Done Deal: Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Media Predictably Outraged

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We have a busy day, a lot to discuss, as usual, more unique topics than ever before. Not just talking about the war, we're talking a little bit about the future of social media and media in particular, and a lot about politics. Senator Tom Cotton's queued up, so I don't want to take too much time away from the top. We did have the chance to speak to Admiral Kirby. I just spoke to him on Fox and Friends.

He's in Germany. 40 Nations showed up giving some hardware to Ukraine. Whatever the reason, it seems people are motivated to help more than ever. Maybe they see the carnage, and it's so obvious between evil. Uh and not so we vote.

Let's so let's get to the big three.

Now with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This has been the Russian playbook since even when the invasion was brand new, that this was really the West against Russia and NATO against Russia and the United States against Russia. And that's just not the case. This is about Russia's unprovoked war inside Ukraine.

Russia has achieved none of its strategic objectives. That is John Kirby moments ago. Allies rallying in Germany for Ukraine. 40 nations map out how they could do more, as Russians claim. There is now a proxy war between them and NATO.

Also, it's estimated Russia has already lost 15,000 men. I think it's more. Number two. If Title 42 is removed, according to the Biden administration, it would mean 18,000 people a day come across the border, which would in turn annually mean there would be more than 6 million people coming across the border. That's two times the size of the city of Houston.

Unbelievable. Biden's quest to thoroughly dismantle the border gets derailed.

Now a judge stayed on Title 42. This is Kevin McCarthy leads a Republican delegation to Texas to see the chaos for himself as a National Guardsman's body is recovered after he drowned trying to save an illegal immigrant who happened to be trafficking drugs. Crickets from the White House. Number one. You know, there's that account, Defiant L's, Business Insider.

They had a tweet that said, you know, how great it was that Jeff Bezos was buying the Washington Post. You know, now they had a tweet that said this is the end of civilization because Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Instagram or the Facebook or Zuckerberg, I feel like they censor 10x what Twitter does. Musk takes Twitter, $46 billion to finance and massive to take over this massive thing from Silicon Valley. And the left is panicking, looking for safe spaces and a puppy to hug.

It also is fascinating that founder Jack Dorsey applauds the takeover. Let's bring in Senator Tom Cotton. Senator, does this matter? Does this matter to politics and communication and to the country? Hey, Brian, it's good to be on with you.

Well, I think there's the big problem with all of these left-wing social media sites and censoring. Normal conservative Americans, the kind of people I represent across the state of Arkansas, who feel that you have these very from breast soak. In many cases, 20-something kids in Silicon Valley who are targeting them. I applaud Elon Musk's statements about. Freedom of speech and letting people who you don't agree with, sometimes you don't agree with strongly, also have a platform to speak.

And I hope that that's the policy that he pursues in Twitter. And I hope that that also prompts other social media sites. to begin to be once again be more even-handed in the way they treat conservative voters' viewpoints. Here's that quote. If in doubt, let the speech, let it exist.

It would have to, you know, if it's a. You know, it's a little bit more. A gray area, I would say let the tweet exist. And a good sign as to whether there is free speech is. Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like.

And if that is the case, then we have free speech. And it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like. That is a sign of a healthy, functioning free speech situation. And that's when maybe things go back to previous twenty sixteen. Ever since President Trump won, there's been a war of social media against conservatives, in my humble opinion.

And I think he's going to unmask the algorithm that was allowing Uh accounts uh being shadow banned or banned entirely. I'm very curious to see what he discovers when he goes in there. Are you? Yeah, I'm very curious as well. I wonder what all those folks at Twitter right now are doing.

They may be shredding documents and destroying files like the last days of Enron. 20 years ago. Absolutely. From the sentiment that you just played from Elon Musk. would have been a commonplace finality.

ten years ago on the left, to say nothing of the last seventy five years. Organizations. like the ACLU existed. Should this fan? The rights of any person to speak their mind.

Remember, the ACLU and some more organizations. Years ago, Brian, would stand up for the rights of neo-Nazis. to march through communities. that had high numbers of Holocaust survivors. Today They wouldn't defend a conservative who says he thinks Every unborn child has a right to live.

That's how far the left has moved in America on free speech. They used so many. Liberals used to be free speech absolutely. salutes to the point that they would decide With grotesque neo Nazi marches. But they still say you can have your peace.

Today, they will censor normal mainstream conservative opinions that have the support of large majorities of Americans. Yeah. And you may recall in the summer of 2020 during the BLM riot. When I wrote an op-ed in the New York Times that ended up causing a meltdown at that liberal media company and getting their editor fired. I also said on Twitter that we should have no quarter.

for violent insurrectionists.

Now, Twitter contacted me and threatened to lock down my account if I didn't delete that tweet. within just a minutes. Because they say that. I was calling for atrocities and war crimes against protesters. We gave them Numerous examples.

of other senators, all Democrats, using that concept. commonplace statement. at American politics. And in the end, they didn't lock down the account, but that's what's Conservatives everywhere.

Now, if you're not a United States Senator, If you're not the host, of Fox and Friends. or a highly rated syndicated radio program, Brian, you don't have that kind of recourse. Just think about all the Americans count bear. being censored immediately when they post something that All these liberals. Yeah.

Twitter or Facebook or Google or Apple don't like. Have you gotten on President Trump's Truth Social yet? I have not brianed. I have a tough time just keeping up as it is with my own Twitter and Facebook accounts and interacting with her. and conservatives across the Yeah.

Um but uh I like I said I I hope that all All of these platforms will follow the principles that Elon Musk just outlined and encourage their members Yeah.

Okay. Cordial, dignified, civil. but also have robust Yeah. Debate about ideas as opposed to censoring people we don't like.

So, Sergei Lervov, as we switch over to the Ukraine war today, says Western military's action means NATO essentially is engaged in war with Russia. The warning to not underestimate the threat of a nuclear war. Vladimir Klitschko, the former heavyweight champion, brother of the mayor of Kyiv. Um said this, cut thirty-one. I believe if you study the history of the past, for instance, 20 years, the country of Russia has been.

Totally brainwashed, and the civilians were brainwashed that the West or the free world, so to speak, is our danger for Russia.

Now we have learned in the past as well. That, whatever the statement was coming from Russia, it's all about threatening. It's all about to provide this jeopardy to the free world. And with this, Russia is trying to conquer the world, conquer the free world. By using the term nuclear war, what is your takeaway from the Foreign Secretary saying that again?

Ryan, I think Sergei Lavrov, just like Russian generals. just like Vladimir Putin over the last two months. Uh has used the the threat or the specter of nuclear attacks. trying to intimidate the West. is try to get Uh United States and NATO to back down.

In our support for Ukraine. Regrettably, at times, it has seemed that Joe Biden has been intimidated. You may recall last week that Vladimir Putin celebrated the new test. of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Development of that message.

It does not have substantially to Russia's nuclear capabilities, but it does obviously upgrade their missile forces. Just like we are in the process of upgrading our missiles, Brian, just like we conduct routine tests, and we give them advance notice as well.

However, Joe Biden ended up first postponing one of those routine tests and then canceling it. And the explanation was we didn't want to do anything provocative. words.

Well Provocative in Joe Biden's mind, I worry what Vladimir Putin will think he can get away with next. Uh that is true. Uh so we're seeing a much more aggressive Western world, led by Secretary of Defense Austin, came out yesterday and said, Look, one of our goals is to weaken Russia so they don't do this again.

Now, I love that sentiment, but is that wise to say in the public forum and nationalize this and not make it so much Ukraine's sovereignty and the West packing it up as opposed to Russia being weakened? Is there a legitimate danger in Senator Tom Cotton's mind that the Russian people will rally around their flag? Brian, I think your instincts that touch on a lot of sensible. Points. The Biden administration and Joe Biden in particular has a tendency to default into grandiose aspirations.

in this war. Joe Biden said that Vladimir Putin cannot remain. Yeah. He talks about M. Distractions like democracy versus autocracy.

Secretary Austin said our goal was to weaken Russian military. I think at this point point the Ukrainian people and probably the American people would settle for something much more concrete and immediate, which is helping Ukraine win this war. And we should help Ukraine win this war by getting Russian troops off of their territory. Everything else can follow from that. I hear you.

Do you think it from, you know, you've served in the infantry, this is not hypothetical to you? Do you think it's possible from what you see, what you've studied, what the intelligence you see, for them to get them out of Donbass? Is that a realistic goal? I do think that's a realistic goal, Brian. Many people didn't think so at the beginning of this war.

Some people still don't. I don't think we should underestimate. both the skill and the resolve and will of the Ukrainian military, they do need more assistance. Yeah. is different.

the kind of mind they had outside. Um For your listeners who have not been in this kind of battle, imagine the battle for key would be something like a battle in and around Chicago. Very dense urban areas, lots of buildings, a lot of polyvertical buildings. very favorable towards the defense. The battle in eastern Ukraine.

It's going to be more like a battle that would have been fought. Say Iowa or Kansas. Very flat open fields, long lines of sites, much more favorable to the offense and combined arms warfare using infantry and armor and artillery than it was in and around Kiev. why it's so urgent. We get Uh Ukraine.

tanks And the infantry fighting vehicles and the artillery cannons that they need that were not as useful in northern Ukraine.

Now, regrettably. the Biden administration still seems to be on the back foot on this. We should have been sending those kind of weapons to six or eight weeks ago, if not more. like we should have been sending those defensive weapons, finger missiles and javelin missiles. to uh keep ago before uh Yeah.

Russia ever invaded. But if we get them the the heavy weaponry they need. I do think that the Ukrainian army can prevail. Because of the essence, there's not a moment to lose. When we write these checks, where's the money coming out of?

Are they coming out of the defense budget, do you know? Where is this money? The $800 million. No, that's Democrats would like. And you know, we passed a a bill uh about uh two months ago.

Yeah. Ukraine and the Democrats' initial Proposal was that all of the non-military support would be new spending. All of the military support would have to. come out of America's military. Uh we obviously put our put down on that and said no.

But it's a combination of two. Two main sources of fun. Brian. And Um spending bills has a certain amount. of money that he can repurpose for Prices like this.

To provide the president flexibility. And then, of course, If that money gets spent, the president comes back to Congress. And I suspect sometime in the next couple of weeks. Uh the president will need to come back to Congress. Yeah.

