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It's going to be exciting. And of course, it's going to be interesting because we're back to issues and less about the double-tap strikes in Venezuela and the Epstein files. Can we do something that matters? Outside the victims of the Epstein files, that's it. The double tap, I'm not interested in who survives when drug runners get hit.

Uh by our by our Secretary of War. It does not I am not interested in that. I love the fact that they took him out. Warren Zyders is going to be in here, country music superstar, great friend of the show, just performed at the President's Christmas tree lighting. And of course, he's got a number of hits and fantastic personal backstory.

And a special surprise: the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova. Mihau Popsol will be with us. Moldova is the country that is now next in being infiltrated by Russia, and I'm not sure they can withstand this type of pressure. No one's talking about it. We are.

So before we get to those great guests, let's get to the big three. Number three. And there is no doubt when we look at the rise in mental health issues faced by young people which has been caused by social media and we want parents to be empowered as well to have that discussion. That is Anthony Albanese, the leader of Australia. They make a massive move and stop all social media for kids in their nation, teenagers in their nation, as a desperate attempt to give the youth their childhood back.

Should we follow in their footsteps? Is it even possible at this point? Number two. I say we don't want a Republican solution, a Democratic solution. We want an American solution that works for Americans.

If my Democratic friends believe that, we can do it. All right, healthcare path, plans emerging on the left and the right to save a deeply flawed unaffordable care act. Why the GOP has to play ball here, and why I think the Dems hope they don't. Number one. Uh affordability, but you can call it affordability or anything you want, but The Democrats caused the affordability problem, and we're the ones that are fixing it.

And that's the message the president has to stick to, and it's accurate: affordability on the mind of Trump as he takes his case to the people of Pennsylvania today. His vital message, and the Dems retort coming to you straight ahead.

So, what will the president say? What is his story? Because we told you about the CBS poll that said only 36% approve of Trump's economy. 32% approve of the way he's handling inflation. 60% say the president made things sound better than they are, which the president always is doing that.

Every president has to sell, tell people the story. Also, I think people are ridiculous with their judgmentalness these days, or they're susceptible to a Democratic Party, like any opposition party, that wants to run down any president because they want their guy or their woman to be president.

So, the Cook political report says the president's going to a Pennsylvania district, which is a true toss-up. And he's going to be there today. He has a message to say. He's going to say: the tariffs bring in a lot of revenue. I'm going to be sending you rebates.

Farm bailouts. Farmers, you paid the price of our trade war with China. They thought by punishing farmers, you're punishing Trump.

So we're going to bail you out with $12 billion. His role of securing $100 billion in energy and AI investments in Pennsylvania, he's going to bring that up and how it affects everyday Pennsylvanians. And the approval for a Japanese investment saving U.S. steel while keeping U.S. Steel an American company.

These are the things that he can bring up, and I imagine will bring up. He was asked about The economy. And he did not say it's all a hoax. And it because I knew what he meant by that. You probably knew what he meant by that.

But it's very easy for the Democrats to say he's not taking economic strife seriously. Here's the new message. Cut one. We inherited a mess. Uh Affordability, but you can call it affordability or anything you want, but the Democrats caused the affordability problem, and we're the ones that are fixing it.

And that's it. And that's what he's got to do. The affordability quad. The thing that he says is a hoax is They say there's an affordability problem. Look at Trump.

He hasn't brought down prices. But they're not saying what they would do. I mean, elect a socialist freeze rents, freeze utility costs. There's a reason why prices go up. It's not because there's a rich man who wants to get richer.

Yes, there's gouging. And there's rules and laws for that. And there's Inspector General's for that. But a lot of people are just saying to exist. In this environment, I gotta raise rates, I gotta raise rents.

And the Democrats' answer is we're going to freeze them.

Well then something's got to give or you're just going to drive people out of business. Cut to. I was here to just say this election is based on affordability. And nobody questions him, John. Nobody says, oh, well, what do you mean by that?

Uh but uh They just say the word, they never say anything else because they caused the problem, but we're fixing the problem. That's what he's got to say, and that's got the message.

So, Governor Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania did not like that give and take. I can't play. The whole 45 minutes, but didn't like the give and take. You guys broke it, and I'm fixing it.

So he obviously is running for president, by all accounts. You read that Atlantic story about him, it just seems like he's setting it up. And you know what? He has a reason to be optimistic. He's a Democrat without having to deal with an incumbent.

He doesn't have the tar and the stain of Kamala Harris and being part of that hellacious ticket. And he's in a battleground state that's leading Republican, and he got, I think, 60-plus percent approval rating, cut six. If he comes to Pennsylvania and views more BS like he did today at the White House, I think what you're ultimately going to find are people tuning him out because folks can't unsee what they see when they go to the grocery store, which is that beef and OJ and bread and the normal staples that they need in their homes, those prices have dramatically increased on Donald Trump's watch. And so what you have is a president who seems to want to blame everybody else. By the way, there you go.

So he says, okay, I don't like the president's rhetoric.

Well, it was a lot better Monday. I thought that his statement would have worked a lot better on Friday. Number two, it says prices that have gone up dramatically, not since the president's been president. Remember, you had 9% inflation, got down to roughly 5% inflation. President takes over, it's at 4%, and right now it's at 2.7%.

But the way it works is that if you jack up my prices 9%, and the next year, The inflation is only 2%. It goes on top of the 9.

So they go out. The prices were high, they just got higher. Yes. But percentage-wise, they're significantly lower.

Well People just look at you like you got seven eyes and go, well, I don't care. I'm just paying more. Who's the president? Bring that up. Talk about what he's doing.

Now What I think is also very interesting Is that driving prices down is what the president's going to be focusing on. And he's talking about taking certain tariffs off. Also, A lot of these tariffs went in place in order to push the European Union, South Korea, Japan, Australia towards better trade deals.

So you jack up the prices, you say, come to the table, China. You jack up the tariffs, India come to the table. They haven't come to the table yet.

So the prices are high in Mexico and Canada and Me uh and in India. Because the president hasn't brought these deals in yet. I would lean on my trade rep, bring these deals in. I would say USMCA, too. It already, you know, it ended.

It's supposed to be renegotiated. The president's lucky enough to be here to renegotiate it. Two consecutive terms, he'd be out of office.

So now he's in there. Fix it. Yeah, USMCA substantially better than NAFTA, so make it even better. I wouldn't delay anything.

So you go in there and you say, well, I'm not lessening tariffs because they're not working. You go in there. And you say, all right, let's do a deal. USMCA, most of our trading partners are to the north. And to Mexico to the south.

So, when we come back, I'm going to be joined by the Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova and talk about what's happening over in Eastern Europe and why we should all pay attention. Don't move. Where big stories meet bigger conversations. Stay informed and energized with the Brian Killmeat Show. With the holidays coming, that means more gift buying and more deliveries to the front door.

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Yeah. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. Hey, we are back. I'd like to bring in the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Missile Popsoy. She's joining us now from He is joining us now from Uh I via Zoom, so you can check it out right now online.

Deputy Prime Minister, thanks so much for joining us. Give us an idea of how this whole Ukraine war has affected you and the people of Moldova. I don't hear anything. I don't think he can hear us right now. We're trying to work that out.

And what you're looking at now when it comes to Moldova is you have a small country You see, it's located right in the heart of what uh bordering on Ukraine. And uh when you see Russia, when they're eyeing their infiltration and influence, they look at Moldova as an easy mark, but that has not been. They're trying to work it out through Yeah, they're they're trying to work it all out. Moldova, through elections. What the Russians are doing, and this is what I try to explain to people.

The Russians invade Ukraine, but other things that they do in different ways are just as insidious. For example, you breach the borders of these other countries with drones and balloons. There's these uh these observation balloons that are coming out of Belarus, going over Poland. Really? Romania, a drone crashes, really?

Uh Poland has to take out a Russian drone. breaching their border. The same thing that we're seeing now with the expansion of NATO. And Moldova, the Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister, joins us now. Deputy Prime Minister, can you hear me now?

I hear you well, Brian. Thank you. Great.

So, what could you how has the Ukraine war affected you in Moldova and the people of your country?

Well, the Republic of Moldova has been the country most severely affected by the war, other than Ukraine itself, of course. We welcomed the largest number of refugees per capita, over a million. We are still hosting about one hundred thousand, which is about four percent of Moldovan population. We provided access to healthcare, education, labor market, like any good neighbor and like any Christian would do.

So our economy has been affected, our security has been affected, but we have persevered and we've come out from the past few years stronger than we were before. We've invested in our security, in our energy security, and the United States has been a trusted partner in this effort. And we commend the people of the United States and the Trump administration for promoting peace in Ukraine and in the Republic of Moldova. What has Russia done to infiltrate into your election system? There have been a whole host of tools.

The whole playbook was thrown at us. Wow. Campaign finance illegal campaign money provided to the pro-Russian proxy parties to the tone of hundreds of millions of dollars. Crypto is being used, bank transfers from sanctioned Russian banks. uh babes media Oh The influence of all sorts of organizations that were there to sabotage and undermine our democratic process.

The effort was to use the democratic means that our democracy provides to undermine democracy itself in the Republic of Moldova. By putting pro-Russian candidates forward, right, who pretend as if they're DR candidates, but they're really doing Russia's work. Exactly. They are playing and dancing to the tune of the Kremlin. As the old saying goes, who pays that one commands the music?

So that was what we faced in Moldova. But our institutions persevered. Our society showed remarkable resilience. And this is a testament to the unity and solidarity and resilience of the Moldovan people. But it's also a testament to the incredible support of the international community, first and foremost, the United States, in building the resilience of Moldovan institutions to withstand this sort of interference.

Talk about your alliance with the U.S. What are you looking for to enhance it? What do you have now from us? And Ben, what do we get from you? We have an incredible partnership with the United States.

Our security is stronger thanks to the support of the United States, including border security. Our cyber security is stronger. And our partners like the United States also learn from our challenges. We've had an audit done of our institutions of our cyber defenses. And certain gaps have been identified for us to be able to plug those gaps.

But also, certain things have been found out that help our partners to mitigate them so they don't have. to get to you, basically. Our cooperation on security and defense is rock solid. Our cooperation on energy security has been remarkable. The investments that the United States is making in the region, including in the Republic of Moldova, makes Moldova safer, but also a reliable partner for American investments in Romania and in Ukraine, for Moldova to serve as a transit country for those energy resources.

So that puts us in a much stronger position to help our partners and allies. And be a facilitator of those large-scale investments of the United States in the region. We're talking to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Mihail Popsoy, who's talking about our alliance.

Now, in Ukraine, President Zelensky said yesterday something that surprised me: we're not going to give up any land. We refuse to give up any land towards any peace agreement.

