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Foreign.
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Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. It is yet a new week. It is so exciting. And I'm going to be on the Five today, so I invited Brian Kilmeade so I could steal some of his talking points.
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Well, I'm going to be hosting Will Kane, so. Yeah. So whatever I say, it's going to be old by the time I know.
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I gotta, I gotta get it now. So when you're on Will gain.
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So look it, you see my system, right? I can go any topic. You name a topic.
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Wow, you really can.
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Yeah. Really? Because I have no idea where everyone's going.
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I mean, I know you've just been like phoning it in today. It's not like you've been doing six hours of broadcasting.
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I took two hours off, so it's,
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it's really tough because when I go on your radio show, I usually go on around 11. Yeah. Sometimes in 10 o' clock hour. And you're like, what do you think of this story that I've been talking about for six hours? And I'm like, I just woke up.
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Yeah, I know.
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No idea.
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But you know, usually you're writing about something.
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Yeah, that's right. Usually I'm writing about like Megan Markle or Angelina Jolie, something really newsy and important.
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It's your choice to be this diverse. You didn't have to be this diverse.
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Exactly. You could have said it's a brave choice, Brian.
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Right, well, entertainment, music, news, culture. Sure, right. That's a lot.
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Politics, some sports, right?
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Oh, yeah. Because you're an athlete.
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Well, I mean, I don't like to brag. So when, when you walked in the studio today, you saw me and you looked a little disappointed and you said, oh, it's that Kennedy. Did you think that RFK Jr. Was going to be interviewing you?
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No, the guy from New Orleans, Senator Kennedy.
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Oh, he's great.
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He'd be great.
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Senator John Kennedy. What a quote machine. Do you think he writes that stuff down before?
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I don't think so. I watched him on Face the Nation on Sunday and he had like four or five of them based off questions. So I thought this is pretty amazing. Yeah, they don't laugh. We laugh like we like at Fox. We're allowed to be people. I'm like, will you laugh? This is hysterical. Yes. So, you know, do you think that's
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why more people watch Fox than some of the. I think when normal, dour, like dumpy stations.
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Well, what do people say to you when you see it? You're exact like you're on TV sometimes.
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Yes. They go, oh, wow. I feel like I know you.
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Yeah.
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Like, people say stuff like that a lot lately. I did five shows in Appleton, Wisconsin this weekend, and it was awesome.
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Like, so describe two a day.
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I did two on Friday and three on Saturday.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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So in one of these shows, do you, you talk?
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Yeah, I talk, I tell stories. I have a PowerPoint. It's very disciplined. Like, it's very. There's, there's no dead air. Like, we go from one thing to the next. And it's a lot of MTV stuff. It's some cultural stuff. I have an enemies of freedom list. Like some politicians that I make fun of. You know, I talk about the president, some stories from behind the scenes here at Fox. And then. So that's like 45 minutes. And then I do a 15 minute Q& A. And what do you think the first question is every time Gutfeld, Jessica Tarloff get at it?
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Oh, yeah, she's a fail. Yeah, she's a lie.
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And then. And they, they do. But I talk about Greg a little bit in the show because Greg gave me a question. I was like, what should I, what question should I answer on stage? And he gives me a question. Then I, I talk about that a little bit. So they've gotten their fill of Greg, but then they want to know, why does Tyrus pull his pant leg up? Like, that is a burning question for people.
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I did not know he did that. Yeah, I didn't. And I hosted with him.
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And the Gutfeld watchers are probably, you know, next to Fox and Friends, the most loyal viewing audience on the entire channel. Like, they are so obsessed with Greg and letting you know that they watch Greg every night and to please let Greg know.
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And what is Greg's reaction?
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I haven't broached the subject yet. I'm compiling a list of comments and questions.
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Just have one conversation and get it over with.
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Exactly.
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Yeah. Yeah. Because he's always writing. You always feel bad. He keeps the door open. Yeah. But he doesn't really want you to walk in.
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No, he doesn't. Isn't that interesting?
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Like, well, maybe he just doesn't want me to walk in. I never thought.
