Trump: If Maduro plays tough, it will be the last time

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We have a massive armada forum. By far the biggest we've ever had in South America. He could do whatever he wants. It's all right. If he plays tough, it'll be the last time he's ever able to play tough.

That is true. President Trump showed down in Venezuela as Maduro's exit seems imminent, and Trump turns up the pressure, taking tankers, shutting down air sparries. We look at the stakes, and that's really Venezuela's front and center.

Now, Democrats are saying, what's going on here?

Well, we know this has been a problem since Hugo Chavez took over and set up his dictatorship, kicked our oil companies out. For people who say this is about oil, no, it's about the power in Central and South America. Why would we allow a brutal dictator to stay in power while he's controlled by China, Russia, Hezbollah, and Iran? We wouldn't, but we did, and we are. But not this president.

He doesn't bring it up and say, I want all these bad guys out of my backyard, but that's what he's saying. A well is stopping the drugs that flow from Colombia to Venezuela, then out to the Atlantic and the Pacific. Cut one. What's your answer? There's no answer.

He can do whatever he wants. Massive armada formed, the biggest we've ever had. And by far the biggest we've ever had in South America. He can do whatever he wants. It's all right.

Whatever he wants to do, if he wants to do something, if he plays tough, it'll be the last time he's ever able to play tough. And of course, he's got to get out. I mean, come on. The U.S.

Southern Command said at the direction of the Secretary of War, the Joint Task Force conducted a lethal kinetic attack again. Of a low-profile vessel operated by the designated terrorist organization in international waters. Blew up another one. We're up at like 89 at least dead, countless bags of cocaine just floating in the water. How much longer are we going to put up with this?

The pressure to topple Maduro is on. The president's got to get rid of him. He's got to go. There's 28 million people there. They live on about a dollar a week.

They got an aging fleet of about 20 commercial aircraft. We basically said, don't even try to put them into the sky. They have an S-400 system, which Israel already showed the world how to beat.

So this guy's got to be done.

Now, the question is: what happens after? And how are we going to get to that point?

So, Victoria Coates used to be the deputy national security advisor for Trump in the first term, cut three. I think this is about protecting the American people. That's the bottom line. And what we have these cartels out of Venezuela doing is running drugs, running weapons, running people into the United States that threaten America. And that's why the President wants to pay attention to this, wants to get after this situation, because this isn't a normal sort of criminal activity that you can use law enforcement to get after.

These cartels are connected to the government of Venezuela. And so on the one hand, he's going after the flow of drugs, but also the flow of illegal oil. American Major Chevron still deals with Venezuela. Those are legal shipments.

Some people on the right are also getting worried. Oh, what are we doing this? Why are we trying to get involved in other countries?

Well, we just it's in our national interest to do this. People are kind of burned because from Iraq and Afghanistan, they're burned because of tactics. There were sound reasons to go in. And if anyone thinks that Iraq, not to get too far off on a tangent, was going to be fine without us, you weren't paying attention at all. You have no clue that he was about to rattle the cage of Saudi Arabia.

Believe it or not, an ally, we would have probably gotten hit, we had it gotten involved. He was also rattling the cage of taking back Kuwait. And he was in the process of getting weapons of mass destruction and reconfiguring his nuclear program. Here's Mike Pompeo: why Venezuela's got a flip and what it means for other nations in the area, including something that a country, an island, that's giving us a problem since the 60s. Cut seven.

The Cubans continue to guard Maduro. That's been a long-standing practice. We shouldn't forget Cuba. The economy in Cuba also is very brittle. And so the combination of tool sets, right?

At sea, we could close the airspace over Venezuela, make it very difficult for anybody to get in or out with anything. Those are the kind of things that take all the foreign exchange dollars away from Maduro, which is what's been propping him and the Cubans up for so many years.

So, Cuba is already paying a huge price economically. They're not getting their oil. They lost 80 million barrels of oil. That was going their direction two weeks ago, and now more is being siphoned from them. And keep in mind that 80 plus percent of all the oil from Venezuela goes to China.

Think about the discounted oil they're getting from Russia. Think about the discounted oil they're getting from Venezuela. It's 15% of all they take in. Imagine we have to compete economically with them. Imagine if they had to pay full freight or pay for our oil.

That wouldn't be good for them.

So we'll keep an eye on some of those hotspots. The other thing is, we're looking at what's happening with the Russia Ukraine talks.

Now I'm getting mixed opinions about how they're going and who's at fault.

So in Miami, they're meeting with both sides.

So Vladimir Putin Contradicted U.S. claims that the three days of peace talks in Miami have gone well, calling on Washington proposals meant to end Russia's war with Ukraine rather unconstructive.

However, One of his envoys, Kirill Dmitriev, says that they've advanced forward on the peace process. Yuri Yashkov, Putin's top foreign policy aide, said most of the peace plan proposals the U.S. offered were put forward by Ukraine and Europe and would not suit Russia. Really? We pretty much did it ourselves and took a lot of ridicule because of it.

And people said it was too much for Russia. Yuri Yoskarov, the same guy, Putin's top aide, said most of the peace proposals are something that they've already discussed. They're still for the maximalist principles.

So, Josh, excuse me, Karill Dmitriev continues to meet with Steve Witkoff.

Now, Dmitriev is rumored to have been the one to tell Witkoff: hey, the pre-Russia is looking to do a deal. Let's have a meeting in Alaska. That fell flat on its face because the president got bad information, I believe, from Witkoff and I believe from Dmitriev.

So it looks like we're dealing with a guy who doesn't have much power in the administration. But the good news is, Vladimir Putin is not doing well. There's more and more reports in the New York economy, according to the New York Times, the Russian economy about to break. The economy says the country's position is weaker than ever because the Kremlin has burned through most of the cash reserves and the borrowed money that fueled its wartime spending surge. The outlook is said to only worsen because we've effectively put on sanctions on their two behemoth oil major companies, Rosneft and Luke Oil.

They're increasing pressure on the budget.

So now Moscow is forced to accept steeper discounts of more than $20 per barrel. Keep in mind it's $57 per barrel on the market.

So between $20 and $35.

So they're not getting full freight. That is fueling their economy. Their economy is struggling. Don't let Vladimir Putin tell you. He is firmly in charge.

Also, let it be known that a key general was just assassinated in Moscow. Don't let anyone kid you. That freaks all these guys out. When they have their car explodes or they get attacked by a scooter in their own country, in their own capital. When we come back, I want to talk about this with Lieutenant Colonel Alan West.

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One of the failures was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I think it was an obvious failure. I think 13 Marines are dead. I think that there was a better way to do it. And I think that, you know, I can blame it on his generals.

I can blame it on the people the way in which we did it, but my dad always knew this also: the buck stops with him. I think that that was a failure. I don't think leaving Afghanistan. I think leaving Afghanistan was the right thing to do. I think that, in terms of the 20 years of blood that your brothers gave for an endless war in $8 trillion, is that there is a never-ending lust to continue to sell material and our blood, sweat, and money to a country that has never been anything but a killing ground for empires.

So, regardless of whether you believe that or not, the execution of the withdrawal resulted, I think, in and by the way, you can blame part of it on Trump and that he let all those people out of the prison and television, but you know what? But it stops with the president, and that's what he said. That was a mistake. A couple of things. Of course, it was a mistake.

That was Hunter Biden on the Sean Ryan show. Of course, it was a mistake. But it was all coming. It's not the buck stops with you, it was your idea. Your dad's idea.

The generals recommended against it. They said, keep a shell of a, keep some troops there. Also, they said the NATO wanted to stay. You never even informed NATO that you were leaving, number one. Number two is that it wasn't a matter of us people making money off us staying in Afghanistan.

It was the question of this: if we leave, what'll happen? And we have a perfect opportunity to observe China, Iran, Pakistan, right in that region. And Russia, what did we do? We left. We left everything.

We left our equipment. We left Bagram Air Base. That would have been a perfect perch to keep an eye on the terrorists that are now taking over Afghanistan, led and allowed by the Taliban. That's why you do it. It's not because we could sell more tanks to ourselves.

It wasn't so we can get more guns and ammo. It wasn't so people can die and we can make money off their funeral. What is wrong with you? Cut 42. Excuse me.

I want to go to Lieutenant Colonel Alan West on that Dallas County Republican Party chair, American Constitutional Rights Union executive director. Colonel, he's still out of his mind, isn't he? Yeah, he's totally out. It's my Merry Christmas. It's a pleasure to be with you, Brian.

You know, I spent two and a half years in Afghanistan, and all you have to say is it was a complete debacle. And my father made the wrong decision along with the Vice President Kamala Harris, but his father also made the wrong decision when he was vice president for Barack Obama with the unilateral withdrawal out of Iraq. And that created a void that gave us ISIS that we're still contending with to today.

So those are two huge strikes against Joe Biden, who, of course, when Barack Obama pulled out of Iraq, said that that was going to be one of the greatest foreign policy decisions ever. And I think it was Secretary of Defense Gates said that Joe Biden has never been on the right side of any foreign policy decision. And you definitely can see that coming out of the Afghanistan decision he made. And so Hunter Biden, once again, I don't know why you think he has any credibility to talk about such an incredible, horrible debacle of a strategic military decision. And by the way, he did not pay the price of the midterms.

You know, the House flipped, but just barely, and the Senate held.

So he thought, hey, country still loves me. I'm going to stick around. They're going to go try for two more years. And he was falling apart already, but the media wasn't calling him out. Not that I want to go relive those last two years.

And then he just jammed a bunch of spending down our throats. Think about it. He just put a whole bunch of money, $6 trillion into a money cannon and just shot it out. And now we're all dealing with it. The devalued dollar.

Yeah, that's one of the things that you have to also blame the media on because I never heard the word affordability when Joe Biden was in office. And they definitely did not talk about the Afghanistan debacle. But now all of a sudden everyone's upset because we're blowing up narco-criminal terrorists who are trying to bring fentanyl and other drugs to kill more Americans, which, oh, by the way, no one said anything about Joe Biden when you had over 200,000 Americans losing their lives to fentanyl.

So this whole media machine and this whole progressive left machine, they're all complicit. They're all part of this. And I just hope and pray that the American people stop, take a deep breath and look and see that these people do not prioritize the American people. These people make wrong and bad decisions for our domestic policy, for our foreign policy, for our national security policy.