Now, I understand not giving up the Donbass. But if you're looking to add a practical approach to ending this conflict that Russia is solely responsible for, All right. Uh that's a surprising stance. Is it surprise you?

Well, it probably would be surprising if he said otherwise. Any leader of a sovereign country, it's a very difficult position to do. And I must commend President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people for their courage, for their capacity to stand up to this aggression. But I would also like to wholeheartedly commend the leadership of President Trump for genuinely seeking peace. It's not an easy undertaking, but if anybody can do it, it's Donald J.

Trump and the government of the United States. Strength. Peace through strength, this is the objective that works. because the Kremlin understands. strength.

Everybody wants peace. If that's true, Mr Deputy Prime Minister, shouldn't we give them the tomahawks? Shouldn't we give them more Patriot missiles? Shouldn't we say, Vladimir Putin, if you continue to be an obstacle towards ending this fighting, that we're going to further arm up Ukraine? This is exactly what many people understand behind the notion of peace through strength.

Strength is what the international community, the free world led by President Trump, has. And peace is what we all seek. And of course, This is a difficult undertaking. And I would not. Dare to comment on what the Ukrainian leadership or the Ukrainian people ought to do.

It's definitely their sovereign choice. But it is, of course, clear that everybody wants peace, especially nobody wants peace more than Ukraine. They have been most affected. Their energy infrastructure has been destroyed. Churches, hospitals, children dying on a daily basis.

in this needless aggression. And of course, the international community, and first and foremost, the United States has been there by Ukraine, and we commend this effort and this leadership. This is the noble thing to do, to seek peace and to leverage the strength that the United States has and the free world towards that noble goal of peace.

So, do you think Russia, when the Ukraine war comes to an end, will learn their lesson? That six-day war ends up being three, four, five years, and they're losing 7,000 a week? Or do you look for that aggression to continue regardless of how the Ukraine war ends? I think it is precisely the question of how the war ends. in light of what will follow.

If and when Ukraine gets the security guarantees that it needs, these security guarantees need to be robust enough to make sure that we avoid the scenario that you are talking about. Of course, we all know the dreams. Of the Kremlin and Putin to restore the empire, to restore the Soviet Union. But these are sovereign nations, Ukraine, Moldova, Baltic countries, and everybody else in the region. who have firmly decided That it is up to the people of these nations to decide their future and nobody else's.

And we commend the Trump administration for standing up for these sovereign nations and for the freedom. Of these people to seek their future and decide their future. All right, thanks so much. The Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova, the Republic of Moldova, Mihail Popsoy, is here and discussing the very vital alliance in a very vital region that is really under attack because of Russian aggression and expansion. Thanks so much.

Great to see you. And great to meet you, Mihail. Thank you. All right.

Well, listen, when we come back, Warren Zeiters joins us in the studio, American country music singer about to announce his first world tour, great friend of the show, fresh off performing for the President of the United States at his Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Remember when there was a parade for our military? Warren Zeiters played on that. And of course, he was on One Nation on Sunday, Fox and Friends tomorrow. And he's going to be with us on the Brand Kill Me Show today.

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Learn more on firstnet.com/slash public safety first. Yeah. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. All right, we are back and back in studio with us, a good friend of the show, Warren Zyders, is here, American country music superstar, songwriter, with a big announcement about a world tour coming up.

And it wasn't too long ago, we were freezing last winter walking by Madison Square Garden, talking about the trajectory of your career, Warren. And since then, you've had a heck of a 2025. How would you characterize it? Twenty twenty five characterize it. I mean, I give all the glory to the good Lord.

I would say it's another year of just. Massive blessings that and not just to me, to my fans, to my family, and everything. You know. It was a monumental year for me. Marked off one of my bucket lists this year.

Played the Giant Center in my hometown, Herchie, Pennsylvania.

Sold out my hometown arena. We shot a mini documentary there, and we did a live recording for it.

So we're dropping a live record here in the next month, month and a half for my fans. Never dropped one before.

So that was definitely something that was a core memory for me over this past year. And what about the hit songs and the duet that you just pulled off? Yeah, Love and Letting Go. Just had a number one on SiriusXM.

So shout out to them and Pandora. Pandora loves me. And then Relapse was a massive streaming hit for me after playing on my Relapse tour and then Relapse Las Metrail and my double album coming out this year that came out and Just, yeah, it's been a roller coaster. And how do you find it? How have you broken it up between writing, performing?

Downtime, how have you worked that out? The tour, especially. Yeah, I mean, downtime is really no such thing. I mean, you talk to, it doesn't matter if you're in music, doesn't matter if you want to be successful in any realm of life, if you're committed to it, you have a passion for it, you have a love for it, you have to eat, sleep, and breathe it. And, you know, I'm 26, and this is the perfect time in my life to go ahead and commit my 20s to something like this.

And Warren, tell everyone too that's not familiar with your story that the pandemic happens, you decide you're not going back to school. The Zoom school is losing a lot of students. We'll talk about that for generations. And high school and grammar school, some people still not back on track. You used it, and the urging of your sister, you said, hey, you're always playing that guitar.

So why don't you put something on TikTok? Yeah. And you had no TikTok account. Nope.

So you just played what song was it that you played? Tennessee Whiskey, put the cover up, and as I said previously with you, posted it, went to bed, woke up the next morning at 300,040,000 views, and just an overlap. Load of positive comments of just like, who are you? Where's this guy from? What music does he have?

And just wanting to know more about me. And it uh became a little bit of addiction. And when did you realize that after the pandemic's over, this is your career? Because you decided to drop out of school too, right? Yep.

So pandemic starts to to loosen up and then through that time period, um, I was already um In talks with my manager, who's still my manager to this day, he invited me to Nashville. And my story is funny because it doesn't always work this way. But my first time going to Nashville was meeting up with him, and the second song I wrote in my life was my first hit, Ride the Lightning. I played it for him and he was like, This is great, but like, we should probably write another hundred songs before we even consider releasing this. I went against his will and posted it on social media.

Fans blew it up, wanted it released. It's my first gold record, first platinum record, first double platinum record.

So it definitely laid the foundation for me.

So, why did he want you to wait? I think just like I treat that moment in my career, and I think that it's a good way to look at him as like a mentor/slash/a coach, maybe, so to speak. He's older than me, he's been in town for a long time.

So, someone who knows the inner workings of maybe the industry a little bit more than I did, with being green behind the ears. I think that he was just trying to go ahead and say, hey, like, this is not a bad song, but you should work, you should write some more, put some more time and reps in to see if something else jumps out at you. I guess he was like, We don't need to jump the gun. And I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. Like, let's go for it.

I'm doing it anyway. Hey, I'm doing it anyway. Here we are.

So, when you look back at the first song that you released, it was just something, you know, this is stuff that you picked from a guitar center. This is the audio equipment. Would you ever release something like that today? Is there a sense that the audience expects more from you now? I think there is a little bit of that, and it's funny you bring that up.

So I don't know if I personally would be doing the recording. I mean, that's true. I did for that Acoustic Covers album and my first song I ever put out on the run. But um I uh I definitely am very hands-on when it comes to making my records. I'm not recording it, but I'm part producing.

I'm very hands-on on that. The writing set, the writing element, obviously singing on it.

So. I think this year going into 2026, it's been a lot of. Thinking inwardly and listening to my fans, as I stated talking with you before, is paying attention and just being observant and listening to them. And I think that I put out my 717 tapes record, which was a lot of accumulation of demos. And it wasn't anything polished.

I think they fell in love with that about me.

So I think going into 2026. You mean fans? Yeah, the fans were liking the organic. Just raw, I guess, raw and feeling uncut and unedited. And I think that that's something I'm going to try to lean into going into the writing rooms over the winter here.

Now, at this point, Songwriters must be calling you and saying, Listen, this sounds like you. I wrote a song for you. Are you reluctant to do that, to take a writer's song, or do you feel? Do you feel as though I got I could do this myself? No, no, no, no, no.

I'm a I'm a firm believer in the best song wins. I I just am. I think that there's a part of me that's the artist and there's a part of me that's the business acumen side. And it's it's a fine line of doing what we do for a living.

Now, For me, there's songs that I've put out that didn't really turn into anything, but they mean an awful lot to me because of the emotional element, what I was going through at that stage of life. But that's just the reality of the world we live in. Writing and music is all up to interpretation. You know, there's no fine lines of I scored two goals and I played a pretty good game. Right.

So. When it comes to the artistic side, for me, I have to walk that balance very Fine. And I've had other writers send me really great music, and I have cut outside songs. I've cut two Chris Stableton songs that he never cut.

So I'm open to it. How does that work? Can I ask you? Because Chris Stableton, did you see these? Do you see it online and say, anybody want these songs?

Do you bid on them? No.

So the way it works in Nashville and stuff is there's the publishers that do the writing portion of your music. And It's a catalog.

So there's like I have so much music that I've written that might never see the light of day, and there might be my publisher in town pitching some of my songs to other artists or other people to get cuts.

So this one song I put out that was Chris's was like a 10, 11 year old song that he had written, never put out. And uh it was just living there and someone pitched it to me. And I heard Chris sing on it, and they were like, We've tried to get this c song cut forever, but no one wanted to go ahead. And cut the song because they hear Chris Stapleton on, they're like, What am I supposed to do with this? Yeah.

So I took it. I took it as a challenge. And I was like, you know what? I'm a big Chris fan. Love his voice.

I love his style. I'm going to go ahead and cut this and record this and put my own flair on it. And what was it? Love on the Line and Inside Your Head were those two Chris Daplin songs. And but when people leave a song out there, is it them singing it, or do you have to read the music and see the lyrics?

It's um it's So he recorded a demo.

So he recorded a demo for it.

So they pitched me the lyrics, and then they sent me with the lyrics his demo so I could listen through. Um on what it would sound like. It's really, we live in such a fun time. I mean, we don't even talk about AI yet, just with what's going on in music, but it's. The digital age that we're living in is so much fun for the creative side.

But in a way, isn't AI scaring the hell out of actors and musicians because they could commission AI to write me a hit country music song, make it sound a little like Chris Templeton, a little like Warren Zyders, and then you get this result. That's to me is scary. 100%. But it's. You gotta have, I mean, yes, limitations to it and whatnot.

I mean, I'll be the first one to admit it to you. It's like. It's you're trusting the public to use it the right way. And I've seen other writers and other artists use it in a Toolway, I guess I would say.

So, I mean, I'll be the first one to admit it. I wrote a song the other week and I used an AI platform to go ahead and was like, hey, I don't know how to do this on the guitar on how I want to make this sound instrumentally.

So it'll go ahead and spit something out for you if you want to change the melody up. Really? Yeah, it's super cool. And it's like. It is a fine line on what you're talking about.

Obviously, I haven't recorded the song or anything like that, but it. It allowed my brain. to see something else. And now I can take this idea. And take it as my producer and be like, hey, here's a rough draft of kind of what I was thinking.

