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- 0:00Speaker 1: So as I talked about already this morning, it's a
- 0:02Speaker 1: big Tuesday here in New York. My man, my brother,
- 0:05Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, about to debate that repulsive hag, Kathy Hochul,
- 0:10Speaker 1: on New York One later on tonight. But... There's something
- 0:14Speaker 1: even bigger. I know it sounds crazy. You can't imagine
- 0:18Speaker 1: something bigger than Blakeman and Hochul, but I've got it.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Uniting the states. Six crucial moments that forged the American miracle.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Six founders who shaped America's revolutionary democracy. My dear friend
- 0:34Speaker 1: Brian Kilmeade, who follows me each and every morning at
- 0:37Speaker 1: 10 a.m. here on 77 WABC. Fox and Friends every
- 0:41Speaker 1: morning on Fox News and his own amazing show, 10 p.m.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Sunday nights, One Nation. Now, usually Kilmeade is on Thursday, Friday,
- 0:49Speaker 1: because we get close to a Sunday night TV show.
- 0:52Speaker 1: But I bring him on today because I just read
- 0:55Speaker 1: you the title of his brand new book. He's a
- 0:57Speaker 1: great author. This one he's taking to the stage. And
- 1:01Speaker 1: he's very excited about it. So happy Tuesday Book Day,
- 1:05Speaker 1: Brian Kilmeade.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Sid. And I haven't done one in
- 1:09Speaker 2: two and a half years now. And I've been working
- 1:11Speaker 2: on this. I want to do something for 250. And
- 1:13Speaker 2: I just, you know, I did all these What Made
- 1:15Speaker 2: America Great on Fox Nation and 45-minute documentaries, different places
- 1:18Speaker 2: in America's past, people, you know, from everything from Thomas
- 1:22Speaker 2: Edison to the Alamo. And all my Rolodex, if there
- 1:27Speaker 2: was one today, is now instead of sports guys like
- 1:29Speaker 2: you and I have, It's really full of historians, news people,
- 1:32Speaker 2: of course, but historians, too. They're the greatest people. They
- 1:35Speaker 2: do this every day to study in the past. And
- 1:38Speaker 2: I just thought, what have I knocked down to the
- 1:39Speaker 2: six moments that are unthinkable, that came together just at
- 1:42Speaker 2: the right time to make our country what it was?
- 1:44Speaker 2: And in my back of my mind, it's people that
- 1:46Speaker 2: haven't really dove into history. They haven't really taken it
- 1:50Speaker 2: since maybe college or 11th grade American history in school.
- 1:54Speaker 2: And just to fully appreciate what our country has been through.
- 1:57Speaker 2: and the things that broke our direction, and the resiliency
- 2:00Speaker 2: we've shown in the past to be the country we
- 2:02Speaker 2: are today, and for different reasons. You know, I got
- 2:05Speaker 2: the Boston massacre. Everyone's like, well, that rallied for the revolution. No,
- 2:08Speaker 2: it's about law and order. George Washington changes tactics, very
- 2:11Speaker 2: much like a Bill Belichick. He says, okay, I can't
- 2:16Speaker 2: square off with these guys anymore. So by not losing,
- 2:19Speaker 2: I'm going to win. And he comes up with a
- 2:21Speaker 2: brand new way of fighting and says, I'm going to
- 2:23Speaker 2: lengthen this war and I'm never going to square off
- 2:26Speaker 2: with him again. I'm going to pick my spots. He
- 2:28Speaker 2: ends up winning the Battle of Yorktown. How Shays' Rebellion
- 2:31Speaker 2: led to the Constitution, maybe the greatest document ever written
- 2:34Speaker 2: in modern times. How we almost lost it all when
- 2:37Speaker 2: Washington burned and we were able to go in the
- 2:40Speaker 2: White House and see the burn marks when Washington literally
- 2:43Speaker 2: burned to the ground and our Our militias were overrun
- 2:47Speaker 2: by the British. The Louisiana Purchase tripled the size of
- 2:50Speaker 2: our country without firing a shot. And everyone thinks of
- 2:53Speaker 2: Lincoln when you think of getting rid of slavery. I
- 2:56Speaker 2: say John Quincy Adams taught him everything he knew. He
- 2:59Speaker 2: sat behind him in Congress. And when he stood up
- 3:02Speaker 2: and fought the South as a former president, what goes
- 3:04Speaker 2: into Congress and what he did so eloquently really fueled
- 3:08Speaker 2: this nation finally being freedom for all. So I just
- 3:11Speaker 2: thought if I put them concisely, try to make it compelling,
- 3:15Speaker 2: that people would understand how special this country is.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Boy, that sounds awesome. I'm not just patronizing you, Brian, because,
- 3:22Speaker 1: you know, I'm like you, the sports guy. I do
- 3:24Speaker 1: have Peter King on today. Not the Peter King from
- 3:27Speaker 1: Long Island, but the football writer from Sports Illustrated. So
- 3:30Speaker 1: I still delve into all that stuff. But what you're
- 3:32Speaker 1: talking about here this morning, this sounds fantastic. And I
- 3:36Speaker 1: would ask you to tell me something that you can
- 3:39Speaker 1: never find the answer for, but I want your opinion.