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I think he secretly loves you. Really? Yeah.
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He's got a problem, though.
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What's that?
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Me. I think. I mean, his problem is me. I mean, I cannot tell you how many times people. You see what he said about you last night. I never even follow up to find out what he said. Yeah, right. You're usually on the show. But when they asked me, it's 10 o' clock at night. So if I'm in his monologue and I don't get the replay at 3 in the morning, I don't know that I'm in it. I think it's best.
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Yeah.
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That I not know.
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Yeah. Because you know, if. But that's the nice thing. Like, I was talking about this with Tyrus on his podcast the other day. The nice thing about your 50s is like, you really don't care. Like in my 30s, if someone were talking about me every day on TV, it. It would keep me up at night. Like, I would be so bummed and I would be like, am I doing something wrong? Like, is it me? Am I gonna get fired? 53, almost 54. I'm like, don't give a. Couldn't care.
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Right. And you just gotta find out. The only thing we care about is media relations.
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Yeah.
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That's when you go a little bit too far. We're gonna have to handle this. Oh my God. This usually not good. First thing I do when I know
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when I get from someone from media relations, I just immediately start updating my resume.
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Well, I don't go that far. I'll just start Googling myself. I go, let me just see what I said. Because I do forget. I'm like, let me.
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You do have some doozies. Like, everyone thinks it's Jesse Waters, but
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every once in a while it blows up big time. But every time it's misunderstanding. Every time it's like, you do not.
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Or you don't realize you are there.
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Right? No, Well, I don't. Well, that one time. But do you remember that? Yeah, yeah. It's not worth bringing up again. It was something to do when Speaker McCarthy.
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Yeah.
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Was. They kept voting and Speaker McCarthy says, I'm out. Don't vote for me. I think it was by this point Jim Jordan or Mike Johnson and he's like, don't vote for me. And they just get up and go, Ken McCarthy. So like, Kevin McCarthy, what are you doing? Remember how many times they voted for Speaker?
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Yeah, yeah. It was like 19 after that idiot
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ousted him and left in disgrace. So he goes, look, I'm not gonna get the vote, so don't vote for me.
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Yeah.
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Kevin McCarthy. So at one point, are they doing
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it just to spite him?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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No. I don't even know. They just can't concentrate. Like, they just, like, he can't win. Don't vote. When we need rally around one guy and then they have to do the whole Keem Jeffries nomination right after that. And impeachment. Yeah, I mean, impeachment is the biggest. It's the most tedious thing ever. We've done it through three times.
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We're gonna do it again.
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You think so?
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I think the Republicans are gonna lose the House. They might hold onto the Senate, but I think they're gonna lose the House.
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The only reason why I think it might.
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I know that is. That is a really controversial take on the midterms.
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Losing House, I think it's 60, 40. They lose it. I don't think it's a guarantee because of what we witnessed, we witnessed over the last five days with this legitimate rise of wacko socialism. Not like I wanna build up healthcare, you know, I want Social Security for 14 year olds, you know, not something like a social program. They just wanna explode. The country want to explore.
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Yeah. The Constitution.
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And then like Tim Cant, who's been in Congress 50 years, goes, yeah, well, it's big tent. Big tent.
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No, it's not a big tent.
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Yes, thank you.
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No, it's. And the people that are saying that are on a suicide mission.
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Yeah. They don't.
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They have given up. They have given up. And it's like, well, it might be better for me to look like a nice person than to fight them, lose my primary and go down in flames, angry.
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So that's why I say 60, 40, but maybe it's 55, 45. Because two things. Did you see the DNC as. They owe 8. They have $14 million, they have $15 million, they owe $17 million. Can you imagine this? They're about to go into the midterms. $2 million in debt. They had to refinance their building in order to get a credit line of credit for the special election victories.
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Billionaires, though, it's not just Republicans who have like this moneyed class. And that's what people like AOC would try and lead you to believe.
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And.
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And people like, we have to get dark money out of politics. And it's like, bro, have you heard of Neville Roy Singham?
