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The Brian Kilmeade Show 06-03-2026
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From the FOX News radio studios in midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade,
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everyone.
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So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade show coming your direction heard around the country, around the world. We're thrilled today because we are adding another station to the family of Nations, WFDF AM 910 in Detroit. They are 9:10am, Detroit's new talk superstation. And with thrilled to be on, you're taking the Brian Kilmeade show and we know you're going to love it. You're going to love Brit Hume too. He's going to be joining us. One of the things he'll be talking about is Scott Pelly fired on 60 Minutes. He called out and blistered his new bosses. And you knew that's how it goes in life. I don't care if you're a waiter or if you're the cfo, if you go and yell at your boss, you're probably going to be in trouble. And he is now gone. As 60 Minutes is really getting a shake up. With me in studio is one of the most important people to our economy, the CEO of Bank of America, great guy, Brian Moynihan. Brian, thanks so much for coming by. We always appreciate having you on.
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It's great to be here. Brian, good to see you again. Congratulations on your book being made a movie. That's terrific.
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Yeah. So George Washington Secret six, John Middleton and Christian Wallace will be writing the screenplay. So hopefully it'll be on the big screen shortly. But, and I know you're a history major and you care about this country on year 250, but you also care about soccer.
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And let's talk about it first. You know, soccer guy, since I was 5 years old when the cosmos were in my and started playing back then. So to see bank of America get behind the World cup when nobody was getting behind soccer in the 70s, and to see what you guys have done, could you tell everybody the investment you, you've made? Sure.
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So we, we've made two or three investments. So with FIFA, we did the club World cup last year and the World cup this year. And there's a lot of attributes that I'll come back to. We also picked up sponsorship of the USA team. So the whole USA soccer program, which is a, you know, 60, 70 teams of all the different age groups, men's and women's team, obviously national teams. But then the, the new training center down in Atlanta, we help with that. But our view is what we're really trying to do through the FIFA work and the work we do with David Beckham and others is he's become an ambassador for all sports for us. But obviously soccer, we're trying to push soccer out deeper in America now. All our kids play. So that's the question is the excellence, the accessibility of fields and things in places they aren't. We've done a few fields and we'll keep doing them in partnership with Visa. The ability to give tickets to these veterans that we just announced today. Two million, two and a quarter million dollars worth of tickets. Two million from us. A quarter million dollars.
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So that's important. That's ticks.
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So one thing about it, it's hard to get tickets. It's very expensive with this World cup and there's a lot of reasons for it. But for veterans, you have vets, ticks, and you put $2 million aside for the. To give veterans and first responders access to these games.
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Exactly. And that was done today as part of, you know, the whole world on FIFA. And we also announced we're doing a fan fest on the mall in Washington D.C. so this is part of FIFA. Working with the Trump administration ourselves, driving the reward for veterans and first responders is very important. And those tickets will be free admission. Vet Tix is a veterans run organization and it'll go up on our website. Earlier we said go there now. I'm not sure exactly when they'll be available, but soon and it'll take place and the veterans will go there. It already has concert and other tickets that people donate and it's a big donation for them. We're happy to do it and it's part of our commitment to veterans. We just recommitted to hire 10,000 more veterans over the next five years. Beginning this year, we completed an earlier 10,000 hire. We have an MSAG group that has 40,000 or 20,000 members and 40 chapters around the world. It's just fairly important. I just did a session with General Petraeus with the KKR veterans group and our veterans group to talk about the interplay between what they do and what we do. It's very important. But that ticks us. And the tickets for this thing are a reward for their service and a thank you for their service.
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Well, that's pretty amazing. And it's really important too. You, you also do something with the U.S. soccer Foundation.
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In order to build fields, make him successful for the David Beckhams. You know, in his book he talks about, he was such a great player. He gets recruited, goes to Man U and he becomes a Man U player. One of the finest players they've ever had. We know about his career. He ends up here at 32 years old going to the MLS and becoming internationally famous because he's ridiculously good looking and nice guy. However, the problem is not for the David Beckhams. It's for the kids that just want to play and be good and just whatever that is.
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And.
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And it turns out it's getting really expensive. So what are you guys doing about it?
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Well, one thing we're offering clinics. We're put offering. We just did a program in Los Angeles about back in the school system. Remember a lot of this got done outside the school system. That's where it sort of had to pay for itself. The schools ought to offer deep programs. They do as kids get older, but even in the middle schools and stuff. And so we're doing schools, Sakura schools. We're doing clinics all over as part of our sports with us program, which includes golf with us. That we did that we have, we'll get up to quarter million kids that can play courses for $5. We have the running and so the my marathon campaign which raises millions and millions of dollars in the Boston and Chicago marathons. And then we have soccer, which frankly we're just starting on. And this was a big launch. And so what it is is about access to places to play in places that didn't have the great fields. That's the fields, school clinics. And ultimately with USA we have to figure out how to get both excellence, broad participation and opportunity for people to otherwise not get opportunities. So we're working on that stuff too. And those will be things that will carry on this wonderful 100 Super bowl occurrence will occur over the next 45 days, 60 days. And then America will have to continue on. And our job is to help drive soccer. It's played by a lot drive the excellence in soccer. And that's what David's interesting. He sees his advantage, his possibility was made even more possible by the academy system. And whether we can do all that in America or not. The idea is you gotta get the principals more kids, more access, more opportunity.
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And you also not to get too deep into it because you're a rugby guy. But you were saying that coaching's the issue. And that's what David Beckham noticed. He says, you know, the athletes are the same number. We have more kids playing than England. But why is it. Because you guys have. England always had. The world has better coaches.
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Yeah. And I think that's getting, you know, that's getting that coaching deeper and deeper. And frankly, that's a generational thing. So the people who are having kids now who are 20 years younger than I am, they probably. They could have played the game, you know, I did. It wasn't available to me to play where I grew up. And I played football and then played rugby. So, you know, so I think that that, that'll change generation a bit important, that excellence, that academy system where they give broad kids opportunities. Because in David's case, he was sort of picked out of middle school and because he was good. And then they developed into being unbelievably good.
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But. But it was. Someone saw him, not because he was in some program, is just he's played a school and they said, hey, who's your best players? And they did it. And then, by the way, the history of Man U is kind of interesting because they picked up a lot of them in that era. And that was that new class that ended up winning a bunch of different championships, all of who are pretty young. At 17, he starts from Man U. A billion fans. We can't fathom that in the United States. I think the bigger, bigger interesting thing is at 14, he started playing for him while he finished his school.
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Yeah, yeah. It's pretty amazing. You brought it up. And they actually need something now because they've been slumping for a while. So let's talk about something else. I was struck, and we talked about this on tv, that Eric Schmidt is giving a commencement address and other executives giving commencement address. And every time they brought up AI, college students, graduates were booing it. There's a fear of AI wiping out jobs in America. Is it a justified fear?
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I think every fear is justified because it's what people feel. There's no. It's emotion. And so when I ask our young teammates, are you worried about losing a job? They raise their hands too. Our job as leaders of business is to figure out how to get this amazing productivity and capability deployed. But at the same time, think about the human being attached to it and training them and reskilling them. So if you think about a bank of America applying technology, reduced work is not a new thing. AI will give us more place to do it. Our job is to manage that outcome. Right? So just for natural attrition, which we have a very low attrition rate, 7 to 8% on 200,000 people. That's 14,000 people we have to hire to stay neutral. What we're saying to people is, be Very careful who you hire, not because you may not need them. Today is if we think about over time. And with that we can manage the headcount. Now by the way, we started in 2010, we had 285,000 people. We have 210,000 today. No major layoffs. People leave us, people retire, you know, people get jobs with other people. That's fine too. We build great careers, we want them all to stay. But at the end of the day we've got to manage it. Our obligation as managers and CEOs is to balance shareholders, customers, communities and teammates. And you can't forget that you lose trust if you don't think that the teammates, you're in it for them.
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And you do want to make an announcement for our audience too that you're going to be hiring 4000, 2000 jobs and 2000 jobs and 2000 interns.
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So part of that reaction to college campuses is kids feel they can't get jobs. We hired just as many summer interns around 2000, just as many full time teammates coming in 2000 this year as we've hired all the other years. We need that young talent. And as we talked earlier, we have a program where we just announced 8,000, doubling up our number to 8,000 over five years from community colleges. And what we go to. Community colleges say this curriculum is important to us. Do it and so they can finish their. We get $7,000 a year tuition reburns. If they want to get their bachelor's degree, they can get it on us once they're with us. But we try to do that and then with the veterans and then by the way, we hire a lot of kids from high school. We do programs where kids are learning computer coding and now we'll learn AI skills their sophomore year, their junior year interns with us and then we hire them at the end. In Charlotte, fellow named Rick Elias does road to hire. Great program. All these programs are built to get us talent earlier and give but the end day it's all about opportunity. So we don't want college kids at bank of America to be afraid they're not going to have a great career. They will have a great career. They're the top talent. But at the end of the day we hire a lot of them, we put them to work and our job is to manage to make it all happen. And you know, we'll see where this goes. Eight people are overwrought about it because I think at the end of the day, if you look at 1969, you're history buff 1969, 80 million people work in America. 20, 19, 50 years later, 160 million. And think about all the technology you and I witnessed, our lives from 1969 to now, every aspect that we use.
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I never remember technology and advancement. More resentment for it. I didn't feel that with the Internet. You know, I don't know what it was like when you went from horses to cars, but it seems like we always just move forward and now there seems to reluctance and people. I worry about politicians getting involved, making this about votes. When we come back, I want to find out what Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America thinks about our economy today and where you think it's heading. After all, we're in right now technically a low level war with Iran. We know that's affecting the gas prices. What about, what else? And long term, is this the right move? Don't move where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Killmeade Show. This is what everyone's talking about. Everything's on the table. This is what champions come to take. This is what everyone came to see. No do overs, no second chances, no more Mr. Nice Guy. This is winner take all. And it's all happening now on the
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Don't miss it. June 3rd on ABC and the ESPN app. Radio. That makes you think this is the Brian Kilmeade Show.
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Well, the price of gasoline is something that's coming down and it's going to
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come down faster as we get more
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oil out of the Gulf, which we're doing every day. But you know, gasoline isn't the only story on prices.
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We just got some really good news
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from the Dallas Fed that if you throw out the high and the low
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prices, the inflation rate right now is
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2.3% and real wages are up on
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average about $3,000 since President Trump took office.
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And so people's incomes are growing faster
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than their prices, even if you account for what's going on with gas.
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So that's Kevin Hassett, economic adviser to President Trump. That's how he feels the economy is doing. Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America. Still with us, Brian? Woody, how do you think the economy is doing?
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So we have a great research team, one of the best in the world. They believe the US will grow about 2.1 this year. The world grow about 3.
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Is it because of the war?