Chuck Schumer and Anthony Pelosi. Move quickly with that. request and don't try to tie it up with say additional spending for coronavirus. or other domestic. expending that we have a simple straight Yeah.

To get Ukraine the weapons and the support it needs immediately. Senator, always great to talk to you. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Senator Tom Cotton.

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Really, not a word from the White House. Why?

Well, he's Texas National Guard. Why did that concern him? Just because he served in Kuwait, Iraq, and they put the National Guard on the border because he won't secure the border? That is despicable out of the president. This is the same president, by the way, that could not wait to find a microphone when he saw Border Patrol agents on horseback, which he thought were slapping Haitian immigrants with their reins.

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Well I think it's very important for Uh there'll be and inclusive arena for Free speech. Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square.

So It's just really important that people have both the reality and the perception. uh that they're able to speak freely within the bounds of the law. There you go. That was Elon Musk talking about the possibility of buying Twitter. He has since bought Twitter $46, $44 billion.

He secures the financing, took out some, even though he's the richest guy in the world, I guess he didn't have a lot of cash on hand or enough to buy it.

So he did some deals with some banks, and he's got Twitter. Bottom line is, he's taken off the edge. He's going to take it private. What will that mean?

Well, a guy now who's CEO of Donald Trump's social media arm, that is Truth Social, is Devin Nunes, the former congressman from California. Congressman, twice in an hour. Great to talk to you. Uh Brian, thanks for having me, man. This is great, man.

You they're working you too hard. They gotta pay you more. I know. We gotta work on that payment. Maybe I'll maybe I'll tweet about that or use well, what do I call it on Truth Social when you post something?

You have to truth. You have to truth. Truths are better much better than tweets or Instagram posts.

So does Twitter going to somebody like Elon Musk hurt? You guys at Truth Social, because he's looked at someone's more of a fair and balanced guy. No, I mean, actually, quite the opposite. And you notice that, you know, obviously, we now are number one in the app store. And it's clearly because people's eyes have been opened.

and they know that all of these other sites where that people are on And still, look, Twitter's got a long way to go, but Twitter was a ghost town. There was nobody there, as I was saying on Fox and Prince this morning. The the eyeballs are on users are on TikTok, which is China owned. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, and of course Facebook.

So Those uh they have real users and they have a lot of users. And that's where the market is. And so what we're developing at Truth is a community That's going to not only leverage the best of what Twitter has, but also the best of Instagram and ultimately the best of Facebook.

So that we can go out and grab those users. You know, it's a totally different user base. There's a lot of people out there for us to get.

So we're so we have Brian, it's important for people to know how we got here.

So Donald Trump was kicked off of every platform. Millions of Americans were either kicked off the platform, Shadow band like me. censored uh l you know like like no other.

So, Donald Trump had no choice but to create his own platform. He had nowhere to go. And we've built this thing just in a matter of few months, and I think people need to understand that. We just opened up in the Apple App Store fully on Saturday.

So this is like day, I don't know, three and a half. You know, we're on we're on day four here.

So it's amazing the growth that we're seeing. And yesterday was a big day for us because You know, imagine all millions of Americans who have been kicked off, censored off of all these platforms.

So for Elon Musk to come in and buy Twitter. We're all for it. I mean, we're glad that somebody's finally stepping up and saying the things that he's saying. And hopefully, he can make it better. I mean, it's not a profitable company.

And it's lost a lot of users. But look, having that out of the control of woke lunatics. Is pro is a good thing. And let's just see if he can stick to his promises, which is to. you know, get rid of the algorithms and get rid of the the censoring.

And if he if he can, It'll be a good thing because Twitter really is Twitter's much different than truth social or Instagram or Facebook. Twitter is really a global PR wire on the internet. It's a place that. Corporations go, sports teams go, political hacks go. and Hollywood celebrities go to put out press releases.

And and so It's got a global footprint, so to have that out of the control of Lokis. is a good thing, but it's going to be interesting to see if he can make it work.

So you the President put this out yesterday. I hope Elon buys Twitter, which of course he did. But he'll make improvements to it, and he's a good man. But I am going to stay on truth. And as you know, he wants Twitter to be more inclusive.

So, when it comes to Truth Social, if some of these MSNBC fans and CNN fans get on and start trolling the President, or you, Devin, how are you guys going to react? Is that allowed? Yes, well, we already have we already actually already have a lot of what appears to be far left people that are on there and doing just that.

Now one of the things that we are doing, and I was obvious I was harassing Ducey this morning on television on Talks and Friends with you, but we're not allowing bots or fake people.

So if you're going to be on there, You know, we're going to know, we're going to have you verified. And your number, your email. You know, we're not going to tolerate any fake people or anybody having 5,000 accounts, like they do on Twitter. you've got to have a real account and actually be a real a real human running the account. And that's not easy to do.

And then, of course, we're not going to tolerate any illegal activity. what I like to say is we want to be a family friendly place. A lot of the stuff that you see on these tech tyrant platforms. You know, it's a lot of stuff that, quite frankly, you know, I don't want my daughter seeing. I don't want my, you know.

My mom's seen, and you know, we're trying to keep it a clean, family-friendly place.

So, you know, we do have. We do have rules. But let me tell you what we don't have rules for. We are not going to censor you for your political views. And that's the main thing.

People have a right in this country and around the globe, First Amendment right. to get out there and say I believe in vaccines, or I don't believe in vaccines, or I think the Hunter Biden laptop from hell is real. I don't believe it's Russian disinformation. That's what we want to foster: a family-friendly, clean place. Anybody can come on there, but not if you're a bot.

Not like Doocy, man. We thought he was a bot. We had to keep him off for a while. It looks like we got him on, though. We got him on, Kill Me.

We got him on. Right.

Well, let me ask you: how do you truth? Because I'm on right now. Uh I hit so where do I hit The little red circle in the corner. Boom, hit it and type in and And blast away, man. It'll go out to the world.

I don't see it. Wait, oh, there you go.

Okay, got it.

So there's a little red circle you do what you said, truth. Is there a limit to characters? Uh yeah, but it's it's a lot. It's a lot more than Twitter and some of the other platforms. It's I think it's uh like like over four hundred.

Do you believe that it's you'd Do you believe that this is necessary if the President is going to be running for President again? Do you believe you have to have a social media presence? Is that part of the reason why he lured you over and went ahead and did this project? No, actually, it was really just the opp it was kind of the opposite. I mean, the President's, I think, been very clear about his future plans.

You know, he wants to win makes you know, help the Republicans win the midterms. But what he wanted, and what I wanted, because I had been on this issue for a few years, I had actually quit tweeting. uh over two years ago because of the censorship. And What he wanted is he wanted the American people to get their voice back. And he wanted to open the internet back up.

This is a this is big picture. He didn't need to start a new company. He did it for the American people and people around the world. To have a free and open internet. And that's why, you know, like I joke, he didn't need a new company, and I didn't need a job.

I was, you know, had a leadership position in the House of Representatives. I loved representing the people of the San Joaquin Valley of California. But I felt this was the most important issue at the highest level. We are in a propaganda war in this country. There's disinformation flowing from extreme left being force fed into the American public and around the globe.

And I just saw the decorum, and everything just collapsed in Washington over my time there. And I knew. If we didn't have basic communications for people to communicate freely, This country was going to go into a tailspin. And that's why. True Social is number one on the App Store right now because people are on there, they're engaged.

And it's growing. And we're glad. That somebody like Elon Musk stepped up and you know spent forty some billion dollars. to at least wrestle this away from lunatics, the Twitter PR systems. I mean, we are excited.

I mean, this is something that's needed to happen for a long time. I think yesterday was a big day of kind of breaking through The first door is opening people's eyes and And we see that now because just the reaction of people that are joining truth. And I don't want to. Of course, Brian, I'm the CEO of the company. But you know, w we're doing this to give people their voice back.

And you should know this too. We're only we just got out of beta testing. I mean, you know, like I said earlier, We're only open right now in the United States.

So imagine that. Elon Musk is one of the most popular guys in the world. He just bought Twitter yesterday. They're below us, and they're open all over the globe. We're only open in the United States and the the American people are reacting.

and they're signing up and they're enjoying their their time on the platform because they're finding people that that they haven't seen on social media for for several years because they got kicked off or censored. and they're enjoying it. And that's why the engagement is so high on our platform, even though we've You we've barely just begun. I want you to hear what Jen Sake said yesterday about this sale and what it means, cut three. No matter who owns or runs Twitter, the President has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, the power they have over our everyday lives, has long argued that tech platforms must be held accountable for the harms they cause.

He has been a strong supporter of fundamental reforms to achieve that goal.

So he's concerned about it. He would feel as though in many ways he benefited from it.

So, Devin, who moderates yours? For example, let's say someone pops up there and tweets out, Joe Biden wants to start World War III. I don't know if that's accurate, probably not. Wants to start World War III and I get the other way. But does Devin Nunes on Truth Social say, okay, I'm taking that down, it's dangerous?

Yes, well, we have guidelines. And let me so let me come back to let me come back to that just but let me decipher what she's talking about there because I think it's really an important point. These tech tyrants were completely in bed with the left wing in this country since Donald Trump won in 2016. The censoring started in 1917 and ramped up in 18 and 19 and 20, and it culminated in 20 before the election by hiding the Hunter Biden laptop story in its entirety. Changing the election result, we know that now from polling, and then ultimately.

You know, hundreds of thousands, not millions, of people got kicked off of these platforms after the election. And I'm not talking about President Trump, I'm talking about millions of Americans got whacked by these guys.

So that's what she's saying. Remember, Zuckerberg spent, this is another issue. Nearly half a billion dollars that went to harvest votes around this country. And it went to the most of that money, it went to the strongest. democratic precincts in this country.

And it just so happened to be in the ten swing states.

So They are completely in bed. What it is, is it's Okay, we wanna try to stop the sale to Elon Musk. And oh, by the way, let me send a message to you. Facebook and other guys, you better keep giving us money, or we're going to come in and try to regulate it. It's a threat, is what it is, Brian.

It's a threat. They've been in bed together and that's why I just want to make sure I decipher that. But As it relates to what people can post on the platform, You know, it's it always comes down to obviously no illegal activity. And I guess the difference, sometimes it becomes a judgment call. If somebody is on there constantly, so we have spamming rules.