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Yeah, it's pitch button.
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Have you heard of George Soros or Reid Hoffman?
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But I think that's in a different super PAC world. But the DNC should have more money,
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but now they can because of the Supreme Court decision.
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Right. Well, tell that to Ken Martin. There's two stories today.
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I mean, I think he threw a
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phone at a guy or a woman. He threw a phone at a woman.
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What is he, Hillary Clinton on election night?
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I know and they fly. They filed a complaint with their human resources. So there are human beings in on the Democratic Party. Big surprise. And number two is we are $2 million in debt. And you know why? Kamala Harris got a billion and wasted it all.
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Yeah.
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Left him in debt and spent the billion dollars and lost everything.
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Spend the billion dollars, like I understand. Amassing the billion dollars like I understand the George Clooneys of the world who have a half a billion dollars in the bank. Like, I understand those people are going to throw it to her. But like. Like 107 days and I spent a billion dollars. My poll numbers only went down, and I have nothing to show for it.
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No, I hear you. But you know who else left it a mess? Do you remember Barack Obama did nothing for his party.
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No.
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He had no coattails and he had no interest in raising money. By the time Hillary Clinton runs for president, she went to the dnc, they had nothing. So she basically said, you're gonna work for me.
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Yeah.
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So all that money went to Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And then they go, we got this little problem. You're not winning.
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Yeah.
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So. Yeah. Yeah. And they were to save the day. And guess who got screwed? Bernie Sanders.
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I know.
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And that cancer began to grow.
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Okay.
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But. And now, 10 years later, it has.
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Bernie Sanders is still very much with us, and he has been harboring that resentment. And I tried to point this out the other day on the five. Like, we can. We can push this back a few steps to 2016.
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Right.
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Like, Bernie Sanders was not a Democrat in 2016. He was doing then what the DSA is doing now. He's like, I'm just going to run with that party to try and get the nomination because my ideals are more important to me than the Democrat Party, which I hate. And his hatred has only grown, and they have been consuming it from the inside out. And Democrats have let it happen.
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And the biggest mistake is when he says, I'm gonna run as a Democrat. They would say, yeah, if you become a Democrat. That's what they should have said. If you become a Democrat, you can do it. Same thing with these socialists. They make the same mistake. You're letting everybody in. What are you doing?
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Just.
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You have standards. You gotta be. Would a Republican let an independent run for president? I don't think so. They'd be crazy to do it. It's their party.
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Maybe we need more parties.
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Yes. Start another party.
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Fine.
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You know who's doing that? Joe Manchin is doing something with an independent. I'm not sure if it's a super PAC or a party. But I have a great analogy.
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Is he in your phone?
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Yes.
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Who is the most powerful person in your phone?
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President.
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Really? You have his number?
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Talked to him last night.
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Wow. Do you call him? Do you text him?
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I text him and he'll text me back. And if he doesn't, I don't call. Like, last night, I wanted to talk to him because everything going on with Iran, I don't know if I believe the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times. So I go, you know what? This would be a time when we
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have a munitions shortage.
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Yes. And then Wall Street Journal says, no, we have. And then I talked to people. What event was I at? Oh, World Cup. So the World cup was with all the Trump people. So Jared talked to everybody. So I was asking. I'm kind of like the idiot that asks real questions when people should be hanging out. And I'm like, I really. I just want to watch the game. So before. So I'm asking real questions, and I go, do you have enough? And one of the main questions I asked everyone, do we have enough Interceptors? Do we have enough? Oh, yeah, well, we can consolidate. We don't have enough. Manufacturers. Got to pick up. I go, but do you have enough for, like, to really attack? Not these pinprick attacks. You go, oh, no, we have enough. Okay. People I really like that would just go to me, no, we don't.
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Yeah.
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And I would, so.
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But we're getting conflicting reports, so.
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So I have something for you to think about.
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Okay.
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And you probably. What if I work for the president and I'm not in sport of the war? How do I get to the President, who's very open to media and response and everything, or how do I provide blowback?
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You plant stories and you leak stories
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so the New York Times can say, I have a great source.