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They had it as high as 2.8 and they brought it back down. So if you think about the last 12 months. Last year was liberation day. It's hard to believe it was only that long ago. They went from like mid twos to 5, down to 1 5, then back up to 28 and now down to 2 1. So what does that really mean? The ebbs and flows of the sort of geopolitical scene. And so they brought it down. So take into account the war, you know, taking account gas prices, taking account a resolution of war probably over the next 60 days, not over the next year and a half, they would say that that's where we are. And frankly, 2% growth is pretty strong because with 3% plus inflation, that's a 5% nominal growth, that's a lot of activity. And so they think the Fed doesn't cut this year. They think we grow at 2%, the Fed doesn't cut. And then as you look into next year, inflation will move down at the end of next year and it'll start maybe lower rates, two cuts, second half of next year. Those came from the first second half of this year to next year. The key is when you look at what consumers really do, and this is one of the things that I get asked about a lot is all these surveys are out there saying consumers, you know, enthusiasm, confidence, confidence, all time lows in our customer base for the month of May 2026 versus May 2025, the consumers move 5% more money into the economy. Now if you look, they spent more on gas, some spent less, they went to the gas station and people are managing that. You see a little move down to some of the secondhand stores, a little higher growth rate there. You see in the grocery category, you see some movement between the higher end grocery stores and the bigger grocery stores offer better pricing and all that moves around. And by the way, that's not different for anybody. You see even the higher income cohorts move a little bit, but the reality is they're still moving 5% more. They spent 13% more on out of home entertainment, they spent more money on cruises, the travel is up about flat on transactions and up on dollar volume because the prices are up. So they're traveling and they're doing things, so they're getting on with their life. And why is that true? Unemployment 4.3. Second reason is you look across low, medium high segments, the income levels are still growing. You heard Kevin Hassett say that they're still growing even though the growth rate of the lower third of income earners has slowed down a little bit and the other ones have sped up a little bit, which is inverse of where it was last couple of years. They're all growing, which means people are employed, have income, they'll continue to spend, if they continue to spend. The US economy is actually in pretty good shape now. People don't like high gas prices. People don't like high rents. You're seeing rents start to flatten out a little bit. Insurance, which was a big issue 12 months ago, we talked about that's coming down, that's flattening out in its growth rate. So I think with time this will work through. But right now people are really concerned about gas price. They can't see the end of the war.
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You know, we, we also saw what happened here in New York City, where we have a mayor who seemed to vilify wealth and success. And now meeting with CEOs. Have you had a chance to meet with the socialist Mayor Mamdame? Does he understand math and does he understand the need for capitalism? And how do you deal with this? Because you have how many employees in New York City?
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About 12, 15,000.
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12, 15,000.
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And by the way, we got a lot of people who work just over the border in New York, New Jersey, and work out on the island up in Connecticut. So they all are New York City ish in a way. They think about life. But look, I think, you know, all the administrations, all the cities and places around the country, around the world that I talk to always try to say, here's what I would do and how to be successful, be safe, you know, make sure the potholes are filled, collect the trash. These are things like mayors have to do because if they don't do them, they don't get done. And I think he's, he cited to me that he filled a lot of potholes and stuff. But I think on the housing question, it's about building and I think he's done some programs. But at the end of the day, why do you say it? I'm not saying the government builds it. I'm saying the process to get an approval has to be sped up. And the faster it goes, time value, money, the more money will come in a more assuredness you can get a project through. Because some of these projects take five, six years in the development phase. And it takes a lot of energy by a developer. Sit there and say, I'm going to stick with it.
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And they'll say, why do I do in New York when I could do so much easier in Florida and Texas?
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And so you saw even some towns and cities around New York that you're seeing and do it. You see towns that are good at this. But there's housing shortages all over the country. Charlotte's 30,000 units. Boston's similar. New York's a lot more than that.
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So how do you solve that?
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You just got to build. Because at the end of the day it's.
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But I need investors to build. You don't want the government to build.
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No, no. I'm telling you, there's so much private equity. I just was talking to in San Francisco yesterday. We put in low affordable housing, low and moderate income housing in San Francisco. Last year we did $900 million of financing for private developers to build that kind of housing targeted at, you know, median income plus a 1.5 median income. So the money is there. Look, people want yield. They have debt. Investors are there.
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The.
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The equity investor. But they got to know they got a project and then got into. They can charge a fair rent. Because if that's where rent control starts to depress the ability to build.
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Yeah. So, Brian, let's, let's end where we started, the World Cup. You have major sponsors, Fan fest. Where can we get them?
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We can see them in D.C. well, the D.C. is on the Mall. That's part of the Americas 250. But each of the major, you know, each of the host cities, there'll be a, a fan fest there for the games that we're heavily invested in. And so you can go there. FIFA has one and we have a component of that. And then for our customers and clients, when we invite the game, we have a separate component. So they'll be all over the place. And this will be fun to see. And I think there's been a lot of discussion about it, but at the end of the day, 6 billion people will see this. 17 to 18 billion dollars of economic activity in the United States alone of incremental activity, 295,000 jobs. We published a research report. It's a big economic impact in those cities and towns are going to benefit by that, just like they benefit when the marathons are run or other sport of Super Bowl. But think of this going on, you know, literally over and over. And people are forgetting people are coming just to see the practice games or see the people practice.
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Friendly. Yeah. He's the CEO of Bank of America and he was a history major, but man, does he know his numbers. Brian Moynihan, thanks so much and thanks for all you're doing for soccer in the World Cup.
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Thank you.
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The next five months I'm gonna have time to build out this team to
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show everybody the level of Democratic supporters
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that I have behind me, the heavy
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hitters that are in this room that are all behind me.
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And I think this idea that I
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don't represent Democrats and Republicans and independents, anyone that's just a Los Angeles citizen
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that wants basic quality of life, I'll
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be able to show that in five months. I feel very confident that I am going to continue to work hard and
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learn everything I need to learn, build my teams, show all the experience I'm going to surround myself with because that's
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a concern people have always notes.
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I'm going to build that experience around. And we have five months to put
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the best team the city could ever dream of around me. So that is Spencer Pratt who's got about six 70 point lead with 60% of the vote in Los Angeles. I can't even say he came in second yet. That means if he comes in second because Karen Bass is locked up first, 34%. It looks like Spencer Pratt's got 30% of the vote and 22% is, is Roma Rahman, Nifty Rahman. So it looks like she's out and these two move forward. Now people say, well, Spencer Pratt's going to lose because he's a Republican in a Democratic city. Except for he's not really running as a Republican, he's running as a common sense candidate. And I think he knows that being with Donald Trump, I don't care how much he likes him, is not going to help him. So it looks like he is going to move to the next level. And he's definitely the most intriguing talked about candidate in this primary season. Brit Hume has seen it all. Not usually impressed, but also noted when things are different. FOX News senior political analyst joins us now. Hey Britt, your thought about Spencer Pratt seemingly locking up the second place slot and it looks like we'll have this race with Karen Bass until November.
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Well, the political gravity in the city of Los Angeles is very heavily weighted toward the Democrats. And that's going to apply if this ends up being that Pratt versus Bass. But what Pratt has done so far is really quite remarkable. I mean, he's, you know, he's a Republican running as an independent. He's shown a lot of imagination the way he's campaigned. You know, you see him, he's kind of a disarming personality. You know, he doesn't. And he talks about things that people can relate relate to. His slogan that he's used repeatedly is look around, which I think is brilliant. He's simply saying, do you really want to ratify these conditions? And obviously a great many Californians and a great many Angelenos do not want to do that. Still, he's up against a heavy registration margin against him.
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This is Karen Bassett. You know, there are people that have different beliefs. For example, Mondame, I can't think of anything I agree with him on. But he can communicate and he doesdoes have good instincts and he certainly has a good social media team. I look at Congresswoman now, Mayor Karen Bass, and that she's like a handball. I watched her in the debate. I don't even think she understands the issues. There's no leadership ability. And her work rate and her report card after four years is horrific. So those are the types of things that might rattle people enough who are ideological to say, I think I'm gonna give this other guy a shot.
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Well, it would make sense. It's just very hard to overcome that heavy a registration margin. I mean, there's only a tiny, relatively speaking, a tiny handful of non Democrats in the city of Los Angeles. It is overwhelmingly Democrat.
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So I want to bring you to something, somebody who's been effective, a Democrat in San Francisco, this guy Dan Lorre. He has no experience, comes from a rich family, and he seems to be executing. He's cleaning up the streets, working to get rid of homeless people. Say he can go downtown again, no longer giving out needles, telling his his DA to prosecute crime. And people of San Francisco did kick out there one that was Chez Bod Bodine, who was totally ineffective. And they changed around a city with just a common sense candidate. Does that give you hope, Brit?
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Well, it does. And over in the long term, the city of Los Angeles cannot continue to be governed the way it has. These measures that Karen Bass has refused to put into place, they're what people want. They'll get them eventually. The question is when?
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So let's move over and just talk about a guy that's going to have a primary next week, and that is Graham Platner. And I've never seen a guy who ever raised this many negatives hits against him as he has. The latest one is contacting a series of women, eight women, maybe more, in a very dicey site. And now it's personal faux pas. But if you factor in the Nazi tattoo and you factor in it disparaging veterans as well as women and calling himself a communist. If I gave you that, if I gave you that one pager, you'd say, Brian, of course you can't run this guy. But instead they're still standing by him over in Maine.
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Well, if one of those incidents you talked about, one of those circumstances you just mentioned were all there was, I would think he could survive it easily. But this guy has got an absolute rail car full of baggage behind him. I've never seen anything quite like it. For him to still be standing, you know, there's some thought he might even pull out of the race. He's so heavily weighted with it. It's a very unusual state in the sense that a very unusual situation, I should say, in Maine because, you know, the incumbent governor Janet Mills, who looked like to be headed for a certain defeat, stopped campaigning. But she's still on the ballot. So if he were to decide to pull out, she could then become the candidate for the Democrats, Susan Collins, a Republican incumbent, it seems to me if there's such a thing as a moderate Republican, she's it. So it's hard for me to imagine that Flattner, if he survives on the ticket, could beat her with all this baggage. But in this current atmosphere, people are not happy with the incumbent politicians across the board. But she survived. Collins has survived this kind of thing before. So I think you have to bet that she can survive this.
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So I want you to hear what Democrats are saying when asked about this because he want to save his candidacy to Washington yesterday. Cut 21.
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So what are the billionaires worried about?
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Why are they spending so much money
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trying to defeat this guy? And the answer is that he's going to stand up to the oligarchs. Does the Democrats stick in time? Grant Platner is that perfect for ability
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in attacking Clint Paxton.
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We're going to take back. We're going to beat Susan Collins and
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take back the Senate.
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Believe that Janet Mills should unsuspend her campaign. We're going to beat Susan Collins and
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take back the Senate.
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Are you still supporting Graham Platner? As I said, I endorsed Graham Platner.
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We're going to take back the we're
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gonna beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate. So he said that Senator Welch said that, Senator Warner said that Adam Schiff says he is not gonna support him. But for the most part, they think he's the real man card that they've been lacking to get men back.
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Well, you know, when he first emerged on the scene, you know, he seemed like kind of a breath of fresh air. You know, this guy who's an outdoorsman and he's a veteran and he all these things. But, but the stuff that's stacked up against him now is just astonishing. But I think they feel like they have nowhere to turn. And you know, at this moment, in this extraordinarily partisan atmosphere, with the control in both houses, you know, hanging by a thread to the Republicans, then I think the circumstances such that you see Schumer doing what he's doing, which it seems to me is embarrassing almost, you know, we're going to beat Susan cause we're going to take back the same. He doesn't ever quite mention Platter, although he did acknowledge that he endorsed him. So there you are.
