Biden Flails and Fails as Economic Stress Grows

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. Thanks so much for being here, everybody. It's the Brian Kill Me Chow. Excited to be with you on this Wednesday, two days after the 4th of July.

This hour, we're going to be joined by Senator Tommy Coverville. In fact, in a matter of moments, bottom of the hour, Rich Lowry, editor of National Review.

So he'll be with us putting everything in perspective, following some major stories. There's like five major stories to go over. Today, as well as look at the political climate that's taking place and the war that never goes away.

So, before we get to the senator, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Freedom is under attack in your state. Republican leaders, they're banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms. I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight.

or join us in California. Are they kidding? Gavin Newsom targeting Floridians to go to California. The 2024 preview. Newsom decides if you can outpoll him, attack him.

That explains his decision to attack America's most successful governor in the nation's fastest-growing state, Ron DeSantis in Florida. What he did and what he said, and the ads that are running inside Florida. And by the way, is that really a 2024 preview? Number two. The one group of people that we see who are actually happy about what's happening with gas prices are oil company executives and owners.

I'm certainly holding oil companies responsible for their choice not to produce. Really? That's nice. Totally inaccurate. Biden fights, flails, and fails.

As economic stress grows and billionaires take aim, his polls plummet. And for those who think Roe v. Wade would reinvigorate his party, surveys tell a different story. Number A family member reported that Cremo said he was going to kill everyone and Cremo had a collection of knives. The police responded to his residence.

The police removed 16 knives, a dagger, and a sword. Isn't that nice? Yet he still got guns. Highland Park Parade Massacre. Police had the warning signs and reasons to stop him.

The gun store owners should never have been allowed to arm him. With dead and wounded everywhere in this upscale town, all they could talk about is more gun laws. That's a pathetic and pure political response. And let me bring in Senator Tommy Tubberville, the longtime football coach, turned Alabama senator, who is also with the Armed Services Committee. Senator, I'm sure everybody's horrified by what happened in Highland Park, but the more we learn about this assailant, the more we know this was totally preventable.

This is the last guy that should have had a gun. Oh, no doubt, Brian. And system It just shows you more and more about how people are out of touch, especially the Democrats, with what's going on in this country. As you said, I was a coach for a long time. For 40 something years, I dealt with young people and I've seen the decline of our young people in terms of being able to handle society, especially with all the social media, all the things going on, the drugs, and you know, it's just a It's just a new problem every day.

But you know, it's the Democrats they You try to make excuses for everything, but it's the great transition, Brian. They're they're trying to transition this country into something else as as they destroy. Our young people. Yeah, it's amazing. I do want people like you, powerful people like you, to ask the questions.

What type of mood-altering drugs these kids might have been on, let alone marijuana, which is now acceptable. I just think it's worth the question. Prozac, lithium, whatever. If that adds to it, I feel depressed.

Well, we'll prescribe this to you. We know about the after effects. But you spread up football, and it turns out a lot of times coaches get to know what's going on in a family, even if you don't coach at the highest level. And I know you have to work your way up where you ended up. The parents of the accused Highland Park Illinois shooter, according to their football coach, he was always the last kid to be picked up in the after-school sports program.

I quote from the coach: I remember the parents more than him because they were kind of a problem. There was always a lot of, there wasn't a lot of love in that family. They were always the last to pick up. The mom always had an issue as if the kids were a nuisance. I mean, bad parents aren't the reason to kill people, but that is where it starts.

Yeah. Oh, there's no doubt. The teenage years are the years that are most important to our young people, and they're not having teenage years anymore. It's just a total Uh zero. What?

but they can get moral values, the leadership, the guidance. You know, as a coach, I used to bring players in. Uh Every year, new players, 20, 25, 30, and I'd set them down, go over all these things. One of the things I'd always go over would be: you know, are you on insulin? You know, doctors are now, I mean, your new dad, we're gonna take care of you, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that.

The last 10 years, Brian, I noticed a huge increase in a lot of these kids now taking Redland, Adderall. Attention deficit drugs, and that leads to other things. And we're using drugs to parent now. We don't have parents. You know, half the kids in this country have one or no parent, it's just not minorities.

it it's also the majority.

So we got a huge problem. We better get Handle on our young people from the ages of four, five, all the way up to 16, 17, because you're seeing what's happening. It's a total deterioration of the ethics. the moral values for kids, they they don't know they don't have any guidance. Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt about it.

I just think you guys just passed bipartisan legislation that just talked about having a chance to look back at an 18-year-old's background to see if there were some issues when he was in 11th grade.

So when he becomes a 12th grader, he doesn't become a mass murderer that might have been preventable. This guy at 18 years old had caught cops called to the house twice: from one, to cape his own life, and number two, to he threatened his entire family. The cops leave, take all the knives with them, but they don't seemingly write up an incident report. And evidently, that doesn't get to a background check.

So the gun store owner sees a 21-year-old in front of him and says, okay, I don't see anything in your background.

Meanwhile, we know there's something in his background.

So you have to execute the laws you actually wrote up. Exactly. And you can just tell just over the last two shootings that we've That's been involved. There's going to have to be some new rules and regulations set forth for. uh our law enforcement and you know I'm all behind our law enforcement you know, and they're way underfunded.

And of course, we've got the crazy Democrats out there right now trying to just defund them. But there's going to be some new regulations because these kids are becoming so called adults at a younger age. And we've got to know what they've done, how they've done it. It's got to go on a record. You know, we've got all these computers, databases now that we can we can put all the information in, and uh this could have been stopped.

I mean, this as you just said, this this last shooting could have been stopped. Just simple fact that he couldn't have got a gun, or the last two couldn't have got a gun. And we had the opportunity to have really the law enforcement do their job in terms of the ability to make a decision, put it on a database, and be able to have that information down the road when they do try to buy a gun. Senator, you had a big agenda, so I'll get to the next thing. I think it's great that you're doing.

You're teaming with Senator Marshall to introduce a bill to save clean and safe nuclear power. This word is that the EU is now declaring nuclear power and natural gas green, and it should be green, and it is safe. But listen to what Pete Buttigud says is to blame for the high oil and gas prices, Cut 15. The one group of people that we see who are actually happy about what's happening with gas prices are oil company executives and owners. We've seen them out there saying, you know, they're not going to increase production, and why would they when they're this profitable?

It's why the president has proposed a use-it-or-lose-it policy. You're sitting on these permits or leases, and you're not producing an oil company. Are you blaming them? Secretary, are you blaming the rail companies for this? Are you blaming the rail companies for this?

It's frustrating to see.

Well, I'm certainly holding oil companies responsible for their choice not to produce. But Senator, do you think the Secretary is onto something? They are happy, oil and gas companies are happy. This guy's way out of his league, Brian. You know, I've said through the last year of nominations of Joe Biden's people that he's put into office.

I mean, you wouldn't put some of these people as dog catcher. I mean, it's embarrassing. This guy running our transportation department and working with energy, it's, you know, is this the best we got? If this is the best we got, we are in trouble. But I beat it.

You can't transition a country's energy unless you have a plan. There is zero plan. As you talked earlier, nuclear has got to be one of the options that we go to, not just in the near future, but for the long term. And if we don't do this, we're not going to be able to survive as a country or as a world. I mean, it's just not going to happen.

This guy wants to live. The President wants to live on wind. I mean, it's unbelievable.

So we'll see where this goes. Senator, you're also doing something else that's really important, and that is commemorating 50 years since Title IX got into place. What is the impact, and how is it under assault today?

Well Title Line is one of the few things the federal government's gotten right in the last 50 years. It gave equal rights to women. And the women's uh rights and activists really stood up for it. It worked. I've seen in athletics.

Much how far women's athletics come around. 50 years ago, 3% of the girls in high school play high school sports.

Now it's over 50%. You have scholarships, you have facilities. You have things that are built through women that give them the opportunity. I've talked to all the senators on the floor, what, 10, 15 of the women on the floor, and they all played sports. And it gave them the opportunity to just open up and be somebody that possibly they couldn't have been.

But now Joe Biden wants to change the definition of sex. In Title IX, to include gender identity. He wants transgender boys to be able to play. In women's sports, bottom line. And that's gonna destroy it.

But where are the women's activists that talked and screamed and yelled 50 years ago today to save women's sports? They're not out there. They're out there wondering about anything else that they could get involved in to help bring this country to a different transition. But women's sports has been a great. Um Uh success.

And we need to keep it that way, but Joe Biden is bound to determine to destroy it. The uh the thing that really bothers me is that women, this whole w Me Too movement, empowers women, I thought.

So where are the women outraged that that your daughter or your wife Or your niece? is going to be playing against guys that declare that they're women overnight or that they're going through some transition. That should not even be an issue. But women should be standing up for themselves, but they seem miraculously quiet. Brian, last in the last few years, Young boys and older boys have won twenty two championships in women's sports.

Uh so when that happened, I called up the Protection of Women and Girls in the Sports Act. On the Senate floor to try to stop this. Boys to play in women's sports at a college or high school level, you lose your funding. I mean, this is ridiculous in terms of being able to compete and give young girls an opportunity to to be somebody that they they wouldn't be if they weren't in sports.

So It's just another part of the great transition of Joe Biden. Whether it's border energy, foreign relations, our education. It's a disaster, it's going to continue to be a disaster, and uh, we've got four or five more months. And Brian, I'm gonna tell you that I've traveled five states in the last week. I've been in restaurants, I've been in grocery stores.

Uh, I keep seeing people say inflation's 8.5, 9%, inflation's 25-30%, maybe even more. People cannot afford this, and uh, we better open our eyes to this. But Joe Biden had put a tank of gas in his car in his lifetime because he's been a career politician, and now he's listening to other politicians. This is This is a disaster for our country and the people living in our country. How important would it be to take back the Senate?

What I mean, as you look at Georgia, as you look at New Hampshire, you look at Nevada holding on to Wisconsin, what is your role there?

Well, I'm trying to help as much as we possibly can. We have no choice, Brian. They're they're talking like they're gonna take more than fifty uh seats, the Democrats, and they're gonna do a total transition of the filibuster. They're gonna change the change this country as we know it. It is w this can't happen.

If it happens, it's over. The country that you and I, and all these other people, citizens had the opportunity to grow up in the greatest country on the face of the earth ever. Will change. It will change into something that Democrats want to control. They want a one-party system.