So when we look at what's happening in Venezuela, what do you think the next step is? Where's another pressure point that we could put into play that would make a Maduro make up his mind to leave?

Well, again, you look at all the economic means that you can put the pressure on him. And I think the other thing is that we start to not allow the travel of Venezuelan citizens, some of them, to come into this country. We have to put sanctions on any foreign accounts that some of the members of his regime have.

So it's about continuing that economic pressure. I totally agree with us seizing those oil tankers because this is illicit oil, and that puts the pressure on China and Russia and Cuba and some of the others, Iran, that separates them from Venezuela as well.

So as long as we continue to isolate Venezuela economically and we use those military means what we have with the drug boats and going after these narcoterrorists that he harbors, I think that that is going to cause others to eventually say, we don't want this guy around and you got to leave because you're affecting our way of life. Colonel, what's our responsibility the next day? Let's say Maduro's gone. We know we got that exile, that the government's in exile ready to go. But what do you think America's responsibility is after that?

I think America's responsibility is to make sure that the Venezuelan people can make the right decision for their future, not us going in and trying to put anyone in place. And if the right type of leader with the right type of vision, like we've seen in other South American countries, step up, then let's start to re-engage them economically, let's start to re-engage them diplomatically, and let's help that new leadership to be able to be successful. Yeah, I mean just I don't think we need to be necessarily on the ground though, right? No, we don't necessarily have to be on the ground. Again, it's about setting the conditions, and I think that's what we're doing now: setting the conditions for Nicholas Maduro to say, I'm isolated, I'm losing my support, and help this new leadership to be able to step in and assume the control of that country.

All right, so let's talk about 28. J.D. Vance got an endorsement from Turning Point, and he seems pretty focused already on who his opponent will be, CUT 22.

Now the Democrats are always talk already talking about 2028. And it looks like they're going to nominate a California Liberal. Who's presided? A California liberal who's presided over rolling blackouts, open borders, and unchecked violent gangs. They're just trying to settle on whether it's going to be Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris.

You think he's right? Do you think in the end, even though it's a year and a half ahead of time, do you think in the end it's going to be one of them? I think that they're up there on the top of the list. Without a doubt, Gavin Newsome. I don't think so much Tomlin Harris.

I think also you could have a wild card like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or even maybe a J.D. Pritzker. But that's beyond the point. They're all cut from the same mold. They all come from places that have failed policies.

So we have to be very astute in talking about those policies, but also we have to recognize that image, that charisma that they will try to bring, like what we saw with Zorah Mamdani, when everyone just fell in love with his image, just the same as everyone fell in love with Barack Obama's image and paid no attention to his policies.

So we have to be very circumspect about that because leftism runs on image. They don't run on message. They don't run on policy. I hear you. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, your mission now is to have a fantastic Christmas with you and your family.

Can you accomplish that? I will accomplish and I do accept that mission. And you too, Brian, God bless, and God bless everyone out there in the listening audience. Merry Christmas. All right, Colonel, I'll talk to you again soon.

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So Frank Bizignano is in studio. He's the 18th Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. But that's not enough for him. He also is the CEO of the IRS, managing both agencies at the same time and doing exceedingly well. And Frank, you never seem rushed, you never seem stressed.

Now that you've, I guess, got appointed in May, here we are in December. What is it been what has it been like? Oh, it's just been uh kinda. A really, really great experience, you know. The leadership of President Trump, I think, is unparalleled.

I think the cabinet's the best cabinet in the history of America. Um and to be able to play a role in serving uh both Social Security and IRS. Has been probably the highlight of my career. Yeah, let's talk about Social Security. Right away, you came in, Elizabeth Warren's breathing down your neck and saying wait times are too long.

People get on the phone, they can't get a call back, and you tackled this head-on. Yeah. How did you first tackle it, make it more efficient so people can get a call in maybe after five minutes instead of 45? You know, it's interesting. Uh, the company I had run did uh Really?

4x the amount of calls that Social Security received, and I was always an engaged operator, and I went and looked at our technology and our processes and how we thought about it. And the team at IRS, at Social Security, Came along fabulously. You know, we have great career employees who wanted to win. And we took what maybe was the high in fiscal year 24 of 40 minutes down to seven minutes for waiting. And did you put in pedestrian in pedestrian terms how you did it?

Yeah, we analyzed the phone calls. I call it process engineering. We analyzed the phone calls, built some bots that would take care of simple things. We rolled out a phone system to all the field offices. And that's not in this audit, but phone calls went down 30%.

We built staffing models to be able to maximize. We did something we like to call segmentation.

So we had specialists on topics. And we ended up answering 65% more calls than we did the prior year with higher customer sat. And obviously, Senator Warren didn't like that result.

So she wanted to go on the airway. and say it's not true, it's wrong. We brought in a career executive to talk to her about it and She said she didn't understand what we were saying, so We conclude we were having an audit, and the audit reports exactly everything she was told, exactly everything. An independent audit. An independent audit by the Inspector General.

So you think that Elizabeth Warren would say, great job, Frank? No, I think it's become clear to me. The idea is to say that we are cutting Social Security when we're improving Social Security. The President's leadership has given a platform to protect and preserve Social Security and delivering the best service. We had another instance where.

one third of the people who come into field offices want replacement cards. The nine out of ten people are under sixty five who are doing that.

So we're digitizing it. Do it online, do it over the phone, and that's going to take down field office volumes. People are like, they're going to cut field, you know. You know, the Democrats want to say they're going to cut Social Security. They want to have less field office.

No, we're going to make service better, faster, quicker, and the way Americans operate. We will always have field offices, we will always answer the phone, and we will be a digital-first organization. We have 97, 98, probably today, million digital users. We're going to have a bold goal of 200 million.

So, now for Social Security recipients, the president famously said on the campaign trail he's going to give seniors a tax break and he's going to give no tax on tips.

So, with seniors, there's only so much you could do legally.

So, you're going to do this in a tax break, right? For people receiving Social Security, how? Up to $6,000 deduction for Social Security recipients.

So that's, you know, there's a grid, but call it $6,000 for Social Security recipients. And that's a huge tax benefit. And you're not going to feel that till March, April, if you apply right away when the year changes, right? It's going to take a lot of time. Yeah, it'll be on your tax.

It'll be on people's tax returns. I mean, we're going to, you know, one beautiful bill is going to cause the best tax refund season ever. The benefits are off the charts. No tax on tip. Seniors, you know, the Trump account is an outstanding wealth.

generator, if you think about it. A thousand for at sixty years old will be five hundred thousand. And what about what about the fact that Ray Dalio has now chimed in? Michael Dell Dell Michael Dell more than chimed in. I think it was six hundred Billion of chiming.

Yeah. Hopefully, people will continue to do that. Yeah. You want a way to give back, but you want to do it in a way that is going to grow something for someone rather than just hand out something. 100%.

I think it was maybe the largest stroke of genius For wealth creation ever done by the president.

So, would Frank, do you have a role in that? Do you have a investment portion of it, or is that something that's going to go through the banks? No, that'll be a process which will be well defined. You know, we have the great form 4547. I love saying that form number, which is the form which you'll apply for Trump accounts on.

That'll all be done through the IRS and coordination. Just for one year?

Well, that'll be for this year's pilot program also to apply. But you don't have to have any income. To have a to have a Trump account. You know, and family and others can contribute. As a way of gifting to a Trump account.

That's awesome. And think about that. You don't really know what to do. We used to give in the 70s, used to get gift certificates. Excuse me, bonds.

You used to get bonds. Use $20. I gave them to nieces and nephews of mine. And then I'd give a share of stock or something like that over time. Yeah, to whip people's appetite and get them involved in the process and understand, make them ask questions.

Well, what does this mean? How do I grow it? What does the stock market do? Frank, one of the things I'd love for someone like you to work with Linda McMahon is get financial literacy in schools. Why don't we learn about this number one item?

Why is there not a push for that? Yeah. Well, I think, I mean, you know, given the career I had before that, we always worked on financial literacy with anybody. I told you to point out. My mother Ran a household on an envelope system to budget, you know, put $2 a month in so I could go to Catholic school.

So I think my mom my mom taught financial discipline very, very well in our household. Let's talk about what the IRS did to help track down the Brown shooter. It turns out they found out, the IRS found out, that he had rented a locker, a storage locker. uh and a storage unit, and that's where he killed himself and found his body. How did that play a role in hunting down?

Hunting him down?

Well, you know, uh... We have heroic Americans all around this government. And many, many I I talked about the woman who ran the phone center and did Herculean work even in the face of Elizabeth Warren criticizing Us. This unit here is a special force. For the whole government, I mean, members of the Criminal Investigation Unit had participated in helping in DC in the surge, in Memphis in the surge, and they're really, really very skilled operators.

They're accountants that and so a few called up who were in the area. And uh I met with them yesterday. The team that actually worked on this and congratulated them and thanked them. From all the ways.

So do they work with the FBI or do they work with FBI, always helping across the board with Homeland Security. The President has created an administration that has great teammates and great team leadership. And Secretary Besant has been off the charts in making them available. Before I got here, and obviously, I follow a lead on that with him. to help.

And so we had people who called up during the shooting and wanted to go there immediately, who were working on that unit. And then subsequently, we were about A dozen who I met with yesterday were all detailed to help on this and you know, how financial. Once the uh the heroic homeless person had uh identified uh suspect It kept moving and progress, and we did legwork for the FBI.

So that's fantastic. I never thought about that, but you did mention IRS agents carry guns. They do investigation.

So, are you what you say, Frank?

So, you made all your money and had your success in the private sector, and maybe there's a view of people in government jobs that they're happy to punch the cock and just be done and get their security. Are you finding that government workers are much more competent and driven than you thought?

Well, I let me say this. My dad was a 44-year Treasury employee that retired from it. He was my role model, and he was the hardest working guy I know.

So I told the employees, both in SSA and at IRS, I have a bias towards government workers because I saw my dad up early in the morning, and today he would be in ICE because that was in Treasury back in the day, post-Homeland Security. But I find an engaged workforce, an engaged leadership, people who want to get the job done. I got great leadership teams, and yeah, I'm positive Parkinson's law sets in sometimes. What does that mean? Parkinson's Law was something I've studied.