If somebody's just on there, Brian, if they call you a bad name, one time or or or maybe even a few times. You know, that's fine. You know, but you know, 'cause some you know, sometimes heat of the action, you know, somebody gets upset. You know, hey, we we we all do that sometimes. But if they're just going around to every single account, And just harassing users that they don't even know, calling the names, that's where you just get over to spam.

And we're not going to tolerate that. But there's j we'll give warnings and there'll be limits. But at the end of the day, I think if you're just on there being a normal person, we're going to allow. You know, most things to fly. Tax or seats.

Go ahead, sorry. Jack Dorsey tweeted this out. And I can't make heads or tails of it. Elon's goal of creating a platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is the right one. This is also the current CEO's goal, why I chose him.

Thank you both for getting the company out of that impossible situation. This is the right path. I believe it with all my heart. Uh I have there's to me that's one of the most complex uh statements uh ever because he he runs Twitter. What didn't he like about it?

Who would I mean, why what was what is Elon Musk do better than he didn't do? Why was his intent why is Elon Musk's intent better than his? You know, it's it's that that whole it's just strange, right? Because the guy clearly, you know, had control. Maybe he lost control.

But you know, let's not kid ourselves. I mean, that uh, you know, he is not some like even he's not a moderate. The guy's a far left-wing guy, and he was, you know, not only letting this stuff happen but promoting it for many, many years.

So, you know, I don't know. Maybe he. Had an awakening, Brian. I don't know. Because you questioned these guys on the House as a member of the House, right?

You know what? I didn't serve on those committees, but they were questioned about it. And yeah, that's you know what? That's a good point, Brian. People ought to go back.

And look at what's happened on those, you know, at those hearings because those guys were questioning. They didn't. You know, they were very evasive in those hearings, as I recall. Very interesting. And lastly, Elizabeth Warren says the deal is dangerous for democracy.

Billionaires like Elon Musk must play by a different set of rules than everyone else, accumulating power for their own gain. We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold back big tech accountable.

Well that makes no sense. But Yeah, it's it's another thread. It's just back to what the white they're all on the same message. It's Yeah. We have the power.

We're going to investigate you and harass you if you dare. Don't comply with us and do what we want. Because when they say they want to regulate, it means they'll regulate. Only if They don't do what they want in terms of censoring people that are in the center or center right. Got it.

Truth Social, the name of the app, number one in the app store, in the app store. Number two is Twitter. A lot of things change in social media out there. But right now, the former president says, I'm not on Twitter. I'm on Truth Social.

Devin Nunes, thanks so much. Hey, Brian, thanks again. Thanks for having me twice the twice in a day, man. You got it. Thanks.

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This hour is going to be great. We got Jim Cott, the legendary baseball pitcher, brand new book out, who's also a great broadcaster. Simocast on FBN, the fastest-growing cable news channel in the country. And Richard Haas is standing by, the president of the Council of Foreign Relations, as we see the just pretty dramatic events unfolding as our Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense goes to Kyiv. Then convenes kind of quickly.

A conference in Germany. And says, who can show up? What nations can show up? This way, we could see what weapons we have that we might be able to get to Ukraine. They just told me what they needed most.

And then we find out that Russia has responded to this bulk up and aggressive arming of Ukraine from NATO.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This has been the Russian playbook since even when the invasion was brand new, that this was really the West against Russia and NATO against Russia and the United States against Russia. And that's just not the case. This is about Russia's unprovoked war inside Ukraine.

Russia has achieved none of its strategic objectives. That is John Kirby on Fox and Friends about an hour ago with me. Allies rallying in Germany for Ukraine. 40 nations map out how they could do more as Russia claims. This is a proxy war for them versus NATO.

And also, it's estimated that Russia has already lost 15,000 men. Number two. If Title 42 is removed, according to the Biden administration, it would mean 18,000 people a day coming across the border, which would in turn annually mean there would be more than 6 million people coming across the border. That's two times the size of the city of Houston. That is out of control, don't you agree?

Biden's quest to thoroughly dismantle the border gets derailed.

For now, as a judge stays in order on Title 42, Kev McCarthy leads a Republican delegation to see for himself and does not like the chaos. Number one. You know, there's that account, Defiant L's, Business Insider. They had a tweet that said, you know, how great it was that Jeff Bezos was buying the Washington Post. You know, now they had a tweet that said this is the end of civilization because Elon Musk is buying Twitter.

Instagram or the Facebook or Zuckerberg, I feel like they censor 10x what Twitter does. Right, Musk takes Twitter as $46 billion to finance this massive takeover, has the Silicon Valley and many Democrats panicking, not sure why. It's also fascinating that the founder, Jack Torcy, Dorsey applauds the takeover. Interesting. But let's put that on hold for a second and bring in Richard Haas, President of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Richard Haas, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks, Brian, for having me. Hey, first off, is it me or is there a much more aggressive tone coming out of the White House on this war as of late? I don't think it's you. I think you're hearing what What is being said and you see not just the tone which is more aggressive, as you say, talking about weakening Russia and so forth.

But the substance of the policy, the it's the volume and it's the quality, it's the nature of the weaponry that's going to Ukraine, the political identification of American interests with Ukraine's interests, having Cabinet members show up there and the rest.

So yes, I think you're reading it accurately.

So do you think it's a good move? Because we are very responsive to their needs. We are flooding the area with weapons. The detractors, the people that worry about this, says we are fostering something that could get out of control. I think I guess I have two reactions.

One is I'm glad we're providing Ukraine with the kind of weaponry they're going to need for this next phase of the war. We're obviously now got a situation where Russia is going to concentrate troops In the east and the south. It's almost if you imagine a clock, say from two to five. On the clock, you're seeing a massing of Russian troops. And we're giving Ukraine not just the arms and ammunition, but they've had the training, the intelligence.

to compete. And it gives them a much more of an offensive capability, not simply anti tank weapons and the like, but also some aggressive tanks and conceivably aircraft. of their own.

So this is going to be a large set piece battle. I think that's good. I worry about rhetoric that talks about that our goal is to weaken Russia. Don't get me wrong here. I think the weakening of Russia is a good thing strategically.

Putin launched this war, and the fact that Russia will come out of it weaker is a good thing. But to talk about it publicly It seems to me uh makes him much more likely to think about escalating. It makes it a fight to the finish. It will unnerve our allies in Europe. That's not what they signed on for.

They signed on for the defense of Ukraine, not for an all out war against Russia. And by the way, it would be nice at some point If someone would just talk about what our definition of success is in Ukraine, is it to get back to the borders that existed two months ago? Is it to get back to the borders that existed eight years ago? Is it to get a ceasefire in place? We have always wanted one singular objective, Brian, and that is that Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity is fully respected by Russia and, quite frankly, everybody else.

And that's what the meeting in Germany here is all about.

So many countries from outside Europe participating and looking at ways that they can contribute to Ukraine's ability to defend itself now and well into the future. That's been the goal from day one, and that has not changed.

So that's what I asked in the question, what you just asked in your concern about Secretary of Defense Austin coming out and saying that we want to weaken Russia so they can't do this again.

So that's one thing that I I saw that Ian Bremer was worried about. He says inside Russia, they're making it NATO versus Russia. And that would get rally their population in a way that they probably would be unnecess you know, unnecessarily. A couple of things. One is this has been a war of Russia against Ukraine, a war of choice by Putin.

I do not want to turn this into a war of Russia. Against NATO or the West. It allows Putin to rally around that. But John Kirby's statement you just played, deconstruct that. It's one thing to talk about Ukraine's sovereignty, I get it.

But is he saying that it is the policy of the United States that we support Ukraine militarily Reclaiming every inch of its territory? Does that mean that it is now US policy? That Ukraine shall militarily do everything in its capability, and we will ensure they will succeed to take back Crimea, to take back every square inch of the Donbass. Unless I missed it, that's a big, big policy move, and we haven't had that conversation. We haven't.

I guess it's see where we let where it goes. Richard, are you somebody that's that's a little surprised that the Russians aren't better, they aren't better equipped? I mean, the reason why they are just leveling cities is is b it's a lack of ski. Not only is it in barbaric intent, but it's also a lack of skill, don't you think? I do, and I am somewhat surprised.

Like a lot of people, including Vladimir Putin, I'd say, I overestimated the quality of the Russian military. And you're right.

So far at least, they've largely not fought a war, certainly not successfully, against the Ukrainian military. They've fought a war against undefended cities and civilians. They've got real cultural problems. real real command problems. A lot of conscripts have not been well trained, weren't motivated.

So, yeah, I think what this exposes again is that Russia is much weaker than we thought. That's the good news. It seems to me if they were to take on NATO directly, they would get hammered.

So yes, the only bad part of this, Brian. Is Russian conventional inadequacy, which is what we're seeing militarily? That very quickly could lead to a decision point for Putin where he might say, We're either going to lose or escalate to chemical or nuclear weapons. And that's the one thing that leaves me uneasy about a lot of scenarios. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: So that's what Lavrov basically said in an hour-long conversation a few hours ago.

It's hard with the time difference to know if it was. yesterday morning or night, but he says NATO in essence is entering a proxy war with Russia and warned the Western nation there was a considerable risk of nuclear war. This is like the fifth time they've said that since this conflict began on their choice.

So that's what you worry about, right? Look, I do worry about it. Ironically enough, it was NATO policy to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons if needed be in order to compensate for what we thought was our conventional military inferiority during the Cold War.

Now the shoe is on the other foot. And what scares me about Russia, about this Russia, Putin's Russia, is I don't see the constraints. If Vladimir Putin wants to use chemical or nuclear weapons, who there is going to say you can't? Who's going to prevent them? Think about it.

At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, there was more restraint on Nikita Khrushchev than there is on Vladimir Putin today. And that ought to give us pause. You mean the Politburo is a real Parliament.

Well, it wasn't a problem, but the Polar Bureau had institutionalization. There was a degree of constraint. There was a degree of collective decision making. Putin has essentially deinstitutionalized Russian government. His kleptocracy is created.

You've got a small number of people who are financially and politically Dependent on him. And again, if he wanted to shoot off a nuclear weapon or two, I'm not sure who would have the ability or the willingness to stop him.