They want big government socialism. We're already there. we better start changing. Even some of our my Republican colleagues need to wake up and smell the roses of quit spending money we don't have because it is putting us in a death march towards something that we're not going to want or do we recognize in this country. All right, Senator, thanks so much.

Senator Tommy Tuberville, going about for women's sports. Get this. He wants women to play against and with women. And we're talking about the economy. Let's get smart.

If you want to go clean, go nuclear or go natural gas and work our way towards off-fossil fuels. But we're not there yet. Senator, thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. All right.

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So far, the Floridian government. Kind of quiet. Why? Newsmakers and newsbreakers. Hear it first on the Brian Kill Meet Show.

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Freedom is under attack in your state. Republican leaders, they're banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors. I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight. or join us in California, where we still believe in freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from hate, and the freedom to love. Don't let them take your freedom.

Isn't that nice? He's pretending to be red, white, and blue. Gavin Newsom doing something savvy, getting attention off his state of California with all its natural resources and natural beauty. They have run it into the ground, letting hopelessness run rampant, refusing to rein it in. In fact, inviting them there.

When you see the tax dollars, it's a one-party system. The illegal immigrants that are there, the lack of identity needed to buy things, live there, ultimately, sanctuary city after sanctuary city outside Orange County.

So, Gavin Newsom, who almost was recalled last year this year, wants everybody to know that he's running for president. He wouldn't run if Biden runs, but clearly Biden is a long shot to run for another four years.

So, what do you do? You go after the most popular Republican governor and the most successful governor in the country. If you are Governor DeSantis, do you punch down to Gavin Newsom, who does not have, I don't think, a large national profile and certainly a great report card. Kat Kamek, who's an outstanding public official in Congress, whose husband is a first responder, said this about that ad running in Florida, which seems like a good strategic move, but what a waste of money. Cut 23.

Over 60,000 Californians have gotten their Florida driver's licenses in the last three years. In Florida, we're about freedom and faith and family. And in California, it looks like high taxes, crackpipe distribution centers, homeless tent cities, and apps that you can download in order to report feces on the sidewalk. If he seriously thinks that that is going to work, it's just reflective in his policies. They're 20th in the nation in education.

We're number Three. We have some of the lowest unemployment and low taxes in the country. They have some of the highest. This is a clear distinction in what works when it comes to governing a state.

Meanwhile, when it comes to a state out of control, look, George Cascone, about to be recalled, I believe, because they are petitioning him because he's so soft on crime. He's just an embarrassment to the country. Then, if you look at Chesa Bodine, already recalled, what did the governor do to rein in these DAs who won't do their job? Absolutely nothing. Yesterday, 12 officers are hurt after a hostile group started just hurling fireworks at him, glass bottles at him in San Francisco.

It's a state totally out of control. It's one. That has all the potential in the world, has always been the destination for so many. It's a place I once lived with what they do have going for them. 117 major businesses have been started since 19 since 2015, which is number one in the country.

But Gavin Newsom playing a smart political move, but Governor DeSantis far and away, much more successful, much more powerful. Let's see who's next. Join us in California. 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.

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Okay. A radio show like no other. It's Brian. kill made. When the cost of oil does come down, We need the price at the gas stations that they charge at the pump to come down as well.

For example, In the last two weeks, the price of oil has fallen. by more than ten dollars a barrel. Normally, this reduced the cost of the pump about 25 cents a gallon. Yet, so far, Gas stations have only reduced prices by a few cents a gallon. That is a mild version of the President's constant attack from the podium at the press room to his Secretary of Transportation to Brian Dees, whatever position he pretends to run.

Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, took task to the President blaming oil and gas companies for the price of oil and gas. And joins us now, Rich. He says if gas can, if it's down per barrel, why isn't it down per gallon when we go to pump it? What do you say to him?

Well, there are a lot of other inputs, transportation, other things, but The price of the pump is going down, and the idea that the the gas stations are involved in a vast conspiracy to artificially inflate the prices is crazy. I mean, there are more than 100,000 gas stations in the United States. We all know, you know, go to any busy intersection, and you got four choices to choose from, and they're highly competitive. They're all extremely aware what the price of across the street is, because they know if you don't like my price, you just go to Brian's gas station if it's a penny cheaper.

So this is a highly competitive business. And these gas stations, it's not as though there are three big oil companies that own all the gas stations. About half of them are owned by independent owners that just own one station. And they might be branded ExxonMobil or whatever, but it's an independent uh business. And then there are a lot that are just totally independent.

And not even branded by the big oil companies.

So these are small mom and pop businesses. And it's one thing to criticize ExxonMobil. It's another to criticize a small business run by an immigrant couple trying to get their kids through college. It's insane. And it's just another instance of just casting around for scapegoats and villains rather than d doing the things that are actually within his control to try to alleviate the problem.

You know how hard it is to drive to drill on. On federal land. They said that I've opened it up, but it's almost impossible, the environmental regulations. He outlined the oil and gas industry, outlined 10 things the president could do right now to make it easier for them to bring more production to pass. And refining oil is one of the keys.

But right now, there's been incentivized to shut down refineries or convert them to something green or natural burning.

So therefore he's going to Venezuela as the president and is about to beg Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's crazy. We have this wonderful bounty beneath our feet in the form of massive oil and gas. Reserves, and we should be doing everything possible to pump it out and exploit it. That's the rational policy.

And then, if you do it, all things considered, energy prices are going to be lower rather than higher, and that ramifies through the entire economy. And the cost of living for working people and the cost of manufacturing and literally everything. It's enormously important input.

So, he's pursuing a long-term policy to make Traditional energy more expensive to try to fight the climate. And it's biting him badly now, but he's not readjusting. He isn't. And just anybody else, look, he was going to do this by the end of his term, probably, but all of a sudden, the pandemic hits, supply chain issues happen, the war takes place, and next thing you know, gas is so high.

So high, we're looking towards electric vehicles.

So high, we look around, we can't find electric vehicles. We can't find gas-powered vehicles because the chips are so scarce. And most of these cars are sitting in lots, unable to be completed because the chips are stuck in Taiwan or China. Here's Pete Buttigieg: instead of addressing the real issue, cut 15. The one group of people that we see who are actually happy about what's happening with gas prices are oil company executives and owners.

We've seen them out there saying, you know, they're not going to increase production, and why would they when they're this profitable? It's why the president has proposed a use-it-or-lose-it policy. You're sitting on these permits or leases, and you're not producing an oil. Are you blaming their prices? Secretary, are you blaming the RSS?

And they go back and forth: a use-it-and-lose-it policy. Oh, that's genius. The reason why they can't drill there is because it's cost prohibitive. Part of it is he's discouraging any investment in fossil fuels. Yeah.

So, going back to the gas stations, it's actually not a good thing when the price of gas goes up for gas stations. Their margins actually decline because when the price goes up, you know what? People don't fill up as much. Maybe they don't travel as much. Maybe they cancel their vacation.

Maybe they buy an electric car if one's available.

So, they actually don't want the prices to be high. And the same is true at a certain level for the oil and gas industry.

So, again, we've talked about this a lot, Brian. If they just had to switch the oil and gas industry to make themselves instantly more profitable by driving up the price of crude and refined gas and all the rest of it, why didn't they do it the last 30 years? Why are they just doing it now? And there are big factors at play that are outside of Biden's control: the war and the supply chain disruptions. But the things that are in his control, he's made worse.

And the big thing is: if you want a company, an industry, to invest, you have to ensure it that its investment is not going to be destroyed in five to ten years, and they're promising to destroy. This industry.

So they'd be. Crazy to invest billions of dollars in long-term projects.

So I'm stunned by this story on CNN that talks about after a string of Supreme Court setbacks, Democrats wonder whether Biden's White House is capable of urgency moment demands and just talks about how inept they've been, how frustrated the base is. They looked at the Supreme Court. They look at what's going on with oil and gas. They look at they wanted to stack the Supreme Court. That's not going to work.

They want to get rid of the filibuster. That wasn't effective. They wanted to pass Billboard better. It was ridiculous. It makes no sense.

There's no sentiment for it.

So they look at failure after failure, and they're beginning to turn on the administration, which I think. Also, I don't have the same context I had with the previous administration, obviously, but this is interesting. Several officials say, this is an excerpt from it. Several officials say Biden's tendency to berate advisors when he's displeased with how a situation is being handled or when events go off poorly has trickled down to the ranks in the West Wing, leaving mid-level aides feeling blamed for failings despite lacking any real ability to influence the building decision-making. That's contributed to some of the recent staff departures, according to people on the inside.

You know what? You always said if you treat people disrespectfully, I don't care who you are, you're going to be fired. That's just it. That's terrible management when you berate people who are powerless to fight back. Yeah, well he's never run anything his whole life bigger than a Senate office.

Basically.

So that's part of the issue here. But one thing that the criticism of Biden, you know, I tend to agree with all of them. But one I don't get is from the left that he hasn't been aggressive enough responding to the Dobbs decision. What is he supposed to do? I mean, he can't pack the Supreme Court, he can't eliminate the filibuster.

I agree. All they can do is. Go into states and try to convince people not to restrict abortion democratically. And there's no magic wand, there's no executive action that you can do. That's just the hard work of persuasion and how a democratic republic is supposed to work, and an effort that was stymied for 50 years because of a row, which is finally gone.

But I think this is an unfair criticism of Biden from the left, in my view. Listen, of course it is. It's impractical. If you don't have 60 votes and you don't have Manchin and you don't have Sinemover, turn a filibuster, which will break the institution he used to cherish and worship. He really liked the Senate.

Like Ted Kennedy loved the Senate. You know, the senator, you know, the senators just love the institution. I respect that. Everyone loves their job. You know, he enjoyed working there.

He didn't take it for granted.

So he didn't want to blow it up. And now, because he didn't blow up, now he wants to blow it up and he can't blow it up.

So he should just say those people on his left. I can't deal with you because you are asking for things that are not workable in the Democratic system. And then talk to so-called moderates. They may not exist, Rich. I get it.

In Senator Coons, Senator Warner, Senator Tester, Senator Manchin, Senator Cinema. I'm just going to tell in theory that they're moderates and say, what can I get done? And then at the age of 78, if your party doesn't like you, your country doesn't think you did a good job, leave. But why are you so desperate to win over these twenty somethings who are cl thirty somethings that are clueless in how the government works? Yeah, ex exactly.