1950s economists who studied the UK government and talked about how governments like to leaders like large-scale employees and like to complicate processes.

So I've used it my whole career, and I actually hand out to all of leadership who reports to me the book on Parkinson's Law.

So we could delayer. And increase the spans of control of management. Yeah, Frank Bizignano is with us today. He runs the IRS and he is also running the Social Security Administration. Pretty amazing.

So It always bothered me when Elon walked in and he said, I'm firing all these people. And I thought, wait, they're people.

So I'm not, you know, we sometimes walk in the post office and our life just stops and we see unmotivated people and we think that everybody in the post office is like that. It's just not.

So I hated to round that off like that. And now I'm inspired by the fact that you say people are inspired to be there. But I also hearken back to Teddy Roosevelt. The gay, he, I forgot which president he helped get elected. And they said, what job do you want?

He goes, can you help us out with this bureaucracy that we've got this problem? And they said, well, your career is going to die there because you're never going to be able to move. But he motivated these people. He talked to them like he was their coach. We're going to do this.

We're going to be better. We're going to hit these goals and set out goals. And just because you work for government, it doesn't mean you can't set goals for people. That's all we do. Yeah.

That's all we do. And we go in both IRS and Social Security. We have a weekly operating indicator meeting on the performance of every metric in the business. And it's really the business of government, you know? The business of making proper payments, the business of servicing the American public.

It's all measurable and all, you know, and it cries for technology.

So, Frank, the other thing, I was in Italy last year. And I was just talking to a couple of cab drivers, they had the same story. And they said, well, I go, you know, what's the they go, wi with taxes. You know, people build pools, they don't pay taxes, they don't pay taxes. Like, what do you mean you don't pay taxes?

He goes, No, there's no really enforcement of taxes.

So they have all this money that could be coming in. And they're not paying taxes on it.

So you wonder why their infrastructure is falling apart. No one loves paying taxes, but our society can't roll. If people try to skirt the the system. Yeah, I I like to think about compliance. Right, I think technology AI will be greatly applied across Social Security.

um and across our IRS. We've done a bunch, but we'll do more. But IRS will be very, very, very armed over the next year with the best technology to be pure. and increase compliance and do it in a manner, the objective at IRS is no different than the objective at anything I ever ran. We'd like to increase the top line while increasing Service Right?

Let's be kinder, gentler, more pragmatic. And I think we're probably way kinder than and gentler than people think, but increase compliance and have a higher revenue. All right. We come back a few more m minutes with Frank Bizignano. He's here.

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Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Frank Bizignano is back with us today and he's running the IRS. He gives us some time. That was enough. He's running Social Security.

So, Frank, we talked about the $6,000 people are going to be able to maximize to write off if you're a senior gay Social Security.

Now, Mitt Romney writes an editorial this week, and the headline's interesting. You know, he's very wealthy, his family is. Mitt Romney says, Tax the rich like me. He said, One of the problems is the rich aren't taxed enough. Most of the people you know.

self-made success stories. Do you guys feel like you're not taxed enough? Listen, I've always uh you know, remember I said earlier, my dad uh retired from treasury so we had a deep Affection to the financial system of the country. And, you know, we never thought about anything other than. paying taxes as required by law.

I think when you look at the numbers people pay, they're significant. Not only is it a payment. Isn't the top ten percent paying eight? Yeah, it's significant. It's significant.

It it's I don't you know, I've I I I I can't read it. I've heard from multiple people. I think it's an interesting moment for Mitt to come out. What do you mean by interesting?

Well, it's just like something to say. Right, it's like something to say tax it, you know, tax more to the rich. But we really got to have a great tax system. And what the President did with one beautiful bill will be good for the economy. People are going to get the largest refunds in history.

Uh, you know, I think 94% of the middle class will. fundamentally get an increase here. That's big, and that's important. I think when you look at the stat statistics, one hundred and thirty three million will on average get nine hundred and thirty six. dollars more.

Wow. And that's going to come in the spring. Yes. And that's happening now. And ultimately, it'll probably turn into more income for everyone because their deductions will get changed.

Last minute, big picture.

Well, how do you feel about the next generation of the country not enthralled with capitalism, who feel as though socialism is more attractive? Does that worry you? There's a part of the next generation, right? Allowed. Minority, not a loud majority.

I've governed orgs for a really long time, and I see a lot of talented young people who want to work hard, compete, you know, come from, you know, nothing and want something and have all of it in them.

So I think that will win the day, and I don't believe that we're going to succumb to it. That's why you were Trump. You're optimistic. No, man, I love it. Frank Bizignano, thanks so much for everything you do with the IRS and with Social Security.

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Now, you have so many people who stop by Fox and you just see it until the pouring rain came, and it's pouring right was pouring right now. This hour, we've got a busy hour. Jeffrey Lacks is going to be with us, city college professor, fighting out against his anti-Semitism, pointing out all the wokeness in the cities. But now, uh, it's really out of control as the ADL hits Zora Mamdani with another report charging his transition team with anti-Semitic ties. I mean, basically, 20%.

Of everybody he's hired. And then we'll do a simulcast with Varney and Company. Congresswoman Laurel Lee is standing by, and she's going to be, we're going to be with her in a second out of Florida, but let's get to the big three. Number three. Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea.

What are we talking about here?

Well, let's take a look. The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress, the lowest ever. Look at this. They are 55 points underwater. Their approval rating is south of 20%.

That is Howard Enton of CNN talking about Democrats, 18% approval rating for their congressional efforts. And everyone says, Hakeem Jeffrey says, that's an outlier.

Okay, let's go back to the last time they did the poll in July. It was 19%. Nothing's changed. We're going to talk about what is going on with the 28 contenders and the chances of keeping power in 26. Number two.

There are two parts here. There is price level, and then there's the inflation rate. And the price level just got out of control during the disastrous four years of Biden. That is Scott Besson. Economic Outlook for 26.

New numbers and signs of dramatic fiscal awakening is clear. Also, pitfalls expected. What it means for all of us. Number one. We have a massive armada formed.

By far the biggest we've ever had in South America. He can do whatever he wants. It's all right. If he plays tough, it'll be the last time he's ever able to play tough. That was talking about Maduro, and that's the President of the United States.

Showdown in Venezuela. As Maduro exit seems imminent, hopefully before Christmas, they're taking tanks, shutting down the airspace. We look at the stakes, and we'll talk about Venezuela in a moment. Congresswoman Lee, welcome back with Judiciary and Energy. But just on the surface, are you content with the direction of the pressure we're putting on Maduro?

I am. I think one of the things that President Trump has done that is so important is really reestablished the U.S. as a leader on the world stage and has built respect from other world leaders. And the point here is that if we impose sanctions and don't enforce them, then they end up being totally meaningless. And I think the President and Secretary Hegseth are ensuring that those sanctions do what they were intended to do, that we enforce them, and that that will lead to deterrence down the road from countries that are, you know, problems, dangers around the world.

In the case of Venezuela, we know all kinds of challenges, you know, beginning with the importation of illegal drugs and continuing to their defiance of these kinds of sanctions. You know, what's pretty amazing is that they're able to, for decades now, just to stay in power. Hugo Chavez to Maduro, corrupt election after corrupt election. In comes China, in comes Russia, in comes Iran. incomes Hezbollah, and they're just flourishing there.

I did not know that 80% of their oil is sold to China at a discount, some through these Gulf tankers. And then former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it's not just about Venezuela. Listen, cut seven. The Cubans continue to guard Maduro. That's been a longstanding practice.

We shouldn't forget Cuba. The economy in Cuba also is very brittle. And so the combination of tool sets, right, at sea, we could close the airspace over Venezuela, make it very difficult for anybody to get in or out with anything. Those are the kind of things that take all the foreign exchange dollars away from Maduro, which is what's been propping him and the Cubans up for so many years.

So that does. I mean, in Florida, especially, Congresswoman, you know, Cuba matters. Absolutely. We have an extraordinary community of Cuban exiles that live here in Florida, who, you know, many of whom still have family that lives back on Cuba and into really have suffered at the hands of the regime. This is very important for many Floridians, not just as it relates to Venezuela, but as you point out, this destabilizing force that is affecting the entire world with these alliances and their defiance of sanctions that have been imposed.

So there's a poll done, and there's overwhelming support, and a super majority of President Trump's voters nationally and in key congressional districts support reforming supervision. 80% overall. They introduced, you guys introduced the Safer Supervision Act, received overwhelming support, as I mentioned.

So your thoughts about how this gets implemented, and that's just putting some oversight into every activity, right? Right.

So, supervised release was designed to basically be oversight for individuals who are leaving federal prison, coming back to our communities, which is the vast majority of people who get incarcerated do come back. And it was designed to both promote community safety and also to help these folks reintegrate in a way that is safe and that is accountable. And what this legislation would do is make sure that we're making individualized assessments, that judges are really looking at what was the underlying offense, is this person a danger? How should supervised release be imposed? How should it be conducted?

And really using it on the cases that need that kind of oversight for people who actually are posing a danger. We have seen what happens when criminal justice policies that are not data-driven, that are not common sense, are implemented. It can be absolutely disastrous.

So, what this bill does is really the opposite. It takes us to a place where We need to think about how we're using this tool. And the goals here of community safety and actually supporting that reintegration are very much aligned. When we keep people accountable, when we create incentives, that actually makes our community safer. Right.

I mean, no one wants the prisons just to be overflown and warehousing people, but just letting them out the way New York is doing it, Florida doesn't, and Los Angeles is not keeping anybody safe. Exactly. And we've seen those tragic consequences.

So one of the things that we want to do is ensure that our federal probation officers are devoting their time and their energy to those people who actually do pose a risk of reoffending or those cases that really could pose a significant impact on community safety rather than just being, you know, in every case the same and checking boxes. This would really get back to what is the point of the supervised release and be a great help. And it is supported by all groups that intersect in this in real life.

So everyone from federal law enforcement, federal probation officers, all the way over to the prison fellowship, a lot of the really great groups that work on criminal justice policy like the Reform Alliance, the America First Policy Institute, all of these groups have come together to support this idea because they've seen this in practice and know that this would be. A great improvement.