So Germany, as you talk about the transformation, Germany will send Ukraine dozens of radar-equipped heavy tanks designed for air defense. The first time it has supplied Ukraine with heavy weapons in the war. They also have put aside $112 billion on military procurements that would get them above 2% of their GDP, which they should have been doing all along. We're seeing this story over and over again. We do not have them getting off Russian oil.

That would be more substantial and gas. But they can't do it overnight anyway. It's supplying their war machine. But if I was to tell you this two years ago, that Germany would have this type of change of heart, you'd say, Brian, you're crazy, right? Yeah, I would have said that at least.

No, the turnaround in Germany, while not complete, Has been extraordinary, as you say, doubling the defense spending, providing all sorts of. of arms supporting sanctions up to point. The biggest problem is their non-support for the gas. Cut off. They could do it, but only at significant cost to their economy.

We'll see how the debate plays out in Germany. And my only mild warning here, and there was an interesting tweet today from the former German Ambassador to the United States, Wolfgang Ischinger, Uh That they are concerned about what they see as the ratcheting up of U.S. war ends. They haven't signed on to a war to, quote unquote, weaken or bleed Russia. They have signed out for war to help Ukraine.

And I think we just have to be careful not to undermine this rather remarkable turnaround in Germany and this rather remarkable NATO solidarity. I want to move around the world a little bit.

Somehow, we were rationalizing having Russia take the lead in negotiating with Iran about their nuclear program. They're going to take the enriched uranium out of their country, and we're going to pay them to do it while we sit in the adjacent room. I mean, is there any sober minds there that could snap out of it and understand this is in no one's interest? Look, I think the bigger problem is that we're we're negotiating this agreement with Ron. I do not understand.

why we would sign on to an agreement with such short durations That wouldn't cover missiles, wouldn't cover all of Iran's destabilizing activities around the region and world. And we transform resources that would help them do this, all for a few more years of limited restraint on the nuclear side. I just think it's a questionable deal. It is. And are you somebody that understands right now the gravity of things in the region and understands the best, worst option is Saudi Arabia?

I watched Fergirit Sagaria say that over the weekend. He said that Khashoggi was a friend of his. And when you look around in the region and the countries, the Sunni countries that were signing deals on the Abraham Accords with Israel has kind of stopped. And Saudi Arabia has basically cut off relations with the U.S., not increasing oil production, not taking phone calls, told Jake Sullivan, don't even bring up the Khashoggi situation again. And Knowing that Iran is the other option that going back and reestablishing relations is in our best interest?

Look, I think we've got this wrong. I was unhappy as anyone and still am about the Khashoggi assassination or murder. On the other hand, I don't think we can have the entire relationship with Saudi Arabia Held hostage to that. I think we've got to find a way to not ignore it, not to forget it. But to work, to some extent, work around it.

We've got other concerns, obviously, Iran. Obviously, we'd like to see Saudi Arabia normalize with With Israel.

So yeah, I do think we need a bigger relationship with Saudi Arabia. And I think you're right, the Saudis have given up on this administration. I actually think the financial deal they recently reached with Jared Kishner is in some way a message. That they are betting or taking out an insurance policy or whatever you want to call it, an option. That in three years you'd have a a Republican administration.

And they essentially said, We're going to cool our heels until then. We're not going to work with the United States.

Well, by the way, we're not going to put out more oil. To keep prices down during the Ukraine crisis, and we're just going to wait until there's a Republican administration and see if we can't do business with the Americans again. And I think that's unfortunate. And the thing is, Richard, we're not the only option. China is an option to a degree, right?

To a degree. Yeah, I mean, and Russia is an option.

So they could always play that against us. And what people should understand, too, when we decide that the Houthi rebels belong off the terror watch list, that's going to tick off Saudi Arabia. Houthi rebels are supported by Iran.

So you might not like the way Saudi Arabia is acting, but they are reacting to missiles that are striking their country, right? not just them, also the United Arab Emirates. I think we have turned the blind eye to some of what Iran is doing in Yemen and what the IRGC is doing with groups like the Houthis, and that has alienated both the UAE, for example, who wouldn't support us, On the policy towards Russia in this crisis. We may not want to see the connections, we may not want to see the linkages. but other countries do.

And we can't just Essentially, knock on their door when we want something from them. We have got to have real relationships, and I don't think we're doing it with with the with the Saudis in particular. You must find this time fascinating, right? It is really interesting. I used to say when I was in government that one of my goals in life was to make, among other things, the Middle East less interesting.

I wanted it to become boring, and I clearly failed dismally. But you always have insight. Dr. Richard Haas, President of the Council of Foreign Relations. Thanks so much.

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If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. If Title 42 is removed, according to the Biden administration, it would mean 18,000 people a day come across the border, which would in turn annually mean there would be more than 6 million people coming across the border. That's two times the size of the city of Houston. Uh And that's how out of control it is with the immigration situ situation.

Then you have a. National Guardsman who goes into the water, who's fresh off Kuwait and Iraq. He goes and serves. And a lot of this duty, they hate it because they're in the middle of nowhere, away from their families, out of their job. And they're serving there because the federal government will not secure the border.

Well, this guy jumps in. And he ends up drowning. They pull his body out yesterday. And the Gensaki basically is a little indifferent. Really, it's not it's not our issues.

We it's bad, but that's because Texas decided to put them on the border.

Well, the big picture is they're on the border for one reason, not for exercise, not for training, it's because it's totally out of control. And that's the issue that I can't believe over the weekend, Gen Saki's communication division wouldn't put out something about our hearts go out to this guy whose family is obviously distressed because the person he was able to fish out and survive, or one of the two survived. Drug mule. Bringing drugs into the country.

So now we're going to see what's going to happen. They say two out of every 10 Democrats care about immigration, seven out of every 10 Democrats. Republicans.

So somewhere in the middle? You have Independence? And undecided. And that's why they're leaving this administration. Please point me to an area outside of low unemployment numbers.

which was happening anywhere we're kind of used to. When finding people to get employed is really the bigger issue, with this administration, it is hitting strike where their policies are actually working. They think they have a good story to tell.

Okay, I'm all ears. When we come back, we talk to Jim Cott. Don't move. Brian Killmaterial. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Killmead Show. On the mound, left-hander Jim Cotton with a record of 18 and 11. He led the league in those 42 starts, equaled his top previous win total, and enjoyed his best percentage of the year. A line drag to cotton. Lefty Jim Cott looks down, and the ball was there.

And the Twins have made it two in a row. There you go. That is just some of the highlights of Jim Cott's decades in Major League Baseball. He spent eight decades, if you consider his years in broadcasting as well. He has got a brand new book out.

And by the way, that was Jim Cott completing a complete game win, beating. Uh Sandy Kolfax.

So That is a little bit about what Jim Cott's about, Hall of Fame Major League pitcher, author of Good as Gold: My Eight Decades in Baseball. Jim, welcome to Brian Kilmeat Show.

Well, thank you so much. It was Pretty exciting to hear Ray Scott. Mentioned that that last out in game two of the 65 series. How often do you look look back at any moments in your career? I mean, it's it was such a a long one.

You were Tom Brady before Tom Brady. You were pitching a 44. Yeah, yeah, I actually went to camp at forty-five, but You know, it's it's times like this ever since the Hall of Fame announcement that uh you know the the magnitude of it is just uh overwhelming and I've In the past, I've never really you know, I I can't say I look back on those. Obviously, when I hear that, I remember it in great detail, but uh You know, once I got into announcing, you know, I kind of forgot about my. Playing days, unless you know I'm reminded of it with something like that, and that's always fun.

Golden Days Era Committee have put you in the class of two 2022, and people are rediscovering your career. And they say you you played with thirteen Hall of Famers. Your first year was was it nineteen fifty nine, your first year? 1959, I got called up. Yeah, Harmon Killebrew would have been the Hall of Famer that was.

On that team. Yeah, I played. Yeah, I guess that's right. I played with 13. I was adding up the other day, I think, if you include the all-star game where I faced like.

Clementi and Aaron and Mays, then I think I've touched base in games with probably about thirty of them. You touch bait. Do you feel as though that era, when you talk about Mays and Aaron and Roberto Kameni and Orlando Cepeda and others, do you feel as though? The players were better back then. No, I don't think they were better.

I think the players today, ability-wise, are the best ever. But the way the game uh has been operated and what's caused them to play it the way they do, turning it into basically a home run derby. And a power pitching exhibition where you can only throw so many pitches at full power and you have to come out of a game. I don't think the game is as appealing. I I really enjoyed the era I played in.

If I had a choice, even though I've been reminded many times, well, think of the money you'd be making today, I said, I really would have enjoyed Another era would have been from 1946 to 1958, right after World War II. I just think the game of baseball. You know, people didn't look at their cellphones and while they're at the stadium and occasionally look up and see what the score is. They were really into the game. 283 wins, 180 complete games.

Managers don't even want players to complete games. We had a pitcher come out. The Dodgers pulled their pitcher with a perfect game the other day because it was so early in the season. Can you even get your head around that?

Well, actually, I could get my head around it. You know, last night Walker Bueller pitched the first complete game of any pitcher all season, and we're like three weeks into the season, but You know, I understand it. They're they're not trained the way we were. And they look at a Clayton Kershaw who did that, and he's had a short spring training and he's coming off uh injury in the past and there They think they're doing the right thing, but I'm just surprised that people that know pitching better should know that. First of all, it's the condition of your legs.

And I was so happy to read. where Max Scherzer mentioned that in an interview a couple of days ago, that In order to pitch deep in the games, you have to condition your legs.

Well, if you get limited in how many pitches you're going to throw, you never get your legs conditioned to pitch nine innings if all they're doing is letting you pitch five.

So it's counterproductive. And It's sad. But I understand why they're doing it, and it's too bad because these pitchers are so talented, there's no reason. Why we couldn't see, for example, a Scherzer-Kershaw deal going duel going into the ninth inning, and it just doesn't happen anymore. It doesn't.

I remember Seaver was the first one I remember talking about that. No one Ryan as well. They thought the best way to pitch a long time was to pitch a long time. Keep doing it. Yeah.