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I want to tack, I want to tap into your years of broadcasting knowledge and see what's happening with Bari Weiss over at cbs. She has shaken things up to the point where Sharon Alfonsi has not been renewed and Scott Pelley blistered the new executive producer of 60 Minutes. And it's been widespread and the quotes are out there and the tapes might be out there. He is incensed. What he says is censorship against him doing his job. And I wonder, he's been fired now at 60 minutes. And in terms of what he said to the CEO, he just went after this guy in the first win in a public setting. The next day. They tried to work it out, it looks like, and he was fired. Your thoughts about Scott Pelley being fired and how he's taking on management?
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Brian, I've been in this business for more than 50 years, TV news. I have had many bosses. Some I really liked and respected and some I did not. But I have found a way to work with every single one of them. And I have never been in a situation. I worked for ABC News for 23 years. I've never been in a situation where I've had to compromise anything that I thought was a meaningful journalistic standard. I've always found a way that I could satisfy myself and the people I work for every single time. And I'll guarantee You, I don't know this guy who's been hired to be the new chief at 60 Minutes, but I guarantee you that if these correspondents here are willing to work with him, they'll be able to maintain their own sense of integrity and do good work. The problem with 60 Minutes is that it's had many screw ups during its years. Despite its reputation, despite the high ratings. It was time for a change at CBS News. Their evening news program is mired in third place. It has had, you know, long period of in third place. And I think, you know, Barry Weiss is trying to change that, trying to. And it's going to take time. And a lot of these pompous journalists who work there don't see anyone to give her that time.
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So I want you to hear Scott Pelley at the Emmy Awards, kind of alluding to the fact that this where his direction, he thinks CBS is heading where he was heading. Let's listen.
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There have been many great 60 Minutes correspondence over the years. I see Sharon Alfonsi there in the audience, one of our nominees tonight for her great work. But of course, in 1968, Mike Wallace was a founder of 60 Minutes. And toward the end of his nearly 40 years at the broadcast, I had the privilege of working with him. This scholarship, funded by CBS News, is a lasting tribute to Mike's example. Honest, fair reporting, repudiating bias of every kind. Please welcome this year's Mike Wallace Scholarship recipient, Santiago Campos.
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Well, I want to thank CBS News for funding this generous gift towards my education. I want to also acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship. As corporate elites take hold. As corporate elites take hold over the very pipes through which our information flows, journalism that serves the people becomes increasingly harder to come by, yet ever more crucial. And what the people want is the truth. So if at any time you hesitate to utter the word genocide or remain silent in the face of blatant lies, remember to ask yourself, who is this for? I hope you choose us.
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So that's this. And the next day he was fired, by the way. But your thoughts?
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Well, look, these journalists who have failed for as long as I can remember to recognize their own biases and work against them are a huge problem. The public sees it. You see, the polling on this is overwhelmingly showed that people think the news is slanted left. It is. It has been for a long time. It's not something you can't resist, but it's there. And these correspondents say, they pompously assert that there's no bias. Of course there's bias. And there has been for as long as I can remember. And it's worse now than it's ever been. And the idea that CBS News in 60 Minutes or somehow not part of that is nuts.
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And just to think, too, is like, CBS just gave you this huge scholarship and then you destroy the network. If you really felt as though CBS is destroying its reputation, why are you taking the money? And then everyone applauds. And the thing is, they're not saying we want balance. They're actually saying we want it the old way, where our points of view get to last. And now they're being challenged. I don't know. Bari, Weiss, Britt. I don't think she's a conservative. I just think she's trying to be palatable to a bigger audience.
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This is the thing. When Fox News got started, people thought, there's no room. There's no room for yet another network. CNN was dominant. MSNBC, now, MSNBC, was just getting started. And there was a thought that we had no chance. A writer from the New York Times referred to Fox News as Rupert Murak's imaginary friend, as if we couldn't exist. Now we're number one dominant because there was a view among a huge audience that the news that they were getting from the mainstream media was unbalanced and out of phase with what they saw as reality. We gave them an option. We gave them a choice, and they flocked to us. These journalists at these mainstream media outlets refused to acknowledge that there's an audience out there that is different from the one they've been appealing to and larger. And the result is that, you know, they're working one side of the street when there's a huge alternate audience that they could be appealing to and don't.
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Yeah, I'm very curious to see what's gonna happen. And also the other thing is, I don't care if I'm waiting tables or if I'm lucky enough to be an anchor. You gotta know who your boss is. You gotta be respectful. Somehow I think that sometimes these guys and these women might think they're bigger than they. Bigger than their. Than the people that pay your salary. I just don't believe that they have
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a view of themselves as these stars of journalism who are upholding the highest standards. And of course, there is a cheering section for them. You heard it in the audience applause and that soundbite you just played. But the idea that that's, you know, that turns out that they're appealing to A narrow and narrower, narrower and narrower slice of the potential audience. I think what Barry Weiss is trying to do is to say, look, we're not reaching the broadest audience we could and we should be. That doesn't mean you slant the news to the left or right. It means if you play it straight, be fair and interesting. And that's the challenge always to be interesting and yet be fair. You can enlarge your audience instead of seeing it shrinking, which is what's happening with network news. The audience overall, no matter who's first place, has been shrinking.
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Brit, always great to have you on. It's very interesting times. And you always, you always have a fantastic take. Bridge Hume, thank you.
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Thanks, Brian. Glad to talk to you, buddy.
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You got it. Back in a moment. Both sides, all opinions, it's Brian Kilmeade.
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If we were hiding him behind the
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scenes, why did we ask the Trump team for the debate? I mean, we were the ones that proposed it. Like if we, if that were true, you know, why did we put him out there?
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So you don't think that he was protected?
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No, I don't know. I don't think he was protected again.
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But does he believe to this day
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that he would have defeated Donald Trump in that election?
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I believe he would have beat Donald
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Trump in that election.
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What do you say to that? Number one, she's right about that. I always wondered why they called for early debates and they were willing to give up on the, you know, the debate. They have the debate council that decides where the debate's gonna be and who's gonna be the moderators. Trump wanted to get rid of that and he said no problem. And I remember him saying, let's, let's debate in June. And remember Trump was on trial and he said, I hear you free on Wednesdays, cuz Trump was on trial in New York City. So on that point, she's right. But when she says she's never seen him like that before, that's not right. When she said that he was just slowing down a little bit, she didn't see anything else. That's not right. We know that's blatantly not right. We also know that they didn't like Kamala Harris and then was interesting and I don't have time now. But they read back an excerpt from Kamala Harris book where they talked about Doug and the imoff saying that they put the vice president in impossible positions and never gave her any responsibility but gave her impossible jobs. You know what one of those jobs was? Sealed the border. You know who sealed the border right away? President Trump. So it was not an impossible job. It was one of the many jobs J.D. vance has been given a job on fraud. How's he doing on that? Pretty good, right? I wrote a little song to remind you. Choice hotels get you more of the experiences you value. The Cambria Hotel's got it all. A rooftop bar.
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Bring a date, your squad or even your mom. Book direct@ChoiceHotels.com from high atop FOX News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmeade.
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All right.
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In midtown Manhattan, heard around the country, around the world, the Brian Kilmeade Show. By the way, we have a YouTube channel now, YouTube.com@the Brian Kilmeade Show. We put great stuff on there. Everybody's talking about it. I want you to be a part of it. So check it out every day. WFDF is a new station. We have a brand new affiliate, AM910 to Detroit. We can't wait for for everyone in Detroit to hear the show we are now at. June 1st was our 16th year on the air. So that's fantastic. This hour, Ian o' Connor is going to break down not only the World cup that's finally upon us one week away, he's also going to break down one of the most intriguing NBA Finals matchups in a long time. Knicks back trying to win their first title in 53 years, taking on the San Antonio spurs with the most exciting player I think since Shaq entered the league. Senator Rick Scott's also standing by. There could be a new governor in Republican governor in Florida. We'll talk about that. As well as important legislation to finally fund the dhs. Hopefully we'll get passed this week. But first, let's get to the big three. Number three, if we were hiding him behind the scenes, why did we ask the Trump team for the debate?
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But does he believe to this day
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that he would have defeated Donald Trump in that election?
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I believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that election. You're the only one. Joe Biden's embarrassing book tour continues or I should say Jill's. We will tell you how the former president resurfaced and believes he's lost what's left of his mind, disputing in real time the utter premise of the book.
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Number two, final question, in order to get to that second phase, are you willing to release sanctions or release frozen
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money that the United States withholding from Iraq? Right now, everything that's been discussed with them is that any sanctions relief is condition based. That is the secretary of state testifying today and yesterday. Major military action in Iran as the blockade is working and so is our ability to repel Iran's attacks. It's about time we go back to a full scale fight, I believe, if not now, November for sure, as President Trump faces some tough choices. Number one, this idea that I don't
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represent Democrats and Republicans and Independents.
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Anyone that's just a Los Angeles citizen that wants basic quality of life, I'll be able to show that in five months. That is. Spencer Pratt. Primary results today as we wait for all to count their ballots in Los Angeles. Examine the matchups. We will do that and what it means for the midterms as controversy continues to swirl around one Democrat they thought was a spy. Excuse me, they thought was a star. And Bernie Bros. Won't let go of. Let's bring in Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. Colonel, welcome back.
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Hey, Brian, it's great to be with you. And greetings college students over on a tour of Arlington National Cemetery.
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You're doing a tour with college students, so that brings you back to Washington. Who are the students? Like where they found?
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They're with. Yeah, they're with the Young America's Foundation. Yeah. And they're from all over the country. And tonight we'll take off and head over to the 82nd anniversary of D Day, four days and then get.
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Yeah. Colonel, we have trouble getting listening to you. Like you cut, you're cutting in and out just a little bit. But you said you're celebrating the anniversary of D Day and you're going to jump again there, right?
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Well, I won't be able to jump this year because I had hip replacement surgery in December and you have to have jumped within six months of going over to Normandy. And I wasn't able to do that. So I'll skip this year and I'll do it again next year.
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I want to bring you to a candidate in Maine. Now, if I told you this candidate has a Nazi tattoo of a Nazi guard in a concentration camp. Praise Hamas. The Hamas raid that killed five Israelis, embraced political violence, suggested fighting fascism with guns in the middle of a sexting scandal called rural Americans racist and stupid. Identified as a communist and socialist, downplays a woman being raped and then mocked a Purple Heart soldier and said he should have died at the hands of the Taliban. If I told you that candidate is being protected by the Democrats and thought to be the one to beat Susan Collins, would you tell me?
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I would tell you that that's who the modern day Democrat Party is. It is a Marxist Islamist party. I mean, all you have to do is look at the person that they just nominated in New Jersey last who was a defense witness in the first World Trade tower bombing attack for the blind sheikh. So you know, you look at the person that's running for Senate in Michigan and who he's hanging out with. You look how they coddled this Hasan Piker who talks about political violence. So America has a choice to make. It is very clear the direction that the Democrat Party in America is going and whether or not this country, which is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary, wants them to be in charge of this country.
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And I think Democrats in the middle of a civil war. Are you getting that sense?