And um i th this is just um he he's just at at sea 'cause he he's been pandering to those people all all his entire presidency. And his campaign, you know, he won the primary campaign in part 'cause he didn't pander those people. And he is like, you know, there are other Democrats out there besides these vocal folks on Twitter. And then he gets elected and immediately he's pandering to the vocal folks. on Twitter.

It it doesn't make any sense. But this this is the One interesting way, you know, jobs could end up hurting the Democrats. If it really turns them off and dispirits them and creates this intermural warfare, it's not going to have the political effect they hoped. It's going to destroy them, not Republicans.

Well, I'm sure you've seen this, this Bonmouth poll. They asked people, your biggest concern facing your family right now, 33% say inflation, 15% say gas prices, 9% say the economy, 6% say bills, 5% say abortion.

So I think that's the thing. And 9% are Democrats.

So you average it out. It's two or three. Of everyone else. Exactly. And by the way, the president's saying that this irresponsible, radical, extremist decision for the Supreme Court, it discounts people, many of which are in his party, that might be pro-life.

Many Hispanics are pro-life. Instead of saying surprising, what I find astonishing, what I've evolved in, instead he just labels everybody as if he legalized terrorism. You know, Clarence Thomas, that would be a good idea for everyone to kill each other. He doesn't understand, or does he not understand this? There's a.

There's people who are on the other side of an issue of him, or is he just being Reckless. Yeah. again he's been captured by the left and there still is a middle a political middle in this country and the problem Democrats have on abortion is the Dobbs decision is not popular overturning Roe is not popular I would argue in part because people don't understand Roe but we can just bracket that for a second it the the the actual democratic policy you know the the bill they want to federal legislation they want to pass is Sweepingly radical and it is deeply unpopular.

So they just can't, especially on cultural stuff, they just can't help. Going too far. They exist in an echo chamber. They have contempt for everyone who doesn't agree with them. And it shows.

I want you to hear just an idea of this story that came out of CNN, which I find astonishing. You add to that, one of their media reporters, Oliver Darcy, said this about what you basically on the same page as Rich Lowry, CUD nineteen. I think news organizations need to be a lot more forceful here, Brian, in calling out the President when he misleads the public like this. We know gas station owners aren't really the ones running away to the bank when gas prices go up. There have been stories in the past about how low the margin of profit is for gas station owners on the price of fuel.

They make their money usually at the convenience stores. But there hasn't been a really aggressive pushback from the President from news organizations. I think that needs to change. Really? Aggressive pushback from CNN to Joe Biden?

Well, there's only one Peter Doocy, right? And he's not available. But e everyone else could sound more like him, but they intend not to. And certainly it's not reflected in the coverage. If Trump were saying something that and we do this a lot, but it's a completely true and legitimate point that's endlessly relevant.

If Trump were saying something that's so false that's just there's no factual basis whatsoever. The Chiron on CNN and other places would be he lies. He's lying about gas stations, but we we don't hear that about Biden. Yeah, lastly, what about Gavin Newsom's tactical decision to tackle, to go after Ron DeSantis in Florida and to get an account on Truth Social, Donald Trump's version of Twitter? What's he up to?

I think he wants to run for President, clearly. I think it's a sign of how prominent obviously Ron DeSantis Is that he wants to get some reflected glory by attacking him and attacking him on cultural issues? But I think everyone senses the weakness of Biden, the likelihood he's not going to be able to run again, and then the incredible weakness Of Kamala Harris, and this is early jockeying. And I'd have to say, you know, if you're not going to run someone who's relatively moderate, I don't know who that would be, Governor Polis or someone out there in Colorado, but if you can run someone from the left, I think Newsom might be the best political horse they have. Very interesting what he did, you know, to attach himself to the most successful governor and get people talking about him.

But I always thought conventional wisdom would be secure your liberal base and then work on Whatever conv converted conservatives you can have. Why start by going after people that will never vote for 'em?

Well this is just I think a way of converting liberals, of getting liberals to say, I'm in the fight. I'm taking it directly to these guys. I'm taking it to this archvillain Ron DeSantis, the worst Republican in the country besides Donald Trump. And I'm on Truth Social. I'm on their platform making our case.

So I think it's a way to signal a combativeness and a willingness to fight. Uh lastly Donald Trump in the next few weeks is supposed to declare his candidacy. If he does, who gets in to take him on to the primary process?

Well, one, I think it would I don't think it would be a great idea for him to get in early because he might get in early. I think getting in early now would be a sign of weakness or a little fearfulness that might be getting away from him a little bit and a sign that he's worried about DeSantis. And if he gets out there and he's not winning New Hampshire two to one or whatever it is. There is a poll that had DeSantis narrowly ahead in New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago, then that is kind of invitation to people, okay, he's already in, we know what he's got, and if it's not overwhelming, the water's okay and maybe we can risk doing this. But I do think it'd be a smaller field regardless if Trump is in, and then the big decision is going to be DeSantis's.

And I've tended to think he wouldn't get in if Trump runs.

Now, I'm beginning to think he's looking fairly determined. I mean, every big Republican donor in the country, it seems, is with DeSantis. He's raised massive amounts of money.

So I think he's going to look at it seriously.

So two big decisions will shape the field, whether Trump runs, which seems very likely, and whether DeSantis does or not. Yeah, and the one thing the January 6th Committee is doing, since it's a one You only got one bullhorn. It's making Trump look more vulnerable because some of the things he did were inexcusable and they're backed up. Rich Lowry, thanks so much. Fascinating time.

Enjoy the rest of the week. You got it. We come back. Here calls. Brian, Kill Me Cho.

Challenging conventional thought and wisdom. You're with Brian Kilmead. The more you listen, the more you'll know it's Brian Kilmead. We have brought it on ourselves, right? I mean, we can't say, oops, it's the Russians' fault.

They shouldn't have invaded us, or, you know, oops, it's al-Qaeda. This is us. This is 100% us, and it's because we are essentially slaves to a document that was written, you know, more than 230 years ago by a tiny group of white slave-owning men. Right, exactly. I've said this over and over again.

This tiny group of white men who formulated the greatest country ever, way overrated. That's Rosa Brooks, a woman you probably should never have heard of, Georgetown law professor.

So she's saying the problem is we are stuck with this Constitution and this Bill of Rights. Damn it. We are cursed.

So that's it. The problem is that bad guys are armed. That's the issue. I wish we could be more like Canada. It worked out so well in Venezuela.

And disarming Russia was fantastic. And Australia really had a chance to stand up for himself. And that Second Amendment hasn't really worked out from us, just kept us free for 250 years. If you drill down on what's wrong right now, I don't think the founding fathers are it. But that's sadly what a lot of other people are saying.

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We're about to talk. In Ukraine, about Ukraine in just a moment. Also, at the bottom of the hour, inside the mind, the twisted mind of so many of these 20-something-year-olds who end up being mass murderers from what happened in Parkland, from what happened in Uvalde, to what happened in Buffalo, and now what happened over the weekend. In Illinois, we got to find a way to stop this. There's some commonalities between this.

I'll offer my opinions, but get the experts to come in too.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Freedom is under attack in your state. Republican leaders, they're banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms. I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight.

Or join us in California. 2024 preview: Gavin Newsom decides if you can't out-poll him, attack him. That's explained his decision to attack America's most successful governor, Ron DeSantis, in Florida. The question is: does DeSantis punch back? Number two.

The one group of people that we see who are actually happy about what's happening with gas prices are oil company executives and owners. I'm certainly holding oil companies responsible for their choice not to produce. Biden fights, flails, and fails. As economic stress grows and billionaires take aim, his polls plummet. And for those who think Roe v.

Wade would reinvigorate his party, surveys tell a different story. Number one. A family member reported that Cremo said he was going to kill everyone and Cremo had a collection of knives. The police responded to his residence. The police removed 16 knives, a dagger, and a sword.

They it's unbelievable and he's still got a gun. He passed four background checks. The Highland Park Parade Massacre. Police had the warning signs and reasons to stop him. The gun store owner should never have been allowed to arm him.

With dead and wounded everywhere in this upscale town, all they talk about is more gun laws. It's pathetic, it's pure politics. Daniel Billak is somebody who's helping his Country fight for its life. He's the former chief investment advisor to the prime minister of Ukraine and head of the Ukraine Invest. Daniel Bilak, welcome back.

Yeah, thanks, Brian. It's great to be back.

So, Daniel, first off, we see some territorial gains by the Russians. Are you worried?

Well I mean, territory gains by Russians is never a good thing, but these were tactical retreats. I mean, what the Ukrainian army in the Donbass was doing for the last two months was basically holding them off.

So that they couldn't sweep in, take Lu uh Luhansk and Donetsk, and then go south and take the Black Sea oblasts. And we did that successfully. They were trying to encircle us and crush the, those are our best troops in the Donbass, and to crush them. That didn't work. Uh we took a tactical uh retreat from uh Severodonetsk and from uh Lysachansk.

And now we're in a new line of fortification. All of this was being done, frankly, to hold off the Russians until we could get the heavy weapons. Start getting the heavy weapons that we need to start pushing them back. and we've seen counter offenses. Everybody's focused on the Darbas, but we've seen some real headway in the counter offensive down in the south in Kibson and Nicolai, which is infinitely more strategically important Lystachanska, sorry, Luhansk and Vonatsk are are politically important to Putin.

They're less militarily important in the big scheme of things if Putin wants to take Ukraine. But control of the Black Sea, control of Kherson and Nikolaev is absolutely critical. And they've had to move he focused virtually his entire army on on Luhans. It's as if the United States was at war with Mexico and focused focused its entire army on Guadalajara. Here is what they're saying.

The Russians said their objective remains taking Kyiv. They spot some setbacks early on. The Russians feel as though they can still do it. Michael Weiss of New Lines magazine sees what you see and sees gains in Kherson, one of the first areas to fall to Russian forces. Cut 28.

The Ukrainian counteroffensive, limited though it has been, in Kherson, this was the first population center the Russians took in late February and early March. We've seen reports now that the Ukrainians feel the wind at their back of Ukrainian military officials saying they're within sniper range of Russian troops in Kherson. That is an unprecedented development in the last several months. Already we have seen, Jonathan, the devastating effect that the Ukrainians have made of Western-supplied long-range artillery systems, including the High Mars. I've seen video footage of these things striking deep within Russian-occupied territory in Donetsk.

Russian soldiers on social media platforms such as Telegram have been complaining. That now they're facing a NATO standardized military, something they hadn't seen before, going back eight years of war against the Ukrainians.

