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Well, it didn't take long.
It was as predictable as the day is long.
First, our prayers go out to the families that lost loved ones in this terrible shooting that took place last night, including the family of one police officer shot in the back and four other individuals that were shot.
And the narrative that has emerged that the guy went to the wrong floor and ended up on the floor where the NFL is at because the guy didn't play college football.
The guy didn't play professional football.
And claiming that he had CTE, just it makes no sense at all, but it didn't take long.
Democrats, Capitol Hill, calling this incident a prime example of why the nation needs stricter gun restrictions.
I used to live in New York.
They have some of the strictest gun laws in the country.
I have a fairly extensive gun collection to be compliant and legal at all times.
The amount of money I had to spend to make modifications to various rifles that I have to make them compliant with idiotic New York law would blow your mind.
You know, for me to get a pistol carry permit was like you need X number of real death threats for it to finally happen.
And I think at that point, there's such a legal liability if they don't give it to you.
And that's probably the only reason I had it.
And I returned it as soon as I left the free state of Florida because I have no intention of going back to New York.
Period.
End of sentence.
And it's very hard to get a hold of.
New York has some of the toughest gun laws in the country.
The gun violence epidemic continues to afflict our country and has now shattered lives in our great city.
Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader.
He's not a leader of anything.
Neither is Chuck Schumer.
You know, Chuck Schumer, you know, was out there today.
We'll play it later in the program.
Oh, the conservatives don't want black people to vote.
They want grandma and grandpa killed because they're so heartless.
Just like they're going after this, I don't even know this actress, Sidney Sweeney.
Her picture is in the paper like every friggin' day in the New York Post in one way, form, or fashion.
And obviously, very popular figure.
And she does a jeans ad.
And I assume because she's considered attractive by people, they wrote jeans.
This is eugenics.
She's a Nazi.
I'm like, okay.
It was a play on words.
People just go insane.
And the stuff written at MSDNC is so over the top.
One of the saddest parts, and all of it's sad, when you lose innocent life, the father of the hero NYPD officer grew so distraught when he learned of his son's death at the hands of this deranged gunman in Midtown Manhattan last night that he suffered a stroke.
Did you read that, Linda?
Anyway, the cousin of the slain officer said Monday that the shooting, you know, so rattled, you know, his pregnant wife, she was rushed to the hospital by police this morning.
And they're all crying, said the cousin.
The family's, you know, reeling, you know, from all of this.
His wife had the doctor's appointment.
I heard one police officer from the precinct, she took her to the hospital.
Her father went to see him last night.
And when he heard the message, he had a stroke.
I mean, that type of stress and pressure, you know, it's so hard.
You know, we go through these numbers and these statistics.
And, you know, if you want to know what New York did during the Juliani years to reduce the murder rate and keep people alive, is they targeted high crime areas.
People said, well, this is racist because this one community happens to be predominantly minority.
They were going by crime statistics, and it worked because the murder rate went from nearly, what, 2,000 a year, and it went at one point below 300, and it was successful.
And it's not, criminals don't obey gun laws.
The guy had a legal gun from the state he came from, which was Nevada.
And he came from Vegas and he drove all the way across country.
There has to be some big agenda.
The guy double parked, knew he was going to kill himself in the process of all of this, in my view.
And we'll find out more, I guess, in the days to come.
But our prayers are with the families that lost loved ones.
If you were watching Fake News CNN, one of the few Americans to watch it, Aaron Burnett is being just excoriated for reporting the gunman that opened fire was possibly white after viewing the initial security footage.
It was very clear, if you have eyes to see, that that was not the case.
And then a guest echoed the same remarks on fake news, CNN.
Listen.
But was his face visible?
I mean, do they have any idea at this point who he is?
They do not know who he is.
They know he is a male, possibly white.
He's wearing sunglasses.
He appears to have a mustache.
And that picture has been distributed to every police officer in New York City.
One of the reasons that last night's Midtown Massacre didn't end up with dozens of people dead, apparently the floor that he ended up on.
Now, they're arguing that he may have gone to the wrong floor.
I'm not so sure that I believe this.
The 33rd floor, what was on the 33rd floor?
I think that was where the financial firm was, right, Linda?
That is correct, yes.
Okay, and it was either the 43rd or 44th floor where the NFL was headquartered.
Anyway, one of the reasons, you know, we didn't have a lot more people dead.
First of all, people inside some of these offices.
We saw some of the pictures of this.
They actually barricaded the doors when they heard the shooting.
