More and More Democrats Are Ditching Joe Biden

Live from the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, fresh off the set of Fox and Friends, it's America's receptive voice. Brian. My buddy, Brian Kilmey here. Thanks so much for visiting us again. 1-866-408-7669.

You want to write us, BrianKilme.com, just click on comments and I'll try to get to them during the show. Big news: Boris Johnson, long rumored to be on his way out, is now out as Prime Minister of England. We'll talk about that. He's a powerful personality that only has itself to blame. I don't want to go inside British politics, but it's his own behavior and decisions that got him into this mess.

On the world stage, he was actually doing quite well, helping unify NATO, leading the charge against Vladimir Putin. Good personality. But his decision is absolutely horrendous, and that's what Vladimir Putin wants. They want a weak president, and they would love turmoil in the UK, and they got both. Betsy DeVos is standing by, the former Secretary of Education, with her best-selling book, Hostages No More.

But before we get to that, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. It appears when he drove to Madison, he was driving around.

However, he did see a celebration that was occurring in Madison, and he seriously contemplated using the firearm he had in his vehicle to commit another shooting. Unbelievable, right? Highland massacre could have been worse as the shooter eyed Madison on the same day. The story and that story, and how the despicable dad remains defiant and says he's innocent, but I think he's complicit. We'll give you the latest, along with another would-be massacre that was thwarted in Richmond.

Number two. Everything Biden does is permeated By this leftist climate change Green New Deal. And he really believes that this high price of oil will be mitigated with the use of renewables. Unbelievable, and we're all paying the price because of it. Outrageous.

Reuters reports our strategic oil reserve is being released to China and India, who is aiding and abetting Russia. It's America's great cr it's America's great crude oil and our energy and security, and it's going to our enemies. This is inexcusable. Number one. The guy is a total fraud.

I mean, look, he sided with the Biden administration killing the energy industry in Ohio in the name of green energy. I'm not surprised that he's politically smart enough to know that he has to run from Joe Biden. That is J.D. Bance, who wants to replace Rob Portman as a Republican senator from Ohio. Insult to the injured.

Two Dems looking for statewide office in Ohio skipped President Biden's speech in Cleveland, underlining his weakness as the foundation starts cracking beneath his feet and his party.

However, the Republicans don't have a clear path to power either. They have to earn it. I'll explain. Let's bring in the former Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. Congratulations on your book, Ms.

Secretary. Hostages No More is the New York Times bestseller.

Well, thank you so much, Brian. It's great to get the message out there about how we can fix American education. And Hostages No More is a story about just doing just that and gives us ways to do it. Americans had a front row seat the last two years in how the education system actually handles delivering learning to kids, and many people are very disappointed.

So it's a prime time. To have policy change that will support families and kids, not systems.

So, I was spent last week with Governor Young, and I would say that he probably wouldn't get elected as governor of Virginia if those school boards didn't erupt after people found out the curriculum that they were being taught their kids, and parents were dismissed when they tried to give some input into it. Ms. Secretary, when you took over this job, did you know a lot of this anti-American CRT was taking place?

Well, I knew that it had been continued. It was continuing to infiltrate in many places, but the exposure that it got in families' living rooms during COVID certainly brought it right in front of parents who never thought they had to worry or be concerned about their kids' curriculums. Also, parents were told to just go home and not speak up when their schools were closed for months longer than they needed to be. They were also told to go home and don't speak up when they saw distance learning that was anything but high expectations and robust. There are many reasons why families are unhappy with the status quo and with the system that they thought was serving their kids well.

Many families have gone on to figure out alternatives that are working well for them, and many families want to do just that, and policy needs to support them doing that. When you began to change things and saw this problem, how were you receiving? Yeah.

Well, I've been at this for 35 years, and I have gone head to head with the teachers' unions every step of the way. The teachers' unions are at the top of the pile with preserving and protecting and expanding the status quo. They, with all their allies in Washington, DC, continue to really control K-12 education in America, a 175-year-old system that was started for an entirely different time. And education itself is the least disrupted industry we have in our country. And parents saw this, families saw this in the last two years, and neighbors and friends saw it.

And so there is a realization that we have got to do something different to provide better opportunities for kids across the country. And they hit back at you hard. They didn't want any part of you. They didn't want any part of that reform. And the day that you were hired, I remember you going to visit a school, I think it was in New York.

They were protesting the Secretary of Education. I think to myself, I cannot believe you need security to get into a van to visit a school. Yep.

Well, it was actually in Washington DC on my second day in the job. and I was physically barred from the school initially.

Now we eventually got in, and I tell the story in the book. It's a sad commentary on people who think that they have kids' interests at heart. They showed themselves regularly while continuing, when I was trying to highlight great things happening, they would continually protest and have dozens, if not hundreds in some cases, of protesters out just attacking me personally. It's not about me. It wasn't about me.

It's about protecting a system that's working for adults but isn't working for kids. Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, her book is now out, is with us now. Her book is now out, Hostages No More, The Fight for Education, Freedom, and the Future of the American Child.

So there's a couple of stories I want to bring you to. First, in the LA, in the Los Angeles Unified District, they're training teachers and staff against meritocracy, that merit and individualism are concepts rooted in whiteness and must be challenged. In schools. Meritocracy is synonymous with America.

So I am stunned by this. Are you? Absolutely. No, I'm not stunned because the LA district has again been focused on their own ideological crusades. They kept kids out of school for nearly two full school years.

And these are the kids who can least afford to not be in the classroom and not be learning. We won't know the devastating effects of those lockdowns for years. But what we do know is that while they're busy trying to fill kids' heads ideologically, kids are not learning to read and write, and it's tragic. Other story on Foxnews.com, the National Education Association Teachers' Union is proposing a resolution to change mother, which is commonly used in in school to birthing parent. Birthing parent.

What the hell is that about? Uh again all the ideology that that the system, the the unions and their allies are trying to force feed to every American family. And at the same time, kids can't read, kids don't know how to do math. We trail the world, the rest of our peers around the world. We're thirty-seventh in math.

eighteenth in science and thirteenth in reading. And this was before COVID struck.

So what we need to do is have kids focused again on being kids, first of all, and learning how to do the things that they're going to need to have as tools when they grow up into adulthood, not focus on all of this ideology. And again, families are fed up.

So, I want you to hear this. Nicole Neely is a case in point, is a parent defending. Defending against, going against this, defending the lawsuit that they filed against Joe Biden's Department of Education for this whole birthing thing and more. Cut 29. We were very surprised about three weeks ago when the administration announced the creation of the National Parent and Family Council.

And our first thought was, my gosh, I guess our invitation was lost in the mail. But the more we dug into it with our friends at America First Legal and Fight for Schools, we figured out this is actually a significant violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which has to announce the creation of committees ahead of time, have oversight provisions in place, and be ideologically balanced. And none of these, the council meets none of these criteria.

So it's illegal. Yeah, and some of the things they're trying to do, Cut 31. You know, raises real concerns, obviously, about teachers' unions, showing how far away they are from the concerns of average parents. I mean, this reminds me of what Van Jones said a few weeks ago: that this is not language you hear at the nail salon or, you know, the beauty parlor. These are very deeply out-of-touch ideologues who are in front of our children.

And, you know, it's funny for this resolution, they actually said they need more money to even advance this internally. And so there's not even buy-in among their members. And the fact that they're going to push this on families is offensive. Right. The whole birthing person and thing and changing the pronouns and having kids, boys who claim to be transsexuals on girls' teams.

It's like they're trying to rip apart the fabric. If they're not trying to destroy and denigrate our history, they're trying to dumb down our schools and change it. What's behind this?

Well, it has been a progressive ideology that has been seated in the system, the K twelve system for decades. And it's finally coming to the fore. People are finally knowing and understanding and realizing what has been, the march that has been happening. And thankfully, families have awakened and they're not going to stand for it. We're seeing in states across the country, actions being taken around demanding transparency on curriculum and transparency on finances and giving families the economic freedom by having the money for their child follow their child to where they want their child to go to school.

Arizona being the first state that's about to pass or have Governor Ducey sign into law a education savings account that will allow families to buy their children's education where they find the best fit for their child so they can make choices to get away from this ideology and to do the things that they actually Actually, during COVID, many of them found solutions that they want to continue.

So with the how would you characterize your experience with the Trump administration? You were almost there the entire time, like very few as we're seeing now. We're seeing everyone run for the exits. What was it like for you? Did you have support of the President, do you feel?

Absolutely. The President was very supportive. In fact, It was his championing this notion of education freedom and families making the best decisions for their children was the reason why I joined the administration in the first place. And he was very supportive of education freedom, of family, of young people following multiple alternative pathways beyond high school to be ready for great careers and great futures, not forcing every kid into a four-year college or university, whether that's the right thing for them or not. And he was always very supportive of all of those goals.

And I had lots of latitude with my team to be able to carry out the agenda. And at the end, you decide to resign after january sixth. Why? That day was very difficult watching what was going on. And I looked at it from the eyes of children who might be watching and thought about the fact that he could have and should have done more to stop what happened at the Capitol.

It was a difficult day for me, for many people. And I just felt that, and when he he abandoned his Vice President, who had been loyally serving for the full term. It was just a bridge too far. Right. Do you have you talked to him since?

I have not. Would you? I would be happy to, but I haven't thought that out.

Okay. Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, her book is doing exceedingly well. Hostages No More. It's the top three issues on almost everybody's agenda, and she was right in the eye of the storm, and the fight continues. Ms.

Secretary, thanks so much. Thanks so much, Brian. You got it. 1866-408-7669. When we come back, I'll talk about the big news.

The Prime Minister of the UK has resigned. He still stays in office. What does that mean? Why is Vladimir Putin so happy? We're also going to talk about the fact that our strategic oil reserve, we have found out Reuters reporting.

Reuters reporting that our oil that we saved in case of emergency is going to China. In India, who is enabling Russia when it should be staying here, I thought. We'll talk about that and the president's 36% approval rating. This is the Brian Kilmey Show.

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And our brilliant and Darwinian system will produce another leader. equally committed to taking this country forward. through tough times and to that new leader. I say, whoever he or she may be, I say, I will give you as much support as I can, and to you. the British public.

I know that there will be many people who are Relieved. And uh Perhaps quite a few who will also be disappointed. And I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. But them's the brakes. I thought he, his speech, that was Boris Johnson, announcing he's resigning as prime minister, but staying on likely to the fall.

