Trump’s sweeping tariffs now in effect

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The greatest radio show in America. This is Griff Jenkins, your humble correspondent from the DC Bureau on Fox News, filling in for the great Brian Kilmead on Brian Kilmead's radio show. Day two of getting the full Brian Kilmead experience. Just did three hours of Fox and Friends in the morning, and then three hours of this great radio show. It is an honor and honor always to be in this chair and filling in for Brian while he is taking a much-deserved time off.

And I want to get right into the topic that I know is top of mind for President Trump, and that is the tariffs. At midnight, the tariffs kicking in, bringing some $150 billion into the U.S. and about $30 billion in just the last month or so. And remember when all of the naysayers were saying that we were going to be thrust into a recession? That inflation would skyrocket, the markets would tank.

Well, guess what? That's not happening and has not happened. And what we have seen instead is deal after deal that the deal maker-in-chief, as he's starting to be called, Donald Trump, gets more and more trade deals. And I want to play for our listeners before we go to our great guest, Drew Greenblatt, who is a steel manufacturer, just a little bit of President Trump talking about tariffs saying we're only getting started. Cut one.

We've really just started. This is just in its infancy.

So we have a great country, we have a country that is Uh going to be very rich. It's uh A country that we're very proud of, but it's going to be very rich, and it's companies like Apple. They're coming home. They're all coming home. And we want them to come home.

They have to come home. We're going to treat them really well. All right, let's go to our guest, Drew Greenblatt. He is the CEO of Marlon Steel. In fairness, I met Drew in 2016 and interviewed him at his steel plant near Baltimore, where he was deciding whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would be best.

He's since expanded, wildly successful now with plants in Indiana and Michigan as well. Drew, how are you doing, my friend? Hello, good morning. Excited to be on the Brian Kilmead Show with Griff. Hey, Drew, it's great to have you.

I want to get your reaction. Obviously, tariffs went into effect at midnight. How is it impacting you as a actual American steel manufacturer?

So we are a fabricator, and we're in Baltimore. As you mentioned, we're also in Indiana and Michigan, and we're thrilled. With these tariffs. Finally, finally, we got a situation where we have an opportunity, our factory workers have an opportunity to thrive and prosper. Why?

Because we have a level playing field. This is fabulous news for the American factory worker. I mean, tonight I'm going to go to the Ravens Colts game. Think about how unfair it would be if the referees schemed and made it 21 to zero before the Ravens even got on the field. That's what we've been dealing with for the last 50 years, Griff.

So we really have a fabulous opportunity. Finally, because of the new policies, our American factory workers here in Baltimore, Indiana, Michigan can now export all over the world. And we have an opportunity to grow and prosper like never before. This is a wonderful time for America. You're going to see the reindustrialization of America.

It's a tremendous, wonderful experience. You know, Drew, I I gave you uh a shout out on Fox and Friends talking to Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful, who clearly understands these things uh very well. And I said That you have talked about the re-industrialization of America. He said it'll take some time, it won't happen overnight, but that the conditions are set for that.

Take me a little bit more into what he means by that. I think that's a good point. I mean, you can't build a factory in a day or a week, okay? It takes time. But what's going to happen is people are now going to start scouting out land, putting up buildings.

They're going to start hiring HVAC guys and roofing contractors to start getting things accomplished. They're going to start buying equipment. Think about it: if you're a Japanese factory owner or a German factory owner, You have a terrible hand. You've been dealt a terrible hand. The energy costs are out of control.

Your taxes are very, very high. were just brutal regulations in these countries. England, Paris, Germany, everywhere. And then you look at America. And you got this opportunity to ship into this, the biggest natural market in the world, richest consumer market in the world.

And now there's a 15% tariff to get there. You're going to say, to heck with that, I'm not going to build a new factory in France. I'm not going to build a new factory in Japan. I'm going to build the next factory in America. And that's fabulous for the American factory worker because what they're going to do is they're going to get opportunities to work at these new Japanese factories in America or French companies or German companies.

They're going to come to America. And the beauty of this is the local box company is going to be able to ship to them because you're not going to buy a Japanese box to ship out of an American factory, right? And they're going to buy from the local pallet company. People are going to get their oil change at the local gas station. And they're going to buy, hopefully, baskets from Marlin.

So it's going to be a win-win-win for the American factory worker. It's a tremendous time to be in the American manufacturing industry. And, Drew, you saw obviously a big announcement at the White House yesterday: Tim Cook of Apple making an announcement that he's adding an additional $100 billion with a B to investments going to make basically all of the Apple iPhone glass products that you have. You see the glass part of the screen in Kentucky. What's your reaction to that?

This is fabulous. And this is, you know, dovetails with exactly what I'm saying. I mean, Tim Cook's a crazy smart guy. And he said to himself, it makes financial sense not to build this in China. It makes financial sense not to build this in India.

The wise play, and this is a smart guy with a lot of money, is to build in the USA. Thank God. And what's happening is that Tim Cook's not the only smart person making these decisions. They, you know, Tim Cook is a leader because he's been so successful for decades. What's going to happen is many, many other leaders are going to be making the same wise decision.

And that plant in Kentucky is going to be hiring a lot of people. They're going to get paid really well. And they're going to get great benefits and it's going to help the local communities thrive. This is a blessing for Kentucky. It's a blessing for our nation, but it's going to happen many, many times.

There's not going to be all these news articles. The mainstream media is missing all of this. And this is an exciting time to be. And we're in the front seat of the American reindustrialization. I thought it was fascinating, Drew, to see the president's real deal making happening when it came to these chips and semiconductors.

To your point, exactly how he wants to work. He said, look, we're going to place 100% tariff on chips and semiconductors, unless you build them in the U.S. And then there's zero. Right.

So right now we buy 70%. of our chips from Taiwan. Right? That's madness because China is jonesing to take over Taiwan. And they've been saying it, and they've been explicit, and they've been.

You know, doing these naval maneuvers and everything, it would be a debacle for this poor little democracy of Taiwan to get stepped on by China.

Well, if that happens, we're going to lose 70% of all chips coming into America. That's an untenable situation.

So, the new policies are so very wise. We got to make things here in America so that we're not beholden to outsiders. I'm talking about critical things, I'm not talking about t-shirts, and I'm not talking about blue jeans or something like that. I'm talking about critical things like silicon chips, like steel, like boats. We got to make that here in America.

And if we do, we'll be more resilient if God forbid there's some adversary that tries to pull a fast one on us. And you can get your jeans, by the way, in America as well at American Eagle. Just ask Sidney Sweeney about that, she'll tell you all about that. Uh, but I digress just in the time minute I got left with you, Drew. I know you have called this the reindustrialization of.

Of America, which I think is so spot on and so poignant, people can understand that. But what else do you believe will be the legacy of President Trump on American business and manufacturing?

Well, I think it's a multi-pronged approach. The energy. Is going to get cheaper because we're going to be opening up and using more of our precious resources that have been put out to pasture.

Well, now we'll be able to exploit them.

So, energy prices will come down, which is a great thing. We're going to have more nuclear, which is also very cheap and no carbon. There's other positives. There's going to be less regulations, foolish regulations that tied up business people are going to melt away. We're also going to see much better tax policy.

Again, we want those Japanese and German factory owners to say to heck with building in our countries. The right and wise decision is to build here. It's a collection of all these wonderful policy shifts. You're going to cause this huge opportunity for the factory workers. They're going to get so many opportunities.

The wages will raise, and there's going to be a lot of career certainty, a lot of comfort to be in the manufacturing profession moving forward. It's going to be something to witness. Drew Greenblatt, the CEO of Bolland Steel, and in full disclosure, a Friend, who I think really understands what's happening out there because he's on the front lines. Drew, thank you very much. Thank you.

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From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Kilmead. Having more fun than one should be allowed. Griff Jenkins filling in for Brian Kilnead on the great Brian Kilnead show and in studio with us now. What a treat it is. RNC Chairman Michael Watley, and as you may have heard, a candidate for Senate in North Carolina.

Mr. Chairman, it's great to have you here. It's great to be with you, sir. I want to talk about your Senate bid. It's so exciting, and I know it's only about a week old.

But first, I can't bring you in here and not take the opportunity to have you put your RNC hat on. And talk to me about these runaway Democrats. Tomorrow's a deadline. The Attorney General Kim Paxton there is putting real pressure along with Governor Abbott to make them come back. They have unfinished business aside from redistricting, like the flood relief that's so desperately needed, along with some other issues that are hanging out there.

But yet these Democrats have fled to a number of places, but mainly to Illinois, which is among the most Democrat redistrict state in the country. I think 14 of 17 seats are Democrats, yet Trump won 44% there.

So they're not represented in that state. Not sure how it works out. But you're also hearing, Mr. Chairman, talk of maybe Maryland or California or New York may redistrict. In fact, Vice President Vance is in Indiana.

Maybe that's going to be happening. What do you make of all this? Look, a couple of things, right? I think, first off, when you see the Democrats right now, and they're in the face of the American people who want this. this country to go in a particular direction.

And they don't get what they want, what do they do? They take their ball and they go home. Or in Texas' case, they take their ball and they go to Illinois, right? You know, so it is remarkable to me that we're seeing them over and over and over again without any agenda whatsoever anywhere in the country. They're just playing obstructionists.

They just want to slow things down. They just want to shut it down. I mean, look what the Democrats did in the Senate looking at 150 of President Trump's nominees that they do not want to confirm because they do not like the president's agenda. They're going to do everything they can to obstruct the agenda moving forward in the Senate.

So they left. They went on vacation. They didn't do a nominations package, which they've done before every August recess forever.

So we're seeing the Democrats, their only actions right now, rather than come up with a philosophy that is going to work with the American people, rather than have an agenda that is going to work for the voters, it's obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, right?