- 3:42Speaker 1: John Quincy Adams, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Washington. You've written
- 3:46Speaker 1: books about just about everybody. What do you think, Brian Kilmeade,
- 3:52Speaker 1: those guys would say today about President Trump?
- 3:56Speaker 2: I think they'd like a lot of elements about what
- 3:59Speaker 2: he's doing. Because, you know, the first thing, first and foremost,
- 4:03Speaker 2: it's great to have a guy that loves the country.
- 4:05Speaker 2: And Washington, everyone brings up Washington and says, Washington says,
- 4:09Speaker 2: don't get us involved in foreign wars. Well, I don't
- 4:11Speaker 2: think he could have anticipated how intermingled our world would
- 4:14Speaker 2: be these days. We can't pretend to exist on our own.
- 4:16Speaker 2: It just can't happen with the parts, the material that
- 4:20Speaker 2: we need. But what I think our founding fathers would
- 4:24Speaker 2: be stunned to where our country is, but not surprised.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Here's why. I mean, we literally are the number one
- 4:29Speaker 2: economy for the last 80 years. We literally are the
- 4:33Speaker 2: number one military economy For the last 80 years. I mean,
- 4:37Speaker 2: in the turn of the 20th century, we had about
- 4:39Speaker 2: like 5,000 guys in our military. We were just getting
- 4:42Speaker 2: into the industrial age. And we saw potential there. But,
- 4:46Speaker 2: you know, there was no labor laws. There was no
- 4:49Speaker 2: social safety net at all. And, you know, we're teetering
- 4:53Speaker 2: on the ports from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression.
- 4:56Speaker 2: Up and down, people are looking at our country and say,
- 4:58Speaker 2: this democracy thing is kind of uneasy. Think about how
- 5:01Speaker 2: far we've come now. You know, yeah, we got a
- 5:03Speaker 2: $ 40 trillion debt. We got to handle it. But guess
- 5:05Speaker 2: who can grow ourselves out of it?
- 5:07Speaker 3: Us.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Guess who's leading the way in technology?
- 5:09Speaker 3: Us.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Guess who's got the number one most innovative military? Us.
- 5:12Speaker 2: And guess who's going to be able to mass produce weapons?
- 5:14Speaker 2: Because guess what? Of the AI community?
- 5:17Speaker 1: Us.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Joe Lonsdale, along with me yesterday. The big companies aren't
- 5:21Speaker 2: doing it. We're making an adjustment. That's what's built into
- 5:24Speaker 2: our early days. We have this thing in America, individually
- 5:28Speaker 2: and collectively. where we are resilient and resourceful. Yes, things
- 5:32Speaker 2: go bad. And yes, we get angry. But we find
- 5:36Speaker 2: a way to figure it out. War of 1812 is
- 5:39Speaker 2: an unbelievable example. You know, half the country doesn't want
- 5:43Speaker 2: to fight the war. The British, we have the wrong
- 5:45Speaker 2: tactics for the war. Our army isn't ready for the war.
- 5:47Speaker 2: But in the middle of the war, we say we're
- 5:49Speaker 2: in it. Let's go win it. And it ends with
- 5:52Speaker 2: beating the number one fighting force in the world in
- 5:55Speaker 2: under two hours. The army that beat Napoleon falls to
- 5:59Speaker 2: Andrew Jackson in New Orleans. And this got the world's attention.
- 6:03Speaker 2: We never would be invaded again. So looking at, you know, Trump,
- 6:07Speaker 2: he'd be unorthodox. He'd be boisterous. You know, that, you know,
- 6:11Speaker 2: there's people like Alexander Hamilton wanted a strong president. You know,
- 6:15Speaker 2: in the South, they didn't. So there would be different
- 6:19Speaker 2: ideas of what the president should be, much like today.