So this missile system has finally arrived. Can you describe it? Uh well I think your man on the on the that you just quoted was doing a pretty good job. It I mean, they're they're they're basically very high precision artillery that that that's long range, and that's what we've been lacking.

So we can strike What the Ukrainians did successfully in Kiev, and really we cut off their supply lines. We bombed their fuel tankers. We took out their munitions dumps, supplies. We cut off their food. And that's what they're starting to do in Kherson and Nikolaev.

Russian troops are still in their winter gear in Nikolaev, if you can believe that. It's 33 degrees down there. That's about almost 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

So yes, I mean, we're starting to get the stuff. We have some of the high MARS. We've got the howitzers, the one hundred fifty five millimeter. More we still need way more. We need tanks, which are on the on the on the ask list.

You know, as the US, especially the US, the NATO countries gain confidence. In how Ukrainians are prosecuting this war and how they're using the equipment, how effectively they're using this equipment. I think we're gonna see a lot more coming a lot sooner. I suspect that we'll probably see scale and capacity by the end of the summer. The stuff doesn't happen right away.

First of all, our guys had to be trained on this stuff, something that takes the US Ar Army soldier three or four months of training. to do in two weeks. But our guys learn fast, they're highly motivated. And we got that the kit that we've got so far went out into the field and it's been used to devastating effect, and it will continue to be. These planes You need planes.

Number one, are the planes coming? Number two, is there a plan to get that wheat out of Odessa and into through the Black Sea into its destination? Yeah, that's a question for mister Putin. You know, it's all in his hands, whether he agrees to it or not. Turkey's dealing with him right now?

Yeah, but you know, at the end of the day, it's all about he wants to he says in exchange for taking the sanctions off on him, I'll feed four hundred million people. You know, he weaponizes food, he weaponizes energy, he weaponizes everything. There are no rules for him. And this is the thing that people need to understand. You're not dealing with an international actor.

You're not dealing with a country. You're dealing basically with state terrorist organizations. They we have been very careful, obviously, because we're shooting in our in our own territ into occupied territory that that where Ukrainians live. But even the hits that we've made inside Russia have not been targeting at all civilian populations. Russia just bombs everything.

It bombs schools, it bombs cultural centers, it bombs apartment buildings, it bombs hospitals, it bombs prenatal institutions. And it's basically trying to sow terrorism in among people to get them to capitulate. And this is how Russians have always fought wars. And this is what makes it so dangerous. And he will just continue to double down.

They're used to suffering. They're used to that's almost their way of life. And their leader evidently was nodding off at a meeting yesterday, at a public meeting. We know how he's been shaking in the past. What do you hear about Vladimir Putin's health?

Well, I I don't know. I think that there's a much bigger problem than Putin's health. It's it's the health of Russia. I mean, you know, Russia has never given its own people, let alone the the people it's tried to colonize, anything but destruction, decay, despair and death. You mean they're they've they've reduced Lysachansk and Severobonetsk and and other and other smaller towns into absolute rubble.

So it's just completely uninhabitable. And they're not going to rebuild these places. They did nothing with occupied Luhansk and Donetsk during the last eight years. They just want the territory. And you know, this infantile imperialism that they have is actually a direct threat to the United States, and it's a direct threat to peace in Europe.

And a direct threat to peace in Europe is always a direct threat to the United States. And you know, this is why I really, really hope that the American people stay. With us. I mean, Ronald Reagan understood this. The Reagan doctrine, as it was, was to arm Moscow's enemies.

He did this successfully in Afghanistan and Angola. And it's working in Ukraine. We you see the results. Brian, we are completely rearming our military. We are running out of ammunition and equip of Soviet era ammunition and equipment.

And it's all being replaced in real time by NATO compliant equipment and NATO equipment. And this is transformative. I mean, we are going to have the most powerful army in Europe at the end of this. And we need to defeat this enemy together. Ronald Reagan called Russia the evil empire.

I mean, that would make Putin the Antichrist right now. And he thinks he's at war with America. And he's made no secret, and his people have made no secret, but if he wins in Ukraine, He's coming after Baltics, after Poland. He considers himself the reincarnation of Peter the Great, Peter I. Daniel, I know, but I think it's pretty clear that he has his handful.

That's why I think that NATO has to escort those ships out with your wheat knit and say that this is a humanitarian mission. Africa is starving. The rest of the world's food chain has to continue. It goes all the way over to Brazil, so we have to escort him out. Is there any sentiment that NATO would do that?

Well, you're one hundred percent right, Brian. And so far, we haven't seen that. You could do it even with NATO countries in the Black Sea, like Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania, escorting the ships out. I don't know what the what the state of play is uh uh on this. But I I would like to see more resolve on the part of NATO in doing this.

I mean, we're going to have a massive humanitarian crisis. Russia Russian orchestrated. And he doesn't he doesn't care. The US needs to needs to show I think the Biden administration needs to show a little more toughness to see these nuclear threats and things like that. I mean, US has always defended its interests in Cuba and Berlin in the face of these these kinds of threats.

Putin fears the United States. You guys have the upper hand. And you know, if he feels emboldened, He's going to keep going. He'll even tell you: look, you know, the treaty where we ceded Alaska, that was a bad deal for us. We want it back.

I mean, it's not inconceivable with this guy. I hear you. Because he doesn't care about his people. He'll take all this carnage. Daniel Bilek, thanks so much.

Best of luck. The Prime Minister of Ukraine, you actually an investment advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine and head of Ukraine Invest. Thanks, Daniel. Text that Thanks very much. You got it, 1-866-408-7669.

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It's the Brian Killmead Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. There are and always have been a lot of different factors that global petroleum markets, one of which, obviously, is the fact that a major oil-producing country launched a war of aggression and destabilized so much of the world economy when they did. But half of so many things will be a lot of fun.

Wait a minute. Half of that increase started prior to the first Russian soldiers arriving near Ukraine. You can't blame it all on Ukraine, right? What about the other half?

Well that was the one. That's a pretty important half. That is the Secretary of Transportation clueless, the fact that he's clueless. And he just keeps on pumping out this rhetoric as if he does. He clearly doesn't watch our channel.

Oil and gas companies have tweeted back, talked back, tried to give him a 10-point plan. All things let them know that things they were doing help add to this oil and gas crisis that we're witnessing across the world, around the country. And he's not doing anything. Here's the other thing. That was not even brought up.

Right now, Europe is being slowly being taken off Russian natural gas, willingly and unwillingly, quicker than they thought they wanted to.

So they have to scramble to get natural gas. Guess who has natural gas? Us, fracking. We could provide it. It's an emergency situation.

You talk about a Defense Production Act. How about that? How about clearing the way, expediting these environmental challenges to allow us to frack at a dizzying rate for our allies? And that gives them cover. And Europe now looks at natural gas as burning clean, green.

That to me is a great combination. Emergency. He just told us that we're in global peril, a time of war, global peril. Enough to frack safely for profit for our allies who can now count on us while constructing LNG plants to allow this to happen expeditiously because Canada is doing it. Why not us?

Why not us? Why can't we go ahead and do it?

Now, I want to talk about that shooter if we can. I'm going to talk to Tom Kirsting about it. But here's what we know about the shooter, this killer. He pre-planned the attack, number one. Number two, dressed like a woman to get out.

Unbelievable. Number three, also big cross-dresser. We've seen some other stuff online. Number three. He preplanned this whole thing and loved Lee Harvey Oswald, which explains why he left the gun behind.

Ultimately, it led to Oswald, ultimately led to him. For some reason, on his escape, he goes into Wisconsin and then comes all the way back. To a mile from his house and was arrested after the shooting, where he kills seven and wounds dozens, including children. He goes and tells his mom, oh, no, I wasn't hurt in the shooting. Can I borrow your car?

And does. Other thing I don't believe is that his uncle who he was living with, Said that he was not a danger, no signs of this. Really? In twenty nineteen, cops were called to his place twice. Why?

Because he was going to commit suicide. Number two, the second time, months later, he said he was going to kill his whole family. Really? Well, what could he have done to get that? No guns.

How about knives? Seven, eight knives. including a hatchet. Do you believe this? A hatchet.

They take all of it. His dad gets it back. He applies for a gun. Why, if he was involved in two potentially violent incidents where cops were called to the house, even if they don't file charges, was that not listed on his background check? And then the gun owner decides: this is what I'm gonna do.

I don't feel comfortable selling you this gun. I need some answers on these two incidents. And if the dad goes to sign off, the dad is now culpable for anything illegal activity that the son did. Like a loan that has to be paid back if you're a co-signer by you. That's what has to happen.

Hey, Dad, you've been such a terrible dad, obviously, to this son of yours, probably to your other kids, too. If you sign off on this and he becomes a killer, you go to jail too. Oh, you want to rethink it? I thought so. When we come back, Dr.

Tom Kirsting, he's a psychotherapist and is the author of Disconnected: How to Protect Your Kids from the Harmful Effects of Device Dependency and more. He works in schools, he knows the answers. Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. And no mental problems or psychological problems in the he's a real quite good.

He keeps everything to himself and he doesn't express himself out.

So he just like sits down on his computer and There's there's no there's no like interaction between me and him. Paul Cremo, the uncle of the killer. You're seeing him try to explain that there were no warning signs with this kid. There's nobody who looks at this track record or heard those cops speak yesterday about his background and looks at him and thinks there's no warning signs with this kid, especially my next guest. He is Dr.

Tom Kirsting, psychotherapist and author of Disconnected: How to Protect Your Kids from Harmful Effects of Device Dependency. Dr. Kirsting, do you agree with the uncle? No signs? Absolutely.

Absolutely not. You could just look at the guy and see something was wrong with him. But I did some research, Brian, on the story. go back to April of twenty nineteen, and the police were called to Carimo's house because he was threatening to kill himself, and I think they confiscated something like sixteen knives. And then in uh a few months after that, police were called again because he threatened to kill his family.

So those are those are obviously mental health warning signs. And then leading up. you know, to the vicious, you know, the m you know, massacre, you know, there was a track record of him posting things online. As usual, not only were they things, it was a school shooting music video, and there's a picture of him with Lee Harvey Oswald in the background, stick figures of shooting and blood coming out of two different figures. And I'm sure there's a ton of other things online that were immediately scrubbed.