So that's certainly what they're doing. And of all places to go. To Illinois. Really? I mean, the most gerrymandered state in the entire country.

Well, they also went to Massachusetts, which there are zero Republicans in the Senate or the House. I did love the conversation about, well, maybe we'll do redistricting in Maryland or in Massachusetts. I'm like, to what? Yeah. To what really?

You already have none. All the Democrats. You know, Connecticut, zero, right? You know.

Well, and, you know, let me change gears. But real quick, just if I may, the other thing that I think we need to be focused on here right now is that truly when we talk about all of the fights, all of the agendas and the elections that are coming up there, what's going to matter in this election. is the overall environment. It's going to be the economy. It's going to be the border.

It's going to be our standing in the world because that's what President Trump ran on. That's what he won on. He is keeping the promises that he made. And right now, the voters are looking at the president's agenda and the Democrats' agenda, which is why President Trump is over 45%, 50% in the polls, and Democrats are at 20% in the polls. Ultimately, that's going to be the biggest issue.

That the voters are going to be taking a look at, not all these gerrymandering fights around the country. And that is why, Michael Watley, I believe you are the most successful RNC chairman that I know I've witnessed since I moved to Washington in the mid-90s, because you understand voters don't give a damn about gerrymandering and redistricting. They care about those issues: their pocketbook, the economy, the border, their security, as you mentioned, and of course, our standing in the world with so many things happening right now. We'll see too if President Trump can actually end the war in Ukraine with the meeting with Putin. Wow, such a fascinating time with high stakes.

Let me shift gears, though, because you're running for Senate. And speaking of President Trump, you get a call. And he encourages you to run. Take me into that call. And how do you say no?

Well, you don't. I mean, you know, frankly, you just don't, right? And it's, look, it's thrilling. It's very exciting. I mean, North Carolina is the marquee Senate race in the entire country.

You know, I grew up in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. I am a son of middle-class America, right? My dad was an accountant. My mom was a librarian. You know, I delivered newspapers and I mowed lawns and I went to church and I played sports.

And, you know, North Carolina and really America have given me an amazing opportunity. You know, I paid my way through college and law school, you know, was able to build a great career. I'm married. I've got a great family. You know, and everything that North Carolina America gave me, I think we need to give back.

And those are the values I think we need in the Senate, you know, from North Carolina. And so, you know, the opportunity that I have at the RNC is how do we win an advanced conservative agenda? Right, a pro-America agenda, a common sense agenda, and we see President Trump and the Congressional Republicans, the Senate Republicans doing that every day. How do I become part of that voice? Because in North Carolina, the biggest issues that matter are the economy.

It's our kids and our communities. Are they going to be safe? You know, North Carolina has more soldiers, veterans, and military families per capita than any state in the country. Are we going to be a strong country? North Carolina is going to be the tip of the spear there.

And if you think about, you know, our economy is based on farming, it's based on small businesses. It's based on banking. It's a true microcosm for the country. And so the issue sets that we are looking at nationally right now are the exact issue sets that really matter in North Carolina. And I feel like we're in a really, really good position to win this race and give President Trump an ally in the Senate and also to make sure that North Carolina is going to have a strong conservative voice in the Senate.

Well, and you are going to be one tough case. Candidate to beat, and you really did. I mean, after covering North Carolina for quite some time, it certainly is the absolute microcosm from the military to the, you know, coast to the internal rural areas. Let me ask you this: should you win? What do you want to do when you get to Washington?

Well, I want to fight every day for every family and every community across North Carolina. And the issue sets that North Carolina is going to be dealing with are very familiar, right? I mean, you know, we need a stronger economy. We need to make sure that our kids and our communities are going to be very, very safe. And I really do think that the military presence is going to be very important for us.

But I want to be that voice, right? You know, I grew up in rural North Carolina, and I think that that really, and I live right outside of Charlotte now, you know, so when I was the state party chair. I would do all 100 counties every year. And it's, you know, 65,000 miles in my truck, but it is a great state, and it needs a voice in the state. We got to leave it there.

RNC Chairman Michael Wiley, thank you for taking time. And I want you to promise you'll come back on that campaign trail on the Brian Kilmead Show. Absolutely. Guarantee it. Thanks, sir.

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Real authentic and a whole lot of fun if your name is Griff Jenkins and you get to sit in and have the honor and privilege of sitting in for Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show. And now we have the pleasure of welcoming the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergham, to this program. Mr. Secretary, thank you for taking time.

Well, Griff, great to be with you. You and thank you for filling in for Brian. You've got a storied. History and news reporting, and it's fun to be with a pro like you on the radio on the radio this morning. Oh, you were so kind.

You were so kind, Mr. Secretary. And I, you know, I've told the listeners I've started in radio in the 90s and in the early 2000s and worked for great folks like Lieutenant Colonel Ollie North and the late, great Tony Snow that was George W. Bush's press secretary when he had a radio show on Fox. And it's just a real treat.

And also to be able now to have not only a front row seat to history, but to make history with people like you, the former North Dakota governor, but now the Interior Secretary, because as we look at 200 days of President Trump's administration, you have taken very significant historic action at the Department of Interior, much of which many thought might not even be possible. Walk me through some of the accomplishments.

Well, first of all, President Trump's first 200 days, I mean, what a joy and how much fun working for this guy. He is. He's a man on a mission, and his mission is it's as simple as making America great again. Promises made, promises delivered. But the ones at the Department of the Interior that we get to work on, of course, are starting with energy, which is the US largest energy producer in the world, but we've been strapped By the last four years, the Biden administration trying to choke out this industry and cut back on reliable, affordable energy, which because energy is a component of everything we eat, the car you drive, the food on your table, the clothes on your back.

It's a component. President Trump said he would break the back of the record inflation, the highest we've had in 40 years, and here we are, 200 days in, and we're already back to 2% inflation and likely heading lower than that.

So it's just amazing what he's gotten done. And he said he wants going to bring peace to the world. He's ending wars. And part of the reason he's ending wars is because of Americans' energy dominance, where he understands that we should be selling energy to our friends and allies, both in the Pacific and Europe, so that they're not buying it or dependent on our adversaries. And so it's just.

The execution has been crisp and fast, and he's again with the one big beautiful bill, which has got something in there for like every American, whether if you're working on for a wage hour and you're getting no tax on tips, if you're on Social Security and you've got no tax on Social Security, and the deregulation that is happening across all these cabinet agencies is taking literally trillions with a T of cost out of the economy for private sector people.

So if you've got lower taxes, lower regulation, winning trade deals every day, ending wars. This is a formula for, as President Trump says, the golden age of abundance. I mean, America's headed in towards a boom time with the policies that he's fighting to put in place at record speed. Mr. Secretary, it's so fascinating because I know I've heard you say before that you at the Interior Department are taking really this quote common sense approach to energy policy.

And as President Trump has pointed out, energy policy, at the end of the day, that's the big one. That one really matters, certainly on the global stage. But I do, when the producer said, hey, you know, we might have an opportunity to interview Secretary Bergham. Would you like to? I said, oh my gosh, I'd love to.

And they said, why? I said, because when I was covering President Trump's trip over to sign that EU deal in Scotland, he On several occasions, he expressed his total disdain for windmills. He really doesn't like those windmills. Did you have any idea before you took the job that he had such disdain for windmills? And more seriously, there's actually steps that you have taken at Interior to roll back some of the previous administration's wind efforts.

Yeah. Yes, that was not a secret about how President Trump felt about windmills, but part of it was not just the look, I mean, and particularly offshore wind, which again, even in New Jersey, 80% of people in New Jersey that live on the coast are opposed to offshore wind. People don't like all of the things that come with it, whether it's the disruption of fisheries, dead whales on the beach, killing of waterfowl, and migratory birds. I mean, there's a lot of things to not like, but the President Trump is a curious person. He asked questions and he's talking to energy executives when he was campaigning this time around.

And they privately told him, we wouldn't be doing any of this stuff if it weren't for the tax subsidies. And he's like, why would Americans be paying for intermittent, unreliable, and therefore expensive I mean, it is a big lie that wind is cheap because wind wouldn't exist without taxpayer subsidies. And then they want to put the wind towers in places that are very expensive to build, like offshore or very distant from where the power is needed, like in a state like my home state, where there's you know, wind farms were built, which are really not harvesting wind, they're harvesting tax subsidies. But then the taxpayer is also on the hook because now you've got to build transmission lines to get that power from these remote places to where the load is needed. And in the report that we just put out last week from Interior, you know, because one of the things, one of the actions we took last week was stopping this massive lava ridge project in Idaho, an onshore project, that was going to occupy over 54,000 acres.

one acre of land for a natural gas plant or a nuclear plant can produce the versus the fifty four thousand for the for the for a wind farm or an offshore where Biden had preapproved three point five million acres of offshore on the on the northeast coast of America. These things are so land inefficient, and part of the job of the interior, part of the law that I'm supposed to follow, that I will follow as the secretary, is to multiple use doctrine. What is the best and highest use for the land? And if we can generate reliable, affordable, cheaper electricity on one acre versus four to five thousand acres needed to get the equivalent amount of wind, it's just not good for wildlife, it's not good for the environment, it's not good for birds and mammals, not good for ranchers, not good for timber production, all the other things that we should be doing on these national assets called the lands, not our national parks. With the national lands that were put away for the benefit and the use of the American people.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: You know, it's interesting you mentioned the Lava Ridge Wind Project, Mr. Secretary, because, you know, as you point out rightfully so, that was this enormous, unpopular thousand-megawatt wind facility in southern Idaho. But we also learned that it was snuck in at the very final days of Biden's term. It was a very late thing. And now, as we watch on Capitol Hill the autopin investigation, you wonder whether or not it was, you know, the Green New Deal folks inside the White House under the previous administration that were really driving this, and whether that Biden even was aware, fully cognizant of making a decision like that, that you're now left to basically play cleanup on all five.