- 6:22Speaker 2: The other thing, I got news for you, America. We've
- 6:24Speaker 2: always been arguing. Do you know Alexander Hamilton was against
- 6:27Speaker 2: the Louisiana purchase? Yeah. He said, why do I want
- 6:30Speaker 2: to do that? It's going to cheapen. My property is
- 6:33Speaker 2: no longer worth as much because you just bought twice
- 6:35Speaker 2: as much. Now, that's the guy with the vision. So
- 6:39Speaker 2: we've always been arguing about stuff. But that's what the
- 6:42Speaker 2: whole system is meant to be. Because in the end,
- 6:45Speaker 2: you know, we're supposed to compromise and try to get
- 6:48Speaker 2: the best we can. as quick as we can. But
- 6:53Speaker 2: we stop compromising. I think that'd be the biggest disappointment.
- 6:56Speaker 2: So Sid, you and I argue. In the end, we're
- 6:58Speaker 2: going to get something done and then we go, okay,
- 7:00Speaker 2: what can we get done? Now we argue and we
- 7:02Speaker 2: just say, I'm going to wait for the next election.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Really?
- 7:05Speaker 2: So we don't do deals anymore. So we go, okay,
- 7:07Speaker 2: I'm just going to do it in 50 votes. We
- 7:09Speaker 2: don't do deals. So very few Democrats ever come to Republicans,
- 7:13Speaker 2: almost zero except Fetterman, and very few Republicans ever join Democrats.
- 7:17Speaker 2: That's the one difference back then. They were angry, but
- 7:20Speaker 2: they would do deals.
- 7:22Speaker 3: True.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Uniting the States is the name of the book. Six
- 7:25Speaker 1: Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle. Brian Kilmeade, go
- 7:29Speaker 1: out and buy that book today. Today we'll get to
- 7:31Speaker 1: the theater part of it at the end of this conversation.
- 7:34Speaker 1: But you talk about Republicans and Democrats. Let's face it.
- 7:37Speaker 1: There's a couple of people here. Mike Lawler, Rockland County.
- 7:41Speaker 1: He doesn't win there. He's going to win again. He's
- 7:43Speaker 1: going to beat Kate Conley, but... He doesn't win there
- 7:45Speaker 1: without some Democrats and independents voting for him. Same thing
- 7:49Speaker 1: with Bruce Blakeman. You know you live in Nassau County.
- 7:51Speaker 1: He's got plenty of Democrats and independents voting for him.
- 7:55Speaker 1: So tonight's a big debate. I was at the parade yesterday.
- 7:58Speaker 1: The governor, Kathy Hochul, for the most part, was booed.
- 8:02Speaker 1: She was not cheered. Walking down Fifth Avenue with that
- 8:05Speaker 1: disgusting Letitia James. My God, was that grotesque. But tonight's
- 8:10Speaker 1: a big debate. What do you expect to hear? I mean, look,
- 8:12Speaker 1: you got one piece here where Bruce Blakeman can really
- 8:15Speaker 1: hammer her.
- 8:16Speaker 2: You know the story.
- 8:17Speaker 1: 16,000 criminals that were not handed over to ICE by
- 8:22Speaker 1: New York, responsible for about 53,000 crimes. If I'm Bruce Blakeman,
- 8:28Speaker 1: I hammer that home.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Bruce is capable of doing this. We all know it.
- 8:31Speaker 2: He's going to be joining us today on Fox & Friends.
- 8:35Speaker 2: So I think Bruce got a score, though. Like a
- 8:38Speaker 2: tie doesn't do it. A slight wind doesn't do it.
- 8:41Speaker 2: He's got to score. And it's possible because she's not good.
- 8:44Speaker 2: I mean, she, you know, they're like Cuomo. Whatever you
- 8:47Speaker 2: want to say about Cuomo, he's good on his feet.
- 8:49Speaker 2: So he's not going to ever be dumbfounded where his
- 8:51Speaker 2: jaw is on the ground. You know, there's Bill Clinton
- 8:53Speaker 2: and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, those people. She's not good.
- 8:57Speaker 2: So you hit her with facts because her track record
- 9:00Speaker 2: is so terrible. You let them know. And what I
- 9:02Speaker 2: want Bruce Blakeman to do is don't have to imagine
- 9:06Speaker 2: what he would do if he was governor. Look at
- 9:08Speaker 2: Nassau County. Nassau County is not red. Nassau County is purple.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Believe me, Massapeak was red where I'm from. Most part,
- 9:17Speaker 2: not everybody. But he's got to win people over that
- 9:20Speaker 2: didn't vote for him. And first thing he said is,
- 9:22Speaker 2: law and order. And that's what he wants to get,
- 9:25Speaker 2: the quality of life up. Look out for the people.
