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The Brian Kilmeade Show 07-03-2026
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Brian Kilmeade
From the FOX News radio studios in midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian kilmeade,
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General Jack Keane
wow.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
What kind of backdrop is this? If you are watching the stream, go get to go get to the FOX News app or get the Fox Nation. And check this out, right over my left shoulder is the Statue of Liberty. Behind that is Ellis Island. And we got ships coming through from today and the tall ships going to be streaming through through the next three hours. Be ready for tomorrow. July 4th. As we sit here on July 3rd, this is birthday eve of America's 250th, two great patriots and war fighters are with me in a matter of moments. General Jack Keenan standing by, bottom of the hour. From Texas, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. So without, I don't want to waste too much time, but we'll talk about the World cup and what it means for patriotism, just like the hockey team. I think it really helps talk about this country and really inspire this country. And then we talk about the wars that we're still fighting. So let's get to the big three, number three. So I think people need to reframe what that idea is of America and what that dream is for you. It's a lot different than it was for our parents and grandparents. So make it what you want, people.
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Brian Kilmeade
Come on.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
If you work hard, definitely get a good education. I think those things go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. America's birthday eve is here. We got more details on what to expect on the 4th in D.C. maybe in your small town you want to share your stories and your plans. I'll be with Sean Hannity, Dana Perin, Brett Baer, Harris Faulkner doing five hours of coverage from Washington, D.C. in between presidential speeches, drone drones and fireworks displays. It is not going to be an Obama like apology speech, I promise you in D.C. but I can't promise that from a mayor in New York City. Number two, I'm concerned that we're still
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
on step one because three months ago
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
when we started the original cease fire, the one precondition was that there'd be a no strings attached opening of the Strait of Hormuz. And I'm concerned they're continuing to play us and play for time. I agree with you, General Tigard, 100%. Iran and US could not be further apart on our mutual quest to bring a durable peace between our nations. And it all goes back to the horrible mou.
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Abdul El Sayed
We review, number one, standing with unions, guaranteeing health care through Medicare for all. And I think that is winning up and down the ballot because for too long we've been focused on parties and where the parties are going rather than the people and what the people need. And I think this movement is about the people and what we can do to actually serve them.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
That is a guy that doesn't really like America. But running to be the senator from Michigan, Abdul El Sayed. The Dems have a huge internal problem and the rabble rousing socialists seem to be reveling in it, while the rest of the country should be panicking as another radical gets an AOC endorsement in Michigan, defying Chuck Schumer with that. The big story is, and that matters most to our country, even though we're looking at our birthday, we're looking at our 250th journey. And joining us now to talk about our two greatest challenges in the world, Ukraine and their struggle to stay alive against Russia and doing great. And General Jack Keane is here to talk about what's happening with Iran. General, thanks so much for being here on 250th birthday. What comes to your the forefront of your mind when you talk about how many years you spent in uniform and how many years you spent explaining America's security issues in a suit here on Fox News?
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General Jack Keane
Well, I think certainly it's influenced, you know, by my time in the military and what I've chosen to do with my life. But, you know, just being an American and the fact that the people that were living here at the time were fighting oppression and were willing to risk their lives to change it and remove the control that England had over the vast majority of what existed at the time as America. And the fact that today, here we are 250 years later and we're very much involved in fighting oppression. And I think the turning point for the United States in dealing with adversaries and oppression was World War II. The reality is we don't defeat the Germans without the United States participation. And obviously we don't defeat the Japanese either. But what is truly remarkable, we went from 334,000 total United States military prior to World War II to 12,200,000 people under armored, all services fighting this kind of oppression. And we won that victory. And then as a nation, we turned around and made a decision as opposed to humiliating these countries and continuing to punish them, we decided to recover them and rebuild them. And nothing speaks louder to me than the compassion and generosity of the United States of America and what we did in Post World War II to rebuild these countries into thriving democracy. Japan And Germany, which they are today. And that is alive today, right now, today. And I wish Admiral Cooper a happy fourth just a little while ago. He's in charge of our troops in Centcom, who's standing up once again representing our 250 years of history by standing up with his troops against oppression in the world. The United States wasn't seeking to become a world leader Post World War II, but it fell to us because of our military power and our economic prosper, and it defaulted to us. And we accepted that mantle of leadership. And how much we have changed this world to the positive as a result of taking on that leadership role is really so extraordinary. I'm so proud of the leaders we've had in the country from both parties, some better than others, to be sure. Imperfect political system, to be sure, but the collective wisdom and judgment of the American people have always been there for us, and they seem to get it right time and time again.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And General, I even think about the Cold War that you were in. You were in Vietnam. And what we were doing is just trying to preserve South Vietnam, South Korea, Western Europe, and try to make sure these people stay free, not so we can dominate and take over their country. Unlike the Russians, the Soviets. We were just saying, hey, leave these people alone. Give them a chance to pick their own government. That's what the Cold War was about.
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General Jack Keane
Yeah, many people say we won the Cold War without firing a shot. And I say, no, we fired a lot of shots. I mean, we went into Korea to do what the North Koreans, communist country was taking over South Korea, who asked for help, and we provided it. And we went into Vietnam for basically the same reason. North Vietnam, a communist country, was trying to take over South Vietnam. And our overall strategy was to contain communism and certainly the Soviet Union. But as they extended their influence around the world, we did fight to stop it from happening. So there was a price to be paid in the Cold War, to be sure, not just standing up and deterring the Soviet Union from ever attacking into Europe, and thank God we did that. But also standing up when they attempted to take control of other countries as well.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
General, the MoU is really. It's just one word after another. It's gray area misinterpretations on both sides on what it represents and what it says. And that's why we continue to have contention over everything, especially the straight. Here's the President of the United States on his mindset. That's really the only thing stopping him from going back in and finishing the job. Cut 37 you know, look, I always said I don't want to be a president with a depression on his.
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General Jack Keane
On his resume.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I don't want to be Herbert Hoover of almost all presidents, and some have been bad, some have been good, very
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General Jack Keane
few have been great.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
But I never want to be Herbert Hoover because Herbert Hoover was the president that probably took us into the Great. The Great Depression.
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General Jack Keane
The greatest.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Perhaps what he's looking at is the economy, general, and he's worried about the strait being shut down and gas being over $150 a barrel. It's now down to under 70. Your reaction and the role oil's playing in the fact that we have not gone back to finish the job.
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General Jack Keane
Well, when we stopped the war on April 7, April 8, we had 10 days to two weeks to finish the military assigned objectives, 25% of the targets still remained. In doing that, there was no doubt we could have accomplished those military objectives in my mind and actually put the regime on a path. Economic collapse, no guarantee that the regime would fall. But put him in such a situation, that was likely quite predictable. That was the scenario we walked away from. And the president's advisers and the Gulf state leaders, with the exception of the uae, really convinced the administration and the president obviously that if we continue military operations, the result would be that Iran would attack the Gulf oil infrastructure and so destroy it that it could create a worldwide depression. And I think it was the energy secretary who made that recommendation. But they'll hold me to it. That's what I've been told. I'm not the primary source, but I'm out of my lane in dealing with that. But I can say, just looking at the world, just seeing what is happening right now now, how markets adjust to find other avenues when something is shut down. And there was a lot of adjustment taking place when the essentially the Straits were shut down. So I'm not convinced that it would have resulted in that. But here's what I do, what I do think happened. The military capability to prevent that from happening was discounted. And what do I mean by that? Well, one, if the oil. If the Gulf states needed to be defended, they could have asked for it. Admiral Cooper has never been asked to defend them. He was asked to defend Israel. And we've done that quite satisfactory in the minds of the Israelis, and that's all that matters. We could have done the same thing in thickening their defense. Second point, offensively, we've been tracking all during the ceasefire what the Iranians are doing with their ballistic missiles after they excavate the tunnels that we rubbled, they're moving those missiles out and those launch systems out to other places. So job one would have been, once we destroyed their air defense, go back to military operations so we'd have freedom of the air once again. It wouldn't have taken much because they don't have much left. We would have gone after those missiles and launch systems with a major, major effort on the part of the Israelis and ourselves. We wouldn't have destroyed all of them, but we would have destroyed the overwhelming number of them, which would reduce significantly their ability to retaliate against the Gulf oil infrastructure. I'm not saying there wouldn't have been some dam, but wholesale destruction leading to a world depression. I think the military capability was discounted, and I believe that the political and economic objectives became the priority. Obviously, as we're facing a situation now, and listen, we've got to understand, the Iranians are almost euphoric about this because what they did, they, they imposed. We went to war on 28 February, they shut down the straits on 2 March. We came up with a blockade after we went to a ceasefire in April. And that blockade served us well, but it was not going to be an immediate deterrence for the Iranians because they don't care about their people. And then we tried to open up the Straits of Hormuz. And what happened? Saudi Arabia denied us use of their base and also their airspace, which is quite significant given the size of Saudi Arabia and the fact it borders the Gulf, so that we shut down that operation as a result of it. What a sad thing that was, because we do have the capability to forcibly open it up.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So, yeah, we got to do that again.
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General Jack Keane
I think we're in a situation now where we're providing financial relief to the Iranians and with the promise that we're going to get a deal. But they're, but they are emboldened by what has happened, and there's no secret about this, and that's the reality of it. And they're going to continue to play for advantage in the Straits of Hormuz. You can see that. I think the difficulty of achieving all the objectives that the President would want to achieve with the Iranians, given their state of mind today, is pretty slim to none, because they believe they have the advantage in their minds. I know we have all the cards in terms of military capability and the threat to use it, but they're not buying that threat. And so they don't see it ever happening before the midterm elections. And we've almost said as much publicly to them.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
General, I talked to somebody with a source in Iran and their goal is to make Trump, Jimmy Carter. They're going to try to disrupt the midterms and bend it towards the Democrats the best they can. They understand our political system because they know when it gets to November, all bets are off. So I'm not sure what they're capable of, but we have to keep an eye on that being their objective. And number two, just real quick, on Ukraine and I only have three minutes, but on Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine has done some remarkable things. They make no Russian city safe. We have huge gas lines in Russia. And I was talking to Dan Hoffman. He says Putin has no idea how to get out of this. And we're not even trying to conduct an exit ramp because our guys are focusing on Iran. We have to if we're going to bring these guys to the table. Don't you think we need a new group, a different group working on Ukraine than Iran?