Yeah, well, absolutely, Griff. And this is very disturbing because, again, in terms of following the law, the law would say that if we're going to do a project on federal land, we've got to do consultation. And if you check in with anybody in Idaho, whether it's local ranchers, local communities, whether it's the state legislature, the congressional delegation, the governor, they all were writing letters, 100% writing letters in opposition to a project that was going to have hundreds of towers, each as tall as the space needle, shipping power on an expensive taxpayer-subsidized transmission line from Idaho to California.

So the locals don't want it. Idaho didn't need the power, and everyone's opposed. But somehow the federal government, under Biden, gets it greenlit and approved in record time at the tail end of his administration. And ignoring the actual rules and regulations that say you want to have consultation, even on Federal land, you want to consult with the people that live there before you start building stuff. And this was clearly ignored in this case.

Yeah, and Mr. Secretary, ignoring also the will of the people that actually live there and the voters and the constituents. Hey, let me ask you to look forward a little bit if I can. Obviously, you ticked off a litany of things that you say President Trump's on a mission. And by all accounts, anyone observing this, it's certainly a mission.

It's a bold and aggressive mission that he's on, and the accomplishments of just 200 days. Take me into the next two hundred days. What what where do you see things going? What goals and what sort of uh uh projects, accomplishments do y are you seeking to accomplish there at Interior?

Well I I think there was a couple of things, because in addition to interior, President Trump asked me to chair the National Energy Dominance Council. And when we took a look at the and this is a group that includes cabinet leaders, about 60% of the cabinet is on that group.

So Vice Chair, Chris Wright, Lee Zeldin playing a key role, our trade team playing a key role. When I look ahead and you take a look at the trade deals that are being put together, which were in all cases leave us in a better spot than where we were before with countries whose markets were closed and ours were open to them, now they're opening theirs up. But the core of almost all those deals is also two things, investment by those countries into the United States, reshoring manufacturing, and also purchases of energy from the United States by those countries.

So again, the strategy that one of the ways we achieve world peace is we sell energy to our friends and allies so they don't have to buy it from our adversaries. There's a big chunk of that. We've got to increase production and export more energy as part of these trade deals. But then, when the dollars are coming into the country, we can use those for energy infrastructure and we can not only drill, baby, drill, but we can build, baby, build. And we've got to build out enormous capacity for producing electricity in this country.

Our grid is at tremendous risk. We need more baseload, less intermittent, unreliable taxpayer subsidies. We need more baseload, and that baseload power can help us power the huge demand coming for artificial intelligence, the AI factories. where we take a kilowatt of electricity, we turn it into intelligence. a piece of electricity right now, a kilowatt, is worth more today than it ever has been in human history, because we've never been able to turn electricity into intelligence And now we're able to do that.

The demand for that capability is going to be cutting across every job, every industry, every company, hopefully across the government as well, because it'll help make the government more productive. But we've got to really get hustling, and that includes natural gas pipelines, power generation, more energy production, all those things. But the capital is going to be here. We're not short of money. The money's flowing into the country because of President Trump's negotiations and trade deals.

And we're going to put that to work to build an energy powerhouse here. We lead China in the technology of advanced intelligence, artificial intelligence, we lead, but they're building out so much more electricity than we are. We're behind in that race, and that's a place where we've got to catch up. Boy, that is so fascinating to hear you talk about, Mr. Secretary, because it wasn't just a few months ago as a reporter on Fox News.

They'd sent me out there in Northern Virginia, just about 20 miles west of Washington, D.C., where one of the main AI AI power centers in the country is, and they're really, you know, working around the clock trying to build that base power up because I don't think Americans fully realize the amount of power that it takes to drive these AI centers. And obviously, with what's on the horizon and staying competitive, like you said, with China, it's going to take a lot more. It seems that's going to be one of the biggest challenges you're facing right now.

Well, it sure is. And we And President Trump, again, any source of electricity that is reliable, persistent, and not heavily taxpayer subsidized like wind and solar, we're for it. I mean, whether it's nuclear, geothermal, hydro, natural gas, traditional sources like beautiful, clean coal. And I say that because coal in America is If you've got a coal plant running in America, it's clean. I mean, it's survived an onslaught of 20 years of regulations, and we've got enormous resources there, and we can take everything out of it that people want taken out of it, including even the CO2 if you wanted to.

I mean, we can clean up everything related to coal, and in that coal, coal, there's metallurgical coal, which we need for steel, and there's also critical minerals in the coal, which we need because China's got us in a stranglehold where they've cornered the market on the top 20 critical and rare earth minerals, which we need for defense, technology, automobiles, you know, virtually everything that's advanced in our country.

So, we've got another mission there from the national security to make sure that we're getting back in the businesses that include mining and critical minerals. I mean, we graduated 36,000 lawyers in this country last year, and we graduated, Griff, we graduated 300. 300 people with mining or metallurgical degrees in this country. You've got to get that number up, Mr. Secretary.

Yeah, no, I mean, if you're a kid right now and you want to have, you know, I mean, you want to have career security, head into that field because you know, the United States, for the first time, we just made an investment. The Department of Defense made an investment in a public company, MP Mountain Pass. These guys have a critical minerals mine on the California-Nevada border. I mean, the federal government, from a defense standpoint, is even saying we've got to take ownership in some of these countries. We've got to get back in the game.

And of course, at Interior, we're permitting gold mines, silver mines, cobalt mines, antimony, which we need for ammunition, uranium mines. I mean, we're importing uranium from Russia to run our current nuclear plants in this country. I mean, enriched uranium. We're buying it from Russia. How crazy is that?

It's crazy indeed. We've got to leave it there. Such great insight. He was the governor of North Dakota. We are fortunate to have him in the Trump administration now as our Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergham.

Mr. Secretary, thank you for taking time today and have a great rest of your week. Huh. You two, great to be with you, Griff. Thank you for all you do.

Thank you. Griff Jenkins here, filling in on the Brian Kilmead Show. We've got a whole lot more coming up. Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Here at first on the Brian Kill Meet Show.

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And a pleasure and honor to speak with Interior Secretary Doug Bergams talking about energy policy and the drive of this administration to harness more energy and AI's demand. And it appears there will be demand for nuclear power as well, not just here. In the US or on planet Earth, but a groundbreaking announcement by Transportation Secretary and now interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announcing that they will move forward to try and fast track a plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon. Listen.

So on the moon, I don't think a lot of people realize there's ice. Ice means water. We do have some solar, but if you want sustainable life on the moon, you need an energy source.

So we're going to bring fission to the moon's surface to power our base. It makes complete sense.

Now, some might say, well, the launch is somewhat complicated, right? These are not active, they're not live. When we launch them into space, we can do it safely. By the way, we have submarines and aircraft carriers that operate on nuclear energy as well. But this is a key component.

If we're gonna get to the moon and then get to the Mars, we're gonna have to figure this technology out. This is a race, a race to the moon, a moonshot, if you will. And obviously, President Trump has given NASA administrator, interim NASA administrator Duffy, the charge to move forward, start getting that technology. The reactor will have to generate 100 kilowatts of output, which is roughly the equivalent to the energy that a 2,000 square foot home uses every three hours. But if anybody can do it, Duffy can do it.

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It's Brian Kilmead. And one of the smartest, kindest, most amazing gentlemen, Brian Kilmead. He is the host of the most powerful show on radio in America. I would tell you, the Brian Kilmead show. This is Griff Jenkins, your humble DC correspondent, filling in, trying to fill Brian's giant shoes.

Always such a treat and honor to get behind a radio microphone as the kid that started his career in radio in the 90s with Lieutenant Colonel Ollie North, Common Sense Radio with Ollie was that radio show, and then starting Tony Snow, the great late spokesman for President Bush. Before that, on Fox News Radio, right here, he had the Tony Snow show. And such an unbelievable history to look back at my mentors and now be behind a microphone after being the producer for that for so long.

So we have such a huge show lined up for you in this hour, such great guests. And I want to get really Right to our next guest. And that is a gentleman that I had the privilege of covering and interviewing when he was a great congressman from the state of Florida. He's now the Dallas County Republican Party chairman down in Texas. Texas is lucky to have him.

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, a longtime friend. And I got to tell you, Colonel, before we get to the news, for our listeners, you know, I'll tell you a story about Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. I used to be really into running, running. Still, I've run at least one marathon or a half every year, but back in the day, I ran many of them when I was younger and fitter. And I'm down in Fort Lauderdale running this A1A half marathon, and I am just huffing and puffing gassed.

I feel like I'm on death's doorstep, crushing it. And it's a race that's really beautiful. It's right along the A1A, and you're running the majority of it along the coast there, along the Atlantic Ocean and under the palm trees. But it's kind of one of those ones where you're out and back.

So while you're running, the people that are really fast have already gone around the turnaround and they're headed to the finish line. They're passing you.

So as you're running past these people, you know the people that you're passing are smoking you, just crushing you. And I think I'm running really damn fast. And I look up and I see none other than Lieutenant Colonel Alan West just smoking it. And I thought, all right, I will fore always and ever be impressed. Hey, how are you, friend?

I'm doing very well, Griff. And I tell you what, I don't think I could do that now at the age of sixty four. But those were the days, man, when we would could get out there and knock out, you know, thirteen miles without, you know, Really stressing our bodies. Do you remember that, by the way? I absolutely do.