We wrote it this way, not changing lyrics. But I want to go ahead and change the melody up a little bit and have it be a little bit more rock or more ballad-esque or more in this vein. It just makes it fun. Yeah. Um.

Could you put it in there and say, okay, here's my song, make it better? Or does it need specific commands? I feel like it needs specific commands because obviously, like you say, make it better. It's going to go ahead and try to interpret that in a million different ways. I haven't tried that specific thing, but it's been fun to watch how some people Feel one-sided about it, and then other people want to embrace it because.

It's an undeniable thing that's that's coming up. I want to learn the tool. This year, you're going to have a world tour.

So, if these dates are correct, it starts in March. Yep.

So. How do you know that you're popular overseas? Are you able to see where the downloads are? Yeah, yeah. Download streams, you can see all those data, all the data, and all the numbers.

I've actually been extremely massive over in Australia since I began this thing.

So. It's been a long time coming. Have you been there yet? I've been there one time for one festival, and I had like the four or five o'clock slot. and had a massive fan base.

When I tell you they were singing deep cuts, like they weren't just singing the hits, they were singing everything. Wow. I was like, okay, I could really have something over here.

So we went ahead and We got a couple shows over in Australia. It's been a long time coming. By that, rate in March. That'll be about my four year mark of touring.

So, uh, yeah, it's been they've been wanting it. And where can we g find out where you're going to be located? Uh, if you go to my Instagram, you can go find it on there. You can go to warrensiders.com. You guys can go see my entire touring schedule and uh see where the world tour is going to be.

I mean, it starts in Virginia Beach. I believe that's America. Uh Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, how appropriate. Verona, uh, New York.

So uh then Birmingham, Alabama. And then Brandon, Missouri.

So it'll be start off local and then you end up overseas. Yes, sir. All right.

A few more minutes with Warren Zyders when we get back. His world tour is now announced. You can go get it. You can always download all his music. As you get his origin story, that's going to make you even like him even more.

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Jesus, now dear me. Take me inside somewhere in between. Broken and safe, take a page from a sinner like me. And find the only Bible that's you and the reader.

So there you go. That is Only Bible, and that is Warren Zeiters. As coincidence, he is here to comment on this song that I believe you wrote, right? Yes, sir. So Warren Ziders came out four years ago.

No one knew you.

Now everybody knows you.

So at 22, you emerge. At 26, you're ready for a world tour. First off, explain this song.

So only Bible. I was in church a couple months back and I was going through some stuff at that moment, just on tour. And I guess, you know, praying as I always do, but kind of looking for answers from the good Lord and just kind of what's going on right now in my life. And surely enough, he always has a fun way of answering prayers. And I'm in church, and my pastor's wrapping up his sermon.

And uh it was a perfect timing of just what I was going through and Um He finishes his sermon by saying, You know, not everyone steps foot in a church, not everyone is going to open their Bibles, and some people never have access. And you might be the only Bible that somebody reads in this lifetime. And it was just.

Something that hit me straight to the soul. And I wrote that down in my notes as I was taking notes in church. And I was like, that's a song. Like, that is legitimately a song that you can write because you can be the example for others. We're all imperfect, we're all sinners, we all need God every single day.

And It was just something like it really changed my perspective of where I was at as a 26-year-old. And Surely enough. It was like two days after I wrote that in my notebook. Um That's when Trump tweeted and truthed about me. It was just the perfect timing alignment.

And then that's what then led two weeks later to go to the White House. It was surreal. Because one of your comments you made on our feature was: I love to golf with the president. Yeah. And he saw that.

Yeah. Yeah. And we're uh Hopefully working on it. I hear I hear he's he's quite well. You know, good enough.

Good enough. I'm competitive too.

So I'll be like, hey, I'll bring the competitive spirit out. I was talking to some people, I've just been at the White House and stuff. And they're like, you know, you might grip your clubs a little bit tighter than normal when you have a bunch of security, Secret Service around you. I'm like, you know, I'm used to being under pressure, man. And you know what I hear too, and I've seen it, but I don't golf.

But he is the ultimate host. He's making sure you have everything. He's taking care of you and making sure the clubs are right and all that stuff.

So he's always out there making sure.

So you got to be ready with your foursome or three or at least somebody to golf with. I'm just patiently waiting for the phone call and being like, cancel your plans, you got to get on a flight and go. Except for the World Tour.

So tell us about the World Tour. What countries are you going to stop in? I know you start locally. Yep, we start locally here in the U.S. Very minimal stuff this year in the U.S.

just because that was a part of our plan. You know, I've been touring so much here over the last three, three and a half years. But we start locally here. I want to say on the East Coast, you brought up Virginia Beach. Then we go out west where I'll hit up Utah and some places out along the way there.

I play stagecoach this year, which is going to be so much fun. And then we go over to, we're going to hit Australia for the first time on that tour. Glasgow, it looks like. Yep.

Then we go over to Europe and UK for the second time. And my fan base over there is absolutely phenomenal. I mean, to go over there for the first time and sell out my first tour was incredible.

So do they follow country, they follow country music? Is that a new evolution? New-ish country is definitely growing over there. But as you and I were talking about off the air, with me leaning a little bit more rock in my music and having that influence, That's something that's super popular over there. That, like, that kind of grunge, early 2000s rock.

So, having that kind of. Um mix between my music is what has really led So when you talk about getting your music out of that, how do you look at traditional radio? We're on over 200 stations and we're also streaming and we're also on Sirius XM over the weekends. They air us. How do artists like you, Warren, view the radio these days?

You know, for me, being a guy that came up through the ranks of streaming and social media numbers. My first hit was a non country radio hit, so to speak. It was just streaming numbers, helped me get my record deal and everything. And then on the flip side, I'm sitting here and We have my hit song Pretty Little Poison that's triple platinum and That song was massively global. Number one on country radio and just so many reward Awards, accolades with that song.

And I view country radio and I view radio as a whole as I call it the cherry on top. I think that it is the final Um Chapter when it comes to a song that helps you elevate it to that last threshold. Whether that's bringing in more people to your shows and stuff. But you gotta have the streaming numbers in my opinion, the social numbers, the Butts and seats, and then country radio brings it home. And Warren Zeiters, where do we get tickets to your tour?

WarrenZiders.com. All right, so as we leave, it's your song, How Great Art Thou? Perfect for the Season. Yes, sir. All right.

Great to see you again, Warren. Thank you so much. Let's stay in touch. Warren Zyders, everyone. And Mac, will you make this louder?

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It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the latest moments of the Brian Kilmead Show. We come to you from 48th and 6th in Midtown Manhattan or around the country, around the world, where we have a mayor-elect who, by the way, has had announcements about a transition team, the worst of the worst. And on top of that, what makes it really bad is They are releasing the names of his transition team and misspelling almost all of their names.

Seven or eight names they've released, all misspellings.

So, if you were worried about this mayor being disorganized in an experience, there's nothing that's happened that should make you feel better. This hour will be doing a similar cast on Varney and Company on FBN. Welcome in, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. But it's my privilege to bring in Erica Kirk, Turning Point USA CEO. And she wrote the forward to Charlie Kirk, her husband's book, Stop in the Name of God by Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life.

Erica, great to see you. Likewise, good to see you. It's hard to imagine a busier person than you that's been through more than you have been. And that's when I found out two weeks ago, oh, she's going to be coming by with a book tour. I thought to myself, oh my goodness.

Oh, it's not my book. It's my husband's. And it's bittersweet because these are his final words that he left not just the world, but also to me. And he used to write me a letter every single Saturday. During the Sabbath for him.

So, this book now is my love letter for the rest of my life.

So, what's interesting is, I remember, I think it's Larry Arne of Hillsdale. Dr. Larry Arne.

So, here is, I'm looking at Charlie when he was 22, 23. I think I was invited to speak at one of your events. I go, yeah, I'll speak on it. No problem. I didn't really know what the turning point was.

And I walk in, and everyone in the hotel knows who I am. And I walk in, I had to speak at seven in the morning. And there was probably six thousand people there. I go, What is go where does this what is going on here? And he goes, Oh, these are all college kids.

And he was sitting back as if this is just the beginning. But it was interesting when Larry Arne spoke at at your husband's Memorial. He said how he came to him and said, This is what I want to do. And he basically said, You got to learn more. Mm-hmm.

You got to study. And he tracked thirty-three Separate courses from Hillsdale. He did. And what did that bring to him and how did that lead to this? Always was on the hunt for Truth.

and beauty. And things that were eternal. That was his focus. And when he saw that he didn't wanna be a talking figure, he wanted to be a movement leader and a thought leader. And so, in order to do that, you need to constantly be reading, learning.

Doing everything that you need to be able to make a difference in a way where it's not, I'm preaching at you, I'm preaching at you. Instead, it was along the lines of, no, I read this. And this works, this doesn't work. Let me show you a different way of living. And that's what came into the.

I also noticed, and as I mentioned, this on Fox and Friends. That Dennis Prager was somebody that he dedicated the book to. He did. What did Dennis Prager bring to Charlie Kirk?

So Charlie listened to every single fireside chat. I had the blessing of being able to see Dennis this past week when we were on our way to Florida. I wanted to see him. I wanted to be able to just read to him the dedication of the book that Charlie did for him and just say, Dennis, you will always be one of the most influential voices of our time. Thank you for taking the time to pour into my husband.

And he's a religious scholar. He writes books that I don't even, I mean, what I've seen put together, man, you can't take a sentence off. No, he is so phenomenal at breaking down the Torah and going through and writing commentaries on the Old Testament, which Charlie read all of them. He read all of them. And you cannot understand the New Testament if you do not read the Old Testament.

You cannot separate the two. And so Charlie knew that if I'm going to write a book on the Sabbath, I need to understand fully what this is, implement it into my life, see how it works, and then show others this is how it's done. Erica Kirk here, the name of the book is Stop in the Name of God, why honoring the Sabbath will transform your life. I have always, and again, I am not a religious scholar, but I know people who are Orthodox Jewish, Jewish, Orthodox Jews. And that's the ones, and they're by, by the way, almost all of them are almost billionaires.

But they go, don't call me on Saturday. What? I can't get back to you. I'm off. Remember Joe Lieberman, who's running for president.

I'm off. I don't use cars. I don't do anything. I didn't equivocate. I didn't play that out to Christianity.

Is it for both religions?

Well, it is a commandment. It's part of the Ten Commandments. But what Charlie's trying to explain in this book is that put the legalism aside. Look at this from the standpoint of if you don't Honor the Sabbath, meaning the day of rest. God is asking you to just press pause and rest and be with him so that he can use you and you can be the man or the woman that he needs you to be in order to make a difference in this world.