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General Jack Keane
Yeah, that's a very good idea. And obviously we're not focusing on it. And for our audience, we've taken down almost 30% of their oil infrastructure Russia wide. Can you imagine that? What a staggering statistic. That is 40,000 casualties almost this month. Quite significant on the Russian part. Ukraine destroyed 64,000 drones. Russian drones this month, quite remarkable this month, last year, 4,000 destroyed. The battlefield has turned in favor of Ukraine for sure. Strategic targets inside of Russia, some oil storage facilities. Ukraine is attacking in Siberia, 1200 miles away. So that's why the gas lines exist throughout the country. The strategic advantage as well as attached advantage is moving towards Russia. And that's why Russia so desperately is trying to kill as many civilians as they can. And listen, there's a problem and our audience has to understand this. 700, almost 700 drones attacked just recently. And you saw that about 70 something ballistic and cruise missiles, 90% plus of the drones were knocked down on a given day. Against ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, Ukraine takes down either zero or something around 1%. So that is the state of play. We have got to get interceptors into Ukraine. It is an emergency crisis situation. And I understand we have challenges because what we have been doing in Iran obviously, but we've got to move with as much speed as we possibly can. And yes, we should be putting maximum pressure now on Russia, slap the hard sanctions back on them for increased military assistance. The Europeans can certainly be the vessel for that. We pass our capabilities to them. They pour their capability in maximum pressure on Putin. No accommodation. Pressure, pressure, pressure. And recognize the weakness that he is. He's never been this weak in the five years he's been involved in the war.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And the President could see a victory if he just pushes it and organizes it because Ukraine has earned it. General Jack Keane, always great thanks for everything you've done for the country as we celebrate year 250.
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General Jack Keane
Yeah, happy 4th to you and our great audience out there. God bless America.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Talk to you again soon. General, back in a moment.
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Brian Kilmeade
Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmeade.
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Brian Kilmeade
From Liberty State park inside of the Statue of Liberty for America 250, it's Brian Kilmeade.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Welcome back. I, I went really wrong with the General but man, there's just not enough time in the day to get all the information that, that we need that he knows about the things that matter most. Ukraine. And I know people are tired of Ukraine four and a half the hours in magic four and a half years in. But can you imagine if you're actually fighting and understand they are the backstop to Europe because if they went right through Ukraine in four days as our geniuses predicted, they would have been knocking on Germany's door, who basically doesn't have a military. But it woke them up and it woke up NATO and that which makes the meeting with NATO even more impactful for the President. United States. And they're not going to have that we're pulling out troops speech coming from the Secretary of War. It's going to be we're in the this, so let's win this. And that's what I hope. The President gets a new team to work Ukraine and a separate one to work Iran. It's not hard. Got plenty of people.
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Brian Kilmeade
From Liberty State park in celebration of America250. What more do you need besides Lady Liberty and Brian Kilmeade?
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I'm concerned that we're still on step one because three months ago when we started the original ceasefire, the one precondition was that there'd be a no strings
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Jason Smith
attached opening of the straight up Hormuz.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
We haven't seen that the blockade is now lifted, which means that we've taken
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
some of the pressure off of Iran,
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
and I'm concerned they're continuing to play us and play for time. General Tigart not pulling back. He's really concerned that the MOU would just set us up for failure, I think, anyway, because there's so much gray area in it. And they weren't didn't level with us in days before they released it. Oh, they're not going to pay tolls. Well, they think they are. Oh, they're never they're going to give up, allow inspectors in. They say they're not. We have to defund their proxies. They're still funding their proxies and they're asking Israel to leave Hezbollah alone and get out of get out of Lebanon. Lt. Col. Allen west joins me now. American Constitutional Rights Union Executive Director. Colonel, your thoughts about what the general said he finds the state of the strike?
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Lt. Col. Allen West
No, I mean, I have to agree wholeheartedly with the general and happy Independence Day. Brian, it's great to be with you because we missed a window of opportunity and now Iran is weakened, there's no doubt about it. And you and I have had this conversation previously, but they're not defeated. And as a matter of fact, they see themselves in a stronger position to manipulate us because, you know, President Trump is up against a couple of hard issues here in the country, and one of those were the gas prices and the other is the impending midterm elections In a theocracy. They don't care about elections because there aren't really any elections. They are in totalitarian control and power there, just the same with China and Xi Jinping. So the president has to be concerned about these domestic issues, political issues, economic issues. And I think that that binds him up a little bit when it comes to dealing with Iran, and they know that.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So how do you think they're going to play this Iran?
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Lt. Col. Allen West
Well, I think Iran's just going to continue, as the general said, they're going to string it out. They're going to continue to violate the quote, unquote, cease fire. I don't think we're going to see anything going any right direction after the end of the quote, unquote, 60 days for this memorandum of understanding. I think that they will just, you know, continue to be who they are, and they will continue to try to manipulate and threaten and coerce people in the Strait of Hormuz. And again, again, they're receiving revenues from the sale of their oil and gas now, so they're still propped up.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I think he has to get to November somehow. And guess who knows that?
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Trey Ying
Iran.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And now we have a situation where they're saying that they're charging for the straight and we're saying they're not. That is black and white. That's not gray area. That's where the rubber hits the road. Now, I don't know if the President is going to say we're just going to bring people through our side of the strait because we did that and they took a shot at us and then we took about 10 shots at them. And then they hit Kuwait and they. They hit Kuwait and they. And they also hit Bahrain. So that puts our guys in jeopardy because they're going for our bases.
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General Jack Keane
Yes.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I mean, the President evidently told the Wall Street Journal that they sat down and said, what would going back full bore look like? Is that what you'd be for now? Knowing what. Because you're also a guy who knows politics, knowing what the stakes are.
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Lt. Col. Allen West
Well, again, I think that that window of opportunity is very tight and maybe has closed because the two things, again, the centers of gravity for them are their oil and gas revenues. That's why Carg island is important. And control of the Straits of Hormuz, that's the other thing. They want to continue to hold the rest of the world hostage. So we should have seized control of the Straits of Hormuz early on in this operation. Epic Fury. I don't think we can restart everything and go back to. Because what could happen is another spike in gasoline prices. And the American people right now are seeing those things tumble. The administration is touting the fact that gasoline prices are tumbling. So I don't think you're in a position right now to restart that.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Talarico is out there in a dead heat with the former Attorney General Paxson. Why. Why are they tied? They couldn't be more different.
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Lt. Col. Allen West
Well, yeah, they couldn't be more different. But I think that right now, when you look at the major urban population centers here in Texas, they're blue. I mean, anybody can look at the county breakdown of Texas from the last 2024 presidential election. That tells the story. And I think also, you know, Senator Cornyn needs to come out and say, you know, I'm behind, you know, Attorney General Paxton and get his followers to be behind him because we could be heading to another Robert Francis o', Rourke, Ted Cru race where Ted Cruz only won about 2.4%. So, yes, I think it's going to be tight. Do I think that, you know, it's all about the turnout, of course, But I don't think Talarico, again, he is not going to do well, be successful in East Texas, West Texas and South Texas along the border. But it's not going to be some blowout win. I don't see that happening.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So I want you to hear what some people, as we look at America 250, feel about this day. Cut one I've been struggling with. What are we actually celebrating? And so I'm really going into July 4th grappling with whether or not the ugly ghosts of our country have us by the nape of the neck. Mika I took one of those sightseeing boats and I passed by Ellis island
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Olga Anadol
and the Statue of Liberty and it
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Jason Smith
brought me to tears.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I'm not going to his celebrations.
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Olga Anadol
I'm going to do my own set of celebrations.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
You know, this is an opportunity for us all to come together and to celebrate the promise of America, not Donald Trump, because everything Donald Trump does is about Donald Trump. So that's the attitude on the left. I would tell you that if Joe Biden was president or Kamala Harris was president, we would still have 84% of Republicans saying they're patriotic and appreciate our day. Only 27% are very patriotic for America. Among Democrats, well, I think, again, that
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Lt. Col. Allen West
comes out to that chasm that we see happening. And it's an ideological chasm. It's this Marxist leftist chasm, as opposed to constitutionalism, institutional conservatism, and people that believe in our fundamental principles and values, our declaration, our Constitution. And you're right, if it had been Kamala Harris sitting up there, everyone would be giddy. Everyone would be talking about how great it is to have a first black female president supervising our 250th celebration. And look, it's going to be the 250th celebration. I will be honored to be part of it. I would be happy. I would be cheering us on as the United States of America. But that's not who the left is, is they want to continue to make this about one person. And I think this is why they're going to fail when it comes to the midterm elections, because they're not offering the American people anything other than wealth redistribution, nationalizing economic production, taking over your property.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So this whole thing about what's happening at the Washington Mall where nine or 10 states have decided not to participate, Pennsylvania says we couldn't get a sponsor and we think it's too political. I walk through that. There's nothing political. It's all historical. And what your city has to offer tourists or people that live there. So Governor Shapiro, who many people think is a centrist and everybody think is running for president, flat out lied. Listen to Congressman Republican Dan Muser cut three.
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General Jack Keane
Wow.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
What we've done with the Pennsylvania booth, I think it's the most crowded booth. Josh Shapiro, I mean, to state that businesses did not want to participate. That's why we had an empty booth.
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Trey Ying
It was just a falsehood.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
We all got together and we started making calls to businesses and not one business said, oh, no, we're not interested. They were very excited. They said, thank you. Yeah. I mean, do you think we're idiots? You can't get a sponsor as a governor in Pennsylvania on a July 4th celebration, when we have the Liberty Bell in Pennsylvania, we got the Continental Congress where the Declaration of Independence was filed. You can't get get a sponsor, then you are the worst salesman ever.
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Lt. Col. Allen West
Not to mention that's the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps. November 10th, 1775 ton tavern. Yeah. Again, I think that this shows this ideological divide that we have and that you have a party that is being overtaken by Marxists. And many of them are welcoming them because they're afraid of what could happen to them politically. But they're showing the American people, true American patriots, that they don't care for this country. They don't love this country. They don't like our foundation and our fundamentals. And I believe that that's going to be rejected. What the Democrats are really doing, they're making commercial advertisements for the next two election cycles here in the midterm and also for the 2028 presidential cycle.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Lt. Col. Allen west, thanks for all you've done to the country and continue to do enjoy the Fourth Shel.
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Lt. Col. Allen West
It's a great country. And everyone out there, please read the entire Declaration of Independence. That's important. Document. Document.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
You got it. Thanks so much. Lt. Col. Allen West. When we come back, have a chance to read your emails. Briankilmead.com and if we can work it out here on Liberty island, maybe even take some calls and also go over with the rise of socialism today in the Wall Street Journal, Mark Penn, who got Bill, Bill Clinton elected twice and helped Hillary Clinton become senator, has written an editorial along with Andrew Stein, two Democrats saying it's time for them to take their party feedback. Is anybody going to listen? Back in a moment.