That's why I was sitting here laughing my butt off. Oh, man. When they said that you were going to come on as a guest, I said, Oh, man. My man, Alan West, that's great. Hey, Colonel, let me, all kidding aside, I do want to start this conversation with, you know, the shooting, the Army sergeant that is now, you know, at Fort Stewart, Cornelius Radford is his name, 28 years old, was an active duty sergeant, excuse me, shot five soldiers.

We're starting to get a little more updates about that, but your thoughts and your sort of insight on that story.

Well, the thing that unnerves me is that we go all the way back to the incident with Major Madal Hassan, who shot. Shot up Fort Hood, Texas, a place where I finished my military career. And it just goes to show that on a military base, we should have the most secure operations going on, and no one should be able to come on and shoot unarmed soldiers. And back once upon a time, when I came into the military, you had people in the barracks, the charge of quarters, that was armed. You had people that were there in the motor pool, motor pool guards that were armed.

I mean, they had their rules of engagement and what have you. But we continue to have these incidents happen. I remember down where an Islamic jihadist shot up a naval air station barracks down in Pensacola, if I'm correct.

So we need to go back and really look at what we are doing. to make sure that our respective areas within our military bases are secured. There should be senior officers well, not senior, but junior officers and noncommissioned officers that are able to be there as immediate reaction force and security. Yeah, and Colonel, we're waiting to learn more about what the motive was here, what drove this individual. It doesn't appear to be, at least initially, what we saw down in Texas at Fort Hood with Nadal Hassan, who was driven by Islamic radical fundamentalism.

But we'll wait and find out and let the authorities tell us. But one of the details, Colonel, that we did learn yesterday, excuse me. was that this individual, Cornelius Radford, used a personal handgun, not a military firearm. And so I think everyone sort of immediately would be thinking, wait a minute, how could he get a personal handgun in there and have it so readily available?

Well, that's my exact point. And that does tie into his parallel to what Nadal Hassan was able to do and that he brought in personal weapons onto Fort Hood in his vehicle.

So again, we need to make sure that we have the right type of screening systems for these vehicles as they come on to military installations so that X-ray, radar, whatever you want to call it, they can pick these things up. And again, you need to have someone in a barracks area, in a unit area that is a quick reaction force, like I said, charge of quarters or someone that can immediately respond to this type of attack. I know that this the assailant had an issue with the DUI previously. And in most cases, with the DUI, I mean, you're going to be chattered out of the military now. And so it looked as we looked to see if there was criminality and some criminal behavior there.

But again, this is highly disturbing. Highly disturbing, and it's such a great point you make, Colonel, because that DUI was recent, actually. It was just months ago, I believe. And so you wonder what he was doing and how that was handled. And we'll see where that goes.

Let me switch gears a little bit, though, because you have a whole bunch of Democrats, to be exact, 50 of them in your state that seem to have run away. We got some more now. As a matter of fact, I think we had nine Democrat state senators that absconded, and they are now in Massachusetts. And it's so funny, Griff, because when you think about these Democrats and where they're running to, you know, Massachusetts is a state that has zero Republican congressional representatives. I mean, so you're going to go and complain about quote-unquote political gerrymandering to a state that has zero Republican representation.

And in the state of Illinois, I believe that they only have two to five Republicans.

So this is a practice. There are eight states, eight Democrat states with zero House. congressional Republicans. There are three, Maryland, Oregon, and Maine with only one Republican in the House of Representatives. I just heard James Carvelle talking about when Democrats get back in power, they need to make states good for D.C.

and Puerto Rico so they can get more congressional representation. The amazing thing is that these Democrats down here in Texas are mad because something is being done to them that they have been doing for quite some time, for decades. And I think it is the hypocrisy is laughable. It is petty. It is petulant.

And they have abandoned their positions. And we just talk about the military. If you go AWOL in the military, guess what? Uh, there is punishment for that, and I think their seats need to be vacated.

Well, there's consequences for that, and you've got a number of fascinating sort of developments. And you know, you're very right, by the way. I love when we hear that governor of Massachusetts Mari Healy is going to consider redistricting. It's like, to what? You've already got all the Democrats.

And even, even there's a, I was saying on Fox and Friends this morning, there's a scenario that this does backfire on the Democrats. And I know they think that this is taking a stand and it's showing, quote, fight as Betto O'Rourke wants them to do. But there is irony, or perhaps it's just rich, in that they fled to Illinois, where in that state, they're, you know, redistricting so heavily Democrat that you've got 14 of 17 seats are Democrats in a state that Trump won by 44 percent.

So Illinois voters may be actually being made aware of something they didn't otherwise take time to think about. About, which is like, we're not being fully represented here if Trump gets nearly half the vote, but yet the redistricting has made it so that you've got 14 of 17 Democrats in office. No, you're absolutely right. And so democracy has a very interesting meaning to those on the progressive socialist leftist side. Democracy means we're in control.

It does not mean that there is equal and fair representation. You look at a state like California, which has anywhere from about 40 to 43 percent Republican electorate, but yet they only have 17 percent Republican congressional representation.

So I think that this is really shining a light on the Democrats and their practices in these states. And people are going to start saying, well, look, I have no representation.

So here in Texas, we have thirty eight congressional seats, twenty five held by Republicans right now, twelve by Democrats, and one is vacated because of the member down in Houston passed away. And so we're talking about five seats. We're not saying that we're eliminating Democrat representation in the state of Texas.

So we're saying that the state of Texas, where we saw 12 of 14 border counties go red for Donald Trump last year, where Donald Trump won by 15 percentage points, Ted Cruz won by 10 percentage points. It's going to look like a red state.

So, again, this petulant stomping my foot and running away because I'm not getting my way, that's quite immature. And we don't want that type of immaturity here in the state of Texas. You know, Colonel, you talked about, you know, in the military, you go, hey, well, there's consequences. We know that your attorney general, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has launched this investigation, particularly into whether or not these Democrats have been funded by former Congressman Beto Rourke and his group. And the reason why, so our listeners understand that matters is that the previous, the last Texas legislature basically passed a law.

And correct me if I'm wrong, you'll understand better than I. But in a nutshell, they passed a law that said that you cannot accept money. It would be illegal to accept money for Democrats or Republicans, for that matter, to go on the lamb and fund their running away unless it were their personal money.

So they could spend their own money out of their pocket. They want to, but to take actual political PAC type money from that of Beto Rourke, well, that's illegal. And now you've got A.G. Paxton driving an investigation. He calls it Betto Bribes.

Where do you see that going? Has anything come from this? Yeah, I think something will come for this. Remember that they boarded private jets. They did not get on Southwest Airlines.

They did not get on American Airlines. And American and Southwest are based here. They could have used those, but they chose a private jet. And this is something they repeated four years ago. And so I think that all of their pay should be cut off, their per diem should be cut off, and without a doubt, someone is providing them the means by which they can sustain themselves and live.

You know, J.D. Pritzker, I mean, I guess he provided them a hotel. Are they paying for that hotel themselves? Yeah, I mean, this is serious. I agree.

Are they staying in Pritzker hotels?

So that everyone understands, in case you weren't aware, J.B. Pritzker made his gazillions because his family founded Hyde Hotels. That's correct. And so, again, that is political bribery. You know, I will provide you hotel lodging and meals and things of this nature if you abscond from your duties as a representative in the state of Texas.

That's a quit pro quo. And I think, again, this is a criminal aspect. But first and foremost, let's vacate their seats and so we can get on with the business that we need to have here in Texas and not reward them for this behavior. Colonel, I've just got about 30, 40 seconds left here, but I just want to ask you: there's talk about, you know, trying to do away with mid-decade redistricting. Because as you point out, the Democrats are going to do it as soon as they get in power.

Both parties are doing it. Are you on board? Do you think there should be something done so it can only happen once every 10 years after a census? Or do you think politics is fair game?

Well If the Democrats would follow the Constitution, we would not be in this position when they are counting illegal immigrants that they allowed into the country unconstitutionally in the census so that they can have unfair congressional representation and districts drawn. I think that this is why we have to do this. Because how many illegal immigrants were flooded into the state of Texas? They passed laws, pushed for lawsuits to have them counted in the census. And the other thing is that when you see a massive population shift like we've seen coming into Texas from California, Illinois, New York, and some of these other places, yeah, I think that we need to go back and re-examine the population shift so we can get the right type of congressional representation.

Because I guarantee you, California is overrepresented. Yeah, that's pretty clear if you look at any kind of district map. They are the Texas runaway Democrats, but they had better hope that Lieutenant Colonel Alan West doesn't start running after them because he is far too fast and will catch them. I know from personal experience how fast he is. It is good to talk to you.

My friend, Colonel Allen West. Thank you. It's been too long, Griff. Thanks so very much. Been too long.

God bless. Have a great weekend. It's, of course, Friday Eve, almost the weekend here. Griff Jenkins filling in on the Brian Kilmead show. Don't go anywhere.

Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead. ASO Wright. The more you listen, the more you'll know. Griff Jenkins filling in here on the Brian Kilmead show.

Brian's got much deserved time off, and I am having the time of my life filling in for Brian trying to fill his great shoes. But the tag there was exactly right. The more you listen, the more you learn.

So, first, I want you to listen to a montage of Democrat governors saying they're going to fight back against the Texas redistricting by doing the same in their state. Let's be clear, this is not just rigging the system in Texas. It's about rigging the system against the rights of all Americans for years to come. All bets are off. Everything's got to be on the table.

If Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage, Then they're leaving us no choice. We must do the same. That's why I'm exploring with our leaders. Every option to redraw our state congressional lines as soon as possible. And we're going to fight fire with fire.

I think that should be absorbed. by those in the Texas delegation. Whatever they are doing will be neutered here in the state of California.

Now, here's how you listen and then learn on the Brian Kilmead show. You listened there, those second two voices, the last two voices, were New York Governor Kathy Hokul and California Governor Gavin Newsome. You probably recognized it, vowing to fight fire with fire. Hokul saying, We've been left no choice.