So we know there's a lot at stake this year in the midterm elections, and history says only three times in 100 years has the President held on to majorities in both Houses on the midterm election. It was Clinton, it was Bush 43 in his first, mid-first term, and it was FDR in one of his terms. Here's Speaker Johnson speaking about what's at stake, Cut 25. This is not your father's Democrat Party anymore. And they want to dismantle the very foundations of our republic and everything that we all stand for and that Charlie Kirk evangelized.

Everything, as has been said here, everything is on the line in the midterms of 2026, and we have much more to do. But if we lose the House majority, the radical left, as you've already heard, is going to impeach President Trump. You agree? After the don't we have impeachment fatigue? Don't they sense that?

Well, I think the speaker is unfortunately is absolutely right there. We've already seen efforts just in the last few months of baseless impeachment allegations against not only President Trump, but also members of his cabinet.

So I do expect that that is what is at stake, that if Republicans lose the majority in the House, that we will spend the subsequent two years chasing after and fighting back against these baseless impeachment allegations. And look, as a former judge, I think it's so important that that tool is used when there is a legitimate basis in law that follows only those circumstances where it is called for, not as a political tool.

So I do think that that's what's at stake. And that should be a real motivator for Republican voters to come out on Election Day. Yeah, just also, if I'm a Democrat, I would say stop the obsession with Trump. Like it or not, he's going to be gone in three years. And all you're going to say is, I never liked him.

That's not much to run on, it doesn't seem. Congresswoman Laurel Lee, have a fantastic Christmas. Thanks so much for your time. Great to see you again, Brian. All right.

Back in a moment. It's Brian Killmade The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. What is with Jake Tapper? He's such a.

I mean, look, I almost got in a fight with Jake Tapper at the Super Bowl in, I forget when it was. I mean, the first Eagles Super Bowl. Not the first, but it must have been. It was shortly after my brother's death. And he had done something that I thought was totally f up.

And I told him I would, if it weren't in front of a lot of people, I would knock him the f out. And this is how much of a f he is. He called my dad and demanded an apology. What? Yeah.

He's a grown f man. He called one of my dad's taffers and he goes and he said, I felt threatened and Hunter owes me an apology. And by the way, I felt incredibly justified. I'm not going to tell this story because it's too convoluted. But just that.

That's who Jake Tapper is. I mean, you know, he talks big, hides behind a pen and a desk. And I don't think that he contributes in any way to the discourse or provides any real journalism whatsoever.

So that's Hunter Biden upset. Probably primarily. I don't know why he was going to fight him, but evidently he was on Sean Ryan's podcast for five hours. You be exaggerating, Allison? No.

I mean, it. It was long. I only got to listen to a few minutes of it, like sort of skimming through it because it only posted, I think, late last night.

So there's other stuff in there, too. Yeah, I mean, who knows what he says, but he doesn't know if he's a Democrat, perhaps, anymore. That's on Jake Tapper. There's more on Jake Tapper. Did they talk about Jake Tapper's book?

Okay, let's listen. Because Jake Tapper wrote the book and pretended as if he just realized that Joe Biden was slipping remarkably and that everybody's been covering it up. CUP 43. Did he write a book about your cognitive decline and released it right at the very end of the episode? Yes, right at the end, like within two weeks of the episode.

Way to jump on the bandwagon, bud. Yeah. You're about three years and six months to late. Yeah, no sources. No on-the-record sources.

No shit. None. Wow. Nobody on the record will go on the record. But, you know, he was certain and he was absolutely this and that and the other thing.

It's just so full of. Anyway. He really came around to the narrative early on that way. I mean, for example, I mean that's for Sean Ryan, I'm to pretend. But does it I don't even know.

Maybe later on he does push back and goes, You know, your dad's losing it. Do you think he's they do have a whole conversation at that too at some point? 'Cause on the YouTube link they have like different sections. They label them so you can see what they discuss. I just haven't gotten through the five and a half hours yet.

But They probably do discuss that. But you realize how fractured they are.

So the Biden people, and there's not many, hate Obama. Because Obama didn't back them and allowed George Cooney to write the editorial to push him and never really endorsed him heavily, even though he basically guided him through the pandemic. election when he beat Trump in 2020. really didn't do anything. You know, he would show up and just overwhelm Joe Biden with star power.

All right. And then at the end, wasn't really helping him and then made sure he exited from the situation. And then Obama, of course, didn't really help Kamala Harrison. It turns out Michelle Obama didn't help Harris. Neither one of them thought Harris was the strongest candidate.

And then you have George Cooney in Biden's. Obviously, he hates George Cooney and George Cooney probably hates Hunter Biden, but who doesn't? Hunter Biden, if he had any self-awareness, would know how much he hurt his dad by his constant drug use, trading on his name, doing these business deals with his name irresponsible while doing crazy crack everywhere he could. But it doesn't matter. Setting up deals, bringing his dad in, and then pretending as if his dad just came in to make sure his son was doing good and didn't say he was a person of influence, Vice President of the United States.

And then You have Obama separate. The Clintons don't talk to the Bidens.

Now you have the Bidens don't talk to Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi's mad at Barack Obama for not stepping up and doing anything.

So she had to step in and tell Joe Biden resign. And then Joe Biden beat them all by just naming Kamala Harris, who was the worst candidate in America. And everybody knew it, probably including Joe Biden. Said, you don't want me, I'm going to make you take her. You're not going to get total.

And see, he also knew at least I'll have some influence. On the rest of this term, as opposed to you bring in Governor Shapiro, and I don't even know the guy, and he's got to do his own thing anyway. But evidently, Joe Biden was thrilled when she picked Governor Waltz because she thought he was extremely funny and educational and interesting to be around. But what a terrible pick we all know that that was.

So we'll see. Hunter Biden now hates every Democrat. He doesn't know if he's a Democrat. That's fine.

So we'll see. I just don't think when you get Joe Biden and Barack Obama together, they're not going to talk. Al Gore doesn't talk to Bill Clinton. I don't think Bill Clinton really Talks to Joe Biden. I don't think Barack Obama and the Bidens are close at all.

So you might say the right has some problems and some fissures, and I guess Dick Cheney and Trump had and George Bush had a little bit of separation at the end, but I think they came together before he passed away about a month ago. But for the most part, George W. Bush is friendly with just about everyone who's ever left, from his dad's generation, from his generation, other Republicans. He's just not part of the Trump group. That's the only thing.

So Uh It's just interesting because if they're ever going to coalesce beside power politics, the one with the most power is Barack Obama. He's the one who can get big crowds and get big money, but he really only does it for himself. If you think about this, too, when Obama was president, the DNC was starved. He took all the money and kept it in his own super PAC, on his own White House. whatever they use for campaign funds.

And he just got he starved out the DNC. When Hillary Clinton went to get the nomination, zero win on it, she basically had to put the DNC on a respirator and fully fund it. At which time we find out Debbie Warsman Schultz was in the tank for her to make sure this guy named Bernie Sanders did not win. But the other story is the economy and where that's going to really decide what's going to happen in the midterm elections. Consumer confidence ticked a little bit up.

GDP is about 3.4%, which I think is very strong. The debt has gone down. We're at $600 billion less money in deficit, even though we should be at zero than when the president took over. Here's Scott Besson. On there's people talking about what we're doing now with inflation, Cut 18, last night.

There are two parts here. There is price level and then there's the inflation rate. And the price level just got out of control during the disastrous four years of Biden. So stated consumer price index was up about 21, 22 percent. Wall Street firm called Strategus has something they call the Common Man Index, which is what do working class families buy?

Groceries, rent. insurance cars. Used cars. That was up about 35%.

So that big price level. Then there's the rate of change. And as we saw this week, President Trump. The whole administration had been working hard to bring down the inflation level.

So that just it.

So I think that's a very good point. You know, he's at 9%.

Well, the next year it grew at 2%.

Well, it's 2% on the top of the 9%, is what he's saying. And Les says, I was looking at. Jared Bernstein and the economic advisor for Joe Biden. They say one way to get prices down is to have a massive recession.

Alright, rather not. But if you have a massive recession, it pushes everything down because people can't afford it. There's a lack of demand.

So the prices come down, especially if you continue with the supply. But Jared Bernstein, he's not recommending it, but he said that's one way to get deflation for money to come down again. That's when people would feel it, but they would only feel it, experience it positively when we came out of that recession. When we come back, Jeffrey Lacks joins us. We'll talk about the problem with education in New York City, Mondami, hiring anti-Semitics at a dizzying rate as he gets set for inauguration day, January 1st.

And guess who's going to be there to swear him in? Bernie Sanders, Mr.

Socialist. The talk show that's getting you talkish. You're with Brian Kilmead. Hey, welcome back, everybody. With me right now is Jeffrey Lacks.

He's a city college professor of law, and you know, he's fighting against anti-Semitism raging in this country, but especially in this city. Jeff, welcome back. Thanks for having me. Merry Christmas, Brian. Yeah, back at you.

Zo Ram Mdani is going to be inaugurated on January 1st, at which time people are looking at who he's naming on his transition team as well as for his cabinet. At last, the ADL is doing a study. At least 20% of mayor-elect Zo Ram M. Donnie's transition committee members have ties to radical, anti-Zionist groups that openly promote terror and harass Jewish people, according to the ADL. Do you back that up?

Oh, absolutely. I mean, the top three CUNY officials at my university, the Chancellor, Rodriguez. Hector Batista, who's a vice-chancellor, and the head of the board of trustees. William Thompson are all on Mamdani's transition team, the three top officials. And CARE just came out, I think, moments ago.

I just saw it on one of my Google alerts, and they declared CUNY on their watch list as being pro-genocidal. That they have too many pro-genocidal faculty members. I'm the number one person. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, they hate me. Roughly eighty of the 400 people named to Mondami's staff, seventeen committees, have a documented history of making or sharing anti-Zionist or anti-Israel statements.

So he doesn't seem to care, right? I loves this. This is what it's all about. Remember, the DSA had a memo that leaked a couple of years ago that showed that they were trying to infiltrate the faculty in the city University of New York. And they had an actual goal of how many faculty members they wanted hired who were part of the DSA.

