LIVE From the White House: The first 100 days

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. I think we need to take a step back here. We entered the year with just unbelievable euphoric excitement about what was going to happen. We also entered the year with the market sort of price perfect.

I think now as we roll forward to where we are today, we're sort of in a world where we're in a price for realistic uncertainty. And uncertainty is not good for growth.

So we've gone from this excitement to. unpredictability. And the unpredictability has to do with where are we on the economy. And I think a lot of your data showed there's still a little bit of confusion on the economy right now. What we have seen for the beginning of the last three months in the early stages of the presidency is that we've seen the consumers starting to be a little bit concerned about tariffs.

The concern about tariffs has driven them to. Preload or front end buy a lot of the larger items that they were going to buy. What they know is that the China tariffs. Are unsustainable because the Chinese cannot sustain this. That if the business people like the gentleman you interviewed stop ordering, China has no business model.

Their business model is predicated on sh selling cheap subsidized goods to the US. And if there is a sudden stop in that, they will have a sudden stop in the economy, so they will negotiate. We're in this for the long term, and the important thing is that we are setting the fundamentals for a strong dollar, a strong economy, strong stock market, and for investors to know that they that the US government bond market is the safest and soundest in the world. I introduced Secretary Hagseth that is hearing. I've known him for years.

You know what? Let me tell you about the soldiers, sailors, Marines that every day come up to me, come up to him. We just had wounded warriors in the office with the president that say, thank God for Secretary Hagseth, thank God for President Trump as commander-in-chief. Just a hundred days ago, we were more worried about DEI and climate change nonsense.

Now we're focused on lethality and winning. That's been in just over three months the change. And what we owe is the best equipment that is on time, on budget, and lethal to those soldiers and sailors. Sir, wouldn't it He's given us a timing in our story. There's no doubt about it.

I mean, it was good to see Michael Waltz back out again. First time we really saw him doing a lot of media since the Signal Chat. Hi everybody, Brian Kilmee, coming to you from the White House, Eisenhower building right next door. Hope you enjoyed the TV coverage.

Now we're on the radio right next door. I guess the vice president's one floor below us. Kind of cool.

So there's a lot of activity right now. I mean, we started the show at the same time. We're looking at one hundred days of the Trump administration. fifteenth week is starting today, and they are not worried about the polls. They are saying we know we're doing great on border security, and that's day one.

Everyone agrees on that. And that's what Caroline Levitt's having a press are now with Tom Holman. He's going to join us at some point today, too, during this show, as we come to you from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But a lot of people are talking about that sit-down with St. Peter's Basilica right after the funeral of the Pope.

You know, when Donald Trump was asked before he left, The White House. Are you going to meet with Zelensky? I don't know. He said, I don't know.

Well next thing you know they have a chance to meet. We see in the background two chairs go on the ground, and Macrone goes to walk over. And I just got somebody in the White House told me for sure. Donald Trump says no, it's going to be just me and President Zelensky. And I think what's most telling, he said, nicest office he's ever been in, being kind of funny, Donald Trump.

But he also said The body language shows they're very much engaged. And I think President Trump is beginning to realize that Vladimir Putin doesn't want this war to end. And he's making the President look bad in the process. And even though President Putin, they say, is cunning and he's got great guile and great insight and instincts, I think he is flat out evil. And you could have all those together.

This is just, to me, Dumb. You make your ally in the West. alienate him, make him look bad. And then you wonder why you have no friends in the world except for evildoers like North Korea, Iran. And China.

Here is President Trump. about the meeting. about the meeting, what he hears from Witkoff and about meeting with Zelensky. Cut eleven. I think the meeting went well.

We'll see what happens over the next few days. We'll probably learn a lot. I was very disappointed that missiles were flying. by Russia, but that missiles were flying very disappointing. We'll see how it goes.

So there's You know, there's a strong theory out there, and I and Jennifer Griffin talked about it last night, that his whole economy, Vladimir Putin, is built on the military. He's converted the whole thing.

So where's everybody's jobs right now? They're working in manufacturing plants. They're making missiles. They're making rockets or whatever he thinks is necessary, like drones.

Okay, that's fine. That's what they're making.

So then if the war ends, what do these people do? What did we get out of this war? Why did you tell us it was a quick operation to denazify Ukraine? We all knew that was stupid. And now we see three years in with tens of thousands dead.

Now we say, what do we get from this?

So to avoid that self-examination, He probably is risking alienating Donald Trump. to have this fight. Here's what he said more. He talked a little bit more about the meeting, which I think is probably going to be a big change in his relationship. Look, he's got a lot of people in his ear here in America that think Zelensky's a bad guy.

I don't. I think Dolenski really should have been more prepared for this invasion. I don't. I mean, he was hoping for the best. Never thought that they thought they could take Kyiv, but the way he's fought, the way he's stepped up, I think has been admirable.

Cut 14. Your relationship with President Zelensky. Better now that things work? It was never bad. We had a little dispute because I disagreed with something he said and the cameras were rolling and that was okay with me.

But we had a dispute, but I uh Look, he's in uh he's in a tough situation.

So Mr. President, you gotta get him the Patriots. You gotta get him some rockets as well as the we got the rare earth deal, which is fantastic. I think that'll be done. It's even gonna be more advantageous than people originally thought.

So once that gets done, that'll be a boost because it'll put the US on the ground doing mining activity. The Russians and and US both know. That you can't do you can't have one without the other. You can't just pretend as if there's just anybody there. You know that if you bomb a certain region, you've got Americans working on the ground, and possibly a world war would ensue.

But this is going to be a big week. Secretary Samarco Rubio, who I'd feel much better than Steve Witkoff, nothing against the realtor, but much better off, I think, if Marco Rubio and his team were meeting with Vladimir Putin than one guy. and no Russian experts cut eighteen. I think this is going to be a very critical week. This week is going to be a really important week in which we have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavor that we want to continue to be involved in or if it's time to sort of focus on some other issues that are equally, if not more important in some cases.

But we want to see it happen. There are reasons to be optimistic, but there are reasons to be realistic, of course, as well. We're close, but we're not close enough. Right, we'll see. I do think this will be a big week because Vladimir Putin's got to totally change his stance, and I think he's probably rolling Steve Woodkoff.

A lot of people love Steve Witkoff. I think he's a fantastic, I hear he's a fantastic guy. I just don't know why he is qualified to handle the most sensitive negotiations that our country has foreign policy-wise.

So, the president today will have lunch with the vice president. I imagine it's going to be at the White House. The president will meet with the speaker today. It's going to be close to the press. And then he's going to welcome in at four o'clock, it looks like, the Super Bowl champion Eagles, which will have, according to a coach I know who already texted me during this show, not one person's boycotting that they know of.

Yesterday, Saquon Barkley spent the day with the president of the United States, and you know, the president used to have another running back when he owned the generals, Cole Herschel Walker, so he knows great running backs.

So, they think they might have golfed together, I'm not sure, but now the whole team will be there today.

So, congratulations to the Eagles. I'm glad everybody showed up. up because we know how liberal Philadelphia is. I know how many people felt about that. But it's 100 days, 15 weeks of administration.

Now if you look at the poles, they're trailing. They're underwater in a lot of the main on the economy for the first time. On Foreign policy.

Okay. Even on immigration, because they think that's controversial, what he's doing in a lot of some of these cities, got it. But when it comes to border security, it's off the charts great. I think it's there's a reason why this administration was not built for one hundred days. This administration is redoing the foundation of the country and framing out the house.

And while you do that, there's not a gladigorian it. And the meanwhile, people are loving the polls. And that's why everybody is publishing these polls. I'm talking about the other networks. The Media Research Group just published a survey.

They said, out of the, they looked at the three networks: ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they said, what percentage of these networks? had positive coverage of Donald Trump in his first hundred days. It is actually worse. Proportionally than his first term. And that's, remember, the Russia investigation didn't legitimately win, didn't have the popular vote.

92% of the stories on Donald Trump are negative. And you wonder, why is it the president's numbers are underwater when it comes to polls?

Well, for the people who don't live it like us and able to dive into it deep and make our own decisions, a lot of people, this is maybe the seventh or fifteenth or twenty-fifth most important thing for them to do, to read about, to watch, to take in, to have opinions on.

So you're going to probably listen to what you put on the news in the morning. If you get five minutes, it's all going to be negative.

So There's a lot of challenges going on. I'm going to talk about the first 100 days, yes, but I'm also going to talk about what's connected on the tariffs. There's a schedule out the Wall Street Journal released about how many deals could be coming in at what pace. When those deals start coming and the big, beautiful bill gets passed, I think the whole economy is going to go on a rocket ship because you've got to combine that. with the deregulation as well as the energy.

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Welcome back. We have a big, big three hours coming your way on this special edition. It's the President Mark's 15th week in office in 100 days. And a lot of people talking about the polls. Polls aren't fantastic, but what he's doing is laying a new foundation.

And here's what I'm talking about. If you want to cut down the size of government, you have to let go of people. If you want to go in and reset trade relationships, it's going to be disruptive to supply lines, and it's not going to have the predictability. That Wall Street has learned to relish, and even small business has learned to expect. But he thinks he's the one, and I totally agree, to restructure things.

Also, looming this week is the big, so-called big beautiful bill that has all the tax cuts renewed from last time, also has no taxes on TIPS, $1 trillion defense budget, but you have some. You have one trillion dollar defense budget. You also have possibly a visit on Medicaid. There was too many people eligible for Medicaid because Barack Obama started with Obamacare, was continued with Joe Biden. They just lessened, they expanded the criteria.

And next thing you know, all these states are over-levered, which is a lot of it goes back to the federal government because they said if you expanded Medicaid, they would supply the money.

Well, this government doesn't want to supply the money, therefore it puts pressure on the states. They want to go back to making sure not everybody is eligible for it. That's, let's say, in the past, was able to pay their own way.

So this is where the rubber hits the road. There's the so-called SALT Caucus caucus with the Republicans, which is the Northeastern Congressmen and Women. I mean, you have people like. Michael Lawler. you have uh others in these high tax district that want to be able to write off their their state tax.

Up to instead of $10,000, $30,000.

Now, that was something they were used to. You know what other people say, like South Carolina, Texas? We don't have any tax. We have such low tax. Why are we giving a break?

To the states that have high taxes, it makes no sense. Here's what Congressman Jason Smith said. He's maybe the most important person outside the speaker. I think he's more important than the speaker because he's got to get. The house together, and he's got to make it make ends meet.