Charlie's saying, don't get caught up in. The legalism of it. Instead, Do what you can to say, okay. These are a few hours that I can turn my phone off, disconnect, be with the Lord, be with my family, and unplug. There are certain things like for us, we would make sure that Friday night it was family dinner night and then all day Saturday was family time.

Charlie always priorit prioritized myself and the children, and he would also make sure that we would get a date night in. He made sure to that I always knew that I was Always, always above anything else. And he made that amplified during the Sabbath. It's interesting because after he hosted Fox and Friends, so I texted him right away and I said, Are you interested in doing this? I've never seen somebody just take to it right away because you know Fox and Friends is a slice of life.

It's not here, here's the news. It is how are you? How do you feel about the news? What is your opinion of the news? Is there a format better built for him?

So he goes, Brian. Not a chance. Do you see my weekends? And a part of it was this. He goes, yeah, I'm not available.

They're sacred. They're sacred because he could not do or operate on the level that he was without having a minute to breathe. And he wanted to also be able to show an example. He's a father. People sometimes forget, yes, he was a movement leader, but he was a dad to a son.

Even though my baby boy is very little, he did not take that lightly. He knew that I am not raising a boy. I am raising a man. And so if I'm going to be what I want my son to be or to look up to, I need to live up to that standard. I need to stop doing things that he, Charlie didn't drink, not because, again, being legalistic, but he could not operate the way he needed to operate.

Being drunk, like that just does not happen, or going out and partying with the boys. That doesn't happen. Yes, you can have fun. There's many different ways of having fun. This is not supposed to put guardrails on your quote-unquote fun.

It's supposed to put into perspective how you can be a true spiritual head and leader of your home so that your son can be the spiritual leader and head of his home. And we need to make strong young men that are respectful to their wives and to their children and know: look, there is a different way of living that will enhance your life in a way you couldn't even have imagined rather than thinking you're getting your answers from college.

So, the name of the book is Stop in the Name of God. Go to 45books.com to order it right now. But just a question about you. Yes. Where did who.

Is responsible for raising someone like yourself with the values and ethics and drive that you have. Like, how did you become you? I have an amazing family. My mother's. The blessing of all.

My father was amazing as well. Although my parents were divorced when I was five, I was very, very close also to my grandparents. And my grandparents, I was with them every Saturday.

So, without me even knowing, I guess now, just even thinking of this with you, that I guess was my Sabbath. I went and stayed with my grandparents Saturday, all day, Saturday, Saturday night, would come home to my mom on Sunday. But on Saturday night, after having dinner with my grandparents, we'd watch the Lawrence Welk show. I was I guess I got started when I was 10 and didn't end until I was 18.

So for me, but that was my and but this is really sweet, even reminiscing on this. That was, I guess, my form of a Sabbath.

So you were always family-oriented. Always, always. Family is so important, and that's and Charlie saw that too. And that's why we understood how important tradition was in pouring into your family and Being so close to each other, because at the end of the day, when it's all said and done, with your short life here, what are you leaving behind? You don't get to take anything with you.

Charlie did not have anything attached to his casket. He didn't have his books, his radio show, nothing. He came into this world the same way as he exited. And so, what are you going to leave behind? You're leaving behind your legacy with your family and your children.

So, he knew, he felt like he was in a rush to achieve. He had a vision. He had a vision. And from what you know and what do you know about his childhood, what laid the groundwork for that? He always was so good with time.

He was an unbelievable person of time management down to the millisecond. And he always knew that if I could If I could steward my time in a way that was productive and a way that was Always moving towards something bigger and something greater, that he was in the right jet stream. And that's how he operated. Did that come from his parents, or is that how he was operating? I think that's just how he was wired.

It was never some, I don't think you, it's very, very hard to learn how to be very good at time management. You can learn, but to master it at his level, that's a total God blessing and a gift. Oh, yeah. For a guy that had so much going on, he never seemed in a rush, right? He always seemed like he knew that.

He was very intentional.

Okay, I have five minutes. And then he got everything out in five minutes, and then he was on to the next meeting, on to the next event. He was very intentional.

So, Erica Kirk is doing a book tour for Charlie Kirk's last book, Her Husband. It's Stop in the Name of God, why honoring the Sabbath will transform your life. I got it, yesterday. I got through half of it in like an hour. It's really great.

It's powerful. It's excellent.

So, but you don't stop. And I know that when the message, I know it's certain to be a bestseller. Go to 45books.com. A few more minutes with Erica Kirk in a moment. She's also going to be on the five tonight.

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So, Charlie Kirk's words and thoughts come to life in his brand new book, Stop in the Name of God, Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life. Writing the forward to that book is Erica Kirk, and she's and by the way, the introduction was actually written by Charlie.

So, she is here to explain the book, what it meant, and how it was all put together. And you can get it at 45books.com. We got to make this. And it was a runaway bestseller, which I'm sure it will be.

So, Erica, as everything you got to do, running Turning Point Action, which is the vote, Turning Point USA, which is the college tour and the next generation, the youth. And then you have to do this thing. You have the media element to you with the very successful podcast. And then what about you, the mom, and the kids? How do you change?

Choose now with all the people around you who will be the role models that you want your kids to be influenced by.

Well, we have a phenomenal team at Turning Point USA, it's a family. And Charlie handpicked every single person that's in leadership.

So, what the beautiful part about Turning Point USA is that. Everyone behind the scenes, when you pull back the curtain, they're doing exactly what they were doing on 9-9 before 9-10 happened. And we haven't lost speed. I mean, yes, of course, we took time to mourn. But our team For example, When Charlie was murdered.

Within seven days, we were able by the grace of God and we pushed through to put on that memorial for him. Our team does not look at this as a nine to five. It's vision led. It's movement driven, but it's also a way for our Yeah. to put their pain into something that is so bigger than any of us.

And we all need this organization just as much as this country does.

So it doesn't, it's not a job to us.

So I know how you put it together and how hard people worked, but even you must have been astounded. By the number of people that it's blown away. And it took over the whole thing. Not even the town. It was more on the outside than the inside.

It was a global ripple effect that no one, I mean, yes, I knew my husband had impact. But to that multitude and extent is the Lord. And and Only God can use someone. To that capacity, when you surrender yourself fully and say, Lord, use me how you need to. And then you, to walk out in front of 70,000, 80,000 people, people watching around the globe, our network never took a break.

We covered that. And knowing you're grieving because Charlie is no longer with us. Can you bring me to that moment when you walk out?

So I intentionally stayed in my own green room that whole time. I listen to some of the worship music. Actually, I listen to all of it. Um but There was a moment where They said, Do you want to go and stand behind stage so you can see and feel inside? I said, No.

I want to be able to feel that whole emotion the second I walk out on stage. Like, I want to feel the true impact of this moment because they said, Do you want to sit out there? And I said, No, I just want to pray. I just want to be alone with my thoughts and with the Lord before I step out on that stage. And it just was the most overwhelming.

I mean when you hear A stadium? And Online when you hear them singing hallelujah. That is a slice of heaven on earth that I don't think anyone will ever be able to put into words. It was unbelievably powerful. But then you have to speak.

And then you have to speak. And then you see the videos of my kids and him and like it is just gut-wrenching. And you did. You have to, you have to put. Life is tough.

It is beautiful but it is tough. And you are going to have to find a way. And anyone who has been through hell and back knows this. When you go through, and we were just talking about this off-air. You have a decision to make when something like this happens in your life.

Are you going to go into the corner and be in fetal position and just. let it happen and and you know Cry and cry and cry. Yes, there are moments to cry, yes. But are you going to turn that moment into something and say, you know what? God, give me grace.

Please give me grace. I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I know that you will put one foot in front of the other and you will help me get through this, Lord. You will help me. Again, I don't know how, but I will, whatever strength you give me, strengthen the inner workings of my soul, Lord.

Use me how you need to use me. Use this to make a difference. You have a decision. And I could see that determination in seeing you face to face. Stop in the name of God is out.

Go to 45books.com. How interested are you? in the investigation. about what goes on? Like what role does that play in everything that you think about?

No, it's a great question. We have a phenomenal team. I am in contact with our attorneys and the prosecutors basically daily being like anything new, anything new? We We know, without a shadow of a doubt, with the evidence that we have, that we're moving in the correct direction. I trust our team with full stop.

Is part of it because you know who Cash Patel is and Dan Bongino is at the head, or is it your. It's not even that. When you have the truth and the facts, you don't need anything else. I've seen the autopsy report. I've seen all of that.

I mean, if you have the truth and you don't believe the truth, I don't know what to tell you. But yet people Don't believe. People don't trust anything that they're seeing. I've been blown away by people who come up to me and say, hey, I know you interviewed Charlie, but you know we're not getting the right story.

Well, what do you mean you're not getting the right story?

Well, you know that that gun couldn't have done this, or he couldn't have been there, or something happened in the middle. I had somebody come up to me and say, someone popped out of a manhole cover and shot him directly. And that manhole cover's been been covered up. I go, I've never heard of a crazier thing, and they thought I was crazy for even questioning them. I mean, you must be getting this.

The conspiracy theories. I have heard all of them. And Thank God we have a trial coming up. Unfortunately, that trial is in a long time. What I want to be mindful of for people is that This was a murder.

This is not something that What I don't have happen. Is For this to taint the jury pool. I don't. I want my husband. I want justice.

for my husband more than any other person on the internet. Any other person in this world that was my husband and the father to my kids, we will make sure, and we have been. turning over every single stone, Going down every single lead.

So when these people say, oh, they haven't talked about this or done that, how do you know? You're not in those meetings with the attorneys and the prosecutors. You have no idea. And why would we share that information with the internet? Shit.

To to what? Then give the defense more stuff that's not true. Like it's just you at the end of the day, when it's all said and done, the truth is the truth. And this book is fantastic. I really encourage everyone to get it.

Stop in the name of God, why honoring the Sabbath will transform your life. Erica Kirk, great to see you. Good luck on the five today. Thank you. Thanks for putting up with two interviews.

Oh, no, it's good. You're the best. God bless you. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Turning Texas Blue. is what I want to talk to y'all about today.

Now There are those that say ain't no way we done tried it 50 kinds of ways. Let me be clear, y'all ain't never tried it the JC way. We used to telling us what I can't do. But they have no idea what Crockett's crew will do. They tell us that Texas is red.

They are lying. We're not. The reality is that most Texans don't get out to vote.

Okay, that is Jasmine Crockett, who wants to replace John Cornyn as the next senator, one of two senators in Texas.

Now she won her district, which was I think plus thirty for D plus thirty, and now she thinks she's got statewide appeal.

Well, she's got recognition. She's got they'll give her that. Number two, she really has no choice because it looks like she's been gerrymandered out of her district. And she did get the one Colin Aldred who ran against Ted Cruz. He backed out and is going to run for a congressional seat.