So you had 500 pro teammates, 13 of which were Hall of Famers. You have 283 wins, 4,500-plus innings. And what I think is so amazing, and you also hit 16 homers that all the pitchers were hitting back then. What is so amazing is you were basically injury-free. Looking back now, is that genetics?

We didn't have the technology you think today in terms of weight training and stretching and plyometrics. Why do you think you were virtually injury free?

Well, I think first of all, I think a lot of it is genetics. I mean, Scherzer mentioned this too. I was born with a I had a pretty durable body, a very durable body. But I think in my early days, growing up in southwestern Michigan, in New Zealand, cold weather climate in the winter, We played a limited number of games. We played all sports, you know, football, basketball.

Some guys ran track, and then baseball was just one of many.

So we never pitched so many innings that it put stress on our arm and We had never heard of the radar gun or pitch counts.

So, you know, you just pitched and played sandlot ball, and your body developed. And then, you know, my first organized baseball wasn't until I was sixteen. And uh then I'd say eighteen or nineteen, your body kind of matures. And you see all the kids today are playing travel ball and doctor Andrews, who did the Tommy John surgery for years, doctor Andrews and doctor Job, they've always recommended that young people play all sports to develop all the muscles in your entire body. And uh it's that strong.

stress on young pitchers, players. Trying to do too much too soon before their bodies are are used to it and then they break down. Couple of things. I want to relive this moment for you. October 20th, 1982.

The Cardinals win the World Series, and you pitched in each of the first four games. Cut 44. Shooter from the belt to the plate. A playing of the match. And that's the winner.

That's the winner. A World Series winner for the Cardinals. Porter throws his mask into the air. The player... Converge around the mound.

The police arrive on the scene. The canine patrol and the mounted patrol.

Some fans manage to get on the field. The Cardinals have won the game 6-3. Jack Buck on the call, right? Bruce Souter, maybe the greatest closer ever. And it was one of the highest-rated World Series ever, too, correct?

I'm not sure about that, but you could play that highlight over and over for me. I'd never get tired of it. And you know, even though I played for a long time, I've been involved in the game a long time, when people ask me in my top thrill, you just heard it in that call. because it was my twenty fourth and final full season. And no player has played longer professionally in any professional sport.

Before getting a World Series ring, a championship ring. And so that's what that meant to me when Bruce Souter threw strike three past Gorman Thomas. That's just an unbelievable night. And 40 years this year, they're having a reunion for us.

So we'll get to get together again a lot of the teammates from that team, and it'll be a great time. Right, and you'll probably still be in the best shape of anybody. Jim Cott, my guest, his book is now out. It's called Good is Gold, My Eight Decades in Baseball.

So you've won seven Emmy Awards as a broadcaster, too. Here's one of the calls. You're part of this broadcast. Dwight Gooden, who had such an up-and-down career at 19, he looked like he was going to be the best ever. Series of drug problems.

We know all about it. Ends up with the Yankees. He's able to cash in on some fortune and what was left in his arsenal. By the way, one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. It was May 14, 1996, Cut 46.

Lifted in the air in the infield. Deborah Jeter waiting, waiting, waiting. Makes the catch. A no-hitter for Dwight Gooden. I don't know the last time Doc Gooden has thrown 133 pitches, but he did it tonight with the emotions he showed coming off the field.

I think we'll put him in the Yankee ground crew lineup with YMCA. I mean, he's leading the crowd, coming back for more. What do you recall about that, Jim? Oh, that was a great night. You know, the big moments.

then was when uh Alex Rodriguez, who was with Seattle. Uh I hit a flyball out to Center field, and now sad to say, the late Gerald Williams made an unbelievable catch. To keep that no-hitter intact early in the game. But I certainly remember that vividly, and I was fortunate to be a part of the broadcast for David Wells' perfect game a little bit later. And you know, when Tony Kubak recommended that the MSG network hire me after he retired.

I thank Tody often for that because getting that job and following that team for the next twelve years Was the best local TV job in the world because the Yankees were so good. And every night at Yankee Stadium, you're apt to see something you've never seen before. And, boy, that was a fun but really an easy job following that team. Jim, not only are you one of the great pitchers, but you're one of the great guys of all time. Jim Cott, pick up his book, Good as Gold.

Thanks, Jim.

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Quite a sell-off in progress. Brian Kilmead, you're on. It's 10:51. Look, here's where I want to start. Companies that loudly supported Black Lives Matter are now silent.

Should companies even be jumping into politics, leftist politics, in the first place, Brian?

Well, I mean, when you talk about Black Lives Matter in particular, it's just jotting some of these numbers down. It looks like Nike gave $140 million. It looks like Apple gave $100 million. It looks like Target gave $10 million. These just, yeah, these all two Black Lives Matters.

Hundreds of millions of dollars? $140 million, Nike.

So, and they take the Jordan Brand, Converse, and Nike together, and that's what they put in. They put Black Lives Matter on the side of the NBA courts. Why is the NBA not upset? Because this money is not accountable. The CEO is not there.

They retired, disappeared, buying mansions. And there are a lot of these causes. There's a lot of people. For example, give credit to Michael Bloomberg. He knows a lot of minorities like charter schools because they benefit from them.

They demand more from them. The curriculum is also better. They're running out of financing. They're being starved by the federal government. He wrote a check for $200 million and said, here, take it to the schools, give it to the teachers, don't go anywhere else.

Get more kids, build more buildings. When you come to helping out African Americans in America, Yeah. Everybody's heart maybe is in the right place. Maybe they feel they're hostage to it. I'm not sure.

But in twenty twenty, you see the results since Black Lives Matter came out, since the George Floyd murder, which took place. This is this narrative that cops are bad. And there's a narrative that white America is bad.

So there's an overcompensation, I guess, by writing big checks to feel better or to subscribe to this cause. We know the cops aren't bad. We know the ramifications are. And Foxnews.com came up with these numbers and figured it out. Murders have gone up over 40% since Black Lives Matter, since the George Floyd killing in 2020.

I wonder if Nike will get any of its money back. Should they ask for it? Shouldn't they have to make sure they're accountable for it? Of course. Don't they have public shareholders?

Of course. Shouldn't they be outraged and say that?

Somebody should stand up at the annual shareholders' meeting and say, we want our money back. You gave it away. We want it back. Anyway, before we go, I've got to move on to this one. We've got a new Fox Nation special coming out.

It comes out on Thursday. It's called Who is Elon Musk? I think I'm in it to some degree. I want your opinion, Brian. Is Elon Musk a genius or a huckster?

There's no doubt about it to me, a genius who's extremely bold and has great confidence in himself. Again, not the perfect home life. Didn't have the ideal situation at home. Divorce family, leaves South Africa, goes to Canada with hope of coming here. No one ever cut the brush away for Elon Musk or his brother.

They found a way. He's clearly a genius and also is bold. He took great risks along the way. It looks like Tesla was not going to be the big success. SpaceX rockets were blowing up and there was taking tremendous loans out.

He did have to figure out manufacturing on a mass level to a prototypical car that no one believed in.

So he took great risks. I think you'll find at the end of the End of this special, well, you make your own decision, but at the end of the special, you'd be led to believe we're a much better country because he came to our country. Yeah, exactly. It's a great thing. Brian, I'm going to be watching you on One Nation, Saturday night, 8 p.m.

Eastern only on Fox News channel. Thanks, Brian. We'll see you soon. Go get him. Thanks so much, Stuart.

1-866-408-7669. So listen to this, and just building on what Black Eyes Matter did. FBI data shows that 7,043 white people were murdered in 2020, meaning 2,898 more black people were killed compared to whites. An average of 6,927 black Americans were murdered each year between 2010 and 2019. That went up 43% compared to the previous 10-year average.

A lot of people said it was to fund the police movement. I thoroughly believe that because police are often needed most in the most run-down, economically challenged neighborhoods.

So when you tell them to go back and they're the problem, whether you're black or white as a cop, the The fact that you wore the uniform, you're not there, that's let chaos reign supreme. And it's not happening necessarily in Beverly Hills, it's not happening in the upper west side of New York City. You know, it's happening. It's happening in Chicago. in the run down areas of Chicago.

Gang members killing gang members. No infiltration. There's no anti crime unit in New York City to find a way to weave into these neighborhoods and find out where the criminal activity is taking place, where the bad guys are, where the bad actors are. And then ridding that neighborhood of it, because usually people who are in working class areas aspire to be middle class, and middle class aspires to be upper middle, and then upper class. That's just the American way.

And you can't do that if you have to worry about your home being broken into, what little you have being taken, and security being an issue. And what happens when police are taken out, they're hurt there? And I think these numbers don't lie. And I think that you've got to come out and examine the books on BLM. What blows me away is when it comes to Black Lives Matter, you see the money pouring in globally around the world.

It really took root in with Trayvon Martin. And the controversy around that. Black Lives Matter took off. Then, if you said All Lives Matter, you get canceled. Remember that?

So having said all that. You have this money. That allows you to have a foundation, but demands that you account for all of it. But getting an accountant is a necessary expense. The first thing you do if you're running an organization is get the most experience.

Nonprofit leader out there. You could pay him a decent salary, or Number two is you get the best accounting firm possible because you know the scrutiny is going to be on. Why would you put yourself in the line of fire? And then you go out and you have a fundraiser element to it that goes out and says, These are the causes we want. This is the money we have.

If you were able to donate to me, this is what we could do. And if you want to see my books, go check it out online on Charity Navigator. Instead, you have a series of CEOs resigning. Nobody wants to take the helm. And there's about six or seven mansions out there where people wonder: where'd you get the money for that?

Bought in mostly white neighborhoods too. Tell me how that helps the cause. Listen to Brian Kill Meet Chill. Don't forget for One Nation Saturday, Saturday at 8 o'clock, repeated again at 11. And go to BrianKillme.com.

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This is the Brian Kilmeat Show from 48th and 6 in Midtown Manhattan, heard around the country and hopefully in Ukraine. We have your phone calls: 1-866-408-7669. The two great guests teed up. Tyrus is out. You know, Tyrus from all over the channel.

He's got a brand new book out. It's his memoir. It's fascinating. It's excellent. You know why he's as smart as he is, but you probably don't know what he's been through to get here.