And I mean, they big time barricaded it, which I thought was very smart, resilient on their part, being trapped and they couldn't get out.
But Mayor Adams told MSDNC that safeguards on the 33 on the 33rd floor saved lives on the floor itself.
There were safe rooms, such as bathrooms, where you had bulletproof doors and you were able to lock in the staffers inside.
And several individuals were able to lock themselves in the safe rooms.
And we believe it played a major role in not having a greater loss of life.
Just one correction.
The NFL offices are actually five through eight.
The whole building is 44 floors.
And then the financial firm owned like floor 28 to the top.
The 33rd floor, my understanding, was Rudin Management, which owns the building.
That was my understanding.
And there were another number of financial firms in there.
KPMG was one of them.
Bank of America apparently was in there.
One other financial firm.
But Blackstone was in there.
That was the other one.
But anyway, Adam said the Midtown shooter missed his intended targets because he took the wrong elevator.
Who knows at this point?
It's clear when he walked in there that he had this was not a random act.
It looked like he was on a mission.
And people have a right to be mad.
I mean, when you look at the initial picture that came out, he's not white.
And why people on fake news CNN would make that observation or make that comment, I don't know.
I can't get into their brain, but if they're wondering why people don't trust them with all the revelations we've had as it relates to the fake reporting of Russia, Russia, Russia, now they don't want to talk about Russia, Russia, Russia.
Tulsi Gabbard is speaking about the declassification.
They don't want to talk about the declassification issue.
Pretty unbelievable.
There's a lot that happens every day that we don't really even talk about anymore because we just maybe we've come to expect it.
I don't really know.
You know, if you look at the president's trip to Scotland, Scotland, we've got to try what we've been doing all these years.
You know what movie that's from?
Any guess?
Braveheart.
Braveheart.
We've got to try.
Anyway, President, the prisoner would like to say a word.
And he screams out freedom.
Then they chopped his head off.
But the trip to Scotland yields peace deals and trade deals.
I mean, this is nothing but incredible success that the president doesn't get, he doesn't get credit for.
And, you know, if you look at his presidency, I think this is pretty interesting.
Donald Trump has become the peacemaker.
I mean, he's averaging one peace deal or ceasefire a month.
Now, the media will only focus in on the fact that the Ukraine-Putin deal has not been made yet.
Okay, fair criticism.
He's certainly been working hard on it.
And now he's got to take a tougher approach with Putin.
He tried to negotiate it out.
Putin refused.
And just like the Iranians, he tried to give them time to come to their senses and realize that they would lose their entire nuclear program.
He gave them 50 days on the 51st day.
Israel bombed the hell out of them.
And then we came in and finished the job and took out their nuclear sites.
And I think the same thing is probably going to happen.
But if you look at hostilities that erupted between Thailand and Cambodia last week after they accused each other of violating the sovereignty of their borders, the two countries have endured these tensions for 120 years.
Donald Trump was able to bring the two countries together and bring about a peace there.
He's broken a number of ceasefires.
I mean, after the Israeli-Iranian conflict, 12-day war broke out, that war culminated after Trump had delivered the devastating strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
And then the sides agreed to a ceasefire on June 23rd.
It took effect on June 24th, and that is held.
The president was able to broker a peace between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda.
The countries reached a peace deal in late June to end what was a 30-year-long conflict between them.
And I think these are all pretty big deals.
Also, the president, if you remember, tensions started rising between India and Pakistan.
And that conflict started to emerge in May.
Donald Trump got involved immediately and then put out on Truth Social.
I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire, he wrote.
And another ceasefire, you know, that was the one with the Hootiji hottest terror organization, the Houdis in Yemen.
And as part of that deal, the Houdis agreed to stop targeting U.S. ships and agreed to stop bombing.
The U.S. agreed to stop bombing Yemen.
And so far, that is held.
And he brokered the peace between Egypt and Ethiopia in June regarding a conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River.
I mean, that's a lot of movement.
By the way, a big announcement today, Lee Zeldin.
I don't know if you've had this experience.
You're driving along your late model gas-powered car.
You come to a highway.
You have to merge.
You look out your window.
You see a nice wide opening in traffic.
You take your foot off the brake.
You get ready to hit the gas.
Before you can do that, what, some environmentally mandated auto-stop-start button stalls your car automatically and your engine shuts down?
Suddenly, you're coasting into the right lane, trying to restart your car with an 18-wheel semi coming at you at 60 miles per hour.