Because, along with the additional tax cuts, he has to cut the spending, cut a This one big, beautiful bill that provides tax cuts. It's going to deliver on President Trump's promises of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, tax relief for seniors, tax incentives for products produced in the United States. It's what 77 million people asked for and voted for in this campaign, and we're going to deliver on it. Yeah, well, let's hope because there's a lot of Republicans like Thomas Massey and Chip Roy, the Freedom Caucus, who just said, well, unless I see more than a trillion dollars in cut spending, I don't think I can vote for this.

So it almost makes you laugh when you talk about where these guys come from. They're in the same party.

Now, the other party had a massive sit-in yesterday. Lawmakers sat in from 6 a.m. for about 12 hours on the steps, led by the guy with clearly nothing on his things-to-do list, Corey Booker. Have you ever seen somebody with so much free time? I'm going to talk for an hour to an empty room.

I'm going to sit on the steps with my friends. Does he have anything else he could be doing to help America become a better place? But he says it's the only way to stop Donald Trump is to sit on steps. Very interesting tactic. He wants to make himself a legitimate presidential candidate, but I think he's just an actor.

They call it two uh they call it two areas. Um that they they were afraid there might fracture. One is the As I mentioned, the salt caucus. The other carcass is the Is really the Inflation Reduction Acts Caucus. Why?

Because some of these Republicans who won in Democratic states got money. for the Inflation Reduction Act, for some clean energy programs that have brought jobs to their cities. They're make work jobs, sure, but they're manufactured jobs for clean energy are an overreaction to what they think is climate change. But If you tell the people that elected you they're out of a job. That's hard to get their votes the next time.

So that's why many of them are taking a stand.

So we'll see where that goes when they go to talk. That'll be the story starting tomorrow when everyone comes to town. The other big story is the sanctions that are lining up against Russia. It looks like Senator Blumenthal, and I talked to Lindsey Graham last night, they're putting together extremely stiff sanctions. On extremely stiff sanctions on Russia, my hope is that the President accepts it.

I mean, you're talking about third party sanctions on people buying the renegade oil from Russia, like India, our ally we have to do a trade deal with, like China, who buys Iran's oil as well, And it's basically been living off cheap Russian oil.

So now if you buy that oil, even Europe. If you buy that oil, you could be facing sanctions. about where our economy is right now, I think it's kind of interesting to look back at What Gary Cohen said, he was a key economics advisor with Trump the first time around. And I think he's fair now. But ultimately He thinks it's going to be a situation.

where the country's got to get used to this new Uh tariffs, cut six. I think we need to take a step back here. We entered the year with just unbelievable euphoric excitement about what was going to happen. We also entered the year with the market sort of priced for perfection. I think now as we Roll forward to where we are today, we're sort of in a world where we're in a price for realistic uncertainty.

And uncertainty is not good for growth.

So we've gone from this excitement to unpredictability. And the unpredictability has to do with where are we on the economy. And I think a lot of your data showed there's still a little bit of confusion on the economy right now. What we have seen for the beginning of the last three months in the early stages of the presidency is we've seen the consumers starting to be a little bit concerned about tariffs. The concern about tariffs has driven them to.

preload or front end buy a lot of the larger items that they were going to buy. And that explains the surge in prices and people just getting ready. They got extra products, extra storage to see where the trade war is going to go. But I do understand that we are talking to China at a lower level right now. Brian Kilmicho, from the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Back with your calls and our guests in just a moment. Don't move. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody.

We're in the Eisenhower building right across from the White House. We're pleased to be here all morning long on Fox and Friends. And of course, it was kind of odd to see a press conference. Early in the morning was the press meeting for Caroline Levitt. Should we do it, I guess, every morning at 8.30?

Because they're going to announce every day what they've been focusing on over the first hundred days and their accomplishments. And today, the focus was on border security and immigration. Tom Holman was there to give the address. Kind of let the let everybody know he'd be answering directly.

So it was a pretty compliant media room, and they had their guest speaker there. But this is just two days after the White House Correspondence Dinner. On the White House Correspondence Dinner, Jackie Heinrich is with us. And Jackie, What is your role on the committee?

So, I'm a board member. I'm one of nine. Right. And I'm on a few committees. I'm on the outreach committee, the scholarship committee, and the facilities committee, which is the least exciting of those.

It basically means that if there's an overflowing toilet in the White House and the person gets a phone call, but we had our dinner. I was up on the stage. It was different than most years where we don't have the president, we didn't have an entertainer. I think that people were not unhappy to get out of there earlier and get on to the, you know, all the festivities surrounding the dinner are sometimes as much of a draw.

So, right. You know, maybe the president comes next year. Who knows? Yeah, plus, you know, to think about it, even if he said I want to come, he would have been at the post funeral. Yeah.

So he wasn't going to be able to make it anyway. And then when you had the comedian who has an anti-Trump background, they had to make the move. What led into that? Like, who picked the comedian? Did anyone not listen to her comedy?

The. The entertainer is always the choice of the president every year.

So, because it's kind of the one perk of being president, you get to pick the entertainer and put on your own dinner.

So, we all found out about this woman at the same time as everybody else. We had some concerns, obviously, when she went on Tapper and talked about how she was not gonna go after both sides, which is explicitly against our guidance. This is not how it's supposed to. Supposed to be, it's supposed to be about the kids, the scholarships, the journalisms. This is not a platform to make political statements.

And then she seemed to sort of throw that guidance out the window and double down on it in another interview. And the decision was made to just focus on the journalism and the kids, because at that point, you don't know what she's going to say when she gets up there. After she's purposely flouting, what we're telling her is: you know, here are the guidelines. We hired you for this job. If you don't want to do the job we hire you for.

Maybe see you later. Governor Harkaby was press secretary, and I just watched her eviscerated by that comedian, humorlessly, just literally attacked. And I thought to myself, something's got to change here because this was just brutal. And I know the President wasn't happy about that. What would you think about before we go to it?

Alex Thompson, Came up and he is Viraxios. I guess he was getting an award. Yes, he was. And he's co-written a book with Jake Tapper, really just talking about the failings of the Biden administration and the lack of transparency on the condition of Joe Biden and who's making the decisions. And before we play the clip, I was wondering what you and Peter thought.

Because you were the only ones over the four years asking questions, where is the President? Who's making these decisions? Is he okay? We didn't understand a word he said. Why is he never why does he never call on Fox?

So now Alex Thompson said this at the White House Correspondence Center, CUD 47. President Biden's decline. And its cover-up? by the people around him. is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception.

But being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We Myself included. Missed a lot of this story. And some people trust us less because of it. We bear some responsibility.

for faith in the media. being at such lows. Light applause. What's your thought about this? First of all, the line about either party being capable of deception.

I mean, no kidding, you just gave yourself away that you would not think that the Democrats would be capable of deception. That somehow a revelation is stunning to me. I also think that it's not lost on me or some others that they've got a book to sell now. I was a little bit. You know, I was rolling my eyes when the rest of the world caught on to what we had been talking about for so long, and then you saw these stories start to creep out that were like, you know, back last year, I was talking to my sources about this.

Well, you just wrote about it now when it's too late.

So Not just Alex, but others who put out reporting about the president's mental acuity and how he was slipping, really, when it was. After everyone else had already realized what was going on, just didn't really sit right with me. I'm glad that now there's a come to Jesus moment happening, but I also think back to sitting in the briefing room alongside Ed O'Keefe from CBS, who's asking a question about then President Biden's age and gets this look from Corine Jean-Pierre, like, Ed, you too? Like, like somehow, Jackie sitting next to Ed, my skepticism was contagious, and like Ed caught it. And now, you know, she was looking at him like he was some sort of a, you know, turncoat.

Exactly. And, but that was what happened in the press: like, you would be maligned by the administration. Remember the whole deepfakes thing? Cheapfakes and deepfakes. Because when you saw him scuttering and not being able to leave or doing, or freezing, they say that was the internet.

That's AI, deepfakes. Right. Um and it was not. It was this was pool video. And the level of just you know pulling the wool over everyone else's eyes and then the rest of the media um taking their word for it and then Willfully accepting their view where anyone asking about it was a dishonest broker, I thought was just sloppy and lazy.

And obviously, you know, people trying to stay in the good graces of the administration and not, you know, hedge that way. But that's not the point of this job. The point of this job is not to be well-liked by the people you're covering. It's to get the right answers, the answers that are, you know, the truth. But Jackie, the thing is that's always going to stick out about this and hopefully never happen again, is who's running the country.

I mean, it's not like, well, you know, Joe Biden, I ran contra. It was hard. You know, Bush 41, when he was running for president, didn't want to talk about it, right? He knew where he was. You know, you could debate on his role in it and what Ronald Reagan knew about it.

But this was like, why is he not making any decisions? Like, why do we never see him? Where is he? Why are you putting the lid on so early? And yet, it should affect everybody.

They should be getting up there doing a stand-up going, you know, for the seventh straight day, we haven't seen the president, and the lid's been on at 10 a.m. And you know, when I ask questions, I don't get an answer. But people were compliant. And then go ahead. I do think that they got away with that for so long because that is part of the formula.

Every decision that came out of that White House was co-signed by a group of 20 people. They had to focus group and sort of come up with a collective answer to everything. In contrast with President Trump, or President Trump is leading the party, it was the party leading President Biden. He had to make sure he got the progressives and the moderates and that they could all agree on some kind of message, which is why their messaging often said nothing at all, because they lost the plot in trying to get everyone to agree. But they were able to get away with that for so long because it wasn't just him directing the administration.

It was everyone else around him. And that was the system from even before he started to really slick.

So, what do you think the first hundred days in, what stands out to you? You know, I think that if you look to other presidencies, and often they want to tout legislative accomplishments in these first 100 days or what they're trying to push through, the margins are where they are, and it's going to be difficult to fill a pothole with Congress the way that it is. I think that we knew day one that the executive actions and executive orders were the blueprint for what he wanted to achieve. And trying to get an early nod from the courts on the scope of his power when it comes to some of these deportation cases, when it comes to rearranging global partnerships, whether it be with the economy or alliances, those objectives, and then also undoing everything that Biden did, if he can undo those things, trying to take the stain off. If you're in the White House now and see if you can use the eraser, like they did today, and have a lot of that today with closing the border that was purposely opened.

I think Shakana is an accurate descriptor, but I think that this was we had the blueprint day one. Do you think the Liberation Day, on top of the massive immigration pickups, the shutdown of the border, do you think Liberation Day is rolling out differently than they thought? the ramifications. It affected the market so that it was a lot of people. It incurred the tariffs.

Yeah, I do. I think here's what I think happened. I think that they put a formula together that the world wasn't expecting and that really You know, sort of pumped the brakes on everyone's understanding of how this was going to go. And then they were flooded with phone calls. And you did hear from the Treasury Secretary and from the Commerce Secretary that we just couldn't manage the volume while also being respectful to all of these countries that were trying to deal in good faith.