And Gerard Baker just had to take the elevator to get here. He's got Fresh Off Bill and Martha Show, editor-at-large of the Wall Street Journal, which is a pretty good publication, and host of the Wall Street Journal at Large Fridays at 7:30. Gerard, welcome. Thank you very much, Brian. As you say, it was a nice ride up in the elevator.

It was great. Thank you for allowing us to come or you for coming to your building. The big view is spectacular.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. This has been the Russian playbook since even when the invasion was brand new, that this was really the West against Russia and NATO against Russia and the United States against Russia. And that's just not the case. This is about Russia's unprovoked war inside Ukraine.

Russia has achieved none of its strategic objectives. John Kirby on Fox and Friends this morning, allies rallying in Germany for Ukraine. 40 nations map out how they can help. And it's estimated Russia has already lost 15,000 men. Number two.

If Title 42 is removed, according to the Biden administration, it would mean 18,000 people a day coming across the border, which would in turn annually mean there would be more than 6 million people coming across the border. That's two times the size of the city of Houston. Uh, no wonder he's incensed. Biden's quest to thoroughly dismantle the border gets derailed for now as the judge stays in order on Title 42. Kevin McCarthy leads a Republican delegation to Texas to see the chaos for himself.

We'll discuss. Number You know, there's that account, Defiant L's, Business Insider. They had a tweet that said, you know, how great it was that Jeff Bezos was buying the Washington Post. You know, now they had a tweet that said this is the end of civilization because Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Instagram or the Facebook or Zuckerberg, I feel like they censor 10x what Twitter does.

Dave Portnoy Barstools, of course, talking out, speaking out. Musk takes Twitter $46, $44 billion to finance the massive takeover that has Silicon Valley and the left panicking. But should they? Let me pose that to you, Gerard. Welcome.

Thank you very much, Brian. So, Jerry, do you feel as though this Silicon Valley is really rocked to its core?

Well, I have to say, it's extremely enjoyable to watch the kind of meltdown on sort of the left, left Twitter, which of course is most of Twitter. And I particularly look forward to all these people saying, it just reminds me, you know, all those people who said, you know, if Trump wins the election, I'm going to Canada. All these people who said, you know, if Elon Musk gets this, I'm leaving Twitter. And I'm taking my 17 followers with me. You know what I mean?

So I think he can survive that. Look, I think it's progress without any doubt. There's absolutely no question that Twitter and all those big Silicon Valley companies discriminate routinely against companies. And by the way, they do it in obvious ways, like famously blocking Twitter kicking President Trump off or blocking the New York Post from its Hunter Biden reporting. They do it in obvious ways like that, which are disgraceful.

Did they ever block you guys when you did the Wall Street Journal editorial on the Hunter Biden lab? No, no, they didn't. No, no, they didn't. It was interesting that we did have some editorials on it. I can't remember if they put their, you know, their warning, their little warning on some of the tweets about it, but they didn't actually block us.

But look, no, the other thing is, Brian, is that these companies do these things in much more sinister and surreptitious ways. You know, look, Google is the perfect example of that. If you search certain items on Google, you will get a set of results that is, you know, the top 10 results will be very, very careful. Carefully curated to make sure that they dominate a particular view dominates. You can try that with almost anything.

I do it all the time. You Google something like one thing I remember during the George Floyd, after the George Floyd killing and the riots that happened then, you Google things like black violence against cops, and you get a set of results, which is all about black people being killed by cops. It just, it goes, they do it all the time.

So if Elon Musk. And come in, committed as he says, to free speech. He calls himself a free speech absolutist, can overturn that and can genuinely make at least at least make progress towards making Twitter a more genuinely free, open space for people to talk. That's good. Look, I have some doubts myself about Elon Musk.

Musk is himself, you know, quite thin-skinned about certain stuff. When I was editor of the Wall Street Journal, Brian, you know, we did stories about it, he didn't like it, and he was very hostile and he used all kinds of ways to stop us from publishing our story.

So he's, you know, he will publish stories, he likes stories that favor him. But if we can take him at his word and hold him to it and see that he does actually publish, that he does allow a much broader range of free speech and maybe change the algorithm in ways that actually doesn't discriminate against views that are not compatible with the overwhelming view of the left on it. Good. Good news. Truth Social rolled out in a limited way, and then now they're accepting everybody's invitation if you apply to get on.

Here's what Devin Nunes, the CEO of Truth.

Social said about whether Donald Trump is going to go back on Cut 12. Donald Trump didn't need a new company. I had a perfectly good job working with my good friend Jim Jordan. I didn't need a new job. We did this for one reason and one reason only.

We got censored. We got cancelled. In some cases, people got completely kicked off of all the platforms, including the President of the United States.

So we had nothing else to do But that was left. to open the internet back up and give the American people their voice back.

So he did get kicked off. You probably need to social media to get re-elected. Do you think this hurts? Truth Social? Yeah, I do.

I mean, I think, look, I think one of the reasons Donald Trump has initially said he won't go back on Twitter is because he wants Truth Social to be the place where people come for his views. He doesn't, understandably, want to give his views. I mean, you know, one of the great ironies, as you know, Brian, of Twitter, and I once put this to Jack Dorsey, I said to him, you know, is Donald Trump better for Twitter or is Twitter better for Donald Trump? And we know that it was a wonderfully symbiotic relationship, actually, because Donald Trump had masses of followers, even before he was president, masses of followers on Twitter. People would, you know, that would give him attention and it would give Twitter followers, and it was, again, a mutually beneficial relationship.

Now that he's gone, there's no question that Twitter is not only a less balanced place because you don't have that voice and a lot of the people who are around him anymore, it's also a less interesting place, quite frankly, because of that.

So I think, however, he wants Truth Social to work.

Now, Truth Social is not, you know, has not, so far, has not been in its early days. It's the number one download app today. Is that right? Yeah, so it's um we'll see. I mean, if if if um if Twitter genuinely becomes a more open place where 80% of the views are not all of one particular progressive view, uh then I think Twitter will will will succeed and I think Donald Trump will be tempted probably to go back on it, especially if he's going to run again for president.

So tell me you you interviewed Jack Dorsey. What was his answer to your question? He didn't answer it. I mean, you know, I mean, but he knows, but he knew how beneficial Donald Trump was for Twitter.

So let me ask you: what does he mean by this? He put this out: Elon's goal of creating a platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is the right one. This is our goal right now, and why I chose him. The current CEO. Thank you both for getting this company out of an impossible situation.

This is the right path. I believe it will with all my heart. Is he mean because it's in the public square, it's now going to be a private company? Was he hostage to his own company? And this is Agawal, the current CEO?

No, this is Jack Dorsey.

So Jack Dorsey is for Elon Musk buying this, making a more equal playing field. You don't think he is? No, I don't think so. Look, remember, Jack was there when they blocked the Hunter Biden story. Jack was there when they took Donald Trump off in the first place.

So, I mean, he can't sort of distance himself from that decision.

Now, I think he did say subsequently, maybe, you know, if he had to do it again, they would think again. But that was an easy thing to say after the election after Joe Biden was president. It didn't matter anymore. No, I don't believe that. I mean, I think that, look, again, Jack is not running the company anymore.

He's not directly involved in the management, so he's got a lot more freedom to say things. I suppose, and to say things that sound better to a wider audience than he was able to say when he had a kind of direct responsibility for it. What's your take on Bezos tweeting out that? They question the possibility of the Chinese influence on Twitter after because Tesla needs some of their rare earth from China.

So now that Elon Musk is there, that China's going to have an influence on Twitter. You know, I think it's an interesting point. It does worry me a little bit. I mean, there's no question. Look, again, we shouldn't be starry-eyed about Elon Musk.

I mean, it is good. I think on net, it's a good thing. You're not impressed. On net, I think it's a good thing. It's better than the current situation.

But again, we should know that Elon Musk is very thin-skinned. He has strong commercial interests. He has, by the way, yes, he's got his own strong political views. They don't tend, you know, they're pretty libertarian on the whole, except when he wants government subsidies, of course, then he's very happy to accept them. Look, and he does have a very big business opportunity in China.

So, you know, I mean, while he is going to be very happy to, it seems, allow more freedom of speech about what's going on in this country, it will be very interesting if China. Leans on him, as they undoubtedly will do about his Tesla business, if they see stuff that they don't like on Twitter. Remember, Twitter isn't available, isn't it? It's seen in China, but they still have the ability to influence what appears on Twitter in the rest of the world.

So they banned Chinese. Can you believe, by the way, while we're on this, I'm going to take a break and come back about Ukraine. China's locked down 25 million people in Shanghai, and they're beginning to do the same thing in Beijing because of a handful of small number of cases, most of which are asymptomatic. I mean, what kind of reaction is this? Yeah, well, look, they've taken, this is what they do in China.

Fencing in blocks and people.

Well, you know, when the COVID first broke, Brian, as you recall, they were welding people into there, but welding locks on apartment doors to stop people getting out. I mean, you know, I think a lot of the restrictions we've had in this country are... It's going to hurt immigration to that country, certainly. I don't think there's a lot of people looking to get into China from most of the world at the moment. Look, it is a very authoritarian regime.

They do seem to be pursuing this policy of zero COVID. They want to get it eliminated completely. I'm not sure that is doable. It's very interesting, Brown, what's happening in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, which is obviously now basically totally under the control of China, they've had a really severe outbreak of COVID in the last few months.

They had some of the highest death rates in the world.

So I think that's what worries them. I think they are worried. You're right. It's a mild variant. But remember, the Chinese vaccines don't really work.

They're kind of, you know, they're rubbish. And the lack so far of widespread spread of the disease means that there isn't the same level of immunity.

So they could get it much worse. They are worried about that. And they're not stupid. They're worried they get it much worse. Can you imagine a country?

Okay, maybe like Australia and Canada, that decides, okay, your kid's positive, so we're taking your kid to a gym and we'll take it, don't say a word, we're going to fence you into your house or take you away from your family, and you'll appear when you get a negative test. It's incredibly, this is going to be their comeuppance. They think they can oppress their way towards zero COVID. It's not possible. This is the progressive dream for America, Brian, you're describing as well.

I mean, I'm only slightly exaggerating, but this is this authoritarian progressivism is exactly what they wrote a piece last week actually about in a different publication about how surprising it's been. Look, you remember, Brian, when the virus first happened, and we saw what was going on in China and the incredible lockdowns they were having before it happened here, we all said here, well, that's never going to happen here, is it? Because the American people are independent. They like their freedom. They're freedom.