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Brian Kilmeade
Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmeade. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.
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Abdul El Sayed
Well, we've Taken it time to listen. I myself have been to 110 different cities, 450 public events. We go everywhere, we talk to everyone. And no matter where you go, people are deeply frustrated by the fact that they can't afford a dignified life. They're worried about somebody getting sick and having to hit that $6,000 deductible. They're worried about being able to pay just for the meat to be able to grill up on July 4th. They're worried about being able to afford the utilities. And we're speaking to what it looks like to take corporate hands off of our politics so that our politics can actually be about trying to make our lives more affordable. Standing with unions, guaranteeing health care through Medicare for all. And I think that is winning up and down the ballot because for too long we've been focused on parties and where the parties are going rather than the people and what the people need. And I think this movement is about the people and what we can do to actually serve them.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Voice of Abdul EL SAYED and that's what he's trying to say. He's for the people. But if you look at the socialist movement, the people that support him, most of them are upper class, over educated white people people, the working class people. In terms of supporting the socialist movement, the DSA make up about 4% of that movement. And he is sitting there saying, I'm going for the working man. What are you going to do? Oh, I'm going to tax people more. Well, already if you take state and local taxes, the average successful person is paying six out of every $10 back to the government. You want nine. So are they going to work 100 hours a week so you could work 20 and they're supposed to give it back to you?
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Trey Ying
Yes.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
You have an opportunity in this country to be successful. You're successful, you have more tax dollars, you hire more people, you start more companies. That's pretty much the way it's worked. So because you're frustrated, you're not where you want to be through maybe situations or decisions you made on your own, it's time to blame our system. Abdul El Sayed is dramatically different from who Mike who who we who we watched the we watched Mike Rogers run against in the last election and only lost by a handful of votes. Mike Rogers is a former chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, former FBI agent and a military veteran. Veteran who Barry Work barely lost to Alyssa Slotnick, who has also served in the CIA but said I am for center. I am center left Even though she doesn't do much center left, at least she said it. This guy's going, I'm not close to left. My good buddy is Hassan Baker who says we deserve 9 11. The Republicans are worse than fascists and Hamas should really take over what they say is Palestine and won't even admit that Israel has a right to exist. In fact either does he. He was asked repeatedly, does Israel have a right to exist? Listen to this guy's answer as we wait for Tuesday's primary. Cut 16.
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Abdul El Sayed
And I'll tell you this, the question about Israel having a right to exist is separate from whether or not Israel has the right to our tax dollars. And too many politicians spending huge amounts of money in this race through AIPAC think that our best use of our tax dollars is to be sent over there to drop bombs over there rather than to invest in health care and schools and housing here. And I happen to believe as the next senator from Michigan that I want my tax dollars spent in Michigan.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
He was asked two more times. He never even said it, never admit it. Cut 17 that message there, what you just said about Palestinian state, but also the Israeli state, American taxpayers, do you think, I mean certainly right now in the Democratic primary there's some energy behind that idea, but can that win in a general election?
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Abdul El Sayed
I'll tell you you what, there is no room I've been to where somebody doesn't come up to me and says, you know, I voted for Donald Trump and I'm voting for you. Now that might break some minds in New York or D.C. but here in Michigan people understand that we're struggling and they say, look, I want America first. I thought that's what that guy was going to give me. And then he went off to Venezuela and then Greenland and Iran. I think you really want to make sure I have health care here. I think you really care about the quality of my kids school and that's what I want too. So I'm voting for you.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Hey clown. What did President Trump do? What about the Trump accounts for the next generation? What has he done with Trump? RX so good that Mark Cuban who campaigned for Kamala Harris and vehemently against Donald Trump has now combined with Donald Trump that says this has prescription, this has lower prescription rates. And what are we finding out about Obamacare that everybody was so desperate to subsidize even though there was sunset? What are we finding out about about it? That there is so much fraud that so many people had it didn't even know they had it because states were allowed to cash in on it, the more people they got in it. And it was so great it wouldn't years later, eight years later, still need to be ten years later, still needed to be artificially subsidized by the federal government still. So that's what this guy's saying. I'm for the working class, but what do you plan on doing? Where do you getting this money? That's just not the way it works. You want to maybe have a of ton different approach with our system. They want to break our system. And that's why AOC is endorsing him. And also he looks like he's going to win. And she wants another victory in her belt because I think that she is running for President of the United States. So I think it's important too if you go on with David Duke, who if he had a podcast, I think he had a huge problem. Oh well, I don't agree with the white supremacist, but I like his economic plan. Sorry, you went on with David Duke. Hasan Piker, the same thing. These guys are laughing it up, as is Ro Khanna on his podcast. Well, I don't agree with everything he said. Says, well, why are you on? He's such a radical that if you go on, you're going to be adhesive to everything he says. So that's what's bothering me. And I want to bring you to what Mark Penn wrote about. And Mark Penn was on with us on the weekend show on Sunday in One Nation, which by the way, I hope you're watching. And he is really concerned about socialism. He's like anyone who says it's not a big deal is not paying attention. And here's an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal editorial. He said the turnouts of New York's elections were well below anything that could be called representative of the community. Only 18 to 25% of registered Democrats voted in each of the closed primaries for three contested nominations. This means that a good organization effort can impose its will with less than 15% of the party electorate. Mainstream politicians need new get out the vote organizations to mobilize the huge majority of voters, voters who are sitting at home while socialists and communists are making their way into political power. He is 100% right. And the thing is they're doing it and no one's standing up to stop it. Because I've been told repeatedly, because they were afraid there is so much money with the DSA and so much money in the extreme left, they feel as though if they speak up against it they're going to get primaried or if they get primaried, they're going to lose. So that's what they're looking forward. And that's what they wrote about that. That's what he wrote about today in the Wall Street Journal. He also saluted Tom Suozzi and Adam Gray because they were Democrats who came out this week and last week and said capitalism over socialism, public safety over lawlessness, fiscal responsibility, problem solving, government mainstream rather than ideological politics and patriotism. Now, a lot of people have told me, hey, don't fall for this because that's what they have to say because they're in purple or red districts that Donald Trump won, that Tom Suozzi won, but he is in the problem solvers caucus, I'll give him that. But if there's a Republican alternative, I'd like to see that debate. I'd much rather see him get the nomination than an extremist, even if it means good news for Republicans because I think it's bad news for the country. Moderate Democrats alone are unlikely to counter the movement near a tandem, you know, a problematic diplomatic staffer of Barack Obama and James Carville, who seems drunk half the time, came out and said, I want you out of this movement. I'm calling for a schism. But he's more of a showman than an impact player these days. And by calling, but by calling, but having Mark Penn come out and saying it's a threat, it can no longer be Republicans trying to marginalize Democrats. But if I'm running and even if my opponent's a moderate moderate, I make them call out those extremists or else I'm going to label them an extremist. That's what give Republicans a lot of hope and they should feel it. For the Midterms on year 250 from Liberty Island, a special edition of the Brian kill me so July 3rd, don't go anywhere.
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Brian Kilmeade
From high atop FOX News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division, it's Brian Kilmere.
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Here we go.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I used to say from 48 to 6, not anymore, by the way, it's too crowded. And I'm so glad I'm out of New York City. I'm in New Jersey, Liberty Island, Liberty park overlooking the Statue of Liberty, Ellis island and everything else. We have a busy hour coming your way. And we have a lot going on here today as we celebrate America's 250th birthday. Keep in mind, too, that we do this by looking back. But I am also Shocked and disheartened. How many people are not celebrating this birthday and don't think it's a big deal. I really recommend that those people consider leaving the country and find something that fits their needs. And I don't mean that in a derogatory way, literally. Please try someplace else and let me know how that goes. Joining us this hour, Mr. Stephen Stretch Armstrong is currently the NORAD Commander in Chief. He's going to talk about Operation that Golden Shield, the Golden Dome, to save us from any type of missile strike. It's going to cost a lot of money, but I think it's going to be worth it. We're going to talk to Olga on D and she is someone in charge of the Lafayette Museum. Without General Lafayette fighting with us in the Revolutionary War, perhaps were not as successful. And Ben Domenech is standing by. So let's get to the big three.
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Brian Kilmeade
Number three.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So I think people need to reframe what that idea is of America and what that dream is for you. It's a lot different than it was for our parents and grandparents. So make it what you want, people.
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Ben Domenech
Come on.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
If you work hard, definitely get a good education.
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Olga Anadol
I think those things go hand in hand.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
You can't have one without the other. All right. That is part of the birthday celebration here in America. We get more details on what to expect from city to city, especially on July 4th when I'll be in Washington D.C. with the great Sean Hannity, Dana Perino, Brett B. And Harris Faulkner. Number two, I'm concerned that we're still on step one because three months ago when we started the original ceasefire, the one precondition was that there'd be a no strings attached opening of the Strait of Hormuz. And I'm concerned they're continuing to play us and play for time, that is General Eichert. Iran and the US could not be further apart thanks to the terrible mou.
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Abdul El Sayed
We'll review, number one, standing with unions, guaranteeing health care through Medicare for All. And I think that is winning up and down the ballot because for too long we've been focused on parties and where the parties are going rather than the people and what the people need. And I think this movement is about the people and what we can do to actually serve them.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, nobody wants Medicare for All. Have you thought about that? Dems have a huge internal problem and the rabble rousing socialists seem to be reveling in it while the rest of the party should be panicking as another radical gets an AOC endorsement in Michigan defy leader Schumer, if he's still the leader. Ben Domenech joins us now. Ben, as we look at America 250, what portion of the country do you think is on board and ready to celebrate?
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Ben Domenech
Well, Brian, I just want to tell you that in the last minute and a half, I just moved a car seat. So you might hear some sounds of children in the background during this interview.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I love it.
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Ben Domenech
The truth is that I think the Democrats have a much bigger problem on their hands than anyone is currently acknowledging. And the big part of that is, is that their leadership is completely bereft of power. They do not have the kind of authority that they have had for essentially the last two decades under Nancy Pelosi's leadership. And that's a situation that I think creates a decrepit leadership that can be exploited, that can be taken advantage of, and that is beholden to all of the energy that we're seeing among these young socialists and young Marxists. And that's something that I think is very dangerous for the country. Republicans and Washington, for too long, I think, have thought of this as a sideshow that actually played to their benefit because these people were so crazy because they were so off the map in terms of their ideological position. In reality, I think it's very dangerous for the country to have capitalism become something that is only a Republican talking point, only a Republican ideological position. Instead, I think we're moving toward a point where the Democrats are really going to be at odds with the very principles that have made America the greatest nation in the world. And, you know, everything that contributes to this 250th anniversary where people are missing
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
is the socialist movement is not being, is not being driven by the working class. Do you see how low the numbers are of working class people who are running for office? And they're not, they're not blue collar people, not at all.