Pierce Morgan told us that he thinks that Boris Johnson, who always escapes these types of scandals in the past, thinks that somehow he'll be rescued. But, you know, he was part of Brexit. He thought it would be a great move. Him taking over a lot of charisma, a lot of presence. Theresa May was reluctant to do it, couldn't pass it.

He got a lot of it done, so he's on his own now. He wanted to get a trade deal done with Trump, couldn't. Biden doesn't want to. But along the way, he made some huge errors. The first and foremost was the pandemic.

First, he said it's no big deal. He gets it, almost dies because he's so out of shape, perhaps. He ends up recovering from it, locking down his entire country. At the same time, pictures emerge of him having big parties, people walking into 10 Downing Street, their White House, with suitcases full of liquor. Then he says, I'm not at the Party.

I wasn't partying. I was doing work. I don't know what they were doing downstairs. Then pictures emerge of him sitting there with a drink in his hand, actually at the party. He survives.

A bunch of people resign, I think, including his brother. And then a bunch of other people resign after he decides to elevate Chris Pincher, a conservative lawmaker, before he was promoted, the man to a senior position. It turns out it was the last straw. What's about Pincher? He's known to be his sexual harasser.

Sexual harasser. Harassing men in the parliament, so he gives him a great job as an administration. He gets caught harassing again. The guy evidently is a drunk alcoholic. Why would Boris Johnson put his own reputation and government on the line?

What I care most about is the West United against Vladimir Putin, him doing a great job, first major leader to meet with Zelensky, fresh off when Kiev stopped being, for the most part, bombed, took tremendous courage, took on Putin, was rallying everyone around, charismatic guy, and now he looks in disarray. And you know what Pierce Morgan said, which was so salient and sad? The person who's happiest today is Vladimir Putin, because he wants to show the Western chaos. A weak leader in America, everybody knows what's going on with Joe Biden, everybody knows his approval rating, everybody knows his party is turning on him. And they want chaos in Britain.

They got both. They got both. When we come back, what it means, and why one of their leaders is predicting. That the Ukraine will actually, one Russian leader is predicting Ukraine will actually fall and be swallowed up in whole by Russia sooner or later. I don't see that.

We'll find out how Mike Rogers feels about it, the former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee. Hey, it's Will Kane, co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend. Join me as I share my thoughts on a wide range of topics from sports and pop culture to politics and business. The Will Kane Podcast. Subscribe and listen now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com.

From the Fox News Podcasts Network, in these ever-changing times, you can rely on Fox News for hourly updates for the very latest news and information on your time. Listen and download now at FoxNewsPodcast.com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. Certainly, our investigation has gone very much into what happened after the shooting, what Primo's plan was. Uh investigators did develop some information.

That it appears when he drove to Madison, he was driving around.

However, he did see a celebration that was occurring in Madison, and he seriously contemplated using the firearm he had in his vehicle to commit another shooting. in Madison. If you believe this shooter, all the horrific damage he's done, shooting dozens, killing seven, and that number grew to eight, I believe, yesterday in Highland Park on July 4th. He drove to Madison dressed as a woman, evidently did not intend to leave his gun behind a la of his idol, Lee Harvey Oswald. It slipped out of a sheet he was holding.

They were able to find out who he was, and he still was able to slip out, get to Madison, Wisconsin, in his mom's car, and decided, since it wasn't well planned, according to reports, to turn around.

Now, how How did this psycho get a gun? Especially because police would call to his house twice in 2019. One, he was going to kill himself. Number two, he was going to kill family members.

So they called the cops. When they arrived, I guess they decided not to suppress charges, but they did take dozens of knives, including a hatchet. and an impaler knives out of his house. His dad would end up signing for a gun license for him, knowing his son's violent tendencies and his bizarre behavior on the way he's dressed, his facial tattoo, his neck tattoo, building a bizarre house in the back, a bizarre Uh decal in the back I mean, this guy is just a walking five-alarm fire, and he ended up killing. and maiming and torture and, by the way, traumatizing an entire town and maybe your country.

Mike Rogers, former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, joins us now. Congressman, it's great to talk to you. You got that FBI background, too. Would I know as somebody who doesn't I don't own a gun, but I assume I would pass a background check. Why would a guy like this, with a documented background like this, pass a background check?

Well, it is likely that those police reports didn't make it into the system in the way that they should, number one. Number two, the his custodian or his father at this point went ahead and signed for that permit, which is a huge mistake. And listen, Parent, you know, we keep on finding people to blame. If you're in that chain of decision making, you are to blame. You can, this father should have known.

I mean, they had police at his house because he was going to kill another family member with knives. And what in God's green earth would allow him to think that he should have a firearm of any sort is beyond me. And so we need to be careful that we don't make these big, broad, sweeping things against everybody that does own a gun. But what we do need to say is for people like his father, hey, that's wrong. And you, as a parent, you have a responsibility for that person.

Getting a firearm like that, you need to make sure. Listen, I'd hold the dad accountable as well. He needs to have some, he needs to be held accountable for his actions as well as what the actual shooter who did the crime did as well. He evidently hired R. Kelly's lawyers, who must not be that good because he's in jail for life.

But they hired his lawyers to represent him. But he says he's going to walk around town with pride. He did nothing wrong. He wants his son to get the maximum sentence, who will go to all his hearings. But for the most part, he says he did nothing wrong because there was no sign that his son told him he was going to use the guns just for target practice to go to the range.

To me, is that, I mean, I'm not sure legally how you charge him, but number one, for being a bad parent, you should pay all these people that you've destroyed their lives and killed their family members. Number two, Monday, he was talking to the dad about the Danish shooter in Denmark. And one of his comments, according to his dad, was, well, you know, he ruins it for legal. Gun owners, when a guy opens up firing like that randomly and becomes a mass murderer. Hmm.

Yeah, I'm immediately suspicious of his father's even telling that story, candidly, if it actually happened that way. And so again, the investigation will prove that true or untrue. And maybe the dad. Uh uh innocent in in the way that he claims he is. But just the fact as a parent who had a son that just murdered, slaughtered seven innocent people, traumatized hundreds.

you know, wounded uh whatever it was now, I think twenty five. To say that you will walk around proud in town tells me that there's other problems there as well. And as an old investigator, I haven't done it in a while, but as an old investigator, I try to get to the root of that problem as well. And listen, I don't think the father should go to jail in the same way that the son should go to jail for life, but at least need to send the message to society. You're accountable.

You can't allow your children to get guns if they exhibit this very behavior. No one would know it better. The police won't know it better. The FBI won't know it better than the parent. And uh for him to I don't know, just to say he would walk around proudly, Are you kidding me?

Your son just murdered seven people. I I I don't what what what in that sentence Doesn't bother you that you would walk around town properly. When the New York Post asked him what was going on there, he said he wanted to kill his relatives. His dad said, I just looked at it as a childish outburst. He also dropped out of school in the tenth grade.

I guess that wasn't a problem for him. I don't know you could even do that. He says, quote, they make it seem like I groomed him to do this. He said I didn't do anything wrong. He said his son should get a long sentence.

But what he did is get a firearms license for him, but he said he bought the guns on his own. I'm not sure if that's in Illinois law or not, but. Why does the guy need a why does anyone need a sponsor that's of age?

Well, I mean, you have to go through a process, and I think Illinois has some pretty tough rules there to get it. And I don't know all the state rules, candidly, Brian, but I'm going to guess that they, if he's a minor, in order to purchase it, he needed to have a parent or guardian sign, is what my guess is here. And so at least that's what I'm hearing on the news.

So that would tell you that his father needed to be or his mother or guardian needed to be engaged in that decision for firearm purchase. And it doesn't matter if he paid for him or not. You're the one that signed you're the one that signed the sheet and said, yeah, you can do this. He could have always waited until he was of legal age and got it himself. His father could have used that as an idea of like, well, you gotta wait till you're 18 or 21, depending on state law.

He didn't do any of those things. And so, again, my whole thing with the father is: I don't, you know, a little remorse would go a long way right now. To show that you weren't complicit in what your son just said.

Well, let me ask you, just tell me how this goes. Talking with Mike Rogers, FBI background, former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee. Congressman, tell me Elko.

So you can, I know this is rudimentary. Doing something a police officer would do, and you didn't do that. But you come to my house, and because I got called, a cop comes to the house because I got called there. There's a family member who feels threatened, or suicide. The earlier call in 2019 was for suicide.

Now they decide not to press charges and they say, Well, we got our son under control. We think we can handle it from here. Do you write that incident up if they don't want to press charges? Either one of them. Wouldn't you think you're compelled to, and wouldn't that appear in my background check?

Well, he should, except he's a miner. And so there are special protections for miners. And this is why there becomes, in my mind, a greater burden on the parent, the father. to make better decisions in this process. Um That's what's concerning.

Remember the shooting in Michigan had a really very similar uh kind of profile here You know, the child exhibited a lot of the similar kinds of things. Wanted to get a handgun, his parents helped him bought it bought bought him this handgun for his birthday, I think. And then he went off to go into the school and kill people with that handgun. It's the same kind of process. And the issue with law enforcement is we can't ask them to do something that policymakers haven't given the ability to do.

So you can't blame them. If it's a minor, there are special provisions. Mike, I think he was 18. Yeah, but not he is now, but not at the time. No, he's 21 now, 22.

So pretty sure. At the time of the incidents in his family, he was considered a minor, is my understanding.

So now this federal law says you can look into a minor's record prior to 18. That's absolutely necessary. And I think we want to pull the school together. We have to get our system together. Yeah, we have to get our system together.

Don't blame the I mean, listen, I'm sh the police don't have a lot of options when they show up at the house. Nobody wants to press charges. The parents are there and says, No, we got it under control. you don't want we there needs to be discretion in every single case. But you're also counting on the fact that parents are going to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.

And so that to me, that would be the difficult case i the way I hear it. And again, I don't know all the facts. But the way I hear it, that's to me is where I'd come down on this. And I'd put a little you know, listen, that that dad needs has a lot more explaining to do about why he thought that that person could handle a firearm at at any age, candidly. And so, yes, our background chats, we need to be able to look into juvenile behavior when it comes to violence.