Here's more from the uncle, cut three. There's been no warning signs as I saw as I I saw him yesterday evening and when I went home I said hi to him and then when I came back downstairs I said bye, he said bye and that was it. That was nor that was normal standards of all time I mean I see no nothing that would trigger him uh after doing this. No signs of him doing things. Let's look back.

In 2019, he called to his house twice. In 2020, he showed up at a synagogue. And evidently, they knew he didn't belong there. It was Passover. They walked up to him, did this one.

Rabbi and say, I got an armed guard here. What are you doing here? And he left. That seemed to be another sign that this guy is in danger, and I'm surprised the rabbi didn't call the authorities. Yeah, absolutely.

This is the problem here, Brian, because I've been on your show and other shows talking about all these things. When you look at, take a look at social media, for example.

So if you post something on social media that they deem inappropriate, you're immediately alerted. You're kicked off at social media. But what about when people are posting violent things like this killer did, even of the beheading and so forth? I think social media needs to have some sort of accountability where if they see something, if there's some sort of a red alert, That they need to take action, whether it's alerting the local authorities and so forth. They need to do something that's going to prevent these kinds of incidences from happening.

But I don't see that happening. But how about this? I mean, in the background, Check, because the parents did not want to press charges, even though they called authorities, somebody in his family called authorities because they felt threatened, that should be on your background. And that should be on the background check. Just because there's no indictment or arrest, there was an incident that got law enforcement to the house, and he was the reason.

100%. They should yes, they there was no arrests, right? Even when they when he would threaten to kill himself a couple of months before that, there's nothing legal there. But there's got to be some sort of a track plan here, some sort something to look at. To keep an eye on individuals like this, especially given what's happening in our society nowadays.

Yeah, the parents didn't press charges, but he threatened to kill everybody. There needs to be, you know, there had to be, they should have done some further form of mental health intervention. Apparently, there was something done. But you look at what's going on in our society many years ago, people that were really mentally disturbed, they were sort of institutionalized beyond their will, all that went away and we got them all on our streets now. Um and that's that's what's going on.

That's part of the problem here, Brian.

Well, I mean, uh, the family says we're all mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers. It's a terrible tragedy for many families, the victims, the paradegoers, the community, and our own. Our hearts and thoughts and prayers go out to everybody. I'm not sure if they're lawyered up. They should be.

But my goodness, for this guy's father to go out and make sh and sign off on him getting a gun, he passed four background checks. His dad also went out the day they took all his knives away when they came to the house, got all the knives back. That's if you wi I hate to do it crime and punishment, but if you're going to sign for him to go get a gun, if you're going to bring the knives back into the house, if you're not going to press charges, you have to be somewhat complicit in the follow-up actions. I don't know how that works. Yeah, I know.

I mean, the father signed off, but again, you know, they were they had the the authorities had to know about what had happened in the past and for him to have you know been given approval To legally obtain a firearm is ridiculous. They need to do something about that. There's no question about it. You know, I think the other thing, Brian, that we don't hear too many people talking about is. Yeah, when you look in just in our society nowadays, Yeah, I I call social media the tailpipe of the mainstream media.

So every single thing is now captured on camera, on ev every street, from everybody's phone and so forth.

So people, especially you know, a guy like this as as a teenager, was probably just exposed twenty-four hours a day to violent, bad stuff on his computer. And that desensitizes people's minds starting at a young age. And they don't understand the human value of life itself.

So we need to something's got to be done out there with social media and j just the ability to access Yeah. Terrible content because that's how the mind works. The more you're exposed to something, you become desensitized to it. That's largely part of the reason why we're seeing all that. What about marijuana that now is suddenly made acceptable?

They talk about how more powerful it is than the time that you used to get it illegally, maybe in the 80s and 90s. What about that? And number two, what about this whole explosion of with attention deficit disorder, Riddling? What about any type of antidepressants that might have been out there coming off the pandemic? Do you feel as though our kids are getting overprescribed?

Well, let me tell you something, Brian. I'm glad you brought that up because at my private practice over here in New Jersey, I've been doing this stuff for twenty two years, dealing with teenagers, and pot has always been in the equation. What I've seen just in the last year, and many people don't even know what this is, it's called cannabis induced psychosis. And what it is, is individuals smoking marijuana. That's 95% THC, where it used to be like 3% to 4% THC back in the early 90s.

And it's causing legitimate schizophrenic-like symptoms, delusions, hallucinations, and so forth.

So that, no question about it, this is penetrating our society and kids, and it's a large part of the mental health component.

Now, attention deficit disorder, I talk about this in my book, Brian. It's what we refer to as acquired ADHD. And it's from spending eight or nine hours a day on a screen and the stimulation that does to the brain and it changes brain neural pathway, causing symptoms of ADHD, even though the person doesn't actually have ADHD, but they go to a doctor and have diagnosed with ADHD and now given medication.

So all of this stuff is definitely contributing to it. I think the pharmaceutical industry is very powerful and wants everybody on some kind of a medication. And the question is, what did we do prior to all this, back in the early 1900s? How did people deal with life? They dealt with it.

Yeah, that would be some of the things you deal with because I never thought, like, if a kid was depressed, if a kid was down, had a lot of friends, few friends, I never remember kids getting diagnosed with no lithium, Prozac, or anything like that. And now we have Ritalin attention deficit disorder, and then we have this. This is where fentanyl comes in. A lot of kids would want to concentrate, want to go have a marathon study session.

So they'll say, Hey, take, you know, take a Ritalin. It helps me study. It helps me focus. And they do it just not to get high or hang out with their friends, actually to do better on a test. And now they're being sprinkled with fentanyl.

And then who knows the ones that are not with fentanyl, how many say, wow, I did so good on that test, I got to take it all the time now. Yeah, and it's main, you know, it's really Adderall. That's the main one, you know, kids in college are using it that, you know, not for prescription reasons, just to stay focused and do better on tests. And the fentanyl, that's a whole other issue, Brian. I've seen that.

I mean, not right here in my office, but people I know who have friends and stuff whose sons and daughters have died from fentanyl overdoses from doing, you know, in one case, marijuana, where it was sprinkled with fentanyl. And, you know, usually it's cocaine or heroin or something. And these people don't know. They have no idea. They think they're doing a couple of lines of cocaine, and now they've got enough fentanyl to kill like a thousand people.

Study aside, Dr. Tom Kirsten, with your personal experience, is this proliferation of pot a good thing? I'm completely against it. Completely against it, the legalization of it and everything. And the reason why I am is because I see the impact that it has on young kids.

And when something gets legalized like marijuana, young kids that are 15, 14, 16 years old. you know, the mindset out there, Brian, I see this on a daily basis, is Yeah, you know, POC's innocuous, it's not really that bad for you, it's not gonna kill you, you're not gonna be on the street with a can trying to get money from people.

So kids now, you know, literally believe that it's that it's that it's harmless. And it's probably the biggest catalyst behind all of the anxiety disorders. Depression symptoms and everything that I'm dealing with on a daily basis with teenagers at my office. And how much harder is it now after the pandemic when they were pretty much shut down or shut in? Yeah, that's just been the icing on the cake.

I mean, you know, kids with the pandemic, all these teenagers, even adults, they've just been removed from society, locked away by themselves in their bedrooms, not able to socialize, not able to participate in sports, and they've gotten caught in their own heads. They've lost the skills of Socialization and emotional connection with others is something that needs to be utilized on a daily basis. And when it's not utilized and you're isolated by yourself and then you have to return out to the real world, you no longer have those skills. And what happens now is your brain now sends stress signals in the form of anxiety. And now you have avoidant behavior, kids remaining in their rooms, getting depressed, and this never-ending cycle of anxiety and depression.

And we got to push forward with this. And I tell parents, if your kid's trying to resist, just you got to get them through the door of the school each day, one day at a time, and they'll get through it. He's not your patient, but evidently he was a patient of somebody's. Number two is he obviously does not look well. His action shows he's a bloodthirsty murderer.

And it looks like for the first time. But from what you can tell, are there a lot of people out there like him? Because we see Uvalde similar. We see Buffalo similar. We see Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook similar.

We see Parkland similar. Young men, somehow, maybe this is going to link the same way to psychotropic drugs because they're depressed or ADHD, whatever it is. And next thing you know, they're masked murderers. Yeah, you know what, I have my next book coming out next February that I've written, comes out, it's been released. It's called Raising Healthy Teenagers.

And I have a section in that book that I refer to as the Lost Boys. were to these young 18 to 23 year old young men that are completely lost with no direction. dropping out of college, they feel worthless, they can't they they don't have jobs, And the common denominator in most cases is that they sit around, they smoke marijuana all day long, and they play video games. from the bedroom of their parents' home.

So it this is certainly it's not the norm, but it's substantially much greater than it was in previous generations. We didn't really have these this level of problems.

So I would imagine that this kid fit that profile You know, plus you know, other you know, the m more severe mental health underlying issues. And, you know, and that that it's like every one of these shooters that you just mentioned, yeah, there's this common denominator. I really truly believe that. In terms of a type of parent, I mean, the father to get him guns, the father to get his knives back, shows you he ran for mayor, understood.

Now we understand that his wife was a handful, according to some coaches she had to deal with. She got into it with one of the heads of our program. That was an after-school touch football program. It seemed like the kids were a nuisance to her. That is the Mother of the shooter observed by the coach of the killer.

They say the same thing with the dad, that they were always late to pick up, he was the last one behind. Yeah, I mean, I you know, I don't know what you know what took place within that household, but you know, it sounds based on what you're telling me, maybe there's some entitlement there. You know, on the parents' part, that got passed down to their kid. My kid can do no wrong. You know what I mean?

And then, you know, a lot of parents nowadays you know, that you you want to have a great loving relationship with your kid, but but a lot of parents are are are s what I've seen are scared to discipline their kids. they don't want to hurt their kids' feelings.

So, you know, the dad, you know, taking back the knives after the after his son tried you know, threatened to kill himself and then, you know, signing off for him to get a gun, that that to me is a parent, you know, a parent pleaser. You know, instead of being a parent and authoritative role model and and calling the shots, You know, perhaps they just gave their son everything, whatever he wanted, and he ruled the roost. And now we have, you know, we have this disaster that took place. Right. This neck tattoo guy who worshiped Lee Harvey Oswald.

Way to go. Dr. Tom Curtis, last question for you. I know they said there's money for social services to go to schools to stop the next would-be shooter theoretically. You used to work in a school system.

Is money an issue to get other people like you maybe on staff?

Well, you know what, after I know after the pandemic, they released a lot of money in that bailout plan that's going to schools.