- 9:29Speaker 2: He goes to every event and listens to people and responds.
- 9:33Speaker 2: I never hear him go, oh, do you vote for me? Oh,
- 9:35Speaker 2: are you a Democrat? Are you a Republican? So he
- 9:37Speaker 2: knows how to do it. I would make Nassau County,
- 9:40Speaker 2: I would say examine Nassau County. Look at my record
- 9:44Speaker 2: against hers. Because as they say, Nassau's is Dense as
- 9:48Speaker 2: more dense in 15 states with a higher population. You
- 9:51Speaker 2: really could say that he's running a small state in America.
- 9:54Speaker 2: So I would do that. But he's got to go
- 9:56Speaker 2: on the offense and make her defend Mondami's record because
- 10:00Speaker 2: she has adhered herself to him. And if she and
- 10:02Speaker 2: if he is going to and if she's going to survive,
- 10:05Speaker 2: she's got to criticize him. Make it Mondami's record unless
- 10:10Speaker 2: until further notice, unless he wants to, unless she wants
- 10:14Speaker 2: to say, I don't agree with him here. I don't
- 10:16Speaker 2: agree with him there. Because that's where he's got to
- 10:19Speaker 2: inform people. Don't bring up Republican. Just say, I'm looking
- 10:23Speaker 2: to govern the state. Don't even bring up the party.
- 10:26Speaker 2: Don't even worry about what party I'm at. I'm just
- 10:28Speaker 2: going to try to help Syracuse. And I'm going to
- 10:30Speaker 2: try to help Selden. And I'm going to try to
- 10:32Speaker 2: help Manhattan. And what I'm going to try to do
- 10:34Speaker 2: is make your lives easier. And I'm going to make
- 10:36Speaker 2: your lives more secure. So that's what I'm looking to do.
- 10:40Speaker 2: I'm not looking to get famous. I'm not looking to
- 10:42Speaker 2: get rich. I'm looking to be effective. And if you
- 10:45Speaker 2: want to see effective, all I ask you to do
- 10:48Speaker 2: is examine Nassau County and why I won again in
- 10:52Speaker 2: a purple area.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Answer this for me, Brian, quickly before we wrap this up.
- 10:57Speaker 1: Is Ilhan Omar in serious trouble? The DOJ raided her Washington, D.C.
- 11:04Speaker 1: residence yesterday. I'm sure you already saw Mamdani defending, defending Ilhan.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Elon Omar calling it a terrible raid on Twitter yesterday.
- 11:14Speaker 2: He's such a piece of trash, this mayor.
- 11:16Speaker 1: Just complete garbage. I was so happy he never came
- 11:19Speaker 1: to the Columbus Day Parade yesterday because I was not
- 11:21Speaker 1: going to go if he was there. But is Elon
- 11:24Speaker 1: Omar in serious trouble?
- 11:25Speaker 2: I think he is. I don't think they would ever
- 11:28Speaker 2: have done this raid and got the warrant from a
- 11:32Speaker 2: judge in Washington, D.C. In D.C. To go in there.
- 11:37Speaker 2: That means there's a reasonable... cause to go in and
- 11:41Speaker 2: raid her apartment. Now, a lot of people said, wow,
- 11:44Speaker 2: when they went into John Bolton's house, man, the president's
- 11:46Speaker 2: being petty. He's so angry at him for being his
- 11:48Speaker 2: former advisor and turning on him. And it turns out
- 11:51Speaker 2: he had documents to the point where I think he's
- 11:53Speaker 2: going to serve jail time. And all I can tell
- 11:55Speaker 2: you is there's certain things where Trump says things and
- 11:58Speaker 2: you go, wow, that's a little careless or he's kind
- 12:00Speaker 2: of winging it. But when it comes to this stuff,
- 12:03Speaker 2: The law enforcement's pretty buttoned up. The Department of Justice
- 12:06Speaker 2: knows it's their report card. It's not Trump's. So if
- 12:09Speaker 2: there isn't a lot here, it's not going to be
- 12:11Speaker 2: on Trump. It's going to be on the Department of Justice.