But what you don't want to do, and this is important, you don't want to pull a sheet over some kid that made a really dumb decision when he was 15 years old. you know, that he should be punished for. I'm not saying he shouldn't. But then when he's twenty five, twenty six, or thirty or thirty five, pull that out and go, oh, look what you did. You don't you can't have a job, you can't do X, you can't do why.

And I think that's why some of these system these firewalls were in place. We we have technology now though, Brooklyn, that would help law enfor the law enforcement community be able to see that behavior, make a judgment on that behavior as it comes to things like buying a firearm or something dangerous. All right, let's talk about the world stage. Yeah, let's see if it happens. Let's go to the world stage now.

The G20 is taking place in, I think, Indonesia. We're going to have Secretary Blinken, the Foreign Minister of China, and Lavrov of Russia. Russia has already made it very clear. They're being very provocative, saying essentially, don't be surprised if we try to take back Russia that you took from us in 1867, which we bought legally. They say America should not be so concerned about our borders when you took, you expanded against the American Indian population.

What was that, 200 years ago?

So he brings all that up. Medvedev, this is not Vladimir Putin, this is Medvedev, the former president, and then other officials.

So they're being very belligerent on the world stage, warning us. What's your take on this? Flailing. I mean, they have had what are they going to how are they going to take Alaska? With what?

about seventy percent of their troops are Committed to the the Ukraine war, that they wi their invasion. and they are performing pretty poorly.

Now they are doing better because they've concentrated forces and there's a whole series of things that they did to try to perform better, and they are doing that. You and I talked about that. Once they ever got their act together, they could cause a lot of harm and destruction across Ukraine. That's exactly what they're doing. They couldn't duplicate that even in Alaska.

That fight wouldn't last twelve minutes. the way they performed uh in Ukraine and and some of their top line units went into Ukraine.

So I think it's just flailing. I think they're trying to let the world know. I mean, this is an impetus teenager that. Got caught doing something wrong and is now pointing the finger and saying, Yeah, but, you know, we'll look at you. And so I don't think there's a lot of teeth to any of this.

But you do have to be careful. I mean, this guy has Two sets of nuclear arsenals. One is the strategic, the big ICPM missiles that fire off and take out entire cities. And he also has tactical nukes of which Putin has often said and referred to he thinks of those as tools, like a tank or a artillery piece, and that's not like a strategic nuclear weapon, meaning he thinks he can use those in combat. to either deny a you know Normally, it would be used to denied access for certain areas on a battlefield.

And so he has all of those capabilities. But he doesn't have a great I'm taking back Alaska capability at all. And he also wants us to react every time we have to react. If we have to move troops to Alaska or do anything like that, it costs a ton of money, and he knows that.

So I don't know. I think he's flailing. Again, not doing well, but we are not bringing this the Ukraine. Fight. To a rapid conclusion, we keep dibbing and drabbing stuff in to help the Ukrainians fight the Russians.

We've got to get it in quicker, right? All this stuff quickly. Get them all they needed. Remember in the beginning, Brian, when you said, Oh, we're doing all that we can, we've done everything that we can. Really, we just now sent in artillery.

Those Highmar missiles that they're about forty-five, they would be like a long-range artillery shell, basically. We just sent those in.

Well, if you did everything you did six three months ago, why didn't you send those? Those would have been completely devastating to what what big armored units and artillery units that were just wildly exposed by the Russians due to incompetence, candidly, would have been a devastating effect to the Russians. We just now got it in, right? We got put four in, we're gonna put another four in in about three months. And some of his training, I get that, but this could have all been done earlier.

Absolutely. And if we keep dribbing and dribbing, guess what we're going to get? We're going to get a long, sustained Violent, high civilian casualty event. I got a couple more questions. Mike Rogers with us.

Mike, first off, when the President keeps coming out and saying, Blade, Vladimir Putin's price hike, Vladimir Putin for inflation, Vladimir Putin is starving the world. He is lifting up Vladimir Putin's profile for his own people, lengthening the war and the amount of damage he's done. He is making this guy bigger than life. Doesn't he understand it's counterproductive? Wasn't he once chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee?

Doesn't he understand how this plays? And by the way, domestically, nobody's buying it. I think this this is with the Hail Mary Pass. for President Biden. His policies have been atrocious.

done this mix of kind of the AOC wing of the Democrat Party, and he's he's really never governed like a centrist, as he claims he has. He hasn't done any of that, saying he was wrong on economic policy, was wrong on energy policy. This all happened before Putin got in. You know, if you have $10 in your pocket and the federal government dumps a whole bunch of more money in the pot, guess what? That $10 isn't worth $10 anymore.

We're all Finding out that hard economic lesson. Thanks. And by the way, he wants this his solution is, well, maybe I'll put more money in the top of the bill. And it won't work. It's caused high gas not only high gas prices, but high food prices.

And his energy policy, he canceled the Keystone pipeline, and yet he approved the the pipeline from Russia to Germany in the beginning. they they are and they do this because they're this this kind of dangerous climate change virtue signaling That doesn't align what your objectives are, which would be: okay, a cleaner, cleaner, less carbon-burning environment.

Okay, who's not for that? There's a way to do that, and then there's a way to just absolutely punish the American people. To the expense of Mike, I'm going to have to leave it there. That's what he's doing. Yeah, he's former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

FBI guy, Mike Rogers. Thanks so much. Back in a moment. Brian Kilmicho. Expanding your knowledge base.

It's the Brian Kill Meet Show. A talk show that's real. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. There is this sense that things are kind of out of control and he's not in command. No one president could control inflation, but it is a, you know, it's a gale-force wind right now.

It's affecting politics. very hard to come you know to you you heard him on gas prices today Talks about the gas tax holiday, but he's not going to get the gas tax holiday. And there are a lot of Americans who are skeptical about whether that would. Uh that would help.

So there, you know, this is a very, very freighted, a fraught environment for him right now. No kidding. That is David Axarod, who I think has been very fair with Joe Biden, gave him a second chance when he talks about him, when he meanders and doesn't seem clear. He to me, my opinion only, I don't think he's ever been that big a fan. And when he became president, he said, Well, it beats Donald Trump.

But I'm going to call like I see it. And I think that he cannot pretend that things are going well right now. And he can't look around and see Rah Emmanuel, who's very competent. You know, Eric Holder, who I thought was terrible, but he was competent. I see Merrick Gorland in over his head, a Secretary of State that makes me feel anything but assured.

A Secretary of Defense, who's a robot not even pushing back against vaccine mandates. And I think that you have a president who has no answers to the biggest questions that matter most that affect all of us, except blame Trump. Live from the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, fresh off the set of Fox and Friends, it's America's receptive voice. Brian Killmead. Hi, everybody Brian Kilmead here.

Thanks so much for being with us all week long, especially kind of a holiday week where so many decided I'm going to extend my week or maybe take this week off. A lot of you are listening and I appreciate it. Nick Calio joins us at the bottom of the hour. He's an airline expert, Airlines for America president and CEO. We want to get to the bottom line on why all of our flights are canceled or delayed almost everywhere I go.

It's happening. Every airline, you have first you want to blame this one, then you want to blame that one. Then you realize it's all of them. What happened? You have Bernie Sanders comes out and said, we gave $50 billion to the airline industry.

What happened? Well, what's the answer? Instead of saying they're bad people, bad pilots, bad management. Where are the people? Where are the flight attendants?

Where are the pilots? Where are the planes? We'll find out. I want to get the facts. Mark Thiessen will be with us in a matter of moments, too, former chief speechwriter for Bush, Fox News contributor, Washington Post columnist.

There's a lot going on now at home and abroad. In case you do not know, a few hours ago, the Prime Minister of the UK resigned and disgraced Boris Johnson. The only person who doesn't know he's disgraced is Boris Johnson. He came out and just gave himself credit for all he accomplished, and he said the herd mentality hurted him right out. Not really.

You didn't tell the truth a lot. I'm not going to bring you inside British politics, but the one person that benefits from this is one of the most evil men on the planet, Vladimir Putin.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. It appears when he drove to Madison, he was driving around.

However, he did see a celebration that was occurring in Madison, and he seriously contemplated using the firearm he had in his vehicle to commit another shooting. Do you believe this? Highland massacre could have been worse. Did you just heard the shooter was going to Madison, got there, decided he didn't plan well enough, came back, was arrested. Also, the gun slipped out of the sheet he was carrying it in.

Imagine if it didn't, we'd still be looking for him. Number two. Everything Biden does is permeated by this, you know, leftist climate change Green New Deal. And he really believes that this high price of oil will be mitigated with the use of renewables. Barry Kudlow, outrageous.

Reuters reports our strategic oil reserve is going to China and India, who's aiding and betting Russia. It's America's great crude oil and our energy and our security, and it's going out to our enemies. Is there any explanation that would work for this? Number one. The guy is a little fraud.

I mean, look, he sided with the Biden administration killing the energy industry in Ohio in the name of green energy. I'm not surprised that he's politically smart enough to know that he has to run from Joe Biden. Yeah, that is J.D. Vance. Insult to injured.

Two Dems, including Tim Ryan, looking for statewide office in Ohio, skipped President Biden's speech in Cleveland, underlying the president's weakness and the foundation starts cracking beneath his feet.

However, the Republicans don't have a clear path to power either. I'll explain. With me right now is Mark Thiessen. Mark, I'll start with the last sentence. The Democrats are stronger than Joe Biden.

Would you say that? And I think that even though the House is about an 85% chance of going Republican, the Senate is going to be a dogfight. Yes, I think that's right. I think it's almost inevitable that the House will turn. And to some extent, that's all we need because the what we need to do is stop the Democrats from being able to pass Democrats only reconciliation bills.

And if we control one House, then that's over. The Senate comes down to about five races that are toss ups. And two of the two of those are Pennsylvania and Georgia. And of course, you've got we pick the weak we pick weak candidates in both of those races. You've got Mehmet Oz, who is trailing, who's not been ahead in a single poll and is trailing a candidate who's had a stroke and hasn't been appeared on the campaign trail in months.

And in Georgia, there's a new Quinnippi Act bowl that shows that Herschel Walker is 10 points behind. I don't know if that's true. That may be an outlier. But if we give away two winnable races, then yeah, we could lose. Republicans could not fail to take back the Senate.

The good news is that if they fail to take it back now, then they're probably going to take it back in 2024 because the field in 2024 is incredibly tilted towards the Republicans. Republicans are only defending 10 seats. Democrats are defending, I think, 23. And not one of the Republicans' seats. That they're defending is in a state that Biden won.