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Yeah, I do get that sense. As a matter of fact, when you go over and listen to some of their commentary based upon this Jill Biden and what she is doing, they really are struggling in the direction that they want to head into and they kind of want the past to be gone, but yet they see what is happening with this new wave of this like you saw the Bernie Bros, the Squad and this leftist lurch and they really don't know what to do because those establishment Democrats, Rahm Emanuel or those types, they don't have a future in this party.
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Right.
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And he does say, you know, women, men should not be in women's sports and we gotta be stop getting where get out of people's bedrooms and get focused on the classroom. But he's not really resonating on any of the polls. It's kind of strange because he has been around forever now. He's got the best personality in the world. But the person you are talking about is Adam Hamaway. He is a doctor, an Egyptian born, former combat surgeon, won the Democratic primary. Homo previously volunteered with a group in Bosnia that had been linked to Al Qaeda. He's a vocal critic of Israel, wants to deny Israel the Iron Dome. He says we should cut off all aid to Israel. He's supported by the Squad and also socialist Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna. So I'm just shocked that this guy won by I think 12 points.
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This is the mainstream of the Democrat Party. Today. And you kind of have to ask yourself, who are the folks going out there and voting for these individuals? You even look at the person running to be the chief county administrator down in Harris county, which is Houston, Texas, Leticia. I forget her last name, but again, the comments that she has made, and she's being backed by the Council for American Islamic Relations, which is an unindicted co conspirator in the largest Islamic terrorism funding case in the history of the United States of America, the Holy Land foundation case. So they're not hiding their associations, they're not hiding their positions, what they stand for. And as long as this, this Democrat contingent continues to go out and support these far leftists, these Marxists, these Islamists, they're going to continue down this path. America has a decision to make in this midterm election.
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So Fayez Shakir, who used to work with Bernie Sanders as an analyst on our channel, I they just read to everything I just read to you about Platner. Graham Platner. They read it to him and this is what his response was. Cut 23. So a lot of these wealthy elites
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would not like to see Graham Platner become the next senator and therefore are trying to make him out to be the next Adolf Hitler.
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Really? Is he or is he making himself out to be that?
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Well, this is who he is making himself out to be. And it's the truth. I mean, you know, after Ken Paxton won the Texas primary runoff, you know, you turn over to Ms. Now and all they could do is talk about, you know, how bad Ken Paxton was, was scandals and things of this nature. But yet when you have someone like a Graham Platner who has an SS concentration camp soldier tattoo on his chest, but yet that's okay, that's acceptable. So this moral relativism that they have in the Democrat party, it's very disturbing. It's highly disconcerting.
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So I want to bring you to Iran. What do you want to happen next?
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Look, we got to put the pressure back on Iran. This whole thing about lifting sanctions, whatever, that regime has to be gone before anything thing is done. We've got to control the Strait of Hormuz and not talk about them opening up the strait for us to and the rest of the world to have access to, we need to cut them off from their oil and gas revenues. That's the means by which they support themselves. So we've got to regain the momentum. I mean, it's kind of like when my Atlanta Falcons were up 28 to three the middle of the third quarter against New England Patriots and they ended up losing in halftime, I mean in overtime. So you do not let up. You do not take your foot off the gas pedal.
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All right, so here's the toughest question. In what game does the spurs get eliminated by the Knicks?
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Look, let me tell you something. I'm living down here in Texas. I saw you and Lawrence going back and forth. Lawrence is not going to have to eat sardines. You will be eating barbecue and you'll be wearing a San Antonio spurs tie. They have an incredible alumni, they have incredible history. I think they're going to hold off the Knicks. It'll go to game six.
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Game six, that means would end in New York. I don't see that happening.
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Just get ready to cry, brother.
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Just keep in mind they're the hottest team, I think, in the one of the hottest teams in the history of the playoffs. Eleven straight, two straight sweeps now.
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And as Lawrence told you today, does that talk about the New York Knicks or what does that say about the competition they were up against?
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Wow. You minimize this tremendous run from a number three seed. That's incredible. All right. We'll see what happens.
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Colonel, I'm just, I'm just saying you got to look at it both sides.
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No, you don't. It's the Knicks have not won in 53 years. I do not have to look at both sides.
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Look, I remember Willis Reed and all those great teams y' all had. We'll see.
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Well, the problem is you're referring to 1973. That's the problem. That's what you remember. Colonel, thank you. Thanks so much. It's great what you're doing with those kids and Normandy as you tour Arlington. Appreciate it.
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God bless. I'll send you pictures, brother.
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You got it. Thanks so much. That's Lt. Col. Allen west when we come back, Rick Scott, the glistening the Brian Kill Me Show. Big guests, bold opinions, better information.
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This is the Brian Kilmeade show,
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The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmeade at the of the day end.
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End of the day right now, even
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though they say they have walked away, those negotiations are still going on. If Iran knows that if they walked away from negotiating table, that would put the United States in a position where
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they would have no choice but to restart kinetic operations against them.
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And if combat operations ensue, the United States this next time is not going
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to hesitate, not going to pause. President Trump is going to utterly destroy them and then begin to take down
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the infrastructure that supports their economy so that it will literally drop them to
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the knees in addition to what we are trying to do with the blockade that's in place.
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Commander Kirk Leopold weighing in about what's next with Iran as we hear talks are ongoing. But then CENTCOM announced they defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missile and drones, carried out more self defense measures in Iran, US Forces and shot down multiple waves of those drones fired at the US military assets in Kuwait. But 64 were heard at a Kuwaiti airport there and it's been shut down. So what's going on here? Senator Rick Scott, Armed Services Homeland Committee and chairman of the subcommittee on sea power joins us now. Senator, what should be the next step for us?
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Well, I don't want to underestimate what Trump's trying to do here and his ability to get a deal done. I think he's doing everything he can to get the regime in a position that they have no choice but to give up their nuclear ambitions. And so I hope the diplomacy works. I know he doesn't want to put more troops in harm's way. I know he doesn't want to destroy more the country of Iran. But I personally believe that's what's going to happen. I don't, I don't personally see how it could happen. But don't underestimate Trump. He's, he's gotten a lot of stuff done, but there's, I just don't see how they're ready to capitulate yet.
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Do you worry for example, that the blockade by all accounts is working? You know, we have destroyed their, we have over 13,000 strikes. One of the things we've done is destroyed their ability to make more ballistic missiles, which has always been a goal. It's going to take them at least three years in order to do that. You know, the Navy, but they still have the Mosquito Navy we blew up since 40 of those Boston Whaler type boats which are very lethal. But in the big picture, if we have $6 a gallon gas, Senator Scott, people feel as though it's gonna be a so called bloodbath, political bloodbath in November. You feel that worry?
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Well, look, none of us wanna see high gas prices. I grew up in a poor family, so high gas prices are immediate impact on families and it hurts a few, you know, our poorest and middle income fast and the worst. But let's all remember we don't want to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon. What this president's doing is doing what other presidents failed to do and that's protect American lives. And so I think we've got to give the President time here to try to make sure we get a deal. But I think at some point he's going to say, look, they're wasting our time. So we'll, you know, something's going to happen to get oil prices down by November. Either it's going to open a blockade and they give up their nuclear ambition or will annihilate them and they'll give up their own nuclear ambition.
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So how much is. So as we look right now at what you guys are tackling, is this going to be the week you finally fund dhs?
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I sure hope so. I think we should be doing it tonight. I mean, first off, we made a big mistake by not funding it back in January. We should never have funded all the Democrat priorities and thousands of earmarks without funding all of homeland security. So hopefully today we'll get to to do the. What we have to do is which is a voterama, which means it'll take only Republican votes because Democrats are not going to vote for it. So we all have to stick together and we got to get ICE and CBP funded. This is ridiculous that they've not been funded for now what, over 100 days. We've got to support law enforcement. We know Democrats don't care about law enforcement. And by the way, looking around the country, we got illegals, criminals that are killing Americans. We had just in California some illegal killed two ladies and infant. I mean this has happened, it seems like every day how the Democrats support this stuff, you know, support these illegal criminals. I don't get it. And look at what's happened up in New Jersey with the riots there. No Democrats calling them out for that. Matter of fact, one senator went up and went there. So I just don't get where the Democrats are. Their positions are toxic for Americans. They want open borders, they want to keep criminals here. They want to destroy our economy with higher and higher taxes. So their ideas are horrible for this country. That's why I think we're have a great November.
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Do you really? Some people are worried about the Senate where you have Susan Collins trailing by eight to one of the most flawed candidates and unlikable candidates I can remember. But Democrats think he's all man with the Nazi tattoo. I'm talking about platinum with the sexting scandal, hoping that saying a purple heart winner should be dead and just mocked him and it goes on and on and on, but yet your Senate colleagues, Democratic Senate colleagues, are sticking by him. Why?
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I mean that's who they are now. I mean think about they're sticking by a guy like that. They're sticking by the candidate up in Michigan that's clearly anti Semitic. Their campaign with Hasan Piker who wants me murdered went to Cuba to support the Cuban regime and was every. So let's all this is what the election is going to be about this November. Do you want the radical Democrat. There's not a non radical Democrat anymore. I mean they all support these anti Semitism, anti Israel open borders support criminals destroying our families. That's who they support today. And so that's why I think this November as long as our candidates run good races we will win.
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I guess the best chance to flip would be Mike Rogers and you used to do this. He would control the committee there. Mike Rogers over in Michigan, John Sununu over in New Hampshire, perhaps Susan Collins to hold. But are you but Ossoff thought to be the most vulnerable. Do you still think he's vulnerable in Georgia?
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Absolutely. So I campaigned on Monday with Rick Jackson who's running for governor down there. If Rick can win he's going to create a lot of energy for the governor's race which will give us energy for the Senate race. So I think we'll, you know we got, we got good candidates in the Senate race so one of those two will be our Republican candidate. Both can win but I think the fact that, that if Rick is our candidate he will bring on, he will bring the Republican votes in historically whoever if a Republican governor win, Republican senators win.
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We got 20 seconds left. Are you going to support Byron Donalds for governor?
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Absolutely. I think Byron's working hard and he's going to be a wonderful governor.
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Okay. And we'll see what's going to happen on the other side. Since your time Florida has become a red state. Are you convinced?
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Oh absolutely. When I got elected in 2010 there are 560,000 more Ds now I think it's 1.5 million more hours.
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I know and more are coming, believe me. I'm in New York and everyone's packing up as we speak. Thanks so much Senator Rick Scott. Appreciate it. Brian Ko back with Ino Conor. Next as we preview the big Nick spurs series talk a little World Cup. He's so busy he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kill me. Jalen Brunson we've said it over and
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over again has changed the direction and the perception of the Knick franchise and
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Proctor will just dribble it out.
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Chance of let's go Knicks.
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It's over.
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Believe it Nick fans, for the first time in 27 years the new York
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Knicks are going to the NBA Finals. The dream season continues in hopes of ending a decade's long long championship drought. Are very much alive.
