stop with the cash register noise. When you cash in and say the world has a fever, your show, your movie that got you, I think, an Academy Award for documentary is total fiction. The world should have ended by now. And think about how they torture people and the Paris deal. What a joke. Next. Gambino crime boss was told, stay in jail. We think you're going to try to intimidate witnesses. Remember last week with the big gambling boss that talked about two things? He got the card game, which was fraudulent with the X-ray machine and the card shuffler machine that was all allowed other guys to win. Well, the mob was involved, four families involved, including Anthony Regerio. His lawyer had pushed for a $5 million bond insured by his family and friends. But the Gambino mobster... We'll stay in jail because I think he's going to intimidate people to not testify against him. Next, Paris prosecutors deeply regret disclosing the Louvre suspect arrest. As an ex-thief reveals, he warned the Louvre of security weaknesses around Crown Jules. The Paris prosecutor Lurie Boucho said the information made public about the arrest makes it harder to catch the other two guys. Oops. They inspected this guy, David Deuchos, talks like he said he was a pro. He said he told them over and over again, the windows were susceptible. They said the windows show a glaring weakness. And for any jewel thief, it would be a piece of cake. Here's the exact quote to the AP. Have you seen the windows? You can imagine anything. People in disguise slipping in through those windows, through the windows, even from the roofs. There are plenty of ways to get in. Next, homework might be history. It's facing an existential crisis. Why? Because everybody's doing it with AI, which means they're not doing it. 84% of high school students use artificial intelligence for their school work. According to a study, 69% of high school students use chat GPT to help with school assignments and homework. There's got to be a way for them to find out. I think there are some from hallmark signs. But there's got to be something you can do in your school system because homework is necessary. I don't want four hours, but it is indeed necessary, I think. By the way, Kai Trump announces, even though she hasn't been to college yet, still a high school senior, she'll be got a special exemption to go to an LBGGLPGA tour event. It'll be in Florida, the Pelican Golf Club. Good luck with that.