KILMEADE KONDENSED – 6/19/2013

By Mary C. Rydzeski

BRIAN’S THOUGHTS

Brian on President Obama’s Taliban Talks: “I’m not a fan of Hamid Karzai, but I do understand his point in all of this, and the way it’s been set up is the problem… Nothing’s going to come out of these Taliban talks!”

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HOUR ONE

Today on Kilmeade & Friends, former Congressman LT. COL. ALLEN WEST talked to Brian about his tweet that stirred up some controversy this week about women in Ranger and Navy SEAL training. 

“WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE IN THOSE CLOSE-QUARTER COMBAT UNITS,” West told Brian. “I think the Navy SEALS have a graduation rate of that’s like under 40 percent.  So are we going to change the standards to accommodate peoples’ warped sense of equality? We don’t need to do this with our most elite warriors.”

LISTEN TO PART OF THE INTERVIEW WITH LT. COL. ALLEN WEST HERE!

Mike RoweMIKE ROWE, former host of Dirty Jobs, talked about his current project, the Mike Rowe Works Foundation.  “In another time, we valued another image of work; we valued another understanding of labor; and we celebrated those things. We don’t anymore,” Rowe said.

He went on to explain that on Dirty Jobs, dozens of people he highlighted were multimillionaires and many more were inventors and small business  owners.  “We didn’t talk about that because that really .  The show was about celebrating a willingness to get dirty; but under that, was a willingness to learn a new skill, a willingness to reinvent yourself, mostly, a willingness to take a bite of crap sandwich that goes around and pay your dues.

WATCH A PORTION OF THE INTERVIEW WITH MIKE ROWE HERE!

HOUR TWO

FOX’s Chief Congressional Correspondent, MIKE EMANUEL, talked to Brian about all the action behind the scenes and in front of the cameras!  Emanuel weighed in on Senator Marco Rubio’s push for immigration reform. “If the Senate passes something overwhelmingly bipartisan, it’s going to be a tough spot for Boehner and the conservatives,” Emanuel exclaimed.

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN talked to Brian about the President’s peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar.  McCain asked, “How can you negotiate a peace deal without the presence of the president of the country that you’re supposed to be engaging in negotiations to settle?” He went on to explain that the talks in Qatar are very questionable.  “I have extreme skepticism, and I want to know why we haven’t demanded as a precondition for talks that the Taliban will respect the rights of women,” McCain said.

LISTEN TO PART OF THE INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN HERE!

ABBEY CURRAN, Miss Iowa USA 2008 and founder of the Miss You Can Do It Pageant, stopped by along with RON DAVIS, award-winning documentary Director and Producer of Miss You Can Do It.  Curran, who was diagnosed at a young age with Cerebral Palsy, has set out to help children with disabilities try new things.  “Accomplishment begins with two words: ‘I’ll try,’” Curran said. “ have a choice in life,” she explained, “I can either sit home and rest and just live in my little world, or I can take the chance of a lifetime and just give it all I’ve got and see what happens.”

WATCH PART OF THE INTERVIEW WITH ABBEY CURRAN AND RON DAVIS HERE!

HOUR THREE

America’s Newsroom co-hosts BILL HEMMER AND MARTHA MACCALLUM weighed in on the extreme tension between Vladimir Putin and President Obama.  Hemmer explained that the majority of the tension lies in a lack of support from Russia for two major issues.  “They won’t go along with the chemical weapons charge or even the allegation that chemical weapons have been used; and they’re not going to go public saying Assad should step down,” Hemmer exclaimed.

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