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Ben Domenech
It is, it is a champagne socialist movement. It is, it is entirely backed by these overly educated, you know, these master's degree holding folks who are, you know, quite frankly, I think, operating out of a position of some degree of guilt about the way that they made their money, perhaps, or the way that they've achieved things in America. And the way that they're covering up for that is the fact that they're saying, you know, of course, you know, I'm with killing the billionaires. I'm with, you know, killing executives. I'm with Luigi Mangione, I'm with all this other stuff. And that to me is something that is just so devastating for the country as a whole and quite frankly, will break us apart. And it's the kind of thing that we haven't seen for a very long time. You have to go back to the 1970s and the rash of bombings and the type of things that we saw, you know, from the people who were, you know, true radicals back then, to have anything approaching what we're seeing today.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So I want you to hear Abdul El Sayed, who yesterday got AOC's endorsement, which matters, by the way. And Chuck Schumer is endorsing Stevens, Haley Stevens, for that Democratic nomination to go against Mike Rogers over in Mike, Michigan. Listen to him talk about capitalism. Cut 18.
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Abdul El Sayed
I don't identify as a socialist. I just read about capitalism. And I can tell you that capitalism, its biggest danger was never government regulation. Its biggest danger was always monopoly and oligopoly. And we've gotten to a point in our economy right now where no matter what you want to buy, what you
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
want to pay for, there are like
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Abdul El Sayed
two or three mega conglomerates that get to decide what that price is. They use AI and algorithms to collude to raise your price on you. I think part of the reason they get to do that is because corporations have too much of a say in who our elected officials are. So they have too much of a say in our governance. I just want regulation on capitalism so
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
that actually works for people. Really? You mean capitalism and competition? Get that they get together and decide how cheap the Amazon box can be in your door.
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Ben Domenech
Look, the thing is, he's trying to, obviously he's trying to obfuscate here. Every single one of these candidates is trying to turn what they're saying into something that sounds very palatable and very popular. Cheaper health care, you know, cheaper. Cheaper, you know, sort of goods, cheaper access to different things that people want, you know, free education, you know, across the board, not just, you know, for, you know, K through 12, but through college and beyond. They want to turn this into a situation that, that is all about the things that poll well and not the things that are actually their priorities. Namely, destroying the police, getting rid of all police, getting rid of all prisons, getting rid of virtually every enforcement mechanism that we have, engaging in this type of thing, branded under anti colonialism, that is designed to go after Americans based on their racial background and the like to an unprecedented degree. It is absolutely abhorrent stuff, and it's completely at odds with the country and our priorities. But it's also something that I think, think they are just trying to sneak past a bunch of voters who unfortunately, I think have a very short memory about the way things were under Joe Biden just three years ago. And it's important for Republicans and conservatives and for the president himself, I think, including during this, you know, upcoming convention, this midterm convention that they haven't done before to reset and to refocus people on. You do not, you should not forget how bad things were three years ago. You should understand how much things have improved. And if you want to vote for these people, you, you can go back to that very quickly.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Right? And you weave in the security in Iran in that. And that's why there was short term, there was short term pain, economic pain when it came to gas and oil. Also the farmers, the president's got to do a good job messaging to the farmers, many of which might be looking to switch Senate seats away and give the Democrat a shot, which would be devastating to their hopes of holding onto the Senate. But I looked at Mark Penn's editorial today in the Wall Street Journal and he is putting the five alarm fire that you are Ben Domenech on the Democratic Party. He's upset about the author, he said, upset that there these new socialists are talking about abolishing borders, abolishing private property, defunding the police, abolishing prisons, expressing sympathy for 9, 11 and extremists that killed all those Israelis on October 7th. And he's saying why are people accepting the this? So this is a Democrat calling on Democrats to rise up. Just a prediction.
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Trey Ying
Will any.
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Ben Domenech
Unfortunately, Brian, I really don't think that they will. And this goes back to my first point about how toothless the Democratic leadership really is. I think they're scared of this energy. They're scared of the, you know, whatever you want to call it, the 35 to 40% of their party that is invested in this idea. These younger activist class Democrats who quite frankly have learned from their past experience, experience, they're the same people who got AOC elected, who hold off that primary upset. And they've learned from that. They've learned that they can actually take on the Democratic establishment and win. They have now sophisticated, organized and well funded efforts across the country that are putting these people into positions where they are going to win in majority blue districts.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So let's talk about what's happening with Iran. We have an MoU that has so much gray area. Both sides are saying the exact opposite things. Number one, who controls the strait? Iran says we are administering the strait. And if you don't take go through Our side of the strait, we're going to shoot at you. We say you're not allowed. And then we say when it comes to funding the proxies, we actually, I think, agree that Iran, Israel should come out of Syria, which is a joke. They're not. And number three, I guess when it comes to their nuclear program, program, we said you're going to let in weapons inspectors and they say they're not. I mean, you can't have two sides further apart, can you?
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Ben Domenech
No, I don't think you can. And I think that this goes to the point that, you know what, you and I have made similar points. We haven't talked about it really, you know, that much, but it's, it is really a degree of skepticism about this MOU from the get go because so much of it relied on the Iranians being on honest. And that's really what our problem is with it. You know, Brian, I'm at the point where no deal would be better than this deal because it's one of these situations where, you know, you are giving up so much really, if this goes through in order to have faith in these Iranians to do something that they've never done before, which is to be honest about what their plans are, honest about their intent, honest about what they've actually got. We can't count on that. It's ridiculous, ridiculous to have any kind of assumption of that based on their past history. And because of that, unfortunately, you know, I think that the people who are back in the mou, and I understand there are a lot of people supporting the administration who are going along with it, you know, including the case being made by the Vice President. I just fundamentally disagree with their take that we can trust the Iranians.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And someone's list leaking to the New York Times now they're leaking out that Israel wants to take out the speaker as well as the Foreign minister. Why are they saying that from inside the administration? Administration. And who is saying that they're trying to back off the Israelis or show the Iranians that they're on their side. That doesn't work. So the President's got to get a hold of that because I know it's not him. Yeah, thanks so much, Ben.
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Ben Domenech
Good luck. Great to be with you as always,
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Brian, go get him and have a great fourth. Coming up next, Stephen Armstrong, chief of norad. Don't move.
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Brian Kilmeade
Politics, current events and news that affects you. Brian. Brian's got a lot more to say. Stay with Brian Kilmeade. From Liberty State park inside of the Statue of Liberty for America 250 it's Brian Kilmeade.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
If you want to be accepted, if
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General Jack Keane
you want to be loved, if you
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Olga Anadol
want to get elected to a public official, to be a public official, you need to hide your Jewish identity. That is a terrible thing that we are going through right now because sadly
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
what's happening in this country, the rise
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Olga Anadol
in anti Semitism, what you and I have spoken about for a very long time, the rise in anti Zionism, it's a feature, not a bug. So as much as we've been talking about this saying this is a terrible thing and a lot of people that have a bit more common sense were saying yeah, maybe we should do something about it. Now people are actually getting elected for being blatantly anti Semitic and anti zombies Zionist.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And if there is any democratic candidate that wants to be considered for 28, they will not say anything good about Israel. You're not saying it's a democracy and I understand they were attacked. This is what they got. You can't have that. If you take AIPAC money. That's like taking money that they used to save for oil and gas companies. Now they realize we got onto their green scam. Be responsible in the environment but don't change the entire way you fuel economy country. Especially in the age of AI. I don't think anyone not named a socialist radical would run on that. But the anti Semitism is everywhere in that party and sadly it's on the left too. It's never going to be on this show because I have a brain in my head and no, you want to blame Jews for things. You want to blame Israel for things. The only democracy pound for pound as good a fighting force as we have in the world because they're not going to be victims. It's their fault. It's crazy. Phil Weiser on Next 9 News talked about this Malat Kiros, this 29 year old from Ethiopia who just unseated a woman that's had that job since 97. Now should you have had a job for 30 years? I'm not sure, you know, in serving but that's not it. I'm not even talking about getting the job. I'm talking about the nomination to get the job over somebody who accomplished the nothing but wants to be a socialist and hates Israel. Here's Phil Weiser on Kiros her comments anti Semitism and that the Jews and Israelis deserve. 10-7-CUT 24th well, I want to pick
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Jason Smith
up one point because it's personal to
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
me and I believe she said Something
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Jason Smith
about this in your interview.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
What happened on June 1st in Boulder
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
was an anti Semitic attack.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
We cannot look at that murder and
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Jason Smith
say anything else happened.
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General Jack Keane
A hate crime.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And so if someone isn't going to
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Jason Smith
acknowledge that, I am concerned about that.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Phil Weiser, the Democratic nominee for Colorado governor. So call it out. Where's Chuck Schumer? Wrote a book about anti Semitism and says nothing when it rises up at Columbia and then spreads throughout the country. Senator John Fetterman is not afraid of anything, especially Milad Quiros. And he looked at her residents resume who by the way, got the nomination easily cut 25. The individual that just won in Colorado. She refused to describe the situation where
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Ben Domenech
someone firebombed a group of Jews that
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Jason Smith
was just rallying for the Israeli hostages
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
at that time and killed a woman.
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Jason Smith
She refused to even address that.
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General Jack Keane
Is that anti Semitic?
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So this is, this is the point.