Well, let's learn a couple of things about that tough talk. Number one, The U.S. Constitution doesn't provide for gerrymandering or redistricting. The state constitutions do. Remember, carrying out elections is given the power to the states.

And both New York's Constitution and California's Constitution prohibit mid-decade redistricting.

So there's a constitutional state problem they have existing. And then there's the simple math. I don't know if Kathy Hochul has looked recently, but in the past election, New York, Donald Trump got 43%. 43% of the vote in the state of New York, but yet 73% of the delegation is held by Democrats. 19 of 26 in the state of New York are Democrats.

But go out to California, Gavin Newsom, who says he's going to fight fire with fire despite knowing that his own constitution prohibits him from redistricting. You have a state where President Trump got 38% of the vote statewide. Voters voting 38% for him, but the three in the eighth flip because 83% of the California delegation in Congress are Democrats. I'll tell you, it's very fascinating when you know the facts. And that's why you get the chance to listen.

And then learn on the Brian Killmead Show. Griff Jenkins filling in for Brian. Stay tuned. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Giddy up, Griff Jenkins filling in for the great Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show. And having the time of my life, and now having the opportunity to bring in a really good friend. And I am so fortunate to call her a friend because she is among, if not the smartest woman I know, certainly in Washington. And that is Molly Hemingway. She and I actually are going to be on Outnumbered.

You can catch us there. She will say smarter things. I will say dumber things, but at least I'll have the honor of sitting on the couch next to her. Hey, Molly. Stop.

It's great to be here with you.

Well, no, I mean it in every way. And. You know, all know Molly as a Fox News contributor because she does such a great job on the shows, but she's also the editor-in-chief of the Federalist. And her organization, The Federalist, has been the leader when it comes into finally uncovering the Russia hoax stuff, which, as we all now know, the recent history from DI Gabbard releasing information that has led to referrals to the DOJ that has now led to a pretty significant subpoena being issued by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer that has subpoenaed. Former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and a long litany of past and attorney generals and high-ranking officials with some connection to exactly what happened in the Federalist.

And Molly Hemingway have been on the tip of the spear with that. But, Molly, what I want to ask you. Is you see MSNBC and other channels basically just blowing this off, saying this is all about nothing, but you say it's actually about something.

Well, it's just fascinating to see the same people who spent all day, every day for like two and a half years freaking out about supposed collusion between Trump and Russia. I mean, we endured years of hysteria from people. There was no leak too small to impugn Trump as being an agent of Russia. And now that it's all unraveling with truly explosive leaks of information, or not leaks, releases of real information that you can actually look at and check out and analyze. The media are saying, a lot of these left-wing media people are saying, oh, there's just nothing to see here.

This is not interesting at all. And they're not serving their readers well because there has been a grand jury impaneled to handle this investigation. There is a strike force at the DOJ that has already begun working on this. A strike force is what the DOJ uses. To untangle really complex criminal conspiracies like the mafia.

And so we also know, and we reported at the Federalists this week, that an unnamed U.S. attorney has been gathering documents, additional supporting documents for those criminal referrals they received for Obama's top spy chiefs, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey. And so this is moving, and pretending that it's not happening is not a way to serve your readers or viewers. Yeah, you know, and I think, Molly, for our listeners and viewers that have sort of been following this, even on the surface, you start to see that particularly guys like John Brennan and James Comey could have some real problems, particularly based on just the information we're able to see with our own eyes and statements they've made in some cases under oath.

Well, this is, I would say, in particular, it's interesting to think about John Brennan, the former CIA chief, because the documents that have been released and the whistleblowers that are coming forward. Are saying that good career bureaucrats in the intelligence agencies were screaming from the rooftops. You can't make this stuff up about Russia preferring Trump when, in fact, the intelligence showed that Russia had no preference, they just wanted to mess with us. And then, and also that Trump was colluding with Russia. You have good people screaming about it.

They had their jobs threatened. They were told there was secret intelligence that they couldn't know about, that John Brennan had. And because the conspiracy is ongoing, I mean, just in the last couple of weeks, you've had Brennan and Clapper and Comey saying that they're doing things to perpetuate that criminal conspiracy. And that is very bad news for them because it means that the conspiracy is ongoing. And so if you're investigating these things, there's normally a five-year statute of limitations.

But they're continuing to perpetuate it, which means that we still aren't counting the clock on those five years. And so that makes them very legally vulnerable.

Well, and you know, the defenders of the Brennans and Comeys of the world are saying that this is. All about political retribution, and there's scrapping for anything to try and do this, and that there's really nothing, there's no there. But you say there's maybe something there. Yeah, so it's just absurd to say that actually, and particularly after what the country endured under the Biden presidency, where you had literal raids of a former president's house and unfair lawsuits up and down the eastern seaboard. The reality is that what they did is extremely horrific.

They tried to coup a duly elected president. They caused damaging relations on a global scale. The idea that nobody would be held accountable for knowingly suppressing the real intelligence and manufacturing fake intelligence, working with their handmaidens in the media, destroying the first Trump administration, destroying the lives and bankrupting people when they knew it was all a lie. They knew it was all a Clinton dirty op and they knew there was nothing to it. The idea that you wouldn't hold people accountable is just, you don't really have a country if you don't hold people accountable for this level of criminality.

And you do see in what has been released, and you know better than I, there's real connections with respect to Hillary Clinton and in particular, one of her aides. Basically, Showing that we can see that there was a narrative being created. Oh, yeah.

So we and you know, some of this we've known, but we now see the actual details of it. I do think it's interesting that the Clinton, you know, that Clinton came up with this plan. very early in her campaign, deployed it. We also knew at the end of the last Trump term that Russia got wind of this, but we have more details about how they got wind of this. Obviously, if Russia knew that Clinton was trying to do this, they had all sorts of opportunities to mess again with the election by deploying bad information.

And rather than the FBI looking into this dirty trick or briefing Trump on what Clinton was planning. They investigated Trump and his campaign affiliates. That is just really reckless behavior and had so much to do with people's lack of trust in the FBI, CIA, and other spy agents. And you know, sort of to that point, Molly, I just happened to be filling in at the White House as the White House reporter that day, and we go into the briefing room, and then Tulsi Gabbard comes out. I thought, oh boy, buckle up, we're in for something.

And one of the things we learned just on that first day was that Russia didn't appear to specifically favor Trump in this election. None of the intelligence showed that Russia favored Trump. The intelligence did show that Russia did not have a preference, that the goal of Russia was just to mess with us, to decrease trust in elections. And so, what happened is that real intelligence, which was consistent throughout the Presidential season was suppressed. It was going to be briefed to Donald Trump and Mike Flynn as well as Obama.

And they knew they couldn't run the whole hoax if the real information came out.

So they suppressed the presidential daily brief, and then they came up with a plan to manufacture a fake intelligence assessment that said the opposite, that said that Russia preferred Trump. And they immediately, like the day they decided to do it, they immediately leaked to the Washington Post and the New York Times out-and-out lies claiming that the CIA had conclusively determined that Russia preferred Trump. You know, you think about the Russia collusion hoax. A big part of it was that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election. But you can't have him colluding to steal the election if Russia didn't prefer him.

And so a big part of the lie was that they had to say Russia preferred Trump, even though the evidence never said that. And let's walk this forward a little bit. And I don't want you to get ahead of any sort of reporting or scoops you've got coming from the Federalists. But, you know, if indeed with Chairman Comer. Subpoening a former president, Bill Clinton, in this case, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

Do we think they'll show? Like, where is this headed?

Well, I actually think the more important thing would be the grand jury and the strike force and the U.S. Attorney at the Department of Justice. This is the first time that we've had a really clear picture. By the way, it's important. I understand why you're pointing that out now, and I learned from you every time I talk to you.

This is why, as I said in the open, you're the smartest gal I know, and I learned so much for you. The grand jury is significant because, as with most grand juries, the bar is pretty low for an indictment because the information is basically one-sided. That's true, but it's more that they can actually just go get the information they need through subpoenas and allowing the subpoenas to proceed. Right now, we're in the phase where they're just collecting documents from the willing partners. They will be interviewing willing participants, the whistleblowers, who have been desperate to tell anyone, who have tried quite hard to tell people for the last eight years about what they went through when they tried to stop Brennan and Colleen.

Company from doing this. Then, once they've got all the documents and people, then they'll start going after people who were part of the criminal conspiracy, seeing what they have to say, seeing if they can share information about higher-level targets. This could take time. I mean, this is how a criminal investigation that's this complex goes. And so, people should not be expecting indictments anytime soon or even necessarily expecting indictments because I don't know who this U.S.

attorney is, but if he's a good one, he or she will be looking at the evidence before making a decision about whether to indict anyone. And so, that could take some time. But we're in a totally different environment than when we had that previous special counsel, John Durham. He was fighting everybody at the FBI. He was dealing with a hostile CIA.

So, he couldn't really get the information he needed, even as explosive as his report was.

So, you say don't expect anything quickly, but buckle up. We could see this actually continue to develop. Yeah, and I think that's why also you're seeing a lot of people in the media and these other people a bit scared. You know, when they say this is no big deal, what they're really saying is. Is we really messed up and we are scared and terrified.

And so I would also say, even some of the media participants in this, like, they had to have known that this wasn't a real story that they were pushing. And that might make even, you know, being claiming to be a journalist is not protection from taking part in a criminal case. Yeah, and the White House is saying these people that won Pulitzer Prizes should be giving them back. They, of course, should have. I mean, it's just, once you realize that Pulitzers are generally given for participation in information operations as opposed to journalism, you're not so surprised when you see them given that way.