Anyway, thanks to Lee Zeldin, the EPA chief for Donald Trump, that dangerous, dumb, automatic car stall idiotic features about to be banned.
Miranda Devine writes, a trillion dollars worth of Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations for cars and trucks and engines will be gotten rid of this year, along with the unpopular stop-start feature in vehicles.
Sounds like a death trap.
And the EPA proposal to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding represents a massive rollback to U.S. climate action.
But with this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers.
And Zeldon claims the repeal will save Americans as much as $50 billion annually on cheaper cars by slashing greenhouse gas emissions standards on vehicles.
I mean, why do we do this to people?
Why do we burden people?
Why didn't government get out of our way?
By the way, the Trump always chickens out taco effort of the Democrats, that has fallen flat, especially with all the trade deals that the president has been able to announce.
I mean, it's one after another after another.
It even got Jim Kramer over at CNBC to dump the F-word on live TV yesterday.
I mean, we've had Japan.
Now we have the European Union.
We've had Vietnam, Indonesia.
Australia is going to buy American beef for the first time since Mad Cow.
We have the China deal.
We'll put in the final, dotting the final eyes and crossing the T's on that.
I mean, you don't even hear about it.
By the way, Pam Bondi, DOJ, filing a complaint of misconduct by Judge James Boesberg.
Good.
And Trump acts to provide mental health care for the homeless.
Oh, I thought Republicans were not very compassionate.
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There is a ceasefire in the Middle East, in Israel, but everybody in Israel, they know, you know, they feel very differently.
They know at any moment that ceasefire can end.
They've watched families torn apart.
They've seen neighborhoods blown to pieces.
Kids too afraid to play outside.
Violence may have slowed.
The fear has not disappeared.
And that's why we are working proudly with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the IFCJ, because it's more vital than ever.
You have tens and tens of thousands of Israelis still displaced.
They need food, water, shelter.
They need clothing, medicines, you name it.
And also, they're helping the elderly.
They're helping soldiers.
They're helping children.
They're helping Holocaust survivors.
And anyway, they're also providing bomb shelters and flak jackets.
Whatever you can do to help them as they fight for their survival, as they fight to give bare necessities to their citizens, please go to their website.
It's ifcj.org.
That's IFCJ.org today.
Did you know that there was a big protest in support of Stephen Colbert?
Linda?
I'm sorry, in support of Stephen Colbert.
Did you know that that took place over the weekend?
I did not.
Was his wife the ringleader?
Like, what are we talking about?
No.
I mean, 20 people showed up.
Sounds like a Kamala Harris rally.
It sounds like a Joe Biden rally or a Kamala Harris rally.
And Piers Morgan was on today on Outnumbered on Fox.
And he thinks he goes, the biggest audience Colbert's had for the ages: 20 people.
You know, he said, I've never heard or read so much guff about a reason for a guy getting canceled.
His ratings were tanking.
He was costing them $40 million a year.
He had a staff of 200.
How many people are on our staff?
Think about it.
Four.
Four.
Four people to put on this radio show every day.
Well, we have five.
If you really think about it: me, you, James, Katie.
You're not in it.
You're the host.
Okay.
James, you, Katie, Ethan, and what's that guy's name?
JC Own.
I remembered.
I'm just messing.
JC Own.
All right.
And we have Stanger.
He does affiliate relations.
Then we do have salespeople, but they work for a lot of, they work for all the iHeart shows, is my understanding.
We're just talking about the immediate staff on the show.
That's all we're talking about.
We're not sliding.
We don't have 200 people.
All right.
TV, we have kind of a bare bones staff too.
And he was even saying and going through this: here's the reason.
Let me spell it out for anybody that has any doubt or any ambiguity in their minds.
He was losing massive amounts of audience.
David Letterman is out there complaining about what CBS did.
David Letterman, he doesn't have anywhere near the audience you left him.
His show is failing.
It's losing $40 million a year.
No company can sustain a show that loses that much money.
200 staff people all writing I hate Trump jokes and they're not funny.
You're a late night comic.
You're supposed to be funny.
Jay Leno was the only one that got it right.
And if you want to know when the break came and Leno started really smoking in the ratings, David Letterman, it was as soon as Letterman became bitter, and he did become bitter and angry and liberal.
Those three things happened and it was over.
And his ratings tanked.
Now, he still did a lot better than Colbert.
And the problem is it's all these late night shows.
They're not funny.