So we did the pause for 90 days.

Now it gives them some time to actually put together contours of a plan and get sort of deals in theory. The Wool Street Journal says they're going to be doing six deals a week over the next up until July when the 90 days are out. If it's ever not done, they get the reciprocal. They get the reciprocal tariffs. I'll be interesting because he says, you know, I let the trade guys worry about the details, but Scott Bessett will will sign off on the framework.

And I think one person's emerged out of this as credible on all sides, like Stephen Nuchin kind of did. It is Scott Bessett, isn't it? It is. I think it is because he He's a Wall Street guy. He knows the markets.

He knew what was happening with the bond market when you see the 10-year yield go vertical overnight as the tariffs are going in place. And it's like, listen, it takes a long time to build credibility for the U.S. is a good place to keep your money. And when you start to lose that, it's very hard to get back. And I think that bringing that understanding to the table, something that Yellen absolutely did not have.

She didn't understand the markets. He's able to talk to the president about things that. Everyday people are really going to pay attention to and sort of see around the corner and make sure that we're not veering into territory that'll be hard to back out of. I think it was smart that they gave themselves some more time to get these deals done. I think they will get.

The bulk of them done within the 90 days. China's the big question. And we hear from this White House that they are talking actively to China. China insists that there are no talks happening at all, but you know. Who knows when we're going to see those details come out and if it'll be before we see empty shipping containers and that kind of thing.

So here is their representative, their foreign minister spokesperson, on when asked, are you talking with the U.S.? China and the US are not having any consultation or negotiation on tariffs. The US should not confuse the public.

So I talked to somebody they said today with the White House that we are absolutely talking. Lower level, they're talking. President says that he's talked to President Xi. I don't know when, but The pushback is pretty strong. Evidently, underneath there's things going on, but it hasn't risen up to the highest level.

Are we waiting to see who's going to blink first?

Well, if you if you take the White House At face value, The blink has already happened and the conversations are happening. You know, China doesn't want to maybe admit that that's happening. And I think that the President said, Xi called me, he wouldn't answer whether it was after the tariffs or not, but that the lower-level negotiations are happening. And Besant said, speaking off-camera to reporters after a speech in Washington last week, that the tariffs will come down in a mutual way because both sides think this is unsustainable. And once they get sort of the contours of an agreement at the lower level, bring the leaders together and get the more substantive deal done.

But you might see a mutual lowering before the two leaders even speak.

So I think that that's maybe what's coming together right now. All right. You know, we have the big, beautiful bill. I want to talk to you about that when we get back because today the Treasury Secretary is going to Capitol Hill to meet with, I guess, the big six. They all have nicknames, but all the primary, the players who are going to decide.

If the major piece of legislation is going to get passed on reconciliation, we're at the White House, excuse me, across the street from the White House in the Aijara building. Brian Kilmead show, don't move. Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. I am back with Jackie Heinrich, Washington White House correspondent.

Should I say senior executive, the president correspondent?

Well, White House correspondent, Stenner, you're an executive. I am. I'm a board member. Board member. But what is your new title now?

You got elevated. Here at Fox, I'm a senior White House correspondent. Right. Yeah.

Gray hair's coming in. I know this is the most general question you get, but I do think for the people outside who don't do your job, Could you talk about how different it is? hugely different. I mean, these people have an open door policy. Uh whereas With Biden, I would wait weeks, sometimes months, to get a meeting with a lower-level press person, and they would just avoid you.

KJP? KJP, her door was always closed. She would never have time for you. And if she did, it was like you didn't get anything substantive out of it. The briefings were not a place that you go for information ever.

By the way, I used to look for the radio show in the morning. I got nothing. Giant waste of time. I would take the questions, but the answers were all a waste of time. Giant waste of time.

Whereas now, you can barely keep up with the pace of information that's coming your way. It's like drinking from a fire hose. Everyone's very accessible. They're very helpful. And not just with us, I would say, like with anyone covering this White House.

I mean, I see people from all sorts of media up there waiting for Caroline, and her office is full all the time. He just did an interview with The Atlantic. Which is incredible, right? He talks to them. That's who was on the signal call that the President really disparaged.

And then so you can come in and do an interview. It's it's unreal. Time magazine, too. Yep. Right.

So Media Research Center just published this study. two hours ago. That 92% of the network coverage, ABC, CBS, and And ABC, ABC, NBC and CBS. 92% is negative. 89% at this point, first term.

Now that's the first term. He didn't win the popular vote. They said the Russians gave him the election. All the dismissal of Michael Flynn and all the controversy. 92% is negative.

Does that number hit you? How does that number hit you? The only thing that I think about when I look at something like that is also their ratings. And, you know, people obviously elected this president. They elected Republicans across the board.

It was a sweep. All the swing states, both chambers of Congress, popular vote, all of it. When you're just throwing rocks at the president as a business model, maybe you're out of step with the views of your viewers, the opinions of your viewership. And not to say that you need to be worshiping anybody, but to be fair in your coverage, to talk about the issues that matter to them, and to understand what it was that made your viewers support their choices in political office.

So if you're just going to go at, you know, Adam with a hammer Do you expect to win? It did surprise me. the number because when it when the election was first over and there's just no controversy, just over and that happened and every yeah, every battleground stayed, and we know it, it was just 49.9% just short of 50, okay?

So I thought there's going to be a change in the way the reporting went. This number did not surprise me because I flip around a lot. Do you flip around a lot? I do. I'm always trying to find out what the flip side is, what story that might be good that they're going to avoid.

But if you flip over to the now that we're doing this world thing, we got to see how we're perceived in Ukraine, how we're perceived in Gaza, how we're perceived in these trade deals, most of that press has been anti-American, negative towards America. And then most of our press is negative towards America. You could understand from the Trumpers perspective, if you think you're doing the right thing, how you could feel like you're be not treated well. Yeah, I mean, I think that he is right when he says that You know, he's had it tougher than any other president. That's true.

I do think that, you know, some of the shock and awe is intended to exploit that. I think that it puts, you know, he likes the optics of this at the same time. Because putting this conversation in a space where, you know, it's him against the liberal media, I think it works for him too.

So, you know. Jack, you came in on your day off. I appreciate it so much. Jackie Heinrich, thanks so much. And we look forward to your fantastic coverage as senior correspondent.

Thanks, Brian. Back in a moment, Brian Kilmeicho. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian Killmead. All right, everyone, thanks so much for being here.

It's the Brian Kilmeet Show, right in the Eisenhower Building, right in Washington, D.C. A lot going on today. Philadelphia Eagles will be here in the afternoon getting their Super Bowl acknowledgement, and everyone's going to show up. Can you imagine that? Remember, it was so hard, and everyone was saying, Yeah, don't even invite them.

It's getting too controversial.

Well, this time around, not only the Eagles showing up, Saquon Barkley golfed with the president yesterday, was over at Bedminster in New Jersey. They got a chance to meet for the first time. All this stuff is easy to For the president to avoid, you know, but or these athletes to avoid. They could say they have a, we'll see you at the White House, but instead they want to meet the president. And I don't think it was really happening, was definitely not happening in the first term.

I also thought it was great for the president to. Watched my show last night on One Nation, at which time he mentioned Warren Zeiters. Because Warrenzeider says the president's doing essentially a great job.

So did Kelsey Grabert, by the way.

So, the president had a shout-out, not necessarily for the show, but to Warren Zeiters, who, by the way, fantastic story. And I'm going to post that online on all my social media, all my social media sites. But we're looking at 100 days of the president of the United States. We're looking at a guy that's been doing this for 15 weeks, but doing it again. I cannot believe how many oars he has on the water at the same time.

And then I wake up to the fact that now they're putting on a focus on North Korea as well. Yes, we're going to see where are we at with them? Where are we at with their ballistic missiles? How do we get bring these guys back in?

Now, The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has not done much since the president became President, again, we know they had the first face-to-face meeting in years, maybe ever, between a leader. We know about the historic that was not given much credence, by the way. We know about the historic meeting that they had. And the results that came out of it were no deal. But there doesn't seem to be the anger that we saw last time.

So I look forward to that. This hour, we're going to be joined by Michael Waltz. And Michael Waltz, National Security Advisor. Outside the hiccup with the Signal app, which I think everybody's getting used to right now, Waltz has been phenomenal on all aspects, supporting not only what's going on with Iran, not only what's happening in Gaza, not only what's happening in Ukraine, but some of the challenges here, including supporting the border. Here's Michael Waltz yesterday with Maria, cut one.

I introduced Secretary Hegseth that is hearing. I've known him for years. You know what? Let me tell you about the soldiers, sailors, and Marines that every day come up to me, come up to him. We just had wounded warriors in the office with the president that say, Thank God for Secretary Hegseth, thank God for President Trump as commander-in-chief.

Just 100 days ago, we were more worried about DEI and climate change nonsense.

Now we're focused on lethality and winning. That's been in just over three months the change. And what we owe is the best equipment that is on time, on budget, and lethal to those soldiers and sailors. So that is, he's referring to the fact that no one's really talking about what Pete has done is changed the whole attitude at the Pentagon. There's controversy about the staffers and signal app and usage like that.

I think that'll be worked out. What he went out of his way to do yesterday is also point out that Pete Haggs has put together a trillion-dollar budget, and essentially he's going to get the money. He also has led the charge. His presence and his programs have led the charge to have recruiting highs that date back all the way to 2012. That's how high the levels are.

They let the They set the targets lower under the Biden years and they still didn't hit them.

Now they're raising them and they're going beyond them. Tell me that isn't impressive. Considering you have unemployment around what, 4%? Usually when people join the military, it's 9%. They need a career.

They're worried about the marketplace. They'll go in. And that'll why they serve. But you have opportunities, and they're still choosing it. Today there'll be a rally in Michigan.

And that's the last state he campaigned in before the polls opened up on Election Day last year.

So he wants to go back. Michigan's one of the places with the car manufacturers. When the President comes down with the tariffs, that affects Michigan. When the President knows that they Ford Builds more, Ford builds more cars in America than anybody else. That's great.

But they don't build all of a car in America. They still got to get things from overseas. They got to get chips from other countries. And that tariff's affecting the price. But he's going right back to Michigan, essentially saying, buckle up because things are going to get better.

But I got to restructure almost every single trade deal. And also, find a way to get more jobs here. When you give people greater incentive to build outside the country, They will build outside the country because not only are they answering for their bottom line, they're answering to their shareholders.