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Yeah, of course.
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And the President could call me a liar all day.
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Could be one of the three most powerful people in the country outside of the president.
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So the first thing I asked him, I assume it's the President. I just like to know what you feel. I should go with you're all over. Like, it's all over the place. And he said, new York Times story, not true. So I said, you're not attacking because of. Nothing to do with it. We're fine. Gulf neighbors not thrilled with a major attack right now, but we gotta get this done. I was shocked. Basically, his word was surprised at the amount of progress made in the Oman talks. And he said, I realize the war is not that popular. I also realize it's necessary. And he also says, new York Times story, stay away from it. Not true. But the New York Times has every reason to stand by it, which bothers me because I know exactly who. I would say 99.9% who planted that story.
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Is this the president saying that or you saying that?
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I'm saying it.
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Okay.
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Judging by Tim Sheehy did a speech. If you guys have not seen Tim Sheehy's speech from Thursday, unbelievable. Off the cuff, four and a half minutes. As you know, he's a Navy SEAL commander, and the first thing he. He listens to every Democrat get up and say, waste of time. War of choice. Iran didn't need to be attacked. We didn't accomplish any of our goals. So he just got up, put his bracelet on. He goes, hey, I just want to show you on this bracelet, Best friend, Navy SEAL cut in half by an EFP in Iraq. Such and such. This 1985 William Buckley skinned alive by. By. By Iran. Then he says, 241 marines vaporized. No, one of those families. Let me just tell you. He goes through the whole thing. Four and a half minutes, he goes, you might say, I hate this president. You might say, I love this president. You might say, everything he does is wrong. Right? But you can't say that he came up with an enemy. This enemy's been fighting us for 47 years. The only thing you have to say is this is the only president to take them on directly, take a problem that wasn't going away and confront it directly. You might not like the tactics, you might like the stops and starts, but the only one. Take it away. Now, I happen to know somebody in the administration staff called up Tom Sheehy and went crazy on him. How dare you say that speech.
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What?
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What? What do you mean? How dare you say a speech? And then a little bit later, he finds out that the president loved it. Okay, why is that? What's going on?
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Well, yeah. Why the bifurcation?
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I love having a team in this show. In life, if you have a legitimate athletic team, you need people with different opinions. If I have a coaching staff. I don't want people to tell me everything's right. And he goes, no, no, we need more defense. We need more offense. Why my receivers? You're too conservative. You're too aggressive. That's what I want on my staff. If I was a president, United States, I need people to say, yeah, this Iran war is not good. Tell me why. Okay. Tell me why you like it.
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So you want dissenting voices. You don't want someone to undermine you.
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Kidding.
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The head coach, the President. Are you kidding?
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Yes. Can you imagine leaking to the press that in the offensive meetings, the president was the coach of the team, was isolated because the offensive and defensive coordinate both agreed they're too conservative on offense or there's not enough discipline in that locker room. I go, wow, I can't trust my coaches. I wonder if the President is. He's so smart about people, if he's realizing there's something going on inside.
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Well, I mean, I'll tell you what's going on inside. Like, it is. It is an open field. In a year, less than a year, like, we're going to be actively in the 2020, and he's not going to be president anymore. So. So it's like, now it's getting very real, and people are jockeying for position, and it's like, Vice President Vance will do something very impressive, and then Marco Rubio does something equally impressive. And so for Republicans, they look at that and they're like, well, who's it gonna be? And now it's going to get to the point where they start cannibalizing each other. Because that summit fever is a much more powerful force than the desire for party unity or loyalty to the President.
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But I will say this. This is also an audition for you. So if times gets trouble and you become selfish, looking to promote yourself while real world things are happening. Are you kidding me? And then, you know.
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But that's. That's human nature. And that desire to be the most powerful person in the world will supersede the logical need to figure things out in private, counsel the president and let him make the choice.
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Yes.
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Ego. Ego. If you want to be President of the United States, you already have an enormous ego and arguably a screw loose. So you are going to find a way to pacify that urge inside of you, and you will rationalize just about anything. If you think that is a means
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to the White House, I think you're right.