So what I have seen in my area at least is that there are more I guess depends where you live, but there are more resources now for schools. But, you know, I'm not sure it needs to really be taking place at the school level. I think it needs to be taking place outside of the school, you know, in actual mental health facilities and care and treatment and outside of the school system. I think really, you know, we need more resources in that arena. And we need policies that are going to, when you have somebody that seems very deranged, you know, they need to be put away for a while until they're stabilized.

And if they're not stabilized, Maybe they need to stay in some facility longer because we need to protect the innocent people like the people that were at the parade. I hear you. Thanks so much. Dr. Tom Kirsting, psychotherapist, author of Disconnected, How to Protect Your Kids from the Harmful Effects of the Device Dependency.

Thanks, uh, Tom. Appreciate it. Yeah, you got it. Thanks, Brian. You got it.

1-866-408-7669. 1-866-408-7669. We'll come back with you in just a moment. You'll listen to the Brian Kill Meat Show. Learning something new every day on the Brian Kill Meat Show.

Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Let's see how many phone calls we can get in just fresh off. Let's go out to Adam.

Listen on WABC. Hey, Adam. Give it that. Hey, Brian, um totally agree with you. Mental health uh issues are very important and need to be addressed in a much more strict way.

Uh but I will say that you know the one common thread between all these mass shootings uh are always always assault weapons and assault weapons were banned for a while and there were no mass shootings of this type. And as long as someone has access to be able to shoot off 20, 30 rounds. In a couple of seconds. I think, Adam, I think the assault weapons are the wrong path to go on out of everything there. I wish nobody was killed, period.

But the guy's got four separate guns. The last one was something similar. to an AR fifteen. I'm not sure what exactly it was. But I mean, the damn this guy was going to be on the top of the roof shooting people anyway.

That's the problem. I mean, he wanted to be Lee Harvey Oswald, and he actually was. He even left the gun behind. I think that right now you have to look at the fact that parents got to be more responsible. But I want this, Adam.

I want when this guy walks in, they get a gun. I want them to see if you're not going to file charges. I want them to see the incident reports. And I'm going to just say there's I want the local precinct, big and small cities and towns, to be contact. Hey, Billy Jones just came in here.

I'm going over his ten day background check. What happened on these incidents? And then the cop could say, Listen, I need to speak to this guy. I didn't think he was right. I saw him with his neck tattoo and his face tattoo.

He looked like he was living in an attic. I never thought his parents were being candid with me. I don't think you should sell him the gun. Then we would start personalizing the computerized background check. But the incident's got to be written up on that.

John, K-O-I-N, John. Thanks for taking my call. Thank you. Yeah, well, I'm just Going to say it, politicians are going to do nothing, they're not going to ban guns. And the mental health issue, well the negotiations are going nowhere between both parties.

And if it is a mental health issue for this shooter, I'm curious, are they going to put him in prison still or are they going to put him in the psych ward? I assume he's going to get life in prison. I you know, but you never know. Hinkley got out, right?

So he tried to kill one person, happened to be the President of the United States. But I assume he's going to get life in prison. I think the least intriguing thing about how he's going to be charged, I think we're done with him. The more intriguing thing is, what was he on? Why wasn't he stopped?

And how do we stop the next one? And taking everybody's guns away, I think, is just pure politics. You may disagree, and that's great. BriankillMe.com. You can write me in the break.

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You know the phone number to call to be on the show, 1-866-408-7669. We're watching a few stories. Also, this just crossed. Pat Siblioni, it seems like he will testify now in front of the January 6th Committee.

So that'll be on Friday. He said he's got a bunch of subpoenas, so he'll go ahead and do it.

So that is not a great precedent. Imagine you're an attorney. If you're a President of the United States, you have to sit there and throw things out to them. You're not an attorney like the President wasn't. Donald Trump wasn't.

You throw things out.

Now they're going to ask you, did Donald Trump want to do this? Did Donald Trump want to do that? Did you have to talk him out of it? There's a reason why I think it's just a very bad idea. And it's a very bad idea.

Let's see if it explodes in their face. Cassidy Hutchinson, they thought it was a home run. In many cases, it went well. In other cases, she's very vulnerable because a lot of the stuff she said was hearsay, which makes one wonder why there wasn't any cross-examination. Once again, that's a conversation that the committee does not want to hear.

So, and before we get to Liz Peak, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. Freedom is under attack in your state. Republican leaders, they're banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms. I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight.

or join us in California. Liz, that's unbelievable. I'll ask Liz Peake about this. 2024 preview: Gavin Newsom against Governor DeSantis. He takes aim, even though his state is struggling in many ways, as is he, at the most popular, successful governor in the country, arguably, Ron DeSantis.

Should DeSantis hit back? We'll talk about it. The one group of people that we see who are actually happy about what's happening with gas prices are oil company executives and owners. I'm certainly holding oil companies responsible for their choice not to produce. Biden fights, flails, and fails.

As economic stress grows and billionaires take aim, his polls plummet. Now, for those who think Roe v. Wade will reinvigorate the Dems, the survey tells a different story. Number one. A family member reported that Cremo said he was going to kill everyone and Cremo had a collection of knives.

The police responded to his residence. The police removed sixteen knives, a dagger and a sword. Yeah, besides that, I don't see any red flags. Not kidding. Highland Park Parade Massacre.

Police had the wrong sign had the bad warning signs and reasons to stop him. The gun store owners should never have been allowed to arm him. With dead and wounded everywhere in this upscale town, all they want to talk about is more gun laws. That's pathetic and is pure politics. Joining us now is Liz Peake, Fox News contributor, columnist for FoxNews.com.

First off, Liz, your reaction to some of the reaction from the Vice President of the United States to the governor calling for more gun laws. Yeah. I mean, honestly, all the laws that we needed to stop this young man were in place, right? I mean, what is the red flag law supposed to mean if it doesn't mean the police come to your home, they find an array of weapons, they take them out, they hear, I think they knew that this kid had made threats to people, this comment about killing everybody. They should have known, they should have investigated his social media accounts, which were full of hate and anger.

It's impossible for me to imagine how greater an individual could signal the intent to do people harm. I mean, that's what these laws were written for. If we're not going to enforce them, then what's the point of having them? I know. I mean, to me, if you pull daggers out of somebody's house, if he's going to be a danger himself twice in 2019, kill himself, and he was a danger to others, even if the family changed their story, if you write up the incident report, it goes on the background check.

Gun store down the block doesn't sell it. And what's even better, I hope it would trigger the local police precinct to say, Excuse me, I would like to know why you were trying to buy a gun. Are you a hunter? Or why is Lee Harvey Oswald in your bedroom?

So, and just some of the things that I mean, basic police work. And I don't think you need the Vice President of the United States meandering about an assault weapon charge because this guy got other weapons. This is four background checks he got. It is impossible to take Kamala Harris seriously on any issue. She doesn't normally make any sense.

But on this issue in particular, I really don't think she knows what she's talking about. Look, we have the laws in place that would have stopped this young man. And by the way, some of the other men who have committed these heinous crimes. I mean, it is time to get serious about watching and, forgive me, profiling young men who are clearly troubled, who are isolated, and who are talking, you know, audibly talking about hurting people. Let's get alert, people, to the dangers that are posed by these people.

These are not... These are not times in which you can ignore such signals. And these were very, very loud signals.

So I'm really.

sort of disgusted with the entire response to this, which as usual focuses on the weapon and not the individual. We have to start looking at these individuals and looking for these individuals Online and elsewhere. I mean, if our media companies, social media companies, are supposed to spot domestic terrorists, i.e., parents, trying to talk at their PPA meetings, can't they possibly look out for young men with these troubling profiles? I don't understand why that isn't a bigger conversation. I hear you, but Rosa Brooks is a Georgetown law professor on MSNBC.

She blames our Constitution, CUT 12. We cannot break out of the bondage that we have imposed on ourselves from feeling like we have to. Everything by our Supreme Court is decided in reference to this ancient document, which is just not serving us well. It is causing enormous problems and enormous tragedies at this point. Right.

First, let's get rid of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and let's just wing it. Yeah. Well, they don't like the Constitutions. They don't like freedoms. They don't like the fact that we can express ourselves openly and honestly, unlike most countries in the world.

So I don't have any patience for that whatsoever. The Constitution, I'll tell you what, has held up better than any document over time and has ensured the prosperity and the freedom and the opportunity in this country.

So please ignore that woman. All right, so a couple of things. Liz, you wrote a column for FoxNews.com. Biden's presidency looks out of control and could get worse. The next day, today, the CNN politics comes out with a A column that makes you seem as if you're a fan.

That's how negative the CNN column is. Talks about how they're not prepared for anything from the variants that came down the pike, from the baby formula that should have been undiscernible, to the lack of not knowing what the Supreme Court was going to do ahead of time, just constantly flailing, and with the Biden administration taking aim at mid-level managers, people who are powerless to set policy but are great to take aim at, which is causing a mass exodus from the White House. They are a mess. Brian, why would it be otherwise? These are incompetent people, forgive me, led by a man of very middling intelligence, and that's being kind, in my view.

Joe Biden has never been viewed as a brain trust. As age has taken him over, he has become, I think, less capable, and he has surrounded himself by people of mediocre quality. I did a piece a few weeks ago about the cabinet. The cabinet is atrocious. these people Are not doing their job.

Pete, let's talk about Pete Buttigieg, who has Who has been basically AWOL every time there's a crisis on his watch? Remember the port drama where there are all these ships off the port of Los Angeles, and people didn't even know he was on parental leave. I mean, that's how impactful this guy has been.

Now, because everyone is talking about the price of gasoline, what is his response? His response is to come out and defame oil companies and saying the only people happy right now are oil company executives. What a wretched person this is. And by the way, underqualified for this position. It isn't a position that normally attracts perhaps the best and the brightest, but this is not the best of the brightest, and he's doing a terrible job.

But honestly, you can go through them one by one. It's an incredible clown car. Here it is, Pete Bruniger, saying roughly what you were saying, CUP 15. The one group of people that we see who are actually happy about what's happening with gas prices are oil company executives and owners. We've seen them out there saying, You know, they're not going to increase production, and why would they when they're this profitable?

And he goes on, and you know, Neil Caruto did challenge him on that, but he just did not meet with them. They have a 10-point plan to work with the administration. Instead, the administration, the President of the United States goes, meets with wind executives instead of oil executives. Who's going to help them more? They were both in the White House at the same time, both in Washington at the same time.