The closest is Florida, which Trump won by five points.

So if they don't take it now, they're going to take it in 2024 and possibly the White House. And so I don't understand why the Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster because within two and a half years, they could be completely out of power in both houses of Congress and the White House. You're going to go so many of Arabs' expertise, but one is domestic policy, the other is foreign policy. Joe Biden mixed both, and I think we need to take this on. Not enough people are.

First off, President Biden, every time he elevates Vladimir Putin, blames him for stuff like the oil, the price of gas and oil, and now inflation. He inflates his importance on the world stage, which helps him domestically and makes the violence last longer with greater duration. Here is President Biden, Cup 4. We got a long way to go because of inflation, because of The I call it the Putin. tax increase.

Putin because of gasoline and all that grain he's keeping from being able to get to the market.

Now I'm fighting like hell the lower cross. Costs on things that you talk about around your kitchen table.

So it makes no sense.

Now Putin's responsible for inflation. First off, he also goes on to say that Vladimir Putin's responsible, which is true, for the grain not getting out of the Ukraine, as if we can't fix that. Get our Navy in there and escort it out. That's a world issue. one hundred percent.

I mean, look, number one, it's just factually incorrect that this is a Putin price hike because we had forty year high inflation in the fall of twenty twenty one, long before the invasion of Ukraine. Biden had broken the rec thirty year high year over year increase in gas prices in October of twenty twenty one, long before the invasion of Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has added to the problem and has increased prices somewhat, but it all ha that we hit we broke the records before long before Ukraine. And Joe Biden, who the one thing he's doing right Though not doing it very well, but doing right is supporting the Ukrainians in their fight against Putin. If he wants to undermine public support for the war in Ukraine, the best way to do it is to say the war in Ukraine is the reason why you're paying so much more on gas.

The reason the war in Ukraine is the reason why inflation is going up.

So one, it's not true, but two, it's undermining public support for the one thing he's doing right as president. I mean, it's just, it's so people are going to say, oh, so why are you supporting the war in Ukraine then? You know, if that's costing us so much money.

So he's, he's, I mean, the incompetence, the political incompetence on top of the policy incompetence is just stunning. I know. They don't have a call rover or an axle rod in there to say, Mr. President, there's a downside to what you're saying. And also, it gives Vladimir Putin a chance to make a speech to Moscow and said, look at what the President of the United States is giving us credit for.

We are giving him credit for destroying Western culture. They are at each other's throats. Kids, people can't afford to go on vacation all because of us, and that's how much power we have.

So I want you to hear what Pierce Morgan said about the news that Prime Minister Boris Johnson. One person loving all this chaos, both in the UK and the US, and all the uncertainty, is Vladimir Putin. This all plays right into his hands. This is what he wants to see. Countries that should be united to try and stop his rampage through Ukraine actually splintering into complete chaos and a vacuum of leadership.

Am I right? Is he right? I think he's 100% right. Yeah, you know, it's sure, but on the other hand, if I could get rid of if we could have had a parliamentary system and I can get rid of Joe Biden tomorrow, I'd do it.

So, on one hand, yes, on the other hand, no. I mean, look, the problem we have is that Biden is not, the war in Ukraine is dragging on because Biden is not flooding the zone, right? The Ukrainians are running out of artillery. We're not providing it fast enough. They're not being able to fire back at the Russians.

They're not being able to drive them back. What we've got is that we're helping them. fight to a s to a standstill. We need to help them win. The faster we help them win, the faster the war in Ukraine ends, the faster the quote unquote Putin price hike goes away.

And so Biden should be trying to flood the zone and do more and get this thing finished. Give them enough weapons so that they can defeat the Russians. And he's not doing that. And the other thing, Brian, is just going back to this inflation point. What Biden doesn't want to acknowledge, but which is absolutely true, is that the reason we have inflation is because of the American Rescue Plan.

He is he poured. $1.9 trillion into an economy that was already recovering because he wanted to claim credit for the economic recovery, and instead he stymied it. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that because of the American Rescue Plan, Americans had $2.7 trillion at the end of 2021 in excess savings, meaning savings beyond what they would have had had there been no pandemic. That's the reason why people are not going back to work. It's all the free government money.

And the stimulus checks stopped at the end of last year.

So you would think that people would start spending their savings and eventually start coming back to work. We wouldn't have this historic labor shortage. It turns out the Wall Street Journal reports, Americans have only spent $114 billion of that.

So they have $1.8 billion. seven trillion dollars left In excess savings, until that money gets spent out that the go that the Biden administration gave people, people aren't going to go back to work. And so businesses can't find workers. And if businesses can't find workers when demand is skyrocketing, that's why you have the problem with the planes. You're about to have Nick Calio on.

The reason why is they don't have they don't have the workers to man the flights. Why don't they have the they're willing to spend money, they're willing to pay them, but people aren't working because they've got all this government money in their bank accounts. They don't need to work. They can stay on the sidelines. And so y until that the the damage is done, there's no way you can f fix it until Until they spend out those savings.

And that's the reason it's not that has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin. It has to do with the American Rescue Plan. All right. That's a great point. And the American Rescue Plan was this is how clueless and how much he disagrees.

He went to Cleveland predominantly to say, look at me, I gave you the American Rescue Plan, Ohio. No one showed up to. And by the way, no one's bringing up the fact that the Intel plant that was supposed to bring chip manufacturing back to America is now on hold. They say, I'm not convinced I'm going to get the congressional support. Really?

So now they're not building the plant that he has been heralding of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. and away from China and Taiwan. Speaking of this, the story that Reuters has, that our strategic oil reserve is being poured out and it's going on the world market into the coffers of China, into the country of China, and into India, who should be sanctioned right now, secondary sanctions, because what they're doing to bolster Russia by buying their oil. How unacceptable is that, Mark Teessen? It's absurd.

The idea that you would release the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and instead of using it here at home, sell it to other countries abroad. It's just absolutely mind boggling. And here's the thing that drives me crazy, again, the incompetence of this administration. They say that they don't want to unleash domestic production because you know, that's not going to it's a global price of oil, and that's not going to reduce gas prices.

So we can't do more drilling. We can't do more domestic production because we need to stop fossil fuels and tran have this great transition.

Well, if more domestic production won't lower lower the price of gas, then how does releasing the Strategic Paratroleum Reserve do it? It's the same thing. It's just one is producing more, producing more, the other is releasing from a reserve you have. It's the same idea. You put more gas into the market and that lowers prices.

So their arguments are incompetent. If if if if strange the strategic petroleum reserve is the smart thing that he's taking credit for for trying to reduce gas prices, how about you know not banning, which he just did, all further offshore drilling in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Yeah.

It's anti-American. And you factor in the border, you wonder how much more he can do to destroy our country. These aren't bad policies, they're evil policies. Lastly, I want to try to squeeze this in. Gavin Newsom is doing something interesting, taking out an ad in Florida, kind of baiting Governor DeSantis to act to go after him.

We know he took out an account on Trump's social and is kind of sparring with Republicans, but he can't help himself. Then it turns out he's in Montana, a place where he told everybody state workers are not allowed to go because of their stance on women's sports. He believed they believe only women should play women's sports when it comes to high school and college, not transsexuals. And guess where he is? Montana.

You factor in the hypocrisy of not wearing a mask at the Laker game in the luxury box with all those celebrities, the French laundry appearance, his kids going to private school. How is he, in a recent poll I saw, actually beating Trump and beating him? DeSantis. You know what? One of the things about polls like that is they ask people if the election were held today, who would you vote for?

And most people respond, if the election were held today, I'd be very surprised. The election is in 2024.

So none of this matters, right? The reality is, if you want to see how people are voting, look at them voting with their feet. People are fleeing California. And where are they fleeing to? People are fleeing to places like Florida.

The number of people moving into Florida because it's like jumping over the Berlin Wall into a land of freedom. Because of low taxes, they opened up their state before almost anybody else. They're thriving. Everybody's moving to Florida. Everybody's leaving California.

So if you want to referendum on their policies as governor, I would put DeSantis up against Gavin Newsom any day of the week. Right. What's he up to? Why is he doing this now? Why is he doing this now with a sitting different?

Because he wants to run for president, because he thinks Joe Biden is so weak that he won't be able to run in 2024 and the jockeying has already begun. And Gavin Newsom thinks that he's done such a great job in California, he wants to turn America into California. And that's what American voters want. I guess if he's that clueless, I hope you're wrong. Mark Thiessen, thanks so much.

Take care. Always great. Listen, Brittany Greiner was just in a Russian court and pled guilty to the drug charges. Not sure what that means about her release? You'll listen to the Brian Killmeat show.

Diving deep into today's top stories, it's Brian Kilmead. A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmead. Boris Johnson doesn't play by the normal rules. You know, many people think he's the kind of Donald Trump of the UK.

He just basically thinks rules are for other people. And I think he, you know, that all politicians crave power. And he at the moment remains prime minister. And I think that he thinks the process is so slow, it can buy him time to potentially try and do something which will keep him in office. I don't think anybody else shares that view other than Boris Johnson.

And there's a rising tide of anger from Conservative members of parliament today that think that this is ridiculous and he should go immediately. My gut feeling is he will have to go. very soon.

Okay, a couple of things. He's 100% right. And I just think how Boris Johnson relates to the West, we need a reliable friend. I mean, Tony Blair was a real good friend. David Cameron was a friend to Democratic presidents.

Like, for example, Barack Obama, because he was against Brexit and he said, Obama, do not do a free trade deal with the UK now that we're out. And he said he wouldn't. You go to the back of the queue if you vote for Brexit. Remember that. But Boris Johnson is a guy with a little bit of a charisma, certainly a presence, and not afraid on the world stage, got good instincts.

But this is conservatives who rise in the UK, which I think helps our country. But here's the worst thing: everything he did was inconsequential idiocy, lack of discipline. I mean, much like uh his hair. He his hit thing is he doesn't comb it. For him, if you're in the middle of a pandemic and you lock down your country and you have one get-together that maybe they surprise party for you, you didn't know about, maybe looks bad, but you have repeated events where people sneak in alcohol and you have these parties, think you're gonna be able to pull it off, then you hire a sexual harasser and he harasses again.

And then you wonder why you pay a political price and you have price, and you have 50 ministers resign. Didn't have to be this way. Vladimir Putin loves it. Loves the chaos. When we come back and talk about chaos, that's the air on industry.