So the path is relatively clear for her. In Texas. But the people of Texas want her as the next senator. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West is Dallas County Republican Party chair. He is the American chairman of the American Constitutional Rights Union, former congressman from Florida who spent the majority of his career in the military.

Colonel, welcome back. Is Jasmine Crockett too tough to beat? It's good to be with you, Brian. First, let me see if I can translate and decipher the Ebonics that she was using during that speech. She doesn't have a chance of winning.

And again, just look at the election last year when Colin Allred ran against Ted Cruz for the Senate seat, and everyone was talking about how close it was going to be. I think it was about 9.6, 9.7% of a win for Ted Cruz. And of course, Donald Trump won Texas by about 15 percentage points.

So she can play well with the Austin, Texas crowd, the Houston crowd, and some of the Dallas crowd, but she's not going to play well across the state of Texas, which has 254 counties. Do you think she knows that? I think that she is operating under a delusion of grandeur. You know, when I was growing up, my dad had a saying that I didn't understand back then, but I do now. He said, never read your own press and never drink your own tub water.

Lest you become full of yourself. And so I think that that is what has happened with her. She operates in this echo chamber going on MSNBC or CNN, and no one challenges her. They just sit and let her, you know, spew that rhetoric of hers. But she has no depth when it comes to understanding policy.

She has not even come close to passing any type of legislation. I don't think she's even proposed any legislation in her time up there in the United States Congress. But we do know she's enriched herself to the tune of now, I think, being worth $9 million. How does that happen? You mean speaking tours?

Did you get speaking fees? I mean how does that happen legally? I I think that she would be a great person to have on Fox and Friends and Brian Kill me go one-on-one with Jasmine Crockett and ask her how did you go from pretty much or zero to nine million dollars in worth in just what, one and a half terms in Congress? And oh, by the way, why is it that you have a lien on your luxury condo down here in Dallas? Oh, really?

Is that true? Oh, it is true. She has a lien, and she had unreported debt of the tune of about $115,000. There's a lot about this young lady that's going to come out, and she's not going to play well in Texas.

Well, this is Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, who would know because he's in Texas now. Joaquin Castro feels differently, cut 36. Jasmine is a fighter. She's an incredibly dynamic person. She's got a message that's resonating not only with the Democratic base, but I think with Americans across the country.

So He said the same thing about Kamala Harris. Yeah. So she's going to run, but explain this to me, Colonel, from what you know. How do candidates run for office and make money? For example, Jasmine Crockett will get a lot of money from celebrities and people that think she's a celebrity politician.

She'll get money. You know, she had this ad that was pretty good of just Donald Trump. She sits there listening, and Donald Trump insults roll over her. And she hears the things that Donald Trump says about her.

So people see that and go, I don't like Donald Trump. I'm going to give money to Jasmine Crockett. But when you're done and you lose an election, what do you do with that money? I will tell you that she has already, we know for a fact, $75,000 to $80,000 of donor money she has spent on her own personal travel and hotels and transportation, things of this nature.

So that's the type of person that the Democrats say are that she is exceptional and she's talented. She's just a crook. Just the same as when you look at a guy like Robert Francis O'Rourke. I mean, he ran for how many different positions, president, governor, senator, and never won, but somehow that money gets to his pocket. Yeah, I wonder what you can do legally with that.

And that's why that might answer a lot of questions why people run for offices they can't possibly win. But we'll see what happens. On the Republican side, Senator Cornyn, Wesley Hunt, Congressman Wesley Hunt, military background, West Point grad. And then you have The Attorney General. He they're all running for that Senate seat.

Right now, Cornyn looks a little bit stronger than he has been. But to bring me inside Texas politics, who's got the best chance of getting the nomination?

Well, I will tell you that I think it's going to come down to a runoff. We just had a Dallas County Christmas Hanukkah Gala Saturday evening. I kind of, you know, went around talking to people and trying to get a polling and a sensing. Most of the folks that attended in the camp of Wesley Hunt or Attorney General Paxton, few were in John Corner's camp. The problem with John Corner is can he convince himself to the grassroots here in the state of Texas?

That's going to be a heavy lift for him. As you know, he was booed at the Republican Party convention, I think it was four years ago or so, because of his support for gun control.

So I really do believe that it will come down to a runoff between Wesley Hunt and Attorney General Paxton.

Well, that would be something.

So, in between, we have Ken Paxton, who's not running, who's got some things in his background that maybe Jennifer John Cornyn, he was on with us last week, is going to explore. If you were in the Paxton camp, and I'm not saying you are. Have you really answered those questions about your background?

Well, I will tell you that, you know, with that failed impeachment effort, I mean, Ken Paxton has shown that he can pretty much so dodge any of the bullets that have been thrown against him. And what folks are going to look at here is he's done a good job, great job as Attorney General, really an exceptional job in the things that he has fought for and the things that he has stood up for, and especially in the minds of the grassroots Republicans here.

So I think that you may see him do quite well, not win outright. And that's why I believe it will come down to a runoff. And right now, what's happening here in Texas is that the big fight is between Congressman Wesley Hunt and Senator Cornyn. They're the ones exchanging most of the barbs. Ken Paxton is kind of just sitting back and watching them go at it.

We're talking to Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. Colonel, I want to bring you back to your old territory. And that is my uh Florida. We're in Miami right now for the first time in, I think, 30 years, they might have a Democratic elected mayor.

Now, people say it's a non-political event, but I think it's. I think that's maybe a Republican spin. I know I understand that this Democrat has represented Little Havana, which tends to be conservative for a while, so it's maybe a little bit of a unique situation. But if a Democrat wins that mayor's race, Would you As somebody who cares about his party, do you think Republicans should take that as a warning sign?

Well, it depends on what type of Democrat this individual is. I mean, once upon a time, you had those conservative Democrats, blue dog Democrats. And if he is of that nature, but for whatever reason, he wants to have a D behind his name. Oh, she, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's Eileen Higgins running against Emilio Gonzalez.

They had a runoff, now they have a face-off. And today, the vote, Miami hasn't had a Democratic mayor in 30 years. Trump has come out for her. Ron DeSantis, Rick Scott has run down there for her.

So there's a said Emilio Gonzalez is their best hope of holding on to that spot. Do you think in the Hispanic community? that the President is not resonating like he did in 2024 to get the job. I think that some people have tried to leverage the whole illegal immigration and ICE against him. And again, it comes back to better messaging to get folks to understand that this is not about the Hispanic community.

It's about people that can endanger the Hispanic community, endanger their safety and security.

So I think that's the thing that has to be pressed more than anything else. And again, let's see what type of principles this young lady has. I don't think that Azoron Momdani or the woman who won the mayoral race in Seattle would play well down in Miami. I just don't see that happening.

So Mom Dani, it might be actually worse than we thought. He has hired the mayor-elect. Uh a former uh former uh failed rapper. Who spent seven years in prison, who's got convicted twice, the second time armed robbery, to limit his criminal justice reform. Our transition team.

He's got all these worshippers of terrorists who are representing part of his transition team. And just talk about incompetence. His team has misspelled seven different persons' names on the press release of their own people.

So this could be the worst train wreck then imaginable. We only have 20 seconds left, but your thoughts? No, I think it's absolutely right. I mean, most people elected him because of his smile and his charisma, and now they're going to they see and experience exactly what they say you get the government that you vote for. Yes, he's cut a tape to tell illegal immigrants how to avoid ICE.

Nice. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, thanks so much. My pleasure. Take care, Brian. And I would say this: not voting for Jasmine Crockett.

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Brian, good to see you.

So let me start with this. A designated pride match during next year's World Cup in Seattle will feature Iran and Egypt.

Now, these are two countries where homosexuality is illegal. How does that match with a pride match? It's a difficult one to put together, isn't it? I don't even think people ever put it together. I mean, half these people at Columbia who were chanting for the Hamas and the Palestinians and at Harvard and Yale and NYU and downtown New York City, they were chanting for the Hamas and the Palestinian cause.

When if you are gay and there was a huge contingent there, they throw you off buildings and imagine you in the most horrific end to your life imaginable. But you're going to bat for them, putting your reputation on the line.

So, just another one of those things. I mean, we have a World Cup soccer in Seattle and Los Angeles. Are there two more anti-American cities in America than Seattle and Los Angeles? I mean, basically, I don't even know what they're going to, they even know how to chant USA.

So that's where they put the U.S. national team.

So this is just more of the hypocrisy because people just have knee-jerk reactions. They don't think. They don't understand how good they have it here. They don't understand that the tolerance that they yearn for are not tolerated in any place they look up to. Yeah, well, not only that, but they don't just sit back and enjoy sports.

They always have to fill it with this political stuff, and it seems inappropriate to me, particularly when the sport is so good.

Next one, Brian Trump ally Bruce Blakeman has announced his run for New York governor. Roll tape. We want to put New York first. We want to make it more affordable. We want to make New York safer.

And we want to make people in New York happy again. We're going to win because in Nassau County, which is a mirror image of New York State, the demographics are almost the same. I got almost a third of the African American vote when most Republicans only get like 9%. I got 56% of the Hispanic American votes. I got independent women.

I've got independent men, crossover Democrats. We won by 36,000 votes in a county with 110,000 more Democrats.

Well, Brian, we also have Elise Stefanik who wants that job, too, from the Republican side. I'm just wondering if this divide in Republicans helps Governor Hochul. Hmm.

Well, I mean, it gets interest in a Republican primary process, which would be good. It would remind people from the east end of Long Island to upstate New York and Buffalo that when this battle is waged between these two Titans, who are great friends with the President, Between these two emerging Republican powers, that it matters.

So I think additional interests, for example, remember when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were going at it. People say, well, it's dividing the party. What it did is dominate the news cycle.

So in New York, you got, well, Hokul's got a primary challenge, and you had Lee Zeldon with no challenge. And now you have both with a primary challenge. This is much more, this is going to be much more formidable than what Hokul's got with his socialist counterpart, the lieutenant governor.

So I think there's a positive that it keeps you in the news cycle. The negative is if they start pointing out when they start, if they go scorched earth against each other, the winner, like with Dr. Oz and Dave McCormick, when Dr. Oz prevailed, he was pretty beaten up by the time he got to Fetterman.

So the really worry about is the tone in which they go at it. Is it going to get extremely personal, bring things up that are unsavory, or are they just going to say, I'm a better Republican, vote for me? That'll be it. But I think that Donald Trump's got the hardest decision. 'Cause uh he likes them both a lot.

And he has not yet said, tipped his hand at all as to where he might go in terms of endorsing. We understand it. They have something in February, and then if there's enough interest there, they're going to move on to a primary a few months later. But they're going to at least stay in it into February, fighting it out against each other. But you don't think it helps the Democratic Party to have this fighting going on?