So for people who don't know how organized this is, this is organized, it's methodical, it is embedded, and it is venomous. I want you to hear what Mandami said in response. I have always spoken out against anti-Semitism and hatred in any form and have made it clear that the commitment I have made to protect New Yorkers, to protect Jewish New Yorkers, is one that I will uphold as the next mayor of this city. And we must distinguish between anti-Semitism and criticism of the Israeli government. The ADL's report oftentimes ignores this distinction and in doing so it draws attention away from the very real crisis of anti-Semitism we see not only just in our city but in the country at large.

So do you think, are you guilty of thinking that criticism of the Being critical of Israel is anti-Semitism?

Well, he's a jackass and he's an anti-Semite, and I can go back just a month.

So he's lying just now. Oh, I don't even have to say he's lying. I can tell you what he did a month ago. Parki synagogue was attacked and harassed by all these horrible anti-Semitic people that were blocking the doorways, which is illegal, to the entrance of the synagogue. And Zora Mamdani, instead of criticizing them, criticized the event that the synagogue was having, criticized the shul-goers because they were talking about Israel in that synagogue.

That is disgraceful. It doesn't have to be my opinion. That is anti-Semitism. That is pure anti-Semitism. It has nothing to do with Israel policy.

It has to do with Americans talking about whatever the hell they want to talk about in their places of worship.

So he could have done more and he did nothing. He did worse than nothing. He condemned the victims.

So th they give you an example.

So let me tell you, let's see if this is anti-Israel. Zion Shakir ansari. Uh, Youth and Education Committee was pictured in front of a banner with an inverted red triangle, a symbol used by Hamas, with the words long live the resistance on it. The photo was taken during an anti-Israel encampment at City College in spring of 24. Is that just anti-Israel against their policies?

No, and neither is Globalize the Intifada, which he refuses to condemn continuously. And this is just days after we saw the horror that happened in Australia, and it's happening globally. Globalized Intifada is actually happening. Yosef Mabores, the small business and minority and/or women-owned business enterprise committee, dismissed as propaganda a Facebook video about Hamas terrorists raping and kidnapping October 7th victims.

So that's on her side. She dismissed it. Yeah. I mean, you know, the left claims to be so pro-woman and pro-feminist and the whole Me Too movement, except when it comes to Jews.

So Kazi Fouza, appointed to the Mayor-elects committee. On working justice, not like they need a position for that, posted on Facebook on 2023, hours after the resistance, hours after the attack. That resistance is justified when people are occupied.

So that is case number four.

So that's Looked at as what in your mind?

Well, she's calling for, I mean, to me, when you say that, you're talking about violence. And again, when you domesticide, I don't know if that's a word, when you make it domestic, when you go after Jews here in New York City, which is what's happening, that is not an international issue. That is harming people here for policies that are happening elsewhere. Despicable. I know yesterday, too, on another note, he refuses to meet with charter school representatives.

Charter schools have produced more positive results for minority communities than any other entity, from Catholic schools to the public schools. He looks at that as the enemy. That's teachers. He thinks the teachers' union, they look at it as the enemy of the teachers' union. Yeah, well it depends which teachers union, but yeah, I mean, i it's gonna be people have no idea how bad it's gonna be in New York City.

It's gonna be bad. But do you think with President Trump in office you're still gonna see the riots at Columbia, the NYU and City College? I do. I think it's going to get much worse. I don't think it's going to get better.

I think. Like, Columbia will get Don Fined again. I mean, after what they went through, do you think they're going to allow it to get out of control? I do. I do.

It's not, listen, the administration might be a little worried about funding, but there are so many radical lunatics running around across these universities. They are going to continue to cause problems. I don't see things lightening up anywhere. And you have to understand also, the campus grounds are just testing grounds. It's like nuclear test sites.

They test nuclear Marxist, you know, Jew-hating war on these campuses, and then they roll it out into society. I've been warning about this for 10 years, telling people this is coming onto the streets of New York. And I was right.

So what has happened since the October 7th attacks? How would you characterize the pace of the anti-Semitism that we're seeing? I mean, you know. Everyone was shocked by what happened on that day. The evil that we saw on that day.

M most people haven't seen it and they maybe they can't. But the reaction is something that surprised people because people's veils were pulled away, what their beliefs are. And clearly, it has nothing to do with Israel policy. Before a single bullet was fired ever fired into Gaza, people were criticizing Israel. The bodies were warm on Israeli streets at Nova, and they were criticizing Israel.

I don't understand that. And they were attacking vigils here. People had relatives in Israel. There were vigils. They were attacking vigils at my university.

Cooney, professor of law, Jeff Lax, our guest.

So, Jeff, Prime Minister Netanyahu is going to be coming to visit President Trump. at Mar-a-Lago, at which time he's looking for a green light. To take out the rest of Iran's nuclear program. Evidently, they're reconstituting working on ballistics. What could you tell me about that?

Well, listen, nobody knows more about what's going on with Iran than Israel's intelligence, right? And that's part of the thing. You've had top U.S. officials in the past talk about Israeli intelligence in the Middle East as like having five CIAs.

So if he says something like that, I believe him. I believe they're a threat.

So I tend to believe that you'll have people who don't believe anything he says. And I hope that we have the intelligence to corroborate what he's saying and to support them.

So when Netanyahu says, I'm coming to New York, and you know, Mom Dami says, I'm going to arrest Netanyahu, how's this standoff end?

Well, I invited the prime minister to come to my campus on January 1st, and Councilwoman Ina Vernikoff did the same thing, invited him to come. And I think he sent her a letter saying that he would come not on that day, but at some point. It violates international, I'm sorry, it violates U.S. law to uphold ICC law. The U.S.

is not a signatory to the ICC, which comes under the Rome Statute. We are not a signatory to that law, which means it is illegal for Momdani to arrest or to tell the police to arrest anybody due to an ICC warrant. Illegal. Right.

So I guess we're going to see what he's capable of doing. And Kathy Hoko is going to go along with it in the big picture. But I think with his inauguration, do you think there's any been Effort to reach out across the aisle as he looks to take power as opposed to a candidate? Have you seen any effort? No, that's not what he's about at all.

And you saw the way he acted at Trump when he met with Trump. Trump was his usual, you know, friendly, light-hearted, you know, self, and he was engaging. Mamdani was really, if you look, if you just look at Mamdani, he was combative. He didn't say anything nice about Trump, and then afterwards, he said actually pretty negative things. He's not looking to work across the aisle.

Listen, he has been very clear. There are videos out there that people can go look up. I put it on my Twitter page where you could see Mamdani saying what his end goal is. And the end goal is clearly, and he said this in his own words: government seizing the means of production. That is flat-out Marxism.

So he wants the landlords to abandon buildings because they can't make money.

So then the government takes over that building. You know what? I never thought of it that way, but probably, yeah. Right.

And I also talked to some business people, foreign prime minister Neftali. And he says, does. Does Momdami really want 600 successful businesses to leave New York City? Because the Jewish business impact has been tremendous economically in this city. Jewish businesses are going to be boycotted under this mayor.

There's not a doubt in my mind. There's a New York City executive order that Mayor Adams signed into, which is anti-BDS, anti-boycott. But we are going to see, I'm predicting this, and I'm sure of it, that Jewish businesses who have any connection to Israel whatsoever, which is so despicable, are going to be boycotted, and he is going to support that. And that is sick. Jeff Lax, thanks so much.

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So, the number one show on Fox Business. We like to simble cast at some point where my audience gets a chance to be with his audience, and then we see where we go from here. I know I'm going to be on Laura Ingram a little bit later today at 7 p.m. I'm also going to be hosting that show, and I'll be on with Martha about 3 o'clock. Talking about all the breaking news that's taking place, as well as what's going on with this election in 2028.

And we got new economic numbers in, and just looking little by little, looking better and better.

So let's listen to Kristen. You know what that means? It means it's time for Brian Killmead, our favorite time of the year. Good to see you, Brian. I want to get to this.

New polling from Turning Point USA shows that 84% of conservatives are all in on VP J.D. Vance running for president in 2028. What say you? Is Vance going to be the Republican nominee? I mean, it's a long way out.

Like you said, Uh actually, it's a long way out. But to get The next generation of conservatives, 30,000 people cheering for you. And when Erica Kirk says, you have my endorsement, that's a huge boost. And the question is: does it clear the field? Does it stop Ted Cruz from running?

Does it stop, I don't know, Senator Josh Hawley from running? Does it stop Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham from running? Does it keep Glenn Young out? And I think the question is, too, is: you know, after Reagan won for the second time in 49 states and he left popular, but some people had Reagan fatigue. You know, some people want to turn the page and try something out.

Remember, Bush 41 was trailing big time to the caucus by about 20 points.

So if Donald Trump's on an all-time high and things are going extremely well, that looks good for J.D. if he's not doing well in the last year in office. If there are things that get out of people's control, like who could have anticipated the pandemic at the end of the president's last term, they'll decide. But does he have the charisma? Does he understand the issues?

Does he have the presence and drive? Is he young? Does he understand? Who is his base? Yes, he's going to be a tough out.

And when Marco Rubio said, if he runs, I'm out. That was the other leading contender. Yeah, you're absolutely right. All right. Totally different subject.

The Kansas City Chiefs, I found this interesting, relocating their stadium from Missouri and Arrowhead to this new dome stadium in Kansas. What do you make of that? I mean, the Chiefs and Arrowhead just just seemed a natural fit. I know. You're talking about decades at Arrowhead.

It always sold out. The fans are so passionate. Even when they went decades without winning, you know, from Hank Stram until, you know, into their current rendition, they had some lean years, but the crowd still came.

So I would say this: it looks like it's a brand new stadium. It looks like the incentives are through the roof. It looks like the taxpayers and bonds are going to play 70% of it, and they're going to put a dome on top.

So it looks like the Hunt family has to put in very little. But in turn, I think it's great for Kansas. I think it's going to pay off. And a lot of times they get the parking on that if you put the original investment in. Also, it's going to be a tourist area, especially if people want to go out and see the Chiefs.

They're going to find another reason to go to Kansas. And I've been to Kansas a couple of times. There is plenty of room.

So you could there'd be the one place there's always going to be parking.

So in a few years it'll be there, but I would caution one thing. We heard about The Redskins moving to Virginia. We hear a lot about the Jets were supposed to move to the west side of New York City. I'd wait for the The whole all the contracts to be signed. Before I would say for sure this is going to happen.