- 12:13Speaker 2: It's going to be on the FBI. So I thoroughly
- 12:16Speaker 2: believe it, and I got a heads up that it's
- 12:18Speaker 2: not just immigration. It's the fraud. And keep your eye
- 12:22Speaker 2: on the fraud. And I just, you know, looking at
- 12:25Speaker 2: all the fraud and all the arrests, you forget how
- 12:27Speaker 2: many people around her were arrested. And we're caught with
- 12:31Speaker 2: millions of dollars. And they're still trying to track it
- 12:34Speaker 2: back to Somalia. And they're looking at the dad and
- 12:38Speaker 2: who we fought for and how old she was when
- 12:40Speaker 2: she got here. She's under 17. She can become an
- 12:43Speaker 2: immigrant when her dad becomes naturalized. But if she's over 18,
- 12:47Speaker 2: she has to do her own immigration path, which if
- 12:49Speaker 2: she didn't, that means she's here illegally, which means you
- 12:53Speaker 2: can't serve in Congress. Pretty big deal.
- 12:55Speaker 1: I would say so. Okay, so on the way out, Brian,
- 12:57Speaker 1: very exciting stuff again. Go buy Brian Kilmeade's book today.
- 13:00Speaker 1: It's out today, Uniting the States, Six Crucial Moments That
- 13:04Speaker 1: Forged the American Miracle, Six Founders Who Shaped America's Revolutionary Democracy.
- 13:10Speaker 1: We are taking this, you are, but I'm a part
- 13:12Speaker 1: of it. I'm very excited about it. We are taking
- 13:14Speaker 1: this to Westbury to a theater. Tell my listeners all
- 13:18Speaker 1: about that.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to open up with Joe Piscopo. I
- 13:22Speaker 2: talked to him over the weekend. He's going to join
- 13:23Speaker 2: me on Red Bank, New Jersey on Friday night. So
- 13:26Speaker 2: you go to briankilme.com, you can order tickets. I'm going
- 13:28Speaker 2: to bring history to life, streamed on Fox Nation. And
- 13:31Speaker 2: I look at these six stories. I also talk about
- 13:32Speaker 2: my sports background, bring it into kind of pretty much
- 13:36Speaker 2: a very unique show. If you look at the reviews,
- 13:39Speaker 2: if you go on Ticketmaster and you look at the reviews,
- 13:41Speaker 2: I'm very confident you'll be pleased with what you read.
- 13:45Speaker 2: And now just know I totally revamped it over the summer.
- 13:48Speaker 2: And now in Westbury Music Fair, we're getting close to
- 13:50Speaker 2: selling it out. So go to the theater in the round.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Go to BrianKilme.com. Flag start over on Westbury. So just
- 13:58Speaker 2: straight up to 135. And Sid, I'm going to bring
- 14:02Speaker 2: you on stage. I'm bringing Joe Piscopo on stage. He's
- 14:04Speaker 2: going to sing You Will Not. And we're going to
- 14:07Speaker 2: talk about what's going on in New York, what's going
- 14:09Speaker 2: on with these midterms, your career to get it started.
- 14:13Speaker 2: And then we're going to bring history to life in
- 14:15Speaker 2: various skits while sticking to the story in an entertaining way.
- 14:18Speaker 2: It's a show like no other. So just go to BrianKilme.com.
- 14:22Speaker 1: Can't wait.
- 14:22Speaker 2: By the way, those midterms are coming up.
- 14:24Speaker 1: Three weeks from today. Congratulations, Brian Kilmeade. Another amazing book
- 14:29Speaker 1: and a big night coming up. I couldn't be happier,
- 14:31Speaker 1: my friend. You're awesome. Have a great day. Enjoy the
- 14:34Speaker 1: book sales.
- 14:35Speaker 2: Go get them. Thanks so much, Sid. Appreciate your support.
- 14:37Speaker 1: You got it, buddy. Brian Kilmeade right there follows me
- 14:40Speaker 1: each and every weekday morning at 10 right here on
- 14:43Speaker 1: 77 WABC. And of course, part of that great trio,
- 14:47Speaker 1: Fox and Friends, every weekday morning on Fox News and
- 14:50Speaker 1: his own terrific show, It's My Favorite, 10 p.m. Sunday nights,
- 14:53Speaker 1: One Nation. Just getting started. Lots more to do today.
- 14:57Speaker 1: We'll talk NFL with Peter King. Not the Congressman Peter King,
- 15:01Speaker 1: but Sports Illustrated Peter King. And some other fine guests
- 15:05Speaker 1: along the way. Tuesday, Sid and Friends in the morning.
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