I don't think it helps because I think it gets people aware that Republicans really feel they got a shot. The other thing is, what you do is You got Mondami. Mondami is the best thing to happen to Republicans in the governor's race. Because Mondami is, there's a sense that even for the left, He is so far left that that there might more might now more than ever need a counterbalance in Albany. And Hokul endorsed.

She is all in with him.

So you can't say, well, that's not me. No, no, it is you. Yeah. Brian, great to see you, my friend. Thanks so much.

We got to jump. Appreciate it. Thanks so much, David Asmond, doing a few quality minutes there. Bruce Blakeman announced on Fox and Friends the Nastawa County Executive. Nastawa County, if you're listening around the country, is this portion of Long Island that is really dense and big and large and mostly Democrat.

It's about. 55-45 Democrat. And Bruce Blakeman upset Laura Curran, who is very good as a Democrat, a moderate. And then one substantially, easily Uh uh the second time. And in doing that, in winning that race, got a lot of people's attention because it has emerged.

As the safest city in America, which is a huge salute to the police force. Which is run by Pat Ryder, who is really tight with the Nassau County executive, and together they focused on safety, and it's worked. But I also think Elise Stefanik is a buzzsaw. Man, she is not going to back off anything. She's a fantastic fighter, very accomplished congresswoman.

You remember when she took down all those elite institutions and really put a spotlight on the anti-Semitism in our elite college campuses? And she is an Ivy League grad too who wanted them to distance themselves from Elise Stefanik.

Now she's like, please distance yourself. You can have your reputation. I don't want anything part of it.

So that's going to be an interesting race. If it gets really personal, it could hurt them. But for the most part, to have a Republican fight in New York, just like in Illinois, just like in California. I think it only helps because it keeps people in the news: the News 12s, the New York Ones, the smaller outlets, the Newsday newspapers, the New York Post. It keeps them talking about this intramural race.

You know, Mom Dami is going to be a lot selling a lot of newspapers for the wrong reason, but he's going to sell a lot of newspapers because it's an interest, it's newsy. Listen to the Brian Kill Me Chow. Make sure you catch me February 14th in Fort Myers, Florida. Go to BrianKillMe.com, get tickets now. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone. So glad you're there. It's the Brain Kill Me Show coming your way. We have a lot going on this hour.

We're going to be joined by Carl Rove, Don't Ask Me How I Know. And he's going to be in the studio, which is always fun. And then we're going to be taking your calls at 1-866-408-7669, which is always great. We've had a very busy show. Hopefully, you'll be able to check it out on the podcast.

And you take it out wherever you go. We also, we also got a just quick reminder: coming up on February 14th. I know it seems like a long time away, but the tickets are selling ridiculously fast. I hope to see everybody in person. Biggest venue to date over in Fort Myers, Florida, History, Liberty, and Laps.

It'd be patriotic, it'd be inspirational, and of course, motivational. And we'll see how that goes. A couple of things are going on right now. The President of the United States is going to go out and he's going to take the affordability message to the stump. And he's not going to be talking about a hoax.

He's going to be talking about things that they've done already. And I like the messaging so far. Very simple, very Trump-esque. Cut one. We inherited a mess.

Uh affordability, but you can call it affordability or anything you want, but The Democrats caused the affordability problem. And we're the ones that are fixing it.

So it's a very simple. statement and they caused it we're fixing it Couple of things. He's going to go to the perfect place. Cook Political Report says it's Pennsylvania 7, and it's a true toss-up state. Number two, he's got to talk about tariff rebates.

He's going to say people are going to be getting money. Farm bailouts is going to be on the ballot. He just did that yesterday. Not on the ballot, but it's going to be front and center. He's going to tout lower gas prices, four and a half-year low.

His role in securing $100 billion in energy and AI investment for the Keystone State in particular. He's going to underline the fact that the Japanese investment company save U.S. steel and keeps them in charge and people employed in Pennsylvania. Scott Besson came out and noted that the Trump signature bill, the Big Beautiful bill, will reduce taxes on overtime, tips.

Social Security benefits and allow for deductions. for domestic car loan interest. um uh with those with those changes kicking in next year. With that, Call Rove, the ball is yours. How are you?

Great to see you in person. Good to be here. Thanks for having me into the inner sanctum. Right.

I mean, it's not usually people that can penetrate this deep. Yeah, the amount of security that surrounds this place of strap hangers, aides, assistants, you know, the guy who brings you your coffee, you know, I mean, the guy who comes in and gives you the hot towel in between sessions. It's amazing how many people working coming up. It's hard to keep people because I have a temper and I just fire them. And if they don't have a good attitude, they're gone.

So there's a lot of tension. You walked into a room full of a lot of tension. Actually, I walked into a room of about four or five of your longtime friends and associates who love you and enjoy working with you. And you come on every time.

So the president's going to go out, and I think you support this. You always said that. As soon as you seal the border, go to the border. You know, you have a great immigration story to tell.

So tell everyone what you mean. Affordability is not a hoax. But the fact that Democrats are using it against him, he thought was a hoax.

Well, but he should have stayed away from it. You're right. His language the other day was better saying they created the problem, we're solving the problem. He's got to stay away from two things. One is stay away from the language claiming the affordability thing is a hoax.

Just stay away from it. Anything that could be misinterpreted is going to be misinterpreted. And second of all, do not overhype. The American economy, this thing of we've got an economy that's plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, when most people do not feel that way is exactly the problem that Joe Biden had. Bidenomics is working.

He said, no, we didn't feel it.

So the president, I think you're right. He's got the right tone when he says they created a problem, we're solving it, and then he needs to find ways to exemplify, to make concrete the things that he's doing in a timely fashion. You're right. For example, I hope they're planning on the date that the provision of the big beautiful bill pops in about car loans, that he spends three or four or five days going out there talking about it. Because would it allow you to write off the interest on the car loan or something to say?

Right.

Basically, yes, it makes it cheaper for people, middle-class people, to buy a car. And that's going to mean a lot to people. But don't oversell it. Under promise and over-deliver is what he needs to do for the national. I don't know if Trump could do that.

Trump always does.

Well, I know, I know, but he's got to resist it because remember this, I mean, Joe Biden, when he said dynamics is working, we didn't feel that. And the President has to understand that people are feeling sour about the economy. They know he did the economy was better when he was in office, so they're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he's got to undersell and Overperform.

So CBS did a poll, 36% approval on the economy, 32% approval on the inflation. And 60% said the president makes things sound better than they are.

So what I heard is, and you probably said the same report, that his aide sat down with him over the last two or three days and they showed him some of these polls and showed him what's going on.

Now you got to go out and say, let's do it. Let's go to Pennsylvania. Because the President wants to win, wants to be successful.

Now he wants to will the pandemic way. I understand in his gut. I can do it. We can do it. It's done.

Let's finish. Let's open up the schools. Let's get back to work.

Well, the doctors were pushing him back on that. We can debate that. And now he's like, we're going. Look at all the things we've done. Look at all the money's coming in.

Let's go.

So he wants to will it away, power of positive thinking. Remember, one of the first inspirational speakers he met with was Norman Vincent Peale as a kid. He used to sit in church, and Norman Vincent Peale used to speak.

So that's the little bit of his axiom, which makes him a positive force. I like that he's getting out there. What I also hear that he does is listen to the applause lines or the lack thereof. And when he has a line that gets a big report, he goes, okay, but this is a policy. And when one doesn't work, Like warp speed.

A lot of people, including me, think you did a great job. A lot of people don't. And they think of the vaccine.

So he had to drop that. Yeah, but be careful. The people who attend rallies for him are not the voters that he needs to be concerned about next year. Those are the people who are in his camp.

So he needs to be careful about the applause lines he wants to get to make certain he knows are the applause lines of the people who don't show up at the rallies but are up for grabs in the election. I mean, gotta be very careful. I mean, y the the problem with being a president Is that that office is so overwhelming that you can get isolated and insulated? And between now and November of next year, he needs to be listening carefully to the advisors around him who are taking the pulse of the American people who are not necessarily attendees at Israel. I don't know what it is.

When Paul Ryan decided, you know, I'm not going to do this again, I'm not going to be Speaker. And everybody I talked to, even before he said that, was like, they're not going to hold the majority. I go, guys, it's a year and a half. What do you mean you're not going to hold the majority? What is it about?

And color me naïve because I never ran a campaign. Why is it that people are like, well, they're not gonna hold the majority, they're not giving up yet. But why is it that when you have all these individual relations that have all these different characteristics, there's a sense in Washington. Fait accomplish on certain things.

Well, let's be clear. In the modern era, since the end of World War II, there have only been two midterm elections in which the party that held the White House gained seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1998, when Bill Clinton's approval rating was, I think, about 66 percent just before the election, and 2002, when George W. Bush was about 63.

I happened to have been at the White House during that period of time. We picked up seats. It was really difficult even with an approval rating in the 60s. And so when the president's approval ratings, I think in real clear politics, is like 42.5, 43. In the Gallup, it's 36, you know, that's going to be tough sledding.

Now, We are in a different moment. The country is deeply polarized. The parties are at near parity. The Republicans had initially an advantage, albeit not as big as they thought, from redistricting mid-decade.

Some of that was wiped away by what the Democrats did in California. There may be other Democratic states that jiggle the lines and win. Don't you think they countered it, or they have more they're going to win out of that in Texas?

Well, look, in Texas, the theory is. It's going to pick up five Republican seats.

Well, first of all, Henry Quayar. The Democrat from Laredo ran ahead of Biden and ran ahead of Harris. And the fact that President Trump gave him a pardon means he's going to be the Democratic nominee, and he's enormously popular. And the one big thing that Republicans were using against him, that he was under indictment for corruption, is now gone away. And then the other the another one of those seats Is uh Trump want it?

By one point. And it's a very heavily Hispanic seat that runs from Brownsville to Corpus Christi.

Now the other three are likely to be Republican. One of them is a majority Hispanic seat to the east of Houston, but it ain't going to be five seats. And let me tell you, in California, It may not be as many seats as the Democrats are going to have are claiming that they're going to have, but nonetheless, it probably is going to at least offset the Republican advantage of three pickup of three seats in the California. I I just tell you that Daryl Ice is very popular. It'll be tough.

Don't you think it was going to be a tough out in San Diego, especially? Yeah, but you know, he didn't help himself by spending 10 days saying, I think I'm going to move to Texas and maybe run for one of those new seats there. Look, we welcome Californians to come to Texas. We're not interested in their politicians. We want the job creators.

We want the people who are going to move their businesses and their talents to Texas. And that didn't help him. But yeah, he's popular. He's a fixture. He's got personal resources, a record.

Yeah. So, a couple of things. The big advantage that gives me that I don't think you could possibly say the die has been cast. Is when I see what happened in New York City, and when I see what happened in the mayor's race that almost happened in Minneapolis, the one that happened in Seattle, when I see that Hakeem Jeffries is going to be primaried by a socialist, this socialist movement is real on the left. And Bernie Sanders is the maestro behind it.