So that's what people are going to be talking about. What I was stunned about is how the Democrats are pushing back. And the Democrats are pushing back in a way I didn't think, I think it's just weird. The oligarchy tour? As a weird name, there's two socialists, known socialists, Bernie Sanders and AOC, getting decent crowds, but.

There's no doubt about it. There's plenty of people that didn't vote for Donald Trump that might show up for an alternative crowd. Also, the fact that they're doing the 25-hour talk-a-thon with Corey Booker. I thought that was bizarre. But then you watch what they did over the weekend on Sunday.

They really had a sit-in. Where they sat down and just said bad things about Donald Trump. Really, I don't understand. I really don't understand where they were coming from with it. And I'll tell you, here's a little, I don't know if you've seen some of the singing.

I mean some of the bizarre chance or Or I don't know what they, I don't know if this guy, one of these congressmen, wrote this, but it's just terrific. Listen to this. You work hard and play by the rules. Here in America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world. You should be able to live a comfortable life.

Instead of leaning into that vision of bringing the American dream to life, this Republican budget is actually doing the exact opposite. And so when we're cutting, talking about on that chopping block includes things like SNAP, So don't tell me you believe in Maha, make America Healthy Again, and then cut. The funding That gets people access to the healthy, fresh food. And if we build this world from love, yada die die die, yada da da da da da, then God will build this world from love. Just give me a second to recover.

I mean, I cannot believe that's their plan. Did they end their little sit-in and think to themselves, wow, we've really changed some minds. And that song at the end, Corey. Whose idea was that? You need a raise.

that really knocked it out of the park. Sit around and complain. What is that the American way? When challenged, when losing power, complain about it. By the way, uh Hakeem Jeffries goes out of his way to make a uh uh equivalent of A Civil War, quoting Ulysses S.

Grant.

So here's Adam Smith yesterday. I gotta give him credit. He was on Fox News Sunday, number one. I don't think they want to interview him on other channels. But this is what he said about the reason why they're in this mess.

And I'll tell you what: Corey Booker and Company, Akeem Jeffries, and Adam Schiff, who were there, they go a long way. To recovering themselves of the American public, if they'd admit this. Got 36. I do agree completely that President Biden did not do enough to secure the border. There's no question about that.

The policies allowed too many asylum seekers in. We were overwhelmed by an immigration problem. There's no question about it, by a migration problem. President Biden did belatedly change that near the end of his term to better enforce asylum laws, and President Trump has continued that. But on the point about the undocumented population, I want to change the law.

I want to have a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented population because we have been dependent upon many undocumented immigrants who have come here, worked, raised families, paid taxes, been part of our community. But no question about it. The Democratic Party did not do enough to secure the border.

So It would have meant a lot more if you said that in year one, because they opened up the border in year one. and would have done a lot more if you said it. Before even the Debate. He also said, I was one of the few that called for Joe Biden to step aside after the debate. If you were with him for one minute, you should have called for him to step aside.

But now you got the infighting. You got this guy, Hogg, who comes out and says the left has got to start taking more control. He wants the primary people with money given to the DNC. Adam Smith weighed in on that, the infighting, cut 37. We've got two separate issues at play here.

One that I agree with, the Democratic Party needs to be more efficient and more effective about the way we run campaigns and the way we pick candidates. I've been very open and very public. Joe Biden should not have run for a second term. And I was one of the first ones to come out and say he should get out after that debate. And it is astonishing to me that so many in the Democratic Party, after that debate, still argued that Joe Biden was their best shot.

So They have to get it together. But I also think the message that he hit together, just because AOC has a great smile, people should look at a record, it doesn't stand. You've got to get somebody to accomplish something. And that they got to stand for something. That nobody that they talk about has really done anything.

So, the obsession with identity politics you brought up, absolutely. The whole not admitting that you had a border problem, that's a big deal. And if he brought up a great point. For the longest time, You heard no immigration reform. Until you get the border closed.

Got it. And it's impossible to close the border. You got to build a wall. The wall gets topped. They get sued.

Can't do it. The materials, the funding, whatever it was, there was always a problem. And I remember Chuck Schumer went up to George W. Bush's during the Bush administration just saying, why don't we do comprehensive border immigration reform? But we won't do it until we all agree that the border is sealed.

And they said, well, there's too much projection. We're never going to be able to seal the border. The president is actually If he finishes, he's starting now on 85 more miles of wall. Means much more to go. But if they get the wall and the technology along with it, They could actually two years in start talking about immigration reform.

But you could only do it uh and talk about some type of Road to a different type of citizenship. It can't be complete citizenship to reward people for coming here before. But I also think that you got to quickly maybe award people work visas, the people in the farming communities, the people who work in the factories. You have to give them work visas with a certain responsibility to go to their home country, whether it's one week a year or two weeks a year. And then you flood the work visas, you fill out the holes in our workforce.

At the same time, you revamp our laws to modernize it. For example, if you marry someone from another country, the amount of money, the amount of time, the amount of questioning, the amount of scrutiny takes years and millions of dollars, thousands of dollars. When you're just getting started off, If you're a traditional couple. You don't have thousands of dollars to get started. Why don't we make it easier?

If you marry someone from another country, it checks out, it's not an arranged situation, which are is a major issue. Why don't we make it easier there? And of course, the the five star recruits coming out of Stanford, coming out of some of these universities. They want to stay. They're the tops in their class.

Why we send them back to Bangladesh? Why are we sending them back to France, why don't we give them an opportunity to stay for five years and contribute to the next Google in some way, shape, or form? That type of stuff, I think both sides can agree on. But until the president sealed the border, it wouldn't be possible. If I'm a Democrat, I say that.

I acknowledge. Can't believe this guy sealed the border.

Now, let's do immigration reform. See if we can get an appointment with the president. This is the Brian Killmee show at the Eisenhower building. You can't come in, but you can listen in. And keep in mind, BrianKillmeShow.com give you a chance to listen.

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So, if it's not football, what is it? Are there racial undertones here, racist undertones? You you be the judge. Racism is so hard to sort of grasp and prove and But it just stinks. It smells.

of racist undertones. of too many white people in charge in this league. who just rolled their eyes At both father and son at Colorado.

So that is Skip Bayless, and he thought it was important for him to weigh in on this. He's a sports commentator talking about Shador Sanders, who was a quarterback in Colorado and was a Heisman Trophy finalist and was thought by the highest completion percentage in college football and was thought to possibly go to the Giants third overall. He ends up being the second quarterback picked, really, by the owner who told this team just pick him, Shador Sanders. And they're saying it's racist. The problem is, there's nothing that leads to make you think it's racist.

59 of the first 62 picks were black men. Black men in the first two rounds. I think over half the quarterbacks, two-thirds of the quarterbacks in the NFL are black. Do you think that if they thought anybody thought Shador Sanders was going to be like Jaden Daniels or was going to be as good as Tom Brady, would pass on him because of. Uh race.

We are so past that as a country, and I was heartened to see Sage Steele come out. She's going to be joining us at a different hour on the show, come out. Even Strahan said the same thing. I watched Chad Johnson, Ocho Cinco, came out and said, You gotta be kidding me. There's a lot of times there's racisms in the world, but this is not one of them.

I want you to hear Mel Kuyper weighed in, too, because we've never seen anything like this on an NFL draft. We've never seen a player. Yeah you know We were shocked in 1982. When Dan Marino went at the end of the first round and Ken O'Brien, an unknown Division II player, got picked by the Jets in the top 10. They learned to regret that for the next 15, 20 years, but that was shocking.

This is by far the biggest shock. And Drafting NFL draft history. But listen to Mel Kuiper, Cup 43. He was outraged. He thought he was better.

For Deion Sanders and Shador Sanders, all I can say is, I think it's disgusting. I don't understand what the heck's going on with this. Fifth player on my board. It's never happened before in 47 years where a player that high has dropped this far into the fourth round. A quarterback that's sitting there in round four with other quarterbacks being taken who aren't as good as Shador, aren't even close, in my opinion, in terms of accuracy, toughness, arm strength is certainly more than good enough.

I don't see, outside of not being the rocket arm and the 4'6 feet and the big frame, the 6'3, 230-pound frame, what is he lacking?

Somebody's gonna have to explain that one to me. Fourth round, Kirk Cousins went. Fourth round, Dak Prescott went. Worked out pretty good for them. It's just that Shador was projected a lot higher than they were.

That's why we're having this discussion. But I mean to go the second day and then the third day was just stunning. And then the prank call by the former head coach of the New York Jets' son, where he said he'd been made believe he was the GM of the Saints and said, Your waiting's over, can't wait to make a part of it. And then he makes it clear, starts said something doubtful at the end, makes it clearly that he looks like he was duped. And then Shadur Sanders was stunned because he got this phone just for the draft.

Well, guess who had the phone? Every coach.

So the coach had the the coach's son had the phone, got the number and thought it would be funny. He's apologized profusely. I don't know what a good punishment is, but it's totally humiliating. People don't understand. I mean, was he drunk?

I mean, how do you decide to do that? Why is that fun? What has he ever done to him? Because he's a little cocky, because he might have been maybe a little standoff in some of the meetings. I'm not sure.

But the league the league has got a quarterback now on a team, he might even get cut. Because the Browns got too many quarterbacks right now.

So this is the guy that the owner picked.

So I don't even know how he's going to if he comes out and lights it up like Russell Wilson did in Seattle and he was not a first round draft pick, he ends up getting the starting job and in a few years leading the team to a Super Bowl win for Pete Carroll. But unless your Dor Sanders comes out and looks like the second coming of Tom Brady, this guy might have to get caught and have to go find another team after this. It's the most bizarre situation, but I think things are going to come out that he tanked a few of those Uh tanked a few of the one-on-one meetings with teams they didn't like. And the league does not like that. when you feel like you're bigger than the league, even if you feel as though you're going to be a standout player.

People like confidence. Maybe they didn't like that. But I don't think race has anything to do with it. Tell me what you think. BriankillMe.com.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show on the uh. Iran situation, I think we're doing very well. I think a good deal is going to be made there. That's gonna that's gonna happen. Pretty sure it's gonna happen.

Well We'll have something without having to Start dropping bombs all over the place.

So that is the President of the United States giving us an idea of what went on in Oman when his delegation met with the Iranian delegation, some face-to-face, some not face-to-face. My fear is that this is going to end up like the JCPOA, where That horrible deal that Barack Obama caught that signed that Ben Corden, Democrat. Chuck Schumer, Democrat, couldn't sign off on because it allowed them to keep their ballistic missiles. It allowed them to continue to finance their proxies and didn't allow for face-to-face inspections on the facilities. By the way, one facility was found out by the MEK, which is the renegade Iranian group looking to overthrow the government.