They're rugged, individualists, freedom-loving people. They don't trust the government. They're never going to agree to all these restrictions.

Well, it turns out, you know, pretty, you know, half the country, or at least half the Democratic-controlled states do that. And to this day, Brian, even after they've lifted the mass. There are still people going around saying we've got to keep the masks. There's still a choice. Yeah, we make a choice.

How was the biggest shock to me? Is Australia, New Zealand, and Canada? Absolutely. You're much more worldly than I am. I'm stunned.

These are very law-abiding. Canada's a progressive, very progressive country, and they do tend to sort of like their government in Canada. Australia is a little bit more individual, but they are very law-abiding. They're a very law-abiding country, and they are. But even in Britain, Britain's been very like America over this, very, very divided, very controversial.

A lot of British people hate it. But you're right. It's been eye-opening. To me, it's been eye-opening in all of these countries. How many people have been willing to go along?

Long after. Look, in the early days, we were all scared. We were all terrified. We all thought we were going to die, right?

So we all kind of said, okay, yeah, well, we'll lock down and wear masks or whatever. As it became clear that we were doing enormous damage for no real necessary reason at all, most of us said, look, it's time to get a proper balance here. We don't need to impose all these rules. But there's a significant part of this country that still seems to think, even today, that they're going to be. You've been traumatized by Anthony Fauci and company that you're going to die.

And your 43-year-old is going to die too if they get this sub-variant. It's unbelievable. Listen, Jerry Baker's here, editor-at-large of the Wall Street Journal. You're going to be able to stick around? Yeah.

All right, good. And then we have Tyrus, very similar personality. He will eventually be your successor at the Wall Street Journal. I'm sure of him. I'm looking forward to it.

And he'll talk about his memoir. You listen to the Brian Killmeat show. Giving you everything you need to know. You're with Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. It is true to say that the United States is The number one in the world in terms of supporting Ukrainian defense capabilities. And we are deeply grateful to the Biden administration For acting in such a resolved and swift manner.

However, I must tell you, of course, as a minister of a country at war. That We it will never be enough until Russian soldiers leave their footprints on Ukrainian soil. And that is Dmitryba. He is the Ukraine's foreign minister. With me right now is Jerry Baker, editor at the large of Wall Street Journal and host of Wall Street Journal at Large, Fridays at 7.30.

Jerry, We've seemed to have gotten a little bit more aggressive. If you listen to the tone and the words of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and we seem to be more urgent and taking more of a leadership role in this fight. Why is that? And do you agree? I do agree, and I think it's important.

And I think the reason is that we are entering a crucial phase of this fight here, which look, the Russians have abandoned their first objectives, which was to sort of seize Kiev and have it all over with quickly. That turned into a disaster for them.

Now they're fighting this much more limited and for them, potentially much more likely successful fight in the east of the country, where they want to take the Donbass, which is that eastern region, which has been the scene of fighting for a long time now, and they want to combine that with the south of the country.

So this is crucial, and this is going to be more of a classic sort of pitched fight, pitched battle with tanks and everything else. And to defeat the Russians there. And I think this is what's changed, Brian. I think there is really now, in a way, there has never been in the first eight weeks of this fight, this war, a real sense that Russia could actually be defeated here. That the Ukrainians have fought so well, and the Russians have proved themselves disastrous.

We are entering a crucial period where the Russians are going to start to run out of. They're going to just basically get the soldiers who are fighting there have just been fighting for a long time. They're going to get very, very weary. They've got maybe a month or so in which they can pull off this attempt to take the east of the country. If Ukraine can defeat them there, and that means heavy weapons, tanks, planes now, other NATO countries are starting to send in, they could actually defeat Russia.

And I think maybe the message is also getting through to the White House that, look, yes, there's a risk of Putin escalating. There's always that risk. But actually, the opportunity here to really inflict defeat on the Russians is much, much larger than the small risk that he could escalate. A couple of things happened on the battlefield. Local Kirasan counterattacks.

Kiracan, which was the first city to fall. And there was nonstop protests, and you got the sense that the Russians were realizing we're not going to be able to hold on to this for too long. There's a pushback there, but Mariupol seems to be a standoff. They're in the catacombs of the steel mill. How do you see this playing out?

And do you see this new weapon push in the last minute we have making a difference? Yeah, it could help.

So, I mean, the weapons that look, those fighters who are staying there in the Azov steel works in Mariupol are still there, and the Russians kind of seem to be like that, as you said, they seem to be sort of standing off for now. They do have control of most of Mariupol, but they've destroyed it, most of it. One other very quick thing I should say to you, Brian, very interesting news this morning out of the UK. The UK has been saying to the Ukrainians they should strike, apparently, according to some reports, they should strike Russian military targets in Russia, because that will be a real opportunity to take out the Russian supplies and to take out the Russian Air Force before they can come and do the damage. If that's true, that does represent a kind of an escalation, as the Russians have replied and said it is an escalation, then we are into potentially a much more serious war.

Mr. Baker, thanks so much. Brian, thank you very much indeed. Uh The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead.

I think it's really significant because you have actually put the platform in the hands of someone who cares about what Twitter and the original internet was supposed to stand for free speech and open debate on the internet.

However, Jesse, the hard part starts now, because even Elon has said that he wants to take down excess spam, a lot of constitutionally protected speech.

So, what does it mean to take down some kinds of speech but leave others on? That's what's going to make his job hard. And I say there's an easy way to do it. You give the power back to the user.

So that is Vivek Ramaswamy talking about the potential takeover. It's over. What am I saying? Potential? It's done.

Elon Musk has taken over Twitter.

Now, Jerry Baker, you heard him with the Wall Street Journal. He is not as optimistic as many conservatives are that he's going to provide some balance. Douglas Murray sees a bigger picture than that. He was the lead guest for Tucker last night as it became official about the Musk takeover at $44 billion, cut seven. It's very important indeed because Musk, as he said the other week, recognises that Twitter is effectively the public square.

It's become the public square in America. We may not like that, but that's what it's become. And when the public square suddenly has not just superintendents who can police it, but also people who pretend not to be policing it, but actually are, who ban people and take them away without anyone knowing that they've been taken away or banned, then there's something rotten. The platform needed to be reformed. It desperately needs to be reformed.

And here's the thing. As far as I can see to date, Twitter took on this responsibility of being the public square and was totally unfit for the task. Yeah, and it was, but it ended up being somebody else's agenda. But I think it was a totally different thing back in 2016. I do.

So they had to consolidate. I mean, it was amazing how quickly this changed. Two weeks ago, it was a poison pill. We don't want it. You can't have it.

We're not going to let them take it. And now it's gone.

So we'll see because most of the Twitter doesn't go to work. They work from their house. He also commented on that in San Francisco. You might as well just rent out that building. Nobody's there.

He's going to change it. And he's going to change it. Hopefully, for the better. He's going to make people accountable. I'm sure he knows how to run a company better than I did.

He's got his tunnel company called Boring. Got it. He's got SpaceX, obviously, Tesla, understand it. And now he's got this pretty diverse guy, David Portnoy, who's been banned from Twitter, is going back, cut 10. There's an illusion of fairness, but there is no fairness going around it.

You know, there's that account, Defiant L's, Business Insider. They had a tweet that said, you know, how great it was that Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post. You know, now they had a tweet that said this is the end of civilization because Elon Musk is buying Twitter. It just depends what you're looking for. But the key thing is.

There is no fairness. Anybody who's paying attention, there's nothing fair. There's the illusion of fairness, and woe is me, we're trying to be fair. But anybody who's paid an ounce of attention knows each platform specifically leans certain ways. And you know what the craziest thing is?

I like Instagram or or the Facebook or Zuckerberg, I feel like they censor 10x what Twitter does. They all do it and they all lean certain ways. But there's nothing wrong with fairness, but you're an idiot if you think these are neutral platforms any more so than certain newspapers lean certain ways.

So, yeah, they're not neutral platforms. There's no way about it. And the biggest mistake, obviously, was the New York Post story. Waiting on Tyrus, he should be joining us up there shortly. Coming up now, he's got a big bio out, talks about his big life at 6'7.

Everything's big about him. And this bio should be pretty, it is. I've been through about half of it in about 10 minutes. It really reads extremely well. But looking around what this really means, Axieos did a whole breakdown today.

Consider these numbers of what just happened with this Must Purchase. Estimated wealth: $270 billion, which makes him the richest man in the world. Total employees, $111,000 work for Must. Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and that's these, I believe that's the internet firm that's allowing the Ukrainian army to communicate with each other, boring company. It's about 7,500 from Twitter.

Total Twitter followers, 84.2 million, putting him at the eighth most followed. Media relations. Media, Musk is by far the most talked-about billionaire with 7 million social mentions. Bill Gates is a distant second with 2 million. What to watch for?

Musk has said he'll use Twitter to force a rethinking of free speech, pushing for a maximum individual power to say what you say and hear what you have to hear. Love him or hate him, this guy's going to make a huge difference.

Now, how did he do it? Morgan Stanley and a group of other leaders offered. 13 billion in debt financing.

So weird that you have you're worth $250, $270 billion, but you got to finance your debt. Debt financing and another $12.5 billion in loans against Musk's stock in Tesla. He was expected to add about $21 billion in equity financing. Twitter did not provide details of the equity financing, but it was set no conditions for Musk financing that would prevent him from closing on the deal.

So they basically said, you're done.

So Musk and his own companies, and we'll be ready to go.

So we'll see how effective he will be. I think he's going to be great. I'll tell you one thing. Mark Levin wrote me immediately last night, Tucker Carlson, hopped back on right again. I think if the president did not.

Put out Truth Social. I think he'd keep his powder dry, but wouldn't commit to not doing it. And now I believe that he'll eventually go back on, but he does not want to hurt himself. Currently, Truth Social, which I'm on, you should get on there. I think the President is on, but he hasn't tweeted or done the truths yet.

When he does, it's going to be a lot more interesting. And I think he's going to make a lot of news when he's going to instantly comment about. Prince Harry, like he did the other day. I don't really need the former president on Prince Harry, but he'll weigh in on that. Like he did with Rosie O'Donnell every step of the way.