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Jason Smith
And now there's that strong correlation anti, anti Israel drifting into anti Semitism, very,
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
very intensely anti American. And now just here, that individual also
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Jason Smith
believes America deserved 9, 11 and of course Israel deserved the massacre of 10, 7.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
That's, that's been, you know, that's been building. And she won easily. So that's what worries me. Okay, it didn't happen in Oklahoma, it didn't happen in Texas, but it's happening more and more. And let's see if that happens in the general. The only thing that would stop it is, would eventually stop the Tea Party. They were good at getting the nomination, bad at getting the position. Doesn't mean you don't get a lot of good people out of the Tea Party. But the Tea Party didn't worry me. Tea Party was just about fiscal responsibility and reestablishing priorities when it came to spending. And they saw what Barack Obama was doing. They saw what happened after the 2008 collapse of our financial system and saw the bailouts that went everywhere and the, and all the money that went back into the system. So fewer, fewer companies went upside down and they said, okay, we're going to start the Tea Party to push against Barack Obama. And they took 63 seats in the House and almost took the Senate. That doesn't bother me. If you have somebody go center, middle and they knock out other Democrats, that doesn't bother me. That's a choice. Having two parties isn't a choice. This is a third party running as a second party. So this is a problem. So we'll talk about that and I'll talk about the anti Semitism. But I just think that if you look at what's going on right now. I also think it's on the extreme. And if you look at what's happening, there was a leak to the New York Times, as I mentioned, to Ben, that said that Israel is very close to white, killing the speaker and killing the foreign minister and that it got the Americans nervous, meaning us, because those are the two people we were dealing with. Listen, one guy was best friends with Soleimani, the foreign minister. Every time he's talking is lying. And if you have to wipe out another level, level of government, you do it. Especially if their level of government is lying to you about a nuclear program
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Trey Ying
that's going to wipe you out.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
But why are you leaking out to the New York Times? Because you want the world to know
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General Jack Keane
it, you want Iran to know it,
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
that you're mad at Israel and you want to make sure they don't get killed instead of talking to them one on one. I just wonder whose side of the White House is coming out of. I know it's not coming from the president.
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Brian Kilmeade
Liberty State park in celebration of America 250. What more do you need besides Lady Liberty and Brian Kilmeade?
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Regardless where you come from, your background, it doesn't matter at this point, you know, you could do it here. This, this is the place.
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General Jack Keane
I believe the American dream is still
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Jason Smith
achievable because in my heart of hearts, I'm not giving up.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I'm still working towards my American dream. So I definitely feel like it's achievable. You just have to put your mind to it and stay focused.
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
The American dream exists and it's super,
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Ben Domenech
super cool to see
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Jason Smith
that is.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And I think most people are feeling Very optimistic 250 years later. What adds to it too is the World cup and you're seeing the country through the world's eyes. And we're not putting on a party or a show, we're just saying jump in, do what you want, watch the game, cake it into the game, go to a watch party, go to a sports bar, go to a restaurant, hop in a hotel and people are loving it. Olga Ana Duel is a co creator of a major new expedition Lafayette between France and history and legend. And when we talk about the Revolutionary War, we've been doing a lot of that lately. I think you can never discount the role of Lafayette. Best friends with Alexander Hamilton, with George Washington, with James Monroe and James Madison and Jefferson. What was his role and why did he seem to be so popular with the Americans that matter most? Let's ask Olga Anadol. Olga, as co creator of the major new expedition Lafayette, between France and America, what do you want people to know about Lafayette?
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Olga Anadol
Very wealthy aristocratic family, and he was, from early on inspired by ideas of liberty and wanted to help Americans win the war against the British. So he came to America at the age of 19 and he offered his services to George Washington and he became a major general right away in the American Continental Army. So this was a very interesting story from the beginning. He became also very close to George Washington. He was considered his adopted son because George Washington didn't have a son. And Lafayette had lost his father in the Seventh Year War, which was very devastating for him as a young man. So he was two when he lost his father. So he was very determined to help the Americans to win the war.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Understood. But what was his genius? Why was he so smart? Why did he hit it off so well? Why is it that if James Monroe and Madison and Jefferson and Washington saw such greatness in him, what was it about him?
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Olga Anadol
He was very smart. First of all, he had a lot of money and he put his money to something useful and wanted to help, as I said, the Americans to win the war. And he was also a great military figure. He participated in the Battle of Brandywine on the 11th of October, 1777, and he was wounded there. So he was already on the path to heroism from the very beginning of his stay in America. And then he participated in major battles throughout his stay, actually first trip to America. So he was considered a brilliant strategist, but he was also a diplomat, a pretty good diplomat. He was among those, such as Benjamin Franklin, who persuaded the French king to actually enter the war officially against the British. So he, Lafayette, along with other people, as I said, you know, including Benjamin Franklin, who had been in France for a while, you know, were able to persuade the king to enter the war. And in 1778, a treaty of alliance alliance was signed between the two countries. So not only was Lafayette a military strategist, but he was also a diplomat that facilitated, you know, the Franco American alliance.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So I see Lafayette everywhere and, you know, there's Lafayette street signs everywhere, sprinkled throughout New York. Not many people know the role he played, but when the French Revolution came happened, they went after him, didn't they? And wasn't it Ambassador James Monroe that took him and his family in?
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Olga Anadol
Yeah, well, he, you know, when he went back to France, he participated in the French Revolution in the first years of the revolution until 92. He was really very popular during that time in the beginning, very, very popular. He was. Was a deputy at the National Assembly. He drafted a declaration of the rights of men and the citizen and so on and so forth. However, he, as the commander in chief of the National Guard, had a very tricky position. He had to defend the king and his family, and he also had to keep order, public order. So that was a difficult position for him to hold. And he was not a radical revolutionary. So when the French Revolution turned radical, then he went into the opposition and he started, unfortunately being, you know, considered a traitor. And he had to flee the country. Country. He was in prison for five years in a prison in today's Czech Republic, which is called Olmutz, in a place where he was joined by his wife and two daughters for a whole year. So he spent five years away and in prison. And only after that was he able to return to France. And that was mostly the, you know, thanks to. To Napoleon. Napoleon, who actually wanted him to occupy, wanted Lafayette to occupy some kind of public, you know, post. Lafayette did not like Napoleon, so he was again in the opposition. So it's interesting, you know, he was always on the wrong side of things, especially after the revolutionary years. It's a very interesting story, you know, his French side.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, yeah. Olga. I just thought people should know. Olga, Ana Dul is with us. Co creator of the major new expedition Lafayette. Between France and history and legend. You put together this thing. It's in the National Archives Museum over at Paris because you want to celebrate his 200th anniversary along with the founding of our country 250 years ago, because they're so interlinked. So when Lafayette came here, he also came back. It was amazing. I keep reading how he was treated like a conquering hero when he returned. Did that mean a lot to him?
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Olga Anadol
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So after his years in prison, he returned to France, but, you know, he was no longer a popular figure, so he wanted to work on his image in France. And he was very happy when James Monroe actually extended an invitation to him to come back to America. And he was supposed to spend a few months here, but he spent 13 months visiting all the states, all 24 states that belonged at the time to the Union. And he was treated really like royalty all over the place. He was very happy to see people to shake hands with everyone. He went to major cities. He went, as I said, to all the states that belong to the states United Union. And he was very happy to be back here. And, you know, that's why you see Lafayette's name everywhere in America. You know, that was the time when they celebrated his return. And he celebrated this major visit also by providing some kind of feedback to Americans about their problems, progress, including. He delivered a very famous speech on 10 December, 1824, to Congress. He was the first. The very first foreigner to have been invited to do that. To do that. And I understand that, too. He got documents. Excuse me, I'm sorry.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I understand that, too. He. I understand, too. He promised Washington. Washington promised him, you win this war, end slavery. And that's the one thing that they did separate on. He was really disappointed we did not get rid of slavery when we won the war.
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Jason Smith
Right?
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Olga Anadol
Yes. You know, I have a beautiful story to tell about this. Lafayette became an abolitionist. From early on, he was in contact with British abolitionists, and he proposed to George Washington a project of emancipation of slaves. You know, he said, oh, I would like to. This is how you do it with you and George Washington. This was in 83. Washington said, oh, I don't think we are ready for that. So he did not participate. But Lafayette put his own money, you know, to task, and he bought a plantation, actually three of them, but one was more, you know, flourishing in French Guiana. And that's where he tried this project of gradual emancipation. So he wanted these people, about 70 of them, you know, first to be educated, then to work for a salary and then, you know, gain their freedom. The idea was that they could not be free, you know, without having some kind of survival skills in society. Because.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, real quick. Because we're up against the break. Just so. Yeah, I mean, that's just some of the major stories. When people think about Founding Fathers, absolutely think about them and thank them, but do not diminish the impact of French General Lafayette. Olga Anna Duel from Paris talking about her expedition between France and America. Go check it out at the National Archives Museum in Paris. Olga, thanks so much for sharing your story because it's an important part of our story. Brian Kilmeade, Liberty Island, Liberty Park. Don't move.
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Brian Kilmeade
Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kilmeade Show, A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I think being able to start from nothing and build a name for yourself, I think that's American dream. Whether that's what the American dream might
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General Jack Keane
have been then, might be different now.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
But if you want something, I think you are still able to dream what you want. So I think people need to reframe what that idea is of America and what that dream is for you. It's a lot different than it was for our parents and grandparents. So make it what you want, people.
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Brian Kilmeade
Come on.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
If you work hard, definitely get a good education.
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Olga Anadol
I think those things go hand in hand.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
You can't have one without. There you go. Yep, there you go. And joining us now to talk about his American dream is Mr. Stephen Stretch Armstrong, currently the NORAD Commander's chief in NORAD Strategic Engagement, serving as the premier subject matter expert and strategic engagement lead on NORAD and Operation Noble Eagle. And we all know about the Golden Dome that norad's looking to lead. Stephen, welcome.
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Thank you, sir. It's good to be with you this morning.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So Commander, when you look at NORAD right now and you look at the missile threats, how has it changed with the advent of these, of these drones and what we've seen in Ukraine?
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Yeah, so one of the biggest things that we're starting to be concerned about, we've been concerned about for years, especially with drones, is the gap in the scene that's associated with it. Because a lot of these things are very, very difficult to detect based on their radar cross section. So if we can't see it, we get it hardly. It's very difficult to mitigate it. So the first thing we're focusing on is all domain awareness and making sure that we can see things first because
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
we understand there's a drone that Israel is having trouble dealing with. A fiber optic drone.
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Yes sir. Again, that goes back to the radar cross section section and being able to see it with the current sensor lay downs that we have.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So that's interesting. When you talk about the Golden Dome, what does that look like for the layman?
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Well, it's going to be very specific to different areas in the parts of the country and we're really going to be focused in on defending critical infrastructure and defending critical command and control nodes. So that's going to be the main major focus here areas.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So in other words, and how much do you think that you need in the budget to really get started?
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Oh, to be honest with you, I'm not sure about what that figure is. I think I'd have to refer you to the experts on Golden Dome specifically, but I know it's a significant amount.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Okay. When you tell when it comes to what NORAD's doing now, talk about how you're cooperating with Canada.