They're the ones who told us about it. Or else we wouldn't even have known that.

So these negotiations are ongoing, but it was pretty clear that as much as Netanyahu, who respects Donald Trump, As much as he feels much better with Trump, Than he does with Joe Biden, he does not feel optimistic and wants everyone clear-eyed about what Iran is capable of doing. And keep in mind, since. Menachem Begin in the 1980s, and Alan Dershowitz pointed this brilliantly out last night. When there's a Existential threat to the existence of Israel, they will take action with or without their allies' blessing or help. Remember, Reagan told Bagan, don't take out the nuclear weapons or the nuclear facilities in Iraq.

They did it anyway. Remember, they asked George W. Bush that Syria is building a nuclear program. They said to George Bush, could you help us take it out or would you take it out? He says, I don't want to spread this war around.

I'm not going to do it. And he didn't.

So now they did it themselves. And thank goodness, can you imagine Assad trying to hold on to a nuclear program that gets overthrown and the former head of ISIS is now in charge of that nuclear program? It would be curtains. Here's the Prime Minister of Israel, cut thirty four. The reason Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons is because successive governments successive governments under um My prime ministership has led successive actions which I won't.

Discuss here with the same Forgive me, with the same detail over the years, and that set them back about ten years from where they thought they'd be. Ten years ago they already thought they'd have a nuclear arsenal, they don't, but they've we delayed them, but we didn't stop them.

So they moved very far on enrichment. They're trying to move on weaponry. And the question is now. What to do? Happily Oh.

We have um a President in Washington is committed, as he says, And as he said to me many times, including just recently, we can't allow Iran to have nuclear weapons. Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt about it. I think what they did I think there's no doubt that the New York Times did have the story right three weeks ago when Netanyahu says, here's the plan, would you give me a hand? I'm going to need the munitions and I'm going to need the missile defense because they're going to try to fire back. And Trump essentially said, no, let's give talks a chance.

But he sends over Steve Witkoff. I don't know, does he know the history of this? Did he go to town last time? You know, the fact that I think Michael Anton is going to be in on these meetings helps. He has a little bit of technical support, but for him to go in there without a team around him with Iranians, it doesn't make any sense to me.

To me, even if you have a great instinct to deal, if you understand people's emotions, but you have to understand the culture of the people you're dealing with. And evidently, the Iranians are trying to put the charm offensive on Witkoff, letting him think that he could be an historic figure. I hope it doesn't work because I just don't believe anything the Iranian government says. Neither does Senator John Kennedy cut 33. We're involved militarily with Iran.

Uh Iran Iran hates America as much as it hates Uh Israel. I would love to see a settlement with Iran, but Iran can't have access, directly or indirectly. to uh to nuclear weapons. If Iran gets a weapon or is Days away from getting a weapon, there will be a war. Iran won't start it, and America won't start it.

Israel will. Israel knows that if Iran gets A bomb Israel, um Israel is a smoked turkey. They will, the first thing Iran will do will be to bomb Israel. And Israel's not going to tolerate that, and I don't blame them. Right, and they don't care if millions die either way.

They're both on the record of saying that. I'm talking about the Iranian Grand Ayatollah.

Now, people say, well, there's going to be a transition in government. If you bomb out Iran, you don't know what's going to be next. And there could be worse.

Well, what could be worse? The guy's 85 anyway. He's had cancer multiple times. I'm talking about the Grand Ayatollah. What could be worse than this Grand Ayatollah?

Either way, there's going to be regime change, whether Israel does it or not.

So, Mike Walsh got pulled into a meeting. He said it's really important. But we are expecting him still this half hour.

So we'll take a break now, come back. You listen to the Brian Kill Me Show on the road across the street from the White House. Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Hear it first on the Brian Kill Me Show. Breaking news, unique opinions.

Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. But there are two ways to do it. One is To get A deal? That would um that would prevent them from doing that. by dismantling their nuclear infrastructure.

You have to dismantle their nuclear infrastructure. And that means not that they will not enrich uranium, but that they will not have the capacity to enrich uranium. which means you destroy the centrifuges. You remove, of course, the nuclear material that is already enriched. And there are a few other things that you have to do, but that's the crux of it.

The real deal that works is a deal which removes Iran's capacity to enrich Uh uranium for nuclear weapons. Go.

So, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, weighing in, he does not optimistic that any deal with Iran is going to be successful and pointed out. In the past, that Israel has had to take things upon themselves, whether it's Iraq or whether it's Syria. And whether it was going after Iran after they went after them. With me right now is National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Mike, great to see you.

Yeah.

In the Eisenhower building. And of all our interviews, this is the first. But you really have outdressed me. Do you have a clothing deal with the White House? Do you have to pick out shoes?

I wish. This is all personal. Is it really? All personal, no taxpayer funds. Do you have to pick out swatches or do you take it off the rack?

Oh, I'm an offlerat guy. I'm a North Florida guy.

Okay. Redneck from the west side of Jacksonville. There's no swatches going on. I understand.

So, what was your morning like? I know today is 100%. This is a every day, it's a different theme. Today was the border security. I was surprised to see the role of the military in securing the border.

I had a chance to go into. Uh Cheyenne Mountain. To NORAD, and I saw the way they what they're doing with the military insisted on doing at the border, as well as the Coast Guard. How important is that element of this? President Trump campaigned on it, and if you take a step back, a core function.

Of our sovereignty, a core function of our national security, is protecting our border. And that's an. all of government, whole of government approach that I think, frankly, the left walked away from. You saw a wide open border under the last administration. Not just the twenty million plus people that have come in that are taxing our services from roads to bridges to hospitals to schools, but Eight ISIS operatives were rolled up in three different cities.

You have the cartels working with foreign terrorism and those leaders. You had both with the fall of Afghanistan, a return of ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

So, heck yeah, the military is being used to defend our border. And that's not just with troops physically on the border. As you saw with NORAD, that's also any type of aerial incursions. We're working through our planning now for the Iron Dome, now called the Golden Dome, from cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, updating those radars, updating our responses, and even undersea or any type of drone threats. Remember all of the drones over New Jersey and sites in North Carolina, Florida?

And the answer was: how do we stop this before you guys took over? Right. And the answer was: I don't know. Uh, essentially, how did you work hard on it right now?

So, it's it's look, it's all of the above, and this is part of the America First agenda. Let's focus on our borders and our security and our safety first. At the risk of impressing you too much, I didn't someone walked me through. It's hard to do with, I know.

Someone walked me through what the golden dome would look like. And even I could understand it. And I thought when I brought it up, they were going to say, Well, we hope. They go, no, no, here's the plan. And they showed me roughly what they're working on.

And now they're working on a cost analysis to present.

So I was amazed at what happened. It will be in the president's budget in these upcoming funding rounds.

So, this isn't just some kind of marketing ploy or what have you. This is from the space layer to deal with hypersonics all the way down to drones buzzing over sensitive sites. What could you tell me that emerged out of the St. Peter's meeting at the Basilica? As the President said, best office he was ever in.

But he did push Macron back to say this is going to be a one-on-one. Got that confirmed this morning, so you don't have to confirm it. And then, when they did sit one-on-one, if body language means anything, it looked intense. And it looked like a mutual, respectful, impactful conversation would emerge.

Well, I could tell you, Brian, you know, kind of like in golf, where you have, you know, at least for me, you have. 90 terrible tough shots, and then you have that one kind of amazing moment just standing there in that moment. With those two leaders in that place of all, I mean, surrounded by the marble, the president loved the gold, in a place of worship in St. Peter's, and having those two leaders face to face doing tough diplomacy. I thought it will be one of these iconic historic moments.

But then I have to tell you, walking out those doors and seeing 250,000 people there of all faiths, world leaders, all there to celebrate and honor the Pope. And then, you know, the role the Catholic Church has. I mean, it just really all came together in a special way. Yep. Look, the president's determined to end the war, and he's determined to apply whatever pressure he has to apply to both sides to end it.

You've met him personally. I haven't, but I've been in thousands of hours of interviews by this time. I couldn't be more impressed with Zelensky. I'm not one person who thinks there's a secret agenda. I don't think he's socking money away from in banks and Cayman Islands.

As a leader, I think a lot of the time he's a little angry because he's been at war. You can understand this better than anyone. He literally feels like he's been at war for three straight years. And the people that are dying, he actually knows their families. Yeah.

Well, I will say. Ukraine was one of, and is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. We always have to guard the taxpayer dollars, and there have been billions going in. And I don't think, I remember I was sitting in Congress, the previous administration had all of the appropriate oversights going in.

So we have to keep a hard eye on that. But secondly, yes, he has been at war, but we have to find opportunities to end the war. And one could have only thought, rather than trying to correct, but Brian, but rather than trying to correct the President of the United States and the vice president in the Oval Office when he was invited there for the first meeting and could have sat side by side with the president signing a minerals deal that bound our economies together for the foreseeable future. You want to talk about a security guarantee, that would have been phenomenal. I think that was a historic and missed opportunity.

But look, President Trump is who he is. He's determined to play out diplomacy, and you've seen him. Sit down with both sides, call both sides, and as the NATO Secretary General said. The NATO Secretary General, only President Trump could have broken the deadlock. 100 days ago, we're here for the 100 days.

I think you said it to me, actually. Again, I'm trying to impress you twice. Yeah, right. But 100 days ago, there was nothing. There was just this endless stalemate, meat grinder.

And now we have, it's tough. It's going to zig back and forth, but we have a process underway. How do you feel about Vladimir Putin? The president says he might be playing me. My words to say he said he might be just playing president, it might be.

Kind of tapping me along. The president's determined to apply whatever pressure he needs to get this war ended. And you've heard him talk about changing his opinion, you've heard him talk about sanctions on Russian energy. I think it's going to come back around. We've got a great negotiator in Steve Witkoff.

Do you think so? But do you think he should go in there without any Russian experts on his side? Do you think he should go in there by himself with Vladimir Putin? Yeah, but at the same time, when you go in there with a slew of people, you don't have the same kind of intimate conversations. You don't have the same kind of honest, frank conversations.

So one-on-one, I mean, you just saw it with President Trump and Zielinski. There weren't you know, Ukraine or Russia experts sitting around.

Sometimes you have those those moments. And but Witkoff seems much more optimistic than the President. The President didn't seem as optimistic on the plane ride home, you with him, then Steve Witkoff made his statements afterwards. Why is that?

Well, look, at the end of the day, I don't think there's any disconnect there, Brian. At the end of the day, does Russia. Want to end this war and have a better relationship, not just with the United States, but with the entire world. And that's what we're sitting in front of them, and that's what Steve Woikoff's sitting in front of. Here's my worry: they've changed their whole economy to be a warlike economy.