Why? Nick Kalio tells us. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Killmead.

So we've seen a number of different overlapping issues.

Some of it has to do with staffing. A lot of pilots were invited to take early retirement. Air crews weren't brought back at the level that we need. When you look at our air traffic control system, for example, that is not explaining the majority of cancellations and delays.

So that is the Secretary of Transportation who then used his Twitter account to tell everybody: don't accept points when they cancel or reschedule your flight. Demand cash. That's the advice we get from Secretary of Transportation instead of solving the problem. Nick Calio, he's Airlines for American President and CEO, joins us now. Nick, I think your industry is everyone befuddled and angry.

What happened? Well, a lot of things happened, Brian. First of all, thank you for having me on. We've had a confluence of Bad weather in the wrong places over two holidays, a surge in demand that came back faster than we expected. And we have been in the process of trying to hire people, pilots, flight attendants.

customer service agents, gate agents. machinist for some time now. And you know, I I guess I would say too that not everybody is angry. There's been a lot of press on it, and certainly there have been difficulties and problems. We've all seen it.

It's on the news every night. We're a very high profile industry. But There are 40,000 flights every day, as many as 5,000 flights in the area at any given time, the vast majority of which go off seamlessly. And that is our goal every single day to give a customer service that allows people to get to where they want to go, whether it be for business or for pleasure. Right.

I mean, the numbers are astounding.

So far in 2022, an average of one of every five fights a day arrived behind schedule. A total of more than 20,000 delayed flights, according to Fight Aware, and 116,000 flights have been canceled. Me personally, I've never had, I travel a lot. I never had it happen before where they just go, your fight's canceled. And you think there's no reason there's not, hey, sorry, we're down a crew member.

No, that's just canceled. Why did you make it in the first place? But a lot of people, I've never seen more people more disillusioned by any one industry. And the question is, if all the money came to the airlines, To keep 700,000 people employed, why aren't they running as smooth as they were before the pandemic hit? There's no simple answer for that, but I will give you an answer that is true and factually based.

The reason, first of all, the money that was provided the airlines, we acted as a non-employment agency for the federal government. We passed it right through to our employees. The money that was given to us covered only about 65 percent of the cost of keeping those employees on. And you need a little context. If you go back two years, we were bleeding billions and billions of dollars of cash every month.

So we were able to keep some people on, but then we had to take self-help measures because we didn't know when flying would come back. We were flying 96% less people than we were prior to the pandemic when it hit. That happened within a month. Either the companies were going to go bankrupt like they did after 9-11, or we had to take drastic measures to. We to give people uh early retirement, voluntary leaves and all that.

If the PSP hadn't happened, you wouldn't be flying this summer, plain and simple. That's what people need to keep their eye on.

So were the airlines losing money before the pandemic? Is that what you said? Or do I misunderstand you? No, we had ten years in a row of profitability.

Okay. And we were making record profits. And things were going great. We had, at the time, the week before the pandemic really hit, there was an investment conference up in New York with a lot of our airlines. And there was a recognition that we had so-called Fortress balance sheets designed to withstand an event like 9-11, three and a half times as bad as 9-11.

That all went out the window in three weeks.

So a couple of things. Just to have fact and fiction. Uh that the airlines mandated these all the pilots get vaccinated and flight attendants get vaccinated and a lot just bailed out. Is that true? I I don't think there's any material number of people who did that.

But I know United mandated vaccinations. For pilots, correct? Correct. Dave, you guys haven't sent it Okay, go ahead. No, I was just going to say, Brian, United did do that.

Some others did it as well. And the expectation there were predictions that people would quit their job because they had to get vaccinated. Frankly, they're really good jobs, and the numbers were very small, if any. As it turned out.

So what about whatever happened to the flight attendants? I heard you're running out of flight attendants. Um Your flight attendant numbers are in pretty good shape. I think. But we are hiring more.

We're bringing people back as quickly as we can. You know the problem with the airline industry, we're having the same kind of problems that every other industry in this country is having. The bigger problem for an airline is because we are so focused on safety and security, All of our employees have to be trained and certified. And what we've been finding in some cases over the last few months, Brian, is we're bringing people back, we're getting them trained close to certified, and then they decide they don't want the job. And again, that's like every other industry in the country.

The pandemic has wrought some very big changes in our employment market. And they decide they don't want the job.

So because it it was just brutal? Because people are the people's behavior? Is that what flight attendants are feeling for the most part if you talk to their unions, that they don't like the behavior or the treatment? What is the reason? Because this used to be a coveted position.

No one ever seemed to relinquish it once they got it.

Well, it still is a coveted position. And we haven't seen any mass migration of flight attendants leaving their jobs. There was a time when because of the masks and other reasons where there was a lot of bad behavior on airplanes, and they are the first responders. They're right in the line, and they do it admirably. They're the back part of the backbone of the industry, just like our pilots are and all our other employees.

So Pilots retiring, is that correct? You're short of pilots. What Our mainline carriers, A4A members, are not having a pilot supply. We have enough pilots. We're hiring furiously.

We're training. Many of our members have started their own flight academies. It takes a long time to become a pilot. It's very expensive. That's why we think that pilots in training ought to be like doctors in training or accountants in training and be able to get federal student loans.

It costs $200,000. Where there is a problem, quite candidly, is for the regional carriers, the smaller carriers, because that's our main source of hiring. And they in some cases have had to pull down flights and stop service to communities because they do not have enough pilots.

So I saw was it Delta that was on strike? Last week? No, they weren't striking, they were protesting.

Okay. Um, are they underpaid? I don't think so. These are good being a pilot is a well paid job. Does everybody always want more money?

Yes. And that's what the protests were about.

So I'm talking about. I'm talking now with Nick Calio, the President and CEO of Airlines for America.

So, Nick, so the flight attendants, the ranks are pretty much okay. You believe so far, the pilots, the numbers are okay except for some regional airlines. You believe that the airline workers were having trouble staffing there. Is that correct? We're hiring as fast as we can.

and we want to go faster. Right. So when these delays start mounting up to the unprecedented worst ever. What do you, what do you is the quick answer or the longer answer on why this is happening, and when do you think things will go back to normal? That's a good question.

We've learned one thing throughout the pandemic. You can plan, but you can't forecast. And so we've planned. And there's a lot of reasons for cancellations. There's shared responsibilities across.

There are staffing shortages in the federal government, just as there are in our industry. And we're working our way through those as quickly as we can. But there's no easy answer because, again, it gets back to the training and certification issue. It takes time to get people trained and on board. You can't snap your fingers and do it.

In terms of air traffic controllers, because of COVID, they had to shut down the training academy for two years. that really dried up the pipeline, and they're doing everything they can. The FAA is doing everything it can to get people on board. We're all working collaboratively together to try to figure out ways to hire faster, train faster and more efficiently because that's what we need to do. And it's going to take some time.

And do you think by the end of the summer? I would hope by the end of the summer, but I can't predict that. We've taken down our members have pulled down a number of flights, about fifteen percent of the flights. They had originally planned to fly to make sure that there would be fewer cancellations and disruptions because of unavailability. The other thing would I think a lot of people would like to know with all these flight delays and with the fight cancellations.

On top of that, you're paying more for jet fuel.

So, which means the prices have to go up because you can't lose money with every flight.

So how does that factor into this? It's the price increase in oil is a big factor. And we are going to moderate the prices to the degree that we can. Although the rise in prices is still We'll put it this way, demand is still high, which tells you something about the price. and we will have to factor in all of our costs.

Our two greatest costs are fuel and labor. And both of those costs are going up. All right, and have any tips for people listening right now from the passenger perspective? How do we know if the flight we're booking has a shot at getting off on time since it seems so random with the cancellations. My greatest recommendation would be airlines have made vast improvements in the technology available to customers.

It's one of our greatest ways of communicating.

So if you have name any airline, if you have their app on your phone, you will get messages saying your flight is at gate so-and-so. It's scheduled to go off on time. You'll get another notice if it's delayed. If it's canceled, it will allow you to rebook online rather than trying to call a customer service agent. That's the number one thing you can do.

Get to the airport early, get your airline's app and keep checking because the information is all there for you. And even other than notifications from the airline itself, all you have to do is click on the app, look at the different buttons and check your choices and find out what your flight status is, where your bags are, all those kinds of good things. You know, for a technologically challenged person like me, it's not initially easy. But if I can do it, almost anybody can do it.

So, do you think they know more than the gate agents? The app, believe your app over the gate agent, believe your app over somebody at the airport. That's a very good question, but I would check. I think it's easier than stand queuing in line to ask the gate agent what the delay is for. I think my hope would be that there's a lot of communication from the gate agents or the pilots or the flight attendants to the customers.

So that they don't have to ask. And finally, Nick, when it comes to all this on the ultimate Passenger Uh advice. Is it true that you guys are told that people who pay more for ticket to first class, business class are treated? better given first options.

So if there is money in the cookie jar to get that upper that first class or business class ticket and you're worried about cancellations and rescheduling, is it true first and business Are prioritized? Um I can't really answer that. I do know that if you're a frequent flyer, and a loyal customer for a particular airline, you usually do get priority.

So that would help getting rescheduled. Nick Calio, and by the way, is the Secretary of Transportation not doing something you want him to do? Is Washington not doing something you've been asking them to do? No, we work very closely at them. It's all about collaboration, coordination.

We do it with the FAA, we do it with DOT, we do it with the Transportation Security Administration. It's a daily thing to try to figure out where the demand is going to be and where the numbers are going to be, and therefore moving staffing around, if need be, to cover the demand at any particular time. Air traffic controllers, I heard that there was no training going on during the break, during the two-year pandemic, and therefore you are short. I think they are hiring as fast as they can, and there is we need more air traffic controllers. And that I know you know this, Brian, that training is very extensive.

You do your training, then you have to get on the job training. And to get in one of the busier centers, it can take years to do so. How short are you? Do you know? I don't have a number on that.

We can certainly use more. That way, if people get sick or something you can have you have the staff to cover. Got it. Nickelio, thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Ryan. Take care. Number one story: for consumers of all ages, customers of all ages, of all backgrounds, of all genders. All pronouns. What happened to my flight?

Why was it canceled? Why was it delayed? Why did mine come off and why not yours? What could I have done different? The answer is, it's going to take a while.