Very good point. You said good for Kansas. I've got about a minute here or less, but bad for Missouri. And then there's talk about the Kansas City Royals also making a move. I mean, Missouri is starting to lose a lot in this deal.

I mean, the Royals haven't drawn for a while. I remember the late 70s, they had a great. Uh they had some great players and some great teams, but They've had different times when they rally together, they build up their minor leagues and went for two or three years, and then they dropped.

So the people aren't coming. You know, the Chiefs won, they came. I think football is a little different. But look, look at the Oakland Athletics with their rich history. They said, look, no one's coming.

So we're going to have to move. They went to Las Vegas. And I think that happens after a while. You know, after a while, you just get tired of losing money. You do indeed.

We're going to have to leave it there, but Brian Kilmead, Merry Christmas to you, sir. Same time. All right. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate it.

By the way, thanks so much.

Some bad news to share. Ben Sasse, a former senator of Nebraska, just announced that he's got terminal cancer. He said, last week I was diagnosed with metastasized stage four pancreatic cancer, and he says I'm going to die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff. It's a death sentence.

And then he goes on to talk about all the people he's going to miss, the family that he has, how proud he is of his kids. Ben Sass is always a no-nonsense guy, very focused. And he went and started, I think, ran a college down in Florida when he left the Senate, his Senate seat.

So that is extremely sad news. The prime of his life, former football player. Brilliant always seemed like a great guy. Came and did our show a number of times.

So that is extremely sad news. That probably will be major stories, be a major story later on today. All right. One thing I just want to discuss before this night is done. is This this hour's done.

And that is what's going on in Miami. I got to give the Trump team credit. They are relentless in trying to get a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. But I just say, at one point, you got to realize Russia's the problem. I mean, I realized that three years ago, but I think the president has to realize it.

If he doesn't realize it, I should realize it now. After going heavily at it, It looks like, even though they went from 28 points that Ukraine couldn't live with, it looks like Russia's roads down to 20 that they agreed to. And here is President Trump yesterday on where we're at: Cut 20, Cut 37.

So the talks on Ukraine, Russia are going along. They lost, as you know, 27,000 soldiers last month. Mostly soldiers, some people, but some people in Kiev, etc. But mostly soldiers. And he talks of going along.

And I say that, you know, there's tremendous hatred between these two leaders. between President Putin and President Zelensky, tremendous hatred. And I hope we can get it done. We are talking. Talks are going okay.

Not really. Uh according to a top aide, To Russian President Vladimir Putin, he contradicted U.S. claims that things are going well. He says they're rather unconstructive. How much more do you want Ukraine to give?

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So before we get to Lydia, let's get to the big three. Number three. Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea. What are we talking about here?

Well, let's take a look. The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress is the lowest ever. Look at this. They are 55 points underwater. Their approval rating is south of 20%.

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By far the biggest we've ever had in South America. He can do whatever he wants. It's all right. If he plays tough, it'll be the last time he's ever able to play tough. That is Donald Trump talking about the showdown in Venezuela as Maduro is about to lose a third tanker.

And he also basically has to deal with the fact that the president said no more planes in, no more planes out. What it means for China, what it means for Russia, and what it means for Maduro. And we'll keep you up to date on that. The president's putting up big-time pressure. I think the next thing would be land strikes on different.

Drug labs that are taking place in different transports. As we understand, cocaine goes through Venezuela and now Pacific and Atlantic, and we're putting a stop to that. Lydia Moynihan joins us now. Lydia, welcome back. Thank you so much for having me.

Merry Christmas. Good. I've been watching you brawl on CNN. How's that doing? Never a dull moment.

You know what? It really keeps you on your toes, and it's always feisty. And the best thing is, you really. You have to confront all of the best arguments that everyone is making and think through the implications of what they're saying. And so it's a lot of fun.

It's a real debate, you know?

So, new numbers are in. The GDP grew at 4.3%. That is absolutely outrageous. The market has responded by going slightly up. I mean, the third quarters show that even in the face of the negative consumer sentiment and softening job market, the roughly $30 trillion economy started October on relatively solid footing because we didn't get any stats because of the shutdown.

And could you imagine what this economy would be if we didn't stop working? Not us, not me and you, but the government didn't stop working for over two months. No, you're exactly right to think even with that, here we are. And look under the top 4%. I mean, I think, especially during the Biden era, we were.

used to sort of this Essentially, softening the economy without a lot of growth. We sort of just accepted that. And his whole Lynch Finn-Finn administration was going after all of this innovation, going after AI and crypto and all these things. And Trump came in, he's deregulated and he's extended the tax cuts. And he's also encouraged innovation and growth, I think, more than any other president that I can remember, certainly in my lifetime, where he's.

wants to get the brightest minds with the biggest ideas into America. He wants to encourage that. He's excited about technology. He's excited about artificial intelligence. I think that is really key.

That's ultimately what's going to get us out of the sort of malaise that people have been feeling about the economy because people have been feeling the pinch. Prices, and you played that saw for investment, which is a great way of describing it. Inflation is down, but the price levels because of the four years we had under Biden, where we looked at inflation, was basically from when he entered to when he left was up 25%.

So people are feeling that. And the way that we get out of that, the way that we create an exciting new economy where everyone benefits is by unleashing growth and innovation. And so I think that's very encouraging. And that's what the market is thrilled to see too, is that that's what Trump is doing. And we're seeing that reflected for the first time really in this GDP growth rate.

And I think this is going to be the first of many positive reports that we get.

So here's some other numbers just came in. The corporate profits rose at $166 billion in third quarter compared with $6.8 billion the previous quarter. I mean, that's stunning. This is what you're saying. Disposable personal income after taxes.

Adjusted for inflation was flat. That's why people don't have the optimism the numbers have. A barometer of underlying growth that measures both private investment and household consumption held steady. The economy has remained resilient, as you know. Consumption, which constitutes 70% of the economic pie in a typical year, rose at 3.5%.

Even as consumption has taken the reins back from investment, the economy maintains considerable momentum. Keep in mind, what experts like you have said, Lydia, in the past is the reason why the economy is beginning to rise is because the president came out with Liberation Day in April. And when they realized tariffs were coming, people were scrambling to buy. And they said this is a false number. It's because people were buying to get ahead of tariffs.

Now you can't say that, can you? Yeah, it kind of feels like fully once, shame on you, fully twice, shame on me. I think a lot of these economists have lost so much credibility because that's what we heard since Trump took office.

Well, you know, I know it's okay now, but there's going to be a huge crash in a couple months. And I know it's okay now, but after these tariffs, and we just haven't seen it. And we keep hearing, oh, well, it's going to be a disaster. It's going to be a disaster. And it's not.

We're doing this working. And I think we've already brought in so much revenue because of the tariffs. We've already gotten so much investment. Of course, obviously there's a big question mark about what the Supreme Court is going to rule.

So that I think is sort of the one pain point and the one question mark that everybody still has. But if things continue, is there. Going. I think we're all going to be very okay. And I think, again, this is kind of what we saw with Reagan, where it's all about growth.

Let's expand the pie instead of quibbling over, you know, how much this person pays or this. Let's expand. Let's make sure that everyone is benefiting from the economic growth. And real wages, too, Brian, are up for the first time in years.

So that's going to be encouraging. And of course, once people pay their taxes this year, this is not normally something you would say that people are going to be excited after they pay their taxes, but I think people will be pleased to see they actually have more in their pocket than they may have anticipated. Lydia Moynihan, too. I just had the, not to, I'm not just, I'm trying to impress you, I just had the head of the IRS here. Uh last half hour.

And he said, when people start getting their returns, that's going to be like a stimulus package. They earned it. It's the New Deal that the president came in and made those tax cuts permanent. Keep in mind, too, the second story in the New York Times: consumers spend 3.9% more from November 1st to December 31st this year compared with last year.

So we know about consumer sentiment. We know about 36% approval rating on the economy. But somehow, The consumer is also spending money.

So, unless you're not going to tell me those numbers don't work, which I don't think you're going to say because November 1st, the government was open. Yeah. No, I I I think people are trying to kind of put themselves in knots to try and explain that You know, the economy is really a disaster. And that's just not the reality we're seeing. Again, people, I think, still are frustrated that prices are up.

And again, unless you have deflation, nothing is going to reverse that.

So people are upset, understandably, that their grocery bills. is 25% higher than it was before Biden took office. But I think that is unfortunately normal. I think people are kind of recognizing that and they're also seeing the good things that are happening. They're seeing the real wage growth is up and they are still spending money.

I think. This is going to be a good Christmas.

So I'm very heartened by this. I'm very, because again, as Brian, as you and I know, this is all about growth. This is all about innovation. This is all about expanding the pie. And that's exactly what we saw today.

And so I think this is the best Christmas present the Trump administration could have gotten. Right.

And Lydia, we never know what's going to happen. You know, you don't know if there's going to be, you know, there's things like the pandemic, a terror attack, or anything like that. One of our ships gets hit, whatever it is.

So I always open to the unexpected. That's one thing you and I both have learned. You know, you can look at numbers and play it out, but life has a way of interjecting itself into your predictions, especially economic predictions. But at least I could say Republicans have a plan, and we could say, well, that didn't work. Tariffs didn't work.

Trade deals didn't work. The making those tax cuts permanent didn't work.

Okay. Could I just please hear a Democratic plan outside spending? And their last four years was spending $6 trillion. almost doubling the deficit. And how did that go?

Right.

Right.

And I mean it's it's not like they're just spending random money, they're spending our money. Raising taxes, so of course, that's the counterintuitive thing: they're raising taxes, taking money from your in my pocket, and then. in the hopes that somehow the government will do a better job sending our money, which of course never happens.

So you're right, that's all that we've seen. And of course, that is the entire reason. The Inflation Reduction Act, ironically, is why inflation is what it was for four years, because you pumped it. Six trillion plus dollars into the economy, guess what? Things are going to get more expensive.

But one other thing that I want to touch on as well that I've been, you know. Reporting a lot on is just artificial intelligence. I think it's gotten such a bad rap. Everyone hears AI and thinks, oh, AI is going to take my job. AI means that no one's going to work anymore, and this is going to be such a grim proposition.

And some of the data actually that David Sachs, AI and CryptoZAR, has published basically shows that it's making us more productive. And people are not Yet losing their jobs, and it doesn't seem like they're going to. And this is something that we've seen anytime there's a technological innovation. This was before my time, but you know, I'm reading about. What people were writing about when computers first became more mainstream.

