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Before we even say hello formally, informally, we have. Let's do the big three together. Let's do it, Brian. You do color comedy. Let's get fired up.
Let's go, big three. Number three. If we confront a situation where there's a DHS shutdown, it's because Republicans will basically have decided they don't want ICE to be held accountable. Really? Cruising to a shutdown.
Why I say no, the Dems are not going to do it? Because their insane demands make no sense. The last shutdown was very hard for them reputationally. And if they want to make some headway in the big midterm fight, I don't think this is the way to do it. Wow, what a think-tank-ish type statement.
That's pretty good. What do they pay me for, Brian? Number two. Number two. The president has obviously been quite clear in his demands of the Iranian regime.
Zero nuclear capability is something he's been very explicit about, and he wants to see if a deal can be struck. High impact talks in Oman, Iran versus the U.S. Why I think we're weeks away from an attack on this country that's been coming after us since 1979. It will change the Middle East for generations, and you feel? I feel that I stand with the freedom fighters, the Iranian people who have risked their lives and taken to the streets.
They understand the sacrifice and they understand the stakes and this regime must be toppled from within. Toppled? Number one. We start to look at what the deadlines were in the note. First, I think was five o'clock today.
It had a second deadline after that.
So we are continuing, in a normal kidnapping case, there would be contact by now. But nothing's normal about this. Search for Savannah Guthrie's mom in critical hours now, as it seems the ransom letter sent to TMZ and a local affiliate in the area, CBS, is authentic. The problem is there's no way to execute this type of deal, and to get proof of life seems to be impossible. They want payment through Bitcoin, we understand.
Kennedy, I know you've been doing this a lot. And I've gotten a text message from somebody who really respects this investigator that says you can track Bitcoin.
So if just because they say it's the site in cyber currency You don't, it's impossible. Cryptocurrency, I should say. It's impossible. They said that they told me it's not true. But this guy, we assume, wants money.
but has no follow-up communication. By Monday they say it's over. Your thoughts. This is just terrible, terrible. It's absolutely horrific.
And. I don't know if the person behind the ransom is legitimate. I know that copycat. Ransom letter sender has already been arrested, and rightly so. This is just this psychological manipulation, it's just horrific.
And I don't know if it has anything to do with Savannah Guthrie, but you know, it's like it's an 83-year-old woman. What are you doing? Like, leave the woman alone. And people need to stop. Blaming Savannah and her brother and sister because the mom lives alone.
Maybe the mom wants to live alone. Right. You know, maybe she chooses to live that way for whatever reason.
So you don't, no one knows the inner workings of a family, but people are very quick to judge.
So let's just pump the brakes until there's some resolution, and then people can make all sorts of judgmental statements.
So TMC got the letter, called up, and then they call back and they go, listen, this sounds pretty real. They said some locations about the Apple Watch and other things you could only have in the floodlight that you could only know if you were actually in the house. And she said, they seem like whoever came in, they claim did not break in. Number one, there was no forced entry, I should say. But that was one of the first things that the Pima County Sheriff said was that there was forced entry.
Right. And then he said, I don't know why you said that. Listen, he seems like a nice man. I've never heard him say something and thought, wow, that's insightful. Harvey Levin said this with Sean last night.
Sean Hannity cut five. I will say that there are real reasons, based on what's written there, that I believe that. This person is in the in the radius of the Tucson area. And there's something very specific in there, and I'm sure the FBI keyed in on this A while ago. And it makes me think that whoever did this Um If whoever wrote this letter is in that Tucson area.
And I think it's one of the reasons, too, that they sent the same email to one of the local stations in Tucson. This person is familiar with the Tucson television market, and based on the way it's written, I believe that this is somebody in that wide Tucson area.
So, Kennedy, I just thought it was interesting because he got the letter. He's been analyzing the letter, talking to the FBI. And The other people who are speaking, they're fine, but you don't know this case.
So everyone's just speculating. I thought Harvey Levin. That's some interesting insight there. They said the letter was written perfect English. If you were grading it, you wouldn't have had any red lines through it.
So and it was very complete. They said it was layered. I'm not sure what he meant by that, but your thoughts? Maybe that means that uh the letter itself was Longer instead of being shorter, and there were logical points that led from one to the next. That's a good one.
Your hat matches your sweatshirt or something with stripes on purpose? Yes. Yeah, I'm a big fan of coordinating color. And this is also often the outfit that I'm wearing when I fly. Did you?
Are you flying today? Nope. No?
Okay. It's just comfy, cozy.
Sorry. Smell cold outside. Seemed like a logical follow-up. Did you put the hat on first or the sweatshirt? Hat, yep.
Put the hat on first. And then scrambled for a sweatshirt. I knew exactly that I was going to wear. I knew where the sweatshirt was. You knew it was.