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You're with Brian Killmead. The guy is a total fraud. I mean, look, he decided to side with illegal aliens over his own citizens who are being killed in record numbers by fentanyl overdoses. He sided with the Biden administration killing the energy industry in Ohio in the name of green energy, which of course has just shipped a ton of manufacturing jobs and a ton of prosperity off to China. He sided with the Biden administration 100% of the time on policies that made our streets less safe, that defunded American police departments, and that made us all poorer through the ridiculous inflation we're experiencing.

I'm not surprised that he's politically smart enough to know that he has to run from Joe Biden. I'm a little surprised at the shamelessness of it all that the guy Campaigned for Joe Biden, supported every single one of his policies, and pretends now on his TV commercials that he's never heard of him. Which is really weird. J.D. Vance trying to replace Rob Portman in Ohio.

WHIO listeners know all about this. And at the same time, he says Tim Ryan, who at first when he came in to Congress, I thought he was going to be a moderate. He went on, took on Nancy Pelosi. Then he had no interest in doing it. He's losing his temper on the floor all the time, condemning going to the left on guns and things to that nature.

And now that he got the nomination, congratulations to him.

Now he also ran for president. It was a hideous failure. But then he comes forward and he says, I've got no use for Joe Biden. He sounds more like a conservative. But he expects people to avoid and actually not bring up his voting record.

I actually think it's kind of rude. I mean, how much would it hurt Joe Biden to show up or him to show up one day just for Joe Biden? Always appreciate the president. Numbers aren't great right now. I voted with him a few times, but gotta run.

But instead, he made it a big story by not showing up. The governor nominee makes it a big story by not showing up. He goes to Cleveland, could have been a brief introduction, waves from the audience. Great to see you. Got a run.

That's it. Evidently, Joe Biden says that's his base, the union base. I think that that would help in Ohio, but maybe he knows better. The problem is, when people see inauthenticity, that's what bothers them.

So if you want to say, I voted very liberal, but I understand if I'm going to be a senator, I will change my pattern because I got to vote more moderate because that's more reflective of a red state in Ohio, I think people would buy that better, but that's just me. Also, when it comes to campaigning, there's two things that were brought up. that I necessarily agree with uh A part of it. They say in Pennsylvania, if you want the Senate, Uh you need Georgia and you need Pennsylvania. They say Oz is a weak candidate, that Fetterman is still ahead, even though he's a heart issue.

I think you get sympathy with a heart issue, number one. Number two, he's way to the left. Oz has been really hit hard by Dave McCormick. hard. That was a butt and guts fight.

Oz wins. And of course, he's got to reassemble and consolidate the moderate and conservative support in Pennsylvania. Number two is Fetterman got sympathy. Not many people want him, so between those two things. Number two, Herschel just put out his first ad the other day.

Warnock's been around. Virtual had the prob the issue with his family and with kids. Feels like he answered that. We'll be out and about with him shortly too in Georgia.

So don't knock him down because one quint a Pierre call.

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It's Brian Kilmead. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. Brian Kill Meet Show. We've had a very, very busy week, especially for an off day. Sadly, it was the July 4th massacre and one that was thwarted in Richmond that really made this week drag on.

For many of you, you listening to us for the first time because you take the whole week off, and I appreciate that. Kind of cool. You'll get to see me on Fox News channel as well as Fox Nation, as well as through all the radio affiliates. When the Faulkner Focus does a simulcast with us in 11 minutes, and then. You'll get a chance to talk about what the Republicans should be emphasizing in something they've been avoiding.

The January 6th. The January 6th and 2020 elections, the January 6th investigation in 2020 elections, from the Federalist perspective. You'll really enjoy that.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. It appears when he drove to Madison, he was driving around.

However, he did see a celebration that was occurring in Madison, and he seriously contemplated using the firearm he had in his vehicle to commit another shooting. You believe that? That's Christopher Corvelli, the sergeant in charge of the investigation. The Highland massacre could have been worse. He went to Madison, Wisconsin, decided I didn't plan long enough.

I probably won't kill a bunch of random people. Unfortunately, he decided to do that in Highland.

So that's what took place. It's despicable. And guess what? His dad had all the red flag signs, but says he had no idea. I don't buy it.

He's complicit. Number two. Everything Biden does is permeated. By this leftist climate change Green New Deal. And he really believes that this high price of oil will be mitigated with the use of renewables.

Outrageous. Reuters reports our strategic oil reserve is going to other countries. Even our enemies, China and India, who is aiding Russia, they should be getting sanctioned. It's America's great crude oil and it's going to other people in a time of emergency. Oil and gas, unbelievable, unacceptable, I think impeachable.

Number one. The guy is a total fraud. I mean, look, he sided with the Biden administration killing the energy industry in Ohio in the name of green energy. I'm not surprised that he's politically smart enough to know that he has to run from Joe Biden. Right, that is J.D.

Vance talking about Tim Ryan refusing to appear with the President of the United States, who was in Cleveland, Ohio yesterday, says he was too busy, had previous plans. Right. Why? Because he voted with Joe Biden, doesn't want to be seen with Joe Biden. That's not acceptable.

It comes off as inauthentic. But what else would you expect in today's political climate? Um first off A couple of things. This is the breaking news we weren't prepared to get until. Until we heard it rumored, but it actually took place.

Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister. A disaster for the West, a disaster for the war against Russia, a disaster for the war which is in Europe. And overall, his dishonesty hurt the Conservative movement in a country with a desperate need of leadership. But his undisciplined style of hiring sexual harassers and possibly molesters, of him lying about pandemic parties and other things, brought him to this point. And Niall Gardner weighed in on Fox and Friends this morning.

Cut three. Boris Johnson is a very big supporter of the U.S.-UK special relationship. He has, though, had, in my view, I think, quite a tense relationship with Joe Biden behind the scenes. Most recently, there have been significant differences over the Northern Ireland Protocol issue. And certainly there has been, I think, a fair amount of disagreement between Boris Johnson and Joe Biden in some areas, although both leaders have worked closely together on the Ukraine.

Ukraine crisis, it is imperative, of course, that whoever replaces Boris Johnson is fully committed to advancing the US-UK special relations. Yeah, they need a trade deal. And Trump was going to do that. And he wanted to support Brexit and the UK being on their own. And for some reason, Biden wasn't buying that.

Well, not for some reason. Democrats didn't want to see Brexit happen, but it happened. They should be doing it. He should have gotten that layup and reaffirmed his. International relations.

Bonifites.

Meanwhile, the President of the United States was in Cleveland, as I mentioned earlier, and he was talking about who's to blame for inflation, who's to blame for oil and gas prices, who's to blame for his thirty six percent approval rating.

Well, let me see. Maybe MAGA, maybe Trump, maybe Putin. Cuff four. We got a long way to go because of inflation, because of The I call it The Putin tax increase. Putin because of gasoline and all that grain he's keeping from being able to get to the market.

Now I'm fighting like hell the lower costs on things that you talk about around your kitchen table. Is he crazy? Vladimir Putin's in charge of inflation now, or was that the pandemic and bad supply lines and not planning for that? And maybe you're putting too much money in the system. Nothing to do with Vladimir Putin.

But it does bolster him domestically and around the globe, makes him bigger than he actually is in every sense of the word. You have a president with 36% approval rating, and because he flat-out earned it, no one's forgiven him from Afghanistan, and they shouldn't. Here's what David Axelrod assessed things: Democratic strategist cut seven. There is this sense that things are kind of out of control and he's not in command. No one president could control inflation, but it is a you know, it's a gale-force wind right now, it's affecting politics.

very hard to come you know you you heard him on gas prices today Talks about the gas tax holiday, but he's not going to get the gas tax holiday. And there are a lot of Americans who are skeptical about whether that would. That would help.

So there, you know, this is a very, very freighted, fraugen environment for him right now. Two things happened. One, he thought he got 82 million votes and said, I have a mandate. Let me call John Meacham up and talk about how FDR did it. He didn't have that mandate, doesn't have the charisma, it's not a time of war, and he doesn't have, he has a 50-50 Senate.

David Axerrod went a little further to say, of all the questions, Joe Biden doesn't have great answers. Cut eight. When the president got into those questions, gas prices and inflation and abortion rights, there was a lot less of that certainty, a lot less of that emphatic nature of his initial presentation on NATO because he doesn't have great answers. Yeah.

We're going to talk more about this with Harris Faulkner, who pointed out that things are looking good for Republicans, but all of a sudden. Nancy Pelissa comes out with a poll. And she says, it looks like we're winning in six, they're going to win six Senate seats. And I wonder, they cited 538. And I went to 538 site.

I didn't see it there. I thought, I must have missed this story.

Well, it turns out she made it up. We'll talk about that with Harris Faulkner and so much more, and how the vice president continues to struggle on just about every stage. Brian Kilby Cho, so glad you're here. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show.

Welcome back, everyone. Brian Kilmead here. In about a matter of moments, we're going to go on the Fox We're Focus on Fox News channel. We'll do a SamoCast. And so a lot of what we were talking about already, Joe Biden last night in Cleveland, the big story was two people did not show up.

One wants to be governor, one wants to be senator. They did not want to be seen with him. And just think, not even two years into his administration, on the midterm elections, Tim Ryan and Nan Whaley are an MIA. And that is insulting to me. It's kind of scary because they see internal polls that we don't usually see.

So to me, If it's the last year of a lame duck presidency, maybe you do your own thing. Like George W. Bush kind of let. John McCain does his own thing because he wasn't that popular. The economy was cratering.

But let's listen to Harris. He'll introduce me. Your intestinal fortitude, my friend. I appreciate that, Harris. Thank you.

Good to see you. Brian Kilmead, Fox and Friends co-host and host of One Nation on Fox Nation, and now. Hosting along with Harris Faulkner in the focus, but we got to make it fast because he's got a commercial coming up or something. Brian, first of all, let's get to where the president is, and he wants to call it messaging. Communications want to call it messaging.

Now you've got your comms director, Kate Bettingfield, leaving. By the way, he has not said anything about her yet. His chief of staff has, but this is a key person on your staff. She's a really good communicator. By the way, I have 11 minutes, so I'm okay.

And thanks for joining me on One Nation last week in our big news duel. And welcome back this week. Harris, first of all, it was nice to beat you so many times. It's true. Katex, she does a really good job.