Now, you could have a political agenda a little bit and be funny, but as Leno was saying, if you're going to just isolate out half the country, especially at that time of night, most people have gotten their news by 11:30 at night.
So unless there's something developing or breaking, you know, most people at that time of night, they're looking to relax, maybe have a few laughs, kicks, and giggles, and go to bed.
And that's why they're all failing.
That's why they're officially on cancellation watch.
I mean, like shows like anything on fake news, CNN is, to me, is unwatch watchable.
I haven't watched any of these shows in years.
I mean, can you really tolerate fake Jake or Humpty Dumpty?
And I actually think the entire network of CNN is on cancellation watch.
Certainly that hard-hitting news show, The View, is on cancellation watch.
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
I think they're due to be canceled.
I think that Kimmel is absolutely positively next on the hit list.
I wish Kimmel would have a conversation with Bob Iger about me and the conversation that Iger and I had about Kimmel way back in the day.
Now, that's a bit of a mystery.
Did I ever bring you?
Did I ever tell you the backstory to that, Linda?
No.
All right.
Ask me off air.
I mean, everyone now listening is going to hate my guts for not telling that stuff.
Yeah, that was weird.
Give us a little high, you know, give us a little high level.
Yeah, let's just say we were talking about Jimmy back in the day not doing so well.
Does that help?
Does that wet?
That was sensitive.
Yes, thank you.
Amazing.
Perfect.
Amazing.
So you're smart enough.
How many master's degrees do you have?
How many times do I have to write this?
I don't need any degrees to talk about this guy.
Jimmy Kimmel requires no degrees.
I don't need any to talk about this guy.
I don't need the degree to talk about this guy.
Trump's focus on deporting criminal illegals.
Foxnews.com deserves credit for America's plunging crime rate.
New report, Council on Criminal Justice brought welcome news.
Crime is down across much of America.
But what the report doesn't say out loud is that the timing is not a coincidence.
Donald Trump is simply enforcing immigration laws that have been on the books.
Joe Biden never needed an act of Congress.
All the stuff related to the border was done by Donald Trump without any help from Congress.
Homicides down a whopping 17% in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year.
Gun assaults down 21%.
Robberies down 20%.
Carjackings down 24%.
Even property crimes like burglary, larceny, seeing double-digit declines.
Violent crime falls.
ICE arrests surged, more than doubling in places like Sacramento, climbing over 500% in California overall.
Nationwide immigration arrests have already topped 300,000 in 2025 alone.
This is not political theater.
And among them, murderers, rapists, known terrorists, cartel members, gang members, other violent criminals, and drug dealers.
Did you see this Department of Homeland Security?
Chris Van Holland, you know, Brego Garcia's number one supporter and other Democrats, you know, more performative art for them attempting to squeeze out headlines by demanding to enter and staging a sit-in at an ICE facility in Baltimore yesterday.
Van Holland's just an idiot.
I mean, you would think if he had any sense of or any common sense, he would have been embarrassed off the issue.
I like the fact that they're doubling down on stupid.
Anyway, so there's like four of them sitting there doing nothing.
It's meaningless, except that the media picks up on it.
And I guess they consider this some type of positive coverage for them.
DHS released a statement saying, Congressman, if you need a photo op with violent criminal illegal aliens you are protecting, schedule a tour, which is pretty funny.
Maryland, but this is what Maryland Democrats are doing.
They just sit there in the Baltimore office.
They're a bunch of idiots.
And by the way, the monsters that Chris Van Hollen is protecting over American citizens, Christy Noam put up on X, you know, ICE Baltimore, one guy, rape, ICE Baltimore, possession of a child that wasn't theirs, ICE Baltimore, sexual abuse of a minor, ICE Baltimore, conspiracy to commit, same thing.
And Noam exposing the monsters that the Democratic senator is fighting to protect in this immigration battle.
My governor, Ron DeSantis, announcing that Homeland Security has started flying illegals out of Alligator Alcatraz detention center.
I am pleased to report that those flights out of Alligator Alcatraz by the DHS have begun.
The cadence is increasing.
What were liberals saying about this?
Oh, they were calling them internment camps and concentration camps.
They never were, you know, any of that ever.
On the economy, this is why Bill Maher is more successful and funnier than Stephen Colbert could ever dream of being because he's honest.
He's got a degree of honesty to him.
And as much as I know that Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are buddies, and I admire the loyalty Stewart wants to stand up for his buddy Stephen Colbert, that's fine.
But Jon Stewart is infinitely more funny because he's more honest too.