It was folded up in the closet. You have to put stuff out the night before? When I fly early in the morning, yes. If I have to get up at like 3:30 for a six o'clock flight, I will put things out. But again, you're not flying.
No, didn't have to put things. You keep on referring to it as like, I guess you fly a lot? I do fly a lot.
So I last year got diamond status on Delta and platinum on United. That's how much I fly. It's great. I want to talk about where you would fly, California.
So my friend went out there, sent me pictures, and he doesn't follow the news like you. You're not really into the news, except when you're on television. Yeah. Occupational hazard. Right.
Because you get depressed sometimes. Because some of the news is negative, and you tend to be positive. I like to watch sports. Right. Yeah.
Which could be controversial too.
Sometimes Can be halftime shows. Littered with controversy. Absolutely. Your friend, California. My thing was very, he said, you live it, you have a house out there that's been condemned.
But he said, he can't believe it. Nothing's being done. And he's apolitical annoyed. I go, yeah, that's what everyone's been saying. 16% are permits, 16% of the permits have been handed out.
Only 16% of the people who've been devastated. And nothing's being redone. The land is scraped. That's it.
So I spoke with an SBA officer the other day because a lot of people have secured SBA loans, but it doesn't matter because you can't get funding on the loan until you have exhausted your settlement from the insurance company.
So people cannot draw on their SBA loans until they reach a settlement with the insurance company. They didn't do that with Sandy. And the SBA is operating differently. I would say it's more efficient. But the problem is, all of these insurance companies are slow walking everything.
And when they're not slow walking, they're. Just uh flat out denying. Or lowballing.
So I hope Lee Zeldin can do something about this. He will. And he was with Alexis McAdams, one of our reporters here at Fox News, and they were walking around some of the fire-ravaged areas yesterday. And he said one of the things he's going to tackle, in addition to the permitting process, is the insurance companies. And there is a lot of fraud happening out in the open with these insurance companies.
And I've told you, like, I got Geico Insurance because I thought it would be trustworthy. I know we're well insured. And all the things that we are insured for. They will not give us money to remediate to basically clean the house. And, you know, our next-door neighbors, same thing.
Like, their house is standing, but it's filled with ash, soot, lead, and arsenic. And and all you want is to Take the things out that cannot be cleaned. and safely throw those things away and then rebuild like i don't want to rebuild a mansion I just want a functioning house where I can go and be with my family. That's all I want. Sheetrock.
You want sheetrock? You need new installation. I need some spackle, Brian. I know that you've got. A nice personal history and spackling.
Right. So I wouldn't say nice, just good. I'm just good. That kind of work experience is invaluable here. Are you trying to tell me something?
You might need a lot of people. Come on, Across. Kenny, so just Karen Bass, this came out yesterday, the L.A. Times all over the story that she had two people, confidants, come out, tell the L.A. Times that she changed the report written by her people, written by the state government, city government, that said how susceptible they were, how vulnerable they were, how poor they acted in times of crisis, from the water to fire engines to the positioning, everything, everything, let alone sheep being in Ghana and all this stuff.
And they said, well, it's not going to be good.
So I need you to soften the edges. And she kept it until they softened the edges. The guy resigned that did it. And these two confidants said they're going to go under oath. To they told her, you should not do this.
This is illegal. You should not do it. Again, that's fraud. She's got to go. Yes.
I mean, this has got to be curved. I mean, I said the day after the wildfire. Like, she and Kevin Newsome should have resigned. Like, this, and this is only one aspect of her failure.
So I was reading about one of the, I don't think it was a chief, but an LAPD. He is in the administration, very high up, and he was talking about how Skid Row in downtown LA, every single block, is run by a different gang. And if you want to put a tent on Skid Bro, you either have to sell drugs for them or let them use your tent for prostitution. And Karen Bath is fine with that. And so, you know, this is the kind of mayor who's like, well, you know, there's nothing we can do about it.
And it reminds me of Alejandro Mallorkes, who said, you know, we're doing as much as we can. The border is secure. And then someone else comes in and actually secures the border and renders them idiotic and foolish. Right. And that's the fact that she was ever elected in an executive position because she was a legislator before.
And and now, like, she has failed utterly. People have died, people's lives have completely crumbled, and that's in the Palisades and Altadena. That's not to mention the people that she has just thrown away Who are being raped and trafficked in downtown LA? Right. And Gavin Newsome shows up and goes, Yeah, I'm upset too.
How did this happen? As if he's not the governor of California. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought Los Angeles was the biggest city in the state. Right.
I thought so too. I got it. It seems like something that you would want to keep tabs on.
Southern California notoriously hates Gavin Newsom. Please Save this country from Gavin Newsom because evidently he's winning in most of the polls. And he had such a hard upbringing going from the Getty's house to Nancy Pelosi's house. Wonder bread and mac and cheese. Right.