Just like you might not like Jen Sake, what she says or you do, but she's very good on her feet. Kate Bennyfield should have been the press secretary. People say that's a downgrade position, but word is she wanted it. And when she didn't get it, what's she doing there? She would have been light years better than who they have right now, I believe.

So Kate Benningfield step aside, it's going to hurt. Almost like Karen Hughes really hurt when George W. Bush moved into the White House. She was kind of setting the tone in policy when she went back to Texas. I think that hurt.

Number two, he can ill afford to lose another key staffer at this moment, especially one that can communicate. And here's the problem: the president of the United States is used to turning off Republicans, just like President Obama turned off Democrats, turned off Republicans. And I imagine Donald Trump, according to reports, turned off a few Democrats. Democrats. I get it.

But what he's doing is he's not being effective and he's not telling the truth. To say Vladimir Putin yesterday is responsible for inflation, are you kidding? Vladimir Putin's responsible for their tax hike doesn't even make any sense. Plus, it's hurting him on the world stage. He's making that little judo boy look four times as effective and muscly than he actually is.

He acts like Russia has control of us when they are basically infestation with a small army. And it's upping his reputation at our expense for his political gain, which no one in America is really buying. Yeah, I don't know if I'd refer to him as a muscle boy, the horse riding Putin. But I would say this, you're hitting the nail on the head in terms of you are now putting more power, or at least credit for having power, in the hands of a madman. Like why would Biden do that?

Harris, I'll play it out another role. Guess who's starting to turn against writing blank checks to Ukraine? A lot of the American people, as inflation goes up and our deficit grows, I think it's absolutely worth our dollars. But the president's got to keep selling that.

Now he's going to turn around.

Now he's saying, hey, the reason why you can't really afford to pay your bills, hey, the reason why gas is $5 a gallon is because that war that you weren't really into supporting but you decided to.

Now you're making people question the support of the international operation he actually had support for. It is not a smart move overall. What you're saying is he took, again, a win and turned it into something that was less than a win. He's on the road to doing that. Yeah.

Just real quickly though, on that point, from the polling, because when you read the polling, you read actual questions that they ask people. It isn't that people don't want to help Ukraine. They want to be able to do both. And they know that we're spending enough of our tax dollars with this government that if they would stop spending it on stuff that people don't care about, we would have money to help out Ukraine and help out ourselves too and not have to go to like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for oil. We are begging in the streets of the world now for something we could make ourselves.

Couple of things. It looks like the green maniacs have looked at something we've been saying for the longest time. Nuclear energy is green, and so is natural gas. Guess who's got natural gas? Thanks to fracking, us.

And guess who needs it? Europe. Guess who's getting off it rapidly because the Russians are cutting them off? Europe. You talk about a win-win.

We reinvigorate the natural gas industry. You get LNG plants built at hyperspeed over in Europe. In the meantime, we double and triple the production to be once again their critical ally in the time of need that they can trust. And we tell everybody else who's signing up for the Belt and Road program, the Belt and Road program of China's, don't do it. We don't extort you.

We actually Support you, and then we become invaluable to Europe even more. And yet, it's for-the-profit free-market principles that drive us. He doesn't seem capable of doing that.

Now, they got to go to other areas of Africa to try to get natural gas, beg the UAE for natural gas. That's people are going to be able to do that. They better start northern Africa because China's winking at them right now, giving them cell phones and everything else. That Belt and Road program wants to run right through there. Are you running for president?

All right, I got to go here. That was some good stuff there. The Wall Street Journal, with an editorial titled The Beltways Case. of Biden remorse. A quote here: Stories about the White House dysfunction are the way that the Beltway crowd starts to distance itself from the man they'll blame if it's a Republican route.

Sorry, Mr. President, the party needed you to beat Donald Trump, and you made the mistake of adopting the left's agenda.

Now you're down in the polls. You are expendable. Brian. No question. And I think one thing to keep in mind beyond that, for Republicans to look at Joe Biden, see the weakness, the inability to talk on his feet, to do interviews and to do appearances and take three-day vacations on the weekends and think that Democrats are weak, I think it might give them a false sense.

I think they got individual battles underneath the President of the United States that they have to come out with a better message. But for the President of the United States, he's underachieved. His instincts aren't good on issues. The times he loses his temper a lot. If you go inside some of these reports inside the White House, he's blowing up at mid-level staffers when things go wrong.

And I think that's the worst quality, beating up on people that are powerless. In those situations, which he always said he'd be the opposite. If I find you treating another staffer bad, you're fired on the spot. What about if the president is treating his staff bad? They're deciding to quit on the spot.

But absolutely, there's remorse there. The worst is, I don't think he's coachable. The third thing is, I don't think they got the substantive policies to bring them through. Remember, Bill Clinton famously saw some Republican policies that he liked and adopted them. Dick Morris led him there and said, Those are my policies.

They ended up working. He got credit and he floated to a second to a re-election in a landslide over Bob Dole. I think President Biden is incapable of seeing where the help is coming from. The help is coming from the Harold Fords of the world. The help is coming from the Senator Warners of the world or the Jared Poles, the governor of Colorado.

He doesn't want to take that in because he thinks he sailed in on a mandate. I mean, I don't know why he would think that, as divided as we are, A, as a nation, and B, on the hill. Mm. But that's his perception, apparently. And what's really sad about it is he can't even articulate that.

I do want to get to this. And I wrote down what you said: Biden is underachieving. That is a key point. And Steve Hilton talked about Boris Johnson leaving. He started with that underachieving on policy in that same place.

We made some comparisons there. All right, we'll move to this. Speaker Nancy Pelosi charged with helping her party prevail in the midterms. Can she do it?

Well, it looks like that means stretching the truth. Or, as we like to say in my house, lying like your pants are on fire. In a fundraising email, she cited. 538, the polling firm, to claim Democrats look, quote, poised to win six Senate seats in November. Actually, most of those races are toss-ups or leaning Republican.

Polster Nate Silver called the speaker out, tweeted this: Yeah, this is straight-up misinformation. We have Democrats as heavy underdogs in Florida and Ohio. Even ex-disinformation chief Nina Jankiewicz, getting in on the act, she tweeted, This blatant misrepresentation of Five Thirty Eight's work is unacceptable. DIM should drop this disinfo, as I would wager It was deliberate and focused fundraising on real issues. Wow.

They almost slapped the scarf right off of her, Nancy Pelosi. She always has on those cute scarves. A couple of things they did. There's no doubt about it. You know why?

She cited specific polls. She could have said polls are trending our direction. But that shows you the person who's supposed to have the best staff, the speaker, can't even get her communications right. They're coming apart at the seams.

So this morning, this is how it threw me. The first thing I thought of this morning when I was working on this show and Fox and Friends is what did 538 say? Why am I not seeing this story? I went to Drudge and these FoxNews.com. I'm not seeing this story.

No, in fact, if you go to 538, if I was reading it correctly, it has Republicans 53. It had Democrats 47. And the problem is not Florida. Marco Rubio, Val Demings is a fine candidate, but not stronger than Marco Rubio. And I'll tell you, one of the problems was Compton's going to be the challenge.

It's not listed there. Ron Johnson, again, the underdog. Within Georgia, I know Fersha Walker is down, but he ran his first ad yesterday. I don't think it's time to throw in the towel. And Dr.

Oz, good luck underestimating Dr. Oz. He went through a very fractuous race with very tough Dave McCormick. It's going to take him a little while to get the team back together to compete in a very purple Pennsylvania.

So it's a crazy statement to put out. There's a reason why the former President Trump stood by him. He believed in him. Yeah.

And he can step in at any time. He took that state. Remember that. Brian Kilmead, always great to see you. You've got a scoot.

Your team's yelling. Are they really? No. Doesn't sound like money. Only out of love.

Right. Harris, thanks so much. See you soon. Thank you. All right.

1-866-408-7669. I'm going to come back and I'm going to go inside the Federalists. Margot Cleveland. What she wrote over the weekend is something Republicans should be taking from January 6th. Are you intrigued?

We'll find out what she has to say and find out also if there's more than enough. Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Joe. This is the very core of executive privilege. You just cannot get more concentrated privilege arguments than the White House counsel himself.

It is absolutely essential for the president to be able to turn to an attorney in the White House and ask for his frank advice. That conversation is going to be somewhat chilled, obviously, if the president believes that some questions or comments that he may have could end up being replayed. I would feel better about this if the committee was making any effort to be bipartisan, to be balanced. It's actually looking Look at alternative explanations for some of these facts. That is Jonathan Turley talking about Pat Siplioni's Siplione's testimony on Friday.

He's the president's. Chief legal counsel, and now he's going to be talking about what the president was on his mind, what he thought he was going to say, legal advice he gave him, what he took. I just think there's a real bad precedent here. And I'm wondering where they're going with it, being right now there's no legal ramifications. What are we doing this for?

Just to hurt Donald Trump? That is a bigger picture, a bigger question. It's something that Margot Cleveland thought about when she put together this story on the Federalist. What really Republicans should be getting out of January 6th and the question that should be asked about the 2020 election? Margot, welcome to Brian Kilmey Show.

Thanks so much for having me. First off, just on your reaction to what's happening tomorrow with Pat Siplion saying I'll come testify.

Well, I think as the clip you just played, it really is problematic from a presidential standpoint. I'm assuming that he worked hard with his lawyers to make sure that the conversations that he's going to testify are going to be very limited. But this is really a problem when you have a one-sided committee going and trying to get information communications between the President and his top lawyer. It's an atrocious precedent for our country. A couple of things that you have a big picture look at this.

And by the way, Mick Mulvaney said something. First, he was very critical. He really believed the woman that testified, Cassidy Hutchinson, that testified last week. And then they were on CNN, and they were trying to get on him that he was. That, why are you so late to being so condemning of the president?

He's like, I'm not, and I think this is pure politics. I just think that Cassidy was somebody Republicans should listen to if they decide who the next president should be. You have a different take. You say Republicans should stop talking about what happened with Georgia or invisible ballots that may or may have topped up in Wisconsin or Arizona and all this stuff. But there are things that legitimately were wrong with the 2020 election that Republicans and Donald Trump should have been talking about.

Can you give us an example? Absolutely. So one of the things that the committee is doing is trying to get everyone to talk about election fraud. And some of the more outrageous things that were floated about the machines flipping votes and that there were suitcases of ballots that were fraudulent. what we need to focus on is what a disaster our election system in the United States is.