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And believe me, that was an away game. But there were so many Knick fans on the road in Cleveland. It sounded and same thing with Philadelphia. They sounded like it was a Nick home game when they were away. I don't know if it's going to be the same thing in game one in San Antonio tonight but I think it's going to be a blockbuster ratings because number one San Antonio's got the rich history. They got a 7 foot 5 inch center who's only going to get better. The most impactful player maybe to come into league since Shaq. But Ian o' Connor knows more. Columnist at the Athletic six time New York Times best selling author and has a great column out today for Mike Brown's Knicks. It may be now or never to win an NBA title. Ian, your thoughts about this game one of the of the seven game series?
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Hey Brian, great to be with you. I think it's really important for the Knicks to continue to play from the head obviously with the 11 game winning streak. If they can set a tone in game one, I think that would be very important for them. Now if they lose and they come back and win game two, go back to the Garden in New York City one one I think they're fine. But obviously the spurs are favored. I actually think the Knicks are going to win this series. But certainly it wouldn't be a shock to see Wembanyama win his first of what might be many championship rings.
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Right. And he is somebody who's not only tall, you know, and quick, but he's so athletic. This is a phenomenal athlete. He's not just a big body like Shaq. Looked like pure muscle when he came in the league. And Ewing raw strength. But this guy looks like athlete.
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Yeah, he really is. And Shaq of course was all about power and just being an old school traditional center underneath the basket. We've never seen anything like Wemby the way he could shoot the ball from range. I mean sometimes Brian, when he takes a three he looks as comfortable as Steph Curry pulling up from the logo. I mean it's amazing. And see the way he handles the ball. And we have never ever seen a player like Victor Wembanyama. And so the Knicks have to deal with that Now. They did beat San Antonio twice out of three games this year. During the regular season, of course, we all know the regular season. It's not the playoffs. So everything has changed. And it'll be fascinating to watch and listen. The Knicks, only two championships, championships in their history, came at the expense of Wilt Chamberlain, who was really the first Goliath in the NBA. Now they have to beat this new age giant, and I do think they have a pretty good chance to do that.
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But why do you think this is now or never for them? I'm under the belief too, this isn't the beginning of a dynasty. This is a team that's been put together, got steadily better and better. Add a piece here and there, but it's not. I look at Oklahoma and I go, that team's going to be contending for 10 years. I don't think I could look at the Knicks and say that either. Is that really the premise of your article?
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Yeah, and I think I've just been around doing this for 40 years where there are occasions where you saw a team that was progressing through the playoffs year by year, and then of course, they win a championship and you think, okay, they're going to win two or three over the next five years, and it never happens. And that's part of it. It's like, like this is an opportunity where they are really. Their starting five is completely healthy, which is kind of rare this time of year. Obviously Mitchell Robinson coming off the bench, has the broken pinky finger. He's got a playthrough, and that's significant. But this is going to be maybe the only time the entire starting five is really fully healthy. They're playing great. They've won 11 straight playoff games. This is the.
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They've had eight days off. Right?
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Right. And you know, this, that could be a problem, too. So they have to manage that. Going into the Cleveland Series, Game 1, they came out rusty. So we'll see how that plays out. But the spurs are very young. This is their first time around. I looked it up. I think Brunson, Jalen Brunson has played 81 playoff games in his career. When Binyamin has played in 17, it's. The Knicks have been in the playoff wars. The spurs again, this is their first trip through. So this is a golden opportunity to win a championship. It's been 53 years. I was there in 99. And listen, when they got to the
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finals and lost in five and lost
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to the spurs in five, and Tim Duncan, and that was Duncan's first of five rings. So this might be the beginning for Wemby but after that 99 finals, I figured, okay, the Knicks will get back. And they never got back. It's 27 years. So the Knicks have to treat this opportunity like they're never going to get it again. And that was the point of my piece.
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All right, so here's Mike Brown after winning the Eastern Conference. Remember, a lot of it's pretty unbelievable that the Knicks got to the conference finals and fired their coach, Tom Thibodeau, because he wasn't using his bench. Among the reasons. And they will all be heard, banged up and exhausted by the end of the year. And it happened two straight years and they made a change. Here's Mike Brown, cut 48.
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What makes this Knicks team so special?
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It's just the players.
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The players that we've assembled are Mr. Dolan and Leon assembled.
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They're just great, great human beings. And they're obviously fantastic basketball players.
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People always ask me to compare the teams that I've been with to the finals.
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And the only way I knew how
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to do it, because they're different human beings, was to put some intangibles up there. Every single one of the guys on the team has sacrificed.
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Every single one of the guys on the team has a competitive spirit.
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Every single one of the guys on the team's connected.
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Every single one of the guys believe
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in the people other in the process.
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And they all hold me and each other accountable.
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Just a heck of a group.
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And yeah, I mean, it's true. It took a while to build this group up. 53 years since they've been there. And so all these years since they got to the finals again. But Mike Brown did. Did, you know, had a reputation of being a good, I guess, teacher. Was an assistant with Golden State when he got to the finals, I guess LeBron had him fired. But he was known as too nice of a guy, you say?
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Yeah, he was. But Joe Torre was also known as too nice when he got the Yankees job in 95 and then had that work out. So there's a lot of similarities there between Buck Showalter, who was the Yankees manager in 95, and Tom Thibodeau, who obviously was the Knicks coach up and through last season. They were guys who cleaned up the organizational mess, did all the dirty work, and then somebody else came in and got them over the top. So that's what Mike Brown has done. I give him credit, Brian. In the first round series against Atlanta, the Knicks were down two games to one and they were in trouble if they lost that series. Mike Brown gets fired. No Question about it and I think they blow up the roster. He changed the entire offense and started running it through Karl Anthony Towns, his center. He turned him into a point guard then that showed me that Mike Brown is fearless. He did not worry about the consequences of failure there or getting fired. He's been fired four times. So I give him a lot of credit for making a bold move for the betterment of the team in the middle of a winner house playoff series. And that's one of the main reasons why the Knicks are today where they are right here in San Antonio.
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But when you look at Cole Anthony Towns, he was a one way player who always got ridiculed. They say dumb fouls and he asked to be that point center, didn't he?
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Yeah, he did. And listen, listen, you got to give Brown credit. A player came to him with a good idea, albeit a risky one, and he went with it and it worked. And in the Cleveland series they went away from it because it wasn't going to work against the Cavaliers. And so one of the reasons Brown got hired and Tibbs wasn't brought back is Brown is flexible. He's a collaborative person. And that's what James Dolan and Leon Rose, the team president, that's what they want it. And Tom Thibodeau was not that kind of coach. And honestly, when they made that move, I would have kept Tibbs because he's a very good coach. I would have played it safe. But they didn't. And the gamble has paid off in a very big way. And I was 8 years old the last time the Knicks won a championship. Another reason why I wrote that column today, it's just, it's time, it's time for them to finally break through and this is their moment.
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I think, you know, it was brought up to me yesterday about New York. So for people listening around the country, New York's got two teams for everything. And you're a Met or Yankee fan, you're a Ranger or Islander fan, you're a Giant or Jet fan. But when it comes to the Knicks, the Nets aren't really got that rivalry that the Mets and Yankees and all those others have. So that's why this is almost a unifying team where you're not people. When you have two, when you have two teams in a city, you're always divided. Oh, that's. You guys are in the championship. But this is the one team where it feels like like everybody, everybody's pulling for this one team.
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That's a great point, Brian. And my colleague at the Athletic Fred Katz said if the Knicks were running for office, they would run unopposed. That they're the only team in New York where that's the case. And you're right, the Nets just don't have a fan base, a big fan base, not that relevant. So it really is. If you're a basketball fan in the. In the Tri State area, you're basically a Knicks fan. So it is unique that way. And you feel the energy around the city. It's unlike anything else. And I remember in the 90s when the Knicks were knocking on the door for a championship every year, they didn't get through, but it really felt like they were bigger than the Yankees who were winning championships. And I believe their TV ratings on the NFC network were actually better. So this is an unbelievable New York City is an unbelievable basketball town. When the Knicks are good. The problem is for many years, since 1999, they have been terrible. So now they're back. And obviously, Brunson, a lot of people don't think a small player can be your best player on a championship team. I disagree with that and we'll see how it plays out.
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But he's not bringing the ball up as much. And I think that's a big change too. Where last year I pretty much predicted the offense, get it to Brunson, find a way to back in. If he doesn't shoot, he gets fouled. And if he doesn't get fed, doesn't get the foul, the other team gets the ball. Even though they had success, he was so predictable. They are less predictable now. I want you to hear from Brunson and I will want to talk about him. Cut 49.
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Your teammates always talk about how you make them better.
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Just how have they helped you become
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this conference finals mvp?
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They give me the confidence. They let me be me. I think most importantly, we all believe in each other from top to bottom. It's an honor to play with them. Honestly.
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What are you most proud of about this group?
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Resilience.
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I think that we've been able to
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stay focused, stay composed. It starts at the top of the organization, starts with Mr. Dolan, front office, coaches, all the way down to us. I mean, like I said, from top to bottom, it means something. He's a number two pick for Dallas and was not starting a lot of his career in Dallas before he chose the Knicks. Tell everybody about Jalen Brunson.
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He did. Amazing player in a lot of ways, Brian, and obviously the sun of Rick Brunson, now a Knicks assistant coach who played. He was a backup on that 99 Knicks finals team. And so, as the son of a coach, you could just see that on the court. And obviously got a great coach at Villanova in Jay Wright. One of the best to ever do it. And he doesn't do it with size, speed, or athleticism. He does it with his brain. He does it with amazing footwork and savvy and moxie and all those things. And, you know, he sort of carries himself the way Derek Jeter did in New York. I think he studied Jeter a little bit.
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Bit.
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But in a game that is dominated by bigger, faster, more athletic people, he is a legitimate superstar. And it is. Sometimes he gets off shots, and you're like, how did he get that shot to go? He's just an amazing player because he wasn't blessed with extreme physical skill, as you see most of the superstars in the NBA. The LeBron James types, you know, they're just different players. And Brunson didn't. He wasn't blessed with that kind of ability or size. And yet he finds ways to dominate games, particularly in the fourth quarter. So, yeah, I mean, the only small players who are lead superstars on championship teams were Steph Curry and Isaiah Thomas. And in the modern age of basketball, I can't really think of anybody else. I think Brunson certainly has a great chance to join that group, so it's interesting.
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He could have went anywhere. It took less money to go. The Knicks were accused of paying too much for him, and then now. Then he ended up taking less money than he needed to stay with them and leave them cap room, which. Which is pretty amazing. But there's video out there of him as a kid at Nick Games as a little kid. And number two, training with his dad, who was relentless with him, worked him hard, and his dad said, I would have backed off at any moment if he said he didn't want to play, but he wanted to get better. How much he had to use his left hand, how many foul. How many layups he had to make before he could leave the court. Have you seen some of that video? That home video?
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Oh, yeah, I've seen that multiple times. And, you know, when I see that video, I think of, yeah, obviously some people watching it would think, like, wow, Rick Brunson is really putting his young kid through hell. And Tiger woods has said this in the past. A lot of people thought that of his father, but Tiger said, I was pushing my dad to take me back to the range to hit another 300 golf balls. He wasn't Pushing me. I was doing it. And I think there was some of that in that relationship with Jalen and Rick Brunson. Jalen was really driven to be great, and he had to work harder than most people because he didn't have some of the physical skills that they had. And he really is. It's a credit to him for putting in that kind of work for most of his life. And everybody says, well, you know, Jalen shouldn't win this game, he shouldn't win that championship. But he always finds ways to beat people who are allegedly more talented than he is. And look, he's going to have to do it again in this series against Wemby, who's 7 4, 7 5. When he gets in the lane, he's got to adjust his shot. He's got to use that amazing footwork to just get shots off. And we'll see if he can pull it off.