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But I'm not excusing it, but I'll
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give you an example. Bush 41, you just reminded me in the middle of the Iran Contra thing, he's trying to run for president. Right. He's starting to get in the so and at any point he could just say, listen, I was doing what the President was telling me to do. Instead, it all went on him. So it's like, oh, the President was leading point on this. He never at one point said, look, I'm just following orders, or tried to deflect it away. He took it, handled it. However you think he handled it, he never said, I'm the vice President here to do what the President wants to do. That to me is because he has values and ethics that I look at Bush 41 as just like a superhuman being who you might not agree with. He wasn't conservative enough, or people say this or that, but fundamentally, he was very ethically sound. I'm wondering how ethically sound other people are in that organization. And I will say flat out, as much as I think Steve Witkoff's a great guy and Jared Kushner is a great guy, and they're famous. I mean, they're rich and successful. There is no way those two people should be doing the Hamas deal, the Ukraine deal, as well as the Iran deal.
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Yeah, they're spread too thin. Come on.
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He's like, well, like, Ukraine goes, yeah, we haven't really heard from the Trump team in a long time. Yeah, can we get two other people?
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It's like how you do Fox and Friends and then the Brian Kilmeade radio show, and then they have you do the Five and stay for Hannity. It's like they. They trust you to do all of those things, and it may be exhausting for you, but it's like you also know you can handle it. So maybe the President just has a small circle of people that he truly trusts. And obviously, like, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are, you know, in their own special Nexus.
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Best friend and trusted family member.
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Yeah.
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But after a while, you have to just go, what are the results? I mean, I kind of like, they got all the hostages out. They came in with a very creative deal in Hamas. It's kind of interesting. There's a border peace and all those things. But then all of a sudden, what the hell is going on in Iran? I gotta move over to Iran. So at what point you have to have staffs working this thing here? And how is it that nobody has visited Ukraine? So they've been to Russia a bunch of times. You can't tell me they're brokering a Piece with. And only going to Russia, not Ukraine. Well, a lot of it's logistics. That's why we need other people.
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Yeah. Because you can't. I mean, the globe is big.
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Yeah, I've heard that. We've had very, very serious discussions.
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I know. It's for you and me. It's serious.
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Yeah. We want to lighten it up.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Got nothing.
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You heard any good jokes lately? Jimmy Fallow told me a funny joke.
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Which is?
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Guy goes into a bookstore, says to the bookstore owner, do you have President Trump's latest book on immigration in paperback? And he said, get out of here and go yourself. He said, yeah, that's the one.
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That's funny. Yeah, that's great. Only Jimmy could do that. So. So how do you. You like doing your live shows?
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Super fun. Yeah, it's great.
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Better than this?
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No, nothing is better than this, Brian. Not one thing.
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Nothing at all. Okay.
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No childbirth, my impending nuptials, nothing.
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Right. Well, childbirth is on a.
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It's a. It's. It's pretty spiritual.
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You know, it's interesting. They were describing to me, I was two people in their 80s were describing to me what it was like being a man during childbirth. Like, you actually went home a lot of times, like, okay, drop my wife off. I want to go hang out with the guys.
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Let me know exactly. I'll be in the waiting room with cigars, right?
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Yeah, but maybe not. If it's going to be a while. They tell me to go home. Went to home.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Can you imagine that? Like if you watch the sitcoms in the 60s and 70s.
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Yeah. I bet you were a three point stance when your wife is getting birth.
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It wouldn't have helped. That wouldn't have been helpful. 3 point stance.
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Still, you would have done it. Like, if that's what is required.
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If there was a problem with. Someone's going to enter the room again. And I wanted to be in a low stance to tackle them, but the three, three point stance, I can't see it better.
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That's when it's real.
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Yeah.
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Yeah,
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I didn't. Someone says hike and then a baby flies out. Gotta be there.
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You're ready for it.
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Yeah. Yep.
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All right. Thank you, Brian Kilmeade.