So they put people to work to build missiles and rockets and tanks or whatever they think they need, drones. And when you tell those people the war is over, we don't need that stuff anymore, they're going to need jobs. This is a war like their war.

So, these people are not going to have jobs. They're going to say, why did we fight this war? How many thousands are dead? And he doesn't want that. And that's maybe he doesn't want the end of the question.

Well, I think you have the same, but in fairness, you have the same questions on the Ukrainian side in terms of billions of dollars coming in. And they've created a war economy in many ways. Do you think there is well?

So, I mean, both sides have to want to end this. Right. And that is going to require absolute recession.

So you think the Ukrainians are going to be able to do that.

Well, look, I mean, just recently, you had people talking about kicking every Russian off of every inch of Ukrainian soil, and we're just going to fight. And if you question that goal, then they're going to, I guess, just fight. In perpetuity? Are we truly saying it's in our national interest and feasible to kick? The Russians out of Crimea.

Is that possible? And how long will that take? And how much treasure will that take? And how many lives will that cost? That's what President Trump is asking.

I mean, how many people are going to die to move a line another 10 kilometers either way? I hear you, but I think there's a difference in the diplomatic world that you're more familiar with of saying, I know we're not getting Crimea back, but I'm not going to give it up.

So there's a way of putting that line with. And you've seen that with North Korea, South Korea, you've seen that with East-West Germany, right? And all of those. You stole it. And all of those.

But I'm not going to keep this war going. Sure. And no one, to be clear, no one is demanding that the Ukrainians recognize Crimea as Russia. Is it true I kind of asked you this before you sat down, I just started reading today that you guys are queuing up a North Korean policy. I thought to myself, man, you have so many balls in the air.

Are we really tackling North Korea now? Uh look uh The the president had Phenomenal engagement with Kim Jong-un in his first term. I'm not going to get ahead of anyone in moving forward. But I can tell you, we have a lot on our plate. And we're very focused on ending the largest land war in Europe.

And the presence determined Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, reopening waterways. I mean, Biden left us a mess, Brian. The worst violence in Israel and Gaza in 20 years and how that is going to unfold. But he's also had just in three months huge successes, taking on the cartels, Panama ending Belt and Road, the first Latin American country ending. Is that going to be a focus to start ending?

I mean, it's reintroducing the United States into our own hemisphere. Yep. Right? From the Arctic in the north to the border to Panama Canal, all the way down to Mille and Argentina. We have the food security, the energy, the critical minerals that we need in our Western Africa.

And obviously, you have a great relationship with El Salvador. They're at the Belt and Road. Argentina is co-with China, but you have a great relationship with Melu.

So there's obviously there. If we show an interest, they will too. Mike Walsh, thanks so much. That's the security advisor. On to you.

20 more meetings. I appreciate you coming up. Four floors in the Eisenhower building. Keep it here, everyone. Brian Killmee Chill on the road in Washington.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi everyone, I'm Brian Kilmead. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmead Show, and I come to you from the Eisenhower building, steps away from the White House, where this place is pulsating today. Why?

They're marking 100 days since they took office, 15th week, and they're doing a lot. Even their greatest detractors have to say they've never seen anything like this in terms of the velocity of things from all different areas, from foreign policy to domestic policy to economic policy. But the place today is going to have every single day this week. Is going to be dedicated to one element that they're working on. Tomorrow is going to be the economy.

Today is about the border. The president's also going to have a timeout that he simply loves. He's going to be able to welcome in the 2025 Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. And guess what? They're all coming.

Remember when there used to be controversial championship teams deciding that Donald Trump wasn't worthy?

Now they're coming. In fact, their best player was golfing with the president yesterday, Saquon Barkley, as he makes his way here.

So that I'm sure will be fun. There was a press briefing at 8:30 in the morning with Tom Holman there to tell us about the border protection. And when you look at the pollings in the first. In the first hundred days, the thing that polls the most successfully, the highest at 55%, is the President's border protection. And a man that's very much a part of this is Ron Vidiello.

You are now, Ron, with your new job. You're a common face when it comes to border and the problems. But now, you, as your assistant director of. Border Patrol? Senior Advisor to the Commissioner's Office, Customs and Border Protection.

And you're over at the Reagan building right here. That's right, every day.

So, what do you say? What is your role? My role is to make sure that the strategic intent, the president's direction to the agency and the commissioner's office, gets carried out within the bureaucracy, within the mission support group, and so that the line knows the tools that they have and are maximizing the use of the tools that have been given to us by this president.

So, the border crossings are down 99 percent year to year. That's right. Did you ever in your life, on your most optimistic day, think you'd have this type of success? I've never seen it this low as it relates to activity. And what that really means is that's about a hundred percent increase in the capability of the agents because all of the Biden administration were pointed at the humanitarian mission and trying to control the same border.

Same agent. Same agency, no measurable increase in the number of agents on the border. They do have 10,000 national. DOD personnel, soldiers, heroes, side by side with the border patrol.

So there's been some capability increase, but just the reduction gives the agents almost 100% more capability to rescue people, to find kids that are being trafficked, to make seizures of fentanyl and other drugs that are still coming in, and then to fully prosecute everyone that crosses the border illegally. There's about a 98% acceptance rate to the referrals to the Justice Department from our frontline personnel. That's never happened in my entire career.

So when I walked into the White House today, everybody will see the same thing, but I was probably first at 5:30. And that was all the. All the arrested illegal immigrants so far, as many as you could fit on the lawn, and with a horrendous thing they did beneath them. That's a story that the media has been reluctant to cover. Since when does picking up illegal immigrant criminals something that the media should avoid?

Yeah, it's crazy. The distraction, the propaganda on the left saying, oh, crossing the border is not a crime, there's no due process, all of these distractions are taking away from what we just talked about: a 99% drop in illegal migration across the southwest border and a corresponding increase of the capability. Mexico is doing more than I've ever seen them do. They've got 10,000 of their own troops helping regulate. The border in between the ports of entry.

They've sent 29 wanted persons who are in the drug trade cartel members to be prosecuted, extradited, and prosecuted in the United States. The military-to-military relationship in Mexico is something I've never seen as well.

So we thought 20,000 Marines last time or remaining in Mexico last time was it, but it was swelling in Mexico.

So it was getting untenable in Mexico. And stop me if I'm wrong, Ron, but the thought theory was when it gets so bad, they will leave. When they realize they can't get in, they'll leap. But Mexico was saying, Man, I have a mess on my hands. Why has that swelling not happened again, is it because they're better on their southern border?

Well, the frontline has more tools. Mexico is leaning in in very different ways. Their presence is mostly on the northern border, and then they're doing other things in the country with law enforcement and military from our country. And so we don't want to outsource this problem to Mexico, but they have stepped up in ways that I didn't imagine. And it's really paying off.

The big thing. Is that there's the tools that they've given the frontline. People who cross the border, you heard it in the press briefing today. Only nine people have been released by this administration since the 20th of January after being arrested for being illegally in the country or crossing the border. Under the Biden administration, that was millions of people who were arrested.

You're actually running ads. I think it's brilliant to say, look, we're coming for you. Self-deport. Yeah, yeah. Christy Noam, she had CBP convert the CBP One app to the CBP home app.

So if you don't want that knock on the door, if you know you're not going to prevail in immigration court, raise your hand. The government will help you find your way back home.

So, has it worked? Are people self-deporting? Do you have any way of tracking that? We have a number of ways. If you're in the application and you try to go try to leave overseas on an aircraft, we're going to know about it.

Thousands of people have done that. What, thousands of people have signed up in CBP home and a couple hundred of them have already left.

So people are voting with their feet in the sense that they don't want to be deported.

So what's the role of the military? And as great as they've been, I worry about how much money we're spending. And the budget, I mean, we have so many challenges overseas and beyond our borders. And it's great to have the 82nd airborne and all that stuff. I get it.

But how long do we need the military there?

Well, this is a matter of where we're going to be on the budget. I think one of the things that has to happen in the interior with the ICE, the deportation effort, the worst of the worst, and some of the things on the border, it needs funding and resources to be sustained.

So, those 10,000 troops, are we going to replace those with agents? That's part of the plan, is to put more capability and boots on the ground. They're doing a wonderful job. What are they doing? They're helping fortify the wall.

They're helping improve access to the border. They're monitoring sensors for us in a couple of locations like Texas. We've deputized some of them to actually patrol the border. On Friday, the President designated a military area along the border near El Paso, Texas. And so, what does that mean?

That means if you cross the border in that area, you're not only coming into the country illegally, but you're violating the circumference of a military base, and you can be charged with that as well. The consequences are going up for every time someone elects to cross the border illegally. The word is getting out. What about fentanyl? I don't think the Chinese that I've heard have done anything to stop the precursors for coming.

What have you guys done for that? Still a lot to do.

So, you know, on the physical border, we're getting better. We've got more capability. At the line itself, there's a lot of investments that are going to come online in the next couple of weeks and months to detect fentanyl better at the border. Still a lot to do there. I think that's a really important point.

You know, this reconciliation will pay down a lot of the gaps that are in CBP's operation and a lot of the gaps that are in ISIS operation now. Those gaps exist because we're working on last year's budget. These are Joe Biden's funding priorities, and we've gotten a lot of investments because of the emergency. There are additional funds available, but we're not working on the full-scale Trump priority budget yet. Right.

So you've made tremendous progress, Ray Vidiello here. Amongst one of the biggest failures of the Democrats, and we've said it, they wouldn't acknowledge it. How do you feel now about Secretary Mayorka saying this migration around the world, there's nothing we can do about it? These things come in cycles. We're doing the best we can.

We knew he wasn't telling the truth. They tried to impeach him in the House. But you know the border. What was his approach? Did he?

Know he was doing a terrible job? It was a deception play. He knew exactly how to solve this problem. He was in the Obama administration in 2014 when guys like myself and Tom Holman told him how to solve this problem. He actually implemented some of those recommendations.

He knew exactly what was going to happen when they tore down the control levels that they were handed in Trump 1, and they knew exactly what they were doing.

Well, when Trump left office, we had a 45-year low in activity at the border. The consequences existed. We had the border in control. When Marucas came in, he told us there was no crisis. He told us the border was closed when we had millions of people come into the country in four years.

Here is Adam Smith yesterday, Democrat from Washington. I want you to hear what he had to say. He's basically admitting what we've been saying, Cut 36. I do agree completely that President Biden did not do enough to secure the border. There's no question about that.

The policies allowed too many asylum seekers in. We were overwhelmed by an immigration problem. There's no question about it. Migration problem. President Biden did belatedly change that near the end of his term to better enforce asylum laws, and President Trump has continued that.