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Yeah, we'll see. And then we'll see. We'll see if they have any rust or they just going to say, man, are we rested and looking at tonight's game. The Knicks are really, even though they've won 11 in a row and you want to keep that streak going, they're really playing with house money in a way. Or do you view it differently?
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I just think, well, they have to get one of two here. I don't think you want to go back to the. Obviously you don't down 02. You could win two games in New York and then all of a sudden you feel like, all right, we have momentum, but it's still San Antonio's home court advantage in those final three games. If you can get one here, particularly tonight. I just think it really sets a great tone for the rest of the series. You make the spurs play from behind. It's not absolutely necessary to win tonight. I just think it would be a very good idea.
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Ian o', Connor, columnist with the Athletic, is here. Six time New York Times best sell. Ian, the amount of celebrities at the Garden has always been the case, even when they're bad. You've done as many, but now it's just packed. And the President of the United States is going to be in New York on Monday. Could you describe what the world's most famous arena is going to be like?
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Yeah, well, Dalton and Trump, they've been friends for a long time, so I'm not surprised that the President will be there. It's going to be electric. I remember the way it was in 1994 and 99 when the Knicks were in the Finals, remember? 94. Game 5 was the night of the O.J. simpson chase. The Knicks were taking a 3 to 2 Finals lead for their first championships, though, right? No, but they, they end up losing game six and seven. They won game five. But that night in the Garden, most of the fans were following the OJ Simpson chase. It was the most surreal sporting event I've ever covered in my life. And so, yeah, I think the Garden will be absolutely electric because a lot of Knicks fans feel, the older Knicks fans feel like this team reminds them of the Red Holtzman Knicks, who won in 19, 70 and 73. They share the ball, they hit the open man, they play defense. That's Clyde Frazier, Willis Reed, Dave DeBusscher, Bill Bradley, those people. So I think there's a love affair between the city and the team. And so games three and four and six, I think the atmosphere will be off the charts.
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All right, Ian. And we'll see if the ratings are reflected in that. Ian o', Connor, we hope to talk to you along the way. I always love having you on. Appreciate it, Ian.
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Hey, same here, Brian. Take care.
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See ahs.com contracts for coverage details, including limit amounts, fees, limitations and exclusions. Information. You want truth? You demand this. This is the Brian Kilmeade Show. I've talked to many, many former Biden aides that were around at the time, and they feel that a lot of
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this book is an attempt to really rewrite history in a more complimentary light
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than maybe the Bidens, that maybe the reality is right. You think Alex Thompson talking about Jill Biden's ridiculous tour where she. This is the craziest thing. Did you hear the story, Alison? That but she got up in the morning at around 5 o' clock to prepare for grammar school and she didn't even. She just thought that Kamala Harris won the election. And then she put on the TV and realized, Joe, that Donald Trump won. And I ran upstairs, said, joe, why didn't you tell me? And she goes, yeah, she lost. There's not a syllable in that sentence. Do you think for a second the current first lady wouldn't stay up and understand that Donald Trump won the election? And does she not have a phone like everyone else in this country that you see the alerts nonstop, Right? Oh, I don't know who's going to be the next president. My fifth graders have to learn vowels tomorrow. Which by the way, does she really need to teach. I have to get tomorrow is a the election day to find out who's going to replace my husband coming up. But I got a big day with my fifth graders. Come on. From the FOX News radio studios in midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing, growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmeade, everyone. So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeade show. We have a lot going on this hour. It's all going to be coming your way while we're watching Marco Rubio testify on Capitol Hill for the second straight day. The talent is unbelievable. His knowledge of what's going on out there, especially in times of war. You have Democrats who are running for president trying to score on you and it's just not working. I'll play you some clips to give you an idea. Martha MacCallum at the bottom of the hour. Karl Rove standing by. Right now, we've got great news. WFDF AM910 in Detroit is now going to be airing our show. We continue to add affiliates, added one in Texas yesterday or excuse me, last week. And it's 9:10am, Detroit's news talk superstation. And you can always get us on YouTube. We post after the show. Go to YouTube.com the Brian Kilmeade show. So let's get to the biggest three. Number three, if we were hiding him behind the scenes, why did we ask the Trump team for the debate?
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But does he believe to this day
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that he would have defeated Donald Trump in that election?
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I believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that. Okay, I'm going to ask Karl Rove that because no one else thinks so. All right. You have Kamala Harris not able to do it. But Don. But Joe Biden, who can't remember his name would do it. Please. He embarrassed himself last night to write into 92nd Street. Why next.
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Number two, final question, in order to get to that second phase, are you willing to release sanctions or release frozen
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money that the United States withholding from Iran?
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Right now, everything that's been discussed with
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them is that any sanctions relief is condition based. How about that Major military action in Iraq, Iran, as the blockade is working and so is our ability to repel Iran's attacks. However, they are scoring on the Gulf states. It's about time. In my view, we go back to a full scale fight, if not now, November for sure. As President Trump tries to salvage the midterms and take out an enemy.
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Number one.
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This idea that I don't represent Democrats and Republicans and independents, anyone that's just
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a Los Angeles citizen that wants basic
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quality of life, I'll be able to
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show that in five months.
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Primary results today, as we wait for all to count their ballots in Los Angeles, examine the matchups and what it means for the midterms as controversy continues to swirl around one Democrat they thought was a star. Now I think he's an anchor, but the Bernie Bros are standing by him. Karl Rove joins us now. Carl, first off, let's just talk about what's happening in May. Next week they're going to have a primary. Do you expect Graham Platner with all his problems? The latest is a secting scandal putting, you know, calling for the death of a Purple Heart recipient. I mean, just a number of controversies. Is he going to survive this?
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Well, yeah, because, you know, Janet Mills, the governor is on the ballot, but she withdrew. And my sense is that the primary will be dominated by the far left in Maine and they'll nominate this guy, you know, and, and really you have to sympathize with them to not know that you had a Nazi tattoo. Yeah, it happens to all of us in years. Happens to all of us. I mean, you know what, didn't you get a Totenkoff on your chest too? Is just a joke. I mean, you know. Yeah. And wear it for 18 years and never inquire into it. No. He's a walking disaster. Did you see the new thing? It turned out that he saw a picture of a bunch of Russian, excuse me, a bunch of German and Swedish infantrymen fighting the Russians in like 1941. And they're wearing the German helmets and he says, oh, really cool helmets. And I mean, this guy's, this guy is an embarrassment for the Democrats and, and they're stuck with him.
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But they say that they're, they're low on men and then losing the man vote. And this is their ticket to the man vote. Carl.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Let's, let's, let's have a guy who gets married in 2023 and by 2025 is sexting, as he said, up to six. The Oppo Research person in his campaign Said it was a dozen, but it was up to 6. And it's an issue between my wife and I, and we worked it out. And then takes Chris Kyle, an American hero, and slanders him, saying, well, he indiscriminately shot shot innocents, not terrorist fighters. And on what basis? On what basis? And I mean, to slander a man who wasn't there, who is an authentic American hero whose comrades in arms love the man. I mean, it's amazing.
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It is. And some of the other things that have emerged yesterday, we find out in the Iowa. And let's dig into this because I was something the Republicans gotta worry about. It does seems like they're losing a lot of the farm vote. And whether it's the tariffs or the Chinese not coming through in the soybeans, there's a sense that part of the president's base of the farmers is fracturing. And that could be trouble as Ashley Hinson gets the Republican nomination endorsed by the president against Josh Turek, who's a Paralympian. So your thoughts about this matchup?
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Well, first of all, each side has got their best candidate on the field. Ashley, she's terrific. He's got an inspiring story. He is the more moderate of the Democrats. He beat a guy who's a state senator from Iowa State City, which is the more blue part of the state. He comes from a suburban area around Des Moines where you got to win independents and Republicans in order to get elected as a Democrat. So we've both got our best candidates on the field. I think we ultimately prevail because I think Iowa has changed fundamentally. But you're right, look, if you're a farmer and you're right now engaged in planting, or you were engaged in planting not too long ago, a couple weeks ago, you're paying 563A gallon for diesel. That's a big, costly input.
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And fertilizer, right?
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Yeah, and fertilizer, even, you know, fertilizer is, you know, 20, 25% higher than it was last year. And where's diesel going to be in October when you're doing the harvest? And so, yeah, we've got to worry about this. You know, it's the Dakota is particularly North Dakota, that's more soybean country. You know, Iowa's more corn. But but you still got to worry about the cost of inputs.
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So this in the 12th district in New Jersey, I'm just st that Democratic Adam Hammaway has won their primary by about 10 points and he'll go against Greg Mealy but this is a very left wing district, okay, Democratic, but this guy was actually working with an interpreter for the blind Sheikh and a defense witness. He. He's the utter definition of in and around terror. He is anti Israel, he is pro Hamas. He's saying it's genocide. He wants to cut off the Iron Dome. I mean, the links to terror are everywhere. 25 years since the 911 attacks and he walks away with his primary win.
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Yeah, well, first of all, he got like 28% in a multi candidate race. New Jersey does not have a runoff provision. And you're absolutely right, he was a. Let's talk about this a little bit more for your new listeners. He is a defense witness in the trial of the blind Sheikh who was convicted of being involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. That's where they tried to bring it down by driving a truck full of explosives into the basement of the parking garage and blow it up. And the blind shake played an intimate role in that and went to prison and is still there, I think today.
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If he's dead.
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If he's. He's dead. Okay, so. Well, thank God he's still dead.
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So.
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But you know, here's his associate who claims, well, I did it as a youngster. Well, everything that you've done since then tends to indicate that those sympathies that you had with the blind shift handshake and with enemies of America still remain. And now you're going to be sitting in the halls of Congress, a guy who basically says Israel should not exist. And my sympathies have been with the terrorist advocates of revolution in the region and attacks on America.
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So I want to go to what's going on in Los Angeles. Still counting votes, but it looks like Spencer Pratt came in second and Karen Bass is locked up first. Here's Spencer Pratt on what he's going to do. Cut too.
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The next five months, I'm gonna have
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time to build out this team to show everybody the level of Democratic supporters
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that I have behind me, the heavy
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hitters that are in this room that are all behind me.
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And I think this idea that I
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don't represent Democrats and Republicans and Independents, anyone that's just a Los Angeles citizen
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that wants basic quality of life.
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I'll be able to show that in five months. I feel very confident that I am to continue to work hard, learn everything
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I need to learn, build my teams, show all the experience I'm going to surround myself with.
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Because that's a concern people have always noticed. I'm going to build that experience around
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and we have five months to put
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the best team the city could ever dream of around me. So what are his chances? Carl?