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Yes, sir. So obviously we've been in a binational command with Canada since 1958 and we work very, very closely with them to include things like over the Horizon radar. Canada recently has made a significant effort to invest additional dollars into especially the sensor aspects of it. So this othr that over the horizon radar is one of the most significant, significant things that we can do to be able to detect early either cruise missiles or hypersonic vehicles, those kinds of things that may be coming toward North America.
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General Jack Keane
Wow.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Let's talk about the flyovers. We're watching them. We're going to be watching them tomorrow. We've been seeing them over the World Cup Games. We see them over almost every major event. Tell me about the flyover overs and what goes into it.
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Yes, sir. So we've been coordinating with the lead for is actually the Air Force, but all services will be represented as part of that to include the Navy, the Army, the Air Force. The Marines are going to be participating with different aircraft. And I can tell you that this is going to be the biggest air show that anyone has ever seen to that point. We've actually closed Reagan Airport to be able to make sure that we can get aircraft in and out for all the flybys that we're doing. And they start tomorrow at about one o' clock and go until sunset. And today they're actually starting and they already started today actually and go through about 1 o' clock this afternoon Eastern time.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Is it to coordinate for any events or is it just just to show strength?
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
It's really to show strength and make sure that folks understand how, how advanced we are in the air power domain main and that we rely very, very heavily on our air power as we saw that recently in Epic Fury and other events. But it's really to showcase air power.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Understood. And when you look at the state of the Air Force today and how it coordinates with Space Force, what should we know?
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Well, the fact is that, that we talk to them day in and day out to make sure that the sensors and capabilities they have in the space for realm are conducive with the needs and requirements that we have from both a NORAD and the NORTHCOM perspective.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, I guess that certainly would help. So you were for the formation of a space force?
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Oh, yes sir. I think it's, it's a great idea. Gives them a little bit more flexibility and gives them their own budget. I think it, I think it works out very, very well.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
All right, Stephen, stretch Armstrong, currently NORAD's commander in chief for NORAD Strategic engagement, thanks so much. Would you your thoughts before we let you go on this birthday of America 250 years young.
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
Yes, sir. What an honor it is to serve this nation. I spent about almost 30 years in the uniform and I've been doing this job now for about 18 years. Man, there's no place like America. That's all I can say.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Absolutely. Thanks so much, Steven. Appreciate it. And Commander, have a great fourth. Good luck with those flyovers. You make it look easy, but I know it's not. Meanwhile, they asked that the country they have Pride of patriotism, 53% say they're proud of the country. Only 27% of Democrats, 83% of Republicans got to get that number up with the Dems, don't you think? Listen to the Brian Kilmecho from Liberty Island. Don't move.
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Brian Kilmeade
From the FOX News radio studios in midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian kilmeade,
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I like that combination. Yes, we are in Liberty State Park. It is beautiful. If you're able to see the the stream on Fox Nation, go do it. Check it out on YouTube a little bit later. And right over my right shoulder is the Statue of Liberty, Ellis island and the big ships, the tall boats are going to be coming into New York harbor tomorrow. They might be coming in early. You're probably going to see it behind us over the next hour and this hour we're going to be joined by the chairman of House Ways and Means, Congressman Jason Smith. He's got the Pocketbook for America. Also could talk about affordability big time. And Trey Yings is standing by right now, Fox News chief foreign correspondent. He's talking to us on his desk off. Yesterday marks a thousand days since October 7th and man, has the world changed since let alone here politically. Trey, your thoughts about the latest revelations coming out of the strait, and that is the Iranians are insisting that they are in control and you better use their side of the strait, not our side of the strait.
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Trey Ying
Yeah, it's a dangerous game and it's a game the Iranians are used to playing because they know that ultimately if they have some control of the strait that they have leverage. And they lack a lot of leverage because much of their navy was taken out during Operation Epic Fury. And they also lack leverage because they're in a position now where their economy was suffering so greatly due to the US Naval blockade that they had to make some concessions in order to try and get some sanctions relief for their country and get money flowing back into the banks of Iran. And so it's a situation where the president will have to maintain a certain posture to make sure that the Iranians are a not tolling the straits but B, not threatening the shipping vessels that are passing through.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So when we look at what's happening right now, there's a story in the New York Times today, which you might not have gotten, but knowing you, you have, that the administration was worried that the Israelis were going to assassinate Ghabarov. I think you say his name better. He is the speaker of the House doing a lot of the negotiating. And the foreign minister, Agarwal Rachi, they were going to kill him. And that they were urging them not to. And that to the point they were actually warning Pakistan to warn Iran, look out. Again, no one's denying this. I've heard this. You've heard it probably firsthand. And I'm wondering, to me, they're clearly leaking from the White House what's going on here.
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Trey Ying
Yeah, it may be a messaging campaign and specific leaks to try and send a message to the Iranian delegation. But both the New York Times and the Washington Post are reporting that not only the top negotiator, Mohamed Kalibov, but also Abbas Agarachi, the country's foreign minister, were going to be targeted by the Israelis. And ultimately, these reports indicate, according to U.S. officials, that there was actually a time in which the plane for the negotiators, that they were flying on back to Tehran, made what you could call an emergency landing along the border because they detected Israeli fighter jets crossing into Iranian territory. Territory. And the belief was, according to this report, that the plane was going to be shot down. And so this could be a leak that was purposely provided to reporters to scare the delegation, to keep them at the negotiating table. But as the President has said, he actually told the Iranians. The president told me this on the phone. He said he told the Iranians, when they basically were trying to close the strait before, that they wouldn't make it back to their effing country if they. They ultimately closed the Strait of Hormuz. And so this report is not out of nowhere. And we have heard similar reports in the past. And I've talked with officials in the region who say that all officials in Iran remain on the target list for the Israelis. Because the Israelis don't see this as over. They see this as a pause in the fighting. And Israel's Defense minister, Israel Katz, even said as recently as two days ago that the Israelis have been instructed to prepare independent plan plans unilaterally to strike Iran and officials there if these talks fail.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, I saw that, too. So tell me about what you hear about our relationship with Saudi Arabia, that Marco Rubio, evidently the President's angry at the prince and he's back angry. MBS is angry at us. And that is why when Secretary of State Rubio went over, he did not meet in Saudi Arabia. They were invited to the G7. They did not come. Do you have, can you give us an idea what's going on?
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Trey Ying
What was really interesting today, Brian, is that we saw a delegation from Saudi Arabia in Tehran at the funeral for Iran's late Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei. And this delegation was led by the deputy foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, which was quite interesting because Saudi Arabia came under direct Iranian attack during Operation Epic Fury, but yet they still sent a delegation to the funeral for the supreme leader. And there were these reports during the war that for a period of time the Saudis actually stopped US jets from using their territory to launch attacks against Iran. But it's an interesting dynamic here because these Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, were not the intended targets for the Iranians, at least initially, but yet they decided to attack. And this took everyone from President in Trump to the Israelis by surprise because this was a war between Israel and the United States against Iran. But yet Iran was lashing out against these Gulf countries. And they're still sending delegations to Tehran for this funeral. And it speaks to the politics behind the scenes and sort of the messaging that a lot of these Gulf countries want to have. They are not seen even by the Iranians as neutral parties anymore, but yet they're trying to maintain relations and even according to some reports, create back channels that could circumvent the U.S. delegation and the Israelis to deal with the Iranians directly. And it raises real questions about the future because these countries are on the front lines of this war if it does resume.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So trade. You think they're worried because they got hit and their missile defense did not stop all the drones and rockets from hitting targets?
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Trey Ying
Certainly. And we also have to consider Iranian proxies and the region that threaten countries like Saudi Arabia. You have the Houthis that weren't so directly involved in the war, but they have the ability to launch missiles and drones. They've done it targeting Israel in the past and even a few times during the war, but not as directly as some had had thought they might. But that is one factor at play here. There's a lot of proxy fighting that takes place in Yemen, for example, and the Saudis are on one side of that proxy fighting. But then you have this question of the future. And again, this is considered a 60 day window. The president has indicated this is a cease fire. This is an opportunity to see if the Iranians are willing to make serious nuclear concessions. And while at least initially, it does appear that some of the cracks in their public propaganda and messaging are starting to show, we're a long way away from actually having the Iranians give up their highly enriched uranium to stop expanding their ballistic missile program and to act as a good faith country in the region to keep the strand of Hormut open and stop threatening regional countries along with U.S. forces.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So you saw the Wall Street Journal story that the President had serious talks over the weekend about what a full scale back to war would look like. What do you think it would look like? And how. And we've talked to military people. How frustrated are they? Where they weren't able to finish the job which they wanted was at least two more weeks of bombing.
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Trey Ying
This is a great question because the broad consensus here is that if there is another bombing campaign against the Iranian regime, if the targets are the same as before, the outcome will be the same as before. And the President talked about bridges and power plants, these things that would actually take the Iranians back even further than they already are. And the question is, is what ultimately the President would target if he ordered strikes against Iran again. And there's a lot of different targets on the table. One thing the President has ruled out, at least in the conversations that I've had with him, are the desalinization plants. He feels that these would affect the civilian population too much. But again, the bridges and the power plants and these other things that were largely off limits is maybe not the right term, but were decidedly not targeted during the campaign, could be hit. There are other military targets, these production lines, and I think if we just look at the past three to four weeks, it shows that the Iranians still have the ability to rebuild, whether it's their missile capabilities, capabilities, the drones that they use to threaten the shipping lanes, or even their air defense systems and radar sites. The question that many in the region have, how many radar, coastal radar sites do they have? Because every time CENTCOM announces that they're conducting these counter strikes as a result of the Iranians threatening shipping vessels, they say they hit coastal radar systems. And I did ask the President about this, I've asked other officials, and they say, look, the Iranians had some things in storage. They do have the ability during the cease fire to rebuild in some capacity. But it does raise questions about what those targets would be. I think more broadly, when we look at what comes next, what didn't happen. And you remember in the early days of the war, it was day one or day two of Operation Epic Fury. The president came out and he addressed the Iranian people directly, and he said, take over your government institutions, keep records, and ultimately people will be brought to justice. Well, that didn't work. And that is the reality of the situation. This is not a campaign that can be concluded from the air. If the goal is regime change now for the Americans, the goal is not regime change. The goal is weakening the ballistic missile program. It is taking out the officials who are unwilling to negotiate, and it's keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. The Israelis have a different agenda. They have a different goal here because they are in the neighborhood and they are more directly threatened by the regime and also Iranian proxies like Hezbollah. And so that is part of the reason that we've seen the divide, actually, from President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, because while they have some similar objectives, they have other objectives that don't actually align. And the president wants to give diplomacy a chance here to see if the Iranians will make these concessions before he decides to return to war.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I want you to hear Rebecca Heinrichs, who really knows the region, what she said the Iran is up to cut 45. Cut 44.