Letitia James decides they're going to sue the president, brings it to a judge when they say the president's overinflated his properties in order to get financing from these banks. Like they need Letitia James to tell these banks how to do their job.

So when they subpoena all these documents, he doesn't supply, he doesn't really listen to the subpoena.

So now he's getting fined $10,000 a day. What do you think he'd be saying right now if he was on Twitter? He already made some statements, but if he was on Twitter, he'd probably have tweeted it four or five times. He found Truth Social, that would force the media to go there and have it grow.

So this is a critical time.

So no wonder he said, I'm not. I'm not going to bring it up.

So, when we come back, we'll find out if there's more to know. See if we'll catch up to Tyrus this hour or not. But I'll leave some time at the back end. This is the Brian Kill Meat Show. Expanding your knowledge base.

It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. It's very important indeed because Musk, as he said the other week, recognises that Twitter is effectively the public square. It's become the public square in America.

We may not like that, but that's what it's become. And when the public square suddenly has not just superintendents who can police it, but also people who pretend not to be policing it, but actually are, who ban people and take them away without anyone knowing that they've been taken away or banned, then there's something rotten. The platform needed to be reformed. It desperately needs to be reformed. And here's the thing.

As far as I can see to date, Twitter took on this responsibility of being the public square and was totally unfit for the task. And that was Douglas Murray talking about Twitter, and there's no doubt about it. He was a lead guest, as I mentioned earlier, with Tucker last night. But right now, everybody's lead guest because his book's out today. Tyrus, Fox Nation host, co-host of Tyrus and Timf on the podcast.

You know that? And author of the brand new book, Tyrus, a Memoir. But he's also the real star of Guttfeld at night, or one of the many at 11 o'clock. Tyrus, welcome. You know, you just can't be a bad guy.

Greg takes all these shots at you, and that was a great shot, but you couldn't let it go. You're just too good of a human being, man. You just. You're the best. You know what?

You're on the high ground. I'm on the engine for that, yeah. All right. Because, you know, Tyrus, I put you on that high ground as well. What an upbringing you had.

This was, how tough was this book to write? Or was it therapeutic? It was both. And you're. My favorite book of The President of the Freedom Fighter, I love that book.

Thanks. And I love the courage that it took to write that book. But when you write about yourself, It's tough. I can never do it. I almost didn't do it.

Like, the hours that you spend. When you go back on stuff, It's You like relive it in a certain extent, and then you get angry about it, and you get embarrassed about it. You don't want to talk about it. There was a lot of phone calls. I had a writing coach, Chris Epting, and there was a lot of calls like, I don't want to do this anymore.

Take it out. Let's change it. Let's change it. Especially once when it was finished and I sent it off. I was calling him probably every day going, you know what, man, I don't This is like walking naked around town, you know, and you're basically saying, Hey, everyone who knows me, you need to know me more.

And that in itself is kind of. No, I think it's great. I'm already on chapter five. I got through it. I know the latest chapter, but I didn't know the earlier ones.

But growing up was brutal. Your dad was beating up on your mom, and you saw that. And the way you do it, to hide, you literally hide under the bed. You didn't even know what to do until one day you grabbed a knife. Right.

Yeah. I have to thank Lou Ferigno. for getting me through my childhood. And because Uh Messages on TV are important, at least, you know, in my generation. And.

Seeing A little guy turned into a big guy to solve his problems and then turning back into the Hulk and he'd solve everything. Oh, that's what I tried to do. I had had enough one night. And I just, my mother crying every night and always being afraid and having to help clean her up was. was always Difficult, but I was always making my mom laugh.

I always tried to do things to make her laugh because she was young. I mean, she was only 15 when she had me.

So she was a kid herself. And depending on what level of the beating was that night, um. It just got to the point where I'm her little man, I have to do something. You know so I decided to do something. The problem was.

That in the movies, there was four, there was that, but there was also. You see things when you go back and you try to tell the story through your eyes as a four-year-old. In your mind, every movie that you watched, when somebody got stabbed with a knife, they fell down, they died. It was over. It was it.

It was done. Like, all you had to do was just get it. It was done. So, that was my plan. And when I stabbed him, he didn't drop on the ground.

He turned around like, what the you know, and then. He put hands on me and As scary as that moment was, and I will always have, you see that little puffy dot? That's from him. I'll always have that scar on my orbital side. It was a backhand, yeah.

And then he grabbed me by the legs and was going because he was convinced I wasn't his. I betrayed him because he was so concerned and paranoid about her cheating all the time.

So he was going to throw me out the. Window of, I think we were up in a 20-story apartment. He was going to dump me out the window. But my mother was able to talk him down and calm him down. But that moment.

As terrifying as it was for me. Was the spark that made my mother made a change? I guess. It was okay for him to batter her, even though that's terrible. But once he turned it onto me, that's when.

She was like, I'm done with this. That gave her the fire to get us out of there. And he did.

So you go to your grandparents. But you said flat out, as much as you respect your grandfather, he said he didn't want little black kids. Interracial couple. You point out that even in 1986, you were fugitive. Your parents were fugitives.

I came out an outlaw. Right.

You know, which we just got silly. We're silly people. But you got their stabilized thing, but your grandfather, see, you knew you couldn't live there. And this is one of the things in the book that I talk about: we always worry about, we always focus on the sins of people. Like everyone has a good side with extreme cases, but My grandfather was a hardworking man who took care of his family.

He worked every day at GE. He was a pillar of the community. But his only experience. With black people, unfortunately, was my father.

So he had. All the hatred in the world for a people. Because your dad wasn't a good guy. Not even a little bit. And he wasn't even a bad guy.

He was just a scared guy. There's a difference. The youngest of 14. Yeah. So.

He couldn't have us in his household. And it wasn't sugar-coated. He didn't hide it. It was, you know, a matter of fact, I still remember the examination because we were. We are light-skinned, mixed, whatever you want to call it.

But he looked at my hands, and my hands have a pink tone to it. He looked me over and just said, flat out, no. He can't stay here. And he gave my mother a a choice and I and it was a tough choice, but She had to she had nothing. She was 15 years old with two or at that time she was uh she was older now, but She had to make a tough decision, and life is about tough decisions.

And in the book, I talk about my mother's made decisions. Although you seem unfair at times or hurtful, they were always for our best interests. And sometimes love is not enough. And she made a choice to go to school. And to get her life together, and we went to foster care.

You and your brother stayed together. Yeah, that was her only condition. You cannot break them up. Gotcha. Mm-hmm.

Otherwise fill off. No, unfortunately, life goes on. One of the things I talk about book being the protector and trying to look out for everybody is you hurt their growth. And trying to I tried to pave the road for my brother. not letting him pave his road.

Which leads to resentment. And just as we got older, we drifted apart. And a lot of his unsuccesses he blamed on me. And I'm not thinking of it because I'm. being successful even though The pressure of that or whatever.

So eventually it just ended up with what always happens with family was financial. Right.

And then your mom wants you back. After you have the formative years, you really get to love your foster parents and they love you guys. And then your mom makes it clear she wants it back. Yeah, it was. My mother, she kind of became like my friend during that time.

She would visit periodically, but I was calling my foster family mom and dad, and especially dad. He was. I was his guy. Like, we were thick as thieves. Like, you know, we just, he was a Navy man.

You know, he worked for a living. He drove for Coke. Everything in the house was Coke. The biggest betrayal in our household was my foster mom took the back. This was when they were doing taste tests, you know, the Coke and Pepsi battle tests.

She picked Pepsi. It was almost a divorce. Like, it was a huge thing. I mean, I had Coke swim trunks. You know what I'm saying?

Like, we were the Coca-Cola family. He drove his truck home out of pride. He could have left it in the yard, but he wanted it out in front of the house because he wanted everyone to know he was a Coke man. That was the type of man that he was. And he cut hair on the weekends, and I'd be in his barbershop with him.

But them giving us up. Was one of the worst days of my life. But again, it goes back to they made it fun, even though they were pretty broke up. And there's still probably something underneath that you were determined to be successful. You were going to overcome all this, would you say?

Being broke, being poor sucks. of not having anyone. The The hardest thing about not Is that you're playing with house money? I wasn't expected to do anything in life. I was just supposed to be another ghetto bastard in and out of jail, you know, just a repeat of my father and his lifestyle and.

That things, but I never was comfortable. I never wallowed, and I always talk about that. My grandmother gave me a great piece of advice one time, and it was when I was younger, but she said: bad things happen to you. And you're but it's not the things that happen to you that It's your reaction that you're judged by. What do you do with it when you get hit in the mouth?

Do you lay in the ground or do you clean yourself up? Do you learn how to duck? You know, like you can make the same, you know, everyone makes a mistake, you know, but you can't make the same mistake twice. And that just. Cared with me.

It wasn't what happened to me, it's my reaction. And I didn't always follow that message. And I talk about that on the book, because there's a lot of firings in there and a lot of sleeping on couches and stuff. But that's part of the journey. You want to be an educator and an actor?

Yeah, yeah. What was I thinking with that one? But I originally wanted to be a zoologist, but you love animals. Yeah, crazy about them. But, you know, zoologists, you got to do dissections all day.

Right.

And when they cut open the baby rabbits, that was a rap. I was done. I was just, you know, it just wasn't for me. Plus, football took up so much time. Couldn't do labs and football.

It was just a lot. And I chose football. Right.

Sports helped? Sports saved my life. No question. My coaches were fathers, where they were conscious. They held me accountable.

You know, Coach Martinez in particular, he saved my life. I was, you know, I was looking, I was just like everybody else. I wanted gold chains, and I wanted, you know, I wanted 24-inch rims on Cadillac, and I was willing to take penitentiary chances to get him. And he was the one that kept me straight. When I got to Nebraska, it was Coach Morris, Coach Hoffman, they got me in love with the weight room, got me in love with commitment.

Showed me that Nebraska way of work ethic. But that all had to do with the sports. Tyrus, congratulations on the book. We got to come back and finish this story. But of course, you got to get the book and finish it yourself.

You can see him on Fox Nation. You can see him on his podcast. But most importantly, pick up just Tyrus, a memoir. Congratulations, Tyrus. Oh, thank you, man.

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