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Well, it's now one on one. There was another candidate who was further, much further to left than even Bass, but was critical of Baskin and Nithya Rahman. Yes, and he's got a shot. Look, he's a quirky guy. He's not a Republican. I love how everybody keeps saying Republican. He's an independent who has Republican support and Democrat support and independent support. I mean, he's absolutely right. The only way that he got this far was by being above politics and being critical of her ability to manage the city. And she did a terrible job on the fires that cost him his home. But more important than that, over the years, she has done a terrible job on virtually every of being the governor, excuse me, being the mayor of this important city.
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So on the governor's race, on the governor's race, Steve Hilton looks like he's gonna walk away first and Xavier becerra will be second. But when he goes to just a one on one. I was watching CNN. One of their pollsters said there's only a 10% chance that Steve Hilton wins. Here is Steve Hilton Last night, cut 14. Change is coming to California. Change is coming to California and it's long overdue. Will it be change?
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Well, you gotta be. It's an uphill climb, but it, but first of all, he's in my column tomorrow, I refer to as the Brit versus the bland. I mean, Becerra is a really, I mean, he is a nothing burger. I mean, he was an adequate Attorney General. He was a, you know, sort of, he was there as the Health and Human Services secretary. But he is not an outgoing individual and not particularly effective. And so look, Hilton has a chance to do something which is to help build the Republican brand by being an interesting candidate who talks with candor about things that must be done to put California in the right direction. I mean, I was out there day before yesterday and in Monterey at Sylvia and Leon Panetta's final lecture series of the year. It was me, Rahm Emanuel, Tim Ryan, who ran against J.D. vance for the Senate in Ohio. And, and you know, we had a great time, but it was, and Hugh Hewitt was there. There were two, two on the right and two on the left. But what was universal was we had dinner beforehand with, and it's a generally, you know, moderately liberal place. I could not believe how many people were just, you know, California has blown it. You Know, I'm a Democrat, but. Or I'm an Independent, but there's a sense that the state is floundering under Gavin Newsom and that the choice that. That they had between, you know, Tom Starr spending 2. Over $200 million on advertising and Becerra, who is, you know, sort of, you know, for most Democrats, it was a better. A better choice simply because he wasn't spending so much money.
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So when did they say that? At lunch or did he say that publicly? I would love to hear Democrats be honest. Publicly.
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Well, you know, it's still a Democrat state, and so they're a little. I don't know how candid they are. But look, Pratt. Pratt's right. Look at Pratt's very interesting article the other day about his campaign and how, you know, he had. Has what there are of Republicans in the city. But you go. And it's a very atypical, apolitical crowd that involves small business people and all of the wonderful ethnic minorities that make up the mosaic of Los Angeles, particularly those that are small business people, landlords and so forth, shop owners and, you know, a significant number of sort of the Hollywood types to say enough is enough. So California is in such a bad shape that it strikes me if there's any chance for Hilton to win, it is by playing to his instincts. I've talked to him about this. His instinct is go big talk with candor about what it's ailing the state and what needs to be done to put it in the right place. Lay it out there in an energetic campaign of new ideas and fresh approaches. And you heard it. Change is coming. That's gonna be his message. Here's the changes.
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Don't you think he deserves a lot of credit? Nobody knew who he was. He's got a British accent and he's walking around, and next thing you know, he's in first. And I know it's a jungle primary, but still. Still, you could easily be in single digits. I look at the governor of San Jose, you know, he had all the money behind him, and the guy's got 5% of the vote. You know, known as the San.
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Yeah. Democrat. Democrat, mayor of San Jose, who's done a good job as mayor. Here's another interesting thing that's going on in California. San Francisco, 11th district. Yeah. Nancy Pelosi's district. The two more moderate candidates are in the runoff. The woman who. Excuse me. The guy who was the chief of staff at AOC comes in a distant third. And the. And the guy leading it is Scott wayner who, who is, you know, he's gay, you know, gay rights legislation as a state senator. But he is viewed as a moderate comparatively and particularly when it comes to fiscal affairs and management. And he runs first.
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Excellent. I. I just think that there's a sensibility. Common sense, I think, comes back, and I think Republicans can run on that, too.
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Yep.
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So I think that would be great. So, Carl, if you look in the big picture at where we're at now, if you're a Republican, how worried are you about holding the House and the Senate?
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Well, look, the history tells us that the odds of the Republicans keeping the House is slim. It depends upon a popular president. And, you know, I was there in 2002 and President Bush had a 61% approval rating. And even then it was damned hard. And then we had 1998 and 1990, 1934. Those are the only times in a midterm election where the White House party has picked up seats. Every other time it's lost. They don't have many that they can lose three seats and they're in the minority. So it's likely the Republicans will lose the House. The question is by how much, and that's going to be key. They helped themselves a little bit in redistricting. On the other hand, they made themselves a little bit more vulnerable by increasing the number of seats that lean or are likely Republican at the expense of, you know, putting a few more in the solid column, flipping some from Democrat to Republican. The Republicans are likely to keep the Senate again because the map benefits them. But if it's a wave election and the Democrats put up good candidates, then they'll, you know, they've got a good chance. In North Carolina, they were hoping they'd have a good chance. In Maine, they've been, you know, they got a guy named Dan Sullivan to run Dan Sullivan in order to mess up things in Alaska, where they have this weird ranked choice voting. You know, they've got the race in Texas that they're going to be spending an ungodly amount of. They're going to be buoyed by Iowa. Last night, Iowa, in the Cook Political Report, went from likely Republican to lean Republican. They're running, you know, in Montana and Nebraska, they're running independents. Now, they got whacked a little in Montana because in Montana, more people voted in the Democratic primary this year than voted in the Democratic primary four years ago in the midterm. And that, to me, was a deliberate statement by Montana Democrats. We're not going to roll over and let you let you Schumer force an independent, the president of Montana state down our throats. We're going to run a candidate of our own.
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Karl Rove. So much to talk about. We always love the quality time and your background shot gets better each and every time. And I know you've read every one of those books over your shoulder.
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Thank you, thank you. Thank you for letting me on to the being on the most spectacular TV radio program in America. And congratulations. Congratulations to those new congratulations to the new listeners in Detroit. Where'd you add in Texas next week? Because then if it's a little town I could go to, I can go to the diner and say I was on on the Kill Meat Joe.
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I'm not going to give it away yet. It's probably going to be a surprise. All right. I'm not going to give it away yet, but I will tell you where to go. So that'll be great. Karl Rove, thanks so much. Oh, wait a second. I can just got it right now. Brownwood. We are. Oh, Brownwood.
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Brownwood has the best fried chicken in America. I've been there's a I stopped there when I head west. There we go through Brown.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Congratulations.
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We got a home station for you. Call Rove. Thanks so much. Go get him. Back in a moment.
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It's Brian Kilmeade.
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From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmeade. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Everybody. Thanks to everyone who went to Reno, Nevada on Sunday. Saturday was great. We're going to be back in action July 11th in Pensacola, Florida. History, liberty and laughs. It's where I have a chance to bring history to life. So I have George Washington, Secret six, Thomas Jefferson, the Tripoli Pirates, Andrew Jackson, the Miracle of New Orleans, Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers. What happened after the Alamo? The president, freedom fighter, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass in the battle for America's soul. And then we have to Teddy and Booker T. Be able to bring that to life and bring you through the American story on year 250. And people really seem to be resonating. So I want you to go to briankilme.com and we're going to be streaming live on Fox Nation. But there's nothing like seeing me in person. Trust me, I'm with myself all the time. It is a thrill. Don't move. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kilmeade show.
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Final question, in order to get to that second phase, are you willing to release sanctions or release frozen money that
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the United States is withholding from around
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right now everything that's been discussed with
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them is that any sanctions now remember, sanctions come. There's international sanctions, there's congressional sanctions, there's executive sanctions. So some we can release and some we cannot. But any sanctions relief is condition based,
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which means it has to be in
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return for the reason why those sanctions were put in place in the first
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place, which is their nuclear program.
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So that is Marco Rubio yesterday, the Secretary of State, national security adviser and historian, archivist, everything. So he, he is testifying now in the House side, and we'll play some more of that in a little while. But that was Chris Murphy surprisingly, somewhat asking a question that would actually move the story forward as opposed to just saying Donald Trump is losing this war. Martha McCallum joins us now, anchor of the story that begins at 3:00 today. So, Martha, we're really in a holding pattern eight weeks in now to a ceasefire longer than the actual engagement. And last night there was a lot of fire back and forth. They're trying to get to us. We can't. So when they can't get to us, they go after one of the Gulf states and they hurt 64 her, 63 heard in Kuwait at the airport and it shut down.
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Yeah, I mean, it's very, I mean, I think it's a stretch to call this a continuing ceasefire at this point. We have a lot of kinetic action that's happening. The hit on the tanker and then these retaliatory hits that we saw in Bahrain overnight. I think Iran, from the beginning, everyone was surprised that Iran lashed out against these Gulf states. Right. Their neighbors. Why are they going after the Gulf states? They say they're going after US Bases in those places, but they're hitting, you know, civilians in the Kuwait airport. Can you imagine if you were in Newark airport this morning and it got bombed? I mean, this is a huge deal. I think they're trying to calculate how to drag this out. They like this ceasefire arrangement at this point because it allows them to continue to try to, to lock down the strait. The longer they have this ceasefire in place, the longer their ability to kind of bake into the system. In the strait that you go through us and there's an app now to help you get through the strait. If you're a tanker ship and you want to basically apply to Iran and this is how much it's going to cost, this is when you're going to go through. This is your time. The longer we allow that to go on, the more normalized it becomes. And I think that's a big part of what they're trying to do here. And I think they continue to hit the Gulf states. The Gulf states, I think now to turn on the United States to say, you know what, this is too much. We can't deal with this. Why did you start this whole thing? I think we have to continue to look at the big picture. This is a 47 year regime that has attacked Americans over and over again. If someone doesn't put an end to their bully domination in the region, it will go on like this forever.
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So I was talking to a higher up person and not the president, but talking to someone very close to the president last year night. He said the blockade is working and working extremely well. Iran's trying anything and everything to break through. They're extremely frustrated. It's not. And when they don't get through like last night, that's what causes them to hit out at the Gulf states. They think in two months Iran has to come to the table. But the president doesn't feel like he has two months. But right now he's worried about $6 a gallon gasoline. And in the big picture, this person said, try to save the President. No one's going to remember $6 gas, gasoline. If you can break this regime, if
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you can break y.
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If you can break the regime. And there is people close to the president, like the vice president that wants this to end tomorrow. Yesterday I should say. And those are the people close to him and the people that could actually explain how it won't. Like Cooper. Admiral Cooper is not talking to the President every day. He's not in those meetings. The DNI Tulsi Gabbard was never in a meeting. She missed like 100 meetings. Not invited. While others were in there talking about what needs to go forward. And the president's listening to all the of of it and then deciding what to do. And he says multiple times he was close to just going back full bore. At the very last minute was a golf call or a call from an aide that changed his mind. So it's a really tough position the President is in right now. But I do think that people have to emphasize 13,000 strikes on their military infrastructure. 8,000 from the Israelis, 13,000 from Hamas. You should keep in mind they cannot make ballistic missiles. A lot of their stuff is buried and damaged. And they don't have water. They only have two hours of electricity. Everyone's forgetting how much damage has been done to Iran already.