It's so petty and so small. But Joe Biden is so petty and so small. But he also doesn't understand the oil business. I don't think most Democrats do. They think you plug an electric car into the wall and somehow it magically starts to move.

I don't know if you saw a clip a couple of weeks ago where they were hailing the, I think, some new electric car that was coming off the ramp or whatever. They plugged it in, and someone said there, well, where's the power come from? And literally, someone on the side said, well, it comes from electricity. They said, no, but where's the electricity coming from? 95% coal.

Brian. You know, that sort of stopped their environmental celebration in its tracks. Look, they don't know what they're doing. To me, it is. is not head scratching.

It is astonishing that this administration, that is being eaten alive by $5 a gallon gasoline prices, refuses to pivot and, moreover, continues to embrace policies like this new threatened ozone regulation in the Permian Basin, where 43 percent of our oil comes from, that might shut down production. And this is not a joke. They are actually talking about imposing greater regulations on our oil industry rather than less. They refuse, as you point out, to meet and talk about the measures that could encourage production. Instead, they really want the financial sector basically to stop lending to oil and gas producers.

Are the branches of government even talking to each other about what might actually help Americans right now? There's no indication of that at all. I still don't know what's going on with the infrastructure bill. Is anything being spent? How is inflation affecting it?

They talked about, I guess, forgiving some portion of student loans. There's been such a debate. The same debate has been going on for over a year. Either make the decision or make the decision not to do it. There's no valor in waiting a year to make a decision.

It makes people think that you're not listening. The other thing to keep in mind, too, they got the gun deal done in spite of him because he came out and said right away the NRA has got the Republicans hostage. Excuse me? Are you trying to poison the well before we even dig the well? And this is the guy who was supposed to be able to work across the aisle, right?

He was going to bring the country together. I honestly believe, and this includes President Trump, I honestly believe this is the most divisive president we've ever had in this country. Everything he says is pointed. Political, nasty attacks on Republicans, nasty attacks on the Supreme Court. Why would anyone work with him?

During that gun control legislation discussion, I think it's true that he never reached out to the Republican side of that negotiation at all. And to your point, it's pretty clear that he works against compromise instead of for compromise.

So what's happened, very little on his watch has gotten through, thank heavens, because most of the policies are pretty terrible. But it's the attitude of this man who thinks he had a mandate when he has no mandate, there's no advantage in Congress, very, very slim margin, which he's about to lose, thank heavens. I don't know where. You know, where he thinks his power should be coming from because he doesn't have any. You know, the worst thing is that he ever did was have those historians come meet with him in the Oval Office and they talk to him about how do I become a historic figure like FDR.

And he did not have the margins in the Senate. He had the majority in the Senate and the House. He didn't have the margins. And since he got 82 million votes, he thought he got a mandate. But he had almost no momentum to the point where he said, I'm not even going to sign the bipartisan deal on infrastructure because I'm going to do it with Bilbach better.

When it fell on its face, he has never recovered. But the thing that kills us most is Afghanistan. The way he embarrassed our country is so unforgivable to so many that people just say, no longer is he under, is it a mystery? He is totally incompetent.

Well, that began the downward slide in his approval ratings, and rightly so, because apparently it was his decisions, no one else's, that decided we would take us out of Afghanistan with so little planning, so little regard. for our troops and for the people that were at risk. Look, again, I just think he's not a capable person. Unfortunately, to your point, it isn't just Republicans who are thinking that now. Everybody is thinking that, including Democrats.

So this is not good news. I love seeing Joe Biden in hot water because he deserves to be there. He deserves to boil. But the truth is, our country is adrift, and there is no leadership. There's no good policy coming down.

And this is a scary world in which not to have strong leadership. If the United States doesn't lead, there is no leadership. I think Pompeo has said that a couple of times, and I think he's totally right. And look at what's happening in Ukraine, with the war in Ukraine. I mean, where is the leadership there?

We have constantly, in my view, dragged our feet. We've been slow to get weapons in place, slow to basically confront Vladimir Putin. Biden is afraid of Putin, and Putin knows it.

So the entire West now, all the European countries, are looking into the U.S. To a deep recession because of, guess what, energy prices and the hold that Russia has on Western Europe. Did they not see this coming? Is there not a even Macron, who is just now nationalizing France's energy biggest utility, was trying to get Biden on board with increasing U.S. domestic production, but he won't budge.

It's a nut. It's nuts. It really makes my head explode. Yeah, and we could be actually making money on natural gas, getting it to the EU. Emergency situation.

That's where you use the Defense Production Act. That's where you do it. 10% of the country think we're heading in the right direction. 36% approval rating. That's according to Monmouth, which is normally democratic-friendly.

And right now, the number one issue in this country overwhelmingly. Inflation by 33%. Say it's the number one problem. And guess what? Biden has become a historic president in the wrong way.

These are historically terrible numbers. Yeah. Liz Peak, thanks so much. We'll read your columns and watch all over the channel. Thank you.

Thanks so much for having me. You got it. We'll take your calls next. Spot in the hour, Douglas McKinnon, what the founding fathers have to do with this and the lessons we should be learning. You're listening to the Brian Killmeat Show.

Getting past all the rhetoric. It's Brian Killme. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. You gotta lie.

Yeah. You gotta lie every day if you want to keep working. Every day I have to say, like, oh, nice to meet you. The girl I identify as a wolf. And I...

And my moon rising. And I go, yeah, me too. And he said, oh, man, can I have babies? You're like, duh. Duh.

You lie so you can work.

So wh what is that from? That was from Gutfeld last night. That was uh Jeff Dye talking about working in Woolk Hollywood. You have to lie if you want to work. Yeah, I mean, they are like I've talked to a few people trying to staff movies or talking about how things are out of control, and they can't even staff movies.

They can't get a key grip, can't get a camera person because they got to be Puerto Rican, they got to be Asian, they got to be transsexual, they got to be gay, they have to be tall, they got to be too many men, and you can't even get the best person anymore. It is the furthest thing from meritocracy.

Well, right, because if you want to be considered for different awards, right, you have to be X amount. Diverse. Which is nuts. I mean, I would just say. Give me Tom Cruise.

Uh give me that type of success. With Top Gun and then leave me out of all the awards. I would just say give up on the award shows.

Well, I mean, is that also why half the award, like movies that get awards we've never heard of before? Right, except for the pianist. Wasn't that one? The pianist. That was a long time ago though before the diversity.

I never saw it. I was young. I thought it was weird.

Well, The Departed? I never saw that. Oh, that was good. It was sad. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. We have brought it on ourselves, right? I mean, we can't say, oops, it's the Russians' fault. They shouldn't have invaded us, or, you know, oops, it's al-Qaeda. This is us.

This is 100% us, and it's because we are essentially slaves to a document that was written, you know, more than 230 years ago by a tiny group of white people. slave-owning men. They sound horrible. Who are these men? Oh, our founding fathers.

I'm sorry. Rosa Brooks, a little upset as a Georgetown law professor with these white men who made our country that she's allowed to say things like that in. Those are part of the reasons why Douglas McKinnon has made it his mission to make sure the founding fathers keep their reputation in place. I can't believe that has to happen in the U.S. His latest book, The 56: Liberty: Lessons from Those Who Risked It All to Sign the Declaration of Independence.

Douglas McKinnon, as a former White House and Pentagon official and best-selling author, can you believe you need to write this book? Brian, it's amazing. And the fact is, I didn't even think about writing it until July 4th of last year when I took a tour of some of the more liberal news sites out there and saw guest after guest from the far left calling for the cancellation of not only the 4th of July, but the Founding Fathers and the American flag. Then, as you and I know, just the last few days. You know, there were Democrats in Arizona, California, all around the country calling for the boycott of the 4th of July or saying creating even more vile names for the 4th of July.

And this is not going to stop unless we stand up against it. You have to, because guess who's happy about this? China, Russia, all our enemies. Go, look, America's coming apart from within. They couldn't beat us head to head, but we could take ourselves apart, and that's what's happening.

How are you pushing back against it?

So what happened with this book, Brian, the fifty six, so the catalyst of the book was the cancellation of the Fourth of July. But the message ultimately of the book, which is something you talk about all the time, and thank you for that, is that twenty four, seven, three hundred sixty five, our American rights and our liberties are being taken away from us. And it's up to us. Again, in a way, what I talk about in the book, too, is no one's going to ride over the horizon and save us. Ultimately, it's up to us to save ourselves.

Up to us, it's to be like Teddy Roosevelt's famous Man in the Arena speech of nineteen ten, where the per the credit belongs to the person on the floor of the arena fighting the good fight, getting bloodied, getting knocked down, but getting up time and again to fight for his and her rights. And as Americans who believe in this country, who believe in the Founding Fathers, who believe in the rule of law, we have to step up for our own rights.

So when you talk about these 56 men, who should what should we know about them? Tremendous courage. They were signing their death warrant had they been captured. Had we lost? And there was no reason to think realistically, if we would do an analysis back then, that we would win.

Brian, exactly. And almost nobody really knows this subject better than you, and thank you for all the great work you've done on this. But you're exactly right. And forget if we had lost. As you know, too, even after they signed their death warrant by signing the Declaration of Independence, a number of them were arrested, had their homes burned to the ground, had their livestock slaughtered, had their wives arrested, their wives in prison, their sons got shot.

The easy. These acts of courage and these amazing men that had the vision and the genius to create the greatest nation on the face of the earth. is the uh the people that the far left want to cancel. Yeah, and if you see what's happening in Philadelphia, I think about the shooting. Other people think about the founding that took place over the weekend, where you see this Declaration of Independence get written and they run outside, they make the announcement, and they read it out loud to the masses, and then it gets sent all around that we're fighting for our independence and here we go.

Sign your name and let's get started. And it was a series of losses after Bunker Hill that basically put this whole idea on a respirator. But yet, people look at this and say, white men. Who believed slavery was okay, put together this document, which is now outdated. Your reaction.

Well, Brian, I'm getting in and that's ultimately one of the most ridiculous takes they can have on this because what they're doing, as you know and you've talked about, is they're looking at seventeen seventy six. through the very clouded and liberal prism of twenty twenty two. And they're looking back two hundred and fifty years almost and trying to decide what was in the hearts, minds and souls of these men who were trying to free themselves from tyranny, free themselves from the boot of the crown, and they're trying to smear their names, smear their reputations, have them banned from American society because they don't happen to fit the far left liberal narrative of today.