But they really did discredit the entire Pulitzer. I predict they won't give them back. No. But listen, Molly Hemingway, continue to follow her on the Federalist. And of course, on Fox, you'll see the two of us on Outnumbered.

Molly, it's great to have you here. I'll let you get ready, and I'll see you on Outnumbered soon enough. See you soon. All right. Griff Jenkins filling in for Brian Kilmead on the great Brian Kilmead show.

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You know, we just almost lost a young man. beautiful, handsome guy that Got the hell knocked out of him. The night before last, we're going to do something about it.

So, whether you call it federalized or what, and that also includes. The graffiti that you see, the papers all over the place, the roads that are in bad shape, the medians that are falling down, the median in between roads that's falling down, and that includes bringing in the National Guard maybe very quickly. And that, of course, is President Trump talking about the situation in D.C. Griff Jenkins filling in for the Brian Kilmead show. And, you know, you bring the guy that's lived for three and a half decades in Washington, and I've seen crime come and go, and crime overall is down a little bit if you look at the overall numbers in D.C., and that's a credit to D.C.'s mayor Murray Bowser.

However, the crime, the carjackings are on the rise, and the crime being perpetrated by teenagers is. Just spiraling out of control, getting more and more dangerous. Why? Because they're not being held accountable. That's why you hear President Trump looking at taking over the DC police, possibly bringing in the National Guard.

It all obviously triggered President Trump when you had a former Doge employee now. I believe he works at the works somewhere still in the government. I forget exactly where, but his name is Edward Korstein, and you probably know him by his nickname, Big Balls. And of course, a horrific photo of him just beaten to a pole bloody from head to toe after he intervened and tried to save a woman, did save a woman from a carjacking at 3 a.m. in Logan Circle, which is on 14th Street, about give or take, four blocks from the White House in one of the premier locations where people go, including yours.

Truly to dinner. And the president said, I've had enough.

Now, fascinating about this is that, you know, Mayor Mural Bowser has been mom. Since this all started a few days ago, and been mum since President Trump has threatened to federalize to take over DC. And we'll see what she says, because there have been incidences where Muriel Mayor Muriel Bowser has decided to get on board with President Trump when it came to cleaning up homeless encampments earlier this year and when there was pressure from the Trump administration to try and dial back the sanctuary city policies of D.C., which was something that Mayor Muriel Bowser just years ago was celebrating D.C.'s designation as a sanctuary city.

Now she's written into the budget that they will cease to be identified as such. Doesn't mean that they're going to cooperate with federal law enforcement and particularly ICE, but it certainly is a step in the right direction. But what's different this time. And maybe the reason why you have a quiet Mayor Bowser right now is she's trying to figure out what to do because the U.S. Attorney for D.C.

is none other than Janine Pirow. And she gave her first interview since becoming the U.S. Attorney for D.C. to Laura Ingram last night. And she talked about the rise of youth violence in D.C.

and really across the country. Cut 22, go. Youth violence is on the rise, not just in D.C., but across the country. And if you think that these kids need to be coddled and they need to be hugged, they need to have consequences. They need to understand that enough is enough, that we're going to put them in jail or some kind of youth rehabilitation detention facility and not allow the D.C.

counsel, one of whom I just recently indicted, to take cover for these kids. It's time to end it. That's what the president wants. That's what we're going to do. But her task is tall because in D.C.

for years now, people under 18, teenagers have been getting away with literally murder, with everything under the sun. And as a resident of D.C. that follows the local news, we have seen time and time again that these juveniles are, in some cases, part of a larger car theft ring because the criminal organizations know that if you're a teenager under the age of 18, all you got to do is grab a quick car. Hey, if you get caught, they're just going to let you out. There's no consequences.

But then, even at 4th of July, we had a group of teens that were just riding around near our Nationals Baseball Stadium, just firing fireworks at people, hurting people, and yet nothing happened. Ultimately, they were brought in. But whether or not these teenagers can be charged as adults is something that Pierrot is looking hard at. But yet, Piro was also asked on Ingram whether or not. How likely it might be that Trump actually goes in and does a federal takeover.

Here's what Pierrot said. Listen to this. Cut 23. And the likelihood, 1 to 10, 10 being most likely, how likely is we're going to see a federal takeover of D.C.? It's up to the president.

I support him totally. If that's what we need to do to get it done, that's what he should do. And I support the president. He's the only one coming here saying, I want to make it safe and beautiful. I haven't heard anyone say that besides him.

And he's got the wherewithal, the determination, the perseverance, and the power to do it. And clearly, we'll see what happens. And we're waiting to get a response from Mayor Bowser. And it'll be interesting to see how she handles this. I'm not sure how likely a federal takeover is or not, but the threat is real.

And President Trump was upset after his Doge superstar, Big Balls, was bloody being a hero trying to stop that carjacking. President saying something's got to be done, so you can expect, obviously, some consequence to follow. Griff Jenkins filling in on the great Brian Killmead Show. I'm Janistine. Join me every Sunday as I focus on stories of hope and people who are truly rays of sunshine in their community and across the world.

Listen and follow now at Foxnewspodcast.com. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show. Brian In Kill Mead. Man, it's so cool to be sitting on the Brian Kilmead show. This is Griff Jenkins with the high honor and privilege of trying to fill the giant shoes of Brian Kilmead, getting the full Killmead experience, actually, is what we call it.

I don't know if it's already called that, Eric, but I'm dubbing it the full Killmead experience because I started on Fox and Friends doing the Brian Kilmead show and then gonna do outnumbered as well. And I think I just got a text I might be on Larry Kudlow's show on FBN later this afternoon. And Brian Kilmead is a superhuman. He does this every single day. But I gotta confess, it is an awful lot of darn fun, particularly from this kid.

Just for anyone that may not have already heard my relentless, repetitive trip down memory lane, it is so amazing to be sitting behind the microphone on a radio show, not just any radio show, the number three most powerful radio show in the nation, according to my. Michael Harrison, an old friend at Talkers Magazine. I call him an old friend because I started my career in the 90s with the Oliver North Radio Show, broadcasting common sense radio from coast to coast, as the Colonel used to say, and then an integral part of founding Fox News Radio that you're listening to right now. When I started the Tony Snow, the great late Tony Snow, former spokesperson, press secretary for George W. Bush.

Before that, the Fox News Sunday host and Fox News Live weekend host. And he had a great radio show. In fact, in Washington, the studio there, where we started with just a couple of cables, mics, and a small board to operate the show on has now grown into a state-of-the-art studio that is dubbed the Tony Snow Studio. Every day I walk by, I count my blessings that I got to work under such a great mentor, mentors, both Ollie and Tony, and now to be sitting in on. What I think is the greatest national talk radio show in the country, anywhere in the world, with the most talented staff, Allison, Eric, and Pete, putting things together.

They make it easy for me, but there isn't a moment, a minute, or a second that goes by when I'm sitting behind this microphone speaking to you, realizing I'm just a kid from Memphis, low IQ, by the way, but I try hard, living his dreams to the fullest to be able to sit here and listen to talk to you. And so that's my back story. But enough about me. Let's dive in because the team here asked me, what do you care about today? What are you interested in?

What's got you all fired up? I said, You know what's got me fired up, and if I'm being honest, downright quite pissed. And I'm not sure if I should say that or not, but I'm just going to say it. And this is an opinion. I'm a reporter Monday through Friday out of Washington, but it's okay to be moved by passionate analysis insofar as the anti-Semitism that we have seen in this country has got to be dealt with.

We were just reporting this morning on yet another heinous attack of anti-Semitism, not here in New York City, but yet out in a quiet suburb of St. Louis. An American citizen that serves an obligation and a desire to serve in the IDF goes over to Israel and serves overseas in Israel in the war in Gaza and the fight against Hamas, comes home and his home is. Vandalized, three cars are set on fire, and there's graffiti written on the home that says death to the IDF.

Now, this victim has not been identified perhaps for specifically security reasons. We'll learn more about it, but this is one of those cases where obviously the intent is very, very straightforward and very clear. It is that. The Jews are bad. And, you know, anti-Semitism is flourishing in part because of the continuous months of the college campuses holding their anti-Israel, sometimes violent riots out there.

And one of the chants, you heard in the story out of St. Louis, a local anti-defamation league spokesperson said this. He said, If you want to see what globalize the intifada looks like, well, that's what it looks like, this right here. And you will remember Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia grad student that was leading, a ringleader of the violent protest on Columbia. And you know what they were chanting?

Ad nauseum as they carried out all sorts of unbelievable antics that threatened Jewish students, that shut down the campus, that got people hurt. They were shouting, globalize. The intifada. But it's not just St. Louis.

You have a press conference today in Washington with U.S. Attorney Janine Pirro and the FBI with an update on the horrific killing of two individuals at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., that shook our community there. Not sure exactly what the update is, but obviously they are continuing to dive into that. And we heard U.S. Attorney Pirot say that this, too, is what globalized the intifada looks like.

I remember working the weekend up here in New York filling in. Hosting some shows, and we were covering a horrific attack that was an anti-Semitism at its worst out in Boulder, Colorado. You had pro-Jewish, peaceful protesters set on fire. One of them, a Holocaust survivor, that survived the Holocaust to be set on fire by an individual that clearly was motivated by chance of people like Mahmoud Khalil on college campuses screaming, globalize the Intifada. And now, what got me upset, and I'm being honest here, I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve.

It got me upset to listen to an interview with Ezra Klein interviewing Mahmoud Khalil, who was picked up in March by ICE, held for 104 days. A judge had him released. Tom Holman, the Borders are says they're still going to try. And deport him. But because of what he did, you have U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoking his immigration student visa status because. Rubio says that individuals like Mahmoud Khalil, his mere presence and his actions of anti-Semitism that he carried out undermines foreign policy, U.S. interests as it relates to defeating and stopping the spread of anti-Semitism. Yet these judges are protecting him. We'll see where it goes.