And the thinking was, oh no, we're not going to have any more accountants. We're not going to need any more mid-level executives. They were thinking we weren't going to need all of these, similar to the kind of narrative that we're hearing right now about AI. And that just didn't pan out. And technology never eliminates jobs.

It creates and it increases productivity.

So that's one other thing that I want to point to that I think people should be really optimistic about because I think there's been so much fear-mongering about artificial intelligence, and we're just not seeing that borne out in the data. We're seeing more productivity. And again, that gets to the bottom line. When you have more productivity, that ultimately makes things cheaper. And that's how we're going to win the sort of affordability game here.

So Lydia, the thing is. We're not saying it as pedestrians. We're listening to Sam Altman and Elon Musk say they're worried about it. When it first burst on the scene a couple of years ago and Sam Altman is doing his interviews, he's saying, I'm not sure what's going to happen with this. There are certainly dangers.

And we don't trust China to avoid the danger.

So it's up to us. That's why they have 80% are optimistic about AI. 36% of Americans are optimistic that AIs will make their lives better. Interesting. Yeah, that's a very interesting breakdown of the numbers.

Look, I do think the China threat specifically is concerning, and that's why we need to make sure that we're pushing America to innovate, and that's why we need to make sure that we're ahead of them. I think that's the biggest threat: if it gets to the wrong hands, what does that mean? portend. And yes, I know, I know there have been those narratives that, you know, I think Elon said there's a non-zero chance there's an extinction event or something. Elon Musk says a lot of things.

Again, his good buddy there is running AI and crypto and seems to be a lot more optimistic. David Sachs. David Sachs, so I think what we're seeing is encouraging and not the extinction event that Elon Musk said there was a non-zero chance of. And again, Elon Musk is a scientist, but he looks at something and said, oh, there's 0.00001% chance that something bad could happen. It's a non-zero chance that that could happen.

That does not mean that it's likely or that it's going to happen.

So Lydia Moynihan, our guest in the New York Post. I hear you. I know. He's an extremist and a genius. Lydia Moynihan, our guest, is an economic business writer expert, but knows everything.

I'll know if these economic numbers are good. You know why? Because I'll know by watching CNN and MSNBC, they'll be talking about the Epstein files.

Well, they'd be talking about naming the Kennedy Center because they don't want to talk about this. They have no interest in doing that. Yet it would broaden out their audience. And they would be saying, wow, you know what? We'll start reporting.

But that's why, Lydia, you'll go on as an economic expert and we're growing at 4.3%. And your question would be like, why is Bill Clinton's photos are released and not Donald Trump's or the Epstein files?

Okay. R it's it's kinda the Epstein files has become the sort of easy fallback anytime you want some sort of liberal outrage. And that's that's such a good point, is you only hear about if it if it bleeds, it leads, right? That's the adage that we have at a newspaper. And people are always focusing on The negative, right?

So it's only a topic if there's a bad jobs report number. I highly doubt that there's going to be a lot of coverage of this. GDP report because again, it's good, and there's such an eagerness to focus on the negative, or again, you know, if it's If there's something that Trump has said that people don't like, you know, I called affordability a hoax. That was a big talking point because Donald Trump is a billionaire he doesn't understand, right?

So that's the news angle. And in this case, clearly there's not a news angle that makes him look bad.

So I don't know that it's going to be much covered today. And Lydia, I think that one of the best things we can do is when we go back with our families, we talk to your neighbors, find out what they think. Right? It don't say like who do you like, who you're voting for, but it's like, how are things going money-wise? You know, is your business?

Are you a car salesman? Are people walking in? Are they looking to buy new? Are they looking to finance? I find that's the most interesting.

You walk into a deli, instead of saying, How you doing? How's business? And this way you get a real sense if it if it if the numbers echo the feeling. Right, right. And again, even some of these it's difficult to understand what people are feeling when you're just looking at a consumer sentiment or whatnot.

And so that's a great point instead of saying, oh, you know, when you think of Trump, How are you feeling? Exactly. What are you seeing in your business? That's it's it's such a good point because that's ultimately so much more important than. Gotcha.

So, Lydia, we're going to read your columns. I look forward to seeing you in the building again, and we'll have you back on the show. Brian, such a pleasure. Merry Christmas. All right, back at you.

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Some of them have gotten old and tired and Obsolete? And we're going to go the exact opposite direction.

So, the President of the United States then announced the Trump class. And in these ships, they want to build two right away and then get more done. Uh before the end of the tando the decade. And by the way, we have not built chips quickly. I'm not saying it's easy, but we don't have the people, we don't have the mass production ability.

That's why Japan and South Korea revitalizing our shipyards are so important. I mean, he's got so many balls in the air. They're going to be. Equipped with hypersonics and they're going to be equipped with lasers. And they're going to be a new class of battleship.

And he's got to help design it. The president's got a great sense of design, but I would like the defense experts to do the final say. It's not like the ballroom. Ballroom, I give them 100%. Battleship, I'm kind of going to the Secretary of Navy.

What do you think? But I just love it. All hands on deck. Good news economically, we're growing at over 4%. I don't remember that in 25 years, 30 years.

You can't say it's because people are buying because of the tariffs, because the tariffs are in place since April. Ladies and gentlemen, we're growing. The consumer confidence is growing slightly. It's going to grow a lot more. Information you want, truth you demand.

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Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea. What are we talking about here?

Well, let's take a look. The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress, you said it, Cape Baldwin, the lowest ever. Look at this. Overall, they are 55 points underwater. Their approval rating is south of 20%.

It's even worse when you look at independents. Look at this: negative 61 points. That means that their approval rating is 61 points lower than their disapproval rating. Quinnipiac has been polling this question for the better part of the 21st century. They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress, in worse shape than they are right now.

And I'll tell you, Rod, the Democrats are counting on. And it's sad, they're counting on the economy being bad, which is why I think they're going to push for a shutdown at the end of January. Because they didn't pay a price for that. We paid a price economically. Yeah, most people had their sense about them.

Just like when Republicans were in the minority and they were holding out for the end of Obamacare that Ted Cruz wanted to start. Everybody knew that was a lark. I thought so. I said it. You know, the Freedom Caucus sometimes digs in and gets frustrated.

And you gotta be kidding. But Clearly. Democrats are to blame for the shutdown.

Now, Republicans are coming to a January 31st deadline where they're supposed to want to get subsidies renewed for Obamacare, and the only reason that's got to be renewed is because Joe Biden passed it knowing the pandemic would be over by 2025 and they're supposed to expire. The fact that they're letting them expire, Republicans are getting blamed for, and that the economy was hindered. By the shutdown, and the numbers were clear, and people felt it, especially those people that actually depended on a paycheck that worked for the government. But now these. Numbers have come in.

It's stunning. The GP GDP grew at four, get this. 4.3 per annual rate, faster than the previous three months, faster than any time I remember in my lifetime. Maybe there was a month coming out of the pandemic after you told everyone to stop working, we were in a negative, where maybe it grew fast, but that was so odd, it'll never happen again. Third quarter readings showed that even in the face of negative consumer sentiment, we saw the polls, softening market, the roughly thirty trillion dollar economy started October on relatively solid footing.

They've shut down the government and now it's roaring. And you know what they said, too? This has been a very good Christmas season, better than last year's Christmas season. How could you say that things aren't improving under President Trump? I don't get it.

You even saw the deficit go buy down by $600 billion.

So we're spending $600 billion less than This guy named Joe Biden spent. I don't like to bring up Biden. But I think it's an important comparison to bring forward.

Now the president's got a lot of balls in here. He's trying to end the Ukraine war. He's trying to get Maduro out in Venezuela. He's announcing bringing a new class of battleships. He's trying to bring in the India trade deal, redo the USMCA all at once.

I hope he does the USMCA immediately. He's got challenges. He's going forward with all these different programs. He's not stopping. Can you just please tell me what Democrats are pushing?

I know it's in the minority and it's not there's a lot of pressure, but if you want to give people an image of what it would be like if you're in power, my only image is this. If you give the Democrats the House and Senate, they're going to go for impeachment. It's the most tedious thing you could ever go through.

Now if there's something egregious and impeachment's the only option, I have not seen that. But that's what they're going to do. They're going to go. I don't like the Trump Kennedy center name. We're going to get rid of that.

I don't like the renaming of Gulf of Mexico. We're going to impeach him on that. I don't like the fact that. We have a crypto czar, and the Trump organization has invested in their own crypto fund, and they're going to impeach on that. They're going to find things to do.

If you want to elect somebody into power. Like, you know, George Coney would, although he doesn't talk impeachment, or any ex uh lefty extremists want, that's the thing. But in terms of what's going on positively, I think there's a lot going on positively. Here's the Treasury Secretary last night with Laura. Cut seventeen.

The government reduction kicked in, and I can tell you over the short, medium, and long term, the The economy will be much better off with more private sector jobs, more government, I mean fewer government jobs. And I expect that next year we're going to see the private sector come out the other side. We've had a 15% upturn in capital expenditure this year, and the history of capital expenditures is big job growth always follows. In general, we've seen the growth in jobs this year going to native-born Americans, not illegals, not others.

So 100% of the job growth has gone to Americans.

So The private sector, whatever you think about the job growth, is it your unemployment is at 4.6% right now. They added 65,000 jobs. It's in the private sector.

So we're not taking taxpayer dollars and hiring more people for the federal government. Don't you feel better about that? When people are in the private sector, they pay they are less obligation to the federal government. You are making your own, you're punching your own ticket. You're deciding if you're going to get that raise and you're not depending on the government to Uh to prop you up or or lock you out.

Gary and Daytona. Hey Gary. Hope to see you in February. Have a great Christmas. No, my wife's been a real estate broker for 30 years almost.

things are fine. Rentals are good. Property's moving along. It just it's sad to hear Hawkeye say these polls on the Democrats don't really reflect Oh, they're outliers. He says they're outliers.

But by Gary, you know what I said before? The same poll. In July, gave him 19% approval.

Now, the one that comes out now gives him 18%. He goes, these are outliers. Yes, absolutely. But everything's chugging along. I mean, it really is It's exciting.