So talk about the wall culture that concerns you most.

Well, again, it's one of these things, too, where what I talk about in the book is over the course, and this is one of the things that 56 would say. Unless and until they imprison us, unless and until they take our lives, they cannot take our voices, Brian. They cannot silence us. And again, over the course of the last 50 or 60 years, the left has gained a majority control over what I call the five major megaphones of the nation, that being the media, entertainment, academia, and of late, as we've seen, science and medicine. And as you know, they get more accomplished via omission than anything else.

If they don't write about it, they don't talk about it. It didn't happen. And guess what? One of the things they never talk about, never teach in our American schools anymore is our proud American history and the proud, courageous actions of these 56 men. I just wonder how many people even know when you send people out in the street to talk about who even the vice president is or who our founding fathers were, people have trouble naming two.

But we can start reclaiming that by putting that back in the curriculum and maybe choosing the schools your kids go to.

So when people say America was fueled by slavery and it exists because we stole the land, how do you put that in today's normal culture?

Well, again, it's one of those things. If the far left wants to address it, if they want to talk about that, and they conveniently leave out a lot of things, right? And one of the things they conveniently leave out is, let's say, the People's Republic of China, right, Brian? And the People's Republic of China, which is paying off so many liberal organizations and supporting so many big tech organizations. If you want to criticize slavery and oppression, then why don't you look at today's examples from the People's Republic of China?

But they don't want to do that, Brian. It's much better to go back two hundred and fifty years and smear the founding fathers than to address the current problems of not only slavery, but internment camps that are existing today.

So when you look at the July 4th and when Orlando got the blowback it got for saying even though we don't want to celebrate it, basically we bought the party hats, so let's do it anyway. The fact that they got blowback for doing that, the fact that thousands still showed up in New York City for the Macy's Day parade, even though 50 were shot over the weekend, 51 were shot and two dozen were killed, does that show you that the foundation is still there? It does, Brian. And again, I think you and I would agree that probably at least 80% of the American people. Think the same way that you and I do, in the sense that you want rule of law, right?

You believe in our history. You want to protect our sovereign borders, okay? And but the problem is, because of the woke cancel culture, more and more Americans are afraid to speak up because they do not want to have the far left come after them and take their jobs. And that's what I said. I talked about it in the book, too.

The 56 and the Founding Fathers, as you know, also left us the blueprint on how to save ourselves. And the easiest way to do that is to start a word of mouth campaign. We can talk to each other in our churches, at work, at schools, at the supermarket, at the bowling alley, and start talking about how great our country is, what's good about our country. The far left never wants to talk about what's good about our country. And yet, tens of millions of people around the world still want to come to the United States of America.

Here's more from Rosa Brooks on the Constitution, Cut 12. We cannot break out of the bondage that we have imposed on ourselves from feeling like we have to. Everything by our Supreme Court has decided in reference to this ancient document, which is just not serving us well. It is causing enormous problems and enormous tragedies at this point. Is that really a lead weight on our future?

This archaic document?

Well, again, they would be much better served looking at the inner city crime that's taking place all over the United States. Just this past weekend, almost 40 people shot in Chicago. Why don't they start addressing the real issues, the real problems? Because working-class Americans are getting crushed right now, today, by liberal policies. Again, but it's much easier for them to ignore all the liberal policies that are crushing working-class and poor Americans than to go back 250 years to attack our founding documents, which were the greatest documents drafted in the history of our world.

All right.

Thanks so much. Hey, pick up his book, The 56 Liberty Lessons from Those Who Risked It All to Sign the Declaration of Independence. Douglas McKinnon, thanks so much. Brian, it's been an honor. Thank you very much.

All right, go get him.

Meanwhile, we come back. I'm going to find out if there's more to know. My answer is yes. And also, squeezing some calls: 1-866-408-7669. Also, let me remind you: Fox Nation, five new brand new episodes: What Made America Great.

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He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Killmead. Why is there a voicemail of the president? Talking to his son about his overseas business dealings, if the president has said He's never spoken to his son about his overseas business team.

Well first I'll say that uh What the President said stands, so If that's what the president said, that is what stands. But concerning business dealings. And he says, I think you're clear. How is that not him talking to his son about his overseas business dealings? We're not from this podium.

I am not going to talk about alleged materials from the laptop. I will dispute this. I'm not. I am not going to talk about alleged materials on the laptop. It's not happening.

Peter, I refer you to his son's representative. Until they can get closer to the president, they might be able to deflect a little while longer. That is the press secretary not answering Peter Ducey's questions about the president's voicemail in 2018 to Hunter Biden about him being in the clear with this Chinese deal, CEFC, this Chinese energy company deal. One guy's involved, Devin Archer's in jail. That's Hunter Biden's partner.

The other person has disappeared. And we know that a lot of money was made. Where the hell is that money? The other story that we have is more in the shooter. Highland Park.

It turns out he went oh and I didn't talk enough about this. After he did the shooting, dressed like a woman, escapes from there. You see pictures of him. They're all out and about now. And he escapes Leaves his gun behind.

I imagine, just my opinion, Lee Harvey Oswald left his gun behind. I imagine it's the same thing. He worshiped the guy. Why would you worship Lee Harvey Oswald? I can't get my head around that.

Right there would be a red flag. And then he drove to Madison, Wisconsin in his mom's car, and then drove back.

So he had a rifle, another car. I don't really know enough about these guns to know what it is, but some type of Celtic rifle.

So he goes there to Madison, saw a parade, but didn't do anything, thankfully, because he said he didn't have a plan. The other one he was planning for. He decides to drive all the way back, at which time they see the car, they're looking for him, they got him and grabbed him a mile from his house. He had in 2021, he bought. Four weapons in 2020.

In 2021, it brought a Glock on his 21st birthday.

So, for those people who say, well, if there was no assault weapon, there wouldn't be any shooting. Have you met this guy? Have you seen what he's been doing? I don't think you care what he had. Probably a little less damage is done, but I think you're missing the issue.

Personally.

So we'll talk about that. And meanwhile, let's go to Chris WRCN on Long Island. Hey, Chris. Brian, how's it going, man? When you and I spent the fourth together, I watched about four of your episodes on what made America great, and I appreciate everything you do.

Wow, I appreciate that.

So no doubt.

So I've been calling this morning. I I'm just racking my brain about how to, you know put it Uh some sort of stop. or or slow down on on this issue with You know, mass shootings. And all I keep hearing, and it's been since like the Gabby Petito thing in Bayport Blue Point. is parents and family members know about these things.

And it's so hard, I can imagine as a parent, I am a parent of two children. If you have a child that has indications of being mentally sick how do we get these parents to act hard. Is there any repercussions for some of these people like I don't want there to be, but i i i d is there aiding and abetting here by just being Ignorant and ignoring well, it sounds like Chris, I understand. If you're sincerely a parent and this one kid is giving you nonstop problems, you put them into therapy and you deal with them as best you can, and you try to keep hands on them, and they get loose and they do something horrific, robberies, assault, mass shootings. I get it.

I think that's different than what I'm seeing here. This is a parent that were totally detached. These are parents that sat there after calling the cops, went and got the knives back. He went and signed off on this guy buying guns. If you know your son or daughter, or son, let's be honest, it's not women, your son is unbalanced.

You go and sign off on a gun for him, go bring knives back in the house. At that point, I think that you got to have an accomplice charge to the parents because they actually unleash these kids on us that they can't control and say, well, what do you want me to do? He's 22.

Well, you want to do his 22? Number one, don't arm him. That'll help. Number two, you have informed the Liverpool precinct that he's pretty much out of control and you really don't know what he's capable of, but don't pretend like he's not. The uncle comes out and says.

His comments are ridiculous. We never had an idea that he'd commit this type of crime. Listen to The Uncle, cut to. There's been no warning signs as I saw as I I saw him yesterday evening and when I went home I said hi to him and then when I came back downstairs I said bye, he said bye and that was it. That was nor that was normal standards of all time.

And I see no nothing that would trigger him off for doing this. Yeah, besides the hatchet in the house, I really don't see a problem with it.

So no one believes that. Yeah. So, thanks so much for the call. Let's find out if there's more to know. More.

To know. All right, let's start. And let's start at the beginning. Brett Farb made it clear that he might want to go into broadcasting. He told this to ZMZ.

I guess my country accent cuts me out, the all-shucks mentality. No, I'm good. I've made great money. I'm very thankful. If someone offered me, A job to do Monday night or Thursday night football, or and it would be a great deal.

I would consider it, but it's not on my bucket list of things to do. Another quarterback named Tom Brady got a $375 million deal on that.

Next. A vacation fail. One in five people always realized they forgot to pack something when they arrived on vacation. That's a survey of 2,000 adults. The poll shows the top items Americans accidentally leave at home are phones, 31%, which is, I don't see, possible, water bottles or drinks, 28%.

And deodorant 25%, sunscreen 21%. Only 20% of respondents think they could manage without their phone. 19% would go back for what they forgot if they were on the street next door. Only 15% said they're a few streets away. 14% they would never go back for something they forgot.

Phones you have to go back for.

Next. More than half American parents believe their kids aren't spending enough time playing outside. No kidding. Parents in Alaska, Arizona, Missouri are telling their kids to play outside most at an average of six times per week. The top reasons parents tell their children to go play outside include fresh air, 51%, digital devices, no kidding, 47%, get some exercise, you're fat.

The states where the kids get outside the most, as I mentioned, are there. The ones that get out the least are kind of interesting and they're not listed. But 35% of parents also encourage their children to play outside in order to positively impact their mental health.

Well, Brian, to be fair, it just says for exercise doesn't say because the kids are fat. Let's be honest. I mean, either they're way too pale or they need some exercise. You've got to force your kids to go outside. The other thing is, you scared the hell out of them because everyone thinks they're going to get kidnapped.

Well, that's true too. But I just generally go outside for exercise tonight because you need to lose a few pounds, little Johnny. Right, you never tell the kid he's getting fat. No, you just stop feeding them. Right.

You stop feeding them, make them run around. But the problem is, again, to my other story, if you're not great in sports by ninth grade, they basically encourage you to drop out, which is wrong. What about people that just want to go out and exercise, have a recreational sport? There's got to be a venue for that. Put the power of over 100 meteorologists and the worldwide resources of Fox in your hands with the Fox Weather Podcast.

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