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Abdul El Sayed
44.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
We should expect the Iranians to make the MOU very not only difficult for the United States, but difficult for President Trump politically. They're not going to make this easy for him as they go into this election. The other thing I would just flag
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Trey Ying
is that we are going to now
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
witness the funeral for the Supreme Leader that the Iranians have not done yet, that begins Friday. So Americans are now going to see death to America, Death to Israel. All of these signs reminding Americans who this regime really is, which is a regime committed to our destruction and the destruction of our allies in the region. What have you seen at the funeral, Trey?
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Trey Ying
The funeral is a massive display of Iranian propaganda. There are posters and flags. It is a country that is mourning, and the 90 million people there do not have an option whether or not to participate. There are estimates that say 20 million people will actually be participating in funeral processions and events across Iran. What we've seen today, which again is quite interesting, is so many Gulf countries, many of whom actually came under Iranian fire, sending delegations to Tehran to participate, whether it's Saudi Arabia or Oman, to see these officials there. It raises questions about the actual situation in the region because you have these officials who are there mourning the supreme Leader who was taken out in the first strike campaign of the war. But these are countries that were commander attack from Iran. So at least today that is what the focus is. The images that we've seen from Tehran show mourners in the streets. They show people with flags, they show banners. And even on social media, some of the journalists who actually arrived there to cover showed these black flags in the airport in Tehran. The rest of the funeral will actually also be quite, quite big. There are going to be personalized floats that were made to carry the coffin of the Supreme Leader. There are going to be all of these funeral processions taking place and it's actually not supposed to end until July 9th. This is a five day funeral procession and it speaks again to how important Iran's Supreme Leader was to that country and his son. Most Tallahassee again, we've not yet seen him since he has taken power and there are questions about his state and if he is critically injured following the US And Israeli strikes that took place against Iran.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, the President thinks he's alive but banged up. No question about it. It's a target rich environment, isn't it? And that's why I believe that we're pretty safe on July 4th, because if they decide to disrupt our, our birthday, we'll disrupt their little funeral.
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Trey Ying
The timing is quite interesting, the fact that the fourth of July celebrations in the United States will be taking place and on a split screen, there will be funeral processions going on for Iran's Supreme Leader taken out in US And Israeli strikes on the first, first day of the war. Again, it speaks to the reality in the region right now. This is a cease fire. The war is still there in the background. And again, the President maintains, he says, the ability to use both military force and diplomacy moving forward if this doesn't lead to a changed regime.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
You covered both wars, Iran as well as Ukraine. I really believe we need another delegation. If you have somebody working on Iran, Witkoff and Kushner, somebody else got to do Ukraine. Just don't leave it. There are other people there. It looks like the Russians are in, are in hell right now. They can't even. They've lost a third of their refineries, 30% of all their refineries. And so many of their cities are now in the crosshairs of Ukraine because of their missile technology. In fact, they hit Siberia, which is 1500 miles away. Here's Dan Hoffman, CIA guy who was stationed in Moscow. Cut 47. I think Putin is stuck in this war. He sees no way out. And again, these most recent barbaric attacks on Ukrainian civilians just reflect his desperation. Do you get the sense from people that the Russians never expected to be in this place?
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Trey Ying
Yeah, the Ukrainians have increased their ability to counterattack and they've been targeting refineries just outside of Moscow. Some of the imagery is quite striking. You just see these massive fires as a result of the Iranian drones that are being used across the border to hit the Russians. And it's something that the Russians did not expect. Remember, the Russians thought they were going to take the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in three days. We were there on the ground the night the Russians invaded and there was a real tension across the city in Kiev because there was concern that the city could fall in a matter of days. Well, years later, the Ukrainians are still fighting for the sovereignty of their country. Country. But the Russians continue to target not military installations in Ukraine when they launch these missile and drone attacks, but civilians. Earlier this week, in one night, Brian, there were 70 missiles and 500 one way attack drones launched at Ukrainian cities. The majority of them targeted the capital of Kiev, a city of 3 million people in Europe. Eighteen people were killed, dozens injured. And according to President zelensky, there were 20 different impacts sites in Kiev alone. And that's not to mention the eastern part of Ukraine in the Donbas region and Luhans and done yet. These eastern provinces where the Russians continuously are losing thousands of forces in order to take sometimes just a few hundred feet of territory. And recent reports from the ground, I've been talking with people there indicate that the lines that the Russians actually say they hold don't reflect reality. Sometimes they are 10 miles off because they'll send these individual soldiers or groups of one or two soldiers, soldiers to the front. They'll plant a flag, take a photo with a drone to say that they hold this territory and then immediately get taken out by the Ukrainians. And this game of cat and mouse that takes place on the eastern front lines, it speaks to the Russian effort to try and show that they are winning in a real war of attrition. The Ukrainians have defended their territory for years now and their cities are getting hit hard because they need assistance, they need air defense. And the Russians are targeting the capital of Kiev where there are western embassies, there are American diplomats, diplomats, and there are civilians who are trying to survive. And as this war continues, the Russians continue to ramp up their attacks against the civilian population because they realize they are not winning.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, I mean they got up the sanctions and they got to get them more patriots. I know we don't have a ton, but you give them the Thaad missile system, the Patriots, they flat out can win and could finish them off. Trey, thanks for what you do. Joining us on the day off and your great reports through the week. This story is not going away, sadly because the MOU is such a document that's up for interpretation three weeks after it was released. Thanks, Trey.
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Trey Ying
Thank you.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
You got it from Israel. That's where he's going to be celebrating the fourth of July. One of America's finest reporters. When we come back, we'll take your calls. 1-866-408-7669. We're here at Liberty park in beautiful New Jersey, overlooking the Statue Liberty, one day from our nation's 250th birthday.
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Brian Kilmeade
Strong opinions backed by hard facts. Get the truth behind the spin with Brian Kilmeade from Liberty State park inside of the Statue of Liberty for America 250, it's Brian Kilmeade.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Impossible to describe the emotion and the feelings.
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Olga Anadol
Amazing.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
It's amazing, guys. I think the way that we compete, that we play, that we therefore, when I was at that moment you appear and we show that we know how to compete. Everything is possible, guys. Everything is possible. We were talking from the beginning, we are a little bit more close, okay? We were talking about to touch the moon. Touch the moon. We are close, a little one step closer. But we need to keep, keep being ambitious, okay? Playing the way that we play, competing, how we compete, that is, you know, amazing. I am so proud, so proud of you guys. Take me home. Take me home. Take me home. So that was the US coach after their dramatic 2 nothing win despite being a man down. Now they excel and they move forward in the field of 16 against Belgium. It'll be Monday night at 8 o' clock Eastern time. 33 million watched that game. I can imagine about 50 million watching this game.
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Brian Kilmeade
From Liberty State park in celebration of America250. What more do you need besides Lady Liberty and Brian Kilmeade?
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
The era of cliches that politicians deliver
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General Jack Keane
with charisma and charm is over.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
This is a time for courage. It's time for the old guard to step aside, really and bring in the socialists. That's what Congressman Ro Khanna, who fancies himself a presidential candidate, is saying. Really? You want to step aside to socialists who don't like the country, hate Israel and want to make sure that we don't give a dime to Israel. That's pretty much where you stand. And instead of taking a stand against it by the way this guy's on Hasan Piker's podcast, he will do anything to consolidate power, win an election, and I guess do anything then, especially when he knows capitalism, because he represents most of Silicon Valley. Let's welcome in Chairman Jason Smith, chairman of Ways and Means, the congressman from Missouri. Congressman, welcome back, Brian.
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Jason Smith
It's great to be with you. Happy, happy 4th of July and 250 50th.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Absolutely. And on 4th of July, it looks like the Democratic Party is losing its battle with socialism. How is it, you know, Ro Khanna, if I was to tell you four years ago that this guy would be pro socialist, taking on capitalists, you go, Brian. Well, he's a Democrat, but he doesn't mean that you have the, you, you know, you have the purse strings for the country. What's he talking about? What's he doing?
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Jason Smith
You know, it's what's happening in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate and Washington. It's, it's been gradually moving towards socialism every election cycle with more socialists within the Democrat Party getting elected. And now it's starting to get frighteningly like that. They're what controls the Democrat Party. And what's even scarier, Brian, is that it's not the candidates, it's who's electing the candidates. And if in fact these people are true socialists, that should alarm and concern everyone.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So here is Donny Deutch, a Democrat, a liberal on the party that he doesn't recognize. Cut 49.
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Trey Ying
Democrats are going off the rails. They're not even focused.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
What matters to people is affordability. And Democrats right now are focused on two things. They're focused on anti Semitism and socialism. Not all Democrats, but that's where the energy in the party is. When you look at the two candidates that got elected in the last week, it's insane. And the Republicans are going to tar
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General Jack Keane
them with this, you would think.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
But now I think there's a lot of people who are just anti Israel on both sides of the aisle. And I don't get it.
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Jason Smith
You know, there's, I don't get it either, Brian. There's, it's unfortunate what's going on within the Democrat Party that you see, to begin with, of the anti Semitism system. Anti Semitism has been astonishing. But I'll tell you the, the Republicans who are anti Israel, like I, I can't comprehend and understand what's moving them. What I will say is, is some of the investigations that we've been doing in the Ways and Means Committee with these non for profits, the 501C3 and C4S. We've seen this money come in from outside forces outside of the United States. Billionaires who want to create unrest and chaos and I'm talking about billionaires outside of the United States is bringing in that's helping fuel this anti Semitism rhetoric and also just protest in the unreached. It's quite disturbing.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah. So you're talking about, you're talking about the, you're talking about to finding out who's funding DSA and you're trying to find out who's, who's bringing in money on the blue side of the aisle. And have you gotten anywhere specifically? Because that's a violation of the law.
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Jason Smith
Yeah. You know, especially whenever non for profits get involved in elections, that's a violation of law when it's foreign money and that's what we've been tracking. We've been seeing a lot of Chinese money broke Brian, that's been coming into 501 that have been help organizing these protests. Whether it was the ICE protest in Los Angeles, whether it was the protest and unrest in Minnesota, whether it was the anti Semitism protest on college campuses. They've all had the common, common theme of a lot of different groups. Whether it's the People's Forum which we have been investigating very aggressively. In fact I have called for the administration to pull their tax exempt status because we have, we have discovered where they've actually been funding terrorist activities. So these are things that we have to be full throttled on and making sure we stop, prevent and root out of the current system.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So what these socialists are trying to say is the working class getting the shaft and they succeeded, successful, have been too rich for too long essentially. What is your message as the ultimate capitalist in the country?