And Bill Maher admits he was wrong about Trump on tariffs.
And he says, I don't see the country in a depression as wrong.
He said, look, I'll admit I was wrong about Donald Trump on tariffs in a podcast posted Monday.
He says you got to own it because the economy is thriving.
And he made the, he said, you know, just as one example, tariffs.
I remember I, along with probably most people, were saying at the beginning, you know, by the 4th of July, the economy was going to be tanked by then.
And I was, you know, kind of like, well, that seems right to me.
He's got to brace himself.
And so do others because 11, 12, or Howard Luttner thinks it's going to be $15 trillion in committed monies in investment and manufacturing.
We can't even begin to calculate the impact, the positive impact that's going to have on the economy or energy dominance, the impact that's going to have on the economy.
We already know cutting taxes benefits economic growth, and we just had the largest tax cut in history, and no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.
And Trump's major trade wins now could rocket fuel the U.S. economy and do it on steroids and human growth hormone.
All of these things, and you factor in, you know, Democrats are saying, well, we don't like the one big, beautiful bill.
You know when we'll be able to decide that?
We'll decide the one big, beautiful bill's success after, you know, as we head into the midterms and we see what the economy looks like at that time.
Look, the Democrats are just, they continue to double down on dumb, dumber, and stupid.
RoConna backing a Gen Z progressive guy in an Illinois congressional race cat.
I don't even, I can't even venture again.
Abu Gazalah, I can't even pronounce the name, and I'm not doing it on purpose.
Anyway, it's a, quote, progressive.
That means socialist, maybe Marxist candidate, 26-year-old influencer.
I'm thrilled to endorse.
Okay, what does the guy stand for?
He worked for Media Matters.
Oh, did you see Media Matters might be ahead of a bankruptcy?
So sorry to hear that for them.
Universal single-payer health care system.
No restrictions on abortion, including any term restrictions, meaning up to the moment of birth.
No immigrants are illegal.
Endorses the Green New Deal.
Believes Israel is not the victim on October 7th.
No, they committed war crimes.
I mean, you have the Midwest version of Mamdani and Minneapolis' Omar Fatah merging as the Midwest version of Mamdani.
More radical in some areas, if you can believe it.
He wants to, of course, tax the wealthy.
No billionaires, I guess, for him either.
Issuing legal IDs to illegal immigrants, banning rubber bullets of protests.
Well, how are the cops supposed to control a crowd?
Guess we'll ban tear gas next.
Supporting single-payer health care.
Minneapolis as a sanctuary for abortion access.
Also backing a bill shielding gender-affirming care from out-of-state legal threats.
Oh, they really, really focused on what helped them lose so badly in this last election.
Political violence is surging, except, oh, that would be from the left-leaning people.
Where's Liz Cheney when you need her?
Did you hear about Jasmine Crockett?
Jasmine Crockett, apparently obsessed with controlling her image.
She did an interview.
Didn't go particularly well.
Then she tried to cancel the interview after the interview had taken place.
Anyway, it was a profile about her with The Atlantic.
And anyway, they talk about her obsession with her own image and how she treats her staff and what a monster ego she has.
And then when she found out the reporter was interviewing other people for the peace, which is very common, had a fit.
James Crazy Carville thinks he's not remotely worried that Dems have a bucketload of talent coming.
You know who's on the bucket list?
I have no idea.
This is what they're going to run on.
They're going to run on what we'll play with Chuck Schumer said earlier.
We'll play it later in the program.
They're going to run on the usual playbook, racist, sexist.
You know, they don't want black people to vote, people of color to vote.
Just a lie.
They think they're going to run on the big beautiful bill as a negative.
No, Americans like tax cuts.
I think they're going to like no tax on tips and overtime.
That's going to backfire.
They're going to try and lie about Medicare, Medicaid cuts that don't exist when you increase spending by 7%.
And yeah, you are putting standards on people that if you're able-bodied, you got to do something positive.
Okay, that's fair.
They're going to argue that prices are still high, but they're much lower than they were under Biden and Harris.
They're going to try and make flip immigration to say, this is terrible that all these illegals are being deported.
Good luck with that.
And they're going to claim that Democratic enthusiasm.
Here's what they're missing.
They have the lowest approval numbers ever.
They don't have real leadership that will take on the radicals in their own party.
And congressional investigators have uncovered evidence indicating news outlets may have been paid to spread Russia Gate lies.
We'll get into that with John Solomon later.
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