And we know this because of the widespread problems and violations of election law. Georgia, case in point. In Georgia, there were over 30,000 voters. who it appears voted illegally. And when I say illegally, I mean in violation of the state election code, which requires a candidate excuse me, not candidate, a voter to cast a ballot in the county in which they reside.

And there were more than 30,000 who moved from one county to another and then cast a ballot. And after the election, there was follow up done by a election expert down there, and he's shown that over ten thousand of them have already confirmed that, yeah, they had actually moved.

Now, a lot of people look at this like, oh, well, you know, they had a right to vote, who cares? That's not how you run elections. You have rules, and they're there for a reason. And every time one illegal vote is cast, it disenfranchises. A lawful voter.

You also have to look at it from the standpoint of what if someone wanted to vote, but they followed the rules. They didn't vote illegally. Georgia is one example. We have Pennsylvania, where the legislative branch ignored the Constitution and allowed for no excuse absentee ballots. We have Wisconsin, where we had drop boxes illegally placed.

The problem with the twenty twenty election was not widespread fraud. It was widespread ignoring of the election laws that were passed by the state legislative body. And this is something that Democrats used to care about. If you look at the 2000 and Excuse me, 2004 election where he had Bush v. Gore.

After that, we had the Excuse me, two thousand election. After that we had the two thousand Report by the Carter Commission that went through and detailed all of the problems in our country with voting. Every single one of those happened in 2020 as well.

So you looked at Georgia. Uh w and what about the the governors that just bypass the legislature and change rules? Right, absolutely. And that is a problem. And Texas tried to point that out when they filed a lawsuit.

U.S. Supreme Court said, no, we're not going to look at that. You don't have standing because. You're not one of the voters, you're not one of the candidates. But you can't just ignore these election laws.

But what's happening to it? Nothing is happening. And it is appalling. And this isn't a matter that Trump didn't get in. Don't tell me this is not going to happen when the Democrats lose In two years, the presidency, they are going to come back and do the exact same thing.

It is important for our country that we have rules that they're enforced. and that they're clear. And we can't have just politicians willy-nilly saying, oh, we're not going to follow the law because of. There's always going to be a because of. And that is going to ruin the integrity, and it's going to ruin the trust that Americans have, that the results are valid.

So what's your point about Margot Cleveland, our guest from the Federalists?

So would you say in two years you think if Democrats lose the Presidency, they're going to cite all the same things? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. You still have Hillary Clinton claiming that the election was stolen from her back in twenty sixteen, which is so ironic that Trump's doing it and everybody's crying.

You still have Hillary Clinton doing it. You really believe the overall objective is to the swamp to destroy Trump and anybody else who wants to mess up their life by throwing, you know, turning the cha chairs and table over.

However. Absolutely. This is a forewarning. Don't you dare come in and try to change the way Washington does business. It's not just the Democrats that are doing it.

You're also having some of the establishment Republicans who are either cooperating or they're basically turning a blind eye. And this is something that the American public should not tolerate. And you don't think it's really going to stop. But that's Trump's strategy of coming in there and saying we're going to check this ballot was fake and this voting machine was wrong. That was a bad strategy.

And that enabled people to attack him And look at his legal team, made things up they couldn't even back up, and it makes him look like the Keystone cops when there was something legitimate to look at.

So they they w did worse than uh not worse than talk about this. They talked about the wrong thing, ruining this.

Well, absolutely. But it wasn't all of Trump's legal team. In Georgia, he had some very good lawyers who were pushing this. And what happened in Georgia was that the state judge kicked the case down and delayed it until after the resolution. And that's why I actually wrote a piece yesterday on this: that they have the Fulton County prosecutor trying to make it look like there was some sort of conspiracy.

To defraud, and they're still lying about the conversation Trump had with the Secretary of State there. That was all about illegal voting. That had nothing to do with the Dominion voting machines or the suitcase of ballots. It was all about violations of the state election law. But the press has been lying to the American public for so long.

They think it was about those ridiculous fraud cases that were being bandied about. But again, that wasn't all Trump was talking about, but that's what the press is lying to the American public. The January 6th Committee is doing the exact same thing.

So you also talk about this so-called drafted letter from former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark. You think it's been wrongly characterized? Absolutely. First, it was a draft letter that he put together to run by his bosses. Second, if you read it, the word fraud is nowhere in that article.

Molly Homingway did a great takedown on that point. Third, if you look at it, one of the things that he mentions is exactly what I'm talking about. The illegal voting that happened in Georgia that was never decided by a court. because the judge delayed the hearing. And that was Right before a court that had nothing to do with this fraud, and they are making it look like he was pushing knowingly.

Fraudulent claims about election fraud. They had nothing to do with what was in the letter. You also point out that the Zuckerberg bucks that flowed into these key districts at the last minute, when they said he was giving to both sides, was a flat-out lie, it was blatant, and we should be looking at if this is legal or not. Right, so here what you have to look at is the idea of the equal attacking clause. And that protects citizens from being denied the equal rights under the law.

When you have private money, Yeah. targeted to certain counties. And working with basically the state election officials to get out the vote. Which happened in Wisconsin, it happened in Pennsylvania. That raises huge problems under the Equal Protection Clause.

But Brian, it goes further than that. ZuckBucks might be out of the picture, but the groups that they used are doing the exact same thing and are pushing more money out there.

So this isn't over just because ZuckBucks are out of the picture. They have learned, the Democrats have learned, this is how you do it. You go part and parcel with the election officials. and you use them, the state, to get out your vote. Real quick, this other column I find fascinating too, because I haven't seen people, and I'm in New York, I haven't seen people talk about this.

So the Supreme Court came out and said, hey, for the most part, I'll put in layman's terms. That Second Amendment, it doesn't look like New Yorkers have a right to it, so I'm going to change that.

So denying people the ability to have a concealed firearm is unconstitutional.

So, in terms, then in comes this insert from Justice Kavanaugh that says, name some places you want it restricted. And now Republic the Democrats have gone to town over-restricted subways, theaters. bars, restaurants, statehouse buildings.

So they're listing all these places. It's actually more restrictive now to have a concealed weapon than before the Supreme Court justice came out with their opinion, correct? Absolutely, and I'm so glad you raised that, Brian, because most people are missing that. In my piece, I list them. I think it goes A through S or A through T, where they detail every place that they consider a, quote, sensitive place.

And that is ridiculous. They have basically made it that the only place you can carry a concealed weapon is from your house. on the sidewalk to get into your car. That is completely an anathema to what the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms. For self-defense in public means.

And the Supreme Court was very clear: you can't just define sensitive places.

so broadly that it's any place that happens to be busy.

So this is something that New Yorkers should take a look at. And they should realize that their government, their state government is basically saying, we don't care about your Second Amendment rights.

So would do you think this is going to be challenged? Oh, absolutely. I'm surprised it actually hasn't been yet, but given another week or so, we did have Independence Day weekend, so lawyers deserve some time off, too.

So I would expect in the next week or two that you're going to see a legal challenge to that law. Understood.

So, Margaret, the other thing is from what you know, and there's a few states there's been challenges to straighten out the election issue problems. And to the point where they were so upset, the Democrats were so upset they had the Major League Baseball boycott the game, and it looked like they weren't going to let movies being shot in Georgia. All that stuff has kind of gone by the boards. Have the Republicans done anything to straighten out local legislators, straighten out some of the problems?

Well, they have. And like you said, Georgia passed quite a few laws there. But even though you say that's gone by the wayside, the Biden administration is actually challenging those laws, claiming that they're a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

So, even those laws are still being challenged. The other legislatures are trying to pass some laws too, but I'm still not seeing anything nearly as strenuous as you need. You need the state legislative branch to say: if you don't follow the rules that we give you, the consequence is going to be we will take back the decision of who gets our electoral votes. make it punitive so that they do not ignore the law. Got it.

Fascinating, Margo. Writes for the Federalists. You got to check this out. And then tomorrow, the January 6th Committee reconvenes. Thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Margo Cleveland. Thanks, Brian. Take care. You got it with the Federalists.

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To know. USFL championship game on Fox. I know you watched it on July 3rd. 1.5 million people tuned in on Sunday. The ranks are the most watched and most streamed USFL contest since the league opened up in April in Canton, Ohio.

Pretty cool. I think that's pretty good. The USFL game ranked 46th out of 63 primetime shows on the final championship game. Back in 1983, had 11.9.

So we're never going to get that type of network rating, but I think it's pretty good. Plus, Steve Young, Jim Young, Steve Young, Jim Kelly, and Doug Footie aren't in the league right now. But good start. They'll be back for year two.

Next, only 16% of PGA fans watched the first Saudi Golf League event. According to a new morning console poll, four or five PGA fans indicated they want to watch the world's best players, but a lot of the best players like Brooks Kepka, Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, and Dustin Johnson are all in this league, so maybe that'll change.

Next, more sports. Browns finally trade Baker Mayfield. They send him to the Panthers. He was a former number one pick overall. They get him for a fifth-round draft pick.

They're looking to dump the salary. The Browns are paying $10 million not to have him. Mayfield gets $18 million. The Panthers have to pay just $4.8 million, and Mayfield cut $3.5 million off his fee.

Next, Nathan's hot dog eating contest. Betters refunded after an incident. Remember, What's his name? Joey Chestnut was rushed by a protester who came on stage. He had to put him in a headlock.

That screwed up his total. Chestnut won his seventh title in a row by consuming Sissy Three Hot Dog and Buns. Because of the incident, it fell well short of the pre-competition over-under of 74.5. Unbelievable. People were betting on that.

And a rusting Eiffel Tower in need of full repairs. The Eiffel Tower is riddled with rust in need of full repairs, and instead of being given a cosmetic $60 million Euro paint job ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Now a confidential report to say experts cited by Marianne. Uh Mary And I'm not sure about this. It's probably more of a French twist on the name, I'm assuming. Right, I'm pretty sure. It is simple.

The Eiffel Tower visited the place, it would have been a heart attack. If Gustav Eiffel visited his place, he would have a heart attack. Evidently, the French let this whole thing rust away. How many things they have to worry about? They got just a bunch of museums and one Eiffel Tower.

That's it. It's pretty bad. But hopefully, it'll get it done by 2024. That's it for this edition of this hour of the Brian Kill Me Show. Make sure you keep it here and follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and everything else you can, including Rumble.

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