Well, take a look at the Tennessee 7th District special election we just had. This woman was a gut. This is a candidate out there. I mean, I hate country music in the capital of country music. When are we going to get rid of the police department?

Mocking the ICE agents with a video. I mean, she was a nut, and she came within nine points of winning. In a district that Donald Trump carried by 22, and Mark Greene, the Republican incumbent, had won by 21.

So we got to, yes, the more nuts they nominate, the worse off they're going to be. And the question is: how stupid are they going to be between now and the general election of next year in their primary? War with Carl Rowe, because there is a divide on the right, too, and I want Carl to offer his analysis on that. This new thing that they did with maybe it's not so new. Carl Rove knows exactly what it's like.

For a another party. To take an issue and try to get your eye off the ball and try to beat that issue to death. And I remember it was the 21 words and a State of the Union address. And we weren't talking about anything else for the longest time, yet there were so many important issues. The Democrats have been successful and they're trying to do it again from the Epstein files, in my view.

And now they're trying to do it with the double-tap hit on a Venezuelan boat. More on that in a moment. Brian, Kilmicho. Illuminating, intriguing, inculcating. I know some of these words.

It's Brian Kilmead. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. This meltdown inside of MAGA, where you have the, you take the 10 most powerful people, all of whom could be massive assets to the president, and they spend almost every day infighting with each other in these awful allegations. And if you watch any of the MAGA media over the weekend, just terrible, gross kind of accusations against each other about their sexuality and their commitment to America, what Tucker Carlson is doing, whether or not he's going to buy a place in the Middle East.

And that was the base of the party. That was the power of the party. And when you start to see those members of MAGA turn on each other and then turn on the president, it just takes away one of his weapons in terms of. Getting Republicans to fall in line. But I end where we began, which is until I truly see Republicans force his hand, I think it's rhetoric and I think it's yes, it's indicative that they're willing to say a couple of things, mild things against the President.

But let's see if they really force him to release that video when Pete Hackseth doesn't want to and the President doesn't want to.

So I've got two things to talk about. But first, Carl Rove, tell me about Jim Vanderhey's reporting. He's right, by the way. All you do is read social media. The Tucker Carlsons, the Candace Owens, the Tim Dillons, I guess, fighting with the more traditional Republicans, the horrible things they're saying about Charlie Kirk and the assassination, and what's true and what's not true.

Um your thoughts about what's happening on the right.

Well, this is not helpful to the President's agenda, not helpful to the President, and it is not in keeping with, I think, the values of the Republican Party or the MAGA movement. This idea that, for example, Israel is inconsequential and that we ought to step away and the stuff that goes with it. Candace Owens. Anti-Semitic. I mean, it's like I mean, it's unbelievable that the the you know, it's I I think I'm listening to Father Coughlin in the nineteen thirties and he's blaming the depression on the Jews.

And and and some of this other stuff is just uh uh amazing to me. Yeah, like and again, not to pick on her, but it she's one of the most obvious ones. Uh her attacks on, you know, uh Turning Point Killed Charlie Kirk. And they fired back for Louisiana. Yeah, and then that the wife of the president of France is a man.

I mean, it's like absurd things. And what happened to Tucker Carlson, for God's sake? I mean, if you are a supporter of Israel and a Christian, you're engaged in heresy, he says. I mean, and he takes a second-rate so-called public historian who says Winston Churchill is responsible for World War II, and Adolf Hitler's destruction of six million Jews was a mismanagement problem. I mean, they just didn't have the resources to crazy.

And you saw Douglas Murray, I think, one of the most telling moments when Douglas Murray agreed with Joe Rogan and his comedian, I forgot his name, who came out and said genocide in the Gaza. And Douglas Murray went with them with facts and Oxford background. And this is the background. This is it. Have you been there?

No, I haven't, but this is what I think. And the pictures that you have.

So you saw the ultimate, if anyone could see this on Joe Rogan, who brought an expert with him who pretty much was against Douglas Murray, one of the smartest people we both know, or for me at least. Yes. And he was my lead guest over the weekend.

So. There's a real concern, Mark Levin fighting with these guys. And I'm torn because I'm great friends with, I think I'm really good friends with Tucker, but I just don't agree with anything he's saying. Yeah. Look, I think the difference is this is happening in the Congress and it's happening in conservative media, the difference between actual leaders, thought leaders in the case of the media, actual leaders in Congress, and performance artists.

And these are people who are looking for more clicks, more subscribers. And yeah, and I mean, look, when you go out there and say the wife of the President of France is a man, when there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever, that is a demented mind that is just simply trying to get more attention. But do you think that this lawsuit is going to result in the exposure? The statement, remember uh it bankrupt Alex Jones. I I I hope so.

There has to be a consequence for people who know. I mean, look at think about it. She says the entire space program is a myth. We did not land a man on the moon. It was all contrived.

It was on a back lot in Hollywood City. Did we go five times? It's five or six times. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's all phony. It's all phony. And I mean, people can get away in the podcast era and the Internet era and the social media era with saying the most extraordinary things. I don't know what you cut off because I know we're going to have one more segment. But so, what does it mean politically?

I knew what the Tea Party meant for traditional conservatives. I knew what the socialists mean to typical liberal Democrats. But what does this podcast lane mean for Republicans?

Well, first and foremost, it's a lost opportunity. We're talking about, you know, should we release the Epstein files? And is the wife of the president of France a man or a woman? And is there an international Jewish conspiracy controlling the government of the United States rather than talking about the things that matter to the people who are up for grabs in the 2026 midterm elections? That's the biggest thing.

But the second thing is it shows the rot in the conservative movement today that these kind of people are tolerated. We cannot allow anti-Semitics and cranks. To become the face and the front of the conservative movement in America. And nobody's more anti-Semitic than this guy, Nick Fuentes. Yes, he's a Nazi who proclaims his admiration for Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

He was happy when the two of them did their deal in 1939. And yet he's got more clicks than anybody. Crazy. Back at the moment. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. Well, I say that if you don't have a better plan, then Get on board with ours, but doing nothing is not an option, right? I mean, I've heard so many people in the Republican Conference rail on the Affordable Care Act, rail on Obamacare, rail on the premium tax credits. And if you want to criticize something, that's okay as long as you have a better alternative. They have never offered a better alternative.

We went down this healthcare path my freshman term. I voted against the repeal of the ACA. I thought the replacement was insufficient. It was hastily put together, not well thought out. And here we are, you know, what, eight years later?

Um and they still have not been able to put together an articulable plan that's going to work for everyday Americans.

So that is Brian Fitzpatrick, the congressman who's marrying Jackie Heinrich, and that's a side note, but he's in the problem solvers caucus with Josh Gotheimer, who's a Democrat in New Jersey. They worked out some plans where they extend the benefits for a year, they change the different eligibility causes, they work hard on fraud, and they try to get that, I believe they try to get the deductible down. Carl Rover, our guest. Carl, do you believe Republicans have to do something? When it comes to the subsidies that are evaporating, legislatively, they are supposed to evaporate in the next few weeks.

Do you think they have to do something before the holidays? Or should they just say, not my problem, I never liked Obamacare, I'm not fixing it? No, they've got to do something, and they probably won't succeed because time is not on the side of anybody. But it will be taking a first step will be important to setting a direction and a basis for conversation with Democrats about it. There's another plan.

It was put forth by Senator Bill Cassidy, too. Tom Tillis is also playing a role in that. There looks like there were three ducks. I like that one, incidentally. The Bill Cassidy one.

Yeah. Yeah. Why don't we hear from Bill Cassidy? Here's 2023. If we can get to a framework.

where they give the American people a choice. They can stay with the policy they have with a $6,000 deductible, or they can go to another policy with a lower premium. And money in a health savings account for them to purchase that which they do. The rest is just political decisions. What dial do you turn here, dial do you turn there, in order to get your votes?

I think we can do this if people are of our goodwill. I say we don't want a Republican solution, a Democratic solution. We want an American solution that works for Americans. If my Democratic friends believe that, we can do it. I know you've always liked the health savings accounts, and you have one, right?

Yeah, I had one before I got on Medicare, but you don't need one once you get on Medicare.

So, so people can put that money instead of going to insurance companies. Can you do that legislatively? Yes, you can. Because look, this is really important to younger people. Because one of the flaws, the big flaw in the Affordable Care Act is we used to have, this is going to be really wonky.

I just want to warn your listeners. You used to have in private insurance, what were called five bans. And that was they looked at the ages and said, what is the likelihood that you're going to need to call out insurance? And the Affordable Care Act said, we're not going to have five bans, we're going to have three.

Now, what that practically means is, is that. Younger people who have less call-on insurance are paying more than they should in order to subsidize older people who do call on their insurance more. That's what happens when you collapse it from five to three.

So, if we have health savings accounts and fund them, what that allows younger people to do is to say, you know what, I'm going to get that health savings account, get a couple of thousand dollars a year that I put in that so that I can pay for out-of-pocket medical expenses.

So, if I go to the hospital and I need to have $5,000, you know, rather than having it paid by the insurance company, it comes out of my HSA, that means I pay a smaller premium. The more I can save in that health savings account, the smaller my premium is. And I think that would be a great way to start to get younger people because, look, we got to have the patient back in the system. Right now, the Affordable Care Act is designed to benefit the providers, hospitals, and doctors, and insurance companies. And an afterthought is the human being, is the patient.

Take a look, though, at Medicare Part D, in which the money flows to the senior. They go. Get a certain amount of money that they can then use to buy an insurance policy to meet their prescription drug needs.

Now, that program puts the patient in charge, and what happened? More people signed up for the program. They signed up quicker and they used it more than the economists had thought when the bill was passed. And yet, when the first tenyear window came in, that's the Congress, when they pass a law like that, has to figure out what it's going to cost for the first ten years. It was 40 percent under budget.

Why? Because the patient was in charge, and as soon as the patient was in charge, the company said, how can we give them more for less? That's one of the great things about a marketplace. Imagine what would happen if we had that principle in Medicare, so the patient was in charge, and the patient was saying, what can you do for me? Do better at a lower cost?

So here's the thing. What could you do now? See, I'm optimistic they got something done unless Democrats feel as though they want the issue. But yet they could take it as a win because say, look, I held out, I shut down the government to get these subsidies, they could take it as a win. But some others might say, Wow, I want Republicans to be blamed on affordability because the rates are going up.

They will, but look, if the Republicans go out there and say, you know what, First of all, we're going to keep the subsidies in place.

However, since a quarter of the subsidies now go to families that make 300 percent or more of the median income in America, we put an income cap in there. We put other fraud protections in there. And we did this thing of saying if you want, you can have a health savings account and a lower premium. Those would be winners. And if the Democrats say, you know what, unless you give us continuation of what was supposed to be a temporary expedient during COVID, we need to raise these premiums because we're in COVID and we may have lots more people sick.