And the biggest thing against Trump is, like you said, is that the things that he's done, he's dictator. He you know, it's Trump. He's for himself. Yeah, it's going to be interesting, Gary. Just bet on America.

By the way, I want to see you February 14th. Gary's such a great caller. Let's see what we can do for him, Allison.

So hang on the line.

So Gary calls as much as he can. Big supporter of the show. I'll be in Fort Myers February 14th. If you want a patriotic, inspirational, motivational night on stage that's fun, I'll see you there or May 30th in Reno, Nevada. Wally, you're in St.

Pete Beach. Hey, Wally.

Well, I just want to just say this, the Jeffrey Epstein story is going to be a never ending, no resolution story. But I'd like to know why the Democrats are not as emphatic about finding the missing, unaccompanied, unaccounted for illegal immigrant children, which tens of thousands of are known to be exploited and being sexually abused.

So you're talking about why when kids come over unaccompanied, they go to a facility, but they got to get them out quickly. That's one of the rules.

So anybody who shows up and says, I'm a sponsor, a lot of them didn't even show ID. And when there was a whistleblower saying this is a horrific system, they fired the whistleblower.

So now all these kids get thrown into the system, but no one seems to care. Like you said, nobody cares about that. They don't care about what happened before 2019, the death of Jeffrey Epstein.

Well, and I wish at the same time there'd be an investigation by the DOG into the parents of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you're talking about kids who were 15, 16 years old. How the heck did they get onto that island? Tony in Albany.

Hey, Tony. And I just want to touch base real quick.

Some people have been talking about the economy, and you've hit on a lot of the points.

So did the Secretary of Treasury. And it's very true that the government jobs just drain the economy and don't add anything to the GDP. And it also increases the national debt for no good reason. And most of those jobs were half-no-show. What I'd like to talk about quickly is why do you think that Bongino, who was very strong on the Epstein murder situation, turned the story around immediately with Patel when he got in there about it being not a murder?

And then why do you think that he dropped a conspiracy thought on the bomb that was set up at the DNC, which was supposed to be a secondary plan in case the insurrection didn't happen? And I'm kind of curious. A couple of things, Tony. I don't agree with you that it was supposed to be a secondary plan. This guy is like mildly autistic.

They were able to. Track his cell phone, and then they figured out what they did using existing. Using existing evidence, and they were able to find it. In fact, he said, I don't know why other people didn't find it. There was no attachment between this guy.

uh pro or anti-Trump And what happened when President Trump said march over to the Capitol peacefully and patriotically? Number two is there is, he says he did kill himself. I talked to. Dan Bongino personally. He said Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

It's beyond a doubt. Killed himself.

So he doesn't want to lie.

So what he thought on the outside, when he got on the inside, Yeah. That's who he thinks.

So why would he lie? If you want to believe him on the outside, he goes, that's his speculation. But I'm not going to tell him to lie once he's in there because he said something when he was a podcaster. And the Epstein files are a bunch of files of a bad guy who had a lot of powerful friends. Deborah in uh Jacksonville, Florida.

Hey, Deborah. Yes, correct? Hi, how are you, Brian? No, all good. What's on your mind?

Well, I was going to talk to you about something different, but I listened to your interview about the AI and job law. I actually worked for a company who employed nurses, lawyers, accountants, and about one hundred and fifty of us were laid off, so to speak, because AI we actually trained AI In our company, and they just told us, Your jobs are safe, it will make your jobs more effective. And then we were all laid off. Wow, that's scary. What was the name of the company?

I can't tell you because I signed a non, you know, I can't. I would get in great trouble. And that's the other thing that they did, but it's a healthcare company, and I did appeals when insurance would deny hospitals payment. We tried to get the hospitals paid, but there were lawyers involved. It's a lot of different employees and a lot of younger people impacted.

And so it does happen. I hear you, Deborah. And with the numbers reveal, you're 100% right. I'm sorry that happened to you, though. Brian Kilmicho.

Yeah. Both sides, all opinions. It's Brian Killmead. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. What is with Jake Tapper?

He's such a. I mean, look, I almost got in a fight with Jake Tapper at the Super Bowl in, I forget when it was. I mean, the first Eagles Super Bowl. Not the first, but it must have been. It was shortly after my brother's death, and he had done something that I thought was totally f up.

And I told him I would, if it weren't in front of a lot of people, I would knock him the f out. And this is how much of a he is. He called my dad and demanded an apology. What? Yeah.

He's a grown f man. He called one of my dad's staffers and he calls me, he said, I felt threatened. And Hunter owes me an apology. And by the way, I felt incredibly justified. I'm not going to tell this story because it's too convoluted.

But just that. That's who Jake Tapper is. I mean, you know, he talks big, hides behind a pen and a desk. And I don't think that he contributes in any way to the discord. Or provides any real journalism whatsoever.

Oh, that is Hunter Biden, five hours with John Ryan, the veteran, the Special Forces guy who's got a very successful podcast.

So he says he had a problem with Jake Tapper even before Jake Tapper tapped in late and wrote a book about how inept his dad was. Tyrus, you are here. You must gutfeld tonight. You did a great job last night. You got your podcast.

What is your thought about what Hunter's saying? Is he a tough guy now? No, he's not a tough guy. I think this is desperation. I think this is trying to do what.

He's been able to do in the past where he goes on TV, says a bunch of stuff, gets a lot of attention, and maybe. There is some sort of uh attempt now to try to like Get him back in the fold. Because he what was it, four hours? Five hours. Five hours?

They said five and a half. I think this is him trying to do some kind of damage control for himself, but. Again, I think it's four or five and a half hours where it's he's still there's not one sentence about accountability. Right.

You know, he's more typical of addicts, though. Yeah. Well, it's typical of a lot of people today. I don't even think it's just drugs in general. Everyone's always the victim.

Something happens, it's never what. Their role was or what they could do better. It's always everyone around them. I think people have this another disease that's going around this country right now, not just with him, but people think other people think about them way more than they do. Right.

You know, this is like they sit around like, oh, they meant to do that and they're after me and this, that, whatever. I don't think Hunter Biden was ever on the first mind of anyone. In politics. He was just an embarrassment on his family. And that's just being real.

And I don't see, I don't think any of this helps. Right.

But they were just on just to something you just said before. They did a study and they asked the American people who they think about, and most of the time they think of me.

So that's a little bit of an outline. You know what? You're a straight-up honest guy. You're the first thing they see in the morning. Yeah.

And you're inspirational because a lot of times then they'll see you at 10 o'clock at night.

So they're like, hey, this Kill Me guy. He works. He's like the rest of us. He's got an empty life. Yeah.

Absolutely. So I want you to hear the Walking the Dogs video was awesome, though. You like that? Yeah, the Mountain Dogs are beautiful. Yeah, he's still growing.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Great dog. Yeah, he's eight months old. Tell me if this is bad.

When he sees me, he wants to hug you, right? Yeah. But he's 80 pounds. Yeah. I'm worried about when he's 120.

Am I breeding a bad habit? No, 30.

Well, here's the deal. I guess my son is now. 6'5 and he's 14 and he's like he's 200 and I think it was like 87 pounds or something like that. Whenever he sees me, he runs and hugs me. You just got to deal with it.

Okay. You know, because you don't want that's good. You don't want a large living thing thinking you're not happy to see them.

So I'd rather be uncomfortable with love than eventually one day aggressively get knocked over saying, you never loved me. You never held me.

So what is your take? I don't know if you've seen these numbers. I think it's going to affect your show tonight. I mean, they're through the roof. We're growing at 4.something percent.

We haven't grown at 4.2% in like 10 years. I mean, it's maybe that one year, that one month we were coming out of the pandemic. I mean, it's going to be, this is before you get your tax returns, before the tax on tips, before the tax cuts are permanent, before all these trade deals come through and the tariffs come off. I mean, this is pretty phenomenal. You know, the income went slightly up.

So in the third quarter, our corporate profits were up $166 billion. A lot of people are. 401ks are going to be affected by that, let alone people that are going to be there. Like I got under the wing of Charles Payne, and this I got involved in stocks.

So, did you know anything about stocks before you went with Charles? Not enough to like, I understood how it worked. I just always had the wrong mindset when it came to investing and stuff like that. I didn't really, it wasn't something that I paid a lot of attention to, and then I started paying attention to it. And it took basically reading three chapters of his book.

Unbreakable investing. Yeah, unbreakable. And then, you know, I just started, I took up this formula: whenever they woke, cancel something, invest in it.

So when they started attacking Tesla cars and the stock dropped, I jumped in. Right.

You know, and then Rocket Labs, same thing. I jumped in. And Rocket Labs is unbelievable. Like, I got I showed and a bunch of other stuff. I just started looking at that.

But then I started looking at it like, this is savings that grows. that you can control and manage. And so it's and the stocks are incredible. Tesla?

Sold me on the robots. Like last year when the robots I mean that robot is flexible. That robot can carry the ball in the NFL game. You know, like the Russian robot just falls over, looks like Giganto in nineteen seventy four. Yeah.

But our rob I mean the Tesla robots I mean, they're running obstacle courses. There's going to be, I think you're going to see. A complete shift in the next, I'd say, 10 years with Manual labor in this country because these robots can work at night, they don't need breaks. You know, you got to, you know, I think you change the battery or something like that.

So it's going to be a, we're going to see in our lifetime a complete change in the way that we do business in America. Tyrus, Jeus, give me an idea where you're going to be on your tour because I know you're going to be on Gutfeld tonight that you're hosting. Yeah. But where are you going to be on your tour? I got two.

I think my next shows are in Palm Beach, Florida. I think January 16th and 17th, I think.

Something like that. But next, we're going to be in Florida. Our tour kicks off in the end of January. And then February, we're all over the country. California, we're in Chicago.

We're all over the place. Where do you go? Uh let me see here. I can punch it out for you. Yeah, we gotta go find out exactly where to get Tyrus.

Yeah, just the website would be able to go. I know, I know you. Oh, yeah, you can look it up in my link. Oh, here we go. Let's see here.

My comedy tour is. Any minute. Yep. Oh, this thing's stupid. Follow Tyrus.

Just Google Tyrus. Just, you know what? Hit my, you know, I'm all over the country, and you can check us out on Linktree. And Linktree tonight. Yeah, Linktree tonight.