But on the point about the undocumented population, I want to change the law. I want to have a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented population because we have been dependent upon many undocumented immigrants who have come here, worked, raised families, paid taxes, been part of our community. But no question about it. The Democratic Party did not do enough to secure the border.

So He said something that was interesting that I never thought was possible because you guys have really shut it down. Not yet, but a year from now. There are so many things that Democrats and Republicans agree on in immigration reform. Whether it's the visas for the high-level students, whether it's making it easier for people if you're marrying somebody from another country to come here, maybe the green card process. If we have a first-round draft pick green card person, they prove themselves for six years, maybe make it easier for them.

Do you think we're going to get to the point where we can look at some type of immigration reform that would actually help you do your job, no matter who the president is?

Well, I think we've got to do what the president ran on, what I've been asking for for a number of years in my former career. We've got to give the frontline the resources that they need to have 100% situational awareness. What that means is they can see the entire border, every inch of it. And then 100% operational control. What that means is we confront everything that crosses the border illegally.

That's what needs to happen. Once we have that, then the hill is free to go in. Are you close to having that? You mean 100% surveillance on our southern border where you could be watching without physically being there? That's right.

Are you close on that? I think we've done a really good job since January 20th, but there's a lot to do. There's a lot of tech that needs to be installed: fortification of the wall, additional walls, 77 new miles of barrier since Inauguration Day. We've got to keep doing this. You've had 75 miles of wall built since Inauguration Day?

Border barrier, different kinds of barriers, some stuff the military put up for us, some stuff that we put out, and then actual wall itself. How much is left to be done? We've got 85 in the pipeline. I think the absolute number under the plans we're writing now is subject to change, about 700 new. Miles?

Yeah.

Wow.

So that's a lot. Yeah.

But I mean, the contractors are there, you guys can do it, right? Yeah, yeah. We we funding this reconciliation will make a big difference in our capability on the line.

So you see the whole border. What do you do? Would you be open If the policy people ask you to To do something to expand work phases for the farmers and the people in the factories. You know, we hear about. Uh you see people, landscapers, and they want to come here and work.

And some people want to do it, they want to do it legally. would that ever work for the Trump administration? I think if we pay down on the President's vision to secure the border, one hundred percent operational control, when the operators can give you a thumbs up and say we are very comfortable with the levels of control we have, when that means one hundred percent Then the Congress, the President, I think this President, he believes in common sense. He often talks about it. That is a common sense next way forward, but not until those investments are fully made and we are fully realized with 100% operational control.

Right. Work visas, we track it. You know, simple. That's training cards, we're going to track you. I got to ask you about.

The people being sent back. There were big stories over the weekend about some kids being sent back. They're illegal immigrants. They were American kids. Their parents were illegal.

You were just, you were like astonished. That's the number one story. What could you tell people about families being sent back? I would say, present company accepted, don't pay attention to the mainstream media. They lied to us all weekend long about kids who were deported.

Those kids are United States citizens. Their parents elected to go with them back to where the parents were from because those parents got ordered deported. They were not separated. They were together and they were not deported. Those kids can come back anytime they want as American citizens.

So, and what makes you eligible? Like, why? Like, what is the prairie? We know the criminals first. What's next?

In terms of deportation, Obviously criminals should need to be arrested and sent back. But what about the other people? Anybody? We had over victims. There was over 20 million illegals.

Yes, we had over 11 million encounters at CBP in the Biden administration. Almost 2 million people flown into the country on a fake parole abuse system. Which made it seem like the numbers were going down. That's right. Because they were flying over the border.

They were deceiving us. And then they had 2 million people come in on the known Godaway number, 2 million in four years. And so we've got to do something about all of that. Once we start to do all of that, we're starting with the worst of the worst.

So I think you've got to do all the things all at the same time. And the people who get. Arrested that are not the worst of the worst because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time and they're in the country illegally.

So, you have a lot of options. You were out, you wanted to go back in and do this. Why? I just felt compelled to try to give some of the lessons learned and the wisdom that I learned over a long career. I wanted to help this administration because I believed they were saying the right things.

We are obviously doing the right things to secure the border and give the front line what they've needed for a really long time. Ron, thanks so much. Congratulations for you. It must be such a relief. I was only down, I was down there five times.

Every time I had PTSD, I could not stop thinking about what I left behind to see the commanders of these centers have to sit there and see kids walk across the border, family after family. And he goes, Yeah, here they come doing live stand-ups, and you see them pour in. And I'm saying to myself, What do you do with this? He's like, What we got to do is we line them up, we pick them up, we bring them to a facility, can't even get indoors. You have to put up tents in parking lots.

I'm watching guys throw tents up for the illegal, couldn't even keep up with it. Yeah, no, it's all that nonsense is gone.

So it makes sense. It's great to see. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Ron. Best of luck.

Keep it going. Thanks so much. All right. Brian Kilmey showed the Eisenhower building across the street from the White House as we look at 100 Days of Trump 2. Don't move.

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President Biden's decline. And its cover-up? by the people around him. is a reminder that every White House Regardless of party. is capable of deception.

But being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We Myself included. Missed a lot of this story. And some people trust us less because of it. We bear some responsibility.

For faith in the media. being at such lows. And the crowd didn't clap, barely clapped. And here's why. Alex Thompson of Axios probably did more than most.

On most of the outlets, but for the most part, he's referring to the fact that for four years, the decline of Joe Biden, and really he only would have won, and it's not worth going over again if there was a pandemic that wouldn't allow him to campaign. It would have shown the fact that he couldn't do the job. But now we know he didn't do the job. We got two books out already. We called it along the way.

Anyone who called it out was just basically alienated by this White House.

So they just stayed away from it. Didn't bother them that they had no access. They had no idea who's making whose decisions. They had no idea if Joe Biden was with it. But yet they saw the things were note cards for his own cabinet meetings where he didn't need to have names and pictures on people in the press to call on an order with the question ahead of time before he called on the person.

Think about that for a second. If you knew all that ahead of time, I am not going to buy your book, then now you want to. Go ahead and research all the indications that we had no president for most of the last four years. And for his family to go along with that is sickening.

So, Alex, this is why the Washington White House Correspondence Center was absolutely dead yesterday. And one of the crazy things was, crazy things was, was that When Alex Thompson made that statement and the crowd started clapping, they showed the Fox table. And Foxtable said like like we're culprits. We're the only ones who were calling him out for four years, even during his campaign. We thought he was dead in the water.

In fact, even SNL thought he was dead in the water because they would have making fun of him until he got the nomination and then they quickly went and decided to go after Trump again.

So far, Media uh the Media Research Center. has released a study to talk about the first hundred days of Trump. Where if you look at CBS, NBC, and ABC, 92% of all the coverage has been negative. Not here. I think we've been the fairest, been the best.

And I'll tell you one thing. You have an administration who couldn't care less about the polls. They have a mission and they are moving at 130 miles an hour. You listen to the Brian Kilmey Show. Sage Steele next on the Shador Sanders scandal.

The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

So, if it's not football, what is it? Are there racial undertones here, racist undertones? You you be the judge. It's the racism is so hard to to sort of grasp and prove and But it just stinks. It smells.

of racist undertones. of too many white people in charge in this league who just roll their eyes At both father and son at Colorado.

Well, I couldn't believe that, but I was somewhat expecting it. And they're talking about the biggest drop. Compared to predictions and results. And I think NFL draft history, Shadur Sanders. Top recruit, high-ranked passer coming out of Colorado, famous dad, who was telling people before, his dad was telling everybody: there are certain teams my son's not gonna play for.

All right, Eli Manning decided not to play for San Diego, or the Mannings didn't.

So the question is: is racism involved?

Well, that question was quickly answered. by a good friend of the show, Sage Steele. who did this thing called research. And I thought it would be great as everyone talks about the draft over the last four days, in this story in particular, to get her perspective. And Sage Deal, with an outstanding podcast of her own, joins us now.

Sage, welcome back. Brian, so good to see you.

Well, I'll tell you what, Skip Bayless. I know you know him. Your thoughts about his conclusion. Is that a racist situation? Is that why Shador Sanders wasn't drafted till late?

In my humble opinion No, no, and no. Hell no, absolutely not. The reason I went on my social media and decided to do research to back up my humble opinion is because of the things that people like Skip said. I have known Skip for almost 20 years. I really love and respect Skip Bayless.

I think he's way off in this, but it doesn't surprise me. Skip, along with many, many, many other talking heads on a million different platforms, of course, immediately go to race. It's so disappointing to me. And you and I have talked about things like this before, Brian, because it is just, it's low-hanging fruit. It's lazy, and it's the boy who cried wolf because there are certainly examples of racism.

To me, this is not one. If you do any homework based on just the scouting reports on this young man, Shador Sanders, I mean, there were many, many inconsistencies and concerns over some of the intangibles, not just what happens at X's and O's on the field.

So do some homework. Calm down and don't be lazy. Yeah, I think out of the first two rounds, I think 59. Players were black. I think over half the quarterbacks in the NFL are black.

I think that if the first player overall in the draft was taken, according to reports, was black.

So, I just think that there are times in life where people are maybe inadvertently or advertisingly have racial bias. You know, they don't even realize they're doing it in some cases, they're generational. And other times, I just think they look to the player and say, I can't take a risk with that pick on my team. And evidently, he tanked quite a few interviews and had to have a little bit of an attitude.

Now, I don't really ever remember that, you know, because teams, especially teams that could make you. genera generationally wealthy Would ever do, you know, players would ever take that risk, but I think he might have. Or do you think it's something his dad said? I mean, there are many things that it could be. I think.

It is proven based on the scouting reports that many of these teams, their directors of scouting, their general managers, the coaches who were in on those interviews, they're anonymous right now. It eventually will come out, but they are talking about how it seemed like he was disinterested. It seemed like he didn't want to be there at times. I wasn't there. I would have loved been a fly on the wall.

But at the end of the day, these NFL teams, owners, coaches, they don't care. They want to win and will do whatever it takes to win.

So you've got to look, you've got to trust that within them and look at the other possibilities. Also, I want to point out this. When you talk about racism, and so many people, including Mel Kuyper Jr., who I absolutely love on ESPN, have said the NFL is a disaster because of this and evaluating talent. The NFL Roger Dell does not tell anyone what to do, right? He's like the director of the board, and then the coaches and GMs and owners make those decisions.

Look at the decision makers.

So, if you're talking about the teams being racist, I mean, you've got last year, there were six blackhead coaches. I believe there's four now. We'll see what happens. Last year, there were 10 black GMs in the league.