That's why we got these things. COVID's gone. You know, the the excuse that we had for passing this incredibly expensive program has now dissipated.

So I want you to see I don't know if you saw this story. The GAO was trying to find out what was going on with Obamacare.

So they made up some phony applications. Twenty-four applications for Obamacare. Fake people, if these are fictitious people, twenty-three were approved. 18 enrollees were still covered as of September, suggesting the exchange and insurers did not verify information even after enrollment. The subsidies paid to insurance companies for those 18 applicants totaled more than $10,000 per month, equivalent to $6,700 annually subsidy for each enrollee per year.

GAO says in some cases we were not prompted to provide documentation to verify an applicant's identity, no Social Security, no problem. In another instance, Obamacare Exchange notified us that it had verified the applicant's estimated income based on documentation we submitted. They don't even exist. They never submitted any documentation. You tell me there's no fraud there.

Yeah, no, look, remember, we got two levels here. We got brokers who call you up and say we'll help you with your Medicare application, and we've got the insurance companies. Where is the incentive for them to say, hey, that person doesn't exist, the government shouldn't be giving us money for them? There's no incentive. Just honesty.

And just honesty. And look, the companies are run by honest people, but if there's no incentive for them to put money into extensive efforts to verify every applicant, everybody who signs up, they're not going to do it. Right.

So this is a huge problem. I'm going to go against Kaul Rove. I think they get something done.

So they're going to office John Thune's going to put out something and it's going to fail. It's a Democratic proposal. And then it's going to be, let's roll up our sleeves and get something done before Christmas with the Christmas deadline. Yeah. I'm with you that they're going to get something done.

I'm just dubious they're going to be able to get it done before my birthday. When's your birthday? December 25th. Oh, is it on Christmas? Yes, it is.

I did not know that. Yes, my middle name is Christian, therefore. How do you always have to take a back seat? Oh, come on. Look, it didn't make me bitter that when I was a child, people would say, we gave you something special for birthday and Christmas.

No, you didn't. You gave me the same roadblasty fire truck you're going to give me anyway. You're over it, though. But as an adult, it's great to have been born on Christmas. I guess so.

That is so funny. In fact, next week we're going to celebrate my birthday. You can come to the birthday party. I would love to do that. Fried chicken.

How many people? Fried chicken. Yeah, fried chicken. It's an annual treat. Who's your chef?

Trump? No, no, no, no, no, no. No, local in Austin. We'll have about 50 people over for the birthday party at our house. All right, RFP will not approve.

Fried checks. Who cares? All right, so I want to talk about Venezuela. You've seen a lot of people say, well, this reminds me. I watched Jon Stewart last night and he goes, this is a rack all over again.

He rolled in Rumsfeld. He rolled in Dick Cheney. And he said, this is going to be easy. This is no problem. The President taking out these drug boats, moving towards pressuring Maduro to go.

I think if Amaduro stays, the president could look, actually, make him look more powerful. He has to go. How do you turn up the pressure enough to get him out to Turkey or Qatar or somewhere?

Well, I hope there's a plan. I hope that both Rubio and Hagseth and their people are working closely with the White House to execute that plan. Look, it's our hemisphere. The President's right. This is a problem for us.

George H.W. Bush took out the Yeah. Panama, because he was threatening our interests in the Panama Canal and getting in line with our enemies.

Well, what do you think this guy in Venezuela has been doing? And remember, Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. They could be a prosperous country like they once were, and they could be a strong ally of the United States.

Now, their oil is not as easy to refine as oil from the Middle East or the Texas-Permian Basin. But in fact, do you know where the refineries are that refine the Venezuelan oil? On the coastline of Texas, Corpus Christi in particular. Citco, which was there, that's where they would send their oil to be changed into more usable material.

So, this guy's a bad guy. He's a terrible guy. He's an illegitimate leader. We would not only be able to, in theory, the rightful leader should take over. They have a 100-day plan, a 100-day military plan, a 10-day security plan.

Hopefully, we're reviewing that. CIA is on the ground, but it would also take down Cuba. And Cuba knows it. Yes. Because Venezuela provides almost all the energy for that horrible island that could be great, and they're providing the security for Maduro.

That's correct. Having said all that, I think you got to go in and you got to do a deal with the military. Whoever's got the military, because the people don't have guns, but whoever's got the military will stay. This next step is critical. Yeah, backing us backing the domestic Venezuelan opposition is critical because it's they who have to say to the military: the United States has got our back.

And when we come back into power in the elections that you know were fraudulent, when we come into power. We'll be able to work with you. They need to hear that more from the Venezuelan opposition than they hear from us. But we've got to give the full backing. I think the president has done a good job at that.

Think about it. The leader of the opposition has won the Nobel Peace Prize. What a courageous woman. She's going to go to the United States. She is a very good speaker, and she is extremely pro-American.

We don't have a minute left, but this whole double-tap investigation, does it remind you of when they've had the 26 words on the State of the Union? This is not, to me, an even issue, but the Democrats are holding on to it like it's life and death. Yeah, I think most Americans say, what are you talking about? It just goes right by them. Were there a target or not a target?

Yeah. Right?

So the double-tap going back. Did Barack Obama ever miss the first time? I believe he had 567 strikes on various al-Qaeda. And sometimes, sadly, there were families of the terrorists in the car. Yeah, well, Democrats can't get out of their own way.

So, how do you stop the cadence of this? We're seeing it again. Think we need to worry about it. Just, you know, guess what? No tape release.

We're not talking about it. Yeah, well, I'm not even adverse to releasing the tape because the tape is going to, apparently, according to the briefing given to the Congress, it shows these guys trying to grab the drugs floating around, get the boat back, get them into the boat, and head on. And I mean, I love it. They say, well, the boat was meant to go to Suriname.

Well, where, you know, great, wonderful.

So, in other words, you admit these are drug runners, and what you're concerned about is that rather than going to Miami, it was going to a boat, a Suriname boat.

Well, where do you think it was going to go from there? You have to, I want to, I want to, the healthcare thing, you got points of view. Yeah. To me, it's right or wrong. Democrats are actually calling them shipwrecked.

They're shipwrecked. Why did they get shipwrecked? Because they're moving drugs and we bombed them out. When they say that, I think of these poor little guys standing on a little island with one coconut tree, and they're writing, you know, rescue us in the sand with, and it's just ridiculous. And though it's been great, though, it's not ridiculous having Carl Roe for 45 minutes.

That is awesome. Carl, thanks so much. I am so honored. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas.

Happy birthday. Happy Hanukkah. Yes, and thank you. Thank you for the birthday greeting. I'm going to find out if there's more to know when we come back, and then I'm going to go do outnumbered because America wants to see me on TV again.

Yeah, you know, they haven't said it, but I feel it. And then you need to be in the center of it. If you don't mind. In the center of it. If you don't mind.

Surrounded by four great anchors. Exactly. Thank you, Carl Rowe. Back in a moment. You listen to Brian Kill Me Joe.

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The biggest shred of the day. has to go to the college football committee search team for the horrific 12-team panel they assembled. But if you have any clue, You put Vanderbilt, you put Notre Dame in the tournament. There's no way I want to watch Tulane, who lost 45 to 10 to Mississippi, play Mississippi again. I think some of these people need to be fired on this committee.

There ain't no way they should come up with 12 teams like this. Use some logic, have some extenuating circumstances, and do what's right. This is ridiculous. John Gruden weighing in on the college playoffs. Joe Theisman did on Fox and Friends with us today.

Welcome to Board of Know everybody. I'm going to be on outnumbered in a few minutes. But just before I do that, I mean, he's upset that Notre Dame is out. He's upset that Alabama is in, that James Madison is in, that Tulane is in, and they had a committee picket. And, you know, there's people who are philosophical and say, well, if you have 18 playoffs, 9 and 10 are always angry, or 13 and 14 are always angry.

This does seem kind of ridiculous that Notre Dame is not in it, but in the playoffs, this is going to see what's going to happen. Ultimately, college football has got bigger problems, and that is the NIL, the portal, the money being paid, the lack of regulation. This just adds to it. But yet, people can't get enough. Ratings are through the roof.

Revenue is strong. Let's find out if there's more. Ah. Jalen Hurts becomes the first NFL player recorded history with two turnovers on the same play in a losing effort against the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night Football. I recorded it on my iPhone.

Hurts? Pick it up. Intercepted, and now the ball's out. And Hertz ends up with the ball in his hands. He fumbles.

Chargers ball. Troy Dye ends up on the ball and what a mess of a play. Unbelievable, the first time ever two turnovers in the same play. The Chargers go on to win 22-19 in overtime. Philadelphia turned over the ball five times between them and Kansas City last year's Super Bowl finalist.

Doesn't seem like either one is playing playoff ball.

Next, David Spade slams the mall, Christmas tree, mall tree lighting ceremony for avoiding the word Christmas. Listen. Christmas is taking a little bit of a beating lately. It is December. I saw the other day there was a tree lighting ceremony for the Christmas tree in some dopey mall.

I don't know. Yeah, sure. But it said tree lighting ceremony, and they were careful not to say the word Christmas during the whole ceremony. No.

Why? So it's just a tree, and you go, but. To consciously avoid that, then what is the tree for? A December to remember? Is it a Lexus dealership?

Why do we have. For the whole month? Isn't it for Christmas? Sunday's episode of Spade and Dana Carvey's Fly on the Wall brought that up. But, David, this is some of the insanity we've been talking about for the last 10, 15 years.

He's just getting into it now. Goody pointed it out. It is nuts.

Next, Paramount going hostile in a bid for Warner's Brothers, challenging the offer by Netflix, who thought they were going to walk away with it and then get Donald Trump to approve it. But Netflix buying Warner Brothers would likely kill movie theaters forever. Paramount offering more money. Listen to Donald Trump talk about. The potential Warner Brothers deals.

I know the companies very well. I know what they're doing, but I have to see. I have to see what percentage of market they have. We have to see the Netflix percentage of market paramount. The percentage of more.

I mean, none of them are particularly great friends of mine. Yeah, I want to do what's right. It's so very important to do what's right. Right, and the movie industry matters a lot. This is one time in which Hollywood, I think, is going to lobby the president to stay away from the Netflix deal because it would literally kill theaters and bolster streaming, no matter what Netflix says.

But what do you think?

Next. Uh real quick, ABC has extended Jimmy Kimmel's contract. for another year. After last year, them canceling and then bringing him back. It looks like he's got at least one more year.

As ratings still aren't very good. Quick note: Philip Rivers, 44 years old, coming out of retirement to hopefully pay for the Colts again. Amazing. Brian Kilmicho, onto outnumbered.