Just left on his own like a lowly urchin to go out there and busk for nickels. Hmm. That or is extremely wealthy. I forgot which one it was. Oh, no, he's he's very wealthy and had a great deal of seed money in order to start his barn restaurant enterprise.
We're going to be back with Kennedy in just a moment. We have other stuff to talk about and stuff that we have in common. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. Ryan Kill Me Show. This is Ainsley Earhart.
Thank you for joining me for the 52-episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. Chuck Schumer Call Oh What Trump's trying to do with the elections, he called it Jim Crow 2.0. And what I guarded against, I said, you know, I've taken heat from the Democratic Party from time to time.
You certainly have, you know, on numerous occasions. And I said, don't get Trumpish. Don't engage in that kind of hyperbole because we're living in the year 2026. And when you start bringing up Jim Crow 2.0, you're trying to harken back to a time that most people recognize. No, we're not living in those times right now.
Of course, we've got our troubles, but we're not doing, don't do that because that's playing right into Trump's hands. And plus, he's talking about having ID to vote. What is Jim Crow-ish about that? And if you see the polls, Kennedy, by the way, you're the same one who hosts the podcast, Kennedy Saves the World. That's right.
Right. Award-winning, Brian. Right. So many. Do you know how many awards you've won?
It's really, you know, it's like I'm pretty good at math, but not that good. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You're not paid to add.
No, I had to get a trophy room in my house. Right. Is there any you're not saying there's anything in it? You're just saying you need I had to get a trophy room. I'm going to leave it at that.
Right, okay, that's fine.
So, just to follow up, it's just the I could not believe it. 76% of the country want an ID to vote. He's saying it's Jim Crow 2.0. What's going on here?
Okay, so. A couple of things. Every time there's an election. Liberals tell us this is the most important election of our lifetime. And if we don't vote their way, Democracy will die.
We will plunge into civil war. Yes. And the United States, as you know it, will no longer exist. That's how important this election is.
So if the stakes are that high, Don't you want voter integrity? Like, wouldn't you want to make sure that everyone who's voting is a legitimate voter?
Well, what if I told you uh I'll let my voter I D, but my problem is I got this friend Kennedy. And she is not going to know what that means. No, because I can't find the DMD. You can't find it. You can't get idea.
You don't even know who you are personally. I mean, that's. And that video. Can you be so insulting? I think his name is Ari, and he.
Went to, it was either Harlem or the South Bronx. And because these liberal women at Berkeley were like, Black people don't know like how to use computers and they don't know where the DMV is. And he went to a a predominantly black neighborhood and was asking people, like, Do you know where the DMV is? And they're they're looking at him like he's crazy. Like, Yeah, it's like five blocks down the street.
Take it right. And then, other than he's like, Well, do you have a driver's license? Of course, I have a driver's license, right?
So, if this is an easy one, and by the way, this is one of those things when, if you're looking to get something done, you wheel and deal on this.
So racist, Chuck Schumer walks in and just says, Hey, Mr. President, I know you want to do that.
So, what could you give me? This is when we used to do deals like that. Like, look, um, so. And the thing is, the president says, well, the only person who doesn't want to do something like that is somebody who wants to cheat at elections. A lot of people just say, If you I don't want you to cancel my vote with your illegal you with your illegal vote.
So they just I want to know that my vote counts. You just want to get it right. I don't care who wins. Just get it right.
So someone said, what if President Trump Promised every person who is either a dreamer or here on asylum, I will give you citizenship if you register Republican for the next 10 years. And if you change your vote of recreation, you will lose citizenship. See, even the premise is very MSNBC-ish. There's a story today about AOC. But then, don't you think Democrats would be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, enough of these illegals destroying our country.
That would be a tricky thing to do.
So, AOC, they're trying to say that she is trying to be middle of the road. She's supporting a bunch of moderate candidates, including the one in Alaska, ticking off all her socialist friends, positioning herself, they believe for sure, to run for president while taking on J.D. Vance. Big story in the New York Times today. I mean, they would, you know how much money she earned.
Do you think that we're going to watch this remake of AOC? No longer socialist. Yes, no longer moving away from M. Donnie. There's a couple things.
One, everyone knows, everyone who lives in New York and works in media here, they know just from the snowstorm that Mom Donnie sucks. He doesn't want to be mayor. It's too much work. It's exhausting. Let's do TikTok videos.
Like, being there is so much work. He's not a guy who likes work. He's never really had a job. He had one job at Kennedy. Yeah, and so people like anyone but him.
If AOC becomes moderate, she's our gal because they also hate Gavin Newsom.
So she kills two birds with one stone in the establishment's mind. Shapiro, Bashir, Kamala. She beats all of them? She beats Kamala very handily. Bashir and Shapiro give her a real tough time.
Right. And the problem is she has no track record of doing anything. And she'd be horrible on a debate stage with other Democrats. Bye, Kennedy. Bye.
Yeah.