We don't know. It's in the legal system right now. And Khalil is free to sit down with guys like Ezra Klein and talk about it. And Klein goes right into talking about October 7th and Khalil's views on why that happened. Start with this one: Cut 18.

October 7th happens. What do you think that day? To me, it felt frightening that we had to reach this moment in the Palestinian struggle. What moment is this? You can see that the situation is not sustainable.

You have an Israeli government that's absolutely ignoring. Palestinians. It's clear, like, it's becoming more and more violent.

So that's what I mean by, like, unfortunately, we couldn't avoid. Couldn't avoid such a moment. He is, I think, by all accounts of anyone listening would agree, justifying the horrific October 7th attacks that saw the death, murder, torture, rape of Israeli citizens. And yet you would think that Khalil at least would have the decency to begin a statement when you have Ezra Klein just saying, okay, October 7th happens. What do you think of that day?

He could have started by at least condemning the murder and rape of Israeli innocent citizens in. It comes at a time when you have 50 Israeli hostages still being held in Hamas tunnels. He could have condemned Hamas. Of those 50, 20 are still alive to include Ivyatar David. We have been listening on Fox to the unbelievable, emotional pleading of Elay David, his brother, that says, and we've all seen the videos and the pictures of Ivyatar David starving, his brother Elay saying that he may only have days.

Ile addressing the United Nations Security Council, begging for the world to come together. And yet, here's Mahmoud Khalil protected by a judge from deportation that doesn't even have the decency and the common sense and appropriate need to condemn Hamas and talk about those hostages that's going on right now. And the interview. Continued to even degrade beyond that. Listen to this part, cut nineteen.

Go. I understood that as something Hamas must have wanted, right? Pull Israel into this attack, pull it into some kind of war. Was that your perception? To me, it's it's a desperate attempt to the wood the.

Palestinians are here. that Palestinians are part of the equation. Um that that was my my interpretation of of why Hamas did did the october seven attacks on on on on on on Israel.

So he's doubling down in justifying the attacks and saying that this was all about getting the world to know the Gaza struggle. That clearly, you know, you see that what's happening in Gaza with humanitarian aid, President Trump is taking the lead now with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, making sure things are getting there. But when you listen to people like Special Envoy Wickoff or Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee talking about the people in Gaza, the Palestinian citizens they're bringing aid to are telling them they don't want to be under Hamas's leadership.

So not only do you have Mahmoud Khalil justifying the October 7th attacks, but he's basically saying, he said, you just listen to him. My interpretation of why Hamas did the October 7th attacks on Israel was to send a wider message.

Now, Klan. Mine did try and basically save them. And help him out of it, which is really something as someone that does interviews, remarkable to watch. But at no point did Khalil necessarily want to back off of his anti-Semitic message, which we have known and seen from the very beginning. One last clip I want you to listen to: Cut 20 Go.

October 7th was obviously an operation that did kill a lot of civilians. Do you see that as unavoidable, that the Hafas had no other choice? Do you see it as a mistake? There's nothing that can justify the killing of civilians. Also, like, there's another point to this, Ezra.

Palestinians don't have to be perfect victims. Wow.

So Ezra is watching in real time his interview and realizes this individual is justifying the October 7th attacks of the murder and rape of Israeli innocent citizens. And he finally tries to throw them a line and save them, gets them finally in the interview to admit that there's nothing that justifies the killing of civilians. And then he immediately, but, but, but, but, but. Palestinians don't have to be perfect victims. It's just one of these things that makes your blood boil.

And it will be interesting to see because Khalil, Mahmoud Khalil's legal case, has not fully played out. And the Trump administration is making the case now that aside from his presence being contrary, running contrary to the threat of U.S. interests, as far as they seek to stop the spread of anti-Semitism, which is run amok in the country, they also claim that Khalil falsified some of his immigration applications. And that, of course, would be something that would be a deportable removal offense. But I'll tell you, you watch some of those comments that Mahmoud Khalil made in that interview in the same day, the same 24-hour period of time that we're watching.

A horrific anti-Semitic attack on an American citizen that bravely served alongside his IDF soldiers, his home being vandalized, cars set on fire, death to the IDF written in graffiti on his walls. It's just sometimes when they said, What would you want to talk about on the radio show, on Brian Kilmead's radio show? I said, I want to talk about this. I'm Griff Jenkins, filling in for the great Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead Show. We're just getting started.

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Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Your humble DC correspondent Griff Jenkins filling in for the great Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show. And, you know, we can break some news. For the potential next mayor of New York City.

It is fascinating. Every time I come up to New York, I learn something new, but it's fascinating in this moment to be in New York City and try and put myself in the mindset of New Yorkers as they are staring very likely at the prospect of the first socialist, many just say outright communist mayors in Zoran Momdani. And the news for Mr. Momdani is that even though he believes that President Trump and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, now one of the mayoral candidates, have been conspiring together to try and knock him out of it, because President Trump was asked yesterday, have you talked to Cuomo? He says no.

Cuomo's spokesperson says that Trump and Cuomo have not spoken, but yet Zoron Momdani says that there's all kinds of conspiring. going on. Listen, cut 13. It is Donald Trump himself who has been directly Conspiring. with candidates who have decided to give up the people that they are supposed to protect.

In lieu Of securing power through the assistance of that same administration in Washington, D.C. This should be a race. about addressing The questions of who will make the city affordable. Who will ensure that each and every New Yorker is safe? Who will bring our city forward?

Not an audition for the best jester. for Donald Trump and his billionaire supporters. And actually, if you watch the sound bites, it's the production that his campaign used for different angles of him poised, being a statesman, taking control, the perfectly orchestrated soundbite machine. And look, in fairness to Mom Dani, maybe Cuomo and Trump have spoken to each other. They say they haven't.

That's their public statement. Who knows? But yet, at the same time, Mom Dani is continuing to lead into this sort of populist, energetic, take the fight to Trump approach that seems to have gotten a lot of interest. And I want to give you one more soundbite of him before I run out of time, because this one really caught my attention. Cut 14, go.

Whatever Donald Trump seeks to do to influence the outcome of this election, I have more faith in New Yorkers themselves. Who have shown, whether it be in the previous presidential election or whether it be through this primary race, that they do not want to support our current president's vision. Of a New York City that is ripping immigrants from their homes. Ripping immigrants from their homes. Wait a minute, Mr.

Momdani. Do you mean immigrants like the illegal criminal alien Mexican national that just here in this area was drunk, crossed the road, hit a mother, killing the mother and her 11-year-old? Because those are the types of the worst of worst criminals that President Trump is trying to remove from the country and make communities safer. But yet, Zoro Momdani says his socialism will make people safer. What do you say?

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This is Griff Jenkins, your humble DC correspondent, filling in for the great Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show. And this segment right now is an honor and a treat because I got the coach in the star QB. You're wondering, what are you talking about? I'm talking about head football coach and pastor at Evangel Christian Academy. He is the Denny Duran, the head coach there.

And of course, you've got Peyton Pop Houston, the quarterback. Gentlemen, thanks for being here. Thank you. Yeah, thanks for having us. We are going to dive into the new season, one of the hottest things on Fox Nation.

And certainly, anybody like the middle-aged want to relive your high school days, Griff Jenkins. Although, in fairness, I did play soccer and run track, but occasionally playing with a football team. The new season of God Family Football. The first three episodes are available right now on Fox Nation. And it's a story that everyone in the country can relate to: adversity, leaning on faith, hard work, discipline.

And it's great to have you guys here. Coach Pop, thank you. Coach, let me start with you. What is it about this story that you think has really just connected with so many Americans as they watch it on Fox Nation?

Well, I think the story is about values. Number one is the value of faith. The fact that we rally around our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, we're not all from the same churches on Sunday morning or the same doctrinal or religious background, but we believe in the Word of God and we believe in Jesus Christ, and it draws us together. I get an opportunity to use this as a platform, which I've actually used for 45 years, a platform to be able to see these kids really find out who they are and perhaps solve some of the riddles and questions of life before it really counts. And that's really the thing that is the foundation of our program. And then the second thing is our relationship with each other and with our families. I want these guys not to just respect each other.

I want them to love each other because there's not anything more powerful than the power of love. You know, I can certainly relate to, and I think every middle-aged man can relate to the fact that in some point in their lives, it was a coach that made the difference in their lives. And what you're talking about there, Coach, is so important. And you can see it in the show. You're really helping these young men to find their foundation.

I went to an all-boys high school, and one of the first things they do with everybody that came in there, they said, are you familiar with FCA Fellowship of Christian Athletes? And I don't know what that is. Like, you're about to find out because that's a big part of what we're going to do. And you know what? We're going to do it.

We're going to win. We're going to learn to depend on each other. And, you know, Papa, I want to talk to you and ask you about this season and what it's been like for you. But first, I believe we have a quick promo of. The new season we could play for listeners.

God has sent us a new team. A young team. In a league of giants. Yeah. Oh.

Attempting to prove that nothing is impossible. I got you, man. If you have faith, the enemy is gonna try to strip the ball through the love of God. God has given me the ability to come in here and give that culture minus the cussing. Family in football.

They ran right up your kazoo. Go sit down. We will build on our legacy of excellence. Holy God! Come on, baby!

Heal old wounds. I came here to get my son. and we will unleash our inner champion. Man, look look at that. You see these goosebumps?

I got goosebumps.

Okay, that's taking me back. I want to get hammer the doors in the locker room and charge the field. But Peyton or Pop Houston, you know, what was this like for you? Yeah, this season was definitely different. Me being a competitor, I am.