So, are all those coaches and assistant coaches and directors of scouting and general managers? Are they racist too? Like, tell me how you are determining that this is racism. And that is the part where I talk about people being lazy. Again, we'll find out, Brian.

I believe more and more people will talk about why Shador Sanders fell. Is it historic? Absolutely. Even when you look back at Aaron Rodgers in 2007, I think that was when he fell dramatically. Brady Quinn fell dramatically as well in his draft.

They're white.

So is that not racism? It's just inconsistent, and I want people to just be genuine with their thoughts, do their homework, do their research, and I cry foul on this one. Here's Tom Pelisaro. He's another NFL network analyst, CUD44. It is now well documented some of his formal interviews did not go well.

One assistant coach told me in all his years it was the worst formal interview he'd ever been through. People said that Shadur was trying to dictate how he wanted things to go and made them feel small. Even at the Pro Day, the entire Big 12 have an event in Dallas. Shadur was there, but did not work out. He had a showcase instead in Colorado.

For a player who had a variety of questions, both about the talent level, how he would fit into an NFL system, how he would adjust from his play style in college, but also about the potential culture shock of for the first time playing for someone who is not his father. There were opportunities that Shadur Sanders could have taken there. He seemed to feel as if he was in an elite category where he could choose the few teams he wanted to go to.

Now some of those very same teams that might be considering taking Shadur today didn't get those opportunities to answer their question. Uh say that's pretty much what you were saying, right? Yeah, yeah. And there's another thing that I I retweeted the other day. It's from an account called First Round Mock, and he is a former scout for the New York Jets, and it was incredibly detailed.

It was that and then more.

So I would love people to take a look at that. Again, the football part of this and why potentially It took till pick 144 for Shador Sanders to hear his name. Number two, I think something very important to consider is the public relations aspect of this. And when public relations, but also team chemistry. And when you're making these decisions, you have to say whether it's Shador Sanders, whether it's Deshaun Watson, whether it's Aaron Rodgers.

When you bring a big name into a locker room, how will they gel? What will that chemistry be like? And is it worth it if they come with a lot? Is it worth it to bring them in based on how it may affect team chemistry? Will the team as a whole accept that person based on the maturity of the team?

There are so many different factors that no one is considering, but that report from Pelisaro and many, many other people who just want this to be about football. There's enough evidence there that makes you at least question those most important characteristics of a quarterback, and race should be way down. Once again, they're creating more division intentionally for many of the talking heads. And they are just trying to make this. Right, so you're still with us now, tapping into a year or decades in sports.

Lastly, the most. Uh cruel. Frank, that I can remember, took place when Shador Sanders was the victim, and this ends up being the 20-year-old son of the former head coach of the New York Jets. Listen. We've got an empowerment constant.

This is Mickey Bloomis here, the GM of the New Orleans Saints. How you doing? This is Mickey Loomis here at GM of the Saints. How you doing? I'm gonna hire you, man.

Yeah, dude. Yeah, we have. Uh it's been a long wait man. Uh We're gonna take you as our next speaker right here, man. This time that we got Yeah, but you're gonna have to wait a little bit longer, man.

Sorry about that.

So He has since apologized. They tracked it down to the to him. Your thoughts. Yeah, the son of the defensive coordinator, Jeff Ulbricke of the Atlanta Falcons. His name is Jax.

He's a 20-year-old kid. I think it's disgusting. I think it's awful. I think it's heartbreaking. Most importantly, think what you want about Shador Sanders and his father Deion Sanders.

That's unimaginable. This kid has been suffering enough with the world watching, and then you're gonna go do that. To me, there is no excuse. It's easy to cast stones from here, right? But I do wonder, and Brian, you're a parent.

Like, what would you do as a parent if that is your son? And again, the Atlanta Falcons have apologized. The young man has apologized as well. I don't know that that's going to be enough. Apparently, he did talk to Shador Sanders as well.

But the coach was at his home. The son was visiting the parents and he walked away from his iPad for a second. The kid walked by, looked, got the number, wrote it down. I don't believe the debt supporter of the Falcons did anything wrong. There, he's in his own home.

How would you discipline your son for a prank like that? It's one thing to do it bad enough. It's another thing to then post the video.

So it's really heartbreaking because it was at the expense of Shador Sanders. But my goodness, you hope you raise your kids to make good decisions and to be kind to others. And that's the opposite of what happened. My sense is, is that what you know, usually when something shows such terrible judgment, it's not the first time. My heart, my sense is that this guy has been more than just this.

I don't know if an apology would suffice, but the cruelty is unimaginable. Also, the security of the coach. When you get these numbers, you have to secure these numbers. I know you never thought your son would turn on you, but he. Nobody outside the NFL coaches conference or the coaches committee in the NFL got those numbers.

No, absolutely. But I'd wonder, did he get up to use the restroom and leave the laptop up and come right back? I mean, I would do the same thing in my house, frankly, and I have a bunch of numbers too.

So it's heartbreaking. It's so sad. And hopefully, a lesson, especially as these kids try to go viral, stop, think about it, and then think about what it would be like if you were in those shoes. And obviously, he didn't do that. All right, Sage.

And congratulations, I saw online on social media. You're now engaged. Yes, he shocked me, Brian. He got me. And I'm old.

I have a wedding to plan quickly here. Let's go, right? All right, let's go do it. That'll be great. He's a lucky guy.

Sage Steel, thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. All right. I'll talk to you again soon. She's got a great podcast.

You should check it out. Back at the moment with Tom Holman, Busting the Border. You're with Brian Kilmead.

He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. So, border crossings are down about 99% in 100 days. Not many people, even the most optimistic, thought it would be this successful. Perhaps except my next guest, Tom Holman.

Oh, who's the borders are? has been working on all elements of trying to secure our borders and collect The millions that got here over the last four years, and he's my guest. Tom, great to see you. Today's your day. You opened up at 8:30 this morning with a press conference.

Day one, 100 days in. Your thoughts?

Well, it's a great day celebrating the success of President Trump and the men and women of the United States Border Patrol, right? As you said, border crossing down 96, 97. 99 depending on what week you look at, but we have the most secure border. In the history of this nation right now, President Trump was able to accomplish in seven weeks what Joe Biden couldn't or wouldn't do in four years. Wouldn't.

You believe that it was intentional. Absolutely. I mean, he's the first president in the history of the nation who came in the office and unsecured a border on purpose. He said he's gonna end IC tension. He's gonna put a moratorium on deportation.

He's gonna give free health care to illegal aliens. He's gonna have amnesty and DACA. You make those types of promises to the whole world, that's not an accident. The most most people in the entire world would come and take advantage of that giveaway.

So if you look at the the Marines on the Mexican southern border, you look at the military on our southern border, when you look at the elimination of catch and release and the and the CBP app, Out of all those elements, what's the most important? What is the most to stop the flow? Because we used to have an overwhelming population in the remaining Mexico, right? They were stopped and you had to stay there. That doesn't exist today.

Why is that?

No catching release. You're not getting released in the country. You can come to our border, but you're going to be returned.

So they don't try. They don't try because, you know, the last administration, they knew if you crossed border illegally, you'd be processed within 24 hours and flown to the city of the choice. Yeah.

When you come to our border, you're not going to be allowed to enter the country. Like under President Trump, since day one, we've had nine people released, as I talked about this morning. Four were material witnesses. We needed them in a criminal investigation. Four were significant medical issues.

The other one was a humanitarian case. We ended catch rates. People know that we're enforcing laws, and there's no way you're going to get in this country by crossing the border legally. Educate me on this. Obama, they said, sent out 200,000, 300,000.

uh got deported. Those 300,000 did not get hearings.

So why do you s are you supposed to be giving hearings to these people? I don't get it. Like when we round people up, they're supposed to get their due process. It's not possible, is it? You know, these same people are demanding all these extra hearings due process.

Where were they when you had 10.5 million people come to our borders, release millions of the country? Under violating the the statue of p uh of a p of Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, where were they when you got a 600% increase in sex trafficking? Where were they when a quarter million Americans died from fentanyl of an open border? Where were they, you know, where no inspector terrorists are recognized coming across the border? You know, they didn't follow the legal process to get here.

Now, all of a sudden, they managed a legal process to deport them. They didn't care there was no betting done to get here, but now they want betting done, each everyone being removed. We're enforcing laws of this country and we're found in the statutes and federal law Alien Enemies Act. Isn't that That was written by Congress, enacted by Congress. We're using every two in our two-shed to make this country safe again, and that's what we're going to keep doing.

How long do you need the military? at the border. knowing that there's a budget to be aware of. We need him there. We need him there now.

And look, yesterday, like I said, we only had 33 gotaways. That number can easily get to zero. But if we pull back now. Yesterday at 33? Best one for all is thirty three gotaways.

Down from eighteen hundred. How do you know they're gotaways? Uh, do you catch 'em on video and you can't you can't stop them? On video, drone traffic or censure traffic. And but you know, going from 1,800 on average a day to 33 is pretty good.

It's 33 too many. But I think you look at the number of people released, like I said, we released nine at the same time, Perry released nine. Joe Biden released 184,000. But we need the military on the board. Like Pete Hags has said, who I love Pete, he said a great thing by saying.

They defended borders all over the world.

Now they're defending our border. I think they were, they should be.

So Who decides who gets on that plane and gets flown out to El Salvador or other places? What goes into that? Do you play a role in that? I play an oversight role, but ICE really depends. They create in a manifest.

They work very closely with DOJ and Department of State. And that's what's good. I send these many people so there's no due process. You don't do process. We spend hundreds of hours on every illegal alien.

to ascertain to ensure their member TDA MS-13 allowed due process hundreds of hours.

So, we got the Department of Justice at the table. We got the Department of State at the table. We got DOD at the table. Every day we meet, every day we meet. There's a lot of due process to make sure that everybody we remove is a public safety threat or national security.

So, we got this this morning. It came out in the Wall Street Journal. Trump to sign order requiring a nationwide list of sanctuary cities and states. How does that help you? Sanctuary is a sanctuary for criminals.

When you knowingly release an illegal animal and public safety threat back in a community, It makes it more dangerous for the community, of course, makes it more dangerous for our officers, and makes it more dangerous for the illegal alien. We want to take possession of the public safety threat. inside a jail. Would they choose a lock somebody in a jail cell? Give us access in the jail.

It's much more efficient. But we're just making a list of having them just to be able to call them out. We're going after all of them. Sanctuary is a sanctuary of criminals, and we think they're violating federal law. Every elected mayor, governor, and city council person, they would all, you think they all want public safety threats in the community.

Great, Tom Holmes had a great 100 days. How after four years. What's its border gonna look like after four years? It's gonna be great. Tom Holman, thanks so much.

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