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Jason Smith
Well look at, look at what we've been working on just the last year and a half to make sure that all Americans don't face a 21% tax increase. Tomorrow Brian, on July 4th will be the one year anniversary of the passage of the one big beautiful bill which every single Democrat in the House and the Senate voted for. In fact they campaigned in 2024 that they wanted all of the tax cuts to expire which would have resulted in every single American facing another 21% tax increase because they want the government to have more money. They believe that the government knows how to spend, spend your money better than you do. That is not what we believe. But what we just delivered was we not only prevented, prevented the largest tax grief tax increase in U.S. history. We created an additional tax cut of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, increase in the child tax credit, increase in the guarantee deduction. So many provisions that delivered real, real relief for working families. I'm always reminded of this waitress that came up to me in my congressional district just two months ago, ago and said, congressman, I want to thank you. I did my taxes. I got a refund of over $10,000. This was a single mom waitress who works oovertime, who has three kids. And she's like, because of this refund, I will be able to pay for my rent for a year, plus some groceries. I had a waiter in Las Vegas that told me because of the no tax, some tips, they will be able to afford their utilities for a year. That's real relief and affordability.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, but the problem is you guys haven't done anything since and you just disbanded rather than work last week. What happened?
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Jason Smith
Well, we can do a whole lot more and get a lot more done. I am very disappointed with how the the House floor has been running. And guess what? When the floor disbanded on Tuesday, Tuesday, the Wave and Means Committee followed through with passing seven bills out on Wednesday. We didn't cancel our activities because there's too much work to be done for the American people when it comes to tax policy, when it comes to trade, when it comes to health care. You're talking to someone, Brian, who is very disappointed of what's been going on on the floor. But you know what? I'm not going to stop working. I'm going to make my committee members continue to work, and hopefully the leadership will get it together on the House floor.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Do you want to see the President sign the housing bill? It's bipartisan. Do you think it'll help?
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Jason Smith
I do think that it would be very helpful for the President to sign it. And I think in the end, the housing bill will become law. And so, you know, the President is upset, rightfully so, that the United States Senate has not been acting on the Save America act, something that he's been pushing very aggressively. The House of Representatives has passed out three different times. The Senate just needs to get this bill passed.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
But, Congressman, they can't. Mitch McConnell is in the hospital. He's not for it. Then you got Murkowski, who's on the edge of flipping parties if you keep pushing her. And then you got Susan Collins, who might hurt her chances of reelection, which would hurt your entire party. And then you have Tillis, who's angry because president was going to primary him but you know, Tillis might be coachable, but you're still at 54 after that. So what Democrat not named John Fetterman would go for it? You just don't have the numbers.
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Jason Smith
Exactly. It's because of the rules of the Senate in regards to the filibuster. I think when you talk to the everyday average American, Brian, they don't understand, okay, Republicans control the White House, they control the Senate and they control the House. Why can't they control everything? And it's because of the filibuster, the 60 vote rule over there. I'll tell you, Brian, the most alarming and most concerning thing that concerns me right now is that the Democrats last month in June started saying that they were going to shut down government on September 30, that they were not going to even vote for a continuing resolution. And why can they do that is because of the 60 vote filibuster rule. The United States Senate. They need to be having a real conversation with their members because the Democrats believe that it is.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
You're not going to like it if you lose power, Congressman. You're not going to like it if you lose power.
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Jason Smith
I totally agree. And that's why the United States Democrats shall not allow there to be a lapse of government funding. If they have to blow up the filibuster on October 1st because the Democrats refused to fund government, soon better do that because there should not be a lapse of government going into the election.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah, got to figure a way to do that because that really hurt your agenda. It really hurt everybody. It hurt the country. But it helped the Democrats when they shut down the government.
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Jason Smith
I think they should pass a rule amending the filibuster, saying that if there's a lapse of government funding, it only takes a simple minute majority vote from that until governments fund it. And then that will incentivize Democrats and Republicans in the Senate to never allow there to be a lapse of government funding.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So, Congressman Chairman Smith, before you go, what does the 250th anniversary of this country mean to you?
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Jason Smith
It's all about freedom and opportunity, Brian. It's exactly what our country was founded on 250 years ago. And it's what it stands for today and it's why I serve in government, is to continue to push that envelope to make sure that the next generation has freedom, the next generation has opportunity. And that's what we're working towards. It's great to be in America and it's great to see people visiting our country and loving it even more now than ever before.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Absolutely. Watching the World Cup.
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Jason Smith
Watching the World Cup. Super proud of the United States. And also the team captain is from St. Louis, Missouri, so we're extremely proud
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
of him, the ageless one. Lastly, this is making a lot of headway lately. The President's personal finances are front and center and it looks like he has gotten a lot richer since he took office and so is his family. Here he was confronted on CNBC cut 29. And the disclosure this week, the amount of money that you and the family made in crypto, it was an outsized number.
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Trey Ying
I was just asking, did you or you know about the crypto ventures?
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General Jack Keane
So.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So that was just something I could know about it.
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General Jack Keane
Right.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
I mean, there's nothing illegal, there's nothing
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General Jack Keane
wrong with it I could know.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
So the President, I think, needs to get out in front of this message. Do you agree?
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Jason Smith
Absolutely. You know, the President was involved in crypto before he he was ever President of the United States. And crypto has definitely been growing in popularity and doing quite well. And so all I would have to say is the President was involved before he was ever President, United States. So everyone who's been involved in crypto during out this process, they're benefiting. They're doing quite well.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Yeah. And by the way, if you're in the market, you're also doing quite well. That was the President.401K. If you're in a pension fund, take a look at the market. And the job numbers are still good despite the emergence of AI Jason Smith. Thanks so much, Congressman. Best of luck and good luck when you get back to work in the summer.
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Jason Smith
Thank you, sir. Happy 4th and take care of yourselves. Try to stay cool.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
Absolutely. And of course, I saw Jason Smith at the first USA game where they won 3 1. This is the Brian Kilme. Joe back to replace things up from Liberty, Liberty park in just a moment.
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Brian Kilmeade
He just doesn't read the headlines. He breaks them down. Real talk, real news. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. From Liberty State park, inside of the Statue of Liberty for America 250. It's Brian Kilmeade.
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General Jack Keane
Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Lt. Col. Allen West
Ronaldo.
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General Jack Keane
And 41 for Portugal. Ronaldo's first ever knockout stage goal change.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
The angle
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General Jack Keane
was waiting Matadovich.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And is it going to go in?
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Abdul El Sayed
It does.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
It's remarkable. Croatia player number 20 touched the ball and head added to the goal scorer. Final decision offside. So with literally no time left on the clock, Croatia scored the tying goal. I mean you're talking about injury time plus 12. So the tying goal against Portugal and they called it back. They had to watch this thing for five minutes at which time they said it brushed against an offside player who didn't affect the trajectory of the ball, went to another guy who. Now I'm telling you, the VR has got to be looked at. It's not working in soccer. I know for offsides, whatever, you could take a look at it. I like that. But in terms of penalties, you're alerting the red card that the US player got, the one that Messi didn't get, the replay. That happens. They're taking the human element out of the game to a way that doesn't make the game better. And I always prefer videotape replay, especially in baseball, now that they finally added it, they have it in basketball, we see. See it. But I think in soccer it doesn't work. It just doesn't work. And I'm not saying that just because the U.S. now this sets up the U.S. against Belgium. That'll be 8 o' clock on Monday night. They're going to play the winner of Portugal and Spain. Obviously that's going to be an incredible game. And Canada is going to have their handfuls playing against Morocco. But look, they're playing with house money in Mexico and England are going to be playing against each other. So we have Brazil playing against Norway.
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Brian Kilmeade
Norway.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
These are fantastic matchups in front of fantastic fans. You're Talking about over 6 million people have now come to watch these games in person. And millions have come here. They say Fan Fest has brought in over 5 million people. Fan Fest in various cities. Remember I was talking about 90% of the bookings were not done in Kansas. And people would think they weren't buying tickets, they were too expensive. And they are too expensive. But their stadiums are 97% filled up. So someone's paying for them or their governments are paying for them and giving them to the. Giving them to some of their constituents and some of their residents and some of their citizens at a discount rate. Regardless. It has just been phenomenal. But I think the other thing that's understated is the respect the fans have for other fans. You're not seeing the people. And you always heard about the hoodlums following the soccer teams around and the fights that they get and the bands that they have. And there's no tailgate parties. And people feel that you mix drinking and all these things and gets out of control. And maybe, maybe it does, but not this time. And not this cup. And they're talking about bringing it back in 2034, which would be unbelievable. Remember, the last time it was here was 1994, and that was considered very successful.
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Ben Domenech
But.
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
And out of that, we got the mls. Do you think there's going to be any residual effect? You think there's going to be any residual effect for soccer when we leave? I was talking to Dave Portnoy and he's says, no, I don't think so, Mr. Barstool. He said, it's great for now. We want to see the US Win, enjoying the games like everybody else play. But this is not a soccer country. We're not going to be. We're not going to be doing that. I actually feel differently. If we can get some of the players that we watch, some, especially Ronaldo. I mean, is he going to go back to Saudi Arabia again and play in anonymity for $100 million? I think $300 million or something? Saudi Arabia is running out of money. That's why Liv collapsed. My sense of is that he has a shot at coming here. You put him in here playing against Messi, even at 41 years old, it's going to matter. You grab some of the other players we're getting to know. And if anyone thinks, well, you go to America, the level is low and my game will drop. Messi has never had a better World cup, and he's 38 years old. So get this. The World cup is the most viewed. The World cup game the US won over Bosnia was the highest ever, rated 24 million. It peaked at 32 million, to be exact. The best, most successful fan fest is Miami, and so far in terms of average. But the most overall is Kansas City. Together, that means people are showing up, having a good time, they're spending money, they're buying things at $5.5 million. So that's pretty cool. I love the message. The coach keeps talking about touching the moon. And then the NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman said, hey, people say with the men's soccer team, winning the World cup is impossible. He thinks it's possible. And if they do win, he promises to bring a World cup ball and bring it to the moon signed by every one of those players and leave it there. Remember, we're going to be on the moon in the next few years. That would be nice.
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Trey Ying
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
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Trey Ying
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Brian Kilmeade (Host/Main Speaker)
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Stephen Stretch Armstrong
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