The first couple of games we had were kind of rough for me, but just staying strong in my faith, believing in my brothers, having the faith that we can get out of this slump, knowing that he wouldn't put us in a situation that we couldn't get out of, just finding a way to get out of it. It meant a lot for me to do it with my brother and my families. And. Are you able to identify, pop, in your life already that some foundation is being built in you by Coach Denny and that you are already learning things that may serve you later in life, whether it's adversity or whether it's watching you in the Super Bowl on the NFL someday? Yeah, for sure.

My decision to come to evangel was strictly off that reason. It had nothing to do with football. Um We went to a a a Wednesday Bible study thing we do in the morning at Evangel and uh I just knew then it was the place, uh, just knowing that off the field I I'd have the foundation to to carry me wi with my life and to help the others around me to get to where they want to be in life and uh just knowing that that's that's where the origin starts, is where you start as a human being to become a better person. Wow.

What is it like? How proud of you? How proud are you of these kids? Oh, I have no words. I have no words.

I've had the opportunity to travel the world and to speak to audiences worldwide. You know, I've been talking about Jesus to crowds for fifty five years. And so at this stage of my life, my wife and I could probably live anywhere we want to live. But there's no place in the world that I want to be except in that little obscure corner of Shreveport, Louisiana at Evangel Christian Academy. It's my happy place.

And at 72 years old, I get up every morning with my hair on fire and I can't wait to see my boys. To walk in that room and to feel the energy of those young guys. I mean, it's just incredible. You asked, you said something a while ago. I have to follow up on it.

And I know I'm not the interviewer, but. Uh it's my conviction and uh experience that when I say coach to somebody like you There's only one guy. That comes to mind because it's always a coach, not several coaches. One coach that makes a difference in every athlete. And so when I say coach, who do you think of?

I think of our Coach Peters. Coach Peters was at the University or Memphis University School in the U.S., the high school I went to. And Pop, this is important. You know, there was a time when I was sort of, you know, wanting to chase girls and I had a Mustang drive fast cars and I was blessed with speed. And that's why I was a wide receiver a little bit, but more so I got moved to the track team because we were competitive and actually went to state one year.

And I ran across the finish line and I won the race. It was a 100-yard dash. And for a short white kid, it was pretty impressive. It wasn't the championships. It was just a regional.

But as I did it, I looked over and I waved at a girl I wanted to date in the stands. And Coach Peters pulled me aside after that. He said, he said, you know what? He said, You lost a race to day for us. I said, No, I didn't, coach.

I won that race. He said, No, no, no. You put in yourself in your self esteem. You waved to that girl. You aren't focused, you aren't honoring God, your commitment to this team, your commitment to yourself, your commitment to God, and you're shamelessly waving.

And on that same track day, one of our long-distance runners on cross-country fell and broke an ankle. He said, You got this kid breaks his ankle for this team, and you're showboating. Wow.

And you keep doing that, you're going to take your life in the wrong direction. And I've never forgotten about that, Coach Denny, in my life. And, you know, that's how those moments you put your finger on it. You drew me out. I got to let you go because you guys have got to run.

But that meant something important. Last 30 seconds, Pop. I want to give you a chance. What's the part of the season you love the best? I'm going to say the turnaround point for us.

The game against Captain Street. For us, that was the turnaround point for me as a player. That was a lot of growth for me at that moment. Just learning how to become a leader. And as a team, we figured out how to.

somewhat gather the thought of how to win. Wow, that's amazing. The new Fox Nation, first three episodes of God Family Football, is on Fox Nation. You can watch it now, and you can watch Pop Houston and Coach Denny. I highly recommend it.

It will give you goosebumps. Riff, you don't want to miss Pop Houston. I just want to say that to everyone in the future. I'm telling you, do not miss this show. I'm excited.

I'm excited watching Pop Houston for the rest of his career and coach words of wisdom impacting lives in ways they'll never forget. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you and can't wait to watch the rest of the season as well. I got to get you out. You guys are superstars.

They want to take you out. Run out the door. I'm going to keep yapping my gums, but thank you for being here. The episode again: God Family Football on Fox Nation. The first three episodes available.

You can watch Coach Denny Duran and Pop Houston, the star quarterback there in Shreveport, Louisiana, any town America, literally doing remote. Remarkable things. And, you know, coach, coach, that is why what you just listened to touched my heart because that's the magic of one of the best coaches in the world. The one that you haven't heard of, not a famous coach, just one that you can now watch in action on Fox Nation. But he was listening and he knew when I made that remark that everybody can remember a coach.

He turned it on me and said, What's your coach, Griff? What was your moment? And as I just told that story, it meant the world to me. That's what's so special about this episode, God, Family, and Football on Fox Nation. You can go and check it out.

You do not want to miss it. Coach Denny Duran and Peyton Pop Houston, the quarterback at Evangel Christian Academy. Just a remarkable story. You don't want to miss that.

Meanwhile, when we come back, something that I think is an overlooked issue in Washington, it's very important. And guess what? The vice president shares my thoughts. That when we come back. This is Jimmy Phala, inviting you to join me for Fox Across America, where we'll discuss every single one of the Democrats' dumb ideas.

Just kidding, it's only a three-hour show. Listen live at Noon Eastern or get the podcast at foxacrossamerica.com. Show That's Real. This is the Brian Kilme Show, sponsored by Previgen. Previgen made for your brain.

It is your humble DC correspondent, Griff Jenkins, filling in for Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show, having so much fun. And I'm calling this segment, this is the old radio producer in the branding segments. I'm going to call this segment last but not least. And that is because being from Washington, there are some things that get covered occasionally with a hearing here or there, but never at the top of the fold, never the pressing issue, breathlessly covered by cable talking heads, but it's an issue. that I feel deeply about.

And one that I have had a chance to cover.

Now, I've covered the border, obviously, and I've spent countless hours in war zones, riots, hurricanes, and everything else under the sun. But there is one issue that I think a lot more Americans care about than we're willing to admit. I mean, deeply care, whether or not they may have had an act. Actual experience themselves, or whether or not they were driven by things they've seen, or just a fascination with a deep personal connection that they're unable to actually explain. And it's Great.

to learn that our Vice President JD Vance actually also shares that deep interest that I have. He talked about it on the Ruthless podcast recently. Listen here. I'm obsessed with the whole UFO thing. What's actually going on?

What were those videos all about? What's actually happening? I haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet, but we're only six months in. We've been very busy. That's actually the August recess is in part me going to try to dive to the bottom of the whole UFO thing over last year.

Get it. Get it, JD Vance. Find out the truth. Look, I grew up as a young kid watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

I thought I was going to be abducted by an alien before I was 10 years old. Then, as I get a little bit older, I learn that the truth is out there. Because Mulder and Scully told me. But, you know. UFOs was always discounted as, you know, it's like Bigfoot, you know, Sasquatches doesn't exist.

Turns out, though, a lot of people are seeing them, particularly our pilots in the military. And when I covered last fall the House GOP Oversight Committee, it's a subcommittee of the Oversight Committee that's chaired by Representative Anna Paulina Luna. It was great to learn that not only is the Pentagon set up a specific office to study these UFOs or UAPs, they call them now, unidentified anomalous. Phenomena. That's what they call them now.

I call them UFOs because that's what they are. But she said that she wanted to know more about it and figure out what the heck people are seeing and have been seeing for decades. Check out this. Are you aware of any hotspots that currently exist off our shores in North America? Not with sufficiently credible data, ma'am.

Okay, we've heard reports of there potentially being hot spots, maybe entry and exit points. Have you heard of any of that? I have it not, ma'am, but my colleague here, Mr. Elizondo, does discuss some USO activity that he has observed in certain DOD databases.

So you had at that Congressional hearing that I covered, Tim Gallaudet, Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy retired, talking there with Paulina Luna. And then, of course, there were a few other folks at that hearing that were testifying to include Michael Schellenberger, who's gotten to the bottom of so many things. And, you know, whether or not they were seeing drones or actual some sort of UAP UFO alien thing, Luna also weighed in about who was piloting these aircraft.

Cut 38. Listen.

Mr. Elizondo, in regards to these aircraft being piloted by whatever they might be, non-human biologics, are you. Would you Agree that it's likely that they are being piloted by some mind-body connection. Ma'am, I think it is safe to presume here that they are being intelligently controlled because they some cases seem to anticipate our maneuvers, and in other cases they seem to And I came across an email where the word stocked was used in a very secure email between Navy officers discussing their ships being pursued by a UAP. There it is.

That's Mulder and Scully there. And Luis Elizondo, by the way, is a former Department of Defense official who knows a few things about this. The witness eyewitness accounts, by the way, if you want me to take you back to just December of last year, they were pretty fascinating. People weren't sure exactly what they were seeing. Here's an example: Cut 39.

This is terrifying. Whoa, is that moving? It's moving! It's moving! Oh.

What is that? What is that? What is that? What is that? It's a UFO.

So, you've heard the video? Yeah. That's like a UFO.

Now, they were witnessing a Pilates PC-1 airplane landing at Essex County Airport. But the point is that the government knows, and we know the government knows more than they're telling us about UFOs or UAPs and, you know, whether or not it poses any sort of national security threat or whether it is some sort of endeavor that the government has been looking into, and we just don't know the full scope of it. That is something that I think needs to come out. And it is refreshing to hear that our vice president, J.D. Vance, says he wants to know everything and that he's obsessed about it.

And he's spending this August recess in part trying to dive to the bottom of all of this UFO thing. From he says, quote, last year, well, we just took you back to last year.

Now it's time. To learn exactly where this is all headed. And for all of you that watch the X-Files, just remember. It is always and will be the case the truth. is out there.

And I'm Griff Jenkins having too much fun filling in on the Brian Kilmead Show, the greatest show on radio. Thank you for listening to us.