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That's it. That's all we have.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah. It's been like 24 minutes. 23 minutes.
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I'm glad I could be part of Kennedy saving the world.
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This. This has been historic and legendary and I didn't get as many talking points as I wanted, but, you know, I'LL watch Will Kane. I'll scrape a few things together, maybe a few adjectives. Yeah.
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And who are you on? Who's the who plays the role of the Democrat?
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Jessica. Jessica Tarlo. Yeah. I'll ask her some questions about her. So next time I do a live show and next one will be in Tacoma the weekend of August 28th, then I will have more answers about Jessica.
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Wow. So you put that on camera?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Great.
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Yeah.
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Can I go?
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All right. This has been Kennedy Saves the World along with a slightly impatient Brian Kilmeade. I'm Kennedy.
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She was late.
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Podcast: Kennedy Saves the World
Host: Kennedy (FOX News Podcasts)
Guest: Brian Kilmeade
Date: July 27, 2026
Episode Theme: With her signature wit and curiosity, Kennedy is joined by Brian Kilmeade for a sharp, humorous, and insightful look into the health of the Democratic Party—both financially and ideologically—while exploring current political dynamics, media culture, live show anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes intrigue from Fox News.
In this episode, Kennedy invites Fox News colleague Brian Kilmeade for a freewheeling discussion that pivots from backstage Fox News banter to serious political analysis. The central question: Is the Democratic Party really broke—financially, intellectually, and strategically?
With playful ribbing and real political insight, they delve into party infighting, fundraising woes, and the broader problems threatening both parties ahead of the coming elections, all punctuated by personal anecdotes and a peek behind the cable news curtain.
"The Gutfeld watchers are probably, you know, next to Fox and Friends, the most loyal viewing audience on the entire channel." (03:40)
"Remember how many times they voted for Speaker?...It was like 19 after that idiot ousted him and left in disgrace." – (06:16, Kennedy)
"First thing I do when I get from someone from media relations, I just immediately start updating my resume." (05:22)
“53, almost 54. I'm like, don't give a. Couldn't care.” (05:10)
"They have $15 million, they owe $17 million. Can you imagine this? They're about to go into the midterms $2 million in debt. They had to refinance their building in order to get a line of credit for special election victories." (07:52)
"It's not just Republicans who have like this moneyed class. And that's what people like AOC would try and lead you to believe." (08:16)
“Kamala Harris got a billion and wasted it all. Left them in debt and spent the billion dollars and lost everything.” (09:02)
"Bernie Sanders was not a Democrat in 2016. He was doing then what the DSA is doing now." (10:14 – Kilmeade)
"They just wanna explode. The country want to explore...the Constitution." (07:27 – Kennedy/Kilmeade exchange)
“No, it's not a big tent.” (07:32 – Kilmeade)
"I think the Republicans are gonna lose the House. They might hold onto the Senate, but I think they're gonna lose the House." (06:54)
“President.” – on who is his most powerful contact. “Talked to him last night. I text him and he'll text me back.” (11:37)
“If I was a president, United States, I need people to say, yeah, this Iran war is not good. Tell me why. Okay. Tell me why you like it.” (16:12 – Kennedy)
“And now it's going to get to the point where they start cannibalizing each other. Because that summit fever is a much more powerful force than the desire for party unity..." (16:41 – Kilmeade)
“If you want to be President of the United States, you already have an enormous ego and arguably a screw loose.” (17:57)
“There is no way those two people should be doing the Hamas deal, the Ukraine deal, as well as the Iran deal.” (19:35)
“They trust you to do all of those things, and it may be exhausting for you, but it's like you also know you can handle it.” (19:44)
This lively, slightly irreverent episode delivers far more than the headline question about Democratic finances. Kennedy and Kilmeade provide political analysis laced with personal stories, humor, and candor about the failures and vulnerabilities of both parties, social media frenzy, the importance of ethical leadership, and the exhausting demands of both politics and live television. Whether you're a political junkie, Fox News fan, or just curious about the state of partisan warfare in 2026, the episode offers both entertainment and food for thought.