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I think it's a great point And I think that, you know, the problem is that the only thing that the Iranian leadership cares about is the Iranian leadership. They'll figure out ways to get what they need to survive. I'm sure they have war, water. They don't care about the condition of the people in the country. But I think all of the things that you're pointing to have undermined and knocked the legs out from underneath this regime in a way that I think we all hope could lead. And I don't think people should give up on this could lead to an uprising of the Iranian people. And I sense the frustration that people have about why hasn't this happened already? A, they don't have weapons. B, that we haven't been able to supply anyone. The President doesn't want to supply the Kurds. He's not. He doesn't feel that they're a credible ally in this fight. But you look at the fall of the Soviet Union, for example, and I look at this from the big picture. I look at Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea is always in that picture to some extent. But right now, those three places, it's like dismantling a form of the Soviet Union in the current environment. These are enemies of the United States. These are places where. Where they can harass us, undermine our other policies around the globe in the Middle East, South America. So I think that it takes time, and I don't think people should lose hope that this regime can topple and that there could be a better future for the people of Iran. And I hope the Gulf states can hang in there. I hope that this constant barrage at the Gulf states, I think, is designed to wear them down, to make them nervous and to have them turn against us.
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So there's reason to believe that we can hear everything Iran saying, and it's reason to believe that the Gulf states have played on both sides of the fence. Outside the uae, The UAE seems to be our closest ally in the area. But they've been. They spend. Their whole culture is horse trading. That's how they exist. That's right, though we should not think we have a true friend in the area. And he said also our NATO allies could be a huge help. He goes, if we just had two or three, England, France, we'd open up the strait in two seconds.
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Absolutely.
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And the president's 100% right. And say, president goes, I don't need it, but we're not going to forget it. I think that's where the President's going to go to the NATO summit. Yeah, I think he's going to blast him. I want you to hear Marco Rubio yesterday about the Supreme Leader who's ultimately making the decisions, which is, this shouldn't make you optimistic.
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Cut 25 talks with Iran are not like talks with Switzerland, okay?
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They're very different. They have agreed to negotiate aspects of their nuclear program that just a month ago, just a year ago, they were refusing to even mention, much less enter into discussions about.
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That is not a guarantee that ultimately it will lead to a deal.
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I think there are indications out there
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that he is increasingly engaging at some
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level, although all of his communications have
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been in writing and through intermediaries.
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So we killed his father, we killed his wife, killed his kid and maimed him. Yeah. How and how interested in peace do you think this guy.
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I don't think he's interested in peace at all. I think, you know, I know the president said in an interview with Miranda Devine that he. She asked, would you want to meet him? And he said, well, I have something to the effect I haven't really thought about that, but yeah, I guess I would want to meet him. And I think that's just the President indicating, as he has all along, that he wants to have open dialogue and he wants to talk to anybody wanting to talk to the leader of North Korea, Korea, Russia, China, all of them. But I think that it goes back to the point that you made in the beginning. We have to have a little strategic and national patience with this fight. You have to keep your eye on what is right, whether it's in Iran or whether it's in Ukraine. You have to have a steely spine. And the President, as you said before, Brian, he is in a very tight position between gas prices, American sentiment in this country, and the legacy issue of a. A real shift in the Middle east that would bethat would change the region, would change the region for generations to have Iran out of the picture. So these are difficult decisions, but that's why people are nominated and elected to the presidency of the United States. It's a very, very tough job. And it a lot depends on his ability to see this through. I know a lot of people want him to finish the job, and I think there's a lot of arguments in favor of that.
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So Senator Wicker, not somebody who gets up every day saying, what does Donald Trump want to do? Senator Tom Cotton, obviously, Lindsey Graham, you have Senator Tillis finished the job. And I was saying to them, like, why don't you say that? You know, why is the President doing this by himself? If you really Want him to finish a job. It would help if you found a microphone and took on Chris Murphy and Cory Booker.
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Absolutely.
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Who want to say we're losing, I go, why don't you come out and say it? And the president would like to know I'm doing the right thing. And they know he's doing the right thing. But if they get to November and they find a way to hold the House, even if they don't find a way to hold the House and Senate, and it will be Titanic expert. If they lose, upset, if they lose Senate, I believe he's taken them out. The midterms do matter. You can't pretend they don't matter.
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Of course they do.
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But he is. If they get to November and the memorandum of understanding is not in place or in place and being broken, all bets are off to a guy that the gloves are off to a guy that is not going to be back. You know, he's done one term and he's done after this, and he's going to finish him off. And he wouldn't leave it for JD or the next Democrat who clearly won't do this.
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I think, I mean, I think you're right. I just, I look at it and I think, you know, the president himself has said, I don't, I don't care about the midterms. I care about this larger issue. I'm not sure that you would see a far tighter situation in the House, in the Senate, Senate, if this war wasn't happening at all. I think even without this war, you have very tight battles going into the midterms. And I think a lot of it comes from anti Trump sentiment around the country. So. And I think you would see that playing out regardless. I just think when you look back long term, obviously you have to find a way to loosen things up in the strait. But I think that the changing of the guard in Iran in a meaningful way is something, something that would be an enormous, enormous legacy for this price.
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As Mark Thiessen said. He said, look, If I'm paying $5 for gas, make it worth it. So get a win. Get a win. So I'd rather not pay and not get the win or make it a gray area. When we come back, Jill Biden spoke out and was confronted with a passage from Kamala Harris's book. Martha MacCallum will come back, not only tell us what's on her show at the three, but I want to get her feeling about Jill Biden's book that really should be on the fiction side of the Library. Back in a moment. Next, where big stories need bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Kilmeade Show, A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade, sponsored by Prevagen. Prevagen.
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Made for your brain.
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Just like you won't admit President Trump is losing this reckless war of choice. And just like you couldn't admit that
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the shoes the president bought you were
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too big, you clearly don't know what
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winning means, and not because the facts are unclear to you. It's because telling your truth, the truth
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would cost you your job.
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And the American people are entitled to a secretary, Secretary of state, who tells them the truth, even when the president doesn't want to hear it.
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And my constituents, our service members, deserve better.
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Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
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I don't know what shoes she's talking about.
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What is she talking about?
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Representative Burchett, you're recognized.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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If you'd like to answer any of that. I don't know about the shoes. I mean, he gave me some Florsheim shoes. They're actually pretty good. They fit fine.
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I don't know.
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I don't know what she's talking about. And maybe that's what she's referring to.
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Your shoes look very nice today, Mr. Secretary.
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How can you see them?
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They're way too down here.
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We're talking about shoes. Are you guys kidding me? I mean, is this the Foreign Affairs Committee, or is this, like, a circus? What is this so, you know, question? So Martha McCallum's here.
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Good question. What? I mean, can you imagine people, you know, 50, 60 years ago in these forums having this kind of conversation? It's inane. It makes you wonder, like, how do these people get elected?
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They're looking to. Well, he did it yesterday. Do we have that cut from yesterday, too, too? When? And we played it this morning.
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Said, like, about the TikTok. I know you're doing this for your TikTok video. It was Jackie, the senator from.
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Yeah, I got it. Right. Yeah, it was Jackie. It was Jacob, not Jackie Jacobs. But where is that? Here we go. Jackie Rosen. Cut 29. Yeah. Cut 29. Yeah.
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This is why I was shocked to see that you were at a party with President Trump in Miami instead of accompanying Vice President Vance to Pakistan. Stand for negotiations.
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What party was I at?
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I was at a party, publicly reported, and there's photos there.
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But what party? No, no, no, no.
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But you're going to say that.
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I'm going to answer it. I'm going to Answer that question. That's an absurd statement. I was not at a party.
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Where I was is next to the
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president because in the midst of those negotiations, I was in communications with them. I know your staff wrote up this cute statement for your TikTok video, but it's not true and it's not real.
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Anyway, thank you.
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Right.
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So thank you. I just love that he's not letting this stuff blow by him. He's like, no, no, no, no. I'm answer your question. As stupid as it is, essentially.
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Right.
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But it's so true. And I think social media is like, you know, I use it. We all use it. It's basically the downfall of society. And he's right. Right.
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True. Or, you know, or, you know, you might see enough to want to see more. So Marco Rubio yesterday, but you're not gonna touch him. He is emerging as a true star of this administration. I mean, would. So it was pointed to me, if you wanna know what's going on when Marco Rubio is involved, think of it as something that goes well. And case in point is Venezuela. And number two is watch Cuba. Watch Cuba, because it is thoroughly a Rubio operation and he's doing it exactly like he wants to do it. They're letting him go. And the president, I don't explain, they're very different, but there's such a mutual respect between the two. And the first time I saw it, when he was senator on foreign relations, and he basically. Trump, who has just had a brawl with him during the primaries, said, you handle Central and South America. And he took the lead on all these things. And he's like, I cannot believe how much gravity the president's giving me to work here. And he's started making real progress.
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You know, I think the evolution of Marco Rubio has been extraordinary to watch. He was always very smart as a young man. He was elected very young. You know, watch him go through all of this process. I think one of the most difficult periods for him was when he was up there on stage. Stage with President Trump running for the nomination of the Republican Party. It was very rough and tumble. You know, talk about inane conversation. They got into like, can size and all that stuff that never fit him. Like, it always looked uncomfortable for him. And I think right after that, I think it's very interesting that he's the only person who was on that stage with him who has won the respect of the president in such a forceful way. And it's because he is. He is deeply educated, very well read, he understands these issues. He's lived them. And you can see it in his own lived experience. There's nothing like watching our secretary of State speak perfect Spanish in these environments and float back and forth between English and Spanish in that environment when he's dealing with Cuba and Venezuela. So it's impressive.
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So I want you to hear Jill Biden on the View, confronted with.
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Is this going to be not impressive?
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It couldn't be. It couldn't be least impressive. Cut 38. In her book, she alludes to a much more fractured relationship between the Bidens and the Emoffs.
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She writes that your family asked if
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she and Doug were loyal to your family.
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And she wrote that her husband Doug said, they hide you away for four
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years, give you impossible bleeping jobs, don't
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correct the record when those tasks are mischaracterized.
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Never fight back when you're attacked, never praise your accomplishments. And then he added, and still they have to ask if we're loyal.
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Yeah.
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How does, how do you respond to that? You know, I never, I never saw that. I never felt that way with Kamala and Doug.
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I thought we were a great team.
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I, you know, Joe, look shocked. Yeah.
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I mean, it's, I don't know. We were.
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Your thoughts about this?
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I think it's interesting. I think I'm glad that she's being. That these questions are being asked of her. I think it's interesting to watch her answer them. She seems to be caught off guard quite a bit.
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Absolutely.
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Quite a bit.
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Who's on your show?
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So we're going to speak to Rebecca Heinrich about what's going on in Iran. We also have, I think, a great lineup for the California, California race, which we've been covering really closely. We're going to talk to Kevin McCarthy and Billy Bush, who's been working closely with Spencer Pratt on this election. There's a long way to go there. They're going to be counting votes for three weeks in this thing, so stay tuned.
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Yeah. At least he's a solid second. I don't see, I don't see any way that she, I don't think that Rahman can close an eight point gap, but you never know. All right, we're going to watch you today at 3 o' clock and always keep it here in the Brian Kilme Show. Thanks so much for listening, Sam.